Re: A message to sys-admin wanna-be-s

1999-10-02 Thread guy keren
On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Boaz Rymland wrote: As a Linux sys admin wannabe myself (no underestimation, just being objective) I feel a great need to know the inner working of the O.S. prior to learning how to manage a DNS, NIS, etc' (although they can be learned at the same time). That, IMHO,

p.s.( was: Re: A message to sys-admin wanna-be-s)

1999-10-02 Thread guy keren
ofcourse, i forgot the biblical systems programming books: 1. Advanced programming in the Unix environment (by richard E. stevens). 2. Unix network programming (also by richard e. stevens). guy = To unsubscribe, send mail to

Re: A message to sys-admin wanna-be-s

1999-10-02 Thread Shlomo Reches
guy keren wrote: one plot that i seem to see here rather too often, is some people that work as real system administrators (i.e. admin networks of machines other then their own machne at home) but never bother learning the essential material in an orderly manner. thus, they keep asking

Re: p.s.( was: Re: A message to sys-admin wanna-be-s)

1999-10-02 Thread Alex Shnitman
On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 06:49:24PM +0200, guy keren wrote: ofcourse, i forgot the biblical systems programming books: 1. Advanced programming in the Unix environment (by richard E. stevens). 2. Unix network programming (also by richard e. stevens). Or rather, late W. Richard Stevens. --

Re: A message to sys-admin wanna-be-s

1999-10-02 Thread Nir Simionovich \(Rin Solo\)
Hi All, After reading the entire debate on the matter, I must say that agree and disagree on some of the matters. I agree that a sysadmin should have a good knowladge of the OS he's admining, either Linux, Solaris or what ever. The problem with that is the fact that the amount of new/updated

Re: Red Hat 6.1 for Sale!

1999-10-02 Thread Yoni Elhanani
Eli Marmor wrote: Yoni Elhanani wrote: Wow they are quick! It's one thing to download it and find out the next day that it's the beta, but it's another thing to burn a thousand CDs and ship the image to a cd factory. Though I believe that it is the real thing, as the rumor says

Red Hat 6.1 for Sale!

1999-10-02 Thread Eli Marmor
CheapBytes began to sell Red Hat 6.1. An immediate shipping costs $5.99, while a pre-order of an image on a normal CD (rather than CD-R) costs $1.99 (all prices exclude shipping). You can also pre- order 2 CDS (the image AND the SRPMs) for $3.49. Although Red Hat is expected to announce 6.1 on

Re: Red Hat 6.1 for Sale!

1999-10-02 Thread Eli Marmor
P.S. I forgot to write the URL: http://cart.cheapbytes.com/cgi-bin/cart -- Eli Marmor = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo

Re: Red Hat 6.1 for Sale!

1999-10-02 Thread Yoni Elhanani
Eli Marmor wrote: CheapBytes began to sell Red Hat 6.1. An immediate shipping costs $5.99, while a pre-order of an image on a normal CD (rather than CD-R) costs $1.99 (all prices exclude shipping). You can also pre- order 2 CDS (the image AND the SRPMs) for $3.49. Wow they are quick! It's

Re: Red Hat 6.1 for Sale!

1999-10-02 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
(from the headers of your mail:) (Date: Sun, 03 Oct 1999 05:03:30 +0200) (You should move your clock to winter time) Yoni Elhanani wrote: [snip] I will be able to know that only after i get the entire iso image and mount it. Although not very safe, you can almost always mount it way

Re: Red Hat 6.1 for Sale!

1999-10-02 Thread Yoni Elhanani
Eli Marmor wrote: And if you want to have an up-to-date distro for the installation party (and not the obsolete 6.0), subscribers with CDRs should volunteer to burn disks for Friday. It's not so obsolete. Last time we installed 5.2 about about a week after 6.0 got out. Now - that's

Re: Installfest/Demo Day - Announcement

1999-10-02 Thread Liran Zvibel
Quoting Yoni Elhanani [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello. I'm happy to announce the new installfest, this time with some more details. Great! It will be held in Dizengoff Center, on friday morning 8/10/99, In front of the burger king - you know where. :-) snip And it's a nice opportunity to

Re: Red Hat 6.1 for Sale!

1999-10-02 Thread Alex Shnitman
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 08:44:38AM +0200, Eli Marmor wrote: By the way: Does anybody have any recommendation for a cheap CDRW for Linux? Should I buy a SCSI CDRW? You probably should. It's less troublesome to set up (although both IDE and SCSI drives work eventually), and the main reason is