Re: syslog insmod please!

2001-04-07 Thread Russell King
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 01:50:29PM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote: > Floating point on ARM is indeed something of a crock, but that particular case > used to work -- can you tell where it's going wrong? See entry-armv.S, > about line 680, for the very bad hack that was supposed to facilitate this

Re: syslog insmod please!

2001-04-06 Thread Andrew Daviel
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, various people (Ion, David, James) wrote: >Recent versions of modutils .. log to .. /var/log/ksymoops >kmod only works when the user calles for the service .. >consider unix.o I'm still using 2.2 kernel where unix.o isn't a module and /var/log/ksymoops doesn't exist, so I supp

Re: syslog insmod please!

2001-04-06 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Wichert , On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Artur Frysiak wrote: > On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 07:43:29AM -0700, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: > > On 6 Apr 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > > Mr. James W. Laferriere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Not the prob

Re: syslog insmod please!

2001-04-06 Thread Artur Frysiak
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 07:43:29AM -0700, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: > > Hello Wichert , > > On 6 Apr 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > Mr. James W. Laferriere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Not the problem being discussed , This is a user now r

Re: syslog insmod please!

2001-04-06 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Wichert , On 6 Apr 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Mr. James W. Laferriere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not the problem being discussed , This is a user now root & > > having gained root is now attempting to from the command line > >

Re: syslog insmod please!

2001-04-06 Thread Wichert Akkerman
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mr. James W. Laferriere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not the problem being discussed , This is a user now root & > having gained root is now attempting to from the command line > to load a module . How do we get this event recorded ? Recent vers

Re: syslog insmod please!

2001-04-06 Thread Philip Blundell
>I'm not wonderfully impressed with the way that you can't load the FPU >emulation module on ARM at the moment without having some form of FPU >emulation in your kernel already, either :) Floating point on ARM is indeed something of a crock, but that particular case used to work -- can you tell

Re: syslog insmod please!

2001-04-06 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Is there a good reason why insmod should not call syslog() to log any > module that gets installed ? I know things like bttv get very verbose > in the module itself, and I tried patching insmod to log the first > argument and it seemed to work for me. Consider "insmod

Re: syslog insmod please!

2001-04-06 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Ion , On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Ion Badulescu wrote: > On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > Why do it from user space? Simply add a printk() to sys_init_module() or > > similar. > Agreed, but at that point the solution has absolutely nothing to do with > insmod anymore. :-) >

Re: syslog insmod please!

2001-04-05 Thread Ion Badulescu
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote: > Why do it from user space? Simply add a printk() to sys_init_module() or > similar. Agreed, but at that point the solution has absolutely nothing to do with insmod anymore. :-) Besides, as you said, I don't really see the point. It certainly doesn

Re: syslog insmod please!

2001-04-05 Thread Andreas Dilger
Ion writes: > Andrew Daviel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there a good reason why insmod should not call syslog() to log > > any module that gets installed ? > > Simple: you'll have quite a bit of a problem if you are trying to insmod > the module with support for AF_UNIX sockets. :-) Why d

Re: syslog insmod please!

2001-04-05 Thread Ion Badulescu
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001 17:57:48 -0700 (PDT), Andrew Daviel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a good reason why insmod should not call syslog() to log > any module that gets installed ? Simple: you'll have quite a bit of a problem if you are trying to insmod the module with support for AF_UNIX s

syslog insmod please!

2001-04-05 Thread Andrew Daviel
Is there a good reason why insmod should not call syslog() to log any module that gets installed ? I know things like bttv get very verbose in the module itself, and I tried patching insmod to log the first argument and it seemed to work for me. I was looking at the knark LKM rootkit and wonderi