on Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 11:28:59AM +0200, Robert Waldner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 26 Oct 2000 21:44:21 +1300, "C. Falconer" writes:
<...> > >At 06:39 AM 10/25/00 +0200, you wrote: > >>The system is an up-to-date potato > >>Linux cruncher 2.2.15 #1 Thu Jun 1 10:47:16 EST 2000 i686 unknown > > > >Its not up-to-date if its not running the latest kernel in the range - > >2.2.17 at the moment :) > > Hmm, the war uptime vs. kernel is usually won by uptime here ;-) , but > all the other packages are up-to-date as of yesterday. > > (That´s why I´m running 2.0.3[6,8] kernels on some other boxes) 2.2.17 is recommended to fix a set of root-level exploits (local, IIRC) in the 2.2.9 (?) - 2.2.16 series. Prior to 2.2.9, there were, IIRC, some memory issues or other random bugs. I'm running 2.2.17 at home and 2.2.4pre8 at work. The 2.0.3[678] series is actually pretty good, and if you don't need features added in later kernels, is probably a good choice for a secure box. If you've got any external exposure or foreign users on your box, I'd tidy that up. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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