Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 16:40:13 -0700 From: "Kory Hamzeh" <kory@avatar.com> To: "Kris Kennaway" <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: userland firewall ? Message-ID: <007a01c134d1$c74b61e0$14ce21c7@avatar.com> In-Reply-To: <20010902152134.E20221@xor.obsecurity.org>
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> On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 12:12:15PM -0700, Kory Hamzeh wrote: > > You know, if noticed little things like this in 4.3-RELEASE > that I have not > > seen with older versions of FBSD. For example, apache 1.3.19 > will core dump > > on startup if you have not ifconfiged a network port. usbd was > core dumping > > because of a change I had made to /etc/usbd.conf. I created a > new usbd.conf > > by copying each entry from the old config file to the new one, one at a > > time. I could never figure out why it was crashing because I ended up > > copying all of the entries over to the new file and it worked > fine. There > > are several more things like this that I ran into that I can remember at > > this moment. > > > > Just FYI ... > > > > Kory > > If you never report these bugs, you can't reasonably expect them to > get fixed, and so complaining about them would not be fair. > > Kris Kris, 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. I ran into these problems in the last week or so and I've been under a deadline to get the servers setup. I would like to contribute to the FreeBSD project. I've been programming professionally for over 20 years, and the last 16 years have been on BSD systems, from kernel hacking & drivers to X windows software development (although I must say its been 10 years since I did any driver work on BSD). 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? 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. Kory To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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