[ilugd] Running commands from FTP Protocol
Hi all, Does anybody have any idea how to go about running system commands through FTP protocol ? What I want to achieve is while using FTP I want to run my PERL script lying on the server in my user's home dir and get some return values from it. Any pointers people. -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] LA2005 CD sales
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 08:08:47 +0530, Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vivek == Vivek Varghese Cherian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Vivek The cost of the Software, the CDs and its entire shipping Vivek charges are free as in gratis. Why should some one pay Vivek you Rs 50 for the CDs, when the Ubuntu team gives it to you Vivek free of charge ? Basically for the convenience factor. If I can pay Rs. 50 and get a CD from a stall in front of me I'd rather do that than find a web page, fill out forms and wait 3 weeks for the CD to arrive. Hi guys, Since this discussion is going on I have the following cd's lying with me which I intended to get to the LUG Meet but could not make it for the last 2 months. 15 sets of Ubuntu cd. 12 are Intel x86 Edition which contain 2 cd's each. One is the Ubuntu install cd and another is a live cd. Remaining 3 are Amd64 version. These contain only one cd. If somebody could pick these up from me and use it for LA2005 it will be great. I live in Sarita Vihar. Otherwise I can hand it over to somebody. Raj -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] wine and .msi
On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 18:40:22 +0530, Arjun Asthana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Wine can't run .msi installers. Is there any patch/dll through which it can? To install msi files on windows itself you require the Msi Installer provided by MS available for download from here. Check the site for more recent versions. URL may be wrapped http://download.microsoft.com/download/WindowsInstaller/Install/2.0/W9XMe/EN-US/ InstMsiA.exe /URL may be wrapped So you first have to use wine and install the msiinstaller itself and then use it to install *.msi files. Read this page since you need to make a few changes in wine config. http://frankscorner.org/index.php?p=msi -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
[ilugd] Linux Compatible Decent Internet
Hello All, I have recently come back to Delhi and I am looking around for a decent (preferably 128Kbps and above cable/dsl) internet connection in my area (Sarita Vihar) which is totally compatible with Linux. Anybody care to tell me whether I am dreaming or not ? If it is not totally compatible I am willing to get my hands a little dirty but not too much. If there is such a thing as mentioned above then somebody please enlighten me. -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] {OT} Anyone interested in Gmail invitations?
On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 13:27, Manoj Kr. Gupta wrote: Hi All, I am having two Gmail invites to share so anyone interested please reply asap. Please please for the love of god could we stop the gmail invite thing on a Linux mailing list. If you have a few give it to your friends on ilugd OFF LIST. -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] Booting win from another drive through LILO
On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 18:52, Arjun Asthana wrote: Hi, I got a strange problem here. While, for most, booting win through LILO works, but for me it doesn't. I got windows in /dev/hdb1 and linux in /dev/hda1 (/boot), /dev/hda2 (root) and /dev/hda3 (swap). Now, I added an entry in /etc/lilo.conf for windows which is as follows: - #Win98 other=/dev/hdb1 optional label=win loader=/boot/chain.b table=/dev/hdb I started from a few and searched the net for more info and added them as required, but still I'm unable to boot into windows. It stops at `Loading win'. I tried GRUB (using grub-install), but after doing so, I was not even able to boot linux and I was dropped to a GRUB prompt. When I loaded the kernel and booted (in GRUB), it had some errors regarding the filesystem. I have forgotten the exact syntax for lilo. Long time since I have stopped using it. No flame wars here please. For grub read the following link :- http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-faq.en.html#q10 Basically you have to map the drives. You may need to makeactive the partition also. For grub help on this type info grub or if you prefer to use the online manual go here :- http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/index.html For lilo, google for the correct syntax for mapping two partitions. The whole problem starts because Win likes to sit on the primary master (hda) always. The moment you shift it to primary slave(hdb) or anything else for that matter like in your case the problem begins. So by mapping the drives you basically fool Win into thinking that is sitting on hda and not hdb. As to the file system errors while loading from GRUB maybe you missed specifying the initrd image for the particular kernel ? -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] Looking for a good AMD board for Linux
On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 15:17, Vipul Mathur wrote: On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 10:57:09AM +0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] - Integrated S3 Graphics Unichrome 2d/3d I have the same graphics chip in a machine here. The drivers that are included with most common distributions don't work or are not included at all. X.org's X11 has full support for this chip though (as compared to XFree86). But till such time as X.org is integrated with a distribution, you will either have to get it and compile it yourself or stick with a basic vesa driver. Errm, X.org is default with FC2 already. -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] Problem Starting KMouth
On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 17:36, LinuxLingam wrote: On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 13:54, Raj Shekhar wrote: Kunal Singhal (Linux) wrote: I did a full installation of PCQLinux 2004. It comes bundled with a text-to-speesh software KMouth. When I run it from the command line, it quits with th error Segmentation Fault apparantly, the problems could have been caused by something called 'pre-link' ... LL Try searching the archives of the Red Hat 9 shrike-list for prelink(Without the dash). You will get hordes of information on this. not entirely OT still related to PCQ :D Has anybody seen the below ? I came across it while trying to search for the download links of PCQLinux which unfortunately according to this does not exist. Just wanted to check it out since where I am I do not have the luxury of buying the magazine and getting the CD along with it :-(. http://www.distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20040209#feedback Does anybody know where I can download it or is it not available intentionally for download off the net so that people buy the mag ? /not entirely OT still related to PCQ :D -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] java on linux
On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 05:41, pg smh wrote: hi there, i have just installed java on rh9 linux, but donno how to set the path and the classpath, can anyone help me out with that, i'm able to run the java codes from the /usr/java/j2sdk. directory, but i guess setting the enviroment variables once will be a better option and also to run tomcat server i guess i need to set the path and all, pls help Try searching the Mail Archives for Classpath+Java. For the inevitable question of where are the archives try looking at the bottom of any mail from the mailing list. -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] Re: test ... please ignore
On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 13:59, Spoonman wrote: Sharninder Singh wrote: yes, You were supposed to give it a pass. Sorry, for hogging your bandwidth people, I was just testing if the filters I have set in my mail client (sylpheed) are working fine. I'm using sylpheed for the first time today. You could have just sent a mail to yourself with [ilugd] in subject line to test the filter if the filter was based on the subjectline. If the filter was based on To/CC email you could have telnet to your mailserver at port 25 and sent a mail spoofing the To email address in the DATA. Or alternatively the concerned person could have just been patient for somebody else to mail to the list. This list is not such low activity that a person cannot be patient to receive a mail from it. But enough said on this. I think he gets the idea and next time he will not do it. Hopefully... Regards, -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] Re: strcpy local variable in c
On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 15:38, Vikas Upadhyay wrote:
From: Abhijit Menon-Sen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 2004-03-04 12:24:25 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
According to me, as we have string as local variable, it should
vanish.
But, i am still able to return and print the string hello world.
Returning a pointer to local variables is undefined; that is, there is
no guarantee whatsoever about its behaviour. In particular, it doesn't
need to vanish (but it may).
By vanish I mean, function gone it's data gone. Each function data
(unless got through malloc or defined static) is put on it's stack
frame, so when function returns the stack frame is popped out. So local
variable no more exists !!!
Very true when the function returns the stack is emptied and all local
variables are deleted. But the pointer is made on the heap not the
stack!So you will have to delete the pointer manually. You are taking
control away from the compiler and telling it that you are implementing
it manually by making a pointer. So if there was a Garbage Collector
this is what it would collect. Otherwise like in this case you have a
memory leak.
So your code works only by accident. I'm surprised that gcc's warnings
are defeated by your intermediate assignment (ptr = string), but only
a little.
This has been my understading, but now the problem is - if all what i
know is correct, yaar yeh kaam kyon kar raha hae.
I have tried it so many times ... but if it's just coincidence, what a
beautiful coincidence:-)
As far as gcc warning for ptr=string goes it is not complaining since
string is an array and string actually contains the memory address
of starting of the array. So since you are assigning address string to
ptr it is not complaining and happily proceeding.
Try adding these two statements and changing your foo() function
char * foo()
{
char string[200];
char * ptr=NULL;
strcpy(string,hello world);
printf(StrAddr=%x\n,string[0]); // Print address of the
starting // of the string
ptr=string;
printf(PtrAddr=%x\n,ptr); //Print the address of the ptr
//not the contents
}
As you will see the above two values are equal.
Regards,
--
Arindam Dey
The mind is not a vessel to be
filled but a fire to be kindled.
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Re: [ilugd] Re: strcpy local variable in c
On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 16:07, Arindam Dey wrote:
Try adding these two statements and changing your foo() function
char * foo()
{
char string[200];
char * ptr=NULL;
strcpy(string,hello world);
printf(StrAddr=%x\n,string[0]); // Print address of the
starting// of the string
ptr=string;
printf(PtrAddr=%x\n,ptr); //Print the address of the ptr
//not the contents
}
Apologies for replying to my own mail. But I or my MUA made a horrendous
formatting error for my comment above. The word starting will be after
the beginning of the second // comment starter. Although I am pretty
sure you will correct my ineptitude automatically there was another
reason to reply again.
You can use the value of the ptr in the main function although it is a
local variable because it is made on the heap and thus although the
pointer itself is gone meaning you cannot use ptr-something in main but
since you have not cleared or freed the memory location using delete()
in the function the value stored in the memory location is still present
and thus the printf statement in the main is happily printing whatever
is stored in that particular memory location. Since the variable
string in main has been assigned the memory location or address
earlier being used by the ptr in the function foo.
Regards,
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filled but a fire to be kindled.
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Re: [ilugd] Re: strcpy local variable in c
On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 16:56, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: [snipped some excellent discourse by AMS] Thank you very much for clearing that up. I was pretty mistaken about the stack and heap thing. I had totally forgotten about the malloc thing have been using new and delete for quite a while now :-). Looks like should open the books again. Regards, -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] tutorials on curses
On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 12:43, harsh sharma wrote: can anyone of u please send me the usefule links or any matter related to learning curses i do not have any idea about them...so i have to start from the beginning.. Dude go and at least try searching google. In case you do *NOT* know the URL it is which seems to be a distinct possibility http://www.google.com Enter curses tutorial there and go find some useful links. Since I am in such a helpful mood here is one URL to start you off:- http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/c/curses.html Regards, -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] Re: tutorials on curses
On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 13:26, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: At 2004-03-03 21:16:17 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AMS if you cannot direct prpoperly atleast dont misdirect him. The link you sent is not clicked by the initiator of the thread but by several others who have gone through your reply. Did you bother to actually check whom the message was from before trying to beat me with a stick? -- ams Ah now i see what this guy meant by AMS. Got thrown off by that for a moment. As far as posting useless links if you would care to read carefully through the whole post I have given the guy the proper suggestion. That is enter curses tutorial in the google search. I just want him to go and do the work on his own rather than me providing him the links aka spoon feeding which is what this fellow is looking for going by his recent posts. I am pretty sure you did not read the whole posting carefully since you were berating AMS on such useless links. As far as useless link goes a little bit of humor never hurt anybody. And as to lots of spare time Who is the person clicking on all the links? Not me. And as for misdirection if the person cannot distinguish that the site is for spells and curses and not for linux curses what more can I say. Regards, -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] tutorials on curses
On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 13:16, vivek khurana wrote: http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/c/curses.html Please refrain from posting such useless links in future. If you cannot help some one just dont answer the thread. As for googling, its not necessary, you will always find an answer to your question on google. I forgot to tackle this point in the previous post sorry for increasing the clutter and wasting your precious time. Dude if you will always find an answer on google then go and search there. In case you are unfamiliar with netiquette and posting on mailing lists the first golden rule is Search for your problem on Google. Only if you cannot find an answer there then post on the mailing list. I am pretty sure I am not the only one here with this view. Regards, -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] tutorials on curses
On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 14:16, vivek wrote: On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 21:16 -0800, vivek khurana wrote: http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/c/curses.html Please refrain from posting such useless links in future. If you cannot help some one just dont answer the thread. As for googling, its not necessary, you will always find an answer to your question on google. if yu know what the question that guy had put up - he wanted a tutorial on curses, and wanted somebody to guide him. the help he wanted is something which is easily available on google - yu can also try searching atleast once. that guy wants to be spoonfed, has not done his homework. here we first work on something, try to resolve the problem by ourselves and if unsuccessful then ask mailing list for the help, but here he wants to relax in his armchair let others do the work for him. Thank you. Thank you. Nice to see people do agree with me. also, as for the irrelevant link, well, that link may be irrelevant for yu, but long long time back while i was searching for vodoun and voodoo and shamanism, [snip] in fact i should thank Mr. Dey for that [vivek bends on his knees, takes the left hand of Mr. Dey in both his hands, with tears almost on the verge of falling on his eyes, says Thank You!] Ah Mr. Dey says you are welcome :-). Thanks for the heads up on your interests of voodoo and shamanism etc. I will definitely try to remember that in the future before messing with you and before loaning any of my personal items like cd's to you because according to National Geographic all the Shaman needs is one personal item of yours and then you are history. Br. :-) Regards, -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] Reg. Upgrading to Fedora Core-1 from Rh8.0
On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 16:06, bipin sartape wrote: hi, i am running rh8.0(psyche distro). how can i upgrade it to fedora core-1 distro which i have got it along with LFY-Feb 04 edition. it will be of great help. Your best bet is to do a clean install from starting rather than an upgrade. That is back up your data and then pop in the Fedora cd do a clean install. Recreate and format the partitions again. Now before people jump up and start abusing me for such a poor advice what with the excellent upgrade facility present on the Fedora cd's allow me to explain my reasons for saying so. 1. Major drawback of upgrade -- Only the rpm's already present on your system are going to get upgraded to the new ones available on Fedora Core 1. So for instance you are not going to get the excellent utility to update a system called yum or for that matter rhgb which provides the sort off graphical boot screen. You can always install these later by hand but I have just mentioned 2 there may be, no *are* numerous more which are not installed. Now if somebody knows what I am doing wrong when I upgraded and did not get these and various other packages please do correct me here. Also if for some reason you had not installed Open Office under RH 8 do not expect it to auto magically appear on upgrading to Fedora Core 1. It will not install the Open Office rpm since it is upgrading your system. This is just an example it holds true for any other package which you have manually uninstalled from your RH 8 system or did not install during your RH 8 installation. 2. You are anyways going to take backup of the system if you are going to upgrade. At least I hope you were going to take back up. So taking backup is not a drawback for installing from scratch. 3. Upgrade from one version to another and more over as in this case it is a major change 8 - Fedora Core 1 aka RH 10 although you may not face problems while upgrading and you may also be happy for the first 2 days but the moment you try to update your system with the latest available rpm's from the various repo's boom it may burst up in your face with dependency errors or more aptly rpm dependency hell. Been there and done that so trust me. Still after all this if you want to upgrade using the cd then first take backup (up to you) and second pop in the cd and reboot. Make sure the first boot device is cd and not hdd in the bios and at the prompt of the cd just press enter. Then follow the whatever it tells/asks you to do. After the final mouse click my suggestion is start praying hard, very very hard and it might also help you to keep your fingers crossed. Regards, -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] ILUG-D activity in last 7 days
On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 21:20, Nishikant Kapoor wrote: Arindam Dey wrote: One more suggestion :-). Looks like I am only good at giving suggestions and nothing else. Please do not undermine your role. You are the one who has been providing the maximum feedback and/or suggestions and it is greatly appreciated. *blush* *blush* /Me turning beet root red Ok dude now since you are patronizing me so much I will include the Chivas or JD in the name your poison list. It must also be pretty evident that I am between projects at the moment so I am just BTFW'ing. I have no idea whether the software being used by us allows the moderator to do this if not then the moderator should hand out contracts to hunt down the *%^*% original author and ki?? him/her. Yes, the software does provide the option of 'fixing' such posts. When logged in, moderator should see an 'Edit' option next to each entry, which can be used to 'fix' such posts. Damn it. It does? Are you sure? I was hoping to be the first one to get one of those contracts. I had even searched the wonderful www to get ideas on how to torture and stuff. The Chinese it seems are the best in this field. I got this from very dubious but incredibly knowledgeable resources on the www. Ah well another time then will keep sharpening the knives till then :-). As long as it seems that you are in a good mood here is another suggestion. People who are getting tired of my suggestions please tell that to me politely or keep it to yourself otherwise as you very well know I *am* sharpening my knives so... I just got this mail in response to some posting I had made on the site. Mail There is a new response on your topic, submitted by ILUG-D member. -- This email is brought to you by http://www.linux-delhi.org/ , India Linux Users Group - Delhi /Mail Now the above does not tell me the response is to which topic. In my case it was immaterial since I had participated in only *two* threads so it was just a matter of clicking them both. How about including a link in the mail which takes you directly to the post. Something like below. This will be required assuming the excellent discussion board *becomes* popular and there are a few people who participate in a number of threads. http://www.linux-delhi.org/cgi-bin/ilugd/discussions.cgi?action=discussionmId=0catId=12tId=1sortOrder=0 Regards, -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] problem
On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 20:15, Yashpal Nagar wrote: harsh sharma wrote: hi this is harsh singal.. i am new to linux environment and have just started working on it i have some problems: 1) pls tell me what INPUTRC system variable is for? This file is for setting up system behaviours, like what do you want if you press twice the tab command , How the programs in your path are viewed when you type tab-tab .. etc If I may be allowed to interject here... INPUTRC -- Is the system variable to store the location of the inputrc file if it is stored in a location other than the home directory(~someuser/.inputrc) or if you want to override the file located in your home directory. The above describes the contents of the inputrc file itself. From man bash INPUTRC The filename for the readline startup file, overriding the default of ~/.inputrc (see READLINE below). /From man bash You can check the value of the variable by env | grep INPUTRC. If you run the above command as a normal user you will not get any output on Red Hattish(checked on FC 1) systems unless you have set the variable explicitly for your user. This is because the .inputrc file is there in your home directory itself so there is no need to set the variable. But if you run the aforementioned command as root (do su - and *NOT* just su or better yet login as root on a console) you will see that the INPUTRC variable points to /etc/inputrc where it is stored for root (Do not ask me why it is stored there and not /root/.inputrc because I do not know. If somebody would like to elaborate on this then I will also learn something). You can learn more about INPUTRC variable by taking a look at man bash. Search for INPUTRC. You can search by typing / without the quotes and then by typing INPUTRC obviously without the quotes and pressing enter. And like it says read READLINE so do that then you can understand the various options you can put in your inputrc file. Search for READLINE it is mentioned in 3 or 4 places so you can navigate to the main entry after searching for it in man bash press n to go to the next occurrence of READLINE. Regards, -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [SPAM] Re: [ilugd] Reg. Upgrading to Fedora Core-1 from Rh8.0
On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 15:08, bipin sartape wrote: thanks, arindam-da and vivek for your suggestions. the 2nd suggestion of directly poping the fedora cd's is usless bcos i had already tried this and it did not work. i will try you suggestion reg.make clean install and installing fedora cd's. You are welcome. Whats with da at the end of my name ? What do you mean by useless ? What did you try and what was the result or error you got ? From my knowledge and prior experience which is admittedly limited the popping in the cd and pressing enter will work for upgrade also. 1. Pop in the cd. 2. Make cd first boot device in bios. 3. Skip or do the media check up to you. 4. Approximately after 5 clicks in GUI on the Next button (After Monitor selection) the cd performs the Searching for Fedora Core installation. 4. It should and at least in my case *does* come up with Red Hat Linux 8 as a listed option with the root partition it is installed on. It then asks you whether you want to upgrade *_OR_* do a fresh install over this. (If you would like a screenshot of this can be done :-) 5. This will not come up if for some reason you have a corrupted partition or you have messed around with your RH 8 installed system. But it *will* come up if you have a reasonably working RH 8 system IMHO. Did you try till this step? I do not think so. Anyways when you are going to do a fresh install it is also going you to bring you to this point so... Regards, -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: Thread hijacking (was) Re: [ilugd] Mplayer config
On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 11:22, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: Raj Shekhar wrote: Secondly, please do not hijack a thread. I have started a new thread for you, use it for further discussion. A longer explanation of thread hijacking is below. :) Good to see you disciplining people about this obnoxious practice, but I think you can save yourself some trouble, by copying your standard Don't hijack a thread!!! content to a FAQ entry on the site, and giving the URL instead. And if you are at it why not add a Top Post entry to that FAQ also. -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] Where is linux-delhi proposed Forum??
On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 20:28, Nishikant Kapoor wrote: Arindam Dey wrote: Only one discontent with the forum/discussion board. It is moderated. [snip] As long as somebody is doing it I have no complaints but it was just a thought. It is indeed manpower intensive especially, when members are as active as ILUG-Dites :-) As for the 24 hour lag, it entirely depends on the moderator. So far, Mairu has been doing an excellent job but I was hoping that soon we should be able to let the discussion forums be unmoderated. I have made the necessary changes to the software and it is just a matter of setting the config right. A poll in this regard seeking what others think sounds like a good idea. Will put it up soon. *clap* *clap* *clap* Alternatively can't we have a link there underneath every post like many forums do which says Report this post to the moderator or something like that. [snip] Regardless of discussions being moderated or not, 'Report' link is a good feature and I just implemented it. Its online now. Thanks for great suggestion. *clap* *clap* *clap* Damn, my hands are paining now from all that clapping. Man this guy works hard and fast. *Snakes* and *drinks*(can include beer if you do consume it :-) for you dude at my house the next time I am in town. -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] Where is linux-delhi proposed Forum??
On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 14:20, Abhi wrote: works hard and fast. *Snakes* and *drinks*(can include beer if you do consume it :-) for you dude at my house the next time I am in town. Arindam Dey Snakes ?!!! Aren't you taking name your poison too literally ? :-) Ah i meant snacks. Just wrote it as snake purposefully. And as far as name your poison goes yes that is also allowed. So beer can be replaced with anything as long as it is not something like Chivas Regal or say Jack Daniels which may fall outside my budget :-). -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] ILUG-D activity in last 7 days
On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 15:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] 14. Category: News/Announcements Author: Rajeshwar Dutt Subject: Error in Ldap server Dear all ; I have configured an ldap server ..when I am issuing a command ldappasswd the error is coming ldap_sas... 15. Category: News/Announcements Author: Kaushik Bhandankar Subject: Roaming Profiles in Samba Hi I have configured Samba to act as a PDC and configured it for roaming profiles and netlogon as well... but... [snip] One more suggestion :-). Looks like I am only good at giving suggestions and nothing else. For cases like the above wherein the original author is absolutely totally clueless as to what category he/she should post his/her query/discussion in we should either ki** the %$^^%* (violent intentions edited) the author or the moderator can *Move* the discussion to be listed under the relevant topic as is done in various sites. I have no idea whether the software being used by us allows the moderator to do this if not then the moderator should hand out contracts to hunt down the *%^*% original author and ki?? him/her. Regards, -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] How to reduce the size of swap partition?
On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 16:44, Amit Sharma wrote: hi, i have rh 8.0 installed with 512MB RAM. swap space is 2 GB (i.e. 4 times that of RAM, where as ideally it should be twice.) how can i reduce the size of swap partition? Ok the following method has been tested on a testing machine about which I do not care at all. You may follow this at your own risk :D Best procedure is to get a cd of the distro you have installed. Boot into rescue mode(if it has anything like that) and follow from step 3 onwards. If you want to do it on a running pc that can also be done but is slightly more dangerous like I found out when I tried it. Maybe not dangerous to the file system but more to the running processes. It killed evolution, mozilla (4 instances), yahoo msg and xmms when I tried to disable swap space usage by swapoff. If using a running system first off go to init 3. That means a console (Ctrl+Alt+F[1-6]) go there and issue init 3. 1. swapoff -a -- To disable using the swap partition. But it disables only those partitions listed in /etc/fstab as swap or those currently present in /proc/swaps. If for some insane reason your swap partition is not listed in either of these dunno. 2. Check to see that the swap partition is no longer being used Output of free before swap partition is disabled [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# free -m totalusedfreeshared bufferscached Mem:241 230 11 0 441 -/+ buffers/cache: 184 56 Swap: 1027 281 745 Output of free after disabling swap partition [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# free -m totalusedfreeshared bufferscached Mem:241 230 11 0 441 -/+ buffers/cache: 184 56 Swap: 0 0 0 The remaining numbers are immaterial the important thing is to see that the last line in front of Swap are all zeros. 3. fdisk /dev/hd? (put hda or hdb etc depending on your system) You can find out which hdd the swap is on and also the partition number using fdisk -l /dev/hd[a-f] | grep swap. Hmmm six hdd's should cover your situation. If you do not get any output replace [a-f] with [a-z] :-). But if you get the following output [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# fdisk -l /dev/hd[a-f] | grep swap /dev/hda7 9602 9732 1052226 82 Linux swap The fdisk command will be fdisk /dev/hda At the fdisk prompt use d to delete it will ask for partition number in this case it will be 7. Then use n to create a new partition and assign it 128M or whatever you want the new swap partition size to be. Then use t to assign the id to it. It will ask for partition number give it the number of the partition you have just created. Swap has id of 82. So on being prompted for id give it 82. Create another partition using n to use up the space you just freed up and do whatever you want with it. Check using p that everything is well and fine. Double check again. Use w to save and exit. 4. mkswap /dev/hda? -- replace with whatever partition you created in the previous step. 5. Make changes to /etc/fstab in case you have changed the partition. So if you have changed /dev/hda7 to say /dev/hda8 or something reflect this change in the /etc/fstab file also by changing the appropriate line. 6. This command is required if you are making the changes on a running system if using rescue mode then this is not required. swapon -a -- To reactivate the swap partitions. 7. If using rescue mode then reboot. 8. Finally check using the free -m command and see that that the output in front of the swap line is not all zeros. If not then rejoice with the almost 1.8 GB of space you have just freed on your system but if still zero don't blame me :D and ask again on this list. Regards, -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] RAM costs
On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 14:51, Sanjeev Ghane Gupta wrote: On Thursday, February 26, 2004 2:40 PM [GMT+0800=SGT], Arindam Dey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 13:45, Manpreet Singh Nehra wrote: Can anyone help me out with this. I am looking for SDRAM slots of memory 256 MB and 512 MB. They are not available here in chandigarh. can anyone get me the availablity and cost of the slots And what does this discussion have to do with Linux at all?? The RAM is not a WinRAM, it can be used in a Linux box? ;-) Ah I see. A very astute observation thanks for clearing that up for me ;-) Then onwards to answer the original poster's question 256 MB -- Cost 1000 USD 512 MB -- Cost 2500 USD If the above is acceptable kindly mail me off the list and we can work something out for the courier charges to Chandigarh. Hmm lets see if you buy 2 of the 512's I will courier them free to you. Also I will wrap them in anti static and all other mumbo jumbo especially for you. Now ain't that a great deal ? Regards, -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 P.S. - To the linux delhi kitty manager if this guy actually wants to buy from me after seeing the fabulous discount on courier charges I promise to contribute all my ill gotten gains from this deal to the kitty. ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] problem with environment variables
On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 18:14, arundeep s wrote: hello all i am trying to compile a file placed on partition (/mnt/extra) other than / or /home. this partition is of ext3 type. now i am trying to compile a java code on /mnt/extra but it says sme class file is not found. but if i keep the same file on /home directory it compile without any error. so the problem is with i guess the environment variable CLASSPATH. so where ( file) i should set it so that this problem get solved. i don't have setenv command on my system also First off to provide any help you will have to tell us how did you install java? Then you have to provide the output of something like this env | grep -i CLASSPATH. This should be executed as the user you are trying to compile the java program as. Which java are you using whether the sun jdk or something else? What did you download the rpm version or something else? Which distribution of Linux are you using? Finally you do have the setenv but since it is a csh shell built in command it will only be invoked after you have changed your shell to csh from bash. But that is a whole different ball game. At the moment your friend for exporting variables is export which is kind off the bash equivalent of setenv or try man bash and in that search for set and unset or you can try env. -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] problem with environment variables
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 15:48, arundeep singh wrote: thanks for the advice arindam. i went through the rfc and i am now following it. and also thanks for helping now i get some hand on environment sharing. No thank you for at least going through it and being considerate enough to follow it. I don't whether my help solved your problem or not but it was my pleasure. And you are welcome. People like me who have problems with top posters, untrimmed replies and the worst scourge of all thread hijackers ... REJOICE we have a convert. There is at least some good left in this world :-). -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
[ilugd] SCO Suit the exact lines/files
At last SCO has revealed the points of conflict it has in the source code. For the relevant /. article http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/18/0146241 Which will take you here http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040215015800694 Regards, -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [SPAM] [ilugd] IP ROUTING - IP MASQUREDINg
On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 15:13, Manoj K Gupta wrote: Hi Arindam, I noticed ur query today only. [Snip] On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 17:25, Chithirai Selvan.R Alias Vimal thus hollered from the roof: this is my setup. [Snip] - This is where I pop in trying to help not asking for it. Since nobody replied to the query, [Snip] Hello, Very nice and thoughtful of you trying to help. But please please go through the whole thread at least a cursory glance through it would have told you I am not asking for help albeit trying to give it. And please DO NOT TOP POST.(People who are against this no flames please this is just my view). Now the perennial question What is top posting? For that go here http://www.kandalaya.org/guidelines.html Spend a few minutes of your valuable time reading through it. And even if you do top post at least look through the crap that is there in the mail below it and [Snip] through it. And to the list-admin why oh why does this does particular persons mail always pop up twice in my mail box? Is it just me? Or is this guy trying to antagonize me because he is succeeding. Nah this time the same mail did not pop up twice our friend here sent the mail twice once after simply hitting the reply button and adding invaluable help to it. Second time he noticed the [SPAM] tag courtesy my Spamassassin on the subject line of the first mail and he went Oh my gosh, I should remove that! And SEND IT AGAIN! and removed it and sent it again within the minute. Why oh why did you do this? To everybody else sorry for the long rant. Regards, -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] [Fwd: Red Hat/ Fedora License!]
On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 03:15, Mejo Jose wrote: Is it legal to distribute(sell) Redhat 9.0 / Fedora cds or list them on my website? I have been getting mails from many people saying that it's illegal and a website has already been closed for this reason. I have also seen some sites listing RXX XXX Linux etc instead of Red Hat Linux. Please let me know. IANAL == I Am Not A Lawyer If you are looking for legal advice which I believe you are it would be better if you contacted a lawyer and then ironed out whether it IS legal for you to market the cd's branded as Red Hat Linux. But then again most people like us do not have the time and more importantly the money to consult lawyers. You may like to read (URL's may be wrapped) http://www.redhat.com/about/corporate/trademark/guidelines/ And in particular - http://www.redhat.com/about/corporate/trademark/guidelines/page4.html You may get a better answer from somebody on the Red Hat and Fedora mailing lists. Although I am pretty sure most will be prefixed with IANAL. Oh just saw this after typing all the above crap (Again URL may be wrapped) http://www.redhat.com/about/corporate/trademark/guidelines/page9.html Then went and checked out your site for the price of your cd's. Looks like you are being reasonable as to the charge(Blank CD cost + Reasonable Shipping Charge). And it also looks like you need to accompany a printed document containing the following disclaimer If any copies are to be distributed to individuals outside your organization, either the label or an accompanying printed document must indicate that: (a) the distribution is provided without any warranties (unless you elect to provide those warranties); and (b) this distribution does not include support (either technical or developer) services from Red Hat but that such services may be purchased from Red Hat separately. Read this full page carefully and then fire off and e-mail to the address listed at the end of the page hopefully you will get a favorable reply. I like the idea of distributing cheap cd's to propagate Linux so best of luck. Regards, -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] how to send attactments from command line
On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 16:42, s nagar wrote: hi all i want to send my message as an attachment using command line. right now i'm using mail command to send messages but not able to send messages as attachment using that command. i searched on net, found out two answers 1. i must convert my message into uuencode first, but i don't know what is uuencode. 2. using mutt or pine. please provide the full command with example i'll appreciate your initiation of any kind regarding above problem. Did you ask Google I see that you say you did. So here is a link from google itself. URL may be wrapped. http://www.google.com/search?hl=enie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8q=Command+line+sending+of+mail+attachmentsbtnG=Google+Search The first link in the search results takes you here. http://www.shelldorado.com/articles/mailattachments.html The link has addressed both how to use uuencode and also attach command line through mutt. Pine you gotta ask google again OR HINT HINT man pine search for attach. You can search using the forward slash. -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [SPAM] [ilugd] IP ROUTING - IP MASQUREDINg
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 17:25, Chithirai Selvan.R Alias Vimal thus hollered from the roof: this is my setup. i have redhat 9.0 kernel 2.4.20-8 smp i686(firewall m/c) gateway redhat 9.0(kernel 2.4.20-8) i have preconfigured DSL router ip addr-192.168.1.1 and two linux server connect in loop 1 gateway server 2. Firewall server gateway m/c is connect with DSL router it has 2 NIC card the first NIC card (eth1)ip-192.168.1.5 --connected to DSL router ip add 192.168.1.1 the second NIC card (eth0)ip-192.168.2.1 which is connectd with Firewall again it also has 2 nic card eth0- 192.168.2.1 -connectd with eth0 of gateway m/c as i said earler eth1 - 192.168.10.1 this is connect with my all clients. i can ping from firewall server to both NIC cards of gateway machine not the DSL router ..i tried with single m/c as intranet gateway which is working fine commands i tried is iptables -F -t nat iptables -A POSTROUTING -t nat -o 192.168.1.5 -j MASQUERADE iptables -A FORWARD -i 192.168.10.1 -j ACCEPT this setup is when i don t have firewall now i insert the firewall m/c trouble startd Since nobody replied to the query,it seems the big guns who understand iptables are busy with Linux Asia so I will try answering the question. Again my oft mentioned quip holds true. If I am wrong then the person who corrects me is welcome to whack me on the head, albeit softly. Firstly would somebody please clarify this for me iptables -A POSTROUTING -t nat -o 192.168.1.5 -j MASQUERADE The -o is supposed to be the out interface and I used to think something like eth? but on trying out the above command just out of curiosity it worked fine so does this mean interface can also be specified using the ip Could not figure out from the man page. Somebody please help out here. Secondly to the query at hand To configure iptables if you are not familiar with all the options try out Shorewall. http://www.shorewall.net . This is just a front end for configuring iptables. I did not understand on which machine you tried the above iptables commands. Should be the firewall but then at the end you mention that this setup is when I don't have a firewall now I insert firewall m/c so this comment threw me off. But still from what little I understood about your setup and assuming both the firewall and gateway are connected. A small side note here from what you have written above both your gateway(eth1) and Firewall(eth0) have the same ip of 192.168.2.1! Is that just a typo or it is actually like that huh? Please assign unique ip's to them. Say make the firewall(eth0) 192.168.2.1/24 and the gateway (eth1) 192.168.2.2/24 Then try these entries on your iptables. I am assuming the net mask is 255.255.255.0 on all the three networks dot 1, dot 2 and dot 10. If not modify the commands accordingly On the firewall iptables -t nat -F iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.10.0/24 -d 0.0.0.0/0 -j MASQUERADE The above will masquerade anything coming from any machine on the dot 10 network (all clients) going anywhere. If you do not want to masquerade everything and only those destined for the dot 2 network (firewall-gateway) then modify 0.0.0.0/0 accordingly to 192.168.2.0/24 or something similar depends on your requirements. Alternatively if you want you can also modify the from (-s) to allow only incoming from some particular ip's. Again it is what you need. The above holds true for the nat table on the gateway also. Modify that too accordingly.But if I am not mistaken you want to access internet through this setup on the client pc's so I would suggest leaving it as 0.0.0.0/0. On the gateway iptables -t nat -F iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.2.0/24 -d 0.0.0.0/0 -j MASQUERADE Now since you had used the -o option you can add that also to the above commands. In my limited knowledge -o eth0 or -o eth1 in the proper places. Lastly sorry all for the long mail. -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] ILUG-D: Help!
On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 01:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message from Ritesh Gaur: 4.How can I develop my own small customized operating system for academic use, using Linux kernel. 5.I want to understand lowest level of complex things of Linux OS by doing things with my hand. 6.What was the approach used when first kernel was downloaded and placed to be a complete operating system 7.I do not want to customize and distributed version of Linux like Redhat etc. 8.I am expecting positive response from your side. I tried to search on web, but unable to find any this want I want. About my BOX: Am I dreaming?? Well future belongs to those who believe in there Dreams Title given to me when I was in high school. ;-) To answer the above questions and all related queries very succinctly http://www.linuxfromscratch.org is your answer. It is the DIY kit for Linux. -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] View the surface of Mars
URL may be wrapped http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/01/16/space.mars.java.reut/index.html The above is a CNN story about how JAVA is being used to provide the interface to control the Mars rover or something to that effect. Now the purists( Note the 4 question marks :-) may ask what the heck does this have to do with Linux ? Hang on. The story points to the homepage http://mars.telascience.org/ which has a download option and surprise of surprises it has a port for the Linux users. So downloaded it and tried to install it(On Fedora and Slackware). It was a breeze. They are even releasing updates of the latest Mars pictures which may be incorporated in your installation and you can virtually tour Mars. Although did not understand quite a few of the options provided in the interface (got to read the help) it was quite cool. It spews a lot of debug messages on the terminal and the perennial problem with Java apps RESOURCE HUNGRY. No flames please these are the views of a hardcore C/C++ guy and it practically ground my P4, 2.4 GHz, 1024 Mb RAM machine to a halt after I became impatient and clicked a lot of images one after the other to populate the thumbnails. Had to grep and kill it finally. Apart from all this it was nice. Try it. -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] nfs rpc errors
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 15:25, LinuxLingam wrote: any pointers on why do i get 'RPC error' when i try to mount a directory from a remote client, using RH8? please help. ?? LL My 0.02 Rupees what is the output of service portmap status on the CLIENT pc in your case RH 7.3 ? Also what is the output of service nfs status on the server RH 8 ? Does the above include a line rpc.rquotad (pid ***) is running??? Triple check the firewalls although according to your previous mail you have already done this on both the client and sever. But still check them again. Try nmapping the server from the client and vice versa. Send the output. -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] matrix spoof by microsoft
On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 03:02, LinuxLingam wrote: har! har! this is incredulous. billgates launches tablet pc talks of security and spam prevention, and shows a film spoofed on matrix, with steve ballmer as morpheus and billg as neo. http://www.tabletpctalk.com/pictures/comdex2003billg2.shtml check out the screenshots above. By any chance is there any link to the actual mpeg or quicktime etc. I would love to keep this one for good. Oh and another thing I think you got it the other way round BillG is Morpheus and SB is Neo. :-) -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] illugd nov16 meet
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 12:40, Sudev Barar wrote: On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 03:04, Prateek Khanna wrote: Just come to the open-air theatre in Dilli Haat. There'll be a group of people who look kind of weird, most wearing computer-related Specially look out for a penguine like looking guy, eating away his samosas to glory, and googling on his cellphone, occasionally showing off with some useless jargon - ask him if he;s Raj Mathur... join him if he says yes...! There's normally another highlight, with a decent enough built, quite a developed beard (looks like a well dressed terrorist) showing his palmasutra off...! Ask him if he's the treasurer. Join him if he says yes...! Then you'd see a guy in a nice black turban, torn jeans, a computer-related (black t-shirt), sayin something no one even wants to understand, will have the words python and anaconda in every second sentence... Ask him if he's Supreet Singh Sethi... Join him if he says yes...! Haan bhai haannn...!!! par meeting kitne bache? time for the meet yaar/ Since Raju refused to reply to my earlier postTIC...is he sulking that no one is appreciating such good work being put up by him?? Are bhai itne bechain kyon ho rahe ho for the time. If you read carefully Raju's original post [URL may be wrapped] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi/751/match=+topics you will find the time of the meet mentioned there. Since nobody was helping the poor guy i thought I will do my good deed of the day. -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] Dec Meet
Hello people, This may be very premature bringing up the Dec meet when the Nov meet discussions are still going on but I have an ulterior motive for doing the same. I live about 3600 Km away from Delhi and since I am coming to Delhi for the first 2 weeks of Dec I was wondering if the karta-dharta of ilugd (Ra? M?) would be kind enough to schedule the meet before Dec 16th if it is convenient for all. Regards, -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Re: libsigc++ install problem
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 05:06, LinuxLingam wrote: In that case the ldconfig way described by Arindam should have worked. Try running ldconfig in verbose mode( with -v option) and see if the libc++ library is displayed: ldconfig -v | grep sigc did this, here's the output: # ldconfig -v | grep sigc libsigc-1.2.so.5 - libsigc-1.2.so.5.0.5 libsigc-1.2.so.5 - libsigc-1.2.so.5.0.5 Also show us: 1. The exact RPM message which said libsigc++ was needed. # rpm -ivh k3d-0.2.5.4-1.i386.rpm error: Failed dependencies: libsigc++ = 1.2 is needed by k3d-0.2.5.4-1 AFAIK this message is popping up because when you are trying to install the k3d rpm it is just querying the rpmdb to check whether you have libsigc installed or not. Now you have two options.. The second one I feel is easier...and will maintain your system in a nice rpmey fashion 1)Compile k3d from source and the ./configure script of that will pick up the libsig in your pc. You may have to pass the LDFLAGS=-L/usr/*** option mentioned by Sandip. To do this you may also use the *.spec file in the k3d source tree if it is there.So you can do rpmbuild -ta k3d***.tar.gz. Not too sure about this though whether the spec file is there in the k3d source tree??? 2) OK just for ya I compiled the libsig from source and then installed. using ./configure make make install. After this I did updatedb and then ran locate libsig on my system. Surprisingly it DID NOT find anything like that the user dir dunno why. Maybe you have played around with the makefile or passed some other options to it during make install [EMAIL PROTECTED] i386]# locate user | grep libsig /home/dey/Download/libsigc++-1.2.5/doc/powerusers The above is the ONLY output I got. After doing this method of install I then did an rpmbuild -ta on the libsig source tar.gz. Created the RPM and then did an rpm -ivh /usr/src/redhat/RPM/i386/libsigc++-1.2.5-1.i386.rpm The RPM installed without any problems . So go ahead follow the RPM route and then try and install k3d from RPM everything should be fine. 2. The list of files which has been installed in /usr/local/lib when you did make install while building libsigc++. this is under /usr/local/lib libsigc-1.2.a libsigc-1.2.la libsigc-1.2.so libsigc-1.2.so.5 libsigc-1.2.so.5.0.5 btw, i noticed something rather unusual, and tell me if this has something to do with the problem: i discovered a directory called /user/ (note the spelling 'user' and not 'usr') in this i discovered two sub-directories: include lib the contents of these directories as follows: # ls include sigc++-1.2 # ls lib libsigc-1.2.a libsigc-1.2.solibsigc-1.2.so.5.0.5 sigc++-1.2 libsigc-1.2.la libsigc-1.2.so.5 pkgconfig wonder where all this came from, could it have been a typo by the developer who made the scripts for compiling libsigc++, or is this by design? ?? LL ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] libsigc++ install problem
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 05:50, LinuxLingam wrote: an application has a dependency on libsigc++. googled it, downloaded the tar.gz. extracted the folder, changed to root, navigated to the directory using cd, and issued the usual combo of ./configure make make install all okay. the original application still demanded libsigc++. curious, i did an rpm -qa libsigc++ and the shell came back empty-handed. duh! i actually re-ran the above ./configure make make install routine again, and again the rpm-qa did not show it. did an ls into /lib and found it does not exist there. what's going on? If you want to take the tar.gz route then doing configure, make and make install will NOT update your rpmdb. That will get updated only through rpm -ivh *.rpm. If you dont want to do anymore work and use the existing make install which you have already done then :- 1) run updatedb 2) run locate libsigc 3) Look through the locate output and see where the libs are installed. Mostly /usr/local/lib. 4) If I am not mistaken at least true for RH systems vi /etc/ld.so.conf will not have /usr/local/lib in it. Add a line to the end of /etc/ld.so.conf containing /usr/local/lib. If already present don't bother jump to next step. 5)Save and exit and run ldconfig 6) Now try to configure or install whatever stuff you were trying to do which needed the libsigc++ If you want to maintain your system in a nice rpmey fashion you again have two options. 1) EASY way - Download from freshrpms.net already created rpm of libsigc++ http://shrike.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=566 rpm -ivh *whatever* and you are on your way. 2) TOUGHER method (since this may fail to build sometimes depending on some missing libs on your system) - if you look inside the source that you downloaded and untarred there is a file called libsigc++.spec. This is there so you can just download the tar.gz put it in any directory you want cd to that directory and then run rpmbuild -ta libsigc++-1.2.5.tar.gz This will generate all the required RPMS compiled from source on your system. After this command has finished executing abt 2 minutes cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386 and do an ls there and voila [EMAIL PROTECTED] i386]# ls -1 libsigc++-1.2.5-1.i386.rpm libsigc++-debuginfo-1.2.5-1.i386.rpm libsigc++-devel-1.2.5-1.i386.rpm libsigc++-examples-1.2.5-1.i386.rpm So now you have all the RPMS install the first and you are on your way. Whew that was a long mail. Hope it helps you out. Now work today so hanging out on mailing listspathetic. Bye, -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] XFree86 Problem
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 13:19, A. Madhusudan , Gurgaon wrote: HI, I am quite new to Linux and have just installed zipslack in my system from Slackware Linux. I got the installers for Xfree86 4.3.0 from their ftp site and installed it for x Terminal. After installation and configuration, when I try to start it, it gives me an error as below. Xterm: error while loading shared libraries: libutempter.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or Directory I would like to know what I am missing here and how this problem can be corrected. Thanks A.Madhusudan On my system which is Red Hat 9 [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# locate libutempter /usr/lib/libutempter.so.0.5.2 /usr/lib/libutempter.so /usr/lib/libutempter.so.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# rpm -qf /usr/lib/libutempter.so* utempter-0.5.2-16 utempter-0.5.2-16 utempter-0.5.2-16 [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# rpm -qi utempter-0.5.2-16 Name: utempter Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 0.5.2 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. Release : 16Build Date: Wed 19 Feb 2003 09:26:19 AM MYT Install Date: Fri 20 Jun 2003 09:12:40 PM MYT Build Host: stripples.devel.redhat.com Group : System Environment/Base Source RPM: utempter-0.5.2-16.src.rpm Size: 87287License: MIT Signature : DSA/SHA1, Mon 24 Feb 2003 02:05:13 PM MYT, Key ID 219180cddb42a60e Packager: Red Hat, Inc. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla Summary : A privileged helper for utmp/wtmp updates. Description : Utempter is a utility that allows some non-privileged programs to have required root access without compromising system security. Utempter accomplishes this task by acting as a buffer between root and the programs. So the above means that you need to locate the equivalent package for slackware. For your info... [URL maybe wrapped] ftp://ftp.rtfm.no/pub/slackware/slackware-9.1/slackware/l/utempter-0.5.2-i486 -2.tgz -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Zipslack Linux
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 14:05, A. Madhusudan , Gurgaon wrote: [snip] I just downloaded this linux with a compressed kernel image called zipslack (from Slackware), that can be just copied onto a FAT filesystem and loadlin executed from there for it to start working. The problem is that I need DOS to be there on my machine, and my machine currently has windows 2000. I need to know how to make my computer a dual boot system with one partition running on dos. Does this partition have to be the first partition (C drive). Also knowledge of how to use a bootloader would be of great help to me. [From http://www.slackware.com/zipslack/ ] ZipSlack is a special edition of Slackware Linux that can be installed onto any FAT (or FAT32) filesystem with about 100 MB of free space. It uses the UMSDOS filesystem and contains most of the programs you will need. This means that you do not need to repartition your hard disk if (Read this part) you already have DOS or Windows installed. ZipSlack installs into a directory on your DOS filesystem. It can also be installed to and booted from a Zip disk. [/From http://www.slackware.com/zipslack/] According to the above you DO NOT need to repartition your hdd. This is the advantage of using these kind of Linux distributions. You do not have to mess around with your existing PC. It also says it is happy as long as you have DOS OR WINDOWS installed and I believe you said that you do have Windows installed. As to DOS Umm I think Windows ships with its own version of DOS already on the system. Try opening a run prompt(Windows shortcut key + R) and typing cmd or failing that command . Did you try running it by typing loadlin whatever long time since I used zipslack under Win environment. forgotten the exact problems and syntax for starting it up read the README i remember it to be pretty comprehensive when i tried it out. -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
RE: [ilugd] Zipslack Linux
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 15:08, A. Madhusudan , Gurgaon wrote: Thanks, but the problem I am facing is not this exactly. Here is what the documentation says. I have windows 2000 installed. This does not restart in DOS Mode. So I need to know how to make it a dual boot system with MS-DOS as one of the Operating Systems. My other problem is that I do not have a floppy drive in my machine due to which I need to install dos in the hard disk itself. First off do you mind snipping through the messages to remove unwanted stuff and bottom posting as a favour. Been on *NIX too long and have become used to it. See the below link for mailing list guidelines.Thank you. http://www.kandalaya.org/guidelines.html Now your question has become totally Windows oriented. This IS a Linux mailing list. But seeing that your final aim is to try to run Slackware at the end of it here goes. First off since you are using Windows 2000 it is most likely with NTFS partitions. If you have only NTFS partitions I think you need to get something like Partition Magic(This is commercial software, freeware on Windows I don't know) to help you. You will have to repartition the drive and create some FAT 16 partitions on it to make it multiboot with plain old DOS. You will need to refer Microsoft documentation available on their site after this on how to make it dual boot. Below are some links from the Microsoft site ( Do a more thorough search there this was a cursory search result) [Below URL may be wrapped] http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/howto/gettingstarted/2000xp.asp http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/using/howto/gettingstarted/2000xp.asp http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/columns/russel/september10.asp Bye, -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] Oracle can I download it?
Sorry people, Forgot to put in the oracle site link. My apologies. http://oss.oracle.com -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] which linux distro+release?
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 17:35, Sanjeev Ghane Gupta wrote: Linux version 2.4.21-0.13mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.2.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.1 3.2.2-3mdk)) #1 Fri Mar 14 15:08:06 EST 2003 To be exact, this is giving you the version of the gcc used to compile your running kernel, not the distro you are on _now_. True but it lets you make an educated guess based on that line. But it is nothing compared to the webmin solution given by Raj Mathur in a previous mail. -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Iptables and Network services on RH9
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 23:32, Robins Tharakan wrote: sorry if i am very stupid but, have you routed the packets correctly? it might just be that your default packet route after restarting iptables is eth1 rather than the original eth0. the easiest way to find out is whether traceroute 12.12.12.12, or any other ip address not on your eth0. Sorry for the delay in response. Route command gets stuck as it is unable to resolve the host names As you can see the default route is still added to eth0.Ping on 192.168.1.10 at this state is ok. output of route -n [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.3.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth1 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 00 eth1 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.100.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth0 /output of route -n Any other ideas? -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] Iptables and Network services on RH9
Hi all, I have a doubt. I have a PC running RH 9 with iptables set up. It has two n/w cards. eth0 is connected to the internal network of the company and gets its ip from the DHCP server which is also the name server etc etc.eth1 is connected to a hub which forms my own small network running its own DHCP server. Once the PC has booted up and everything is working fine if I shut down iptables then understandably the PC's on my eth1 n/w cannot access the internet since I am using IPMASQ but still my PC can ping google.com. Now if i restart the iptables service after making some changes to it something goes wrong with my network. That is I can ping the PC's on the eth1 network and I can also ping the pc's on the eth0 n/w but for some reason my PC cannot resolv the domain names. It can ping the company server and before anybody says it yes the contents of resolv.conf are alright. The problem goes away if i restart my network once again after restarting the iptables. Now this not a problem as such just a nagging doubt as to why do i need to restart the network after restarting iptables although I have not made any changes to it. -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: Re: [ilugd] few problems...
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 13:50, GR Seshagiri wrote: Hello, Robins Tharakan, Really it has become a painful job reg. unsubscribing. i have sent at least 3 mails in different formats. I also would like to assure the group that i do not want to discontinue but change my mail id. I request the moderator once again to automate the process so that unsubscribing is not problematic to luggers. If at all the moderator sees this message, I request him to change my id to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and remove the id [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the list. Thank you, -- seshagiri Have you ever noticed these lines at the end of EACH EVERY mail... ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Go to the website mentioned here and then scroll to the absolute bottom of the page enter your mail id which you used to subscribe to the mailing list and then click the button next to it. After this figure out the remaining steps for yourself. -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Building a module
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 21:24, Yashpal Nagar wrote: Dear All, I need to recompile the kernel 2.4.22, with ip_alias.o support for some specific reason. Recompiled two times with even every options in networking related but could't figure out where it exits. Can someone help me out in finding what/which option has to be _ENABLED_ for ip_alias.o support in kernel. If I am not mistaken in 2.4.x kernel there is no module called ip_alias.I believe it has deprecated try google.com You could check out /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-aliases in RH 9 PC. The support is just there although from where it comes from dunno. This works just fine without ip_alias.o module ifconfig eth0:1 192.168.3.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Building a module
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 14:26, Yashpal Nagar wrote: Dear Arindam, - Original Message - From: Arindam Dey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Yashpal Nagar [EMAIL PROTECTED]; The Linux-Delhi mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 10:33 AM Subject: Re: [ilugd] Building a module On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 21:24, Yashpal Nagar wrote: Dear All, I need to recompile the kernel 2.4.22, with ip_alias.o support for some specific reason. Recompiled two times with even every options in networking related but could't figure out where it exits. Can someone help me out in finding what/which option has to be _ENABLED_ for ip_alias.o support in kernel. If I am not mistaken in 2.4.x kernel there is no module called ip_alias.I believe it has deprecated try google.com You could check out /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-aliases in RH 9 PC. The support is just there although from where it comes from dunno. This works just fine without ip_alias.o module ifconfig eth0:1 192.168.3.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 I know it works fine. Problem comes suppose if i adds the /sbin/route add -host 192.168.168.3 dev eth0:1 It still show me the entry Iface as eth0 not eth0:1 in 'route -n' My question is will route program should show eth0:1 or eth0:2 as the Iface parameter? I am using two ISPs with same linux box. Both ISPs are connected to switch and my linux box too. One ISP is ADSL and another one is broadband. When i assign both IPs(one private one public) no one can ping to my broadband IP. Here is details of 'route -n' ifconfig OK here goes my ifconfig and route output [IFCONFIG] eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:D0:B7:C2:AF:ED inet addr:192.168.1.10 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:44292806 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:44887247 errors:26 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:26 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:223345784 (212.9 Mb) TX bytes:3314271004 (3160.7 Mb) Interrupt:11 Base address:0xdf00 Memory:feafe000-feafe038 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:D0:B7:C2:AF:EC inet addr:202.188.158.195 Bcast:202.188.158.255 Mask:255.255.255.192 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:47015117 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:45804571 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:3731682984 (3558.8 Mb) TX bytes:3766914373 (3592.4 Mb) Interrupt:11 Base address:0xde80 Memory:feafd000-feafd038 eth1:1Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:D0:B7:C2:AF:EC inet addr:202.188.158.221 Bcast:202.188.158.255 Mask:255.255.255.192 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:47015117 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:45804571 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:3731682984 (3558.8 Mb) TX bytes:3766914373 (3592.4 Mb) Interrupt:11 Base address:0xde80 Memory:feafd000-feafd038 eth1:2Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:D0:B7:C2:AF:EC inet addr:202.188.158.199 Bcast:202.188.158.255 Mask:255.255.255.192 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:47015117 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:45804571 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:3731682984 (3558.8 Mb) TX bytes:3766914373 (3592.4 Mb) Interrupt:11 Base address:0xde80 Memory:feafd000-feafd038 loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:5882312 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:5882312 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:2975702635 (2837.8 Mb) TX bytes:2975702635 (2837.8 Mb) [/IFCONFIG] [ROUTE] Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 202.188.158.192 * 255.255.255.192 U 0 00 eth1 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 169.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 00 eth1 127.0.0.0
[ilugd] Linux as a Game Console...
For the interested... Found this during my wanderings of the beyond. http://linuxconsole.free.fr/ -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] How objective is Microsoft's search?
Hi all, This is a link for a /. article. Although some of you may have already read it but I am still posting for the Others. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/24/2028216 -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Re: microsoft uses linux
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 15:33, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: +++ Spoonman [19/08/03 02:38 +0530]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Friday Microsoft changed its DNS so that requests for www.microsoft.com no longer resolve to machines on Microsofts own network, but instead are handled by the Akamai caching system, which runs Linux. http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2003/08/17/wwwmicrosoftcom_runs_linux_up_to_a_point_.html As the site points out: http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.microsoft.com Reports: The site www.microsoft.com is running Microsoft-IIS/6.0 on Linux. : - Sandip In light of the above discussion... http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/32385.html -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] upgrading kernel and installing security patches
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 07:04, Puneet thus hollered from the rooftop: Hi all !! I am just a beginner in Linux environment.Pleas tell me how can i upgrade my kernel and install patches that are released by redhat and others. Currently I am using RHL 9.0 If you are using RedHat and you have an available internet connection to the PC the easiest way to upgrade is to use up2date. man up2date will give you much more help on this. The relevant website is http://rhn.redhat.com I usually use up2date for upgrading everything from the RedHat site except the kernel RPM's which I prefer to download manually and install. Although up2date does a good job of upgrading the kernel RPM's also if you want it to take care of it. and please tell me does netbsd has any advantages over it as I have heard that netbsd is 'Unix-Type' and is quite secure. No flames please but IMHO OpenBSD is the more secure of the two. As to the advantages I will let someone else take up on that have not used NetBSD that much. One more thinghow can I disable the ping and ICMP requests to my system as I am working in a LAN environment and my PC has to face a lot of scanning related to open ports and security holes. Try this echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all Alternatively sysctl -w net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_all=1 The above 2 methods are temporary. That is on reboot the setting will be removed. So to make this permanent either you can put any one of the above 2 lines in one of your rc files e.g /etc/rc.d/rc.local or /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit just be careful that you put this line after the proc file system has been mounted. Or the best way is to add the following line in /etc/sysctl.conf #Stops ICMP replies from this PC. net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_all = 1 To undo the above setting just substitute 0 in place of 1 in the above places. -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] Linux in India
FYI http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/11/1912218 Seems the tide is turning.. -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] Is the Mailing LIst alive?
Hi all, For the last few days due to some stupid people our domain name was facing problems so we could not receive mails. So i thought that was the reason for me not receiving mails from ilugd. But on checking the website archives I see that Jul 31 is the last mail archived there coincidentally that is the day our server went down. Is the list still active? -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] A few stupid questions
Hi all, Ok people due to some problems did not receive mail from the list or for that matter anywhere in the world except, and i reiterate except from the RedHat 9 Shrike Mailing List. My question is when our server name could not be resolved by anybody in the world how was shrike-list able to send me mails regularly without fail. Somebody please explain, this has been eating my mind since the last 2 days. And by saying not resolved by anybody I really mean anybody since we were trying like mad to find out the problem and the initial blame was us since we recently upgraded the server to RH 9 from a Mandrake system so we did not realise it was our ISP messing with our alloted domain name. Although I could not reply to the shrike list as the list was bouncing it back with the following error. Error Stuff in bounced message The original message was received at Mon, 4 Aug 2003 10:00:59 +0800 from [192.168.1.133] - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (reason: 553 5.1.8 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Domain of sender address [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not exist) - Transcript of session follows - ... while talking to mx1.redhat.com.: MAIL From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 553 5.1.8 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Domain of sender address [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not exist 501 5.6.0 Data format error /Error Stuff in bounced message P.S. - Pardon my stupid mail from yesterday or so enquiring about the mailing list was t dumb to realise that mailman has set the nomail option for my account since the mails were bouncing from it. P.P.S - How come the archive on the mailing list site not been updated for the last week or so? Or am I mistaken in this tooo. -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] Re: deltree indos what in linux ?
On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 19:58, MALKIAT BENIPAL thus hollered from the roof top : Dear Mr.Dey, I am sorry that I am contacing u offlist for my problem as I hope that I wud receipt a prompt reply for the same. In dos if we wish to remove a non-empty directory, we may use the deltree command. But what is the command for removal of a non-empty one in linux. I tried rmdir and rm commands in linux with all their available switches but of no avail. It asks for removal of all the subdirectories and files individually under the main directory that I intend to remove. I find it very irritating, particularly when the directory is large one. So pl. guide what is Command for removal of a non-empty directory. Also pl. provide with Syntax for confirmtion as well as without confirmation before removal of a non-empty directory. Thanks in anticipation malkiat Firstly :- Please do not contact me off list. If you ask some questions on the list then the subsequent answer may be archived there for future use by somebody else facing the same problem. In future kindly ask the questions on the list. Secondly :- As to your problem , you neglected to mention the distribution you are using. I am assuming it is RedHat. For deleting directories recursively you can use rm -rf /path/to/dir. Be careful be very very careful when playing around with rm -rf. You have been warned. If you want to delete the directory interactively that is if you want it to prompt you with a yes/no option before deleting the contents in the dir then you can use rm -ri /path/to/dir But if you are using a distro like RedHat the command rm is aliased as rm -i by default. To get around this you can either put a \ before the rm command without the quotes of course or you can unalias rm. So to delete recursively all the directories without prompting [EMAIL PROTECTED] Knoppix32]#\rm -rf /path/to/dir OR [EMAIL PROTECTED] Knoppix32]#unalias rm; rm -rf /path/to/dir If you were a normal user RedHat does not alias the rm command then you can simply use rm -rf. Further help on alias you can get from man alias it is a bash built in command. Bye, -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
RE: [ilugd] X Configuration
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 12:26, D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida wrote: Hi, Atleast the X Server has started now. Yes, the OS is RHL 9, the problem seemed to be with the monitor settings. But still, the maximum is 800x600, so still some work is left. BTW, has anyone used RHL 9 with Gigabyte KM266 Chipset motherboard, with S3 ProSavage DDR. I recently upgraded my home machine and need to know if RHL 9 supports it. I couldn't get RHL 7.2 to start the X Server on it. Thanks and Regards, Venky Hi, I have an S3 ProSavage KM133 on a via chipset and it works beautifully with the savage driver in XFree86. I could even get it to go upto 1280x1024 resolution after tweaking aroung a bit with the monitor configuration. The monitor I had was not standard so although it was meant to do quite a lot but it was reporting its capability s only 1024x768. As to S3 ProSavage DDR never had it dont know whether it will work. Though it was not listed in the card list which comes up in the redhat-config-xfree86. If you really want higher resolution you can try the fbdev driver on RHL 9 on the i845 although with this I think you have to pass the vga=xxx parameter to the kernel for this to work. Currently I am using vga=791 and I also think this supports a max of 16 bpp and wont run under 24 bpp so you will have to change this also in your XF86Config. bye, -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Can I attach GPG sig to the mailing list?
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 11:36, Raj Mathur wrote: Arindam 1. Say if somebody wants to download my Public key then Arindam the person can connect to any key server right? If you have uploaded your key to the keyserver, then anyone with access to the Internet can download it. Thanks and one final query Is there any preferred keyserver or anything goes? I searched on the net and there were like so many of them. Is there anything like a good keyserver or a bad keyserver or are all the same? I meant like say after a period of 1 year is there any chance of any one keyserver going offline permanently? I used the one mentioned in one of the howtos wwwkeys.pgp.net i think. Bye, -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
RE: [ilugd] X Configuration
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 12:19, Tarun Dua wrote: If you will read Venky's earlier posts I believe he has mentioned that he IS using RedHat 9.0 and so am I. These X configuration problems we are getting with RH 9. There was a security/bug-fix release for X-packages from Redhat for RH9. Try updating to latest packages. -Tarun Hey, Thanks for pointing that out I have already updated the package but like a dumba** that I am I forgot to try to configure it again. Will try it out after office and let you guys know if it works out for me. Bye, -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] X Configuration
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 18:39, D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida wrote: Hi, What is the Configuration utility for X in RH9. Is it still xf86config? Actually, earlier it was a RH8 machine but was not running in X mode, we upgraded it yesterday to RH9 specifying all packages. But now, there is no xf86config or Xconfigurator command. I believe you are looking for this redhat-config-xfree86 ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] HDD Performance
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arindam Dey wrote: /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.41 seconds =312.20 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 24.81 seconds = 2.58 MB/sec vivek wrote : i think upgrading your kernel to 2.4.2x should solve your problems. i was facing the same problem in kernel 2.4.19, getting my 80 GB Barracuda to work with DMA on. after i updated the kernel, everything was smooth, with data transfer of 40 MB/s :) i think this kind of problem is usually in hard disks above 40 GB, though not sure about that. Ok, Way to go. After downing a few shots for courage and taking backup of 80 GB of data I finally upgraded my system to RedHat 9.0 and yes Vivek you were right now my speed is as follows [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# hdparm -tT /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.45 seconds =284.44 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.69 seconds = 37.87 MB/sec And sometimes the buffered disk reads even crosses 40 MB/sec Just replied incase somebody else faces this same problem then he/she can learn from my inexperience. Thanks for the help, Bye, Arindam Dey -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+90g/TveV59eJMR4RAtfLAJ0aQCjUJlmJq+rF8/cF5xbOGKXc7ACeM9sa PH+T4ySHEWV/A77kHdk9RHo= =tR8w -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
