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Hi, I am building my own TCP daemon for easing some routine admin stuff... I am no expert on security,. I would really appreciate it if someone sent me some pointers to writing TCP daemons that are hacker-proof( i know there is nothing like that...but I do not want to be making mistakes in coding that are well known.. ;) The daemon runs as root....so that is why I am woried.... Thx, Arni

I've downloaded Wine 1.1.7 and unzipped it onto my desktop. I've printed out the readme file and have followed the quick start by running ./tools/wineinstall (I'm doing all this by mouseclicks - no terminal). A dialog box flashes and then nothing happens. I can't stop this dialog box long enough to see if there is an error msg, so I don't know what is happening, except I

I just released Syslinux 4.00-pre40. This is now a Release Candidate, meaning that it is on track to be released as it currently is unless I hear back about currently unexpected problems. If you have a chance, please pretty please test it. -hpa

Does anyone know how to install the gptmbr.bin onto a USB drive with Windows? I noticed that it would be really easy to modify the source of the installer to install gptmbr.bin instead of mbr.bin with the -m flag, but I'd like a solution that doesn't require me to maintain my own custom syslinux. I'm open to writing and submitting a patch to add a new flag (say -g) to install

Some people have reported portability problems with SYSLINUX 3.00, mostly due to the use of HDIO_GETGEO_BIG, which is deprecated; additionally, the advanced menu system wouldn't build for everyone due to a spurious reference to %ebp. This release fixes these things, plus makes the extlinux installer default to zipdisk geometry (64 heads, 32 sectors) if it can't guess anything else.

I am trying to boot Linux from a USB memory device containing an ext2 file system using extlinux and having a bit of trouble. Apologies for any naiive questions and assumptions. The USB device is an 8M byte Compact Flash card in a USB reader. I used fdisk to create a single partition across the whole of the device (partition 4 - is that important?) and made it bootable. Fdsik reported the

"use integer" limits integers to 2^31-1 on 32 bits, which makes imgsize to be -1 on DVD images Signed-off-by: Pascal Terjan <pterjan at mandriva.com> --- utils/isohybrid.in | 3 +-- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/utils/isohybrid.in b/utils/isohybrid.in index 4671036..e98c59f 100644 --- a/utils/isohybrid.in +++ b/utils/isohybrid.in @@ -17,7 +17,6

I'm trying to run Myst (masterpiece edition). By upgrading Wine to .51, I've gotten the install to finish without complaint. When I attempt to run Myst, the following is written to the terminal: $ wine Myst.exe fixme:mixer:ALSA_MixerInit No master control found on MPU-401 UART, disabling mixer wine: Unhandled page fault on write access to 0x00150000 at address 0xb7d75cbc (thread 0009),

Can someone tell me why some lines of text get cut off in SynthInvent[1]? A screenshot of this happening is at http://661.org/tmp/synthinvent.png [1] http://synthesizers.com/synthinvent.html. I'm the one Roger noted at the bottom regarding Ubuntu 9.04. I've since upgraded to 10.04 using this /etc/apt/sources.list entry: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu lucid main

Could someone tell me why -interline is required to run Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee? How does one turn off -vstretch? For someone to fix this, where would one look in Wine's source code? -- David Griffith dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in

I upgraded my machine from Ubuntu Hardy to Intrepid and now I get stuttering audio. I'm running the closed-source nvidea driver and a realtime kernel, like before the upgrade. Any ideas as to how I can speed up audio? -- David Griffith dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What

On 01/21/2014 11:13 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > My current theory is that vendors prefer to record > a cylinder aligned end CHS address over recording > an end CHS address which exploits the whole capacity. > This is used as an (inofficial ?) protocol to publish > the CHS factors H' and S'. > Indeed it is -- at least some BIOSes "deduce" the H/S to use

I've got a bootable USB pendrive with Syslinux 3.72, and while it usually works, there are a few computers, where I get the syslinux prompt, but it neither loads the configuration file, nor I'm able to boot anything. The only message I get on screen (apart from boot:) is "Could not find kernel image: linux". The configuration (and kernels) are in syslinux directory, but even

Why doesn't the Windows Syslinux installer show: --offset and --directory too (I know it is not supported)? Because the Linux versions show the Windows/dos specific commands: --mbr --active and --force I didn't check the DOS version. If all options will be displayed unconditionally for all installers, it might be a good idea to add: --offset -t Offset of the file system on the

Hi, I've created a rPath appliance which boots from a USB memory stick. Today I upgraded extlinux on my rPath appliance and the memory stick froze the system during POST. After a lot of trial and errors I found out this could be fixed by wiping the USB memory stick and reproduced it by writing extlinux (3.72) to the stick. I finally found out how to fix this issue, by entering the correct

I''d like to hear some suggestions about securely administering a system remotely. Here''s the application: a project is going to scatter some server machines around the US. The server machines will be running Linux, with the only network servers being a custom application. Ignoring the separate question of physical security, how can I remotely check the system''s

I have the same problem on the install disks and on the Live CD: The computer locks as soon as the Xserver starts. I end up with a blank screen (color varies) with a moving mouse cursor. Nothing else. Nothing appears on the screen. Keyboard and mouse are inoperative. Even Alt-SysRq-R doesn't work. Only way out is the reset button (or maybe SSH, but I don't have another machine handy

Hello Peter & Jeremy, I've found an ordinary desktop PC (with Phoenix Award BIOS 6.00PG) that won't boot off a USB stick created by livecd-tools-024 with syslinux (tested both versions 3.75 and 3.81). The boot process drops to the "boot:" prompt with an error message: could not find kernel image: linux The same USB stick boots fine on any other computer I could find.

Hello, Happy New Year! These patches make syslinux/linux support ext2/3/4, and it doesn't require the root privilege, I'd like to add a separate e2fs/syslinux, if that is more appropriate, it should be easy to do that. I put these patches on github so that you can easily get them in case you'd like to test them. (The repo's name is sys_tmp, which avoids confusing others, I will

Op 2014-06-20 om 15:56 schreef Ady: > > The Perl variant, isohybrid.in, seems to be getting left behind > regarding several patches. I don't recall whether there is at least > some mention in the isohybrid docs about the existence of 2 variants > included in Syslinux (and that is in addition to other isohybrid > methods outside Syslinux). Is there any reference? >