* Joshua b. Jore <josh at greentechnologist.org> [020120 03:38]: > On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Rodd Ahrenstorff wrote: > > On Saturday 19 January 2002 10:47 pm, you wrote: > > > Actually I would rather hope AOL would alter the Red Hat build into > > > something that isn't so exploit friendly. > > What makes the Red Hat build so exploit friendly anyway (compared to other > > distros)..the newbie asks? > The problem isn't unique to Red Hat. To hear the honeynet folks, the > average lifespan of an un-patched Ret Hat 6.2 machine is 72 hours. Other [coming from a debian-ite] Please, stop beating the dead horse and install RedHat 7.2 or something. By default, it wants to install a firewall with no incoming connections unless configured differently for a workstation install. -- Scott Dier <dieman at ringworld.org> http://www.ringworld.org/ the desire for space travel is a metaphor for escape