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Cable modem, works on GNU/Linux?
by Manish Jethani 27 Jul '01

27 Jul '01

I've got news that Internet access via cable modem is arriving in my locality. I am wondering whether there's support for it on GNU/Linux. Are there drivers available for the hardware (what kind of hardware?). Should I pray for its quick arrival? :) I remember there was a related discussion on the list sometime back. Manish -- A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. -- James Joyce, "Ulysses"

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finally sendmail cofigured
by Nikhil Joshi 27 Jul '01

27 Jul '01

I guess I have configured sendmail. Please bear the horde of messages that may have come. I think I sent the queued messages by mistakre. I would like to know how to diable the DNS lookup option. Thanks in advance. -- A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.

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Java problems
by Kompalli SuryaPrakash 27 Jul '01

27 Jul '01

Hi There, I am new to java. I compiled " hello world " in java by giving - javac helloworld.java it gives me a " segmentation fault (core dumped)" What is happening?? Bye, SP --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.Using AVG antivirus Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.265 / Virus Database: 137 - Release Date: 7/18/01 _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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testing- please ignore this message
by Nikhil Joshi 27 Jul '01

27 Jul '01

having prob with mail client just testing Sorry for inconvenience. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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file size more than 2 GB
by liloindia 27 Jul '01

27 Jul '01

dear all, my dat drive is under repair and i want to take backup of files in to a tar+gz archive but the problem is that the it does not allow to create a file more than size of 2 gb. any solution will be appreciated. lilo ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? For regular News updates go to http://in.news.yahoo.com

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New Kernel
by Paresh Chopdekar 27 Jul '01

27 Jul '01

Hi I just compiled a new kernel from the 2.4.0 sources. During the configuration I configured the OSS sound modules to be selected and integrated the driver for my sound card cs4232 (Crystal) into the kernel *not as a loadable module*. The new kernel boots fine, but sound still doesnt play. What am i doing wrong ? Please help Thanx in advance. Paresh C

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problem loggin in
by tushar kanti mohanty 26 Jul '01

26 Jul '01

i am having a problem in logging in through kdm .previously i used to login through kdm i used to select kde from the list available and go to my kdesktop.but now i am not getting kde as one of the options in the kdm i get kde2 as a option and when i select that option i am still not going to kde.but when i login as root i am able to login to my kdesktop again i dont get kde as a option i only get kde2 but i am able to go to my desktop i got red hat 7.1 and only kde installed no othe window managers are installed.is reinstalling the only option thanking you in advance tushar _________________________________________________________ For Rs. 2,000,000 worth of Aptech scholarships click below http://events.rediff.com/aptechsch/scholarship.htm

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sendmail problems
by Nikhil Joshi 26 Jul '01

26 Jul '01

I am trying to setup sendmail on my PC. Now whenever I try mailing ilug I get following error : ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in (reason: 553 5.1.8 <nikhil(a)joshi.home>... Domain of sender address nikhil(a)joshi.home does not exist) Why sendmail is giving my address as nikhil(a)joshi.home to ilug? (my login name is nikhil and my hostname is joshi.home) My real email address is nikhiljoshy(a)yahoo.com I have used option MASQUERADE_AS('yahoo.com') in the file /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and re-generated /etc/sendmail.cf I made /etc/userdb.db file using the file /etc/userdb having following contents: nikhil:mailname nikhiljoshy(a)yahoo.com nikhiljoshy:maildrop nikhil Please help me. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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connection from BSNL
by Anand Iyer 26 Jul '01

26 Jul '01

Listen to this cyberage stuff: I applied to BSNL a few days back as for VSNL I have to do 95 code now which becomes very costly. Previously I had 172222 connectivity at local charges. Now BSNL application has been sent almost 3 weeks back and when i called them today someone blamed the privatization process. "Private ho gaya to gadbad ho gaya. Govt. rehta tha to jaldi milta tha" Anyway which server are they setting up. Hopefully a Linux based server. Anand

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] renaming multiple files
by Fart Crimson 26 Jul '01

26 Jul '01

Use `rename'. In your case, do "rename .txt .doc *.txt" It should do it Fart

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Mail Filtering Execuitable attachment
by Benoy George 26 Jul '01

26 Jul '01

----- Original Message ----- From: Tushar Burman <tb(a)freeos.com> Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Possible virus, can anyone confirm > I have desktop scanners on all workstations as well, but this is far from > sufficient in my case. I use IMAP instead of POP3, so all mails stay on the > Linux box. As a result, each time somebody goes back to an old, > virus-infected mail, he's in trouble once again. It makes more sense to stop > the viruses on the mail server. It stops outgoing viruses too. I having the same setup with using procmail, all mails are filtering if there is any attachment with executable extensions & any mail containing "<SCRIPT>" will move to "virus" folder. the .procmailrc is like this *********** :0 HB * ^Content-Disposition: attachment; *filename=".*\.(exe|vbs|shs|com|pif|bat|scr|hta)" virus :0 HB * \<script\> virus *********** but SirCam doesn't mind it, it is coming directly to inbox with ".pif", ".bat" extensions. If I forward the same once more, it is filtering. and any other messages with the said condition is filtering. why this SirCam is escaping procmail ? any Idea, the mail header containing these lines. "Content-Type: application/mixed; name=renewal_calls_sifynet_dec1.xls.pif Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=renewal_calls_sifynet_dec1.xls.pif " please let me know is the .procmailrc needs any other modifications. Waiting for the some suggestions. (Attn. Philip, Many thanks for your previous valuable mails...) regards Benoy

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Re:My two bits about the Aazad and the Commercial
by Sandeep 26 Jul '01

26 Jul '01

Dude, I guess we need to take this disuccusion somewhere else eh? Cause I guess we cud go on 4 ever like this :) Jus need to point out though, that I found the RMS bit quit unneccesary cause the discussion is not bout RMS or his personality, but about his philosophy. I could'nt care less if RMS was gay or a murderer, or ne thin else for that matter. I dont like _him_, I like his _philosophy_ cause it is _very_ relevant to *me* and to the "new world" as well I hope. >I appreciate & respect what RMS has done in terms of >writing software. But I do not subscribe to his philosophy >entirely. So u see, here is our basic disagreement, u respect n like the dude, whereas i dig his philosophy entirely! tripin on life 24x7, Sandeep --- "The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than 60 years, dicebox in hand, shaking the dice." ~Denis Diderot, French philosopher ___________________________________________________________________ *FREE* Web-based Email Accounts at BOX.COM - http://www.box.com/?i=2 Access Your Email from ANYWHERE!

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] fiding user account in linux
by Mayur Joshi 26 Jul '01

26 Jul '01

>now i want to see password of both first administrator >i.e me and second password of user.where all this >information is stored and how to extract it. You cannot actually see the password text. You can see the password in encrypted form in /etc/shadow file. All other user information goes in /etc/passwd file. Regards, Mayur _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

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The middle road?
by jtdyahoo 26 Jul '01

26 Jul '01

Borland has released the same product under two licenses the gpld version which is free of cost and the No nonsense license which you pay for. Could somone with a fat pipe download Kylix. http://www.borland.com/kylix/k1/opedfaqs.html -- jtdesouza(a)yahoo.com _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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renaming multiple files
by Nikhil Joshi 26 Jul '01

26 Jul '01

How to rename multiple files in a directory? Suppose I have 20 .txt files in a directory.Now I want to rename these files to .doc I tried mv *.txt *.doc but I got message that while moving multiple files last argument must be a directory. Please tell me how to do it. -- Stupid, n.: Losing $25 on the game and $25 on the instant replay. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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problem with java
by tushar kanti mohanty 26 Jul '01

26 Jul '01

i have REDHAT 7.1 and jdk1.3 the jdk is in the /usr/java directory.initially i was not able to compile my java programs using jdk1.3 but i was able to compile with kaffe's javac.then i modfied the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variabe to point to the lib.jvm.so file in the jre directory.after settinfg the CLASSPATH variable to the present working directory i was able to compile my java program .after this when i try to run the .class file with java .class filename (without ofcourse the .class extension ) nothing happens the shell hangs cause idont get the commandprompt again.initially i thought it was because of the size of the java program cause i was porting a fairly lage application.but then i tried a simple program and it dint work either. any help,or links will be appreciated. ____________________________________________________ http://www.monsterindia.com - The Best Jobs. For the Best Minds.

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Linux on Palm
by Yogesh Ginde 26 Jul '01

26 Jul '01

Hi, A "demo" version of Linux DA for Palm is being distributed at http://www.linuxda.com. However, the developers are not yet offering the kernel source code (the download page says "Coming Soon"). Does this amount to a violation of the GPL? Is the distributor of a modified GPLed software compelled to make available the modified source immediately? -YoGeSh

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forwarding in Qmail
by noel seq 26 Jul '01

26 Jul '01

>From: "Tushar Burman" <tb(a)freeos.com> >with any specific forwarding instructions for mail. It is exactly as i >explained - user(a)foo.com /is/ user(a)bar.com. And yes, user(a)foo.com (or >@bar.com) is a POP account for each user. However, it need not be this way. >user(a)bar.com may well be an alias to multidrop(a)bar.com, which would really >be multidrop(a)foo.com so you don't need separate POPs for each user. O.k. i got a solution. Pop accounts can receive mail abc(a)foo.com as well as abc(a)mail.foo.com so whenever i send a mail to xyz(a)foo.com which is not a local user, it searches for the .qmail-default entries which forwards it as xyz(a)mail.foo.com Since i was having some problem sening it out to the net directly, i used an smtp server in my smtproutes file which did the needful. As the pop account recognises xyz(a)mail.foo.com i do not have to create another domain / sub domain or pop accounts/ aliases or forward it or anything else. Thanx for everyhting. Noel. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] lilo screen notcoming
by shahazad＠linuxplanet.nu 26 Jul '01

26 Jul '01

Hi triptpal, > I am re installing RH 6.2, --> well there was no need to re-install if u just wanted to change the MBR to read lilo first .. u could have simply changed in lilo.conf .. nvm >MBR or not , etc should come. That screen dosent come --> well if ur using redhat distro .. just move ur selection bar to or w1nd0ze partition & press F2.. u will see a "*" asterick sign b4 it & press the next button for other configurations.. ur MBR is set to windoze .. cheers~ </shahazad> ----- Original Message ----- From: "TRIPTPAL SINGH LAMBA" <triptpalsingh(a)yahoo.com> To: <linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 1:22 AM Subject: [ILUG-BOM] lilo screen notcoming > > > Hi luggers. > > I am re installing RH 6.2,during installation, after > the Disk Druid Partition Screen , LILO configuration , > with default OS selection , MBR or not , etc should > come. > > That screen dosent come , instead it straight goes to > the time setting/followed by formatting/installing > packages. > > I am using a 32 Mb boot, 128 mb swap,(both linux > native) , 1302 mb / (winfat32), in disk druid. > > > and if LILo screen dosent come , how do i make sure > the LILO gets installed to help me at boot time. > > Thanks for taking the trouble. > > Tript > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger > http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Linuxers mailing list > Linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in > http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers -- Get your firstname@lastname email for FREE at http://Nameplanet.com/?su

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Indian language
by jtdyahoo 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

Some luggers were interested in Indian fonts. Here is somthing of interest. [042] - itrans 5.3 by Avinash Chopde (http://www.freshmeat.net/users/avinash1/) Tuesday, July 24th 2001 04:36 About: itrans is a package for printing texts in Indian languages. It uses English-encoded text for input, and it supports Devanagari, Gujarati, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, Tamil, Punjabi, and Romanized Sanskrit. Input files can be in TeX, LaTeX, HTML, or PostScript format, and Unicode output is supported. Changes: Now supports Unicode output for all languages. New web server script interface. License: BSD License URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/itrans/ -- jtdesouza(a)yahoo.com _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Antialiasing in X
by Q u a s i 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

At 11:20 AM 7/24/01 +0000, KS wrote: >FreeType library that comes with XFree86 and renders TrueType fonts, >does have support for anti-aliasing. But surprisingly the feature is >turned off by default. You can turn it on by defining ANTI_ALIASING in >appropriate file, probably in X11R6/xc/lib/font/FreeType/ftfuncs.h >file. But this will mean recompiling the X system? I dont think I have the sources for it. >Use acroread for viewwing pdf file instead of xpdf. > http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html I tried gv - it opens pdf files too. It also has an antialiasing option, which when enabled, renders the text quite OK. But the problem is gv is not terribly UF. >Login as root and follow the steps I had tried this before but without success. >(2) $ ttmkfdir > fonts.scale I dont have ttmkfdir. I have mkttfdir ;) And it writes to the fonts.dir file directly. I have to use the -d (force output to stdout) option and then redirect it to the file fonts.scale. >(3) $ mkfontdir This reads the fonts.scale file and reproduces an exact copy in the fonts.dir. >(4) $ xset fp+ `pwd` this gives me error #37 bad font path element : possible reasons - directory does not exist or has wrong permissions directory missing fonts.dir incorrect font server address or syntax. Of these the first two I checked and they seemed to be OK. >(5) $ xset fp rehash >(6) Use 'xlsfonts' to verify that fonts are now there in the current > font path quasi

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] ttyS1 on Linux on i815
by Amish Mehta 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

Thanks. The problem was solved later, it was a hardware connection problem. Amish. Q u a s i wrote: > COM2 works very well with windows & GLinux. In fact my modem is > connected to COM2 and mouse to COM1.

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lilo screen notcoming
by TRIPTPAL SINGH LAMBA 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

Hi luggers. I am re installing RH 6.2,during installation, after the Disk Druid Partition Screen , LILO configuration , with default OS selection , MBR or not , etc should come. That screen dosent come , instead it straight goes to the time setting/followed by formatting/installing packages. I am using a 32 Mb boot, 128 mb swap,(both linux native) , 1302 mb / (winfat32), in disk druid. and if LILo screen dosent come , how do i make sure the LILO gets installed to help me at boot time. Thanks for taking the trouble. Tript __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Possible virus, can anyone confirm
by noel seq 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

>From: "Tushar Burman" <tb(a)freeos.com> >My mail servers have been backed up with hundreds of infected mails in the >queue. I installed the new McAfee DAT files for Linux today and immediately >most of the queue was stopped dead by Amavis (mail virus scanner). The >latest update does find W32.Sircam. I did install Mc Afee. Unfortunately i have not yet been able to install amavis on the mail server. I got some errors and thought that i would install it later. I think it is time for me to try installing it. My mails are scanned at the desktops (in windows) as of now. Regards, Noel _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

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Re:My two bits about the Aazad and the Commercial
by Sandeep 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

Note: I do not necessarily belive in everythin I say n most o the time it is jus for the sake of argument that I will say somethin, in the hope that your argument becomes stronger through criticism. Also I have nothin in particular against Microsoft or ne one for that matter. Hate the sin n not the sinner! lesse... >The terms "legal and ethical" were implied when I mentioned >schemes and strategies. We are talking about a sane & >functioning society. Microsoft, as an example, has to >follow the US rules and regulations. I feel they have been >within the law except for a few cases when they have been >successfully sued. "The Law" my friend has not kept up with technology. Take the adobe case in point: How *stupid* the law is sometimes! >But I suppose this situation is no >different from any other business. Note that when I say >'ethical', I mean the ethics or morality that our society >agrees to as a whole. On a personal level ethics can have a >very varied meaning. We cannot consider those as binding. yep! >I was not talking cola vs. software. I was talking in >general about the business environment. The cola companies >make enough profit (they have invested over a billion >rupees (each) in India without a return of a single piasa >as profit), that they can easily charge less than what >they already do and still make good money. >I agree that software is different (functional eh???) from >cola. The cola are using the same formula for over a >100year without much change. They get most of their revenue >out of manufacturing. How many people are still making >money out of software they wrote say 8-10 years back. I am >not comparing software company vs. cola company. I was >talking about commercial venture vs. commercial venture - >in general. U say u r not comparin, but thats exactly whad u r doin up there dude! i agree u'r comparin comm. vs comm. but one cannot generalize. >Here I totally disagree with you my friend. It is still >natural 'Darwinian' selection in progress and will always >be. A discussion on this will be so much OT that the others >may probably have kill us to stop us. We will do it in >private. Wokay! cant wait to have that discussion. >You forget that I mentioned 'stronger, smarter'. Strength >may refer a whole lot of strengths - not merely physical. eh.. if it was meant to be so general then i guess even smartness is also a strength, then why mention it seperatly? U seem to have used it in a physical sense. >What is decent according to one may be pathetic according >to another. Starvation is not the point. There may be >people around who may want a fast car, a big house, the >secretaryship of the local golf club, dinner at the Taj >etc.etc. We cannot call it unethical or illegal. Who is callin it ne o that. what i'm sayin is that people survive on this kind o work. Mind u i'm sayin survive, which seems to be enuf 4 them, they dont need expensive toys like cars, big house, children ;) , etc. >ummm... 'Morally' he should give it to society as it >benefits all. But 'ethically' we cannot force him to give >it (though practically we could & would). That is the >reason research of this kind is funded and organised by >society itself (in the guise of the government or >non-profitable organisatinos). Not only cure for such major >things like AIDS etc. but medicine as a whole comes under >such kinds of discussions. Again the OT ness prevents me >from elaborating. ah my friend now u'r some where near the "FreeDevelopers.net" space. Government/non-profitable/industry-consortiums fundin are all very interestin wayz to make Free Software. >No. What I said still stands. The 'just limits' are implied >as we _are_ talking about a sane society. The freedom I am >talking about is very pragmatic and is infact the state of >things right now. Microsoft operates with its priorities, >the FSF operates with its ideologies and we operate >with our freedom to choose Windows 98/NT or GNU/Linux. An >insane society (in total chaos) would be a whole other ball >game. In it (probably) M$ would hire gunmen to see no one >uses GNU software. I had a dream sometime back where i saw this Microsoft goon shootin down this innocent dude called Netscape n then the goon went after a dude called Real networks. Im so glad it was just a bad nightmare n not reality. >>Does a restaurant, who has a popular special dish, >>disclose its secret recipe? >>>again, ne dish is not >>>functional in the same sense as software is. u "use" >>>software n u "enjoy" a dish/art, from a enduser point of >>>view. >>>>Can you please elaborate on this 'functional' thing? In >>>>(probably) the same vein, a painting is not same as a >>>>dish. wokay. Heres the thing: take the example of a iron box. If my neighbour wants to iron his shirt n he come's n borrows my XYZ ka iron box n i give it to him, XYZ wont come n arrest me! u see the value o the iron box does not become ne less when i share cause i can always use it later on. but say there is this sandwich n my neighbour eats it, then i cant eat it, so i'm obviously gonna be pissed off n wont share that. An iron box or software is a tool- whereas a sandwich or paintin is a accessories. U do stuff(function) with tools n u jus "enjoy" accessories. note that the neighbour will eventually get his own iron box when he can afford it n save himself 4rm the discomfort n so XYZ or whoever will make their money. So the idea is that ppl need to see enuf value in what u provide. >>then they are within their right to sell this software - >>with all strings attached. >>>??? eh?..... >>>>I stick to this. You are not forced to buy them. A friend o mine got this Compaq mac. n he was *FORCED* to have Win on it. cause other wise he would be refused support. You can force ppl in not so obvious wayz. Also the CD that came with it does some wierd partition shit, so that he had to use partion magic to be able to fit Linux into the M$ box. hmm.. I wonder if the CD behaviour has some hidden agenda. You can also force ppl by not givin them choices by killin *all* competion. >There are plenty of other software companies which sell >software and dont behave in any way like Microsoft. Can't deny that! :) i'm with u on that man. Sandeep --- "The bird or insect that stumbles into a room and cannot find the window. Because they know no 'windows.'" ~The Lord and the New Creatures, Jim Morrison (12/8/43 - 7/3/71) ___________________________________________________________________ *FREE* Web-based Email Accounts at BOX.COM - http://www.box.com/?i=2 Access Your Email from ANYWHERE!

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ttyS1 on Linux on i815
by Amish Mehta 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

Hello, Is there any special configuration required for ttyS1 on Linux to work on i815 chip motherboards? I can see it detects ttyS00/ttyS01 but my modem/mouse only works on ttyS0. COM2(ttyS1) resides on seperate card. It doesnt work even on windows. So I wonder if it is COM2 or something else? Amish.

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(no subject)
by Sagar Sule 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

Hello All, On Monday Philip wrote... "No, they are not insane, they are just sheep. Humans, like sheep tend to herd. If everyone else is doing it, then so should we. Many people don't even know that alternatives exist. In fact, for 98% of that 75%, a computer is a tv that shows a windows logo when you push the big round button. Philip" well i have put this in quote unquote coz i think this is the most correct evaluation of most of the computer users in the world. this also includes some hotshot programmers who think they are they are the gurus of the programming world. bravo philip bravo!! for you have spoken my heart. regads sagar sule ===== When you have hit rock bottom, The only way you can go is UP! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Who owns an IP address
by Darshan.wakchaure＠lntinfotech.com 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

Hi, Small refresher of fundamentals , try these links: http://www.thinkmobile.com/Resource/Top/Data_Communications/TCP-IP/Addressi… http://www.soundtraining.net/support/ipinfo.htm Let us walk-thru our basics again ! ======================= Darshan S. Wakchaure Tel. #: 91-22-7612571-77 [O] Ext. 4021-4024 Tel # : 91-251-520806 [R] ======================= E C Vijil <vijil(a)it.iitb.ac.in> To: Linux Users <linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in> Sent by: cc: linuxers-admin(a)mm.ilug- Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Who owns an IP address bom.org.in 25-07-2001 11:47 AM Please respond to linuxers On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Philip S Tellis wrote: |How do I find out who owns a particular IP address? Where do I have to Try www.ipindex.net regards, Vijil -- You can't kiss a girl unexpectedly -- only sooner than she thought you would. _______________________________________________ Linuxers mailing list Linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

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Who owns an IP address
by Philip S Tellis 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

How do I find out who owns a particular IP address? Where do I have to look for this? nslookup turns a blank if there is no dns entry for it. Philip -- "If you want to eat hippopatomus, you've got to pay the freight." -- attributed to an IBM guy, about why IBM software uses so much memory 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

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Re: Win Worm on Linux
by Aarjav Trivedi 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

Thanks, I was aiming at building a zoo but since i thought just downloading the virus would infect my computer i was keeping all mails on my webmail providers server ;) . That was an informative answer. Thanks Philip. Is it a crime according to Indian Cyberlaws to store viruses on one's own computer ? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/

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Conti.polling Shell Script
by Linux ＠ Ramshyam 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

Hi, Can a shell script contiuously poll for a specific file in a specified directory, and upon finding such a file, execute some commands. Can someone please suggest if this is possible & suggest some way to implement it. regards, Sandeep

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Problem installing Linux
by Nikhil Joshi 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

I'm trying to install Linux 7.1 on my friend's comp .Here is the configuration: PIII 866 ,815e Chipset,128 RAM,20 GB HDD The partition is 15+5.I deleted 5GB to make room for Linux. Windows ME is present on the 15 GB partition .Now during setup when I add mount point / in Disk Druid I get error that boot partition>1024 cylinders. I checked out Fdisk instead of Disk Druid and found that the cylinders available are in the range somwhere between 1800 to 2000 (Sorry, I forgot exact numbers). I have read that latest lilo supports >1024 cylinders .Where should I download lilo from? After downloading how can I "tell" the setup to install the latest LILO instead of it's default. One of our ilug members had similar prob and Philip had suggested : Install your system as usual, but choose not to use lilo. How do I install the system (I can't create / )? I also don't get an option of choosing whether to use lilo. Please help. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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Win Virus on Linux
by Aarjav Trivedi 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

a few questions If i download a windows virus infected file onto a linux/windows dual boot box with linux after disabling access to my windows drives (unmounting them) is there any way this virus can cause harm to my computer. Specifically the w32.sircam virus with .pif files. what is a .pif file ? does it run under linux ? thanks aarjav __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/

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RE: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Possible virus, can anyone confirm
by John Fernandes 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

Yeah its the SirCam virus all right... thankfully only 3 pcs here have gotten it yet and it gets cleaned easy. -----Original Message----- From: Philip S Tellis [mailto:philip.tellis@iname.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 1:09 PM To: Linux Users Subject: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Possible virus, can anyone confirm I received a file named Book3_26.xls.pif in my mail. I suspect this to be a virus because of the way the filename is masked to show up as an excel sheet in default windows installs. IMPORTANT: This was sent to me by someone who has my address in your addressbook. Anyone using windows, and having my address in your addressbook, please check your system. The virus is probably harmless through mail because of a stupid problem. There's an extra = at the end of the base 64 encoded file, which means it cannot be decoded, at least not by standards compliant decoders. OE may still decode it. Don't know about NSMessenger. A simple inspection of the attachment tells you that. I extracted the file, and ran strings on it. It gave me this: BFD: BFD internal error, aborting at coffcode.h line 763 in styp_to_sec_flags BFD: Please report this bug. This seems to be a problem with strings. (strings on Solaris works) I then did a file on it and found it to be a Win32 executable (surprise!). I then did a less on the file to see what was in it. I found a lot of things, including the following (edited to fit): Content-Disposition: quoted-printable 8bit 7bit octet-stream plain mixed Content-Transfer-Encoding: ; charset= ; boundary=" Content-Type: application mixed _Outlook_Express_message_boundary Outlook Express MIME messages encoding and decoding X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 MIME-Version: 1.0 date: Organization: Subject: To: From: along with three letter abbreviations of days of the week and months of the year and a lot more. Specifically, there are a lot of references to Winsock.dll and common TCP/IP errors, but I have been unable to determine if it just uses the file or tries to replace it. I believe it may be the former, though its size (173KB) seems to suggest it does a lot more than just send email. Towards the fourth quarter of the file, I found actual excel stuff. Now, look at the header of the mail: X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----147B2E70_Outlook_Express_message_boundary" Content-Disposition: Multipart message and the attachment headers: ------147B2E70_Outlook_Express_message_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: message text Hi! How are you=3F I send you this file in order to have your advice See you later=2E Thanks ------147B2E70_Outlook_Express_message_boundary Content-Type: application/mixed; name=Book3_26.xls.pif Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=Book3_26.xls.pif Also, the terminating message boundary is identical to the others, instead of having a trailing -- as specified in 822 (I think). Looks pretty suspicious to me. I checked at Symantec, it's been recorded as the W32.Sircam.Worm, last updated this morning. Check http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sircam.worm@mm.html for more details. Philip -- Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon. -- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982 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 _______________________________________________ Linuxers mailing list Linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Possible virus, can anyone confirm
by noel seq 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

>From: Philip S Tellis <philip.tellis(a)iname.com> >> >I received a file named Book3_26.xls.pif in my mail. I suspect this to >be a virus because of the way the filename is masked to show up as an >excel sheet in default windows installs. >Hi! How are you=3F > >I send you this file in order to have your advice > >See you later=2E Thanks This virus/worm, has infected one of the computers on my LAN and sends an email to everyone in addressbook. The text containing the mail is the same, but the attachment name keeps changing. A Mc Afee scan does not detect it. Noel _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

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Duplicate mails
by Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

I still get two copies of most mails! SameerDS. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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Antialiasing in X
by Q u a s i 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

Folks, I have a query. Does the X server do antialiasing? Because whenever I try viewing the ps or pdf files the fonts are horribly rendered. And generally my X looks grubby. Is this a problem with any specific version of X? I have an accelerated (Mach64) server running with 32bit color depth. Also I have seen some GNU/Linux boxes with KDE 2 where the fonts were rendered properly. Is this the doing of KDE? I dont have KDE and run GNOME+Enlightenment/fwm. Also I still havent been able to use the TTF fonts, from the windows partition, in X. thanks, quasi -- postscript -- Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated. -- R. Drabek __________________________________________________ \?/ .Quasi. (0-0) ( | ) <quasiabhi(a)yahoo.com> ( v ) yahoo messenger : quasiabhi __| |__ / \ Protect OUR Earth.

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Pls suggest some lightweight desktop
by Nikhil Joshi 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

I like GNOME and KDE but these are memory hungry desktops . Multitasking becomes little difficult due to this . Following is output of free while running XMMS and Kmail The values are in MB total used *free* shared buffers cached Mem: 60 59 1 0 1 29 -/+ buffers/cache: 29 31 Swap: 156 1 155 Notice the drastically low value of free memory. The situation is pretty much the same with GNOME. Please suggest some lightweight desktop environment which doesn't eat so much memory.

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qmail installation
by acharya＠dacafe.com 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

Hi everyone I wanted to install qmail. I am reffring to networking computing book as refferece. But having problem with certain commands. I have downloaded the rpm from ftp://moni-msci.memohis.edu Can anyone giude how to install it. priyadarshi _____________________________________________________________ Tired of limited space on Yahoo and Hotmail? Free 100 Meg email account available at http://www.dacafe.com

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] forwarding in Qmail
by noel seq 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

From: "Tushar Burman" <tb(a)freeos.com> > >Then I have my ~alias/.qmail-default look like this: > >| forward "$LOCAL"@bar.com > >The "$LOCAL" is an environment variable that holds the user part of the >email recipient. > >So in your case, when mail is sent to pqr(a)foo.com, with this setup, it will >be forwarded to pqr(a)bar.com, which is the same as pqr(a)foo.com. This is how >my setups work - 13 so far. No problems. what is this termed as ? mail forwarding ? noel _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] forwarding in Qmail
by noel seq 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

>From: "Tushar Burman" <tb(a)freeos.com> > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "noel seq" <noelseq(a)hotmail.com> > >Then I have my ~alias/.qmail-default look like this: > >| forward "$LOCAL"@bar.com > >The "$LOCAL" is an environment variable that holds the user part of the >email recipient. > My ~alias/.qmail-default looks like this: forward "$LOCAL"@mail.foo.com this was ok since i had only two pop accounts which were not local and could be forwarded from user(a)mail.foo.co to user(a)foo.com >However, now I use a system similar to yours. I have another domain > >pointing to the same IP on my hosted/colocated server, so user(a)foo.com > >is also user(a)bar.com in my setup. This is different from your setup in > >that no manual forwarding has been done. Every POP box on my server >can >recieve mail for every domain hosted on it. abc(a)foo.com == >abc(a)bar.com == >abc(a)xyz.com. Do you create pop accounts for all users which are not local, on bar.com or do the mails synchronise automatically. This is because i have around 100 pop accounts which are not local. Noel _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

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[OT] Possible virus, can anyone confirm
by Philip S Tellis 24 Jul '01

24 Jul '01

I received a file named Book3_26.xls.pif in my mail. I suspect this to be a virus because of the way the filename is masked to show up as an excel sheet in default windows installs. IMPORTANT: This was sent to me by someone who has my address in your addressbook. Anyone using windows, and having my address in your addressbook, please check your system. The virus is probably harmless through mail because of a stupid problem. There's an extra = at the end of the base 64 encoded file, which means it cannot be decoded, at least not by standards compliant decoders. OE may still decode it. Don't know about NSMessenger. A simple inspection of the attachment tells you that. I extracted the file, and ran strings on it. It gave me this: BFD: BFD internal error, aborting at coffcode.h line 763 in styp_to_sec_flags BFD: Please report this bug. This seems to be a problem with strings. (strings on Solaris works) I then did a file on it and found it to be a Win32 executable (surprise!). I then did a less on the file to see what was in it. I found a lot of things, including the following (edited to fit): Content-Disposition: quoted-printable 8bit 7bit octet-stream plain mixed Content-Transfer-Encoding: ; charset= ; boundary=" Content-Type: application mixed _Outlook_Express_message_boundary Outlook Express MIME messages encoding and decoding X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 MIME-Version: 1.0 date: Organization: Subject: To: From: along with three letter abbreviations of days of the week and months of the year and a lot more. Specifically, there are a lot of references to Winsock.dll and common TCP/IP errors, but I have been unable to determine if it just uses the file or tries to replace it. I believe it may be the former, though its size (173KB) seems to suggest it does a lot more than just send email. Towards the fourth quarter of the file, I found actual excel stuff. Now, look at the header of the mail: X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----147B2E70_Outlook_Express_message_boundary" Content-Disposition: Multipart message and the attachment headers: ------147B2E70_Outlook_Express_message_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: message text Hi! How are you=3F I send you this file in order to have your advice See you later=2E Thanks ------147B2E70_Outlook_Express_message_boundary Content-Type: application/mixed; name=Book3_26.xls.pif Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=Book3_26.xls.pif Also, the terminating message boundary is identical to the others, instead of having a trailing -- as specified in 822 (I think). Looks pretty suspicious to me. I checked at Symantec, it's been recorded as the W32.Sircam.Worm, last updated this morning. Check http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sircam.worm@mm.html for more details. Philip -- Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon. -- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982 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

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KDE Desktop
by noel seq 24 Jul '01

24 Jul '01

Hi guys, I am using PCQ Linux 7.1 on p3 810 machine with KDE as my desktop (recently installed). The resolution set is too high. If i change the resolution with ctrl-alt-+ then i can see better, however, the desktop screen gets bigger than my monitor. How do i resize it and yet see with the right font size ? I tried configuring the desktop, increasing the font size and increasing the resolution, but the fonts still are small. How do i set it right. Noel _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

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Compiled Kernel
by noel seq 24 Jul '01

24 Jul '01

Hi guys, I recently downloaded and compiled a new kernel 2.4.4 But, whenever i boot into this kernel, i am not able to use linuxconf, mount, etc since they are broken. When i boot into the old kernel, i still able to. What could be the reason. Will i have to install newer versions or have i done something wrong while compiling. Noel _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Who owns an IP address
by Ninad Gupte 24 Jul '01

24 Jul '01

If the IP is say 202.54.1.18 whois 202.54.1.18(a)whois.apnic.net shud give u the results. Similarly, non-Asian IPs can be found at whois.arin.net Regards, Ninad At 01:48 PM 7/24/01 +0530, you wrote: >How do I find out who owns a particular IP address? Where do I have to >look for this? nslookup turns a blank if there is no dns entry for it. > >Philip > >-- >"If you want to eat hippopatomus, you've got to pay the freight." >-- attributed to an IBM guy, about why IBM software uses so much memory > > >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 > >_______________________________________________ >Linuxers mailing list >Linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in >http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Telnet
by Deepak Kashyap 24 Jul '01

24 Jul '01

Check for firewall rules use lokkit for this AT COMMAND prompt with root access. bye --- Haig Earl <earl_haig(a)yahoo.com> > wrote: > >--- Darshan.wakchaure(a)lntinfotech.com wrote: >> >> Helo Krishnan, >> inetd folder as well as inetd.conf file is not >> there. I am using version >> 7.1 > >check /etc/xinetd/(whatever) > >cheerio, >- sagar. > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail >http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ >_______________________________________________ >Richard Stallman's Public Lecture 5pm 17th July, at TIFR. >Linuxers mailing list >Linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in >http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers _____________________________________________________________ Get your own OYE ID at http://www.oye91.com

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Help !!! HELP !! Newbie
by Deepak Kashyap 24 Jul '01

24 Jul '01

Hello, I am having a few problems. I use a cross over utp cable to connect my win box to LINUX box I am able to ping each other's Ip from another computer that means the connection works. I have enabled the FTP Telnet and Http from NETSYSV to run at boot time This is what I want to achieve 1.proxy through linux 2. remote admin through Windows 3.running web server on linux I am unable to open http:// of linux box though linux can approach the localserver as well as the web server on my Win box. using http://90.0.1.0 What is the problem here ? Deepak _____________________________________________________________ Get your own OYE ID at http://www.oye91.com

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distro with 2.4 kernel
by Kishor Bhagwat 24 Jul '01

24 Jul '01

hello! does our LUG have any CDs with the 2.4 kernel? preferably Debian or SuSE.. i remember Prakash (shetty) announcing something abt suse boxes.. regards, kishor _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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indian kernel hackers
by Somesh Agarwal 24 Jul '01

24 Jul '01

hi all , I wasn'ted to find out if similar to liner kernel hackers is there similar interest group in India , or people who are currently contributing to the open source projects (even if it is not linux) .. thanks somesh

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lilo change order
by TRIPTPAL SINGH LAMBA 24 Jul '01

24 Jul '01

Hello list. I am using LILO at boot time. IF I want to change the default boot sequence from Red hat 6.2 to dos/win , how do i do it . Do i have to do something to the lilo.conf ? Also I get 2 messages a day , frm the list . How do I prevent this ? Triptpal Singh __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/

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