Re: RT cache management [again offtopic]h

Andrea Arcangeli (arcangeli@mbox.queen.it)
Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:49:00 +0200 (CEST)


On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, Alan Cox wrote:

>> You really can' t compare Debian with Red Hat about security. Debian is
>> very more secure. With my knowledge about exploit (reading daily BUGTRAQ
>> and weekly rootshell) I never been able to exploit my system that is
>> always uptodate with debian-changes HIGH-PRIORITY packages. Also Debian
>> provide a new mailing list only about security
>
>If you are using pine I'll send you an email to erase your home directory
>under debian if you want 8). A lot of people assume there is a material

I just checked that my pine is invulnerable. Do that please ;-).

>difference between security in Linux systems - its rarely the case. Red

It' s the case when a distribution don' t care about security and doesn' t
think twice before distribute a software suidroot.

>Hat people read debian lists, debian people read Red Hat lists and we
>bat patches back and forth (Debian has my nmh patches for example,
>Red Hat has debians mailx patches). Similarly the metamail patches to

This is nice and right ;-).

>stop the little pine feature will be appearing everywhere soon

andrea@penguin:~$ dpkg -l metamail
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
pn metamail <none> (no description available)

Andrea[s] Arcangeli

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