Re: [Israel.pm] Development Environment Setting Up

2007-10-07 Thread Gaal Yahas
you do not want to screw up your development environment for other projects, which rely upon stable versions of those system libraries. sudo apt-get install dh-make-perl man dh-make-perl Like cpan2rpm, it isn't perfect. But you may find it useful nonetheless. -- Gaal Yahas [EMAIL PROTECTED

Call for Volunteers: Project Ben-Yehuda

2004-08-13 Thread Gaal Yahas
Please distribute. Project Ben-Yehuda - Call for Volunteers Project Ben-Yehuda http://benyehuda.org/ is seeking volunteers to help build the Internet's Hebrew literature library. Project Ben-Yehuda, inspired by the (originally English) Project Gutenberg,

Re: List of Israeli Linux-related mailing list

2000-07-30 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 12:24:44PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: Here are the mailing-lists which I'm aware of: http://israel.pm.org/ to subscribe, do echo "subscribe israel-pm-list" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]" to post, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- believing is seeing [EMAIL

Re: Linux interaction with M$SQL

2000-07-27 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 10:16:41AM +0300, Miki Shapiro wrote: Can anyone reccomend something (preferrably that is installed with a stock SuSE distro :-)) that can interact with MSSQL and generate nifty, parsable, textual and listar-readable lists of email addresses with minimum fuss? The

Re: The IGLU Cabal

2000-07-23 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 05:09:14PM +0300, Adam Morrison wrote: The people on the cabal include myself, me, moi, men'ya, and min. Marc,, stop harassing the poor fool. There is no IGLU cabal. Oh my God, they got to Zadka as well! fnord. -- believing is seeing [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SSH and Debian

2000-07-23 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 05:40:52PM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: I need ssh1 functionality. Have you seen the following debs: [17:39:20 /tmp]$ grep-available -P ssh | grep Package Package: ssh2 [...] Thanks, Shaul, and everybody else who replied by email. Indeed I had to use a non-US tree,

Re: SSH and Debian

2000-07-23 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 01:51:05AM +0300, Alex Shnitman wrote: But another question: I don't have grep-available on my system. What package provides it? grep-dctrl Okay, thanks! Any idea why this thing isn't installed by default? It's 28k of download and takes 127k of space. (If

SSH and Debian

2000-07-22 Thread Gaal Yahas
I need ssh1 functionality. Am I right that there is no official SSH or SSH clone for Debian? Are there contributed .deb's lying about somewhere that I just hadn't noticed? Has anyone used these successfully? Where are they? Thanks. -- believing is seeing [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Locking packages from dselect

2000-07-22 Thread Gaal Yahas
When using deselect, by default the upgrade list gets updated with newer version of stuff (that is, if I use the unstable tree and do apt-get update once in a while). This is generally a Good Thing, but has one very annoying flaw: the kernel. I use a custom built kernel and module set, plus

Re: Is apropos a shell script on your (non Debian) machine?

2000-07-08 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 11:40:48AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: The TkMan Makefile claims that with Linux apropos is a shell script. This is not the case with my Debian Linux. I tend to think that it is also an ELF executable on other distros. Before mailing the author about it I would like to

Re: Connecting a console.

2000-06-30 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 08:39:05PM +0300, Schlomo Schapiro wrote: PS: If you get to use it, try to run programs like mc. on my VT is just goes into a frency and starts to print only ?. Seems like there is a problem with the escape characters. The same happens under screen, btw. and I really

Re: Connecting a console.

2000-06-29 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 09:35:47PM +0300, Nimrod S. Carmi wrote: the VT should just be set to the same line speed and soft flow control, remember to cross the serial cable because both computer and terminal are DTE, so a modem cable won't do. simple 1-1, 2-3, 3-2, 7-7 should be fine for a

Re: Consider banning KDE?

2000-06-18 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 11:45:56PM +0300, Ira Abramov wrote: Gnome are also a long way from a friendly GUI (I'm using the latest from Helix), but it's not as restrictive. can't explain it in words, but Gnome is more intuitive and flowing for me. Yalla yalla. Go tvtwm! -- believing is

Re: OFF TOPIC OFF TOPIC OFF TOPIC OFF TOPIC

2000-06-15 Thread Gaal Yahas
Mike, On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 11:29:17PM +0200, Mike Almogy wrote: I just opened a mailing list for PERL at : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Feel free to subscribe. Is there a charter available for this list? How is it to be any different from the existing Israel.pm ( http://israel.pm.org/ )? Gaal (All

Re: OT: Main Frame on Ebay.com

2000-06-07 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 07:52:15PM +, alex khalil wrote: this guy is sell S390 MF computer, and many other part. he is willing to send this to israel, and someone has already reserved it for 1000$. [...] If you have to choose between paying the electricity bill for your air

Re: Needed: new cellcom SMS script

2000-05-23 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 10:34:12AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have trouble updating my perl modules anyone has ALL of them in RPM format ? (I can find each of them somewhere but they do not match ...) You really want to use Perl's mechanisms for packages more than RPM. What kind

Re: Needed: new cellcom SMS script

2000-05-23 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 07:35:59AM +0300, I hastily wrote: To all of you who aren't sure they have the required modules installed, doing: perl -MCPAN -e 'install qw(Digest-MD5 MIME-Base64 libnet HTML-Parser URI libwww-perl)' should help :-) Looks

Re: Needed: new cellcom SMS script

2000-05-21 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 02:55:42AM +0200, Udi Finkelstein wrote: Actually, I've reimplemented it because I was tired of installing all the Perl packages needed for the program to work. Instead I've used the w3c utility to do all the POST/GET methods, or even used lynx. To all of you who

Re: per-user per-ip pop3 access

2000-05-11 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 11:55:50PM +0300, Ira Abramov wrote: I want to have a pop3 server that will allow most users to only access from the local network, but to allow a small group of users to also read mail from all over the internet. using tcpserver from Dan Bernstein you can bind

Re: Creating web server

2000-04-18 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 08:28:24AM +0200, Moshe Zadka wrote: Quoth Moshe Zadka on Sat, Apr 15, 2000: 2. Type "python -c 'from SimpleHTTPServer import*;test()'" 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890 1 2 3 4

Re: Few questions

2000-04-04 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 08:34:04AM +0200, Alex Shnitman wrote: *Real* programmers use cat a.out No way, /real/ programmers use zcat a.out 'cause you can type faster that way. -- from a Slashdot discussion ! [...] Guess I'll have to revise my Real Programmer

title

2000-04-04 Thread Gaal Yahas
Hi. ==snip== #!/bin/sh # A trivial, but bloody useful utility when using xterms. # Save as /usr/local/bin/title or something. # by [EMAIL PROTECTED]. GPL. t=$* if [ "$t" = "" ]; then t=`whoami`@`hostname` fi /bin/echo -n -e "\033];$t\007" ==snip== -- believing is seeing [EMAIL

Re: title

2000-04-04 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 08:02:07PM +0200, "captaiKeep messages which have arrived within the pastn"@isdn.net.il [Jeez, long name!] wrote: OK, here comes a question. I've been looking at all those screenshots of cool people, with those color eterms and stuff. How do I set the text color? You

Re: redhat 6.2 (fwd)

2000-04-04 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 08:26:32PM +0200, Chen Shapira wrote: Real men don't need hotwos. Real Programmers read the binary and patch it (using cat) to support whatever command they feel like using. Who-needs-howto-when-you-have-source-code-ly yours, dd to the rescue! (dd

chat/pppd problems

2000-04-02 Thread Gaal Yahas
Hello. [I wrote about this a while ago, but didn't get a response. This time the symptom is similar but slightly different.] When attempting to dial my ISP with a chat script, I get: Apr 2 21:54:01 fortinbras chat[360]: %% Low on memory; try again later^M right after the modem's CONNECT, and

kerneli

2000-03-28 Thread Gaal Yahas
Hi! I'm not following lkml. Could anyone who is say why aren't the international and mainstream kernel trees being merged? (Or perhaps they are, but it'll take some time?) Thanks! -- believing is seeing [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.forum2.org/gaal/

Re: HOW can i get user ID

2000-03-25 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 02:26:14AM +0200, guy keren wrote: HI everybody, Can anybody tell me how can i get the usrid of the user when new user log in to the linux system.. and how can i set the messege for him for first time only. The messenge should not come when he login second time.

Re: dd

2000-03-23 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 01:24:15PM +0200, Adi Stav wrote: tar cf - . | (cd /target ; tar xvf -) You can also use the -C flag to specify the directory (I don't know if it's GNU-specific) to make it easier: tar cf - -C sourcedir | tar xvf - -C targetdir Oh, that's ugly :-) Hmmm,

Re: dd

2000-03-23 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 10:21:20PM +0200, Adi Stav wrote: [netcat] netcat is a great tool, and can be used for all sorts of creative things. The degree by which you could trust cat or cp is unknown to me. In these cases, I still use dd for something else than in vi g Trust?

Re: dd

2000-03-22 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 10:03:29AM +0200, Adi Stav wrote: You can use cp -a on each mounted filesystem (I used to advocate tar|tar, but on new linux systems cp is even better[1]), and manually make the swap partition. Really? Is it because of the new Linux kernel or because of some

Re: Linux on notebooks, which one to buy?

2000-03-22 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 02:26:05PM +0200, Nathan Fain wrote: I'm about to purchase a notebook computer for the sole purpose of putting Linux on it. The Q is, which one will give me the least hassle (which is something I just don't have the time for right now)? Sony (which I wanted to get)

Re: dd

2000-03-21 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 11:48:10PM +0200, Richard Fiedler wrote: I got a "BookPC" with an 810 motherboard now working. Before I screw it up I thought I would back it up on a second 20G drive. The second drive is brand new and has not be partitioned. Will dd if=/dev/hda bs=1024

Re: [OT] FreeBSD 4.0 stable is out!!!!

2000-03-16 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 06:31:06PM +0200, Udi Finkelstein wrote: As for RedHat, as far as I remember, the X.2 were always the last version before the (X+1).0 product... and were always the most stable. IIRC, it was RedHat 5.0 which shipped with Kernel 2.0, and 6.0 shipped with kernel 2.2 .

Re: Auto unmuting the sound (was: Auto starting the sound)

2000-03-10 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 10:45:29PM +0200, Noam Meltzer wrote: Another question I asked in this previous thread was, how do I umute the varius devices, automatically, and with the specific settings I want. This question wasn't answered yet, and thats my question now. I'll appriciate your

Unable to create EXEC

2000-03-09 Thread Gaal Yahas
Hi. I recently started getting this error from time to time in my /var/log/messages when attempting connection via pppd and chat: Mar 9 21:34:24 fortinbras chat[2313]: %% Unable to create EXEC - no memory or too many processes^M .and naturally, the connection fails. If I let the system "sit"

2.2 kernels on slink

2000-03-08 Thread Gaal Yahas
Hi! I've decided to give Debian a try and installed slink on one of the machines available to me. For various reasons I need a modern kernel and glibc (2.1) system, though, and though I looked a while for info about this, didn't find how to do this gracefully. I don't mind installing slightly

Re: 2.2 kernels on slink

2000-03-08 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 05:16:03AM +0200, Omer wrote: slink is glibc 2.0 nased system. You will have to upgrade 40% of system to potato. find a fast link to the world, this is not a modem task... Okay :-) if you are in doubt 'bout belleding edge, you probably don't want to have. I did

Re: batch renaming

2000-02-29 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 08:30:41PM +0200, Ariel Biener wrote: shell scripts, and doing: ls -1 *.for|awk -F"." '{print "mv "$0" "$1".f"}'|sh Won't work for filenames with more than one '.' in them: $ echo "example.what.for" | awk -F"." '{print "mv "$0" "$1".f"}' mv example.what.for

Re: Wild backup Idea

2000-01-25 Thread Gaal Yahas
Can I do from linux partion "dd if=/dev/hda of=hda.img" and then put it back with "dd if=hda.img of=/dev/hda" ? Yes. -- believing is seeing [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.forum2.org/gaal/ = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL

.htaccess parsing [was: Re: Module mod_so]

2000-01-07 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 03:05:58AM +0200, Eli Marmor wrote: need to load and parse htaccess files (sometimes even per request), I'm no expert in web servers, but this looks strange to me. Could you explain why there isn't some way for a user to signal the server that he had changed

Re: Module mod_so

2000-01-06 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 10:40:31PM +0200, Eli Marmor wrote: running CGI-BINs, the parsing (of scripts like Perl and PHP), the (You've got FastCGI, mod_perl and commercial solutions for that) need to load and parse htaccess files (sometimes even per request), I'm no expert in web servers,

Re: sparc linux/solaris binary compatibility

2000-01-04 Thread Gaal Yahas
Hello there, erez. Tuesday, January 04, 2000, 1:59:13 PM, you wrote: Install Solaris on it for heavens' sake Why go through hoops and loops for something that can be done so much easier. It's not as if Solaris is an unstable OS and Linux is, or something. Use what's best for the job.

Re: sparc linux/solaris binary compatibility

2000-01-04 Thread Gaal Yahas
Hello there, erez. Tuesday, January 04, 2000, 2:31:51 PM, you wrote: esc 2. for standarisation ( i.e. i hate to type 'ps aux' instead of 'ps -aef' and esc vice versa ... % echo 'set path=(/usr/ucb $path)' ~/.cshrc % source !$ % rehash esc thanks ! I needed that ( and it fixesed also

Re: Legal stuf, GPL, ...

2000-01-04 Thread Gaal Yahas
Hello there, Aviram. Tuesday, January 04, 2000, 5:10:24 PM, you wrote: AJ Interesting issue IMO. I'd like to pursue this a bit further... AJ You all mentioned that I 'must' publish the source code if I use a GPL AJ source code in my app. How hard must I work to publish this code? Is it AJ

Re: Legal stuf, GPL, ...

2000-01-04 Thread Gaal Yahas
Hello there, Stanislav. Tuesday, January 04, 2000, 6:54:22 PM, you wrote: SMakaF Also, you may get the code from copyright owner(s) with other license than SMakaF GPL, if they'd like too. And also, if you make add-on to something GPL-ed, SMakaF but which is separate work (external module,

Re: Interface status detection

1999-12-21 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 11:47:14PM +0200, Nimrod Mesika wrote: nimrodm:~$ cat /etc/ppp/ip-up.local #!/bin/sh echo 'status online' /home/nimrodm/.licq/licq_fifo nimrodm:~$ nimrodm:~$ cat /etc/ppp/ip-down.local #!/bin/sh echo 'status offline'

Re: BeoWolf Question

1999-11-16 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 06:15:37AM +, Udi Finkelstein wrote: Ye gods, ADD? Your ADD days are not the only thing which is one... Go here: http://www.comptons.com/ceo99-cgi/article?'fastweb?getdoc+viewcomptons+A+1215+1++beowulf' Also see, Michael Critchton's "Eaters of the dead",

Re: Project Proposal (was: Re: SOT: regarding linux-unfriendly ISPs)

1999-11-12 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 03:15:32PM +0200, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: How do customers get it? Login from their Windows systems, download it and mount vfat partitions? Or maybe we're should send them CDs? It's really becomes a problem when the only way to help is via phone, and on the other

Re: Newsreader

1999-11-08 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 01:26:37PM +0200, Nimrod Zimerman wrote: And as you have mutt, why reinvent something which is almost exactly the same? Remember echomail? The same program could deal both with netmails (e-mail) and echomail (news). Can't see why mutt shouldn't do the same. (I wonder

Re: netscape question

1999-11-01 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 01:52:26AM -0500, dorit ben shalom wrote: Is there anything like this for netscape on linux? Hmm... not in netscape, as far as I know. Though IE has that option. If your on a Mac, you can try installing WebFree which blocks web ads and animations, among other

Re: Hebrew fonts that work under xemacs

1999-10-17 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Sun, Oct 17, 1999 at 07:47:54PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: The problem is not xterm, because I am using xemacs, not emacs. I have, at list this font installed in the path: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/heb-tt/heb8x13.pcf.gz, and it is in my fontpath. xemacs still doesn't recognise it (xterm

Re: Modem's and video cards for linux

1999-10-14 Thread Gaal Yahas
Hey Micha, On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 01:51:11PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: The video card i was offered (since I static image handling mainly, and not video), is ATI xpert 8 meg AGP, How is it for linux? ATIs are pretty well supported. Just make sure you have a fairly recent X server, because

Re: chicken and egg

1999-10-11 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 08:24:50AM +0200, Mike ALmogy wrote: if you want to do a backup of your entire HD why not using the MSDOS program GHOST ? I think Ghost is the paradigm of superfluous applications. Boot from any decent single-floppy system and dd if=/where/ever of=/hmm I

Re: resolving internet addresses

1999-10-06 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 10:51:52AM +0200, Avraham Hanadari wrote: that my system is unable to RESOLVE internet addresses. I connect satisfactorily to the ISP, but nothing works after that, unless I key in the number URL. With the numbers, it works well, but with human language ... nothing.

Re: How to block telnet access.

1999-09-26 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 07:48:35PM +0200, Adam Morrison wrote: Assuming sufficient skill on the intruders part, there isn't much you can do. There are precautions you can take to make things harder, and to help you analyze things after the event happened (Tripwire/ the likes). Again,

Re: email client

1999-09-15 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 07:27:37PM +0200, Shlomo Solomon wrote: I have two questions. Here's the list: I believe Mutt might suit your needs, if you accept the 'toolbox' attitude common in unixlike systems and allow other utilities to do some of the work. 1 - multiple address books and

Re: email client

1999-09-15 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 11:07:16PM +0200, I wrote: 2 - filters that can cause any of the following actions - copy or move messages to a different mailbox, forward and/or delete a message, copy a message to an external (text) file, set the read/unread status, send a canned reply, add

Re: email client

1999-09-15 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 11:52:24PM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: Even if you can't convert your mailboxes from the format used by your OS/2 program into the format used by Unix E-mail clients, you can accomplish this by causing your OS/2 client to send all messages in your mailbox to some address.

PC Weasel

1999-08-28 Thread Gaal Yahas
Sounds useful: http://www.realweasel.com/ They make an ISA card that gives you "stop-A" like functionality for PCs. -- believing is seeing [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.forum2.org/gaal/ = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL

Re: PC Weasel

1999-08-28 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 12:17:03AM +0300, I wrote: Sounds useful: http://www.realweasel.com/ They make an ISA card that gives you "stop-A" like functionality for PCs. And, I forgot to mention, it thunks the keyboard and video to the serial console :-) -- believing is seeing [EMAIL

Re: PPP over an Ethernet connection.

1999-08-27 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 12:25:34PM +0300, Alex Shnitman wrote: Take a look at libnet, http://www.packetfactory.net/libnet/ , which is a portable way to put packets on the network (in c). If you want to do it in Perl, try Net::RawIP . That allows you to send raw packets over IP. I.e.

Re: An odd problem with an Ethernet connection.

1999-08-26 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 12:13:17AM +0300, shaul wrote: I have 2 Ethernet devices that are connected by a NULL Ethernet cable. My problem with it is that unless I plug out the cable while the system boots and plug it in later, the devices do not speak with each other. - What is the wiring on

Re: PPP over an Ethernet connection.

1999-08-26 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 12:20:26AM +0300, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo wrote: BTW: How can root put raw data on the Ethernet device ? If there is no /dev for it, then how can someone open this device? You may try to look on packet(4), but I don't know if it will get you to what you

Re: sendmail questions

1999-08-17 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 01:08:21PM +0200, Adam Morrison wrote: As long as we're quoting Perl.gods, how about this one from Tom Christiansen's `Csh Programming Considered Harmful': An enlightening diatribe indeed. Tchrist's personal rule of thumb is that if it's the size that

Re: X auto start.

1999-08-17 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 04:08:49PM +0300, Shlomo Reches wrote: Is there something I can do to cancel the automatic X start while the system is in the booting process? perl -pi -e 's/^id:\d+/id:3/' /etc/inittab -- believing is seeing [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.forum2.org/gaal/

Re: sendmail questions

1999-08-16 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 11:47:38AM +0300, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: Any easy way to create the file would be cat /etc/passwd | awk -F: '($2 100) {print $1}' /etc/allusers This will ignore root, bin, etc. Join the Useless Use of cat Crazies! Rewrite that as awk -F:

VoodooIII support

1999-08-16 Thread Gaal Yahas
Hi, I'm buying a new computer. Can anybody recommend/warn against a voodoo3 card? The HOWTO's are outdated, the 3dfx site says the drivers are alpha quality, and the newsgroups show conflicting opinions (as usual :) . So: - is it a good idea to get a voodoo3 at all? - which card would you

Re: sendmail questions

1999-08-16 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 03:53:47PM +0300, Gavrie Philipson wrote: Well, as Larry Wall put it, "AWK has to be better for something :-)" Or you could use: perl -lanF: -e'$F[2]100print$F[0]' /etc/passwd /etc/allusers Which is almost the same size ;-) Indeed. Thanks! -- believing is

Re: Terminal Emulator for Windows

1999-08-15 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Sun, Aug 15, 1999 at 07:25:07PM +0200, Isaac Aaron wrote: Does anyone know of a good terminal emulator for Windows that can use all the featues a Linux console can use? I recommend CRT too. It's a pretty good client, plus there's a version with SSH support if you need it (who doesn't? :)

Picklists and netscape

1999-07-31 Thread Gaal Yahas
Ho. I'm using Netscape Communicator 4.07 and tvtwm (don't laugh :) , and have this annoying problem. Every time I click on a pick-list that has LOTS of selections, more than a screenful, bad things happen. First of all, my keyboard stops responding until I click on the the desktop. But more

Re: re- shell scripting

1999-07-30 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 03:24:56PM +0300, guy keren wrote: On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Gaal Yahas wrote: Aaaarrrggghh!! Will people save themselves the trouble of learning csh "programming", then spending hours of funless debugging and bug incompatibilities across machi

Re: [Re: re- shell scripting]

1999-07-28 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 07:51:15PM +0300, Herouth Maoz wrote: Besides...Obfuscated Python? Nah ;) Guys, is this going to become a religious interpreter war? Because if it is, tell me, and I'll get off the list for a while... If anyone is interested in a professional, religeon-free

Re: unmount / ?

1999-07-27 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 01:06:02PM +0300, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo wrote: GY #umount / I think it should be mount -o remount,ro / Either that, or even better, boot from a floppy. Yes, I was quite aware of the fix - I'm suggesting someone apply it. Gaal

Re: question

1999-07-13 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Tue, Jul 13, 1999 at 09:18:41PM +0300, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo wrote: I feel it might be a FAQ question, but I didnt find any good info around. The question is: If I have a process locked in "device wait" (D) state, is it possible to get rid of it? It doesn't react on signals while

Re: Configuring the resolution

1999-07-08 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 04:11:36PM -0400, Jonathan Alexander Daniel wrote: 1) Is there any difference or danger to the monitor in using these numbers if my monitor is not a multisync? YES. Please be careful with these things, as they CAN damage your monitor. A multisync monitor can deal with

Re: Configuring the resolution

1999-07-07 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 11:45:23AM -0400, Jonathan Alexander Daniel wrote: How would I know which is a similar model (I assume "modem" was a typo)? (before I even begin, note there's a XFree HOWTO that may help you more than I will here). Now: If you have the detailed monitor specs (like you

[linas@linas.org: Patches for new architecture, send where?]

1999-07-04 Thread Gaal Yahas
Ahhh, new architectures are nice to have. Anyone have an old mainframe gathering dust under your desk we can try this on? - Forwarded message from Linas Vepstas [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Linas Vepstas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 17:21:14 -0500 Subject: Patches for new

Re: pod2text again

1999-06-14 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 05:14:35PM +0300, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo wrote: I've upgraded to RH 6 on my machine (don't ask me why :), and discovered that new Perl package lacks pod2text, which is required for building some packages (e.g., DBD::mysql). Since someone asked about this here,

[jobs] sysadmin and perl folks wanted

1999-06-14 Thread Gaal Yahas
Hey, The company I work for is looking for has two potentially interesting positions open: 1. System administrator - over 2 years experience MUST - 'troubleshooter' attitude - solid TCP/IP networking understanding - OSes: the more UNIX flavours, the better;

Re: pod2text

1999-06-12 Thread Gaal Yahas
Mike, On Sat, Jun 12, 1999 at 10:22:19PM +0300, Mike wrote: does any of you know where i can find the pod2text program ? If it does not require any special settings (make, make instal...) then can you pls send it 2 me ? i'm trying to compile the MySQL-PERL interface and it keeps getting

Re: Comparison of Linux and FreeBSD

1999-06-09 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 01:13:36AM +0300, Vadim Vygonets wrote: I will not flame anyone, just point out one correction: Alright. It's only my opinion, so feel free to flame away. 1. Hardware resources 1.1 What is supported, what is not Linux supports more hardware than BSD systems,

Re: a small disk question

1999-06-07 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 10:21:58AM +0300, Hashibon Adham wrote: Hi, once i installed linux RH5.1 on a system with a 9.2 scsi disk, every thing was allright (and the machine is still working great) except that 'df' shows arround 8.5GB of disk space, though i used all of the disk for linux (it

[malicki.1@osu.edu: Re: MAJOR NTFS BUG - DO NOT USE WRITE!]

1999-05-31 Thread Gaal Yahas
Hi, I'm forwarding the follow-up, because the first post contained a patch people might have applied. - Forwarded message from Joseph Malicki [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Joseph Malicki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 01:01:45 -0400 Subject: Re: MAJOR NTFS BUG - DO NOT USE WRITE!

[cms@oreilly.com: Open Sources Online]

1999-05-26 Thread Gaal Yahas
- Forwarded message from Christina Silveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 10:44:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Christina Silveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: "Open Sources" Online X-UIDL: aefa92de8330b6d93e74f8c2c1b9035a We've freed "OpenSources: Voices From the

Gigabit ethernet

1999-05-24 Thread Gaal Yahas
Ho. Has anyone got practical experience with Gigabit Ethernet on linux? I found drivers for several NICs in the [kernel] source, but would like to hear stories from people who actually did this. (especially what NIC you were using and how well did it go) While we're at it - can anyone recommend

Re: Linux limitations

1999-05-22 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 11:25:08AM +0300, Oren Shomron wrote: I read an article which points out two limitations of Linux - 2GB of RAM and 2GB file sizes. My question is, are these numbers accurate (for 2.2?) and if not what are the true limitations and where can I read about them. I

Hebrew text mode browser

1999-05-21 Thread Gaal Yahas
Anyone ever heard of one? I hate pulling up X every time someone sends me a link to a hebrew site.. -- believing is seeing [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.forum2.org/gaal/

Re: how to add route to the routing tables?

1999-05-21 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 03:15:53PM +, Oded Arbel wrote: You didn't tell us which distribution you use, so I can't tell you what's the "proper" way of setting this to be persistent across boots, but if you use redhat, edit the files the "proper" way of configuring net stuff in redhat

Re: VMware configuration as a Win32 app server?

1999-05-20 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 01:34:14AM +0300, Alex Shnitman wrote: Yes, I'm aware of Teleport. I like the idea of xmove more, though, because xmove proxies for individual clients, while Teleport creates a nested X server in a window (much like Xnest), lets you start apps on it and then lets you

Re: ISDN with RedHat 6.0?

1999-05-20 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 03:55:29PM +0300, Eli Marmor wrote: P.S. Since 2.2.10 is going to be cool, I hope RedHat will supply an update in their errata page (they add some stuff which is specific to RH, so building your own kernel is not an alternative). If they don't, the only way to force

[list stuff] Re: ISDN with RedHat 6.0?

1999-05-20 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 05:08:15PM +0300, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo wrote: AS That mightly sucks. 1) they can add security holes with their patches, AS and little people would know because the code isn't reviewed like the AS rest of the kernel, actually most people don't see that code at

Red Hat and kernels [Re: ISDN with RedHat 6.0?]

1999-05-20 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 04:40:29PM +0300, Alex Shnitman wrote: this general approach -- of forking your own version instead of doing the regular well-established route of submitting the patches to linux-kernel -- makes me sick. What the hell is going on here? How do people accept this

[cms@oreilly.com: sourceXchange from O'Reilly]

1999-05-17 Thread Gaal Yahas
- Forwarded message from Christina Silveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 13:32:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Christina Silveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: sourceXchange from O'Reilly We're pleased to introduce sourceXchange, a new Web-based service developed

Re: Restoring destroyed partition table

1999-04-20 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 06:53:44PM +0400, Amos Shapira wrote: Does anyone know of a way for me to restore the partition entries without remembering the exact sizes? Ouch. I don't have a particularly clever suggestion, but as a last resort try using dd with skip= and count=, pipe the output to

Re: shadow over NIS - answer

1999-04-13 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 05:40:55AM +0300, guy keren wrote: [shadowed NIS] and why do you think this solves the problem? one can always connect an extra machine to your network, or run sniffers, etc, etc, etc. It doesn't solve THE problem, it solves /a/ particularly annoying problem; namely,

Re: Hebrew fonts

1999-03-28 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Sat, Mar 27, 1999 at 11:51:58PM +0200, Peter L. Peres wrote: I'm looking for Hebrew fonts. So far I've had no luck with iso08.f*, the console fonts that come with Red Hat (some of the characters are missing). I have been using the iso08.f* with success, but I know that there is a

[e_soriano@dapsys.ch: Large Linux Server sucessfull installation]

1999-03-24 Thread Gaal Yahas
Someone asked about a large scale "success story" recently. This from lkml; unfortunately they didn't hint what their application is. - Forwarded message from Eduardo Soriano [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Eduardo Soriano [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 11:23:31 +0100 Subject: Large

Re: Large images in X11: what program, settings ?

1999-03-20 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Sat, Mar 20, 1999 at 03:18:37PM +0200, Peter L. Peres wrote: I am trying to manipulate a largish (1 page) schematic in X11 and I am having troubles. I want to print the (PS) file into a graphical file (pbmraw will do). I use gs for this. 2 problems: 3. Ghostview has no troubles

fbset to other VTs

1999-03-09 Thread Gaal Yahas
Hi, has anyone figured out how to change fb settings to VTs other than the current one? Specifically: - how can I change fb setting for VT #x while not "on" it? (either when I'm on another VT, or when I'm connected through the network or an xterm -- or even a script) - how can a default fb

Re: Newsreader

1999-01-03 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 08:56:30AM +, Yosi wrote: Hello, I am looking for a newsreader for Linux, and I would be more than grateful if you can recommend me of one. These are the things that I need in a newsreader (from the most important to the least): [...] Anyone who sees a

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