Secure Linux

2001-01-30 Thread Dale Amon
; involved with it? -- -- Use Linux: A computer Dale Amon, CEO/MD is a terrible thing Village Networking Ltd to waste.Belfast, Northern Ireland -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kern

Re: Secure Linux

2001-01-31 Thread Dale Amon
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 11:55:17AM -0800, David D.W. Downey wrote: Hey Dale, got a URL for this? Now *I* am intrigued! David D.W. Downey RHCE http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/ -- -- Use Linux: A computerDale Amon, CEO/MD

General interest: lawyers talking about GPL and Linux

2001-03-02 Thread Dale Amon
lity under existing copyright and contract law. --- -- -- Use Linux: A computer Dale Amon, CEO/MD is a terrible thing Village Networking Ltd to waste.Belfast, Northe

Re: [OT] Re: Your response is requested

2001-04-23 Thread Dale Amon
- The spammer simply used that domain as the from hostname. We are careful about mail server security here, there is no open relay. Yeah, I saw it to with *MY* domain on it and near had a fit! -- -- Use Linux: A computerDale Amon, CEO/MD

Re: Idea: Encryption plugin architecture for file-systems

2001-04-23 Thread Dale Amon
) -- -- Use Linux: A computerDale Amon, CEO/MD is a terrible thing Village Networking Ltd to waste.Belfast, Northern Ireland -- - To unsubscribe from this list

Re: Idea: Encryption plugin architecture for file-systems

2001-04-24 Thread Dale Amon
to say this with confidence. That's why I'm asking here: in hopes that someone who really does know can say something about the worst case data loses. -- -- Use Linux: A computerDale Amon, CEO/MD is a terrible thing Village

Crypto patches for losetup

2001-02-15 Thread Dale Amon
ng I often (mostly?) miss things in the flood of thousands of itty bitty messages :-) -- -- Use Linux: A computer Dale Amon, CEO/MD is a terrible thing Village Networking Ltd to waste.Belfast, Northe

Re: Problem with ufs nextstep in 2.6.18 (debian)

2007-04-15 Thread Dale Amon
The error also happens in 2.6.19, same as in 2.6.18. I extracted this from syslog: Apr 17 00:14:08 kdev kernel: loop: loaded (max 8 devices) Apr 17 00:14:15 kdev kernel: UFS-fs error (device loop0): ufs_check_page: bad entry in directory #2: directory entry across blocks - offset=356,

Re: Problem with ufs nextstep in 2.6.18 (debian)

2007-04-16 Thread Dale Amon
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 11:32:04AM +0400, Evgeniy Dushistov wrote: The error also happens in 2.6.19, same as in 2.6.18. I extracted this from syslog: Apr 17 00:14:15 kdev kernel: UFS-fs error (device loop0): ufs_check_page: bad entry Is this happened also with this patch:

Re: Problem with ufs nextstep in 2.6.18 (debian)

2007-04-16 Thread Dale Amon
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 05:04:22PM +0100, Dale Amon wrote: On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 11:32:04AM +0400, Evgeniy Dushistov wrote: The error also happens in 2.6.19, same as in 2.6.18. I extracted this from syslog: Apr 17 00:14:15 kdev kernel: UFS-fs error (device loop0): ufs_check_page: bad

Re: Problem with ufs nextstep in 2.6.18 (debian)

2007-04-19 Thread Dale Amon
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 11:32:04AM +0400, Evgeniy Dushistov wrote: The error also happens in 2.6.19, same as in 2.6.18. I extracted this from syslog: Apr 17 00:14:15 kdev kernel: UFS-fs error (device loop0): ufs_check_page: bad entry Is this happened also with this patch:

Re: Reiser4. BEST FILESYSTEM EVER.

2007-04-07 Thread Dale Amon
Jan does have a point about bad blocks. A couple years ago I had a relatively new disk start to go bad on random blocks. I detected it fairly quickly but did have some data loss. All the compressed archives which were hit were near total losses; most other files were at least partially

Problem with ufs nextstep in 2.6.18 (debian)

2007-04-14 Thread Dale Amon
I recently noticed that I can no longer read my images of NeXTstep floppies on certain machines. All are running an up to date etch distribution but the difference between where I can read or not read seems to be the linux version. On a 2.6.18 machine: # mount -t ufs -o ro,ufstype=nextstep,loop

Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-16 Thread Dale Amon
DEC had versioning files systems 30 years ago. Any patents on their style must certainly have expired long ago. Look at RSX-11 and other seventies era operating systems. This is ancient stuff. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to

Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-17 Thread Dale Amon
On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 11:17:58PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: (Vax/VMS System Software Handbook) (TOPS-20 User's Manual) Also Files/11 And don't forget the really ground breaking work (for the time) done by the Xanadu folk. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Secure Linux

2001-01-30 Thread Dale Amon
; involved with it? -- -- Use Linux: A computer Dale Amon, CEO/MD is a terrible thing Village Networking Ltd to waste.Belfast, Northern Ireland -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kern

Re: Secure Linux

2001-01-31 Thread Dale Amon
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 11:55:17AM -0800, David D.W. Downey wrote: > > > Hey Dale, got a URL for this? Now *I* am intrigued! > > > David D.W. Downey > RHCE > http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/ -- -- Use Linux: A comput

Re: [OT] Re: Your response is requested

2001-04-23 Thread Dale Amon
rs. > > This did not originate from toyota.com - The spammer simply > used that domain as the "from" hostname. We are careful > about mail server security here, there is no open relay. > Yeah, I saw it to with *MY* domain on it and near had a fit! -- ---

Has the iptables security patch been vetted?

2001-04-23 Thread Dale Amon
it is returning immediate success at that point, or rather prove to myself that it is just skipping making the bad table entries. -- -- Use Linux: A computerDale Amon, CEO/MD is a terrible thing Village Networking Ltd to waste

Re: Idea: Encryption plugin architecture for file-systems

2001-04-23 Thread Dale Amon
) -- -- Use Linux: A computerDale Amon, CEO/MD is a terrible thing Village Networking Ltd to waste.Belfast, Northern Ireland -- - To unsubscribe from this list

Re: Idea: Encryption plugin architecture for file-systems

2001-04-24 Thread Dale Amon
ctured is not good enough for me to say this with confidence. That's why I'm asking here: in hopes that someone who really does know can say something about the worst case data loses. -- -- Use Linux: A computerDale Amon, CEO/MD is a terrib

General interest: lawyers talking about GPL and Linux

2001-03-02 Thread Dale Amon
lity under existing copyright and contract law. --- -- -- Use Linux: A computer Dale Amon, CEO/MD is a terrible thing Village Networking Ltd to waste.Belfast, Northe

Crypto patches for losetup

2001-02-15 Thread Dale Amon
ng I often (mostly?) miss things in the flood of thousands of itty bitty messages :-) -- -- Use Linux: A computer Dale Amon, CEO/MD is a terrible thing Village Networking Ltd to waste.Belfast, Northe

Re: Reiser4. BEST FILESYSTEM EVER.

2007-04-07 Thread Dale Amon
Jan does have a point about bad blocks. A couple years ago I had a relatively new disk start to go bad on random blocks. I detected it fairly quickly but did have some data loss. All the compressed archives which were hit were near total losses; most other files were at least partially

Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-16 Thread Dale Amon
DEC had versioning files systems 30 years ago. Any patents on their style must certainly have expired long ago. Look at RSX-11 and other seventies era operating systems. This is ancient stuff. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-17 Thread Dale Amon
On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 11:17:58PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > (Vax/VMS System Software Handbook) > > (TOPS-20 User's Manual) > > Also Files/11 And don't forget the really ground breaking work (for the time) done by the Xanadu folk. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Problem with ufs nextstep in 2.6.18 (debian)

2007-04-14 Thread Dale Amon
I recently noticed that I can no longer read my images of NeXTstep floppies on certain machines. All are running an up to date etch distribution but the difference between where I can read or not read seems to be the linux version. On a 2.6.18 machine: # mount -t ufs -o ro,ufstype=nextstep,loop

Re: Problem with ufs nextstep in 2.6.18 (debian)

2007-04-15 Thread Dale Amon
The error also happens in 2.6.19, same as in 2.6.18. I extracted this from syslog: Apr 17 00:14:08 kdev kernel: loop: loaded (max 8 devices) Apr 17 00:14:15 kdev kernel: UFS-fs error (device loop0): ufs_check_page: bad entry in directory #2: directory entry across blocks - offset=356,

Re: Problem with ufs nextstep in 2.6.18 (debian)

2007-04-16 Thread Dale Amon
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 11:32:04AM +0400, Evgeniy Dushistov wrote: > >The error also happens in 2.6.19, same as in 2.6.18. > >I extracted this from syslog: > >Apr 17 00:14:15 kdev kernel: UFS-fs error (device loop0): > >ufs_check_page: bad entry > > Is this happened also with this patch: >

Re: Problem with ufs nextstep in 2.6.18 (debian)

2007-04-16 Thread Dale Amon
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 05:04:22PM +0100, Dale Amon wrote: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 11:32:04AM +0400, Evgeniy Dushistov wrote: > > >The error also happens in 2.6.19, same as in 2.6.18. > > >I extracted this from syslog: > > >Apr 17 00:14:15 kdev kern

Re: Problem with ufs nextstep in 2.6.18 (debian)

2007-04-19 Thread Dale Amon
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 11:32:04AM +0400, Evgeniy Dushistov wrote: > >The error also happens in 2.6.19, same as in 2.6.18. > >I extracted this from syslog: > >Apr 17 00:14:15 kdev kernel: UFS-fs error (device loop0): > >ufs_check_page: bad entry > > Is this happened also with this patch: >