Jornal Semanal Gentoo: 26 de Maio de 2003
Falhas de hardware no espelho Oregon State Na sexta feira, o servidor que hospeda o gentoo.oregonstate.edu sofreu duas falhas nos discos rigidos de seu RAID 5 array, uma das quais infelizmente era o de reserva. Isto causou uma série de problemas, incluindo um grande número de arquivos corrompidos e más informações. Nós estamos atualmente trabalhando com o pessoal da OSU para resolver os problemas, tanto em curto prazo como a longo prazo. Isto significa que os usuários estão convidados a usar um espelho alternativo até que o problema seja corrigido. Gentoo Linux esta procurando por desenvolvedores para a equipe GNOME A equipde do Gentoo GNOME Desktop esta procurando por desenvolvedores para ajudar a resolver falhas e manter todos os ebuilds relacionados com o GNOME Desktop atualizado no limite do desenvolvimento. Nós estamos procurando por desenvolvedores dedicados, de preferência com experiência em desenvolver para GNOME/GTK, alguma experiência em criar ebuilds e capacidade comprovada de resolver problemas. Um "a mais" é a experiência na área de acessibilidade, possivelmente em combinação com o GNOME. Principalmente, estamos procurando alguém que esteja de acordo com a filosofia de desenvolvimento do GNOME. Se você imagina que esta nestas condições e pode nos ajudar, por favor, envie um curriculo resumido para Marinus Schraal, explique porque você que fazer parte da equipe, inclua referências de trabalho que já tenha feito com software livre e nos envie o seu email bugzilla, se possível. The lv file viewer reads a configuration file from the current directory. This could permit a malicious user to insert commands that would be executed by lv on viewing a particular file.
cdrecord contains a format string vulnerability that could permit the execution of arbitrary code.
The xinet daemon contains a memory leak associated with rejecting connections.
The Unreal Tournament game demo has a bug in how it handles spoofed negative index values. This could permit a denial of service attack on the client.
Anúncio de novos bugs de segurança Os seguintes novos bugs de segurança foram postados esta semana: Mathy e lanzone.be
Mathy Vanvoorden da Bélgica, organiza LAN parties junto com o seu irmão e algumas outras pessoas. Ele é o webmaster do lanzone.be (onde le também faz algum código HTML e PHP) e politics.be. Algumas semanas atrás a equipe LANzone decidiu mudar todos os seus servidores de jogos para Gentoo Linux (exeto Delta Force Land Warrior, que só pode ser executado em Windows) e agora vamos aprender alguns truques envolvidos: Avoiding backaches All of Mathy's gameservers are thin clients which boot from a Dual Pentium III. This setup has many benefits over regular servers. Firstly they don't need any hard drives, which saves money and leads to lighter servers which is really nice for the backs of the people carrying them. :-) But the greatest advantage is the easiness of hooking up a new game server: just plug in two network cards, set the MAC adress in dhcpd so the machine gets a static IP adress, copy a base directory and have fun! Details on the thin clients The setup used by Mathy and his friends is slightly based on the Linux Terminal Server Project but evolved beyond that. Although they are using the project's kernel patch, the initrd script has already been modified and lots of changes were made to the Gentoo Linux init scripts (e.g. removing dependencies so that init wouldn't try to fsck mounted NFS systems). Using these thin clients is very easy: they are connected to the main server using a 100 MBit switch and boot from a floppy (although the LANzone guys are thinking about buying network cards with boot roms so they can get rid of the disk drives which would be even better for their backs ;-). After booting they just present a regular login. Based on which user one enters a gameserver will be started. This is accomplished by replacing the login shells with a script that starts up the server. So for example login in using the UID 'ut2k3instadm' will bring up an UT 2003 Instagib deathmatch server. Final words Many other small adaptations had to been done for specific gameservers, but this would go to far to be covered here. As a last note, LANzone also uses Gentoo Linux for the 0.5 Terabyte FTP server (running ProFTPD) and the router (using iptables and Squid to limit incoming traffic to 5 kB/s per user), although Mathy's thinking about switching the router to a BSD because he heard that they handle traffic shaping better than Linux and he's curious about trying it out. Gnome 2.3.2 Forum veteran Lovechild started a thread announcing the ebuild he concocted mere minutes after the new Gnome version was published, and ever since then the band of Gnome fanatics in the forums has been merrily patching and tweaking it to almost stable use. Get carried away by the enthusiasm in this thread: When Portage Chokes You'd expect critical alerts on bugs.gentoo.org or the mailing lists first, but whenever something affects a large number of people, many of them look to the Forums as the main emergency alert mechanism. Last week, Oregon State University's rsync server had temporary trouble that immediately got spotted by a lot of users. Check the sticky thread for an instant workaround in cases like this: Gentoo Poland Established Their URL points to more than just Poland as a base, but it's essentially for their compatriots here and there and everywhere that the Polish Gentooists busied themselves with setting up a complete Gentoo Poland framework. Started by a handful of activists a few weeks ago, the #gentoo-pl IRC channel on irc.freenode.net is now quite popular, and the very well organized website has made great progress in providing translations of the Gentoo documentation, a forum of their own, and many other features. And to round it all up, the group around Jaroslaw Swierad is currently bringing together enough translators to work on a Polish version of the Jornal Semanal Gentoo, too. German Gentoo Usermeeting Planning A small group of Gentoo Linux users, led by Gentoo developer Sascha Schwabbauer and Gentoo Linux user Tilman Klar, have started an effort to put together a German Gentoo Usermeeting. As part of the effort, Sascha has put up a web page that asks German Gentoo Linux users where they live. The responses to this survey will determine where the meeting will be physically held. Anyone interested in attending is invited to input their location using the above form. Additional details about the German Gentoo Linux Usermeeting will be made available in future editions of the GWN. The following stable packages were updated or added to portage this week
Total categories: 82 Total packages: 4428 (32 new packages added this week). The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org) to record and track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the development team. In the last 7 days, activity on the site has resulted in:
There are currently 3056 bugs open in Bugzilla. Of these: 44 are labeled 'blocker', 111 are labeled 'critical', and 242 are labeled 'major'. The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs this week are:
The developers and teams who have been assigned the most novos bugs this week are:
Blocking Spam with bogofilter While we've already had one tip on blocking spam with SpamAssassin, this week we look at another way to block spam using bogofilter (available in portage), crontab and Evolution. This example uses MH style mailboxes but could be extended to other types as well. This week's tip was submitted by John Mylchreest. You will need bogofilter and a mail client that reads MH style mailboxes such as mutt or Evolution.
Create a folder called SPAM and mark it as MH format. Additionally, mark Inbox as MH format. Add a filter for incoming mail that pipes to a shell command. The shell command should be /usr/bin/bogofilter. Set the return condition to 0 and set the action as "Move to Folder SPAM". Add another action to this filter called "Stop Processing". Create another filter than runs after the first one. This filter should have two criteria. The first is that Size should be greater than 0. The second is another external pipe; this time to /usr/bin/bogofilter -Sn (notice the -Sn). The -Sn option tells bogofilter to register the text as non-spam and to undo any prior registrations of the message as spam. The last step is to set up a crontab to evaluate spam messages. Add the following to your crontab with crontab -e.
9. Quote/Signature of the week Old but still good: "There are 10 types of people in the world; those who understand binary, and those who don't". (Signature of forums user ssjf) The following developers recently left the Gentoo team:
The following developers recently joined the Gentoo Linux team:
The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo Linux project.
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