From owner-freebsd-security Tue Apr 10 16:33:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42B9F37B423 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 16:33:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([fec0::2e0:7dff:fe81:749d]) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14n7N6-0001jK-00; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 00:16:28 +0100 Received: (from ben@localhost) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f3ANGRY65005; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 00:16:27 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from ben) Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 00:16:27 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Nicole Harrington Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org, Michael Bryan , Michael Nottebrock Subject: Re: Security Announcements? Message-ID: <20010411001627.I8173@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <20010410215014.A8173@scientia.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Nicole Harrington wrote: > Thats the most stupid thing I have every heard. I never knew that simply by > running -STABLE I would not have any security problems and would not need > patches or updates. By running -stable (or by tracking -stable which is what I meant and perhaps should have said) you *do* get all the security fixes whenever you cvsup. That's my point, I probably didn't express it very clearly, sorry. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message