Re: [Leaf-devel] Re: Bering 1.0-rc3 bug fix: plog should tail after grep, not before

[Dan H. <le...@ha...>]

Jacques Nilo <jn...@us...> writes:
> OK. That  one will be addressed in rc4 as well . I am still investigating 
> this grsecurity pb

Yeah, I can imagine that's a big job.  grsecurity is sure an impressive
array of security tweaks.  As I said, though, my LEAF installations seem to
work fine after putting sh-httpd back in the adm group, for what it's worth.

> > Very useful information to have.  Is the BusyBox manual available within
> > Bering, by default or as an add-on .lrp?  If not, where is it available for
> > outside-Bering use?  I don't think the installation or user's guides
> > address this important issue (and they should).
> The busybox manual is here:
> http://www.busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html

Thanks.  As I say, that URL should be featured promimently in the
documentation.

> No lrp package planned for that one :-) We are talking about a floppy based 
> distro aren't we ?

Pity.  I'm sure a lot of people would find that very useful (especially
during initial setup when one generally doesn't have a working network
connection), since the commandline options available on the BusyBox programs
aren't quite the same as what's available on the equivalent GNU or standard
UNIX utilities (cf my confusion over 'tail' not supporting the usual
-<number_of_lines_to_tail> option), and they don't offer a --help option.

BusyBox.txt is only 20K when compressed.  That's certainly an amount I can
find room for on my dual 1680K floppies.

> Well it is still the  one which was released in theJuly Woody stable release.
> Will think more about your suggested change for rc4

Let me know if you decide against it.  In that case I'll "escalate" my
complaint to the Debian people.  ;^>

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