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Date:      Fri, 21 Aug 1998 21:40:30 -0500
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To:        "B. Richardson" <rabtter@aye.net>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: I want to break binary compatibility. 
Message-ID:  <199808220240.VAA16809@nospam.hiwaay.net>
In-Reply-To: Message from "B. Richardson" <rabtter@aye.net>  of "Fri, 21 Aug 1998 19:12:40 EDT." <Pine.SGI.3.95.980821185606.1979A-100000@orion.aye.net> 

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"B. Richardson" writes:
> 
> 
> I have a problem with some hackers that are obsessed with making my
> ISP's life miserable (they've already hacked our SGI). I've slapped
> together a FreeBSD box to throw their webpages on it, turned off all
> services except http.

While you are at it and breaking binary compatibility for security 
reasons, make sure you remove stuff a webserver doesn't need such as
/usr/include, compilers, manpages, etc. Maybe PicoBSD would be the 
place to start?

--
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net
=====================================================================
The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its
capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.



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