Re: Question on making the partitions

2004-06-10 Thread linux-il
Oron Peled wrote: On a single workstation, many of these considerations may be dropped and you would be ok on a single partition box, but on any production server this is short sighted. Well, I had a desktop setup in mind. Now that I re-read the original question I see that it didn't state the inte

Re: ADSL recommendations

2004-06-10 Thread Shaul Karl
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 05:07:37PM +0200, David Suna wrote: > I think it is finally time to move from my ISDN line to ADSL. I am > looking for recommendations of which company to go with for the ADSL > package. Most important is Linux support. I do not want to be stuck with > the "We only sup

RE: ADSL recommendations

2004-06-10 Thread Ben Hornedo
I use actcom (www.actcom.com). They support Linux and can also provide a static IP if you need it. Service has been great so far. I've been with them for about 10 months and the only downtime was because of BEZEQ. Ben -Original Message- From: Micha Feigin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: mft and linux

2004-06-10 Thread ik
On Thursday 10 June 2004 23:30, you wrote: > Hey, > we all heard how badly misrad haotzar want linux > how it supports open standarts, > in that case why does http://car.mof.gov.il/ calculator doesn't work with > mozilla? > or is it a mozilla bug? First of all it does not work in Firefox also... N

Re: Question on making the partitions

2004-06-10 Thread Oron Peled
On Thursday 10 June 2004 13:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The micro-management required to handle multiple partitions just never > occured to me as worthy the trouble it's supposedly trying to avoid. That of course depends on the role of the machine and the environment. Shachar already gave a li

Re: ADSL recommendations

2004-06-10 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 05:07:37PM +0200, David Suna wrote: > I think it is finally time to move from my ISDN line to ADSL. I am > looking for recommendations of which company to go with for the ADSL > package. Most important is Linux support. I do not want to be stuck with > the "We only sup

Telux Presentation about "Web Hosting" (part 2)

2004-06-10 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all! On 13 June, Mike Almogy will give the second part of his presentation about Web Hosting. The presentation will take place at 18:30, in Room 007 of the Schreiber building of Tel Aviv University. You are all welcome. Regards, Shlomi Fish --

Re: Running ping, need help

2004-06-10 Thread Oron Peled
On Wednesday 09 June 2004 23:48, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > RTFM pselect, and more specifically, select_tut, for an answer to that > one. I am fully aware for pselect importance in the general case, but I was refering to your specific example in which it was used only to wait for the event to happ

mft and linux

2004-06-10 Thread Ely Levy
Hey, we all heard how badly misrad haotzar want linux how it supports open standarts, in that case why does http://car.mof.gov.il/ calculator doesn't work with mozilla? or is it a mozilla bug? Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel =

Re: ADSL recommendations

2004-06-10 Thread linux-il
David Suna wrote: I think it is finally time to move from my ISDN line to ADSL. I am looking for recommendations of which company to go with for the ADSL package. Most important is Linux support. I do not want to be stuck with the "We only support Windows" answer. I know that Netvision says

Re: Optimal number of mount points

2004-06-10 Thread linux-il
Shachar Shemesh wrote: /boot, only if you work with LILO and the main system is reiserfs. This way you can mount it "notails", or have it a different file system (LILO won't work with kernels on reiserfs fs and tails enabled). Are you sure about that? I used LILO on my home machine (as said befor

Re: multiple mail booxes for poor people

2004-06-10 Thread Oron Peled
On Wednesday 09 June 2004 22:11, Amir Hardon wrote: > I'm Looking at my ~/.Mail dir and most of the subfolders in it are set to > 775 permissions (few are set to 700). > The dirs and files inside the 775 dirs are set to 775\664, > And the dirs and files inside the 700 dirs are set to 700\600. > I d

Separate partitions and disaster recovery (not for personal machines)

2004-06-10 Thread Omer Zak
As it happens, another thread of discussions in the Perl mailing list mentioned disaster recovery, and this link recommends separate partitions for applications' files: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/04/08/disaster_recovery.html --- Omer My o

Re: ADSL recommendations

2004-06-10 Thread Noam L.
I dont know about you, but I keep lying to them (netvision) that I have W2k, even though I know they have a linux support team -- Regards, Noam L. Quoting David Suna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I think it is finally time to move from my ISDN line to ADSL. I am looking for recommendations of which compa

[HAIFUX LECTURE] Guy Keren on the IP protocol Family (part 2)

2004-06-10 Thread Orna Agmon
Next Monday (14/6/2004), 18:30, the Haifa Linux Club will once again meet to hear Guy Keren talk about: Staying in Linux - The IP protocol Family (2/2) This is one of two preparatory lectures. These are actually re-runs of lectures 16 and 18 (see the old lecture slides on http://www.haif

Re: [OT]DB structure efficiency

2004-06-10 Thread Idan Sofer
Amir Hardon wrote: For example what will be better, storing all items information in one table with one column for category, or having a separate items table for each category. My guess is that separate tables will be faster for use but will consume more disk space. It's a good example where

[RELIGIOUS WAR] Re: Optimal number of mount points

2004-06-10 Thread Omer Zak
I smell here the beginning of a religious war between the OOOTP (the One and Only One True Partition) adherents and those, who find that there is somehow a reason to have separate partitions for some subdirectories. No matter what. Nowadays, if and when you find yourself cramped for space in w

Re: Optimal number of mount points

2004-06-10 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Nadav Har'El wrote: > > >So now I alway partition my disks with one huge partition (in addition to > >small /boot and swap partitions, of course). I recently created a 80 GB > >partition, and it seems to be working well. > > > > I also separate /home

printing variable width text with a2ps

2004-06-10 Thread Tom Rosenfeld
How can I print regular (English) text on a PostScript printer in a variable font instead of fixed width. I though 'a2ps' should do it, but the defaults do not. Thanks -- Tom Rosenfeld System Manager Fritz Haber Research Center Hebrew University Phone: (972) 2 658-5270 Fax:(972) 2 651-3742 E-

ADSL recommendations

2004-06-10 Thread David Suna
I think it is finally time to move from my ISDN line to ADSL. I am looking for recommendations of which company to go with for the ADSL package. Most important is Linux support. I do not want to be stuck with the "We only support Windows" answer. I know that Netvision says they have Linux s

Re: Optimal number of mount points

2004-06-10 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Nadav Har'El wrote: So now I alway partition my disks with one huge partition (in addition to small /boot and swap partitions, of course). I recently created a 80 GB partition, and it seems to be working well. I also separate /home. Reason being, this way I can reinstall the OS and not lose any

Re: Optimal number of mount points (was: Re: Question on making the partitions)

2004-06-10 Thread Alex Behar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 10 June 2004 14:44, you wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2004, Omer Zak wrote about "Optimal number of mount points (was: Re: Question on making the partitions)": > > My opinion is different. > > You should have several mount points, at least sepa

Re: [OT]DB structure efficiency

2004-06-10 Thread Gad Abraham
Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: No it's not. What you can do is called a subquery. That is, do a 'select' on the output of another select, interpreted as data, not as a table name. Look carefully at the mentioned URL. There are no subqueries in MySQL 3.x and 4.0.x, only 4.1.x onwards. However, it is poss

Re: Optimal number of mount points (was: Re: Question on making the partitions)

2004-06-10 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004, Omer Zak wrote about "Optimal number of mount points (was: Re: Question on making the partitions)": > My opinion is different. > You should have several mount points, at least separate ones for /usr, > /tmp and /var. > The advantage is that if one partition gets destroyed, yo

Re: Question on making the partitions

2004-06-10 Thread Omer Zak
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I always installed linux with one large partition ever since the > limitation on > the boot code disk position was removed [... snipped ...] > The micro-management required to handle multiple partitions just never > occured to me > as worthy the tr

Re: [OT]DB structure efficiency

2004-06-10 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
No it's not. What you can do is called a subquery. That is, do a 'select' on the output of another select, interpreted as data, not as a table name. Look carefully at the mentioned URL. -- Didi > On Wednesday 09 June 2004 21:40, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > On Wednesday 09 June 2004 16:50, Amir Hardon

Re: Question on making the partitions

2004-06-10 Thread linux-il
Ehud Karni wrote: I fully agree. I think that the 8GB limit for /boot has been removed. I recently installed FC1 with / (including /boot) > 10GB. ehud I always installed linux with one large partition ever since the limitation on the boot code disk position was removed (a few years ago) and nev

RE: My initiative to detect worms that send spam

2004-06-10 Thread Kovriga, Gregory
Hi, I don't know all the options of the smtpd - there are different implementations with different capabilities... Most of them support logging, but maybe some of them support more request filtering options - at least it seems reasonable. My point was that instead of tracing outgoing mail from diff

Re: Running ping, need help

2004-06-10 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Thursday 10 June 2004 10:12, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > On Wednesday 09 June 2004 18:52, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm trying to provide a library call that will run a ping to a server. > > The catch is that it needs to be done as a non-root user, and I would > > like to avoid an

Re: Question on making the partitions

2004-06-10 Thread Ehud Karni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 09:44:50 +0300 (IDT), Geoffrey S. Mendelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Avrahami David wrote: > > 1) I forgot the swap of course, BTW Why do I need (big) swap partition if > > there is plenty physical memory ? > > You don't. It'

Re: My initiative to detect worms that send spam

2004-06-10 Thread David Harel
Hi, Kovriga, Gregory wrote: Hi, couldn't you get the same logging capabilities by closing outgoing SMTP connections (using iptables) for users other than "smtp" and relaying all applications through the local smtp daemon ? Thank you very much for your comment. I don't understand your suggestion

Re: Running ping, need help

2004-06-10 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Wednesday 09 June 2004 18:52, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to provide a library call that will run a ping to a server. > The catch is that it needs to be done as a non-root user, and I would > like to avoid any solution that involves any SUID or root running > processes beyond

Re: Question on making the partitions

2004-06-10 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Avrahami David wrote: > 1) I forgot the swap of course, BTW Why do I need (big) swap partition if > there is plenty physical memory ? You don't. It's a question of do you want the system to run out of memeory or slow down when you go beyond physical memory. SunOS (the original BSD product, not