--On 18 August 2005 13:03 +0200, Tim wrote:
1. I have a old computer that is slow and has little memory. But I want to keep it updated with patches. I can't compile these patches on the system but I could do it on another faster system. But how can I later apply the compiled patches to the weak system?
One way to do this is to build a release(8) and use the normal bsd.rd process to upgrade to your newly-created tgz files.
2. Alot of you seem to use sudo instead of su - when you want to do something that requires privileges. Why is this? What settings are you using for sudo?
Various reasons .. if you use sudo on each command you want to execute as root, you get a useful audit trail in the system log (or by mail, if wanted). (if you sudo -s, or use sudo to run a shell, this bypasses it). Also you can control which commands can be run by which users. You can have it ask for the (user's) password every time, or you can have it ask no more than every XX minutes. See sudoers(5) for more options.
