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Date:      Fri, 10 Dec 1999 14:24:21 +0100
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@bart.nl>
To:        Virinder.Dhillon@jpl.nasa.gov, earle@netbsd4me.jpl.nasa.gov
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Y2K questions about FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE (yes, I know) and INN 1.4
Message-ID:  <19991210142420.B85568@lucifer.bart.nl>
In-Reply-To: <199912101122.DAA11771@netbsd4me.jpl.nasa.gov>; from earle@netbsd4me.jpl.nasa.gov on Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 03:22:21AM -0800
References:  <199912101122.DAA11771@netbsd4me.jpl.nasa.gov>

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-On [19991210 12:25], Greg Earle (earle@netbsd4me.jpl.nasa.gov) wrote:
>We're assessing the Y2K vulnerability of this box in its current state.  It
>does nothing other than run stock daemons (but not sendmail) and "sshd" and
>the INN 1.4p4 "innd" and the innxmits needed to service news feeds.
>
>My reading of http://www.freebsd.org/y2kbug.html was basically that unless
>I upgrade the machine to FreeBSD 3.1, I might have problems ... that really
>isn't practical given lack of time and our current scenario (the replacements
>are being configured as we speak, but likely won't be ready in time for the
>end of the year).

I recently patched a 2.2.2 box with some stuff.

One of the main things was the cron which needed to be patched.

Other than that I didn't do that much to the box and am preparing a 3.x
box spare for quick replacement should anything go amok.

-- 
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven          Network- and systemadministrator
<asmodai@bart.nl>                      bART Internet Services /
Tel: +31 - (0) 10 - 240 39 70          VIA NET.WORKS Netherlands


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