Linuxers August 2003

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strange problem with mounting /dev/hda1
by Parag Shah 24 Aug '03

24 Aug '03

Hi, I have a dual boot machine running windows and RH Linux 7.3 I decided to get rid of windows and convert the partition to a native Linux partitio. Here's what I did: 1. Used fdisk to delete the windows partition which occupied cylinders 1 - 1727 2. Created a new primary partition in it's place 3. Used mke2fs -j /dev/hda1 to create an ext3 file system on /dev/hda1 Now after mounting /dev/hda1 , when I do 'df' it shows me /dev/hda1 is 100% used. When I go to the directory where it is mounted and do an 'ls -al', it does not show me any file. I am not sure what exactly is happening here. Also /dev/hda is being mounted as a 'read-only' file system, even when I specifically type mount -o rw /dev/hda1 /mnt/olddos Why is it being mounted as read-only, and how can I mount it as writeable? Would appreciate any help. -- regards Parag Shah Adaptive Software Solutions http://www.adaptivesoftware.biz

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Power Saving/Thermal Monitoring/CD to ISO image
by Vishal Belsare 24 Aug '03

24 Aug '03

New to GNU-Linux here using Mandrake 9.1. Got a few questions. 1. Is there any utility which can get the power saving features running on a Linux machine? This is not just about putting the display on standby mode, but also possibly powering down the hard disks. 2. Any daemon to monitor the temperature of the CPU & possibly also CPU fan's rpm.? Am using an Athlon XP 2000+ 3. Anyway to make an iso image from a CD ? mkisofs looks like it can, but I cant really figure out what switches I could use. XCDRoast has a duplicate CD option, but the image it creates is an .img file and I am not sure whether its iso or some other format. -- COMPUTERBILD 15/03: Premium-e-mail-Dienste im Test -------------------------------------------------- 1. GMX TopMail - Platz 1 und Testsieger! 2. GMX ProMail - Platz 2 und Preis-Qualitätssieger! 3. Arcor - 4. web.de - 5. T-Online - 6. freenet.de - 7. daybyday - 8. e-Post

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linux installation on slave hdd
by rahul revo 24 Aug '03

24 Aug '03

hello luggers, i have a doubt regarding installation of linux on a second hdd which will be a slave hdd. do i have to place the boot partition on the master hdd? and what about the swap partition? are there any other different steps during installation? i guess i hve to select hdb as the mount point for the root(/) partition. thanks rahul ___________________________________________________ Art meets Army ; Swapna Weds Capt. Rajsekhar. Find interesting matches on Rediff Matchmaker ! Visit http://matchmaker.rediff.com?1

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Diald reroute operation does not add default gateway
by Vidhata Deshpande 23 Aug '03

23 Aug '03

I have Redhat 8.0 installed on my home system. I am trying to configure Diald to connect to the internet. While I went throu the diald.conf file I fould this command. >reroute Above the command,was a declaration saying some old kernels do not follow the reroute command. Moreover I am using wvdial as the chat connection script for connecting to the internet. thus declaring >connect /usr/bin/wvdial Now the problem is, as diald starts it creates a SLIP interface which is also set as the default interface till the system is connected to the internet, and is replaces by the network gateway when connected. Unfortunately, when connected the sl0/1/2 slip device always remains the default gateway. I tried to 'route add default gw' as the vsnl dns server, but this only disconnects the system. Is there something I am missing here? I am also attaching the diald.conf file See below. Thanx. Vidhata ########################## # /etc/diald/diald.conf #Connect with the following utility connect /usr/bin/wvdial # Device where your modem is connected device /dev/ttyS1 # Log file accounting-log /var/log/diald.log # Monitoring queue #fifo /var/run/diald/diald.fifo # Debug activation # Activating debug reduces performance #debug 31 # We use PPP as encapsulator mode ppp # Local IP (when you connect this address is automatically modified # with the ip assigned by your ISP if you use the dinamic option). local 198.162.255.1 # Remote IP (when you connect this address is automatically modified # with the ip of the remote server that receives our call). remote 198.162.255.2 # Subnet mask for the wan link netmask 255.255.255.0 # The IP addresses will be asigned when connection starts. dynamic # If link goes down by remote end, start it again only if there is # outgoing packets. two-way # When link is up, route directly to the real ppp interface, not the proxy # interface. Not to do this is a performance lost of about 20 per cent. # There are old kernels that do not support reroute. See diald manual for # more information reroute # Diald will set up the default route the the SLIP interface used as proxy defaultroute # Script to set up personalized routes #addroute "/etc/diald/addroute" #delroute "/etc/diald/delroute" # Scripts to execute when the link is up and ready or down and closed. # In Diald versions 0.9x there is another option called ip-goingdown that # can be used to run commands when the link is going to be down but is # still up. #ip-up /etc/diald/ip-up #ip-down /etc/diald/ip-down # Scripts used to connect or disconnect the interface connect "/usr/bin/wvdial" #disconnect "/etc/diald/diald.disconnect" # Use UUCP lock to signal the device is being used lock # We connect over a modem. WARNING: Do not especify this options in the # ppp options file, because they will conflict with the diald options. To # see what ppp options that you can not use in the pppd-options option, # see the diald man page and search for pppd-options modem crtscts speed 115200 # Some timers and retry options # See Diald man page for more information connect-timeout 120 redial-timeout 60 start-pppd-timeout 120 died-retry-count 0 redial-backoff-start 4 redial-backoff-limit 300 dial-fail-limit 10 # Options to be passed to pppd # This options can be included in the /etc/ppp/options file, that are the # default options for pppd, but if you need to use different # configurations of diald for more than one instance, you must put it here # noauth - do not ask remote for authenticaion. # "Infovía Plus" (Spain) do not identify to our machine # user - our username and isp. Ask your isp for the sintaxis. Some isps, # do not need the @isp #pppd-options # Hour restriccions. # This section must be before filters. # The restrict command is experimental, and can change in other versions # of diald. Check the man page. (this example has been checked for 0.16, # but i think it runs in later versions). # Example: only use in the night from monday to friday, and all day in # saturday and sunday. restrict 8:00:00 18:00:00 1-6 * * down restrict * * * * * * # No special tarificaion considerations # (first seconds included in the setup cost, tarify unit in seconds, # time in seconds to check if it is good to go down) #impulse 0,0,0 # Bononet Noche (Spain-Telefónica) is billed in seconds after the 160 # first seconds impulse 160,0,0 # if it would be billed in minuttes and the first 10 will be billed # always: #impulse 600,60,10 # Standar filters #include /etc/diald/standard.filter # or personal filters include /etc/diald/personal.filter Foundation of a good theory is to invent it and keep it open for questioning. ___________________________________________________ Art meets Army ; Swapna Weds Capt. Rajsekhar. Rediff Matchmaker strikes another interesting match !! Visit http://matchmaker.rediff.com?2

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Connection to MTNL
by T Roy 23 Aug '03

23 Aug '03

i am able to connect to VSNL but unable to do so to MTNL. Is there some kind of special authentication needed with MTNL or any reply that it accepts after Logging in. My login completes succesfuly but after that something goes wrong. I CAN CONNECT TO MTNL USING StartMenu(RedHat)->System Settintgs->Network->Mtnl->Activate. I couldnt find the chatscript for it in /etc/ppp. Sending files and logs: 1. /var/log/messages 2. terminal log 3. mtnl chatscripts __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com

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webmin hangs ver 1.06
by Netbaba 23 Aug '03

23 Aug '03

I am still very new to linux I tries using webmin to uninstall a newer version of alsa so theat I can installl the right version back The webmin stops responding even rpm install stops after 2 package installation Like something that happens in windows like not responding stuff It work properly for some time after restart of Machine Help Deepak Get Your Private, Free E-mail from Indiatimes at http://email.indiatimes.com Buy The Best In BOOKS at http://www.bestsellers.indiatimes.com Bid for for Air Tickets on Air Sahara Flights at Prices Lower Than Before. Just log on to http://airsahara.indiatimes.com and Bid Now!

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Dr Geo in Indian languages...
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 23 Aug '03

23 Aug '03

>From fred(a)bytesforall.org Sat Aug 23 11:49:29 2003 --__--__-- Message: 3 Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:05:26 +0200 From: Hilaire Fernandes <hilaire(a)ext.cri74.org> To: jnshah <jnshah(a)bom7.vsnl.net.in> Cc: ofset-drgenius-dev(a)lists.sourceforge.net, indic-computing-users(a)lists.sourceforge.net, amba(a)iiit.net, indlinux-marathi-request(a)lists.sourceforge.net, tdk12(a)rediffmail.com Organization: OFSET Subject: [Indic-computing-users] DrGeo in indian languages! WAKE UP ! Time to translate properly DrGeo in Indian languages. Mr Jitendra Shah already sent me .po files of Indian languages but these files need to be largely updated (I think the Marathi is already in good shape). Whoever is reponsible to update the language files, contact me directly so I can send you directly your updated file to translate, it is important I send you an updated file otherwise your translation may be only partial. To this date there are abot 426 messages, if updated in regular basis it is little job, only the first shot is painfull. Regards, Hilaire On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 22:49:12 +0530 jnshah <jnshah(a)bom7.vsnl.net.in> wrote: Dear Hilaire and all, We are Final year BE Computer students from VJTI mumbai working under Prof. Jitendra Shah on project named L10N & I18N. We are trying to localize drgenius in marathi,one of the prominent Indian langugae. We are attempting to port drgenius to gnome2 as per suggestion of Hilaire . However to make the existing version localised, we did the following. Please help and suggest ways out. We followed following steps: 1. We took drgenius.pot and translated the messages in the same in Marathi (an Indian language with mr_IN as international name), file in 8-bit ISCII format. Then we unzipped drgenius-0.8.3.tar.gz to a location. 3. Then we added "mr" to ALL_LINGUA in ./configure script 4. We followed normal installation procedure (./configure, make, make install) 5. After installation we got drgenius.gmo in /usr/local/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/ We hoped this would work. It didnot. But we didn't know how to switch from default "english" language to "mr" We noted that "hi" was built in. We changed locale to mr. Still it didnot work. So we copied that file to /usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/ i.e. to system locale directory Next we changed locale from en_US to hi when we executed drgenius blanks were seen instead of translated messages. Thuis it appeared that our translated file was being accessed and ascii characters therin were being read but only non-ascii characters were not displayed. We tried to copy fonts at various places. Fonts are isciidev.ttf from IIIT Hyderabad courtesy Amba Kulkarni. We tried to place the same in /usr/share/fonts/indic/TrueType /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF ~/.fonts But that too didn't work. Where should we place the font so that it's visible to drgenius ? We are able to use isciidev.ttf in gedit kate kwrite kword That means it is being installed Then why drgenius is not able to find it? we are waiting for your reply. Please send mail to: darkhorse_vjti(a)yahoogroups.com and jitendras(a)vsnl.com _______________________________________________ Ofset-drgenius-dev mailing list Ofset-drgenius-dev(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ofset-drgenius-dev -- Let's support Kids, Education and Free Software Aidons les Enfants, l'=C9ducation et les Logiciels Libres http://rate.affero.net/hilaire --__--__-- _______________________________________________ Indic-computing-users mailing list http://indic-computing.sourceforge.net/ Indic-computing-users(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/indic-computing-users [Other Indic-Computing mailing lists: -devel, -standards, -announce] End of Indic-computing-users Digest

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[NON-GNU][NON-LINUX][NON-ADV][OT] Outsourcing backlash
by Harsh 22 Aug '03

22 Aug '03

Hi all .... Sorry to all the hippocrates on the list if i have forgotten any imp subject tag. Following is an interesting blog post by a US based s/w engg who thinks outsourcing and employing foreign nationals is not so cool. http://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/380 Regards Harsh

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tar backup
by Girish Hanchate 22 Aug '03

22 Aug '03

Hi I am using a tar command to take my 5 gb data backup on Hp dat drive. I am using tar -zcvf /dev/st0 directories to take backup For restoring tar -zxvf /dev/st0 directories to take retore it It is taking lot of time to restore the files .I think when i am tring to restore any file it serially reads all files prior to files i want to take backup so it is taking time to restore it. Is there any command by which i can tell dat to automatically get forward to location of file which I want to take back & restore it. Rgds girish __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

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YANB help for installation of onboard soundcard
by Netbaba 22 Aug '03

22 Aug '03

I need to install alsa and need a copy of original redhat 8.0 copy (physce or something) Also How do I ionstall alsa RPM or the tar files ? Please solve my problem of installing onboard sound card IT's VIA8233 as for as linux diagnostics go. I have installed pcq 8.0 when i I try to load kernel source or any other stuff it mostly asks for the original distro by redhat It does not accept the pcq cd's If I install redhat 9.0 from digit will my proble be solved mine is a dual bootable using grub a new installation will effect grub setup? thank you Deepak Get Your Private, Free E-mail from Indiatimes at http://email.indiatimes.com Buy The Best In BOOKS at http://www.bestsellers.indiatimes.com Bid for for Air Tickets @ Re.1 on Air Sahara Flights. Just log on to http://airsahara.indiatimes.com and Bid Now !

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