From owner-freebsd-security Thu Apr 18 16: 2:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mail.webmonster.de (datasink.webmonster.de [194.162.162.209]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2A30D37B417 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 16:02:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 62530 invoked by uid 1000); 18 Apr 2002 23:03:03 -0000 Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 01:03:03 +0200 From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" To: Brett Glass Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-02:21.tcpip Message-ID: <20020419010303.K60925@mail.webmonster.de> Mail-Followup-To: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" , Brett Glass , security@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020418115258.F9140-100000@master.gorean.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20020418143231.021d6840@nospam.lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="wRokNccIwvMzawGl" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20020418143231.021d6840@nospam.lariat.org>; from brett@lariat.org on Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 02:34:47PM -0600 X-Arbitrary-Number-Of-The-Day: 42 X-URL: http://www.webmonster.de/ X-Disclaimer: My opinions do not necessarily represent those of my employer X-Work-URL: http://www.ngenn.net/ X-Work-Address: nGENn GmbH, Schloss Kransberg, D-61250 Usingen-Kransberg, Germany X-Work-Phone: +49-6081-682-304 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --wRokNccIwvMzawGl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Brett Glass(brett@lariat.org)@2002.04.18 14:34:47 +0000: > >A cursory examination of the mail archives will show that this is one > >of his favorite hobby horses.=20 >=20 > It's not a "favorite hobby horse" but rather a longstanding issue. > Why not work to solve the problem? if it is of major importance to you, please contact the jp.freebsd.org people, talk about the open issues (docs, distribution,...) and then set up a public ftp mirror that holds snapshots of RELENG_4_WHATEVER. if you want to do it yourself, creating iso images and a properly set up ftp-area for network installs read the docs listed at http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html#docs you just have to set up some midrange pc hardware that pulls the CVS archive and runs a script around "make release". this _is_ a lot of work, sure, and i stopped delivering my (past employer's) customers custom -stable releases on iso (for obvious reasons). if you got more than let's say 50 boxes running the same release with a site-specific standard setup, it makes sense to invest the time. go ahead and try building a release. regards, /k --=20 > Obscenity is the crutch of inarticulate motherfuckers. KR433/KR11-RIPE -- WebMonster Community Founder -- nGENn GmbH Senior Techie http://www.webmonster.de/ -- ftp://ftp.webmonster.de/ -- http://www.ngenn.n= et/ GnuPG 0x2964BF46 2001-03-15 42F9 9FFF 50D4 2F38 DBEE DF22 3340 4F4E 2964 B= F46 My mail is GnuPG signed -- Unsigned ones are bogus -- http://www.gnupg.org/ Please do not remove my address from To: and Cc: fields in mailing lists. 1= 0x --wRokNccIwvMzawGl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8v1CnM0BPTilkv0YRAngMAJ9e2DftxdqlK0uy19UdzCmD0KZUbQCcDSP2 N57d4sbEHwsl1kUCIskjURw= =/gLB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --wRokNccIwvMzawGl-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message