RE: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, he lp the cause

[John.Airey () rnib org uk]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron DuFresne [mailto:dufresne () winternet com]
> Sent: 20 January 2004 15:02
> To: William Warren
> Cc: jan.muenther () nruns com; full-disclosure () lists netsys com
> Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Re: January 15 is Personal 
> Firewall Day,
> help the cause
>
>
> On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, William Warren wrote:
>
> > jan.muenther () nruns com wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> And yet, there's not much one ca do with a kernel alone.  Of 
> course redhat
> tends to be one of the "kitchen sink" distros of linux.  And 
> if you are in
> for a test of your skills, try replacing say apache with your 
> own build on
> a redhat system, and learn the issues of dependcany hell that is the
> redhat RPM structure.
Bad example. We ran our own RPM for Apache for at least a year, recompiling
whenever a newer version came out. All you do is add your patch in the
apache.spec file, and up the version number slightly. Our particular patch
did what 'RequestHeader unset "Authorization"' does in Apache 2.0.

This was on Red Hat 7.2, but newer versions of Red Hat are the same.

Now if you were talking about openssl, I'd agree with you. I've emailed far
too many people who've stuffed their machines by either removing or
overwriting the built-in openssl package from Red Hat 7.0 onwards.

- 
John Airey, BSc (Jt Hons), CNA, RHCE
Internet systems support officer, ITCSD, Royal National Institute of the
Blind,
Bakewell Road, Peterborough PE2 6XU,
Tel.: +44 (0) 1733 375299 Fax: +44 (0) 1733 370848 John.Airey () rnib org uk 

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