Re: thoughts about a hint.

2005-09-28 Thread Luca Dionisi
Doesn't matter. If a malicious package can already install to directories in $PATH, it can replace or override an existing program already being run by the scripts you're trying to secure. For instance, one of the first things /etc/rc.d/init.d/rc does is run 'stty sane'. Replace the stty

Re: thoughts about a hint.

2005-09-28 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 9/28/05, Simon Geard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doesn't matter. If a malicious package can already install to directories in $PATH, it can replace or override an existing program already being run by the scripts you're trying to secure. For instance, one of the first things

Re: DivX support for gstreamer

2005-09-28 Thread Andrew Benton
David Ciecierski wrote: Hmm, if not through the official DivX linux libraries - then how do you play your divx files? I would love to get this thing sorted out. Kind regards. Have you installed Mplayer? You may want to install xvidcore first --

Re: DivX support for gstreamer

2005-09-28 Thread Declan Moriarty
Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words David Ciecierski wrote: Hmm, if not through the official DivX linux libraries - then how do you play your divx files? I would love to get this thing sorted out. Kind regards. Have you installed Mplayer? You may want to install xvidcore first

Re: Configure error gnome-print-0.37

2005-09-28 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 9/24/05, randhir phagura [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unknown library `xml' checking for xmlNewDoc in -lxml... Unknown library `xml' yes Unknown library `xml' checking for libxml (gnome-xml) version = 1.8.8... Unknown library `xml' configure: error: You need at least libxml 1.8.8 for this

Workspace Managers, Window Managers and Desktop Environments

2005-09-28 Thread Dan McGhee
My goals in building a BLFS system were: 1. divorce myself from package dependencies that exist in some distros 2. intall only the packages necessary for me 3. make the system easy to operate for my family I have achieved 1. and 2. I've been using fluxbox and, if it were me alone, I

Re: Workspace Managers, Window Managers and Desktop Environments

2005-09-28 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan McGhee wrote these words on 09/28/05 19:10 CST: I know that I could just go find a file manager to use with fluxbox. Would I be heading for the bloat that I'm trying to avoid if I tried the WindowMaker-GNUstep combination? I am also willing to try this combination to see how it works

Re: Workspace Managers, Window Managers and Desktop Environments

2005-09-28 Thread Brandin Creech
--- Randy McMurchy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan McGhee wrote these words on 09/28/05 19:10 CST: I know that I could just go find a file manager to use with fluxbox. Would I be heading for the bloat that I'm trying to avoid if I tried the WindowMaker-GNUstep combination? I am also

Re: cairo compile problem

2005-09-28 Thread DJ Lucas
Dennis J Perkins wrote: I'm trying to compile cairo-1.0.0 and I get the following error. I don't see what is causing the error. make[3]: *** [libpixman_mmx_la-fbmmx.lo] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/misc/cairo-1.0.0/pixman/src' Can you tell me what that noise is under

To execute commands at boot

2005-09-28 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, I need to evoke following commands at boot; modprobe snd-pcm-oss modprobe snd-pcm-oss amixer set Master 80% unmute amixer set CD 80% unmute amixer set PCM 80% unmute amixer set Line 80% unmute I could not find rc.local nor boot.local. So I put them on /etc/sysconfig/rc. It serves my