On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 11:59:14PM +0800, John Summerfied wrote: > >Yeah, that sucked. But, well... so what? You could just boot into the old > >kernel until the fixed one came out a few days later. > Most of the machines I tend are a car drive away. Okay, so that's a special case where extra caution is warranted. It's not an argument that applies to the general case. As an aside, for the specific case, investing in a serial console device might be a good idea, because even with the best caution, things can get screwed up. > Fortunately, that bit my laptop. > Oh, and the first fixed one wasn't, I'm not sure about the second and > about then I lost interest in new kernels for a few months. Luckily the root exploit holes in those kernels weren't being widely exploited in the wild, or you might have been making that car ride. :) -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
