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Former Member
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Hi,
How would I know if I am running an outdated version of the UD agent? |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Hello ZURP,
Unlike BOINC, UD has an automatic update capability. Whenever it contacts the server to download a new work unit, it will also download a new update. This last happened in ? early 2005? or ?late 2004. It does not happen very often. Lawrence |
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Sekerob
Ace Cruncher Joined: Jul 24, 2005 Post Count: 20043 Status: Offline |
Did not look at the title on the first shot from hip, so send that south, but stumbled on a snippet of Ron Walton Q&A Oct.20:
----------------------------------------Auto update of 'BOINC' ? Funny you should ask this, WCG was asking about this very same thing. We'll probably start looking into something like this for the 5.10 release. We were always concerned if we had put something like that in place it might be exploited by an attack vector we never even thought of. At least with a human at the other end of the equation the amount of damage would be limited. Now with WCG as a contributor we can get the IBM security department to look things over and let us know if something is really wrong. IBM has looked over the BOINC source once already so we are confident we have our i's dotted and our t's crossed but with auto-deployment of code without user intervention you can never be too careful. The numbering is funny to read as Five point Ten :D
WCG
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