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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!tezcat!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Upgrading 2.1.0 to 2.1.7 - how to? Date: 15 Mar 1997 22:17:52 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 26 Message-ID: <5gf76g$p8@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5elbnc$l89@shellx.best.com> <5fbkre$9mf@uriah.heep.sax.de> <E71JD9.LyH@nonexistent.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37138 le@put.com (Louis Epstein) wrote: > : > Where would I put the backups? > : > : On the tape drive where you put your nightly backups, too. ;-) > > Hmm,a set of filees elsewhere on the HD would get wiped? No, but nobody will guarantee you anything else. > : Security and other bug fixes mostly. > > 2.1.0 and 2.1.5 have the same security holes,at least,that 2.1.6 > did,right? Right. The most annoying thing, the ENABLE_STARTUP_LOCALE hack has been introduced in 2.1. It has been diminished as a bad idea quickly in the 2.2 branch, but that wasn't for security reasons, thus it has been forgotten to be killed in the 2.1 branch. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)