[Haifux] SOLVED: USB caused RH 7.3 to hang

2003-06-15 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello again, I have previously reported that connecting a webcam to a USB port caused Linux RH 7.3 to hang (in the kernel sense, total freeze). This was previously worked around by disabling the USB 2.0 option, thus giving up some good transfer speed. We're talking about a 845PE - based Intel

[Haifux] Mail forwarded from old address

2003-06-15 Thread orrd
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Jun 15 14:42:14 2003 Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 25068 invoked from network); 15 Jun 2003 14:42:14 - Received: from cs.haifa.ac.il (132.74.120.2) by vipe.technion.ac.il with SMTP; 15 Jun 2003 14:42:14 -

Re: [Haifux] Mail forwarded from old address

2003-06-15 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about [Haifux] Mail forwarded from old address: A new server will soon be installed in a lab at the Technion. It will run GNU/Linux. As I am supposed to list things to be installed/configured on this server, I would like to use the experience of

[Haifux] Re: SOLVED: Slow Linux response during disk operations (was: Testing on various computers needed)

2003-06-15 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 09:01:07PM +0300, Beni Cherniavsky wrote: the system gets completely stuck for a few seconds. Increasing the number increases the stuck time. Isn't a unix suppossed to protect users from such DOS attacks in some way (just checked, executing it from another user has

Re: [Haifux] Mail forwarded from old address

2003-06-15 Thread Orna Agmon
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Sun, Jun 15, 2003, Orna Agmon wrote about Re: [Haifux] Mail forwarded from old address: If you choose the custom installation, or pick packages (development stuff etc.), you will leave certain things behind. Usually I found that I need to

Re: [Haifux] Mail forwarded from old address

2003-06-15 Thread Shlomo Yona
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, Nadav Har'El wrote: Shlomo, I suggest that if you have a decent-sized disk (8GB), you simply tell these guys: take a distribution (my personal favorite is Redhat 8 or 9, but pick whatever you like) and install EVERYTHING. Disk space is not a problem. This monster should

Re: [Haifux] Mail forwarded from old address

2003-06-15 Thread Shlomo Yona
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, Orna Agmon wrote: Also, make sure you install ivrix (based on elatex), lyx and hspell (on the writing front) xv and xfig (on the graphics front). I think most of these do not come with RH. Can you suggest the proper packages? I've looked around and it looks very