From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Feb 19 16:57:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from palrel1.hp.com (palrel1.hp.com [156.153.255.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42BFD37B4EC; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 16:57:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from adlmail.cup.hp.com (adlmail.cup.hp.com [15.0.100.30]) by palrel1.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A69E4E3A; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 16:57:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from cup.hp.com (p1000180.nsr.hp.com [15.109.0.180]) by adlmail.cup.hp.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18546)/8.9.3 SMKit7.02) with ESMTP id QAA12495; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 16:57:07 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3A91C0E2.49FE73E1@cup.hp.com> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 16:57:06 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: Hewlett-Packard X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Craig Harding , emulation@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: linux_base insecurity (Re: Status of Linux upgrade) References: <3A868C21.BAF18F98@outpost.co.nz> <3A8B5736.6780E776@cup.hp.com> <20010219160532.A55565@mollari.cthul.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Kris Kennaway wrote: > > We need to upgrade this port for security reasons - the downside to > having such good Linux compatibility is that we get a lot of their > security vulnerabilities too. I'm aware of this. Most of my Linuxulator work has been put aside while I wait for my Alpha. It seems that current i386-only changes broke the Alpha port :-( > Can someone else look at this? As long as they handle the Alpha as well... -- Marcel Moolenaar mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org tel: (408) 447-4222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message