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Mandrake 9 TTF problems
by Ashish Kulkarni 01 Nov '02

01 Nov '02

hello, I am having problems in using TTF fonts in KDE 3 on Mandrake 9. I copied the fonts from my Windows FONTS directory to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF and ran ttmkfdir and restarted XFS. The fonts were then listed, but not usable for some reason. After searching via google I disabled XFS, and put all directories manually in XF86Config. I also deleted XftCache from there. After that, I could use the font selector in XMMS to select and use the fonts without problems. Howver, using KDE Control Center caused all the visible fonts to be garbled, like small squares for TTF fonts. After some hacking around, the fonts for the "general" category displayed properly but for anything eles [eg. Menus, Taskbar, etc] the fonts look garbled yet. This behaviour is sometime intermittent--after restarting X, the general fonts also are garbled. Can anyone help me out? I suspect that KDE is not using correct codepage in the TTF fonts (XMMS has that option). Could it be due to other reasons altogether eg. Xft? Thanks.

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help : unknown host error
by nikhil badwe 01 Nov '02

01 Nov '02

Hi all I am a new user to GNU/Linux. I have Red Hat Linux 7.2. I tried to configure the my system to access internet. I get connected to the net. I also get a status window indicating the time duration for which i have been online. But I can not open any page in any browser. I tried ping command on shell, even that did not work. I get error as �unknown host�. I have specified my primary and secondary DNS during setup. I tried to access /etc/resolv.conf, but it says it is �read only�. What could be the possible error...? thanx regards nikhil __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/

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Unsubscribing from the list
by Anil Mare 01 Nov '02

01 Nov '02

Can anyone please tell me how to unsubscribe this list. (though for few days). I had sent a mail to linuxers-request(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in with subject as 'subscribe' (specified in the mail headers), but mails are still coming. Anil __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/

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Win2k User must Authenticate from LDAP
by Poonam P 01 Nov '02

01 Nov '02

Hi, I need my Win2K Users to authenticate against LDAP on Linux. Can someone pls send me some information or pointers. Thanks in advance. Poonam. ________________________________________________________________________ Missed your favourite TV serial last night? Try the new, Yahoo! TV. visit http://in.tv.yahoo.com

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Slightly OT: Linux and Windows working in Harmony
by Bhargav Bhatt 01 Nov '02

01 Nov '02

Hi Luggerz, I dont think this is quite as much about Linux as it should be, but nevertheless i thought that Luggers will always be a valuable source of information. So here is the deal. I will be soon be having two computers,a laptop and a desktop(both are relatively good ones). I have 30 gigs of hard-drive space on the laptop which will need to run Windows(for voice conversation with people back home :)), and 80gs on the desktop(which will be linux). These computers will be connected to a common 10/100 Mbps switch. My question is how would i share stuff between both machines i.e in effect, have a common 110 gb space which can be accessed by both machines. I dont mind leaving aside 5gs for each OS, but i still want to share the rest. Keep in mind that i intend to run a ftp server, which is why i want shared space :). Please feel free to answer whatever you feel is worthwhile. I have not been able to make up my mind about anything, as quite franky i dont know enough about networking multi-platform pcs, which is why i am looking for some help. if u feel this is OT then please reply off the list, but please provide me some input. In advance, THANX -- Bhargav Bhatt, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Mandrake 9 TTF problems
by Nikhil D. Kikkeri 01 Nov '02

01 Nov '02

i got all my TTF fonts too, but the font rendition is horrible.i run mdk 9 as well. nikhil >hello, > >I am having problems in using TTF fonts in KDE 3 on Mandrake 9. I copied >the fonts from my Windows FONTS directory to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF >and ran ttmkfdir and restarted XFS. The fonts were then listed, but not >usable for some reason. After searching via google I disabled XFS, and put >all directories manually in XF86Config. I also deleted XftCache from there. > >After that, I could use the font selector in XMMS to select and use the >fonts without problems. Howver, using KDE Control Center caused all the >visible fonts to be garbled, like small squares for TTF fonts. After some >hacking around, the fonts for the "general" category displayed properly but >for anything eles [eg. Menus, Taskbar, etc] the fonts look garbled yet. >This behaviour is sometime intermittent--after restarting X, the general >fonts also are garbled. > >Can anyone help me out? I suspect that KDE is not using correct codepage in >the TTF fonts (XMMS has that option). Could it be due to other reasons >altogether eg. Xft? > >Thanks. > > >_______________________________________________ >http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers _________________________________________________________________ Broadband? Dial-up? Get reliable MSN Internet Access. http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/default.asp

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How to make a distro?
by Kapil Karekar 01 Nov '02

01 Nov '02

Hi Luggers, I am currently in the process of building a custom GNU/Linux system for myself using 'Linux From Scratch' as a reference. How do I make a distribution of my own, complete with a custom installation script. Can anyone suggest some literature which I could download. Since I'm taking the pains/pleasure to select the right mix of packages for myself I might as well distribute it to others who want the same mix of packages :-) Kapil Karekar Omkar e-nnovative software solutions kapil_karekar(a)vsnl.net kapil_karekar(a)hotmail.com Tel: (+91-022) 801 2861 (O)

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] qmail problem
by acharya＠dacafe.com 31 Oct '02

31 Oct '02

Yep, I did according to lwq. Created /home/user_name/Maildir for 3 users. using maildirmake /home/user_name/Maildir but i get these problem when i send mail. @400000003dbfc65d02272b9c starting delivery 2: msg 17361 to local darshi@crystal .com @400000003dbfc65d02277da4 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 @400000003dbfc65d02c3060c delivery 2: deferral: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4. 2.1)/ Note: host name is Linux_qmail. But while installing qmail i have mentioned Crystal.com It recives the mail and considers it as local. But it is not delivering to the mailbaox. Note: I have done according lwq. i am not able to find out where i have gone worng. _____________________________________________________________

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] qmail problem
by acharya＠dacafe.com 31 Oct '02

31 Oct '02

Hi all problem is sloved. I made a mistake. echo ./Maildir/ > /var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery. I typed these one worng I had typed ./maildir insted of ./Maildir. I checked Defaultdelivery file. Then rectified it. thanks for u r fast reply. :-) priyadarshi _____________________________________________________________

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qmail problem
by acharya＠dacafe.com 31 Oct '02

31 Oct '02

Hi all I have installed qmail on 7.x. Redhat linux. After installing when i send mail. I recive this error in log. 1) mail r beeing accpetd by thes server but not delivering to the mail box. Error as follows. delivery 1: deferral: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4. 2.1)/ Can anyone say where i went worng. Thanks Priyadarshi _____________________________________________________________

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] qmail problem
by Himanshu shukla 31 Oct '02

31 Oct '02

It seems the permissions for the maildirs are wrong. Just check if you have installed and configured qmail according to lwq. Cheers, Himanshu -----Original Message----- From: acharya(a)dacafe.com To: linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 23:30:57 -0800 Subject: [ILUG-BOM] qmail problem Hi all I have installed qmail on 7.x. Redhat linux. After installing when i send mail. I recive this error in log. 1) mail r beeing accpetd by thes server but not delivering to the mail box. Error as follows. delivery 1: deferral: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4. 2.1)/ Can anyone say where i went worng. Thanks Priyadarshi _____________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

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qmail query
by Sabu Thaliyath 31 Oct '02

31 Oct '02

Hi linuxers, Is it possible to have two instances of qmail running where one instance will handle remote mails and other will handle local mails. I know how to run multiple instances of qmail but could not find any information on how to make them handle remote and local mail seperatly. Please help. Thanks in advance, Sabu __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/

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IT syllabus details
by Nagarjuna G. 31 Oct '02

31 Oct '02

I am trying to do some research and write an article on the need of `secular' syllabus for IT education. I need some help from all of you. Could you send me the syllabus of various IT courses in the school, college, universitities, or institutions (any level as long as the topics are related to IT) that are familiar or nearer to you, either in electronic form or printed or photocopies or faxed or mailed to my address. Thanks in advance. -- Nagarjuna G. http://www.hbcse.tifr.res.in/ Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, V.N. Purav Marg, Mumbai INDIA. Ph: 091-22 5567711 Res: 091-22 2155604 Fax: 091-22 5566803

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Financial Accounting Package for Linux - Made in India
by vinayak 31 Oct '02

31 Oct '02

Hi tahir, The product was launched @ the IBM developerWorks Live! event in Mumbai. Eventually I ended up using the product. The interface looked pretty good and convenient to us ( as told to me by a CA) but I had a lot of trouble installing it due to it's dependencies. It comes bundled with a custom Linux Distro though. Still lots of scope for improvement. Also it's closed source and not GPL. --> Vinayak Hegde -----Original Message----- From: Tahir Hashmi <code_martial(a)softhome.net> To: linuxers <linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in> Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 17:01:07 +0530 Subject: [ILUG-BOM] Financial Accounting Package for Linux - Made in India Quoting from NewsForge <http://newsvac.newsforge.com/ article.pl?sid=02/10/30/116255&mode=nested&tid=52> Sudhir Gandotra writes: KALCULATE - First Financial Accounting Package in India on LINUX. Launched at the IBM Developer Works Conference across India, Kalculate is the first Financial Accounting Package for Linux Operating System in India & Asia Pacific. LINUX, the fastest growing Operating Systems for 3 years across the world is the choice of tomorrow - and that tomarrow has come. No wonder that IBM, DELL, HP/COMPAQ, SUN, HCL and others have announced LINUX based Computers and more are in the process of doing do. KALCULATE fills-in a very important gap, that of an important application missing in the bunch of software that a normal user (be it home, office, traders, business, professionals, industry & others) requires. Users normally need an Operating system, Office Suite, Internet-software, Audio-video-graphics software, Games and Accounting package. End quote. Visit http://www.kalculate.com for more details. -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed _______________________________________________ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

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Financial Accounting Package for Linux - Made in India
by Tahir Hashmi 31 Oct '02

31 Oct '02

Quoting from NewsForge <http://newsvac.newsforge.com/ article.pl?sid=02/10/30/116255&mode=nested&tid=52> Sudhir Gandotra writes: KALCULATE - First Financial Accounting Package in India on LINUX. Launched at the IBM Developer Works Conference across India, Kalculate is the first Financial Accounting Package for Linux Operating System in India & Asia Pacific. LINUX, the fastest growing Operating Systems for 3 years across the world is the choice of tomorrow - and that tomarrow has come. No wonder that IBM, DELL, HP/COMPAQ, SUN, HCL and others have announced LINUX based Computers and more are in the process of doing do. KALCULATE fills-in a very important gap, that of an important application missing in the bunch of software that a normal user (be it home, office, traders, business, professionals, industry & others) requires. Users normally need an Operating system, Office Suite, Internet-software, Audio-video-graphics software, Games and Accounting package. End quote. Visit http://www.kalculate.com for more details. -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed

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Configuring TV Tuner card
by Abhir Joshi 31 Oct '02

31 Oct '02

Hi all. I have a "Pinnacle PCTV Plus" tv tuner card. I have to pass "card=39" to the bttv module to get it working. The video and the audio work perfectly, but I am not able to change the channels. The "CARDLIST" file in the documentation of linux-2.4.7-10 source doesn't list this card to be supported (I use RHL7.2). But this source is pretty old now. Has anyone tried with the newest bttv driver or has anyone successfully configured this card in some other way? The Pinnacle website says that the "PCTV Plus" is an "Indian Edition" of the card. -- Abhir Joshi http://education.vsnl.com/abhir/ No one can be told what the Matrix is, you have to see it for yourself. --- Morpheus from "The Matrix"

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DNS problems.... on dialup
by Rahul Saxena 30 Oct '02

30 Oct '02

hi again, i am basically having problems connecting to web pages. ! most of the times.. the web page request returns with a unknown host error, i guess thats attributed ot the DNS once the pages load.. and they do load after i try a few times.. mostlly. ! they are preety much OK, so its not a conection of BW or ISP problem it seems. can anyone show me their resolv.conf on a dialup.. how can i maintain my own DNS lookup.. it it will help me with my problem. beleive me its really frustrating! regards rahul

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LILO with BeOS
by Sachin 30 Oct '02

30 Oct '02

Hi Tanmay, my name is sachin and i have problem to be solved i am using linux rh and i got BeOS5 personal editon which has 1. readme [1 k] 2. lisence [some k] 3. floppy.img[1.4 M] 4. image.be [~500M] now problem is that it does not boot from floopy as i have it image.be from /src/beos where /src is on /dev/hdb3 and it is ext2 fs and it got 800 MB of space without image.be Now i want to boot into BeOS from lilo is there any way out for that? i read the artical for BeOS with lilo it says u require zbeos which i donot have [as u can see there is no file provided in that tar.gz which i listed above] can u provide me a link to the "zbeos" file for download -- ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= sachin(a)mediaibc.com MediaIBC ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=

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Fwd: [in-phpug] Yahoo to use more PHP
by sachin rase 30 Oct '02

30 Oct '02

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] How to make a distro?
by Himanshu shukla 30 Oct '02

30 Oct '02

For starters, why don't you try hacking Anaconda or just base your distro on the minimal distribution of Debian. Once you know hoe the stuff works, you could start right from scratch. Beleive me, using Anaconda or the minimal distribution to build your own distro is just as exciting. Cheers, Himanshu -----Original Message----- From: "Kapil Karekar" <kapil_karekar(a)vsnl.net> To: "Linuxers" <linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 00:57:28 +0530 Subject: [ILUG-BOM] How to make a distro? Hi Luggers, I am currently in the process of building a custom GNU/Linux system for myself using 'Linux From Scratch' as a reference. How do I make a distribution of my own, complete with a custom installation script. Can anyone suggest some literature which I could download. Since I'm taking the pains/pleasure to select the right mix of packages for myself I might as well distribute it to others who want the same mix of packages :-) Kapil Karekar Omkar e-nnovative software solutions kapil_karekar(a)vsnl.net kapil_karekar(a)hotmail.com Tel: (+91-022) 801 2861 (O) _______________________________________________ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Obtaining CDs
by Abhishek Gupta 30 Oct '02

30 Oct '02

hi amish, i am a linux user too, i stay at powai and wanted to obatain cds like rh-8.0 and mdk 9.0. i was thinking of getting them from linuxplaza but if u have them i was wondering if i cud borrow and burn it??? thanks in advance, Abhishek Gupta. SIGNATURE>>> Abhishek Gupta. Final Year. Dept. of Computer Science and Engg. SSGMCE.

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Report of GNU/Linux workshop at KReSIT, IIT Bombay
by Chetan Vaity 30 Oct '02

30 Oct '02

Hello all, The Information Technology association, an association of students, faculty and staff of KReSIT had organised a two-day workshop on GNU/Linux on the 26th and 27th of October. The venue was the impressive KReSIT auditorium. The publicity campaign was mainly concentrated inside the IIT campus. In the week before the workshop, posters had been sent to various colleges in Mumbai. The registrations which had been sluggish (and had got quite a few of us worried) picked up in the last 3 days. More than 100 participants had to be turned down. After about 3 weeks of hectic preparations, the big day arrived. The start couldn't have been better. Dr. Nagarjuna gave a fantastic talk on Free Software and the history of GNU/Linux. This was followed by sessions on installation, GUI, command-line and shell programming and programming environment conducted by students at KReSIT. All the slides were created in latex and presented using the pdfscreen package ;-) The entire workshop was recorded and transmitted live to remote centers of the Distance Education Programme being conducted at KReSIT. Enthusiatic people who had turned up on that day were allowed to sit in the local "remote" classroom at KReSIT and watch the proceedings. At the end of the day, a 2 hour lab session was arranged for all the participants. (That's about 200 people - 2 per computer). Accounts for all the participants were created on a single machine (A Compaq ML 530 running Red Hat 7.3). Initially, there were logging-in delays as all the people started their sessions almost simultanueously. This smoothened out after a few minutes and the "exercises" began in earnest. Almost the entire student population of KReSIT had volunteered for the lab management (held at 6 different rooms in the KReSIT building). The second day started with a superb talk on networking and security by Prof. Siva Kumar, head of the Compute Center at IIT Bombay. He showed live examples from the setup at the IIT firewalls. This was followed by various sessions on system adminstration, LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), mail, DNS etc. After this an open QA session ensued where various doubts were cleared. The proceedings in the auditorium were concluded by an inspiring talk by Dr. D.B. Phatak, head of KReSIT. Day 2 lab sessions were held at the end of the day. An important learning: We felt that it might have made more sense to organise a workshop only for beginners. (a seperate one for experienced people). Because, all thru the 2 days, questions on installations, partitioning, X server problems, Windows interoperability etc continued. It was a mistake on our part to attempt to teach such a broad spectrum - from initiation to services management in just 2 days. Anyway, looking at the fantastic response we got (inspite of the moderately high fees), the Linux scene looks encouraging. Website: http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/~ita/gnulinux Email: ita(a)it.iitb.ac.in - Chetan

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Intel Conference
by kishor bhagwat 30 Oct '02

30 Oct '02

hello folks, Attended the Intel Developer Forum today at Taj regent..quite a good show with the Intel CTO Pat Gelsinger around. There were demos on the wireless network(802.11b) front, and a good talk and demo on the Hyper-threading feature of the Itanium processors. Do chk out something called "Banias" - its cool! There were some talks on best practices for using multi-processor systems. Got to know about OpenMP amd MPI - two API's for enabling ur apps to use clustered systems. Also some tools for perf-tuning and analyzing ur apps(VTune). I've got a demo cd of those, i'll see if i can out it up on my ftp server. for more info - chk out http://developer.intel.com/idf/ there was also a small demo of the VxWorks RTOS on a Intel XScale system...neat! well..just thought some of you might want to know! regds, Kishor __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] help : unknown host error
by ritesh kala 30 Oct '02

30 Oct '02

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Obtaining CDs
by ritesh kala 30 Oct '02

30 Oct '02

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