Linuxers March 2005

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Re: linux migration
by santosh rao 06 Mar '05

06 Mar '05

hi Saswata , i am sorry for the confussion. Now to my problem , i dont want my users to work in windows, i ran tally 5.4 using wne. it works ok but has some printing problems and also the data gets corrupted every now and then . the data of tally is located centrally on the server they user the mutli login version of tally, i also have tally on samba and at this point of time i have asked them to use vmware. but vmware is slow. In that qoute of urs u said somethin like haveing a win3k server and having remote multiple clients on linux. i am interested in implementing something like tht. As for our current setting we are using KDM for all the users, all the users log into the server and do stuff. These terminal emulation software that u spoke of will they allow me to connect to a win3k server ?

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Thunderbird works / command line mail does not
by Soumen Dass 06 Mar '05

06 Mar '05

Hi, On my FC1 I'm able to receive & send mails using thunderbird but sending mail by /bin/mail does not work. I'm using a MTNL dialup account. I use fetchmail+postfix to receive my mail at /var/mail/<username> which I read using thunderbird. In thunderbird I have configured smtp.mtnl.net.in as my outgoing server which can delivery mails successfully (I have also provided my mtnl username & password in my thunderbird smtp setup). When I tried to send mail using "mail -s <testing> <recipient>" style command, the /var/log/maillog shows this: <--------> Mar 5 21:09:02 nova postfix/nqmgr[629]: B812AA3BE: from=<soumen(a)localhost.localdomain>, size=309, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Mar 5 21:09:02 nova postfix/nqmgr[629]: 0D49BA3C1: from=<soumen(a)localhost.localdomain>, size=406, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Mar 5 21:09:03 nova postfix/smtp[24405]: connect to smtp.mtnl.net.in[202.159.228.8]: No route to host (port 25) Mar 5 21:09:03 nova postfix/smtp[24405]: B812AA3BE: to=<dass_soumen(a)yahoo.com>, relay=none, delay=731, status=deferred (connect to smtp.mtnl.net.in[202.159.228.8]: No route to host) Mar 5 21:09:06 nova postfix/smtp[24406]: connect to smtp.mtnl.net.in[202.159.228.8]: No route to host (port 25) Mar 5 21:09:06 nova postfix/smtp[24406]: 0D49BA3C1: to=<dass_soumen(a)yahoo.com>, relay=none, delay=460, status=deferred (connect to smtp.mtnl.net.in[202.159.228.8]: No route to host) <--------> Output of mailq is : <--------> -Queue ID- --Size-- ----Arrival Time---- -Sender/Recipient------- B812AA3BE 309 Sat Mar 5 20:56:52 soumen(a)localhost.localdomain (connect to smtp.mtnl.net.in[202.159.228.8]: No route to host) dass_soumen(a)yahoo.com 0D49BA3C1 406 Sat Mar 5 21:01:26 soumen(a)localhost.localdomain (connect to smtp.mtnl.net.in[202.159.228.8]: No route to host) dass_soumen(a)yahoo.com -- 1 Kbytes in 2 Requests. <--------> Output of route is: <--------> Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 203.94.227.17 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0 169.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo default 203.94.227.17 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 ppp0 <--------> My impression of the above is that, mail is not able to find the route using which it should deliver the mail to the smtp server. But route is showing a default route (I use "defaultroute" option in my ppp options). How can I investigate this better? I'll be glad to post any other necessary information. -- Soumen Dass [Registered Linux User # 272639 - Linux nova 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl i686] Can't open /usr/fortunes. Lid stuck on cookie jar. -- Soumen Dass [Registered Linux User # 272639 - Linux nova 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl i686] UNIX was half a billion (500000000) seconds old on Tue Nov 5 00:53:20 1985 GMT (measuring since the time(2) epoch). -- Andy Tannenbaum -- Soumen Dass [Registered Linux User # 272639 - Linux nova 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl i686] Each of these cults correspond to one of the two antagonists in the age of Reformation. In the realm of the Apple Macintosh, as in Catholic Europe, worshipers peer devoutly into screens filled with "icons." All is sound and imagery and Appledom. Even words look like decorative filigrees in exotic typefaces. The greatest icon of all, the inviolable Apple itself, stands in the dominate position at the upper-left corner of the screen. A central corporate headquarters decrees the form of all rites and practices. Infalliable doctrine issues from one executive officer whose selection occurs in a sealed boardroom. Should anyone in his curia question his powers, the offender is excommunicated into outer darkness. The expelled heretic founds a new company, mutters obscurely of the coming age and the next computer, then disappears into silence, taking his stockholders with him. The mother company forbids financial competition as sternly as it stifles ideological competition; if you want to use computer programs that conform to Apple's orthodoxy, you must buy a computer made and sold by Apple itself. -- Edward Mendelson, "The New Republic", February 22, 1988

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Yahoo Messenger segmentation fault
by Nadiem 06 Mar '05

06 Mar '05

--- anandraj soni <araj1509(a)rediffmail.com> wrote: > I have dowloaded yahoo messenger. The instalation > also says that everything has installed finely. But > when I run the ymessenger program (intalled in > /usr/bin/), I does not run and I get message as > segmentation fault. What could be the problem and > how can I resolve it? By using GAIM. The linux version of Y! Messenger sucks big time. FYI, it has only a messaging service, not a chat service. Nadiem. __________________________________ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/

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Yahoo Messenger segmentation fault
by anandraj soni 06 Mar '05

06 Mar '05

I have dowloaded yahoo messenger. The instalation also says that everything has installed finely. But when I run the ymessenger program (intalled in /usr/bin/), I does not run and I get message as segmentation fault. What could be the problem and how can I resolve it? Anandraj Soni.

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Capacitor Goofups
by Rony Bill 06 Mar '05

06 Mar '05

Dear Friends, Here is an interesting article on why the capacitors in certain motherboards are blowing. Its all about industrial espionage. http://www.siliconchip.com.au/cms/A_30328/article.html Regards, Rony.

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Testing a lock on a file.
by Sneh D 06 Mar '05

06 Mar '05

Hi all, I need a method to do the following process. a) I am populting a table in my database (which is on Oracle 9.0 on RHEL) using a.DAT file. This .DAT file is received by an FTP on my server and a scheduler program starts populating my table as soon as the file is received. b) One process on SERVER A FTPes the .DAT file on SERVER B. As soon as the FTP Process creates an image of the file on the destination server B, the process of server B is triggered while the FTP is taking place. c) Since the correct number of records are not recieved in the file in SERVER B the process in SERVER B abandones itself and the table is not properly populated. Is there a way in which i can find out (using a shell script) whether the .DAT file has been locked for FTP or not? Kindly suggest a way out. Regards, Sneh.

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by swapnil ambre 06 Mar '05

06 Mar '05

I am using 915 motherboard,which has a lan card onboard on it. In linux there is a problem with the sound driver as well as with the lancard. i am not able to configure both. lancard is of intel(r) pro/100 ve network connection. sound is of realtek. can please anybody help me?. Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Debian Sarge alsa and sata problems
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 05 Mar '05

05 Mar '05

On Saturday 05 March 2005 11:10, Floyd rulz! wrote: > Hey, > > I installed Debian sarge a while ago but am still facing 2 > problems: > > 1) I have a 160 GB seagate sata hard drive, but during startup it > fails to mount it ( I've added lines to /etc/fstab ). But when I > manually mount it later after the startup it works fine. I'm > guessing the SCSI modules probably load after the automount process > ? If the sata drive is not your distro drive then fstab should have a line like so /dev/hdb1 /games reiserfs rw,user,auto the "auto" makes the mounting automatic. If the sata drive is your distro drive then your driv is already mounted. > > 2) I have a C-Media chipset PCI soundcard , which won't show up in > the volume control ( I also have an onboard intel soundcard ) or > aumix or any of the mixers but lsmod does show me that its modules > are loaded. Is it a problem with X or with my sound modules ? But > then again, when I force-reload the modules using the alsa script ( > /etc/init.d/alsa force-reload ) all the modules are loaded back and > I have the soundcard mixer settings being shown in the volume > control section etc. > I currently use the 2.6.9-2.smp kernel which I downloaded > from an unstable apt mirror ( iit-bom ) and I suppose the 2.6 > kernels come with the alsa modules.I also tried installing the smp kernel is for symmetrical multiprocessor boards. Most desktops do not use such a beasty. run modconf and remove the oss modules. > alsa-base and utils packages separately listed out in apt, but the > problem still persists. I want to use my PCI soundcard as the > default ( which happens after I force-reload ) but doesn't on > startup. Could anyone guide me on this ? You need to unmute the channels using alsamixer. And preferably disable the onboard sound in the bios. > Sorry for such a lenghty post. whenever talking of the hardware list the chipset numbers or the relevant lines from lspci -v. Cmedia has several different chips. rgds jtd

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Making of Windows to Linux Migration
by neel s Gurjar 05 Mar '05

05 Mar '05

Hi guys, I will also note down each and every step while this migration. It may be useful for your book or manual. So that if anyone new wants to migrate he doesnot need to waste time on trail and error. He will get readymade manual of this. Coz of this many people will want to migrate to linux. Neel

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Re:Please help me (advansys scsi card )
by BIJU KRISHNAN 05 Mar '05

05 Mar '05

Please check the output of cat /proc/devices Character devices: 1 mem 2 pty 3 ttyp 4 ttyS 5 cua 7 vcs 9 st 10 misc 21 sg 36 netlink 108 ppp 128 ptm 136 pts 162 raw 226 drm Block devices: 1 ramdisk 2 fd 3 ide0 7 loop 8 sd 65 sd 66 sd maybe you can send the output the list or send it offline. If you see st in the list of devices then go searching for it in dmesg dmesg | grep -i st st0: Block limits 1 - 16777215 bytes. st0: Error with sense data: Current st09:00: sense key Not Ready st0: Error with sense data: Current st09:00: sense key Not Ready st0: Error on write filemark. st0: Error with sense data: Curr Once you detect that st0 is the correct device go for # mt -f /dev/st0 status SCSI 2 tape drive: File number=-1, block number=-1, partition=0. Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x0 (default). Soft error count since last status=0 General status bits on (50000): DR_OPEN IM_REP_EN # cat /proc/scsi/scsi might also prove useful. bye rgds biju --------------------------------- Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web

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