> From: Matthew Seaman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 3:42 AM
>
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 04:20:24PM -0600, Shawn Kennedy wrote:
> > Help!
> >
> > My company has shut down the ports in and out
> > of the firewall dramatically! No SOCKS support
> > so I tried using ssh. According to the cvsup
> > documentation, you are to have a login on the CVS box
> > you are trying to update from, but I don't (the
> > official mirrors). I don't even have a box I
> > can bounce off of in place of a login.
>
> Ouch. In the long term, complaining through your management channels
> that the firewall changes are having a deleterious effect on your
> ability to do your job, and basically costing the company money is the
> most likely way to get a favourable resolution to this.
>
> In the meantime you can receive updates via CTM -- essentially a
> series of patches to the system sources and so forth sent to you by
> e-mail. See:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ctm.html
Ouch is right - I'm working on a request to security as I actually use
some BSD tools in my work, but they have been very reluctant in the past.
Thanks for the pointer - will give it a shot!
Thanks!
Shawn
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