From owner-freebsd-security Sun Dec 13 02:37:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA10795 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 02:37:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from k6n1.znh.org (dialup8.gaffaneys.com [208.155.161.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA10784 for ; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 02:37:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from zach@gaffaneys.com) Received: (from zach@localhost) by k6n1.znh.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) id KAA02884; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 10:35:48 GMT (envelope-from zach) Message-ID: <19981213043547.A2734@znh.org> Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 04:35:47 -0600 From: Zach Heilig To: Adam Shostack , Roger Marquis , security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tripwire was Re: append-only devices for logging References: <199812120549.VAA18425@hub.freebsd.org> <19981212163532.A26497@weathership.homeport.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <19981212163532.A26497@weathership.homeport.org>; from Adam Shostack on Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 04:35:32PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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