Re: [LIH] VB on Linux

2002-01-13 Thread Chandrasekhar Kumar/KGP
Dear user You can't run VB in Linux but you can use Delphi IDE program pro that. On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could somebody who has ported VB onto Linux guide me and give me pointers to the same , for I remember that mid-last year , there were a few listers who were

Re: [LIH] my problems in linux

2002-01-13 Thread Kingsly John
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, prashant singh wrote: | we have maintained 3 linux servers. |foloowing are the list of tasks we want to accomplish, |please help me in this direction. | [Mile-long Task-list snipped] Prashant... this is not a mail-me-solutions list.. do you expect us to mail

Re: [LIH] my problems in linux

2002-01-13 Thread Kingsly John
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, mukund wrote: |You are asking too much for free, Get a good consultant like me ;-) to do |the set up Hey!! shouldn't this be tagged [Commercial] ??? There are others on the list too! [Hint! Hint!! ;-)] |Linux has almost everything (except IE) under the sun, you have

[LIH] Re: my problems in linux

2002-01-13 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
+++ Kingsly John [linux-india] 13/01/02 14:25 +0530: GO read this page... http://linux-bangalore.org/articles/smart-questions.php Best point to the canonical location of ESR's faq on how to ask smart questions. -- http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -srs -- Suresh

[LIH] Error message in /var/log/messages

2002-01-13 Thread Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri.
I am getting the following error repeatedly since the last 2 days everytime I logon to vsnl, though after this, the connection works as usual. What does this line Recieved bad configure-nak/rej. mean ? Jan 12 14:56:58 farzaan pppd[852]: local IP address 203.199.90.58 Jan 12 14:56:58 farzaan

Re: [LIH] Re: my problems in linux

2002-01-13 Thread Kingsly John
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: |+++ Kingsly John [linux-india] 13/01/02 14:25 +0530: | GO read this page... http://linux-bangalore.org/articles/smart-questions.php | |Best point to the canonical location of ESR's faq on how to ask smart |questions. --

Re: [LIH] VB on Linux

2002-01-13 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime Today, [EMAIL PROTECTED] assembled some asciibets to say: Could somebody who has ported VB onto Linux guide me and give me pointers to the same , for One question would be of course - why port that ghastly excuse for a language to linux? The next question would be, do we then also

Re: [LIH] substitution...

2002-01-13 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime on Jan 12, USM Bish assembled some asciibets to say: tmpfile=`mktemp XX` mktemp ... which package is this from ? This does not seem to be a standard *nix utility. /bin/mktemp is part of the base system. It first appeared in OpenBSD, and is now more or less standard. --

Re: [LIH] substitution...

2002-01-13 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime Today, USM Bish assembled some asciibets to say: The main problem in this case is the way sed treats the / char. This would need the \ character to precede. The foll- No, that is not a problem. sed doesn't treat / specially. It treats the pattern separator separately. The pattern

Re: [LIH] Error message in /var/log/messages

2002-01-13 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime Today, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. assembled some asciibets to say: I am getting the following error repeatedly since the last 2 days everytime I logon to vsnl, though after this, the connection works as usual. What does this line Recieved bad configure-nak/rej. mean ?

[LIH] pos software on linux

2002-01-13 Thread Sujith K
Hi, I am looking out for free pos software on linux for my department stores. Can some one help Thanks, __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/

Re: [LIH] Reg:Sharing files between Linux and Windows

2002-01-13 Thread Pravin Gupte
Mount the Windows partition as type vfat using linuxconf and then you can share the files --- chandrasekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone How do I share files between Linux and windows installed on the same system. regards chandrasekar

Re: [LIH] well...

2002-01-13 Thread Binand Raj S.
On Saturday 12 January 2002 22:15 pm, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: I am actually trying to replace every /dev in the kernel source with something else, but have been unsuccessfull... I tried the method Binand had sent, but it has failed, dunno why, but it busted my whole screen, had to switch the

[LIH] A small doubt on kernel compilation on Debian

2002-01-13 Thread shyamk
I read the How-to for kernel compilation (I had made a previous unsuccessful attempt on RH 7.1 , when I had it on my box), and the how-to suggests that the modutils ' version should be less than the current kernel version number. This is what I have : 2.3.11-13.1 is the modutils version

[LIH] A further doubt

2002-01-13 Thread shyamk
After posting my mail on kernel compilation I have stumbled upon another : This is what df -h says after I did a bzcat kernel-source-2.2.19.tar.bz2 | tar xvf - Poornashree:/usr/src# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda8 1.1G 897M 188M 83% / Will

Re: [LIH] Reg:Renaming a mounted partition

2002-01-13 Thread USM Bish
On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 11:32:00PM -0500, chandrasekar wrote: How do I rename a hdd partition which is already mounted ? Cud anyone give the details of it. ---end quoted text--- HDD partitions are not user nameable. They are recognised as /dev/hdxN (where x is a,b,c etc and N is a

Re: [LIH] well...

2002-01-13 Thread USM Bish
On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 10:15:25PM +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: I am actually trying to replace every /dev in the kernel source with something else, but have been unsuccessfull... Changing /dev entries is very very high level stuff. Leave these to Linus or Alan. There are associated

[LIH] svgalib

2002-01-13 Thread Agnijit Dutta
Hi, I have a sis 6326 card with 8mb on board a LG 440si monitor.After installing mplayer I intended to install svgalib for better video output.I did so compiled mplayer with svga support.I got the video output in the default mode.I would like to change it to 800x60016bpp.How do I do it.I

Re: [LIH] Reg:Renaming a mounted partition

2002-01-13 Thread Binand Raj S.
On Sunday 13 January 2002 4:57 am, USM Bish wrote: On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 11:32:00PM -0500, chandrasekar wrote: How do I rename a hdd partition which is already mounted ? Cud anyone give the details of it. ---end quoted text--- HDD partitions are not user nameable. They are recognised

Re: [LIH] substitution...

2002-01-13 Thread Binand Raj S.
On Sunday 13 January 2002 3:53 am, USM Bish wrote: The main problem in this case is the way sed treats the / char. This would need the \ character to precede. The foll- sed doesn't treat the / character specially. It treats the pattern separator specially, which can be any character. Binand

[LIH] Changing cursor size in shell

2002-01-13 Thread newlxuser
Good Linux to e'body, I want a sample of small shell script which when executed will change the defualt blinking cursor to a block or reverse cursor, if a particular condi- tion is true. Like : if deviation=37 then turn default cursor size to block cursor ... ... (other statements )

[LIH] RFC standards

2002-01-13 Thread newlxuser
Good Linux to e'body, In so many posts I see the word RFC ( or is it RCF ) referred. What is this RFC ? What's it's purpose ? Who maintain it ? Is it some-thing like ANSI standard ? If yes, which distro is fully RFC complient ? Link of a page, which will give a bird's eye view of RFC, please.

[LIH] Image transfer thru MUA's like mutt

2002-01-13 Thread newlxuser
Good Linux to e'body, Is it possible to tranfer an image thru mutt or other shell based MUAs ? Like office logo/small assembly drawings (jpg or other format ) ? If yes, how ? I have a feeling, that the answer may be no. ( I have answered the original user-cum-need'er in negative, but I want

Re: [LIH] RFC standards

2002-01-13 Thread Binand Raj S.
On Sunday 13 January 2002 21:32 pm, newlxuser wrote: In so many posts I see the word RFC ( or is it RCF ) referred. It is RFC. RCF is Rashtriya Chemicals Factory. :-) What is this RFC ? RFC stands for Request For Comments. Last time I checked, there were 3222 of them. What's it's purpose

Re: [LIH] Reg:Renaming a mounted partition

2002-01-13 Thread USM Bish
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 08:44:57PM +0530, Binand Raj S. wrote: On Sunday 13 January 2002 4:57 am, USM Bish wrote: On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 11:32:00PM -0500, chandrasekar wrote: How do I rename a hdd partition which is already mounted ? Cud anyone give the details of it. HDD partitions

[LIH] Linux-Win Networking - FTP and Telnet

2002-01-13 Thread Ictc-Sprint
Hi, I have setup the networking between Mandrake 8.1 and Win98 machine. I had referred the following document http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/cmlan.html According to that, I configured the windows machine with a static ip address and also the hosts file in Windows directory. Then I

Re: [LIH] VB on Linux

2002-01-13 Thread Mithun Bhattacharya
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could somebody who has ported VB onto Linux guide me and give me pointers to the same , for I remember that mid-last year , there were a few listers who were discussing this. I dont know about VB specifically but Apache::ASP comes very close to server side

Re: [LIH] Reg:Renaming a mounted partition

2002-01-13 Thread Mithun Bhattacharya
USM Bish wrote: On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 11:32:00PM -0500, chandrasekar wrote: How do I rename a hdd partition which is already mounted ? Cud anyone give the details of it. ---end quoted text--- HDD partitions are not user nameable. They are recognised as /dev/hdxN (where x is a,b,c

Re: [LIH] RFC standards

2002-01-13 Thread Kingsly John
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, newlxuser wrote: |What is this RFC ? |What's it's purpose ? |Who maintain it ? | |Link of a page, which will give a bird's eye |view of RFC, please. http://www.ietf.org/rfc Kingsly ___ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [LIH] Reg:Renaming a mounted partition

2002-01-13 Thread Kingsly John
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Mithun Bhattacharya wrote: |I believe partitions can be labelled. The new RedHat versions use LABELS |to refer to partitions instead of /dev/sda1 and things like that. It's filesystems that can be Labeled ... and not partitions(and not all filesystems acan be labeled

Re: [LIH] Linux-Win Networking - FTP and Telnet

2002-01-13 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime on Jan 13, Ictc-Sprint assembled some asciibets to say: But I am unable to use FTP or Telnet from both the machines. I get the messaage: unable to connect to remote host:connection refused. Do you have a ftp or telnet server running anywhere? If you do, stop them and switch to

Re: [LIH] Image transfer thru MUA's like mutt

2002-01-13 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime on Jan 13, newlxuser assembled some asciibets to say: Is it possible to tranfer an image thru mutt or other shell based MUAs ? Like office logo/small assembly drawings (jpg or other format Yes. Through an attachment. I do'nt expect that the graphic will be visible in mutt, I

Re: [LIH] VB on Linux

2002-01-13 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime on Jan 13, Mithun Bhattacharya assembled some asciibets to say: I dont know about VB specifically but Apache::ASP comes very close Apache::ASP lets you write ASP code using perl. Probably the best thing to happen to ASP. If you want server side scripting though, there are loads of

Re: [LIH] Image transfer thru MUA's like mutt

2002-01-13 Thread Devdas Bhagat
On 14/01/02 01:42 +0530, Philip S Tellis wrote: I do'nt expect that the graphic will be visible in mutt, I expect only the tranfer ( preferably without any attachments - for the obvious reason of security ). huh??? what kind of security is that? how do attachments of images make a

Re: [LIH] calculating memory required?

2002-01-13 Thread USM Bish
On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 11:38:55PM +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: Can someone tell me if there is any way to figure out how much memory would be required by a certain app? ---end quoted text--- Run free on one terminal/ xterm and see the memory/ swap usage. Run the program necessary on

[LIH] Help needed (Slack inittab)

2002-01-13 Thread USM Bish
Looks silly on my part, to make such blunders ... but then !! Being a lazy Sunday afternoon I was fine-tuning my LFS (Linux From Scratch) partition, and generally playing around with the init process ... Instead of modifying my $LFS/etc/inittab, I fscked the main /etc/inittab ! One can

[ilugd]: poppassd does't quit

2002-01-13 Thread Yashpal Nagar
Dear All, I am using poppassd v1.6a for changing user passwords through secure web server with one php page as front end. everything working fine! BUT problem is popassd does't quit after changing the user's password. When i run 'ps -ax' is shows ... poppassd user1 poppassd user2 -

Re: [LIH] Linux-Win Networking - FTP and Telnet

2002-01-13 Thread Manjunath.H.N.
Hi, I have setup the networking between Mandrake 8.1 and Win98 machine. I had referred the following document http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/cmlan.html According to that, I configured the windows machine with a static ip address and also the hosts file in Windows directory. I

Re: [LIH] Download Accelerators for Linux ?

2002-01-13 Thread Manjunath.H.N.
- Original Message - From: Kingsly John [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 2:40 PM Subject: Re: [LIH] Download Accelerators for Linux ? On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |On Windoze , you have something called |Download Accelerator ,

Re: [LIH] keymap query

2002-01-13 Thread MDK
Can I use F6 thru to F12 keys like this? I am working on the console w/ PCQlinux 7.1. F1 to F5 work as desired. I have the .inputrc for all the F1-F12 key bindings. Bish removed the F6-F12 keymap saying that it may not work with all the distros. I am using Debian Potato. I have tried the same on

[LIH] Look at this Borland License

2002-01-13 Thread fileof
Dear Friends, I think it is worth looking at how this License from Borland is for their Linux based Products. The Link is given below. http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/369/ Literally Hopeless. Regards Narayana _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your

[LIH] Re: poppassd does't quit

2002-01-13 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
+++ Yashpal Nagar [linux-india] 14/01/02 09:38 +0530: web server with one php page as front end. everything working fine! BUT problem is popassd does't quit after changing the user's password. When i run 'ps -ax' is shows ... poppassd user1 poppassd user2 - --- soon I am

[LIH] [OT] Samba Server On Solaris

2002-01-13 Thread Aseem Rane
Hi All, Sorry for this OT post but our sysAdmin is clueless at this perticular error and I would appreciate if somebody from the list helps us. Activity: Mount Solaris file system on NT-4(service pack 6) using samba server(2.0.5 or 2.2.1a). Platforms: Unix Sun E450, OS=Solaris 7, NT

Re: [LIH] Download Accelerators for Linux ?

2002-01-13 Thread Devdas Bhagat
On 14/01/02 09:53 +0530, Manjunath.H.N. wrote: Download accelarator gives you that cushion of downloading small chunks whenever the line is available without having to download the entire thing everytime. wget has been ported to win32 :) Devdas Bhagat

Re: [LIH] Linux-Win Networking - FTP and Telnet

2002-01-13 Thread Ictc-Sprint
- Original Message - From: Philip S Tellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux India [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 1:34 AM Subject: Re: [LIH] Linux-Win Networking - FTP and Telnet Sometime on Jan 13, Ictc-Sprint assembled some asciibets to say: But I am unable to use

Re: [LIH] Linux-Win Networking - FTP and Telnet

2002-01-13 Thread Binand Raj S.
On Monday 14 January 2002 13:09 pm, Ictc-Sprint wrote: How to start ssh/sftp? is it installed with Mandrake 8.1 ? how to findout? Mandrake is rpm based, right? check out rpm -qa | grep ssh The RPM is called openssh-server in redhat. Guess it will be the same in mandrake also. If you don't