Re: File size reporting

2001-04-04 Thread Max Kovgan
hi..jenya. > I would like to get a total file size reporting for multy-level > directory > structure, like right click-> Properties in Windows. > > Note, i don't need a disk usage ( du -sk ), just total file size. try: [else@where]#du -smL it will give u the size in megs. or [else@where]#du -

Re: ddd question (gdb graphic front-end)

2001-11-14 Thread Max Kovgan
another problem with attaching to a child process can be: until the process is born it has no PID .. and to predict a PID may not be possible. -=O0~~O0=- "Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The

Re: ddd question (gdb graphic front-end)

2001-11-14 Thread Max Kovgan
another idea .. trap or signal for awakening the child after its birth. after forking - sleep until you send external intervention, in order to begin execution and examination ... etc. -=O0~~O0=- "Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catc

console fonts editing/remapping question.

2001-11-15 Thread Max Kovgan
hello! i'm using 972.cp font with unimap of 8859-8 encoding. it is a nice font, but for unknown reason the "kuf" letter is mapped to a bitmap of "right-arrow" can somebody help me find the lost "kuf" ? i've already tried other fonts from kbd package and their mapping is correct, but this 972 is th

Re: Bezeq's ADSL and FreeBSD

2001-11-17 Thread Max Kovgan
i did. just enable the neccessary features in the kernel (maybe recompile) and use mulix patch. -=O0~~O0=- "Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!"

Re: mount problems with kernel 2.4.X

2001-11-20 Thread Max Kovgan
i've tried to do what you said: it's Linux 2.4.9 and reserfs. undercat# mount --verbose /tmp mount: /dev/hda8 already mounted or /tmp busy mount: according to mtab, /dev/hda8 is already mounted on /tmp it is your particular kernel and/or filesystem and/or mount utility that is failing Max.

Re: ADSL problems (is it just me?)

2001-11-21 Thread Max Kovgan
when i tried to connect my friend's box with ADSL the connection died many times (5-6 months ago). this fact made me loose very much time on trying to debug what i did wrong. after every call to Bezeq they replied "we have a little temporarily problem" and that the solution deadline is indefinite.

[OT] RE: ADSL problems (is it just us?)

2001-11-22 Thread Max Kovgan
i think that there is a little problem in solving the "nezek" problem in our country. so yes, there's an unknown number of incompetent tech supporters who work for this company and "bend" under pressure of the clients, and do give some kind of compensation for the nezek they provide. but actually

Re: Can't see Hebrew fonts in KDE 2.1.1

2001-11-25 Thread Max Kovgan
this thing is covered by the instructions in hebrew kde2: besides what you did u need to choose the unicode encoding (10646-1), and choose fonts with this encoding (misc-fixed or clearyu) u better add hebrew fonts - truetype and others e.g. tahoma fonts, elmar fonts. good luck. -=O0~~

Re: C program segfaults when run, not under GDB

2001-11-25 Thread Max Kovgan
this line: if (factor!=0) s1[c1]=s1[c1+factor]; tries to see behind the s1's end after the index (length_of_s1 - factor) is reached. this causes SIGSEG it's not nice to ask people to debug your own homework :)) bye -=O0~~O0=- "Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The j

Re: C program segfaults when run, not under GDB

2001-11-25 Thread Max Kovgan
der this snippet, which produces a SIGSEGV as well: > > void foo(char s[]){ > s[0] = 'b'; > } > > int main() > { > foo("a"); > return 0; > } > > On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, Max Kovgan wrote: > > > this line: > > if (fac

Re: ISA modem configuration

2001-11-28 Thread Max Kovgan
aviv, please note that kppp and the rest are just GUIs, so they don't actually change anything except some init scripts for the connection, your modem probably has the jumper to turn pnp off, but even if it's not, and you don't have any other pnp devices, you can simply tell BIOS that your OS is n

Re: linux over win9x

2001-11-28 Thread Max Kovgan
hi there's a big program called VMWare, it allows you to virtually boot anything bootable, as long as it's bootable enough. another "solution" is "lin4win" and another solution is simply fool installation. what is a purpose of "trying" a very limited version of OS if you want to try it ? another

Re: Linux compatible modem

2001-11-28 Thread Max Kovgan
if you're into analog modem, the best solution is a hardware modem (there's plenty of v.90 supporting hardware modems) as for the "software modems" - just refer to the site about "linmodem" (google search) and see what has the warmest replies. choose simply the modems that are supported by the lat

Re: a cfdisk usage question.

2001-11-29 Thread Max Kovgan
you can use the same tool (cfdisk) or fdisk. change the partition type to FAT32 (it's only an entry in some table) and then format it with the proper mkfs ciao. max -=O0~O0=- "He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought -

Re: ftp://iglu.actcom.co.il

2001-11-30 Thread Max Kovgan
-=O0~O0=- "He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought - So rested he by the Tumtum tree. And stood awhile in thought." [L.Carrol "Jabberwacky"] On 30 Nov 2001, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: > On Thu, 2001

Re: checking the functioning of an ipchains module

2001-11-30 Thread Max Kovgan
the modules should be avail. in lsmod besides you can check if it's functioning by network analysis: try to connect to/from a forbidden area, and see it doesn't work try to connect to/from an allowed area - an see it works. besides there's logging. bye -=O0

Re: how to edit /etc/fstab

2001-12-03 Thread Max Kovgan
use one of the many editors that are available in your box: vi or emacs or pico or vim read the manual before you use the editors, because it maybe will be not so intuitive to use them. good luck. -=O0~O0=- "He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time

Re: ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/mirror/GNU and Konqueror

2001-12-03 Thread Max Kovgan
check your proxy settings. probably there's difference between the FTP proxy settings in Netscape and Konqueror. byebye -=O0~O0=- "He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought - So rested he by the Tumtum tree. And stoo

SBLive 4 output

2001-12-03 Thread Max Kovgan
i remember somebody posted about this issue, and had no reply. i've not fully read this link, but there's some info for all the interested: http://how.to/sblive it's linux SBLive page. bye. -=O0~O0=- "He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manx

Re: Explanation for how to edit /etc/fstab

2001-12-03 Thread Max Kovgan
Dear Salih Bicakci! i am sincerely sorry for the feelings you have, but israelis are extremely sarcastic and ironic creatures. this has nothing to do with linux. we are like this because of: strange life facts [reality that bites, if you know what i mean], bad manners,ignorance,nerve,inconcide

Re: Making linux look harder than it is, Response

2001-12-10 Thread Max Kovgan
I think that principally if you need your PC/other computer do what you want, you need an OS that can provide you most control. for now the Linux/unix GUI front-ends of all the programs are usually "skins" and actually use utilities - command line utilities. these utilities are the essence of unix

Re: cron question

2001-12-16 Thread Max Kovgan
anacron -=O0~O0=- "He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought - So rested he by the Tumtum tree. And stood awhile in thought." [L.Carrol "Jabberwacky"] On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, Ishai Parasol wrote: > H

Re: cron question

2001-12-16 Thread Max Kovgan
another thing ... you have cron.hourly when you run it, check with a counter if this is a 3rd hour - if so - run it, and set the counter to 1 , if not, increment the counter and exit. -=O0~O0=- "He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome

Re: (OT) ISP's that don't allow relaying

2001-12-16 Thread Max Kovgan
-=O0~O0=- "He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought - So rested he by the Tumtum tree. And stood awhile in thought." [L.Carrol "Jabberwacky"] On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, Refael Ackermann wrote: > I'm usi

Re: Writing hebrew documents

2001-12-20 Thread Max Kovgan
if you simply need to write text files - use vi/vim for word-like word processor - use KOfiice with biditext patch. if you need to write hebrew text with many formulae, simply use the good old Latex, and then compress it into postscript. if you want to create compatibile *.doc files - use Koffice.

Re: Samba

2002-01-09 Thread Max Kovgan
please read my comments below... -=O0~O0=- "He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought - So rested he by the Tumtum tree. And stood awhile in thought." [L.Carrol "Jabberwacky"] On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, ta

Re: StarOffice - Israeli mirror? RPM?

2002-01-09 Thread Max Kovgan
hi, Star Office a.f.a.i.k. is Sun's distribution. so the best way is to go to www.sun.com and navigate. it is not distributed as RPM, but a regular compressed elf binary: *.bin, you simply can read the instructions in sun's site. besides, there's other wing of star office named "Open Office", whi

Re: forward on command line

2002-01-16 Thread Max Kovgan
it sometimes is done via .forward too. -=O0~O0=- "He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought - So rested he by the Tumtum tree. And stood awhile in thought." [L.Carrol "Jabberwacky"] On Wed, 16 Jan

Re: XFree86 4.1.99.6

2002-01-20 Thread Max Kovgan
i hope you did not to forget to support PCMCIA or something like that ... -=O0~O0=- "He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought - So rested he by the Tumtum tree. And stood awhile in thought." [L.Ca

Re: XFree86 4.1.99.6

2002-01-20 Thread Max Kovgan
here comes the enlightenment . . . -=O0~O0=- "He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought - So rested he by the Tumtum tree. And stood awhile in thought." [L.Carrol "Jabberwacky"] On Sun, 20 Jan 2002,

[FU]kernel mem use -> user cpu/mem/proc. stack etc. usage limitations

2002-01-21 Thread Max Kovgan
hello! can somebody also point me to answers to this subject? i mean how do i exactly limit users in: 1) % of CPU usage 2) in memory usage, 3) in number of processes the user can create [it must be something with process stack size] 4) number of open files ? thanks ! Max. -=O0~~~

Re: Seagate Barracuda.

2002-01-22 Thread Max Kovgan
-=O0~O0=- "He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought - So rested he by the Tumtum tree. And stood awhile in thought." [L.Carrol "Jabberwacky"] On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Maxim Kryachko wrote: > Hi list. >

Re: can't get the mouse wheel to work

2002-01-23 Thread Max Kovgan
-=O0~O0=- "He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought - So rested he by the Tumtum tree. And stood awhile in thought." [L.Carrol "Jabberwacky"] On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Ariel Biener wrote: > > > Plea

Re: can not remove file

2002-02-07 Thread Max Kovgan
maybe it's in use: try: lsof maybe it's immutable: lsattr, chattr bye -=O0~O0=- "He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought - So rested he by the Tumtum tree. And stood awhile in thought." [L.Carrol

strange fatal error

2002-02-08 Thread Max Kovgan
hello people! i've had a strange error. after recompilation of the kernel 2.4.17 [for riva tnt2,agpgart support] i had a few X locks ...after which i had to reset, after these i had bad blocks, maintanence mode, fsck etc. after that i tried to log from a console as my reular user, but had "zsh: fa

Re: Sharing a printer with samba

2002-02-19 Thread Max Kovgan
can you be more specific about your: samba version, smb.conf dump, your general printing configuration ? thanks Max. -=O0~O0=- "He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought - So rested he by the Tumtum tree. And stoo

Re: Wheel mouse and Mandrake-8.1

2002-02-19 Thread Max Kovgan
thiere are a few options in the protocol sections: 1) PS/2 2) imPS/2 3) MouseManPlusPS/2 and of course don't forget to add ZAxisMapping thingie... good luck! Max. -=O0~O0=- "He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought - So

Re: X Forwarding question

2002-02-21 Thread Max Kovgan
-=O0~O0=- "He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought - So rested he by the Tumtum tree. And stood awhile in thought." [L.Carrol "Jabberwacky"] On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > > This shou

Re: Forms? DB?

2002-02-21 Thread Max Kovgan
-=O0~O0=- "He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought - So rested he by the Tumtum tree. And stood awhile in thought." [L.Carrol "Jabberwacky"] On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Amichai Rotman wrote: > Hi Gang, >

Re: Run Level 5

2002-03-05 Thread Max Kovgan
-=O0~O0=- "He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought - So rested he by the Tumtum tree. And stood awhile in thought." [L.Carrol "Jabberwacky"] On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Christoph Bugel wrote: > > [1] "run