From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 9 12:45:53 2003 Return-Path: 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 289FC37B401 for ; Wed, 9 Jul 2003 12:45:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pop016.verizon.net (pop016pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.173]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47BF943FAF for ; Wed, 9 Jul 2003 12:45:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([141.149.47.46]) by pop016.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.33 201-253-122-126-133-20030313) with ESMTP id <20030709194551.JHTZ3199.pop016.verizon.net@mac.com>; Wed, 9 Jul 2003 14:45:51 -0500 Message-ID: <3F0C70E7.9040807@mac.com> Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 15:45:43 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pjklist@ekahuna.com References: <20030709192657804.AAA330%empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com> In-Reply-To: <20030709192657804.AAA330%empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at pop016.verizon.net from [141.149.47.46] at Wed, 9 Jul 2003 14:45:51 -0500 cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ssh keepalives X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 19:45:53 -0000 Philip J. Koenig wrote: > On 9 Jul 2003 at 20:24, Paulius Bulotas boldly uttered: >>a bit late answer, but I'm not able to keep up with my email traffic ;) >> >>Apply this patch to OpenSSH, if you are running FreeBSD: >>http://www.sc.isc.tohoku.ac.jp/~hgot/sources/openssh-watchdog.html [ ... ] > Considering that the author of the patch greatly discourages usage of > the older OpenSSH code, and considering that my recently updated 4.8- > STABLE box is still using OpenSSH 3.5p1 rather than the latest 3.6p1 > mentioned in the patch, I'm a little disinclined to do this patch > because I'll have to re-patch it every time I build/install world. > > If there's any possibility this patch will make it into the > mainstream distribution I'll just wait for that. Will wait and see, > but thanks very much for the tip! Why not add the patch mentioned above to /usr/ports/security/openssh/files, and then build openssh-3.6p1 as a package? When you installworld, re-add this package afterwards... -- -Chuck