Re: [Haifux] Updates CD

2003-03-10 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
Already there. I'm looking for additional stuff. A copy of all of the Haifux lecture slides? :-) -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Haifux] Huge file with static linking

2003-03-06 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
u know for a fact that insmod.statis was compiled with -static? I was under the impression that strip does a good job even when using -static. Apparently, it doesn't. I'll think about it, and if anyone knows how to get the binary's size down after strip is done with it, do tell. -

Re: [Haifux] Huge file with static linking

2003-03-06 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
-x1 eli eli441940 Mar 6 21:05 hello* > [EMAIL PROTECTED] helloworld]$ You forgot to run strip(1). > Any suggestions of how to shrink this down to some normal size? strip(1). Anything beyond that requires assembly and careful massaging. > Thanks in advance, We aim to

[Haifux] Re: I had enough [was: Linux party!]

2003-03-06 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
rm neighbours, friends, rivals, journalists, journaled file > systems, etc. about the insta party. Don't forget linux-il and the various linux forums. -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Haifux] Some notes regarding the instaparty

2003-03-06 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
g for, and > Orr or Yuval should update me with. Do you (or any one else) have any problems with Hamakor (as represented by me and/or other board members) selling CDs and registering members during the instaparty? if yes, why? Thanks, Muli. -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org pgp

Re: [Haifux] CD Selling

2003-03-05 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
money. As for subscriptions, if the paperwork will be finished by then, we will definitely do it! -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Haifux] Some notes regarding the instaparty

2003-03-05 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
true that except for the staff of 234120, the rest of us are volunteering to help with this. That's why the installation party is open to everyone. -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Haifux] CDs for the party and more

2003-03-05 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
, we're doing this instaparty as a favor and a service to them. -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Haifux] My Modem, the Kernel and Me

2003-02-23 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 12:50:59AM +0200, guy keren wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 11:58:16AM +0200, Eli Billauer wrote: > > > > > original configuration, and noone was really sure. I don't think that

Re: [Haifux] My Modem, the Kernel and Me

2003-02-19 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
-( Actually, the problem of compiling modules "out of tree" is an acute problem, and it's usually broken in one or another way. Kernel hackers prefer for kernel source to be shipped with the kernel (or as a patch to the kernel source), and every module which doesn't is automatic

Re: [Haifux] My Modem, the Kernel and Me

2003-02-19 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 01:47:41PM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > In the worst case it is the full kernel comiplation tree . But are all of > those files really necessary? No. You need a .config, 'make oldconfig' and 'make dep' (in 2.4, it's obsolete in 2.5). That&#

Re: [Haifux] My Modem, the Kernel and Me

2003-02-19 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
their status. It's Open Source, but closed society. You > want to join it, fine, but you'll have to go through some acceptance > tests before you can do anything. No. You'll have to invest effort and show that you know what you are doing. Otherwise, just pay someone to do it for you. -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org http://syscalltrack.sf.net -- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Haifux] root kit lecture

2003-02-18 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
Shachar's lecture of yesterday was very interesting. One thing that I wish we had time to get into in sufficient details is the design, deployment, detection and analysis of Linux rootkits. Anyone wants to pick up the glove and prepare a lecture on the subject? -- Muli Ben-Yehuda

Re: [Haifux] My Modem, the Kernel and Me

2003-02-18 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
tely all questions are answered. Start with the top level Makefile and Rules.make, and follow what happens when you run 'make oldconfig; make dep'. -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org http://syscalltrack.sf.net --

Re: [Haifux] Lecture about "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" Series

2003-02-16 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
r. 28 open. Lecturer will be from IBM, and topic is TBA. -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org http://syscalltrack.sf.net -- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Haifux] Aviram Jenik on Network Security

2003-02-07 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
eless networks. The course will also discuss the future of wireless security and the upcoming technologies in the field. -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org http://syscalltrack.sf.net -- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List

[Haifux] Re: OT: PROG question: regarding returning errors in libraries

2003-02-07 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
and take appropriate action). > Another thing for general purpose library writers: never, under any > circumstances, abort! Always percolate return codes to the Amen! HIH indeed, Muli. -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org http://syscalltrack.sf.net --

[Haifux] Re: OT: PROG question: regarding returning errors in libraries

2003-02-07 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
do, etc. I really dislike the ERR_PTR and PTR_ERR macros mentioned above. If I was rewriting the kernel, I would probably make all those places pass the pointer by reference and return an int. -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org http://syscalltrack.sf.net -- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Haifux] ANN: syscalltrack 0.82 "Minty Chinchilla" released

2003-02-05 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
but if it breaks something, you get to keep all of the pieces. * PGP Signature All syscalltrack releases from now on will be signed. This release is signed with my pgp public key, which you can get from http://www.mulix.org/pubkey.asc or via 'gpg --keyserver wwwkeys

Re: [Haifux] monday's after-meeting

2003-01-31 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:43:50AM +0200, Orna Agmon wrote: > On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > > > My requirements: > > > > Able to accomodate at least 10 people comfortably. > > Good food. > > Alcohol is nice, but optional. > > Located

[Haifux] monday's after-meeting

2003-01-31 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
ents: Able to accomodate at least 10 people comfortably. Good food. Alcohol is nice, but optional. Located in Haifa. Suggestions? -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org http://syscalltrack.sf.net -- Haifa Linux Club Mai

[Haifux] ANN: syscalltrack 0.81 "Cruel Ducky" released

2003-01-28 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
ule list via the device-file interface, etc. * Support for 'log_format' definition per rule, to override the global 'log_format'. * Initial correctness-testing script added. Currently only runs 2 tests - will become more functional on the next release. * Su

Re: [Haifux] Small question

2003-01-22 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
meet next. -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org -- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Haifux] This week Haifux meeting

2003-01-20 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 03:23:16PM +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 11:24:26AM +0200, Orr Dunkelman wrote: > > > > Next Monday (20/1/3), 18:30, Computer Science bldg. Technion (Taub) > > lecture room 6, Muli Ben Yehuda is going to talk abo

Re: [Haifux] This week Haifux meeting

2003-01-20 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 11:24:26AM +0200, Orr Dunkelman wrote: > > Next Monday (20/1/3), 18:30, Computer Science bldg. Technion (Taub) > lecture room 6, Muli Ben Yehuda is going to talk about Kernel > Hacking. Actually, I'm going to talk about Kernel Oopsing, which is like ker

[Haifux] Re: IBM Workshop with RMS and T'so in Tel-Aviv and Haifa

2002-12-18 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
and I don't know how open it is. -- Muli Ben-Yehuda "The speed of light really is too slow nowdays." -- Alan Cox -- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Haifux] IBM Workshop with RMS and T'so in Tel-Aviv and Haifa

2002-12-17 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
tp://www-5.ibm.com/il/news/events/gnulinux/ Nana story: http://net.nana.co.il/Article/?ArticleID=49331 [1] I work here, if you attend, don't forget to say hi! -- Muli Ben-Yehuda "The speed of light really is too slow n

Re: [Haifux] Summary of Summary of W2L

2002-11-28 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 11:02:43AM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Wed, Nov 27, 2002, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote about "[Haifux] Summary of Summary of >W2L": > > - In the Introduction lecture (#1), the format in general is good, but > > we need to be very strict about

[Haifux] Summary of Summary of W2L

2002-11-27 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
nofficial ending time. - For the networking lecture, the slides need to be updated. Give less weight to ppp and much more weight to cable/ADSL. Also, mention the networks in the Technion dormitories and how to connect to them. -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org

[Haifux] Re: emacs power usage(lecture idea)

2002-11-24 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
ns I seem to recall. > > > > Coffee. > > > > > > -- > Shlomi Fish[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Home Page: http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/ > > He who re-invents the wheel, un

Re: [Haifux] emacs power usage(lecture idea)

2002-11-24 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
trest you? Aye. > b) what should it contain? Cool Stuff(tm) one can do with emacs. > c) what would you like emacs to do for you? Coffee. -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sctrace s

[Haifux] ANN: syscalltrack 0.80 "Tanned Otter" released

2002-11-23 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
obal 'log_format'. * Initial correctness-testing script added. Currently only runs 2 tests - will become more functional on the next release. * Support for new system calls - waitpid, close and creat. major bug fixes for version 0.7: * Fixes for white-space parsing in 'sct_c

Re: [Haifux] Reruns and W2L feedback

2002-11-14 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 10:50:49PM +0200, Orna Agmon wrote: > On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > > > That will make it three meetings in three weeks... don't know about > > you, but I've been looking forward to one meeting every two weeks, > > with t

Re: [Haifux] Reruns and W2L feedback

2002-11-14 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
ow about you, but I've been looking forward to one meeting every two weeks, with time to rest in between. Also, we'd better do it while the lecture series experience is still "fresh". How about before 09/12? when can you make it? -- Muli Ben-Yehuda

[Haifux] feedback from the networking lecture

2002-11-14 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
"reach middle or high level" "work with linux in a LAN" 5 people were interested in ADSL, 5 in Cable, 4 in modems and one in LAN. Most people marked more than one category. -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sctrace stra

Re: [Haifux] Reruns and W2L feedback

2002-11-14 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
l addresses from the feedback forms for addition to the list? Feedback forms summary coming up soon. -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sctrace strace /bin/foo http://syscalltrack.sf

[Haifux] future lectures

2002-11-14 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
.6 (3.0) kernel" be of interest? -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sctrace strace /bin/foo http://syscalltrack.sf.net/ Quis custodes ipsos custodiet? http://w

[Haifux] Re: The Haifux Linux-Day 2003 - Impressions and summarize

2002-11-07 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
P kernel crashes during boot with 2.4.18 and 2.4.19 were solved by passing 'noapic' to the kernel during boot. 'single' and 'init=/bin/sh' are very useful as well. That's it, thanks to everyone who showed up, it was great fun. See you again next time! --

Re: [Haifux] Re: Linux distributions: A trivial issue?

2002-11-04 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
ple who don't know which distro to choose. I still maintain that to an epsilon, which distro you use is irrelevant, unless you have very specific needs. If we continue to discuss this subject, my only request is that people do their homework before- all too often, we have a tendency

Re: [Haifux] Re: Linux distributions: A trivial issue?

2002-11-04 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
he new technologies in RH 8.0, than about the difference between its desktop theme and mandrake's desktop them, which the discussion you're proposing will ultimately degrade into. IMHO, YMMV, Muli. -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$

[Haifux] assistant for networking lecture needed

2002-11-03 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
H^H^H^Hbasis. Thanks, Muli. -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sctrace strace /bin/foo http://syscalltrack.sf.net/ Quis custodes ipsos custodiet? http://www.mulix.org/cv

Re: [Haifux] Beowulf Lecture

2002-11-01 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
peakers, we've grown inbred lately ;-) -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sctrace strace /bin/foo http://syscalltrack.sf.net/ Quis custodes ipsos custodiet? http://ww

Re: [Haifux] to W2L(1) lecturers

2002-10-27 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 12:34:43AM +0200, Shlomi Loubaton wrote: > (tar's "z" flag in t2 doesn't work ??) t2 isn't Linux, it's SunOS. Either use tar cvf - files | gzip -c - > file.tar.gz or use /usr/local/gnu/bin/tar -- Muli Ben-Yehuda

Re: [Haifux] to W2L(1) lecturers

2002-10-27 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
hat kernel hacking means if you don't know what's a kernel (and most of the audience won't). -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sctrace strace /bin/foo http:

[Haifux] definitive time for meeting tomorrow

2002-10-20 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
Will someone please enlighten me exactly what time the Haifux meeting is tomorrow, and what's on the agenda? Much obliged, Muli. -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sctrace strace /bin/foo http://syscalltrack.sf.net/

Re: [Haifux] assistants for lectures needed

2002-10-19 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
ary with "The Installation Process", "Basic Admin", "Devel Tools for Linux", and Tzafrir volunteered for assisting with any lecture necessary (if memory serves - Shlomi, Tzafrir, please correct me otherwise). It would be nice if we could get two more assista

[Haifux] assistants for lectures needed

2002-10-05 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
know if you want to volunteer. Lecturers can volunteer as well (hint, hint). -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sctrace strace /bin/foo http://syscalltrack.sf.net/ Quis custodes ipsos custodiet? msg00172/pgp0.pgp Description

[Haifux] basic use lecturers

2002-10-05 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
e), let me know. Thanks, Muli. -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sctrace strace /bin/foo http://syscalltrack.sf.net/ Quis custodes ipsos custodiet? msg00171/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

[Haifux] hebrew lecture(r) for w2l needed

2002-10-05 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
lides from last year? -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sctrace strace /bin/foo http://syscalltrack.sf.net/ Quis custodes ipsos custodiet? msg00170/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

[Haifux] intro to networking, lecture #5

2002-09-29 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
ge the LAN section, including masquerading and firewalls? -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sctrace strace /bin/foo http://syscalltrack.sf.net/ Quis custodes ipsos custodiet? msg00152/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

[Haifux] Re: Events responsibilities (fwd)

2002-08-27 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 07:41:10AM +0300, Orna Agmon wrote: > > Yesterday we divided most of the responsibilities for lectures and events > for w2l. > There is a lot of room to fill yourself in and help out. > > Muli is coordinating the events. > For each event, we have/need a coordinator as