Bug#224269: exim4-daemon-heavy: a cron job should periodically delete gnutls-params

Marc Haber Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>, 224269@bugs.debian.org
Sun, 28 Nov 2004 16:57:09 +0100


tags #224269 confirmed pending
thanks



On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 02:01:43PM +0000, Calum Mackay wrote:
> Section 37.1 of the spec suggests "for maximum security" periodically
> removing the GnuTLS RSA/DH parameters file /var/spool/exim4/gnutls-params

You're right.

> Whilst it's easy enough for a sysadmin to add a cronjob manually,
> perhaps it would be better if we provided one, perhaps in a new file
> /etc/cron.d/exim4?

A fix deleting that file in the daily cron job of exim4-base has been
committed to CVS.

Apologies for not acting faster on that trivial one.

Greetings
Marc


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