From owner-freebsd-qa Wed Jul 12 13:43:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from wat-border.sentex.ca (waterloo-hespler.sentex.ca [199.212.135.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2399237C0C0; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 13:43:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite-atm.sentex.ca [209.112.4.1]) by wat-border.sentex.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA99215; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 16:43:16 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from simoeon.sentex.net (simeon.sentex.ca [209.112.4.47]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id QAA15693; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 16:43:15 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.0.20000712163654.03107bd0@marble.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtpop@marble.sentex.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 16:38:42 -0400 To: asami@FreeBSD.ORG From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: 4.1 Release testing... Cc: freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <"Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of "Wed, 12 Jul 2000 12:59:07 -0700"> <44589.963431947@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG One the comes to mind is big brother. It should either be updated or marked as broken as there is a security hole in the current version. Also the port version runs as root when it happily runs under and should run under its own non priv'd userid. ---Mike At 01:23 PM 7/12/00 -0700, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote: > * From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" > > * An ISO image on the 14th is also doable, but I didn't think the > * packages would be available by then. Was I wrong? > >"Some" packages will always be available. They are just not the ones >that go in the final release. >...... -- everyone has his or her favorite port that >happened to be updated/fixed/security hole plugged just hours after >the ports freeze. The number of people who send me mail pleading to >slip in just one more update has been increasing over the years due to >the number of ports exploding. ---Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications mike@sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message