[173] in linux-security and linux-alert archive
patch archive [long moderator's note attached]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian Soboroff (BS CMSC))
Thu Mar 16 14:09:35 1995
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 11:42:11 -0500
From: "Ian Soboroff (BS CMSC)" <ian@gl.umbc.edu>
To: linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu
is there someone who is archiving these various patches and suggestions?
this is important for a couple reasons:
1) no one is going to pull every patch posted, and murphy's law dictates
they won't pull the patch they need three weeks later.
2) it will limit redundancy... instead of resurrecting the recursive
finger or ages-old nfs hole threads every few months, we can point to the
security-patch archive.
ian
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[Mod: All traffic on these lists is archived on the list-server. It is
also indexed by "contents" and by "topics"--the indexes are updated
nightly at 3:45AM EST.
The "topics" index shows all subjects (as they appear in the "Subject:"
header of a message) and the archive file(s) that the subject appears
in. The "contents" index shows the reverse; it lists all the archive
files, and for each file it shows all the subjects that appear in that
file. For the security list, each day's traffic appears in a separate
archive file. For the alert list, each month's traffic appears in a
separate archive file (since it's very low-traffic). For the digest
lists, each digest sent is archived as a separate file. To retrieve
these files, send mail to "majordomo@linux.nrao.edu" with a message
containing a body of:
get linux-security CONTENTS
If you want the "topics" list, use "TOPICS" vice "CONTENTS". If you
want the files for a different list, use the appropriate list as the
first argument after the "get". If you see a subject of interest in the
index file(s) and want to retrieve that whole file, use the filename (as
listed in the index) in place of the "TOPICS" or "CONTENTS" argument.
To see all the files that are in the archive for a particular list, send
a message body of (using the appropriate list-name):
index linux-security
I plan on adding a feature that will provide similar indexes based on
"Keywords:" headers, so we can make it easier to search for patches and
the like (assuming that people take the time to add a "Keywords:" header
to their posts). Since this capability is not yet in place, I would
like to ask all posters of patches to put the string "PATCH (filename):"
at the beginning of their subject line when posting patches to the
list--this will make it *much* easier to find and retrieve patches from
the archive.
Thanks! --Jeff]
