From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 7 19:12:53 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA20047 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 19:12:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA20041 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 19:12:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id NAA07192; Fri, 8 Dec 1995 13:48:07 GMT From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199512081348.NAA07192@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: ****HELP***** To: wes@intele.net (Barnacle Wes) Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 13:48:06 +0000 () Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199512062136.OAA16788@intele.net> from "Barnacle Wes" at Dec 6, 95 02:36:13 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Barnacle Wes stands accused of saying: > Since the new distributions come with the second "live" CD, it would be > trivial to generate the database from the "live" CD, by starting off > with a chroot("/cdrom") *after* opening your log file. This would give > results as reliable as having the database pre-made on the CD. You're not understanding. The list and the checking binary must _both_ be on the CD, to avoid the possibility of compromise. The two must also be available by FTP to people that don't have the CDs, from a reliable source. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 041-122-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[