From owner-freebsd-security Fri Apr 19 0:43:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from ralf.artlogix.com (sense-mcglk-240.oz.net [216.39.168.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F7DD37B41A for ; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 00:43:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by ralf.artlogix.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 896351B9C9F; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 00:46:47 -0700 (PDT) To: Brett Glass Cc: hawkeyd@visi.com, freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-02:21.tcpip References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020418200936.023fedd0@nospam.lariat.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20020418141843.021d1540_nospam.lariat.org@ns.sol.net> <20020418182218.GA35672_peitho.fxp.org@ns.sol.net> <4.3.2.7.2.20020418141843.021d1540_nospam.lariat.org@ns.sol.net> <200204190149.g3J1nOb01496@sheol.localdomain> <4.3.2.7.2.20020418200936.023fedd0@nospam.lariat.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20020418203122.0218e970@nospam.lariat.org> From: Ken McGlothlen Date: 19 Apr 2002 00:46:47 -0700 In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20020418203122.0218e970@nospam.lariat.org> Message-ID: <87sn5syvtk.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> Lines: 9 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) 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 Brett Glass writes: | Sure, to start with. And then I customize it. If my kernel config files are | preserved through the update, I can do that very quickly. Kernel config files have been preserved through the update since FreeBSD 3.x. They're in /sys/i386/conf. GENERIC gets stomped on, as does LINT, but everything else is preserved. And if you're feeling paranoid about it (which I tend to be), there's always the floppy drive or some other backup mechanism. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message