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Vulnerability Assessment of a EAL 4 system - Forums Linux

Vulnerability Assessment of a EAL 4 system

Posted: 31 Oct 2006 03:42 PM PST

Neil Jones wrote: 

The Security Target should be available and this would be a good
starting point as this should tell you how the system meets the
Protection Profile to which it conforms. As a little aside I wouldn't
hold that much faith in an CC evaluation to 'prove' that a system is
secure. CC is criticised for focusing to heavily on paper work and
process and little on actually uncovering vulnerabilities.

What do I need to conserve power on my old Linux box?

Posted: 31 Oct 2006 01:12 PM PST

com wrote:
 

Hmmm... I use a 700VA UPS. It runs three computers, a pentium4, pentium3 and
a linksys NSLU2, an ethernet switch, a DSL ethernet modem... external USB
disk drive and only one monitor.

It very rarely gets above 50% load. When the monitor drops into standby it
runs at about 22% load. When all computers are compiling at once (they are
all running Gentoo) and the monitor is running the load is occasionally 55%
but usually 50%. When only the Pentium3 (router/firewall) is running power
use is down to 5%.

Computers aren't big power users. Refrigerators, toasters, ovens, AC are big
users.

I use Network UPS Tools (NUT) and knutclient as a graphical monitor of my
power use and status. Beaut display with cool dials! It also slips into the
kde system tray.

You should get yourself some decent UPS tools if you are interested in power
use.

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Regards,

Gregory.
"Ding-a-ding-dang,My Dang-a-long ling-long"

Two great HOWTO's

Posted: 31 Oct 2006 12:07 PM PST

On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 12:07 -0800, com wrote:
 

Here is my feedback: pathetic!

fc5 installation problem

Posted: 31 Oct 2006 03:21 AM PST

Michael Heiming wrote:
 
Yes, I have seen the announcements. In answer to the OP's questions, it
shouldn't be a problem of having the wrong processor. Mandriva has a
hardware database, and I am sure that Fedora will have one as well. I had
similar problems with the mouse under Mandriva 2007 beta, and once with
Ubuntu. I am running an Athlon, but that shouldn't make any difference.
Michael's suggestion seems to be the best.

Doug (Using Mandriva.)
Registered Linux user.
--
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes
an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
- C. S. Lewis

FC-6-i386-DVD.iso not recognized by vmlinuz

Posted: 30 Oct 2006 12:06 PM PST

Chris Miller wrote: 

init is not an installation program. It's the first process that starts
during system boot and sets up the system according to configuration
files. See:
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/From-PowerUp-To-Bash-Prompt-HOWTO.html especially
chapter 6.

The Red Hat/Fedora installation program is called Anaconda.
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda
Bugs should be reported in Red Hat Bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/

--
Markku Kolkka
fi

LVM problems

Posted: 30 Oct 2006 08:06 AM PST

A lvchange -ay /dev/mediaLVM/vol1 did it.

I think problem could be that I work without initrd. When fstab entries are
mounted, USB devices are not ready. LVM is not active without USB HDDs and
fstab can't mount the LVM.


Thomas

glibc upgrade issue

Posted: 30 Oct 2006 04:22 AM PST

Jean-David Beyer wrote:
 
I haven't either, but this may be the first time. I wouldn't want to use
the old gcc generally.

Previously, the problem has been that ViaVoice can't find an old version of
gcc. One solution was to create a special directory tree as almost a
chroot jail, but we couldn't keep ViaVoice inside it. As soon as Xvoice
called it, it was back in the present-day world.

Doug.
--
I am a part of all that I have met.
- Lord Tennyson, "Ulysses."

Newsgroup access by Kubuntu

Posted: 29 Oct 2006 08:27 AM PST

In comp.os.linux.setup Doug <rr.com>: 

[ Looking for Linux nntp reader ]
 
 
 

LOL

[..]
 
 

Indeed, those acronyms save lots of typing. ;-)
[..]

 

Yep, actually you seem to have this quote fix patch installed, so
there is hope...;-)
[..]

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how to use two monitors with two Video card on Linux box?

Posted: 29 Oct 2006 01:54 AM PDT

"somez72" <com> writes:
 

Hi.
 

OK.
 

It is not entirely clear what you want to do. I can think of three
scenarios.

1. You do not use X, and you want to have two monitors, and you
can login at either of them. I am not sure how to do this.

2. You do run X, and you want to have two entirely separate X
running on each monitor. For this, you need two keyboards/mice.

3. You want to run only on instance of X, but you want it to span
both monitors.

What do you want? I suspect #3.
 

If #3, then look for the "Xinerama" extension on X. Very likely
it is part of the default install. You just need to enable it
and to tweak your x-config file.
 

Depends which scenario you want.
 

Then you most likely want to use #3. Go to http://www.tldp.org, then
choose "HOWTO", then select your preferred format, then search for
"Xinerama".
 

You too.

Vilmos

Shutting down running programs

Posted: 28 Oct 2006 09:37 PM PDT

Doug wrote: 
No, you are off to command line hell. Or heavben, depending on your POV.

Any way to disable automatic SMP?

Posted: 28 Oct 2006 07:52 PM PDT

In comp.os.linux.setup Jean-David Beyer <net>: 
 
 
 
 
^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 
 

Indeed but I didn't meant the X font server at all:

$ /sbin/modinfo xfs
author: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
description: SGI XFS with ACLs, realtime, no debug enabled
license: GPL
vermagic: 2.6.18-mh mod_unload K7 gcc-3.2
[..]
 

Only heard it would be out. Can't comment, but we'll see if it
works as great as FC 5, after a few updates and adding some yum
repros, does.

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leak, and we are waiting for them to be topped up.