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