Re: problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa

2005-03-21 Thread George Georgalis
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 02:25:55PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: >"George Georgalis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I'm very defiantly seeing a problem with the 2.6.11 >> kernel and my spamassassin setup. However, it's not >> clear exactly where the problem is, seems like sa >> but it might be 2.6.

Re: problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa

2005-03-21 Thread Andrew Morton
"George Georgalis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm very defiantly seeing a problem with the 2.6.11 > kernel and my spamassassin setup. However, it's not > clear exactly where the problem is, seems like sa > but it might be 2.6.11 with daemontools + qmail + > QMAIL_QUEUE. > > A sure sign of it i

Re: a problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa

2005-03-16 Thread George Georgalis
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 05:37:59PM -0500, Paul Jarc wrote: >"George Georgalis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 06:28:35PM -0500, Paul Jarc wrote: >>> To simplify, what about these two: >>> mplayer foo.mpg >>> mplayer foo.mpg < mediafiles.txt >> >> The particular host does not

Re: a problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa

2005-03-16 Thread Paul Jarc
"George Georgalis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 06:28:35PM -0500, Paul Jarc wrote: >> To simplify, what about these two: >> mplayer foo.mpg >> mplayer foo.mpg < mediafiles.txt > > The particular host does not have X support so mpg is out. Well, use any one of the files list

Re: a problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa

2005-03-15 Thread George Georgalis
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 06:28:35PM -0500, Paul Jarc wrote: >"George Georgalis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It (Gerrit Pape's technique) very defiantly stopped working a few revs >> back (2.6.7?). I'm seeing a similar failed read from /dev/rtc and >> mplayer with 2.6.10, now too. > >The /proc/kmsg

Re: a problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa

2005-03-09 Thread Nix
On Wed, 09 Mar 2005, Paul Jarc uttered the following: > "George Georgalis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It (Gerrit Pape's technique) very defiantly stopped working a few revs >> back (2.6.7?). I'm seeing a similar failed read from /dev/rtc and >> mplayer with 2.6.10, now too. > > The /proc/kmsg p

Re: a problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa

2005-03-09 Thread Paul Jarc
"George Georgalis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It (Gerrit Pape's technique) very defiantly stopped working a few revs > back (2.6.7?). I'm seeing a similar failed read from /dev/rtc and > mplayer with 2.6.10, now too. The /proc/kmsg problem happens because the kernel now checks for permission at

Re: a problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa

2005-03-09 Thread George Georgalis
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 01:06:11PM +, Nix wrote: >> An interesting technique that allows a program (such as a log writer) >> to run as an unprivileged user, while receiving privileged data. (taken >> almost verbatim from Gerrit Pape's socklog) >> >> #!/bin/sh >> exec > exec 2>&1 >> exec softl

Re: a problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa

2005-03-09 Thread Nix
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, George Georgalis announced authoritatively: > Here's what I'm doing that is broken. I use tcpserver (functionally > similar to inetd) to receive an incoming smtp connection. While the > smtp session is still open, the message is piped to a temp file which > is then scanned for s

Re: a problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa

2005-03-08 Thread Andre Tomt
George Georgalis wrote: Here is a problem with 2.6.10: while read file; do mplayer $file ; done or tail -n93 mediafiles.txt | while read file; do mplayer $file ; done for each file path in that text file I get: Failed to open /dev/rtc: Permission denied (it should be readable by the user.) ^- Thi

Re: a problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa

2005-03-08 Thread George Georgalis
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 12:19:53 -0500, George Georgalis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 11:58:14AM -0500, George Georgalis wrote: > >On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 01:37:03PM +, Nix wrote: > >>On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, George Georgalis uttered the following: > >>> I recall a problem a while

Re: a problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa

2005-03-08 Thread George Georgalis
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 11:58:14AM -0500, George Georgalis wrote: >On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 01:37:03PM +, Nix wrote: >>On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, George Georgalis uttered the following: >>> I recall a problem a while back with a pipe from >>> /proc/kmsg that was sent by root to a program with a >>> use

Re: a problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa

2005-03-08 Thread George Georgalis
falseys rm "$tmp" exit 31 ;; *) # spamc error, echo "$0 error, spamc exit $sce" exit 71 esac exit 81 # Internal bug >If you can reproduce it consistently, *please* report >this to the linux-kernel list! I did, but have had no response to my

Re: problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa

2005-03-04 Thread George Georgalis
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 13:53:50 -0500, George Georgalis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 23:37:06 -0500, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 01:57:28PM -0500, George Georgalis wrote: > > > I recall a problem a while back with a pipe from > > > /proc/kmsg th

Re: problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa

2005-03-04 Thread George Georgalis
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 23:37:06 -0500, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 01:57:28PM -0500, George Georgalis wrote: > > I recall a problem a while back with a pipe from > > /proc/kmsg that was sent by root to a program with a > > user uid. The fix was to run the logging pr

Re: problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa

2005-03-03 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 01:57:28PM -0500, George Georgalis wrote: > I recall a problem a while back with a pipe from > /proc/kmsg that was sent by root to a program with a > user uid. The fix was to run the logging program as > root. Has that protected pipe method been extended > since 2.6.8.1? >

problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa

2005-03-03 Thread George Georgalis
I recall a problem a while back with a pipe from /proc/kmsg that was sent by root to a program with a user uid. The fix was to run the logging program as root. Has that protected pipe method been extended since 2.6.8.1? I'm very defiantly seeing a problem with the 2.6.11 kernel and my spamassassin

problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa

2005-03-03 Thread George Georgalis
Please keep me in cc as I'm not presently subscribed to lkml) I recall a problem a while back with a pipe from /proc/kmsg that was sent by root to a program with a user uid. The fix was to run the logging program as root. Has that protected pipe method been extended since 2.6.8.1? I'm very defia