Linuxers October 2002

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sun supporting linux
by Girish Hanchate 07 Oct '02

07 Oct '02

Hi Kindly go to following site. Now sun has also come up with linux server on intel. http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/lx50/?redirect=false&refurl=http://wwws.su… rgds girish __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com

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Console frontend to wvdial
by Frederick Noronha 07 Oct '02

07 Oct '02

This msg is from Asterix Baron <b2ornot2b(a)yahoo.com> in Goa. -FN ---------- Forwarded message ---------- hi all heres a set of scripts that act as a front end to wvdial ... console based it gives u a bar of traffic on ppp interface ideal for the 'console happy' ;) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-goa/files/inet.zip if u have any probs with these hack them to suit ur taste adieus cheerio b2 p.s. Does anyone have any interesting scripts to share ??? p.s. Is anyone interested in forming an (e)group ... BCLU - Brotherhood of Command Line Users ??? to share the power of the command line

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: Not so Random
by Vinayak Hegde 06 Oct '02

06 Oct '02

Hi , The special devices /dev/random and /dev/urandom provide access to the Linux kernel's built-in random number generation facility. Most software functions for generating random numbers, such as the rand function in the standard C library, actually generate pseudorandom numbers. Although these numbers satisfy some properties of random numbers, they are reproducible (for further explanation refer TAOCP - Donald Knuth) If you start with the same seed value, you ll obtain the same sequence of pseudorandom numbers every time. This behavior is inevitable because computers are intrinsically deterministic and predictable. It is sometimes possible to break a cryptographic algorithm if you can obtain the sequence of random numbers that it employs. To obtain better random numbers in computer programs requires an external source of randomness.The Linux kernel harnesses a particularly good source of randomness: you! By measuring the time delay between your input actions, such as keystrokes and mouse movements,and the noise from devices, Linux is capable of generating an unpredictable stream of high-quality random numbers. You can access this stream by reading from /dev/random and /dev/urandom . try od -t x1 /dev/random (Press keys randomly on your keyboard and see the output) od -t x1 /dev/urandom you can get more information using :- man 4 random hope this helps :-) ciao Vinayak Hegde On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 12:38:25 +0530 Amish Mehta wrote: > You might want to see > perldoc -f srand # PERL random seed documentation. > [snip] > You should be able to write similar code in C. > > Amish. __________________________________________________________________________ http://dating.zeenext.com Log on to nextDATE. It's the next best thing to doing it.

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Kernel compilation
by flameboy varun 06 Oct '02

06 Oct '02

How do i recompile the 7.3 kernel when there is no kernel-headers rpm installed and I know it is not available on the CDs as well? Geek by Nature Linux by choice mailto: varunop(a)yahoo.com --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos, & more faith.yahoo.com

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Re: sendmail problem
by Amish Mehta 05 Oct '02

05 Oct '02

If I remember you should add your local network (for e.g 192.168.1 should be enough) to /etc/mail/relay-domains Amish. acharya(a)dacafe.com wrote: >I have a problem with sendmail. it's working fine. But when the internet >link is down, as dns server is not hosted locally. All mails from >clients are not accepted by the sendmail server. Mails lies in the >outbox of the outlook express. When internet link is up everything is >fine again.

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Repartitioning /home
by Ashok Iyer 05 Oct '02

05 Oct '02

Hi all, I have a Red Hat Linux 7.3 machine working as a file server with 36GB allocated for /home. I want to make /home 72GB by adding another disk. Can you suggest how this can be accomplished non-destructively as well as destructively. I dont mind moving the existing data out of /home, repartitioning it and then moving the data back. I am using SCSI disks. -- Ashok __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com

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Bugzilla users
by Sanjay Choudhari 05 Oct '02

05 Oct '02

Hi , Can any one help me, I don't want users to create account on my bugzilla server. How should I restrict people from making users on my Bugzilla server. Thanks, sanajy

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Re: Repartitioning /home
by Amish Mehta 05 Oct '02

05 Oct '02

Sorry just realised that /var, /usr wont give much free space. So this wont work. Amish. >Other option might be to move, /var, /usr partitions to move to new >disk and create more space on old_disk and allocate that space to >/home, but requires partition rearranging. > >Amish. >

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Re: Repartitioning /home
by Amish Mehta 05 Oct '02

05 Oct '02

Hi, Ashok Iyer wrote: >server with 36GB allocated for /home. I want to make >/home 72GB by adding another disk. If you are adding, 36GB and want to use /home which is partly on 1st disk and partly on 2nd, then may be you should use symlinks. Say 25% user directories in old disk and 75% new disk. (there are other better ways to choose directories to move, this is probably simpler) In single user mode a) Create /new_home directory, mount new hard disk on it.(make it permanent by adding it to /etc/fstab). b) Move 75% directories from /home to /new_home, in /home make symlinks to moved directories c) All new user created will have their directories on old home, so you might have to periodically move few to new_home and create symlinks. But choosing 25-75% scheme will make that period long enough so that you do not have to maintain very frequently. > >Can you suggest how this can be accomplished >non-destructively as well as destructively. I dont >mind moving the existing data out of /home, >repartitioning it and then moving the data back. >I am using SCSI disks. Other option, I am not sure of how to do, is using md(multiple-disk) devices. Where you can combine two partitions in such a way that they act as single parition. Other option might be to move, /var, /usr partitions to move to new disk and create more space on old_disk and allocate that space to /home, but requires partition rearranging. Please do ask if you do not know how to do it. Btw, even I dont know these are just suggestions ;-). Amish.

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Open discussion on Open Type fonts in Mumbai
by Frederick Noronha 05 Oct '02

05 Oct '02

This is not exclusively related to GNU/Linux, but perhaps we too should start thinking about Indian language solutions in a big way. FN Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 05:13:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Keyur Shroff <keyur_shroff(a)yahoo.com> To: indic-computing-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net Cc: indic-computing-users(a)lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Indic-computing-users] Open discussion and Q&A session on OpenType font Hello, I have discussed and finalized the date and time for open discusion with Ms. Apurva Joshi. Interested people are invited for the discussion and Q&A session. Date : Tuesday, October 8, 2002 Time : 3:00 PM Venue : Lecture Theatre, NCST NCST's address: National Centre for Software Technology Opp. to Juhu Supreme Shopping Centre, Gulmohar Cross Road No. 9, Near JVPD Scheme, Juhu, Andheri(W), Mumbai - 400 049 Tel: 6201606 Ext: 323 PS : I insisted her to give seminar and asked her whether NCST can make resources available to her. But she wants to refer some papers @ microsoft which is not possible now. Anyway, I hope you all will enjoy this discussion.

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Linuxers October 2002