December 2007 - CRUX - lists.crux.nu

new_iso-buildref (password)?
by root 29 Dec '07

29 Dec '07

Hello # checkout your new_iso, core, opt, and xorg git WCs # (I just copy them from my user's local WC) shell> git clone git+ssh://crux/home/crux/scm/system/iso.git Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/iso/.git/ root@crux's password: Password? Regards Ronny

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CRUX 2.4 CD ISO & coLinux
by Markus Stockhausen 28 Dec '07

28 Dec '07

Hello, as a happy CRUX/coLinux User I was some kind of disappointed when I tried to install CRUX 2.4 under colinux. In the past everything worked like a charm but the new CD ROM auto detection mechanism seems to have problems with the colinux block devices named /dev/cobdX. After hours of digging in the init script I became aware of some things: - It would be very helpful to implement a check, if any CRUX CD ROM was found. At the moment the script simply runs into errors over errors if the CD detection does not find anyting. - The init script should include any /dev/cobdX device into the list of available mount points. I got around this by simply adding the following line: CDROM_DEVICES="$CDROM_DEVICES cobd0 cobd1 cobd2 cobd3 cobd4" - The colinux boot process relies on an external kernel. Sadly this has no squashfs support implemented by default. The start process tries to mount the squash filesystem from the CD but this fails and again the script lacks of a intelligent error handling. A simple message about the error would help very much. After everything was in place I finally was able to boot CRUX 2.4 under coLinux - happy again. Keep up the good work. Markus Stockhausen **************************************************************************** Diese E-Mail enthält vertrauliche und/oder rechtlich geschützte Informationen. Wenn Sie nicht der richtige Adressat sind oder diese E-Mail irrtümlich erhalten haben, informieren Sie bitte sofort den Absender und vernichten Sie diese Mail. Das unerlaubte Kopieren sowie die unbefugte Weitergabe dieser Mail ist nicht gestattet. Über das Internet versandte E-Mails können unter fremden Namen erstellt oder manipuliert werden. Deshalb ist diese als E-Mail verschickte Nachricht keine rechtsverbindliche Willenserklärung. Collogia Unternehmensberatung AG Ubierring 11 D-50678 Köln Vorstand: Kadir Akin Prof. Gerd M. Henselmann Dr. Michael Höhnerbach Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Hans Kristian Langva Registergericht: Amtsgericht Köln Registernummer: HRB 52 497 This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden. e-mails sent over the internet may have been written under a wrong name or been manipulated. That is why this message sent as an e-mail is not a legally binding declaration of intention. Collogia Unternehmensberatung AG Ubierring 11 D-50678 Köln executive board: Kadir Akin Prof. Gerd M. Henselmann Dr. Michael Höhnerbach President of the supervisory board: Hans Kristian Langva Registry office: district court Cologne Register number: HRB 52 497 ****************************************************************************

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Internet Connection
by andrew 28 Dec '07

28 Dec '07

I have downloaded, setup, and installed Crux without any problem. But one of my areas of weakness is setting up and configuring internet connections. I would very much appreciate it if someone can post some step by step instructions on what to do to configure the internet connection, so I can join in on the community, nothing I've entered so far is working. Thank You very much for any help. Andy (ajdm326)

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[ANN] CRUX 2.4 released
by Tilman Sauerbeck 23 Dec '07

23 Dec '07

Hi, we're happy to announce that CRUX 2.4 has been released. For your documentation pleasure, please see o the release notes at http://crux.nu/Main/ReleaseNotes2-4 o the handbook at http://crux.nu/Main/Handbook2-4 o and the ChangeLog at http://crux.nu/gitweb/?p=system/iso.git;a=blob_plain;f=ChangeLog;h=bcac6e4b… The ISO itself is available by BitTorrent (http://crux.nu/files/crux-2.4.torrent) and will also be available by ftp/http on our mirror servers soon. See http://crux.nu/Main/Download. Enjoy! Tilman, for the CRUX team. -- A: Because it messes up 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 on usenet and in e-mail?

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vim - how to deisable backups of file after edit has finished
by blokkie 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

Hi , I've noticed that vim is taking backups of files. I took a look at /usr/share/vim/vimrc to check why . How do I disable this ? Adapt /usr/share/vim/vimrc or create ~/.vimrc files for the users (and root) ? Thx ! Blokie

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HOWTO add Gnome to CRUX-2.4?
by maikhai 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

Hi All! I'm newbie. I installed CRUX-2.3RC1 on box OK and now I want to install GNOME. On the website http://crux.nu/portdb/ I saw host=morpheus.net collection=gnome/tags/current/ destination=/usr/ports/gnome Can I add to /etc/ports/gnome.rsync? If NOT, Howto I have to do to get GNOME? Thanks, mkhsgn

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Suggestion for new (set of) network init scripts in crux.
by Johann Van der Smut 15 Dec '07

15 Dec '07

Hello everybody, i'd like to suggest a new way of configuring your network in crux. The reason I do that is, because there are virtually no net-configfiles "per se" in crux by default (or out-of-the-box, so to speak). If an average user wants to configure his networking, he actually is configuring a (quite very important) init script of the system. IMHO, I just dont like the thought of touching a initscript. I think initscripts should be treated write-once (or fire-and-forget.). Well, I broke it down a little bit on my system and now I want to hear the opinions of the crux-users/devs. Where is the room for improvements? First of, here's the new init scripts with a few self-explanatory config-files: http://rapidshare.com/files/76614639/netinitscripts.tar.bz2.html Everybody who can read bash/sh will understand them, since I tried to keep them as simple as I could. Extract them somewhere with "tar xjpf ...". (The "p" in the tar's options there is of special importance!) You only need to put the new "net" script in your SERVICES(a)/etc/rc.conf, since all the other (/new) scripts "net.dhcp", "net.lo" and "net.static" are started by the new "net" init script. (However, you may aswell put SERVICES=(net.lo net.static net.dhcp foo bar...) instead...) As I said, they are self-explanatory, so what you think? Thanks & bye, olaf_ -- You Rock! Your E-Mail Should Too! Signup Now at Rock.com and get 250MB of Storage! http://webmail.rock.com/signup/

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ports/opt (2.4): [notify] samba: update to 3.0.28
by crux＠crux.nu 12 Dec '07

12 Dec '07

commit 677f618668cf97cbcdf6d38e4af7a0e4d37933ba Author: Juergen Daubert <jue(a)jue.li> Date: Wed Dec 12 11:22:08 2007 +0100 [notify] samba: update to 3.0.28 Security update to fix a stack-based buffer overflow, see http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.0.28.html diff --git a/samba/.md5sum b/samba/.md5sum index 9a47a4a..9c36873 100644 --- a/samba/.md5sum +++ b/samba/.md5sum @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ 448caca4745aef1a842f4fdb1aa62e1e samba -57aedd342cafddbb28e2936c15dde96b samba-3.0.27a.tar.gz +8761cd7c02833d959fbebd4f69895075 samba-3.0.28.tar.gz fbaccda19afc8f75f6f0123cab82c87e samba-config.patch diff --git a/samba/Pkgfile b/samba/Pkgfile index 1601534..5c6d3a4 100644 --- a/samba/Pkgfile +++ b/samba/Pkgfile @@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ # Depends on: ncurses, readline name=samba -version=3.0.27a -release=2 +version=3.0.28 +release=1 source=(http://www.samba.org/samba/ftp/stable/$name-$version.tar.gz \ samba-config.patch samba)

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ports/opt (2.3): [notify] samba: update to 3.0.28
by crux＠crux.nu 12 Dec '07

12 Dec '07

commit 677f618668cf97cbcdf6d38e4af7a0e4d37933ba Author: Juergen Daubert <jue(a)jue.li> Date: Wed Dec 12 11:22:08 2007 +0100 [notify] samba: update to 3.0.28 Security update to fix a stack-based buffer overflow, see http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.0.28.html diff --git a/samba/.md5sum b/samba/.md5sum index 9a47a4a..9c36873 100644 --- a/samba/.md5sum +++ b/samba/.md5sum @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ 448caca4745aef1a842f4fdb1aa62e1e samba -57aedd342cafddbb28e2936c15dde96b samba-3.0.27a.tar.gz +8761cd7c02833d959fbebd4f69895075 samba-3.0.28.tar.gz fbaccda19afc8f75f6f0123cab82c87e samba-config.patch diff --git a/samba/Pkgfile b/samba/Pkgfile index 1601534..5c6d3a4 100644 --- a/samba/Pkgfile +++ b/samba/Pkgfile @@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ # Depends on: ncurses, readline name=samba -version=3.0.27a -release=2 +version=3.0.28 +release=1 source=(http://www.samba.org/samba/ftp/stable/$name-$version.tar.gz \ samba-config.patch samba)

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[ANN] CRUX 2.4-rc1 available
by Tilman Sauerbeck 10 Dec '07

10 Dec '07

Hi, we have rolled the first release candidate of the upcoming CRUX 2.4 release. Preliminary release notes are available here: http://crux.nu/Main/ReleaseNotes2-4, the complete ChangeLog is available in gitweb: http://crux.nu/gitweb/?p=system/iso.git;a=blob_plain;f=ChangeLog;h=97f96aaf… and the ISO itself is available on our mirrors: http://crux.nu/Main/Download Please report problems if you find them :) Regards, Tilman -- A: Because it messes up 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 on usenet and in e-mail?

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