"Troy Curtis Jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:44:47 -0600:
> (actually it turned out I never > got around to setting up my eix-sync cronjob when I switched from x86 to > AMD64 so I had a really old snapshot of the portage tree!) Wow! That's a good way to have unpatched security holes in your apps, due to not applying the security updates! =8^( Glad you eventually figured out the issue, before some cracker did! (Luckily for now, Linux doesn't have quite the blackhat community attention that MSWormOS gets, but as it continues to develop and gain popularity, one must expect that'll eventually change, and it seems to have already changed some, witness the penetrations or near-penetrations in the last 18 months or so of the servers of big projects such as the kernel, GNU, and Debian.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- [email protected] mailing list
