Linuxers February 2002

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Significance of 1024 cylinders during Linux installation
by Sudhir Sharma 04 Feb '02

04 Feb '02

Hai Everyone, While installing linux, I was prompted to have the primary partition within the first 1024 cylinders. What is the significance of this message? This happened when I was installing in dual OS mode with Win 2000 as the other OS. This never happened with the previous versions of windows. Is it to do anything with the partition size. If yes, then why not with other versions of windows as I could install linux having win98 with the same size partitions. Advance thanks for your answer. Sudhir __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com

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Re:[ILUG-BOM] httpd problem
by nilesh patil 04 Feb '02

04 Feb '02

Hi, can go through the error logs of httpd . i think u have error in modified lines in httpd.conf or send me the error log file. -Nilesh >From: Vinay Pai <vinay(a)vinaypai.com> >Reply-To: linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in >To: linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in >Subject: Re:[ILUG-BOM] httpd problem >Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 20:06:14 +0530 > >> >>can u help me out as soon as possible. my prob is that after i created >>some virtual domains in the apache web server. i tried 2 restart the >>httpd service, but it failed. so i thought of restarting the >>system.but, while booting, while starting the services, it stops at >>"starting httpd service". so the system is not getting loaded fully. > >I think every service will eventually time out (although some have >timeout time as large as 10 mins) so while it may be annoying, there is >no reason it should keep your system from booting altogether. >_______________________________________________ >http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > =========================== =========================== @@ Friends Are Forever @@ =========================== =========================== _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [LINK] - Animated LILO boot screen: penguins
by akshaysalkar 04 Feb '02

04 Feb '02

hmm..slightly away from the topic...but yet...related to LILO :) is there any way i can change the prompt name?? like say instead of LILO: i want it MYPROMPT: linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in wrote: http://www.gamers.org/~quinet/lilo Since mid-2001, most Linux distributions include some patched versions of LILO (the LInux LOader) that support VGA or VESA graphical modes and make it possible to have a nice background image while booting. Starting with SuSE Linux 7.2, the SuSE distribution includes an interesting extension to LILO that allows a programmer to define some callback functions that are triggered when some events occur (key pressed, timeout, ...). It gives a much greater flexibility than the other extensions that are provided by most of the other Linux distributions, including the new graphical modes that have recently been added to the official version of LILO 22.x. While testing the SuSE version of LILO and the helper program mkbootmsg, I was wondering if the timer callbacks together with the function that copies parts of the image to the screen could be used for creating animations. I quickly found out that it was indeed possible to enhance the boot screen with animations. Since my friends liked the results, I decided to share them on this web site. These animated boot screens have been tested with SuSE Linux 7.2 and 7.3. They should also work with other Linux distributions, as long as you install the appropriate version of LILO. This is explained on my help page. . . N.D. 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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[COMMERCIAL] - Economic CDs of new GNU/Linux & BSD releases available at just Rs 50/- a CD
by N.D. 04 Feb '02

04 Feb '02

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QMail compilation error
by akshaysalkar 04 Feb '02

04 Feb '02

For QMail i untarred the daemontools.tar.gz but when i try to install giving ... make setup check it says... ./compile tai64nlocal.c tai64nlocal.c: In function `main': tai64nlocal.c:54: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast tai64nlocal.c:55: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type tai64nlocal.c:56: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type tai64nlocal.c:57: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type tai64nlocal.c:58: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type tai64nlocal.c:59: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type tai64nlocal.c:60: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type make: *** [tai64nlocal.o] Error 1 does any1 know what the problem could be?? 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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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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[LINK] - Animated LILO boot screen: penguins
by N.D. 03 Feb '02

03 Feb '02

http://www.gamers.org/~quinet/lilo Since mid-2001, most Linux distributions include some patched versions of LILO (the LInux LOader) that support VGA or VESA graphical modes and make it possible to have a nice background image while booting. Starting with SuSE Linux 7.2, the SuSE distribution includes an interesting extension to LILO that allows a programmer to define some callback functions that are triggered when some events occur (key pressed, timeout, ...). It gives a much greater flexibility than the other extensions that are provided by most of the other Linux distributions, including the new graphical modes that have recently been added to the official version of LILO 22.x. While testing the SuSE version of LILO and the helper program mkbootmsg, I was wondering if the timer callbacks together with the function that copies parts of the image to the screen could be used for creating animations. I quickly found out that it was indeed possible to enhance the boot screen with animations. Since my friends liked the results, I decided to share them on this web site. These animated boot screens have been tested with SuSE Linux 7.2 and 7.3. They should also work with other Linux distributions, as long as you install the appropriate version of LILO. This is explained on my help page. .. .. N.D.

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486DX2/66 With 8MB RAM
by Vinay Pai 03 Feb '02

03 Feb '02

Hi Linuxers, I was wondering if I can reasonably run X on a 486 with 8 MB RAM, and run a GTK+ program. I don't need the whole of Gnome to run, and will need to run only a single program. It perfectly acceptible if it takes 5 minutes to load, and thrashes like crazy for a few minutes before settling down. Basically need to write some software for an event in college. I'll get at least one P-III with lots of RAM and hard disk space which I intend to use as a server, with rest of the (recycled) machines network booting. Vinay

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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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Re:[ILUG-BOM] httpd problem
by Vinay Pai 03 Feb '02

03 Feb '02

> > can u help me out as soon as possible. my prob is that after i created > some virtual domains in the apache web server. i tried 2 restart the > httpd service, but it failed. so i thought of restarting the > system.but, while booting, while starting the services, it stops at > "starting httpd service". so the system is not getting loaded fully. I think every service will eventually time out (although some have timeout time as large as 10 mins) so while it may be annoying, there is no reason it should keep your system from booting altogether.

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