Re: find -mtime and wrong data return

2007-03-15 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 02:38:30PM +0200, ik wrote: Hello, I wish to use the find command in order to find all the files that were created prior to specific file. So I tried to use the following command: find -type f -mtime -7 Try find -type f -mtime +7 -- Didi

Re: Visual diff tool for patches.

2007-03-07 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 03:57:10PM +0200, Diego Iastrubni wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ echo test 123 1.txt [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ cp -la 1.txt 2.txt [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ echo test 321 1.txt [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ diff 1.txt 2.txt [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ [EMAIL

Re: renaming or removing a file that start with minus

2007-03-04 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 03:43:54PM +0200, ik wrote: Hello, How can I rename and/or delete a file that starts with minus ? For example: mv --test test In addition to '--' already mentioned, you can mv ./--test test This will work with any mv, not only GNU's etc. that accept '--'. -- Didi

Re: Linux servers vs. Microsoft servers

2007-02-17 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 11:45:38AM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Uri Even-Chen wrote: Dear Linux people, First, I want to apologize if any of you were offended or harassed by the messages I sent to this list about 3 months ago. No problem. Me too :-) and a server for Microsoft

Re: Learning kernel modules development

2007-02-14 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:10:52PM +0200, Tzahi Fadida wrote: The problem with NFS Root is that i don't have a second machine :(. Anycase, it took a while and i got a uml to work on a debootstrap ubuntu edgy with network support and no super user for the helpers so i won't make a mistake

Re: Looking for a kernel book recommendation.

2007-02-08 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
2007/2/8, Tzahi Fadida [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I am looking for a book that will help me get more into programming in the kernel. Specifically in the storage areas and kernel programming etiquette. Perhaps something current like for kernel 2.6? Any recommendations? I read Linux Device Drivers

Re: message frequency ?

2007-01-30 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 02:20 +0200, Peter wrote: Does this list have an archive ? What is the approximate message frequency ? http://www.iglu.org.il/mailing-lists/linux-il.html Points to 3 archives, of which gmane seems the only live one. -- Didi

Re: archiving parts in linux.

2007-01-29 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Tzahi Fadida wrote: Hi, I wish to archive a 50mb file into several parts of 5mb files in linux. I also need to be able to open the files in windows. For some unknown reason, i can't find a way (other than using a non-free rar) to do this. The canonical way (although maybe not the most

Re: archiving parts in linux.

2007-01-29 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
2007/1/29, Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 29/01/07, Yedidyah Bar-David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also have a feeling (did not check) that dd is much faster. -- Didi You're probably partial to dd because it's your name! Obviously :-) You can guess I heard by now many jokes regarding

Re: Booting linux from windows over net (was: Re: Simulating PXE boot?)

2007-01-24 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
2007/1/24, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 24/01/07, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ha :) This laptop is so old that it doesn't have an integrated network card - the net card is a PCMCIA 10/100 addition I bought her around 2003. No- Ha ;) I did not write this. I am not the guy with the

Re: version control wiki

2007-01-24 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
2007/1/24, Nadav Har'El [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Jan 24, 2007, Shahar Dag wrote about version control wiki: 1.. Can you recommend a good implementation of version control wiki (we would like to use free software) I am not aware of a version control + wiki combination (but maybe someone

Re: Can this be possible (or BIOS api)

2007-01-22 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
2007/1/22, Dan Shimshoni [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello linux il , I had been playing with the idea of writing a small utility in C on linux which will enable me to change boot prioirity on a linux machine, so that I will be able to toggle the boot sequence (boot from CD/ not boot from CD). I mean

Re: Simulating PXE boot?

2007-01-22 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
2007/1/23, Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, Is it possible to achieve the same effect of PXE boot (i.e. pull everything over the net, at most use a file on the local FAT32 disk for swap) using some DOS/Win98 software? For a tool allowing you to do it yourself, look at etherboot. For a

Re: what's the quickest way to add # to a few lines in VI?

2007-01-03 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
2007/1/3, Lior Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Today I had to edit a lot of configuration files with VI. While editing I wondered what's the fastest way to change line to comments by adding # signs in the beginning of these lines. 1. Slowest way - do it manually. If it's only for a few lines

Re: Cyan is the new Blue

2006-12-21 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 12:49:24PM +0200, Ira Abramov wrote: I love black background for my terminals, and the default of dark blue for color-ls libraries and other elements can be very annoying. I could use a .dircolors file to override the problem but what I really want is to be able to

Re: Cyan is the new Blue

2006-12-21 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 06:20:49PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: On Thursday 21 December 2006 13:41, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: I wish to spend some day some time and add decent Hebrew support to xterm. Either to itself directly, or some wrapper (e.g. patch screen or something like luit). Long

Re: Cyan is the new Blue

2006-12-21 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 07:14:12PM +0200, Peter wrote: On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: ... I use rxvt with 10x20 font all the time. Hebrew works (iso8859-8) but I use that very little. I did not try utf-8 in rxvt. Of course - it also works here perfectly with Hebrew in UTF

Re: How to bind privileged ports in a non-root process?

2006-11-28 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 09:51:12AM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: Hi, I've run into a problem which it seems like thousands of people must have come across before, but strangely, I can't figure out a good solution. I have a program which I want to bind port 80. Normally, in Linux, you must be

Re: How to bind privileged ports in a non-root process?

2006-11-28 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 11:39:02AM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Prepeare a small library that intercepts call to the libray socket() and bind() calls and if, according to the parameters, the socket/bind is for the low port socket, instead of calling the actuall

Re: gcc-2.95.3 on RHEL4U3

2006-11-25 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 08:42:39AM +0200, Michael Green wrote: On 11/23/06, Ilya Konstantinov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/23/06, Michael Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to build old gcc-2.95.* on AMD x64 with RHEL4. Does such an old version of gcc even support x86-64 (as a

Re: And in unrelated news - Sun releases JDK under the GPL

2006-11-15 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 03:15:34PM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 12:51 +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Oded Arbel wrote: Unfortunately, it requires bootstrapping with an existing JDK, and Sun's 1.6 or 1.7 (beta and alpha respectively) are recommended. As neither of these

Re: tarball repository

2006-10-24 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 12:12:14PM +0200, Ira Abramov wrote: a minute or two before I reinvent a wheel, I'd like your ideas. A software project I'm working on with a client calls for a large number of FLOSS packages to be downloaded and built during compilation, stuff like dialog, libxml and

Re: creating and mounting ufs Creating and mounting ufs filesystem on a loopback device on linux - a problem?

2006-09-26 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 03:47:28PM +0300, Dan Shimshoni wrote: Helllo, from man mount : Mount options for ufs ufstype=value .. oldOld format of ufs, this is the default, read only. (Don't forget to give the -r option.) ... the other options (like

OT: giveaway books

2006-09-24 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi all, I kept the following books for some years, and now decided they take too much space and I'll never use them. Before throwing them out I give anyone interested the option to come and take (some of?) them. Where: Moshav Yad-Hashmona, near Newe-Ilan. If you happen to go from Jerusalem to

Re: Legato backup for Etch 64

2006-09-21 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 11:45:06AM +0300, Ira Abramov wrote: I have a server running Etch pure64. for the uninitiated this means a 64bit system (on a dual Xeon in this case) with no 32bit libraries. Internet Zahav offers backup services but only via Legato, and Legato offers only a 32bit

Re: OT- old hardware

2006-08-28 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 04:18:13PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:40:36 +0300 Julian Daich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El lun, 28-08-2006 a las 15:29 +0300, Eli Marmor escribió: Julian Daich wrote: Hi all, I4m looking for old memories( SDRAMS 133Mhz) to

OT: voip conference call

2006-08-21 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi all, I want to have conference calls over the internet with my family and friends. I know very little about voip. I used for the last year or so gnomemeeting, pear-to-pear (opened firewalls on both ends), which was mostly good enough for two-way calls. Now I want 3+ participants. I also want

Re: Backup advice

2006-08-21 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 04:00:08PM +0300, Eli Marmor wrote: Ariel Biener wrote: [snip] Try rsnapshot (http://www.rsnapshot.org) [snip] Otherwise, it is not really a snapshot, and the use of this term is misleading. [snip] To the best of my knowledge, and correct me if I'm wrong, none of the

Re: Backup advice

2006-08-21 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 09:57:09PM +0300, Ehud Karni wrote: I did not know about rsnapshot. So I built a system that does exactly that (system of snapshots) with a simple sh script and use of rsync. Yes, there is nothing magical about it. It's also just a script, albeit a long one (around 5000

Re: Inernet Bandwidth Question

2006-07-29 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 10:39:19PM +0200, Nathan Orenstein wrote: Hello, I am confused by what my Internet bandwidth really is and how to measure it. I noticed that I had some problems with slow Internet. I did not expect this since I am supposedly getting 2.5Gbps from Netvision. I

Re: Are there non-free versions of Linux?

2006-07-27 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 09:24:28AM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Uri Even-Chen wrote: Hi people, Today I had a meeting with people at a software company. We talked about Linux, and they said that today there are versions of Linux which are not Free Software. That is true. The moment

Re: How do I change my subscribed email address ?

2006-07-15 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 03:02:07PM +0300, Michael Ben-Nes wrote: Hi All My email changed and i want to update linux-il mailing list to the new one. Why do you think it should be possible at all? Simply unsubscribe the old one and subscribe the new one. -- Didi

Re: Outlook Web Access - Hebrew - Additional Information

2006-07-05 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 12:29:15PM +0300, Aharon Schkolnik wrote: On Wednesday 05 July 2006 12:09, Aharon Schkolnik wrote: Hi. As an initial effort to interface with the company's Exchange server, I am trying to use the Outlook Web Access from my Fedora Core machine. I have managed to

Re: Random numbers in Linux servers

2006-06-28 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 10:10:00AM +0300, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yedidyah Bar-David) writes: How about placing a cheap microphone (with very bad shielding) inside the case (preferably, right next to the CPU's fan) and sample it, taking the LSB from each sample

Re: Random numbers in Linux servers

2006-06-28 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 12:52:44PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Shachar Shemesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In any case, after placing the mic, start sampling. Keep playing with the gain control so that the actual noise is at about 80% of the maximal sampling range

Re: Random numbers in Linux servers

2006-06-27 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 01:05:01PM +0300, Ami Chayun wrote: Well, after digging around for a bit, I can't say I'm very impressed with Intel: 82802 Firmware Hub Device Random Number Generator (RNG). The RNG is dedicated hardware that harnesses system thermal noise to generate random and

Re: Random numbers in Linux servers

2006-06-27 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 04:06:43PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: At least on the boards I checked this, the sensors give very inaccurate data - e.g. temperature accurate to 0.5degC. You can't really use that for random data. I guess Intel's RNG has many more digits

Re: Why Unix is important

2006-06-21 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 08:36:44AM +0300, Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting Yonah Russ, from the post of Wed, 21 Jun: Please don't post links of this nature without warning other readers about their contents. A simple Don't go to this link if you don't want to see topless women/if your 5 year

Re: Updating Debian

2006-06-20 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 08:59:45AM +0300, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: Hi, I found a distribution of MythTV that was based on Knoppix. At the end of the instalation it converts itself to a Debian system. It sorely needs some updates and additions. I've never used a debian system before, I

Re: The select(3p) API

2006-06-13 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 09:41:38AM +0300, Daniel Feiglin wrote: Hello folks! Can someone supply an RTFM describing the kernel implementation of this API (other than reading the source code). In particular, is it interrupt driven (as I always thought) or does it use some sort of polling

Re: sending attachments from cmdline

2006-06-04 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 10:52:45AM +0300, Erez D wrote: hi i used to send attachments from commandline as: uuencode $fname $fname |mail -s $fname $recepiant however, this works only for a single attachment. how to send more than one attachment from cmdline ? Use mailto from metamail,

Re: hd dopy with dd

2006-05-23 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 04:16:25PM +0300, Erez D wrote: hi i have a damaged 60M HD. it only runs if it is positioned vertical. any idea ? I strongly suggest using dd_rescue and/or ddrhelp. -- Didi = To unsubscribe, send mail

Re: hd dopy with dd

2006-05-23 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 05:00:15PM +0300, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 04:16:25PM +0300, Erez D wrote: hi i have a damaged 60M HD. it only runs if it is positioned vertical. any idea ? I strongly suggest using dd_rescue and/or ddrhelp. Just to make it clear

Re: hd dopy with dd

2006-05-23 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 05:57:57PM +0300, Ariel Biener wrote: On Tuesday 23 May 2006 17:14, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: Just to make it clear - even without really getting deep into your problem, you should know that 'dd conv=noerror' is pointless in your situation, because it does

Re: XReparentWindow segfault

2006-05-09 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 03:35:56PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Hi List, I'm having a most frustrating problem with using XReparentWindow to take over another application's window. The rest of the program is written with wxWindows. I'm getting the X11 window ID from wx, and trying to

Re: Bash design principles for handling large subshell data piping ? (WAS: DD and split problem (need ideas)....)

2006-05-02 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 08:52:18PM +0300, Maxim Vexler wrote: Instead you can use subshell (tested) like this: ( FLAG=any while [ $FLAG ] do cat /DVD-MOUNT-DIR/backup.img.gz.* echo Please put next DVD and press Y + Enter /dev/tty echo If there is

Re: Bash design principles for handling large subshell data piping ? (WAS: DD and split problem (need ideas)....)

2006-05-02 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 10:16:45PM +0300, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 09:16:14PM +0300, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: When you run 'prog1 | prog2', both run in parallel, having a small buffer (IIRC in Linux one page = 4KB, not sure if tunable) Maximum capacity is 16 pages

Re: vsftpd - solved

2006-04-30 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 10:31:57AM +0300, Livneh Ran wrote: Hi. Thanks for your reply. There's nothing that I saw in the vsftpd.conf file that can fulfill my needs (regarding the FTP issue ofcourse...), not even the advanced configuration. I will adopt Yedidyah Bar-David's recommendation and

Re: Need recommendation for task scheduler

2006-04-26 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 09:28:56AM +0300, Chen Shapira wrote: Hi Linuxers, For large production system, I'm looking for a scheduler with the following capabilities: * Ability to run tasks on many servers from one central location (Preferably using SSH). * Ability to process

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: vsftpd]

2006-04-26 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi all, I am forwarding a message for a friend who for some reason has hard time posting himself. Please reply also to him (CCed). -- Didi - Forwarded message from Livneh Ran [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Subject: Linux discussion forum Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:29:51 +0300 From: Livneh Ran

Re: Security holes in Firefox and Mozilla Web browsers

2006-04-20 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 03:20:40PM +0300, Omer Zak wrote: The recent news about multiple security vulnerabilities in Firefox 1.5, and the lack of information about the Mozilla browser (the fatter older brother of Firefox) lead me to ask what is the corresponding information about Mozilla.

Re: debian 2.6 install and adsl

2006-04-20 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 04:54:41PM +0300, Avraham Rosenberg wrote: On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 03:34:08PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Have you read the latest DWN? It could be that you can jump right to the 21st century, leaving 32 bit behind. Hi, Tanks for the

Re: ssh access to a provider which only gives you FTP

2006-04-16 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 11:49:22AM +0300, Random Penguin wrote: Hi, I am looking for a tool that provides me ssh/telnet equivalent functionality on a machine where I only have ftp access. Sorely lacking in FTP generally is the ability to create symlinks, and to see out of your own FTP

Re: Shared Object, ID yourself

2006-04-06 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 08:05:40PM +0300, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Orna Agmon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Because my problem is a specific shared object which, contrary to reasonable and normal installations, is NOT a symlink. All I got is libpgc.so, and I need to guess which compiler version

reading a specific session of a cd

2006-04-03 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, I want to create an exact copy of a CD which has more than one session. dd if=/dev/DEV of=file will only read the first session. Any idea how to read further sessions? And also how to use them (apart from burning them and mounting)? -- Didi

Re: reading a specific session of a cd

2006-04-03 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Thanks to all who replied. On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 03:08:47PM +0200, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: Here are some pointers. 1. You can get a non-exact copy by mounting the desired session with the session=X mount option. Yes, that's what I know from the past, but it's not helpful if you want

Re: reading a specific session of a cd

2006-04-03 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 03:12:20PM +0300, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 02:48:34PM +0300, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: Hi, I want to create an exact copy of a CD which has more than one session. dd if=/dev/DEV of=file will only read the first session. Any idea how

Re: Telux: Embedded Linux Bring-Up on 9 April

2006-04-02 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 04:02:28PM +0300, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 03:53:58PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: The Tel Aviv Linux Club (Telux - http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/telux/ ) will gather again to hear the presentation of Ori Idan Embedded Linux Bring-UP - a Short War

Re: firefox friendly credit card service

2006-03-29 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 10:44:42AM +0200, Uri Even-Chen wrote: Skliarouk Arieh wrote: Hello, I want to choose credit card service that is firefox friendly. From my experience, isracard.co.il is not friendly. Slightly off topic, but bank websites are also not compatible with Firefox.

Re: Problem: can't do X11 forwarding over ssh

2006-03-28 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 08:03:07PM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: On Tuesday, 28 בMarch 2006 19:23, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Oded Arbel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I still can't get X11 over ssh to work, with or without specifying -X on the ssh command line. Have you tried ssh -Y? Not

Re: Problem: can't do X11 forwarding over ssh

2006-03-28 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 09:23:00PM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: Can you try strace on sshd and compare the traces? I rather not - the second (working) server is a production server which has clients occasionally log in through ssh, I'm loath to take it down for this test. I am not trying to

Re: nfs mount to machine (which is aftereards down)

2006-03-26 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 03:02:44PM +0200, Rafi Gordon wrote: Hello, I am mounting a solaris folder (/export/home) by adding to /etc/fstab on a linux station the following: 192.168.0.10:/export/home /mnt/solaris nfs auto,rw where 192.168.0.10 is the address of the solaris station. I

Re: new computer

2006-03-17 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 05:04:18PM +0200, Avraham Rosenberg wrote: E. If you are looking for el-cheapo solution nothing beats the 754/Sempron combo. What is that ? Sempron is AMD's current cheap line, replacing the Duron line. Main difference with Athlon is a much smaller cache. This might

Re: Kernel Traffic Replacement?

2006-03-15 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 09:32:49AM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: Zack Brown ceased summarizing the Kernel Traffic discussions at November 2005. What on-line resources do you use now when you want to follow new developments in Linux Kernel? Me too :-) He recommends some thinge here:

Re: Interface not RUNNING

2006-03-14 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 10:09:30PM +0200, Gil Freund wrote: Hi, I have two Prolient system, which have a dual NIC in addition to the on board NICs. I on of the systems I see the following on the first port of the NIC: eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:0A:54:BA:C4 UP

Re: accessing my computer from a windows box

2006-03-08 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 04:37:31PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I need a way to get some files from my home computer (Ubuntu) and bring them to my work computer. I don't want any permanent solution, but something like scp. I tried the pscp from putty but it won't open for

Re: Helping Linux move into business: FireFox vs. IE

2006-02-20 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 01:58:20PM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: This naturally assumes that the user does not install a private copy of the app. Which is a bit tougher in the case of firefox. And frankly even in the case of OpenOffice. Both are rather self-contained. Its the same problem

y2hack4.org

2006-02-19 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi all, I know some people here care for this site, I hope the manager is here too, or at least someone who knows him. y2hack4.org/wiki suffers a severe case of wikispam. Please clean and close it if it's not alive anymore. Google for wikispam if you do not know what's that. -- Didi

Re: Linux machine with 5 Lan cards + Wireless for 460 NIS :-)

2006-02-10 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 10:00:30AM +0200, Rami Addady wrote: Hello, I'm looking for Wireless router and come across some Linux hacking to Linksys Wireless-G Router (model WRT54G) http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/tutorials/article.php/3562391 Can be found in Israel starting 460 NIS

Re: dual core dual os

2006-02-06 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 09:55:55AM +0200, Erez D wrote: hi is it possible to run using dual core cpu 2 different osS at the same time ( i.e. linux on one, and win on the other) ? Not more or less than it's possible to do so on a 2-cpu SMP machine. That is, generally it isn't possible. See

Re: Looking for Backup solutions for Linux

2006-01-25 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 11:34:29PM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 11:08:14PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: I agree that 120GB (as opposed to 20GB, as I thought before) suggest a tape solution. Still, the large up-front cost of the tape drive, coupled with the

Re: (no subject)

2006-01-24 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 04:55:37AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, In order to avoid using undefined variables one can use the syntax: echo ${badvarname:?} which will result in error message would the variable be bad (not defined or empty). This kind of reference is tedious

Re: strange nfs behaviour

2006-01-23 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 06:06:58PM +0200, Shlomo Solomon wrote: Any clues would be appreciated Re /home, /boot - maybe they are different filesystems? If so, you should know the kernel nfs server (which is almost certainly what you use) does not cross FS bounderies. Export them explicitely. Re

Re: Having and using /dev/fd0 both in and out a chroot environment

2006-01-21 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 07:09:43PM +0200, karl shaul wrote: I have /dev/fd0 both in and out a chroot environment. Obviuosly this is on the same hardware. Are there any bad outcomes that could arise and how to avoid them? If I chroot and mount a floppy, which /dev/fd0 will be used? Can I just

Re: GPL and In-house Source Modifications [was Re: Microsoft propaganda]

2006-01-21 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 10:10:56PM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: But where does it say it in the GPL? Saying one thing in the philosophy section of a website, does not make it part of the license. I don't doubt that's the intent, it's just not the license. If you carefully read the GPL,

Re: Problem encoding wavs to mp3

2006-01-20 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 03:43:49PM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: Hi list. I recently bought a usbdrive/mp3 player which has the option of recording. It records sound to WAV files encoded using IMA_ADPCM 8KHz, which play nicely on my computer (Mandriva 2006) w/o any problem, using all the

Re: Security hole?

2006-01-19 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 05:11:33PM +0200, Efraim Yawitz wrote: Hi, I was just wondering what could be done against the following seemingly huge security hole in Linux (or any Unix-type system). The system call mknod can only be used by root to make special device

Re: openoffice 2 on debian sarge

2006-01-18 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 12:26:43PM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Hi I'd like to use OpenOffice 2 on an LTSP server that runs Debian Sarge. What packages source would you recommend? It seems to be availble at backports.org . Anybody using it? A recent discussion on hebrew@openoffice.org.il

Re: vmware player images and gpl

2006-01-05 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 08:28:41PM +0200, Diego Iastrubni wrote: Hi all, For all those who are still living in a bobble, vmware released some I was, thanks. How to make new images for this tool...? (evaluating other vmware products...?) They used to have a tool on their site called

Re: [OT] The System Administrator song

2006-01-05 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 09:18:15PM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 20:59 +0200, Lior Kesos wrote: Maybe totally on topic I don't know.. Enjoy if you haven't seen this one yet... http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7193470719293309352 AARRRH! No

Re: CD burning under Debian Sarge?

2005-12-25 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 03:40:41PM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: After upgrade to Debian Sarge, I have not been successful in burning CD-Rs using xcdroast (version 0.98alpha15), or cdrecord (version Cdrecord-Clone 2.01.01a01). I use kernel 2.6.8-1-686, and there are indeed warnings by cdrecord

Re: Generating events in X

2005-12-19 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 05:52:46PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Hi all, I want to make an X application think that a keyboard event has happened. Is there a generic (i.e. - that works on any X application) way to send X events to it? The XTEST extension. A useful example program is

Re: Killing pump. Forever.

2005-11-29 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 05:40:44AM +0200, Eli Marmor wrote: Hi, I know that I can look for the answer in the operating system, but maybe one has a faster answer: Under Morphix (a Debian-based live-CD distro), I have a running DHCP client daemon, running as pump -i eth0. To disable it, I

Re: Evil lightnings (or: Advice UPS)

2005-11-20 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 01:41:45AM +0200, Oren Held wrote: Hi, First thunder sounds I get to hear this year Any good/bad experience with Advice UPS (P or ECOM 600/700) relationship with Linux? http://www.advice.co.il supplies a Linux software, however seems like it's an evil binary...

Re: building 32bit environment on top of debian amd

2005-11-14 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 11:04:01AM +0200, Yair Friedman wrote: I am trying to build 32bit environment to run applications not supported yet in amd64 environment such as both environment are sarge-based. I follow the instructions in

Re: Debian X problems

2005-11-12 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 02:26:53PM +0200, Ori Idan wrote: I have just installed debian on an IBM X31 I installed from sarge netinstall I changed the sources to unstable did apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade apt-get install gnome Then I tried to reboot the system, everything seemed to

Re: Debian X problems

2005-11-12 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 11:27:25PM +0200, Ori Idan wrote: I tried both Failsafe gnome and Failsafe terminal options. In failsafe gnome I got the splash screen and stack on this splash. On failsafe terminal I got back to gdm. I have GNOME, KDE and XFCE, I tried all of them and got the same

Re: Petitition for Nvidia to Release Open-Source Drivers

2005-11-07 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 11:49:51AM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: Check: http://www.petitiononline.com/nvfoss/petition.html for a petition I set up for Nvidia to release open-source drivers. Please sign it, and help spread the word. How many people read it and commented before spreading it?

Re: A Conundrum: weird load average

2005-11-06 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 01:05:39PM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: Hi list. I have a problem with a P4 (hyper-threaded) powered server. It constantly has a load average of 2.something, while looking with top I don't see any process actually taking all that CPU resource. I don't have a very

Re: Virtual Console switching:

2005-10-31 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 09:42:26AM +0200, Rafi Gordon wrote: Hi, On my fedora core 3 , running alt/ctrl/f2 changes to virtual console number 2.(According to /etc/inittab, there are 6 virtual consoles). My question is : how is it done ? what is the chain of actions (or maybe single action)

Re: Virtual Console switching:

2005-10-31 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 01:46:14PM +0200, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: On ב', 2005-10-31 at 10:32 +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: The X case may be different (I don't know). X grabs the alt-Fx combination from the kernel, and gives it ctrl-alt-Fx instead. I'm not sure whether that's a user space

Re: kernel building question

2005-10-29 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 09:09:59PM +0200, Aaron wrote: Hi all, I am trying to build a custom kernel for debian and as I am building I see a ton of scsi drivers, go by. There is no way I need all these drivers, but how do I determine which ones I need? A recent issue of kernel traffic

Re: immitating Magiccard with linux.

2005-10-19 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 12:37:09PM +0200, Elazar Leibovich wrote: There's a PCI card called Magiccard[1] which is recoverring one of your harddrive's partitions after each period of time or manually. The main use of that is to back up a windows partition, and make ruining it impossible. I'd

Re: [Semi-OT] Hardware questions

2005-10-14 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 09:39:49PM +0200, Peter wrote: On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Ira Abramov wrote: Not a girl Not yet a woman Ira Abramov Shouldn't you, like, slightly tune your .sig generator ? ;-) Maybe it has a setting for 'gender' ? g Newcomers might don't know this was once a

Re: VMware Internals Expert

2005-10-10 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 08:03:11AM +0200, Eli Marmor wrote: Hello, I need a VMware internals expert urgently; The problem is too complex to detail it here, and it may be off-topic for most subscribers, so I'll be grateful if anybody who is expert in VMware or knows another expert, will

Re: Wireless card

2005-10-10 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 10:04:31PM +0200, Eran Tromer wrote: Hi, Can anyone point me to a nice cheap 802.11g wireless adapter, either PCI or USB, that has good [1] Linux drivers and is available in Israel? I went over the first three dozen results for wireless adapters on Zap, and as far

Re: Help needed for the KODIX project

2005-10-03 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi Robert, On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 04:42:18PM +, Robert Wallner wrote: Hi all The Kodix project started around 2001, originally as a bunch of replacement and add-on packages for RedHad systems of those times (6.2 iirc). With time, the number of packages increased continously, until one

Re: dnotify (was: Re: How can i tell if another process is writing to a file?)

2005-09-29 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 01:17:03PM +0300, guy keren wrote: hopefully, not too fast - you should remember that there is no 2.7 kernel series any more - all the development is now done in the normal 2.6 kernel series, and they assume the distributions will do the stabilization work. Not only

Re: sleeping process consumes CPU

2005-09-29 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 11:37:34AM +0300, Boris Zingerman wrote: Hi list I'm runnig XP SP2 under vmware-5 on my linux box ( RH9 kernel 2.4.28 ) and I see that vmware-wx constantly uses 15-20% of CPU even when no application is open in XP. But what is more interesting is that top always

Re: performance diffrence between two servers

2005-09-29 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 12:22:31PM +0300, Michael Ben-Nes wrote: Hi Everyone I transfered a perl script driven web site ( not mod-perl ) to a new server. On the old server the performance where quite good and on the new one they sucks big time. Old Server is: CPU: Intel(R)

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