Re: [ilugd] Multiple installable distributions on a USB
On Monday 10 Dec 2012, Balwinder S Dheeman wrote: On 12/10/2012 12:29 PM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: The subject more or less says it all :) I use grub2 for booting off of a USB/SD-Card and the following are a few of the relevant entries what I have in /boot/grub/grub.cfg Thanks, that's helpful, but still a tad too much work. I've found enough Winduhs tools for doing this, am surprised there's nothing equivalent for Linux. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Multiple installable distributions on a USB
On Tuesday 11 Dec 2012, Balwinder S Dheeman wrote: On 12/10/2012 09:15 PM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: On Monday 10 Dec 2012, Balwinder S Dheeman wrote: On 12/10/2012 12:29 PM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: The subject more or less says it all :) I use grub2 for booting off of a USB/SD-Card and the following are a few of the relevant entries what I have in /boot/grub/grub.cfg Thanks, that's helpful, but still a tad too much work. I've found enough Winduhs tools for doing this, am surprised there's nothing equivalent for Linux. [bsd@mon ~]$ aptitude show grub-rescue-pc Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ Nono, I meant stuff like on: http://www.pendriveapps.com/software/live-usb/ . Yumi, for instance, is almost exact;y what I need apart from the platform it runs on, as is MultiBoot. *Sigh* back to the drawing board. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] Multiple installable distributions on a USB
The subject more or less says it all :) I want to be able to take a, say, 16GB USB pendrive and put multiple distribution install ISOs onto it. Is there a utility that will do this, create a nice boot menu that allows you to select the distribution of your choice, and then run the installer of that distribution? Ideally it would also let you load live images, so you can have ready- made forensics, recovery, etc. tools available on the same USB. unetbootin and similar tools are installers, nowhere near what I need. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] [Commercial] Seriously talented dev-ops engineer to run the whole stack
On Wednesday 07 Nov 2012, Balwinder S Dheeman wrote: [snip] Please do check: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.telephony.yate/6082 It is not a fork of Asterisk like the OpenPBX.org which eventually turned into FreeSWICH; whereas the FreeSWITCH again is a completely re-written alternative. I do not intend to initiate a war; but am talking about FLOSS (Free/Libre Open Source) alternatives; forget to mention the FreeSWITCH in my earlier post, indeed. IMHO, All these, the Asterisk, the FreeSWITCH and the Yate fulfill difference design goals, but almost same functionality while one of these might be more suitable for a particular scenario and, or environment. I deploy Asterisk for the same reason that I still use Sendmail as the MTA for those clients who need large mailers: - It's been around for donkey's years -- the technology is tried and tested - Flaws are (mostly) known and workarounds public - Huge developer community - Availability of III-party extensions to do almost anything you need from the system - Vibrant and responsive community so problem-solving, patches, etc. are easily available Sure, there are better (subjectively speaking) alternatives around, but then, If It Ain't Broken, Don't Fix It. Sendmail's been working for me for over 20 years, Asterisk for nearly 10, so I happily stand in the Way of Progress and continue using antediluvian packages. Also, the desire to use something just because it's new and shiny just isn't there anymore... hey, my desktop is Debian! Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Database Management My Sql
On Wednesday 07 Nov 2012, Raakesh kumar wrote: Dear All, I am working on a project which is live for some gaming purpose. My problem is, one of my table size has gone beyond my imagination and it records nearly 1 lack per day which is making database searching very slow. We have allocated a separate server for database. Can anyone suggest me how to get rid of this. One simple solution that comes into my mind is to use hadoop but any experienced help on this? If it's an option, switch to an RDBMS that was designed for enterprise- class deployment from day 1, i.e. an RDBMS that doesn't have My in the name. Yeah, I know this is going to start another flame war but WTH, Delhi's getting colder by the day. I'm planning to install a few old computers around slum clusters, at least the heat generated on the list will keep them warm at nights! Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] Nominate your free software heroes
http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/nominate%2dyour%2dfree%2dsoftware%2dheroes The nomination window for the 15th annual Free Software Awards is open. Now is your chance to show some love for your favorite free software hero or an inspiring project that uses free software or free software principles to benefit humanity. Don't delay, nominations are due on November 15th. To nominate an individual for the Award for the Advancement of Free Software or a project for the Award for Projects of Social Benefit, send your nomination along with a description of the project or individual to award-nominati...@gnu.org. The free software movement is powered by dedicated individuals and has fostered many incredible projects that are making a difference in the world with the help of free software tools and principles. You can read more about the awards and past winners in our official announcement. What are you waiting for; take a few minutes to give props to people and projects that inspire you. Your nominations will be reviewed by our awards committee and the winners will be announced at LibrePlanet 2013. Award for the Advancement of Free Software The Free Software Foundation Award for the Advancement of Free Software is presented annually by FSF president Richard Stallman to an individual who has made a great contribution to the progress and development of free software, through activities that accord with the spirit of free software. Award for Projects of Social Benefit Nominations are also open for the 2012 Award for Projects of Social Benefit. This award is presented to the project or team responsible for applying free software, or the ideas of the free software movement, in a project that intentionally and significantly benefits society in other aspects of life. We look to recognize projects or teams that encourage collaboration to accomplish social tasks. A long-term commitment to one's project (or the potential for a long-term commitment) is crucial to this end. This award stresses the use of free software in the service of humanity. We have deliberately chosen this broad criterion so that many different areas of activity can be considered. However, one area that is not included is that of free software itself. Projects with a primary goal of promoting or advancing free software are not eligible for this award (we honor those projects with our annual Award for the Advancement of Free Software). We will consider any project or team that uses free software or its philosophy to address a goal important to society. To qualify, a project must use free software, produce free documentation, or use the idea of free software as defined in the Free Software Definition. Work done commercially is eligible, but we will give this award to the project or team that best utilizes resources for society's greater benefit. Nomination Requirements In the case of both awards, previous winners are not eligible for nomination, but renomination of other previous nominees is encouraged. Only individuals are eligible for nomination for the Advancement of Free Software Award, and only projects can be nominated for the Social Benefit Award. Award recipients will be chosen by a committee of previous winners and FSF president Richard Stallman. Please send your nominations to award-nominati...@gnu.org, on or before Thursday, November 15th, 2012. Please submit nominations in the following format: In the email message subject line, either put the name of the person you are nominating for the Award for Advancement of Free Software, or put the name of the project for the Award for Projects of Social Benefit. Please include, in the body of your message, an explanation (40 lines or less) of the work done and why you think it is especially important to the advancement of free software or how it benefits society, respectively. Please state, in the body of your message, where to find the materials (e.g., software, manuals, or writing) which your nomination is based on. Information about the previous awards can be found at http://www.fsf.org/awards. Winners will be announced at an awards ceremony at the LibrePlanet conference tentatively scheduled for March 2013, in Boston, Massachusetts. -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Private IP in Public Network
On Tuesday 09 Oct 2012, Nirmalya Lahiri wrote: Hi everyone, today I have discover a critical network infrastructure which is almost impossible. I believe very few people have seen this before. The story is in my office we have leased internet connection with static IP from TATA Communication Ltd. In my local network I have configured network ip (192.168.7.0). So all the PC in my local network has the IP of the range 192.168.7.1 to 192.168.7.253. For a experimental purpose yesterday I have ping to 192.168.2.10... It should not return reply. But unfortunately I got reply from a host. After investigation I have found that the host is outside of my local network. Please look into the tracepath report from my local PC to that unknown host. nirmalya@nirmalya-desktop:~$ tracepath 192.168.2.10 1: nirmalya-desktop.local (192.168.7.103) 0.141ms pmtu 1500 1: 192.168.7.51 (192.168.7.51) 0.706ms 1: 192.168.7.51 (192.168.7.51) 0.700ms 2: 115.115.147.137 (115.115.147.137) 150.228ms 3: 121.240.2.54 (121.240.2.54) 188.099ms asymm 6 4: 121.240.2.57 (121.240.2.57) 175.322ms asymm 6 5: 172.25.81.133 (172.25.81.133) 176.625ms asymm 6 6: 172.29.253.34 (172.29.253.34)208.708ms asymm 8 7: 172.31.16.193 (172.31.16.193)186.462ms asymm 8 8: 172.31.35.138 (172.31.35.138) 206.554ms asymm 10 9: 172.31.8.134 (172.31.8.134) 226.454ms asymm 10 10: 172.25.82.62 (172.25.82.62) 206.389ms asymm 9 11: 192.168.2.10 (192.168.2.10) 217.967ms reached Resume: pmtu 1500 hops 11 back 247 In this report 192.168.7.103 is my personal PC, 192.168.7.51 is internal IP of router, 115.115.147.137 is gateway IP of our leased internet connection. Have seen this issue with other providers also. They use RCF1918 IPs in their internal network infrastructure. However, they don't protect that infrastructure adequately from external access. Not really an issue, unless the service provider believes that internal IPs are making that portion of the infrastructure secure, and become lax. Or if they start advertising those IPs on the 'net! Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn
On Friday 28 Sep 2012, LukramDebendro Singh via LinkedIn wrote: LukramDebendro Singh requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn: Added: http://wiki.linux%2ddelhi.org/cgi%2dbin/twiki/view/Main/DoNotTrustMeWithYourPersonalData -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] ExpEyes experiment design contest for students
On Thursday 27 Sep 2012, Pramode C.E wrote: Please check out: http://recursive-labs.com/contest/expeyes/ This is a good opportunity for students to contribute to an innovative open hardware (and Free Software based) project from India! You know, this sounds like a really cool initiative. I don't remember anything about physics, but the samples shown on the web look interesting. I wouldn't mind owning one of those things. As long as I didn't have to lug the laptop around from one part of the house to the other measuring voltages and currents, of course :) I was only able to find one (non-definitive) link on the 'net about its hardware licence, though -- any place that is documented? All the best with the contest, and do give us the highlights once it's completed. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] A Gnome Text Editor Joke
On Wednesday 19 Sep 2012, Anupam Jain wrote: Gedit? Remind me to murder you the next time we meet. Must... stop... these... atrocities... -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] A Gnome Text Editor Joke
On Wednesday 19 Sep 2012, Anupam Jain wrote: On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: On Wednesday 19 Sep 2012, Anupam Jain wrote: Gedit? Remind me to murder you the next time we meet. Must... stop... these... atrocities... Really? I thought the joke was notepad at all.. Awk-ward... Seriously though, I kate your point. Vi are above these childish puns. Trust me if you are annoyed, emacs two of us. Enough sed. Isn't there something in the Geneva Convention that protects innocent people from this form of mass comedicide? Writing to the UN Humour Rights Commission to investigate this case and requesting immediate action in bringing the guilty to book. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] ILUG-D activity in last 7 days
On Saturday 01 Sep 2012, Arun Khan wrote: Please help with understanding this report. On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 8:10 AM, nkap...@webrachna.com wrote: Fri 31-Aug-2012: ILUG-D activity in last 7 days: = New/recent events: 0 Total events: 83 = Where on the Web site / Wiki / or the mailing list? New Discussion forum postings: 0 Total postings: 1143 = Is this stat for the mailing list? If so, there are posting made within the last 7 days but this reports says 0. This is for the web site http://lilnux-delhi.org/ , which is more or less defunct now. If anyone has ideas and the energy to restore it, please speak up. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] Xen/VirtualBox/Intel IOMMU HOWTO
Hi, Treated myself to some new hardware as advance Eid/Diwali/Christmas/New Year gift, and was trying to install Xen and get virtual machines running on that. The path was long and arduous, and is still not complete, but some of my experiences on the way are documented in: http://wiki.kandalaya.org/cgi%2dbin/twiki/view/Main/DebianXenMigrateVirtualBox Covered are: - Basic Xen setup - Compiling and installing a custom kernel for the i915 GPU Hung issue - Extracting a disk image from a VirtualBox VDI - Creating and running a Xen DomU with the image It's mostly technical and expects the reader to have decent Linux sysadmin and basic Xen knowledge. Feedback, bouquets and brickbats (in moderation :) appreciated. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Xen/VirtualBox/Intel IOMMU HOWTO
On Monday 20 Aug 2012, Balwinder S Dheeman wrote: On 08/20/2012 01:37 PM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: Treated myself to some new hardware as advance Eid/Diwali/Christmas/New Year gift, and was trying to install Xen and get virtual machines running on that. The path was long and arduous, and is still not complete, but some of my experiences on the way are documented in: http://wiki.kandalaya.org/cgi%2dbin/twiki/view/Main/DebianXenMigrat eVirtualBox Covered are: - Basic Xen setup - Compiling and installing a custom kernel for the i915 GPU Hung issue - Extracting a disk image from a VirtualBox VDI - Creating and running a Xen DomU with the image It's mostly technical and expects the reader to have decent Linux sysadmin and basic Xen knowledge. Feedback, bouquets and brickbats (in moderation :) appreciated. You had already been a good howto/document writer and this one is yet another milestone on your journey towards the leadership. I'm blushing! I may be wrong, but I think: 1. We must edit the /etc/fstab in VM image before we boot into it, the kernel and, or initrd scripts won't be able to find the root partition. You're partially correct: the kernel (which is in the Dom0) is passed the root= parameter by Xen, so the correct disk gets mounted as root. Other -- non-root -- partitions, like you said, won't get mounted. If you can manage with just root mounted, then the HOWTO is fine. If not (e.g. /usr along with /usr/bin/vi is on a different partition) then, as you said, you need to change fstab before trying to boot the system. 2. It's better we either use UUIDs or LABELs in the /etc/fstab; applicable to all installations/distos. You're right, UUIDs are much better than explicit partition names. It's just... I hate them, because I like to know which partitions are mounted where by looking at mount(8) output, and UUIDs really get in the way. Purely a personal thing, and not a recommendation for anyone else! Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Xen/VirtualBox/Intel IOMMU HOWTO
On Monday 20 Aug 2012, Vikas Rawal wrote: Covered are: - Basic Xen setup - Compiling and installing a custom kernel for the i915 GPU Hung issue - Extracting a disk image from a VirtualBox VDI - Creating and running a Xen DomU with the image Very well explained. Thanks. I was wondering if you would recommend a desktop user of VirtualBox to migrate to Xen instead? VirtualBox does take a lot of resources (in particular, RAM). Do you think Xen would be a better choice? If you're happy with the way VirtualBox is managing your VM(s), why switch? Xen isn't exactly the easiest of technologies to get right. On the other hand, if you're willing to put in the effort, I believe Xen is worth it. I haven't done any benchmarks, but subjectively speaking Xen seems much, much faster than VirtualBox. Much cleaner too -- once the hypervisor starts, there're no user-level processes hanging around for vistualisation assistance. Each machine is independent, stand-alone and can be individually managed. I guess it finally boils down to whether you're a GUI or command-line fan. I happen to be the latter, so the Xen paradigm suits me better. Performance-wise, both claim to give near-bare-metal performance. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu sudo command problem
On Friday 10 Aug 2012, Mahesh T. Pai wrote: Raju Mathur said on Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 09:02:00AM +0530,: 2. Boot into root. I won't tell you how, there are enough pointers on Will moving #5 above this help? Sure, my principles are for sale, but only if the bid amount is appropriate! Trivial compensations like half your kingdom and your daughter's hand in marriage won't do the trick for this one. Would rephrase as get into rescue mode, and (re)mount / with rw permissions. That is, assuming Ubuntu boot loader has a rescue option, which I believe it ought to have. Do machines install with rescue by default? I'd have thought you need some install CD -- most distributions' install CDs seem to have a rescue mode option. Booting into root is faster if you know what you're doing. If you don't, rescue sounds like a better option. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu sudo command problem
On Saturday 11 Aug 2012, Raakesh kumar wrote: I have reinstalled ubuntu again as going in recovery mode and doing those changes didn't work for me. @Balwinder Sir, I know i had made a mistake by doing so. But i was just doing a kind of experiment but without properly surfing about that... Okay.. just to ask, Can you please tell me what actually happened to my system when i changed the permission of /etc directory? Why my system done into an inconsistent state? While as much theory i have read during my engineering about OSs, i hadn't done anything special/severe in that.. There are files and directories in /etc that need specific permissions. Hell, there are files and directories everywhere that need those permissions. Off the top of my head, a few /etc-related permissions: Sub-directories: 0755 or similar. If you don't have those on (e.g.) pam.d, apache2, your servers won't work -- the files inside those directories will not be accessible. Files: passwd needs at least 444, because it has to be world readable. shadow needs to be 600 or similar, because it /shouldn't/ be world- readable; however, I don't know if any app enforces /etc/shadow permissions. Scripts and executables: At the very least, scripts in /etc/init.d need to be 755 or equivalent. If they aren't, your system will probably die a horrible death when trying to boot. Special files like the one you found: sudo will fail if sudoers is world readable, because it's paranoid about security. So you can have two types of problems related to file permissions: 1. Truncated permissions on the file (directory), because of which the system is unable to use the file for its intended purpose. 2. Extra permissions on a file, because of which an application that uses the file determines that it is insecure and refuses to use it. You saw the effect of the latter; if you'd continued you'd probably have seen the effects of the former too. /me shakes his head... Nautilus se sara /etc ka permission change kar diya... what will these kids think of next? Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu sudo command problem
On Friday 10 Aug 2012, Raakesh kumar wrote: Today i changed the permission of my /etc directory and it's sub directories and files using sudo nautilus. And now my everything including servers and all have stopped working. When i type sudo anywhere to use it shows an error as - sudo: /etc/sudoers is mode 0446, should be 0440 sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin Can somebody help me to get my system back as it was earlier.. Or is there any way to restore my system back? 1. Get a list of permissions of critical files in /etc/ from the 'net, a friend's machine, wherever. 2. Boot into root. I won't tell you how, there are enough pointers on the 'net. 3. Apply the correct permissions to your own /etc files. 4. Reboot. 5. Pay me. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Qmail Help
On Wednesday 01 Aug 2012, Vijay Thakur wrote: Hello All Friends, I have configure Qmail server by following the steps from : http://www.qmailtoaster.com in my Centos 5.6 Server. All is working fine in LAN as per the given steps at Qmail Toaster. Now I want to access my mail server globally like all other E-mail Services e.g. Yahoo, Gmail etc. I have a registered domain. Kindly guide that what things need to change in the server to access it in a fancy way like mail.abc.com (webmail) or globally in outlook,thunderbird, evolution etc.. Install a POP3/IMAP server on your mail server. Ensure it is accessible from the 'net. Install a webmail package somewhere and point it to your IMAP server. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Network install disk image
On Monday 23 Jul 2012, Balwinder S Dheeman wrote: On 07/23/2012 10:22 AM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: Can you suggest a utility or web page instructions for installing a pre- built Linux disk image over the network? We have a bare machine with PXE and a server with a Linux disk image. Need the flow to get this image onto the bare machine's disk. Please read http://anu.homelinux.net/pub/FreeBSD/tftpboot/README.txt, though you may find it a little bit FreeBSD specific, but the logic is same for Linux ISO images. I also keep mounted Debian-Live, GRML, LinuxMint and Ubuntu ISO images: Thanks Balwinder (incidentally, do your initials drive you to affinity with a particular flavour of Unix? :) I'm looking more at an installable image, for which there have been numerous suggestions, both on- and off-list. Also now waiting for Ashish' tour-de-force. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Reliance Data Card on Centos 6
On Tuesday 24 Jul 2012, dhyanendra chauhan wrote: Please find the help guide of Reliance Data Card on Centos 6 http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/zte-ac2627-usb -modem-not-working-in-fedora-9-a-795499/ yum install tcl Looks good. However, one small issue: Baud=115200 That will just kill whatever speed you could get from the modem. I typically set baud to 3686400 or higher. Even the old Reliance ZTE dongle I'm using handles that. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] Network install disk image
Hi, Can you suggest a utility or web page instructions for installing a pre- built Linux disk image over the network? We have a bare machine with PXE and a server with a Linux disk image. Need the flow to get this image onto the bare machine's disk. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Network install disk image
On Monday 23 Jul 2012, Ashish SHUKLA wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 10:22:43 +0530, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) raju@linux- delhi.org said: Can you suggest a utility or web page instructions for installing a pre- built Linux disk image over the network? We have a bare machine with PXE and a server with a Linux disk image. Need the flow to get this image onto the bare machine's disk. I don't know of anything already available with such functionality but it would be cool to build one: 1. On PXE server side, setup a webserver with images 2. Compile a kernel (with all drivers for your target hardware) + an initrd with /sbin/init which sets up network, fdisk/mkfs's the filesystem, wget -O - http:///image.tar.xz|xzcat |tar xv everything as per kernel parameters. Or if you're using 'disk images', then wget -O - |xzcat|dd if=/dev/stdin of=/dev/$device. You also need to resize partitions to the target sizes after copying the image. 3. Create per client pxelinux.cfg configuration (in case client's settings differ from defaults), with something like: linux /vmlinuz append initrd=/initrd.gz network=eth0;static;172.16.0.3/27 img=gentoo-x64 drive=sda It would be really cool to build something like that yourself :). Thanks to both you and Saurabh for the suggestions. And now I'm invoking the ILUGD torture clause: if you suggest something in public, you are automagically volunteered to do it! So when can we expect a first-cut implementation for testing, Ashish? :) In the meantime I found these, which may be useful starting points. SystemImager in particular seems well-suited: http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/trac/oscar http://wiul.org/ http://kaboot.ainkaboot.co.uk/ http://wiki.systemimager.org/ Any more out there? Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] [COMMERCIAL] Development lead needed
Forwarded message. Please contact Suman directly if you're interested. -- Raj From: Suman Saraf sumansa...@gmail.com To: Raju Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org Date: 2012-07-20 2:26 PM Some of my friends have incorporated a software company which focuses on software for Energy Trading, Energy Scheduling, Power Exchanges etc. This is funded by their already established energy trading business. They are looking for a technical head for this venture. The person needs to be a hands on developer (young- ideally about 5-7 years of experience) with proficiency in Linux, Perl or Python, MySQL and network programming. Experience in building complex real world systems is desirable. He will also be required to mentor and lead a team of 4-5 people. Most importantly, he needs to be able to build things from scratch and not just tinker with already existing code. They promise good compensation, significant equity and complete freedom. Location: New Delhi. If you know someone who might be interested, please ask him to contact me at sumansa...@gmail.com I personally feel this is an excellent opportunity with immense growth potential. People looking for a 9-5 job, please excuse! -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] The 31 Flavors of Fun Experiment
The 31 Flavors of Fun Experiment http://webpath.net/31-flavors Summary: Todd Robinson, completely un-assisted, will to attempt to create, and release, a complete desktop operating system each and every day for the period of 31 days, to demonstrate the huge advantages of using open source (shared knowledge) solutions in real-world situations. This experiment will compare development speed, costs, and required manpower to the proprietary Microsoft® Windows® development of recent Windows releases. It is not intended to compare features, discuss virual/malware issues, or anything outside of actual development aspects when comparing. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] History
Was rummaging around my hard disk today and happened to find these pics of a meet-up in Dilli Haat in November 2006. Enjoy! http://images.kandalaya.org/gallery2/v/raju/ilugd-20061117/ Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] [Commercial] Anyone here looking for an ecommerce / web expert for a contract position
On Thursday 31 May 2012, Balwinder S Dheeman wrote: On 05/31/2012 10:43 AM, abhishek jain wrote: PS: I believe posting this with commercial tag is allowed here, If not, suggestions welcome, Also please suggest me more ways / locations i can post on for this. Better register as a freelancer at guru.com and, or freelancer.com services and create blog or web-site to share you ideas and, or expertise; many offer these things for free. I'm sure you'll also get an international exposure. OTOH, IMHO, seeking and, or asking for job work in the F/OSS mailing lists can ruin your repute since you're just creating a noise here; that's but just an opinion and opinions may differ. Oh, I don't know about that -- this list (at least) explicitly permits posting job offers and requests and other FOSS-related commercial notices as long as you stick to the rules and add the [COMMERCIAL] tag in the subject. FOSS != Non-commercial Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] [Sort-of-OT] List Windows installed software
On Monday 28 May 2012, Ravi Kumar wrote: On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 8:30 PM, Ashish SHUKLA ashish...@lostca.se wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) writes: On Sunday 27 May 2012, Ashish SHUKLA wrote: Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) writes: I need to pull out data from some Windows desktops to put into an asset management system. I can install NSClient++ or equivalent on the Windows machines -- NSClient++ preferred, since then I can use the same for monitoring the boxes with OpenNMS too. Is there some easy way to get NSClient++ to list installed software packages and their versions over the network? If not, is there some other tool that will allow that information to be pulled out remotely? If you want to use Python on windows, it may be easy task. I used Python, pyWin - http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/ and WMI package for Python (http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi/index.html) , and then I was able to get list of all software, shares etc in current system. Either you can develop on HTTP server to get list of software from remote machine, or you can also connect to Remote Machines WMI using PyWMI package and pyWin32. Turns out there's a package meant specifically for this requirement: FusionInventory: http://fusioninventory.org/wordpress/ One of the things it pulls out is softwares and versions. Thanks for all the help. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Configuring sendmail in VPS Server
On Monday 28 May 2012, Gaurang Aggarwal wrote: The errors are not shown now as I uploaded hostname to fully qualified hostname . I am curious , is there any way to allow web applications to send the mails faster as the time it takes to send the email is about 6- 8 seconds . Is it just the web application taking longer or command-line too? In either case, you need to look at the logs to see precisely where the delay is. You can also set OLogLevel=127 in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf, restart sendmail and then try sending a mail for more logging. Worst case scenario, make your application send mail asynchronously. Depending on language and package, you could use a new thread, a new process or perhaps just a flag to the mail library. Sendmail delays are typically due to DNS or bad configuration issues. If you are willing to pay me a trifling fee, I'd be glad to offer myself as a consultant for fixing this problem. Typical trifling fees are half your kingdom and your daughter's hand in marriage. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Configuring sendmail in VPS Server
On Monday 28 May 2012, Gora Mohanty wrote: On 28 May 2012 22:48, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: On Monday 28 May 2012, Gaurang Aggarwal wrote: The errors are not shown now as I uploaded hostname to fully qualified hostname . I am curious , is there any way to allow web applications to send the mails faster as the time it takes to send the email is about 6- 8 seconds . Is it just the web application taking longer or command-line too? In either case, you need to look at the logs to see precisely where the delay is. You can also set OLogLevel=127 in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf, restart sendmail and then try sending a mail for more logging. Pfft! The way most people code, 6-8 seconds is nothing for a web front-end. Gaurang, what are page-load times, and response times to the presumable POST from the front-end? You can measure with a Firefox plugin, YSlow, if you are not already aware of this. Nah, badly-configured or slow mail servers can create appreciable delays for users. I've seen (and coded too) pages that send mail, where pressing Submit makes the browser hang without activity for 5+ seconds before it starts loading the next page. Nothing to do but fix the mail server usually. Of course, one easy way out is to display a JS message and/or a spinning cursor while the mail is being sent. Users object less to being asked to wait -- it's unexpected delays that make them soggy and hard to light. Worst case scenario, make your application send mail asynchronously. Depending on language and package, you could use a new thread, a new process or perhaps just a flag to the mail library. Should normally not be needed, as all the webapp has to do is to hand off to sendmail/postfix. However, this might be a problem if the webapp is sending shudderHTML mail/shudder, and is taking time to render this abomination. Sad to say, I am now party to such desecration of what god meant email to be. Different problem. This delay is definitely due to the mail server. Sendmail delays are typically due to DNS or bad configuration issues. If you are willing to pay me a trifling fee, I'd be glad to offer myself as a consultant for fixing this problem. Typical trifling fees are half your kingdom and your daughter's hand in marriage. OK, done. Joke is on you: I have neither a kingdom, nor a daughter. Well, buy one and abduct the other then. Oh wait, it wasn't you who was liable for the fee anyway! Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Configuring sendmail in VPS Server
On Monday 28 May 2012, Gora Mohanty wrote: On 28 May 2012 23:27, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: [...] [snip] Should normally not be needed, as all the webapp has to do is to hand off to sendmail/postfix. However, this might be a problem if the webapp is sending shudderHTML mail/shudder, and is taking time to render this abomination. Sad to say, I am now party to such desecration of what god meant email to be. Different problem. This delay is definitely due to the mail server. Even after he fixed hostname issues? Sorry, while I do joke about such things, I do appreciate being educated. I *am* serious here. Whether you're handing off to a sendmail process, or making a port 25 connection to localhost (or your smart host), your web app will typically wait until either sendmail returns or the receiving MTA has successfully sent a 250 2.0.0 response back. There could be any number of things slowing down the mail server. Some examples: 1. 'net-based spam/virus checks. 2. Slow DNS. 3. Slow 'net connectivity. 4. Lack of separation into MSA/MTA. 5. Load on the system itself. 6. Some bad configuration option. You really need to look at each individual case and figure out where the bottleneck is. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Configuring sendmail in VPS Server
On Sunday 27 May 2012, Gaurang Aggarwal wrote: Hello , As Raj said I exactly used : tail -f /var/log/mail.log while sending a email from the web application May 27 12:17:33 uni2versity sendmail[13521]: q4R8GXih013521: to= m...@gaurang.me, ctladdr=cont...@skilledinterns.com (33/33), delay=00:01:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30423, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (q4R8HXG1013909 Message accepted for delivery) May 27 12:17:34 uni2versity sm-mta[13912]: STARTTLS=client, relay= aspmx.l.google.com., version=TLSv1/SSLv3, verify=FAIL, cipher=RC4-SHA, bits=128/128 May 27 12:17:34 uni2versity sm-mta[13912]: q4R8HXG1013909: to=m...@gaurang.me, delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=esmtp, pri=120740, relay= aspmx.l.google.com. [209.85.225.26], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (OK 1338106654 l17si3694120iga.62) May 27 12:20:01 uni2versity sm-msp-queue[15508]: My unqualified host name (uni2versity) unknown; sleeping for retry May 27 12:21:01 uni2versity sm-msp-queue[15508]: unable to qualify my own domain name (uni2versity) -- using short name May 27 12:40:02 uni2versity sm-msp-queue[5376]: My unqualified host name (uni2versity) unknown; sleeping for retry There you go, that's the problem. Your hostname is unknown and sendmail is failing/slowing down because of that. Make sure that (a) your hostname command returns a fully-qualified host name, and (b) that fully-qualified host name exists at least in /etc/hosts. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] [Sort-of-OT] List Windows installed software
Hi, I need to pull out data from some Windows desktops to put into an asset management system. I can install NSClient++ or equivalent on the Windows machines -- NSClient++ preferred, since then I can use the same for monitoring the boxes with OpenNMS too. Is there some easy way to get NSClient++ to list installed software packages and their versions over the network? If not, is there some other tool that will allow that information to be pulled out remotely? Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Open Source Mesh VPN
On Monday 28 May 2012, Arjun Venkatraman wrote: Looking for an open source vpn tool that can set up mesh networks. Hamachi is nice but its limited by license. OpenVPN doesnt seem to support mesh It does: see Can I use a web browser as an OpenVPN client? on http://wiki.vpslink.com/HOWTO:_OpenVPN Maybe not the ideal solution for a mesh, though. PeerVPN is my best bet so far...anyone used it? Otherwise try OpenS/WAN or StrongS/WAN, they're popular and well- supported. You could also have a look at Tinc (http://www.tinc-vpn.org/ ), which is meant for exactly your requirement. Don't know about standards compliance or availability of support there. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Configuring sendmail in VPS Server
On Sunday 27 May 2012, Gaurang Aggarwal wrote: Hello guys, I have this VPS having Debian installed . I used apt-get remove sendmail to first , remove the sendmail and then apt-get install sendmail to install it again . But now , I have my websites taking awfully long time to send emails . Please tell me how to resolve this issue . Get one of your web applications to send mail, while monitoring the sendmail log: tail -f /var/log/mail.log That will tell you where the bottleneck is. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] From where I can download desktop/laptop version of Linux?
On Tuesday 22 May 2012, Balwinder S Dheeman wrote: On 05/22/2012 08:37 AM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: If you want to do the research, go to one of the sites other users have pointed you to, test out each distribution and stick to the one that suits you. If you're too lazy, just use Debian + KDE (purely my personal opinion) I also prefer Debian (testing) purely due to it being kind of first rolling release distribution, Debian's social contract http://www.debian.org/social_contract and stability inspired me to use Debian. However, I recommend LinuxMint XFCE or ATE http://www.linuxmint.com/ for the beginners. The reason I listed less than a handful of distributions in my original post was because those are popular, and easy to get documentation for. There may be a number of comparatively niche distributions that are better in some respect, but I wouldn't recommend them to a new user, primarily because of availability of support and developers. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] How to Immediately Pause Printing in Linux?
Please don't hijack threads. On Tuesday 22 May 2012, sanjay gupta wrote: i do not have any exposure on linux besides having 22 years of experience, please let me know from where i can download desktop/laptop version of linux, i am general secretary at acta, amritsar and i want my friends here to have a hands on experience on linux. Arguably the most popular open desktop/laptop distributions of Linux are: - Ubuntu - Fedora - SuSE - Debian (my personal favourite) If you want to do the research, go to one of the sites other users have pointed you to, test out each distribution and stick to the one that suits you. If you're too lazy, just use Debian + KDE (purely my personal opinion). Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] [COMMERCIAL] Fwd: Training requirements for Linux
Forwarding without prejudice. Please contact Prabir directly if you're interested. Regards, -- Raj -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Fwd: Training requirements for Linux Date: Friday 11 May 2012 From: prabir prab...@gmail.com To: Raj Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org With reference to discussions re Suse Linux installation and related activities, we require person(s) who can perform the following tasks: Task list a) Installation and configuration of SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server b) Installation and configuration of Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) on the Enterprise Server above c) Integration of the system with IBM’s storage controller (DS4800/4700) and backup system (Tivoli FastBack T3100) Installation to be carried out in Jharsuguda. Training to our engineers for providing necessary support a) Installation of SUSE Linux b) Installation of Oracle Real Application Cluster Prabir -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] Streaming video
Hi, Anyone know a package that will let me stream WebM (or, failing that, Flash) video to a browser with remote functionality (Pause, Forward, Rewind, Play, etc)? Pure FOSS solutions only, please. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Streaming video
On Wednesday 21 Mar 2012, Vivek Kapoor wrote: On 03/21/2012 06:30 PM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: Anyone know a package that will let me stream WebM (or, failing that, Flash) video to a browser with remote functionality (Pause, Forward, Rewind, Play, etc)? Pure FOSS solutions only, please. Red5 can be used as the streaming server which supports multiple file formats. You can use open source Adobe Flex SDK to build a simple player which does the pause, forward, rewind etc. Shouldn't be difficult. Thanks, that helps. There's a FOSS product called JWPlayer that seems to work with both FLV and WEBM, will try that out. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] looking for laptop for Ubuntu (Rs. 25K)
On Tuesday 20 Mar 2012, Vikas Upadhyay wrote: [snip] Another thought, can an Android tablet (costing not more than Rs 20K), replace a laptop which serves above mentioned requirement? If yes, any suggestion ? Even though a dev environment was announced for Android today, doubt if it's a great platform for development. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] looking for laptop for Ubuntu (Rs. 25K)
On Tuesday 20 Mar 2012, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: On Tuesday 20 Mar 2012, Vikas Upadhyay wrote: [snip] Another thought, can an Android tablet (costing not more than Rs 20K), replace a laptop which serves above mentioned requirement? If yes, any suggestion ? Even though a dev environment was announced for Android today, doubt if it's a great platform for development. Link to the IDE article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/13/android_sdk/ -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Firefox Google extension
On Monday 12 Mar 2012, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: Hmm, there's another option: switch completely to duckduckgo.com, which has cruft disabled and privacy enabled by default anyway. I tested with a few sample queries and the DDG and Google results seem to be comparable. However, the duckduckgo results are beautifully visible in my 515-pixel-wide browser window, and they stream on scrolling (no more next page nonsense). Incidentally, if you haven't heard of DuckDuckGo, here's a neat article on how it compares to Google: http://www.glidemagazine.com/hiddentrack/technology%2dtuesday%2d30%2ddays%2dwith%2dduckduckgo/ Seems to be mostly serving the techie crowd right now, and I hate its results for people (egosurfing gives me #1 hit on Google, while it's at some obscure position in duckduckgo ;-) but it still works pretty well. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Postfix: Black-listing email addresses/domains
On Sunday 11 Mar 2012, Gora Mohanty wrote: On 11 March 2012 21:31, Ashish SHUKLA ashish...@lostca.se wrote: Or you can also use greylisting daemon, esp. spamd[1] (only works on *BSD) or postgrey/policyd (or other greylisting software) for postfix. Thank you: This looks almost exactly like what I want. I do hope that all genuine MTAs retry after a temporary error. I understand that this is required by a RFC. Or the sending MTA may just go to the secondary MX and try delivering the message there after failure on the primary. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Firefox Google extension
On Monday 12 Mar 2012, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: Google seems to have optimised its pages for wide screens, with a toolbar on the left, search results in the middle and previews on the right. Earlier I used to have a Firefox extension called OptimizeGoogle, which would reorganise Google search results to only show the results, and remove all the cruft (e.g. the toolbar on the left is just a real-estate waste for me 99.99% of the time). Unfortunately OptimizeGoogle seems to have stopped development, and is not available for FF anymore. Anyone know a fresh Google extension for FF which would (in decreasing order of preference): - Remove cruft (incl. left toolbar) from Google search results - Automagically set 50 results per page - Delete Google cookies (or automatically set custom cookies) - Add sequence number to results - Replace Google search links with links to the actual site - Get rid of the preview feature Hmm, there's another option: switch completely to duckduckgo.com, which has cruft disabled and privacy enabled by default anyway. I tested with a few sample queries and the DDG and Google results seem to be comparable. However, the duckduckgo results are beautifully visible in my 515-pixel-wide browser window, and they stream on scrolling (no more next page nonsense). Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] [Webdev] Do you want to own an iPad with a free 3G feature
On Friday 02 Mar 2012, tashi samphel wrote: You must check with your bank whether it allow you to make on-line international transaction with their debit card or not. I used my credit card to purchase the software. Using the above technology you can also enjoy Internet connection on your Linux or Mac computer by enabling Wi-Fi and you don't need to install Nokia PC Suite for that. Cool! isn't it? I'm sorry, but what exactly does this have to do with Linux and/or FOSS in the context of Delhi? Sure there are any number of exciting applications out there, but we don't need to discuss them in this specific list unless there's some benefit, at least, from a purely Linux/FOSS point of view. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] [Webdev] Do you want to own an iPad with a free 3G feature
On Saturday 03 Mar 2012, Gora Mohanty wrote: Heh! Was thinking the same thing, but had refrained till this post. I concur: Supporting crappy iPads or Nokia, or what have you is hardly of interest on this list. IMHO, this is true even if the tools used for such support are FOSS. That's an edge case -- if the tool is FOSS then it may just be relevant to discuss it here. However, this discussion was purely about a proprietary tool running on proprietary platforms. OTOH, Apple, with its excellent user-friendly policies, won't allow any GPL software in its Store, so Apple users are prohibited from ever having access to a large portion of FOSS. Unless they violate the ToS and jailbreak their phones, of course. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Shell Script Query
On Wednesday 29 Feb 2012, shailesh kumar wrote: Dear All, I am shailesh. Just need small help to write a shell script. There are two tables T1 and T2 both tables one row is common. i have to filter out subIndx (common keyword),imsi,msisdn from both tables Without knowing more about the application, and going by the sample data you have provided, I'd suggest you make single-line entries for each set of data in each table, and then use sort/join to filter your data. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] [SOLVED] Re: Shell script not running as expected via crontab, runs fine manually !!
On Monday 27 Feb 2012, Amit Sharma wrote: Thanks! The below is now working manually as well as via crontab. is required so that log can be maintained. #!/bin/bash # Script to check exim mailq at a specified interval date /adminscripts/logs/eximcount Counter=`/usr/sbin/exim -bpc` echo $Counter /adminscripts/logs/eximcount if [ $Counter -gt 0 ] then cat /adminscripts/logs/eximcount |mail -s Count of EXIM Mailq on Server a.sha...@example.com else exit 1 fi So it seems that the problem was the exim executables being located in /sbin... that seems to be the major change between this version and the previous one. CC'ing the ILUGD mailing list so that the archives reflect the solved state of the problem. Regards, -- Raj From: Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) r...@linux-delhi.org To: il...@frodo.hserus.net Sent: Monday, 27 February 2012 12:41 PM Subject: Re: [ilugd] Shell script not running as expected via crontab, runs fine manually !! On Monday 27 Feb 2012, Amit Sharma wrote: #!/bin/bash # Script to check exim mailq at a specified interval echo `date` /adminscripts/logs/eximcount echo `exim -bpc` /adminscripts/logs/eximcount First of all, why the needless complexity? You can just: date /adminscripts/logs/eximcount exim -bpc /adminscripts/logs/eximcount Also, should the first be a single ? if [ `exim -bpc` -gt 0 ] then cat /adminscripts/logs/eximcount |mail -s Count of EXIM Mailq on Server a.sha...@example.com else exit 1 fi The above runs fine manually, however when I try to run it through crontab (as root), it DOES run but /adminscripts/logs/eximcount gets empty value. When I run it manually it is able to get the correct count like 5, 10 etc. What am I missing here? Please help. Check the permissions on the script. Remove the file before the cron runs and see if it gets created. Check where root's mail goes -- that will help you track any cron errors. Put full paths to all programs you execute in the script. Let us see the whole cron command line. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Shell script not running as expected via crontab, runs fine manually !!
On Monday 27 Feb 2012, Amit Sharma wrote: #!/bin/bash # Script to check exim mailq at a specified interval echo `date` /adminscripts/logs/eximcount echo `exim -bpc` /adminscripts/logs/eximcount First of all, why the needless complexity? You can just: date /adminscripts/logs/eximcount exim -bpc /adminscripts/logs/eximcount Also, should the first be a single ? if [ `exim -bpc` -gt 0 ] then cat /adminscripts/logs/eximcount |mail -s Count of EXIM Mailq on Server a.sha...@example.com else exit 1 fi The above runs fine manually, however when I try to run it through crontab (as root), it DOES run but /adminscripts/logs/eximcount gets empty value. When I run it manually it is able to get the correct count like 5, 10 etc. What am I missing here? Please help. Check the permissions on the script. Remove the file before the cron runs and see if it gets created. Check where root's mail goes -- that will help you track any cron errors. Put full paths to all programs you execute in the script. Let us see the whole cron command line. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] [HUMOUR] Fwd: Funny Indian names
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Funny Indian names Date: Friday 10 Feb 2012 From: Richard Stallman r...@gnu.org To: Raj Mathur r...@kandalaya.org Indian names and their meanings Atul -- studies too hard Anuj -- annoys everyone Anoop -- can't get anything done Swapnil -- keeps everything in his memory Ranjit -- uses a fast Java platform Can you think of any to add? --- Please add any geeky ones you can think of... I came up with: Sanjay -- keeps all data on fast network storage Ram -- the obvious :) Manish -- always busy consulting the documentation Ajay -- develops Java and YAML Sunil -- fails at becoming root Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] [HUMOUR] Fwd: Funny Indian names
On Saturday 11 Feb 2012, Nagarjuna G wrote: 2012/2/11 Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) r...@linux-delhi.org: -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Funny Indian names Date: Friday 10 Feb 2012 From: Richard Stallman r...@gnu.org To: Raj Mathur r...@kandalaya.org Indian names and their meanings Atul -- studies too hard Anuj -- annoys everyone Anoop -- can't get anything done Swapnil -- keeps everything in his memory Ranjit -- uses a fast Java platform Can you think of any to add? --- Please add any geeky ones you can think of... I came up with: Sanjay -- keeps all data on fast network storage Ram -- the obvious :) Manish -- always busy consulting the documentation Ajay -- develops Java and YAML Sunil -- fails at becoming root ANU -- Anu is Not Unix I like this best, since RMS while naming the free OS he looked for a meaningful names that can be recursive acronyms and chose the first meaningful word and halted at GNU. I would have halted at ANU. ANU is not funny though! How about... Nagarjuna -- Keeps pestering the third-oldest Pandava Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Laptop for Fedora any recommendations?
On Tuesday 07 Feb 2012, abhishek jain wrote: I am Planning to purchase one Laptop with Fedora on with intel Core i3 + 2 GB RAM, any recommendations on model? Should i prefer Dell or HP? or else. I recently bought an HP 430 w/ 4GB RAM, i3, 500GB HDD pretty cheap (~34K with FreeDOS). Works beautifully with Linux, all hardware supported natively. And the display is to die for. http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/th/en/sm/WF05a/321957%2d321957%2d64295%2d3955548%2d3955548%2d5086733.html?dnr=1 Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] [Humour] Microsoft keeps it old-school with a pricey text adventure game, Visual Studio 2010
Microsoft keeps it old-school with a pricey text adventure game, Visual Studio 2010 By Peter Bright Microsoft has jumped onto the free-to-play bandwagon with its latest game, a text-driven adventure called Visual Studio 2010. The innovative new game marries the traditional interactive fiction text adventure with its arcane commands and exploration with the free-form, open-ended gaming pioneered by the likes of SimCity. There are two major modes to the game, a textual spell-casting game, and a more complex interactive puzzle mode. Play starts with the spell game. The game has three difficulty modes. In the two easiest modes Visual Studio questers must cast spells to appease a malevolent gatekeeper known only as the compiler, combining the text adventuring of Zork with the wizardy and magic of Loom. If the player's spell contains even a single faulty incantation, the compiler will respond with a torrent of abuse and spells of its own; the player must piece together clues contained within compiler's response to determine how they went wrong. In the hardest mode, a second gatekeeper, the even more cantankerous linker, must also be satisfied. In this mode, even more complex magic is required. The player must mix multiple, interrelated spells and potions, ensuring they operate in perfect concert to persuade both compiler and linker to allow them to pass. Full article: http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2012/01/microsoft%2dpimps%2dit%2dold%2dschool%2dwith%2da%2dpricey%2dtext%2dadventure%2dgame.ars Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Looking for an Android Developer for App Dev Contract
On Wednesday 28 Dec 2011, Arjun Venkatraman wrote: [snip] A SIP client that can : 1. Forward incoming calls on a GSM/CDMA (GSM only will do, but CDMA only will not) line to a SIP number at a proxy on the same LAN Wouldn't that be illegal without a VoIP licence in India? Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Looking for an Android Developer for App Dev Contract
On Thursday 29 Dec 2011, Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote: On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Saurabh Jain saurabh.j...@gmail.comwrote: Within the same LAN, it is legal. You can transfer incoming PSTN lines over IP to any point within your network. You can even transfer over WAN to an office in another SDCA. On the outbound front, you can't initiate a call using a PSTN port in another SDCA. So, you can't use SIP over your WAN and use a PSTN port in Bangalore to initiate a local call in Bangalore. You'd have to use your local PSTN port and dial long distance to Bangalore. The rules are easy to understand once you know the motivations of the babus. Their corporate overlords told them IP calling should not impact revenue. And so, anything that effects the revenue of Airtel, BSNL, etc., is not allowed. That said, for incoming calls, they don't care if you forward a PSTN call over IP - over a LAN, or over WAN even internationally. As I understand, any kind of PSTN to VOIP connection is not allowed. (Without any official permission from DOT. That is given at very high fees) PSTN to PSTN, VOIP to VOIP is perfectly fine, both incoming or outgoing even internationally. Typical scenerio of the famous cheap VOIP boxes that has voip on one side and PSTN on other side (especially terminating to the EPABX) is not legal. As Saurabh said, it's legal within the same LAN. I have clients who get calls over PSTN and terminate them internally to VoIP handsets and/or soft phones. You are correct too -- the primary motivation for the law (rule?) is to prevent you from causing revenue loss to the telcos. As long as you don't bypass a PSTN leg by using VoIP, you're well within the law. Fascinating how we can be denied access to technology and cheap communications to protect a few. AFAIR the law was brought into force originally to protect VSNL's IDD business. I guess if you raise any voice against it now, the powers-that-be will raise the eternal spectre of national security and squash reform like a bug. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] [OT] Looking for Perl Programmers
On Wednesday 21 Dec 2011, Nishikant Kapoor wrote: Hello all, Well, well, look who popped up out of the woodwork! Good to see you, Nishi, tell us more about where you are and what you're up to. For those who came in late, Nishikant is the person who single-handedly built a web portal system in Perl, then vanished under the radar for decades. That portal is the one linux-delhi.org is currently running on. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Comparison of txt2tags and other light mark-up Languages
On Friday 11 Nov 2011, A. Mani wrote: (In French) http://fgallaire.flext.net/comparaison-langage-balisage-markup-lightw eight-leger-txt2tags-pandoc-docutils-asciidoc-deplate-stx2any-aft-mar kdown-textile/ Surprised that Emacs org-mode, which does excellent export to HTML and LaTeX (PDF) is missing from the comparison (though my French isn't all that good -- non-existent, actually). If you don't care about the advanced features, org-mode is a superb lightweight text markup system. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Perl SVN help required
On Tuesday 08 Nov 2011, Vikas Upadhyay wrote: Need help in Perl SVN. [snip] Using commands like “svn co url” or using perl modules for the same. What does the expert here think, which one is the better idea ? I'd go with the Perl module, since that is independent of command-line vagaries. The standard library seems to be just called SVN. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Perl SVN help required
On Tuesday 08 Nov 2011, Vikas Upadhyay wrote: Could you please suggest some particular one which helps me perform the basic svn operations ? Being new to Perl ans SVN both, I am finding it a difficult to choose the right one(s) at http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/module/SVN/ The lack of proper documentation is making life further difficult. Also, not all seem to be available for Windows (e.g. SVN-Agent ). They're all part of the same module. Presumably if you install SVN through CPAN (or better, get a pre-packaged one for your platform) you should get all the sub-modules available. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] [ANNOUNCE] A Debate on the UID Project
NSS and EDLC, IIT Delhi present A Debate on the UID Project Date: 2 November 2011 Venue: IV LT3, IIT Delhi Time: 5.30 – 7.30 pm http://web.iitd.ac.in/~arjunghosh/uid/uid.html All are welcome; participation is free. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] [Ilugc] Steve Jobs Exposed, Wanted To Destroy Android
On Friday 21 Oct 2011, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: Only Linux and open source does not have such controversies. And a bunch of idiots were going after the life of RMS for criticizing dictator from Cupertino. I think 2011 was important ... Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, Libya and *Cupertino*. While one may disagree with Jobs' ideas and objectives, why bring him personally into it? Hate the ideas, sure, but don't hate the man! Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves This e-mail message may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information. It should not be used by anyone who is not the original intended recipient. If you have erroneously received this message, please delete it immediately and notify the sender. Any use or disclosure of the contents is unauthorised and may be unlawful. All liability for viruses is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. The recipient acknowledges that NetAmbit or its subsidiaries and associated companies, (collectively NetAmbit Group), are unable to exercise control or ensure or guarantee the integrity of/over the contents of the information contained in e-mail transmissions and further acknowledges that any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and no binding nature of the message shall be implied or assumed unless the sender does so expressly with due authority of NetAmbit Group.. ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Hello everybody!
Hey, that's a cool post. Of course, I don't necessarily agree that being 50+ limits you from doing anything much (OK, may avoid running the full marathon), but more power to your dabbling, and more power to your inspirations :) Regards, -- Raj On Thursday 13 Oct 2011, Balwinder S Dheeeman wrote: It has been long since I left this list just due lack of time, I was not that very active a contributor to F/OSS then and may be shall never be much in the future as well; I'm 50+ and getting older day by day. Anyway, I still maintain a few FreeBSD ports (http://anu.homelinux.net/ports), PKGBUILDs for ArchLinux (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=mK=bdheeman), debs for Debian (http://anu.homelinux.net/pub/Debian/) and Ubuntu (http://anu.homelinux.net/pub/Ubuntu/). I scraped together, FreeBSD-7.2 (just to fit the things on 1GB UBS stick) and 9VX and released it as Nano9 (http://werc.homelinux.net/hacks/nano9/) around a year ago. I mostly remain busy trading stocks, bullion, currencies, commodities and, or derivatives these days, hence actively work on personalized copy (not a fork) of Qtstaker (http://qtstalker.sourceforge.net/) only. Last but not the least, a big thanks to Ashish SHUKLA (http://ashish.is.lostca.se/) with 1Mw smile :) -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] CentOS 5.6 ( Multiple Problems )
On Thursday 06 Oct 2011, Kristen Eisenberg wrote: I am using CentOS 5.6 on my VPS , and I am having multiple problems . 1. /etc/init.d/httpd reload Reloading httpd: [FAILED] [root@ip-1-- /]# /etc/init.d/httpd start Starting httpd:[FAILED] [root@ip-1-- /]# /etc/init.d/httpd stop Stopping httpd:[FAILED] What does the Apache error.log contain? As an aside, are you related to Gaurang Agarwal? Or is two people having identical problems with identical software on identical distributions in identical environments in two days a sheer coincidence? -- Raj -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] CentOS 5.6 ( Multiple Problems )
On Wednesday 05 Oct 2011, Gaurang Aggarwal wrote: c/init.d/httpd restart Stopping httpd:[FAILED] Starting httpd: (13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80 (13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80 no listening sockets available, shutting down Unable to open logs [FAILED] Apache is trying to bind to IPv6 instead of IPv4. Is that what you really want? If not, try changing your Listen directive from: Listen 80 to Listen 0.0.0.0:80 Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] SSH KeepAlive with Switched Networks
On Tuesday 27 Sep 2011, Saurabh Sharma wrote: I’m on a LAN [in office] connected to remote server over SSH [using gnome terminal], now I've to go over for a meeting on another floor along with my notebook. I switch on to mine office WLAN with a descent 90+ signal strength, Network manager shows both connections there as connected. I disconnect my LAN connection and now on WLAN when i try working on the server to which i was connected, the server is not responding to my keystrokes as if the connection broke and i have to make a new connection to the server in order to use it in a new tab. The old connection [the one over LAN ] breaks after some time, with a timeout message. If you want to continue using the same connection over LAN and WLAN, you will have to either have the same IP address on both media, or use an app like screen to run your ssh in. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] SSH KeepAlive with Switched Networks
On Tuesday 27 Sep 2011, Ashish SHUKLA wrote: I’m on a LAN [in office] connected to remote server over SSH [using gnome terminal], now I've to go over for a meeting on another floor along with my notebook. I switch on to mine office WLAN with a descent 90+ signal strength, Network manager shows both connections there as connected. I disconnect my LAN connection and now on WLAN when i try working on the server to which i was connected, the server is not responding to my keystrokes as if the connection broke and i have to make a new connection to the server in order to use it in a new tab. The old connection [the one over LAN ] breaks after some time, with a timeout message. Do you get the same IP address on both interfaces? Actually, come to think of it even having the same IP address on both networks may not work. Off the top of my head, it would depend on: 1. Whether your NAT provider sees LAN and WLAN packets coming over different interfaces or the same interface, and 2. Whether your NAT provider is interface-agnostic or not. If your packets are coming over different interfaces, and the NAT box is storing the interface as part of the connection meta-data, then even having the same IP on different networks may not work. Use screen, $deity's gift to system administrators all over the world! Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] SSH KeepAlive with Switched Networks
On Tuesday 27 Sep 2011, Ashish SHUKLA wrote: You probably mean to run screen in ssh, i.e. screen on remote end? Otherwise with screen to run your ssh in, instead of using GNOME terminal's pty, you're using screen's pty, with nothing changed at the network interface level. Er, right! Run screen on the ssh server, and login to it from any network. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] [ANNOUNCE] Android-India mailing list
On Monday 29 Aug 2011, Mehul Ved wrote: On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 10:26 AM, abhishek jain abhishek.netj...@gmail.com wrote: there is no way to check usage until the bill is handed over. Where there are enough software tools available on android to measure and warn you about your data usage, free as well as paid. I prefer 3G Watchdog https://market.android.com/details?id=net.rgruet.android.g3watchdog I'm using Traffic Counter, which is free (only as in free beer, unfortunately), and the base version shows you traffic by application. The primary objective was to figure out which built-in Android applications were talking to the 'net behind my back (yes, it's terrible to be paranoid but if /they/ were after you, you'd be paranoid too!) Have found only one so far: SIM Toolkit. Time to root the phone and uninstall the cr*p, I guess. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] [ANNOUNCE] Android-India mailing list
On Sunday 28 Aug 2011, abhishek jain wrote: may be because the call rates have dropped and VAS bill is larger than the phone call bill (at least for me). Heh, so true. OTOH, after finally inserting the SIM into this phone (which took two days due to sheer laziness in transferring contacts from the old phone to the new) I was pleasantly surprised to get a message about 6 months of free 3G (1GB pm) from Vodafone. They probably think that the user will get so used to 3G that s/he will not want to give it up after the trial period, little knowing that cheap ol' me will leech their 6 free GB and then happily revert to Edge unless some provider comes out with a reasonably-priced 3G plan! Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] [ANNOUNCE] Android-India mailing list
On Sunday 28 Aug 2011, abhishek jain wrote: Beware of 3G plans, i bought a 100MB plan from airtel, i mistakenly used 196 MB, i was charged Rs. 100 for first 100MB and 1400 for next 96 MB and more so they dont alert on overuse :( , there is no way to check usage until the bill is handed over. Ouch! There's probably something you can do at the Consumer Court level about that. Sudev would be the right person to advise. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] [ANNOUNCE] Android-India mailing list
Hi, Having purchased an Android phone, thought an India-specific Android mailing list wouldn't be a bad idea. So whether you're an Android user, hacker, developer or just curious, hop over to: mailto:indroid-requ...@lists.linux-delhi.org?subject=subscribe For the moment, anything Android-related goes. Warning: the initial month is likely to be filled with yours truly asking tons of newbie Android questions! Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Wiki help required
On Friday 12 Aug 2011, Gora Mohanty wrote: 2011/8/12 Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) r...@linux-delhi.org: To save possible duplication of effort, I have already sent Raj a list, off-list. Thanks to both people who sent lists (Gora Mohanty and Andrew Lynn). If you're still feeling adventurous, you could go and check the home page of each and every user, and make a list of those who: a. Haven't filled out any personal information at all, or b. Have filled spam in their personal information. The first category is most likely spam registrations, while the second definitely is. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] Wiki help required
Hi, We keep getting spam registrations on our Wiki. I'll be glad to remove them, but don't have the time right now to go and track down each and every one. Can someone volunteer to go through each of the registrations at: http://wiki.linux-delhi.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/TWikiUsers and make a list of the ones that look like spam, or the ones that don't look legitimate? If you send me the list, I'll remove the offending entries. Thanks, -- Raj -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] [OT] Best pre-paid 3G option in Delhi
On Monday 18 Jul 2011, Karanbir Singh wrote: its nice in that it will let 3 - 5 devices hook up over Wifi. the E585 tends to go about 8 - 12 hours of usage, before needing a charge. Couldn't find a provider-independent E585 yet, but Tirveni also did some research and came up with this one: http://www.pluggd.in/micromax-3g-wifi-router-price-297/ which, apparently, is easily available in India. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] What happens in BASH when you do Ctrl-C (hint, it's not simply sending a SIGINT)
On Sunday 17 Jul 2011, Sharad Birmiwal wrote: On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 4:59 AM, Anupam Jain ajn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I originally posted this question on stackoverflowhttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/6624622/what-happe ns-in-bash-when-you-do-ctrl-c-hint-its-not-simply-sending-a-sigint , but did not receive a satisfactory response. Any ideas? Mystery solved! The reason is because apt-get invokes a program called http to download packages. Here is what I tried. Terminal 1 $ sudo su $ apt-get install wetlands-data (some package I found randomly to be big) Terminal 2 8493 pts/0S+ 0:00 apt-get install widelands-data 8495 pts/0S+ 0:00 /usr/lib/apt/methods/http When you press control+c, the signal is sent to http and NOT apt-get. That's the difference. I tried sending SIGINT to process 8495 and I was able to resume download :) Quite fascinating. Apparently when you ^C in the shell, it sends the signal to the running process and all its child processes, whereas if you SIGINT sudo it doesn't seem to pass the signal down. Question is, why? How about an strace of both methods to see what is the difference in signal handling between the shell and sudo? I'd do it myself but I'm too lazy^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H have too much work on my plate right now ;-) Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] What happens in BASH when you do Ctrl-C (hint, it's not simply sending a SIGINT)
On Sunday 17 Jul 2011, Sharad Birmiwal wrote: -- begin offtopic -- I tried $ /usr/lib/apt/methods/http www.yahoo.com but that didn't seem to start fetching the file. As noted already, it's probably part of the apt family and has it's own invocation method. apt developers for some reason didn't want to use curl or wget. When I tested apt earlier in the thread, I greped for were wget and curl (in ps) before simply reading ps ax. One reason for this could be that their http gives them feedback which allows apt to show progress. -- end offtopic -- Reason for the executable (note: not even a Perl script) is probably that apt-get (dpkg?) can run on a bare system before anything else is installed. It has to be able to download curl/wget before using it, and how do you download curl/wget? You use your built-in method, aka http. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] [OT] Best pre-paid 3G option in Delhi
On Thursday 14 Jul 2011, Vikas Rawal wrote: On a related note, anyone suggest an el cheapo mobile phone with 3G, The cheapest solution would be to by el cheapo phone (without 3G) for voice calls and use Nokia 5800 for internet. Since that will reduce the load on Nokia 5800, the battery will survive somewhat longer. All this, if you are looking for a really cheap solution!! Thanks for all the information, folks. At the moment Reliance looks like the best option; I only wish they had plans with validity longer than 30 days -- if I have to pay them ever month I may as well get a postpaid connection! Right, so now: which Linux-compatible data card? I presume it makes sense to buy your own data card and use the telco's SIM in that? Incidentally, Vikas, you kids don't realise that at my advanced age, getting used to a new phone's functions is no trivial exercise. I'm going to run this Nokia 5800 into the ground before starting the pains of switching to a new phone, user interface, phonebook format, etc! Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] [OT] Best pre-paid 3G option in Delhi
On Friday 15 Jul 2011, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 07/14/2011 03:41 PM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: Right, so now: which Linux-compatible data card? I presume it makes sense to buy your own data card and use the telco's SIM in that? I think the age of the data card is now gone, the options worth considering : - get an android device that has proper tether support Skipping Android 2 for now due to its pathetic battery management -- all reports indicate that Android 3 is going to be way better in that arena, so will await its presence in the market. Also, need to find an Android vendor who doesn't pay royalty to MicroSux. - get a wifi device/gsm bridge like the huawei E585 ( a MiFi ) That looks interesting, could add it to the shopping list. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] [OT] Best pre-paid 3G option in Delhi
Hi, I was thinking of getting one of those pre-paid MTNL 3G SIMs to use for 'net access when on the road or out on work. Is there any company which is giving a better deal? Pre-paid is a must: my mobile 'net requirement is sporadic, and I don't want to have to keep paying the telco every month regardless of whether I use the service or not. On a related note, anyone suggest an el cheapo mobile phone with 3G, Bluetooth and decent battery life that one can use as a modem with Linux? My Nokia 5800 does all that, but (a) it's not el cheapo, (b) I'm already using it with Vodafone and (c) its battery life, while adequate for talk, isn't too good with both BT and 3G on. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Looking for a geek meetup or get together in Bangalore Linux-Bangalore chapter
On Tuesday 05 Jul 2011, Neeraj Narayan wrote: I had been attending the linux meetings and get together in Delhi. Now since I have been relocated to Bangalore, I would like to be familiar with the FOSS people in Bangalore. Please suggest some group or link... http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-bengaluru?hl=en Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] [COMMERCIAL] Java/Tomcat and web toolkit coders wanted
Hi, A big-name client is looking to develop a client/server application using Java, Web toolkits and Tomcat for international deployment. They are offering decent money for a 6-8 month contract, with possibility of employment later if both parties are amenable (they have large international development centres in NCR and Bengaluru). I'm the project manager for this exercise. If you're interested in sleepless nights, forgotten weekends and the opportunity to work with other elite professionals on a package that will eventually be deployed at millions of locations, please mail me your CV and be prepared for a gruelling interview :) Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Fork Bomb and User Limit: Some Serious Concerns.
On Wednesday 08 Jun 2011, Ankit Chaturvedi wrote: Is there a way we can tweak the ulimit - user limit for all users. http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/security/90836-user-limits-linux.h tml - wasn't so helpful. Try 'setrlimit' to set RLIMIT_NPROC to some agreeable value. NPROC is the number of processes a user can create. Limiting them will atleast leave you with enough resources to start a shell and kill the offending process (bash in this case). ulimit will not work if you don't have pam_limits module for your kernel (it's not built by default). Try loading pam_limits module manuallly and see if the limits in /etc/security/limits.conf are honored then. There is no definite solution to preventing a fork_bomb as such, but patches like this http://grsecurity.net/ may help you finding which user started the fork bomb, though it might be an overkill for single user systems. So will any of these solutions work when the user is logged in as root? In general, how are you going to prevent root from destroying your system? -- Raj -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] [OffTopic] Preview of the new website
On Tuesday 07 Jun 2011, Shamail wrote: I've been working on a project from some time, http://tunesdiary.com Its now open for preview, please have a look at it and tell me the goods and the bads. Hope you like my work. Does this have anything to do with FOSS, even tangentially? On an unrelated note, I see that the site has a friend addition feature. Great, now we can expect spam from there too! Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Fork Bomb and User Limit: Some Serious Concerns.
On Wednesday 08 Jun 2011, Amar Akshat wrote:
I have been lately disturbed by my fellow novice intern admins who
have been granted super user privileges. They are all trying the
kiddish stuff and it upsets the environment, and more over I am
unable to hang around and see what is happening and fix that.
Lately some of them have discovered fork bomb, example
:(){ :|: };:
and this works in my personal Ubuntu v-machines. I have figured out
that if run as root, this would keep on exhausting memory and system
ultimately goes down very slow.
Is there a way we can tweak the ulimit - user limit for all users.
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/security/90836-user-limits-linux.htm
l - wasn't so helpful.
In my opinion you're trying to solve the wrong problem. Giving
untrusted users admin access on production systems is going to keep
causing problems, regardless of how many such vulnerabilities you
close. The real solution is to remove admin access from all except a
few experienced users.
If you can't do that, give each one of them a virtual machine to play
with and let him/her destroy it in whatever innovative fashion s/he
finds convenient.
Regards,
-- Raj
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Re: [ilugd] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn
On Sunday 05 Jun 2011, Shubhneet Goel via LinkedIn wrote: Shubhneet Goel requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn: Added: http://wiki.linux-delhi.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/DoNotTrustMeWithYourPersonalData And no, this is not about some Vinay -- the same mail has come to at least 2 mailing lists I'm subscribed to, as well as to me personally. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn
On Wednesday 01 Jun 2011, Vivek Kapoor wrote: On 06/01/2011 05:41 PM, Prakhar Agarwal prak...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Dude, it wouldn't hurt to check the email-id itself before shooting off a mail to anyone. Your friend Vinay in your contact list is saved as Vinay Kumar Gupta il...@frodo.hserus.net Prakhar Ravi - how did you get his name and email address? Also, what does this guy do? Is he an employer or a consultant - if you search the past archives for at=least a year or two, you'll only see mention of Vinay http://search.gmane.org/?query=invitation+to+connect+on+linkedinauth or=group=gmane.user-groups.linux.delhisort=relevanceDEFAULTOP=and xP=Zinvit%09ZlinkedinxFILTERS=Guser-groups.linux.delhi---A Maybe the users here aren't actually opening up their address books to linkedin. Almost all wanted to add Vinay for some reason. So, their addition to the hall of shame may need a review :-) Rather this Vinay is the culprit who would need to change his email address. If that were the case, the friends of this putative Vinay Gupta would be able to tell us something about him, starting with his real e-mail ID. Until then, I stick to adding names to the Wiki page. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn
On Wednesday 01 Jun 2011, Amar Akshat wrote: I support this, a policy can be put in place by the admins over this DL. Putting the name in a webpage (like a box of shame) also kind of discourages people to post in and join in. How exactly does putting your name on a page if you insist on giving your password away to an untrusted site prevent you from joining and participating in a technical mailing list? The two are completely unrelated. Site/address blacklists don't work, since there are so many sites nowadays that ask you for your password it's impossible to keep track of them. On the other hand, if someone's volunteering to make such a comprehensive blacklist AND maintain it on a regular basis, I'm sure the list admin(s) can be persuaded to use those. The Wiki page is not an official mailing list policy or an official ILUGD initiative. It's a user initiative, and updated by users. If your name is on that page and you don't want it there, all you need to do is sign up on the Wiki (it's free and automatic), edit the page and delete your name from there -- not exactly rocket science. Finally, I'd be glad if someone took on the task of educating every Internet user on how foolish and insecure it is to give your password away to any site that asks for it. Until that is done, however, shame works as an excellent motivation to learn really fast. Since that Wiki page was started, the number of offences on this mailing list has gone down by 64.729% (create your own statistics if you don't like mine :) Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] [OFF-TOPIC] Looking to loan/rent Blackberry
On Saturday 28 May 2011, Vivek Kapoor wrote: Haha, this is interesting. BTW, wasn't the user supposed to be ram1.foo.com in your case instead of r...@foo.com? Are there two profiles created in Vodafone's blackberry interface for that user? I'm wondering that is the case: two profiles, one that works and one that doesn't, somehow causing interference patterns. The mail reaches the BB quickly when the two sine waves reinforce each other and late when they are 180 degrees out of sync, sort of :) As for the users, system users are user.foo.com, IMAP users are u...@foo.com. Again, is it only one user that's facing this issue? As far as I know, will have to check on Monday. In any case, thanks for all the help, everyone! Will keep you posted if there are any updates. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] AnyRemote
awesome features beyond those a traditional remote offers. It's extremely versatile, letting you control anything from a music player to your whole desktop (you can use your phone instead of the mouse if you're the masochistic type.) I highly recommend it for anyone who needs remote control functionality for their computer. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] [OFF-TOPIC] Looking to loan/rent Blackberry
On Friday 27 May 2011, krish wrote: On the other hand, if there's some internal blackberry server, then I'm not too sure about that. But ideally the procedure should be the same. If its an internal BB server, then you'll need to reset the user profiles (using BB PIN of users) or reset all users, re-provision the settings and then test. Nope, it's the service provider's BB server. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] [OFF-TOPIC] Looking to loan/rent Blackberry
On Friday 27 May 2011, Vivek Kapoor wrote: On a different note, what kind of issues are your users facing on Blackberry? From what I've experienced, usually the users prefer the Blackberry services provided by the service providers such as Vodafone Airtel. This means going on airtel's website, entering your server details and the username and password and it's instantly activated. This I've personally seen working flawlessly with both Courier and Dovecot (though dovecot is better), both with self signed SSL certificates. On the contrary, the apple devices create trouble if using self signed certificates. What's more, if your users are getting trouble connecting via the service provider's blackberry interface, then you can directly call up the service provider to assist. They may need the server name, username and password to test at their end. Since you ask the specific problem goes something like this: We've set up a mail server for the client. The server is handling two domains (say foo.com and bar.com). foo.com has one BB user, while bar.com has many BB users. The foo.com BB user (say ram) has accounts on both domains: r...@foo.com and r...@bar.com. Mail sent to r...@bar.com reflects immediately in the user's webmail, Outlook, couple of other mail clients AND his BB. Mail sent to r...@foo.com reflects immediately in the user's webmail, Outlook, couple of other mail clients, but NOT his BB. It may take anything from 15 seconds (acceptable) up to an hour (definitely not acceptable) to reach his BB. Note that the same server and the same software (and the same BB device on the same service provider, for that matter) are handling both scenarios. Some seriously weirdness going on here, and I've asked him to raise a ticket with the service provider (Vodafone, IIRC). Let's see what they say. In the meantime, I'm still looking for a BB to test this on :-) Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] [OFF-TOPIC] Looking to loan/rent Blackberry
On Friday 27 May 2011, krish wrote: Mail sent to r...@foo.com reflects immediately in the user's webmail, Outlook, couple of other mail clients, but NOT his BB. It may take anything from 15 seconds (acceptable) up to an hour (definitely not acceptable) to reach his BB. Sent from any domain? Even from foo.com, his own email - self test? If self test works immediately, then you should check sending email from some other domain where u have mailserver access and check logs for delay. I would also consider if any of the sending domain is greylisted. Like I said, the mail reaches the server and is visible in all clients EXCEPT the BB immediately. If it were a generic e-mail issue it would affect all clients, right? Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] [OFF-TOPIC] Looking to loan/rent Blackberry
On Friday 27 May 2011, Vivek Kapoor wrote: On 05/27/2011 03:22 PM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: snip Mail sent to r...@bar.com reflects immediately in the user's webmail, Outlook, couple of other mail clients AND his BB. Mail sent to r...@foo.com reflects immediately in the user's webmail, Outlook, couple of other mail clients, but NOT his BB. It may take anything from 15 seconds (acceptable) up to an hour (definitely not acceptable) to reach his BB. From one of your previous emails related to the scenario you mentioned above, I infer that you're using Courier. Also, you are using IMAP instead of POP3 since your r...@bar.com receives mail instantly. That is correct. There's an IMAP feature called IDLE which enables detection of incoming emails. So, as soon as an email comes, the client is intimated instantly - provided the client understands IMAP IDLE. However, from my experience, Courier's implementation of IMAP IDLE is not optimum. I've seen that the client is IMAP IDLE capable, and is connected but Courier doesn't intimate the client when a new email comes. I'd go with that, except for one datum: mail sent to the user's account on the other domain on the same server reaches his BB immediately. Figure that one out! In the meantime I'll see if the service provider mentions IMAP IDLE in their report. If they do, will disable it altogether if possible -- what with all the custom scripting et al, it's going to be painful to switch IMAP servers at this stage. (Which reminds me, need to upload those scripts somewhere.) Worst case scenario, will recommend setting all BB accounts to POP3 -- I presume that is possible? Or do RIM/service provider decide which protocol they will use on your behalf? Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] [OFF-TOPIC] Looking to loan/rent Blackberry
On Saturday 28 May 2011, Vivek Kapoor wrote: Okay. I wasn't aware of that. However, what I have seen happening with blackberry users, in Delhi, India, with both Airtel and Vodafone is that they receive mails instantly - even before they pop-up in their Outlooks and Thunderbirds. There's not even a 15 second delay. I don't think BIS would be connecting to the server every few seconds (POP3ing or IMAPing - though have not checked the log), and the only possible explanation I can think of is IMAP IDLE, unless there's something else Blackberry is doing - maybe connecting to IMAP and kind of 'refreshing' the mailbox every few seconds. Just to make it more interesting, here's a message that keeps popping up from time to time in the mail logs: LOGIN FAILED, user=r...@foo.com, ip=[:::178.239.83.191] The IP belongs to RIM, UK. However, the user still receives mails addressed to r...@foo.com on his BB from time to time. I mean, WTF? Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] [OFF-TOPIC] Looking to loan/rent Blackberry
Hi, Someone have a Blackberry that they're not using and which they're willing to loan/rent out for a week or so? Clients are complaining about Blackberry issues on a mail server I've setup, and I need one to replicate and test. If not, how much would (a) a cheap Blackberry cost and (b) someone be willing to buy it for after I've done with it? :) Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] [OFF-TOPIC] Looking to loan/rent Blackberry
On Thursday 26 May 2011, Smruti wrote: 2011/5/26 Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) r...@linux-delhi.org If not, how much would (a) a cheap Blackberry cost and (b) someone be willing to buy it for after I've done with it? :) I am sure you must have looked, still just in case you haven't, try ebay. A quick search shows price range starting from 2000. Though not sure what OS version you are looking for, may be you can find a seller in Delhi and check it out before buying. I'm a bit leery about buying stuff online, specially so after the CCAvenue debacle. Call me paranoid and/or a Luddite, but I prefer both my social networking (such as it is) and my purchases to be in the real world rather than online. Thanks for the research IAC! Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] [OFF-TOPIC] Looking to loan/rent Blackberry
On Friday 27 May 2011, Gora Mohanty wrote: Do not have access to a Blackberry, nor an idea of what it would cost. However, depending on what issues you are facing, it might not be enough to have the handset, as it is difficult to debug on one. You could start with trying the application out in a simulator. Unfortunately, that means Microsoft Windows, maybe in a virtual machine. There are ways of working with the Blackberry SDK in Linux, but I have not actually tried them out: http://www.slashdev.ca/2008/04/03/blackberry-development-using-linux/ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1492403/how-to-build-blackberry-ap plication-on-linux Heh, the problem isn't critical enough (for me at least) to warrant that sort of effort. In the final run, if the client's BB refuses to behave after basic testing from my end, I'm putting the ball in his court. After all, SMTP, SMTP AUTH, POP3 and IMAP4 are working fine on all other clients, so there's no reason for me to bang my head against a proprietary wall for some obscure device. On the bright side, at least they're not using cryPhones. In passing, that's the difference between setting up a Corporate E-mail Service and a Mail Server. The first would involve solving all his problems on all his devices, the latter ends with proving that everything works on the server and a handful of clients. Of course, the former is 7 figures, while the latter is just 6! Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Virtual users mapped to system users
On Saturday 21 May 2011, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: Yeah, I was also looking around for a command-line tool that will allow me to test authentication against PAM. Neither of the two tools I could find on the 'net (pamck and pamauth) seem to be easily available, keeping on looking. For the record... Looks like testsaslauthd which ships with Cyrus-SASL lets one check user ID and password from the command-line. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Virtual users mapped to system users
On Saturday 21 May 2011, Varad Gupta wrote:
Pls see =
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.mail.imap.courier.general/27589
You can replace the SQL statements with grep/awk on /etc/passwd
These and other similar lines will need to be replaced =
SQL=($(dosql SELECT uid,pw,mpath,mquota FROM passwd WHERE
uid='$ID'))
SQL=($(dosql SELECT uid,pw,mpath,mquota FROM passwd WHERE uid='$ID'
AND pw='$PW'))
To test if the passwd is correct (auth is OK), you can use the
openssl command to generate an md5 hash and match with /etc/shadow
(here i am assuming you script will run as root and can read
/etc/shadow). There might be other ways to do this, but this one
struck me easily.
Yeah, I was also looking around for a command-line tool that will allow
me to test authentication against PAM. Neither of the two tools I could
find on the 'net (pamck and pamauth) seem to be easily available,
keeping on looking.
As a last resort one could use direct auth against {passwd,shadow}, but
that would be absolutely the last resort. I'd rather make a Perl PAM
script that does that before going into grep co!
Regards,
-- Raj
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