Re: [linux-delhi] bol.net.in and bouncing problems

2000-01-07 Thread Mithun Bhattacharya
Hi Raj, Could you please tell us more about the 'SNAFU' and how you stopped it - i.e. did you do some configuration changes in majordomo or did you simply kick out the culprit from the mailing list. Regards Mithun PS: I hope you are following the postings on BUGTRAQ about security risks in

Re: [linux-delhi] bol.net.in and bouncing problems

2000-01-07 Thread Mithun Bhattacharya
Hi Raj, Could you please tell us more about the 'SNAFU' and how you stopped it - i.e. did you do some configuration changes in majordomo or did you simply kick out the culprit from the mailing list. Regards Mithun PS: I hope you are following the postings on BUGTRAQ about security risks in

Re: [linux-delhi] life without windows ?

1999-12-17 Thread Mithun Bhattacharya
I believe the problem might be that your harddisk is not able to servee the data as fast as you are requesting. That is usually true when you do a random jump - the OS has to go through a lot of data to figure out where the actuall position is. As for 6.0 vs 6.1 issue wasn't there a posting

Re: [linux-delhi] HELPPPP!

1999-12-17 Thread Mithun Bhattacharya
What's your graphics card and what is the monitor you configured ?? You did run Xconfigurator didn't you Mithun Viksit Gaur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've recently installed RHL 6.1 on a cyrix mediaGX 233 with 64 MB of RAM. however, it doesn't seem to have onboard video memory.

[linux-delhi] Root access by booting

1999-11-17 Thread Mithun Bhattacharya
I am not sure whether we can stop getting a root login by just rebooting but what we can do is put a boot password. In /etc/lilo.conf you can optionally add a boot password for each bootable partition you have defined. Just read the man pages I am sure setting it up wont be difficult. Ofcourse

Re:[linux-delhi] cdrom error ?

1999-11-15 Thread MITHUN BHATTACHARYA
If this is happening randomly for all CD's then I would say there is something wrong with the power supply to the drive. I have encountered device bus reset messages while trying to read a bad CD but it was preceded by lots of seek error. If you are getting any I/O error or seek error then your

Re: [linux-delhi] hi guys i need help

1999-11-15 Thread Mithun Bhattacharya
A few questions 1. How are you connecting to your ISP ?? - are you using a modem or a ISDN TA - are you using any scripts to connect or are you mannually dialingusing minicom -- a suggestion in this context - please enable debug mode for pppd I think the option is kdebug and check the

[linux-delhi] Re: not exactly linux question

1999-11-11 Thread Mithun Bhattacharya
While we are at it I would like to remind everyone Linux doesn't exactly run on everything - who knows Shubha could be talking about a PDA, cell phone, any embedded system hmm after watching Independance Day I say it could even be an alien spaceship !!! On a more sober note assuming we are

Re: [linux-delhi] qmail

1999-11-10 Thread Mithun Bhattacharya
The usual practice is to have separate partition for emails if your disc space is at premium. Taking this assumption it is just a matter of setting up quota for each user. Regards Mithun asif ansari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Everybody, I am using qmail for our mail sever. I want to

[linux-delhi] Re: IP Forwarding

1999-10-25 Thread Mithun Bhattacharya
booted. 2. TCPDUMP will dump the traffic on any/all ethernet cards - you were supposed to do a TCPDUMP on ets0 and watch whether anything from 12.10.198.0 network to your ISP was going out or not. Hope this clarifies most if not all your questions. Regards Mithun -----

[linux-delhi] IP Forwarding (errata)

1999-10-25 Thread Mithun Bhattacharya
Firstly my appologies for sounding sarcastic in my email. Another appology for missing out the NETMASK The 12.10.198.112 has a netmask of 255.255.255.248 112 : 0111 248 : 1000 so what we have is that the router will send any packet with destination 01110xxx that is equal to seven

[linux-delhi] Re: IP Forwarding

1999-10-22 Thread Mithun Bhattacharya
If possible mail the routing table (don't need the exactIP addresses - can mask it). Also do a ifconfig and see whether it is giving any errors for any of the devices (highly unlikely). Check /etc/sysconfig/network for the value of FORWARD_IPV4 - it should be "yes" or "true". Also when we use

[linux-delhi] Re: Second Ethernet card

1999-10-21 Thread Mithun Bhattacharya
RedHat's Hardware compatibility list for RedHat 6.0 says: CAPTION: NE1000/2000 and compatible ISA cards * NE2000 (PCI), RealTEk RTL-8029, Winbond 89C940, Compex RL2000, KTI ET32P2, NetVin NV5000SC, Via 82C926, SureCom NE3 Device Module Name conf.modules PCI NE2000 cards

[linux-delhi] Re: Disk Druid

1999-10-21 Thread Mithun Bhattacharya
Hi Pratik, I am assuming you liked the interface of Disk Druid and wanted to repatition your hard disk without delving in the fdisk which comes with Linux - for that you can use cfdisk - it comes withe RedHat Linux and is curses based. If you still want Disk Druid well I will try to find out but

[linux-delhi] Re: xdm (color/path etc....) issues

1999-10-21 Thread Mithun Bhattacharya
I got curious by the issue and did a bit of poking around :). 'man xdm' sent me to read /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config which has an entry DisplayManager.servers: /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers [ well it is supposed to keep this thing alive all the time :) ] This file in turn has an entry :0 local

[linux-delhi] Yamaha soundcard followup

1999-10-21 Thread Mithun Bhattacharya
Ok here is my configurations - don't cut and paste it please - read it understand what it does and them tweak your own files. /etc/conf.modules- alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc /* Parallel port stuff (PLIP) - just in case Raj threw his cable

[linux-delhi] Re: /var/spool/mail issue

1999-10-13 Thread Mithun Bhattacharya
Pop3d looks in /usr/spool/mail/~user. What we usually do is symlink /usr/spool/ to /var/spool/mail/ so now in the new settings you would have to individually symlink each user. I am sure it will be easy to do that as I am sure you will be writting a script to move the drop box for the local

Re: [linux-delhi] Second NIC - more details

1999-10-08 Thread Mithun Bhattacharya
Try doing a modprob using the NE-2K.o module maybe it will say something. Also run the tool hwdiag - it is a little secret utility that comes with redhat - it will list all the hardware redhat could locate. Regards Mithun [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rajesh Thiharie) wrote: More details The

Re: [linux-delhi] sendmail

1999-10-08 Thread Mithun Bhattacharya
Try running sendmail with the option -d5 and then check your system log. It should give you sufficient hint as to what is going wrong. Mithun asif ansari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody, I am facing some problem with sendmail. I have configured sendmail.cf and sendmail.cw I

Re: [linux-delhi] how to move /var/spool/mail ?

1999-10-08 Thread Mithun Bhattacharya
sendmail configurations :) Entered by Mithun Bhattacharya (mithun) on Wed, Sep 22, 1999 (03:42): I was wondering whether anybody could think of a sane way to handle sendmail once /var is full. By default it will dump everything into /var/spool/mail/ Maybe somebody could throw light on how

Re: [linux-delhi] Back-up for safety

1999-10-08 Thread Mithun Bhattacharya
Did you actually recompile the kernel or was it some module or configuration changes which was causing the kernel panic ?? From the other emails it seems you tried to recompile the kernel - if not .. Mithun Jal Khambata [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While trying to figure out numerous

Re: [linux-delhi] Second NIC

1999-09-24 Thread Mithun Bhattacharya
You haven't told us what your second NIC (for that matter what your first NIC is). I have been able to use two ethernet cards - once a SMC and Intel EEPRO 10/100 and another time two Intel EEPRO 10/100 card in one PC and the kernel happily recognized both of them. Ofcourse you have to set up

Re: [linux-delhi] how to move /var/spool/mail ?

1999-09-22 Thread Mithun Bhattacharya
A more permanent solution is something which cyberspace.org has done on their system. They have adopted a heirarchical structure. All the users emails are bunched into subdirectories depending on the first couple of characters of their userid. This way if they run out of disc space they add a

Re: [linux-delhi] how to move /var/spool/mail ?

1999-09-21 Thread Mithun Bhattacharya
A temporary fix could be to make a symbolic link to any directory in your /usr I guess that would require you having to move all the folders in /var/spool/mail to your /usr subdirectory. Mithun "Nikhil Datta" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *?% RH only makes a 256 MB /var partition by

Re: [linux-delhi] how to move /var/spool/mail ?

1999-09-21 Thread Mithun Bhattacharya
Just a word of caution please verify the directory permissions when you move around the files - you wouldn't like to have a unhappy user trying rm * . or something exotic who knows... Mithun Sanjeev Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Nikhil Datta wrote: *?% RH

Re: [linux-delhi] Linux booting problem

1999-09-20 Thread Mithun Bhattacharya
Try booting up with your floppy and check whether /sbin/init runs at all - maybe it got corrupt - I am assuming you are getting the first error message now not the second one. If it is the second error message try checking your partition types using FDISK in linux. Since you can access the