Re: a tread worth reading

2002-12-25 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, What happened to the _good_ practice of telling what the thread is about? For the impatient, it's about Linux for newbies, especially Israelies: fact or myth (my definition. The formal one is Why Linbrew is not needed). I must say I haven't found there even one argument for or against that I

Re: A question about Opensource

2002-12-23 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 08:59:46PM +0200, Meir Michanie wrote: I remember visiting the GNU site and getting lost there. I was searching for the guide: how to register a program as opensource GPL license. There are few issues here: In most countries, the fact that you wrote something, by

OT: about GPL (was: Re: questions for RMS)

2002-12-23 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 01:02:12AM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Mon, Dec 23, 2002, Ira Abramov wrote about Re: questions for RMS: * Sometimes, in order to be able to finish modifying software for which you have the source code, you need to be able to prove that your modification

Re: NFS and common directories

2002-12-22 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 11:56:01AM +, Michael Sternberg wrote: Hello list. sorry if this question is trivial - I could not find the solution. Here is the situation: I have a number of people (lets say 10), each one have a Linux with its root fs mounted on NFS. Most of content

Re: NFS and common directories

2002-12-22 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 12:35:02PM +, Michael Sternberg wrote: Thanks for a rain of solutions :) Perhaps I was not clear enough. Situation is like this: Two users (A and B) want to use directory /root_fs on remote NFS server as their root fs. There is a single directory /home that

Re: charset 1251 to unicode conversion

2002-12-09 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 07:07:28PM +0200, Skliarouk Arie wrote: Hello all, Someone out there has an samba repository of 60 GB of files with both hebrew (codepage 1251) and english file names. I guess you mean cp1255. I also guess you did not do anything special to samba and that Windows

Re: where did my mouse go?

2002-12-05 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 02:18:58PM +0200, Dan Kenigsberg wrote: Suddenly and without prior warning[*], my thinkpad's internel mouse became unavailable to Linux. I'm running RH8, and kudzu fails to detect the mouse. Sadly, I see nothing interesting in the logs. Any idea why did this happen?

Re: netscape plugins in Mozilla

2002-12-01 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 11:42:07PM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: It seems that mozilla hardwires the path /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins . Try making it a symlink. Depends which version you download/use. For personal (by user) netscape plugins, put it in ~/.mozilla/plugins/ If you downloaded the

Re: netscape plugins in Mozilla

2002-12-01 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 12:49:11AM +0200, Hetz Ben-Hamo wrote: A beta, which works quite well for me (and solves the decades-long crash with remote $DISPLAY), is already downloadable from their site. URL? I see there only 5.0r51 version to download.. Search for 'linux beta' in their home

Re: Writing Mixed Hebrew/English Documents on Linux

2002-11-28 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 05:18:11PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi! I have began writing a story title The Pope Died on Sunday which is written in Hebrew but some words and sententences need to be in English. You can find it here: http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/humour/Pope/ In

Re: Samba and hebrew file name

2002-11-21 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 01:01:37PM +0200, Ben-Nes Michael wrote: Hi All Is there a way that samba will store a Hebrew file name that will be accessible using direct access ( with correct name ), I mean not through the smbmount ? I think samba 3 will support saving

Re: 2 IDE cards ?

2002-11-14 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 09:59:17PM +0200, Eran Tromer wrote: Ehud Karni wrote: I can put 7 disks and an additional ventilator inside the computer box (all I need is supporting frames). Disk drives draw a lot of power when they spin up (e.g., the Maxtor 80GB can reach 22W on the 12V line

Re: Reducing the number of CDs required for an installation party?

2002-11-10 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 12:16:01AM +0200, Sagi Bashari wrote: On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 09:20:01PM +0200, Michael Stolovitzsky wrote: On Saturday 09 November 2002 18:39, Shaul Karl wrote: On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 03:35:51PM +0200, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: Hi all

Re: Reducing the number of CDs required for an installation party?

2002-11-10 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 06:39:15PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 03:35:51PM +0200, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: Hi all, [snip] Didi At first let me say that giving every new instalee a CD set is desired. Now once you are going this way you will probably

Re: Reducing the number of CDs required for an installation party?

2002-11-09 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi all, I started to write, mainly for myself, some notes about the instaparty we had on Thursday. Basically, I think the whole notion should be very different from today, and that the usuall installers (well, at least RH) are too general to be close-to-optimal for our (tau's) audience (and

Re: InstaParty at TAU?

2002-11-07 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 12:51:03PM +0200, Alexander Maryanovsky wrote: Hi, I saw a note on the luach modaot in the Schreiber building this morning about an InstaParty at 18:00 today at TAU... Did I miss something? When was this announced? Was this announced? Will I announced it on

Re: upcoming java ssh2?

2002-10-30 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 10:04:36AM +0200, Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting Eli Marmor, from the post of Wed, 30 Oct: So the big question: Why, when it comes to important protocols such as SSH, X, IRC, VNC, etc., the applets must speak those protocols directly with the backend, and can't speak it

Re: resizing /

2002-10-27 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 10:43:24AM -0500, Arie Folger wrote: Hi, I want to grow the / partition. When I wanted to resize partitions in the past (which did happen a number of times to /usr and /home as I weaned myself from windows and the available tools grew by leaps and bounds), I just

Re: Gentoo

2002-10-23 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 11:07:49PM +0200, Diego Iastrubni wrote: áéåí ùðé 21 àå÷èåáø 2002, 23:37, Eli Marmor ëúá: Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: This is not accurate. What these results mean is that the gcc optimizations for 586 and for 686 are not very different. The CPU itself might

Re: no space left on device false positive

2002-10-17 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 08:40:11AM +0200, Guy Baruch wrote: Hello. I'm trying to create an internal freedb server on my home machine. this DB has very large directories with a lot of small entries. I have it on a default ext3 partition, and it takes 2.4GB on the HD. The reason being that

Re: A disturbing article...

2002-10-08 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 08:05:18AM +0200, Michael Sternberg wrote: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1883 I think it was agreed a few months ago that such messages should contain a small description of the article, for those that do not have the whole day to read such things. It's

Re: Technical Question

2002-10-07 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 01:16:28PM +0200, Orr Dunkelman wrote: Does Anybody happen to know whether MDK 9.0/RH 8.0 installations can resize NTFS partitions? Assume that the NTFS partition is defraged and everything. If this is not the case, could you please recomend a tool (the free-er

Re: Technical Question

2002-10-07 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 03:01:51PM +0200, Guy Cohen wrote: On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 01:16:28PM +0200, Orr Dunkelman wrote: Does Anybody happen to know whether MDK 9.0/RH 8.0 installations can resize NTFS partitions? Thats not a dist question but an os one. im not sure linux can do it,

Re: VMware and competing products

2002-10-01 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 01:32:48PM +0300, Omer Zak wrote: I work in an environment, in which I edit and pre-process various source code files under Linux, and compile them using several SDKs, which work with Microsoft Visual Studio. Each SDK expects to be the only one installed in a PC,

Re: Help with a Bourne Shell Script

2002-09-25 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 09:56:34AM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: Check: http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/fetchweb My problem is that proc_args does not return the new command line. You probably meant 'test' and not expr in line 54. expr, besides setting the return value, also outputs (0 or

Re: Qtext

2002-09-24 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 11:59:15AM +0300, Moshe Kaminsky wrote: * Gilad Ben-Yossef [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020924 11:40]: On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 11:19, Moshe Kaminsky wrote: My question is, is there someone who might want to fund it? Get us a number and we'll see how reasonable it is.

Re: Qtext

2002-09-24 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 02:08:08PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: About portability: The demo (you can (could?) download from www.qtext.com) works quite well with recent versions of wine. This might (or might not, I am not an expert) mean porting to libwine

Re: Qtext

2002-09-24 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 02:40:01PM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: About portability: The demo (you can (could?) download from www.qtext.com) works quite well with recent versions of wine. Not here. qtext has problems with fonts. I kept

Re: [OT] What and Where: ethernet cables for home networking

2002-09-19 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 11:42:18AM +0300, Dan Kenigsberg wrote: I recall that a while ago, there has been a discussion in the subject. I'm afraid I failed to find the thread, and anyways - maybe things have changed. So - I consider to wire-up a home for ethernet and telephony. * Where

Re: DMZ

2002-09-13 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 10:05:58AM +0300, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 12:25:25AM +0300, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: I think the main difference is that ML answers are given late at night, with late-at-night moods (and tiredness), for better or worse :-). I

Re: sh question

2002-09-12 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 04:03:42PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i want to redirect both strdout and stderror into a pipe in tcsh i do: process1 | process2 how do i do it in sh ? in bash ? ( is that the same ) process1 21 | process2 erez.

Re: DMZ

2002-09-12 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 11:13:09PM +0300, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 09:27:18PM +0300, Guy Cohen wrote: On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 08:48:35PM +0200, e-tie wrote: Have we forgot the lost art of RTFMing? [snip] On security discussions...got a spare 5 years? You

Re: KDE location [was Re: basic debian question]

2002-09-02 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 12:16:28PM +0200, voguemaster wrote: gcc has its own built-in include and libs parameters (set at compile time), right? I don't know about that. When you configure gcc before compilation you usually set the installation location, library dirs if you want'em

Re: KDE location [was Re: basic debian question]

2002-09-02 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 12:53:53PM +0300, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 12:16:28PM +0200, voguemaster wrote: gcc has its own built-in include and libs parameters (set at compile time), right? I don't know about that. When you configure gcc before compilation

Re: KDE location [was Re: basic debian question]

2002-09-02 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 12:57:55PM +0200, voguemaster wrote: inside the top gcc source directory, mkdir somedir cd somedir ../configure --prefix=/usr/local/some/directory/for/this/gcc make install Then, put /usr/local/some/directory/for/this/gcc/bin in the beginning of your path. For

Re: OT: /etc/passwd- and google

2002-09-01 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 07:55:52PM +0300, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 05:53:18PM +0300, Guy Cohen wrote: On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 04:47:37PM +0300, Official Flamer/Cabal NON-Leader wrote: Quoth Yedidyah Bar-David: Hi all, 1. What is the purpose of /etc

Re: OT: /etc/passwd- and google

2002-09-01 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 10:04:08AM +0300, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: 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

OT: /etc/passwd- and google

2002-08-31 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi all, Sorry for being off-topic, but I did search a lot, to no avail. 1. What is the purpose of /etc/*- (I personally have passwd, shadow, group and gshadow)? 2. Since google (as well as most (all?) other search engines) ignores punctuation, or has specific meaning for -, how can anyone find

Re: Init : ld X respawning to fast ,disable for 5 minutes

2002-08-28 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 04:12:48AM +0200, zuri zadok wrote: Hi Friends I have a problem After installing the RH7.3 . after the service startup I get a blinking screen . after some blinks I get a message : Init : ld X respawning to fast ,disable for 5 minutes PLZ HLP ME!! X fails

OT: giveaway book

2002-08-26 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi all, I have Postscript Language Reference Manual, _Second_ Edition as new. If someone wants to take it from me, tell me. Note you can download the third edition from Adobe for free, so it's important only for someone that intends to use it a lot. Didi

Re: Blank screen when moving from X to console

2002-08-25 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 12:08:29AM +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: On Sat, 2002-08-24 at 23:47, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 11:29:28PM +0300, Noam Meltzer wrote: hi! I have this weird problem that after I start X I can't return to console mode any more. (I'm

Re: OT: Looking for old UNIXes

2002-08-16 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 11:45:48AM +0300, Matan Ziv-Av wrote: On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Ben-Nes Michael wrote: I know one thing for sure. ATA 100 added to my system at least 20% speed, and it shows on the benchmarks. I had problem with my ATA100 so i connected the HD to the ATA66 ide

Re: palm tools for linux

2002-08-16 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 12:14:29PM +0200, Tzahi Fadida wrote: Where can u get development tools for the palm that are free to use and distribute, i.e gpl. At least Debian has a lot of stuff built-in. Search for prc-tools. Didi For example, i want to write a palmos 3 compatible

Re: OT: Looking for old UNIXes

2002-08-16 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 03:46:24PM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: I personally have an old SGI Indy, that I got for almost free, and I only use as an XTerminal (for the 300Mhz Celeron server). It has a 133Mhz R4600, with speed comparable

Re: OT: Looking for old UNIXes

2002-08-15 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 09:26:22PM +0300, Oded Arbel wrote: Shlomi Fish wrote: On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Ben-Nes Michael wrote: Just wonder, will old UNIX ( for example the UltraSparcs ) will give better performance then new P4/AMD ? Does Linux support such hardware well ?

Re: OT: Looking for old UNIXes

2002-08-15 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 10:23:38PM +0300, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: I've seen S.u.s.e Linux runs nicely on an UltraSparc (I think it was 5 or 10). It was pretty fast, but I did not benchmark it against a Pentium. Yeah, me too, although I still got problems configuring the X server there

Re: OT: Processing architectures (Was: Looking for old UNIXes)

2002-08-15 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 11:55:53PM +0300, Oded Arbel wrote: Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: [snip] 2. This, of course, isn't very interesting - what's usually is is actual performance. And this, as we all know, depends heavily on the application. [SPEC'S CPU2000 benchmark snipped] I'm

Re: Zone info

2002-08-01 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 08:51:25AM +0200, Michael Sternberg wrote: I'm looking for updated files that contain zones info (zones, cities, daylight savings etc) that can be used as input file for /usr/sbin/zic. There is a one at ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/israel/linux/zicfile and

Re: Zone info

2002-08-01 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
- -- From: Yedidyah Bar-David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 8:40 AM -- To: Michael Sternberg -- Cc: linux-il (E-mail) -- Subject: Re: Zone info -- -- Get the glibc source, look in the subdirectory timezone. -- I am willing to put it somewhere

OT: X screen saver and mouse

2002-07-24 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi everyone, Sorry for being off-topic. I want the X screen saver to not respond to mouse events (in other words, to make the monitor stay off when I accidentally hit the table :-) ) I couldn't find any documented way to do that. I looked a bit at the source, and I think the main point to look

Re: Less competition outside of MS-Windows (was: Re: Desktop Linux -- Linux lost)

2002-07-23 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 11:49:56AM +0300, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Gilad Ben-Yossef [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As for the Desktop sillinies, some historical perspective is due. Somewhere around 1980 a couple of smart people in Xerox PARC and Apple computers realised that in order to get the

Re: resizing partitions

2002-07-23 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 07:51:04PM +0300, Diego Iastrubni wrote: Hello, When I first partitioned the disk I am using, I gave to /dev/hda1 500 mbytes, and the rest I put in an partition, in which I have several OS'es. Now I decided to change the size of /dev/hda1 (I can delete

Re: where has free software gone? (was Re: knesset meeting on open source)

2002-07-15 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 11:51:24AM +0300, Ely Levy wrote: so you think going to a program which someone spend hours on planing and designing, or as people suggested before months of living off saving and working full time on it. and then someone comes after all this efford and say cool

OT: Wake-on-LAN

2002-07-10 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hello, Sorry for being off-topic. Did anyone here try wake-on-lan and cares to share the experience? Specifically, I have machines that wake up well usually, after being shutdown by software or by the front-panel power button, but not after turning off and on the button in the power supply,

Re: OT: Wake-on-LAN

2002-07-10 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
disabled when you power off your machine from the power switch on the back of your machine... As for electric break - I think you can set it up in the BIOS (don't remember which function).. Hetz On Wednesday 10 July 2002 17:03, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: Hello, Sorry for being off

Re: OT: Wake-on-LAN

2002-07-10 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 11:13:15PM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: [snip] A possible solution which doesn't seems to be sophisticated as the one you are looking for is a remote console. 1. Have the BIOS restart the machine when it can. 2. Make the Linux boot loader wait for confirmation

Re: www.iglu.org.il

2002-06-25 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 11:26:19AM +0300, Gabor Szabo wrote: give a blank white page for me. Is it only me ? Me too (TM). Until someone fixes this, you can open http://www.iglu.org.il/IGLU. -- Gabor = To

Re: Asus v3400 tv in

2002-06-24 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 10:06:21PM +0300, Barak Kaufman wrote: Hi list ive got an old asus v3400 card (riva tnt) and i would like to use the tv in under linux all i could fing googling was drivers for bt series chips though i couldnt find the chip that my card carries.. any1 has

Re: Asus v3400 tv in

2002-06-24 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
, Jun 24, 2002 at 10:19:59PM +0300, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: Hi, On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 10:06:21PM +0300, Barak Kaufman wrote: Hi list ive got an old asus v3400 card (riva tnt) and i would like to use the tv in under linux all i could fing googling was drivers for bt series chips though i

Re: Alpha XL 266

2002-06-22 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 11:03:18PM +0200, Oleg Kobets wrote: OK. First thanks for the replies. I want to clarify that I am not the legal owner (ie. never BOUGHT it) of this Alpha. I got it from a friend that got it from ..? Therefore I am not aligible to Compaq support. (Already

Re: Converting from Fat32 to Ext3fs?

2002-06-12 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 12:15:24AM +0200, Tzahi Fadida wrote: no, what I said is that it was ext3 but I moved the partition with a program called ghost which basically image the drive into a file because I needed to change h.d. now, when I booted into Linux the first time after writing the

Re: Converting from Fat32 to Ext3fs?

2002-06-10 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi all, On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 10:09:20AM +0300, Daniel Feiglin wrote: [snip] What question? Of creating ext3? That's simple: mke2fs -j. Converting ext2 to ext3? tune2fs -j (Note I havn't tried this one, only mk). What you describe is exactly what DID NOT work and at the time

Re: Converting from Fat32 to Ext3fs?

2002-06-10 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi all, On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 11:12:03PM +0300, Daniel Feiglin wrote: Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: Hi all, On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 10:09:20AM +0300, Daniel Feiglin wrote: [snip] What question? Of creating ext3? That's simple: mke2fs -j. Converting ext2 to ext3? tune2fs -j

Re: Converting from Fat32 to Ext3fs?

2002-06-09 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi all, On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 11:10:57PM +0300, Daniel Feiglin wrote: Pardon my ignorance, but isn't parted itself a partioning utility? If indeed, it can make ext3 partitions directly, than the tar/mkfs/untar advice (similar to the wrong Howto's) is also incorrect. A Google later:

Re: Memory usage CPU (SMP) usage functions

2002-06-05 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 09:55:42PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi friends, Which system calls can provide me detailed information (structures is preferable) on RedHat 7.2 regarding: 1. Memory usage (similar to the info inculded in /proc/meminfo) 2. CPU usage (SMP configuration -

Re: some questions

2002-06-02 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 12:53:18PM +, Alon Kadury wrote: hi, i'm not a sysadmin, but worked a bit on linux during my first degree, so please be kind (and rewind) and try to answer my questions as simple as you can. 1. i have a lan with a linux and windows 2000. can i access the

Re: Giving/Selling RedHat 7.3

2002-05-31 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 07:03:44PM +0200, Eliran wrote: \\ I don't know if it is much related but I couldn't find any other appropriate place.. Can any one burn me a copy of RH7.3 (not all 6 cd's neccessarily, the 3 installation disks are just fine) for a low price (less than 10 NIS

Re: OT: adsl microfilter and analog modem

2002-05-30 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi Again, On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 12:41:11AM +0300, Barak Kaufman wrote: all the filter does is split the frequencies (low frequencies range goes to teh phone , hish to the adsl). probably what happens is that the modem doesnt recognise the filtered dialtone, what u can do is try to

Re: running a user-defined script with hotplug

2002-05-29 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 01:48:43PM +0300, Dan Kenigsberg wrote: Hi List, I have RH73 that uses hotplug to monitor the usb and load modules when needed, and it works fine. However, I would like to run a script whenever I insert my DiskOnKey to the usb socket, and another one (well,

OT: adsl microfilter and analog modem

2002-05-28 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi all, Sorry for being off-topic, but I am desperate. I asked whoever I know who has adsl, computer and electric equipment stores, bezeq, STFW ... And I have a suspicion that there are here some people with much better knowledge than me about phones stuff. My problem: I can't use an analog

Re: OT: adsl microfilter and analog modem

2002-05-28 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 12:25:20AM +0300, guy keren wrote: On Tue, 28 May 2002, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: My problem: I can't use an analog modem with the microfilter bezeq gave me for adsl, e.g. I can't send a fax while being connected to adsl. When I try, the modem says 'NO DIALTONE

Re: OT: adsl microfilter and analog modem

2002-05-28 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 12:41:11AM +0300, Barak Kaufman wrote: all the filter does is split the frequencies (low frequencies range goes to teh phone , hish to the adsl). probably what happens is that the modem doesnt recognise the filtered dialtone, what u can do is try to override the

Re: mounting iso9660 as rw

2002-05-27 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 11:46:46AM +0300, Dan Kenigsberg wrote: This may sound odd at first, and useless later, but I would like to add some files to a iso9660 filesystem. To be more exact, I have an iso of a CD and would like to update it with my own stuff. I tried to loop-mount it

Re: mipsel linux headers -- where?!

2002-05-19 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 10:50:23PM +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 18:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi people I got this hublike appliance-thingie with a flash thingamabob and a stripped down Redhat 6.2 for Little Endian MIPS, and a MIPS Texas Instruments CPU.

Re: X hangs and refuses to be killed

2002-05-19 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 08:30:53AM +0300, Malcolm Kavalsky wrote: Boris Gorelik (by way of b g ) wrote: [second attempt. it seems that the first one failed. in case I'm wrong, please forgive me] hi, this is a strange problem: we have dual PIII with RH7.2 on it (as only OS). Today,

Re: One disk in two computers - kernel hangs. Please, help.

2002-05-15 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 12:03:01PM +0300, Leon Pollak wrote: Hello, gurus. I have the following problem with RH 7.3. I use one nishlaf disk in two computers: Athlon1200 (new) and K6-3-300(~2 years old). RH 7.2 been installed in old computer worked fine in both. Now,

Re: Modem 56k which works on linux

2002-05-12 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 09:54:20PM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: Can anyone recommand a modem which works on linux and supports voice/fax recongnition , caller ID , v.92(if there are any). Also I don't have any ISA slots in my computer so I need either pci one or external. after

Re: upgrading RH7.2 -- RH7.3

2002-05-11 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 12:16:48AM +0300, Eran Tromer wrote: Whatever you do, *don't* do what I did, which is burning the first ISO, booting from it and hoping that the installer would be willing to read the rest of the ISOs from disk (it isn't, and my box was stuck in mid-install

Re: Linux Remote

2002-04-29 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 09:32:32PM -0700, Erez Boym wrote: Hi, Anyone using a good IR or RF remote system for Linux ? I got a remote with a Miro PCTV card (the whole bundle was ~$80, I guess a remote alone would be only a few $). When I bought it, I tried for a few days to make it work,

Re: Hebrew calendar

2002-04-28 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 10:23:30AM +0300, Erez Doron wrote: On Sun, 2002-04-28 at 08:43, Kenneth G. Kay wrote: Check out hcal. where can i find it: rpmfind no google/linux ... no freashmeat ... no any idea ? ivrix (or at least ivrix archvies). erez. Ken

Re: a 'mount' question

2002-04-28 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
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: Wondering about free software.

2002-04-26 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi all, On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 10:36:31PM +, Diego Iastrubni wrote: On Tuesday 23 April 2002 05:40, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: If it is indeed a DOS program (wasn't hashavshevet ported to windows ever?), you can also try dosemu. It is more or less stagnated in the recent years

Re: X server crashes

2002-04-24 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 09:23:26PM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: Hi, On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 08:22:39AM +0300, Oron Peled wrote: On Sun, 21 Apr 2002 23:41:39 +0300 Nadav Har'El [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... snipped long talk about VNC

Re: Wondering about free software.

2002-04-22 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 06:53:25PM +0200, Tzahi Fadida wrote: If by emulators you mean vmware for hashavshevet i think you are right and its an overkill since its a dos progie. maybe, wine(=free) will suffice at that matter. try it and tell us. If it is indeed a DOS program (wasn't

Re: hebrew file names

2002-04-21 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 04:09:12PM +0300, Erez Doron wrote: hi i have a linux directory which is shared by smb to my laptop. i can see hebrw filenames via: ls --show-control-chars | tr \200-\232 \340-\372 | l2v pe (l2v is a lofical to visual mapper) i encounter a problem when i want to

Re: Run Level 5

2002-03-04 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 08:04:19AM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: I always considered Run Level 5 as a very bad idea, which I'll never want to use. However, I recently run into a dillema here at the Computer Networks farm. If I start X from the console and lock it, then a malicious user can

Re: how to measure process memory usage?

2002-02-17 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 01:20:40PM +0200, Dan Kenigsberg wrote: Hi I bet it is a stupid question with a simple answer, but I failed to find it, so: Is there a utility to measure memory usage of a process, preferably proken into static/stack/heap? The man page of GNU `time' suggests

Re: how to measure process memory usage?

2002-02-17 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 03:34:43PM +0200, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Is there a utility to measure memory usage of a process, preferably proken into static/stack/heap? The man page of GNU `time' suggests that it should do the trick, but running /usr/bin/time myprog always

Re: my linux stucks.

2002-02-15 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 01:47:23PM +0200, Tzahi Fadida wrote: Hi all, I have a linux box i installed a month ago. everything worked perfectly, it was a redhat 7.2 with ext3 partition. then i wanted to add some irc dcc feature that for some reason didn't work in the redhat kernel, so i

Re: Linux filenames with definite encoding (Was: FTP server with intl support)

2002-02-12 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 09:58:58AM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Sorry for retreating in the thread, but an important note struck me from my past. Nadav Har'El wrote: No, UNIX traditionally operates on strings of chars (bytes/octets). No special treatment is ever given by system calls

Re: Samba and Hebrew

2002-02-10 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 09:42:16AM +0200, Igor Tertishny wrote: Hi, Clients in my network - Windows. Servers - Linux (Redhat, Mandrake, Alt). Clients no read names of files by hebrew. Codepages iso-8859-8 and cp862 in /etc/samba not exists. Help me! Add to [global] this: valid

Re: Languages in Linux [was Re: Basic Compiler]

2002-02-09 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, I am sorry to continue an off-topic thread, but: 1. It's very unfair to compare LOGO and BASIC. LOGO is a very important language, much more than BASIC. From a quick google saerch, I found this interesting article: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/elogo.html And I no almost no LOGO at all. I

(OT) Re: chroot problem

2002-02-04 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, You also need the shared libs that ls needs, or a static version of it. create /tmp/empty/lib and put there the files it needs (which you can find with ldd(1)). Didi On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 09:34:00PM +0200, Gil Elad wrote: Hi, I'm running Debian woody with 2.4.17. For some

Re: Well here is the story...

2002-02-03 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 12:13:35PM -0500, U. P. wrote: Before couple of months i installed RH 7.1, downloaded motorola SM56 linux drivers, and surfed the web, few months later, i bought RH 7.2 but when i tried to installed those drivers again, they didnt work, the installation ran smooth

Re: can't get the mouse wheel to work

2002-01-23 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 03:19:43PM +0200, Shai Bentin wrote: I have a logitech MouseMan/ FirstMouse basic wheel mouse. No matter what configuration I use in XF86Config-4 mouse setting I can't get it to work. I have read most of the configuration suggestions I could find in Xfree site and some

Re: kernel mem use

2002-01-22 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 12:23:29PM +0200, Erez Doron wrote: hi does anyone knows of a way to make the kernel not use all the memory it has, but still be aware of it ? i tried mem=... parameter, but then one can not access the physical memory above it without rewriting the mm code ...

Re: The Great Kernel CVS Mutiny

2002-01-19 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Even though off-topic (as was the whole of this thread), I can't stop myself to say a few things: 1. The first, and most important: I was subscribed to lkml for a few weeks, and quickly unsubscribed. I do read every issue of Kernel Traffic (http://kt.zork.net), since issue 1 (three years ago),

Re: Available software modems in isreal

2002-01-07 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 10:11:15PM -0800, Diego Iastrubni wrote: Hi. I know this subject has really been discussed here a lot (ðèçï àôéìå), but I would like to know where (online) can I buy a decent pci linmodem , on israel'ys sites. If the mailing list archives are not good enough, you

Re: [Announce] Wordtrans 1.1pre8 released

2001-12-30 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 05:42:34PM +0200, Yair Friedman (Jerusalem) wrote: Yedidyah Bar-David [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there any way for the data to make that happen, instead of the application? I looked at the Unicode bidi algorithm and I don't think I found anything (any unicode

Re: resizing ext3.

2001-12-29 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 08:29:25PM +0200, Tzahi Fadida wrote: My ext3 drive ran out of space. How can i resize the partition? It looks something like this: fat32 free space (300mb) ext3. swap. i tried parted(version 1.4.21) from a bootdisk like this: parted /dev/hdc resize ext3_minor

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