Re: [leaf-devel] libstdc++

2007-03-08 Thread David Douthitt
Tom Eastep wrote: > What about C++ toolkits (fundamental classes such as hash tables, linked > lists, ... )? I'm trying to understand the trade-off between LUA > (another language to learn) or C++ (need to re-invent the wheel or learn > about a toolkit) verses Perl (does everything I need but is ap

Re: [leaf-devel] outdated LEAF derivatives

2007-01-28 Thread David Douthitt
KP Kirchdoerfer wrote: > Oxygen is put on very deep hold - David Douthitt from time to time > explains interest that something will happen, but then it stops. That sums it up about right, I'd say... I like the idea of a historical archive. I've more or less figured that any ne

[leaf-devel] KernelKit: a Knoppix-derivative for embedded systems work!

2006-09-01 Thread David Douthitt
I saw this and thought you all would be interested. With the mention of uClibc, my thoughts went to Bering-uClibc immediately http://free-electrons.com/community/tools/kernelkit It has the gcc toolchain for multiple architectures, including i386, ppc, and m68k. It is available in a Live-C

Re: [leaf-devel] Announce: Comprehensive Source Database makes Distributor's and Sysop's life easier

2006-08-19 Thread David Douthitt
Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Announcing the Comprehensive Source Database Project > -- > > ==> What's it all about ? > > The CSDB project provides an uniform database with dozens of > packages, their releases and tarball locations. Using this > data

Re: [leaf-devel] GNU Compliance (section 3) - are you compliant??

2006-07-18 Thread David Douthitt
Mike Noyes wrote: > David, > Eric is correct. The GPL source code availability clause expires after > three years. Oxygen is exempt. I wasn't just talking about that; what about Mosquito? WISP? Dachstein? Bering? I suspect most or all fall into the three-year exemption -

Re: [leaf-devel] GNU Compliance (section 3) - are you compliant??

2006-07-18 Thread David Douthitt
Mike Noyes wrote: > Everyone, > We need to release source tarballs in the SF FRS with our binaries. How does this affect distributions that are not being actively maintained? I agree with Luis, though - the storage requirements for SF are going to be incredible...

[leaf-devel] GNU Compliance (section 3) - are you compliant??

2006-06-29 Thread David Douthitt
According to the latest news, it is being reported that the FSF is forcing all distributions to carry all source code, including "spinoff" distributions. For example, that means that MEPIS must carry the source code to every program that they have released, not just those that they have change

Re: [leaf-devel] Digg: Bond 3 ADSL Lines

2006-06-16 Thread David Douthitt
Mike Noyes wrote: > On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 17:53, David Douthitt wrote: >> Is there any method of bonding multiple PPP dialup connections without >> ISP intervention? > > David, > Something like MLPPP? Doesn't that still require ISPs t

Re: [leaf-devel] Digg: Bond 3 ADSL Lines

2006-06-15 Thread David Douthitt
Mike Noyes wrote: > Everyone, > You might find this story interesting. > > http://digg.com/technology/How_To_Bond_3_ADSL_Lines_for_Serious_Bandwidth_(with_Photos_Screenshots) Is there any method of bonding multiple PPP dialup connections without ISP intervention? I remember talking to one ISP a

Re: [leaf-devel] Hosts.deny & hosts.allow

2006-05-02 Thread David Douthitt
Jorn Eriksen wrote: I guess the question would be then - for new users - how will they know what to search for (i.e hosts.deny hosts.allow) when they do not know that is/could be the problem? If a new users take the Floppy, CD or Stick version, add a package (say SNMPD) and open the correct po

Re: [leaf-devel] Hosts.deny & hosts.allow

2006-05-02 Thread David Douthitt
Martin Hejl wrote: Hm - I'm not quite sure what you mean. Do you mean that if you hit reply to a mail on the list (instead of "reply all") it will only go to the person who wrote the mail, instead of the list? If that's the case, and you really care to know the gory details, it's something that's

Re: [leaf-devel] Re: New server for LFS

2006-04-25 Thread David Douthitt
Paul G Rogers wrote: I second the opinion that the server LFS needs must be beyond reproach, like Caesar's wife. Took me a while to realize (I think) that you were not talking about Linux From Scratch (LFS). I thought they were above reproach already :-) (I do not personally endorse any add

Re: [leaf-devel] Hosts.deny & hosts.allow

2006-04-25 Thread David Douthitt
Martin Hejl wrote: The short version is that it's a sane default, and somebody who wants to get rid of libwrap checking can simply add "ALL: ALL" to hosts.allow. IMHO, the default config should not be as open as possible, but rather as secure as possible, and somebody who wants to open the box to

Re: [leaf-devel] SF shell cron job: doc-build.sh

2006-04-20 Thread David Douthitt
Bit again by the mail address meant to send to list. Grrr.. Mike Noyes wrote: David, Thanks for the suggestion. I'll run it by one of the SF staff members this week. I'm not hopeful they'll allow this, though. I'm not sure why not. When I say "user space", I mean cfengine can run as

Re: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image

2006-04-20 Thread David Douthitt
Jorn Eriksen wrote: Investigatet that a little bit. Altough it's a good idea it would require different versions for different OS/*nix variants and as much explanations as a simple image. With my limited knowlegde of this type of script, the saving would be in the "creation" process and not nec

Re: [leaf-devel] SF shell cron job: doc-build.sh

2006-04-05 Thread David Douthitt
Mike Noyes wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 13:47, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: A lockfile as used by your shell script is just a normal file in our SF project space, removable by anyone with rights to delete the file (should at least be any project admins, and could safely be any project develope

Re: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image

2006-04-05 Thread David Douthitt
KP Kirchdoerfer wrote: We currently have three ideas how to provide an USB image: Here's another idea for you all: 3) a "pendrive-script", which creates a bootable USB stick by using the ISO image and some modifications for USB - nothing to test yet, but maybe soon. (I like to add vfat or ex

Re: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image

2006-03-27 Thread David Douthitt
To answer Eric's question, here's Andrea's tips "adjusted" slightly: Andrea Fino wrote: I did a working usb this way: 1) build the env with buildroot, so I got the lrp in packages 2) these commands: mkdosfs /dev/sde1 mount /dev/sde1 /mnt cd /root/packages cp -pr * /mnt umount /mnt syslinux /d

Re: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image

2006-03-27 Thread David Douthitt
Eric Spakman wrote: The same question to you, do you know a way to create an image without using a physical USB stick? Should be easy, right? Just replace "/dev/usb/#" with "/home/myhome/usbfile". Under UNIX, devices look just like files to the programs involved. Thus, you should be ab

Re: [leaf-devel] flash usb

2006-03-27 Thread David Douthitt
Erich Titl wrote: The nice thing about Knoppix is the device autodetection, [...] This can be subsumed from Knoppix and adapted for use in LEAF if you want. It might be good sized, I don't know I _believe_ one could strip down Knoppix sufficiently to be of acceptable size for download,

Re: [leaf-devel] flash usb

2006-03-27 Thread David Douthitt
Natanael Copa wrote: David Douthitt wrote: You are right. I guess it failed to mount the device where root.lrp were. I don't remember the exact kernel panic message but it was probably "trying to kill init" or something like that. That usually means that the initial process

Re: [leaf-devel] flash usb

2006-03-27 Thread David Douthitt
Natanael Copa wrote: FYI. I never got your stick.img to boot. First I got the same "no operating system" message as previously mentioned. After installing the syslinux mbr.bin on the stick it found the kernel and booted it up but ended with a kernel panic: "Can't open /var/lib/lrpkg/root.dev.own"

Re: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image

2006-03-27 Thread David Douthitt
Natanael Copa wrote: (firefox tried to display the binary and since link didnt work it isn't possible to right-click -> "save as") You could let Firefox "display" it, then select "Save As..." and save the "page" and it would be fine... Just a matter of one wants to wait for Firefox to "downl

Re: [leaf-devel] Development Model

2006-03-18 Thread David Douthitt
Tim Wegner wrote: Sure I wish Charles, David D., and Jacques had decided to maintain their leaf branches, but like everyone else they do what their time, interests, and priorities permit. I'm sure glad the Bering uClibc team did what they did. I can't see the future, but whatever happens with

Re: [leaf-devel] lwp (webconf) packages

2006-03-17 Thread David Douthitt
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: It should be possible to make an image that has an HDD partition table with a smallish (ie: maybe 8 Megs or so, still a *LOT* bigger than a floppy) FAT partition containing the boot files as the first partition. The remaining space could be unused, or formatted and us

Re: [leaf-devel] Re: adding a new menu

2006-02-14 Thread David Douthitt
KP Kirchdoerfer wrote: We really need a solution for the missing cron on SF - it's disabled for nearly two years, and I'm afraid they won't fix the next two years, if ever. Any possibility of compiling a version of cron and leaving it running in user mode? What about something like fcron?

Re: [leaf-devel] Re: Guides

2005-08-24 Thread David Douthitt
Mike Noyes wrote: On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 05:33, Luis.F.Correia wrote: Mike, can you please try to re-generate the PDF versions of all our documentation? Luis, Just the leaf guide collection, or the individual guides too? Note: this will take me a while to generate locally. I'm not

[leaf-devel] syslinux 3.x and APPEND lines

2005-02-25 Thread David Douthitt
In syslinux 3.x, the APPEND line has a maximum of 255 characters. Is this going to have an adverse affect on the LEAF distros? -- David Douthitt UNIX System Administrator Linux+, LPIC-1, RHCE HP-UX, Unixware, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD Member: ACM, USENIX/SAGE

Re: [leaf-devel] SF Site Status (2005-01-26)

2005-01-31 Thread David Douthitt
the web server. Does this affect LEAF? -- David Douthitt UNIX System Administrator Linux+, LPIC-1, RHCE HP-UX, Unixware, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source da

Re: [leaf-devel] What I don't like about Bering uClibc

2005-01-20 Thread David Douthitt
Hans Ulrich Niedermann wrote: 2. (buildtool?) There is no "build-hdd-image-for-my-board" which copies all the necessary lrp files, sets up leaf.cfg with all the lrp names, possibly installs grub on the image, and so on. I'm surprised that LEAF to this day does not automate the process of

[leaf-devel] Suggested programs...

2005-01-15 Thread David Douthitt
Anyone looked at dnrd (DNS Relay) and exepak (Executable Packer)? Exepak is extremely interesting because it works with uClib executables and is licensed under the GPL. -- David Douthitt UNIX System Administrator Linux+, LPIC-1, RHCE HP-UX, Unixware, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD

Re: [leaf-devel] Re: lrcfg and generating leaf.cfg

2004-12-17 Thread David Douthitt
Erich Titl wrote: Arne Bernin wrote: Ok. I am about to finish some kind of (very) primitive apt-get clone. Now i am able to install new packages quite easy (no more downloading via http, scp to firewall, copying to my harddisk, ...). The only thing i am still missing is, that after installing all

[leaf-devel] Idea for a new package....

2004-11-16 Thread David Douthitt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This looks interesting. Practical PPP: http://www.rambris.com/fredrik// A webbized interface to PPP. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBmgucgd4eE7zV

Re: [leaf-devel] Bering uClibc vs. Oxygen

2004-10-22 Thread David Douthitt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Noyes wrote: | David, | The Oxygen web content was archived in preparation for new site | structure and website. I figured as much. Shameful the way I haven't kept up. I've pointed more than one person to the LEAF website, including some who just

Re: [leaf-devel] Bering uClibc vs. Oxygen

2004-10-11 Thread David Douthitt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thorsten von Eicken wrote: | I'm looking for an embedded distro for single-board machines out in | the field, mostly doing wireless routing but also controlling other | stuff, such as cameras. In reading the descriptions of the various | LEAF distros it

Re: [leaf-devel] SF Tracker reorganization

2004-08-16 Thread David Douthitt
Mike Noyes wrote: Everyone, I just created trackers for each of our active branches. This will allow branch teams to create their own triage system. The teams can define Category, Group, Priority, and Canned Response options within their tracker. Current teams are: Oxygen: *David

[leaf-devel] New use for firewalls?

2003-03-25 Thread David Douthitt
ss (through the firewall). Are people using these "wireless" solutions that way? Is there one out there already? -- David Douthitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX SysAdmin - HP/UX, UnixWare, Linux LPIC-1, Linux + --- This SF.net email is spo

Re: [leaf-devel] Ports to Non-x86 Platforms?

2003-03-21 Thread David Douthitt
On Thursday, March 20, 2003, at 08:37 PM, Lynn Avants wrote: On Thursday 20 March 2003 08:15 pm, David Douthitt wrote: I, too have been interested in a PowerPC port - mainly because the most popular alternative to the Intel PC platform is Apple Macintosh. Unfortunately, until the introduction

Re: [leaf-devel] Ports to Non-x86 Platforms?

2003-03-20 Thread David Douthitt
? I'm actually in a good spot to try this - I'm running with a new iBook and MacOS X 10.2. My two favorite enironments combined :-) Of course, it would have to be a CDROM LEAF... -- David Douthitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX SysAdmin - HP/UX,

Re: [leaf-devel] GRUB problem

2003-02-27 Thread David Douthitt
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 17:56:13 -0600 Charles Steinkuehler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Spiro Philopoulos wrote: > > I'm using GRUB to run LRP off a hard drive and I've noticed > > that /proc/cmdline is truncated and does not include all > > packages to load. It seems to get truncated after ~255 > >

Re: [leaf-devel] Suggestion for ETC.LRP

2003-02-25 Thread David Douthitt
On 25 Feb 2003 09:53:25 -0500 "Sean E. Covel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been testing it on a Mandrake box, and then moved it to my > Bering box. The first thing I noticed was the calls to > getservbyport() wasn't returning the same information. I took > a look at the services file, and s

Re: [leaf-devel] compact flash ???

2003-02-20 Thread David Douthitt
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 19:25:28 -0600 "Michael D. Schleif" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you booting off of this? How? Any special preparation to > boot off of USB? You could say I am. It's a three-media startup: install CDROM, boot off of that. Put the floppy configuration disk in the floppy

Re: [leaf-devel] compact flash ???

2003-02-19 Thread David Douthitt
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 17:11:36 -0600 "Michael D. Schleif" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [1] Are we limited to IDE? Does anybody have USB working? I've been using USB quite a lot with Knoppix (a CDROM distro); it works well. However, it requires SCSI support. > [2] What types of media are actually

Re: [leaf-devel] Package Repository

2003-02-11 Thread David Douthitt
On Sun, 09 Feb 2003 11:12:41 -0800 Matt Schalit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > *Global Package Repository* I agree with you... > If a package works on more than 1 LEAF version, please, > O' Magnificent Ones, let it be stored in a single global > package repository. > > Somebody is really going to

Re: [leaf-devel] Config system

2003-02-06 Thread David Douthitt
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 05:21:05PM -0800, Matt Schalit wrote: > Hi David, nice to hear from you on this list. Hi! Good to be back... > I'd like to ask off the top, because I don't know > how you feel, but if a central-config-db is designed, > and a new package format is developed that interaces

[leaf-devel] Where I've been...

2003-02-04 Thread David Douthitt
It's been a long and winding road Mostly, I've had other things to divert my attention. There's been installs of FreeBSD, KDE, SuSE, and Yellow Dog along the way. I'm also gained a couple of certifications, and have also had fun working with Red Hat's Kickstart. Very recently, I've been

Re: [leaf-devel] Config system

2003-02-04 Thread David Douthitt
Matt Schalit wrote: Ray Olszewski wrote: At 10:13 AM 2/4/03 -0600, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: But it leaves one thing out ... an important way to simplify the interface for configuration is to restrict the range of choices available. LEAF tends to be pulled in two directions all the time -

Re: [leaf-devel] Command recall Oxygen(yes) Bering(no) DF(no)

2002-10-17 Thread David Douthitt
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 09:31:56PM +0200, Jacques Nilo wrote: > Sorry for jumping in late in this thread. Ditto. > One idea has been suggested: > Switch to bbox ash. Oxygen uses a statically compiled busybox with ash included. busybox comes with about 5 different choices for a shell. I've foun

Re: [leaf-devel] snort and nmap

2002-10-09 Thread David Douthitt
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 02:05:49PM -0400, Eric B Kiser wrote: > I am looking for the most recent versions of nmap.lrp and snort.lrp. I > checked the CVS packages repository and the only thing I found was an older > version of nmap and no snort. I'm the one who's probably responsible for those pa

[leaf-devel] [pedro.inacio@ptnix.com: PHP-Nuke x.x SQL Injection]

2002-09-25 Thread David Douthitt
Saw this on bugtraq today. Does this affect our PHP site? - Forwarded message from Pedro Inacio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: moderator for [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 25 Sep 2002 17:25:

Re: [leaf-devel] new busybox, tinylogin at busybox.net

2002-09-19 Thread David Douthitt
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 12:49:37AM +0200, K.-P. Kirchdörfer wrote: > My idea is: Why not a floppy-based distro based on uClibc, which could be > easily enhanced for CD, DOC with a separate glibc-2.x.lrp, for apps which > need more than uClibc provides? To some extent, Oxygen does this already

Re: [leaf-devel] Possible framework for build-from-source system.

2002-09-18 Thread David Douthitt
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 01:57:26PM -0700, Mike Noyes wrote: > On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 13:36, David Douthitt wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 10:09:12PM +0200, Ewald Wasscher wrote: > > > On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 21:22, David Douthitt wrote: > > > > > BTW, your

Re: [leaf-devel] Possible framework for build-from-source system.

2002-09-17 Thread David Douthitt
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 10:09:12PM +0200, Ewald Wasscher wrote: > On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 21:22, David Douthitt wrote: > BTW, your CVS devel/ddouthitt tree has been empty for the last days. Is > that on purpose? I went there to get a fresh copy of your build system, > and noticed t

Re: [leaf-devel] Possible framework for build-from-source system.

2002-09-17 Thread David Douthitt
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 07:18:17PM +0200, Ewald Wasscher wrote: > I am currently evaluating GAR, the build-system from > http://www.lnx-bbc.org/ for use with leaf. So far it looks really good. > It's flexible, quite well documented and there are lots of examples for > building packages, a bootdis

[Leaf-devel] I'm Back (Mail Troubles)

2002-09-04 Thread David Douthitt
It seems that my mail forwarding provider (callsign.net) stopped delivering mail or accepting mail or some such thing; anyway anything that went through my callsign.net address stopped coming. I've subscribed again, this time under my own domain and mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I plan to star

Re: [Leaf-devel] Converting Documentation to DocBook - progress report

2002-08-21 Thread David Douthitt
On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 11:28:28AM -0700, Mike Noyes wrote: > Recent versions of Abiword will read RTF and export to DocBook XML. Excellent! I've Abiword in several places (both FreeBSD and Linux I think). > > It sounds like the usual way is to edit DocBook using text editors > > like Emacs an

Re: [Leaf-devel] Converting Documentation to DocBook - progress report

2002-08-21 Thread David Douthitt
On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 03:27:30PM +0100, Julian Church wrote: > I've been working on converting your Developers' Guide > to Docbook for a while now. I knew that; the reason I brought this up was that I've plans to overhaul the document and to rework it, and I wanted to follow the standard LEAF

Re: [Leaf-devel] Converting Documentation to DocBook - progress report

2002-08-21 Thread David Douthitt
I've decided I need to revisit the LEAF Developer's Guide, and want to know what I need to do to make it ready for this "DocBook" format. On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 11:55:30PM -0700, Greg Morgan wrote: > Mike Noyes wrote quoting Julian Church: > > The normal formats are: html, pdf, plain text, and

Re: [Leaf-devel] LVS and LRP

2002-08-14 Thread David Douthitt
On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 02:37:41PM +1200, Simon Blake wrote: > Before I dive in and spend a bunch of time getting the varios LVS tools > (mon, heartbeat, fake and so forth) packaged for Bering, has anybody > done any of this sort of thing before? Links to packages? Gotchas? I've not done it wi

Re: [Leaf-devel] Multiple upstream links

2002-08-14 Thread David Douthitt
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 12:31:22PM -0500, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > Also...I recently got a nifty trick from the local linux users group > regarding time-servers: > > > > Does someone knows of a time server that I can use to > > synchronize my linux box at boot time? > > There are a bunch

Re: [Leaf-devel] panic kernel argument.

2002-08-14 Thread David Douthitt
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 06:56:49PM +0200, Ivan Lloro wrote: > As LEAF is usually used in stand-alone routers- > gateways I suggest passing to the kernel the argument > "panic=X" by default. "X" is the number of seconds > the system will wait before automatically rebooting > itself after a k

[Leaf-devel] Anyone else seen this?

2002-08-13 Thread David Douthitt
VA Software (operators of Sourceforge) signs agreement with IBM to utilize their proprietary database DB2 in the SourceForge product. In the article, it notes that VA Software looked at MySQL and PostgreSQL, but passed them both by. It also notes that VA invested in MySQL. Interesting, eh? htt

[Leaf-devel] OpenSSH 3.4p1 Trojaned

2002-08-09 Thread David Douthitt
There was recently a break-in at the main site for the OpenSSH 3.4p1 sources, and a back-door was inserted. The modified sources were caught quickly, but some may have been downloaded. The originals were not back-doored, and should be okay. The interesting thing is that this was not caught by s

[Leaf-devel] Embedded Systems (new LEAF host?)

2002-08-09 Thread David Douthitt
Did anyone else besides me see the write-up about the Sega Dreamcast from DefCon X? Apparently a couple of security people modified a Linux distribution for the Sega Dreamcast to "phone home" for use during penetration testing - that is, you could drop one of these Dreamcasts in a client's physic

Re: [Leaf-devel] bering RC3 + grsecurity + sysctl

2002-07-22 Thread David Douthitt
On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 11:43:17AM +0200, Kim Oppalfens wrote: > Would it be possible to change some of the grsecurity patches settings in > bering rc3 using sysctl? To be able to do this, you have to compile a Linux 2.4 kernel with grsecurity (of course) and enable the option to control grsecu

[Leaf-devel] [OT?] Upcoming Conferences

2002-07-17 Thread David Douthitt
[US Conferences, that is] Anyone going to DefCon 10 in Las Vegas, NV, Aug 2-4, or to 11th Usenix Security Symposium, Aug 5-9, in San Francisco, CA? Just wondering... Interesting that they're so close together in time and space :-) --- This

Re: [Leaf-devel] CVS structure ???

2002-07-17 Thread David Douthitt
On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 03:21:32PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > Jeff Newmiller wrote: > > CVS is designed to handle directories full of information... so a > > directory tree of html documents is a natural thing to enter. > > > > An idea... > > > > net-snmp/ > > README.txt > >

[Leaf-devel] Current CVS Oxygen Tree

2002-07-17 Thread David Douthitt
I've been looking at some things, and updated syslinux and e3 (in the CVS tree) to their apparent current versions. I've noticed that CVS can be a major pain, especially with renaming files, or deleting or moving directories. Anyway, there are a few updates to the ports-style setup that need to

Re: [Leaf-devel] image extractor program

2002-07-17 Thread David Douthitt
On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 01:56:31PM -0400, George Georgalis wrote: > Below is a little script to mount and extract an image in a way that will > allow for editing and repackaging of the lrp modules. Every script is a solution to a problem; I don't see the problem, but anyway... > #!/bin/sh > >

Re: [Leaf-devel] CVS src tree structure

2002-07-16 Thread David Douthitt
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 10:28:00AM -0700, Mike Noyes wrote: > I think a system similar to "BSD Ports" or "Gentoo Portage" would be > great. David already has sample implementation available. > > http://cvs.leaf-project.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/leaf/devel/ddouthitt/base/ Now I've actually (with M

Re: [Leaf-devel] CVS src tree structure

2002-07-16 Thread David Douthitt
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 11:38:49AM -0700, Mike Noyes wrote: > Both of these actions are performed using "import" from a directory > outside of your checked out tree. Does this mean that I can't operate in the cvs checked out directory structure until all directories have been imported? I'll try

Re: [Leaf-devel] CVS src tree structure

2002-07-16 Thread David Douthitt
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 10:28:00AM -0700, Mike Noyes wrote: > On Sat, 2002-07-13 at 07:48, Mike Noyes wrote: > > I will create this tree on Monday. However, this tree will need a > > consensus on its structure before commits can begin. > > leaf/src/packages > This is done. The floor is now op

Re: [Leaf-devel] CVS structure ???

2002-07-16 Thread David Douthitt
On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 01:14:07PM -0700, Mike Noyes wrote: > On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 13:01, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > > David Douthitt has advocated (and it sounds good to me but I haven't done > > it myself) a mechanism whereby sources obtained from other sources are > > k

[Leaf-devel] Mail headers

2002-06-26 Thread David Douthitt
On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 01:53:36PM -0700, Mike Noyes wrote: > Nice job. :-) Thank you! I'm still learning. Mail processing has been a weak point; now that I've three of my own domains and am serving all of them on one mailserver I think I've learned something along the way - at least I ho

[Leaf-devel] Development Annoyances...

2002-06-26 Thread David Douthitt
There's an annoyance that comes up only in development, and I was wondering how others handle it. The problem is this: a development cycle (for me, anyway) goes like this: boot, fiddle, doesn't work fix, reboot, fiddle, fiddle, reboot, fiddle... NOW it works... However. NOW the disk ima

Re: [Leaf-devel] Hi there, and (bug?) report

2002-06-26 Thread David Douthitt
On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 08:09:45PM +0200, Jon Clausen wrote: > P.S. I posted the first msg *hours* ago... Is this delay normal, or is > there something in my mail setup that's confusing the list server? > > I recently switched from Kmail to Postfix/Fetchmail/Procmail/Mutt, and I > wouldn't be su

Re: [Leaf-devel] Hi there, and (bug?) report

2002-06-26 Thread David Douthitt
On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 10:57:04AM +0200, Jon Clausen wrote: > Hi everyone Hi! You said you were wondering about mail problems? My setup must be quite similar to yours; I use Postfix + Cyrus IMAP + Fetchmail + Mutt, and it works well. I also prefer KMail while using KDE... I'll take an atte

Re: [Leaf-devel] Hi there, and (bug?) report

2002-06-26 Thread David Douthitt
On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 10:57:04AM +0200, Jon Clausen wrote: > Quick rundown: > My name is Jon Clausen, I'm 36 and have been using linux (SuSE mostly) > for some three years now. I've been using LRP/LEAF for little over a > year. How about a round of (re)introductions? Just an idea... > I then

Re: [Leaf-devel] OpenSSH security

2002-06-26 Thread David Douthitt
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 03:14:39PM -0700, Mike Noyes wrote: > There is a problem with OpenSSH. > > [Fwd: [SECURITY] [DSA-134-1] OpenSSH remote vulnerability] > Theo de Raadt announced that the OpenBSD team is working with ISS > on a remote exploit for OpenSSH (a free implementation of th

Re: [Leaf-devel] OT Fun with old BattleBots (some linux content)

2002-06-26 Thread David Douthitt
On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 02:17:16PM -0500, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > Sorry for the OT post...feel free to hit delete now, if desired. May I hit "save" instead? :-) > In case you haven't heard, this July 4th is the first annual > wIndepedance day (as declared by the Desktop Linux folks ...

Re: [Leaf-devel] Introducing myself

2002-06-26 Thread David Douthitt
On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 09:36:46AM +0100, Luis.F.Correia wrote: > To my (slight) surprise, Mike invited me to join LEAF as a developer. Welcome! Welcome to all! > My knowledge in Linux is relatively small. > My main work, training and experience is with Windoze. > It may suck but that's what

Re: [Leaf-devel] Re: [leaf-user] To Bering users: help us to release 1.0

2002-06-03 Thread David Douthitt
On Monday 03 June 2002 08:22 am, T Burt wrote: > One feature that I particularly liked in Trinux, is the ability to > download packages from an ftp or http server during system startup. Oxygen did this very early on - in fact, Trinux was an inspiration for Oxygen development. > Has anyone cons

Re: [Leaf-devel] Oxygen development

2002-05-30 Thread David Douthitt
Le Jeudi 30 Mai 2002 22:57, Jacques Nilo a écrit : > If David thinks it can be helpful, I'll be happy to see what I can do > for him. All the work I did on the 2.4 kernel has been more or less > documented in devel mail threads and my config kernel file and my kernel > patches are available on m

Re: [Leaf-devel] Bering grsecurity patch?

2002-05-29 Thread David Douthitt
--On Wednesday, May 29, 2002 6:20 AM -0700 Mike Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW, how is development progressing on Oxygen? Is there anything the > rest of us can do to help you? My present goals are: * Linux 2.4 * Upgrade binaries My last attempt at Linux 2.4 resulted in numerous bina

Re: [Leaf-devel] Bering grsecurity patch?

2002-05-28 Thread David Douthitt
is only if you want to actually use ACLs. I've not used them; grsecurity works just fine without them. -- David Douthitt UNIX System Administrator HP-UX, Unixware, Linux, FreeBSD [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Don't miss the 200

Re: [Leaf-devel] Oxygen, /dev/boot and /dev/backup -links?

2002-05-07 Thread David Douthitt
On Thursday 02 May 2002 07:08 am, you wrote: > I'm converting Oxygen floppy disk distribution to start from compact > flash instead of floppy fisk. Now the problem is that I couldn't > quickly find the settings or scripts that create the /dev/boot and > /dev/backup links to point to floppy disk de

Re: [Leaf-devel] ttyS0 problem.

2002-04-26 Thread David Douthitt
On Friday 26 April 2002 11:03 am, Michiel Vreeburg wrote: > i am making a lpr package for heyu and xtend.(http://heyu.tanj.com/) > it is an x10 control program for the lights in my home. > but i have some problems connecting to the /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS1. > > ls ttyS* -l on the lrp(bering) is r

Re: [Leaf-devel] Package description file proposal

2002-04-19 Thread David Douthitt
On Friday 19 April 2002 08:13 am, you wrote: > On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 00:19, David Douthitt wrote: > > I'm not keen on that either. Maybe I'm influenced by my RPM bias > > - but a file of: > > > > Tag: > > Tag: > > Tag: > > > > Seem

Re: [Leaf-devel] new lcd.lrp package

2002-04-19 Thread David Douthitt
etc/lcd.conf which contains all needed > configuration options. I've been working on an lcdproc.lrp which contains LCDproc in its latest version. I included support for SVGA, ncurses, and MatrixOrbital LCDs. Is this yet another case of multiple developers crossing paths? -- David Douthitt UNIX Syste

Re: [Leaf-devel] Package description file proposal

2002-04-19 Thread David Douthitt
On 4/18/02 at 8:04 AM, Mike Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 22:48, David Douthitt wrote: > This sounds like XML metadata to me. > > > ...and with the following requirements: > > > > * Expandability (add tags at will) > > XML ca

Re: [Leaf-devel] ldd libc minor version

2002-04-18 Thread David Douthitt
27;s/\([^ ^I]*\)$/&<\/a>/' \ > index.html It isn't necessarily best, but it shows what you can do - and its quick and easy. Another thing to note - there are plenty of packages that have the same name, but serve different purposes or have different arrangements. Just like

Re: [Leaf-devel] Need Shell Scripting Advise

2002-04-18 Thread David Douthitt
do ... done -- David Douthitt UNIX Systems Administrator HP-UX, Unixware, Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel

[Leaf-devel] Repositories (Freshmeat, etc.)

2002-04-17 Thread David Douthitt
this? Should each distro developer send in their own or should someone speak for all? -- David Douthitt UNIX Systems Administrator HP-UX, Unixware, Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/lis

Re: [Leaf-devel] Package Repository

2002-04-17 Thread David Douthitt
n brick pretty much. -- David Douthitt UNIX Systems Administrator HP-UX, Unixware, Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel

Re: [Leaf-devel] Package description file proposal

2002-04-17 Thread David Douthitt
On 4/17/02 at 7:54 AM, Mike Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 19:50, David Douthitt wrote: > Will the .desc/.xml file's primary purpose be indexing our > packages, or will it be used by the LEAF release/branch > internally? If its intended use is

Re: [Leaf-devel] ldd libc minor version

2002-04-17 Thread David Douthitt
but that fix is easy: use links. Separate packages into directories based on the "Group:" tag, then create links to each file in the appropriate glibc* directory based on the "Glibc:" tag. Another quick alternative: cd /home/groups/l/leaf/ftphome for i in $(find ../de

Re: [Leaf-devel] Package description file proposal

2002-04-16 Thread David Douthitt
On 4/16/02 at 7:26 AM, Mike Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 03:46, David Douthitt wrote: > David, > I think we should use the program's name, or place it in what RedHat > calls "Summary". Personally I prefer the deb format, but it doesn

Re: [Leaf-devel] ldd libc minor version

2002-04-16 Thread David Douthitt
it won't compile on less than Red Hat 7 something (7.2 in my case). I think ntop had some requirements that way too - the networking code was nasty that way; a lot of networking details seem to change between glibc 2.0 systems and glibc 2.1 sys

Re: [Leaf-devel] Package description file proposal

2002-04-16 Thread David Douthitt
On 4/14/02 at 11:20 AM, Mike Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David outlines a package description file in his > "Developing for LRP" guide. The format follows. > > /var/lib/lrpkg/pkg.desc > Name: upx > Version: 1.20 > Release: 1 > Packager: David Dout

Re: [Leaf-devel] Modifications of network.conf to support changing MAC address

2002-04-09 Thread David Douthitt
pt to > support this easily and elegantly. Oxygen should be able to handle changing MAC addresses just by changing configuration in network.conf - but I considered to be of "hack" value so I never documented it :) I'll have to make sure I never removed that capability. -- David Do

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