[Info-vax] DeathRow

[David Froble]

George Cornelius wrote:
> Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
>> MG wrote 2014-09-27 13:46:
>>
>>> Jan-Erik Soderholm schreef op 27-sep-2014 om 13:43:
>>>
>>>> See messages from aprox a week ago with subjects like
>>>> "Eisner down for about two weeks" and
>>>> "Deathrow Status".
>>>
>>> Eisner has nothing to do with Deathrow, it's part of
>>> DECUServe/Encompasserve.
> 
>> Ha! :-)
>> Sorry for the confusing caused...
> 
> 
> Google interlocking direc^H^H^H^H^Hadminstratorships.
> 
> Looks like they went down just in time to avoid Shellshock. Not
> that there's much chance of a vulnerability - outside of obvious
> *nix related tools such as GNV.  Even TCPIP services would not
> be so crass as to include a ported version of bash.  Hopefully
> Multinet doesn't use it for something, like scripts to process
> email.
> 
> Unfortunate to have to go cold turkey on publicly accessible
> VMS sites, though.  And xkleten doesn't count as a replacement,
> other than its being a site where you can still run dungeon,
> and assuming you bothered to get an account when they were
> being offered.
> 
> George

That's why it's good to have a few of your own VMS systems ..

:-)