Re: [Leaf-devel] Embedded Systems Conference

2002-03-20 Thread ssrat
On 17 Mar 02, at 6:01, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > I like the Power-PC based stuff. If (more like when) the company I'm > currently working for craters, I'm thinking about designing/building a PPC > based embedded system that would run LEAF (or some variant). What about using the Yellow Briq

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 co

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 busybo

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

Re: [Leaf-devel] Proposed CVS Structure

2001-05-02 Thread ssrat
On 2 May 2001, at 15:18, Ewald Wasscher wrote: > I have to agree with that to a great extent. But many programs use a > "configure" script to configure the source tree to be built with certain > options. I really prefer to have a script in the diff that calls this > configure script to doing t

Re: [Leaf-devel] Proposed CVS Structure

2001-05-02 Thread ssrat
On 2 May 2001, at 13:23, Ewald Wasscher wrote: > If I understand correctly how David does this it's not necessarily > obvious to someone other than David how a program is configured, and how > it is built, what files to use in the .lrp package, and what lrp > specific configs need to be added

Re: [Leaf-devel] Updating Eigerstein:progress

2001-05-01 Thread ssrat
On 30 Apr 2001, at 22:17, Ewald Wasscher wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Ironic that Matthew (the fellow who did Materhorn) was the > > bridgeutils maintainer, and has now left it stagnate until someone > > else picked it up. > AFAIK the 2.4 kernel needs other bridge utils than Matthew'

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 cou

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 co

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

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

2001-04-29 Thread ssrat
On 30 Apr 2001, at 5:04, Ray Olszewski wrote: > At 10:37 PM 4/29/01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Andrew James was born 22 April 2001 at 7:25 am, and was 9 lbs. 4 oz. > >(ask your wives if that's big :-) > > Ooph! I don't have to. Is there a infant blue ox in the back yard > as well? No

[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) hav

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 ti

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, definit

Re: [Leaf-devel] Updating Eigerstein:progress

2001-04-29 Thread ssrat
On 24 Apr 2001, at 8:30, Ewald Wasscher wrote: > I wonder why some people replace some POSIXness links with their busybox > counterparts. On average the POSIXness version is smaller, so why > replace it when it works? I bet that they don't care to remove the > relevant code from POSIXness so t

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] 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] Updating Eigerstein:progress

2001-04-29 Thread ssrat
On 22 Apr 2001, at 14:34, Ewald Wasscher wrote: > replace gunzip with zcat My understanding is that zcat is: #!/bin/sh gunzip -c $1 > 22-4add e3 (the pre 1.5 from oxygen) as the default editor e3 is going to 1.5 very soon. Remember to change options in e3.asm... > 22-4TODO: update

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

Re: [Leaf-devel] diskspace check

2001-04-29 Thread ssrat
On 27 Apr 2001, at 17:25, Mike Noyes wrote: > A Nessus scan can add enough log entries in less than five minutes to > exceed free ramdisk space. This is on a box with 16M of memory. > > If I remember correctly, David solved this problem in Oxygen by creating a > separate partition for /var/log

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

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 t

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 m

[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/.md5 and are created during the package creation process automatically. These packa

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 >

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 Syste

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] ___

[Leaf-devel] Compiling for LRP under Red Hat 6

2001-02-19 Thread ssrat
I've taken to using the "Red Hat 5.x Compatible" libraries and compilation. Usually, it works, but it is definitely not as easy as using Red Hat 5 (or Debian Slink) out of the box. In particular, things have problems when "interacting" with /usr/include. All of the glibc includes are in /usr

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

[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 fl

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

2001-02-19 Thread ssrat
On 19 Feb 2001, at 16:30, Mike Noyes wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2001-02-19 10:11 -0600 > It's already on our site: > http://leaf.sourceforge.net/cstein/ That's not our site; that's Charles. "Ours" is at http://leaf.sourceforge.net ... > I still haven't received your response to my earlier s

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 > >

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] 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] 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, I

[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] _

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] 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 over,

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 u

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 runnin

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 the

[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 an

[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. I

Re: [Leaf-devel] Ladybug design decisions

2001-02-13 Thread ssrat
On 13 Feb 2001, at 4:12, Jack Coates wrote: > Interesting... I like the SysV system for /etc/init.d/service > start|stop|restart|status though. My only experience with the BSD > style is Slackware 2.0 though, so my apologies and please let me > know if a similar capability is there. The standar

Re: [Leaf-devel] Ladybug design decisions

2001-02-12 Thread ssrat
On 12 Feb 2001, at 18:41, Jack Coates wrote: > Just want to solicit some feedback on my dedicated server > appliance. > Everything is built into a single root.lrp with centralized > configuration (i.e. linuxrc does everything necessary to initialize > hardware and configure the system, then an

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 /home/groups/

[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 Ra

Re: [Leaf-devel] Conferences

2001-02-05 Thread ssrat
On 6 Feb 2001, at 1:34, Mike Noyes wrote: > At 03:49 PM 2/5/01 -0800, Jack Coates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >love to get together, but I'll need a little more notice than that > >conference which begins tomorrow :-) > > Jack, > I was thinking of the "Internet Appliance Workshop" (Feb. 20-21)

Re: [Leaf-devel] LEAF certification

2001-02-05 Thread ssrat
On 3 Feb 2001, at 18:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 04:22:02PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled: > > I would suggest the following ideas as part of > > any Open Source product: > > > > * What is your target audience? (a/k/a targeted > > demographic) > > Not only tha

Re: [Leaf-devel] LEAF certification

2001-02-02 Thread ssrat
On 2 Feb 2001, at 21:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 03:23:42PM -0800, Scott C. Best scribbled: > > Okay, sure, some of the ICSA guidelines are good ones...though > > I can't imagine using anything that didn't meet them at the > > very least. > > How about this: > "Meets

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 V