Re: BSDs

2000-03-31 Thread Wes Peters
Gustavo V G C Rios wrote: > > Hy folks! > > I have been playing with FreeBSD for the last 1 year and some time ago i > decide to give openbsd a try. > > I have been loving Free! Now, playing with Open is no trouble. > Some questions came up: > > 1) What are the advantages/disadavantages of usi

Re: BSDs

2000-03-30 Thread Greg Lehey
On Thursday, 30 March 2000 at 23:19:24 +, Gustavo V G C Rios wrote: > Matthew Dillon wrote: >> It's still a bad idea to post this sort of question to both mailing >> lists. > > Sorry, i did not realized that! > Next time, i'll be carefull! FWIW, that's Matt's opinion. I don't necessa

Re: BSDs

2000-03-30 Thread Gustavo V G C Rios
Matthew Dillon wrote: > It's still a bad idea to post this sort of question to both mailing > lists. Sorry, i did not realized that! Next time, i'll be carefull! -- If you're happy, you're successful. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers"

Re: BSDs

2000-03-30 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Hy folks! : :1) What are the advantages/disadavantages of using FreeBSD or OpenBSD? :.. : :PS: I am not asking which is the best OS (a kind of question that should :never be asked). :I only want to know the good/bad things about both of them, since no :OS is perfect! It's still a bad ide

BSDs

2000-03-30 Thread Gustavo V G C Rios
Hy folks! I have been playing with FreeBSD for the last 1 year and some time ago i decide to give openbsd a try. I have been loving Free! Now, playing with Open is no trouble. Some questions came up: 1) What are the advantages/disadavantages of using FreeBSD or OpenBSD? 2) FreeBSD has proven t

Re: (forw) FreeBSD (and other BSDs?) local root explot

1999-08-26 Thread Warner Losh
In message Julian Elischer writes: : quickest fix would be to make the core-dump routines not follow symlinks. An even quicker fix would be to disable coredumps in periodic, since no reboot would be required. :-) As has been noted in -security, the kernel fix has been committed. Warner To Un

Re: (forw) FreeBSD (and other BSDs?) local root explot

1999-08-26 Thread Warner Losh
In message <19990826184654.a...@ecad.org> crypt0genic writes: : This was just posted to BUGTRAQ, are the FreeBSD developers aware of this yet? Yes. We are and have been working to correct the problem. In fact, there is a kernel patch that has been committed. A quick and dirty workaround has bee

Re: (forw) FreeBSD (and other BSDs?) local root explot

1999-08-26 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Julian Elischer writes: : quickest fix would be to make the core-dump routines not follow symlinks. An even quicker fix would be to disable coredumps in periodic, since no reboot would be required. :-) As has been noted in -security, the kernel fix has been commit

Re: (forw) FreeBSD (and other BSDs?) local root explot

1999-08-26 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> crypt0genic writes: : This was just posted to BUGTRAQ, are the FreeBSD developers aware of this yet? Yes. We are and have been working to correct the problem. In fact, there is a kernel patch that has been committed. A quick and dirty workaround has been posted t

Re: (forw) FreeBSD (and other BSDs?) local root explot

1999-08-26 Thread Julian Elischer
works as advertised for me... quickest fix would be to make the core-dump routines not follow symlinks. On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, crypt0genic wrote: > > This was just posted to BUGTRAQ, are the FreeBSD developers aware of this yet? > > -Emil > > -- > Reverse engineering, the most fun and usuall

(forw) FreeBSD (and other BSDs?) local root explot

1999-08-26 Thread crypt0genic
This was just posted to BUGTRAQ, are the FreeBSD developers aware of this yet? -Emil -- Reverse engineering, the most fun and usually the most effective way to tackle a problem or learn something new. Public PGP key: http://www.ecad.org/crypt0genic_pgp_key Website:http:/

Re: (forw) FreeBSD (and other BSDs?) local root explot

1999-08-26 Thread Julian Elischer
works as advertised for me... quickest fix would be to make the core-dump routines not follow symlinks. On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, crypt0genic wrote: > > This was just posted to BUGTRAQ, are the FreeBSD developers aware of this yet? > > -Emil > > -- > Reverse engineering, the most fun and usual

(forw) FreeBSD (and other BSDs?) local root explot

1999-08-26 Thread crypt0genic
This was just posted to BUGTRAQ, are the FreeBSD developers aware of this yet? -Emil -- Reverse engineering, the most fun and usually the most effective way to tackle a problem or learn something new. Public PGP key: http://www.ecad.org/crypt0genic_pgp_key Website:http: