Re: ptrace in production systems

2009-02-01 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Oron Peled wrote: On Sunday, 1 בFebruary 2009, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Then again, it is a daemon. It has no parent (well, init is its parent). It's not clear from your description (or your replies to other posters) why you don't want init to babysit this daemon. Because I do not want

Re: ptrace in production systems

2009-02-01 Thread Oron Peled
On Sunday, 1 בFebruary 2009, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Then again, it is a daemon. It has no parent (well, init is its parent). It's not clear from your description (or your replies to other posters) why you don't want init to babysit this daemon. So I'll explore two possibilities: 1. The daemon sh

Re: PAC 207 Webcam

2009-02-01 Thread Moshe Brace using Yahoo
With the programme Ekiga the camera works fine although the colour is not correct, but is still unrecognised by Skype. Can anyone recommend a Webcam that will work with Skype? Or is there a VOIP programme that will work with the Camera besides Ekiga? Distro: Mandriva 2009.0 Gnome Desktop latest

Re: web based PO file generator

2009-02-01 Thread Udi Oron
Hi! Ori Idan wrote: I need a tool to translate a GNU gettext PO files that works over the web. Does someone knows of such a tool? Pootle is the standard, but it is a standalone server written in python (and not via apache): http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/pootle/index Launchpad has a tra

Re: web based PO file generator

2009-02-01 Thread Tomer Cohen
Have you tried using Pootle? 2009/2/1 Ori Idan > I need a tool to translate a GNU gettext PO files that works over the web. > Does someone knows of such a tool? > > -- > Ori Idan > > > ___ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailm

web based PO file generator

2009-02-01 Thread Ori Idan
I need a tool to translate a GNU gettext PO files that works over the web. Does someone knows of such a tool? -- Ori Idan ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: ptrace in production systems

2009-02-01 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: I agree that using ptrace does not sound very clean. I never used ptrace directly, only using strace/ltrace, and these two do sometimes have issues, which might be bugs in them but also in ptrace. The very fact you bundle ltrace into it suggests that ptrace is not the

Re: infiniband

2009-02-01 Thread Yonah Russ
Hi, What do you mean by Infiniband HW? You should be able to buy switches from anyone who sells Cisco, HP, or Sun. I assume you can buy adapter cards from all the server vendors as well. Yonah On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Micha Feigin wrote: > Hello, > > Does anyone know who deals with inf

Re: ptrace in production systems

2009-02-01 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 05:36:43PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > I think there are a couple of points that did not come across. > > The first is that this is an embedded system. It runs an ARM CPU, has > 32MB of RAM and 4MB of flash. If we pass the 2MB of (somewhat > compressed) filesystem us

Re: ptrace in production systems

2009-02-01 Thread Shachar Shemesh
I think there are a couple of points that did not come across. The first is that this is an embedded system. It runs an ARM CPU, has 32MB of RAM and 4MB of flash. If we pass the 2MB of (somewhat compressed) filesystem usage mark, we will be in deep s%^$ when we get to the "switching banks" par

Re: ptrace in production systems

2009-02-01 Thread Valery Reznic
--- On Sun, 2/1/09, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > From: Shachar Shemesh > Subject: ptrace in production systems > To: "linux-il" > Date: Sunday, February 1, 2009, 3:42 PM > Hi all, > > I've been bad. I know I have. This goes against any > instinct that I have, but I am failing to see a good reas

Re: ptrace in production systems

2009-02-01 Thread Noam Meltzer
Shachar, What you need is the functionality of a watchdog. HA clusters provide this functionality. Anyhow, I guess you don't have/need an HA cluster, so what you might want to look at is monit: http://mmonit.com/monit/ I understand that you want to monitor it using your own daemon, but I don't bel

Re: ptrace in production systems

2009-02-01 Thread Valery Reznic
--- On Sun, 2/1/09, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > From: Shachar Shemesh > Subject: Re: ptrace in production systems > To: valery_rez...@yahoo.com > Cc: "linux-il" > Date: Sunday, February 1, 2009, 4:18 PM > Valery Reznic wrote: > > > > > > What about following: > > #!/bin/sh > > > > while :;

Re: ptrace in production systems

2009-02-01 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Valery Reznic wrote: What about following: #!/bin/sh while :; do snmp_agen done A daemon returns immediately. Even had that been what I wanted (it's not - sometimes we really want to shut down the agent) what you wrote is a busy loop that keeps trying to launch the agent. Shacha

ptrace in production systems

2009-02-01 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hi all, I've been bad. I know I have. This goes against any instinct that I have, but I am failing to see a good reason WHY. The setup - I have an embedded system that is composed of several daemons. The situation is that one of the daemons has to restart another daemon. The restarted daemon

Re: The new linux-il - a few tips to get you (re)started

2009-02-01 Thread Micha Feigin
solved my problems, it turns out that I was subscribed using an aliased email (just shows how long I'm on the list, haven't used that in about 7 years I think. I'm surprised tau left the alias). Thanks On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 12:07:36 +0200 "Barry.R" wrote: > On Friday 30 January 2009 22:04:59 Mich

Re: PAC 207 Webcam

2009-02-01 Thread Moshe Brace using Yahoo
Many thanks I will try it I downloaded the dkms-gspcav1-1.00.20-2mdv2009.1.noarch.rpm last modified 01-Feb-2009 --- On Sun, 1/2/09, Shlomi Fish wrote: From: Shlomi Fish Subject: Re: PAC 207 Webcam To: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il, mbrace...@yahoo.co.uk Date: Sunday, 1 February, 2009, 12:23 PM On Sund

Re: PAC 207 Webcam

2009-02-01 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Sunday 01 February 2009 11:25:54 Moshe Brace using Yahoo wrote: > Download Page for Source and Mandriva: > http://mxhaard.free.fr/download.html > > > Webcam driver supported list > http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html > > Debian support > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/graphics/gspca-source

Re: The new linux-il - a few tips to get you (re)started

2009-02-01 Thread Barry.R
On Friday 30 January 2009 22:04:59 Micha Feigin wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:06:55 +0200 > Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > [...] > > > I could understand the use for "reply to list" when some people would > > get double the emails against their wishes. This, however, is no longer > > an issue with m

Re: Ubuntu Dok

2009-02-01 Thread Eli Marmor
Noam Rathaus wrote: > > Hi ori, > > Ubuntu 8.10 have in their gui an option to create bootable disk on keys > > That might be a good starting point if you have an existing installation By the way: did anybody have any experience with UNetbootin? It is not needed for Ori (because the built-in so

Re: PAC 207 Webcam

2009-02-01 Thread Moshe Brace using Yahoo
Download Page for Source and Mandriva: http://mxhaard.free.fr/download.html Webcam driver supported list http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html Debian support http://packages.debian.org/unstable/graphics/gspca-source --- On Sun, 1/2/09, Shlomi Fish wrote: From: Shlomi Fish Subject: Re: PAC 207

Re: Ubuntu Dok

2009-02-01 Thread Ori Idan
I have just downloaded the latest ISO file and plan to use it with a 8Gb DoK. -- Ori Idan On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Nitzan Brumer wrote: > Don't forget to check the cd integrity before you create a DOK and the dok > integrity after you create it - its not fun to find out that the insta

Re: Ubuntu Dok

2009-02-01 Thread Nitzan Brumer
Don't forget to check the cd integrity before you create a DOK and the dok integrity after you create it - its not fun to find out that the install failed just because of that. 2009/2/1 Ori Idan > Thank you very much, I have found it, I will try it in the next few days. > > -- > Ori Idan > > > O

Re: Ubuntu Dok

2009-02-01 Thread Ori Idan
Thank you very much, I have found it, I will try it in the next few days. -- Ori Idan On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Noam Rathaus wrote: > Hi ori, > > Ubuntu 8.10 have in their gui an option to create bootable disk on keys > > That might be a good starting point if you have an existing insta

Re: PAC 207 Webcam

2009-02-01 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Moshe! On Saturday 31 January 2009 23:33:13 Moshe Brace using Yahoo wrote: > Mandriva 2009.0 states it supports this - don't work even after downloading > gspcav driver for this. Just won't work full stop. XSane thinks it's a > scanner. Skype says no Webcam installed. Can some one make me an .r