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::SE LINUX::[Attn: Sandesh]
by Navin Dhanuka 22 Nov '01

22 Nov '01

Hi, Sandesh, I have downloaded the "lsm-selinux-200108221537.tgz". its a 32 Mb file. For who don't know what is SE linux.... check the faqs @ http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/faq.html What is Security-enhanced Linux? Security-enhanced Linux is a research prototype of the Linux® kernel and a number of utilities with enhanced security functionality designed simply to demonstrate the value of mandatory access controls to the Linux community and how such controls could be added to Linux. The Security-enhanced Linux kernel contains new architectural components originally developed to improve the security of the Flask operating system. These architectural components provide general support for the enforcement of many kinds of mandatory access control policies, including those based on the concepts of Type Enforcement®, Role-based Access Control, and Multi-level Security. --------- What is it good for? The Security-enhanced Linux's new features are designed to enforce the separation of information based on confidentiality and integrity requirements. They are designed for preventing processes from reading data and programs, tampering with data and programs, bypassing application security mechanisms, executing untrustworthy programs, or interfering with other processes in violation of the system security policy. They also help to confine the potential damage that can be caused by malicious or flawed programs. They should also be useful for enabling a single system to be used by users with differing security authorizations to access multiple kinds of information with differing security requirements without compromising those security requirements. --------- Can I install Security-enhanced Linux on an existing Linux system? Yes. You actually need to have an existing Linux system. The Security-enhanced Linux distribution is source code for a modified Linux kernel and some utilities. You must have the ability to compile a kernel and also have necessary, but unmodified system packages. Our distribution is known to install on the Red Hat distribution, and has not been tested with others. --------- What does Security-enhanced Linux give me that standard Linux can't? The Security-enhanced Linux kernel enforces mandatory access control policies that confine user programs and system servers to the minimum amount of privilege they require to do their jobs. When confined in this way, the ability of these user programs and system daemons to cause harm when compromised (via buffer overflows or misconfigurations, for example) is reduced or eliminated. This confinement mechanism operates independently of the traditional Linux access control mechanisms. It has no concept of a "root" super-user, and does not share the well-known shortcomings of the traditional Linux security mechanisms (such as a dependence on setuid/setgid binaries). The security of an unmodified Linux system depends on the correctness of the kernel, all the privileged applications, and each of their configurations. A problem in any one of these areas may allow the compromise of the entire system. In contrast, the security of a modified system based on the Security-enhanced Linux kernel depends primarily on the correctness of the kernel and its security policy configuration. While problems with the correctness or configuration of applications may allow the limited compromise of individual user programs and system daemons, they do not pose a threat to the security of other user programs and system daemons or to the security of the system as a whole. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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script for windowmaker
by bhaskar 22 Nov '01

22 Nov '01

i use windowmaker ( because of its simple appearance and fast loading ) i always dream of making it as comfortable as windows specifically the feature of windows where when you press ald+ctrl+del you get a process manager I have written a script in tcl/tk for this and i bind it to alt+ctrl+del in windowmaker wherein you can select any process or many processes you want to kill and press the kill button provided this is much more comfortable than typing ps -ax finding the pid and typing kill anybody intrested can download it from http://bhaskarshanbhag.tripod.com/acd.tk.zip note: *press ok when done instead of cancelling the application *please go thru the code before you run it *u can use kill -9 instead of kill by slightly modifying the script *suspend monitor uses xset which is included in XFree86 package *lock uses xscreensaver package so you should have it properly configured *donot keep alt+ctrl+del for a long time as it causes trouble by creating many instances of the program(bug !) specially if you have enabled system modal option *you can try to bind it with any other key in enlightenment and kde if alt+ctrl+del is captured by these window managers _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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Stevens' APUE Examples for Linux
by Manish Jethani 22 Nov '01

22 Nov '01

Does anyone have the Stevens' ``Advanced Programming in UNIX Environment'' (APUE) examples source code for *Linux*. I've downloaded the original sources from ftp.uu.net but it doesn't have a linux version (only svr4, sun and 4.4bsd); and even the svr4 version doesn't compile out of the box on my system. Instead of making changes myself, I thought it'd be nice if someone has already done it. Manish -- I have a very small mind and must live with it. -- E. Dijkstra

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2.4.13 + XFS
by Vikram Rangnekar 21 Nov '01

21 Nov '01

Hi everyone, I am currently running kernel 2.4.13 with XFS for my root partition. Since everyone was talking about ext3 and reiserfs I was just wondering how many people out there are using alternatives such as XFS and JFS. btw XFS is way cool and fast as hell. Also I'm working on an iptables alternative for the IBM linux contest and purely out of curiosity I was wondering how many of you guys are developing any big linux app or utility. I dont ususally read about any linux programming stuff on this list, and just wanted to get to know more people into big time linux programming. regards Vicky

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{OT}---::Update ILUG-BOM Site::
by Navin Dhanuka 21 Nov '01

21 Nov '01

Admin please update the site.. --------------------------------- Next Lug Meet to be announced shortly Next Lug Meet on 31st August on IRC @ #linuxers at 4.30pm --------------------------------- Navin Dhanuka _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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trouble with ecos
by rahil 21 Nov '01

21 Nov '01

Hi has anyone any experince running ecos(it's an RTOS) on mandrake 8.0. __vt_9bad_alloc hasdifferent size in shared object,consider re-linking is the error being encountered if anyone can give me any leads it will be helpful. Rahil

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Test message
by Nagarjuna G. 21 Nov '01

21 Nov '01

Pl ignore Nagarjuna

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script to fetch dictionary.com meanings
by Manish Jethani 17 Nov '01

17 Nov '01

If someone really intends running this script on some of her documents, please tar-gzip all the dictionary.com meanings and send it to me. I don't have a good Net connection. If your tarball is bigger than 80kb, upload it somewhere and send me the link. Tnx. Manish Jethani -------- getdict.sh -------- #!/bin/bash ######################################################################## # Script to fetch meanings of all words appearing in one or more files # of type "English text". Meanings are fetched from dictionary.com and # stored in HTML files of the same name as the word. The /meaning/ # files are stored in the $SPOOL_DIR (or whatever you want to call it). # # Words are picked up from files whose names you pass as command line # arguments. If a file is not an "English text" type file, it is # ignored. # # Dependencies: # file - for determining file type. # egrep - for doing pattern match on word. # wget - for fetching the meanings of words from dictionary.com. # # Before running, set $SPOOL_DIR and $WGET_LOGFILE. You can set # $WGET_LOGFILE to /dev/stdout to get output on console. # # e.g. ./getdict.sh ~/mbox # # Disclaimer: I'm not responsible if your computer crashes because of # this program. In fact, I'm very irresponsible, by nature. And I # don't know how to write shell scripts. # # License: Feel free to modify and distribute this script without my # permission. Just don't tell anyone that I wrote the original version. # # Bugs: I've just tested this on my home box (called 'moose') that runs # RedHat Linux 6.2. No bugs. :) Find and fix yourself. # # Copyleft (:P) 2001 Manish Jethani. All Rights Reversed. ######################################################################## # directory where /meaning/ files will be stored SPOOL_DIR=`pwd`/spool # append logfile for wget WGET_LOGFILE=`pwd`/wget.log # all files in $@ for file in $@; do # if $file is of type "English text" if file -bn $file | egrep -sq '^English text$'; then # each word in the $file for word in `cat $file`; do # if $word is alphanumeric if echo -n $word | egrep -sq '^[A-Za-z0-9]+$'; then meaning_file=$SPOOL_DIR/$word.html # if $meaning_file does not exist for $word if [ ! -f $meaning_file ]; then # create $meaning_file for $word echo -n "Fetching meaning of \"$word\" ... " wget -O$meaning_file -a$WGET_LOGFILE \ "http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=$word" \ && echo "Done." \ || rm -f $meaning_file && echo "FAILED!" else echo "Meaning of \"$word\" already there." fi fi done else echo "Skipping $file - not an English text file." fi done

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2.4.13 + XFS
by Vikram Rangnekar 17 Nov '01

17 Nov '01

Hi everyone, I am currently running kernel 2.4.13 with XFS for my root partition. Since everyone was talking about ext3 and reiserfs I was just wondering how many people out there are using alternatives such as XFS and JFS. btw XFS is way cool and fast as hell. Also I'm working on an iptables alternative for the IBM linux contest and purely out of curiosity I was wondering how many of you guys are developing any big linux app or utility. I dont ususally read about any linux programming stuff on this list, and just wanted to get to know more people into big time linux programming. regards Vicky

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Windows not booting from hdc1
by Manish Jethani 17 Nov '01

17 Nov '01

I have 2 disks, primary master (Linux) and secondary master (Windows). I've set lilo to boot from hdc1 for label "dos". But when I try to boot into dos, I get the message "Invalid System Disk, Press Any Key To Continue". hdc1 is Windows 98. Any ideas? Tnx. Manish Jethani -- What the hell is it good for? -- Robert Lloyd (engineer of the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM), to colleagues who insisted that the microprocessor was the wave of the future, c. 1968 _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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ISA ethernet card on rh 7.1
by Ulhas Vaidya 16 Nov '01

16 Nov '01

hi, i am trying to install a ne2000 compatible jumperless ethernet card on a rh 7.1. but it is not working. could anyone pls tell me some work around for this? i feel that the problem is due to correct addr and interrupt setting but how do i configure something when i don't know the settings? also where do i get to see a list of kernel modules available to handle the card? thanx ulhas

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SecNet2001, IIT Bombay (fwd)
by E C Vijil 16 Nov '01

16 Nov '01

Dear Sir/Madam We seek the opportunity to announce that the SIGNET Group at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay, is organizing SecNet 2001, a workshop on Security and Networking in association with the Computer Science & Engineering Association (CSEA). SecNet 2001, third in a series of workshops, will target IT Managers, Network Managers and System Administrators from various organizations. The workshop will be conducted from 12 to 15 December, 2001. The focus will be on current trends in Network Security and Mobile Wireless Networking. Various topics will be covered including IPSec, SSL, Wireless LAN, Bluetooth, and 2.5G Cellular Networks. Following is the schedule for the four day workshop: Day 1: TCP/IP, Network Attacks and Software Forensics. Day 2: Secure Network Setup and Configuration, Network Monitoring and Intrusion Detection. Day 3: SSL and Cryptography, IPSec Working and Applications. Day 4: Wireless LAN Technologies, Bluetooth, GSM, SMS and GPRS, Security in Wireless Networks. The workshop aims to provide a balance of both theory and applications. The distinguished speakers include professors from IIT Bombay and industry experts. The lab sessions will give an opportunity to the participants to get acquainted with various tools. The workshop brochure can be downloaded from the workshop web site. The same can be obtained by sending an e-mail request. Participants will be provided with a manual and a CD containing material related to topics covered in the workshop and other goodies. The registration fees are as follows: General: 3000/- per head. Defense Personnel: 1500/- per head. Accommodation and dinner will be charged separately albeit at a subsidized rate. For registrations, visit: http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/secnet/register.php For more information: URL : http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/secnet Email : secnet(a)cse.iitb.ac.in Please forward this invitation to your friends who might be interested in SecNet. Thanking you, With Regards, Janees E K (for SecNet Group.)

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mounting fat32 partition
by Kishor Bhagwat 16 Nov '01

16 Nov '01

hello! this is urgent, so i'm writing to the LUG while also searching myself..;-) I'm having to mount a FAT32 partition, but it refuses to mount - giving that "wrong fs type, bad superblock" blah blah error.. If i try autodetection in fstab, it gives me a seg fault..whats up? can someone play Saviour urgently? kishor _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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Fetchmail and imap
by Sachin Naik 16 Nov '01

16 Nov '01

Hi Guys, I am facing a problem with my fetchmail .I have PCQLinux 7.1 .When I try to download mailfrom my ISP's IMAP mailserver.I get the following error message fetchmail: 5.9.5 querying imap.satyam.net.in (protocol IMAP) at Thu, 15 Nov 2001 16:46:23 +0530 (IST): poll started fetchmail: IMAP< * OK IMAP4rev1 Server Ready. fetchmail: IMAP> A0001 CAPABILITY fetchmail: IMAP< * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT fetchmail: IMAP< A0001 OK CAPABILITY completed fetchmail: IMAP> A0002 LOGIN "my_login" "*" fetchmail: IMAP< A0002 NO Login failed. fetchmail: IMAP> A0003 * fetchmail: Authorization failure on my_login(a)imap.satyam.net.in fetchmail: IMAP> A0004 LOGOUT fetchmail: IMAP< A0003 NO Error in IMAP command received by server. fetchmail: IMAP< * BYE IMAP4rev1 server shutting down fetchmail: IMAP< A0004 OK LOGOUT completed fetchmail: 5.9.5 querying imap.satyam.net.in (protocol IMAP) at Thu, 15 Nov 2001 16:46:29 +0530 (IST): poll completed fetchmail: Query status=3 (AUTHFAIL) fetchmail: normal termination, status 3 Fetchmailrc for this looks like this : poll imap.satyam.net.in with proto imap: user my_login, with password mypasswd,is sachin here; Fetchmail works well with my POP servers Thanks in advance !!! -- S a c h i n N a i k If you took all of the grains of sand in the world, and lined them up end to end in a row, you'd be working for the government! -- Mr. Interesting

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Booting problem, kernel panic, tried to kill idle process
by Satya 16 Nov '01

16 Nov '01

Booting problem, kernel panic, tried to kill idle process, keeps asking for fsck of root partition. That is a summary of what happens when my mom tries to boot the Linux box that she's trying to use. That's all I could gather over the phone. It's a Redhat box with custom kernel etc. It was working when I left. Could someone go over there (Prabhadevi) and find out what the real problem is, and fix it? She has the root password and her user account. I'd do it, but being in California is a problem. Contact me privately if you are able and willing to do this. If you could find the problem with and fix the CPU fan as well, that's a plus. -- Satya. <URL:http://satya.virtualave.net/> Shh! Be vewy quiet, I'm hunting wuntime errors!

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trouble with ecos
by rahil 16 Nov '01

16 Nov '01

Hi has anyone any experince running ecos(it's an RTOS) on mandrake 8.0. __vt_9bad_alloc hasdifferent size in shared object,consider re-linking is the error being encountered if anyone can give me any leads it will be helpful. Rahil

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Lug meet
by Anand 15 Nov '01

15 Nov '01

Finalize timing by friday so that there is sufficient time to inform all. Anand -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Visit www.smbd.org <http://www.smbd.org> for Free Tutorials, Source Codes and Other stuff. ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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[OT] Lug Web Site and Mailing List
by Parag Mehta 15 Nov '01

15 Nov '01

Hi ALl, as of now we are facing some issues with the management of mailman and php-nuke. hence there are some issues with adminsitrative approvals of mails to the list and web site postings held for approval. We are working on it and will get them rectified asap. Best Regards, pm List Admin.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Unix Baby Command Man Page
by Parag Mehta 15 Nov '01

15 Nov '01

Hi, Please do not post this kind of stuipid and offensive mails. this is no humour and u should unserstand that this no mailing list for this kind of nonsense humour mails. next time this kinds of mails to the list will end in removal from the list permanently. Also the mail was not marked as OT in the subject. Best Regards, pm ListAdmin

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linux in engg colleges
by Triptpal Singh 15 Nov '01

15 Nov '01

I have just done my BE (comps) from the university. To the best of my knowledge , my college , Ram rao Adik Institute of technology,Nerul,DY patil vidyanagar is the only college to have a first class Linux server lab with RH being used. Also it is the only college which probably has a LUG in the college -complete with mailing list and all....we all had login/passwds ,email accts... the best thing is this - all this is being managed by students -dedicated ones. Why dosent someone get in touch with RAIT and then go slowly from there - word spreads... ALso yes FE Unix is confirmed - but pls dont be too optimistic ...heres the real scene - FE's (first year guys) have 6 subjects , Unix with C being one of them For most , programming is a new concept , Unix being the extra burden. Infact for most professors too , Unix is a alien idea , anything the students do outside the cheap 100/- guides available will be adding to the limited knowledge the professor has. So all students will stick to textbooks since no one does practicals in engineering till maybe 3/4th year. Also Linux initiative in colleges - pls catch only 2/3rd year students. reason - only students who will want to work for u are students who want to do an MS in CS/EE/CE in usa. For which they need to show they were geeks all along , Linux being the perfect route ..specially when they do something for college - like organise "seminars " for NCST and TIFR(biig names) guys. this will be exaggerated to one paragraph in their recommendations and most engineering profs will blindly sign --so pls be careful abt the whole scene. again we might also get something useful by getting some awareness. I can contribute on sundays...in Mumbai...after december.. and yea right now I am in PCS , working for General Electric-Aircraft Engines on Java/JSP/servlets .....this is where most engineer learn their fundas - the 3 month industry training after college .. Regards Tript "It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts." - G. B. Burgin

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TROWSER presentation on lug meet
by Anand 14 Nov '01

14 Nov '01

On 18th Lug meet, I would like to make a 15 minute presentation on TROWSER. In the last few days, I have been thinking on how to make it really beneficial for contributors in other words, how open source can really benefit the contributors. I would like to unveil a newer method of guaranteeing returns to contributors of the open source and free software. Please inform me in case any protocols or formalities need to be observed. Anand -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Visit www.smbd.org <http://www.smbd.org> for Free Tutorials, Source Codes and Other stuff. ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Linux localization for Hindi
by Keyur Shroff 13 Nov '01

13 Nov '01

Hello, We are happy to announce the availability of a Beta version of Linux localized for Hindi. We have localized the graphical user interface (GUI) in a genric fashion for Indian language support. The system has been developed under the project name "IndiX" and it is funded by Ministry of Information Technology, Government of India under their "Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL)" programme. The system has been put in the public domain and you can download binaries as well as source files. Related documents are also available on the net. Knowing your deep interest in Indian language computing, we would be grateful if you can take some effort to install this system on one of your computers and give us feedback over the next four weeks. To download this "IndiX" system, please visit http://rohini.ncst.ernet.in/indix Thanking you, Keyur Shroff PS : Interested people are invited to NCST and have a look at the work. Your feedback is very much valuable to us. ----------------------------------------------------- Keyur Shroff Staff Scientist National Centre for Software Technology (NCST) Juhu, Mumbai, India. Tel. : (022) 6201606, 6201574 http://www.ncst.ernet.in -----------------------------------------------------

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Linux in Education report #57
by Philip S Tellis 13 Nov '01

13 Nov '01

The Simple End User's Linux (seul), education branch has just come out with #57 of its Linux in Education report. Available at http://www.seul.org/edu/report57.html, it covers several case studies, software for use in schools, and also a complete linux distribution for schools (kmLinux). Also featured are tools for course management. Worth a read. Philip -- Don't diddle code to make it faster - find a better algorithm. - The Elements of Programming Style (Kernighan & Plaugher) Visit my webpage at http://www.ncst.ernet.in/~philip/ Read my writings at http://www.ncst.ernet.in/~philip/writings/ MSN philiptellis Yahoo! philiptellis AIM philiptellis ICQ 129711328

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GNU/LUG Meet on 18th 4: 30pm
by Nagarjuna G. 13 Nov '01

13 Nov '01

Finally we are meeting this sunday 18th at 4:30pm. Venue: HBCSE, for those who do not know the venue read here: http://www.hbcse.tifr.res.in/hbcse/main/location/. Nagarjuna

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iSCSI
by LInux LOver 12 Nov '01

12 Nov '01

Dear Linuxers, I have installed redhat 7.2 and found something named iSCSI .... can somebody explain the advantage of iSCSI over IDE Even /dev/cdrom which is normally sym linked to IDE CD-ROM viz. /dev/hdd does not work under 7.2 instead /dev/cdrom1 is sym linked to /dev/sdd01 which works for IDE CDROM... regards lilo

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