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Re: spurious error
by Philip S Tellis 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

Sometime on Jan 29, Satish Alwani assembled some asciibets to say: > When i do major transfers to this box, the machine ends up hanging. > > Average transfer speeds in excess of 7000K or even higher than 10,000K at > times. Your hang has nothing to do with the spurious IRQ7. IRQ7 is the parallel port interrupt, and it generally means that the interrupt was generated, but no one sent it. This can happen for example if you have some static near the parallel port pins. What network card do you have? Philip -- Beer -- it's not just for breakfast anymore.

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>>VIRUs funda<<<<
by BIJU KRISHNAN 29 Jan '04

29 Jan '04

I'am sorry if my explanation is completely illogical...but this is what I figured out ........pls inform me if my notion is completely wrong..... In a system like Windoze ---->DLL--->EXE (RAM)---->Compiled but no check for size of compiled output. In GNU/Linux OS ---->object/.so----->binary/daemon(RAM)---->Compiled and checked for size of compiled o/p. And as for shell scripts, and rpm's which we blindly execute sometimes........pls do a md5 verification to check for trusted signatures........ So it's 98% safe to open mails on a linux system than any other system........these days a lots of executable stuff on the prowl..... bothered abt bugs in the system......well the community is so alert that you'll definitely know abt it before the hacker knows it......... hope this leads us somewhere, bijucyborg >>.On a sidenote : Guys what do think abt Bill gates getting knighthood for >>Services to global enterprise<<< __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Why do Viruses not infect GNU/Linux PCs?
by Amish Mehta 29 Jan '04

29 Jan '04

Because GNU/Linux systems are not written by MS guys who simply execute any file just because it pretended its content-type to be an audio file. In my opinion MS always had policy to make system more user-friendly(trying to auto-play a sound file for user) at cost of security(and executing exe instead). This bug and so many other bugs are so obvious(assuming MS has good developers!) that sometimes I feel they are kept on purpose, so that they can ask user to upgrade to their new OS/apps claiming to be MORE safe. Amish. Rishi Gangoly wrote: > >Hi > >I wanted to trigger a conversation here on why Viruses infect Windows PCs and >not GNU/Linux systems,

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Why do Viruses not infect GNU/Linux PCs?
by Amish Mehta 29 Jan '04

29 Jan '04

Because GNU/Linux systems are not written by MS guys who simply execute any file just because it pretended its content-type to be an audio file. In my opinion MS always had policy to make system more user-friendly(trying to auto-play a sound file for user) at cost of security(and executing exe instead). This bug and so many other bugs are so obvious(assuming MS has good developers!) that sometimes I feel they are kept on purpose, so that they can ask user to upgrade to their new OS/apps claiming to be MORE safe. Amish. Rishi Gangoly wrote: > >Hi > >I wanted to trigger a conversation here on why Viruses infect Windows PCs and >not GNU/Linux systems,

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RE: Why do Viruses not infect GNU/Linux PCs?
by Parul.Mathur 29 Jan '04

29 Jan '04

------ Rishi Gangoly <rishi(a)theargoncompany.com> wrote on Thu, 29 Jan 2004 -------- > I wanted to trigger a conversation here on why Viruses infect Windows PCs and > not GNU/Linux systems, Hi Rishi, Your post reminds me of an article I read on Slashdot last year. Viruses and Market Dominance - Myth or Fact? ============================================ An article at The Register, authored by Scott Granneman of SecurityFocus, examines the conventional wisdom that if Linux or Mac OS X were as popular as Windows, there would be just as many viruses written for those platforms. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/33226.html Mr. Granneman bluntly says this is wrong, then proceeds to detail the fundamental differences between those OS's and Windows which make Windows an easy and inviting target for virus-writers, as opposed to the Unix-based platforms.

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RE: Why does Linux access the HDD so much?
by linuxdev 29 Jan '04

29 Jan '04

> You mis understood. I was not comparing IE with Mozilla. About time I put and end to the misunderstandings of my ideas too !! I perfectly understood what u said. You weren't comparing mozilla with IE. I was. The crib as you said is the pre-loader which doesn't exist for linux. Or m'be it does now, I read bout some gnome-systray based app. that does that. I forget the name. > I consider Mozilla's performance far superior to Mozilla. uh-huh. I will put forth a few(repeated) ideas to be shot down by u guys (hear ye Philip with single l) * how bout a generalized preloader that loads the most used shared libraries for (plug ur fav soft here ) before X starts up. Evolution does it when u open it the first time. Why not do it before that ?? Please for god's sake note that I don't mean the glibc or libc libs for that matter. I'm talking about the libs like say gnutls, libnss, libvorbis etc etc. which are not loaded by default. * advantage ? Snap opening times for our dear ol' mozilla, gaim, mplayer, xmms etc etc. * kde already does it. but the catch ? only for kde apps. So not useful. And please please don't even start about how fast mozilla-firebird opens on ur system. It's been discussed to death on /. on how much it is *not* fast while *opening* on a linux box. urs persistently, C P.S: sorry for the looong mail. 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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Re: [ILUG-BOM] parsing configuration files using C
by linuxdev 29 Jan '04

29 Jan '04

On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 06:19:10PM +0530, Krishna Dagli wrote: > I am looking for a library which will give me the value of a variable existing in a plain text configuration file. >The format of the configuration file will be <variable name> = <value> if u find xml format for ur config file good enough then there's libxml that should suit ur task. C 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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introducing myself
by Shiv Kumaar,91-22-28906693, 9820320927 (mobile) 29 Jan '04

29 Jan '04

Hi all, I am Shiv Kumar from Mumbai. After hearing so much abt linux, I had the opportunity to use this OS for the first time at the World Social Forum's Media Centre recently. I am no techie though I am interested in alternatives to proprietory software. Am joining this mailing list so that I can learn more abt linux. rgds shiv kumar

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spurious errr
by Satish Alwani 29 Jan '04

29 Jan '04

I keep getting this error for spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. i even recompiled without apic support I am using a7n8x-x mobo which is based on nforce

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Re:[ILUG-BOM] Unable to boot the upgraded kernel
by Vishwanath V 28 Jan '04

28 Jan '04

Hi Nachiketa, Well i guess u're using ext3 fs , have u compiled the module into the kernel or is it a loadable module ? If its a loadable module then u need to preload ext3 by creating initrd file :) Hope it solves u're problem :D Happy Hacking, Visu. ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Mobile: Download the latest polyphonic ringtones. Go to http://in.mobile.yahoo.com

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Unable to boot the upgraded kernel
by Nachiketa Sadhu 28 Jan '04

28 Jan '04

Hi, I have fedora core 1 on my computer, recently I updated the kernel from 2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp to 2.4.22-1.2149.nptlsmp through yum from redhat update site. After the update I am not able to boot the new kernel. The older kernel boots without any problem. The machine gives a kernel panic, with the last few lines of the display as follows: Mounting /proc filesystem Creating block devices Creating root device mkrootdev: label / not found Mounting root filesystem mount: error 2 mounting ext3 pivotroot: pivot_root (/sysroot, /sysroot/initrd) failed: 2 umount /initrd/proc failed: 2 freeing unused kernel memory: 164k freed kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. I have a Intel 865GBF Motherboard with Pentium 4 2.6HT processor 2Gb DDR SD RAM and a 120 MB SATA drive ST3120026AS and PATA ST380011A hard disks. I boot from the sata drive /dev/sda Please give me some pointers to look into to rectify the problem. Please also indicate if more information is required to diagnose the problem. Thanks for your help sadhu

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] parsing configuration files using C
by Amish Mehta 27 Jan '04

27 Jan '04

Hi Abhir, Just a suggestions. In the time you searched, posted e-mail, replied to replies, you could have written the reader/parser library yourself. And may be released it under GPL and earned yourself a fame. :-) Amish. P.S. Just for a good cause. Abhir Joshi wrote: > >On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 07:13:44PM +0530, Krishna wrote: > >> Just a thought then why not to use xml and libxml2. > >That would mean writing the configuration files in XML which is not >what I want. It would also entail slightly more effort to create the >configuration file using emacs.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] parsing configuration files using C
by Abhir Joshi 27 Jan '04

27 Jan '04

On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 07:13:44PM +0530, Krishna wrote: > Just a thought then why not to use xml and libxml2. That would mean writing the configuration files in XML which is not what I want. It would also entail slightly more effort to create the configuration file using emacs. -- Abhir Joshi http://education.vsnl.com/abhir/

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parsing configuration files using C
by Abhir Joshi 27 Jan '04

27 Jan '04

Is there a C/C++ library available to parse a configuration file and get the value of different variables specified therein? I know about gnome-config. Maybe there is something similar for Qt. But I wanted to know if there was any other independent library. -- Abhir Joshi http://education.vsnl.com/abhir/

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devfs help..!
by Ankur is here in ur inbox...... 26 Jan '04

26 Jan '04

hello everybody, i am a newbe.so Can anyone tell me, Is devfs b= uilt in linux kernel(devfs enabled kernel) which comes with red hat 9.0. an= d if it is not then plz do tell me where can i get it and how can i compile it into the kernel and use the new compiled kernel.. i am using red = hat linux 9.0 on amd athlon 2000+ with 256 MB RAM..i think so that this muc= h data will be sufficent for the above stated problem... thank's to a= ll in advance for landing their helping hand to me. sincerely.. = Ankur Ankur [1] [ads.rediff.=] References 1. 3D"http:/

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] RE: Why does Linux access the HDD so much?
by linuxdev 26 Jan '04

26 Jan '04

[snip] Dont put an end to this thread. Perhaps someone can summarise the points you have made. They are very valid. a. Increase Swap b. Stop services that are not required c. Get More RAM (since lower ram = more swap file usage = slower / inefficient performance) d. Recomend use of less resource hungary software (galeon instead of mozilla) e. Do not fully shut off software that you are going to use again and again (eg, minimise mozilla instead of closing it when you finish looking at a webpage) An additional point I guess we can also make here is that in MS Windows XP also, most software takes time to open. Outlook express takes more than 20 seconds (and massive HDD Access) to open and MSOffice XP is much worse. We can not compare a PC running Win98 to RedHat9. That comparison does not make sense. [snip] Talking of the preloader of mozilla in Windows, can we have a *generalized* pre-loader in linux ?? I would say it wouldn't be too difficult to write a daemon that preloads stuff and keeps general statistics as to which executable/library is used the most. This would increase the booting time by little but the net result should be quite surprising in my opinion. IE starts so fast in windows is because just about everything that it requires is preloaded when windows boots. On the other hand most of the stuff that mozilla needs is loaded when it is started. Taking up the proj. anyone ? I might do so, but let me know if it would really make a difference. C 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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Adding cvs repositories to existing cvs server
by milind dhoke 25 Jan '04

25 Jan '04

Hi all, I had a cvs server having single repository,but now i want to add more repositories in existing cvs server. what exactly needed to be done, i don't know.If somebody having idea regurding this a great welcome. Regards Milind Dhoke

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any idea about the next meeting
by Trevor Warren 25 Jan '04

25 Jan '04

Morning Folks, It would be great towards meeting sometime soon towards discusing some activities that we could perform for the current year. I know its very easy for me to speak, but lets decide on some conrete events and take them ahead with specific focus on FLOSS/Gnu-Linux events. Trevor -- ( >- -< ) /~\ __ Gnu/Linux, Its all about Choice __ /~\ | \) / trevor.w(a)pvision.biz \ (/ | |_|_ \ Need a consultant, Call 9820349221 / _|_| \____________________________________/

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RE: Why does Linux access the HDD so much?
by I R Veejay 24 Jan '04

24 Jan '04

q u a s i wrote : >What is the distribution ? RHL9 >What machine config ? More importantly do >you have anything running in the background ? Excessive logging ? You >have some inefficient program running in the background which updates >a few KB file on disk every few seconds ? There could be many >reasons. Your problem seems not to be a generally observed phenomenon. P4(a)1.6GHz, 128MB RAM, 40GB HDD, 256mb Swap, default windowmanager, KDE as desktop. The installation is the default desktop installation, with no customisation whatsoever. This system is a test system, that i installed to test this very fact. I have seen this happen on every linux box that I have come across, *regardless of m/c configuration*. One of my buddies commented to me once, and i quote - "The main reason why Linux is not very popular in cybercafe's is because apps like browsers & office applications take too long to open." And hence this discussion thread. >Try not running XWindows and then see if the disk io continues. If you have read my first post regarding this matter i specifically mentioned that this is obsererved *only in GUI mode*. cheerio veejay _________________________________________________________________ Play the prediction game on MEZ. Win Sehwags autographed T-shirts. http://go.msnserver.com/IN/41491.asp Predict and win on myenjoyzone.com.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] RE: Why does Linux access the HDD so much? [trevor.w@pvision.biz]
by Trevor Warren 24 Jan '04

24 Jan '04

On 2004.01.24 16:57 Trevor Warren wrote: Hey Dinesh...;) On 2004.01.24 16:43 Dinesh Shah wrote: > Hi Trevor, > s a bloat, a feature rich bloat...;) > > Well... Something is better then nothing... Still better then other > bloatware. :-) > [snip] An apt question for the mozilla mailing list..eh..;) Trevor > With regards, > -- > --Dinesh Shah :-) > <Dinesh(a)ShahMicro.com> > Shah Micro System > +91-98213-11906 > +91-22-56919423 > > -- ( >- -< ) /~\ __ Gnu/Linux, Its all about Choice __ /~\ | \) / trevor.w(a)pvision.biz \ (/ | |_|_ \ Need a consultant, Call 9820349221 / _|_| \____________________________________/ -- ( >- -< ) /~\ __ Gnu/Linux, Its all about Choice __ /~\ | \) / trevor.w(a)pvision.biz \ (/ | |_|_ \ Need a consultant, Call 9820349221 / _|_| \____________________________________/

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X configuration
by rahul revo 24 Jan '04

24 Jan '04

hi, i am running rh9.0 in runlevel 5. kde is the default window manager. many times during boot, the graphics are not loaded. the services turn on, after which the text prompt is shown. the next step is to get a graphical login. but often the graphics get scrambled. i get a few vertical lines flashing like in X configuration and then need to reboot. but mostly gui mode starts up without any errors with proper colors, mouse etc. why does X not load sometimes? i have an onboard intel extreme graphics card on an intel 845 gbv motherboard. as i mentioned earlier mostly X and kde run smoothly. thanks rahul

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garnome problem !
by Mrudul Shah 23 Jan '04

23 Jan '04

hello , my configuring GARNOME ...i faced this problem ! make paranoid-install make[1]: Entering directo= ry `/root/downloads/garnome/garnome-0.29.1/desktop/acme' [==== == NOW BUILDING: acme-2.4.2 === ==] ==> Grabbing download/acme-2.4.2.tar.bz2 = ==> Trying file///root/downloads/GNOME2.4/acme -2.4.2.tar.bz2 make[2]: Entering directory `/root/downloads/garnome/g arnome-0.29.1/desktop/acme' make[2]: *** [file///root/downloads/GNOME= 2.4/acme-2.4.2.tar.bz2] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/dow nloads/garnome/garnome-0.29.1/desktop/acme' &nbs= p; ==> Trying http//ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/acme/2.4/acme-2.= 4.2.tar.bz2 make[2]: Entering directory `/root/downloads/garnome/garn ome-0.29.1/desktop/acme' --20:22:10-- http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/ GNOME/sources/acme/2.4/acme-2.4.2.tar.bz2 = => `download/partial/acme-2.4.2.tar.bz2' Resolving ftp.= gnome.org... failed: Host not found. make[2]: *** [http//ftp.gnome.or g/pub/GNOME/sources/acme/2.4/acme-2.4.2.tar.bz2] Error 1 make[2]: Lea= ving directory `/root/downloads/garnome/garnome-0.29.1/desktop/acme' = *** GAR GAR GAR! Failed to download download/acme-2.4.2.tar.bz2! = ; GAR GAR GAR! *** make[1]: *** [download/acme-2.4.2.tar.bz2] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/downloads/garnome/garnome-0.29.1/d= esktop/acme' make: *** [paranoid-install] Error 2 = i have all the gnome2.4 tarballs @ /root/download/GNOME2.4/ pls ..help ! thank you. - Mrudul.= [1] [a=] References 1. 3D"http://clients.rediff.com=/

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tcp library....
by linuxdev 23 Jan '04

23 Jan '04

I remember someone asking for a tcp library ... was it Phillip ? Nyways, check this out http://www.laurentconstantin.com/en/netw/netwib/ C 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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Re : Why does linux access the hhd so much
by xterm 23 Jan '04

23 Jan '04

> >><victorjulietpapa(a)hotmail.com> > >> > >>I would really like to know why does linux access the >disk so much > >>(in GUI mode) to fire-up even a small application like terminals > >>>windows? What is it that it reads/writes so much? This is > >>irrespective of >m/c configuration. > >> > >>veejay > > > > > > My swap is 4 times the RAM still i also face the same problem... > > (wading in late, excuse) > > What is the distribution ? What machine config ? More importantly do > you have anything running in the background ? Excessive logging ? You > have some inefficient program running in the background which updates > a few KB file on disk every few seconds ? There could be many > reasons. Your problem seems not to be a generally observed phenomenon. man! i am not complaining about the hdd access my system does.... mine is a RHL8.0 on a P3-933 mhz, with 128MB SD RAM, the hard disk also runs at 5400 something RPM... swap alloted is half GB, i've seen hdd access right from the days i had RHL6.0, then 7.1 and now 8.0... I've always chosen to do a full installation off the CDs, just to taste everything that's inside... Agreed i have many services running, I just turn it on to work with it... telnetting into smtp/ftp/telnet servers... I think the people here are comparing the hdd access of M$ windows with gnu/linux... Windows loads all the configuration settings (Registry) into the RAM at startup, whereas gnu/linux apps have to read the config files the first time they start (am just speculating a reason)...also many services report their errors to the root's mailbox... These might be one of the many reasons of unexpected hdd access... Is my justification correct???

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[ILUG-BOM] Rajesh - SW Engg. - set top boxes, embedded linux devices
by Kishore Tahilianey 23 Jan '04

23 Jan '04

Hi Rajesh, I came across the LInux users site - Mumbai where you have mentioned about Set Top Boxes - and embedded linux devices. Can I know more from you as to whether - is that your area of expertise or are you looking at some one to help you with the same? If former - then may be you can provide more details on the same. Regards SaiKishore _________________________________________________________________ Play the prediction game on MEZ. Win Sehwags autographed T-shirts. [1]Predict and win on myenjoyzone.com References 1. http://g.msn.com/8HMBENIN/2731??PS=

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[Commercial]Online Programming @ IIIT-H
by Vardhman Jain 23 Jan '04

23 Jan '04

Hello fellow programmers, We want to reach out to the best programmers around and what better place to find them then in the numerous mailing lists of software being developed by diverse people from all parts of the globe, students of reputed institutes all over, and the winners of various programing contests. We do not intend to spam people or to take up there precious time. This is just to bring to your notice a unique opportunity to pit your skills against thousands of programmers who like you love programming and a good challenge. we apologize if this mail caused you any inconvenience. The battle for programming supremacy is on... Information regarding the competition follows... International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad invites programmers and hackers from all over the world to pit their skills against each other in a battle for programming supremacy! This is a synchronous algorithm-intensive programming contest scheduled for Jan 26th,2004 from 1400 hrs to 1900 hrs. This contest is open for all students and professionals. CodeCraft - The Online Programing Contest being held at THREADS - The Techfest is 5 hours online programing contest where you will be given 8 problems to solve. Prizes(in INR) to be won are... Prizes for top 3 teams ... 1st Prize Rs 8,000 2nd Prize Rs 4,000 3rd Prize Rs 2,000 Prize for the first accepted submission of any problem... Rs 500 2 bonus questions will be released during the contest, which wont add to your contest score but will earn you... 1st accepted submission Rs 500 2nd accepted submission Rs 200 T-Shirts to be given to top 20 teams, team with first submission and bonus question winners. For rules and more information about the contest you can log on to http://students.iiit.net/~felicity/codecraft/ So gear up for hours of algorithms, programming, adrenalin, and of course, a LOT of coffee! And please try to spread this information in and around your institution/colleagues/friends helping us to getting more and more enthusiasts for the contest. -- CodeCraft Team THREADS '04 @ FELICITY '04 International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad http://students.iiit.net/~felicity

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AMC required:
by Krishna Dagli 23 Jan '04

23 Jan '04

One of our clients is looking for AMC of Linux machines. Following are the requirements, please email me if for numbers. -Krishna 1)Support required at Nariman Point 2) We have one server and one fire wall working on Linux. We need support for both (only software part). The hardware is currently being maintained by another vendor under annual maintenance. 3) We have about 8 clients (we plan to add 3 more) which should be able to access the server files, internet, email and fax. 4) The vendor will be responsible for keeping the systems working, for change of security features, user details, and other minor modifications. 5) Our turn around time will depend on urgency of matter. For example fornetwork problem / break down we would expect an enginer at the earliest (maximum downtime 2 hours). For all other matters we can wait 24 - 36 hours. Please give us an indication about your setup (preferbly a small write up). In case anyone wish to look at the current setup they may visit client's office during working hours anyday in order to have a clearer picture.

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Re: Spawning of a new gnu enthusiats group @ nanded
by Trevor Warren 23 Jan '04

23 Jan '04

Morning Manoj, On 2004.01.22 23:15 MANOJ PUROHIT wrote: > > Dear Trevor Warren > I sincerely appreciate your very prompt and honest gudance in starting > a LUG in my city. [snip] Thanks for writing in. We appreciate and support all your initiatives towards setting up a forum for all towards being able to discuss socio/political/technical issues regards Free Software and Open Source locally. As mentioned startup with a Mailing list and take things from there. Trevor > I am planning to start it soon in the first fortnight of Feb. > Once i start it, I'll be very sure to have your guidance one more time > in near future. > Till then thanks one more time and bye... > let's be in touch, be mailing, be updating > > Manoj G Purohit > NANDED, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA > > On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 Trevor Warren wrote : -- ( >- -< ) /~\ __ Gnu/Linux, Its all about Choice __ /~\ | \) / trevor.w(a)pvision.biz \ (/ | |_|_ \ Need a consultant, Call 9820349221 / _|_| \____________________________________/

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Problem with setting hostname.
by Rajendra Rait 22 Jan '04

22 Jan '04

Hi Linuxers, I am new to Red Hat Linux 9, i have an fresh installation, my problem is that i want to change the hostname of my choice, i have tried going to /etc/sysconfig/network and try changing, but it doesn't work. Somebody said me to give the command "declare" and to check the environment variable "$HOSTNAME", i got my mistake, but now i want to change the variable value permanently, how do i do it. Any help would be really greatfull. Regards, Rajendra Rait.

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Re:Problem with setting hostname
by Ravi Desai 22 Jan '04

22 Jan '04

For setting the hostname, you could try using the 'hostname' command. I've tried this myself and it does'nt work. What I did in the end is set the '/etc/sysconfig/network' file to the new hostname And also the '/etc/hosts' file to the new hostname. After that you must reboot the computer and Voila, the comp has a new name :D Ravster _________________________________________________________________ Play the prediction game on MEZ. Win Sehwags autographed T-shirts. http://go.msnserver.com/IN/41491.asp Predict and win on myenjoyzone.com.

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need debain cds...;)
by Trevor Warren 22 Jan '04

22 Jan '04

Morning Fellas, Holy grail....;) Have moved me server farm to Debian and in have decided to get me laptop moving too...;). Can someone lemme know if they could lend me a latest copy of Debian Stable and Debian Testing please. Trevor -- ( >- -< ) /~\ __ Gnu/Linux, Its all about Choice __ /~\ | \) / trevor.w(a)pvision.biz \ (/ | |_|_ \ Need a consultant, Call 9820349221 / _|_| \____________________________________/

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squirrelmail setup in RH9.0
by scott max 22 Jan '04

22 Jan '04

Hi All, I am newbie to linux and want to setup squirrelmail in Redhat 9.0. I found RH9.0 ships with squirrelmail package. But don't know how to configure the same. Any body can help me out in same regards. Thanks and Regards, Scott -- India.com free e-mail - www.india.com. Check out our value-added Premium features, such as an extra 20MB for mail storage, POP3, e-mail forwarding, and ads-free mailboxes! Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] need debain cds...;)
by Trevor Warren 22 Jan '04

22 Jan '04

Morning Ripunjay, Thanks for writing in. Wouldn't mind you downloading and burning for me the latest version of debian iso's. Where do i come and hand over the blanks to you??. Trevor On 2004.01.22 02:27 Ripunjay Bararia wrote: > Hi guys, > > i need about 30mins per cd max to download and burn, tell me when ever > you > need one of what ever... you get the blanks > burning is free... > > Ripunjay Bararia > Digital Dreams Consulting > Trevor > -- ( >- -< ) /~\ __ Gnu/Linux, Its all about Choice __ /~\ | \) / trevor.w(a)pvision.biz \ (/ | |_|_ \ Need a consultant, Call 9820349221 / _|_| \____________________________________/

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] gnuers....time to wake up and go workshopping....:)
by Trevor Warren 22 Jan '04

22 Jan '04

Morning Raseel, We are looking forwards to have begginer/advanced workshops targeting the average joe who would be looking at answering his/her questions as to..... >> What does Open Source and Free Software mean to me. >> Where can i place Open Source and Free Software in my organsation >> Do i need to build an Business model based on Open Source/Free >> Software. Yes/No and Justify. >> Open Source and Free Software in the Enteprise >> Enterprise Application Support and Gnu/Linux >> Building scalable and reliable Infrastructure with Linux >> Web farms / Storage Networks / Clusters using Gnu/Linux. >> Me and my career based on Open Source and Free Software. >> Who is RMS????...;) These and much more based on i/p from the others we can incorporate later. Trevor On 2004.01.21 23:25 Raseel Bhagat wrote: > Hey Trevor, what are these commercial workshops that you are talking > about? Can you be more ellaborate about it coz it sounds interesting. > > > -- ( >- -< ) /~\ __ Gnu/Linux, Its all about Choice __ /~\ | \) / trevor.w(a)pvision.biz \ (/ | |_|_ \ Need a consultant, Call 9820349221 / _|_| \____________________________________/

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gnuers....time to wake up and go workshopping....:)
by Trevor Warren 22 Jan '04

22 Jan '04

Gnuers.....;) Its time to wake up and go ahead with another round of workshops across the state. Commercial ones in bombay we have to work out too. Wakeup.....wakeup. Trevor -- ( >- -< ) /~\ __ Gnu/Linux, Its all about Choice __ /~\ | \) / trevor.w(a)pvision.biz \ (/ | |_|_ \ Need a consultant, Call 9820349221 / _|_| \____________________________________/

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Re : Why does linux access the hhd so much
by xterm 21 Jan '04

21 Jan '04

><victorjulietpapa(a)hotmail.com> > >I would really like to know why does linux access the >disk so much (in GUI >mode) to fire-up even a small application like terminals >windows? What is it >that it reads/writes so much? This is irrespective of >m/c configuration. > >veejay My swap is 4 times the RAM still i also face the same problem...

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Is there a 'free(dom)' variant of Knoppix?
by Rishi Gangoly 21 Jan '04

21 Jan '04

Hi I got to know that there are non-free applications bundled along with Knoppix CD. Does anyone know if there is a variant of Knoppix? I figured it would be easier to just download and use / distribute that instead of removing the non-free packages from the Knoppix CD and creating one myself. Apparently RMS told me a few days back that the 'vrms' tool does not guarantee the results to be 100% true since it purely depends on the deb package maintainer. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/vrms.html Regards Rishi

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Spawning of a new gnu enthusiats group @ nanded
by Trevor Warren 21 Jan '04

21 Jan '04

Hiyee Manoj, Thanks for writing in. Its a great idea and a very noble deed indeed to have to spawn a forum where all like minded participants can come together towards discussing Free Software and Open Source related issues. The begginning could be made by having a mailing list hosted at yahoogroups for a start. Post the innaugration of the same we could help you to move the mailing list to a better location. The e-group could be named "GLEN" or Gnu Enthusiasts Group of Nanded. Think about the same and enure you spend sometime reading up on the philsosophies of Open Source and Free Software at www.gnu.org/www.fsf.org and www.opensource.org. We will be there with you along the way toward help building your community and supporting it all through the way. Trevor "MANOJ PUROHIT" <gres_manoj(a)rediffmail.com> Add to Address BookAdd to Address Book To: trevorwarren(a)yahoo.com Subject: Please guide Dear sir, hi! I am Manoj Govind Purohit, from Nanded, India, would like to start an ILUG centre in my city, Kindly guide me in this regards, cause I got lot more info from internet about it but certainly failed to get the thing, about what will be the fund raising procedures for such a group, since lot of activities are expected to be carried out and each of them involves expenses. Will you be please guide me in this regard. Thanking you. Manoj Govind Purohit Nanded, Maharashtra, India -- ( >- -< ) /~\ __ Gnu/Linux, Its all about Choice __ /~\ | \) / trevor.w(a)pvision.biz \ (/ | |_|_ \ Need a consultant, Call 9820349221 / _|_| \____________________________________/

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RMS speech on Free Software
by Rishi Gangoly 21 Jan '04

21 Jan '04

Hi RMS is going to talk about Free Software at 4:00 PM today. If you have questions or want to know about Free Software, please come for this speech today. Venue: V.J. Kulkarni Auditorium, Homi Baba Centre for Science Education, TIFR, Adjacent to Anushakti Nagar Bus Depo. Mankhurd. Phone: 25555242 / 25567711 Contact: Dr. Nagarjuna Please forward this to your friends that would be interested in this topic. Regards Rishi

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[Announce] getmail.com 1.0
by Philip S Tellis 21 Jan '04

21 Jan '04

Announcing the release of version 1.0 of getmail.com http://sourceforge.net/projects/getmail-com/ Getmail.com downloads email from a mail.com account. It uses HTTP to log in to your account, get the inbox listing, and download messages along with attachments. Login name, password, and maximum message size can be specified through the interface or in the configuration file. It does not delete messages or look in folders other than Inbox. Caveats: The configuration file is called .gmcom.rc and is in your home directory. The program will prompt you to create it if it does not exist. The password is stored as plain text in the file, but the file's permissions are 0600 (-rw-------), so only you can read it. You may edit the file and delete any parameter from it. The program will either prompt you for it, or choose a default value (if it can). The file will be written only if it does not exist. Philip -- "If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything." -- A. L.

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[Announce] libyahoo2 0.7.4 released
by Philip S Tellis 21 Jan '04

21 Jan '04

It's on sourceforge, so go download it. http://libyahoo2.sourceforge.net/ Changes: auth fixed ext_remove_handler takes two parameters - the tag returned by add_handler and the client_id. Also note that I've decided to stop releasing rpms. It made no sense since anyone using this library would have to build it as part of his own project anyway. Yes, it would be cool if it were distributed as a separate library, but I don't see that happening. Philip -- I've noticed several design suggestions in your code.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Why does linux access the hhd so much
by I R Veejay 21 Jan '04

21 Jan '04

Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe asked me : >When you say GUI mode, which desktop, and window manager are you >actually running? >Which terminal emulator are you using? What services and applications >were currently loaded when you started the terminal? >I doubt that ... what is your machine configuration? How much physical >memory? And to repeat, which services and which software currently >open? I am using RHL9, It's default WM and KDE as desktop. The system is a standard desktop installation. I mentioned a small utility such as a terminal emulator just as an example. Large utilities like Mozilla & OpenOffice take ages to open. The M/C is a P4 @1.6GHz, 128MB SDRAM, 40GB Seagate HDD. Size of the Swap partition is 256MB (approx). Veejay _________________________________________________________________ Marriage? http://www.bharatmatrimony.com/cgi-bin/bmclicks1.cgi?74 Join BharatMatrimony.com and get married.

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Re: Linuxers Digest, Vol 9, Issue 22
by psawant＠nse.co.in 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

saravan wrote:- >HI guys, >When i am trying to connect to the internet from my suse desktop i am getting the following temporary failure in name resolution >My modem has been configured n its getting detected as well.Using PPP for the net. >Any inputs will be of immense help to me please check if your /etc/resolv.conf file is empty it is supposed to contain the ip addresses of dns nameservers in the following format nameserver <ip-addr> nameserver <ip-addr> please provide the ip-addr of vsnl/mtnl dns nameservers (or any other isp that you are using). then try connecting to the net. hope that helps! Pradnyesh Sawant.

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USB in kernel 2.6
by Chirag Arjun Bhangale 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

Hi, I use Reliance phone thru a USB data cable to connect to the internet on my Red Hat 9 system. Recently I have upgraded to kernel 2.6.1. However now i cannot connect to internet via my Reliance phone. the script for the connection is: pppd /dev/ttyUSB0 230400 debug usepeerdns defaultroute connect '/usr/sbin/chat -v "" at+cta=30 OK "atdt#777" CONNECT' mtu 264. Also when i try to communicate with dev ttyUSB0 i get error : No such device I have built a monolithic kernel with UHCI support and USB serial support. Please Help

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[ILUG-BOM] next meet and upcoming workshops at Engineerning colleges
by Trevor Warren 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

Morning Fellas, Its time to resurrect the sleeping goliaths. Cmong Gnuers....:). Whats the schedule for the coming month regards workshops. Lets get them rolling. Does anyone have ideas on moving ahead????. Commercial workshops by the ilug-bom on FSF and OS are pretty much what i am think about too. Trevor -- ( >- -< ) /~\ __ Gnu/Linux, Its all about Choice __ /~\ | \) / trevor.w(a)pvision.biz \ (/ | |_|_ \ Need a consultant, Call 9820349221 / _|_| \____________________________________/

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Why does linux access the hhd so much
by I R Veejay 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

I would really like to know why does linux access the disk so much (in GUI mode) to fire-up even a small application like terminals windows? What is it that it reads/writes so much? This is irrespective of m/c configuration. veejay _________________________________________________________________ Marriage? http://www.bharatmatrimony.com/cgi-bin/bmclicks1.cgi?74 Join BharatMatrimony.com and get married.

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RE: [ILUG-BOM] tcp util library
by Sthitaprajna 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

> I ask because if there isn't one already, I'd like to release > ayttm's tcp library as a separate project that would be of > use to others. Let us know if you find good ones > > I would also like to look at a separate library that does > asynchronous dns lookups. > adns. By the same guy who has written "putty" for win32. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/adns/ --\ cheers

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RE: [ILUG-BOM] Re : Why does linux access the hhd so much
by Sthitaprajna 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

> ><victorjulietpapa(a)hotmail.com> > > > >I would really like to know why does linux access the >disk > so much (in > >GUI > >mode) to fire-up even a small application like terminals > >windows? What > >is it that it reads/writes so much? This is irrespective of > >m/c configuration. > My swap is 4 times the RAM still i also face the same problem... > Why do you need a swap 4 times the RAM? Do you need a swap at all? How much RAM do you have? The 2.4.x pre kernels might have had a logic for the swap = 2xRAM rule, but what now? Unless you are seriously short of RAM, and use a tonload of swap, there is no need to use a lot of swap. And if you really have that less RAM, then you should'ntbe complaining about "speed" issues. Also, for special purposes like suspend to disk/ACPI on laptops, you might have a case for swap = 2x ram. The installation howto was written when people used 4M-32M RAM, we've come a long way after that. Maybe the howto needs updation.

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Adding Windows to GRUB
by K C 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

Hi Friends, I have just installed Red Hat 9, and I need help with some issues I have 2 harddisks hd0 is 80 GB and hd1 is 10 GB Linux is installed on hd1 partition 4 (Loads normally via grub) Win 98 on hd1 partition 0 primary partition Win XP on hd 0 partition 0 (Loads normally via grub) Grub is installed on hd0 1) I need to configure grub to load windows 98 which is on hd1 partition 0 I tried using the following commands in grub rootnoverify (hd1,0) / root(hd1,0) makeactive chainloader +1 The commands run successfully but it says "Non system disk, replace " whereas if I configure the bios to boot from this harddisk windows 98 boots normally. What is the mistake in the configuration and what will be the solution to it. 2) How do I mount the 80 GB harddisk in my linux system 3) I use a PPP over ethernet type connection in XP to connect to my cable internet provider, what is the same for in Red Hat Kindly, help me out if anyone is aware of the solutions to the above queries thanx in advance Regards, KC Everybody wants to be the SUN that lights up your life. but I'd rather b your MOON so I can shine on you during DARKEST NIGHT. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes

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tcp util library
by Philip S Tellis 17 Jan '04

17 Jan '04

Is there an existing project to build a tcp util library? I mean one that will do the following: int tcp_connect(host, port); int tcp_connect_async(host, port, connect_callback, status_update_callback, callback_data); void tcp_connect_async_cancel(int id); int tcp_readline(fd, buff, maxlen); int tcp_writeline(fd, buff, nbytes); etc. I ask because if there isn't one already, I'd like to release ayttm's tcp library as a separate project that would be of use to others. I would also like to look at a separate library that does asynchronous dns lookups. It is important that none of these libraries use multiple threads, or any extra toolkit. It will have to be in vanilla C or C++. Philip -- Make input easy to prepare and output self-explanatory. - The Elements of Programming Style (Kernighan & Plaugher)

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