Re: possible hardware failure ?

2004-08-22 Thread Anton Alin-Adrian
Claudiu wrote: > I have also checked the SMART state of the driver with smartctl, it looks like this: [...] Same happens with my atapi cdrom from time to time. Could be messed-up IDE channel. But anyway, good time for a backup. Did you try a fsck -y.. Yours, -- Alin-Adrian Anton Spintech System

Re: ipfw2 test utility

2004-06-19 Thread Anton Alin-Adrian
Viktor Ivanov wrote: Hello -hackers. I'm thinking about an utility to test a simple packet against the machine's firewall (ipfw2 to be more specific). I needed it because on some of my routers the configuration got complicated and the rule count is too high. And sometimes I need to see quickly what

Re: Dell SBLive! (almost) fixed

2004-06-10 Thread Anton Alin-Adrian
Joseph Dunn wrote: Whoops, forgot the diff. It's attached. Joseph --- emu10k1.c 2004-06-09 11:26:37.0 -0500 +++ emu10k1.c.dell 2004-06-09 11:29:26.0 -0500 @@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ /* -

Re: how many IP aliases

2004-05-27 Thread Anton Alin-Adrian
Per Engelbrecht wrote: There is no upper limit. ok. I great. got that. do know that 128 addresses isn't a problem - depending of course on your setup such as ram, cpu, board and last but not least, nic. Don't do it on a $20 nomame-nic.

Re: how many IP aliases

2004-05-27 Thread Anton Alin-Adrian
----- Original Message - From: "Anton Alin-Adrian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Different ports? Why would be using different ports different? They (users) need to go out to irc with a different IP each time they connect. In order to do that, psybnc needs to use that specific IP when con

Re: how many IP aliases

2004-05-27 Thread Anton Alin-Adrian
connecting outside to the IRC server. I don't see how different ports will change this situation. Nambased vhosts work for web, I guess, but not for IRC. Let one correct me if I am wrong. Thanks for all the replies. 240 IPs is far enough. - Original Message - From: "Anton Alin-Adria

how many IP aliases

2004-05-27 Thread Anton Alin-Adrian
Hi guys. Can anyone tell me what is the limit for how many IP aliases can be setup on the same ethernet card? Is there a global limit for the total number of aliases in the OS? To be clear: one needs 128 IPs (for irc vhosts) to be setup on one server. Is that impossible? Thanks! Yours sincerely

Re: simple, nay, elegant pop3 implementation?

2004-05-26 Thread Anton Alin-Adrian
Andrew Beals wrote: Why is there no default pop3 implementation included in the FreeBSD distribution? Is it for a lack of a suitably-licensed server, or does everyone believe APOP authentication is crackable? Is there any for IMAP? -- Alin-Adrian Anton Reversed Hell Networks GPG keyID 0x1E2FFF2E

Re: fopen("file","a")

2004-05-26 Thread Anton Alin-Adrian
Yes, thank's everybody. Unfortunately I thought I blocked this (old)mail message into the MTA's queue, however, it seems it passed out today, by my mistake. Regards, -- Alin-Adrian Anton Reversed Hell Networks GPG keyID 0x1E2FFF2E (2963 0C11 1AF1 96F6 0030 6EE9 D323 639D 1E2F FF2E) gpg --keyserve

fopen("file","a")

2004-05-26 Thread Anton Alin-Adrian
Hey folks. Running FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE I am just wondering: man fopen ---man--- Upon successful completion fopen(), fdopen() and freopen() return a FILE pointer. Otherwise, NULL is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error. ---man--- However, the f

Re: Wireless Card Issue AFTER Install

2004-04-30 Thread Anton Alin-Adrian
(and I receive thousands of those things). Is it you that mailed me privately on if_atuwi.ko, or was it somebody else? I am sorry, I think it was somebody else (no results after a big search on my inbox). -Original Message- From: Anton Alin-Adrian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: FreeBSD's malloc problem ?

2004-04-24 Thread Anton Alin-Adrian
Daniel Ellard wrote: And let there be light... DANG.. well it almost blinded me. I was confusing with char[16], which has the +1 byte for the null terminating, but the malloc(16) hasn't... No, that's still not quite it... char[16] allocates exactly 16 characters. Period. There's no extra s

Re: FreeBSD's malloc problem ?

2004-04-24 Thread Anton Alin-Adrian
Nicolas Rachinsky wrote: * Anton Alin-Adrian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-24 21:27 +0300]: tmp = (char *) malloc(strlen(s)); // line 68 Hmm, you need strlen(s)+1 bytes to store the string -- don't forget the trailing null byte. Nicolas And let there be light... DANG.. well it almost

FreeBSD's malloc problem ?

2004-04-24 Thread Anton Alin-Adrian
Hello hackers ! Before anything else, I must mention I am running FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE, and that is the OS where I encounter the problem. I was developing some functions fooling around for parsing some bigger opensource project's config file and look what happened: There are many functions i

Re: Wireless Card Issue AFTER Install

2004-04-03 Thread Anton Alin-Adrian
Craig Booth wrote: Any guru out there that has the knowledge to provide some advice to persist the use of the Linksys card beyond the first install? I tried this question on the Questions mailing list, but no one could tackle it, unfortunately. Situation: I have set up my Sony VAIO PCG-FRV27 l

Re: wireless usb atmel driver

2004-04-03 Thread Anton Alin-Adrian
Bruce M Simpson wrote: On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 04:25:08PM +0300, Anton Alin-Adrian wrote: I am killing myself trying to compile http://www.vitsch.net/bsd/atuwi/ driver on 5.2.1-RELEASE. Try the atuwi from my perforce tree. BMS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED

wireless usb atmel driver

2004-04-02 Thread Anton Alin-Adrian
Hi folks! I am killing myself trying to compile http://www.vitsch.net/bsd/atuwi/ driver on 5.2.1-RELEASE. The driver is written for 5.1. I also received working sources from the author, for 5.2.1-RELEASE but they don't compile. I would really appreciate any hints. I want to ask you if there i

wireless usb atmel driver

2004-04-02 Thread Anton Alin-Adrian
Hi folks! I am killing myself trying to compile http://www.vitsch.net/bsd/atuwi/ driver on 5.2.1-RELEASE. The driver is written for 5.1. I also received working sources from the author, for 5.2.1-RELEASE but they don't compile. I would really appreciate any hints. I want to ask you if there i

short analysys of qmail integer overflow bug - let there be light

2004-01-20 Thread Anton Alin-Adrian
Hey folks. There are rumors out there that setting /var/qmail/control/databytes to a reasonable value (for example 16384 = 16MB) will prevent the possibility of exploitation regarding the integer overflow in function blast(). That is not true. This is how blast() is called: void smtp_data()

Re: qmail remote patch

2004-01-19 Thread Anton Alin-Adrian
This patch attempts to implement rfc821 a bit. Also it defines the pos var as unsigned. Working till now.. --- qmail-smtpd.c.orig Mon Jun 15 13:53:16 1998 +++ qmail-smtpd.c Mon Jan 19 23:29:35 2004 @@ -1,3 +1,15 @@ +/* +* This is a patched version of qmail, implementing RFC 821 regar

Re: qmail remote root patch

2004-01-19 Thread Anton Alin-Adrian
Dinesh Nair wrote: On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Anton Alin-Adrian wrote: Regarding latest qmail vulnerability, I coded this quickly patch. Please double-check me if I am wrong here. Forward this to freebsd-security please. 320c320 < ++pos; --- if (pos>9) ++pos;

Re: qmail remote root final patch

2004-01-19 Thread Anton Alin-Adrian
--- qmail-smtpd.c Mon Jun 15 13:53:16 1998 +++ qmail-smtpd-patched.c Mon Jan 19 15:22:23 2004 @@ -316,8 +316,8 @@ if (flagmaybex) if (pos == 7) ++*hops; if (pos < 2) if (ch != "\r\n"[pos]) flagmaybey = 0; if (flagmaybey) if (pos == 1) flaginheader = 0; + ++

Re: qmail remote root patch

2004-01-19 Thread Anton Alin-Adrian
This is the patch I am currently using, for qmail-smtpd.c . I don't dare to touch RFC because I did not carefully read qmail sources and I am not aware of details/impact. I think this patch is good enough to simply remove the vulnerability. I now looked more thoroughly at the code and ask other

Re: qmail remote root patch

2004-01-19 Thread Anton Alin-Adrian
Anton Alin-Adrian wrote: Anton Alin-Adrian wrote: Regarding latest qmail vulnerability, I coded this quickly patch. Please double-check me if I am wrong here. Forward this to freebsd-security please. Regards, Alin

Re: qmail remote root patch

2004-01-19 Thread Anton Alin-Adrian
Anton Alin-Adrian wrote: Regarding latest qmail vulnerability, I coded this quickly patch. Please double-check me if I am wrong here. Forward this to freebsd-security please. Regards, Alin. 320c320 < ++

qmail remote root patch

2004-01-19 Thread Anton Alin-Adrian
Regarding latest qmail vulnerability, I coded this quickly patch. Please double-check me if I am wrong here. Forward this to freebsd-security please. Regards, Alin. 320c320 < ++pos; --- > if (pos>9) ++pos; ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Happy and Wonderfull New Year !

2003-12-29 Thread Anton Alin-Adrian
I would like to thank again the FreeBSD hackers for their support during this passing year, and I wish you all the best wishes I have for my own self. Also I thank you for developing and hacking the best operating system out there! It may be a bit early for this, but I am going to spend the New

Re: Power consumption in desktop computers

2003-12-25 Thread Anton Alin-Adrian
Martin Cracauer wrote: Hi, those who followed might have noticed I was shopping for a notebook to replace some of my desktop system. To make it short, the notebook vendors all pissed me off so good that I'm not going to get a notebook (details on request) so I am going for other options. Here is

Merry Christmas Everyone!

2003-12-24 Thread Anton Alin-Adrian
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