Are you serious?? One man operation?? What will happen if/when the heat stroke gets you?
Wandering..... --- Vincent Danen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed Sep 17, 2003 at 12:43:05PM -0700, Jack Coates > wrote: > > > >>Problem is people don't take security seriously, > so they don't sign > > >>up for the list. There isn't much we can do to > combat that... in the > > >>same way, they may skip those messages we put on > every single list > > >>and then what? > > > > > > > > >Yep agree. It would be a horror to spam the lists > !!!Getting it four > > >times with an interest in security even five > times ? No way. I inform > > >me on what i'm interested in. running urpmi > update in cron and looking > > >sometimes on mandrakesecure should be enough. > Even on servers. > > > > > >Steffen > > > > I'm on Bugtraq -- I get the alert once from > mandrakesecure, once from > > Mandrake's message to bugtraq, and once from every > other Linux > > distributor out there, in addition to the original > discovery argument. > > > > Mandrake is typically pretty slow about updates > compared to RH and > > Gentoo, but hopefully that'll change if/when they > hire Vincent some > > minions :-) > > I think all things considered, we aren't that slow. > If you're defining slow > by a few hours, shame on you, if you're defining it > by a few days, shame on > me. > > I think we're fairly close to the other big players > when it comes to the big > updates. > > And, also, keep in mind that RH and SuSE both employ > about a half dozen > security folks and, IIRC, gentoo doesn't have to > worry about compiling for a > number of different versions. Contrary to popular > opinion, it *does* take > time to properly compile and test packages on each > supported platform. > > We also don't run our own server for updates so we > have to wait for > mirroring... RH can put the packages up and announce > it that minute, we have > to wait at least 1-2hrs before announcing or I get > flooded with "you > announced it so where is it?" messages, just due to > the mirroring process. > > With all that in mind, I think this one-man > operation is pretty damn speedy. > > -- > MandrakeSoft Security; > http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ > Online Security Resource Book; http://linsec.ca/ > "lynx -source http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc | gpg > --import" > {FE6F2AFD : 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 > FE6F 2AFD} > > > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
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