Baldur Gislason wrote:
I agree, that would be a nice feature in usbd, but a workaround to gain the same functionality would be:
attach "/usr/sbin/moused `/usr/bin/perl -e 'while(<>) { $foo = $_ . $foo; } if($foo =~ /^moused_flags="(.*?)"$/im) { print $1; }' < /etc/rc.conf` -p /dev/${DEVNAME} -I /
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 04:45:50PM +0100, Roelof Osinga wrote:
> Grand gesture. Laudable even. Yeah, that PAM sure seems to've
> become popular. The Courier IMAP port also insisted upon its
> installation. Insisted in that fiddling with the makefile only
> resulted in failure to configure. But tha
On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 09:46:14PM -, Dave McKay wrote:
> Is it really necessary to post the ports security advisories?
> The exploitable programs are not part of the FreeBSD OS, they
> are third party software. I think the proper place for these
> is the Bugtraq mailing list on securityfocus
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 03:54:50PM -0700, Parag Patel wrote:
> Anyway, command-line apps have been obsolete for years, so I guess we
> should go on and find better things to argue about. :)
Heh.
So far, I've only found one GUI that I would really miss without X
Windows: SWAT in netscape.
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Do
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 03:54:50PM -0700, Parag Patel wrote:
> Anyway, command-line apps have been obsolete for years, so I guess we
> should go on and find better things to argue about. :)
Heh.
So far, I've only found one GUI that I would really miss without X
Windows: SWAT in netscape.
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D
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 08:34:59PM -0700, Parag Patel wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 09:23:36 BST, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> >
> >On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 11:15:12AM -0700, Parag Patel wrote:
> >> Growing up programming on a KL-10, I still think the correct place for
>
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 08:34:59PM -0700, Parag Patel wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 09:23:36 BST, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> >
> >On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 11:15:12AM -0700, Parag Patel wrote:
> >> Growing up programming on a KL-10, I still think the correct place for
>
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 07:59:03AM -0700, Duane H. Hesser wrote:
> You probably already have it, as
> /usr/src/contrib/global/gozilla/remote.c
Blimey!
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"vi has two modes the one in which it beeps and the one in which it
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 07:59:03AM -0700, Duane H. Hesser wrote:
> You probably already have it, as
> /usr/src/contrib/global/gozilla/remote.c
Blimey!
--
Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane -- Unix Systems Administrator
"vi has two modes the one in which it beeps and the one in which it d
On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 03:22:55PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Dirk GOUDERS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Oh, sorry -- my "browse-url-at-mouse" function made
> >
> > http://www.zdnet.com/zdtv/screensavers/answerstips/story/02c36562c23246242c00.html
> >
> > of it...
>
> Netscape uses c
On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 03:22:55PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Dirk GOUDERS writes:
> > Oh, sorry -- my "browse-url-at-mouse" function made
> >
> > http://www.zdnet.com/zdtv/screensavers/answerstips/story/02c36562c23246242c00.html
> >
> > of it...
>
> Netscape uses commans to separate p
On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 11:15:12AM -0700, Parag Patel wrote:
> Growing up programming on a KL-10, I still think the correct place for
> line-editing is in the driver. Hell - it's already doing basic
> erase/kill line editing as it is. Then you don't have to hack every
> command-line app to get l
On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 11:15:12AM -0700, Parag Patel wrote:
> Growing up programming on a KL-10, I still think the correct place for
> line-editing is in the driver. Hell - it's already doing basic
> erase/kill line editing as it is. Then you don't have to hack every
> command-line app to get li
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 09:31:01PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <199909070023.baa29...@keep.lan.awfulhak.org> Brian Somers writes:
> : Is it time to install src/etc/rc.sysctl now ? I certainly think it's
> : a good idea :-]
>
> No. I don't think we want to install rc.sysctl for an ins
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 09:31:01PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Brian Somers writes:
> : Is it time to install src/etc/rc.sysctl now ? I certainly think it's
> : a good idea :-]
>
> No. I don't think we want to install rc.sysctl for an installworld.
> It would spa
On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 10:49:35AM +0100, Wood, Richard wrote:
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Josef Karthauser [mailto:j...@pavilion.net]
> > Sent: 03 September 1999 10:41
>
> > Don't use 'mailman' please. We've already got it assigned across
> > site for the MailMan mailing list softwa
On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 10:49:35AM +0100, Wood, Richard wrote:
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Josef Karthauser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 03 September 1999 10:41
>
> > Don't use 'mailman' please. We've already got it assigned across
> > site for the MailMan mailing list softw
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 04:53:42PM +0800, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS
Perth wrote:
> Now that Sun is apparently planning to give away the source to StarOffice, I
> wonder when the first port to FreeBSD will happen?
Where sun are involved, I wouldn't get your hopes up until you actually
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 04:53:42PM +0800, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Perth
wrote:
> Now that Sun is apparently planning to give away the source to StarOffice, I
> wonder when the first port to FreeBSD will happen?
Where sun are involved, I wouldn't get your hopes up until you actuall
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 10:12:52AM +0100, Cillian Sharkey wrote:
> I just setup my system so that "Joe" user can mount
> /dev/fd0 on a mountpoint "Joe" owns..grand no problem..
>
> ..BUT it only works when the f/s code for that f/s type is
> available (ie. compiled into the kernel or has been prev
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 10:12:52AM +0100, Cillian Sharkey wrote:
> I just setup my system so that "Joe" user can mount
> /dev/fd0 on a mountpoint "Joe" owns..grand no problem..
>
> ..BUT it only works when the f/s code for that f/s type is
> available (ie. compiled into the kernel or has been pre
On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 12:23:00PM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, James Howard wrote:
> > I heard somewhere that Linux was released under a slightly modified GPL to
> > permit the inclusion of BSD code. I assumed they did this to steal the IP
> > stack.
>
> Most likely.
No
On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 12:23:00PM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, James Howard wrote:
> > I heard somewhere that Linux was released under a slightly modified GPL to
> > permit the inclusion of BSD code. I assumed they did this to steal the IP
> > stack.
>
> Most likely.
N
On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 02:43:28AM -0700, Mike Hoskins wrote:
> I like the 'keeping it real' idea as well.
>
> Then again, doesn't 3.2R+ support SecureRPC? Isn't this the sort of thing
> NIS+ was invented for? A centralized db of users that you can then export
> to various machines with differin
On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 02:43:28AM -0700, Mike Hoskins wrote:
> I like the 'keeping it real' idea as well.
>
> Then again, doesn't 3.2R+ support SecureRPC? Isn't this the sort of thing
> NIS+ was invented for? A centralized db of users that you can then export
> to various machines with differi
On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 09:04:20AM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> A question that always baffled me (I'm fairly easy to baffle) is why we've
> got some numbers defined as both udp and tcp when the service type is only
> one or the other. Does anyone know?
Probably because the IANA specifies them
On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 09:04:20AM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> A question that always baffled me (I'm fairly easy to baffle) is why we've
> got some numbers defined as both udp and tcp when the service type is only
> one or the other. Does anyone know?
Probably because the IANA specifies the
On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 08:01:22PM +0200, Krzysztof Krawczyk wrote:
> Maybe this is a wrong list, so tell me about it, but I think you can help
> me :)
>
> I have small problem. I own two virtual terminals, eg. ttyp1 and ttyp2.
> Under ttyp1 I run a program. Now I need to transport big count of da
On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 08:01:22PM +0200, Krzysztof Krawczyk wrote:
> Maybe this is a wrong list, so tell me about it, but I think you can help
> me :)
>
> I have small problem. I own two virtual terminals, eg. ttyp1 and ttyp2.
> Under ttyp1 I run a program. Now I need to transport big count of d
On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 04:16:28AM -0700, jko...@freebsd.org wrote:
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH, LD_PRELOAD and LD_DEBUG are ignored for setuid executables
> in FreeBSD.
But the point being made is that they are not ignored for executables
which have no read access. And from there, read access can be gaine
On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 04:16:28AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH, LD_PRELOAD and LD_DEBUG are ignored for setuid executables
> in FreeBSD.
But the point being made is that they are not ignored for executables
which have no read access. And from there, read access can be gaine
On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 10:58:59PM -0700, John Polstra wrote:
> In article <19990722111605.c49...@palmerharvey.co.uk>,
> Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 04:59:59PM +0700, Max Khon wrote:
> > >
> > > PAM is also "using masses of we
On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 10:58:59PM -0700, John Polstra wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Dominic Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 04:59:59PM +0700, Max Khon wrote:
> > >
> > > PAM is also "using masses
On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 09:30:28AM -0400, Jung, Michael wrote:
> I started getting these messages in the daily security output.
>
> > arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for 255.255.255.0rt
> > arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for 255.255.255.0rt
> > arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for 255.25
On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 11:19:35PM +0930, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
>
> > > PAM is also "using masses of weird shared objects" but nevertheless it's
> > > quite usable
> >
> > By statically linked bin
On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 09:30:28AM -0400, Jung, Michael wrote:
> I started getting these messages in the daily security output.
>
> > arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for 255.255.255.0rt
> > arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for 255.255.255.0rt
> > arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for 255.2
On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 11:19:35PM +0930, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
>
> > > PAM is also "using masses of weird shared objects" but nevertheless it's
> > > quite usable
> >
> > By statically linked bin
On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 04:59:59PM +0700, Max Khon wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> > Lovely. Sounds like a much better way to do the Solaris/Linux (and
> > NetBSD?) /etc/nsswitch.conf stuff. On Solaris at least, this is
> > implemented using masses of
On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 04:59:59PM +0700, Max Khon wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> > Lovely. Sounds like a much better way to do the Solaris/Linux (and
> > NetBSD?) /etc/nsswitch.conf stuff. On Solaris at least, this is
> > implemented using m
On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 12:16:22PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
>
> FreeBSD will have native IPV6 within a matter of weeks at this stage..
> the code is being readied as we speak. see www.kame.net . 3 sets of
> developers for FreeBSD IPV6 have merged their efforts and the result of
> this shoul
On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 12:16:22PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
>
> FreeBSD will have native IPV6 within a matter of weeks at this stage..
> the code is being readied as we speak. see www.kame.net . 3 sets of
> developers for FreeBSD IPV6 have merged their efforts and the result of
> this shou
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 12:55:19PM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jul 1999 20:44:18 +0100
> Dominic Mitchell wrote:
>
> > Lovely. Sounds like a much better way to do the Solaris/Linux (and
> > NetBSD?) /etc/nsswitch.conf stuff. On Solaris at least, this is
&
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 12:55:19PM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jul 1999 20:44:18 +0100
> Dominic Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Lovely. Sounds like a much better way to do the Solaris/Linux (and
> > NetBSD?) /etc/nsswitch.conf stuff. O
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 12:29:48PM -0400, David E. Cross wrote:
> I thought now would be a good time to chime in on some of my wild schemes...
>
> The reason I am interested in 'userfs' is to enable me to write a version
> of 'nsd'. Those of you familiar with Irix will recognize it. For others,
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 12:29:48PM -0400, David E. Cross wrote:
> I thought now would be a good time to chime in on some of my wild schemes...
>
> The reason I am interested in 'userfs' is to enable me to write a version
> of 'nsd'. Those of you familiar with Irix will recognize it. For others
On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 10:12:29AM +0200, Jos Backus wrote:
> I just can't resist mentioning Dan Bernstein's implementation of a similar
> idea: stralloc - dynamically allocated strings.
Has he actually LICENSEd any of his code yet?
--
Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane -- Unix Systems Admini
On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 09:57:31PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> Something is weird here. If the solaris people are using a
> SWAPSIZE + REALMEM VM model, they have to allow the
> allocated + reserved space go +REALMEM bytes over available swap
> space. If not they are using o
On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 10:12:29AM +0200, Jos Backus wrote:
> I just can't resist mentioning Dan Bernstein's implementation of a similar
> idea: stralloc - dynamically allocated strings.
Has he actually LICENSEd any of his code yet?
--
Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane -- Unix Systems Admin
On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 09:57:31PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> Something is weird here. If the solaris people are using a
> SWAPSIZE + REALMEM VM model, they have to allow the
> allocated + reserved space go +REALMEM bytes over available swap
> space. If not they are using
On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 10:44:57AM +0100, Alex Knowles wrote:
> I hope this is the right place to post, sorry if it's not.
> I'm really sorry to post what is probably a repeat question, but I've just
> upgraded to freebsd 3.2-release and I'm having real problems getting the
> kernel to see my print
On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 10:44:57AM +0100, Alex Knowles wrote:
> I hope this is the right place to post, sorry if it's not.
> I'm really sorry to post what is probably a repeat question, but I've just
> upgraded to freebsd 3.2-release and I'm having real problems getting the
> kernel to see my prin
On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 11:50:33AM -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> Attached is the output of 'tconv -b vt221' on our Solaris machine
> where this map'ng is required, but the output doesn't look anything like
> /etc/termcap :(
Try doing "infocmp -C vt221" to get termcap output. What you ha
On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 11:50:33AM -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> Attached is the output of 'tconv -b vt221' on our Solaris machine
> where this map'ng is required, but the output doesn't look anything like
> /etc/termcap :(
Try doing "infocmp -C vt221" to get termcap output. What you h
Some hacking group has written an introduction to using KLDs under
FreeBSD. It's not supposed to be a "normal" tutorial, but it may be
appreciated by a few people on this list.
http://thc.pimmel.com/files/thc/bsdkern.html
--
Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane -- Unix Systems Administrator
Some hacking group has written an introduction to using KLDs under
FreeBSD. It's not supposed to be a "normal" tutorial, but it may be
appreciated by a few people on this list.
http://thc.pimmel.com/files/thc/bsdkern.html
--
Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane -- Unix Systems Administrator
On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 08:17:59AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I know the basic admin knowledge of UNIX,perl,cgi,c
> how to become a hacker?
Not everyone will agree with this, but you may want to look at:
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/index.html
--
Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane
On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 08:17:59AM -0700, haodong...@netease.com wrote:
> I know the basic admin knowledge of UNIX,perl,cgi,c
> how to become a hacker?
Not everyone will agree with this, but you may want to look at:
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/index.html
--
Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey Mc
Just to let you all know, it appears that the termination clause has
been dropped, but it appears to have gained a gpl-like "must make source
available" clause.
http://msgs.securepoint.com/cgi-bin/get/postfix9906/103.html
(and where I found it)
http://www.lwn.net/1999/0701/a/postfix.html
--
Do
Just to let you all know, it appears that the termination clause has
been dropped, but it appears to have gained a gpl-like "must make source
available" clause.
http://msgs.securepoint.com/cgi-bin/get/postfix9906/103.html
(and where I found it)
http://www.lwn.net/1999/0701/a/postfix.html
--
Dom
On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 12:22:08AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
> It would make sense except that the last time someone tried, some people
> complained that it made it too easy to sniff passwords etc.
Ok, so how about making it a compile time option, turned off by default?
That way, you have to
On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 12:22:08AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
> It would make sense except that the last time someone tried, some people
> complained that it made it too easy to sniff passwords etc.
Ok, so how about making it a compile time option, turned off by default?
That way, you have to r
This may have some bearing on FreeBSD...
http://www.lwn.net/daily/cyclic.html
--
Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane -- Unix Systems Administrator
"Always think very hard before messing with TCP. And then don't." -- MC
--
***
[ This is probably better aimed at -questions, but seeing as I'm here... ]
On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 12:13:53AM -0400, Nick LoPresti wrote:
> Here's my situation:
>
> 1. I would like to set up NIS on my network.
> 2. I have one FreeBSD system(2.2.6)
> 3. I have many other flavors of Unix on thi
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