Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 23:10:52 +0400 (GST) From: Rakhesh Sasidharan <rakhesh@rakhesh.com> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No updates needed to update system to 6.2-RELEASE-p7? Message-ID: <20070808230920.R53363@obelix.home.rakhesh.com> In-Reply-To: <0B124FFF-D212-4373-9D58-9F65A1E4E64A@mac.com> References: <20070808222628.B49848@obelix.home.rakhesh.com> <0B124FFF-D212-4373-9D58-9F65A1E4E64A@mac.com>
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Chuck Swiger wrote: > Not all security patches involve updating the kernel. The recent ones have > involved changes to BIND and the symlink attack starting up jails, and thus > they do not result in the version printed by your kernel in dmesg or via > uname changing. I see. Thanks. Didn't realize that only when the kernel gets updated does the suffix change to -p7. I was under the impression that all updates change the kernel string to -p7 just to show that there's been some updates. Thanks again. Regards, Rakhesh
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