Re: initctl issues while initrd hacking - SLES9 - S390X

2005-01-19 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
that is run before this step and sets disk through it's paramfile flag. -- Peace Love and Penguins - Lior Kesos -- Peace Love and Penguins - Lior Kesos -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend

Re: RHEL3 requires 256MB to be supported?

2003-11-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
. (As for fvem: check fvwm-themes. A theme engine for fvwm written mostly in fvwm macros. Makes fvwm configuration much easier) -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+

Re: RHEL3 requires 256MB to be supported?

2003-11-02 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
, it would mean that if you want to put a simple file/print server and happen to have some leftovers to install it on, those won't be supported by your main OS. You'll have to find alternatives. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir

Re: X11 support on SuSE SLES7 and Hummingbird V9.0 .........

2003-10-19 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
. Unfortunetly even pico, I believe) -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+

Re: Creating new init scripts in init.d on SLES7 .... ...

2003-10-19 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
the (overly complicated) installation script of every rpm package. Try installing a suse package on your system. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+

Re: Creating new init scripts in init.d on SLES7 .......

2003-10-18 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
changed to look like the S23was script. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+

Re: Piping LPD - SFTP

2003-09-22 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
. If you want something piped to an ssh server, just 'ssh server command' When quoted correctly, the command can be an arbitrary shell command-line. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Restarting RPM build

2003-09-22 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
time. rpm -bl ? -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+

Re: SCO CEO's letter to Open Source Community

2003-09-09 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
legal audits. Do you have any ideas how many such issues are left in the code of Microsoft (SQL Server 2000 patent)? And Microsoft aggresivly pushes its own source licenses to all sorts of bodies around the world. It is just as easy to make up counter-claims to those claims. -- Tzafrir Cohen

Re: size of distributions (redux)

2003-09-06 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
button - the result was the respack was completely unuseable, even after fsck! Why? Because the default bdflush cache dirty percent is so high that meta data got lost! (I currently set my this value to zero to force writes as soon as possible). -- Tzafrir Cohen

Re: size of distributions (redux)

2003-09-04 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
you won't have to install something just in case. The basic linux system has not grown much. It is mostly the size of the extra that keeps growing. A careful sysadmin can remove unneeded extra parts. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il

Re: size of distributions (redux)

2003-09-04 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
/share), because most packages will install files in both. But, unfortunately, it seems you have to use RAID or LVM during your initial install to find out how big the subdirectories really are. And what about later? You have to assume you estimated right on all partitions. -- Tzafrir Cohen

Re: Merge SuSE updates and original CDs???

2003-08-30 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 07:02:37AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: A small note: On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 09:20:49PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: In contrast, Debian has (at least) two mirrors on WAIX, if I don't mirror the updates myself

Re: Merge SuSE updates and original CDs???

2003-08-29 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
you ever get any problems with partial downloads? Anyway, debain has no formal mirrors of the security apt source (unlike , say, Mandrake) -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+

Re: Mainframe based wiki?

2003-08-26 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
, that it is useless. Try a few wikis. Since there are so many, think of what features you'll need: * authentication * version control (take a look at Twiki) * framework * produced document abilitites etc. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim

Re: MySql

2003-08-22 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 02:02:03PM +0100, David Goodenough wrote: If this is a heavy database application you would be much better off with PostgreSQL. What about Firbird? And about Sap-DB? Anybody using one of those two? (both are free as well) -- Tzafrir Cohen

Re: FW: [IP] China blocks foreign software

2003-08-19 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
on the propriatary WPS. It may easily include its own back-doors. Does the chineese govenrenment control Kingsoft? -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+

Re: PDF files

2003-08-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 09:44:57AM -0500, Adam Thornton wrote: I haven't followed LyX recently; does it still use the non-Open-Source xforms libraries? No LyX still uses xforms, though a QT GUI is also available (and is more sane). But as of 1.0, xformss is free (as in LGPL). -- Tzafrir

Re: PDF files

2003-08-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
using pdflatex directly). And this is just one example of a program. You mentioned StarOffice. This horrible beast is not scriptable in any shape or form. But both LyX and abiword (only very recent versions of abiword) should be scriptable enough for what you want. -- Tzafrir Cohen

Re: OT: recommend a commercial email host for me?

2003-08-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
(though for me support for multiple imap folders is a must). -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+

Re: Gartner (Australia) on Linux

2003-08-05 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
not snipped this time ] On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 07:47, John Summerfield wrote: For starters, hands up those using a Linux email client? wave Lotus Notes on linux? Through wine? -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim

Re: Gartner (Australia) on Linux

2003-08-05 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
for netscape 4 clients with version 4.80. Some security updates are pending for some other clients. MAke sure yours is up-to-date. Frankly, I don't understand why people use the dated netscape 4 (Especially the OS/2 version) when mozilla/Netscape 7 is available. -- Tzafrir Cohen

Re: Gartner (Australia) on Linux

2003-08-05 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
This, and more, in the WarpZilla homepage: http://mozilla.org/ports/os2/ I'm not sure if current work is done by IBM or by volunteers. It used to be IBM when it started. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's

Re: X-window on SUSE SLES8 (z/VM)

2003-08-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
on the X server to use SSH. The other way around: the ssh client should have an option to forward the X connection. Thus you won't have to mess with setting DISPLAY and other stuff. If your docs don't help you: what ssh client and X server do you use? -- Tzafrir Cohen

Re: Linux images greater a 3390-3 image?

2003-07-31 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
/share or /usr/lib and get symlinked. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+

Re: Whither consolidation and what then?

2003-07-30 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
with the same kernel version. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+

Re: Whither consolidation and what then?

2003-07-30 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
minutes on that. As for cloning, patch distribution etc.: those solutions are exactly solutions (?) to the management problem. As you mentioned in the beginning, just cramming many images on one mainframe won't make it go away. -- Tzafrir Cohen

Re: Stripping trailing blanks?

2003-07-29 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
: No such file or directory The problem is bash's expantion order. It will expand variables only after it has seperated the command-line to subcommands. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Secure Remote tn3270 access

2003-07-28 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
or putty's plink). Connet to that linux guest, and forward port 23 of the computer you want to connect to a local port. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+

Re: Stripping trailing blanks?

2003-07-28 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
might try expanding the '$' anyway, perl may be an overkill, but also a typesaver: perl -pi -e 's/ *$//' $file -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+

Re: Known problems with HSI, QETH, configurations during RedHat 7 .2 install?

2003-07-22 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
it). [ Tons of over-quotes removed ] -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+

Re: where root can login from

2003-07-20 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
the threading of messages manually) -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+

Re: message at starting

2003-07-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
key in the authrized_keys file (see sshd(8) ). This only works, of course, if TCP actually works. If timeout is large enough, it will work over some delays in the starting of tcpip. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim

Re: list admin: we're being tracked

2003-07-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
be assimilated. It is for the Common Good. Well, I'm no dial-up user, but I relay my mail through my ISP's SMTP server. This should be quite useful when you're a dial-up user and your mail server is not up 24 hours a da to handle non-responsive sites. -- Tzafrir Cohen

Re: list admin: we're being tracked

2003-07-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 08:52:22PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 04:38:51PM -0500, Richard Troth wrote: FYI, for those who care about such things, this list is being tracked by http://www.mail-archive.com/. Sorry

Re: list admin: we're being tracked

2003-07-02 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
-Way: you need to actually post a form to get an email. To harvest many emails you need to ring some alarm bells. But then again, aren't there some plain mbox-formatted archives of this list? After grabbing such a file harvesting emails is a simple matter of filterring. -- Tzafrir Cohen

Re: RAID and root FS

2003-07-01 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
), simply have it run 'sh'. This should give you an interactive shell. Make sure you have the required binaries inside, and their libraries. busybox can be very helpful in that front. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim

Re: Changing runlevels etc

2003-06-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
have to do is come up with one that works (done). replace them with a very small shell script? That console is a really lousy terminal. So it may be worth the effort to write some scripts that will save you typing and piping. -- Tzafrir Cohen

Re: Changing runlevels etc

2003-06-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
on as root). 1. scp 2. sftp 3. ftp to your homedir/tmp and copy from there. 4. what ftpd do you use? -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+

Re: Changing runlevels etc

2003-06-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
something SSH-like instead of telnet or are we still stuck with the not quite satisfactory open ssh thing? telnet is not for scripting. Heck, nc would probably do a better job. rsh is the insecusre and less friendly equivalent of ssh that can be used for scripts. -- Tzafrir Cohen

Re: Supported Internet Printing Protocol

2003-06-26 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
://www.easysw.com/cups/ if you can't find someone else to pay to for that. :-) -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+

Re: Minimum memory size for zSeries Linux

2003-06-24 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
will work without the Name Server Caching Daemon. Gave me grief once and I simply turned it off. login login's the program (not a daemon) that processes your login authentication. The console login listener is something *getty (e.g: mingetty). -- Tzafrir Cohen

crash at startup

2003-06-21 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Call Trace: 00014ae6 00015a80 0Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task! Warning (Oops_read): Code line not seen, dumping what data is available Trace; 00014ae6 pfault_interrupt+aa/160 Trace; 00015a80 ext_int_next+0/c -- Tzafrir Cohen

Re: offloading CPU intensive loads from zLinux to cheaper pastures

2003-06-20 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
involved in the calculation (for some 14 minutes or so) were located in a very small number of pages. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+

Re: zSeries and Laptop

2003-06-20 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
touch) qtparted. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+

Re: Suse YOU updates

2003-06-19 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
as Debian releases a new package (and it propogates through the mirrors) apt-get on my computer automatically finds the package. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+

Re: Background on SCO

2003-06-19 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
they have paid a fine of 5 euros (right?) for not showing up to protect their stand. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+

Re: Contrarian article

2003-06-19 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
this already. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+

Re: offloading CPU intensive loads from zLinux to cheaper pastures

2003-06-18 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
running Hercules and the linux instance on the server Is it worth the effort of porting mosix to linux/s390 and develping a good scheduler? -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+

Re: Suse YOU updates

2003-06-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
to mirror you. E.g: ISPs that want to make the download traffic more effective. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+

Re: Questions regarding single user mode and z/VM

2003-06-16 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
full-screen vim session. :-( BTW: what exactly is the terminal type 'ibm327x' that comes with the standard terminfo distro? (yes, I tried it and it doesn't help a bit). Is there any way to make 'ls --color ' print colors? -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http

Re: HELP - using sed to translate upper to lower

2003-06-16 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
: tr A-Z a-z -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+

Re: X11 vs VNC

2003-06-16 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
connections that come from an ssh tunnel that was established by the same user? Also, if you use vnc, use a simple theme (with no gradianets and no bitmaps): this will save much network bandwidth. And TightVNC is espcially optimised for this. -- Tzafrir Cohen

Re: X11 vs VNC

2003-06-16 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
$ the_program_they_need For optimal results you may share the cygwin home directory with the linux home directory (using the cygwin 'mount', and samba). Something similar to single-sign-on can be achived using ssh keys, unless you have anything better. The X server can be any other server, mind you. -- Tzafrir

Re: strange sendmail problem

2003-06-06 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
. Is there any issue of IP address change and relay? Some hosts expect that mail should come only from specific IPs? -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+

Re: SLES8 dasdfmt problem

2003-06-04 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
and then look again at /proc/dasd/devices I've done that and I get the failure during dasdfmt. I re-issued the insmod commands...that I'm pretty sure are being done when you LOAD the dasd= anyways... No. This is no longer the case with SLES 8's installer -- Tzafrir Cohen

Re: RedHat vs Suse

2003-05-31 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
ip.of.your.workstation And enjoy the X forwarding. No xhost settings required. (The rogram xauth needs to be installed on the target machine) -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+

Re: RedHat vs Suse

2003-05-31 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
with the Xserver you have set xhost to allow connection from the installed computer. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+

Re: HOWTO : Search

2003-05-29 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 11:01:48AM -0400, Post, Mark K wrote: find /etc -type f -exec grep -l /home {} \; Or, simpler: grep -r /home . or maybe just: grep * /home Adding '2/dev/null' in the end may also help in case of permission problems you don't want to know about. -- Tzafrir Cohen

Re: Setting up CUPS for Samba on 390

2003-05-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
also reduce the quality. Though windows' postscript driver is a really bad one. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+

Re: Samba Problem

2003-04-05 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
much about authentication, and treat everybody as guest. It is also useful when all you want are some read-only shares. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+

Re: Samba Problem

2003-04-05 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 04:20:29PM -0500, Rod Clayton wrote: [snip] ss390:/var/log/samba# ls smb.log ss390:/var/log/samba# No nmb.log? no other logs at all? is nmbd running? Do you use the standard version of samba from the distro? -- Tzafrir Cohen

Re: X11 SSH tunneling + Gnome desktop

2003-04-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
or fail to start clients. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+

Re: Linux and Viruses

2003-04-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
that you have to keep it up-to-date to make it efficient? Why not keep your system patched instead? (this can be automated just as well. Easily). -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+

Re: Linux and Viruses

2003-04-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 04:17:10AM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 09:30:49AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: http://www.esj.com/News/article.asp?EditorialsID=472 A piece of FUD. CC try to create themselves a market. And the part I liked the most: | Take Linux/Slapper

Re: Ellison: StarOffice almost usable

2003-04-02 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
. :-) -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+

Re: CTC Connection Question Again

2003-04-02 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
the echo requests of the ping but won't send the echo replies to the correct place. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+

Re: CTC Connection Question Again

2003-04-02 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
in my /etc directory, and there is no security , or anything else that starts with secur in /etc. Do I have to create one? Maybe that is part of it. So you'll have no problem with the securetty check. Don't create it. (Or login as a non-root user). When you get to that point. -- Tzafrir Cohen

Re: CTC Connection Question Again

2003-04-02 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
installed? (is this redhat?) chkconfig telnet-server on /etc/init.d/xinetd reload However check if sshd isn't listening: netstat -lnt |grep 22 -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL

Re: CTC Connection Question Again

2003-04-02 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
command did you use? Could you plesae give us your existing routing table and the command that you used? -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+

Re: X11 SSH tunneling + Gnome desktop

2003-04-01 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
). This will give you many useful X clients. WindowMaker included. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+

Re: Peter Huesken is afwezig.

2003-03-31 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
and such). -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+

Re: Peter Huesken is afwezig.

2003-03-30 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
that this communication is free of viruses, interceptions or interference. --- I'll keep that in mind. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's

Re: libc.so.6 not found

2003-03-29 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
are those programs that fail? Are they the system copies or are they local copies that come with the package? (I expect the trace above to help with it). If they are the system copies, and ld.so.conf has sane values, -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http

Re: libc.so.6 not found

2003-03-29 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
am on site at the customer. It's not that. This is not an error coming from Xlibs. This is an error from dynamic loader. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+

Re: SLES 8

2003-03-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 10:14:47PM -0500, Mike Ross wrote: On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 22:54:16 +0200, Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip.. * A major one: the distro is not worth much without the patches. What you download from that server is nice for testing, but it is still not enough

Re: SLES 8

2003-03-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
words: it is a fix, that should fix your system, not break it. A side-effect: You end up with a vulnorable samba 2.0.7 and openssh 3.1 (Or so some skript kiddis might think) -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best

Re: Multiple guests sharing /usr RO... Using RPM

2003-03-26 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
strange thing with files in /usr , though I can't think of a specific example. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+

Re: SLES 8

2003-03-26 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
everybody else to compit with SuSE in providing patches. So you basically have to have a support contract with SuSE. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+

Re: rpm under chroot to 'apply' maintenance

2003-03-26 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
stuff . I don't recall exactly where, maybe a certain bug report. Maybe you should test this. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+

Re: Debian/390 from Sine Nomine Associates

2003-03-25 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
and their quality of service compared to yours. Not exactly. SuSE don't sell you a boxed set for a 150$. Anybody selling them for less? (150$? isn't this what RMS used to charge for Emacs? http://www.gnu.org/gnu/byte-interview.html) -- Tzafrir Cohen

Re: Cron script redirect causing truncation

2003-03-25 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
, the data in the topout file has the complete path to the running processes. When I run it via cron, everything gets truncated at 80 chars. I know this is probably some session environment variable but I can't seem to come up with the right answer in my googling... COLUMNS ? -- Tzafrir Cohen

Re: Read-Only Telnet

2003-03-24 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Cohen recommended, but I still need to do some digging. Mounting the system read-only may work. But remember that some actual work has to be done on this system. That is: those developers need to actually change config files. -- Tzafrir Cohen

Re: Read-Only Telnet

2003-03-22 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
shell. It is also possible to set up a chroot-ed shell for that user (or group of users). This may be a waste of disk space, and not always applicable. But sometimes can be very valuable. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir

hipersockts settings problem

2003-03-19 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 hsi0 the VM Guest LAN def as follow : 'cp def lan dglan type hiper' 'cp def nic 7000 hiper dev 3' 'cp couple 7000 to system dglan' -- Tzafrir Cohen

Re: Interesting perspective

2003-03-19 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
that the real story is different, http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html :-)) Not all tasks are such. But anyway, using clustering for parallelising tasks is quite different from using clusters for high availability. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http

Re: SAMBA server not seen from network neighborhood

2003-03-19 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
). -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+

Re: .bashrc

2003-03-19 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
keyboard and some other useful stuff. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+

Re: .bashrc

2003-03-19 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
with other UNIX? This is a really bad idea! Because 'test 'x' = x$var;' is less readable than 'if [ -z $var ]; Sometimes I bother. Sometimes I don't. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto

Re: getting to samba

2003-03-18 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
interface. That's all. Samba is perfectly functional without it. Get the default smb.conf, a decent text editor (IIRC both vim and emacs have syntax hilighting for this file) the docs, and configure it away. The default file is well commented. -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: CP Commands from Linux

2003-03-18 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
a sharpshooter, and this is my foot. [*] Possible workarounds: sudo and friends. But they still have a small extra setup cost. -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/

Re: getting to samba

2003-03-18 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
.) -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/

Re: .bashrc

2003-03-18 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
but I did not find a .bashrc in /root. So I created a .bashrc and put in my export commands. But when I logon to root it doesn't appear that .bashrc is being executed. Where do I change root's environment variables? Do you by any chance use 'su' (without '-')? -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Postfix Install problem

2003-03-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
exactly do you get this error? What is your hostname? Sett either 'myhostname' or 'mydomain' in /etc/postfix/main.cf if your hostname is not a FQDN and/org you wish to use a different one. ('myhostname defaults to the hostname, 'mydomain' defautls to the domain part of $myhostname) -- Tzafrir Cohen

Re: Interesting perspective

2003-03-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
the different meanings of the word virtual (a java/c# VM is not quite relevant here). Anyway, just my unlearned opinion -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/

Re: getting to samba

2003-03-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
, and no more passwords. And there is no problem working with multiple copes simultianiously, as opposed to bloater browsers. is there a samba auth file somewhere Yes, but it is not used from swat, IIRC. -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/

Re: Postfix Install Problem (continued)

2003-03-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
of RHL for S/390 zSeries, and so any additional maintenance issues will terminate at that time. RedHat = 7.3 is shipped with postfix. I don't see any exim package on a nearby RH80 mirror. -- Tzafrir Cohen http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] sms: mailto

Re: reset a computer

2003-03-16 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Trying to explain the question once again On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 05:59:03PM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Hi Short version of the question: How do do a hard-reset to a linux guest from within linux? Note that I don't mean to IPL the boot specific device: I need to re-run profile.exec from

Re: reset a computer

2003-03-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
no simple way to do in a script something I can easily do from a 3270 terminal (when connected)? Adecent system should be scriptable, right? -- Tzafrir Cohen http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] sms: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

reset a computer

2003-03-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
different) Any pointers to FMs (that answer this) would be appreciated. Thanks in advance -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/

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