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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux certification exams (was: no subject)
by Nikhil Karkera 18 Mar '02

18 Mar '02

On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 prashant wamanrao arbat wrote : >Can any one gives me information about Exams for linux's >taken by Brainbench.Will any one has ebooks or other materiel >for >linux cert exams Brainbench.com tests are not free anymore. They are not cheap either. They keep adding new tests all the time. Logon to their website and see the listing. Regards, Nikhil.

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Linux video problems
by A M Morawala 18 Mar '02

18 Mar '02

I have installed RH Linux 6.2 on my PC: AMD K6/400, 128 MB Ram, S3 TRIO 3D/2X with 4 MB , Samsung 55v mionitor. After successfully booting, the screenbalnks out . I hear 4 short beeps. The video comes on after I press any key. This makes it difficult to use the system. I have installed same Linux 6.2 on my older Pentium I PC. Could teh AMD CPU have anything to do with this? Win 98 works fine on the same PC. Please help. A M Morawala. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.325 / Virus Database: 182 - Release Date: 2/19/02

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IP address Funda!!
by sachin 16 Mar '02

16 Mar '02

Have you ever under stand the number 127.0.0.1 the lo or the localloop back address see this on your browser http://0/ or just type 0 you will be seeing your local host and one more thing every ip address is a big decimal number whcih one can type on the browser to view the page such as ipaddress 127.0.0.1 setp 1 convet to hex (127)D -> (7F)H (0)D -> (0)H (0)D -> (0)H (1)D ->(1)H step 2 put them back now the hex number is 7F 00 00 01 step 3 convert back to dec (7F000001)H= 2130706433 this your ip address so 127.0.0.1 ==2130706433 enjoy numering sachin -- sachin(a)mediaibc.com Mi

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Fwd. answers to the Linux/Internet Quiz.
by Navin [v 2.0] 15 Mar '02

15 Mar '02

Here are the answers to the Linux/Internet Quiz. > Q1. Torvalds about a certain person X's rant about Open Source Software: > > "I'd rather listen to Isaac Newton than to X. He may have been > dead for almost three hundred years, but despite that he stinks > up the room less." > > Simple, who is this X Torvalds is talking about? Craig Mundie of Microsoft. > Q2. Who in the Linux world doesnt love Tux. Give me the collective noun > for a group of penguins. A Waddle of Penguins or A Raft of Penguins. Penguins spend quite some time in water. A group of penguins in water is called a "Raft of Penguins:" while that on ice is called a "Waddle of Penguins". This was decided at the 4th International Penguin Conference in Chile in September 2000. > Q3. About which application was Linux Journal talking when it said' "You > know your program has caught on when people start to use its name as a > verb." Further down the same article quotes about this application, > "It's no coincidence that the spread of this application has coincided > with Linux distributions finally paring down the menu of potentially > exploitable services offered by default." It is Fyodor's Nmap. The article was the Editor's Choice Awards and nmap was adjudged the best Security Tool > Q4. Slightly away from Linux, but still on a very interesting topic. The > author of this seminal work ends his acknowledgements with the quote > "and AT&T Bell Labs for firing me and making this all possible." While > talking about this book, Wired magazine says, "The book National > Security Agency never wated to be published" Too many clues already. > Which book, which author. Applied Cryptography, by Bruce Scheneir. > Q5. We all know Linus was studying at the Department of Computer > Sciences, University of Helsinki when he started Linux. All you gotta do > is tell me his mother tongue. Though Linus grew up in Helsinki, the capital of Finland, his mother tongue is Swedish. Finland, has a significant Swedish speaking population and they call themselves finlandssvensk. > Q6. Vinod Valloppillil, of Microsoft, certainly said quite a few > flattering things about Linux. Some of his quotes are given below: > > "Linux represents a best-of-breed UNIX, that is trusted in > mission critical applications" > > "I previously had IE4/NT4 on the same box and by comparison the > combination of Linux / Navigator ran at least 30-40% faster when > rendering simple HTML + graphics." > > "Linux has been deployed in mission critical environments with > an excellent pool of public testimonials." > > The question, dear friends is where did Vinod Valloppillil, go > around making these flattering commments. In the (in)famous Halloween Documents. In case you havent heard of Halloween documents, now is the time to go to: www.opensource.org/halloween/halloween1.html > Q7. Who or what does Linus Torvalds refer to as Linus v2.0? Patricia Miranda Torvalds, his daughter. Navin [v2.0] "Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to." _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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Linux and Virus HOWTO
by sachin 15 Mar '02

15 Mar '02

http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/~k3032e4/ -- sachin(a)mediaibc.com Mi

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Chili ! Soft ASP installation error
by Monil Chheda 15 Mar '02

15 Mar '02

Hi, I have Redhat 7.1 installed.I would like to install Chili!Soft asp on my linux box.On installing the same i am getting the following error (while i get to select the web server that i need to configure Chiliasoft asp ) "The web server was not able to be configured.Apxs terminated improperly" .I have apache 1.3.19 installed and mysql database Please help me Best Regards, Monil Chheda. =========================== http://www.eliteral.com http://domains.eliteral.com ===========================

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[Announce] HTML.Template java
by Philip S Tellis 15 Mar '02

15 Mar '02

Announcing HTML.Template java package to use HTML Templates in your java programs. HTML.Template aims to be 100% compatible with the HTML::Template perl module. http://html-tmpl-java.sourceforge.net/ Distributed under GPL/Artistic licence (you choose). Why I wrote it: I really don't like java, and I really like perl, so I prefer to write my code in perl and then port it to java if I'm required to. HTML.Template means my templates stay the same. besides, it separates design, content and logic, which is what good programming is all about anyway. Philip PS: The CVS has some bugs fixed. -- "I am, therefore I am." -- Akira

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Fw: [ILUG-BOM] [Announce] ACM Seminar on Ruby - 15-3-2002
by Navin Dhanuka 14 Mar '02

14 Mar '02

Hello, At what time is the seminar going to start? N.D. "Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to." > The next ACM seminar will be on the 15th March at NCST Juhu. The > seminar is presented by Vivek Nallur - FreeBSD user. > > Be there. > > PS: Ruby is a perl like language with cleaner syntax, and is designed > with OO in mind. > > -- > I just forgot my whole philosophy of life!!! > > _______________________________________________ > http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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links, links and more links
by sachin 14 Mar '02

14 Mar '02

http://www.codeguru.com/mfc/faq/ this url will give 404 error message and show you links links and more links -- sachin(a)mediaibc.com Mi

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] removing make installed files
by Amish Mehta 13 Mar '02

13 Mar '02

Generally, there is also a command 'make uninstall' but it all depends on Makefile. So you should keep Makefile in case you plan to uninstall the software installed by make. Its like 'uninstall.isu' files on windows. Amish. >> is there any method by which i can remove the files which are instlled by >> make or make installed

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A rare text book recently published from Kerala for computer professionals and students
by N.Manohara Kurup. 12 Mar '02

12 Mar '02

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RE: [ILUG-BOM] RMS's Program
by Sunil.Vikram＠silverline.com 12 Mar '02

12 Mar '02

since i am a new bie can u tell me what is RMS ... if any help is wanted i am there for ur service RMS is in India. RMS's iteneary Bangalore (March 6-13), Chennai (13-14) Pune (March 14-17), He is speaking at Plug's meeting. Delhi (March 17-23), and Bombay (Mar 23rd evening) Any suggestions as to what we can do on 23rd evening. Nagarjuna _______________________________________________ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

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openldap with sendmail
by acharya＠dacafe.com 12 Mar '02

12 Mar '02

hi Can anyone help me with compling openldap with sendmail. priyadarshi _____________________________________________________________

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Re: Linuxers digest, Vol 1 #404 - 1 msg
by Girish Hanchate 11 Mar '02

11 Mar '02

Thanks now it is working. Rgds Girish --- linuxers-request(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in wrote: > Send Linuxers mailing list submissions to > linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, > visit > http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > or, via email, send a message with subject or body > 'help' to > linuxers-request(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in > > You can reach the person managing the list at > linuxers-admin(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it > is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Linuxers digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: NFS problem (Ashok Iyer) > > --__--__-- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 23:56:28 -0800 (PST) > From: Ashok Iyer <ashok_linux(a)yahoo.com> > Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] NFS problem > To: linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in > Reply-To: linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in > > > --- akshaysalkar <akshaysalkar(a)indiatimes.com> > wrote: > > make sure u have started the respective nfs > > deamons/services. > > Yes, probably you have not started the portmapper. > /etc/rc.d/init.d/portmap start > and then restart nfs. > Then type the command rpcinfo. > > > > > linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in wrote: > > Hi, > > > > We are facing problems in starting nfs service in > > redhat 6.2. > > > > error which i am getting while starting nfs > service > > : > > > > Restarting NFS services: rpc.mountd > > [60G[[1;31mFAILED[0;39m] > > Cannot register service: RPC: Unable to receive; > > errno > > = Connection refused > > mountd: unable to register (mountd, 1, udp). > > [60G[[1;31mFAILED[0;39m] > > done. > > > > Rgds > > Girish > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free > > email! > > http://mail.yahoo.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > > > http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > > > > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from Indiatimes at > > http://email.indiatimes.com > > > > Buy Music, Video, CD-ROM, Audio-Books and Music > > Accessories from http://www.planetm.co.in > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free > email! > http://mail.yahoo.com/ > > > --__--__-- > > _______________________________________________ > > http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > > > > End of Linuxers Digest __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/

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RMS in IIT on 23rd
by Nagarjuna G. 11 Mar '02

11 Mar '02

Stallman will be speaking at IIT Convocation Hall on 23rd evening at 4 or 4:30pm. More information later .... Nagarjuna

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How to connect using wvdial?
by Nikhil Joshi 11 Mar '02

11 Mar '02

This may seem lame question but heck I don't seem to be able to connect to net using wvdial It gives the message : PPP negotiation detected. --> Starting pppd at Fri Mar 8 18:44:47 2002 But I can't view webpages,send/receive mail ..... I have no other option but to use rp3 (which I guess is frontend to wvdial) plz help I don't want to use X server just for connecting to net -- You need no longer worry about the future. This time tomorrow you'll be dead.

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Re: [Announce] ACM Seminar on Ruby
by Philip S Tellis 11 Mar '02

11 Mar '02

For those who are interested, the seminar will probably be held over video conference between Juhu and Vashi. Confirmation of this will be sent later, but it will most likely happen. Those who come from that side of town could attend at NCST Vashi. -- It says it's for dogs, but she can't read. -- Homer Simpson Simpson's Roasting on an Open Fire

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[Announce] ACM Seminar on Ruby - 15-3-2002
by Philip S Tellis 11 Mar '02

11 Mar '02

The next ACM seminar will be on the 15th March at NCST Juhu. The seminar is presented by Vivek Nallur - FreeBSD user. Be there. PS: Ruby is a perl like language with cleaner syntax, and is designed with OO in mind. -- I just forgot my whole philosophy of life!!!

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] NFS problem
by akshaysalkar 10 Mar '02

10 Mar '02

make sure u have started the respective nfs deamons/services. linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in wrote: Hi, We are facing problems in starting nfs service in redhat 6.2. error which i am getting while starting nfs service : Restarting NFS services: rpc.mountd [60G[[1;31mFAILED[0;39m] Cannot register service: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused mountd: unable to register (mountd, 1, udp). [60G[[1;31mFAILED[0;39m] done. Rgds Girish __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers Get Your Private, Free E-mail from Indiatimes at http://email.indiatimes.com Buy Music, Video, CD-ROM, Audio-Books and Music Accessories from http://www.planetm.co.in

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internal modems in Linux
by Kedar Sapre 10 Mar '02

10 Mar '02

Hi luggers !!! I've heard that Linux doesn't support internal modem .... Is that true ? If yes why ? Thanx in advance ... Kedar . _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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NFS problem
by Girish Hanchate 10 Mar '02

10 Mar '02

Hi, We are facing problems in starting nfs service in redhat 6.2. error which i am getting while starting nfs service : Restarting NFS services: rpc.mountd [60G[[1;31mFAILED[0;39m] Cannot register service: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused mountd: unable to register (mountd, 1, udp). [60G[[1;31mFAILED[0;39m] done. Rgds Girish __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/

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Fw: [Fsf-india] TUG 2002: further call for papers
by Navin Dhanuka 09 Mar '02

09 Mar '02

"Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to." ----- Original Message ----- From: "Radhakrishnan C V" <cvr(a)tug.org> To: "TUGIndia Mailing List" <tuglist(a)tug.org.in> Cc: "FSF India" <fsf-india(a)gnu.org.in> Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 2:36 PM Subject: [Fsf-india] TUG 2002: further call for papers > > Followup call for papers -- > > TUG 2002 Annual Meeting and Conference > September 1-7, Trivandrum, India > ====================================== > > Even though the official deadline has passed, there is still > time to submit a proposal for a paper to be presented at the > most exciting TeX event of 2002, the international conference of > TeX Users Group is scheduled to be conducted in India during > September 1--7, 2002 at Park Center, Technopark, Trivandrum, > Kerala. > > The theme for TUG 2002 is `Stand up and be proud of TeX!'. Show > us why it is still the typesetting tool of choice, the range of > material it can handle, and especially how it can coexist with > the new world of XML. We want to hear about > > * using TeX to typeset XML > * multilingual typesetting using Omega > * high-quality hyperdocuments using pdfTeX > * fonts for non-Latin languages > * new directions for Metafont and Metapost > > Full conference details can be found at > > http://www.tug.org.in/tug2002/ > > Proposals for papers should be sent to papers(a)tug2002.tug.org.in > > We can accept proposals for a further two weeks (until the end > of March 2002), and will notify authors of the acceptance at the > end of that period. Other dates are: > > * 12 April 2002: preliminary program available > * May 2002: send first version of full paper > * July 2002: send final version of full paper > * 1st-3rd September 2002: Pre-conference tutorial > * 4th-7th September 2002: TUG conference in India > > Email addresses for contact: > > tug2002(a)tug.org.in -- General information > papers(a)tug2002.tug.org.in -- Submission of papers > finance(a)tug2002.tug.org.in -- Financial matters > travel(a)tug2002.tug.org.in -- Travel information > media(a)tug2002.tug.org.in -- Media contact > > Radhakrishnan > For TUG 2002 Organising Committee > > [please circulate this as widely as seems appropriate; in > particular, if you have membership mailing lists, please > consider forwarding this message, or a pointer to the conference > web site, to the list.] > > -- > Radhakrishnan > > _______________________________________________ > Fsf-india mailing list > Fsf-india(a)mm.gnu.org.in > http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-india _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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Boot up problems
by Monil Chheda 09 Mar '02

09 Mar '02

Hi friends, I have redhat 7.1 installed along with win XP and Win 98 in dual booting. Since last two days when i select Linux for booting , i just get the message ***** Loading linux ............. Uncompressing linux .......Ok .Booting the kernal ******** and nothing else is displayed on the screen instead of the usual parameters of booting .How do i resolve this problem. Please help me !! Thanks in advance Best Regards, Monil Chheda. =========================== http://www.eliteral.com http://domains.eliteral.com ===========================

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] removing make installed files
by Tahir Hashmi 09 Mar '02

09 Mar '02

On Fri, 8 Mar 2002 10:35:16 Bhargav Bhatt wrote: >i am not sure if this is the only method but it >certainly works works for programs installed from >tarred files.. > [Snip] Not always. When you do 'make install' as the last step of installation, most programs create files in /usr/local/*. E.g. the program binary may reside in /usr/local/bin and any shared libraries in /usr/local/lib. At least, they'll create a symlink in these places. So it's best to have a look around the /usr/local tree also. --- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://www.ncst.ernet.in/~tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in __________________________________ We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed 2,000,000,000 Web Pages--you only need 1. Save time with My Lycos. http://my.lycos.com

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removing make installed files
by sachin 09 Mar '02

09 Mar '02

hi there is there any method by which i can remove the files which are instlled by make or make installed -- sachin(a)mediaibc.com Mi

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ext3 vs Reiserfs
by Nikhil Joshi 09 Mar '02

09 Mar '02

Hi! After having a really bad xperience with ext2 I installed RHL 7.2 with ext3 Earlier I had experimented with Reiserfs and found this interesting thing: I have /home partition (not containing ANY data ) of about 125 MB and I converted it to Reiserfs and surprisingly 33 MB was used (probably for journalling puposes) Now on another Linux forum one user claimed that he had used most of the journalling filesystems and found Reiserfs to be best and fastest. Also I have read that Reiserfs journals only metadata while ext3 journals both metadata and data. I have given a lot of thought but converting / to Reiser is very difficult.Has anyone tried this? So which is the best filesystem ext3 or Reiser? -- Money may buy friendship but money cannot buy love.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] removing make installed files
by Fred4linux 09 Mar '02

09 Mar '02

You can use checkinstall to uninstall/remove files which are created during installation(You need to install this package,Check http://freshmeat.net) or you can write your script to remove these files. With Regards, Fred __________________________________________________________________________________________ On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 11:57, sachin wrote: > hi there > is there any method by which i can remove the files which are instlled by > make or make installed > -- > sachin(a)mediaibc.com > Mi > _______________________________________________ > http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

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RMS's Program
by Nagarjuna G. 09 Mar '02

09 Mar '02

RMS is in India. RMS's iteneary Bangalore (March 6-13), Chennai (13-14) Pune (March 14-17), He is speaking at Plug's meeting. Delhi (March 17-23), and Bombay (Mar 23rd evening) Any suggestions as to what we can do on 23rd evening. Nagarjuna

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SMS !!
by nasir nasir 09 Mar '02

09 Mar '02

hi , I happened to come across your name while searching for a possible remedy to the problem I encountered during my solaris installation. I have just one hard disk and I installed a windows 2000 first in the "c" partition with 4GB size. Then when I tried to install the solaris 8 following problem occured.( I am just pasting the same error message you have submitted to on user group as I am facing the SAME situtation) ----------------- Warning : ACPI Tables not in Reclaim Memory (next screen) Warning : Resource Conflict - both devices are added Non - ACPI device : PNP0C01 Memory : 9FC00 - 9FFFF, FEE0000-FEF7FFF, FEF8000-FEFFFFF, FEC0000-FEDFFFF, FFF00000-FFFFFFF ACPI device : PNP0C01 Memory : 9FC00-9FFFF, E0000-EFFFF, 40FFC00-FEFFFF -------------- After this, all the hardware devices are scanned and no conflict sign is marked against each device found... it proceeds as usual and comes at the screen where it's about to start the installation with the option "Solaris Jumpstart" after which it's supposed to show the starting dialog box of the installation... but the screen goes white with a stationery cursor blinking at the top and the keyboard stops responding... Any reply from your side will be higly appreciated . Thanx in advance, luv,nasirudheen (India, currently stayin g in bahrain) _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.

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Re[2]: [ILUG-BOM] Expecting boo if you are a regular COMPUTER user.
by Vinay Pai 08 Mar '02

08 Mar '02

Hi linuxers-request, >>what is more difficult and challenging : >>being a hacker or a cracker? > Being a hacker. That's because crackers can simply use existing tools, > such as rootkits. Hackers actually have to come up with something new > and difficult. I disagree.... hackers and cracker do essentially the same thing although their objectives differ. Also, in today's climate crackers have another difficult jobs of covering their track to avoid becoming guests of the state...... Regards, Vinay <vinay(a)vinaypai.com> "When you ASSUME you make an ASS of U and ME" - Thomas Harris in 'The Silence of the Lambs'

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e2fsck script
by sachin 08 Mar '02

08 Mar '02

is there any method by which i can automate the scandisk or repaing disk program e2fsck ro fsck so that it will automatically repair my file system without nay user interaction (Fix ?yes) . what are the changes to be make to /etc/rc.sysinit plz help me out sachin -- sachin(a)mediaibc.com Mi

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] RMS's Program
by Nikhil Joshi 08 Mar '02

08 Mar '02

From: "Nagarjuna G." <nagarjun(a)hbcse.tifr.res.in> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 6:42 PM > and Bombay (Mar 23rd evening) 8-O where is Bombay? ,-} _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: 2 Qs
by Vinay Pai 08 Mar '02

08 Mar '02

> 1 - technical - is it possible to load >1 distros of linux? Yes. Try to put /home on a different partition so you can share your files/personal configs between distros. Also ensure that your username->UID mapping is same on all distros. Do this by editing the /etc/passwd file after creating the new (non-root) users. (You DO create a non-privileged user, don't you?) > 2 - how many of v luggers have been able to completely do away with > M$ OSes and its array of applns - IE, Office, etc? personally, i run > win2k and rh7.1 ... but routine chores happen on M$ ... are most > luggers that way ... or am i in the minority here? it would be great > to get some stats on this esp fm people who belong to a staunch > linux community ... I do most of my regular work on Linux. However, I do use M$ for wordprocessing and games. I have never used IE even on Windows (although I have run it under Linux with Wine, just for kicks)... I use Opera AbiWord is decent for basic stuff like hacking out a simple letter etc., but is really very inadequate for anything beyond that. I haven't used Kword. I used to use StarOffice 5.2 for a while but it was very slow and buggy. Anything slower and buggier than M$ software is a VERY bad piece of software. I haven't used the latest staroffice, though. For image editing, The Gimp rocks. X-Fig is great for drawing figures. Its got a rather tacky and kludgy interface but is very powerful if you spend 30 mins figuring it out. X-CD Roast is generally adequate for burning CDs, but can't write multisession CDs E-mail handling is miles ahead on *nix than anything Billy Boy can ever dream of.

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wasted space during cd creation
by Rohit Ramesh 08 Mar '02

08 Mar '02

Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe <sam_buddhe(a)yahoo.com> wrote ... > IIRC, xcdroast can creat multi-session CD's; it even tells you how much > space will be wasted per session and all that. Only thing is that the > interface to do that isn't provided up front; you have to click on a > couple of tabs to reach there. I havent been able to figure out why space is wasted while writing a cd .... shouldn't you be able to burn close 650 or 700 mb ?? ( depending on 74 or 80 minute cds ) Software like Nero Burning ROM report the extra space as " file system overhead " .... what does that mean ? Thanks in advance Regards, Rohit. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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internal modems in Linux
by Rohit 07 Mar '02

07 Mar '02

>>I've heard that Linux doesn't support internal >>modem .... >>Is that true ? Nope, I use a Motorola SM56 Internal modem ... am using Red Hat 7.1 .... and am facing no problems at all.... Rohit. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/

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hosts.swp
by pavan sharma 07 Mar '02

07 Mar '02

Hi. can i delete this file. How this file is generated.Or if i delete i will not lose my hosts file? Reg pavan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/

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2 Qs
by |= n I y A N T =| 07 Mar '02

07 Mar '02

hi folks, i would be glad to recv ans to these Qs, one of them is technical, the other just pure inquisitiveness ... 1 - technical - is it possible to load >1 distros of linux? 2 - how many of v luggers have been able to completely do away with M$ OSes and its array of applns - IE, Office, etc? personally, i run win2k and rh7.1 ... but routine chores happen on M$ ... are most luggers that way ... or am i in the minority here? it would be great to get some stats on this esp fm people who belong to a staunch linux community ... a *nix newbie, ny _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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Expecting boo if you are a regular COMPUTER user.
by N.Manohara Kurup. 06 Mar '02

06 Mar '02

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sspearheading the movement
by Trevor Warren 05 Mar '02

05 Mar '02

Dear Luggers...... yesterday after consultation with dr.nagarjun i hav mailed u a modified version of the draft proposed by Mr.lakdawala of fsf india. The draft according to him proposes to take Free SOftware to the masses by introducing the concept of Free SOftware in all the schools and colleges all around india. We second this opinion of his and i would like to personally thank him for putting down the proposal in such a neat format for others to make use of. From the perspective of the lug, we would like to propogate/market Free Software and also make it our aim to introduce Gnu/Linux to the various budding students all over india. Thus in this initiative of our i would like to start with all the Engineering Colleges in and around bbay and Maharashtra. Just recently we concluded a very very FRUITFUL trip to Rajaram Bapu College Of Engineering, Kolhapur which saw the Dr.Nagarjun nd the others delivering 3 quality dayz of trainin nd introduction on Free SOftware and Linux to 70 buddin engineers......soem of whom hav even joined the ILUG-BOM mailin list. For the 1st workshop, i spent close to 6000/- from my pocket which later was re-imbursed by the college authorities. I tool this liberty since i knew the college management personally. I know the comercial part out here is tricky......nd the lug has had a bad xperience leavin it with a sour taste in it's mouth. But if i am goin to co-ordiante these workshops on a routine basis i expect some financial support and backing. After pondering abt it for sometime, dr. nagarjun suggested that we could dash the feelers/letter to the various colleges all over bombay,Maharashtra nd after havin comfirmed dates in hand abt the event propose to the FSF abt our initiative. FSF then agress to sanction some funds for us to further the cause and we carry out the preps. I further would like to mention another of dr.nags suggestion. We could also conduct a few commercial workshops asap and garner some funds enough for us to continue with our cause in spreading the word of Free SOftware......Nd this time around we'l take the precautions to prevent us burnin our fingers the way we did last time. Pliss enlist ur comments...so that we can hav a final letter drafted and a core set of volunteers i can bank upon for logistics, event management and speakers for the workshops. Last time dinesh, parag, navin had volutneerd to come along.......Letz get kickin and get the ground work done. Trevor Warren ===== ( >- LINUX, It's all about CHOICE -< ) /~\ __ http://www.qmailtheeasyway.com __ /~\ | \) / mailto: trevorwarren(a)yahoo.com \ (/ | |_|_ \ Urgent ->9820349221(a)maxtouch.co.in / _|_| \___________________________________/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com

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(no subject)
by prashant wamanrao arbat 05 Mar '02

05 Mar '02

Hi, Linuxers, second mail from long time. I resentelli found the mandrack 8.1 but I have only one cd. During the installation of some utilities it ask for second cd. But I don't have it can you tale me where i get it second CD. Also it does not play vedio sond or pictures of .dat extention I want best player for this where I can found it

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To setup ftp server
by Mallikarjun B.M 05 Mar '02

05 Mar '02

HI to all, Mr.Bhargav had a problem on ftp server setup.Problem is he is not able to enable ftp service in redhat7.2. In this case what you have to do is: 1. login as a root account. 2. execute setup #setup 3. Select system services options 4. In that list, enable wu-ftpd and also disable iptables,ipchains(also disable unmanted services like httpd,lpd because it will slowdown the system) 5. Execute following scripts: #/etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart #/etc/rc.d/init.d/iptables stop #/etc/rc.d/init.d/ipchains stop 6. Create your users as usual. If this doesn't work reply to me. with regards, Malikarjun B.M

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To setup ftpserver
by Mallikarjun B.M 05 Mar '02

05 Mar '02

HI to all, Mr.Bhargav had a problem on ftp server setup.Problem is he is not able to enable ftp service in redhat7.2. In this case what you have to do is: 1. login as a root account. 2. execute setup #setup 3. Select system services options 4. In that list, enable wu-ftpd and also disable iptables,ipchains(also disable unmanted services like httpd,lpd because it will slowdown the system) 5. Execute following scripts: #/etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart #/etc/rc.d/init.d/iptables stop #/etc/rc.d/init.d/ipchains stop 6. Create your users as usual. If this doesn't work reply to me. with regards, Malikarjun B.M

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Converting DOS Files
by Tahir Hashmi 05 Mar '02

05 Mar '02

Look for dos2unix on your system or Googlize it. --- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://www.ncst.ernet.in/~tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in __________________________________ We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 06:38:45 Goldwyn Rodrigues wrote: >Hi, > >How do i convert DOS files to Unix files after porting from the Windows >partition. >I usually have to port my C code from Windows partition to Linux. Vi works >fine, showing a [dos] in the end. But then when i use some programs like >"indent" all new lines are replaced by ^M which i can neither find in vi >using / nor use the grep command. > >BTW, which one has both CR and LF and which one has only CR as new line >charachters? > >Converting back is simple by opening it in Wordpad and saving again. > >Any links to scripts/or hints on scripts wud be gr8. > >thanx .. > >-- >Goldwyn :o) > >_______________________________________________ >http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > > 2,000,000,000 Web Pages--you only need 1. Save time with My Lycos. http://my.lycos.com

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Expecting boo if you are a regular COMPUTER user.
by Nikhil Karkera 05 Mar '02

05 Mar '02

On Mon, 04 Mar 2002 Philip S Tellis wrote : >to change it. The jargon file (Appendix C) has a letter written >by RMS >to the New York Times regarding this matter. RMS has allowed the >use of >this letter by anyone for similar purposes. He does like to keep everything free :-) Regards, Nikhil.

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Linux on Windows 2000
by Kunal Gangakhedkar 05 Mar '02

05 Mar '02

Sorry for starting a new thread in this topic. Actually, I don't know how far people have gone in this thread. Well, I heard someone calling upon Cygwin, hence I'm here. This mail is intended for people who want Linux on Win2k only for development kinda thing, otherwise you can use VMWare to install the complete Linux inside Win2k. Mind you, even though VMWare create a swap file for Linux filesystem, it is damn fast as compared to Linux on FAT32. Ok, regarding the development kinda thing : Currently there are at least 3 active projects which are targeted at porting GNU utils on Windows. 1. Cygwin : A project by RedHat Inc. - The only drawbacks are huge size & needs to be installed online(I guess) Otherwise a good piece of software. Allows creation of DLLs as well. www.sources.redhat.com/cygwin 2. MingW : This project is currently unmaintained as far as GNU compliance goes - started out with GNU compliance. This is now part of a project called BloodShed Compilers - again free. www.mingw.org, google for Bloodshed And my favourite : 3. DJGPP : This is a full-fledged suite of GNU Utils including different shells, compilers, E-Macs, binutis, filutils etc. This project is maintained by a guy named DJ Delorie & others. Very good in all respects & actively maintained. Though the size of the project is large about 200 MB - including all additional libraries like ALLEGRO - A Low - LEvel Game ROutine for game development etc, it is distributed as small parts in form of zips. This is an Open Source project, so can get the source code if anyone wants. I use it on Win2k at home - without any problems. It uses COFF with MS-DOS stub (header) added. If anyone is interested, check out the site : www.delorie.com/djgpp Kunal ------------------ A computer scientist is someone who fixes things that aren't broken.

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next lug meet.
by Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. 04 Mar '02

04 Mar '02

When are we having the next lug meet ? Sharukh. -- Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri Mumbai, India.

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Perl python teaching
by Kishor Bhagwat 03 Mar '02

03 Mar '02

hello folks! Is there anyplace/anyone who teaches PERL/python? and yeah..crash courses..;) regards, kishor It's hard to make a comeback when you haven't been anywhere. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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cyberoam
by country wala 03 Mar '02

03 Mar '02

hey dude.... I To had to switch to windows back again.. because cyberoam dint work in linux.... tell me if u manage to get it to work.! laterz -----t3kjunky

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[LINK] - Flaw weakens Linux security software
by Navin Dhanuka 03 Mar '02

03 Mar '02

http://news.com.com/2100-1001-848467.html http://www.netfilter.org/security/2002-02-25-irc-dcc-mask.html http://news.com.com/2100-1001-835602.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-028.html By Stephen Shankland Staff Writer, CNET News.com February 28, 2002, 5:30 PM PT Programmers have found a vulnerability in Linux that could allow protective firewall software to grant malicious computer users access to protected networks. The flaw, which affects versions 2.4.14 through 2.4.18-pre9 of the Linux kernel, is in a component of the Netfilter firewall software. The component is involved when two computer users chat directly with each other using the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) system. Information sent across the Internet is broken up into tiny "packets," each with "from" and "to" addresses, indicating who's sent the information and where it's intended to go. So-called firewall software transmits or screens out these packets based on the address of the sender. Netfilter, among the new aspects of the 2.4 version of the Linux kernel, is software that runs within the kernel to filter out unwanted packets. But its IRC helper component configures firewall settings too broadly, potentially allowing communication from IP (Internet Protocol) addresses that should be blocked. Programmers working on the Netfilter firewall software project reported the problem Monday. Versions 7.1 and 7.2 of leading Linux seller Red Hat's product are vulnerable. The Durham, N.C.-based company issued a patch Thursday that corrects the problem. The flawed software isn't installed by default on the Red Hat versions, the company said, but some users may have added it. Security is a nagging concern for the computer industry, which must juggle new features with the risk that they open up new problems. While the firewall problem the Netfilter programmers discovered is limited to a few versions of Linux, a more serious problem emerged earlier this month affecting numerous operating systems using standard network management software. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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Testing mutt - please ignore this mail
by Abhir Joshi 03 Mar '02

03 Mar '02

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