RE: Getting weird errors on /proc

2003-01-22 Thread Uzi Refaeli
try lsof (lsof -p 4724) the process and look at your ~/.bashrc file could be some little kid cracked your box (maybe installed a torjan 'su'!) without being careful. UziRefaeli D e v e l o p e r D o t o m i www.dotomi.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Amit Ma

Re: question about RPM dependancy

2003-01-22 Thread shlomo solomon
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 09:33, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > glibc = 2.2.5 is needed by locales-2.3.1.3-7mdk > > glibc = 2.2.5-16mdk is needed by glibc-devel-2.2.5-16mdk > > > > The question is, can I safely disregard this or do I have to upgrade > > those packages too. And if so, where does it end

Re: question about RPM dependancy

2003-01-22 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
> Thanks for your answer. You confirmed my fears about upgrading glibc. But > that leaves 2 questions. > > 1 - why aren't these libraries backward compatible? Well, basically it should, but I've seen too many cases that it's not. Add to that the fact that it was compiled with GCC 3.2 (my guess, I

Re: question about RPM dependancy

2003-01-22 Thread Shachar Shemesh
shlomo solomon wrote: 1 - why aren't these libraries backward compatible? They are not exactly not backwards compatible. Usually when a library siezes to be backwards compatible, you change a major number (so you get glibc4 instead of glibc3), which means that they should be installable side

Re: question about RPM dependancy

2003-01-22 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > > Thanks for your answer. You confirmed my fears about upgrading glibc. But > > that leaves 2 questions. > > > > 1 - why aren't these libraries backward compatible? They are backward-compatible, but not forward compatible. > > Well, basically it should

Re: question about RPM dependancy

2003-01-22 Thread shlomo solomon
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 11:45, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > shlomo solomon wrote: > >1 - why aren't these libraries backward compatible? > > They are not exactly not backwards compatible. Usually when a library > siezes to be backwards compatible, you change a major number (so you get > glibc4 ins

Re: X grp switching - how do I subtract?

2003-01-22 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003, Tzafrir Cohen wrote about "Re: X grp switching - how do I subtract?": > > xprop -root _XKB_RULES_NAMES > > (man xprop for the rest) > > How do I set it? Try removing it (xprop -root -remove _XKB_RULES_NAMES) and then setting it with the setxkbmap command. Note that I d

Re[2]: OT: Revolution Vs Reform

2003-01-22 Thread Evgeny Stambulchik
Vadim Vygonets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoth Evgeny Stambulchik on Tue, Jan 21, 2003: > > Hmm, depends what is a "revolutionary". Either > > > > a) an author/follower/supporter of a revolutionary idea/theory > > > > or > > > > b) a person who implements an idea by "revolutionary" (r

Re: X grp switching - how do I subtract?

2003-01-22 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003, Tzafrir Cohen wrote about "Re: X grp switching - how do I >subtract?": > > > xprop -root _XKB_RULES_NAMES > > > (man xprop for the rest) > > > > How do I set it? > > Try removing it (xprop -root -remove _XKB_RULES_NAMES) and then

Re: news from MySQL

2003-01-22 Thread Ben-Nes Michael
Indeed good news though they have long way till they match with postgres. and postgres still has a long way till they match with oracle. My choice and recommendation: PostgreSQL. I might choose mysql for building really simple sites with simple queries -- Canaan Surfing L

RE: news from MySQL

2003-01-22 Thread Alon Weinstein
> Indeed good news though they have long way till they match > with postgres. > > and postgres still has a long way till they match with oracle. > > My choice and recommendation: PostgreSQL. > > I might choose mysql for building really simple sites with > simple queries Does PostgreSQL match

Re: question about RPM dependancy

2003-01-22 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, shlomo solomon wrote: > On Wednesday 22 January 2003 11:45, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > shlomo solomon wrote: > > >1 - why aren't these libraries backward compatible? > > > > They are not exactly not backwards compatible. Usually when a library > > siezes to be backwards compat

Re: X grp switching - how do I subtract?

2003-01-22 Thread Oron Peled
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 02:25:50 +0200 (IST) Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I set it? > $ xprop -set _XKB_RULES_NAMES 'something' -root > xprop: error: unsupported conversion for _XKB_RULES_NAMES Looks like it's harder than expected: xprop -root -f _XKB_RULES_NAMES 8s -set _

Re: news from MySQL

2003-01-22 Thread Eli Marmor
Ben-Nes Michael wrote: > > Indeed good news though they have long way till they match with postgres. > > and postgres still has a long way till they match with oracle. PostgreSQL also has a long way till matching with MySQL's popularity. > My choice and recommendation: PostgreSQL. Agreed. By

RE: news from MySQL

2003-01-22 Thread Boulgakov Andrei
Title: RE: news from MySQL > -Original Message- > From: Eli Marmor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]   > By the way: What is the list's recommendation for a database for a > dictionary?  (i.e. zillion records; English words are the keys; 99% of > the activity is search and read and almost n

Re: Booting with something else instead of /sbin/init

2003-01-22 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2003-01-22 Michael Sternberg wrote: > > Hello > I'm trying to make kernel to start a different > application instead of /sbin/init. So, I passing > init=/bin/sh in kernel command line. I actually > can see this setting in messages emitted by kernel. > But from some reason the kernel starts a r

Re: news from MySQL

2003-01-22 Thread Eli Marmor
Boulgakov Andrei wrote: > > By the way: What is the list's recommendation for a database for a > > dictionary? (i.e. zillion records; English words are the keys; 99% of > > the activity is search and read and almost no update activity; When > > matching texts against the DB, the length is not kno

Re: news from MySQL

2003-01-22 Thread Oleg Kobets
> And a similar question: If I have a collection of hundreds (simple) > regular expressions, and want to find all the matches of them in a long > free text, is there any Open Source library for this purpose? (like > flex, but without generating C code + compilation to machine code; Just > a functi

Re: news from MySQL

2003-01-22 Thread Eli Marmor
Oleg Kobets wrote: > > > And a similar question: If I have a collection of hundreds (simple) > > regular expressions, and want to find all the matches of them in a long > > free text, is there any Open Source library for this purpose? (like > > flex, but without generating C code + compilation to

Re: news from MySQL

2003-01-22 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Eli Marmor, from the post of Wed, 22 Jan: > > > By the way: What is the list's recommendation for a database for a > > > dictionary? (i.e. zillion records; English words are the keys; 99% of > > > > Berkeley DB? > > Actually, the records are stored currently in Berkeley DB... > :-) > >

Re: Getting weird errors on /proc

2003-01-22 Thread Amit Margalit
Hi, First, it's not always the same process. So 4724 can (and does) change between su attempts. I noticed that this is happening to me only on text-mode logins. If I telnet to my machine from another machine and then su, it won't happen. The fd/15 part is always the same. I tried to run strace

OT: U.S visa issues

2003-01-22 Thread Amir Tal
this is WAY OT, but i thought i should share this with this list, because i know there are people here that travel to the united states from time to time, not always for work purposes. i am STILL in Israel. i was planned to departure more then a month ago, and it seems that leaving the country

dictionary [was: Re: news from MySQL]

2003-01-22 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Eli Marmor wrote: > By the way: What is the list's recommendation for a database for a > dictionary? (i.e. zillion records; English words are the keys; 99% of > the activity is search and read and almost no update activity; When > matching texts against the DB, the length is

Re: Getting weird errors on /proc

2003-01-22 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Amit Margalit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > First, it's not always the same process. So 4724 can (and does) change > between su attempts. Not the same process or not the same PID? I am absolutely sure it is not 4724 all the time. > I noticed that this is happening to me only on text-mod

Re: news from MySQL

2003-01-22 Thread Eli Marmor
Ira Abramov wrote: > not a free solution, but look at CDB from DJB: > > http://cr.yp.to/cdb.html :-) Last answers (yours and Tzafrir's) are getting more and more closer to my purpose, so I guess that my original question was not phrased well, and my last post helped to make it clearer. I saw st

Re: Getting weird errors on /proc

2003-01-22 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: I tried to run strace (I wonder how I forgot about it in the first place), but it seems it never allows me to su root with strace. I keep getting 'Incorrect Password'. I am missing something here. You are not trying to "su root", you are trying to "su - amit". I can s

Re: question about RPM dependancy

2003-01-22 Thread shlomo solomon
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 13:40, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > As I indicated in my previous answer, you needed to upgrade other parts of > the glibc "master package" itself (locales and glibc-devel). It is broken > into sub-packages to allow you to install only some of them (e.g: not all > everybody i

RE: news from MySQL

2003-01-22 Thread Boulgakov Andrei
Title: RE: news from MySQL > -Original Message- > From: Eli Marmor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 1:10 PM > To: Linux-IL > Subject: Re: news from MySQL > > My question was confusing, so I want to add the following: > > I'm talking about in-memory dat

Re: Getting weird errors on /proc

2003-01-22 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I believe you will find that amit is not running as root. That's the point. His OP looked like he *was* running as root and tried to su as a regular user. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ==

More printing problems -- HP OfficeJet G85

2003-01-22 Thread Alon Weinstein
Hello. I'm having trouble installing an HP OfficeJet G85 printer (I don't need its fax/scan capabilities to work for now). I followed the installation instructions in hpoj.sf.net -- the HP OfficeJet linux driver project, and the installation went OK according to the tests. I'm using CUPS -- I adde

Re: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers

2003-01-22 Thread Shoshannah Forbes
On Tuesday, Jan 21, 2003, at 14:13 Asia/Jerusalem, Gabor Szabo wrote: Thinking it about a bit more I disagree with the term 'blacklisting'. I'd prefer the bug reporting notion. Well, then the Middle-East tech evangelism component in bugzilla is your friend. Short URL: http://snurl.com/mpw (or

Re: Getting weird errors on /proc

2003-01-22 Thread Amit Margalit
Hi, On 22 Jan 2003, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > Not the same process or not the same PID? I am absolutely sure it is > not 4724 all the time. Right. I don't know what the image begin run is. I tried strace but it seems that it doesn't happen on non-console windows (more specifically, it happens to

Re: Getting weird errors on /proc

2003-01-22 Thread Amit Margalit
Hi, Yes. My attempt that asked for the password was when I reversed things. Thanks for the explanation on strace, Shachar. Amit On 22 Jan 2003, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I believe you will find that amit is not running as root. > > That'

Re: news from MySQL

2003-01-22 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003, Eli Marmor wrote about "Re: news from MySQL": > > Of course. Use perl. It is perfect for such things and as you probably know > > has a very strong regexps :-) >.. > > In my original post, I also mentioned the critical need for efficiency. > > Perl (including compiled Perl),

Re: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers

2003-01-22 Thread Shoshannah Forbes
On Tuesday, Jan 21, 2003, at 15:17 Asia/Jerusalem, Boulgakov Andrei wrote: Where can I read about those standards? All your questions answered: http://www.webstandards.org/learn/ AFAIK, NS4 and NS6 has different DOM (I do not mention about DOM of other browsers;-), what standards say about i

Re: news from MySQL

2003-01-22 Thread Eli Marmor
Nadav Har'El wrote: > Kernigan and Pike in their relatively-new book "The Practice of programming" > give an example very similar to yours, as an example of choosing good > algorithms. Their example involves a spam filter, which takes a given > message and needs to check whether a large number of

Re: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers

2003-01-22 Thread Ely Levy
That reminds me, a lot of universaties and other education instatues uses a program called high learning by britanica, the pages this program produce doesn't always work with anything else beside ie, I think they should appear somewhere high in the list.. Ely Levy System group Hebrew University J

Re: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers

2003-01-22 Thread Ely Levy
I think you guys are looking at it from the wrong way it has nothing to do with linux, it has to do with standarts it doesn't matter if some weird browser can show the site, it has to do with official or big companies sites which serve the public should follow w3c standarts, then you can offer them

Re: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers

2003-01-22 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Shoshannah Forbes, from the post of Wed, 22 Jan: > >I'm adore lynx. Am I fit into standards? > > If the site is built well, it should degrade gracefully. Lynx is not > 100% standard compliant, but standard sites work better with it then > non- standard ones. I'm not sure how much better

Re: linux at schools

2003-01-22 Thread Ely Levy
It might be a good solution at first step, but for that we need an insider with access to those programs to check Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Ira Abramov wrote: > > >Quoting Ely Levy, from the post of Sun, 19 Jan: > > >

Re: linux at schools

2003-01-22 Thread Ely Levy
The act of making a program approve for use in school by MoE and the biocracy of being complient to the teaching program making matach have a very nice advantage Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Oron Peled wrote: > On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 18:59:45 +0200

Re: news from MySQL

2003-01-22 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003, Eli Marmor wrote about "Re: news from MySQL": > > Kernigan and Pike in their relatively-new book "The Practice of programming" > > give an example very similar to yours, as an example of choosing good > > On behalf of Amazon, I want to thank you for the reference! :) This bo

Re: news from MySQL

2003-01-22 Thread Oron Peled
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 12:22:09 +0200 Eli Marmor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By the way: What is the list's recommendation for a database for a > dictionary? (i.e. zillion records; English words are the keys; 99% of > the activity is search and read and almost no update activity; When > matching tex

Re: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers

2003-01-22 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Ira Abramov wrote: > Quoting Shoshannah Forbes, from the post of Wed, 22 Jan: > > >I'm adore lynx. Am I fit into standards? > > > > If the site is built well, it should degrade gracefully. Lynx is not > > 100% standard compliant, but standard sites work better with it then > >

RE: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers

2003-01-22 Thread Ely Levy
CSS is a standart HTML is a standart as well as XML see www.w3c.org Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Boulgakov Andrei wrote: > > > > > Later - rewrite the site based on standards. > > > Where can I read about those standards? > AFAIK, NS4 and NS6 ha

Re: OT: Revolution Vs Reform

2003-01-22 Thread Vadim Vygonets
Quoth Evgeny Stambulchik on Wed, Jan 22, 2003: > Vadim Vygonets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Quoth Evgeny Stambulchik on Tue, Jan 21, 2003: > > > Hmm, depends what is a "revolutionary". Either > > > > > > a) an author/follower/supporter of a revolutionary idea/theory > > > > > > or > > >

spam mail filter

2003-01-22 Thread erez
hi I am looking for a good mail filter to filter all the spam mail i get anyone has experiance with one ? cheers, erez. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run th

Re: Getting weird errors on /proc

2003-01-22 Thread Amit Margalit
Hi, Well, I am home now, in front of the text-mode console, and I tried to run strace su - amit inside of 'script', but this means that my tty is /dev/pts/ and I don't get the error... So I ran it without, and below is the captured output. Any help would be welcome. Thanks, Amit strace lo

Re: spam mail filter

2003-01-22 Thread Amit Margalit
Hi, I use a combination of SpamAssassin and Razor. Very good. SpamAssassin: http://spamassassin.org Razor:http://www.vipul.net and http://razor.sourceforge.net I might post a short intro on how to set this up if there is enough demand. Amit On Wed, 22 Jan

Re: Booting with something else instead of /sbin/init

2003-01-22 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 23:04, Michael Sternberg wrote: > Hello > I'm trying to make kernel to start a different > application instead of /sbin/init. So, I passing > init=/bin/sh in kernel command line. I actually > can see this setting in messages emitted by kernel. > But from some reason the kernel

Re: Getting weird errors on /proc

2003-01-22 Thread guy keren
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Amit Margalit wrote: > Well, I am home now, in front of the text-mode console, and I tried to run > strace su - amit inside of 'script', but this means that my tty is > /dev/pts/ and I don't get the error... > So I ran it without, and below is the captured output. > Any help

Re: Getting weird errors on /proc

2003-01-22 Thread Amit Margalit
Hi, Comments below... On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, guy keren wrote: > can you show the output of the commands 'ls -l /dev/tty' and 'tty' (before > running 'su -') - and then run 'ls -l' for the tty this last command > showed you? [root@galadriel ~]# ls -l /dev/tty crw-rw-rw-1 root root 5,

Microsoft's advantages

2003-01-22 Thread Amir Tal
how typical for them to take advantage of the ignorance of some unexperienced readers, and come out with something like "we are not talking to our costumers anymore about the disadvantages of linux, we are focusing our arguments about our advantages over it". :) http://www.whatsup.org.il/artic

Re: news from MySQL

2003-01-22 Thread Daniel Vainsencher
Hi everybody. Been lurking for a while, nice to meet you all. How simple is simple? If it's as simple as fragments of words, and your text is really long, and doesn't change, you'll want to index the text in advance, to speed the searches. For this case, suffix trees or suffix arrays are very fas

Re: spam mail filter

2003-01-22 Thread Ishai Parasol
> Hi, > > I use a combination of SpamAssassin and Razor. Very good. > > SpamAssassin: http://spamassassin.org > Razor:http://www.vipul.net and > http://razor.sourceforge.net > > I might post a short intro on how to set this up if there is enough > demand. > > Ami

general purpose linux kernel

2003-01-22 Thread Miki Lewinger
Hi there. I have a COMPAQ EVO 800 running mandrake 8.2 with the vanilla kernel 2.4.18-6, that does not support USB 2.0, but all the rest of the functions of the machine (including an enhanced commercial X-server from XIG) work perfectly. The preferred kernel version for USB 2.0 being 2.4.19 or