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Date:      Wed, 10 Nov 2004 15:15:06 -0500
From:      "Peter C. Lai" <sirmoo@cowbert.net>
To:        "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Is there any way to know if userland is patched?
Message-ID:  <20041110201506.GD283@cowbert.net>
In-Reply-To: <20041110195259.GB74491@madman.celabo.org>
References:  <20041110173511.GA2940@frontfree.net> <4192539C.6040403@elischer.org> <20041110183046.GA3518@frontfree.net> <20041110195259.GB74491@madman.celabo.org>

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On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 01:52:59PM -0600, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
> In the end, what we want is for a user to type `uname -r' and to see
> what patch level is running.  Anything more complicated (checking RCS
> Ids and such) just gets in the way, I think.

That is how many other major unix suppliers do it (sun/solaris, and sgi/irix).

-- 
Peter C. Lai
University of Connecticut
Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology
Yale University School of Medicine
SenseLab | Research Assistant
http://cowbert.2y.net/



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