[ilugd] advice sought for writing device driver in linux environment

2003-09-17 Thread nikhil bhargava
Hello friends, I am at present working on writing a device driver in linux for pci bridge that is present in mpc 8266. Actually our purpose is to use design a card which have two processors on it and use pci bus to communicate between them. one of the processors is mpc8266 and other is yet to

[ilugd] How I will change the hardware address?

2003-09-17 Thread Srinivas
Dear all, How I will set the hardware address of my interface card. Using ifconfig how I will do that. Anyone help me.. Thanx in Advance Warm Regards, vasu ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ilugd] How I will change the hardware address?

2003-09-17 Thread vipul.sharma
Hi Vasu please let me also know if u discover the solution ...i am facing the smae problem ;o) vipul Dear all, How I will set the hardware address of my interface card. Using ifconfig how I will do that. Anyone help me.. Thanx in Advance Warm Regards, vasu

Re: [ilugd] How I will change the hardware address?

2003-09-17 Thread Varun Varma
Srinivas wrote: How I will set the hardware address of my interface card. Using ifconfig how I will do that. Anyone help me.. Right out of man ifconfig... quote hw class address Set the hardware address of this interface, if the device driver supports this operation. The

[ilugd] auto-start firestarter

2003-09-17 Thread linuxlingam
dear all, i have several user accounts under RH8. after a user logs in, it is important to launch firestarter. doing so requires the root password. so i figured i must set this up automatically to boot under each account. therefore, i did the following things: 1) typed $which firestarter and to

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Re: [ilugd] evolution picks up incorrect username and mail host

2003-09-17 Thread linuxlingam
raj mathur wrote: Some mail clients are so smart, when you put an @ in your e-mail ID they automatically consider it a part of the hostname or a server name and act accordingly. What you need is really smarter clients, not a Microsuxism where the client considers itself smarter than the user.

Re: [ilugd] auto-start firestarter

2003-09-17 Thread MALKIAT BENIPAL
hello, could you pl. tell me any freely available anti virus for linux. regards, malkiat linuxlingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dear all, i have several user accounts under RH8. after a user logs in, it is important to launch firestarter. doing so requires the root password. so i figured i

Re: [ilugd] How I will change the hardware address?

2003-09-17 Thread Srinivas
On Wednesday 17 September 2003 04:10 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi vipal, Try this ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:00:00:00:00:01 --Vasu Hi Vasu please let me also know if u discover the solution ...i am facing the smae problem ;o) vipul Dear all, How I will set the hardware

[ilugd] Re: auto-start firestarter

2003-09-17 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
+++ linuxlingam [17/09/03 16:21 +0530]: 1) typed $which firestarter and to this one, did a chmod u+s, as well as a g+s, to set sticky bits. for good measure, did the chmod U+s and g+s to the firestarter in /usr/bin, to the one in /usr/sbin, to also the /usr/bin/consolehelper that i found

Re: [ilugd] How I will change the hardware address?

2003-09-17 Thread Arjun Asthana
You cant. Change the card. On Wednesday 17 September 2003 15:23, you wrote: Dear all, How I will set the hardware address of my interface card. Using ifconfig how I will do that. Anyone help me.. Thanx in Advance Warm Regards, vasu

[ilugd] possible ssh *ROOT* exploit

2003-09-17 Thread Spoonman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi, Remote *ROOT* ssh vulnerability in the wild, fix for woody (stable) is available now from security.debian.org (3.4p1-1.woody.2). For sid (unstable), grab 3.6.1p2-8 from http://incoming.debian.org/ . For sarge

[ilugd] sudo and rc.local

2003-09-17 Thread linuxlingam
dear all, based on sandip's excellent suggestion on using sudo instead of setuid, i read through the man pages of sudo, sudoers, visudo. *** i then created the following entries in the sudoers file, using visudo: # sudoers file. # # This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root. #

[ilugd] (fwd) Sendmail 8.12.9 prescan bug (a new one) [CAN-2003-0694]

2003-09-17 Thread Raj Mathur
[Please upgrade if you use sendmail on any system. Vendor patches should be available soon -- Raju] This is an RFC 1153 digest. (1 message) -- Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Michal Zalewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL

Re: [ilugd] which linux distro+release?

2003-09-17 Thread linuxlingam
dear bhaskar, thanks a tonne for your email on all the methods you discovered so far to display the distribution and release version of a linux flavour thru a shell prompt. i tried each one of your options out, and discovered any one of them would work in snaring this data, though obviously i

Re: [ilugd] auto-start firestarter

2003-09-17 Thread supreet
It is quite simple to do so, (as root) # rm /etc/pam.d/firestarter # mv /usr/sbin/firestarter /usr/bin # chmod u+s /usr/bin/firestarter Offcourse this means throwing security to the winds. Any person having access to your desktop can change firewall settings etc. Supreet

Re: [ilugd] which linux distro+release?

2003-09-17 Thread Bhaskar Dutta
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Here's some more information on identifying the linux distro which you guys might find helpful. The file /var/log/dmesg contains the info on the kernel, linux distro as well as the gcc version used to compile the kernel (provided the

[ilugd] anti virus for linux

2003-09-17 Thread MALKIAT BENIPAL
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[ilugd] Fetchmail Problem

2003-09-17 Thread Sandeep Agarwal \(Hotmail\)
Dear ALL, I have RHL 7.3 box for mail. When this server is going to fetch the mail for the user from ISP end, it shows No. of message fetched, but when I am going to see the mails in /var/spool/mail directory by the command mail -f /var/spool/mail/useraccount It shows less no. of mails. I have