Re: [Leaf-devel] make.lrp

2002-03-20 Thread ssrat
On 19 Mar 02, at 16:02, Jacques Nilo wrote: I came across David's make.lrp. Assuming that dependencies are in order shouldn't I be able to just load this package into Bering and be able to use it as a development station. Any insight on this would be appreciated. If make.lrp was compiled

Re: [Leaf-devel] Embedded Systems Conference

2002-03-16 Thread ssrat
Anyone see the (minature) write on Coyote in 2600? Interesting - though odd that they wouldn't mention the Free versions (aside from LRP). ___ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel

[Leaf-devel] CVS, Makefiles, and Sources

2002-01-23 Thread ssrat
This is shaping up to be very nice; I've got a directory for busybox and uClibc which contains: * Makefile * patches/ directory - Oxygen busybox has about 4-6 Then the makefile will download the appropriate version (using wget) and compile it using uClibc (as Oxygen does) - and create a

Re: [Leaf-devel] Proposed CVS Structure

2001-05-03 Thread ssrat
On 3 May 2001, at 10:44, Ewald Wasscher wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wound up using whatever diffs [for ash that] Erik [Andersen] had. Fair enough. If you could send me the diff that converts the makefile to gnu-make style I'd be thankful. Everything should be in the Oxygen ISO;

Re: [Leaf-devel] Introducing myself

2001-05-01 Thread ssrat
On 30 Apr 2001, at 19:32, KP Kirchdörfer wrote: I've also an lrp package for dinosaurs available - rexx.lrp based on Ian Colliers REXX/imc. I've seen REXX, but never got into coding it. I've looked at it a time or two; may even have some DOS versions. If you like REXX, you might like my

Re: [Leaf-devel] Proposed CVS Structure

2001-05-01 Thread ssrat
On 1 May 2001, at 15:19, Ewald Wasscher wrote: Wouldn't it be a good idea to have a default way of building packages, like Debian? With Debian you can cd into the upacked/patched source directory and do a dpkg-buildpackage -b and voila! a binary package appears after a while. So we could

Re: [Leaf-devel] Web Site DOWN

2001-04-29 Thread ssrat
On 23 Apr 2001, at 19:37, Mike Noyes wrote: Ewald Wasscher, 2001-04-23 20:22 +0200 Mike Noyes wrote: Interesting. The German text is present on the SF home page again. At least I think it's German. No, it's Dutch! (which is very similar to German) Then there is Pennsylvania Dutch -

Re: [Leaf-devel] Updating Eigerstein:progress

2001-04-29 Thread ssrat
On 25 Apr 2001, at 21:02, KP Kirchdörfer wrote: Is the only choice between Scylla (vi-mode) and Charybdis (wasting disk space)? e3ws, e3vi, e3ne, e3em, et al, are just links to e3; in Oxygen you need to be careful as the actual binary is e3.bin, with a shell wrapper and all the links point to

Re: [Leaf-devel] Updating Eigerstein:progress

2001-04-29 Thread ssrat
On 23 Apr 2001, at 19:47, Ewald Wasscher wrote: KP Kirchdörfer wrote: 21-4updated busybox to version 0.51 I'm running eigerstein with busybox 0.51 (and replaced most of the POSIXness links and other progs with busybox and tinylogin), but as long as we see the seg fault in 'busybox

Re: [Leaf-devel] Found my development platform.

2001-04-29 Thread ssrat
On 26 Apr 2001, at 19:34, Scott C. Best wrote: Forgive the off-topic moment of levity but...Oooo. http://www.jp.playstation.com/linux/image/main.jpg I can see it now...a Missle Command like interface to zap incoming packets of questionable origin... :^)

Re: [Leaf-devel] diskspace check

2001-04-29 Thread ssrat
On 27 Apr 2001, at 16:32, Jack Coates wrote: the annoying thing is that I don't see where it's getting called from -- it's not in crontab, but I do know it's getting called because the ping check goes off about hourly. Multicron is indeed in crontab, and is called as part of run- parts -

Re: [Leaf-devel] Updating Eigerstein:progress

2001-04-29 Thread ssrat
On 30 Apr 2001, at 2:08, Ewald Wasscher wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 22 Apr 2001, at 14:34, Ewald Wasscher wrote: 22-4TODO: update all binaries to the _latest_ versions available? Is this a good idea? That will probably use some additional diskspace Yes, definitely. Fixes

Re: [Leaf-devel] diskspace check

2001-04-29 Thread ssrat
On 30 Apr 2001, at 0:41, Mike Noyes wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2001-04-29 16:16 -0500 On 27 Apr 2001, at 17:25, Mike Noyes wrote: He recommends 18M for Oxygen though, and I don't know if this fixes the performance slowdown. Oxygen can run in 16M; I've done it many times. Oxygen

[Leaf-devel] A little less mail, a little less Oxygen development....

2001-04-29 Thread ssrat
There is a new baby in the house so I'm not going to be doing a lot in the next week or so... Andrew James was born 22 April 2001 at 7:25 am, and was 9 lbs. 4 oz. (ask your wives if that's big :-) Current outstanding development concerns: * Both Oxygen versions (glibc 2.0.7 and 2.1.3)

Re: [Leaf-devel] A little less mail, a little less Oxygen development....

2001-04-29 Thread ssrat
On 30 Apr 2001, at 5:29, Dale Long wrote: On Sun, 29 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ooph! I don't have to. Is there a infant blue ox in the back yard as well? No blue oxes :-) but his older brother was 10 lbs. 2 oz. at birth :-) How long was the labour for both of them? Ouch.

Re: [Leaf-devel] Secure Logging

2001-02-20 Thread ssrat
On 20 Feb 2001, at 17:03, Mike Noyes wrote: Secure Logging Over a Network http://interactive.linuxjournal.com/Magazines/LJ74/3913.html You have to be authenticated to go here. -- David Douthitt UNIX Systems Administrator HP-UX, Linux, Unixware [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Leaf-devel] Secure Logging

2001-02-20 Thread ssrat
On 20 Feb 2001, at 12:53, Sergey Kozhedub wrote: The compromise is to use a separate storage device/partition for log files when needed. This is what Oxygen does by default - /var/log is a separate volume of a user-definable size (I think the default was 2M). -- David Douthitt UNIX

Re: [Leaf-devel] bootstrapping signed packages

2001-02-20 Thread ssrat
On 20 Feb 2001, at 22:38, Mark Seiden wrote: i'm about to switch to oxygen, which i've built on 2.2.18 (i hope...) for our beta test. Thanks for using Oxygen! when (not if) you run out of room on a single floppy, which contains "trustworthy" software, how to download additional .lrps in

[Leaf-devel] md5 checksums in packages

2001-02-20 Thread ssrat
Well, that'll teach me to open my mouth :-) I've gotten preliminary *.md5 file checksumming put into Oxygen's package handling system. The files are included in the packages in the path of: /var/lib/lrpkg/pkg.md5 and are created during the package creation process automatically. These

Re: [Leaf-devel] bootstrapping signed packages

2001-02-20 Thread ssrat
On 21 Feb 2001, at 1:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 05:05:52PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled: Having said that, one of the things on my list of "ToDos" is to change apkg to generate *.md5 for every file in the package for checking purposes. This would mean:

Re: [Leaf-devel] Ladybug kernel and modules posted

2001-02-19 Thread ssrat
On 17 Feb 2001, at 18:33, Jack Coates wrote: The tree is 2.2.18 based and the kernel is compiling to 413002 bytes. Not bad! ... Patches are: linux_brfw_2.2.17.diff Do you have the bridgex or whatever it was compiled to an *.lrp? linux-2.2.17-ow1.diff This is now at linux-2.2.18-ow4

Re: [Leaf-devel] Ladybug kernel and modules posted

2001-02-19 Thread ssrat
On 19 Feb 2001, at 15:58, Mike Sensney wrote: At 07:03 AM 02/19/2001 -0800, Jack Coates wrote: On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the crypto really available to release in the U.S.? Or is it still a dangerous thing? I asked on a mailing list a while back and got ZERO

[Leaf-devel] Crypto

2001-02-19 Thread ssrat
On 19 Feb 2001, at 17:02, Jack Coates wrote: that could be very handy for service images, but router/fw images are not likely to have a need (except for VPN which AFAIK doesn't use kerneli.org stuff). Possibly true. However, crypto does enhance security. My main purpose is to expand

Re: [Leaf-devel] Ladybug kernel and modules posted

2001-02-19 Thread ssrat
On 19 Feb 2001, at 18:39, Mike Noyes wrote: I stand corrected. You want that content linked from our home page. Correct? Ray Olszewski said: Trying to connect to the URL you list above results in -- Not Found The requested URL /pub/oxygen/ was not found on this server.

Re: [Leaf-devel] Device files in /tmp

2001-02-17 Thread ssrat
On 17 Feb 2001, at 6:49, Jack Coates wrote: I'd be inclined to stick to your existing system -- it seems sick and wrong to put device files in /tmp and I don't understand what they'd be doing there instead of /dev. There may well be a good reason (permissions? why not chmod the /dev entry?)

[Leaf-devel] CDROM booting

2001-02-16 Thread ssrat
I've been getting an Oxygen-based booting CDROM ready, but have hit a snag, and I don't know how to tackle it. When the CD boots, it uses a disk image - I'm using a 2.88M floppy image. syslinux comes up, and linux and root.lrp are loaded and run fine. The problem is once /linuxrc takes

Re: [Leaf-devel] CDROM booting

2001-02-16 Thread ssrat
On 16 Feb 2001, at 14:37, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: Note the 'automount' part of linuxrc will find the CD-ROM if there's no floppy in the drive, and use that as boot by default. Oh? How does that go? I don't remember seeing it in LRP 2.9.7, and anyway, if it was, I'm sure I removed it.

[Leaf-devel] Loading from a PATH (not just a device)

2001-02-16 Thread ssrat
Example: Loading packages not from /dev/fd0, but from a directory on the floppy. I was thinking of this syntax: PKGPATH=/dev/fd0(pkgs):msdos or PKGPATH=/dev/hdc(pkgs/net):iso9660 and so on. -- David Douthitt UNIX Systems Administrator HP-UX, Linux, Unixware [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Leaf-devel] Device files in /tmp

2001-02-16 Thread ssrat
I'm reconsidering the mount restriction I have for /tmp, which amounts to the fact that /tmp is mounted with the nodev option - preventing device files from being created. The reason I'm reconsidering is because it would seem that pdnsd also creates device files there. If I were to do this,

Re: [Leaf-devel] Question about Syslinux v.1.52

2001-02-15 Thread ssrat
On 15 Feb 2001, at 3:45, Kenneth Hadley wrote: I finally got around to testing syslinux v1.52 today and it appears mister Anvin (syslinux's creator) has fixed the bugs that where causing mayhem for LRP Kernels Can anyone else confirm the fact that the new syslinux v.1.52 works for them?

Re: [Leaf-devel] Pardon me while I shoot myself. =)

2001-02-15 Thread ssrat
On 15 Feb 2001, at 9:09, George Metz wrote: What a week and a half. I'll say! So if you're still with me to this point, the reason I was away was that I was down for a week and a half due to a misconfigured syslinux.cfg file and a NIC that doesn't like to work right unless it's running at

Re: [Leaf-devel] Intresting Question.............

2001-02-15 Thread ssrat
On 15 Feb 2001, at 4:07, Kenneth Hadley wrote: I'm not sure how many on this list are aware how I was able to get PPPoE to run correctly under Eigerstein and why I would like to come up with a cleaner solution Basically the main problem under PPPoE was getting the interface to come up

[Leaf-devel] Compiling Linux 2.2 for QoS support

2001-02-14 Thread ssrat
I'm compiling a raft of Linux kernels based on 2.2.18 for release; one of these was to include QoS support. I started delving into the options, and experienced a white-out from the blizzard of options available :-) Can someone enlighten me as to the best options to use for QoS and why

[Leaf-devel] Read-only Linux IDE drivers?

2001-02-13 Thread ssrat
Has anyone ever done this? It seems like this would be a good way to include IDE into the kernel in an embedded application, so as to provide the utmost security. Hardware solutions appear to be non- existant, and software solutions either allow write access, or disallow access altogether.

Re: [Leaf-devel] LDAP chown to dummy

2001-02-09 Thread ssrat
On 9 Feb 2001, at 14:39, Mike Noyes wrote: Thanks! I just verified that this works. I should have tried the archive switch before. Don't you need the -R switch to recurse? $ cd /home/groups/leaf/htdocs $ mv yourname .. $ cp -a ../yourname . $ rm -rf ../yourname $ cd

[Leaf-devel] Where IS everybody?

2001-02-06 Thread ssrat
On 6 Feb 2001, at 6:00, Steven Peck wrote: I know Jeff is in Davis, [California..] Mike's in the [San Francisco, California...] area. Charles is out in the midwest [...] Western Kansas, I thought. Kansas City? and Rick out on the East coast? Where? Oh, I'm in Sacramento, CA Ray's

Re: [Leaf-devel] Linux-friendly Embedded SBCs

2001-01-18 Thread ssrat
On 18 Jan 2001, at 19:05, Scott C. Best wrote: Heya. It'd be worthwhile, I think, for one of our more board-minded LEAF'rs to suggest just such an SBC which we could use as a 'development target'. Not that we won't be putting it into desktop x86's as well, of course, but I was told by a VP