DreamWorks Switched to Linux !

2002-04-24 Thread Amir Tal
hi list, from time to time, i get realy excited about a truly HUGE story i come across during my long searches for linux related news. i know that some people don't approve of me posting news here that were already posted at our site, but this is truly a great one, and i just couldn't help my

Re: How to Join a Domain

2002-04-24 Thread Erez Doron
well, i was successful in doing that but that was about 18 months ago your samba pdc should automatically run the script that adds the w2k to the domain (i.e. add a computer account to /etc/passwd and also run smbpasswd, as far as i recall) regards erez. On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 02:46, Oleg Kob

How to Join a Domain

2002-04-24 Thread Oleg Kobets
Hi! I have the following problem. I have a linux server running samba, I want my Win2k workstation to join a domain instead of using the workgroup scenario. I tried but with no success. If anybody knows how to achieve this if at all possible, please reply. -- Oleg Kobets Network Administrator

Re: OT: The Heaviest Wave of Viruses

2002-04-24 Thread Eran Tromer
Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Wed, Apr 24, 2002, Eran Tromer wrote about "Re: OT: The Heaviest Wave of Viruses": > Authentication will solve some problems (such as the Eli-slandering virus > problem), for others (e.g., spam) it is either ineffective or too strong. > For example, imagine authentication

Re: OT: The Heaviest Wave of Viruses

2002-04-24 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002, Eran Tromer wrote about "Re: OT: The Heaviest Wave of Viruses": > > That still leaves open the forgery issue: Why don't I get tons of > > forged snailmail with your name as the sender? Answer: Because every > > forged letter costs a postage stamp! It's expensive. There may be

Re: Forking twice in order to prevent the child from becoming a zombie?

2002-04-24 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002, Shaul Karl wrote about "Re: Forking twice in order to prevent the child from becoming a zombie?": > > Now, if every time before you fork you waitpid() all your children that > > have already exited, then you won't have a buildup of zombie processes, > > and typically only ha

Re: Forking twice in order to prevent the child from becoming a zombie?

2002-04-24 Thread Shaul Karl
> > Now, if every time before you fork you waitpid() all your children that > have already exited, then you won't have a buildup of zombie processes, > and typically only have one (or in some scenarios, a small number of ) > zombies - the children which finished between two consecutive fork()s. >

Re: switching between iptables and ipchains

2002-04-24 Thread Shaul Karl
> > Hi, > > I need a quick fix for the following problem: I want to switch between > ipchains and iptables on a RH7.2 (kernel 2.4.9-31) without rebooting. > > I figured I needed to rmmod ip_tables and insmod ipchains.o. ;-) > > I flushed iptables, stopped the service, tried to rmmod ip_tables,

Re: OT: The Heaviest Wave of Viruses

2002-04-24 Thread Eran Tromer
Daniel Feiglin wrote: > What I need is a service from my ISP, which enables me to see a list > of messages on the server sorted in different ways. (Something like > newsgroup headers?) I then check mark items to download and/or erase. > Anything left after an agreed period is automatically er

Re: Unreal Tournament GlideDrv Problem

2002-04-24 Thread Oleg Kobets
Hey, you know, it was just a suggestion. I meant it from "it is already bundled version, so it must be working" point of of view, not from "steal this game". Anyway, there is a linux installer for windows version at lokigames, now that I think of it. You should try it, at least, it worked for me :

RE: OT: The Heaviest Wave of Viruses

2002-04-24 Thread Tzahi Fadida
it depends on what is your current goal and what is reality. I say that ignoring the problem, won't help because I am convinced that not only a swarm of clones is going to sweep over the internet, but new strands that can wreck havoc just by altering a few lines(which I won't publish here). Anyw

Re: OT: The Heaviest Wave of Viruses

2002-04-24 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Daniel Feiglin wrote: > I've been a bit hesitant to join this thread - because I think it completely > misses the point. > > The mail paradigm we use is based on the (American) snailmail postman dropping > letters into a mailbox and flicking a little flag to say, "Hey you hav

Re: Unreal Tournament GlideDrv Problem

2002-04-24 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Hi On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Oleg Kobets wrote: > You can d/l Unreal and SimCity 3000 for Linux ISO's from Edonkey. They just > added it :- > If you don't familiare with edonkey you can go to: www.edonkey2000.com There are good reasons why we generally avoid such distribution methods: 1. It is

Re: OT: The Heaviest Wave of Viruses

2002-04-24 Thread Daniel Feiglin
I've been a bit hesitant to join this thread - because I think it completely misses the point. The mail paradigm we use is based on the (American) snailmail postman dropping letters into a mailbox and flicking a little flag to say, "Hey you have some mail!" My mailbox will contain legitimate mat

Re: Unreal Tournament GlideDrv Problem

2002-04-24 Thread Oleg Kobets
You can d/l Unreal and SimCity 3000 for Linux ISO's from Edonkey. They just added it :- If you don't familiare with edonkey you can go to: www.edonkey2000.com --- Oleg Kobets Network Administrator Aplicall Computer Services - Original Message - From: "Alexander Maryanovsky" <[EMAIL

Re: Unreal Tournament GlideDrv Problem

2002-04-24 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Eliran wrote: > Hello ! > > I have recently bought Unreal for lousy price because I found a patch > in www.linuxberg.com that let the game run in Linux Do you mean http://openut.sourceforge.net/ ? The version on linuxberg seems to be lagging a bit (422b instead of 436) I h

Re: OT: The Heaviest Wave of Viruses

2002-04-24 Thread Eli Marmor
OK, I'll say it the last time: It's great that people try to resolve the problem, and I appreciate it. But the problem that you try to resolve, is not the problem that I mentioned. My problem is that thousands of people, who have never received any e- mail from me, receive a virus that my name

Re: OT: The Heaviest Wave of Viruses

2002-04-24 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Tzahi Fadida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It turns out that when it infects someone's computer, it goes over > the address book and Randomly choose an email address as the from > field. A colleague of mine suggested a refinement to this idea: rather than choosing sender's addresses randomly giv

Re: Unreal Tournament GlideDrv Problem

2002-04-24 Thread Eliran
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 06:31:34PM +0200, Alexander Maryanovsky wrote: > Hi! > > I'm not sure they're not just using what you are, but www.tuxgames.com sell UT for >Linux... So you probably should have just bought that instead of the windows version. >Oh well, next time :-) > In the meanwhile,

Re: Unreal Tournament GlideDrv Problem

2002-04-24 Thread Alexander Maryanovsky
Hi! I'm not sure they're not just using what you are, but www.tuxgames.com sell UT for Linux... So you probably should have just bought that instead of the windows version. Oh well, next time :-) In the meanwhile, I'm waiting for my copy to arrive :-) Alexander Maryanovsky. - Original Me

Unreal Tournament GlideDrv Problem

2002-04-24 Thread Eliran
Hello ! I have recently bought Unreal for lousy price because I found a patch in www.linuxberg.com that let the game run in Linux so I decided to test games on Linux, I have downloaded the patch and ran the installation script after installing from the CD and moving into /usr/local/games/UnrealT

RE: OT: The Heaviest Wave of Viruses

2002-04-24 Thread Tzahi Fadida
Yes, but i hope you read on for the "real world" example. Also, please note that viruses are Stupid beasts with no real intelligence. Meaning, if i were to have that kind of trouble, i would add to my "real world" example (the simple http sig solution) another constraint. In the >From header of y

Re: OT: The Heaviest Wave of Viruses

2002-04-24 Thread Eran Tromer
Hi, Tzahi Fadida wrote: > On the other hand, the only viable solution I can think of from a > practical POV: You could add a 1 click .cab/installed link to your > signature, that urges your contacts to click on it. This .cab file is > an authentication mechanism of a 3rd party, or, created by

RE: Wondering about free software.

2002-04-24 Thread Isaac Aaron
> you can give the software itself for free if you like (good gimmick!), > but what about installation and ongoing support? > business software always needs guidance, support, installation and > upgrades. charge for it. Windows is the exact example of software that doesn't come with support, and

linuxconf

2002-04-24 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Hi I took another closer look at linuxconf I use it mainly for user management, and for some other tasks (I'm not exactly sure regarding the bind module, for instance). My general approach for modules is that they may cause damage, and that the configuration that they produce may not provide an

RE: OT: The Heaviest Wave of Viruses

2002-04-24 Thread Tzahi Fadida
well, i guess i ordered that response :). Anyways, i think that in the face of difficult situations like these you should do every effort to better the situation. 100% effort ;) * - * - * Tzahi Fadida [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax (+1 Outside the US) 240-597-3213 * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - *

Re: OT: The Heaviest Wave of Viruses

2002-04-24 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote about "Re: OT: The Heaviest Wave of Viruses": > > 1) A new contact receives an email from you, then reads at the bottom > >that you urge him to click on a certain link, > > Yeah, we all read each and every signature and certainly click on any > U

Re: OT: The Heaviest Wave of Viruses

2002-04-24 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Tzahi Fadida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1) A new contact receives an email from you, then reads at the bottom >that you urge him to click on a certain link, Yeah, we all read each and every signature and certainly click on any URL that appears there... Just forget it. -- Oleg Goldshmi

Re: Forking twice in order to prevent the child from becoming a zombie?

2002-04-24 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002, Orna Agmon wrote about "Re: Forking twice in order to prevent the child from becoming a zombie?": > > Another tactic often used is to do a non-blocking waitpid(2) loop before > > every fork. This means that the number of zombie children of a process is > > kept small (though

Re: X server crashes

2002-04-24 Thread Alexander Maryanovsky
> Basically it's an X server proxy that allows you to move X > applications connected to it from one X server to another, > or even put them to sleep altogether -- disconnect them from > the server, and connect them at a later time. In other words, > it's the "nohup" for your X applications. :-)

RE: OT: The Heaviest Wave of Viruses

2002-04-24 Thread Tzahi Fadida
To Eli and y'all well, I got my answer from www.sarc.com It turns out that when it infects someone's computer, it goes over the address book and Randomly choose an email address as the from field. This new technique is Highly disturbing, since it represents more than loss of hours! it mess up y

Re: Forking twice in order to prevent the child from becoming azombie?

2002-04-24 Thread Orna Agmon
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Tue, Apr 23, 2002, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote about "Re: Forking twice in order to >prevent the child from becoming a zombie?": > > On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 10:02:03PM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: > > > Consider the following problem: > > > > > >How a proc

Re: X server crashes

2002-04-24 Thread Alex Shnitman
Another good piece of software that is worth mentioning in the context of this thread is xmove, which can be found at ftp://ftp.cs.columbia.edu/pub/xmove/ or as the Debian package "xmove". Basically it's an X server proxy that allows you to move X applications connected to it from one X server t

Re: network dev name

2002-04-24 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 11:09, Erez Doron wrote: > On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 23:03, Shaul Karl wrote: > > > hi > > > > > > i have a problem with device names > > > > > > i have ppp0 which is not secured ( i.e. internet ) > > > and ppp1 which is secured (local net) > > > > > > both interfaces are set

Re: switching between iptables and ipchains

2002-04-24 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
"Nadav Har'El" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So you might have to remove the iptable_filter module before you can > remove ip_tables. Stupid me... Thanks. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Lisp] is the only computer language that is beautiful. - Neal Stephenson

Re: switching between iptables and ipchains

2002-04-24 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 10:50, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > > Hi, > > I need a quick fix for the following problem: I want to switch between > ipchains and iptables on a RH7.2 (kernel 2.4.9-31) without rebooting. > > I figured I needed to rmmod ip_tables and insmod ipchains.o. ;-) > > I flushed ipta

OT: Does any one know where I can rent 5-15 Notebook/Laptop computers?

2002-04-24 Thread Daniel Feiglin
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Re: switching between iptables and ipchains

2002-04-24 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote about "switching between iptables and ipchains": > # /sbin/rmmod ip_tables > ip_tables: Device or resource busy > # echo $? > 1 > What am I forgetting? So far TFW and TFMs did not yield anything > useful. Try running lsmod and seeing if you have other

Re: network dev name

2002-04-24 Thread Erez Doron
On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 23:03, Shaul Karl wrote: > > hi > > > > i have a problem with device names > > > > i have ppp0 which is not secured ( i.e. internet ) > > and ppp1 which is secured (local net) > > > > both interfaces are set automatically. > > > > > > i set my firewall to alllow all on p

switching between iptables and ipchains

2002-04-24 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Hi, I need a quick fix for the following problem: I want to switch between ipchains and iptables on a RH7.2 (kernel 2.4.9-31) without rebooting. I figured I needed to rmmod ip_tables and insmod ipchains.o. ;-) I flushed iptables, stopped the service, tried to rmmod ip_tables, and got # /sbin/

Re: OT: The Heaviest Wave of Viruses

2002-04-24 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Tzahi Fadida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just for the sake of curiosity, this virus that everybody talks > about that impersonate someone without even infecting that someone. > How exactly does it get your email address? A couple of ideas: a) web harvesting; b) grabbing it from someone's Outlo