Re: ypbind problem

2000-01-12 Thread Ury Segal
Alexander Goldberg wrote: run 'nisdomain' on client machine make sure you're using the same nisdomain as ypserver uses Att! It's not nessesary your real domain, you mai call it "BLAH" for example. also check that on client machine you have domain 'YOUR NISDOMAIN NAME' server

Exim unable to deliver to root

2000-01-12 Thread Ohad M. Somjen
hi, i cannot mail root since i get the following error. [snip] T=local_delivery defer (13): Permission denied: failed to chdir to /root [snip] exim runs as mail:mail [from exim.conf] exim_user = mail exim_group = mail i guess this should not be the normal situation. should i add mail to

makezones w2k bug ?

2000-01-12 Thread Alon Barzilai
im using makezones script for a long time. today I noticed it give me strange errors, and the serial number is wrong too. does anyone knows something about it ? Alon. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word

makezones w2k bug ?

2000-01-12 Thread Alon Barzilai
im using makezones script for a long time. today I noticed it give me strange errors, and the serial number is wrong too. does anyone knows something about it ? Alon. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word

ncftp y2k bugged

2000-01-12 Thread Ohad M. Somjen
hi, today i d/l some files that have today's date, ie 12.11.2000 but got them with dates in 21.03.2009 [ohad@ohad ohad]$ ncftp --version NcFTP 3.0.0 beta 19 (June 11, 1999) by Mike Gleason. now i see that this is a beta version, does anyone knows if there is a production version. Cheers,

Re: ncftp y2k bugged

2000-01-12 Thread Moran
Hi, We using here ncftp on regular base few times during one day. We haven't had any problem such this. Moran Zavdi. -Original Message- From: Ohad M. Somjen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: éåí øáéòé 12 éðåàø 2000 17:30 Subject: ncftp y2k bugged hi,

Re: ncftp y2k bugged

2000-01-12 Thread Ohad M. Somjen
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Moran wrote: Hi, We using here ncftp on regular base few times during one day. what version do you use??? i did the transfer from: SunOS techst02.technion.ac.il 5.6 Generic_105181-16 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-250 to: Linux xxx.zzz.org 2.2.13 #4 Thu Dec 9 16:59:15 IST 1999

Re: Linux-IL meeting

2000-01-12 Thread Ira Abramov
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Chen Shapira wrote: Ira mentioned 4.2 as a meeting day. yap, we agreed on first friday of each month. There's a LinuxExpo and LinuxWorld conferences approximatly the same date. (I'm going to LinuxWorld in NY, if anyone else here will attend, perhaps we can try to

Re: Celebrities talk

2000-01-12 Thread Ira Abramov
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Chen Shapira wrote: BTW. The Cincinaty LUG managed to get RMS (!) to speak at one of their meetings. the IGLU managed to get more than 10 people to come to a lecture! if each can bring $100 to the next meeting, we can get RMS to fly over! If the celebrities won't

Re: makezones w2k bug ?

2000-01-12 Thread Ira Abramov
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Alon Barzilai wrote: im using makezones script for a long time. today I noticed it give me strange errors, and the serial number is wrong too. I don't know of such a standards script in any of the linux distros I use, where did you get it? -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58

RE: Linux-IL meeting

2000-01-12 Thread Chen Shapira
sure! who's paying for the tickets and who'll take my semestrial tests for me while I'm gone? :-) Most people here should be able to convince managment to pay for this business related trip or you can use the money you got from the RedHat / VALinux IPO :-) But it is pretty expansive as

Re: ncftp y2k bugged

2000-01-12 Thread Ely Levy
maybe it cause sun4 isn't y2k compatible? Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Ohad M. Somjen wrote: | | On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Moran wrote: | | Hi, | We using here ncftp on regular base few times during one day. | | what version do you

Re: Exim unable to deliver to root

2000-01-12 Thread Ira Abramov
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Ohad M. Somjen wrote: [snip] T=local_delivery defer (13): Permission denied: failed to chdir to /root [snip] exim runs as mail:mail like any sane MTA should (read: sendmail not included) i guess this should not be the normal situation. guess again. I never read

Re: Exim unable to deliver to root

2000-01-12 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
Hey Ohad, I see no reason why Exim should try to deliver mail right to the root's home directory, unless you used some Exim filters of course. Correctly, it should only append the mail to /var/spool/mail/root (or wherever is the mailspool dir) which has owner "root" and group "mail". Then, the

Linux expos and anti-MS demos

2000-01-12 Thread Ira Abramov
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Chen Shapira wrote: sure! who's paying for the tickets and who'll take my semestrial tests for me while I'm gone? :-) Most people here should be able to convince managment to pay for this business related trip or you can use the money you got from the RedHat /

RE: Celebrities talk

2000-01-12 Thread Chen Shapira
the IGLU managed to get more than 10 people to come to a lecture! if each can bring $100 to the next meeting, we can get RMS to fly over! You think 10 people will pay? I marvel at your optimism. You should know better, considering the fact that you have some experience in getting Linux-IL

Re: makezones w2k bug ?

2000-01-12 Thread Alon Barzilai
hello, I got this script from netvision support a long time ago, not from the linux distribution. it makes things easier when writing zone files. ftp://ftp.cus.cam.ac.uk:/pub/software/programs/DNS/makezones well I looked there again and found a newer version which works. the script is written

Re: Celebrities talk

2000-01-12 Thread Shaul Karl
Can you be a bit more specific about who RMS and ESR are? BTW. The Cincinaty LUG managed to get RMS (!) to speak at one of their meetings. I think we should also start trying to get celebrities to talk to us :-) Any ideas how it can work on the logistic side? flying celebrities is

Re: Celebrities talk

2000-01-12 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can you be a bit more specific about who RMS and ESR are? RMS is the standard mathematical abbreviation for Root Mean Square, as in "root mean square error." ESR is the standard physical abbreviation for Electron Spin Resonance. Other info can be found on

Re: Celebrities talk

2000-01-12 Thread Ira Abramov
On 12 Jan 2000, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Can you be a bit more specific about who RMS and ESR are? RMS is the standard mathematical abbreviation for Root Mean Square, as in "root mean square error." ESR is the standard physical abbreviation for Electron Spin Resonance. Uber khokhem... :-)

Re: Celebrities talk

2000-01-12 Thread Eli Marmor
Chen Shapira wrote: The Cincinaty LUG managed to get RMS (!) to speak at one of their meetings. I think we should also start trying to get celebrities to talk to us :-) Any ideas how it can work on the logistic side? flying celebrities is costly... maybe we can get a company to fund

RE: Celebrities talk

2000-01-12 Thread Chen Shapira
I must admit that I didn't have technical lectures in mind (although RMS's technical lectures are supposed to be very very good, after all, he is a Good hacker) Neither did I think of the advocacy value (although I do think lots of linux people should hear about free software, morals and

job offer

2000-01-12 Thread David Lee Sabes
Yoram, My point is that you have sent the email multiple times over the course of a very short time. The email list is very large, and many messages are posted each day. It is very annoying to be sent the same message for the same job, by the same person - day after day. Once should

Re: job offer

2000-01-12 Thread Ury Segal
Well Yoram, now you can be 100% sure no one from here will want to work for you. Most Linux ( and other ) people I know would rather work with *nice*, *polite* people, you see. Your advice of "following the papers in the next few weeks" is dubiously illegal, BTW. But this is between you and

Re: job offer

2000-01-12 Thread Herouth Maoz
At 13:32 +0200 12/1/2000, Ury Segal wrote: Well Yoram, now you can be 100% sure no one from here will want to work for you. Most Linux ( and other ) people I know would rather work with *nice*, *polite* people, you see. Guys, can you please lower the blow torches? As far as I see it, Yoram

Re: hebrew filenames in vfat

2000-01-12 Thread Ely Levy
Are you using unicode fonts? if I remmber right windows uses unicode to save file names as well.. Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: | Hi all! | | This question has been asked here a while ago, but AFAIR it has not been |

Re: job offer

2000-01-12 Thread Ely Levy
Well politnes doesn't seem to be the strong side of some people.. but as now the list has very active admins maybe we should make them thier job to tell people about "breaking" the lists rules? and if neccery use mesures to prevent that from happening. I do suggest also puting global

Re: hebrew filenames in vfat

2000-01-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Where can I find unicode fonts? Anyway - the problem is not with what I see in this computer under linux. The problem is how to get those files to a different computer with windows. Anyone here has some experience with unicode filenames support of zip? tar? Or would it be best to use a windows

Re: Help. someone?

2000-01-12 Thread Shaul Karl
Hello, If I am not mistaken you were posting this message twice. I believe you also considered switching to BSD in the process. Although I can not help because I am using Debian I have the feeling that you are giving up too quickly. Something more helpful that I might add is that you

Looking For Linux Programers.

2000-01-12 Thread BeNJ
Hi... (I know that some people object to these kind of messages but i think that this is the perfect place.) I represent a company thats looking for Linux Programers that can create one or both of the following modules: 1) A module that can read all the ip packets passing through a LAN,

Re: Looking For Linux Programers.

2000-01-12 Thread Ira Abramov
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, BeNJ wrote: (I know that some people object to these kind of messages but i think that this is the perfect place.) the perfect place to send these job offers is [EMAIL PROTECTED] so the appointed (or volunteering) people can decide whether to forward it. 1) A module

Re: Help. someone?

2000-01-12 Thread Ohad M. Somjen
did you upgrade the boot disks ??? the first ones were very buggy. Ohad. i've being using slackware for some time but from some problams i've decided to check out RH, so i got RH 6.1 (thanx oded! ;) and i was facing with this install problam... i went for the Graphical

RE: Celebrities talk

2000-01-12 Thread Chen Shapira
-Original Message- From: Ira Abramov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 11:46 PM To: What do you want to do tommorow?; Israeli Group of Linux Users Subject: Re: Celebrities talk On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Ira Abramov wrote: for other newbies out there,

FW: January IVCUG Meeting

2000-01-12 Thread Chen Shapira
few points: 1. Note how well orginized and proffesional our window collegues are. 2. Should we visit them with laptops and distributaions? 3. Note that we have a much cooler name (not to mention a superior OS) 4. I think we should invite their UG to a programming challange. 5. I think we should

Re: ncftp y2k bugged

2000-01-12 Thread Moran
Hi, we using same version but on HP/UX ,AviioN and linux no SunOS but as Ely Levi said the problem might be on the SunOS so to make sure i suggest you to telnet to nether.net make yourself account and check it on thier system. Moran Zavdi -Original Message- From: Ohad M. Somjen [EMAIL

Linux article in Red Herring

2000-01-12 Thread Ayal Sharon
Hi everyone, I am forwarding the today's issue of the "Red Eye", which is a mailing list of the Venture Capital magazine "Red Herring". Since it deals with the business side of Linux, I thought this might be of interest to some of you. The most important point is the quote at the very end:

Re: How to restrict users from serfing around my server via FTP.

2000-01-12 Thread Meir
FYI, there were some security warning on wu-ftp-'old-versions', one or two month ago. Upgrade to wu-ftp-2.6.0-something Sorry, but I don't know where to find it. hth -- Meir Mike wrote: Hi list. I just installed WU-FTPD 2.5.0 and have some problems with restriction of users. I add the

RE: How to restrict users from serfing around my server via FTP.

2000-01-12 Thread Chen Shapira
If you use RH you can get the patch in RPM from the errata page (the one with the security patches) Chen Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*", )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0J]dsJxp"|dc`

Re: How to restrict users from serfing around my server via FTP.

2000-01-12 Thread Mike
Hi. Let me explain several things... First of all, thanks to all those who reply to my question :-). Secound, I know how to do it in WU-FTPD with anonftp configuration, and it works ok. BUT !, the configuration can work in GOOD way only on little amount of users. this is becouse you need to copy