path problems

2003-09-10 Thread avraham.rosenberg
Hi, I am using Debian 30r1 both at home and at work. In both cases the system was installed from a CDROM copy bought from Lior. At home, because the computer is not connected directly to the internet and at work because I am behind a firewall and it took me some time to find out the name of the

Re: path problems

2003-09-10 Thread Oded Arbel
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 09:58, avraham.rosenberg wrote: A rapid check showed that all sbin directories have disappeared from my root path. A rapid fix was to add them manually, and insert this line also in the .bash_profile of the root. But I would like to find out where the init

Re: CPU load load average

2003-09-10 Thread Oded Arbel
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 10:45, Alex Shnitman wrote: And in any case, I'd really like to understand how it's possible to have very light CPU load and a high load average. If I understand correctly, the latter is the average of the number of processes ready to run at any given moment. In

Re: CPU load load average

2003-09-10 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 11:15:35AM +0300, Oded Arbel wrote: On Wednesday 10 September 2003 10:45, Alex Shnitman wrote: The load average is the load on the system including IO, which you can't see in procps. I have the same problem, but with network streams as well, and the main problems

Re: path problems

2003-09-10 Thread Lior Kaplan
Hi Avraham, 1. How did you installed to offline packages? using dpkg or apt-get? Did you create your repository localy? 2. I checked the MD5 sum of the iso file from which I burned the cds. It's indentical to the one at http://mirrors.sunsite.dk/debian-cd/images/3.0_r1/i386/MD5SUMS

RE: CPU load load average

2003-09-10 Thread Tzahi Fadida
I am just guessing, but you seemed to have answered your own question. if it wasn't dma then the cpu would have spiked but because it is, that means the dma controller is doing all the work leaving the cpu free to do some calculation. but, its not the whole deal. the unresponsiveness could be

DTP Passepartout and PostScript

2003-09-10 Thread dittigas
Can anyone here have a look at this? I guess you know more than me about PostScript. What is the situation with post-script and RTL? Is the guy correct (see attachment), I taught that it was possible to have RTL text in postscript files, or is the problem elsewhere in this case? Also, will

Postfix e-mail filter - looking for information

2003-09-10 Thread Yaacov Fenster - System Engineering Troubleshooting and other miracles
Does anyone know where one could find detailed information about writing a mail filter for Postfix ? Thanks in advance Yaacov = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body,

Re: path problems

2003-09-10 Thread avraham.rosenberg
First, thanks to all those who answered. Now, specifically to Lior: I'll answer in reverse order: 4- Are you certain that the root path is undefined unless one define it in the /root/.profile file? I am pretty sure it is devined, or built gradually in the phases of the init process. I cannot swear

Call for votes - vote for your favourite OpenOffice issue

2003-09-10 Thread linux-il
Hello, I've just noticed that it's possible to vote for your favourite issues at the OpenOffice.org issues database and wanted to point this option out to others, so issues we are more concerned with might get ahead in the queue. (I'm writing this because only today I noticed that voting is

Re: Postfix e-mail filter - looking for information

2003-09-10 Thread Sagi Bashari
On 10/09/2003 17:49, Yaacov Fenster - System Engineering Troubleshooting and other miracles wrote: Does anyone know where one could find detailed information about writing a mail filter for Postfix ? See http://www.securitysage.com/guides/postfix_uce.html They have some great filters there,

Re: Postfix e-mail filter - looking for information

2003-09-10 Thread Gil Freund
Yaacov Fenster - System Engineering Troubleshooting and other miracles wrote: Does anyone know where one could find detailed information about writing a mail filter for Postfix ? Thanks in advance Yaacov = To unsubscribe,

Re: path problems

2003-09-10 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
avraham.rosenberg wrote on 2003-09-10: 4- Are you certain that the root path is undefined unless one define it in the /root/.profile file? I am pretty sure it is devined, or built gradually in the phases of the init process. I cannot swear for debian, but I have a slackware 8.0 installation

Re: path problems

2003-09-10 Thread Lior Kaplan
Hi, 1. About the path - see for you self: homesrv:~# pwd /root homesrv:~# cat .profile # ~/.profile: executed by Bourne-compatible login shells. if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then . ~/.bashrc fi PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X 11 export PATH mesg n

Re: path problems

2003-09-10 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 09:58:55AM +0300, avraham.rosenberg wrote: Hi, I am using Debian 30r1 both at home and at work. In both cases the system was installed from a CDROM copy bought from Lior. At home, because the computer is not connected directly to the internet and at work because I am