Do we have this in our version?
I was reading through the daily report from Zone Alarm. It talked about Gentoo Linux's fcron. Do we have fcron? Because if we do, I think I know what is going on here. On Halloween, November 6, and November 9 of this month, I found that only I had no internet connection. I had xorg and the time. A local user can use fcron to perform a denial of service. In Linux. We have Xorg too. I had no connection on those days I mentioned. This morning, I found my internet connection disabled here. Easy to fix. Reenable it. The DOS happened on my birthday and my parrents anninversery. I had four open accounts, limited, and cygwin was installed. Now, those accounts are closed and I still have cygwin. Read this. * 11/20/2004 * Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200411-27 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - http://security.gentoo.org/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Severity: Normal Title: Fcron: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: November 18, 2004 Bugs: #71311 ID: 200411-27 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Synopsis Multiple vulnerabilities in Fcron can allow a local user to potentially cause a Denial of Service. Background == Fcron is a command scheduler with extended capabilities over cron and anacron. Affected packages === --- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected --- 1 sys-apps/fcron <= 2.9.5 *>= 2.0.2 = 2.9.5.1 Description == Due to design errors in the fcronsighup program, Fcron may allow a local user to bypass access restrictions (CAN-2004-1031), view the contents of root owned files (CAN-2004-1030), remove arbitrary files or create empty files (CAN-2004-1032), and send a SIGHUP to any process. A vulnerability also exists in fcrontab which may allow local users to view the contents of fcron.allow and fcron.deny (CAN-2004-1033). Impact == A local attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to perform a Denial of Service on the system running Fcron. Workaround == Make sure the fcronsighup and fcrontab binaries are only executable by trusted users. Resolution = All Fcron users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-apps/fcron-2.0.2" References == [ 1 ] CAN-2004-1030 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-1030 [ 2 ] CAN-2004-1031 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-1031 [ 3 ] CAN-2004-1032 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-1032 [ 4 ] CAN-2004-1033 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-1033 Availability = This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200411-27.xml Concerns? = Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security_at_gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at http://bugs.gentoo.org.
Re: Birthday Calendar
Kesrin Hanprasert wrote: Hi, Please click on the link below and enter your birthday for me. I am creating a birthday calendar for myself. Don't worry it is quick, and you don't have to enter your year of birth:-). http://www.BirthdayAlarm.com/dob2/26538508a321608672b242706762c904 Thanks, Kesrin Kesrin, what was all that about? I signed up for birthday alarm.
RE: startx causing XP (Media Center Edition) blue screen?
I use Norton Systemworks and Norton Internet Security on XP Pro. No problems with X11. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Listopad, Steve Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 1:11 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: startx causing XP (Media Center Edition) blue screen? Forgot to mention that before the bluescreens, I saw (but couldn't capture accurately) errors of the form: x error bad window invalid window parameter (and alternately 3 and 5 on the end of these types of messages). Not sure if that is relevant, but I did see them. Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Listopad, Steve Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 1:39 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: startx causing XP (Media Center Edition) blue screen? >A bluescreen is an error inside the windows kernel. Either the base system it >self or some drivers (i suspect the second). Software can only trigger this. >But there have been only minor changes in Cygwin/X and I doubt they could >lead to a bluescreen since no hardware access has changed. Well, I've tried upgrading the video drivers as well as the network drivers. Still get the blue screens. So, suspecting my wired network card drivers, i then used my wireless network card. Same. Blue Screen. The only other thing that I can think of was brought up in other posts - I have Zone Alarm 5 and Norton Antivirus 2004 Pro running. Anybody else out there getting XP blue screens with cygwin when running ZAP and/or NAV? >I believe the difference with your system is some driver which was updated >before and which is not current yet. I suspected as much, too, except that I've exahusted (I think) those possibilities. I'm fully updated as far as Windows Update is concerned; and, I pulled down the latest video & network drivers from the respective companies. >You could build XWin with debugging output. This prints received windows >messages, some work in windows specific functions is traced but not the >network layer. >The low level unix calls (for network code) can be trace with strace. >But this will not produce useful output if the kernel goes wild and prints the >bluescreen right after the data was written to the screen. Maybe writing the >data to harddisk may help but I think the bluescreen will leave disk buffers >unwritten and you'll get a logfile which truncated a long time before the >actual crash happens. All of this is unfortunate; even if, technically, it's Windows that has the problem, the net result is that I can't use cygwin, unless I can figure out what is causing the problem, and take action to correct it Steve
RE: GTK missing cygX11-6.dll (Was Re: Wrapping long lines)
Looks like this occurs in the final stages of setting up. Post-install -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alexander Gottwald Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 7:16 AM To: Robert McNulty Junior Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: GTK missing cygX11-6.dll (Was Re: Wrapping long lines) Robert McNulty Junior wrote: > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski > Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 9:25 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: GTK missing cygX11-6.dll (Was Re: Wrapping long lines) > > On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Robert McNulty Junior wrote: > > > [snip] > > I'm trying, however, to catch up on my cygwin updating. > > Trying to figure out why GTK is telling me cygX11-6.dll (or something like > > that) is missing. I hope we get a new X11 mainatainer soon. Do you have the xorg-x11-bin-dlls packages installed? If yes please try to reinstall that package. We had some reports that installing that package for the first time may have some files not installed/remove by other packages. This is something I'll investigate next week. bye ago NP: Haujobb - Transformation -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723
RE: GTK missing cygX11-6.dll (Was Re: Wrapping long lines)
Thank, Igor. I trust your wisdom. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 9:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: GTK missing cygX11-6.dll (Was Re: Wrapping long lines) On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Robert McNulty Junior wrote: > [snip] > I'm trying, however, to catch up on my cygwin updating. > Trying to figure out why GTK is telling me cygX11-6.dll (or something like > that) is missing. I hope we get a new X11 mainatainer soon. We do have an X11 maintainer. However, he's not expecting to find X problems on the main Cygwin list, so you will have waited quite a bit for a reply. I've redirected this to the appropriate list (cygwin-xfree). Please keep the rest of the discussion on that list. Igor P.S. I've also changed the subject, as this had nothing to do with the thread this was in. -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton
RE: Website changed from HTML 4.01 to XHTML 1.0
I get a DNS server error. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Harold L Hunt II Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 4:33 PM To: cygx Subject: Website changed from HTML 4.01 to XHTML 1.0 I have translated all of the hand-generated files on the Cygwin/X website (http://x.cygwin.com/) from HTML 4.01 Transitional to XHTML 1.0 Transitional. I used Tidy UI to do this. Tidy UI just provides a nice interface in Windows to HTML Tidy, which cleans up and translates HTML. Tidy UI can be obtained here: http://users.rcn.com/creitzel/tidy.html#tidyui Let me know if anything seems messed up on the website. Be aware that the documentation (FAQ, User's Guide, and Contributor's Guide) are generated from DocBook and are thus not part of this conversion. Harold
Creating Icons under X
I have just downloaded kde 3.1.4 for X and Cygwin. One of the requirements is to created icons. What is the procedure to do this? I checked the documents, searched the website, but nothing tells me how to create icons under X. I would like to use this program. Bobby BTW Harold, you are doing a great job with X.
RE: Cygwin - KDE
Meant KDE on Cygwin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Robert McNulty Junior Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 4:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Cygwin - KDE Yep. look at KDO on Cygwin at sourceforge.net. Works great. Currently BETA though. You can download KDE 3.1.1 Bobby -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 4:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cygwin - KDE My apologies in advance if this is considered to be 'off topic' for this list. I have heard rumour that it is possible to run the KDE desktop under Cygwin and wondered if anyone had any knowledge of this - experience or just a pointer to some details. Any help would be much appreciated. TIA Kevin. P.S.: Please feel free to reply to me personally if you don't want to clutter the list up with traffic like this - at: kevin_dot_lawton_at_bt_dot_com
RE: Cygwin - KDE
Yep. look at KDO on Cygwin at sourceforge.net. Works great. Currently BETA though. You can download KDE 3.1.1 Bobby -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 4:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cygwin - KDE My apologies in advance if this is considered to be 'off topic' for this list. I have heard rumour that it is possible to run the KDE desktop under Cygwin and wondered if anyone had any knowledge of this - experience or just a pointer to some details. Any help would be much appreciated. TIA Kevin. P.S.: Please feel free to reply to me personally if you don't want to clutter the list up with traffic like this - at: kevin_dot_lawton_at_bt_dot_com
RE: startx problem on Win-XP
You need to install the fonts. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Reichel, Wolfgang Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 9:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: startx problem on Win-XP >If you from a cmd window run startxwin.bat, what is printed out? >If you run the startxwin.sh from a cygwin window, what is printed out? >What does /tmp/XWin.log contain? > /Andy Hello Andy! Thanks for you answer. When i run startxwin.bat only "startxwin.bat - Starting on Windows NT/2000/XP/2003" is printed out. When i run startxwin.sh also nothing is printed out. In /tmp/XWin.log i found a lot of messages. ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1280 h 1024 winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning OsVendorInit - Creating bogus screen 0 (EE) Unable to locate/open config file InitOutput - Error reading config file winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed winDetectSupportedEngines - Allowing PrimaryDD winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 001f InitOutput - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1 winSetEngine - Multi Window => ShadowGDI winAdjustVideoModeShadowGDI - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - User w: 1280 h: 1024 winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - Current w: 1280 h: 1024 winAdjustForAutoHide - Original WorkArea: 0 0 1024 1280 winAdjustForAutoHide - Taskbar is auto hide winAdjustForAutoHide - Found BOTTOM auto-hide taskbar winAdjustForAutoHide - Adjusted WorkArea: 0 0 1023 1280 winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - WindowClient w 1280 h 1023 r 1280 l 0 b 1023 t 0 winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - Returning winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 1280 height: 1023 depth: 32 winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Dibsection width: 1280 height: 1023 depth: 32 size image: 5237760 winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Created shadow stride: 1280 winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff ff00 00ff winInitVisualsShadowGDI - Masks 00ff ff00 00ff BPRGB 8 d 24 bpp 32 winCreateDefColormap - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap () null screen fn ReparentWindow null screen fn RestackWindow winFinishScreenInitFB - Calling winInitWM. InitQueue - Calling pthread_mutex_init InitQueue - pthread_mutex_init returned InitQueue - Calling pthread_cond_init InitQueue - pthread_cond_init returned winInitWM - Returning. winFinishScreenInitFB - returning winScreenInit - returning winInitMultiWindowWM - Hello winInitMultiWindowWM - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Hello winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () InitOutput - Returning. MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack of shared memory support in the kernel (==) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "0407" (0407) (==) Using preset keyboard for "German (Germany)" (407), type "4" (EE) No primary keyboard configured (==) Using compiletime defaults for keyboard Rules = "xfree86" Model = "pc105" Layout = "de" Variant = "(null)" Options = "(null)" Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/, removing from list! Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' winDeinitClipboard - Noting shutdown in progress winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress What do i have to do now ??? Wolfgang
RE: Cygwin XFree86 startx Problem
I think these names with spaces come from when they originally set up Windows NT, 2000, XP, Server 2000 with thier full name when asked create users in NT, 2000, XP or 2003 Server. Correct this by going into the Windows Users' account setup in Control Panel, and create a user without the spaces in the name. Chan, use chansengloong as your new user name. Must be done in administrater mode. Over all effect will be a new account under Cygwin though windows. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andrew Markebo Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 10:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cygwin XFree86 startx Problem / Chan Seng Loong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |[...] | $ startx | + userclientrc=/home/Chan Seng Loong/.xinitrc | + userserverrc=/home/Chan Seng Loong/.xserverrc just a wild thought, homedir with space in it, try without.. edit /etc/passwd. /A -- Democracy is two hungry wolves and one sheep discussing what's for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed sheep willing to contest the decision.
RE: Setup bug --- probably already reported and fixed, of course[Scanned]
Same here, Harold. I've not written a message in a long time to this list. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Harold L Hunt II Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 10:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Setup bug --- probably already reported and fixed, of course[Scanned] What the hell is going on here? I have gotten copies of this message in my inbox and failure messages saying that my responses to it (which I wrote over a month ago) were rejected because they are text/html. I am a little confused as to whether or not this is a problem with my mail host or with sources.redhet.com... anyone care to guess? It seems that these messages are replaying from somewhere. Harold Robert Collins wrote: > On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 01:30, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > >>FYI --- In further testing, archive.progeny.com is the mirror that has >>not been updated yet. Selecting only archive.progeny.com gives me the >>warning about setup.ini being older than when I last installed Cygwin. >>Selecting only mirrors.rcn.net does not give such a warning and >>correctly indicates that the XFree86-bin tarball is roughly 10500 KiB >>and downloads it and all other tarballs with no problems. Thus, this >>does not so far appear to be entirely my fault. > > > When you updated the X tarballs, did you bump the version number for the > tarballs? (i.e. did they have -unique- file names compared to the > existing tarballs?) > > Cheers, > Rob
