On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Eric Auer wrote: EA > EA >Hi Bonnie and happy new year still :-)
Happy new year to you! Are you suffering from the heating gas turn off for the gas line passing through the Ukraine? EA > EA >Bonnie Dalzell wrote: EA > EA >> i use freedos from a dos formatted partition to boot into full screen EA >> freedos on a machine that also boots linux. i am happy with that. EA >> EA >> i also use freedos to boot from within a linux partition using xdosemu. EA >> EA >> i am happy with that except i have to run a little script first. EA >> EA >> this is the script EA >> EA >> #! /bin/bash EA >> echo 0 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr EA > EA >True true... I wonder how bad it would be if Ubuntu and EA >Debian made this the default anyway. Instead of a script, EA >I simply changed the global settings in /etc/sysctl.conf: EA > EA >(the file is longer, I only paste the modified lines here) EA > EA ># protect bottom 64k of memory from mmap to prevent NULL-dereference EA ># --- breaks dosemu and wine --- vm.mmap_min_addr = 65536 EA >vm.mmap_min_addr = 0 here is the reason given in my default /etc/sysctl.conf file # protect bottom 64k of memory from mmap to prevent NULL-dereference # attacks against potential future kernel security vulnerabilities. # (Added in kernel 2.6.23.) # vm.mmap_min_addr = 65536 how do they know it is a FUTURE kernel security vulnerability? time machine? :-) EA > EA >With this modification, after the next reboot, you no longer EA >have to run the script any more. EA > EA >Eric EA > EA >PS: I wonder when the dosemu.org page will describe 1.4 ;-) EA > EA > EA >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EA >This SF.net email is sponsored by: EA >SourcForge Community EA >SourceForge wants to tell your story. EA >http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword EA >_______________________________________________ EA >Freedos-user mailing list EA >Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net EA >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user EA > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bonnie Dalzell, MA mail:5100 Hydes Rd PO Box 60, Hydes,MD,USA 21082-0060|EMAIL:bdalz...@qis.net freelance anatomist, vertebrate paleontologist, writer, illustrator, dog breeder, computer nerd & iconoclast... Borzoi info at www.borzois.com. Editor Net.Pet Online Animal Magazine - http://www.netpetmagazine.com HOME http://www.qis.net/~borzoi/ BUSINESS http://www.batw.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
