Service Applications
For those who do not have to administer Linux desktop environments, the challenge will be a bit more limited. In this case, all you need to do is monitor the security alerts associated with the applications running on your servers.
The basic pattern for security with respect to open-source service applications is consistent. Just as open-source development proceeds in the public eye, open-source security alerts and updates are publicly available. To that end, this section describes how you can keep up with security issues related to the Apache web server, the Samba file server, and various File Transfer Protocol (FTP) servers.
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