FW: Smoothwall and other Linux FWs ADSL (Revisited)

2002-12-02 Thread fredy
I've been using SmoothWall for a long time now with ADSL, I agree that as a firewall with pptp it isn't working on Israeli lines, I'm using it only as a router + firewall (3 legs - inter/intra/dmz) and as such it is very good. About the forked distro, it's still based on the 2.2 kernel, with

Re: units - was [OT] Story: The case of the 500-mile email

2002-12-02 Thread Ehud Karni
On Sun, 01 Dec 2002 19:07:50 +0200, voguemaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3. Using SIGALARM. I forgot how this is implemented. Never did go into this since it has problems (also among platforms). SIGALARM can be used by setting a signal handler (that does nothing). It functions by interrupting

Re: The PS1 puzzle in RH7.3/Gnome

2002-12-02 Thread Ehud Karni
On Sun, 1 Dec 2002 19:46:07 +0200 (EET), Omer Zak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone please point out which system script clobbers my precious setting of PS1 or what other mistake did I commit? The simplest way is to add set -x to your script. You'll see if it is really called and any

Re: units - was [OT] Story: The case of the 500-mile email

2002-12-02 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Ehud Karni [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The ping proves nothing. Most of the ping delay is computing delay caused by the NICs and the switches (and routers and bridges for WAN). Some of the delay is caused by the bandwidth. While I agree with you in the context of the comment you are replying

wine spec?

2002-12-02 Thread Diego Iastrubni
I am compiling wine most of the, time and would like to package it before installing. Anyone has a nice spec made up before I make one/google for one? = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in

The bright future of VMware

2002-12-02 Thread Omer Zak
As those who follow the questions which I have recently posted to Linux-IL could predict, I have recently experimented with VMware's wares. My conclusion led me quicly to the investor relationship page in their Web site, where I was informed that the company is privately held, so I can't buy

Re: units - was [OT] Story: The case of the 500-mile email

2002-12-02 Thread voguemaster
02/12/02 11:52:53, Ehud Karni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 01 Dec 2002 19:07:50 +0200, voguemaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3. Using SIGALARM. I forgot how this is implemented. Never did go into this since it has problems (also among platforms). SIGALARM can be used by setting a signal

[SOLVED] Re: The PS1 puzzle in RH7.3/Gnome

2002-12-02 Thread Omer Zak
On 1 Dec 2002, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: I would be very surprized if ~/.bash_profile got executed for every xterm. It should not be: ~/.bash_profile is only sourced for login shells, cf. man bash. From your description, I think your system behaves properly and according to documentation. I

Hack sought

2002-12-02 Thread Doron Shikmoni
Hi all, I'm having this small but nagging problem and I thought I might find some enlightment here. The essential part of the problem description (you don't want to hear the whole story...) is this: I have a client machine which sends UDP datagrams to a Linux based server. Under some specific

Re: The bright future of VMware

2002-12-02 Thread Hetz Ben-Hamo
My conclusion led me quicly to the investor relationship page in their Web site, where I was informed that the company is privately held, so I can't buy their shares. No wonder. The smart venture capitalists dump on the public worthless shares in lame dotcoms, while they keep to

DiskOnKey Problem

2002-12-02 Thread Amichai Rotman
Hi Clan, I am having a problem with an old 32 MB DiskOnKey I got a a present. First time I pluged it in it got detected as /dev/sda - no problem there... But when I copy files to it and then try to read them on a Win machine I get the message: Media not formated, whould you like to format it

Re: DiskOnKey Problem

2002-12-02 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Amichai Rotman, from the post of Tue, 03 Dec: First time I pluged it in it got detected as /dev/sda - no problem there.. But when I copy files to it and then try to read them on a Win machine I get the message: Media not formated, whould you like to format it now? well, if it's

Re: DiskOnKey Problem

2002-12-02 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 01:59, Amichai Rotman wrote: Hi Clan, I am having a problem with an old 32 MB DiskOnKey I got a a present. First time I pluged it in it got detected as /dev/sda - no problem there... But when I copy files to it and then try to read them on a Win machine I get the

Re: Hack sought

2002-12-02 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 00:52, Doron Shikmoni wrote: Ideally, what I'd like is to have an iptables mangle rule, which will just insert 0 into the CS field of any UDP packet that satisfies some criteria (zero is legit UDP). Can this be done without writing iptables extension modules? Or, is