more on hardware clock

[Jude DaShiell]

Unfortunately, I did install libsafe.  What it is supposed to protect
against is frame smashing attacks on your system that viruses can do.



On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Steve Holmes wrote:

> Tell me, just what the hell is libsafe and what is it good for?  Based
> on Chuck's experience, I don't think I will be doin' libsafe any time soon:).
>
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 03:59:57PM -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> > Hi Ari and all,
> >
> > I really blew it yesterday when I hastily deleted the residual
> > libsafe pieces that the Slackware "removepkg" did not get rid of.
> > It turns out that the damn thing had modified the linux dynamic
> > loader to invoke libsafe every time it was executed, and without
> > the libsafe component I threw away, the dynamic loader was
> > broken. Try doing ANYTHING on a Linux system with a broken
> > dynamic loader!!!
> >
> > Of course I made it worse in my panic and anger, and ended up
> > having to reinstall my root partition with a new base system and
> > then scrambling to get my /usr and /home partitions back on
> > board.
> >
> > I guess it pays to be more cautious, but I was really on a roll
> > with putting new stuff on this box and added libsafe hastily.
> >
> > I appreciate everybody's help with this.
> >
> > Chuck
> >
> >
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