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00:03.41Clyphox|DIVXheya
00:04.21formisilly me, just turning up to as an odd question
00:04.39formihow do you spell tows???
00:05.24formitoes maybe? those you have 10 of them and you hide them with socks
00:05.47Clyphox|DIVXtoes ;-)
00:05.54formita
00:06.01Clyphox|DIVXnp
00:06.23formijust reading the gllug-admin list
00:06.31formii noticed something odd
00:06.40formifrom mail.ukfsn.org (unknown [217.158.120.143])
00:07.30formiwondering if I should tell Jason
01:35.08Clyphox|DIVX...awe...
01:55.13ClyphoxTime for some coding
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05:33.47Clyphoxhmmm I should prolly try to get _some_ sleep for my interview
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07:44.08ClyphoxHi John
07:45.30TarragonMoin
07:46.13Clyphoxhowzit?
07:46.51TarragonA little cold and chilly
07:47.07Clyphoxindeed I know the feeling
07:48.23ClyphoxIts colder in Aberdeen on the brigher side :-)
07:50.27TarragonNope somehow that still does not help melt the frost here.
07:51.04Clyphoxhehe I have 4 machine running in my tiny room and I'm still in a blankie
07:51.34TarragonOhh that is cold then.
07:51.58Clyphoxohh I'm in London now btw
07:52.13ClyphoxI saw you that the Expo..
07:52.43Tarragon:-)
07:52.53TarragonI tried to hide from everyone.
07:53.03Clyphoxhave you done a bad?
07:53.06TarragonSo calling back soon
07:53.54ClyphoxI'll be emailing you for adivice on writing for LM sometime maybe btw hehe
07:54.11Clyphox.......if thats ok I mean...
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09:45.51cupmorning
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10:32.53Huhnmoin
10:33.12stephenmorning Huhn
10:33.21Huhnhi stephen
10:40.56Jensonmorning
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11:36.53Leedsso... should I stay in Paris over Sunday night and come back Monday morning, or come back Sunday evening?
11:42.37JDLeeds: depends if you can get the time off work on Monday morning
11:42.43JDbut I owuld stay if you can
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11:57.12Xiaoqi_morning all
12:00.06LeedsI should be able to... I've just asked for the Thursday/Friday off the week before, but I've still got 10.5 days left this year after taking that... need 4 days or so for Christmas time... leaves plenty
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13:02.59formihello
13:16.37WethrinHello
13:18.28formii hate adsl modems
13:19.14WethrinMine works
13:19.34formithis one im trying to set up is too noisy
13:20.45formii managed to get rid of all the ripv2 traffic it was spewing
13:20.47WethrinToo many fans?
13:20.51WethrinAh. Network noise.
13:21.31formiand now it still is up with spanning-tree for bridges or some bollocks like that
13:21.56WethrinHRm
13:22.33formiand i did disable the protocol
13:26.12formianyway im off for a brak
13:27.00formis/brak/break
13:27.01WethrinHardware Sucks(TM)
13:27.23formiefficient networks 5861
13:28.27formimaybe i will go to the meeting on sunday
13:28.46formiand i was thinking of wearing the openbsd shirt
13:28.46WethrinGo on....I'll try and be there
13:28.51WethrinHeh.
13:28.58formiand then run for it
13:28.59WethrinWear an 'Open Source' shirt.
13:29.21formii might search for the lesbian one
13:29.26Wethrin:)
13:29.35formiback in a few minutes
13:29.46formiswithing off the bloody thing
13:33.41Wethrinkk
13:35.28Leedsthe meeting on Sunday may not happen...
13:35.34WethrinHow come?
13:35.45Leedshttp://www.nickhill.co.uk/rms-speech-status.html
13:36.09LeedsRMS has broken his arm and was last seen in hospital in Finland...
13:36.41WethrinGot in a fight with Linus about Linux v. GNU/Linux? ;-)
13:36.45Leedsheh
13:39.14ClyphoxI take it thats a joke?
13:39.41WethrinWhich? The website or the fight?
13:39.52Clyphoxthe fight
13:39.56WethrinOf course.
13:40.04Clyphox(I've a very small memory)
13:40.19Wethrin640K is enough for anybody
13:41.01ClyphoxTm
13:55.28Wethrinwb Huhn
13:55.34Huhnre, ta Wethrin
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14:00.30WethrinBah. Is there some way of politely telling someone "No you can't do this. You're a fool for even trying@
14:00.38Wethrins/@/?"
14:01.45HuhnWethrin: depends... any chance to give this person a manual? :)
14:01.55WethrinNo.
14:01.58WethrinPlease can you advise me whether it is possible to run Autodesk AutoCAD 2002 on SUSE 9
14:02.12Huhnin that case... the truth ;)
14:02.21WethrinOr should I just reply 'Yes'
14:02.25Wethrin(i.e. I can advise)
14:05.31WethrinAutoCAD only runs under Windows, doesn't it?
14:05.38Leedswine(x)?
14:06.16WethrinDoesn't work under Wine
14:06.32WethrinPeople have tried, and complained to the mailing list
14:06.57Leedscrossover?
14:08.19WethrinI haven't seen otherwise, so would assume the same
14:09.34WethrinAre you coming tonight to Bill Bailey?
14:09.39TarragonNo there is still a ticket outstanding under Crossover
14:10.31WethrinAh, so it might work some time soon?
14:11.13TarragonTicket Oct 2002 so some hope still
14:11.35WethrinOnly a year so far...
14:11.58Leedsthe gods are angry
14:12.09WethrinAt least Thor isn't swinging
14:12.28Jensonafternoon guys
14:12.34WethrinWhat was the name of Thor's hammer? I can't remember, although I'm sure I know it.
14:13.15WethrinOh well. I guess his chariot is yet to come to Hammersmith.
14:14.12Wethrinw00t. Any chance of a *cough*copy*cough* of the CDs? :)
14:14.31LeedsI thought the student pricing was pretty good?
14:14.32TarragonMjolnir is the name of the Hammer
14:14.42WethrinTarragon: Ahh. That's it, thanks :)
14:14.47WethrinLeeds: I'll check
14:16.23WethrinOoh. Mjolnir's just been struck
14:17.06WethrinHmm. £69.33 is the student price for Panther
14:17.15Leedsthought it would be less than that...
14:17.24WethrinUnfortunately not :(
14:20.54Jensonlater guys
14:21.32WethrinHmm.....I guess the conversation level was above her ;-)
14:32.35Leedsmost things are
14:33.53WethrinHeh.
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14:44.06WethrinHi
14:44.12chrismilhi
14:44.43chrismilraining here
14:44.55WethrinNot any more here
14:45.13Leedsnor here
14:45.36Leedschrismil: where are you?
14:45.56chrismilChesham near Amersham
14:46.08WethrinOot. That's not too far from where I live
14:46.10LeedsI've heard the names - no idea where they are :-)
14:46.24WethrinNot far from Beaconsfield :)
14:46.29chrismilNorth Westish London
14:46.32WethrinAmersham's about 20 mins drive from Watford
14:46.59Leedsah
14:47.09Leedschrismil: I'm in Watford right now
14:47.29formioi guys come on
14:48.00Leedsformi: ?
14:48.13formiare you having a conversation? I can the end of the gllug channel is this keeps happening
14:48.44chrismilAlways steer clear of Watford, seem to get lost in one way systems
14:49.04formichrismil: im in Amersham
14:49.36Leedsah, Watford's not that bad... it's Manchester which'll draw you in and chew you up
14:50.26formiand i probably left my typing skills back at home
14:50.29WethrinBut not spit you out?
14:51.34Leedsno, not really
14:52.36WethrinHeh
14:52.43chrismilformi: just up the road
14:53.52chrismilLeeds: You work in Watford?
14:54.02Leedschrismil: sure
14:54.25chrismilAnything interesting?
14:54.36Leedsin what way?
14:55.16Leedscheck my hostname :-)
14:55.34chrismilAhh
14:55.54chrismilSo sun are in Watford. See anything of Java?
14:56.18WethrinJava is overrated.
14:56.19Wethrin:)
14:56.49Leedsthis is a Solaris (x86, mainly) development center... not much Java around
14:57.35chrismilFriend has new Cleo (??) Palm type gadget. very nice. showed me java on it.
14:58.08LeedsClie
14:58.17Leedspronounced Clee-ay
14:58.22Leedsor Klee-ay
14:58.52chrismilyou on the systems side?
15:01.08LeedsOS engineering
15:02.09chrismilI've not used Solaris. Linux provides a pretty good basis for what I need at present. Used to do some bigger stuff though.
15:05.32Leedsno comment :-)
15:07.03chrismil:-)
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15:47.13WethrinHm
15:47.28ClyphoxGary Moore is cool :-)
15:47.38WethrinMm.
15:52.07Wethrinping Leeds
15:52.18Leedspong
15:52.19Leedsum...
15:52.27WethrinHave you decided about tonight?
15:52.40Leedsany idea about availability?
15:52.53WethrinNope, sorry
15:53.23Leedsbah... yeah, I'll aim to be outside at 7:30 or so...
15:53.32Leedson a cold, damp night...
15:54.09WethrinRight-ho. I'm probably going to be there around 6.30ish before finding some food. Want me to get you a ticket?
15:54.25Jenson|Awaywhere you going?
15:54.26Leedsplease :-)
15:54.41WethrinLeeds: Sure
15:54.56WethrinWilliam Bailey
15:54.59LeedsJenson: to see a troll
15:55.22Jensonhave fun
15:55.35Leedsdo we have to?
15:55.45Jensonno lol
15:59.09Jensoni l;ast ate at about 11
15:59.43Leedsso, eat something...
16:00.17Jensonone of my msn friends changes her email everytime she gets a crush on a new bloke, i dont chat to her anyway, coz she's never online
16:00.23JensonLeeds: yeh going home for dinner soon
16:03.05Jensonright time to go, tescos then home
16:03.10Jensonseeya
16:03.11Wethrinbye
16:03.16Leedsbye
16:03.22Jensonbye Wethrin have a nice time tonight
16:03.27Wethrinshould do
16:03.33Jensonbye Leeds have a nice time if you want to :P
16:03.40Leedstabjs :-)
16:03.42Leedsugh
16:03.43Leedsthanks
16:03.53Wethrintabjes?
16:03.54Leedswhere the fsck did tabjs come from???
16:04.04WethrinPidgin Dutch?
16:04.35Leedsa small, but strong, lager
16:05.02WethrinMmm.
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16:08.28WethrinThe theatre is right outside Leicester Square tube station. Don't forget that the Northern Line isn't running.
16:08.46Leedsah, oh fuck what?
16:08.54LeedsI thought it was running with delays?
16:09.08WethrinNo. The Charing Cross->Euston branch isn't running
16:09.18WethrinWhich is the branch Leicester Square is on
16:09.49Leedswell that sort of screws everything up
16:10.00WethrinOops.
16:10.21Leedsand the information leaflet off tfl.gov.uk is 404
16:10.27WethrinBah.
16:10.44WethrinSimply assume that the Northern Line is kaput.
16:11.09LeedsI was assuming I could get a train from my local Northern Line station to... Leicester Square... directly
16:11.35WethrinNope. And they're expecting the Line to be closed until next week.
16:15.04WethrinSo, erm, do you still want to come, given train problems?
16:17.47Leedswell... it won't be easy getting there
16:18.03Leedsor won't be as easy as usual
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16:20.09resuDaedis there anyone here with access to a windows box?
16:20.59resuDaedI am trying to get the compaq system utilities on 4 floppies, but all they'll give me is an .exe to create the floppies
16:21.08Wethrinwine?
16:22.46resuDaedfails silently
16:22.57WethrinHm
16:24.23Leedstfl website is being very very very slow
16:24.54resuDaedthe box has 272MB RAM, but because the battery died, I can't tell it that is has more than 16MB
16:25.34WethrinErr.....even Compaqs should detect that
16:26.02resuDaedthat was my thought, but nothing else changed - other than the battery died
16:27.26resuDaedmust find food
16:27.35WethrinHmm. Food.
16:27.46resuDaed|f00d1 pound pizzas :-)
16:27.59WethrinYum/
16:28.06Leedswhat is all this about 1 pound pizza anyway?
16:28.08Wethrin1 GBP, or 1lb?
16:28.36LeedsGBP I think
16:30.51resuDaed|f00dGBP
16:34.54Leedsbloody hell the tfl site is slow slow slow - really painful
16:35.42Wethrinow
16:35.53WethrinHrm. This monitor is slightly out of focus
16:36.56WethrinBah.
16:38.15LeedsWethrin: much as I'd like to... it looks like the journey would be a bit of a nightmare - and worse getting back, I'd guess - and I should really get work done, then have an early-ish night
16:51.57WethrinOkay, then. I'll let you know if it's good
17:03.30WethrinRight. See people tomorrow
17:06.12Leedsbye
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17:38.31ClyphoxSheesh I feel old
17:38.46ClyphoxStar Craft was released almost 6 years ago!!
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18:00.27cozmonorthi resuDaed
18:00.31Clyphoxgreets resuDaed
18:00.42Jensonheya resuDaed
18:00.51cozmonorthi Ckyphox
18:00.55Xiaoqihi cozmonort and resuDaed
18:01.03cozmonort*Clyphox even
18:01.08Jensongod arent we sad, the four of us could all call each other, yet we insint in talking in text
18:01.10cozmonorthi Xiaoqi
18:01.31cozmonort*Jenson
18:01.37cozmonortdamn fingers :P
18:01.46Jensoncozmonort: use the fucking autocomplete lol
18:01.49Xiaoqicozmonort, you're good at spelling today, aren't you!
18:01.54Clyphoxhmmm caffiene
18:01.59JensonXiaoqi: you may hit him lol
18:02.07Xiaoqihehe
18:02.10cozmonortoi :P
18:17.46Jensonheya JD
18:17.48cozmonorthello
18:18.06JD11
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18:29.01Jensonhi zachary
18:29.08zacharyhey Jenson
18:29.30zacharydid I miss much?
18:29.40Jensonince wehen?
18:29.43Jensonsince when even
18:53.57JDhi
18:54.11JDzachary: do we know more about rms?
19:01.15resuDaedClyphox : you there?
19:01.25Clyphoxda
19:01.39JensonClyphox: bloody lazy quiet monster :P
19:01.44Clyphoxgot a damn nice piece of pork in my hand atm
19:02.09resuDaedis there anyway I can install oBSD from a running linux stsyem (that you know of)
19:02.23Clyphoxyes but its really complex
19:02.39resuDaedyou got a set of destructions somewhere?
19:02.47ClyphoxI found docs on it years ago when I looked into backibg up a system
19:02.56Clyphoxgoogle alas
19:03.19resuDaedwas my next port of call, but I thought I'd check with you first :-)
19:04.48ClyphoxSorry
19:04.59Clyphoxabout to watch Reloaded with Kate
19:05.38JensonReloaded, good idea
19:13.45resuDaeddoes anyone know if there is a way to boot an image of a floppy disk from lilo?
19:14.38JDI want my labyrinth DVD
19:14.52JensonresuDaed: why not just rawrite the floppy and boot it?
19:15.38cozmonortcya later
19:15.54resuDaedbecause I cannot boot from floppy (don't ask)
19:17.45JensonresuDaed: well, seenas its you i wont ask
19:18.04Jensonand you cant boot direct from the cd?
19:18.54resuDaedJenson am booting from floppy
19:19.02resuDaedno cd involved
19:19.09resuDaed(or floppy image)
19:19.50Jensonim assumiing you cant type the path of the image on the lilo prompt?
19:20.31resuDaedI can rewrite lilo if I want, but iirc, lilo wont boot a full floppy image
19:21.27Jensonwell, the two alpha-geeks are Leeds and Wethrin and they are both out somewhere tonight
19:22.50JDresuDaed: you need grub
19:23.06resuDaedcan grub boot a floppy image?
19:23.07Jensonive gotta go
19:23.08JDgrub can do what yo want
19:23.11JDbye
19:23.13resuDaed:-)
19:23.14Jensonsee you guys later
19:23.18resuDaedlaters Jenson
19:23.21Clyphox|Divxlilo ownz
19:23.37Jensongo away Clyphox|Divx :)
19:24.06JDClyphox|Divx: er no it doesn;t
19:27.08resuDaedcan anyone else not see gnu.org?
19:28.11JDmaybe it is broken in sympathy
19:28.58Clyphox|Divxnegative
19:29.24JDwhat about fsf.org?
19:43.04TarragonYes gnu.org OK fsf.org OK
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20:07.07resuDaedClyphox|Divx : PING
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20:19.20JDhi Leeds
20:19.26Leedsevning
20:19.35JDthere was something I meant to say to you but I can;t remember
20:19.38JDoh yes I can
20:19.45JDDLM? when is it?
20:20.05Leedsum... all on my hard drive
20:20.07Leedshang on
20:21.47Leedsfriday 2230 skyone, sat 2230 skyonemix, wednesday 0455 skyone
20:23.59JDoh this morning?
20:24.03JDso I've missed it
20:24.04JDgrrrr
20:24.07Leedsyes
20:25.21LeedsI have 8.2Gb of it on my hard drive...
20:25.26JD:)
20:25.53Leedscould put it on a DVD or two, I suppose :-)
20:26.15JD:)
20:45.12JDwhat are we all doing on 5th Nov?
20:47.28Leeds?
20:47.50Leedsoh, the obvious? :-)
20:57.55LeedsChristmas adverts have started...
21:01.43Clyphox|Divx:-(
21:02.23Leedswhoa!!! someone compressed Clyphox :-)
21:03.26Clyphox|Divxyeah I'm ! == depressed
21:03.44Leedswhat is "! =="?
21:05.12Clyphox|DivxI just meant I'm not depressed.. I'm compressed
21:05.27Leedsah
21:05.39Leeds!=
21:06.38Clyphox|Divxyeah ! == is kinda php'ish
21:06.52Leedsugh
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21:41.58JDwb
21:44.46Clyphox[yawn]
21:50.55gregjJD: what happend to trusted debian ?
21:51.06JDer they renamed
21:51.17JDtrusix or something
21:51.52gregjoh
21:52.05gregjgoogle cannot find anything decent on gg:trusted debian
21:52.32murbJD: are they a subproject or just ranodmnly using debian as a basis for stuff?
21:52.48gregji am getting ill changing permissions in debian everytime i have to set it up
21:52.56JDmurb: they were a distrubtion
21:53.11gregjso i'll have a look, maybe they are consider security more important than debian folks
21:54.16murbgregj: how can they possibly do that if they don't have joey?
21:55.12gregjjoey who ?
21:55.22JDjoey or joeyh?
21:57.02gregji think he meant joy :]
21:58.44gregjwww.trustix.net failed, no route to host..
21:58.45gregjcool
22:01.31gregjJD: tell me why in debian there is no whell group, to keep rights to execute suided binaries
22:01.42gregjJD: home directories are readable by default
22:01.51gregjand many other crap i have to change all the time
22:02.02JDgregj: wheel? hmmm
22:02.04gregjs/many/more/
22:02.09gregjJD: or whatever
22:02.10JDwhat advantage does wheel give you?
22:02.37gregjthat nobody beside whoom i choose cannot execute su
22:02.46murbgregj: the homedir thing is a user configurable
22:02.58murbyou can get the wheel thing with a pam package that is included if you want it.
22:03.01gregjbeside that i have to create group shell for those that can execute mostly shell tasks
22:03.06gregje.g. not www-data
22:03.09murbotherwise it is trival to implenment yourself.
22:03.14gregjto protect my self from lame php scripts
22:03.28murbgregj: debian does www-data.
22:03.35gregjmurb: yes, i know
22:03.47gregjmurb: but user www-data can execute everything in /bin and /usr/bin
22:03.56gregjand he should not have a rights to most of those programs
22:04.07murbput running mod_php is generally a bad idea as efverything runs in address space as apache/whatever
22:04.08gregjand much more
22:04.22murbgregj: so how would cgi's run?
22:04.28murbnormally you use suexec
22:04.29gregjthis time someone was trying to exploit me through jboss
22:04.33murbso it is upt o the user.
22:04.46murbwhy were you running jboss?
22:04.51murbto many cpu cycles?
22:05.06gregjyeah, one of the guys is claming that somebody gain user passwords, because he read /etc/passwd
22:05.28gregjand this guy him self was so lame to put file name from disc as a parametr in script
22:05.36gregjmurb: no, java is very nice, jboss is also quite nice
22:06.06murbgregj: but you can't run jboss without a horrible jre
22:06.12gregjmurb: and i am not woried about cpu, but about memory. You probaly don't know how this thing work, so you should not take typical way of arguing
22:06.20gregjjre is nice
22:06.22murband you cna run jboss in a resource restriced enviorment like a chroot.
22:06.40murbgregj:were you using the native httpd?
22:06.40gregjyes, i'll have to consider that
22:06.54gregjeverything goes through apache
22:07.00murbI've only done the mod_jakata thing.
22:07.14murbgregj: and incase you've not guessed yet i have used jboss.
22:07.21gregjbeside that java programs are recompiled into native assembler before running, and this makes them as fast as any decent c/c++ software
22:07.30gregjonly pain in the arse is garbage collector
22:07.43murbgregj: yeah and the 2 minute startup times :(
22:07.54gregji don't know why ppl are so close minded, and think that everything else than c is slower
22:08.00murbok, 1:40 s running latest jre on a P4 1.4ghz boxen.
22:08.10murbgregj: But I'm not saying that.
22:08.12gregjmaybe you should write the same thing in C, and check if it will be faster. I'll doubt that
22:08.21gregjanyway, this is not my problem
22:08.32gregji don't care about startup time
22:08.37gregjas long as it is not 30 minutes
22:09.12murbwell it certainly felt like that some of the time during testing...
22:09.25gregjJD: maybe i should send few bugs regarding lame security in debian, at least where is about priviliges of some dirs and files
22:09.43gregjJD: beside that debian is doing better job than any other distro provider anyway
22:09.57murbgregj: that stuff is almost certainly the way it is because of trying to comply with policy.
22:10.14gregjyeah, policy....
22:10.14gregjech
22:10.45murbacls on what?
22:11.03JDpresumably files
22:11.41gregj;]
22:11.56murbgregj: you mean like posixacls?
22:12.01gregjyep
22:12.09gregjaccess control list
22:12.21murbthere are many times you have to specify.
22:12.27gregjotherwise i am not able to deny some things to one user only
22:13.06gregjlike in e.g. , deny user java to run anything beside what's in /opt/java and access few /home subdirs with virtuals
22:13.47gregji am angry, because i have to finish fewthings in KDE, not taking care about changing permisions, where they should be already set.
22:14.02murbgregj: you can't really do that with posix acls.
22:14.14gregjreally ?
22:14.16gregji think i can
22:14.29gregjacl is about giving permisions for some file operations
22:14.37murbyes, not about taking them away.
22:14.43gregjyou can say that user java got permission to read this and that, and everything else is denied
22:15.12murbI don't think you can do the deny bit.
22:15.18gregjwith standart unix permisions i cannot just say that he is allowed so use this not that
22:15.30murbAlthough I only have experience with POSIX acls on solaris.
22:15.39gregji will have to create group for all types of users, and this will be one big hell
22:16.29murbgregj: you probably might want to look at stuff like SELinux and the other LSM modules.
22:16.45gregjnope, grsec and his ACL
22:16.52gregji've used it before
22:16.59murbgregj: Isn't that implemented as n LSM module?
22:17.00gregjso i know it, and it works perfectly fine for me
22:17.12murbgregj: so it is more than just POSIX acls?
22:17.18gregjyes, but it is not SELinux
22:17.21gregja bit more
22:17.32murbI'm just wondering how you setfacl to deny stuff to user java.
22:17.39murbgregj: I know it isn't.
22:17.42gregji don't know what POSIX ACLs are, and what grsec does more
22:18.08gregjwith java , there is another pain. you cannot create non executable stacks
22:18.22gregjbecause it uses this mechanism quite extensively
22:18.34gregjand this is not the best way of doing that
22:18.54gregjit is not even most reliable probably
22:19.06gregjbut certainly the easiest one
22:19.39murbgrsec looks quite intersting.
22:20.00murbgregj: I think posix acls solve a different problem :)
22:20.37murbv.nice if you want to share files with someone else on a shared unix system and won't need root to create groups etc for you.
22:20.54gregjoh
22:20.55gregjhmm
22:21.07gregjthan i named it lamely ;]
22:23.09Clyphoxhey tom
22:23.12resuDaedhey
22:23.32resuDaedClyphox : openbsd install : what to do if NIc's not auto detected?
22:23.41resuDaed(I know the dev entries)
22:23.50Clyphoxit didn't detect!?!?
22:24.04resuDaedon one box, not other
22:24.31ClyphoxI've no idea.. check its plugged in, then ask on #openbsd I guesse
22:25.58gregjmurb: in 1.9 grsec it is called ACL
22:26.03gregjmurb: so i named it correctly
22:28.33resuDaedClyphox : they were detected on boot (ie I have /dev/pccom0 and /dev/pccom1)
22:30.08ClyphoxI wish I knew man.. its always worked for me really so I've never bothered
22:30.12Clyphoxcan you see them in dmesg?
22:30.21murbgregj: I was just saying that without context acl doesn't mean much.
22:31.38resuDaedClyphox : yeah, thats how I know they exist
22:32.01resuDaedand sifting through openbsd.org, then google
22:32.06Clyphoxwish I could help... soz
22:32.19Clyphoxask on #openbsd here.. they are a nice bunch
22:38.04resuDaedClyphox : I am wanting to bring a 486 back into service as router (it's previous occupation actually), but I need suggestion for a good OS
22:38.21resuDaedactually, that's a general question (not recipient specific)
22:38.51Clyphoxwell openbsd does have pf
22:38.55resuDaedpf?
22:38.59gregjpacket filter
22:39.02resuDaedah yes
22:39.03gregjvery nice tool
22:39.10Clyphoxthe packet filter I was ranting at you remember?
22:39.13resuDaedyeah
22:39.19Clyphoxits good
22:39.33stephenyer, I've got OpenBSD on my Sun Sparcstation 5, and it handles my home routing fine
22:39.38Clyphoxnext too that I would use netbsd or gentoo/slack
22:39.39stephens/5/10/
22:39.40resuDaedif I plug a cd into a 486, and boot from floppy, will the OBSD kernel pick up its existance
22:40.02ClyphoxresuDaed: why not install from the net?
22:40.28Clyphoxstephen: I have netbsd on my ss5 :-) they are nice boxes aren't they :-)
22:40.47resuDaedClyphox : the issue with the ISA NICs I just mentioned
22:40.54Clyphoxgah
22:41.00resuDaed:-)
22:41.09ClyphoxI would never use anything without pci due to my blood pressure
22:41.23resuDaedI personally don't mind ISA (when it works)
22:41.30Clyphox(apart from _real_ HW like sun heh)
22:41.31resuDaedthese cards actually seem to be working
22:41.36Clyphoxyeah if it works its fine
22:42.14stephenClyphox: yer, indeed
22:43.57resuDaedClyphox : Compaq Prosignia 200 is now running OBSD
22:45.19Clyphoxdoes it boot?
22:45.26ClyphoxresuDaed: I was just thinkinh
22:45.40resuDaedsounds dangerous
22:45.45ClyphoxresuDaed: heh
22:45.54Clyphox(damn gaim is popping up)
22:47.07ClyphoxresuDaed: Why not specify the ammount of ram with lilo?
22:47.17Clyphoxit overrides the bios apparently
22:47.53resuDaedClyphox : it is now picking up ram :-$
22:48.00Clyphoxwoohoo
22:48.41resuDaedI have 2x64 + 2x16
22:51.23ClyphoxI love my laptop!
22:53.43Clyphoxaint init 6 fun
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22:55.48Clyphoxwb
22:56.29resuDaedty
22:56.46resuDaedbrb
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23:15.19JDnight
23:15.39gregjnight
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