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I''ll just include the letter that I sent to John Carmack and Dave "Zoid" Kirsch concerning this problem. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Greg Alexander <galexand@sietch.bloomington.in.us> Approved: R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl To: zoid@threewave.com cc: johnc@idsoftware.com Subject: Security hole in squake. Please respond with this

I need help in assembling a pretty basic collection of things. I'm trying to put together a basic filesystem and kernel for network booting, here's what I basically need Kernel 2.6.22 Busybox Networking (dhcp, nfs client) Fsck Lynx Reiserfstools Dosfstools Vim and nano ( emacs is preferred ) And svgalib And .... A custom dir layout. All of this needs to be

Hi, Recently once again an exploit for SuperProbe was posted to the bugtraq. That message was forwarded to linux-security and Rogier Wolff rejected it on the basis of the author of the SuperProbe (David Wexelblatt) comment that it was never intended to be suid. In general, there is absolutely no reason for programs that are supposed to be run only by root to be suid to root! If your

Hi. uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.30.10-105.fc11.i686.PAE #1 SMP Thu Dec 24 16:41:17 UTC 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [??@localhost R-2.10.1]$ pwd /home/??/Bin/RStats/R-2.10.1 I fixed this before for previous version of R by copying part of the mplayer tree into the R tree. But, I forgot what I did. Any help? Checking for FFmpeg libavutil ... Error: MPlayer will not compile

Hello sylvian Thanks. I use kernel 2.4.3 so far, and the Linux Progress Patch seems to start at 2.4.13.... What I don't understand is, why the kernel whipes out the VGA-display, as both Syslinux and the kernel is setup for serial-console. best regards ole at danelec.dk * danelec electronics a/s * Blokken 44 * DK-3460 Birkeroed * DENMARK * Phone: +45 45821879 * Fax: +45 45821979 *