[13198] in bugtraq
Re: HPUX Aserver revisited.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chuck Lawrence)
Tue Jan 4 14:31:28 2000
Message-Id: <200001032204.OAA28401@engcad1.lbl.gov>
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 14:04:55 PST
Reply-To: Chuck Lawrence <lawrence@ENGCAD1.LBL.GOV>
From: Chuck Lawrence <lawrence@ENGCAD1.LBL.GOV>
X-To: Justin Tripp <justin@EE.BYU.EDU>
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPX.4.10.10001021257160.3248-100000@zap.ee.byu.edu>; from
"Justin Tripp" at Jan 2, 100 1:49 pm
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" It is funny that HP fixed their earlier problem in the Oct98 version of
" Aserver in the Jun99 version, but they introduced the same problem in a
" different way. Aserver -f is used to force the Aserver to replace the
I've been working with hp-ux for over 10 years. they've got an
unfortunate tendency to re-introduce bugs that have been fixed in earlier
versions. they also have a habit of *not* including patches in subsequent
releases.
example: "a" is broken. hp issues a patch for "a". sysadmins install
it. the next os rev comes out. "a" is still broken (the patch may still
work for the new os, but geez).
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