Nick Rout wrote:

On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 21:16, InfoHelp wrote:


I read the thread - it proves my point.

Unchanged uname means an fsck-lot more than your anti-RMS vendetta.




what does an unpatched uname mean and what is the point?



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Unpatched means download the source, compile, run. Patched has an edit or 2 in between. I've used it as a ''security'' measure in the past to return a non-sensical id string from apache to confuse the script kiddies.

Steve

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