* Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0719 11:19]:
> Dear people,
>
> I have been applying patches over time; and when I recompile the kernel (4.9R p4),
> it keeps the old one around. My question is, though, is it safe to keep /kernel.old?
> I always keep it around, in case the new kernel has a problem. And that always
> seemed like a sensible policy to me. But what if one of the patches contains an
> exploitable bug? I run in securelevel 2, so I am not sure whether users could
> actually use the old kernel (once in multi-user mode). Still, I wonder if this
> concern is valid at all. Or whether I should perhaps get rid of the old kernel.
What I generally do on all BSds is when I've been using the kernel happily for a week
or two,
I 'cp /kernel /kernel.ok' - if you let /kernel.old get *too* old, you might find it
won't boot
on a recent userland....
--
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you nothing. It was here first.
-- Mark Twain
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