Unix Support

ACS Unix Support

ACS Unix System Support provides Unix system administration services through annual contracts. Unix variants supported include Solaris, Linux, SGI, and HP-UX. Additional work may be scheduled on a time and materials basis for annual contract holders only. For further details refer to contract details.

Security, Patches, and Vendor Links

ACS Network Security

The following links will help you locate vendor specific information for patches and security bulletins Solaris, Linux, SGI, and HP-UX.

Solaris
Solaris security
Sun’s resource for security advisories, T-patches, security bulletin archives and Sun Alerts.

Solaris patch portal
This is a starting point for Solaris patches.

ACS Software Distribution maintains the UCSD Sun Software Consortium, which provides Solaris operating system and select software licenses and software at greatly reduced prices for UCSD departmental Sun machines. See the ACS Sun information page for details.

Linux

Security patches are specific to the Linux distribution that you are running. This can be Debian, Red Hat, SuSE, or some other variant, such as Linux distributed by Sun or HP. General security announcments for all operating systems are at CERT: https://www.cert.org/

SGI
SGI Security home page SGI's resource for security advisories and patches.

SGI Online Support
This is a starting point for operating system and SGI products and licenses.

HP-UX
Neophais archives

This archive, which is maintained for all operating systems has copies of all HP-UX security bulletins, patch digests, and software and firmware patch announcements. Details on how to obtain patches for HP-UX are in the bulletins.