Hey all, I'd really like to update tcpdump on my live boxes (since that is there primary function) and I'm thinking of simply installing the new version from source and linking it over the existing binary. I did this on a lab box and found no problems, however I may be missing something. The reason I can't do the "correct" thing and upgrade the base system is that these are live boxes in a remote facility (different state).

The reason this ties into freebsd-security and not -questions is I'm still waiting for official word on a patch/upgrade procedure from the team. Am I being impatient here or did I miss something? I checked back over security-notifications and saw nothing.

To illustrate what I did:

L# find / -name tcpdump /usr/local/sbin/tcpdump /usr/local/tcpdump-3.7.2/tcpdump /usr/sbin/tcpdump ... L# rm /usr/sbin/tcpdump L# ln -s /usr/local/sbin/tcpdump /usr/sbin/tcpdump L# tcpdump -V tcpdump version 3.7.2

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