Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 01:35:11 +0800 From: Xin LI <delphij@frontfree.net> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org Subject: Is there any way to know if userland is patched? Message-ID: <20041110173511.GA2940@frontfree.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Dear folks, I'm recently investigating large scale deployment and upgrading FreeBSD RELEASE. It's our tradition to bump "RELEASE-pN" after a security patch is applied, however, it seems that there is less method to determine whether the userland is patched, which is somewhat important for large site managements. So is "uname -sr" the only way to differencate the patchlevel of a security branch? I have read Colin's freebsd-update script and to my best of knowledge this is the only way (and, on condition that we have re-compiled the kernel and installed it, and reboot'ed). Given the nature of a security or errata branch, we can expect that no API/ABI changes will occour and it should be safe to do make installworld/installkernel in any order, and bumping patchlevel does not mean that a reboot must be done. Please correct me if I was wrong, thanks. Cheers, -- Xin LI <delphij frontfree net> http://www.delphij.net/ See complete headers for GPG key and other information. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBklFP/cVsHxFZiIoRArNMAJoDQ8xvgqMxDxlw3A8UtWMF1Wrg3gCePf52 1pfxXnFZvhYmn0saK1iOh88= =h7f6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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