From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 23 21:44:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2454F37B407 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 21:44:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f7O4icb60367; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 21:44:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Mario Doria" , Subject: RE: The upgrading process Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 21:44:38 -0700 Message-ID: <001e01c12c57$7b29d300$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <20010824012800.30523.qmail@web14203.mail.yahoo.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Mario Doria >Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 6:28 PM >To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: The upgrading process > > >Hi, > >When a security update happens, like the last one with the proc fs, >what is the >required drill? The instructions are in the security notification file for the update. >I usually rebuild world, rebuild kernel and reboot. I want to know if that is >necessary, No - not unless the thing being patched is linked into by every program in the system, which is probably not likely to say the least. Obviously, a patch that applies to a file in the kernel will most likely require a kernel recompile. A patch that affects a library (like the patch for libc that came out right after 4.3 was released) may force a recompile of everything linked against that library (as that patch did) A patch that affects a standalone program will only require recompilation of that program. The security notification patch instructions are always the most authoratative source of instructions. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message