Re: [ilugd] 'init' related BASIC QUESTIONS

2005-04-01 Thread Supreet Sethi
Also 1)once init process is created, every other call to init only writes named pipe 2) In case you have appropriate patches, the process ID's would be randomly generated and hence init might not be 1 process at all regards Supreet Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 23:24

[ilugd] ILUG-D activity in last 7 days

2005-04-01 Thread nkapoor
Fri 1-Apr-2005 ILUG-D activity in last 7 days: = New/recent events: 0 Total events:41 = New Discussion forum postings: 16 Total postings: 543

[ilugd] yahoo launches search engine for content under creative common

2005-04-01 Thread vivek khurana
Hi! all Yahoo! has launched a search engine for searching contetn under creative commons licence. More at http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-5633649.html Search engine (still in beta) can be reached at http://search.yahoo.com/cc See above links to find out how this search engine is different

Re: [ilugd] [OT] yahoo launches search engine for content under creative common

2005-04-01 Thread vivek khurana
Sorry guyz forgot to put [OT] tag in earlier mail. --- vivek khurana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! all Yahoo! has launched a search engine for searching contetn under creative commons licence. More at http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-5633649.html Search engine (still in beta) can be

[ilugd] (fwd) [SECURITY] [DSA 702-1] New ImageMagick packages fix several vulnerabilities

2005-04-01 Thread Raj Mathur
[Please upgrade ImageMagick (again!) on all distributions -- Raju] This is an RFC 1153 digest. (1 message) -- Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Schulze) Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [ilugd] Basic Question of RUNLEVEL

2005-04-01 Thread Ajay Mulwani
(1) /etc/init.d is linked to /etc/rc.d/init.d and (2) /etc/rc5.d is linked to /etc/rc.d/rc5.d (1) contains all the startup scripts whereas (2) has all the S* and K* scripts which are actually linked to the respective scripts in (1) so the use of (1) is to keep scripts at one place and a link to

[ilugd] Provision linux remotely.. !!

2005-04-01 Thread Ajay Mulwani
Is there any open source tool available which is equivalent of: http://www.opsware.com/software/server.htm. Currently I am looking for a tool with at least the Linux provisioning capabilities on multiple machines from a single console. Any pointers will be much appreciated. Thanks, Ajay

[ilugd] (fwd) [SECURITY] Information leak in the Linux kernel ext2 implementation

2005-04-01 Thread Raj Mathur
[Please upgrade kernel on all distributions. Expect new vendor kernel packages soon -- Raju] This is an RFC 1153 digest. (1 message) -- Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Arkoon Security Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [ilugd] (fwd) [SECURITY] Information leak in the Linux kernel ext2 implementation

2005-04-01 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 10:13 +0530, Raj Mathur wrote: Leaked kernel memory can be found in ext2 filesystems; either on hard drives, removable media (USB thumb drives, flash cards), initrd images, UML filesystem images, etc... A quick scan reveals that most ext2 images