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Require Red Hat 7.1 CDs ...
by hemendra jain 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

Hi Friends, I need Red Hat 7.1 CDs . Thanx. Regards, Hemendra Jain

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>>some errors need help : vxconfigd - part of VxVM <<
by BIJU KRISHNAN 27 Mar '05

27 Mar '05

Dear luggers, I'am facing problems in starting the pivotal vxconfigd daemon on my box with RHEL Os and a compiled kernel The error is [root@veritas root]# vxconfigd VxVM vxconfigd ERROR V-5-1-7840 cannot open /dev/vx/config: No such device whereas the device exists in /dev/vx/ Here are a few inputs ------> [root@veritas root]# uname -a Linux veritas.linux.com 2.4.21-15.0.3.EL #1 Mon Jul 5 00:06:10 EDT 2004 i686 i68 6 i386 GNU/Linux [root@veritas root]# [root@veritas root]# [root@veritas root]# vxconfigd VxVM vxconfigd ERROR V-5-1-7840 cannot open /dev/vx/config: No such device [root@veritas root]# [root@veritas root]# [root@veritas root]# cd /dev/vx/config -bash: cd: /dev/vx/config: Not a directory [root@veritas root]# cd /dev/vx/ [root@veritas vx]# pwd /dev/vx [root@veritas vx]# ls- l -bash: ls-: command not found [root@veritas vx]# ls -l total 3 crw-r--r-- 1 root root 200, 6 Mar 25 11:20 clust crw-r--r-- 1 root root 200, 0 Mar 25 11:20 config drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Mar 25 11:19 dev drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Mar 25 11:20 dmp brw-r--r-- 1 root root 201, 255 Mar 25 11:20 dmpconfig crw-r--r-- 1 root root 200, 3 Mar 25 11:20 info crw-r--r-- 1 root root 200, 2 Mar 25 11:20 iod crw-r--r-- 1 root root 200, 7 Mar 25 11:20 netiod drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Mar 25 11:20 rdmp crw-r--r-- 1 root root 200, 4 Mar 25 11:20 task crw-r--r-- 1 root root 200, 5 Mar 25 11:20 taskmon crw-r--r-- 1 root root 200, 1 Mar 25 11:20 trace [root@veritas vx]# ---------------------------------------------------------> And for the veritas experts who would demand the list of modules loaded [root@veritas vx]# lsmod Module Size Used by Tainted: P vxdmp 188640 0 (unused) pcnet32 17760 1 mii 3956 0 [pcnet32] crc32 3712 0 [pcnet32] ide-scsi 12304 0 ide-cd 33920 0 cdrom 32096 0 [ide-cd] keybdev 2976 0 (unused) mousedev 5492 0 (unused) hid 22084 0 (unused) input 5856 0 [keybdev mousedev hid] usb-uhci 25836 0 (unused) usbcore 77152 1 [hid usb-uhci] ext3 85704 6 jbd 50572 6 [ext3] BusLogic 99068 7 sd_mod 13360 14 scsi_mod 104232 3 [vxdmp ide-scsi BusLogic sd_mod] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Could anyone try atleast guessing if not finding the exact solution. Googling gives me a few solutions for the same error in solaris, says a few linked libs might be not in the proper path...but with linux it does not seem to be the case. bye rgds biju __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] dpkg conflics
by Sameer Niphadkar 27 Mar '05

27 Mar '05

On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 pitcom(a)vsnl.com wrote : >linuxers > >I'm using woody 3.0. I installed some packages like jdk, netbeans etc using >tar/bin installer and some more application simmilarly. I also installed 2.6 kernel. This has created unmet dependencies, how do I resolve it? > >Regards > > >Kamlesh Shah, E-comm Consultant >Parth Information Technology www.parthinfo.net >Email:pitcom@vsnl.com M:+919850430676 Installing the 2.6 kernel on Deb Woody would no doubt be free without dependancies. try for #apt-get upgrade to stay up with the current software. 'You will be what you WILL to Be' -James Allen

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libtool versioning
by Philip Tellis 27 Mar '05

27 Mar '05

I'd spoken about libtool versioning at a lug meet a long time ago. This will just be few lines on it. libtool libraries on linux are of the form: libname.so.X.Y.Z where 'name' is the name of the library, and X, Y and Z are whole numbers. Let's deal with Y first since that's the easiest. When a library author increments the Y number by 1, it signifies an internal change in the library that does not affect users of the library. These would generally be things like changing an algorithm or variable names or documentation, but not touching the API. Now the other two. The first number - X - is the library version. A library author increments this number by one when any of the following occurs: - A new feature (including API) was added - An existing feature (including API) was dropped - An existing feature (including API) was changed Of the above, the first is backwards compatible, the second is not, and the third may be (using default values for new parameters for example). For case 3, the new library may be source compatible but not binary compatible, suggesting that any code that uses the library must be recompiled to work, but not rewritten. For case 2, any code that used the dropped feature must be rewritten. For all three cases, code that uses the library may need to be recompiled even if it doesn't make use of the changed features because the virtual pointer table may have changed (specific to Compiled OO languages). libtool versioning helps tell library users what to do. Everytime X is incremented, it suggests that code may have to be rewritten or recompiled. To identify which, we look at the last digit - Z. The number Z is the library API's age, ie, how far back is it compatible. So, a few examples. You compile against: libfoo.so.3.0.0 New version released: libfoo.so.3.1.0 Action needed: none New version released: libfoo.so.4.0.1 Action needed: may need recompile/relink (4-1 == 3) New version released: libfoo.so.5.0.2 Action needed: may need recompile/relink (5-2 == 3) New version released: libfoo.so.4.0.0 Action needed: may need rewrite/recompile (4-0 > 3) Let the major library version number that we compiled against be M. In the above cases, to determine whether a recompile is required or a rewrite is required, we check that X-Z <= M <= X Here's something that I use to remind me: # +1 : 0 : +1 == new interface that does not break old one. # +1 : 0 : 0 == removed/changed an interface. Breaks old apps. # ? : +1 : ? == internal changes that doesn't break anything. Finished :) For more information, run "info libtool" -- Real Users are afraid they'll break the machine -- but they're never afraid to break your face.

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dpkg conflics
by pitcom＠vsnl.com 27 Mar '05

27 Mar '05

linuxers I'm using woody 3.0. I installed some packages like jdk, netbeans etc using tar/bin installer and some more application simmilarly. I also installed 2.6 kernel. This has created unmet dependencies, how do I resolve it? Regards Kamlesh Shah, E-comm Consultant Parth Information Technology www.parthinfo.net Email:pitcom@vsnl.com M:+919850430676

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B2d Purekde Knoopix based Distro
by Gaurav Mishra 27 Mar '05

27 Mar '05

B2D is a Knoppix-based live CD (it can optionally be installed on hard disk) with support for traditional Chinese. The project's PureKDE edition has been updated to version 20050323. The new release fixes several bugs reported in the earlier version, the KDE menu has been simplified, and bold text on Chinese web sites now displays correctly. A number of applications have been updated to their latest versions, including Freemind and Nvu (traditional Chinese editions), Azureus and Skype. Several small improvements have been made to settings of the persistent home directory, while ALSA has replaced OSS as the default sound module. download it ftp://ftp3.tnc.edu.tw/KNOPPIX/health/B2DpureKDE20050323.iso

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Minislack 0.4 Distribution Released
by Gaurav Mishra 27 Mar '05

27 Mar '05

Minislack Linux aims to be focused on Internet application, multimedia and coding tools. It's a complete system : this means that you'll be able tu browse, mail, chat, listen to music, watch videos in various formats, write documents, print, scan, burn CD and DVD, connect your camera and edit your photographs, without adding anything. Coders will like the full set of development libraries and interpreters. Minislack has the following objectives : Be simple, fast and reliable Provide one application for one task Provide coding tools and libraries Be small so that it can be distributed on a single 400MB ISO image Some features of the current version are : Kernel(2.6.11.4) with support for USB, scsi, acpi, pcmcia, bluetooth, Framebuffer, sata... gcc(3.3.5),JRE(1.5.0_01), Python(2.4),Perl(5.8.6) Windowmaker(0.91), XFCE(4.2) Mozilla-firefox(1.0.1)/thunderbird(1.0), Abiword(2.0.12), Gnumeric(1.2.13), Dia(0.94), Gimp(2.2.3) Anjuta(1.2.2), Bluefish(1.0), Gedit(2.6.1), Gvim(6.3) Alsa(1.0.8), Xine(1.0), Gnomebaker(0.3), Beep-media-player(0.9.7)

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] NEWS: CentOS has released an RHEL clone
by Nadiem 27 Mar '05

27 Mar '05

--- Clinton Goveas <clinton(a)clintongoveas.com> wrote: > A news.com report writes: > *"It took Red Hat 16 months to produce the newest > version of its premium > Linux product, which went on sale in February for as > much as $2,499 per > computer per year. > > *It took a group of programmers less than two weeks > to release a free > clone. But the move could help Red Hat as much as it > appears to hurt it." Doesn't RHEL already have a free clone called Whitebox? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/

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Problem starting GNOME
by abhilash kumar 27 Mar '05

27 Mar '05

Hi all, Recently I happened to add an application to be started whenever I login to the system on an RHEL ES system. This I did by using Start Menu | Preferences | More Preferences | Sessions and startup programs on a GNOME Desktop. It didn't start on a KDE Desktop even at that time. All was fine and the application used to popup when I start login as desired user. Then later on I stopped the startup of the application by removing the corresponding entry at the same location. But then whenever I login as the concerned user I am unable to start GNOME but can only login to KDE (Both are installed). For other users on the system there is no problem using both the Desktop Environments. googling around also didn't help so all the suggestions are valuable Thanks in advance Abhilash Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Problem starting GNOME
by Nadiem 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

--- Rony Bill <ronbillypop(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Nadiem wrote: > > >If you don't remove /home/rony and simply create a > new > >user called rony again, the system allocates the > >directory to this user. > > > Will the system update any damaged or deleted or > misconfigured system > files in the /home/rony directory? If so then this > is the shortest > method to repair a user's configuration as all other > data will remain > intact. When user rony is created, the system files defined by /etc/skel are copied into /home/rony. So yes, if the misconfigured files are present in /etc/skel ,they would be repaired. Regards, Nadiem. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Problem starting GNOME
by Nadiem 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

--- Rony Bill <ronbillypop(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Suppose an existing user 'rony' was removed, and a > new user called > 'rony' was created, how will the system remove the > older 'rony' and > allot the existing ~rony directory to the new 'rony' When you "remove" a user, you have to remove the user's entry in the passwd, shadow, group and gshadow files (using vipw and vigr commands). After that you have to manually delete /home/rony and /var/spool/mail/rony. Only after completing these steps, is the user rony removed completely from the system. If you don't remove /home/rony and simply create a new user called rony again, the system allocates the directory to this user. Regards, Nadiem. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/

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Tally on Linux
by komal 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

Hello, Since last few days people have been asking question about Tally 7.2 on Linux. Does this mean that Tally is now available on Linux? If yes then where to download demo version of Tally. Regards, Komal

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Windows 2k/2k3 won't boot <==Mandrake 9.2 & 10.1 Official
by Sameer Niphadkar 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 Navneet Choudhary wrote : >Hi list, > >I am using Mandrake 10.1 Official on multiboot system. > > >After installing Mandrake 9.2 (yes 9.2 NOT 10.1) on >un-partitioned space. Windows stop booting. > >Since as per default GRUB setting, it should show non >*Linux OS also in Boot menu. >But, here it is not showing any other OS. > >NOTE: Boot loader might be installed on MBR (instead >of first non windows partition)? > > So, I booted to Linux & can view non-Linux >partition being mounted as below: > >#df-h > >/dev/hda1 1G 4.7G 11G 31% /mnt/win_c >/dev/hda5 5.1G 4.6G 418M 92% /mnt/win_d > >and > >#fdisk -l > >Disk /dev/hda:40.0 GB,40020664320 >16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77545 cylinders >Units= cylinder of 1008 * 512= 516096 bytes > >Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > >/dev/hda1 * 1 31206 15727603+ 7 HPFS/NTFS >/dev/hda2 31206 77545 23355045 f W95Ext'd(LBA) >/dev/hda5 31206 41613 524519 7 HPFS/NTFS >/dev/hda6 41613 64700 11534638+ 6 FAT16 >/dev/hda7 64500 64708 1052738 83 Linux >/dev/hda8 64709 65729 514552 82 Swap >/dev/hda9 65730 69802 2052760 83 Linux >/dev/hda10 69803 77545 3902446+ 83 Linux > >NOTE: /dev/hda1 Windows 2000 Professional > /dev/hda5 Windows 2003 Server > /dev/hda6 MISC (FAT16) > >Since, I am not getting any windows listing in my Grub >boot menu.Therefore,i have manually added windows >entry in it. > >Now, >1)when I choose windows 2000 at boot time: > >ERROR o/p:- >Root(hda0,1) >Filesystem type unknown,partition oxf >Chainloader +1 > >2)When I choose windows 2003 >Root(hda0,5) >Filesystem type unknown,partition ox6 >Chainloader +1 > > >Lastly I tried installing Mandrake 10.1 >OfficialOnce again it could not able to recognise >windows OS installed on my Hard Disk. > >Now, please suggest how to revert back to my original >configuration.. >Running Windows OS without formatting. Since it >contains lots many important installation that cant >be ported without running original Windows. > > If you have installed Mandrake 9.2 after 10.1 then grub won't recognize your OS unless you manually change the grub.conf and point it to boot the newer (9.2) kernel. Root(hda0,1) Root(hda0,5) ???????????? I think it should be (hd0,0) and (hd0,4) Sameer 'You will be what you WILL to Be' -James Allen

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Problem starting GNOME
by Sameer Niphadkar 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 abhilash kumar wrote : >Hi all, > > Recently I happened to add an application to be >started whenever I login to the system on an RHEL ES >system. This I did by using Start Menu | Preferences | >More Preferences | Sessions and startup programs on a >GNOME Desktop. It didn't start on a KDE Desktop even >at that time. > > All was fine and the application used to popup when I >start login as desired user. Then later on I stopped >the startup of the application by removing the >corresponding entry at the same location. But then >whenever I login as the concerned user I am unable to >start GNOME but can only login to KDE (Both are >installed). > > For other users on the system there is no problem >using both the Desktop Environments. > >googling around also didn't help so all the >suggestions are valuable > >Thanks in advance > > Check out your .xinitrc.template file for gnome configuration. Do backup the original file before you make any changes. Sameer 'You will be what you WILL to Be' -James Allen

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[ILUG-BOM] has anyone installed Veritas Storage Foundation on RHEL ???
by BIJU KRISHNAN 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

Dear Luggers, Has anyone installed Veritas SF 4.0 on any of the Distros? bye rgds biju __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] rconnect monitoring in Debian
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

On Friday 25 March 2005 00:21, Harshal wrote: > any body using relieance rconnect to connect to net. i am running a > debian box here, and i just got there 650 plan where you pay flat > Rs.650 and get always on connection with 1Gb of download limit. the > problem is how do i know how much have i downloaded? Several tools for network stats. Google. ifconfig will give you the number of packets recieved /sent. Multiply by the mtu usually 1500 and u have the number of bytes sent /recieved since the interface went up. rgds jtd

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[ILUG-BOM] Re: Windows 2k/2k3 won't boot <==Mandrake 9.2 & 10.1 Official
by abhilash kumar 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

>/dev/hda1 Windows 2000 Professional > /dev/hda5 Windows 2003 Server > /dev/hda6 MISC (FAT16) >Since, I am not getting any windows listing in my Grub >boot menu.Therefore,i have manually added windows >entry in it. > >Now, >1)when I choose windows 2000 at boot time: > >ERROR o/p:- >Root(hda0,1) >Filesystem type unknown,partition oxf >Chainloader +1 > >2)When I choose windows 2003 >Root(hda0,5) >Filesystem type unknown,partition ox6 >Chainloader +1 The problem seems to be some mistake in modifying the grub.conf file. Root(hda0,1) should be root (hd0,0) for Win200. where hd0 means the first HDD and the partition no is the next fig, so if Win200 is /dev/hda1 then the entry should be "0" in the grub. similarly the other OS entries must also be corrected. Abhilash Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Mumbai Map Archive
by Shekhar Krishnan 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

Dear All: I have uploaded a series of high-resolution scanned maps and satellite imagery of Mumbai City, Suburbs, and the Metropolitan Region, in the spirit of open geo-data. These are free for viewing, downloading, and sharing. This archive contains the Bombay City Guide series conducted by the Survey of India from 1929-69, which I obtained in the University of Chicago Library a few years ago, along with some other regional plans of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority and Bombay Municipal Corporation, and high-resolution composite satellite imagery of Mumbai from the NASA Landsat 7 series. You can view and download these maps at: http://www.crit.org.in/archives/maps You can view the images at different sizes, and if you want to download them, simply right-click on the image. To download the originals, view at original size and right-click. Please note that the file sizes are very large, between 5-25 MB and will require a fast connection to view and download properly. You can check the size of the image before choosing the size at which to view. We will be adding more maps and plans to this archive over the next few weeks, so please check back, and send me your suggestions for developing this Mumbai Map Archive. If anyone here is experienced with GRASS and Map Server, please contact me off the list. Best S.K. _____ Shekhar Krishnan 9, Supriya, 2nd Floor Plot 709, Parsee Colony Road no.4 Dadar, Mumbai 400014 India http://www.crit.org.in/members/shekhar

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[ILUG-BOM] Windows 2k/2k3 won't boot <==Mandrake 9.2 & 10.1 Official
by Navneet Choudhary 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

Hi list, I am using Mandrake 10.1 Official on multiboot system. After installing Mandrake 9.2 (yes 9.2 NOT 10.1) on un-partitioned space. Windows stop booting. Since as per default GRUB setting, it should show non *Linux OS also in Boot menu. But, here it is not showing any other OS. NOTE: Boot loader might be installed on MBR (instead of first non windows partition)? So, I booted to Linux & can view non-Linux partition being mounted as below: #df-h /dev/hda1 1G 4.7G 11G 31% /mnt/win_c /dev/hda5 5.1G 4.6G 418M 92% /mnt/win_d and #fdisk -l Disk /dev/hda:40.0 GB,40020664320 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77545 cylinders Units= cylinder of 1008 * 512= 516096 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 31206 15727603+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 31206 77545 23355045 f W95Ext'd(LBA) /dev/hda5 31206 41613 524519 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda6 41613 64700 11534638+ 6 FAT16 /dev/hda7 64500 64708 1052738 83 Linux /dev/hda8 64709 65729 514552 82 Swap /dev/hda9 65730 69802 2052760 83 Linux /dev/hda10 69803 77545 3902446+ 83 Linux NOTE: /dev/hda1 Windows 2000 Professional /dev/hda5 Windows 2003 Server /dev/hda6 MISC (FAT16) Since, I am not getting any windows listing in my Grub boot menu.Therefore,i have manually added windows entry in it. Now, 1)when I choose windows 2000 at boot time: ERROR o/p:- Root(hda0,1) Filesystem type unknown,partition oxf Chainloader +1 2)When I choose windows 2003 Root(hda0,5) Filesystem type unknown,partition ox6 Chainloader +1 Lastly I tried installing Mandrake 10.1 Official��Once again it could not able to recognise windows OS installed on my Hard Disk. Now, please suggest how to revert back to my original configuration�.. Running Windows OS without formatting. Since it contains lots many important installation that can�t be ported without running original Windows. Accept my Holi wishes,play safe with colour!. Thanks and Regards. Navneet Choudhary __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/

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[others]REDHAT 9 CDs required.
by Abhishek Daga 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

Hello, I am looking for RedHat 9 discs urgently. If anyone has them and can spare them for a day or two, i'd really appreciate it. Preferred Locations are a) South Mumbai (24 hours) b) New Mumbai, Panvel (Evening hours or sat/sun) c) (Harbor line) till Sewri. If anyone is in these locations and can spare the discs, please give me a ring on 9323124058 and I could swing by and collect, carry, copy, credit. thanks! abhishek __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/

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[ILUG-BOM] Connecting a Reliance CDMA Phone SCH N 191 to redhat 9 system
by Abhishek Daga 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

Background: Using Monit, to monitor mail servers and alerts are sent to orange and bpl mobile phones using the email-to-sms feature. Drawback: Unreliable: Possible Solution: Monitor Remotely from local server and instead of sending email to sms, switch over to SMS-to-SMS. While going the official route would work out expensive, I plan to use the reliance phone where my SMSes are free. Now, how do I go about doing this setup. Ok, so a data cable will be required and purchased. Then what? The system is Redhat 9 and the mail server (if it matters) is postfix. The alert system is Monit. Any thoughts, development on this done before? Thanks again. abhishek __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/

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NEWS: CentOS has released an RHEL clone
by Clinton Goveas 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

A news.com report writes: *"It took Red Hat 16 months to produce the newest version of its premium Linux product, which went on sale in February for as much as $2,499 per computer per year. *It took a group of programmers less than two weeks to release a free clone. But the move could help Red Hat as much as it appears to hurt it." Full story: http://news.com.com/Programmers+bypass+Red+Hat+Linux+fees/2100-7344_3-56324… CentOS web site: http://www.centos.org/ RHEL web site: http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/ -- Clinton Goveas -- http://www.clintongoveas.com/

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Details on PGP
by Amit Bagadia 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

Hi There i just wanted to know if anyone of you can help me on the following topics 1.Digital Signature using tool PGP 2. Pvt. Key Algo using PGP can u please forward me to sites for the same. thanks. Bye Amit.

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rconnect monitoring in Debian
by Harshal 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

any body using relieance rconnect to connect to net. i am running a debian box here, and i just got there 650 plan where you pay flat Rs.650 and get always on connection with 1Gb of download limit. the problem is how do i know how much have i downloaded? i contacted there support they said, they don't have any info about this. infact once the guy said that its users who will have to keep track how much they have downloaded, i don't understand if they themselves don't know whether i have crossed 1Gb or not, how will they bill me. anyways, so i have decided to keep a track of myself. i am not using kppp where i know how it can be done. how do i monitor when i am using rconnect?

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[Software Patents]
by Anand M R 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Guys, heres a link i got in the #linux-india channel. http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=8096 There seems to be some amendments to the bill, but i didnt understand it fully. Maybe u guys can find out the new implications. Anand.

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Alinux aka Peanut Linux
by Gaurav Mishra 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

aLinux is a new name of what was until recently known as Peanut Linux. The originally small distribution has grown large and "Peanut isn't a Peanut no-more, it's evolved into something, well, larger, a watermelon... Of course it will be the same, just a different name. Changes in aLinux 12.2 are mainly xitami rebuilt, mimes added to that, and mplayer-plug, 'apt' updated to name change. RPM updated to now show a vendor, this can be over ridden in /usr/lib/rpm/macros; as well as email address. Updated RPMs popt from 1.8.1 - 1.9.1 I believe. Some other stuff updated, can't remember it all... oh yeah, kdenetwork, updated to support wireless networking... umm... think brain think... lol... Kay and I may have added some other wallpapers...." Check out http://alinux.org/

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Foresight Desktop Linux
by Gaurav Mishra 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

A new version of Foresight Desktop Linux has been released. What's new? "Conary updated to 0.50.5; included a wallpaper with a proposed logo; slick new Xscreensaver lock dialog; Bluefish and Firestarter added; some new versions; a few tweaks and bug fixes... What is cool? GNOME - Foresight comes with GNOME 2.10; Conary - Foresight is built on the paradigm shifting Conary package management system; Mono - Prepackaged Mono 1.1.4 and many Mono applications; Beagle, F-spot.. Where to get it: http://downloads.foresightlinux.com/ Changes since the last release: * Conary updated to 0.50.5 * Included a wallpaper with a proposed logo * Slick new xscreensaver lock dialog * bluefish and firestarter added * Some new versions * A few tweaks and bug fixes... What is cool? * GNOME -- Foresight comes with GNOME 2.10 * Conary -- Foresight is built on the paradigm shifting conary package management system. * Mono -- Prepackaged Mono 1.1.4 and many mono apps; Beagle, f-spot, Tomboy, Monodevelop, etc... * GNOME Office * Howl And more... try it, you'll like it..

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Internal Modem problem
by Hakim 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Hi all, i have installed PCTEL internal modem in my Redhat enterprise linux dut it is unable to work ,,it works fine in WINDOWS OS though it detect and showing in hwcong file but still when i activate using GUI it bumps me error. I try find it drivers on net, but unable to get that Seeking your valuable help -- Thanks Hakim H 0-93243 95842

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] py2exe on Linux?
by Chirag Wazir 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Hi, Satya <ilugbom(a)thesatya.com> wrote: > Alright, all you Python people, everywhere I look on Google > I find that py2exe is being run on Windows. Can I use it on Linux > (without Wine, VMWare, etc.) and generate Windows executables? The short answer is no. To some extent this is possible, but there is currently no tool AFAIK that does a cross-platform build for Python. You will find the same question discussed on comp.lang.python - http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/ search?q=py2exe+linux There are instructions to get it done using Wine and the minimal number of windows DLLs at http://grossac.org/python_eng.html Without a proper Windows environment, I doubt you'll be able to do this with a complex project that has many dependencies - especially GUI libraries etc. Chirag Wazir http://chirag.freeshell.org

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M$ tried to patent the Internet... Again
by V P 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,39020369,39192452,00.htm

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Pacenet-india PPPoE Connection
by Revant 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

I'll try to provide all info. So that experts can help me solve the connection problem 1) I'm using ubuntu 4.10 http://www.ubuntulinux.org/ debian based distro 2) the command default in debian me@ubuntu:~ $ pppoe-discovery Access-Concentrator: net9 Service-Name: net9 Got a cookie: 53 dd 47 9e 6e 39 bc 33 97 a5 11 60 e2 17 71 f2 fc 04 00 00 AC-Ethernet-Address: 00:0c:f1:fc:e6:ef -------------------------------------------------- Access-Concentrator: net9online Service-Name: cable AC-Ethernet-Address: 00:01:0a:11:44:34 -------------------------------------------------- 3)adsl-start error -> pd 2.4.2 started by root, uid 0 ing interface ppp0 nnect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/1 mote message: Login incorrect nnection terminated. flush failed: Input/output error it. pd 2.4.2 started by root, uid 0 ing interface ppp0 nnect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/1 mote message: Login incorrect nnection terminated. it. 4) username used to connect I tried to connect with both types of usernames. user and user@linuxuser both 5) kernel mode / Normal Mode pppoe connection method -> i dont know how to find this out? 6) tools used to configure pppoe first i used pppoeconf then adsl-setup then edited the pppoe.conf for a-c and service-name Social and Real world : My ISP cable guy has his router setup in such a way that i can auth the net from web browser http:// 172.50.1.1 but it fails 1/4th of the time. So on windows xp their so called "engineer" gave me the pacenet dialer and connected me to internet with 1) my username 2) A-C was "net9online" and "service-name" was cable I called pacenet-call centre and they said they cannot create @linuxuser for me as i use 25kbps plan. I think connection must work on linux because it works on windows, I guess the problem might be in these 2 things 1) it sometimes connects with PAP and sometimes CHAP and both methods fail to authenticate, what should i use to connect to server, and how? 2) Problem might also be in kernel or normal mode pppoe , because i dont know the difference Now I'm on linux and connected to internet by the router way http://172.50.1.1 , but can't hold it for 24*7

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Re: [ILUG-BOM][OT] MTNL Tri Band ADSL equipment config
by Amish Mehta 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

Hi Derwyn Dpenha wrote: >Thanks everyone the connection is up not on usb but on lan card with >cross wire Great to hear this. Just wanted to ask, can you still use same public IP(on Linux) with cross over cable or you had to setup LAN and modem does NATing internally? I just wanted to know if Linux machine can be accessed over internet? Amish. P.S. Message sent on list so others can answer too and rest can know more about the topic.

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MTNL Tri Band ADSL equipment config
by Derwyn Dpenha 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

Thanks everyone the connection is up not on usb but on lan card with cross wire (stupid of me should have done this first). Now I'm at the mercy of mtnl ;-) to see if the connection stays up...... Derwyn

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Reply From D-Link
by Derwyn Dpenha 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

Here's the reply that D-link guys sent me in regards to the MTNL DSL modem, the only way to get it working on linux is to do it vire a hub and ethernrt card. No driver available for linux Derwyn >Victor Tan <vtan(a)dlink.com.au> >Dear Derwyn, >Thank you for your email, in regards to your question, we do not have >any official drivers or support for the Linux Operating system. However >you should be able to still use the Ethernet port on the unit to connect >to your computer up to the modem as it does not require any drivers for >its use. >Kind Regards, >Victor Tan >Tech Support Engineer >D-Link Australia Pty Ltd >Ph: (02) 8899 1800 >Fax: (02) 8899 1868 >Web Site : http://www.dlink.com.au http://www.dlink.co.nz

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Re: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Use and Name of Project ?
by Raseel Bhagat 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 Animesh Singh wrote : >Sounds great Amit. > > > 1) Generic block device . > > 2) Virtual File System . > > 3) Network block device . > > My intention is to learn about gerneral concepts of > > Linux Device Driver > > Thats why I realy like this project where I may get > > learn about 3 subsystem > > of Kernel . Hey guys this sounded like a good project. Any advancements on it? Hey Amit have you started off individually ? Even I was interested in this project .. so can you ellaborate a bit more on how you plan to go about it? Maybe we (all those intersted ) can do it parallely and discuss issues and thus streamline the whole thing ? what say ? Raseel. Thanks Raseel Bhagat

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kernel panic in redhat 2.4,20.8.smp (redhat 9)
by vaibhav wadkar 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

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py2exe on Linux?
by Satya 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

Alright, all you Python people, everywhere I look on Google I find that py2exe is being run on Windows. Can I use it on Linux (without Wine, VMWare, etc.) and generate Windows executables? -- Satya. http://www.thesatya.com/

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] MTNL Tri Band ADSL equipment config
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

On Monday 21 March 2005 22:12, Derwyn Dpenha wrote: 1) What model of modem 2) what make (quite often the model num is mangled by the importer) 3) does it connect to the pc via the Ethernet / serial /usb port Also google. Here is what i found. http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT7909082870.html > The modem driver in suse is DSL-502 > Has anyone suceeded in doing this MTNL/Tri band connection on > Linux.... If no has anyone spoken to MTNL as to how to get this > connection up on linux... The stupid linesmen have no idea at > all..... Nobody in MTNL (or the other ISPs) will have a clue when you say Linux. They will tell u point blank that it wont work, which is total rubbish. I rolled over laughing when the tataindicom zombie wanted to know "yes, but which version of windows linux" to which i replied "linux 2005" and he says "sorry sir we only support windows 2000, we have not yet installed windows linux 2005" rgds jtd

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] MTNL Tri Band ADSL equipment config
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

And ironically this modem uses a linux kernel and other gnu stuff in the firmware. Try teleneting into it. rgds jtd On Tuesday 22 March 2005 15:22, Arun Khan wrote: > On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:06:33 +0500, sherlock(a)vsnl.com <sherlock(a)vsnl.com> wrote: > > On Monday 21 March 2005 22:12, Derwyn Dpenha wrote: > > > > 1) What model of modem > > 2) what make (quite often the model num is mangled by the > > importer) 3) does it connect to the pc via the Ethernet / serial > > /usb port > > > > Also google. Here is what i found. > > http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT7909082870.html > > > > > The modem driver in suse is DSL-502 > > > Has anyone suceeded in doing this MTNL/Tri band connection on > > > Linux.... If no has anyone spoken to MTNL as to how to get this > > > connection up on linux... The stupid linesmen have no idea at > > > all..... > > > > Nobody in MTNL (or the other ISPs) will have a clue when you say > > Linux. They will tell u point blank that it wont work, which is > > total rubbish. > > I rolled over laughing when the tataindicom zombie wanted > > to know "yes, but which version of windows linux" to which i > > replied "linux 2005" and he says "sorry sir we only support > > windows 2000, we have not yet installed windows linux 2005" > > > > rgds > > jtd > > After my original posting on this topic, I have been talking to the > DLink tech support as well as their distributor in Mumbai. From > what I have gathered, the 502T has 2 ports 1) a RJ11 DSL connection > and 2) a RJ45 (ethernet) port to hook up to a PC or a Hub/Switch. > For this kind of a setup I don't think any special drivers are > needed (in the PC) to connect to the 502T. Worst case scenario, > you may need a cross over cable if you are connecting the unit > directly to a PC but then again many devices auto detect > straight/cross over cable and internall adjust the wire pairs. > > HTH, > Arun Khan

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Need CDs of SUSE 9.2 & Mandrek 10.1
by neel s Gurjar 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

Hi Where I can get the CDs of SUSE 9.2 and Mandrek 10.1. ? I am in Mumbai. If anbody knows please tell. Bye Neel

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] GID?UID problem
by Suraj Jacob 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

Hi friends, I also had a similar problem, but mine is when I wrote a plugin for proftp to execute any command on a remote machine...Proftp is running as root, and sets the ownership and privileges of the user requesting the execution. However, when it runs a shell script (or anything that forks a terminal, the program run under it gets executed as root. the temporary workaround I found for it is to su into user to a terminal, and run the command...something like: su <user.group> -c "<command>" but again, it is not a good solution, it forks 2 terminals instead of 1. Is there a better way to set the ownership of the user on a shell script when executed by a user? Thanks in advance Suraj > > > Rohan Poojary wrote: > >>Hi Group, >>I am having a trouble with my Group ID/ UID whenever i am trying to >>open a knosole or trying to exe a script it uses this GID/UID, and >>when i am executing this script i am having a trouble of doing so, >>I hope i am clear in my problem >> >>"id: cannot find name for group ID 506" >> >>Rohan >> >> >> -- Randomness conceives creativity...Brainstorm yourself!!! http://www.rhythm.com/~suraj

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] PPPoE pacenet-india
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

On Monday 21 March 2005 15:48, Revant wrote: > Help needed to connect to internet through PPPoE of pacenet-india > > access-concentrater : net9online > service-name : cable > > adsl-start gives - ..........TIMEOUT > PAP and CHAP both auth. fails You have not set the right password in the /etc/ppp/pap-secrets or /etc/ppp/chap-secrets. man pppd should provide the answers. A more educative method is to enable debug in your /etc/ppp/options file bye uncommenting the line # debug and by adding this line to the file kdebug 4 then on a terminal do tail -f /var/log/debug then start your connection and observe the log. rgds jtd

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] What are sms gateways?
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

On Monday 21 March 2005 21:53, Paul Alapatt wrote: A GSM link is practically unusable for more than a few messages a minute. If u require to process large nos of messages (Indian Idle) u dont use a gsm device at all. U set up an isdn / LL backend from the gsm provider to your box. The provider will reroute all traffic for your number to your box. For a fee of course. But the cost per sms is much lower than using a gsm link.A GSM link is practically unusable for more than a few messages a minute > > I would like to know what are sms gateways. > > Gateways, typically channel the translation between two networks. > Thus in this case its a combination of hardware and software which > provides access to a wireless network for receiving and dispatching > rgds jtd

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PPPoE pacenet-india
by Revant 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

Help needed to connect to internet through PPPoE of pacenet-india access-concentrater : net9online service-name : cable adsl-start gives - ..........TIMEOUT PAP and CHAP both auth. fails

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[ILUG-BOM] COMMERCIAL: Job Post : Digital Right Management(DRM) Engineer
by Linux Guru 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

Digital Rights Management (DRM) Engineer k.e.e.n., pvt ltd is looking for a DRM engineer with significant experience in Media/Content Management. He/She should have at least 2 years of experience in DRM. Responsibilities: He/She would be responsible for developing a complete DRM solution for delivery of Video Content. Requirements: 1. At least 2 years of experience in DRM. 2. Must be familiar with, and have experience implementing a DRM solution, preferably Windows DRM or any industry standard DRM solution 3. Must be able to define requirements and perform major tasks relating to implementing solution, including defining skill requirements of consultants or others needed for project. 4. Ideally will have worked in both a Windows and Linux environment Desired Profile: B.E / M.E / MS in computers. Remuneration: Negotiable Place: Pune – India Please send your resume to keeninc(a)gmail.com

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[OT] MTNL Tri Band ADSL equipment config
by Derwyn Dpenha 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

I've tried by playing around with the MTNL modem on suse / Fedora. Suse through yast detects it as a modem but no luck in getting it up.... Fedora tried adsl-setup with still no luck Using dhcp on the ethernet card. The modem driver in suse is DSL-502 Has anyone suceeded in doing this MTNL/Tri band connection on Linux.... If no has anyone spoken to MTNL as to how to get this connection up on linux... The stupid linesmen have no idea at all..... Derwyn

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[OT] What are sms gateways?
by ronit khan 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

I would like to know what are sms gateways. How do people at Indian Idol process incoming sms's. Is any special hardware required ? What is a Gsm modem ? If I ask Airtel or Orange to provide me a gateway, will they give me some special hardware or a sim card ? I need all this info for my project. I will be using gnokii for this. I will be developing this application on Linux. Thank you for your help. :) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Make Yahoo! your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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COMMERCIAL: Job Post: Senior Project Lead
by Linux Guru 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

Senior Project Lead k.e.e.n., pvt.ltd is looking for a senior project lead with significant experience and strong background in Video or Consumer Electronics devices. He/She should have at least 7 years experience in development on LINUX. Responsibilities: He/She would be responsible for designing and implementing the File System Architecture for the device. He/She will also design the database architecture, for the File System. He/She will have to manage a team of developers, assign tasks and define the Work Breakdown Structure. Requirement: 1. He/She should have demonstrated ability to assign tasks and lead a team of developers 2. At least 5 years experience in File Systems. 3. At least 2 years experience in Linux Kernel/System development. 4. Strong C/C++ and OOAD skills 5. Experience on multiple application projects that include a database layer, from design phase through production. 6. Strong communication and teamwork skills. Desired Profile: B.E / M.E / MS in computers. Remuneration: Negotiable Place: Pune – India Please send your resume to keeninc(a)gmail.com

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Re: Graphics in C on linux
by A C E 20 Mar '05

20 Mar '05

> I'd like to know if there is a way to graphics programming on > GNU/Linux .. something very similar to what I'd do in C on windows > using Borland C. Try OpenGL by Mesa3D. Its a graphic library not similar to Borland but good for graphics programming. Also download the "RedBook" without which it is impossible to start programming if you havent used OpenGL before. -- Another Computer Engineer ( A C E )

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Re: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: Graphics in C on linux
by vaibhav samant 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 Clifford D'Mello wrote : >On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 00:40:50 +0530, A C E ><absolutely.confused.engineer(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Try OpenGL by Mesa3D. Its a graphic library not similar to Borland but > > good for graphics programming. Also download the "RedBook" without > > which it is impossible to start programming if you havent used OpenGL > > before. > > > >Beware of taking advice from "absolutely.confused.engineer" ;-) > >Jokes Apart it is up to you regarding what you want to do. >If you want to look at computer graphics for exploring the various >graphics algorithms.. I think svgalib is a very good option. Once you >have a nice grasp of the various concepts and algorithms of the >subject, you can then go on to more serious programming using OpenGL. >IMHO using OpenGL in the initial phases will only result in you >wasting time learning the standard api's rather that focusing on >computer graphics. > >My 2 paise :-) > >-- >Clifford I just want to put an image of Ganpati in my CTL+F1...6 And I have not installed X. Is there some simple utility which can convert by jpgs / bmps into the format which SVGA will show && a small code which will display it. A humble requirement. And yes PT, I have again not googled... sorry to disappont you. Vai

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Serial communication with Python
by Raj Shaz 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

Hi nuxers Any coder worked on serial communication using python+wxPython (or PyQT) -RNS not RMS

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[Links] The Boot Process
by Rony Bill 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

Dear Friends, Here are some nice links for a better understanding of the boot process. http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/KanjiFlash/BPTour.htm http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/KanjiFlash/Notes.htm http://oldfield.wattle.id.au/luv/boot.html http://www.kevinboone.com/boot.html http://www.comptechdoc.org/os/linux/howlinuxworks/linux_hlbootproc.html http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/ref-guide/s1-boot-ini… Regards, Rony.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: Sendmail Multiple domain unknown user
by vaibhav samant 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 Bilal Ahmed Mazhar wrote : >Dear Vaibhav > >You will find a macro L in sendmail.cf which is used to forward the unknown >message to other destination. Configure it as below >DLesmtp:NameOfTheUsDomain >If you use sendmail.mc file to create sendmail.cf then add below line in >sendmail.mc and recreate sendmail.cf >define(`LUSER_RELAY', `esmtp:NameOfTheUsDomain')dnl > >Regards, >Bilal Ahmed Mazhar ------------------ Thx Bilal, This is what I think seems to be the best solution. But what if I am hosting more than 1 domain (as is my case) on one Mail Server. Can I simply add the same line twice with 2 "NameOfTheUsDomain". Thx. Vai

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Re: Sendmail Multiple domain unknown user
by Bilal Ahmed Mazhar 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

Dear Vaibhav You will find a macro L in sendmail.cf which is used to forward the unknown message to other destination. Configure it as below DLesmtp:NameOfTheUsDomain If you use sendmail.mc file to create sendmail.cf then add below line in sendmail.mc and recreate sendmail.cf define(`LUSER_RELAY', `esmtp:NameOfTheUsDomain')dnl Regards, Bilal Ahmed Mazhar

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Some new news items on LIG's pages
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

Please visit http://linuxindianews.notlong.com/ * Respected Sir... appeal to the VC (open letter to VTU-Ktaka)) * CHECK IT OUT: IMB announces LinuxPPC64 contest * We'll miss you Mandal Hembrom (Santhali localisation) * When sharing moves beyond software (Ahmedabad) * LinuxAsia2005.com, reflected in a blog, Slashdot, etc * Installing Indic * Languages, local computing, and Tapan * One day, one command * Surprised... at Burdwan * The Times of India higlights the software patents threat * India's newest LUG? AT SREC * I4d, and a study on FLOSS for health * From Mangalore... FLOSS news with love Check it out. You can also visit via http://www.linux-india.org pages _____ _/ ____\____ Frederick Noronha * Freelance Journalist * Goa \ __\/ \ India T +91.832.2409490 M +919822 122436 | | | | \ http://fn.swiki.net http://goabooks.swiki.net |__| |___| / http://www.bytesforall.net http://www.bytesforall.org \/ ----------------------------------------------------- Writing with a difference, on issues that really make the difference.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] 2 domains on 1 server
by Animesh Singh 18 Mar '05

18 Mar '05

Evening Swapnil, > i configured /var/named too > abc.com.zone > xyz.com.zone <snip> What you have configured in these files ? Reagrds, Animesh. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/

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Re: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Sendmail Multiple domain unknown user ??
by Animesh Singh 18 Mar '05

18 Mar '05

Evening Vaibhav, Your Problem= local and remote domain name configured in sendmail are same. > domain1 = aaa.com > domain2 = bbb.com > > local Sendmail server in Mumbai....local users = > user1.mumbai(a)aaa.com <snip> This holds true for all the local user on Mumbai's local server. If you want to send, few user's email to Nagpur local server, then copule of things has to be done: 1. Configure local DNS with mum.aaa.com & nag.aaa.com. 2. Configure complex user routing for Nagpur's local server: # Complex routing is appended here, followed by normal remote routing #Ruser<@aaa.com> $#esmtp $(a)nag.aaa.com $: user < @ nag.aaa.com> #Ruser<@aaa.com.> $#esmtp $(a)nag.aaa.com $: user < @ nag.aaa.com.> or Configure to use virtusertable file. 3. Configure DS value to IP_of_remote_live_server. > local Sendmail server in Nagpur....local users = > user1.nagpur(a)aaa.com <snip> Same to be done at this end also. Regards, Animesh. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Use and Name of Project ?
by Animesh Singh 18 Mar '05

18 Mar '05

Evening Amit, > I did start thinking on the Project . > Currently it won't have any > name . <snip> Sounds great Amit. > 1) Generic block device . > 2) Virtual File System . > 3) Network block device . > My intention is to learn about gerneral concepts of > Linux Device Driver > Thats why I realy like this project where I may get > learn about 3 subsystem > of Kernel . > But I have doubt ! > What is use of this project ? <snip> It will really take you into building up the lower level of components and also it is good to combine for entire suite. e.g. Block device will give you access to Disk ( which can little tune to also enable raid ). VFS on top of it will allow you to communicate with your registerd FS. and building Net block device over this can make you achive replication on bare minimum. It sounds a great project and I am willing to take part with you. Regards, Animesh. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Sendmail Multiple domain unknown user ??
by vaibhav samant 18 Mar '05

18 Mar '05

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 Animesh Singh wrote : >Evening Vaibhav, > > > > We have 2 domains hosted on 2 diff. servers in US. ><snip> >Suppose you have 2 domains domain1.us.foo.org and >domain2.us.foo.org > > > We have 2 offices (Mumbai, Nagpur). > > > > If any mumbai users sends an email to any nagpur > > user, the sendmail bounces the email back saying > > that no such user exists. ><snip> >Which server is bouncing it back ? As per your >information, it sounds like you have local servers at >both the locations. > > > I want to setup sendmail such that if it is not able > > to find the user on the local system it should fwd > > the email to the hosted server (US) so that the > > email will be delivered to the nagpur user's mailbox > > which can then be fetched by the Nagpur server's > > fetchmail. ><snip> >Problem is this ( you have given the same name to your >local server as remote server and its getting locally >resolved. ) for this kind of solution you to implement >complex user routing and handle the mail routes. > >PS: I would request that you give all the information >with domain names, which you have configured on all >servers. Will be easy for us to resolve the thnigs. > >Regards, >Animesh. ------------------------------------------------------ domain1 = aaa.com domain2 = bbb.com local Sendmail server in Mumbai....local users = user1.mumbai(a)aaa.com local Sendmail server in Nagpur....local users = user1.nagpur(a)aaa.com If user1.mumbai(a)aaa.com sends an email to anyone(a)aaa.com, the sendmail should check if the user exists locally. If not found, the email should be forwarded to the hosted website where all users are configured. Similarly for both domain. I think SMART HOST should do what I want, but not sure how to define smarthost for 2 domains on a single local mail server... Hope I am able to put the picture correct. Thank you. Vai

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2 domains on 1 server
by swapnil ambre 18 Mar '05

18 Mar '05

i have a server. i want two domains on that server,suppose xyz.com abc.com i configured /etc/named.conf zone "xyz.com" { type master; file "xyz.com.zone"; forwarders {} ; }; zone "abc.com" { type master; file "abc.com.zone"; forwarders {}; }; i configured /var/named too abc.com.zone xyz.com.zone but whenever i dig abc.com it gives me the answer 1 but at the same time if i dig xyz.com it gives me answer 0. only one domain responds me at a time can plz someone help me i want sendmail to send as well as recieve mails using the two domains plz can anybody tell me how to do that ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partner online Go to: http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matrimony

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Sendmail Multiple domain unknown user ??
by Animesh Singh 17 Mar '05

17 Mar '05

Evening Vaibhav, > > We have 2 domains hosted on 2 diff. servers in US. <snip> Suppose you have 2 domains domain1.us.foo.org and domain2.us.foo.org > We have 2 offices (Mumbai, Nagpur). > > If any mumbai users sends an email to any nagpur > user, the sendmail bounces the email back saying > that no such user exists. <snip> Which server is bouncing it back ? As per your information, it sounds like you have local servers at both the locations. > I want to setup sendmail such that if it is not able > to find the user on the local system it should fwd > the email to the hosted server (US) so that the > email will be delivered to the nagpur user's mailbox > which can then be fetched by the Nagpur server's > fetchmail. <snip> Problem is this ( you have given the same name to your local server as remote server and its getting locally resolved. ) for this kind of solution you to implement complex user routing and handle the mail routes. PS: I would request that you give all the information with domain names, which you have configured on all servers. Will be easy for us to resolve the thnigs. Regards, Animesh. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Manage Large Networks with Novell
by Amish Munshi 17 Mar '05

17 Mar '05

This is a reminder mail, do not register again if you have aready registered for the event on 23rd March. Hello All, Onward Novell has arranged for a seminar on managing medium to large Linux deployments. Following are the details regarding the same. Topic : Managing medium/large deployments of Linux. This session will help you to configure and maintain large SUSE Linux Deployments. It will introduce you to setup AutoYAST and ZENworks Linux management (formerly known as red-carpet). AutoYAST (Zero click install) - It enables automated installation of any Novell/SUSE Linux. ZENworks Linux Management (formerly known as red-carpet) - It will help in managing software updates or patches for a network of Linux Machines. It can manage a hetrogeneous Linux network consisting of various distributions. Venue : Onward Novell Software (I) Pvt. Ltd. 62, 13th Street, MIDC, Andheri (East) Mumbai, 400093 India +91-09820931263 Duration : 5:30 - 8:00 PM Date : March 23, 2005 Registration : Registration will be on first come first serve basis. Kindly register as soon as possible. Limited seats are available, please register at the following URL at the earliest. Seminars are free of charge. http://www.novell.com/offices/asiapac/india/linux/registration.html Please circulate this invitation to anyone who might be interested. Attend, learn, improve and "Have Fun" on larger Linux deployments with Novell/SUSE. SUSE - Dont get mad, get moving. Amish K. Munshi Consultant Onward Novell Software ( I ) Pvt. Ltd. Ph + 91 22 2834 2244 Fx + 91 22 2831 1277 amunshi(a)novell.com Novell Inc., the leading provider of Net business solutions. Onward Novell Software (I) Ltd. is the Joint Venture Company between Onward Group and Novell Inc. www.novell.com

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Sendmail bounce address
by Nikhil Joshi 17 Mar '05

17 Mar '05

Hi! Is it possible to configure sendmail to send the bounce message to an address which is in the From: Header? Right now the bounce message goes to the local account (root). Thanks, Nikhil -- "The inside of my head was exploding with fireworks. Fortunately, my last thought turned out the lights when it left." --- Calvin

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Sendmail Multiple domain unknown user ??
by vaibhav samant 17 Mar '05

17 Mar '05

Hello All, We have 2 domains hosted on 2 diff. servers in US. We have 2 offices (Mumbai, Nagpur). If any mumbai users sends an email to any nagpur user, the sendmail bounces the email back saying that no such user exists. I want to setup sendmail such that if it is not able to find the user on the local system it should fwd the email to the hosted server (US) so that the email will be delivered to the nagpur user's mailbox which can then be fetched by the Nagpur server's fetchmail. I need to do this for both domains. How can I set this up. Any advice & pointers are deeply thanked. Thanks Vai

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Re:MTNL Adsl connection
by santosh rao 17 Mar '05

17 Mar '05

hi, no its not dhcp, earlier when they started the router that they were giving was in pppoe mode, and it was required for us to use something like rp-pppoe to dial out. but now they have come out with this new dlink modem (DsL-502T), which has a static ip given to it. this modem also has a lan side ip which is 192.168.1.1 so either we can give our machines a static ip set default route through the box's ip. In windows it better to leave the setting to dhcp.

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Respected Vice Chancellor...
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 17 Mar '05

17 Mar '05

Please sign this memo and add your suggestions and points. FN http://bangalore.gnu.org.in/?VTU-FLOSS_Campaign VTU-FLOSS Campaign The Vice Chancellor Visvesvaraya Technological University Belgaum - 590 014 Karnataka State, India Respected Sir, Re: Opening wider software avenues for your students through Free Software. There are thousands of engineering and polytechnic colleges in India. Each year, a few hundred thousands of graduates and diploma holders earn their degree. They pay thousands of rupees as fees to get the best facilities. A part of this goes to buying the softwares which they use either in college lab or for doing their assignments at home. For every software which India's engineering students use; there is an alternate Free Software program available. Free Software offers freedom, accelerated possibilities and wider vistas to our students. But in a 'talent rich, resource poor' country like India, it is also an issue of costs. Huge amounts of resources will be saved, and productivity gained, while deploying Free Software. This will not only make engineering education more cost-effective, but also more productive. Free/Libre and Open Source Software has many other advantages such as reliability, performance and security; building up of long-term capacity within the state and country itself; the Free (as in freedom) philosophy; encouraging innovations; offering alternatives to illegal copying; throwing up many possibilities in localisation; helping students vastly by allowing them to learn from the source code; getting access to literally thousands of tools; in addition, of course, to lower costs. Issues related to Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) in education are outlined very well at http://www.iosn.net/education/foss-education-primer/ Other than cost benefits, Free Software has other extremely pertinent advantages. We would urge you to serious consider the following: * No-fee licensing * Ease of license fee management * Better large-scale programmability * Easier integration * Better performance * Development convenience * Better support Niranjan Rajani in a study on FLOSS in the developing world, notes, "FLOSS has a complementary and reciprocal relationship to education. One needs an educated section of the population to fulfil the full potential of FLOSS, and at the same time FLOSS helps, enhances, and complements education by providing tools to promote education." In the case of education in computer sciences, FLOSS provides opportunities which nothing else can, as the Finland-based researcher Rajani points out: * Unrestricted access to the source code. * An environment of unlimited experimentation and tinkering. * Collaboration and interaction with a community of programmers, coders and users around the world. In addition to providing ready and available tools, Free Software provides positive examples from projects around the globe. In practice, this means that if someone in some other place has created a tool to reach a specific educational goal, one can take it as a starting point and build on it, without the need to "reinvent the wheel". The Dspace project and the Koha library software, mentioned earlier, are but two simple examples of such possibilities. As far as collaboration is concerned, Sourceforge is perhaps the biggest collaboration project ever created, uniting tens of thousands of software projects and hundreds of thousands of people around the world. "FLOSS itself has been called the most collaborative human effort ever," as Rajani points out. In addition to the above, the inherent qualities of FLOSS make it a prime tool for achieving local language educational software, especially for languages which are not deemed commercially viable for proprietary software vendors. This has the scope of offering both relevance and employment to so many of your bright young students. There are literally hundreds of Free Software's programs which colleges or universities can adopt. As Vishweshwaraiah Technological University is one of the biggest engineering-related universities in India, its time for VTU to give the lead and move towards using Free Software. This would encourage other Universities to follow suit. Let the VTU have the pride to be the first one to adopt Free Software in educational curriculum, on a scale significant enough to make a difference to the future of VTU, its many students, and India itself. Here we submit some examples of three such alternative Free Software programs which can be used for technical education. * (1) Operating System: Windows v/s GNU/Linux Because of the software tools prescribed in the colleges, and also a general lack of awareness of Free Software options, most colleges use Microsoft Windows based operating system. Yet, in terms of technological features, stability, learning possibilities, the GNU/Linux is increasingly being recognised as the best available globally. It is the best suited for any educational institution. Students can not only use it, but also can study its source code to understand its internal workings. Likewise, they can easily get in touch with the many volunteers who have put together this amazing set of tools, and collaborate internationally to created more suitable products and also hike their own skill-sets. But many of the colleges use or have started adopting GNU/ Linux, starting with the server room, where it is well known for its stability and security now it has entered our labs and desktops. * (2) Simulation: Matlab v/s Octave Matlab is used in communication and electronics lab. Matlab for an individual license for use in a university (academic use) costs $500. Any college will have to buy a minimum of 25 licenses. This means shelling out Rs.537,500. Octave, which is a simulation software written by university professors. This usually comes, along and as part of, the GNU/Linux Operating System. The advantage to students is that they don't have to buy a limited student version to use at home. They can use Octave both at lab and at home. SciLab? is another Free Software competitor for Matlab. It uses sophisticated algorithms to analyse data and produce aesthetic graphics. NG-SPICE is another GPLd Circuit Simulator which is based on the University of Berkley's Spice Version 3f5. * (3) Office software's: MS Office v/s Open Office Currently, we all used Microsoft Word to submit our project documents for review and for other academic purposes. Recent technological developments now mean that we have Open Office which is as good as Microsoft Office and has the same, if not better, features. Microsoft Office in fact lacks some features like PDF (Portable Document Format) support, compatibility with older versions of Microsoft Office, lack a vector drawing application, etc. Open Office gives you everything starting from a word processor, to presentation software to PDF generator. It is fully compatible with Microsoft Office -- so already existing data in those formats can be used. Don't you think it's the right time to save money and enhance efficiency of technological education in our country? The above are just examples. There are many such software programs from which the students can benefit. We hope the university understands the urgency and the need. We would be happy to give the university any information/help that is needed. Currently, India has a wide range of volunteer GNU/Linux support groups, a list of which can be found at http://wikiwikiweb.de/LugsList * (4) Computer Networks Subject Teaching: Ethreal, tcpdump, NS2 etc We use the above mentioned tools for the teaching of Computer Networks and Data Communication subjects. There are a number of other GNU GPLed tools which can be used in a number of other labs for teaching and learning. * (5) Content Management Systems: Drupal, PHP-Nuke etc For building websites and info portals for students to make online learning possible. In the world of online forums, Free Software have a number of free options. You could well imagine the impact that the accelerated spread of such easily-reachable and usable tools would have, not just on the engineers of tomorrow, but on the wider Indian society as a whole. We thank you for your patient hearing, and urge your reputed university to take speedy and decisive steps in this direction. Thanking you, We remain, Yours sincerely,

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Tripple Boot With SuSe Successfull
by Rony Bill 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '05

Dear Friends, The SuSe server was loaded in place of the earlier loaded Edumorphix and it replaced the earlier grub that had entries of Red Hat and XP. A little tweaking of the /boot/grub/menu.lst which carries entries of the OSes in SuSe and the existing RedHat boots smoothly. Regards, Rony.

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hardware for reading vcr output
by Kenneth Gonsalves 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '05

hi can anyone recomend linux compatible hardware for reading in the output from a vcr. Also suitable software for manipulating the same -- regards kg http://www.livejournal.com/users/lawgon tally ho! http://avsap.sourceforge.net ಇಂಡ್ಲಿನಕ್ಸ வாழ்க!

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[ Commercial ] System Administration Requirment.
by Animesh Singh 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '05

Evening Luggers, GTL has requirment for System Administration. Skills required for same are: 1. Very Good knowledge of Sendmail. 2. Bash/perl scripting. 3. Database knowledge. 4. Performance tuning. 5. Anti SPAM + Anti Virus integration with sendmail. Please forward your cv to asingh(a)gtllimited.com, as the requirments are to be closed by Saturday ( 18/03/2005 ). Regards, Animesh. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/

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[OT] MTNL Tri Band ADSL equipment config
by Arun Khan 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '05

Fellow list members, The Khar(W) CO exchange informed me that they will be bringing in my ADSL connection by end of March and left a form to be filled up and submitted at the CO. The form has an item that refers to CPE equipment - either rented from MTNL or customer owned. I asked the lines man what exactly does the CPE mean and he was not sure if it would be my D-Link DI604 router or something else. Therefore, the query to this list. The ADSL setup that I have seen within the SBC/Ameritech (US midwest) network is as shown in the fig. below. The 2W/UTP from CO is terminated on a DSL/Tel. line splitter. The splitter has one RJ11 (for phone) and one RJ45 (for the DSL router OR the NIC in the computer) connector. ________ 2W UTP|DSL/Tel.| 2W -------|Splitter|------ from |________| UTP to Tel. set CO | | RJ45 to WAN port on DSL Router Hopefully, some of you on this list have already got this service and you are able to share some info on the CPE/router configs. Is the MTNL ADSL connection setup similar to the above fig.? If not, what does it look like? Also, how is the IP connection established i.e. DHCP, Static IP, or PPPoE? TIA. Regards, Arun Khan

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Use and Name of Project ?
by Amit Karpe 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '05

Hi , I did start thinking on the Project . Currently it won't have any name . The project may have 3 part . 1) Generic block device . up on that 2) Virtual File System . up on that 3) Network block device . My intention is to learn about gerneral concepts of Linux Device Driver Thats why I realy like this project where I may get learn about 3 subsystem of Kernel . But I have doubt ! What is use of this project ? In college I am not able to answer Use and Importance of this project . So please suggest me some use and importance of above project . One more thing what can be the Name of this Project ? By the way is this OK project ? Amit. -- param vaibhavam netum etat swaraashtram samrthaa bhavatwaashishaa tebhrusham || Bharat Maata Ki Jay ||

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] kernel panic (Correction)
by Nadiem 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

--- Nadiem <knadz555(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > --- Hakim <mail2hakim(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > I had compiled redhat linux kernel but after > > completing all steps when i reboot > > > > it gives the error written below and stops booting > > .. > > > > " VFS: cannot open root device "LABEL=/" or 00:00 > > please append a correct "root=" boot option > > Kernel panic:VFS:unable to mount root fs on 00:00 > " > > Determine which is your / partition (say /dev/hda3) > and then change LABEL=/ to LABEL=/dev/hda3 in > grub.conf Oops! I goofed. Replace root=LABEL=/ by root=/dev/hda3 Where hda3 is your / partition (assumed, in this case.) Regards, Nadiem. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Progress So Far
by Rony Bill 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

Dear Friends, In my experiment to load the edumorphix from the grub of the existing Redhat, I have now been able to boot that partition hda12 using this script in my grub.conf file.... title Debian GNU/Linux (with LILO) root (hd0,11) kernel (hd0,11)/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.25-lck1 root=(hd0,11)/ The trouble area was the last line which was earlier root=/dev/hda12, which I tried with root=(hd0,11)/ and it was accepted. However after the initial startup messages, I get a kernel panic message. Any ideas? Does debian panic when it faces windows users? :-) Thanks for helping and Regards, Rony.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] kernel panic
by Nadiem 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

--- Hakim <mail2hakim(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I had compiled redhat linux kernel but after > completing all steps when i reboot > > it gives the error written below and stops booting > .. > > " VFS: cannot open root device "LABEL=/" or 00:00 > please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic:VFS:unable to mount root fs on 00:00 " Determine which is your / partition (say /dev/hda3) and then change LABEL=/ to LABEL=/dev/hda3 in grub.conf Might be a problem with your fstab too. Regards, Nadiem. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] GID?UID problem
by Nadiem 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

--- Rohan Poojary <ropo18(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Group, > I am having a trouble with my Group ID/ UID whenever > i am trying to > open a knosole or trying to exe a script it uses > this GID/UID, and > when i am executing this script i am having a > trouble of doing so > > "id: cannot find name for group ID 506" What are the permissions of /etc/passwd and /etc/group? Both need to be readable by world (chmod o+r). Regards, Nadiem. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/

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kernel panic
by Hakim 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

Dear All, Hi, this is Hakim here , new member of linux mumbai group, nice to be a part of this group. I have a problem in Redhat enterprise linux EL Ver 3.0 kernel. plz help me out in this regards....... I had compiled redhat linux kernel but after completing all steps when i reboot it gives the error written below and stops booting .. " VFS: cannot open root device "LABEL=/" or 00:00 please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic:VFS:unable to mount root fs on 00:00 " Looking forward for your reply... -- Thanks N Regards, Hakim H Vishiwala 0-93243 95842

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] MTNL Tri Band ADSL equipment config
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

On Tuesday 15 March 2005 15:07, Sujeet Bhatt wrote: > Since this is already marked OT, I can't resist the temptation of > adding my two bits. The idea of "filling up a form and submitting > it at the CO" and waiting till "end of March" for the connection is > so hopelessly reminiscent of the licence raj that my head swims in > disbelief and despair. Add to this the clueless linesmen and even > more clueless front office staff, not to mention the globally > discredited revenue model of charging per megabyte, and the picture > of an anachronistic Kafkaesque nightmare is complete. When will > these guys ever grow up? and if u thought that this was only MTNL just try orange or reliance. Current wireless technology is almost ready to replace the "centralised telco" model of communications except for the fact that our sicko politicians want an official slice of every rupee u manage to create and hence create laws to cartelise services. So the guy who routes international calls via broadband onto the local phone line is arrested and charged with criminal laws. But a reliance gets a wrap and scolding for doing precisely the same thing. Wifi phones and open standards permit good communications upto 2.5 km. One link i tested worked from Bandra to dahisar. The cost of one "cell" covering a radius of one km. with 20mbps effective throughput will work out to about Rs.1.5 lac. Each cell can support about a 1000 connections using speex. The effective cost of communications is so low that the service is essentially free. Every cyber cafe can become a telco cell and communications will spread rapidly. But then we are in India (not that other countries are any better but i dont see why we should be setting shitty standards for ourselves) and still trying to hatao garibi full 57 yrs after we replaced the colonial oppressors with an altogether more effective, upgraded purely indegenous version. rgds jtd

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[ILUG-BOM] INDIA: Request to sign a petition favouring Free Software in the campus
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

Please sign this petition if you agree with it... it's an attempt to convince a prominent technological university in Bangalore (VTU) to be opened to the use of Free Software too. http://bangalore.gnu.org.in/?VTU-FLOSS_Campaign Krishna Pagadala, San Jose, USA. I have benefitted highly from the Free Software movement and the Freedoms it has provided. Specifically the Freedom to learn from the source code has helped me in getting a high-technology job in the US. I wish that all students enjoy the all the Software Freedoms. Pramode C.E, IC Software: I would like to add that there are efforts under way to develop innovative hardware experimentation platforms using GNU/Linux to improve the quality of Physics (as well as Engineering) education; and the best part is that it's being done in India. Please visit http://www.nsc.res.in/~elab/phoenix/ to know more about the `Phoenix Project' being developed by Ajith Kumar at the Nuclear Science Centre, India. The wealth of high quality tools and the open nature of the platform is of immense value to young engineers and scientists raring to unleash their creativity; the lessons in freedom and sharing that students learn by using GNU/Linux will also go a long way in shaping their character as caring and responsible human beings. ashidhar b desai ,6th sem E&C, B.V.Bhoomaraddi College of Engineering & Technology Hubli,Karnataka,India ,FLOSS is an excellent alternative for the existing commercial softwares..Academics(colleges and univ) is the best way to promote and support "Free Software".It will be a great initiative if the univ adopts it(it will become an example for other univ & institutes). News about open source and gnu/linux stuff---Indian Inside . Lets get Liberated.LONG LIVE OPEN SOURCE. Praveen Arimbrathodiyil (National Instititute of Technology, Calicut) Fri Mar 11 17:34:50 IST 2005 We use GNU/Linux in our main Computer center. It saves a lot of money of the college as there is no licence fee to be paid for each users. Since the source code of the softwares are available many computer science students do projects based on Linux kernel and other such projects. The possibility of use of thin-clients (which our computer center use) reduces the cost of hardware dramatically. It has proved to be beneficial to our college and I urge you to chose Free Software for giving a better alternative for students. Debapriyo Sarkar. Final year student of BCA, Goa. As a student, I plead to every university, to adopt, encourage and spread the use of Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS). The benefits are clearly far-more significant than cost savings (which of course is a huge motivating factor). The quality of software reviewed and worked on by virtually the entire developer community of the world is definitely at least world-class if nothing else. It is possible to save on costs with $0 priced closed source software often termed as freeware, but the limited resources of the single developer or the couple of developers behind the software makes future of such software bleak. Compared to that, software released under an open source license, helps user as well as developer involvement to happen as deeply and transparent as no other licensing model can support. As the letter includes the following (stripped) statement "...Octave, which is simulation software written by University professors. This usually comes with the GNU/Linux Operating System." which clearly shows that professors of universities elsewhere have contributed to the solution of making quality software available to the students and colleges alike under a license that welcomes further contributions to improve the project virtually endlessly. As a personal experience, I often have used open source alternatives whenever acquiring the proprietary packages meant depending on the lab assistant to provide the CD for illegal copying or genuinely going out and shelling out all those huge wads of cash for functionality that was already at my disposal with added advantage of continuing development and a long-life (of the software). As universities use and recommend use of open source software,rate of development is bound to grow with more and more students using the same version of software both at college and home (no limited cheap "student" edition which are "cheap" imitations with myriad "limitations"). Also professors' contributions in the form of bug reports, bug fixes, new functionality patches and their work in increasing awareness about the benefits of using open source software would help improve quality of free software to an enormous extent. Vijay Kumar, Chennai, India. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/schools.html .P.Sujeevan,Project leader, S2S2, Kerala .Here at kerala at school level more than 50 of schools are still using GNU/Linux.Also SSLC IT practical examination has successfully done under the linux operating system.Some schools are still using the Linux terminal server systems.Next year aggressive work is planning to implement complete linux environment in schools.http://s2s2net.netfirms.com _____ _/ ____\____ Frederick Noronha * Freelance Journalist * Goa \ __\/ \ India T +91.832.2409490 M +919822 122436 | | | | \ http://fn.swiki.net http://goabooks.swiki.net |__| |___| / http://www.bytesforall.net http://www.bytesforall.org \/ ----------------------------------------------------- Writing with a difference, on issues that really make the difference.

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GID?UID problem
by Rohan Poojary 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

Hi Group, I am having a trouble with my Group ID/ UID whenever i am trying to open a knosole or trying to exe a script it uses this GID/UID, and when i am executing this script i am having a trouble of doing so, I hope i am clear in my problem "id: cannot find name for group ID 506" Rohan

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The March Meet was really GOOD
by SHAILESH MAHADIK 14 Mar '05

14 Mar '05

Dear All, It was a good meet and to see GNU/HURD working in front of U ( though "DELICATE as anurag calls it and it is ) it was good and is worth giving a try.. What we were looking at is a baby, which will become the defacto standard few years down the line.... Thanks to Anurag specially for his part on Hurd R&D.. and to Erle's Laptop ( I mean Erle himself ) ... Also to Arun who distributed a few sets of Ubuntu Cd's ( both Live and Install for X86 arch) Hey ,( I got the Cd's too ) I will burn the Cd's if anybody needs the Ubuntu CD's Mail me and we can plan how to exchange cd's... The meet was really GOOD... Those who missed it , really missed good things.... Regards, Shailesh =================================================================== They say LOVE is BLIND ................. But MARRIAGE is definitely an EYE OPENER ??? =================================================================== ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partner online Go to: http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matrimony

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[ILUG-BOM] Erle, I got the way for reaching the grub console of the Laptop.....
by SHAILESH MAHADIK 14 Mar '05

14 Mar '05

Hey Erle, At the meet we had a short talk about the grub bootloader of ur laptop.... and ways to get to the grub console ... I found one ( I hope ..) just press ESC key , when the grub screen appears IT would hopefully ask whether to exit the graphics mode and move to text mode.. Say yes and Their U arrive at a familiar much home like GRub Black and white screen with all keys like 'p', 'c' etc working as expected... Try it out and let me know... Bye Regards, Shailesh =================================================================== They say LOVE is BLIND ................. But MARRIAGE is definitely an EYE OPENER ??? =================================================================== ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partner online Go to: http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matrimony

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[ILUG-BOM] HOWTO-Setup Hathway Cable-internet on Debian Linux using USB interface
by Nilesh Raykar 13 Mar '05

13 Mar '05

Hi all, I am a newbie to Linux. I am writing this mail hoping that it will save few hours work for someone somewhere. In this mail I am describing method used by me for setting up Hathway cable-internet on my home PC using usb-interface & Debian Linux. My Linux box- AMD Athlon XP1800+ 128 MB / 80 GB Multiboot - Debian Sarge (from PCQ Dec2004) / XP / 98SE Kernel - 2.6.8 Desktop - KDE 3.2 Hathway cable internet using Motorola Surfboard 5100 & USB cable interface Location - Mumbai, India 1. Information required before you start- (a) IP address assigned by Hathway (like 203.212.xxx.xx) (b) Subnet mask (255.255.255.0) (c) Gateway address (like 203.212.xxx.xx) (d) DNS addresses (like 203.212.xxx.xx) All of the above should be available in the subscription letter issued by Hathway. 2. Your kernel should be compiled with support for USBNET & CDCEther drivers. (Debian distribution by PCQ-Dec2004 have these precompiled). 3. Connect the cable modem to USB port of your machine & boot the machine. 4. The OS will detect the modem as ethernet device as "eth0".(I do not have any ethernet card, else this may change) You can check the same by "dmesg" command. Excerpt from dmesg on my machine is as follows- <quote> eth0: register usbnet at usb-0000:00:07.3-1, CDC Ethernet Device usbcore: registered new driver usbnet <unquote> 5. From start menu > system > networking (or from command line "network-admin") get network setup window. You need superuser password. - Click Add - connection type = ethernet - Configuration = manual - Feed IP, Subnet & Gateway - Finish with creating new connection - Enter DNS addresses in corresponding tab window. 6. You have finished the job ! 7. Check with "ifconfig eth0" & "netstat -r" if network interface has correct values & routing table is showing gateway correctly. Output from my machine are as follows- <quote from "ifconfig eth0"> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0F:9F:C6:AC:83 inet addr:203.212.???.? Bcast:203.212.214.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::20f:9fff:fec6:ac83/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:44336 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1808 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:2845162 (2.7 MiB) TX bytes:187541 (183.1 KiB) <unquote> note - I have masked my IP address above. <quote from "netstat -r"> Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 203.212.214.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 default 203.212.214.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 <unquote> Happy sufing from your Linux box ! With warm regards, Nilesh Raykar Borivali(E), Mumbai, INDIA email: raykar(a)hathway.com Get Your Private, Free E-mail from Indiatimes at http://email.indiatimes.com Buy The Best In BOOKS at http://www.bestsellers.indiatimes.com Bid for for Air Tickets @ Re.1 on Air Sahara Flights. Just log on to http://airsahara.indiatimes.com and Bid Now!

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Novell to ship Xen, OpenOffice 2.0, Photo Management, Enhanced laptop support, VoIP, Home Networking.
by lists＠munshi.biz 13 Mar '05

13 Mar '05

Source : http://www.novell.com/products/linuxprofessional/preview/index.html Novell to ship Xen in SUSE Linux Professional 9.3 Due in mid-April, new SuSE Linux will let programmers test software on virtual machines. Latest Linux Kernel?Get in touch with the latest performance enhancements of Linux kernel 2.6.11 and check XEN the first open source virtualization solution. Firefox 1.0 Web Browser?The latest open source Web browser provides power and performance and just might be the best browser available anywhere. OpenOffice.org 2.0 Pre-release Edition?Familiar word-processing and spreadsheet functionality makes your work easier. Email, Calendar and Contact Management?Novell Evolution 2.0 and Kontact 3.4 offer you a complete and easy-to-use e-mail client and calendar with improved connectivity to the most popular e-mail servers. iPod Compatibility?Manage your iPod files easily with both KDE 3.4 and GNOME 2.10. Photo Management?Simplify photo management with cool tools like fspot, gwenview, digikam and gthumb. Newest Desktop Environments?It's your choice: use the outstanding KDE or GNOME graphical desktop environments for Linux. Both deliver ease of use, contemporary functionality and the best graphical design. Enhanced Laptop Support?Special laptop features for users on the go include support for Intel Centrino, Bluetooth functionality, improved WLAN support and power management. GIMP 2.2?Complete graphics creation and edition supports dozens of graphic formats: .tif, .jpg, .png, .eps, .svg, .psd, .gif and more. VoIP Solution Linphone?Save money by making and receiving phone calls from the Web. Built-in Security?SUSE LINUX Firewall ensures that your system is secure and safe when it is connected to the Internet. Powerful Features for Home Networks?SUSE LINUX Professional includes leading open source tools for home networking, including SAMBA, CUPS and much more. Amish.

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Certification Information Required
by Shrinivas Nayak 13 Mar '05

13 Mar '05

To all members, I am a new member of this mailing list and hence i dunno if this question has been posted. if yes, then plz pardon me for my ignorance. I would like to know abt certifications in linux(rhce, lpi, and any others if available in mumbai). i also want to know which one is better with respect to industry requirements. info abt training centres in mumbai is also required. i request the members of this mailing list to provide me with info which i require. plz feel free to add any other info at your discretion. i will be highly grateful for the same. thanks Shrinivas Nayak Founder of UPA (Unemployed People's Alliance) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Certification Information Required
by Nadiem 13 Mar '05

13 Mar '05

--- Shrinivas Nayak <shrinivas_nayak2004(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > To all members, > > I am a new member of this mailing list and hence i > dunno if this question has been posted. if yes, then > plz pardon me for my ignorance. Yes, it was asked before. > I would like to know abt certifications in > linux(rhce, > lpi, and any others if available in mumbai). i also > want to know which one is better with respect to > industry requirements. RHCE is the premiere cert. as far as Linux is concerned. Its the second toughest IT cert., after the CCIE. Ofcourse, you also have options of the vendor-neutral LPI and SuSE's new cert. But these are online exams, and do not test your practical skills as much the RHCE does. Needless to add, only certs will get you nowhere. Experience and skills count a lot too. > info abt training centres in mumbai is also required. If you're planning for RHCE, I can give information about a person (not me) who teaches industry-specific Linux. Contact me off-list if interested. > thanks > > Shrinivas Nayak > Founder of UPA (Unemployed People's Alliance) Heh. What's that? Regards, Nadiem. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/

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Display image in TTY
by vaibhav samant 12 Mar '05

12 Mar '05

How can I display an image (BMP or other format) in the TTY visible post-login. Any pointers or help ? Thank you. Vai

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How to DualBoot Debian/RHEL
by Rony Bill 12 Mar '05

12 Mar '05

Dear Friends, I tried out the EduMorphix live CD and after that I installed it in my HDD as it is a Debian GNU distro and I want to try it out. Everything went OK but for safety, I did not install the LILO and planned to setup dual boot in the RHEL grub loader. I even visited the site for instructions on dual booting multiple linux distris. Below is the details of my system. As per the site's instructions, I copied 3 files from /boot of debian to /boot of RHEL. There is no initrd-xxxx.img file though. These are the 3 files in /boot of the debian in /dev/hda12 config-2.4.25-lck1 vmlinuz ....This is an executable file vmlinuz-2.4.25-lck1 This is my grub.conf in RHEL in /dev/hda8 # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd0,7) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda9 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/hda default=1 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,7)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (2.4.21-4.EL) root (hd0,7) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-4.EL ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi initrd /initrd-2.4.21-4.EL.img title EduMorphix GNU Debian .....This I added root (hd0,11) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.25-lck1 ro root=LABEL=/ title DOS rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 Still I get an error of file not found and no booting takes place. I would like to know, my RHEL's /boot is on /dev/hda8 but it is shown as hd0,7 not hd0,8 in grub.conf. My Debian is on /dev/hda12 (from fdisk), so using the same analogy, I made (hd0,11) but it detects it as an 82 partition and cannot mount it. I don't have any ext2 partitions in my system. Whats going on? All tips and tricks welcome. Thanks and Regards, Rony.

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Would anyone host a CentOS mirror in India ?
by Sriram N 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

Hi all: I'm taking CentOS 4.0 via Bit Torrent. I went to #centOS and met some helpful people there. The build master for the i386 / x86_64 / PPC platforms for CentOS , who goes by the name z00dax, asked me if I knew any high speed servers in India that might host CentOS. Any tips on whom to ask in India ? -- Sriram __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250

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Politics of FLOSS
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

POLITICS OF OPEN SOURCE CLASS: Sweden's University of Go"teborg is offering a class on the politics of free / open source software. The course will run from April to June. It's online, it's free, and it's in English. Applications are due March 15. For more information, visit http://www.informatik.gu.se/eng/education/politicalscience.xhtml [Thanks to Michael Gurstein for posting this to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bytesforall_readers list --FN] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ d88888b d8b db Frederick Noronha * Freelance Journalist * Goa India 88' 888o 88 f r e d @ b y t e s f o r a l l . o r g 88ooo 88V8o 88 http://www.bytesforall.org * http://fn.swiki.net 88~~~ 88 V8o88 Phone 0091.832.2409490 Mobile 09822 122436 88 88 V888 784 Nr Lourdes Convent, Sonarbhat Saligao Goa 403511 YP VP V8P Writing ... with a difference, on issues that matter

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Microsoft talk
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 10 Mar '05

10 Mar '05

>From "PUKAR" <pukar(a)pukar.org.in> Date: Friday 11th March 2004 Time: 6:30 p.m. Venue: Max Muller Bhavan, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai. Dear Friends, You are cordially invited to attend a talk by Dr. Nimmi Rangaswamy on " Expanding Urban Frontiers: Village Internet Kiosks". Dr. Rangaswamy is Associate Researcher for Microsoft Research India Private Limited. She will draw on her experiences of working on the Microsoft research program that looks at the interaction of the social fabric of spaces on the fringes of urban areas and I.T. Dr. Rangaswamy is trained in social anthropology from Delhi University and has a doctorate in Sociology from University of Mumbai. This talk is organized in collaboration with Max Muller Bhavan, Mumbai. See you there! warm regards, The PUKAR Team. PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action and Research) Mumbai Address:: 1-4, 2nd Floor, Kamanwala Chambers, Sir P. M. Road, Fort, Mumbai 400 001 Telephone:: +91 (022) 5574 8152 / +91 (0) 98204 04010 Email:: pukar(a)pukar.org.in Website:: www.pukar.org.in

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Download/Upload is slow.
by Rajendra Rait 10 Mar '05

10 Mar '05

Hi, I tried your command it shows me 3-4% loss, but i had observed one more, i am able to download/upload all files except .doc files, so shall i conclude that it be a problem of an virus, or else some other problems. Regards, Rajendra. Derwyn Dpenha wrote: > Try command line > # mtr (isp server ip) > Check packet loss. if to great call ur isp guy > > Derwyn > > -- > http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

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>>Pls include Dtrace in the ILUG MEET<<
by BIJU KRISHNAN 10 Mar '05

10 Mar '05

Well this GLUG meeting would be fun, I hope i can make it...although i do have a shift co-inciding with the same...! I would love (``) to have - a talk on Dtrace and a live installation demo of GNU\Hurd as a part of the meet. gr8 work guys....! bye rgds biju --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site!

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RE: [ILUG-BOM] Configuring Kerberos
by Pillai, Gishu R (GE Energy) 10 Mar '05

10 Mar '05

>>we only help those who help themselves. Start doing it and report >>errors if any >>-- >>regards >>kg could you please read my Post dated 28th Feb for a Samba related query ? Gishu

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Download/Upload is slow.
by Rajendra Rait 10 Mar '05

10 Mar '05

Hello, I have a strange problem, i have configured a proxy server with squid(transparent), also i have some iptables rules flowing. I use an 64kbps Internet connection from my cable operator, he terminates a cat5 cable at my premises, i have two lan cards on my redhat linux 9 box, eth0 is my internal LAN and eth1 is where i connect to internet. I have static ips for both eth0 and eth1. My problem is that whenever i download/upload any file it takes a very long time and stops responding, is it that i have to open some ports, or is it the problem of my ISP. Thankyou in advance. Regards, Rajendra Rait.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] How to DualBoot Debian/RHEL
by Nadiem 10 Mar '05

10 Mar '05

--- Satya <ilugbom(a)thesatya.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:59:53AM +0530, Rony Bill > wrote: > >These are the 3 files in /boot of the debian in > /dev/hda12 > >config-2.4.25-lck1 > >vmlinuz ....This is an executable file > >vmlinuz-2.4.25-lck1 > > > >This is my grub.conf in RHEL in /dev/hda8 > > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.25-lck1 ro root=LABEL=/ > > Surely that should be /boot/vmlinuz? Since he as a boot partition, all paths are relative to /boot. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Make Yahoo! your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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[ILUG-BOM] Seminar on managing medium/large Linux deployments on 23rd March.
by Amish Munshi 09 Mar '05

09 Mar '05

The date in the previous mail was incorrect. The session is on 23 March 2005. Hello All, Onward Novell has arranged for a seminar on managing medium to large Linux deployments. Following are the details regarding the same. Topic : Managing medium/large deployments of Linux. This session will help you to configure and maintain large SUSE Linux Deployments. It will introduce you to setup AutoYAST and ZENworks Linux management (formerly known as red-carpet). AutoYAST (Zero click install) - It enables automated installation of any Novell/SUSE Linux. ZENworks Linux Management (formerly known as red-carpet) - It will help in managing software updates or patches for a network of Linux Machines. It can manage a hetrogeneous Linux network consisting of various distributions. Venue : Onward Novell Software (I) Pvt. Ltd. 62, 13th Street, MIDC, Andheri (East) Mumbai, 400093 India +91-09820931263 Duration : 5:30 - 8:00 PM Date : March 23, 2005 Registration : Registration will be on first come first serve basis. Kindly register as soon as possible. Limited seats are available, please register at the following URL at the earliest. Seminars are free of charge. http://www.novell.com/offices/asiapac/india/linux/registration.html Please circulate this invitation to anyone who might be interested. Attend, learn, improve and "Have Fun" on larger Linux deployments with Novell/SUSE. SUSE - Dont get mad, get moving. Amish. Note : Presentations for the previous sessions are available at http://www.novell.com/offices/asiapac/india/linux/presentations.html Amish K. Munshi Consultant Onward Novell Software ( I ) Pvt. Ltd. Ph + 91 22 2834 2244 Fx + 91 22 2831 1277 amunshi(a)novell.com Novell Inc., the leading provider of Net business solutions. Onward Novell Software (I) Ltd. is the Joint Venture Company between Onward Group and Novell Inc. www.novell.com

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[ILUG-BOM] Seminar on managing medium/large Linux deployments on 23rd March.
by Amish Munshi 09 Mar '05

09 Mar '05

Hello All, Onward Novell has arranged for a seminar on managing medium to large Linux deployments. Following are the details regarding the same. Topic : Managing medium/large deployments of Linux. This session will help you to configure and maintain large SUSE Linux Deployments. It will introduce you to setup AutoYAST and ZENworks Linux management (formerly known as red-carpet). AutoYAST (Zero click install) - It enables automated installation of any Novell/SUSE Linux. ZENworks Linux Management (formerly known as red-carpet) - It will help in managing software updates or patches for a network of Linux Machines. It can manage a hetrogeneous Linux network consisting of various distributions. Venue : Onward Novell Software (I) Pvt. Ltd. 62, 13th Street, MIDC, Andheri (East) Mumbai, 400093 India +91-09820931263 Duration : 5:30 - 8:00 PM Date : Feb 23, 2005 Registration : Registration will be on first come first serve basis. Kindly register as soon as possible. Limited seats are available, please register at the following URL at the earliest. Seminars are free of charge. http://www.novell.com/offices/asiapac/india/linux/registration.html Please circulate this invitation to anyone who might be interested. Attend, learn, improve and "Have Fun" on larger Linux deployments with Novell/SUSE. SUSE - Dont get mad, get moving. Amish. Note : Presentations for the previous sessions are available at http://www.novell.com/offices/asiapac/india/linux/presentations.html Amish K. Munshi Consultant Onward Novell Software ( I ) Pvt. Ltd. Ph + 91 22 2834 2244 Fx + 91 22 2831 1277 amunshi(a)novell.com Novell Inc., the leading provider of Net business solutions. Onward Novell Software (I) Ltd. is the Joint Venture Company between Onward Group and Novell Inc. www.novell.com

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lug meet ?
by SeekingGyan 09 Mar '05

09 Mar '05

is lugmeet happening anywhere ? -- Harsh

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Configuring Kerberos
by Senthil Kumaran 09 Mar '05

09 Mar '05

I would like to know how to configure kerberos... I want to have the kdc, the admin server in the same machine... Could anyone help me thanks in advance... :) --sen-- Be a man of Deeds, don't be a man of Needs... Blog: http://stylesen.blogspot.com

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[ILUG-BOM] Urgent requirement of Linux Administrator and Linux faculty
by Deepak Palande 09 Mar '05

09 Mar '05

Dear all, I would like to know if anybody looking for a job of Linux Administrator as well as Trainer or faculty. There is opening in our organization, interested person can contact Mr. Deepak or Vaibhav on +91-22-39511322 or 9324611858 Waiting for your reply, Regards..........Deepak

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Re: RE: [ILUG-BOM] lug meet ?
by Sameer Niphadkar 09 Mar '05

09 Mar '05

On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 Erle Pereira wrote : >On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 23:22, Amish Munshi wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Anurag, is it possible to have it on 13th at HBCSE? Are you available > > for a session on GNU/Hurd. > > We need one more session on some other topic. > > I would like to have at a topic on Linux kernel internals. > > > >ditto!!! i would love to hear / see more on GNU/ HURD > >i could give the topic on linux kernel internals.. but not this time >round... wrapped up with work and no time to really prepare for it.. >next meet onwards > > Hi, I don't mind talking about Dynamic Tracing in OpenSolaris and implementation of the D programming language. But, plz do let me know about it in advance. rgds Sameer 'You will be what you WILL to Be' -James Allen

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: lancard,sound card problem
by swapnil ambre 08 Mar '05

08 Mar '05

i am using redhat linux es-3.0 I did the following things and I got the following answers 1) ifconfig says lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:518 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:518 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 RX bytes:48972 (47.8 Kb) TX bytes:48972 (47.8 Kb) 2) redhat-config-soundcard says no soundcard detected On intel site i got the following libxerces-c1_6_0.tar.gz file for my intels lancard which i unzipped . i got libxerces-c1_6_0.so and a LICENSE.xerces.txt file.please tell me what should i do with the libxerces-c1_6_0.so file Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline.

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March GLUG meet @ HBCSE
by Anurag Patel 08 Mar '05

08 Mar '05

Hello, The GNU/Linux Users Group of Mumbai will be holding its March GLUG meet at HBCSE, Mankhurd. We will be having a talk on installation and working with GNU Hurd Operating System followed by another talk which is yet to be finalized. For directions on reaching HBCSE, please see this page. http://www.hbcse.tifr.res.in/Data/ObjectType/contact Anurag -- ----------------------------------------------- __ __ gnu /noo/ n. Ox like antelope; (abbr.) /gnoo/ n. (recursive acronym) Gnu's Not Unix.

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lug meet ?
by Derwyn Dpenha 08 Mar '05

08 Mar '05

I'm game for Hurd too... Erle need ur laptop possible Derwyn

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Transferring files in win-lin network with commandline
by abhilash kumar 08 Mar '05

08 Mar '05

Hi, I want to copy some files on my win98 m/c to my RedHat9 m/c. and I want to do this with commandline (like using telnet). Also tell me how to do the same vice-versa. Abhilash Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Re: Linux migration
by santosh rao 07 Mar '05

07 Mar '05

hi saswata/amish, Agreed the no. of clients would depend on the chip and other stuff. This solution is only possible with win3k right. Actually speakin in the current system i ran multi user tally with wine, but over time the data got corrupt again and again., so then switched to vmware. Do you guys have any more ideas other thn win3k server ?

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[ILUG-BOM] Commercial : Urgent Openings for sendmail Administrators[6months - 1 year]
by BIJU KRISHNAN 07 Mar '05

07 Mar '05

Dear All, There is an immediate opening for a Sendmail Administrator in reputed company through indirect employment (Through a Franchise). ----------------- Requirement ------------------- Skills: - Working knowledge on Red Hat Linux. - Expereince in administering Sendmail MTA Added Advantage: Knowledge of cyrus-imap administration. Expereince Mandatory : 6months - 1 year on MTA administration. Note: Freshers do not apply. Mail your resumes to : lalbahadur.gupta(a)3i-infotech.com **Important : Although this employment offer is through indirect employment, salary matches industry standards. bye rgds PP BIJU KRISHNAN PS: The requirement is really urgent. __________________________________ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/

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query rgd linux kernel compilation
by chirag radhakrishnan 07 Mar '05

07 Mar '05

Hi, I have a problem regarding kernel re-compilation. I am trying to use SLES over intel platform servers with SCSI HDD. This server has got 4 CPU's and around 1 GB RAM. I have this application which I am trying to install, the documentation of which mentions linux kernel to be in non-smp mode.By default SLES ,whenever it detects more than 1 CPU goes into smp mode of kernel. When I am trying to reinstall the kernel by passing parameter "nosmp" the server smoothly goes through the entire installation, but after the final reboot, goes into kernel panic. Initially I though that I am choosing the wrong filesystem for /boot, but later on I tried with ext2 and resierfs to find the same end result. worst part is that if I try to boot this very system(installed with nosmp) with a bootable cd, it boots, shows all the partitions as they were created during the installation. Now things that I need to know from you people 1. what are the right parameters to be passed when installing kernel without SMP, is nosmp the only paramter or do I need to specify maxcpu also? 2. when I give a specific paramter to the kernel installation, does it ignore other default parameters (like say reiserfs modules, scsi modules, ethernet modules). 3. what is the difference between installing a module into the kernel and installing a module outside kernel (if there is anything like that ) thanks in advance Chirag __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Which popper in HREL3,4
by vaibhav samant 07 Mar '05

07 Mar '05

Hi, Any idea which POP3 (WUIMAP, CyrusIMAP, QPopper, Davecot etc) server is built into RHEL 3 or RHEL 4 ? Thank you. Vai

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VRML Editor
by Gaurav Mishra 07 Mar '05

07 Mar '05

Culd anyone suggest me a VRML Editor in Linux. Thanks in advance..............

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Acer Aspire 1362 with Amd sempron
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 07 Mar '05

07 Mar '05

On Sunday 06 March 2005 08:55, Saswata Banerjee & Associates wrote: > 2 K or so from the price we would otherwise pay, ofcourse with some > innovative (but perfectly legal) billing even 4K. > Possibly someone with regular corporate purchase will get even > lower pricing that what I can negotiate. Then I will latch on to > his order than mine :-) I am buying one for a friend. The final decision is on Monday. The Aspire 1362 seems to be ok for his needs. Will keep u posted. Last week purchased an IBM T42 2372K1A for another friend. It comes with winxp "professional" preinstalled. A bit of work with QTparted and debian sarge was roaring. It lacks gprs / cdma connectivity hardware. So an external phone will have to be used. The GSM/CDMA PCMCIA cards are ridiculously priced (Rs.15K from tata). Any ideas? rgds jtd

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Seminar on GNU/Linux @ RAIT
by Vihan Pandey 07 Mar '05

07 Mar '05

:::::::::::::::::::::::SEMINAR NOTICE:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ORGANIZED BY: Free Software Foundation of India VENUE: Dental Auditorium, RAIT College of Engg, Dr D Y Patil Vidya Nagar, Sector 7, Nerul, New Mumbai-400706. SPEAKERS: * Dr. Nagarjuna G. (Chairman Free Software Foundation, India) * Anurag Patel (FSF India) DATE: Thursday, 10th March 2005 TIME: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM ---------------------------------------------------------------- AGENDA ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1.Why use GNU/Linux and free software? 2.What is Unix paradigm, how is it different from other OS? 3.How to type and program at the speed of thought? Introduction to GNU Emacs. 4.How to do x,y,z ..? keeping engineering students in mind. 5.How to carry home GNU/Linux and work at home. Knoppix, College Gnoware. 6.Question Answers. ---------------------------------------------------------------- It include demonstrations and distribution of the GNU/Linux CD (Knoppix, Gnoware, Ubuntu, Dynebolic) ---------------------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION FEE: Rs. 10/- [This amount will be donated to FSF India] LAST DATE FOR REGISTRATION: Thursday, 10th March 2005 (On the spot registrations) CONTACT PERSON FOR REGISTRATION: * Sanket Medhi [SE IT] Phone: 9820990917 sanketmedhi(a)gmail.com * Aditya Kadu [SE IT] Phone: 9820547172 adityakadu(a)gmail.com * Shripad Bhosale [SE IT] Phone: 27650169 getshripad(a)gmail.com

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Testing a lock on a file.
by ThaniX 07 Mar '05

07 Mar '05

--- Sneh D <my_linux(a)rediffmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > 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. > It is possible to find out if this .DAT file is already open, using either of the utilities "lsof" or "fuser". You may choose to populate the tables only if this file is not already open. Regards, ThaniX __________________________________ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/

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Re: linux migration
by santosh rao 07 Mar '05

07 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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Please help me (advansys scsi card )
by Santosh Laxman Kyadari 05 Mar '05

05 Mar '05

I have Exabyte elite tape drive connected to advansys scsi card. When I do mt -f /dev/st0 it says no such device. First of all it does not detect any scsi of such hardware initially at the time of boot up. But it detected in knoppix 3.6. my debian kernel version is 2.2.20-idepci When I do dmesg it does not show any hardware of scsi but when I do lspci, It shows there. 0000:01:04.0 SCSI storage controller: Advanced System Products, Inc ABP940-U / ABP960-U (rev 03) Can anybody help me how to resolve this problem. Regards, Santosh K

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Debian Sarge alsa and sata problems
by Floyd rulz! 05 Mar '05

05 Mar '05

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 ? 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 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 ? Sorry for such a lenghty post. Cheers Abhijeet

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] EEpro100 & realtek sound drivers
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 05 Mar '05

05 Mar '05

On Thursday 03 March 2005 16:49, Devdas Bhagat wrote: > On 03/03/05 15:38 +0500, sherlock(a)vsnl.com wrote: > > > 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. > > > > Presuming your distro is debian. If not install debian sarge. > > modprobe eepro100 > > modprobe ac97_codec > > How does the distro matter in this? The same modules work on my RH > 7.3 installation. If eepro100 does not work, use the e100 driver. > Pointless distro pushing does not make sense. Not quite pointless. The question is a typical newbie question. There are likely to be many more such, which if the distro happens to be something else will not be answerable by ME. > > (BTW, I have found apt-get to be a very convoluted way of managing > packages. The best way for my administrative style is the BSD > ports. apt tends to break when it meets my requirements). Apt is quite suitable for the less stylish ;-). rgds jtd

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[Wiki Stats] GNU/Linux Migration
by Amol Hatwar 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

Hi all, The wiki got about 15 edits today. Not bad for a start... but the document has still got a long way to go. The page is available for edits, more additions and questions here: http://hatwar.org/wiki/doku.php?id=wiki:gnumigrate If anyone has come across good whitepapers/articles regarding this, please point them out. Regards, ah

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ltsp NFS problem . plz help
by linman ferns 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

Hi friends, i am having a major problem with NFS server on rh9. i am running ltsp 3.0 based thin clients. the server takes time to boot. when it reaches #starting NFS its holds there for 5 mins and then go on. the clients do not start because of this. there is no error message. even while doing #service nfs restart. this happens. it goes to #starting nfs and holds there for sometim and then goes on. can some one help me out with this. can some one also tell me how to uninstall the nfs server from rh9. that is removing the whole rpm(s). so that i can use the new NFS rpms. thanks a lot. this is very urgent. kindly be a little explanatroy. but otherwise will also help. thanks again. __________________________________ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/

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RE: [ILUG-BOM] Windows to Linux Migration
by Philip Tellis 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

Sometime Today, AH cobbled together some glyphs to say: > A mechanism for knowing who has made the edit: please put your name > and what you did in the Edit Summary box. It's that simple :). What stops me from using your name? There are many people out there who'd want to change information pretending to be someone else.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Windows to Linux Migration
by Kenneth Gonsalves 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

On Friday 04 Mar 2005 11:15 am, Amol Hatwar wrote: > > shall i format it? > > Do you even need to ask? :) you seem to have done it already - its now started looking good -- regards kg http://www.livejournal.com/users/lawgon tally ho! http://avsap.sourceforge.net ಇಂಡ್ಲಿನಕ್ಸ வாழ்க!

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Windows to Linux Migration
by Kenneth Gonsalves 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

On Friday 04 Mar 2005 10:03 am, Amol Hatwar wrote: > Yes... I just did a dump, it can be formatted in a better fashion. > Yeah it is wide-open... but see all logs are maintained... I can > easily revert to an earlier version. shall i format it? -- regards kg http://www.livejournal.com/users/lawgon tally ho! http://avsap.sourceforge.net ಇಂಡ್ಲಿನಕ್ಸ வாழ்க!

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] msn brazil uses php + mysql ?
by Amish Mehta 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

SeekingGyan wrote: > >have a look at this image. It clearly shows that at least a part of >MSN Brazil website uses PHP + MySQL > >http://www.macan.eng.br.nyud.net:8090/images/stories/msn_screenshot.png > >you can verify the site by going to the URL visible in the image. Microsoft generally has tie-ups with third party for posting articles. If you see the source you will find that in this case its cineclick.com.br. So error at cineclick.com.br must have reflected on msn.com.br as well. FYI: cineclick server uses: Apache/1.3.31 (Unix) PHP/4.3.3 FrontPage/5.0.2.2634a mod_ssl/2.8.18 OpenSSL/0.9.7a Amish.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Windows to Linux Migration
by Kenneth Gonsalves 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

On Friday 04 Mar 2005 10:03 am, Amol Hatwar wrote: > A mechanism for knowing who has made the edit: please put your name > and what you did in the Edit Summary box. It's that simple :). didnt notice that - the only other wiki experience i had made this compulsory -- regards kg http://www.livejournal.com/users/lawgon tally ho! http://avsap.sourceforge.net ಇಂಡ್ಲಿನಕ್ಸ வாழ்க!

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msn brazil uses php + mysql ?
by SeekingGyan 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

have a look at this image. It clearly shows that at least a part of MSN Brazil website uses PHP + MySQL http://www.macan.eng.br.nyud.net:8090/images/stories/msn_screenshot.png you can verify the site by going to the URL visible in the image. also dont the path name suggest its a *nix os ? Harsh

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Windows to Linux Migration
by Kenneth Gonsalves 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

On Friday 04 Mar 2005 7:47 am, Amol Hatwar wrote: > Good morning all, > > I thought it would be best to capture ideas when they are fresh... > so I set up a wiki page where people interested in contributing to > a new Windows-> GNU/Linux howto can share experiences and > collaborate. > > Here's the link: http://hatwar.org/wiki/doku.php?id=wiki:gnumigrate a suggestion - the lists could be formatted using the numbered list syntax, that way we can insert new items easily. Also some mechanism to login before editing - the wiki is now wide open ... or at least a mechanism to know who has made the edit -- regards kg http://www.livejournal.com/users/lawgon tally ho! http://avsap.sourceforge.net ಇಂಡ್ಲಿನಕ್ಸ வாழ்க!

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Windows to Linux Migration
by Kenneth Gonsalves 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

On Thursday 03 Mar 2005 8:10 pm, Amol Hatwar wrote: > >> There are some excellent reference materials already available > >> from Novell and IBM for Desktop migration. Do utilize them if > >> possible. I had sent the URL's to the list as a reply to this > >> thread earlier. > > > > That's nice idea. I will go through those links. That may > > possibly give me some hint for developing the how-to. :-) > > [ah] Why not set up a wiki for this? Then everyone will be able to > contribute... yessss -- regards kg http://www.livejournal.com/users/lawgon tally ho! http://avsap.sourceforge.net ಇಂಡ್ಲಿನಕ್ಸ வாழ்க!

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Windows to Linux Migration
by Amol Hatwar 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

Good morning all, I thought it would be best to capture ideas when they are fresh... so I set up a wiki page where people interested in contributing to a new Windows-> GNU/Linux howto can share experiences and collaborate. Here's the link: http://hatwar.org/wiki/doku.php?id=wiki:gnumigrate After the document is done, I suggest we format it into a nice HTML/PS/PDF and host it on our Website... perhaps ibiblio with proper credits as well. Warm wishes, ah

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Killing a tcp socket
by Shahed Moolji 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

Hi all, This may sound like a stupid question, but is there a utility by which I can kill an open tcp remote client socket connection , without killing the server process ? Eg, A remote client connects to a server. The server has no interface to disconnect the client. I do a netstat and get the IP address and socket of the client. Now I want to disconnect the client, so I want to issue something like $ killsocket <remoteip> <remotesocket>. Is there anyway by which I can do this ? Thanks Shahed.

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Re: About GNU/Hurd (Joe Steeve)
by Vickram Crishna 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

>Philip Tellis <philip.tellis(a)gmx.net> writes: > > GNU is enough. Adding linux to the end of it only serves to give credit to > > Linus Torvalds ><...> > > The FSF set out to write an operating system called GNU. They >did that, and > > that's why we call the operating system GNU. Why add anything to it? > >All GNU/Linux distributions are simply variants of a `GNU/Linux` OS >which is not _the_ GNU system. The GNU system is still under >development. It'll have the Hurd as its kernel. My own 90 paise (overvalued): As long as the popular system is a synergy between GNU and Linux, one way (that I suggested a long time back in this group) out of the slash dilemma is to merge the two terms and call it Gnull (pronounced g'null, to differentiate it from null, the essential nothingness, a breathtaking acknowledgment of its holism). And since the Hurd is apparently popular with people who are currently fiercely technically minded, the combination should be called Gnurd (pronounced nerd, about which no comment is necessary). As to GNU being still under development, I think its fantastic beauty is that the development will never stop. -- Vickram

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Commercial
by Ravishekar K 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

Hi Linuxers.....We are looking for Linux Trainers on a contract basis to conduct training sessions for our clients' staff ...hose interested may reply to ravi(a)phoenixsoftnet.com Regards....Hojo -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.5.2 - Release Date: 28/02/05

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RE: [ILUG-BOM] Windows to Linux Migration
by Dinesh Shah 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

Hi Amol, On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 10:12, Amol Hatwar wrote: > All the points are pretty valid and need to paid particular attention to in > a small-medium sized business. Why only SMEs? Why not large Enterprises? > I think if one elaborates all the points, it can serve as a good how-to for > small-medium businesses. What say Mr Dinesh? I will try to elaborate as many points as possible to develop this into a complete how-to. Let me see when can I start. Also, inputs from the community is also important. > Warm wishes, > > ah With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) <Dinesh(a)ShahMicro.com> Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906

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Wipro Laptop
by Rony Bill 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

Dear Friends, Wipro has come out with a new laptop with an AMD mobile processor with all the usual stuff and it is priced (in the adv.) at 30K. Taxes must be extra. It uses Linux. I saw this ad in the papers just before Feb 28. The price was supposed to be post March 1 after some WTO relaxation??? I can't find more details as its not on their website, but those looking for a laptop with linux could make some enquiries. Regards, Rony.

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NFS ERROR
by linman ferns 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

hi friends, i have a problem. i am using ltsp 3.0 for thin clients. and Redhat 9.0. The nfs when starting sometimes takes time to start and at these times the thin clients do not work. can someone help me out with some solution out here. thanks. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo

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Re:modem problem
by vidya bhosale 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

hello, my modem is internal---motorola sm56 PCI my kernel version is 2.4.21-4.EL i downloaded it from net but when i tried to confifure by redhat-config-network it gave error.......modem card not detected. but immediately it showed me the dailog box for configurations i configured it.....but when i tried to activate it....it said....cannot activate. failed to activate the modem connection...error 2 plz help me out waiting for reply vidya

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lancard,sound card problem
by swapnil ambre 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

i am new to linux. i am using red hat es-3.0. motherboard is 915 sound card is of realtek lancard is of intel pro/100 ve Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline.

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EEpro100 & realtek sound drivers
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 03 Mar '05

03 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. Presuming your distro is debian. If not install debian sarge. modprobe eepro100 modprobe ac97_codec rgds jtd

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[Commercial] Inviting System Administrators to 'Rhythm and Hues, India']
by Binulal Narayanan 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

Dear All: Rhythm & Hues is an Academy Award® winning film production studio specializing in visual effects and computer animation for feature films, television commercials, theme park rides, and music videos. Founded in 1987, Rhythm and Hues, continues to push the boundaries of the digital frontier and has been singled out as a leader by virtually all the major competitions that recognize excellence in computer graphics. Rhythm and Hues is currently based in Los Angeles, California, where we have approximately 600 employees. We have opened a subsidiary in Mumbai in order to add some of the brightest minds and artists in India to our studio. Please visit www.rhythm.com adn www.rhythm.com/india. We are looking for Unix/Linux Administrator who are willing to wear multiple hats - for our Mumbai Facility . NOTE: Currently we use a customised version of RHL and we're migrating to SUSE Linux Professional 9.2. Responsibilities · Serve as escalation point for Linux-related issues · Resolve support requests and perform infrastructure maintainence · Troubleshoot hardware and software problems with servers and workstations · Perform general system maintainence and support · Install, upgrade and maintain hardware, software and peripherals · Identify tasks which require automation and automate them · Evaluate and qualify relevant new technologies and process suggestions · Analyze trends in system utilization to predict future growth for capacity planning purposes · Recommend and establish policies on system use and services · Produce documentation · Train end-users as needed Required Skills/Experience Must Have skills · 4+ years of related experience · Intimate knowledge of Linux/Unix · Experience with Linux/Unix in medium to large enterprises · Shell and Perl scripting to automate system administration functions · Ability to troubleshoot PC software problems, hardware problems, and connectivity issues · Experience supporting end users · Ability to work independently and with other members of a team · Ability to follow through on support requests in a timely manner, escalating to other members of the team when appropriate Good to have · A computer science degree is very helpful, but not required · Experience in a 3D animation/post production facility · Exposure to 3D modeling, 3D animation, 3D character setup, 3D lighting and 2D compositing · 3D and 2D computer graphics programming experience · Experience with Maya and Maya MEL scripting Keywords: Linux/Unix, Perl, C++,Systems Administration, Networking All interested applicants should email their resume to india-techjobs(a)rhythm.com and clearly state the position in Subject Line. Recruitment for other positions are also on. Please visit http://www.rhythm.com/india/career.html for details Binulal Narayanan Pipeline TD R&H, India

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Substitute for Flash
by Andy's Labs 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

Hi All, I'm new to this Group and to Linux also. As Gimp is a substitute for Photoshop, is there any substitute for Flash? -- Cheers__________________________ A N D Y's L A Bs netletters(a)gmail.com ________________________________

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Not detecting advansys scsi card in debiab 2.2.x
by Santosh Laxman Kyadari 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

I have Exabyte elite tape drive connected to advansys scsi card. When I do mt -f /dev/st0 it says no such device. First of all it does not detect any scsi of such hardware initially at the time of boot up. But it detected in knoppix 3.6. my debian kernel version is 2.2.20-idepci When I do dmesg it does not show any hardware of scsi but when I do lspci, It shows there. 0000:01:04.0 SCSI storage controller: Advanced System Products, Inc ABP940- U / ABP960-U (rev 03) Can anybody help me how to resolve this problem. Regards, Santosh K

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Windows to Linux Migration
by neel s Gurjar 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

Hi, all i have some querries please see down Queries : We are Planning to migrate from Windows to Linux Platform.Currently we are having two departments with below hardware and software configurations. We seek your guidance for this migration process. We will be very grateful if you can help us out in this pr We seek your guidance on following queries :- 1. Can you please suggest us which flavour of linux is suitable for each department depending upon software used by them? We have tried Suse 9.0 and RedHat 9.0 & Federo Core 3. 2. Can you please suggest us qually efficient linux based compatible softwares for below given softwares ? 3. Also we are looking for Diskless Networking (dumb client and HDD shared on server) for above 2 departments. Can you please suggest us which networking configuraton (hardware and software) is best suited. Kindly note that Department 2 is using Desktop P 4. As we are very much new to Linux environment, the linux flavour which we will choose should also have good online support available where we can ask our questions and get the results quickly. 5. Also our users are very much familiar to windows environment, so the softwares on linux which we will choose should be user friendly and GUI based. 6. Also those softwares should be tried, tested and stable so as we would not face any problem in future. Department -1 Current Configuration Hardware Software 15 Machines MS Excel C.P.U. - 200 to 300 Mhz Tally RAM 32 to 64 MB MS Access HDD 10 to 40 GB Developed Programs in Visual Basic Stand Alone Systems and No Server Department 2 Current Configuration Hardware Software 10 Machines Pagemaker 5.0 and 6.5 C.P.U. - 200 Mhz. To 1.7Ghz Devnagri Fonts Software RAM 32 to 256 MB Photoshop HDD 10 to 40 GB Stand Alone Systems and No Server Please reply neel

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Recipe for a Successful Linux User Group
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

The most recent version of this essay can be found at http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Linux_PR/newlug.html. Recipe for a Successful Linux User Group by Rick Moen See the full essay online ****** Really good. -FN 1. You need a Web page. 2. Your Web page needs a reasonable URL. 3. You need a regular meeting location. 4. You need a regular meeting time. 5. You need to avoid meeting-time conflicts. 6. You need to make sure that meetings happen as advertised, without fail. 7. You need a core of several Linux enthusiasts. 8. Your core volunteers need out-of-band methods of communication. 9. You need to get on the main lists of LUGs, and keep your entries accurate. * http://www.ssc.com/glue/ * http://lugww.counter.li.org/ * http://nlug.org/webring/ * http://www.redhat.com/apps/community/LUG/ * http://www.linux.org/groups/ * http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Linux/User_Groups/ * http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Software/ Operating_Systems/Unix/Linux/User_Groups/ 10. You must have login access to maintain your Web pages, as needed. 11. Design your Web page to be forgiving of deferred maintenance. 12. Always include the day of the week, when you cite event dates. Always check that day of the week, first, using gcal [2] (or cal). gcal is your friend. 13. Place time-sensitive and key information prominently near the top of your main Web page. 14. Include maps and directions to your events. 15. Emphasise on your main page that your meeting will be free of charge and open to the public (if it is). 16. You'll want to include an RSVP "mailto" hyperlink, on some events. 17. Use referral pages. 18. Make sure every page has a revision date and maintainer link. 19. Check all links, at intervals. 20. You may want to consider establishing a LUG mailing list. 21. You don't need to be in the Internet Service Provider business. 22. Don't go into any other business, either. 23. Walk the walk. LUG checklist. The following checklist may be useful for your group, once established. 1. Web page: a. Meetings: [ ] Current meeting info? Is it prominent? [ ] Day of the week? Beginning time? Ending time? [ ] Double-checked day/date matches against a calendar? (E.g., is the "Friday, March 28" you listed an error, because the 28th is a Thursday?) [ ] Location? [ ] Map? [ ] Directions (car, public transit)? Parking tips? [ ] Information on the next several meetings? [ ] RSVP mailto link on meetings where this is needed? [ ] Note that meetings are free and open to the public (if they are)? [ ] If there's a special fee, is it disclosed next to the event listing? [ ] If location / time / date formula has changed recently, is this noted prominently? [ ] Have you checked for event conflicts with other nearby groups, or with holidays? b. General: [ ] Includes event date-formulas (e.g., 4th Tuesdays)? Prominently? [ ] Maintainer mailto link? [ ] Last-revised date? c. Periodically (maybe every quarter): [ ] Checked all links on your site for dead links? [ ] Checked your Web server's logs for pages requested but not found? (You'll want to put a referral page at that URL.) [ ] Read all your Web content attentively for outdated content? 2. Other, periodical: [ ] Reviewed/updated all LUG lists that have entries concerning your group? [ ] Reviewed all sites that link to yours? Advised their webmasters of needed corrections? Last revised: 2003-08-04 Having seen (and run) quite a few Linux user groups (LUGs), and observed some thrive and others die, I can hazard some firm recommendations. If you're thinking of starting a LUG, or are running one now, please ponder these lessons, drawn from other LUGs' experience. In fact, please consider reviewing this list from time to time, as a kind of checklist. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ d88888b d8b db Frederick Noronha * Freelance Journalist * Goa India 88' 888o 88 f r e d @ b y t e s f o r a l l . o r g 88ooo 88V8o 88 http://www.bytesforall.org * http://fn.swiki.net 88~~~ 88 V8o88 Phone 0091.832.2409490 Mobile 09822 122436 88 88 V888 784 Nr Lourdes Convent, Sonarbhat Saligao Goa 403511 YP VP V8P Writing ... with a difference, on issues that matter

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Re: Linux Migration
by santosh rao 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

hi kenneth, " I would suggest that you identify which people need to use VB software and dont migrate them in the first stage. In second stage, perhaps you can have a Win3K server with remote desktop client running on Linux to give access to the VB Software. We worked that succssfully in an office with 75+ users. " i am interested in this. Can you shed more light on the implementation. If this can be done with VB is it possible to do the same with tally.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Help
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 02 Mar '05

02 Mar '05

On Wednesday 02 March 2005 09:33, Amit Bagadia wrote: > Hi people > i recently tried installing FC3 on my system, > the first problem i faced was it did not detect my mouse. > the second problem i faced was while trying to label the partitions > my version of FC3 setup showed hung up screens. > i had to abondon my setup. > anyone can tell me whats the problem? First put a meaningful subject line like "FC3 hangs during install". "Help" is (almost) useful when you are drowning or being whacked by someone... FC3 and ilk are unstable and not for newbies. Use debian sarge (pcquest dvd). It is stable, simple to install and simpler to maintain with an ( cable modem / ADSL) internet connection. And you will always get support from me. rgds jtd

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[Commercial] Part/Full time sysadmin required
by Gabin Kattukaran 02 Mar '05

02 Mar '05

Hi, We're an engineering/manufacturing company with a small (~25 pc) network - linux on the server side, linux/xp/nt on the workstations. We're in the process of migrating to linux. We're looking for someone who can sys/net admin the setup. Since the setup is small, full time (9 to 5) commitment may not be required. Those interested can mail me (off list) at GKattukaran(a)mepl.co.in -gabin -- You can't push on a string.

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[Commercial]Learn Linux Kernel programming from Experts
by Concepts Systems 02 Mar '05

02 Mar '05

Hello All, Concepts has always been in forefront for providing software professionals with right directions, methodology to ensure that they remain on cutting edge of development and continue to win, with quality training from experienced Industry Experts. We are extremely happy to announce next weekend batch of Linux Kernel Programming from Sunday i.e. 6th March 2005. Course Highlights: -Intel x86 Fundamentals -Operating Systems Basics -Character loopback device driver -Mouse Device Driver -Slab Cache -System Call hooking -Kernel Compilation -Kernel Threading and synchronization -Simple File System Duration: Approximately 40+ Hrs (1.5 months) Venue: Concepts Systems, 3rd Floor, Nirmal Complex, Paud rd., Kothrud, Pune � 411038. Key Highlights: -Industry Driven Curriculum -Techno-specialists as course-faculties having proven track record in the industry -Average rating of Concepts Trainer is 9 out of 10 -Concepts guided project �MailDisk� won prize at IIT Techfest. If you have any queries feel free to call us on 020- 25381126 Or mail us at training(a)conceptssys.com Thanks & Regards, Preeti B. Concepts Systems, http://www.conceptssys.com training(a)conceptssys.com Ph.: +91 020 25381126 (O) Learn From Experts! Be part of winning team! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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RE: [ILUG-BOM] Re:modem problem
by Pillai, Gishu R (GE Energy) 02 Mar '05

02 Mar '05

hello, >> my modem is internal---motorola sm56 PCI >> my kernel version is 2.4.21-4.EL vidya You are done. AFAIK redhat wasn't supporting this modem after 7.1 plug.org.in/pipermail/plug-mail/2003-June/008510.html try googling 'motorola sm56 pci modem RHL'. You'll meet the club. Another noodle who bought this modem and then tried to get it working on lin Gishu

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Reconfiguring Debian while upgrading machine and usingtheold hdd
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 02 Mar '05

02 Mar '05

On Wednesday 02 March 2005 11:21, Vinayakam Murugan wrote: > > Which mobo (chipset, make, model no.)? > > P4 3 GHz 800 MHz FSB 1 MB L2 Cache > 865 Chipset Mother Board with N Videa G force 64 MB AGP Graphics > Card You will need the nvidia drivers, which is closed. So be ready to face problems a few months down the line. Get em from the nvidia site. I865 is supported in the 2.4.24 and abv kernels. I have used several i865 boards. Uptime of several months. rgds jtd

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Reconfiguring Debian while upgrading machine and using theold hdd
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 02 Mar '05

02 Mar '05

On Wednesday 02 March 2005 10:39, Vinayakam Murugan wrote: > Hi > > I am running Debian 3.1 testing. I am upgrading from a PII machine > to a PIV 2.5 ghz , 64 MB Video RAM, Cd writer . > > What would I need to do to use my old HDD without a reformat? any > things to take care of? No need to reformat at all. Just plug it on the same ide port as your old system. After that you will have to edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 for using the right X11 driver. Then run modconf and select/remove the apropriate modules. Reboot. Which mobo (chipset, make, model no.)? rgds jtd

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About GNU/Hurd
by Senthil Kumaran 02 Mar '05

02 Mar '05

I would like to know about GNU/Hurd ... Does anyone of you have GNU/Hurd cds? --sen-- Be a man of Deeds, don't be a man of Needs... Blog: http://stylesen.blogspot.com

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[ILUG-BOM] Reconfiguring Debian while upgrading machine and using the old hdd
by Vinayakam Murugan 02 Mar '05

02 Mar '05

Hi I am running Debian 3.1 testing. I am upgrading from a PII machine to a PIV 2.5 ghz , 64 MB Video RAM, Cd writer . What would I need to do to use my old HDD without a reformat? any things to take care of? -- Warm Regards ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Vinayak

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Help
by Amit Bagadia 02 Mar '05

02 Mar '05

Hi people i recently tried installing FC3 on my system, the first problem i faced was it did not detect my mouse. the second problem i faced was while trying to label the partitions my version of FC3 setup showed hung up screens. i had to abondon my setup. anyone can tell me whats the problem?

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dailing problem for internal modem
by Guntupalli Karunakar 02 Mar '05

02 Mar '05

Hi, I have a Dell inspiron 510m laptop. from lspci -v it shows. 000:00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Generic]) Subsystem: Conexant: Unknown device 5422 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 7 I/O ports at d400 [size=256] I/O ports at d080 [size=128] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version I installed slmodem modules. it gets the modem through alsa , & detected by wvdialconf , when below is run. cartoon:~# slmodemd -c INDIA --alsa SmartLink Soft Modem: version 2.9.10 Feb 8 2005 14:54:01 symbolic link `/dev/ttySL0' -> `/dev/pts/2' created. modem `modem:1' created. TTY is `/dev/pts/2' Use `/dev/ttySL0' as modem device, Ctrl+C for termination. But dialing doesnt work, there is no sound ( even after adjusting alsamixer settings - Phone) & it doesnt dial? What could be the problem. below is output of wvdial trying to dial vsnl ( 172226 ) cartoon:~# wvdial vsnl --> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.54.0 --> Initializing modem. --> Sending: ATZ ATZ OK --> Sending: ATX3M1L3 ATX3M1L3 OK --> Sending: ATQ0 L3 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 ATQ0 L3 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 OK --> Modem initialized. --> Sending: ATDT172226 --> Waiting for carrier. ATDT172226 NO ANSWER --> Unknown dial response string. --> Disconnecting at Fri Feb 18 18:49:00 2005 Regards, Karunakar

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Fingerprint reader
by Bilal Ahmed Mazhar 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

Dear Kenneth Gonsalves Any kind of input interface can be accepted. But USB will be prefered as it is moving towards a common interface now days and also providing extra benefit. Regards, Bilal Ahmed Mazhar

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Abt Device Driver in Linux
by deepak shingan 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

hi friends i m a PG student ...This year i m thinking abt a device driver project in Linux probably printer driver. I dont know much abt linux internal working and also want help abt Printer driver. So plz suggest me any referance/book/web-site that u find helpful for me. Thanks in Advance. deep --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we.

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Fwd: a battle won: icici bank conforms
by Kenneth Gonsalves 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

hi, after a long battle LK has succeeded ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: [ilug-mangalore] Meeting Agenda [Was: Re: Yo Venkat! kewl! ] Date: Friday 25 Feb 2005 11:05 am From: Laxminarayan Kamath <kamathln(a)gmail.com> To: ilug-mangalore(a)yahoogroups.com Hey another Good news! ICICI heeds to open source! It's site now works on Firefox! -- Laxminarayan Kamath Ammembal (+91) 9845 061385 kamathln(a)gmail.com www.geocities.com/kamathln Find more about us at http://www.linux-mangalore.org Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-mangalore/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: ilug-mangalore-unsubscribe(a)yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ------------------------------------------------------- -- regards kg http://www.livejournal.com/users/lawgon tally ho! http://avsap.sourceforge.net ಇಂಡ್ಲಿನಕ್ಸ வாழ்க!

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Knoppix DVD
by komal 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

I need Knoppix DVD 3.5. Please tell me whom to contact. Thank you Komal

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ldap failure
by sel 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

Hi all, I got OpenLDAP configured on my qmail server but lately its giving me problem with "untimely death" and by chking the status gives me error slapd dead,but pid file exists,therefore i've to manually restart the ldap services i can't find the logs either, i chkd the slapd.conf file (it seems ok) 1>is there anyway i can prevent the failure of slapd 2>or shud i make a script for the ldap services and restarts it automatically on failure 3>and how do i generate the logs for the same ...pls help me Thanks in advance, Sel --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more.

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Fingerprint reader and attendance system
by Bilal Ahmed Mazhar 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

Hi All Is there anyone who recommend me any biometric device for designing fingerprint based attendance recording system? I want to go for hardware only and software will be designed inhouse because all parties are selling windows based software which can be operated from one machine. I want to design it in PHP/MYSQL (i.e browser based) can be operated from anywhere. I need only device and import/export data software. I had some demo but dealers are quite confused to give it to Linux system. They recommend me to export data through windows system which I don't need. Data import/export should be automated by shell script. Any recommendation for device and dealers will be highly appreciated. Regards, Bilal Ahmed Mazhar

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] reliace at 230.4 kbps
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

On Monday 28 February 2005 10:27, Soumen Dass wrote: > sherlock(a)vsnl.com wrote: > > On Sunday 27 February 2005 20:30, harshal(a)iucaa.ernet.in wrote: > > > > LST250 FWT works at 230Kbps. Just set Baud = 230400 in > > /etc/wvdial.conf.Ofcourse the over-the-air speed stays at 4.5kbps > > or so. > > Do you mean that the actual/effective speed for reliance is around > 4.5 kbps? In other words as good as my ol' MTNL dialup > connection?!! 144kbps (or is it 170kbps)) is the total channel throughput. Shared by umpteen users. Result 4.5kbps actual throughput most of the time. Occassionally you may get a burst of speed when the channel is relatively less cluttered. Unless you are guaranteed in writing of a fixed continuos bandwidth, all the promises are rubbish. In fact a 9600bps gsm connection (not gprs) works far better than any of the shared schemes. Of course you are charged Rs.4 per minute. rgds jtd

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ready to Samba ?
by Pillai, Gishu R (GE Energy) 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

Hi Network card is up and running. A big thanks to all the ppl who pitched in .. esp. Binulal and jtd. I then planned my next big jump. Installed Samba and reached my next dead end. This time it appears to be a common problem. Use google with the search string as "samba no service destination end-point" or http://news.cbn.net.id/cgi-bin/dnewsweb?cmd=article <http://news.cbn.net.id/cgi-bin/dnewsweb?cmd=article&group=comp.os.linux.net…> &group=comp.os.linux.networking&item=121336&utag= I am getting the same response. Couldn't get far with the docs either. Also was curious which user account would Samba use. Do I need to create a specific user account on the machine from where I access the share on the Linux box.... Also smbstatus gives me a cryptic lock error #Samba version 2.2.5 #Service uid gid pid machine #---------------------------------------------- #Can't initialise locking module - exiting Gishu Pillai

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] reliace at 230.4 kbps
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

On Sunday 27 February 2005 20:30, harshal(a)iucaa.ernet.in wrote: > hi, > i was just experimenting with the phone settings when i found > that the default 115 kbps can be changed to 230.4 kbps. LST250 FWT works at 230Kbps. Just set Baud = 230400 in /etc/wvdial.conf.Ofcourse the over-the-air speed stays at 4.5kbps or so. rgds jtd

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strange system behaviour
by Sarfaraz Kazi 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

Hi Linuxers, Running Mandrake Linux 9.1 (kernel 2.4.21) out here. I copied couple of files (excel) from a floppy to my home dir. 2/3 hours later, i noticed that the floppy LED is constantly on and the drive is being continously accessed. So, i did ctrl+alt+f12 to see the kernel(?) messages and i found this:- +++ Feb 27 21:38:02 hansolo last message repeated 116 times Feb 27 21:38:59 hansolo last message repeated 107 times Feb 27 21:38:59 hansolo kernel: martian destination 0.0.0.0 from 10.12.88.160, dev eth0 Feb 27 21:38:59 hansolo kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0 Feb 27 21:39:30 hansolo last message repeated 58 times Feb 27 21:40:31 hansolo last message repeated 113 times Feb 27 21:41:09 hansolo last message repeated 72 times Feb 27 21:41:10 hansolo kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0 Feb 27 21:41:19 hansolo last message repeated 17 times Feb 27 21:41:19 hansolo kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0 Feb 27 21:41:36 hansolo last message repeated 32 times Feb 27 21:41:37 hansolo kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0 Feb 27 21:42:09 hansolo last message repeated 54 times Feb 27 21:42:18 hansolo last message repeated 18 times Feb 27 21:42:19 hansolo kernel: martian destination 0.0.0.0 from 10.12.88.160, dev eth0 Feb 27 21:42:19 hansolo kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0 Feb 27 21:42:50 hansolo last message repeated 55 times Feb 27 21:43:51 hansolo last message repeated 115 times Feb 27 21:44:52 hansolo last message repeated 115 times Feb 27 21:45:53 hansolo last message repeated 114 times Feb 27 21:46:54 hansolo last message repeated 115 times Feb 27 21:47:48 hansolo last message repeated 102 times Feb 27 21:47:48 hansolo kernel: martian destination 0.0.0.0 from 10.12.88.160, dev eth0 Feb 27 21:47:48 hansolo kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0 +++ To stop the floppy drive access, i put back in the same floppy, ran ls and then took it out. After that, my floppy drive's LED is repeatedly blinking on & off, even as i write this mail. On checking the messages again, i got this:- +++ eb 27 22:23:37 hansolo kernel: UDF-fs DEBUG lowlevel.c:65:udf_get_last_session: CDROMMULTISESSION not supported: rc=-22 Feb 27 22:23:37 hansolo kernel: UDF-fs DEBUG super.c:1426:udf_read_super: Multi-session=0 Feb 27 22:23:37 hansolo kernel: UDF-fs DEBUG super.c:415:udf_vrs: Starting at sector 16 (2048 byte sectors) Feb 27 22:23:39 hansolo kernel: UDF-fs: No VRS found Feb 27 22:23:45 hansolo kernel: Unable to identify CD-ROM format. Feb 27 22:23:45 hansolo kernel: MSDOS FS: IO charset utf8 Feb 27 22:24:32 hansolo kernel: VFS: revalidate called on non-open device. Feb 27 22:24:33 hansolo kernel: UDF-fs DEBUG lowlevel.c:65:udf_get_last_session: CDROMMULTISESSION not supported: rc=-22 Feb 27 22:24:33 hansolo kernel: UDF-fs DEBUG super.c:1426:udf_read_super: Multi-session=0 Feb 27 22:24:33 hansolo kernel: UDF-fs DEBUG super.c:415:udf_vrs: Starting at sector 16 (2048 byte sectors) Feb 27 22:24:35 hansolo kernel: UDF-fs: No VRS found Feb 27 22:24:41 hansolo kernel: Unable to identify CD-ROM format. Feb 27 22:24:41 hansolo kernel: MSDOS FS: IO charset utf8 +++ what's going wrong here? is my box being contacted by the martians?!!?:-) Please help. Regards, Sarfaraz. --- Disks are always full. It is futile to try to get more disk space. Data expands to fill any void. -- Murphy's Computer Laws n4 --- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Changing MTU values
by anandraj soni 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

I use reliance connection to access internet and their dialer too. I dont know why, but any other way fails to connect me to internet (like wvdial, kppp or pppd on command line). I am able to connect to internet at a very slow speed as against that in windoz. Also, it shows a very low value of MTU (264). I tried to change it in /etc/ppp/options to "mtu 1500", but whenever I connect again, the values get vanished (gayab). How do I change the MTU values? Or get faster internet? And one more thing, I always need to be root to run the reliance dialer (even switching to root is of no use) and changing permissions does no good. How do I make it run by a normal user (or even after su to root). Anandraj Soni.

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games for geeks
by sel 27 Feb '05

27 Feb '05

Hi all, I've so far been enjoying the stability,security and freedom because of OSS Linux,but I think the guys @ the Open Source has been straining more on applications of stability and security and making Linux easy to use but I think they miss out one area is gaming...look at all the major games they all run on Win with advanced graphics and high resolutions which leaves a geek like me sticking to Win for games. So here goes a request to all game developers to make a version on Linux where you can use OpenGL and make ppl like me happy :D ...waiting to exhale. Rgds, Sel (Freedom thy name is Linux) --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone.

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reliace at 230.4 kbps
by harshal＠iucaa.ernet.in 27 Feb '05

27 Feb '05

hi, i was just experimenting with the phone settings when i found that the default 115 kbps can be changed to 230.4 kbps. but the phone doesn't respond when i try to connect. but i found one web page which claims it can be done, anybody tried connecting at speeds higher than 115. the link is given below, its written on the bottom of the page, but i am not able to do it. here is the link... http://www.hackgnu.org/ril-howto.html -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content, and is believed to be clean.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] games for geeks
by Kartik Mistry 27 Feb '05

27 Feb '05

--- sel <selmails(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >Hi all, > >I've so far been enjoying the stability,security and freedom because of OSS >Linux,but I think the guys @ the Open Source has been straining more on >applications of stability and security and making Linux easy to use but I think >they miss out one area is gaming...look at all the major games they all run on Win >with advanced graphics and high resolutions which leaves a geek like me sticking >to Win for games. > >So here goes a request to all game developers to make a version on Linux where >you can use OpenGL and make ppl like me happy :D >...waiting to exhale. >Rgds, >Sel Hi Sel, May almost all games from 'Activision' works fine in Linux; either they have publish linux version or patch is available on net; I played q3a and rtcw on linux better than window$. And go for 'frozen-bubble'. It's amazing game and OpenSource game of the year from LinuxQuestions.org !! Regards, Kartik B. Mistry GNU/Linux Enthu/Developer, Blog: kartikm.blogspot.com Talk2me: +91-22-28990490, 28990507 _____________________________________________________________ LinuxTimes.Net --> An Online Linux Magazine

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] HSBC site (was Fwd: a battle won: icici bank conforms)
by Nagarjuna G. 27 Feb '05

27 Feb '05

On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 07:25:33AM +0530, Amol Hatwar wrote: > > On Saturday 26 Feb 2005 10:24 pm, Sarfaraz Kazi wrote: > > > > On Saturday 26 Feb 2005 11:01 am, Rakesh wrote: > > > > > we need to convince these > > > > > banking sites that Linux is much more secure > > > > > > > > the only way to convince them is to hack them and > > > > > > ^^^^ > > > u mean to say, "crack", right?? > > [ah] We live in a country with absolutely stupid laws. Even if you intend to > do ethical hacking you'll be put behind bars. Using the term `ethical hacking' assumes that there is something called `unethical hacking'. All hacking is good. Cracking is bad. Nagarjuna

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Writing Linux device drivers
by Satya 27 Feb '05

27 Feb '05

Someone wanted to know about device drivers. There's a decent book by Alessandro Rubini. I forget the title, but a google or amazon search should turn it up. -- Satya. http://www.thesatya.com/ One program's data is another program's metadata.

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gtk related
by Nagarjuna G. 27 Feb '05

27 Feb '05

We are developing a pyTGK based application, in which we need the graphical output of other applications (blender, and gnuplot) to be shown in the parent window of our application. Presently we able to create new windows for them, but we wish them to be integrated with in our application window. How to do this? any clues? is there another application that does simialar thing? Thanks Nagarjuna

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modem driver
by vidya bhosale 26 Feb '05

26 Feb '05

Hello everybody, I am using Redhat EL v.3 I want a modem driver for my linux m/c my processor id is 55274-645-6505462-23882 and it is p4,2.4GHz,512 MB Ram plz tell me how to search for the modem driver on internet. the rpmfind.net site has shown me certain linmodems but i cant understand which can suite my m/c my modem is internal Motorola modem waiting for a favourable reply vidya

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Need Debian Pkg of Mozilla with Indic support
by Kartik Mistry 26 Feb '05

26 Feb '05

Hi, I have some questions. 1. Mozilla 1.6 with Indic support is available. It works fine with Redhat FC1/FC3. But When I used it with my Ubuntu and Live CD (Gnoppix). It renders bad for Gujarati Fonts And I didn't find Deb package for Mozilla 1.6 2. How can I compile Mozilla (suppose, 1.7.x) with Indic support enable. Karunakar, do you have any idea, regarding this ? Please, Help me on this. Thanks in Advance.. Kartik B. Mistry GNU/Linux Enthu/Developer, Blog: kartikm.blogspot.com Talk2me: +91-22-56857396 _____________________________________________________________ LinuxTimes.Net --> An Online Linux Magazine

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sshd dead but subsys locked
by Sneh D 26 Feb '05

26 Feb '05

Hi all, I have a RHEL Server and am having a problem with sshd.I can't seem to correctly start it from my command line and i get an odd error when i view the status of the ssh deamon.. here's what is displayed: $service sshd restart Stopping sshd: [FAILED] Starting sshd: [ OK ] $service sshd status sshd dead but subsys locked $ What is this sshd dead but subsys locked error? I am unable to connect to the server through ssh. Previously the server was in 172.30.x.x. zone and ssh was working fine. After shifting it to 172.29.x.x zone ssh is not working. Kindly help me out with this. Regards, Sneh.

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Re: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Fwd: a battle won: icici bank conforms
by Ashish Saboo 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 Philip Tellis wrote : >Sometime Today, KG cobbled together some glyphs to say: > > > Hey another Good news! ICICI heeds to open source! It's site now > > works on Firefox! > >ICICI direct you mean. ICICI always worked. If you really insist , then train your guns on 'Financial Technologies'. This company offers automated order management, trading and post-trade systems to all the online borkers in India. ie investmart, refcoSify, Indiabulls apart from IDirect . http://www.ftindia.com/clients.htm & worst The online quotes display works only on systems loaded with microsoft virtual machine . Pity Indian Investors don't have a choice. Online Trading is one of the most important Internet enabled transaction segment. Korean stock exchanges attribute 57% of all transactions from online brokers. Ashish Saboo President Association of Public Internet Access Provider (ApiAp) The voice of independent Cyber cafe operators URL: http://www.apiap.cybernook.net Blog: http://apiap.blogspot.com

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Connecting to internet in Suse 9.1
by nishit shah 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

I would like to know how to connect to the internet in suse9.1 pro. I primarily use redhat 9 but i am unable to find a way to connect in suse. Nishit Shah

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Re: Linuxers Digest, Vol 22, Issue 47
by Ninad Purohit 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

> > Message: 9 > Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:40:45 +0530 > From: Devdas Bhagat <devdas(a)dvb.homelinux.org> > Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re snort trouble > To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" > <linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in> > Message-ID: <20050224184045.A1936(a)evita.devdas.geek> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > On 24/02/05 00:56 -0800, Ninad Purohit wrote: > <snip> > > i want snort to log alerts with priority local6 > and > > facility alert > > Please prove that snort is not logging to > local6.alert > > > then my syslog would redirect all syslogs with > > priority local6 (based on a rule i write in > > syslog.conf) to a listener ( netforensics agent) > > Please show the relevant line from syslog.conf the line from syslog is local6 @202.X.X.X i even tried logging it to a seperate file with local6 /var/log/snort.log the line from snort.conf is output alert_syslog: LOG_LOCAL6 LOG_ALERT but if i try file logging tail -f shows no logs comming in and i see no udp packets going to the destination host on port 514 in ethereal if i try forwarding it to a different host ===== ninad purohit ninadonline(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)in have a nice day :-) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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freeBSD 4 amd64
by Sunder Narayanaswamy 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

hi i need freeBSD for amd64 . if any of u have please help . i will pay for the cds and the courier. thanks

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Fwd: a battle won: icici bank conforms
by Aseem Rane 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

Hi KG, I need more information on this one. Even I have very bad experience of http://www.icicidirect.com/ you can read about my experience on http://www.geocities.com/aseemrane/firefox.html It was way back when Firefox was at version 0.9. Now the buttons on the site just dont work in firefox. BTW sorry for top posting. It is very difficult to reply otherwise in lotus notes. Regards -- Aseem Rane Project Leader, L&T Infotech Ltd. Powai. Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon(a)thenilgiris.com> Sent by: linuxers-bounces(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in 25/02/2005 11:26 AM Please respond to "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" To: "Mumbai India GNU/Linux Users Group" <linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in> cc: Subject: [ILUG-BOM] Fwd: a battle won: icici bank conforms hi, after a long battle LK has succeeded ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: [ilug-mangalore] Meeting Agenda [Was: Re: Yo Venkat! kewl! ] Date: Friday 25 Feb 2005 11:05 am From: Laxminarayan Kamath <kamathln(a)gmail.com> To: ilug-mangalore(a)yahoogroups.com Hey another Good news! ICICI heeds to open source! It's site now works on Firefox! -- Laxminarayan Kamath Ammembal (+91) 9845 061385 kamathln(a)gmail.com www.geocities.com/kamathln Find more about us at http://www.linux-mangalore.org Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-mangalore/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: ilug-mangalore-unsubscribe(a)yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ------------------------------------------------------- -- regards kg http://www.livejournal.com/users/lawgon tally ho! http://avsap.sourceforge.net ?????????? ?????! -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________

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[ILUG-BOM] [jobs][jobs][commercial] needed c/c++ on *nix hackers for tcs
by Trevor Warren 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

Morning Luggers, "We are looking for hardworking-honest-sharp c/c++ hackers on *nix for TCS to work on low level system api's/network stacks/sniffers/memory profiling applications/etc. He/She can be a non-technical(ba/bcom/bsc/mcom))/technical(be/btech/mtech) graduate with some(1-3yr) experience for research and development on some core products." Exceptions for non-technical canidates will be made for canidates who really are aces at some of the above mentioned areas. Previous expertise on Open Source/Free Software based projects on the topics above can be demonstrated for such waivers. Waivers will be on a case to case basis. I know there are many non-technical graduates who are aces in most of the fields i have worked in....much better that i can ever be. And hence i am pushing for this waiver in TCS for now. Please use this oppurtunity and write in with your case to me at trevorwarren(a)gmail.com as soon as possible. Trevor ===== |------|____________________________________|------| ( >- / Scaling FreeSoftware & OpenSource \ -< ) /~\ / In the Enterprise \ /~\ | \) \ | www.fsf.org | www.opensource.org | / (/ | |_|_ \____________________________________/ _|_| __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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[ot][commercial][jobs] c/c++ hackers on *nix for tcs
by Trevor Warren 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

Morning Luggers, "We are looking for hardworking-honest-sharp c/c++ hackers for TCS to work on low level system api's/network stacks/sniffers/memory profiling applications/etc. He/She can be a nonn-technical(ba/bcom/bsc/mcom))/technical(be/btech/mtech) graduate with some(1-3yr) experience for research and development on some core products." Exceptions for non-technical canidates will be made for canidates who really are aces at the above. Previous experience at Open Source/Free Software based on the topics above can be demonstrated for such waivers. Waivers will be on a case to case basis. I know there shall be many non-technical graduates who are aces in most of the fields i have worked in....much better that i can ever be. And hence i am pushing for this waiver in TCS for now. Please use this oppurtunity and write in with your case to me as soon as possible. Trevor ===== |------|____________________________________|------| ( >- / Scaling FreeSoftware & OpenSource \ -< ) /~\ / In the Enterprise \ /~\ | \) \ | www.fsf.org | www.opensource.org | / (/ | |_|_ \____________________________________/ _|_| __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Freesoftwaremagazine.com Issue 2 is out...
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

Issue 2 of Free Software Magazine is finally out! Download your PDF copy for free from http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com Contents... o EDITORIAL / Your part-time job The trials and tribulations of being a "computer person" o FOCUS / The history and future of SMTP by Kirk Strauser SMTP's adaptation to a hostile Internet o Filtering spam with postfix by Kirk Strauser Effective ways to reduce unwelcome mail o Mail servers: resolving the identity crisis by John Locke How to get Dspam, Postfix, and Procmail to play well together o TECH WORLD / Poking at ITunes by Chris J Karr A developer's guide to the iTunes platform o Why free IT management tools are gaining traction by Will Winkelstein Enterprises are increasingly receptive to free software alternatives for IT management. o CASE STUDY: Mythic Beasts By Tony Mobily A small company specialised in Linux servers and amazing support o Interview with Bernhard Reiter at aKademy by Tom Chance What we can do to promote the future of free software o Hard passwords made easy by John Locke Creating strong memorable passwords using mnemonic devices and word lists o WORD WORLD / The FUD-based Encyclopedia by Aaron Krowne Dismantling fear, uncertainity, and doubt, aimed at Wikipedia and other free knowledge resources. o Guerrilla marketing by Tom Chance Part one: promoting community projects in the marketplace o A law for free software by Maureen O'Sullivan Don't we have enough laws already? o The Libre Culture Manifesto by David M Berry, Giles Moss A manifesto for free/libre culture o Richard Stallman's blog by Richard Stallman Selected entries from Richard's blog (http://agia.fsf.org/rms-blog) from November 2004 to December 2004. 75 PGS * WORLD-CLASS PRINTING, GET-UP * A DOWNLOAD AWAY * unbelievable? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frederick Noronha (FN) Nr Convent Saligao 403511 GoaIndia Freelance Journalist P: 832-2409490 M: 9822122436 http://fn.swiki.net http://fn-floss.notlong.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Where the needs of the world and your talents cross, there lies your vocation. --Aristotle

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Re snort trouble
by Ninad Purohit 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

<snip> ----------------------------------------------------- If snort is logging to syslog, then you need to configure your syslogd to forward the traffic to the other host. Once Snort dumps the traffic to /dev/log, it is not the responsibility of Snort to send it elsewhere. man 5 syslog.conf man 8 syslogd ----------------------------------------------------- </snip> THe point is /var/log messages gets alogs with all priorities and facilities the default priority and facility for snort is log_auth and log_alert which causes syslog to log it in /var/log/secure i want snort to log alerts with priority local6 and facility alert then my syslog would redirect all syslogs with priority local6 (based on a rule i write in syslog.conf) to a listener ( netforensics agent) so while i get logs in /varlog/messages i am not able o send it to the file or location i want and with the priority and facility i want ===== ninad purohit ninadonline(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)in have a nice day :-) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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Re: FW: [ILUG-BOM] which lan card is linux compatible?
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

On Thursday 24 February 2005 11:24, Pillai, Gishu R (GE Energy) wrote: > >> <gishu.pillai(a)bently.com> wrote: > >> > Nopes. 8139too is the one that RHL has assigned to the device. > >> > Still won't activate Gishu > >> eth0: Setting 100mbps full-duplex based on auto-negotiated > >> partner ability 41e1. > > > >Your network card is up and running as per the above line > >You have probably not asigned any ip address. > >post the output of ifconfig eth0. > >jtd > > Here is the output for ifconfig. > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:08:A1:5F:B6:A2 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 > RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:1710 (1.6 Kb) > Interrupt:3 Base address:0xbf00 where is your ip address. You need a static ip address. So it means u have misconifigured your network for a dynamic ip. > I ran the Internet Configuration Wizard but to no avail. That is the problem with these wizards - only a wizard can use it. You need to setup static ip and enter the ip manually Here is my /etc/network/interfaces file (this is the file which holds the ips etc in Debian GNU/linux). auto eth0 eth1 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 198.168.0.0 broadcast 198.168.0.255 gateway 198.168.0.1 You will have to find out where your file is (afaik in RH it is /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0) > Do I need > to manually turn on DHCP or something ? No u do not need dhcp. > I noticed that after the > what is to be done if my > modem is not even detected by Linux. The last time I checked, the > thing was supported until RHL 7.1 Why was this model singled out > like this ? The modem works peacefully under Win98 and XP Get one thing absolutely clear here and now. Check first if some hardware is supported under GNU/linux. If it is not dont buy it. The specs to write the drivers are not made available cause the mfg wants to fleece u in cahoots with crooked companies like m$. And if it works under windoze stick to that and suffer the consequences. Also you should switch to debian it is the easiest to configure. rgds jtd

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Re: Linuxers Digest, Vol 22, Issue 45
by Ninad Purohit 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

<snip> ----------------------------------------------------- If snort is logging to syslog, then you need to configure your syslogd to forward the traffic to the other host. Once Snort dumps the traffic to /dev/log, it is not the responsibility of Snort to send it elsewhere. man 5 syslog.conf man 8 syslogd ----------------------------------------------------- </snip> THe point is /var/log messages gets alogs with all priorities and facilities the default priority and facility for snort is log_auth and log_alert which causes syslog to log it in /var/log/secure i want snort to log alerts with priority local6 and facility alert then my syslog would redirect all syslogs with priority local6 (based on a rule i write in syslog.conf) to a listener ( netforensics agent) so while i get logs in /varlog/messages i am not able o send it to the file or location i want and with the priority and facility i want ===== ninad purohit ninadonline(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)in have a nice day :-) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250

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[commercial] looking for MySQL Ops persons
by Philip Tellis 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

Hey guys, we're looking for MySQL ops folks. Skills required: 1. Ability to understand the instructions in this mail 2. You gotta rock* at mysql administration (sorry, if you pop, hip hop, rap or disco, you're not good enough) 3. Experience on FreeBSD is a major plus, linux or other Unix sufficient You'll have to move to Bangalore (or stay there if that's where you already are). Send your resume to me as an attachment in plain text or html format. Include significant differences between MyISAM, InnoDB and MaxDB in your email. Do not copy-paste from a website. *rock: you must be really really good. Know the MySQL administrators docs inside out, be able to work with MyISAM as well as InnoDB and recommend when to use which. Be able to backup a db with minimum downtime (If you can do it in zero downtime then we want to talk to you). Philip PS: In case you were wondering, we're a Media company who have recently opened an office in Hollywood ;) -- Mathematicians practice absolute freedom. -- Henry Adams

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Re: need help on syslogging from snort
by Ninad Purohit 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

--- Ninad Purohit <ninadonline(a)yahoo.co.in> wrote: > I have a snort (snort2.3) and i need it to forward > the > alerts to a syslog server with priority local6 > > ading alert_syslog: log_local6 log_alert to > snort.conf > > doesn't work > i even tried the -s option > > while i get local syslogs in /var/log messages > i can not get snort to log to some other file or to > a > different syslog server > > there are no firewall issues and udp port 514 is > reachable > > can anybody help me on this one > > ===== > ninad purohit > ninadonline(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)in > have a nice day :-) > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage > less. > http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 > ===== ninad purohit ninadonline(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)in have a nice day :-) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250

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Vulnerability in RHEL 4 kernel: FYI
by Rakesh 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

I recently came across a vulnerability in the recently released RHEL v4 (http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12599/discussion/). Would like to advice guys who have bought or planning to buy the RHEL v4 to see into the Redhat advisory RHSA-2005:092-14 to address the issue. Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel is reported prone to multiple vulnerabilities. These issues may allow local attackers to carry out denial of service attacks and gain elevated privileges. The following specific issues were identified: The Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel is reported prone to two local denial of service vulnerabilities. Another issue affecting the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 kernel 4GB/4GB split patch can allow local attackers to read and write to arbitrary kernel memory. These issues are reported to affect the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 kernel. -- Regards, Rakesh B. Pal Emergic CleanMail Team. Netcore Solutions Pvt. Ltd. ======================================================================== I came, I saw, I conquered ========================================================================

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Invitation
by Shailesh Mahadik 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

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RE: FW: [ILUG-BOM] which lan card is linux compatible?
by Pillai, Gishu R (GE Energy) 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

>> >> <gishu.pillai(a)bently.com> wrote: >> > Nopes. 8139too is the one that RHL has assigned to the device. >> > Still won't activate Gishu >> ----- >> dmesg: >> ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team >> 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.25 >> PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 00:12.0 >> divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 >> eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xc68abf00, >> 00:08:a1:5f:b6:a2, IRQ 3 eth0: Identified 8139 chip type >> 'RTL-8139C' >Try the 8139cp driver. >modprobe -r 8139too; modprobe 8139cp >> eth0: Setting 100mbps full-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner >> ability 41e1. >Your network card is up and running as per the above line >You have probably not asigned any ip address. >post the output of ifconfig eth0. >jtd Here is the output for ifconfig. eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:08:A1:5F:B6:A2 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:1710 (1.6 Kb) Interrupt:3 Base address:0xbf00 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:84 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:84 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:5642 (5.5 Kb) TX bytes:5642 (5.5 Kb) I ran the Internet Configuration Wizard but to no avail. Do I need to manually turn on DHCP or something ? I noticed that after the Wizard ran, the m/c on startup shows a new error on the console stating unable to bind IP or something. + what is to be done if my modem is not even detected by Linux. The last time I checked, the thing was supported until RHL 7.1 Why was this model singled out like this ? The modem works peacefully under Win98 and XP My current Setup is M/c 1 : winXP with a lan card M/c 2 : Win98 with a lan card and a dial up modem. RHL 8 on dual boot I eventually want to remove Win98 from m/c 2 provided that everything that used to work still does. Regards, Gishu -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux Vs Windows
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

On Wednesday 23 February 2005 19:06, Devdas Bhagat wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 09:19, Philip Tellis wrote: > > > That's okay, because I say that linux is more secure than > > > Windows, and I actually have experience with security and > > > insecurity in both. > Did you also notice that Microsoft sponsored those case studies? Moot point. Doubt anyone running windose will ever have the time from patch-format-reinstall to actually do a case study in anything. Why cant they hire coders in lieu of case study guys to actually fix the sh**. Ahh i forget if they do fixit who will buy longhorn or whatever is the next version extruded from that pandora's company.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Invitation
by SHAILESH MAHADIK 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

Dear ALL & ALmighty List Admin, The Invitation mail was not intended for the list.. It was just meant for my friends groups... But the mailing list id was picked up by HI 5 thing from my address book of Yahoo account... I think it had sent a mail to everybody on the address book.... EXTREMELY SORRY FOR THE WHOLE ISSUE !!! I just got a auto responder mail from RMS too... GOD knows, how many more people I got to apologize... Once Again SORRY Oh yes.......... MY ALMIGHTY LIST ADMIN, Please FORGIVE ME FOR MY SIN. If hope Philip S Tellis is the admin.... Regards, Shailesh --- Linuxers Admin <linuxers-admin(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in> wrote: > Your hi5 invitation to the list was uncalled for, > completely off topic. > You are now on moderation. > > -- > List Admin > ===== Technology is driving Me CRAZIER .... But Who said I Want To Be SANE !!!! Original Author of Signature :Shailesh.S.Mahadik (ssmahadik(a)yahoo.com) ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partner online Go to: http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matrimony

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