Re: [ILUG-BOM] Delayed write-up on Dec. GLUG meet

2006-12-12 Thread Kumar Appaiah

On 12/12/06, Roshan wrote:

Hello List,

I haven't been able to prepare the write up of the
meet for now, due to the problems expressed earlier. I
hope to solve that problem as soon as possible and
post the write up on the wiki.


Well, if you don't mind, let the temporary member chip in!

Since I am here for the holidays, I wanted to visit
HBCSE for the LUG meet on Sunday, December 10th. I realized that I
would be late, and rushed to the venue and reached there at 4:15 PM
(15 mins past the scheduled start) only to realize that the speakers
themselves hadn't made it to the venue yet! Looks like all LUG meets
begin late. But really, you must consider an alternate location; though
HBCSE is excellent on all other counts, the location is a big minus!
Anyway, regular attendees would know best.

Well, finally, Kartik Mistry began his talk at about 4:40 PM, talking
about the basics of making Debian packages. He introduced the deb
format, and mentioned it's merits and demerits vs. RPM etc., and
walked us through a couple of examples on how to create debs for
various packages. He  briefly mentioned how to use the various tools
assisting the Debian
package maintainer, such as debhelper and devscripts, and also went
through a full-fledged example of Debianizing a package from
scratch. Finally, he also talked about the procedure for getting your
packages into Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu, and emphasized that for
acceptance, quality of the package was very important. He also
mentioned that after one manages to get some experience in packaging
and contributes to Debian, he/she can apply to become a Debian
developer, but the time taken for acceptance may span upto years.

This was followed by the tea break. Post tea, Krishnakant Mane
introduced screenreaders and how computing could be enabled for the
visually impaired. Then, there were many hiccups in getting Orca to
work on the computer which which was being used (Anurag's?). After
frantic attempts to get things working, a switch of computer set
things right. Krishnakant described the various features built into
Orca which enabled persons to know with ease the description of each
Window, widget and it's property, state etc. He showed us how the way
the computer spoke out description helped him understand what Window
he was in, and what actions he needed to take. He also showed us an
example of a text editor, where he could customize the way what he
spoke was echoed out by him; it can be word by word, or letter by
letter, so that mistakes could be corrected then and there. He wound
up his talk mentioning that they had plans of getting these features
in Indian languages as well, citing that the lack of ISCII compliant
fonts was the stumbling block in quickly finishing that task.

I guess the above is to the best of my understanding, please make
corrections/additions wherever necessary. Thanks for the great talks!

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] What is stoping Indians from contributing to FOSS ?

2006-12-12 Thread krishnakant Mane

On 12/12/06, Dinesh Joshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On Tuesday 12 December 2006 12:25, jtd wrote:

Then a friend comes along and shows the aweful loading times that OO.o
has, the occasional page alignment mismatch in .doc files and also
installs a pirated copy of Adobe distiller which puts a nice shiny PDF
converter icon in M$ Word. The person never gives OO.o a second
thought...

oh did I read aweful loading time?  I never saw that happening in the
recent versions.
I think openoffice is pritty fast and stable right now.
ubuntu 6.10 comes with one of the best versions.
and I wont be surprised if debian 4 (can some one tell me when is it
being released?) also ships the same or even a better version.
I wont mind even if people use the windows kernel and desktop.  I am
not saying that switch to linux from day one after I show what
crapware windows and its company gives or even for that matter most
non-free software gives.  but there is no harm in using open office,
gimp, and other such tools, isn't it?  once we realise the power of
these tools, and once we know that they are not some strange time
pass  experiments done by students or hackers, I don't find any
reason to use tools like office.
really I am surprised to here that open office is still slow.  I was
doing a demo of the linux based screen reader in the lug last sunday,
and on a 256 mb average machine the spreadsheet and the word processor
came up in pritty much the same time as $office would take.  and don't
forget I was using a screen reader that consumes a lot of resources.
so I will request all other people to kindly check the information
they post and correct me if I am wrong.
regards.
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Re: [ILUG-BOM] What is stoping Indians from contributing to FOSS ?

2006-12-12 Thread Aparna Appaiah
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 11:09:30PM +0530, krishnakant Mane wrote:
 dear aparna,  I entirely agree with you but I just have an extention
 to this which slightly differs from your point of view.
 you say that people will realise the value of foss when they are made
 to pay for the non-free softwrae.  right, well said!  but why should
 people not pay for free software?  I think free software must be
 charged quite well.
 
It is true that people can (and should) pay for services related to
free software. I wanted to emphasise the fact that people do not have
respect for copyright. So, using pirated software does not seem to
affect their conscience.

Regards,
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Re: [ILUG-BOM] What is stoping Indians from contributing to FOSS ?

2006-12-12 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves


On 12-Dec-06, at 3:20 PM, Aparna Appaiah wrote:


people not pay for free software?  I think free software must be
charged quite well.


It is true that people can (and should) pay for services related to
free software. I wanted to emphasise the fact that people do not have
respect for copyright. So, using pirated software does not seem to
affect their conscience.


the same people have a hell of a respect for copyright when they own  
the copyright



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Re: [ILUG-BOM] What is stoping Indians from contributing to FOSS ?

2006-12-12 Thread jtd
On Monday 11 December 2006 15:21, Aparna Appaiah wrote:
 On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 10:36:41PM 
+0530, ???|Praveen wrote:
  Hi,
 
  Is it a cultural issue? Do we need someone to tell us what to do?
  What are
  other reasons for not many Indians in the global FOSS scenery?

 Piracy plays a major role here in India. People prefer hiring and
 copying pirated CDs of movies, songs etc. 

dont confuse software and content. The two are completely different. 
And much as the music industry would love to label consumers as 
crooks, they are in fact forcing consumers to become so. 
A few months ago my wife purchased a cd of original beatles. There 
were a few originals (i have cassetes of some of these) and the rest 
were remixes. Most cd compilations of music will be 80% full of crap. 
In effect u are paying through your nose to subsidise the music 
industry's inability to come up with viable business models.
Then there is the case of public performance, radio broadcasts. etc 
etc.

 The same thing holds for 
 Windoze as well. I believe awareness about FOSS will increase the
 moment people are made to pay for their copies of proprietary
 software.

Wish granted. Install vista.


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Re: [ILUG-BOM] OpenSUSE 10.2

2006-12-12 Thread Arun K. Khan
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 12:42 +0530, Rajen M. Parekh wrote:
 Hi,
 
 Anybody managed to get his/her hands on OpenSUSE 10.2 ?  I'm interested 
 if anybody has a copy, preferably on DVD.

I have the 5 + Add-ons CDs for i386.  Contact me off list.

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[ILUG-BOM] OT: is imap protocol used by gmail and yahoo?

2006-12-12 Thread krishnakant Mane

hello all,
this may or may not be considered off topic.
actually the subject line seams to be off topic but this is some thing
to do with a program I am writing which needs to send emails out of
the box.
I want to know if imap is used by all popular email servers.  I will
need to send emails to gmail, yahoo, msn (unfortunately) and
rediffmail.
may be sify also but that's not sure.
so when I write my program in python and asuming it is running on
gnu/linux, should I program for imap given the above email servers?
also do let me know what else will I need to have on my linux box,
msmtp? or any thing else?  I asked on the python list and they say
nothing is really needed.
thanks,
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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Chirag: NFS Error during Etherboot

2006-12-12 Thread jtd
On Sunday 10 December 2006 22:39, Chirag wrote:
 The Error Which I had typed earlier.Some more details regarding
 that /etc/exports file contents

What error?

 /opt/ltsp 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0(ro,no_root_squash,sync)
 /var/opt/ltsp/swapfiles 
 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0(rw,no_root_squash,async)

Nothing wrong with the lines. but u could replace the mask with 24 
(which actually means the same thing)
Perhaps your /etc/hosts.allow file does not allow a connect. Try 
mounting these exports from another machine while tailing syslog on 
both server and client.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] What is stoping Indians from contributing to FOSS ?

2006-12-12 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Tuesday 12 December 2006 15:20, Aparna Appaiah wrote:
 It is true that people can (and should) pay for services related to
 free software. I wanted to emphasise the fact that people do not have

Aparna, people are ready to pay provided the cost is reasonable. Last I 
checked M$ charged 14000-18000 INR for their M$ office. Who in their 
right minds would afford it? The casual home user definitely wont! :P 
This is the root cause for piracy... People are/will use FOSS as long 
as it doesn't cost them a pretty penny ( reasonable cost is ok ) and 
gets their work done. The moment you start charging a whole lot for 
your software ( maybe it proprietary code or FOSS solution ), the same 
people will start pirating it ;)

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] OT: is imap protocol used by gmail and yahoo?

2006-12-12 Thread Gabin Kattukaran
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 16:52 +0530, krishnakant Mane wrote:
 hello all,
 this may or may not be considered off topic.
 actually the subject line seams to be off topic but this is some thing
 to do with a program I am writing which needs to send emails out of
 the box.
 I want to know if imap is used by all popular email servers.  I will
 need to send emails to gmail, yahoo, msn (unfortunately) and
 rediffmail.
 may be sify also but that's not sure.
 so when I write my program in python and asuming it is running on
 gnu/linux, should I program for imap given the above email servers?
 also do let me know what else will I need to have on my linux box,
 msmtp? or any thing else?  I asked on the python list and they say
 nothing is really needed.
 thanks,
 Krishnakant

If your peogram needs to send out mail to each of those services (I am
assuming that you are not planning to spam) you should work with smtp
rather than imap. Also, you should not be sending out mails directly to
those services. Considering working via your own MTA.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] OT: is imap protocol used by gmail and yahoo?

2006-12-12 Thread Philip Tellis

Sometime Today, kM cobbled together some glyphs to say:


so when I write my program in python and asuming it is running on
gnu/linux, should I program for imap given the above email servers?
also do let me know what else will I need to have on my linux box,
msmtp? or any thing else?  I asked on the python list and they say


IMAP is for receiving mail.  You need SMTP to send mail.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] What is stoping Indians from contributing to FOSS ?

2006-12-12 Thread പ്രവീണ്‍‌|Praveen

2006/12/12, krishnakant Mane [EMAIL PROTECTED]:


On 12/12/06, Dinesh Joshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Tuesday 12 December 2006 12:25, jtd wrote:

 Then a friend comes along and shows the aweful loading times that OO.o
 has, the occasional page alignment mismatch in .doc files and also
 installs a pirated copy of Adobe distiller which puts a nice shiny PDF
 converter icon in M$ Word. The person never gives OO.o a second
 thought...
oh did I read aweful loading time?  I never saw that happening in the
recent versions.
I think openoffice is pritty fast and stable right now.
ubuntu 6.10 comes with one of the best versions.
and I wont be surprised if debian 4 (can some one tell me when is it
being released?) also ships the same or even a better version.
I wont mind even if people use the windows kernel and desktop.  I am
not saying that switch to linux from day one after I show what
crapware windows and its company gives or even for that matter most
non-free software gives.  but there is no harm in using open office,
gimp, and other such tools, isn't it?  once we realise the power of
these tools, and once we know that they are not some strange time
pass  experiments done by students or hackers, I don't find any
reason to use tools like office.
really I am surprised to here that open office is still slow.  I was
doing a demo of the linux based screen reader in the lug last sunday,
and on a 256 mb average machine the spreadsheet and the word processor
came up in pritty much the same time as $office would take.  and don't
forget I was using a screen reader that consumes a lot of resources.
so I will request all other people to kindly check the information
they post and correct me if I am wrong.
regards.
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Re: [ILUG-BOM] What is stoping Indians from contributing to FOSS ?

2006-12-12 Thread പ്രവീണ്‍‌|Praveen

Hi,

Sorry if you got another mail before this, caused by some wierd keyboard
shortcuts.

2006/12/12, krishnakant Mane [EMAIL PROTECTED]:


I think openoffice is pritty fast and stable right now.
ubuntu 6.10 comes with one of the best versions.
and I wont be surprised if debian 4 (can some one tell me when is it
being released?) also ships the same or even a better version.



I think ubuntu 6.10 comes with Open Office 2.0.4. Debian 4.0 etch (currently
in frozen sate and expected to be released by end of this month - as the
debian's policy is realeased when it is ready) will have the same version.
Most of the release goals for Debian 4.0 including linux kernel 2.6.18, new
graphical installer, SELinux support, LSB 3.1 compliance ... are in good
shape to be released. Also other new changes includes better support for
Desktops and laptops (soundcard detection  configuration, battery power
...) and improved co-ordination between various desktop environments (KDE,
GNOME and XFCE will follow common default theme) ...

See the freeze announcement
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/12/msg4.html

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[ILUG-BOM] need a good web designing tool on linux.

2006-12-12 Thread krishnakant Mane

hello,
a question that has come up from many of my web developing friends is
that if there is a good alternative to dreamviewer then they will
shift to using gnu/linux from the next day.
I want to know what does gnu/linux provide for a free web development
tool on gnome desktop?
it should have features like dream viewer.
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Re: [ILUG-BOM] need a good web designing tool on linux.

2006-12-12 Thread Navneet Karnani


a question that has come up from many of my web developing friends is
that if there is a good alternative to dreamviewer then they will
shift to using gnu/linux from the next day.



http://www.nvu.com is one of the best that I have seen. It works on Windows
machines too, just in case they want to try it for some time before
shifting.

I want to know what does gnu/linux provide for a free web development

tool on gnome desktop?
it should have features like dream viewer.
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Re: [ILUG-BOM] need a good web designing tool on linux.

2006-12-12 Thread Philip Tellis

Sometime Today, kM cobbled together some glyphs to say:


a question that has come up from many of my web developing friends is
that if there is a good alternative to dreamviewer then they will
shift to using gnu/linux from the next day.


also tell your friends that if they use dreamweaver for web 
development, they can forget about getting a job where I work.


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Re: [ILUG-BOM] need a good web designing tool on linux.

2006-12-12 Thread Vihang Dudhalkar

On 12/12/06, Philip Tellis  wrote:

also tell your friends that if they use dreamweaver for web
development, they can forget about getting a job where I work.



I agree check out. If you need some ide check out http://www.aptana.com/
Seems good.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] need a good web designing tool on linux.

2006-12-12 Thread Philip Tellis

Sometime on Dec 12, VD cobbled together some glyphs to say:


I agree check out. If you need some ide check out http://www.aptana.com/
Seems good.


+1

The aptana guys have done a really good job.  You may not see a source 
download link on their website, but mail them and ask for the source you 
want it.


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Re: [ILUG-BOM] need a good web designing tool on linux.

2006-12-12 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves


On 13-Dec-06, at 3:27 AM, Philip Tellis wrote:


a question that has come up from many of my web developing friends is
that if there is a good alternative to dreamviewer then they will
shift to using gnu/linux from the next day.


also tell your friends that if they use dreamweaver for web  
development, they can forget about getting a job where I work.


what PT is trying to say is that web development - apart from entry  
level stuff - requires a knowledge and application of standards,  
which can only be achieved with a proper knowledge of CSS, HTML and  
javascript - all of which a tool like dreamweaver is designed to  
bypass. Also, the approach that 'I would switch to linux if it was  
like windows' is not a very good reason for switch. The one OS that  
is most like windows is, surprisingly enough, windows. Take office  
suites - open office is in now way any way as good as M$ office in  
doing what an office suite is supposed to do. Especially in office  
2007, to quote a lot of people 'microsoft has got it right. What 'it'  
is, and whether 'it' is desirable, is another question. FOSS stands  
for the ideal of using many small tools - each one meant for one  
purpose and perfect for that purpose, rather than one big monster  
application that is meant for everything - but perfect in nothing.  
Most savvy users do not use an office suite at all. They use  
specialised tools. Conversion to FOSS philosophy and practices  
implies conversion of ones attitudes and ways of doing work and  
approaching tasks.




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Re: [ILUG-BOM] need a good web designing tool on linux.

2006-12-12 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves


On 13-Dec-06, at 5:31 AM, Philip Tellis wrote:

I agree check out. If you need some ide check out http:// 
www.aptana.com/

Seems good.


+1

The aptana guys have done a really good job.  You may not see a  
source download link on their website, but mail them and ask for  
the source you want it.


java - yuck


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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Mobile Internet and a Linux Laptop

2006-12-12 Thread Vivek J. Patankar

Debasish Das wrote:

Actually in my earlier mail by mistake I wrote about 'broadband'. What I
really want is internet connectivity from my Ubuntu Edgy 6.10 Laptop and my
cellphone.
Can you please help me on: which scheme I may use, and will that work
smoothly
on my laptop? I don't know anything about this kind of Internet connection.
You have to suggest me about how to install and all other details too.


I use Bluetooth+GPRS on my laptop. The speed I get is 4.5 to 6 KBPS 
which is okay for downloading mails to your MUA but terrible if you are 
interested in doing heavy duty browsing. My phone model is Nokia 6670 
and service provider is Airtel, you have to subscribe to their Mobile 
Office service for this to work.
I had a lot of problems when configuring this setup. I had to google a 
lot and not surprisingly, Airtel's GPRS helpdesk was not at all helpful 
when the question of OS came up. The tech that I talked to knew only 
about the Other OS.

Below is the relevant portion of /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf .

rfcomm0 {
bind yes;
device 00:0E:ED:F8:61:0B;
channel 1;
comment Veejay's 6670;
}


I use KPPP as the dialer. You will have to create a new modem in the 
KPPP configuration. The modem configuration in KPPP is as below.


Modem Name  : whatever
Modem Device: /dev/rfcomm0
Flow Control: Hardware [CRTSCTS]
Line Termination: 115200


Enter the following in modem commands.

Initializing string 1   : ATZ
Initializing string 2   : AT+CGDCONT=1,IP,airtelgprs.com,,0,0

# I got the above value from the Airtel GPRS helpdesk. So it would be a 
good idea to talk to your service provider beforehand.


Init response   : OK
No dial tone detection  : ATX3
Dial string : ATDT
Connect response: CONNECT
Busy response   : BUSY
No carrier response : NO CARRIER
No dialtone response: NO DIALTONE
Hangup string   : +++ATH
Hangup response : OK
Answer string   : ATA
Ring response   : RING
Answer response : CONNECT
DLP response: DIGITAL LINE DETECTED
Escape string   : +++
Escape response : OK


Next you need to create a new Account. Use the Manual configuration 
instead of the Wizard. Under the Dial tab, the entries are as follows.


Connection name : whatever
Phone number: *99#
Authentication  : Script-based

The remaining setting can be left to the default values. There are two 
phone numbers that can be used here. I don't remember the other number, 
but you can get them from your service provider's GPRS helpdesk.



I have also used Tata Indicom's CDMA data card (Huawei EC321) on FC5. I 
was told that this is the most linux friendly data card, and the source 
was not exaggerating. The card was not mine but I got to test it for an 
hour or so. The connection speed was over 15KBPS. I had to use wvdial 
for dialing as the help I got was for it. I didn't have the card long 
enough to adapt the settings for KPPP.
The contents of wvdial.conf is below. AFAIR, I didn't have to change it 
much, except maybe the device in [Modem0]. That value I got from the 
output of /var/log/messages when inserting the card.


[Modem0]
Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0
Baud = 230400
SetVolume = 0
Dial Command = ATDT
Init1 = ATZ
Init3 = ATM0
FlowControl = CRTSCTS

[Dialer vdata]
Username = internet
Password = internet
Phone = #777
Stupid Mode = 1
Init1 = ATZ
Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 C1 D2 +FCLASS=0
Inherits = Modem0


Hope this helps.


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Re: [ILUG-BOM] What is stoping Indians from contributing to FOSS ?

2006-12-12 Thread Devdas Bhagat
On 12/12/06 12:47 +0530, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
snip
 Does anybody know what SQA activities FOSS have? How are the quality 
 standards defined? What are the metrics?
 
The metrics are what the contributors want them to be. Heavily
arbitrary, but then, it does what I want it to do, the way I want to do
it is the core metric. Some projects have public quality standards
(GNOME/KDE), others don't (mutt).

For applications implementing open specifications, the reference point
is how well the application follows the standard.

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[ILUG-BOM] Chirag: NFS Error during Etherboot

2006-12-12 Thread Chirag
If some one can provide me the wholly configured LTSP system then please can 
someone email me that stuff
   
  One more thing when I run nfs-kernelserver the following output is seen
   
  /etc/init.d/nfs-kernelserver: line 46: mountpoint: command not found.
  mount:nfsd already mounted or /proc/fs/nfsd busy
  mount: according to mtab;nfsd is already mounted on /proc/fs/nfsd
  Exporting directories for NFS Kernel daemon . done
  Starting NFS kernel daemon:nfsd mountd
   
   
   
  contents of /etc/hosts.allow
   
  portmap in.tftpd rpc.mountd mountd rpc.lockd lockd rpc.nfsd nfsd : 127.0.0.1 
LOCAL 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 : ALLOW
ssh sshd : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : ALLOW
ALL : 127.0.0.1 LOCAL : ALLOW
ALL : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : DENY
   
  bootpd: 0.0.0.0
in.tftpd:   192.168.0.
portmap:192.168.0.


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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Chirag: NFS Error during Etherboot

2006-12-12 Thread jtd
On Tuesday 12 December 2006 19:06, Chirag wrote:
 If some one can provide me the wholly configured LTSP system then
 please can someone email me that stuff

Looks like u are clueless about very many things. U need to read the 
about the following stuff thoroughly before attempting to create a 
diskless setup for a production environment.

1) learn to write emails (your threading is broken and has me jumping 
between mails to get some context).
2) DNS
3) NFS
4) PXE
5) etherboot
6) nfsroot (nfs as root fs)
7) nfsswap (pay attention to 2.6 kernel's special needs)
8) startup sequence and scripts in rcS.d 
9) creation of ramdisk
10) symlinks for several files in /etc and /var
11) nbd

The abv is for diskless env with local resources, which is different 
from a thin client setup.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] What is stoping Indians from contributing to FOSS ?

2006-12-12 Thread Pradeepto Bhattacharya

Hi,

On 12/12/06, Dinesh Joshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Does anybody know what SQA activities FOSS have? How are the quality
standards defined? What are the metrics?


http://scan.coverity.com/ (not free, but it scans a whole
load of free software projects, including linux kernel, KDE and GNOME
).
I can swear by it because people in KDE are really impressed
by its results and have often blogged about it and its fine results
since the day we joined it long time back. The output of its analysis
is very good. I must say, that their service to the community project
is just way to immense.
http://www.englishbreakfastnetwork.org/  (KDE specific)
http://www.sqo-oss.eu/  ( An EU project with loads of
organisation and companies including KDE )

 Cheers!

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