Re: [leaf-user] Security and LEAF Bering UClibc

2005-08-03 Thread Victor McAllister
I agree that updating LEAF once a year is a pain. I usually build another CF on a old box and just swap the CF, reboot once and its done. Although it is not painless, each time I do it, I change things enough to warrant the extra work. One of the questions was about write protecting the CF.

[leaf-user] Security and LEAF Bering UClibc

2005-08-03 Thread Paul G Rogers
I'm a Bering user, not a developer, but I too found the issues raised by Troy and Richard relevant and interesting. May I contribute some thoughts, even of they are more psychological than technical? Troy wished for apt-get functionality. While I can understand the desire for automating the proc

Re: [leaf-user] Security and LEAF Bering UClibc

2005-08-03 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Troy Aden wrote: | Wow I am sort of surprised that no one has responded to this thread. I guess my concerns must be trivial. I really did not want to switch away from this distro since it has worked so well for us for so many years but my case for

[leaf-user] leaf home page is not working

2005-08-03 Thread Héctor
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RE: [leaf-user] Security and LEAF Bering UClibc

2005-08-03 Thread Richard Amerman
Martin, > -Original Message- > From: Martin Hejl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I understand what you're saying - and I guess the framework > (scripts to handle the update proces) would surely make their > way into the Bering uClibc distro. At this point, I'm just > not sure if there's e

Re: [leaf-user] Security and LEAF Bering UClibc

2005-08-03 Thread Martin Hejl
Hi Richard, > I think that if you could justify going forward with your idea, or if > others came on board and something independent could be done, this would > be great. I think this is a situation where both the established free/OS > community side of LEAF and your business, and other similar bu

Re: [leaf-user] Security and LEAF Bering UClibc

2005-08-03 Thread M Lu
Hi Troy, I myself do not consider your concerns trivial at all. Probably many people have the same concerns. However I find it very difficult to implement and the main reason is resource. As far as I understand most of the LEAF developers are volunteers and work un-paid for the project so how

RE: [leaf-user] Security and LEAF Bering UClibc

2005-08-03 Thread Richard Amerman
Martin, Thanks for the reply! > -Original Message- > From: Martin Hejl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I surely see your point (at my day job, I work with many > people where an SLA, or at least having a company to hold > responsible is the main issue). > > The company I work for (http

Re: [leaf-user] Security and LEAF Bering UClibc

2005-08-03 Thread Martin Hejl
Hi Richard, Richard Amerman wrote: > I'm sure that this topic is not new but it is probably one that should > be brought up regularly incase there are new options as to how to > address the issue. > > My company, and other companies I work with (and I'm very sure we are > not alone in this) w

Re: [leaf-user] Security and LEAF Bering UClibc

2005-08-03 Thread Martin Hejl
Hi Troy, since you haven't received anything from any of the other "core" developers yet (I don't really consider myself a "core developer" of leaf, but my name is on the webpage...) I want to give you at least some response to your valid concerns. > Question 1: > How do you handle security patch

RE: [leaf-user] Security and LEAF Bering UClibc

2005-08-03 Thread Troy Aden
Wow I am sort of surprised that no one has responded to this thread. I guess my concerns must be trivial. I really did not want to switch away from this distro since it has worked so well for us for so many years but my case for keeping it seems to be getting weaker and weaker since I have noth

Re: [leaf-user] dyndns

2005-08-03 Thread Tom Eastep
Robert K Coffman Jr - Info From Data Corporation wrote: >>ETH0_IP=`find_first_interface_address eth0` > > I'm on Shorewall 2.0.10 and this is unsupported. What exactly is > "find_first_interface_address?" A shell script? Can it be added to older > versions of shorewall to support this? > It's a

RE: [leaf-user] dyndns

2005-08-03 Thread Robert K Coffman Jr - Info From Data Corporation
Cancel the last message, I didn't read the docs accurately. - Bob Coffman --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and m

RE: [leaf-user] dyndns

2005-08-03 Thread Robert K Coffman Jr - Info From Data Corporation
> ETH0_IP=`find_first_interface_address eth0` I'm on Shorewall 2.0.10 and this is unsupported. What exactly is "find_first_interface_address?" A shell script? Can it be added to older versions of shorewall to support this? Thanks - Bob Coffman --