Re: sppp behaviour

2000-01-07 Thread Colin
more than a little scary ;) It would take the script-kiddies about 15 minutes to learn how to spoof such a dynamic route change. To avoid this whole situation you'll need some kind of heart-beat across the connection. Maybe a short perl script to do a reverse look-up on yourself at interval

Re: sppp behaviour

2000-01-07 Thread Colin
enew type request when the connection is re-established. I would think this might not be completely accurate ;) Thinking about it I would suspect a complete DHCP-discovery-request-etc would be a better choice here, but I haven't looked at the code. --

RE: Eclipse/BSD

2000-02-09 Thread Colin
t find a permanent home in FreeBSD at some point in > the future. As interesting as this looks, unfortunately the license it comes with efffectively precludes incorporating it into FreeBSD. The license is for single-user non-commercial only. They also included derivative works in the rest

RE: My views on Eclipse/BSD

2000-02-11 Thread Colin
eased Eclipse under is not a great leap back from the BSD license, rather a small step sideways. The BSD license says, in effect, do what you like with this code. Lucent's license says, again in effect, do what you like with this code, just don't use it as the basis for a commercial pr

Re: Sysinstall 'A'uto partitioning

2000-03-08 Thread Colin
vertently breaks things ("I was told that find / -exec rm {} ';' would free up lots of disk space by a friend of mine who uses Linux..."). Especially using server software as a desktop OS. I guess I'm saying that the auto partitioning scheme is fine, although arguably no

Mylex Support

2000-03-25 Thread Colin
hand. Thanks for your comments. Cheers, Colin To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: bind and the limit of serial number ???

2000-04-25 Thread Colin
ate for viewing ease > is overrated. > Cheers, Colin To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: routing bug(?) persists (PR 16318)

2000-06-16 Thread Colin
ux if they alloow this with no error. Cheers, Colin On 15-Jun-00 Mike Smith wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 07:33:36AM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: >> > [mjy] >> > > ifconfig_vr0="195.58.183.77 netmask 255.255.255.248" >> > > static_routes="0

Re: freebsd-update missed?

2008-09-27 Thread Colin Percival
ernel which came with 6.3-RELEASE-p4 but you haven't rebooted yet. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Modified version of jexec allows non-root access into jails

2006-12-29 Thread Colin Percival
s he wants, and then run them from outside of the jail to obtain root privileges in the host machine. The fact that you're calling jail_attach(2) instead of jail(2) makes me slightly less worried, but you'd still have to work very hard to convince me that this should become part of t

Re: Modified version of jexec allows non-root access into jails

2006-12-30 Thread Colin Percival
ot to create the jail in the > first place. Not necessarily. An unprivileged user can create hard links to binaries he doesn't own, including suid binaries. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mail

Re: freebsd-update ignores /boot/kernel/kernel sometimes!?

2007-03-01 Thread Colin Percival
t/kernel, the kernel will be replaced with a GENERIC (non-SMP) kernel. I'm working on a patch for this and will be talking to re@ about having an Errata Notice sent out about this. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://l

Re: Ipv6 mbuf vulnerability

2007-04-20 Thread Colin Percival
Subhash Gopinath wrote: > Does anyone know if FreeBSD 4.x or 5.x is affected by the Ipv6 mbuf > vulnerability just like OpenBSD? > > http://www.coresecurity.com/index.php5?module=ContentMod&action=item&id=1703 The project ipv6 experts have convinced me that FreeBSD is

Re: Where is FreeBSD going?

2004-01-06 Thread Colin Percival
ng in the right direction, and committers are doing a great job. But I think the contributions of non-committers could make FreeBSD even better, and those contributions are being largely lost or ignored. Colin Percival ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ma

binary files in src tree

2004-01-11 Thread Colin Percival
erbox/www/valid-css.png tools/tools/tinderbox/www/valid-xhtml10.png Colin Percival ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: malloc backed md/mfs filesystem swapped?

2004-02-13 Thread Colin Percival
en't gotten around to yet). Colin Percival ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Branch prediction

2004-02-16 Thread Colin Percival
ops). Of course, some processors now have hints (conditional-jump- which-is-usually-taken, conditional-jump-which-is-usually-not- taken, etc.) Colin Percival ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To u

Re: maximum mfsroot size limit

2004-02-16 Thread Colin Percival
in src/sys/i386/include/pmap.h. Colin Percival ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: size bugs

2004-02-20 Thread Colin Percival
atches for three others (sent to my mentor for approval before I commit) and I've pointed sos@ at the ATA bug. Colin Percival ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: NULL pointer dereferences

2004-02-20 Thread Colin Percival
I've either got patches or sent emails to the appropriate maintainers. Colin Percival ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: use after free bugs

2004-02-20 Thread Colin Percival
worth, I've now got 15 commits waiting for mentor approval, covering everything here apart from a few of the "redundant code" bugs where I'm not sure what the intended action is, and a couple bugs which I've dispatched to the app

Re: Style(9) and portability

2004-03-06 Thread Colin Percival
g as the necessary changes are obvious, I don't see that there is any real problem. Colin Percival ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: FreeBSD "Live Upgrade" best practice?

2004-03-11 Thread Colin Percival
nd drive, which boots into a memory disk; you can then slice, partition, create filesystems, and generally do whatever you like with the system -- without needing anything beyond a network connection. Colin Percival ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ma

Re: a serious error in sched_ule.c?

2004-03-14 Thread Colin Percival
ot; says I, "you have 30,000 data sets!" Quoth the love of my life, "That's OK, we've got *two* computers." ... and 8 years to waste, apparently. Colin Percival ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: implications of SMP kernel on UP

2004-04-01 Thread Colin Percival
lta; buildworld takes about 5% longer on an SMP kernel (and the time spent in the kernel is 20% longer). I know some optimizations were done shortly after 5.2, so I wouldn't be surprised if this situation has improved. Colin Percival ___ [EMAIL PRO

Re: FreeBSD and Debugging?

2004-04-09 Thread Colin Percival
At 06:11 10/04/2004, Brandon Erhart wrote: >Are there any debuggers out there for BSD that will detect the heap/stack corruption!? Real Men use printf(3). :-) Colin Percival ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mail

Re: help with panic/kgdb

2004-05-09 Thread Colin Percival
rom 0x10018. My personal suspicion is that this is probably a hardware fault; I'd let the machine run some more and see if it panics again in the same place or somewhere different next time. :-) Colin Percival ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: question freebsd v4.10 (v4.9.1 ?)

2004-05-30 Thread Colin Percival
larly, FreeBSD 5.x binaries are identified as FreeBSD 5.0.x. Simply put, the format of __FreeBSD_version changed, and file(1) hasn't been fixed. Colin Percival ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-

Re: How to clean out old files after 'make world'?

2004-07-30 Thread Colin Percival
es it possible to remove some subsystems: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?6.0.1.1.1.20040316023919.039fa5f0 Colin Percival ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Base System libobjc

2004-08-25 Thread Colin Percival
runtime library ? Thus quoth the gnu/lib/libobjc Makefile: NOPIC= works but method lookup slowdown is significant If you want a shared library, remove that line. Colin Percival ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: Potential user/kernel pointer bugs in FreeBSD 5.3

2005-01-07 Thread Colin Percival
FreeBSD-SA-04:17.procfs security advisory. Could you send the rest of these to [EMAIL PROTECTED] We'd like to look at them and fix any security issues before they are publicly disclosed. Thanks, Colin Percival ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing

Re: FW:FreeBSD hiding security stuff

2005-03-04 Thread Colin Percival
nd in some cases re@). I will make no apology for either of these, and I doubt anyone else (either from the security team, or the security officer himself) will do so either. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-07 Thread Colin Percival
you generate 2^n hashes randomly without finding a collision, then the hash must have at least ~~ 2n bits of entropy, and organized attempts to crack MD5 generated at least 2^50 hashes before the algorithmic break was found.) Colin Percival ___ freebsd-hack

Re: NO_TCSH leaves crud in /usr/src

2005-03-17 Thread Colin Percival
don't seem to hurt anything, but it would be nice to get this fixed. The problem is in src/rescue/Makefile. I'll fix it. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To

Re: MNT_NOEXEC on root filesystem with diskless PXE boot?

2005-03-31 Thread Colin Percival
Yes, that's quite correct -- although I can't imagine how a bug which caused / to be labelled as "noexec" managed to avoid causing major problems until now. I don't know anything about NFS, but hopefully someone on -stable will be able to work out what's going on from

Re: Possible instruction pipelining problem between HT's on the same die ?

2005-06-03 Thread Colin Percival
you don't use proper fencing instructions. But I may be completely confused here -- all the interesting details are in NDA'ed manuals which I can't get access to. :-( Colin Percival ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http:/

Fundraising for FreeBSD security development

2006-03-30 Thread Colin Percival
s), please contact me by email to obtain my mailing address. In either case, please let me know if you wish to remain anonymous. For more details, see http://people.freebsd.org/~cperciva/funding.html . Colin Percival ___ freebsd-hackers

Re: Fundraising for FreeBSD security development

2006-03-31 Thread Colin Percival
Vlad GALU wrote: >Bank orders should be just fine, assuming Colin tells us his IBAN > account number and SWIFT code. I wish I could. Sadly, while Canadian banks are very good at handling payments to/from the US, they aren't very good at handling payments from outside of North Ame

Re: RFC: Adding a ``user'' mount option

2006-04-02 Thread Colin Percival
you need, rather than making an existing and possibly insecure program setuid. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Still Fundraising for FreeBSD security development

2006-04-23 Thread Colin Percival
there were several people in this position, so I'm hoping I can reach my target in the next week. As before, details about the work I plan on doing, how to donate, and a list of the donations I have received, are at http://people.freebsd.org/~cperciva/funding.html Colin Per

Re: matthew dillon

2003-02-09 Thread Colin Percival
troversial FreeBSD people for quite a long time now. Colin Percival To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: libobjc wierdness

2003-02-14 Thread Colin Percival
tch which simply uses the full path of the file. Applying his patch (with some minor changes to make it fit 2.95.4), I've now got libobjc consistently building to the same file (apart from the easily handled library index). Colin Percival To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTEC

Binary security updates

2003-02-15 Thread Colin Percival
;stamp of approval"; both for my own peace of mind and to make people feel more happy about using it. Colin Percival To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Binary Security Updates

2003-03-22 Thread Colin Percival
he resulting package. MD5 hashes are dac0f4bdf3d23b642bcbbac0e544821e, 12f69c9d0a2bf1f5278e49f0a4821aa7, b96bfc6bffcbfa18130250e36e6109d6, and 227819b9403a6f727566bd6ad5a79684 for server, client, client port, and client package respectively. Feedback is welcome. ;) Colin Percival PS. This is

Re: replacing sendmail with qmail

2003-06-26 Thread Colin Percival
ant future, when FreeBSD is fully packagized, it's quite likely that Sendmail will be just one of many installable options; but that time hasn't come yet. Colin Percival ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/list

Re: Is GNATS broken ??

2003-06-28 Thread Colin Percival
erver? It looks like GNATS email is rather aggressively filtered against server blacklists; I have to route all my PRs through an SSH tunnel to a different system in order to get them accepted. Colin Percival ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: TCP information

2003-09-17 Thread Colin Percival
you've got a small enough amount of traffic, you could use tcpdump to snarf the headers and then use your favourite scripting languge to look for repeated sequence numbers (retransmits) and repeated acks (lost packets); but I suspect this would be too slow for most purposes. Colin Per

settimeofday within jail

2003-10-03 Thread Colin Percival
ult, I can certainly work around it; but since I have almost no knowledge of kernel internals I thought I'd ask. Colin Percival ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any

md5(1) exit code

2003-10-12 Thread Colin Percival
reason for this behaviour? Colin Percival ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: rsync vs installworld

2003-10-19 Thread Colin Percival
stall the package collection. > Errr, isn't this pretty much what Colin Percival's security/freebsd-update port already does? :) FreeBSD Update doesn't handle the ports tree. That said, as long as one wishes to track the release branch of base, there's no reason not to use

Re: rsync vs installworld

2003-10-20 Thread Colin Percival
f you're doing this, but the code is all online and (reasonably) straightforward. Colin Percival ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Making a FreeBSD DVD

2003-11-23 Thread Colin Percival
self, you'll break FreeBSD Update. (If you absolutely must build your own versions of the binaries, please contact me off-list.) Colin Percival ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: patchlevels and FreeBSD source

2003-11-26 Thread Colin Percival
d-update install`. Given a decent internet connection, this takes no more than a couple minutes, and is much easier than updating your install image every time security issues arise. Colin Percival ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.fre

Re: HOWTO: install without floppy, cdrom, or pxe.

2003-12-01 Thread Colin Percival
ble to put the above into /boot/loader.rc. Colin Percival ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: REPOST - Installation Bug - All available versions hang on install

2003-12-16 Thread Colin Percival
t the system can boot Linux, one option is to install linux, build a minimal FreeBSD filesystem, dd it to the drive, and reboot. If you want to be clever, you could even create a filesystem in a md root, and then run sysinstall over ssh. Colin Percival __

Re: TROLL TROLL TROLL TROLL TROLL TROLL TROLL TROLL TROLL TROLL TROLL

2003-12-27 Thread Colin Percival
At 11:22 27/12/2003 -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: Yes. It is our friend the troll stirring up trouble again. Bad Troll. No biscuit. No, you misunderstand. The troll is resigning from FreeBSD. He's going to stop trolling our lists and find something else to do. :) Colin Per

Re: sandboxing untrusted binaries

2002-05-31 Thread Colin Percival
es if I knew that it would be unable to make any system calls beyond those necessary to interface with the owning application. Colin Percival To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: The problem with FreeBSD

2002-06-18 Thread Colin Percival
ht up over and over again, but I really haven't seen anything which I'd call *nasty*. Can't we all be a bit more tolerant and get along with each other? Colin Percival To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

test please ignore

2002-07-03 Thread colin . percival
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Re: release variability

2002-08-10 Thread Colin Percival
At 00:41 08/08/2002 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: >Colin Percival wrote: > >If two people `make release` on different machines, how much difference > > will there be between the results? Obviously the kernel will be different > > because it contains the user and host

Re: release variability

2002-08-10 Thread Colin Percival
At 11:58 10/08/2002 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: >Colin Percival wrote: > > Files which are always the same size, but seem to have completely different > > contents: > > /usr/share/games/fortune/*.dat > > /var/games/phantasia/void > >This is disturbing. Upon fu

libobjc wierdness

2002-12-16 Thread Colin Percival
. Incidentally, the sizes of those files don't vary. Can anyone help me understand what is going on here? Colin Percival To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Hello World assembly language

2011-09-28 Thread Colin Barnabas
I found a hello world program written in assembly language which runs on my amd64 8.2 stable box. However, I can not seem to get it to print a new line. Any suggestions on how to print a line feed in assembly? Here is the code- section .data message: db 'hello, world!', 0x0a section .text

Re: Hello World assembly language

2011-09-29 Thread Colin Barnabas
Thank you to all who responded. I changed the 13 to 14 so as to include the new line and that sorted everything out. Oddly, however, while I was using bash, the shell still returned on the same line as the output even after the fix. It was not until after I switched shells that things worked out pr

NASM in FreeBSD

2011-09-30 Thread Colin Barnabas
Is there a particular reason that nasm comes standard with FreeBSD and not fasm? ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.o

Re: [PATCH] Bug with powerof2 macro in sys/param.h

2010-10-15 Thread Colin Percival
n of powerof2(x) && !powerof2(2*x) for x = 1 << (n - 1); this seems far more astonishing than the well-understood fact that machine arithmetic operates with a modular ring, so it seems to me that your proposed patch would do more harm than good. -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD

Re: Improving the Unix API

1999-06-27 Thread Colin Wood
e to it to get a BSD-licensed version. although the darwin stuff is now available. i'm not too sure how much of it is useful (i haven't looked at it either, tho). later. colin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

GAS AT&T linkage issue

2012-07-04 Thread Colin Barnabas
put, %edi movl $ebx, 28(%edi) movl $edx, 32(%edi) movl $ecx, 36(%edi) movl $4, %eax movl $1, %ebx movl $output, %ecx movl $42, %edx int $0x80 movl $1, %eax movl $0, %ebx

Re: Improving the Unix API

1999-06-27 Thread Colin Wood
e to it to get a BSD-licensed version. although the darwin stuff is now available. i'm not too sure how much of it is useful (i haven't looked at it either, tho). later. colin To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: FreeBSD Auto-update (Was: Re: resolv and dynamic linking to compatlibc)

2002-07-02 Thread Colin Andrew Percival
hat I don't have any secure system to do this, and I'd be horrified if anyone would trust binary updates coming from me anyway. Colin "it can't really be that easy, can it?" Percival To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message