Re: few general questions

[George Bonser <grep@shorelink.com>]

On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Brett Fowlkes wrote:

> turned on by default.  He didn't damage the system but I decided to
> reinstall anyway choosing what I wanted.  OK NOW WHAT CAN I DO TO MAKE MY
> BOX MORE SECURE.  I read some of the stuff at Linuxnewbie.org and I turned
> off some of the daemons and things like that but what else can I do?  I

Add:

deb http://security.debian.org/ stable updates 

to /etc/apt/sources.list (Assuming you are running slink)

and do:

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

That would be the first step for a newbie.