Hawaii Linux Institute wrote:
MonMotha wrote:
with a bunch of useless information
When you post a message in any public forum, make sure you watch your
manner. Of course, I have been a big violator myself.
You know, I've been on here a while. If you don't like me, I'
Hawaii Linux Institute wrote:
Hi MonMotha-
Unless you are willing to become an expert in emacs/mule, your best bet
at the present time is to go with Fedora.
Sorry this violates your "No distro specific" mandate. But, again at
the present time, the implementation of "alternat
that Debian has a package for
(which is pretty much everything) can be used (so things like the kana
manager), but I need to know the actual config changes that need to be made.
--MonMotha
ke getting put on
a completely different system than it was installed on. I guess maybe MS has
addressed this, but I know Windows98 thinks it just had a brain transplant and
goes completely nuts, often breaking itself in the frenzy of trying to
"reinstall" all it's drivers.
--MonMotha
have unique (like the hostname) can be trivially changed (usually
just by modifying a simple file in /etc, or even assigning it via DHCP if the
system is configured to accept such a change).
In other words, imaging Linux systems: Easy. Imaging Windows systems: Not so
easy. Surprise anyone?
--MonMotha
Angela Kahealani wrote:
...
LUAU is *your* LUG.
So, is LUAU multi-island, or just O'ahu?
I'm considered a member of LUAU (or so I've been told) and I'm in Indiana...
--MonMotha
Jimen Ching wrote:
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Jim Thompson wrote:
On Aug 11, 2004, at 12:35 AM, MonMotha wrote:
OK, port Linux to an 8051 with 256 BYTES of RAM and (at most) 64k of
ROM. :-)
Ya know, with folks like Cygnal (sorry Silicon Labs) in the business,
and Siemens/Infineon with its 32bit
parts is their
AES/RNG core. Can you spell IPSEC? :-)
I-P-S-E-C :-)
I haven't gotten to play with those parts yet. My current "embedded" project is
far from what most people would probably consider embedded. How much RAM and
how fast a processor is needed to effectively run OpenOffice, anyway? :-)
jim
--MonMotha
Jim Thompson wrote:
On Aug 10, 2004, at 10:37 PM, MonMotha wrote:
Jim Thompson wrote:
the non-MMU parts that made uClinux special are now part of the 2.6
kernel tree.
Yes they are, though I haven't had a need to play with it yet as I do
mostly ARM and embedded x86 work (well, and
at kind of space you can actually cram
Linux into if you work at it. I've seen Linux fit in under 1MB before. You can
have an entire userspace in under 500k if you really want to (busybox/uClibc and
some shell scripts, statically link busybox to uClibc), though it won't do much
other than boot.
...
--MonMotha
definately not portable to non ARM-based architectures.
--jc
--MonMotha
to "get into" it, OPN/Freenode #handhelds.org or #familiar is where
discussion on this stuff takes place.
--MonMotha
Vince Hoang wrote:
MonMotha wrote:
This is mostly useful on RAID arrays though. See the raidhotadd and
raidhotremove (or is it raidhotdel?) commands.
I believe this only tickles the md driver and not the bus.
Indeed it does. I was mostly giving an example of a practical use for
all
dhotremove (or is it raidhotdel?) commands.
--MonMotha
7;t really care if another app is
accessing a file (it just buffers writes to it then deleted it when that
app closes it), there may be something silly going on with some running app.
Barring that, I'm pretty stumped. Try asking the reiserfs people (on
ext2 I'd bust out debugfs and see what's up).
--MonMotha
e "shortcut" properties to set the working directory
for these (broken) applications.
--MonMotha
y a weirdo escape sequence that rewrites .com into some
odd cctld that someone bought up. I've gotten a similar mail, but it was in
HTML. Did we possibly lose something in the HTML to plaintext conversion?
--MonMotha
Jimen Ching wrote:
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, MonMotha wrote:
but I need to make sure that if an X server gets shutdown or
disconnected, the app doesn't die (just sits in the background, still
running, but not visable) until I can attach it to another X server.
You can do this with VNC.
7;t already have this functionality.
--MonMotha
encap.png" routine (that's XWD
which I think is included on just about every X using UNIX system I've ever used
then a couple commands from the ImageMagick suite).
--MonMotha
;t know if it's been updated
to even work with moderns systems, but it did basically same as BSD Watch.
--MonMotha
is part of every packet
sent over the air and would certainly take care of your ID requirements.
--MonMotha
.
Listen for me on the air! I frequently operate the station W9NAA on 20 and 10
meters (as well as VHF if you're in the Indiana/Illinois wabash valley area).
--MonMotha
g.org/flplinux/util1-1.2-1.img
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is problem, and if I wipe those two partitions
out, no real loss.
...
If it really is just a hidden partition type in the partition table, you can
always just run fdisk *under linux* and change the partition type (this is
non-destructive, but always back up first) to whatever windows expects.
--MonMotha
yboard or video card installed. Check your BIOS options (sometimes you can
turn off halt on errors).
--MonMotha
s just a "very small shell
script"(tm) ) may give ideas.
--MonMotha
u to force a renew if you want to buy some more time.
If you would like to change your IP, you can try releasing and renewing. This
usually doesn't work. See above and MS DHCP servers seem to ignore DHCP
releases (their clients don't bother, so why should the server?).
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uot; where x is the number of the monitor and the app should pop
up on that screen.
--MonMotha
#x27;ve lost a bunch since I tend to use freebie drives that are already on
their last legs anyway). Seems to work fine every time.
--MonMotha
convince RedHat to consider the patch for their next wave of
kernels. You may also be able to get someone else to help you, but if you've
tried as hard as I am thinking you have, it's probably very non-trivial to get
this patch to apply (the preemptable kernel touches some stuff that RedHat
really likes to mess with such as the scheduler).
--MonMotha
#x27;t matter at all. You *need* that crypto key. If you lost the
key, there is no way to retrieve the data short of attacking the crypto (and
twofish is pretty damn strong).
...
--MonMotha
eally only for debugging your ruleset as they can lead to
HUGE amounts of logs.
--MonMotha
ead on the floor and forget about them? Is this a
good idea? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Mahalos,
Ben
See the BLACKHOLE option, then set the policy on it to "DROP".
--MonMotha
s not too tough, could I get a copy of the notes regarding the squid and
H.323 stuff? I've never personally had a need to make that stuff work, and it
would be useful for answering other people's questions.
--MonMotha
lspci).
--MonMotha
the kernel,
Debian-style, and actually build a deb for it via make-kpkg.
Bah, that's no fun! :)
--MonMotha
Matthew John Darnell wrote:
Aloha,
Can anyone tell me how to get the kernal sources on a Debian system? I am
compiling a program that needs them.
I can find packages with apt-get and looking on apt-get.org but I can't see
how to download the kernal sources.
Thanks,
Matt
I usually just get
t off getting a "real" router (mid range cisco for
example, much as I dislike cisco, but as Warren will attest, I dislike
everything :) or just using that linux box of yours as a router. Linux boxes
these days can do just about everything even a high end Cisco can do, but at a
much nicer price point :) All you need is two NICs.
--MonMotha
month early, though that was before all the
rain I'm sure you've heard about (we have lots of flooding).
--MonMotha
to drive I-465 North on the west side in
the airport expressway, I-70, 10th st. area? It's been really bad recently
since 65 and 70 are closed downtown right now! :)
--MonMotha
#x27;s face it, how often do I shut my
computer off? :)
--MonMotha
cuh completely evolved and any improvements will
be incremental at best, but it only takes one major breakthrough!
--MonMotha
P.S. Just a friendly reminder to please trim your quoted original mail in
responses.
they're cheap, and I'm
using them as ATA devices :).
Wayne
--MonMotha
years ago :). Most situations will never hit the erase cycle limit,
but there is always that concern as well in very dynamic environments (though
Linux's fs cachcing can actually help quite a bit here with stuff that's REALLY
dynamic like SQL databases, though I still wouldn't run an SQL DB on a CF card
unless you could cache the whole thign in RAM).
--MonMotha
ose would be considered part of "the os" or "the apps", depending on
their usage, since they are needed to run stuff locally anyway. The static libs
will sometimes pose problems because they tend to be rather large, but at least
headers are usually pretty small :)
--MonMotha
...
(though poorly, since I'm in in Hawaii :) spam that was actually sent
...
Correction: since I'm *not* in hawaii
--MonMotha
er prohibits spamming (they do in indy.rr.com!).
--MonMotha
u affinity patch. Same site that the preemptable
kernel is on. Google can't miss it.
--MonMotha
e (google for it, it'll be the first hit) that will list compatibility. You
can usually find devices that are literally plug-n-play. Just plug it in and
linux says you have another serial port (usually numbered above 3 tho).
--MonMotha
g. You can boot off of them even! I just
use lilo.
--MonMotha
#6, which seems to be the general consensus at this point.
--MonMotha
x can see a clear advantage over Windows.
You can actually get 4GB CF cards now, if you're willing to pay for them of
course.
--MonMotha
Vince Hoang wrote:
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 04:45:59PM -0500, MonMotha wrote:
The biggest problem you'll have is getting some of your
favorite software in. 256MB is pretty generous for this, but
GNOME/KDE, Mozilla, OpenOffice, etc. are all VERY large. If
you're willing to stick to t
est problem you'll have is getting some of your favorite software in.
256MB is pretty generous for this, but GNOME/KDE, Mozilla, OpenOffice, etc. are
all VERY large. If you're willing to stick to things like Phoenix/Firebird, and
apps that don't need GNOME, but only GTK, you should be able to make it fit with
room to spare.
--MonMotha
's certainly worth a shot to do this, but if this is the actual problem I'd
venture to say there's a bug in the DHCP daemon if none of the other things I
mentioned are true.
--MonMotha
r if more than one IP range lives on the same subnet,
you'll want to tell dhcpd.conf abotu that too (there's a SHARED-NETWORK option
or somethign like that for telling it about subnets on the same physical network
that you're not actually a member of IP wise, man dhcpd.conf for more info on that).
Hope this helps.
--MonMotha
f, but
it's not working. Any useful hints, reccommendations, advice, etc?
-Charles
You probably only want to run DHCPd on one interface (like eth1):
dhcpd eth1
--MonMotha
match combined with, say, a string match. This could
simplify setup by not requiring complex log monitoring daemons to see the
"knock" and modify the ruleset to open ports.
--MonMotha
Bernice Ishida wrote:
please remove me from this list. Thank you.
Follow the link at the bottom of each message to do that.
--MonMotha
arts library is VERY limited compared to commercial offerings.
The gEDA suite is GPLed.
Another common app is Eagle CAD. A crippled freeware version is available, but
it is not open source.
--MonMotha
ting to the ISPs router which definitely should have that
scary warning. The implications if you could succeed are severe. Since it
is not in fact the cable modem you are telnetting to I hope you heed the
warning.
Hope this has been informative.
Ah, then definately don't log in :)
-Doug-
--MonMotha
Ben Beeson wrote:
Monmotha,
Thanks for the info.
Well, there's the imfamouns 10.x.x.x one, which I do believe is your cable
modem (which oddly enough, acts as a bridge, but still decrements the TTL
and sends back a time exceeded as if it were a router...)
You're probably
ve is your cable modem
(which oddly enough, acts as a bridge, but still decrements the TTL and sends
back a time exceeded as if it were a router...). Other than that, nothing I've
found hasn't been visible from a simple traceroute.
--MonMotha
.
--MonMotha
omatically set based on
other options selected) CONFIG_* options may have been added and running "make
oldconfig" will set those appropriately.
--MonMotha
ist of patches. You can then apply only the patches you
actually need/want, as well as your own. This may fix some problems with
conflicting patches (such as my XFS and grsecurity example). It will also allow
you to patch in whatever order you please, rather than having all the distro
patches applied already. Sometimes this can help too.
--MonMotha
, I would ahve
done so, saving the original and allowing me to make another copy.
--MonMotha
with a DSL line
at 1.5/768 and it works REALLY well. Someone just a couple miles down the
street had DSL and dumped it for a cable modem because it was horrible.
--MonMotha
This makes it easier for the person helping you
to get a feel for which IPs are "public" (As in routable all over the internet)
and which are "private" (site local by whatever that RFC is that reserves
192.168.0.0/16, 10.0.0.0/8, and 172.16.0.0/12). Just an FYI.
--MonMotha
esn't reveal anything useful,
but I'm not very familiar with the kernel source tree so it is quite possible
that I missed somethign entirely.
--MonMotha
r the chance you'll find a compiler
"bug", or simply an optmization that a creatively written piece of code just
doesn't like.
--MonMotha
n access to a system, and what means they may
used (combined with the ones mentioned in the rest of the book).
Especially see p. 486 :)
--MonMotha
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> Aloha all,
>
> I saw the following advisory today in the Linux Today news letter and
was
> wondering if the MonMotha firewall is effected by th
(WITH debugging), and the FULL panic output and I'll see if
I can figure out what's happening.
If it's just a "can't find init" or something like that, then we don't have an
actual bug, just a misconfiguration.
--MonMotha
staller, alt+f2 with
slackware).
--MonMotha
roceed immediately as fast as the network can handle.
Does such a thing exist in the Linux world? Or for that matter, does such a
thing exist?
--MonMotha
asure your TCP stack as well). Source /dev/zero on one end, and dump it to
/dev/null on the other end.
This pretty much limits you to testing your network card and relevant parts of
the network stack as the null source and the bit bucket tend to be fairly fast :)
--MonMotha
I use a combination of iptraf, gkrellm, and rtstat (comes with iproute2) on the
desktop, and I verify by ripping stats right off my switch via SNMP (and often
graphing them with something like MRTG).
--MonMotha
with crummy NICs) over a single port on it. It's been very reliable,
despite the partial failure of one fan.
--MonMotha
the way may not.
-Vince
A little fair queuing can help a lot with that. Giving pings and TCP ACKs
extremely high precedence in the outbound queue can really improve both
downloads while uploading as well as general interactive things.
--MonMotha
roviding service (such as null routing, BGP peering if you
multihome, IP space, etc).
Hope this helps.
--MonMotha
Vince Hoang wrote:
...
Directories do not apply.
...
Good point, I keep forgetting you can't hard link directories (like I ever use
hard links :).
--MonMotha
Vince Hoang wrote:
IIRC, a recursive chmod should not follow symlinks unless the
chmod calls the symlink directly. Not that this helps your
situation, but more to understand why it happened.
-Vince
Was it maybe a hard link for some reason?
--MonMotha
p is very difficult and will
probably take more time and effor than reinstalling and making everything work
right again.
root is not to be trifled with...
--MonMotha
o, it looks like Mozilla is nice enough to keep CCing people. Notice that
now there's two "things" CCed (Warren and the list). This will keep growing if
people keep using reply all to continue the thread. I don't see this as a good
thing.
--MonMotha
maybe
a package about facls to get setfacl and getfacl.
-Eric Hattemer
Must have been REALLY recently, either that or I didn't hear about it...
I know SGI XFS has POSIX ACL support, and grsecurity has something similar, but
I never heard of FACLs...
--MonMotha
I didn't notice we changed the reply-to header and replied only to virgil
directly.
Forwarding to the list.
--MonMotha
Original Message
Subject: Re: [luau] Group Policies for Linux
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 14:34:19 -0500
From: MonMotha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Vir
the descriptions of each runlevel are
contained in comments within that file.
Runlevel 2 or 3is generally the normal runlevel of the machine, multiuser.
--MonMotha
x27;ll need to do
some assembly programming here, but not much.
Basically, porting the kernel to a new board on a supported archetecture isn't
overwhelmingly tough, but you'll need to know quite a bit about the board to
accomplish the task. There's probably also quite a bit of stuff I've glossed
over as I'm not a kernel programmer, I just know some people who are :)
--MonMotha
be off on this box, except sgi-fam, whatever that
is.
Send comments and I'll try to put them into the page. Or I guess you guys could
edit it directly.
Dave
--MonMotha
verything from scratch
(which can be a HUGE timesaver), but the downside is that if you don't like the
compile-time options set by the package maintainer (such as Mozilla being linked
against GTK, which tends to be rather unstable), you have to create your own
packages rather than just adjusting USE flags.
--MonMotha
n (I don't even live
anywhere near Hawaii), and am therefore unbiased in any of the happenings that
may go on between "rival" (notice the quotes, people) organizations. I just
dislike my inbox filling up with all these messages not even remotely related to
Linux.
- --MonMotha
-BE
MonMotha unsubscribing. Please address me personally if you need something.
--MonMotha
been sent in a private email. There was no need to attack
Warren on the public list.
--MonMotha
s
watching over them, they'll likely just say "We don't support that, sorry", but
if it's a slow day and the tech is bored (and intelligent, which the local ones
here are if you bypass level 1), a lot of them know unixish OSes and will help
you out.
Casey Roberts
--MonMotha
indicate a sound device, rather than an ethernet device
though.
--MonMotha
reated and removed in /dev
according to the hardware present and recognized as having a supporting driver
by the kernel (this also applies to hot swappable hardware such as USB devices,
IEEE1394 [firewire] devices, hot swappable hard drives, etc).
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!
Ho
ven ssh, but you'd never be able to tell, now would you?)
-Vince
--MonMotha
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