FW: Smoothwall and other Linux FWs & ADSL (Revisited)

2002-12-02 Thread fredy
I've been using SmoothWall for a long time now with ADSL, I agree that as a firewall with pptp it isn't working on Israeli lines, I'm using it only as a router + firewall (3 legs - inter/intra/dmz) and as such it is very good. About the "forked" distro, it's still based on the 2.2 kernel, with a

Re: units - was [OT] Story: The case of the 500-mile email

2002-12-02 Thread Ehud Karni
On Sun, 01 Dec 2002 19:07:50 +0200, voguemaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 3. Using SIGALARM. I forgot how this is implemented. Never did go into this since > it has problems (also among platforms). SIGALARM can be used by setting a signal handler (that does nothing). It functions by interrup

Re: The PS1 puzzle in RH7.3/Gnome

2002-12-02 Thread Ehud Karni
On Sun, 1 Dec 2002 19:46:07 +0200 (EET), Omer Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can someone please point out which system script clobbers my precious > setting of PS1 or what other mistake did I commit? The simplest way is to add "set -x" to your script. You'll see if it is really called and any

Re: units - was [OT] Story: The case of the 500-mile email

2002-12-02 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
"Ehud Karni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The ping proves nothing. Most of the ping delay is "computing" delay > caused by the NICs and the switches (and routers and bridges for WAN). > Some of the delay is caused by the bandwidth. While I agree with you in the context of the comment you are rep

wine spec?

2002-12-02 Thread Diego Iastrubni
I am compiling wine most of the, time and would like to package it before installing. Anyone has a nice spec made up before I make one/google for one? = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in

The bright future of VMware

2002-12-02 Thread Omer Zak
As those who follow the questions which I have recently posted to Linux-IL could predict, I have recently experimented with VMware's wares. My conclusion led me quicly to the investor relationship page in their Web site, where I was informed that the company is privately held, so I can't buy their

Re: units - was [OT] Story: The case of the 500-mile email

2002-12-02 Thread voguemaster
02/12/02 11:52:53, Ehud Karni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, 01 Dec 2002 19:07:50 +0200, voguemaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> 3. Using SIGALARM. I forgot how this is implemented. Never did go into this since >> it has problems (also among platforms). > >SIGALARM can be used by settin

[SOLVED] Re: The PS1 puzzle in RH7.3/Gnome

2002-12-02 Thread Omer Zak
On 1 Dec 2002, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > I would be very surprized if ~/.bash_profile got executed for every > xterm. It should not be: ~/.bash_profile is only sourced for login > shells, cf. "man bash". From your description, I think your system > behaves properly and according to documentation.

Hack sought

2002-12-02 Thread Doron Shikmoni
Hi all, I'm having this small but nagging problem and I thought I might find some enlightment here. The essential part of the problem description (you don't want to hear the whole story...) is this: I have a client machine which sends UDP datagrams to a Linux based server. Under some specific cir

Re: The bright future of VMware

2002-12-02 Thread Hetz Ben-Hamo
> My conclusion led me quicly to the investor relationship page in their > Web site, where I was informed that the company is privately held, so > I can't buy their shares. No wonder. The smart venture capitalists > dump on the public worthless shares in lame dotcoms, while they keep > to the

DiskOnKey Problem

2002-12-02 Thread Amichai Rotman
Hi Clan, I am having a problem with an old 32 MB DiskOnKey I got a a present. First time I pluged it in it got detected as /dev/sda - no problem there... But when I copy files to it and then try to read them on a Win machine I get the message: "Media not formated, whould you like to format it n

Re: DiskOnKey Problem

2002-12-02 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Amichai Rotman, from the post of Tue, 03 Dec: > First time I pluged it in it got detected as /dev/sda - no problem there.. > > But when I copy files to it and then try to read them on a Win machine I get > the message: "Media not formated, whould you like to format it now?" well, if it's

Re: DiskOnKey Problem

2002-12-02 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 01:59, Amichai Rotman wrote: > Hi Clan, > > I am having a problem with an old 32 MB DiskOnKey I got a a present. > > First time I pluged it in it got detected as /dev/sda - no problem there... > > But when I copy files to it and then try to read them on a Win machine I get

Re: Hack sought

2002-12-02 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 00:52, Doron Shikmoni wrote: > Ideally, what I'd like is to have an iptables mangle rule, which will > just insert 0 into the CS field of any UDP packet that satisfies some > criteria (zero is legit UDP). Can this be done without writing iptables > extension modules? > Or, i