Linuxers June 2002

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by Amit Karnik 17 Aug '02

17 Aug '02

Hi I am using Cable Connection for internet I have configured my Lan Card on Red Hat Linux 7........and am also able to ping the server of my Cable operator..but am not able to surf the net or connect to internet..... How can i achieve that...pls help...... --------------------------------- Download Yahoo! Score Tracker for live cricket scores on your desktop

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Linux in Marathi
by jitendra 11 Jul '02

11 Jul '02

If any ILUG-BOM members are interested , they may join a meeting on Saturday at IIT where some are meeting. This is in response to an appeal made in ArthVrittant article on Stallman, by Anil Shaligram on 18 March issue of Loksatta. Some of the ideas that came up while thinking about Marathi Linux There are 3 levels of work in Marathi-isation 1> Applications like office software: Free softwares like a>StarOffice , which are quite a good substitute for MS-Office and available in Linux : b> GIS softwares like GRASS or MYWorld useful for urgent problms like water and environment c> educational softwares Like LOGO, STARLOGO, Model-It, Worldwatcher, DrGenius We need to translate the labels and messages and documentations and tutorials, multi-lingual CDs with multimedia. 2>Creating application in Marathi: Using gtk, glade emacs etc. 3> Working at the OS level : Creating labels/message table in marathi. NCST has already done a large part for Hindi, some in Marathi too. We also need to create mass awereness thru newspaper article in all the press. We should ask our local cybercafe to have marathi software loaded. AKRUTI have agrred to support anyone helping. Similarly other Marathi and Indian language developers can be asked to make offers. This would make the idea of working in Indian language a day-to-day affair without too much cost. jitendra For details contact jitendras(a)vsnl.com

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pacct
by Poonam P 06 Jul '02

06 Jul '02

Hi, In my /var/log i have a file called "pacct". What is the file and what appli. is it related to ... Its file size is very huge... can I delete this file. Thx. Poonam ________________________________________________________________________ Want to sell your car? advertise on Yahoo Autos Classifieds. It's Free!! visit http://in.autos.yahoo.com

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Re: Upgrading glibc and the kernel
by Vinay Pai 02 Jul '02

02 Jul '02

> So if I upgrade glibc, the kernel won't work? OK, I'm not really that much of an expert and I've learnt many things the hard way. So let me tell you some things from experience! Anybody who know better please do correct me. I started out with a Redhat 7 system, so it has a 2.2 kernel and glibc 2.1. Since then I've been doing most of my upgrades by compiling sources (its a lot more work and lot messier, but you get to learn a lot more then by just installing RPMs!) Once I got the drivers and other kernel configuration paramaters right, I had no trouble at all. glibc worked just fine with the new kernel. My guess is that glibc talks to the kernel through traps/interrupts so unless there's a drastic change in the interface glibc wouldn't mind... and the kernel developers won't break binary compatibility unless there's an overwhelmingly strong reason to do so. My conclusion, kernels can be upgraded pretty painlessly. Glibc was another matter. I installed glibc 2.2.3 with the prefix /usr/local (the default) and everything seemed fine. But when I later upgraded to 2.2.5 things went nuts. I don't know what I did, but somehow the linker (ld-linux) couldn't find glibc 2.2.3 so everything I'd compiled on my system failed. When I copied ld-2.2.3.so to /lib hoping it would be found there, all of redhat's stuff (cp, ls etc!!!) stopped working. I had to boot from the rescue CD to fix that. Ultimately I ended up compiling both the glibc 2.2.3 and 2.2.5 and installing them both with /usr prefix, and everything's been working fine ever since. My conclusion, upgrading glibc can break your system totally if you don't know that you're doing! However there's one thing you should know... the kernel doesn't need to find glibc while its being compiled... its the other way around. Glibc is a C-callable interface to ther kernel services. If you also want to upgrade GCC you might want to do it before glibc... the quality of code produced by the compiler won't depend much on the version of libc used by the compiler, but compiling glibc with the latest gcc might help take advantages of the latest features and optimizations. However, use kgcc rather than gcc 3.x to compile the kernel. I remember getting a horribly broken kernel when I compiled it with 3.0.1 (iirc)

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Upgrading glibc and the kernel
by Satya 02 Jul '02

02 Jul '02

So if I upgrade glibc, the kernel won't work? -- Satya. <URL:http://satya.virtualave.net/> You are lost in a twisty maze of little standards, all different

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Re: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Apache configuration
by Amol Hatwar 01 Jul '02

01 Jul '02

> > is working fine. I want fully qualified domain name > > ( www.jnpt.com ) for > > intranet. I added line in virtual host. but it > > didn;t work. What is the >[snip] > if u just wanna host 1 site...u wouldnt need Virtual >servers for that. Virtual servers r for dudes who >would like to do multiple domain hosting. I have fiddled *even crashed* Apache by doing strange things, and I find keeping a virtual host actually helps. Atleast, your apache documentation remains accessible at http://localhost at all times ;). Well, as for your problem goes Unmesh you can use a DNS server. But the way you ask your question, I guess you haven't set one up. Still, you can get the thing done a DNS server. In the file /etc/hosts, you can add the IP address and the Domain you want. Also you have set the DNS search order to host and then DNS. This you can do using linuxconf I guess. But remember from wherever you plan to access your intranet site you must make changes there. *manageable if your Network is small enuff*. Similar settings can be done on your windows based clients as well. All you now have to do is setup up Apache accordingly. Mail me if nothing works :) Regards, AH amolhatwar at rediffmail dot com _________________________________________________________ There is always a better job for you at Monsterindia.com. Go now http://monsterindia.com/rediffin/

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Alternatives to BIND
by Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe 01 Jul '02

01 Jul '02

Hi, I am looking for alternatives to BINd on an RHL 7.3 systems. I know about http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html, but I am looking for something with less attitude problems ... Sameer. -- MTech Student, Reconfigurable Computing Lab, KReSIT, IIT-Bombay. -----------------------------------------------------------------

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RE: [ILUG-BOM] Alternatives to BIND
by dodobh＠nettaxi.com 30 Jun '02

30 Jun '02

Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe spewed into the ether: >I am looking for alternatives to BINd on an RHL 7.3 systems. I know >about http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html, but I am looking for something >with less attitude problems ... Other than the two main contenders, there is also MaraDNS ( http://maradns.sourceforge.net/ ) IIRC. Thats about it (unless you consider the MS implementation). Devdas Bhagat ------------------------------------------------------------ Nettaxi.com has merged with RAE Systems, Inc. NTXY.OB the stock ticker symbol has changed to RAEE.OB (NASDAQ)

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jakarta tomcat installation
by Satya 30 Jun '02

30 Jun '02

I'm trying to startup jakarta tomcat. I downloaded and installed the Java SDK as instructed by the tomcat instructions. I set JAVA_HOME to the sdk directory. I run bin/startup.sh and my ssh window disappears. Nothing in the system or tomcat logs. Any ideas on what acounld be happening. -- Satya. <URL:http://satya.virtualave.net/> General protection fault at address 7896:000F. Press F15 to continue

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RE: [ILUG-BOM] Apache configuration
by dodobh＠nettaxi.com 29 Jun '02

29 Jun '02

"Unmesh Dhake" spewed into the ether: <snip> >IP address = 190.10.2.60 If this is an intranet, please use a RFC 1918 address. Do not use public ip addresses, unless they have been assigned to you. Devdas Bhagat ------------------------------------------------------------ Nettaxi.com has merged with RAE Systems, Inc. NTXY.OB the stock ticker symbol has changed to RAEE.OB (NASDAQ)

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