Linuxers July 2001

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Problems with X
by Kinjal Sonpal 09 Jul '01

09 Jul '01

Hi Luggers ! Since last couple of days i'm getting the following error when I try to start the X .. I get the following error Not enough free disk space on /tmp And then the X does not start .. I tried putting runlevel 5 in .initrc file. After which I got the initial login window but then I was not able to login to the system .. However I cud switch back to the command prompt .. The same (and only) error message is written in .xsessions-errors file in my home directory .. Please help me. Thanks in advance Warm Regards, $ sonpal -kj

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India's contribution to Linux
by Kompalli SuryaPrakash 09 Jul '01

09 Jul '01

Hi There, > > 1. Why do you think Linux is important to India? > [snip] consider WRT the following points - 1> as a learning tool - Linux conforms to the Open source code... Since source code is public, and we can hack a system - do some re-engineering on the product without crossing legal borders - it is an excellent tool for students to learn the various aspects of an OS and its' working. 2> Very good OS for Indian desktops. Linux can run from a 386 and above...It is not a resource hogger... Hence, it is ideal in cases where ppl operate very old M/C to cut down costs and at the same time need some stability. (My college itself ;) ) Q's 2 and 3 have been answered by Satya an Trevor... > > 4. Has the Indian government showing a keen interest > > in Linux ? Can you mention some names and examples? > [snip] It (Govt.) does some work - one cannot say they are ignoring it - NCST works on Linux, IISc does simputer work etc. But there is no fixed direction or Direct involvement of the Govt. Everything gets lost in redtape - basically because; barring a few groups - Rest of the Govt. agencies remain oblivious to the benifits of good S/W, so Linux is still a very distant target. > > 5. Do you know of any companies in India who have > > developed applications for the Linux platform? I dont know names - but I have seen ppl aorking on Linux products with Made in India label.... > > 6. What do you think should be done to promote the > > growth of Linux in India? > [snip] > introduce the concept of GNU philosophy and the > Open Source concept in schools havin the young > generation get hands on Linux ASAP and as early in > life as possible. Precisely... wot is to be done is to make ppl understand that a Computer System or a OS is not intended to be a glorified resource hogger - It has to be economical(free), scalable(386-supercomp??), Stable, crossplatform, economical learning curve... And Linux satisfies these needs... Bye, SP -- Please NOTE: - I have changed my Email ID to neosurya(a)yahoo.com from ksuryap1(a)yahoo.com _ _ |/ |_ |_| |\ompalli _|urya| rakash MSN : - neosurya(a)hotmail.com Email: - neosurya(a)yahoo.com Phone: - 022-5506101 _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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x windows || star office
by Ulhas Vaidya 09 Jul '01

09 Jul '01

hi all, thanx philip for responding to my difficulty regarding x win screen saver .... however, i do not have XF86Config installed and Xconfigurator of xf86config does not give the option you mentioned. starting xwin in bg does not do what you mentioned either. is there any other way to stop xwin getting killed by ctrl+alt+bs while in screen saver mode? by the way i am using rh 7.1 Also, can anyone lend me staroffice cds? ulhas

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Help Me
by Rajen Parekh 09 Jul '01

09 Jul '01

On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Paresh Chopdekar wrote: > Also can anyone please help me in configuring my internal modem > Motorola SM56. This month's PCQ has driver module for the above modem. I think it should be available for download from Motorola's website. Rajen.

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meeting on 17th
by noel seq 09 Jul '01

09 Jul '01

> >On Jul 8, 2001 at 02:37, Satya wrote: > > > July 17 2001, 5pm > > > > Homi Bhabha Auditorium, > > Navy Nagar Colaba, Mumbai 400005 Is that the entire address. Any landmarks ? directions ? Am not too familiar with the area. Am working at Nariman Point and am planning to go directly. Noel _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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meeting on 17th
by Satya 09 Jul '01

09 Jul '01

On Jul 8, 2001 at 02:37, Satya wrote: > July 17 2001, 5pm > > Homi Bhabha Auditorium, > Navy Nagar Colaba, Mumbai 400005 So let me make sure: the above is correct? -- Satya. <URL:http://satya.virtualave.net/> US-bound grad students! For pre-apps, see <URL:http://quickapps.cjb.net/> Could you continue your petty bickering ? I find it most intriguing.

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Panel not starting
by Philip S Tellis 08 Jul '01

08 Jul '01

In reference to my earlier mail, I deleted my .gnome directory, and all worked fine. I should point out, that this only happened for my login, not for any of the other logins on my machine. Philip -- C-3PO: We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life. Visit my webpage at http://www.ncst.ernet.in/~philip/ Read my writings at http://www.ncst.ernet.in/~philip/writings/ MSN philiptellis Yahoo! philiptellis

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A guide to shell scripting, using Bash
by LinuxCAMPUS.net 08 Jul '01

08 Jul '01

Hello Everyone, If you want to learn shell scripting, you can start from here. And then SKY is the LIMIT. http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Adv-Bash-Scr-HOWTO/index.html Navin Dhanuka LinuxCAMPUS.net. elearning center for linux & opensource technologies. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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My panel won't start
by Philip S Tellis 08 Jul '01

08 Jul '01

My gnome panel won't start. It keeps trying to start, gives this error message: Gdk-ERROR **: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) serial 602 error_code 4 request_code 2 minor_code 0 Gdk-ERROR **: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) serial 622 error_code 4 request_code 2 minor_code 0 Gdk-ERROR **: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) serial 610 error_code 4 request_code 2 minor_code 0 And quits. Then tries to start again and the cycle continues in an infinite loop. pid of panel keeps changing during this. I have redhat 6.0. This happened just after I upgraded gnome-core to 1.0.55. Previous version was 1.0.4 I think. Any ideas? Philip -- "What man has done, man can aspire to do." -- Jerry Pournelle, about space flight Visit my webpage at http://www.ncst.ernet.in/~philip/ Read my writings at http://www.ncst.ernet.in/~philip/writings/ MSN philiptellis Yahoo! philiptellis

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Email problems
by Kompalli SuryaPrakash 08 Jul '01

08 Jul '01

Hi There, I use sendmail and fetchmail for Emailing along with pine - everything (read pine/sendmail) is configured to handle mail thru a dial-up connection. I had a problem recently - All my emails are being directed to the wrong ppl. After tht, I just went thru the /var/spoll/mqueue - (of course for the new mails) there are some files starting with d/q followed by numbers with correct combinations of Email headers and body. I assumed that files starting with q inside /var/spoll/mqueue were headers and those starting with d were data ie. body of the email. There is another file startng with T. Shud that be there?? Now, wot cud the reason be tht sendmail mixed up my emails??I am a novice WRT sendmail :) Bye, SP -- Please NOTE: - I have changed my Email ID to neosurya(a)yahoo.com from ksuryap1(a)yahoo.com _ _ |/ |_ |_| |\ompalli _|urya| rakash MSN : - neosurya(a)hotmail.com Email: - neosurya(a)yahoo.com Phone: - 022-5506101 _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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Linuxers July 2001