Slackware

FYI: Kernel 2.6.33.3 is released (at kernel.org)
This kernel reportedly fixes some XFS filesystem deadlock bugs. I personally ran into deadlocks on 2.6.33.2, which made that version unreliable for me. BTW, I was testing with XFS on a loopback file when I ran into this bug. Anyway, my advice is to skip over 2.6.33.2 now that a new patch is available. YMMV. ... 5 May 2010 02:47

Slackware 13 aren't booting on VMWare
Hello all! I'm having a trouble on testing Slackware 13 on a virtual machine. I tried all the voodoo I know using kernel parameters to fix something which may be wrong, but I'm unsuccessful. I have never used Slackware 13, and I want to test it on a VM before upgrading my 12.2 to it, so I want to know if Slackwa... 28 Apr 2010 11:41

hostname question
I'm using Slack 12.0 as a firewall/router/mail relay for my home LAN. Time Warner is the ISP and I have Sendmail set to send via their SMTP server. It works ok from clients on the LAN, but I have trouble with emails sent by the system (for example, Asterisk voicemail notices) not getting sent because the "sender do... 27 Apr 2010 20:11

Alt.OS.Linux.Slackware FAQ pointer
Posted-By: auto-faq 3.3.1 (Perl 5.010) Archive-name: aolsfaq Current-maintainer: aolsfaq-maintainer(a)therockgarden.ca FAQ last updated: Fri Dec 4 01:11:57 EST 2009 This is a periodic pointer to the Frequently-Asked Questions list (FAQ) for the alt.os.linux.slackware newsgroup. The FAQ which may be frequent... 23 Apr 2010 20:34

How to update boot USB disk.
Hi, installing Slackware 13.0, I make the USB boot disk as proposed by the stantard setup program. Then, I upgraded the kernel and I would update the recovery USB boot disk, but makebootdisk ask me for the floppy not for the USB flash disk. Is there an equivalent program o method to do the boot disk on USB ... 24 Apr 2010 16:07

Slackware reference
Rather old but I saw a reference to a "security hole" in slack... http://xkcd.com/424/ Or did someone post on this at the time it came out? Pete -- http://www.petezilla.co.uk ... 23 Apr 2010 20:34

Installing without the Slackware setup script
I installed Slackware 13, actually Slackware-current without using the setup script and I think it may have resulted in a broken install. Basically everything seems to work, but I'm having trouble with USB devices. Some usb storage devices work and are auto mounted, but some are detected and show up with lsusb but... 23 Apr 2010 20:34

Slackware reference
Peter Chant wrote: Rather old but I saw a reference to a "security hole" in slack... http://xkcd.com/424/ �mellon� .... joost(a)slack:~ $ rm -rf / rm: cannot remove /: Permission denied seems to have been fixed. -- Joost Kremers joostkremers(a)yahoo.com Sel... 23 Apr 2010 17:21

Installing without the Slackware setup script
On alt.os.linux.slackware, loc <c320sky(a)gmail.com> wrote: I installed Slackware 13, actually Slackware-current without using the setup script and I think it may have resulted in a broken install. Basically everything seems to work, but I'm having trouble with USB devices. Some usb storage devices work and ... 23 Apr 2010 17:21

iptables --state INVALID and HTTP
Seems like most firewalling documentation suggests DROP'ing all --state INVALID packets. eg., iptables -A INPUT -m state --state INVALID -j DROP so I hook that up with a -j LOG to see what it catches. About half of that is HTTP which otherwise seem legitimate. What am I missing ? I don't want to miss legi... 29 Apr 2010 06:44