Is the 1.3.1 distribution libc6?

If not what has to be done to make it so?

Do all the apps need to be changed out....recompiled from source?

Thanks

        Henry Hollenberg     [EMAIL PROTECTED] 


On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Meskes, Michael wrote:

> No, but you have to use libc6. 
> 
> I wouldn't build the firewall with libc5 anyway, since it's no longer
> actively worked on. And I don't like the idea of a firewall with a C
> library that's not kept up-to-date.
> 
> Michael
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:       Henry Hollenberg [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent:       Tuesday, March 03, 1998 3:09 PM
> > To: Christian Leutloff
> > Subject:    Re: WEB-Page: Debian based Firewall
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >     Henry Hollenberg     [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > 
> > 
> > On 27 Feb 1998, Christian Leutloff wrote:
> > 
> > > Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > 
> > > > Henry Hollenberg writes:
> > > > > > As for the firewall, I personally think a mailer like sendmail
> > is the
> > > > > > better choice.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Isn't smail the standard Debian mailer?
> > > > 
> > > > Maybe. But I still prefer sendmail. :-)
> > > 
> > > this sounds much better:
> > > 
> > > Package: ssmtp
> > > Version: 2.24-3
> > > Priority: extra
> > > Section: mail
> > > Maintainer: Hugo Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Depends: libc6
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > 
> > Uh, Oh  what does this mean....would we have to wait for Debian 2.0 to
> > use
> > this?
> > 
> > hgh
> > 
> > 
> > > Conflicts: mail-transport-agent
> > > Provides: mail-transport-agent
> > > Replaces: mail-transport-agent, exim, sendmail, smail, qmail,
> > zmailer
> > > Architecture: i386
> > > Filename: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/mail/ssmtp_2.24-3.deb
> > > Size: 14470
> > > MD5sum: e439c7a57cfc7f2ebcda9882266ac24e
> > > Description: Extremely simple MTA to get mail off the system to a
> > Mailhub
> > >  A secure, effective and simple way of getting mail off a system to
> > your
> > >  mailhost. No suid-binaries or other dangerous things. No mail spool
> > to poke
> > >  around in. No daemons running in the background. Mail is simply
> > forwarded to
> > >  the configured mailhost. Extremely easy configuration.
> > >  .
> > >  WARNING: the above is all it does. It does not receive mail, expand
> > >  aliases or manage a queue.  That belongs on a mailhub with a system
> > >  administrator.
> > > installed-size: 36
> > >                         
> > > and it's small!
> > >   
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Henry Hollenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > 
> > > > On 27 Feb 1998, Christian Leutloff wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > Henry Hollenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > > > 
> > > > > > Here is my firewall "plan".
> > > > > 
> > > > > sounds good to me.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Btw. shouldn't we set up a debian-firewall mailing list!? It's
> > very
> > > > > easy to do so, but I've forgotten the exect procedure. 
> > >  
> > > > Yes,  and if there is a way to mirror it to Hubert's web page that
> > would
> > > > be great as well....so folks can easily join in.
> > > 
> > > contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >  
> > > > Should this be a Debian sponsored mail list?
> > > 
> > > yes, that's the easiest way.
> > > 
> > > > Re: CD-ROM - won't we be using the standard distribution cdrom
> > from
> > > > Debian?  If possible I thought our goal should be to build this
> > thing
> > > > using all Debian packages.
> > > 
> > > I would *run* the System from a CD-ROM - nobody can manipulate the
> > > binaries ;-)
> > >  
> > > > This package configures your Linux box as a firewall. You can
> > define
> > >                               ^^^ GNU/Linux please, 
> > > or better Debian GNU/Linux ;-)
> > > 
> > > [ lots of good stuff deleted ]
> > > 
> > > Bye
> > >   Christian
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Christian Leutloff, Aachen, Germany
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> > 
> > > 
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> > 
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