Linuxers February 2008

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Kubuntu Gutsy going to initramfs prompt
by Amit Joshi 10 Feb '08

10 Feb '08

I have a completely updated Kubuntu Gutsy Gibbon (7.10). Recently there have been some random problem. Sometimes when I try to boot there seems to be no activity on the splash screen and after a while it takes me to the initramfs prompt (Failure to mount root filesystem). But again sometimes it boots just fine with no problems whatsoever. I found that this was a bug. [1] The only solution to get around this problem was to append "all_generic_ide" to the root line in menu.lst. But I read in the bug report discussion that it may hamper the performance of my HDDs (which are already slow). Is there any other way to get around this problem? [1] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/67256 Regards, Amit. -- http://mckagan.googlepages.com

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Fedora 8, proxy settings, some crashes in KDE and Super Grub Disk!
by Nishit Dave 10 Feb '08

10 Feb '08

List, A little flashback. I had earlier posted a query about non-destructive resizing of NTFS partitions (where free space is not consolidated even after defragmentation) with gparted, for which there was no clear reply. Looking further, I found that ntfsresize, which is used by gparted, does not need free space consolidation. However, the only catch is that defragmentation should not leave any data near the end of the disk. OK, so partitioning done, I have installed Fedora 8 on my laptop with only KDE on it (space constraints). I want to add some packages not on the DVD, but I am facing some problems currently, as follows: 1. Environmental proxy settings: my internet connection goes through an open proxy that does not require any UID or password. I have manually configured firefox and konqueror's proxy settings and I can connect to the internet through them. However, yum / pup / pirut do not work. I have specified the proxy settings in the root bash profile, my (user) bash profile, and in the global profile under /etc/profile, but I cannot still connect. Any pointers? 2. Crashes: The network card control applets under KDE available as nm-applet or system-control-network crash when run. This happened even before I had specified any network settings. system-config-network works properly, methinks. Has anybody else faced this problem, and is there a solution? 3. Multimedia: Kaffeine, Amarok, etc. are unable to play even audio CDs. I wonder why. Is this what bleeding edge is supposed to be? Remember, my system is not updated, as yum doesn't work. Oh, and having installed grub on /dev/sda3 and not the MBR, I have found and started using Super Grub Disk (http://supergrub.forjamari.linex.org/) to boot Fedora. I have burnt its ISO to a CD/RW. It is really wonderful. I think all distros should offer it as a part of their live CD distributions. The ISO is just 3.5 MB, and a bz2 archive is only 500k odd in size.

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[OT] Online Programming Contest at TCE, Madurai.
by Balachandran Sivakumar 09 Feb '08

09 Feb '08

Hello all, Thiagarajar College of Engg., Madurai is organising a national level technical symposium named tecuthsav (https://tecuthsav.tce.edu). As a part of the event, an online programming contest(OLPC) will be conducted tomorrow(sunday, 10/02/2008). Please register in the site as a participant and also for the OLPC contest. The site has detailed information about the contest site: https://tecuthsav.tce.edu date:10/02/2008 time: 2:00 pm contact mail: olpc(a)tce.edu -- Thank you Balachandran Sivakumar (benignbala) Arise Awake and stop not till the goal is reached Learn to live.................Live to learn Mail: benignbala(a)gmail.com Blog: http://benignbala.wordpress.com/ Site:http://benignbala.googlepages.com

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how to block gmail with blocking port 443
by Agnello George 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

HI I have Linux server ( Cent OS ) that runs a firewall and squid ( which is behind the fire wall ) . bellow is my iptable file # Generated by iptables-save v1.3.5 on Thu Feb 7 02:43:43 2008 *nat :PREROUTING ACCEPT [5233:333834] :POSTROUTING ACCEPT [5:1836] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [1150:71993] -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 22 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 3128 -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p udp -m udp --dport 22 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 3128 -A PREROUTING -i eth2 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 3128 -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE COMMIT # Completed on Thu Feb 7 02:43:43 2008 # Generated by iptables-save v1.3.5 on Thu Feb 7 02:43:43 2008 *filter :INPUT ACCEPT [68521:21158845] :FORWARD ACCEPT [36355:23402728] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [93843:100437897] -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT -A FORWARD -i eth2 -j ACCEPT -A OUTPUT -o lo -j ACCEPT COMMIT # Completed on Thu Feb 7 02:43:43 2008 I redirect all request that comes for port 80 to 3128 ( squid machine ) .... and there with the squid i have blocked few sites. But i want to block gmail ( but i am not allowed to block port 443... which gmail works on ) so my question here is how do i block gmail with out blocking port 443 ? (sorry for binging this issue up again !! but i have not really not found a permanent solution ) Thanks ! for all the help !!! -- Regards Agnello Dsouza www.linux-vashi.blogspot.com www.study-the-word.blogspot.com -- Regards Agnello Dsouza www.linux-vashi.blogspot.com www.study-the-word.blogspot.com

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shell script query
by Agnello George 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

I am trying to write a really simple script to install postfix. my script begins like this : #!/bin/sh echo "this is a script tp install postfix for virtual domains " apt-get install postfix-mysql apt-get install mutt apt-get install telnet apt get install mysql-common mysql-client mysql-server libmysqlclient15-dev sysv-rc-conf apt-get instal openssl apt-get install libsasl2 libsasl2-modules libsasl2-modules-sql libauthen-sasl-cyrus-perl libauthen-sasl-perl apt-get install courier-base courier-authlib-mysql courier-ssl courier-pop sysv-rc-conf --level 235 mysqld on sysv-rc-conf --level 235 postfix on apt-get install apache2 apt-get install vim ..... and so on but as soon as the scipt executes it tries to install postfix-mysql , the apt-get progam asks the question " Do you want to continue [Y/n]? " i have to keep pressing " y " ...... what do i put in my script that will automate this , without asking me the question " Do you want to continue [Y/n]?" Thanks for all the help!! -- Regards Agnello Dsouza www.linux-vashi.blogspot.com

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Any Vocabulary builder software for linux
by Praveen Krishnamoorthy 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

Hi all, i am using ubuntu and did some search in the synaptic package manager for any vocabulary builder but to no avail. Could anyone direct me to any vocab builder that comes along with ubuntu or anything else which i could compile for linux. Thanks in Advance!! --PraveenKrish-- Read my Blog at http://praveenkrish.blogspot.com

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Mounting Problem
by zoheb ashraf 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

Hi ILUG-BOM, I want help regarding mounting windows network drive in Redhat Linux AS3/AS4. I shared the windows folder but unable to mount that drive. Kindly please help me out. Warm Regards Zoheb Ansari.

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Unwanted Connections
by Rony 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

Hello All, I am back to using Etch-Kde and while the machine is idle, it shows occasional net activity. Netstat shows the following entries posted below. Why are bbc, rocky-mountain, steffani and such sites being contacted? How do I disable this? Active Internet connections (w/o servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State tcp 0 0 debian.local:60323 rocky-mountain.cs:27644 ESTABLISHED tcp 1 0 debian.local:50722 steffani.debian.org:www CLOSE_WAIT tcp 1 0 debian.local:54730 ns24102.ovh.net:www CLOSE_WAIT tcp 15 0 debian.local:54256 rocky-mountain.csai:ftp CLOSE_WAIT tcp 1 0 debian.local:34230 ftp.de.debian.org:www CLOSE_WAIT tcp 0 0 debian.local:34116 linux.csie.nctu.edu:www ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 debian.local:60323 rocky-mountain.cs:27644 ESTABLISHED tcp 1 0 debian.local:50722 steffani.debian.org:www CLOSE_WAIT tcp 1 1 debian.local:36845 hk-in-f104.google.c:www LAST_ACK tcp 1 1 debian.local:32853 newslb306.telhc.bbc:www LAST_ACK tcp 1 0 debian.local:54730 ns24102.ovh.net:www CLOSE_WAIT tcp 15 0 debian.local:54256 rocky-mountain.csai:ftp CLOSE_WAIT tcp 1 0 debian.local:34230 ftp.de.debian.org:www CLOSE_WAIT tcp 0 0 debian.local:34116 linux.csie.nctu.edu:www ESTABLISHED -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Propagating GNU / Linux in schools
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

>> games - lots of games - educational stuff will bore them. Then talk >> about free and pirated (they all must be using pirated cds/movies. >> Maybe 1 in 10 will grasp the point. > I plan to. But then what games? Give me a few good examples! OpenArena and Tremulous (Quake III mods -- rocks); Battle for Wesnoth (turn-based strategy -- I prefer real-time strategy) Cheers, Debarshi -- Free software for the Indian community: * ftp://fedora.glug-nith.org/ (Fedora) * http://gnu.glug-nith.org/ (GNU) * http://mirror.wbut.ac.in/ (CRAN, Fedora, Mozilla, TLDP)

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Mounting Problem
by Raghu Prasad 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

> I want help regarding mounting windows network drive in > Redhat Linux AS3/AS4. > I shared the windows folder but unable to mount that drive. > Kindly please help me out. If your network is fine and windows share name, user name and password are correct, then the following command should mount the shared folder on Windows server running on (say) 10.1.1.1 to /mnt on your Linux system. mount -t cifs -o user=winuser,password=winpass //10.1.1.1/sharename /mnt Be root to execute this command. If share name or password contains white spaces, then appropriate quotes needed to be added for your shell to treat them properly. Raghu

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Linuxers February 2008