Re: chicken and egg

1999-10-10 Thread erez
Aviram Jenik wrote: > > Hi. 1. there is an exclude option, try man tar 2. try using dump instead of tar, this is really ment for backup > > Stupid check-and-the-egg question. > I want to back up my entire hard-drive to a tgz file using tar. How can I do > this, without adding the tar to the tar?

Re: Weird Memory Leak

1999-10-10 Thread Ser Lev Arris
Aaaha. just noticed that "cached" field on the right when you run top. "used" memory minus "cached" does make a number I was longing to see. can anyone explain what caching means in a nutshell? <-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=> Miki Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Weird Memory Leak

1999-10-10 Thread Oren Shomron
Linux may be caching your memory, so that it may appear that it is being used but in reality it is free for use. Nothing to worry about. Check the free output again. - Oren > Hi.I have a stock RH6.0 machine here, wit2.2.12 kernel > Other than what is packaged on the RH6 CD, I have a new wind

Weird Memory Leak

1999-10-10 Thread Ser Lev Arris
Hi. I have a stock RH6.0 machine here, wit2.2.12 kernel Other than what is packaged on the RH6 CD, I have a new windowmaker, a netscape 4.7 and vmware running on it. When I power on the machine into runlevel 1 I see 5MB of memory being used. That is more or less how it should be. I go into RL5

Log analyzer for secure log.

1999-10-10 Thread Mike ALmogy
Hi list. Does anyone knows of a log analyzer that output a nice GUI reports of the secure log ? I need something visual for my bosses.:-)) Thanks, Mike -- Michael Almogy. System Administrator Mofet Institute. Cel : 972-052-562237 Tel : 972-03-6901415 Fax :

Re: chicken and egg

1999-10-10 Thread Mike ALmogy
if you want to do a backup of your entire HD why not using the MSDOS program GHOST ? I think that it supports linux File Systems. and since it copy every bit on your HD then it will not be a problem to recover the info. I recently installed a new card called Magic Card that supports linux quit we

Re: chicken and egg

1999-10-10 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
AJ>> Stupid check-and-the-egg question. I want to back up my entire AJ>> hard-drive to a tgz file using tar. How can I do this, without AJ>> adding the tar to the tar?! Well, you might prepare the file list beforehand (with, e.g., find) and then feed it to tar or cpio. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: chicken and egg

1999-10-10 Thread Omer
Use the --exclude option. But, um, it might get crazy inside /dev and/or /proc (probably will), so you might want to have an exclude file and --exclude-from. Aviram Jenik wrote: > > Hi. > > Stupid check-and-the-egg question. > I want to back up my entire hard-drive to a tgz file using tar. How

chicken and egg

1999-10-10 Thread Aviram Jenik
Hi. Stupid check-and-the-egg question. I want to back up my entire hard-drive to a tgz file using tar. How can I do this, without adding the tar to the tar?! Thanks. - Aviram Jenik "Addicted to Chaos" - Today's quote: - Real programmers think s

Re: Managing a database under Linux

1999-10-10 Thread Noam Bloom
Well, the database may grow to larger dimensions. "Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo" wrote: > NB>> Actually, I thought of MySQL. Suppose I choose this path, how > NB>> hard will it be to install and configure it? What amount of > NB>> programming does it involve? > > A basic rpm -ivh skill and a c

Re: Managing a database under Linux

1999-10-10 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
NB>> Actually, I thought of MySQL. Suppose I choose this path, how NB>> hard will it be to install and configure it? What amount of NB>> programming does it involve? A basic rpm -ivh skill and a couple of "README reading" skills - to define proper permissions (I'm not sure if rpm script will do i

Re: Managing a database under Linux

1999-10-10 Thread Omer
MySQL will handle 200 students quite efficiently. I said it is _overkill_. It can handle large databases, even a million students. But since you only have 200, you don't need to install it and take the hit of extra memory usage and management (MySQL has a small memory foot-print, though). A dbm f

Re: Managing a database under Linux

1999-10-10 Thread Noam Bloom
Effectively, I'm root. Why, what's the difference? Mike wrote: > Well, are you a root ? > or just a regular user ? > > Mike > > Noam Bloom wrote: > > > Actually, I thought of MySQL. Suppose I choose this path, how hard will it be > > to install and configure it? What amount of programming does i

Re: Managing a database under Linux

1999-10-10 Thread Noam Bloom
Actually, I thought of MySQL. Suppose I choose this path, how hard will it be to install and configure it? What amount of programming does it involve? Mike wrote: > MySQL > > If u want i can do it 4 u. > > Mike > > Noam Bloom wrote: > > > Hello, > > I'm in charge of creating a CS grades database

Re: Managing a database under Linux

1999-10-10 Thread Noam Bloom
Why? What number of students do you think MySQL will handle efficiently? Omer wrote: > Fah, MySQL for 200 students? > Why not opt for Oracle or DB2... > > Now that's what I call overkill. > > Use perl and a dbm-styled database (gdbm, whatnot). > > Even a simple flat-file would do. > > Mike wrote

MyODBC date problem/MySQL default value policy

1999-10-10 Thread Isaac Aaron
Hi list My purpose in this posting is to share my MySQL expirience with reviewers of the list. This and it's follow-ups may be a good reference to developers with similar cases (but I guess that depends on the correcness of this message). I have an M$-Access application working at about 5 statio

Re: Managing a database under Linux

1999-10-10 Thread Omer
Fah, MySQL for 200 students? Why not opt for Oracle or DB2... Now that's what I call overkill. Use perl and a dbm-styled database (gdbm, whatnot). Even a simple flat-file would do. Mike wrote: > > MySQL > > If u want i can do it 4 u. > > Mike > > Noam Bloom wrote: > > > Hello, > > I'm in

Re: Managing a database under Linux

1999-10-10 Thread Mike
MySQL If u want i can do it 4 u. Mike Noam Bloom wrote: > Hello, > I'm in charge of creating a CS grades database for my school. The > general idea is that each student may view his grades without the need > for any password, and the teachers can have a nice interface to change > the grades.

Managing a database under Linux

1999-10-10 Thread Noam Bloom
Hello, I'm in charge of creating a CS grades database for my school. The general idea is that each student may view his grades without the need for any password, and the teachers can have a nice interface to change the grades. As obvious, the teachers must enter some sort of identification along w

Re: my ohh my

1999-10-10 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Oct 10, 1999, Alex Shnitman wrote about "Re: my ohh my": > On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 02:55:32PM +0200, Mike ALmogy wrote: > > > http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991006S0008 > > > > Well ? > > It's been beaten to death on Slashdot, as you might have > expected.. Lets not repeat it al

Re: rh6.1 update agent

1999-10-10 Thread Boris Kreitchman
Name of the package is up2date-1.0.1-1.noarch.rpm, I'm not sure that not registered users may use it. On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Alex Dubrovsky wrote: > Hello all. > I've just ran an update installation of rh6.1 over rh6.0. > The CD was made from the iso image I d/l'ed from rh ftp. > I have the foll

Re: rh6.1 update agent

1999-10-10 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
If I'm not mistaken - it's only available in the COMMERCTIAL version. You'll need a serial number (which is on the original genuine redhat package). I'm getting it soon for us. Thanks Hetz Alex Dubrovsky wrote: > > Hello all. > I've just ran an update installation of rh6.1 over rh6.0. > The CD

Re: [Fwd: hebrew keymappings] (fwd)

1999-10-10 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
TC>> > Well, W3C itself says "he" in one place and "iw" in another... TC>> TC>> In the same 4.0 standard ? See here, for example: http://www.w3.org/International/O-charset-lang.html Though, it also says that the leading charset for Russian, for example, is iso-8859-5, which I have very hard time

rh6.1 update agent

1999-10-10 Thread Alex Dubrovsky
Hello all. I've just ran an update installation of rh6.1 over rh6.0. The CD was made from the iso image I d/l'ed from rh ftp. I have the following question - For some reason I don't see the "update agent" there was so much hype about... So either I didn't install the req package , or worse... sin

Re: my ohh my

1999-10-10 Thread Mike ALmogy
ok sorry Mike Alex Shnitman wrote: > On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 02:55:32PM +0200, Mike ALmogy wrote: > > > http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991006S0008 > > > > Well ? > > It's been beaten to death on Slashdot, as you might have > expected.. Lets not repeat it all over here. > > -- > Ale

Re: my ohh my

1999-10-10 Thread Alex Shnitman
On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 02:55:32PM +0200, Mike ALmogy wrote: > http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991006S0008 > > Well ? It's been beaten to death on Slashdot, as you might have expected.. Lets not repeat it all over here. -- Alex Shnitman| http://www.debian.o

Re: Can you provide more info on the vendor my Ethernet NIC ?

1999-10-10 Thread Boaz Rymland
I cant provide you with a vendor info, cause I dont know the vendor - the card of the same series which I have is a no-name card... . But I do have it's drivers diskette and carton case. So, if it could help you, contact me (or through the list - whichever you prefer) My card is a NE2000 clone (EI

my ohh my

1999-10-10 Thread Mike ALmogy
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991006S0008 Well ? Mike -- Michael Almogy. System Administrator Mofet Institute. Cel : 972-052-562237 Tel : 972-03-6901415 Fax : 972-03-6901414 ==

Re: Cannot convert string ... to type FontStruct

1999-10-10 Thread Micha Feigin
On 10 Oct 1999, David Coe wrote: > Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I get n error with several programs under linux (mostly xemacs21 > > recently) sayying that it can't convert string to type fontstruct. for > > example: > > Warning: Cannot convert string "-ttf-web hebrew > > mon

Re: äðãåï: Re: What did I do right?

1999-10-10 Thread Adam Morrison
Alex Shnitman wrote: > I don't know how exactly his configuration works, but FWIW if you're > using shadow passwords from a Solaris server, a user cannot ypcat > passwd.adjunct, only root can. And if you're going to authenticate > users from a central service on the network, be it NIS or anything

Re: [Fwd: hebrew keymappings] (fwd)

1999-10-10 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Hi list Once again: I'm but a courier here. Please send your replies to Pablo Saratxaga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Please take a look at http://linuxi18n.org/locales/#he . Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 19:12:52 +0200 From: Pablo Saratxag

Re: Cannot convert string ... to type FontStruct

1999-10-10 Thread David Coe
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I get n error with several programs under linux (mostly xemacs21 > recently) sayying that it can't convert string to type fontstruct. for > example: > Warning: Cannot convert string "-ttf-web hebrew > monospace-medium-r-normal-regular-*-160-75-75-m-*-iso