Re: Linux Demo Day 17.2

2000-01-11 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
NT is hebrew enabled.. I got here on 1 of our machines a Windows NT SERVER - Hebrew enabled (no kidding). They stopped manufacturing it though... Hetz "El-al, Netta" wrote: since when is nt hebrew-enabled??? -Original Message- From: Ira Abramov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Re: voice modem + caller ID

2000-01-11 Thread Gavrie Philipson
Shaul Karl wrote: mgetty? Hi, Is there any full-featured and *customizable* voice mail + caller ID system for linux, supporting class 1 modems? (I've tried vgetty, but it doesn't work with my modem). I'm trying to make some complex scripting with my caller ID modem on my

Re: Linux Demo Day 17.2

2000-01-11 Thread Ira Abramov
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: NT is hebrew enabled.. I got here on 1 of our machines a Windows NT SERVER - Hebrew enabled (no kidding). amazing scientific advancements. now your machine's CPU can be 45% occupied by a Hebrew banner in a flickering screen saver, rather than only

Re: (voice modem) + caller ID

2000-01-11 Thread Alon Altman
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Gavrie Philipson wrote: Shaul Karl wrote: Well, mgetty and vgetty only work with Class 2 modems. This is by design. Class 1 modems try to implement all the low-level protocols in software. This is basically a real-time operation. A multitasking OS such as Linux is by

caldera settles law suit with MS (and file a S1).

2000-01-11 Thread Ira Abramov
this is the stuff you miss when you don't subscribe to my news list :-) -- Forwarded message -- From: Eitan Shefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: technology list v2.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] A lot of news coming out from Utah. The settlement with Microsoft, which is not fully disclosed,

The first dot-com city?

2000-01-11 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/articles/11half.html = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL

Reiserfs

2000-01-11 Thread Oren Shomron
Hello, Does anyone have experience using Reiserfs, specifically as a root partition? Is it recommended? How about perfomance/stablity issues? Thanks, - Oren = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word

Re: Reiserfs

2000-01-11 Thread Ira Abramov
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Oren Shomron wrote: Hello, Does anyone have experience using Reiserfs, specifically as a root partition? Is it recommended? How about perfomance/stablity issues? I was about to try it, supposedly it's been released, but I donno how good the fsck tools are and I ASSUME

Re: Reiserfs

2000-01-11 Thread Eli Marmor
Oren Shomron wrote: Does anyone have experience using Reiserfs, specifically as a root partition? Is it recommended? How about perfomance/stablity issues? I don't have personal experience, but saw dozens of opinions of other people, and all of them say the same. I'll focus on your questions:

DOSEmu Packet drivers

2000-01-11 Thread Schlomo Schapiro
Hi List, I am trying to replace a NT server with Linux. All works well, but... We have to run Ghost Multicast server to install classrooms. the DOS ghost server seems to run under dosemu, but I can't get the packet driver to work with DOS ghost server. I enabled the vnet option in dosemu,

ypbind problem

2000-01-11 Thread Elya Guyer
Hello! I'm using Suse 6.2. I am trying to transfer ypclient to broadcast mode unsuccessfully ( ypset works Ok, other platforms work Ok in broadcast mode ) When running "ypbind -broadcast -debug" , I get: broadcasting for domain compugen.co.il broadcast: RPC: Timed out. There are 3

Re: ypbind problem

2000-01-11 Thread Alexander Goldberg
run 'nisdomain' on client machine make sure you're using the same nisdomain as ypserver uses Att! It's not nessesary your real domain, you mai call it "BLAH" for example. also check that on client machine you have domain 'YOUR NISDOMAIN NAME' server 'YOUR_YPSERVER_IP'

Re: ypbind problem

2000-01-11 Thread Alexander Goldberg
Why not ? from "NIS-Howto" - Old ypbind versions do a broadcast to find a running NIS server. This is insecure, due the fact that anyone may install a NIS server and answer the broadcast queries. Newer Versions of ypbind (ypbind-3.3 or ypbind-mt) are

Re: ypbind problem

2000-01-11 Thread Elya Guyer
So , if you really need client to broadcast download ypbind 3.3 , compile it , and enjoy. Let me understand , you're telling there was broadcast feature in ypbind 3.3 and now it's thrown away? Why then it tries to send broadcasts over the network? Elya

shutdown security potential problem?

2000-01-11 Thread Yosi
Hi, I am using RH6.0 and have noticed a very strange behaviour of "shutdown": when a local non-root user does "shutdown now", the system will shutdown all services, and switch to single-user root shell. This of course, is quite disturbing since a non-root local user can get root very easily this

RE: shutdown security potential problem?

2000-01-11 Thread Chen Shapira
I've no idea how you rtfm'ed, but obvoiusly you didn't try hard enough. I never heard of "consolehelper" before, and it sounded interesting. so I went to google and searched for "consolehelper". The first item in results was

Re: sendmail user masquerading

2000-01-11 Thread Ira Abramov
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Ohad M. Somjen wrote: hi, i'm trying to configure sendmmail. got it up and running, i use fetchmail to get the mail and sendmail to deliver it locally. now the problem is that when i send mail it does not rewrite the FROM so i get an illegel mail address that no one can

How to restrict users from serfing around my server via FTP.

2000-01-11 Thread Mike
Hi list. I just installed WU-FTPD 2.5.0 and have some problems with restriction of users. I add the guestgroup directive with all my "guest" users groups but when i tried to enter the server i did not saw any library. Now, i think that the problem happened becouse i DO NOT have a anonymous FTP

RE: How to restrict users from serfing around my server via FTP.

2000-01-11 Thread Chen Shapira
I just installed WU-FTPD 2.5.0 and have some problems with restriction of users. Pull the ethernet cable from the computer, that'll restrict them. I add the guestgroup directive with all my "guest" users groups but when i tried to enter the server i did not saw any library. The

Re: How to restrict users from serfing around my server via FTP.

2000-01-11 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
"Mike" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: all you could do is to tell me to read the HOWTO. That's the point: we shouldn't ;-) -- Oleg Goldshmidt | BLOOMBERG L.P. (BFM) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] "... We work by wit, and not by witchcraft; And wit depends on dilatory time." - W. Shakespeare.

Re: How to restrict users from serfing around my server via FTP.

2000-01-11 Thread Mike
Hi Hetz The thing is that i KNOW how to do it. the way that the wu-ftpd works is by applying the guest restrictions to the users. However they said there that it uses the anonymous ftp settings. Well, i DO NOT want to open unneccery ftp account (anonymous in that case) due to security issues. i

Re[2]: Remote X windows

2000-01-11 Thread Evgeny Stambulchik
Yedidya Bar-david [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No Xserver for windows I ever tested became even near XFree under linux, especially in terms of performance - and that is understandable, becasue each graphic command passes 2 APIs (at least) - win32 and X. Then one should expect a factor of two;

Job

2000-01-11 Thread Alex Rier
-Original Message- From: Yoram Katz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 12:31 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Linux driver programmers are needed Hi ! A successful start-up company is searching a Linux programmer with experience in drivers,

Re[2]: sendmail user masquerading

2000-01-11 Thread Evgeny Stambulchik
Ira Abramov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Ohad M. Somjen wrote: hi, i'm trying to configure sendmmail. got it up and running, i use fetchmail to get the mail and sendmail to deliver it locally. now the problem is that when i send mail it does not rewrite the

Cisco Router + Shiva

2000-01-11 Thread assaf sobelman
heya . i know this group is about linux .. but maybe some one will know the answers here it is : can i make Cisco 3600 to work with Shiva Thanks in Advance Sobelman Assaf = To

stop pimping

2000-01-11 Thread David Lee Sabes
Yoram, This is the second time that you have posted this ad, and it is very annoying. If a company is already "successful" then it can no longer be referred to as a "Start Up." Please refrain from posting job opportunites on this board. There are plenty of sites in Israel which list

Exploit (t666.c) breaking chroot()

2000-01-11 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
http://www.ussrback.com/archives/linux-exploits/T666.C This exploit for the latest Bind holes (hope you all upgraded to P5 already) promises to break chroot(). As I know, chroot shouldn't be returnable from by anyone. In many cases chroot is treated as a major security feature (think of

50% agree, 50% disagree (was: Re: stop pimping)

2000-01-11 Thread Omer Zak
Hello David, I agree with you that Smlink are overdoing. I think I have seen their ad at least 4 times already. However, I disagree with your statement that the Linux-IL mailing list is not the place for job ads. It is my source for Linux-related (the emphasis is on Linux-related) job and

Re: 50% agree, 50% disagree (was: Re: stop pimping)

2000-01-11 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, As omer said - indeed SMLink published too much here, but I DO think that this is a place to publish Linux related job. In SMLink issue, the company want to develop a proprietary Linux drivers for their USB hardware. Now, they could easily just publish in places like Linux-USB mailing list

Re: Exploit (t666.c) breaking chroot()

2000-01-11 Thread Adam Morrison
This exploit for the latest Bind holes (hope you all upgraded to P5 already) promises to break chroot(). As I know, chroot shouldn't be returnable from by anyone. In many cases chroot is treated as a major security feature (think of linuxconf demo site, when they run their demo linuxconf

Help. someone?

2000-01-11 Thread rantz
i've being using slackware for some time but from some problams i've decided to check out RH, so i got RH 6.1 (thanx oded! ;) and i was facing with this install problam... i went for the Graphical installition but insted it puted me right in the text install, (oaky that i can handle!) i choose

Re: Help. someone?

2000-01-11 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, I suggest for you something simple - goto ftp.redhat.com and grab from their updates directory a more updated boot disk. This should solve your problems (I had the same on my SMP PII 266). Hetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've being using slackware for some time but from some problams

Printing Problems

2000-01-11 Thread Ben-Nes Michael
Hi All Im printing from redhat through printer that connected to win95 using smb connection configure by printtool. I tried to print through ghostscript a PS file, the document contain 6 pages but only It don't print the 6 page :-( i tried other programs but the same result, only the first 5

Re: Printing Problems

2000-01-11 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Not sure, but it seems to me that you don't have a "signal" to the printer to eject the last page even if it's not full.. Just my thought.. Hetz Ben-Nes Michael wrote: Hi All Im printing from redhat through printer that connected to win95 using smb connection configure by printtool.

Re: Printing Problems

2000-01-11 Thread Ben-Nes Michael
I didn't understood exactly what you mean. Any how I forgot to mention that I have Epson Stylus Color 800 Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Not sure, but it seems to me that you don't have a "signal" to the printer to eject the last page even if it's not full.. Just my thought.. Hetz Ben-Nes

Re: hebrew-step - logical to broken visual

2000-01-11 Thread guy keren
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo wrote: gk it is possible to get readable results even if there exists no gk logical-to-visual translation algorithm, by using various heouritics. Why there isn't? There exists pretty good official Unicode BiDi rendering algorithm. is

fast and reliable host

2000-01-11 Thread Avi Boots
Hi, Is anyone know where can i find fast and reliable hosting for a big site + cgi (c/c++ in linux) mysql (or oracle), somewhere outside israel ? thank's avi. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word

Linux-IL meeting

2000-01-11 Thread Chen Shapira
Hi, Ira mentioned 4.2 as a meeting day. I think we should consider re-scheduling. There's a LinuxExpo and LinuxWorld conferences approximatly the same date. (I'm going to LinuxWorld in NY, if anyone else here will attend, perhaps we can try to arrenge flying together, it will make the

Celebrities talk

2000-01-11 Thread Chen Shapira
BTW. The Cincinaty LUG managed to get RMS (!) to speak at one of their meetings. I think we should also start trying to get celebrities to talk to us :-) Any ideas how it can work on the logistic side? flying celebrities is costly... maybe we can get a company to fund parts/all of it? Charge

hebrew filenames in vfat

2000-01-11 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Hi all! This question has been asked here a while ago, but AFAIR it has not been answered. I have a dual-boot pc: RH6.0 (kernel 2.2.5-22) and hebrew win98. All the dos partitions are vfat (not fat32). I want to take a bounch of files with long hebrew names and copy them to a different

Re: hebrew filenames in vfat

2000-01-11 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
ls --show-control-chars does help on ext2, but does not seem to help on vfat . thanks anyway -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is that I see all hebrew chars as "?". I think this might