On Wed, 28 May 2003 12:11:08 -0500, 
"Burton M. Strauss III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 
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> RH9 - problems - do bears you-know-what in the woods???

..in the woods, no problems, on your legs........
 
> If you download RH's latest kernel package - kernel-2.4.20-8.src.rpm -
> there are 149 source patches to the base kernel.  71 more than their
> old 2.4.18 kernel version.  Some are minor, some are quite major. 

..fwiw, el ultimo is 2.4.20-13.7|8|9, does anyone use it successfully?

> Stuff like ptrace - which, while it fixes a privledge escalation
> attack, also breaks stuff like gdb.
> 
> At this point, until RH get their act together and can offer versions
> of essential tools that WORK together, I can't recommend RH9.

.._not_ Microsoft's marketing weenie talk this time around: 
"We're looking at the issues involved."
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=89171

..note how the priority is "High" but severity is "Normal".  ;-)

> What I have is a RH8 system updated w/ the 2.4.18-27.8.0smp kernel,
> glibc-2.3.2-4.80.6, and gcc-3.2-7 - so it's as current a RH8 as can
> be, as least as of the last time I ran up2date...
> 
> Beyond that, you're on your own.

..with Red Hat, you _are_ on your own.  If you have RH-7.3, 
you have the best RH I am aware of, from 7.3, quality dived.

..ntop on Debian-3.0r1, anyone?  IMHO, if you need ntop for any
chargeable purpose, you also need to run it on Debian or better.

-- 
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
  Scenarios always come in sets of three: 
  best case, worst case, and just in case.


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