I want the development team to know that I'm very pleased with the
additions in security. It doesn't compromise my present security and
allows me to analyses the outcome from the implementations in my
email.
1) Nevertheless, security has compromised my standard configurations.
The global environment is missing some implementations; i.e.: $PATH
for starters. $PATH does not give the entire path string for any
shell. Most of the time I resort to making
"PATH=$PATH:[xxxx:xxxx:...]" manually at the prompt. I didn't change,
but added settings in /etc/bashrc and /etc/profile. Any files in the
$PATH don't execute in a script unless I provide a
"PATH=$PATH:[xxxx:xxxx:...]" in the script or place the exact path
connected in front of the intended file(s). All lines with a Mandrake
reference explaining that deleting this line requires deleting the
next line are intact.
The installation program refused to install my intended files through
expert mode, even though I met the requested dependencies and had an
empty hard disk full of space in gigabytes. Consequently, I had to
take matters into my own hands to create our zone server and insure
the execution of every required daemon. (Minus those unwanted
services and syslog lines by commenting out the lines.)
2) As a result, I was not able to know what some files would produce
without installing those programs with their dependencies and getting
a description (rpm -q -i [filename]) of the programs implementations;
i.e.: kon2, xcin, ... (Even those results didn't always produce
sufficient descriptions.) After close inspection, following the
installation, default login consoles in the prompt environment are
unable to display dialogs with proper ASCII characters. I suspect it
has something to do with the language, but I could only find
consolechars, consolehelp, consoletype, setfont, kbdconfig, and
possibly a few others that couldn't change the default character
settings for $TERM. I'm not positive, but I think the console is
producing ARABIC characters, which allow some maneuvering to change
settings through tty3 - tty6.
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SoloCDM
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