Who can help with getting newest RedHat distribution

2001-12-28 Thread alex
Hello! Who can help with getting newest RedHat distribution in Tel-Aviv area? Thanks Bergal Alexander 055-566458 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Tip: Upgrading the SSH Daemon

2001-12-28 Thread Shlomi Fish
Sagi Bashari and I came up with a way to upgrade SSH without a need for a physical access to the computer. I sucessfully managed to upgrade SSH this way. I'd like to share it here. What you do is compile and install another SSH version, and run sshd on a different port (say 29). Then, you login

Re: Tip: Upgrading the SSH Daemon

2001-12-28 Thread Yotam Rubin
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 11:49:36AM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: Sagi Bashari and I came up with a way to upgrade SSH without a need for a physical access to the computer. I sucessfully managed to upgrade SSH this way. I'd like to share it here. What you do is compile and install another SSH

Re: Tip: Upgrading the SSH Daemon

2001-12-28 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001, Shlomi Fish wrote about Tip: Upgrading the SSH Daemon: Sagi Bashari and I came up with a way to upgrade SSH without a need for a physical access to the computer. I sucessfully managed to upgrade SSH this way. I'd like to share it here. What you do is compile and

Re: Tip: Upgrading the SSH Daemon

2001-12-28 Thread Uri Bruck
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Nadav Har'El wrote: SPOILER WARING I hope I'm not spoiling anyone's fun, but here's what I would have done: Send my packaged locked (with my lock). The receiver can't open this, but he can put another lock on the same place (I'm assuming it's a sort of hanging lock

Re: Tip: Upgrading the SSH Daemon

2001-12-28 Thread guy keren
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Yotam Rubin wrote: That's not necessary. sshd is forked for every incoming connection. It is possible to connect to ssh, shut down the listening process and the session will remain unharmed. Then you would go about installing sshd as normal,. there's no reason to run

stupid me

2001-12-28 Thread solomon
This is unbelievably stupid of me - but I managed to delete /bin and /boot - serves me right for working as root. Of course I have backups of everything on CDRW, but the problem is that because of what I did, I can't mount the CD drive. Even simple commands like ls are all gone :-( any ideas

Re: stupid me

2001-12-28 Thread Noam Meltzer
On Fri, 2001-12-28 at 15:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is unbelievably stupid of me - but I managed to delete /bin and /boot - serves me right for working as root. Of course I have backups of everything on CDRW, but the problem is that because of what I did, I can't mount the CD drive.

Re: stupid me

2001-12-28 Thread Nimrod Simba Carmi
Hey, I'd boot from a Slackware installation CD, or any other installation CD probably, mount the backup CD and the partition with your system, and copy the files, and then reboot regularly. That should work. On Friday 28 December 2001 15:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is unbelievably

Re: stupid me

2001-12-28 Thread Eli Marmor
Nimrod Simba Carmi wrote: I'd boot from a Slackware installation CD, or any other installation CD probably, mount the backup CD and the partition with your system, and copy the files, and then reboot regularly. That should work. By the way: There is an amazing CDROM-based distro, from

Re: stupid me

2001-12-28 Thread Daniel Feiglin
Hi! I recently backed up my system and then completely wiped it during repartitiong. (I had Win 2k + Win 98 + SuSE 7.1). Partition Magic V6.0 on a 30Gb disk blew up. All I did was install a minimal system from the distro (took about half an hour) and then did a restore from the backup. Full

dosemu with hebrew

2001-12-28 Thread evyatar
I use dosemu-1.0.2 and I want to run dos program that use hebrew. I use kbd-1.06 to load hebrew in the console and then I can write hebrew. but after I run dosemu I lose all the hebrew support. evyatar = To unsubscribe,

Care and Feeding of Stupids (was: Re: stupid me)

2001-12-28 Thread Omer Zak
A comment about the thread of people advising someone who mistakenly erased critical files in his Linux installation: Can someone archive the thread, and show this to future whining clueless newbies (together with Marc's Differential SCSI Cable), when they complain that they get flames instead

RE: Care and Feeding of Stupids (was: Re: stupid me)

2001-12-28 Thread solomon
On 28-Dec-2001 Omer Zak wrote: This is a good example of the civil and serious treatment which was accorded to someone, who made a big and stupid mistake, but did not go about it like a whining clueless newbie. I'll take the last part as a compliment - thanks Just a few of comments 1 - After

Re: Tip: Upgrading the SSH Daemon

2001-12-28 Thread Yotam Rubin
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 01:33:39PM +0200, guy keren wrote: On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Yotam Rubin wrote: Don't CC me, I read all the lists I'm subscribed to. That's not necessary. sshd is forked for every incoming connection. It is possible to connect to ssh, shut down the listening process

Re: Care and Feeding of Stupids (was: Re: stupid me)

2001-12-28 Thread Ira Abramov
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Omer Zak wrote: Can someone archive the thread, and show this to future whining clueless newbies (together with Marc's Differential SCSI Cable), when they complain that they get flames instead of help from the mailing list? why, because once in a while the stupid gehts

Re: dosemu with hebrew

2001-12-28 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, evyatar wrote: I use dosemu-1.0.2 and I want to run dos program that use hebrew. I use kbd-1.06 to load hebrew in the console and then I can write hebrew. but after I run dosemu I lose all the hebrew support. Dosemu runs the video card's bios' init routine, which

Re: dosemu with hebrew

2001-12-28 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Off the top of my head, and I have not tried this out. Try using the MS supplied Hebrew tools. I think they are the best way to go about it. Very shortly, you load a codepage (962, I think), and a special device driver. Shachar evyatar wrote: I use dosemu-1.0.2 and I want to

Re: Tip: Upgrading the SSH Daemon

2001-12-28 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Yotam Rubin wrote: On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 01:33:39PM +0200, guy keren wrote: On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Yotam Rubin wrote: Don't CC me, I read all the lists I'm subscribed to. That's not necessary. sshd is forked for every incoming connection. It is possible to

Re: dosemu with hebrew

2001-12-28 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Matan Ziv-Av wrote: On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, evyatar wrote: I use dosemu-1.0.2 and I want to run dos program that use hebrew. I use kbd-1.06 to load hebrew in the console and then I can write hebrew. but after I run dosemu I lose all the hebrew support. Dosemu runs the

Re: stupid me

2001-12-28 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is unbelievably stupid of me - but I managed to delete /bin and /boot - serves me right for working as root. Of course I have backups of everything on CDRW, but the problem is that because of what I did, I can't mount the CD drive. Even

Re: Tip: Upgrading the SSH Daemon

2001-12-28 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Fri, Dec 28, 2001, Shlomi Fish wrote about Tip: Upgrading the SSH Daemon: This reminds me of a riddle: suppose you have a city where the thiefs that stroll the street steal every package unless it is locked. How is it possible for one person

Re: dosemu with hebrew

2001-12-28 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Matan Ziv-Av wrote: On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, evyatar wrote: I use dosemu-1.0.2 and I want to run dos program that use hebrew. I use kbd-1.06 to load hebrew in the console and then I can write hebrew. but after I run dosemu

Earlier this week: Linux Confrence at compaq

2001-12-28 Thread Shaul Karl
IGLU front page has an announcement about `Linux Confrence at compaq' that was held earlier this week. Can someone who attended post a short summary: * many / few people attended * worth / not worth the time and so on. More details then a short summary is desiarble. -- Shaul Karl

Re: Care and Feeding of Stupids (was: Re: stupid me)

2001-12-28 Thread Nimrod Simba Carmi
Hey everyone, Speaking of newbie question -- A while ago, I posted here a message looking for programmers to help us build a content engine system for School Sucks. I got tens of flames about it, people were amazed how come I dared asking for programmers without willing to pay more then

Re: a Scheduler question...

2001-12-28 Thread Gold Edward
mulix wrote: On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Ira Abramov wrote: A friend just asked me a curious question... if I knew if nice on linux has a decayed effect like on other unix systems or is it's effect long lasting? well, first I didn't know nice decays on other unices... anyone heard of

Re: Care and Feeding of Stupids (was: Re: stupid me)

2001-12-28 Thread mulix
[while i avoided the first incarnation of this discussion, it's been a rather dull day so far, and i'm aching for excitement. flamefest about to erupt - dont keep reading if you dont want to get burned.] On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Nimrod Simba Carmi wrote: A while ago, I posted here a message

Re: Tip: Upgrading the SSH Daemon

2001-12-28 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001, guy keren wrote about Re: Tip: Upgrading the SSH Daemon: that is necessary, since if your active connection(s) die (e.g. the box gets rebooted due to power outage, or something similar) during the process - you're _possibly_ locked out, in case your new install isn't

Re: Care and Feeding of Stupids (was: Re: stupid me)

2001-12-28 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001, Nimrod Simba Carmi wrote about Re: Care and Feeding of Stupids (was: Re: stupid me): A while ago, I posted here a message looking for programmers to help us build a content engine system for School Sucks. I got tens of flames about it, people were amazed how come I

Re: Tip: Upgrading the SSH Daemon

2001-12-28 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Nadav Har'El wrote: shlomi's doing things the same way. you and nadav are doing things the careless way. you'll get there faster if it works, but shlomi has a smaller 'Tochelet' (how's that called in english), if you account for both successfull and unsuccesfull

Re: Care and Feeding of Stupids (was: Re: stupid me)

2001-12-28 Thread Nimrod Simba Carmi
Hey, On Friday 28 December 2001 20:11, Nadav Har'El wrote: needing to find someone from Lithuania. Maybe I'm confused, but isn't this exactly what we told you will happen? Not quite. Most of you here just replied with flames if you wanna call it that, and it took me three weeks just to

tc question

2001-12-28 Thread Maxim Kryachko
Hi all. I'm trying to establish loadsharing over my 2 ADSL connections. My Ethernets have addresses 10.200.1.1 and 10.200.1.2, modems - 10.0.0.138 and 10.0.0.137. Adv-Router-HOWTO studied. Everything works OK, but when I run tc qdisc add dev eth0 root teql0 tc qdisc add dev eth1 root teql0

Re: tc question

2001-12-28 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Ahalan Maxim, Could it be that you didn't compile RTNETLINK inside the kernel? up until kernel 2.4.16 you need to compile it specifically. With 2.4.17 you'll need to compile DEV_NETLINK as yes. From the .config in the /usr/src/linux: CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV=y Thats if I remember correctly. Hetz

Re: Care and Feeding of Stupids (was: Re: stupid me)

2001-12-28 Thread Nimrod Simba Carmi
Hey, On Friday 28 December 2001 18:52, mulix wrote: A while ago, I posted here a message looking for programmers to help us build a content engine system for School Sucks. quite the stupidest name, imho, but never mind that. Well the next time you come up with a name that talks to half a

Re: Care and Feeding of Stupids (was: Re: stupid me)

2001-12-28 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001, Nimrod Simba Carmi wrote about Re: Care and Feeding of Stupids (was: Re: stupid me): why would people care how much you're willing to pay? if they think it's too low (which i think it is, by far, but then i wouldn't consider this type of job for a myriad of other

Re: Care and Feeding of Stupids (was: Re: stupid me)

2001-12-28 Thread Nimrod Simba Carmi
Hey, On Saturday 29 December 2001 01:27, Nadav Har'El wrote: Nimrod, most of these messages (especially the ones that appeared on the list) weren't flames, but rather people letting you know that your offer is *way* below what people would expect, and that you'll never get anybody from the

Re: Care and Feeding of Stupids (was: Re: stupid me)

2001-12-28 Thread Yotam Rubin
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 01:36:45AM +0200, Nimrod Simba Carmi wrote: [ snipped discussion ] Some of them might do it eventually, but others might prefer to get other jobs where they'll at least do something useful - e.g., instead of writing code for a site that aims to cheat in

Re: Care and Feeding of Stupids (was: Re: stupid me)

2001-12-28 Thread Nimrod Simba Carmi
Hey, On Saturday 29 December 2001 02:10, Yotam Rubin wrote: How is that done, exactly? By providing regurgitated assignments for students who would rather deceive than to actually learn something? Your disgustingly disrespectful attitude towards teachers sets the tone of your site, which

Re: Care and Feeding of Stupids (was: Re: stupid me)

2001-12-28 Thread Uri Bruck
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Nimrod Simba Carmi wrote: Hey everyone, Speaking of newbie question -- A while ago, I posted here a message looking for programmers to help us build a content engine system for School Sucks. I got tens of flames about it, people were amazed how come I dared

Re: Care and Feeding of Stupids (was: Re: stupid me)

2001-12-28 Thread Nimrod Simba Carmi
Hey, On Saturday 29 December 2001 02:45, Uri Bruck wrote: Let's see. schoolsucks is a site that sells readymade homework essays, with links to something called cheathouse.com, at some point during that thread you are refering to, you stated, IIRC, that if a high tax bracket is a problem,

Re: Care and Feeding of Stupids (was: Re: stupid me)

2001-12-28 Thread Uri Bruck
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Nimrod Simba Carmi wrote: Hey, On Saturday 29 December 2001 02:45, Uri Bruck wrote: Let's see. schoolsucks is a site that sells readymade homework essays, with links to something called cheathouse.com, at some point during that thread you are refering to, you

Re: Care and Feeding of Stupids (was: Re: stupid me)

2001-12-28 Thread Nimrod Simba Carmi
Hey, On Saturday 29 December 2001 03:21, Uri Bruck wrote: Some of us may not be very comfortable with being accessories to a crime (or is it a felony?) - the people on this list are the ones who use the OS you don't need to steal to get for free. As I said, nobody asked you to take it. I

Re: Care and Feeding of Stupids (was: Re: stupid me)

2001-12-28 Thread Uri Bruck
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Nimrod Simba Carmi wrote: Excuse me? The shonot is shonot from the rest of the subjects, if you're unable to understand that when you look at that menu -- maybe its best that you dont .. I know that's what it's supposed to mean - that's why it has to appear last,

Re: Care and Feeding of Stupids (was: Re: stupid me)

2001-12-28 Thread Nimrod Simba Carmi
Hey, On Saturday 29 December 2001 03:40, Uri Bruck wrote: I know that's what it's supposed to mean - that's why it has to appear last, not first. I never heard of a rule that says that shonot has to be the last one in the list -- if you're looking for a way to find why my site is bad there

Re: [OT] Educational conformity

2001-12-28 Thread Yotam Rubin
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 02:23:32AM +0200, Nimrod Simba Carmi wrote: Hey, Don't CC me when replying to the list. Receiving several copies of your cynical slabber is hazardous to my health. On Saturday 29 December 2001 02:10, Yotam Rubin wrote: How is that done, exactly? By providing

RE: Care and Feeding of Stupids (was: Re: stupid me)

2001-12-28 Thread Tzahi Fadida
Hi all, I know that i am not zadik shekula tchelet regarding off topics, but this flame war have gone too far. Take it OUTSIDE. * - * - * Tzahi Fadida [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax (+1 Outside the US) 240-597-3213 * - * - * - * - * - * To

Preparing a LILO-based boot diskette

2001-12-28 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi and Shabat Shalom. I installed kernel 2.4.16.11mdk (from Mandrake Cooker) on my Linux installation. It did not replace the old kernel but rather I have both version installed. I'd like to boot it instead. My father would kill me if I'll replace the Win98's MBR boot loader with LILO, so I'm

Re: Care and Feeding of Stupids (was: Re: stupid me)

2001-12-28 Thread mulix
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Nimrod Simba Carmi wrote: [major snippage. i'm no longer in the flaming mood] it's a free market. you are welcome to hire or not hire anyone you want. i do, however, discussing your hiring practices in such a manner on the list, shall we say, childish? I dont think