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1999-12-20 Thread chen
Shouldn't we invite to them to give a lecture to ILUG ? Seriously guys, I think it a great idea! When is our next meeting? is there anyone out there who can arrange such a thing? are we willing to pay for the lecture? Chen.

Re: swap over 1 GB

1999-12-20 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
NOVM was a version of Squid 1.1 and was unified with the regular version in Squid 2.x. Ira Abramov wrote: squid has two versions, one of them, for REAL preofessional use is the one marked "NO VM", and it makes sense to have a cache server decide when to cache to memory and when to the disk

Re: SCO COURSES

1999-12-20 Thread Ira Abramov
On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Tal Fainberg wrote: Hi. I look for sco sys admin courses in Israel ? seeing that sco is looking more and more to assimilate and resemble Linux in the last 6 months, don't waste your money and study Linux instead (and I'm not only saying this to pull your question back

Problems installing S3 Trio3D graphics adaptor

1999-12-20 Thread ariev
Hi I run a RedHat 6.1 Machine with a S3 graphical card called Trio 3D, with a MAG 770T monitor. It took me some time to get any kind of graphical display but now it seems to work currently I use the generic SVGA X Server: [ariev@ariev ~]# ls -l /etc/X11/X lrwxrwxrwx 2 root root

SCO COURSES

1999-12-20 Thread Tal Fainberg
Hi. I look for sco sys admin courses in Israel ? Thanks, Tal = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: lilo/scsi

1999-12-20 Thread
Title: RE: lilo/scsi http://customer.support.redhat.com/rhoaprod/plsql/xxrh_know_pkg.srch2?p_id=192 Not sure this will help you, but this makes some order in LILO mess. -Original Message- From: Ben-Nes Michael [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: á 20 ãöîáø 1999 16:11 To: ILUG Subject:

Interface status detection

1999-12-20 Thread Muli B.Y.
I have written a small utility, ifup, which will tell you if any network interface is up or down (connected or disconnected). Now, what I really need is a way to get a notification when an interface changes its status. Is there any way to do this under linux? (Of course I can sleep() and

Re: Interface status detection

1999-12-20 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
"Muli B.Y." [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have written a small utility, ifup, which will tell you if any network interface is up or down (connected or disconnected). Can you explain what it does? I mean, is it a wrapper around ifconfig(8) or netstat(8) or something of the kind? Why is it

Re: Interface status detection

1999-12-20 Thread Muli B.Y.
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: "Muli B.Y." [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have written a small utility, ifup, which will tell you if any network interface is up or down (connected or disconnected). Can you explain what it does? I mean, is it a wrapper around ifconfig(8) or netstat(8) or

Re: Interface status detection

1999-12-20 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
"Muli B.Y." [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The minimal time resolution I'm talking about here is less than a second, and the optimal is instantaneous. What for? int main() { while (1) { sleep(1) do_some_quick_stuff(); } return 0; }

Re: Experience with 18G IDE HD

1999-12-20 Thread Mike Londarenko
On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 01:51:54AM +0200, Evgeny Stambulchik wrote: On 15-Dec-99 Eli Marmor wrote: As Gavrie noted, there is no difference between the technologies which should cause any difference in quality. The mechanics is similar. As far as performance is considered, it's not RPM

lilo/scsi

1999-12-20 Thread Ben-Nes Michael
Hi Lilo is not working with scsi :-( what should i do/read to solve this proble ? fdisk /dev/sda The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1115. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot

Re: lilo/scsi

1999-12-20 Thread Ariel Biener
On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Ben-Nes Michael wrote: It works fine for me, with 1024 cyls on a scsi (9gig) disk. --Ariel Hi Lilo is not working with scsi :-( what should i do/read to solve this proble ? fdisk /dev/sda The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1115. There is nothing

squid 2 stable1

1999-12-20 Thread Mike
Hi list. I just installed squid 2 stable (rpm) on my linux server. now, there is the record that tells squid where to put the cached objects. in this i have a little problem. here is what i wrote : cache_dir /proxy/cache 8000 128 1024 as i understand 8000 MB represent the total size of the cache

Re: Interface status detection

1999-12-20 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
Why don't you touch some file in the ip-up script, and have you program select on that file? I hope you don't use ethernet status as an indication of internet connection, since ethernet interfaces are usually up, whether you are connected to the rest of the internet or not. -- Matan Ziv-Av

Re: squid 2 stable1

1999-12-20 Thread Ariel Biener
On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Mike wrote: the 2nd and 3rd number and not 2nd/3rd level sizes. They are 1st level number of directories and 2nd level number of directories. Thus, 128 256 means you have 128 dirs 1st level, and each has 256 dirs in it. That is AFAIK. --Ariel Hi list. I just installed

Re: Interface status detection

1999-12-20 Thread Alex Shnitman
On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 10:05:16PM +0200, Matan Ziv-Av wrote: Why don't you touch some file in the ip-up script, and have you program select on that file? I hope you don't use ethernet status as an indication of internet connection, since ethernet interfaces are usually up, whether you are

Re: lilo/scsi

1999-12-20 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Ben-Nes Michael wrote: Lilo is not working with scsi :-( what should i do/read to solve this proble ? fdisk /dev/sda The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1115. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with:

Re[2]: Experience with 18G IDE HD

1999-12-20 Thread Evgeny Stambulchik
Mike Londarenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 01:51:54AM +0200, Evgeny Stambulchik wrote: As far as performance is considered, it's not RPM that usually matters (inspite of a big hype), but the amount of cache on disk. Until recently (1-2 years), the maximum

Re: Experience with 18G IDE HD

1999-12-20 Thread Mike Londarenko
On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 05:06:38PM +0200, Evgeny Stambulchik wrote: Mike Londarenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 01:51:54AM +0200, Evgeny Stambulchik wrote: As far as performance is considered, it's not RPM that usually matters (inspite of a big hype), but

Re[2]: Experience with 18G IDE HD

1999-12-20 Thread Evgeny Stambulchik
Mike Londarenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me repeat here again (uff...): the role of cache is NOT only in prefetching data; a more import one, especially in the multitasking/heavy-load enviroments is BUFFERING of data, allowing OS to communicate with inherintly slow devices at

Re: security

1999-12-20 Thread Omer Efraim
I'm pretty sure no new wuftpd bugs have been recently discovered. The last one is over two months old, and has made it into the RH errata page over 2 months ago. If my memory serves me right (it's running NT), the actual errata deals with 2 (or 3) vulnerabilities that were unmasked in quick

Re: Fw: Security vulnerability in certain wu-ftpd (and derivitives) configurations (fwd)

1999-12-20 Thread Omer Efraim
I follow bugtraq as well, and... It's not a wu-ftpd vulnerability, it's a mis-configuration issue. Most sites do not allow anonymous ftp. Further more, secure sites would obviously not allow file conversions (although some large ones still do, but then again, they probably use ncftpd which

security

1999-12-20 Thread Moran
hey, i saw while ago you all was very worried about little security hole in the 2.0.x versions of kernel. today i donno what happend but i counter till now 10 reports of new security problems on unix and linux systems. the thing that frick is you or any user can execute files you upload

Re: Interface status detection

1999-12-20 Thread Nimrod Mesika
Alex Shnitman wrote: As to your first suggestion, maybe there's even a better way -- have licq install signal handlers for e.g. SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2, switching it online in the former and offline in the latter, and then have the ip-up script killall -USR1 licq and the ip-down script killall

Re: Interface status detection

1999-12-20 Thread Alex Shnitman
On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 11:47:14PM +0200, Nimrod Mesika wrote: As to your first suggestion, maybe there's even a better way -- have licq install signal handlers for e.g. SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2, switching it online in the former and offline in the latter, and then have the ip-up script

Filtering the list

1999-12-20 Thread ilan Bloch
Hi all, not really ontopic matter but truly some organizational stuff we could all benefit from (besides it's both linux and israel ;) ) could it be possible to automagically add some [linux-il] mention in the subject of all posts. That would help a lot the filtering of incoming messages, as

Re: Filtering the list

1999-12-20 Thread Alex Shnitman
On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 08:32:13AM +0200, ilan Bloch wrote: not really ontopic matter but truly some organizational stuff we could all benefit from (besides it's both linux and israel ;) ) could it be possible to automagically add some [linux-il] mention in the subject of all posts. That

Problems installing S3 Trio3D SVGA card on RedHat 6.1

1999-12-20 Thread Arie Vayner
Hi I run a RedHat 6.1 Machine with a S3 graphical card called Trio 3D, with a MAG 770T monitor. It took me some time to get any kind of graphical display but now it seems to work currently I use the generic SVGA X Server: [ariev@ariev ~]# ls -l /etc/X11/X lrwxrwxrwx 2 root root

Re: Filtering the list

1999-12-20 Thread Ira Abramov
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Alex Shnitman wrote: could it be possible to automagically add some [linux-il] mention in the subject of all posts. That would help a lot the filtering of incoming It had already been discussed here more than once in the past, and was vehemently objected to by many

Re: Filtering the list

1999-12-20 Thread chen
could it be possible to automagically add some [linux-il] mention in the subject of all posts. That would help a lot the filtering of incoming Is it that difficult to filter for linux-il in To or CC? Chen. = To

Which Flavor of Linux?

1999-12-20 Thread Ayal Sharon
I have a "newbie" question: I have not not yet installed Linux in my home PC, and I am trying to figure out which version to install. What really is the difference (if there is any) between Red Hat, Slackware, SuSe, Caldera, Debian etc. etc. ? Which would you recommend to someone who is