On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 05:37:59PM -0500, Paul Jarc wrote:
>"George Georgalis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 06:28:35PM -0500, Paul Jarc wrote:
>>> To simplify, what about these two:
>>> mplayer foo.mpg
>>> mplayer foo.mpg < mediafiles.txt
>>
>> The particular host does not
"George Georgalis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 06:28:35PM -0500, Paul Jarc wrote:
>> To simplify, what about these two:
>> mplayer foo.mpg
>> mplayer foo.mpg < mediafiles.txt
>
> The particular host does not have X support so mpg is out.
Well, use any one of the files list
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 06:28:35PM -0500, Paul Jarc wrote:
>"George Georgalis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> It (Gerrit Pape's technique) very defiantly stopped working a few revs
>> back (2.6.7?). I'm seeing a similar failed read from /dev/rtc and
>> mplayer with 2.6.10, now too.
>
>The /proc/kmsg
On Wed, 09 Mar 2005, Paul Jarc uttered the following:
> "George Georgalis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> It (Gerrit Pape's technique) very defiantly stopped working a few revs
>> back (2.6.7?). I'm seeing a similar failed read from /dev/rtc and
>> mplayer with 2.6.10, now too.
>
> The /proc/kmsg p
"George Georgalis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It (Gerrit Pape's technique) very defiantly stopped working a few revs
> back (2.6.7?). I'm seeing a similar failed read from /dev/rtc and
> mplayer with 2.6.10, now too.
The /proc/kmsg problem happens because the kernel now checks for
permission at
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 01:06:11PM +, Nix wrote:
>> An interesting technique that allows a program (such as a log writer)
>> to run as an unprivileged user, while receiving privileged data. (taken
>> almost verbatim from Gerrit Pape's socklog)
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>> exec > exec 2>&1
>> exec softl
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, George Georgalis announced authoritatively:
> Here's what I'm doing that is broken. I use tcpserver (functionally
> similar to inetd) to receive an incoming smtp connection. While the
> smtp session is still open, the message is piped to a temp file which
> is then scanned for s
George Georgalis wrote:
Here is a problem with 2.6.10:
while read file; do mplayer $file ; done
or
tail -n93 mediafiles.txt | while read file; do mplayer $file ; done
for each file path in that text file I get:
Failed to open /dev/rtc: Permission denied (it should be readable by the user.)
^- Thi
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 12:19:53 -0500, George Georgalis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 11:58:14AM -0500, George Georgalis wrote:
> >On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 01:37:03PM +, Nix wrote:
> >>On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, George Georgalis uttered the following:
> >>> I recall a problem a while
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 11:58:14AM -0500, George Georgalis wrote:
>On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 01:37:03PM +, Nix wrote:
>>On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, George Georgalis uttered the following:
>>> I recall a problem a while back with a pipe from
>>> /proc/kmsg that was sent by root to a program with a
>>> use
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 01:37:03PM +, Nix wrote:
>On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, George Georgalis uttered the following:
>> I recall a problem a while back with a pipe from
>> /proc/kmsg that was sent by root to a program with a
>> user uid. The fix was to run the logging program as
>> root. Has that prot
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