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I have the default installation of samba (2.0.5) that came with Caldera OL 2.3, but it doesn't seem to be starting up properly, nor is SWAT working. When I run the script 'samba start', I get the message "Starting samba: smbd nmbd", but when I check the running processes, only nmbd shows up. Running smbstatus gives me the message "Couldn't open status file

Hello - thanks to Prof. Ripley and Peter Dalgaard for their helpful responses. I have now successfully compiled R on my machine. The kernel-headers were not installed on my machine, but there is a package on the Open Linux 2.3 CD. I believe they weren't installed simply because I didn't choose to have all the development tools/libraries added when I installed linux. I didn't realize

Hi all, Sorry to post OT but I'm a bit stuck and I thought someone may know the answer. Originally I installed Red Hat 5.2 with 2 paritions, boot and root. I upgraded to Red Hat 6 (kept the original filesystem) without a problem some time ago, but now I want to upgrade to 7.2. When trying to install the upgrade it tells me that the boot parition isnt big enough (by about 90k!) so I thought

Hi Tinc Mailing-Group, I am a bit stuck with firewalling rules at the moment. Maybe someone could please advise me a good rc.firewall script to use on my setup. If anyone runs an ipchains firewall script on their linux box which is ALSO running tinc, could they please mail it to me, for my perusal. I have tinc pre3 set up and working on my systems, however I can only get it to work if I set the

Dear Tinc Experts, I have been struggling for some time now, with Tinc pre3, and firewall rulesets and routing. I did once manage to get Tinc to work okay in a test-bed environment. I then tried to set it up for a 'real-life' setup and cannot get it to work properly. My real-life setup looks like this: Network A: 192.168.1.0 / 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.7 tap1 device gateway >

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ______________________________________________________________________________ Caldera International, Inc. Security Advisory Subject: Linux - Telnet AYT remote exploit Advisory number: CSSA-2001-030.0 Issue date: 2001, August 10 Cross reference: ______________________________________________________________________________ 1. Problem

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ______________________________________________________________________________ Caldera International, Inc. Security Advisory Subject: Linux - uucp argument handling problems Advisory number: CSSA-2001-033.0 Issue date: 2001, September 07 Cross reference: ______________________________________________________________________________ 1.

To all those that wanted to know how I was filtering particular ICMP packets here is a few snippets from my firewall script which is based on one by Ian Hall-Beyer. I hope this helps you get started. Also note the output of the command: ipchains -h icmp Shawn Mitchell mentioned blocking all ICMP echos and especially broadcast echos. Perhaps he''d care to elaborate with a similar

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ______________________________________________________________________________ Caldera International, Inc. Security Advisory Subject: Linux - sendmail instant root exploit Advisory number: CSSA-2001-032.0 Issue date: 2001, August 24 Cross reference: ______________________________________________________________________________ 1. Problem

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ______________________________________________________________________________ Caldera International, Inc. Security Advisory Subject: Linux - Remote File View Problem in htdig Advisory number: CSSA-2001-035.0 Issue date: 2001, October 09 Cross reference: ______________________________________________________________________________ 1.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ______________________________________________________________________________ Caldera International, Inc. Security Advisory Subject: Linux - libdb buffer overflow problem Advisory number: CSSA-2001-037.0 Issue date: 2001, October 30 Cross reference: ______________________________________________________________________________ 1. Problem

I'm trying to teach myself about Bayesian Networks and am working with the following data and the bnlearn package. I understand the conceptual aspects of BNs, but I'm not sure how to specify the response variables in R when constructing a dag plot. I've cecked ?hc and done numerous google searches without luck. Can anyone help? library("bnlearn")

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ______________________________________________________________________________ Caldera International, Inc. Security Advisory Subject: Linux - several linux kernel security problems Advisory number: CSSA-2001-036.0 Issue date: 2001, October 18 Cross reference: ______________________________________________________________________________

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ______________________________________________________________________________ Caldera International, Inc. Security Advisory Subject: Linux - syncookies firewall breaking problem Advisory number: CSSA-2001-038.0 Issue date: 2001, November 05 Cross reference: ______________________________________________________________________________ 1.

Hi, This advisory has a bit more than the Red Hat one.... Roger. ----- Forwarded message from Alfred Huger ----- >>From owner-bugtraq@SECURITYFOCUS.COM Mon Nov 22 18:49:41 1999 Approved-By: aleph1@SECURITYFOCUS.COM Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9911220906250.11753-100000@www.securityfocus.com> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 09:08:08 -0800 X-Reply-To: Alfred Huger

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ______________________________________________________________________________ Caldera International, Inc. Security Advisory Subject: Linux - Security problems in imp Advisory number: CSSA-2001-027.0 Issue date: 2001, July 31 Cross reference: ______________________________________________________________________________ 1. Problem

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ______________________________________________________________________________ Caldera International, Inc. Security Advisory Subject: Linux - Squid configuration problems Advisory number: CSSA-2001-029.0 Issue date: 2001, August 06 Cross reference: ______________________________________________________________________________ 1. Problem

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ______________________________________________________________________________ Caldera International, Inc. Security Advisory Subject: Linux - Tomcat security problems Advisory number: CSSA-2001-028.0 Issue date: 2001, August 02 Cross reference: ______________________________________________________________________________ 1. Problem

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ______________________________________________________________________________ Caldera International, Inc. Security Advisory Subject: Linux - security issues in ucd-snmp Advisory number: CSSA-2001-031.0 Issue date: 2001, August 16 Cross reference: ______________________________________________________________________________ 1. Problem

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ______________________________________________________________________________ Caldera Systems, Inc. Security Advisory Subject: kdelibs vulnerability for setuid KDE applications Advisory number: CSSA-2000-015.0 Issue date: 2000 June, 02 Cross reference: ______________________________________________________________________________ 1.