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Thank you for educating me.. |
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On Nov 23, 2007 4:12 PM, Andrew Ross <aross@g.o> wrote: |
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> widyachacra wrote: |
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> > The phpBB is still masked due to constant security bugs since 2005 Jun |
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> > 30. But its using for forums.gentoo.org <http://forums.gentoo.org>. I |
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> > tried to contact Mr.Aaron Walker ( ka0ttic@g.o |
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> > <mailto:ka0ttic@g.o>) regarding this matter but his email address |
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> > also not working. |
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> That's because he is retired, according to |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/roll-call/userinfo.xml?statusFilter=Retired |
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> I'm not entirely sure what the problem is that you're trying to report. |
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to ask the reason to mask it from 2005. I thought it as a mistak. |
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> If you want to use phpBB yourself, then you need to follow the |
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> instructions from "emerge phpBB" and see the MASKED PACKAGES section of |
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> the emerge man page. However, you must be prepared to accept that phpBB |
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> has a dubious security history and requires extra care and attention to |
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> prevent your server being compromised. |
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> If you look at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/forums/index.xml#doc_chap4 |
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> you'll see that the 3-man Forums Infrastructure Subproject is |
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> responsible for maintaining the MySQL database and the phpBB instance |
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> that powers forums.gentoo.org . The underlying server is presumably |
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> maintained and secured by the Infrastructure team |
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> (http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/infrastructure/index.xml), which includes |
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> some of our most experienced developers. |
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> > paala# cat /usr/portage/metadata/timestamp. |
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> > timestamp.chk timestamp.x |
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> > wt1-doratupaala alias # cat /usr/portage/metadata/timestamp.chk |
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> > Fri, 23 Nov 2007 04:30:01 +0000 |
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> FYI, an easier way of doing this is: |
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> andrew@elm ~ $ emerge --info | fgrep Timestamp |
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> Timestamp of tree: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:46:01 +0000 |
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> Cheers |
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> Andrew |
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- Widyachacra Rajapaksha - |
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* Lots of people make the mistake of thinking that Microsoft is a software |
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company. That's wrong. Microsoft is an abuse company that uses software as a |
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method of delivering abuse. |
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