From owner-freebsd-security Mon Jul 20 13:23:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA07809 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 13:23:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from obie.softweyr.com ([204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA07803 for ; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 13:23:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@obie.softweyr.com) Received: (from wes@localhost) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA27380; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 14:21:20 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes) From: Wes Peters Message-Id: <199807202021.OAA27380@obie.softweyr.com> Subject: Re: Why is there no info on the QPOPPER hack? In-Reply-To: <199807201740.LAA20525@lariat.lariat.org> from Brett Glass at "Jul 20, 98 11:39:57 am" To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 14:21:20 -0600 (MDT) Cc: "Gentry A. Bieker"@obie.softweyr.com, , security@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >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 http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message