Linuxers October 2002

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could not delete directory
by Hiten Desai 04 Mar '03

04 Mar '03

Hi! I am trying to delete directory with the following name --(a)app.7 (which is autogenerated by amavis) but when I am trying to delete it with rm -rf command it gives me error : rm: unrecognized option '--(a)app.7' how to delete this directory ?? Please help. Hiten. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! News - Today's headlines http://news.yahoo.com

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disabling linux single
by Harsh R Busa 03 Feb '03

03 Feb '03

plz enlighten me about disabling linux single feature of lilo in most redhat systems thanx harsh

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comp.os.linux.security FAQ
by Tahir Hashmi 06 Jan '03

06 Jan '03

Hi all! I found a good collection of security FAQ on comp.os.linux.security. Hope you find this useful: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/docs/colsfaq.html -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed

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Linux - The Movie
by Bhargav Bhatt 16 Nov '02

16 Nov '02

Luggerz, There is an excellent documentary on Linux, available for free download on ftp://ftp.slackware.no/pub/video/The_Code-Linux.avi While some of it is in European Languages other than English, most of it is in English. It features extended interiviews with RMS, Linus, Raymond etc. There is also a 2-3 minute section where Linus talks about Linux and India. All in all, an excellent view, if u have the bandwidth(600MB). Cheers, -- Bhargav Bhatt, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University.

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rh8 sawfish
by Brian Pang 08 Nov '02

08 Nov '02

I got rid of metacity by as root rpm -e firstboot rpm -e metacity (firstboot was the only dependency) log out of gnome log back in using failsafe (if graphical, else, just log back in on the command line) edit the file /home/~user/.gconf/desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager changing /usr/bin/metacity to /usr/bin/sawfish log back into gnome if I tried to make the change with the "System Tool" terminal, metacity would change the file back to using metacity. grrr.. so that's why I deleted it and did it outside of gnome. however, you cannot save window attributes, still... had to log out and "Save Current Setup"... geesh... >From linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in Tue Oct 22 18:36:54 2002 From: linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in (Green, Shaun) Date: Tue Oct 22 18:36:54 2002 Subject: [ILUG-BOM] RedHat 8 - Switching back to Sawfish Message-ID: <CBA5720BD606864A8D6FFFE53D4B81F201585D0C(a)nsstcex2.nsstc.nasa.gov> This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C27922.62009710 Content-Type: text/plain Does anyone know how to switch off this terrible bluecurve crap and get back to Sawfish?? I want to use my GTK themes; like BlueHeart. Thanks, Shaun linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in (Tahir Hashmi) Date: Wed Oct 9 11:52:43 2002 Subject: [ILUG-BOM] [rant] Red Hat 8 Desktop under-featured and less configurable Message-ID: <20021009113608.3443df87.code_martial(a)softhome.net> Hi Linuxers! Okay, Gnome2 and Bluecurve look really cool, especially with AA fonts but there's quite a lot that I didn't like. Here are the issues (when I say that something "is" or something "isn't", it is supposed to be *AFAIK* and not the absolute truth): - Under-featured window manager: The MetaCity Window manager doesn't have any options for layering management and attribute memory. I can't keep EveryBuddy on top now. - No options for custom keyboard short-cuts: Unlike Enlightenment or Sawfish, there's no provision for having keyboard shortcuts to run commands. There's a lot more move-move click-click involved now. - No option to switch Window Managers! I installed RH8 clean on one system and upgraded another. The former doesn't have sawfish, the latter doesn't have an option to switch Window Managers, even though it has Sawfish. - Complicated Menu: The main menu is now more broad than deep a la KDE and that was one of the main reasons why I didn't like KDE. - Overall lack of customizability I could go on and on but to summarize, a lot of customizability that Gnome users had grown accustomed to is now gone and the overall feel has a lack of "freedom". - The Terminal is now a "System Tool" (duh!) I looked around the Net a little and I didn't find many people ranting about these things. Is it just me? Am I missing something? I'd be grateful if some of you could give some pointers. TIA

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Obtaining CDs
by ritesh kala 04 Nov '02

04 Nov '02

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Win2k User must Authenticate from LDAP
by Himanshu shukla 01 Nov '02

01 Nov '02

Check out http://samba.idealx.org/ I think that is what you want. Cheers, Himanshu -----Original Message----- From: Poonam P <abcdef4444in(a)yahoo.co.in> To: ILUG MUMBAI <linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 01:17:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [ILUG-BOM] Win2k User must Authenticate from LDAP Hi, I need my Win2K Users to authenticate against LDAP on Linux. Can someone pls send me some information or pointers. Thanks in advance. Poonam. ________________________________________________________________________ Missed your favourite TV serial last night? Try the new, Yahoo! TV. visit http://in.tv.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

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Mandrake 9 TTF problems
by Ashish Kulkarni 01 Nov '02

01 Nov '02

hello, I am having problems in using TTF fonts in KDE 3 on Mandrake 9. I copied the fonts from my Windows FONTS directory to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF and ran ttmkfdir and restarted XFS. The fonts were then listed, but not usable for some reason. After searching via google I disabled XFS, and put all directories manually in XF86Config. I also deleted XftCache from there. After that, I could use the font selector in XMMS to select and use the fonts without problems. Howver, using KDE Control Center caused all the visible fonts to be garbled, like small squares for TTF fonts. After some hacking around, the fonts for the "general" category displayed properly but for anything eles [eg. Menus, Taskbar, etc] the fonts look garbled yet. This behaviour is sometime intermittent--after restarting X, the general fonts also are garbled. Can anyone help me out? I suspect that KDE is not using correct codepage in the TTF fonts (XMMS has that option). Could it be due to other reasons altogether eg. Xft? Thanks.

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help : unknown host error
by nikhil badwe 01 Nov '02

01 Nov '02

Hi all I am a new user to GNU/Linux. I have Red Hat Linux 7.2. I tried to configure the my system to access internet. I get connected to the net. I also get a status window indicating the time duration for which i have been online. But I can not open any page in any browser. I tried ping command on shell, even that did not work. I get error as �unknown host�. I have specified my primary and secondary DNS during setup. I tried to access /etc/resolv.conf, but it says it is �read only�. What could be the possible error...? thanx regards nikhil __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/

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Win2k User must Authenticate from LDAP
by Poonam P 01 Nov '02

01 Nov '02

Hi, I need my Win2K Users to authenticate against LDAP on Linux. Can someone pls send me some information or pointers. Thanks in advance. Poonam. ________________________________________________________________________ Missed your favourite TV serial last night? Try the new, Yahoo! TV. visit http://in.tv.yahoo.com

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