Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 18:34:43 -0400 From: Robert Hough <rch@acidpit.org> To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gcc on production server Message-ID: <20010716183443.A89953@acidpit.org> In-Reply-To: <20010716103740.C37477@jake.akitanet.co.uk>; from paul@akita.co.uk on Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 10:37:40 %2B0100 References: <20010711170336.B84178@krijt.livens.net> <20010711123133.A21587@pitr.tuxinternet.com> <20010712123523.G53408@jake.akitanet.co.uk> <007c01c10b14$5462d820$0100a8c0@sosbbs.com> <20010713122500.A23202@jake.akitanet.co.uk> <010c01c10bdb$a8f11600$0100a8c0@sosbbs.com> <20010716103740.C37477@jake.akitanet.co.uk>
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On Mon, Jul 16, 2001, Paul Robinson wrote: > > They expect this news to hit BUGTRAQ in about 4 hours time. You would > reinstall the entire machine as opposed to patch the program? Sometimes, that can be the safest way to insure you have clean binaries. To answer the majority of your complaints, I'm summing it all up right here. You are making the assumption that everyone is running the latest greatest releases available. You also assume that we all have the luxory of assembling, and installing the machines on our network. Some of us do actually inherit this crap. Upgrading them, while would be a dream come true for me, isn't always a possibility. I agree with what you're saying, but you have to realize that no matter how badly some of us want to do something, we just can't... -- Robert Hough (rch@acidpit.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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