Re: [ilugd] NCD primary teachers return to Microsoft classroom

[Sanjeev \"ghane\" Gupta]

Sanjay Dutt wrote:
I use M$ as I have a DSL connection with a USB modem and configuring
the
modem for Linux, for me, is too much effort.
Would spelling correctly be too much effort, too?  You have excellent 
grammer and puncuation, why use M$ instead of MS?

It looks petty when we misspell the name of our opponents in a debate.
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Re: [ilugd] NCD primary teachers return to Microsoft classroom

[Sanjay Dutt]

At 06:38 PM 10/21/2004, you wrote:
On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 01:44:25 +0530 (IST), Frederick Noronha (FN)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> MCD primary teachers return to Microsoft classroom
> Delhi Newsline - Delhi,India
> ... Commissioner Rakesh Mehta has signed an MoU today with Microsoft 
Corporation
> India Private Limited under the company's India Education programme --
> project ...
> 

wonderful!
we deserve mcd, microsoft, and more.
no complaints.
how generous, how magnanimous of microsoft, to help out with this
education of teachers. how very kind. truly, we are eternally grateful
to microsft, in eternal india we are but humble slaves touched by
this offer to further our lot
i am sure president kalam is weeping with joy
:-
LL
Went through the article.
It is really an eye-opener...
Are we thinking about what/how our community is doing to give computer 
users a choice (In this case MCD) to opt for an OS which gives much more 
freedom?

I use M$ as I have a DSL connection with a USB modem and configuring the 
modem for Linux, for me, is too much effort.

Sanjay Dutt

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[ilugd] (fwd) [SECURITY] [DSA 573-1] New cupsys packages fix arbitrary code execution

[Raj Mathur]

[Please upgrade cups/cupsys on all distributions -- Raju]

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 573-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
October 21st, 2004  http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package: cupsys
Vulnerability  : integer overflows
Problem-Type   : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CAN-2004-0888

Chris Evans discovered several integer overflows in xpdf, that are
also present in CUPS, the Common UNIX Printing System, which can be
exploited remotely by a specially crafted PDF document.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.1.14-5woody10.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.1.20final+rc1-10.

We recommend that you upgrade your CUPS packages.


Upgrade Instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
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  Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cupsys/cupsys_1.1.14-5woody10.dsc
  Size/MD5 checksum:  712 ae31959c46f48c5385b676f26a2e842d

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cupsys/cupsys_1.1.14-5woody10.diff.gz
  Size/MD5 checksum:40124 baba5be8d7564311a27cb81ce914e035
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cupsys/cupsys_1.1.14.orig.tar.gz
  Size/MD5 checksum:  6150756 0dfa41f29fa73e7744903b2471d2ca2f

  Alpha architecture:


http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cupsys/cupsys_1.1.14-5woody10_alpha.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:  1900822 a70479f7bb60a8286689480b6d308d25

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cupsys/cupsys-bsd_1.1.14-5woody10_alpha.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:74422 d98680769dc77eb8e87d1340a8168abf

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cupsys/cupsys-client_1.1.14-5woody10_alpha.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:93052 1fbb64fd54fe3b66fbf3e2f27842518f

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cupsys/cupsys-pstoraster_1.1.14-5woody10_alpha.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:  2445890 333911b1b11bd1058c453f6190979da9

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cupsys/libcupsys2_1.1.14-5woody10_alpha.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   138086 fc159f99d5f10e551d05e56fe9385f34

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cupsys/libcupsys2-dev_1.1.14-5woody10_alpha.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   181022 8aede5734f2bc35dff191664ca07481d

  ARM architecture:


http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cupsys/cupsys_1.1.14-5woody10_arm.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:  1821796 d842e1185dd4a50cd9fa2f71fd7f216a

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cupsys/cupsys-bsd_1.1.14-5woody10_arm.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:68558 c575b8ba9a7bbe9ab4bd5ff003787c80

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cupsys/cupsys-client_1.1.14-5woody10_arm.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:85752 442b511623d5641ec33d0913e9756fe6

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cupsys/cupsys-pstoraster_1.1.14-5woody10_arm.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:  2345934 64a06768229c53e681e5bdb0f9b56197

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cupsys/libcupsys2_1.1.14-5woody10_arm.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   113060 5677fdf18c89fe349fd18a1eecef562f

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cupsys/libcupsys2-dev_1.1.14-5woody10_arm.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   150474 c8c4653a290a66724d717a709ae18a66

  Intel IA-32 architecture:


http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cupsys/cupsys_1.1.14-5woody10_i386.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:  1788626 9cb6367a1455987dfbbc03e26d4a0ab9

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cupsys/cupsys-bsd_1.1.14-5woody10_i386.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:68074 d5b263fabbe23c5714d43770ea81b612

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cupsys/cupsys-client_1.1.14-5woody10_i386.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:84244 e6cb1b13280664e12ded8709cfefebcc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/

[ilugd] (fwd) [SECURITY] glibc: Insecure tempfile handling in catchsegv script

[Raj Mathur]

[Please upgrade if a new glibc version is available for your
distribution.  The bug is definitely present in Gentoo and Trustix, no
information available yet about others -- Raju]

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 Title: glibc: Insecure tempfile handling in catchsegv script
  Date: October 21, 2004
  Bugs: #66358
ID: 200410-19

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Synopsis
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The catchsegv script in the glibc package is vulnerable to symlink
attacks, potentially allowing a local user to overwrite arbitrary
files with the rights of the user running the script.

Background
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glibc is a package that contains the GNU C library.

Affected packages
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Description
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The catchsegv script creates temporary files in world-writeable
directories with predictable names.

Impact
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A local attacker could create symbolic links in the temporary files
directory, pointing to a valid file somewhere on the filesystem. When
catchsegv script is called, this would result in the file being
overwritten with the rights of the user running the utility, which
could be the root user.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All glibc users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge sync

# emerge -pv sys-libs/glibc
# emerge sys-libs/glibc

References
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  [ 1 ] CAN-2004-0968
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=3DCAN-2004-0968

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
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  http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200410-19.xml

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
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importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
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License
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Copyright 2004 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
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The contents of this document are licensed under the
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Re: [ilugd] What is your view about Linux pcs in India?

[Sanjeev \"ghane\" Gupta]

satyakam goswami wrote:
they come with Turbolinux , cleansing is happening for there own
ulterior motive they think the 
customer is a cow whom they can milk multiple times if they have
windows installed rather than 
Linux.

well think twice they think with Linux the customer will not come
back to them for getting virus 
cleaned , HDD formatted and pretty other mundane reasons for which
actually they charge.There has 
to be a way where in the vendors gets educated with Linux support
model and earns a living 
supporting it otherwise this will continue to happen.
Do not ascribe to malice what is incompetence.
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Re: [LIG] Re: [ilugd] What is your view about Linux pcs in India?

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Sanjeev "Ghane" Gupta wrote:
So do you think the Indian Linux community can and should be doing
something about this?

Talk to me.  I have a budget, and no ideas.
Did you see what the kerala govt is doing?
Another thing that can be done is to have NASSCOM go after the Ritchie 
Street / Lamington Road / Nehru Place etc petty assemblers who are doing 
this, and force them to stop bundling pirated windows software with PCs 
that they sell.

Recent news = Ritchie street in Madras rapidly emptied itself of pirated 
VCD / DVD shops, after the TN government warned that it'd throw VCD 
pirates in jail.

Now back to Kerala -
http://www.hindu.com/2004/10/22/stories/2004102209060700.htm
Kerala kickstarts Linux usage with 100-plus help centres
By Anand Parthasarathy
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, OCT. 21. Everybody talks about it, but nobody does 
anything about it — ran American humorist Mark Twain's quip about the 
weather. It can just as well be applied to the dozens of well-meaning 
but impractical initiatives attempting to help lay computer users in 
India migrate from proprietary systems to the free-and-open environment 
of Linux — if they so choose.

LiTE centres
Now, appropriately enough, from the 100 per cent literacy State comes a 
down-to-earth initiative that may yet prove Mark Twain — and nay-sayers 
of open software — wrong: A low key ceremony in the office of the Chief 
Minister, Oommen Chandy, on Wednesday, saw the launch of a programme 
anchored by the Centre for Development of Imaging Technology (C-DIT), 
where 107 computer training institutes spread across all 14 districts of 
Kerala have been beefed up as `Linux Technology Extension (LiTE) centres.'

Crucial service
Every centre would soon provide customers with practical help in 
configuring their PCs around the Linux operating system — a crucial 
service since professional help is often required in finding the 
necessary `drivers' that will make popular peripherals such as printers, 
CD/DVD drivers, webcams, scanners and modems, work smoothly with Open 
Source software.

Training programme
The centres will also provide training in Linux applications, in 
installing the `OpenOffice' suite and will sell for a nominal cost 
C-DIT-developed tools such as the `Kairali Linux' distribution, 
localised for the Malayalam font, as well as one of the first Indian 
language primers on Free Software, the Malayalam-language book, 
`Swathanthra Softwayerum GNU/Linuxum,' which is priced at just Rs.55.

`Practical problems'
The author of the book and C-DIT Director, Achuthsankar S. Nair, told 
The Hindu : "We feel the debate on free versus proprietary software is 
best left to academics.

For ordinary people who for whatever reason — economic or ideological — 
want to migrate to Linux, there are a lot of practical problems and many 
hardware-related irritants remain. We would like to make migration 
easier — particularly for the thousands in Kerala who are left out of 
the computer revolution because there are few tools in Malayalam."

A small but dedicated Open Source Technology (OST) Team at C-DIT is 
currently training the resource persons who will soon fan out to the 
100-plus LiTE service centres in the State. Many of the trainees 
insisted on starting their training on Saraswathi pooja day during 
Dussera this weekend.

"We are making our Open Source `Vidyarambham' this year," one LiTE 
centre head said.

Instructional CDs
Earlier, C-DIT also helped the Kerala State IT Mission with 
instructional CDs to back the Akshaya e-literacy programme. User 
enthusiasm forced the centre to quickly complement the original 
Windows-based version with another based on its own Kairali Linux version.

Malayalam version
It has also created a Malayalam version of a popular CD — 
Chithrakkuduka— containing thousands of `ethnic' clip art pictures and 
music tracks with an ethnic Kerala flavour.

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Re: [ilugd] What is your view about Linux pcs in India?

[satyakam goswami]

--- Sandip Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [x-posted]
> 
> Now I know this is a controversial topic with many different angles, but I 
> felt this should be discussed to some length here.
> 
> On a recent visit to Nehru Place, I was at first pleasantly surprised to 
> see big stacks of LG MyPC branded boxes. I was told that they were selling 
> very well. Costing between Rs.15k-20k, these machines are sold with some 
> Linux distribution preloaded. I asked around and found out that each and 
> every box that got sold in most of these shops at Nehru Place, went through 
> a process of "cleansing" to make the box suitable for the customers. The 
> cleansing process consisted of formatting the hard disk, installing Window 
> XP or Windows 98, with MS Office and Norton Antivirus.

they come with Turbolinux , cleansing is happening for there own ulterior motive they 
think the
customer is a cow whom they can milk multiple times if they have windows installed 
rather than
Linux.
> 
> I am not sure whether such an activity should be ignored by the Linux 
> community in India. Yes, this has been reported before [1] in the 
> international press.
well think twice they think with Linux the customer will not come back to them for 
getting virus
cleaned , HDD formatted and pretty other mundane reasons for which actually they 
charge.There has
to be a way where in the vendors gets educated with Linux support model and earns a 
living
supporting it otherwise this will continue to happen.

> My feeling is that this whole business of wiping out Linux and installing 
> Windows is actually hurting the image of Linux significantly in the general 
> population. The hardware resellers are themselves telling the customer that 
> Linux wont work for them, and that they will "take care" that the customers 
> do not "suffer". The customers get an idea of Linux as something that 
> should not be touched, and that Windows is better.
absolutely
> 
>   If the computer maker (LG in this case, but you have HP/Compaq too now 
> along with Esys) is interested in having the customer use Linux (unlikely 
> 'coz they are mostly box-pushers), they should be concerned with this 
> phenomenon. If the computer maker is not bothered, well I think we should 
> be. It is definitely not good to have Linux associated with these kind of 
> activities.
how can you make that happen?
 
> So do you think the Indian Linux community can and should be doing 
> something about this?
show them money in the support model they will follow .

satyakam





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Re: [ilugd] What is your view about Linux pcs in India?

[Sanjeev \"Ghane\" Gupta]

Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
 If the computer maker (LG in this case, but you have HP/Compaq too
now along with Esys) is interested in having the customer use Linux
Hey, we came first :-)
So do you think the Indian Linux community can and should be doing
something about this?
Talk to me.  I have a budget, and no ideas.
In Singapore, I have 2 Linux companies that provide free email support for 
our PCs, they benefit by advertising, and some of these will convert to a 
paid support contract.  Hopefully, some customers will hire these companies 
for commercial Linux app stuff as well.  We support them by giving them 
hardware and other assistance.

The easy way would be for me to put in a flyer mentioning the LUG mailing 
list, however, this will not work till members have access to the hardware 
and distribution we pre-load.

Ideas, please.
--
Sanjeev 

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[ilugd] What is your view about Linux pcs in India?

[Sandip Bhattacharya]

[x-posted]
Now I know this is a controversial topic with many different angles, but I 
felt this should be discussed to some length here.

On a recent visit to Nehru Place, I was at first pleasantly surprised to 
see big stacks of LG MyPC branded boxes. I was told that they were selling 
very well. Costing between Rs.15k-20k, these machines are sold with some 
Linux distribution preloaded. I asked around and found out that each and 
every box that got sold in most of these shops at Nehru Place, went through 
a process of "cleansing" to make the box suitable for the customers. The 
cleansing process consisted of formatting the hard disk, installing Window 
XP or Windows 98, with MS Office and Norton Antivirus.

I am not sure whether such an activity should be ignored by the Linux 
community in India. Yes, this has been reported before [1] in the 
international press.

My feeling is that this whole business of wiping out Linux and installing 
Windows is actually hurting the image of Linux significantly in the general 
population. The hardware resellers are themselves telling the customer that 
Linux wont work for them, and that they will "take care" that the customers 
do not "suffer". The customers get an idea of Linux as something that 
should not be touched, and that Windows is better.

This is weird because the only thing that these kind of customers (home and 
SOHO) would probably miss out is probably the latest version of Yahoo 
messenger with audibles .. or some latest games.

 If the computer maker (LG in this case, but you have HP/Compaq too now 
along with Esys) is interested in having the customer use Linux (unlikely 
'coz they are mostly box-pushers), they should be concerned with this 
phenomenon. If the computer maker is not bothered, well I think we should 
be. It is definitely not good to have Linux associated with these kind of 
activities.

So do you think the Indian Linux community can and should be doing 
something about this?

All these activities, kind of dents the dream of having preloaded "Linux on 
the desktop for everyone" that we try to sell at the LUG 
meets/talks/exhibitions.

- Sandip
[1] 
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/pcworld/20040930/tc_pcworld/117999


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[ilugd] [COMMERCIAL] Fwd: Perl programmers needed at Jobsahead.com

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Re: [ilugd] Reboot problem

[Sandip Bhattacharya]

Atul Kumar wrote:
Is there any way to check if this system is having some hardware issue ? 
Is there any mechanism to know why its got rebooted ?

[...]
Oct 21 09:13:31 gateway syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
Oct 21 09:13:31 gateway syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
Oct 21 09:13:31 gateway kernel: klogd 1.4.1, log source = /proc/kmsg
started.
What are the lines just before the "syslogd ... restart" line? Which 
version of which distribution of Linux is this?

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Re: [ilugd] PHP-GTK install issues

[Sandip Bhattacharya]

Naresh Narang wrote:
  I've been trying to compile php-gtk on Fedora
core 2 but unsuccessful so far. It complains about
libglade not being available. There is libglade2
installed but it doesn't seem to notice it. Same deal
with installing as RPM (complains about libglade). It
seems to look for an older version of libglade that it
can't find. Couldn't find anything on Google or
gtk.php.net. 

Any ideas?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# apt-cache search libglade
[...]
libglade - The libglade library for loading user interfaces.
libglade-devel - The files needed for libglade application development.
libglade2 - The libglade library for loading user interfaces.
libglade2-devel - The files needed for libglade application development.
pygtk2-libglade - A wrapper for the libglade library for use with PyGTK
[...]
libglade is also available for fedora. Both libglade and libglade2 can be 
installed side by side as they are entirely two different libraries. There 
are still a number of applications which are dependent of libglade and not 
libglade2.

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Re: [ilugd] ISDN Modem Installation

[Sandip Bhattacharya]

Linux wrote:
--> Modem initialized.
--> Sending: ATDT 1501
--> Waiting for carrier.
ATDT 1501
Caught signal #2!  Attempting to exit gracefully...
I have a feeling that you got to use ATDI and not ATDT for an ISDN 
connection.  Try adding the following under "[Dialer Defaults]" section of 
wvdial.conf:

Dial Command = ATDI


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[ilugd] Reboot problem

[Atul Kumar]

I have got 6 Linux box which is running as a gateways for my company but one
of the box got reboot by it own and there is no errors in the
/var/log/messages file stating that why its got rebooted. Can any body help
me in this.

Is there any way to check if this system is having some hardware issue ? 
Is there any mechanism to know why its got rebooted ?

- Atul


Oct 21 09:13:31 gateway syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
Oct 21 09:13:31 gateway syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
Oct 21 09:13:31 gateway kernel: klogd 1.4.1, log source = /proc/kmsg
started.
Oct 21 09:13:31 gateway kernel: Linux version 2.4.21-9.ELsmp
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat
Linux 3.2.3-26)) #1 SMP Thu Jan 8 17:08:56 EST 2004
Oct 21 09:13:31 gateway kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Oct 21 09:13:31 gateway kernel:  BIOS-e820:  -
0009ac00 (usable)
Oct 21 09:13:31 gateway kernel:  BIOS-e820: 0009ac00 -
000a (reserved)
Oct 21 09:13:31 gateway kernel:  BIOS-e820: 000d -
0010 (reserved)
Oct 21 09:13:31 gateway kernel:  BIOS-e820: 0010 -
bff7 (usable)
Oct 21 09:13:31 gateway kernel:  BIOS-e820: bff7 -
bff7b000 (ACPI data)
Oct 21 09:13:31 gateway kernel:  BIOS-e820: bff7b000 -
bff8 (ACPI NVS)
Oct 21 09:13:31 gateway kernel:  BIOS-e820: bff8 -
c000 (reserved)
Oct 21 09:13:31 gateway kernel:  BIOS-e820: fec0 -
fec00400 (reserved)
Oct 21 09:13:31 gateway kernel:  BIOS-e820: fee0 -
fee01000 (reserved)
Oct 21 09:13:31 gateway syslog: klogd startup succeeded
Oct 21 09:13:31 gateway kernel:  BIOS-e820: fff8 - 00010


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[ilugd] PHP-GTK install issues

[Naresh Narang]

Hi there,


  I've been trying to compile php-gtk on Fedora
core 2 but unsuccessful so far. It complains about
libglade not being available. There is libglade2
installed but it doesn't seem to notice it. Same deal
with installing as RPM (complains about libglade). It
seems to look for an older version of libglade that it
can't find. Couldn't find anything on Google or
gtk.php.net. 


Any ideas?

Thanks & Regards,
--Naresh

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RE: [ilugd] ISDN Modem Installation

[Linux]

 

Hi all,

I want to use WVDIAL to run ISDN Modem. It's DIVA 852 ISDN T/A. I had
configured wvdial running wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf

I am posting the output of wvdial command:

 

[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# wvdial

--> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.41

--> Initializing modem.

--> Sending: ATZ

ATZ

OK

--> Modem initialized.

--> Sending: ATDT 1501

--> Waiting for carrier.

ATDT 1501

Caught signal #2!  Attempting to exit gracefully...

--> Disconnecting at Thu Oct 21 21:02:27 2004

[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# wvdial

--> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.41

--> Initializing modem.

--> Sending: ATZ

ATZ

OK

--> Modem initialized.

--> Sending: ATDT 1501

--> Waiting for carrier.

ATDT 1501

CARRIER 64000

PROTOCOL: HDLC

COMPRESSION: NONE

CONNECT 57600

--> Carrier detected.  Starting PPP immediately.

--> Starting pppd at Thu Oct 21 21:02:43 2004

--> PPP daemon has died! (exit code = 10)

--> Disconnecting at Thu Oct 21 21:03:13 2004

--> Auto Reconnect will be attempted in 5 seconds

--> pppd error!  Look at files in /var/log for an explanation.

--> Initializing modem.

--> Sending: ATZ

ATCaught signal #2!  Attempting to exit gracefully...

 

--> Modem not responding.

--> Disconnecting at Thu Oct 21 21:03:16 2004

[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]#

 

The contents of /etc/wvdial are shown below:

 

[Dialer Defaults]

Modem = /dev/ttyS0

Baud = 57600

Init1 = ATZ

Init2 =

Phone = 

Username = 

Password = 

Stupid Mode = 1

 

 I am also posting /var/log/messages file:

 

Oct 21 19:50:01 ibox ucd-snmp[1114]: Connection from 127.0.0.1

Oct 21 19:51:36 ibox pppd[6822]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0

Oct 21 19:51:36 ibox pppd[6822]: Using interface ppp0

Oct 21 19:51:36 ibox pppd[6822]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0

Oct 21 19:51:36 ibox /etc/hotplug/net.agent: assuming ppp0 is already up

Oct 21 19:52:06 ibox pppd[6822]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests

Oct 21 19:52:06 ibox pppd[6822]: Connection terminated.

Oct 21 19:52:06 ibox pppd[6822]: Exit.

 

Sorry for long mail. 

I desperately need help.

Please help me to resolve the same...

 

Thanks,

Vineet

 

 

 

 

 

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Re: [ilugd] NCD primary teachers return to Microsoft classroom

[Linux Lingam]

On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 01:44:25 +0530 (IST), Frederick Noronha (FN)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> MCD primary teachers return to Microsoft classroom
> Delhi Newsline - Delhi,India
> ... Commissioner Rakesh Mehta has signed an MoU today with Microsoft Corporation
> India Private Limited under the company's India Education programme --
> project ...
> 


wonderful!
we deserve mcd, microsoft, and more.
no complaints.
how generous, how magnanimous of microsoft, to help out with this
education of teachers. how very kind. truly, we are eternally grateful
to microsft, in eternal india we are but humble slaves touched by
this offer to further our lot
i am sure president kalam is weeping with joy
:-
LL

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Re: [ilugd] Final Announcement ILUGD Monthly Meet Oct 2004

[Linux Lingam]

[snip]


just a quick note: i stepped into the room allocated for our ilug-d
meet at soc this afternoon. it is a large room. can happily seat about
70+ people. waah! it has a working projector (so far) that connects to
laptops and desktops. i even saw a pc lurking somewhere, though have
not been able to check if it could boot with a knoppix cd. i doubt it
has a gnulinux in a dual-partition yet. (but that will eventually
happen...).

noted that a few, perhaps 5 to 6 SoC students, who are debian newbies,
wish to attend the meet, so explained to them that some things have
been promised for newbies at the meet. aagey unkee kismat.

the venue also has a wonderful campus, so if you wanna hang out for a
short while on those large, open steps near the building, i suppose
that's possible too. but i guess the action will be in the room. arjun
asthana, am thrilled you delivering a talk. wonderful!
:-)
LL

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[ilugd] (fwd) [Full-Disclosure] [SECURITY] [DSA 572-1] New ecartis packages fix unauthorised access to admin interface

[Raj Mathur]

[Please upgrade if you use ecartis on any platform -- Raju]

This is an RFC 1153 digest.
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Subject: [Full-Disclosure] [SECURITY] [DSA 572-1] New ecartis packages fix 
unauthorised access to admin interface
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 12:38:14 +0200 (CEST)

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 572-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
October 21st, 2004  http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package: ecartis
Vulnerability  : several
Problem-Type   : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CAN-2004-0913

A problem has been discovered in ecartis, a mailing-list manager,
which allows an attacker in the same domain as the list admin to gain
administrator privileges and alter list settings.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.129a+1.0.0-snap20020514-1.3.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0.0+cvs.20030911-8.

We recommend that you upgrade your ecartis package.


Upgrade Instructions
- 

wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
- 

  Source archives:


http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ecartis/ecartis_0.129a+1.0.0-snap20020514-1.3.dsc
  Size/MD5 checksum:  633 3c5b01ccdb8efdd3f0b01ab1c420f0bd

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ecartis/ecartis_0.129a+1.0.0-snap20020514-1.3.diff.gz
  Size/MD5 checksum:11136 deb52dba3044f51a775687dc3de435d4

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ecartis/ecartis_0.129a+1.0.0-snap20020514.orig.tar.gz
  Size/MD5 checksum:   326215 2772a595a3fe7ea5073874113da813ec

  Alpha architecture:


http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ecartis/ecartis_0.129a+1.0.0-snap20020514-1.3_alpha.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   256810 0756e2937a73c64e06a65001d7955877

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ecartis/ecartis-cgi_0.129a+1.0.0-snap20020514-1.3_alpha.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:34084 ef3ac15efae9aaa6ef01083e535d96a6

  ARM architecture:


http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ecartis/ecartis_0.129a+1.0.0-snap20020514-1.3_arm.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   238590 c039d61d90f7163d0a5ae3a964fa28c6

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ecartis/ecartis-cgi_0.129a+1.0.0-snap20020514-1.3_arm.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:34256 27530fa34db9ccfce0dea27d2367a581

  Intel IA-32 architecture:


http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ecartis/ecartis_0.129a+1.0.0-snap20020514-1.3_i386.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   199458 b486c027d445489c6fb27a705133e65f

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ecartis/ecartis-cgi_0.129a+1.0.0-snap20020514-1.3_i386.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:26382 1a46d1a71f53b9cbe8ce774c308e0b63

  Intel IA-64 architecture:


http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ecartis/ecartis_0.129a+1.0.0-snap20020514-1.3_ia64.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   338176 f34f303a82c07e94fbc4f740615b285a

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ecartis/ecartis-cgi_0.129a+1.0.0-snap20020514-1.3_ia64.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:44402 3d96424af960b67c1eff7ed8281a28cc

  HP Precision architecture:


http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ecartis/ecartis_0.129a+1.0.0-snap20020514-1.3_hppa.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   237276 86be667295c0110787c48483935304a9

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ecartis/ecartis-cgi_0.129a+1.0.0-snap20020514-1.3_hppa.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:34186 0427d04c72cd89788d7662e7ba84713b

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:


http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ecartis/ecartis_0.129a+1.0.0-snap20020514-1.3_m68k.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   210846 6ef4f00bcf7eb6855dff350f4ed2d6eb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ecartis/ecartis-cgi_0.129a+1.0.0-snap20020514-1.3_m68k.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:29470 cfdbd27c6f172a1fa75890d7bab9be26

  Big endian MIPS architecture:


http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ecartis/ecartis_0.129a+1.0.0-snap20020514-1.3_mips.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   203434 37c63c68433b47af4773d9fd1620bd6d

http:

Re: [ilugd] Linux Clusters

[Supreet Sethi]

Question is what kind of job is it.

Compute intensive or IO intensive

There are various kinds of solution according to requirements


pls specify


regards

Supreet


On Monday 18 October 2004 12:27, Gurpreet Sachdeva wrote:
>   
>
> Hi Guys,
>I need to process one script that needs high processing power. I was
> thinking if Linux Clusters/Distributed Computing can help me in achieving
> that. Any inputs/pointers in that will be highly appreciated...
>
> Regards,
> Garry
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[ilugd] Final Announcement ILUGD Monthly Meet Oct 2004

[Tarun Dua]

Monthly Meet -- Programming and Automation for newbies not programmers
Sun, Oct 24, 2004 - 02:00PM 

Venue: 
School Of Convergence @ International Management Institute 
B-10, Qutab Institutional Area, 
Tara Crescent, 
New Delhi - 110016

Agenda: 
Directions for reaching the venue: 
 
1) If Coming from IIT or Mehrauli side, Come upto 
Adhchini mod (x-ing) and turn towards Katwaria Sarai. 
Just after Bus stop (land mark - Indian Statistical 
Institute) you will see a board of Rockwell Hospital. 
Turn Left towards Rockwell Hospital (where board 
points). Take first turn on right, third building is 
International  Mangement Institute(IMI). Stop at gate 
and ask for SOC. 
 
2) If coming from Ber Sarai. Turn towards Katwaria 
Sarai.  Just after Bus stop (which will be on your 
left), you will see a board of Rockwell Hospital (on 
your right). Take a right turn towards Rockwell 
Hospital (where board points). On this road take turn 
on right, third building is International  Mangement 
Institute(IMI). Stop at gate and ask for SOC. 
 
3) If you are lost in way, just ask for Katwaria Sarai. 
On reaching Katwaria sarai look for Rockwell Hospital 
or IMI. 
 
4) If you enter from the front gate, just head straight down the
driveway, crossing the building on the right, till you come to the
canteen. take the one and only steps on your left, to go down to the
basement, and the first room facing you, is the room made available to
us. We are waiting for more inputs on how to reach the School of
Convergence. 
 
The meet is targeted especially for students and new Linux users. 
 
"Programming and Automation for newbies not programmers" 
 
1. Reasons to use Linux and Open Source by Sudev Barar 
2. Shell Programming for newbies By Arjun Ashthana 
3. Using help and discovering which commands to use by Raj Shekhar 
 
Meet FAQ:- 
1. Who can attend the meet:- 
Anyone can attend the meet. 
 
2. Is there any fee for attending the meet:- 
No there is no fee just wave in and walk in. 
There is only a voluntary contribution towards Snacks/Tea/Cold-Drinks
towards the end of meet 

-Tarun Dua
9891878739


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[ilugd] Re: [Fwd: ILUG-D: DYING WITH OUT LINUX..........HELP ME.]

[Abhijit Menon-Sen]

At 2004-10-21 10:44:59 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> So on the whole would be nice to include email address in such help
> advisory posts.

If you look at the headers of Nishikant's messages, you will notice that
he always Cc:s the original sender; and reply-to-all includes them just
fine.

-- ams

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[ilugd] System info using php

[Vikram Mandal]

Hi everyone,
I need to create a php script that would get the various system information 
like
processor type, uptime, disk space, load balance, performance, etc..for 
various platforms.

I have googled for such script and came accross a few. I have a concern 
though. The scripts
reads the various system file, like roc/uptime, /proc/version and executes 
command like
execute_program('who', '-q') to get the info.

Now that my script will run in web environment I can antisipate various 
restrictions on the web server. Is there a work around? Any pointers or hint 
will be appriciated.

Also the scripts need PHP var safe_mode = off. Now will this be OK with the 
various web space providers?

BTW, how can I get info regarding load balance and stuff...
Many thanks for your time and thoughts.
- Vikram 

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