Linuxers March 2002

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PPTP client
by Girish Hanchate 28 Mar '02

28 Mar '02

Hi, I am facing problem while installing PPTP client on Redhat linux 6.2. I installed pptp-linux-1.0.3-1.i386.rpm & ppp-mppe-2.4.0-4.i386.rpm. after installing when i start setup it gives me following error Insecure $ENV{ENV} while running with -T switch at /usr/sbin/pptp-command line 505, <STDIN> chunk 1 Rgds Girish __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards� http://movies.yahoo.com/

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Chat servers
by Hiten Desai 28 Mar '02

28 Mar '02

I would like to know about free and stable chat servers for linux which support if possible webchat Hiten. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards� http://movies.yahoo.com/

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GPL check
by sachin 27 Mar '02

27 Mar '02

please see the artical at Link: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5935 Titled : Do the demands of the GPL cause as much harm as closed-source code? do you agree to the author? -- ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= sachin(a)mediaibc.com MediaIBC ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= Interchangeable parts won't. ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=

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mailcap entry for viewing Doc and Excel files
by Pankaj Jangid 27 Mar '02

27 Mar '02

Hi all, You can use these entries in your ~/.mailcap file for viewing msword and ms-excel document, which comes as mail attachments. Dependency: wv, html2text, xlhtml (these are available in debian archives http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages) Assumption: conf and example files of wv are in /usr/share/wv #FOR MS WORD application/msword; wvWare -x /usr/share/wv/wvHtml.xml '%s' | html2text; copiousoutput; description=Microsoft Word Document; print=wvWare -x /usr/share/wv/wvHtml.xml '%s' | html2text | print text/plain:- #FOR MS EXCEL application/vnd.ms-excel; xlhtml -c %s | html2text; copiousoutput; description=Microsoft Excel Document; print=xlhtml -c %s | html2text | print text/plain:- You can use any other alternative to html2text like lynx. I am using these settings and using mutt for reading mails. Its working very fine. and if you use "set autoview = yes" in ~/.muttrc, mutt will automatically display the files without asking you to open the file. regards -- Pankaj Jangid National Centre for Software Technology GnuPG Public Key: http://yugandhar.ncst.ernet.in/~pankaj/gpg.txt

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mailcap entry for viewing Doc and Excel files
by Pankaj Jangid 27 Mar '02

27 Mar '02

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Re: fetching mail directly to PC
by Nikhil Karkera 27 Mar '02

27 Mar '02

On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 Devdas Bhagat wrote : >Setup the DNS first and then all the rest should work >automagically. High time I asked this. Automagically : Automatically Please differentiate. Regards, Nikhil.

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linux on a P4
by abhijeetmore＠rolta.net 27 Mar '02

27 Mar '02

Hi, I just installed linux on our college P4. Red Hat 7.0. It was the first time I asked it to install 'everything'. On booting I found three images - linux, linux-smp, linux-up. I guess smp is self explained. But when I booted into the image called 'linux', it wouldn't probe the Hard disk IRQ correctly.It said: hda: IRQ probe failed .... Now when I booted into the image called 'linux-up' it did so without any errors. My initial guess at an explanation is that the kernels are processor specific. 'linux' is probably for generic 386s and 'linux-up' worked because it was for higher processors. In other words I suspect that the IRQ allotments in the two cases are different. Could somebody pl. confirm this or suggest an alternative explanation? Oh, and BTW I had asked for kernel 2.4 and 2.2 on a cd a few days ago. I've got them now. Anybody else requiring the same can get in touch with me. ciao abhijeet

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Debug for Linux?
by Nikhil Joshi 27 Mar '02

27 Mar '02

Hi! I'm studying 8086 in Microprocessor II Usually we write simple programs using MS-Dos's debug "command" Is there a parallel Linux utility ? Also are there any assemblers like MASM TASM ? I would also like to clear some doubts: 1. In DOS we use interrupts like int 20,int 21 etc.. which perform certain tasks. Are these interrupts apllicable to Linux also? 2.In Assembly since we deal directly with CPU isn't it a security risk? (I have come across some debug routines which clear CMOS , destroy the hard disk partitions... !) 3.Why there r so many books written for Assembly Programming which are specific to Dos based Assemblers and debug? Is Unix implementation for Assembly Programming difficult ? Please enlighten. -- "I don't know which is worse, ...that everyone has his price, or that the price is always so low." -Calvin

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can someone help correct Linux-india.org blooper
by lilo＠zeenext.com 27 Mar '02

27 Mar '02

Hi ppl, does anyone from this mailing list also subscribe to linux-india.org mailing list or knows anyone who maintains the site. Then you can help correct the following problem. If u goto the site www.linux-india.org and click on Bombay/Mumbai @ the bottom of the page , it takes you to the site http://bombay.linux-india.org/ which has the following text. <<< Welcome to jkyadav.com! This page is under construction. Please come back! >>> instead of taking us to the ilug-bombay site <www.ilug-bom.org> plz look into this problem. I have already sent a mail to the webmaster regarding this matter. Can someone help accelerate the change though?? --- vinayak hegde __________________________________________________________________________ http://dating.zeenext.com Log on to nextDATE. It's the next best thing to doing it.

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FETCHMAIL
by acharya＠dacafe.com 26 Mar '02

26 Mar '02

Hi all I want to configure fetchmail to fetch mails from a single pop account. with 10 aliases. All users have been created in local sendmail server. after fetchmail featchs the mail it should distribute to respective users. can it be possible, with fetchmail. Priyadarshi _____________________________________________________________

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