Re: What is a VDHL document (text/x-vdhl)
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:51:26 -0800 ge...@hughes.net (Geoffrey Leach) wrote: > With the installation of rkhunter-1.3.2-5.fc10.noarch, my Daily Run > email (generated by cron) is being sent as a VDHL document (text/x- > vdhl). The script is sending the output of rkhunter with /bin/mail. > > Can anyone say what a VDHL doc is and how one opens it? It's a bug in the rkhunter cron script. ;) It's sending with 'colors' enabled, which makes mailx think that it needs to send that file as some weird mime type. ;) Should be fixed soon now that I know whats causing it. See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=472679 for the bug. > > Thanks. > kevin signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: What is a VDHL document (text/x-vdhl)
On Sat, 2008-12-13 at 16:09 +0100, M. Fioretti wrote: > On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 12:30:46 PM +0100, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote: > > > With the installation of rkhunter-1.3.2-5.fc10.noarch, my Daily Run > > > email (generated by cron) is being sent as a VDHL document (text/x- > > > vdhl). The script is sending the output of rkhunter with /bin/mail. > > > > > > Can anyone say what a VDHL doc is and how one opens it? > > > > > Hello Geoffrey, > > > > VHDL is a hardware description language used to design chips/FPGA. > > yes, but: > > 1) the OP said vdhl, not vhdl > 2) why should a rootkit hunter generate hardware description languages >as a report? > It isn't. This problem was recently reported to the rkhunter users list. The problem is the Fedora package contains a cron job to run rkhunter. That job, however, should have included an option (for cron jobs) which suppresses certain console character codes (makes pretty colours on the console output). The output from the rkhunter cron job is emailed to the root user, and when the mailer sees those odd character codes it generates the vdhl mime type. As far as I am aware this has been reported to the fedora rkhunter packager as a bug. John. -- --- John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 E-mail: john.ho...@plymouth.ac.uk Fax: +44 (0)1752 587001 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: What is a VDHL document (text/x-vdhl)
On 12/13/2008 12:50:42 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > With the installation of rkhunter-1.3.2-5.fc10.noarch, my Daily Run > > email (generated by cron) is being sent as a VDHL document (text/x- > > vdhl). The script is sending the output of rkhunter with /bin/ > mail. > > > > Can anyone say what a VDHL doc is and how one opens it? > > I suspect this is simply an incorrect MIME type. Have you tried > opening the > file with a simple text editor such as KWrite or GEdit? Hi Kevin. You would be correct. It's a Base64 enclosure, generated by /bin/mail because the input had some 8-bit data. base64 decoded it correctly. Thanks. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: What is a VDHL document (text/x-vdhl)
Geoffrey Leach wrote: > With the installation of rkhunter-1.3.2-5.fc10.noarch, my Daily Run > email (generated by cron) is being sent as a VDHL document (text/x- > vdhl). The script is sending the output of rkhunter with /bin/mail. > > Can anyone say what a VDHL doc is and how one opens it? I suspect this is simply an incorrect MIME type. Have you tried opening the file with a simple text editor such as KWrite or GEdit? Kevin Kofler -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: What is a VDHL document (text/x-vdhl)
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 12:30:46 PM +0100, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote: > > With the installation of rkhunter-1.3.2-5.fc10.noarch, my Daily Run > > email (generated by cron) is being sent as a VDHL document (text/x- > > vdhl). The script is sending the output of rkhunter with /bin/mail. > > > > Can anyone say what a VDHL doc is and how one opens it? > > > Hello Geoffrey, > > VHDL is a hardware description language used to design chips/FPGA. yes, but: 1) the OP said vdhl, not vhdl 2) why should a rootkit hunter generate hardware description languages as a report? Marco -- Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how software is used *around* you:http://digifreedom.net/node/84 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: What is a VDHL document (text/x-vdhl)
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:51 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > With the installation of rkhunter-1.3.2-5.fc10.noarch, my Daily Run > email (generated by cron) is being sent as a VDHL document (text/x- > vdhl). The script is sending the output of rkhunter with /bin/mail. > > Can anyone say what a VDHL doc is and how one opens it? > > Thanks. Hello Geoffrey, VHDL is a hardware description language used to design chips/FPGA. Verilog is another example. You can find an example of such VHDL file here: http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/fedora-electronic-lab.git?p=fedora-electronic-lab.git;a=blob_plain;f=act299/act299_tb.vhd To me, it is nothing more than a text file on your computer. However to make use of this VHDL file, you might need some EDA tools. If you are curious have a look at: http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL/digital.html regards, Chitlesh GOORAH -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
What is a VDHL document (text/x-vdhl)
With the installation of rkhunter-1.3.2-5.fc10.noarch, my Daily Run email (generated by cron) is being sent as a VDHL document (text/x- vdhl). The script is sending the output of rkhunter with /bin/mail. Can anyone say what a VDHL doc is and how one opens it? Thanks. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
