From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 3 11:22:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.mmcable.com (fe2.rdc-kc.rr.com [24.94.163.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5D8237B401 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 11:22:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: from [129.15.167.228] ([129.15.167.228]) by mail2.mmcable.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.537.53); Fri, 3 Aug 2001 13:22:25 -0500 From: Mike Meyer Message-ID: <2.1-7761648-395-A-OEWW@smtp-server.mmcable.com> To: ian j hart Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 13:21:45 -0600 Subject: Re: RELENG_4_3 calls itself -RELEASE? X-Mailer: Eudora 2.1 for PalmOS Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ian j hart wrote: >> Leaving it at -RELEASE isn't all that bad. The original complaint was >> that it was a surprise. As others have noted, we deal with that kind >> of thing all the time. Either way, -RELEASE is what's approved by the >> release engineer. We will have to change the documentation to match, >> though. > When you log on and MOTD tells you you have 4.3-RELEASE how do you > know _which_ 4.3-RELEASE you have. The one with a broken telnetd or > the one without. (You need to check the date of course). If it says -FOO, how do you know which one it is? The only thing changing the name eliminates is the unpatched case. > What if you have x00 4.3-RELEASE machines to secure? Checking files > will take a lot longer than reading the MOTD and the build date. That > assuming you haven't been rooted already of course. ;) The same way you do if you have a bunch of x00 4.3-FOO machines to secure. If you really want to test with telnet, you can set the login banner yourself. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message