Re: New kernel images coming to unstable
Is it a good idea to use this kernel instead of the standard 2.4.18 in order to use RAID-1? Or are there more 'stable' prepacked kernels to use vor Sparc64? Thanks Arthur
OT, Sorry, wrong list. Re: 288-1: openssl and stunnel
Argh, that wasn't meant to go to this mailing list. I'm really sorry. Stupid me. Arthur Arthur van Dorp wrote: Todays security advisory about openssl speaks about possibly breaking existing applications: Unfortunately, RSA blinding is not thread-safe and will cause failures for programs that use threads and OpenSSL such as stunnel. However, since the proposed fix would change the binary interface (ABI), programs that are dynamically linked against OpenSSL won't run anymore. This is a dilemma we can't solve. As I use stunnel I wonder what these problems might be. I've updated my testing machine which is set up similar to my production server and didn't find a problem yet. But my testing possibilities are limited on this machine. I haven't seen any warnings about breaking other applications in the advisories of SuSE, Mandrake and RedHat. Don't they tell people about the possible issues of this update or did they do something differently? Yours Arthur
288-1: openssl and stunnel
Todays security advisory about openssl speaks about possibly breaking existing applications: Unfortunately, RSA blinding is not thread-safe and will cause failures for programs that use threads and OpenSSL such as stunnel. However, since the proposed fix would change the binary interface (ABI), programs that are dynamically linked against OpenSSL won't run anymore. This is a dilemma we can't solve. As I use stunnel I wonder what these problems might be. I've updated my testing machine which is set up similar to my production server and didn't find a problem yet. But my testing possibilities are limited on this machine. I haven't seen any warnings about breaking other applications in the advisories of SuSE, Mandrake and RedHat. Don't they tell people about the possible issues of this update or did they do something differently? Yours Arthur
Re: Ultra 5 SSH/Ethernet Lockup
fwiw, i haven't had any lockups, but ssh'ing from my 270mhz ultra5, it takes much longer for the passwd prompt to appear than it does from even an old 166mhz pentium. Same here, my Debian Ultra 60 has the slowest ssh-login on all the machines I can login to. I've had a look at the logfiles and made a verbose login but couldn't find anything. But the thing about not enough entropy is an interesting thought. The installation is very much stripped down with only the most necessary things running. No X, no mouse, no unnecessary daemons... Got to dig a bit deeper into that. Arthur
Re: DSA 282-1 and Bug #156937
Hm, due to the suggestions in this thread I tried: dpkg --remove libgcc1 dpkg --remove libc6-sparc64 apt-get upgrade apt-get install libc6-sparc64 It did the trick. Now I have the same libraries as before in an updated version. Why does apt-get choke when you try to update things in one go? Arthur Arthur van Dorp wrote: Uninstall libc6-sparc64. If you want working 64bit runtime+compiler, upgrade to gcc-3.3 and libc6-sparc64 in sid/unstable. Ugh, I'm caught in a dependency problem. apt-get doesn't want to uninstall libc6-sparc64 because it's needed but won't upgrade it either. dpkg doesn't want to remove it because libgcc1 depends on it. I don't know what libraries I need for a working system (non-developping and no solaris emulation). Any hints? Arthur
Re: DSA 282-1 and Bug #156937
Uninstall libc6-sparc64. If you want working 64bit runtime+compiler, upgrade to gcc-3.3 and libc6-sparc64 in sid/unstable. Ugh, I'm caught in a dependency problem. apt-get doesn't want to uninstall libc6-sparc64 because it's needed but won't upgrade it either. dpkg doesn't want to remove it because libgcc1 depends on it. I don't know what libraries I need for a working system (non-developping and no solaris emulation). Any hints? Arthur
Re: DSA 282-1 and Bug #156937
John Kuhn wrote: > I just inherited a Debian SPARC box and the first thing I tried to do > with it was install the new glibc packages for DSA 282. I ran into > bug #156937: > libc6-sparc64 2.2.5-11 conflicts with gcc-3.0. Running Woody. Any > suggestions? I have difficulties installing libc6-sparc64_2.2.5-11.5 too. I've removed gcc-x.x (it's a production server), so it's not an incompatibilty with gcc. It's complaining when decompressing the package or right after that: > Entpacke Ersatz-libc6 ... > Fehler traten auf beim Bearbeiten von: > /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-sparc64_2.2.5-11.5_sparc.deb > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Now apt-get upgrade gives: > You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > libc6-sparc64: Depends: libc6 (= 2.2.5-11.2) but 2.2.5-11.5 is installed > E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f. Arthur
Re: Umlauts in filenames not visible on Solaris7-Partition
That looks like some `DOS code page' encoding like cp437 or cp850. If you can determine which, you can use `recode' or `iconv' to convert the files correctly (in case they contain other non-ASCII characters than the German ones). Wouldn't these tools change the files themselves and not their filenames? The files aren't corrupted, only very difficult to access and not being shared via samba because of the control characters. Arthur
Re: Umlauts in filenames not visible on Solaris7-Partition
Turned out that the umlauts got converted to \201 (ü) \204 (ä) and \224
(ö) and I've finally found a solution in modifying the following script
from the usenet. Be sure to make a testrun with the mv command commented
out. The programm can have a few side-effects.
#!/bin/bash
# written by Kaz Kylheku <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
# March 1996
# Vancouver, Canada
#
# requires GNU 'bash', GNU 'tr', and some sort of 'sed' program.
#
# Modified for the replacement of \224 \204 \201 characters in
# March 2003 by [EMAIL PROTECTED]
function processfile()
{
new_name="`echo -n $1 | tr '\224\204\201' 'oau'`"
if [ "$new_name" != "$1" ] ; then
while [ -e "$new_name" ] ; do
new_name="${new_name}."
done
echo changing \"$1\" to \"$new_name\" in `pwd`
mv -- "$1" "$new_name"
fi
}
function processdir()
{
set -f
local savepwd="$(pwd)"
if cd "$1" ; then
set +f
for file in * ; do
set -f
if [ "$file" != "." -a "$file" != ".." ] ; then
if [ -L "$file" ] ; then
echo "skipping symlink" $file in
`pwd`
elif [ -d "$file" ] ; then
processdir "$file"
elif [ -f "$file" ] ; then
processfile "$file"
fi
fi
done
cd "$savepwd"
fi
}
allow_null_glob_expansion=1
glob_dot_filenames=1
if [ $# = 0 ] ; then
echo "$0: specify a list of directories"
fi
while [ $# != 0 ] ; do
processdir "$1"
shift
done
Ultra60 for production environment?
Hi all I've got an Ultra60 with two 18GB SCSI-drives running under Solaris 7 as a mail, file and webserver with webmail and the usual things. It's getting pretty unmaintainable because it's been set up by my predecessor and most programms were compiled "by hand" with a lot of dependencies to GNU tools and the like. Updating one programm for security reasons always means resolving old and probably new dependencies (i.e. gettext for IMP, openssl for apache and sIMAP etc.). I plan to use Debian with kernel 2.4 (I'm used to iptables), RAID 1 (Soft- or Hardware?) and the usual software tools (apache, spamassassin, openLDAP...). I'd like to hear your unbiased (cough) opinions on stability of Debian for sun4u, the possible choice of the correct software tools etc. Thanks a lot. Arthur
