Bastille linux and Red Hat equivalent to YDL

[Felix Jodoin]

For the perl stuff, I'm not sure. As for the redhat, give it Redhat 9.

On 28-Apr-04, at 5:36 PM, Steven J. Norton wrote:

> My apologies to those who have seen this on the newbies list, but 
> someone
> recommended that I try the yellowdog-general list instead (and I 
> seemed to
> have indirectly incited a mini-flame-war back there). Here goes:
>
> I'm building my own web server with YDL 3.01 (on an old beige G3), and 
> I'm
> very interested in securing the server as much as possible. Among the 
> many
> other resources I've come across, one useful one is Bastille -- which 
> is
> essentially a set of perl scripts that walks you through securing your
> system. Earlier versions of Bastille were labeled 
> architecture-independent
> (*.noarch.*), but more recent ones are specific to i386 (and the RPMs 
> just
> won't work). There hasn't been any recent discussion of Bastille on 
> PPC at
> all (except a release for Mac OSX).
>
> Now, since Bastille is mainly just perl scripts, and it is very 
> focused on
> Red Hat (and since YDL is Red Hat-based), I thought I might be able to 
> use
> it anyway. I got the "source" tarball, which included an install 
> script that
> installed the various pieces necessary. I got as far as being able to 
> run
> the interactive program (InteractiveBastille), when it gave me an error
> about specifying an OS. The list it provided included many versions of 
> Red
> Hat, among others.
>
> Questions:
> 1) Is there a version of RH Linux that corresponds to YDL 3?
> 2) If I tell it I have some version of Red Hat, will this work?
> 3) Bastille's documentation also says that its graphical interface 
> requires
> perl-Tk, but I haven't been able to find a ppc version of that. Is it
> perhaps rolled into more recent perl releases? Ditto perl-Curses for a
> command line interface.
> 4) Is this hopeless, or is it worth trying?
>
> Any advice appreciated. Thanks!
>
> Steve Norton
>
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