Re: Is it necessary to recompile OS to apply security patch?

2008-07-29 Thread Brynet
Assume this production server is running one of the supported releases, 4.2 or 4.3, you can obtain the latest patch via the errata page. http://openbsd.org/errata43.html For 4.2 it's errata #013, for 4.3 it's #004... if you run an earlier version, manually merging the patch may be required.

Re: Is it necessary to recompile OS to apply security patch?

2008-07-29 Thread Pete Vickers
Hi, Assuming the box is only a DNS server, then the simplest easiest (in my option) is to take a copy of the DNS related files: - /etc/rc.conf.local - /var/named/* - noting also IP address, hostname etc etc and then reinstall the o/s from a recent snapshot (downloaded