From owner-freebsd-www Thu Sep 3 12:58:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA09553 for www-outgoing; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 12:58:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-www) Received: from shell6.ba.best.com (shell6.ba.best.com [206.184.139.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA09537 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 12:58:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkb@best.com) Received: from localhost (jkb@localhost) by shell6.ba.best.com (8.9.0/8.9.0/best.sh) with SMTP id MAA21977; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 12:57:12 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: shell6.ba.best.com: jkb owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 12:57:12 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jan B. Koum " X-Sender: jkb@shell6.ba.best.com To: Wolfram Schneider cc: www@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD News Flash update In-Reply-To: <19980903160616.A14471@freno.cs.tu-berlin.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Wolfram Schneider wrote: >On 1998-09-02 15:55:37 -0700, Jan B. Koum wrote: >> I know how busy we all are, but is it possible to update >> http://www.freebsd.org/news/newsflash.html to reflect issues such as >> Daemon News (www.daemonnews.org), migration to ELF in 3.0, etc? Thanks :) > >Good idea. Write a short paragraph and sent it back to www@freebsd.org > >-- >Wolfram Schneider http://freebsd.org/~w/ > Ok. :) Here is HTML code ready to be inserted into the page:

August 1998

  • 31-Aug-98 First issue of Daemon News arrives day earlier. This electronic ezine is by BSD community for BSD community. See http://www.daemonnews.org

  • 31-Aug-98 FreeBSD -CURRENT branch (the future 3.0-RELEASE) has switched to ELF from a.out format. People involved did a great job: transition went smooth. Check freebsd-current@freebsd.org mail archive for more information on the transition to ELF.

  • 23-Aug-98 Suidcontrol-0.1 utility has been released. The suidcontrol is an experimental utility for managing suid/sgid policy under FreeBSD. You can get more information at http://www.watson.org/fbsd-hardening/suidcontrol.html

  • 9-Aug-98 FreeBSD Security How-To has been published. This work is currently in beta and can be found at http://www.best.com/~jkb/howto.txt

To see what it looks like: www.best.com/~jkb/pre.html -- Yan