VMware configuration as a Win32 app server?

1999-05-18 Thread Udi Finkelstein
Hi, Our company has a mixed environment of Sun workstations, servers and X terminals. I'm trying to figure out the best way to enable people to run hebrew word (or other required Win32 software) on their desktops. I know I have three options, NT Terminal Server Edition, VNC and VMWare. I droppe

Re: Where can we buy 100 RH CDs? Urgently!!!

1999-05-18 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
I think you can ask one of the CD Manufacturers like CDI in Carmiel which can create a minimum of 200 copies (ok, you can argue with them)... Maybe if they'll stick they're logo also in the cover you'll get a discount - just a thought... Hetz Stas Bekman wrote: > > Hi, > > We ordered 100 CDs

Re: Managing software (rpm or self-compilation)

1999-05-18 Thread Omer
Hiya. Boaz Rymland wrote: > > Hi, > > Regarding managing software: Using rpm (and it's graphical > implementations) is very easy and comfortable, but I prefer compiling > everything I can for performance (and stability?) reasons. > First, does it "pay-off" to do that? I mean compiling even sma

Managing software (rpm or self-compilation)

1999-05-18 Thread Boaz Rymland
Hi, Regarding managing software: Using rpm (and it's graphical implementations) is very easy and comfortable, but I prefer compiling everything I can for performance (and stability?) reasons. First, does it "pay-off" to do that? I mean compiling even small app. to KDE. Is performance really imp

Re: sh script Q

1999-05-18 Thread Ariel Biener
On Tue, 18 May 1999, Adam Morrison wrote: To all the helpfull people: I believe that when you create shell scripts, they'd better be generic, unless there is a special reason, and if there is, it should be documented in the script. (like using functions, which work in bash/ksh, but not in the

Re: caching name server

1999-05-18 Thread Aviram Jenik
It's BIND, the one that comes with SuSE 6.0. I believe it's BIND 4 (since its config file is called named.boot). - Aviram Jenik "Addicted to Chaos" - Today's quote: Yankee, n: In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New

Re: sh script Q

1999-05-18 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 08:09:40PM +0300, Vadim Vygonets wrote: > Anyway, does anybody in this world use 'test' instead of '['? [gaal@derain ~]$ ls -l /usr/bin/[ /usr/bin/test lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root4 Mar 26 00:50 /usr/bin/[ -> test -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root16856 Aug

letting users other than root connect via isdn

1999-05-18 Thread tlailax
I'v set up my isdn connection to the net, but i would like to be able to connect without logging in as root or su'ing to root. i'v tryed setting ippp and isdnctrl suid root, but whenever i try to use them i get '/dev/isdninfo : permission denied' does anybody know how to solve this, or can point m

Re: sh script Q

1999-05-18 Thread Adam Morrison
Ariel Biener wrote: > Which will result in the script fo fail if $PARAM is undefined. > > Vadim's suggestion wasn't just a matter of semantics. > > --Ariel > > Vadim Vygonets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > [ "$PARAM" != "SOMETHING" ] || { > > > > ;} > > > I think that it's better to do

Re: sh script Q

1999-05-18 Thread Vadim Vygonets
Quoth Ariel Biener on Tue, May 18, 1999: > Which will result in the script fo fail if $PARAM is undefined. > > Vadim's suggestion wasn't just a matter of semantics. I don't think that on all Unices "$PARAM" (enclosed in double quotes) will yield nothing. On some Unices it will yield an empty ar

Re: RedHat 6.0 installation

1999-05-18 Thread Oded Arbel
On Tue, 18 May 1999, Stas Bekman wrote: > > > we cracked this problem here - they have a bug - mounted image don't have > > > correct permissions on /sbin - they miss chmod +x (aren't executable) > > > > Thanks for the information. I am going to relay this on to CheapBytes. > > It's not chea

Re: sh script Q

1999-05-18 Thread Alexander L. Belikoff
Ariel Biener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 18 May 1999, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: > > > Which will result in the script fo fail if $PARAM is undefined. Not quite: $ echo $SHELL /bin/bash $ if [ "$foobar" != "something" ] ; then echo nothing; fi nothing $ ksh $ if [ "$foobar" != "something"

Re: sh script Q

1999-05-18 Thread Ariel Biener
On 18 May 1999, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: Which will result in the script fo fail if $PARAM is undefined. Vadim's suggestion wasn't just a matter of semantics. --Ariel > Vadim Vygonets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > [ "$PARAM" != "SOMETHING" ] || { > > > ;} > > I think that it's better to

Re: sh script Q

1999-05-18 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Vadim Vygonets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [ "$PARAM" != "SOMETHING" ] || { > > ;} > I think that it's better to do: > if [ "X$PARAM" != "XSOMETHING" ]; then . Yes you right it's more unix, but i usually use the "$PARAM" != "SOME". -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com

Re: RedHat 6.0 installation

1999-05-18 Thread Stas Bekman
> > we cracked this problem here - they have a bug - mounted image don't have > > correct permissions on /sbin - they miss chmod +x (aren't executable) > > Thanks for the information. I am going to relay this on to CheapBytes. It's not cheapbytes, but redhat! > > Later, > Jonathan Daniel > [

Re: sh script Q

1999-05-18 Thread Vadim Vygonets
Quoth Chmouel Boudjnah on Tue, May 18, 1999: > [ "$PARAM" != "SOMETHING" ] || { > ;} I think that it's better to do: if [ "X$PARAM" != "XSOMETHING" ]; then . Or, if you check for an enpty string, if [ "X$PARAM" != "X" ]; then . Vadik. -- The ill-formed Orange Fails to satisfy the eye:

Re: caching name server

1999-05-18 Thread Vadim Vygonets
Quoth Aviram Jenik on Sat, May 15, 1999: > How can I make the answer return on an unpriveleged port? Another possible solution >for me is to use TCP instead of UDP. How can I configure my name server to use TCP >instead? What version of BIND is it? And is it BIND? Vadik. -- If you think C+

Re: Where can we buy 100 RH CDs? Urgently!!!

1999-05-18 Thread Leonid Igolnik - LiM
ACTCOM - brings about 50 ChaepBytes CD's to the party, I thought Nir told you. So there is no need to worry I got CD from UPS messanger two hours ago and they are safe in my desk. On Tue, 18 May 1999, Stas Bekman wrote: |Hi, | |We ordered 100 CDs from cheapbytes for the instaparty in 6 days...

Re: RedHat 6.0 installation

1999-05-18 Thread Jonathan Alexander Daniel
> we cracked this problem here - they have a bug - mounted image don't have > correct permissions on /sbin - they miss chmod +x (aren't executable) Thanks for the information. I am going to relay this on to CheapBytes. Later, Jonathan Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > i got the same message. > >

Re: RedHat 6.0 installation

1999-05-18 Thread Stas Bekman
we cracked this problem here - they have a bug - mounted image don't have correct permissions on /sbin - they miss chmod +x (aren't executable) > > i got the same message. > > boot from diskette. > > it works fine. > > Thanks, I'll try that. > > Jonathan > > > > I just got a RedHat 6.0 from C

Installation of CheapBytes RedHat 6.0

1999-05-18 Thread Jonathan Alexander Daniel
I have solved the problem in several ways: First of all, I should have read the README.1ST that is on the CD-ROM. There it is all explained fairly clearly. Instead of using the \dosutils\autoboot.bat I should have used: ezstart.bat which is a special batch file supplied by CheapBytes. I also

Where can we buy 100 RH CDs? Urgently!!!

1999-05-18 Thread Stas Bekman
Hi, We ordered 100 CDs from cheapbytes for the instaparty in 6 days... seems that they are very slow and don't care enough about their clients :( I guess that we will not get the CDs before the party, so we will cancel the order Any chance we can buy 100 CDs in Israel? Cheap and Fast? (we've go

[Fwd: hebrew on your web]

1999-05-18 Thread erez
Thanks for your interest, I forwarded your message to the people in charge of the site, so they will take it on account for future modifications. For more information about Babylon, keep checking our site and consult the FAQ page. Cota Benzaquen - MIS Babylon, The Single Click Translator Vi

Re: RedHat 6.0 installation

1999-05-18 Thread Jonathan Alexander Daniel
> i got the same message. > boot from diskette. > it works fine. Thanks, I'll try that. Jonathan > > I just got a RedHat 6.0 from CheapBytes for an upgrade from 5.1 > > > > I booted from DOS using: > > > > c:\> d: > > > > d:\> cd \dosutils > > > > d:\dosutils> autoboot.bat > > > > The program b

Re: RedHat 6.0 installation

1999-05-18 Thread Jonathan Alexander Daniel
> Have you tried to boot from the CD ? If you mean directly from the CD, my BIOS won't do that. If you mean using the CD, that is what I was doing. Thanks, Jonathan > On Tue, 18 May 1999, Jonathan Alexander Daniel wrote: > > |I just got a RedHat 6.0 from CheapBytes for an upgrade from 5.1 > |

Re: RedHat 6.0 installation

1999-05-18 Thread Mike Almogy
i got the same message. boot from diskette. it works fine. Mike Jonathan Alexander Daniel wrote: > I just got a RedHat 6.0 from CheapBytes for an upgrade from 5.1 > > I booted from DOS using: > > c:\> d: > > d:\> cd \dosutils > > d:\dosutils> autoboot.bat > > The program began to boot into Linu

Re: RedHat 6.0 installation

1999-05-18 Thread Leonid Igolnik - LiM
Have you tried to boot from the CD ? On Tue, 18 May 1999, Jonathan Alexander Daniel wrote: |I just got a RedHat 6.0 from CheapBytes for an upgrade from 5.1 | |I booted from DOS using: | |c:\> d: | |d:\> cd \dosutils | |d:\dosutils> autoboot.bat | |The program began to boot into Linux, but then a

RedHat 6.0 installation

1999-05-18 Thread Jonathan Alexander Daniel
I just got a RedHat 6.0 from CheapBytes for an upgrade from 5.1 I booted from DOS using: c:\> d: d:\> cd \dosutils d:\dosutils> autoboot.bat The program began to boot into Linux, but then after a series of messages I got the following: VFS: cannot open root device 08:21 Kernel panic: VFS: Un

Re: Linux, ISDN, mgetty, and Different Numbers

1999-05-18 Thread Eli Marmor
Thank you CIGAN (and Omer) for your detailed answer. > Yes ther is a possibility even to assign sub numbers for every slot in the > NT. However mgetty will not see those numbers. The only one who sees > the caller id (no need to enable in Bezeq) is the isdn driver. You can > write something to re

Re: Linux, ISDN, mgetty, and Different Numbers

1999-05-18 Thread CIGAN
Hello Eli, On Tue, 18 May 1999, Eli Marmor wrote: |Hi, | |I have some questions about ISDN and Linux. I tried to ask Bezeq, |but it seems that they don't know even basic facts about ISDN (from |my talks with them, it looks that they even don't know Hebrew; When |I tried to ask about identifying

Re: new linux site

1999-05-18 Thread Avishay Dinar
Hi Mike, Why Hebrew? Why not russian? We don't have quite enough of that ;-) Avishay. -Original Message- From: Mike Almogy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, May 18, 1999 6:58 AM Subject: Re: new linux site >I want to open a HEBREW site for new