Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 09:15:44 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Ceri <ceri@techsupport.co.uk> Cc: Adyas@twowaytv.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: uptime limits Message-ID: <20010521091544.A25239@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20010521145931.A11873@cartman.techsupport.co.uk>; from "Ceri" on Mon May 21 14:59:31 GMT 2001 References: <911D8F660DF6D411B61F00500462BA01775914@exchange.twowaytv.co.uk> <20010521160524.I60364@everest.wananchi.com> <20010521145931.A11873@cartman.techsupport.co.uk>
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In the last episode (May 21), Ceri said: > On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 04:05:24PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington said: > > * Alex Dyas <ADyas@twowaytv.com> [20010521 15:36]: writing on the subject 'RE: uptime limits' > > > If you have an uptime of 497 days then you basically have a > > > system riddled with security holes. > > > > This assumes that a reboot is necessary to apply a security patch. > > Is this necessarily the case? For instance, an upgrade of Bind to > > patch a hole wouldn't mean powering the system down would it? > > No, but fixing anyone of the 10 exploits in the kernel category since > Jan 10th 2000 (497 days ago) would. Yes, I have a list ;^) > > Admittedly, I wasn't aware that there was a marketing spin to all this. > I can imagine the marketing department's spin on that already : > ``Yeah well Apache's been fux0red for months and we can't get > that sendmail thing working properly but at least we didn't > reboot yet.'' Neither Apache or Sendmail upgrades require a reboot, though. Assuming you have a decent firewall that blocks odd TCP packets, and don't allow shells on your machine, there really aren't very many security holes that require a kernel upgrade. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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