Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 12:18:45 +0930 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> To: Unknow User <kernel@tdnet.com.br> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: user uses xv3.10a (PNG) to halt my system. Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.10.9905181216460.25489-100000@bragg> In-Reply-To: <3740B863.6C20B59E@tdnet.com.br>
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On Mon, 17 May 1999, Unknow User wrote: > a) My system is 2.2.8Stable, where can i get a updated list about patch > to this system? Try cvsup. It's documented in the handbook. > b) I have installed xv 3.10a (PNG), but my system has got freezed by > running this software! So now, a user(i don't know which) have being > stopping my system. How do you know it is xv? It's more likely you're running into a problem with the system, not triggered by xv at all. You're correct that a user application shouldn't be able to do this, and given the lack of any other reports about this problem I doubt it is in your case either. Kris ----- "That suit's sharper than a page of Oscar Wilde witticisms that's been rolled up into a point, sprinkled with lemon juice and jabbed into someone's eye" "Wow, that's sharp!" - Ace Rimmer and the Cat, _Red Dwarf_ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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