From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 12 13:23:04 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43E8816A41F for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 13:23:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cholland@redmoonbroadband.com) Received: from exchange.redmoonbroadband.com (exchange.redmoonbroadband.com [206.123.80.131]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C612A43D48 for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 13:23:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cholland@redmoonbroadband.com) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 08:23:01 -0500 Message-ID: <4B3EE484EEA4F344BBB62F831648998646786A@corpsrv.RedMoon.local> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Patch vs. Upgrade Thread-Index: AcXPMBIhQz7KhCiVTLSWLT4p6qYN3A== From: "Cody Holland" To: Subject: Patch vs. Upgrade X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 13:23:04 -0000 I'm still pretty new to the BSD world and wanted to throw out a question to see what kind of responses I get. What is everyones take on what to do when security vulnerabities are discovered. Do you upgrade your source (not always the easiest thing to do) or patch. What are the pros and cons of patching? Thanks, Cody