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 > > > -- > The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (90% of Full) > So visit me at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
