I only got one response to this re-iterating that the patches were not released
for the earlier O/S versions/patch levels and are not supported. I did try
copying the 4.0g patch kit binaries to a 4.0d system and they seemed to work
fine (minimal testing).
_Mike
Mike Broderick wrote:
> Regarding the recent inetd/ipcs security patches that I need to apply to
> many systems fast...
>
> We have a lot of systems at 4.0d/e or at earlier than the required patch
> level (e.g., 5.1a PK1, not PK2 or 4.0f at less than PK7). Some are
> production so I hesitate to upgrading or applying a large patch kit too
> quickly w/o testing as it risks something breaking.
>
> Has anyone tried copy the installed files from 4.0f/g to an
> earlier/unsupported version (4.0d/e)? (Of course doing an unsupported
> copy like this is also risky but we need to close this security risk
> quickly on several systems.)
>
> _Mike
>
Received on Wed Jul 24 2002 - 16:27:01 NZST