From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 23 19:38:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-54.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6540C37B408 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 19:38:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id F065466D1C; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 19:38:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 19:38:17 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Mario Doria Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The upgrading process Message-ID: <20010823193817.A5214@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20010824012800.30523.qmail@web14203.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="gKMricLos+KVdGMg" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010824012800.30523.qmail@web14203.mail.yahoo.com>; from mariodoria@yahoo.com on Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 06:28:00PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --gKMricLos+KVdGMg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 06:28:00PM -0700, Mario Doria wrote: > Hi, >=20 > When a security update happens, like the last one with the proc fs, what = is the > required drill? > I usually rebuild world, rebuild kernel and reboot. I want to know if tha= t is > necessary, > I don't think it is but I'm betting for the safe side (rebuilding the ker= nel). > So, what should I do > I have an options PROCFS line on my kernel, so for this update I assume I= had > to rebuild my kernel. > But for other updates, how do I know what steps are necessary (like just > rebuilding the kernel, making world, or both; also, do I have to reset)? It's all described in the advisory.. Kris --gKMricLos+KVdGMg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7hb4ZWry0BWjoQKURAkCSAKCQb9fq9oJoa9NpUHqnjFiey97ZGQCggqwk QhJ8u4Df+llegF2QJNyBPpM= =Nx4v -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --gKMricLos+KVdGMg-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message