Re: forwarded: [PLUG] spamassassin or spamass-milter exploit

2010-03-17 Thread Jon Peatfield
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Keith Lofstrom wrote: The following may indicate a security hole. Paul is a competent fellow, so I'm taking this seriously. Perhaps somebody more competent than both of us has a more informed opinion. Perhaps this is related:

Re: forwarded: [PLUG] spamassassin or spamass-milter exploit

2010-03-17 Thread Wolfgang . Friebel
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Keith Lofstrom wrote: The following may indicate a security hole. Paul is a competent fellow, so I'm taking this seriously. Perhaps somebody more competent than both of us has a more informed opinion. Meanwhile there is more info available, see

grub consistently missing from root partition boot sector?

2010-03-17 Thread Filippo Cattaneo
Years of Debian esperience, new to SL, 3rd attempt at installing 5.4. I specify that grub should be installed in the root partition, in my case /dev/hda4. I use GAG as pure boot selector, each OS has its own bootload er on-partition. Due to history, /dev/hda4 is the second primary, right

Re: grub consistently missing from root partition boot sector?

2010-03-17 Thread Connie Sieh
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Filippo Cattaneo wrote: Years of Debian esperience, new to SL, 3rd attempt at installing 5.4. I specify that grub should be installed in the root partition, in my case= /dev/hda4. I use GAG as pure boot selector, each OS has its own bootload= er on-partition. Due to

can't boot livedvd64_SL54_2009-11-20.iso

2010-03-17 Thread Stephen Isard
Machine is a Compaq dx5150 64 bit desktop with 3Gb of memory. It has bee n having no problems with 64 bit SL5.3. Before upgrading to SL5.4, I thoug ht I'd be cautious and try out the live dvd, but it won't boot. Even if I t ry failsafe, the boot sequence prints the ok after starting udev and

Re: grub consistently missing from root partition boot sector?

2010-03-17 Thread Troy Dawson
Filippo Cattaneo wrote: Years of Debian esperience, new to SL, 3rd attempt at installing 5.4. I specify that grub should be installed in the root partition, in my case /dev/hda4. I use GAG as pure boot selector, each OS has its own bootload er on-partition. Due to history, /dev/hda4 is the

Re: can't boot livedvd64_SL54_2009-11-20.iso

2010-03-17 Thread Urs Beyerle
Hi Stephen, Try to boot with boot parameter norhgb// linux norhgb norhgb turns graphical bootup off. If this help I should add norhgb to the failsafe option in the next LiveCD release. Cheers, Urs On 03/17/2010 07:37 PM, Stephen Isard wrote: Machine is a Compaq dx5150 64 bit desktop

Re: can't boot livedvd64_SL54_2009-11-20.iso

2010-03-17 Thread Stephen Isard
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:23:12 +0100, Urs Beyerle urs.beye...@env.ethz.ch wrote: Try to boot with boot parameter norhgb// linux norhgb norhgb turns graphical bootup off. If this help I should add norhgb to the failsafe option in the next LiveCD release. Thanks, Urs. Booting with norhgb didn't

Re: RHEL4 - SL4 conversion howto?

2010-03-17 Thread Troy Dawson
Chris Tooley wrote: Forgive me if this has been answered before, but is there a page detailing how to convert a TUVL4 system to SL4? Thanks, ~Chris Hi, This question comes up every year or two. We haven't made it into a web page because we don't want to make it look like we are trying to

Re: grub consistently missing from root partition boot sector?

2010-03-17 Thread Michael Mansour
Hi, Years of Debian esperience, new to SL, 3rd attempt at installing 5.4. I specify that grub should be installed in the root partition, in my case /dev/hda4. I use GAG as pure boot selector, each OS has its own bootload er on-partition. Due to history, /dev/hda4 is the second

Re: RHEL4 - SL4 conversion howto?

2010-03-17 Thread Chris Tooley
On 10-03-17 2:44 PM, Troy Dawson wrote: Hi, This question comes up every year or two. We haven't made it into a web page because we don't want to make it look like we are trying to take away RedHat's business. Updating from RHEL5 to SL5 is easier than it is to update from RHEL4 to SL4. This

Re: grub consistently missing from root partition boot sector?

2010-03-17 Thread Franchisseur Robert
-- Le (On) 2010-03-18 +1100 à (at) 10:13:14 Michael Mansour écrivit (wrote): -- Hi, Years of Debian esperience, new to SL, 3rd attempt at installing 5.4. I specify that grub should be installed in the root partition, in my case /dev/hda4. I use GAG as pure boot selector, each