7.1 beta 2

2008-10-23 Thread security
I assume beta 2 is pretty darn close to what 7.1 release will be. Is there a list I can look at that details the outstanding issues/items being tested? I've checked the ERRATA and RELNOTES in the BETA2 directory, and didn't get much info. The goal is building a multi i/f router (just forwarding

Re: FreeBSD and Apache, is it safe out of the box ?

2008-03-07 Thread security
't. I'm thinking of many PHP based in general, and most of the forum apps in particular. Be sure to research the security history of web apps (or anything that opens up a port listener). Sign up for the mailing list of what you install, so you'll be alerted to security updates. C

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD Questions

2007-10-30 Thread security
Bruce Burden wrote: On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 04:25:18PM -0700, Jason Slack wrote: I want to try version 7 as it has items of interest to me, but I am not one to continually wipe and reload my machine, can you upgrade from the test releases of 7 available now to the final release when ready?

filesystem corruption freebsd 7.1 release guest on virtualpc 2007/windowsXP host system

2009-03-22 Thread security
I'm writing this more as a heads up to those using freebsd as a guest under virtualpc 2007 on Win XP sp3 host. I created a fixed size virtual disk (8gig). Just to be sure, I ran the XP disk check on the underlying disk before hand. I then installed freebsd 7.1 from cd image. Next I csup'ed to ge

Re: buildworld fails after patch (FreeBSD-SA-06:23.openssl)

2006-09-29 Thread security
Christer Solskogen wrote: On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 05:30:05 -0700 Colin Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do you mean using different mirrors? I'm using a supfile for that. But if you mean building I used 'make buildkernel buildworld' But doing a "make includes" did the trick. It compiles as it

Re: FreeBSD 4.x EoL

2006-10-17 Thread security
FreeBSD Security Officer wrote: In short: * FreeBSD is a volunteer project, and we don't want to volunteer to support FreeBSD 4.x beyond the scheduled EoL date of January 31st, 2007; * Even if we did want to support FreeBSD 4.x beyond that date, I'm not certain that we would be abl

Re: Re[2]: New Nforce2 variant doesn't recognize SATA as SATA

2005-03-13 Thread security
Quoting Michael Lednev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello, secmgr. On 12 ìàðòà 2005 ã., 1:52:50 you wrote: you can look here http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=75540 this patch adds support for nforce3 and 4 sata controllers, i think with little modification it will do for nforce2 Michael, Many

Re: Block IP

2006-12-22 Thread security
ing attacks from filling up your periodic security mail. > > Are you sure about that? I only allow PublickeyAuthentication ssh2 > > connections but I get lots of security mail messages like: > > > > Nov 16 01:44:08 maxwell sshd[70067]: Invalid user marcos from 202.54.49.7 &

Re: network performance 6.1 stable vs 4.9

2007-05-25 Thread security
Stephen Clark wrote: > Hello List, > > We have a network appliance that is currently based on 4.9. We are in > the process of releasing > a new version based on 6.1 stable. > > In our testing using nttcp thru the appliance we see insignifant > difference in thruput between the 2 > versions in a con

Re: Packet Loss w/bge & BCM5703 on Dell PE2650

2007-05-30 Thread security
Vinny Abello wrote: > > OK, I've enabled polling in my kernel and did ifconfig bge0 polling and > it accepted it and shows that polling is enabled on bge0 when checking > with ifconfig. Unfortunately, this did not resolve the packet loss issue > I wrote about originally. I still have the same loss.

Re: sendmail_enable="NO"

2005-12-31 Thread security
Gregory Neil Shapiro wrote: I've a feeling it's documented somewhere else, but can't remember right now. The rc.conf(5) man page points to rc.sendmail(8) man page. And the rc.sendmail(8) under 5.4 stable says that "NONE" is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Accordin

HEADS UP: FreeBSD 7.1 EoL coming soon

2011-01-31 Thread FreeBSD Security Officer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, On February 28th, FreeBSD 7.1 will reach its End of Life and will no longer be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. (This was initially scheduled to occur today, but in light of the imminent arrival of FreeBSD 7.4 I decided to

FreeBSD supported branches update

2011-02-28 Thread FreeBSD Security Officer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, The branches supported by the FreeBSD Security Officer have been updated to reflect the EoL (end-of-life) of FreeBSD 7.1. The new list of supported branches is below and at < http://security.freebsd.org/ >. Users of FreeBSD 7

HEADS UP: FreeBSD 7.2 EoL coming soon

2010-06-05 Thread FreeBSD Security Officer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, On June 30th, FreeBSD 7.2 will reach its End of Life and will no longer be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Users of this release are strongly encouraged to upgrade to FreeBSD 7.3 before that date; FreeBSD 7.3 will be

FreeBSD supported branches update

2010-07-01 Thread FreeBSD Security Officer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, The branches supported by the FreeBSD Security Officer have been updated to reflect the EoL (end-of-life) of FreeBSD 7.2. The new list is below and at http://security.freebsd.org/ >. Users of FreeBSD 7.2 are advised to upgr

HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon

2010-09-01 Thread FreeBSD Security Officer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, On November 30th, FreeBSD 6.4 and FreeBSD 8.0 will have reached their End of Life and will no longer be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Since FreeBSD 6.4 is the last remaining supported release from the FreeBSD 6.x stable

FreeBSD supported branches update

2010-11-30 Thread FreeBSD Security Officer
Hello Everyone, The branches supported by the FreeBSD Security Officer have been updated to reflect the EoL (end-of-life) of FreeBSD 6.4 and FreeBSD 8.0. Since FreeBSD 6.4 was the last remaining supported release from the FreeBSD 6.x stable branch, support for the FreeBSD 6.x stable branch has

HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.3 EoL coming soon

2010-01-02 Thread FreeBSD Security Officer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, On January 31st, FreeBSD 6.3 will reach its End of Life and will no longer be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Users of this release are strongly encouraged to upgrade to a newer release before that date -- more conservative users

FreeBSD supported branches update

2010-02-04 Thread FreeBSD Security Officer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, The branches supported by the FreeBSD Security Officer have been updated to reflect the EoL (end-of-life) of FreeBSD 6.3. The new list is below and at http://security.freebsd.org/ >. Users of FreeBSD 6.3 are advised to upgr

FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE EoL delayed to end of June 2010

2010-03-10 Thread FreeBSD Security Officer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, In keeping with the FreeBSD Security Team policy concerning the EoL dates for "Normal" support releases, "a minimum of 12 months after the release, and for sufficient additional time (if needed) to ensure that t

HEADS UP: FreeBSD 7.2 EoL coming soon

2010-03-31 Thread FreeBSD Security Officer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, On June 30th, FreeBSD 7.2 will reach its End of Life and will no longer be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Users of this release are strongly encouraged to upgrade to FreeBSD 7.3 before that date; FreeBSD 7.3 will be

HEADS UP: FreeBSD 5.5, 6.1, and 6.2 EoLs coming soon

2008-04-01 Thread FreeBSD Security Officer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, On May 31st, FreeBSD 5.5, FreeBSD 6.1, and FreeBSD 6.2 will have reached their End of Life and will no longer be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Since FreeBSD 5.5 is the last remaining supported release from the FreeBSD 5.x

FreeBSD supported branches update

2008-06-02 Thread FreeBSD Security Officer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, The branches supported by the FreeBSD Security Officer have been updated to reflect recent EoL (end-of-life) events. The new list is below and at http://security.freebsd.org/ >. FreeBSD 5.5, FreeBSD 6.1, and FreeBSD 6.2 h

FreeBSD 6.2 EoL =~ s/January/May/

2007-10-18 Thread FreeBSD Security Officer
May 2008. FreeBSD users should plan on upgrading to either FreeBSD 6.3 or FreeBSD 7.0 once those have been released (hopefully by the end of December). FreeBSD 6.3 will be supported until the end of 2009, while FreeBSD 7.0 will be supported until the end of 2008. Colin Percival FreeBSD Security

HEADS UP: FreeBSD 7.0 EoL coming soon

2009-04-01 Thread FreeBSD Security Officer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, On April 30th, FreeBSD 7.0 will reach its End of Life and will no longer be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Users of FreeBSD 7.0 are strongly encouraged to upgrade to FreeBSD 7.1 before that date. Note that the End of Life

FreeBSD supported branches update

2009-05-01 Thread FreeBSD Security Officer
Hello Everyone, The branches supported by the FreeBSD Security Officer have been updated to reflect the EoL (end-of-life) of FreeBSD 7.0. The new list is below and at http://security.freebsd.org/ >. Please note that FreeBSD 7.0 was originally announced with an EoL date of February 28, 2

HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.3 EoL coming soon

2009-10-18 Thread FreeBSD Security Officer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, On January 31st, FreeBSD 6.3 will reach its End of Life and will no longer be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Users of this release are strongly encouraged to upgrade to a newer release before that date -- more conservative users

HEADS UP: FreeBSD 5.3, 5.4, 6.0 EoLs coming soon

2006-10-01 Thread FreeBSD Security Officer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, On October 31st, FreeBSD 5.3 and FreeBSD 5.4 will have reached their End of Life and will no longer be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Users of either of those FreeBSD releases are strongly encouraged to upgrade to FreeBSD

FreeBSD 4.x EoL

2006-10-17 Thread FreeBSD Security Officer
, I'd like to offer some background and explanation. The concept of "security branches" in the FreeBSD CVS tree was introduced with FreeBSD 4.3, about five years ago. At the time, support was only guaranteed for the most recent FreeBSD release and one -STABLE branch (either the lat

Security Officer-supported branches update

2006-10-31 Thread FreeBSD Security Officer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, The branches supported by the FreeBSD Security Officer have been updated to reflect recent EoL (end-of-life) events. The new list is below and at http://security.freebsd.org/ >. FreeBSD 5.3 and FreeBSD 5.4 have `expired' an

Urgent Alert : Protect Your Account

2006-11-05 Thread Wellsfargo Security Center
[1]Wells Fargo [2]Wells Fargo Credit Card Dear valued WellsFargo ® member: Due to concerns, for the safety and integrity of the wellsfargo account we have issued this warning message : We have noticed that your Wells Fargo online account needs to be updated once again, pleas

HEADS UP: FreeBSD 4.11, 6.0 EoLs coming soon

2007-01-01 Thread FreeBSD Security Officer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, On January 31st, FreeBSD 4.11 and FreeBSD 6.0 will have reached their End of Life dates and will no longer be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Users of either of these FreeBSD releases are strongly encouraged to upgrade to

Security Officer-supported branches update

2007-02-01 Thread FreeBSD Security Officer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, The branches supported by the FreeBSD Security Officer have been updated to reflect recent EoL (end-of-life) events. The new list is below and at http://security.freebsd.org/ >. FreeBSD 4.11 and FreeBSD 6.0 have `expired' an

Security Officer-supported branches update

2006-06-05 Thread FreeBSD Security Officer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, The branches supported by the FreeBSD Security Officer have been updated to reflect recent EoL (end-of-life) events. The new list is below and at http://www.freebsd.org/security/ >. FreeBSD 4.10 has `expired' and is n