Re: URGENT: DON'T USE 2.0B3 - SECURITY ISSUES! (was: [leafnode-list]

[Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 06:32:00PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:

> You don't expect the leafnode target group to be able to judge on the
> stability. If fetchnews - run from cron - crashes occasionally, they
> won't notice. If it inserts junk of drops an article, they may not
> notice.

1.9.17 fetchnews certainly hangs every once in a while, leaving a lock
file and running process.

> People tend to not complain about such minor issues.

Or in this case, things they can't reproduce reliably.

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