help creating a gedit plugin

2005-06-08 Thread Aaron
Hi all, I need help from a gnome/gedit c programer with building a plugin for gedit. If there is anyone on the list who has built a plugin for gedit or is interested in doing so could you contact me off-list? Thanks Aaron = To unsu

Re: Directory links and life mysteries

2005-06-08 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Alon Altman wrote: On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Ira Abramov wrote: /boot has no subdirectories, /usr has 11, and /var has 19. all show a link count of n+3. a. is this corect? I thought n+2 was the right number, like Samhain suggests. n+3 (parent, ., and ..). ".." does not point to that directory.

Re: Hard linking to directories

2005-06-08 Thread Eli Marmor
Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anyone know WHY only root can create hard links to directories? > What is the attack/problem this permission restriction is trying to solve? link(2) and unlink(2) are very limited, probably because somebody was too lazy or too paranoid. Originally, in t

Re: Directory links and life mysteries

2005-06-08 Thread Alon Altman
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Ira Abramov wrote: /boot has no subdirectories, /usr has 11, and /var has 19. all show a link count of n+3. a. is this corect? I thought n+2 was the right number, like Samhain suggests. n+3 (parent, ., and ..). -- This message was sent by Alon Altman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IC

Re: Hard linking to directories

2005-06-08 Thread Oron Peled
On Wednesday 08 June 2005 20:52, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Does anyone know WHY only root can create hard links to directories? > What is the attack/problem this permission restriction is trying to solve? Letting root do this is a Linux extension to the original Unix semantics in which *nobody* co

Re: Hard linking to directories

2005-06-08 Thread shimi
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 23:02 +0300, shimi wrote: > On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 21:39 +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > Alon Altman wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > > > > >> Hi all, > > >> > > >> Does anyone know WHY only root can create hard links to directories? > > >> Wh

Re: Hard linking to directories

2005-06-08 Thread Shachar Shemesh
shimi wrote: My assumption: if you hard-link to a file not owned by you, inside a directory you do have write access to (otherwise you can't create the link), the file will of course be identical to the original file (it _is_ a hard-link). Meaning it will have the same owner, same permissions, a

Re: Directory links and life mysteries

2005-06-08 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Shachar Shemesh, from the post of Wed, 08 Jun: > Ira Abramov wrote: > >/boot is indeed a different filesystem from the "/" and is mounted > >read-only, but so are /var and /usr for that matter, and there are no > >complaints there... > > > ># ls -ld /boot /usr /var > >drwxr-xr-x 3 root ro

Re: Hard linking to directories

2005-06-08 Thread shimi
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 21:39 +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Alon Altman wrote: > > > On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> Does anyone know WHY only root can create hard links to directories? > >> What is the attack/problem this permission restriction is trying to

Re: Directory links and life mysteries

2005-06-08 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Ira Abramov wrote: to add to Shachar's wonders, I have this complaint repeating from Samhain, a security checker tool I've got installed on my server since I had someone break in and plant a r0nin backdoor. CRIT : [2005-06-08T22:07:24+0300] msg=, subroutine= /boot is indeed a different file

Directory links and life mysteries

2005-06-08 Thread Ira Abramov
to add to Shachar's wonders, I have this complaint repeating from Samhain, a security checker tool I've got installed on my server since I had someone break in and plant a r0nin backdoor. CRIT : [2005-06-08T22:07:24+0300] msg=, subroutine= /boot is indeed a different filesystem from the "/" an

Re: Hard linking to directories

2005-06-08 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Alon Altman wrote: On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know WHY only root can create hard links to directories? What is the attack/problem this permission restriction is trying to solve? Because only root can unlink a non-empty directory? I was hoping to lear

Re: Hard linking to directories

2005-06-08 Thread Alon Altman
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know WHY only root can create hard links to directories? What is the attack/problem this permission restriction is trying to solve? Because only root can unlink a non-empty directory? Alon -- This message was sent by Alon Alt

Hard linking to directories

2005-06-08 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hi all, Does anyone know WHY only root can create hard links to directories? What is the attack/problem this permission restriction is trying to solve? Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting ltd. Have you backed up today's work? http://www.lingnu.com/backup.html =

Re: Kernel code browsing

2005-06-08 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Leonid Podolny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bottom line: I'd like to ask all the kernel gurus out there to describe > their kernel hacking environment -- editor, code browsing plug-in, > general tips, etc. While not qualifying for the "guru" title, I use xemacs (no flames, please!) with etags/g

Re: Kernel code browsing

2005-06-08 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Leonid Podolny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bottom line: I'd like to ask all the kernel gurus out there to describe > their kernel hacking environment -- editor, code browsing plug-in, > general tips, etc. While not qualifying for the "guru" title, I use xemacs (no flames, please!) with etags/gt

Re: Kernel code browsing

2005-06-08 Thread Gilboa Davara
I'm no kernel guru, but I, too, found cscope to be *very* annoying. vim+ctags is much better. (Let alone faster.) Doing :tag ssize_t or :tag size_t (Or Ctrl+] over the tag itself) will jump to include/linux/types.h without too much fuss. *However* if you you're looking for tag reference (E.g. a

Kernel code browsing

2005-06-08 Thread Leonid Podolny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Disclaimer: I don't want to start a flame war. Hi, list. Recently I came to the conclusion that the way that I work with kernel code is inefficient, and I spend too much time looking for a needed piece of code. I work with vim and cscope, but cscope i

Re: Debian Sarge launch party

2005-06-08 Thread Lior Kesos
I think I'll be there although the closest I get to sarge is my ubuntu @home. On 6/7/05, Ira Abramov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - Forwarded message from Debian-IL - > > > > when's the party? > > When ever you want (-: > > Friday night, Tel Aviv's old harbour, a place called Shalvata. >

Re: burning mp3 as data

2005-06-08 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 06:46:06PM +0300, Aviv Goll wrote: > Hi, > I have a CD player which can read mp3 files. A CD I made with windows > works fine but when I tried burning with k3b on Ubuntu, The CD player > refused to recognized the CD (errored "no cd") and an attempt to read > from the CD

Organizing Rides to the Creative Commons Launch Event

2005-06-08 Thread Shlomi Fish
I have set up a page in the Hackers-IL wiki for synchronizing rides to the Israeli Creative Commons Launch event: http://www.hackers.org.il/mediawiki/index.php/Launch_of_Creative_Commons_in_Israel If you need a ride or can give one, please go there and fill your details. If you see people who c

Re: burning mp3 as data

2005-06-08 Thread Alex Alexander
When you click Burn..., you need to go to the Filesystem tab and click "Generate Joliet Extensions" and also go to advanced and click "Allow 103 Character Joliet filenames". You can then click "Save User Defaults" for peace of mind :) Alex On 6/7/05, Aviv Goll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, >

Upcoming Presentations in Telux (and other Events)

2005-06-08 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all! Following is a list of the upcoming presentations in Telux as well as some other events: * 9-June-2005 (tomorrow!) - Launch of the Israeli Creative Commons Project, with a video presentation by Lawrence Lessig. http://xrl.us/gcpj * 16-June-2005 - Israeli Pythoneer meeting in Azrieli Ce