From owner-freebsd-security Sat Sep 30 14:37:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from jamus.xpert.com (jamus.xpert.com [199.203.132.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6DA037B502 for ; Sat, 30 Sep 2000 14:37:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from roman (helo=localhost) by jamus.xpert.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #5) id 13fUJk-0007jx-00; Sat, 30 Sep 2000 23:37:12 +0200 Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 23:37:12 +0200 (IST) From: Roman Shterenzon To: Neil Blakey-Milner Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/mail/pine4 Makefile (fwd) In-Reply-To: <20000930160432.A15451@mithrandr.moria.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > > > > Surely the same applies to FreeBSD itself? > > > > I find it very odd that ports get so much positive pressure from this > > list to restrict/fix/exclude them when there is a security issue, but > > try and get something done to core FreeBSD scripts/services etc., and > > you'll get shot down in flames... Bizarre... > > Can you give examples? I can give you an example: ipfilter in the FreeBSD. It still doesn't have a startup script in /etc/rc* And it's not because it doesn't exist - in fact there's conf/20202, but nothing is being done with it. I guess that one can think of some other examples. --Roman Shterenzon, UNIX System Administrator and Consultant [ Xpert UNIX Systems Ltd., Herzlia, Israel. Tel: +972-9-9522361 ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message