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debian etch dvd
by Satish Alwani 11 Apr '07

11 Apr '07

Oh, I thought he was in TIFR, navy nagar. Damn. Oh well; courier.. Anwyays, happy downloading http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r0/i386/iso-dvd/ Remember, disc 2 and disc 3. I strongly recommend the use of Moser Baer DVD's while burning. im around 50% done already. Should have effectively tomorrow/day after.Provided no screw ups. Satish

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Auto-enable usbnet device on link startup
by Siddhesh Poyarekar 10 Apr '07

10 Apr '07

Hi, This is something I noticed while I was playing around with my Triband connection on USB. If I start (or reboot) my router after my computer has started, the network interface for the USB connection is detected but not enabled automatically. I have to manually up the interface. I guess this behaviour is expected under debian since network configuration (upping of interfaces) takes place only at startup through /etc/init.d/networking. Any network devices detected after startup will be configured but not enabled. Shouldn't default behaviour be to simply enable the interface if it is defined as auto in /etc/network/interfaces? -- Siddhesh Poyarekar http://siddhesh.tk

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] wireless mesh at hbcse
by Vickram Crishna 10 Apr '07

10 Apr '07

--- Nagarjuna wrote: > Hi all, particularly those who attended the workshop > on 31st March and > 1st April, and last saturday Rony, Jtd resumed the > work. > > Status: > > Last saturday we successfully managed to get the > mesh working. Actually > the mesh works out of the box like a charm. We only > used several of our > legacy skills and actually wasted lot of time. But > at the end every > moment spent was useful. We now know exactly what > to communicate to > others who wish to setup such a mesh (mess ;-) > successfully. > > The dhcp on wireless was not working as of Saturday, > but today afternoon > I tried based on a reply from the olsr-users mailing > list. Again it > worked out of the box. > > What I did: > > installed a package called 'freifunk-dnsmasq', > restarted it. Now we see > an additional parameter on the web interface called > OLSR-DHCP: This is > where we give the DHCP share of the mesh network > (not the lan network). > thats it. > > Now we have a working mesh in the campus. I will > write documentation > here: http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/WirelessMesh. > Please add to everything > I missed out. I will also upload few screen shots > so that new teams > setting it up will find it useful. > > Next step: > > Prepare a server (Rony contributed a server) and > dump useful resources > there for community use. Next time, gluggers can > walk into our campus > and sit in our lounge with a laptop and takeaway > what the server has. > If we get a list of goodies that the community needs > we will begin > archiving them. So send such a request to > glab(a)hbcse.tifr.res.in. we > will download them during the night time and leave > it one the server. > Great news. Please link up these how-to-do-it pages in the wsfii wiki also. The resources idea is brilliant and a great boon. Please see how soon we can make this work. Actually, I think from what I heard in Dharamsala, it should be possible for us to 'mesh' into the system remotely wherever we are located, provided we run OLSR locally and tune it to the same mesh. In that case, downloading the resources will be just a hop or or two away. Is this understanding correct? > > From: Mrugesh Karnik <mrugeshkarnik(a)gmail.com> > Secondly, without the dnsmasq package, can we get > the native udhcpd to work > with the OLSR interface? I think we can.. What's the > OLSR interface that > shows up with ifconfig? It is possible, I think, to > manually configure the > DHCP server to listen on the OLSR interface. > > The problem, I think, wasn't with the missing > package, but with the fact that > we had DHCP running on the WLAN interface instead of > the OLSR interface. The > native DHCP should work perfectly fine if I'm > right... unless dnsmasq has > some features I don't know about.. Is it possible to 'test-bed' this on a non-wireless, perhaps a standalone, device? Can we create ghost nodes somehow? Anyhow, it hardly matters, since the actual test-bed will be available at HBCSE for trials. Vickram ___________________________________________________________ New Yahoo! Mail is the ultimate force in competitive emailing. Find out more at the Yahoo! Mail Championships. Plus: play games and win prizes. http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=44106/*http://mail.yahoo.net/uk

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] bash proxy settings
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 09 Apr '07

09 Apr '07

Firstly, may I know what is your ultimate aim? :-) >> I tried the above but now when i try to ping www.google.com >> ping: unknown host www.google.com is what i get. Make sure there is a DNS server that is reachable from your machine. The best way would be to run BIND as a caching DNS server ('# service bind start' for Red Hat systems) on the machine running the proxy server, and configure your machine to use this as the primary DNS (use /etc/resolv.conf). To confirm that this actually works do: $ nslookup gnu.org on your own machine. [ If you can not have a DNS then try: $ ping 199.232.41.10 If this fails, then read on.] Next, make sure you have a gateway that actually forwards the packet from your subnet to the outside world. I have had experience using a 'gateway' which never forwarded anything, so make sure that the sysadmin is not lying and the gateway is actually forwarding the traffic. Checking this is a bit dicey, and depends if there is any firewall that is blocking traffic bound to specific ports and so on. Here are a few things you can try: 1. $ ping google.com 2. Try using an email client like Mutt, Thunderbird, KMail and see if you can send and receive mail or not. If the SMTP and/or POP3 traffic is blocked this would not work. 3. Disable the proxy in the Web browser (eg., Firefox), and try to visit any site. Again if port 80 or 443 traffic is being blocked or not forwarded, this would not work. 4. Try using Gaim. Do not set any proxy, and try to log into Yahoo!, Jabber, or IRC. 5. Try SSH, without using any HTTP proxy tunnelling tool (like Corkscrew). If you have not heard about tunnelling, then most likely you do not have a any such tool. Just do something like: $ ssh foo(a)external.server Knowing your ultimate aim would have been helpful. Regards, Debarshi -- GPG key ID: 63D4A5A7 Key server: pgp.mit.edu

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Protecting ubuntu against fork bombs
by Chetan S 09 Apr '07

09 Apr '07

Hi all, An old article caught my eye - http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/308 It talks about the way linux systems react to a fork bomb and surprisingly it is by freezing stiff. Sadly most distros seem to freeze as the limits are meant to maximize performance and not make it secure, even Ubuntu. Can someone shed light on what knobs/limits to tweak to deal with this "problem" ? regards, C

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Regarding comments on my site!!
by amitflu 09 Apr '07

09 Apr '07

Hi, These dayz I am making a site and want to make a business out of it(in php and apache). Would love to receive ideas on improving revenue and outlook of the site? My site is www.merasurat.com. The site is still in its initial construction dayz. Thanks and Regards, Amit Kumar Webmaster www.merasurat.com ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a PS3 game guru. Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! Games. http://videogames.yahoo.com/platform?platform=120121

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Re: Debian Etch out, finally!
by Kartik Mistry 09 Apr '07

09 Apr '07

On 4/9/07, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > At last! > > http://www.debian.org/News/2007/20070408 > > Kumar Ah, Where is release party? ;) -- Regards, -------------------------------------------------------- KartiK MistrY | kartikmistry.org 0xD1028C8D | kartikm.wordpress.com --------------------------------------------------------

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Firefox 2.0 @ higher risk than IE 7 in Vista?
by Roshan 08 Apr '07

08 Apr '07

Hello All, http://zdnet.com.com/1606-2_2-6173372.html Found this link, while was browsing through my emails and replies to queries. The above video demonstrates that .ani files used in Vista for animated cursors can be exploited by a remote server (when a URL is visited). (exploited for remote access to files) For Internet Explorer 7 (default installation with Vista), a connection is established, but since Internet Explorer is in protected mode, it won't allow harfmful priveleges on system files. However, a higher concern is for Firefox users, because it uses the same windows component to process this request, but doesn't have a defined modes of access. (No modes like the ones in IE7). I *haven't* tried this, nor do I know how a TCP packet is used in the above connection, (and what sort of packet) for this attack. So, does Firefox need some enhancements of functioning independently of Windows components? What are the security features of Firefox that tend to prove Internet Explorer is pretty bad on it? -- S K Somaiya College of ASC - http://www.somaiya.edu/sksasc FSF of India Associate Fellow - http://www.gnu.org.in __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/

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Debian Etch out, finally!
by Kumar Appaiah 08 Apr '07

08 Apr '07

At last! http://www.debian.org/News/2007/20070408 Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036

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Qmail
by mahesh pokhriyal 07 Apr '07

07 Apr '07

Hi friends, I want to install qmail , pls. can anybody tell me best site for qmail from i get help about qmail like how to install & configure Qmail setup by setup. OR anybody have the notes for Qmail pls. forward me. Thanks&Regards, Mahesh Pokhriyal --------------------------------- Don't be flakey. Get Yahoo! Mail for Mobile and always stay connected to friends.

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