Re: patching holes

From: VB (swive@getnet.com)
Date: 04/25/02 

Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 03:29:19 -0700
From: VB <swive@getnet.com>
To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org

On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 03:46:02AM -0600, awnex wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Visit http://www.freebsd.org/security/index.html download all patches upto date as of today, then...
> # cd /usr/src/ ; patch < /path/of/downloaded-patch
>
> It might be a bit time comsuming to dl the patches but just make a quick shell script to do the...
> # cd /usr/src/ ; patch < /path/of/downloaded-patch

I tried that: "patch < /home/morph/path_to_patch" and also tried the "-p" and the machine returns "Hmmm I can't seem to find a patch in there anywhere." What is this all about?

>
> have fun!
>
> - awnex

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