From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 14 11:08:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA12809 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 11:08:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [192.109.159.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA12758 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 11:07:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andreas@klemm.gtn.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with UUCP id UAA17407; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 20:00:07 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA02916; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 19:01:49 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from andreas) Message-ID: <19980714190149.A1062@klemm.gtn.com> Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 19:01:49 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm To: Alfred Perlstein , CyberPsychotic Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel dies. References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Alfred Perlstein on Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 10:35:14AM -0500 X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT SMP Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 10:35:14AM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > it's REALLY time you upgraded. 2.2.1 has accumilated a long list of holes, > you are vulnerable to several TCP/IP DoS attacks as well as > vulnerabilities in the userland tools > > get a copy of 2.2.6 (maybe 2.2.7, it' out i heard) you should be fine update /usr/src using cvsup cd /usr/src make buildworld make installworld That's the advantage of FreeBSD over xxx ... ;-) Fine tune /etc/rc scripts on demand with things in /usr/src/etc manually ... New is the main config file rc.conf instead of system.conf (if I remember right) ... -- Andreas Klemm http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas What gives you 90% more speed, for example, in kernel compilation ? http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~fsmp/SMP/akgraph-a/graph1.html "NT = Not Today" (Maggie Biggs) ``powered by FreeBSD SMP'' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message