Linuxers October 2005

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slow booting of RHEL WS 4.0
by amit453d 16 Oct '05

16 Oct '05

Hi all, I have loaded the winXp SP2 and RHEL WS 4.0 dual booting using grub, problem is booting to linux takes 15-20 minutes. Booting to WinXP and coming out of linux is fast. motherboard is 915 GAV. I would like to know whether this is normal for RHEL WS 4.0 booting or there is some problem. If so kindly help me out. Cheers, Amit Das.

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[Info] LX300 in FC
by Rony Bill 16 Oct '05

16 Oct '05

Hello All, This is a note on setting up the Epson LX300 dot matrix printer in FC4. On the top task bar panel, go to Desktop > System Settings > Printing. Here add your printer and for the driver, select 'Generic'. In its sub list, select 'ESC/P Dot Matrix Printer'. On the rightside, there is a small drop down list of 'Available Drivers'. Select 'eps9high'. In the next tab called 'Driver Options' set your page size and for resolution, select '240x216'. Select OK, apply your new settings and your lx300 is ready to print even better quality print outs as compared to windows. :) Regards, Rony. ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Configuring TriBand under Ubuntu
by Mohan S N 15 Oct '05

15 Oct '05

I have the DSL399 conn via ethernet. I am running Ubuntu 5.04. I have trouble configuring the connection. The problem is that once upon a time i had used a modem and Ubuntu still considers the modem as the default and does not remember the settings for the ethernet conn. I have configured & activated the ethernet conn umpteen times and disabled the modem conn as many times. Pl help. Because of this I have to use XP instead of practising shell scripts (I am 2 mths old int the world of Linux and loving it). Regards, Mohan S N P.S.: The MTNL tech support is of no avail as the troll who services my area cannot tell between internet and ethernet . He is lost searching for 'ethernet explorer' if I delete the dsk shortcut to IE. Action express priorities. - M K Gandhi

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Re: Re: [ILUG-BOM] slow booting of RHEL WS 4.0
by bimal pandit 15 Oct '05

15 Oct '05

Dear Rony, On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 Rony Bill wrote : >amit453d wrote: >>Hi all, >> I have loaded the winXp SP2 and RHEL WS 4.0 dual booting using grub, problem is booting to linux takes 15-20 minutes. Booting to WinXP and coming out of linux is fast. motherboard is 915 GAV. >>I would like to know whether this is normal for RHEL WS 4.0 booting or there is some problem. If so kindly help me out. >>Cheers, Amit Das. >> > >Is your RHEL trying to configure some device like....say....eth0? If you set it to dhcp and there is nothing connected, it may wait to find a dhcp server or you got a lan active and its not setup for linux???? Turn sendmail service off too. It is not needed. Find out the exact device/program where it takes time to load during bootup. If its not needed, get it off. > >Regards, > >Rony. > > As soon as it starts to boot the following reasons could lead to consume time... 1) It tries to configure LAN card through DHCP. 2) Hostname issue, Sendmail is confused between "/etc/hosts" and "/etc/sysconfig/network" where normally we define hostname. 3) swap space partition. the thing is while booting you will get a GUI screen and would'nt know what actually consuming time behind the screen, so do "CTRL+F1" and you will see, the services. hope this this will help. regards, Bimal Pandit

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R-Connect LSP350R
by Rony Bill 14 Oct '05

14 Oct '05

Hello Everyone, MTNL has suddenly decided to do away with new subscriptions for the "Telephone for Internet" scheme where it charged a flat fee of Rs. 500/- per month for all calls unlimitted to any dialup ISP. The existing customers, that includes me, of this scheme are being told to 'kindly get lost' by increasing the monthly tarrifs from 500/- to 1000/- for Scheme A and 700/- to 1400/- for Scheme B. They are killing the dialup and dialup ISPs and are trying to push Triband down our throats. The triband is not viable for me as my usage is above 250 mb and I would require to shell out atleast 500/- + 250/- = 750/- every month and that too would be a limit of 400 MB. R-Connect gives me 1 GB for Rs 650/-. I want to break MTNL's linux monopoly by using my newly acquired Reliance LSP350R for net usage in Linux. The Mandrake 10.1 does not mount it, although it detects it, inspite of all commands tried from the internet. The FC4 distro can detect it automatically and mounts it on /ttyACM0. The problem is that I am not able to get it talking in KPPP. I tried the initialising string as it exists in the windows. I don't know what should be the 'Flow Control' option Hardware/Software/None and the Line Termination CR/LF/Both. Has anyone successfully used this new model LSP350R for r-connect in linux. If so, please help me by giving me the detailed settings for the same. From 1st November the new tarrifs will be applicable so by then I have to make the necessary crossover. Regards, Rony. ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Re: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Urgent Help for a shell script to stop and start process
by ryan coelho 13 Oct '05

13 Oct '05

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 Dinesh Joshi wrote : >On Saturday 08 October 2005 13:02, Raghunandan Rao wrote: > > Hi, > > A script is needed which comments the second line of > > the file and removes ones condition is fulfilled.. > > For example as mentioned down, I'm checking for the > > free memory, when it comes to some 50MB it should the > > comment the '#' at second line of the file > > /service/run and when the free memory comes to 200 it > > should remove '#' killing the process or perl. > > The script below is incomplete.. > > > > Please do respond it urgently.. > > Thanks in advance > >Please tell us your problem. Because memory management should be left to >the kernel. And Linux / UNIX kernels are pretty good at managing >memory ;) > >-- >Dinesh A. Joshi > >-- >http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers hi Maybe able to help if i know the exact problem Regards Ryan my email is r_coelho(a)rediffmail.com

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by Optimal Solutions 13 Oct '05

13 Oct '05

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exit status of zombie from proc or something
by Amish Mehta 13 Oct '05

13 Oct '05

Hello All, I have this process which runs a child and sleeps for 5 mins and then cleans child(zombie) and prints its exit status. Sometimes child exits early and I can not wait 5 mins for parent to print status (and I can not modify parent code). So is there a way to find the exit status of a child zombie process from proc or ps or any other way? Proc has file called status but I couldnt find if it shows exit code somewhere, can anyone help? Google doesnt help much. Thanks in advance. Amish.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] R-Connect LSP350R
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 13 Oct '05

13 Oct '05

On Thursday 13 October 2005 01:21, Rony Bill wrote: > > I want to break MTNL's linux monopoly >From when did MTNL monopolise linux of all things ??? > by using my newly acquired > Reliance LSP350R for net usage in Linux. The Mandrake 10.1 does not > mount it, although it detects it, inspite of all commands tried > from the internet. The FC4 distro can detect it automatically and > mounts it on /ttyACM0. The problem is that I am not able to get it > talking in KPPP. > > I tried the initialising string as it exists in the windows. I > don't know what should be the 'Flow Control' option > Hardware/Software/None and the Line Termination CR/LF/Both. > > Has anyone successfully used this new model LSP350R for r-connect > in linux. I I have but only the serial version. U have to initialize the modem with the strings ATZ AT+CRM=1; $LGPKT=3 I have used the LSP250 with tataindicom > If so, please help me by giving me the detailed settings > for the same. From 1st November the new tarrifs will be applicable > so by then I have to make the necessary crossover. > > Regards, > > Rony. > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide > with voicemail http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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[ot]commodore 64 with game kit and sound maker up for grabs
by Trevor Warren 13 Oct '05

13 Oct '05

Morning Fellas, My fiance while cleaning her place just found out that among the junk(tons of it..:D) at her place we had a Commodore 64. I was surprised to see the same with a load of cassettes(games+educational) and basic programming books plus tons of other educational material. The kit was used just twice with most of the cartons and game kits still not opened since its purchase in 79. This is mostly nostalgic and i understand that there would be collectors on this list who may want to lay their hands on this kit. Any geek who wants it can have it. Its free for you to grab. Please write in to me off this mailing list. Trevor |------|____________________________________|------| ( >- / Scaling FreeSoftware & OpenSource \ -< ) /~\ / In the Enterprise \ /~\ | \) \ | www.fsf.org | www.opensource.org | / (/ | |_|_ \____________________________________/ _|_| __________________________________ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/

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Linuxers October 2005