initng

2008-02-11 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I was just reading an article on slashdot about ubunto and sysvinit. in it, it mentioned about replacement init's one being initng (called prominent). I was wondering if people of the list were using it. Will it solve my udev/ldap (libnss-ldap) start up problems. Is it worth the effort to c

kompozer

2008-02-11 Thread Karl Schmidt
Has anyone built a deb for kompozer that works on AMD64? (Hard to understand why this package hasn't made it into Debian (it is a for fork for the abandoned nvu project). Karl Schmidt EMail [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Root exploit

2008-02-11 Thread Mohd Irwan Jamaluddin
On 2/12/08, Thierry Chatelet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think the new kernel is out for etch. > Thierry > Indeed! [DSA-1494-1 linux-2.6 -- missing access checks] http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1494 -- Regards, Mohd Irwan Jamaluddin Web: http://www.irwan.name/ Blog: http://blog.ir

Re: Root exploit

2008-02-11 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Monday 11 February 2008 09:43:16 pm Nuno Magalhães wrote: > I compiled the patch for my 2.6.18-5-amd64 and it fixed it. I changed > the printf stuff to %p but that's not really necessary, it would work > anyway. > > -- > Fica bem, porta-te mal. > Be well, misbehave. I think the new kernel is ou

Re: Root exploit

2008-02-11 Thread Nuno Magalhães
I compiled the patch for my 2.6.18-5-amd64 and it fixed it. I changed the printf stuff to %p but that's not really necessary, it would work anyway. -- Fica bem, porta-te mal. Be well, misbehave. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

Re: Root exploit

2008-02-11 Thread Ernest jw ter Kuile
On Monday 11 February 2008, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > At least the sample exploit doesn't work on my self-compiled vanilla > 2.6.24 an AMD64: > Wel it dit for mine. Latest kernel patches that just came out are supposed to fix the bug. I'll test that out tomorrow. Ernest. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Root exploit

2008-02-11 Thread Jochen Schulz
Alex Samad: > > there was a stop the exploit in the bug report, but it doesn't seem to be > available any more, but there was a question about it being only i386 At least the sample exploit doesn't work on my self-compiled vanilla 2.6.24 an AMD64: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ ./exploit -

Re: DG965ss

2008-02-11 Thread Justin Piszcz
Good to hear-- I wonder if Intel will ever release a proper BIOS update. Justin. On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Dr. Helmut G. Enders wrote: My problems with corrupt apt-get .deb files has gone, when I upgraded to SID. Now it seems, that everything works as expected. Thanks for your help. Helmut