RE: [ilugd]: Automating accounts creation on AIX and Linux.

2003-03-13 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hi, Why not write a script with variables and get the variable from the text file. I am not very familiar with scripting but it should be easy. Or probably through makefile, in which case, I could help, though makefiles are not meant for this purpose. Regards, Venky -Original Message-

[ilugd]: Mandrake 9.1

2003-03-13 Thread Arjun
Dear Friends, Some time ago, some one had mentioned about Mandrake 9.1. I would like to know when is it being released, from where can I get it the cost of obtaining the CDs. ° Best regards, Arjun [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[ilugd]: Firewall configurations | IPtables trouble | Dialup connection

2003-03-13 Thread Viksit Gaur
Hi all I had posted a dns problem with my dial up a week back, and then followed up all suggestions (edting resolv.conf with the new dns Ips and things..but to no avail.) I've had a feeling that it might have been due to the fact that i had inititally set my firewall settings to High (during

[ilugd]: GET A WEBSITE DESIGNED FROM ME!!!

2003-03-13 Thread Yuvraj Mathur
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Re: [ilugd]: What about TV Tuner

2003-03-13 Thread supreet
Mplayer does quite a good job as tv to divx capture as well as tv viewing On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 22:44, Ambar Roy wrote: What are the experience and recommendations of the list about TV tuner card. I plan to buy one and use on gnu-linux. i believe one can also do conversion across medias

Re: Re: [ilugd]: FREE LINUX Training

2003-03-13 Thread Tarun Kumar Gupta
hi my name is tarun gupta. my age is 27. I am working as a Jr. Accounts Officer in a Private Limited Company. i am interested in learning Linux. my email ID is [EMAIL PROTECTED] tarun On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 Rohit Sundriyal wrote : Amit , Please Include me for the Same . Rohit Sundriyal [EMAIL

[ilugd]: dude writing the freelancer's accounting white paper missing ?

2003-03-13 Thread amit soni
Some1 had very enthusiastically announced about writing a white paper for freelancers in India and the legal stuff they need to take care off. Where is he now ? G To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in

[ilugd]: can case sensitivity on Linux b removed/patched ?

2003-03-13 Thread Doofus
Hi all, Recently i persuaded one of my teams here to switch to CVS from VSS and that too on a linux box. My team has been using CVS on NT for a long time now. Everything went fine, cvs was setup, administration handed over, was pretty pleased with the output, excepting for one thing. Linux is

Re: [ilugd]: Mandrake 9.1

2003-03-13 Thread Narsingh Sahu
--- Arjun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Friends, Some time ago, some one had mentioned about Mandrake 9.1. I would like to know when is it being released, from where can I get it the cost of obtaining the CDs. Next month most probably - -- narsingh

Re: [ilugd]: Firewall configurations | IPtables trouble | Dialupconnection

2003-03-13 Thread vivek
Viksit Gaur wrote: Hi all [snip] iptables, i tried iptables --flush to flush all rules. but here i get an errorsaying modules not found, (displays ip_tables.o), and says the kernel or iptables need upgrading. that may be because both ipchains and iptables are installed. do rpm -e

RE: [ilugd]: remote access to a pc

2003-03-13 Thread Raj Mathur
Gaurav == Gaurav Jain [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gaurav i think it should be possible. what this software does Gaurav is, it installs a client ( read access) software on your Gaurav pc, and opens a port to gotomypc.com. thus, when u login Gaurav with a username and password on

Re: [ilugd]: Automating accounts creation on AIX and Linux.

2003-03-13 Thread Raj Mathur
Shehjar == Shehjar Tikoo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Shehjar [snip] Shehjar What I want to know is if there is a script or program in Shehjar C that does this sort of a thing? If not, can someone Shehjar tell me if there is a system call that creates a user Shehjar account on

Re: [ilugd]: What about TV Tuner

2003-03-13 Thread Amitabh Trehan
medias i.e. VHS to CD etc. The Pinnacle TV tuners give the best quality. And they are quite widely supported on Linux and Windows. I have a Pixelview TV tuner, and I find it ok, nothing great. The following part is completely OT, but still ;) In case you haven't used a TV tuner card,

[ilugd]: ILUG (Not TUGIndia )Meeting

2003-03-13 Thread Amitabh Trehan
--- Amitabh Trehan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, whats the news of this months meeting? date, venue? Amitabh Missed your favourite TV serial last night? Try the new, Yahoo! TV. visit http://in.tv.yahoo.com

[ilugd]: ILUG (Not TUGIndia ) Meeting

2003-03-13 Thread Amitabh Trehan
OOPS. I seem to have a worse virus than Microsoft products - I mean the ILUG meeting which should be happening this sunday.. --- Amitabh Trehan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, whats the news of this months meeting? date, venue? Amitabh

Re: [ilugd]: Automating accounts creation on AIX and Linux.

2003-03-13 Thread Ambar Roy
In AIX, Call IBM for support, it's a paid-for OS after all. ROTFL this is a good one.. add it to the ilugd faq. Include Solaris and Windows in that section too ;) Ambar To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: [ilugd]: Automating accounts creation on AIX and Linux.

2003-03-13 Thread Ambar Roy
I would like to get my hands on anything that could help me do this. Even makefile.. Does anyone really use makefiles for automatic account creation?? I would use perl or C to get this done. There has to be some oss project for this also! Check out sourceforge.net and freshmeat.net for that!

Re: [ilugd]: A Plan for the ILUGD tees.

2003-03-13 Thread LinuxLingam
great stuff vivek. two small suggestions: 1) no need to write www.linux-delhi.org, write just linux-delhi.org. with a shorter sentence, you can use a slightly larger typesize to make it more visible from a distance. 2) don't use the blue color for two reasons: use the deep ochre/yellow color

Re: [ilugd]: some clarifications sought on excise

2003-03-13 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
LinuxLingam wrote: hi all, a colleague raised an important issue. excise is levied on products manufactured in india. customs is levied on products not manufactured, and hence imported into india. Customs may be levied on services as well, and may be levied on exports as well. The word

Re: [LONG] [LIG] Re: [ilugd]: [draft] open letter to indian finance minister

2003-03-13 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
LinuxLingam wrote: dear sanjeev, thanks again, for your insights and responses. so your responses confirm what i had been thinking: taxation in absolute terms is supposed to be on the principals you mentioned, but the overall reality forces of democracy, uruguay, gatt, WTO, bring in a

Re: [ilugd]: why excise?

2003-03-13 Thread Ajit Ranade
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Sanjeev Ghane Gupta wrote: LinuxLingam wrote: i am suggesting: i) keep the excise on OEM ii) go ahead, charge all software for excise. ok, i am going to wade into this discussion. but only a bit. (btw, ghane, you should consider changing profession. maybe advisor

Re: [LONG] [LIG] Re: [ilugd]: [draft] open letter to indian finance minister

2003-03-13 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
LinuxLingam wrote: On Wednesday 12 March 2003 06:58 am, you wrote: LinuxLingam wrote: why is software not yet taxed for excise? Sorry, my last reply talked about *customs* on Software. Software is not taxed for excise because of a very simple reason. Software is a service, not a product.

Re: [ilugd]: why excise?

2003-03-13 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
Ajit Ranade wrote: i am going to wade into this discussion. but only a bit. For those who came in late: Ajit was a Prof of Economics at IGIDR, Bombay, then worked with some think-tank in Delhi, and is now at ABN Amro as some big-shot thinker ;-) He knows economics, he understands the

Re: [ilugd]: why excise?

2003-03-13 Thread Tarun Dua
http://www.ccsindia.org/ipr.htm CopyRight, CopyLeft, CopyConsent: IPR in the Information Age Panel: Swaminathan Aiyar, Times of India; Ajay Shah, IGIDR Finance Ministry Venue: Conference Room 4, India International Centre Annexe Date Time: 5:30pm, Saturday, March 15 Please join us

[ilugd]: problem with specific ports

2003-03-13 Thread Tushar Gupta
Hi, We have a linux server acting as proxy and firewall (using ipchains) for clients running on 172.16.0.1/24 pool Default policies are all accept, and ipchains is being used just to masquerade the pool /sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 172.16.0.1/24 j MASQ But, for some reason

Re: [ilugd]: problem with specific ports

2003-03-13 Thread Prateek Khanna
But, for some reason client machines are not able to access specific services on other web-servers/ftp server etc , e.g webmin running on port 1, using special ftp client which uses port 1500 Are you by any chance using Squid or something for proxying..? -prateek

[ilugd]: redhat8.0 rpm command hung

2003-03-13 Thread Bishan Singh Kochher
hi Yesterday I upgraded my mysql from the redhat errata website for my redhat8.0 box. I ran rpm -Uvh mysql-xxx.rpm I could upgrade all the mysql rpms. Due to some reason I had to uninstall the latest version and get back to older. So I ran rpm -e mysql-xxx and IT HUNG I tried all

[ilugd]: [COMMERCIAL] Urgent: People with Cisco experience required for short part-time stint in tech writing

2003-03-13 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
Hi! This is for those of you who have decent amount of experience in managing and implementing CISCO networking equipment based networks. People with CCNA and above certifications under their belt might have an advantage here. A friend of mine is looking for people like you for a short

RE: [ilugd]: problem with specific ports

2003-03-13 Thread Tushar Gupta
Squid is running on the server listening on port 8080, but clients are not configured to use squid Tushar -Original Message- From: Prateek Khanna [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 12:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ilugd]: problem with specific ports