Re: [Israel.pm] Development Environment Setting Up

opment environment for other projects, which rely upon > stable versions of those system libraries. sudo apt-get install dh-make-perl man dh-make-perl Like cpan2rpm, it isn't perfect. But you may find it useful nonetheless. -- Gaal Yahas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://gaal.livejou

Call for Volunteers: Project Ben-Yehuda

Please distribute. Project Ben-Yehuda - Call for Volunteers Project Ben-Yehuda is seeking volunteers to help build the Internet's Hebrew literature library. Project Ben-Yehuda, inspired by the (originally English) Project Gutenberg

Re: The IGLU Cabal

On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 05:09:14PM +0300, Adam Morrison wrote: > > > > > > The people on the cabal include myself, me, moi, men'ya, and min. > > > > Marc,, stop harassing the poor fool. There is no IGLU cabal. > > Oh my God, they got to Zadka as well! fnord. -- believing is seeing [EMAIL PROT

Re: SSH and Debian

On Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 05:40:52PM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: > > I need ssh1 functionality. > > Have you seen the following debs: > > [17:39:20 /tmp]$ grep-available -P ssh | grep Package > Package: ssh2 [...] Thanks, Shaul, and everybody else who replied by email. Indeed I had to use a non-US t

Re: SSH and Debian

On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 01:51:05AM +0300, Alex Shnitman wrote: > > But another question: I don't have grep-available on my system. What > > package provides it? > > grep-dctrl Okay, thanks! Any idea why this thing isn't installed by default? It's 28k of download and takes 127k of space. (If gr

Re: Linux interaction with M$SQL

On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 10:16:41AM +0300, Miki Shapiro wrote: > Can anyone reccomend something (preferrably that is installed with a stock > SuSE distro :-)) that can interact with MSSQL and generate nifty, > parsable, textual and listar-readable lists of email addresses with > minimum fuss? The

Re: List of Israeli Linux-related mailing list

On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 12:24:44PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > Here are the mailing-lists which I'm aware of: http://israel.pm.org/ to subscribe, do echo "subscribe israel-pm-list" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]" to post, send mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- believing is seeing [EMAIL PROTEC

[linas@linas.org: Patches for new architecture, send where?]

Ahhh, new architectures are nice to have. Anyone have an old mainframe gathering dust under your desk we can try this on? - Forwarded message from Linas Vepstas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Linas Vepstas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 17:21:14 -0500 Subject: Patches for new arc

Re: Defragmentation

On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 01:15:04PM +0200, Iftach Hyams wrote: > The defrag program can't run while the FS is mounted. Is there a way to > boot with a diskette and apply it ? > (My system is Mandrake 6 if it is relevant). Tried booting from a floppy, mounting the fs defrag's on, copying it to a r

Re: Configuring the resolution

On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 11:45:23AM -0400, Jonathan Alexander Daniel wrote: > How would I know which is a similar model (I assume "modem" was a typo)? (before I even begin, note there's a XFree HOWTO that may help you more than I will here). Now: If you have the detailed monitor specs (like you

Re: Configuring the resolution

On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 04:11:36PM -0400, Jonathan Alexander Daniel wrote: > 1) Is there any difference or danger to the monitor in using these numbers > if my monitor is not a multisync? YES. Please be careful with these things, as they CAN damage your monitor. A multisync monitor can deal with

Re: question

On Tue, Jul 13, 1999 at 09:18:41PM +0300, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo wrote: > I feel it might be a FAQ question, but I didnt find any good info around. > The question is: > If I have a process locked in "device wait" (D) state, is it possible to > get rid of it? It doesn't react on signals wh

Logical Volume Manager

FYI, there's and alpha-stage project to bring Logical Volume Manager support to linux. Yes, this is a pretty nice feature :-) http://linux.msede.com/lvm/ -- believing is seeing [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.forum2.org/gaal/ = To un

unmount / ?

Hi, I just noticed creative advice in the "Tips and tricks" section of the linux.org.il site: Your machine fails to fsck(1) (check file system) as a result of pressing on RESET [sic] #umount / and: #fsck /dev/hdXY .. I think this te

Re: re- shell scripting

On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 11:04:43AM +0300, Moti Levy wrote: > this is for C shell but a nice one > Moti > http://star-www.rl.ac.uk/star/docs/sc4.htx/sc4.html So I'm predictable[1]: Aaaarrrggghh!! Will people save themselves the trouble of learning csh "programming", then spending hours of funles

Re: unmount / ?

On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 01:06:02PM +0300, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo wrote: > GY>> #umount / > > I think it should be mount -o remount,ro / Either that, or even better, boot from a floppy. Yes, I was quite aware of the fix - I'm suggesting someone apply it. Gaal ==

Re: [Re: re- shell scripting]

On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 07:51:15PM +0300, Herouth Maoz wrote: > >Besides...Obfuscated Python? Nah ;) > > Guys, is this going to become a religious interpreter war? Because if it is, > tell me, and I'll get off the list for a while... If anyone is interested in a professional, religeon-free compa

Re: re- shell scripting

On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 03:24:56PM +0300, guy keren wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Gaal Yahas wrote: > > > Aaaarrrggghh!! Will people save themselves the trouble of learning > > csh "programming", then spending hours of funless debugging and > > bug incompat

Picklists and netscape

Ho. I'm using Netscape Communicator 4.07 and tvtwm (don't laugh :) , and have this annoying problem. Every time I click on a pick-list that has LOTS of selections, more than a screenful, bad things happen. First of all, my keyboard stops responding until I click on the the desktop. But more anno

Re: Terminal Emulator for Windows

On Sun, Aug 15, 1999 at 07:25:07PM +0200, Isaac Aaron wrote: > Does anyone know of a good terminal emulator for Windows that > can use all the featues a Linux console can use? I recommend CRT too. It's a pretty good client, plus there's a version with SSH support if you need it (who doesn't? :)

Re: sendmail questions

On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 11:47:38AM +0300, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > Any easy way to create the file would be > > cat /etc/passwd | awk -F: '($2 > 100) {print $1}' >/etc/allusers > > This will ignore root, bin, etc. Join the Useless Use of cat Crazies! Rewrite that as awk -

VoodooIII support

Hi, I'm buying a new computer. Can anybody recommend/warn against a voodoo3 card? The HOWTO's are outdated, the 3dfx site says the drivers are alpha quality, and the newsgroups show conflicting opinions (as usual :) . So: - is it a good idea to get a voodoo3 at all? - which card would you recomm

Re: sendmail questions

On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 03:53:47PM +0300, Gavrie Philipson wrote: > > Well, as Larry Wall put it, "AWK has to be better for something :-)" > > Or you could use: > perl -lanF: -e'$F[2]>100&&print$F[0]' /etc/passwd > /etc/allusers > Which is almost the same size ;-) Indeed. Thanks! -- believing

Re: sendmail questions

On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 01:08:21PM +0200, Adam Morrison wrote: > As long as we're quoting Perl.gods, how about this one from Tom > Christiansen's `Csh Programming Considered Harmful': An enlightening diatribe indeed. > Tchrist's personal rule of thumb is that if it's the size > tha

Re: X auto start.

On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 04:08:49PM +0300, Shlomo Reches wrote: > Is there something I can do to cancel the automatic > X start while the system is in the booting process? perl -pi -e 's/^id:\d+/id:3/' /etc/inittab -- believing is seeing [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.forum2.org/gaal/ ==

Re: An odd problem with an Ethernet connection.

On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 12:13:17AM +0300, shaul wrote: > I have 2 Ethernet devices that are connected by a NULL Ethernet cable. > My problem with it is that unless I plug out the cable while the system > boots and plug it in later, the devices do not speak with each other. - What is the wiring

Re: PPP over an Ethernet connection.

On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 12:20:26AM +0300, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo wrote: > > > BTW: How can root put raw data on the Ethernet device ? If there > > > is no /dev for it, then how can someone open this device? > You may try to look on packet(4), but I don't know if it will get you > to what

Re: An odd problem with an Ethernet connection.

On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 07:26:29PM +0300, shaul wrote: > > - What is the wiring on your cable? > 1A - 3B > 2A - 6B > 3A - 1B > 6A - 2B > Is 3m long too much for this sort of cable ? No, it's fine. Are the other wires not connected? Are you sure there are no shorts? Is it a CAT-5 cable? (checking

Re: PPP over an Ethernet connection.

On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 12:25:34PM +0300, Alex Shnitman wrote: > > Take a look at libnet, http://www.packetfactory.net/libnet/ , which > > is a portable way to put packets on the network (in c). If you want > > to do it in Perl, try Net::RawIP . > > That allows you to send raw packets over IP. I

Re: PPP over an Ethernet connection.

On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 12:30:04PM +0300, Alex Shnitman wrote: > On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 12:13:29AM +0300, shaul wrote: > > > BTW: How can root put raw data on the Ethernet device ? If there is no /dev > > for it, then how can someone open this device ? > > Check out /usr/src/linux/Documentatio

PC Weasel

Sounds useful: http://www.realweasel.com/ They make an ISA card that gives you "stop-A" like functionality for PCs. -- believing is seeing [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.forum2.org/gaal/ = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: PC Weasel

On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 12:17:03AM +0300, I wrote: > Sounds useful: http://www.realweasel.com/ > > They make an ISA card that gives you "stop-A" like functionality > for PCs. And, I forgot to mention, it thunks the keyboard and video to the serial console :-) -- believing is seeing [EMAIL PROT

Re: email client

On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 07:27:37PM +0200, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > I have two questions. > > Here's the list: I believe Mutt might suit your needs, if you accept the 'toolbox' attitude common in unixlike systems and allow other utilities to do some of the work. > 1 - multiple address books and m

Re: email client

On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 11:07:16PM +0200, I wrote: > > 2 - filters that can cause any of the following actions - copy or > > move messages to a different mailbox, forward and/or delete a > > message, copy a message to an external (text) file, set the > > read/unread status, send a canned reply, ad

Re: email client

On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 11:52:24PM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: > Even if you can't convert your mailboxes from the format used by your OS/2 > program into the format used by Unix E-mail clients, you can accomplish > this by causing your OS/2 client to send all messages in your mailbox to > some address

Re: How to block telnet access.

On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 07:48:35PM +0200, Adam Morrison wrote: > > Assuming sufficient skill on the intruders part, there isn't much you can > > do. There are precautions you can take to make things harder, and to help > > you analyze things after the event happened (Tripwire/ the likes). > > Ag

Re: resolving internet addresses

On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 10:51:52AM +0200, Avraham Hanadari wrote: > that my system is unable to RESOLVE internet addresses. I connect > satisfactorily to the ISP, but nothing works after that, unless I key in > the number URL. With the numbers, it works well, but with human language ... > nothing

Re: chicken and egg

On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 08:24:50AM +0200, Mike ALmogy wrote: > if you want to do a backup of your entire HD why not using the MSDOS > program GHOST ? I think Ghost is the paradigm of superfluous applications. Boot from any decent single-floppy system and dd if=/where/ever of=/hmm > I th

Re: Modem's and video cards for linux

Hey Micha, On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 01:51:11PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > The video card i was offered (since I static image handling mainly, and > not video), is ATI xpert 8 meg AGP, How is it for linux? ATIs are pretty well supported. Just make sure you have a fairly recent X server, because

Re: Hebrew fonts that work under xemacs

On Sun, Oct 17, 1999 at 05:43:29PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > I am looking for hebrew fonts that xemacs will recognise. It won't show > globes, the web fonts, bible, david or hebrew fixed font. Are there > suitable fonts out there, or is there a way to make any of these fonts > work? (I only nee

Re: Hebrew fonts that work under xemacs

On Sun, Oct 17, 1999 at 07:47:54PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > The problem is not xterm, because I am using xemacs, not emacs. > I have, at list this font installed in the path: > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/heb-tt/heb8x13.pcf.gz, and it is in my fontpath. > xemacs still doesn't recognise it (xterm

Re: Browsing C/C++ source code under Linux

On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 12:08:09PM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: > I am looking for a good C/C++ code browser, which will offer at least the > power and convenience of the MS-Visual C++ code browser. > > Does anyone have experience with the browsers and can recommend a good > one? I haven't used, but d

Re: netscape question

On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 01:52:26AM -0500, dorit ben shalom wrote: > Is there anything like this for netscape on linux? > > Hmm... not in netscape, as far as I know. Though IE has that option. > > If your on a Mac, you can try installing WebFree which blocks web ads > > and animations, among oth

Re: hebrew in netscape

On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 03:52:51PM -0500, dorit ben shalom wrote: > Does anyone know how to save document sources in netscape? > (I am trying to reverse engineer some pages to solve some > hebrew problems). Sure, click on a document (if it has frames, click in the frame you wish to save), and in

Re: Is Linux on the way of getting too complicated?

On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 01:37:37AM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: [lots snipped] > Consider operating systems and programming languages which are becoming > increasingly complicated and their implementations less trustworthy. Permit me not to be impressed - or rather, not to be depressed - by the figure

Re: Newsreader

On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 08:56:30AM +, Yosi wrote: > Hello, > > I am looking for a newsreader for Linux, and I would be more than > grateful if you can recommend me of one. These are the things that I > need in a newsreader (from the most important to the least): [...] > Anyone who sees a rese

Re: Newsreader

On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 11:27:56AM +0200, Alex Shnitman wrote: > > Anyone who sees a resemblence between these specifications and Mutt, > > is right :) > > The closest that I've seen to Mutt is slrn. I don't know whether it > supports the above features, but I think that it's as close as you can

Re: Newsreader

On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 01:26:37PM +0200, Nimrod Zimerman wrote: > And as you have mutt, why reinvent something which is almost exactly the > same? > Remember echomail? The same program could deal both with netmails (e-mail) > and echomail (news). Can't see why mutt shouldn't do the same. > (I wo

Re: Project Proposal (was: Re: SOT: regarding linux-unfriendly ISPs)

On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 03:15:32PM +0200, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: > > How do customers get it? > Login from their Windows systems, download it and mount vfat partitions? > Or maybe we're should send them CDs? > It's really becomes a problem when the only way to help is via phone, > and on the ot

Re: BeoWolf Question

On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 01:32:16PM +0200, Nir Simionovich Rin Solo" wrote: > Here's a tricky one for your troubled brains :-) > I have a linux cluster running beowolf, now everything works fine, only > one thing is weird. About a week ago, the following situation evolved by > itself. One of the

Re: BeoWolf Question

On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 06:15:37AM +, Udi Finkelstein wrote: > >Ye gods, AD&D? Your AD&D days are not the only > >thing which is one... Go here: > > > >>http://www.comptons.com/ceo99-cgi/article?'fastweb?getdoc+viewcomptons+A+1215+1++beowulf' > > > > Also see, Michael Critchton's "Eaters of

Re: Interface status detection

On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 11:47:14PM +0200, Nimrod Mesika wrote: > > nimrodm:~$ cat /etc/ppp/ip-up.local > #!/bin/sh > echo 'status online' >/home/nimrodm/.licq/licq_fifo > nimrodm:~$ > > nimrodm:~$ cat /etc/ppp/ip-down.local > #!/bin/sh > echo 'status off

Re: sparc linux/solaris binary compatibility

Hello there, erez. Tuesday, January 04, 2000, 1:59:13 PM, you wrote: >> Install Solaris on it for heavens' sake Why go through hoops and >> loops for something that can be done so much easier. It's not as if >> Solaris is an unstable OS and Linux is, or something. Use what's best >> for the

Re: sparc linux/solaris binary compatibility

Hello there, erez. Tuesday, January 04, 2000, 2:31:51 PM, you wrote: >> esc> 2. for standarisation ( i.e. i hate to type 'ps aux' instead of 'ps -aef' and >> esc> vice versa ... >> >> % echo 'set path=(/usr/ucb $path)' >> ~/.cshrc >> % source !$ >> % rehash esc> thanks ! I needed that ( and it

Re: sparc linux/solaris binary compatibility

Hello there, Adam. Tuesday, January 04, 2000, 3:44:20 PM, you wrote: >> By the way: Sun noticed that the confusion that arose from step #1 was >> not enough, and that some managers in the install base world still >> thought they knew what was going on. Appropriately, all versions of >> Solaris 2

Re: Legal stuf, GPL, ...

Hello there, Aviram. Tuesday, January 04, 2000, 5:10:24 PM, you wrote: AJ> Interesting issue IMO. I'd like to pursue this a bit further... AJ> You all mentioned that I 'must' publish the source code if I use a GPL AJ> source code in my app. How hard must I work to publish this code? Is it AJ> e

Re: Legal stuf, GPL, ...

Hello there, Stanislav. Tuesday, January 04, 2000, 6:54:22 PM, you wrote: SMakaF> Also, you may get the code from copyright owner(s) with other license than SMakaF> GPL, if they'd like too. And also, if you make add-on to something GPL-ed, SMakaF> but which is separate work (external module, dri

Re: Module mod_so

On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 10:40:31PM +0200, Eli Marmor wrote: > running CGI-BINs, the parsing (of scripts like Perl and PHP), the (You've got FastCGI, mod_perl and commercial solutions for that) > need to load and parse htaccess files (sometimes even per request), I'm no expert in web servers, b

.htaccess parsing [was: Re: Module mod_so]

On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 03:05:58AM +0200, Eli Marmor wrote: > > > need to load and parse htaccess files (sometimes even per request), > > > > I'm no expert in web servers, but this looks strange to me. Could > > you explain why there isn't some way for a user to signal the server > > that he ha

Re: Couldn't bind socket at the port above 60000

On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 05:32:37PM +0200, Jonathan Ben-Avraham wrote: > > We've got "address is already in use" when trying to bind at port 61xxx. > > Yes, there is someone listening already on that port. It is most likely > you! That is, when you exit your program the socket stays open for a > w

Re: Wild backup Idea

>Can I do from linux partion "dd if=/dev/hda of=hda.img" and then put it >back with "dd if=hda.img of=/dev/hda" ? Yes. -- believing is seeing [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.forum2.org/gaal/ = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PR

Re: Wild backup Idea

On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 05:37:13PM +0200, I wrote: > >Can I do from linux partion "dd if=/dev/hda of=hda.img" and then put > > it back with "dd if=hda.img of=/dev/hda" ? > > Yes. What I forgot to write, though, was this: /dev/hda is of course your entire primary master IDE disk. If your first

Re: Why I should not use DHTML ?

On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 01:46:49PM +0200, Ben-Nes Michael wrote: > I sow DHTML tutorial and its fantastic, as i know its not new technology > so why its not rule the web with its amazing capabilities ? > > Probably something is not as described in the tutorial. In addition to all that has been

Re: TCP/IP performance tuning

Isaac, On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 10:03:23AM +0200, Isaac Aaron wrote: > Are there any variables/system values I can play with to improve TCP/IP > performance? > I have used a small utility (MTUSpeed) on Windows and it has substantially > increased network performance, especially when talking to no

Re: batch renaming

On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 08:30:41PM +0200, Ariel Biener wrote: > shell scripts, and doing: > > ls -1 *.for|awk -F"." '{print "mv "$0" "$1".f"}'|sh Won't work for filenames with more than one '.' in them: $ echo "example.what.for" | awk -F"." '{print "mv "$0" "$1".f"}' mv example.what.for exampl

2.2 kernels on slink

Hi! I've decided to give Debian a try and installed slink on one of the machines available to me. For various reasons I need a modern kernel and glibc (2.1) system, though, and though I looked a while for info about this, didn't find how to do this gracefully. I don't mind installing slightly les

Re: 2.2 kernels on slink

On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 05:16:03AM +0200, Omer wrote: > slink is glibc 2.0 nased system. You will have to upgrade 40% of system to > potato. find a fast link to the world, this is not a modem task... Okay :-) > if you are in doubt 'bout belleding edge, you probably don't want to have. > I did

Unable to create EXEC

Hi. I recently started getting this error from time to time in my /var/log/messages when attempting connection via pppd and chat: Mar 9 21:34:24 fortinbras chat[2313]: %% Unable to create EXEC - no memory or too many processes^M .and naturally, the connection fails. If I let the system "sit"

Re: Auto unmuting the sound (was: Auto starting the sound)

On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 10:45:29PM +0200, Noam Meltzer wrote: > Another question I asked in this previous thread was, how do I umute the > varius devices, automatically, and with the specific settings I want. > This question wasn't answered yet, and thats my question now. > I'll appriciate your h

Re: [OT] FreeBSD 4.0 stable is out!!!!

On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 06:31:06PM +0200, Udi Finkelstein wrote: > As for RedHat, as far as I remember, the X.2 were always the last version > before the (X+1).0 product... and were always the most stable. > IIRC, it was RedHat 5.0 which shipped with Kernel 2.0, and 6.0 shipped with > kernel 2.2 .

Re: dd

On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 11:48:10PM +0200, Richard Fiedler wrote: > I got a "BookPC" with an 810 motherboard now working. Before I screw it up I > thought I would back it up on a second 20G drive. The second drive is brand > new and has not be partitioned. > > Will > > dd if=/dev/hda bs=1024 of=/

Re: dd

On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 10:03:29AM +0200, Adi Stav wrote: > > You can use cp -a on each mounted filesystem (I used to advocate > > tar|tar, but on new linux systems cp is even better[1]), and manually > > make the swap partition. > > Really? Is it because of the new Linux kernel or because of some

Re: Linux on notebooks, which one to buy?

On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 02:26:05PM +0200, Nathan Fain wrote: > I'm about to purchase a notebook computer for the sole purpose of putting > Linux on it. The Q is, which one will give me the least hassle (which is > something I just don't have the time for right now)? > > Sony (which I wanted to g

Re: dd

On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 01:24:15PM +0200, Adi Stav wrote: > > tar cf - . | (cd /target ; tar xvf -) > > You can also use the -C flag to specify the directory (I don't know if > it's GNU-specific) to make it easier: > > tar cf - -C sourcedir | tar xvf - -C targetdir Oh, that's ugly :-) > >

Re: dd

On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 10:21:20PM +0200, Adi Stav wrote: [netcat] netcat is a great tool, and can be used for all sorts of creative things. > > > > The degree by which you could trust cat or cp is unknown to me. In > > > > these cases, I still use dd for something else than in vi > > > > > >

Re: HOW can i get user ID

On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 02:26:14AM +0200, guy keren wrote: > > HI everybody, > > Can anybody tell me how can i get the usrid of the user when new user log > > in to the linux system.. and how can i set the messege for him for first > > time only. The messenge should not come when he login second

kerneli

Hi! I'm not following lkml. Could anyone who is say why aren't the international and mainstream kernel trees being merged? (Or perhaps they are, but it'll take some time?) Thanks! -- believing is seeing [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.forum2.org/gaal/

chat/pppd problems

Hello. [I wrote about this a while ago, but didn't get a response. This time the symptom is similar but slightly different.] When attempting to dial my ISP with a chat script, I get: Apr 2 21:54:01 fortinbras chat[360]: %% Low on memory; try again later^M right after the modem's CONNECT, and

Re: Few questions

On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 08:34:04AM +0200, Alex Shnitman wrote: > > *Real* programmers use > > cat > a.out > No way, /real/ programmers use > zcat > a.out > 'cause you can type faster that way. > -- from a Slashdot discussion ! [...] Guess I'll have to revise my Real Programmer pe

title

Hi. ==snip== #!/bin/sh # A trivial, but bloody useful utility when using xterms. # Save as /usr/local/bin/title or something. # by <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. GPL. t=$* if [ "$t" = "" ]; then t=`whoami`@`hostname` fi /bin/echo -n -e "\033];$t\007" ==snip== -- believing is seeing [EMAIL PROTE

Re: title

On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 08:02:07PM +0200, "captaiKeep messages which have arrived within the pastn"@isdn.net.il [Jeez, long name!] wrote: > OK, here comes a question. I've been looking at all those screenshots of > cool people, with those color eterms and stuff. How do I set the text > color? Y

Re: redhat 6.2 (fwd)

On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 08:26:32PM +0200, Chen Shapira wrote: > > > Real men don't need hotwos. > > Real Programmers read the binary and patch it (using cat) to support > whatever command they feel like using. > > Who-needs-howto-when-you-have-source-code-ly yours, dd to the rescue! (dd

Re: Creating web server

On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 08:28:24AM +0200, Moshe Zadka wrote: > > Quoth Moshe Zadka on Sat, Apr 15, 2000: > > > 2. Type "python -c 'from SimpleHTTPServer import*;test()'" > 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890 > 1 2 3

Re: Future Linux-il activities

On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 05:16:31PM +0200, Chen Shapira wrote: > Other than that - I'm now moving my energies and activities to a new list I > just opened: hackers-il. > > The list will ideally be expert programmers, free software bigots, and open > minded individuals. Zen tendencies and Science F

Re: per-user per-ip pop3 access

On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 11:55:50PM +0300, Ira Abramov wrote: > > I want to have a pop3 server that will allow most users to only access > > from the local network, but to allow a small group of users to also read > > mail from all over the internet. > > using tcpserver from Dan Bernstein you can

Re: Needed: new cellcom SMS script

On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 02:55:42AM +0200, Udi Finkelstein wrote: > Actually, I've reimplemented it because I was tired of installing all the Perl > packages needed for the program to work. Instead I've used the w3c utility to > do all the POST/GET methods, or even used lynx. To all of you who a

Re: Needed: new cellcom SMS script

On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 10:34:12AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have trouble updating my perl modules > anyone has ALL of them in RPM format ? > (I can find each of them somewhere but they do not match ...) You really want to use Perl's mechanisms for packages more than RPM. What ki

Re: Needed: new cellcom SMS script

On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 07:35:59AM +0300, I hastily wrote: > To all of you who aren't sure they have the required modules installed, > doing: > > perl -MCPAN -e 'install qw(Digest-MD5 MIME-Base64 libnet >HTML-Parser URI libwww-perl)' > > should help :-)

Re: Should it scare us ?

On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 04:49:28PM +0200, Iftach Hyams wrote: > http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/guide/server/solutions/interix.asp Should it scare us? I don't know. Although they profess to have ported "over 300 utilities and tools which behave exactly as they would on other UNIX-based syste

Re: OT: Main Frame on Ebay.com

On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 07:52:15PM +, alex khalil wrote: > >this guy is sell S390 MF computer, and many other part. > >he is willing to send this to israel, and someone has already reserved it > >for 1000$. [...] > If you have to choose between paying the electricity bill for your > air co

Re: OFF TOPIC OFF TOPIC OFF TOPIC OFF TOPIC

Mike, On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 11:29:17PM +0200, Mike Almogy wrote: > I just opened a mailing list for PERL at : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Feel free to subscribe. Is there a charter available for this list? How is it to be any different from the existing Israel.pm ( http://israel.pm.org/ )? Gaal (All

Re: Consider banning KDE?

On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 11:45:56PM +0300, Ira Abramov wrote: > Gnome are also a long way from a friendly GUI (I'm using the latest from > Helix), but it's not as restrictive. can't explain it in words, but > Gnome is more intuitive and flowing for me. Yalla yalla. Go tvtwm! -- believing is se

Re: Connecting a console.

On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 09:35:47PM +0300, Nimrod S. Carmi wrote: > > the VT should just be set to the same line speed and soft flow control, > > remember to cross the serial cable because both computer and terminal > > are DTE, so a modem cable won't do. simple 1-1, 2-3, 3-2, 7-7 should be > > fin

Re: Connecting a console.

On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 08:39:05PM +0300, Schlomo Schapiro wrote: > PS: If you get to use it, try to run programs like mc. on my VT is just > goes into a frency and starts to print only ?. Seems like there is a > problem with the escape characters. The same happens under screen, > btw. and I real

Re: Remote Access of Root

On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 02:56:26PM +0300, Richard Fiedler wrote: > I have Mandrake 7.1 up and running and for maintenance purposes I want to > log on remotely as root for telnet and ftp from another system. > > Right now this seems to be defeated by the system. Can I change this? To allow root t

Re: Is apropos a shell script on your (non Debian) machine?

On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 11:40:48AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: > The TkMan Makefile claims that with Linux apropos is a shell script. > This is not the case with my Debian Linux. > I tend to think that it is also an ELF executable on other distros. > Before mailing the author about it I would like to

SSH and Debian

I need ssh1 functionality. Am I right that there is no official SSH or SSH clone for Debian? Are there contributed .deb's lying about somewhere that I just hadn't noticed? Has anyone used these successfully? Where are they? Thanks. -- believing is seeing [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.forum2.or

Locking packages from dselect

When using deselect, by default the upgrade list gets updated with newer version of stuff (that is, if I use the unstable tree and do apt-get update once in a while). This is generally a Good Thing, but has one very annoying flaw: the kernel. I use a custom built kernel and module set, plus pcmcia

fbset to other VTs

Hi, has anyone figured out how to change fb settings to VTs other than the current one? Specifically: - how can I change fb setting for VT #x while not "on" it? (either when I'm on another VT, or when I'm connected through the network or an xterm -- or even a script) - how can a default fb s

Re: Mostly Apache some Sniffit

On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 04:20:44AM +0200, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo wrote: > JOO>> Yes, but with a lap top loaded with a sniffer connected to > JOO>> your network their is really no way to detect this, or to > > That's what I was saying - there is a way to detect promiscous interfaces > (rea

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