security/firewall on Linux desktop at home - connection to the Intenet

2017-07-31 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hi, Linux-il, My question is about securing the Internet access from a Linux Desktop(at home) to the Internet via ISP ; my setup is quite old: Dlink BR-6504N (IEEE802.11b/g/n) wireless router which is connected to ADSL bezeq device (in my case it is quite old - DSL 2500U), but the question is *in

Re: Question about Linux installation and selecting a language

2015-01-12 Thread Dan Shimshoni
that American English will be available there ? regards, Dan On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 9:19 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org wrote: Dan Shimshoni danshi...@gmail.com writes: I had installed Fedora 21 on x86_64 (server, and with kde). When installation started, I selected the language

Question about Linux installation and selecting a language

2015-01-05 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hi, Linux-IL, I had installed Fedora 21 on x86_64 (server, and with kde). When installation started, I selected the language as british english and not American English. Now when I log in and press some keys, I get unwanted results. For example, when pressing @ I get the character. Now with

Detecting whether a network interface is an SRIOV nic

2014-05-27 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hi, Is there a way to detecting whether a network interface is an SRIOV nic in a given machine (by some userspace command )? To be more specific: I know of course that you can find the name of the driver and google for its feature, but is there some userspace tool which can check it ? Regards,

Linux on Haswell

2013-06-20 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hello, I am thinking to buy a Haswell machine. Does anyone has any experience with Linux on Haswell? Can he/she describe which distro was installed? and were there any issues with it ? Thought it seems that there should be no problems, I saw some threads about people who encountered critical

Re: SSD drives

2012-12-31 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hi, (Second bricked SSD in 12 months) A *very* short power shortage crept under my APC UPS and bricked the SSD. I wonder: did bricked SSD problem happened to anyone else reading this message? And a question: I don't know much about UPS and electricity, but would a protector like the following

Re: SSD drives

2012-12-30 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Lior, - Can you please specify vendor and model of your SSD drive ? second - which File System do you have on it ? DS On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Lior Okman l...@okman.name wrote: On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 6:26 AM, Dan Shimshoni danshi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, 2 Questions about SSD

Re: SSD drives

2012-12-30 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Thanks! Which File System do you have on your SSD, if I may ask ? DS On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 8:46 AM, shimi linux...@shimi.net wrote: On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 6:26 AM, Dan Shimshoni danshi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, 2 Questions about SSD drives: First, I would appreciate of someone who

SSD drives

2012-12-29 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hi, 2 Questions about SSD drives: First, I would appreciate of someone who has SSD disk will run hdparm -t /dev/sda and post the results here. (In the spirit of the recent thread about HW for linux). I have /dev/sda: Timing buffered disk reads: 586 MB in 3.01 seconds = 194.68 MB/sec And it

Re: Home made NAS

2012-12-05 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hello, Nadav, Instead, I decided to buy a 2-terabyte WD My Book Live for $160. For this price, I got both the 2TB hard-disk and a tiny (ARM- based server in one package. What do you mean by ARM-based server here ? I don't sure I understand. Does this product include some tiny ARM server? Do you

Question about process states, ps and GDB

2012-12-02 Thread Dan Shimshoni
hello, I have a question about process states: I have this simplified code which I run under gdb. #include stdio.h int main() { int i; for(i=0; i 10; i++) printf(Hello, world!\n); pause(); return 0; } I build on x86_64 (fedora 17) with gcc -g hello.c -o hello. And then: gdb --quiet

USB Mug Warmer [OT]

2012-08-18 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hi, Did anyone have a real experience with Mug Warmer USB gadget? I mean, except for the fun of it, did anybody try to heat and drink tea with it ? It seems to me that it does not get higher temperatures than 40-50 Celsssius ? is it good enough? just for example, Satzuma USB Mug Warmer,

Jedit and hebrew

2012-06-22 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hi, linux il, Until recently I had used JEdit editor (http://www.jedit.org/) on Linux with a stable version (4.2 final) and hebrew worked perfectly out of the box, without installing any plugin. I had installed to a new version of Jedit - 4.5.2 (this is a stable version). There are hebrew

Creating a partion with mkfs.ntfs and not seeing it in windows 7 - why ?

2012-03-03 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hi, I create a partition in Linux (on a dual boot Fedora/windows 7 machine) by mkfs.ntfs /dev/sda6 The operation succeeded ok. I can see the NTFS partition in linux by fdisk -l. However, when I booted into windows 7 on this machine I could not see that partition in windows explorer nor in disk

Re: Universal docking station and Linux

2011-08-29 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hi, You might be better of with just a high quality self powered USB hub. Kensington makes a nice 7 port one, and BUG sells them for under 200 NIS. Well, I thought about it. Yet it seems to me that putting the laptop in a docking station is much more comfortable than each time to connect a

Universal docking station and Linux

2011-08-28 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hi, I want to buy a Universal docking station which should work with two (or more) laptops which both have dual-boot Linux/Windows on them. One is Lenovo, the other is Dell. I had found many such solutions; one which seems suitable and in reasonable price is: Level one UDS-1000 USB 2.0

August penguin 2011

2011-07-23 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hi, According to: http://wiki.hamakor.org.il/index.php/ entrance is by paying to PayPal. question: will it be possible to but a ticket by cash at that day ? The advantages of PayPal are clear; still, there are some who don't have a PayPal account. regards, DS

sending mail from the command line

2011-05-10 Thread Dan Shimshoni
I am trying this from a Linux machine which is connected to the internet via PPPoE ( for the test, no firewall): mail -s test danshi...@gmail.com /dev/null and also this mail -s test danshi...@gmail.com enter add some text enter ctrl-d I don't get any mail in danshi...@gmail.com. What is

Re: sending mail from the command line

2011-05-10 Thread Dan Shimshoni
know what to do with it and wont even be able to tell you. Start by looking at /var/log/maillog (for Sendmail installations) or /var/log/mail.log (commonly used in Postfix installations). Hag Sameach,  - yba On Tue, 10 May 2011, Dan Shimshoni wrote: Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 14:17:15 +0300

Using two same shared libs

2011-04-02 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hi, For development and debugging needs I created my own version of libpam.so.0. I want to run my application with this verson of libpam.so.0. However, I don't want to replace /lib64/libpam.so.0 with the libpam.so.0 I created, since it is from a dirrenet release of libpam, and it will probably

Re: Suggested lecture: From VxWorks to Linux

2010-12-01 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hi, I don't know much about preempt RT; I assume that you are suggesting to give this lecture at Herzelinux ; in case this is the case, this should be a great idea! rgs, Dan 2010/12/1 Raz razi...@gmail.com: Gilad Shalom I have prepared few papers and a session about Linux Preempt RT. 1.

rdesktop question ( using Linux in a windows environment.)

2010-11-27 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hi, linux-il, This question might seem a bit not related to Linux; However, it is a real problem which I face daily as a result of that I am trying to use Linux in a windows environment. So I hope you can advice. The problem description: I am using Linux station in a company which is

Re: Wireless connection to a remote station

2010-06-05 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hi, Moish and thanks for your answer. By definition, you just need to connect the repeater to power and that's it. I would like to be sure that I got you right: 1) Didn't you made any setup (via the web interface) to the router you term the repeater ? 2) Did you connect the wireless router

Wireless connection to a remote station

2010-06-04 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hello, This is a bit uncommon question: - I have a PC running linux in a basement which is quite far from the Access Point of the house. I want to take advantage of this place to work and to be able to connect to the Internet from this PC in this quite corner. I cannot see the wireless Access

ntpdate and Israel local time

2010-05-27 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hello, On my desktop at home, when I want to to update the local time (I live in israel) I run: ntpdate -s ntpserver.huji.ac.il And it work OK. However, there is a server at my work place which I am responsible for. When I run: ntpdate -s ntpserver.huji.ac.il it sets the time to 7 hours earlier

Re: GPRS modem for embedded Linux

2010-04-24 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hi, - In which stores this modem sold in stores ? ? I grepped for EZ10 in zap.co.il and found no such devices see http://www.zap.co.il/search.aspx?keyword=EZ10 rgs, DS 2010/4/23 Noam Koren noa...@shani.net: On 22/4/10 2:36 PM, Constantine Shulyupin wrote: Hi, Can anybody recommend GPRS

Re: WAN connection through a Linux machine

2010-04-20 Thread Dan Shimshoni
. You should run both these commands (I will not disclose how you make it apply after-reboot for now) 1. echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward 2. iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE Don't forget to set correct DNS on your host B Ez On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Dan Shimshoni

Re: WAN connection through a Linux machine

2010-04-20 Thread Dan Shimshoni
shachar, I googled for MSS Squashing. Got 0 results! What is this MSS Squashing? and how is it related to this issue? rgs, DS On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz wrote: Etzion Bar-Noy wrote: Oops - and now with reply-all... Hi. You should run both these

Re: WAN connection through a Linux machine

2010-04-20 Thread Dan Shimshoni
? (remember, I cannot use this iptables clamp-mss-to-pmtuoption as in this scenario in fact I do not use iptables at all). Second, ifconfig ppp0 shows that the mtu is 1492. DS On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz wrote: Dan Shimshoni wrote: shachar, I googled

WAN connection through a Linux machine

2010-04-19 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hello, First, I don't know much about iptables. Second, I have a Linux machine (A) with two nics, which is connected to the Internet via Bezeq ADSL router. This machines runs a pppoe connection to the intenet, so the connection is done via ppp0. On eth1 I have an inner IP address which I set

Re: [OT] Looking to purchase a used SCSI HD

2009-10-16 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hi, Out of pure curiosity, this thread reminded about this issue: Is the RPM metric of a typical SCSI disk is higher than a typical IDE/SATA disk (I did not encounter yet an IDE/SATA disks in stores here with RPM which is higher than 7200). Regards, Dan On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 6:47 PM,

Re: Attempt to buy a Linux-compatible Bluetooth dongle

2009-07-28 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hi, Just a little question: is this Acer a 64 bit machine ? or 32 bit machine ? 2009/7/28 Nitzan Brumer nitz...@gmail.com: I bought the LVT-010 bluetooth dongle for my acer one. I use it with Ubuntu 8.10 and it works great out of the box. no problem there.

Building 32 bit (Intel X86) kernel module on a 64 bit (Intel x86_64) machine

2009-07-14 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hello, I want to build an Intel x86 32 bit kernel module on Intel x86_64 machine (64 bit) running Linux. My goal is to prepare a module on a 64 bit machine, so that I can insmod this module on a 32 bit machine successfully (and don't tell me that I can build the module on a 32 bit machine. I of

Re: Building 32 bit (Intel X86) kernel module on a 64 bit (Intel x86_64) machine

2009-07-14 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hi, either in a virtual machine I would prefer doing this without virtualization. google debootstrap I am on Fedora machine Kernel modules will very often only work against the exact kernel version for which they were compiled. You're in for redoing the work if you upgrade the kernel on the

A simple question about hebrew in terminal

2009-06-24 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hello, I have support in hebrew on my Linux desktop (Fedora 10). I can switch to hebrew with the keyboard indicator and it works. Say I want to perform a simple operation in terminal: rename a file named a.txt to קובץ.txt I type: mv a.txt and then, when I type: ק and then ו and then ב and then

Re: A simple question about hebrew in terminal

2009-06-24 Thread Dan Shimshoni
and if you show it in a BiDi aware application (say, konqueror or whatever file explorer you use), it will show properly. It is true that if I try to browse the contents of this directory with mozilla for example, it shows indeed : File:קובץ.a However, when I try to look at the contents of that

Re: OT: Bezeqint made me poof... he's gone

2009-06-10 Thread Dan Shimshoni
hello, i guess i'll modify the site for a new URL and upload a new version over the weekend. in fact, i think i would better buy my own domain finally and move the site elsewhere. I believe it would be great and for the benefit of all to share tip and tricks lessons of building/upgrading a

Re: ot: isps

2009-04-23 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hi, Skype is a different issue since it communicate via port 80, though need a much more advance management tools to be filtered (what's called Traffic shaping). Are you sure about it ? What do you mean by that ?? Does Skype send the **Audio** in ***TCP*** port 80 ?! Can TCP do the job for VOIP

I don't want to do it under Windows ; please help

2009-03-24 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hello, Please help me to stay with Linux and not go back to Windows... I had stopped using windows about two years ago; though I have a dual boot , I almost did not boot into windows in the recent two years. I am very satisfied with Linux. Everything that I had in Windows I could get in Linux.

Re: xfone 018 phone service and Linux

2009-03-17 Thread Dan Shimshoni
In fact, there was an open GPL violation issue with them for quite some time. I believe it has been setteled about a year ago or so. Is there a specific source that has more concrete information on the GPL violations that they were accused of and how it was ended? Regards, Dan

Re: Windows-free laptop in Israel - possible after all

2009-03-02 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hi, - It is good to hear about it! - I urge everybody else who has a similar experience with buying Windows-free laptops in Israel with other stores to report in this mailing list. - I believe that the Linux users community in Israel has some power; and I believe that eventually this might

(A bit off-topic) chess via Skype in Linux. was: Re: Skype sound problems

2009-02-25 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hello, While we are @skype, I want to offtopic this : I heard that on windows you can play chess via Skype. I wonder: did anybody tried it successfully on Linux ? (and forgive me for this off-topic interrupt) Rgs, DS On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Noam Rathaus no...@beyondsecurity.com

detecting how many memory sticks(RAM) from command line

2008-12-28 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hello, Is there some command line in linux for detecting how many memory sticks(RAM) the machine has ? For example, suppose cat /proc/meminfo shows MemTotal: 960700 kB. Can I know whether it is one RAM stick , two RAM sticks , or more ? (without opening the box - this is not for

Re: un-head

2008-12-24 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hello, - And in the same fun spirit : Is it possible to delete a line in a specified file , given the number of the line, in a non-sed script ? DanS On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Oron Peled o...@actcom.co.il wrote: On Tuesday, 23 בDecember 2008, Erez D wrote: On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at

Re: un-head

2008-12-24 Thread Dan Shimshoni
wrote: Using trusty awk - awk -v line_num=5 '{if(NR == line_num){next;} print $0;}' file On 24-Dec-2008 13:34 , Dan Shimshoni wrote: Hello, - And in the same fun spirit : Is it possible to delete a line in a specified file , given the number of the line, in a non-sed script ? DanS

Re: [Haifux] Successful Windows Vista refund!!

2008-12-06 Thread Dan Shimshoni
. Regards, Dan On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Shachar Shemesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Shimshoni wrote: Zvi, - You are our Open Source hero of the week (or maybe of the year, or maybe decade!). Personally, I think the importance of windows refund reach far beyond the scope of using

Re: [Haifux] Successful Windows Vista refund!!

2008-12-05 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Zvi, - You are our Open Source hero of the week (or maybe of the year, or maybe decade!). Congratulations! I salute you! - I hereby call to anyone who bought a laptop without operating system on it or with only Linux on it to tell his/her story in this mailing list. I also call every one

Re: how do i rescan the pci bus ?

2008-07-10 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hi, Does the kernel support PCI hotplugging? What is the immediate way to know whether a kernel on a specific machine supports PCI hotplugging? 10x Dan On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 04:39:14PM +0300, Erez D wrote: hi i have

Connection reset by peer error

2008-07-01 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hello, I see sometimes on a server the following message in /var/log/messages Connection reset by peer... It is quite rare; usually, it appears where there is some problem on this server; however, I probed into the kernel sources, and found out that we have this definition in

Kernel Driver Statement

2008-06-25 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hi, linux-il, Some might find interest in this ynet item from today: http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3560153,00.html https://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Kernel_Driver_Statement DS = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL

Monitor activation of a process (by process name) - is it possible ?

2008-06-18 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hello, Is there a way to write an application/a kernel module which will notice when a process named xyz starts ? For example, I want to be able to notice when a user statrs a process named calc (by running calc, or whatever other unspecified command) and print this notification to a file (or to

Re: Looking for a recommendation for a book about Embedded LINUX

2008-06-03 Thread Dan Shimshoni
experience in reading... and not in writing... Great to hear that you took part in it. Dan On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Gilad Ben-Yossef [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Dan Shimshoni wrote: Hello, I am looking for a recommendation for a book about Embedded LINUX for beginners and intermediate

Looking for a recommendation for a book about Embedded LINUX

2008-06-02 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hello, I am looking for a recommendation for a book about Embedded LINUX for beginners and intermediate level. Except Linux Device Drivers (3rd edition), I found these titles as candidates (and there are more): 1) Essential Linux Device Drivers by Sreekrishnan Venkateswaran

AOE and iSCSI (software only)

2008-04-24 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hello, Linux-il gurus, I have to decide between two options of exporting block devices on a LAN (same subnet for clients and server) : one is with iSCSI target and iSCSI initiator. The second is with AOE. I am talking about using software tools only, not using special hardware. I had tested AOE

Re: brctl aborting?

2008-03-13 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Dan, - It could be that you encountered (or discovered) a kernel BUG with the locking mechansim of bridge devices. - What I would suggest is the following: - First, If you can give more details (kernel version / disto) it would help. - Second, if you can post this mailing list the

Checking from a kernel module the existence of a device file - is it possible ?

2008-02-19 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hi, Is there a way I can test, from a kernel module, the existence of a device file ? A kernel module I write is a character device module, which depends on getting ioctls. In order that it will work, mknod ... /dev/myDev should be issued before to create the device file. Is there a way to

Unreadable (pending) sectors in the kernel log

2008-02-07 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hello, I see in the kernel log every half an hour the following message generated by smartd: .. smartd[2202]: Device: /dev/hda, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors .. Does it says that I have a problem with my disk that may cause a disk crash ? I googled for this and there are so many

Re: [Haifux] [Haifux Lecture] User space syscall tracing andmanipulation - fakeroot-ng by Shachar Shemesh

2008-01-17 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Certainly ptrace has been used to both trace and modify running binaries, by gdb, strace, dumpmem[1], memfetch[2] and others. You forgot system call tracker hijacking. DS On Jan 17, 2008 1:08 PM, Muli Ben-Yehuda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 12:45:10PM +0200, Shachar

Re: Using only left alt+left shift key combination as a shortcut for switching between hebrew and english - is it possible ?

2007-12-31 Thread Dan Shimshoni
toggle between hebrew and english with the left alt-shift. Don't forget first to disable the bindings that you already did in GNOME or else GNOME will overridden your xorg settings. Thanks, Hetz On Dec 31, 2007 8:46 AM, Dan Shimshoni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am using hebrew

Re: Using only left alt+left shift key combination as a shortcut for switching between hebrew and english - is it possible ?

2007-12-31 Thread Dan Shimshoni
with ALT SHIFT between the languages in VNC session. Thanks, Hetz On Dec 31, 2007 1:59 PM, Dan Shimshoni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Hetz, may I ask: does this work for you ? I have FC8; First, I removed the keyboard switching checkbox in Gnome. than I tried changing: /etc/X11

Using only left alt+left shift key combination as a shortcut for switching between hebrew and english - is it possible ?

2007-12-30 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hello, I am using hebrew and English on FC8 with a GNOME desktop. I want to use only the left alt+shift key combination as a shortcut for switching between languages. I choose Alt+Shift to change layout and to toggle between hebrew and English. I did it by going to gnome panel-Keyboard

Re: using a wireless adsl modem/router as an access-point only?

2007-12-04 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hello, I am total newbie ob this, so my question may sound silly, but: You could make sure and buy a Linksys WRT54G-L router and run a Linux distro on it. Try Tomato www.polarcloud.com Suppose I have WRT54G-L route at home and it runs indeed LInux (because I heard there are versions of this

Re: [Job offer] Senior Kernel Engineer

2007-11-22 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Disclaimer: The following email should not be considered criticism of Michael Sternberg at large, the actual job offered, nor of the company offering the job. The entire criticism expressed here is directed at the phrasing of the actual email, and any inference about the person writing the mail,

Re: RDMA question

2007-11-20 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Goldshmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Shimshoni [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So the question is: On a principle level, suppose we will want to use RDMA instead for TCP between A and B. (with 1Gb). How much can using RDMA improve performance ? Does it worth it ? or should we think

RDMA question

2007-11-18 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hello, - There is a lot of talks and publications recently about gigabit/10 GB NICs which have RDMA capability. - As I understood, this NICs improve performance by enabling user space to user space connection, bypassing the kernel. - (I heard that also InfiniBand cards has this feature). -

Re: RDMA question

2007-11-18 Thread Dan Shimshoni
a good resource for this task (I saw some tutorial about RDMA API written by Roland Drier). Regards, Dan On Nov 18, 2007 6:56 PM, Muli Ben-Yehuda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Dan, On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 03:57:46PM +0200, Dan Shimshoni wrote: - My question is: does anybody have any

ADSL modem/router, routing protocols and the Linux kernel

2007-05-12 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hello, I am connected to the Internet through bezeq ; my modem/router is BFocus 312+ (ECI). I had performed telnet to the BFocus 312+ (telnet 10.0.0.138, Admin/Admin). It is a Linux-based machine, running 2.4.17-based kernel, as cat /proc/version shows (more precisely,

Re: Looking for a TCP accelerator card with Linux aupport

2007-03-05 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hi, And they have local offices in Nataniya. googling for siverback showed me: http://www.brocade.com/silverbackinformation.jsp which says that Silverback was aquired by brocade; and I could not find the Natanya office in the links in that page (contact us or intenational). Do you have any

Scanning program for linux

2007-02-28 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hello, I have an HP scanner 3200c ; I had tried using it both on linux and on windows. Currently the results on windows are really much better. For scanning in linux, I had used the Xsane frontend (http://www.xsane.org) for the SANE scanner interface. It could be that there are better scanning

Can this be possible (or BIOS api)

2007-01-21 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hello linux il , I had been playing with the idea of writing a small utility in C on linux which will enable me to change boot prioirity on a linux machine, so that I will be able to toggle the boot sequence (boot from CD/ not boot from CD). I mean the boot sequence which the BIOS saves in CMOS.

x86_64 and djvu firefox 2.0 plugin

2006-12-19 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hello, I tried a djvu plugin for firefox 2.0 on x86_64 and it did not work (on FC6). I mean that accessing a djvu doc from the firefox resulted with save/open with dialog instead of opening the doc. I am talking about the djvulibre plugin ( http://djvu.sourceforge.net) A plugin from this same

Tab Completion in GRUB on Fedora on x86_64 machines - does it work??

2006-10-31 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hello,I have an x86_64 machine with grub-0.95-13 and Fedora Core 4and an x86_64 machine with Fedora Core 6 with the default grub rpm.TAB completion does not work for me in both.What I do is , run grub from bash/tcsh terminal, enter the grub prompt (GRUB) and then press TAB. In fedora core i386

Dual boot solaris/linux machine : how to boot into solaris ?

2006-10-29 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hello linux gurus,I have installed a dual boot machine, where first linux was installed and then solaris. It was OK; solaris became the boot partition; I could boot solaris from linux and vice versa. Now on a different machine I tried the opposite - first solaris and then linux fedora core.I

Re: Dual boot solaris/linux machine : how to boot into solaris ?

2006-10-29 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Sacahr, Thanks ; yes, this is Intel x86_64 machine , sorry for not saying this explicitly ; (I did say Feodra Core and there is no FC yet on Sparc though there are other linux distros on Sparc like ubuntu). Theoretically, you can just copy the stage 1.5 UFS GRUB driver into yourLinux partition,

Nfs mounting and unmounting a machine on which a shutdown is performed later on

2006-10-09 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hello, In a thread from linux-il from about half a year a go , there was a discussion about nfs mounting to a machine (on which is afterewards there is a shut down). see: http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il/msg43493.htmlOne of the suggestions there was to use umount -f , and one

creating and mounting ufs Creating and mounting ufs filesystem on a loopback device on linux - a problem?

2006-09-26 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hello linux-il,First, running this series of actions (as many know) creates and mountsan ext3 filesystem on my linux machine:dd if=/dev/zero of=/test/disk-image count=10240mkfs -t ext3 /test/disk-image mount -o loop -t ext3 /test/disk-image /loopDirls /loopDir = gives lost+foundNow I tried the

Re: creating and mounting ufs Creating and mounting ufs filesystem on a loopback device on linux - a problem?

2006-09-26 Thread Dan Shimshoni
is less likely). The mkufs is part of an old package, the patch of Evgeniy is quite new (may 2006).Dan On 9/26/06, Yedidyah Bar-David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 03:47:28PM +0300, Dan Shimshoni wrote: Helllo, from man mount : Mount options for ufs ufstype=value

Re: creating and mounting ufs Creating and mounting ufs filesystem on a loopback device on linux - a problem?

2006-09-26 Thread Dan Shimshoni
to the mount command and got the same error.I also added the -r flag to the mount (read-only) and got the same error.Did anyone had success with this ? Regards,DANOn 9/26/06, Muli Ben-Yehuda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 02:56:10PM +0300, Dan Shimshoni wrote: mount -o loop -t ufs

Renaming a label in partition table

2006-06-12 Thread Dan Shimshoni
in /etc/fstab, I have: LABEL=/work1 /work1 ext3 defaults 1 2 When I installed FC4 , I had chosen manual partition, and selected /work1 as a mounting point for /dev/hda3; I have more partitions on this disk. (one of them is for the other OS). Is there a **safe** way to change the label /work1 to

Re: Renaming a label in partition table

2006-06-12 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hello, Yes, you are rigth, it did work ! thnks! DanOn 6/12/06, Ira Abramov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Dan Shimshoni, from the post of Mon, 12 Jun: in /etc/fstab, I have: LABEL=/work1/work1ext3defaults1 2 When I installed FC4 , I had chosen manual partition, and selected /work1 as a mounting

Linux Based Wireless Router

2006-05-31 Thread Dan Shimshoni
of this router are VxWorks based (how could they do that to us?...) I think that there is still something called WRT54GL wireless router, which is linux-based,but I don't think that it is sold anymore here at stores. TIA, Dan Shimshoni