realpath advisory question

[Jack L. Stone]

At 12:06 PM 8.14.2003 -0700, Scott Schappell wrote:
>I have a question regarding whether or not I need to upgrade my system, and
>if so, what's the best way to do it to minimize downtime.
>
>If this should have gone to the security list, I apologize.
>
>uname output:
>
>bash-2.05b$ uname -a
>FreeBSD arthur.silvertree.org 4.8-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #1: Sat Aug  2
>15:57:20 PDT 2003
>root at ygraine.silvertree.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ARTHUR0  i386
>
>Does anything in the uname suggest I'm OK, or do I need to upgrade?
>
>I'm a bit nervous about doing a make world update, but only for downtime
>concerns.
>
>Is there another command I can run to verify whether or not I'm OK?
>
>Thanks in advance for your help, and if I left something out, please feel
>free to let me know. I have my asbestos suit on :).
>
>Thanks!
>
>
>Scott

Scott: Suggest you might look back a few days worth of archives as there is
a "ton" of messages about this issue.

As I understand though, if you built the OS from sources, you should be
safe. If you did a binary install, you should do a fresh install -- or
better, make you own world....

Hope this is correct.... look at the other messages too.

Best regards,
Jack L. Stone,
Administrator

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