Re: [Fwd: [BUGTRAQ] Big problem on 2.0.x?]

1999-12-13 Thread James Olin Oden
some people do not want to upgrade their distribution because it will mean a lot of work updating their scripts. and to move from 2.0.x to 2.2.x you need to upgrade a lot ... it took me for instance, a lot of time to upgrade my server from 2.0.36 (rh5.2) to 2.2.x (rh6.1) Also,

Re: [Fwd: [BUGTRAQ] Big problem on 2.0.x?]

1999-12-13 Thread Moran Zavdi
Oden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ILUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: éåí ùðé 13 ãöîáø 1999 18:29 Subject: Re: [Fwd: [BUGTRAQ] Big problem on 2.0.x?] some people do not want to upgrade their distribution because it will mean a lot of work

Re: [Fwd: [BUGTRAQ] Big problem on 2.0.x?]

1999-12-12 Thread Moran
1999 21:24 Subject: Re: [Fwd: [BUGTRAQ] Big problem on 2.0.x?] The answer is download.xs4all.nl:/pub/mirror/redhat-updates - yba On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, James Olin Oden wrote: What are you talking about? RH contrib? Some other site where you can get kernels packaged as RPMs? We're

Re: [Fwd: [BUGTRAQ] Big problem on 2.0.x?]

1999-12-12 Thread Eli Marmor
Hi Moran, Moran wrote: Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 08:01:24 +0200 ... who use 2.0.X this days. just upgrade to 2.2.13 kernel. And who uses ancient dates these days? And even before Y2K hits us ;-) Just upgrade your date to Sun Dec 12 19:56:05 IST 1999... BTW: The same problem is known (for

Re: [Fwd: [BUGTRAQ] Big problem on 2.0.x?]

1999-12-12 Thread erez
1999 21:24 Subject: Re: [Fwd: [BUGTRAQ] Big problem on 2.0.x?] The answer is download.xs4all.nl:/pub/mirror/redhat-updates - yba On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, James Olin Oden wrote: What are you talking about? RH contrib? Some other site where you can get kernels packaged

Re: [Fwd: [BUGTRAQ] Big problem on 2.0.x?]

1999-12-11 Thread James Olin Oden
What are you talking about? RH contrib? Some other site where you can get kernels packaged as RPMs? We're talking about an enterprise environment here, OFFICIAL RH errata. Whether or not this is the right way to go, this is where people look. Why don't you head on over to

[Fwd: [BUGTRAQ] Big problem on 2.0.x?]

1999-12-10 Thread Omer
This was posted to BugTraq today, and it seemed important enough to pass on (even though if you are a sysadmin and do not regularly read BT, you might deserve what you get). It's what I'd call a HUGE problem, not merely a big problem (unless of course you have no local users). In any case, I'd

Re: [Fwd: [BUGTRAQ] Big problem on 2.0.x?]

1999-12-10 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
It fixed long time ago on kernel 2.0.38 Hetz Omer wrote: This was posted to BugTraq today, and it seemed important enough to pass on (even though if you are a sysadmin and do not regularly read BT, you might deserve what you get). It's what I'd call a HUGE problem, not merely a big

Re: [Fwd: [BUGTRAQ] Big problem on 2.0.x?]

1999-12-10 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Fri, Dec 10, 1999, Omer wrote about "[Fwd: [BUGTRAQ] Big problem on 2.0.x?]": This was posted to BugTraq today, and it seemed important enough to pass on (even though if you are a sysadmin and do not regularly read BT, you might deserve what you get). It's what I'd call a HU

Re: [Fwd: [BUGTRAQ] Big problem on 2.0.x?]

1999-12-10 Thread Omer
Irrelevant. Most people will not upgrade the kernel on their own to the latest stable version, but rather would only upgrade using the official vendor errata. This is how it is for all of the big-time operating systems, and since Linux is poised to make it to the big time, you have to expect

Re: [Fwd: [BUGTRAQ] Big problem on 2.0.x?]

1999-12-10 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Well, if YOU CHECK you will find that there are RPM's for kernel 2.0.38 for redhat 5.x - compiled and ready. Just rpm -Uvh kernel-2.0.38(whatever the name is) and thats it.. Hetz Omer wrote: Irrelevant. Most people will not upgrade the kernel on their own to the latest stable version,

Re: [Fwd: [BUGTRAQ] Big problem on 2.0.x?]

1999-12-10 Thread Omer
, the bt post was not completely accurate - in the middle of a huge db sweep). BTW, no kidding, it's called a DoS attack? I never heard of those *cough* :) Nadav Har'El wrote: On Fri, Dec 10, 1999, Omer wrote about "[Fwd: [BUGTRAQ] Big problem on 2.0.x?]": This was posted to Bug