November 2004 - Linuxers

Problems with ILUG Acronym.
by risqer 24 Jan '05

24 Jan '05

Hello Gnu/Linux Users, I wanted to say that when we say ILUG in ILUG-BOM, aren't we ignoring "GNU" ? I think so because, it's "GNU/Linux", not the Linux kernel alone that we support. So ILUG should be more appropriately called IGLUG. And so, ILUG-BOM should be IGLUG-BOM. I maybe wrong on this since I may not know the reason for this. If you feel I am thinking wrong, please correct me. -- Regards, Saurabh Sawant. (risqer).

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Re: Personal Diary software for Linux
by VC Bothra 03 Jan '05

03 Jan '05

I'll recommend a blogging tool for maintaining a diary / personal log. Wordpress is a PHP / MySQL blogging tool having a vibrant community and large installed base. Its licensed under GPL. http://www.wordpress.org/ Veer. http://www.blogstreet.com/ Blog Profile, RSS Ecosystem, Blog Tops, Search and Directory

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Personal Diary software for Linux
by Ninad 02 Jan '05

02 Jan '05

Hi Is there a personal diary like software for Linux It should show the current day/date and time and one can write the daily happenings/events etc in it which will be stored. Thanks and Regards Ninad Bapat

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IRC server for ILUG-Mumbai !
by Saurabh Sawant 02 Jan '05

02 Jan '05

Hi guys, Since the website http://www.ilug-bom.org.in is hosted on a server at TIFR ( i think so ) , can we have an IRC server set up there so that, there can be more interaction, fast responses and good discussions ? As for improving the ettiquete of this mailing list , we can invite people who make mistakes to a room at IRC and teach them the proper way. And also, i think it will also compliment this wonderful mailing list. I request Sir Nagarjuna to look into this. Regards, Saurabh Sawant ! :) _________________________________________________________________ The hottest products! The coolest discounts! http://www.msn.co.in/shopping Get them all at MSN Shopping!

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New discussion forum for ILUG-BOM !
by Anurag Patel 09 Dec '04

09 Dec '04

Hello, We are now testing a new discussion forum for Ilug-Bom. Visit < http://forum.ilug-bom.org.in > and sign up to participate in the discussions and vote for the topics. http://forum.ilug-bom.org.in -Anurag

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A report on Open Source Software.
by risqer 07 Dec '04

07 Dec '04

Hi, I think this might be useful for newbies and experts alike.Its a "7.86 MB" download but worth it. Here's the link ----> http://www.csc.com/features/2004/uploads/LEF_OPENSOURCE.pdf Have a good time!

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Chat on linux
by Iqbal Dehlvi 04 Dec '04

04 Dec '04

Dear All, Like the mailing list can we have some sort of chat IRC channel. may be it will be useful or may be it will not. seniors can think abt this. Regards ID

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Solaris 10
by selvin 01 Dec '04

01 Dec '04

Hi all, Recently I heard a lot 'bout Sun getting into Open Sourse with their Solaris 10, after attending their seminar on Solaris 10,I think its worth giving a shot at.. so anyone in Mumbai who has downloaded the Solaris 10( I'm too lazy for downloading it myself ;-), and who is kind enough to share it kindly let me know I'll make a copy of it. thanx in advance, Regards, Selvin "The Future is Open, the Future is Bright" __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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A Positive Attitude
by Rony Bill 01 Dec '04

01 Dec '04

Dear Luggers, Its 2.40 am and I finally got my modem working in RHEL. The problem was that I had piled up many drivers one over another. I did a fresh install of the OS and then installation and setup was as smooth as butter. I also observe that though the site says that the free driver version is limited to 14kbps, I am able to connect at 56Kbps. I am sending this mail from evolution in RHEL and this is my very fisrt mail to you all and thanks to all of you, especially the admin for this lovely forum. Best Wishes, Rony.

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vsnl's new smtp auth settings
by Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

Hi, This is about vsnl's new smtp authentication settings. As usual, they have only given instructions for outlook, outlook express and eudora and netscape. The chap on the helpdesk phone had no clue whatsoever as to what to do with linux or even what sort of authentication they were using. Of course, the 22nd November deadline is way past and I can still get my emails thru the vsnl smtp server without any changes in my config. If this mail gets thru, that should be proof enough. I am using FC2 w/ postfix (and fetchmail w/ mutt). So how do I go about ascertaining what changes I need to make in my config ? thanks, Sharukh -- Dr. Sharukh K R Pavri. Homoeopath, Linuxer. I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy." - Steve Martin

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] vsnl's new smtp auth settings
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

On Saturday 27 November 2004 09:53, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote: > Hi, > > This is about vsnl's new smtp authentication settings. As usual, > they have only given instructions for outlook, outlook express and > eudora and netscape. The chap on the helpdesk phone had no clue > whatsoever as to what to do with linux or even what sort of > authentication they were using. The authentication is plain text. And u can use smtp only thru a vsnl dialup or leasedline connection or thru dishnet. The goal is to prevent spammers using vsnl as a relay. That legit vsnl users get spammed to death (90% in my case) is incomprehensible to the zombies who sit on the heldesk. Or that u may want to access your mailbox from from other locations. Or why users have to endure ads and flash animations for a paid service.

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[ILUG-BOM] [commerical] Urgently required PHP developers with 1+ years of experience.
by Brijesh Mishra 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

We require PHP developers for full time job, having 1+ years of work experience. Salary as per industry norms. Best Regards, Brijesh Mishra. brijeshm(a)unitek.com

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Net Security
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

On Monday 29 November 2004 18:58, Rony Bill wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Vivek J.Patankar" <vivekpatankar(a)spymac.com> > > That's not quite correct. The two most popular AV solutions, Norton > & McAfee, both check files as soon as they are accessed. IF the virus is in the database the AV program will find it. Usually u get infected by some uknown mutant of existing virii. And often by a new one. The average time to infection is 4 minutes on a dialup. The average time to download a patch on a dialup is several times longer - a rather idiotic situation. And this does not include the great OS killer win XP - SP2. > > > Migrating a customer to linux is not so easy even if the driver > issues are resolved, as all his old data has to be converted to the > linux format which his new non-microsoft programs in linux should > read and edit just as before. OO does that quite well. And issues if any are very minor. Just be clear that when you change to linux u have to learn to do things differently - a small price to pay for freedom, reliability, stability, security etc. If ur customer prefers to stew in the microsoft pot well happy boiling. And guess what it's u the support guy who will get the flack not Billybhai. He will be preaching homilies about security, piracy, innovation etc., at some lackey seminar. > Many use Tally or QFA or similar > custom accounting software and this data will go waste in linux > without the program being able to run. Outlook Express has one > unique feature where you can have multiple accounts with their own > individual smtp settings. If there is a suspicious mail you can > right click on the header and view its entire source code without > opening it. I have downloaded and tried out different email clients > but OE was most feature rich. Yeah features like executing random vb scripts - man wake up. Regarding printers, peripherals etc. Check if the stuff u plan to buy works under Gnu/Linux before u pay. rgds jtd

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Ringtone on Linux
by komal 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

Is there any ringtone composer available for Sony Ericession or Nokia on Linux ? Thank you Komal

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RHEL CDs
by gnurpreet＠softhome.net 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

hi guys, can someone burn me a copy of the latest RH enterprise Linux CDs?? I'l get them pickd up from wherever u are in mumbai. Thanks Gurpreet

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option for LS
by lawrence_d＠sifycorp.com 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

Hi ! Could some one help me out with the option needed for ls -l so that the FULL username and groupname fields is outputted. The default column width for the username and groupname is 8, so i dont get to see the FULL names. Thanks , Cheers, Lawrence.

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PCQ Linux and CHM file
by komal 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

Hello Those of you who have used PCQ Linux 2004 would know that PCQ Linux can open CHM file automatically i.e. PCQ Linux installed some rpm to view CHM file. Unfortunately, I do not remember which rpm I stalled. Can anybody tell me which rpm I should install? Thank you Komal

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sco site hacked
by SeekingGyan 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

The site reads: "Recently we found parts of our code in almost all Microsoft(R) software. We want to bring an action against Microsoft(R) and our legal department is working on that. Parts of code found in in all Microsoft(R) products from MS-DOS(TM) 2.1 to Microsoft(R) Windows(TM) Longhorn. Currently we are checking older MS-DOS sources. It's obvious, that all while (1){ do_something; } and for (i = 0; i < 16; i++) loops came from our code." Clearly a hack it's highly embarassing for SCO who have been subject to lots of hack attempts and DDoS attacks on their servers in recent months. http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?id=25934&category=main

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RAID
by Rony Bill 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

Here is a very simple but informative link about the concept of RAID. http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~yairamir/cs418/os8/sld031.htm Regards, Rony.

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[ILUG-BOM] [commerical] Urgently required PHP developers with 1+ years of experience.
by Brijesh Mishra 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

BlankWe require PHP developers for full time job, having 1+ years of work experience. Salary negotiable. Best Regards, Brijesh Mishra. brijeshm(a)unitek.com

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Net Security
by Vivek J.Patankar 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

On Sun Nov 28 7:35 , 'Rony Bill' <ronbilly(a)hotpop.com> sent: >An antivirus detects viruses after they enter the system and get resident. >Many of my clients are home users so the comp is used by the kids too and >they have their own choices and uses which are difficult to implement in >linux. They are used to the standard programs. That's not quite correct. The two most popular AV solutions, Norton & McAfee, both check files as soon as they are accessed. A file being downloaded from the network is scanned before being saved onto the disk. Executables are also scanned before they are run. I'll give you an example.... some years ago, I installed WinMe & NAV2002 on a friends PC. I updated the AV using the live update feature of NAV. Several days later during an online chat with him over ICQ, as a prank I sent him Sub7 trojan client, under the garb of it being a game. The download completed and the file then promply disappeared. It ended up in the quarantine folder of NAV instead of the specified folder. Vivek

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Invitation to participate in online discussion forum "Free and Open Source Software: Policy and Development Implications"
by Atanu Garai 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

{Apologies for cross-posting} Dear Mumbai Linux User Group, We welcome you to participate in the online discussion forum "Free and Open Source Software: Policy and Development Implications" (FOSS-PDI) at http://lists.apdip.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foss-pdi FOSS-PDI is a joint initiative of Bridges.org, (Cape Town, South Africa); Free and Open Source Software Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA), (Nairobi, Kenya); OneWorld South Asia (OWSA), (New Delhi, India); UNDP-APDIP International Open Source Network (IOSN), (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia); UNDP Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme (APDIP/UNDP), (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia). The multi-stakeholder partners of this e-discussion firmly believe that FOSS is in line with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): because it increases access to, ownership of, and control of knowledge and information through the collaborative development of newer technologies and communication opportunities. FOSS also provides an innovative Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) framework that can be applied in all areas of development theory and practice - advocacy for Free Medicine (e.g. generic HIV/AIDS drugs), Free Seeds (e.g. seed banks), Free Books (e.g. Open Access Movement), Freedom of Information Movement et. al. Therefore the issues being considered central to this debate are: * Opportunities and drawbacks of FOSS for developing countries – the roles of government, civil society, business in the process * FOSS and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – stretching the development dollar for scaling-up impact * The global Intellectual Property Concern - Business monopoly of first world nations software giants VS third world collaborative efforts. * Enabling legal/regulatory/policy framework for country specific strategic evolution of FOSS. * Open-source processes outside the software sector – Free Medicine, Seed Bank, Open Access, Open Archiving etc. * Comparison of proprietary software vis-à-vis FOSS in terms of technical merits –reliability, stability, and vulnerabilities, especially in the context of national security. * FOSS versus Public Domain Software and Freeware – the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of FOSS. * Motivations for contributing to FOSS projects - What motivates FOSS developers to "donate" their time? In the context of developing countries, can these motivators be encouraged by government, civil society and private sector interventions? We expect the deliberations of this on-ine discussion will contribute toward evolution of enabling policy framework on building/using FOSS for developmental interventions. To post to this list, send your email to: foss-pdi(a)lists.apdip.net General information about the mailing list is at: http://lists.apdip.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foss-pdi We are looking forward to your active participation. Thank you. Warm regards, Moderators Sunil Abraham, UNDP/APDIP/IOSN Philipp Schmidt, Bridges,org Bildad Kagai, FOSSFA Naimur Rahman, OWSA Amandeep Singh Grewal, OWSA Atanu Garai, OWSA

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Re: csh scripting Doubt
by Kiran Agashe 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

Hello Manish, Thanks a lot for your response. Unfortunately my query was incomplete. I did not want way to append o/p of `pwd` to variable. What I wanted was a way to expand relative path to absolute path by removing unwanted prefixes such as "." or ".." and any other partial paths. csh by itself expands "~" but not "." and ".." So if I store: set ABC = ./my/relative/path set DEF = `pwd`${ABC} I get string such as: /home/kiran/./my/relative/path in DEF This is a valid path-string, But I wanted to get away with the "." OR in following example set ABC = ../kiran/my/relative/path set DEF = `pwd`${ABC} I will get /home/kiran/../kiran/my/relative/path in DEF which again is a valid-path string. But what I want is, /home/kiran/my/relative/path in DEF One way is: 1. Store current dir in a variable 2. cd to relative path 3. Do pwd and get result 4. Go back to original variable But I hope ther must be a smarter way to do this. Sorry for the incomplte query posted earlier. Thanking you, Best regards, - Kiran >Kiran Agashe wrote: > Or is there any alternative way this can be done in a > csh script? i.e. I have a relative path stored in a > variable, and I want to extract absolute path from >it. >Manish Wrote: >Try: >ABC=/my/relative/path >DEF=`pwd`${ABC} __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Suse 9.2 on Dell PC & Utility Partition Qs
by Shahed Moolji 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

Hi All, I just installed Suse 9.2 on a Dell 4600, with WinXP pre-installed. I used all the default / suggested disk partition settings. My Dell seems to have a "Utility Partition", which was detected by the installer and Grub gives me an option to boot into it. However, I am not able to boot into it I can boot into WinXP though without any problem. If I press F12 when I reboot the PC, there is an option to go into the utility partition, but this just brings up grub. I have not really understood the problem fully, so I dont know what to search for to look for answers :-( Does anyone have ay idea what may have gone on during the install process ? Thanks Shahed

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Net Security
by Rony Bill 28 Nov '04

28 Nov '04

Dear Luggers, Cable internet is a reality that one cannot ignore but it also has its problems of security. Viruses and trojans keep getting in frequently and its quite a nuiscance having to get rid of them often on the same machine. A firewall is not very usefull here as it is in dialup. To access the net, the gateway traffic has to be allowed, so that brings in the unwanted elements too. Being a LAN based system, there is unauthorised traffic from other infected machines too. The clients are all on windows as linux is still not very popular. However, the principles of security should be similar. So what is the way to keep the client machine clean even if the gateway is not so? Regards, Rony.

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New Poll for topic
by lists＠munshi.biz 28 Nov '04

28 Nov '04

Greetings, Anurag has created following poll on my request Which of the following topics will interest you the most for GLUG meet?: 1. How mono works? 2. Philosophy behind mono/.NET and their legal and social issues? 3. How to setup mono with apache for ASP.NET? 4. Database access with mono 5. Creating GUI apps with mono. 6. Develop on Visual Studio.NET and deploy on Apache/Mono Please visit http://db.ilug-bom.org.in/forum/ and vote before 5th December Where is the meeting? Thanks and regards. Amish.

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[ILUG-BOM] any speech to speech softwares for devnagri in open source
by ashwani mahajan 28 Nov '04

28 Nov '04

hi , i would like to know about any speech to text software in open source. like DRAGON NATURALLY SPEAKING for english Micky __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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Open Office
by komal 28 Nov '04

28 Nov '04

Is there any option like Text to Column in Open Office Calc which is available in MS Excel. Thank you Komal

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csh scripting Doubt
by Kiran Agashe 28 Nov '04

28 Nov '04

Hi linuxers, I have a doubt in related to unix directory paths. Is there any unix command to convert a relative path into absolute path? Or is there any alternative way this can be done in a csh script? i.e. I have a relative path stored in a variable, and I want to extract absolute path from it. Thanks, Regards, - Kiran __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com

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Samba and BDC
by komal 28 Nov '04

28 Nov '04

Hello How to configure Samba 3.0.9 as a BDC server ? Thank you Komal

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NCST term
by Nikhil Joshi 28 Nov '04

28 Nov '04

Hi! Can anyone give a link to ncst-term or perhaps mail it to me ? I have searched all over but it seems it is part of some distro or other. I would really like Unicode support in Pine. Thanks, Nikhil -- Miss Wormwood : Calvin where was the Byzantine empire? Calvin : I'll take "outer planets" for $100.

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Differences between Bolnagari and My Keyboard driver
by Sachin A Chavan 28 Nov '04

28 Nov '04

Dear all, Sometimes back Dr. Nagarjun was asking about difference between Bolnagari and My keyboard driver. Please Note These are the differences : ============== Bol-nagari ============== Bolnagari is keyboard layout created by Indlinux team. it supports only phonetic XKb keyboard layout by using compose key feature supported by Operating system. They are just adding the kmaps to the system rest is done by operating system. =================== My keyboard driver =================== 1. This is program written in C using Xlib library. 2. It can supports ITRANS, INSCRIPT, PHONETIC, TYPEWRITER and any Custom Keyboard layout. 3. Not only for Indian languages but also European and Chinese ,Korean, Japanese language Input. 4. It supports all kinds of right to left scripts which are in Unicode range. 5. I have full control over the keyboard. Currently it supports Only Unicode devanagari itrans input. Works perfect on OpenOffice and Koffice. Similarity : It works at system level similar to Bolnagari but have some problems which can be eliminated. Future releases will include : 1. On fly selection of keyboard layout. 2. Display of possible key combinations for keypress. It is not available for Download. those who need it can send me mail at sacindia1(a)rediffmail.com -Sachin Chavan

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] vsnl's new smtp auth settings
by Chirag Wazir 27 Nov '04

27 Nov '04

Hi, > This is about vsnl's new smtp authentication settings. ..... > ..... what to do with linux or even what sort of > authentication they were using. ..... > So how do I go about ascertaining what changes I need to make in my > config ? You only need to make changes in the SMTP settings in your mail client. 1) Set the outgoing SMTP server as smtp.vsnl.net 2) Switch on outgoing server authentication 3) If the client doesn't automatically use the POP login & password for SMTP also, you need to manually put these in. 3a) Make sure you put in the FULL email address as the username, not just the login. I had hell until I figured this out - and the helpdesk didn't know about this. 3b) If you need to set authentication type in your client use "LOGIN" not "PLAIN" or "CRAM-MD5". What these are called depend on your client. Just try sending a test mail to yourself with each possible authentication type till it works :-) Chirag Wazir http://chirag.freeshell.org

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Installer fails to read HD geometry
by komal 25 Nov '04

25 Nov '04

Hello There is a serious problem with FC3 Installer fails to read HD geometry. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=138419 Anybody has solution? Regards Komal

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firewall for Ronny
by Onkar Nawathe 25 Nov '04

25 Nov '04

Rony wrote : The linmodem site has various drivers but the full version is available for a price, not free. The free version is limited to 14kbps. Suppose one were to choose a new internal modem available in lamington road,then what make of linmodem would be best suited for a wide variety,especially on P4 systems and latest linux distros of RedHat, SuSe, Mandrake etc. There are websites for compatible hardware, but If anyone has actually purchased one from Lam. Road and is satisfied with the drivers available and the ease of installation, then the details for the same would be most appreciated. At present I am switching between XP (for internet) and Linux too. Xandros does not have a firewall so its very scary to go online. There are too many entry attempts being detected by my firewall. Regards, Rony. hi rony, as far as linmodems are concerned i have no idea... ....but as far as ur concern abt no firewall in linux is concerned, try installing "clamav" (its a firewall for linux). I downloaded it using apt-get in KNOPPIX...i'm not sure if it works with other OSes. regards, Onkar. Onkar P. Nawathe

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Fedor Core 3 problem
by komal 25 Nov '04

25 Nov '04

Hello I am trying to install fedora core 3 on my system. But every time after booting and showing language selection menu it shows me bug like assertions(sector<=3) and assertions(head>=0) and installation abort abnormally Please help me what is wrong Thank you Regards, Komal

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Re: Re: [ILUG-BOM] How to virus scan HTTP/FTP contents
by vaibhav samant 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

Some pointers / howtos on how to configure Dansguardian for AV scanning. Thank you. Vai On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 sherlock(a)vsnl.com wrote : >On Monday 22 November 2004 20:16, Srinivasan Krishnan wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 02:40, Rakesh wrote: > > > vaibhav samant wrote: > > > >Hello, > > > > > > > >How can I virus scan the HTTP contents. > > > > Dansguardian is GPL'd for noncommercial use > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >If it is GPL'd it can be used commercially. Infact it can be used for any purpose without restrictions except changing the GPL. The author acknowledges this in the last para. >If one wants to profit from this package one can ask the customer to download it (or u set a cron job which will do it for him). U can then charge for the service (cron script), installation and maintanence. > >I am not endorsing the abv bypass tho and am all for the author's pay for commercial use idea. > >GPL'd software is like a gene, once it gets out of your computer there is no way to stop replication / mutation / evolution. > >rgds >jtd > > > >-- >http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Localizaton Newsletter Issue 8 (15 Nov 2004) out
by Sachin A Chavan 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

Hi Karunakar, I am sachin I was working with Prof. Jitendra Shah till March 2004. I have developed Keyboard driver for Unicode Devanagari input. With this it is possible to type in openoffice, koffice, konqueror,mozilla,kate,kwrite,qtranslator,kbabel etc. using itrans. and it can also support inscript,phonetic, typewriter not only for devanagri but for all indian language input. can u give me Indlinux as platform for my work. I would like to meet u for showing the demo. also I need some help on xlib to eliminate problems in the driver. See you later -Sachin On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 Guntupalli Karunakar wrote : >Hi, > Localization Newsletter Issue 8 ( 15th November 2004 ) is out at > http://www.indlinux.org/nl/issue8.html > > Highlights incude > - Editorial on I4D articles and L10n deployment issues > - Multilingualization toolkit ( http://www.m17n.org ) > - Fedora Core 3 release with 5 Indian languages with Lohit set of >Indic fonts. > - CDAC launches Janabharatii project > - Team Watch - on Marathi team activities > - List Watch - a summary of some discussion happened on >Indlinux-group list. > - Help - Volunteers for Debian GUI installer needed. > > Feedback, suggestions etc welcome on <feedback AT indlinux.org> > For older issues of Newsletters, visit http://www.indlinux.org/nl/ > >Regards, >Karunakar > > >-- >http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

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[ Commercial ] Fedora Core 3 Cd 's Available .......
by SHAILESH MAHADIK 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

Dear all, I am Shailesh....... I have all the four Cd's or Fedora Core 3 with me. Any One interested can get the same......... I stay at Badlapur, and work at Andheri ( Thru Ghatkopar Link ) Mail me Personally to get the Cd's Keep the Mailing List Free for Technical Exchanges.. U can get any number of cd from the set of 4 eg. If U have dowloaded upto Disk 2 and want only Disk 3.. or U can all the 4, The choice is Ur's Each Cd is priced at Rs 50 Note: Cd make would be SAMSUNG ( I feel it has good quality) I am not selling the Cd's for My Benefits... I only have a combo drive All the Fund from this Sale will go to FSF India... Also Ubuntu, Knoppix, School Gnoware CDs are available Bye for now, Regards, Shailesh ===== Technology is driving Me CRAZIER .... But Who said I Want To Be SANE !!!! Original Author of Signature :Shailesh.S.Mahadik (ssmahadik(a)yahoo.com) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com

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[Commercial ] Fedora Core 3 Cds Available
by SHAILESH MAHADIK 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

Dear All, I am Shailesh........ I have go all four Cd's of Fedora Core 3 I have a Combo Drive. Any body on the list interested in getting a those can mail me personally. I stay at Badlapur and Work in Andheri ( Thru Ghatkopar Link) So if U are interested U can mail me at my personal mail id.... Please keep the mailing list free for technical exchanges and other noble purposes. Each Cd is priced at Rs 50 U can demand for any specific number of the cd from sequence i.e only cd 2 or cd 3 or all choice is Ur's ( say U have downloaded upto 2nd disk, want only 3rd ) NOTE : CD will be SAMSUNG CD's (I think they are good quality) I am not selling these Cd's for My personal benefit....... Every Rupee of this will go to FSF of INDIA. Ubuntu, Knoppix, School Gnoware CDs are also available. Tell me more, Regards, Shailesh Technology is driving Me CRAZIER .... But Who said I Want To Be SANE !!!! Original Author of Signature :Shailesh.S.Mahadik (ssmahadik(a)yahoo.com) --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! � Try it today!

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lug meet pics
by Anurag Patel 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

Hello, Pictures of November GLUG meet taken by our official photographer :-) Karunakar, are available at <http://www.ilug-bom.org.in/images/nov04>. -Anurag -- ------------------------------------------------ __ __ gnu /noo/ n. Ox like antelope; (abbr.) /gnoo/ n. (recursive acronym) Gnu's Not Unix.

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COMMERCIAL: FC-3 CD's Available
by Rajkumar Adsule 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

Hi all, My previous mail was lil confusing ..Sorry .... Fedora Core 3 CDs are available with me. Whoever willing to have plz mail me off LIST and or call me on 9819812478. The set of 4 CD's will be available for RS.175/-. You can collect them from Bandra. rk

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Minutes: November GLUG-Meet @ Netcore
by Amish Munshi 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

*Details of next GLUG Date: 19 December 2004 Agenda: For December meet we have decided to take up some technical topics. -> Python - by Steve -> Mono - by Amish Venue: -> To be decided after a poll Are you sure that the meeting is on 19th. 12th is the second sunday of December. Amish.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] How to virus scan HTTP/FTP contents
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

On Monday 22 November 2004 20:16, Srinivasan Krishnan wrote: > On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 02:40, Rakesh wrote: > > vaibhav samant wrote: > > >Hello, > > > > > >How can I virus scan the HTTP contents. > Dansguardian is GPL'd for noncommercial use ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ If it is GPL'd it can be used commercially. Infact it can be used for any purpose without restrictions except changing the GPL. The author acknowledges this in the last para. If one wants to profit from this package one can ask the customer to download it (or u set a cron job which will do it for him). U can then charge for the service (cron script), installation and maintanence. I am not endorsing the abv bypass tho and am all for the author's pay for commercial use idea. GPL'd software is like a gene, once it gets out of your computer there is no way to stop replication / mutation / evolution. rgds jtd

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Re: Re: [ILUG-BOM] How to virus scan HTTP/FTP contents
by vaibhav samant 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

Actualy I am looking for a middleware, which will pipe all HTTP contents via the AV engine and back to squid. Just like what MailScanner does. !! Any suggestions... Vai On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 Srinivasan Krishnan wrote : >On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 02:40, Rakesh wrote: > > vaibhav samant wrote: > > > > >Hello, > > > > > >How can I virus scan the HTTP contents. > > >Is there any middleware like MAILSCANNER, > > >which can intercept the HTTP contents, > > >pipe it via the AV and then fwd to the client ?? > > > > > >I am using a Squid Proxy Server. > > > > > >Thank you all in advance. > > >Vai > > > > > > > > > > > > > > you can use dansguardian or safesquid to do tht, but i am not sure > > whether they are available for free. > > > >Dansguardian is GPL'd for noncommercial use, but has a pay-per-use >licence for commerical applications. You might want to check the >website for further details. Dunno about safesquid though. > >K. > > > >-- >http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

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Problems in Fedora core 3 ..........SOS
by SHAILESH MAHADIK 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

Dear all, I had installed FC 3 and found that when system boots and starts rhgb it hangs !! I then replaced the rhgb rpm by the older one in FC 1 and it worked well... I have i810 board with celeron 633 Processor Also I think some issue is present in Xorg ( Xserver) When I have Xserver running and if I switch to my console using alt+ctrl+f1 or any such console .. X get killed.... This I have experienced in Redhat 7.0 on i810 boards but after Redhat 8.0 the Xserver was rock solid, no issues at all........ Can anybody throw light on these two issues.... Ur mail to list and a cc to me ( ssmahadik(a)yahoo.com) is appreciated........... tell me any way to avoid this or atleast some idea why this occuring........ Regards, Shailesh Technology is driving Me CRAZIER .... But Who said I Want To Be SANE !!!! Original Author of Signature :Shailesh.S.Mahadik (ssmahadik(a)yahoo.com) --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! � Try it today!

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Localizaton Newsletter Issue 8 (15 Nov 2004) out
by Guntupalli Karunakar 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

Hi, Localization Newsletter Issue 8 ( 15th November 2004 ) is out at http://www.indlinux.org/nl/issue8.html Highlights incude - Editorial on I4D articles and L10n deployment issues - Multilingualization toolkit ( http://www.m17n.org ) - Fedora Core 3 release with 5 Indian languages with Lohit set of Indic fonts. - CDAC launches Janabharatii project - Team Watch - on Marathi team activities - List Watch - a summary of some discussion happened on Indlinux-group list. - Help - Volunteers for Debian GUI installer needed. Feedback, suggestions etc welcome on <feedback AT indlinux.org> For older issues of Newsletters, visit http://www.indlinux.org/nl/ Regards, Karunakar

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] how about an online meet-up
by gaurav chaturvedi 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

hello, Here are the logs of the online meet. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mumbai_GNULinux/files/ I would like to thank Animesh Singh to give the first talk.Just hope there are more talks. If any one would like to give a talk just let us know. cheers, Gaurav.P.Chaturvedi

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Minutes: November GLUG-Meet @ Netcore
by Anurag 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

*Minutes of November GLUG-Meet @ Netcore* The GNU/Linux Users Group of Mumbai held its November GLUG meet at Netcore Solutions premises at lower parel on 21st Novmber 2004. This meet was attended by about 20 people coming from all over the city (mostly western) Following discussions and talks were conducted. -> Community Building Software - by Veer Bothra Veer talked about the relevence and importance of community building software in todays context. From the era when internet became accessible to the common person, to today's world there has been a lot of change in how people have tried to made communities on the net. From Yahoo! Geocities in those days to Blogs and Ryze of today, the central aim has been same. "To empower the common man with the power to express freely" (and create content for the respective sites unknowingly!). Veer talked about the in and out of community building software and their importance. [Tea break] -> Semantic Web - by Nagarjuna Nagarjuna talked about his vision of the semantic web computing model. He gave update about Gnowledge project aimed to create a new framework of semantic computing. -> Presentation slides are available at: http://emergic.org/ctxbin/wiki.pl Pictures of this meet are available with (hacker turned photographer) Karunakar. *Details of next GLUG Meet* Date: 19 December 2004 Agenda: For December meet we have decided to take up some technical topics. -> Python - by Steve -> Mono - by Amish Venue: -> To be decided after a poll Please see homepage for updates on next GLUG meet -Anurag -- ----------------------------------------------- __ __ gnu /noo/ n. Ox like antelope; (abbr.) /gnoo/ (recursive acronym) Gnu's Not Unix.

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How to virus scan HTTP/FTP contents
by vaibhav samant 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

Hello, How can I virus scan the HTTP contents. Is there any middleware like MAILSCANNER, which can intercept the HTTP contents, pipe it via the AV and then fwd to the client ?? I am using a Squid Proxy Server. Thank you all in advance. Vai

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[Article] [Link] Redhat Magazine
by Vinayak Hegde 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

Here's the link to the first issue fo Redhat Magazine. http://www.redhat.com/magazine/ Some interesting articles on User Mode Linux , Fedora Core 3 and SE Linux. --> Vinayak

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COMMERCIAL: Fedora Core 3 CD's Available
by Rajkumar Adsule 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

Hi all , Good News !!! Fedora Core Cd's are available with me Whoever willing to have plz mail me off LIST and or call me on 9819812478 and 9892714151 The pack of 4 CD's will be available for RS.175/- RK

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xconq
by Kenneth Gonsalves 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

now available on sourceforge also http://sourceforge.net/projects/xconq enjoy kg

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[Commercial] Required PHP Programmers
by OSPOnline 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

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Linux Testing
by amol 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

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Modem
by Pratap Prabhakar 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

Hi, I have Intex-PcTel HSP56 modem with me. Its working perfectly on my Win XP. I recently working on shifting over to Linux. But cannot complete that as my Modem does not work with Fedora Core 2. Please let me know if there are any drivers for the same. If I have to replace my modem which is the best compatible (and cheap!!) modem if I need to work with fedora. regards Prabhakar

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Modem
by Pratap Prabhakar 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

H, I have tried different drivers with my current modem. My machine shows the details as ----:---- Class 0703: 134d:2189 Modem: PCTel Inc: Unknown device 2189 (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [Generic]) SubSystem 134d:1002 PCTel Inc: Unknown device 1002 Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 9 Memory at ff8fe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) I/O ports at d800 [size=256] So I am not sure if the modem chipset is recognized or not. The above was obtained using "scanModem" utility from linux compatible. one of the threads which closely relate to the problem I am facing is http://www.linuxcompatible.org/thread1001-1.html but even that is inconclusive. Is it advisible to try an older kernel instead of 2.6.x or try different modem? regards Prabhakar

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux Bangalore 04
by Raseel Bhagat 21 Nov '04

21 Nov '04

Hi Philip, I'm planning to come there. Unless work gets me all tied up. Raseel Bhagat. On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 Philip Tellis wrote : >Any of you guys gonna be at Linux Bangalore 2004? We'll be having >several informal BoF meets there. > >Philip > >-- >http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers Raseel Bhagat

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killing a known process
by abhilash kumar 21 Nov '04

21 Nov '04

Helllo: I am trying to write a shell script to get the process id of a particular process (slapd) and then kill that using 'kill -9 $pid'. I can get the pid by using prid= pidof slapd An echo of this for testing gives me the pid number followed by a blank line and then the prompt. Now the problem is when I am trying to use this variable in various forms in the shell script and get errors. option 1: kill -9 $prid Output: 20685 kill: usage: kill [-s sigspec | -n signum | -sigspec] [pid | job]... or kill -l [sigspec] ========================= Option 2: actual= "kill -9 $prid" echo $actual Output: 20685 ./testscript: line 4: kill -9 : command not found ========================== Option 3: actual="kill -9 $prid" echo $actual Output: 20685 kill -9 #The process is still running. Can you shed some light on where I am going wrong? Thank you very much. All help appreciated. **************************************** Try $pkill <process-name> Abhilash ___________________________________________________________ ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] >>Problem with boot<<
by Raseel Bhagat 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 BIJU KRISHNAN wrote : >I cannot boot into WINDOWS: >When I booted my machine I got two options DOS and Linux, when i select Linux it boots fine, when i select DOS i get an error > >Disk write error >Pls press any key to reboot > >These are the things that I tried : > >1. I erased the MBR and then did a lilo -v in rescue mode. No luck although. > >2. Tried installing grub instead of lilo > >grub-install /dev/hda > >No luck > >3. I erased the MBR and then re-installed WINDOWS in the same folder C:\WINNT When you re-installed Windows, GRUB/LILO should have been overwritten by the NTLDR and you should have been able to boot Windows. Or atleast after that, GRUB should have been inaccessible. What exactly happened after you reinstalled Windows in C:\WINNT? Raseel Bhagat

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Help! Can't boot into linux after re-installing Win XP.
by Sarfaraz Kazi 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

Hi Linuxers, I'm having problem booting into my linux installation. I have Win XP on C: drive and root is on hda8. Recently, I had to re-install XP due to which, I guess, the MBR has got overwritten. Now, I don't get LILO on bootup. My distro is Mandrake 9.1 . Before re-installing XP, I had created a boot floppy from the Mandrake Control Centre module. I tried to boot using this floppy. It gives the boot prompt. I tried several commands at this prompt: /sbin/lilo linux linux image=/boot/vmlinuz linux root=/dev/hda8 Nothing works. Error message thrown up is "kernel image not found" or something like that. The floppy contains only one file by the name of "ldlinux" Next, I tried to use the rescue mode from the installation CD. The steps I followed are: 1. Boot into installation CD. 2. Press F1 for more options. 3. Type rescue at the boot prompt. 4. Screen shows - "Please wait - Loading program into memory" and shows these options at the bottom - "Alt-F1 for here, Alt-F3 to see the logs, Alt-F4 for kernel msgs". 5. On pressing Alt-F3, screen shows - *found a Mandrake Linux CDROM, good news! *trying to load /tmp/image/Mandrake/base/rescue_stage2.bz2 as a ramdisk 6. On pressing Alt-F4, screen shows- <4> hdc : ATAPI reset complete <6> end_request : I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 1261592 <4> hdc : cd_rom_decode_status : status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error} <4> hdc : cd_rom_decode_status : error=0x30 LastFailedSense 0x03 ...and on it goes. After some time, the main screen gives this message- "ERROR - Could not uncompress second stage ramdisk. This is probably an hardware error while reading the data. (this may be caused by a hardware failure or a linux kernel bug)" On pressing OK the screen goes blank and nothing happens. My installation CD is a little scratched but it used to work perfectly earlier. Could this be the problem? Is there any other way that I can remedy this situation? Please help. Regards, Sarfaraz Kazi The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none have tried to contact us. - Calvin. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] RAM Testing
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

What line should I add to the grub.conf file so that this extra > partition can now be added to the boot list? I have XP, RHEL and > Xandros installed in my system. My current boot loader is grub from > Xandros. in Debian edit /boot/grub/menu.lst (that is the default conf file). Add these lines to the end title memtest86 root (hdx,y) kernel /abcd ro root=/dev/hda5 where x is the ide disk (0=1st drive, 1=2nd drive etc) y is the partition (0=1st partition 1=2nd etc) abcd is your kernel usually file named vmlinuz rgds jtd

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Linux Bangalore 04
by Philip Tellis 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

Any of you guys gonna be at Linux Bangalore 2004? We'll be having several informal BoF meets there. Philip

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Cron job. how to shift the running time for this one.
by Amish Mehta 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

>> It usually runs at 2 minutes past 4, and is found in /etc/cron.daily on >> RedHat (and derivatives). >Hi Devdas, The Script is in /etc/cron.daily and its described above. >However, I need to know how to change the time from current time to >one hour prior? See /etc/crontab you might as well want to read man crond man 5 crontab man anacron Amish.

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Mega LUG meet / BoF session at LB/04
by Guntupalli Karunakar 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

Hi all, There is a plan to have a Mega LUG meet / BoF Session, where people coming from different LUGs / places across country for LB/04 , would meet and discuss on how to make FLOSS grow in India. Some aspects that could be discussed are - How to increase FLOSS usage in education/organizational/individual levels. - How to encourage students to participate in FLOSS development - Increasing LUGs scope and reach. - TODO: suggest more points of discussion. More suggestions/ideas on how this could go about are welcome (& needed) Here this idea is not just meet up and have a fruitful discussion, but also evolve some kind of charter or roadmap, which could also be translated into some action. Duration of meet could be 90-120 mins. A rough plan on how it could go about #1 First get some common agenda / points which would form basis of #discussion in the meet ( these could be chalk out on list discussions #) 2 Those who may not be able to make it to the meet, can post their #view on LIG/LB04 list or in their respective LUG list (& someone fwd #it directly to me or to LIG/LB04 list ). 3 Those who would be making #for LB04 , make sure you are there for the meet Once the points for discussion are fixed, it would be good to have some people who have experience on them speak for few minutes, to set the ball rolling on those issues. Also we would need some volunteers, who can take some notes on discussions , summarise it and prepare up a report and a charter/roadmap/action plan document. Please fwd this mail to LUG list ur on if its not already posted there. Regards, Karunakar

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[ILUG-BOM] [Commercial] Opening for Search Engine Friendly Content Developer
by New Immigrant new 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

There is a contract-to-hire onsite opening for a content developer with expertise in online marketing and search engine friendly html pages development. Some of the Responsibilities and qualifications for the position are: *To generate informative and organized content for a Web Hosting company. *To ensure a high quality site with excellent marketing and support information for both current and prospective customers. *To develop pages with a higher search engine ranking in mind. *Familiarity with writing search engine friendly pages. *Excellent command over written and spoken english. *Ability to work long hours and at odd hours. *A nitpicker. Attention to detail should be an inherent trait. *Web Surfing Junkie. *The candidate should have a proven track record displaying interest and proficiency in this kind of work, else you wont be doing justice to yourself or the job. *Be able to customize content available in the public domain to increase website reach and appeal. *Be able to work independently as well as in teams. *Open to constructive criticism. *Programming expertise not essential, but can be a added advantage to the company as well as to the candidate. *To work closely with the Sales Team to ensure relevant content to drive sales activities. If interested, please send an email to the above address attn: Sagar along with your Resume, Salary expectations and work samples. This is a position based in Mumbai city. thank you, _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/

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Re: Linuxers Digest, Vol 19, Issue 28
by Onkar Nawathe 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

>Dear Linuxers, > >Due to my constant fooling arnd with GRUB and LILO and the MBR, i now face a problem. > >I cannot boot into WINDOWS: > >When I booted my machine I got two options DOS and Linux, when i select Linux it boots fine, when i select DOS i get an error > >Disk write error >Pls press any key to reboot > >These are the things that I tried : > >1. I erased the MBR and then did a lilo -v in rescue mode. No luck although. > >2. Tried installing grub instead of lilo > >grub-install /dev/hda > >No luck > >3. I erased the MBR and then re-installed WINDOWS in the same folder C:\WINNT > >I'am using windows2k professional. > >Could somebody suggest a remedy.....! > >bye rgds >PP BIJU KRISHAN >When you re-installed Windows, GRUB/LILO should have been overwritten by the NTLDR and you should have been able to boot Windows. Or atleast after that, GRUB should have been inaccessible. > >What exactly happened after you reinstalled Windows in C:\WINNT? > >Raseel Bhagat I agree with Raseel Bhagat. after u reinstall windows , MBR should get over written, with linux not being accessible to you, i.e. there will not be any grub/lilo left and u would not be able to boot in to linux. ...even i'm curious as to what happened after u installed windows. regards, Onkar Nawathe Onkar P. Nawathe

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Cron job. how to shift the running time for this one.
by Vivek J.Patankar 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

On Fri Nov 19 4:09 , 'New Immigrant new' <newimmigrant(a)hotmail.com> sent: >Hi. >Got this script running in a cron job daily. and its called slocate.cron >Now it runs daily at a certain time. say 6 PM. I need to shift it to say 5 >PM. I just cannot seem to find that option anywhere. >I did a crontab -l but there is no listing for the script above. Try in /var/spool/cron/ This folder contains cron files for all users. VJP

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November GLUG meet
by Venkatesh Hariharan 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

Just a reminder to all about the next GLUG meet to be held this Sunday. Venky ===== The theme for the next GLUG meet is "Free/Open Source Community Software." There is a tremendous amount of innovation that is happening in the area of community software with sites like Ryze, Linked In, Orkut etc growing rapidly in popularity. Blogs are another form of community software that have become very popular in recent times. One of the speakers at the upcoming GLUG meet is Veer Bothra who manages Blogstreet.com. Amish, do you want to talk about Mono at this meeting? Also, many of us will be away from Mumbai on the second Sunday of November (myself included) because of the long weekend for Diwali. I therefore suggest that the next GLUG meet be held on 21st November 2004 between 3PM-5PM. The venue for the same will be Netcore's office [1] in Lower Parel. Feedback, suggestions, speakers welcome! Venky [1] http://www.emergic.com/contact/directions.html

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regarding tally
by santosh rao 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

Derwyn "I too had a problem runing tally 6.3 in wine but try a lower version 5.4 version it works on wine. As far as printing problem goes I just adjusted the margins and it worked. Try it Hope it works." can u just guide me on how to adjusting the margins of tally, i dont have the right know-how of tally. -- "He who fights monsters should look to it that he himself does not become one." - Friedrich Nietzche -- "He who fights monsters should look to it that he himself does not become one." - Friedrich Nietzche

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PP BIJU KRISHNAN
by deshpande＠vsnl.com 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

hELLO Cannot MBR into Windows Pl boot with a DOS / Win98 bootable floppy and then isuue command fdisk /mbr M DESHPANDE M Deshpande Tel 022-34161718

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[ILUG-BOM] [Commercial] Linux & PHP Trainee/Junior Programmer Required
by Abhishek Daga 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

There is an opening for a trainee/junior level linux administrator/php programmer based in south mumbai. The skills required are as follows: a) PHP : 6 months. b) MySQL c) Linux (Redhat9.0, FreeBSD) d) Good Documentation skills. e) Flexible shifts (Noon to Late Evening) f) Attention to detail. Pluses: 1)Perl programming 2) Search Engine Optimization techniques This is a 6 month contract with a possibility of a full time hire. Interested candidates, please email your resume along with salary requirements. Thank you, Abhishek __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Tally Problem
by Derwyn Dpenha 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

>tally ckearky says it is not designed to work in win. I too had a problem runing tally 6.3 in wine but try a lower version 5.4 version it works on wine. As far as printing problem goes I just adjusted the margins and it worked. Try it Hope it works. Derwyn

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>>Problem with boot<<
by BIJU KRISHNAN 18 Nov '04

18 Nov '04

Dear Linuxers, Due to my constant fooling arnd with GRUB and LILO and the MBR, i now face a problem. I cannot boot into WINDOWS: When I booted my machine I got two options DOS and Linux, when i select Linux it boots fine, when i select DOS i get an error Disk write error Pls press any key to reboot These are the things that I tried : 1. I erased the MBR and then did a lilo -v in rescue mode. No luck although. 2. Tried installing grub instead of lilo grub-install /dev/hda No luck 3. I erased the MBR and then re-installed WINDOWS in the same folder C:\WINNT I'am using windows2k professional. Could somebody suggest a remedy.....! bye rgds PP BIJU KRISHAN --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Discover all that�s new in My Yahoo!

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[Commercial] Job opening for Project Managers
by OSPOnline 18 Nov '04

18 Nov '04

Greetings, We have immediate openings for Project Managers having atleast 3-4 yrs experience and domain knowledge in Linux & Perl. Those interested may send their profiles to jobs(a)ospians.com or contact the undersigned off the list. Regards, Aishwarya Email: aishwarya(a)ospians.com Mobile: +91 98208 79303

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November GLUG meet
by Venkatesh Hariharan 18 Nov '04

18 Nov '04

The theme for the next GLUG meet is "Free/Open Source Community Software." There is a tremendous amount of innovation that is happening in the area of community software with sites like Ryze, Linked In, Orkut etc growing rapidly in popularity. Blogs are another form of community software that have become very popular in recent times. One of the speakers at the upcoming GLUG meet is Veer Bothra who manages Blogstreet.com. Amish, do you want to talk about Mono at this meeting? Also, many of us will be away from Mumbai on the second Sunday of November (myself included) because of the long weekend for Diwali. I therefore suggest that the next GLUG meet be held on 21st November 2004 between 3PM-5PM. The venue for the same will be Netcore's office [1] in Lower Parel. Feedback, suggestions, speakers welcome! Venky http://www.emergic.com/contact/directions.html

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] RAM Testing
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 17 Nov '04

17 Nov '04

On Wednesday 17 November 2004 15:29, Rony Bill wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <sherlock(a)vsnl.com> > > > Not quite. repeat the test. If it hangs again something is > > definetly not right with ur pc. Probable instability in access > > timings at alleviated tempratures / clock skew / nisy psu /etc. > > My system is working fine and I use original software so no reboot > problems. I even test a lot of software. How did you create the > boot floppy? Maybe my process was not correct. I took the > memtest.iso and burned it into a CD using nero. Then I booted using > the CD. What process did you use? Created a seperate partition and installed the stuff. Booted using grub. Using a cd should not make a difference though. And as usual use whatever suits u best. rgds jtd > > Rony

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Re: Tally
by santosh rao 17 Nov '04

17 Nov '04

kg , wht if the existing pgsql cant be changed, tht roles out the question of avsap, iam -- "He who fights monsters should look to it that he himself does not become one." - Friedrich Nietzche

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LFY: Software with this month (November's) CDs
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 17 Nov '04

17 Nov '04

Please post to other lists. FN Some of the software included in this month's CDs: * MEPISLinux ("A desktop Linux the way you want it... hundreds of of software programs are pre-installed and fully configured to use". Also a choice of kernels.) * Fedora Core 2 Updates * Kernel 2.6.8.1 and patches * DISTRO: VectorLinux 181 MB live distro * DISTRO: DragonLinux: installs on Windows * DISTRO: Damn Small Linux: 50 MB live Linux * GAMES: Wormux and Daimonin * UTILITIES: FreeDOS, KDevelop, Firefox web browser, Mozilla suite, SmoothWall-Firewall, GIMP image manipulation program, GTK (GIMP Took Kit). FN ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frederick Noronha (FN) Nr Convent Saligao 403511 GoaIndia Freelance Journalist P: 832-2409490 M: 9822122436 http://www.livejournal.com/users/goalinks http://fn.swiki.net http://www.ryze.com/go/fredericknoronha http://fn-floss.notlong.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Difficulties to send email across? Write to fredericknoronha at vsnl.net ============================================================================ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] RAM Testing
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 17 Nov '04

17 Nov '04

On Tuesday 16 November 2004 18:13, Rony Bill wrote: > Hello Luggers, > > I tried the softwares for a bootable RAM tester floppy from both > the sites below. > > http://www.memtest86.com/ > > www.simmtester.com > > The simmtester worked excellently. The memtest one hung my (good) > comp half way while testing. So the simmtester one is worth keeping > in your handy floppy collection, to check for bad RAMs. Not quite. repeat the test. If it hangs again something is definetly not right with ur pc. Probable instability in access timings at alleviated tempratures / clock skew / nisy psu /etc. I have found memtest86 to be vry good - if the pc fails in 24 hrs running the tests, it will not work reliable (no reboots for 6 months = reliable) > > Regards, > > Rony.

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[Commercial] Freelance Linux Trainers required
by Optimal Solutions 17 Nov '04

17 Nov '04

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Tally Problem
by Saswata Banerjee 17 Nov '04

17 Nov '04

tally ckearky says it is not designed to work in win. Rishi <rishi(a)gangfam.com> wrote: __________ >> Correct. >> >> Komal > >Mr. Sanjeev Chauhan - posted this to me off the list.... >================================================= >Using WINE is no solution. Please use Tally 6.3 on RHEL. Tally 6.3 is a >certified product on RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) WS 3...in short >Tally is available on Red Hat. > >regards >Sanjeev Chauhan >Technical Consultant >================================================= > >not sure if this is true. > >Regards > >Rishi > >-- >http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

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Tally Problem
by santosh rao 17 Nov '04

17 Nov '04

i am trying to run tally in wine, now when i give a print of large data, tally instead of squeezing the data ignores some data. does nebody have ne idea on how to get this to work. i am using slackware linux 9.1, and tally 5.4 -- "He who fights monsters should look to it that he himself does not become one." - Friedrich Nietzche

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[OT][$$$] Ingres® Million Dollar Challenge
by Sachin Rase 17 Nov '04

17 Nov '04

http://www3.ca.com/Solutions/Collateral.asp?CID=61137 "Here's one you just might love — and so will your bank account — if you decide to accept The Ingres Million Dollar Challenge. CA is offering cash awards with a total purse of $1 million to the members of the open source community that develop applications to convert, transform and migrate data and applications from the selected databases to the Ingres database. Applications will be reviewed and selected by a panel of judges from CA and the open source community, and the winners will be announced during caworldsm 2005 in Orlando, Florida." -- -- Sachin Rase GNU\Linux enthusiast 91-9819246569

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Freezing HDDs
by Rony Bill 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

Sometime back there was talk about freezing hard disk drives. "An executive who froze his broken hard disk thinking it would be fixed has topped a list of the weirdest computer mishaps. " http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4003733.stm Regards, Rony.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Tally Problem
by Saswata Banerjee 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

tally ckearky says it is not designed to work in win. Rishi <rishi(a)gangfam.com> wrote: __________ >> Correct. >> >> Komal > >Mr. Sanjeev Chauhan - posted this to me off the list.... >================================================= >Using WINE is no solution. Please use Tally 6.3 on RHEL. Tally 6.3 is a >certified product on RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) WS 3...in short >Tally is available on Red Hat. > >regards >Sanjeev Chauhan >Technical Consultant >================================================= > >not sure if this is true. > >Regards > >Rishi > >-- >http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

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RAM Testing
by Rony Bill 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

Hello Luggers, I tried the softwares for a bootable RAM tester floppy from both the sites below. http://www.memtest86.com/ www.simmtester.com The simmtester worked excellently. The memtest one hung my (good) comp half way while testing. So the simmtester one is worth keeping in your handy floppy collection, to check for bad RAMs. Regards, Rony.

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Should vi be doing it?
by abhilash kumar 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

Hi Well the directory has 777 permissions, and I mean any user "xyz" not only "root". But the point is that as the file is readonly how is vi allowing to do forced write, and change the ownership of file? Even if it allows this then should't it be restricted to root or at most the owner/group-members!! The version of vi that I use is "vim-enhanced-6.2.98-1" on a RedHat9. Abhilash ___________________________________________________________ Win a castle for NYE with your mates and Yahoo! Messenger http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Re: Re: [ILUG-BOM] how about an online meet-up
by Raseel Bhagat 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

Hi, I agree with this point too. I'm in Bangalore, but I'd like to participate in the Bombay ILUG discussions. So lets, do the Yahoo idea! On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 Adil Kodian wrote : > > > > > > These aren't things that need to be arranged. People should always be > > > online in the lug chatroom. Most of us from around India hang out in > > > #linux-india on irc.freenode.net, and we have these online meet-ups > > > about once a day for 24 hours at a time. > >forming an auxillary IRC, Yahoo - etc list/room/group would be a good >idea - as a) not everyone on this list is in mumbai and b) not >everyone may be in town on the day of the meeting. > >-- >http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers Raseel Bhagat

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Linux Administrator
by komal 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

What constitute as a *qualified* Linux System administrator ? Thank you

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[TidBit] Java Vs. .NET
by Amol Hatwar 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

This is link is a must see. It gives 101 reasons why Java is better than .NET. The 101st reason is a good one :). Here's the link: http://www.manageability.org/manageabilityWiki/WhyJavaIsBetterThanDotNet Enjoy. ah ---- Note: This link is being given in jest, not for starting debates and battles.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Bittorent Fedora 3 problem
by Vinayak Hegde 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 17:03:42 +0530, Sujeet Bhatt <sujeet.bhatt(a)gmail.com> wrote: > The md5sum file is the last one to be downloaded. I'm still waiting > for it. The question is: if the md5sum does not match, will all this > downloading over several days be in vain? Or will Bittorrent somehow > resurrect the files to their pristine glory after all of them have > been downloaded? If all the files are downloaded and md5sums do not match, it is a waste of time and bandwidth. Sad but true :(.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Freezing HDDs
by Vivek J.Patankar 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

On Sun Nov 14 22:36 , gaurav chaturvedi <gaurav.p.chaturvedi(a)gmail.com> sent: > I have the file up-loaded the Techrepublic file in pdf version size = 552 kb. >You can download The pdf file from this link >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mumbai_GNULinux/files/ It's available to group members only. What of non-members? Vivek

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Need Linux software
by komal 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

I need Fedora Core 3,Suse Professional 9.2. Thank you Komal

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Redhat enterprise support
by komal 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

What are list members experience about Red Hat Enterprise Linux support and services? It is worth paying huge amount of money for support? After reading article on lwn about Enterprise Linux: is it broken? (http://lwn.net/Articles/109527/) I wonder whitebox Linux initiatives worth following. Is it true that numbers of Red Hat supports call are found on popular Linux news group? Regards Komal

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Freezing HDDs
by Vivek J.Patankar 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

On Sun Nov 14 9:10 , 'Rony Bill' <ronbilly(a)hotpop.com> sent: >Sometime back there was talk about freezing hard disk drives. > >"An executive who froze his broken hard disk thinking it would be fixed has >topped a list of the weirdest computer mishaps. " > >http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4003733.stm Some years back I read a whitepaper from techrepublic.com about harddisk failures and what to do in such cases. Freezing a harddisk was one of things to try incase it won't spin up. The paper even mentioned of a hard disk that used to spin-up only when tapped on the side with a screwdriver, and stopped immediately. According to the report, the technician attending the problem continuously tapped the disk for two hours so that the client could transfer his data to another harddisk.

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Filesystem Check
by Sandesh Singh 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

I wanted to know if there is any 'scandisk' sort of utility for Linux. I know about "fsck", but it warns me against running it on mounted filesystems. It doesn't run even in the single user mode. Actually, after I went thru the startup scripts (Fedora Core 1), I saw that it checked for a command line argument ("forcefsck") and ran the checking utility. That worked. But is there a better solution than that? I mean, everytime I want to check the filesystem, I dont want to go thru grub. -- [ Sandy ] Windows [noun] A thirty-two bit extension and GUI shell to a sixteen bit patch to an eight bit operating system originally coded for a four bit microprocessor and sold by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition. Visit me : http://sandesh247.blogspot.com/ Or : http://www.geocities.com/sandesh247/

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Is this supposed to happen!!!!!!
by abhilash kumar 14 Nov '04

14 Nov '04

Hi all, Consider a file with read-only permissions for all that is r--r--r-- is a directory with permissions of 777. The owner of the file is say a user "abc". 1.Any other user say "xyz" can write to this file after opening it with vi using a forced write(wq!). 2.After the forced write "xyz" becomes the owner of the file. Abhilash ___________________________________________________________ ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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PHP problem solved..
by abhilash kumar 14 Nov '04

14 Nov '04

Hi all Thanks for the help provided I could install and work on PHP 4.3.4 finally.... abhilash ___________________________________________________________ Moving house? Beach bar in Thailand? New Wardrobe? Win £10k with Yahoo! Mail to make your dream a reality. Get Yahoo! Mail www.yahoo.co.uk/10k

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What is the meaning of these?
by komal 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

Hello In top command output I see aio/0,ato/0,events/0,kacpid,kblocked/0,pdflush,scsi_eh_o,migration/0 without any command evoked. What are all these command or process resoponcible? thank you Komal

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RE: [ILUG-BOM] Linux home networking
by Pillai, Gishu R (GE Energy) 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

> > Task 1 : Activate the network card does it detect the ethernet card? kg Yeah it does show the Card details .. it's a DLink Lan Card. So it shows "Realtek ...." If "redhat-config-network-gui" is the same dialog brought up from the Desktop Start Menu->System..->Network. I tried that before posting here.. it shows the network card inactive. I tried putting in a static IP instead of the default DHCP, didn't work. I get a message box "Unable to activate..."

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[Admin] Festival Alert
by Linuxers Admin 11 Nov '04

11 Nov '04

The festival season is here. Diwali, Id, Christmas and New Year are upon us. There's a danger that this list will get swamped with greetings. I request people not to send messages with the sole purpose of wishing all list members. It's fine to attach a text only greeting at the bottom of your ON TOPIC messages. Thanks -- List Admin

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HAPPY DIWALI
by Rony Bill 11 Nov '04

11 Nov '04

Wishing everyone at ILUG-BOM a very Happy Diwali and a Prosperous New Year. May the new year bring new ideas and technology that will move our Nation further ahead to new heights. Keep up the scientific temper. Best Wishes, Rony.

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Knoppix doesnt detect my CDs
by Onkar Nawathe 11 Nov '04

11 Nov '04

hi I use knoppix 3.4. When i load cd into my cdrom or into my cdRW and click on the CD-ROM icons under devices i get the follwing error message twice.... 1. mount: special device /dev/cdrom1 does not exist Please check that the disk is entered correctly 2.mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist Please check that the disk is entered correctly Also k3b deos not detect any CD-ROMs or CD-RWs in the I use a Asus CD-RW writer and a Samsung CD-ROM I did not encounter any problems when i tried to burn CDs in Xandros (but the burning speed is too less - 4KBps). Can anybody guide me as to what might be going wrong and how to tackle this situation. By the way, Happy Dipawali guys. Hope u enjoy a crackerless but a bright diwali....enjoy!! regards, Onkar Nawathe. Onkar P. Nawathe

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[OT] Happy Diwali All !!
by risqer 11 Nov '04

11 Nov '04

Hope you all have great holidays and a blessed new year! -- Regards, Saurabh Sawant. (risqer). http://www.x31.aboho.com

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Fedora Core 3 released
by Venkatesh Hariharan 11 Nov '04

11 Nov '04

Fedora Core 3 is now available for download. FC3 includes support for Hindi, Punjabi, Gujrati, Bangla and Tamil. The Lohit family of fonts for these languages are included with FC3. These fonts have been released under GPL. http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html Venky

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Php Problem
by abhilash kumar 10 Nov '04

10 Nov '04

Hi Sorry I forgot the error_log it says "child exit signal Segmentation fault (11)". <?php phpinfo(); ?> also produces the same result. short_open_tag is set to "on". Abhilash ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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RE: [ILUG-BOM] Unable to boot from new Image after compilation of kernel
by Srinivas G. 10 Nov '04

10 Nov '04

> -----Original Message----- > From: noel seq [mailto:noelseq@hotmail.com] > Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2004 5:33 PM > To: linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in > Subject: [ILUG-BOM] Unable to boot from new Image after compilation of > kernel > > > Hi, > > I am trying to load scsi drivers on my RHL8.0 kernel 2.4.18-14. As per the > driver docs, I need to rebuild the kernel with scsi support and then load > the modules. > > I have run the following; > > make menuconfig > make dep > make bzImage > > The image is created in /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot directory and have > copied the same to /boot > > edited /etc/grub.conf and added the new image as initrd /bzImage > > When I try to boot into linux using this kernel I get the following > message. > > VFS: Cannot open boot device "LABEL=/" > please append a correct "root=" boot option > kernel panic :VFS: unable to mount root fs on 00:00 > > Am able to boot using the previously installed kernel. > The other lines in grub.conf are copy/pasted and same as previous entries. > > Where am I going wrong. > > Do I really need to recompile the kernel or is there some other way to > load > the scsi drivers. > > One more info, once I make bzImage, it gives me the following information: > Boot sector is 512 bytes > setup is 4774 bytes > ssytem is 1144 kb > kernel is too high for standalone boot from floppy > make [1] leaving ....... > > I tried deselecting some of the options like bluetooth, etc in make > menuconfig, but the size of the bzImage does not go below 950Kb. > > Regards, > > Noel > > _________________________________________________________________ > The all-new MSN Search. Get fast and precise results. > http://search.msn.co.in Try it now! > Dear noel, Please follow the following steps to build the new image kernel. You have not mentioned the kernel version here. For 2.4.x kernel, please follow the following steps. All these steps should perform from the kernel source directory i.e. /usr/src/linux-2.4 1. make menuconfig - we can do the modifications here. 2. make dep - updates the dependencies. 3. make bzImage - creates the image file under i386 directory. 4. make modules 5. make modules_install - before executing this command please change the EXTRAVERSION variable in the source directory under linux/version.h Based on this name it will create the modules directory under /lib/modules... 6. make install - This will copy the System.map and bzImage files to /boot directory and creates the links and finally updates /etc/grub.conf files. For more information please follow the following link. http://www.cpqlinux.com/kernel.html Regards, Srinivas G

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Problem working with php
by abhilash kumar 10 Nov '04

10 Nov '04

Hi all, I am facing some problems with working on "php". I have installed Apache 2 as the webserver on a RedHat 9.I also have mysql installed. I downloaded the php-5.0.2 source and on running the ./configure --with-mysql --with-apxs2 there are no error messages. make and make install also don't give any error messages. In the httpd.conf file th following lines were added LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so AddType application/x-httpd-php .php But then upon opening any "php" file I still get a blank page in the browser. The Apache server is works well with html files. I will be greatful for the help.Thanks in advance. Abhilash ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Problem working with php
by Amish Munshi 10 Nov '04

10 Nov '04

>>>linuxwarrier(a)yahoo.co.uk 11/09 5:26 pm >>> Hi all, But then upon opening any "php" file I still get a blank page in the browser. The Apache server is works well with html files. What does the log files of httpd speak?

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RE: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] My PC won't start...Please help!
by Sarfaraz Kazi 09 Nov '04

09 Nov '04

> On Sun Nov 7 7:06 , Sarfaraz Kazi <sarzkazi(a)yahoo.com> sent: > > >the motherboard manual says that you have to short the > >solder points in order to clear the cmos before you > >put in the new battery. can anybody please guide as to > >how to locate these solder points and how to short > >them. > > Clearing the CMOS is usually done by shorting two pins on the > motherboard using > a jumper. Details of where these two pins should be found > will/should be in the > motherboard manual. In certain motherboard types the CMOS is > cleared by keeping a > designated key depressed and switching it on. > In case you cannot locate the pins, CMOS can also be cleared > by removing the > CMOS battery. > Vivek IT WORKS....IT WORKS....IT WORKS!!!! Whew!! got the machine to run, at last. the contact between the cpu and the heatsink turned out to be the culprit. just took out the heatsink/fan, re-applied some thermal compound and put it back in. Voila! everything's fine with the world again!! Thanks to all of you for your kind help, advice and suggestions. ilug-bom rocks!!! yooohoooo :-). Sarfaraz. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com

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Developing File Systems
by Concepts 09 Nov '04

09 Nov '04

Hello All, Concepts has always been in forefront for providing software professionals with right directions, methodology to ensure that they remain on cutting edge of development and continue to win, with quality training from experienced Industry Experts. We are extremely happy to announce first of its kind special �File System Driver Workshop�. Don�t miss this opportunity to see first-hand how Concepts illustrates File System Fundamentals with a discussion of broader operating systems issues for developers as well as practical issues related to development of FSD and Filter Drivers. Total Duration: 24-30 Hrs (Only on WeekEnds) Cost: Rs. 6000 per participant Venue: Concepts, Kothrud, Pune, India. If you have any queries feel free to call us on 020 56261180 / 09822773721. Or mail us at info(a)conceptssys.com Thanks & Regards, Team, Concepts. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com

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Linux home networking
by Pillai, Gishu R (GE Energy) 09 Nov '04

09 Nov '04

After a rush of blood to the head, I got Steven's network programming book and installed RHL 8 on my old machine.. But predictably enough, I got stuck in no time... after some tinkering with my drives and an accidental partition format, I have RHL8 on dual boot working . But the network doesn't work... So I have a machine running WinXP and lots of crunching power connected to my trusty P2 running Win98 and RHL8. The trouble now is that WinXP and Win98 autodetect network settings and able to communicate with each other. RHL 8 on the other hand is struggling to activate the ethernet card which it has detected. Task 1 : Activate the network card Task 2 : I think Samba is used to share files with Windows. What I need is to be able to browse the files on the Linux box via the Windows explorer and vice versa Any help or pointer to a how-to would be appreciated. Thanks, Gishu Pillai

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[COMMERCIAL] Linux System Administrator Situation Vacant
by Hyper Tech 09 Nov '04

09 Nov '04

[COMMERCIAL] Linux System Administrator Situation Vacant Do you believe that you can make Open Source work for an Enterprise? If you are around 2 years experienced on Linux and have a sound knowledge on whats in Linux, please read on... Required Graduates / Post Graduates / Diploma Holders with 2 Years experience on Linux System Administration for employment in a consulting firm. The person will be deployed full time at a reputed client's Head Office. Totally Blue Collared job. So, Attitude Matters a lot. Knowing Linux well is technically the only requirement along with knowledge of any Programming Language. Knowledge of Perl for System Administration is an added advantage. Please mail in your Resumes with why you feel that _you_ can make OSS work to hypertech2k4(a)yahoo.com immediately. The early bird catches the worm obviously. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com

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[Commercial] Job Opening for Project Manager - IT
by OSPOnline 08 Nov '04

08 Nov '04

We have an immedidate opening for Project Manager - IT for an International Company for their Mumbai branch. The candidate should be an MBA with atleast 3 yrs experience. Any exposure to Finance will be be preferred. The salary is between 2.5 - 3.0 lacs p.a. Its a permanent position. Those interested may reply off the list and mail their profiles to info(a)ospians.com at the earliest.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] My PC won't start...Please help!
by Vivek J.Patankar 08 Nov '04

08 Nov '04

On Sun Nov 7 7:06 , Sarfaraz Kazi <sarzkazi(a)yahoo.com> sent: >the motherboard manual says that you have to short the >solder points in order to clear the cmos before you >put in the new battery. can anybody please guide as to >how to locate these solder points and how to short >them. Clearing the CMOS is usually done by shorting two pins on the motherboard using a jumper. Details of where these two pins should be found will/should be in the motherboard manual. In certain motherboard types the CMOS is cleared by keeping a designated key depressed and switching it on. In case you cannot locate the pins, CMOS can also be cleared by removing the CMOS battery. Vivek ---- Get Urchin 6 On Demand web analytics. Because you can't wait to be found. http://www.urchin.com/?utm_campaign=U6OD&utm_medium=email&source=spymac.com…

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[Announce] Linux Bangalore delegate registration open
by Philip Tellis 07 Nov '04

07 Nov '04

Linux Bangalore 2004 delegate registration is now open. Visit http://www.linux-bangalore.org/2004/register/ to register. Live registration stats available at http://www.linux-bangalore.org/2004/register/stats.php Philip -- The Shuttle is now going five times the sound of speed. -- Dan Rather, first landing of Columbia

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RE: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] My PC won't start...Please help!
by Sarfaraz Kazi 07 Nov '04

07 Nov '04

> Sarfaraz, Sachin: > I'm facing exactly the same issue since last > two days. Have a feeling its something to do with SMPS. Because > I got it started once or twice randomly by touching the SMPS or > somewhere on the motherboard while powering on. (Earthing > problem?) Sarfaraz, pls keep me posted if you get any clue; > ditto from my side. > Veer. Hi Veer, guess what? i changed the smps and now the system starts up. one problem solved. but i'm into another soup now! as i mentioned in my first post, the system powered off suddenly while i was working on something. well, actually at that time i was trying to re-install windoze xp. i dual-boot with xp & gnu/linux (mandrake 9.1 - kernel 2.4.2<something>) . xp installed on c: and wasn't working. the system went off in the middle of the installation process. now when i start the machine, the fans work, hdd works, cd drive works but i don't get any display and no POST,i.e., i'm not getting the single beep on boot. the hdd activity led stays constantly on. indicates some problem with bios. does it has to do anything with the fact that i changed the cmos battery while the system was down? Sachinji, ramzaam mubarak aapko bhi! can you please help me out with this one? Regards, Sarfaraz. <sig> Danny : "They say I've paid my debt to the society." Tess : "Funny, I didn't receive a check!" - "Ocean's Eleven" </sig> __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] My PC won't start...Please help!
by Vivek J.Patankar 07 Nov '04

07 Nov '04

On Sat Nov 6 5:19 , 'Rony Bill' <ronbilly(a)hotpop.com> sent: >> Ever heard about hydro foils? Good for small vessels. Not practical on >> larger ones. >Yes and seen one too in a Bond movie 'Thunderbird'. 'Thunderball' ---- Get Urchin 6 On Demand web analytics. Because you can't wait to be found. http://www.urchin.com/?utm_campaign=U6OD&utm_medium=email&source=spymac.com…

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[ILUG-BOM] Unable to boot from new Image after compilation of kernel
by noel seq 07 Nov '04

07 Nov '04

Hi, I am trying to load scsi drivers on my RHL8.0 kernel 2.4.18-14. As per the driver docs, I need to rebuild the kernel with scsi support and then load the modules. I have run the following; make menuconfig make dep make bzImage The image is created in /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot directory and have copied the same to /boot edited /etc/grub.conf and added the new image as initrd /bzImage When I try to boot into linux using this kernel I get the following message. VFS: Cannot open boot device "LABEL=/" please append a correct "root=" boot option kernel panic :VFS: unable to mount root fs on 00:00 Am able to boot using the previously installed kernel. The other lines in grub.conf are copy/pasted and same as previous entries. Where am I going wrong. Do I really need to recompile the kernel or is there some other way to load the scsi drivers. One more info, once I make bzImage, it gives me the following information: Boot sector is 512 bytes setup is 4774 bytes ssytem is 1144 kb kernel is too high for standalone boot from floppy make [1] leaving ....... I tried deselecting some of the options like bluetooth, etc in make menuconfig, but the size of the bzImage does not go below 950Kb. Regards, Noel _________________________________________________________________ The all-new MSN Search. Get fast and precise results. http://search.msn.co.in Try it now!

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Making Compressed CDROM in GNU/Linux
by Nikhil Joshi 07 Nov '04

07 Nov '04

Hi! Wrote this small howto for making compressed CD's in Linux. New users will certainly appreciate the fact Linux provides much more features than just security,stability and speed as compared to other popular OS'es. Making Compressed CDROM in Linux Nikhil Joshi Introduction I had often wondered whether there is a way to zip your files, burn them on a CD and then decompress them on-the-fly to save space. Well the good news is there is a method to do the same! Linux provides a Transparent decompression extension to achieve the same. It is useful when you have a lot of text/HTML/ doc files to burn on the CD and you want to save the precious space. It is especially useful to view the e-books which are mostly in HTML format. Prepare the Kernel CAVEAT: Please note that the CD that we are going to make will only be readable in Linux environment as Windows does not have the Transparent decompression extension. First we have to enable the Transparent decompression extension in the kernel. Compiling the kernel is a tricky business and requires patience and will to learn something new. This link will certainly help you: http://www.digitalhermit.com/linux/Kernel-Build-HOWTO.html I'll outline the steps below: 1. Download and unpack the latest 2.6 series stable kernel from http:// www.kernel.org/ 2. Type make menuconfig 3. Goto File Systems -> CDROM/DVD Filesystems and enable Transparent decompression extension 4. make; make modules; make modules_install 5. Copy the bzImage to /boot and update the bootloader configuration appropriately The commands Now that we have the kernel ready let's see the commands. Put everything you want to compress in a directory. First we make a compressed directory hierarchy of the directory we want to compress. $ mkzftree intree outree creates a compressed directory (outree) out of a normal directory (intree). Now we will make an iso image out of the directory hierarchy. $ mkisofs -o mycd.iso -R -allow-lowercase -allow-multidot -l -L - z outree That's it!! We have created an iso file which we can burn using any CD Burning Software. I use k3b (http://www.k3b.org/) on Linux. Conclusion I created a normal iso image out of a directory tree and another iso image out of the compressed directory tree. The space savings were obvious: 591MB for normal iso and 448MB using compression. A gain of 143 MB. This directory tree had lots of PDF files which do not compress well as compared to ASCII text files. Overall the space saving was considerable and I am already a fan of Transparent decompression. -- Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made. But it is too late to change anything. -- Calvin

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GNUChess
by komal 07 Nov '04

07 Nov '04

Which toolkit and programming framework GNUChess used? It is really very annoying to keep hold on menu to go to the options. Frankly it sucks Regards Komal

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Re: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Sendmail Filtering
by Mangesh V Rakhunde 06 Nov '04

06 Nov '04

Hi my question was i run sendmail server configured with smtp-= auth. Is there any way where i can filter the mails or discard the mails ha ving infected attachments. On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 Devdas B= hagat wrote : >On 06/11/04 08:23 -0000, Mangesh V Rakhunde wrote:<= BR> > > I run a mail server i.e sendmail o configured = SMTP auth. > > > > > > > >&= nbsp; My problem is mails. Many machines in and t= hey just send infected mail server itself. > >Plea= se send in plain text, wrapping the lines at 76 characters, or less. = > > >From what I can understand, you have PCs infected by vi= ruses which are >directly sending mail out, and getting your exter= nal IP blacklisted. > >The correct solution to this is to= implement a packet filter which >blocks port 25 outbound, and ens= ures that outbound connections come only > from your real outbound= MTA. > >The logs from this packet filtering firewall wil= l also tell you which >systems are infected by viruses. > >Devdas Bhagat > >-- >http://mm.ilug-b= om.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers [1] [] References 1. 3D"http://clients.rediff.com/signature/track_sig.asp"

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Re: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Sendmail Filtering
by Mangesh V Rakhunde 06 Nov '04

06 Nov '04

Hi my question was i run sendmail server configured with = smtp-auth. Is there any way where i can filter the mails or discar= d the mails having infected attachments. On Sat,= 06 Nov 2004 Devdas Bhagat wrote : >On 06/11/04 08:23 -0000, Mange= sh V Rakhunde wrote: > > I run a mail server i.e sendmail= o configured SMTP auth. > > > > > = > > > My problem is mails. Many machines = in and they just send infected mail server itself. = > >Please send in plain text, wrapping the lines at 76 chara= cters, or less. > > >From what I can understand, you h= ave PCs infected by viruses which are >directly sending mail out, = and getting your external IP blacklisted. > >The correct = solution to this is to implement a packet filter which >blocks por= t 25 outbound, and ensures that outbound connections come only > f= rom your real outbound MTA. > >The logs from this packet = filtering firewall will also tell you which >systems are infected = by viruses. > >Devdas Bhagat > >-- = >http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers [1] [adstream_nx=] = References 1. 3D"http://clients.rediff.com/signature

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Sendmail Filtering
by Mangesh V Rakhunde 06 Nov '04

06 Nov '04

Hi all I run a mail server i.e sendmail o= n fedora core 2. I have configured SMTP auth. My problem is = I want to reject all incoming or outgoing infected mails. Many machines in = our organisation are infected with viruses and they just send infected mail= s. Can I filter them on my mail server itself. Regards <= BR> Mangesh [1] [Re=] References 1. 3D"http://clien=/

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RE: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] My PC won't start...Please help!
by Sarfaraz Kazi 06 Nov '04

06 Nov '04

> > > Sorry about the OT-ness and length of this post. If > > anybody could provide > > any help, I'll be infinitely thankful. > > only way we could help you is if you send the machine as an > attachment to the > list so we can examine it -:) > > kg mebbe i can ask scotty to beam it up!!!:-) sarfaraz. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com

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RE: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] My PC won't start...Please help!
by Sarfaraz Kazi 06 Nov '04

06 Nov '04

> > the system went off in the middle of the installation > > process. now when i > > start the machine, the fans work, hdd works, cd drive > > works but i don't get > > any display and no POST,i.e., i'm not getting the > > single beep on boot. the > > hdd activity led stays constantly on. indicates some > > problem with bios. does > > it has to do anything with the fact that i changed the > > cmos battery while > > the system was down? > > Check your processor and then MB if your processor works well on > another MB. unfortunately, i don't have another system to cross-check the processor with. > Cross check is the best way to narrow down the posibilities. Remove your > processor and refit the assembly, maybe contact problems. This > does not have > anything to do with software installation. i'll try this out. > > Rony. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com

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RE: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] My PC won't start...Please help!
by Sarfaraz Kazi 06 Nov '04

06 Nov '04

> It is possible that some part of your motherboard is touching the > base plate of > the cabinet. In such situations the system doesn't boot up. This > *could* have > happened when you depressed the board to install the new CMOS battery. Try > lifting up the board a little with your finger tip. I usually > have insulation > between the board and base plate. > Could be, Could be not, Couldn't say for sure. > > Vivek checked out this possibility. no luck still! __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com

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RE: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] My PC won't start...Please help!
by Sarfaraz Kazi 06 Nov '04

06 Nov '04

> > hdd activity led stays constantly on. indicates some > > When you put in the new SMPS, did you disconnect/reconnect the > HDD activity LED wire ? > > > -- > quasi > > Utopia Unlimited! yes, i took out all the connectors before putting in the new smps. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] online monitoring of log files on gnu-linux, aix and hp-ux
by Eshwar Ponraj 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

Hi, I don't have any pointers but this idea might help If you could enable passwordless ssh login to all machines, thru ssh, grep your log files with a pattern and redirect output to a file in those machines, scp that output file into a master node and check if file empty, good else not alert thru mail / console. Good Luck ----- Original Message ----- From: Trevor Warren <trevorwarren(a)yahoo.com> To: ILUG-BOM <linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in> Subject: [ILUG-BOM] online monitoring of log files on gnu-linux, aix and hp-ux Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 19:32:37 -0800 (PST) > > > Morning Guys/Gals, > > Me has an urgent need of advice from your end. > Hoping for some pointers. > > For one of TCS's client we have configured Nagios > and a host of other GPL'ed applns top aid him in > Network Monitoring as part of a very large project. > This last problem has me stumped. > > In my network consisting of purely > AIX/Gnu-Linux/HP-UX i have to provide a single console > for monitoring all logs and trigger an alert/alarm as > soon as a particular message comes up in the logs. > These logs will be both system and application logs > and hence the messages to be tracked has to be > customisable. > > Lemme know if someone has had this problem solved > before or has any inkling of what appln we can make > use of. > > Trevor > > > > ===== > |------|____________________________________|------| > ( >- / Scaling FreeSoftware & OpenSource \ -< ) > /~\ / In the Enterprise \ /~\ > | \) \ | www.fsf.org | www.opensource.org | / (/ | > |_|_ \____________________________________/ _|_| > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. > www.yahoo.com > > > > -- > http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > -- ______________________________________________ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze

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RE: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] My PC won't start...Please help!
by Sarfaraz Kazi 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

> It is possible that some part of your motherboard is touching the > base plate of > the cabinet. In such situations the system doesn't boot up. This > *could* have > happened when you depressed the board to install the new CMOS battery. Try > lifting up the board a little with your finger tip. I usually > have insulation > between the board and base plate. > Could be, Could be not, Couldn't say for sure. > > Vivek Thanks for the suggestion. I'll check it out. By the way, what do you use as insulation material? I'm using foam padding kind of stuff that came with the board's packaging. Sarfaraz. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] pacenet connection - steps to follow
by Vivek J.Patankar 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

On Thu Nov 4 23:12 , 'Rony Bill' <ronbilly(a)hotpop.com> sent: >This means that some ppp setting will need to be setup just as we do in >dialup. The cable guy did not mention this. He simply said to make ip >configuration automatic and thats it. Maybe he missed this point. > >Rony. He didn't miss a point. IP Address, DNS & Gateway are part of the network configuration. My anology of his statement is that he is a Windows user who is used to configuring all three in the same dialog box. Vivek ---- Get Urchin 6 On Demand web analytics. Because you can't wait to be found. http://www.urchin.com/?utm_campaign=U6OD&utm_medium=email&source=spymac.com…

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RE: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] My PC won't start...Please help!
by Vivek J.Patankar 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

On Thu Nov 4 23:39 , Sarfaraz Kazi <sarzkazi(a)yahoo.com> sent: >process. now when i >start the machine, the fans work, hdd works, cd drive >works but i don't get >any display and no POST,i.e., i'm not getting the >single beep on boot. the >hdd activity led stays constantly on. indicates some >problem with bios. does >it has to do anything with the fact that i changed the >cmos battery while >the system was down? It is possible that some part of your motherboard is touching the base plate of the cabinet. In such situations the system doesn't boot up. This *could* have happened when you depressed the board to install the new CMOS battery. Try lifting up the board a little with your finger tip. I usually have insulation between the board and base plate. Could be, Could be not, Couldn't say for sure. Vivek ---- Get Urchin 6 On Demand web analytics. Because you can't wait to be found. http://www.urchin.com/?utm_campaign=U6OD&utm_medium=email&source=spymac.com…

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[COMMERCIAL] Red Hat openings
by Jatin Nansi 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

Hi all, Red Hat is participating in the BIG LEAP, an IT job fair organised by TIMESJOBS.com. This event is scheduled on Nov.6th & 7th, 2004 between 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Venue : Sardar Patel College of Engineering- Bhavan's, Andheri(W), Mumbai The available openings are in the following areas: * Linux System Administrators * Sr. System Engineer ( C/ C++ / QT / J2EE / GTK on Unix / Linux) * Consultants for Linux Implementation * Solution Architect / Pre-Sales Consultant * Linux Instructors Regards Jatin

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pacenet connection - steps to follow
by rohit bhute 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

I've read through the archives for pacenet problems. 1. I used the pppoe command. Does that mean I've rp-pppoe installed ? 2. What exactly do I tell the pacenet people when I tell them to create a linux user for me ? 3. I have Fedora Core 2 updates. Can I use them on Core 1 ? -- Take back the Web - Get Firefox Rohit V. Bhute Mumbai

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Knoppix for Gamers
by komal 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14576 Regards Komal

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[ILUG-BOM] acrobat reader not installing on linux. cannot understand why??
by anthony fernandes 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

hi, i downloaded acrobat reader the linux version from the adobe site. the link is http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html now while installing as written in the install document i untar the file and the tried to run the install script by ./INSTALL command. but it was not installing . i am not being able to run it. cannot figure out why. please can somebody try this out and tell me. i am doing this on RH 9. thanks a lot........... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com

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acrobat reader instalation still a problem. plz help....
by anthony fernandes 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

hi fellow linux users , thanks for your reply but no solution has worked yet. this mail is sum up most of your question you asked me. hope this can help you solve my problem. i downloaded acrobat reader from this link (linux version) http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html i untared the file. read the doument on installation. it said to run the INSTALL command. but when i did that it gave an error. [root@localhost pdf acrobat]# ./INSTALL ERROR: No configurations found ... aborting [root@localhost pdf acrobat]# then i tried a sugesstion gave by a ilug member. [root@localhost pdf acrobat]# chmod +x INSTALL [root@localhost pdf acrobat]# #./INSTALL [root@localhost pdf acrobat]# these were the commands. there was no error but there was no acrobat reader installed also. can plz somebody help me solve this problem. thnks a million.... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com

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[ILUG-BOM] online monitoring of log files on gnu-linux, aix and hp-ux
by Trevor Warren 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

Morning Guys/Gals, Me has an urgent need of advice from your end. Hoping for some pointers. For one of TCS's client we have configured Nagios and a host of other GPL'ed applns top aid him in Network Monitoring as part of a very large project. This last problem has me stumped. In my network consisting of purely AIX/Gnu-Linux/HP-UX i have to provide a single console for monitoring all logs and trigger an alert/alarm as soon as a particular message comes up in the logs. These logs will be both system and application logs and hence the messages to be tracked has to be customisable. Lemme know if someone has had this problem solved before or has any inkling of what appln we can make use of. Trevor ===== |------|____________________________________|------| ( >- / Scaling FreeSoftware & OpenSource \ -< ) /~\ / In the Enterprise \ /~\ | \) \ | www.fsf.org | www.opensource.org | / (/ | |_|_ \____________________________________/ _|_| __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com

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RAM Testing
by Rony Bill 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

Dear Luggers, This is on topic. Has anyone developed a bootable floppy that only does the function of testing the RAM to simulate optimum operation conditions and give results if the RAM is good or bad. The problems with some RAMs is that they pass the bios test but make the system hang before starting the OS completely. It wastes a lot of time of the engineer to locate the problem as it could be due to a bad HDD, IDE cable or corrupted system files or RAM. Replacing the RAM is the only option available for testing it. The benchmarking programs that are available are platform dependent and need an OS to be loaded. If such a bootable floppy was available to test the RAM in full simulated operation then this would be very handy. Since the bios has drivers for the keyboard and floppy, no other drivers would be really needed and only the small RAM testing program would be needed on the bootable floppy. In future we can have other bootable floppies that test the CPU, motherboard and other devices *without loading any OS*. It would make life easier for the engineer. Regards, Rony.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] RAM Testing
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 04 Nov '04

04 Nov '04

On Tuesday 02 November 2004 11:02, Rony Bill wrote: > Dear Luggers, > > This is on topic. Has anyone developed a bootable floppy that only > does the function of testing the RAM to simulate optimum operation > conditions and give results if the RAM is good or bad. http://www.memtest86.com/

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[OT] My PC won't start...Please help!
by Sarfaraz Kazi 04 Nov '04

04 Nov '04

Hi Linuxers, I've got this problem with my PC, it just refuses to start. The problem started a couple of days back. I was working on it and suddenly the entire system went off. I tried restarting, checked all the connections & cables. When I switch on the main power and press the power button on the cabinet, nothing happens. The motherboard LED comes on and the monitor LED blinks green but no chassis fan, no CPU fan, hard-disk not starting, nothing. System specs : AMD Duron 1.2 GHz ASUS A7N 266 VM mobo 128MB Hynix DDR SDRAM 20 GB Samsung HDD Samsung CDRW DAX LAN Card The SMPS was replaced only a month back. RAM was replaced 2 months ago. Fresh CMOS battery plugged in a week ago. The system is 2.5 years old. Sorry about the OT-ness and length of this post. If anybody could provide any help, I'll be infinitely thankful. TIA, Sarfaraz Kazi. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com

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[OT] HAMFEST India 2004 by Mumbai Amateur Radio Society
by Sriram N 04 Nov '04

04 Nov '04

All: Here's a guideline to some of the words from the following mail: XYL - Wives Harmonics - Children Fox Hunt - Try to locate within the city a radio that's transmitting a particular signal. -- Sriram --- vu2nlf <vu2nlf(a)mtnl.net.in> wrote: > To: m_a_r_s(a)yahoogroups.com > From: "vu2nlf" <vu2nlf(a)mtnl.net.in> > Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 15:02:18 -0000 > Subject: [m_a_r_s] Registrations for Hamfest India 2004. > > > Dear Members, > > The preparations for our hamfest India 2004 is in full wing, We have > already opened the registrations for the fest. Our Hamfest website > www.hamfest2004.org is up and fully functional. > > The dates and the Venue of the fest are as follows:- > > Dates : 24th / 25th / 26th December 2004. (Fri /Sat / Sun). > > Venue : P.L.Deshpande Kala Academy. ( Ravindra Natya Mandir) , Worli, > Mumbai. > > Registration Fee: For > HAM/XYL/SWL � Rs.500/- > For Harmonics between age 5 > to 12 � Rs.250/- > For Senior Citizens (age > above 60 yrs) � Rs.250/- > For Harmonics below age > 5 � Free > Mode of payment : Deposit Cheque in ICICI Bank / Demand Draft / Cash > > The registration fees also includes food (Breakfast, Lunch, Afternoon > Tea & Dinner). > > We have trying to make Hamfest India 2004 as interesting and > interactive as possible, we have added lots of new programs such as > Quiz Competitions, Morse competitions, Fox Hunt, Treasure Hunt, > Special movies, etc..etc.. we are sure that you will a wonderful time > during this festival. > > We also have kept lucky draws for early bird registrations (before > 25th November 2004), we have 3 ICOM IC-2100 VHF Base Stations as > lucky draw prizes.. All those registering before 25th November 2004 > will also get a customized callsign cap of hamfest 2004. > > We also have 200 Raffle Tickets of Rs.500/- each, You may opt for > as many tickets as you wish, the more tickets you buy more the > chances are of you winning the mega prize of ICOM � IC-706-MK-II G, > All mode all band mobile transceiver. > > If you are interested in a exhibition stall, you may contact us as > soon as possible. > > If we get good number of registrations of XYLs & Harmonics, we would > arrange special programs for them in our mini theatre so that they > don't get bored.. > > All members are requested to kindly register for our hamfest as soon > as possible, We suggest that you register before 25th November 2004 > and take advantage of the lucky draw. > > We also request you to get us as many advertisements as possible, > this will help is financially, also if you know companies interested > in sponsoring or co-sponsoring our hamfest then please get in touch > with me immediately. > > We would also appreciate if you get hold of companies interested in > putting up stalls during our festival. The commercial stall charges > are Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten thousand Only) for 3 days. > > There are few tickets left in Raffle ticket draw which is exclusively > for our society, hence you may still take advantage of it. We would > be opening this draw very very soon now. > > The coming Hamfest meeting is on Sunday 7th November 2004 at Gyan > Sadhna College, Thane at 10:00 Am sharp . All members are requested > to join us and register for the hamfest. > > > Looking forward to having a eyeball with you.. > > > 73 > > Nilesh Rathod, VU2NLF. > Convenor. � HFI-2004 > Secretary - MARS > Convenor(a)hamfest2004.org > > > > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com

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Usefull Site
by Rony Bill 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

An interesting site on Linux home networking. http://www.siliconvalleyccie.com/ Rony.

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tally networking with linux server. plz help
by anthony fernandes 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

hi friends, i have a problem. i have 3 computers with tally on them. now i am putting up a server which is linux. now i want to know if it is possible to move the data of tally onto the server and it still be accesable to the server. and a forthmachine will be added with a tally client(windows) to again view the data of tally. the server will have rh 9 . samba and mail server. another server will be added which will conatin firewall and proxy. now tell me if the tally thing is possible and how should it be done. especially if anybody has donethis in their company. thankx. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] cd writing software for linux on genome
by pascal p nunes 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 anthony fernandes wro= te : >hi , > >i wanted to know a good cd writing= software for linux on genome. > >thanks . > = > >--------------------------------- Try X-CD-R= oast http://www.xcdroast.org. It is what I use and I thi= nk it does a pretty good job. >Do you Yahoo!? >&nb= sp; Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com/a >-- >http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers [1] [adstrea=] References 1. 3D"http://clients.rediff.com/signa

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Minutes: October GLUG-Meet @ IIT
by Anurag 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

*Minutes of October GLUG-Meet @ KReSIT - IIT* The GNU/Linux Users Group of Mumbai held its October GLUG meet at KERSIT - IIT on 17th October 2004. This meet was attended by about 25 people coming from all over the city. Following discussions and talks were conducted. -> FLOSS and its relevance to India - by Rajesh Jain Rajesh Jain talked about his affordable computing architecture based on thin client network to deliver localized content to Indian masses. An architecture that builds upon the Free Software stack available at present combined with low cost, high performance hardware can be a boon to the mid segment that does not have a budget of more than Rs. 10,000. A hard core blogger and a visonary, his talk was one of the best we had in the near past. We had a long question and answer session with everyone putting forward their queries and Rajesh replying to everyone patiently. -> PHP : Resty - by Mitul and Sandeep Next talk was on PHP - Resty by Sandeep. Resty is an inhouse solution developed by Enterux which builds upon the PHP architecture. * Details of next GLUG meet: Date: 14 November 2004. Agenda: -> To be decided Venue: -> Netcore Solutions Please see homepage for updates on next GLUG meet. -Anurag -- ----------------------------------------------- __ __ gnu /noo/ n. Ox like antelope; (abbr.) /gnoo/ (recursive acronym) Gnu's Not Unix.

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>>Question reframed<<
by BIJU KRISHNAN 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

Hi all, Actually I had framed the question wrong in a jiffy.........thank you for the answers.. The problem i have observed with most of the mail servers in a corporate network is that there seems to be no authentication on the relay mail server........ I have observed that although the servers in the internal network of a corporate org have proper SMTP auth means, the relays or gateways for external mail delivery do not seem to authenticate the user. On such n/w's I'am able to send mail from xyz(a)copstop.com to abc(a)copstop.com using low level SMTP chat from home by telnet to port 25 to one of copstop.com's relay servers facing the internet. Where'as i'am not either of the two. The mail received by abc looks original but shows from : xyz(a)copstop.com to: <> undisclosed recipients in the header and logs. Is there a way out where I can stop mail from: xyz(a)copstop.com only when the relay server is accepting mails from other servers.(incoming) The gateway is using sendmail as an MTA. I would be happy to give any clarifications needed. Note : the internal mail servers consist of exchange, sendmail servers and lotus dominos....the auth means are different. the decentralization has been done coz each unit is different entity in itself. bye rgds biju --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com/a

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CHM files in Suse
by komal 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

How to open files with chm extensions in Suse enterprise server 9.0 ? Thank you Komal

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[OT] [COMMERCIAL] PHP Programmer + Traineer
by vaibhav samant 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

A friend needs a part time (evening) PHP+MySQL trainer. Also ha= s some short term (2 weeks type) projects on PHP-MySQL. Any one inter= ested pls contact me offlist. Thank you. Vai [1] [adstre=] References 1. 3D"http://clients.rediff.com/sign

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[Commercial]Opening for Technology Lead - South Africa
by OSPOnline 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] cd writing software for linux on genome
by Vivek J.Patankar 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

On Mon Nov 1 23:26 , 'Rajkumar Adsule' <rajadsule(a)speedpost.net> sent: > >--K3B is superb one --- > K3B is a KDE application, but runs on GNOME too, ie. If you have KDE installed on the system too. Vivek ---- Get Urchin 6 On Demand web analytics. Because you can't wait to be found. http://www.urchin.com/?utm_campaign=U6OD&utm_medium=email&source=spymac.com…

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] cd writing software for linux on genome
by Vivek J.Patankar 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

On Mon Nov 1 23:26 , 'Rajkumar Adsule' <rajadsule(a)speedpost.net> sent: > >--K3B is superb one --- > K3B is a KDE application, but runs on GNOME too, ie. If you have KDE installed on the system too. Vivek ---- Get Urchin 6 On Demand web analytics. Because you can't wait to be found. http://www.urchin.com/?utm_campaign=U6OD&utm_medium=email&source=spymac.com…

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cd writing software for linux on genome
by anthony fernandes 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

hi , i wanted to know a good cd writing software for linux on genome. thanks . --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com/a

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Lug-Meets
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

On Tuesday 02 November 2004 10:25, Vivek J.Patankar wrote: > On Mon Nov 1 9:21 , Satya <ilugbom(a)thesatya.com> sent: > >Great! So what's your topic for the next meeting? > >(You just volunteered, you know.) > > With all due respect, not everybody is a guru and knowledgable > enough to speak on a topic. Most fall under the category of > 'chelas' Once setup gnu/linux systems are quite boring u know. Spamassain knocks out a hundred spam mails from my vsnl pop mail (that is vsnl mails speciality allowing tons of spam). Clamav knocks out another hundred nematodes (actually pointless since those poor worms are quite harmless). The ocassional portscan is detected and yawn..... no blue screens, no illegal operations, no virus frenzies and now a days no hacked to death windoze is better than honey discussion on the list either. So as far as regular slow joe's usage is concerned gnu/linux simply works. It's really the setting up part that requires skill and support - not an everday task - my system was installed about 14 months ago. editing the source.list file and typing apt-get update;aptget upgrade is all that ive been doing for the past 14 months. the latest pakages for debian come from backports.org and a couple of other sites. As far as usage is concerned clicking mouse buttons hardly requires any training Well one 55++ yr old newbie to computers did require training on moving the mouse and took to GNU/Linux like a pro. Switch on and the browser opens onto some cricket site. Kmail opens up and downloads mails. Xmms starts playing some bhajans etc. etc. He wonders what are computer viruses and why everbody in his office are in such a state of terminal anxiety every few weeks. rgds jtd

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Lug-Meets
by Vivek J.Patankar 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

On Mon Nov 1 9:21 , Satya <ilugbom(a)thesatya.com> sent: >Great! So what's your topic for the next meeting? >(You just volunteered, you know.) > With all due respect, not everybody is a guru and knowledgable enough to speak on a topic. Most fall under the category of 'chelas' (pardon the expression) like me. I get bored out of my skull during meets that focus only on programming issues. I would love to see some topics discussed that focus on everyday usage. That is an area where all can participate. vivek ---- Get Urchin 6 On Demand web analytics. Because you can't wait to be found. http://www.urchin.com/?utm_campaign=U6OD&utm_medium=email&source=spymac.com…

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KDE's networking features
by Amish Munshi 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

Article on KDE's networking features at, http://osdir.com/Article2159.phtml KDE is, by design, a fully networked desktop. Network files are accessible as readily and easily as local files from most applications. This is accomplished through special protocol handlers built into KDE, known as I/O slaves. These handlers implement a specific network protocol such as HTTP, FTP, or IMAP, and transparently interact with applications when they try to open a URL that requires that protocol. Amish. -- Amish K. Munshi, Consultant - Linux Practice Group Onward Novell Software (I) Pvt. Ltd. http://www.novell.com (O) - 91-022-28342244

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programming certification
by komal 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

Hello What list members think about certification program on Linux programming like MCSD on windows ? Regards Komal

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[OT] Saving Lives
by Rony Bill 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

Dear Luggers, This is off topic. The recent fire at Sion had 3 casualties. A woman and her child took refuge in a lift to escape from the fire and reach the ground floor. However, just at that time, the building's power was switched off for safety and the two got trapped inside, inhaled poisonous gases and expired. To prevent such tragedies from happenning, lift manufacturers could provide a mechanical crank inside the lift to let the occupants slowly bring the lift up or down to a safe floor. If the doors are the automatic type, then a mechanical arrangement to open the door in case of an emerrgency. As a safety measure, the door will open only when the lift has aligned with any available floor. If you know people in this profession, please pass on this message to them. Regards, Rony.

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Lug-Meets
by Rony Bill 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Dear Luggers, With due respect, the topics that are selected for LUG meetings are mostly programming oriented. Technically that would come under a linux programers meet. Linux users need not be programmers, but simple users who use Linux for their daily computing activities. To make the meets interensting for them too, we could have non-programming linux usage topics too. This is just an expression of my thoughts. Any offence to anyone is regretted. Thanks and regards, Rony.

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scribus ./configure error
by Kapil Karekar 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Hi !! While installing scribus on BSD I am getting the following error on 'GNUMAKE=gmake ./configure' : configure: error: You need at least freetype 2.1.0 I have installed both freetype-1.3.1 and freetype-2.1.9 from source. It would be really nice is someone could help me out with this :) Thanks !! Kapil -- Kapil Karekar Readable at: http://www.libretech.com Reachable at: kapil {at} hipatia.info / kapil {at} norix.com

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] November GLUG meet--call for speakers
by Venkatesh Hariharan 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 13:21, Ivan Bayross wrote: > Dear Venky, > > If one is really looking for an alternative to Visual Basic why look > beyind GAMBAS ? It's an excellent VB clone on Linux. One can > leverage on all the in-house VB skills almost totally, without > learning any new syntax. > > Regards, > > Ivan Bayross > > > I heard that GAMBAS is still work-in-progress. What is your feedback? Venky

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a question on open relay??
by BIJU KRISHNAN 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Hi All, Could you pls analyze the following transcript of my session with a remote server and help me judge whether the server is in some sense an open relay...One thing abt the server is that it passes all anonymous relaying tests.....but what if i know two contacts on the same server.. ---------------------------------------------------- [root@bijucyborg root]# telnet 2XX.1XX.XXX.XX 25 Trying 2XX.1XX.XXX.XX... Connected to 2XX.1XX.XXX.XX. Escape character is '^]'. 220 COPSTOP.com ESMTP ehlo popa 250- COPSTOP 250-PIPELINING 250 8BITMIME mail from:xyz@COPSTOP 250 ok rcpt to:abc@COPSTOP.com 250 ok data 354 go ahead we went to school together . 250 ok 1099213953 qp 10543 quit 221 COPSTOP.com Connection closed by foreign host. ------------------------------------------------------ As I have observed the server accepts message from xyz@COPSTOP to abc@COPSTOP. 1. xyz and abc are two valid users on the system. 2. This session was carried from a random machine on the internet. If this is dangerous....assuming that i'am using sendmail, could u pls suggest a technique to stop this. bye rgds biju __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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