more on hardware clock

[Jude DaShiell]

Hi Chuck, yes I've shut down successfully several times.  Interesting
since I'm using slackware 8.0.0 not 8.1.  It may be a fix to 8.0.0 that
made slackware 8.1 actually broke libsafe.



On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
> 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:).
>
> Libsafe is an evil device created by Osama Bin Ladin which is
> designed to bring down the most stable systems in the Western
> World!!! I am reporting it to John Ashcroft in the morning.
>
> You will find it in the "extra" directory of Slackware 8.1 and
> the description is actually very intriguing. It seems to do the
> same thing for ld-linux.so that vsound does for /dev/dsp -- it
> intercepts its invocations and attempts to plug a number of
> common security holes in lots of software related to buffer
> overruns and such. My warmest thanks to Jude who called it to our
> attention a week or so ago!!!
>
> Hey Jude, have you tried shutting your computer down yet? <smile>
>
> Chuck
>
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