[leaf-devel] Bering: time to hand on the torch ...

2003-12-08 Thread Jacques Nilo
Dear folks After quite some years spent working on LEAF, most of them dedicated to the Bering variant, I realise that the time I can spend on the project is diminishing every day. I have therefore decided to follow one of the many good principle from Eric Raymond's seminal paper (The cathedral

Re: [leaf-devel] How to run new kernel - 2.4.21 with 1.2 Bering distro...

2003-10-12 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Dimanche 12 Octobre 2003 03:50, Dominik Strnad a crit : Hi, I compiled my own kernel based on 2.4.21 sources, patched as described in developer guide from J. Nilo located here: http://leaf.sourceforge.net/article.php?sid=62 I patched kernel sources with appropriated patches -grzsec,

[leaf-devel] openssh 3.7.1p1 available for Bering

2003-09-18 Thread Jacques Nilo
The openssh 3.7.1p1 suite is available for testing in the following directory: http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo/packages/openssh-3.7.1p1/ It is compiled statically against openssl 0.9.7b Jacques --- This sf.net email is sponsored

[leaf-devel] Re: Problems with Bering and Oricoco Gold

2003-09-08 Thread Jacques Nilo
Paulo: It really seems to be a config problem. A lot of users are using Bering as an AP with an Orinoco Gold Card without any problem. I forward your request for help to the leaf user list Jacques Le Samedi 6 Septembre 2003 21:46, Paulo Farias a écrit : Hello Jacques, I 'm using Bering 1.2

[leaf-devel] Re: kernel 2.4.22

2003-08-26 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Lundi 25 Août 2003 17:16, K.-P. Kirchdörfer a écrit : Jacques; as you might have seen kernel 2.4.22 is out. Are you going to build a new kernel for Bering once the patches are available? I ask you since it seems you are the in LEAF crew with the biggest knowledge of kernel config,

Re: [leaf-devel] Re: kernel 2.4.21

2003-08-21 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Mercredi 20 Août 2003 13:48, Juan Jesus Prieto a écrit : I have compiled kernel 2.4.21 and modules for Bering (and Lince). It works ok, but I had a problem with the ide module (ide.o): depmod couldn't resolve all the symbols, so it was unable to resolve correctly all the symbols for

[leaf-devel] I'll be off-list till August 18th

2003-07-29 Thread Jacques Nilo
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Re: [leaf-devel] userland sources for Bering

2003-07-23 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Mercredi 23 Juillet 2003 17:16, Erich Titl a écrit : Hi Folks I am about to test an embedded platform for Bering. This Platform does not have a keyboard controller, the standard reboot does not work. According to information on the net this is due to the fact that normally reboot is using

Re: [leaf-devel] proposed change to LEAF installation guide

2003-07-22 Thread Jacques Nilo
Hi Alex I commited your suggested changes to the cvs xml source. The html should generated within 24 hours and will be avalaiable at: http://leaf.sourceforge.net/doc/guide/biaddrm.html Thanks for your suggestions. Jacques Le Mardi 22 Juillet 2003 09:34, Alex Rhomberg a écrit : Jacques, Eric:

Re: [leaf-devel] dnscache: exclude bug (minor)

2003-07-14 Thread Jacques Nilo
Frank: I have not touched dnscache for years (probably one of my first *.lrp package :-) ), but from what I remember, you should declare your files in /etc/dnscache/root/servers then they should be backuped OK and the exclude file should not have to be modified. Jacques Le Dimanche 13 Juillet

Re: [leaf-devel] LEAF Guide Collection

2003-07-08 Thread Jacques Nilo
Mike: That looks good to me! Great job! What about automatic pdf generation ??? Jacques I played with the DocBook XSL params, and was able to improve the output slightly. I'm still not happy, but there is some progress. As always, feedback and comments are welcome.

Re: [leaf-devel] Recompile iptables.

2003-07-02 Thread Jacques Nilo
I am afraid you must recompile iptable against your new kernel if you have applied different P-O-M patches from the one used in Bering kernel. This must be done against uClibc since iptables and corresponding modules are running in userland Jacques Le Mercredi 2 Juillet 2003 13:54, Kim

Re: [leaf-devel] libm.lrp in Bering

2003-06-24 Thread Jacques Nilo
Homer: You are right. I'll commit the change. The info is in the install guide: http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo/bipack2.html#AEN1367 but has not been included in the user's guide. Jacques Le Mardi 24 Juin 2003 18:45, Homer Parker a écrit : On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 00:05:26 +0200 Jacques Nilo

Re: [leaf-devel] Bering CIPE package

2003-06-24 Thread Jacques Nilo
Daniel: The 1.5.4. CIPE modules for Bering 1.2 are available here: http://leaf.sf.net/devel/jnilo/testing If you could give it a try with the 1.2 version and your userland/slink programs that would be great. What would be even greater would be a CIPE with Bering chapter for the user's guide :-)

Re: [leaf-devel] Bering CIPE package

2003-06-24 Thread Jacques Nilo
with it. Don't you have a test machine on which you could give it a try ? Thanks for your help Jacques Le Mercredi 25 Juin 2003 01:25, Daniel Andor a écrit : On Tuesday 24 June 2003 10:28 pm, Jacques Nilo wrote: The 1.5.4. CIPE modules for Bering 1.2 are available here: http://leaf.sf.net/devel/jnilo

[leaf-devel] Re: kernel 2.4.21

2003-06-23 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Lundi 23 Juin 2003 20:00, K.-P. Kirchdörfer a écrit : Jacques; do you plan to build a new kernel with version 2.4.21? kp Yes. I have been playing around with 2.4.21 yesterday. Apparently there is a pb building ide support as a module which would be a major pb for Bering :-) I have not had

Re: [leaf-devel] libm.lrp in Bering

2003-06-23 Thread Jacques Nilo
The one for 1.1 should work. libm.lrp was not put into 1.2 directory since most packages using it have been recompiled statistically against libm. Jacques Le Lundi 23 Juin 2003 17:21, Homer Parker a écrit : The libm.lrp for Bering 1.2 is missing.. I'm going to try the one from 1.1 and see

Re: [leaf-devel] remote package install

2003-06-19 Thread Jacques Nilo
Apart from rewriting the /linuxrc script (already fairly messy) a simple solution for people without PXE NIC's or non compatible BIOS would be to use a PXE stacks on a floppy. One is freely available at: http://www.argontechnology.ca/rbfg/index.shtml I have not tested that but it should work with

[leaf-devel] Booting Bering from GRUB

2003-06-09 Thread Jacques Nilo
For your review, an upcoming chapter of the Bering user's guide: http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo/bugrub.html Jacques --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The best thread debugger on the planet. Designed

Re: [leaf-devel] Creating a atm-tools.lrp package

2003-06-06 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Vendredi 6 Juin 2003 15:27, Jose Luis Abuelo Sebio a écrit : In a nutshell: 1/ you have to compile your programs under Debian/slink (if using Dachstein/wisp2/Bering) or against uClibc (is using Bering uClibc) You can use a slink virtual environnement to do this 2/ Once this is done create the

Re: [leaf-devel] dial-in server howto

2003-06-05 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Mercredi 4 Juin 2003 09:40, Jonathan French a écrit : Hi Lynn, You may want to mention that some versions of LEAF have serial.o compiled in with it - I'm pretty sure Dachstein's normal (not small) version has it compiled in, for console purposes. This is probably out of date info, and I'm

Re: [leaf-devel] fix for ipsec.lrp / ipsec509.lrp

2003-03-15 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Vendredi 14 Mars 2003 22:20, Romeo Benzoni a écrit : Romeo: Which version of ipsec509.lpr are you using? The bug you mention has been corrected long ago and does not exist, AFAIK, neither in Bering 1.0 nor in Bering 1.1

Re: [leaf-user] Re: [leaf-devel] Tunneling in bering

2003-03-10 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Mardi 11 Mars 2003 07:52, Simon Blake a écrit : ok. Using Bering to make a remote bridge. A very, very, mini howto. You need a bering system, with bridging already working, and with the tun.o kernel module loaded. Make sure /dev/net/tun exists, if it doesn't, add mkdir /dev/net mknod

Re: [leaf-devel] FW: TC control bandwith management using LEAF

2003-02-27 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Jeudi 27 Février 2003 20:38, Richard Doyle a écrit : On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 06:58, Tom Eastep wrote: --On Thursday, February 27, 2003 08:08:36 PM +0530 S Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes I did try directions also. No luck. Jaime (LinCE) also seems to have checked this out and had

[leaf-devel] Re: [leaf-user] question about vlan in linux

2003-02-26 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Mercredi 26 Février 2003 22:08, Jose Luis Abuelo Sebio a écrit : Hi guys: I'm trying to enable the vlan software in a linux machine. There is a module called 8021q.o which I already installed with the comand insmod 8021q but the problem is when I reboot the system all the

Re: [leaf-devel] Ntpdate RCDLINKS

2003-02-18 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Mardi 18 Février 2003 20:03, Matt Schalit a écrit : Lynn Avants wrote: On Monday 27 January 2003 02:06 pm, Matt Schalit wrote: snip This can't work during boot, as my network needs the firewall and nameservice to be completely functional. Am I the only one who thinks ntpdate

[leaf-devel] The future of Bering

2003-02-16 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Dimanche 16 Février 2003 13:00, vous avez écrit : Hi Eric: Shorewall is indeed a key element of Bering. When I started the work on Bering (back in November 2001) I was having the following ideas in mind: - get rid of D. Cinege's LRP kernel patches which were unecessary and made it difficult

[leaf-devel] Bering v1.1 available

2003-02-16 Thread Jacques Nilo
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[leaf-devel] Will be out of town till Feb 14, 2003

2003-02-07 Thread Jacques Nilo
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[leaf-devel] Bering USB example and question

2003-02-01 Thread Jacques Nilo
Ivica: I am forwarding your very interesting detailed mail to the LEAF user devel lists since I am sure it will of interest to those who are interested in booting Bering out an USB device. If your trick does the job I would say it's just fine. I would just put the delay statement after a

Re: [leaf-devel] QoS time window

2003-01-21 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Mardi 21 Janvier 2003 19:29, Jaime Nebrera Herrera a écrit : Hi all, I guess this one will be hard. I have been experimenting with HTB QoS systems under Bering. They really work great !! BUT, I need some help. Say you have a 256 kbps SDL channel divided equally between two clients.

[leaf-devel] ISC 3.0pl2 dhclient dhcpd dhcrelay packages available for testing

2003-01-19 Thread Jacques Nilo
The title says it all. But it is untested. The packages are here: http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo/bering/latest/packages/ There names are: dhclt3.lrp (client), dhcpd3.lrp (server) and dhcrel3.lrp (relay) They come from: http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP/dhcp-v3.html The dhchcp client is

Re: [leaf-devel] LEAF in SysAdmin

2003-01-19 Thread Jacques Nilo
: http://www.sysadminmag.com/articles/2003/0302/ Henry was apparently ready to sent me an html version of the paper but I have not received yet. I'll post it as soon I'll get it. Kudos to Jacques Nilo and the rest of the Bering crew! Charles: you Tom and all LEAF developers deserve the credit

Re: [leaf-devel] Looking for a Maintainer for the Shorewall .lrp

2003-01-15 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Mercredi 15 Janvier 2003 19:39, Tom Eastep a écrit : In an attempt to spread around the work of maintaining Shorewall, I am looking for a volunteer to maintain the Shorewall .lrp (preferably someone who runs Bering and can actually test the thing before it goes out the door). Tom: I am

Re: [leaf-devel] unstripped Bering 2.4.20 modules

2003-01-14 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Mardi 14 Janvier 2003 17:37, Brad Fritz a écrit : Looks like many (or all?) of the Bering 2.4.20 modules at http://leaf.sf.net/devel/jnilo/bering/latest/modules/2.4.20 are not stripped. Was that intentional? Stripping them would save a fair amount of space: brad@blacklab:/tmp$ ls -s1

Re: [leaf-devel] df with post 2.4.18 kernels

2003-01-13 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Dimanche 12 Janvier 2003 22:15, Charles Steinkuehler a écrit : Jacques Nilo wrote: Any fix/patch planned for df wich could work for all types of 2.4 kernels ? # rm /bin/df # cat /bin/df EOF #!/bin/sh /bin/busybox df | sed /^rootfs/d EOF # chmod 755 /bin/df beauty of ash

[leaf-devel] Re: [BusyBox] df with post 2.4.18 kernels

2003-01-13 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Lundi 13 Janvier 2003 08:43, Allan (reply to list only) a écrit : Jacques; Sorry if I don't understand; Busybox seems to be reading and interpreting the information given by the kernel correctly, as shown by /proc/mounts. Yes Are you implying that a df that works should make assumptions,

[leaf-devel] df with post 2.4.18 kernels

2003-01-12 Thread Jacques Nilo
The ouput of df (busybox 0.63) for a LEAF Bering distro with a 2.4.20 kernel gives: # df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs6144 4916 1228 80% / /dev/root 6144 4916 1228 80% / tmpfs

Re: [leaf-devel] busers.html ToC out-of-sync with contents

2003-01-10 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Vendredi 10 Janvier 2003 18:00, Brad Fritz a écrit : FYI mostly for Jacques... I just noticed the User Guide table of contents at http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo/busers.html is out-of-sync with (at least) the DoC chapter which causes the name anchor links to fail. Brad: I am

Re: [leaf-devel] busers.html ToC out-of-sync with contents

2003-01-10 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Vendredi 10 Janvier 2003 20:13, Brad Fritz a écrit : OK. I'll fix that. Jacques --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com

Re: [leaf-devel] busers.html ToC out-of-sync with contents

2003-01-10 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Vendredi 10 Janvier 2003 20:13, Brad Fritz a écrit : snip The subsections in busers.html : snip do not match those in budiskonchip.html : OK fixed. Thanks for spotting the bug. Jacques --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge

[leaf-devel] tc.lrp and Bering 2.4.20 kernel

2002-12-23 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Mardi 17 Décembre 2002 10:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Jacques Eric, Kernel 2.4.20 contains new htb code. I think the tc.lrp package needs to be updated. Yes. 2.4.20 kernel provides natively htb3 support. So tc is now patched with: http://luxik.cdi.cz/~devik/qos/htb/v3/htb3.6-020525.tgz

[leaf-devel] Bering 1.0-stable: kernel 2.4.20 available !

2002-12-15 Thread Jacques Nilo
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Re: [leaf-devel] freeswan and Bering 2.4.20 kernel

2002-12-15 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Lundi 16 Décembre 2002 00:49, Brad Fritz a écrit : Jacques, On Sun, 15 Dec 2002 23:41:46 +0100 Jacques wrote: The full story is here: http://leaf.sourceforge.net/article.php?sid=65 Very cool! Thank you, Jacques. Quick question... It looks like freeswan support is included as well,

Re: [leaf-devel] Bering 1.0-stable: kernel 2.4.20 available !

2002-12-15 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Lundi 16 Décembre 2002 00:15, Joey Officer a écrit : when you update a kernel for the release like this, does the UML need to be updated as well? Or can we continue to work under the debian wood UML? You can use the debian woody UML as it is to compile the new 2.4.20 kernel if you need to.

[leaf-devel] freeswan 1.99 ipsec.lrp ipsec509.lrp updated

2002-11-24 Thread Jacques Nilo
Two bugs were found in Bering stable ipsec.lrp and ipsec509.lrp packages affecting look (thanks to Eric de Thouars) manual scripts. The packages have been corrected and uploaded The md5sum of the corrected packages are as follow: ipsec.lrp 4e640578d18e15fc5490aa9a7e7e2cd5

Re: [leaf-devel] [ leaf-Patches-641523 ] patch to fix typos in qmail.xml

2002-11-21 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Mercredi 20 Novembre 2002 23:49, Brad Fritz a écrit : On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 14:39:40 PST leaf-Patches-641523 wrote: I noticed a few typos in qmail.xml[1] for the qmail.lrp howto[2]. The attached patch would fix the ones I noticed. The direct link to the unified diff is

[leaf-devel] Found error in Bering ipsec509 script

2002-11-20 Thread Jacques Nilo
Eric found this bug in Bering-v1.0-stable ipsec.lrp and ipsec509.lrp packages This bug only affects people trying to use ipsec through the ppp interface. It was corrected in rc4 but the wrong patch was applied to stable. This is now corrected and I just uploaded the corrected ipsec.lrp and

Re: [leaf-devel] Bering modules, no e100.o ?

2002-11-16 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Samedi 16 Novembre 2002 00:21, Matt Schalit a écrit : Hey I looked through the devel/jnilo/latest/ directories and couldn't find e100.o, nor was it in the Bering-1.0 diskette image. Would someone please point me to the right directory or roll it up for inclusion? e100-2.1.24 is here:

[leaf-devel] Re: Link error in Bering developer's guide

2002-11-05 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Mardi 5 Novembre 2002 14:11, Roberto Pereyra a écrit : Jacques There are a link error in the Bering developer's guide page. The Freeswan link: ftp://ftp.xs4all.nl/pub/crypto/freeswan/freeswan-1.98b.tar.gz is old and these file was deleted. OK fixed. The change in the freeswan ftp

Re: [leaf-devel] Bering and PXELinux

2002-11-04 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Jeudi 31 Octobre 2002 19:47, Michael Bonner a écrit : Hi All, I'm running bering on a Soekris net 4501 for my firewall on my home network. I'm not really happy about having my CF card exposed for hacking if someone compromises my firewall (and yes I've been following the DOC write

Re: [leaf-devel] Bering rc4 ppp documentation

2002-10-29 Thread Jacques Nilo
Hi Jacques, in bipack1.html you reference a http://leaf.sf.net/devel/jnilo/manpages/pppdman.html That is good, but the pppdman.html refers to return to main contents chat, chat, tcpdump, syslog.conf, tcpdump, pppdump and man2html they all refer to localhost something and fail to find the

Re: [leaf-devel] Bering v1.0-rc4 available

2002-10-23 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Jeudi 24 Octobre 2002 05:50, Eric B Kiser a écrit : Jacques, I was just about to compile a new UML kernel and found that the patches and patch sequence for -rc4 have not been posted yet. Also I noticed that the patch sequence file that the documentation references is no longer there.

[leaf-devel] Bering v1.0-rc4 available

2002-10-22 Thread Jacques Nilo
Finally, it's out. All the details are here: http://leaf.sourceforge.net/article.php?sid=61 This should be the last rc version before 1.0 final. So please report any remaining bug in the distro and/or the documentation to the leaf-devel list Enjoy! Jacques Eric

Re: [leaf-devel] Bering rc3 /dev/nftla* wrong major number bug

2002-10-16 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Mercredi 16 Octobre 2002 07:34, Brad Fritz a écrit : Apologies if this has already been reported. I searched leaf-user and leaf-devel and didn't see it. As noted at http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2002-October/006181.html the /dev/nftla* entries are incorrect. They have

Re: [leaf-devel] Command recall Oxygen(yes) Bering(no) DF(no)

2002-10-14 Thread Jacques Nilo
Sorry for jumping in late in this thread. To summarize: Command recall does work with Bering and DF both from the console and through any linux terminal. ssh should not cause any trouble. Directory expansion does not work at this stage. One idea has been suggested: Switch to bbox ash. This

Re: [leaf-devel] invisible cursor in ae running under UML

2002-10-13 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Dimanche 13 Octobre 2002 03:51, Eric B Kiser a écrit : Hi Eric What says ls -la /usr/local/bin/umlterm is /usr/local/bin in the PATH statement ? Jacques --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven.

Re: [leaf-devel] Help needed: new chapters in Bering doc

2002-10-09 Thread Jacques Nilo
Jon, Jeff, KPK and Larry: Thanks everyone for the useful feedback. I'll include most of your comments/remarks. Here is the updated version of butime.html: http://leaf.sf.net/devel/jnilo/butime1.html I still have to fix the rest: Jacques ---

Re: [leaf-devel] bering users manual command anomaly

2002-10-05 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Samedi 5 Octobre 2002 01:53, Matthew Schalit a écrit : http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo/buwireless.html There's a typo below. The broadcast addy didn't turn out to be what you inteneded :) snip Matt: thanks for spotting this one. I'll fix it shortly . I am afraid there are still

Re: [leaf-devel] Feature Requests for Bering1.0-rc4

2002-10-02 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Mercredi 2 Octobre 2002 06:02, Eric B Kiser a écrit : Hello Eric Hello Bering Crew, I have a few requests for the next release of Bering. Could you add these lines to /etc/services? zebrasrv 2600/tcp # zebra service zebra 2601/tcp # zebra

Re: [leaf-devel] Be careful with busybox 0.60.4

2002-09-19 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Jeudi 19 Septembre 2002 14:39, K.-P. Kirchdörfer a écrit : I've tried it; unfortunately the recent changes in gunzip results in errors while unpacking the lrp's. At the end nothing happened and boot failed with kernel panic. In opposite to gunzip 0.60.3 the new one tries to delete the lrp,

Re: [leaf-devel] LEAF and kernel patches

2002-09-17 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Mardi 17 Septembre 2002 18:21, Andreas Bach Aaen a écrit : Mandag den 16. september 2002 22:15 skrev David Douthitt: The Oxygen/LEAF Resource CDROM contains a kernel/ directory which contains kernel sources and all available patches, including LRP patches and Openwall and others.

Re: [leaf-devel] Possible framework for build-from-source system.

2002-09-17 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Mardi 17 Septembre 2002 19:18, Ewald Wasscher a écrit : Hello all, I am currently evaluating GAR, the build-system from http://www.lnx-bbc.org/ for use with leaf. So far it looks really good. It's flexible, quite well documented and there are lots of examples for building packages, a

Re: [Leaf-devel] UML Bering - sh: can't access tty; job control turned off

2002-09-11 Thread Jacques Nilo
On Tuesday 10 September 2002 16:10, Eric B Kiser wrote: Jacques, Thanks for the sanity check. In retrospect, it makes sense, but it would have been nice if the UML folks had this little fact documented a bit more clearly. Perhaps it was and I just missed it. Are there plans for an updated

Re: [Leaf-devel] UML Bering - sh: can't access tty; job control turned off

2002-09-10 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Mardi 10 Septembre 2002 08:01, Eric B Kiser a écrit : Allrighty, Here is what I have put together. Some of which is just an educated guess. I was using an older version of uml_utilities which worked fine with the slink file system and the 2.4.18-21 kernel. However, it did not work with

Re: [Leaf-devel] Boot sequence hangs at starting cron.

2002-09-05 Thread Jacques Nilo
I have finally gotten the hardware together to set up my development station and have been working on getting UML set up as per Jacques' Developing and using LEAF in a virtual environment documentation. When I execute the command... ./linuxuml-2.4.XX-YY ubd0=root_fs_slink ...the boot

Re: [Leaf-devel] trying to install UML

2002-09-04 Thread Jacques Nilo
On Tuesday 03 September 2002 21:27, Erich Titl wrote: Hi all I am trying to build a UML environment according to Jacques/Eric's info. applying the uml patch works fine, but the bering patches are not all appliccable. Should I step back to 2.4.18 or just ignore the Patch diagnostics for

Re: [Leaf-devel] OpenSSH 3.4p1 Trojaned

2002-08-21 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Vendredi 9 Août 2002 17:23, David Douthitt a écrit : There was recently a break-in at the main site for the OpenSSH 3.4p1 sources, and a back-door was inserted. The modified sources were caught quickly, but some may have been downloaded. The originals were not back-doored, and should be

[Leaf-devel] Redundancy in /var/log files

2002-08-02 Thread Jacques Nilo
Hi Everyone I have been asking myself for quite some time why there was so much redundancy in the content of /var/log files in a LEAF distro. A typical example is when your ports are being scanned, that is when your iptables messages starts increasing. You will find them in : 1/ kernel.log 2/

Re: [Leaf-devel] MTD/DOC2000 question

2002-07-30 Thread Jacques Nilo
Conrad, SImon: I would really like to add a new chapter in the Bering user's guide about Booting Bering from DoC. Would you be ready to draft something ? Jacques --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Dice - The leading online job board

[Leaf-devel] Bering 1.0-rc3 bug fix: plog should tail after grep, not before

2002-07-27 Thread Jacques Nilo
Moved from user-list to devel-list Le Vendredi 26 Juillet 2002 03:29, Dan Harkless a écrit : Hi. What's the best way to report bugs in Bering? Just post here? Email Jacques Nilo and Eric Wolzak directly? Use the sourceforge.net tracker (I see only 11 LEAF bugs have ever been reported

Re: [Leaf-devel] Re: Bering 1.0-rc3 bug fix: plog should tail after grep, not before

2002-07-27 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Dimanche 28 Juillet 2002 02:42, Dan Harkless a écrit : Jacques Nilo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi. What's the best way to report bugs in Bering? Just post here? Email Jacques Nilo and Eric Wolzak directly? Use the sourceforge.net tracker (I see only 11 LEAF bugs have ever been

Re: [Leaf-devel] (off-topic, sort-of) compiling gcc 3.1 on debian UML

2002-07-27 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Dimanche 28 Juillet 2002 00:35, Manfred Schuler a écrit : Luigi: I think it is a bad idea to start from the UML slink fs to compile gcc3.1 1/ you will have to manage to different version of libc with the most recent one incompatible with LEAF userland programs 2/ gcc3.1 leads to bigger kernel

[Leaf-devel] Bering: PPTP server updated (pptpd.lrp)

2002-07-27 Thread Jacques Nilo
The pptpd.lrp package formerly available in the http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo/bering/latest/packages/ directory was buggy. It has been updated with the latest version (1.1.3) of the PoPToP server. See: http://www.poptop.org/ Thanks to Stefan for spotting the bug and testing the new

[Leaf-devel] Re: [leaf-user] Bering: PPTP server updated (pptpd.lrp)

2002-07-27 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Dimanche 28 Juillet 2002 01:55, Dan Harkless a écrit : Jacques Nilo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The pptpd.lrp package formerly available in the http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo/bering/latest/packages/ directory was buggy. It has been updated with the latest version (1.1.3

Re: [Leaf-devel] MTD/DOC2000 question

2002-07-23 Thread Jacques Nilo
I'm new to LEAF and embedded devices, so please bear with me :-) I trying to create a filesystem on a 72M DOC2000 (Netier XL1000), and get up to creating a partition (/dev/nftla1). This is with Bering-rc3. When I try mke2fs /dev/nftla1, the following gets reported: NFTL_writeblock():

[Leaf-devel] Re: [leaf-user] gzip doesn't work as a filter

2002-07-18 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Jeudi 18 Juillet 2002 18:32, Brad Fritz a écrit : On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 11:13:48 CDT Russ Price wrote: Brad Fritz wrote: I'm using RC3. Here's what I get: # gzip --help BusyBox v0.60.3 (2002.06.08-17:56+) multi-call binary # gzip foo.txt bar.txt.gz # ls -l bar.txt.gz

Re: [Leaf-devel] pptpd.lrp with bering rc3

2002-07-17 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Mercredi 17 Juillet 2002 15:15, Stefan a écrit : Hi Stefan: Thanks for this very precise description. I'll try to look at that before the end of the week. Two complementary questions: 1/ Could you confirm that this setting was working OK with rc1 2/ Could you give me the command (from the

[Leaf-devel] Re: UML-LEAF filesystem

2002-07-17 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Mardi 16 Juillet 2002 20:33, vous avez écrit : Hi Vic My UML doc is really outdated. I'll try to uptade it over the WE. Basically you have to create your Bering LEAF fs yourself. The procedure is as follow: 1/ creates a 2M minix file on the same dir as your linux-uml kernel dd if=/dev/zero

Re: [Leaf-devel] ppptd.lrp with bering rc3

2002-07-16 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Mardi 16 Juillet 2002 17:08, Stefan a écrit : there seems to be a problem with rc3 and pptpd. i tested it with rc1 and it worked. installed the same modules and the same patches (pppd). there are no firewall-entries nor syslog-entries (allthough i put the debug-entry in /etc/ppp/options

Re: [Leaf-devel] is Bering GNU?

2002-07-13 Thread Jacques Nilo
Georges: If you do not feel confortable using Bering, please do not use it. Bering has been developped by me and Eric as a hobby, on our spare time outside of our regular jobs. Bering is also based on the tremendous work done previously by the LRP LEAF community: Dave Cinege, Charles

Re: [Leaf-devel] is Bering GNU?

2002-07-13 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Samedi 13 Juillet 2002 07:55, George Georgalis a écrit : Is Bering GNU? I'm beginning to have my doubts. Where is /usr/src/linux/.config? http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo/bering/rc3/ http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo/bering/rc3/patches/ JN

[Leaf-devel] Freeswan/IPSEC 1.98b for Bering available

2002-07-09 Thread Jacques Nilo
Please check: http://leaf.sourceforge.net/article.php?sid=47 for the details Those updated packages are untested. Please report success/problems. Jacques --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Stuff, things, and much much more.

Re: [Leaf-devel] UML for kernel recompiling

2002-07-02 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Lundi 1 Juillet 2002 17:24, vous avez écrit : Hi all, is there a Bering UML image suitable for kernel recompiling? I'd like to customise a little a Bering installation, but the UML image in the Bering download section has an outdated gcc version which is no longer supported for kernel

Re: [Leaf-devel] OpenSSH security

2002-07-02 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Mardi 2 Juillet 2002 18:20, Nathan Angelacos a écrit : On 1 Jul 2002 at 22:38, Greg Morgan wrote: I believe you need to correct your web site. It says that you changed the location of ssh_config in the packages. I believe there are two configuration files with one character different, a

Re: [Leaf-devel] Bering v1.0-rc3: an update

2002-06-20 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Jeudi 20 Juin 2002 19:35, jim mcdonagh a écrit : Jacques, Looks like there is some problem with the shorewall 1.3.2 that defaults to the /var/lib/shorewall directory. I added /var/lib/shorewall/functions /var/lib/shorewall/firewall /var/lib/shorewall/version and i added the above to

Re: [Leaf-devel] Bering v1.0-rc3: an update

2002-06-20 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Jeudi 20 Juin 2002 20:24, Tom Eastep a écrit : On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, jim mcdonagh wrote: Yes i noticed that. I had to put in the complete file name. Could it be because there is is a line in root.exclude.list of /var/lib/shorewall? That's a good point. /var/lib/shorewall has

Re: [Leaf-devel] improvement Mail Bering

2002-06-20 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Jeudi 20 Juin 2002 21:55, Eric Wolzak a écrit : Hello Jacques, list. Bering mail functions, important is that the Mailserver is set in POSIXness Settings and not in Master LRP Settings. Perhaps something to change ? Definitively so. Some clean-up must be done here with perhaps a single

[Leaf-devel] Check if an interface is up running

2002-06-11 Thread Jacques Nilo
It says it all. Should work for ethx and pppx IFACEs Jacques #!/bin/sh # Check every IPDELAY seconds that IP exists for IFACE # J. Nilo, June 2002 IFACE=eth2 IPDELAY=3 getip() { IP=`ip addr show $IFACE 2/dev/null | grep inet | \ sed 's/.*inet //;s/ .*//;s/\/.*//'` } echo Starting

Re: [Leaf-devel] VLAN support

2002-06-10 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Lundi 10 Juin 2002 01:37, S.J. van Atteveldt a écrit : I am currently trying to recompile the kernel to support VLAN and compile vconfig to work for Leaf. Had some trouble with compiling for glibc 2.0 (RedHat 5.2 will not make the 2.4.18 kernel because of some trouble with the CURDIR

[Leaf-devel] A new boot approach proposal

2002-06-08 Thread Jacques Nilo
Schuler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jacques Nilo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Jacques, Regarding flashdisk/harddisk security what dou you think about this approach: When entering runlevel 2, then as the first things move the mount/unmount to a small ramfs remount var fs

[Leaf-devel] To Bering users: help us to release 1.0

2002-06-02 Thread Jacques Nilo
Dear all: With its v1.0-rc2 version Bering appears now fairly stable and it seems that quite a lot of people have been giving it a try. We would like to stabilize this first version with a last rc3 before final release. rc3 should include: 2.4.18 kernel with: a/ More netfilter patches (to take

Re: [Leaf-devel] Bering grsecurity patch?

2002-05-28 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Mardi 28 Mai 2002 17:40, Mike Noyes a écrit : Jacques, I don't know if this is possible or not, but have you looked at incorporating the grsecurity patch in Bering? http://www.grsecurity.net/ Yes I did look at that patch and was thinking to give it a try one of these day. I'll let you

[Leaf-devel] Re: ez-ipupd package

2002-05-21 Thread Jacques Nilo
? It would be mice to have an LRP package to create the cd-rom: Just use the /tmp area to generate the disk image using your script, add a command to burn the cd-rom et voila ! What do you think ? Jacques Thanks Heinz - Original Message - From: Jacques Nilo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Heinz

[Leaf-devel] Openssh 3.2.2b1 available

2002-05-19 Thread Jacques Nilo
http://leaf.sourceforge.net/article.php?sid=39 Jacques ___ Hundreds of nodes, one monster rendering program. Now that's a super model! Visit http://clustering.foundries.sf.net/ ___

[Leaf-devel] Re: ez-ipupd package

2002-05-05 Thread Jacques Nilo
Heinz Bruederlin wrote: is it possible, that the '-' (minus) in the package name and it /var/lib/lrpkg/* file gets lrcfg confused ? Is there a patch for this ? Or is it easier for You to change pkgname and filenames ? Thanks Heinz What are the symptoms ? Which LEAF version

[Leaf-devel] Compiling Bering Linux kernel

2002-05-01 Thread Jacques Nilo
I have received many off-list requests about how to compile a Bering linux kernel. So here is a short how-to: 1/ Bering rc2 is built from linux kernel 2.4.18 2/ Bering can work without any patch. Especially none of the former LRP patches are required. 3/ Bering is compiled with patches to add

[Leaf-devel] Bering v1.0-rc2 available

2002-04-25 Thread Jacques Nilo
This new release includes, among other things, ipsec and pptp support. Also updated with latest 1.2.12 Shorewall and iptables 1.2.6a The documentation has been considerably extended Thanks to all the folks who helped us on this release ! The details are here:

[Leaf-devel] zebedee.lrp available

2002-03-28 Thread Jacques Nilo
Zebedee is a simple program to establish an encrypted, compressed tunnel for TCP/IP or UDP traffic between two systems. Please check: http://leaf.sourceforge.net/article.php?sid=32 Cheers Jacques http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo ___

Re: [Leaf-devel] Upgrading Bering to libc 2.2.x?

2002-03-20 Thread Jacques Nilo
Le Mercredi 20 Mars 2002 16:20, Eric B Kiser a écrit : I've been using Dachstein with a home grown upgrade to libc v2.2.4 (simply replacing most of /lib in root.lrp with the files from my debian unstable box) - works a charm, and since I'm working of Compact Flash the extra bloat isn't a

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