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RAM Testing
by Rony Bill 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

Hello Luggers, I tried the softwares for a bootable RAM tester floppy from both the sites below. http://www.memtest86.com/ www.simmtester.com The simmtester worked excellently. The memtest one hung my (good) comp half way while testing. So the simmtester one is worth keeping in your handy floppy collection, to check for bad RAMs. Regards, Rony.

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Should vi be doing it?
by abhilash kumar 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

Hi Well the directory has 777 permissions, and I mean any user "xyz" not only "root". But the point is that as the file is readonly how is vi allowing to do forced write, and change the ownership of file? Even if it allows this then should't it be restricted to root or at most the owner/group-members!! The version of vi that I use is "vim-enhanced-6.2.98-1" on a RedHat9. Abhilash ___________________________________________________________ Win a castle for NYE with your mates and Yahoo! Messenger http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Re: Re: [ILUG-BOM] how about an online meet-up
by Raseel Bhagat 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

Hi, I agree with this point too. I'm in Bangalore, but I'd like to participate in the Bombay ILUG discussions. So lets, do the Yahoo idea! On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 Adil Kodian wrote : > > > > > > These aren't things that need to be arranged. People should always be > > > online in the lug chatroom. Most of us from around India hang out in > > > #linux-india on irc.freenode.net, and we have these online meet-ups > > > about once a day for 24 hours at a time. > >forming an auxillary IRC, Yahoo - etc list/room/group would be a good >idea - as a) not everyone on this list is in mumbai and b) not >everyone may be in town on the day of the meeting. > >-- >http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers Raseel Bhagat

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Linux Administrator
by komal 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

What constitute as a *qualified* Linux System administrator ? Thank you

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[TidBit] Java Vs. .NET
by Amol Hatwar 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

This is link is a must see. It gives 101 reasons why Java is better than .NET. The 101st reason is a good one :). Here's the link: http://www.manageability.org/manageabilityWiki/WhyJavaIsBetterThanDotNet Enjoy. ah ---- Note: This link is being given in jest, not for starting debates and battles.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Bittorent Fedora 3 problem
by Vinayak Hegde 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 17:03:42 +0530, Sujeet Bhatt <sujeet.bhatt(a)gmail.com> wrote: > The md5sum file is the last one to be downloaded. I'm still waiting > for it. The question is: if the md5sum does not match, will all this > downloading over several days be in vain? Or will Bittorrent somehow > resurrect the files to their pristine glory after all of them have > been downloaded? If all the files are downloaded and md5sums do not match, it is a waste of time and bandwidth. Sad but true :(.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Freezing HDDs
by Vivek J.Patankar 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

On Sun Nov 14 22:36 , gaurav chaturvedi <gaurav.p.chaturvedi(a)gmail.com> sent: > I have the file up-loaded the Techrepublic file in pdf version size = 552 kb. >You can download The pdf file from this link >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mumbai_GNULinux/files/ It's available to group members only. What of non-members? Vivek

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Need Linux software
by komal 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

I need Fedora Core 3,Suse Professional 9.2. Thank you Komal

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Redhat enterprise support
by komal 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

What are list members experience about Red Hat Enterprise Linux support and services? It is worth paying huge amount of money for support? After reading article on lwn about Enterprise Linux: is it broken? (http://lwn.net/Articles/109527/) I wonder whitebox Linux initiatives worth following. Is it true that numbers of Red Hat supports call are found on popular Linux news group? Regards Komal

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Freezing HDDs
by Vivek J.Patankar 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

On Sun Nov 14 9:10 , 'Rony Bill' <ronbilly(a)hotpop.com> sent: >Sometime back there was talk about freezing hard disk drives. > >"An executive who froze his broken hard disk thinking it would be fixed has >topped a list of the weirdest computer mishaps. " > >http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4003733.stm Some years back I read a whitepaper from techrepublic.com about harddisk failures and what to do in such cases. Freezing a harddisk was one of things to try incase it won't spin up. The paper even mentioned of a hard disk that used to spin-up only when tapped on the side with a screwdriver, and stopped immediately. According to the report, the technician attending the problem continuously tapped the disk for two hours so that the client could transfer his data to another harddisk.

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Filesystem Check
by Sandesh Singh 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

I wanted to know if there is any 'scandisk' sort of utility for Linux. I know about "fsck", but it warns me against running it on mounted filesystems. It doesn't run even in the single user mode. Actually, after I went thru the startup scripts (Fedora Core 1), I saw that it checked for a command line argument ("forcefsck") and ran the checking utility. That worked. But is there a better solution than that? I mean, everytime I want to check the filesystem, I dont want to go thru grub. -- [ Sandy ] Windows [noun] A thirty-two bit extension and GUI shell to a sixteen bit patch to an eight bit operating system originally coded for a four bit microprocessor and sold by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition. Visit me : http://sandesh247.blogspot.com/ Or : http://www.geocities.com/sandesh247/

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Is this supposed to happen!!!!!!
by abhilash kumar 14 Nov '04

14 Nov '04

Hi all, Consider a file with read-only permissions for all that is r--r--r-- is a directory with permissions of 777. The owner of the file is say a user "abc". 1.Any other user say "xyz" can write to this file after opening it with vi using a forced write(wq!). 2.After the forced write "xyz" becomes the owner of the file. Abhilash ___________________________________________________________ ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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PHP problem solved..
by abhilash kumar 14 Nov '04

14 Nov '04

Hi all Thanks for the help provided I could install and work on PHP 4.3.4 finally.... abhilash ___________________________________________________________ Moving house? Beach bar in Thailand? New Wardrobe? Win £10k with Yahoo! Mail to make your dream a reality. Get Yahoo! Mail www.yahoo.co.uk/10k

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What is the meaning of these?
by komal 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

Hello In top command output I see aio/0,ato/0,events/0,kacpid,kblocked/0,pdflush,scsi_eh_o,migration/0 without any command evoked. What are all these command or process resoponcible? thank you Komal

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RE: [ILUG-BOM] Linux home networking
by Pillai, Gishu R (GE Energy) 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

> > Task 1 : Activate the network card does it detect the ethernet card? kg Yeah it does show the Card details .. it's a DLink Lan Card. So it shows "Realtek ...." If "redhat-config-network-gui" is the same dialog brought up from the Desktop Start Menu->System..->Network. I tried that before posting here.. it shows the network card inactive. I tried putting in a static IP instead of the default DHCP, didn't work. I get a message box "Unable to activate..."

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[Admin] Festival Alert
by Linuxers Admin 11 Nov '04

11 Nov '04

The festival season is here. Diwali, Id, Christmas and New Year are upon us. There's a danger that this list will get swamped with greetings. I request people not to send messages with the sole purpose of wishing all list members. It's fine to attach a text only greeting at the bottom of your ON TOPIC messages. Thanks -- List Admin

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HAPPY DIWALI
by Rony Bill 11 Nov '04

11 Nov '04

Wishing everyone at ILUG-BOM a very Happy Diwali and a Prosperous New Year. May the new year bring new ideas and technology that will move our Nation further ahead to new heights. Keep up the scientific temper. Best Wishes, Rony.

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Knoppix doesnt detect my CDs
by Onkar Nawathe 11 Nov '04

11 Nov '04

hi I use knoppix 3.4. When i load cd into my cdrom or into my cdRW and click on the CD-ROM icons under devices i get the follwing error message twice.... 1. mount: special device /dev/cdrom1 does not exist Please check that the disk is entered correctly 2.mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist Please check that the disk is entered correctly Also k3b deos not detect any CD-ROMs or CD-RWs in the I use a Asus CD-RW writer and a Samsung CD-ROM I did not encounter any problems when i tried to burn CDs in Xandros (but the burning speed is too less - 4KBps). Can anybody guide me as to what might be going wrong and how to tackle this situation. By the way, Happy Dipawali guys. Hope u enjoy a crackerless but a bright diwali....enjoy!! regards, Onkar Nawathe. Onkar P. Nawathe

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[OT] Happy Diwali All !!
by risqer 11 Nov '04

11 Nov '04

Hope you all have great holidays and a blessed new year! -- Regards, Saurabh Sawant. (risqer). http://www.x31.aboho.com

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Fedora Core 3 released
by Venkatesh Hariharan 11 Nov '04

11 Nov '04

Fedora Core 3 is now available for download. FC3 includes support for Hindi, Punjabi, Gujrati, Bangla and Tamil. The Lohit family of fonts for these languages are included with FC3. These fonts have been released under GPL. http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html Venky

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Php Problem
by abhilash kumar 10 Nov '04

10 Nov '04

Hi Sorry I forgot the error_log it says "child exit signal Segmentation fault (11)". <?php phpinfo(); ?> also produces the same result. short_open_tag is set to "on". Abhilash ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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RE: [ILUG-BOM] Unable to boot from new Image after compilation of kernel
by Srinivas G. 10 Nov '04

10 Nov '04

> -----Original Message----- > From: noel seq [mailto:noelseq@hotmail.com] > Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2004 5:33 PM > To: linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in > Subject: [ILUG-BOM] Unable to boot from new Image after compilation of > kernel > > > Hi, > > I am trying to load scsi drivers on my RHL8.0 kernel 2.4.18-14. As per the > driver docs, I need to rebuild the kernel with scsi support and then load > the modules. > > I have run the following; > > make menuconfig > make dep > make bzImage > > The image is created in /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot directory and have > copied the same to /boot > > edited /etc/grub.conf and added the new image as initrd /bzImage > > When I try to boot into linux using this kernel I get the following > message. > > VFS: Cannot open boot device "LABEL=/" > please append a correct "root=" boot option > kernel panic :VFS: unable to mount root fs on 00:00 > > Am able to boot using the previously installed kernel. > The other lines in grub.conf are copy/pasted and same as previous entries. > > Where am I going wrong. > > Do I really need to recompile the kernel or is there some other way to > load > the scsi drivers. > > One more info, once I make bzImage, it gives me the following information: > Boot sector is 512 bytes > setup is 4774 bytes > ssytem is 1144 kb > kernel is too high for standalone boot from floppy > make [1] leaving ....... > > I tried deselecting some of the options like bluetooth, etc in make > menuconfig, but the size of the bzImage does not go below 950Kb. > > Regards, > > Noel > > _________________________________________________________________ > The all-new MSN Search. Get fast and precise results. > http://search.msn.co.in Try it now! > Dear noel, Please follow the following steps to build the new image kernel. You have not mentioned the kernel version here. For 2.4.x kernel, please follow the following steps. All these steps should perform from the kernel source directory i.e. /usr/src/linux-2.4 1. make menuconfig - we can do the modifications here. 2. make dep - updates the dependencies. 3. make bzImage - creates the image file under i386 directory. 4. make modules 5. make modules_install - before executing this command please change the EXTRAVERSION variable in the source directory under linux/version.h Based on this name it will create the modules directory under /lib/modules... 6. make install - This will copy the System.map and bzImage files to /boot directory and creates the links and finally updates /etc/grub.conf files. For more information please follow the following link. http://www.cpqlinux.com/kernel.html Regards, Srinivas G

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Problem working with php
by abhilash kumar 10 Nov '04

10 Nov '04

Hi all, I am facing some problems with working on "php". I have installed Apache 2 as the webserver on a RedHat 9.I also have mysql installed. I downloaded the php-5.0.2 source and on running the ./configure --with-mysql --with-apxs2 there are no error messages. make and make install also don't give any error messages. In the httpd.conf file th following lines were added LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so AddType application/x-httpd-php .php But then upon opening any "php" file I still get a blank page in the browser. The Apache server is works well with html files. I will be greatful for the help.Thanks in advance. Abhilash ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Problem working with php
by Amish Munshi 10 Nov '04

10 Nov '04

>>>linuxwarrier(a)yahoo.co.uk 11/09 5:26 pm >>> Hi all, But then upon opening any "php" file I still get a blank page in the browser. The Apache server is works well with html files. What does the log files of httpd speak?

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RE: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] My PC won't start...Please help!
by Sarfaraz Kazi 09 Nov '04

09 Nov '04

> On Sun Nov 7 7:06 , Sarfaraz Kazi <sarzkazi(a)yahoo.com> sent: > > >the motherboard manual says that you have to short the > >solder points in order to clear the cmos before you > >put in the new battery. can anybody please guide as to > >how to locate these solder points and how to short > >them. > > Clearing the CMOS is usually done by shorting two pins on the > motherboard using > a jumper. Details of where these two pins should be found > will/should be in the > motherboard manual. In certain motherboard types the CMOS is > cleared by keeping a > designated key depressed and switching it on. > In case you cannot locate the pins, CMOS can also be cleared > by removing the > CMOS battery. > Vivek IT WORKS....IT WORKS....IT WORKS!!!! Whew!! got the machine to run, at last. the contact between the cpu and the heatsink turned out to be the culprit. just took out the heatsink/fan, re-applied some thermal compound and put it back in. Voila! everything's fine with the world again!! Thanks to all of you for your kind help, advice and suggestions. ilug-bom rocks!!! yooohoooo :-). Sarfaraz. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com

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