From owner-freebsd-security Fri Dec 15 18:50:56 2000 From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 15 18:50:55 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from puck.firepipe.net (poynting.physics.purdue.edu [128.210.146.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA75137B402 for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 18:50:54 -0800 (PST) Received: by puck.firepipe.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 25CE718D4; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 21:50:54 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 21:50:54 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: Some Person Cc: jameslpin@pacific.net.sg, freebsd@hexdump.org, meshko@cs.brandeis.edu, aj@entic.net, jrz@cnmnetwork.com, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Security Update Tool.. Message-ID: <20001215215054.I21327@puck.firepipe.net> Reply-To: Will Andrews Mail-Followup-To: Will Andrews , Some Person , jameslpin@pacific.net.sg, freebsd@hexdump.org, meshko@cs.brandeis.edu, aj@entic.net, jrz@cnmnetwork.com, security@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from ntvsunix@hotmail.com on Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 02:43:15AM +0000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386 Sender: will@puck.firepipe.net Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 02:43:15AM +0000, Some Person wrote: > So my idea wasn't so bad after all? :) > > I figure atleast it might give some ideas to those who know more than what I > can do, and maybe enlighten some more ideas rooting from this. No, it wasn't a bad idea.. however, it's also not new. :-) Kris Kennaway asked someone to port the neato script NetBSD has in their pkgsrc for security-related updates and such, and that was a couple months ago. Maybe I'll get around to doing that, but I think I already stacked enough stuff on my todo list. -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message