Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 04:35:47 -0600 From: Zach Heilig <zach@gaffaneys.com> To: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>, Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tripwire was Re: append-only devices for logging Message-ID: <19981213043547.A2734@znh.org> In-Reply-To: <19981212163532.A26497@weathership.homeport.org>; from Adam Shostack on Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 04:35:32PM -0500 References: <199812120549.VAA18425@hub.freebsd.org> <Pine.SUN.3.96.981211224050.15866A-100000@roble.com> <19981212163532.A26497@weathership.homeport.org>
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On Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 04:35:32PM -0500, Adam Shostack wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 10:46:51PM -0800, Roger Marquis wrote: > | Except when the floppy has bad sectors, and a large percent of floppys > | do, and sends the drive into an I/O loop that can't be fixed w/o a > | reboot. > It seems to me that thats a bug that ought to be fixed, that a bad > floppy can require a reboot. Everytime I've had problems with bad floppies, just replacing it in the drive with a good one allowed FreeBSD to get on with "life". [Keep an empty good floppy or two handy, or use some other removable media...]. Actually FreeBSD chokes on any "bad" media. I just tried to mount the unfixed zip 'tools' disk, and FreeBSD panic'ed [somewhere deep inside msdosfs -- something about an invalid disk structure -- I didn't keep notes, and didn't let it finish dumping core]. (each 'tools' disk comes formatted for both mac and pc, when you "fix" it, the disk becomes either a PC or a MAC format disk) -- Zach Heilig (zach@gaffaneys.com) Our one strength was that our senior officers were more flexible than theirs... How's that? We can customize our colonels. [ Illiad in User Friendly, Dec. 1, 1998 ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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