How to copy an entire directory to my home directory
Hello, Ibm trying to copy all the contents of "/root/var/namedb from a remote OpenBSD3.8 DNS server to my local PC. I am using WinSCP for file transfer. I have found that I am unable to download some of the directories: /root/var/named/etc /root/var/named/log /root/var/named/slave I do not know OpenBSD or Unix but I can use Putty to login to the console as a member of the wheel group then I can type su b to execute commands as root. I was told that I should copy the etc, log, and slave directories to my local user directory, then I would be allowed to download them using WinSCP. I do not know the commands to copy a whole directory. Can anyone help? I want to make sure that when the copies end up in my home directory, they no longer have b whatever restrictions" are keeping me from downloading them from where the originals are at now. Thanks very much for any help
Is it necessary to recompile just to apply a security patch?
Is it necessary to recompile just to apply a security patch? Hello, I know nothing/very little about OpenBSD or UNIX. I have been tasked with updating our OpenBSD DNS server with a security fix (Vulnerability Note VU#800113- Multiple DNS implementations vulnerable to cache poisoning). In order to do this it appears that I have to download the source code re-compile the entire OS. Recompiling the OS seems to involve a lot of steps. Before I continue to read through them all, I just want to confirm that it is actually necessary to do all of this, simply to apply a security patch: Down load the tree.. Pre load the tree.. Build the Kernel.. Build the userland.. Etc. The only thing we use the server for is DNS. I don"t know what Flavor we are running, since its on a production server I assume it will be * release or * stable, either way from what I"ve read so far it looks like in order to apply this security patch I will have to update it to * stable. Is it true that the only way to apply this patch is to recompile the entire OS, and go through all the steps above? I"m only familiar with Windows, where you just push a button to apply a security patch and you don"t even have to reboot the server, so I was thinking that I may be misunderstanding what I"m reading. Thanks very much for your time and any info Kyle
Is it necessary to recompile OS to apply security patch?
Hello, I know nothing/very little about OpenBSD or UNIX. I have been tasked with updating our OpenBSD DNS server with a security fix (Vulnerability Note VU#800113- Multiple DNS implementations vulnerable to cache poisoning). In order to do this it appears that I have to download the source code re-compile the entire OS. Recompiling the OS seems to involve a lot of steps. Before I continue to read through them all, I just want to confirm that it is actually necessary to do all of this, simply to apply a security patch: Down load the tree.. Pre load the tree.. Build the Kernel.. Build the userland.. Etc. The only thing we use the server for is DNS. I dont know what flavor we are running, since its on a production server I assume it will be * release or * stable, either way from what Ive read so far it looks like in order to apply this security patch I will have to update it to * stable, which seems to require that the entire OS be recompiled. Is this correct? Is it true that the only way to apply this patch is to recompile the entire OS, and go through all the steps above? I dont mind doing all this since it will give me a chance to learn, its just that the more steps I have to take, the more chances there are for mistakes. I want to be sure that the way I plan to do the update is the simplest. Im only familiar with Windows, where you just push a button to apply a security patch and you dont even have to reboot the server, so I was thinking that I may be misunderstanding what Im reading. Thanks very much for your time and any info Kyle
