From davpgdn@del2.vsnl.net.in Tue Jul 6 7:57:10 1999 Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 20:27:10 +0530 From: "Dr. S. K. Singh" Subject: Re: UNIX & Windows...???? dear atul, your answer to the query was very nice. it appealed. it convinced. but at last you disappointed my saying that we may help but will not .................... It sounds that you want to force your opinion. this is not the flavour of linux. linux is for every one who loves it. if someone finds some problem no matter the problem is due to linux itself or due to ignorance of user and he wants a solution it is our duty to support him if we can. if every one had the way you are expecting then the linux had it's death in it's childhood. it growed because of co-operation or each other. expecting not to take it otherwise. Dr. S. K. Singh - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ The SiS 6215 HOWTO resides at http://www.linux-india.org/sis ------------------------------ From davpgdn@del2.vsnl.net.in Tue Jul 6 0:23:34 1999 Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 12:53:34 +0530 From: "Dr. S. K. Singh" Subject: Re: UNIX & Windows...???? dear atul, as earlier i said, linux is an operating system/software having all its limitations as any other software may have. please do not force it. let it grow in its own. i am reffering you by one of your mail in which you admitted that your machines are dual boot i.e windows and linux. that shows that still the movement you are depending more or less on windows. linux is gaining popularity againgst the monopoly policies of microsoft. the quality and dependecy are the another factors. As copy right rules are very tight in abroad and people want a cheap solution they are moving to linux. linux is still in its childhood. every hardware manufacurer is taking it after windows. this is the reason that every new hardware is meant for windows. and is being advertised proudly to be meant for windows. but for the linux the scene is diffrent. Dr. S. K. Singh - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From jim@cpcema.com Fri Jul 2 9:34:4 1999 Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:34:04 -0500 From: "James" Subject: Re: Mouse problems IRQ conflict will cause this Jim - -----Original Message----- From: Lister Vaz To: linux-india@aunet.org Date: Wednesday, June 30, 1999 12:58 AM Subject: Re: Mouse problems >try mouseconfig > >---------- >> From: Shanu >> To: linux-india@aunet.org >> Subject: Re: Mouse problems >> Date: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 8:33 PM >> >> "Nagarajan V." wrote: >> >> When I login and run startx KDE is >> > invoked but I find that I have absolutely no control over the >> > way the cursor behaves. Even a slight movement of the mouse >> > makes the cursor jump around with windows popping up and closing >> > by themselves. >> > >> > Nagaraj >> >> If ur mouse is a standard 3 button serial mouse then >> /etc/X11/XF86Config should look like this... >> >> Section "Pointer" >> Protocol "Microsoft" >> Device "/dev/mouse" >> EndSection >> >> If it is a Ps2 mouse then change the protocol to "PS2". If this docent >> work then u need to change the mouse resolution. Add this line in the >> pointer section. Experiment with diff values. >> >> Resolution 100 # other possible values 200/300 >> >> >> -- >> -------------------------------------------------------==(SHANU)==-- >> Shanker Balan Debian/GNU Linux 2.1 >> St. Alberts College >> Cochin >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From jyep@hotmail.com Thu Jul 1 4:23:49 1999 Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 11:23:49 IST From: Jeffrey Yep Subject: Queries:-Ethernet Cards, PPP etc. Hi everybody, Sorry for this long list of questions:- 1)I'm connecting my Win95 486 machine(the client) to my Linux Pentium machine(which is going to be the server). But my 486 has no PCI slots so I'll be having a NE2000 ISA ethernet card for my 486(Win95) and a NE2000 PCI ethernet card for my pentium(Linux), will it cause a conflict? 2)In the PCQ the setting up for PPP is done in KDe what is the procedure for doing it in GNOME? 3)Does anyone know how much memory is needed for a Server installation? 4) I can't seem to find the HOW-TO for Samba on the net? Can anybody give me a URL for it and Apache? 5) Does anyone have info or a URL for setting up Dumb Terminals with Linux? Thanks a lot, Jeff ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From vaibhav31@hotmail.com Thu Jul 1 0:0:49 1999 Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 00:00:49 PDT From: Vaibhav Patkar Subject: Re: Trident 3DImage975 problem in Configurator Thanx for info. I will try the refresh rate angle. Pls do send the file on my email. Thanx again, Vaibhav >From: samir agrawal >Reply-To: linux-india@aunet.org >To: linux-india@aunet.org >Subject: Re: Trident 3DImage975 problem in Configurator >Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 11:58:59 -0700 (PDT) > > >hello vaibhav, >I had the same problem. It is something to do with the refresh rates >and userid. If you run the thing as root it works fine but the comp >hangs if I run it as any other user. >You will have to tweak the refresh rates for your monitor. > >I can send you my config file if you want. I have RH 6.0 with ACP 975 >and a LG 17inch . > > >samir >_________________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ End of Linux India Digest V1 #82 ******************************** -------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send an email to majordomo@aunet.org with the word 'unsubscribe linux-india-digest' (without the quotes) in the body of the email. From raju@sgi.com Thu Jul 1 0:4:16 1999 Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 12:34:16 +0530 (IST) From: Raj Mathur Subject: Enjoy penguin at login prompt >>>>> "Chetan" == Chetan Kumar writes: Chetan> [1 ] Hi copy this attached Chetan> file into /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net then logout and Chetan> enjoy tux at the login prompt. Ofcource you have to take Chetan> care the /etc/issue is not over writed during Chetan> reboot. Thanks to www.zimcity.net Really cool! - -- Raju - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From sudheer@easi.soft.net Thu Jul 1 0:42:49 1999 Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:12:49 +0530 (IST) From: Subject: Re: tty locks up On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Sharad Joshi wrote: On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Lokesh Setia wrote: > + crw--w---- 1 User_A tty 4, 4 Aug 28 21:12 /dev/tty4 > + > + See that the group tty has write access to the tty, but not read access. > + This write access has only been given because of the various commands like > + "write" and "wall" (which are setgid to "tty"). > > Uh... this does not seems to be the case here. 've read permissions too > for others. Anyway, i'll notify my server admin abt changing permissions. > > + > + What may be happening in your case is that user B may be root, in which > + case it has read permission for any file, or that user B is the same as > + user A, in which case it can access the file. > + > > Heh.. no. Checked it with different non-root users. That's the reason of > posting it here. No. I agree with Lokesh . When A & B are two different users and B tries to read A , the permission for B is denied. BUT, this can happen if and only if The user A has logged in using 'su' command from a terminal which is owned by B. When you do an 'su' , either the "tty" or the ownership won't change. That could be the reason why you were able to read the terminal for different users. If i am wrong, don't mind in taking a liberty to correct me. sudheer - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From ghins@accord-soft.com Thu Jul 1 1:57:3 1999 Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 14:27:03 +0530 From: Ghins Mathai Subject: CD writing under Linux > I have a HP CD-writer 7200e at my office. I want to know whether this is supported under Linux. The current version of the CD-writing HOWTO says that 7200i is supported (this is the internal writer). This makes no mention of the external writer that we are having. Is there any way by which I can use the same. - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From raju@sgi.com Thu Jul 1 1:54:6 1999 Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:24:06 +0530 (IST) From: Raj Mathur Subject: Re: Oracle for Linux We at ILUG-Delhi have a couple of Oracle for Linux CD's available. They're currently lent out, but you can enter your name in the queue if you like. Regards, - -- Raju >>>>> "Nitin" == Nitin Srivastava writes: Nitin> it can be downloaded from the oracle's web site. it's size Nitin> is something about 168 MB. (it took me 3-4 days to Nitin> completely download the file) Nitin> -Nitin Nitin> ----- Original Message ----- From: Krishan Bansal Nitin> To: Nitin> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 1999 8:13 PM Subject: Oracle for Nitin> Linux >> What is the source of obtaining Oracle for Linux in India? >> Thanks! Naveen - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From achitnis@cbconsulting.com Thu Jul 1 2:17:54 1999 Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:47:54 +0530 From: "Atul Chitnis" Subject: RE: CD writing under Linux Having just gone through the exercise of procuring a CD writer for myself (I bought a 8200i) that is supported under Linux, I can probably safely say that the 7200e is not supported, as parallel port CD writers are not supported. Atul > -----Original Message----- > From: Majordomo [mailto:majordom@aunet.org]On Behalf Of Ghins Mathai > Sent: Thursday, July 01, 1999 2:27 PM > To: linux-india@aunet.org > Subject: CD writing under Linux > > > > > > I have a HP CD-writer 7200e at my office. I want to know whether this is > supported under Linux. The current version of the CD-writing > HOWTO says that > 7200i is supported (this is the internal writer). This makes no > mention of the > external writer that we are having. Is there any way by which I > can use the > same. - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From BGa@CyberDude.com Thu Jul 1 2:20:4 1999 Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 14:50:04 +0530 From: BGanesh Subject: To Atul and Thaths Hi, in response to a question abt executing C programs under Linux, with reference to putting the current directory in the path, Atul remarked : > On a Unix system, that is akin to suicide. You may believe it makes > life easier, but in reality you are defeating the safety mechanism. In the same thread, in response to a query, Thaths clarified : > What if J. Malicious Cracker broke into your system and placed a > program called 'ls' in some directory? If '.' precedes other > directories in your $PATH you would be running Malicious's ls instead > of the system ls when you run ls in the directory where J.M.C's ls is > located. And J.M.C's ls could be doing unspeakable things to your > machine. > This problem is compounded a few times if root is the user with '.' in > their $PATH. Seasoned system admins have learnt to type the full path > of the various commands. And I did read elsewhere that this is a security breach. But I wasn't able to find out much more. So here are the questions : Thaths assumes (and states so) that this is an issue if the '.' precedes the other paths. If '.' is the last in entry in for the $PATH then is it considered fixed? Also, if J.M.C was smart enough (or my system insecure enough) to get into my directory and put 'ls' or whatever in my directory, the system (or atleast the parts I / J.M.C have access to) is as good as bombed anyways, so what is your point? Again as root, if '.' is the last entry, then the correct version from bin would kick in, would it not. Alt, if it is a new and untried program that is sitting in the directory the I have no business to run it as root anyways, regardless of whether I execute it as ./proggy or /usr/home/username/proggy (or whatver the path is). If these are considered then how does the '.' provide a gateway to disaster... ? Thx BGa - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From ee97229@agasthya.ee.iitm.ernet.in Thu Jul 1 3:44:58 1999 Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 16:14:58 +0530 (IST) From: "Boddapati Phani Kiran(B.Tech)" Subject: Problem with the computer. Sir, I have a Digital LP25/LP26 lineprinter. I wish to connect it to my linux machine running RedHat 5.1. The problem is that it works perfectly when my computer is booted into MSDOS but it doesn't work on Linux. It gives all sorts of errors. Almost a new one each time! 1. If the printer is on printtool detects it sometimes and doesn't some other times. If the printer if switched off it does always. 2. When the printtool detects it I give 'Textonly printer' option and everything seems fine then. And when I restart lpd and give it a test page to print it says "lpd daemon not running". But 'ps aux' shows that lpd daemon running. In stop the daemon and restart it and I get the same error message. 3. If I don't get a "lpd not running" message then nothing happens. When I see lpq again here I get two types of error messages. One says that printing is going on and nothing happens to the printer. Or the printer just scrolls up the page without printing anything or printing junk. Otherwise it says "printer offline". When I check my printer switchboard printer online LED will be glowing indicating that it is online. I tried it out on Digital Unix. But it didn't work out any better. I got only one error on it that printer is offline. I don't understand all this. It works perfectly on DOS but it is aweful on Linux.Can anyone please help me out? Thanks Phani Kiran - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From geetha@cswri.raj.nic.in Thu Jul 1 4:23:47 1999 Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 16:53:47 +0530 (IST) From: Subject: Regarding subnet config Hi all, After formatting my syatem which jad crashed I have landed in a soup. For the DHCPD is not taking off. There is no /etc/dhcpd.conf file created. Hence I am not able to link my clients with the server. Moreover I suspect a wrong configuration of subnet as alias eth0:0 with IP 192.168.1.1. Please let me know the things as they have to be done sequentially. Also please let me know about configuring a proxy server using squid... One more request. At present I have got RH 5.2. How to upgrade it to RH 6.0 using Web? Please bail me out as I am still gazing at the monitor quite dazed... Thank you in advance for I may forget to do so while jubilating.. Geethalakshmi. V. - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From binand@bombay.retortsoft.com Thu Jul 1 4:32:38 1999 Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 17:02:38 +0530 From: "Binand Raj S." Subject: Re: httpd failed > Rajesh Fowkar proclaimed: > > When I type hostname at the prompt. I get the following > > > > $localhost.localdomain > > > > - There is no file with the name /etc/hostname. > > - My /etc/hosts file is blank ( No contents ). Hmm... Check the file (on Redhat) /etc/sysconfig/network. Does it look something like this? (I am typing this from memory, so might have omitted some of the names). NETWORKING=yes FORWARD_IPV4="no" HOSTNAME="name.domain.whatever.com" DOMAINNAME="domain.whatever.com" GATEWAY="IP address of your Gateway" GATEWAYDEV="eth0" If no, then fill in the blanks. Then run /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart and /etc/rc.d/rc.local I am not sure if there is anything else to be done. Someone else can throw light on further stuff to be done. After this, try out the commands hostname and domainname. If they give the correct values, then do a /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start Regards, Binand - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From jyep@hotmail.com Thu Jul 1 11:24:17 1999 Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 18:24:17 IST From: Jeffrey Yep Subject: Re: DNS Setup Problems Atul, u have written a number of utilities etc. in the PCQ (I think the PPP one also). SO if I upgrade to Red Hat 6.0 will it overwrite these and other settings of 5.2? Jeff >From: Atul Chitnis >Reply-To: linux-india@aunet.org >To: linux-india@aunet.org >Subject: Re: DNS Setup Problems >Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 14:33:35 +0530 (IST) > >On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Arvind H Kamath wrote: > > > I'm trying to set up a DNS on an intranet (disconnected from the >internet) > >Do you have the PCQ March 99 CD? I had written and included a utility to >set up your DNS for you. It is in /mnt/cdrom/pcq-linux/dns. Just run it >without parameters to see the usage info. > >After it creates the files, copy named.conf (for bind 8, shipped with rhl >5.2) and named.boot (for bind 4, shipped with previous RHLs) to /etc, and >all other named files created to /var/named. > >Since you say that you are not connected to the Internet, edit >/etc/named.conf and remove the zone info with named.ca in it. > >Restart named. Done. > >Let me know if you have any problems with it. > >Atul > > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ >The SiS 6215 HOWTO resides at http://www.linux-india.org/sis > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From achitnis@cbconsulting.com Thu Jul 1 6:7:32 1999 Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 18:37:32 +0530 From: "Atul Chitnis" Subject: RE: DNS Setup Problems > Atul, u have written a number of utilities etc. in the PCQ (I > think the PPP > one also). SO if I upgrade to Red Hat 6.0 will it overwrite these > and other settings of 5.2? Nope, RedHat's RPM system does not delete or overwrite config files. If the new version of the program cannot use the existing config file, it will save it with the extension .rpmsave. The DNS stuff you do not have to worry about since RHL6 uses the same program and config files of the RHL5.2 DNS. In fact, my RHL5.2 office server here upgraded to RHL6 without any fuss and continued to use all my settings as before. Atul - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From binand@bombay.retortsoft.com Thu Jul 1 6:37:10 1999 Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 19:07:10 +0530 From: "Binand Raj S." Subject: Re: To Atul and Thaths I don't remember seeing this thread, but here goes... BGanesh forced the electrons to say: > Hi, > And I did read elsewhere that this is a security breach. But I wasn't > able to find out much more. So here are the questions : > > Thaths assumes (and states so) that this is an issue if the '.' precedes > the other paths. If '.' is the last in entry in for the $PATH then is it > considered fixed? No way. I will explain. > Also, if J.M.C was smart enough (or my system insecure enough) to get > into my directory and put 'ls' or whatever in my directory, the system > (or atleast the parts I / J.M.C have access to) is as good as bombed > anyways, so what is your point? Not exactly. If J.M.C. could only hack into a normal user account, he would place a program called 'ls' in /tmp, and will wait for his friendly sysad to be in /tmp and run ls (the version he planted, which will probably mail JMC the shadow password file so that he can put it through crack at his leisure). > Again as root, if '.' is the last entry, then the correct version from > bin would kick in, would it not. Alt, if it is a new and untried program > that is sitting in the directory the I have no business to run it as > root anyways, regardless of whether I execute it as ./proggy or > /usr/home/username/proggy (or whatver the path is). If these are > considered then how does the '.' provide a gateway to disaster... ? Well, if you are a sysad, then you are prone to typing fast, and if you are human, then you are prone to make mistakes, and I am sure you type 'sl' as frequently as you type 'ls'. Since there is no sl in /bin or /wherever, you are bound to run the sl sitting in /tmp on your machine, again sending JMC your shadow password file... Binand - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From shanu@mail.com Thu Jul 1 6:30:24 1999 Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 19:00:24 +0530 From: Shanu Subject: Re: Mouse problems "Nagarajan V." wrote: > > All, > > Thanks to all of you who answered to the question I had posed > regarding configuring the mouse. I changed the XF86Config file > as suggested by Shanker Balan below and have got the thing working > perfectly. > > Regards, > Nagaraj One more feather in my cap :-). Glad 2 B of help !!! - -- Shanu - -------------------------------------------------------==(SHANU)==-- Shanker Balan Debian/GNU Linux 2.1 St. Alberts College Cochin - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From manasg@inf.com Thu Jul 1 6:39:38 1999 Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 19:09:38 +0530 (IST) From: manas garg Subject: Re: To Atul and Thaths On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, BGanesh wrote: > Hi, > > Thaths assumes (and states so) that this is an issue if the '.' precedes > the other paths. If '.' is the last in entry in for the $PATH then is it > considered fixed? > > Also, if J.M.C was smart enough (or my system insecure enough) to get > into my directory and put 'ls' or whatever in my directory, the system > (or atleast the parts I / J.M.C have access to) is as good as bombed > anyways, so what is your point? > > Again as root, if '.' is the last entry, then the correct version from > bin would kick in, would it not. Alt, if it is a new and untried program > that is sitting in the directory the I have no business to run it as > root anyways, regardless of whether I execute it as ./proggy or > /usr/home/username/proggy (or whatver the path is). If these are > considered then how does the '.' provide a gateway to disaster... ? Ok, Let's take a simple example: I have fight with my sys admin and I decide to wreak havoc on the system. I write a small shell script with the only line as rm -R .* case 1: $PATH of root starts with '.' I name this script ls and put it in /tmp directory as I have write permissions there. A nice sys admin who does a little system admin work will certainly do 'ls' in '/tmp' and the system will be a history...... ;-) Strike Rate 100%. (Atul mentioned 'suicide'. I think he was right.) Hence proved!! case 2: $PATH of root ends with '.' I make a lot of copies of this file and name them ls, la, di, ko, foo, bar etc. etc. and put in /tmp Now one fine day, the root makes such a typing mistake which I wanted him to make. And the system will be a history.........;-) Strike Rate x% (where 0>x<100) Hence Proved!! If a user puts '.' in his $PATH, he may not do anything to the system but he should be careful that he doesn't have enemies who have a login on that machine ;-) Hope it's clear now. Manas - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From dhirajgarg@hotmail.com Thu Jul 1 12:28:30 1999 Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 19:28:30 IST From: Dhiraj Garg Subject: Need a desperate help ! ISDN Raj, Yaar ia mback again to u .. i am getting royally screwed when trying to connect to vsnl's ISDN account .. i need ur scripts man ... it dials fine using a TA but .. authentication ?? chap i guess .. i cant get it working .. tell me the way ... hey and in details .. thanks Dhiraj Garg >From: Raj Mathur >Reply-To: linux-india@aunet.org >To: linux-india@aunet.org >Subject: Enjoy penguin at login prompt >Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 12:34:16 +0530 (IST) > > >>>>> "Chetan" == Chetan Kumar writes: > > Chetan> [1 ] Hi copy this attached > Chetan> file into /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net then logout and > Chetan> enjoy tux at the login prompt. Ofcource you have to take > Chetan> care the /etc/issue is not over writed during > Chetan> reboot. Thanks to www.zimcity.net > >Really cool! > >-- Raju > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From ramas@boscalleo.co.in Thu Jul 1 7:7:18 1999 Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 19:37:18 +0530 From: "ramas" Subject: 2 ethernet interfaces on one machine !!! I have an installation of Caldera with 2.2 kernel .. and 2 ethernet cards ...both 3c509....as mentioned in the Mulitple ethernet how-to I have tried the various options like, writing conf.modules with the 2 interface detials... and also passing the kernel boot time parameters. But I end up getting an infinite loop. Any pointers anyone?? TIA - - ramas - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From shanu@mail.com Thu Jul 1 6:57:33 1999 Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 19:27:33 +0530 From: Shanu Subject: Re: Problem with the computer. "Boddapati Phani Kiran(B.Tech)" wrote: > I don't understand all this. It works perfectly on DOS but it is aweful on > Linux.Can anyone please help me out? > Phani Kiran Hey Kiran, Try installing a 32bit OS on it and see whether any probs appear. - -- Shanu - -------------------------------------------------------==(SHANU)==-- Shanker Balan Debian/GNU Linux 2.1 St. Alberts College Cochin - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From shanu@mail.com Thu Jul 1 6:50:16 1999 Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 19:20:16 +0530 From: Shanu Subject: Re: computing speed depends on location of swap partition?? Arun Sharma wrote: > > The fastest way to run your machine is to have enough RAM so that you > don't swap at all. But in reality, mere mortals can't afford all that > much RAM, so you end up swapping. > > If you have multiple disks, having multiple swap partitions striped > across your disks is a good idea. > > -Arun Hi Arun, But do IDE based drives support striping? - -- Shanu - -------------------------------------------------------==(SHANU)==-- Shanker Balan Debian/GNU Linux 2.1 St. Alberts College Cochin - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From shanu@mail.com Thu Jul 1 6:43:0 1999 Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 19:13:00 +0530 From: Shanu Subject: Re: Re : Fast net access Vimal Mathew wrote: > > Hi! > I got a pentium-optimized C compiler from > and recompiled a lean kernel (ver. 2.2.9) with it. Recompiling the > network-utilities will also make a difference. And I hope you are using > squid as a caching-proxy. > > Vimal Mathew > > Model Engg. College > Cochin Hey Vimal, R u running squid on ur desktop or on a dedicated machine? Squid is an extremely memory hungry app which is meant to be run on standalone machines. Use wwwoffle proxy server instead. - -- Shanu - -------------------------------------------------------==(SHANU)==-- Shanker Balan Debian/GNU Linux 2.1 St. Alberts College Cochin - The queen of the Arabian sea - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From shanu@mail.com Thu Jul 1 6:54:54 1999 Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 19:24:54 +0530 From: Shanu Subject: Re: CD writing under Linux Ghins Mathai wrote: > I have a HP CD-writer 7200e at my office. I want to know whether this is > supported under Linux. The current version of the CD-writing HOWTO says that > 7200i is supported (this is the internal writer). This makes no mention of the > external writer that we are having. Is there any way by which I can use the > same. Hey Mathai, Give some more info will ya! Are we support to figure out what is the specs for ur CDR drive ??? - -- Shanu - -------------------------------------------------------==(SHANU)==-- Shanker Balan Debian/GNU Linux 2.1 St. Alberts College Cochin - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From shanu@mail.com Thu Jul 1 7:13:40 1999 Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 19:43:40 +0530 From: Shanu Subject: Re: Problem with the computer. Shanu wrote: Hey Kiran, > Try installing a 32bit OS on it and see whether any probs appear. > I meant another pure 32bit os like NT (98 is not pure enough) - --Shanu - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From munirk@giasbma.vsnl.net.in Thu Jul 1 7:35:29 1999 Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 20:05:29 +0530 From: munir keshwani Subject: RE: sound problem - ------ =_NextPart_000_01BEC3FD.162C5960 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Well what are the commands and how do I try it Whenever I boot linux it goes directly to the gui And I get login and password in windows and it directly enters gnome Where do I type it command and how - -----Original Message----- From: S Ravi Shankar [SMTP:shankar@cse.iitb.ernet.in] Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 1999 10:03 AM To: linux-india@aunet.org Subject: Re: sound problem On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 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CHIP Magazine >So has anyone emailed the CHIP guys and asked them what they are doing about >it? Do they intend to give a patch or not? > >Jeff > Are you kidding? Have you ever heard about CHIP guys replying to mails - except, occasionally to mails sent on this mailing list. Akshat - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From aranya@bol.net.in Thu Jul 1 8:14:40 1999 Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 20:44:40 +0530 From: "Aranya" Subject: Re: Downloading HTTP mails >I guess configuring the mail server will help u to do that . Never tried it out >though . If pine doesnt support then mutt should >Anand > > >Soumyanath Chatterjee wrote: > >> In IE5 there is a option to download mails from HTTP account (e.g.. Hotmail) >> for offline reading. Is similar facility available on Linux platform ? >> >> - Soumya >> --- No, To get mail from an HTTP account, the program will have to speak in HTTP which is not possible with pine or mutt. There's a small utility called hotmole which will get mail from hotmail - it can probably be located at http://www.freshmeat.net Akshat - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From lsetia@giasdla.vsnl.net.in Thu Jul 1 18:56:8 1999 Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 20:56:08 -0500 (GMT) From: Lokesh Setia Subject: Re: Downloading HTTP mails On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Soumyanath Chatterjee wrote: > In IE5 there is a option to download mails from HTTP account (e.g.. Hotmail) > for offline reading. Is similar facility available on Linux platform ? > Huh, IE5 has bogus support for hotmail, because it is owned by micro$oft. Instead of giving free POP facility, they decided to make their own protocol, so that only those who use windows and IE5 can avail of this facility. [ lsetia wanna spit on micro$oft; can't find place to spit; oh oh ] To retort, stop using IE altoghether, if you have to use to use windows, go for netscape or opera. BTW, have you all known by now about the latest microsoft NT IIS vulnerability, which allows to crash the server, or even execute arbitrary code. It should be enough for people to stop trusting microsoft now for atleast sometime. The details should be available on major security related sites by now. > - Soumya > --- > I love Linux. Do U ? > URL: http://www.bigfoot.com/~soumyac > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From ee97229@ee.iitm.ernet.in Thu Jul 1 10:18:42 1999 Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 22:48:42 +0530 (IST) From: "Boddapati Phani Kiran(B.Tech)" Subject: Print Spool Manager Sirs, I have a network running on linux and two printers connected to it. I need a print spool manager to keep the accouts of all the members on my net as to how much they use the printers. Do we have any such thing in Linux? If so, where can I get it? Please help me out of this1 Thanks - -Phani Kiran - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From prakash@freeos.com Thu Jul 1 10:51:7 1999 Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 23:21:07 +0530 From: Prakash Advani Subject: Re: CD writing under Linux Dear Atul, I believe it is possible to support parallel port Zip drives, the same procedure should work for parallel port CD Writers.. Regards Prakash Atul Chitnis wrote: > > Having just gone through the exercise of procuring a CD writer for myself (I > bought a 8200i) that is supported under Linux, I can probably safely say > that the 7200e is not supported, as parallel port CD writers are not > supported. > > Atul > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Majordomo [mailto:majordom@aunet.org]On Behalf Of Ghins Mathai > > Sent: Thursday, July 01, 1999 2:27 PM > > To: linux-india@aunet.org > > Subject: CD writing under Linux > > > > > > > > > > > I have a HP CD-writer 7200e at my office. I want to know whether this is > > supported under Linux. The current version of the CD-writing > > HOWTO says that > > 7200i is supported (this is the internal writer). This makes no > > mention of the > > external writer that we are having. Is there any way by which I > > can use the > > same. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ - -- Prakash Advani http://www.yoom.com/prakash ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Email: prakash@freeos.com ICQ: 4872876 US Fax: +1 (781) 623-8454 Pager:(9122)96223022222 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.freeos.com - Resource Center for Free Operating Systems - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ End of Linux India Digest V1 #83 ******************************** -------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send an email to majordomo@aunet.org with the word 'unsubscribe linux-india-digest' (without the quotes) in the body of the email. 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- ------=_NextPart_000_0051_01BEC418.02252300-- - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From dhirajgarg@hotmail.com Thu Jul 1 16:26:21 1999 Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 23:26:21 IST From: Dhiraj Garg Subject: Re: Connecting to Vsnl or Satyam Obviously ... provided vsnl gives u a shell access any more .. its gone dear ... only tcpip :-) Dhiraj >From: "Soumyanath Chatterjee" >Reply-To: linux-india@aunet.org >To: >Subject: Re: Connecting to Vsnl or Satyam >Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 17:45:44 +0530 > >Can you connect to VSNL shell account. By using minicom or something >similar? >----- Original Message ----- >From: Sam Paul >To: >Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 1999 6:55 AM >Subject: Connecting to Vsnl or Satyam > > > > Hi Friends, > > > > I've installed linux according to the PCQ Mar '99. Redhat 5.2. Did >the > > pcqupdt and also configured the files according to the pcq's >instructions. >In > > kppp I am able to login in to vsnl and Satyam but my connection does not > > stay. After it finishes connection it again says CONNECT and starts > > re-dailing (after disconnecting harshly a well established >connection!!!). > > What shouid I do for it to hang on there? > > > > Thanks for helping. > > > > Sam > > > > Soumyanath Chatterjee wrote: > > > > > It may be a problem with error correction setting in your modem. > > > Try connecting to vsnl shell account from minix to clear that >possibility. > > > > > > - Soumya > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: L.V.Gandhi > > > To: Linux-India ; > > > Sent: Thursday, June 24, 1999 6:17 AM > > > Subject: Vsnl connection > > > > > > > Many times I am unable to connect to vsnl using kppp(using script). >I > > > > get all funny characters after connect when username is expected. I > > > > thought as they have said pap is operative. I tried pap also. It >hangs > > > > starting pppd. it is not getting connected. Sometimes it is getting > > > > connected using kppp script. > > > > why so? any solutions. > > > > -- > > > > L.V.Gandhi > > > > MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA > > > > http://www.poboxes.com/lvgandhi lvgandhi@poboxes.com, > > > > lvgandhi@vsnl.com, 31882656@pager.mirabilis.com > > > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > For more information on Linux in India visit >http://www.linux-india.org/ > > > > Linux India is NOT a forum for Microsoft/India/Pakistan/US/UK >bashing. > > > > Flame baits will not be tolerated. If you can appreciate satire >read > > > > http://www.templetons.com/brad/emily.html > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > For more information on Linux in India visit >http://www.linux-india.org/ > > > Linux India is NOT a forum for Microsoft/India/Pakistan/US/UK bashing. > > > Flame baits will not be tolerated. If you can appreciate satire read > > > http://www.templetons.com/brad/emily.html > > > > -- > > ***************************************************** > > Sam Paul > > > > email: sam@agapeinfotech.com > > > > website: http://www.agapeinfotech.com > > Phone: Off: 7863188 / 7861151 / 7861152 > > Fax : Off: 7863929 / 7861457 > > Phone: Res: 7746163 Telefax: 7746162 > > Pager: 040-9622531000 > > efax : 1-603-250-0485 > > > > ****************************************************** > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From rfowkar@goa1.dot.net.in Thu Jul 1 17:20:23 1999 Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 20:20:23 -0400 From: Rajesh Fowkar Subject: Re: httpd failed (OK) Hi Sudhakar, Thanks for the help. Now httpd is working. No errors. What you meant by Is your computer connected to net ? Even during this error I was able to connect to Internet & download the mail as well as browse. 1) I have created the /etc/hostname file and the contents of it are : localhost.localdomain. 2) Now my /etc/hosts file has the following contents : 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain www 3) My /etc/resolv.conf file has the following contents : domain localhost.localdomain search localhost.localdomain nameserver 202.54.1.30 nameserver 202.54.17.30 Is everthing correct ? Thanks again. Regards Rajesh On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, you wrote: > Rajesh Fowkar proclaimed: > > When I type hostname at the prompt. I get the following > > > > $localhost.localdomain > > > > - There is no file with the name /etc/hostname. > > Then create a file and let the contents of it be the name of your machine. > > > - My /etc/hosts file is blank ( No contents ). > > this file should have contents and be of the format: > > IP_Address FQDN shortname > > > In the case of a machine that has a static IP address this will be: > > IP_Address www.foo.com www > > (That is just an example. Change it according to your tastes.) > > In the case of a machine that is not connected to the net this will be: > > 127.0.0.1 www www > > (www is just an example. choose your own name.) > > > > - There is a file called /etc/host.conf. The contents are as follows : > > order hosts, bind > > multi on > > This just means that when you do name lookups (using nslookup) the order > for lookups to happen is the /etc/hosts file first and bind (ie. DNS) next. > > > - /etc/resolv.conf file has got the following line : > > Search > > In case your machine is connected to the net this file should look like: > > domain your.domain.name > search your.sub.domain > nameserver 206.13.28.12 > nameserver 206.13.31.12 > > Replace the two IP addresses in the above with the IP addresses of your > primary and secondary DNS servers. > > > If you have further questions, please tell us if your computer is connected > to the net. > > Thaths > -- > "If you really want something in life you have to work for it. Now quiet! > They are about to announce the lottery numbers." -- Homer J. Simpson > Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Lead Indentured Slave > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ - -- Rajesh Fowkar - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From BGa@CyberDude.com Thu Jul 1 13:52:4 1999 Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 02:22:04 +0530 From: BGanesh Subject: '.' in path, summary Hi, Thx to both Manas Garg and Binand Raj for the clarifications. here is a summary and couple of questions : putting '.' in your path is evil. If it occurs at the beginning of $PATH, it is an accident waiting to happen. if it occurs in the end, there is a lesser probability of damage, but equally severe. Both of you have pointed out that a rouge executable in the /tmp would be the gateway to disaster. Also, this seems to affect the _system_ only when the root does The Stupid Thing (TM). Let us assume that the sysadmin is dumb enough to put the '.' in the path but not dumb enough to put it at the beginining. Notes : The hack relies on the syadmin making a typo in the /tmp directory, esp for simple two/three character commands. So I guess even command line completion (like in bash) wouldn't prevent this. questions (fm a newbie perspective) : what is the /tmp directory used for anyway? Who's got access to it ? drwxwxrwx ? Would eliminating the presence of any executable in the /tmp resolve this once and for all? To eliminate the executables in the /tmp directory you could simply run a cron job that checks the type of file for each file in the /tmp directory. Since this would be periodic, it might be better to run a background process that does a 'select' on the /tmp directory and cheks the files whenever it gets notifed of a change in the directory. Of course, since I don't know the purpose of the /tmp I might be wrong on this. pls clarify... thx BGa - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From swaps@netscape.net Thu Jul 1 14:20:11 1999 Date: 1 Jul 99 16:20:11 CDT From: SWAPS Subject: How to go to CLI mode in GUI (was -RE: sound problem) Those were the commands at the CLI (command line interface for the gorks)= =2E You have to open a terminal emulator like Xterm/Eterm/Kvt to work on CLI prog= rams. Or there might be some option similar to the 'Run..' option in Win9x. And= be warned, if you do not know how to work in a CLI environment then you are = out of luck. As for sound support - look for soundcore.o and sb.o files in /lib/modules/preffered/misc directory. If present then follow the Sound-H= OWTO to get them in the kernel and setup IRQ and IO parameters. AND if already= present in the kernel then use sndconfig to set it up. - -swaps munir keshwani wrote: > Well what are the commands and how do I try it = > Whenever I boot linux it goes directly to the gui = > And I get login and password in windows and it directly enters gnome > Where do I type it command and how > = > On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 11:42:15PM +0530, munir keshwani wrote: > -> Hey how do I recompile the kernel and include sound support in it > = > go to the directory /usr/src/linux and run the commands in the > following order > make mrproper > make menuconfig [heres where you will choose the necessary modules and > part of the kernel. choose sound support here] > make dep > make bzImage > make modules > make modules_install > = > copy the new kernel [bzImage] to /boot and edit your lilo.conf to > include the new kernel [save your old one too in case the new does not > boot] > check the readme file in /usr/src/linux and also the Kernel-HOWTO at > /usr/doc > = ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webm= ail.netscape.com. - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From ghins@accord-soft.com Thu Jul 1 14:13:8 1999 Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 02:43:08 +0530 From: Ghins Mathai Subject: Re: CD writing under Linux Prakash Advani wrote: > Dear Atul, > > I believe it is possible to support parallel port Zip drives, the same > procedure should work for parallel port CD Writers.. > What is this "procedure"? Please give me all the details. > > Regards > Prakash > > Atul Chitnis wrote: > > <> - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From narayana@ch1.dot.net.in Thu Jul 1 18:0:48 1999 Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 06:30:48 +0530 From: "YL Narayana" Subject: Re: Help in Redhat Linux 6.0 Tabrez Memon wrote: > Hi all > I've installed Redhat Linux 6.0 from the chip special cd. > It is working fine..but in X windows.. I've managed to install and switch to > KDE. > But now How do I switch back to Gnome or enlightment. > Open a terminal and type switchdesk & Choose Gnome. Also check "applicable to this console only" Click OK Restart X Hope this helps Narayana - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From lowenv@hotpop.com Fri Jul 2 0:16:17 1999 Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 12:46:17 +0530 From: "Lister Vaz" Subject: Re: problem connecting to MTNL ISDN using x-isp Hi...There can you let me know the configuration to connect to VSNL using linux.... the help will be very much appreciated thanks lister - ---------- > From: Nayan Mitra > To: linux-india@aunet.org > Subject: problem connecting to MTNL ISDN using x-isp > Date: Monday, June 28, 1999 5:58 PM > > I can connect to VSNL TC/PIP. > Any one can you please tell how > to connect to MTNL ISDN account > using x-isp. > MTNL is using PAP ? > > truly > nayan > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From lowenv@hotpop.com Fri Jul 2 1:2:45 1999 Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 13:32:45 +0530 From: "Lister Vaz" Subject: Re: Connecting to Vsnl or Satyam WHAT IS MINIX hELP pLEASE SEND ME INFO ON HOW TO CONNECT TO VSNL - ---------- > From: Dhiraj Garg > To: linux-india@aunet.org > Subject: Re: Connecting to Vsnl or Satyam > Date: Friday, July 02, 1999 4:56 AM > > Obviously ... provided vsnl gives u a shell access any more .. its gone dear > ... only tcpip :-) > Dhiraj > > > >From: "Soumyanath Chatterjee" > >Reply-To: linux-india@aunet.org > >To: > >Subject: Re: Connecting to Vsnl or Satyam > >Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 17:45:44 +0530 > > > >Can you connect to VSNL shell account. By using minicom or something > >similar? > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: Sam Paul > >To: > >Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 1999 6:55 AM > >Subject: Connecting to Vsnl or Satyam > > > > > > > Hi Friends, > > > > > > I've installed linux according to the PCQ Mar '99. Redhat 5.2. Did > >the > > > pcqupdt and also configured the files according to the pcq's > >instructions. > >In > > > kppp I am able to login in to vsnl and Satyam but my connection does not > > > stay. After it finishes connection it again says CONNECT and starts > > > re-dailing (after disconnecting harshly a well established > >connection!!!). > > > What shouid I do for it to hang on there? > > > > > > Thanks for helping. > > > > > > Sam > > > > > > Soumyanath Chatterjee wrote: > > > > > > > It may be a problem with error correction setting in your modem. > > > > Try connecting to vsnl shell account from minix to clear that > >possibility. > > > > > > > > - Soumya > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: L.V.Gandhi > > > > To: Linux-India ; > > > > Sent: Thursday, June 24, 1999 6:17 AM > > > > Subject: Vsnl connection > > > > > > > > > Many times I am unable to connect to vsnl using kppp(using script). > >I > > > > > get all funny characters after connect when username is expected. I > > > > > thought as they have said pap is operative. I tried pap also. It > >hangs > > > > > starting pppd. it is not getting connected. Sometimes it is getting > > > > > connected using kppp script. > > > > > why so? any solutions. > > > > > -- > > > > > L.V.Gandhi > > > > > MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA > > > > > http://www.poboxes.com/lvgandhi lvgandhi@poboxes.com, > > > > > lvgandhi@vsnl.com, 31882656@pager.mirabilis.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > - -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > For more information on Linux in India visit > >http://www.linux-india.org/ > > > > > Linux India is NOT a forum for Microsoft/India/Pakistan/US/UK > >bashing. > > > > > Flame baits will not be tolerated. If you can appreciate satire > >read > > > > > http://www.templetons.com/brad/emily.html > > > > > > > > > > > > > - -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > For more information on Linux in India visit > >http://www.linux-india.org/ > > > > Linux India is NOT a forum for Microsoft/India/Pakistan/US/UK bashing. > > > > Flame baits will not be tolerated. If you can appreciate satire read > > > > http://www.templetons.com/brad/emily.html > > > > > > -- > > > ***************************************************** > > > Sam Paul > > > > > > email: sam@agapeinfotech.com > > > > > > website: http://www.agapeinfotech.com > > > Phone: Off: 7863188 / 7861151 / 7861152 > > > Fax : Off: 7863929 / 7861457 > > > Phone: Res: 7746163 Telefax: 7746162 > > > Pager: 040-9622531000 > > > efax : 1-603-250-0485 > > > > > > ****************************************************** > > > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > > > > > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > >For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From narayana@ch1.dot.net.in Thu Jul 1 19:2:49 1999 Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 07:32:49 +0530 From: "YL Narayana" Subject: Trident AGP 9750 Does RHL 6.0 support Trident AGP 9750 with 4 MB RAM? Narayana - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From wye@anaggha.com Thu Jul 1 3:5:56 1999 Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 15:35:56 +0530 From: "Wye Enterprises" Subject: Re: Warning - RH 6.0 smbfs corruption with NT (fwd) Sentby V S Ashok: Thursday, June 10, 1999 5:05 PM Subject: Warning - RH 6.0 smbfs corruption with NT (fwd) Can Some *gurus* elabrate on the subject please..... > I saw this one only on the ilughyd list. Thought more people would have > need/comments on this. > ashok > -------------------------- > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 16:01:17 +0530 > From: prasad > To: ilughyd List > Subject: Warning - RH 6.0 smbfs corruption with NT > > ILUG-HYD Mailing List - http://linuxindia.virtualave.net > > Saw this on lwn - > > Do not use the stock Red Hat 6.0 kernels with smbfs > if you are mounting shares from Windows NT,98, or 2000 > servers. A message from Michael Warfield explains why: > the stock kernel has been built with a compile option > that causes smbfs to only work with Windows 95 servers. > All others will see corruption in the file timestamps. > If you are running Red Hat 6.0 on a network with Windows > servers,you will probably need to build and install > your own kernel. > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > Linux India is NOT a forum for Microsoft/India/Pakistan/US/UK bashing. > Flame baits will not be tolerated. If you can appreciate satire read > http://www.templetons.com/brad/emily.html - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From wye@anaggha.com Thu Jul 1 3:8:56 1999 Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 15:38:56 +0530 From: "Wye Enterprises" Subject: Re: Warning - RH 6.0 smbfs corruption with NT (fwd) From gamol@bol.net.in Thu Jul 1 20:1:10 1999 Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 08:31:10 +0530 From: "Amol Gokhale" Subject: New Machine Hi guys, I am buying a new machine. Could you help me out with a configuration that will work on Linux. I am probably going in for PII 450. I need info on components that will work. Amol - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From manoj_vm@hotpop.com Thu Jul 1 19:34:48 1999 Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 08:04:48 +0530 From: Manoj Victor Mathew Subject: Re: Computing speed depends on location of swap partition?? Sundeep Holani wrote, > Due to some docs that I was reading I came across an interesting (and >obvious) fact that computer speeds could be higher if data is being accessed >from multiple disks in parallel. In this context , and in the situation that >I have 2 hard-disks , would it not boost system speeds if the swap partition >was on the disk other than the one containing the native Linux partitions? >The reason why I think the answer should not be very obvious (to me) is >because I have in mind the way data is multiplexed with the single system >bus architecture , thus allowing only one disk (or device for that matter) >to output on the system bus at any given time. I perhaps am not being to >explain my confusion , and thats because I am very confused . And if the >above proposal could work , does it not make sense to place the swap >partition on the newer-faster-more_cache disk and the main partitions on the >other , or is it the other way round?? I was wondering if somebody could >work out a all-win partitioning scheme for my following setup.. >Hard-disks -- 1) segate 2.1 gb , slow , 128 kb cache , 2) samsung 4.3gb , >faster , 300 odd kb cache . >Required SW.. >Linux ofcourse... (should get main attention in performance gain..) >win-98 , win-nt-4 . Theoretically, using multiple disks will give you a increase in performance. But you have harddisks of different speeds. You might get best performance if you put all your linux partitions into your 4.3GB disk. There exists a technique called RAID (Redundant Array on Inexpensive Disks) in which many small capacity drives are used to replace a single large capacity drives. This technique is mainly meant to increase the reliability of secondary storage. But it is true that data transfer rate also increases (at least in some configurations). But RAID is implemented using separate hardware. Problems like the 'bus being busy' need not exist, since the RAID controller acts as an interface the the PC bus and the RAID disks. Linux has software RAID drivers which is supposed to do the job of a hardware RAID controller. These RAID drivers are 100% software and 0% hardware. I personally don't think using them will give you much increase in speed, but they sure can increase the reliability of stored data. RAID drivers have to be included at compile time. Redhat Linux comes with a package called 'raidtools', which is needed if you plan to use RAID. (Before you use RAID, do note that RAID disks, cannot be used as standalone disks, since data is stored in a different format. You will have to backup your data and re-format, if you ever stop using RAID.) If you are reluctant to use RAID then maybe you should try using two swap areas, each on different disks. If the two swaps are turned on with equal priority, then the kernel uses both the swaps concurrently, leading to increase in performance. (But such a scheme requires precious CPU resources to decide which parts of memory should go to which swap area. The extra CPU usage might prevent you from seeing a increase in performance.) Again two disks of equal performance might be preferable. Thank You - -- Manoj Victor Mathew - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From suman55@giascla.vsnl.net.in Thu Jul 1 20:41:56 1999 Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 09:11:56 +0530 (IST) From: suman nandy Subject: Re: httpd failed just open the file /etc/hosts and add the following lines 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain save the file and from the command line give the command httpd. you are all set. regards, suman On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > Rajesh Fowkar proclaimed: > > I have installed Red Hat Linux 6 from CHIP CD. > > > > My problem is when I start linux the various services get started and while > > starting httpd I get the following error : > > > > Starting http: [ failed ] > > httpd:cannot determine local hostname > > Use the Servername Directive to Set it manually. > > > What does > > $ hostname > > tell you? What do you have in /etc/hostname, /etc/hosts and > /etc/resolv.conf ? > > Looks like programs on your computer cannot determine the hostname. Read > the man page for hostname and set it (logged in as root). > > > after this the machine boots as usual and while shutting down again I get the > > following message : > > > > shutting http [failed] > > This may be because the http service was not started properly while booting. > > This is obvious. httpd was not started. So it was not possible to shut it > down. > > > Why is this happening ? What should I do to rectify it ? > > Here are the contents of the relevant files in my case. Change according > to your particular setup. > > $ cat /etc/hostname > www > > $ cat /etc/hosts > 216.103.113.202 www.aunet.org www > > $ cat /etc/resolv.conf > # PacBell Entries > domain aunet.org > search aunet.org pacbell.net pacbell.com > nameserver 206.13.28.12 > nameserver 206.13.31.12 > nameserver 206.13.29.12 > > Thaths > -- > > "If you really want something in life you have to work for it. Now quiet! > They are about to announce the lottery numbers." -- Homer J. Simpson > Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Lead Indentured Slave > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From Rahul.Kumar@metamorgs.com Thu Jul 1 20:49:13 1999 Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 09:19:13 +0530 From: Rahul Kumar Subject: Getting Linux back - pls hlp Dear all - I've done something bad. Pls help. I had (have?) Linux RH5.2 on one partition and '98 on another. I boot(ed) with LILO. When i go into Windows, Norton used to ask "your boot sector has changed. Repair ? Continue ?" and I used to continue.. Recently, my brother (elder) typed Repair !!! And now I dont get the LILO prompt, so the machine goes straight to Windows. So i used the boot/rescue diskette (made with mkbootdisk that came with 5.2) but it hangs saying "Cant install monitor" or something like that. How can I get Linux back without loosing / reformatting. I am sure it should be easy ! Cheers, RK. - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From wye@anaggha.com Thu Jul 1 3:17:43 1999 Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 15:47:43 +0530 From: "Wye Enterprises" Subject: Re: Query : selection of new video card Go thru the Linux card list and choose what ur local vendor has on stock.. YG - ----- Original Message ----- From: unmesh dhake To: Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 3:13 PM Subject: Query : selection of new video card > > hi > i want to buy new video card for my PC (4 MB/8 MB ) > currently i am using SIS6215. > pl. suggest me linux compatible card > > -- unmesh > > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From wye@anaggha.com Thu Jul 1 3:16:35 1999 Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 15:46:35 +0530 From: "Wye Enterprises" Subject: Re: Query :Linuxconf problem Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 1999 1:08 AM Subject: Query :Linuxconf problem > hi i using RH 6.0 . I used linuxconf for various configuration. >After finishing configuration when i am clicking on actvate >changes button following error occurs > > The file /etc/inetd.conf as arevision date in the future. This probably > means that you system time is wrong or as been wrong at ome point > > Then i have forcefully close this window to come out . What is the problem? > Help is needed > > unmesh > > I also had have the same problem. Also when I create users It gives a error msg say Password not changes and the user info is missing from table... Any Clue is welcome..... Yoganand G > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From shankar@cse.iitb.ernet.in Thu Jul 1 21:27:46 1999 Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 09:57:46 +0530 From: S Ravi Shankar Subject: Re: sound problem On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 08:05:29PM +0530, munir keshwani wrote: - -> Well what are the commands and how do I try it - -> Whenever I boot linux it goes directly to the gui - -> And I get login and password in windows and it directly enters gnome - -> Where do I type it command and how in gnome there will be an icon similar to the monitor.click on that and you will get a terminal window which is similar to the normal $ prompt of the conventional unix. give the command "su -" to become the root at $ prompt [after this you are likely to see '#' prompt]. at this stage you can give the list of commands to compile the kernel that i gave in the previous mail. alternately press to get the text window where you can login as root and proceed [ will take you back to gnome] - -- With Regards, S Ravi Shankar - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From sudheer@easi.soft.net Thu Jul 1 21:45:9 1999 Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 10:15:09 +0530 (IST) From: Subject: bkup Hi, I have to keep the back up of my files on a different system. i would like to automate it. how shall i proceed. Is it possible through ftp.[i created .netrc. But without being in the interactive mode, how can i keep giving commands] Thanks in advance sudheer - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From shashankb@dcmds.co.in Thu Jul 1 21:44:29 1999 Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 10:14:29 +0530 From: Shashank Banerjee Subject: RE: Trident AGP 9750 Mr. YLN, Trident 9750 AGP... Yesssireee It does!!! I installed that late last night from CHIP Special...around 1 am it was!! Of course, It does not detect it though... You'll have to chosse the Driver.. "Trident 3DImage 975 AGP (Generic)" in Xconfigurator. and don't probe for RAM... just set it to 4 MB... and chosse the color depth and resolution you want!!! and People, ABOUT THE REDHAT 6.0 on CHIP SPECIAL - --------------------------------------------------------------------- I want to add one thing... Redhat 6.0 from CHIP CD installation was as smooth as any PCQ CD expect for those few tweaks and extras from PCQ Quest. However, a word of caution: (a) I haven't installed Star Office or any of the heavy weight application from CD 2 yet, so you can call my opinion a bit premature. (b) I have been using Linux since April 1996 and been through Slackware/Redhat installations before, so I can't voice my opinion as a newbie. (c) I was lucky enough to get a non-faulty CDs. Overall a very good effort!!! Well done CHIP!!! __________________________________________________________________ Shashank Banerjee Software Consultant, Communications Division DCM Data Systems Vikrant Towers, 4, Rajendra Place, NEW DELHI - 110 008, INDIA Ph: +91-11-5719967-76/E-mail: shashankb@dcmds.co.in Web Site: http://www.dcmds.com >-----Original Message----- >From: YL Narayana [SMTP:narayana@ch1.dot.net.in] >Sent: Friday, July 02, 1999 7:33 AM >To: linux-india@aunet.org >Subject: Trident AGP 9750 > >Does RHL 6.0 support Trident AGP 9750 with 4 MB RAM? > >Narayana > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >For more information on Linux in India visit >http://www.linux-india.org/ - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From binand@bombay.retortsoft.com Thu Jul 1 22:2:7 1999 Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 10:32:07 +0530 From: "Binand Raj S." Subject: Re: '.' in path, summary BGanesh forced the electrons to say: > > questions (fm a newbie perspective) : what is the /tmp directory used > for anyway? Who's got access to it ? drwxwxrwx ? Would eliminating the > presence of any executable in the /tmp resolve this once and for all? The /tmp directory is meant for precisely what its name implies - to create temporary files. _Every_user_ on the system has got access to it. But, if you did a ls -ld /tmp, you will notice that the perms are drwxrwxrwt. The 't' at the end makes sure that even though everybody has every kind of permissions to the directory, only those who actually own the files can delete them. You _cannot_ do anything to /tmp without compromising your system. Maybe a check for really old files and their removal, but thats all. RedHat supplies a program tmpwatch to do that. Many, many programs use /tmp for various purposes. X11 uses /tmp to create its lockfile and unix domain socket, gcc uses /tmp to store intermediate object and assembly code, almost every mailer creates a file in /tmp on which it invokes sendmail (unless it can talk SMTP directly - I believe netscape falls into the second category; can someone clarify?), diald creates a fifo in /tmp so that the user can communicate with it... RedHat uses /tmp while its installation also. I am not sure of other distros, though. So far as I can recall, only the program gzexe creates executables in /tmp, albeit not directly. Any other examples are welcome. > To eliminate the executables in the /tmp directory you could simply run > a cron job that checks the type of file for each file in the /tmp > directory. Since this would be periodic, it might be better to run a > background process that does a 'select' on the /tmp directory and cheks > the files whenever it gets notifed of a change in the directory. Of > course, since I don't know the purpose of the /tmp I might be wrong on > this. pls clarify... See above. If you are sure none of your users will be using gzexe, you may do that. But, such a program is discouraged. Regards, Binand - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ End of Linux India Digest V1 #84 ******************************** -------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send an email to majordomo@aunet.org with the word 'unsubscribe linux-india-digest' (without the quotes) in the body of the email. From nps@teraltd.com Thu Jul 1 21:31:40 1999 Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 10:01:40 +0530 (IST) From: Mrs N P Salaria Subject: Re: 2 ethernet interfaces on one machine !!! According to ramas: > > I have an installation of Caldera with 2.2 kernel .. and 2 ethernet cards > ...both 3c509....as mentioned in the Mulitple ethernet how-to I have tried > the various options like, writing conf.modules with the 2 interface > detials... and also passing the kernel boot time parameters. > > But I end up getting an infinite loop. > > > Any pointers anyone?? > > TIA > - ramas > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > Hello, There is one point I need to mention here which is specific about the 3c509 caards , when you configure the /etc/conf.modules then in case you have a 3c509 then you must not mention the io address this is very specific for 3c509 , only then it will work I faced the same problem and after I removed the mention to io address of the 3c509 it worked . Please read the document http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/misc/multicard.html which gives the same details specific to 3c509. Hope this helps. nps - -- ~~*~~*~~*~~*~~~~*~~*~~*~~*~~~~*~~*~~*~~*~~~~*~~*~~*~~*~~~~*~~*~~*~~*~~~~*~~*~~* Mrs N P Salaria System Administrator TERA INFORMATICS Tel: (022)-8290251 Res: (022)-5770472 Email: nps@teraltd.com ~~*~~*~~*~~*~~~~*~~*~~*~~*~~~~*~~*~~*~~*~~~~*~~*~~*~~*~~~~*~~*~~*~~*~~~~*~~*~~* - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From mileshk@wiproge.med.ge.com Thu Jul 1 21:58:16 1999 Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 10:28:16 +0530 From: Milesh Kumar Subject: Installing RH6.0 from CHIP CD Hi, Can anybody tell me what is to be done to install RH 6.0 from the CHIP CD? I'd like to know about the pre-installation partition scheme required? I have a 4GB hard disk with a 2GB primary partition and 1GB extended partition. The remaining 1GB is free and is not assigned to any OS. Is this sufficient or should I do something else? I booted from the CD and the installation program reports that there's not enough disk space if I try a Workstation installation. Any idea as to what is happening and what is to be done??? Thanks Milesh - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From soumya_chatt@hotmail.com Thu Jul 1 21:40:53 1999 Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 10:10:53 +0530 From: "Soumyanath Chatterjee" Subject: Re: linux logo at startup I see a lot of mail regarding Linux mail. I think I joined in late. How do where is the logo? Any pointer to old letter archive will do. - - Soumya - ----- Original Message ----- From: Dhiran Rajbhandari To: Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 1:56 PM Subject: Re: linux logo at startup > Hi, > How to come back to linux command prompt from xdm? I tried ctrl+c > ctrl+alt+backspace but again come back to xdm login window. > > > Rgds, > Dhiren > > Dhiran Rajbhandari > ATC Communications Network > 7/28 Adarsh Nagar, Birgunj, (Nepal) > Email : dhiren@atcnet.com.np > Phone : 977-51-24075 > > On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Jeffrey Yep wrote: > > > What is xdm? > > > > Jeff > > > > >From: Harvinder Sawhney > > >Reply-To: linux-india@aunet.org > > >To: linux-india@aunet.org > > >Subject: Re: linux logo at startup > > >Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 17:53:02 +0530 (IST) > > > > > >hi > > >run xdm and u will be having login with linux penguin logo > > >become root > > >and sun xdm > > > > > >thats it > > > > > > > > >-- > > >Harvinder Sawhney / > > >http://members.xoom.com/hsawhney > > >"The only secure computer is one that's unplugged, locked in a > > >safe, and buried 20 feet under the ground in a secret location... > > >and i'm not even too sure about that one"--Dennis Huges, FBI > > > > > > > > >On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, satheesh wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi freinds, > > > > > > > > > > > > I am using RH5.2 with Kernel 2.2.1 KDE 1.1.1 final > > > > > > > > My question is how i can put startup screen with linux logo > > > > > > > > please helpme > > > > > > > > Regards/satheesh > > > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > > > > Linux India is NOT a forum for Microsoft/India/Pakistan/US/UK bashing. > > > > Flame baits will not be tolerated. If you can appreciate satire read > > > > http://www.templetons.com/brad/emily.html > > > > > > > > > > > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > > >Linux India is NOT a forum for Microsoft/India/Pakistan/US/UK bashing. > > >Flame baits will not be tolerated. If you can appreciate satire read > > >http://www.templetons.com/brad/emily.html > > > > > > ______________________________________________________ > > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From soumya_chatt@hotmail.com Thu Jul 1 21:51:48 1999 Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 10:21:48 +0530 From: "Soumyanath Chatterjee" Subject: Re: Downloading HTTP mails Oh! Thank U - sorry for the slip. But Can That be done under Linux? - ----- Original Message ----- From: Lokesh To: Sent: Thursday, July 01, 1999 9:50 AM Subject: Re: Downloading HTTP mails > > In IE5 there is a option to download mails from HTTP account (e.g.. > Hotmail) > > for offline reading. Is similar facility available on Linux platform ? > > correction ; it should be Outlook express 5 client, isnt it?, ie5 is just a > browser, > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From as@cwc.nus.edu.sg Thu Jul 1 22:45:59 1999 Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 13:15:59 +0730 (SST) From: Amlan Saha Subject: Re: New Machine Amol Gokhale writes: > Hi guys, > > I am buying a new machine. Could you help me out with a > configuration that will work on Linux. I am probably going in for PII 450. I > need info on components that will work. > > Amol Well, I have the following on my desk and everything is working flawlessly under Debian 2.1 - P III 500 Mhz TNT-Riva 16 MB on board Video card 3c905 100 Mbps ethernet card IBM 10.4 GB disk Creative PCI sound card SONY Trinitron 200ES monitor. - -amlan. - -- Amlan Saha as@cwc.nus.edu.sg http://www.cwc.nus.edu.sg/~cwcamlan amlan@linux.org.sg - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From shashankb@dcmds.co.in Thu Jul 1 22:14:59 1999 Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 10:44:59 +0530 From: Shashank Banerjee Subject: RE: Getting Linux back - pls hlp Relazzz. Relazzz...Rahul, Nothing is gone wrong, so cool down.... (a) Use you rescue disk... and type at the LILO prompt linux root=/dev/hdaN where N is the partion number of your root partition. (c) Hmm.. (a) Failed... insert your PCQ Linux CD, boot the system from CD and type linux root=/dev/hdaN (c) Hmm.. (b) Failed... insert your PCQ Linux CD, boot the system from CD and use the rescue image.. (d) Even (b) failed, insert the PCQ Linux CD, boot the system from CD, use the default image (by pressing [Enter]) and select Upgrade... keep on selecting the easy way out [ie avoid writing on the disk type options] and install the LILO boot loader... If plan (a), (b) (c) and (d) fails.. well ...:((.. Best of luck in reinstallation... Guys, We need to a FAQ on this one.. now!! __________________________________________________________________ Shashank Banerjee Software Consultant, Communications Division DCM Data Systems Vikrant Towers, 4, Rajendra Place, NEW DELHI - 110 008, INDIA Ph: +91-11-5719967-76/E-mail: shashankb@dcmds.co.in Web Site: http://www.dcmds.com >-----Original Message----- >From: Rahul Kumar [SMTP:Rahul.Kumar@metamorgs.com] >Sent: Friday, July 02, 1999 9:19 AM >To: linux-india@aunet.org >Subject: Getting Linux back - pls hlp > >Dear all - I've done something bad. Pls help. >I had (have?) Linux RH5.2 on one partition and '98 on another. I >boot(ed) >with LILO. >When i go into Windows, Norton used to ask "your boot sector has >changed. >Repair ? Continue ?" and I used to continue.. >Recently, my brother (elder) typed Repair !!! And now I dont get the >LILO >prompt, so the machine goes straight to Windows. > >So i used the boot/rescue diskette (made with mkbootdisk that came with >5.2) >but it hangs saying "Cant install monitor" or something like that. > >How can I get Linux back without loosing / reformatting. I am sure it >should >be easy ! > >Cheers, RK. > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >For more information on Linux in India visit >http://www.linux-india.org/ - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From shanu@mail.com Fri Jul 2 7:58:51 1999 Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 20:28:51 +0530 From: Shanu Subject: Re: Print Spool Manager "Boddapati Phani Kiran(B.Tech)" wrote: > > Sirs, > I have a network running on linux and two printers connected to it. I > need a print spool manager to keep the accouts of all the members on my > net as to how much they use the printers. Do we have any such thing in > Linux? If so, where can I get it? Please help me out of this1 > > Thanks > -Phani Kiran Hey B.TECH, Of course u have 'such things on linux' ! Actually u have more than one spoolers available on unix systems(or linux for that matter). Lpd is the defacto spooler on all distros. Lprng is an updated version of lpd and is standard on debian. Lprng is available at http://www.astart.com/lprng/LPRng.html - -- Shanu - -------------------------------------------------------==(SHANU)==-- Shanker Balan Debian/GNU Linux 2.1 St. Alberts College Cochin - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From shanu@mail.com Fri Jul 2 8:8:17 1999 Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 20:38:17 +0530 From: Shanu Subject: Re: Getting Linux back - pls hlp Rahul Kumar wrote: > Dear all - I've done something bad. Pls help. Dont we all :-( > I had (have?) Linux RH5.2 on one partition and '98 on another. I boot(ed) > with LILO. > When i go into Windows, Norton used to ask "your boot sector has changed. > Repair ? Continue ?" and I used to continue.. > Recently, my brother (elder) typed Repair !!! And now I dont get the LILO > prompt, so the machine goes straight to Windows. Ur MBR is corrupted. Use loadlin to boot to ur linux partition and re run lilo. This time do not install it on the mbr but put it on the root partition itself (RTFM on how to do it). This is a > So i used the boot/rescue diskette (made with mkbootdisk that came with 5.2) > but it hangs saying "Cant install monitor" or something like that. > > How can I get Linux back without loosing / reformatting. I am sure it should > be easy ! I have gotton out of situations like this w/o loosing any data. Do your self a favor by getting rid of Norton Utilities. Get rid of win98 also while ur at it ;-) - -- Shanu - -------------------------------------------------------==(SHANU)==-- Shanker Balan Debian/GNU Linux 2.1 St. Alberts College Cochin - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From tprsd1@yahoo.com Fri Jul 2 9:50:53 1999 Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 09:50:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Prasad Tripurari Subject: Re: postgresql Hi Anand, Thank you for your info. I doing well with postgresql with your suggestion. Please send details to run PGACCESS. One more thing, I want frontend as a CUI based forms. Is it possible in postgresql. If not any CUI base frontend is available for backend of postgresql. Thankx .. - --- Anand Raman wrote: > thanx Sitanshu > I was trying to compile the postgresql code on my > box and thus was getting > an error . I will try installing it from a rpm and > lets see > Thanx again > Bye > Anand > > Sitanshu Nanda wrote: > > > I have loaded Red Hat linux 5.2 in my machine. > > Postgresql comes with this CD you don.t have to > > Install it again. Only some setup is required to > run the package. The > > steps are : > > Initialise these two variables > > PGDATA and PGLIB as > > PGDATA=/home/sitansu/data(I have done this > for my data) > > PGlIB=/usr/lib/pgsql > > (Since the library is in this directory) > > export PGLIB PGDATA > > You can do this in any start up file > > like .bash_prfile or .profile etc. > > Then run initdb > > $initdb > > Then run postmaster in background > > $postmaster & > > $createdb mydb > > It will create a database > > $ psql mydb > > It will connect to the database and show you a > prompt > > > > you can then give any SQL command in this prompt > > For example > > mydb=>create table employee (....... > > > > But I don't know anythong about SuSE linux 6.0 > > If this information help you then I will > > write more on How to run pgaccess. > > > > O.K Bye > > > > --- Anand Raman wrote: > > > Hi all > > > Did any one of u manage to get postgreSQL > working > > > for SuSE linux 6.0 ( > > > 2.0.36). > > > I need some pointers for my installation is > always > > > failing on the > > > configure and install stage > > > Please let me know > > > Thanx > > > Anand > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > For more information on Linux in India visit > > > http://www.linux-india.org/ > > > Linux India is NOT a forum for > > > Microsoft/India/Pakistan/US/UK bashing. > > > Flame baits will not be tolerated. If you can > > > appreciate satire read > > > http://www.templetons.com/brad/emily.html > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Get your free @yahoo.com address at > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For more information on Linux in India visit > http://www.linux-india.org/ > > Linux India is NOT a forum for > Microsoft/India/Pakistan/US/UK bashing. > > Flame baits will not be tolerated. If you can > appreciate satire read > > http://www.templetons.com/brad/emily.html > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit > http://www.linux-india.org/ > The SiS 6215 HOWTO resides at > http://www.linux-india.org/sis > === Regards T Prasad SYSTEMS ANALYST MARGADARSI COMPUTERS Email: tprsd1@yahoo.com _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From tprsd1@yahoo.com Fri Jul 2 9:53:27 1999 Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 09:53:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Prasad Tripurari Subject: Re: postgresql query Hi Anand, Thank you for your info. I doing well with postgresql with your suggestion. Please send details to run PGACCESS. One more thing, I want frontend as a CUI based forms. Is it possible in postgresql. If not any CUI base frontend is available for backend of postgresql. Thankx .. - --- Anand Raman wrote: > thanx Sitanshu > I was trying to compile the postgresql code on my > box and thus was getting > an error . I will try installing it from a rpm and > lets see > Thanx again > Bye > Anand > > Sitanshu Nanda wrote: > > > I have loaded Red Hat linux 5.2 in my machine. > > Postgresql comes with this CD you don.t have to > > Install it again. Only some setup is required to > run the package. The > > steps are : > > Initialise these two variables > > PGDATA and PGLIB as > > PGDATA=/home/sitansu/data(I have done this > for my data) > > PGlIB=/usr/lib/pgsql > > (Since the library is in this directory) > > export PGLIB PGDATA > > You can do this in any start up file > > like .bash_prfile or .profile etc. > > Then run initdb > > $initdb > > Then run postmaster in background > > $postmaster & > > $createdb mydb > > It will create a database > > $ psql mydb > > It will connect to the database and show you a > prompt > > > > you can then give any SQL command in this prompt > > For example > > mydb=>create table employee (....... > > > > But I don't know anythong about SuSE linux 6.0 > > If this information help you then I will > > write more on How to run pgaccess. > > > > O.K Bye > > > > --- Anand Raman wrote: > > > Hi all > > > Did any one of u manage to get postgreSQL > working > > > for SuSE linux 6.0 ( > > > 2.0.36). > > > I need some pointers for my installation is > always > > > failing on the > > > configure and install stage > > > Please let me know > > > Thanx > > > Anand > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > For more information on Linux in India visit > > > http://www.linux-india.org/ > > > Linux India is NOT a forum for > > > Microsoft/India/Pakistan/US/UK bashing. > > > Flame baits will not be tolerated. If you can > > > appreciate satire read > > > http://www.templetons.com/brad/emily.html > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Get your free @yahoo.com address at > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For more information on Linux in India visit > http://www.linux-india.org/ > > Linux India is NOT a forum for > Microsoft/India/Pakistan/US/UK bashing. > > Flame baits will not be tolerated. If you can > appreciate satire read > > http://www.templetons.com/brad/emily.html > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit > http://www.linux-india.org/ > The SiS 6215 HOWTO resides at > http://www.linux-india.org/sis > === Regards T Prasad SYSTEMS ANALYST MARGADARSI COMPUTERS Email: tprsd1@yahoo.com _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From nayanmitra@yahoo.com Fri Jul 2 4:41:2 1999 Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 04:41:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Nayan Mitra Subject: reswaping too fast Hi I am getting an error as "reswaping too fast : disabled for 5 minutes" I can't do anything. the message goes on coming and I don't even get the login prompt. AND since I have set the option for runlevel 5 how do I do not allow it to go to level 5 instead to runlevel 3. Please help. thanks. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From vaibhav31@hotmail.com Fri Jul 2 6:6:50 1999 Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 06:06:50 PDT From: Vaibhav Patkar Subject: Re: Trident AGP 9750 Yes. At least SuperProbe identifies the card with the mem correctly. Also the card is listed in trident heading in XFree86 database. Vaibhav >From: "YL Narayana" >Reply-To: linux-india@aunet.org >To: >Subject: Trident AGP 9750 >Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 07:32:49 +0530 > >Does RHL 6.0 support Trident AGP 9750 with 4 MB RAM? > >Narayana > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From nayanmitra@yahoo.com Fri Jul 2 10:30:1 1999 Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 10:30:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Nayan Mitra Subject: reswaping too fast - help Hi When ever I put on my linux box it gives "reswaping too fast : disabled for 5 minutes" and never reaches the login prompt. I have set runlevel to 5. Please help. Thanks nayan. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From micropro@nagpur.dot.net.in Thu Jul 1 7:0:49 1999 Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 19:30:49 +0530 From: "micropro" Subject: Re: pop server setup....... Once Atul helped me for this Install imap*.rpm . It will do. This imap is in REDHAT CD Have you checked /var.log /security after connecting to 110 >On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Manoj wrote: > >=>I tried: telnet localhost 110 but just after establishing the connection , it gave a message ' connection closed by foreign host ' >=>I made entries in the /etc/inetd.conf and /etc/services as well >=>But i'm not sure if the pop server is functioning alright ..... How do i check and what do i have to do if it is not working? >=> > >hi > > i had the same problem, and it turned out that i hadn't installed tcp >wrappers (or something like that - i forgot the package name - it was a >long time ago). check if u have installed it. > >-amit > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- - --- >Power corrupts. And atomic power corrupts atomically. >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- - --- > > > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From micropro@nagpur.dot.net.in Thu Jul 1 6:49:49 1999 Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 19:19:49 +0530 From: "micropro" Subject: Re: Queries:-Ethernet Cards, PPP etc. >Hi everybody, >Sorry for this long list of questions:- >1)I'm connecting my Win95 486 machine(the client) to my Linux Pentium >machine(which is going to be the server). But my 486 has no PCI slots so >I'll be having a NE2000 ISA ethernet card for my 486(Win95) and a NE2000 PCI >ethernet card for my pentium(Linux), will it cause a conflict? No it does not conflict >2)In the PCQ the setting up for PPP is done in KDe what is the procedure for >doing it in GNOME? though there is gnome I am using KDE PPP .Sorry for this. >3)Does anyone know how much memory is needed for a Server installation? > >4) I can't seem to find the HOW-TO for Samba on the net? Can anybody give me >a URL for it and Apache? Step by step for Samba www.sfu.ca/~yzhang/linux/samba/index.html > >5) Does anyone have info or a URL for setting up Dumb Terminals with Linux? Stallion Cards supports dumb terminals on linux.visit www.stallion.com Jitendra >Thanks a lot, >Jeff > > >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From sunit_mathur@SoftHome.net Fri Jul 2 10:49:29 1999 Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 23:19:29 +0530 From: "Sunit Mathur" Subject: Network Connection.... Hi, I have a Pentium 100 MHz machine with RH 5.2 on it. I have been able to configure the N/W card on it. Now I want to connect another machine to it by booting off a floppy. What do I do??? I am a newbie so I need detailed instructions.... Thanx & Regards Sunit Mathur - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From aranya@bol.net.in Fri Jul 2 3:5:57 1999 Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 15:35:57 +0530 From: "Aranya" Subject: Re: kppp starting problem >Hi everybody, > >Since during upgrade there was a reading error on CHIP CD-ROM and my >installation abruptly ended resulting in corrupt system files. > >Now I have installed Red Hat 6.0 from the CD after creating a fresh partition. > >When I try to start KPPP (through any other account than root) to dial to >internet I get the following error : > >error : >pppd is not properly installed. The pppd binary must be installed with the SUID >bit set. Contact your System Administrator. > >What could be the problem ? How to rectify it ? > >Thanks in advance. > pppd needs to mess around with files in /etc/ppp directory and also do other "root"y things. Generally pppd is not setuid root, which means that that even though pppd is owned by root, it can't work as a priviledged process. To rectify this, you can do #chmod 4755 /sbin/pppd or always run kppp as root but su'ing to root and executing kppp. Akshat - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From micropro@nagpur.dot.net.in Thu Jul 1 6:38:12 1999 Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 19:08:12 +0530 From: "micropro" Subject: Re: Sendmail query . Aliasing is possible .Have you visited the site www.harker.com/gen.sendmail.cf JItendra >Hi everybody, > >i am using Sendmail 8.8.7 on RHL 5.2 (PC Quest). >Can I configure sendmail to redirect mails for a particular domain (e.g >hotmail.com ) to be redirected to some other mail server. I don't know for >sure if i can do this by making entry's in /etc/hosts ; but i can foresee >some problems with that . > >thanks. >regards, > >Umesh Chavan >LTITL >_________________________ >Don't do it the HARD way , > do it the SMART way !!! > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From rmanoj@destination-in.com Fri Jul 2 16:59:51 1999 Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 16:59:51 -0700 From: Manoj Subject: DNS ........ Hi, I have RH5.2 on my linux box. I want to configured it as a mail server ( = SMTP and POP3 ) for our organisation. Our real Domain server is at US which acts as our pop3 mail server as = well. Right now all the clients ( Win95 / Outlook ) connect to the = domain server and pulls in their mails. I want the linux box to do it = and then the clients can down load their mails from the Linux. I have configured the DNS . When i give the Domain name same as that of = the one at USA , it works.... .both outgoing as well as incoming = (qpopper 3.0) . But when i make them (names) different the mails are = not going ....... What's the problem? 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Special Offer to eGroups members Install @Backup by June 30th and win a $100 Gift Certificate from Amazon .com and @Backup free for a year! http://clickhere.egroups.com/click/363 eGroups.com home: http://www.egroups.com/group/on-line-learning http://www.egroups.com - Simplifying group communications - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From fred@goa1.dot.net.in Fri Jul 2 9:31:23 1999 Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 21:31:23 +0500 From: Frederick Noronha Subject: Microsoft, running scared Listowner, pls repost this to your mailing list. FN MICROSOFT, RUNNING SCARED Issue: Anti-Trust The government argues Microsoft has a monopoly because most personal computers use Windows. But then why are software developers rushing to write applications for Linux, an upstart operating system with about 15 million users? And why hasn't Microsoft sought higher prices? The government says that Microsoft charged less to computer makers that helped persuade their customers to use Microsoft products and rewarded companies that helped with distribution. This is true. It is also legal; ask the cereal company that pays supermarkets to display its Frootios on shelves near the checkout counter. The government also complains that Microsoft forced computer makers to install Windows without major changes -- just as Ford would prevent car dealers from clipping off the tail off the Mustang pony insignia. Since the trial began, the government has no doubt shown that Microsoft has had very bad manners. But it certainly hasn't proved that Microsoft violated the antitrust laws by harming consumers. It's time for the antitrust division to give up yet another misguided effort to micromanage the fast-moving information-technology business. [SOURCE: New York Times (A21), AUTHOR: Ronald A. Cass (Dean of Boston University School of Law and Microsoft Consultant)] (http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/oped/28cass.html) - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From ghane@arjun.eurolink.stpn.soft.net Fri Jul 2 2:38:5 1999 Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 15:08:05 +0530 (IST) From: Sanjeev Gupta Subject: Re: your mail On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Dharmendra Gurtata wrote: > - ---.procmailrc file------------- > :0 HB change to :0 HBc I don't use procmail, this is something I had worked out for a friend long back. The 'c' makes a copy, and continues processing. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sanjeev "Ghane" Gupta Tel: +91(11) 6941831, 6946619 Eurolink Systems Ltd Fax: +91(11) 6943732 New Delhi, India email: ghane@eurolink.stpn.soft.net Eurolink doesn't pay me to speak for it, so I don't Old age is not an accomplishment, nor youth a sin - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From lvgandhi@md3.vsnl.net.in Thu Jul 1 17:41:36 1999 Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 06:11:36 +0530 From: "L.V.Gandhi" Subject: Re: Disable Mgetty? I want to try remote login of my linux box from win95 m/c using dialup. For setting linux box, it is adviced to have /etc/ppp/options file with ms-dns where dns address is the address of the lans dns server. If it is a stand alone m/c what to do? kindly explain. Prasad Mhatre wrote: > > How to disable mgetty once it is started? > Is it possible to use both, remote login as well as server diallup? > > I want to have remote login as well as I want my server to automatically > dial according to the schedule for receiving and sending mail. Server > dialling may be locked as long as mgetty is operational. > > I am able to setup remote login as described in PCQ, but I am not able to > browse. > I am able to dial to the server from a remote machine with WIN95, after > authentication, if I try my browser to look in my server it just sends but > receives nothing. > > What could be the problem? > > Thanks > Regards > Prasad > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > Linux India is NOT a forum for Microsoft/India/Pakistan/US/UK bashing. > Flame baits will not be tolerated. If you can appreciate satire read > http://www.templetons.com/brad/emily.html - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From nps@teraltd.com Thu Jul 1 23:35:11 1999 Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 12:05:11 +0530 (IST) From: Mrs N P Salaria Subject: Linux as gateway and DNS Hello all, I have set up a linux machine with the march pcq CD It has two eth cards one to the local network and the other to the ISDN (prestige hub) I have run the pcqupdate to set up linux gatewaying and DNS on this linux machine Having the following problems 1) DNS dies down after booting, It has to be started after booting manually 2) I am able to connect to the internet through the ISDN line on the linux machine I have enabled internet gaatewaying by way of the pcqupdate which puts the /etc/rc.d/init.d/rc.fw file with the proper entries , inspite of that I am not able to connect to internet from any of the other windows machines which have been set up with the linux machne as the gateway. 3) On the linux machine added the command route add -net default gw 192.168.1.130 dev eth1 here 192.168.1.130 is the ipaddress of the ISDN hub and eth1 is 192.168.1.50 and eth0 is 192.168.50.99 all the other machines have been set up with gateway 192.168.50.99 what else has to be done to get the gateway running On the linux machine route shows the following Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.50.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 23 eth0 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 5 eth1 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 6 lo default 192.168.1.130 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 21 eth1 Any guidance will be very helpful , what else is to be done to enable gatewaying nps - -- _____________________________________________ N P Salaria | nps@teraltd.com Tera Informatics | Tel: (022)-8280251 Bombay, India | Res: (022)-5770472 - ---------------------------------------------- - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From prasadb@sol.net.in Fri Jul 2 0:23:1 1999 Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 12:53:01 +0530 From: prasad Subject: Re: Warning - RH 6.0 smbfs corruption with NT (fwd) From the later kernel traffic issue: 3.FS Corruption With Later 2.2.x? Subject: Massive e2fs corruption with 2.2.9/10? This was a long thread, in which several people reported filesystem corruption on the later 2.2.x kernels. None of the major developers were able to reproduce the problems, however. At one point, Stephen C. Tweedie said, "Well, after an hour or so of hammering a large 2.2.10 (build on egcs-1.1.2) SMP box with all manner of lmdd big file copies/compares, 100 process and 150 process dbench stressers, parallel kernel builds and concurrent NFS loading, absolutely nothing has gone wrong for me." Then one by one, most or all of the reports were shown to be probably hardware related (bad ram, overclocked CPUs, etc), although it did seem like one or two might be actual kernel problems. Wye Enterprises wrote: > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 16:01:17 +0530 > > From: prasad > > To: ilughyd List > > Subject: Warning - RH 6.0 smbfs corruption with NT > > > > ILUG-HYD Mailing List - http://linuxindia.virtualave.net > > > > Saw this on lwn - > > > > Do not use the stock Red Hat 6.0 kernels with smbfs > > if you are mounting shares from Windows NT,98, or 2000 > > servers. A message from Michael Warfield explains why: > > the stock kernel has been built with a compile option > > that causes smbfs to only work with Windows 95 servers. > > All others will see corruption in the file timestamps. > > If you are running Red Hat 6.0 on a network with Windows > > servers,you will probably need to build and install > > your own kernel. - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ End of Linux India Digest V1 #85 ******************************** -------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send an email to majordomo@aunet.org with the word 'unsubscribe linux-india-digest' (without the quotes) in the body of the email. From nimsim@hotmail.com Fri Jul 2 12:2:42 1999 Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 12:02:42 PDT From: NIMIT SAWHNEY Subject: Re: Installing RH6.0 from CHIP CD Hi Milesh.. If u dont wanna install everything ..try a custom install.. ur 1 GB partition wud be more than enuff for that.. Custom install is pretty easy.. just keep a checklist of things such as monitor type, mouse, com ports sound card irqs/dma channels...etc..b4 u go in for the installation. HIH Nim >From: Milesh Kumar >Reply-To: linux-india@aunet.org >To: "linux-india@aunet.org" >Subject: Installing RH6.0 from CHIP CD >Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 10:28:16 +0530 > >Hi, >Can anybody tell me what is to be done to install RH 6.0 from the CHIP >CD? I'd like to know about the pre-installation partition scheme >required? I have a 4GB hard disk with a 2GB primary partition and 1GB >extended partition. The remaining 1GB is free and is not assigned to any >OS. Is this sufficient or should I do something else? I booted from the >CD and the installation program reports that there's not enough disk >space if I try a Workstation installation. Any idea as to what is >happening and what is to be done??? > >Thanks >Milesh > > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From jyep@hotmail.com Fri Jul 2 8:3:23 1999 Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 15:03:23 IST From: Jeffrey Yep Subject: Re: Re : Fast net access But then how to remove squid which is autmatically installed on choosing the server installtion method? Also is there any source for wwwoffle or is downloading it the only option? Jeff ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From amundra@giasbma.vsnl.net.in Thu Jul 1 23:46:18 1999 Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:46:18 +0500 (IST) From: "ATUL.G.MUNDRA" Subject: RE: sound problem On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, munir keshwani wrote: =>Well what are the commands and how do I try it =>Whenever I boot linux it goes directly to the gui =>And I get login and password in windows and it directly enters gnome =>Where do I type it command and how => open an xterm or an eterm and type it there. - -amit - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Teach children to be polite and courteous in the home, and, when they grow up, they won't be able to edge a car onto a freeway. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From mileshk@wiproge.med.ge.com Fri Jul 2 2:29:52 1999 Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 14:59:52 +0530 From: Milesh Kumar Subject: Installing RH 6.0 from CHIP CD Note: My previous post didn't appear on the list. So this is re-sent. Hi, Can anybody tell me what is to be done to install RH 6.0 from the CHIP CD? I'd like to know about the pre-installation partition scheme required? I have a 4GB hard disk with a 2GB primary partition and 1GB extended partition. The remaining 1GB is free and is not assigned to any OS. Is this sufficient or should I do something else? I booted from the CD and the installation program reports that there's not enough disk space if I try a Workstation installation. Any idea as to what is happening and what is to be done??? Thanks Milesh - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From m_vimal@hotmail.com Thu Jul 1 23:26:25 1999 Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 23:26:25 PDT From: Vimal Mathew Subject: Re : kppp starting problems Hey Rajesh, The kppp program starts pppd which is responsible for setting up the dial-up connection. It needs to do stuff such as setting up the routing table (for dynamic IP as in VSNL) and read/write access to your serial ports. For it to do this, the program should run as root (superuser). So, you could either set pppd setuid root with the following command (run as root) # chmod +s /usr/sbin/pppd This maybe insecure as non-root users may exploit bugs in pppd... A better solution might be setting up some DIP scripts into your boot-scripts. You may also consider creating a new user with UID 0 (superuser permissions) with login shell setup as a dialin script which does all the stuff and logs out. Vimal ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From BGa@CyberDude.com Thu Jul 1 23:6:31 1999 Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 11:36:31 +0530 From: BGanesh Subject: Re: '.' in path, summary Hi, This time BGanesh gently blackmailed the electrons into saying : Thx for the clarifs on the usage of /tmp. [snip details on usage of /tmp. Question is abt cron job that will regularly clear the /tmp of executables] > See above. If you are sure none of your users will be using > gzexe, you may do that. But, such a program is discouraged. Any particular reasons why such a program be A Bad Thing ? BGa - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From soumya_chatt@hotmail.com Thu Jul 1 22:2:45 1999 Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 10:32:45 +0530 From: "Soumyanath Chatterjee" Subject: Re: To Atul and Thaths Can we have the private discussions through private channels, please. With due regards - - Soumya - ----- Original Message ----- From: BGanesh To: Sent: Thursday, July 01, 1999 2:50 PM Subject: To Atul and Thaths > Hi, > in response to a question abt executing C programs under Linux, with > reference to putting the current directory in the path, Atul remarked : > > > On a Unix system, that is akin to suicide. You may believe it makes > > life easier, but in reality you are defeating the safety mechanism. > > In the same thread, in response to a query, Thaths clarified : > > > What if J. Malicious Cracker broke into your system and placed a > > program called 'ls' in some directory? If '.' precedes other > > directories in your $PATH you would be running Malicious's ls instead > > of the system ls when you run ls in the directory where J.M.C's ls is > > located. And J.M.C's ls could be doing unspeakable things to your > > machine. > > > This problem is compounded a few times if root is the user with '.' in > > their $PATH. Seasoned system admins have learnt to type the full path > > of the various commands. > > And I did read elsewhere that this is a security breach. But I wasn't > able to find out much more. So here are the questions : > > Thaths assumes (and states so) that this is an issue if the '.' precedes > the other paths. If '.' is the last in entry in for the $PATH then is it > considered fixed? > > Also, if J.M.C was smart enough (or my system insecure enough) to get > into my directory and put 'ls' or whatever in my directory, the system > (or atleast the parts I / J.M.C have access to) is as good as bombed > anyways, so what is your point? > > Again as root, if '.' is the last entry, then the correct version from > bin would kick in, would it not. Alt, if it is a new and untried program > that is sitting in the directory the I have no business to run it as > root anyways, regardless of whether I execute it as ./proggy or > /usr/home/username/proggy (or whatver the path is). If these are > considered then how does the '.' provide a gateway to disaster... ? > > Thx > BGa > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From karan@sexmagnet.com Fri Jul 2 12:28:43 1999 Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 00:58:43 +0530 From: Karan Girotra Subject: Re: Downloading HTTP mails On Thu, 01 Jul 1999, you wrote: hey, i heard of a perl script written by someone which parsed your hotmail page to get mail out of it . iguess it was called hotmole . It shouldn't be too difficult to write a similar script . but next time hotmail goes for a revamp the whole process will have to be repeated . BTW i guess ie5 should work with only with hotmail and no other webmail ... >In IE5 there is a option to download mails from HTTP account (e.g.. Hotmail) >for offline reading. Is similar facility available on Linux platform ? > >- Soumya >--- >I love Linux. Do U ? >URL: http://www.bigfoot.com/~soumyac > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ - -- Regards .. Karan Girotra, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi 91-011-6864507 91-011-6862034 Icq# 25636434 - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From dhirajgarg@hotmail.com Fri Jul 2 5:19:54 1999 Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 12:19:54 IST From: Dhiraj Garg Subject: Re: Fetch Mail Anshul u need to create .fetchmailrc in ur home directory and in this file u need to put entries for all ur pop servers one after other . it looks someting like .. poll pop.server.name.domain proto pop3 user username with pass password to localusername. u can have entries for different pop servers here .. ciao Dhiraj >From: "Anshul Gupta" >Reply-To: linux-india@aunet.org >To: >Subject: Fetch Mail >Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 23:54:52 +0530 > >Hi all, >Please help me out, how can i configure fetchmail to retrieve mails from >different external pop accounts and put them in local pop accounts. This is >very urgent so please help me. >Thanx in advance, >-anshul > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From soumya_chatt@hotmail.com Fri Jul 2 1:28:16 1999 Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 13:58:16 +0530 From: "Soumyanath Chatterjee" Subject: Re: Downloading HTTP mails Lokesh Setia was caught saying on Friday, July 02, 1999 7:26 AM > Huh, IE5 has bogus support for hotmail, because it is owned by micro$oft. > Instead of giving free POP facility, they decided to make their own > protocol, so that only those who use windows and IE5 can avail of this > facility. Hotmail can fetch POP mail from other server to Web based format, this is not a great feaeture but convinient. U can not use POP when UR not fixed to a PC. In IE5 U can download the HTTP based mail to PC just as POP mail. BTW I do not want 2 use IE/OL 5. That is why I am putting this query. - - Soumya - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From rmanoj@destination-in.com Fri Jul 2 14:30:39 1999 Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 14:30:39 -0700 From: Manoj Subject: DNS / sendmail .....? Hi, I have RH5.2 on my linux box. I want to configured it as a mail server ( = SMTP and POP3 ) for our organisation. Our real Domain server is at US which acts as our pop3 mail server as = well. Right now all the clients ( Win95 / Outlook ) connect to the = domain server and pulls in their mails. I want the linux box to do it = and then the clients can down load their mails from the Linux. I have configured the DNS . When i give the Domain name same as that of = the one at USA , it works.... .both outgoing as well as incoming = (qpopper 3.0) . But when i make them (names) different the mails are = not going ....... What's the problem? Somebody Please help !! =20 - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From lvgandhi@md3.vsnl.net.in Thu Jul 1 9:28:29 1999 Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 21:58:29 +0530 From: "L.V.Gandhi" Subject: Re: How do I change Window managers?? There is a menu feature called switch to. use it. It works well for gnome to kde and back. for going to fvwm etc it is a headache. Lokesh wrote: > > Hi, I just got my machine upgraded to redhat 6.0 through chip, it came with > different Wmanagers GNOME,enlight,kde,WM etc, startx directly takes to the > GNOME or enlightenment , I dont know? IS BOTH SAME? How do i change this > window managers, I tried creatin/editing .xinitrc no use, WM changer > provided is not workin properly , anyone help me > > thanks in advance > > lokesh > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > Linux India is NOT a forum for Microsoft/India/Pakistan/US/UK bashing. > Flame baits will not be tolerated. If you can appreciate satire read > http://www.templetons.com/brad/emily.html - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From gurtata.aworld@aworld.net Fri Jul 2 2:33:37 1999 Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 14:33:37 +0500 From: Dharmendra Gurtata Subject: Mime-Version: 1.0 Hello Everbody, I Need your help in Procmail. I have installed Redhat 5.2 in my machine along with procmail (ver 3.10). I have got a SMTP/POP3 account and a domain registered with my ISP. All my mails i.e "*@domain" are being forwarded to one pop3 account which I am accessing through "fetchmail (ver 4.5.8)". My local mail delivery agent is procmail (filtering mails based upon the rules in /root/.procmailrc file). The problem is that if there's a mail with multiple addresses (To's and Cc's) then procmail takes the first ------------------------------------ address from the .procmailrc file and sends the mail to that user and exits. I want that it should process the whole file. What I want is that the user "root" use fetchmail gets the mail for all the users and then distribute them to the respective user/s. Please help me out in this and if you can send me an example then I would be really grateful. - - ---entry from sendmail.cf file Mlocal, P=/usr/bin/procmail, F=lsDFMAw5:/|@qSPfhn9, S=10/30, R=20/40, A=procmail -Y -a $h -d $u - - ------------ends here - - ---.procmailrc file------------- :0 HB * ^To.jogesh* { :0 ! jogesh } :0 HB * ^To.*mdis* { :0 ! mdis } :0 HB * ^To.*khn* { :0 ! khn } - - -----------------ends here Awaiting for your reply. With Regards Dharmendra Gurtata - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From ragu@giasmd01.vsnl.net.in Fri Jul 2 0:22:5 1999 Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 12:52:05 +0530 (IST) From: Raghavendra Bhat Subject: Powertweak HOWTO. Hello: Listers may have noted the availability of a package 'Power Tweak' for Linux on Freshmeat of today. This is a must have package and for enhanced functionality U should have also installed the Linux PCI utilities by Martin Mares http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/pciutils.html Powertweak for Linux is a project by Dave Jones and has just begun. The package is available for download at http://linux.powertweak.com/ Listers are advised to have this package and to install the binary, for a noticeable performance increase. Powertweak HOWTO: The 'powertweak' binary after compiling is placed under /sbin by the 'make install' script. To install and setup this tweak, root access is a must. On a Debian GNU/Linux system the binary is called up at boot time, towards the end. The binary should be made to get up after the starting up of all the daemons. To achieve this, pop in a shell script in /etc/rc.boot like what I have, '4PowerTweak' which looks like #!/bin/sh /sbin/powertweak when U see it thru an editor. This '4PowerTweak' is set exec. Reboot and login. Go to /var/log and look out for a file 'powertweak.log'. If U have one, read it to examine the level of tweaking achieved by 'powertweak'. Is'nt it like magic ? Download the source and start tweaking now !! ragOO, VU2RGU. PGP Key 1024/1A747CB1 Fingerprint: 61 CD 0F 96 7A 94 4F F6 F0 42 1B 6D C0 A4 24 CF - -- Keeping the Air-Waves FREE.....Amateur Radio Keeping the W W W FREE..Debian GNU/Linux - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From sharadj@wipinfo.soft.net Thu Jul 1 22:44:30 1999 Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:14:30 +0530 (IST) From: Sharad Joshi Subject: Re: '.' in path, summary On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, BGanesh wrote: + Thx to both Manas Garg and Binand Raj for the clarifications. here is a + summary and couple of questions : + + putting '.' in your path is evil. + If it occurs at the beginning of $PATH, it is an accident waiting to + happen. + + if it occurs in the end, there is a lesser probability of damage, but + equally severe. + Even if there occurs a '.' in $PATH, the damage can be traded with some pain. 0. Type in the full path of the executables. i.e. instead of doing 'ls', do 'bin/ls' or whatever (pointed out earlier by Thaths). 1. To save all this typing, make aliases of all the frequently used executables. Also alias common typing errors like ks, sl, ci, etc to echo or false or whatever u like. 2. /tmp (or for that matter, all world writable dirs) is like a public lavatory :) So instead of plunging directly into it to clean, first watch its floor else you may land into a mess. All this trouble, if you are hell bent on putting '.' in $PATH. Sharad. - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From hakamath@eudoramail.com Fri Jul 2 1:40:33 1999 Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 01:40:33 -0700 From: "Arvind H Kamath" Subject: Re: Getting Linux back - pls hlp Hi, Follow the foll. steps: 1. Assuming F: as the cdrom drive. F:\> cd dosutils F:\dosutils> loadlin autoboot\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 Here I'm assuming hda3 as your / partition. Whichever it is ,please use that. You can find it out by using fdisk. The primary partition is /dev/hda1. Your extended partition is /dev/hda2. The first logical drive on the extended partition is /dev/hda3 and so on. The above command will boot into linux. 2. Login as root and do the following root# /sbin/lilo All will be as before. Bye and happy linuxing. - -- On Fri, 2 Jul 1999 09:19:13 Rahul Kumar wrote: >Dear all - I've done something bad. Pls help. >I had (have?) Linux RH5.2 on one partition and '98 on another. I boot(ed) >with LILO. >When i go into Windows, Norton used to ask "your boot sector has changed. >Repair ? Continue ?" and I used to continue.. >Recently, my brother (elder) typed Repair !!! And now I dont get the LILO >prompt, so the machine goes straight to Windows. > >So i used the boot/rescue diskette (made with mkbootdisk that came with 5.2) >but it hangs saying "Cant install monitor" or something like that. > >How can I get Linux back without loosing / reformatting. I am sure it should >be easy ! > >Cheers, RK. > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From karan@sexmagnet.com Fri Jul 2 12:40:15 1999 Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 01:10:15 +0530 From: Karan Girotra Subject: Re: Problem installing RH6.0 from CHIP CD On Thu, 01 Jul 1999, you wrote: i guess the problem is trivial --- u have create a linux root and swap partition before you can install linux use disk druid ,partition magic etc . and the kind of sapce you are talking about (1035 mb ) is enough for either workstation or server installs >Hi, >I tried installing RH 6.0 from the CHIP CD. I booted from the CD (and >tried once with a boot floppy too) and got till the Installation Type >screen (Workstation, Server, Custom). If I choose Workstation, it >displays a dialog saying "There is not enough disk space for this type >of installation". > >I have Win NT and Win 95 installed on my system and also have free >(unpartitioned space) of 1035MB. My 4GB hard disk has one primary >partition (which is divided into 2GB and 1GB) and the remaining 1035MB >is unpartitioned space. What am I supposed to do now? I don't want to >install it as server since I don't want to lose the existing data. If I >choose Custom, it asks for SCSI adapters (the details of which are not >available in this installation list). > >Has anyone faced this problem or have any idea what this is error >message is about? > >Thanks In Advance >Milesh > > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ - -- Regards .. Karan Girotra, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi 91-011-6864507 91-011-6862034 Icq# 25636434 - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From chenthil@softhome.net Fri Jul 2 12:59:56 1999 Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 01:29:56 +0530 From: "ChenthilWhelan" Subject: i740... 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Simpson Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Lead Indentured Slave - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From chenthil@softhome.net Fri Jul 2 13:44:34 1999 Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 02:14:34 +0530 From: "ChenthilWhelan" Subject: Re: Trident AGP 9750 Trident AGp 4mb with TV out is supported even in redhat 5.2 why not in 6.0 BYE. Will Keep In Touch. - ----------------------------------------------------------------- Y's SenthilVelan PI chenthil@softhome.net http://senthil.webjump.com - ----------------------------------------------------------------- - -----Original Message----- From: YL Narayana To: linux-india@aunet.org Date: Friday, July 02, 1999 10:21 AM Subject: Trident AGP 9750 >Does RHL 6.0 support Trident AGP 9750 with 4 MB RAM? > >Narayana > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From subbiahm@hclt.com Fri Jul 2 0:3:2 1999 Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 12:33:02 +0530 From: Subbiah Muthukalayappan Subject: Help with Linux. Hi all, I am a newbie with this linux thing. I have a x386 with 16MB ram, one logitech serial mouse, Trident VGA9000B VGA card with 256K RAM, one 1.44MB floppy drive and one hard-disk (504 MB of which 150MB is used by C Drive, 200MB is used by another partition. The remaining 154 MB, I decided to use for linux). Using the PCQ March'99 CD and a creative CD-ROM drive that I had borrowed, I installed linux. The problem was I tried to do a custom install. Linux was not able to install all the files due to the limited drive space of 154MB, But the installation was completed and I booted using the linux boot disk that I created during installation. Now, because there is absolutely no space left in hard disk (/dev/hda3 was alloted to it), I am unable to do virtually any operation. Even man doesnt work, it gives some sort of error. When I open vi, temporary files are not being opened. Now that I have managed to get another hard disk of 125 MB capacity, how do I get out of this problem. I am not very sure of how to mount disks, make file systems and stuff or add swap spaces. I need help with this. I also need to install this lilo. This I couldnt do during install. How do I put LILO bootloader now? Thanks in advance Regards Subbiah - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From binand@bombay.retortsoft.com Fri Jul 2 14:13:49 1999 Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 02:43:49 +0530 From: "Binand Raj S." Subject: Re: '.' in path, summary BGanesh forced the electrons to say: > Hi, > > This time BGanesh gently blackmailed the electrons into saying : > > > See above. If you are sure none of your users will be using > > gzexe, you may do that. But, such a program is discouraged. > > Any particular reasons why such a program be A Bad Thing ? The same reasons - I don't know which programs legitimately use /tmp to create temporary executables. I myself have had the need for doing so (when I am trying to update a file, I find it easy to create executable sed script files in /tmp with dynamic infor- mation in them. Not the best of all methods, but it works). Also, what about the subdirectories of /tmp? Configure scripts generat- ed via GNU Autoconf checks for various features of your compiler implementation by generating test C code, compiling and at times, executing them. The point is, there is no reason for one to keep a check on /tmp for executables. When I was in IITB, there was a time when I had only 1MB of disk space on our Digital server. I couldn't manage all my number crunching code in that limited space. So I had makefiles that created a.outs in /tmp/binand. I wouldn't have liked it if a paranoic sysadm removed my files from /tmp the mo- ment they were created. So, I suggest it is better to remove '.' from your PATH rather than going through all the work of writing a daemon to keep an eye on /tmp. You will have to keep that program running at other places as well, like /var/tmp or /home/anyuser; why bother? And you will not lose many friends too! Binand - -- main(int c,char **v){while(!fork()){strcpy(v[0],tmpnam(0));sleep(1);}} A program that changes its name and pid every second. Try this program at your own risk! ---> Binand <--- - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From binand@bombay.retortsoft.com Fri Jul 2 14:19:36 1999 Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 02:49:36 +0530 From: "Binand Raj S." Subject: Re: bkup sudheer@easi.soft.net forced the electrons to say: > > Hi, > > I have to keep the back up of my files on a different system. i would like > to automate it. how shall i proceed. > > Is it possible through ftp.[i created .netrc. But without being in the > interactive mode, how can i keep giving commands] Use ncftp in its line mode. Start ncftp, edit the preferences and bookmarks file, and then write a shell script which has a here document, ie, something like #!/bin/sh cd /tmp/backup ncftp host.com << EOF get -R /home/you/ quit EOF (Info about the host, login id, passwd etc. are stored in the bookmarks file, and info about transfer type and other config- urable ncftp's behaviour are stored in the preferences file). Now run this script from cron. Binand - -- main(int c,char **v){while(!fork()){strcpy(v[0],tmpnam(0));sleep(1);}} A program that changes its name and pid every second. Try this program at your own risk! ---> Binand <--- - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From kvs@blr.vsnl.net.in Fri Jul 2 18:23:12 1999 Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 06:53:12 +0530 From: Venkatesh K Subject: Re: DNS ........ On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 04:59:51PM -0700, Manoj wrote: > Hi, > > I have RH5.2 on my linux box. I want to configured it as a mail server ( SMTP and POP3 ) for our organisation. > > Our real Domain server is at US which acts as our pop3 mail server as well. Right now all the clients ( Win95 / Outlook ) connect to the domain server and pulls in their mails. I want the linux box to do it and then the clients can down load their mails from the Linux. > I have configured the DNS . When i give the Domain name same as that of the one at USA , it works.... .both outgoing as well as incoming (qpopper 3.0) . But when i make them (names) different the mails are not going ....... > You have to Masquerade as your real domain. You set your real domain in sendmail.cf. # who I masquerade as (null for no masquerading) (see also $=M) DMblr.vsnl.net.in Regards, - -- Venkatesh. K - -------------------------------------------------------------- Genisys | Email : kvs@blr.vsnl.net.in # 2, MIG, 2nd Stage | : kaevee@usa.net Basaveswaranagar | Phone : +91 80 348 1315 Bangalore - 79, India | Telefax : +91 80 348 1443 - -------------------------------------------------------------- - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From soumya_chatt@hotmail.com Fri Jul 2 20:39:51 1999 Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 09:09:51 +0530 From: "Soumyanath Chatterjee" Subject: Re: To Atul and Thaths On Saturday, July 03, 1999 2:22 AM (-5:30) Sudhakar Chandrasekharan was found to create ripples in cyberspace to say >Why do you consider this to be a private discussion? Binad, somone not > mentioned in the email, jumped in with an elaborate explanation. I think > this thread is still beneficial to people. I think my objection needs elaboration. First my apology for hurting some ones feeling. I have no objection to the subject matter. In fact I learned a few things reading through it. My objection was on >>Subject: To Atul and Thaths. Reason: 1. It cuts off discussion by third participant 2. It is difficult to follow the thread as the subject is not informative enough. In replying to a thread just repeating the subject with a *Re:* makes the readers life easier as one can sort the headers subject wise and follow the thread. - - Soumya - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From soumya_chatt@hotmail.com Fri Jul 2 20:9:24 1999 Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 08:39:24 +0530 From: "Soumyanath Chatterjee" Subject: Password thief There is a newspaper article, that someone has put up a web site and on UR visit to the site VSNL logging password gets stolen. It seems the guy uses it to into UR VSNL account. Is it possible? If yes - How? - - Soumya - --- I love Linux. Do U ? URL: http://www.bigfoot.com/~soumyac - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From soumya_chatt@hotmail.com Fri Jul 2 21:7:11 1999 Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 09:37:11 +0530 From: "Soumyanath Chatterjee" Subject: Re: Connecting to Vsnl or Satyam Dhiraj Garg wrote > Obviously ... provided vsnl gives u a shell access any more .. its gone dear > .... only tcpip :-) Really! In Jamshedpur U can still log into shell account by dialling to shell phone number. Other option is to connect to tcpip & telnet to local server ;-). This must be available - as roving *log on* facility between metro's. This is the only option if UR saddled with a PC without any browser loaded in it. (Believe me - such things are still available - PC with internet connectivity but no browser) - - Soumya - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From soumya_chatt@hotmail.com Fri Jul 2 21:17:24 1999 Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 09:47:24 +0530 From: "Soumyanath Chatterjee" Subject: Re: Installing RH 6.0 from CHIP CD Milesh Kumar asked > Can anybody tell me what is to be done to install RH 6.0 from the CHIP > CD? I'd like to know about the pre-installation partition scheme > required? I have a 4GB hard disk with a 2GB primary partition and 1GB > extended partition. The remaining 1GB is free and is not assigned to any > OS. Is this sufficient or should I do something else? I booted from the > CD and the installation program reports that there's not enough disk > space if I try a Workstation installation. Any idea as to what is > happening and what is to be done??? I have not installed RH6.0 so there may be few difference - but the general procedure is 1. Boot Linux - use bootable CD, Boot Floppy or Loadlin 2. Run fdisk (Linux version) to create linux partition 3. Run setup to install various packages and configure Have U run fdisk to create a linux partition? - - Soumya - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From soumya_chatt@hotmail.com Fri Jul 2 21:26:45 1999 Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 09:56:45 +0530 From: "Soumyanath Chatterjee" Subject: Re: Downloading HTTP mails Karan Girotra was found saying > i heard of a perl script written by someone which parsed your hotmail page to > get mail out of it . iguess it was called hotmole . It shouldn't be too > difficult to write a similar script Code please! <;-) >but next time hotmail goes for a revamp > the whole process will have to be repeated . U can bet the moment M$ comes 2 know about this such thing will happen - but then LUG can cope with it :-) > BTW i guess ie5 should work with only with hotmail and no other webmail ... Do U expect anything else from M$ ? - - Soumya - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From soumya_chatt@hotmail.com Fri Jul 2 21:37:6 1999 Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 10:07:06 +0530 From: "Soumyanath Chatterjee" Subject: RH6.0 - support for dual processor Prasad Mhatre was caught saying > How can I enabled Support for Muty or dual processor while doing normal > install? What is this support for dual processor? Can any one enlighten me ? <:-o) - Soumya - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ End of Linux India Digest V1 #86 ******************************** -------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send an email to majordomo@aunet.org with the word 'unsubscribe linux-india-digest' (without the quotes) in the body of the email. From zameer_ahmed@usa.net Sat Jul 3 12:49:20 1999 Date: 3 Jul 99 14:49:20 EST From: Zameer Ahmed Subject: Re: [Linux as gateway and DNS] SySo wrote: >1) DNS dies down after booting, = > It has to be started after booting manually Did you set execution at boottime using ntsysv in RHL 5.2 >2) I am able to connect to the internet through the ISDN line > on the linux machine = > I have enabled internet gaatewaying by way of the pcqupdate Did you set FORWARD_IPV4=3Dtes in /etc/sysconfig/network file? Regards Zameer Ahmed ____________________________________________________________________ Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=3D= 1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From m_vimal@hotmail.com Fri Jul 2 22:17:33 1999 Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 22:17:33 PDT From: Vimal Mathew Subject: Re : Re : Fast net access Hi, squid can be removed from your boot-scripts by using ntsysv and unselecting squid from the menu. You could also manually remove squid startup by going through the /etc/rc.d/ directory for your run-level(/etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S??squid). I think wwwoffle comes with the new Debian CD. You could also get it from the web. I downloaded it yesterday from I think the exact location was somewhere in /pub/Linux/apps/www/servers/. The file is named wwwoffle-2.4.tgz Vimal ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From shanu@mail.com Fri Jul 2 22:20:30 1999 Date: Sat, 03 Jul 1999 10:50:30 +0530 From: Shanu Subject: Re: Re : Fast net access Jeffrey Yep wrote: > But then how to remove squid which is autmatically installed on choosing the > server installtion method? Also is there any source for wwwoffle or is > downloading it the only option? > > Jeff I assume u r using RHL. To remove the package entirely from the system u would type " rpm -e squid " Alternatively, if u want to disable the daemon from popping up each time u start, remove the symlink from the appropriate runlevel. There is a ncurses based utility provided for doing the same in RHL called "ntsysv" i think. - -- Shanu - -------------------------------------------------------==(SHANU)==-- Shanker Balan Debian/GNU Linux 2.1 St. Alberts College Cochin - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From shanu@mail.com Fri Jul 2 22:16:6 1999 Date: Sat, 03 Jul 1999 10:46:06 +0530 From: Shanu Subject: Re: reswaping too fast Nayan Mitra wrote: > Hi > I am getting an error as > "reswaping too fast : disabled for 5 minutes" > I can't do anything. the message goes on coming Hey Mitra, Is it "respawning too fast" or "reswaping too fast"???. Well, i think u have cluttered up ur rc.d files. Reinstalling the base system is ur best bet. In RHL, u cannot do a base only install, In debian u can :-). U can try repairing it by booting to a diff runlevel. This is achived by giving the runlevel number at the lilo prompt. Suppose u want to boot to runlevel 2 u would have to give... LILO: linux 2 - -- Shanu - -------------------------------------------------------==(SHANU)==-- Shanker Balan Debian/GNU Linux 2.1 St. Alberts College Cochin - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From m_vimal@hotmail.com Fri Jul 2 22:41:23 1999 Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 22:41:23 PDT From: Vimal Mathew Subject: Re : How do I change Window managers Hi, gnome and kde use the .Xclients file in your home directory. As long as this file is present, you cant start fvwm2, wmaker or the other window-managers. I keep a separate .Xclients.gnm for gnome and .Xclients.kde for kde and copy the required one to .Xclients and then startx to start the corresponding window manager. If you want any other window-manager, you could remove the .Xclients (or rather move it to another name) from your home dir. In this case, .xinitrc and .wm_style in your home-dir. decide the window manager. Vimal ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From chetan@protocol.ece.iisc.ernet.in Fri Jul 2 22:53:41 1999 Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 11:23:41 +0530 (IST) From: Chetan Kumar Subject: try this Fire up gnome(with enlightment wm), go to setting background, set background as /usr/share/WindowMaker/Backgrounds/SeaNight.jpeg. Then move the pannel up, click pannel->pannel properties->position->up. Then start rippel effect, Middle mouse button, desktop, Fx-Rippel. The feel the real Night sea shore env :-) chetan . S E-mail chetan@protocol.ece.iisc.ernet.in WEB PAGE - http://pet.ece.iisc.ernet.in/chetan - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From vavasthi@iname.com Fri Jul 2 23:33:34 1999 Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 12:03:34 +0530 From: Vinay Avasthi Subject: Re: Password thief I don't see how that is possible until the user types the password in somewhere. VA - ------- Soumyanath Chatterjee wrote -- > There is a newspaper article, that someone has put up a web site and on UR > visit to the site VSNL logging password gets stolen. It seems the guy uses > it to into UR VSNL account. > > Is it possible? If yes - How? > > - Soumya > --- > I love Linux. Do U ? > URL: http://www.bigfoot.com/~soumyac > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ - -- Vinay Avasthi (Staff Engineer) ------ ,__o Vinay_Avasthi-A12733@email.mot.com ------ _-\_<, Motorola India Electronics Ltd.============ ------ (*)/'(*) The Senate, 33A, Ulsoor Road, Bangalore India, 560042 - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From m_vimal@hotmail.com Fri Jul 2 23:39:53 1999 Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 23:39:53 PDT From: Vimal Mathew Subject: Pseudo-terminals. help! Hi, I am trying to write a simple telnet server for linux. The present version forks with the parent doing non-blocking character transfers between the network socket and the pseudo-terminal master (/dev/ptyxx) while the child sets stdin,stdout, stderr as pseudo- terminal slave(/dev/ttyxx). I dont plan to implement SIGWINCH. It currently works OK with telnet by setting character mode (in telnet). But, the control signals dont work (ie. ^C ). Is it sent as out-of- band data? How do I handle it? Thanks in advance, Vimal ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From root@localhost.localdomain Sat Jul 3 0:53:47 1999 Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:47 +0530 (IST) From: root Subject: Re: Internet Hi, edit /etc/resolv.conf file if it doesn't exist create it in it type: search localhost.localdomain(or your machine's name) nameserver nameserver exit and try it should now work bighead Linux Rulez!!! ;) On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Kunal Shah wrote: > after solving my last problem(online with linux) now I am able to connect to > ICENET and connection establishes but I can not access any site through > Netscape nav. 4.08. > It gives me error message box like Netscape is unable to locate the server > www.pcquest.com. The server does not exist check the URL name in URL box and > try again. > What is wrong with settings? > I know some of my questions are so silly to answer but I am a linux newbee. > I can solve any problem for a hope pc in windows but right now I have > nothing for linux and so I am asking for your help regularly. > > Kunal > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > Linux India is NOT a forum for Microsoft/India/Pakistan/US/UK bashing. > Flame baits will not be tolerated. If you can appreciate satire read > http://www.templetons.com/brad/emily.html > - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From milas@vsnl.com Sat Jul 3 2:47:28 1999 Date: Sat, 03 Jul 1999 14:47:28 +0500 From: satheesh Subject: errors in starting screen Hi freinds, my starting screen showing these errors modeprobe: can't locate module nls_cp437 " can't locate module nls_iso8859_1 " can't locate module nls_cp437 modeprobe: can't locate module net_pf_4 " can't locate module net_pf_5 Pls help me out Thanx in advance Regards/Satheesh NB: using RH5.2 with kernel 2.2.10 ------------------------------- - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From ee97229@ee.iitm.ernet.in Sat Jul 3 2:19:20 1999 Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 14:49:20 +0530 (IST) From: "Boddapati Phani Kiran(B.Tech)" Subject: Re: Queries:-Ethernet Cards, PPP etc. Server doesn't require much of a memory. You don't have to worry about that. Samba Installation: As for Samba I did Samba installation for our the network here at my work place. Install Samba from the RPM supplied by Redhat Linux CD. If you have June's PCQuest everything is there in that mag. (I don't remember where.) You can get everything from http://www.samba.org. Otherwise open /etc/smb.conf. Go to 'local masters' and say yes.Uncomment it. Uncomment the next 'os level' option and assign it a value 33. Next say 'domain master = yes' and 'preffered master = yes'. Say 'dns proxy = no'. If you have printers uncomment that section too. On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, micropro wrote: > > > > >Hi everybody, > >Sorry for this long list of questions:- > >1)I'm connecting my Win95 486 machine(the client) to my Linux Pentium > >machine(which is going to be the server). But my 486 has no PCI slots so > >I'll be having a NE2000 ISA ethernet card for my 486(Win95) and a NE2000 > PCI > >ethernet card for my pentium(Linux), will it cause a conflict? > > No it does not conflict > > >2)In the PCQ the setting up for PPP is done in KDe what is the procedure > for > >doing it in GNOME? > > though there is gnome I am using KDE PPP .Sorry for this. > > >3)Does anyone know how much memory is needed for a Server installation? > > > >4) I can't seem to find the HOW-TO for Samba on the net? Can anybody give > me > >a URL for it and Apache? > > Step by step for Samba www.sfu.ca/~yzhang/linux/samba/index.html > > > >5) Does anyone have info or a URL for setting up Dumb Terminals with Linux? > > > Stallion Cards supports dumb terminals on linux.visit www.stallion.com > > Jitendra > > > >Thanks a lot, > >Jeff > > > > > >______________________________________________________ > >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > >For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From lvgandhi@md3.vsnl.net.in Fri Jul 2 5:11:59 1999 Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 17:41:59 +0530 From: "L.V.Gandhi" Subject: Re: Help in Redhat Linux 6.0 UMAMAHESH wrote: > > how to install and swithc to kde? > -umamahesh There is a menu item switch to L.V.Gandhi MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA http://www.poboxes.com/lvgandhi lvgandhi@poboxes.com, lvgandhi@vsnl.com, 31882656@pager.mirabilis.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From lvgandhi@md3.vsnl.net.in Fri Jul 2 22:37:24 1999 Date: Sat, 03 Jul 1999 11:07:24 +0530 From: "L.V.Gandhi" Subject: Re: kppp starting problem For correcting the bove error, login as root and goto /usr/sbin and give the command as chmod +s pppd. That will solve thw above problem Still I faced further problem. When i issued modem query I got the msg that it can not create modem lock file. What to do? Rajesh Fowkar wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > Since during upgrade there was a reading error on CHIP CD-ROM and my > installation abruptly ended resulting in corrupt system files. > > Now I have installed Red Hat 6.0 from the CD after creating a fresh partition. > > When I try to start KPPP (through any other account than root) to dial to > internet I get the following error : > > error : > pppd is not properly installed. The pppd binary must be installed with the SUID > bit set. Contact your System Administrator. > > What could be the problem ? How to rectify it ? > > Thanks in advance. > > -- > Rajesh Fowka > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From lvgandhi@md3.vsnl.net.in Fri Jul 2 22:36:49 1999 Date: Sat, 03 Jul 1999 11:06:49 +0530 From: "L.V.Gandhi" Subject: Re: sound problem I have the same card given by zenith. I installed RH 6.0 from CHIP CD. In sndconfig, it is not detected. What to do? "ATUL.G.MUNDRA" wrote: > > On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, munir keshwani wrote: > > =>I have ess 1868 and red hat 6.0 the problem is whenever I start the sndconfig it gives me an error like this > => > => > =>You don't seem to be running a kernel with modular sound enabled(soundcore.0) was not found in the module search path) > =>It tells me get a patch and that sound must be compiled as a module. > => > > hi munir, > > do as the message tells u - recompile the kernel and include sound support > into the kernel or as a module. > > -amit > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Far duller than a serpent's tooth it is to spend a quiet youth. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ - -- L.V.Gandhi MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA http://www.poboxes.com/lvgandhi lvgandhi@poboxes.com, lvgandhi@vsnl.com, 31882656@pager.mirabilis.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From lvgandhi@md3.vsnl.net.in Fri Jul 2 22:37:47 1999 Date: Sat, 03 Jul 1999 11:07:47 +0530 From: "L.V.Gandhi" Subject: Re: Disable Mgetty? I want to try remote login of my linux box from win95 m/c using dialup. For setting linux box, it is adviced to have /etc/ppp/options file with ms-dns where dns address is the address of the lans dns server. If it is a stand alone m/c what to do? kindly explain. Prasad Mhatre wrote: > > How to disable mgetty once it is started? > Is it possible to use both, remote login as well as server diallup? > > I want to have remote login as well as I want my server to automatically > dial according to the schedule for receiving and sending mail. Server > dialling may be locked as long as mgetty is operational. > > I am able to setup remote login as described in PCQ, but I am not able to > browse. > I am able to dial to the server from a remote machine with WIN95, after > authentication, if I try my browser to look in my server it just sends but > receives nothing. > > What could be the problem? > > Thanks > Regards > Prasad > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > Linux India is NOT a forum for Microsoft/India/Pakistan/US/UK bashing. > Flame baits will not be tolerated. If you can appreciate satire read > http://www.templetons.com/brad/emily.html - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From lvgandhi@md3.vsnl.net.in Fri Jul 2 22:38:7 1999 Date: Sat, 03 Jul 1999 11:08:07 +0530 From: "L.V.Gandhi" Subject: Re: How do I change Window managers?? There is a menu feature called switch to. use it. It works well for gnome to kde and back. for going to fvwm etc it is a headache. Lokesh wrote: > > Hi, I just got my machine upgraded to redhat 6.0 through chip, it came with > different Wmanagers GNOME,enlight,kde,WM etc, startx directly takes to the > GNOME or enlightenment , I dont know? IS BOTH SAME? How do i change this > window managers, I tried creatin/editing .xinitrc no use, WM changer > provided is not workin properly , anyone help me > > thanks in advance > > lokesh > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > Linux India is NOT a forum for Microsoft/India/Pakistan/US/UK bashing. > Flame baits will not be tolerated. If you can appreciate satire read > http://www.templetons.com/brad/emily.html - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From lvgandhi@md3.vsnl.net.in Fri Jul 2 22:38:35 1999 Date: Sat, 03 Jul 1999 11:08:35 +0530 From: "L.V.Gandhi" Subject: Re: Yamaha sound card Thanks for the response. I have installed RH 6.0 RH52. didn't reci=ognise automatically. But for the same setting of BIOS,(I didn't check ) in RH 6.0 card is recognised automatically. Kalyan Sampath Ganji wrote: > > Hello Gandhi, > > A YAMAHA sound card (YM719) is straight away recognised by sndconfig > try using OPL3 sa2/3/x driver and set the dma2 setting as 1 and all others > are defaults. > > ****you have to change the setting in BIOS if it says PNP OS installed: YES > ther's a problem if it is set to YES. Try setting to NO and you get the sound. > It recognises the card as WSS. - -- L.V.Gandhi MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA http://www.poboxes.com/lvgandhi lvgandhi@poboxes.com, lvgandhi@vsnl.com, 31882656@pager.mirabilis.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From lvgandhi@md3.vsnl.net.in Fri Jul 2 22:38:50 1999 Date: Sat, 03 Jul 1999 11:08:50 +0530 From: "L.V.Gandhi" Subject: GNOME in RH 6.0 of CHIP Special I have installed RH 6.0 from CHIP Special CD. In Gnome, terminal after second boot doesn't show prompt and doesn't accept any chars. Any body faced it. Kppp I could not run as modem could not create lock file. - -- L.V.Gandhi MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA http://www.poboxes.com/lvgandhi lvgandhi@poboxes.com, lvgandhi@vsnl.com, 31882656@pager.mirabilis.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From chenthil@softhome.net Fri Jul 2 15:17:1 1999 Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 03:47:01 +0530 From: "ChenthilWhelan" Subject: Re: Installing RH 6.0 from CHIP CD 1 gb is sufficient for linux. Before all make sure that both the primary and logical(Extended) drives R FAT16 not fat32 or ntfs or anything of that sort. U will run in to prob when primary is not a fat16 but can make up with logical non-fat16. with the rest 1 gb allot 32 mb for swap and the remaining-1mb for / . Even after substracting 1 mb if it says not enough space keep on substracting 1 by 1 (One time due to the harddisk type .. .. .. it was necessary for me to go till 100 mb. but that was a segate 8.5 GB) boot from any sorce both R one and the same. I advice U to take custom installation. BYE. Will Keep In Touch. - ----------------------------------------------------------------- Y's SenthilVelan PI chenthil@softhome.net http://senthil.webjump.com - ----------------------------------------------------------------- - -----Original Message----- From: Milesh Kumar To: linux-india@aunet.org Date: Saturday, July 03, 1999 1:27 AM Subject: Installing RH 6.0 from CHIP CD >Note: My previous post didn't appear on the list. So this is re-sent. > >Hi, >Can anybody tell me what is to be done to install RH 6.0 from the CHIP >CD? I'd like to know about the pre-installation partition scheme >required? I have a 4GB hard disk with a 2GB primary partition and 1GB >extended partition. The remaining 1GB is free and is not assigned to any >OS. Is this sufficient or should I do something else? I booted from the >CD and the installation program reports that there's not enough disk >space if I try a Workstation installation. Any idea as to what is >happening and what is to be done??? > >Thanks >Milesh > > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From chenthil@softhome.net Sat Jul 3 2:5:17 1999 Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 14:35:17 +0530 From: "ChenthilWhelan" Subject: Re: GNOME in RH 6.0 of CHIP Special Almost the same type of prob happened for me also. When I restart the machine after installing it hangs when it tries to loas amd daemon. I disabled it. now the machine works fine. Just delete the kppp lock file and re-run kppp. This will solve the prob. BYE. Will Keep In Touch. - ----------------------------------------------------------------- Y's SenthilVelan PI chenthil@softhome.net http://senthil.webjump.com - ----------------------------------------------------------------- - -----Original Message----- From: L.V.Gandhi To: Linux_India Date: Saturday, July 03, 1999 2:39 AM Subject: GNOME in RH 6.0 of CHIP Special > I have installed RH 6.0 from CHIP Special CD. In Gnome, terminal after >second boot doesn't show prompt and doesn't accept any chars. Any body >faced it. > Kppp I could not run as modem could not create lock file. >-- >L.V.Gandhi >MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA >http://www.poboxes.com/lvgandhi lvgandhi@poboxes.com, >lvgandhi@vsnl.com, 31882656@pager.mirabilis.com > > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From chenthil@softhome.net Sat Jul 3 2:5:21 1999 Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 14:35:21 +0530 From: "ChenthilWhelan" Subject: Swap... This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_0010_01BEC561.47BB2820 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable How to allot the same swap space for windows and linux in the same = harddisk. BYE. 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I am sure it should > be easy ! > If you have the boot disk of your system (that was created when you installed Linux) then boot from this disk, log as root and run /sbin/lilo If you dont have the boot disk then you can create it on some other working linux system (mkbootdisk), otherwise create two disks (installation and rescue) from CD (using Windows) and then type rescue at LILO Boot:, once booted, you can reinstall LILO (this time create an lilo.conf file). Atul - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From ghins@accord-soft.com Sat Jul 3 2:14:2 1999 Date: Sat, 03 Jul 1999 14:44:02 +0530 From: Ghins Mathai Subject: Re: CD writing under Linux Hi everybody, I am glad to say tha I have been able to use the HP 7200e CD writer on Linux. Want to know the details ? Read on I use Linux 2.2.5 did the following : insmod paride insmod epat insmod pg drive0=0x378,0,0,2,1,0 Next, create an image of the directory to be written using 'mkisofs' mkisofs -J -o cd_image now use cdrecord -scanbus to get the scsibus number ( It seems that the parallel port is mapped on to a virtual SCSI bus) next use cdrecord -dev=0,0 -inq to get the target and lun numbers Now I used cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,0,0 -data cd_image I found these documents to be of immense use http://gear.torque.net/parport/paride.html The current version of the CD-writing-HOWTO <> Hope someone finds this useful Regards Ghins - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From atul@iitk.ac.in Sat Jul 3 3:27:30 1999 Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 15:57:30 +0530 (IST) From: Atul Kumar Subject: Re: RH6.0 - support for dual processor > > Prasad Mhatre was caught saying > > > How can I enabled Support for Muty or dual processor while doing normal > > install? > > What is this support for dual processor? Can any one enlighten me ? <:-o) > Use smp kernel. - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From aravind@giasmd01.vsnl.net.in Sat Jul 3 3:48:5 1999 Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 16:18:05 +0530 (IST) From: "R.D.THULASIRAJ" Subject: isdn dialup howto? I want help in using vsnl isdn connection thru linux. I am running redhat linux 6.0 (2.2.5). I have boca isdn TA 128E external adapter on com1. I am able to use the ISDN line from win95 with the vendor supplied win95 driver, but I want to use the same in linux. how do I go about? what are the tools should i use? I have experience in using pppd but not over isdn. pl. help. - -gnana - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From achitnis@cbconsulting.com Sat Jul 3 3:55:31 1999 Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 16:25:31 +0530 From: "Atul Chitnis" Subject: RE: CD writing under Linux > I am glad to say tha I have been able to use the HP 7200e CD > writer on Linux. Hey, cool! > mkisofs -J -o cd_image How about a "-r" for the Joliet/Windows challenged? ;-) > Now I used > cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,0,0 -data cd_image How long did it take to actually write the CD? A 600 MB image takes 30 mins at 2x on my 8000i. However parallel port throughput is no way as high as IDE/SCSI. Would be nice to know these figures for comparison. I played it safe with the internal CD writer, but paid a heavy price for it (about 8K more than the 7200e), so was wondering what the tradeoff is. Thanks for the info! Atul - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From achitnis@cbconsulting.com Sat Jul 3 3:57:51 1999 Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 16:27:51 +0530 From: "Atul Chitnis" Subject: RE: isdn dialup howto? Just treat the TA as a modem as you would with a normal modem, except that you have to make sure that you have the "asyncmap a0000" statment in /etc/ppp/options or on the pppd command line. Also, the normal ATDT may be replaced with ATDI. And make sure your portspeed is as high as it goes! Atul > I want help in using vsnl isdn connection thru linux. > I am running redhat linux 6.0 (2.2.5). > I have boca isdn TA 128E external adapter on com1. > I am able to use the ISDN line from win95 with the vendor supplied win95 > driver, but I want to use the same in linux. > how do I go about? > what are the tools should i use? > > I have experience in using pppd but not over isdn. > > pl. help. > > -gnana - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From anshul@collegemail.com Fri Jul 2 4:33:57 1999 Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 17:03:57 +0530 From: "Anshul Gupta" Subject: Respawning too fast Hi all, Im in a problem. Yesterday i was trying to install star office and i didn't have all the glibc libraries installed so i followed instructions for installation of glibc lib from star office setup which told, 1) invoke /bin/sh 2) type . ./soprep for installation of glibc lib but then installation exited saying u have some previous version of lib and it could create preoblem, so i uninstalled it by kpackages and proceded with installation but it didn't proceeded. saying command not found i tried to log out but instead of showning login prompt it told me respawning too fast and it's disabled for 5 minutes i waited for soem time and rebooted the system Now after mounting VFS file system it stops for a long time What's wrong, please help me im in a fix I have RH5.2 and was trying star office 5.1 - -anshul - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From aravind@giasmd01.vsnl.net.in Sat Jul 3 5:30:10 1999 Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 18:00:10 +0530 (IST) From: "R.D.THULASIRAJ" Subject: vsnl isdn thru TA- unsuccessful! hello again, As instructed by Atul, I tried this: /etc/ppp/options - added "asyncmap a0000" I use "pppd call vsnl" and the script vsnl lies in /etc/ppp/peers/ That script inturn calls chat. Here is the log file excerpt from /var/log/messages Jul 3 17:51:36 localhost pppd[604]: pppd 2.3.7 started by root, uid 0 Jul 3 17:51:37 localhost chat[605]: abort on (NO CARRIER) Jul 3 17:51:37 localhost chat[605]: abort on (NO DIALTONE) Jul 3 17:51:37 localhost chat[605]: abort on (ERROR) Jul 3 17:51:37 localhost chat[605]: abort on (NO ANSWER) Jul 3 17:51:37 localhost chat[605]: abort on (BUSY) Jul 3 17:51:37 localhost chat[605]: send (at^M) Jul 3 17:51:38 localhost chat[605]: expect (OK) Jul 3 17:51:38 localhost chat[605]: at^M^M Jul 3 17:51:38 localhost chat[605]: OK Jul 3 17:51:38 localhost chat[605]: -- got it Jul 3 17:51:38 localhost chat[605]: send (atd172230^M) Jul 3 17:51:38 localhost pppd[604]: Serial connection established. Jul 3 17:51:38 localhost pppd[604]: Using interface ppp0 Jul 3 17:51:38 localhost pppd[604]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0 Jul 3 17:51:39 localhost pppd[604]: Serial line is looped back. Jul 3 17:51:39 localhost pppd[604]: Connection terminated. Jul 3 17:51:39 localhost pppd[604]: Connect time 0.1 minutes. Jul 3 17:51:40 localhost pppd[604]: Exit. Here are my pppd scripts: /etc/ppp/peers/vsnl: ttyS0 115200 crtscts connect '/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/ppp/chat-vsnl' noauth /etc/ppp/chat-vsnl: ABORT "NO CARRIER" ABORT "NO DIALTONE" ABORT "ERROR" ABORT "NO ANSWER" ABORT "BUSY" "" "at" OK "atd172230" Helpful Note: I used minicom and dialed "atd172230" and I saw the pppd junk spitting out. It doesn't ask for login/password. Where do i give login/password?? - -gnana - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From achitnis@cbconsulting.com Sat Jul 3 6:0:41 1999 Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 18:30:41 +0530 From: "Atul Chitnis" Subject: RE: vsnl isdn thru TA- unsuccessful! Eeps, sorry, I forgot that some of you still use the old script mechanism for connecting to VSNL (it is no longer required since VSNL now supports PAP). You need to connect in PAP mode, not script mode. Check Nikhil's article in PCQ about this (http://www.pcquest.com/apr99/pap.asp) Atul > hello again, > As instructed by Atul, I tried this: > /etc/ppp/options - added "asyncmap a0000" > > I use "pppd call vsnl" and the script vsnl lies in /etc/ppp/peers/ > That script inturn calls chat. - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From lowenv@hotpop.com Sat Jul 3 12:39:52 1999 Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 01:09:52 +0530 From: "Lister Vaz" Subject: Re: Fetch Mail Helo Anshul i guess that you are using linux to connect via dail-in to VSNL can you give me instructions as to configure the PPP (whatever )to connect.....will be much apreciated thanks.. lister - ---------- > From: Anshul Gupta > To: linux-india@aunet.org > Subject: Fetch Mail > Date: Wednesday, June 30, 1999 11:54 PM > > Hi all, > Please help me out, how can i configure fetchmail to retrieve mails from > different external pop accounts and put them in local pop accounts. This is > very urgent so please help me. > Thanx in advance, > -anshul > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From lowenv@hotpop.com Sat Jul 3 12:48:59 1999 Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 01:18:59 +0530 From: "Lister Vaz" Subject: Re: httpd failed (OK) Is this correct to connect to the net please confirm the same Using M$Windoz to connect if i get to connect i will remove Windoz from my Hard Disk Please assist me.... Lister - ---------- > From: Rajesh Fowkar > To: linux-india@aunet.org > Subject: Re: httpd failed (OK) > Date: Friday, July 02, 1999 5:50 AM > > Hi Sudhakar, > > Thanks for the help. Now httpd is working. No errors. > > What you meant by Is your computer connected to net ? > Even during this error I was able to connect to Internet & download the mail as > well as browse. > > 1) I have created the /etc/hostname file and the contents of it are : > localhost.localdomain. > > 2) Now my /etc/hosts file has the following contents : > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain www > > 3) My /etc/resolv.conf file has the following contents : > domain localhost.localdomain > search localhost.localdomain > nameserver 202.54.1.30 > nameserver 202.54.17.30 > > Is everthing correct ? > Thanks again. > > Regards > > > Rajesh > > > On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, you wrote: > > Rajesh Fowkar proclaimed: > > > When I type hostname at the prompt. I get the following > > > > > > $localhost.localdomain > > > > > > - There is no file with the name /etc/hostname. > > > > Then create a file and let the contents of it be the name of your machine. > > > > > - My /etc/hosts file is blank ( No contents ). > > > > this file should have contents and be of the format: > > > > IP_Address FQDN shortname > > > > > > In the case of a machine that has a static IP address this will be: > > > > IP_Address www.foo.com www > > > > (That is just an example. Change it according to your tastes.) > > > > In the case of a machine that is not connected to the net this will be: > > > > 127.0.0.1 www www > > > > (www is just an example. choose your own name.) > > > > > > > - There is a file called /etc/host.conf. The contents are as follows : > > > order hosts, bind > > > multi on > > > > This just means that when you do name lookups (using nslookup) the order > > for lookups to happen is the /etc/hosts file first and bind (ie. DNS) next. > > > > > - /etc/resolv.conf file has got the following line : > > > Search > > > > In case your machine is connected to the net this file should look like: > > > > domain your.domain.name > > search your.sub.domain > > nameserver 206.13.28.12 > > nameserver 206.13.31.12 > > > > Replace the two IP addresses in the above with the IP addresses of your > > primary and secondary DNS servers. > > > > > > If you have further questions, please tell us if your computer is connected > > to the net. > > > > Thaths > > -- > > "If you really want something in life you have to work for it. Now quiet! > > They are about to announce the lottery numbers." -- Homer J. Simpson > > Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Lead Indentured Slave > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > -- > Rajesh Fowkar > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ End of Linux India Digest V1 #87 ******************************** -------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send an email to majordomo@aunet.org with the word 'unsubscribe linux-india-digest' (without the quotes) in the body of the email. From shanu@poboxes.com Sat Jul 3 7:16:1 1999 Date: Sat, 03 Jul 1999 19:46:01 +0530 From: Shanu Subject: What is Linux I2O User Space Interface ??? Hello gurus, There is a new feature in the 2.3.x series called i2o. After hacking the sources I couldnt make head or tail of it. What functionality does it add to the system? Deepak Saxena (deepak.saxena@intel.com) is the original coder as well as the current maintainer of i2o. Perhaps he can answer it but i do not think he is on the list. This brings me to another questions - Why aren't there many Indians who are actively developing GNU/Linux on the list??? I know of only two currently - the infamous Al Dev (Alavoor Vasudevan) and our very own Debian developer, Manoj . I am sure u know them all, Thaths. Looking forward to ur comments. - -- Shanu - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - = = (SHANU) = = - - Shanker Balan Debian/GNU Linux 2.1 St. Alberts College Cochin India - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From shanu@poboxes.com Sat Jul 3 7:17:11 1999 Date: Sat, 03 Jul 1999 19:47:11 +0530 From: Shanu Subject: Journalized File System. Hello fellow gurus, I read somewhere that the forthcoming 2.4 series will have a "journalized file system (ext3fs) which will eliminate the need for long fsck". How different is a journalized file system from the ones we have now? What are its features? What other OS's use this feature currently? - -- Shanu - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - = = (SHANU) = = - - Shanker Balan Debian/GNU Linux 2.1 St. Alberts College Cochin India - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From rfowkar@goa1.dot.net.in Sat Jul 3 17:0:4 1999 Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 20:00:04 -0400 From: Rajesh Fowkar Subject: kppp not dialing Hi friends, When I try to dial using KPPP through any other user except root it gives me error saying that cannot create modem lock file. what could be the problem. Where is this lock file created ?. KPPP works fine if I login as root. My another problem is if I change my resolution in XF86Config file to 1024x768 at 16 bit colour depth, the screen flickers. But the same works fine at 1024x768 at 8 bit color depth. Currently I am using 800x600 at 16 bit colour depth. There is no mention about this at the site www.linux-india.org/SiS/. My disply card is SiS6215. In windos I get 1024x768 resolution at 16 bit color depth. Waiting for your response. Thanks a lot in advance. -- Rajesh - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From aravind@giasmd01.vsnl.net.in Sat Jul 3 8:2:0 1999 Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 20:32:00 +0530 (IST) From: "R.D.THULASIRAJ" Subject: RE: vsnl isdn thru TA- unsuccessful! Thanks to everyone. Now, I can connect to the net. However, how do I stop the ppp connection? kill -9 pid? Is there any other way out? Also, I found this strage problem. Whenever I connect and disconnect, ppp routes (ppp0 ppp1 ppp2 ...) doesn't get downed by itself! Instead it keeps on adding. why? Am I missing something? - -gnana On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Atul Chitnis wrote: > Eeps, sorry, I forgot that some of you still use the old script mechanism > for connecting to VSNL (it is no longer required since VSNL now supports > PAP). > > You need to connect in PAP mode, not script mode. Check Nikhil's article in > PCQ about this (http://www.pcquest.com/apr99/pap.asp) > > Atul > > > hello again, > > As instructed by Atul, I tried this: > > /etc/ppp/options - added "asyncmap a0000" > > > > I use "pppd call vsnl" and the script vsnl lies in /etc/ppp/peers/ > > That script inturn calls chat. > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From anshul@collegemail.com Fri Jul 2 20:30:4 1999 Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 09:00:04 +0530 (IST) From: Anshul Gupta Subject: Remote Administration of Internet Connection Hi all, How can i connect/disconnect internet connection from remote machine on network. Also tell me how can i enable telnet, FTP etc on all the machines. Im using RH5.2 and squid. Also i have to restart squid many a times. It's not able to serve the requests from all the clients in network. It gives message dns name lookup failure. When i restart squid everything start working fine. Please help me. This is my fourth problem, i hope this one will not remain unanswered like others. - -anshul - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From prakash@mmsl.serc.iisc.ernet.in Sat Jul 3 19:40:34 1999 Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 21:40:34 -0500 (GMT+5) From: prakash sastry Subject: howto: hi, can anybody tell me how to go about and write a patch. we are trying to do some changes to ipv4 aspect of the kernel(options part of ip_header). Since i am a newbie, any suggestion would help me a lot TIA prakash - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From sunil_soman@vsnl.com Sat Jul 3 9:36:53 1999 Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 22:06:53 +0530 From: Sunil Soman Subject: Re: i740... Check out ftp.redhat.com/XBF/README.i740 On Sat, 03 Jul 1999, ChenthilWhelan wrote: > >%_I run Linux 6.0 with VGA16 server. I like to use SVGA server and I have A-Trend make i740 AGP with 8mb ram. Can anyone help me PLZ... > > BYE. Will Keep In Touch. > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Y's > SenthilVelan PI > chenthil@softhome.net > http://senthil.webjump.com > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > - ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: - ---------------------------------------- - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From reji_varghese@hotmail.com Sat Jul 3 9:50:45 1999 Date: Sat, 03 Jul 1999 09:50:45 PDT From: Reji Varghese Subject: Re: i740... hi, get the XBF i740 server from ftp.redhat.com/pub/XBF bye ... reji >From: "ChenthilWhelan" >Reply-To: linux-india@aunet.org >To: >Subject: i740... >Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 01:29:56 +0530 > >I run Linux 6.0 with VGA16 server. I like to use SVGA server and I have >A-Trend make i740 AGP with 8mb ram. Can anyone help me PLZ... > >BYE. Will Keep In Touch. >----------------------------------------------------------------- >Y's >SenthilVelan PI >chenthil@softhome.net >http://senthil.webjump.com >----------------------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From pkhurd@vsnl.com Sat Jul 3 10:9:2 1999 Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 22:39:02 +0530 From: "Parmeshwar Khurd" Subject: Xserver on sis6215 card This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_0013_01BEC5A4.D942E1A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I tried to load Rhlinux 5.2 from the March 99 pcquest cd. However I = could not configure XWindows properly because my video card sis6215-2 = isn't supported. ( I could only run x in 16-color 640*480 mode or in = 8-bit mode at a very poor resolution) I tried to follow the tip given in the Dec98 pcq which is also = present on the linux-india site. First we were supposed to run the = commands: rpm -i xsis.rpm cd /; tar xvfz xsuseconfig.tgz However when I ran the last command, I got the following error: =20 tar(child): cannot open archive xsuseconfig.tgz : No such file = or directory tar(child): tar: child returned status 2 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors I know that the xsis package is installed. I checked with rpm -ql = xsis. This is the first time I am experimenting with linux and without = xwindows, I pretty much can't do anything. Please help. =20 Parmeshwar Khurd =20 - ------=_NextPart_000_0013_01BEC5A4.D942E1A0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
    I tried to = load Rhlinux 5.2=20 from the March 99 pcquest cd. However I could not configure XWindows = properly=20 because my video card  sis6215-2 isn't supported. ( I could only = run x in=20 16-color 640*480 mode or in 8-bit mode at a very poor = resolution)
    I tried to follow = the tip given=20 in the Dec98 pcq which is also present on the linux-india site. First we = were=20 supposed to run the commands:
        = rpm -i=20 xsis.rpm
        = cd=20 /;    tar xvfz xsuseconfig.tgz
 
    However when I ran = the last=20 command, I got the following error:
        =
        = tar(child):=20 cannot open archive xsuseconfig.tgz : No such file or = directory
       =20 tar(child):
        = tar: child=20 returned status 2
        = tar: Error=20 exit delayed from previous errors
 
    I know that the xsis = package is=20 installed. I checked with rpm -ql xsis.
    This is the first = time I am=20 experimenting with linux and without xwindows, I pretty much can't do = anything.=20 Please help.
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- ------=_NextPart_000_0013_01BEC5A4.D942E1A0-- - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From reji_varghese@hotmail.com Sat Jul 3 10:12:44 1999 Date: Sat, 03 Jul 1999 10:12:44 PDT From: Reji Varghese Subject: Hotmail from Linux ... hi, i'm not able to access hotmail site from linux. is there any settings needed in the browser ? can somebody help me on this ? bye ... reji >From: Reji Varghese >Reply-To: linux-india@aunet.org >To: linux-india@aunet.org >Subject: Re: Query : selection of new video card >Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 09:22:45 PDT > > >hi, > >Intel i740 AGP 8 MB >that's my choice. >works fantastically. > >bye ... >reji > >>From: unmesh dhake >>Reply-To: linux-india@aunet.org >>To: linux-india@aunet.org >>Subject: Query : selection of new video card >>Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 02:43:11 PDT >> >> >>hi >>i want to buy new video card for my PC (4 MB/8 MB ) >>currently i am using SIS6215. >>pl. suggest me linux compatible card >> >>-- unmesh >> >> >>______________________________________________________ >>Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com >> >>-------------------------------------------------------------------- >>For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > > >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From soumya_chatt@hotmail.com Thu Jul 1 13:39:37 1999 Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 02:09:37 +0530 From: "Soumyanath Chatterjee" Subject: Re: Getting Linux back - pls hlp Boot from CD or Use *loadlin* to boot Linux and then run *liloconfig* to fix the problem. Better create rescue disk [NAV] after installation. Possibly U can reinstall NAV after installing lilo to eleminate the *boot sector changed* message. - - Soumya - ----- Original Message ----- From: Rahul Kumar To: Sent: 02 July 1999 09:19 Subject: Getting Linux back - pls hlp > Dear all - I've done something bad. Pls help. > I had (have?) Linux RH5.2 on one partition and '98 on another. I boot(ed) > with LILO. > When i go into Windows, Norton used to ask "your boot sector has changed. > Repair ? Continue ?" and I used to continue.. > Recently, my brother (elder) typed Repair !!! And now I dont get the LILO > prompt, so the machine goes straight to Windows. > > So i used the boot/rescue diskette (made with mkbootdisk that came with 5.2) > but it hangs saying "Cant install monitor" or something like that. > > How can I get Linux back without loosing / reformatting. I am sure it should > be easy ! > > Cheers, RK. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From karan@sexmagnet.com Sat Jul 3 12:29:38 1999 Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 00:59:38 +0530 From: Karan Girotra Subject: Re: Downloading HTTP mails On Sat, 03 Jul 1999, you wrote: >Karan Girotra was found saying >> i heard of a perl script written by someone which parsed your hotmail page >to >> get mail out of it . iguess it was called hotmole . It shouldn't be too >> difficult to write a similar script > >Code please! <;-) Search for the code at www.freshmeat.net using the keyword hotmole. >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ - --Regards .. Karan Girotra, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi 91-011-6864507 91-011-6862034 Icq# 25636434 - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From BGa@CyberDude.com Sat Jul 3 14:0:54 1999 Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 02:30:54 +0530 From: BGanesh Subject: Re: Journalled File System (long) Hi, Shanu wrote: > I read somewhere that the forthcoming 2.4 series will have a > "journalized file system (ext3fs) which will eliminate the need for > long fsck". > > How different is a journalized file system from the ones we > have now? > What are its features? > What other OS's use this feature currently? > How different is a journalized file system from the ones we have now? Traditionally, UNIX file systems such as the Berkeley fast file system have to write everything through the disk. When you're updating, creating your file, they have to write all the way through the disk and wait for that write to complete. This is a synchronous write. With Journalled File Systems (JFS for short), changes to the inodes, directories and bitmaps are logged to the disk before the original entries are updated. Should the system crash before the updates are done they can be recreated using the log and updated as intended. > What are its features? Journalling preserves File System integrity. Which, in turn, means fast boot times, and it effectively eliminates the need for fsck. > What other OS's use this feature currently? SGI's IRIX XFS, and Be's BeOS use this feature. In the 80's IBM JFS, Veritas, Tolerant were among the first to support this. SGI recently announced that they will port the Jounalling features of their XFS to Linux, and there was a thread earlier in this list that gave the details. It is scheduled to be released in about a year's time. To elaborate, The basic idea is that the disk blocks that are involved in a disk modification (file creation, deletion, write, and so on) are written to the disk's "journal" *before* they're actually written to their final resting places on the disk. This ensures that your disk's structures will be consistent even if you crash during a disk access: (a) If you crash before the journal entry is written for a given operation then the operation will appear to have never happened. (b) If you crash while data blocks are being written (that is, after the journal blocks have been written), the system will "replay" the journal entry when you reboot, and the aborted transactions will complete normally. (c) If you were to crash after the data blocks were flushed, but before the journal entry was removed, the disk blocks would simply be re-written. Journaling ensures integrity, but it can't guarantee that the file system will always be 100% up to date. That is, because disk blocks get buffered in memory, a crash may prevent some of them from making it to the journal. Thus, when you reboot you won't see the transactions that died in the cache. So, for example, that would mean that you might not see the last file that was created before a power failure -- but your hard disk wouldn't be corrupted. Part of the disk is allocated for the FS metadata journalling, you might lose about 2MB for every 10GM to the journal, but it is a small price to pay for system integrity (its just about 0.02% anyway.) Even if you had to replay the entire journal of 2MB it would take just about 30 seconds. Journalling maintains only file system metadata, _NOT_ the user data. The data that you were writing when the system crashed have gone into the eternal bitbucket. Depending on the file system architecture and the disk block size Journalling may or may not reduce performance. This would depend on how the buffer cache and disk DMA are used. For example, The BeOS provides upto 6MB/s of sustained transfer on a standard IDE. Pre-allocation of long-runs of diskblocks would improve the performance because the writes on a per file basis would be contiguous (which is also one of the reasons why _modern_ Operating Systems do not need to "defrag" the harddisk). The preallocation of the run would depend on the data size that's already been written. Also, Journalling ensures that multiple transactions are clubbed to form a single transaction, thereby increasing performance. The writing of data from/to the Jounal is asynchronous and the data is written to the disk when the system is idle. For crucial data it is possible to make sync and fsync function calls to force a data write. On my machine the BeOS takes about 17 seconds to boot, regardless of what it is doing when I pull the plug. And in over one year of regular usage I'm yet to lose any data. YMMV. So, we should be seeing this kind of performance statistics on Linux soon... Journalling is not something you can simply layer on top of an existing FS, it has to be built into the FS from scratch, which might be the reason for the one year delay in bringing it to Linux. But I also hear rumors about the media capabilities of XFS not being present in the port. But I'm guessing. Can someone clarify? BGa - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From nitin_s@iname.com Sat Jul 3 14:35:14 1999 Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 03:05:14 +0530 From: "Nitin Srivastava" Subject: How to use a 2.1GB HDD with 486DX Hi all I have a old 486 DX PC, I have configured it as a web, file, print, authorisation, etc server on a 340MB HDD. now I have got a 2.1GB HDD but as my computer doesnot support LBA mode, How do I use it under LINUX. I know that I can use it in DOS using a software Known as EZ. Help me out as I have to use this 2.1GB HDD as the older HDD is Insufficient for my works on linux. TIA - -Nitin - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From madhu@aspiresys.net Sat Jul 3 15:53:44 1999 Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 04:23:44 +0530 From: Madhu R Sudhanan Subject: Tell me some thing about Wine... Hi, I wanna use Wine on my RD Linux 5.2 system.How do i invoke and configure wine in order to make my linux machine run Windows applications. Regards Madhu R Sudhanan - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From vairavan@usa.net Sat Jul 3 17:19:16 1999 Date: 3 Jul 99 20:19:16 EDT From: Muthu Vairavan Subject: Re: Password thief > > visit to the site VSNL logging password gets stolen. > I don't see how that is possible until the user types the password in somewhere. = There were a few articles in Indian magazines/newspapers about it. In fac= t, I remember posting a news article on a person from Bangalore accusing a CyberCafe in Residency Road of stealing his password on the mailing list 'itdiscus'. There was another article (I guess from Economic Times) I posted in 'itdi= scus' which discussed the ways how they steal the passwords too. So, I believe it is a reality and everybody needs to be cautious (till yo= u get unlimited/free ISP) Muthu If you want to join 'itdiscus' and/or receive decent Indian jokes thrice = a week, contact me ____________________________________________________________________ Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=3D= 1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From jayan01@hotmail.com Sat Jul 3 20:10:55 1999 Date: Sat, 03 Jul 1999 20:10:55 PDT From: jayan sr Subject: Re: kppp not dialing >From: Rajesh Fowkar >Reply-To: linux-india@aunet.org >To: linux-india@aunet.org >Subject: kppp not dialing >Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 20:00:04 -0400 > >Hi friends, > >When I try to dial using KPPP through any other user except root it gives >me >error saying that > cannot create modem lock file. > >what could be the problem. Where is this lock file created ?. >KPPP works fine if I login as root. > >My another problem is if I change my resolution in XF86Config file to >1024x768 >at 16 bit colour depth, the screen flickers. But the same works fine at >1024x768 >at 8 bit color depth. Currently I am using 800x600 at 16 bit colour depth. >There is no mention about this at the site www.linux-india.org/SiS/. My >disply >card is SiS6215. In windos I get 1024x768 resolution at 16 bit color depth. > > Waiting for your response. > >Thanks a lot in advance. > > -- >Rajesh 1. This happens because the ppp demon can only run as root. the lock file is created in /var/lock ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From jayan01@hotmail.com Sat Jul 3 20:18:58 1999 Date: Sat, 03 Jul 1999 20:18:58 PDT From: jayan sr Subject: Re: Tell me some thing about Wine... >From: Madhu R Sudhanan >Reply-To: linux-india@aunet.org >To: linux-india@aunet.org >Subject: Tell me some thing about Wine... >Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 04:23:44 +0530 > >Hi, > I wanna use Wine on my RD Linux 5.2 system.How do i invoke and >configure wine in order to make my linux machine run Windows >applications. > >Regards >Madhu R Sudhanan > > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ >Install mesa-libs first, then install wine, >read the docs in /usr/docs/wine-990314/ thats it. it works. with regards Jayan. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From shankar@cse.iitb.ernet.in Sat Jul 3 21:16:58 1999 Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 09:46:58 +0530 From: S Ravi Shankar Subject: Re: Help with Linux. On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 12:33:02PM +0530, Subbiah Muthukalayappan wrote: - -> open vi, temporary files are not being opened. Now that I have managed - -> to get another hard disk of 125 MB capacity, how do I get out of this - -> problem. I am not very sure of how to mount disks, make file systems and - -> stuff or add swap spaces. I need help with this. I also need to install - -> this lilo. This I couldnt do during install. How do I put LILO - -> bootloader now? assuming you are connecting the new harddisk as secondary master [a new cable that goes to another slot in the motherboard] do the following: use "fdisk /dev/hdc" and make it a single partition [/dev/hdc1] "mkfs -t ext2 /dev/hdc1" will create the file system for linux. "mount -t ext2 /dev/hdc1 /home" will make the new hard disk act as the /home partition. [copy any existing files to another place before mounting and then copy them back here]. add the following entry to your /etc/fstab /dev/hdc1 /home ext2 defaults 1 1 this will mount the file system in the new hard disk as /home everytime you boot up. You are not able to open temporary files because there is no room left in the old hard disk. to overcome this do the following. "rm -rf /tmp" remove the existing /tmp "mkdir /home/tmp" create tmp in the new harddisk "chmod 777 /home/tmp" "chmod +t /home/tmp" the default settings of /tmp "ln -s /home/tmp /tmp" make /home/tmp act as /tmp now you can work freely - -- With Regards, S Ravi Shankar - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From ragu@giasmd01.vsnl.net.in Sat Jul 3 21:5:3 1999 Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 09:35:03 +0530 From: Raghavendra Bhat Subject: Re: kppp not dialing jayan sr wrote: > > >From: Rajesh Fowkar > >When I try to dial using KPPP through any other user except root it gives > >me > >error saying that > > cannot create modem lock file. > > > >what could be the problem. Where is this lock file created ?. > >KPPP works fine if I login as root. > 1. This happens because the ppp demon can only run as root. > the lock file is created in /var/lock > If the user is added to the ppp dialout group by root, all these vanish into thin air.... ragOO, VU2RGU. PGP Key 1024/1A747CB1 Fingerprint: 61 CD 0F 96 7A 94 4F F6 F0 42 1B 6D C0 A4 24 CF - -- Keeping the Air-Waves FREE.....Amateur Radio Keeping the W W W FREE..Debian GNU/Linux - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From binand@bombay.retortsoft.com Sat Jul 3 22:32:21 1999 Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 11:02:21 +0530 From: "Binand Raj S." Subject: Re: vsnl isdn thru TA- unsuccessful! R.D.THULASIRAJ forced the electrons to say: > Thanks to everyone. > Now, I can connect to the net. However, how do I stop the ppp connection? > kill -9 pid? Is there any other way out? No. The correct way, if you are using diald, is to execute, as root, /etc/rc.d/init.d/diald.init stop If you are not using diald, then kill -15 pid can be used, or there may be a script to kill pppd in /etc/rc.d/init.d. As far as possible, kill -9 should be avoided. Binand - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From udhay@pobox.com Sat Jul 3 23:16:19 1999 Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 11:46:19 +0530 From: Udhay Shankar N Subject: T-shirts ? What happened to the Linux-India t-shirts that were being talked about some time ago ? Udhay - -- __________________________________________________________________ http://www.unimobile.com/ http://pobox.com/~udhay sign up for the Unimobile beta today! - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From ghins@accord-soft.com Sat Jul 3 23:27:14 1999 Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 11:57:14 +0530 From: Ghins Mathai Subject: KDE not working Hello everybody, I am having some problems in using KDE. When kdm comes up ( it comes up by default as my default run level is 5), I log on using my username . However kde is not able to start. It shows me the backgrounds of the various desktops and then comes back to kdm. I am able use only the failsafe mode of kdm. Please help me ASAP Regards Ghins - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From achitnis@cbconsulting.com Sat Jul 3 23:31:17 1999 Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 12:01:17 +0530 From: "Atul Chitnis" Subject: RE: T-shirts ? > What happened to the Linux-India t-shirts that were being talked > about some time ago ? Available from GT Enterprises or their dealers. Atul - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From root@crosswinds.net Jul 4 0:40:1 1999 Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 13:10:01 +0530 (IST) From: bighead Subject: Re: sendmail problems..... Hey try the software Install-sendmail. Its a perl script(it was in ver 1.0 now i dont know) and it generates a sednmail.cf based upon the asnwers you give it to its questions. then just copy the sendmail.cf to /etc and you're done Or you could use linuxconf v1.14 onwards. Lastly get a copy of the May 1997 PCQuest. The articles in it on setting up sendmail to apache to dns and dchcp(whatever that is!!) are coool You won't need another method. May ya be successful Linux Rulez!!! ;) bighead On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Manoj wrote: > Hi, > I have a linux box with RH5.2 and sendmail as my mail forwarding agent. > > When i send mails from my Linux machine , It works fine....eventhough the mail is recieved as from @. > > But i want it to be received as @ . I put DM part on the sendmail.cf . but still it is the same. > > More over i want the linux machine to act as the outbound mail forwarding server to my WIN95 machines on the network. I am using > MS OUTLOOK as the mailing software for my WIN95 machines . > > How can i achieve this ? please HELP !! > > Thanks a lot > > Manoj > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > The SiS 6215 HOWTO resides at http://www.linux-india.org/sis > - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From mary@iitk.ac.in Sat Jul 3 23:9:59 1999 Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 13:09:59 +0700 (CXT) From: "T.Meyarivan" Subject: Configuring sound HI, most of the articles relating to configuring the sound card under linux ask you note down the irq,dma ... from windows and use the same. But for many of us who use only linux and also the others a better alternative would be to use the OSS trial drivers which comes with a configuration utility which finds out the requisite values. These values can then be used to directly build sound support into the kernel rather than loading the modules. Oss trial drivers can be found at http://www.opensound.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From hetal@cse.iitb.ernet.in Jul 4 0:48:30 1999 Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 13:18:30 +0530 From: Hetal Rach Subject: Re: T-shirts ? On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 12:01:17PM +0530, Atul Chitnis wrote: > > What happened to the Linux-India t-shirts that were being talked > > about some time ago ? > Available from GT Enterprises or their dealers. Where in Bombay are the T Shirts available ??? - -- Regards, hetal - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- hetal@cse.iitb.ernet.in URL: http://www.cse.iitb.ernet.in/~hetal PGP Public key http://www.cse.iitb.ernet.in:8000/proxy/bhishma/~hetal/DSSkey.html - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The memory management in Windows 95 can be used to frighten small children. - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From achitnis@cbconsulting.com Jul 4 1:5:42 1999 Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 13:35:42 +0530 From: "Atul Chitnis" Subject: RE: T-shirts ? > > Available from GT Enterprises or their dealers. > Where in Bombay are the T Shirts available ??? Check http://www.gtcdrom.com for the dealer nearest to you, or write to GT. Atul - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From rfowkar@goa1.dot.net.in Sat Jul 3 18:3:33 1999 Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 21:03:33 -0400 From: Rajesh Fowkar Subject: Re: kppp starting problem Hi, Thanks a lot to all who replied to my mail. The chmod 4755 /sbin/pppd solved the problem, Rajesh On Fri, 02 Jul 1999, you wrote: > >Hi everybody, > > > >Since during upgrade there was a reading error on CHIP CD-ROM and my > >installation abruptly ended resulting in corrupt system files. > > > >Now I have installed Red Hat 6.0 from the CD after creating a fresh > partition. > > > >When I try to start KPPP (through any other account than root) to dial to > >internet I get the following error : > > > >error : > >pppd is not properly installed. The pppd binary must be installed with the > SUID > >bit set. Contact your System Administrator. > > > >What could be the problem ? How to rectify it ? > > > >Thanks in advance. > > > pppd needs to mess around with files in /etc/ppp directory and also do other > "root"y things. Generally pppd is not setuid root, which means that that > even though pppd is owned by root, it can't work as a priviledged process. > To rectify this, you can do > > #chmod 4755 /sbin/pppd > > or always run kppp as root but su'ing to root and executing kppp. > > > Akshat > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ - -- Rajesh Fowkar - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From rfowkar@goa1.dot.net.in Sat Jul 3 17:46:11 1999 Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 20:46:11 -0400 From: Rajesh Fowkar Subject: Re: Yamaha sound card Hi, My Yamaha OPL-Sax-3 card was not autodetected in RH 5.2 but autodetected in RH 6.0. In both the cases the setting in BIOS was YES for PNP OS, since on my other partition I have got windos. In RH 6.0 my sound card configuration was a breeze. No problems at all. Rajesh On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, you wrote: > Thanks for the response. I have installed RH 6.0 RH52. didn't > reci=ognise automatically. But for the same setting of BIOS,(I didn't > check ) in RH 6.0 card is recognised automatically. > > Kalyan Sampath Ganji wrote: > > > > Hello Gandhi, > > > > A YAMAHA sound card (YM719) is straight away recognised by sndconfig > > try using OPL3 sa2/3/x driver and set the dma2 setting as 1 and all others > > are defaults. > > > > ****you have to change the setting in BIOS if it says PNP OS installed: YES > > ther's a problem if it is set to YES. Try setting to NO and you get the sound. > > It recognises the card as WSS. > > > -- > L.V.Gandhi > MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA > http://www.poboxes.com/lvgandhi lvgandhi@poboxes.com, > lvgandhi@vsnl.com, 31882656@pager.mirabilis.com > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ - -- Rajesh Fowkar - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ End of Linux India Digest V1 #88 ******************************** -------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send an email to majordomo@aunet.org with the word 'unsubscribe linux-india-digest' (without the quotes) in the body of the email. From rfowkar@goa1.dot.net.in Jul 4 11:18:15 1999 Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 14:18:15 -0400 From: Rajesh Fowkar Subject: Re: Xserver on sis6215 card Hi Parmeshwar, visit the page : www.linux-india.org/SiS/ You will get all the answers to your problems. Follow the procedure given there and your X server will start working in no time. Mine in working with SiS 6215 card. Rajesh On Sat, 03 Jul 1999, you wrote: > >%_ I tried to load Rhlinux 5.2 from the March 99 pcquest cd. However I could not configure XWindows properly because my video card sis6215-2 isn't supported. ( I could only run x in 16-color 640*480 mode or in 8-bit mode at a very poor resolution) > I tried to follow the tip given in the Dec98 pcq which is also present on the linux-india site. First we were supposed to run the commands: > rpm -i xsis.rpm > cd /; tar xvfz xsuseconfig.tgz > > However when I ran the last command, I got the following error: > > tar(child): cannot open archive xsuseconfig.tgz : No such file or directory > tar(child): > tar: child returned status 2 > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > > I know that the xsis package is installed. I checked with rpm -ql xsis. > This is the first time I am experimenting with linux and without xwindows, I pretty much can't do anything. Please help. > > Parmeshwar Khurd > > - ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: - ---------------------------------------- - -- Rajesh Fowkar - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From rfowkar@goa1.dot.net.in Jul 4 12:7:12 1999 Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:07:12 -0400 From: Rajesh Fowkar Subject: httpd failure Hi friends, Thanks for all the replies. My /etc/hosts file has got the following contents : 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain My problem is sometimes during booting linux this file gets overwritten by a blank hosts file and I get the error httpd failed. I have to again type the above contents in the file. This overwriting of file happens after every two rebootes. Why is this happening ? What should I do to prevent it. Thanks in advance. -- Rajesh Fowkar - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From rfowkar@goa1.dot.net.in Jul 4 11:8:31 1999 Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 14:08:31 -0400 From: Rajesh Fowkar Subject: Re: httpd failed (OK) Hi lister, With this configuration, I am able to connect to the net. I am using Kmail for my emailing which is a very good package. Now I have stopped using Windos, though it is still there on the other partition. I only use it when I want to use Foxpro since in the dos emulator I am unable to use combination of keys (alt+f1,alt+f7 etc. ) to use foxpro, though I can open foxpro. In place of graphical characters I am getting on screen special characters in DosEmu and in such condition I am unable to do programming in foxpro in dos emulator. As a result I have to boot through windows to perform my foxpro work. regards Rajesh On Sat, 03 Jul 1999, you wrote: > Is this correct to connect to the net please confirm the same > Using M$Windoz to connect if i get to connect i will remove Windoz from my > Hard Disk > Please assist me.... > Lister > > ---------- > > From: Rajesh Fowkar > > To: linux-india@aunet.org > > Subject: Re: httpd failed (OK) > > Date: Friday, July 02, 1999 5:50 AM > > > > Hi Sudhakar, > > > > Thanks for the help. Now httpd is working. No errors. > > > > What you meant by Is your computer connected to net ? > > Even during this error I was able to connect to Internet & download the > mail as > > well as browse. > > > > 1) I have created the /etc/hostname file and the contents of it are : > > localhost.localdomain. > > > > 2) Now my /etc/hosts file has the following contents : > > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain www > > > > 3) My /etc/resolv.conf file has the following contents : > > domain localhost.localdomain > > search localhost.localdomain > > nameserver 202.54.1.30 > > nameserver 202.54.17.30 > > > > Is everthing correct ? > > Thanks again. > > > > Regards > > > > > > Rajesh > > > > > > On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, you wrote: > > > Rajesh Fowkar proclaimed: > > > > When I type hostname at the prompt. I get the following > > > > > > > > $localhost.localdomain > > > > > > > > - There is no file with the name /etc/hostname. > > > > > > Then create a file and let the contents of it be the name of your > machine. > > > > > > > - My /etc/hosts file is blank ( No contents ). > > > > > > this file should have contents and be of the format: > > > > > > IP_Address FQDN shortname > > > > > > > > > In the case of a machine that has a static IP address this will be: > > > > > > IP_Address www.foo.com www > > > > > > (That is just an example. Change it according to your tastes.) > > > > > > In the case of a machine that is not connected to the net this will be: > > > > > > 127.0.0.1 www www > > > > > > (www is just an example. choose your own name.) > > > > > > > > > > - There is a file called /etc/host.conf. The contents are as follows > : > > > > order hosts, bind > > > > multi on > > > > > > This just means that when you do name lookups (using nslookup) the > order > > > for lookups to happen is the /etc/hosts file first and bind (ie. DNS) > next. > > > > > > > - /etc/resolv.conf file has got the following line : > > > > Search > > > > > > In case your machine is connected to the net this file should look > like: > > > > > > domain your.domain.name > > > search your.sub.domain > > > nameserver 206.13.28.12 > > > nameserver 206.13.31.12 > > > > > > Replace the two IP addresses in the above with the IP addresses of your > > > primary and secondary DNS servers. > > > > > > > > > If you have further questions, please tell us if your computer is > connected > > > to the net. > > > > > > Thaths > > > -- > > > "If you really want something in life you have to work for it. Now > quiet! > > > They are about to announce the lottery numbers." -- Homer J. Simpson > > > Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Lead Indentured Slave > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > For more information on Linux in India visit > http://www.linux-india.org/ > > -- > > Rajesh Fowkar > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ - -- Rajesh Fowka - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From gerryco@bom1.vsnl.net.in Jul 4 4:49:5 1999 Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 16:49:05 +0500 From: gerryco@bom1.vsnl.net.in Subject: RH6 Installation Freeze I have installed RH6 from the CHIP CD.I chose KDE instead of GNOME at the installation.I am able to use runlevel 3 without a problem. 1.I did mkdir /root/Desktop 2.I changed to runlevel 5 in /etc/inittab When I boot I get a disfigured K-Desktop login screen.I login and then I come to the initial KDE screen and everything just freezes. How do I get over this problem AND how do I get to use runlevel 3 again...everytime I press reset I go to Runlevel 5 Thanks, Gerry Mascarenhas - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From milas@vsnl.com Jul 4 7:48:35 1999 Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 19:48:35 +0500 From: satheesh Subject: Frame buffering Dear freinds, I have successfully installed linux logo (Tux) in my startup screen through frame buffering. For this you must have VBE2.0 compliant graphics card and kernel 2.2.x. special thanks to shanu and ragu Now i encountered a different problem, when i activated frame buffering i can not run my Xserver.(i am using VGA16 server for Xwindows). From the documentation I find that there is server called XF68_FBDev but i cannot install this driver. any help for setting up Xwindows through frame buffering. I am using RH5.2 Kernel 2.2.10 Thanks in advance Regards satheesh - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From vairavan@usa.net Jul 4 7:18:27 1999 Date: 4 Jul 99 10:18:27 EDT From: Muthu Vairavan Subject: Hotmail from Linux > i'm not able to access hotmail site from linux. Hotmail is under renovation, ;-) Go to msn.com Muthu I post similar news/tips on 'itdiscus'! ____________________________________________________________________ Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=3D= 1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From shanu@poboxes.com Jul 4 7:48:50 1999 Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 20:18:50 +0530 From: Shanu Subject: Re: Configuring sound "T.Meyarivan" wrote: > > HI, > most of the articles relating to configuring the sound card under > linux ask you note down the irq,dma ... from windows and use the > same. But for many of us who use only linux and also the others a > better alternative would be to use the OSS trial drivers which > comes with a configuration utility which finds out the > requisite values. These values can then be used to directly build > sound support into the kernel rather than loading the modules. > > Oss trial drivers can be found at http://www.opensound.com > Hey Meyarivan, Sound configuration under linux is very easy and not complicated in any way as long as u read the howtos & FAQs and do it by the book. Of course, there must be a driver available :-) All sound blaster compatible cards use standard values for irq,io & dma. They are... IRQ = 5,7 or 9 DMA = 5 & 1 IO = 0x220,0x388 Concerning the OSS drivers, What will u do after the trial period runs out ??? - -- Shanu - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - = = (SHANU) = = - - Shanker Balan Debian/GNU Linux 2.1 St. Alberts College Cochin India - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From shanu@poboxes.com Jul 4 7:41:26 1999 Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 20:11:26 +0530 From: Shanu Subject: Re: Journalled File System (long) Hey Ganesh, I never expected even a single response to this thread and hence ur reply has truly come as a surprise. Ur response has truly been very informative. Thanx for enlightening me ! - --Shanu - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - = = (SHANU) = = - - Shanker Balan Debian/GNU Linux 2.1 St. Alberts College Cochin India - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From betacomp@bom3.vsnl.net.in Sat Jul 3 20:33:47 1999 Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 09:03:47 +0530 From: mukund Subject: Re: Connecting to Vsnl or Satyam Lister Vaz wrote: > > WHAT IS MINIX hELP pLEASE SEND ME INFO ON HOW TO CONNECT TO VSNL > > > > > > > MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA > > > > > > http://www.poboxes.com/lvgandhi lvgandhi@poboxes.com, > > > > > > lvgandhi@vsnl.com, 31882656@pager.mirabilis.com I find the most of the user have become totally careless and for single line mail full five messages ( see the arrows ) are included. I request all gurus to protest this and strictly not to reply such mails. Best Wishes. - -mukund http://members.theglobe.com/betacomp/default.html http://members.xoom.com/BETACOMP/index1.htm - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From betacomp@bom3.vsnl.net.in Sat Jul 3 19:54:8 1999 Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 08:24:08 +0530 From: mukund Subject: Re: download speeds via linux Anshul Gupta wrote: > > .. is it something to do with my MTU settings ( it is set > > at 1500 ) or something else. Please help > > > pass "mtu 576" to pppd thru /etc/ppp/options > also set the transmission rate at 115200bps > > gurus may tell some more methods for speed up > -anshul > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ MTU is minimum transmission unit. Every tcp packet has its pay load also which is about 64 bytes ( not sure). So the smaller the mtu higher will be payload, but less byte will be required to send in case of error. And higher the mtu then lower the pay load but if the packet has an error then entire packet will have to be retransmitted. So fine tuning of mtu according to line condition will result best in highest speed. The mtu of 576 bytes for very noisy line and 1500 for clean line is recommended. There are many other parameters of tcp which enhances performance. Linux gives complete control over tcp transmission. Please read documentation in /usr/doc. - -- Best Wishes. - -mukund http://members.theglobe.com/betacomp/default.html http://members.xoom.com/BETACOMP/index1.htm - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From sunit_mathur@SoftHome.net Jul 4 8:46:14 1999 Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 21:16:14 +0530 From: "Sunit Mathur" Subject: NIC installation... Hi, I have an IBM 300 MII machine with RHL 5.3 from March PCQ. It is working perfectly. Now I want to add a Network card to thee box. How do I do it ?? What is the procedure to get it initialised at bootup and how do I assign a static IP so that I can access it from a Windows machine using telnet or MI/X. All suggestions are welcome. Looking ahead for an early solution. Regards Sunit Mathur - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From reji_varghese@hotmail.com Jul 4 9:41:0 1999 Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 09:41:00 PDT From: Reji Varghese Subject: Re: T-shirts ? h, have i seen you there at CIX ? bye ... reji >From: Udhay Shankar N >Reply-To: linux-india@aunet.org >To: linux-india@aunet.org >Subject: T-shirts ? >Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 11:46:19 +0530 > >What happened to the Linux-India t-shirts that were being talked about some >time ago ? > >Udhay >-- >__________________________________________________________________ >http://www.unimobile.com/ http://pobox.com/~udhay > sign up for the Unimobile beta today! > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From saurabh_kapoor@hotmail.com Jul 4 1:58:10 1999 Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 14:28:10 +0530 From: "Saurabh Kapoor" Subject: Help with WINE This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_003F_01BEC629.71271CA0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, I am a very recent entry on the linux bandwagon. I had redhat5.2 (PC Quest) on my system and recently upgraded it = (with much difficulty)to redhat6.0 (CHIP). I have been trying to load WINE-990131-1 given by the chip guys = but it always fails a dependency check of lib MesaGL.so.3. Where do i = get this lib from?? Please help, Saurabh - ------=_NextPart_000_003F_01BEC629.71271CA0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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With cheers T Prasad Margadarsi Computers Email:tprsd1@yahoo.com - --- Sunit Mathur wrote: > Hi, > I have an IBM 300 MII machine with RHL 5.3 from > March PCQ. It is working > perfectly. Now I want to add a Network card to thee > box. How do I do it ?? > What is the procedure to get it initialised at > bootup and how do I assign a > static IP so that I can access it from a Windows > machine using telnet or > MI/X. All suggestions are welcome. Looking ahead for > an early solution. > > Regards > Sunit Mathur > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit > http://www.linux-india.org/ > === Regards T Prasad SYSTEMS ANALYST MARGADARSI COMPUTERS Email: tprsd1@yahoo.com _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From tprsd1@yahoo.com Jul 4 10:16:18 1999 Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:16:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Prasad Tripurari Subject: ppp setup problem Hi linuxers, I am using linux 5.2 (March PCQ Version). I have one problem please solve it. I want to connect two systems or more to one linux server. Connection is only thur dialup line. For that purpose, I want to make ppp setup. Please send detailed instructions to setup ppp on server side as well as client side also. am a new bie. So Please send detailed instructions. Thanks for everybody. From Prasad T Margadarsi Computers Email: tprsd1@yahoo.com === Regards T Prasad SYSTEMS ANALYST MARGADARSI COMPUTERS Email: tprsd1@yahoo.com _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From achitnis@cbconsulting.com Jul 4 10:51:54 1999 Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 23:21:54 +0530 From: "Atul Chitnis" Subject: Intel and Linux The Intel Developer's Conference '99 in India, July 20 (Bangalore) and July 23 (Mumbai), will have a technology track on "Building Applications on Linux". As far as I know, this is a first by a major industry player, at least in India, and clearly underlines Intel's commitment to Linux. For those of you who are interested and want to be there, check out http://www.intel.com/in/eng/events/idc/ (the Linux part is in the "Technology Track") and register yourselves (it's free as far as I can tell). I will definitely be attending the Bangalore event. Atul - ---------------------------------------------------- Atul Chitnis | achitnis@cbconsulting.com C&B Consulting | http://www.cbconsulting.com Bangalore, India | +91(80)3440397 Fax +91(80)3341137 - ---------------------------------------------------- - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From madhu@aspiresys.net Jul 4 10:58:48 1999 Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 23:28:48 +0530 From: Madhu R Sudhanan Subject: Re: httpd failure Hi, Try making the file a read only file... It may work.... Regards Madhu R Sudhanan Rajesh Fowkar wrote: > Hi friends, > > Thanks for all the replies. > > My /etc/hosts file has got the following contents : > > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain > > My problem is sometimes during booting linux this file gets overwritten by a > blank hosts file and I get the error httpd failed. I have to again type the > above contents in the file. This overwriting of file happens after every two > rebootes. > > Why is this happening ? What should I do to prevent it. > > Thanks in advance. > > -- > Rajesh Fowkar > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From madhu@aspiresys.net Jul 4 11:5:12 1999 Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 23:35:12 +0530 From: Madhu R Sudhanan Subject: Re: Tell me some thing about Wine... Hi, Thanx for ur help Jayan. Tonight I'll sit on it......and I'll get in touch with u later.I'm havnig one more doubt now.My ksirc chat is not able to connect to any server.How do I resolve this riddle ? Pls help me. jayan sr wrote: > >From: Madhu R Sudhanan > >Reply-To: linux-india@aunet.org > >To: linux-india@aunet.org > >Subject: Tell me some thing about Wine... > >Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 04:23:44 +0530 > > > >Hi, > > I wanna use Wine on my RD Linux 5.2 system.How do i invoke and > >configure wine in order to make my linux machine run Windows > >applications. > > > >Regards > >Madhu R Sudhanan > > > > > > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > >For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > > >Install mesa-libs first, then install wine, > >read the docs in /usr/docs/wine-990314/ thats it. it works. > > with regards > Jayan. > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From madhu@aspiresys.net Jul 4 11:10:6 1999 Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 23:40:06 +0530 From: Madhu R Sudhanan Subject: mesa-lib & wine installation..... Hi, I was told to install mesa-libs first and then proceed with wine installation. Now the question is where the above said packages can be found ? Pls help me soon.......at the earliest..... Thanx every one for helping regards Madhu R Sudhanan - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From chenthil@softhome.net Jul 4 10:59:8 1999 Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 23:29:08 +0530 From: "ChenthilWhelan" Subject: Re: i740... Thanz a lot Reji. I got it yesterday itself. Once again thanx a lot for replying. Now I need help for configuring YMF724 PCI SoundCard. BYE. Will Keep In Touch. - ----------------------------------------------------------------- Y's SenthilVelan PI chenthil@softhome.net http://senthil.webjump.com - ----------------------------------------------------------------- - -----Original Message----- From: Reji Varghese To: linux-india@aunet.org Date: Saturday, July 03, 1999 11:14 PM Subject: Re: i740... >hi, > >get the XBF i740 server from ftp.redhat.com/pub/XBF > >bye ... >reji > > >>From: "ChenthilWhelan" >>Reply-To: linux-india@aunet.org >>To: >>Subject: i740... >>Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 01:29:56 +0530 >> >>I run Linux 6.0 with VGA16 server. I like to use SVGA server and I have >>A-Trend make i740 AGP with 8mb ram. Can anyone help me PLZ... >> >>BYE. Will Keep In Touch. >>----------------------------------------------------------------- >>Y's >>SenthilVelan PI >>chenthil@softhome.net >>http://senthil.webjump.com >>----------------------------------------------------------------- > > >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From chenthil@softhome.net Jul 4 10:50:59 1999 Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 23:20:59 +0530 From: "ChenthilWhelan" Subject: YMF724.... This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_0055_01BEC673.DFFEA9A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I have a PCI Yamaha 724 SoundCard. I need helpin configuring it in = RH-L-6.0 Plz help me in finding out a driver for this and instructions = of how-to... BYE. Will Keep In Touch. - ----------------------------------------------------------------- Y's SenthilVelan PI chenthil@softhome.net http://senthil.webjump.com - ----------------------------------------------------------------- - ------=_NextPart_000_0055_01BEC673.DFFEA9A0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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I use it. - -- Best Wishes. - -mukund http://members.theglobe.com/betacomp/default.html http://members.xoom.com/BETACOMP/index1.htm - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From raju@sgi.com Jul 4 20:32:13 1999 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 09:02:13 +0530 (IST) From: Raj Mathur Subject: Hotmail from Linux Go to usa.net... more space and it doesn't belong to MS. - -- Raju >>>>> "Muthu" == Muthu Vairavan writes: >> i'm not able to access hotmail site from linux. Muthu> Hotmail is under renovation, ;-) Go to msn.com Muthu Muthu> I post similar news/tips on 'itdiscus'! - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From manasg@inf.com Jul 4 20:59:10 1999 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 09:29:10 +0530 (IST) From: manas garg Subject: Re: Help with WINE > but it always fails a dependency check of lib MesaGL.so.3. Where do i > get this lib from?? from PCQ last month or this month CD. Manas - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From nps@teraltd.com Jul 4 21:16:16 1999 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 09:46:16 +0530 (IST) From: Mrs N P Salaria Subject: Re: help on sorting mail through pine According to Emmanuel Elango: > > > Hello > > Is it possible to redirect new mail to different folders by checking who > the sender is?? > > > Emmanuel > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > Use .procmailrc, where this is possible , rerad man procmailrc procmailex nps - -- _____________________________________________ N P Salaria | nps@teraltd.com Tera Informatics | Tel: (022)-8280251 Bombay, India | Res: (022)-5770472 - ---------------------------------------------- - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From raju@sgi.com Jul 4 21:6:4 1999 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 09:36:04 +0530 (IST) From: Raj Mathur Subject: SGI ANNOUNCES LINUX SUPPORT FOR AWARD-WINNING SILICON GRAPHICS 16 00SW FLAT PANEL MONITOR The following press release crossed the wire today, Monday June 28, 1999 at 9:01am EST. ****************************************************** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SGI ANNOUNCES LINUX SUPPORT FOR AWARD-WINNING SILICON GRAPHICS 1600SW FLAT PANEL MONITOR Solution Provided through PC Graphics Card from Number Nine Visual Technology MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (June 28, 1999) - SGI (NYSE:SGI) today announced that PC users running the Linux(tm) operating system can utilize the state-of-the-art Silicon Graphics 1600SW flat panel monitor as their display system. Linux support is now available for owners of the Digital Flat Panel Solution Pack bundle of the Silicon Graphics 1600SW monitor and the Number Nine Revolution IV-FP graphics accelerator. Linux drivers for the flat panel device were supplied by Number Nine to Xfree, a non-profit organization that produces Xfree86, a piece of software that Linux uses to support a wide array of video cards. The drivers, designed for Intel processor-based PCs, were built into Release 3.3.3.1 of Xfree86, available for download at no charge at www.xfree86.org. In a move to bring visual computing to the mainstream, SGI formed a close working relationship with Number Nine to create the Digital Flat Panel Solution Pack. This bundle includes Number Nine's Revolution IV-FP graphics card and the all-digital Silicon Graphics 1600SW flat panel monitor. In addition to Linux, the pack is supported by the Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT operating systems. The MSRP of the Digital Flat Panel Solution Pack in either PCI or AGP formats, available from resellers worldwide, is $2,795 (U.S. list). International and street pricing will vary. The Silicon Graphics 1600SW flat panel display is covered by a three-year limited warranty. The Silicon Graphics 1600SW flat panel monitor is the winner of 15 awards worldwide, and offers many unique capabilities. It features a 19-inch CRT-equivalent, 17.3-inch 1600x1024 pixel SuperWide(tm) format screen with category-defining image quality. The monitor offers three times the brightness and five times the contrast of a comparably-sized CRT, with no flicker. Number Nine Visual Technology Corporation, www.nine.com, is a leading supplier of high-performance visual technology solutions, including video/graphics accelerator subsystems, chips and productivity-enhancing software. Number Nine is a publicly held company (NASDAQ:NINE) headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts, with research and development and sales/marketing offices in Munich, Germany and Redmond, Washington. SGI is a market leader in technical computing, offering the world's most powerful servers, supercomputers and visual workstations. SGI uniquely provides a broad range of high-performance computing and advanced graphics solutions that enable customers to understand and conquer their toughest computing problems. Headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., with offices worldwide, the company is located on the Web at www.sgi.com. - -end- Silicon Graphics is a registered trademark, and SGI, SuperWide and the SGI logo are trademarks of Silicon Graphics, Inc. Number Nine and Revolution are registered trademarks, and Revolution IV-FP is a trademark of Number Nine Visual Technology Corporation. Intel is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation. Windows and Windows NT are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners. - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ End of Linux India Digest V1 #89 ******************************** -------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send an email to majordomo@aunet.org with the word 'unsubscribe linux-india-digest' (without the quotes) in the body of the email. From karthik_kh@grabmail.com Jul 4 13:49:40 1999 Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 04:49:40 +0800 From: "Karthik K H" Subject: CHIP CDs - NO PROBLEM!!! Hi all, After much debate I finally decided to install Red Hat 6.0 from the CHIP Special CD. Initially , I could not boot from the CDRom. Then I tried the autoboot.bat file in the dosutils directory. Unfortunately the path for the initrd.img file is wrongly specified in the autoboot.bat file. So I executed "loadlin " at the dos prompt . The installation started this time. I selected the work-station option & the installation went about smoothly. Even my graphics card ( SiS 6326 ) was also configured ina breeze & I have the whole system up & running. Even LILO was configured automatically for Linux & WINNT 4.0 I guess I am one of those lucky guys considering the problems people are facing with the CDs. Any way, I have one question. By default , Linux is starting with the 8-bit 640x480 mode. How do I change this to 800x600 mode. Please help me out on this. cheers, Karthik K H _________________________________________________________ Get your free @grabmail.com address at http://www.grabmail.com powered by OutBlaze - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From chetansk@wipinfo.soft.net Jul 4 21:46:40 1999 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 10:16:40 +0530 (IST) From: Chetan Kumar Subject: Re: help on sorting mail through pine On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Emmanuel Elango wrote: > > Hello > > Is it possible to redirect new mail to different folders by checking who man procmail, procmailrc, procmailex - -Chetan S > the sender is?? > > > Emmanuel > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From raju@sgi.com Jul 4 21:46:15 1999 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 10:16:15 +0530 (IST) From: Raj Mathur Subject: computing speed depends on location of swap partition?? Interesting. I've done some thinking about this and have come to the following conclusions: 1. Most written directories: - swap (ok, it's not a directory!) - /var - /tmp 2. Location of swap on a disk: In the middle. If you have multiple Linux partitions on a disk, make sure that the swap partition is somewhere near the middle so that seeks to the swap partition are minimised as far as possible. 3. Location of swap on which disk: On a disk different from the one containing the /var directory, otherwise both will be contending for write access. So I put my primary swap partition in the middle of my secondary disk, while my /var and /tmp are on the primary disk. Come to think of it, I should move /tmp also to the 2nd disk -- should get better throughput that way. Alternatively, as long as you don't use large databases or ghostscript too often, and have enough RAM, make /tmp a ramdisk. Regards, - -- Raju >>>>> "Sundeep" == Sundeep Holani writes: Sundeep> Hi, Due to some docs that I was reading I came across an Sundeep> interesting (and obvious) fact that computer speeds could Sundeep> be higher if data is being accessed from multiple disks Sundeep> in parallel. In this context , and in the situation that Sundeep> I have 2 hard-disks , would it not boost system speeds if Sundeep> the swap partition was on the disk other than the one Sundeep> containing the native Linux partitions? The reason why I Sundeep> think the answer should not be very obvious (to me) is Sundeep> because I have in mind the way data is multiplexed with Sundeep> the single system bus architecture , thus allowing only Sundeep> one disk (or device for that matter) to output on the Sundeep> system bus at any given time. I perhaps am not being to Sundeep> explain my confusion , and thats because I am very Sundeep> confused . And if the above proposal could work , does it Sundeep> not make sense to place the swap partition on the Sundeep> newer-faster-more_cache disk and the main partitions on Sundeep> the other , or is it the other way round?? I was Sundeep> wondering if somebody could work out a all-win Sundeep> partitioning scheme for my following setup.. Hard-disks Sundeep> -- 1) segate 2.1 gb , slow , 128 kb cache , 2) samsung Sundeep> 4.3gb , faster , 300 odd kb cache . Required SW.. Linux Sundeep> ofcourse... (should get main attention in performance Sundeep> gain..) win-98 , win-nt-4 . Sundeep> Regards, Sundeep. - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From sandi@del3.vsnl.net.in Jul 4 11:19:1 1999 Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 23:49:01 +0530 From: "Sundeep Holani" Subject: Re: Tell me some thing about Wine... Hi. > I wanna use Wine on my RD Linux 5.2 system.How do i invoke and > configure wine in order to make my linux machine run Windows > applications. You first need to install Wine because its not part of the RH Linux- 5.2 official package. If you are using PCQ installations you probably will face error messages about a library missing. PCQ has made them available in their May or june-99 issues.Assuming that you have been successfully able to install wine , you will have to edit your /etc/wine.conf for your particular setup.The file is pretty self explanatory , and editing it should be no problem at all) When this has been done , just fire X , open an Xterm and give the command $wine /path/of/windows/executable.exe Now a word of caution , wine is an excellent concept but its very buggy yet. I've had my system crash a number of times while using wine. I've also lost important data registered with a windows executable when I attempted running it through wine in Linux (I'm talking about OE-5 and the mail-mass saved in it). Moreover you will not be able to run any significantly complex program yet. You have been warned . Regards, Sundeep. - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From raju@sgi.com Jul 4 21:57:42 1999 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 10:27:42 +0530 (IST) From: Raj Mathur Subject: [linux-delhi] Queries:-Ethernet Cards, PPP etc. >>>>> "Jeffrey" == Jeffrey Yep writes: Jeffrey> Hi everybody, Sorry for this long list of questions:- Jeffrey> 1)I'm connecting my Win95 486 machine(the client) to my Jeffrey> Linux Pentium machine(which is going to be the Jeffrey> server). But my 486 has no PCI slots so I'll be having a Jeffrey> NE2000 ISA ethernet card for my 486(Win95) and a NE2000 Jeffrey> PCI ethernet card for my pentium(Linux), will it cause a Jeffrey> conflict? No. As long as the card talks Ethernet on the wire it doesn't matter what type, make, size, interface etc of card it is. Jeffrey> 4) I can't seem to find the HOW-TO for Samba on the net? Jeffrey> Can anybody give me a URL for it and Apache? http://www.apache.org/ http://www.samba.org/ Jeffrey> 5) Does anyone have info or a URL for setting up Dumb Jeffrey> Terminals with Linux? Serial-HOWTO Jeffrey> Thanks a lot, Jeff Regards, - -- Raju - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From N_Dinesh@maaln.satyam.net.in Jul 4 22:23:7 1999 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 10:53:07 +0530 From: N_Dinesh@maaln.satyam.net.in Subject: Re: Hotmail from Linux hi, I have used hotmail in RedHat 6.0 there seems to absolutely no problem. dinesh - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From raju@sgi.com Jul 4 22:13:18 1999 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 10:43:18 +0530 (IST) From: Raj Mathur Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA Hi folks, The Linux-Delhi mailing list currently stands at about 85 subscribers and 850 messages. This is a great achievement since mid-December, when we started the list, and kudos to all of you who made this possible. The list seems to be in self-sustaining mode now, and I see a healthy mixture of help queries and responses, technical discussions and general discussions on Linux and freeware. There is also the occaissional non-Linux related stuff which list members seem to squash pronto :-) I am hopeful that we can grow this on the same lines, and need your support and help to do so. Most important of all, keep posting! Regards, - -- Raju - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From manasg@inf.com Jul 4 22:53:34 1999 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 11:23:34 +0530 (IST) From: manas garg Subject: Re: CHIP CDs - NO PROBLEM!!! > How do I change this to 800x600 mode. Use Xconfigurator. - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From hmsadiq@netscape.net Mon Jul 5 5:50:37 1999 Date: 5 Jul 99 08:50:37 AST From: Mohammed Sadiq Subject: Apache Web Server Hi all, I joined this service today and I am new user to LINUX, can someone help = me out here, how can I configure my Apache Server so that the web of any = user can be accessed by adding there username at the end. e.g. (http://ww= w.abc.com/~jacky) Thanks MSADIQ

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Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From Rahul.Kumar@metamorgs.com Jul 4 22:56:45 1999 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 11:26:45 +0530 From: Rahul Kumar Subject: Is Linux C2 Compliant ? Is Linux (or any version) C2 Security Level ? Would appreciate if you could point out exact source of information. Regards, Rahul Kumar - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From lvgandhi@md3.vsnl.net.in Sat Jul 3 18:6:34 1999 Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 06:36:34 +0530 From: "L.V.Gandhi" Subject: KDE in RH 6.0 The KDE in CHIP CD of RH6.0 comes with version of 1.1.1pre2-1. Is it prerelease version of KDE 1.1. However when I go to control center of KDE I get version as 1.1. I was using kppp in RH 5.2 given PCQ CD without problem. But kppp in KDE given in CHIP CD, during setup when I do modem query gives message' Could not create modem lock file'. I installed RH 6.0 with out KDE and tried to install KDE 1.1 from Apr PCQ CD. But the script says it is for version of RH 5.2 only. Whether it is the problem of installation script only? Can install individual packages? I hope it should work. Any suggestion? - -- L.V.Gandhi MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA http://www.poboxes.com/lvgandhi lvgandhi@poboxes.com, lvgandhi@vsnl.com, 31882656@pager.mirabilis.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From lokesh@india.aspectdv.com Jul 4 23:7:26 1999 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 11:37:26 +0530 From: "Lokesh" Subject: Re: CHIP CDs - NO PROBLEM!!! Try installing some applications like Staroffice 5.0 frm that CD, Lets see how lucky u are ;-) - --lokee > I guess I am one of those lucky guys considering the problems people are facing with the CDs. > Any way, I have one question. By default , Linux is starting with the 8-bit 640x480 mode. > How do I change this to 800x600 mode. run XF86Setup to change - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From lvgandhi@md3.vsnl.net.in Sat Jul 3 8:53:29 1999 Date: Sat, 03 Jul 1999 21:23:29 +0530 From: "L.V.Gandhi" Subject: Re: Installing RH6.0 from CHIP CD Most probably you have 2gb extended partition and 1 gb logical drive of 2gb extended partition. Check this with fdisk. For worksattion installation around 600 MB is enough. Hence my above doubt. Milesh Kumar wrote: > > Hi, > Can anybody tell me what is to be done to install RH 6.0 from the CHIP > CD? I'd like to know about the pre-installation partition scheme > required? I have a 4GB hard disk with a 2GB primary partition and 1GB > extended partition. The remaining 1GB is free and is not assigned to any > OS. Is this sufficient or should I do something else? I booted from the > CD and the installation program reports that there's not enough disk > space if I try a Workstation installation. Any idea as to what is > happening and what is to be done??? > > Thanks > Milesh > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ - -- L.V.Gandhi MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA http://www.poboxes.com/lvgandhi lvgandhi@poboxes.com, lvgandhi@vsnl.com, 31882656@pager.mirabilis.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From madhu@aspiresys.net Jul 4 23:20:46 1999 Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 11:50:46 +0530 From: Madhu R Sudhanan Subject: Re: CHIP CDs - NO PROBLEM!!! Hi, You have a util called as "Xconfigurator" in linux. Execute it and just answer few of its questions. That's all you r done. Regards Madhu R Sudhanan Karthik K H wrote: > Hi all, > After much debate I finally decided to install > Red Hat 6.0 from the CHIP Special CD. > Initially , I could not boot from the CDRom. > Then I tried the autoboot.bat file in the dosutils directory. Unfortunately the path for the initrd.img file is wrongly specified in the autoboot.bat file. > So I executed "loadlin " at the dos prompt . The installation started this time. > I selected the work-station option & the installation went about smoothly. Even my graphics card ( SiS 6326 ) was also configured ina breeze & I have the whole system up & running. Even LILO was configured automatically for Linux & WINNT 4.0 > I guess I am one of those lucky guys considering the problems people are facing with the CDs. > > Any way, I have one question. By default , Linux is starting with the 8-bit 640x480 mode. > How do I change this to 800x600 mode. > Please help me out on this. > > cheers, > Karthik K H > > _________________________________________________________ > Get your free @grabmail.com address at http://www.grabmail.com > > powered by OutBlaze > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From madhu@aspiresys.net Jul 4 23:19:14 1999 Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 11:49:14 +0530 From: Madhu R Sudhanan Subject: Re: using teleinit I've used telinit 0 to halt my system & so far I've not faced any troubles.I haven't tried out telinit 6 to reboot the system.I'll try it later and write again. Regards Madhu R Sudhanan mukund wrote: > YL Narayana wrote: > > > > Is there any problem with using 'telinit 0' for halting the system and > > 'telinit 6' for rebooting the system? > > > > Narayana > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > > never heard telinit. > If it is init 0 or init 6 then yes its OK. I use it. > -- > Best Wishes. > -mukund > http://members.theglobe.com/betacomp/default.html > http://members.xoom.com/BETACOMP/index1.htm > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From hdoshi@cal2.vsnl.net.in Mon Jul 5 0:35:26 1999 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 13:05:26 +0530 From: "Rutvik Doshi" Subject: what is Is Linux C2 Compliant ? Hi can anybody pls elaborate on what is C2 security level thanks rutvik - ----- Original Message ----- From: Rahul Kumar To: Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 11:26 AM Subject: Is Linux C2 Compliant ? > Is Linux (or any version) C2 Security Level ? Would appreciate if you could > point out exact source of information. > > Regards, > Rahul Kumar > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From shashankb@dcmds.co.in Mon Jul 5 0:37:33 1999 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 13:07:33 +0530 From: Shashank Banerjee Subject: RE: CHIP CDs - NO PROBLEM!!! Lokkeee, Hmm...Lets' not talk about known problems and bugs... :) - --- lucky Shanky >-----Original Message----- >From: Lokesh [SMTP:lokesh@india.aspectdv.com] >Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 11:37 AM >To: linux-india@aunet.org >Subject: Re: CHIP CDs - NO PROBLEM!!! > >Try installing some applications like Staroffice 5.0 frm that CD, Lets >see >how lucky u are ;-) > >--lokee > >> I guess I am one of those lucky guys considering the problems people are >facing with the CDs. >> Any way, I have one question. By default , Linux is starting with the >8-bit 640x480 mode. >> How do I change this to 800x600 mode. > > run XF86Setup to change > > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >For more information on Linux in India visit >http://www.linux-india.org/ - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From sudheer@easi.soft.net Mon Jul 5 1:8:23 1999 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 13:38:23 +0530 (IST) From: Subject: Re: bkup Hi Binand, Thanks a lot for the hint. But how to run this from cron. I wrote a simple script for echoing a message. then i submitted this to cron using crontab sudheer message After that it created a file in /var/cron/tabs in my name. also this is the log from /var/log/messages "Jul 5 13:32:46 an crontab[532]: (sudheer) REPLACE (sudheer)" But the script is not getting executed. I couldn't figure out what exactly is happening. please help sudheer On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Binand Raj S. wrote: > > Use ncftp in its line mode. Start ncftp, edit the preferences and > bookmarks file, and then write a shell script which has a here > document, ie, something like > > #!/bin/sh > cd /tmp/backup > ncftp host.com << EOF > get -R /home/you/ > quit > EOF > > (Info about the host, login id, passwd etc. are stored in the > bookmarks file, and info about transfer type and other config- > urable ncftp's behaviour are stored in the preferences file). > Now run this script from cron. > > Binand > > -- > main(int c,char **v){while(!fork()){strcpy(v[0],tmpnam(0));sleep(1);}} > A program that changes its name and pid every second. > Try this program at your own risk! ---> Binand <--- > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From subbiahm@hclt.com Mon Jul 5 1:13:48 1999 Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 13:43:48 +0530 From: Subbiah Muthukalayappan Subject: Re: Help with Linux. Hi, I have been able to setup the new hard disk. Thanks for the info. Rightnow, I am using a floppy disk to boot linux. If I dont use the linux boot floppy, The C-Drive automatically boots MS-DOS. Now, what should I do so that I can get a choose between MS-DOS and Linux at the time of booting - This is because If the floppy gets corrupted or something of that sort, then I wont be able to boot linux (or is there any other way?!). Currently all files related to Linux are present in my E drive. The hard disks are like this, Hard disk 1 has the drives C, D and E (/boot and stuff lie in E) Hard disk 2 has the drive F (The new disk that I added to get some more disk space). C and D are used for MS-DOS. E and F are used for linux. Can someone please help me with this..... Thanks in advance Subbiah S Ravi Shankar wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 12:33:02PM +0530, Subbiah Muthukalayappan wrote: > -> open vi, temporary files are not being opened. Now that I have managed > -> to get another hard disk of 125 MB capacity, how do I get out of this > -> problem. I am not very sure of how to mount disks, make file systems and > -> stuff or add swap spaces. I need help with this. I also need to install > -> this lilo. This I couldnt do during install. How do I put LILO > -> bootloader now? > > assuming you are connecting the new harddisk as secondary master [a > new cable that goes to another slot in the motherboard] do the > following: > > use "fdisk /dev/hdc" and make it a single partition [/dev/hdc1] > "mkfs -t ext2 /dev/hdc1" will create the file system for linux. > "mount -t ext2 /dev/hdc1 /home" will make the new hard disk act as the > /home partition. [copy any existing files to another place before > mounting and then copy them back here]. > add the following entry to your /etc/fstab > /dev/hdc1 /home ext2 defaults 1 1 > > this will mount the file system in the new hard disk as /home > everytime you boot up. > You are not able to open temporary files because there is no room > left in the old hard disk. to overcome this do the following. > "rm -rf /tmp" remove the existing /tmp > "mkdir /home/tmp" create tmp in the new harddisk > "chmod 777 /home/tmp" > "chmod +t /home/tmp" the default settings of /tmp > "ln -s /home/tmp /tmp" make /home/tmp act as /tmp > now you can work freely > -- > With Regards, > > S Ravi Shankar > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From venky@softprosys.com Mon Jul 5 7:11:22 1999 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 14:11:22 -0000 From: "M.Venkataramana" Subject: Auto reply with mail server Hello everybody Does Redhat 5.2 have AUTO REPLY as a part of mail server. If yes how do i enable and use it ? Regards Venkat - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From shankar@cse.iitb.ernet.in Mon Jul 5 1:52:12 1999 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 14:22:12 +0530 From: S Ravi Shankar Subject: Re: Help with Linux. On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 01:43:48PM +0530, Subbiah Muthukalayappan wrote: - -> Rightnow, I am using a floppy disk to boot linux. If I dont use the - -> linux boot floppy, The C-Drive automatically boots MS-DOS. Now, what - -> should I do so that I can get a choose between MS-DOS and Linux at the - -> time of booting - This is because If the floppy gets corrupted or - -> something of that sort, then I wont be able to boot linux (or is there - -> any other way?!). Currently all files related to Linux are present in my - -> E drive. The hard disks are like this, - -> Hard disk 1 has the drives C, D and E (/boot and stuff lie in E) - -> Hard disk 2 has the drive F (The new disk that I added to get some more - -> disk space). edit the file /etc/lilo.conf. it should look something like this boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=50 image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15 label=linux root=/dev/hda5 read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=dos table=/dev/hda run /sbin/lilo and restart. good luck With Regards, S Ravi Shankar - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From sunil@nicfos.ernet.in Mon Jul 5 3:30:48 1999 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 11:30:48 +0100 From: Sunil Sarat Subject: Re: try this > Fire up gnome(with enlightment wm), go to setting background, set > background as /usr/share/WindowMaker/Backgrounds/SeaNight.jpeg. Then move > the pannel up, click pannel->pannel properties->position->up. > Then start rippel effect, Middle mouse button, desktop, Fx-Rippel. The > feel the real Night sea shore env :-) > Hi Chetan, In /usr/share/WindowMaker/Backgrounds directory, I didn't find SeaNight.jpeg. Only one file is available (BlueImage). I have a mouse with 2 buttons. so, where from to get the Fx-Rippel? Sunil Sarat - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From geetha@cswri.raj.nic.in Mon Jul 5 3:4:45 1999 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 15:34:45 +0530 (IST) From: Subject: Re: T-shirts ? Dear sir, I type this message with the penguin gazing out of my T-Shirt.... Hope you got the message... Yours sincerely, Geethalakshmi. V. On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > What happened to the Linux-India t-shirts that were being talked about some > time ago ? > > Udhay > -- > __________________________________________________________________ > http://www.unimobile.com/ http://pobox.com/~udhay > sign up for the Unimobile beta today! > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From aranya@bol.net.in Mon Jul 5 3:30:5 1999 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 16:00:05 +0530 From: "Aranya" Subject: Re: mesa-lib & wine installation..... >> I was told to install mesa-libs first and then proceed with wine >> installation. Now the question is where the above said packages can be >> found ? > >Those libs were on the May or June 99 PCQ CD, as far as I can recall. > >Atul And also in the CHIP 2nd CD, in software/graphics directory. People should really be looking for things in the CD first before posting messages here. Akshat - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From iacc@vsnl.com Mon Jul 5 3:49:19 1999 Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 10:49:19 +0000 From: iacc Subject: Please help me to configure Qmail Mail Server We have LINUX REDHAT 5.2 with QMAIL from Chip Special CD as per their instruction but this server can send message to local users only not to external world , If I add the hostname on /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts mail to that host will go smoothly But this is not possible for every address. So how we can solve this please help me Thanks Benoy George - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From aranya@bol.net.in Mon Jul 5 3:38:43 1999 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 16:08:43 +0530 From: "Aranya" Subject: Re: Tell me some thing about Wine... >Now a word of caution , wine is an excellent concept but its very buggy yet. >I've had my system crash a number of times while using wine. I've also lost >important data registered with a windows executable when I attempted running >it through wine in Linux (I'm talking about OE-5 and the mail-mass saved in >it). Moreover you will not be able to run any significantly complex program >yet. You have been warned . >Regards, >Sundeep. > Perhaps you should have mounted the windows partition as read-only, your files would not have got screwed that way -- just a suggestion :-) Akshat - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From sunil@nicfos.ernet.in Mon Jul 5 7:46:55 1999 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 15:46:55 +0100 From: Sunil Sarat Subject: IP range in DNS Hi, I have configured DNS on my system and its working fine. But in linux conf, there is an option called IP range. What is this for. I've configured DNS manually. I didn't use linux conf. What are the files linuxconf modifies when we configure DNS using it? Can somebody please tell me? Thanks in advance Sunil Sarat - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From soumya_chatt@hotmail.com Mon Jul 5 3:39:49 1999 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 16:09:49 +0530 From: "Soumyanath Chatterjee" Subject: [LI] Admin: Identifier tag in subject Can we have a identifier tag in letters so that it is easily identifiable as Linux-India letter. Something like [LI] in the original subject. (not in the reply as that will make it difficult to mark the threads. - - Soumya - ---- I love Linux. Do U ? URL: http://www.bigfoot.com/~soumyac - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From subbiahm@hclt.com Mon Jul 5 4:2:49 1999 Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 16:32:49 +0530 From: Subbiah Muthukalayappan Subject: Linux on cyrix. Hi, I am currently using linux on an x86 with very limited hard drive space (around 275 MB). I am planning to buy a new machine. I was wondering about a machine based on Cyrix-MediaGx for the cost reason. Has anyone used linux on a Cyrix machine ? I understand that the processor itself provides the sound support, but how does this work with linux ? Are there any problems as such ? BTW, Is LUG-India same as linux-india@aunet.org ?? Thanks in advance Subbiah - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From manasg@inf.com Mon Jul 5 4:2:24 1999 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 16:32:24 +0530 (IST) From: manas garg Subject: Re: try this On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Sunil Sarat wrote: > > Hi Chetan, > > In /usr/share/WindowMaker/Backgrounds directory, I didn't find > SeaNight.jpeg. Only one file is available (BlueImage). I have a mouse with 2 > buttons. so, where from to get the Fx-Rippel? Did you choose emulate 3 buttons during configuration of your mouse? If no, launch mouseconfig and choose emulate 3 mouse buttons. Now clicking both the buttons together will be equivalent to clicking the middle button. Manas - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From shibumi@MailAndNews.com Mon Jul 5 4:35:5 1999 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 07:35:05 -0400 From: Rajkumar Andrews Subject: RE: Is Linux C2 Compliant ? Yep! In fact I think it is the very first point you see in any discussion of Linux. For starters http://www.linux.org >===== Original Message From linux-india@aunet.org ===== >Is Linux (or any version) C2 Security Level ? Would appreciate if you could >point out exact source of information. > >Regards, >Rahul Kumar Visit me at http://princeandy.webjump.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From shibumi@MailAndNews.com Mon Jul 5 4:54:26 1999 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 07:54:26 -0400 From: Rajkumar Andrews Subject: RE: Hotmail from Linux www.mailandnews.com is also good. Offers unlimited disk space! has a good web interface, is POP3 compliant (so all fetchmail, sendmail guys can do things freely). Rajkumar Andrews >Go to usa.net... more space and it doesn't belong to MS. > >-- Raju > >>>>> "Muthu" == Muthu Vairavan writes: > > >> i'm not able to access hotmail site from linux. > Muthu> Hotmail is under renovation, ;-) Go to msn.com Muthu Visit me at http://princeandy.webjump.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From chetansk@wipinfo.soft.net Mon Jul 5 5:17:11 1999 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 17:47:11 +0530 (IST) From: Chetan Kumar Subject: Re: try this On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Sunil Sarat wrote: > > > Hi Chetan, > > In /usr/share/WindowMaker/Backgrounds directory, I didn't find > SeaNight.jpeg. Only one file is available (BlueImage). I have a mouse with 2 > buttons. so, where from to get the Fx-Rippel? 1) Do you have gnome+enlightenment installed ? 2) With 2 button mouse, have to configure emulate 3 button mouse ?? If not try that with mouseconfig, when enabled, you can use button 1+2 (at once) as middle button. Now with that you can get rippel - -Chetan S - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From shashankb@dcmds.co.in Mon Jul 5 5:15:18 1999 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 17:45:18 +0530 From: Shashank Banerjee Subject: RE: mesa-lib & wine installation..... Akshat, Hmm... Isn't it a normal human tendency to give up ASAP and get things the easy way? Well, that's why the term originated RTFM... Read the Fat (as milder term) Manual... :) Come on.. now you expect the people to look into the CD... Search the full 650 MB of it..:)) Too much to ask? - --- Shanky _________________________________________________________________ >-----Original Message----- >From: Aranya [SMTP:aranya@bol.net.in] >Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 4:00 PM >To: linux-india@aunet.org >Subject: Re: mesa-lib & wine installation..... > > > >>> I was told to install mesa-libs first and then proceed with wine >>> installation. Now the question is where the above said packages can be >>> found ? >> >>Those libs were on the May or June 99 PCQ CD, as far as I can recall. >> >>Atul > > >And also in the CHIP 2nd CD, in software/graphics directory. People >should >really be looking for things in the CD first before posting messages >here. > >Akshat > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >For more information on Linux in India visit >http://www.linux-india.org/ - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From rmanoj@destination-in.com Mon Jul 5 18:29:37 1999 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 18:29:37 -0700 From: Manoj Subject: sendmail problems..... Hello, I use fetchmail to pull our mails into our linux server( qpopper3.0b). = the problem is the mails are not channeled to the respective user acct = by sendmail when the mails are from some mailing lists ( all of it gets = sent to POST MASTER which is root ) ! But when a mail is sent with = explicit addressing [ user@mydomain.com ] to one of the users from = anywhere , we get it . i would like to know what changes i should make = in sendmail configuration .=20 Please help. Regards Manoj - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From m_vimal@hotmail.com Mon Jul 5 6:11:28 1999 Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 06:11:28 PDT From: Vimal Mathew Subject: Re : 2.1GB HD with 486 Hi, The problem with having 2.1GB lies in the (older) BIOS which cant handle more than 1024 cylinders. But, Linux should not have a problem with that because it does not use BIOS for disk access. The only problem lies with LILO which uses INT 13 (BIOS) for boot-up. As long as the linux boot-files (kernel, map and boot.b) lie within the first 1024 cylinder boundary, you should be able to boot up just fine. Documents: /usr/doc/lilo*/README, /usr/src/linux/Documentation/ide.txt Vimal ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From rfowkar@goa1.dot.net.in Mon Jul 5 16:5:55 1999 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 19:05:55 -0400 From: Rajesh Fowkar Subject: Koffice Hi everybody, I have read that there is an application for KDE called KOffice which has got a Word Processor and a Spreadsheet. Will PC QUEST / CHIP carry KOFFICE in it's future CD-ROM's. regards - -- Rajesh Fowkar - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From shanu@poboxes.com Mon Jul 5 6:59:3 1999 Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 19:29:03 +0530 From: Shanu Subject: Mounting CDROMS with noexec permission !!! Hello All, Ragu (vu2rgu) had a problem running mp3's directly off the CD drive because the file permission was automatically set as executable. Every time he tried playing it off the CD itself, the error "bash: ./foo.mp3: cannot execute binary file" popped up. He wanted to know whether disc could be mounted with the noexec bit set like for example, the vfat file system. Well, i think i have a solution. I don't know whether it will be of relevance now as a long time has now elapsed (over a month i think). The isofs driver sets the permission to r-x as default since the disc could be shared with DOS machines so virtually anything could be a valid executable(refer inode.c). But this setup is a headache for Linux only users as we have to copy the file to the ext2 partition and chmod it manually every time. Try this instead... mount -t iso9660 -r -o mode=000 /dev/cdrom /cdrom -v # mode - Sets the permissions on files to xxx (refer isofs.txt) The '000' value was plucked out of thin air after a lot of experimentation with random figures. It took me hellofalot of hacking to get this done, so if u find it useful please drop me a line. Can some one explain what does the '000' value signify. Null, i suppose??? References: /linux/Documentation/filesystems/isofs.txt /linux/fs/isofs/inode.c - -- Shanu - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - = = (SHANU) = = - - Shanker Balan Debian/GNU Linux 2.1 St. Alberts College Cochin India - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ End of Linux India Digest V1 #90 ******************************** -------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send an email to majordomo@aunet.org with the word 'unsubscribe linux-india-digest' (without the quotes) in the body of the email. From rohith@giasbga.vsnl.net.in Mon Jul 5 7:33:4 1999 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 20:03:04 +0530 (IST) From: Rohith R kori Subject: Linux Learning Centre Linux Learning Centre Linux Learning Centre is the First Exclusive Linux Training Centre in India promoted by Institute for Specialised Education. 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TeleFax: 080-6528538 Email: rohith@giasbga.vsnl.net.in - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From shankar@cse.iitb.ernet.in Mon Jul 5 8:5:57 1999 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 20:35:57 +0530 From: S Ravi Shankar Subject: Re: Koffice koffice is not yet stable. better wait somemore time or use staroffice instead. - -- With Regards, S Ravi Shankar - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From rfowkar@goa1.dot.net.in Mon Jul 5 16:39:20 1999 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 19:39:20 -0400 From: Rajesh Fowkar Subject: Re: Help with DOSEMU Hi Saurabh, I also faced the same problem. But one of our friends on this list Raj Mathur helped me and I am now able to run dosemu and even access my windows partition. Below is his reply. Hope it helps. Regards Rajesh Hi Rajesh, You probably need to get DosEmu to boot off your primary MS-DOS drive instead of the built-in drive emulation file of DosEmu. I have the following lines in /etc/dosemu.conf (note: my DOS drive is /dev/hda2): #disk { image "/var/lib/dosemu/hdimage" } # use diskimage file. disk { partition "/dev/hda2" } I've commented out the primary disk (hdimage, which is basically a DOS disk image in Linux) and enabled the primary native DOS disk. If you have WinXX on your primary drive you will have to use F8 or one of those keys to ensure that you don't try to boot into Winduhs by mistake. I've used DosEmu a bit, and am quite happy with it's emulation. Hope this helps, - -- Raju On Sun, 04 Jul 1999, you wrote: > >%_I've got Redhat 6.0 loaded on my system. How do i access my windows partition from dosemu. > Please help, > Saurabh > > - ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: - ---------------------------------------- - -- Rajesh Fowkar - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From rfowkar@goa1.dot.net.in Mon Jul 5 17:15:46 1999 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 20:15:46 -0400 From: Rajesh Fowkar Subject: Re: mesa-lib & wine installation..... Hi Madhu, mesa-libs is available on Chip Special CD 2 as well as PC QUEST June 99 CD. Wine is present on Chip Special CD 2 and PC QUEST April or May 99 issue I don't exacly remember. Please check it out on www.pcquest.com Hope this helps Regards Rajesh On Sun, 04 Jul 1999, you wrote: > Hi, > I was told to install mesa-libs first and then proceed with wine > installation. Now the question is where the above said packages can be > found ? > > Pls help me soon.......at the earliest..... > > Thanx every one for helping > > regards > Madhu R Sudhanan > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ - -- Rajesh Fowkar - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From rfowkar@goa1.dot.net.in Mon Jul 5 16:33:17 1999 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 19:33:17 -0400 From: Rajesh Fowkar Subject: Re: Help with WINE Hi Saurabh, You should go through the CD first and if you don't find in it than post your question here. Any way Mesalib libraries are there on the second cd rom. Go through it. They are also present on June 99 PC QUEST. I have already installed them & wine is working fine, only thing is that it is slow since it works on top of X server and consumes lot of memory. Happy wining. Regards Rajesh On Sun, 04 Jul 1999, you wrote: > >%_Hello, > I am a very recent entry on the linux bandwagon. > I had redhat5.2 (PC Quest) on my system and recently upgraded it (with much difficulty)to redhat6.0 (CHIP). > I have been trying to load WINE-990131-1 given by the chip guys but it always fails a dependency check of lib MesaGL.so.3. Where do i get this lib from?? > Please help, > Saurabh > - ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: - ---------------------------------------- - -- Rajesh Fowkar - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From shanu@poboxes.com Mon Jul 5 8:11:38 1999 Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 20:41:38 +0530 From: Shanu Subject: Re: HELP HELP HELP HELP Anshul Gupta wrote: > > I have mailed several question to the list but not even a single has been > answered. > Im in a fix bcoz of respawning problem now, please help me. > -anshul Hey man, That is how the whole system works - if nobody wants to help u fix it, fix it yourself. - -- Shanu - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - = = (SHANU) = = - - Shanker Balan Debian/GNU Linux 2.1 St. Alberts College Cochin India - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From sunil@nicfos.ernet.in Mon Jul 5 3:53:53 1999 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 11:53:53 +0100 From: Sunil Sarat Subject: Help regarding Pine Hi, If I telnet from any node to my linux server and use pine, can I send an attachment from the floppy of the local machine(not server), when I tried it is showing that the default directory is /home/username. So, how do I attach a file from the floppy drive of the node? Thanks in advance Sunil Sarat - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From adsharma@home.com Mon Jul 5 9:47:59 1999 Date: 05 Jul 1999 09:47:59 -0700 From: Arun Sharma Subject: Re: Journalled File System (long) BGanesh writes: Ganesh, Thanks for the nice technical post. > > Traditionally, UNIX file systems such as the Berkeley fast file system > have to write everything through the disk. When you're updating, > creating your file, they have to write all the way through the disk and > wait for that write to complete. This is a synchronous write. > If a filesystem does write through, it'd be unusable. Berkeley FFS does synchronous writes of only metadata (directory entries, file distribution etc). This is only the default behaviour. You can make it async through a mount option. Also, there is some work layered on top of FFS called "softupdates". It tries to reorder changes to metadata and thus optimize for performance. There was some work by Rosenblum et al, on LFS (log structure filesystem) which does logging for data also. Again, thanks for a good post. -Arun - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From thaths@aunet.org Mon Jul 5 9:57:20 1999 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 09:57:20 -0700 From: Sudhakar Chandrasekharan Subject: Free Penguin Courier From the US Folks, I am planning on making a trip to India in late August - early September. I want to meet as many ILUG folks as possible. I plan to visit Madras and Calcutta. Possibly even Bangalore. Are the ILUGs in these cities planning to meet around that time? I would love to attend one of your meetings. Also, do you folks want some Linux CDs from the US? If you do, please send me a private email (thaths@netscape.com). I am open to bringing a few Linux t-shirts / books too. Thaths - -- "If there were any justice, my face would be on a bunch of crappy merchandise" -- Homer J. Simpson - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From dspl@nde.vsnl.net.in Mon Jul 5 2:11:59 1999 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 14:41:59 +0530 From: "Saurabh Kapoor" Subject: Re: Is Linux C2 Compliant ? Yes, linux is C2 compliant. I read it on the Chip Special but i'm sure there are web pages where you get more details. Saurabh - ----- Original Message ----- From: Rahul Kumar To: Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 11:26 AM Subject: Is Linux C2 Compliant ? > Is Linux (or any version) C2 Security Level ? Would appreciate if you could > point out exact source of information. > > Regards, > Rahul Kumar > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From dspl@nde.vsnl.net.in Mon Jul 5 1:34:37 1999 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 14:04:37 +0530 From: "Saurabh Kapoor" Subject: Re: CHIP CDs - NO PROBLEM!!! You can try and edit the XF86Config file in the /etc/Xfree86 directory. TOwards the end of the document change the entries of "640 480" to "800 600". That should produce the desired result. - ----- Original Message ----- From: Karthik K H To: Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 2:19 AM Subject: CHIP CDs - NO PROBLEM!!! > Hi all, > After much debate I finally decided to install > Red Hat 6.0 from the CHIP Special CD. > Initially , I could not boot from the CDRom. > Then I tried the autoboot.bat file in the dosutils directory. Unfortunately the path for the initrd.img file is wrongly specified in the autoboot.bat file. > So I executed "loadlin " at the dos prompt . The installation started this time. > I selected the work-station option & the installation went about smoothly. Even my graphics card ( SiS 6326 ) was also configured ina breeze & I have the whole system up & running. Even LILO was configured automatically for Linux & WINNT 4.0 > I guess I am one of those lucky guys considering the problems people are facing with the CDs. > > Any way, I have one question. By default , Linux is starting with the 8-bit 640x480 mode. > How do I change this to 800x600 mode. > Please help me out on this. > > cheers, > Karthik K H > > > _________________________________________________________ > Get your free @grabmail.com address at http://www.grabmail.com > > > > > > > powered by OutBlaze > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From sunil@nicfos.ernet.in Mon Jul 5 3:53:53 1999 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 11:53:53 +0100 From: Sunil Sarat Subject: Help regarding Pine Hi, If I telnet from any node to my linux server and use pine, can I send an attachment from the floppy of the local machine(not server), when I tried it is showing that the default directory is /home/username. So, how do I attach a file from the floppy drive of the node? Thanks in advance Sunil Sarat - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From jayan01@hotmail.com Mon Jul 5 10:19:10 1999 Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 10:19:10 PDT From: jayan sr Subject: Re: RH6 Installation Freeze At the LILO: prompt type 'linux single' the machine boots into runlevel-1 ie single user mode. Jayan. >From: gerryco@bom1.vsnl.net.in >Reply-To: linux-india@aunet.org >To: linux-india@aunet.org >Subject: RH6 Installation Freeze >Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 16:49:05 +0500 > >I have installed RH6 from the CHIP CD.I chose KDE instead of GNOME at the >installation.I am able to use runlevel 3 without a problem. > >1.I did mkdir /root/Desktop >2.I changed to runlevel 5 in /etc/inittab > >When I boot I get a disfigured K-Desktop login screen.I login and then I >come to the initial KDE screen and everything just freezes. > >How do I get over this problem AND how do I get to use runlevel 3 >again...everytime I press reset I go to Runlevel 5 > >Thanks, >Gerry Mascarenhas > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From chenthil@softhome.net Jul 4 13:11:59 1999 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 01:41:59 +0530 From: "ChenthilWhelan" Subject: Login Prob... 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While the solution suggested by S Ravi Shankar will work perfectly, I believe, your previous linux installation was aborted midway and so there will definitely be some files missing and hence lots of programs that you might try will give dependency errors. So I suggest that you reinstall after setting up your hard disk. If you've done it once you probably will find it very easy to partition your disks using DiskDruid . I suggest that you place the /usr partition on disk2. Now. since 154+125 mb isnt much disk space still, and most of what you'll install will go to the /usr of disk 2 , you still have to do a minimal installation and only keep what you cant live without.Alternatively if you'd prefer 15 more MB of space for /usr , make a 10MB /boot and a /usr on the rest of the space of disk 1 , and a / partition on disk2. Regards, Sundeep. BTW i am curious to know where you got a 125mb HDD from.... we now get floppies of that size :-) - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From souravjr@usa.net Mon Jul 5 11:28:47 1999 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 23:58:47 +0530 From: "Sourav Sarkar" Subject: Re: Linux on cyrix. hi, The "MediaGX tm" chip from Cyrix was designed to only support Microsoft Windows therefore won't run Linux. However, Cyrix's other chips i.e the 6X86MX & the MII series will run Linux . - ----- Original Message ----- From: Subbiah Muthukalayappan To: LUG - India Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 4:32 PM Subject: Linux on cyrix. > Hi, > > I am currently using linux on an x86 with very limited hard drive space > (around 275 MB). I am planning to buy a new machine. I was wondering > about a machine based on Cyrix-MediaGx for the cost reason. Has anyone > used linux on a Cyrix machine ? I understand that the processor itself > provides the sound support, but how does this work with linux ? Are > there any problems as such ? > > BTW, Is LUG-India same as > linux-india@aunet.org ?? > > > Thanks in advance > Subbiah > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From aranya@bol.net.in Mon Jul 5 11:34:35 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 00:04:35 +0530 From: "Aranya" Subject: Re: mesa-lib & wine installation..... >Akshat, > >Hmm... Isn't it a normal human tendency to give up ASAP and get things >the easy way? >Well, that's why the term originated RTFM... Read the Fat (as milder >term) Manual... :) > >Come on.. now you expect the people to look into the CD... Search the >full 650 MB of it..:)) >Too much to ask? How about $ find /mnt/cdrom -name "Mesa*" or Windows Start --> Find --> Files or Folders OR the easiest, graphics.htm -- part of the documentation describing the stuff in the CD??? BTW, the second CD is just 369 Megs :-) (I kind of wonder why Chip people couldn't find enough stuff to fill the whole CD) Akshat - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From aranya@bol.net.in Mon Jul 5 11:41:39 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 00:11:39 +0530 From: "Aranya" Subject: Printer Problems Hi, lpq on my system gives an error as: lp not ready ( offline ?) or something to that effect. Can somebody explain what's up? The printer isn't being detected by printtool (on none of /dev/lp[0-2], even though it was detected during installation. No, the cables are in order and yes, the printer is working under windows. Akshat - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From scp@giasbmc.vsnl.net.in Mon Jul 5 11:34:36 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 00:04:36 +0530 From: "Unmesh Dhake" Subject: Re: How do I change Window managers use switchdesk command thru any window manager (kde,gnome, etc) - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From scp@giasbmc.vsnl.net.in Mon Jul 5 11:45:12 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 00:15:12 +0530 From: "Unmesh Dhake" Subject: query: shell a/c for mail download Is it possible to get all mails by using vsnl shell A/C in my PC. I read man dicument of fetchmail. It supports PPP and SLIP. Whether any other utility is avalible , so that i will connect through shell A/C and download the mails in my PC. Any Idea unmesh - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From glynn@sensei.co.uk Mon Jul 5 11:51:30 1999 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 20:51:30 +0200 (GMT--1:00) From: Glynn Clements Subject: Re: tty locks up Sharad Joshi wrote: > Let user A use ttyp0 > Let user B use ttyq1 > > Now B can do this from his terminal: cat < /dev/ttyp0 > /dev/null& He should get `permission denied'. It sounds as if you are using a second-rate terminal emulator or similar. Any program which opens a pty should set the ownership and permissions accordingly. NB: this requires the program to be either setuid root (e.g. xterm) or run as root (e.g. in.telnetd). > And thus, A will be locked for ever. Moreover, he can not just find out > what is happening. Nor can he log out. Also, the ps listing shows just > "cat" for the user B and thus no one can know what is happening to the > terminal ttyp0. User A is on the mercy of B. > > Isn't this serious? Potentially. > Is there any way to find out who is reading a terminal. fuser /dev/ttyp0 > And how to overcome the above problem. Don't use badly-written or misconfigured software in security-sensitive situations. - -- Glynn Clements - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From lowenv@hotpop.com Tue Jul 6 4:7:48 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 16:37:48 +0530 From: "Lister Vaz" Subject: Sendmail And POP3 Can someone out there tell me how to configure sendmail and a pop3 server on RedHat 6.0 I have finally got my browsing correct and this Baby flies even to download stuff but i have to use this confounded Microsoft Product to send you guys mail..... It's nice to know what people like Linus and his band of Linux usere have given to the world Happy Linuxing Lister - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From sandi@del3.vsnl.net.in Mon Jul 5 12:38:56 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 01:08:56 +0530 From: "Sundeep Holani" Subject: Re: [linux-delhi] ADMINISTRIVIA Hi lokee, all, > Anyway, by this i don't mean to discourage newbies from sending mails. But you've done that. Reading your mail when I just read that you were going to quote a message for its stupidity , and as I was scrolling down the message, my heart sank (and missed a few heartbeats.. I guess 3) with the expectation that what-if its one of my mails. Not seeing one of those was relieving but it sure does not comfort me to see a fellow newbie being ridiculed in public. I'm going to have to take care to ask only intelligent questions so that next time you dont quote me in a fit of similar glory.This is discouragement enough.What you failed to notice is that the person you quoted has come to Linux, from windows, expecting a black console and not being intimidated. And by the way its not dumb to post from OE, its poor work on our side not to have come up with a nice little package that can handle HTML mail ,and which is good enough for everyone to kick out pine for good. Lets not take the easy way out and shun HTML mail just because we dont have the resources to read it. > But > i do expect them to go for learning things, rather than expecting a purely > mechanical answer. I dont think they should feel offended when someone > says "READ THE HOWTO". This depends on the path you wish linux to follow.(see- Linux Community vs. Linux Industry, at slashdot). The basic approach we are following now is Linux for all. I first installed Linux in may-98. I booted into it and came to a command prompt.. now what, I thought? There wasnt anybody to tell me where on my system are the HOWTO's (or if there is something like a HOWTO at all), I didnt know startx , I didnt know of man.. nothing at all. I'd heard that there's a powerful compiler in linux called gcc. So i simply typed gcc and expected a blue screen with a File menu , I got an error instead. That was goodbye to Linux.. till I came to know of Linux-India , where I hanged around for a while and learnt to find my way around. Its been three months now, and I'm in love with gcc , and if I'll know enough.... I'll someday even try to write a patch to make it do more things, and in a better way. Repeat what you've done... and we'll have lesser people like me. But I still use OE , because I've yet to find anything else that sorts , searches and presents my mail quite like it. I'm not using Linux because its Linux, I'm using it because I find it better. I use windows media player because my movies play full-screen in it, I use gcc because there's nothing quite like it, I use OE because I love it, I use netscape because its faster and has a button to toggle images,I dont use vi, I use joe.. I'll have the best of all worlds, no matter how dumb you think me to be, and I'll laugh when I see you doing in pine, painstakingly, what I can do in OE with two clicks. > > All comments welcome, flames go to /dev/null [OH NO, IT'S FULL] This isnt intended to be a flame... I'm getting emotional though. :) Regards, Sundeep. - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ End of Linux India Digest V1 #91 ******************************** -------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send an email to majordomo@aunet.org with the word 'unsubscribe linux-india-digest' (without the quotes) in the body of the email. From karan@sexmagnet.com Mon Jul 5 12:36:12 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 01:06:12 +0530 From: Karan Girotra Subject: Re: Is Linux C2 Compliant ? On Mon, 05 Jul 1999, you wrote: hhye , could somebody give me some dope about this c2 compliance looking forward to a long mail - -- Regards .. Karan Girotra, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi 91-011-6864507 91-011-6862034 Icq# 25636434 - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From karan@sexmagnet.com Mon Jul 5 12:41:14 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 01:11:14 +0530 From: Karan Girotra Subject: Re: Help with Linux. On Mon, 05 Jul 1999, you wrote: hye, Boot into linux as root and just run 'lilo -v ' to write boot info on your mbr .. ps -before running lilo do check ur /etc/lilo.conf file for any changes you might want to make . and if u want a graphical bootloader try using a utility called gag available at the freshmeat archives .. regards >Hi, > >I have been able to setup the new hard disk. Thanks for the info. > >Rightnow, I am using a floppy disk to boot linux. If I dont use the >linux boot floppy, The C-Drive automatically boots MS-DOS. Now, what >should I do so that I can get a choose between MS-DOS and Linux at the >time of booting - This is because If the floppy gets corrupted or >something of that sort, then I wont be able to boot linux (or is there >any other way?!). Currently all files related to Linux are present in my >E drive. The hard disks are like this, >Hard disk 1 has the drives C, D and E (/boot and stuff lie in E) >Hard disk 2 has the drive F (The new disk that I added to get some more >disk space). > >C and D are used for MS-DOS. E and F are used for linux. > >Can someone please help me with this..... > >Thanks in advance >Subbiah > >S Ravi Shankar wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 12:33:02PM +0530, Subbiah Muthukalayappan wrote: >> -> open vi, temporary files are not being opened. Now that I have managed >> -> to get another hard disk of 125 MB capacity, how do I get out of this >> -> problem. I am not very sure of how to mount disks, make file systems and >> -> stuff or add swap spaces. I need help with this. I also need to install >> -> this lilo. This I couldnt do during install. How do I put LILO >> -> bootloader now? >> >> assuming you are connecting the new harddisk as secondary master [a >> new cable that goes to another slot in the motherboard] do the >> following: >> >> use "fdisk /dev/hdc" and make it a single partition [/dev/hdc1] >> "mkfs -t ext2 /dev/hdc1" will create the file system for linux. >> "mount -t ext2 /dev/hdc1 /home" will make the new hard disk act as the >> /home partition. [copy any existing files to another place before >> mounting and then copy them back here]. >> add the following entry to your /etc/fstab >> /dev/hdc1 /home ext2 defaults 1 1 >> >> this will mount the file system in the new hard disk as /home >> everytime you boot up. >> You are not able to open temporary files because there is no room >> left in the old hard disk. to overcome this do the following. >> "rm -rf /tmp" remove the existing /tmp >> "mkdir /home/tmp" create tmp in the new harddisk >> "chmod 777 /home/tmp" >> "chmod +t /home/tmp" the default settings of /tmp >> "ln -s /home/tmp /tmp" make /home/tmp act as /tmp >> now you can work freely >> -- >> With Regards, >> >> S Ravi Shankar >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ - -- Regards .. Karan Girotra, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi 91-011-6864507 91-011-6862034 Icq# 25636434 - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From karan@sexmagnet.com Mon Jul 5 12:39:35 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 01:09:35 +0530 From: Karan Girotra Subject: Re: using teleinit On Mon, 05 Jul 1999, you wrote: hye , i have used telinit myslelf for both rebooting and shutdown and have not been noticing any problems. regards >I've used telinit 0 to halt my system & so far I've not faced any >troubles.I haven't tried out telinit 6 to reboot the system.I'll try it later >and write again. > >Regards >Madhu R Sudhanan > >mukund wrote: > >> YL Narayana wrote: >> > >> > Is there any problem with using 'telinit 0' for halting the system and >> > 'telinit 6' for rebooting the system? >> > >> > Narayana >> > >> > -------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ >> >> never heard telinit. >> If it is init 0 or init 6 then yes its OK. I use it. >> -- >> Best Wishes. >> -mukund >> http://members.theglobe.com/betacomp/default.html >> http://members.xoom.com/BETACOMP/index1.htm >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ - -- Regards .. Karan Girotra, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi 91-011-6864507 91-011-6862034 Icq# 25636434 - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From karan@sexmagnet.com Mon Jul 5 12:32:53 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 01:02:53 +0530 From: Karan Girotra Subject: Re: CHIP CDs - NO PROBLEM!!! On Mon, 05 Jul 1999, you wrote: hey , press 'ctrl' 'alt' '+' keys together regards >Hi all, > After much debate I finally decided to install > Red Hat 6.0 from the CHIP Special CD. > Initially , I could not boot from the CDRom. > Then I tried the autoboot.bat file in the dosutils directory. Unfortunately the path for the initrd.img file is wrongly specified in the autoboot.bat file. >So I executed "loadlin " at the dos prompt . The installation started this time. >I selected the work-station option & the installation went about smoothly. Even my graphics card ( SiS 6326 ) was also configured ina breeze & I have the whole system up & running. Even LILO was configured automatically for Linux & WINNT 4.0 >I guess I am one of those lucky guys considering the problems people are facing with the CDs. > >Any way, I have one question. By default , Linux is starting with the 8-bit 640x480 mode. >How do I change this to 800x600 mode. >Please help me out on this. > >cheers, >Karthik K H > > >_________________________________________________________ >Get your free @grabmail.com address at http://www.grabmail.com > > > > > > >powered by OutBlaze > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ - -- Regards .. Karan Girotra, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi 91-011-6864507 91-011-6862034 Icq# 25636434 - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From karan@sexmagnet.com Mon Jul 5 12:37:49 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 01:07:49 +0530 From: Karan Girotra Subject: Re: Apache Web Server On Mon, 05 Jul 1999, you wrote: hye, for configuring apache use a tool called comache available at freshmeat . it is completely menu based and is very functional . regards > - -- Regards .. Karan Girotra, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi 91-011-6864507 91-011-6862034 Icq# 25636434 - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From karan@sexmagnet.com Mon Jul 5 12:58:44 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 01:28:44 +0530 From: Karan Girotra Subject: Re: Login Prob... On Mon, 05 Jul 1999, you wrote: hye, this is a default setting for security . Root (if thats what u mean by an abnormal user) can login only from terminals in the /etc/securetty file . >>I could not login through a telnet session started from a Win9X/Linux client. I could login as a normal user with no password and su' as root. Plz help. > >BYE. Will Keep In Touch. >----------------------------------------------------------------- >Y's >SenthilVelan PI >chenthil@softhome.net >http://senthil.webjump.com >----------------------------------------------------------------- > - ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: - ---------------------------------------- - -- Regards .. Karan Girotra, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi 91-011-6864507 91-011-6862034 Icq# 25636434 - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From dmotors@bom6.vsnl.net.in Mon Jul 5 18:30:37 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 07:00:37 +0530 From: "Mehul Jhaveri" Subject: I want to change my network Currently I am using Novell netware servers and Nt server I want to impliment complete Linux servers then is it possible on fly or in steps can any one guide me. Waiting for your reply. Mehul - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From manasg@inf.com Mon Jul 5 20:7:22 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 08:37:22 +0530 (IST) From: manas garg Subject: Re: Help regarding Pine On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Sunil Sarat wrote: > Hi, > > If I telnet from any node to my linux server and use pine, can I send an > attachment from the floppy of the local machine(not server), when I tried it > is showing that the default directory is /home/username. So, how do I attach > a file from the floppy drive of the node? Dear Sunil, It's a little complex but you can do it. First of all, you have to make the floppy drive of the node a share. Now use Samba to mount this share (floppy drive) on some dir say /mnt/smb/flp. for mounting use $ smbmount //machine_name/share_name /mnt/smb/flp Now in the Attchmnt part of the header of pine, specify full path to the file as /mnt/smb/flp/further_path_to_file. Hope I am clear. Manas - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From Rahul.Kumar@metamorgs.com Mon Jul 5 20:34:26 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 09:04:26 +0530 From: Rahul Kumar Subject: Re: Is Linux C2 Compliant ? linux.org was not helpful. I did a search in linux.com and found an article in http://linux.com/linux@work/fudfaq.phtml#14 that says that Linux is *not* C2 compliant. Anyone with better information, pls let me know asap as I need to suggest this to a very large customer who needs C2 security levels on his internet application. Thanks, RK. - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From raju@sgi.com Mon Jul 5 20:40:43 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 09:10:43 +0530 (IST) From: Raj Mathur Subject: Re: [linux-delhi] ADMINISTRIVIA Hi Lokesh, Thanks for your insightful comments. I agree that ideally we should have seperate lists for help and for programming. However, I see 2 problems with that: 1. Messages invariably leak over from one list to the other. Specifically, people wanting help tend to post to as many lists as possible, and hence we can expect the putative programming list also to be flooded with help requests eventually. 2. The subscriber base isn't large enough yet to justify splitting the list up. Perhaps we can do it when we reach some magic number -- 256 or 512 or 1024 or something :-) Linux-India is doing a great job of helping out with newbie questions, and I guess that over time Linux-Delhi will also acquire an identity as a help or programming or guru or discussion list. Until then, let's just live with all the messages -- even given my 6 messages the traffic isn't that high :-) And I also must admit that even basic questions tend to generate interesting follow-ups on Linux-Delhi. Has anyone else noticed that? Regards, - -- Raju >>>>> "Lokesh" == Lokesh Setia writes: Lokesh> On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Raj Mathur wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> The Linux-Delhi mailing list currently stands at about 85 >> subscribers Lokesh> Here in IIT-Delhi one can read mails posted from this Lokesh> mailing list directly from an internal newsgroup. He/She Lokesh> can also post from that. I'm sure there's no way one could Lokesh> count those users, but when the semester starts, i think Lokesh> it could be somewhere 50. Any comments Tarun?? >> and 850 messages. This is a great achievement since >> mid-December, Lokesh> No wonder, I got 6 mails from raju@sgi.com today. (Just Lokesh> kidding ;-)) >> when we started the list, and kudos to all of you who made this >> possible. >> >> The list seems to be in self-sustaining mode now, and I see a >> healthy mixture of help queries and responses, technical >> discussions and general discussions on Linux and freeware. >> There is also the occaissional non-Linux related stuff which >> list members seem to squash pronto :-) I am hopeful that we can >> grow this on the same lines, and need your support and help to >> do so. Lokesh> Also, for those who are members of both linux-delhi and Lokesh> linux-india mailing lists, must not have escaped noticing Lokesh> that the signal-to-noise ratio (because of probably Lokesh> guru-to-newbie ratio) is much higher at this list, than Lokesh> the nation-wide list. Lokesh> But i feel that this list should slowly be made to move Lokesh> towards programming, rather than a "libXX does not Lokesh> install", or "kppp does'nt work" etc. Lokesh> Just for the sake of comparison: I get 70-80 mails per day Lokesh> on linux-india@aunet.org and most of them are of the above Lokesh> type. Some people are too dumb to post it using Outlook Lokesh> Express, and then expect an answer to an all-HTML mail. I Lokesh> remember a mail there, when a newbie said: (something like Lokesh> this) Lokesh> Hi all, Lokesh> I have installed linux and started liking it. I like this Lokesh> mailing list and find it very informative. I may stop Lokesh> using windows as most of you have already done. I have a Lokesh> problem. When i boot linux, I get a screen similar to Lokesh> windows. Lokesh> Now my question is: Where do i type all those commands Lokesh> that you people post???? Lokesh> Lokesh> This mail got 4 replies, one of them said open "xterm" and Lokesh> the other said open "eterm". (not to mention kterm and Lokesh> rxvt) Lokesh> Anyway, by this i don't mean to discourage newbies from Lokesh> sending mails. But i do expect them to go for learning Lokesh> things, rather than expecting a purely mechanical Lokesh> answer. I dont think they should feel offended when Lokesh> someone says "READ THE HOWTO". Lokesh> All comments welcome, flames go to /dev/null [OH NO, IT'S Lokesh> FULL] Lokesh> Regards, Lokesh> Lokesh Setia, Hughes Software Systems, Gurgaon. >> Most important of all, keep posting! >> >> Regards, >> >> -- Raju >> - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From Amrit.Dharwadkar@Vashimail.ltitl.com Mon Jul 5 21:1:29 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 09:31:29 +0530 From: Amrit.Dharwadkar@Vashimail.ltitl.com Subject: Problem with LoadLin, Tk Hi Linuxers! I've a slight problem. I've upgraded to RH 6.0 from the Chip CD. I've a version of "Loadlin.exe" which came with the RH 5.2. I've copied the "VMLINUZ" kernel of RH6.0 on a 32-bit FAT DOS parition. The RH6.0 is installed on a second 630 MB HDD. When I type in "loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 ro" it issues the following message Uncompressing Linux............................................................ (screen clears) Loading Linux............ (abruptly) ran out of input data -- System Halted I haven't installed LILO on any of the HDD. I currently boot from a floppy with LILO to load Linux. 1) Any pointers to cause of the above problem ?? 2) How do I make a bootable Linux floppy ? 3) I'm was having trouble configuring "smb.conf" because of the number of options. I finally managed to get it configured with the help of a friend. So, out of furstration, I decided to write a praser for the "smb.conf" file using "flex". Currently, I'm able to recognize all the sections and considerable amount of options which are relevent to me. I've also been doing "Tcl/Tk" programming for X. Does anybody have any pointers on how to access C variables from Tk ? All the values which I get from the above parsing are stored in variables. I want to access these in Tk so that I can give a GUI interface to this "smb.conf parser". Hoping to get answers/suggestions ASAP. Thanks a lot! - -- Amrit. - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From mary@udaya.com Mon Jul 5 19:32:35 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 09:32:35 +0700 (CXT) From: "T.Meyarivan" Subject: Re: Sendmail And POP3 configuration Check the linux section at pcquest.com for all your queries -- mary - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From mary@udaya.com Mon Jul 5 19:34:33 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 09:34:33 +0700 (CXT) From: "T.Meyarivan" Subject: Re: Parent process? i could not reproduce your results. Did it happen more than once ? -- mary - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From mary@udaya.com Mon Jul 5 19:48:55 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 09:48:55 +0700 (CXT) From: "T.Meyarivan" Subject: Re: Login Prob... Check the man pages of securetty, login. If you want to login from a remote machine one simple solution would be to blank out /etc/securetty. -- mary - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From raju@sgi.com Mon Jul 5 21:12:27 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 09:42:27 +0530 (IST) From: Raj Mathur Subject: Re: Is Linux C2 Compliant ? AFAIK Linux is not C2 compliant. However, beware that WinNT is not C2 either, except for 3.5 (which has been certified without a floppy drive or network interface). So if the choice is between Linux and NT, Linux is probably more secure. BTW, it's never OS's which are certified, only specific hardware and software configurations. Regards, - -- Raju >>>>> "Rahul" == Rahul Kumar writes: Rahul> linux.org was not helpful. I did a search in linux.com and Rahul> found an article in Rahul> http://linux.com/linux@work/fudfaq.phtml#14 that says that Rahul> Linux is *not* C2 compliant. Rahul> Anyone with better information, pls let me know asap as I Rahul> need to suggest this to a very large customer who needs C2 Rahul> security levels on his internet application. Rahul> Thanks, RK. - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From mary@udaya.com Mon Jul 5 20:0:10 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:00:10 +0700 (CXT) From: "T.Meyarivan" Subject: Re: mesa-lib & wine installation A better option would be to download the latest version from mesa3d.org and install it. -- mary - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From raju@sgi.com Mon Jul 5 21:21:38 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 09:51:38 +0530 (IST) From: Raj Mathur Subject: Linux on SGI's Intel server Hi folks, I got a Beta of SGI's forthcoming Intel server a few days ago. Nice-looking machine -- looks exactly like a server is supposed to look: multiple power supplies, squat, ugly, lots of lights, you know that stuff, right? Anyhow I loaded the Chip RH 6.0 onto it. Installation went without a hitch and now I'm happily running Gnome (first time I'm seeing it) on it. I plan to compile 2.2.10 soon (after I finish compiling KDE :-) and see how that runs. 10:41pm up 21:06, 2 users, load average: 1.17, 0.78, 0.54 Linux nirman.newdelhi.sgi.com 2.2.5-15smp #1 SMP Mon Apr 19 21:11:51 EDT 1999 i686 unknown Next step is to wipe out that WinNT partition :-) BTW, I must have missed the message on the list -- how the heck does one get StarOffice to install from the Chip CD? Regards, - -- Raju - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From nps@teraltd.com Mon Jul 5 21:58:15 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:28:15 +0530 (IST) From: Mrs N P Salaria Subject: Re: [Linux as gateway and DNS] According to Zameer Ahmed: > > SySo wrote: > > >1) DNS dies down after booting, = > > > It has to be started after booting manually > Did you set execution at boottime using ntsysv in RHL 5.2 Yes, I have started named in ntsysv, after some time named dies down with the message FATAL: IPCACHE_init: DNS lookup tests failed and I have to regularly restart named > > >2) I am able to connect to the internet through the ISDN line > > on the linux machine = > > > I have enabled internet gaatewaying by way of the pcqupdate > Did you set FORWARD_IPV4=3Dtes in /etc/sysconfig/network file? Yes, this is done , I have a pristige Zyxel ISDN hub which is 192.168.1.130 and on the linux machine I have two internet interfaces one is 192.168.1.50 and the other is 192.168.50.99 while I am able to surf the internet on the linux machine through the ISDN Zyxel hub, if I connect any other windows machine which is on the other netork 192.168.50.0 , whose gateway is set to 192.168.1.99 I am not able to connect to the internet throug the isdn link. The moment I invoke internet explorer to connect to some site say www.pcquest.com, the isdn hub comes up and connects outside but the IE gives the message server not found . Any hint will be useful. All the windows machine here are on dynamic ips leased by a NT server what all info has to be given by the dhcp which is on NT ? In this case who will do the name rresolution for the external addresses as the NT server is intrnal it has only a name server which resolves internsl addresses and the ISDN hub does point to the vsnl name server, but will this work on the other side of the router?? I am not able to resolve this ?? any help? nps > > > > Regards > > > Zameer Ahmed > > ____________________________________________________________________ > Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=3D= > 1 > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > - -- _____________________________________________ N P Salaria | nps@teraltd.com Tera Informatics | Tel: (022)-8280251 Bombay, India | Res: (022)-5770472 - ---------------------------------------------- - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From nps@teraltd.com Mon Jul 5 21:36:11 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:06:11 +0530 (IST) From: Mrs N P Salaria Subject: Re: sendmail problems..... According to Manoj: > > Hello, > > I use fetchmail to pull our mails into our linux server( qpopper3.0b). = > the problem is the mails are not channeled to the respective user acct = > by sendmail when the mails are from some mailing lists ( all of it gets = > sent to POST MASTER which is root ) ! But when a mail is sent with = > explicit addressing [ user@mydomain.com ] to one of the users from = > anywhere , we get it . i would like to know what changes i should make = > in sendmail configuration .=20 > > Please help. > Regards Manoj > Hello, You will have to modify the .fetchmailrc, for the envelope information usually fetchmail assumes the envelope info as X-envelope-To , this envelope info is stripped and the mail is delivered to the right person but when it carries a mailing list address the X-envelope header carries info of the mailing list address and the mail goes to root/postmaster instead of to the right user whose userid is usually in the second envelope In your case where you are using fetchmail in mullti drop mode , the isp usually adds one more envelope with the right username and a string prefix , is is this envelope that is to be used and use the string qvirtual to strip that part of the envelope inof and get the actual user id . So please go through the headers of the mail that you have recd and modigy .fetchmailrc with the envelope info in my .fetchmailrc I have added envelope 1 "Delivered-To:" qvirtual teraltd+teraltd.com-X- so when fetchmail pulls mail , it looks for the second Delivered to envelope and strips the string teraltd+teraltd.com-X- and this gives the right user name in case of mailing lists Please read man fetchmail for full details Hope this helps nps - -- _____________________________________________ N P Salaria | nps@teraltd.com Tera Informatics | Tel: (022)-8280251 Bombay, India | Res: (022)-5770472 - ---------------------------------------------- - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From lvgandhi@md3.vsnl.net.in Jul 4 23:16:40 1999 Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 11:46:40 +0530 From: "L.V.Gandhi" Subject: Re: GNOME in RH 6.0 of CHIP Special ChenthilWhelan wrote: > > Almost the same type of prob happened for me also. When I restart the > machine after installing it hangs when it tries to loas amd daemon. I > disabled it. now the machine works fine. > Just delete the kppp lock file and re-run kppp. This will solve the prob. Where is the kpp lock file is located? What is its name? - -- L.V.Gandhi MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam 530020 India Ph off:546717(main), 518639(cokeoven vsp), res 553169 fax 543122 home page:http://www.poboxes.com/lvgandhi, lvgandhi@vsnl.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From lvgandhi@md3.vsnl.net.in Jul 4 23:44:26 1999 Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 12:14:26 +0530 From: "L.V.Gandhi" Subject: Re: kppp not dialing jayan sr wrote: > >When I try to dial using KPPP through any other user except root it gives > >me > >error saying that > > cannot create modem lock file. > > > >what could be the problem. Where is this lock file created ?. > >KPPP works fine if I login as root. > 1. This happens because the ppp demon can only run as root. > the lock file is created in /var/lock As root also I could not run kppp in RH 6.0 of CHIP. I get msg even during setup while modem query, that can't create modem lock file. I have used chmod +s for pppd and chmod 755 for ttyS1 which is my com port. Stiil I am getting this msg, cannot create modem lock file. In RH 5.2 with the above modes I could get connected. However I am getting connected using xisp. Any solutions? - -- L.V.Gandhi MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam 530020 India Ph off:546717(main), 518639(cokeoven vsp), res 553169 fax 543122 home page:http://www.poboxes.com/lvgandhi, lvgandhi@vsnl.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From lvgandhi@md3.vsnl.net.in Mon Jul 5 22:38:49 1999 Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 11:08:49 +0530 From: "L.V.Gandhi" Subject: Re: GNOME in RH 6.0 of CHIP Special ChenthilWhelan wrote: > > Almost the same type of prob happened for me also. When I restart the > machine after installing it hangs when it tries to loas amd daemon. I > disabled it. now the machine works fine. > Just delete the kppp lock file and re-run kppp. This will solve the prob. Where is the kpp lock file is located? What is its name? - -- L.V.Gandhi MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam 530020 India Ph off:546717(main), 518639(cokeoven vsp), res 553169 fax 543122 home page:http://www.poboxes.com/lvgandhi, lvgandhi@vsnl.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From lvgandhi@md3.vsnl.net.in Mon Jul 5 22:40:8 1999 Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 11:10:08 +0530 From: "L.V.Gandhi" Subject: Re: kppp not dialing jayan sr wrote: > >When I try to dial using KPPP through any other user except root it gives > >me > >error saying that > > cannot create modem lock file. > > > >what could be the problem. Where is this lock file created ?. > >KPPP works fine if I login as root. > 1. This happens because the ppp demon can only run as root. > the lock file is created in /var/lock As root also I could not run kppp in RH 6.0 of CHIP. I get msg even during setup while modem query, that can't create modem lock file. I have used chmod +s for pppd and chmod 755 for ttyS1 which is my com port. Stiil I am getting this msg, cannot create modem lock file. In RH 5.2 with the above modes I could get connected. However I am getting connected using xisp. Any solutions? - -- L.V.Gandhi MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam 530020 India Ph off:546717(main), 518639(cokeoven vsp), res 553169 fax 543122 home page:http://www.poboxes.com/lvgandhi, lvgandhi@vsnl.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From jyep@hotmail.com Tue Jul 6 4:18:19 1999 Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 11:18:19 IST From: Jeffrey Yep Subject: Re: try this I've heard that elightenment hogs a lot of resources and Windowmaker is better? If so how to uninstall elightenment and install Widow maker and will gnome owrk well with windowmaker? TIA, Jeff >From: Chetan Kumar >Reply-To: linux-india@aunet.org >To: linux-india@aunet.org >Subject: Re: try this >Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 17:47:11 +0530 (IST) > >On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Sunil Sarat wrote: > > > > > > > Hi Chetan, > > > > In /usr/share/WindowMaker/Backgrounds directory, I didn't find > > SeaNight.jpeg. Only one file is available (BlueImage). I have a mouse >with 2 > > buttons. so, where from to get the Fx-Rippel? > >1) Do you have gnome+enlightenment installed ? >2) With 2 button mouse, have to configure emulate 3 button mouse ?? >If not try that with mouseconfig, when enabled, you can use button 1+2 >(at once) as middle button. >Now with that you can get rippel > >-Chetan S > > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From linux@annauniv.edu Mon Jul 5 22:49:40 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 11:19:40 +0530 (IST) From: Anna University Subject: Re: fetchmail Dear Manoj and Anshul, Please put these lines in .fetchmailrc in preferably the root directory and make it read only ( it HAS to be read only for the thing to work, i believe ). set daemon=0 poll md4.vsnl.net.in with protocol POP3 user msridhar is * here password embratel replace md4.vsnl.net.in with your POP server and the username msridhar and passwd embratel with the username and passwd that you have in your POP server respectively. And to run fetchamil, just put the following command in an executable file fetchmail -k -a -v -k : doesn't delete messages on remote server -a : retrieves all messages, including those already read ( useful the first time you use fetchmail ) -v : verbose there are 2 more options ( -d and -N ). I don't remember if they are important, but please check them out before you run fetchmail. Hope it works ! If it does, say your thanks to Atul for the brilliant and really clear article in PCQ ( with RHL 5.0 ) on how to get both outgoing and incoing mail going. You will see that whatever I have written here is exactly what Atul had written there. Hats off to him once again. regards Mani Sridhar - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From jyep@hotmail.com Tue Jul 6 4:41:30 1999 Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 11:41:30 IST From: Jeffrey Yep Subject: Re: Free Penguin Courier From the US Hi thaths, Say u got any good CD's to suggest? I would love to get some of them but I stay in Delhi. TIA, Jeff ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From achitnis@cbconsulting.com Mon Jul 5 23:41:25 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 12:11:25 +0530 From: "Atul Chitnis" Subject: RE: Linux on cyrix. Not true. The MediaGX is very much supported by Xfree86 3.3.3.1: # Cyrix NAME MediaGX CHIPSET mediagx SERVER SVGA NOCLOCKPROBE RedHat Linux 6.0 ships with XFree 3.3.3.1, and RedHat Linux 5.2 off the PCQ March 1999 CD will have 3.3.3.1 installed after you run the pcqupdt script. Atul > -----Original Message----- > From: Majordomo [mailto:majordom@aunet.org]On Behalf Of Sourav Sarkar > Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 11:59 PM > To: linux-india@aunet.org > Subject: Re: Linux on cyrix. > > > hi, > The "MediaGX tm" chip from Cyrix was designed to only support > Microsoft > Windows therefore won't run Linux. However, Cyrix's other chips i.e the > 6X86MX & the MII series will run Linux . - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From linux@annauniv.edu Mon Jul 5 23:32:5 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 12:02:05 +0530 (IST) From: Anna University Subject: Re: query: shell a/c for mail download Dear Umesh, It is possible to use fetchmail to retrieve you shell account mails, but only if you are using a tcp/ip account then. When you use your plain vanilla shell account directly ( using minicom or hyperterminal ), there is no option but to view mail online. At home, i usually use a tcp/ip account ( my friends' account ) and retrieve mail from my pop server ( giasmda.vsnl.net.in ). hope this clears it up. regards mani sridhar On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Unmesh Dhake wrote: > Is it possible to get all mails by using vsnl shell A/C in my PC. I read man > dicument of fetchmail. It supports PPP and SLIP. Whether any other utility > is avalible , so that i will connect through shell A/C and download the > mails in my PC. > > Any Idea > unmesh > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From aravind@giasmd01.vsnl.net.in Mon Jul 5 23:51:39 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 12:21:39 +0530 (IST) From: "R.D.THULASIRAJ" Subject: gcc in CHIP linux special Can anybody tell me where gcc rpm is in CHIP publisher's edition? I couldn't find gcc*.rpm in any of the CDs that they have distributed along with the linux special. I have currently downgraded my machine to PCQ RHL 5.2 - -gnana - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From aravind@giasmd01.vsnl.net.in Mon Jul 5 23:57:7 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 12:27:07 +0530 (IST) From: "R.D.THULASIRAJ" Subject: isdn TA - dial in ? Can I setup ISDN TA to receive data connections from normal 33.6 or 56k modem? I am using one anolog port of ISDN TA (there are 2 analog lines given by DoT) and a seperate modem to receive data connections from outside. It is working fine. But I just thought if it is possible to setup mgetty to 'hear' for calls on the serial port on which the ISDN TA is hooked to. Any suggestions? Ideas? - -gnana - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From mhussain@giasbga.vsnl.net.in Mon Jul 5 23:49:49 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 12:19:49 +0530 (IST) From: Mahamood Hussain Subject: Using Red Hat 5 for dialup Hi all, I use kernel 2.1 running on Red Hat 5.0. How do I set up my m/c so that I can dial up my m/c from else where and be able to log in - something lke the VSNL students accnt ? Thanx in advance. Good cheer till next time. Moody. - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From manoj.rana@tatainfotech.com Mon Jul 5 23:59:15 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 12:29:15 +0530 (IST) From: MANOJ KUMAR RANA Subject: Installation on celeron ?? Hi everybody, I am sure some of you must have tried to install Linux on celeron machines. I tried but failed very soon after the kernel uncompression. It just prints only 5-6 messages before rebooting. I am in a fix, is it that Linux may not work on celeron !!!! Bye Rana - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From achitnis@cbconsulting.com Tue Jul 6 0:8:12 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 12:38:12 +0530 From: "Atul Chitnis" Subject: RE: gcc in CHIP linux special The "old" gcc has been phased out. egcs is now the new gcc, so look for egcs*.rpm. Nothing changes in terms of usage because gcc continues to be the command to use. Atul > -----Original Message----- > From: Majordomo [mailto:majordom@aunet.org]On Behalf Of R.D.THULASIRAJ > Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 1999 12:22 PM > To: linux-india@aunet.org > Subject: gcc in CHIP linux special > > > Can anybody tell me where gcc rpm is in CHIP publisher's edition? > I couldn't find gcc*.rpm in any of the CDs that they have distributed > along with the linux special. > I have currently downgraded my machine to PCQ RHL 5.2 > > -gnana > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ End of Linux India Digest V1 #92 ******************************** -------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send an email to majordomo@aunet.org with the word 'unsubscribe linux-india-digest' (without the quotes) in the body of the email. From manasg@inf.com Tue Jul 6 0:30:58 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 13:00:58 +0530 (IST) From: manas garg Subject: Re: Help regarding Pine Sorry for my stupidity ;-). You can simply ftp the file to your linux machine and put in your home dir OR give its full path. > > It's a little complex but you can do it. First of all, you have to make > the floppy drive of the node a share. Now use Samba to mount this share > (floppy drive) on some dir say /mnt/smb/flp. for mounting use > $ smbmount //machine_name/share_name /mnt/smb/flp > Now in the Attchmnt part of the header of pine, specify full path to the > file as /mnt/smb/flp/further_path_to_file. > > Hope I am clear. > > Manas - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From achitnis@cbconsulting.com Tue Jul 6 0:56:36 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 13:26:36 +0530 From: "Atul Chitnis" Subject: RE: Installation on celeron ?? There is no issue with Celeron and Linux. You are most probably facing a problem with your motherboard or some card or possibly even the memory. Atul > -----Original Message----- > From: Majordomo [mailto:majordom@aunet.org]On Behalf Of MANOJ KUMAR RANA > Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 1999 12:29 PM > To: linux-india@aunet.org > Subject: Installation on celeron ?? > > > Hi everybody, > > I am sure some of you must have tried to install Linux on celeron > machines. I tried but failed very soon after the kernel uncompression. > It just prints only 5-6 messages before rebooting. > > I am in a fix, is it that Linux may not work on celeron !!!! > > Bye > > Rana > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From vchandra@cybercash.co.in Tue Jul 6 1:4:58 1999 Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 13:34:58 +0530 From: Chandra Sekhar Vadlamani Subject: Re: Installation on celeron ?? I installed Red-Hat 5.(0-2) on Intel celeron no probs. What is the exact messages displayed. Chandra MANOJ KUMAR RANA wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > I am sure some of you must have tried to install Linux on celeron > machines. I tried but failed very soon after the kernel uncompression. > It just prints only 5-6 messages before rebooting. > > I am in a fix, is it that Linux may not work on celeron !!!! > > Bye > > Rana > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From subbiahm@hclt.com Tue Jul 6 1:9:16 1999 Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 13:39:16 +0530 From: Subbiah Muthukalayappan Subject: Re: Help with Linux. Thanks to all you people for your inputs. I tried what ravi shanker had asked me to and things seems to work fine. It is true (as sundeep holani had mentioned) that a lot of files have not been installed due to lack of disk space. I really think I need to do a re-install as most of the packages complain about missing files, But my first experience has given me more confidence now. I have another query: Is there any disadvantage in just having one partition (other than for swap) with / as mounting point or should we have seperate partitions for /usr, / , /home etc. seperately (as recommended) ? Thanks and Regards Subbiah Sundeep Holani wrote: > > Hi, > > > open vi, temporary files are not being opened. Now that I have managed > > to get another hard disk of 125 MB capacity, how do I get out of this > > problem. I am not very sure of how to mount disks, make file systems and > > stuff or add swap spaces. I need help with this. I also need to install > > this lilo. This I couldnt do during install. How do I put LILO > > bootloader now? > > While the solution suggested by S Ravi Shankar will work perfectly, I > believe, your previous linux installation was aborted midway and so there > will definitely be some files missing and hence lots of programs that you > might try will give dependency errors. So I suggest that you reinstall after > setting up your hard disk. If you've done it once you probably will find it > very easy to partition your disks using DiskDruid . I suggest that you place > the /usr partition on disk2. Now. since 154+125 mb isnt much disk space > still, and most of what you'll install will go to the /usr of disk 2 , you > still have to do a minimal installation and only keep what you cant live > without.Alternatively if you'd prefer 15 more MB of space for /usr , make a > 10MB /boot and a /usr on the rest of the space of disk 1 , and a / > partition on disk2. > > Regards, > Sundeep. > > BTW i am curious to know where you got a 125mb HDD from.... we now get > floppies of that size :-) > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From subbiahm@hclt.com Tue Jul 6 1:29:8 1999 Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 13:59:08 +0530 From: Subbiah Muthukalayappan Subject: Re: Problem installing RH6.0 from CHIP CD I faced a similar problem yesterday with the PCQ CD (March '99) on a machine with a little more than 1GB of space. I tried workstation install but it gave a message that there was 'Not enough diskspace for this kind of install'. This was *after* I had done the disk partition for swap space and '/' using disk druid. I pressed the 'back' button and went to 'custom install' and said 'everything' and this time it didnt complain and it got installed successfully. Does this have something to do with the number of cylinders limitation with BIOSes ? Probably the following information might be of some use. Before install - -------------- There were two hard disks and one CD-ROM hard disk1 - Drive C (With win95 - primary partion ) hard disk2 - Drive D (Primar partion with around 2GB total) and E (Extended partition with around 2GB total) After using fips on D drive - --------------------------- hard disk1 - Drive C hard disk2 - Drives D (primary partition with around 1GB total), F (The new partition created by fips with around 1GB) and E (extended partition - - 2GB) I created a 32MB swap in this F drive using disk druid during install followed by the / for the remaing space (more than 980MB). May be someone can tell what the problem was with this information Regards Subbiah Milesh Kumar wrote: > > Hi, > I tried installing RH 6.0 from the CHIP CD. I booted from the CD (and > tried once with a boot floppy too) and got till the Installation Type > screen (Workstation, Server, Custom). If I choose Workstation, it > displays a dialog saying "There is not enough disk space for this type > of installation". > > I have Win NT and Win 95 installed on my system and also have free > (unpartitioned space) of 1035MB. My 4GB hard disk has one primary > partition (which is divided into 2GB and 1GB) and the remaining 1035MB > is unpartitioned space. What am I supposed to do now? I don't want to > install it as server since I don't want to lose the existing data. If I > choose Custom, it asks for SCSI adapters (the details of which are not > available in this installation list). > > Has anyone faced this problem or have any idea what this is error > message is about? > > Thanks In Advance > Milesh > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From nayanmitra@yahoo.com Tue Jul 6 1:45:25 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 01:45:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Nayan Mitra Subject: Re: I want to change my network Boss Please see all the pros and cons and then only proceed. B'cause I hade tried Netware on linux but it does not give all the features of netware, there are some problem with assign disk space etc. Again with NT , what purpouse do you use it ? It's totally depending on the purpouse. Because I am having LINUX-Netware-NT network Linux for Intranet & Internet NT for windows based application. Netware basicaly only as file storage. By nayan _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From iacc@vsnl.com Tue Jul 6 2:4:57 1999 Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 09:04:57 +0000 From: Benoy George Subject: Configuring Qmail We have LINUX REDHAT 5.2 . I installed QMAIL from Chip Special CD as per their instruction but this server can send message to local users only from other Win9x clients not to external world , If I add the hostname on /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts mail to that host will go smoothly But this is not possible for every address. please help me to Thanks Benoy George - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From achitnis@cbconsulting.com Tue Jul 6 1:53:16 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 14:23:16 +0530 From: "Atul Chitnis" Subject: RE: Problem installing RH6.0 from CHIP CD > I faced a similar problem yesterday with the PCQ CD (March '99) on a > machine with a little more than 1GB of space. I tried workstation > install but it gave a message that there was 'Not enough diskspace for > this kind of install'. This was *after* I had done the disk partition > for swap space and '/' using disk druid. I pressed the 'back' button and > went to 'custom install' and said 'everything' and this time it didnt > complain and it got installed successfully. As the Friendly Manual says - the Workstation install *adds* to existing setups (i.e. existing partitions are not deleted), the Server install wipes out everything, and custom lets you decide. Naturally the WS setup failed because it didn't find place for more partitions to add! Atul - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From m_vimal@hotmail.com Tue Jul 6 2:0:57 1999 Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 02:00:57 PDT From: Vimal Mathew Subject: Re : Login probs... Hi, I think you were trying to login as root through telnet. The terminal which you would have got would be /dev/ttyp0 (assuming you were the first to telnet in). /dev/ttyp0 is not a secure terminal. If you want to login as root from remote sites, you should add /dev/ttyp0 to /etc/securetty. With this entry, there can be a max. of one remote telnet as root. For more than 1 remote root logins, you can put that many entries in your /etc/securetty(ie. /dev/ttyp0, /dev/ttyp1,....). Bye, Vimal ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From m_vimal@hotmail.com Tue Jul 6 2:23:47 1999 Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 02:23:47 PDT From: Vimal Mathew Subject: Re : Parent process Hi, Lokesh Setia wrote : >Here `mc' was able to change the current working directory (cwd) of >the parent process(bash). Can anybody explain this strange behaviour. If you type # type mc you will notice that is a bash-function which calls /usr/bin/mc with the "-P" option sending the last working directory to a variable MC. Then, this function changes the current working directory to that. Since the directory change is done by a bash function and not by the /usr/bin/mc child process, there is nothing strange about it. Bye, Vimal ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From shashankb@dcmds.co.in Tue Jul 6 2:20:12 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 14:50:12 +0530 From: Shashank Banerjee Subject: RE: Installation on celeron ?? Manoj, It may not Celeron chip as such...It's probabaly the motherboard, which is causing the problem. I was faced with a similar problem, but by great misfortune, I managed to short-curcit my motherboard and RAM. Luckily, rest of the stuff, HDD, CD-ROM, AGP Card, Sound Card were saved. A change in the motherboard (and Rs. 9000/= lighter), I managed to Linux running on the Celeron. Regards Shashank >-----Original Message----- >From: MANOJ KUMAR RANA [SMTP:manoj.rana@tatainfotech.com] >Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 1999 12:29 PM >To: linux-india@aunet.org >Subject: Installation on celeron ?? > >Hi everybody, > > I am sure some of you must have tried to install Linux on celeron >machines. I tried but failed very soon after the kernel uncompression. >It just prints only 5-6 messages before rebooting. > >I am in a fix, is it that Linux may not work on celeron !!!! > >Bye > >Rana > > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >For more information on Linux in India visit >http://www.linux-india.org/ - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From shankar@cse.iitb.ernet.in Tue Jul 6 2:34:35 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 15:04:35 +0530 From: S Ravi Shankar Subject: Re: Help regarding Pine On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 11:53:53AM +0100, Sunil Sarat wrote: - -> If I telnet from any node to my linux server and use pine, can I send an - -> attachment from the floppy of the local machine(not server), when I tried it - -> is showing that the default directory is /home/username. So, how do I attach - -> a file from the floppy drive of the node? the telnet session makes your computer " a dumb terminal" where only the KB,Mouse and Monitor are used. The only way you can do what you want is ftp the file from the local machine to the server. if the node is also a linux a machine probably you can make it mountable from the other machine. export /mnt/floppy [or whatever] in the node and mount node:/mnt/floppy /misc [in the server]. man exportfs, man mount for more details - -- With Regards, S Ravi Shankar - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From ksunil@informix.com Tue Jul 6 3:14:28 1999 Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 15:14:28 +0500 From: Sunil kajarekar Subject: Re: Installation on celeron ?? No!! Manoj i have installed Linux 5.2 on my machine and i have celeron(266) It is working fine. I did't face any problem like this. Sunix. MANOJ KUMAR RANA wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > I am sure some of you must have tried to install Linux on celeron > machines. I tried but failed very soon after the kernel uncompression. > It just prints only 5-6 messages before rebooting. > > I am in a fix, is it that Linux may not work on celeron !!!! > > Bye > > Rana > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ - -- "it is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success." Dr. George Washington Carver. - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From shankar@cse.iitb.ernet.in Tue Jul 6 2:51:43 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 15:21:43 +0530 From: S Ravi Shankar Subject: Re: try this On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 11:18:19AM +0200, Jeffrey Yep wrote: - -> I've heard that elightenment hogs a lot of resources and Windowmaker is - -> better? If so how to uninstall elightenment and install Widow maker and will - -> gnome owrk well with windowmaker? its gnome that hogs the resource. you can change the window manager from gnome itself. go to the Control section, window managers, choose add and give the path of window maker [/usr/X11R6/bin/wmaker]. window maker in my opinion is good when used without gnome. [put exec /usr/X11R6/bin/wmaker in your .xinitrc if you want to have X running with as low resources and yet have an appealing look] - -- With Regards, S Ravi Shankar - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From m_vimal@hotmail.com Tue Jul 6 2:53:22 1999 Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 02:53:22 PDT From: Vimal Mathew Subject: Re: Linux on cyrix Hi, I have not used a MediaGX (I have a Cyrix MII), but I dont think Linux should have any problems with it. You should get X-Windows running on it as the standard XF86_SVGA server supports MediaGX. ( Try an XF86_SVGA -probeonly 2>/tmp/log and check in /tmp/log for mediagx). My current XFree86 version is 3.3.1 (RedHat 5.2). I dont know about the sound configuration. Bye, Vimal ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From shankar@cse.iitb.ernet.in Tue Jul 6 2:54:0 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 15:24:00 +0530 From: S Ravi Shankar Subject: Re: Installation on celeron ?? On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 12:29:15PM +0530, MANOJ KUMAR RANA wrote: - -> I am sure some of you must have tried to install Linux on celeron - -> machines. I tried but failed very soon after the kernel uncompression. - -> It just prints only 5-6 messages before rebooting. - -> - -> I am in a fix, is it that Linux may not work on celeron !!!! we have linux running in about 35 celerons at Dept of CS at iit-bombay. please give the messages to enable us understand whats wrong with the system. - -- With Regards, S Ravi Shankar - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From linux@annauniv.edu Tue Jul 6 3:35:16 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 16:05:16 +0530 (IST) From: Anna University Subject: mail from machine with dynamic IP, pppd problems.... Dear Friends Assuming this message does reach you, you will see that i have sent it from my linux box. Before I go on with my questions, some info that you might need.... my machine's hostname : annauniv.edu ( Please note that there is a real domain annauniv.edu, namely that of my college ) Linux Distro : RHL 6 with kernel 2.2.5 pppd version : pppd 2.3.7 I was running out of space because I had earlier installed everything in the PCQ RHL 5.0 cd ( I was a newbie then and didn't know what was necessary and what I could do without ). I still am a newbie but much better now, thanks to the list, of course. So I decided to install RHL 6.0 fresh from the Chip special cd. And I forgot to backup all my config files, dial-up scripts ( which I painstakingly wrote ) and so on. And I started doing it again. I was using chat for dial up, but this time, nothing I did could coax the ppp link to come up. With all the 3 isps, the problem ( the line in my /var/log/messages ) was.... LCP : timeout sending Config - Requests I was desperate to connect to the internet with linux, as i used to do before. I used the utility wvdial that came with the chip spl. and I must say it was really good. I was able to connect to all the ISPs without any problem. Especially KMR Online, a new ISP in Madras, who actually uses IP masquerading ( I got dynamic IP addresses like 192.168.1.201 and 10.0.0.8 ) and when I logged in into my student account and executed "who" my IP was 203.197.148.2 ( An IP that VSNL must have loaned to this guy ). I found out that this guy uses NT in all his machines. That and the masquerading makes the connect slower than Satyam and VSNL sometimes, but it stays. But I saw something curious in the logs, with all the 3 isps. The section of the log below is when I connected to Satyam ( obvious from the 202.144 dynamic IP addresses ) ( /var/log/messages ) Jul 5 09:08:26 mani pppd[503] : pppd 2.3.7 started by root, uid 0 Jul 5 09:08:26 mani pppd[503] : Using interface ppp0 Jul 5 09:08:26 mani pppd[503] : Connect : ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0 Jul 5 09:08:26 mani pppd[503] : Remote Message : ^F Jul 5 09:08:27 mani modprobe : Can't locate module ppp-compress-21 Jul 5 09:08:27 mani modprobe : Can't locate module ppp-compress-26 Jul 5 09:08:28 mani modprobe : Can't locate module ppp-compress-24 Jul 5 09:08:28 mani pppd[503] : local IP address 202.144.10.181 Jul 5 09:08:28 mani pppd[503] : remote IP address 202.144.10.71 Jul 5 09:11:56 mani pppd[503] : Terminating on Signal 15 ( end of log ) #1. What does that "remote message" stuff mean ? This is the first time I'm seeing it. It didn't come when I connected to VSNL. Only when I connected to Satyam and KMR. Dunno if this matters, but they both run NT on their machines. #2. As you see, the logs say 3 modules weren't found. How does my connection work without these modules being there ? But please note that I stay online only for very short periods - just retrieve mail from my POP3 server and the occasional browsing. #3. How does pppd know that PAP or CHAP is used ? All I did was put my login and passwd in a config file ( /etc/wvdial.conf ) and wvdial does the rest. I'd like to login by connecting using minicom and logging in and then exiting without reset and then manually invoke pppd. But I'd like to know how to tell pppd to use PAP or CHAP. #4. Can anybody suggest any other X-based dialling utility ? I used X-ISP from the PCQ RHL 5.0 cd, but I doesn't even start dialling and says "pppd returned 1 ! ". I have gnome as my wm and I haven't seen any bundled dial-up util like kppp. #5. At Anna Univ., we are planning to install RHL 6.0 on a dual processor machine. I was told RHL 6.0 automatically detects an SMP capable motherboard. So will we have to re-compile at all ? Also, I'd like to know whether the networking stuff comes as modules as it did in the PCQ CDs. #6. With the chip RHL 6.0, I saw a new file ( /etc/sendmail.mc ). And when I made some changes to /etc/sendmail.cf, I decided to do what the file's remarks told me to..... $ m4 /etc/sendmail.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf But I hadn't installed m4 and I ended up with sendmail.cf becoming empty. I got hold of the file from VSNL's student server ( they also run sendmail 8.9.3 ), but editing all the locations ( /etc/mail in Sun is generally /etc/ in RHL ) got too tiresome. I then uninstalled all dependency packages ( fetchmail.... ) and then sendmail and then reinstalled them. Enough about my goof-ups. What IS that file /etc/sendmail.mc for ? Thanks a lot. regards mani sridhar - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From geetha@cswri.raj.nic.in Tue Jul 6 3:46:54 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 16:16:54 +0530 (IST) From: geetha@cswri.raj.nic.in Subject: Re: Help regarding Pine Dear Sunil, You can give share permission for the floopy drive through your machine and make that as a samba client after which by fiving a path something like \\\\xxxx\\yy you can attach the file and use. Geethalakshmi, V On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Sunil Sarat wrote: > Hi, > > If I telnet from any node to my linux server and use pine, can I send an > attachment from the floppy of the local machine(not server), when I tried it > is showing that the default directory is /home/username. So, how do I attach > a file from the floppy drive of the node? > > > Thanks in advance > > Sunil Sarat > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From rbharath@giasmda.vsnl.net.in Tue Jul 6 9:37:32 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 16:37:32 +0000 (IST) From: "BHARATHKUMAR.R" Subject: Re: query: shell a/c for mail download I guess you could do this manually. From your shell a/c do a : sz $MAIL This will download your mail onto your comp. Then just append the downloaded file onto your local mail file in your /var/spool/mail/ cat mailfile >> /var/spool/mail/user Then you can see all your mail offline on your favourite mail prog. ( pine etc ) You can also write a script that can be used with minicom to automate the above procedure. check out - man runscript Hope this helps. Cheers. - -- Bharath On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Unmesh Dhake wrote: > Is it possible to get all mails by using vsnl shell A/C in my PC. I read man > dicument of fetchmail. It supports PPP and SLIP. Whether any other utility > is avalible , so that i will connect through shell A/C and download the > mails in my PC. > > Any Idea > unmesh > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From karthik_kh@grabmail.com Mon Jul 5 20:16:34 1999 Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 11:16:34 +0800 From: "Karthik K H" Subject: Re: Installation on celeron ?? - -----Original Message----- From: MANOJ KUMAR RANA Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 12:29:15 +0530 (IST) To: linux-india@aunet.org Subject: Installation on celeron ?? > > > Hi everybody, > > I am sure some of you must have tried to install Linux on celeron > machines. I tried but failed very soon after the kernel uncompression. > It just prints only 5-6 messages before rebooting. > > I am in a fix, is it that Linux may not work on celeron !!!! > > Bye > > Rana > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > > Hi , I guess you are facing some problem with the CD not Linux. In fact I have an Intel CELERON 333MHz with RHL 6.0 & all sorts of desktops & WMgrs. running. Linux recognises it as i686 processor cheers. Karthik K H _________________________________________________________ Get your free @grabmail.com address at http://www.grabmail.com powered by OutBlaze - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From sunil@nicfos.ernet.in Tue Jul 6 8:7:32 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 16:07:32 +0100 From: Sunil Sarat Subject: NIS problems Hi, I'm trying to configure my linux machine as NIS server. When tried ypinit -m, I've got the following error message. Can any one please help me? "failed to send 'clear' to local ypserv: RPC: Timed out" Portmapper and ypserv both are running on my machine Thanks in advance Sunil Sarat - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From shankar@cse.iitb.ernet.in Tue Jul 6 4:28:38 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 16:58:38 +0530 From: S Ravi Shankar Subject: Re: Help with Linux. On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 01:39:16PM +0530, Subbiah Muthukalayappan wrote: - -> I have another query: Is there any disadvantage in just having one - -> partition (other than for swap) with / as mounting point or should we - -> have seperate partitions for /usr, / , /home etc. seperately (as - -> recommended) ? There is atleast one advantage in having /home as a separate partition. you can re-install linux [not upgrade which is possible anyway] without formatting the /home partition and retail all your previous work. generally people have the habit of having a small '/', '/var' and big /usr and /home. on the contrary having a single '/' gives you max flexibility with respect to user area and installing packages. you would not find /usr full when you want to install a new java compiler with /home having a lot of space left [this problem can be solved by installing in /home and putting a link however]. in a nutshell if its same harddisk you can have a single '/'. - -- With Regards, S Ravi Shankar - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From m_vimal@hotmail.com Tue Jul 6 4:49:3 1999 Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 04:49:03 PDT From: Vimal Mathew Subject: Re : Mounting CDROMS with noexec permission !! Hi, Shanu wrote about mounting CDROM's with mode=000, and asked what the mode business was all about. The mode option given with mount specifies the file mode with which the files on that filesystem will be accessed. The file-mode is a 4 digit (only the first 4 digits can be changed by chmod anyway) octal number. There are 3 types of perms(read,write,execute) for 3 types of users(owner, owner group, others). A bit represents each permission. A permission of (read,write,execute or rwx) is represented by octal 7. The order of these digits is (owner,owner group,others). Therefore, (rwxrw-r--) would represent the octal number 761. The most-significant digit represents setuid permissions for the 3 types of users. The permission mode=000 represents no access at all. I think Shanu was able to access the CD because he was root! I've got to check it out. - -Vimal ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From m_vimal@hotmail.com Tue Jul 6 4:50:45 1999 Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 04:50:45 PDT From: Vimal Mathew Subject: Re : Mounting CDROMS with noexec permission !! Hi, Shanu wrote about mounting CDROM's with mode=000, and asked what the mode business was all about. The mode option given with mount specifies the file mode with which the files on that filesystem will be accessed. The file-mode is a 4 digit (only the first 4 digits can be changed by chmod anyway) octal number. There are 3 types of perms(read,write,execute) for 3 types of users(owner, owner group, others). A bit represents each permission. A permission of (read,write,execute or rwx) is represented by octal 7. The order of these digits is (owner,owner group,others). Therefore, (rwxrw-r--) would represent the octal number 764. The most-significant digit represents setuid permissions for the 3 types of users. The permission mode=000 represents no access at all. I think Shanu was able to access the CD because he was root! I've got to check it out. - -Vimal ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From ghins@accord-soft.com Tue Jul 6 5:27:18 1999 Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 17:57:18 +0530 From: Ghins Mathai Subject: Re: sendmail problems..... Mrs N P Salaria wrote: > <> > Hello, > You will have to modify the .fetchmailrc, for the envelope information > usually fetchmail assumes the envelope info as X-envelope-To , this > envelope info is stripped and the mail is delivered to the right person > but when it carries a mailing list address the X-envelope header carries > info of the mailing list address and the mail goes to root/postmaster > instead of to the right user whose userid is usually in the second > envelope Even I am facing the same problem. Could you please tell me one thing ? How do I look at the mail along with its envelope and all other information. I tried something like fetchmail --mda cat -p pop3 .... It fetches the mail from the server and pipes it to cat. The issue out here is I want them to be sent to the sendmail daemon as well. How can I do this ? > > In your case where you are using fetchmail in mullti drop mode , What exactly is a multidrop ? Could not understand much from the man pages. Please tell me more. > > the isp usually adds one more envelope with the right username and > a string prefix , is is this envelope that is to be used and use the > string qvirtual to strip that part of the envelope inof and get the > actual user id . > So please go through the headers of the mail that you have recd > and modigy .fetchmailrc with the envelope info > in my .fetchmailrc I have added > envelope 1 "Delivered-To:" > qvirtual teraltd+teraltd.com-X- > > so when fetchmail pulls mail , it looks for the second Delivered to envelope > and strips the string teraltd+teraltd.com-X- and this gives the right user > name in case of mailing lists > Please read man fetchmail for full details > Hope this helps > nps > > -- > _____________________________________________ > N P Salaria | nps@teraltd.com > Tera Informatics | Tel: (022)-8280251 > Bombay, India | Res: (022)-5770472 > ---------------------------------------------- > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From rfowkar@goa1.dot.net.in Tue Jul 6 16:2:36 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 19:02:36 -0400 From: Rajesh Fowkar Subject: desktops in KDE vanished Hi everybody, I was trying to extract files from one of the archieve files from PCQ June CD in KDE and during execution suddenly my system hanged (like in windows), the mouse was not moving. This hanging problem even occurs in KDE ? I had no other option but to press the reset button. When I rebooted to my surprise the system was now showing that 45% of disk space is used. Before rebooting it was 38%. Mine is a 2GB Linux partition. Next surprise was when I started X in KDE I am not getting all the four desktops which I was getting earlier. In control center now there are no entries in desktop settings. and I get only two buttons on Kpanel(without desktop 1 and desktop 2 written on them) on which if I click then I get my desktop 1 and 2 wallpapers which I had set. Where are the remainig 2 desktops. Why the text on the exisisting two desktop buttons vanished and how to bring back those two desktops. For the increase in diskspace I tried to remove files from /tmp directory. But still it is showing the same. What could be the problem ?. How can I get all the four desktops in KDE ? Please help. Thanks in advance. Waiting for your replies. Regards -- Rajesh - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From rfowkar@goa1.dot.net.in Tue Jul 6 16:9:39 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 19:09:39 -0400 From: Rajesh Fowkar Subject: Re: Free Penguin Courier From the US Hi Sudhakar, I also wanted to have one linux T-Shirt. I am so fond of the Linux logo Penguin. I am from Goa and since you are not coming to this side it may not be possible for you. Anyway welcome to India. Can anybody tell me whether linux T-shirts are available in Goa. If yes please give me the address Thanks Rajesh On Mon, 05 Jul 1999, you wrote: > Folks, > > I am planning on making a trip to India in late August - early September. > I want to meet as many ILUG folks as possible. I plan to visit Madras and > Calcutta. Possibly even Bangalore. Are the ILUGs in these cities planning > to meet around that time? I would love to attend one of your meetings. > > Also, do you folks want some Linux CDs from the US? If you do, please send > me a private email (thaths@netscape.com). I am open to bringing a few > Linux t-shirts / books too. > > Thaths > -- > "If there were any justice, my face would be on a bunch of crappy > merchandise" -- Homer J. Simpson > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ - -- Rajesh Fowkar - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From shanu@poboxes.com Tue Jul 6 6:52:6 1999 Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 19:22:06 +0530 From: Shanu Subject: Re: Re : Mounting CDROMS with noexec permission !! Vimal Mathew wrote: > The mode option given with mount specifies the file mode with > which the file The permission mode=000 represents no access at all. I think > Shanu was able to access the CD because he was root! I've got to check it > out. > -Vimal Hey Vimal, I havent tried it as non root as well !!! Thanx for the info. - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - = = (SHANU) = = - - Shanker Balan Debian/GNU Linux 2.1 St. Alberts College Cochin India - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From kvshah@icenet.net Tue Jul 6 7:10:50 1999 Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 19:40:50 +0530 From: Kunal Shah Subject: how to configure printer Hi all, I have new printer hp deskjet 200 cci How should i configure it with redhat linux 5.2. I don't have drivers of linux for it. Kunal - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From betacomp@bom3.vsnl.net.in Tue Jul 6 7:48:32 1999 Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 20:18:32 +0530 From: mukund Subject: Re: query: shell a/c for mail download Unmesh Dhake wrote: > > Is it possible to get all mails by using vsnl shell A/C in my PC. I read man > dicument of fetchmail. It supports PPP and SLIP. Whether any other utility > is avalible , so that i will connect through shell A/C and download the > mails in my PC. > > Any Idea > unmesh > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ Yes you can do it. Eudora for shell a/c does it that way. Eudora connects to shell a/c and then does a telnet to localhost 110. Once its connected to pop3 server it uses LIST RETR DELE etc. commands to download the mail. I did not try it in linux but you can do it. You may use chat for scripting. - -- Best Wishes. - -mukund http://members.theglobe.com/betacomp/default.html http://members.xoom.com/BETACOMP/index1.htm - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ End of Linux India Digest V1 #93 ******************************** -------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send an email to majordomo@aunet.org with the word 'unsubscribe linux-india-digest' (without the quotes) in the body of the email. From ghins@accord-soft.com Tue Jul 6 7:36:8 1999 Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 20:06:08 +0530 From: Ghins Mathai Subject: Re: CD writing under Linux Atul Chitnis wrote: > <> > How long did it take to actually write the CD? A 600 MB image takes 30 mins > at 2x on my 8000i. I cannot give you a fair idea. The problem is that my data was only 35 MB. Total writing time was reported to be 109 s ( by cdrecord ). The actual time was between 2 - 4 mins. Will let you know if I use it to write a big image. > However parallel port throughput is no way as high as > IDE/SCSI. Would be nice to know these figures for comparison. I played it > safe with the internal CD writer, but paid a heavy price for it (about 8K > more than the 7200e), so was wondering what the tradeoff is. > > > - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From amundra@giasbma.vsnl.net.in Tue Jul 6 8:54:11 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 20:54:11 +0500 (IST) From: "ATUL.G.MUNDRA" Subject: Re: Login Prob... On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, ChenthilWhelan wrote: =>I could not login through a telnet session started from a Win9X/Linux =>client. I could login as a normal user with no password and su' as =>root. Plz help. => include the terminal name (eg. ttyS0 for modem) that u are using for telnetting in /etc/securetty. - -amit - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ If a man has a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism. -- Friedrich Nietzsche - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From hdoshi@cal2.vsnl.net.in Tue Jul 6 9:57:48 1999 Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 22:27:48 +0530 From: Rutvik Doshi Subject: Re: how to configure printer hi kunal, even i have a hp deskjet 200 and it works fine with RH5.2 . RH5.2 comes with a tool called "printtool" just run this from X and you will get a whole list of printers to select from. Select HP DJ 500C and it will work. rutvik Kunal Shah wrote: > Hi all, > I have new printer hp deskjet 200 cci > How should i configure it with redhat linux 5.2. > I don't have drivers of linux for it. > Kunal > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From sandi@del3.vsnl.net.in Tue Jul 6 11:28:50 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 23:58:50 +0530 From: "Sundeep Holani" Subject: C2 security... Hi, Somebody was asking about C2 security. I'm summarising what I've read somewhere... *********************************** The United States government categorizes computer security requirements for government installations into seven levels. level C2 security requirement has the following criteria: Secure logon: The system must require the user to provide a unique logon identifier (username) and password to gain access to the system. Discretionary access control: The person who owns a resource (directory, for example) can specify which other users can access the resource and what level of access they'll have over it. Auditing: This refers to the capability to identify and log several security events to identify and protect against security breaches. Memory protection: Secure memory protection prevents one process from reading another process' data without authorization and ensures that memory is reinitialized before being reused. ************************************ Dunno about official certification, but Linux seems to be much more secure than this. Regards, Sundeep. - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From sam@agapeinfotech.com Tue Jul 6 12:25:19 1999 Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 00:55:19 +0530 From: Sam Paul Subject: Re: fetchmail Hey, It did work for me according to Atul's instructions just a few days back. Sam Anna University wrote: > Dear Manoj and Anshul, > Please put these lines in .fetchmailrc in preferably the root > directory and make it read only ( it HAS to be read only for the thing to > work, i believe ). > > set daemon=0 > poll md4.vsnl.net.in with protocol POP3 > user msridhar is * here > password embratel > > replace md4.vsnl.net.in with your POP server and the username msridhar and > passwd embratel with the username and passwd that you have in your POP > server respectively. > > And to run fetchamil, just put the following command in an executable > file > fetchmail -k -a -v > > -k : doesn't delete messages on remote server > -a : retrieves all messages, including those already read > ( useful the first time you use fetchmail ) > -v : verbose > > there are 2 more options ( -d and -N ). I don't remember if they are > important, but please check them out before you run fetchmail. > > Hope it works ! If it does, say your thanks to Atul for the brilliant and > really clear article in PCQ ( with RHL 5.0 ) on how to get both outgoing > and incoing mail going. You will see that whatever I have written here is > exactly what Atul had written there. Hats off to him once again. > > regards > Mani Sridhar > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ - -- ***************************************************** Sam Paul email: sam@agapeinfotech.com website: http://www.agapeinfotech.com Phone: Off:+9140-7863188/+9140-7861151/+9140-7861152 Fax : Off: +91 40 7863929 / +91 40 7861457 Phone: Res: +91 40 7746163 Telefax: +91 40 7746162 Pager: +91 40-9622531000 efax : 1-603-250-0485 ****************************************************** - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From karan@sexmagnet.com Tue Jul 6 12:39:36 1999 Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 01:09:36 +0530 From: Karan Girotra Subject: Re: Linux on cyrix On Tue, 06 Jul 1999, you wrote: hye , many media gx users have also had trouble configuring their sound ... though it works AFAK with a 'little' tweaking . since mediagx pcs do not have the conventional ibm-os architecture i guess one could end up in trouble at some point.. ps-- what os the cost advantage of using a mediagx . - -- Regards .. Karan Girotra, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi 91-011-6864507 91-011-6862034 Icq# 25636434 - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From susri@giasbg01.vsnl.net.in Tue Jul 6 13:36:22 1999 Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 01:36:22 +0500 (GMT+0500) From: "N.S.Srinath" Subject: Doubt on /var/log/messages Hello, I use linux (RH 5, from PCQ). I'm a newbie in sysadmin. In my /var/log, there are 5 messages files. Current messages are in messages file, whereas older messages are in messages.1 ... messages.4 files. Also, there are 5 maillog files, similar to the messages files. Can I delete those old files? TIA, Srinath. - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From karan@sexmagnet.com Tue Jul 6 13:19:20 1999 Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 01:49:20 +0530 From: Karan Girotra Subject: Re: desktops in KDE vanished On Wed, 07 Jul 1999, you wrote: Hye Have faced the same problem and even by changing the number of desktops to four whenever i logout and restart i get only the 2 messages , though i can change the width of the desktop buttons from the panel configuration menu .. the loss in diskspace in my case was relatively much smaller though and am not too sure if kde could be blamed for it ... hope we find a solution . everybody, > >I was trying to extract files from one of the archieve files from PCQ June CD >in KDE and during execution suddenly my system hanged (like in windows), the >mouse was not moving. This hanging problem even occurs in KDE ? > >I had no other option but to press the reset button. When I rebooted to my >surprise the system was now showing that 45% of disk space is used. Before >rebooting it was 38%. Mine is a 2GB Linux partition. Next surprise was when I >started X in KDE I am not getting all the four desktops which I was getting >earlier. In control center now there are no entries in desktop settings. and I >get only two buttons on Kpanel(without desktop 1 and desktop 2 written on them) >on which if I click then I get my desktop 1 and 2 wallpapers which I had >set. Where are the remainig 2 desktops. Why the text on the exisisting two >desktop buttons vanished and how to bring back those two desktops. > >For the increase in diskspace I tried to remove files from /tmp directory. But >still it is showing the same. What could be the problem ?. How can I get all >the four desktops in KDE ? Please help. > >Thanks in advance. > >Waiting for your replies. > > >Regards > > -- Rajesh > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ - -- Regards .. Karan Girotra, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi 91-011-6864507 91-011-6862034 Icq# 25636434 - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From thaths@netscape.com Tue Jul 6 13:40:7 1999 Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 13:40:07 -0700 From: Sudhakar Chandrasekharan Subject: Re: httpd failed (OK) Rajesh Fowkar proclaimed: > Now I have stopped using Windos, though it is still there on the other > partition. I only use it when I want to use Foxpro since in the dos > emulator I am unable to use combination of keys > (alt+f1,alt+f7 etc. ) to use foxpro, Have you tried VMWare? http://www.vmware.com/ It is really useful for me to work on MS Project files and such. I insisted that my manager buy VMWare for me if he expected me to work with MicroSloth software. Thaths - -- "Marge! Don't discourage the boy. Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what seperates us from the animals... Except the weasel." -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Lead Indentured Slave - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From thaths@netscape.com Tue Jul 6 13:47:34 1999 Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 13:47:34 -0700 From: Sudhakar Chandrasekharan Subject: Re: HELP HELP HELP HELP Anshul Gupta proclaimed: > I have mailed several question to the list but not even a single has been > answered. Im in a fix bcoz of respawning problem now, please help me. 1. Your question was not specific to Linux usage in India. You are better off posting such questions to other Linux support mailing lists / newsgroups. Linux India exists to support and propogate Linux in India. Things that could be considered specific to Linux in India include (a) Questions / problems with the PCQ Linux CD, (b) Information about peripherals / cards used widely in India (The SiS Graphics card, for example), (c) The CHIP Linux CD etc. 2. Linux India is a volunteer effort. Don't expect people here to know everything. None of us get paid to answer these questions. Compare, for a moment, the support the LI offers for free against the support that you would have to pay for. 3. People subscribed to LI are responsible people who go through their email dilligently. If they did not answer your question the first time it was probably because they didn't know the answer. Posting the question again is not going to magically produce an answer. Thaths - -- "Marge! Don't discourage the boy. Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what seperates us from the animals... Except the weasel." -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Lead Indentured Slave - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From thaths@netscape.com Tue Jul 6 13:54:59 1999 Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 13:54:59 -0700 From: Sudhakar Chandrasekharan Subject: Re: [LI] Admin: Identifier tag in subject Soumyanath Chatterjee proclaimed: > Can we have a identifier tag in letters so that it is easily identifiable as > Linux-India letter. Something like [LI] in the original subject. (not in the > reply as that will make it difficult to mark the threads. I am open to this idea. However, I'd like to be convinced why I need to do this. If it is filtering that you are looking for, you could do that based on the 'To' header. Thaths - -- "Marge! Don't discourage the boy. Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what seperates us from the animals... Except the weasel." -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Lead Indentured Slave - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From chenthil@softhome.net Tue Jul 6 5:34:30 1999 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 18:04:30 +0530 From: "ChenthilWhelan" Subject: I-Net... This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_00A0_01BEC7D9.FE4332C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I could connect to my net SP thro kppp. but netscape gives some sort of = ip error and i could not browse. Also I need some help to configure mail = software. How can i enable the flash startup logo for linux as in = windows 9x. I run RedHat Linux 6.0 I also need help in transporting all = my old mails from Outlook Express 4.0 to any of the linux pop client. I run windows 95 and linux at the same time. I like to know how to boot = linux from dos prompt. Thanx to all in adv. BYE. Will Keep In Touch. - ----------------------------------------------------------------- Y's SenthilVelan PI chenthil@softhome.net http://senthil.webjump.com - ----------------------------------------------------------------- - ------=_NextPart_000_00A0_01BEC7D9.FE4332C0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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Using Red >Hat 5.2....the card is set to PCI mode...and autoprobe during setup >auto-detects the card. > >However, the following is being echoed on to the screen with a monotonous >regularity once the machine is re-started: > >eth0 : timeout waiting for Tx RDC > >dmesg shows the following:-- > >ne2k-pci.c PCI NE2000 clone `VIA 82C926` at I/O 0x6000, IRQ 10 >eth0 : PCI NE2000 found at 0x6000, IRQ 10, 08:00:30:01:69:57 >eth0: timeout waiting for Tx RDC. > >BTW, the machine is yet to be connected to the n/w. So, what do I make of >this message....?? Can someone help me.... > >TIA, >Indra. > > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ >Linux India is NOT a forum for Microsoft/India/Pakistan/US/UK bashing. >Flame baits will not be tolerated. If you can appreciate satire read >http://www.templetons.com/brad/emily.html ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From dhirajgarg@hotmail.com Tue Jul 6 20:24:43 1999 Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 03:24:43 IST From: Dhiraj Garg Subject: Re: Mail distribution Mr Ghandhi i guess vsnl supports .. something.username@vsnl.com to go to mailbox .. usernam@vsnl.com try this u can sort on someting then Dhiraj >From: "L.V.Gandhi" >Reply-To: linux-india@aunet.org >To: linux-india@aunet.org >Subject: Re: Mail distribution >Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 05:50:27 +0530 > >Mrs N P Salaria wrote: > > > > According to L.V.Gandhi: > > > > > > P Venugopal wrote: > > > > > > > > L.V.Gandhi wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I have one main administrative office and for branch offices in a >city. > > > > > I have a single dial up account from vsnl. I want to down load >mail from > > > > > vsnl and distribute in individual office mail box in linux box in >Adm.. > > > > > office so that branch offices can download their mail using dial >up from > > > > > their win95 boxes. How to go about it. I will be thankful if I am > > > > > pointed some documentation in linux box or net. I have RHL 5.2 >that came > > > > > in Mar PCQ CD fully installed. Head office PC configuration is >Intel > > > > > celeron 300A, 3.2 GB HDD, 32 MB RAM and without any NIC cards. > > > > > > > Hello, > > What you can do is configure your linux machine to connect to your >vsnl account > > using chat or some other utility , you can write a script to estaablish > > connection , once connected use fetchmail , ( you will have to create >.fetchmailrc) > > in the root account to pull all the mails , you can pull all the mails >for > > everyone and then you should have all the user accounts on your machine > > the local MDA will then deliver all mail to the individual users mail >boxes. They > > can then configure their windows machines as pop3 clientts and pull >their individual > > mails . I have configured a Linux slackwaare machine to connect to vsnl >every > > one hour it pulls and sends all the queued mail and then individual >users > > in the office connect to this linux server as a pop client and pull all >their > > mails. If this is what you want you can do it , write to me if you >require > > any further info.., read man fetchmail for more info on fetchmail. > > nps > >Thanks for the response. >I have a single vsnl account. There should be some criteria to sort the >mails to individual account. How to do it? I think that after using >Kmail or nwtscape I can download mails. To send mail I use smtp server >address of vsnl. How to distribute or forward the mail from netscape or >kmail to individual accounts and then how to configure linux box so that >others can download their mail using their win boxes? > >-- >L.V.Gandhi >MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA >http://www.poboxes.com/lvgandhi lvgandhi@poboxes.com, >lvgandhi@vsnl.com, 31882656@pager.mirabilis.com > > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe send an email to majordomo@aunet.org with the word >'unsubscribe linux-india' (without the quotes) in the body of the email. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ ------------------------------ From mysxrd@giasbg01.vsnl.net.in Tue Jul 6 21:28:13 1999 Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:58:13 +0530 (IST) From: XRDLAB Subject: Local mail delivery Hi, I use fetchmail to get my mail from the vsnl server. After fetching messages, I do not get it in my spool directory for about 3-4 minutes. Is there a way I can set the configuration (exim) to deliver the messages as soon as they arrive? Thanks, sridhar ******************************************** Sridhar M. A. Department of Physics University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Mysore 570 006, INDIA Tel: +91-821-516133 Fax: +91-821-516133 E-mail: mysxrd@giasbg01.vsnl.net.in ******************************************* - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ Please do not post HTML email to this mailing list. HTML mails will be thoroughly ignored and derisively sniggered at in private. ------------------------------ From tabrez_m@hotmail.com Tue Jul 6 21:11:5 1999 Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 21:11:05 PDT From: Tabrez Memon Subject: Re: Help in Redhat Linux 6.0 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_2839c0de_632c56e3$52ad6709 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed >From: UMAMAHESH >Reply-To: linux-india@aunet.org >To: linux-india@aunet.org >Subject: Re: Help in Redhat Linux 6.0 >Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 23:56:28 +0530 (IST) > >how did u install .rpem files. >for installing .tar.gz files copy them int some directory and >run "tar -zxvf filename .tar.gz" >-umamahesh You can install .rpm files using the "Gnorpm" found in /usr/bin if you are using X windows. If you are working in shell then use this command rpm -i package.rpm I have attached a small text file which shows how to uncompress most of the popularly used archives.. It also gove useful tips and help Thanks and Bye Tabrez ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - ------=_NextPart_000_2839c0de_632c56e3$52ad6709 Content-Type: text/plain; name="Linux compression.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Linux compression.txt" 11. The Remaining 1% Much more than 1%, actually... 11.1 Using tar and gzip Under UNIX there are some widely used applications to archive and compress files. tar is used to make archives---it's like PKZIP or Winzipbut it doesn't compress, it only archives. To make a new archive: $ tar -cvf [file...] To extract files from an archive: $ tar -xpvf [file...] To list the contents of an archive: $ tar -tf | less You can compress files using compress, which is obsolete and shouldn't be used any more, or gzip: $ compress $ gzip that creates a compressed file with extension .Z (compress) or .gz (gzip). These programs can compress only one file at a time. To decompress: $ compress -d $ gzip -d RMP. There are also the unarj, zip and unzip (PK??ZIP compatible) utilities. Files with extension .tar.gz or .tgz (archived with tar, then compressed with gzip) are as common in the UNIX world as .ZIP files are under DOS. Here's how to list the contents of a .tar.gz archive: $ tar -ztf | less 11.2 Installing Applications First of all: installing packages is root's work. Most Linux applications are distributed as a .tar.gz archive, which typically will contain a directory aptly named containing files and/or subdirectories. A good rule is to install these packages from /usr/local with the command # tar -zxf reading then the README or INSTALL file. In most cases, the application is distributed in source, which you'll have to compile; often, typing make then make install will suffice. If the archive contains a configure script, run it first. Obviously, you'll need the gcc or g++ compiler. Other archives have to be unpacked from /; this is the case with Slackware's .tgz archives. Other archives contain the files but not a subdirectory - careful not to mess things up!. Always list the contents of the archive before installing it. Debian and Red Hat have their own archive format; respectively, .deb and .rpm. The latter is gaining wide acceptance; to install an rpm package, type # rpm -i package.rpm 11.3 Tips You Can't Do Without Backscrolling: pressing (the grey key) allows you to backscroll a few pages, depending on how much video memory you have. Resetting the screen: if you happen to more or cat a binary file, your screen may end up full of garbage. To fix it, blind type reset or this sequence of characters: echo CTRL-V ESC c RETURN. Pasting text: in console, see below; in X, click and drag to select the text in an xterm window, then click the middle button (or the two buttons together if you have a two-button mouse) to paste. There is also xclipboard (alas, only for text); don't get confused by its very slow response. Using the mouse: if you installed gpm, a mouse driver for the console, you can click and drag to select text, then right click to paste the selected text. It works across different VCs. Messages from the kernel: have a look at /var/adm/messages or /var/log/messages as root to see what the kernel has to tell you, including bootup messages. The command dmesg is also handy. 11.4 Where to Find Applications If you're wondering whether you can replace your old and trusted DOS/Win application with a Linux one, I suggest that you browse the main Linux software repositories: ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux, ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux, and ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/Linux. Other good starting places are the ``Linux Applications and Utilities Page'' http://www.xnet.com/~blatura/linapps.shtml, and the ``official'' Linux page http://www.linux.org. 11.5 A Few Things You Couldn't Do Linux can do an awful lot of things that were cumbersome, difficult or impossible do to with DOS/Windows. Here's a short list that may whet your appetite: at allows you to run programs at a specified time; awk is a simple yet powerful language to manipulate data files (and not only). For example, being data.dat your multi field data file, $ awk '$2 ~ "abc" {print $1, "\t", $4}' data.dat prints out fields 1 and 4 of every line in data.dat whose second field contains ``abc''. cron is useful to perform tasks periodically, at specified date and time. Type man 5 crontab. file tells you what filename is (ASCII text, executable, archive, etc.); find (see also Section Directories: Translating Commands) is one of the most powerful and useful commands. It's used to find files that match several characteristics and perform actions on them. General use of find is: $ find where includes search criteria and actions. Examples: $ find . -type l -exec ls -l {} \; finds all the files that are symbolic links and shows what they point to. $ find / -name "*.old" -ok rm {} \; finds all the files matching the pattern and deletes them, asking for your permission first. $ find . -perm +111 finds all the files whose permissions match 111 (executable). $ find . -user root finds all the files that belong to root. Lots of possibilities here---RMP. grep finds text patterns in files. For example, $ grep -l "geology" *.tex lists the files *.tex that contain the word ``geology''. The variant zgrep works on gzipped files. RMP; regular expressions are a complex but darn powerful way of performing search operations on text. For example, ^a[^a-m]X{4,}txt$ matches a line that starts with `a', followed by any character except those in the interval a-m, followed by 4 or more `X', and ends in `txt'. You use regular expressions with advanced editors, less, and many other applications. man grep for an introduction. script dumps the screen contents on script_file until you issue the command exit. Useful for debugging; sudo allows users to perform some of root's tasks (e.g. formatting and mounting disks; RMP); uname -a gives you info about your system; zcat and zless are useful for browsing and piping gzipped files without decompressing them. For example: $ zless textfile.gz $ zcat textfile.gz | lpr The following commands often come in handy: bc, cal, chsh, cmp, cut, fmt, head, hexdump, nl, passwd, printf, sort, split, strings, tac, tail, tee, touch, uniq, w, wall, wc, whereis, write, xargs, znew. RMP. 11.6 Practicing UNIX under DOS/Windows Believe it or not, there are fine tools that provide a UNIX-like environment under DOS/Windows! One is the Djgpp suite ( http://www.delorie.com/djgpp) for DOS, while Cygnus ( http://www.cygnus.com) is a more complex port for Win32. Both include the same GNU development tools and utilities as Linux; you won't get the same stability and performance, though. If you'd like to have a taste of Linux, try out Djgpp. Download and install the following files (as of this writing, the latest version is 2.02): djdev202.zip, bnu281b.zip, bsh1147b.zip, fil316b.zip, find41b.zip, grep22b.zip, gwk303b.zip, lss332b.zip, shl112b.zip.. Installation instructions are provided, and you can find assistance on news:comp.os.msdos.djgpp. In particular, using bash under DOSWin is a whiff of fresh air. To configure it properly, edit the supplied file BOOT.BAT to reflect your installation, then put these files in your home directory (in the Windows partition) instead of those provided: # this is _bashrc LS_OPTIONS="-F -s --color=yes" alias cp='cp -i' alias d='ls -l' alias l=less alias ls="ls $LS_OPTIONS" alias mv='mv -i' alias rm='rm -i' alias u='cd ..' # this is _bprof if [ -f ~/_bashrc ]; then . ~/_bashrc fi PS1='\w\$ ' PS2='> ' CDPATH="$CDPATH:~" # stuff for less(1) LESS="-M-Q" # long prompt, silent LESSEDIT="%E ?lt+%lt. %f" # edit top line VISUAL="jed" # editor LESSCHARSET=latin1 # visualise accented letters export PS1 PS2 CDPATH LS_OPTIONS LESS LESSEDIT LESSOPEN VISUAL LESSCHARSET 11.7 Common Extensions and Related Programs You may come across scores of file extensions. Excluding the more exotic ones (i.e. fonts, etc.), here's a list of who's what: 1 ... 8: man pages. Read them with groff -Tascii -man . arj: archive made with arj. dvi: output file produced by TeX (see below). xdvi to visualise it; dvips to turn it into a PostScript .ps file. gz: archive made with gzip. info: info file (sort of alternative to man pages). Get info. lsm: Linux Software Map file. It's a plain ASCII file containing the description of a package. ps: PostScript file. To visualise or print it get gs and, optionally, ghostview or gv. rpm: Red Hat package. You can install it on any system using the package manager rpm. taz, tar.Z: archive made with tar and compressed with compress. tgz, tar.gz: archive made with tar and compressed with gzip. tex: text file to submit to TeX, a powerful typesetting system. Get the package tex, available in many distributions. texi: texinfo file, can produce both TeX and info files (cp. info). Get texinfo. xbm, xpm, xwd: graphic file. Z: archive made with compress. 11.8 Converting Files If you need to exchange text files between DOS/Win and Linux, be aware of the ``end of line'' problem. Under DOS, each line of text ends with CR/LF (that is, ASCII 13 + ASCII 10), with LF under Linux. If you edit a DOS text file under Linux, each line will likely end with a strange--looking `M' character; a Linux text file under DOS will appear as a kilometric single line with no paragraphs. There are a couple of tools, dos2unix and unix2dos, to convert the files. If your text--only files contain accented characters, make sure they are made under Windows (with Notepad) and not under plain DOS; otherwise, all accented characters will be screwed up. To convert Word or WordPerfect files to plain text, the matter is a bit trickier but possible. You'll need one of the tools that can be found on the CTAN sites; one is ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk. Get the program word2x from the directory /pub/tex/tools/, or try one the programs available in directory /pub/tex/support/. In particular, word2x converts Word 6 files, while for Word 97 files you'll need mswordview ( http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/docs/MSWordView.html) that turns them to HTML. 11.9 Free Office Suites If converting files is not enough, you have the choice of sinking your teeth into a (free!) Microsoft Office--like package. The StarOffice suite is free for private use. It's big, somewhat slow, but very good anyway: it offers a lot of functionality not found in Microsoft Office. It can also read and write Word and Excel files, although the conversion isn't always perfect. Home page: http://www.stardivision.com. Another good package is Corel WordPerfect, a free edition of which is available for download. Should I say more? Go fetch it: http://www.corel.com. - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ------=_NextPart_000_2839c0de_632c56e3$52ad6709-- - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ Please do not post HTML email to this mailing list. HTML mails will be thoroughly ignored and derisively sniggered at in private. ------------------------------ From asuresh@mecheng.iisc.ernet.in Wed Jul 7 10:41:56 1999 Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 12:41:56 -0500 (GMT+5) From: Arvind Suresh Hosagrahara Subject: AD1812 Hi! my name is arvind suresh hosagrahara and i work at the indian institute of science at bangalore. I have just moved to linux (Red hat 6.0 - Chip) and find it fabulous. I am unable to get my sound card to work under linux. The sound card is an Analog Devices AD1812 which is supposed to be a 100% creative compatible. Has anyone here faced the same problem or know a workaround arvind - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ Please do not post HTML email to this mailing list. HTML mails will be thoroughly ignored and derisively sniggered at in private. ------------------------------ From pgm@krec.ernet.in Tue Jul 6 21:17:14 1999 Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:47:14 +0530 From: P G Mohanan Subject: Re: Configuring Qmail Hi, Absence of rcpthosts will permit routing in either way without any restrictions. rcpthosts imposes the restrictions. The FAQ 3.1 and 3.2 explains the use of rcpthosts. Please see=20 /var/qmail/doc/FAQ if you use a var-qmail package. Typically, at a gateway you need not use rcpthosts or you need to put all the names of all mailhosts and all upstream mail relays in it.=20 ( ie the full set of hostnames for which mail traffic is permitted thru the gateway)=20 On a mailhost you need to put the name(s) by which it is known only.=20 qmail@list.cr.yp.to is the qmail mailing list. You can subscribe by sending a null mail to qmail-subscribe@list.cr.yp.to.=20 Regards --pgm On Tue, 06 Jul 1999, you wrote: > We have LINUX REDHAT 5.2 . I installed QMAIL from Chip Special CD as pe= r > their instruction > but this server can send message to local users only from other Win9x > clients > not to external world , If I add the hostname on > /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts mail to that host will go smoothly But thi= s > is not possible for every address. =20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D P G Mohanan=09=09=09E-Mail :pgm@krec.ernet.in =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ Please do not post HTML email to this mailing list. HTML mails will be thoroughly ignored and derisively sniggered at in private. ------------------------------ From nps@teraltd.com Tue Jul 6 21:57:12 1999 Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:27:12 +0530 (IST) From: Mrs N P Salaria Subject: Re: sendmail problems..... According to Ghins Mathai: > > Mrs N P Salaria wrote: > > > <> > > Hello, > > You will have to modify the .fetchmailrc, for the envelope information > > usually fetchmail assumes the envelope info as X-envelope-To , this > > envelope info is stripped and the mail is delivered to the right person > > but when it carries a mailing list address the X-envelope header carries > > info of the mailing list address and the mail goes to root/postmaster > > instead of to the right user whose userid is usually in the second > > envelope > > Even I am facing the same problem. Could you please tell me one thing ? How do > I look at the mail along with its envelope and all other information. I tried > something like > > fetchmail --mda cat -p pop3 .... > > It fetches the mail from the server and pipes it to cat. The issue out here is > I want them to be sent to the sendmail daemon as well. How can I do this ? > > > > > In your case where you are using fetchmail in mullti drop mode , > > What exactly is a multidrop ? Could not understand much from the man pages. > Please tell me more. > > > > > > the isp usually adds one more envelope with the right username and > > a string prefix , is is this envelope that is to be used and use the > > string qvirtual to strip that part of the envelope inof and get the > > actual user id . > > So please go through the headers of the mail that you have recd > > and modigy .fetchmailrc with the envelope info > > in my .fetchmailrc I have added > > envelope 1 "Delivered-To:" > > qvirtual teraltd+teraltd.com-X- > > > > so when fetchmail pulls mail , it looks for the second Delivered to envelope > > and strips the string teraltd+teraltd.com-X- and this gives the right user > > name in case of mailing lists > > Please read man fetchmail for full details > > Hope this helps > > nps > > Hello , I am just attaching one mail header please go through it in detail you will see no of received and delivered to headers .. Normally when one sends mail say you have an account on bom2 at vsnl and you use pop to pull that mail the mail is directly addrressed to user@bom2, but in case you are pulling the mail for a no of users from one internet server for an entire domain then it is in multi drop mode There is an inbetween server which receives all the mail for an entire domain, then there is an ulltimate server which pulls all these mail and redistributes them to individual users .. that is multidrop. I will give our example we have our mail server as teraltd.com which is suppose to receive mail for all users@teraltd.com All Unix mail servers use sendmail( 90 %) , they are suppose to receive mails for the accounts that exist and reject the others but in case of multi drop they are suppose to receive all the mails for a particular domain , so rejection does not come . We then pull all the mails and redistribute here, which again if we have senddmail at our end it does it automatically. In Linux once mail comes in it automatically gets distributed to all the users mailboxes , whichever accounts are existing and for unknown users a copy goes to root. so if you use sendmail you need not use procmail and configure for each individual. This mail server which comes in between adds its own headers , we have to configure fetchmail to accordingly recognise the right header and pull the mail accordingly. I am attaching one such header ... >From majordom@aunet.org Tue Jul 6 11:39:30 1999 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by teraltd.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA11784 for ; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 11:39:28 +0530 Received: from mail.teleport.com by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-4.7.3) for nps@localhost (multi-drop); Tue, 06 Jul 1999 06:09:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail1 (mbox eraltd) (with Cubic Circle's cucipop (v1.31 1998/05/13) Mon Jul 5 23:03:17 1999) X-From_: majordom@aunet.org Tue Jul 06 05:02:14 1999 Delivered-To: teraltd@teleport.com Received: (qmail 1498 invoked by uid 63273); 6 Jul 1999 05:02:13 -0000 Delivered-To: teraltd+teraltd.com-X-nps@teraltd.com Received: (qmail 1487 invoked from network); 6 Jul 1999 05:02:12 -0000 Received: from aunet.org (HELO www.aunet.org) (216.103.113.202) by smtp7.teleport.com with SMTP; 6 Jul 1999 05:02:12 -0000 Received: from majordom by www.aunet.org with local (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 111MtV-0003Mz-00; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 21:31:45 -0700 Received: from sgi.sgi.com (sgi.com) [192.48.153.1] by www.aunet.org with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 111MtV-0003Mr-00; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 21:31:45 -0700 Received: from nodin.corp.sgi.com ([192.26.51.193]) by sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id VAA07625 for <@external-mail-relay.sgi.com:linux-india@aunet.org>; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 21:31:40 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (raju@bhairavi.newdelhi.sgi.com) Received: from sgindia.newdelhi.sgi.com (newdelhi.sgi.com [134.14.90.2]) by nodin.corp.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/980728.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id VAA53312 for <@relay.sgi.com:linux-india@aunet.org>; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 21:31:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bhairavi.newdelhi.sgi.com (bhairavi.newdelhi.sgi.com [134.14.90.52]) by sgindia.newdelhi.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id JAA35495 for ; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 09:58:26 +0530 (IST) Received: (from raju@localhost) by bhairavi.newdelhi.sgi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA13889; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 09:42:27 +0530 (IST) Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 09:42:27 +0530 (IST) Message-Id: <199907060412.JAA13889@bhairavi.newdelhi.sgi.com> From: Raj Mathur To: linux-india@aunet.org Subject: Re: Is Linux C2 Compliant ? In-Reply-To: <7C8D1D72111CD311A3BE0090277B326A37E8EF@exdel01.del.mgsl.com> References: <7C8D1D72111CD311A3BE0090277B326A37E8EF@exdel01.del.mgsl.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.31 under 20.2 XEmacs Lucid Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Precedence: bulk Reply-To: linux-india@aunet.org X-Url: http://www.linux-india.org Sender: Majordomo Status: O Here to original TO carries the name linux-india@aunet.org, but I want the mail to be sent to nps , see the delivered to headers One Delivered to has teraltd@teleport.com and the second Delivered to has Delivered-To: teraltd+teraltd.com-X-nps@teraltd.com it is this nps I am interested in to deliver to nps Now all the mails which come will contain the real user in the second delivered to envelope so this is my .fetchmailrc set daemon 0 poll mail.teleport.com with protocol POP3: no dns, aka teraltd.com envelope 1 "Delivered-To:" qvirtual teraltd+teraltd.com-X- user teraltd is * here password xxxxxxx #flush PS this is multi drop when all mails for teraltd.com go to teleportserver as they are hosting our internet maiil server and then we pull and distribute tto individual users Hope this helps nps - -- _____________________________________________ N P Salaria | nps@teraltd.com Tera Informatics | Tel: (022)-8280251 Bombay, India | Res: (022)-5770472 - ---------------------------------------------- - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ Please do not post HTML email to this mailing list. HTML mails will be thoroughly ignored and derisively sniggered at in private. ------------------------------ End of Linux India Digest V1 #94 ******************************** -------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send an email to majordomo@aunet.org with the word 'unsubscribe linux-india-digest' (without the quotes) in the body of the email. From ak@iitk.ac.in Tue Jul 6 21:53:59 1999 Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:23:59 +0530 (IST) From: Atul Kumar Subject: Re: how to configure printer > > Hi all, > I have new printer hp deskjet 200 cci > How should i configure it with redhat linux 5.2. > I don't have drivers of linux for it. > Kunal > start control-pannel in X and then its easy, select deskjet 550 if 200 is not listed there. Atul - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ Please do not post HTML email to this mailing list. HTML mails will be thoroughly ignored and derisively sniggered at in private. ------------------------------ From davpgdn@del2.vsnl.net.in Mon Jul 5 21:58:59 1999 Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 10:28:59 +0530 From: "Dr. S. K. Singh" Subject: Re: Password thief i want to join you because of being concerned with education line.how it is possible Dr. S. K. Singh Prof. Dehradun Muthu Vairavan wrote: > > > visit to the site VSNL logging password gets stolen. > > I don't see how that is possible until the user types the password in > somewhere. > > There were a few articles in Indian magazines/newspapers about it. In fact, I > remember posting a news article on a person from Bangalore accusing a > CyberCafe in Residency Road of stealing his password on the mailing list > 'itdiscus'. > > There was another article (I guess from Economic Times) I posted in 'itdiscus' > which discussed the ways how they steal the passwords too. > > So, I believe it is a reality and everybody needs to be cautious (till you get > unlimited/free ISP) > Muthu > > If you want to join 'itdiscus' and/or receive decent Indian jokes thrice a > week, contact me > > ____________________________________________________________________ > Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ Please do not post HTML email to this mailing list. HTML mails will be thoroughly ignored and derisively sniggered at in private. ------------------------------ From amundra@giasbma.vsnl.net.in Tue Jul 6 23:10:7 1999 Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 11:10:07 +0500 (IST) From: "ATUL.G.MUNDRA" Subject: Re: query: shell a/c for mail download On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Anna University wrote: =>Dear Umesh, => It is possible to use fetchmail to retrieve you shell account mails, =>but only if you are using a tcp/ip account then. When you use your plain =>vanilla shell account directly ( using minicom or hyperterminal ), there =>is no option but to view mail online. no, u can retrieve, send, delete, use multiple pop accounts or anything else that u can with a tcp/ip account also with a shell account. i have a set of perl scripts for the same which uses pine as the mail client. i'm composing offline right now. tell me if u want the scripts. - -amit - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ Please do not post HTML email to this mailing list. HTML mails will be thoroughly ignored and derisively sniggered at in private. ------------------------------ From reji_varghese@hotmail.com Tue Jul 6 20:40:50 1999 Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 20:40:50 PDT From: Reji Varghese Subject: Help Needed ... Linux & Hotmail ... hi everybody, i'm unable to get the Hotmail initial screen through my linux, both at office and home. can somebody help me ? bye ... reji ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ Please do not post HTML email to this mailing list. HTML mails will be thoroughly ignored and derisively sniggered at in private. ------------------------------ From yasinag@popaccount.com Tue Jul 6 21:56:20 1999 Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 9:56:20 +0500 From: Mohamed Yasin Subject: Re: Configuring Qmail Hi, Benoy George, At 7/6/99 9:04:00 AM you wrote: >We have LINUX REDHAT 5.2 . I installed QMAIL from Chip Special CD as per >their instruction > >but this server can send message to local users only from other Win9x >clients >not to external world , If I add the hostname on >/var/qmail/control/rcpthosts mail to that host will go smoothly But this >is not possible for every address. > >please help me to > >Thanks > >Benoy George > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ Remove rcpthosts file for enabling all users to send mails any domain. I have patched Qmail at my location to work with rcpthosts file by putting one more control file relaymailfrom which enables selective users to send mails for all domains. Regards, Mohamed Yasin yasinag@popaccount.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ Please do not post HTML email to this mailing list. HTML mails will be thoroughly ignored and derisively sniggered at in private. ------------------------------ From yasinag@popaccount.com Wed Jul 7 0:0:0 1999 Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:2:34 +0500 From: Mohamed Yasin Subject: Warning !! Qmail Server Users Hi, If you have addressed a mail for more than one users on same domain, qmail will send that many messages which is different from sendmail where only one copy is sent to that domain. 20kb mail addressed to 100 users on same domain will transmit 20 * 100 = 2000kb. Regards, Mohamed Yasin yasinag@popaccount.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ Please do not post HTML email to this mailing list. HTML mails will be thoroughly ignored and derisively sniggered at in private. ------------------------------ From nagadew@hotmail.com Tue Jul 6 22:53:16 1999 Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 11:23:16 +0530 From: "Nagesh S K" Subject: problem in compiling kernel Hi! This is my first posting to this mailing list and hope to have my problem solved. Here is my problem. I am running RH5.2 with 2.2 kernel which I had to compile many times earlier in order to make my YAMAHA OPL3 sound card to work and I didn't had any problem in compiling the kernel (with frame buffer option disabled). But this time I am not able to do so because of some peculiar problem. I want to enable frame buffer support in my kernel so that I can get linux logo during startup. But if I enable this option during "make menuconfig " and then run "make dep" I am getting lot of errors corresponding to frame buffer header and source files like undefined symbols and missing header files and "make bzImage" will stop with error 2. So I reinstalled both kernel source and headers from March PCQ. After installing I rechecked these with rpm -V option and every thing was all right. But again I have same problem in compiling kernel with fb support. It is stopping with same error. If I recheck header files with rpm -V option it is reporting missing header files, time stamp error, check sum error. I could not figure out what could be wrong. Has any one else faced this problem? How do I fix this? When I was selecting options in "make menuconfig " I clicked on help button associated with frame buffer option there it says that "if you are compiling for 0x86 then you can say no here unless you want to play with this". Does this mean that I don't need to enable fb support for 0x86 platform? If it is not required then how do I make linux logo to appear during startup? Can any body help me? Nagesh S K Mysore - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ Please do not post HTML email to this mailing list. HTML mails will be thoroughly ignored and derisively sniggered at in private. ------------------------------ From achitnis@cbconsulting.com Tue Jul 6 23:8:19 1999 Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 11:38:19 +0530 From: "Atul Chitnis" Subject: RE: Warning !! Qmail Server Users > If you have addressed a mail for more than one users on > same domain, qmail will send that > many messages which is different from sendmail where only one > copy is sent to that domain. > 20kb mail addressed to 100 users on same domain will transmit 20 > * 100 = 2000kb. I don't know about qmail, but in sendmail, this item is just standard configuration, and sendmail can easily be configured to do exactly the same thing. In fact, if you are using fetchmail's multi-drop facility, this feature (one mail per addressee instead of single mail to domain) is not just a desired one - you just cannot operate without it if you are dealing with mailing lists, BCCs, etc.! Given today's disk and memory sizes, 2 MB is nothing - but a single 100 byte mail that isn't delivered correctly because of lack of header information is unforgivable! Atul - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ Please do not post HTML email to this mailing list. HTML mails will be thoroughly ignored and derisively sniggered at in private. ------------------------------ From root@netshooter.com Tue Jul 6 23:24:34 1999 Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 11:54:34 +0530 (IST) From: sudhir gandotra Subject: httpd-cgi Hi friends, I have confgured my httpd to run php....but now I have landed in another trouble as my cgi-scripts are not working..The lines added in conf files are like ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/" Action cgi-script /cgi-bin AddHandler cgi-script .cgi It says internal server error or misconfiguration....can anybodyhelp me out of this.. Tusar - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ Please do not post HTML email to this mailing list. HTML mails will be thoroughly ignored and derisively sniggered at in private. ------------------------------ From ragu@vsnl.com Tue Jul 6 4:14:11 1999 Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 16:44:11 +0530 From: Raghavendra Bhat Subject: Re: Free Penguin Courier From the US Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > Also, do you folks want some Linux CDs from the US? If you do, please send > me a private email (thaths@netscape.com). I am open to bringing a few > Linux t-shirts / books too. > Yup, would like to have the binary CD sets of /dists/stable/non-free and dists/stable/contrib tree of Debian GNU/Linux. By the way, will U be able to get the entire debian-user mails from the mailing list archive. ie: if U can get via UR T1 connexion with a site grab using wget... ragOO, VU2RGU. PGP Key 1024/1A747CB1 Fingerprint: 61 CD 0F 96 7A 94 4F F6 F0 42 1B 6D C0 A4 24 CF - -- Keeping the Air-Waves FREE.....Amateur Radio Keeping the W W W FREE..Debian GNU/Linux - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ Please do not post HTML email to this mailing list. HTML mails will be thoroughly ignored and derisively sniggered at in private. ------------------------------ From karthik_kh@grabmail.com Tue Jul 6 16:2:42 1999 Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 07:02:42 +0800 From: "Karthik K H" Subject: Re: HELP HELP HELP HELP > 1. Your question was not specific to Linux usage in India. You are better > off posting such questions to other Linux support mailing lists / > newsgroups. Linux India exists to support and propogate Linux in India. > Things that could be considered specific to Linux in India include (a) > Questions / problems with the PCQ Linux CD, (b) Information about > peripherals / cards used widely in India (The SiS Graphics card, for > example), (c) The CHIP Linux CD etc. This is bull-shit. If someone posts a question related to Linux , what has "INDIA" got to do with it here. I don't think there is a special linux meant only for Indians. If some bloke has knowledge of Linux or Unix let him answer to a question else shut-up. > 2. Linux India is a volunteer effort. Don't expect people here to know > everything. None of us get paid to answer these questions. Compare, for a > moment, the support the LI offers for free against the support that you > would have to pay for. It never fails , we Indians think of making a fast buck even on mailing lists like this. That's hte reason we never get far in technological improvements. I don't know of any mailing list or news-group servers which charge you for posting questions or pay you money if you answer one. > 3. People subscribed to LI are responsible people who go through their > email dilligently. If they did not answer your question the first time it > was probably because they didn't know the answer. Posting the question > again is not going to magically produce an answer. Responsible people don't make statements like (1) & (2) above. cheers, Karthik K H _________________________________________________________ Get your free @grabmail.com address at http://www.grabmail.com powered by OutBlaze - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ Please do not post HTML email to this mailing list. HTML mails will be thoroughly ignored and derisively sniggered at in private. ------------------------------ From kousik.bera@tcs.tcpn.com Wed Jul 7 1:8:33 1999 Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 13:38:33 +0530 From: "Bera, Kousik" Subject: Re: Swap.. >How to allot the same swap space for windows and linux in the same harddisk. Try http://www.acc.umu.se/~bosse/ The driver and the source files are in a 33kb zip file (swapfs.zip) ! Note that this is applicable for Win NT (FAT FS). And I haven't tried it. So it's your risk... Kousik - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ Please do not post HTML email to this mailing list. HTML mails will be thoroughly ignored and derisively sniggered at in private. ------------------------------ From rajesht@velos.ssind.com Wed Jul 7 1:40:5 1999 Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 14:10:05 +0530 From: rajesht@velos.ssind.com (Rajesh Thiharie) Subject: Re: Help Needed ... Linux & Hotmail ... Try http://www.msn.com/ The hotmail server is not serving pages. Reji Varghese wrote: > > hi everybody, > > i'm unable to get the Hotmail initial screen through my > linux, both at office and home. > > can somebody help me ? > > bye ... > reji > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ > Please do not post HTML email to this mailing list. HTML mails will be > thoroughly ignored and derisively sniggered at in private. - -- __________________________________________ | Success is not knowing the things to do. | | It is knowing the pitfalls to avoid. | |__________________________________________| - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ Please do not post HTML email to this mailing list. HTML mails will be thoroughly ignored and derisively sniggered at in private. ------------------------------ From manoj.rana@tatainfotech.com Wed Jul 7 2:52:32 1999 Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 15:22:32 +0530 (IST) From: MANOJ KUMAR RANA Subject: getting bored with just 'general vga ' :-( Hi, I have 'Acer M3147V PCI-PnP Graphic Accelerator' display card. It works fine with Windows, but with Linux :-( Can anybody tell me which card should I try .. don't accuse me for being lazy, actually I had tried a lot of combinations and had even checked Acer site for the Linux support but no Luck. I 'have to' switch to windows at the time I had to read even html pages!! that too just for the driver for this acer card. every response will be more than appriciated. Regarding for my previous mail for 'installation on celeron' I cud not read even the error messages as that rebooting process is too fast. Thanx for that overwhelming response, it may be problem with the motherboard. Cheers :-) Rana. - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ Please do not post HTML email to this mailing list. HTML mails will be thoroughly ignored and derisively sniggered at in private. ------------------------------ From ggupta@md2.vsnl.net.in Wed Jul 7 3:36:15 1999 Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 16:06:15 +0530 (IST) From: GAUTAM VSNL Subject: de540 anybody is aware whether the de540 10/100 card is supported on redhat 5.2/6.0 =bye Gautam - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ Please do not post HTML email to this mailing list. HTML mails will be thoroughly ignored and derisively sniggered at in private. ------------------------------ From gerryco@giasbm01.vsnl.net.in Tue Jul 6 16:39:0 1999 Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 04:39:00 +0500 From: Gerry Mascarenhas Subject: kde FREEZE How do I go about Installing KDE properly in RH6.If I change to runlevel 5 in /etc/inittab or if I do telinit 5 I get to a black disfigured screen K-Desktop,I login and I am able to get to the first screen of KDE and then my system freezes.Also at the K-desktop login if I click on any button other than 'Go' my system freezes.No amount of ctrl+Alt+F1....F6 helps.In RH5.2 KDE files were installed in /opt/kde Now everything has changed. I have tried using Xconfigurator and have choosen the options VGA640x480,Custom monitor-vertial sync 50-70.When I click on the option to start x my system freezes. Thanks, Gerry Mascarenhas - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ Please do not post HTML email to this mailing list. HTML mails will be thoroughly ignored and derisively sniggered at in private. ------------------------------ From gurjeet@cdotp.ernet.in Wed Jul 7 11:5:44 1999 Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 23:05:44 +0500 (GMT-5) From: GURJEET SINGH Subject: Re: Installation on celeron ?? - --MimeMultipartBoundary Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII HI Linux runs just fine on celeron. So don't worry what messages do you get & where does the boot process get stuck? Regards Gurjeet Singh On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, MANOJ KUMAR RANA wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I am sure some of you must have tried to install Linux on celeron > machines. I tried but failed very soon after the kernel uncompression. > It just prints only 5-6 messages before rebooting. > > I am in a fix, is it that Linux may not work on celeron !!!! > > Bye > > Rana > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ - --MimeMultipartBoundary-- - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ Please do not post HTML email to this mailing list. HTML mails will be thoroughly ignored and derisively sniggered at in private. ------------------------------ From aravind@giasmd01.vsnl.net.in Wed Jul 7 5:6:51 1999 Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:36:51 +0530 (IST) From: "R.D.THULASIRAJ" Subject: ISDN TA - Remote Login setup? Hello again, This time with a different question/problem. I am able to dial-out to vsnl thru the ISDN TA (external). The DoT has given one analog line (DoT usually gives 2 analog lines for every ISDN subscriber - in our case, we are pestering the local DoT officials to give another analog port which they haven't yet given!) which originates out of the ISDN TA. I am setting up remote login with a 33.6k modem for which I am using the ISDN TA's analog line. The mgetty is set from inittab and the log files shows it is waiting for "RING". But when I dial the analog number, it doesn't 'pickup'. I can hear the ring on the phone that is hooked to "phone" port on the modem. When I try the same setup with a direct analog line, it works. I want somebody to help me out of this. I am on redhat linux 6.0 (CHIP edition) with kernel 2.2.5 I followed pap based ppp setup based on March PCQ "Remote Login" article. Please help me. - -gnana - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ Please do not post HTML email to this mailing list. HTML mails will be thoroughly ignored and derisively sniggered at in private. ------------------------------ From vchandra@cybercash.co.in Wed Jul 7 5:46:51 1999 Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 18:16:51 +0530 From: Chandra Sekhar Vadlamani Subject: "unsubscribe" - -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/ Please do not post HTML email to this mailing list. HTML mails will be thoroughly ignored and derisively sniggered at in private. ------------------------------ From lowenv@hotpop.com Wed Jul 7 9:32:31 1999 Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 22:02:31 +0530 From: "Lister Vaz" Subject: Re: computing speed depends on location of swap partition?? What is a ramdisk...and.. how does it differ from a swap partition ????????? - ---------- > From: Lokesh_Setia > To: linux-india@aunet.org > Cc: linux-delhi@bhairavi.newdelhi.sgi.com > Subject: Re: computing speed depends on location of swap partition?? > Date: Thursday, September 03, 1998 4:21 AM > > > > On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Raj Mathur wrote: > > > Interesting. I've done some thinking about this and have come to the > > following conclusions: > > I beg to differ. (somehow) > > > > > 1. Most written directories: > > > > - swap (ok, it's not a directory!) > > - /var > > - /tmp > > For a server, yes. > But for a PC, i think /var comes nowhere (except when booting perhaps) > For normal surfing/emailing/programming/hacking/ I think /home is the more > used one than /var. > > Usage of swap depends on setup. For those who use brain-damaged KDE, > nothing will help. On the other hand, console-users will find it very hard > to fill their RAM (even with 16 Megs). Still, i think optimizing swap is a > good pasttime. > > > > > > 2. Location of swap on a disk: > > > > In the middle. If you have multiple Linux partitions on a > > disk, make sure that the swap partition is somewhere near the middle > > so that seeks to the swap partition are minimised as far as possible. > > Yes, middle will do. In fact, if you have 2 disks, consider splitting your > swap partition into both your disks. > BTW, this middle funda is no longer 100% accurate for modern disks, which > have complex architectures. > > As per the partition HOWTO: usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Partition > > > . Newer disks use ZBR (zone bit recording). They have more sectors on > the outer tracks. With a constant number of rpms, this yields a far > greater performance on the outer tracks than on the inner ones. Put > your swap on the fast tracks. > > . Of course your disk head will not move randomly. If you have swap > space in the middle of a disk between a constantly busy home > partition and an almost unused archive partition, you would be > better of if your swap were in the middle of the home partition for > even shorter head movements. You would be even better off, if you > had your swap on another otherwise unused disk, though. > > Summary: Put your swap on a fast disk with many heads that is not busy > doing other things. If you have multiple disks: Split swap and scatter > it over all your disks or even different controllers. > > Even better: Buy more RAM. > > > > > > > > > > 3. Location of swap on which disk: > > > > On a disk different from the one containing the /var > > directory, otherwise both will be contending for write access. > > Again, for a PC, I think /var is almost never used. > > > > > So I put my primary swap partition in the middle of my secondary disk, > > while my /var and /tmp are on the primary disk. Come to think of it, > > I should move /tmp also to the 2nd disk -- should get better > > throughput that way. Alternatively, as long as you don't use large > > databases or ghostscript too often, and have enough RAM, make /tmp a > > ramdisk. > > I won't put my /tmp on a ramdisk. I put all my files on /tmp, which i > think i may or may not need. (On a multi-user system, you might never know > if some user does like this). If /tmp is on a ramdisk, its contents will > be erased on every reboot. > OK, solaris does like this, but people know that. Who knows probably some > linux programs also use this fact that /tmp would not be erased on the > next reboot. Well maybe not. > > For more info, see the mini-HOWTO: > usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Partition. > > Regards, > And please correct me if i'm wrong, > > Lokesh Setia. > > > Regards, > > > -- Raju > > > > >>>>> "Sundeep" == Sundeep Holani writes: > > > > Sundeep> Hi, Due to some docs that I was reading I came across an > > Sundeep> interesting (and obvious) fact that computer speeds could > > Sundeep> be higher if data is being accessed from multiple disks > > Sundeep> in parallel. In this context , and in the situation that > > Sundeep> I have 2 hard-disks , would it not boost system speeds if > > Sundeep> the swap partition was on the disk other than the one > > Sundeep> containing the native Linux partitions? The reason why I > > Sundeep> think the answer should not be very obvious (to me) is > > Sundeep> because I have in mind the way data is multiplexed with > > Sundeep> the single system bus architecture , thus allowing only > > Sundeep> one disk (or device for that matter) to output on the > > Sundeep> system bus at any given time. I perhaps am not being to > > Sundeep> explain my confusion , and thats because I am very > > Sun