Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 13:43:29 +0100 From: Chris <chrcoluk@gmail.com> To: Tony Shadwick <tshadwick@goinet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portaudit is being stubborn Message-ID: <3aaaa3a05052005436414e0a3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050517144200.T26182@mail.goinet.com> References: <20050517144200.T26182@mail.goinet.com>
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This annoys me as well, I expect portaudit to alert me when an update is available to fix an exploit, but wget has no update so what is the point of the warning, there also seems to be no way to shut it up. Chris On 5/17/05, Tony Shadwick <tshadwick@goinet.com> wrote: > This is driving me nuts. I just downloaded the latest portaudit database > and ran it on my system: >=20 > mx02# portaudit -ad > Database created: Tue May 17 13:40:02 CDT 2005 > Affected package: wget-1.8.2_7 > Type of problem: wget -- multiple vulnerabilities. > Reference: > <http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/06f142ff-4df3-11d9-a9e7-0001020ee= d82.html> >=20 > 1 problem(s) in your installed packages found. >=20 > You are advised to update or deinstall the affected package(s) > immediately. >=20 >=20 > Okay....so, that vulnerability isn't of much concern to me, but just to b= e > sure I'm current: >=20 > mx02# portversion ftp/wget > wget =3D >=20 > So life is good there, so I got back and add this to my > /usr/local/etc/portaudit.conf file: >=20 > # Make portaudit ignore wget vulnerability (no shell users here anyway) > portaudit_fixed=3D"06f142ff-4df3-11d9-a9e7-0001020eed82" >=20 >=20 > I then re-ran portaudit....it gives me the same output. :( I want to hav= e > this cron'ed where I only get ouput when something that actually concerns > me comes up. Is the portaudit_fixed variable no longer supported? >=20 > Tony > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" >
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