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Apple Releases Security Update 2004-01-26

Posted by pudge on from the restart-on-the-count-of-three dept.

ollie_ob writes "Apple's released an important security update for Mac OS X today. The update includes changes to the following important apps and services: Apache 1.3, Classic, Mail, Safari, Windows File Sharing. In addition, it includes the 2003-12-19 Security Update. It's available via Software Update." It's also available for Server.

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  1. Re:Apache 2.0? by onebuttonmouse · · Score: 3, Informative

    You don't have to wait for Apple, there's a packaged version, runs alongside 1.3. I tried it for a bit, but I didn't find any advantages over 1.3 for my purposes (mostly just PHP).

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    MacBook Pro. Worst name since the Bicycle
  2. Re:Apache 2.0? by radicalskeptic · · Score: 5, Informative

    According to this PDF from Apple, Mac OS X Server already carries both Apache 1.3 and 2.x. If you only have OS X client, you can also download a bundled Apache 2 package from Server Logistics here, if you really want it. I tried it about a year ago, I remember it has a nice preferance pane with which you can change some settings, restart the server, and view and edit your httpd.conf (although it was a little buggy with saving the file, TextEdit had problems with the permissions)... It couldn't do anything that wasn't just as easy to do from the command line, though.

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  3. Re:just like MS by lullabud · · Score: 3, Informative

    Looking at my updates, which actually don't go back too far because I reloaded my laptop, the last system update i did was Dec 20th... that's over a month. The only updates I've done between then and now were application updates, like iCal. That's definitely better than being on a monthly patch release schedule for critical OS bugs.

  4. Groundhog Day by PDubNYC · · Score: 3, Informative

    I have installed it on 3 machines, and everything seems to work fine with one exception. Every time I install it and reboot, there it is in the Software Update list again. I even tried installing it a 2nd time on one machine, sure enough it was there again after reboot. Big Ben, Parliament, kids

  5. Re:10.2.8? by sonetsst · · Score: 5, Informative

    As a matter of fact, not only is it available for 10.2.8 but also for 10.1.5, just check the download page under the OS X tab on apple.com.

    If only we got that sort of backwards compatibility with windows...

  6. Re:Like does anyone care? by plsuh · · Score: 4, Informative

    Apple normally posts details of security updates on it's Knowledge base at:

    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=617 98

    The details of this one are not up yet, but should be soon. Give the guys a break -- they're only human and stuff takes a while to work its way through the system.

    --Paul