From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 8 19:11:37 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DEBC16A41A for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2007 19:11:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rakheshster@gmail.com) Received: from ik-out-1112.google.com (ik-out-1112.google.com [66.249.90.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CC8613C45D for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2007 19:11:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rakheshster@gmail.com) Received: by ik-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id c21so110187ika for ; Wed, 08 Aug 2007 12:11:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:date:x-x-sender:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:from:sender; b=Prw+1pAhK6NxWwt0qCENJ7tlIgAqcJVf5P5NMS++rH2YzU3WIvQffpgtXsP2Nt2K2oe6K4WXpLCUyHag+/GtA7efEMAXob6xsH7WXfamg1MSq2XC9CRw8NiUJYii75HgTeYU/HDxipzd/IJgkh807vxuJ8mmvNVqflxqEh9+cz4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:date:x-x-sender:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:from:sender; b=Te7gUAniSHHZj2OJW/nwHVqCtQX1mKnkZhjHX5MIoXJR1hK0ZOyu4Bpo5cLazLh8nLvsw2xIZhP29TMQrqWOKbnPXEuhROOaPcEl17TfJASefXWM45g9AQFUna9FJpHZ62Rt4EyM3iVxu8OeFrmsJLCXEQZ8O6fZyVw0a69rObY= Received: by 10.78.140.17 with SMTP id n17mr631674hud.1186600294912; Wed, 08 Aug 2007 12:11:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.home.rakhesh.com ( [82.178.137.21]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o37sm257194hub.2007.08.08.12.11.28 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 08 Aug 2007 12:11:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obelix.home.rakhesh.com (obelix.home.rakhesh.com [192.168.17.13]) by smtp.home.rakhesh.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1A7411420; Wed, 8 Aug 2007 23:11:08 +0400 (GST) Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 23:10:52 +0400 (GST) X-X-Sender: rakhesh@obelix.home.rakhesh.com To: Chuck Swiger In-Reply-To: <0B124FFF-D212-4373-9D58-9F65A1E4E64A@mac.com> Message-ID: <20070808230920.R53363@obelix.home.rakhesh.com> References: <20070808222628.B49848@obelix.home.rakhesh.com> <0B124FFF-D212-4373-9D58-9F65A1E4E64A@mac.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed From: Rakhesh Sasidharan Sender: Rakhesh Sasidharan Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No updates needed to update system to 6.2-RELEASE-p7? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:11:37 -0000 Chuck Swiger wrote: > Not all security patches involve updating the kernel. The recent ones have > involved changes to BIND and the symlink attack starting up jails, and thus > they do not result in the version printed by your kernel in dmesg or via > uname changing. I see. Thanks. Didn't realize that only when the kernel gets updated does the suffix change to -p7. I was under the impression that all updates change the kernel string to -p7 just to show that there's been some updates. Thanks again. Regards, Rakhesh