Linuxers January 2002

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Proposal for a Meet on 6th Jan
by Nagarjuna G. 22 Mar '02

22 Mar '02

I am proposing a meet on 6th Jan, and also proposing an agenda (if Sameer agrees to it): Using SGML to generate Documents, and converting SGML/XML to other popular formats like, ps, rtf, pdf etc. I have been using LaTeX for this task and highly satisfied, and would also love to learn the SGML tools to do the same. It is necessary that the hackers on the list should learn the power of these time tested tools, and should be introduced to them sooner than later. Should we decide Sameer! on your introduction/tutorial to structured documentation using SGML? Nagarjuna -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ nagarjun(a)hbcse.tifr.res.in www.hbcse.tifr.res.in/gn/ Key fingerprint = C1E2 1B8C 8E98 A697 68B7 ADAC E956 6D4B DE90 BF01

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RE: [ILUG-BOM] Linux is not reliable . Windows Still rulez
by Tahir Hashmi 01 Mar '02

01 Mar '02

On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 21:39:06 Amish K. Munshi wrote: > Yes I agree with you, but I most of the work that we require to >do is available as a GUI toolkit. And however integrated we are to the >Linux systems, we would love to use the graphical version of linuxconf >rather than the text version. There's a learning curve. When I started out, I was averse to the command line too. But as I began discovering commands for things that went click-click, I found myself using the command line more and more. The reason is simple - it's easier to issue a command than fire up a GUI, sift thru the tabs and buttons et al. Say, you want to add a user to a new group. How'd you do it in GUI? Fire up Linuxconf, expand the trees till you reach the users area (I've forgotten what Linuxconf looked like, so it's a somewhat inexact reproduction), click on that user and then in his/her property sheet, specify the group somewhere. That done, you click the "Activate" button and then "Quit" hoping that things went fine. Same thing on the command line: # usermod -G <group>[, ...] <user> There's a command - apropos - that searches for the supplied keywords in short descriptions of all the entries in man pages. So, if you're looking for disk management commands, you can do: $ apropos disk and get a list of commands that have the word "disk" in their descriptions. I don't say that GUI is bad. The user should figure out when to use what tool. As a rule of thumb, use a GUI tool when you are going to use a majority of the features it offers. So I may use LinuxConf when I get down to configuring my system after a fresh install. But not for the occasional tweaks and mods. Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://tahirhashmi.scriptmania.com mailme(a)tahirhashmi.scriptmania.com __________________________________ We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed

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MODEM
by banaja 04 Feb '02

04 Feb '02

HELLO FRIENDS, I WANT TO SET UP MODEM IN MY LNX SERVER AND USE IT AS PROXY SERVER. AFTER DOING ALL THE SET UP IT GETS CONNECTED TO NET. BUT THERE IS NO BYTES IN AND BYTES OUT WHICH IS IMP. FOR USE OF NET. PLZZZZZ HELP ME. --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctionsfor all of your holiday gifts!

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redhat 7.2 rpm problem
by Hiten Desai 03 Feb '02

03 Feb '02

I have installed redhat 7.2 (server and coustom option) but I have found that rpm command is not working so I dont have any idea to how to enable it ! please suggest something Thanks __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com

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rndc: connect: connection refused
by akshaysalkar 31 Jan '02

31 Jan '02

i have started named/dns with /etc/rc.d/init.d/named start however when i give /etc/rc.d/init.d/named status it gives rndc: connect: connection refused why so? 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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Re: [ILUG-BOM] c++ execute problem
by Nikhil D. Kikkeri 31 Jan '02

31 Jan '02

>a.out is created but i can not able to execute with >typing a or a.out.so tell me how to execute and see >output. ./a.out ^^ Nikhil _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com

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Can you please help?
by dianas＠netscape.com 31 Jan '02

31 Jan '02

Hi: I have the same problems stated here. But after went to the website you pointed to and download bott.img file. I was not able to make floppy out of it. I found out boot.img listed on that site is way over 1.44MB. I wonder if I did something wrong? Please advice. Thanks Diana Nilesh Chaudhari wrote: > Has anyone had any problems installing RH7.1 on a box with Mylex > DAC960?? My installation doesn't seem to go ahead of the `loading > AIC7xxx drivers' screen. After a long time, I get a SCSI bus timeout > in > the debug window and the system just freezes. > I have a DAC960PG/PJ with an Adaptec SCSI controller and IBM SCSI > disks. RH6.2/7.0 have had absolutely no problems. Can you suggest > some > pointer to troubleshooting? I couldn't find one for this exact > problem. Ok, found the solution. The Adaptec AIC7xxx SCSI bus timeout on 440GX motherboards was a known bug and it has been patched. The boot image of redhat7.1 has been fixed. You can find them here - http://people.redhat.com/dledford/440gx/boot.img http://people.redhat.com/dledford/440gx/bootnet.img http://people.redhat.com/dledford/440gx/pcmcia.img For more information go to - http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29555 Nilesh. -- Diana Song dianas(a)netscape.com

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[OT] new virus?
by Q u a s i 30 Jan '02

30 Jan '02

Folks, I am getting ramdom mail with subject "new photos from my party" and an attachment... Is this a new worm? quasi -- postscript -- The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do... __________________________________________________ \?/ .Quasi. (0-0) ( | ) <quasiabhi(a)yahoo.com> ( v ) yahoo messenger : quasiabhi __| |__ / \ Protect OUR Earth. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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Regarding Swap partition
by K. Vasudeva 30 Jan '02

30 Jan '02

Dear all, Recently we made swap partition of 2Gb and this is not at all used by the server. swapoff -a First we made 2Gb partition of swap mkswap /dev/sdb1 swapon -a (i tried swapon /dev/sdb1 ) and in /proc/swaps the entry for this partition is exist. whenever i will check swap usage (free) it showing 0 and it is not using old swap partition also.we made all the required entries in fstab also.But the server is using full ram. Thanks vasu.k -- K.Vasudeva Jr Systems Administrator National Center For Biological Sciences Tata Institute Of Fundamental Research UAS-GKVK Campus Bellary Road Bangalore - 560 065 Phone:3636421-32 extn 3010 Fax:3636662,3636675 http://www.ncbs.res.in

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openldap2.x with sendmail 8.11.6
by acharya＠dacafe.com 29 Jan '02

29 Jan '02

hi can anyone help me out in configuring openldap with sendmail. u know ldaprouting how should i configure it. sldap.conf and sendmail.conf. _____________________________________________________________

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Linuxers January 2002