Re: basic debian question

2002-09-02 Thread Arie Folger
I wrote: How do you download the whole binary tree? In RH I simply downloaded the iso-images and then applied all subsequent upgrades. Debian seems to function differently; when I browsed an ftp mirror, I couldn't find the actual packages. Tzafrir Cohen: (ISO images are of the

Re: CLOSE_WAIT

2002-09-02 Thread Shachar Shemesh
I think you missed my later email stating that my first one was a mistake. I confused CLOSE_WAIT and TIME_WAIT. The later is unavoidable, the former is. When you ask an application to shut down a socket, it sends a FIN out, and enters FIN_WAIT1. When that FIN is acknoledged, the socket

Re: CLOSE_WAIT

2002-09-02 Thread LS
Everybody on the Net keeps telling me that they are nessessary. I have a client/server utility, both sides are at my control. It works for some two-three weeks and then computer flooded with CLOSE_WAITS, I can not open more sockets and have to restart application (or reboot computer). I'm using

RE: [OT] Looking for jobs

2002-09-02 Thread Iftach Hyams
Though it's a pretty stiff penalty for Iftach... yes, It is. +--- Please ignore the following Crap: | V This e-mail message has been sent by Elbit Systems Ltd. and is for the use of the intended recipients only. The message may contain privileged or confidential information . If you are

Re: CLOSE_WAIT

2002-09-02 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Everybody on the Net keeps telling me that they are nessessary. I have a client/server utility, both sides are at my control. It works for some two-three weeks and then computer flooded with CLOSE_WAITS, I can not open more sockets and have to restart application (or reboot computer). I'm

KDE location [was Re: basic debian question]

2002-09-02 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Arie Folger wrote: Tzafrir Cohen wrote: /opt and /usr/local are the same: not part of the formal system, and intended for extra packages. Although debian places some a few config files in /usr/local But quite some flamers are upset at RH for putting everything in

Re: CLOSE_WAIT

2002-09-02 Thread Michael Sternberg
On 02 Sep 2002 11:07:55 +0300 Gilad Ben-Yossef [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw this once and it turned out to be a faulty web load balancer. Could it be that you have some firewall or similar in the way? COuld it be that someone is either attacking your server, or using your IP in a

Fwd: Re: KDE location [was Re: basic debian question]

2002-09-02 Thread voguemaster
--- Start of forwarded message --- From: voguemaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Jurassic Park Subject: Fwd: Re: KDE location [was Re: basic debian question] Date: 02/09/02 11:29:35 What really annoys me about /usr/bin

Re: CLOSE_WAIT

2002-09-02 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On the client, do everything as usual, using close to shut down the socket. On the server, when read returns zero, go back to handling the next connection. Don't call close or shutdown on the socket. If you call shutdown but not close, you should get the same behaviour with CLOSED instead of

Re: CLOSE_WAIT

2002-09-02 Thread Guy Cohen
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 11:16:06AM +0300, Michael Sternberg wrote: On 02 Sep 2002 11:07:55 +0300 Gilad Ben-Yossef [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still did not got answer from anybody on how to create this situation. I mean how to write a faulty client/server application suite that will leave

Fwd: Re: KDE location [was Re: basic debian question]

2002-09-02 Thread voguemaster
--- Start of forwarded message --- From: voguemaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Jurassic Park Subject: Fwd: Re: KDE location [was Re: basic debian question] Date: 02/09/02 11:56:17 But they are spread all over the

Re: KDE location [was Re: basic debian question]

2002-09-02 Thread voguemaster
gcc has its own built-in include and libs parameters (set at compile time), right? I don't know about that. When you configure gcc before compilation you usually set the installation location, library dirs if you want'em changed, other compile options etc.. I don't know enough because I've

Re: basic debian question

2002-09-02 Thread shaulka
I wrote: How do you download the whole binary tree? In RH I simply downloaded the iso-images and then applied all subsequent upgrades. Debian seems to function differently; when I browsed an ftp mirror, I couldn't find the actual packages. Tzafrir Cohen: (ISO images are of the

Re: [OT] Looking for jobs

2002-09-02 Thread Cedar Cox
Are we the intended recipient ? intended recipient is stricly the person who is listed in the To: field. Then why not send messages To: All Humanity [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? I think this covers most who will read the message, through email or however the archives are viewed.

Re: KDE location [was Re: basic debian question]

2002-09-02 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 12:16:28PM +0200, voguemaster wrote: gcc has its own built-in include and libs parameters (set at compile time), right? I don't know about that. When you configure gcc before compilation you usually set the installation location, library dirs if you want'em

Re: KDE location [was Re: basic debian question]

2002-09-02 Thread voguemaster
inside the top gcc source directory, mkdir somedir cd somedir ../configure --prefix=/usr/local/some/directory/for/this/gcc make install Then, put /usr/local/some/directory/for/this/gcc/bin in the beginning of your path. For c++ programs you will also want to put

Re: KDE location [was Re: basic debian question]

2002-09-02 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 12:53:53PM +0300, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 12:16:28PM +0200, voguemaster wrote: gcc has its own built-in include and libs parameters (set at compile time), right? I don't know about that. When you configure gcc before compilation

Re: KDE location [was Re: basic debian question]

2002-09-02 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 12:57:55PM +0200, voguemaster wrote: inside the top gcc source directory, mkdir somedir cd somedir ../configure --prefix=/usr/local/some/directory/for/this/gcc make install Then, put /usr/local/some/directory/for/this/gcc/bin in the beginning of your path. For

Re: [OT] Looking for jobs

2002-09-02 Thread Amir Tal
On Monday 02 September 2002 12:45, Cedar Cox wrote: Are we the intended recipient ? intended recipient is stricly the person who is listed in the To: field. Then why not send messages To: All Humanity [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? I think this covers most who will read the message, through

Re: [OT] Looking for jobs

2002-09-02 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 12:45, Cedar Cox wrote: Are we the intended recipient ? intended recipient is stricly the person who is listed in the To: field. Then why not send messages To: All Humanity [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? I think this covers most who will read the message, through

Re: [OT] Looking for jobs

2002-09-02 Thread Uri Bruck
On 2 Sep 2002, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: IANAL, but IIRC US courts have come to a bizarre conclusion that people do not expect the same level of privacy in their electronic communications (such as email) as in their conventional communications (such as regular mail). This is one of the

Re: [OT] Looking for jobs

2002-09-02 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Uri Bruck wrote: This is a matter of who owns the resources. It's no different than posing limitations on private phone calls on the office phones, or on company time. When an employer provides an employee with an email account due to the fact that this person is an employee, then this

Re: [OT] Looking for jobs

2002-09-02 Thread Uri Bruck
On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: So in the U.S. your employer can legaly tap your phone, read your email, etc, in fact mine does. It's a well stated company policy. Surely you don't mean your home phone. The wage-slavery system can only go so far. -- Thanks, Uri

internet, internal ftp dependency

2002-09-02 Thread Tal Achituv
Title: Message Hi! This is the setup: machine 1: windo*s XP 2 NICs, 1) Cable Internet 2) Local Network (nat-ing #1) machine 2: RedHat 7.3, xinetd.d modified to enable telnet wu-ftpd..., 2 NICs 1) Local Network (using dhcp) 2) manually configured and not connected to anything (in nead

Re: internet, internal ftp dependency

2002-09-02 Thread voguemaster
Hmm, i just gave a reply similar to this one in Tapuz's forum. Look, wu-ftp is problematic. It insists on performing DNS queries for the client at login time, but fails to act whenever it isn't needed. I'm assuming your linux box has it's DNS servers configured in it's resolv.conf file. See,

Re: internet, internal ftp dependency

2002-09-02 Thread erez
try running tcpdump to see the dns requests erez. Tal Achituv wrote: Hi! This is the setup: machine 1: windo*s XP 2 NICs, 1) Cable Internet 2) Local Network (nat-ing #1) machine 2: RedHat 7.3, xinetd.d modified to enable telnet wu-ftpd..., 2 NICs 1) Local Network

Re: internet, internal ftp dependency

2002-09-02 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, voguemaster wrote: 1. Install a DNS server internally to handle those times where you are off the internet (and place that as the first server in your resolv.conf) 2. Use a script to replace the resolv.conf file with a backup when you disconnect. This is the easiest

Re: BiDi directionality control for Mozilla

2002-09-02 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Hi, I don't like the idea of RLE..PDF to force paragraph direction, and it is WRONG, the Unicode BiDi Algorithm is so that puttinjg a RLE at the beginning does not set the paragraph direction to right to left, because the RLE and LRE marks are not strong characters, so the only and logical

ip-masq on an SMP kernel

2002-09-02 Thread Tal Achituv
Title: Message Hi there, Thanks for all the answers on wu-ftpd, (btw: why would it try to resolve localhost!!!??? damn) a new and 'better' question: I am running R.H. 7.3 with 2.4.18-3smp, to my knowledge iptables is not compatible with this kernel, (right?) what are the implication

Re: ip-masq on an SMP kernel

2002-09-02 Thread Guy Cohen
usually I'd do it my self and spawn you with the answer, but I'm feeling lazy today so: http://www.google.com On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 04:09:52PM +0200, Tal Achituv wrote: Hi there, Thanks for all the answers on wu-ftpd, (btw: why would it try to resolve localhost!!!??? damn) a new and

Re: internet, internal ftp dependency

2002-09-02 Thread voguemaster
hat automatically somehow, who knows... 3. Manually (or by scripts) create a hosts file (/etc/hosts) with the addresses of all the relevant internal machines Should be enough for a two-computers network You know, I've tried that when I had the same problem. For some reason it doesn't

Re: ip-masq on an SMP kernel

2002-09-02 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Tal Achituv wrote: Hi there, Thanks for all the answers on wu-ftpd, (btw: why would it try to resolve localhost!!!??? damn) localhost should be in /etc/hosts a new and 'better' question: I am running R.H. 7.3 with 2.4.18-3smp, to my knowledge iptables is not

kab + dbms?

2002-09-02 Thread Arie Folger
Hi, I have a set of flat files which once upon a time were an access database. Once I migrated to Linux, I slowly turned it into a mysql database, and did elementary database management using kmysql. Kmysql is no longer maintained, IIRC (last update in January 2001), and its form feature was

Re: basic debian question

2002-09-02 Thread Arie Folger
On Monday 02 September 2002 05:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you insists on the ISOs search for jidgo. You can search for it in www.debian.org. URLs were also posted here a few weeks ago. I believe you could find them in the list archive. Here it is, thanks:

Re: Aligning Several HTML Forms in a table

2002-09-02 Thread Uri Bruck
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Shlomi Fish wrote: Because I want all of them aligned. Something like: [Entry1][Button1] [Entry2][Button2] [Entry3][Button3] [Entry4][Button4] Why use XHTML ? I want the HTML to be standards-compliant. Off the

question about a gateway, fax..

2002-09-02 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, It looks like my old Pentium 350 is going to die soon (the system turns on and off the hard drive every few hours and it's not the power cables) so I'm thinking about buying some very-cheap replacement machine.. I thought about buying one of those no-name OEM boards with the slowest

RE: question about a gateway, fax..

2002-09-02 Thread Tal Achituv
...I thought about buying one of those no-name OEM boards with the slowest processor available, minimum RAM... ...an ISA Fax Modem inside which I thought originally to use as a fax gateway... Any suggestions from people? A) wouldn't a 486 be good enough as a Linux fax server? (I guess your

Re: question about a gateway, fax..

2002-09-02 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
A) wouldn't a 486 be good enough as a Linux fax server? (I guess your problem is there are no ISA slots on today's boards) Yes, but 486 got more chances if being broken, really depends on your luck (I had to replace four 486 boards few years ago in a period of 8 months) B) you could buy a

RE: question about a gateway, fax..

2002-09-02 Thread Tal Achituv
...an ISA Fax Modem inside which I thought originally to use as a fax gateway... Any suggestions from people? I think a real good solution to all of these sort of problems would be to use an external modem... I think I can find an external modem somewhere under all this junk... Tal.

Re: basic debian question

2002-09-02 Thread shaulka
Where can I find a mirror? I drilled down ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/debian... and couldn't find actual debs. Arie Folger For a deb with g as the first letter of its name, say galeon, you might try ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/debian/pool/main/g/galeon However if you know what the prefix

Re: basic debian question

2002-09-02 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, 3 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where can I find a mirror? I drilled down ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/debian... and couldn't find actual debs. Arie Folger For a deb with g as the first letter of its name, say galeon, you might try

Re: question about a gateway, fax..

2002-09-02 Thread shaulka
On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 01:04:22AM +0300, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: A) wouldn't a 486 be good enough as a Linux fax server? (I guess your problem is there are no ISA slots on today's boards) Yes, but 486 got more chances if being broken, really depends on your luck (I had to replace four 486

Re: basic debian question

2002-09-02 Thread Arie Folger
On Monday 02 September 2002 19:08, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: There is no point downloading the whole pool. It includes a couple of gigs of packages (10? 15? 20?): It holds packages for all the debian branches. It also holds all the sources. Why do you want to download the debs? Do you know