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Hi folks, While investigating OpenBSD's cron implementation, I found that they set the systemwide crontab (a.k.a. /etc/crontab) to be readable by the superuser only. The attached patch will bring this to FreeBSD by moving crontab out from BIN1 group and install it along with master.passwd. This change should not affect the current cron(1) behavior. Cheers, -- Xin LI <delphij frontfree

i am invoking op from a python proggy which does an op.system() of op chmod 640 /usr/local/etc/tac_plus.conf i get "Permission denied by op" % ls -l /usr/local/etc/op.access -r-------- 1 root wheel 149 Jan 13 07:41 /usr/local/etc/op.access % cat /usr/local/etc/op.access # 2007.01.13 # #DEFAULT users=src # chown /usr/sbin/chown $* ; users=src chmod /bin/chmod $* ; users=src

All: I'm posting this to FreeBSD-security (rather than FreeBSD-net) because the problems I'm seeing appear to have been caused by spyware, and because they constitute a possible avenue for denial of service on FreeBSD machines with default installs of the operating system. Several of the FreeBSD machines on our network began to act strangely during the past week. Some have started to

I'm just getting into regular use with cvsup (way over do on that one), and I tried to specify a tag=. in the cvsup file. Here's the file: # This file specifies src files are to be uploaded. *default host=cvsup2.FreeBSD.org # *default tag=RELENG_5_1_0_RELEASE *default tag=. *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup

I spent some time debugging a failing Scp that turned out to be caused by the remote shell producing messages on Standard Output that aren't part of the SCP protocol. Scp from a remote system works by running another Scp on the remote system. The remote Scp writes SCP protocol messages (and file data) to its Standard Output, which the local Scp sees as Standard Input. But it's

Yo All! Well I work on a diverse number of OS's with a diverse number of clients. Some use F-Secure, SecureCRT, PuTTY, SSH.COM. OpenSSH, etc. with a wide variety of versions between each, some from source, some from rpms, etc... Basically a lot of legacy stuff that no one has the time to update. In fact I am working on a couple of OpenSSH config problems in the last few days. Sometimes we

Hi all, I am getting this error while kernel hangs. I am using CentOS 4.4 (x86_64) on Dual Opteron 4 way SMP machine. After searching, i didn't found a sound answer. If anybody know the solution, plz let me know. Thanks in advance, Yogeshwar

I got email yesterday from a user who had run 'from' and got the message "No mail in /home/stevev/$USER" (where $USER was that person's username). At first I thought he had pilfered my .bashrc, but on further investigation I discovered that my home directory path had been compiled in to sshd, because the configuration tests assume that the directory part of $MAIL is the

All, Given the amount of NULL-pointer dereference vulnerabilities in the FreeBSD kernel that have been discovered of late, I've started looking at a way to generically protect against the code execution possibilities of such bugs. By disallowing userland to map pages at address 0x0 (and a bit beyond), it is possible to make such NULL-pointer deref bugs mere DoS'es instead of code

Dear FreeBSD users and system administrators, While the FreeBSD Security Team has traditionally been very good at investigating and responding to security issues in FreeBSD, this only solves half of the security problem: Unless users and administrators of FreeBSD systems apply the security patches provided, the advisories issued accomplish little beyond alerting potential attackers to the

Hello! [Cc to stable@, for wider audience] The plan is two axe two old networking protocols from FreeBSD head/, meaning that FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE, available in couple of years would be shipped without them. 1) AppleTalk Last time claimed to be supported by vendor in 2007[1]. In practice had very little use since 90th. Discontinued by major routing equipment vendors since 2009[2].

I'm trying to get nessus setup for doing some internal security checking. I installed the ports for nessus and nessus-plugins, and everything worked as expected. I then registered for the full feed of plugins, which got me up to over 10,000 plugins. I restarted nessus, and it didn't work at all. I am running without X11, so I'm doing batch runs. I already have nmap installed, so I

I have a test 4.x-stable system that I recently rebooted into. The last time I had updated it was May 3rd. I cvsup'ed it, did the buildworld/installworlds, and everything seemed fine. I then thought I would update all the ports. When upgrading XFree86, the /usr partition ran out of disk space. Now the partition shows up as: (21) df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, On October 31st, FreeBSD 5.3 and FreeBSD 5.4 will have reached their End of Life and will no longer be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Users of either of those FreeBSD releases are strongly encouraged to upgrade to FreeBSD 5.5 or FreeBSD 6.1 before that date. In addition, the FreeBSD 6.0 End of Life is presently scheduled

Hi, Can anyone explain how the standard error in arima() is calculated? Also, how can I extract it from the Arima object? I don't see it in there. > x <- rnorm(1000) > a <- arima(x, order = c(4, 0, 0)) > a Call: arima(x = x, order = c(4, 0, 0)) Coefficients: ar1 ar2 ar3 ar4 intercept -0.0451 0.0448 0.0139 -0.0688 0.0010 s.e.

Hi, I'm trying to plot several lag.plots on a page, however the second plot replaces the first one (although it only takes up the upper half as it should): par(mfrow=c(2,1)) a<-sin(1:100) b<-cos(1:100) lag.plot(a) lag.plot(b) What's the trick to this? I'm using R 2.2.1 (2005-12-20 r36812) on Ubuntu Linux. Thanks, Gad -- Gad Abraham Department of Mathematics and

Hi, Is this a bug in truehist()? > library(MASS) > x <- rep(1, 10) > truehist(x) Error in pretty(data, nbins) : invalid 'n' value Thanks, Gad > R.version platform i486-pc-linux-gnu arch i486 os linux-gnu system i486, linux-gnu status major 2 minor 4.1 year 2006 month 12 day 18 svn

Hi, Is this a bug in truehist()? > library(MASS) > x <- rep(1, 10) > truehist(x) Error in pretty(data, nbins) : invalid 'n' value Thanks, Gad > R.version platform i486-pc-linux-gnu arch i486 os linux-gnu system i486, linux-gnu status major 2 minor 4.1 year 2006 month 12 day 18 svn

Hi, I'm using survreg() from the survival package for parametric survival regression (modelling inter-arrival times of patients to a waiting list as exponentially distributed, with various regressors such as queue size and season). Does anyone know which algorithm survreg() uses for this? Thanks, Gad -- Gad Abraham Department of Mathematics and Statistics The University of Melbourne

Hi, I'm using zoo because it can automatically label the months of a time series composed of daily observations. This works well for certain time series lengths, but not for others, e.g.: While: > library(zoo) > plot(zoo(runif(10), as.Date("2005-06-01") + 0:50)) Shows up the months and day of month, > plot(zoo(runif(10), as.Date("2005-06-01") + 0:380))