Hello,
> It looks like nearly all of your customizations simply involve removing
> certain files from the system. FreeBSD Update is designed to handle
> this situation: If there is a security update in sendmail and you have
> deleted the sendmail binaries, FreeBSD Update will ignore that particul
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 09:09:41AM +0200, Patrick Bihan-Faou wrote:
> We are using the stack protection patches for GCC in production servers
> running FreeBSD 4.11 and everything runs well. We are using a fairly
> large number of ports (from samba to php to postgresql, etc.) and none
> have sh
markzero wrote:
> In my case, all I'm after is a way to distribute a custom build of
> FreeBSD. When I say custom, I really just mean a standard build with
> a custom make.conf:
>
> [snip]
>
> I'd rather not use NFS, for security reasons, so I've had to resort
> to ad-hoc shell scripts to do upda
On Friday 28 October 2005 07:09, Patrick Bihan-Faou wrote:
> We are using the stack protection patches for GCC in production servers
> running FreeBSD 4.11 and everything runs well. We are using a fairly
> large number of ports (from samba to php to postgresql, etc.) and none
> have shown issues wi
db wrote:
On Thursday 27 October 2005 19:58, you wrote:
Ok thanks, but I was looking for a kernel level patch. Btw which ports
will break?
I did not keep a list, but as far as I remember, the 'pure-pw' binary
from pure-ftpd was the last thing that failed. Because it was not
visible in
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
I'm wondering if/where I can get the server side component for
freebsd-update. Presumably such a component would build and sign the
binary patches and prepare them to be served via HTTP to the
freebsd-update client.
I need a system for distributing bi
Hello,
Please, don't use chkrootkit 0.46 on production machines.
The "chkproc" process sends a SIGXFSZ (25) signal to init,
that interprets this signal as a "disaster" and reboots
after a 30s sleep.
I'm contacting the chkrootkit maintainer to fix this
problem.
Sorry,
Cordeiro
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On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 12:03:13AM -0700, Colin Percival wrote:
>
> The FreeBSD Update build code is... umm... somewhere in between. I think
> the best way to explain it is to say that I don't care about copyright on
> the build code, but the code is a stinking pile of hacks upon hacks with
> mul
Nielsen wrote:
> I need a system for distributing binary updates to a collection of
> customized FreeBSD machines, jails, and embedded systems. freebsd-update
> seems to be what I'm looking for, but I'm wondering if the server side
> is a proprietary piece of technology held by someone somewhere, o