Kernal Update

[avshost]

Hey guys I am fairly new and understand that when you perform a server kernal upgrade it can be dangerous. When I log on to the root manager I get this message:

You are running an insecure kernel (2.4.20-8). You should upgrade to a newer version as soon as possible to avoid your system being compromised. https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-417.html

Not sure what I am suppossed to do exactly and hope someone can help me.

Thanks:

Kevin

[casey]

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[casey]

Here's one to start:
http://forums.cpanel.net/showthread....upgrade+kernel

Once Redhat quits supporting RH9 you can do it with
rpm -Uvh <kernel>
after downloading the appropriate kernel from Legacy.

This is, of course, assuming that you are on Redhat.

--edit--

I can see from the information that you're on Redhat 8, correct? Get the latest kernel for RH8 from http://download.fedoralegacy.org/red...egacy.i386.rpm

[ZachICU]

Trying to use up2date and get the following error

root@earth [//usr/sbin]# up2date -l
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 9, in ?
import rpm
ImportError: No module named rpm


Thanks
Zach