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[OT] lend me rh 7.2 cd
by Manish Jethani 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

If anyone can lend me RedHat 7.2 CDs, please mail me off list. Thanks a lot. Manish

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[Announce] LUG Mailing list search engine
by Philip S Tellis 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

Ok, no one's really asked for it, but there have been complaints that suggested it was needed, and lets face it, we've all wished that the archives had a search engine. It's even on the wishlist of mailman 3.0. Well, we at Ilug-bom have beaten the mailman team. We've integrated mailman with a search engine called namazu (http://www.namazu.org/). This version of namazu - specially customised for our mailing list by yours truly - is available at http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/linuxers/ Have a look, search for your favourite stuff, don't overload the server, and give feedback. I've still got to implement a few features to provide better, more effective searches. I already know how to do this, just need some time. Philip -- Who spread garbage all over Flanders's yard before I got a chance to? -- Homer Simpson Two Dozen and One Greyhounds 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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linux tech for india
by Apu Shah 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

dear linuxers, there have been several writeups, discussions, conferences, seminars etc. etc. about how linux is the os for india. yes, this is true due to the various factors that favor linux over other os and give linux a compelling argument. let's leave aside economic, social and political issues in support of linux for india. the question i would like to pose to the group is what *technical* innovations do know of that are propelling the cause of linux for india. the biggest one is of course, localization. there are efforts ongoing in this area which i know of namely ncst, iitm and indlinux. some other examples that i can think of are - simputer, dhvani (the text to speech engine for indian languages) - simputer, tapatap (the pen based computing libraries) - ncst/iitm's work on localization of linux - work on universal networking language and language independent forms. for research purposes i am trying to compile a list of all such initiative that are going on in the linux world specifically to help india. i know that there must be several localized software development projects, font development projects, e-governance projects etc. etc. that are specific to india. if you have any references of such companies/projects/work i would appreciate it if you could send a link/email address. actually even technical work done to further the cause of linux in "developing nations" would be interesting. thanks much. apu shah, research associate, media labs asia

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KDE 2.2.2 and linux patch 2.4.16-pre1
by Ravindra Jaju 26 Nov '01

26 Nov '01

Hi all. KDE 2.2.2 sources, and RH-7.2 RPMs are on db.ilug-bom.org.in The resources have been moved to proper sub-directories. Also, note that you should not use the 2.4.15 release of the kernel, as it has a file-system corruption bug. In case you are planning to use the latest one, try 2.4.16-pre1. It's also uploaded on db.ilug-bom. regards, jaju

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reading word files through your email client
by Philip S Tellis 25 Nov '01

25 Nov '01

It seems that this mail never made it through the first time, so I am resending it. I've written a small script that can be run through your mailcap file. It uses wvWare and lynx/netscape to view word files through your mail program (pine, mutt, netscape, anything that uses mailcap). The script is at http://db.ilug-bom.org.in/lug-authors/philip/bin/ and a mirror on my downloads page (ncst/~philip/downloads/). Instructions are in the file. You'll have to make it executable and copy it to /usr/local/bin/ before you can use it. Philip -- "I know Kung Fu." "Show me." -- Neo and Morpheus, "The Matrix" 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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Help wanted with running X on Trident Blade XP card
by Navin 25 Nov '01

25 Nov '01

hi guys, i just switched to a Trident Blade XP AGP card with 32 MB of VRAM. i was running RH 7.1 on a SiS 6215 earlier, and had managed to configure X to run pretty well. i tried to get X to run on the new card using xf86config. since it is not listed i chose Blade 3D which i thought was the nearest. this uses the 'trident' driver. but it gave me an error and quit. ive attached the relevant parts of /var/log/ XFree86.0.log. plz do tell me of any workarounds or drivers available for solving my problem Navin

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::Any body has quake cd::
by Navin Dhanuka 25 Nov '01

25 Nov '01

Hi, If u have Q.u.a.k.e. CD. Please contact me offlist. Navin _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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BSD IPC Vs SysV IPC ???
by Kunal Gangakhedkar 25 Nov '01

25 Nov '01

Thanks guys, But I'm not sure whether Richard Stevens actually compares or gives details of BSD IPC or not... Anyway, thanks for your reply, I'll again go through Richard Stevens. Is there any online reference / e-book for the same topic??? If yes, pls. forward me the URL Thanks, Kunal

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Using one ISP account to serve many users - requested at meet
by Philip S Tellis 24 Nov '01

24 Nov '01

Please note, that I have only tried this once, and it worked with my system under the test conditions at that time. There is no guarantee that it will work under real life situations. I'm not going to go into the full details of the sendmail configuration file, you can find out about that from the many sendmail howtos available. What you need are these (in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc): FEATURE(`genericstable', `hash -o /etc/mail/genericstable') FEATURE(`virtusertable', `hash -o /etc/mail/virtusertable') Then, in /etc/mail/genericstable (no .db), add this: @localhost.localdomain realuser+%1(a)yourisp.com In /etc/mail/virtusertable (no .db), add this: realuser+*(a)yourisp.com %2(a)localhost.localdomain replace localhost.localdomain with the name of your local mail server. now, in /etc/mail/, either run make (if you have a makefile in there), or do: % makemap hash genericstable.db < genericstable % makemap hash virtusertable.db < virtusertable Restart sendmail. Now, I'm assuming that you're using fetchmail to get mail from your ISP's account. In that case, you could set up fetchmail to use multidrop, but that is very complicated, and prone to mail loops and undelivered mail. Instead, I'd suggest telling fetchmail to forward mail to procmail (both running as root), or let sendmail use procmail as the default mailer. Then, have procmail decide who the mail should go to. If you use sendmail to call procmail, then you can check $1 in the procmailrc file to find out what was passed after the + sign, so you can have a rule like this: :0 To: realuser+$1 !$1(a)localhost.localdomain You'll have to try these things and tweak around a bit to see what works, but when you do get it working right, post your procedure to the group. I'm sure there are other solutions, and products that make it much easier to do this thing, but the basic problems I see with trying to serve many users with a single mailbox, is that if mail is addressed to two users (eg: tellis+philip(a)vsnl.net and tellis+santosh(a)vsnl.net), there will only be one mail in the mailbox. I have no idea what sendmail will do with the addresses, and how you will sort them. Also, if the address is in the bcc field, then forget it. You'll have to write a separate rule for the Cc: field. One last thing. When you get this working, tell you users to set their email address as localuser(a)localhost.localdomain, and to tell everyone outside the company that their address is realuser+localuser(a)yourisp.com Hope this helps. I really really hope. Philip -- At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer you will find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer. 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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db.ilug-bom.org.in - Nagarjuna
by Ritesh H Shukla 24 Nov '01

24 Nov '01

Hi, Can I help with DB website? I could uploas the 2.4.15 kernel and the kde 2.2.2 source rpm etc etc.. -Ritesh __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1

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