Re: [9fans] Publish and be damned.

[Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>]

> free trial.

Yeah, but for what architectures, and/or do I get source?

>the CEO of NFR Security is Marcus J. Ranum;  implementer of
>the first commercial firewall among other things.  ches
>probably doesn't read 9fans but someone on this list must
>know who he is.

Yeah, I know who Marcus Ranum is, but I never questioned the
security of the product, rationalizing it as, even if syslog
is broken, someone has to attack it, and droppings from that
attack are likely going to end up in the protected logs.
Even if the quality of later information in the log is less
as a result of syslog being compromised, the stuff at the
beginning might be pretty juicy.  :-)

> auto append, write once stuff is trivial to implement.

And it dovetails with /n/dump rather well.  :-)

> installing openBSD is a pain in the arse.  i had it installed
> but then i thought:
>
>     ok, i'll build a kernel from the source on this cd i burnt.
>
> but to mount the cd you need the kernel source.  the pc dist
> is too big for one cd, so you can't do it at install time and
> i'm still missing my $7 cable so i could install from my adsl.

Ahh, the joys of Unix.  :-)

	- Dan C.

(Actually, I usually do FTP installs of OpenBSD or FreeBSD when
I need a Unix machine in a hurry....  I find the former easier,
but I'm not using the same hardware you are.)