Re: RHEL-family dev environment

2008-05-05 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Oron Peled wrote: On Monday, 5 בMay 2008, Ira Abramov wrote: which brings me to the question - should I stick to Fedora (7? 8?) for the devel environment and break from the RPM world and go for Lenny or Hardy? Generally, the requirements of any "enterprise/stable" distributions are ba

Re: RHEL-family dev environment

2008-05-05 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Ira Abramov wrote: you may remember a few weeks ago, I was asking about KDE and kdevelop for centos5. I recommended against it, the client insisted, now we are seeing it's buggy as hell, the kde4RHEL repositories give us binaries newer than what Ubuntu offers, but it gets stuck and sometimes exp

Re: RHEL-family dev environment

2008-05-05 Thread Oron Peled
On Monday, 5 בMay 2008, Ira Abramov wrote: > which brings me to the question - should I stick to Fedora (7? 8?) for the > devel environment and break from the RPM world and go for Lenny or Hardy? Generally, the requirements of any "enterprise/stable" distributions are bad for developers by definit

Status of IPv6 deployment in Israel?

2008-05-05 Thread Omer Zak
What is the current status of IPv6 deployment in Israel? I am interested in an answer to this question because of the following projection: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MonkeyBites/~3/284126431/996-days-projec.html http://he.net/news/Hurricane_Electric_IPv6_Update_April_2008.pdf

Re: mknod

2008-05-05 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
On Mon, 5 May 2008, Ohad Levy wrote: for embedded platform development, its required to create devices which are hardware specific (i.e. our own modules). any way to reduce the risk? The easiest way is to write a small script that mknods only specific devices, and let the user sudo that scri

Re: RHEL-family dev environment

2008-05-05 Thread Amos Shapira
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 11:40 PM, Ira Abramov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > you may remember a few weeks ago, I was asking about KDE and kdevelop > for centos5. I recommended against it, the client insisted, now we are > seeing it's buggy as hell, the kde4RHEL repositories give us binaries > newer

Re: linux vserver vs. Xen?

2008-05-05 Thread Amos Shapira
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 10:17 PM, Arie Skliarouk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Two questions: > > > > 1. Is this correct (that vserver will run more efficiently in that > situation)? > > Memory will be used more effectively

Internet connection

2008-05-05 Thread Valery Reznic
Hi. Now I am connecte to Internet via HOT+BARAK And I am going to reconsider later part (i.e Barak) Could you share some recommendation/experience ? Thanks. Valery. Be a better friend, newshound, and

Re: mknod

2008-05-05 Thread Omer Zak
Why doesn't that developer have his own PC? If the developer needs to write his own kernel modules, then he needs root privileges anyway. But if he just develops applications for an embedded system, which already has debugged modules, then the devices can be created beforehand (manually or via udev

Re: mknod

2008-05-05 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Ohad Levy wrote: for embedded platform development, its required to create devices which are hardware specific (i.e. our own modules). any way to reduce the risk? Thanks Are these modules loaded into the running kernel, or are they just being created so they can be saved to the image for late

Re: mknod

2008-05-05 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:59:22PM +0800, Ohad Levy wrote: > Hello All, > > Is there any risk to give a user sudo rights of mknod? > > as far as I understand it now, it can only create new devices, > therefor the risk for a running system is minimal. Not sure what you mean by 'new devices', if yo

Re: mknod

2008-05-05 Thread Ohad Levy
for embedded platform development, its required to create devices which are hardware specific (i.e. our own modules). any way to reduce the risk? Thanks On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ohad Levy wrote: > > > Hello All, > > > > Is there any risk to

Re: mknod

2008-05-05 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Ohad Levy wrote: Hello All, Is there any risk to give a user sudo rights of mknod? as far as I understand it now, it can only create new devices, therefor the risk for a running system is minimal. Thanks, Ohad As others mentioned, giving someone the right to mknod is equivalent to giving the

Re: mknod

2008-05-05 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
What about udev? On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Ohad Levy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello All, > > Is there any risk to give a user sudo rights of mknod? > as far as I understand it now, it can only create new devices, therefor the > risk for a running system is minimal. > > Thanks, > Ohad >

Re: mknod

2008-05-05 Thread Valery Reznic
--- On Mon, 5/5/08, Ohad Levy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Ohad Levy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: mknod > To: "linux-il" > Date: Monday, May 5, 2008, 4:59 PM > Hello All, > > Is there any risk to give a user sudo rights of mknod? > as far as I understand it now, it can only create new

Re: RHEL-family dev environment

2008-05-05 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Ira, which repository did you use for the KDE RPMS? what centos shipped with or from kde-redhat.sf.net? The ones that comes with Centos are crappy as hell. Thanks, Hetz On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Ira Abramov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > you may remember a few weeks ago, I was asking about K

mknod

2008-05-05 Thread Ohad Levy
Hello All, Is there any risk to give a user sudo rights of mknod? as far as I understand it now, it can only create new devices, therefor the risk for a running system is minimal. Thanks, Ohad

RHEL-family dev environment

2008-05-05 Thread Ira Abramov
you may remember a few weeks ago, I was asking about KDE and kdevelop for centos5. I recommended against it, the client insisted, now we are seeing it's buggy as hell, the kde4RHEL repositories give us binaries newer than what Ubuntu offers, but it gets stuck and sometimes explodes, totally unworka

Re: linux vserver vs. Xen?

2008-05-05 Thread Arie Skliarouk
Hi, On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Two questions: > > 1. Is this correct (that vserver will run more efficiently in that > situation)? Memory will be used more effectively, as free memory is shared. In case vservers use a shared storage (such as /home

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Re: linux vserver vs. Xen?

2008-05-05 Thread Rami Rosen
Hi, >maybe >using vservers instead of a fully para-virtualized Xen Question: are you talking about "lvs" (http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/) or about Linux-VServer (http://linux-vserver.org/Welcome_to_Linux-VServer.org) or maybe something else? Regards, Rami Rosen On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 9:07 A