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Feature Requests item #541294, was opened at 2002-04-08 18:17
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Category: Packages
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Heiko Zuerker (smiley73)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: add logwatch

Initial Comment:
ftp://ftp.kaybee.org/pub/linux/

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Bugs item #521940, was opened at 2002-02-23 21:12
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Category: Configuration / Scripts
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Friedrich Lobenstock (friedl)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: jftpgw needs user nobody

Initial Comment:
It's not very secure to let it run as root.

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>Comment By: Heiko Zuerker (smiley73)
Date: 2002-04-08 17:59

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user_id=112133

@friedl
This is still open, or?
The user nobody is added to the system, but we'ld have to 
change some more, e.g. start script. ;-)
I have no jftpgw running, so I can't test it.

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Comment By: Heiko Zuerker (smiley73)
Date: 2002-02-24 20:46

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user nobody and group nogroup are now existing

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Bugs item #541281, was opened at 2002-04-08 17:43
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Category: Base System
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Heiko Zuerker (smiley73)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: update modutils

Initial Comment:
v2.4.15 is available
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/modutils/v
2.4/

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Friedrich Lobenstock wrote:
> "John van V." wrote:> I guess that 32MB would be enough for this setup.

ping 1.2.3.4
*swap*
*swap*
*swap*
*swap*
respone from 1.2.3.4  1 hour 55 minutes
;-)

> But ONLY if we make changes that load other (optional) software when
> swap is activated!

LVM inside Initrd would solve that ( as discussed ).

> If I'm correct the raidtools, better the successor mdadm
>   http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
> is planed for inclusion, sooner or later.

Jepp. Should we add it to Release Candidate 1 ?
Does somebody need it and would actually test it immediatelly ?

> BTW 3Ware IDE raid controllers (http://www.3ware.com/ ) are the real stuff
> under linux :-)

Agreed !


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Friedrich Lobenstock wrote:

> Ok, forgot the "vgscan" in the harddisk howto.

Do you still have no Lyx installed? ;-)

> 
> Heiko, how about loading just LVM in with linuxrc and all other packages when
> the (optional) harddisk ist mounted and swap is available? 

Actually a good idea.
We have to check, if ram0 is destroyed correctly after we boot the final 
system. Otherwise we waste RAM, because we have to install LVM into initrd.
Should we install it from CD or should we have it directly in the initrd 
tarball?


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This email is to inform you of release '0.8.3' of 'HTB.init' through
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Friedrich Lobenstock wrote:
> 
> "John van V." wrote:
> >
> > Ok, I burned the disk on hdc ... a slow cd device.  I then put it in the fast
> > CD device, hdd and it booted.  But when DL went to look for a CD device, it
> > went to hdc, the slow one and failed.  The code then needs to go look for
> > another CD device to boot from.. thats all.
> 
> OK, understand. Will take a look into the script.

Hmmmm...can you give me more infos because when I simulate 
this under Vmware I can't reproduce this. See the screen shots:
  http://www.fl.priv.at/devil-linux/dl-start-01.gif
  http://www.fl.priv.at/devil-linux/dl-start-02.gif

/dev/hda is the physical cdrom drive with no disk in it.
/dev/hdb is a cd simulation based on a devil-linux iso image.

So for me it works. If there's no cd in the drive the next
drive is being tried.

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"John van V." wrote:
> 
> Ok, I burned the disk on hdc ... a slow cd device.  I then put it in the fast
> CD device, hdd and it booted.  But when DL went to look for a CD device, it
> went to hdc, the slow one and failed.  The code then needs to go look for
> another CD device to boot from.. thats all.

OK, understand. Will take a look into the script.

> > Heiko, how about loading just LVM in with linuxrc and all other packages when
> > the (optional) harddisk ist mounted and swap is available?
> 
> Hmmmm, this may get complicated.. for instance how to decide which hard drive
> to use ??  This sort of goes back to the 486 vrs 586 conflict.

No, that's just an easy two step configuration:
1) * start with a config that just includes LVM as the only optional
     software to install
   * create the "devil-linux" harddisk (see harddisk howto)
     with at least swap and other optional "partitions" (lv's)
2) * now edit /etc/sysconfig/software to load all the wanted
     software at boot and run "save_config"
   * reboot

I guess that 32MB would be enough for this setup.

But ONLY if we make changes that load other (optional) software when
swap is activated!

> It may go to the issue of configuration.  Either it can be done when you make
> the build, or when you boot...  Deciding when you make the build seems more
> appropriate.

No it's not build time dependent and shouldn't be IMO.


> BTW, after setting up the LVM, I really wanted to mirror (just the admin in
> me!!)

If I'm correct the raidtools, better the successor mdadm
  http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
is planed for inclusion, sooner or later.

BTW 3Ware IDE raid controllers (http://www.3ware.com/ ) are the real stuff
under linux :-)

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Hi again,

> Hmmm...sorry for my bad English, but I don't understand what you are talking 
> about.

Ok, I burned the disk on hdc ... a slow cd device.  I then put it in the fast
CD device, hdd and it booted.  But when DL went to look for a CD device, it
went to hdc, the slow one and failed.  The code then needs to go look for
another CD device to boot from.. thats all.

> Ok, forgot the "vgscan" in the harddisk howto.
No problem !!

> Heiko, how about loading just LVM in with linuxrc and all other packages when
> the (optional) harddisk ist mounted and swap is available?

Hmmmm, this may get complicated.. for instance how to decide which hard drive
to use ??  This sort of goes back to the 486 vrs 586 conflict.

It may go to the issue of configuration.  Either it can be done when you make
the build, or when you boot...  Deciding when you make the build seems more
appropriate.

Thanks again, John

BTW, after setting up the LVM, I really wanted to mirror (just the admin in
me!!)


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"John van V." wrote:
> 
> I cut the disk, booted (still trying to re-boot from hdc and not moving to hdd
> when it fails)

Hmmm...sorry for my bad English, but I don't understand what you are talking 
about.


> Followed Friedrich's excellent docs on PV, and, with only 64 megs got an LVM
> swap working.  I then loaded perl and others w/ utter joy and amazement.
> ( I had to run vgscan first though ;) )

Ok, forgot the "vgscan" in the harddisk howto.

Heiko, how about loading just LVM in with linuxrc and all other packages when
the (optional) harddisk ist mounted and swap is available?

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Friedrich Lobenstock

Hi all,

Mix one 5 $$ harddrive, one 0.50 $$ cdrom ... 

I cut the disk, booted (still trying to re-boot from hdc and not moving to hdd
when it fails)

Followed Friedrich's excellent docs on PV, and, with only 64 megs got an LVM
swap working.  I then loaded perl and others w/ utter joy and amazement.
( I had to run vgscan first though ;) )

This will be the second time our general meeting will revolve around DL.

I want to add some input espeically about creating the more generic build to
support 486 (which makes sense considering the absolute low cost of a DL
system) as well as the possibility of implementing an Xdesktop to test the
efficiency of the SHMFS paging system.

So, ttyl, thanks again for all your efforts :)

John






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RCS file: /cvsroot/devil-linux/build/scripts/scripts/jftpgw,v
Working file: jftpgw
head: 1.3
branch:
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        rel-0-5-b6: 1.2
keyword substitution: kv
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description:
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revision 1.3
date: 2002/04/06 01:05:40;  author: friedl;  state: Exp;  lines: +4 -4
add to runlevels 3 and 5
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RCS file: /cvsroot/devil-linux/build/scripts/scripts/squid,v
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revision 1.5
date: 2002/04/06 01:05:10;  author: friedl;  state: Exp;  lines: +3 -3
small copy+paste typo corrected
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RCS file: /cvsroot/devil-linux/build/scripts/ntp,v
Working file: ntp
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revision 1.6
date: 2002/04/06 00:50:31;  author: friedl;  state: Exp;  lines: +5 -4
create example config for ntpd, add link to server list, create a correct drift file
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create example config for ntpd, add link to server list, create a correct drift file
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Bugs item #539904, was opened at 2002-04-05 13:09
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Category: Package
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Heiko Zuerker (smiley73)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: update snort

Initial Comment:
v1.8.5 available
http://www.snort.org

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DL uses now klogd.
I included klogd and modified the syslog-ng.conf and syslog-ng start script.

@friedl
you owe me a beer! ;-)

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Hey,

that's an argument I can't  beat.
I start adding klogd, hope I can finish it tonight.

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Bugs item #536719, was opened at 2002-03-29 07:55
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Category: Base System
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Evgeny Stambulchik (evgeny)
>Assigned to: Heiko Zuerker (smiley73)
Summary: Ping in cron jobs

Initial Comment:
For a reason, ping can't be used in cron jobs under 0.5b6 
(same was w/ b5, too). It simply returns 255. When copied 
the binary from RH-7.2, everything works fine.



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>Comment By: Heiko Zuerker (smiley73)
Date: 2002-04-04 21:14

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=112133

added ping from netkit-base to build system

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Heiko Zuerker wrote:
> 
> > I'd like to check in my modifications, but I don't know the motivations
> > behind why klogd wasn't started before.
> 
> When you specify debug (7) as loglevel, then you don't have any problems.

So why not klogd? Not only messages to the console would get suppressed,
also oopses would get decoded if we'd run klogd.

See http://www.balabit.hu/static/syslog-ng/reference/reference.html 

 Example 3-5. Using the file() driver

  ....

  NOTE: on Linux, the klogd daemon reads kernel messages, and forwards them to
  the syslogd process. klogd preprocesses kernel messages and replaces
  addresses with symbolic names (from /boot/System.map). If you don't want to
  lose this functionality you'll have to run klogd with syslog-ng as well. 

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Bugs item #538963, was opened at 2002-04-03 17:10
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Category: Build System
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Heiko Zuerker (smiley73)
>Assigned to: Heiko Zuerker (smiley73)
Summary: update cdrecord

Initial Comment:
v1.11a20 has fixed in mkisofs
ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/cdrecord/alpha

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Bugs item #537260, was opened at 2002-03-30 19:03
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Category: Configuration / Scripts
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Heiko Zuerker (smiley73)
>Assigned to: Heiko Zuerker (smiley73)
Summary: squid init script

Initial Comment:
needs to be more intelligent.
squid doesn't immediately quit, he waits to close his 
connections

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