Re: Chapter 14 Security

From: Bill Moran (wmoran_at_potentialtech.com)
Date: 07/14/04

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    Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 22:11:59 -0400
To: "Steve Bertrand" <iaccounts@ibctech.ca>

    "Steve Bertrand" <iaccounts@ibctech.ca> wrote:
    > >> > The article requires the use of the command "gifconfig" which does not
    > >> > exit on my FreeBSD 5.2.1 machine. Is this a typo in the manual, or
    > >> have
    > >> > I missed something?
    > >>
    > >> Just did a quick google for "no gifconfig freebsd 5", and in the sparc64
    > >> relnotes, I found this:
    > >>
    > >> "gifconfig(8) is obsolete and has been removed. Its functionality is now
    > >> handled by the tunnel and deletetunnel commands of ifconfig(8)."
    > >>
    > >> Here's the link. If it's taken out of sparc, I'm assuming that it's
    > >> obsolete for the others as well...
    > >>
    > >> http://jamesthornton.com/freebsd/5.0/relnotes-sparc64.html
    > >
    > > This should probably be passed on to the doc team. Anyone have time to
    > > put together a patch to update the handbook?
    > >
    > > [doc team CCed]
    >
    > Although I've always been intrigued in the arena of actually making a
    > doc/code patch contribution to any open source project, I feel this a very
    > good time to look into howto perform this type of task.
    >
    > I'll review the FreeBSD developers handbook:
    >
    > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/
    >
    > tomorrow to find out more on how I can do this. It's something I've always
    > wanted to do, and it seems like a great opportunity for me to get 'right
    > into' making an actual contribution for what I have so freely taken.
    >
    > Any other resources I can be pointed to for making Doc contributions will
    > be graciously accepted for mine, and hopefully others interest.

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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