From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 19 10:31:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA10550 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 10:31:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from anacreon.sol.net (anacreon.sol.net [206.55.64.116]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA10540 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 10:30:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from solaria.sol.net (solaria.sol.net [206.55.65.75]) by anacreon.sol.net (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA11292; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 12:30:54 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost by solaria.sol.net (8.5/8.5) id MAA05788; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 12:30:52 -0600 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199702191830.MAA05788@solaria.sol.net> Subject: Re: another victim... To: dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu (David E. Cross) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 97 12:30:49 CST Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199702191745.MAA00748@phoenix.its.rpi.edu> from "David E. Cross" at Feb 19, 97 12:45:31 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL65] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Running what version of FreeBSD? Did you close the holes as mentioned > > in the advisories, or were you complacent until it was too late? :-) > > I am running 2.1.6-RELEASE. The closing the holes was a combination of > complacentcy, and the fact that to fix these holes you practically have to > rebuild your entire system (it is the crt0.o/setlocale() hole). Yes, that is the sucky thing about that particular problem. :-( OTOH, it is not entirely unthinkable. I would much rather have such a problem with FreeBSD than with SunOS. :-) > BTW: what is the expected release date of 2.2 and 2.1.7? 2.1.7 should be "just around the corner". ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847