Re: [ilugd] Can linux delhi provide me with bandwith and server space
Actually I want to implement a new design and my whole some design will be different . Now this brings me to the question about what is wrong with the design of the Jabber or any other current open source IM server? How does your design improve upon theirs? Is your design really better? Have you studied the Jabber or any other open source IM server in detail. Sometimes what looks like bad design can have a good reason behind it. Ambar Roy ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
[ilugd] [COMMERCIAL] Positions for Developers
Hi Everyone, My company has a 3-4 positions open for developers. We require developers with the following profile: 1+ years of experience, but not nescessary. Freshers, if they are good are also welcome Platform Expertize in: A. Linux/PHP/MySQL - knowledge of Perl would be helpful but not nescessary B. Visual Basic/SQL Server/MS Jet DB Engine. Knowledge of using MySQL with VB would be an added bonus. C. Core Java/JSP/Servlets, OO Analysis Design Those having knowledge/experience in multiple skill sets would be preffered. Salary will be based on the candidates potential and there is excellent growth opportunity in my company. Work will be in Telecom Applications i.e. SMS Applications/Services, IVR Applications, MIS Apps for Reporting, Content Management and Delivery Platform, Server monitoring and administration tools. The job will be based in Delhi with office in Barakhamba Road. Travel to client site within India is also possible. To apply send resume along with covering letter to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For a company profile visit www.mobingo.com. Ambar Roy ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] Fwd: [Exim-Announce] Exim 4.34 Released
Subject: [Exim-Announce] Exim 4.34 Released To: exim-users, exim-announce I have just put Exim release 4.34 on the primary ftp site: ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/exim4/exim-4.34.tar.gz ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/exim4/exim-4.34.tar.bz2 By doing this, I have broken my usual rule of not releasing software just before I go away. I have done this because this release contains two important fixes. I am going to be away from 13-24 May (in Dakar, Senegal), but I will be reading email for most of the time, as I will be teaching at an Internet workshop. Why on earth forward an exim-announce mail to ilugd? Have I missed something recently? IMHO there are enough security/bug/announce fix lists out there. Ambar Roy ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] Is GPLd software truly free?
Hi everyone, In light of the recent discussions about the Apple iTunes issue.. I think the GNU GPL does not allow distributing an object binary (i.e. closed source software) that can be linked with a free GPLd (or even LGPLd?) library to form an executable.. Does that not seem unfair? After all the distributers are not actually breaking the law by running tainted code but are only providing the means (tools) for others to do the same easily. So shouldn't *truly free* software not have this restriction? GPL/LGPL are not the only *free* licenses out there. BSD/Apache are examples of a much liberal license. Seems like that is what you are looking for :-) The basic logic behind GPL is simple. If you use GPLed software as a base for your projects, you will have to release your software under the GPL. This is the Viral Clause of GPL. This helps the developers by keeping their work free and while allowing others to improve upton their work, they are reasonably assured that no one will steal their code. LGPL is more like a special case of GPL for library code which makes the library code behave like GPL, but not any applications that are linked to the code. The BSD license is more like a free for all, where anyone can take the software and create derrivative works and not release the code for it. This type of license is really helpful if you are making software that you basically wan't to give away while being acknowledged as the original source/author. Use Google and you will come up with some nice articles on these licenses, etc ;-) Ambar Roy ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] Visual Basic Access Alternate under Linux
As mentioned before, PyQT or PyGTK are good alternatives too, as is Java. But, for developing an application rapidly, the latter isnt a good option unless you already know it. (Which is doubtful, since you're doing stuff on VB as of now..). Coming from VB, he wouldnt know Qt or GTK either. And those are not really simpler or faster to start off on, are they ? Thus, i thought of the py.. options. However, in the longer run, if he's making a move, he should consider reskilling himself to Java/GTK/Qt. Borland Kylix. I dunno if it is still supported, but it is a v. good alternative to VB+MS-Access. In fact you can take Kylix projects and recompile them for Windows using Delphi/C++ Builder. But Kylix uses CLX (If I remember correctly), which is different from VCL, and doesn't match upto VCL for the depth. Most CLX components seemed to be stripped down versions of the VCL components! IMHO once you use Delphi and C++ builder, you will start wondering why VB is still so popular (At least I do!) Ambar Roy ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] Is GPLd software truly free?
Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: Anupam Jain wrote: rest of message snipped Anupam, You really need to read about the LGPL!!! Most of what you wan't is already included in LGPL. You can always use that as a base and add exceptions for static linking or any other exception you like. MySQL releases it's drivers under GPL, because they wan't you to buy their drivers if you need to use MySQL from a closed source software. But they also make exceptions for software like PHP! Ambar Roy ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] [Sort-of-OT] Monsanto's chapati patent raises Indian ire
Sort of makes a mockery of the whole patent law business, doesn't it? Better stop eating chapatis and stick to boiled rice with your daal makhani, at least until those are patented too. Doesn't making chapati come under obvious use clause of patents? Ambar Roy ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] what career opportunity for me
i have done 'A' level from 'DOEACC' in july 2003. i am interested in
linux application development, and from last one year i am working on
linux.i can have good knowledge of 'C' and 'C++' and from last six months
i
am working on 'school anagement project' ('A' level project) which is on
Qt
toolkit and MySql. due to fresher i am not getting any call from any
company
or placement. many of my friends are saying that there is no job for C
C++
at this level('A' level) and you are wasting your time in linux. all work
of
development in linux are done only by highly qualified professionals. your
have just one option just move to .NET.
is it so, i want to know at this level have i any chances of job, i can
not
do any advance course in linux (due to financial reason), or i switch to
windows.
The situation with development jobs is not as good as it used to be a few
years back. Nowadays getting a job as a fresher is real tough. If you are
really intrested in getting a Linux job programming in C/C++, then I would
suggest 2 things:
1. Start working with one or more OSS projects in the areas where you would
like to work. Contribute some code, understand the projects, etc. This is
very valuable if you want to get some experience developing linux apps and
would also count as good experience for a lot of people.
2. Subscribe to the Linux India Programmer's List (I don't know how to do
this now, was a member of this list. Last I remember, it was hosted on
SourceForge!) This list has a lot of Linux programmers from India, and
frequently has job postings. In any case this is a good list if you are
programming on Linux.
And keep on applying for every job that even remotely matches your profiles.
And don't forget placement consultants. They are important when you need a
job! Just don't go to the ones who ask for upfront payment. Those are people
you should strictly avoid. Any decent placement consultant would like to
work with you and place you in an appropriate job
Linux programming doesn't have the number of jobs Web Development, J2EE or
MS.NET. And I would agree with your friends that C/C++ jobs are real hard to
land if you don't have a proper engineering or MCA degree.
For C/C++ jobs, one solution that you can is to apply to Quark and keep your
fingers crossed. At least till a year back, they seemed to employ anyone who
was willing to go and work in Chandigarh, and who had some basic C/C++
knowledge. This is based on my assessment of people who were selected by
Quark! According to my friends who have worked there, the company sucks as a
place to work, as their HR practices are quite bad. But then you get to work
for a big name company on some real nice products. Quark has a lot of C/C++
work, but mostly in Mac and Windows platforms.And you can always change to
better companies from there!
Ambar Roy
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Re: [ilugd] To BE A LINUX ADMINSTRATOR
(1) Apache Web Server First read /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf on your RH box. This file will give you some good info on what needs to be done. Then read the apache manual. If you are still stuck, use google, and if you continue to be stuck, feel free to drop a mail on this list! One thing to be careful with apache is that file permissions pay a big role, and a lot of problems can be traced to owner/group and permissions. (2) Send Mail Server There is a whole book on sendmail by O' Reily. If you need to learn sendmail, then this is the book. OTOH consider implementing qmail, postfix or exim. All of these are in general easier to configure than sendmail, more secure and faster. (5) Domain Name Server There are tons of HOWTOs on configuring bind. Start with a few of them, learn about the basic DNS protocol and the way things are organized. Also get to know the file formats and conventions for bind. Bind is easy once u know the basics, but pay specific attention to the config files! BTW.. do read the howto on each subject first. They are really good, and better than most people can explain general configuration. I find that with Linux servers, reading the howtos gets you going. For advanced issues, ask specific questions, and you will get good answers. Ambar Roy ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Any tutorial on Linux and How to connect to internet
Please can anyone tell me about a good Linux tutorial. I do not know even how to connect to internet via Linux. I tried to find How to connect to internet on Google but was not able to find a good answer. Please if anyone can tell me about the two I shall be very very grateful Here is my method of connecting to the internet from a Linux box on my home/office network. 1. set up linux 2. Run Mozilla! This works with a properly set up DSL router! Ambar Roy ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] OSS alternative to M$ solution to campuses
This technology infrastructure is comparable to the IT infrastructure available at any university abroad. Keeping with the entrepreneurial nature of IIMC, the technology is deployed and managed by students only./* [...] Looks like that there are some students who are looking at placements with M$ ;) Ambar Roy ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Loadlin win2000
Yashpal, Loadlin works only from pure dos mode. Under Windows 95/98 u can ask the os to exit into dos mode and load loadlin. But under Windows 2000/NT/XP this doesn't work. I don't know about Me, but I suppose that it won't work under Me too, although Me is based on Win98. Ambar Roy - Original Message - From: Yashpal Nagar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have anyone some idea about booting Redhat 8.0 from windows 2000 via loadlin. I tried but failed; ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Linux+
Just collecting some statistics for our internal company reports, how many people in Delhi are LPIC Certified and Linux+ Certified ? If it helps, I am not! ;) Ambar Roy ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Loadlin win2000
I wonder if someone do have crack for same thats why i mailed this.:) Its really painful to restart windoZ to boot in linux. I remember how cool it used to work with win95. Well you might not be able to do it using a shortcut, but you can always use the win2k bootloader to add linux as another image. Then to switch to linux, u just reboot and use the bootloader. Loadlin just makes it easy to double click, otherwise it also works like a bootloader only! Where is the easy/difficult part here? In case you really wan't to hav things easy, then consider running VMWare from www.vmware.com. VMWare is real cool! You can then run linux inside windows, or windows inside linux. One of the better things that you can do with vmware is to run multiple guest oses and test out networked apps, etc. It is really powerful. Give it a try. It is not a solution to your problem, but solves a lot of linux/windows dual booting headaches for me. Ambar Roy ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Postgres vs oracle
The standard form of VACUUM is best used with the goal of maintaining a fairly level steady-state usage of disk space. The standard form finds old tuples and makes their space available for re-use within the table, but it does not try very hard to shorten the table file and return disk space to the operating system. If you need to return disk space to the operating system you can use VACUUM FULL --- but whats the point of releasing disk space that will only have to be allocated again soon? Moderately frequent standard VACUUMs are a better approach than infrequent VACUUM FULLs for maintaining heavily-updated tables. Recommended practice for most sites is to schedule a database-wide VACUUM once a day at a lowusage time of day, supplemented by more frequent vacuuming of heavily-updated tables if necessary. (If you have multiple databases in an installation, dont forget to vacuum each one; the vacuumdb script may be helpful.) Use plain VACUUM, not VACUUM FULL, for routine vacuuming for space recovery. So does VACUUM require the database to be taken offline? Or was this an issue with older versions of pgSQL? As I don't see the Geocrawler under maintainence pages nowadays. There was a time when I only saw the under maintainence page at Geocrawler!! Ambar Roy ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Information required
Can anyone give information about the training places where mobile-java technology (J2ME/Midlet etc.) in Linux/Windows platform is taught ? I don't know about the various places where it is taught, but I don't think that you really need to go to many places. Get a couple of books on J2ME programming and read thru the articles at sun. J2ME is quite simple once u get the basics. Ambar Roy ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Information required
I don't know about bluetooth applications.. But if you need to learn about mobile technologies, one good site to visit is the developer's section of nokia.com, It used to be forum.nokia.com. There you can learn most things about developing solutions. Although a lot of it will be biased towards developing applications for Nokia platforms, but you can still get a good deal of information. IMHO for new application technologies, nothing beats the internet. For most platforms you can get free development kits and sample applications. Ambar Roy Thanks for your comments. If I want to learn embeded technology , say bluetooth application or any mobile application using MMS or infrared then?? Is there any place to learn?? keshab On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 11:39, Ambar Roy wrote: Can anyone give information about the training places where mobile-java technology (J2ME/Midlet etc.) in Linux/Windows platform is taught ? I don't know about the various places where it is taught, but I don't think that you really need to go to many places. Get a couple of books on J2ME programming and read thru the articles at sun. J2ME is quite simple once u get the basics. ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Linux presentation
http://kandalaya.org/Presentations/linux-raju-1.sxi What progrm opens up an sxi file?? Ambar Roy ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Linux presentation
Ambar == Ambar Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://kandalaya.org/Presentations/linux-raju-1.sxi Ambar What progrm opens up an sxi file?? OpenOffice Doesn't MS Office open it?? Cauz I already have MS-Office installed, and I would not like to install OO on that machine! Ambar Roy ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Shift key now subject of $10M lawsuit
Don't know whether to laugh or cry when reading this! SunComm, who make a copy protection mechanism for audio CDs, is suing a student who has revealed how to bypass the copy protection mechanism: by the complex process of holding down the Shift key when inserting the CD into the drive! The student is facing a $10M lawsuit and possible prosecution under the DMCA. This whole story is so bizarre and the statements from SunComm so fantastic that I took it for a farce when I first read it. However, it happens to be true. Read it yourself at: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/33322.html I don't know what to make out of this, but if this case does go thru, then the only conclusion that I can come up with is that the Judge in question is a total idiot. If I had been an investor in this company, then I am sure I would have sued them for making such a stupid technology and then wasting time to defend it. Of course all this can be an attempt to show how stupid some parts of the DMCA are in reality! Ambar Roy ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Re: Shift key now subject of $10M lawsuit
If anything those guys should be thanking the kid for exposing such a huge security hole. Kinda stupid of those people to let something like this to remain in their copy protection system. IMHO the users who use such a stupid copy protection system deserve what they get. They clearly bought into marketing hype and definitely didn't verify properly if the claims are valid. It also looks like that this system won't work with newer versions of windows or on windows machines where the user is logged on using a plain user account under windows nt based os. Ambar Roy ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] yahoo groups
I wanted to check out, bang linux discussion group/mailing list on yahoogroups and found out to my utter surprise, that I am not able to view it. After some googling, i saw posts on india-gii about the issue. I want to know from dear group memebers, if i could ask my ISP (mtnl in this case) to unblock the site or something. I don't think that any ISP will unblock yahoo groups for you. What you can do, and what most people seem to be doing is to find a open proxy server and use that for your web surfing. You would be able to access yahoo groups using almost any proxy server located outside india. Ambar Roy ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] yahoo groups
I don't think that any ISP will unblock yahoo groups for you. What you can do, and what most people seem to be doing is to find a open proxy server and use that for your web surfing. I guess that is called theft of bandwidth. There are tons of free anonymous web based proxy servers. Search on google, and you will come across quite a few sites that do this. Ambar Roy ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Re: two questions
I finally got to know the reason for the mysterious occurrences regarding whois and ping. LL please give your valuable suggestions on this. There seems to be a rogue worm in the wild, aptly named [EMAIL PROTECTED] worm. Seems to infect TCP port 43 (thus affecting whois) and manipulate the server's NVT ASCII replies. The worm also injects malicious text into the ICMP packets resulting in the strange ping replies. The worm is Artificially Intelligent (mind you!) and seems to be able to do amazing things not discovered yet ... LL has already encountered one ... what about the others? You guys won't believe what happened when I tried to ping case.edu.pk again some time back. The transcript is shown below verbatim : -- $ ping www.case.edu.pk . Dude, what's your problem? Are you some kind of jerk? Or plain stupid? I don't care if you are trying to fool around with the newbies on this list, but you won't get that response using a stock ping program on any os... In fact none of the standard ping programs will ever show the data packets that are transmitted or received. Please keep these jokes outside this list. If you feel that u need to post jokes, then at least mark it as such in the subject line, so that our time is not wasted reading totally useless stuff. In case these are genuine messages that you get from your computer's ping program, consider reinstalling your os.. Ambar Roy PS: I cud not find [EMAIL PROTECTED] worm anywhere. Please provide us with some refferences... ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] How I will change the hardware address?
You cant. Change the card. How I will set the hardware address of my interface card. Using ifconfig how I will do that. Anyone help me.. Under Win2k, I can change the MAC address of my ethernet card. And I am not using any fancy card, either. A plain 10/100 card with a realtek chipset. Ambar Roy ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] [NETWORK QUERY] looking for Realtek RTL8139C+ PCI ethernetcard
I don't know if these are the exact same chip, but in nehru place you can very easily find compex and surecomm network cards with realtek chips. They are typically more expensive than the non realtek ones. The cards I have on my system are these, and under windows they are using the rtl8139.sys driver, so I suppose that this is what you are looking for. I suppose u r from Delhi! Ambar Roy - Original Message - From: Li Zeng [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 1:39 AM Subject: [ilugd] [NETWORK QUERY] looking for Realtek RTL8139C+ PCI ethernetcard I need PCI ethernet card using Realtek 8139c+ chip or 8169 chip for my project. However, I don't find any cards with these chips. if anyone could identify a card using 8139c+ or 8169, please tell me. I'd appreciate it. ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Debian CDs ?
If you have a good internet connection you need only download the 1st CD. Rest all packages can be installed thru net. Using 1st CD itself you can use bf24 option. This loads kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4 which has frame buffer support. Most people on this list are from delhi! I have not seen many places in delhi where you have enough bw to download debian packages off the net ( Even a 2mbps link starts to look slow when u do that! Getting packages from an online source is good only if you either have a very small total download or if you are on a fast link. It is quite nice to see up2date running on a computer hosted at a decent datacenter, though! Haven't used debian much, so I don't know if debian has some nice offline features that I might have missed out on. Ambar Roy ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] anyone has spammers list???
i need a list of well known spamming sites for my institute's new mail server. can anyone help me? the new mail server runs the courier imap server with qmail on RH 9.0. Check out spamassassin @ www.spamassassin.org and the Open Relay Database @ www.ordb.org. Please do note that neither of these methods will give you 100% spam prevention. You will get a few false positives (i.e. correct mail tagged as spam) and a lots of false negetives with spamassassin. And you will have a few people not being able to send mail to your users regularly. The ordb database seems to be decent, but my experience has been that it is mostly legitimate mail that is stopped by ordb RBL. You can set up spamassasin so that any mails tagged as spam has the subject line rewritten or the message sent to a seperate spam box. I administer a few commercial servers providing web space and email facility. My experience with spam has been that it is best to ask users to set up and maintain a spam software. You can install spamassassin on the server and provide users an option to do the filtering on the server. Using ORDB can be a pain, as I have seen that a lot of legitimate mails get blocked by ordb enabled relays. One recent example of this was a customer comming to me and telling me that one of my mail relays was functioning as an open relay. It turned out that the relay in question was of Mantra Online. If major ISPs can get listed in an RBL, then the whole idea of the RBL goes out of the window, as it causes major headaches for everyone. OTOH if everyone starts using a relatively sane RBL like ORDB, then at least most techs at ISPs would be better educated. Ambar Roy ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Linux in India
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/11/1912218 Seems the tide is turning.. When you end up spending Rs 400k on software that can be replaced by free alternatives, it is good business sense to switch to the free alternative, unless you end up with more than Rs.400k additional costs over the full lifetime of the solution. Ambar Roy ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Re: Please Reply
A lot of people are really surprised when they get to know that this scan originally started with snail mail and has been around for a long time. Ambar Roy - Original Message - From: Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Nigerian scam has been around for much longer than PCQ, BTW. ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Root password
There are various simple methods, the easisest being to boot into single user mode. If that doesn't work, then boot using a rescue disk, mount your root partition, and clear out the password field in /etc/shadow for the root user. That will do the trick! Ambar Roy - Original Message - From: Vaibhav Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 8:09 AM Subject: [ilugd] Root password Hello Everybody A friend of mine is facing a very peculiar problem. He bought an assembled system and asked the vendor to install Red Hat Linux 8.0. The vendor claiming he has not even heard the name before (some egghead living in caves before he started assembling PCs) reluctantly agreed. The machine was shipped and this friend of mine could not find time to work on it for a full one week. (Don't ask me how he resisted the temptation). Now when he dialed up the vendor to find out the password for the root account, the vendor has himself forgotten it. We tried all simple combinations but of no avail. Can anyone in the list provide some tips or a way out of this situation? ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Important: Where to find a good shell space
The obvious answer is to contact web host providers about your requirements. Most web providers don't allow you to do much on a shared server. With dedicated servers you can do anything you like, but they are not recomended unless you need a powerful machine. For most applications where you need a dedicated machine, but don't need a full dedicated server, virtual servers make a very good option. There are lots of hosts providing virtual linux servers that run using uml. www.linode.com and www.bytemark-hosting.co.uk are two such companies. The main advantage of using a virtual host is that you can fully manage the host remotely. For dedicated servers, you are at the mercy of your provider's support charges for simple things like getting a console dump or entering boot parameters into LILO/Grub. Ambar Roy - Original Message - From: Abhishek jain [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 4:20 PM Subject: [ilugd] Important: Where to find a good shell space Hi Friends, I want a good 24 hour connected internet connected shell space . Can anyone suggest me one. I shall be very grateful Please be quick as it is impoetant to me. ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] (no subject)
There has been messages sent to the members of this list from [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the bugbear virus. Although I own and use the royconsultants.com domain I don't use this email id. It was generated by the virus. And everyone, please stop your virus scanners from sending mails to the sender of mails. Most of the newer viruses send messages from fake senders and sending back virus in mail messages. My incoming mail server got choked with around 20 such mails :( many even had the virus. Ambar Roy PS: I don't have bugbear or any other mail virus on my system. ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] Software RAID performence
Hi, I am thinking about setting up a software RAID 5 system on a system to be used as a NAS. I am planning to put 4 80GB HDDs on a celeron 366 system and then connecting that system to my main computers through a 100Mbps LAN connection. There are going to be 2 systems connected to this system, so I am thinking about putting 2 100M lan cards on this system, and adding a IDE controller/Software RAID controller card to handle the drives. The celeron 366 system has 128kb cache and the system has 128mb main memory. Is the celeron 366 is going to be fast enough for this system, and what kind of performence I can expect if I need to use this external RAID system as the main storage device for my client computers. Should I put more ram on that computer to increase performence. Is a 100M lan connection going to be enough, or is it going to choke up or will my system not be able to keep up with HDD speed. I am also wondering if using 7200rpm disks would make sense. These hard drives eat up a lot of power and they tend to require a lot of cooling. I have 2 80GB Seagate baracudda disks that are causing me quite a bit of headaches already with their heat output. I am planning to run Linux or FreeBSD on the RAID system and connecting it to main systems running Windows 2000/XP. Will samba work w/o problems when connected to win2k or winxp machines? Do I need to get expensive LAN cards like Intel or 3Com ones or will cheap Dlink/Compex ones do? I will not have more than 3 client computers. So I will put 1 lan card on the storage system for each client system. Also what filesystem should I use for the hard disk. I would like to create a single partition for the whole RAID array and then create seperate shares with quotas inside that to be shared over the network. In any case I will be trying this out and checking out the performence. I will also try to set up the RAID on one of the windows client machines to see if it performs better as a local setup or as a remote setup. I will be using this setup mainly as a backup and to perform calculations on large datasets. I won't be running databases on the RAID system, but would not like to end up with something that has real bad performence too ;) Ambar Roy ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] hotwire client for linux
I tried to analyze the protocol, but didn't have a tool that would show me the data stream with a timeline :( I was working with a tool that dumped packets, and i was reassembling the data manually after extracting the header. From what I got, the client was opening a tcp connection, and then sending a login request. The userid and password, if i remember correctly were sent as plaintext in the tcp packets. After this the client would send keepalive requests thru tcp. The would be like a byte sent and one byte received. The problem is that if the keepalive doesn't work once or a few times, the client crashes. If there are some problems with the network or a lot of network load, the client crashes. The client also seems to crash randomly and has a useless gui. The original gui didn't have the tab order correct (which i fixed with a resource editor) and doesn't save my username. But it saves the other options in the screen and mostly works for me. Hotwire also accepts requests for disabling requirement of authentication, but this is not permanent and gets reset quite often. Ambar Roy - Original Message - From: supreet [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 2:21 PM Subject: Re: [ilugd] hotwire client for linux Have you got any details one type of client and protocol. I could work on it. Supreet On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 01:43, Ambar Roy wrote: Hotwire AFAIK uses same cyberoam server but on a different port. Cyberroam seems to use UDP for connections, but hotwire client uses a TCP connection to the server. At least my hotwire connection uses a TCP link and no UDP. so linc linc.sf.net should work. But I have not tested it Haven't tried out linc yet! Ambar Roy ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] [URGENT] RedHat 7.1 CD set
I urgently require a set of RH 7.1 binary CDs. I need a cd made with the original isos. I am willing to pay for this or bring cdrs for copying them. I need these CDs by Sunday. If you can help me send me a pvt mail or call me @ 98100-94479 Ambar Roy ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] hotwire client for linux
Hotwire AFAIK uses same cyberoam server but on a different port. Cyberroam seems to use UDP for connections, but hotwire client uses a TCP connection to the server. At least my hotwire connection uses a TCP link and no UDP. so linc linc.sf.net should work. But I have not tested it Haven't tried out linc yet! Ambar Roy ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] Sendmail spawning lots of processes and bringing downmachine
Hi everyone, Is there any way to limit the number of processes sendmail spawns? On a Linux server I am administering, sendmail spawns upto 1500 processes. How can I stop this? Also is there any way to discard messages with more than a set number of recipients in the mail? In this particullar server some idiot is trying to send mails with 3200+ recipients and that tends to bring down my server :( This fellow is going to get a good piece of my mind next time he complains about bad services. I know that with qmail this is quite easy to do, but I could not figure out anything about sendmail. Ambar Roy PS: I need to run sendmail on this server and can't switch to qmail, postfix or some other mailer daemon! ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Unknown mails from my own machine to me
I am recieving wierd mails almost every day. Anyone knows the reason? Below is a copy of of one of those messages. Looks like you have configured virtual mailboxes w/o aliases for postmaster, root or webmaster. In this case your machine is trying to send mail to the root user of that machine with regular updates. RedHat distros by default have quite a few tasks that regularly send mail to root. Ambar ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Problem with adding a IP based site
While setting up the IP based site on a dedicated server, i am getting the following err. Field IP Address ( ERROR ): IP address 207.36.47.229 is in list of registered namebased addresses Stuck in the middle, can any one throw some light on it The most important question first. What control panel software are you using? I think it is Webppliance, provided by the server provider. ensim?? Basically the problem is that you are using an IP address that you have set aside for name based sites. Apache allows you to set up a site with IP and use that IP for name based domains, but a lot of control panels might not allow that :( I did found that out and removed the address from the list of IPs registered for the name based site, Q. Now Does that mean, i need an eXtra IP specifically reserved, if i need to host name based site?, is it possible to have name based sites working on same IP, on which the IP based site is there. Or if someone can eXplain or a link to details, how actually it works. (The Technical part). I would suggest that you set up one IP for all the name based sites, and use seperate IPs for your IP based sites. Normally if you configure apache manually, you can define a default site for a ip and add additional name based sites to that ip which are only available as name based sites. This is fairly trivial, and on many servers if you use the ip used for name based sites you will find one site that behaves like it is configured for that ip! On ensim servers, it seems that ips used for name based sites are used by ensim for server level administration! Ambar ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Problem with adding a IP based site
While setting up the IP based site on a dedicated server, i am getting the following err. Field IP Address ( ERROR ): IP address 207.36.47.229 is in list of registered namebased addresses Stuck in the middle, can any one throw some light on it The most important question first. What control panel software are you using? Basically the problem is that you are using an IP address that you have set aside for name based sites. Apache allows you to set up a site with IP and use that IP for name based domains, but a lot of control panels might not allow that :( Ambar ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd]: [off topic] Email Query
Yes you can always trace the origin of a mail, u need to see the extended header of the messages. If u go through it it will list all the servers which has relayed the messages in between.. It is quite easy to get fake headers in email. All you need is a set of anonymous proxies ;) Ambar ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Linux webhosting
Backbones. I will not be surprised if the traffic from any ISP is first routed to the backbone through VSNL(or newskies etc) and then back to VSNL DataCenters sigh!!. The proposed NIXI (see india-gii mailing list archives for discussion on that) has made some headway. My experience with servers hosted @ vsnl delhi and mumbai datacenters has been that in general their uptime is quite decent. I have yet to see them getting off the net when I have net connection to the rest of the world. The main advantage being that sites hosted @ vsnl have real low latency. This is something that most people associate with fast servers so it is a big plus when marketing the servers. I visit the otherwise crappy indiatimes website a lot just because of this. Ambar Roy ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] [May-just-be-commercial] Linux webhosting
Ambar Hmm... But why has the development on vishwakarma stopped? Ambar I don't wan't to be responsible for keeping the control Ambar panel software uptodate with the latest software, etc. I Ambar suppose this is the time to ask some1 for a presentation Ambar and a support contract for vishwakarma. In any case I don't Ambar have purchase power here, only the ability to influence the Ambar decision against products that I don't like ;) Because the developer doesn't have time to develop it further at the moment? Hmm.. since this has gone into commercial mode, do you have any demo site running vishwakarma or a list of users (I can accept a pvt mail in this regard ;) Support contracts are always available, but I warn you I'm expensive. As if you didn't know that :) I must admit that maybe I shouldn't have made it so robust... many VishwaKarma users tend to pay for installation and then find that they don't need any support from me because the dam' thing just works. Next time I'll ensure I make a flaky product so that people keep coming back to me for support and patches. Ah, the things one can learn from Microsux! Hmm... I guess I will stay away from this then.. no idea what will happen in future :( Another possibility may be to install VishwaKarma and ask for help on this list or the VishwaKarma list if you get stuck. I'll probably reply to the extent that I can figure out your problem remotely. If I have to login, I'll charge... you know the rate -- half your kingdom and your daughter's hand in marriage. Since i am neither a king nor do I have a daughter, do I qualify for free support??? :D Ambar ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] Vishwakarma user feedback wanted
Are there any vishwakarma users/developers on this list? I need some feedback on this. Also will it be possible to use remote scripts with vishwakarma? I am looking for a solution that I would be able to scale up so that in future I can have a seperate dns, mail and webserver for my webhosting clients. Ambar ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Linux webhosting
I need to set up a new Linux server for webhosting. I would like to get feedback on the different control panels that are available for webhosting using linux. I would also appreciate any feedback on the various hosting and colocation facilities. Right now we are considering either colocating a server at VSNL Delhi or getting a dedicated server from Reliance. Ambar Our very own Raj Mathur's Vishwakarma is a strong OSS control panel with a good LDAP based authentication and cascaded design. Recommended for the level of support you'll get on this list or the VK's lists, though as Raj would tell you its not for the weak hearted. It seems that the development on Vishwakarma has stopped :( There seems to be no change log for some time now.. Then there is commercial cpanel, ensim, plesk of which cpanel is a relatively clean design. ensim is a cross between a VSD/Web-based control and difficult to troubleshoot. Plesk is not maintained well. I have a server running ensim 3.1 currently, and I find that ensim takes up too much resources on the server. How is cpanel in this regard? I am thinking about getting cpanel, but their price is quite steep. $599 for 1 year is quite high :( There are a couple of others out there on Sourceforge. I need something for commercial webhosting, are any of these free packages upto the mark yet? About the last point I am not really convinced good hosting is possible in India based Data Centers (period) Any particullar reasons for this? I have had enough with support from remote datacenters. All of these places tend to charge crazy ammounts for support. I was thinking about vsnl delhi as they have decent connectivity and I get physical access. Most of my clients are from India, so access speed will be better for them thru a datacenter in india. I would like to hear about any good bad experience with vsnl delhi and reliance for colocation in india. I have a server hosted at superb, and those guys were recomending a reinstall for a problem that was solved by giving a proper init command on the linux boot prompt. Their support is real bad. They charge extra for setting up a system properly, and then set it up with a kernel that locks up with moderate load! Please if you are considering a dedicated Linux server don't go to superb they are big time rip offs :( Ambar Roy ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] Linux webhosting
Hi, I need to set up a new Linux server for webhosting. I would like to get feedback on the different control panels that are available for webhosting using linux. I would also appreciate any feedback on the various hosting and colocation facilities. Right now we are considering either colocating a server at VSNL Delhi or getting a dedicated server from Reliance. Ambar ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] Linux webhosting
Hi, I need to set up a new Linux server for webhosting. I would like to get feedback on the different control panels that are available for webhosting using linux. I would also appreciate any feedback on the various hosting and colocation facilities. Right now we are considering either colocating a server at VSNL Delhi or getting a dedicated server from Reliance. Ambar ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Upgrading Kernel of RedHat 7.1 on a remote server
Due to a Kernel bug ksoftirqd takes up 100% cpu and server becomes inaccessible. Yes, kernel upgrade will fix this. You can use kernel rpm to upgrade. May have to revert back to old one if box doesn't come back up with new kernel. Is there any resource where I can check up on this bug that you mention? In my case, the server crashes in an intresting way. Ping requests are honoured by the Linux box, and any TCP connection is opened, but after the connection is opened, no response comes from the affected machine. Also I call this a crash, because no log contains any entry after this *crash* occurs. Now about the kernel installation. I don't know if the server is using lilo or grub. Is there any easy way to find this out. I dumped the first 512 bytes from /dev/hda and I think I saw LILO somewhere in there. Ambar ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
