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Subject:    [Abacus] [dan@langille.org: Re: portsentry FreeBSD port]
From:       Brent Kearney <brent () kearneys ! ca>
Date:       2000-08-25 22:22:53
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From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org>
To: Brent Kearney <brent@kearneys.ca>
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 09:17:37 +1200
Subject: Re: portsentry FreeBSD port

Good idea.  I'm about to submit the following patch:

[root@ducky:/usr/ports/security] # diff -ru portsentry.original portsentry
diff -ru portsentry.original/pkg/MESSAGE portsentry/pkg/MESSAGE
--- portsentry.original/pkg/MESSAGE     Mon May 17 17:22:29 1999
+++ portsentry/pkg/MESSAGE      Sat Aug 26 09:12:54 2000
@@ -3,4 +3,11 @@
        Edit /usr/local/etc/portsentry.conf and change"
        your settings if you haven't already. (route, etc)"
 
+       ***************************************************
+       * IGNORE stealth mode.  It is for Linux only.     *
+       * The author hopes to have a platform independent *
+       * version at some time.  So don't even bother     *
+       * trying it now.                                  *
+       ***************************************************
+
 

On 25 Aug 2000, at 12:48, Brent Kearney wrote:

> 
> Dan, I recently installed the package "portsentry" from the FreeBSD
> ports collection.  You really should put a warning in the DESCR file
> that portsentry's main functionality, its "stealth modes", does not
> work with any platform except Linux.  It is these modes that make
> portsentry unique.  Furthermore, you excluded the only file which 
> warns about the Linux-only functionality from the local documentation
> (/usr/local/share/doc/portsentry).  Your port installs the README.install
> and README.methods only, which are misleading because they mention how to
> use *BSD with stealth modes, although it doesn't work with *BSD.  Even the
> config file has examples from a range of unices, despite its not working
> with them.
> 
> The creator of the package, Craig Rowland, has told me that "cross-
> platform" (ie, not Linux-only) support is forthcoming, but right now,
> its a Linux-only thing.
> 
> -Brent
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Brent Kearney
> brent@kearneys.ca
> 

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