The process of applying, or files used to apply, improvements to a system or program. An update is typically encompasses minor changes and improvements, relative to an upgrade.
Questions tagged [update]
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Caching static content from Adobe, Microsoft, etc
I'm currently running the Apple SUS on a Mac OS X Server in a small office environment. It works well for Apple updates, but I'm still stuck with either manually downloading and installing Adobe/Microsoft updates on each computer or running them…

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MS10-070 causing problems with Asp.NET MVC AntiForgery tokens?
KB2418241, KB2416473, and KB2416451 all reference http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS10-070.mspx
After installing this patches on our Windows Server 2003 machines last Friday, we have been getting a significantly increased rate of…

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Debian Squeeze console not working after upgrade
We have upgraded a Debian Squeeze machine recently, which was installed in February 2010 and was never upgraded after that. After the upgrade, while booting the machine prints some messages and after "waiting for /dev with devices" it does not print…

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Updating windows from a central system
I want to setup a central system (server) which will directly update windows from the internet. The other (client) systems will connect to the central system (server) and
update their copy of windows installation.
Moreover there are certain…

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Proposal for a new EICAR format that covers engine up-to-dateness
The EICAR test file was used to functionally test an antivirus system. As it stands today almost every AV system will flag EICAR as being a "test" virus. For more information on this historic test virus please click here.
Currently the EICAR test…

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Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.04.1 differences?
Initially I installed Ubuntu 10.04 on a given machine (original 64b official release). Install from scratch. I then applied the various updates.
Then, a friend with the exact same hardware, memory etc... as mine, decided she wants Ubuntu on it. So I…

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MySQL stop responsing when modify main tables
It's an InnoDB database. The query cache has 1.2GB in size with 300k queries in the cache. Most of the cached queries are related to 3 major tables (260MB data length plus 600MB index length altogether). Everytime I tried to insert new entry or…

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Can I Update NetCraft DNS info?
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://elementsystems.net
It has the wrong "Organisation", "Nameserver Organisation" and "Reverse DNS"
My domain information is private and from what I can see, everything on my server is setup correctly.…

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Updating packages on a CentOS 5.5 VPS
I have been running a VPS for several weeks now and yum has informed me that 67 package updates are available. I'm very new to Linux and server administration in general. I have taken time to configure Apache, PHP and a few other necessary programs…

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What is "LicenseDword" in Update Server BaseApplicabilityRules?
Looking at the Applicability Rules that are in use by WSUS (msus) by looking in the XML files themselves there are many rules that are not documented in the MSDN Doc's or in the XSD files that come with WSUS.
For the most part I have been able to…
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Cannot access a website, DNS fails
I can't access my website, the DNS fails at a certain point.
I don't understand much of this stuff, so I hope someone can give a simple answer for this question:
Can I fix it even if it is a temporary solution? How?
I believe these questions are the…

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What to have in sources.list on an Ubuntu LTS server (production)?
I have several Ubuntu 10.04 LTS servers in production and I'm using apticron to check that my software is up to date, security-wise. However, by default, Ubuntu has the lucid-updates repository enabled. This means lots of low-priority updates (such…

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Updating Network Solutions Virtual Private Server
Just got a VPS from Network Solutions, it's got Red Hat 4, PHP 5.16, Java 1.4, no Yum and a whole bunch of packages I'd expect to have from a fresh install.
Anyway, obviously I sound like a spoiled Ubunutoligist, but do I seriously have to manually…

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Microsoft Office updates fail to install
I have one computer (Windows XP) which is updating via update services. Most updates are installing successfully, however updates to MS Office are failing to install. Windows updates then pops up again with the list of pending office updates still…

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Problem with kde-filesystem when updating
Since 2-3 weeks, each time I update my fedora 11 box with yum, I get these messages.
Error unpacking rpm package kde-filesystem-4-33.fc11.noarch
warning: /etc/rpm/macros.kde4 saved as /etc/rpm/macros.kde4.rpmsave
error: unpacking of archive…

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