Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > > 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. That actually sounds like a bad thing IMHO. Because not -p4 is not -p4 -p4 = -p7 but for others it might =-p5 depending on the last time they updated.
It might be nice to have freebsd-update update this portion of the kernel even if thats the only part thats updated. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Philip M. Gollucci ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 323.219.4708 Senior System Admin - Riderway, Inc. http://riderway.com 1024D/EC88A0BF 0DE5 C55C 6BF3 B235 2DAB B89E 1324 9B4F EC88 A0BF Work like you don't need the money, love like you'll never get hurt, and dance like nobody's watching. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
