Bastille linux and Red Hat equivalent to YDL

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

YDL3 is equivalent to RH8, not 9.
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> From: Felix Jodoin <felixj@shaw.ca>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Newsgroups: gmane.linux.yellowdog.general
> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 21:16:08 -0500
> Subject: Re: Bastille linux and Red Hat equivalent to YDL
> 
> 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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