Re: [Leaf-devel] New Disk images name

2001-03-26 Thread Jack Coates
Yeah, Mandrake. Oxygen was 7.0, Helium was 7.1. They ran out of elements too and 7.2 is Odyssey. Don't know what 8.0 will be, but I'm rooting for Bloody-Jihad-of-Death. You could use that for your next release though, I don't mind. Or maybe my favorite subway sign: Emergency Third Rail Power Trip.

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2001-03-26 Thread thc
or whatsoever to run on the box itself. I am afraid that if we would run the "setup script" on the router we would need a lot of intelligence and programms on the box with the problems size, attackability ( is this a real word ? ). The way to create Setup script could be platform independent,

Re: [Leaf-devel] New release of Oxygen (March 2001)

2001-03-26 Thread David Douthitt
Mike Noyes wrote: > What other files should I release in the files area? Also, I want to make a > tarball of your packages and release it in the files area. Do you have any > new packages to add to: > http://leaf.sourceforge.net/pub/oxygen/packages There aren't any other new disk images, but the

Re: [Leaf-devel] seg faults in busybox routines in most recent oxygen

2001-03-26 Thread David Douthitt
Matthew Schalit wrote: > It's such a tight project already, that it'd be a bummer, imo, > to let a few odd bugs show up. I can help in small ways, > and maybe that'll take some of the load off you. Thanks! > I'm asking, and I'll give it a try. I'm a bit newish > to gdb, but I know enough to l

Re: [Leaf-devel] New release of Oxygen (March 2001)

2001-03-26 Thread Mike Noyes
David Douthitt, 2001-03-26 16:54 -0600 >Mike Noyes wrote: > > > What other files should I release in the files area? Also, I want to > > make a tarball of your packages and release it in the files area. Do > > you have any new packages to add to: > > http://leaf.sourceforge.net/pub/oxygen/packages

Re: [Leaf-devel] Different topic....

2001-03-26 Thread Mark Seiden
of course, this depends how you define ISP. world.std.com was first, as i remember. panix was pretty early. the well was more a bbs and closed community than an isp. On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:54:59AM -0800, Scott C. Best wrote: > David: > No kidding. That one came out of my WayBack machi

Re: [Leaf-devel] New release of Oxygen (March 2001)

2001-03-26 Thread David Douthitt
Mike Noyes wrote: > $ scp filename \ > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/groups/ftp/pub/leaf/oxygen/packages > > I'd setup an alias to do this. I'll do that, thanks! Where would be a good place for a "data" ISO image? I've an image I'm tempted to put up, but the boot image does not work correctly. It

Re: [Leaf-devel] phpWebSite backup

2001-03-26 Thread jdnewmil
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Mike Noyes wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2001-03-25 18:39 -0800 > >On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Mike Noyes wrote: > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2001-03-25 15:14 -0800 [...] > > > >--- > > > > > >sed -e "/INSERT IN

Re: [Leaf-devel] Re: Oxygen Problems

2001-03-26 Thread George Metz
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Matthew Schalit wrote: > So I read your followup that I quoted above, and you mention > that ifconfig should get it right, "if you specify the nemask > and the IP address." I tried that and is doesn't use those > two to calculate the broadcast. > > $ ifconfig eth0 63.194.

[Leaf-user] Re: [Leaf-devel] Mailing list archive

2001-03-26 Thread Mike Noyes
Everyone, Our lists are now being archived at the Mail-Archive in addition to GeoCrawler. Rick and I will attempt to recreate the older messages in our new list archives. leaf-devel http://www.mail-archive.com/leaf-devel%40lists.sourceforge.net/ http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/723

Re: [Leaf-devel] LEAF documentation

2001-03-26 Thread David Douthitt
Jack Coates wrote: > between power and Internet access, San Jose is getting to > be a tough place to be a geek :-( But it ought to be a GREAT place to be a Disaster Recovery Specialist :-( ___ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.

Re: [Leaf-devel] seg faults in busybox routines in most recent oxygen

2001-03-26 Thread David Douthitt
Matthew Schalit wrote: > > Mark Seiden wrote: > > > > i'm getting a lot of random-seeming (but completely reproduceable) seg > > faults that i don't remember existing in the older versions of oxygen. > > > > sul-lockss10.stanford.edu:/etc/init.d # more network > ... > > Segmentation fault > > su

Re: [Leaf-devel] Oxygen Problems and Suggestions

2001-03-26 Thread David Douthitt
"N. Sean Timm" wrote: > > Is there a reason that /etc/inittab contains the following line uncommented > by default? > > T1:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100 > > This causes a message to constantly appear on the screen (something along > the lines of "respawning too fast"), and it's t

Re: [Leaf-devel] seg faults in busybox routines in most recent oxygen

2001-03-26 Thread David Douthitt
Mark Seiden wrote: > > i'm getting a lot of random-seeming (but completely reproduceable) seg > faults that i don't remember existing in the older versions of oxygen. > > e.g. even busybox "tar" and "more" seg fault. The latter I know about (more); I've not seen busybox tar segfault before. >

Re: [Leaf-devel] deep thoughts

2001-03-26 Thread David Douthitt
Jack Coates wrote: > This got me thinking -- does LRP have a disk cache? And if so, why? > Caching one hunk of system RAM in another is not sensible. Why not? As I understand HP-UX, "swap" involves swapping files to buffers in memory (first anyway) - so that ZERO swapping is normal. Of course,

Re: [Leaf-devel] New Disk images name

2001-03-26 Thread David Douthitt
George Metz wrote: > I at one point was - while I was still a dreamy schmuck and thought I knew > something (right before I tried to puzzle out Oxygen's scripts =) - > planning on doing a release that combined features of Oxygen with those of > a few other things here and there. > > I was gonna

Re: [Leaf-devel] Re: Oxygen Problems

2001-03-26 Thread David Douthitt
Matthew Schalit wrote: > So I read your followup that I quoted above, and you mention > that ifconfig should get it right, "if you specify the nemask > and the IP address." I tried that and is doesn't use those > two to calculate the broadcast. > > $ ifconfig eth0 63.194.213.179 netmask 255.2

Re: [Leaf-devel] Oxygen Problems and Suggestions

2001-03-26 Thread David Douthitt
Mark Seiden wrote: > yes, i fixed this in mine also but i use e3 in emacs emulation mode. > dunno about zile. it isn't in my lrps. All major editors except THE (VMS Edit clone) are on the major data disks - including the System Rescue Disk and the Network Tools Disk #1. The included editors ar

Re: [Leaf-devel] seg faults in busybox routines in most recent oxygen

2001-03-26 Thread David Douthitt
Mark Seiden wrote: > okay, so what's changed recently? something to do with > libsafe? Libsafe hasn't changed in a long time; neither has glibc. Busybox seems to change daily :-) > here's another reproduceable segfault somewhere in the middle of scp: > sul-lockss10.stanford.edu:/sbin # scp un

Re: [Leaf-devel] Re: Oxygen Problems

2001-03-26 Thread David Douthitt
Matthew Schalit wrote: > Yes I see it now that you quoted the offending command. > The syntax is crap :) > > Wrong > - > ifconfig $IFNAME $IPADDR ${MASK:+netmask $MASK} ${ETHER:+hw $ETHER} >${BROADCAST:+broadcast $BROADCAST} $STATE > > Correct > -- > ifconfig $IFNAME $IPADDR ${

Re: [Leaf-devel] deep thoughts

2001-03-26 Thread jdnewmil
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, David Douthitt wrote: > Jack Coates wrote: > > > This got me thinking -- does LRP have a disk cache? And if so, why? > > Caching one hunk of system RAM in another is not sensible. > > Why not? As I understand HP-UX, "swap" involves swapping files to > buffers in memory (fi

[Leaf-devel] more Northpoint news

2001-03-26 Thread Scott C. Best
Just wanted to pass along this article about the woes of Northpoint and MSN. Eeesh. -Scott _ AT&T-NorthPoint To Curtail Service By BRUCE MEYERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) via NewsEdge Corporation - More than 100,000 sub

[Leaf-devel] Different topic....

2001-03-26 Thread David Douthitt
Scott C. Best wrote (about): > AT&T-NorthPoint To Curtail Service > > By BRUCE MEYERSON > AP Business Writer > NEW YORK (AP) via NewsEdge Corporation - > Public Access Networks Corp., a New York-based Internet services > provider also known as Panix, [...] Now there's a name I haven't heard i

Re: [Leaf-devel] Different topic....

2001-03-26 Thread Scott C. Best
David: No kidding. That one came out of my WayBack machine... -Scott On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, David Douthitt wrote: > Scott C. Best wrote (about): > > > AT&T-NorthPoint To Curtail Service > > > > By BRUCE MEYERSON > > AP Business Writer > > NEW YORK (AP) via NewsEdge Corporation - > > >

[Leaf-devel] New release of Oxygen (March 2001)

2001-03-26 Thread David Douthitt
It was about time - the current version bears little resemblence to the original December 2000 anyway... The changes since the last update include: * More packages on the base disk - meaning root.lrp is smaller (200k!) and the system is more configurable * Lots of bugs fixed * Network scripts ov

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2001-03-26 Thread thc
At 08:55 PM 09/21/2000 GMT, Matthew Grant wrote >Dear All, > >There are a number of factors influencing this decision, the most >important of which are: > >1) Debian will ceas doing security updates for their Slink distribution >at the end of October. LRP Eiger is heavily based on this. > >2) T

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2001-03-26 Thread thc
appears that there is an actual /dev/console device; it seems to parallel the /dev/tty device (device 5,0) - /dev/console is device 5,1. This appears to be a bug to me - or at least, a missed feature. This would probably be present in LRP and EigerStein; I know Oxygen is this way. I'll be fi

Re: [Leaf-devel] Re: Oxygen Problems

2001-03-26 Thread Matthew Schalit
David Douthitt wrote: > > Matthew Schalit wrote: > > > I tried this on the Oxygen machine in my own test script and > > it works my way but fails David's way. Set -x didn't show > > any difference in the command that was to be run. > > I wonder if it could be a problem in splitting of argum

Re: [Leaf-devel] LEAF documentation

2001-03-26 Thread Jack Coates
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, George Metz wrote: > On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Jack Coates wrote: > > > (auto-configuring PCMCIA modems on modern hardware excepted). I'm > > getting close though -- hardware is good, chat script is munged. > > Whatever. > > It's always something, ain't it? =) Keep me posted on t

Re: [Leaf-devel] Re: Oxygen Problems

2001-03-26 Thread Matthew Schalit
David Douthitt wrote: > > Matthew Schalit wrote: > > $ ifconfig eth0 63.194.213.179 netmask 255.255.255.0 > > > > The output shows the correct IP and correct MASK, but the > > BROADCAST was unchanged and still reads 63.255.255.255.0 > > This is MOST interesting. I'll put in support for IF#_

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2001-03-26 Thread thc
I didn't check the listed ftp sites. Here is the original site I listed FTP://ftp.cse.unsw.edu.au/pub/users/mirror/linux/debian-cd/2.1_r4/i386 Sourceforge dos have the potato ISOs. Maybe they would host the slink ISOs http://download.sourceforge.net/mirrors/iso/debian/ _

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2001-03-26 Thread thc
-b, --bidirectional Bidirectional mode. The rule will match with IP packets in both directions; this has the same effect as repeating the rule with the source & desĀ­ tination reversed. Does this do what you want? >All this

Re: [Leaf-devel] Re: Oxygen Problems

2001-03-26 Thread David Douthitt
Matthew Schalit wrote: > > David Douthitt wrote: > > > > Matthew Schalit wrote: > > I wonder if it could be a problem in splitting of arguments? > > Perhaps > > I have a feeling that it's either a parsing/IFS issue, or > more likely it's some hard coded issue with the > ${foo:+bar} format.

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2001-03-26 Thread thc
Smalltalk and Perl collide nicely :-) I've stopped using Perl for most things. A bit of Ruby/Python trivia: Ruby users outnumber Python users in Japan, Ruby's originating country. Curious: isn't Python originating from Italy? > You get a little security by obscurity maybe (and we know w

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2001-03-26 Thread thc
> Examples of suitable formats for Transparent copies include plain > ASCII without markup, Texinfo input format, LaTeX input format, SGML > or XML using a publicly available DTD, and standard-conforming simple > HTML designed for human modification. Opaque formats include > PostScript, PDF, propr

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2001-03-26 Thread thc
a "Transparent" format, that is, a format which can be read by any number of publicly available copy-lefted tools, rather than forcing us to use a proprietary tool - and also, it wants us to use an "open" format, which isn't controlled by corporate interests. > Usual formats are: sgml/xml (Doc

Re: [Leaf-devel] seg faults in busybox routines in most recent oxygen

2001-03-26 Thread Matthew Schalit
David Douthitt wrote: > > Matthew Schalit wrote: > > I'm afraid Oxygen 3/14 is a bit too buggy. I await the > > next version with renewed interest, though. > > I'm not sure what you base that on, but the only specified bug here is > that more segfaults. This appears to have gone away in the

Re: [Leaf-devel] New release of Oxygen (March 2001)

2001-03-26 Thread Mike Noyes
David Douthitt, 2001-03-26 15:20 -0600 >It was about time - the current version bears little resemblence to the >original December 2000 anyway... > >The changes since the last update include: David, Congratulations! I released the image in the Files area, and changed the article to point to the

Re: [Leaf-devel] deep thoughts

2001-03-26 Thread Jack Coates
difference between page-swapping and disk-caching -- my bad terminology. Anyway looks like there's no problem. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: It's what's for dinner! On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, David Douthitt wrote: > Jack Coates wrote: > > > This got me thinking -- does LRP have a disk cache? And if s

Re: [Leaf-devel] New release of Oxygen (March 2001)

2001-03-26 Thread Mike Noyes
David Douthitt, 2001-03-26 17:19 -0600 >Where would be a good place for a "data" ISO image? I've an image I'm >tempted to put up, but the boot image does not work correctly. It has a >(semiold) image of Charles' website I think, and a portion of Rick's. >It also has all the patches, kernels, and

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2001-03-26 Thread thc
Oh look, I jumped to conclusion without fully examining my data. Please ignore my babbling on the email bounce. It didn't happen. I'm going back to my own little world now. :) -sp ___ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourcef

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2001-03-26 Thread thc
go here: http://acs40.arsdigita.com/doc/docbook-primer.html nice and clean overview using small words for the most part. -- Steven Peck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sacramento, CA http://leaf.blkmtn.org > -Original Message-

Re: [Leaf-devel] Different topic....

2001-03-26 Thread thc
I thought IDS was the first ISP selling internet access to the general public. Maybe it was just the first in Rhode Island.. On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 03:14:51PM -0800, Mark Seiden scribbled: > of course, this depends how you define ISP. > > world.std.com was first, as i remember. > panix was pret

Re: [Leaf-devel] New release of Oxygen (March 2001)

2001-03-26 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
> > $ scp filename \ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/groups/ftp/pub/leaf/oxygen/packages > > > > I'd setup an alias to do this. > > I'll do that, thanks! > > Where would be a good place for a "data" ISO image? I've an image I'm > tempted to put up, but the boot image does not work correctly. It has

Re: [Leaf-devel] New release of Oxygen (March 2001)

2001-03-26 Thread thc
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 05:19:58PM -0600, David Douthitt scribbled: > Where would be a good place for a "data" ISO image? I've an image I'm > tempted to put up, but the boot image does not work correctly. It has a > (semiold) image of Charles' website I think, and a portion of Rick's. > It also

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2001-03-26 Thread thc
TOTALLY broken, this shouldn't be relevant. If you specify the IP address only, it will supply netmask and broadcast/network addresses based on a classful setup - that's pretty much what everything defaults to because there HAS to be a default. If you specify the netmask and the IP address, it wil

Re: [Leaf-devel] seg faults in busybox routines in most recent oxygen

2001-03-26 Thread Mark Seiden
i'm still confused about why seg faults are not dropping corefiles. there's no ulimit in /etc/profile or in a .profile or a .bashrc. ulimit says "unlimited". setting it explicitly (ulimit -c 0) has no effect either. busybox init has a special feature to drop core files when there's a speciall

Re: [Leaf-devel] New release of Oxygen (March 2001)

2001-03-26 Thread George Metz
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > I'd release ISO images on the SF Primary FTP site, which AFAIK is the only > place we have access to that would be able to handle the size & bandwidth > requirements of downloaing fairly large ISO images. Agreed. I have yet to decide if the serv

Re: [Leaf-devel] seg faults in busybox routines in most recent oxygen

2001-03-26 Thread Matthew Schalit
David Douthitt wrote: > > Matthew Schalit wrote: > > I'm asking, and I'll give it a try. I'm a bit newish > > to gdb, but I know enough to load a core and do a backtrace > > and such. > > Thanks very much. The "Developer's Disk" I think is available for > download; it includes at least the f

Re: [Leaf-devel] seg faults in busybox routines in most recent oxygen

2001-03-26 Thread Mark Seiden
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 10:18:31PM -0800, Matthew Schalit wrote: > David Douthitt wrote: > > > > Matthew Schalit wrote: > > > > > I'm asking, and I'll give it a try. I'm a bit newish > > > to gdb, but I know enough to load a core and do a backtrace > > > and such. i could use it too... > >