Re: Israeli NTP server with support for Day Light Savings

2003-09-28 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Stanislav Malyshev wrote: But do other distributions keep the Israeli timezone up-to-date out of the box? I didn't know about the link above and didn't have to go AFAIK that's impossible to keep Israeli timezone up-to-date out of the box for a prolonged period of times - Israeli timezone

Re: mirror.hamakor.org.il/pub/mirrors/debian.

2003-09-28 Thread Shaul Karl
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 08:42:28AM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Shaul Karl wrote: It seemed to work fine for two weeks or so. Not any longer. Is there any specific reason why you are sending this to a public list rather than to the people who maintain the mirror? 1. I believe that

Re: Video-In/Video-out cards for Linux - is it for real?

2003-09-28 Thread linux-il
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 03:59:44AM +0300, Oded Arbel wrote: You can't go wrong with a BT powered card, but also check USB frame grabbers - Ah! I like the USB framegrabber idea. I like modular options. Thanks. --Amos = To

Re: mail origin verification

2003-09-28 Thread linux-il
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 04:33:11PM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: (I don't recall touching mod_proxy, can anyone show me what a virgin apache config file looks like?) apache installed from a deb? Does downloading the deb and extracting the default config files out of it don't work? Nope.

Problem with a dos program running from a samba share.

2003-09-28 Thread Amir Hardon
I'm having troubles with a DOS program running from a samba 3 share. When I close the program it tells: General failure reading drive F Abort, Retry, Fail? (F is a network drive mapped on the samba share) I have increased smbd debug level and after retrying I have this in the log: [2003/09/28

Re: mirror.hamakor.org.il/pub/mirrors/debian.

2003-09-28 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Shaul Karl wrote: On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 08:42:28AM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Shaul Karl wrote: It seemed to work fine for two weeks or so. Not any longer. Is there any specific reason why you are sending this to a public list rather than to the people who maintain the

Re: Networking my new home (or RJ45's vs. WiFi)

2003-09-28 Thread Oded Arbel
On Sunday 28 September 2003 08:40, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Ariel Biener wrote: On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Itay 'z9u2K' Duvdevani wrote: 4. is it secure? Depends on how you implement it. I think this needs clarification: It can be secure. All you have to do is install an IPSec VPN on all

Re: Networking my new home (or RJ45's vs. WiFi)

2003-09-28 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Oded Arbel wrote: Assuming we are talking about WiFi here ... I'm told its quite secure once you get it turned on. That depends on how secure you want to get. WEP (Wire Equivalent Privacy) is quite secure in the sense that it takes several minutes to crack. This applies to the 56bit as

Re: Networking my new home (or RJ45's vs. WiFi)

2003-09-28 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Shachar Shemesh wrote: It can be secure. All you have to do is install an IPSec VPN on all machines participating in the network, and not let anyone who is not VPN authenticated get to either your internal network *or the internet*! I am looking into the same thing as I have a guest comming

Re: Networking my new home (or RJ45's vs. WiFi)

2003-09-28 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: Shachar Shemesh wrote: It can be secure. All you have to do is install an IPSec VPN on all machines participating in the network, and not let anyone who is not VPN authenticated get to either your internal network *or the internet*! I am looking into the

Re: Networking my new home (or RJ45's vs. WiFi)

2003-09-28 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Shachar Shemesh wrote: How would that stop a spammer parked outside your house from sending spam? oops, I forgot to mention that the DHCP server would be set to only provide IP addresses to a known MAC address and the SMTP server would only allow incoming connections from the VPN. This also

Re: Networking my new home (or RJ45's vs. WiFi)

2003-09-28 Thread Ariel Biener
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote: How would that stop a spammer parked outside your house from sending spam? You are going to unneeded and plain useless extremes. Spammers will not travel around in cars with wireless detectors to send spam from their laptop via the poor man's

Wierd errors from kernel

2003-09-28 Thread Noam Meltzer
Hi, Recently I have been getting this wierd error from my kernel, after some time my machine is up: VM: killing process sh This is followed by not being able to run commands like ps, pptp, and others, and the way I found to solve it, is just to reboot. (bahhh, this is not windows) My first

Re: Networking my new home (or RJ45's vs. WiFi)

2003-09-28 Thread Ariel Biener
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Hi, This is eactly the reason why I answered `depends on the implementation'. There are a few ways to implement a wireless network, and there is a set of reasonable requirements for security @home, this set is different than the requirements

Re: Networking my new home (or RJ45's vs. WiFi)

2003-09-28 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Ariel Biener wrote: On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Hi, This is eactly the reason why I answered `depends on the implementation'. There are a few ways to implement a wireless network, and there is a set of reasonable requirements for security @home, this set is different than the

Re: Wierd errors from kernel

2003-09-28 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 04:20:08PM +0300, Noam Meltzer wrote: Hi, Recently I have been getting this wierd error from my kernel, after some time my machine is up: VM: killing process sh grepping the kernel sources shows this (in arch/i386/mm/fault.c): /* * We ran out of memory, or some

Re: Networking my new home (or RJ45's vs. WiFi)

2003-09-28 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Ariel Biener wrote: On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote: How would that stop a spammer parked outside your house from sending spam? You are going to unneeded and plain useless extremes. Spammers will not travel around in cars with wireless detectors to send spam from their laptop

Re: Networking my new home (or RJ45's vs. WiFi)

2003-09-28 Thread Ariel Biener
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote: I'm sorry, but apparently you are ill informed. Spammers do, as a matter of day to day matter, exploit Wifi to send anonymous email. The phenomena is mostly documented in the US at the moment, but you can never tell when it will make aliya. Exploit

Re: Networking my new home (or RJ45's vs. WiFi)

2003-09-28 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Ariel Biener wrote: On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote: I'm sorry, but apparently you are ill informed. Spammers do, as a matter of day to day matter, exploit Wifi to send anonymous email. The phenomena is mostly documented in the US at the moment, but you can never tell when it will

Re: Networking my new home (or RJ45's vs. WiFi)

2003-09-28 Thread Ariel Biener
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Key exchange? What key exchange? If WEP had key exchange, it wouldn't be so #$(%!$! broken. Well, maybe it would, who knows? In any case, WEP has no key exchange, which is part of the problem. Buy Cisco. Don't use WEP. -- Ariel Biener e-mail:

Re: Wierd errors from kernel

2003-09-28 Thread Noam Meltzer
On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 17:25, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 04:20:08PM +0300, Noam Meltzer wrote: Hi, Recently I have been getting this wierd error from my kernel, after some time my machine is up: VM: killing process sh grepping the kernel sources shows this (in

Re: Problem with a dos program running from a samba share.

2003-09-28 Thread Gil Freund
Amir Hardon wrote: I'm having troubles with a DOS program running from a samba 3 share. When I close the program it tells: General failure reading drive F Abort, Retry, Fail? (F is a network drive mapped on the samba share) I have increased smbd debug level and after retrying I have this in the

verifying mail signatures from the command line

2003-09-28 Thread Moshe Kaminsky
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, My mail client (mutt) signs mail messages with several parts by putting the pgp signature as a separate attachment. The mail client itself has no problem verifying the signature of such an email. However, when I try to verify the signature

Re: Problem with a dos program running from a samba share.

2003-09-28 Thread Amir Hardon
It's a file, I tried removing it, and the application created it again(as a file not a directory). This program was working on a samba 2.x (I don't remember the exact version) share. The server had a disk crash and I installed samba 3 and restored it from the last backup. On Sunday 28

Re: mirror.hamakor.org.il/pub/mirrors/debian.

2003-09-28 Thread Shaul Karl
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 12:15:42PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Shaul Karl wrote: On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 08:42:28AM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Shaul Karl wrote: It seemed to work fine for two weeks or so. Not any longer. Is there any specific reason why you are sending this to a

linux.org.il - help wanted

2003-09-28 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hi all, The domain servers still need to be updated. Once they are, however, linux.org.il is going to be pointing to a new, dedicated, site. This site is meant to be a portal allowing at-a-glance overview in Hebrew of all the Linux activity in Israel. That's where I need your help - I'm no

Re: verifying mail signatures from the command line

2003-09-28 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003, Moshe Kaminsky wrote about verifying mail signatures from the command line: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Strange, it appears that the mail you sent was *not* signed using a seperate attachment, but rather in a non-MIME way, so a simple gpg --verify should

Re: linux.org.il - help wanted

2003-09-28 Thread alon
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Hi all, The domain servers still need to be updated. Once they are, however, linux.org.il is going to be pointing to a new, dedicated, site. This site is meant to be a portal allowing at-a-glance overview in Hebrew of all the Linux activity in

Re: linux.org.il - help wanted

2003-09-28 Thread Diego Iastrubni
, 29 2003, 00:09,Shachar Shemesh: Hi all, The domain servers still need to be updated. Once they are, however, linux.org.il is going to be pointing to a new, dedicated, site. This site is meant to be a portal allowing at-a-glance overview in Hebrew of all the Linux activity in Israel.

Re: linux.org.il - help wanted

2003-09-28 Thread Shachar Shemesh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Comments: 1. MOST IMPORTANT: Change the encoding to ISO-8859-8-i or UTF-8, and use characters instead of entities (see the source). 2. Change all the text to links (ofcourse). 3. Make an automatic redirect to iglu.org.il for not found pages: (in Vhosts.conf)

RE: Networking my new home (or RJ45's vs. WiFi)

2003-09-28 Thread Tal, Shachar
There was a recent Ask Slashdot article about this exact topic, which I found very helpful (look at the +4/+5 comments). Shachar Tal Verint Systems -Original Message- From: Itay 'z9u2K' Duvdevani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2003 12:12 AM To: [EMAIL