Linuxers November 2006

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Re: RHCE course??
by Vihan Pandey 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

> I'm going thru serious crises as I stand at crossroads in terms of career. > Can someone please suggest me if its mandatory to have a RHCE certification? Are planning on a job in GNU/Linux system administration itself or something more? > I'm NOT a graduate yet > i'm probably the LAST person who will say this, but i will. If you can finish your graduation PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do so. i mean it. i know Mumbai University is a farce in the name of education, i know majority of the teachers are hopeless mediocres even in so called ``good colleges". i know that it is knowledge that is FAR more important than a ton of stupid degrees who's paper quality has reached such limits that it can't even be used as as BEST bus ticket or even substandard toilet paper. BUT, a graduation does help makes things a little easier in terms of getting an initial job and does carry forward in professional life. Knowledge AND a graduates degree is the key. and what are my chances of getting a decent job armed with RHCE > certification. It depends on how you have polished your resume with what you have done and can do. Remember 99% of the time the people reading resumes are not brainless idiots. 1% of the time you may just get lucky. > Is graduation a pre-requisite for jobs as SA? It depends on the kind of job at hand. Under normal circumstances probably not, but a degree DOES help. If you can finish your graduation. PLEASE do. Regards, - vihan

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RHCE course??
by A A 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

Hi all, I'm going thru serious crises as I stand at crossroads in terms of career. Can someone please suggest me if its mandatory to have a RHCE certification? I'm NOT a graduate yet and what are my chances of getting a decent job armed with RHCE certification. Is graduation a pre-requisite for jobs as SA? If yes, which are the best institutes in Mumbai that offer RHCE? Or any tutors of RHCE? TIA. Regards, AA. --------------------------------- Want to start your own business? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business.

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HELP PLZ
by Ranjit Sapre 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

Hi, I wish to un-install Fedora Core 2. Currently it is not booting, it gives an error. Same happens when I boot it with the CD-1 of fedora core 2. I want to free my hard disk space and install Fedora on my portable hard disk. please sumone advise. regards, Ranjit

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Kernel 2.6.10 weird message and system lockup
by Dinesh Joshi 13 Nov '06

13 Nov '06

Hi, I know this might sound highly improbable but Linux has been locking up randomly. Heres details of my problem: Hardware: - P4 2.8C GHz 800MHz FSB Northwood processor with HT - 256MB Hynix RAM in single channel dynamic paging mode - Intel D865GBF motherboard - 120GB Samsung SATA Harddrive - 80GB Seagate PATA Harddrive - 20GB Seagate PATA Harddrive - Sony DVD writer ( new ) - Netgear WGR311v2 54Mbps wifi card - Dlink 538TX 10/100Mbps wired network card - ATI Radeon 7000 AGP card All hardware is about 2 years old except the one mentioned as new. Software: - Fedora Core 2 - Windows Server 2003 - Windows XP Symptoms: - The system has been locking up randomly after the addition of the Sony DVD writer. - One peculiar symptom that my system has been exhibiting with / without the writer is that the display doesn't come on at boot up. The monitor's LED just keeps on blinking. The keyboard doesn't respond at all and the harddisk LED just keeps on glowing as if it is accessing something. - Recently dmesg shows these suspicious entries: EXT3 FS on sda3, internal journal device-mapper: 4.3.0-ioctl (2004-09-30) initialised: dm-devel(a)redhat.com Adding 522104k swap on /dev/sda2. Priority:-1 extents:1 program scsi_unique_id is using a deprecated SCSI ioctl, please convert it to SG_IO program scsi_unique_id is using a deprecated SCSI ioctl, please convert it to SG_IO .... ( 10 msgs repeatedly. No where else are these messages repeated ). I understand the the swap part but why is it complaining of deprecated API? As I understand its seeing my SATA HD was a SCSI HD. But I've been using this harddisk for a while now and I haven't seen these messages appear - ever! :( - I've seen only 1 kernel panic and it was related to some SCSI function. I dont have the exact message but thats all I remember! Troubleshooting: - For the first problem, I've observed that after disconnecting the writer, the system is stable for a few hours now. But can't say with certainty if it will remain so. Will continue to test. - I've tried removing all component from the system and keeping the bare necessities i.e. just the keyboard, monitor, RAM, processor. The system still exhibits symptom No.2 though randomly. This problem has been occurring on and off. Initially I thought it might be due to loose contacts, dust etc... Yet even after cleaning the system and securing all components properly, the problem persists. So I'm inclined to think that the new hardware has nothing to do with the problem. - I've also replaced the harddisk cables just incase but to no avail. Rather the system works better / stabler with the old ones in place. - I have only tried troubleshooting on Linux. I have to yet boot into Windows and see if the same problems occur. In my opinion this can't be software specific bug which is causing the lockups. I am stumpted on problem No.1 Any inputs would be appreciated. Bye! :) -- Dinesh A. Joshi

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hi all
by fjsylvester 13 Nov '06

13 Nov '06

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Sun Releases GPL Java Today
by പ്രവീണ്‍‌|Praveen 13 Nov '06

13 Nov '06

[sorry for cross posting] "Months of speculation and waiting are now over. Sun will release key parts of Java under GPLv2 today (November 13th, Monday). The initial release today will include the HotSpot runtime, javac compiler, JavaHelp, and Sun's Java ME implementation. The rest of Java will be released under GPLv2 early next year. Richard Stallman of the FSF has endorsed the move, and will appear on a live web cast <http://www.sun.com/2006-1113/feature/index.jsp> with Sun CEO Johnathan Schwartz and software chief Rich Green. " http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t84244.html Great win for Free Software. Cheers Praveen -- "Value your freedom, or you will lose it, teaches history. `Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn." -- Richard Stallman Me scribbles at http://www.pravi.co.nr

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Java opensourced under GPLv2
by Vinayak Hegde 13 Nov '06

13 Nov '06

Quite a landmark move by Sun to Opensource Java (EE, ME and SE) after Solaris. Links: http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/061113/sun_java_open_source.html?.v=2 http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/11/12/OSS-Java http://digg.com/programming/Sun_to_Open_Source_Java_Under_GPL_v2 -- Vinayak

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Rexecd server configuration
by ryan coelho 13 Nov '06

13 Nov '06

Hi I am unable to configure the rexecd server. Please note the following details 1) Server Red Hat 9 2)Server Side RPM: rsh-server-0.17-14 List Of files: /etc/pam.d/rexec /etc/pam.d/rlogin /etc/pam.d/rsh /etc/xinetd.d/rexec /etc/xinetd.d/rlogin /etc/xinetd.d/rsh /usr/sbin/in.rexecd /usr/sbin/in.rlogind /usr/sbin/in.rshd /usr/share/man/man8/in.rexecd.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/in.rlogind.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/in.rshd.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/rexecd.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/rlogind.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/rshd.8.gz 3) Client Side RPM: rsh-0.17-14 4) As you can notice the only executable server side is /usr/sbin/in.rexecd and I have also restarted the xinetd server Also I have touched on pam rexec here is what it looks like #%PAM-1.0 # For root login to succeed here with pam_securetty, "rexec" must be # listed in /etc/securetty. #auth required pam_nologin.so #auth required pam_securetty.so auth required pam_env.so auth required pam_stack.so service=system-auth account required pam_stack.so service=system-auth session required pam_stack.so service=system-auth I have commented the above two lines . Also I have edited the following files from this path /etc/xinetd.d and made disable = yes to no the file names are as follows -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 360 Nov 6 11:05 rexec -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 377 Nov 13 11:13 rlogin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 430 Nov 13 11:13 rsh Kindly let me know where I am going wrong Thanks & Regards Ryan Coelho

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Fwd: Freedom Task Force now launched
by Nagarjuna G. 13 Nov '06

13 Nov '06

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Free Software Foundation Europe" <press(a)fsfeurope.org> To: press-release(a)fsfeurope.org Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 00:56:12 +0100 Subject: FSFE Launching Freedom Task Force, Co-operating with gpl-violations.org FSFE Launching Freedom Task Force, Co-operating with gpl-violations.org FTF to educate programmers and corporations on how to avoid licensing problems, as well as enforce Free Software licences The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) announced today the launch of the Freedom Task Force, [1] thanks to a grant of EUR 30.000 from Stichting NLnet. The organisation, working closely with Harald Welte of gpl-violations.org [2], seeks to help programmers properly set up and organise projects legally, as well as educate companies to understand how the GPL works. As needed, the purpose of the group will also include enforcement in the case of licence violations. FTF is located in FSFE's offices in Zurich, Switzerland. "Free Software itself has become commercial mainstream, but knowledge about Free Software and in particular its licences is often lagging behind," explains Georg Greve, FSFE's president. "With large companies like SUN embracing Free Software at the heart of their business, the software ecosystem is transforming in ways that underline the requirement for services like the FTF." FTF will include experts with technical and legal backgrounds as well as volunteers, working together to provide organised and co-ordinated responses to individual cases where there may be misunderstandings about what a licence requires or a violation of its terms. FSFE has hired Mr. Shane Coughlan to serve as FTF Co-ordinator. Shane Coughlan on the other tasks of the FTF: "We seek to give commercial and non-commercial Free Software developers the maximum support possible with our fiduciary activities. By helping them bundle their legal interests, we are able to safeguard the legal status of a project while it can focus on technological and managerial issues. For projects that FSFE has accepted into its fiduciary program, FSFE will also be in a position to defend their interests in the eventuality of licence violation." Harald Welte, the first person who enforced the GNU GPL in court, will be working closely with the FTF: "My gpl-violations.org work has shown how much the community needs a more focussed approach to deal with these violations. While there was good contact with FSFE in the past, we will now be working closely together, sharing our information and resources to best protect the rights of Free Software developers." "We have as a primary goal to help corporations to adhere to the licences from the onset, rather than to have to enforce violations later," explains Mr. Coughlan. "We encourage those responsible for compliance for their company to contact us, so we can work together to avoid licence compliance problems, rather than having to later solve problems that could have been avoided in the first place." Stichting NLnet [3] Chairman Teus Hagen expressed pleasure at the launch of FTF: "We are very happy to support the launch of the FTF because in our view this is a timely and necessary step to consolidate Free Software. We ourselves at times felt the need for a reliable partner to handle these issues, and in our experience the FSFE is such a partner. We hope that many others will contribute to and support this effort, and see the FTF as an important step in the maturing of Free Software." [1] http://fsfeurope.org/ftf [2] http://gpl-violations.org [3] http://www.nlnet.nl About the Free Software Foundation Europe: The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is a non-profit non-governmental organisation active in many European countries and involved in many global activities. Access to software determines participation in a digital society. To secure equal participation in the information age, as well as freedom of competition, the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) pursues and is dedicated to the furthering of Free Software, defined by the freedoms to use, study, modify and copy. Founded in 2001, creating awareness for these issues, securing Free Software politically and legally, and giving people Freedom by supporting development of Free Software are central issues of the FSFE. Further information: http://fsfeurope.org About gpl-violations.org: In the past 30 months, gpl-violations.org has helped uncover and negotiate more than 100 GPL violations and has obtained numerous out-of-court settlement agreements. The gpl-violations.org project is a not-for-profit effort to bring commercial users and vendors of Free Software into compliance with the licence conditions as set forth by the original authors. The project was founded and is managed by Mr. Harald Welte, a Linux Kernel developer and Free Software enthusiast. For more information on the project, its mission, milestones and goals, please see http://gpl-violations.org Contact: Free Software Foundation Europe Belgium: +32 2 747 03 57 Switzerland: +41 43 500 03 66 UK: +44 29 200 08 17 7 Germany: +49 700 373 38 76 73 Shane Coughlan, FTF Co-ordinator, FSFE extension: 408 Joachim Jakobs, Media Relations, FSFE extension: 404 mobile: +49-179-6919565 -- Georg C. F. Greve <greve(a)fsfeurope.org> Free Software Foundation Europe (http://fsfeurope.org) Join the Fellowship and protect your freedom! (http://www.fsfe.org) What everyone should know about DRM (http://DRM.info) -- Nagarjuna

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Ubuntu Dapper
by BombayNews 12 Nov '06

12 Nov '06

whenever I open firefox to surf a site, I get this message on the status bar for a couple of seconds: Waiting for desktop.richmedia.in Contacting desktop.richmedia.in befo then the message changes to Waiting for rediff.com Contacting rediff.com before the site loads. what is this desktop.richmedia.in? And why don't I get this when I open Opera, Firefox or IE on a Windows machine? At present I have Ubuntu Dapper running Also I find Firefox 2 on Ubuntu slightly slower than when I had IE running on Windows XP. Shiv Kumar

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Linuxers November 2006