UnixWare,Linux and others ( slightly off-topic )

1999-12-21 Thread Shenderovich, Uri
Hi, I'm about to install UnixWare 7.0 on its own dedicated HD . The question : is it suppose to rewrite the MBR (like MS-Win) or to cause some other nasty damage to my other installed OSes ? . I'm not eager at all to reinstall 4 OSes from scratch . Thanks, Uri ==

Re: äðãåï: linux.org.il intro

1999-12-21 Thread Alex Dubrovsky
Sorry 'bout that. Lets start with English , hebrew will come , but after I finish modularizing the site. >From: Isaac Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Alex Dubrovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: äðãåï: linux.org.il intro >Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 18:05:01 +0200 > > >One think you didn't say, is

Re: Masquarading on a dialup connection

1999-12-21 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
BR>> Wow!, wont that be chopping your head as a cure for a bad cold ?... BR>> What about telneting from local machines? FTPing for file transfers Telnet must die. There's no telnet anymore, there's SSH. Why you need telnet if you have SSH? Just because you have a (particullary bad) telnet client

Web developers required for Zend Technologies

1999-12-21 Thread zeev-linuxil
Hello, Zend Technologies, the startup company that developed the opensource engine that powers PHP 4.0 (http://www.php.net/version4/), is looking for Web developers (http://www.zend.com also exists, but you'd probably want to wait for the face lift before you take a look at it). Necessary expert

Re: Interface status detection

1999-12-21 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
> True. It's a bug. KDE fires up licq automatically so I have never > noticed this bug. Now how do we fix it (without checking for a process > named 'licq' or anything like that. How do you make sure a fifo has > someone on the other end?) Mandrake and Redhat network scripts write a file /var/ru

Re: Interface status detection

1999-12-21 Thread Nimrod Mesika
Gaal Yahas wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 11:47:14PM +0200, Nimrod Mesika wrote: > > > > nimrodm:~$ cat /etc/ppp/ip-up.local > What happens when licq isn't running and reading the pipe? > Unless I'm mistaken, your ip-*.local scripts would block, which > is probably not what you want. True. I

Re: Interface status detection

1999-12-21 Thread Nimrod Mesika
"Muli B.Y." wrote: > > Thanks for the suggestions, Nimrod, I have implemented the > online/offline thing this way. Shame on me for not having read the FAQ > (where this stuff is mentioned) for quite some time. > > Nevertheless, it was a good excersize and my original question stands: > Windows h

Re: Interface status detection

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

Re: Interface status detection

1999-12-21 Thread Nimrod Zimerman
On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 04:17:17PM +0200, Muli B.Y. wrote: > Thanks for the suggestions, Nimrod, I have implemented the > online/offline thing this way. Shame on me for not having read the FAQ > (where this stuff is mentioned) for quite some time. > Nevertheless, it was a good excersize and my

Haifa Linux Club - Next Meeting

1999-12-21 Thread Orr Dunkelman
The next meeting of the Haifa Linux Club, will be held on Sunday the 26th of December, at 18:30. The meeting will be as usual at Fishbach 413 (CS faculty building in the Technion). This meeting subject - Advanced Socket Programming Lecturer - Guy Keren For more information: http://vipe.technion.

TEST only

1999-12-21 Thread Ishai Parasol
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Re: [Fwd: Fw: Fw: re: please help]

1999-12-21 Thread Izar Tarandach
Peleg wrote: > > [SNIP] I can't believe that people STILL fall for this shit. DO NOT forward this sort of thing. Specially to a list. 1) you come out as a complete fool, for getting into it. Anything in the lines of

[Fwd: Fw: Fw: re: please help]

1999-12-21 Thread Peleg
- Original Message - From: Petra Westveer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Marc Ghijsels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: maandag 20 december 1999 8:53 Subject: Fwd: Fw: re: please help > > > --- Anita Berends <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 16:17:21 +0100 > > To: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: security

1999-12-21 Thread Oded Arbel
On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Moran wrote: > the thing that frick is you or any user can execute files you upload or others to >wu-ftpd and Redhat 6.1 , 6.0 , 5.2 > under certain configuration. I don't use wu-ftpd. I use BeroFTPD - it fixed most of the bugs and annoying features of wu-ftpd (and introd

linux.org.il intro

1999-12-21 Thread Alex Dubrovsky
Ok guys , i know that's asking for a flame , but i have no choice here: the well of my creativity is dry I'm looking for a new , NOT techno-bubblish introduction to linux for our linux.org.il front page. I think we need something much more non-linux (or not-yet-linux) user oriented introduct

/proc/sys/fs/file-max & /proc/sys/fs/inode-max

1999-12-21 Thread Mike
Hi. My current /proc/sys/fs/file-max is set to 4096 and my /proc/sys/fs/inode-max set to 12288. If i'll increase it, lets say twice as it is today, will it harm my system ? Thanks, Mike = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Interface status detection

1999-12-21 Thread Muli B.Y.
At the risk of being slightly off topic, I will: You can find Todd Anderson's Monitoring Dial-Up Network Connections on the Nov. 1999 Windows Developer's Journal. http://www.wdj.com/archive/1011/feature.html (Note- Yes, I read Windows Developer's Journal. You can't compare it to Dr. Dobb's Journa

Re: Interface status detection

1999-12-21 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
"Muli B.Y." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Windows has RasConnectionNotification(). What does linux have except > constant polling? Sorry for my ignorance, but can you explain to this unixoid how RasConnectionNotification() is implemented? -- Oleg Goldshmidt | BLOOMBERG L.P. (BFM) | [EMAIL PR

Re: Interface status detection

1999-12-21 Thread Muli B.Y.
Thanks for the suggestions, Nimrod, I have implemented the online/offline thing this way. Shame on me for not having read the FAQ (where this stuff is mentioned) for quite some time. Nevertheless, it was a good excersize and my original question stands: Windows has RasConnectionNotification(). W

Re: Which Flavor of Linux?

1999-12-21 Thread Ely Levy
My moto on the matter is if you asked the question then you should get redhat if you don't you probebly already have debian or slackware:) ll&p Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Ayal Sharon wrote: | | I have a "newbie" question: | | I have n

Re: Filtering the list

1999-12-21 Thread Ely Levy
check the header of the message the sender field would containe linux-il in it probebly linux-il-bounce but am too lazy to check:) ll&p Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, ilan Bloch wrote: | Hi all, | | not really ontopic matter but truly some

Re: lilo/scsi

1999-12-21 Thread Ely Levy
Did you check if it running in linear mode?some scsi disks need it check in /etc/lilo.conf ll&p Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Ben-Nes Michael wrote: | Hi | | Lilo is not working with scsi :-( | what should i do/read to solve this proble ?

Re: SMP Problem. Any help?

1999-12-21 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Well, I'm replying to myself... Seems my BIOS got corrupted somehow and it was set on 1 processor.. :) Thanks Hetz Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > > Hi, > > I got this machine here at work to make it my tests machine. It's an old > SMP 2XPII266 Mhz & 128MB RAM.. > > I compiled kernel 2.2.13 with S

SMP Problem. Any help?

1999-12-21 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, I got this machine here at work to make it my tests machine. It's an old SMP 2XPII266 Mhz & 128MB RAM.. I compiled kernel 2.2.13 with SMP Support & Realtime clock and installed it.. Now - when I type uname -a I get: Linux test.intercomp-sys.com 2.2.13 #2 SMP Tue .. BUT, when I do cat /

Re: Filtering the list

1999-12-21 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
# Exim filter if $h_X-list is "linux-il" then save "mail/Lists/linux-il" endif . in the ~/.forward - works flawlessly for Exim + IMAP configuration. -- Best regards, Ilya Konstantinov a.k.a Toastie [http://toast.demon.co.il] = To

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Re: Masquarading on a dialup connection

1999-12-21 Thread chen
> > As for the ideas about this HOWTO - I think it should be a miniHOWTO as > > it just cant describe with great detail all the needed material - simply > > because the needed material is a big part of Linux networking... . > > I do think it deserves a howto. it will include dialup, basic > firew

Re: Masquarading on a dialup connection

1999-12-21 Thread Ira Abramov
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Boaz Rymland wrote: > > if you want to do it real good: remove in.telnetd, rshd, talkd and > > whatever from the machine. in fact I don't run inetd at all on any > > machine anymore. and for remote terminal I only use ssh. > > > > What about telneting from local machines? F

Re: Masquarading on a dialup connection

1999-12-21 Thread Boaz Rymland
Ira Abramov wrote: > > if you want to do it real good: remove in.telnetd, rshd, talkd and > whatever from the machine. in fact I don't run inetd at all on any > machine anymore. and for remote terminal I only use ssh. > Wow!, wont that be chopping your head as a cure for a bad cold ?... What

Re: Filtering the list

1999-12-21 Thread Ira Abramov
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, chen wrote: > Is it that difficult to filter for linux-il in To or CC? and what if it's on Bcc: for some reason? if you use Qmail, Exim orone of the servers that support user-extentions, you can use multiple Email addresses like do infact. (look at the weird "from" address)

Re: Which Flavor of Linux?

1999-12-21 Thread Ira Abramov
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Ayal Sharon wrote: > I have not not yet installed Linux in my home PC, and I am trying to figure > out which version to install. latest version if you can get it, but if you don't mind a slightly older one (usually not a problem) me and my friends here will gladly send you