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This information includes security - advisories, as well as news relating to the software or - documentation that could affect its operation or - usability. An up-to-date version of this document should - always be consulted before installing this version of - FreeBSD.</p> - - <p>This errata document for FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE will be - maintained until the release of FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE.</p> - </div> - </blockquote> - - <div class="SECT1"> - <hr /> - - <h1 class="SECT1"><a id="INTRO" name="INTRO">1 - Introduction</a></h1> - - <p>This errata document contains ``late-breaking news'' - about FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE. Before installing this version, - it is important to consult this document to learn about any - post-release discoveries or problems that may already have - been found and fixed.</p> - - <p>Any version of this errata document actually distributed - with the release (for example, on a CDROM distribution) - will be out of date by definition, but other copies are - kept updated on the Internet and should be consulted as the - ``current errata'' for this release. These other copies of - the errata are located at <a - href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/" - target="_top">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/</a>, plus - any sites which keep up-to-date mirrors of this - location.</p> - - <p>Source and binary snapshots of FreeBSD 5-CURRENT also - contain up-to-date copies of this document (as of the time - of the snapshot).</p> - - <p>For a list of all FreeBSD CERT security advisories, see - <a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/security/" - target="_top">http://www.FreeBSD.org/security/</a> or <a - href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/" - target="_top">ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/</a>.</p> - </div> - - <div class="SECT1"> - <hr /> - - <h1 class="SECT1"><a id="SECURITY" name="SECURITY">2 - Security Advisories</a></h1> - - <p>Remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in <b - class="APPLICATION">CVS</b> could allow an attacker to - execute arbitrary comands on a CVS server. More details can - be found in security advisory <a - href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:01.cvs.asc" - target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-03:01</a>.</p> - - <p>A timing-based attack on <b - class="APPLICATION">OpenSSL</b>, could allow a very - powerful attacker access to plaintext under certain - circumstances. This problem has been corrected in FreeBSD - 5.0-CURRENT with an upgrade to <b - class="APPLICATION">OpenSSL</b> 0.9.7. On supported - security fix branches, this problem has been corrected with - the import of <b class="APPLICATION">OpenSSL</b> 0.9.6i. - See security advisory <a - href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:02.openssl.asc" - target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-03:02</a> for more details.</p> - - <p>It may be possible to recover the shared secret key used - by the implementation of the ``syncookies'' feature. This - reduces its effectiveness in dealing with TCP SYN flood - denial-of-service attacks. Workaround information and fixes - are given in security advisory <a - href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:03.syncookies.asc" - target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-03:03</a>.</p> - - <p>Due to buffer overflows in header parsing in <b - class="APPLICATION">sendmail</b>, a remote attacker can - create a specially-crafted message that may cause <a - href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sendmail&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current"> - <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span - class="REFENTRYTITLE">sendmail</span>(8)</span></a> to - execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user - running it, typically <tt class="USERNAME">root</tt>. More - information, including pointers to patches, can be found in - security advisories <a - href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:04.sendmail.asc" - target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-03:04</a> and <a - href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:07.sendmail.asc" - target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-03:07</a>.</p> - - <p>The XDR encoder/decoder does incorrect bounds-checking, - which could allow a remote attacker to cause a - denial-of-service. For bugfix information, see security - advisory <a - href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:05.xdr.asc" - target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-03:05</a>.</p> - - <p><b class="APPLICATION">OpenSSL</b> has been found - vulnerable to two recently-disclosed attacks. Information - on workarounds and patches for supported security branches - is contained in security advisory <a - href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:06.openssl.asc" - target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-03:06</a>.</p> - </div> - - <div class="SECT1"> - <hr /> - - <h1 class="SECT1"><a id="LATE-NEWS" name="LATE-NEWS">3 - Late-Breaking News</a></h1> - - <h4 class="BRIDGEHEAD"><a id="AEN54" - name="AEN54">GEOM</a></h4> - - <p>The <a - href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=geom&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current"> - <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span - class="REFENTRYTITLE">geom</span>(4)</span></a>-based disk - partitioning code in the kernel will not allow an open - partition to be overwritten. This usually prevents the use - of <tt class="COMMAND">disklabel -B</tt> to update the boot - blocks on a disk because the <tt class="LITERAL">a</tt> - partition overlaps the space where the boot blocks are - stored. A suggested workaround is to boot from an alternate - disk, a CDROM, or a fixit floppy.</p> - - <h4 class="BRIDGEHEAD"><a id="AEN61" name="AEN61"><a - href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dump&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current"> - <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span - class="REFENTRYTITLE">dump</span>(8)</span></a></a></h4> - - <p>When using disk media with sector sizes larger than 512 - bytes (for instance, <a - href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gbde&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current"> - <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span - class="REFENTRYTITLE">gbde</span>(4)</span></a> encrypted - disks), the <a - href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dump&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current"> - <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span - class="REFENTRYTITLE">dump</span>(8)</span></a> program - fails to respect the larger sector size and cannot dump the - partition. One possible workaround is to copy the entire - file system in raw format and dump the copy. It is, for - instance, possible to dump a file system stored in a - regular file:</p> -<pre class="SCREEN"> -<tt class="PROMPT">#</tt> <tt -class="USERINPUT"><b>dd if=/dev/ad0s1d.bde of=/junk/ad0.dd bs=1m</b></tt> -<tt class="PROMPT">#</tt> <tt -class="USERINPUT"><b>dump 0f - /junk/ad0.dd | ...</b></tt> -</pre> - - <p>A simpler workaround is to use <a - href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tar&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current"> - <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span - class="REFENTRYTITLE">tar</span>(1)</span></a> or <a - href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cpio&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current"> - <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span - class="REFENTRYTITLE">cpio</span>(1)</span></a> to make - backup copies.</p> - - <h4 class="BRIDGEHEAD"><a id="AEN84" name="AEN84"><a - href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mly&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current"> - <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span - class="REFENTRYTITLE">mly</span>(4)</span></a></a></h4> - - <p>Hangs were reported during FreeBSD 5.0 snapshot - installations when installing to <a - href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mly&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current"> - <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span - class="REFENTRYTITLE">mly</span>(4)</span></a>-supported - RAID arrays, in hardware configurations that appear to work - fine under FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE. These problems have been - corrected in FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT.</p> - - <h4 class="BRIDGEHEAD"><a id="AEN92" - name="AEN92">NETNCP/Netware File System Support</a></h4> - - <p>NETNCP and nwfs appear to be as-yet unadapted for KSE, - and hence not working. These have been fixed in FreeBSD - 5.0-CURRENT.</p> - - <h4 class="BRIDGEHEAD"><a id="AEN94" name="AEN94"><a - href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=iir&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current"> - <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span - class="REFENTRYTITLE">iir</span>(4)</span></a> - controller</a></h4> - - <p>During installation, the <a - href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=iir&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current"> - <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span - class="REFENTRYTITLE">iir</span>(4)</span></a> controller - appears to probe correctly, but finds no disk devices.</p> - - <h4 class="BRIDGEHEAD"><a id="AEN102" name="AEN102"><a - href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=truss&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current"> - <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span - class="REFENTRYTITLE">truss</span>(1)</span></a> race - condition</a></h4> - - <p><a - href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=truss&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current"> - <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span - class="REFENTRYTITLE">truss</span>(1)</span></a> appears to - contain a race condition during the start-up of debugging, - which can result in <a - href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=truss&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current"> - <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span - class="REFENTRYTITLE">truss</span>(1)</span></a> failing to - attach to the process before it exists. The symptom is that - <a - href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=truss&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current"> - <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span - class="REFENTRYTITLE">truss</span>(1)</span></a> reports - that it cannot open the <a - href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=procfs&sektion=5&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current"> - <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span - class="REFENTRYTITLE">procfs</span>(5)</span></a> node - supporting the process being debugged. A bug also appears - to exist wherein <a - href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=truss&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current"> - <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span - class="REFENTRYTITLE">truss</span>(1)</span></a> will hang - if <a - href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=execve&sektion=2&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current"> - <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span - class="REFENTRYTITLE">execve</span>(2)</span></a> returns - <tt class="LITERAL">ENOENT</tt> A further race appears to - exist in which <a - href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=truss&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current"> - <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span - class="REFENTRYTITLE">truss</span>(1)</span></a> will - return ``<tt class="ERRORNAME">PIOCWAIT: Input/output - error</tt>'' occasionally on startup. The fix for this - sufficiently changes process execution handling that it has - been deferred until after 5.0.</p> - - <h4 class="BRIDGEHEAD"><a id="AEN130" name="AEN130">Disk - Partitioning in Installer</a></h4> - - <p>Some bugs have been reported in <a - href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysinstall&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current"> - <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span - class="REFENTRYTITLE">sysinstall</span>(8)</span></a> disk - partitioning. One observed problem on the i386 is that <a - href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysinstall&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current"> - <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span - class="REFENTRYTITLE">sysinstall</span>(8)</span></a> - cannot recalculate the free space left on a disk after - changing the type of an FDISK-type partition.</p> - - <h4 class="BRIDGEHEAD"><a id="AEN138" name="AEN138">Stale - Documentation</a></h4> - - <p>In some case, documentation (such as the FAQ or - Handbook) has not been updated to take into account FreeBSD - 5.0-RELEASE features. Examples of areas where documentation - is still needed include <a - href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gbde&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current"> - <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span - class="REFENTRYTITLE">gbde</span>(8)</span></a> and the new - ``fast IPsec'' implementation.</p> - - <h4 class="BRIDGEHEAD"><a id="AEN144" name="AEN144">SMB - File System</a></h4> - - <p>Attempting to unmount smbfs shares may fail with ``<tt - class="ERRORNAME">Device busy</tt>'' errors even when the - mount-point is not really busy. A workaround is to keep - trying to unmount the share until it eventually succeeds. - This bug has been fixed in 5.0-CURRENT.</p> - - <p>Forcefully unmounting (<tt class="COMMAND">umount - -f</tt>) smbfs shares may cause a kernel panic. This bug - has been fixed in 5.0-CURRENT.</p> - - <h4 class="BRIDGEHEAD"><a id="AEN149" name="AEN149"><a - href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fstat&sektion=2&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current"> - <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span - class="REFENTRYTITLE">fstat</span>(2)</span></a></a></h4> - - <p>When called on a connected socket file descriptor, <a - href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fstat&sektion=2&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current"> - <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span - class="REFENTRYTITLE">fstat</span>(2)</span></a> is - supposed to return the number of bytes available to read in - the <tt class="VARNAME">st_size</tt> member of <tt - class="VARNAME">struct stat</tt>. However, <tt - class="VARNAME">st_size</tt> is always erroneously reported - as <tt class="LITERAL">0</tt> on TCP sockets. This bug has - been fixed in 5.0-CURRENT.</p> - - <h4 class="BRIDGEHEAD"><a id="AEN161" name="AEN161">Kernel - Event Queues</a></h4> - - <p>The <a - href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=kqueue&sektion=2&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current"> - <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span - class="REFENTRYTITLE">kqueue</span>(2)</span></a> <tt - class="LITERAL">EVFILT_READ</tt> filter erroneously - indicates that <tt class="LITERAL">0</tt> bytes are - available to be read on TCP sockets, regardless of the - number of bytes that are actually available. The <tt - class="LITERAL">NOTE_LOWAT</tt> flag for <tt - class="LITERAL">EVFILT_READ</tt> is also broken on TCP - sockets. This bug has been fixed in 5.0-CURRENT.</p> - - <h4 class="BRIDGEHEAD"><a id="AEN170" name="AEN170">POSIX - Named Semaphores</a></h4> - - <p>FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE introduced support for POSIX named - semaphores but the implementation contains a critical bug - that causes <a - href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sem_open&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current"> - <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span - class="REFENTRYTITLE">sem_open</span>(3)</span></a> to - incorrectly handle the opening of the same semaphore - multiple times by the same process, and that causes <a - href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sem_close&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current"> - <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span - class="REFENTRYTITLE">sem_close</span>(3)</span></a> to - crash calling programs. This bug has been fixed in - 5.0-CURRENT.</p> - - <h4 class="BRIDGEHEAD"><a id="AEN178" name="AEN178"><tt - class="FILENAME">/dev/tty</tt> Permissions</a></h4> - - <p>FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE has a minor bug in how the - permissions of <tt class="FILENAME">/dev/tty</tt> are - handled. This can be triggered by logging in as a non-<tt - class="USERNAME">root</tt>, non-<tt - class="GROUPNAME">tty</tt> group user, and using <a - href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=su&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current"> - <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span - class="REFENTRYTITLE">su</span>(1)</span></a> to switch to - a second non-<tt class="USERNAME">root</tt>, non-<tt - class="GROUPNAME">tty</tt> group user. <a - href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current"> - <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span - class="REFENTRYTITLE">ssh</span>(1)</span></a> will fail - because it cannot open <tt class="FILENAME">/dev/tty</tt>. - This bug has been fixed in 5.0-CURRENT.</p> - - <h4 class="BRIDGEHEAD"><a id="AEN193" name="AEN193"><a - href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=growfs&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current"> - <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span - class="REFENTRYTITLE">growfs</span>(8)</span></a></a></h4> - - <p><a - href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=growfs&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current"> - <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span - class="REFENTRYTITLE">growfs</span>(8)</span></a> no longer - works on <a - href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vinum&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current"> - <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span - class="REFENTRYTITLE">vinum</span>(4)</span></a> volumes - (and presumably, on <a - href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=geom&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current"> - <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span - class="REFENTRYTITLE">geom</span>(4)</span></a> entities) - since these subsystems no longer fake disklabels, but <a - href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=growfs&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current"> - <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span - class="REFENTRYTITLE">growfs</span>(8)</span></a> insists - on examining a label.</p> - - <h4 class="BRIDGEHEAD"><a id="AEN210" - name="AEN210">IPFW</a></h4> - - <p><a - href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current"> - <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span - class="REFENTRYTITLE">ipfw</span>(4)</span></a> <tt - class="LITERAL">skipto</tt> rules do not work when coupled - with the <tt class="LITERAL">log</tt> keyword. <a - href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current"> - <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span - class="REFENTRYTITLE">ipfw</span>(4)</span></a> <tt - class="LITERAL">uid</tt> rules also do not work properly. - These bugs have been fixed in 5.0-CURRENT.</p> - - <h4 class="BRIDGEHEAD"><a id="AEN221" - name="AEN221">Passwords and <a - href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=adduser&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current"> - <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span - class="REFENTRYTITLE">adduser</span>(8)</span></a></a></h4> - - <p><a - href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=adduser&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current"> - <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span - class="REFENTRYTITLE">adduser</span>(8)</span></a> does not - correctly handle setting user passwords containing special - shell characters. This problem has been corrected in - 5.0-CURRENT.</p> - - <h4 class="BRIDGEHEAD"><a id="AEN229" name="AEN229"><a - href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=xl&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current"> - <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span - class="REFENTRYTITLE">xl</span>(4)</span></a></a></h4> - - <p>The <a - href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=xl&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current"> - <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span - class="REFENTRYTITLE">xl</span>(4)</span></a> driver has a - timing bug that may cause a kernel panic (or other - problems) when attempting to configure an interface. This - bug has been fixed in 5.0-CURRENT.</p> - - <h4 class="BRIDGEHEAD"><a id="AEN237" name="AEN237">ISC - DHCP</a></h4> - - <p><b class="APPLICATION">ISC DHCP</b> was updated to - 3.0.1rc11. This update was actually a part of FreeBSD - 5.0-RELEASE, but was not documented in the release - notes.</p> - - <h4 class="BRIDGEHEAD"><a id="AEN240" name="AEN240"><a - href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=amd&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current"> - <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span - class="REFENTRYTITLE">amd</span>(8)</span></a> - Interoperability</a></h4> - - <p>5.0-RELEASE contains some bugs in its non-blocking RPC - code. The most noticeable side-effect of these bugs was - that <a - href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=amd&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current"> - <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span - class="REFENTRYTITLE">amd</span>(8)</span></a> users were - not able to mount volumes from a 5.0-RELEASE server. This - bug has been fixed in 5.0-CURRENT.</p> - - <h4 class="BRIDGEHEAD"><a id="AEN248" - name="AEN248">nsswitch</a></h4> - - <p>The release note documenting the addition of <b - class="APPLICATION">nsswitch</b> support gave an incorrect - name for the old resolver configuration file. It should - have been listed as <tt - class="FILENAME">/etc/host.conf</tt>.</p> - - <h4 class="BRIDGEHEAD"><a id="AEN252" - name="AEN252">Mailman</a></h4> - - <p>Recently the mailing lists were changed from majordomo - to the currently used Mailman list server. More information - about using the new mailing lists can be found by visiting - the <a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/mailman/listinfo/" - target="_top">FreeBSD Mailman Info Page</a>.</p> - </div> - </div> - <hr /> - - <p align="center"><small>This file, and other release-related - documents, can be downloaded from <a - href="http://snapshots.jp.FreeBSD.org/">http://snapshots.jp.FreeBSD.org/</a>.</small></p> - - <p align="center"><small>For questions about FreeBSD, read the - <a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/docs.html">documentation</a> - before contacting <<a - href="mailto:questions@FreeBSD.org">questions@FreeBSD.org</a>>.</small></p> - - <p align="center"><small><small>All users of FreeBSD 5-CURRENT - should subscribe to the <<a - href="mailto:current@FreeBSD.org">current@FreeBSD.org</a>> - mailing list.</small></small></p> - - <p align="center">For questions about this documentation, - e-mail <<a - href="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">doc@FreeBSD.org</a>>.</p> - <br /> - <br /> - </body> -</html> - |