Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 14:21:20 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Cc: "Gentry A. Bieker"@obie.softweyr.com, <gbieker@crown.NET>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is there no info on the QPOPPER hack? Message-ID: <199807202021.OAA27380@obie.softweyr.com> In-Reply-To: <199807201740.LAA20525@lariat.lariat.org> from Brett Glass at "Jul 20, 98 11:39:57 am"
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> >You don't expect all of your software to automaticly upgrade for you, do you?
>
> That's a darn good idea. Several Windows apps do this already. Why not
> the FreeBSD ports?
He walked right into that one, didn't he?
How difficult would it be to write a little daemon to check all of the
installed ports and packages for update availability?
We should write it in modula-3, to make sure it doesn't have any
buffer overflow problems, though. Anyone wanna learn m3? ;^)
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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