Re: Login problem

2006-09-22 Thread Michael Vasiliev
On Saturday September 23 2006 03:31, Amos Shapira wrote: > On 23/09/06, Michael Vasiliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not entirely correct, if you have some privileges, namely if you are > > still a root user inside a chroot padded cell, you can easily break out > > by moving up > > a root user c

Re: Login problem

2006-09-22 Thread Amos Shapira
On 23/09/06, Michael Vasiliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Not entirely correct, if you have some privileges, namely if you are still a root user inside a chroot padded cell, you can easily break out by moving up a root user can just create a device file and access any device through that, that's

Re: קוד פתוח אלק

2006-09-22 Thread Amos Shapira
On 23/09/06, Ilya Konstantinov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And finally, what do you think will be the strong point differentiating Linux.org.il from Whatsup and Penguin? How could we bring over content authors from those sites to Linux.org.il? This, IMHO, should be the first question (actually -

Re: קוד פתוח אלק

2006-09-22 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
Danny L wrote: Maayan, - for $30 and 30' work you can buy a template and setup a Joomla site. It will look 100x better than linux-org.il - if you have any doubt - see www.software.co.il Danny, if we wanted Linux.org.il to be yet another Joomla / Drupal / PhpNuke site, it'd be much easier to

Re: Login problem

2006-09-22 Thread Michael Vasiliev
On Friday September 22 2006 11:35, Ira Abramov wrote: > Quoting Michael Jaffe, from the post of Fri, 22 Sep: > > After setting up a chroot jail, two problems arose: > > 1) In graphical mode, I am not able to login under any username except > > root > > and you DO have other users in the chroot's sh

Re: Distribution recommendation

2006-09-22 Thread Vitaly Karasik
> Until now I have been using RedHat releases however I have read a lot > about newer distributions (i.e Ubuntu etc.) > On my current server I am still running RedHat 9. So I suggest you to use CentOS - today we have CentOS 4 and in a few months CentOS5, based on RHEL5 will be releas

Re: Distribution recommendation

2006-09-22 Thread David Suna
I went to the Ubuntu site and they have an option for a server configuration. Anyone know anything about it? Any pointers for a review etc.? Thanks and Shana Tova David Suna [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oded Arbel wrote: Ubuntu and a lot of other new and rather interesting and even well done Linux

Re: linux xbox

2006-09-22 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 07:12:28PM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: > These sound like a good option - just make sure that the Ethernet port > is at least 100Mbit/sec. Look for firewire ports they have 10/100 ethernet and take PC133 memory. Make sure the CPU is fast enough to play the media files. Geo

Re: linux xbox

2006-09-22 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 10:04:08AM +0200, Erez D wrote: > i can get a used xbox for 90 euro (i'm in austria for rosh hashana), > and i want to use it as mythtv frontend to connect to the tv in my room. > > 1. you was referring to 'the old one', which is the old one, PS II or Mac ? Mac. > 2. ca

Re: linux xbox

2006-09-22 Thread Amos Shapira
On 22/09/06, Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 22/09/06, Erez D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The old ones take laptop RAM, ide hard drives and have a 2 USB 1 ports > > and ethernet port and a 56k modem. They have no fan and you can turn off > > the monitor via software. Many of them ar

Re: linux xbox

2006-09-22 Thread Amos Shapira
On 22/09/06, Erez D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The old ones take laptop RAM, ide hard drives and have a 2 USB 1 ports > and ethernet port and a 56k modem. They have no fan and you can turn off > the monitor via software. Many of them are being given away because the > clock stopped working, whi

Re: Login problem

2006-09-22 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Michael Jaffe, from the post of Fri, 22 Sep: > > After setting up a chroot jail, two problems arose: > 1) In graphical mode, I am not able to login under any username except root and you DO have other users in the chroot's shadow and passwd files? > 2) In terminal mode, whenever I try to

Re: linux xbox

2006-09-22 Thread Erez D
i can get a used xbox for 90 euro (i'm in austria for rosh hashana),and i want to use it as  mythtv frontend to connect to the tv in my room.1. you was referring to 'the old one', which is the old one, PS II or Mac  ? 2. can one run linux on PS II ? ( i can get a used one here for 100 EURO),   is t

Login problem

2006-09-22 Thread Michael Jaffe
--0-2096378739-1158911206=:54851 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi. After setting up a chroot jail, two problems arose: 1) In graphical mode, I am not able to login under any username except root 2) In terminal mode, whenever I try to execute the "lo

Re: Legato backup for Etch 64

2006-09-22 Thread Amos Shapira
On 22/09/06, Ira Abramov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The language of the man page is weird in that section, and has some grammatical errors, and I just could not figure out the difference between bind and rbind... If I got it right - --bind will only "mount" the filesystem you specify (e.g. if y

Re: קוד פתוח אלק

2006-09-22 Thread Julian Daich
El vie, 22-09-2006 a las 09:56 +0200, Danny L escribió: > Ram > > You're totally right. www.linux-org.il DOES look like a piece of > shit. Sure. The site simply does not exist. Did you mean www.linux.org.il, maybe? > There is something cultural going on here - like Yerushalmim > wearing soc

Re: linux xbox

2006-09-22 Thread Julian Daich
El vie, 22-09-2006 a las 08:04 +0200, Erez D escribió: > hi > > i'm looking for a cheap and quiet platform to run linux on > I've heard Xbox is one. and there is debian for Xbox (called xebian) How much is cheap for a Xbox? You can get a Via or AMD based PCs for less than 1000 nis @zap.co.il and r

Re: קוד פתוח אלק

2006-09-22 Thread Danny L
Ram You're totally right. www.linux-org.il DOES look like a piece of shit. There is something cultural going on here - like Yerushalmim wearing socks and sandals - like ", we dont want to look to professional or people might think we're not nerdy enough". Let's not talk about manage