Re: [ILUG-BOM] Nmap

2006-01-22 Thread V P
On 1/22/06, Linux Rocks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http_proxy=username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:80 is it because my proxy is blocking icmp packets.. is there someway i can verify that?? That might be the case; your proxy is blocking icmp packets. If you are the proxy admin there are ways to

Re: [ILUG-BOM] ILUG-BOM's smtp slow?

2006-01-17 Thread V P
On 1/17/06, Rony Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, Is there some problem with the mail servers of ilug-bom? Mails are going after some hours. AFAIK, DNS problems The LUG wiki too was inaccessible for a whole night. Vivek -- Registered Linux User #374218 Minister of Offense,

[ILUG-BOM] About ILUG-Bom wiki page

2006-01-16 Thread V P
Dear All, The ILUG-Bom Wiki:About currently has no text in it. http://db.ilug-bom.org.in/wiki/index.php/ILUG-BOM_Wiki:About Would one of the old timers spare a few minutes of their time to write a short introduction? Vivek -- Registered Linux User #374218 Minister of Offense, Preserver of

Re: [ILUG-BOM] 7 star cable ISP

2006-01-13 Thread V P
On 1/13/06, आनंद (Anand M R) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: p.s. maybe we should have a wiki page with details of any successful and working configs for various ISP's and connection methods. (ppp, wvdial, etc etc) I have compiled a list of wvdial.conf settings and some for kppp, but since I dont

Re: [ILUG-BOM] 7 star cable ISP

2006-01-13 Thread V P
On 1/13/06, DJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well then there is still hope for you. In Linux, can you ping the gateway? You need not be authenticated to do it. Can you ping the cyberoam server? AFAIR, Ping requests are dropped by the cyberoam server. This was the case when I was using Spider Cable

Re: [ILUG-BOM] 7 star cable ISP

2006-01-13 Thread V P
On 1/14/06, Philip Tellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sometime on Jan 13, VP cobbled together some glyphs to say: http://db.ilug-bom.org.in/wiki/index.php/How_To%27s Ugh. There's no apostrophe in Howtos. It's a plural, not a contraction. Fixed. :) Thanks. Vivek -- Registered Linux User

Re: [ILUG-BOM] difference between linux file systems and other OS

2006-01-03 Thread V P
On 1/3/06, Abhishek Sood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to know the comparison between Linux OS with Windows also their file system and it security it has http://www.answers.com/topic/comparison-of-file-systems -- Registered Linux User #374218 Minister of Offense, Preserver of the

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Tata indicom wi-fi service - does it work on Linux?

2005-12-17 Thread V P
On 12/17/05, TAC Forums [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm hearing about Tata Indicom's new Wi-Fi service. They provide a PCMCIA Wi-Fi CDMA card that allows you to make calls and be connected to the Internet 24x7 from anywhere. They say it supports Windows 98 SE, ME, 2000 and XP. Anyone tried it on

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Open Source Software distribution.

2005-12-17 Thread V P
On 12/17/05, Arun K. Khan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Being a linux and open-source enthusiast myself, I am offering my services to everyone who feels like having some help at hand. If one is ready to bear the cost of the _Physical media_ (CD/DVD/Flash drive/HDD :) ) just ask me for _any_

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: Linuxers Digest, Vol 32, Issue 41

2005-12-11 Thread V P
On 12/12/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: please unsubscribe me from this mailing list thanks v rai -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers Have you tried clicking on the link at the bottom of all mails that you get from the list? You took the trouble of

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Invalid Page in Wiki of ILUG BOM

2005-12-08 Thread V P
On 12/7/05, Roshan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is some invalid page in Wiki of ILUG BOM that I noticed. Kindly make the necessary arrangements for removal or prevent any further changes or any kind of problems in that page. http://db.ilug-bom.org.in/wiki/index.php/Mr_Udaharan_Singh

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Invalid Page in Wiki of ILUG BOM

2005-12-08 Thread V P
On 12/8/05, (रेवंत) Revant Nandgaonkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mr. Foo bar, Balbir Pasha equivalent, he's used in open source explanation docs I think.. I can be wrong. revant. Balbir Pasha was the AIDS guy. -- Registered Linux User #374218 Minister of Offense, Preserver of the Way of

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Invalid Page in Wiki of ILUG BOM

2005-12-08 Thread V P
On 12/8/05, francis pereira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Who on Gods green earth is Mr. Foo Bar . . . . . . . . . . . Francis Pereira http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/F/foo.html -- Registered Linux User #374218 Minister of Offense, Preserver of the Way of the Great Llama, Ambassador to India for

Re: [ILUG-BOM] FAT partition unusable in debian

2005-12-07 Thread V P
On 12/6/05, Philip Tellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In your /etc/fstab for the /entertainment line, add umask=000 to the options field. If you don't understand what I just said, then read man fstab (completely). I use dmask fmask instead of umask and use uid=500,gid=100 so that my id (500)

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Minutes: November GLUG meet @ Bandra

2005-11-16 Thread V P
On 14/11/05, Anurag [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The GNU/Linux Users Group of Mumbai held its November 2005 GLUG meet on 13th November 2005 at 4:30PM at Barista, Bandra. This meet was attended by about 12 people coming from all over the city. There was no agenda for this meet. GLUG members came

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Squid Installation Docs

2005-09-15 Thread V P
On 15/09/05, Raghunandan Rao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please provide if any one has the Squid implementation and docs if available.. Please google before posting queries. This would be a good place to start. http://squid.visolve.com/squid/index.htm -- Registered Linux User #374218 Minister

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Install Woes

2005-09-12 Thread V P
On 12/09/05, Pillai, Gishu R (GE Energy) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm back with some more A big thank you to Dinesh here. My wish to own an AMD machine has come true. (AMD Semp 2500+ with ASUS K8S-MX). Now 2 Linux distros have failed to install .. FC4 which came with this month's Chip

Re: [ILUG-BOM] recovering root password

2005-09-09 Thread V P
On 09/09/05, Rohit Baisakhiya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Instead boot in single user mode and change the password to what ever you want. Not if boot loader passwd was set during installation and that passwd has been forgotten too. If that is the case then Arun method will apply. -- Registered

[ILUG-BOM] FYA List Admin

2005-08-23 Thread V P
Dear List Admin FYA http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_10#Calling_All_Linux_User_Groups -- Registered Linux User #374218 Minister of Offense, Preserver of the Way of the Great Llama, Ambassador to India for the Republic of Loungevania --

Re: [ILUG-BOM] FYA List Admin

2005-08-23 Thread V P
On 23/08/05, Philip Tellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: go ahead and fill it up. The List Admin only manages the mailing list, not the user group. A lug is not just a mailing list. And who shall be the contact person for the list. Someone active perhaps. -- Registered Linux User #374218

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Harddisk for my Debian router...

2005-08-21 Thread V P
On 21/08/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 21 August 2005 21:16, Dinesh Joshi wrote: Hi people, Remember my harddisk problem? Well, the drive finally died yesterday. My router is currently down and that is creating a lot of problems for me. I need a second hand

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Changing the Home Dir

2005-07-29 Thread V P
On 7/29/05, Rohan Poojary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have Linux cluster with 5 HD, with One disk used has boot disk and other Data disk. And i want to change my home Dir path, ie when i log into the machine as user, i should be redirected to other dir in another disk . How can be this achieved

Re: [ILUG-BOM] reliance pcmcia wireless card ?

2005-07-03 Thread V P
On 7/2/05, Erle Pereira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: any one has any idea on how good the reliance pcmcia wireless cdma card is ? And How is the connection ? More imp... has anyone worked it with linux.. and if so... any issues with it ? regards Erle AFAIK, Reliance uses Sierra Wireless'

Re: [ILUG-BOM] ILUG-BOM Wiki

2005-06-24 Thread V P
On 6/24/05, Anand, M.R. (GE Energy) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Anurag, r we getting the wiki ?? Anand. Talking of wiki's, whatever happened to this http://hatwar.org/wiki/doku.php?id=wiki:gnumigrate ? vjp -- Registered Linux User #374218 Minister of Offense, Preserver of the Way of

[ILUG-BOM] Debian Sarge CDs available

2005-06-14 Thread V P
Debian 3.1 Sarge CDs are now available with me. The 14 CD set will cost Rs. 300 plus Rs 30 courier charges. Those interested mail me off list. Fecora Core 4 will be available with me on Thursday. The 4 CD set will cost Rs. 80 plus Rs. 30 courier charges vjp -- Registered Linux User #374218

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Distribution Release: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1

2005-06-14 Thread V P
I too have the 14 CD set ready. I stay in Bandra (E) -- Registered Linux User #374218 Minister of Offense, Preserver of the Way of the Great Llama, Ambassador to India for the Republic of Loungevania -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Distribution Release: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1

2005-06-07 Thread V P
On 6/7/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 08 June 2005 03:00, Amit Karpe wrote: Hi all , The long wait is over: The Debian Project is pleased to announce the official release of Debian GNU/Linux version 3.1 codenamed 'sarge' after nearly three years of constant

Re: [ILUG-BOM] samba and permission

2005-05-30 Thread V P
On 5/30/05, Nadiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Both of them will mount the drive, but normal users won't be able to write? How to i make it with write permission? What am i missing? To mount manually using CLI # mount -t smbfs -o umask=000,username=xxx,password=yyy /server/share

Re: [ILUG-BOM] FC3 Login Problem: Root logs in fine. 1 user account has trouble

2005-05-27 Thread V P
On 5/26/05, Abhishek Daga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This problem happened since this morning. Have 2 user accounts (in addition to 1 root) on an FC3 system. Root and 1 user account logs in fine. Another user account displays strange logging behavior. On typing username and password, it

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] HDD Cable Problems.

2005-04-12 Thread V P
On Apr 9, 2005 10:41 PM, Rony Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's wrong with these new cables and any other experiences like these? In my home PC, I usually change the cables for my secondary IDE every 4 months or so because they go bad due to the excessive pulling and pushing involved in

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Fedora Installatioin Problems

2005-04-08 Thread V P
On Apr 7, 2005 3:20 PM, Amit Bagadia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i just got a FEDORA CORE 3 installation CD pack of 4 i started installing and i completed the HDD partitioning. and labeling but after that it just hangs. i mean the GUI just starts being funny,the screen merges into one another

Re: [ILUG-BOM] TV Tuner

2005-04-05 Thread V P
On Apr 4, 2005 11:29 AM, Harshal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes, but there is a small drawback, everytime you want to watch tv, you have reboot the pc ( atleast this is what i saw at my aunt's place) Nope... It functions like a VGA switch. -- Novitiate of the Knife, under the Master of the