Re: [cobalt-developers] Re: OpenSSL patch for Linux worm?

["Dave Thurman (Mailing List Email)" <listonly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 9/16/02 4:37 PM, Blacknight Solutions stated:

> At 14.04 16/09/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>>     These include the recent RaQ 550 and the latest Qube
>>     software update.
> 
> That isn't very helpful for users of RAQ 4 and below.. with the last big
> Apache hole Sun took an inordinate length of time to release a patch, while
> one of the more recent security patches was withdrawn due to problems
> (strange when you consider that the accompanying PDF manual dates from
> almost 6 months prior to the release)
> 
> Fortunately for us all there are people like Gerald Waugh and the
> Solarspeed team around who graciously share their time and expertise with
> the wider user community when we are faced with such serious security threats.
> 
> Another thing that really confuses me (and I'm probably not alone in this
> one) is the status of Apache. Why on earth didn't Sun release a pkg version
> of 1.3.26 instead of a retrofit 1.3.20 ???
> 
Doesn't the SHP he refers to one of the soon to be released fixes, from what
was on the cobalt forums, they said in a week, 3-4 weeks ago. I would say a
joke but any females on the list would hit me :0

Think how the Raq3 owners feel about the Sun/Cobalt fixes and upgrades. We
went to Raq4 and will move our last Raq3 to a 4 when the time is right.
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Thanks!!
Dave Thurman
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