[cobalt-users] Patch update issues/advice

["Garrett Davis" <garrett@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have 2 RaQ 550's, and I have been a bit tardy in applying patches, mostly
because of horror stories and I am nowhere near the equipment, should there
be a major failure.  I was hoping that, the good folks on this list, could
alert me to any possible issues, related to specific patches or the 3rd
party pks/software I have installed and lend some sound advice for my
patching process.

I also wouldn't mind updating my php to 4.3 and my postgesql up to the
latest version, I saw a good How-to on the php process on this list
http://www.robberthamburg.nl/php.html, any advice on the postgresql would be
great.

Raq#1 [Sun Cobalt OS 7.0] (Web)
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3rd Party Pkg's/Software:
PHP 4.2.3 for hosted websites [edison](w/mods)
Secure Shell 2.2 [pkgmaster]
Lone-TAR for linux (2.4 kernel or greater)[cactus.com]

Installed Sun Patches: (As displayed from bottom up on Sun site)
Secutiy Update 0.0.1 [RaQ550-All-Security-0.0.1-14934.pkg]
Security Bundle 0.0.1 [RaQ550-All-Security-0.0.1-1-15278.pkg]
TCPDump Update 0.0.2 [RaQ550-All-Security-0.0.2-14559.pkg]
IMAP Update 0.0.1 [RaQ550-All-Security-0.0.1-14936.pkg]
CCE Security Update 0.0.1 [RaQ550-All-Security-0.0.1-15714.pkg]
Apache & SSL Update 0.0.1 [RaQ550-All-Security-0.0.1-15787.pkg]
SSH Security Update [RaQ550-All-Security-0.0.1-15674.pkg]
Util-linux Update 1.0.1 [RaQ550-All-Security-0.0.1-15673.pkg]
Frontpage Update 0.0.3 [RaQ550-All-Update-0.0.3-15983.pkg]
Cgiwrap Security update 0.0.1 [RaQ550-All-Security-0.0.1-16261.pkg]
Proftpd Security Update [RaQ550-All-Security-0.0.1-15823.pkg]
Qpopper Update 0.0.1 [RaQ550-All-System-0.0.1-16095.pkg]
Tar & Unzip Security update 0.0.1 [RaQ550-All-Security-0.0.1-1-16170.pkg]
Root DNS server update 0.0.1 [RaQ550-All-System-0.0.1-16365.pkg]

Notes:
Postgresql data and logs have been moved out of the /var partition to
the /home partition, because of disk space issues.

Raq#2 [Sun Cobalt OS 7.0] (Mail)
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3rd Party Pkg's/Software:
OpenWebMail 1.71.20020917 [pkgmaster]
Secure Shell 2.2 [pkgmaster]
MailScanner & RAV AV [RackAid] (not a pkg)
MailScanner-MRTG (not a pkg)
Lone-TAR for linux (2.4 kernel or greater)[cactus.com](not pkg)

Installed Sun Patches:
Same as RaQ#1

Thanks in advance
-Garrett