Good Times

[Charles A. Schuman]

Re: Virus, Internet:  Good Times

On Fri, 16 Aug 1996, Terry Eck wrote:

> I remember reading about this several months ago. It was the opinion
> of most people at the time to be just a joke. Anyone know for sure
> if it is anything other than a joke?
> Terry

Either it is an obvious joke or now you have the virus.

Re: [Fwd: Virus Alert]

[Rob Browning]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Terry Eck) writes:

> I remember reading about this several months ago. It was the opinion
> of most people at the time to be just a joke. Anyone know for sure
> if it is anything other than a joke?

Well, I'd like to see the code for the infinite loop that'd melt down
my processor.  I've written a few in my time (accidentally), and the
machine's still here.

I think this is probably a joke.  I actually have received a "GOOD
TIMES" message, actually got one a couple of times, way back when I
used AOL (feel free to flame, it was pre-linux for me, too).  Anyway,
the message was a virus in some sense, but it required active
participation.  It was a message saying that it had been around the
world X number of times and that anyone who would do what it said and
continue the pyramid, tacking on their own name, would get great
wealth and voodoo luck.  If you failed to do this in Y number of days,
all manner of evil catastrophies would befall you.

I ignored it with no ill effects at the specified instance of doom.

--
Rob

Re: [Fwd: Virus Alert]

[Robbie Honerkamp]

 
> I remember reading about this several months ago. It was the opinion
> of most people at the time to be just a joke. Anyone know for sure
> if it is anything other than a joke?

Not true. You can't get a virus from reading an email message.

Notice that the original post came from AOL.. :)

Robbie
(who wonders how many people deleted this message in fear when they 
saw the Subject: line..)

Re: [Fwd: Virus Alert]

[Brian Hutchinson]

I called the number listed in this message it this is a joke!

The statement about the tight loop that could damage your processor 
should be a dead give-away!

Check these things out in the future before spreading them!

Thanks,


Brian

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Re: [Fwd: Virus Alert]

[Joshua Stockwell]

I don't think you have anything to worry about. You just fell victim
to one of the most perpetuated practical jokes on the internet. :))

-Josh Stockwell

Re: German manpages

[Martin Schulze]

You write:

}Hi,

}if I run man with LANG or LC_MESSAGE=de I won't see any german man-pages. If
}I use export MANPATH=/usr/man/de:`manpath` it works without trouble. Where
}is the problem? Even man -L de dont check for the german files. (Well, I
}dontneed them, but I was curious if it will work :)


}ii  man 2.3.10-11  Display the on-line manual.
}ii  manpages1.11-4 Section 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 9 manpages
}ii  manpages-de 0.1-1  German section 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 8 manpages
 ^
Please get the actual release of it, the documentation contains a
paragraph inspired by Ray Dassen that describes how to activate them.

Regards,

Joey
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Re: [Fwd: Virus Alert]

[Max Hyre]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

   Gentlefolk:

   The ``Good Times'' virus is a hoax, an urban legend.  To quote from
the CERT Coordination Center memo on the subject:

> The "Good Times" virus warnings are a hoax.  People are circulating
> the warnings without verifying the information contained therein,
> thus leading to unnecessary worry and concern.  Please do not
> circulate the "Good Times" warnings further.  Please send this
> advisory on to anyone who has mail you such an advisory.

For the full story, check one of:

http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/notes/Notes09.shtml
ftp://ciac.llnl.gov/pub/ciac/notes/notes09.txt

where CIAC is the ``Computer Incident Advisory Capability'', and CERT
may or may not be ``Computer Emergency Response Team'' :-).  See also

http://www.cert.org/cert.faqintro.html

Question B9(c) for the above ``Good Times'' reference, and Question A4
for the name confusion.


Sincerely yours,

Max Hyre

**>> What's all this garbage at the bottom of my message?  It's a
 security blanket for paranoids---ask me for details, or check
 out 
http://www.efh.org/pgp/pgpwork.html

  Key fingerprint =  EFEC 0067 6803 852D  B1DB 751E 6754 14EA 

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Re: where is wish ?

[Hubert FAUQUE]

On Fri, 16 Aug 1996 11:46:42 -0700, you wrote:

>You need to install Tcl7.4 (or Tcl7.5) and Tk4.0 (or Tk4.1).
>BTW, if you just need the make 'xconfig' feature, I suggest not installing
>all this and using 'make menuconfig'.
>
>Phil.
>
Thanks for your answer, I had just tried make xconfig instead of make
config
but I'll install tcl/tk anyway
Hubert

Re: where is wish ?

[Joshua Stockwell]

wish is part of the Tk package. You'll need tk_7.[3|5].deb and
tcl_4.?.deb I can't remember which verison they at. Tk needs tcl. Wish
is part of Tk. They should both be in the devel subtree.

-Josh Stockwell

sendmail queuing incoming mail

[Scott Barker]

I'm trying to figure out why my incoming mail (coming in via uucp) is being
queued up instead of being delivered straight to my mailbox.

I'm using debian sendmail, Version: 8.7.5-4

I've got the following in my .mc file:

VERSIONID(`@(#)sendmail.mc  8.7 (Linux) 3/5/96')
OSTYPE(debian)dnl
FEATURE(nocanonify)dnl
FEATURE(nouucp)dnl
FEATURE(nodns)dnl
FEATURE(local_procmail, /usr/bin/procmail)
MAILER(local)dnl
MAILER(smtp)dnl
FEATURE(mailertable, hash /etc/mailertable)
define(`UUCP_MAX_SIZE', 0)
define(`SMART_HOST', uucp-dom:cuugnet)
MAILER(uucp)

Which results in the following in my sendmail.cf file (among much else):

O DeliveryMode=background

Mlocal, P=/usr/bin/procmail, F=lsDFMAw5:/|@SPfhn, S=10/30, R=20/40,
T=DNS/RFC822/X-Unix,
A=procmail -Y -a $h -d $u

As you can see, the expensive flag is not present, and queue mode is not set,
so I can't figure out why the mail is being queued. Outgoing mail is sent to
uucp right away.

Can anyone shed some light on this for me? I've never run across this problem
with sendmail before (and I've used sendmail a *lot*, right down to re-writing
rule-sets). This is the newest version of sendmail I've ever used though, so
perhaps I'm missing something somewhere?

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RAID in Linux (was Re: SCSI and EIDE)

[Ricardo Kleemann]

Hi guys,

starting a new thread about the subject... ;-)

I'm still trying to get a grip on this...

Few questions:
1. can raid0/raid1 be done on either scsi or ide or both?
2. what's the difference between raid0 and raid1?
3. what exactly does it do? Does it mirror data accross multiple devices, 
and if so, how does it maintain the data in all devices?
4. How does one go about "creating" an md device? Would it automatically 
mirror a "non-md" drive into the multiple devices?

Thanks!
Ricardo

Re: [Fwd: Virus Alert]

[James W. Lynch]

-  Received message begins Here  -

(urban legend hoax deleted)

Oh, god, it's back!


Jim Lynch, Sales Analyst,  SGI/Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO
Southeast District, Phone: (770) 631-2254, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Suite 270, 200 Westpark Drive, Peachtree City, GA 30269

Re: dosemu

[Shaya Potter]

On Fri, 16 Aug 1996, Miro Torrielli wrote:

> Thanx again for the help, I managed to boot from a floppy image and
> got it up and running. However, it seems that as I solve one problem,
> another arises: I cab't seem to get the graphics support working.
> When I run vgaon, it says that the BIOS is not mapped. I tried changing
> all the parameters in the config file, bu to no avail. You know, I feel
> like trashing DOS once and for all!!
> Appreciate your help, 'later...
> 

What video card do you use? 

Shaya
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Re: where is wish ?

[Juha Ylitalo]

On Fri, 16 Aug 1996, Hubert FAUQUE wrote:

> I have tried 
>   make xconfig
> to generate a new config file for the kernel but it gives an error
>wish not found
> Could somebody tell me what is wish and in which package it is?

You need tcl/tk packages. In plain english its tk41 and that file (tcl75
?) which is requests for dependencies. One useful way for tracking down
needed packages is to download those Contents files and then grep for
program that you wish to get, i.e. grep wish Contents on Debian
distribution would have pointed out tk40 and tk41 as packages which have
it.

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Re: [Fwd: Virus Alert]

[Richard G. Roberto]

On Fri, 16 Aug 1996, L. S. Colby wrote:

> Hello:
> 
> I recently received the following email that is of interest to the
> debian community and others.
> 
> 
> 
> L. S. Colby
> 

I always try to pay attention to this kind o fstuff, because
I'm paranoid.  But this is a hoax.  I recieved a warning
exactly like this from someone at Sun Microsystems!  I paid
attention, but its the same hoax as in past years.  There is
a faq on this at:

http://www.usit.net/public/lesjones/goodtimes.html

The "virus" is of the sociological nature.  People keep
recycling these silly assed mails to the "nth-complexity",
cluttering up the net and striking panic into the
uninformed.



Richard G. Roberto
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
201-739-2886 - whippany, nj



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Re: Problem with 3C509 ifconfig

[Philippe Troin]

>Destination Gateway Genmask Flags   MSS Window  irtt Iface
>166.117.11.125  0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 1500 0  0 eth0
>127.0.0.0   0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0   U  3584 0  0 lo

Your routing table is incorrect. If you have a class C network (I assume
that given your netmask value on eth0), you should issue a:

route add -net 166.117.11.0

The initialization scripts in /etc/init.d/network should take care of that.

Phil.

Where can I ftp pcmcia package

[EDWARD FORREST URENDA]

could someone tell me where I can ftp debian pcmcia package from?

sorry if the question is dumb

eddie urenda
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: where is wish ?

[Philippe Troin]

You need to install Tcl7.4 (or Tcl7.5) and Tk4.0 (or Tk4.1).
BTW, if you just need the make 'xconfig' feature, I suggest not installing
all this and using 'make menuconfig'.

Phil.

Re: [Fwd: Virus Alert]

[Philippe Troin]

No no no !
Not again.
Please read "http://www.singnet.com.sg/public/Virus/good-times.html";.;
This is a scam !

Phil.

Re: where is wish ?

[David Engel]

Hubert FAUQUE writes:
> I have tried 
>   make xconfig
> to generate a new config file for the kernel but it gives an error
>wish not found
> Could somebody tell me what is wish and in which package it is?

Wish is the base-level Tk interpreter.  Install either the tk40 or
tk41 packages.  if you install both, the wish from tk41 will be used
by default.

David
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Re: [Fwd: Virus Alert]

[Terry Eck]

I remember reading about this several months ago. It was the opinion
of most people at the time to be just a joke. Anyone know for sure
if it is anything other than a joke?
Terry
_
Terry Eck   [EMAIL PROTECTED](214)575-6196
Texas Instruments   P.O. Box 869305 MS 8456Plano TX 75086

  "Unix is a user friendly OS... it's just choosy about its friends"

Wrong SCSI-Adaptor detected

[Ulrich Guenzel]

Help!!

I've got a funny  >:(( little problem with Debian 1.1.2 (July 96).

My system consists of

Motherboard Chaintech 5IFM 
64 MB RAM (non-EDO)
Graphics Board ELSA WINNER Trio 1000V
SCSI Adaptor  Asus SC200 with NCR 53c810
IBM DORS 32160 Harddisk
Mitsumi CD-ROM FX400 (IDE)

First I tried to install Linux using the Debian 1.1.2 Installation
Bootdisk (Kernel 2.0.6). This version detected while booting a
NCR 53c460A (!!), resulting in an error message like

NCR 53c406A: No available ports found

Second attempt: Using one of the special Kernels with the
NCR53c460A-Option deactivated, I got the system correctly booted,
detecting the installed 53c810. But... the modules.tgz of this Version
is corrupted (e.g., the NCR 53c460A driver is missing).

Third, fourth, fifth attempt: Trying Slackware 2.3, 3.0, 3.1 (Kernel
V2.0.0). All versions correctly detected the SCSI-Adaptor.
BUT I INSIST IN INSTALLING DEBIAN!!

I`ve read all HOWTOS etc. and news, but got no idea to solve this
problem.

Is there any way to boot with a specified SCSI-Adaptor without
recompiling the kernel? Somebody out there who was confronted with the
same problem and got through? Or, if there is no way, which parts of my
system (libraries, compiler ...) most be up to date for compiling a
custom kernel? 

Please help, I think I'm going nuts!! Thanks, Thanks, Thanks!
-- 
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Geophysikalisches Institut der
Universitaet Karlsruhe
Hertzstrasse 16
D-76187 Karlsruhe

Tel.: 0049 (0)721 608 4594
Fax : 0049 (0)721 71173

Where to find the pcmcia package

[EDWARD FORREST URENDA]

I once ftp'ed the pcmcia package from virginia, but then uninstalled it.  
Where can I find it once more?  I really need it.  It works really well 
with my pc card and laptop.

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but any help is greatly appreciated.

Eddie Urenda
UCLA

Re: Tin+Suck

[Michael Meskes]

Gith writes:
> I've installed tin and suck as way to read newsgroups locally.
> The problem is, i haven't figured out how to use tin to read the
> newly downloaded articles. If someone is using the suck+tin 

I might be wrong on this, but isn't this a feature in tin that has yet to be
implemented? From the man page:

-R read   news   saved   by   the  -S  option  (not  yet
   implemented).

> combination for news, could you post here or e-mail me directly
> on how to do it..

Where is the advantage of using suck over using tin -S?

Michael
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xtetris?

[Joey Hess]

Am I just missing some package, or is there really no xtetris in Debian?
(Yeah, I know about xtet42, but prefer xtetris)

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Re: SCSI and EIDE

[Todd Tyrone Fries]

> Ricardo Kleemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > That's wonderful!
> > 
> > Now will Linux implement anything greater than RAID0? 
It does.  Raid1 is in development.  It does partial mirroring using about 1/3rd
of the disk space for 'backup' data.

> > Would you say your performance is significantly increased with striping?
I have an ncr53c815 card with two 312mb XT 1986 scsi-1 SLOW maxtor drives.
They definately perform much better after being raid0'ed.  If there would
be a point at which the data read from a drive was faster than the cpu could
crunch the raid0 'virtual' device, it would be slower than no raid at all.  I
personally don't see how any setup could be this 'disk fast' and 'cpu slow'.

>From my experience it is significantly faster.  It is literally (for me)
doubling the number of read-heads that can be reading or writing data at a
given time.

> > How many drives can be striped?

You can have 4 raid devices. /dev/md0 - /dev/md3.  I am not aware of a
limitation on the number of 'block' devices that can be grouped under each
raid device.  I would also be surprised if you were not able to increase the
numbers if you needed to.  Reminds me of ppp/slip in it's early stages.  A
default limit of 4.  Then they raised it to 16, and finally to 
on-the-fly-creation of devices up to a default limitation of 256, with an
easy #define to change to increase this limitation.  I see no reason why the
raid devices will not follow this pattern.

> md just groups a number of physical disk partitions into one logical one,
> /dev/md*.
I'm being picky, but no, it groups block devices.  I couldn't get it to work
with a loopback device, so perhaps right now block device = hard drive.  But
it shouldn't have to.

One happy raid0 user.
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Re: where is wish ?

[Susan G. Kleinmann]

Hi Hubert --

You asked:
> I have tried 
>   make xconfig
> to generate a new config file for the kernel but it gives an error
>wish not found
> Could somebody tell me what is wish and in which package it is?

To find which package contains a file, try something like this:

# zgrep wish buzz-fixed/Contents.gz
usr/bin/mfv_wish tkmail
usr/bin/scwish   scotty
usr/bin/wish4.0  tk40
usr/bin/wish4.1  tk41
usr/bin/wishxtclX
usr/doc/examples/python/Demo/tkinter/guido/wish.py   python
usr/man/man1/scwish.1scotty
usr/man/man1/wish4.0.1   tk40
usr/man/man1/wish4.1.1   tk41


Good luck,
Susan Kleinmann

Re: Isn't it a security hole...

[David C Winters]

On 16 Aug 1996, Rob Browning wrote:
> It's too bad we can't support longer passwords.  Not only are longer
> ones easier to remember sometimes, but they are harder to break.
> Something along the lines of the PGP passphrase.

I've noticed something curious on various Unices:  I can have a 
27-character-long password any time I want.  For logins, though, login 
only cares about the first eight characters.  But to change the password, 
I have to enter the entire thing.
I haven't tried this on Linux (yet); I'm talking more along the 
lines of SunOS, Solaris 2.x, maybe AIX 3.x.

> I'm sure there's some historical, or backward compatibility reason why
> we can't...

Sure, that's probably the reason.  The cult of "backward
compatibility" IS, after all, responsible for far more heinous crimes, 
such as DOS' longevity...


David [EMAIL PROTECTED] aka [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Office: 3503 WeH, x86720
Go to http://www.harrybrowne96.org/
MTFBWY

Re: dosemu

[Miro Torrielli]

Dale Scheetz wrote:
> 
> I remember seeing this discussed on the list, but I don't remember the
> specifics. It has to do with making a copy of your boot disk on the hard
> disk and then booting from that. You might check out the HOWTO for
> details.
> 
> Luck,
> 
> Dwarf
> 
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> 
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> 
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Thanx again for the help, I managed to boot from a floppy image and
got it up and running. However, it seems that as I solve one problem,
another arises: I cab't seem to get the graphics support working.
When I run vgaon, it says that the BIOS is not mapped. I tried changing
all the parameters in the config file, bu to no avail. You know, I feel
like trashing DOS once and for all!!
Appreciate your help, 'later...

Re: All my memory disappears, rather too quickly

[Dirk . Eddelbuettel]

  Jay> In addition to previous mail, would like to add that I've started
  Jay> receiving messages like this too: 
[...]
  Jay> Aug 16 16:11:31 named[145]: NSTATS 840208291 840075082 A=102 PTR=2
  Jay> MX=3 ANY=3 Aug 16 16:11:31 named[145]: XSTATS 840208291 840075082
  Jay> RQ=110 RR=44 RIQ=0 RNXD=1 RFwdQ=37 RFwdR=30 RDupQ=0 RDupR=0 RFail=0
  Jay> RFErr=0 RErr=0 RTCP=0 RAXFR=0 RLame=0 ROpts=0 SSysQ=38 SAns=73
  Jay> SFwdQ=37 SFwdR=30 SDupQ=0 SFail=43 SFErr=0 SErr=0 RNotNsQ=110
  Jay> SNaAns=72 SNXD=1

It means you are are running the named daemon from the bind package. Sure you
need an internet name server on your machine?

--
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Re: User-friendliness (was: Re: dselect returns error code)

[Charles A. Schuman]

Quotes from Heiko R. Selber and Dale Scheetz.
> [ Problems with dselect ]
> I am slowly approaching the point where I expect a
> "general protection violation(TM)" from Debian.
> I consider this a bad sign.

Debian, compared to the install I have done with Redhat 3.0.3 (Picasso)
and 3.0.4 (Rembrandt Beta), is very stable.  Redhat could take some
lessons from dselect - using package dependencies made my life a bit
easier. I'm writing this while it installs - aparently enough of it has
installed for me to venture forth onto the net.  

> Well, don't judge Debian by dselect. Dselect is the product of one mind
> and has, in my estimation, severe user interface problems.

Yes, dselect gave me fits, but after I became a bit more patient with it,
I did well.  It does need a user-interfacelift, thou I'm still impressed.

> I disagree. DO judge Debian by dselect. To the debian-newbie, dselect is
> the first thing you see (thus, for the moment it IS Debian) and if it
> doesn't do what it should, it will intimidate new users (maybe forever). 

It does what it's told which may not have been what I ment.  I knew Debian
had more concept and organization behind it than other distributions,
but it still needs more polishing before the more easily frustrated can
walk this path.

> I admit that an OS doesn't have to be foolproof, but there is no reason
> that it shouldn't be user-friendly. Why not sit in front of your computer,
> insert some disks, follow some instructions and end up with Linux running? 
> (Yes, I know that Debian has come quite close to this, but IMHO not close
> enough). 

I DO like the flexibility the install allows - I'm still
installing now in another console!  The install prompts are more detailed
and not as confusing as some I've seen.  (Perhaps my understanding
increases.)

> You can use dpkg at the prompt. Just cd to the directory with the package
> you wish to install and type: 
> dpkg -i packagename*.deb

This dpkg will be useful when I want to add more things that I might
understand.  Now it is asking me to set up for X which usually fails for
me.  I don't mind being a new user.  

Charles

[Fwd: Virus Alert]

[L. S. Colby]

Hello:

I recently received the following email that is of interest to the
debian community and others.



L. S. Colby
--- Begin Message ---
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>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Cameron)
>Subject: Virus Alert
>Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 09:57:26 -0400
>
>>Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 23:26:49 -0400
>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject:  Virus Alert
>>
>>IMPORTANT MESSAGE!
>>
>>Subject: FW: Extremely Destructive Virus (fwd)
>>
>>There is a computer virus that is being sent across the Internet. If you
>>receive an email message with the subject line "Good  Times", DO NOT read
>>the message, DELETE it immediately.  Please read the messages below. Some
>>miscreant is sending  email under the title "Good Times" nationwide, if
>>you get anything like this, DON'T DOWN LOAD THE FILE!  It has a virus that
>>rewrites your hard drive, obliterating anything on it. Please be careful
>>and forward this mail to anyone you care about.
>>
>> WARNING!!!  INTERNET VIRUS
>>
>>The FCC released a warning last Wednesday concerning a matter of major
>>importance to any regular user  of the Internet. Apparently a new computer
>>virus has been engineered by a user of AMERICA ON LINE that  is
>>unparalleled in its destructive capability. What makes this  virus so
>>terrifying, said the FCC, is the fact that no program needs to be
>>exchanged for a new computer to be infected. It can be spread through the
>>existing email systems of the Internet. Once a Computer is infected, one
>>of  several things can  happen. If the computer contains a hard drive,
>>that  will most likely be destroyed. If the  program is not stopped, the
>>computer's processor will be placed in an nth-complexity infinite binary
>>loop -which can severely damage the processor if left running that way too
>>long.  Luckily, there is one sure means of detecting what is now known as
>>the "Good Times" virus. It always travels to new computers the same way in
>>a text email message with the subject line reading "Good Times". Avoiding
>>infection is easy once the file has been received simply by NOT READING
>>IT! The act of loading the file into the mail server's ASCII buffer causes
>>the "Good Times" mainline program to initialize and execute. The program
>>is highly intelligent- it will  send copies of itself to everyone whose
>>email address is contained in a receive-mail file or a sent-mail file, if
>>it can find one. It will then proceed to trash the computer it is running
>>on.
>>
>> The bottom line is:  - if you receive a file with the subject line "Good
>>Times", delete it  immediately! Do not read it"  Rest assured that
>>whoever's name was on the  "From" line was surely struck by the virus.
>>Warn your friends and  local system users of this newest threat to the
>>Internet! It could save them a lot of time and money. Could you pass this
>>along to your global mailing list as well?
>>
>> George H. Bowers
>> Vice President for Information Systems University of Maryland Medical
>>  System 410-328-2579  (fax)410-328-0572  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>

--- End Message ---

Re: How do I allow users to run a single command as root?

[Rob Browning]

Casper BodenCummins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> What you need here is to set the setuid bit. Run this command as root:
> 
>chmod +s filename

Not to be nasty, but this is generally a *REALLY BAD IDEA* unless you
know *exactly* what you are doing.  If "filename" was not designed with
extremely careful attention to the fact that it's going to be run suid
root, you can be opening up your system to all kinds of security
attacks, or accidental disasters by enabling suid root.

I'm talking about attention to things like explicitly setting the
PATH, checking and setting IFS, etc.  If it's a perl script, using the
"taint" checks helps, but you have to know enough perl to be able to
fix the problems it reports.

Don't do this.  Use sudo, super, or some equivalent.

[end preach mode]

--
Rob

RE: cdplay & sound.o autoloading

[dkklee]

> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Aug 16 08:03:29 1996
> Resent-Date: 16 Aug 1996 12:03:29 -
> Resent-Cc: recipient.list.not.shown:;@lists.debian.org
> Old-Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> From: Casper BodenCummins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "'debian-user@lists.debian.org'" 
> Subject: RE: cdplay & sound.o autoloading
> Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 13:06:21 +0100
> X-Mailer:  Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version 4.0.837.3
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
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>
> Someone (I know you will) correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the CD
> simply send audio directly to the sound card, rather than via a device
> file?
>
> This would not require a sound module, or kernel support for sound, to
> be present. It would also suggest your problem lies in the card's
> initialisation.
>
> Casper Boden-Cummins.
>
> >--
> >From:Derek Lee[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Sent:16 August 1996 01:36
> >To:  debian-user@lists.debian.org
> >Cc:  The recipient's address is unknown.
> >Subject: cdplay & sound.o autoloading
> >
> >I have been seeing something strange on my system. The autoloading of
> >the sound module works most of the time. The problem is with the CD
> >playing programs (cdplay from cdtool 1.0 or workman). They do not send
> >a request the sound module to kerneld. But they work if the module has
> >been loaded at some point in the past. In fact, they would continue to
> >work even if the sound module has been removed from the kernel!
> >
> >--Derek Lee
> >
> >

Hi

I am coming to the same conclusion myself
So where is this initialisation done?

--Derek 

Re: dosemu

[Shaya Potter]

On Fri, 16 Aug 1996, Miro Torrielli wrote:

> Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > 
> > Try installing the xcompat package. It probably has the a.out library
> > dosemu is looking for.
> > 
> > Luck,
> > 
> > Dwarf
> > 
> >   --
> > 
> > aka   Dale Scheetz   Phone:   1 (904) 877-0257
> >   Flexible Software  Fax: NONE
> >   Black Creek Critters   e-mail:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 
> >  If you don't see what you want, just ask --
> 
> Thanx for the info, I should have thought of it myself.
> However, I can't get dosemu to boot with the -A switch, and
> can't therefore install it. It always crashes giving me:
> ERROR: can't get floppy parameter in /dev/fd0.
> 
> My floppy drive usually works, and the boot disk is fine.
> Whats up??
> 
> Thanks for your time...
 
This seems to be a bug in the version of DOSEMU that has been packaged 
for debian.  The way to get around this is to edit the dosemu.conf file 
in /etc and replace
floppy { device /dev/fd0 }
with
floppy { file /var/lib/dosemu/diskimage } 
you will then take the floppy that has all the files you were supposed to 
put on it and run
dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/var/lib/dosemu/diskimage }
you will then be able to boot off the image of drive A: and when ever you 
access drive A:, it will be the image file.

This is a workaround, not a fix.  However, this bug does seem to be fixed 
(at least on my system) in the development releases, which I am using on 
my system.

Hope this helps

Shaya
--
Shaya Potter
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Problem with 3C509 ifconfig

[Ken Gaugler]

Last night I tried to manually ifconfig my eth0 interface
(3Com 509 combo card), then tried to ping it, and got this:

>ping: sendto: Network is unreachable
>ping: wrote 166.117.11.123 64 chars, ret=-1
>
>--- 166.117.11.123 ping statistics ---
>10 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
># netstat -rn
>Kernel IP routing table
>Destination Gateway Genmask Flags   MSS Window  irtt Iface
>166.117.11.125  0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 1500 0  0 eth0
>127.0.0.0   0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0   U  3584 0  0 lo
># ifconfig -a
>loLink encap:Local Loopback  
>  inet addr:127.0.0.1  Bcast:127.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0
>  UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3584  Metric:1
>  RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
>  TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
>
>eth0  Link encap:10Mbps Ethernet  HWaddr 00:A0:24:0F:15:63
>  inet addr:166.117.11.123  Bcast:166.117.11.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>  RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
>  TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
>  Interrupt:10 Base address:0x250 
>
>
>

Did I forget something?  I am pretty sure the card is good, and during
bootup I see that the MAC address is seen by the kernel, with the card
at 0x250 and IRQ 10.  Are these settings OK?

Thanks for your help!
---
Key fingerprint =  D6 A7 D7 8C 92 CB 42 FD  60 D5 62 1C D7 B9 EA 8E 
Ken Gaugler  N6OSK Hybrid Networks, Inc.  Cupertino, Calif.
URL: www.hybrid.com (home: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  URL: users.aimnet.com/~keng)
"The life of a Repo Man is ALWAYS INTENSE..."

where is wish ?

[Hubert FAUQUE]

I have tried 
  make xconfig
to generate a new config file for the kernel but it gives an error
   wish not found
Could somebody tell me what is wish and in which package it is?
thanks
Hubert Fauque
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: cdplay & sound.o autoloading

[Gilbert Ramirez Jr.]

As Casper BodenCummins said:
  
>  Someone (I know you will) correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the CD
>  simply send audio directly to the sound card, rather than via a device
>  file?
>  
>  This would not require a sound module, or kernel support for sound, to
>  be present. It would also suggest your problem lies in the card's
>  initialisation.
>  
>  Casper Boden-Cummins.
 

You are correct. That's what the little cable (with 4 wires, I believe) is
for. The audio data doesn't go through the CPU.

--gilbert
__
Gilbert Ramirez Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
University of Texas http://merece.uthscsa.edu/gram
Health Science Center at San AntonioUniversity Health System

Printer prints out multiples

[Shaya Potter]

I can now print to my HP LaserJet 4M Plus over ethertalk, but will print 
out an infinite amount of copies until either I delete the files in the 
spool directory or I turn off the printer.  When I print just using pap, 
it prints only one copy just like it should.  However with my lpr -> psf 
-> pap, there seems to be something that screws it up, and causes it to 
print many copies.  Is this a bug in lpr or psf that is known.  Or did I 
mess up with this printcap file

LaserJet 4M Plus|hplj4m|lp|LaserJet4MP|jetdirect1:\
:lp=/dev/null:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj4m:\
:af=/var/log/lp-acct:\
:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:\
:if=/usr/lib/atalk/filters/ifwmpap:\
:of=/usr/lib/atalk/filters/ofwmpap:\
:mx#0:

Thanks

Shaya
--
Shaya Potter
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Isn't it a security hole...

[Rob Browning]

Casper BodenCummins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Fewer than that. The range of ASCII characters used in passwords is
> quite small: perhaps ~= 110, optimisticly taking into account control
> characters and punctuation marks. Then, many people don't use the full 8
> characters, so we have to reduce the _average_ number again. I'd
> >tentatively suggest 6 characters.

It's too bad we can't support longer passwords.  Not only are longer
ones easier to remember sometimes, but they are harder to break.
Something along the lines of the PGP passphrase.

I'm sure there's some historical, or backward compatibility reason why
we can't...

--
Rob

Re: gs 3.53 and up

[Susan G. Kleinmann]

Hi Ervin --

You said:
> I have had a problem using ghostscript verisons 3.53 up through 4.00
> in the standard distributions.  
...
> I have solved the problem personally by downloading gs 4.00 and 
> compiling it with no gcc optimizations.  However, I have to install 
> it in /usr/local/ because I didn't have a functioning debianized version.  
> This means I either have to keep a broken gs 3.x or working gs 2.x 
> installed in /usr/bin or I have to deal with dependency problems because 
> dpkg doesn't know I have gs installed in /usr/local.
> 

I think dpkg has a mechanism for getting around this, but I've never
tried it, so beware of the following advice.

The program I think you need is called dpkg-divert.
Documentation is provided by invoking it with the --help option, and also
in the file /usr/doc/dpkg/programmer.html/ch-diversions.html (I'm referring
to dpkg version 1.3.5).  The 1.2 versions of dpkg had a file called 
/usr/doc/dpkg/diversions.text.

Good luck,
Susan Kleinmann

All my memory disappears, rather too quickly

[Jeppe Sigbrandt]

Hi again,

In addition to previous mail, would like to add that
I've started receiving messages like this too:
(hope someone knows what it means and that its relevant ...)

Regards,
jay


Aug 16 16:11:31 named[145]: NSTATS 840208291 840075082 A=102 PTR=2 MX=3
ANY=3
Aug 16 16:11:31 named[145]: XSTATS 840208291 840075082 RQ=110 RR=44
RIQ=0 RNXD=1 RFwdQ=37 RFwdR=30 RDupQ=0 RDupR=0 RFail=0 RFErr=0 RErr=0
RTCP=0 RAXFR=0 RLame=0 ROpts=0 SSysQ=38 SAns=73 SFwdQ=37 SFwdR=30
SDupQ=0 SFail=43 SFErr=0 SErr=0 RNotNsQ=110 SNaAns=72 SNXD=1

Re: How do I get GATEWAY2000 PS/2 mouse to work ?

[Gilbert Ramirez Jr.]

As Ben McKeegan said:
> 
> On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Gilbert Ramirez Jr. wrote:
> > 
> > I will unfortunately continue this thread with nothing but opinions. I
> > think that any person wanting to run Unix on their own computer should be
> > able to 1) download files, 2) uncompress and untar files, 3) type 'make
> > config', and the least 4) make a boot floppy. They don't even have to
> > understand LILO.
> > 
> 1) and 2) are a big problem if like me you only set up the machines with
> very small linux partitions. I've been setting up several student PCs here
> with Debian for use just as X terminals, which only have small hard disks,
> and still need DOS & windows. 

True. Also, after I posted the above, I realized that #1 above may be *very*
difficult, judging from the amount of troubles people have had with pppd
and chat.

> 
> Ben McKeegan  

--gilbert

__
Gilbert Ramirez Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
University of Texas http://merece.uthscsa.edu/gram
Health Science Center at San AntonioUniversity Health System

Re: kernel size (was: How do I get GATEWAY2000 PS/2 mouse to work?)

[David J. Evans]

On Thu, 15 Aug 1996 10:04:04 +0100 Casper BodenCummins 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[snipped stuff about PS/2 support not being present by 
default ]

> The real question is whether the default kernel should be bloated with
> features, or pared down.

As a brand new Debian user who didn't even know how to 
spell Colonel until recently, and who has been caught out 
by the lack of PS/2 support, I'd vote for a large 
"everything and the kitchen sink" kernel to cover most 
eventualities.  This will give heart to new-users and 
upgraders, and can trimmed and tweaked by the gurus.

And thank you to all who responded with my "newbie" 
question about telnetting in as root to a box without a 
screen or keyboard - su and /etc/securetty were all new to 
me.

David

__
David J. Evans
AMS, Virology Research Group, The University of Reading
Whiteknights, P.O. Box 228, Reading RG6 6AJ
Tel : +44 (0)118 9318893  Fax : +44 (0)118 9316537
http://skpc10.reading.ac.uk/

All my memory disappears, rather too quickly ....

[Jeppe Sigbrandt]

Hi World,

I wrote earlier about the system crashes I was experiencing.
These often happen when using X and several times when pushing
the same button in mailtool.

However, it seems the above is unrelated, for I've been 
keeping an eye on top recently and it shows the system
runs out of memory quite dramatically.

My 16 MB swap partition fills up within a day and presumably
halts the computer (when using X).  Recently I've had to resort
to using non-x applications, and since the last reboot I may not
even have started X.  However the swap is full, and its only been
2 days. (using irc, zless, elm, lynx, vi)

Of course I could increase the size of my swap partition (inconvenient)
but I don't think this is the solution.  There must be something
else going on.  (with linux 1.2.13 on this 8MB machine, I could
leave it running for days on end without ever exiting X, and had
uptimes of around 5 months).

However, with debian I've started using NIS, mostly in order to 
be able to keep my home dirs in sync easily.  Sometimes 
sendmail shows up as using a lot of memory resources, and xterms
have been known to use 10% memory or more !!!

At the moment though, no one process seems to use much in the way
of resources, but top reports that there is only a measly 180 K
left.  In swap.  !!!

I tried to de-install sendmail, but dselect would have none of it
due to dependency problems.  dpkg, might accept the deinstall using
the force options but I haven't dared yet.  I don't need sendmail
since /var/spool/mail is nfs mounted from a server onto my machine.

And if NIS could be causing all of this havoc, I don't mind doing
without it either.

BTW:  my machine runs much slower now than under slackware 2-2.
and its never been fast due to the 8MB memory limitation.

These probs may all be unrelated to each other, but then again
maybe not. If there is any info I should be supplying which I
haven't, I'm sorry.  But the problem seems rather abstract ...

Thanks for your attention,
jay

Re: dosemu

[Dale Scheetz]

On Fri, 16 Aug 1996, Miro Torrielli wrote:

> Thanx for the info, I should have thought of it myself.
> However, I can't get dosemu to boot with the -A switch, and
> can't therefore install it. It always crashes giving me:
> ERROR: can't get floppy parameter in /dev/fd0.
> 
> My floppy drive usually works, and the boot disk is fine.
> Whats up??
> 
I remember seeing this discussed on the list, but I don't remember the
specifics. It has to do with making a copy of your boot disk on the hard
disk and then booting from that. You might check out the HOWTO for
details.

Luck,

Dwarf

  --

aka   Dale Scheetz   Phone:   1 (904) 877-0257
  Flexible Software  Fax: NONE 
  Black Creek Critters   e-mail:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 If you don't see what you want, just ask --

RE: How do I allow users to run a single command as root?

[Casper BodenCummins]

What you need here is to set the setuid bit. Run this command as root:

   chmod +s filename

Then when you run ls filename you should see something like:

   rws--s--x  1  root  root 4304 Aug 16 13:51 filename

Now when a normal user runs the command, it executes as root. Be careful
with this ability!

Another point of interest: in /etc/fstab you can specify an option of
'nosuid' on a mount point. This prevents setuid programs from running on
the specified filesystem.

Casper Boden-Cummins.

>--
>From:
>   [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent:  16 August 1996 04:49
>To:debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Cc:The recipient's address is unknown.
>Subject:   How do I allow users to run a single command as root? 
>
>I've written a few scripts to automatically connect to my ISP, which
>has 
>several incoming lines. What I'd like to do is make these scripts so
>that
>the user running them does not have to be root. I've tried changing the
>
>permissions to rwx__x__x, still owned by root, but it doesn't do the
>job.
>I need to make this simply a command a user can run without them having
>to know the root password.
>
>Any ideas on how to accomplish this? I tried reading the man pages, but
>
>su (which I think is what I would need to use) is not exactly what I'd 
> 
>call well documented. 
>
>Thanks,  
>
>Tim O'Brien 
>
>E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>   
>
>

Access to 1.2.8 from 2.0.6

[Mark Lane]

Hi, everyone.
I recently installed a Debian 1.1 system with the 2.0.6 kernel.  I
couldn't have asked for a smoother install from a Windoze package, so
kudos to the development team!  Had one glitch with Majordomo 1.93,
but that's another e-mail sometime :)  Now, onto the real problem
I am having problems accessing data (ie. mail, web, etc.) on the
Debian host from Mac/FreePPP and Win95 PPP clients of my preexisting 
(prehistoric?) Slakware 1.2.8 host.  Win31/Trumpet clients work just fine
(MTU576/MSS536).  For example, I can establish PPP from a Win95 client 
into the Slakware box, TELNET into the Debian box, type 'ls /tmp', and get a 
file listing (not much stuff).  However, if I transfer more data (ie.'ls
/etc' or 
'w'), the output hangs.  I cannot retrieve web pages from the Slakware 
server.  Anything that appears to transfer much data back to the PPP client 
(through the Debian host) hangs.  All this *seems* to work fine going the 
other way (PPP to Slakware then access Debian), but I haven't tested 
enough to be sure (at 2am things get fuzzy).  I suspect a MTU/MSS 
problem.
The only odd thing I can see is a difference in the maximum segment 
size on the Debian host from the Slakware.  Slakware shows MTU of 576
and MSS of 512 for PPP devices, where Debian shows 576 for both.  Same
for the ethernet device (1500MTU on both, 1436MSS on Slakware and
1500MSS on Debian).  I used ifconfig to change the MSS on the eth0
device on Debian (didn't know how to do the same on PPP devices) and
recompiled the kernel to disable MTU path disocovery to no avail.  I'm at
a loss, and hope someone on this list has already come across this.  I can
send any configs or test results necessary to diagnosis.  I'd sure appreciate
any insight out there on this!
Than
k you,
Mark

Mark S Lane ([EMAIL PROTECTED])   |
3rd Wave Technologies   |
Phone/FAX: (423) 652-6090   |

Re: bsdgames

[Dominik Kubla]

> Hamish Moffatt writes:

> Has anyone done a package of the bsd games collection?  I'm missing
> hangman since upgrading from slackware ;-)

I did consider it, but the linux-ports are way to old and use
/etc/termcap instead of /usr/lib/terminfo (yes, i know that ncurses
has an emulation).  Unfortunately the newer NetBSD sources are
incompatible with the Linux BSD emulation, so that this means a lot of
work.  I am currently working on a port of the latest csh sources and
if i get my new bsd44compat library running i might have a shot at
bsdgames (i'd love to play sail and wumpus on debian!)

Dominik

RE: cdplay & sound.o autoloading

[Casper BodenCummins]

Someone (I know you will) correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the CD
simply send audio directly to the sound card, rather than via a device
file?

This would not require a sound module, or kernel support for sound, to
be present. It would also suggest your problem lies in the card's
initialisation.

Casper Boden-Cummins.

>--
>From:  Derek Lee[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent:  16 August 1996 01:36
>To:debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Cc:The recipient's address is unknown.
>Subject:   cdplay & sound.o autoloading
>
>I have been seeing something strange on my system. The autoloading of
>the sound module works most of the time. The problem is with the CD
>playing programs (cdplay from cdtool 1.0 or workman). They do not send
>a request the sound module to kerneld. But they work if the module has
>been loaded at some point in the past. In fact, they would continue to
>work even if the sound module has been removed from the kernel!
>
>--Derek Lee
>
>
>
>

Re: bsdgames

[Sven Rudolph]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Has anyone done a package of the bsd games collection?
> I'm missing hangman since upgrading from slackware ;-)

Some of them (e.g. fortune) are available as extra packages. But a
package for all the small BSD games would be nice ;-)

Sven
-- 
Sven Rudolph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ; WWW : http://www.sax.de/~sr1/

Re: gs 3.53 and up

[joost witteveen]

> > [...]
> > 3.53 *compiled with
> > optimizations turned off* works perfectly.  This evidence leads me to
> > believe that there is nothing wrong with my postscript source (not
> > that I wrote it by hand.  I came straight from dvips.).  I have solved
> > the problem personally by downloading gs 4.00 and compiling it with no
> > gcc optimizations.  However, I have to install it in /usr/local/
> > because I didn't have a functioning debianized version.  This means I
> > either have to keep a broken gs 3.x or working gs 2.x installed in
> 
> TeXtpert I'm not, but; [ This is only a guess ]
> 
> Turning off the optimizations and getting _any_ kind of
> different end results, except for a speed or size difference
> should probably be considered a bug in gcc.

Or some other flaky stuff: My Cirix 486 used to play that trick
with me with gs-2.61. Also, I've seen programmes that compare
doubles: the result depends on the optimisation, as without optimisation,
all compares are done at "double" precision, but with optimisation,
sometimes the doubles are still in the FPU, and then the compare
happens at "extended" (80 bits) precision. Not a gcc bug.

> That having been said, you do know there are two different "gs"
> interpreters?  gs is an Alladin product, donated to GNU
> (accord. to the Printing HOWTO).  As such, the GNU version is
> just an older Alladin version, presumably the newer Alladin
> version has more features, and different bugs.
> So if you have source from one and a binary from the other, you
> may be hunting bugs that are no longer with us...

The latest GNU version is (AFAIK) 3.33. As his problems are
with gs 3.53 and up, he can only be using Alladin version.

-- 
joost witteveen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Use Debian/GNU Linux!

Solved my "initial problems"

[Jens Peter Lindemann]

Hello,

a few days ago I described some problems I had when I installed Debain-1.1.4...

The problem I had was indeed that lilo booted my old 1.2.13-Kernel.

I just learned that lilo's image-field specifies the Kernel-Image relative to
the current root-Directory and not (as I thought) relative to the root-Directory
of the filesystem specified with the root-field. 

Just another case of rtfm :-)

Thanks to all who tried to help me.

Jens Peter.

Re: gs 3.53 and up

[Kevin M Bealer]

On Thu, 15 Aug 1996, Ervin D. Walter wrote:

> I have had a problem using ghostscript verisons 3.53 up through 4.00
> in the standard distributions.  Specifically, when I try to use gs
> with *any* device be it the console, X, or a printer, I get errors
> like the following with the standard distribs and compiled versions:
> 
> Error: /limitcheck in --moveto--
> Operand stack:
>1   0   0   0
> Execution stack:
>%interp_exit   ()   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
> --nostringval--   false   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
> --nostringval--   --nostringval--
> Dictionary stack:
>--dict:645/653--   --dict:0/20--   --dict:42/200--
> --dict:117/250--
> Current allocation mode is local
> Current file position is 311980
> 
> Now, the wierd parts.  First, these errors don't occur every time, and
> they don't occur in the same place every time.  Second, the exact save
> .ps file sent through gs 2.whatever or gs >= 3.53 *compiled with
> optimizations turned off* works perfectly.  This evidence leads me to
> believe that there is nothing wrong with my postscript source (not
> that I wrote it by hand.  I came straight from dvips.).  I have solved
> the problem personally by downloading gs 4.00 and compiling it with no
> gcc optimizations.  However, I have to install it in /usr/local/
> because I didn't have a functioning debianized version.  This means I
> either have to keep a broken gs 3.x or working gs 2.x installed in

TeXtpert I'm not, but; [ This is only a guess ]

Turning off the optimizations and getting _any_ kind of
different end results, except for a speed or size difference
should probably be considered a bug in gcc.

That having been said, you do know there are two different "gs"
interpreters?  gs is an Alladin product, donated to GNU
(accord. to the Printing HOWTO).  As such, the GNU version is
just an older Alladin version, presumably the newer Alladin
version has more features, and different bugs.

So if you have source from one and a binary from the other, you
may be hunting bugs that are no longer with us...

> P.S.  I did try the recommended bug-search algorithm with gs 4.0 to no
> avail.

? ... you mean trying to find the "bad patch?" by walking thru
the versions?

> Thanks,
> Ervin Walter
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> -- 
>   ,,,
>  (o o)
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> 
> PGP Key fingerprint =  A5 AB 25 7D 7A FD 4D FE  BE 21 47 60 0C DC 67 9E
> 
> 
> 

[EMAIL PROTECTED]/GNU__1.1___Linux__2.0.12___
Programming is always harder than doing the same task manually.
It's hard because you must completely understand the problem,
take everything into consideration, and protect against every
possible flaw.  Then you never have to do it manually again. 
The great driving force behind programming is the fervent
devotion to laziness:  you wage a war to save typing later.

Re: How do I get GATEWAY2000 PS/2 mouse to work ?

[Ben McKeegan]

On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Gilbert Ramirez Jr. wrote:

> > I think that you missed the original poster's point.  Users shouldn't
> > have to recompile their kernels to get their PS/2 mice to work.  Such a
> 
> I will unfortunately continue this thread with nothing but opinions. I
> think that any person wanting to run Unix on their own computer should be
> able to 1) download files, 2) uncompress and untar files, 3) type 'make
> config', and the least 4) make a boot floppy. They don't even have to
> understand LILO.
> 
> Making a new kernel is not that difficult.

1) and 2) are a big problem if like me you only set up the machines with
very small linux partitions. I've been setting up several student PCs here
with Debian for use just as X terminals, which only have small hard disks,
and still need DOS & windows. 


Ben McKeegan  
Assistant Computer Officer
Fitzwilliam College,
University of Cambridge. 

bsdgames

[Hamish Moffatt]

Has anyone done a package of the bsd games collection?
I'm missing hangman since upgrading from slackware ;-)



thanks,
hamish

RE: Isn't it a security hole...

[Casper BodenCummins]

>> Thus, I propose a new word be adopted to describe the clever
>> and benign inventor of quick technical fixes.  Rasher, from
>> "Shockwave Rider" usage, is a possible candidate, except
>> Brunner's rashers seemed to operate too much outside the
>> boundaries of ethics, delving into industrial espionage and
>> even sabotage, as I recall.  Ideas, anyone?
>
Good word, but it tends to make me think of bacon. Just like crackers
suggest cheese. It also suggests poor-quality fixes - rash ones.

I've read a very good argument for 'spider' as a candidate. There are
many parallels to be drawn between the behaviour of spiders and, er,
those other people. However, I go back to my earlier point that you'll
very likely fail to introduce a new word without the cooperation of the
(great many) people you're labelling. You also need a really good word
for it to stick, and I'm afraid hacker is a damned good word.

>Casper Boden-Cummins.

Linux Security Hole in in mount/umount (fwd)

[Steffen Mueller]

Hi there's some information I got from CERT this morning !

- -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-


 __

   The U.S. Department of Energy
Computer Incident Advisory Capability
   ___  __ ___ ___
  /   | /_\   /
  \___  __|__  /   \  \___
 __

 INFORMATION BULLETIN

  Linux Vulnerabilities in mount and umount Programs

August 15, 1996 16:00 GMT  Number G-38
__
PROBLEM:   A security hole has been identified in the mount and umount
   programs.
PLATFORM:  All systems running current distributions of Linux including
   all versions of Red Hat Linux.
DAMAGE:This vulnerability may allow any user with an account
   on a system to obtain root access.
SOLUTION:  Read and implement the workaround and/or patches described
   below.
__
VULNERABILITY  This vulnerability is becoming widely known. CIAC recommends
ASSESSMENT:implementing the workaround and/or patches as soon as possible.
__

The mount and umount programs are normally installed with setUID root to
allow users to perform mount and unmount operations. However, they do not
check the length of the information being passed, thereby creating a buffer
overflow problem.

**
Operating Systems Tested: All current distributions of Linux
**

Effect: Local users on systems affected can gain overflow mounts syntax
buffer and execute a shell by overwriting the stack.

Effected binaries:
(/bin/mount and /bin/umount)

Workaround:
On all current distributions of Linux remove suid bit of /bin/mount and
/bin/umount.
[chmod -s /bin/mount; chmod -s /bin/umount]
**

**
Operating Systems Tested: All versions of Red Hat Linux
**

Users of versions of Red Hat less than 3.0.3 are advised to upgrade to
3.0.3, since many other problems are fixed in the upgrade.

If you are running:
* Red Hat Linux 3.0.3 (Picasso) on the Intel architecture, get
- ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-3.0.3/i386/updates/RPMS/
util-linux-2.5-11fix.i386.rpm
mount-2.5k-1.i386.rpm
And install them in that order using 'rpm -Uvh [rpm filename]'

* Red Hat Linux 3.0.3 (Picasso) on the Alpha architecture, get
- ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-3.0.3/axp/updates/RPMS/
util-linux-2.5-11fix.axp.rpm
mount-2.5k-1.axp.rpm
And install them in that order using 'rpm -Uvh [rpm filename]'

* Red Hat Linux 3.0.4 (Rembrandt) beta on the Intel, get
- ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/rembrandt/i386/updates/RPMS/
mount-2.5k-2.i386.rpm

* Red Hat Linux 3.0.4 (Rembrandt) beta on the Sparc, get
- ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/rembrandt/sparc/updates/RPMS/
mount-2.5k-2.sparc.rpm

[Aside: There is no difference between mount-2.5k-1 and -2 except
the package format.]

All RPMs are PGP-signed with the [EMAIL PROTECTED] key.
The source RPMs will be available in the normal locations.

MD5SUM's:
ad9b0628b6af9957d7b5eb720bbe632b  mount-2.5k-1.axp.rpm
12cb19ec4b3060f8d1cedff77bda7c05  util-linux-2.5-11fix.axp.rpm

26506a3c0066b8954d80deff152e0229  mount-2.5k-1.i386.rpm
f48c6bf901dd5d2c476657d6b75b12a5  util-linux-2.5-11fix.i386.rpm

7337f8796318f3b13f2dccb4a8f10b1a  mount-2.5k-2.i386.rpm
e68ff642a7536f3be4da83eedc14dd76  mount-2.5k-2.sparc.rpm

Thanks to Bloodmask, Vio, and others on the BugTraq list for discovering
this hole and providing patches.
**


___

CIAC wishes to acknowledge the contributions of Bloodmask, Vio, Elliot Lee at
Red Hat, and others on BugTraq for the information contained in this bulletin.
___

CIAC, the Computer Incident Advisory Capability, is the computer
security incident response team for the U.S. Department of Energy
(DOE) and the emergency backup response team for the National
Institutes of Health (NIH). CIAC is located at the Lawrence Livermore
Nat

RE: Isn't it a security hole...

[Casper BodenCummins]

>>> If the max passwd
>>> length is 8 bytes, then at a quick estimate it seems that there are
>>> 256^8 * 4096 different possible passwords...?
>
Fewer than that. The range of ASCII characters used in passwords is
quite small: perhaps ~= 110, optimisticly taking into account control
characters and punctuation marks. Then, many people don't use the full 8
characters, so we have to reduce the _average_ number again. I'd
>tentatively suggest 6 characters.
>
>> If a password were a random sequence of characters, they would be nearly
>> unbreakable, but then people would have to write them down somewhere and
>> that is an even bigger security risk in many ways.

Perhaps, but I get by with random characters for some of my passwords.
It's tough to remember them, but you can't beat 'em. To invent them, I
type in strings of random characters until find one that feels
comfortable to type, and that's the one I learn.

>
>>   Brian
>>  ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )
>
>>---
>>---
>>   In theory, theory and practice are the same.  In practice, they're not.
>
Good point.

>Casper Boden-Cummins.

Re: dosemu

[Miro Torrielli]

Dale Scheetz wrote:
> 
> Try installing the xcompat package. It probably has the a.out library
> dosemu is looking for.
> 
> Luck,
> 
> Dwarf
> 
>   --
> 
> aka   Dale Scheetz   Phone:   1 (904) 877-0257
>   Flexible Software  Fax: NONE
>   Black Creek Critters   e-mail:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
>  If you don't see what you want, just ask --

Thanx for the info, I should have thought of it myself.
However, I can't get dosemu to boot with the -A switch, and
can't therefore install it. It always crashes giving me:
ERROR: can't get floppy parameter in /dev/fd0.

My floppy drive usually works, and the boot disk is fine.
Whats up??

Thanks for your time...

User-friendliness (was: Re: dselect returns error code)

[Heiko R. Selber]

On Thu, 15 Aug 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Aug 1996, Heiko R. Selber wrote:
> 
> > [ Problems with dselect ]

> > I am slowly approaching the point where I expect a
> > "general protection violation(TM)" from Debian.
> > I consider this a bad sign.

Sorry, I forgot to label this as 'funny'.

> Well, don't judge Debian by dselect. Dselect is the product of one mind
> and has, in my estimation, severe user interface problems.

I disagree. DO judge Debian by dselect. To the debian-newbie, dselect is
the first thing you see (thus, for the moment it IS Debian) and if it
doesn't do what it should, it will intimidate new users (maybe forever). 

But don't we all want to spread the REAL OS throughout the world?

I admit that an OS doesn't have to be foolproof, but there is no reason
that it shouldn't be user-friendly. Why not sit in front of your computer,
insert some disks, follow some instructions and end up with Linux running? 
(Yes, I know that Debian has come quite close to this, but IMHO not close
enough). 

> You can use dpkg at the prompt. Just cd to the directory with the package
> you wish to install and type: 
> dpkg -i packagename*.deb
> Let me know if this releaves your frustration ;-)

Yes, thanks, I feel much better now. Only that I prefer not having to work
around bugs (most of the time :o)

Heiko
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http://www.fhi-berlin.mpg.de/~selber | lbh unir jnfgrq lbhe gvzr. |
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  | Urvxb Fryore   |
Phone:+49-30-8413-4574, Fax:+49-30-8413-4686 ||

gs 3.53 and up

[Ervin D. Walter]

I have had a problem using ghostscript verisons 3.53 up through 4.00
in the standard distributions.  Specifically, when I try to use gs
with *any* device be it the console, X, or a printer, I get errors
like the following with the standard distribs and compiled versions:

Error: /limitcheck in --moveto--
Operand stack:
   1   0   0   0
Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   ()   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
--nostringval--   false   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
--nostringval--   --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:645/653--   --dict:0/20--   --dict:42/200--
--dict:117/250--
Current allocation mode is local
Current file position is 311980

Now, the wierd parts.  First, these errors don't occur every time, and
they don't occur in the same place every time.  Second, the exact save
.ps file sent through gs 2.whatever or gs >= 3.53 *compiled with
optimizations turned off* works perfectly.  This evidence leads me to
believe that there is nothing wrong with my postscript source (not
that I wrote it by hand.  I came straight from dvips.).  I have solved
the problem personally by downloading gs 4.00 and compiling it with no
gcc optimizations.  However, I have to install it in /usr/local/
because I didn't have a functioning debianized version.  This means I
either have to keep a broken gs 3.x or working gs 2.x installed in
/usr/bin or I have to deal with dependency problems because dpkg
doesn't know I have gs installed in /usr/local.

What I am looking for is one of the following (in order of
preference):

1.  A debianized gs 4.0 with the problem solved so that everything is
hunky dory (sp?).

2.  A debianized gs >= 3.x with the problem solved.

3.  A debianized version of gs 4.0 with optimizations turned off
(not the best choice).

4.  A debianized version of gs >= 3.x with optimizations turned off
(beggers can't be choosers).

If any of these can be mainstreamed, even better.

Please help me if you can?  I am willing to give you any more
information that you want.  

P.S.  I did try the recommended bug-search algorithm with gs 4.0 to no
avail.

Thanks,
Ervin Walter
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Re: How do I allow users to run a single command as root?

[Rob Browning]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim O'Brien) writes:

> Any ideas on how to accomplish this? I tried reading the man pages, but 
> su (which I think is what I would need to use) is not exactly what I'd   
> call well documented. 

su will only work if you want to give the users the root password (not
a good idea).  What you want is either the sudo package or the super
package.  I use sudo.  It lets you specify which users are allowed to
run which commands as root.  Then, to run the command, the user types

sudo some_command maybe with args

and sudo will ask them for *their* password, and if it's OK, run the
command for them as root.

"man sudo" has all the details.

--
Rob

How do I allow users to run a single command as root?

[Tim O'Brien]

I've written a few scripts to automatically connect to my ISP, which has 
several incoming lines. What I'd like to do is make these scripts so that
the user running them does not have to be root. I've tried changing the 
permissions to rwx__x__x, still owned by root, but it doesn't do the job.
I need to make this simply a command a user can run without them having
to know the root password.

Any ideas on how to accomplish this? I tried reading the man pages, but 
su (which I think is what I would need to use) is not exactly what I'd   
call well documented. 

Thanks,  

Tim O'Brien 

E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing Netscape with dpkg

[Derek Lee]

>On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Ken Gaugler wrote:
>
>> Dpkg specifically asks for the beta 4 binary; can I get away with using
>> one of the newer binaries?  Do I need to tweak anything to get it to
>> install using dpkg?
>
>This is what I've done. I got the 3.0b7 binary from their site; then
>grabbed the 3.0b6 installer (source form) from ftp.debian.org (under the
>rex hierarchy) and slightly modified it to use the 3.0b7 package (I don't
>remember exactly the modifications, they were slight).
>Then it worked, and it didn't seem to break anything. I'll tell you when I
>upgrade Netscape again! 

To give more details:

If you don't want to wait for the beta7 package to be distributed, then you
have to make the package yourself. (Since the official 3.0 release
is coming out next Monday, you might want to wait till next week and
do this to the official version.)

The procedure is:
(1) Get the source code for the netscape installer from 
debian/rex/source/net/netscape_3.0-beta6-1.tar.gz
(2) Unpack it (with 'tar xvfz' for example). The source will end up
in a directory called netscape-installer
(3) Go to the netscape-installer directory and edit the top of the 
debian.rules file to :
nsdist  := netscape-v30b7-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf
classes := "java_30"
plugins := ""
package := netscape
version := 3.0-beta7
debian  := 1
arch:= i386
(3a) There is a small typo in Line 113 of debian.postinst where '$netscape'
 has been mispelt as '$netcape$'. You can edit that as well.
(4) Put the .tar.gz file you downloaded from Netscape Corp in /tmp
(5) do 'make binary'; this is build the debian package and put it in 
the directory which also as netscape-installer as the subdirectory.
(6) Now you can use dpkg on this .deb package.

If you messed up, then you might want to rebuild the package with
debian  := 2
so that dpkg would automatically recognize it as an upgrade. to the 
messed-up version.

I should say that you should not use the beta4 source file from
stable/source/net directory. One reason is that beta4 had a plugin
library which is no longer distributed. You should in fact remove the
library (libnullplugin.so or something like that) from
/usr/lib/netscape/plugins if it is there.

Good luck!
Derek Lee

Re: dselect returns error code

[Daniel Lynes]

On Thu, 15 Aug 1996 12:22:38 +0200 (MET DST), Heiko R. Selber wrote:

>Hi Net,

Hello!

>  gcc-2.7.2-8 could not be installed (depends on binutils-2.6-2 which is 
>  not installed)

This is because binutils is not installed.  It needs to be installed
first, as there
are utilities in there that are used in the installation of gcc.

>Needless to say, binutils *is* installed (at least it is selected for 
>installation).

No.  It is selected for installation, but has not been installed,
because you
don't have it on your drive.

>When I tried it once more I got the cryptic message:
>
>  internal error at -e line 12  chunk 16

This is because you told dselect where to go with its error, and now
it's
laughing at you, for being so stubborn. :)

Re: Installing Netscape with dpkg

[Mark Phillips]

>On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Ken Gaugler wrote:
>
>> Dpkg specifically asks for the beta 4 binary; can I get away with using
>> one of the newer binaries?  Do I need to tweak anything to get it to
>> install using dpkg?
>
>This is what I've done. I got the 3.0b7 binary from their site; then
>grabbed the 3.0b6 installer (source form) from ftp.debian.org (under the
>rex hierarchy) and slightly modified it to use the 3.0b7 package (I don't
>remember exactly the modifications, they were slight).
>Then it worked, and it didn't seem to break anything. I'll tell you when I
>upgrade Netscape again! 

How does one make "slight modifications" to a debian package?  What is
a debian package?  Is it really just a gzipped, tarred file?  What are
the important components?

Thanks,

Mark.

Re: exmh and Xauthority

[Philippe Troin]

On Fri, 16 Aug 1996 22:53:39 +0200 Giuseppe Vacanti 
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I seem to have a problem with exmh (or X). When I start exmh I get a string
> of
> 
> BGRegister insecure server (must run old style xauth). Command ignored.
> 
> I think I understand what is happening: my X server is not generating
> the ~/.Xauthority file needed to run secure and exmh complains. But I
> haven't been able to fix this problem.

The simplier way is to use xdm.
Alternately, you can create the cookie by yourself if you want to use startx. 
I've got a small program (20 lines of C) that generates such cookies. Email if 
you want it.

Phil.

Re: Sound card IRQ

[Eric Liu]

Hello!

Thanks to Susan Kleinmann for her response:

> > Problem: sound module insists on looking at IRQ 7 ("sb: Interrupt 
> > test on IRQ 7 failed - device disabled" or something like that).  
> > Need it to look at IRQ 5.
> No, you didn't miss anything.  I, too, wonder why the default IRQ for
> sound cards seems to be 7, especially since that's the defualt IRQ for
> the parallel port on PC clones.  I believe this ought to be fixed in
> the versions of the kernel-* packages that are distributed by the
> Debian project.

>>From reading another article in this list, I finally found out the
solution to the above problem!

The argument to pass to the sound module is sound=[thing].  The details
for [thing] is found at:
http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/BootPrompt-HOWTO-7.html#ss7.3

For eg., my sb-clone's on port 220, IRQ 5, DMA 1, and under the details
of that page, classifies as a type 2.  This would work:
insmod sound sound=0x222051

--
  Eric Liu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [ENERGi http://www.ucalgary.ca/~eliu/]

cdplay & sound.o autoloading

[Derek Lee]

I have been seeing something strange on my system. The autoloading of
the sound module works most of the time. The problem is with the CD
playing programs (cdplay from cdtool 1.0 or workman). They do not send
a request the sound module to kerneld. But they work if the module has
been loaded at some point in the past. In fact, they would continue to
work even if the sound module has been removed from the kernel!

--Derek Lee

Here is a more systematic account. 
There are several situations:
(A) after power-on boot
(B) (A) + 'insmod sound' + 'rmmod sound' 
(so that lsmod does not show sound.o)
(C) Ctrl-Alt-Del or /sbin/reboot after (B)
(ie reboot after I can get sound on all programs)
(D) Reboot by physical reset button after (B)

cdplay/workman  sox utility
(A)&(D)
request sound.o N   Y   
sound.o loaded  N   Y
Sound?  N   Y

NB: cdplayers do not abort even if no sound. They just spin the CD.
There is no sound from either Line Out or Speaker socket.

(B)&(C)
request sound.o N   Y   
sound.o loaded  N   Y
Sound?  Y   Y

An interpretation is: 
(1) cdplay/workman needs something physically initialized in the sound card. 
(2) cdplay/workman do not need the sound.o module after the initialization.
(3) This initialization is done by sound.o. 
(4) The initialized state of the card survives Ctrl-Alt-Del but not physical
reset.

Possible solutions are:
(a) Load sound.o on bootup and be done with it.
(b) Perform 'insmod sound;rmmod sound' and 'rmmod' on bootup, so that
things are initialized.


Here are some system specs from `kdstat` and `cat /dev/sndstat`:

kdstat: Version 2.0.0, pid=120, delay=60, nokeep, nodebug

Sound Driver:3.5.4-960630 (Sun Aug 11 02:40:45 EDT 1996 root,
Linux boson 2.0.0 #1 Fri Jun 14 00:48:45 EDT 1996 i586)   < what is this?
Kernel: Linux boson 2.0.12 #1 Sun Aug 11 02:43:29 EDT 1996 i586
Config options: a80002

Installed drivers: 
Type 1: OPL-2/OPL-3 FM
Type 2: Sound Blaster
Type 7: SB MPU-401

Card config: 
Sound Blaster at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1,5
SB MPU-401 at 0x330 irq 5 drq 0
OPL-2/OPL-3 FM at 0x388 drq 0

Audio devices:
0: Sound Blaster 16 (4.13)

Synth devices:
0: Yamaha OPL-3

Midi devices:
0: Sound Blaster 16

Timers:
0: System clock

Mixers:
0: Sound Blaster

Linux is trademarked...

[Michael Alan Dorman]

I don't know how many people noticed the post from Mark Balzern
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> of WorkGroup Solutions to c.o.l.a, regarding the letter
he received claiming that Linux is trademarked, and inviting him to
contact the owner of the trademark to discuss payment.

If you're like me, you more or less wrote it off as a just some crank
trying to scam someone.  I had a nasty feeling though, and after
getting my wife to do some research, it looks like it's very real, and
the name Linux is, according to the US (and possibly other) legal
system(s), someone else's property.

Please read my post to c.o.l.a. for a little more information.

Mike.
--
Michael Alan Dorman   Head of Systems
[EMAIL PROTECTED]Louis Calder Memorial Library
(305) 243-5530 University of Miami School of Medicine 

Re: Unidentified subject!

[Lars Wirzenius]

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>  THE QUESTION - How big can a Debian ( and/or slakware) filesystem be??

The ext2 filesystem can be at least 2 terabytes, with files up to at least 2 
gigabytes. Other filesystems Linux support have lower limits.

>   - AND is that size limitation consistent with nfs mount   
> points?

Don't know, sorry.

>   - are there any nfs howtos that would be helpful to pick  
> through?

There is the NET-2-HOWTO, but don't forget the Network Administrators' Guide.
I think O'Reilly & Associates has a book on NFS, which is probably good
(ORA books tend to be better than average, even if not great).

> AIX 3.2.5 can mount a file system of _ONLY_ 2 gig !!!

Hah! Linux 0.01 can only mount a filesystem of 64 megabytes!

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Re: SCSI and EIDE

[Rob Browning]

Ricardo Kleemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Now will Linux implement anything greater than RAID0? 
> Would you say your performance is significantly increased with striping?

It also currently handles RAID1, and linear; higher levels have been
temporarily disabled because they are still too buggy.

I don't know about performance.  The machines certainly *seem* faster,
but I didn't do any real testing.  I would have done hdparm -t, but it
turned out it wouldn't work for md devices.

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exmh and Xauthority

[Giuseppe Vacanti]

Hi,

I seem to have a problem with exmh (or X). When I start exmh I get a string
of

BGRegister insecure server (must run old style xauth). Command ignored.

I think I understand what is happening: my X server is not generating
the ~/.Xauthority file needed to run secure and exmh complains. But I
haven't been able to fix this problem.

What do tou suggest?

Thanks,

-giuseppe

Someone working on support for NFS mounted "/usr"?

[Kevin Buhr]

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(Sorry to those who see this twice:  it looks like our local news
 server has all the "linux.*" groups marked as unmoderated.)

As near as I can tell from examining various FAQs, there is no support
for maintaining clients with a read-only, NFS-mounted "/usr"
partition.  The only current solution seems to be: (i) install a
complete system on the server and a base system on the client; 
(ii) remove the client "/usr" partition and mount the server "/usr" in
its place; (iii) configure the client's packages by hand.

Is anyone working on support for NFS-mounted "/usr" partitions (as
opposed to NFS-mounted installation)?  (I'm imagining support in
"dselect/dpkg" to check the server's package versions, update
non-"/usr" files, and perform needed configuration, possibly even
remotely.)

Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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Re: Isn't it a security hole...

[Brian C. White]

> >Actually, cracking a unix passwd file is quite easy, even for those
> >with minimal computer knowledge.  With widely available programs like Crack
> >(UNIX), Crakerjack (DOS), and root_crack(DOS) anybody with a CPU >386 can
> >crack the DES encryption with a bit of time.
> 
> My understanding of this situation (and please correct me if I'm wrong) is
> that the crypt() routine used by passwd is a truly one-way hashing algorithm,
> i.e. there simply is no way to go from an encrypted password back to the
> original.

Correct.

> Actually, I seem to remember reading that the crypt routine uses
> the password in combination with a "random" (based on time of day) string of
> bits (called the "salt", can't remember the length, I think it was 12 bits,
> giving 4096 possible encryptions of any given string), and that it uses this
> new salt+password as its key in encrypting a string of 0's. Given this, the
> only way to crack the passwords is to compile a dictionary of possible
> passwords, by taking all the likely strings to be used as passwords and
> encrypting each one 4096 times, once for each salt.

Because the same salt must be used on verification as on generation, the
salt is stored as the first two characters of the 13 character encrypted
password is thus easily obtained.  Without this, there would be no way
to verify a password other than trying it 4096 different ways.

> Once you have this
> dictionary made, it can be distributed to anyone to use as the foundation of
> their crack attack, but if you wish to hack someone personally, i.e. by
> checking their first name, etc., you'll have to add these to the dictionary
> (unless common names are also part of the original dictionary).

The "Crack" program automatically adds such words (obtained from user-info
and any readable files from the user's directory).

> And it should
> be plain how anyone with reasonable password-selection skills can be pretty
> much immune to this attack, e.g. by using non-word strings, by having
> punctuation, by varying the case of your characters, etc.  If the max passwd
> length is 8 bytes, then at a quick estimate it seems that there are
> 256^8 * 4096 different possible passwords...?

Right, but most people don't do this.  It's usually a word or some simple
permutation of a word.  Crack tries the with different cases, backwards, 
"1" instead of "i", "0" instead of "o", etc.

If a password were a random sequence of characters, they would be nearly
unbreakable, but then people would have to write them down somewhere and
that is an even bigger security risk in many ways.

Brian
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