Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 11:57:52 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, Nicholas Charles Brawn <ncb05@uow.edu.au>, Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter@shell.monmouth.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status Report on 2.2.6 Giveaway CD's Message-ID: <19981006115752.L27781@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981005190111.04196470@mail.lariat.org>; from Brett Glass on Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 07:06:08PM -0600 References: <199810041324.JAA03078@shell.monmouth.com> <Pine.SOL.4.02A.9810061052240.28774-100000@banshee.cs.uow.e du.au> <4.1.19981005190111.04196470@mail.lariat.org>
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On Monday, 5 October 1998 at 19:06:08 -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > At 10:58 AM 10/6/98 +1000, Nicholas Charles Brawn wrote: > >> Find out all the vulnerabilities and bugs present in various >> distributions, and whip up a script that checks for their presence on >> your system. >> >> Tell new users of freebsd to download said script, which will advise >> them about known bugs and vulnerabilities present in 'x' distribution, >> and what they are able to do to prevent them and/or patch them. > > Newbies won't necessarily know how to download the script, or what to do > with it. And if they just get a 2.2.6 disk, they won't know that such > a script exists. > > That's why a sticker on the disk would be a good idea. To be fair, that's not a bad idea. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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