Linuxers December 2007

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[Announce] Linuxchix Mumbai Meetup
by Barkha Khatri 05 Jan '08

05 Jan '08

Hi All, A few Linuxchix.org.in members are meeting up in Mumbai on Saturday, January 5, 2008 at Cafe Coffee Day, Dadar. Meeting is open for everyone interested to join Linuxchix India. More details have been put up on the wiki.[1] Regards, Barkha. [1] http://www.linuxchix.org.in/wiki/index.php/CityMeetMumbai

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GLUG-BOM Activity
by Rony 29 Dec '07

29 Dec '07

Hello All, Off late there seems to be very little happenning in Mumbai's GLUG activities. Even on the list there are hardly any technical discussions taking place. Are people loosing interest? -- Regards, Rony. Knock Knock Who's There? Linux Who Linux? GNU/Linux

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Is it possible to write Unicode/ASCII characters directly in any text editor in Linux?
by Kamaleshwar Morjal 28 Dec '07

28 Dec '07

Hi all, I had a small problem with entering some ASCII and Unicode characters that are not available on the normal keyboard (En-US). Right now I have to use the character map to get those characters but that makes it really slow to work with such text. Is there a simpler, faster way to enter such characters using their ASCII or Unicode values directly in a text editor (I use gedit/kwrite/kate et al but would like to know a universal method, if it exists, that works with all the editors including the command line ones..). For example, in Windoze you can enter any ASCII character by holding down Alt - typing out the ASCII value of that character - then releasing Alt - the character is inserted at the cursor. I am currently using Gutsy Gibbon. Any help on this will be greatly appreciated. Thanks and regards. -- "Best things in the world are free; FREEDOM is priceless!" kamaleshwar morjal (कमलेश्वर मोरजाल) http://kamalx.livejournal.com/

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Linksys Router WRT54G v8 - Purchase/Use in India?
by Ayush Gupta 24 Dec '07

24 Dec '07

Hi Linksys has released v8 of their immensely popular WRT54G Wi-Fi router. The v8 series have a serial number starting with CDFF or CDFG as against the CDFE serial numbers used for v7. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRT54G). The v7 router prevalent in the Indian market currently has Atheros chipset and the firmware cannot be replaced by third party open source firmware such as DD-WRT etc. This is not the case with the v8 router. These use Broadcom chipset and hence, third party firmware can be installed on them. I want to know if anyone has purchased or used the WRT54G v8 router in India? Also, have you tried to replace the firmware? Did you need any patches etc? I want to purchase WRT54G v8 but I cant find any shop that is selling one. Everyone is selling v7 only. In case you know of any dealer or shop that is selling v8, please send me their contact information so that I may purchase the same. With Warm Regards Ayush Gupta Phone : +91 99711 53393

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Etch-Xfce the little BOMB.
by Rony 23 Dec '07

23 Dec '07

Hello All, Someone wanted to install a light weight linux distro on his P2 hardware with 64 MB RAM. The Debian docs showed that the lowest RAM for Etch is 64 MB for Gnome/KDE desktops. However for lighter requirements, Etch with Xfce desktop would be fine. Next, downloaded Debian Etch-Xfce single CD iso from http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r1/i386/iso-cd/debian-40r1-i386-xfc… and burned it into a CD. At the boot prompt, the help menu's installation guide mentioned that at least 32 MB of RAM is required for this distro. The target system has 64 MB. Before actual deployment that is yet to take place, I installed it in my system to test it out. Installation was smooth. The internet was kept switched off to load everything from the CD itself. It logged into a simple cute desktop that resembles Gnome and Mac. The top task bar of gnome and the bottom menu bar of mac. It comes preloaded with Iceweasel, the libre version of Firefox. The two missing packages were OpenOffice and IceDove (libre sibling of thunderbird). The volume control and net monitor icon was added to the top panel. Not expecting much from the distro, just for kicks I tried to play some music files and to my utter surprise it played all of them, like wma, mp3. More surprises, it played mov, 3gp and even my DVD out of the box. W-O-W! No hassles of setting up repos and downloading extra codecs and libs. A very good feature for no-internet type installation. It does not auto-mount CDs and DVDs but thats no problem, just manually mount it wherever you want to. Mounting it to /media/cdrom0 is just fine. The inbuilt media player can manually add the DVD to its playlist and play it. The tricky part is with OpenOffice. The distro has a base installation of OO but its not complete and does not run. It has no icons in the menu listing. I tried it in command line using openoffice -writer or -calc but it would give errors of no JRE installed. However that is not the real problem which I found after installing sun-java5-jre. The bundled OO is a base package only. For package downloads, first simply add the debian repos to the apt sources.lst. After an apt-get update, install synaptic, a gui for apt. Please note that this distro is more gnome oriented so avoid installing KDE based apps. as that will require heavy downloads of the KDE environment. Then scroll to the openoffice part in the list and select both packages for complete removal. Then manually install the complete deb packages (using sudo dpkg -i *.deb ) of OO from their site. I had the folder saved from my last Etch-KDE installation that needed these packages too. After installation OO did not start and got lost half way. However, a reboot of the system was all that was needed to get it up and running. It opens a default empty window for where we can select New -> Text/HTML/Spreadsheet/Presentation etc. Then icedove was added using apt-get and thats all. A simple and fast installation of the latest multi-media ready distro core with a light-weight desktop. Later will post results from the actual installation on-site. -- Regards, Rony. Knock Knock Who's There? Linux Who Linux? GNU/Linux

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Fwd: Presenting our next FreeIndian: Anant Narayan
by Pradeepto Bhattacharya 23 Dec '07

23 Dec '07

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Roshan <d_rosh2001(a)yahoo.co.in> Date: Dec 23, 2007 5:43 PM Subject: Presenting our next FreeIndian: Anant Narayan To: Chennai ILUG <ilugc(a)ae.iitm.ac.in>, Delhi ILUG <ilugd(a)lists.linux-delhi.org>, Ubuntu India <ubuntu-in(a)lists.ubuntu.com>, PLUG <plug-mail(a)plug.org.in>, kde-india(a)kde.org List, FreeIndian is all about introducing Indian FOSS contributors to the world. Individuals listed here contribute to various Free and Open Source projects. They include programmers, artists, translators, FOSS advocates, maintainers, packagers and many other direct or indirect FOSS contributors. Read on to know what Indian FOSS developers are all about, how they entered the realm of FOSS, how much time they spend on it, what are their opinions about FOSS, and what are their likes and dislikes. FreeIndian is based loosely on the format of BehindKDE, which features KDE developers across the world. Our current interviews features one more [http://code.google.com/soc Google Summer of Code GSoC] candidate who got involved in PHP initially, learned it alongside his course at Jaipur. He's a native Chennai-aite, born in Delhi and is pursuing his education in Jaipur. Read the interview, to know more about Gentoo user, here. http://kde.in/index.php/Anant_Narayan Cheers! Pradeepto -- The KDE Project : http://www.kde.org KDE India : http://in.kde.org Mailing List : http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-india

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Network driver problem
by PV Sundarram 23 Dec '07

23 Dec '07

Hi luggers, I am trying to install etch on a system with asus p5gc-mx motherboard which has a inbuilt network card. In the installation phase, it is not detecting the network card. Has any one faced a similar problem and solved the issue? Thanks, Sundarram P.V.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] ftp error: 500 invalid port connection
by Agnello George 22 Dec '07

22 Dec '07

On 12/22/07, Benoy George <bgenix(a)gmail.com> wrote: > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [ILUG-BOM] ftp error: 500 invalid port connection > From: Agnello George <agnello.dsouza(a)gmail.com> > To: GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India <linuxers(a)mm.glug-bom.org> > Date: Friday 14 December 2007 04:58:39 PM IST > > > HI > > I am trying to access a ftp server . I am able to connect to it with the > > user name and password. However when i connect to the server and do a dir i > > get the following error. > > > > C:\Documents and Settings\Admin>ftp XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX > > Connected to XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX > > 220 Microsoft FTP Service > > User (XXX.XX.XXX.XXX:(none)): user-name > > 331 Password required for user-name > > Password: > > 230 User user-name logged in. > > ftp> dir > > 500 Invalid PORT Command. > > 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls. > > I got a fire wall running and i have opened port 21, The entry in the > > iptables is as follows . > > > > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 21 -j > > ACCEPT > > > > why am i getting the error ?? when i am able to ftp to other ftp site with > > out authentication ( like ftp://202.96.64.144/pub/ ) > > > > Thanks !! > > Sorry for the late reply, since I am not marking to the list. > From your previous thread I have noticed that you have not > added ftp-data port(20) to the policy. > > see > $cat /etc/services | grep -i ^ftp > on your linux machine. > > and try with > #modprobe ip_conntrack_ftp > > But still sometime we are getting errors with ftp service from > M$ platforms. > > best regards > Benoy > Thanks for all the answers but here is what i did Passive ftp A PORT command is again issued, but this time it is from the server to the client. The client connects to the server for data transfer. Since the connection is in the same sense as the original ftp connection, passive ftp is inherently more secure than active ftp, but note that this time we know even less about the port numbers. Now we have a connection between almost arbitrary port numbers. Enter the ip_conntrack_ftp module once more. Again, this module is able to recognize the PORT command and pick-out the port number. Instead of NEW in the state match for the OUTPUT chain, we can use RELATED. The following rules will suffice: iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --sport 1024: --dport 1024: -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --sport 1024: --dport 1024: -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT add the following to the kernel modprobe ip_nat_ftp -- Agnello . G .Dsouza

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unable to access http://manage.resellerclub.com/reseller throgh firewall
by Agnello George 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

HI I have a Linux based fire wall ( iptables) that allow access to client on the Internet, I have current allowed all ports open both incoming and out going . I can access all site and all ports accept the site http://manage.resellerclub.com/reseller or http://manage.answerable.com/kb ( which i currently really important site for a dept in my company ) . i have no error logs to work with ... no logs what so ever .... except it give me page cannot be displayed on the browser. I had squid configured on my sever but have current stoped it . This problem has occurred since yesterday i flushed the cache ( # > /var/spool/squid/swap.state) but i don't think that should be a problem since i stoped squid !! . How do i go about troubleshooting this issue ?? Thanks -- Agnello . G .Dsouza email : agnello.dsouza(a)gmail.com agnello(a)qualispace.com www.linux-vashi.blogspot.com www.study-the-word.blogspot.com

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[Commercial] : Management institute needs Linux support engineer
by Koustubha Kale 20 Dec '07

20 Dec '07

Hi All, A large Management institute needs Linux support engineer for supporting a server cluster and about 150 thin clients plus few desktops. All on Centos. RHCE will be a distinct advantage. Excellent career prospects for qualified candidate. Please contact me directly if interested. -- Regards, Koustubha Kale

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