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

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

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 r