lockfs functionality in Linux

2009-01-19 Thread Michael Sternberg
Hello Does Linux have something like lockfs(1M) functionality in Solaris ? I want to lock filesystem on some particular volume for writes and to flush all caches of that filesystem. After that I want to release the lock. = To

Re: lockfs functionality in Linux

2009-01-19 Thread Michael Sternberg
Shachar Shemesh wrote: Michael Sternberg wrote: Hello Does Linux have something like lockfs(1M) functionality in Solaris ? I want to lock filesystem on some particular volume for writes and to flush all caches of that filesystem. After that I want to release the lock. mount / -o remount,ro

RE: [Job offer] Senior Kernel Engineer

2007-11-22 Thread Michael Sternberg
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shachar Shemesh Sent: Thursday, 22 November, 2007 10:13 AM To: Michael Sternberg Cc: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Subject: Re: [Job offer] Senior Kernel Engineer ... You've made my day :) Forwarded to HR. Yet

[Job offer] Senior Kernel Engineer

2007-11-21 Thread Michael Sternberg
FilesX is re-writing the rules of Continuous Data Protection for the enterprise. We have ground breaking technology, a solid customer base and are looking for an experienced, creative Software Engineer to join our winning team. This position is for a developer with experience in complex

GNU license question (was: Application L10n)

2007-11-06 Thread Michael Sternberg
Continuing thread application localization in Linux. I've checked gettext package and seems to answer all our needs for translating interface of our application on every possible platform. Actually wikipedia gives a very short and clear explanation here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettext

RE: GNU license question (was: Application L10n)

2007-11-06 Thread Michael Sternberg
I agree that GPL is great and know that GPL applications can be commercial. The problem is that it demands to publish your application's source code which is not acceptable in most commercial applications. But yes, as gettext site says it: libintl and libasprintf libraries are LGPL,

application localization in Linux

2007-11-04 Thread Michael Sternberg
Hello everybody. In Windows, when I want to localize my application, I'm using *.rc files with strings for every language that I want to support. All strings in one place, I can easily transfer all them to anybody for translation and spell checking. Do we something like that in Linux ? Or I

RE: application localization in Linux

2007-11-04 Thread Michael Sternberg
they help me ? -Original Message- From: Michael Vasiliev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 05 November, 2007 03:02 AM To: Michael Sternberg Cc: Linux-IL Subject: Re: application localization in Linux On Sunday November 4 2007, You wrote: Do we something like that in Linux ? Or I just have

What LiveCD is recommended those days ?

2007-05-27 Thread Michael Sternberg
Hello What Linux-based LiveCD is recommended those days ? It will be used mostly for rescue tasks, but occasionally also for movies and net browsing. It does not have to run on lower-capacity machines and can fill the whole CD. Thanks.

File version

2006-12-13 Thread Michael Sternberg
Hello everybody. Is it any way to attach a verion number to executable file ? In Windows right click - properties - Version style ? Maybe as output of file command ? Of course I always can implement -v or --version switch to my executable, but do we have something more standard ?

FireFox and Bank haPoalim

2006-12-07 Thread Michael Sternberg
Hello. For everybody who's tired of looking on reversed hebrew of Bank haPoalim personal account web interface I have found a wonderful extension for FireFox that solves this problem: http://www.effie.co.il/mozvuvu/home.html enjoy :) P.S. I do not understand why Bank haPoalim still did

RE: FireFox and Bank haPoalim

2006-12-07 Thread Michael Sternberg
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Dover Sent: Thursday, 07 December, 2006 02:26 PM To: Linux-IL Subject: Re: FireFox and Bank haPoalim Actually I'm currently looking at their site in firefox and it looks fine to me. They used to have a

RE: FireFox and Bank haPoalim

2006-12-07 Thread Michael Sternberg
http://mishka.freeshell.org/bank_poalim.JPG Check out right column and tabs headers = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail

Synchronizing driver with user mode application

2006-10-29 Thread Michael Sternberg
Hello everybody. I want to ask how reliable to use signals to notify user mode application from driver ? I have a driver that stops every I/O and sends a signal to user mode application. After that user mode application send ioctl to release that I/O. Driver is not supposed to send another

FTP over SSH

2006-10-25 Thread Michael Sternberg
Hello ssh implementation from ssh.com supports ftp forwarding over SSH: http://www.ssh.com/support/documentation/online/ssh/winhelp/32/Forwarding_FTP.html Do you know any open source implementation of SSH that supports similar functionality ? And I'm speaking about encryption and compression

free does not frees memory ?

2006-10-03 Thread Michael Sternberg
From man page of free on Solaris 8: The argument to free() is a pointer to a block previously allocated by malloc(), calloc(), or realloc(). After free() is executed, this space is made available for further allo- cation by the application, though not returned to the sys- tem. Memory is

Linux kernel training

2006-09-27 Thread Michael Sternberg
Hello Can you, please, recommend me courses on Linux kernel development ? I found something at Interbit http://www.interbit.co.il/index.php?action=showid=98 how good are them ? = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Comparing two partitions block by block

2006-07-26 Thread Michael Sternberg
But when does cmp -l stops ? Once it encounter EOF character ? What if it will find it in the middle of partition ? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Yedidyah Bar-David Sent: Monday, 24 July, 2006 10:48 AM To: Michael Sternberg Cc: linux

Comparing two partitions block by block

2006-07-24 Thread Michael Sternberg
Hello. Let's say I want to test my block-level backup program. Let's say I backed up some partition 1 and restored it to partition 2 (size is equal to partition 1). Let's say there were no writes to partition 1 until now. How can I compare two partitions block by block ? There is no problem

kernel module question

2006-07-04 Thread Michael Sternberg
Hi, I'm writing kernel module for 2.6 linux. The purpose is to intercept all writes to disk devices and to notify user mode application about sector/length of write. I want to change function pointers of request_fn and make_request_fn to my own routines. The question is what is a

Haifux problems ? (Was: RE: Introductory lectures on Linux)

2006-07-02 Thread Michael Sternberg
]) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.12.8/Submit) id k62528n4010614; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 08:02:08 +0300 (IDT) Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2006 08:02:08 +0300 (IDT) From: Michael Sternberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: haifux@haifux.org Subject: what happened to club's site ? Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-Version

Introductory lectures on Linux

2006-06-29 Thread Michael Sternberg
Hello I'm looking for slides for introductory lecture on Linux for approximately 90 minutes. Target auditory - windows developers and QA, never touched anything but Windows all their lives :) Should be in English, Hebrew is not good. I think I've seen such one, once at haifux site - but its

How to meter disk I/O ?

2006-06-28 Thread Michael Sternberg
Hello, I have written a small application that performs stress load of filesystem. Which external tool I can use to meter disk I/O generated by this application ? I.e. I'm interested in number of Mb per second written to raw disk (not to filesystem or maybe its cache).. Thanks.

RE: Writing I/O intercepting driver in Linux

2006-06-19 Thread Michael Sternberg
Michael Sternberg wrote: We have to write driver that intercept all I/O to disk and notifies user-mode application with following data: block length and device number. What is a proper way to implement it: to write a block driver above disk layer or to implement a file system filter ? If we'll

Writing I/O intercepting driver in Linux

2006-06-18 Thread Michael Sternberg
We have to write driver that intercept all I/O to disk and notifies user-mode application with following data: block length and device number. What is a proper way to implement it: to write a block driver above disk layer or to implement a file system filter ? If we'll implement a file

Directories names with spaces inside

2006-05-25 Thread Michael Sternberg
I need to perform some task on specific files recusrsively. Problem is that directories names can contain spaces. Something like that (in /bin/sh) does not works: for f in `find . -name '*.c*'`; do file $f; done it choks on directories with spaces..

RE: Manageable core files

2006-05-17 Thread Michael Sternberg
Thanks everybody. The correct solutions was to use /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern as Gilad has suggested. Still, it affects whole system and does not allows to change core dump file name for a single application only. Also, as far as I know, it does not works in 2.4.xx kernels. If anybody

RE: Manageable core files

2006-05-17 Thread Michael Sternberg
for this list.. -Original Message- From: Shachar Shemesh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Michael Sternberg wrote: In Windows you can use MiniDumpWriteDump() API together with __try and __catch M$ proprietary operators.. Read more in http://www.codeproject.com/debug/XCrashReportPt3.asp or http

Manageable core files

2006-05-16 Thread Michael Sternberg
How can I manage core dump files ? I'm looking for some way to name them differently, so next one will not be written over the previous and maybe to give some information in core dump file name (version of application, date of core dump creation, etc..). It can be from crashing application

Linmagazine closed ?

2005-11-16 Thread Michael Sternberg
Linmagazine is closed. Please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] with requests, or questions, regarding contributed material. Anybody knows why ? It was only place that supported hebrew on drupal, at least as far as I know.. = To

Re: Web Hosting Recommendation

2005-10-06 Thread Michael Sternberg
-Original Message- From: Lior Kesos I've reccommended http://www.rotmax.com in the past and I'm still happy with their service - it's a mediuim size hosting operation. I've been hosting there for the past 3 years and I know that some people in the list have hosted there as well. The

Quest for *nix C/C++ IDE

2005-09-04 Thread Michael Sternberg
Hello We're looking for recomendations on *nix IDE. Following virtues are seeked: 1. Multiplatform. We will develop on Linux and SunOS. Maybe AIX and HP in the future. 2. Truly integrated. That is, good editor, source browser and visual debugger in one bottle. Never mind that it will use

[JOB OFFER]*nix developers and QA/IT

2005-07-04 Thread Michael Sternberg
Hello everybody. We're still looking for capable *nix developer and QA/IT person. Details are at http://www.filesx.com/careers/engineering.asp . Yes, the first project of newly created team will be porting Windows client to *nix platform. But there are many other new projects are already

[JOB OFFER] Software Engineer

2005-04-21 Thread Michael Sternberg
If your expirience is more with Linux (and not UNIX as mentioned in requirements for position 102) - apply anyway. http://www.filesx.com/careers/engineering.asp = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word

RE: Good Linux book for MS sysadmin

2005-03-01 Thread Michael Sternberg
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael Sternberg Sent: Monday, 28 February, 2005 16:46 What book on modern Linux administration you will recommend to a seasoned Windows system administrator ? No answers at all ?? Maybe I did not asked right

Good Linux book for MS sysadmin

2005-02-28 Thread Michael Sternberg
What book on modern Linux administration you will recommend to a seasoned Windows system administrator ? Thanks -- Michael = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the

RE: [OT] minimal X and ssh for win32

2004-11-14 Thread Michael Sternberg
I have put together a small package of X (from cygwin) and putty that should allow you to use a minimal X server from any win32 computer. 1. Why do you think this is [OT] ? 2. Its still big - 6.60 MB. What about Run X from a floppy ? Do we have any smaller package for X server ?

RE: [OT] minimal X and ssh for win32

2004-11-14 Thread Michael Sternberg
From: Nadav Har'El If you're willing to relax the request for an X server, and merely request that you can view on Windows graphical applications that are running on a remote Linux machine, VNC is an excellent solution. I know what VNC is. I was actually looking for a real X server as a single

RE: Developing Platform for web programing

2004-07-13 Thread Michael Sternberg
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ben-Nes Michael ... a method that will insure that no one working on a file while simultaniously. ( for example ) ... Microsoft Visual SourceSafe ? And, if it has to be on Linux, with SourceGear SourceOffSite

RE: Recommended RSS viewer?

2004-06-02 Thread Michael Sternberg
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Recommended RSS viewer? 2. Which viewer is recommended for Linux users? I'm happy with Firefox + RSS Reader Panel extension = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: remote bookmarks ?

2004-03-18 Thread Michael Sternberg
14:19, Michael Sternberg wrote: Does anybody know an Internet Browser with following capabilities: 1. On start it loads bookmark list from some remote web site 2. When bookmarking a page, the bookmark is automatically stored at the same remote web site (with some help from CGI?) 3

remote bookmarks ?

2004-03-17 Thread Michael Sternberg
Does anybody know an Internet Browser with following capabilities: 1. On start it loads bookmark list from some remote web site 2. When bookmarking a page, the bookmark is automatically stored at the same remote web site (with some help from CGI?) 3. Have to be multiplatform, Linux and Windows

RE: Annoyance with Israeli ISPs

2004-02-08 Thread Michael Sternberg
-Original Message- From: Ilya Konstantinov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun, 08 February, 2004 8:12 PM Tell me after you actually do it (that is - find a way to upload a custom firmware and crack that firmware to change the MAC address). Try http://www.tcniso.net/

Hit the penguin

2004-01-21 Thread Michael Sternberg
Maybe the wrong list, and I will not survive the consequences but anyway... Enjoy :) http://www.kolhoz.lv/penguin.swf = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the

RE: [JOB OFFER] Adwise Seeking - PHP Professional

2004-01-18 Thread Michael Sternberg
http://images.maariv.co.il/cache/cachearchive/21062001/ART157442.html http://images.maariv.co.il/cache/cachearchive/08042002/ART273128.html http://images.maariv.co.il/cache/cachearchive/10122001/ART220898.html http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/NodeView.asp?fid=964 according to Globes - this

Filesystem for dual boot sharing

2004-01-10 Thread Michael Sternberg
Hello What are my options for sharing data between Linux and Win2K on dual boot computer ? I need read/write access from both OS to a shared partition, until now I used FAT. Do we have something better ? -- Michael

happy penguin hanukka :)

2003-12-17 Thread Michael Sternberg
http://optusxmas.optin.com.au/cgi-bin/FormGenerator?rin=169478756-12926648thankyou=/optusxmas/flash/penguin1.html = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command

RE: Cable Internet, 012, and what's between it...

2003-12-09 Thread Michael Sternberg
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dan Fruehauf Sent: Tue, December 09, 2003 11:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cable Internet, 012, and what's between it... ... ... beware of the evil 012 ... ... Strange. I'm connected to 012 via

[Job offers] SW eng. and QA/SysAdmin

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Sternberg
Jobs are more UNIX related, although job #52 mention Linux. Company located in MATAM, Haifa and we're looking for people now. Job number #50 http://www.filesx.com/job/index.html#softengIS Job number #52 http://www.filesx.com/job/index.html#qaIS All other job propositions on the above page are

L2TP with Israeli ISPs

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Sternberg
Hello Did somebody successfully used L2TP daemon (http://www.l2tpd.org/) to connect to Israeli ISP ? My is Barak via Matav cables. Pointer to some HOWTO on subject ? Thanks, Michael. -- = To unsubscribe, send

RE: L2TP with Israeli ISPs

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Sternberg
-Original Message- From: Mix Sella Did somebody successfully used L2TP daemon (http://www.l2tpd.org/) to connect to Israeli ISP ? My is Barak via Matav cables. To the best of my knowledge, current L2TP support in Linux is very poor and not suited well for production. A person

RE: L2TP with Israeli ISPs

2003-08-07 Thread Michael Sternberg
-Original Message- From: Itay 'z9u2K' Duvdevani -Original Message- From: Mix Sella Did somebody successfully used L2TP daemon (http://www.l2tpd.org/) to connect to Israeli ISP ? Mine is Barak via Matav cables. To the best of my knowledge, current L2TP

RE: L2TP with Israeli ISPs

2003-08-07 Thread Michael Sternberg
I suppose I was looking for following link: http://mia.ece.uic.edu/~papers/volans/l2tpd.html Thanks everybody.. Michael. -- = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in

Linus' interview to ZDnet

2003-07-09 Thread Michael Sternberg
If anybody missed: http://msn.com.com/2102-1104_2-1023778.html?tag=printthis Michael -- = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo

Re: Problem with big cramfs images

2003-06-30 Thread Michael Sternberg
I just wondering if anybody on this list sucessfully used cramfs root fs images bigger than 4096Kb ? = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo

Problem with big cramfs images

2003-06-29 Thread Michael Sternberg
Hello I'm mounting my root filesystem (cramfs) from mtd block device. With small images (2Mb) everything works just fine. With large images (8+Mb) I can create image, copy it to the flash and even mount it as loop device or directly from flash - no errors at all. Hovewer, when I trying to start

ARP storm from my computer ?

2003-06-23 Thread Michael Sternberg
Hello list. I'm running Mandrake 9.1, two NICs bonded to a single IP. From some reason, from time to time, computer starts to issue a lot of ARP requests to non-existent IPs (that are still in my subnet). I think that the same behaviour was observed with a single NIC too. ARP table gets filled

RE: ARP storm from my computer ?

2003-06-23 Thread Michael Sternberg
-Original Message- From: Ben-Nes Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Just curious, what is the benefit of giving the same IP to two devices ? Where such thing can be used ? Load balancing and fault tolerance. Both NICs even does not have to be from the same manufacturer.

Sense network cable status in user mode

2003-06-18 Thread Michael Sternberg
Hello How can I feel in user mode process that network cable was pulled out ? Of course I can patch network card driver to transfer that data to user mode process, but maybe we already have some more standard way to receive this information ? Thanks,

RE: X fonts problem

2003-06-12 Thread Michael Sternberg
-Original Message- From: Tzafrir Cohen Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 10:33 PM From some reason in some applications (for example Sylpheed, Evolution) fonts are looking wrong. I.e. after each letter I see a small black square. Are those programs gtk1.2 programs or gtk2

X fonts problem

2003-06-11 Thread Michael Sternberg
Hello From some reason in some applications (for example Sylpheed, Evolution) fonts are looking wrong. I.e. after each letter I see a small black square. Mandrake 9.1, problem is both in KDE 3.1.2 and in Gnome 2.2.0. I suspect that the problem lies in my locale setting, so I tried to start

X (or locale) problem

2003-06-03 Thread Michael Sternberg
Hello I'm trying to install some commercial debugger (totalview) on new machine. When it starts, it emits following message: ERROR: X is not configured correctly to support the C locale. This is Mandrake 9.1, XFree 4.3.5, kernel 2.4.21, glibc 2.3.1. Setting all LC* variables (output of

Re: Go-Linux event - Invitation and some explanations

2003-04-04 Thread Michael Sternberg
Hello Can somebody provide the list with instructions how to reach Hilton hotel from North Railaway station (rakevet-tzafon) ? Bus number, name of station to go off and approximate morning periodicity would be much appreciated. Thanks a lot.

Exact place of Go-Linux conference

2003-04-01 Thread Michael Sternberg
At http://www.dailymaily.co.il/eiruim/go-linux-new.gif it takes place in Hilton Hotel, Tel Aviv. And in automatic reply that I've received after registration it takes place in Dan Panorama hotel, Tel Aviv. ??? Michael --

backup woes

2003-03-19 Thread Michael Sternberg
Hello I receive following message when trying to backup my disk with /usr/sbin/dump: /dev/hda6: Can't read next inode while scanning inode #2453824 After that dump quits without finishing backup. The questions are: 1. What that mean ? Is my hard disk is gone ? 2. How can I check out to what

-fomit-frame-pointer and C++ exceptions

2003-03-18 Thread Michael Sternberg
Hello list I wonder why if I apply g++ switch -fomit-frame-pointer C++ exceptions cease to work. I'm using pretty old gcc - 2.95.3, is it the same in gcc 3.2 ? I wanted to use this switch mainly for smaller executable sizes... I do not want to debug those executables (at least not in release

Intel compiler vs. gcc

2003-02-24 Thread Michael Sternberg
Somebody tried Intel C++ Compiler 7.0 for Linux ? http://www.programmersparadise.com/Product.pasp?txtCatalog=ParadisetxtCategory=txtProductID=I23+0A12 They claim 30% performance gain on gcc 3.2.. Michael = To

RE: best free POP/IMAP mailbox

2003-02-22 Thread Michael Sternberg
This one is best for me: sdf.lonestar.org (or iceland.freeshell.org) 1$ single payment for account validation nearly lifetime account (I have it from 1996, it never failed) 15Mb mail, 15Mb gopher, 15Mb web, 15Mb home limited UNIX shell account (procmail included :) ) telnet/SSH access POP3 mail

RE: Weird IP problem...

2003-02-10 Thread Michael Sternberg
-Original Message- From: Official Flamer/Cabal NON-Leader It seems that there were two computers with same MAC address as of 172.17.4.202 on local subnet. Thanks everybody. TWO machines with the SAME MAC address is one machine with a damaged NIC or spoofed MAC. No, two

RE: Weird IP problem...

2003-02-10 Thread Michael Sternberg
-Original Message- From: Official Flamer/Cabal NON-Leader No, two machines with the same MAC are two different PPC machines that MAC address can be set up by ignorant user (like me :). Errr... MAC address or IP address? Why the hell play with the MAC address? Because they all

Re: Weird IP problem...

2003-02-10 Thread Michael Sternberg
-Original Message- From: Alex Shnitman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 17:17, Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting Michael Sternberg, from the post of Mon, 10 Feb: Errr... MAC address or IP address? Why the hell play with the MAC address? Because they all

root fs mount options

2003-02-10 Thread Michael Sternberg
Hello How can I tell kernel what mount options to use when mount root fs (/) ? I have in kernel command line root=/dev/mtdblock0 rw and want to use mount option noatime for faster access. I already RTFM `man mount` and linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt Thanks, Michael

RE: root fs mount options

2003-02-10 Thread Michael Sternberg
-Original Message- From: Michael Sternberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] How can I tell kernel what mount options to use when mount root fs (/) ? I have in kernel command line root=/dev/mtdblock0 rw and want to use mount option noatime for faster access. Hello I hate to answer my own

Auto IP - why not in Linux ?

2003-02-06 Thread Michael Sternberg
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-zeroconf-ipv4-linklocal-07.txt In short: 0. Static IP configured - use it and announce neighbors with ARP broadcast. 1. DHCP configured - try to get IP. If successful - use and update neighbors. 2. If no answer - pick a random address from

Linux uPnP control point ?

2003-02-06 Thread Michael Sternberg
Hello I'm looking for Linux uPnP control point application. Does not have to be with fancy graphics and the only capability I'm looking for - is to tell uPnP enabled gateway to make some static port mappings. Anybody heard about such thing ? Tried to search on Google and found nothing. I know

Booting with something else instead of /sbin/init

2003-01-21 Thread Michael Sternberg
Hello I'm trying to make kernel to start a different application instead of /sbin/init. So, I passing init=/bin/sh in kernel command line. I actually can see this setting in messages emitted by kernel. But from some reason the kernel starts a real /sbin/init and ignores my setting. Last strings

/usr/bin/top for kernel processes

2003-01-20 Thread Michael Sternberg
Hello. From time to time I notice in output of /usr/bin/top that my system CPU time jumps to nearly 90%. How can I know which task kernel performs ? I'm looking for some kind of top for kernel.. Maybe some file in /proc directory ? Thanks, Michael

RE: Samsung ADSL modems

2003-01-18 Thread Michael Sternberg
-Original Message- From: Muli Ben-Yehuda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Subject: Samsung ADSL modems Anyone using this ADSL modem with Linux? does it work out of the box, not work at all, or require a kernel module or some other travesty? They use PPPoE instead of PPtP. It worked

Staircase effect in init script

2003-01-15 Thread Michael Sternberg
Hello I'm starting my program from one of /etc/init.d scripts. It prints quite lot of messages on screeen and from some reason I see staircase effect - each message is printed with larger and larger indentation from the left. Messages from other programs, are that started after my application

Close all open sockets

2003-01-05 Thread Michael Sternberg
Hello How can I gracefully close all TCP connections from external program (i.e. those sockets were opened not by this program) on shutdown ? I'm looking for a way to send RST or FIN to both sides of all currently established TCP connections of computer that I'm run on it.. Let's say I can get

How to check OS/HW performance

2003-01-02 Thread Michael Sternberg
Hello list. Recently I have feeling that my PPC Linux is much slower (network, scheduling, flash I/O) then similarly equipped AMD board. I can not say where is the problem - hardware, operating system or users' applications.. I'm looking for set of Linux utilities that can check hardware/OS

Re: How to check OS/HW performance

2003-01-02 Thread Michael Sternberg
-Original Message- From: Matan Ziv-Av [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Michael Sternberg wrote: I'm looking for set of Linux utilities that can check hardware/OS performance. I found lmbench useful for this. It's not extremely easy if you want to cross-compile

URL with memory management explained

2002-12-25 Thread Michael Sternberg
Hello I'm looking for a good URL that explains memory management in modern Linux kernel. I.e. what happens when I'm typing malloc, how many memory is assigned to a process, what is virtual memory, how swapping works, etc... Thanks, Michael. P.S. Looked at

Location of IBM Linux Haifa event

2002-12-23 Thread Michael Sternberg
Where IBM Linux seminar will be held ? In invitaion it says IBM laboratories in Haifa and on web page it's in Haifa University campus, Auditorium Both places are very close, yet there is still 30-40 minutes or so walking. Anybody does know the exact location ? Thanks.

NFS and common directories

2002-12-22 Thread Michael Sternberg
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 of this fs is the same, only one directory differs. The quick and ugly solution

Re: NFS and common directories

2002-12-22 Thread Michael Sternberg
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 have to be different. Of course they can mount /root_fs as root fs and

Re: sizeof(bool)

2002-12-11 Thread Michael Sternberg
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Furthermore, relying on 'int', 'bool' and friends to be ANY specific size is bad and broken programing and will prevent you to port the program to other ARCHs even with the same compiler etc. While I agree with Gilad, just as service to public here is solution: struct

Re: iptables - Mandrake 9.0

2002-12-10 Thread Michael Sternberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [root@shlomo1 root]# iptables -L /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o.gz: init_module: Device or resource busy I never knew that kernel modules object files can be gzipped.. It does not work at my system though - is it requires some

sizeof(bool)

2002-12-10 Thread Michael Sternberg
I'm wondering why sizeof(bool) is 1 byte in Intel platform and 4 bytes on PPC ? Is it depends on version of gcc (2.95.3 on Intel, 2.96 on PPC) ? Can I somehow (some compiler flag) make them of same size ? = To unsubscribe, send

Routing + VPN question

2002-12-09 Thread Michael Sternberg
I want to make my computer to be visible from behind the NAT, that is, to have a real IP. I have another computer in my control (Linux) and can start there a PPtP VPN client that can assign to client a real IP from server's subnet. Here is a short scheme: client WAN server

makefile question

2002-12-04 Thread Michael Sternberg
I would like to set up a taget in a makefile that will only define some variable, and it will be used in the next target, something like this: ppc : ARCH = PPC release: ifeq ($(ARCH),PPC) echo start ppc compiler with ppc flags else echo do something else endif And I

Re: makefile question

2002-12-04 Thread Michael Sternberg
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Use recursive make: ppc: $(MAKE) ARCH=PPC It does not work. Here is a simple makefile: ppc: @ $(MAKE) ARCH=PPC debug: @ echo performing $@ build for $ARCH release: @ echo performing $@ build for $ARCH I run it with make ppc debug and

PPtP problem

2002-11-21 Thread Michael Sternberg
I have problem using Win2K VPN server from Linux. I success to connect to it, to receive an IP address in remote network, but when I try to ping something inside intranet I fail. I even can not ping other side of PPtP link. When I replace my default gateway with second side of link - PPtP

Problem with process accounting

2002-11-20 Thread Michael Sternberg
I've noticed in `ps` output that one particular process is shown only until its last slash, i.e. instead of /opt/BOS/test.out its /opt/BOS I've checked in its /proc/xxx directory and in cmdline there is a '\0' in place of last slash !! I'm using 2.4.18 kernel and latest BusyBox. Who is

[OT] Linux Video Conference Tools

2002-11-14 Thread Michael Sternberg
Hello In continuing of recent discussion of ISP's I wanted to ask if anybody have experience with video conferencing applications under Linux. How do they compare to Windows applications ? What speed is required for video conferencing ? Anybody on this list actually use video conferencing on

Re: FW: [OT] Linux Video Conference Tools

2002-11-14 Thread Michael Sternberg
the firewall. Thanks, Hetz On Thursday 14 November 2002 09:51, Michael Sternberg wrote: Hello In continuing of recent discussion of ISP's I wanted to ask if anybody have experience with video conferencing applications under Linux. How do they compare to Windows

SNMP question

2002-11-12 Thread Michael Sternberg
Hi, I'm using UCD-SNMP version 4.2.3 over Linux. I've compiled the ucd tutorial mib module into an *.so library, which SNMPD loads. The following lines the access section of snmpd.conf: com2sec paranoid default public com2sec readonly default public group MyROSystem

Cross debugging MT applications

2002-11-03 Thread Michael Sternberg
http://www.kegel.com/linux/gdbserver.txt Works wonderfull !! Just wanted to share :) Michael. -- = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the

PLEASE IGNORE MY PREVIOUS MESSAGE - ITS A VIRUS

2002-11-03 Thread Michael Sternberg
Title: PLEASE IGNORE MY PREVIOUS MESSAGE - ITS A VIRUS DO NOT INSTALL NOTHING FROM MY PREVIOUS MESSAGE

Re: PLEASE IGNORE MY PREVIOUS MESSAGE - ITS A VIRUS

2002-11-03 Thread Michael Sternberg
On 04 Nov 2002 08:51:55 +0200 Gilad Ben-Yossef [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 07:56, Michael Sternberg wrote: DO NOT INSTALL NOTHING FROM MY PREVIOUS MESSAGE What, gdbserver??? ducks... No, I received a letter from a person that I'm trust. Apparently this message

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