From owner-freebsd-security Thu Jun 20 4:38:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from sirius.pbegames.com (sirius.pbegames.com [64.124.9.107]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7655B37B400 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 04:38:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from leviathan.pbegames.com (medusa.pbegames.com [141.156.220.22]) by sirius.pbegames.com (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id g5KBcoc85721 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 07:38:50 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from thomas@pbegames.com) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020620073651.02008090@pbegames.com> X-Sender: thomas@pbegames.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 07:38:57 -0400 To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG From: Mark Thomas Subject: Re: Apache 1.3.26 port In-Reply-To: <20020620113115.GA73571@starjuice.net> References: <200206200658470001.031DD337@mail.speakeasy.net> <200206200658470001.031DD337@mail.speakeasy.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 At 01:31 PM 6/20/02 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: >Is it because people are replacing the contents of data.default with >their own content and leaving the symlink in place? > >If so, then the problem has to do with the fact that folks aren't using >the symlinks and .defaults directories as intended. I think the >intention was always for the operator to replace the symlink with either >a directory or a symlink to the directory containing local content. OK, where exactly are these symlinks supposed to be? I upgraded 3 servers last night with no issues (though in 2/3 cases I had non-standard locations for data and cgi-bin directories). I just reviewed the apache13 port tree and didn't see anything resembling the data.default symlink mentioned. Mark Thomas --- thomas@pbegames.com ----> http://www.pbegames.com/~thomas Play by Electron Games -> http://www.pbegames.com Free Trial Games To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message