From owner-freebsd-security Wed Jun 19 14:33:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [63.229.157.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEB2A37B40B for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 14:33:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [63.229.157.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA24539; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 15:33:22 -0600 (MDT) X-message-flag: Warning! Use of Microsoft Outlook is dangerous and makes your system susceptible to Internet worms. Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20020619153117.0230db10@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 15:33:12 -0600 To: Jason DiCioccio , Jan Lentfer , From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Apache 1.3.26 port In-Reply-To: References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020619150748.0236b1d0@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 Interestingly, if you compile Apache from the tarball provided on the Apache Project's Web server, and use its "make install", it won't overwrite your data or your existing configuration. It's an artifact of the port. To prevent problems, I'm installing right from the Apache tarball and not using the port. --Brett At 03:14 PM 6/19/2002, Jason DiCioccio wrote: >I would consider this semi-correct, at least from my experience. The data >directories ARE seperated out. Notice that there is a data.default and a >cgi-bin.default which data and cgi-bin are linked to. If you break the >data/cgi-bin symlinks and just mkdir data/mkdir cgi-bin, your data should >not be overwritten, it should only overwrite data.default. > >If this is another issue, I haven't encountered it. > >Cheers, >-JD- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message