SSH patch for X SECURITY bug (CVE-2015-5352)?

2016-02-26 Thread Alan Amesbury
f no patch is committed, is the plan to just defer this one until later? -- Alan Amesbury University Information Security http://umn.edu/lookup/amesbury ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/free

Re: Sanity check: FreeBSD 9.3 binaries on FreeBSD 9.1?

2016-02-03 Thread Alan Amesbury
, but the probability is greater than zero. It also sounds like I may be at least partially sane. Thanks! -- Alan Amesbury University Information Security http://umn.edu/lookup/amesbury ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://list

Sanity check: FreeBSD 9.3 binaries on FreeBSD 9.1?

2016-02-02 Thread Alan Amesbury
-RELEASE will generally run on 9.1-RELEASE. Does this sound generally correct, or am I totally off base here? Any major pitfalls I should know of? -- Alan Amesbury University Information Security http://umn.edu/lookup/amesbury ___ freebsd-stable

Re: Inmutable bit in some binaries

2010-02-04 Thread Alan Amesbury
, sysutils/ezjail puts together a pretty nice framework that makes use of what's effectively a read-only OS with other things overlaid on top of it. That might work as an example, if one's needed. -- Alan Amesbury OIT Security and Assurance University of Minnesota

Re: Garbled output from kgdb?

2009-05-05 Thread Alan Amesbury
production assets without a second look. ;-) Thanks again for your help on this. I appreciate it! -- Alan Amesbury OIT Security and Assurance University of Minnesota ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Garbled output from kgdb?

2009-05-01 Thread Alan Amesbury
0xac058000 -- Alan Amesbury OIT Security and Assurance University of Minnesota ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr

Re: Garbled output from kgdb?

2009-05-01 Thread Alan Amesbury
panicked more than once, so I think I can justify using it towards elimination of the cause of that panic if necessary. I appreciate you taking the time to look at it this far! Thanks! -- Alan Amesbury OIT Security and Assurance University of Minnesota

Garbled output from kgdb?

2009-04-29 Thread Alan Amesbury
to serial port access, which is why I've stayed out of that thread.) That the crash dump includes similar corruption suggests to me that it's not the serial device, but something a bit closer to FreeBSD itself. Any ideas what's causing the garbled output in kgdb? -- Alan Amesbury OIT Security

Re: zdump on amd64

2007-03-21 Thread Alan Amesbury
EST Fri Jan 1 04:59:59 -219 UTC = Thu Dec 30 23:59:59 -219 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000 EST Fri Jan 1 05:00:00 -219 UTC = Fri Jan 1 00:00:00 -219 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000 ^C [snip] Known bug. See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=amd64/109584 -- Alan Amesbury OIT

Re: getting garbage faster using FreeBSD?

2007-02-20 Thread Alan Amesbury
). It's primarily for item #1 that I hadn't mentioned this earlier, as most readers of -STABLE users are probably looking for a more scalable solution. -- Alan Amesbury University of Minnesota ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-28 Thread Alan Amesbury
in. Also, I've noticed that STP goes nuts for the bge(4) host, but doesn't seem to notice when the em(4) host watchdog timer goes off. However, I don't have direct access to the network equipment, so I can't check for differences there. -- Alan Amesbury University of Minnesota

Re: FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

2006-08-18 Thread Alan Amesbury
(hopefully later today). Thanks again! -- Alan Amesbury University of Minnesota ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

2006-08-17 Thread Alan Amesbury
is really at fault here. :-\ Recommendations for improvement are welcome, as well as any suggestions for a less kludgy fix. I *really* dislike the idea of slowing down the boot process. :-( -- Alan Amesbury University of Minnesota --- netif.orig Thu Jun 29 17:21:10 2006 +++ netif Thu Aug

Re: Kernel INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE workaround?

2006-03-13 Thread Alan Amesbury
in DEFAULTS). Again, this used to work great, but appears to have been broken in favor of... usability? -- Alan Amesbury University of Minnesota ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

UID/GID ranges (was Re: Required audit group is missing...)

2006-03-13 Thread Alan Amesbury
Looks like the Handbook needs to be updated to reflect this, as audit isn't currently listed. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/dads-uid-and-gids.html -- Alan Amesbury University of Minnesota ___ freebsd-stable

Kernel INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE workaround?

2006-03-07 Thread Alan Amesbury
{otherconfig}. However, besides the fact that DEFAULTS would come back every time /usr/src is sync'ed, I'm unsure what the long-term ramifications are. -- Alan Amesbury University of Minnesota ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Getting a patch integrated into -STABLE?

2005-11-21 Thread Alan Amesbury
to indicate this, and b) is there a typical time-to-fix for this sort of thing? Thanks in advance! -- Alan Amesbury University of Minnesota ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: Strange crashing/rebooting problem

2005-10-26 Thread Alan Amesbury
suitable for writing to floppy with a command like cat file.img | dd of=/dev/fd0 obs=18k or something like that. The .ZIP files contain what appear to be ISO images suitable for burning to a CD. Figuring that command out is left as an exercise for the reader. :-) -- Alan Amesbury University