On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 04:30:04PM -0600, Joshua b. Jore wrote:

> I wouldn't go to Linux for security. I guess it's the exploit of the week
> thing on Linux apps in bugtraq that has me spooked. Then again I'm
> paranoid and run OpenBSD for a secure platform.

Your system is only as secure as you make it, these aren't *linux* exploits,
they're exploits for programs that run on any UNIX platform.

> Where I work, our production WinNT 4 SP6a servers appear to have a MTBF of
> 30+ days (some of them have gone months). Something is probably wrong with
> your installation / configuration. Consider whether the agents are soaking
> everything up or if it really is Domino. You should expect Domino to
> consume several hundred megs of ram for it's database cache. I recall ours
> typically ran at about 3-400 megs.

[poptix at paranoid:(~)]$ uptime
  6:48pm  up 219 days, 21:14,  1 user,  load average: 0.15, 0.05, 0.01

I haven't been able to calculate the MTBF because the machine hasn't gone
down yet, there are many more with this one.

> 
> Josh

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