On Sunday 06 February 2005 01:12 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At Sun, 06 Feb 2005 12:36:05 -0500 David Corbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Correct, but there is a solution. Enable logging and look only at the > "small second logs". Here is what I mean. The last three lines in my > /var/log/portage are > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 365716 Feb 6 09:21 2662-openssl-0.9.7e.log > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 6 09:22 2663-openssl-0.9.7d-r2.log > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 277 Feb 6 09:21 2663-openssl-0.9.7e.log > > version 9.7e replaced 9.7d-r2. But note the second smaller log for > 9.7e. It contained > > .[33;01m*.[0m If you do not etc-update now and update > /etc/ssl/misc/der_chop to the new version, your .[33;01m*.[0m system IS > VULNERABLE to a symlink attack as described in bug 68407 .[33;01m*.[0m > refer to http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68407 if you have any > doubts > > (The funny chars are the control chars to make this appear yellow (?) > when output to your screen.) This is likely the message you want to > read but may well have scrolled off your screen. > > The 365K log is the usual boring stuff. :-) > So emerge has thoughtfully separated out the important part. > > The only effort needed to get these logs is to add > > PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage > > to /etc/make.conf.
Thanks. Now, if only someone would make emerge show you ONLY those small logs automatically. David -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list