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Yet another problem that actually updating your shit - which is trivially easy on enterprise Linux - would fix.
It's part of the 95% of problems solved by actually updating your enterprise Linux host.
unattended-upgrades and forget about it
oops, our third party application broke again
Never happened to me when set to security.
Tell me more (for real, I'm unfamiliar).
Its a Debian package that automatically upgraded packages (if they have pending security updates)
I run mine manually, good to know. Will check it out.
That requires that the patches be in the repos. With RHEL it might be a few months
Normally security patches are pretty good on same day releases as the CVE if available.
But then I can't screenshot my 7 years of uptime
Just live patch
Although it is better to have some sort of HA system.