Re: Woody ssh exploit
from the secret journal of kellyst@cameron.edu (kellyst@cameron.edu):
>
> > > There's another good point to that: Anything that intimitely
> > connected
> > > with your system security should be done by hand anyway.
> >
> > unless you need it done to many machines at once. that's why all of our
> > production servers don't run slackware like they did in 97.
>
>
> why couldn't you run rsync?
because slackware is about as far from a real package management system as
you can get. rsync is for moving files by sending the differences between.
it has nothing to do with dependency checking or version control.
> I thought slack was good about compiling on one box, then simply moving it to
> the others?
>
moving what, the binaries? configuration files? init scripts? binary
compatibility is one thing, operating system compatibility is another.
> but this isn't a slack list, is it.
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jacob kuntz
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