On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 15:10:14 +0100 (BST), Bob Vickers
Jurgen, ^ It's not like you heard it wrong or something.. :-)
The short answer is you shouldn't have to know. Every security alert should give complete instructions including any necessary actions after the software is patched.
OK, that's fine then, for the people that read - and REMEMBER - those messages. Suppose I buy SuSE 7.0 in a few weeks time. By then I'll have quite a few announcements to read. When YaST says that everything went fine and everything is updated, people might (wrongly) believe that everything is OK now. I like the feature that some updates send a report to root. Maybe every package should do that: send a mail containing instruction how to be sure you're RUNNING the patched version, instead of merely having the patched file on disk. end -- Jurjen Oskam * carnivore! * http://www.stupendous.org/ for PGP key assassinate nuclear iraq clinton kill bomb USA eta ira cia fbi nsa kill president wall street ruin economy disrupt phonenetwork atomic bomb sarin nerve gas bin laden military -*- DVD Decryption at www.stupendous.org -*-