Linuxers September 2003

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Solaris experience?
by Subba Rao 12 Sep '03

12 Sep '03

Hello I am being interviewed for some jobs where they are asking for Sun Solaris experience. For a long time I have been a *nix user but did not pay too much attention to the System V vs the BSD camps. I know Solaris falls into the BSD camp. How different is it from Linux? My experience is in System V, AIX and Linux (some HP/UX). Having this experience, what areas of Solaris should I focus on to get my foot in the door. Thank you in advance for any advice. -- Subba Rao subba9(a)cablespeed.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Old American Wild West saying: God created men but Colt made them equal. Today: Linus created Linux and Linux made IT companies equal.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] i810 Framebuffer
by Siddhesh Poyarekar 12 Sep '03

12 Sep '03

Hi, ________________________________________________________________________ Thanks anyways, I got it to work with the earlier email (thanx Tapeshwar Nath :)). What I was striving for was the penguin logo :). I had to compile the driver into the kernel for that though. > probably the same would go in 2.6 too. Its quite different in the 2.6 kernel. Its been officially included in the kernel as i810fb. BTW, does anybody know if I can get the logo without compiling the framebuffer and the fbcon drivers into the kernel? How? I tried for days, just could'nt get it. Finally settled with bloating my kernel by a few KBs. (Sorry boss... the penguin's kinda cool ;)) Regards, Siddhesh.

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advanced web page editor in LINUX
by walgude.sameer＠mahindra.com 11 Sep '03

11 Sep '03

is there any web-page editor as much powerful as Frontpage - XP in any of the linux packages which can handle cascaded tables (which latest editions of netscape/ opera even not been able to handle) best example of cascaded tables can be found at: http://wtiindia.b3.nu/ surf this portal in Internet Explorer 5 / above & surf this in Netscape / Opera & see the difference Regards, Sameer Jaysing Walgude Strategic Sourcing +919820849808

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Scanning
by pitcom＠vsnl.com 11 Sep '03

11 Sep '03

Suggest scanning solution for virus Suggest scanning of spam mails Regards Kamlesh Shah

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qmail is not receiving mails
by Ashwin S. Athram 11 Sep '03

11 Sep '03

Hi, I have configured the qmail and it is working on two of the machines over my LAN. I have given have given names to the two hosts and local domain as well. My locals file contains : mailmladelhi.mladelhi.mine.nu My defaultdomain file contains: mladelhi.mine.nu locals file on other machine contains : ashwin.mladelhi.mine.nu defaultdomain file contains: mladelhi.mine.nu Now i have three users on both the machines and one of them is aliased for postmaster, mailerdaemon. I am successful in sending and receive mails among the local users on each machine. But when i try to send mails from an user from one machine to the other, it does not receive the mails. I checked the /var/log/qmail/current file which says: >>@400000003f606b71130919ac new msg 1370290 >>@400000003f606b7113092d34 info msg 1370290: bytes 276 from >><root(a)mailmladelhi.mladelhi.mine.nu> qp 22375 uid 0 >>@400000003f606b71245cd874 starting delivery 9: msg 1370290 to remote >>ashwin(a)ashwin.mladelhi.mine.nu >>@400000003f606b71245e8624 status: local 0/10 remote 1/20 >>@400000003f606b7700b21bb4 delivery 9: deferral: >>Sorry,_I_wasn't_able_to_establish_an_SMTP_connection._(#4.4.1)/ >>@400000003f606b7700b23324 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 I am using the /var/qmail/bin/sendmail command to send the mails. Can anybody let me know what is the mistake I am committing. Is this a DNS issue or setting up of MX records. I want that the mails should be exchanged among different machines using qmail over LAN with the email address e.g. user(a)ashwin.mladelhi.mine.nu or user(a)mailmladelhi.mladelhi.mine.nu.. Thanks in advance for your precious attention and help. Regards, Ashwin-- ASHWIN S. ATHRAM Research Assistant MEDIA LAB ASIA W-16, Ground Floor, Shivram Business Centre, Greater Kailash Part-II, New Delhi - 110048. INDIA Tel. +91-11-51636574-130 Wireless. 9811757498 Fax. +91-11-51636577

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change e-mail ID
by pramila 11 Sep '03

11 Sep '03

To Moderator, I want to change email-ID on which i should get group mails to pramila_2k(a)rediffmail.com. What should i do? Pramila --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] installing modem
by rohitash panda 11 Sep '03

11 Sep '03

Try using minicom to check whether the modem is working properly on Linux,that is if you are using a serial port modem.Just see that you are using the correct device file(e.g, ttyS0 ..) in your configuration file(e.g, wvdial.conf) and check the serial port(by an stty <device>).Also you can write to that port and see the modem lights blink or not(e.g, cat /etc/passwd > /dev/ttySx ). hope this helps. rohit On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 pramila wrote : >Hello, >How to install modem for dialup connection ? i followed all the >steps from Linux Bible everything goes fine but its not >dialling. >My modem is working properly on windows >What can be problem ? >Pramila > > >--------------------------------- >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software >-- >http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers Life is a sexually transmitted disease. Unix is like a wigwam -- no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside.Unix is very user-friendly. It`s just picky who its friends are. ___________________________________________________ Meet your old school or college friends from 1 Million + database... Click here to reunite www.batchmates.com/rediff.asp

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system fonts in Mozilla??
by Chirag Arjun Bhangale 11 Sep '03

11 Sep '03

how do i use the system defaults font in mozilla 1.4 ..... the one used in Redhat distributed mozilla1.2.1

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GOA-ECAP: FLOSS talks in focus...
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 11 Sep '03

11 Sep '03

IN FOCUS: FLOSS talks at ECAP VOLUNTEERS OF the India Linux Users' Group (Goa) will put up a wide range of talks, during the ECAP in Panjim and Margao. ECAP is the Exhibition of Computers and Allied Products, to be organised by the Computer Society of India (CSI-Goa chapter) on Sept 13/14 in Panjim and Sept 20/21 in Margao. This is intended to be of interest to the enterprise segment, home-users, students, educationists and parents. In particular, there will be a special focus during the demos, scheduled to be held on the first floor of Hotel Mandovi, on September 13/14. More details from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-goa. Below are some of the talks to be scheduled during the ECAP: Dr Gurunandan Bhat Enterprise Mail and Messaging Solutions With Linux Animesh Nerurkar Prof Kshama Fernandes, GIM Free Software In The World Of Finance Topic: Kshama has been using Debian for her research in Finance. She will talk and demo the tools used, why these tools were selected etc. o LaTeX -Documentation o PERL 5 -Data and File manipulation and simulation. o Shell Scripts - Data and File Manipulation and Wrapper Scripts. o Jgraph -building graphs from Data. o R -Statistical calculations o Gnumeric -Data manipulation and Data conversion. o Awk - for data manipulation o R - statistical software o Gnuplot o Pdfscreen - for slide shows Stata -Statistical calculations Intended Intended audience: Any newbie or professional who has questions about the power of GNU/Linux or wishes to witness the demo of this simulation. Prof George Easaw, GEC Latex, the document preparation system in GNU/Linux. An introduction to Magicpoint. Mario Alvarez, alienwiz.com Goaing For A Holiday: A Made-In-Goa Hotel Management Software developed with GNU/Linux tools. Tushar Joshi, currently runs the London Linux group www.lonix.org.uk Linux In London: What, How and Why Specially meant for LUG members. Others welcome too. Dr Gurunandan Bhat Intranets Dr Anil Seth, Head of IT, PCC Python, Without Venom The talk will walk through a small, mundane utility program and in the process demonstrate how we can exploit Python to work at a very high level. We will assume that a person knows very little about Python but has some background about computers. We will discuss one concern at a time and discuss how to learn just what is needed to solve the problem on hand. The speaker hopes to convey the underlying simplicity of Python, the amazing power it gives us and the philosophy of Guido van Rossum to make programming accessible to all. Bijon Shaha Linux... Made Easy! Yunus Shaikh Embedded Linux Arvind Clement Computer Security: A Primer For All Computer Users Ashley Delaney Multimedia and GNU/Linux at home This talk will attempt to focus on the multimedia aspects of the operating system that home-users generally deploy. It attempts to bridge the gap betwen commanplace Windows software and its GNU/Linux equivalents. It will showcase examples of a true mustitasking and home usage of comman tasks on a stable and virus free OS. Arvind Yadav FLOSS in the corporate world Sanil Talaulikar Getting It Straight: Options For A Software Developer Under GNU/Linux (with a special focus on Sossegado, a game being built on the FLOSS platform.) You can meet ECAP volunteers at the 'Rampon', Hotel Mandovi, Panjim (Sept 13/14, whole day), or at Adarsh Vidyalaya, Margao (Sept 20/21). FN More details from: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frederick Noronha (FN) | http://www.fredericknoronha.net Freelance Journalist | http://www.bytesforall.org http://goalinks.pitas.com | http://joingoanet.shorturl.com http://linuxinindia.pitas.com | http://www.livejournal.com/users/goalinks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- T: 0091.832.2409490 or 2409783 M: 0 9822 122436 -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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RE: [ILUG-BOM] About LAMP query
by Parag Shah 10 Sep '03

10 Sep '03

>As what my reading goes about this query is when to use LAMP and when >J2EE?? For this, many of the Gurus suggested that for mid/small size >projects, the best option available is LAMP over J2EE and for bigger >enterprise applications, go for J2EE. First a few thoughts on what it really means, when a project scales from being a mid sized one to a large project. Things that would typically have changed post deployment are: 1. Number of users would have increased 2. Number of transactions would have increased 3. Scope (changes in business logic as well as many additions of components and functionality) 4. ??? Am I missing anything? Number 1 and 2 would typically have to be dealt with by upgrading hardware of the machine(s) hosting the Application Server and the Database Server. Starting with RAM, perhaps the CPU and then eventully putting into place a clustered solution. I am not very certain to what extent the choice of LAMP vs J2EE would effect this, except that the machine(s) hosting the J2EE App Server will require greater resources. However if we were to deploy the application over a cluster of servers as the application scaled up, then I hava heard that J2EE App Servers lend greater stability as opposed to a LAMP solution. This is something that I have read, but do not have any practical experience. So please correct if it's worng. As for number 3. All applications will have post deployment enhancements As an application undergoes these changes, it should still be understandable/maintenable as well as robust. Also effort of making these changes should be as low as possible. This sort of scalability is achieved by a good architecture more than anything else. J2EE enforces certain standards and proposes a blueprint for application developers. If these standards are followed properly, the application becomes more understandabe and maintenable. Also many people find it easier to understand code written in a strongly typed language (Java/C++) than a weakly typed language (PHP), especially when dealing with a large code base. Offcourse a badly coded J2EE app would be just as hard to maintain. However the existence of standards and a J2EE blueprint would support writing better code. There are a lot of infrastructure level components that go into making a large application. Things like database pooling, MVC libraries, templating mechanism, authentication and authorization, persistence, etc, etc. Some of these are taken care of by the J2EE application server, hence making the application portable accross App Servers, and reducing the programmers effort in having to either build them or integrate 3rd party components. These are some factors favouring J2EE. I have been given to understand that LAMP on the other hand has a smaller learning curve and one can build applications far quicker than if they were to use J2EE. However these factors can often be overridden by by purely non-technical reasons, as Shuvam mentioned in an earlier mail. Sorry for the rather long mail. -- regards Parag Shah Adaptive Software Solutions http://www.adaptivesoftware.biz

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Linuxers September 2003