Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 17:24:08 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Kory Hamzeh <kory@avatar.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: userland firewall ? Message-ID: <20010903172407.A38717@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <007a01c134d1$c74b61e0$14ce21c7@avatar.com>; from kory@avatar.com on Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 04:40:13PM -0700 References: <20010902152134.E20221@xor.obsecurity.org> <007a01c134d1$c74b61e0$14ce21c7@avatar.com>
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--MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 04:40:13PM -0700, Kory Hamzeh wrote: > I was planning on not only reporting these problems, but I was going to come > up with patches for them and send them in to be included. Excellent, thanks! > 1. What is the easiest way to do this? I was going to dedicate one machine > for this. Now let's say I want to fix the problem to apache core dumping. Is > there an easy way to grab just the source for apache so that I can compile > it with -g and run gdb? Is there some FAQ for FBSD developers? There's a developers handbook on the FreeBSD webpage. I don't know if it contains the kind of thing you're looking for. The way to address the apache problem is to use the port framework to extract the relevant apache source, then figure out how to fix the problem you're seeing, and make the resulting patch into a patch which is applied by the port prior to building. This is all documented in the porter's handbook also on the FreeBSD webpage. Changes should be submitted to the software vendor, and to the maintainer of the FreeBSD port in question. > 2. Not meaning to start a Linux vs. FreeBSD war, but why is the Linux > install base growing so much faster than FreeBSD, when in my opinion (and > many others I have spoken to), FreeBSD seems to be a faster, more stable OS? > I have used both extensible, and I decided to select FreeBSD for our mission > critical servers. There are many possible reasons, but the main one is probably "because popularity is not always correlated with quality, and that's just the way humans work" :) Kris --MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7lB8nWry0BWjoQKURAiZVAKCizCHm1zm9d/igy9IlqsNcqKI9eQCfbMpP uXV2JD1Wfs5NGJ3RChpuoF8= =AIEj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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