Re: Question on LFS in Redhat

[Dale Amon]

On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 09:49:03AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> You really shouldn't be running a 2.4.16 kernel (not without the latest
> security patches for such a kernel from a distro) given the amount of security issues
> fixed since... and since I don't think any distro ever shipped 2.4.16 (some
> shipped 2.4.17, a bunch shipped 2.4.18 but even RH doesn't do patches for
> that 2.4.18 tree anymore since they have been obsoleted by 2.4.20 and newer
> kernels).

Not really my choice... and from what you say I'd better
not *touch* their stock kernel if I a project for which I 
specced that box happens.

Also, fresh feedback from the Consensys is that:

	"Just to be precise - As of today the kernel 
	 is 2.4.18-i59smp #1"

So that is a little better but still a little out
of date. I'm not terribly worried about the local
exploit because you don't tend to want to allow external
login accounts on things on your SAN's...

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