Re: {Spam?} Re: woody kernel image

2005-02-03 Thread Adam Majer
Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2005-01-30 15:32:25, schrieb Sam Morris: Wow, I missed that! Should not the kernel-image-2.4.28-* packages be removed from the archive, since they are unsupported, and *very* dangerous to use? Sorry, that I ask, but where ist 2.4.28 ? The

patched 2.4.18 woody kernel image packages

2005-02-02 Thread Brett Hamilton
Dear Debian Users, Due the to delay of security updated debian woody 2.4.18 kernels, I have applied Simon Heywood's patch to the kernel-source-2.4.18 (ver 14.3) and am making deb packages available for 386 and 686. These kernels have been tested to stop the uselib() kernel root exploit.

Re: patched 2.4.18 woody kernel image packages

2005-02-02 Thread Harald Krammer
Hi, I tested the kernel with success. :) Is only the uselib() root exploit fixed ? I looked at http://www.isec.pl/vulnerabilities.html and saw also a other problem and I think this should be solved ( kernel-image-2.4.18-1-686-smp can be affected). On http://www.isec.pl/vulnerabilities04.html

Re: patched 2.4.18 woody kernel image packages

2005-02-02 Thread Simon Heywood
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 at 22:35:44 +, Harald Krammer wrote: Brett Hamilton wrote: These kernel packages have been installed and appear to function well, but they are still rather new and come with no warranty. Feel free to give them a try, and let me know if you experience any problems.

Re: woody kernel image

2005-01-31 Thread Joey Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I currently run Sarge on a few machines, but as I understand Debian policy, Sarge does not receive security updates. The only security updates I can expect are for Woody, so this makes Sarge unreliable for a production environment. Increasingly innaccurate; see

Re: woody kernel image

2005-01-30 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-01-29 22:56:39, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 07:12:21PM -0800, peace bwitchu wrote: This has been bothering me as well. They dropped support for kernel 2.4.18 when Herbert Xu left but I don't remember seeing any notification of this. I roll my own but how

Re: woody kernel image

2005-01-30 Thread Paul Hink
Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 2005-01-29 22:56:39, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This should be posted somewhere easy to find so that folks know. Definitely it should be! IMO debian-announce or debian-security-announce would be appropriate. Where is it posted that the dropped

Re: woody kernel image

2005-01-30 Thread Jan Minar
On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 12:02:23PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: Where is it posted that the dropped support for 2.4.18? It was on debian-devel and debian-kernel Michelle, can You cite the Message-Id's and/or URLs to the archive, please? Thanks. Now Debian rocks, doesn't it? Kudos to the

{Spam?} Re: woody kernel image

2005-01-30 Thread Sam Morris
Michelle Konzack wrote: Where is it posted that the dropped support for 2.4.18? It was on debian-devel and debian-kernel They told, there are too much kernels to maintain and droped 2.4.(18-22) They sugested to use one of the Backports. Wow, I missed that! Should not the kernel-image-2.4.28-*

{Spam?} Re: {Spam?} Re: woody kernel image

2005-01-30 Thread Sam Morris
Sam Morris wrote: Wow, I missed that! Should not the kernel-image-2.4.28-* packages be ^ should be 2.4.18, sorry :) -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 5EA01078 Fingerprint 3412 EA18 1277 354B

Re: woody kernel image

2005-01-30 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-01-30 13:37:13, schrieb Jan Minar: Michelle, can You cite the Message-Id's and/or URLs to the archive, please? Unfortunatly not (my postgresql is curently down) but I think, it was between April and June last year. Maybe after the last BUGfix in 2.4.18 Thanks. Now Debian rocks,

Re: {Spam?} Re: {Spam?} Re: woody kernel image

2005-01-30 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-01-30 16:02:23, schrieb Sam Morris: Sam Morris wrote: Wow, I missed that! Should not the kernel-image-2.4.28-* packages be ^ should be 2.4.18, sorry :) :-) Generaly there is no reason to

Re: woody kernel image

2005-01-30 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050130 17:45]: Michelle, can You cite the Message-Id's and/or URLs to the archive, please? Unfortunatly not (my postgresql is curently down) but I think, it was between April and June last year. Maybe after the last BUGfix in 2.4.18 Michelle,

Re: woody kernel image

2005-01-30 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-01-30 19:17:25, schrieb Alexander Schmehl: how does it come, that every time, you're telling such a story and are requested for some proof, one of your services is down, you cite completly unrelated URLs or you don't answer at all? Why not go to http://lists.debian.org/ and search for

Re: woody kernel image

2005-01-30 Thread Jan Minar
On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 08:29:02PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2005-01-30 19:17:25, schrieb Alexander Schmehl: how does it come, that every time, you're telling such a story and are requested for some proof, one of your services is down, you cite completly unrelated URLs or you

Re: woody kernel image

2005-01-30 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-01-30 19:43:49, schrieb Jan Minar: Because, darling, we already have done that, with no satisfactory results, and a member of the DST just have said something which is quite I am not police (DST) :-) but military. contradictory to Your claims. Yours, Greetings Michelle --

[OT] tales (was: woody kernel image)

2005-01-30 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050130 20:29]: how does it come, that every time, you're telling such a story and are requested for some proof, one of your services is down, you cite completly unrelated URLs or you don't answer at all? Why not go to http://lists.debian.org/ and

Re: {Spam?} Re: woody kernel image

2005-01-30 Thread Norbert Tretkowski
* Michelle Konzack wrote: There will be no new version of 2.4.XX Wrong. Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] tales (was: woody kernel image)

2005-01-30 Thread Jan Lühr
Greetings, Am Sonntag, 30. Januar 2005 21:14 schrieb Alexander Schmehl: Hi! * Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050130 20:29]: how does it come, that every time, you're telling such a story and are requested for some proof, one of your services is down, you cite completly unrelated

Re: woody kernel image

2005-01-30 Thread Paul Hink
Paul Hink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 2005-01-29 22:56:39, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Where is it posted that the dropped support for 2.4.18? It was on debian-devel and debian-kernel Both of which are lists mainly intended for developers and

Re: [OT] tales (was: woody kernel image)

2005-01-30 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-01-30 22:13:08, schrieb Jan Lühr: Greetings, Don't take it down personal. Jugding about DSA's I've seen, there is currently _no_ security-support for 2.4.18. For reasons I don't know, for thinks, I don't understand, important patches seem to be missing. If you have information

Re: [OT] tales (was: woody kernel image)

2005-01-30 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Jan Lühr [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050130 22:13]: Don't take it down personal. Jugding about DSA's I've seen, there is currently _no_ security-support for 2.4.18. I didn't made any statement about security support of 2.4.18. All I said was, that MK can't proof her own statement, that I can't a

Re: woody kernel image

2005-01-30 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Paul Hink [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050130 21:57]: They told, there are too much kernels to maintain and droped 2.4.(18-22) They sugested to use one of the Backports. And of course this is nothing to inform the ordinary users about, is it? Just to make sure that there are no

Re: [OT] tales (was: woody kernel image)

2005-01-30 Thread Jan Lühr
Greetings, Am Sonntag, 30. Januar 2005 22:46 schrieb Alexander Schmehl: * Jan Lühr [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050130 22:13]: Don't take it down personal. Jugding about DSA's I've seen, there is currently _no_ security-support for 2.4.18. I didn't made any statement about security support of

Re: woody kernel image

2005-01-30 Thread smj
On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 05:08:14PM +, Sam Morris wrote: Michelle Konzack wrote: Generaly there is no reason to remove 2.4.18. But I think, there is a need to a note about Servers like http://www.backports.org/ where they can get newer Kernels. Well it seems sensible to remove such

Re: woody kernel image

2005-01-29 Thread Harald Krammer
Hi ! You are right, but why is the kernel image from woody not up-to date ? A simple 'apt-get update apt-get upgrade' will not help. Is is not better to remove the kernel image from woody and take the kernel image 2.4.27 ( I know , it is a version update). A lot of people use only the kernel

Re: woody kernel image

2005-01-29 Thread Jan Lühr
Greetings, Am Freitag, 28. Januar 2005 21:25 schrieb Harald Krammer: hi ! I have running some debian/woody machines with kernel 2.4.18. blocked@blocked:~$ cat /proc/version Linux version 2.4.18-1-k7 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #1 Wed Apr 14

Re: woody kernel image

2005-01-29 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-01-29 14:45:37, schrieb Harald Krammer: Hi ! You are right, but why is the kernel image from woody not up-to date ? There are Security Updates for kernel 2.4.18 A simple 'apt-get update apt-get upgrade' will not help. Is is not better to remove the kernel image from woody and take

Re: woody kernel image

2005-01-29 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: There are Security Updates for kernel 2.4.18 The last update for kernel-source-2.4.18 in stable was in April 2004. BTW: I wonder why http://packages.qa.debian.org/k/kernel-source-2.4.18.html contains the latest version 2.4.18-14.3 but no entry in the

Re: woody kernel image

2005-01-29 Thread smj
On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 07:12:21PM -0800, peace bwitchu wrote: This has been bothering me as well. They dropped support for kernel 2.4.18 when Herbert Xu left but I don't remember seeing any notification of this. I roll my own but how many boxes out there havn't been patched because they

woody kernel image

2005-01-28 Thread Harald Krammer
hi ! I have running some debian/woody machines with kernel 2.4.18. blocked@blocked:~$ cat /proc/version Linux version 2.4.18-1-k7 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #1 Wed Apr 14 19:20:42 UTC 2004 I saw the last security fix was DSA-479-1 ( long ago) - is it

Re: woody kernel image

2005-01-28 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-01-28 21:25:55, schrieb Harald Krammer: hi ! I have running some debian/woody machines with kernel 2.4.18. I saw the last security fix was DSA-479-1 ( long ago) - is it better to switch to 2.4.29 or exits new kernels with all security pachtes ? AFAIK 2.4.27 from

Re: woody kernel image

2005-01-28 Thread Xavier Sudre
On Friday 28 January 2005 at 23:51, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2005-01-28 21:25:55, schrieb Harald Krammer: hi ! I have running some debian/woody machines with kernel 2.4.18. I saw the last security fix was DSA-479-1 ( long ago) - is it better to switch to 2.4.29 or exits new