Re: OT: looking for a job

2022-01-12 Thread Yedidyah Bar David
Hi Maayan, Not sure why you think you must choose between posting to this list and searching LinkedIn. Why not both? I am by no means a LinikedIn fan, but it's definitely a real thing, and I wouldn't be surprised if I heard that tens of percents of all tech job assignments in Israel are

Re: recover ssh-agent socket

2022-01-09 Thread Yedidyah Bar David
On Sun, Jan 9, 2022 at 8:11 AM Daniel Shahaf wrote: > > Tzafrir Cohen wrote on Sat, 08 Jan 2022 09:06 +00:00: > > I accidentally deleted my ssh-agent's socket from /tmp. The agent is > > still running and I have $SSH_AGENT_PID and $SSH_AUTH_SOCK set in > > various processes, so I know where it

Re: diff

2021-12-14 Thread Yedidyah Bar David
On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 5:45 PM Mark E. Fuller wrote: > > > It's such a small thing, but I really enjoyed being privy to this > question and discussion today. > > On 14/12/2021 17:21, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > > אורי wrote on Tue, 14 Dec 2021 07:44 +00:00: > >> Actually I prefer the "<(..)" method,

Re: multiple python versions

2021-07-26 Thread Yedidyah Bar David
On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 8:31 PM Shlomo Solomon wrote: > > OK - to sum up: > 1 - thanks to Omer and Dan > 2 - it seems that I did understand the concept of virtual environments > - as I wrote in my original post: > > I know I can use venv to set up virtual environments for different > > versions,

Re: Where to buy a Linux based desktop in Israel?

2020-05-12 Thread Yedidyah Bar David
On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 10:49 PM Dimid Duchovny wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm looking to buy a desktop computer with Linux pre-installed for a couple > of senior citizens. I'd usually buy a generic PC and install myself, but now > due to the coronavirus that's not an option. > The main uses are web

Re: Gmail and Claws

2020-05-12 Thread Yedidyah Bar David
Not directly related, but I'd like to also point out, as no-one mentioned this yet: https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2019/12/less-secure-apps-oauth-google-username-password-incorrect.html TL;DR: they are stopping Less-Secure-Apps support in June. Blog post talks about "G Suite", so perhaps

Re: OT: Non-Israeli domain name registration.

2019-08-08 Thread Yedidyah Bar David
est regards, On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 1:19 PM Yedidyah Bar David wrote: > Last time I had to renew my only (.org) domain I decided to transfer it to > box.co.il, which is also a .il registrar (which I why I knew them). It > was a bit more expensive than the cheapest options abroad, bu

Re: oVirt over CentOS or ovirt-node

2018-01-09 Thread Yedidyah Bar David
Hi Rabin :-), On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 10:48 PM, Rabin Yasharzadehe wrote: > Just wondering which OS used for the host, I was wondering if one version > is more supported then the other. > Why not start a thread on us...@ovirt.org, then? You might find this useful/interesting:

Re: Systemd error messages for custom service

2017-09-06 Thread Yedidyah Bar David
On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 6:44 PM, David Suna wrote: > I am getting started with systemd on an Ubuntu 16.04 system. I have a custom > service implemented in PHP which is outputting messages How? Writing to stdout? > which I can see > using journalctl. I would like to

Re: How to search Linux Kernel changelogs? (USB disconnect problem)

2015-12-21 Thread Yedidyah Bar David
On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Omer Zak wrote: > During the last several months, I was having a problem of USB mouse > disconnecting and reconnecting very often in my Linux system (Debian > Wheezy, kernels 3.16.0-4-amd64 and 4.2.0-0.bpo.1-amd64). Recently a > similar problem

Re: How to install several kernels on Debian

2015-12-15 Thread Yedidyah Bar David
On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > > Hi, > > I am confused and I wonder if some Debian expert can calm me down. I > want to install several different kernel versions on a Debian > server. Off-topic: this is something that Red Hat do without being asked

Re: How to install several kernels on Debian

2015-12-15 Thread Yedidyah Bar David
On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt <p...@goldshmidt.org> wrote: > Yedidyah Bar David <linux...@didi.bardavid.org> writes: > >> On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt <p...@goldshmidt.org> wrote: >>> >>> this is something th

Re: xargs guide

2015-07-30 Thread Yedidyah Bar David
2015-07-30 4:37 GMT+03:00 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com: Hi all, xargs is a gender-changer type program that adapts one program's stdout to the next program's command line arguments. It's extremely handy for shell scripting, but it can be tricky. I've written a short guide for xargs

[JOB OFFER] Community Impact and Action Lead for Fedora

2015-01-06 Thread Yedidyah Bar David
Hi all, I was asked to forward this: Red Hat is looking for a Fedora Community Action and Impact Lead to join the Fedora Council and lead initiatives to grow the Fedora user and developer communities, as well as make Red Hat and Fedora interactions even more transparent and positive. The Council

Re: terminal emulator

2014-08-28 Thread Yedidyah Bar David
2014-08-28 15:13 GMT+03:00 Efraim Flashner efraim.flash...@gmail.com: What terminal emulators are out there that correctly do bidirectional text, for displaying hebrew in a readable manner. finding one that displays hebrew, but left to right, isn't hard, but either i'm not configuring it

Re: terminal emulator

2014-08-28 Thread Yedidyah Bar David
2014-08-28 18:06 GMT+03:00 Efraim Flashner efraim.flash...@gmail.com: tilda shows up left-to-right with hebrew letters, mlterm shows up right-to-left with boxes. All on debian sid. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7048321/tilda.jpg https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7048321/mlterm.jpg

Re: reverse ssh

2014-07-20 Thread Yedidyah Bar David
If you just want an ssh connection you can simply redirect connection attempts to some port on the Internet-accessible machine to port 22 on the private-ip one - using whatever tool that fits you best - iptables, xinetd, redir, probably many others. -- Didi 2014-07-20 13:31 GMT+03:00 Erez D

Re: Retooling my mail server

2013-07-18 Thread Yedidyah Bar David
2013/7/18 Ira Abramov lists-linux...@ira.abramov.org: Howdie, I've been delaying this for years, but for the last 15 of them I've been working with qmail and ezmlm and they are getting dated. no DKIM, no smtp auth, lots of modern features and community missing. Then the other day someone

Re: c/unix q

2013-06-04 Thread Yedidyah Bar David
ְAlso, you might cause other software that inherits the fds to fail/complain/whatever. I only mention this because just yesterday I noticed that when running 'lvs' on my Debian wheeze laptop, I get: File descriptor 3 (/usr/share/bash-completion/completions) leaked on lvs invocation. Parent PID

Re: The New Coolest Hack: emscripten - an LLVM bitcode to JavaScript Compiler

2013-01-06 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 06:55:22PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: Emscripten has many more, much cooler, demos here: https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/wiki including ports of Python, Ruby and Lua and some graphical games. On a semi-related note, see this, if you haven't already:

Re: Is forbidding concurrent ssh sessions a good idea?

2012-11-12 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 12:51:46PM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Mon, Nov 12, 2012, Elazar Leibovich wrote about Re: Is forbidding concurrent ssh sessions a good idea?: While I can certainly see what's broken with it for using a regular computer, whose stability I do not value much, and

Re: Is forbidding concurrent ssh sessions a good idea?

2012-11-12 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 06:32:25PM +0200, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: +1 for tmux, this does however imply that all the admins are using the same account to login (bad scenario) with or instead the tmux/screen line should be added at the end of /root/.profile and not ~/.profile IIRC screen, perhaps

Looking for recommendations: sending SMSs from linux

2012-10-29 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi all, I am looking for recommendations for hardware to send SMSs from a linux server and connected through its USB port. It's important that it'll be stable and robust. I'd also like it to: 1. be easy to buy in Israel and get warranty/support 2. have good support in both the kernel and relevant

Re: Looking for recommendations: sending SMSs from linux

2012-10-29 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Thanks for the info. On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 01:38:55PM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: I use a Hauwei (or is it Huawei?) dongle. The asterisk chan_dongle driver allows you to make and receive calls and send and receive SMSs. I was able to find one for sale in Haifa using ZAP, after

Re: Fw: Establishing a Mageia Mirror in Israel

2012-10-27 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 12:09:20AM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: Begin forwarded message: Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 23:58:52 +0200 From: Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org To: mageia-disc...@mageia.org Cc: Mageia development mailing-list mageia-...@mageia.org Subject: Establishing a Mageia

Re: How do I disable NetworkManager in favor of dhcp setup?

2012-03-08 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 06:09:33PM +0200, ronys wrote: I've had luck with 'sudo telinit 6' in cases where the reboot command failed. There's also a /proc variable that will force a reboot when written to, but its name escapes me for the moment. /proc/sysrq-trigger Read 'man proc' Also note

Re: vim mappings for Hebrew

2012-03-07 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 10:19:34PM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012, Avraham Rosenberg wrote about Re: vim mappings for Hebrew: The above from Nadav, using printable characters map! F12 esc:set invhk invrlcra map F12 :set invhk invrlcr I'm now using a slightly

Re: How do I disable NetworkManager in favor of dhcp setup?

2012-03-07 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 12:21:02AM +0200, Micha wrote: I have a redhat 6 desktop based system that exhibits a behavior where sshd fails to start on startup despite being enabled and requires manual startup after user login. I want to enable remote access before there is actual user login on

Re: libreoffice+hebrew nikud

2012-02-26 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 11:39:19PM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Sun, Feb 26, 2012, Dan Kenigsberg wrote about Re: libreoffice+hebrew nikud: ditto. I've been using the lyx layout ever since Tzafrir had incorporated it to xkb (but not very often). They are almost sensible (you cannot ask

Re: Migrating a Linux (Debian Squeeze) system from one HD to another HD

2012-02-20 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 06:07:37PM +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: You'll HAVE to, especially /boot, before chroot'ing do: # for i in proc dev sys boot; do mount -o bind /$i /chroot/$i; done The OP specifically said he mounted a NEW boot partition under the chroot. I agree with the others. I

Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

2012-02-20 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 10:40:58AM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Sun, Feb 19, 2012, Dotan Cohen wrote about Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats: Undocumented? Which file format is that? All the .doc and .docx formats are documented, even the older binary

Re: Migrating a Linux (Debian Squeeze) system from one HD to another HD

2012-02-19 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 04:03:05AM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: My PC has a 500GB hard disk, and I want to migrate it to a 2TB hard disk. The new hard disk has been formatted to have two physical partitions, one serves as /boot and the other is an encrypted LVM volume, which has its own division

Re: Migrating a Linux (Debian Squeeze) system from one HD to another HD

2012-02-19 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 03:47:32PM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: Thanks, Daniel and Amos, for your suggestions. However they address the wrong part of my problem. All my regular files were already copied to the new hard disk and it was properly set up. The only problem is to boot from it. I

Re: iconv_open fails when suid bit is on

2012-02-13 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 11:45:26AM +0200, guy keren wrote: running strace on an suid binary - ignores the 'suid' bit. so the test with strace is not relevant. Indeed, and to strace programs that do this, I do something like that: Open a root shell: # echo $$ let's say it printed 1234, so its

Re: Modern Linux memory management

2012-01-26 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:54:56AM -0500, Ori Berger wrote: On 01/26/2012 10:16 AM, Baruch Siach wrote: Only by using valgrind, that I could find the exact location and figure out, that it was another function that had the problem. How does the modern memory management system is working

Re: Israeli website on Linux: beer-sheva.muni.il

2012-01-25 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 08:45:51AM +0200, shimi wrote: On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: Can anyone reach beer-sheva.muni.il on Linux? I tried in Chrome and in Firefox, I get a timeout as if the server is not running. When I try in Firefox on the

Re: Israeli website on Linux: beer-sheva.muni.il

2012-01-25 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 08:52:55AM +0200, Noam Meltzer wrote: On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: Can anyone reach beer-sheva.muni.il on Linux? I tried in Chrome and in Firefox, I get a timeout as if the server is not running. When I try in Firefox on

Re: Israeli website on Linux: beer-sheva.muni.il

2012-01-24 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 08:38:22AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: Can anyone reach beer-sheva.muni.il on Linux? I tried in Chrome and in Firefox, I get a timeout as if the server is not running. When I try in Firefox on the wife's Windows7 laptop, the site comes right up. I have not tried to spoof

Wikis (Was: Re: Video Tape encoding)

2012-01-15 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 10:36:57PM +0200, Dov Grobgeld wrote: As promised, here is my write-up of the steps I did to capture a video tape under Linux: http://www.wikihow.com/index.php?title=Encode-a-Video-Tape-to-Mpeg4-%28Divx%29-Under-Linuxaction=history Feel free to edit and discuss on

Re: HTML Mail (was: Re: Which technology should I learn to do this?)

2012-01-08 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 09:38:21AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 09:15, Yedidyah Bar-David linux...@didi.bardavid.org wrote: Should I officially give up and declare text email as a thing of the past? Should I move to some graphical mail client that displays and composes

Re: HTML Mail

2012-01-08 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 10:03:27AM +0200, Dotan Shavit wrote: On 01/08/2012 09:15 AM, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 08:50:45AM +0200, Dotan Shavit wrote: ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http

HTML Mail (was: Re: Which technology should I learn to do this?)

2012-01-07 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 08:50:45AM +0200, Dotan Shavit wrote: ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il Dear Linux-IL subscribers, Should I officially give up and declare text email as a

Re: What is residual memory? Can anyone explain?

2011-12-18 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 08:31:55AM +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: On 18 December 2011 18:07, Yedidyah Bar-David linux...@didi.bardavid.org wrote: In addition, I also check free memory before running the app, after starting, several times, etc. That's a good practice as well. Do you do

Re: What is residual memory? Can anyone explain?

2011-12-17 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 09:22:43PM +0200, Raz wrote: i tend to calculate a process' memory consumption in deltas, meaning, how memory it consumes in addition to the shared sections. So i usually take a look at the write-able and private consumption as reported by pmap. ( pmap pid ). Please

Re: Unix History: Why does hexdump default to word alignment?

2011-12-01 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 01:55:24PM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Thu, Dec 01, 2011, guy keren wrote about Re: Unix History: Why does hexdump default to word alignment?: apparently, you did not use binary data serialization in the past two decades. when you serialize data and store it into a

Re: NFS + NIS madness

2011-11-28 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:35:33PM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Hi, As you can see, all of them (from root) works perfectly: [root@client ~]# ypcat passwd.byuid vic:$6$FcNMjbbl$8wGzWhtEK9P0.WdoqE78xI9VDzmaH1wTF.2vax9VERW3uiqhytNjXXzVccCjnWRxV7ApHL.JibC0Ar4spM6In1:500:500:Vicky the

Re: remote directory/partition

2011-10-23 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 11:03:49PM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Hi, Here is a theoretical question: Lets say I have a Linux server in Israel, and I have a block of storage (lets say iSCSI partition for this example) in USA, and I want to mount it on my server in Israel. iSCSI over such a

Re: changes-only filesystem

2011-09-25 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 02:03:06PM +0300, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: 2011/9/25 Erez D erez0...@gmail.com: There used to be a filesystem which one would mount over a read-only filesystem, and that filesystem would only hold the changes. anyone remembers which filesystem it was ? UnionFS?

Re: HW/SW for license server

2011-09-24 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 01:19:51AM -0700, Valery Reznic wrote: Hi, All. I need to setup license server and looking for advice what hardware/software to use General schema is following: There are about 20K clients all of them periodically (let say once a week) query license server

Re: Thinkpad T520

2011-09-14 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 04:11:49PM +0400, Michael Vasiliev wrote: On 09/06/2011 11:49 AM, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: Hi all, I am considering ordering a Lenovo Thinkpad T520, and have the following questions. I intend to use it with Debian, can go with Ubuntu if it makes a difference

Re: Jewish Nanny-Cam

2011-09-12 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 02:11:41PM +0300, geoffrey mendelson wrote: On Sep 12, 2011, at 1:59 PM, Steve G. wrote: Could someone recommend a security system that would allow me to keep an eye on the place from the US or Central America? Is there a system that I can connect wirelessly to the

Re: Thinkpad T520

2011-09-10 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 04:38:12PM +0300, ik wrote: On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 19:20, ik ido...@gmail.com wrote: 1. It has Integrated Mobile Broadband and an optional Gobi 3000. Will they work in Israel? Am I limited to specific suppliers? Is there a reason for the extra $125 for a Gobi 3000,

Thinkpad T520

2011-09-06 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi all, I am considering ordering a Lenovo Thinkpad T520, and have the following questions. I intend to use it with Debian, can go with Ubuntu if it makes a difference. 1. It has Integrated Mobile Broadband and an optional Gobi 3000. Will they work in Israel? Am I limited to specific suppliers?

Re: checking wireless cable

2011-08-18 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:02:14PM +0300, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Has anyone encountered anything similar? Any suggestions for things I should try? What is the output of 'iwconfig' and of 'iwlist scanning', both as root? I have a feeling it won't say much, but just in case. -- Didi

Re: Thunderbird mailer

2011-08-04 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 03:17:36PM +0300, Stan Goodman wrote: So far, I have not found a way to write a Hebrew message with lines beginning at the right side of the window. With Kmail it was obvious --- there were buttons for right, left, and center positioning. Where is something equivalent

Re: Thunderbird mailer

2011-08-04 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 03:23:22PM +0300, shimi wrote: On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Stan Goodman stan.good...@hashkedim.comwrote: So far, I have not found a way to write a Hebrew message with lines beginning at the right side of the window. With Kmail it was obvious --- there were

Re: Security patches for Apache 1.3.x?

2011-07-14 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 04:29:00PM +0300, Ira Abramov wrote: howdie! I have an embeded system (roughly based on CentOS 3) with a few legacy components, one of which is Apache 1.3.42, which has served us well this far, but now we bumped into these:

Re: USB I/O draining my userspace (Ubuntu Natty 64b)

2011-06-16 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 06:42:48PM +0300, Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting Yedidyah Bar-David, from the post of Wed, 15 Jun: Did you try cp (or cp --sparse=always if you really want to) and see if it helps? I don't know of a similar option for dd. I have here an image with partitions

Re: USB I/O draining my userspace (Ubuntu Natty 64b)

2011-06-15 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 04:19:08PM +0300, Ira Abramov wrote: First, an appology. I added another message on the RMS fiasco only to find out later the threads all died out and I was committing a faux pas. my appologies! please ignore I posted it if at all possible. Second, here's my problem:

Re: Palm to Android via Linux

2011-06-01 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 10:22:32AM +0300, shimi wrote: 2011/6/1 Mordecha Behar mordecha.be...@mail.huji.ac.il I've encountered the opposite problem. Files I create in a Linux text editor (Kwrite) don't open properly in Windows Notepad. I get the entire file on one line. Maybe there's

Re: Problems with ubuntu and default file manager

2011-05-16 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 10:10:48AM +0300, Maayan Eshed wrote: Just a thought.. have you tried to uninstall and reinstall chrome? Assuming the configuration is per-user, I'd first try to create another user, login with it, and see if it works. If it does, you might try to compare the

Re: Problems with ubuntu and default file manager

2011-05-16 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:05:43AM +0300, Nitzan Brumer wrote: Maayan - As I've said - its not only in chrome and happens when ever I try to open something with file manager. Its looks like I've override the file manager application with something else. Didi - Sounds like an option, though

Re: Are Android questions on topic here?

2011-05-11 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:56:28PM +0300, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Question to the (non-existent) LINUX-IL cabal: this is a list for technical questions on Linux. Some Android issues have been discussed here. Are technical Android discussions officially on topic or off topic? Can we decide once

Re: How to check initrd's contents? (was: Re: Disk I/O as a bottleneck?)

2011-05-09 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 03:18:08PM +0300, Omer Zak wrote: My kernel is configured to have AHCI as a module: CONFIG_SATA_AHCI=m However I understand that it means that this module is needed also in the initrd image. How can I check which modules made it to the initrd image last time it was

Re: Disk I/O as a bottleneck?

2011-05-08 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 07:28:49AM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Sat, May 07, 2011, guy keren wrote about Re: Disk I/O as a bottleneck?: and if you have a lot of money to spend - you could consider buying an enterprise-grade SSD (e.g. from fusion I/O or from OCZ - although for your

Re: A little GPL riddle (was: GPL as an evaluation license)

2011-04-10 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 12:33:05AM +0300, Aviad Mandel wrote: For the sake of fairness, I'll say that the questions I had about my own little venture are answered, thank you all. But for pure curiosity, I'm left wondering how effective GPL really is. Let's leave the microwave for a second,

Re: OT: Einstein Writer under QEMU

2011-03-29 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 09:37:06AM +0200, geoffrey mendelson wrote: On Mar 29, 2011, at 8:45 AM, geoffrey mendelson wrote: I'm trying to help someone run Einstein Writer under QEMU. I set up a virtual machine and installed FreeDos on it. I found a demo of Einstein which is supposed to be a

Re: Getting mouse buttons to work

2011-02-15 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:44:08AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: Hi all, first off I must confess that this is a crosspost. I posted a similar question to the Debian list, then to the Fedora list, but it's not getting very far and I know that there are some smart folks here who could probably

Re: Networking: How to add another router

2011-02-13 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 10:14:27PM +0200, Geoff Shang wrote: On Sun, 13 Feb 2011, Michael Tewner wrote: Shimi's solution will work - use a cross-over cable, though, in order to connect the switches together. hmm. Is there an easy way to tell a crossover cable from a straight one? I've

Re: IPV6?

2011-02-02 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 10:35:14AM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Hi, I'm planning to roll out at my hosting business a special package of virtual machine with IPV6 for people and companies who would like to deploy their web site for people who want to use IPV6. (so far the adoption of IPV6 in

Re: total uptime between shutdowns

2011-02-01 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 10:00:52AM +0200, Tom Rosenfeld wrote: Hi Guys, Is there a tool that will show me the total uptime (availability) of a machine between reboots? That is, if the machine was up for 24 hours and then shutdown for an hour and then up for 23 hours I want an answer of 47.

Re: small linux hardware

2011-01-10 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:08:52AM +0200, Erez D wrote: I am looking for a linux hardware which would be small, low power and cheep I found the telit GE863-PRO (pdf: http://www.telit.com/module/infopool/download.php?id=725 ) which is actually a gprs module + linux on arm9. it is

Re: Try reproducing Firefox Bug No. 611511

2010-12-01 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi all, I am a sysadmin in ISOC-IL for some years, so far did not identify myself as such... On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 09:09:20AM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi all, Please try to reproduce this Firefox bug (that also happens in Opera and Konqueror):

Re: Try reproducing Firefox Bug No. 611511

2010-12-01 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 11:44:00AM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi Yedidyah, On Wednesday 01 December 2010 10:08:16 Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: 5. Since I do not know how, if at all, you can make firefox, and most other clients, use normal Passive mode and not Extended, the simplest

Re: Pop toaster recommendations seeked

2010-10-31 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 10:23:34PM +0200, Ira Abramov wrote: Howdie folks. for years I would install qmail+vpopmail+qmailadmin to give a client a nice robust virtual-domains web manager with mailing lists and all they needed, but today I discovered, that after 2-3 years of code freeze and

Re: convert old DOS Hebrew encoding

2010-10-28 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 08:48:46AM -0400, Tzadik Vanderhoof wrote: I have a binary data file, in a format used by a relatively ancient program, which I am trying to convert into something sane. With the help of a Hex editor I have basically worked out the file format except that it contains

Re: cheap linux box ?

2010-10-11 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:30:39AM +0200, Erez D wrote: hey, my NSLU2 just died ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSLU2 ) I can replace it with a new one, however i was thinking - it has been long time since nslu2 showed up, and there must be a more powerful device available for a similiar

Re: How can I grab the filesystem from corrupted lvm (help recover data from lvm with one pv missing)

2010-10-11 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:36:33AM +0200, Boris shtrasman wrote: Hi, Yesterday my harddrive had an inconvenient event: when I was using a d-i from testing I accidentally overwritten on of the pv's connected to the lvm. I started to panic and found myself making more damage by running

Re: How can I grab the filesystem from corrupted lvm (help recover data from lvm with one pv missing)

2010-10-11 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:41:38AM +0200, Boris shtrasman wrote: On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Yedidyah Bar-David linux...@didi.bardavid.org wrote: On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:36:33AM +0200, Boris shtrasman wrote: Hi, Yesterday my harddrive had an inconvenient event: when I

Re: Open source English-Hebrew dictionary

2010-10-07 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 08:07:04PM +0200, Elazar Leibovich wrote: Is there an open source English Hebrew Dictionary? I'm interested with usable program that once you'll enter an English word, it would display the Hebrew translation. Specifically for the Android platform, but I believe that

Re: Open source English-Hebrew dictionary

2010-10-07 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 08:58:01AM +0200, Elazar Leibovich wrote: Thanks for the input. Two inputs: 1) Babylon's dictionary files are not free or opensource (as far as I know). So distributing them might not be legal. Indeed. But back then they were freely-downloadable from their site, so

Re: Two instances of Apache on the same server

2010-10-05 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 03:42:10PM +0200, Gabor Szabo wrote: I need to run two instances of Apache on the same SuSE based server but there is something very basic I don't manage. In order to run to servers I'll need two pid files to hold the two process ids. So the first thing I tried was to

Re: Two instances of Apache on the same server

2010-10-05 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 04:16:58PM +0200, Gabor Szabo wrote: On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Yedidyah Bar-David linux...@didi.bardavid.org wrote: No recent experience with SuSE, but you probably have to also edit apache's configuration file, perhaps somewhere in /etc/apache or /etc/httpd

Re: asterisk client dummy question

2010-09-13 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:05:07PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 01:27:56PM +0200, David Ronkin wrote: i use ekiga 3.2.6 and i don't have such a tab. In the main window? what version should i download? Works fine here (3.2.7). IIRC it has always been in that tab.

fic ce268 laptop

2010-08-14 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi all, I am considering buying a FIC CE268 laptop, and would like to get reviews about it from current users of it. It's a low-profile netbook, costs 699 NIS in officedepot: http://www.fic.com.tw/product/ce268.aspx

Re: Modern development environment on dated RHEL

2010-04-27 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 12:33:33PM +0300, Evgeny Budilovsky wrote: Why not compile all the latest software on some shared directory and then run it from there ... My company have policy not to give root access on development stations so I just compile all my development software in home

Re: Redirecting mail

2010-04-11 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 04:15:58AM +0300, Geoff Shang wrote: Hello, I've got an interesting problem. I have been forced to stop hosting services for a few people. One of them transferred their DNS and hosting away from me, but stopped checking for new mail on my host long before it

Re: Switch between virtual consoles CtrlAltFx problem.

2010-03-25 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 10:57:17AM +0200, David Harel wrote: Etzion Bar-Noy wrote: Use Alt+F1-7 when in console mode. Don't use Ctrl+Alt+F1-7. Not working as well. Can a different key combination get assigned for console switching? Can you try using chvt? If it works, it means that

Re: OT: recommendation for a small switch?

2009-06-08 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 02:45:36AM +0300, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Hi, I'm looking to buy a *cheap* 8 port gigabit switch to my house to connect all my computers. Can someone recommend a good switch (not hub) and a price or URL/phone where to buy? Never used gigabit at home, or with small

Re: Israeli spam! Who do I contact?

2009-05-07 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 12:29:02PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: 2009/5/7 Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz: Dotan Cohen wrote: I just got a nice bit of spam, for a paid service, in Hebrew, to an obviously-harvested address! That sounds like a cool 1000 NIS to me. Does anyone know to whom

Re: the cost of switching to IPv6?

2009-05-01 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 08:07:57AM +0300, Geoffrey Mendelson wrote: For the first year or two, you probably won't get to any sites outside of your ISP until IIX is upgraded and the other ISPs upgrade their networks and interconnections. IIX already supports v6:

Re: ssh from 012 cable to server in US fail

2009-04-28 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:10:30AM +0300, Rami Addady wrote: Hi, I have weird problem , staring this morning I can't ssh to a server in US, from some computers that connect to the Internet using 012 cabels. But if I'm ssh to server in 012 farm and then from it to the US server is work

Re: suid root - bash script

2009-04-23 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 08:56:45AM +0300, Erez D wrote: hi i have a bush script i want to be run with root permisions, no matter which user executes it. if it was a binary, i would only need set it suid root. but as it is a bash script, suid-ing it doesn't do anything, and suid-ing

Re: suid root - bash script

2009-04-23 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 11:31:38AM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Oron Peled wrote: There's a reason why the kernel does not respect suid/sgid bit on shell scripts -- It's because there are gazillions of ways a user can use this script to gain total root access. Name two? The main

Re: suid root - bash script

2009-04-23 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
provide some more details. Best, -- Didi On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Yedidyah Bar-David linux...@didi.bardavid.org wrote: On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 11:31:38AM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Oron Peled wrote: There's a reason why the kernel does not respect suid/sgid bit on shell

Re: suid root - bash script

2009-04-23 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 01:22:43PM +0300, Noam Rathaus wrote: Hi Yedidyah, I guess there are other ways to do this, but that's how it is in unix. As far as I know, Windows does not have something similar at all - if you want there to run some program as another user, you have to do much

Re: Kernel panic/exception

2009-04-23 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 01:59:19PM +0300, Noam Rathaus wrote: Hi, I am seeing these in the logs and I can't find a documentation to what might have been causing it: Apr 23 13:57:47 sp kernel: 1Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0804c3ac Apr 23 13:57:47 sp kernel:

Re: suid root - bash script

2009-04-23 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 02:01:29PM +0300, Noam Rathaus wrote: Hi Yedidyah, 1) It doesn't run = shows error = stops 2) Under root it works = no error = works 3) Should I test it under another user? :) Yes, that's what I meant. Sorry. -- Didi ___

Re: DavkaWriter or Dagesh With Wine or Crossover

2009-04-17 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hello Moshe, On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:38:00AM +, Moshe Brace using Yahoo wrote: Anybody got this to work with Crossover or Wine? I am looking for an alternative if one exits other than Open Office for Hebrew Texting. Any suggestions? Recently I tried Office 2003 and found that in

Re: Kernel cares where it should reside?

2009-04-02 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 12:32:53PM +0300, David Harel wrote: Hi there, Using Gentoo (and have to configure kernel). When I do the command - file - on kernel file I just built it says, among other things, root_dev 0x801. The working kernel says - root_dev 0x10. Where is this parameter

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