Just an idea but I think libsafe is more than just an add-on. It may actually save some systems from being rooted while FL gives out a patch for the vulnerable program. In my opinion it goes hand in hand with the Fedora Legacy aim to keep EOLed distributions secure. Regards, Arvand Sabetian -----Original Message----- From: fedora-legacy-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-legacy-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Rees Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 9:55 AM To: fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Proposal: Optional libsafe add-on? Warren Togami wrote, On 1/21/2004 8:36 AM: > > My earlier post suggested a very short list of extremely simple, yet > useful add-ons for typical servers for the legacy-utils repository. > legacy-utils add-on packages are only by consensus and can easily be > shot down. This is the list of add-ons that I am proposing: > > bonnie++ Very useful stability test for servers > chkrootkit Security checking for servers > ddrescue Data recovery for servers > hardlink Space consolidation for mirror servers > iptstate Very simple Netfilter stateful top * I feel that these utilities would be useful to have in the legacy-utils repository. -Dave -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
