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
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
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
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
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
>> user uid. The fix was to run the logging program as
>> root. Has that prot
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
> user uid. The fix was to run the logging program as
> root. Has that protected pipe method been extended
> since 2.6.8.1?
The enti
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 04:53:58PM -0500, Matt Kettler wrote:
>At 04:40 PM 3/3/2005, George Georgalis wrote:
>>This log entry indicates when I booted into 2.6.11:
>>2005-03-02 12:05:47.018334500 2005-03-02 17:05:47 [781] i: server killed
>>by SIGTERM, shutting down
>
>Is there any chance you're ru
At 04:40 PM 3/3/2005, George Georgalis wrote:
This log entry indicates when I booted into 2.6.11:
2005-03-02 12:05:47.018334500 2005-03-02 17:05:47 [781] i: server killed
by SIGTERM, shutting down
Is there any chance you're running out of memory and the OOM killer is
kicking in and sending SIGTER
