[leaf-devel] local root exploit in linux Kernel = 2.4.19 (?)

2002-10-25 Thread arne @ loopback . org
Hi there, i just saw a message from the cert of the university of stuttgart ( only german: http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/ticker/article.php?mid=1000) which says that there seem to be some real security problems with kernel 2.4.20pre11 (or 2.4.19 with a special patch applied). The y do not give

Re: [Leaf-devel] CF (write protect) + IDE adapter

2002-02-08 Thread arne @ loopback . org
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 02:57:44PM -0800, Mike Sensney wrote: At 09:29 AM 2/8/2002 -0600, guitarlynn wrote: ... In other words, how many folks have said: Can I run LEAF on a harddrive (IDE). We say, you can, but it is a security risk compared to a floppy. What would it mean to be able to

Re: [Leaf-devel] CF (write protect) + IDE adapter

2002-02-07 Thread arne @ loopback . org
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 08:06:47AM -0800, Mike Noyes wrote: In other words, you need a custom motherboard/ata controller, to support WP# pin 30. I would suggest folks wanting to make use of this new ATA flash disk with write-enable wire a switch between pins one and two of the WP# jumper

Re: [Leaf-devel] CF (write protect) + IDE adapter

2002-02-07 Thread arne @ loopback . org
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 10:41:33AM -0600, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: This is the solution I was hoping for, but it looks like the ADM on board three pin jumper is for master/slave selection not WP#. :-( but shouldn't it be possible to build an adapter that is between the motherboard

Re: [Leaf-devel] my stuff (uClibc based root)

2002-01-28 Thread arne @ loopback . org
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 07:52:06AM +0100, Ewald Wasscher wrote: arne @ loopback . org wrote: Hi, sourceforge/leaf. Note that this is not complete, it does not build a real working root.lrp yet, Too bad, that was what I was hoping to see. Yes, me too ;-) I am working on it, but as my

Re: [Leaf-devel] Re: Ticker script

2002-01-23 Thread arne @ loopback . org
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 11:29:40PM +0100, Jacques Nilo wrote: Ah ! the beauty of shell scripting :-) Back to original LRP spirit ... A nice suggestion. I buy it ! (a beer is OK ?) o.k. you win for now. I just put the ticker in as an additional busybox applet and it add exactly 256 Bytes, But

Re: [Leaf-devel] Announcement: LEAF 2.4.16 + Shorewall 1.2.2

2002-01-20 Thread arne @ loopback . org
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 06:13:01PM +0100, Jacques Nilo wrote: Jack Coates wrote: Was not it CERBERE (I am not sure of the English spelling) the dog who was keeping the entry of Hell ? Well i know it as cerberus (the latin name ??), but please have a look at:

Re: [Leaf-devel] [ leaf-Patches-500162 ] routerst - router status via browser

2002-01-06 Thread arne @ loopback . org
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 06:51:14AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Patches item #500162, was opened at 2002-01-06 06:51 You can respond by visiting: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=313751aid=500162group_id=13751 just where to get this Routerst.lrp ?? --arne

[Leaf-devel] Console (newt based) Interface

2002-01-03 Thread arne @ loopback . org
Hi, i spent my last two weeks in playing around with my gcc again, and made a first test version of a text/menu based version of a config frontend for lrp (it currently works for my version for kernel 2.4, based on lrp 2.9.8 and soon uClibc). For now it just configures the stuff in the

Re: [Leaf-devel] More on the LEAF Repository

2001-12-07 Thread arne @ loopback . org
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 09:13:57AM -0600, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: Also remember - this is completely program generated http://leaf.sourceforge.net/pub/oxygen/repository/ looks nice! just a comment to the desc file, how about adding another information into it: libc: ??? (or

[Leaf-devel] initrd initrd_archive and initramf

2001-11-26 Thread arne @ loopback . org
Hi, i just saw a message that kernel 2.5 will be supporting a new type of initial ramdisk, as the old initrd may be gone in a while...: The first initramfs patch was posted by Alexander Viro this week. This patch is the implementation of the new 2.5 boot process that was first discussed in the

Re: [Leaf-devel] How-to get rid of LRP kernel patches

2001-11-09 Thread arne @ loopback . org
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 09:45:33PM +0100, Jacques Nilo wrote: Using a Linux-specific initrd.gz you're stuck. Also, what's the point of root.lrp if initrd.gz contains everything? Well I think initrd.gz should contain as few things as possible. In my proposal it boils down basically to

[Leaf-devel] Anybody succes with initrd_dyn

2001-11-02 Thread arne @ loopback . org
Hi, i was just playing around with the initrd_dyn stuff from ftp.psychosis.com. What i tried to to is to boot my lrp system with that using kernel 2.4.9 and syslinux. But i can not get it to work, i get messages like no init found. My problem is i don't know how exactly an append line for this

Re: [Leaf-devel] dachstein rc1 cd won't boot.

2001-10-12 Thread arne @ loopback . org
Hi, i am sending this only to the list, so you want get it twice... On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 10:13:04AM -0500, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: CS For some reason, the system is not automatically detecting your CD-Rom on /dev/hdd. I'll try to re-create this here and fix the init-scripts (if

Re: [Leaf-devel] dachstein rc1 cd won't boot.

2001-10-12 Thread arne @ loopback . org
On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 03:30:28PM -0500, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: i just had a look and a i like the idea of putting this on CD (We are selling our systems with an IDE Flashdisk, though). But, i would like to see the config scripts be seperate from the configs itself, thats one difference

[Leaf-devel] converting ansi to .dpy

2001-09-06 Thread arne @ loopback . org
Hi, is it possible to convert a ansi file to the format used by syslinux ?? There are many ansi editors out there but i havenĀ“t found one for syslinux... thanks, arne ___ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]