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Re: I love IP Tables....
by David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud) 31 May '07

31 May '07

Les <hlhowell(a)pacbell.net> wrote: > One thing missing in this discussion is the scale of costs. No > individual, outside of maybe Bill Gates could begin to repay for the > damage caused by a rogue computer spreading a virus. Nor can one > individual be even considered of being capable of patching a flaw in a > piece of readily available software of proprietary nature (remember that > "reverse engineering" is banned by most user license agreements.) So > lets say you get a law passed that puts the onus on an individual. You > get hacked, and the hacker uses a bit of code inside your system to > "spiff up" his latest virus/worm program. Your name is in the code > (courtesy of the memory map when your bit was built). Now that code > breaks out and infects 200,000 systems, bringing them to their knees. > You had all the good AV stuff installed, the system had a firewall, but > this particular hacker managed to slip by As I have mentioned several times in my postings on this subject, the law usually considers whether you have taken "reasonable and customary" measures to protect against such things. Especially, see my previous posting regarding a joyrider stealing a car. Self-propagating viruses act a lot like the real thing. It doesn't take a 100 percent inoculation rate to stop a real virus from spreading; only getting enough of the population protected that the probability that the infection can spread is low. One of the problems is that way too many computer users don't understand their vulnerability and how harmful having a vulnerable system is. This is what needs to change. We've already seen a number of attack vectors go out of favor as a certain large software vendor has patched the security holes in it's operating system and other products. If a significantly larger percentage of users were to install effective AV software, the problem would drop significantly. I'm not saying it would go away but we would probably see the people who write such software look to other approaches. Some of these might initially be successful but having a larger percentage of systems running effective AV software would mean that such problems would rapidly be contained. It would be nice if that same software vendor were to tighten up their product rather than rely on after the fact patches like AV software. Being as how their behavior has barely changed in over 25 years, I'm not holding my breath. Cheers, Dave -- Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. -- Ambrose Bierce

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Fedora 6.93 to Fedora 7 update
by Langdon Stevenson 31 May '07

31 May '07

I have a Fedora 7 test 4 system that has just decided that it wants to download 124 updates. Am I right to assume that this update represents the final release of Fedora 7 and that I won't need to do anything else to it? Regards, Langdon

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Improving the Internet (X - Re: I love IP Tables....)
by Michael Klinosky 31 May '07

31 May '07

Tim > If .com was *only* ever used for > commerical use, and using .com was enforced for commercial use, and we > had something else for personal use, we could blanket delete all .com > originating mail, and still receive all our non .com mail from our > personal friends. ;-) Several years ago, I concocted the notion of '.per' addresses (for 'person'). I searched for someone to tell, but didn't know enough then to know where to look. I figured that we needed something for personal domains (e.g. websites, where a person buys a name).

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help with ram question
by Paula J. Lindsay 31 May '07

31 May '07

Hi, I've just installed a fc5 machine. He needs this rev because it is compatible with his bruker software. Anyway, he already had 1 gig of memory in the machine, but when we put another bank of memory (1 gig) we could not boot up. We did a switch and they (both 1 gig dimms) and they both work apart, but not together. Has anyone ran into this problem? I guess I could look on fedoraproject.org to see if fc5 supports 2 gigs of ram. Anyway, any suggestions/advice/opinions are appreciated. Thank you in advance. Paula -- --*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* o The Paula J. Lindsay, IT Analyst III / Research Computing, TPC21 o Scripps phone: 858.784.9378 \ fax: 858.784.9301 o Research email: paula(a)scripps.edu / o Institute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Post Install Booting Problem
by Thomas Paine 31 May '07

31 May '07

I just installed F7 and I'm having a problem booting after the install. My laptop hangs at Uncompressing Linux. Should I be checking my grub line at this stage or what should I submit for troubleshooting of this? Thanks. -- -=/>Thom

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F7 NFS kernel spew
by Lonni J Friedman 31 May '07

31 May '07

Anyone else seeing the following spew when doing anything over NFS in F7: BUG: warning at kernel/softirq.c:138/local_bh_enable() (Not tainted) [<c042b0cf>] local_bh_enable+0x45/0x92 [<c06002bd>] cond_resched_softirq+0x2c/0x42 [<c059adf3>] release_sock+0x4f/0x9d [<c05c670d>] tcp_sendmsg+0x90b/0x9f9 [<c059adb6>] release_sock+0x12/0x9d [<c05dec95>] inet_sendmsg+0x3b/0x45 [<c0599180>] sock_sendmsg+0xd0/0xeb [<c05dec95>] inet_sendmsg+0x3b/0x45 [<c0436e71>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x35 [<c0436e71>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x35 [<f8ad3d60>] rpc_release_client+0x4c/0x62 [sunrpc] [<c05dec95>] inet_sendmsg+0x3b/0x45 [<c059a544>] kernel_sendmsg+0x27/0x35 [<f8ad6248>] xs_send_kvec+0x7c/0x84 [sunrpc] [<f8ad62c6>] xs_sendpages+0x76/0x1be [sunrpc] [<f8ad6507>] xs_tcp_send_request+0x5a/0x11c [sunrpc] [<f8ad55db>] xprt_transmit+0xc7/0x1b5 [sunrpc] [<f91c0899>] nfs3_xdr_readargs+0x0/0x88 [nfs] [<f8ad8db5>] rpcauth_wrap_req+0x6c/0x74 [sunrpc] [<f8ad8e5a>] rpcauth_marshcred+0x4b/0x52 [sunrpc] [<f8ad3452>] call_transmit+0x1cf/0x202 [sunrpc] [<f8ad3172>] call_reserve+0x3c/0x65 [sunrpc] [<f91c0899>] nfs3_xdr_readargs+0x0/0x88 [nfs] [<f8ad82cb>] __rpc_execute+0x78/0x21a [sunrpc] [<c042f01a>] sigprocmask+0xa1/0xbe [<f8ad7d58>] rpc_set_active+0x47/0x51 [sunrpc] [<f91badde>] nfs_execute_read+0x30/0x3f [nfs] [<f91bb308>] nfs_pagein_one+0x23a/0x254 [nfs] [<f91b9547>] nfs_coalesce_requests+0x6e/0x98 [nfs] [<f91bb5ad>] nfs_readpages+0x147/0x1a5 [nfs] [<f91bb466>] nfs_readpages+0x0/0x1a5 [nfs] [<c045f153>] __do_page_cache_readahead+0x116/0x1bd [<c043d6bf>] tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick+0xdf/0x10e [<c043d245>] tick_sched_timer+0x0/0xbb [<c042d6e7>] getnstimeofday+0x30/0xb6 [<c045f246>] blockable_page_cache_readahead+0x4c/0x9f [<c045f315>] make_ahead_window+0x7c/0x99 [<c045f4a5>] page_cache_readahead+0x173/0x196 [<c045a099>] do_generic_mapping_read+0x137/0x459 [<c045bfe3>] generic_file_aio_read+0x173/0x1a4 [<c0459850>] file_read_actor+0x0/0xe0 [<c04755f8>] do_sync_read+0xc7/0x10a [<c043d6bf>] tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick+0xdf/0x10e [<c043d245>] tick_sched_timer+0x0/0xbb [<c0436e71>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x35 [<c0475531>] do_sync_read+0x0/0x10a [<c0475e85>] vfs_read+0xa6/0x152 [<c04762db>] sys_read+0x41/0x67 [<c0404f70>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman netllama(a)gmail.com LlamaLand http://netllama.linux-sxs.org

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question about installing Fc7
by Scott Berry 31 May '07

31 May '07

Hello there guys and gals, I am downloading the dvd iso for f7. What is the best way to get it going? I have two boxes that need to be updated. I also noticed that the use of /dev/sda is now default. How do I tell the installation to load the installation to the /dev/hda drives or is that an automatic conversion? Scott

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F7 Mirrors Open?
by Thomas Paine 31 May '07

31 May '07

Any mirrors hosting F7 open yet? Does anyone know if they will open at midnight tonight? -- -=/>Thom

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Switching from 32 to 64 bit kernel
by Langdon Stevenson 31 May '07

31 May '07

I recently built a Fedora 6.93 system with a 32 bit kernel. Due to issues with the 32 bit Xen kernel I would like to test out the 64 Xen kernel. However I have no idea if this will break things given that the system and all of the software that I have loaded are all 32 bit versions. Can anyone tell me if this switch is possible? Regards, Langdon

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How to maintain backup kernels?
by Paul Erickson 31 May '07

31 May '07

The latest FC6 kernel update is having problems with the Nvidia drivers, so I am running on the previous one. How can I maintain more than one backup kernel? I have tried finding the answer via google, but so far, no luck. Thanks in advance. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- cheers, Paul - VA7NT - email: va7nt(a)telus.net "Those who hear not the music, think the dancers mad." “Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.” - Thomas Mann "That state which separates it's warriors from it's scholars will have it's thinking done by cowards and fighting done by fools" - Thucydides - The Pelopenisia "The Malice of the wicked is reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous." - Churchill

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