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Mac OS X and Arch: guid and suid bits

From Alex K:

After spending about 3 hours looking into it, compiling half the gnu tools from scratch I finally fixed arch on my machine. After I compiled the latest version of tar I noticed that rather then giving an error it simply said 'permission denied'. Doing some more googling it seems that the latest security update for Panther has disallowed the user from setting the setgid bit. It's the only UNIX to do this and the move was praised in some security researcher's blog. By simply

sudo tla replay

the problem was resolved.

Arghhhh!

sudo'ing the replay command broke all the tla commands for the normal user but chowning the {arch} directory back to alexk seems to have fixed everything.

10:23 PM, 04 Jun 2005 by Jade Rubick Permalink | Comments (0)

Startup issues with Fedora Core 3 and HP Pavilion zd8000

A very annoying thing about my Fedora Core 3 (2.6.11-1.27_FC3smp kernel) startup on my HP Pavilion zd8000 laptop: about 50% of the time, and often much more than that, the startup will freeze at:

Starting udev:
Initializing hardware... storage network audio

Sometimes it freezes there, sometimes it doesn't. Right now, I am restarting over and over and it isn't coming up. Annoying.

03:24 PM, 04 Jun 2005 by Jade Rubick Permalink | Comments (0)

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