Either-or... lovely. On the plus side the patched Apache 1.3.26 RPM just came out from Red Hat.
So why BSD vs any other distro? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Sach Jobb Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 5:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [bits] Apache worm in the wild (fwd) > Since I use RH7.2 (and thus RPMs), what's the downside of compiling and > installing the source distribution of Apache 1.3.26 if I already have > the 1.3.22 RPM installed? Or for any package distribution in general, > for that matter. > > (Yes, I know, upgrade to 2.0.x, but for now...) no. actually it's a linux problem, and this plus the recent ssh exploit have pretty much convinced me to start converting everything to bsd. the problem is that we have to wait if we want a packaged rpm update. even srpms don't work because you have to wait for those too. so while this worm is making it's way around to my boxen, redhat, mandrake, linuxDistoCompanyX are working their 9-5 jobs making the patch at their own pace. remind you of another closed source company that makes operating systems? you can, of course, just get rid of the rpm and build it from scratch, but then what the hell do i have a distro for?!?! grrrr... bsd ports seams like the most elegant solution for this problem, and i intend to start moving all of my critical services to bsd based systems. cheers, sach _______________________________________________ Bits mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sugoi.org/mailman/listinfo/bits _______________________________________________ Bits mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sugoi.org/mailman/listinfo/bits
