Re: 2.4 kernels

2000-09-10 Thread John Summerfield
> > I have seen a couple of serious problems with > > 2.4.0-test7. > > 1) Support for 2K sectors (as on my Fujitsu F2513A > > drive which uses 2K sectors > > on its 640 Mb removable disks( is broken. > > 2) EIDE support on my hardware (AMD K6-2/500, ASUS > > P5S-B, IDE interface: > > Silicon

Re: SMP question ?

2000-09-10 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, John Summerfield wrote: >The whole idea of naming a numeric datatype "int" was a pretty poor idea. >"long int" etc are little better. I prefer PL/1's fixed bin(31) - one defines >the sice of the fixed-point number (31 bits plus sign) and representation >(binary). It also al

Re: 2.4 kernels

2000-09-10 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Frank Hale wrote: >> I have seen a couple of serious problems with >> 2.4.0-test7. >> 1) Support for 2K sectors (as on my Fujitsu F2513A >> drive which uses 2K sectors >> on its 640 Mb removable disks( is broken. >> 2) EIDE support on my hardware (AMD K6-2/500, ASUS >> P5S-B

Re: DoS Attack

2000-09-10 Thread Mike A. Harris
On 10 Sep 2000, Nasir Mahmood wrote: >I am experiencing Denial of Service Attack last many days. Most of you Help a >lot. I have reformat my Proxy & authentication system. Even replaced my Lan >cards. > >But I am continuously getting flood of bytes from different IPs. After >detailed enquiry, I n

Re: 2.4 kernels

2000-09-10 Thread John Summerfield
> > I have seen a couple of serious problems with > > 2.4.0-test7. > > 1) Support for 2K sectors (as on my Fujitsu F2513A > > drive which uses 2K sectors > > on its 640 Mb removable disks( is broken. > > 2) EIDE support on my hardware (AMD K6-2/500, ASUS > > P5S-B, IDE interface: > > Silicon

Re: Where is the split-distro program?

2000-09-10 Thread John Summerfield
> > Thank you. Thinking about it a such program could be very useful > since it could select for second CD only packages nothing depends on them > or at least packages who are not used in preinstall/postinstall scripts. > Perhaps I will write it one of these days. > There are other logical spl

Re: Urgent ! denial of Service Attack

2000-09-10 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Pekka Savola wrote: >If your system were to be remotely controllable, if would have to use >a listening socket. Your netscape-communicator is _not_ a server process, >so it won't show up there. And as the malicious process could be UDP too, >I'd include -u in there, ie. -ltu

Re: Urgent ! denial of Service Attack

2000-09-10 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Harry Putnam wrote: >Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 06:30:54 -0700 >From: Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Subject: Re: Urgent ! denial of Service Attack > >On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 05:52:28AM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrot

Re: 2.4 kernels

2000-09-10 Thread Frank Hale
> I have seen a couple of serious problems with > 2.4.0-test7. > 1) Support for 2K sectors (as on my Fujitsu F2513A > drive which uses 2K sectors > on its 640 Mb removable disks( is broken. > 2) EIDE support on my hardware (AMD K6-2/500, ASUS > P5S-B, IDE interface: > Silicon Integrated Syst

Re: gcc-2.95.2

2000-09-10 Thread jfm2
> > > > > Jeepers creepers... ;o) > > > > This is one of the biggest FAQ's I think in all of Linux > > land... People argue about how they use compiler XXX.YYY and it > > works for them, so it should work for everyone, when Linus, and > > ;-) > You do like going off half-cocked, don't you Mi

Re: DoS Attack

2000-09-10 Thread Pekka Savola
On 10 Sep 2000, Nasir Mahmood wrote: > 00:05:73:08:b5:44 (every time I get same mac but diff. IP) > Its consuming my costly bandwidth heavily. > > Please favour me & guide me the following: > > 1. How I can trace orginal Ip from above Mac. First, you should check if those different IP's are rea

DoS Attack

2000-09-10 Thread Nasir Mahmood
Dear Sirs, I am experiencing Denial of Service Attack last many days. Most of you Help a lot. I have reformat my Proxy & authentication system. Even replaced my Lan cards. But I am continuously getting flood of bytes from different IPs. After detailed enquiry, I noted that I am getting bombarmen

2.4 kernels

2000-09-10 Thread John Summerfield
I have seen a couple of serious problems with 2.4.0-test7. 1) Support for 2K sectors (as on my Fujitsu F2513A drive which uses 2K sectors on its 640 Mb removable disks( is broken. 2) EIDE support on my hardware (AMD K6-2/500, ASUS P5S-B, IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513

Re: Glint

2000-09-10 Thread John Summerfield
> On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 08:16:34PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > For this postinstall work, for CD exploration and for selective > > uninstalls when short of disk space then a GUI is far better than > > command line. I ever thought that people wanting to do everything > > with command lin

Re: Where is the split-distro program?

2000-09-10 Thread jfm2
> > Such a thing has never been in the anaconda package. To make 2 cds, > just start with the whole distribution in a directory called > "i386-disc1" and do: > > # mkdir -p i386-disc2/RedHat/RPMS > # mv i386-disc1/RedHat/instimage i386-disc2/RedHat > > then mv i386-disc1/RedHat/RPMS/foo-1.0-1.