Linuxers April 2002

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Yahoo
by Philip S Tellis 08 Apr '02

08 Apr '02

I think everybuddy is working with yahoo again - at least it works for me. Get the CVS and test please. Send bugs to me. Philip -- "Neo. I hope the Oracle gave you some good news." -- Apoc, "The Matrix"

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[offtopic] Books for Sale !
by akshaysalkar 07 Apr '02

07 Apr '02

Does any 1 want Computer/Linux Books at a discounted rate (ie.20%-22%off the normal price) Books in good condition. Some books are brand new. (Costs after Discount) 1) Programming Perl 3/e - Larry Wall - Rs. 450 - O'Rielly 2) Teach yourself HTML4 in 24 hours - Rs. 100 - Techmedia 3) Mastering Foxpro 2.5 Special Edition - Rs. 200 - BPB 4) Building Linux Clusters - David Spector - Rs.220 - O'Rielly 5) Using Linux Special Edition - Rs.200 - Prentice Hall 6) Design of the Unix OS - Maurice Bach - Rs. 150 anybody wanting any of the above books plz. contact me at email : akshaysalkar(a)indiatimes.com or telephone on 2052404. (plz. leave msg./name/telephone if i am not there) akshay. 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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Debian CDs Wanted
by Vishal 07 Apr '02

07 Apr '02

Greetings. I need the Debian CDs. Am too bored to download the iso images. Can anyone kindly lend me their CDs (non-US release) ? I will just copy them and return them in a day. Else anybody selling these CDs for a reasonable cost? I also need a suggestion about whether to use Potato or Woody. I am at Lokhandwala, Andheri (W), Bombay. Please email me off-list so as not to annoy other members. Vishal.

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GNU/Linux Internationalisation
by vinayak hegde 07 Apr '02

07 Apr '02

hi linux users, I thought ppl might find the following links useful in localisation of linux to the indian environment - --> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/whitepapers/gtki18n/gtki18n.ps (PostScript Version) --> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/whitepapers/gtki18n/index.html (HTML Version) -- vinayak hegde

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how to crack linux root password
by Manish Jethani 06 Apr '02

06 Apr '02

Use this command to crack linux root password: echo '82 43/25 43+65P80P82P73P76P32P70P79P79P76P10P' | dc Now! Get your sysad fired! Manish

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Renaming user-id
by Amish Mehta 06 Apr '02

06 Apr '02

Nikhil Joshi wrote: >I looked at /etc/passwd file more carefully and found this > >shutdown:x:6:0:shutdown:/sbin:/sbin/shutdown >halt:x:7:0:halt:/sbin:/sbin/halt > >are these users ? Anybody in /etc/passwd is logically a user, but in general ftp, mail, daemon, bin etc are system users, used by daemons(background processes, run ps aux) I dont have any idea about purpose of halt and shutdown users. Try man halt or man shutdown. >Can I halt without logging in ? You cant halt/reboot unless you login as root(superuser). You can however reboot by pressing ctrl-alt-del on local terminals OR switching the computer off ;-). Amish.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Renaming user-id
by Amish Mehta 06 Apr '02

06 Apr '02

You should also change(rename) the user login name(the first field) in /etc/shadow. Amish. Nikhil Joshi wrote: > >Is there any way of renaming an user logon >I tried to rename the user in /etc/passwd but it didn't work

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Offline News browsing using Pine
by Nikhil Joshi 06 Apr '02

06 Apr '02

Hi! Just configured the news-server using pine But it doesn't dnld the messages. I have to read them online :( Mozilla News also has same prob Is there any newseader which dnlds selected messages for offline reading ? Can I configure pine to do it ? -- "Mom knows EVERYTHING" -Calvin

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Renaming user-id
by Nikhil Joshi 06 Apr '02

06 Apr '02

Is there any way of renaming an user logon I tried to rename the user in /etc/passwd but it didn't work Please help. -- "My ethicator machine must've had a built-in moral compromise spectral release phantasmatron! I'm a genius!" --- Calvin

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Query re regex
by Dr . Sharukh K . R . Pavri . 06 Apr '02

06 Apr '02

Hi Philip, I downloaded your lecture on regex from the ACM website. I have a query; I am a bit confused with the following lines from your examples. [A-Z^] - match anything from A-Z or ^ [-A-Z] - match anything from A-Z or- [+-*/] - match anything from + to * and / [-+*/] - match - + * / Does the first line mean match anything from A to Z or A to ^ ? or does it mean match anything from A to Z or match ^ ? similarly if you could also explain the other three lines please. I am writing to the list so tha teveryone can benefit from the answer. Thanks, Sharukh. -- Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. Mumbai, India.

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