Linuxers December 2001

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looking for reiser fs
by Sagar Sule 05 Dec '01

05 Dec '01

hi all, i am looking for reiser fs. i am made to believe that suse distro supports reiser fs. does anyone has the lates suse distro? can he lend me the cd's for a couple of hrs. or if he has a cd writer can he make copies of it? i will get the blank cd's. also i would like some pointers as to how to install reiser fs. is it different from other installations? thanx in advance regards sagar ===== When you have hit rock bottom, The only way you can go is UP! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Buy the perfect holiday gifts at Yahoo! Shopping. http://shopping.yahoo.com

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kernel.org says "patch-2.4.11-dontuse.tar.bz2",
by Rahul Saxena 04 Dec '01

04 Dec '01

hello there, i am in the process of patching my kernel. however the patch for 2.4.11 at kernel.org has dont-use appended to its name, y is that?? can i just patch 2.4.11 and then patch with 12 and so on and get away with it ? BTW all this while i wasnt able ot patch any thing because i realised recently, that i didnt have "patch" installed! duhh.. :-) -rahul __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Buy the perfect holiday gifts at Yahoo! Shopping. http://shopping.yahoo.com

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Linux v/s FreeBSD
by Bhushan Tiwari 04 Dec '01

04 Dec '01

http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1794/byt20011107s0001/1112_moshe.html -- ßhushån Tïwårï

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Reposting the Welcome Message!
by Nagarjuna G. 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

Reposting the Welcome message that contains posting guidelines. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to the GNU/Linux User Group of Bombay (ilug-bom)! Now that you are a member you can read and post mails to the group. The messages have to be related to propogating, using, trouble-shooting, bug-fixing, of GNU/Linux operating system. Feature comparision of other operating systems and distributions is allowed, but restrain from BASHING. GNU/Linux is possibly the most friendly operating system, and hence as users of the OS let us all maintain a FRIENDLY tone to our conversations on the list. YOU are the best judge to determine the relevance or irrelevance of your post to GNU/Linux, and therefore you are responsible for your postings. Since this is not a moderated list, please read the guidelines before posting mails to the list. The sole functioning of this list is based on the self disciplinary nature of its users. ILUG-Bom Mailing List participation Guidelines ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 1. Keep paragraphs and messages short and to the point. See that what you are writing is useful to the mailing list. If not, send it as a private message to the person. (Note that by default the mails go to the LIST) Please change the sender address appropriately before sending a personal mail. 2. When quoting another person, edit out whatever isn't directly applicable to your reply. Don't let your mailing software automatically quote the entire body of messages you are replying to when it's not necessary. Take the time to edit any quotations down to the minimum necessary to provide context for your reply. Nobody likes reading a long message in quotes for the third or fourth time, only to be followed by a one line response: "Yeah, me too." Messages larger than 10k will not be posted immediately. Such messages will need the list admins approval. 3. Focus on one subject per message and always include a pertinent subject title for the message, that way the user can locate the message quickly. Also please include a suitable header in case of Commercial / Offtopic mails. 4. Capitalize words only to highlight an important point or to distinguish a title or heading. Capitalizing whole words that are not titles is generally termed as SHOUTING! *Asterisks* surrounding a word can be used to make a stronger point. Use the underscore symbol before and after the title of a book, i.e. _Linux Configuration And Installation_ 5. Limit line length to approximately 65-70 characters and avoid control characters. 6. NEVER send chain letters to the mailing list. A mail simultaneously sent to more than 10 users will not reach the list. This is to eliminate possible spammers/bulk mailers to reach the list. 7. Be careful when using sarcasm and humor. Without face to face communications your joke may be viewed as criticism. When being humorous, use emoticons (smiley's) to express humor. (tilt your head to the left to see the emoticon smile) :-) = happy face for humor. 8. If a mail has offended you personally, please send a private message to the person expressing how you feel, instead of sending it to the mailing list. 9. Please remember that we have both male and female members. No gender abuse is allowed on the list, and do not include any gender specific slang in your posts. 10. Acronyms can be used to abbreviate when possible, however messages that are filled with acronyms can be confusing and annoying to the reader. Examples: IMHO = in my humble/honest opinion FYI = for your information BTW = by the way Flame = antagonistic criticism. http://www.jargon.org for more such acronymns. 11. Please provide URL's to articles wherever possible. Avoid cutting and pasting whole articles especially considering the fact that all may not be interested. In any case your posting maynot be more than 10k. Occassionally if you may have to send such a mail, post it, it will reach the members after the list admin approves it. 12. When using the mailing list for commercial purpose, please prefix the subject line with "COMMERCIAL". 13. Please *read all your mails before replying* to a mail. Probably someone has already answered to the mail. 14. Remember that most of the people are paying by the minute for their internet access. Hence please do not waste bandwidth. 15. Any violation to the above will be given a warning. 5 such warnings and the subscriber will be suspended from the mailing list for 15 days. Compiled by - (G.Sagar. with a few additions by Nagarjuna G. and Sandesh Rao)

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(no subject)
by subhash nair 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

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Blocking telnet on a specified condition
by Manish Jethani 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

I want to know how I can block telnet access to my machine _when_a_specified_condition_is_true_. I have a lot of people telnetting to my m/c (in office) and then they run some heavy processes. As per the rules and requirements of the project, I'm not supposed to block telnet access completely. But under certain circumstances, I can block telnet access. The "certain circumstances" can be a set of rules. For example, if load average (w|head -1|cut -f3 -d,) is greater than some limit, or if the amount of free memory (free|tail -1|tr -s ' '|cut -f4 -d' ') falls below some limit, or something like that. I'm clueless, so... please help. Manish -- Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy.

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OT - Microsoft's excellent support !!!
by Kishor Bhagwat 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

I;ve been having problems writing cds on win98, so i was searching the support pages... I thought i had seen the pits, but this one takes the cake... there are two recommendations that MS makes to solve cd burning problems...and guess what they are? a) Use the original disc b) make another copy!!! i've been rofl for the past five minutes, after which i could sit up and write this mail to u guys..... for those who want to see for themselves, chk the page http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q186297 enjoy! kishor _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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kppp user access problems...
by Rohit 02 Dec '01

02 Dec '01

I have Red Hat 7.1 installed on my system. I use a Motorola SM56 internal modem. I have been trying to configure kppp for use by users other than the root on my system for the last few days. I can use the rp3 dialer as a normal user, but not kppp. The problem is : when I use kppp as a user, it is not able to open the modem. The error message on quering the modem being "sorry, can't open modem". the device i use is /dev/modem, which points to /dev/sm56. i have configured kppp for allowing users to dial out ( by creating kppp.allow in /etc ). When this didn't work, I tried setting the UID bit in pppd, but this did not solve my problem either. I am able to use kppp when logged in as root - i.e, the modem responds to the query modem command, and I can connect. Another thing though is that when logged in as root and while using kppp, the modem responds only to the /dev/modem device, it gives the error " modem is busy " when device is set as /dev/ttyS3. ( The modem is connected at COM4 ) As far as the permissions are concerned, all users have read and write access to the modem driver file. how do I get kppp to work when logged in as a user ? Rohit.

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Mailing list etiquette
by Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe 02 Dec '01

02 Dec '01

Some time ago, Philip had posted a list of guidelines about posting to a mailing list ... Where can I find it? I don't know what phrase to search for ... SameerDS. ===== -- MTech Student Reconfigurable Computing Lab KReSIT, IIT-Bombay __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1

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History Prob......
by Desai Ashish 02 Dec '01

02 Dec '01

Dear Luggers, Do any one plz. suggest me that in Linux if i press up/down arrow keys then the previous commands will come. That is History....But how could i remove the History....Complete and Partial also. Plz. suggest me some solution.... Regards, [Ashish] ===== [Ashish Desai] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1

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