Re: Sony Vaio

2002-04-07 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 05:56:28PM -0800, Aviram Jenik wrote: Anybody tried Linux on a Sony Vaio? (specifically Sony Vaio R505). Two main things that not working: Video card and modem. Things that I'd very much like to see as well: baterry management and APM support (e.g. hibernation). hi

Re: c/unix question

2002-04-07 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 04:00:21PM +0300, Erez Doron wrote: hi I am trying to open a tcp port to a server, did it and it works. now i blocked the server via firewall. trying to connect just hangs. how do i make 'connect' timeout ? In this case, you make your firewall REJECT the

Re: Meta-Post: Emacs/Vim/Perl/Python/other utils usage questions

2002-04-09 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 09:12:33AM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: So, my question is: are how to do this in XEmacs/Vim/Perl/Python/etc off-topic in this list or will reduce the SNR? They are not r It's off topic if there's a better suited list for the subject. It's not off topic if it's somehow

Re: open source - is it that good..???

2002-04-10 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 09:36:03AM +0200, Shai Bentin wrote: I've read what you all have written. I tend to agree with all of you. First of all, please print out and read at least three times Gilad's post. He makes the point with eloquence unmatched. Nontheless, I shall now respond verbatim

Re: recursive chmod

2002-04-15 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 06:42:34PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! since no one answered i wish to rephrase and add. Can someone point me or write a simple perl script (and i know some of u can do i in 1 line :) that changes all the files attributes (ex: chmod 766) in an ftp

Re: recursive chmod

2002-04-15 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 09:12:30AM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: As the up to recently called mulix seem to assume that the fact that To misquote Shakespeare, a mulix is a mulix by any other name. he mentions that the sig is non-RFC compliant will immediatly mean everyone will know what

Re: News Server...

2002-04-20 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 08:43:30PM +0300, Amir Tal wrote: hi all, i was wondering if anyone can recommend a good news server, public, that has a lot of linux related newsgroups. There are very few public news server available. You might want to use your provider's newsserver, that's why

Re: OT: The Heaviest Wave of Viruses

2002-04-21 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 10:40:42PM +0300, Eli Marmor wrote: The problem is NOT the received messages. My Linux is not vulnerable to viruses, and I already banned viruses in the past by procmail, and will do it in the future too. The problem is thousands of messages, sent from hundreds of

Re: Unable to connect to Gnutella

2002-04-22 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 08:42:17AM +0300, Amichai Rotman wrote: Hi all, I am trying to use Gnutella clients (like gnewtellium and qtella) and I am unable to connect... any pointers? http://tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Your question gives us absolutely nothing to work on,

Re: Forking twice in order to prevent the child from becoming a zombie?

2002-04-23 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 10:02:03PM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: Consider the following problem: How a process can have a child process for which the parent will not have to wait for completion and such that the child process will not become a zombie until the parent's termination? I

Re: a 'mount' question

2002-04-28 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 01:46:26PM +0300, Shai Bentin wrote: Sorry guys to have bothered you, I found out by my self!!! In that case, why don't you share it with the rest of the list, in case someone else looks for it in the future? ObLinuxTriviaQ: Using one standard unix command, hide a all

Re: a 'mount' question

2002-04-28 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 03:14:06PM +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: On Sun, 2002-04-28 at 15:09, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: On Sun, 2002-04-28 at 13:57, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: ObLinuxTriviaQ: Using one standard unix command, hide a all of the files in a single user's home directory, so

Re: a 'mount' question

2002-04-29 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 08:16:11AM -0400, Daniel Pearson wrote: On Sun, Apr 28, 2002, Muli Ben-Yehuda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following: ObLinuxTriviaQ: Using one standard unix command, hide a all of the files in a single user's home directory, so that they will be totally inaccessible

Re: monitoring module memory

2002-05-05 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 03:08:18PM +0300, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Hi, Is there a way to monitor how much memory a kernel module uses? I can do it very crudely by watching top while rmmoding/insmoding. Is there any tool that I am unaware of (and did not find on TFW) that does it better?

Re: monitoring module memory

2002-05-05 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 10:47:44PM +0300, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Muli Ben-Yehuda [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The notion of memory which the kernel module uses is not very well defined, since there are no clear boundaries between the module and the kernel (on cannot differentiate between

Re: Nicknames for my Hostname

2002-05-07 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 07:10:00PM +0300, Amir Tal wrote: The effect of the hostname command will only last until the next reboot, where the init scripts will set the name localhost for him - I assume that's not what he wants. This will happen at least in RedHat, and I would guess in most

3com 3c905cx unknown device

2002-05-11 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
Salutations, linux-il. I have a new 3com PCI NIC, which claims it is a 3c905cx, but lspci with the latest pci.ids file gives: 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation: Unknown device (rev 78) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11 I/O ports at 6500 [size=128]

Re: 3com 3c905cx unknown device

2002-05-11 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 10:33:14AM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: The word-wide EEPROM checksum is . Saved EEPROM settings of a 3Com Vortex/Boomerang: 3Com Node Address FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF (used as a unique ID only). OEM Station address ff:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF (used

Re: upgrade urgently to Redhat kernel 2.4.18-4 (was 56k modem..)

2002-05-13 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 12:36:05AM +0300, Amir Sela wrote: Hmm.. I'm using 7.3, haven't had any problems with my ext3 partitions... is this something official ? Yes. Check the advisory redhat issued on the weekend sometime, about their kernel. Issues with ext3 and SMP, if I remember

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-17 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 04:32:37PM +0300, Diego Iastrubni wrote: moshe: the big question is how many people could not read that sentence. if the answer is most, then linux-il is not hebrew ready. btw it is utf8. Diego: The big question, is how many of the people who actually contribute to

pretty printing source code

2002-05-19 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
Hi, I'm looking for a way to pretty print some source code into a post script file. Possible options: 1. use emacs' 'ps-print-buffer', which prints directly to the printer. Can I get it to print to a ps file instead? 2. a LaTeX package? Lyx support? groff? 3. source - HTML - postscript?

Re: pretty printing source code

2002-05-19 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:27:15AM +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 23:56, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: I'm looking for a way to pretty print some source code into a post script file. Possible options: Gilad wrote: Of course! c2ps is the greatest gift the Technion has

Re: Strange hdd error

2002-05-23 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 08:13:50PM +0300, Eliran wrote: rulix:~$ hdd: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } Nice hostname you've got there. end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 0 hdd: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } hdd: drive not ready for command The CDROM will not respond

Re: YOM IYOON?

2002-05-27 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 01:03:17PM +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 09:19, Karasik, Vitaly wrote: I would like to ask if someone knows about up-coming YOM IYOON regarding Linux, and specially Linux in Israel, Linux in desktop, etc... [ rant about hostile media

Re: YOM IYOON?

2002-05-28 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 11:10:26AM +0300, guy keren wrote: On Tue, 28 May 2002, Amir Tal wrote: personally, i think that Hetz's basic idea about a commercial Yom iyoon is better, and will serve linux better then just another get together of some already linux users. a-ha. but why

Re: tcp time-outs from a linux server

2002-05-29 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 04:33:34PM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Hi I noticed that my linux server was unable to connect to some remote smtp server. Simple 'telnet remoteserver 25' gives a timeout (no connection seems to be established). When I try to connect from some windows workstation I

Re: changing name of modules directory

2002-05-29 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 02:49:41PM -0400, Arie Folger wrote: Hi, I just compiled a kernel for the first time, and although there are some Congratulations! Doesn't it just feel good? glitches (probably didn't configure well enough, gotta do it again ;-)), I am planning to compile a few

Re: RMS is back again

2002-06-01 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 01:26:03AM +0300, Christoph Bugel wrote: On 2002-05-31, Eliran wrote: Well, here is another response of Richard M. Stallman the FSF founder. Now he condemns the UnitedLinux (Suse, Turbo Linux, Mandrake and others joined forces). What next ? Maybe you

ANN: syscalltrack v0.71 boxing iguana released

2002-06-01 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
syscalltrack-0.71, the 7th _alpha_ release of the linux kernel system call tracker, is available. syscalltrack supports both version 2.4.x of the linux kernel. The current release contains some major enhancements, and various bug fixes and code cleanups. See details below. * What is

Re: small and extremely annoying question

2002-06-03 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 04:32:25PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What userland tool can derive /usr/local/bin from: `which gcc` that returns: /usr/local/bin/gcc You should read more shell scripts grin mulix@tea:~$ basename `which gcc` gcc mulix@tea:~$ dirname `which gcc` /usr/local/bin

Re: Simulating a high latency link on a LAN using netfilter

2002-06-04 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 04:54:47PM +0300, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Amir Sela [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone knows of a netfilter module that can be used (or any other way) to deliberately stall a packet in the router ? I want to create a situation in which machine A communicates with

Re: KEdit RTL scrolling.

2002-06-07 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 05:16:43PM +0300, Diego Iastrubni wrote: The small editor I made is found at: http://dgi_il.tripod.com/linux/qt-edit.tar.bz2 to compile it, you need some tricks, in mandrake at least, since they forgot to do some part in their installation. export

Re: [Job Offer] Qlusters is looking for a few good main()

2002-06-10 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 01:16:13PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: #endif // __KERNEL__ Using C++ style comments in kernel code? That tends to greatly limit the compilers you can use to compile your code (assuming you are not writing C++ kernel modules, that is).

Re: [Job Offer] Qlusters is looking for a few good main()

2002-06-10 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 01:43:35PM +0300, Lior Kesos wrote: As for implying that we might write kernel modules in C++, sir, such a comment would cause me (as a Qlusters kernel hacker) to demand satisfaction at dawn, sir. I'll settle for a beer after the revolution OS event, though ;)

Re: [Job Offer] Qlusters is looking for a few good main()

2002-06-10 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 03:31:10PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: As for implying that we might write kernel modules in C++, sir, such a comment would cause me (as a Qlusters kernel hacker) to demand satisfaction at dawn, sir. I'll settle for a beer after

Re: [Job Offer] Qlusters is looking for a few good main()

2002-06-10 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 05:17:06PM +0300, Official Flamer/Cabal NON-Leader wrote: Quoth Muli Ben-Yehuda: The kernel can only be compiled with ONE compiler, gcc, due to extensive use of gcc'isms[1]. C++ style comments, which personally I Errr, you're not exactly correct. It can also

Re: [Job Offer] Qlusters is looking for a few good main()

2002-06-10 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
[Email Advisor Warning: language flamewar brewing, possibility 60%. Dump message? NO. Are you sure? YES. Really? YES. Really Re^C^C] On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 05:22:17PM +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 13:28, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: As for implying that we might write

atomically opening and deleting a file

2002-06-11 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
Is there a way to open a file (get an fd) and then delete it, in one atomic operation? I need to open a temporary file (but with a fixed name, so mkstemp() and friends are not an option) and then make sure it doesn't remain behind if the program should die unexpectedly. Doing open(foo, ...);

Re: atomically opening and deleting a file

2002-06-11 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 01:52:29PM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: Is there a way to open a file (get an fd) and then delete it, in one atomic operation? I need to open a temporary file (but with a fixed name, so mkstemp() and friends

Re: atomically opening and deleting a file

2002-06-11 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 02:10:18PM +0300, guy keren wrote: On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: I need to open a temporary file (but with a fixed name, so mkstemp() and friends are not an option) Why a fixed name? Can it be a symlink? Because I'm doing it as part

Re: atomically opening and deleting a file

2002-06-12 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 11:21:18AM +0300, Adi Stav wrote: On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 01:25:11PM +0300, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: Is there a way to open a file (get an fd) and then delete it, in one atomic operation? I need to open a temporary file (but with a fixed name, so mkstemp

Re: atomically opening and deleting a file

2002-06-12 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 10:45:02AM +0300, guy keren wrote: On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: Using a secure, private directory was indeed the answer. Thanks to everyone who replied. The code, for the curious, is available at http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi

Re: Kernel Documentation Links

2002-06-23 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
http://lkdp.tk Excellent documents, up to date and comprehensive. The project is looking for volunteers [hint, hint]. Also http://kernelnewbies.org, for those who don't know it already. -- http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~mulix/ http://syscalltrack.sf.net/ msg20084/pgp0.pgp Description:

Fwd: Upcoming OpenSSH vulnerability

2002-06-25 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
This is important enough that I'm forwarding it here, for the benefit of those of you who don't read bugtraq (you should, you really should). Short version: openssh ALL VERSION vulnerable, although we don't know to what exeactly, yet. Newest version 3.3p1 has code to reduce the risk, by making

Re: www.iglu.org.il

2002-06-25 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 11:26:19AM +0300, Gabor Szabo wrote: give a blank white page for me. Is it only me ? My fault, due to reasons which will become obvious soon, already fixed. touch(1) is now on my list of dangerous commands ;) -- http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~mulix/

Re: An American Programmer Looking for a Job Here

2002-06-26 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 11:32:08AM +0300, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: Shlomi Fish wrote: I send this message on behalf of Jay Glascoe, an unemployed programmer whom I have been corresponding with recently. I heard that there is a genuine lack of Linux programmers in Israel, and so

august penguins - key signing party announcement

2002-06-29 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
This is an early (very early) announcement that we will be holding a key signing party during the august penguins event on August 2nd. What is a key signing party? A key signing party is a get-together of people who use the PGP encryption system with the purpose of allowing those people to

Re: KDE 3.0.2 is out, but...

2002-07-07 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 10:44:51AM +0300, Guy Baruch wrote: IIRC output of gcc-3.1 is not binary compatible with output of gcc-2.9x (I'm not sure if it's just for C++ or also for C as well) The C++ ABI (Application(?) Binary Interface) changed for the 3.0 gcc release, and was fixed for the 3.1

Re: KDE 3.0.2 is out, but...

2002-07-08 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 08:26:24PM -0400, Arie Folger wrote: But Muli ^ ? says he compiled KOffice from sources and Hebrew works perfectly. You should check whether it is pure and simple an xfs issue. I have never in my life compiled KOffice. My CPU time is spent compiling

Re: ppSCSI for latest kernel?

2002-07-13 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 10:09:56PM +0300, Amir Hardon wrote: what I did then was applying the patch manually - I read it line by line, and using my healthy logic, I pushed code where I thought it will fit, it was a long process but in the end I had it working... the sad thing is that I

Re: Find out about hard links :

2002-07-14 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 10:59:05AM +0200, Iftach Hyams wrote: I am looking for the highest lavel call to indicate if a file is hard linked (and later where are the over links in a given subdirectory). Currently the file system is ext2 but I prefer to do it general. To see how many hard

Re: knesset meeting on open source

2002-07-14 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 01:17:27PM +0300, Guy Cohen wrote: Some one want to summaries? There's an archive of the discussion here: http://www.knesset.gov.il/committees/heb/online/protocol.asp?tid=37 As for summarizing, I only joined in the middle after hearing about it on IRC (shame be on the

device files implementing mmap

2002-07-15 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
Consider this (not so hypothetical case): we have a linux device driver implementing a device file. This device file has a cyclic ring buffer, and data gets written into it (by the kernel) occasionally. We want to allow user space processes to mmap(2) the ring buffer, in order to read the data

Re: device files implementing mmap

2002-07-16 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 11:30:59AM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2002, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote about device files implementing mmap: ... My question: how does the kernel notify the user space process that there's new data to be read, 'n' bytes, starting from offset 'foo

Re: device files implementing mmap

2002-07-16 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 12:41:38PM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2002, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote about Re: device files implementing mmap: This is one that I'll have to benchmark (small read + mmap vs. large read), but it still doesn't solve the synchronization issue. How does

Re: device files implementing mmap

2002-07-16 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 01:10:04PM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2002, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote about Re: device files implementing mmap: It's not if you use the double buffer, since you always get old but correct data. If you use a single buffer, you might get garbage (you're

Re: Desktop Linux -- Linux lost

2002-07-23 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 02:14:22PM +0300, Eliran wrote: Nethack is a console game (even though there is a GUI version) that uses the keyboard keys (not the arrows keys, A...Z keys) for moving and other operations. Compare Diablo and Nethack. I did. Nethack won. Did you have a point? ObIGLU:

August Penguins PGP Key Signing Party

2002-07-27 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
Howdy, Penguin Lovers! As announced before here and elsewhere, we will have a PGP key signing party at the August Penguins event (this Friday, 0900, Tel Aviv Cinemateque, more details at http://www.iglu.org.il/august/). The key signing party will take place immediately after the movie, so

Re: KDE 3.0.2 RPM packages

2002-07-31 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 10:42:19PM -0400, Arie Folger wrote: On Tuesday 30 July 2002 20:06, Oded Arbel wrote: Mandrake has KDE 3.02 packages in cooker for some time now, and having a bleeding edge cooker installation at home (updated daily), i can attest to the stability of this version

Re: GNU Assembler #2

2002-07-31 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 02:42:43PM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Wed, Jul 31, 2002, Alexander V. Karelin wrote about GNU Assembler #2: ... asm( # Set the counter to zero movl$0,%edx # Save the starting point from the params movl12(%ebp), %ecx

Re: GNU Assembler #2

2002-07-31 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 04:56:37PM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Wed, Jul 31, 2002, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote about Re: GNU Assembler #2: many arguments, through a function pointer. Here's code that does it, doing in asm only the required bits: #include stdio.h typedef void (*pfunc

Re: GNU Assembler #2

2002-07-31 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 05:08:05PM +0300, Alexander V. Karelin wrote: Hmm. Hmmm Well, the problem with the first idea is that pushing stuff into stack directly from C code is not really worthy because a simple call to while may cause things to be pushed and popped around, which

IGLU in the news

2002-08-01 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
http://net.nana.co.il/Article/?ArticleID=3613 See y'all tomorrow... :) -- http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~mulix/ http://syscalltrack.sf.net/ msg20821/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Key signing party results

2002-08-02 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 05:27:58AM +0300, Yotam Rubin wrote: Hello, As you may or may not know, a key signing party was held today at the cinemateque. This party involved the identity verification of participants so their keys could be later signed by fellow participants. Although

Re: The Shindig (english translation)

2002-08-02 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 06:27:14PM +0300, Diego Iastrubni wrote: about the movie, it was really bad. But it did show us who are exactly those people: What?! I thought it was very good. Nothing that we didn't know before, but it certainly made those people whose writings I read every so often

Re: The Shindig (english translation)

2002-08-02 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 08:05:53PM +0200, David Bergman wrote: I would love to see some photos or even a video of the event, if someone managed to capture and post them on the net. These Linux events are rare and should be duly commemorated in a public web page, in my opinion. If no one

Fwd: Re: lecture slides

2002-08-04 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Beyond Security Ltd. X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2711.0600 To: Muli Ben-Yehuda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: lecture slides Here ya go. I apologize again for the formatting problems (e.g. the fact it's a ppt file) -- Aviram Jenik Beyond Security Ltd. http

Re: Fwd: Re: lecture slides

2002-08-04 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 03:35:13PM +0300, Christoph Bugel wrote: On 2002-08-04, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: http://www.iglu.org.il/august/tcp_spoofing.ppt If anyone wishes to download and export it to a more linuxish format, please send it to me and I'll upload it as well. I exported

Re: Key signing party results

2002-08-04 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 04:15:17PM +0200, Dvir Volk wrote: Those of you who did not participate, fret not - we'll have another key signing party in the next IGLU event. Which will be.? Fscked if I know. I know that at least gby and I are thinking about it. If you (or

Re: gcc question

2002-08-08 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 06:31:11PM +0300, Orr Dunkelman wrote: I've stumbled with the following problem regarding gcc. Assume for a moment I compile many files, some are header files, some are interface files, and some are the real program. When compiling with -O1 optimization things work,

Re: gcc question

2002-08-09 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 09:01:01PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: My question is, can I compile in the same command line some files under -O1 and some under -O3? If they're going to be linked together, that's a very bad idea. Otherwise, you could probably do it with some Makefile hackery.

Re: gcc question

2002-08-09 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 10:10:00AM +0300, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Muli Ben-Yehuda [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was thinking of kernel compilation, which requires -O2 (force inlining) -O3 turns -finline-functions on. -O2 turns -fforce-mem on, maybe that's what you meant. The kernel

Re: White spaces in URLs.

2002-08-09 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 08:09:45PM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: It appear that my old Netscape browser has troubles with URL that contain white spaces. An example would be `http://www.mycom.mynet/opps it has white spaces'. Just curious whether such a URL is complaint with the standards and

Re: localhost -- MARK -- ????

2002-08-11 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 03:47:31PM +0200, Ishai Parasol wrote: Hi I got localhost -- MARK -- in my log (/var/log/messages) every 20 minutes for a few hours. Any ideas what is it ? syslogd telling you that 20 minutes have passed and nothing interesting occured. That way, if there's no

Re: Run daemon + Stop daemon in python

2002-08-13 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 08:44:15PM +0200, Eliran wrote: Hello ! How can I start a daemon in python and later use a function to kill it ? The same way it's done in every other programming language? I used fork kill the parent but I didn't find anyway to find the child's pid. Is there a

Re: Run daemon + Stop daemon in python

2002-08-13 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 08:58:26PM +0200, Eliran wrote: Yes. But my program used : 'software -s' to start the daemon and later 'software -q' to stop the daemon. What? should I write the child's pid to a file and later read it ? That would depend entirely on your program's structure. You could

Re: Run daemon + Stop daemon in python

2002-08-13 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 09:06:39PM +0200, Eliran wrote: Take the 'fetchmail' program for example. You use 'fetchmail -d nn' to start the daemon, later when you want to stop it you type : 'fetchmail -q' there is no special structure, I used the same code as you but the child's code was in a

Re: Run daemon + Stop daemon in python

2002-08-13 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 09:16:29PM +0200, Eliran wrote: import os childpid = os.fork if (childpid == 0): child_stuff() else: os.exit() You definitely have to keep it somewhere outside the program, then. /var/run/foo/pid comes to mind as a reasonably place (assuming

Re: Raanaa Instalation Party

2002-08-15 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 07:17:49PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Assuming the date turns out ok, I'm willing to help with the actual installations. I have experience with Debian and RedHat. Likewise, assuming a suitable date. My specialty is weird installation problems and entertaining the

Re: hibernation in linux ?

2002-08-19 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
suspend/hibernation used to work fine on my Thinkpad T20. On my Thinkpad R30, they are somewhat flaky. I'll look into it one day when I'll find the time. -- calm down, it's *only* ones and zeros. http://syscalltrack.sf.net/ http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~mulix/ msg21195/pgp0.pgp

Re: Mirrors updates

2002-08-19 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 04:47:31PM +0300, Eli Marmor wrote: * GCC 3.2 which is not binary backward compatible with GCC 3.x Are you serious? gcc 3.2 has a fix to the C++ ABI which makes it binary incompatible with the C++ code compiled by gcc3.x under certain conditions (those where the ABI

Re: Gcc 3

2002-08-20 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 11:30:54PM +0200, Oleg Kobets wrote: I want to know what is speed differences between GCC 2.x and 3.x ? If you mean speed improvement in compiled programs, it varies depending on programs and compiler and optimization flags. If you have a specific application you care

Re: gentoo (was: lite distributions)

2002-08-20 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 10:01:45PM +0300, Diego Iastrubni wrote: To exact: - kernel, 2.4.19? special patches offered? Interesting tidbit re gentoo kernels: I had a chat with (one of?) their kernel maintainer(s) on irc a few weeks ago, and his method of testing new kernels was put it on the

Re: gdb bt display problem.

2002-08-21 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 08:15:34AM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: I don't understand why it should matter. gdb can analyze the stacks of programs that were compiled without debugging symbols. What about frame pointers? I remember checking once, but I don't recall the outcome. It's also possible

Re: Gcc 3

2002-08-21 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 11:41:40PM +0300, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: GCC 2.95 - decent speed (but slower compared to MS or Borland compilers) GCC 2.96 (Red Hat) - much slower GCC 3.0, 3.1, 3.2 - VERY slow even on a fast machine, but the compiled application is faster (around %10-%20 faster).

Re: PPtP

2002-08-22 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 12:01:13PM +0300, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: Michael Sternberg wrote: I'm using pptp client 1.1.0 with --quirks patch. Client works wonderful with Bezeq ADSL and Netvision Cable modems. The question is - will this client work in another

Re: PPtP

2002-08-22 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 09:26:24AM +0200, Michael Sternberg wrote: Hello I'm using pptp client 1.1.0 with --quirks patch. Client works wonderful with Bezeq ADSL and Netvision Cable modems. The question is - will this client work in another environments ? Does anybody have an

Re: Another postfix queue Q.

2002-08-25 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 10:17:17AM +0200, Ishai Parasol wrote: Hi Im Kvar Be-postfix queue Askinan... I use it as my smtp server and when I send an email it stays in the queue for one or two seconds, but sometimes it can stay there for 10-20 minutes. Why does it happen, what cause the long

Re: Linksys Wireless PCI card

2002-08-28 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 09:43:39AM +0200, Oleg wrote: Hi! I did not use Linksys, but I spoke extensivly with their sales guy who also happens to be a technician and he said that Linksys wireless router (it has nat, firewall rules based and 4 port hub) does indeed work in Israel with ADSL

Re: little code snipplet

2002-08-29 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 02:57:46PM +0300, Guy Cohen wrote: Here's a little modify (just a bit) snipplet from phreak about how to hide files and process. Canany one answer me why does it exit after it finds the first hidden process, and don't go on to hide the second hidden porcess? Nope, you

Re: Shutting Down an ADSL connection After two ADSL starts

2002-08-30 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 02:04:41PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: Starting ADSL services: (unknown)[12526]: log[main:pptp.c:74]: trying to connect to '10.0.0.138' warn[open_unixsock:pptp_callmgr.c:309]: Call manager for 10.0.0.138 is already running. fatal[callmgr_main:pptp_callmgr.c:124]: Could

Re: ess sound module and tecra8000

2002-08-31 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 02:55:39PM +0300, Amir Tal wrote: hi, had this laptop running RH73 with sound working, no prob. switched to sid, and lspci doesnt show any info about the sound card. of cource modprobe tells me to go to hell (no hardware). settings in the bios are the same, didnt

ANN: syscalltrack 0.74, Hyperactive Iguana released

2002-08-31 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
syscalltrack-0.74, the 10th _alpha_ release of the Linux kernel system call tracker, is now available. syscalltrack supports version 2.4.x of the Linux kernel on the i386 and UML architectures. 2.5.x kernel versions should work as well, but did not receive the same extensive testing. Kernel 2.2.x

Re: ess sound module and tecra8000

2002-08-31 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 01:00:08AM +0300, Amir Tal wrote: On Saturday 31 August 2002 16:22, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 02:55:39PM +0300, Amir Tal wrote: hi, had this laptop running RH73 with sound working, no prob. switched to sid, and lspci doesnt show any info

Re: OT: /etc/passwd- and google

2002-09-01 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 09:58:08AM +0300, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: I did grep *some* sources. I didn't think about useradd. This is indeed the shadow package (useradd, vipw, ...). Thanks for anyone who replied! Ok, here's a way to figure out which package uses a file. 1. get

CFT: syscalltrack needs you

2002-09-07 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
Howdy, Linux people! syscalltrack, http://syscalltrack.sf.net, is an open source project used for tracking system call invocations. syscalltrack is in constant development and has now gained mature 'autoconf' capabilities, which now need to be tested. This is where you come in. If you have an

Re: CFT: syscalltrack needs you

2002-09-07 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 11:18:14AM +0300, Guy Cohen wrote: Is the cvs version missing a ./configure file? Nope. If you want to try the cvs version, you need to generate the 'configure' file from 'configure.in', by running 'autogen.sh'. It requires that you have autoconf installed.

Re: CFT: syscalltrack needs you

2002-09-07 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
216.136.171.201 Now that you mention it, I just bought syscalltrack.org and syscalltrack.com :) -- Muli Ben-Yehuda syscalltrack hacker-at-large msg21615/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: CFT: syscalltrack needs you

2002-09-07 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
currently. -- Muli Ben-Yehuda syscalltrack hacker-at-large msg21616/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ext3 problem

2002-09-07 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
no difference in this case. It's the same code, doing the same things. Tzafrir, sounds to me like you're running afoul of a memory handling bug, not ext3 related. I would suggest trying the latest 2.4.20preX, or at least 2.4.19, and seeing if the problem persist. -- Muli Ben-Yehuda syscalltrack

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