From owner-freebsd-security Wed Apr 11 3:44:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from kendra.ne.mediaone.net (kendra.ne.mediaone.net [24.218.227.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B24837B424 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 03:44:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from software@kew.com) Received: from xena (xena.hh.kew.com [192.168.203.148]) by kendra.ne.mediaone.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 173C78C1D for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 06:44:13 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <007d01c0c274$58ff11c0$94cba8c0@hh.kew.com> From: "Drew Derbyshire" To: References: <3AD33218.FE8D7ACD@ursine.com> <001d01c0c1fc$23d73680$0508a8c0@lofi.dyndns.org> <20010410215014.A8173@scientia.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: Security Announcements? Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 06:44:12 -0400 Organization: Kendra Electronic Wonderworks, Stoneham, MA 02180 (http://www.kew.com) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ben Smithurst wrote ... > Well if you want the latest security fixes you shouldn't be running a > -release anyway, that's that the -stable branch is for. One should not expect production servers to be running pre-beta code. Running -stable means you get *everything*, and that's not what a production server owner wants or needs. (FreeBSD needs a reasonable patch utility (ala Redhat Linux's up2date) for semi-automated patch management -- but this ground has been covered before. I'm not trying to open that can of worms here.) -ahd- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message