Re: [Ilugc] Interesting thing
Mohan Sundaram wrote: Got this from /. Custom distro builder from stock SUSE linux. Nice to see tools that makes tasks easier for noobies. http://susestudio.com/ Believe Fedora too has one. Fedora has a few and more than half a dozen custom variants as well. http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/05/31/remixing-fedora-7/ http://www.montanalinux.org/fedora-remix-howto-screencast.html The different variants (known as spins within Fedora) is available at http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ Rahul ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] MRU
On Tuesday 27 Jan 2009, Ajit Natarajan wrote: Hello, I have a BSNL DSL connection with a UTStar 300R2 modem. I have found that I need to reduce the MRU of the connection to 1452 bytes in order to pop from gmail.com and access certain other secure sites. I tried to set up a new VPI/VCI 0/35 connection with the MRU of 1452 bytes, but that setting reverts to 1492 on the next power cycle. Google search ethernet mru gave me the following, that might be the solution for you, on the first page. http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/net/0105.0/0015.html Put the command in rc.local or similar file that is executed at boot up. -- Regards, Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: system bootup time (Was Re: [Ilugc] What logs to check for a system crash?)
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Arun Kumar Khan kn...@yahoo.com wrote: On Monday 26 Jan 2009, Sujith wrote: Wow, 30 seconds ? My Arch machine boots in about half of that. :) Are the above numbers from power ON to [GKX]DM login prompt? Both Venkatraman and Sujith, can you please share your hardware setup and what did you do to shorten the bootup time. Well. I run arch too. I am not exaggerating, but my Arch boot time is 9 seconds. I backgrounded all the daemons. In my /etc/rc.conf (The arch sys conf file) DAEMONS=(syslog-ng @network @netfs @crond @httpd @alsa @mpd). It is safer not to background syslog-ng. UDev takes the maximum time (3 seconds). The rest disappear as soon as they arrive. And @ backgrounds the processes. I dont use a login manager. I log into screen as soon as I log in. Also, of all the login managers I have used, slim was the fastest. It added 3-5 seconds to the startup. Just uncomment the line in /etc/inittab. Some of this speedgain comes because Arch Keeps it Simple! Machine Specs: uname -a Linux Hell 2.6.28-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jan 18 20:17:17 UTC 2009 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6550 @ 2.33GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux Motherboard-G33 Flags flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts --- Ashok `ScriptDevil` Gautham ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] OT Commercial
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Re: [Ilugc] Package Installation in UBUNTU
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Kannan kanna...@gmail.com wrote: hi friends. i am directly download the packages using apt-get install ... command. how can i take the back up of the softwares. help me. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc 1. AptOnCD -- http://aptoncd.sourceforge.net/ 2. How to take a backup list and reinstall from the list -- http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-get-list-installed-software-reinstallation-restore.html HTH -- Regards Srikanth.L [Twitter] http://twitter.com/logic [Blog]http://logiconline.wordpress.com ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: system bootup time (Was Re: [Ilugc] What logs to check for a system crash?)
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Ashok Gautham thescriptde...@gmail.com wrote: Also, of all the login managers I have used, slim was the fastest. It added 3-5 seconds to the startup. Have you tried qingy? and benchmarked it? ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] changing the bootup welcome message in Fedora
The welcome message which appears on Fedora just before starting udev can be changed. The standard message is something like Welcome to Fedora, this can be changed to whatever you like, you will have to make changes to /etc/rc.sysinit, find the following section in that file : # Print a text banner. echo -en $\t\tWelcome to read -r redhat_release /etc/redhat-release if [[ $redhat_release =~ Red Hat ]]; then [ $BOOTUP = color ] echo -en \\033[0;31m echo -en Red Hat [ $BOOTUP = color ] echo -en \\033[0;39m PRODUCT=`sed s/Red Hat \(.*\) release.*/\1/ /etc/redhat-release` echo $PRODUCT elif [[ $redhat_release =~ Fedora ]]; then [ $BOOTUP = color ] echo -en \\033[0;34m echo -en Fedora [ $BOOTUP = color ] echo -en \\033[0;39m PRODUCT=`sed s/Fedora \(.*\) \?release.*/\1/ /etc/redhat-release` echo $PRODUCT else PRODUCT=`sed s/ release.*//g /etc/redhat-release` echo $PRODUCT fi if [ $PROMPT != no ]; then echo -en $\t\tPress 'I' to enter interactive startup. echo fi now comment out the whole section and add an echo statement just below it to print your own message, something like this : #printing my own message echo -en $\n [ $BOOTUP = color ] echo -en \\033[0;34m echo -en $Welcome to Satish's Linux Box [ $BOOTUP = color ] echo -en \\033[0;39m check out how the change looks here : http://satish.playdrupal.com/?q=node/84 (thats a screenshot while my system was booting on qemu) Thanks Satish -- http://satish.playdrupal.com ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] Hibernate don't shutdown (Was Re: system bootup time)
People have been talking about speeding up boot times. Here is an alternative strategy to make your desktop/laptop quickly usable whenever you need it. Do not *ever* shutdown unless you are upgrading the kernel or grub. With suspend-to-disk[*] working on most systems around, there is no reason to ever shutdown. Even library upgrades can be done by kill -HUPping or restarting some daemons/processes. Replace your shutdown command with a hibernate/s2disk/tuxonice. You can power-down your system after such a procedure. In my experience hibernate and resume times for a typical desktop are lower than bootup times. As long as you do not access your hibernated disk areas, you can even use a different O/S in the intervening period. You can also build a tremendous uptime record in spite of Chennai's power cuts. Kapil. [*] Not to be confused with suspend-to-ram which is mostly only for laptops and even there is perhaps invoked only after some superstitious invocations. -- ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] Re: ilugc Digest, Vol 56, Issue 79
Where can i find ilugc blacklist thread ? i have some better experience with a company , i want no more freelancer to taste it with that company.. On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 8:54 PM, ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in wrote: Send ilugc mailing list submissions to ilugc@ae.iitm.ac.in To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in You can reach the person managing the list at ilugc-ow...@ae.iitm.ac.in When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of ilugc digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: Interesting thing (Rahul Sundaram) 2. Re: MRU (Arun Kumar Khan) 3. Re: system bootup time (Was Re: [Ilugc] What logs to check for a system crash?) (Ashok Gautham) 4. Package Installation in UBUNTU (Kannan) 5. OT Commercial (Ramabadran Seshadri Iyengar) 6. Re: Package Installation in UBUNTU (Srikanth Lakshmanan) 7. Re: system bootup time (Was Re: [Ilugc] What logs to check for a system crash?) (Sujith) 8. Re: system bootup time (Was Re: [Ilugc] What logs to check for a system crash?) (Mehul Ved) 9. changing the bootup welcome message in Fedora (Satish Eerpini) -- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:42:47 +0530 From: Rahul Sundaram sunda...@fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: [Ilugc] Interesting thing To: ILUG-C ilugc@ae.iitm.ac.in Message-ID: 497ed00f.9010...@fedoraproject.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Mohan Sundaram wrote: Got this from /. Custom distro builder from stock SUSE linux. Nice to see tools that makes tasks easier for noobies. http://susestudio.com/ Believe Fedora too has one. Fedora has a few and more than half a dozen custom variants as well. http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/05/31/remixing-fedora-7/ http://www.montanalinux.org/fedora-remix-howto-screencast.html The different variants (known as spins within Fedora) is available at http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ Rahul -- Message: 2 Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:44:30 +0530 From: Arun Kumar Khan kn...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [Ilugc] MRU To: ILUG-C ilugc@ae.iitm.ac.in Message-ID: 200901271444.30411.kn...@yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 On Tuesday 27 Jan 2009, Ajit Natarajan wrote: Hello, I have a BSNL DSL connection with a UTStar 300R2 modem. I have found that I need to reduce the MRU of the connection to 1452 bytes in order to pop from gmail.com and access certain other secure sites. I tried to set up a new VPI/VCI 0/35 connection with the MRU of 1452 bytes, but that setting reverts to 1492 on the next power cycle. Google search ethernet mru gave me the following, that might be the solution for you, on the first page. http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/net/0105.0/0015.html Put the command in rc.local or similar file that is executed at boot up. -- Regards, Arun Khan -- Message: 3 Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:54:24 +0530 From: Ashok Gautham thescriptde...@gmail.com Subject: Re: system bootup time (Was Re: [Ilugc] What logs to check for a system crash?) To: ILUG-C ilugc@ae.iitm.ac.in Message-ID: 3232b7ed0901270324o45655cd2g883337fe085e5...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Arun Kumar Khan kn...@yahoo.com wrote: On Monday 26 Jan 2009, Sujith wrote: Wow, 30 seconds ? My Arch machine boots in about half of that. :) Are the above numbers from power ON to [GKX]DM login prompt? Both Venkatraman and Sujith, can you please share your hardware setup and what did you do to shorten the bootup time. Well. I run arch too. I am not exaggerating, but my Arch boot time is 9 seconds. I backgrounded all the daemons. In my /etc/rc.conf (The arch sys conf file) DAEMONS=(syslog-ng @network @netfs @crond @httpd @alsa @mpd). It is safer not to background syslog-ng. UDev takes the maximum time (3 seconds). The rest disappear as soon as they arrive. And @ backgrounds the processes. I dont use a login manager. I log into screen as soon as I log in. Also, of all the login managers I have used, slim was the fastest. It added 3-5 seconds to the startup. Just uncomment the line in /etc/inittab. Some of this speedgain comes because Arch Keeps it Simple! Machine Specs: uname -a Linux Hell 2.6.28-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jan 18 20:17:17 UTC 2009 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6550 @ 2.33GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux Motherboard-G33 Flags flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts --- Ashok
Re: [Ilugc] Hibernate don't shutdown (Was Re: system bootup time)
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: [*] Not to be confused with suspend-to-ram which is mostly only for laptops and even there is perhaps invoked only after some superstitious invocations. JFTR, I have been suspending to RAM (while leaving a laptop connected to power supply most of the time) with no problems whatsoever, ever since kernel 2.6.27. It's much, much quicker than suspend to disk, though it does draw a tiny bit of battery if you don't connect the power supply. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] Re: system bootup time (Was Re: What logs to check for a system crash?)
Sujith wrote: conky -d Could you please share your desktop screenshot? like to see your conky in effort. Thanks, Mohan. ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Hibernate don't shutdown (Was Re: system bootup time)
Not to mention the added advantage of saving all your application state as well. You come back to the same firefox tabs, etc. Makes it easier to pick up your workflow where you left off. +1 for hibernating. Raja On 27/01/2009, Kapil Hari Paranjape ka...@imsc.res.in wrote: People have been talking about speeding up boot times. Here is an alternative strategy to make your desktop/laptop quickly usable whenever you need it. Do not *ever* shutdown unless you are upgrading the kernel or grub. With suspend-to-disk[*] working on most systems around, there is no reason to ever shutdown. Even library upgrades can be done by kill -HUPping or restarting some daemons/processes. Replace your shutdown command with a hibernate/s2disk/tuxonice. You can power-down your system after such a procedure. In my experience hibernate and resume times for a typical desktop are lower than bootup times. As long as you do not access your hibernated disk areas, you can even use a different O/S in the intervening period. You can also build a tremendous uptime record in spite of Chennai's power cuts. Kapil. [*] Not to be confused with suspend-to-ram which is mostly only for laptops and even there is perhaps invoked only after some superstitious invocations. -- ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Hibernate don't shutdown (Was Re: system bootup time)
Sorry for the top post. I suspended to RAM my thinkpad for a year - even when I carried it around in the laptop bag. After 1 year, the battery life dropped to just 2009 mins. I had the same experience on a dell earlier. I'm currently hibernating andd powering off and there are no problems. Imo, suspend to RAM is not worth it in the long run. Raja On 27/01/2009, Kumar Appaiah a.ku...@alumni.iitm.ac.in wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: [*] Not to be confused with suspend-to-ram which is mostly only for laptops and even there is perhaps invoked only after some superstitious invocations. JFTR, I have been suspending to RAM (while leaving a laptop connected to power supply most of the time) with no problems whatsoever, ever since kernel 2.6.27. It's much, much quicker than suspend to disk, though it does draw a tiny bit of battery if you don't connect the power supply. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Hibernate don't shutdown (Was Re: system bootup time)
Typo sorry. That was 20 mins, not 2009 mins. Raja On 27/01/2009, Raja Subramanian rajasuper...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry for the top post. I suspended to RAM my thinkpad for a year - even when I carried it around in the laptop bag. After 1 year, the battery life dropped to just 2009 mins. I had the same experience on a dell earlier. I'm currently hibernating andd powering off and there are no problems. Imo, suspend to RAM is not worth it in the long run. Raja On 27/01/2009, Kumar Appaiah a.ku...@alumni.iitm.ac.in wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: [*] Not to be confused with suspend-to-ram which is mostly only for laptops and even there is perhaps invoked only after some superstitious invocations. JFTR, I have been suspending to RAM (while leaving a laptop connected to power supply most of the time) with no problems whatsoever, ever since kernel 2.6.27. It's much, much quicker than suspend to disk, though it does draw a tiny bit of battery if you don't connect the power supply. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Hibernate don't shutdown (Was Re: system bootup time)
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 23:13 +0530, Raja Subramanian wrote: Sorry for the top post. I suspended to RAM my thinkpad for a year - even when I carried it around in the laptop bag. After 1 year, the battery life dropped to just 2009 mins. I had the same experience on a dell earlier. I'm currently hibernating andd powering off and there are no problems. Imo, suspend to RAM is not worth it in the long run. I don't know if this might be it, but my previous Compaq NX 7300 would heat up considerably if I suspended it and placed it in a case. I can certainly understand if that heating caused some loss of capacity. -- Roshan George ros...@arjie.com ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Hibernate don't shutdown (Was Re: system bootup time)
On Wednesday 28 Jan 2009 12:23:11 pm Venkatraman S wrote:
Do not *ever* shutdown unless you are upgrading the kernel or grub.
My Acer Aspire 4520 burns after 20-30mins .
Atually, its much hotter than than the hottest bollywood actress i cant
even keep it on my lap('it' refers to my laptop) :P
my aspire 4720Z doesnt burn at all! And with the sleep key, it is cool as ever
even with the lid down.
--
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KG
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[Ilugc] setup a local repository for ubuntu
Friends. We have 3 ubuntu 8.04 boxes and no internet connection. But we have the 5 ubuntu repository DVDs got from zyxware.com We need to setup one box as a local repository so that all ubuntu boxes should contact the repository box to get the packages. Could not get a proper link in net. Have you done like this before? Could you share the links and tutorials? Thanks. -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My experiences with Linux are here http://goinggnu.wordpress.com For Free and Open Source Jobs http://fossjobs.wordpress.com ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
