On Fri, September 26, 2014 6:06 pm, Chris Barnes wrote:
> Yep, it appears theres a number of things that depend on BASH so
> uninstalling isnt an option in my case.
>

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=5244106#post5244106

Works for me.



> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 5:45 PM, David <da...@kenpro.com.au> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 26/09/14 17:38, Chris Barnes wrote:
>>
>>> thanks for the tip Mark,
>>>
>>> I had considered trying to install the BASH update for Wheezy on my
>>> Squeeze
>>> machines but the thought of getting the dependencies met seemed
>>> daunting.
>>>
>>> I tried your commands but as suspected, ran into dependency issues -
>>> Multiarch-support needs libc6 >= 2.13-5, updating libc6 requires a
>>> newer
>>> locales, and on it goes.
>>>
>>> The default shell on my systems is /bin/dash and /etc/passwd shows all
>>> accounts except mine and root have /bin/sh (dash) as their shell. So it
>>> might just be easier to change the shell for my account and roots
>>> account,
>>> and then uninstall BASH.
>>>
>>
>> I thought about doing this too, but what if scripts have
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>>
>> Probably they shouldn't, but that doesn't mean they don't.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Mark Anthony Delfin <m...@delfin.me>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>  For some of my debian 6 test boxes I did
>>>>
>>>> wget
>>>> http://security.debian.org/debian-security/pool/updates/
>>>> main/e/eglibc/multiarch-support_2.13-38+deb7u4_amd64.deb
>>>> wget
>>>> http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/n/ncurses/
>>>> libtinfo5_5.9-10_amd64.deb
>>>> wget
>>>> http://security.debian.org/debian-security/pool/updates/
>>>> main/b/bash/bash_4.2+dfsg-0.1+deb7u3_amd64.deb
>>>> dpkg -i multiarch-support_2.13-38+deb7u4_amd64.deb
>>>> dpkg -i libtinfo5_5.9-10_amd64.deb
>>>> dpkg -i bash_4.2+dfsg-0.1+deb7u3_amd64.deb
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Chris Barnes
>>>> <chris.p.bar...@gmail.com
>>>> >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  I'm keen to hear your idea Amos.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Amos Shapira
>>>>> <amos.shap...@gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>  General question to everyone reading this - I have an idea for a
>>>>>> service
>>>>>> to provide tracking of such info (end of life, software life cycle)
>>>>>> automatically.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If anyone is curios to hear more, discuss or anything else, I'd be
>>>>>> very
>>>>>> happy to hear from you.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --Amos
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 26 September 2014 10:28, Chris Barnes <chris.p.bar...@gmail.com>
>>>>>>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> ahh thats the info i was looking for. Thanks Amos. You're right,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> upgrade
>>>>>
>>>>>> is overdue.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Amos Shapira <
>>>>>>> amos.shap...@gmail.com
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  According to https://wiki.debian.org/DebianSqueeze, regular
>>>>>>> security
>>>>>>>> updates for squeeze were ended on May 31st 2014.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> "LTS security updates" are supposed to be released until 2016. LTS
>>>>>>>> support is NOT provided by Debian security team. See the LTS
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> announcement
>>>>>
>>>>>> in https://www.debian.org/News/2014/20140424.html
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> My take - upgrade is overdue.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --Amos
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 26 September 2014 08:56, Chris Barnes
>>>>>>>> <chris.p.bar...@gmail.com>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>  Hey people,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I haven't seen an update for BASH come down in the Debian Squeeze
>>>>>>>>> security
>>>>>>>>> updates. As a result my machines are still vulnerable.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> My Debian 7 machines received the update promptly just not my 6
>>>>>>>>> machines.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Has anyone else received an update for BASH on Deb 6?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Im using the security.Debian.org apt source for security updates.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>> Kind Regards,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Christopher Barnes
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> e. chris.p.bar...@gmail.com
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Christopher Barnes
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> e. chris.p.bar...@gmail.com
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>> Christopher Barnes
>>>>>
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