Problem mounting disk images

2005-03-29 Thread Oded Arbel
Hi list. I have a web server where /tmp is mounted on a disk image /tmp/tmpdisk. I mainly do this so I can mount /tmp as nodev,noexec and to limit its size - I've been hit a couple of times by crackers who managed to get a web site to store an executable on /tmp and run it. Anyway - I have

Re: A second glibc on Linux

2005-03-29 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Amir Binyamini wrote: Hello, I want to use a second glibc on Linux; mainly for hacking glibc; I do want to keep the original glibc with came with my distribution. (Which is RedHat 9) so that the kenel and apps will still use it. I have succeeded in building glibc 2.3.2 ; I had installed it to a

Re: A second glibc on Linux

2005-03-29 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 11:38:13AM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: LD_LIBRARY_PATH may be your friend here, as may LD_PRELOAD. These allow you to override the default place the system looks for libraries via an environment var, which can be set per-process. What about /lib/ld.so ? How do

Re: A second glibc on Linux

2005-03-29 Thread Amir Binyamini
Thanks, I made some tests with setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH and LD_PRELOAD (before sending my fisrt post in this thread) and they failed; (I had a crash in run time). Again , I don't think the details are important because I made many tries and I am not an expert in glibc; Hpwever,If somebody have

Re: A second glibc on Linux

2005-03-29 Thread guy keren
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Amir Binyamini wrote: I made some tests with setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH and LD_PRELOAD (before sending my fisrt post in this thread) and they failed; (I had a crash in run time).Again , I don't think the details are important because I made many tries and I am not an

Re: A second glibc on Linux

2005-03-29 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Amir Binyamini wrote: Hello, I want to use a second glibc on Linux; mainly for hacking glibc; I do want to keep the original glibc with came with my distribution. (Which is RedHat 9) so that the kenel and apps will still use it. I have succeeded in building glibc 2.3.2 ; I had installed it to a

Re: A second glibc on Linux

2005-03-29 Thread Amir Binyamini
Hello, a-ha. so you refuse to talk, do you? well, we have methods that'll make you sing! I am willing to sing as needed , and in fact in this reply (and in future, if needed; there's nothing to hide) I will sing as needed, and I hope that I will be able to burst in a song when the problem is

Re: A second glibc on Linux

2005-03-29 Thread guy keren
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Amir Binyamini wrote: I do not have , under/usr/lib/gcc-lib/, a crt1.o (also not a symlink to /usr/lib). So I used the /usr/lib/crt1.o. this is exactly what i wrote ('strace' told me this short path in its old twisted way ;) ) I use gcc (GCC) 3.2.2on Red Hat 9 ; the

p.s.2 Re: A second glibc on Linux

2005-03-29 Thread guy keren
according to 'linux from scratch', glibc comes with a test suite. did you run it at all? did you try to see how it compiles its own test programs? that probably has a rather complete answer... it also implies that having a 2nd glibc is not enough, and that you need copies of several other

Floppy image loaded from grub?

2005-03-29 Thread Kfir Lavi
Hi, i would like to install netBSD. They have floppy image for this installation. I don't have floppy or cdrom attached to my computer. Can i load the image from the hard disk with grub? other program? tnx Kfir pgpxBbRpH4U78.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Floppy image loaded from grub?

2005-03-29 Thread guy keren
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Kfir Lavi wrote: Hi, i would like to install netBSD. They have floppy image for this installation. I don't have floppy or cdrom attached to my computer. Can i load the image from the hard disk with grub? other program? yes - look for info on loading 'memtest' from grub

Re: high load ?

2005-03-29 Thread guy keren
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Oron Peled wrote: The load average is not in percentage. The load average numbers are the average number of processes waiting/using for CPU in the last 1, 5 and 15 minutes [remark: on Linux processes in the 'D' (uninterruptible sleep) are weirdly in this count also].

Re: Floppy image loaded from grub?

2005-03-29 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 11:41:36PM +0200, Kfir Lavi wrote: Hi, i would like to install netBSD. They have floppy image for this installation. I don't have floppy or cdrom attached to my computer. Can i load the image from the hard disk with grub? other program? You can try using memdisk -

Re: high load ?

2005-03-29 Thread Shachar Shemesh
guy keren wrote: On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Oron Peled wrote: The load average is not in percentage. The load average numbers are the average number of processes waiting/using for CPU in the last 1, 5 and 15 minutes [remark: on Linux processes in the 'D' (uninterruptible sleep) are weirdly in this

RE: Floppy image loaded from grub?

2005-03-29 Thread Ohad.Levy
Evendue not really the easyest way, you can also boot via pxe and supply using memtest any image you would like (without changing any bootloader configuration) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Yedidyah Bar-David Sent: Wednesday, March 30,