[SLUG] [FYI] Hyper-Threading Considered Harmful

2005-05-13 Thread SEKINE Tatsuo
Hi. According to the page http://www.daemonology.net/hyperthreading-considered-harmful/ Hyper-Threading on Intel's Penutium 4 series suffers from a serious security flaw. Although there is no reference to Linux on that page, IMHO, Linux is also affected. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Ma

Re: [SLUG] non-interactive password script

2005-05-09 Thread SEKINE Tatsuo
Hi. Your script may not work correctly if the password begins with "-". The following script comes from my own book (except English comment) :-P 8X 8X 8X 8X 8X 8X #!/usr/bin/expect -f set username [lindex $argv 0] set password [lindex $argv 1] spawn passwd $us

Re: [SLUG] rpm upgrading clam failed dep

2005-03-25 Thread SEKINE Tatsuo
Hi. From: "Voytek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 14:28:40 +1100 (EST) > I've d/l updated RPMs, but, where do I start: > > # rpm -U clamav-0.83-1.0.rh7.rf.i386.rpm > error: failed dependencies: > clamav-db = 0.83-1.0.rh7.rf is needed by clamav-0.83-1.0.rh7.rf > clamav

Re: [SLUG] I wish to lowercase a character in a sed script

2005-03-13 Thread SEKINE Tatsuo
From: "Roger Barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 08:35:23 +1100 > Can you not simplay add \l (force next element to lowercase) in your > replacement? > > Eg (untested) ... > > cat titles.html | sed 's/"col1"> href="\(.*\)\.html">\([A-Z][a-z]*\),/"col1">\2,/' > > test.html It ma

Re: [SLUG] I wish to lowercase a character in a sed script

2005-03-13 Thread SEKINE Tatsuo
>\(.\)\([^,]*\)\(,.*\)\(.\)$/\1#\5\3">\2\3\4/ P b } p' > test.html >> sed does not have a lower function. GNU sed have "y" command. If you want to use XPG4/POSIX correct sed, please use s/A/a/; s/B/b/; ...; s/Z/z/; as substitute for

[SLUG] Call for tester of the kernel patch

2005-02-13 Thread SEKINE Tatsuo
. It is available as: http://www.sdri.co.jp/~tsekine/soft/patch-2.4.29-kernel_stat I'm sorry, but our site doesn't accept wget. # or set UA to "Mozilla ..." Thanks in advance. -- SEKINE Tatsuo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]System Design & Research Inst. Co.,Ltd. -- SLUG - S