From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 10 5:24:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lucifer.bart.nl (lucifer.bart.nl [194.158.168.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDFCF1539D for ; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 05:24:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@lucifer.bart.nl) Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by lucifer.bart.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA04557; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 14:24:21 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 14:24:21 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven To: Virinder.Dhillon@jpl.nasa.gov, earle@netbsd4me.jpl.nasa.gov Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Y2K questions about FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE (yes, I know) and INN 1.4 Message-ID: <19991210142420.B85568@lucifer.bart.nl> References: <199912101122.DAA11771@netbsd4me.jpl.nasa.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <199912101122.DAA11771@netbsd4me.jpl.nasa.gov>; from earle@netbsd4me.jpl.nasa.gov on Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 03:22:21AM -0800 Organisation: bART Internet Services B.V. Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -On [19991210 12:25], Greg Earle (earle@netbsd4me.jpl.nasa.gov) wrote: >We're assessing the Y2K vulnerability of this box in its current state. It >does nothing other than run stock daemons (but not sendmail) and "sshd" and >the INN 1.4p4 "innd" and the innxmits needed to service news feeds. > >My reading of http://www.freebsd.org/y2kbug.html was basically that unless >I upgrade the machine to FreeBSD 3.1, I might have problems ... that really >isn't practical given lack of time and our current scenario (the replacements >are being configured as we speak, but likely won't be ready in time for the >end of the year). I recently patched a 2.2.2 box with some stuff. One of the main things was the cron which needed to be patched. Other than that I didn't do that much to the box and am preparing a 3.x box spare for quick replacement should anything go amok. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Network- and systemadministrator bART Internet Services / Tel: +31 - (0) 10 - 240 39 70 VIA NET.WORKS Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message