Hi Oliver,
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 12:15:34PM +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> searching for package proxy solutions in apt-cache reveals:
>
> apt-proxy - Debian archive proxy and partial mirror builder
I've used apt-proxy for some time, but switch to apt-cacher. apt-proxy
would hang quiet often w
hi,
Am Donnerstag, den 15.11.2007, 22:59 + schrieb Matt Zimmerman:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 01:05:01PM +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> > in edubuntu we face the fact that governments and schools start rolling
> > out really huge deployments in the near future (see macedonia with a
> > total of
Dear kernel hackers,
This is a message from below 0x7FFF. Please look at this bug (it's
not a new concept but still):
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/163185
I'm no expert but I'd guess the "complete freeze" part of the bug has to
do with the kernel, no? It would be nice to have a sys
There is another problem with apt-zeroconf... it relies on Avahi. Avahi
has lots of environments that it does not work in. In my office, the
machines are not seeing each other. When we had a meeting at the Google
(Sketchup) offices in Boulder, Avahi did not work correctly their
either. I don't
Fabian Rodriguez wrote:
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> Sam Tygier wrote:
>> it looks like they have got the security side covered.
>>
>> "Now, one might think this could potentially pose a security threat
>> as everyone can offer and distribute debs without any
>> auth
Sorry about that, I checked the "has security impact" checkbox and that
marked it as private by default. This is a very well known problem
though so keeping secret certainly does not make sense. I have manually
removed the "private" flag now.
The content of the bug report was as follows:
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I thought you might find this helpful. (I brought this issue up with
the Slackware folks once, and they told me basically this.)
http://wiki.craz1.homelinux.com/index.php/Linux:Security:Forkbomb
I was also told that the ability to spawn such rampant forks/processes
is controlled by default in De
