[LIH] procmail question
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[OT] Itanium (Was RE: [LIH] kernel 2.5 ??)
> > Hmm... I think a lot of OSes run on the itanium... intel has made machines > > Who else runs on itanium? BSD/Sco/Solaris? I can think of BSD as the only > contender. SCO UnixWare (f.k.a AT&T UNIX, not to be confused with SCO UNIX) was the first OS to be ported, long before others. Then came project Monterey (AIX based collaboration between IBM and SCO). Then came Linux. Solaris has been running on the simulator, but Sun and Intel don't agree on some things - so the issues are no longer technical. FreeBSD has been ported: see [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Arun -- An alpha version of a web based tool to manage your subscription with this mailing list is at http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/mj_wwwusr
Re: [LIH] help for lilo to boot FreeBSD
On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 11:36:18AM +0530, Kapil Jadhav wrote: > Dear List, > I am regular user of Linux and I tried FreeBSD 4.2.It has > overwritten on lilo so booted through boot floppy and used winnt boot > loader to boot into linux but I don't want both boot loaders at a time.Can > anybody please tell me how to use FreeBSD bootloader to boot into Linux or > Linux Boot loader to boot into freebsd . > Have you read the archive of bsd-india ? Check the recent threads for an answer. http://sharmas.dhs.org/bsd-india/bsd-india.html http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/wilma/bsd-india For freebsd specific questions, try: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.freebsd.org.in/ -Arun -- The mailing list archives are available at http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/wilma/linux-india-help
Re: [LIH] Re: emacs and major modes
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 06:35:04PM +0530, Gaurav Priyolkar wrote: > > If nothing works, single step through the process of walking auto-mode-alist > > (M-x debug-on-entry). Sometimes that's tedious - just try calling emacs's > > regexp matching routines with your string and the regexp and debug it. > > emacs has a interactive regular expression matching routines/debugger? Sounds > very useful! I could not find much in info, how do I use/invoke it? C-h f re-search-forward gives: re-search-forward is an interactive built-in function. Search forward from point for regular expression REGEXP. Set point to the end of the occurrence found, and return point. An optional second argument bounds the search; it is a buffer position. The match found must not extend after that position. Optional third argument, if t, means if fail just return nil (no error). If not nil and not t, move to limit of search and return nil. Optional fourth argument is repeat count--search for successive occurrences. See also the functions `match-beginning', `match-end' and `replace-match'. (re-search-forward REGEXP &optional BOUND NOERROR COUNT) You can always type in an elisp expression in a scratch buffer or a .el file and use the eval-* commands to evaluate them interactively. -Arun -- Find out more about this and other Linux India mailing lists at http://lists.linux-india.org/
[LIH] Re: [BSD-INDIA] Linux/freebsd/windows Partition Q
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 11:57:04PM +0530, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: > In linux parlance: > > /dev/hda1 (5GB) Windows 98 - Primary > /dev/hda2 (5GB) Linux - Extended > /dev/hda3 (5GB) Windows 98 - Primary > /dev/hda4 (5GB) Linux - Primary > > I intend to install freebsd on the partition /dev/hda4. Definitely I > need to divide it into a/b/c logical partitions. My questions are: > > 1. Can I use the swap partition of linux if it is lying inside a > linux extended partition?The linux+freebsd howto mentions only a > swap primary to be usable by both. I'd trust the howto. You probably need a freebsd only swap partition. > > 2. Can the presence of two extended partitions, though possible, > freak out windows or linux? ok, not linux ... but windows? > > I have too much downloaded data in both windows and linux and no > CDWriters at hand ... so I CAN'T risk losing data in any > partitions. What would be the best partioning policy? The freebsd a/b/c partitions are NOT "primary" or "extended" partitions as defined by the PC architecture. To windows and linux, it appears as a primary partition. Only a BSD OS will see the sub partitions. This way, you're not subject to the usual limitations of the PC architecture, re: number/size of partitions etc. So if you can afford the disk space, do createa a freebsd swap. -Arun -- Find out more about this and other Linux India mailing lists at http://lists.linux-india.org/
Re: [LIH] emacs and major modes
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 10:34:11AM +0530, Gaurav Priyolkar wrote:
> Hi,
> Setting this to ("mutt-[a-zA-Z]+-[0-9]+-[0-9]+\\'" . mutt-mode)
> or ("mutt-Gaurav-[0-9]+-[0-9]+\\'" . mutt-mode)
> in files.el did not help, so I guess that's not the right place to do it.
>
> Where do I redefine that variable, or am I totally on the wrong track?
I think you're on the right track. Have you figured out what the trailing
part of the regexp "\\'" is for ?
If nothing works, single step through the process of walking auto-mode-alist
(M-x debug-on-entry). Sometimes that's tedious - just try calling emacs's
regexp matching routines with your string and the regexp and debug it.
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Re: [LIH] Servlet & JSP
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 05:29:04PM +, Anilkumar wrote: > Which is Good/Fast implemention of Servlet/JSP, > Tomcat or IBM WebSphere. Please suggest good Posting > of JDK on Linux. Haven't used Websphere - it's second by marketshare behind weblogic. However, Tomcat is great! -Arun -- An alpha version of a web based tool to manage your subscription with this mailing list is at http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/mj_wwwusr
Re: [LIH] System. Performance
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 09:20:39PM +0530, V Suresh wrote: > How to calculate my system's performance in MFlops or something like that? > We read of supercomputers and > Beowulfs achieving GFlops/TFlops. But how to check our systems? (Guess > should be in MFlops, atleast). Write your own benchmark or use the floating point parts of specFP (specbench.org) and measure the number of "floating point ops" per sec. > > Support Open Source www.gnu.org > You know, gnu.org and the phrase "open source" don't mix together well :) -Arun -- Find out more about this and other Linux India mailing lists at http://lists.linux-india.org/
Re: [LIH] gtk/qt + python
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 12:17:03AM +0530, Sharmad Naik wrote: > Hi, > Can anyone give me good references to gtk/qt + python or some online manual. > http://www.thekompany.com/projects/pykde/ -Arun -- Find out more about this and other Linux India mailing lists at http://lists.linux-india.org/
Re: [LIH] Java 1.2.2 Problem
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 08:26:56AM +, Anilkumar wrote: > /usr/bin/java: /bin/realpath: No such file or > directory > /usr/bin/java: /bin/realpath: No such file or > directory > java was not found in /bin/i386/green_threads/java Try setting JAVA_HOME. -Arun -- LIH is all for free speech. But it was created for a purpose. Violations of the rules of this list will result in stern action.
Re: [LIH] IMAP under KMail
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 05:20:38PM +0530, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > I was using IMAP under netscape so far when I am in linux. However I don't > like netscape look and always wanted to be with KDE stuff. Tried the skins ? At this point, my only problem with mozilla is performance and some functionality (LDAP). > It's a beautiful client... It is fast and slick. But the long term direction seems unclear - there was kmail2, there is magellan/whatever else it is called now from kompany.com. -Arun -- The mailing list archives are available at http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/wilma/linux-india-help
Re: [LIH] Rpm vs Tarballs
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 12:56:46PM +0530, Binand Raj S. wrote: > No. RPMs are used by a few linux distributions - RedHat, Mandrake, SuSE, > Trustix, Connectiva etc. Some others use .debs - Debian. Still others > stick to tarballs (sometimes specially archived) - Slackware. *BSD also > use tarballs, IIRC. tarballs for packages have the disadvantage of not having an uncompressed header (which rpms do have). http://www.openpackages.org/ is trying to solve that. One of the proposals was to use .zip - which does have an uncompressed header. -Arun -- Find out more about this and other Linux India mailing lists at http://lists.linux-india.org/
[LIH] Redhat 6.1 bind packages
If there's anyone using Redhat 6.1 and (redhat isn't putting out binaries for redhat 6.1 - strange they have binaries for 5.2), I have built some from SRPMS and can make it available, if anyone is interested. All I did was to build SRPMs available at: http://linux-easy.com/rh-updates/ -Arun -- Find out more about this and other Linux India mailing lists at http://lists.linux-india.org/
Re: [LIH] 2.4.0
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 03:40:44PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > Shanker Balan rearranged electrons thusly: > > > Hello: > > Hey, are kernel sources available in CVS format? > > If not, they ought to be ... I just brought up a freebsd box (so this was a > slip of the mind I expect) Another irrational linuxism (not having a public, official CVS repository). Switch to BSD :-) $ uname -a Linux c62443-a 2.2.12-20 #6 Sat Apr 22 15:09:41 PDT 2000 i686 unknown $ uptime 10:39pm up 97 days, 13:40, 6 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Hoping that there won't be any power outages in California for the next three days. Last time, my brother tripped over the power chord after 90+ days. -Arun -- An alpha version of a web based tool to manage your subscription with this mailing list is at http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/mj_wwwusr
[LIH] Re: [LIP] X-Windows programming in C++
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 09:11:13PM -0800, Shine Vijayan wrote: > Hi, > > I am in the process of porting a Adobe Acrobat plug-in developed on Windows > platform to Linux platform. Are you talking about a browser plug-in ? In that case, you'll have to use the same "toolkit" as the browser. For Netscape 4.x - that's Motif. For Mozilla, it's Gtk, but there are Qt, Xt based ports floating around on the net. Once you've made the toolkit choice, Qt - Complete C++ Gtk++ - C++ bindings for Gtk Vtk - Motif in C++ -Arun -- The mailing list archives are available at http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/wilma/LIH
Re: [LIH] *BSD is better than linux
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 08:48:18PM -0500, Peter Kok wrote: > Hi all > > Could you give me more information? > Not an appropriate forum to ask the question. See: http://sharmas.dhs.org/bsd-india/bsd-india.html -Arun -- The mailing list archives are available at http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/wilma/LIH
Re: [LIH] kde2
On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 05:33:30PM -, arun ar wrote: > hi all > i have rh7 of linux-central. on second cd i saw kde2 preview. which i tried to >install through rpm -ivh kde * > every thing went perfect. but when i executed startx it is going to old kde only. >please tell me how do i get > kde2 desktop > thanx in advance Point your QTDIR and KDEDIR to the newly installed directory and do $KDEDIR/bin/startkde -Arun -- Find out more about this and other Linux India mailing lists at http://lists.linux-india.org/
Re: [LIH] How to change file association?
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 02:07:30AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi, > i would like to know if there is any way to change the default > application associated with a file type in RED HAT LINUX. /etc/mailcap /etc/mime.types and their equivalents in $HOME. -Arun -- An alpha version of a web based tool to manage your subscription with this mailing list is at http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/mj_wwwusr
Re: [LIH] Running Unix binaries on Linux
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 01:36:41PM +0530, Biju Chacko wrote: > No it's not! UnixWare was bought by SCO, but it is a completely different > product fron SCO Unix. SCO Unix is descended from Xenix whereas UnixWare is > based on AT&T's USL Unix (SVR etc). I don't know if unixWare adheres to the > IBCS standard or not. It does. -Arun -- LIH is all for free speech. But it was created for a purpose. Violations of the rules of this list will result in stern action.
Re: [LIH] Re: Kchess & Apt-find
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 02:10:39PM -0800, Swapan Sarkar wrote: > I havn't looked at the latest KDE2 so I might be > wrong.. > Does KChess have the capability to interface with FICS > (Free Internet Chess Server at > http://www.freechess.org/ ) It will be a great thing > to add that capability. Where can I get the source > code of KChess ? KChess got renamed to Knight some time ago (there was an older commercial program with the same name). http://sharmas.dhs.org/~adsharma/projects/knight.html KChess has been ported to KDE2, but can't talk to FICS yet. -Arun -- Find out more about this and other Linux India mailing lists at http://lists.linux-india.org/
Re: [LIH] Random number in shell script
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 08:58:12PM +0530, Raju Mathur wrote: > Try this for a 2-byte random number (line may wrap): > > echo "ibase=16;" `cat /dev/urandom | head -2c | od -x | fgrep 000 | cut -d ' ' >-f2 | tr '[a-f]' '[A-F]'` | bc > > YAISOLFYOM (roughly expands to Yet Another Incredible Shell One-Liner > >From Ye Olde Monke :) 10 forks to generate a random number ? :) $ cat /proc/stat | grep processes processes 119269 $ echo "ibase=16;" `cat /dev/urandom | head -2c | od -x | fgrep 000 | cut -d ' ' -f2 | tr '[a-f]' '[A-F]'` | bc 13983 $ cat /proc/stat | grep processes processes 119280 -Arun -- The mailing list archives are available at http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/wilma/LIH
Re: [LIH] Random number in shell script
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 12:35:23PM +0530, Christopher Vasanth wrote: > > Hi there: > > Can anyone show me how to generate a random number in a shell script? $ python -c 'import random; print random.random()' It's probably a better idea to ask this on -programmers. -Arun -- An alpha version of a web based tool to manage your subscription with this mailing list is at http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/mj_wwwusr
Re: [LIH] Re:[OT] Internet C++
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 10:09:27AM +0530, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > > I believe that unless same piece of code is required to be run on > client as well as server, java is useless. (Sorry all java fans. No hard > feeling. I love it's simplicity but ...). Even then, in such scenarios > I would prefer python against java as it does not need precompilation. Scripting languages like python are not strongly typed. So certain class of errors are caught at runtime, rather than compile time. Otherwise python kicks ass! -Arun -- An alpha version of a web based tool to manage your subscription with this mailing list is at http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/mj_wwwusr
Re: [LIH] Re:[OT] Internet C++
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 09:38:59AM +0200, Muthu Mohan wrote: > 1. Build One C/C++ Program - Run It Everywhere (strength of Java) > > Compile your C/C++ programs once and to run on any platform supporting > Internet C++ (ICVM). > ICVM is an interpreter. No JIT. The weakness of C/C++ is the lack of a standard API. -Arun -- Find out more about this and other Linux India mailing lists at http://lists.linux-india.org/
Re: [LIH] SOS: Linux crashed!
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 02:15:06PM -0800, bindaas baangdu wrote: > My Linux box crashed saying that, > > "hda: interrupt lost" > > any pointers about where to look for the problem > source would be appreciated. The two best sources of info on such errors: 1. http://www.deja.com/home_ps.shtml 2. http://www.google.com/ Cut and paste the error in the search box. -Arun -- LIH is all for free speech. But it was created for a purpose. Violations of the rules of this list will result in stern action.
Re: [LIH] cscope
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 05:23:56PM +0530, Pratap Chakravarthy wrote: > hello all, > i am trying to build cscope on linux source code. In my /usr/src/ directory >there are around 4,250 files on which cscope has to be built. I gave the command >cscope -qb to build them, after some time the program comes out reporting the > error > > sort: write error: No space left on device > cscope: cannot create inverted index; ignoring -q option > cscope: removed files ncscope.in.out and ncscope.po.out Have you checked the amount of memory + swap on your system ? Monitor that while cscope runs. -Arun -- Find out more about this and other Linux India mailing lists at http://lists.linux-india.org/
Re: [LIH] About KDE2
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 05:00:26PM +0530, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > Hi > > That might be correct. But what about .jpgs etc? In KDE2 I can't set > a wall papaer. Kview does not work. If you're using prebuilt binaries, you may want to get the same version of libjpeg that qt was compiled with. There may be a couple of test progs that come with qt that can validate that gif/jpeg are ok at the qt level. If they turn out to be ok, your problem is most likely at the kdegraphics level. -Arun -- LIH is all for free speech. But it was created for a purpose. Violations of the rules of this list will result in stern action.
Re: [LIH] About KDE2
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 02:46:33PM +0530, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > > Also I am not able to get Graphics working. File manager doesn't show .gif, .jpg > etc. I think I need to recompile the kdegraphics-2.0. But if you have any > solution, please let me know. > The problem is with .gif only. Most distros are shipping qt with gif support disabled because of patent issues from Unisys. My request to make a freebsd gif enabled qt-2.2.1 binary was turned down. So the solution would be to download the qt SRPM/.deb and recompile with -gif. -Arun -- LIH is all for free speech. But it was created for a purpose. Violations of the rules of this list will result in stern action.
[LIH] Re: [LIG] Solution request for a very simple Problem
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 12:18:18PM +0530, Soumeyndu S. Mohapatra wrote: > > Actually I am using telnet to access the linux m/c. > [..] > > $ rlogin linux-machine -l username If you've read the man page for telnet, you'll realize that it works for telnet too. -Arun -- An alpha version of a web based tool to manage your subscription with this mailing list is at http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/mj_wwwusr
[LIH] Re: [LIG] Solution request for a very simple Problem
You're using the wrong list for your question. This should go to -help. On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 09:51:42AM +0530, Soumeyndu S. Mohapatra wrote: > Dear friends > I am a novice in Linux field.I have a very simple problem but dov't know > how to solve.We have a unix network primarily consists of Solaris.I have > setuped a linux box primarily for intranet mail and WEB.The problem is > that whenever I tried to access my linux m/c from solaris m/c it only asks > me password not the login name.I think it automaticaly trying to > authenticate the user name by which I have logged on to SUN m/c.Can you > help me out . > your's If you're using rlogin/ssh you can use $ rlogin linux-machine -l username -Arun -- An alpha version of a web based tool to manage your subscription with this mailing list is at http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/mj_wwwusr
[LIH] Re: [LIG] Query about Mail Administration Using SendMail
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 11:35:04AM +0530, Soumeyndu S. Mohapatra wrote: > I have a very peculiar scenario fro configuring mail for our organistaion. > My linux box is behind firewall and I want to configure sendmail to send > all mail (except local mails) to be forwarded to a specific host which is > directly connected to Internet.I am a novice to configure SENDMAIL.Please > help me out.If any thing more info reaquired please mail me back. > your's Look for "Smart relay host" in /etc/sendmail.cf -Arun -- LIH is all for free speech. But it was created for a purpose. Violations of the rules of this list will result in stern action.
Re: [LIH] Indian locales
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 03:00:27PM +0900, Masami Okano wrote: Masami, > > Would you know if there is any existing locales of those > languages, or if there is any information that I can > refer to for numeric format, date&time format, and monetary > format of those languages. That's great! I don't know of any existing locales. But all Indian languages use the US numeric format and date and time format. The only difference being in the position of the comma: thousand = 1,000.00 0.1 million = lakh = 1,00,000.00 10 million = crore = 1,00,00,000.00 The monetary format is: Rupees = Indian equivalent of dollar Paise = Indian equivalent of cents Usually prefixed as in: Rs 100.00 Hope this helps, -Arun -- LIH is all for free speech. But it was created for a purpose. Violations of the rules of this list will result in stern action.
Re: [LIH] Imap authentication problem
On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 05:19:13PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Aug 25 14:04:17 mail pam_rhosts_auth[11611]: denied to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] as jack: access not allowed > > Aug 25 13:47:53 mail in.rshd[11611]: rsh denied to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] as jacobr: Permission denied. > I'm not sure why it's trying to do rhosts auth. My /etc/pam.d/imap looks as follows: $ cat /etc/pam.d/imap #%PAM-1.0 auth required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so shadow nullok accountrequired /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so The problem may even be on the client side. Have you tried other imap clients ? fetchmail in verbose mode might be good. -Arun -- Find out more about this and other Linux India mailing lists at http://lists.linux-india.org/
Re: [LIH] PGP
On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 10:15:32PM +, Pradeep Sangunni wrote: > Where can i get PGP!!! > I tried download.com but took me to another site where i had to answer a > few questains and at the end it said that my pc was not in NORTH AMERICA. > Any clues or any other site where i can get it? You should use the international version http://www.pgpi.org/ Read the FAQ about the legality of using it etc. -Arun -- Find out more about this and other Linux India mailing lists at http://lists.linux-india.org/
Re: [LIH] mutt
On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 11:21:56AM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > Shridhar Daithankar on Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 10:46:02AM +0530 rearranged > electrons thusly: > > > Can I get it for windows? I didn't found it on mutt.org. I will try searching > > further... > > You might try porting it using cygwin - the results haven't been satisfactory > so far, according to those who have tried it. cygwin is seriously performance impaired on windows. They try to emulate fork using methods (that copy entire address space eagerly) that result in bad performance. -Arun -- LIH is all for free speech. But it was created for a purpose. Violations of the rules of this list will result in stern action.
Re: [LIH] kernel doubts
On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 10:57:06AM +0530, Atul Mehta wrote: > Hi, > Can anyone point where the variables free_pages_high and > free_pages_low are located? Will alterng the values of these result in > better performance? http://lxr.linux.no/ If you don't know what you're doing, you better stick to /proc/sys interface after reading the docs in /usr/src/linux/Documentation -Arun -- LIH is all for free speech. But it was created for a purpose. Violations of the rules of this list will result in stern action.
[LIH] Mozilla M17 review
All, I downloaded Mozilla M17 this week and am playing with it today. My personal feeling is that the usability barrier has been crossed now. I could use it for my browsing and mail quite easily now. But some rough edges remain. Primarily: 1. Even after getting psm, I can't get https to work on linux. Other platforms, namely freebsd are not even supported for crypto. 2. M17 doesn't seem to have a working mail icon from the browser. $ ./mozilla - mail works though. 3. Performance problems in bookmark management and mail header pane sorting. 4. The width the various header columns are not easily resizable. But the rest of the stuff is working great. For those of you on low bandwidth connections, this may be worth the 10 MB download. -Arun -- Find out more about this and other Linux India mailing lists at http://lists.linux-india.org/
Re: [LIH] gnus
On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 10:22:46PM +0530, Atul Mehta wrote: > Hi, > I have configured slrnpull to pull the News 2 my Linux box. And > also I have configured $NNTPSERVER to my hostname. I am sick and tired of > slrn to read news... So how do I configure Gnus to read the News properly? > Any URL's would be nice. How about www.gnus.org ? I prefer slrn actually :) -Arun -- The mailing list archives are available at http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/wilma/LIH
Re: [LIH] Help - Emacs - executable-set-magic
On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 02:13:56PM +0200, Sachin Shurpali (RBIN/DCA-NMP) wrote: > Dear ilugs, >If I open a file with extension .csh in Xemacs, automatically the line > (magic executable line) > > # ! /bin/csh -f > > gets added. I want this to happen for other interpreters also like .pl s ( > Perl ) > Kindly somebody guide me in this. Have a look at autoinsert.el M-x describe-function auto-insert would do. -Arun -- The LIH mailing list archives are available at: http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/wilma/linux-india-help
Re: [LIH] Cable Modems et al [OT]
On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 02:40:33PM +0530, Syed Khader Vali wrote: > Hi All, > One of my friends in Hyderabad wants to connect to a nearby ISP ( approx .5 km away > ) from his place using 75ohm TV cable and a pair of cable modems. He is unable to > find any info related to cable modems. > He wants to know if the above idea is feasible or not, and what is the > cost of cable modems and who is the supplier ? I use a lancity cable modem. But lately I've heard about RCA and Motorola cable modems being commonly used. The server side infrastructure might be a little more complex i.e. I don't know if the setup would be symmetrical. -Arun -- Check out the 'What to do before posting to the list' site for a list of things to try before posting. The site is at http://botsie.tripod.com/beforeposting/
Re: [LIH] AMD help
On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 04:15:06PM +0530, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > But real issue is to what CPU optimisations, should I compile the > applications? To my experience, linux was about 30% faster when I > compiled stock RHL6.1 kernel to Pentium optimisation. I want to do > the same stuff over here. AMD designs their processors to run pentium optimized code. So your pentium optimizations should help AMD too. As for 3D now or MMX/MMX2, you need to handcode those assembly routines. All you need is support for those instructions in binutils. In the absence of those, you'll have to write ".byte 0x In order to write AMD specific optimizations, AMD needs to publish a compiler writers guide describing their micro architecture (similar to the u-v pipeline stuff Intel published). Even knowing the number of functional units etc can help do better instruction scheduling. You can play around with the gcc -f flags to see if they make any difference. You might find more assistance on comp.arch or comp.compilers. -Arun --- LIH is all for free speech. But it was created for a purpose - to help people discuss issues about installing and running Linux. If your messages are counterproductive to this purpose, your privileges to submit messages can and will be revoked.
Re: [LIH] Re: Redhat 6.1 and Cable modem
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 10:02:24AM +0530, Girish Kamath wrote: > > > > Anyone using Redhat 6.1 successfully with a cable modem? > > > > --- > > Yes i was using with RH6.1 and now using with RH6.2 I'm a cable modem user with RH 6.1. It'd be good if you ask your question in one installment :) -Arun --- The LIH mailing list archives are available at: http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/wilma/linux-india-help
Re: [LIH] peculiar behaviour of grep
On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 11:33:40PM +0530, Narayana Yaddanapudi wrote: > Why does grep behave the way it does in the extract? Perhaps the non determinism is in ps -aux and not grep ? -Arun --- LIH is all for free speech. But it was created for a purpose - to help people discuss issues about installing and running Linux. If your messages are counterproductive to this purpose, your privileges to submit messages can and will be revoked.
Re: [LIH] Re: Collating Space among machines- looking for solution
On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 07:48:13PM +0530, Syed Khader Vali wrote: > Just came up with a solution of using AFS on all the machines and then > using software raid to collate all that. Now which level raid do I use > ? And since it is AFS we do not have any licensing issues. :-) and we > have a opensource afs client for Linux. :- > So hop onto any kernel version and we will not endup in problems of > kernel incompatibilty. That would be level 0 or level 3: http://webopedia.internet.com/TERM/R/RAID.html But typically, RAID is done at a device level and on a single machine. What you're trying to do is distributed across multiple OSes, filesystems etc. Perhaps it's doable, but it's going to be expensive and the results may be less than pleasing. Sounds like writing a winmodem driver :) -Arun --- LIH is all for free speech. But it was created for a purpose - to help people discuss issues about installing and running Linux. If your messages are counterproductive to this purpose, your privileges to submit messages can and will be revoked.
Re: [LIH] Collating Space among machines- looking for solution
On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 12:08:42PM +0530, Syed Khader Vali wrote: > Hi *, > I have a problem at hand. We have around 40 machines in the lab > comprising of around 9 different operations systems ( which include > Linux, NT , OS/2 and other Commercial Unices ). Now there is so much > wastage of space on all these machines, that we have decided to go for > collating all this space and mapping it onto a single machine. Now all > this has to be done in such a way that there is no performance loss in > the network. Practical answer: disk is cheap. Just get a new disk. A more theoretical answer: centralize your disk array. Have it on one machine and have everybody else mount it. You'll lose some performance and increase network traffic. But you can't have it both ways. -Arun --- The LIH mailing list archives are available at: http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/wilma/linux-india-help
Re: [LIH] Long mail : LILO (ReiserFS etc.)
On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 06:58:07PM +0530, Mrinal Kalakrishnan wrote: > Does LILO load vmlinuz at the start? Or some other smaller file first? > Because I was wondering - when the kernel file (say 500 KB) is > fragmented in the filesystem, how does LILO load it? In this case it > has to understand the filesystem, isn't it? But /usr/doc/lilo/README > clearly says: > > LILO does not know how to read a file system. Instead, the map > installer asks the kernel for the physical location of files (e.g. the > kernel image(s)) and records that information. This allows LILO to > work with most file systems that are supported by Linux. > > So how does it deal with a fragmented kernel? Does linux have any way > of ensuring that the kernel remains unfragmented? > Read the ps file that comes with LILO or read my past mails on the topic. Essentially: When you run /sbin/lilo, LILO "queries" the filesystem for a "map" of the "vmlinuz" file. This map contains filesystem independent disk addresses. The map is then stored in a well known location, where the LILO code can find it. In the meanwhile, if you do: $ cp vmlinuz foo $ cp foo vmlinuz you're screwed, because the map becomes invalid. I think LILO's way of doing things is clumsy. -Arun --- LIH is all for free speech. But it was created for a purpose - to help people discuss issues about installing and running Linux. If your messages are counterproductive to this purpose, your privileges to submit messages can and will be revoked.
[LIH] [pavanburbure@yahoo.com: Re: Block size of ext2 FS]
Hi, Sorry for mailing directly. I'm no more on the list. I tried installing RH6.2 with 1k and 4k clusters. Here are some results. The installation was done on a single / partition, choosing the option GNOME Workstation in the type of installation. The installer says 414 packages, 607 MB for this type. The Results - 1k Cluster 4k Cluster -- -- DiskSpace 622.4 MB708.6 MB BootTime 50s 45s DiskSpace of /usr/doc 47437 54104 /usr/lib 213458 230308 /usr/man 864714952 /usr/X11R6 47859 53472 /usr/bin 65074 67424 /usr/dict 404 408 /usr/etc 1 4 /usr/games 31 36 /usr/include 768910296 /usr/info 55965916 /usr/local 20 80 /usr/sbin 32353420 /usr/share 180916 221420 /usr/src 42757124 /usr/libexec 763 848 /usr/i386-redhat-linux 239 252 /usr/kerberos 33153512 /usr/i486-linux-libc5 54295492 /usr 594389 679072 Thanking You, Pavan __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com --- LIH is all for free speech. But it was created for a purpose - to help people discuss issues about installing and running Linux. If your messages are counterproductive to this purpose, your privileges to submit messages can and will be revoked.
Re: [LIH] security doubt
On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 11:46:59PM +0530, Atul Mehta wrote: > Hi, > I have a doubt about the feasibility of running finger, telnet > etc. on a web-server. I think that it can be risky since finger can be > used to get info abt the users of the server and also telnet etc. has > security problems unless ssh extensions are there.. I don't run telnet, but I run ssh. I also run finger - mostly out of dislike for the kind of unfriendly place the internet has become today. I also post on USENET without any spam protection these days. Just ignore the spammers. All it takes is one key stroke. But if you're super paranoid about security (read: there is a lot of money at stake), you should turn off all the open ports. -Arun --- For information on this and other Linux India mailing lists check out http://lists.linux-india.org/
Re: [LIH] [update] MySQL is now GPL'ed...
On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 01:26:35AM -0500, Sathya Rangaswamy wrote: > "Ravikant K . Rao" wrote: > Wait till they GPL interbase (due thir d quarter) , it will blow MySQL > out in terms of transaction support Interbase is MPL'ed, not GPL'ed. -Arun --- Check out the 'What to do before posting to the list' site for a list of things to try before posting. The site is at http://botsie.tripod.com/beforeposting/
Re: [LIH] LILO (ReiserFS etc.) Was LILO Map, hole or something...
On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 07:44:08PM +0530, Sachin Garg wrote: > LILO maintains an *absolute* record of where any kernel is located. The filesystem has to tell LILO, how it allocated the "vmlinuz" file on the disk. Therefore, LILO works with only those filesystems, which have this (rather unnecessary, IMO) capability. Most other OSes (including FreeBSD) come with a loader which can read the filesystem. -Arun --- LIH is all for free speech. But it was created for a purpose - to help people discuss issues about installing and running Linux. If your messages are counterproductive to this purpose, your privileges to submit messages can and will be revoked.
Re: [LIH] make -j
On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 08:37:06PM +0530, Sateesh Potturu wrote: > Hi All, > > Sometime back I issued a "make -j -l 95.00" of a big application. > After that I waited for 45 minutes before using power switch. In > the meantime nothing was working; I could hear only the disk > churning. I have a 32MB RAM & 128MB swap, kernel 2.2.14. > > I don't do such stupid things since then. But in case such > things happen, what should be done to recover from it. Set your resource limits low enough so that you don't shoot yourself in the foot. man ulimit, setrlimit. The OS is supposed to be resistent to fork bombs, but it doesn't handle low memory situations too well, according to net rumors. -Arun --- LIH is all for free speech. But it was created for a purpose - to help people discuss issues about installing and running Linux. If your messages are counterproductive to this purpose, your privileges to submit messages can and will be revoked.
Re: [LIH] Re: Yahama Card, KDE, Python
On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 03:58:18AM -0700, Piyush Khandelwal wrote: > I couldnt fine any develop thing in KDE. I am > intrested in doing so. Plz tell me how to develop > something in KDE and Python. http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt/python/tutorial.html -Arun --- Check out the 'What to do before posting to the list' site for a list of things to try before posting. The site is at http://botsie.tripod.com/beforeposting/
Re: [LIH] [OT] Upgrading a via 580 pentium 133 mobo
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 10:28:43AM -0700, Sudhakar Chandra wrote: > Robin Chatterjee proclaimed: > > my sister has a via 580 based mobo ( "full yes" is the company) . > > It currently has a pentium 133 mHz processor. What is the fastest > > processor that this motherboard can support ? can it take an amd k-6 ? > > My understanding, and I am no hardware jock, is that the pins on a pentium > are different from the ones on a amd k6. So you cannot replace the pentium > with a k6. http://webopedia.internet.com/TERM/S/Socket_7.html Also lookup socket 370, slot 1, slot A, super 7 etc. When Intel moved to slot 1, it was accused of trying to kill off competition from AMD in the socket 7 market. -Arun --- The LIH mailing list archives are available at: http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/wilma/linux-india-help
Re: [LIH] Which is better AMD or INTEL
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 03:16:48AM +0530, Vipan wrote: > Is any body suggest me which is better AMD or INTEL. is there any idea to > divert towards AMD. as per specifications, AMD is better than Celeron, what > about the practical i don't know. presently i am using intel celeron 533Mhz. > should i divert to AMD K6-2, 500MHz. i am very confused. any body helps me. http://www.techbargains.com/hottips/hottip8/index.cfm Good consumer oriented answers for a lot of "is X better than Y" questions. -Arun --- The LIH mailing list archives are available at: http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/wilma/linux-india-help
[LIH] Re: [LIG] hello...
This should be posted on -help, moving it there. On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 02:21:52PM -0700, Rahul Premraj wrote: > I have a 4.3 GB HDD with a primary partition (2.5 GB), an extended DOS > partition of 500MB which has one single logical > DOS partition. The rest (1 GB) has been left for Linux. I have installed > Win 98 SE on the primary partition. You have two primary partitions taken up - one for DOS, one for extended. > > I am installing Red Hat Linux on my sys from a PC Quest CD. The trouble > I face is that when I am creating partitions for my > Linux OS on my HDD using fdisk/disk druid provided in the CD, on making > the 3rd partition, I get an error saying "No free > primary partition". This is irrespective of the order in which i create > the partitions. The trouble comes up always on the 3rd > partition. You can have a max of 4 primary partitions. That's why. Your options: 1. Install linux with minimum partitioning - 1 swap and 1 root. 2. Repartition the extended partition and create more partitions within it. This may mean loss of data - so be prepared to back up. -Arun --- Check out the 'What to do before posting to the list' site for a list of things to try before posting. The site is at http://botsie.tripod.com/beforeposting/
[LIH] i810 - what does agpgart do ?
Shanu, This submission is for question 9.2 on your i810 page [1]. Here is what the agpgart.o module does: http://developer.intel.com/technology/agp/tutorial/chapt_4.htm It lets the graphics controller view virtually contiguous, but physically scattered pages as a contiguous piece of RAM. The OS is responsible for setting up an "aperture" and then letting hardware know about the mapping. You can think of it as an MMU for the graphics controller. -Arun [1] http://www.exocore.com/linux/i810/ --- For information on this and other Linux India mailing lists check out http://lists.linux-india.org/
Re: [LIH] Re: superblock correction
On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 06:00:06AM +0530, Sthitaprajna wrote: > > There's a USENIX paper on this being presented in San Diego. Softupdates > > code is becoming free (BSD licensed) today. Perhaps someone will "fix" > > ext2fs with it. > > Will ext3 fix this? Yes, but in a different way. Reiserfs does it today, in the same (ext3) way. Softupdates might just be a better way - that's what the USENIX paper is about. -Arun --- LIH is all for free speech. But it was created for a purpose - to help people discuss issues about installing and running Linux. If your messages are counterproductive to this purpose, your privileges to submit messages can and will be revoked.
Re: [LIH] Uptime in Linux / Windows ...
On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 04:45:07PM +0530, Babu Kalakrishnan wrote: > the kernel variable "jiffies" which is used to track uptime will overflow > in approximately 497 days. (resolution=10 msecs & unsigned long - 32 bits on > the i386). Don't know if this overflow can cause any adverse problems > (other that the uptime command showing an incorrect value). There were a lot of drivers which had wait loops like: old = jiffies; while ((jiffies - old) < 4000) /* wait */; Alan Cox did a global cleanup sometime back. But there are plenty of driver authors who don't have a clue about this. -Arun --- LIH is all for free speech. But it was created for a purpose - to help people discuss issues about installing and running Linux. If your messages are counterproductive to this purpose, your privileges to submit messages can and will be revoked.
Re: [LIH] superblock correction
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 07:58:54PM +0530, Sthitaprajna wrote: > Hi > > My friend's Lin box is not mounting some partitions. Even in the recsue > mode, I've moved from > efsck -b 8193 /dev/home and /usr directories. through to 5-6 iterations. > Seems like MANY blocks are damaged. I've been doing this with the Slack7 > Live FS CD since the Redhat rescue image was also no good. Has anyone > managed a recovery after a crash? Heh heh, the dangers of putting performance over reliability :) I don't know if you can recover (run fsck -y in a loop for a while), but the two solutions are: 1. Journalling (write logs to disk and recover later - requires file format change, plus disk write overhead. The advantage is - sequential writes to the logs) 2. Softupdates http://www.mckusick.com/softdep/ (Imposes ordering rules on meta data (non data blocks) such that the disk is in a consistent state at all times. No fs format change, ordering information kept in memory). There's a USENIX paper on this being presented in San Diego. Softupdates code is becoming free (BSD licensed) today. Perhaps someone will "fix" ext2fs with it. -Arun The paper is at: http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/papers/usenix2000.ps --- Check out the 'What to do before posting to the list' site for a list of things to try before posting. The site is at http://botsie.tripod.com/beforeposting/
Re: [LIH] more emacs..this time its compiling
On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 06:39:24PM +0530, rohit sharma wrote: > Hey gang, > > Is there a way by which when I do 'M-X compile' , emacs picks up > the file name from the current buffer? http://www.google.com/search?q=emacs+gcc+compile+buffer-file-name&meta=lr%3D%26hl%3Den -Arun --- For more information on the LIH mailing list see: http://lists.linux-india.org/lists/LIH
Re: [LIH] Block size of ext2 FS
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 10:43:40PM -0700, Arun Sharma wrote: > On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 09:15:24PM -0700, Arun Sharma wrote: > > The hard answer is - it depends on your app. If you're just interested > > in benchmarks - run some - Hans Reiser has a bunch that he regularly > > publishes. Also, refer to the Berkeley FFS papers if you'd like stats. > > John Ousterhout also published a paper containing the same data. But > > they're all generic UNIX and not linux specific. > > http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~keith/papers/realloc.ps.gz Or still better: http://www.best.com/~bos/os-faq/FAQ-2.html#Modern-Unix-file-and-block-sizes -Arun PS: Those of you asking questions about UNIX text books, should read this faq. --- The LIH mailing list archives are available at: http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/wilma/linux-india-help
Re: [LIH] Block size of ext2 FS
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 09:15:24PM -0700, Arun Sharma wrote: > The hard answer is - it depends on your app. If you're just interested > in benchmarks - run some - Hans Reiser has a bunch that he regularly > publishes. Also, refer to the Berkeley FFS papers if you'd like stats. > John Ousterhout also published a paper containing the same data. But > they're all generic UNIX and not linux specific. http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~keith/papers/realloc.ps.gz -Arun --- LIH is all for free speech. But it was created for a purpose - to help people discuss issues about installing and running Linux. If your messages are counterproductive to this purpose, your privileges to submit messages can and will be revoked.
Re: [LIH] Block size of ext2 FS
On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 09:53:29AM +0530, Pavan Burbure wrote: > Hi, > > I notice that RedHat 6.2 also makes 4k clusters on the ext2 > filesystem. I would like to know if a large block size improves the > performance and, if yes, by what factor. The easy answer is - do it and find out and share the results with the rest of us :) The hard answer is - it depends on your app. If you're just interested in benchmarks - run some - Hans Reiser has a bunch that he regularly publishes. Also, refer to the Berkeley FFS papers if you'd like stats. John Ousterhout also published a paper containing the same data. But they're all generic UNIX and not linux specific. > Also for a typical install of 700MB, how much extra space is consumed if > a 4k cluster is made instead of 1k. If I make the same no. of inodes > as the default formatted file system creates, with a 1k cluster, > will performance improve. That shouldn't be too hard to compute running size % 4k on each of the files in your system and summing them up. In general, it might be a good idea to use the large block size for /usr/X11R6 /usr/bin /usr/lib etc and have the default block size for the rest. -Arun --- The LIH mailing list archives are available at: http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/wilma/linux-india-help
Re: [LIH] [Maybe OT] Classpath query :Attn Kala
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 10:11:35AM +0530, Rohit wrote: > I remember having this/similar problem once. The .jar file was there in > the directory in the classpath yet system was unable to detect it. Does > the $CLASSPATH have to contain the path WITH the filename? ..as your > mail suggests. Yes, for jar files. -Arun --- For information on this and other Linux India mailing lists check out http://lists.linux-india.org/
[LIH] Re: emacs font question
On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 01:45:52PM +0530, rohit sharma wrote: > Hey > > > M-x set-background-color > > If i set-background-color to black the background goes to black but the > text still turns up as black enclosed in a white background.Kinda like > inverse video. M-x set-foreground-color -Arun --- For information on this and other Linux India mailing lists check out http://lists.linux-india.org/
Re: [LIH] image compression
On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 10:47:56AM +0530, Sthitaprajna wrote: > Hi > > Can someone recommend urls for info on the compression algorithms > used for bitmap compression? Specifically, I am interested in WHEN a > png acheives more compressionm than a jpeg. > Apples and oranges. png is a lossless format, like gif. jpeg is a lossy format. -Arun --- Check out the 'What to do before posting to the list' site for a list of things to try before posting. The site is at http://botsie.tripod.com/beforeposting/
Re: [LIH] emacs font question
On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 08:53:02PM +0530, rohit sharma wrote: > Hey, > > How do i change the background and text color in xemacs 20? Rite > now it has a white background and the text color is black, while i want > exactly the reverse, ie a black background and white text. M-x customize M-x set-background-color -Arun --- For more information on the LIH mailing list see: http://lists.linux-india.org/lists/LIH
Re: [LIH] cylinders!!
On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 10:46:49PM +0600, Devdas Bhagat wrote: > On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, rahul wrote: > > hi' > > i hav heard a lot many times that linux doesnt go beyond 1024 cylinders > Thats not Linux, but the linux loader, aka LILO. Actually, the limitation is in the BIOS. Recent versions have extensions which overcome the limitation. -Arun --- For information on this and other Linux India mailing lists check out http://lists.linux-india.org/
Re: [LIH] Re: [LIG] linux.com uses broken html ?
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 11:54:58PM +0530, Sthitaprajna wrote: > > > > Mozilla M16. The layout is completely screwed up. May be it's a mozilla > > bug ? > > No!! It renders fine for me, I am using the M16 tarball...Did you get > the binary or the source and then compile?? Dunno why it should break > anyway. Duh! I should've done this before: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.linux.com -Arun --- The LIH mailing list archives are available at: http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/wilma/linux-india-help
Re: [LIH] Re: [LIG] linux.com uses broken html ?
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 11:54:58PM +0530, Sthitaprajna wrote: > > No!! It renders fine for me, I am using the M16 tarball...Did you get > the binary or the source and then compile?? Dunno why it should break > anyway. I built from source. That too not a clean build - hit cvs update and then make. Most other sites render fine. Will let you know if I find out more. -Arun --- LIH is all for free speech. But it was created for a purpose - to help people discuss issues about installing and running Linux. If your messages are counterproductive to this purpose, your privileges to submit messages can and will be revoked.
Re: [LIH] How to 'make' a single module
>> cd /usr/src/linux; make -C fs/msdos msdos.o >> >> Info might be outdated - haven't touched linux kernel in a long time. >> > >I tried that. Got the following: > >[root@chanakya linux-2.2.14]# make -C fs/msdos/ msdos.o >make: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/fs/msdos' >Makefile:15: /Rules.make: No such file or directory >make: *** No rule to make target `/Rules.make'. Stop. >make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/fs/msdos' Ah, I see. How about cd /usr/src/linux; make SUBDIRS='fs/msdos' msdos.o ? s/SUBDIRS/whatever/ - look in the top level makefile. -Arun --- LIH is all for free speech. But it was created for a purpose - to help people discuss issues about installing and running Linux. If your messages are counterproductive to this purpose, your privileges to submit messages can and will be revoked.
Re: [LIH] How to 'make' a single module
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 12:08:06PM +0530, Ghins Mathai wrote: > Whenever I need a single module (say msdos.o), I do the following: > make menuconfig (Choose the MSDOS support as a module) > make dep > make modules > > This creates all the modules, whereas what I need is only the msdos.o > module. Is there any way by which I can specify that only this module > needs to be created ? Try cd /usr/src/linux; make -C fs/msdos msdos.o Info might be outdated - haven't touched linux kernel in a long time. -Arun --- The LIH mailing list archives are available at: http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/wilma/linux-india-help
Re: [LIH] Re: What is IA64 Linux?
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 12:20:10PM +0530, Sachin Garg wrote: > Arun Sharma wrote: > > > > >What is IA64 Linux? Can I run it in my PIII m/c? > > > > > > > No. You need an IA-64 processor like Itanium from Intel. > > and HP :) > When a processor code named McKinley is released. It's well known that HP designed the initial architecture - but Intel implemented the processor - Itanium/Merced. -Arun --- For information on this and other Linux India mailing lists check out http://lists.linux-india.org/
Re: [LIH] Re: What is IA64 Linux?
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 03:41:46PM +0530, Muthu Mohan.T wrote: > Dear friends, > >What is IA64 Linux? Can I run it in my PIII m/c? > No. You need an IA-64 processor like Itanium from Intel. -Arun --- The LIH mailing list archives are available at: http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/wilma/linux-india-help
Re: [LIH] i810 stuff.
On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 11:01:31AM -0700, Sudhakar Chandra wrote: > Arun Sharma proclaimed: > > $ cat ~/.exrc > > :map _f !}fmt -p '> ' > > The following vim macro simulates pico's CTRL-J to reformat a paragraph: > >From my (FreeBSD) vi(1): STANDARDS Nex/nvi is close to IEEE Std1003.2 (``POSIX''). That doc- ument differs from historical ex/vi practice in several places; there are changes to be made on both sides. The macro works on a freshly installed Solaris box too and consistent with the UNIX philosophy :) I know, POSIX is lame in that it didn't define colors in vi. So I use vim extensions, when I need that functionality. But when the standard can do something, I try to use it. -Arun --- LIH is all for free speech. But it was created for a purpose - to help people discuss issues about installing and running Linux. If your messages are counterproductive to this purpose, your privileges to submit messages can and will be revoked.
Re: [LIH] Please Clarify..This is very urgent.
On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 03:43:29PM +0530, Prasad, Sreenivasa wrote: > *) Does Linux has built-in CLC(Cam Layered Component) Driver or I > need to Install this seperately ? If so from where can I get this driver ? > Is this freely available on the web ? If so please give the location. AFAIK, Linux doesn't support CAM (An ANSI standard for talking to the SCSI bus). FreeBSD does - but that's not what you asked :) > First of all we give command > > # scu scan edt > Scanning all available buses, please be patient... camcontrol(8) on FreeBSD does this. I don't know of an equivalent on linux. -Arun --- The LIH mailing list archives are available at: http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/wilma/linux-india-help
[LIH] Abit WB6 = i810e and Linux
Does anyone have any good/bad experiences with this motherboard ? Is there any particular variant of this chipset (i810e) that's popular in India ? -Arun PGP signature --- The LIH mailing list archives are available at: http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/wilma/linux-india-help
Re: [LIH] Re: Newbie Emacs Question
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 08:21:38AM +0530, rohit sharma wrote: > Hey arun, > > > In X, ALT works as the meta key. Are you running inside a terminal ? > > Yup in X works. I want to work on the console too. I've seen some old DEC vt100 keyboards which had a meta key and emacs worked with those. You might want to research it a bit. -Arun --- LIH is all for free speech. But it was created for a purpose - to help people discuss issues about installing and running Linux. If your messages are counterproductive to this purpose, your privileges to submit messages can and will be revoked.
Re: [LIH] Tomcat Crashing
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 07:32:50PM +0530, Lakshmi Anand K wrote: > Hi, > I downloaded Tomcat v3.1 and got it running. Am able to view the test > pages but immediately after displaing any jsp, TomCat crashes saying >" Endpoint ServerSocket[addr=0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0,port=0,localport=8080] > shutdown due to exception:java.net.SocketException: Interrupted system call > " This has got to be a JDK issue. What JDK are you running ? Try searching the bug database at java.sun.com. You need to register though. Basically, select is throwing EINTR. The system call needs to be restarted instead of throwing an exception. -Arun --- The LIH mailing list archives are available at: http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/wilma/linux-india-help
Re: [LIH] Alternative Web Browser
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 11:30:18AM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm fed up with it and i wanna know if there is a good alternative > browser 1. If you have the time and energy to compile KDE, try konqueror. It's shaping up well. 2. Wait for Mozilla to complete. In the meanwhile, we're all stuck with Netscape 4.x. Again, if you have the means, please help out one of the above projects. -Arun --- For information on this and other Linux India mailing lists check out http://lists.linux-india.org/
Re: [LIH] Newbie Emacs Question
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 08:55:30AM +0530, rohit sharma wrote: > Hey > > My META key bound to ESC. How do I change it to be bound to ALT? In X, ALT works as the meta key. Are you running inside a terminal ? -Arun $ xmodmap xmodmap: up to 2 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses): shift Shift_L (0x32), Shift_R (0x3e) lockCaps_Lock (0x42) control Control_L (0x25), Control_R (0x6d) mod1Alt_L (0x40), Alt_R (0x71) mod2Num_Lock (0x4d) mod3 mod4 mod5Scroll_Lock (0x4e) --- The LIH mailing list archives are available at: http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/wilma/linux-india-help
Re: [LIH] i810 stuff.
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 01:45:40PM +0530, Babu Kalakrishnan wrote: > By the way Shanu, which is the editor you're using with Mutt ? It'd be > nice if you could set it to word-wrap at something below 80 columns. > Un-word wrapped messages are a pain to read in Mutt and a bigger pain to > reply to !! The world is imperfect. The attached vi macro helps. -Arun $ cat ~/.exrc :map _f !}fmt -p '> ' --- LIH is all for free speech. But it was created for a purpose - to help people discuss issues about installing and running Linux. If your messages are counterproductive to this purpose, your privileges to submit messages can and will be revoked.
Re: [LIH] Java programs dont execute !
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 10:03:00PM +0530, Bhavin Sheth wrote: > Hi all, > > I started learning Java a couple of days ago. I have installed JDK-1.1.6 > and JRE-1.1.5 (from Chip Linux Speical CD-2) on my RHL 6.1 box. I can't get > any Java programs to run. A program say, A.java compiles without any errors > but when I try 'java A' then it shows an error 'Can't find file A.class' > But the file A.class is present when I try 'ls -l'. The default > classpath is set as follows: > CLASSPATH=/usr/lib/jdk-1.1.6/lib/classes.zip You need to add "." to the classpath. CLASSPATH=/usr/lib/jdk-1.1.6/lib/classes.zip:. export CLASSPATH > > If I manually try to set the path like: > $set CLASSPATH=/home/Bhavin/Java > See how to set your classpath above. > Also is JDK-1.2.xz (for linux) available ? Where can I download it from ? Look at blackdown. Look at java.sun.com - for Borland/Inprise jdk-1.2. Also, IBM has a JDK 1.3 downloadable for linux. -Arun --- LIH is all for free speech. But it was created for a purpose - to help people discuss issues about installing and running Linux. If your messages are counterproductive to this purpose, your privileges to submit messages can and will be revoked.
Re: [LIH] Netscape - proxy- how ?
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 10:09:22AM +0530, P G Mohanan wrote: > Hi, > How do you set a proxy in Linux Netscape ? > I have RH6.2(PCQ) with Netscape Comm > Edit-Preferences-Advanced is supposed to have a proxy set up > option. I could not find it. What could be wrong? I've seen it in every version of Netscape I've ever used. What does Help -> About Communicator say ? -Arun --- For information on this and other Linux India mailing lists check out http://lists.linux-india.org/
Re: [LIH] Any Linux Users in Mangalore ?
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 04:23:03PM +0530, Girish Kamath wrote: > Hi > > Any Linux users in Mangalore? Can we start a LUG ? > Please contact me off-list. There are many in REC Surathkal. You might want to contact P.G. Mohanan - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Arun --- For information on this and other Linux India mailing lists check out http://lists.linux-india.org/
Re: [LIH] openldap and md5 rootpw...
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 10:25:44AM +0530, Raju Mathur wrote:
> Hi Kedar, Arun,
>
> On my system my script produces passwords indistinguishable from those
> in /etc/shadow, upto the $1$$.
You're right.
> Arun> Your script = md5 + base64 encoding
That's incorrect. As you said, your script does the same thing as
/etc/shadow.
Here's one more way of doing the same:
$ python
Python 1.5.2 (#2, Feb 24 2000, 21:47:22) [GCC 2.95.2 19991024 (release)] on freebsd4
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>> import crypt
>>> crypt.crypt("foo", "bar")
'$1$bar$gJTJurciWk9pIaPpodyiw.'
-Arun
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Re: [LIH] openldap and md5 rootpw...
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 09:25:05AM +0530, Robin Chatterjee wrote: > i.e. if user foo sets password bar at 10:00 am and then changes it , and > then sets it back to bar at 11:00 am it shouldn't look the same when > encrypted. am i right about this ? I guess the best way to check would > be to dig in the source code of pam... If you're using DES crypt, this concept is called the "salt". See crypt(3). -Arun --- Check out the 'What to do before posting to the list' site for a list of things to try before posting. The site is at http://botsie.tripod.com/beforeposting/
Re: [LIH] Internal Modem
On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 08:42:06PM +0530, Vighnaharta Systems wrote: > > In windows 2000 it is configured at COM3 and working fine. link /dev/ttyS2 to /dev/modem -Arun --- Check out the 'What to do before posting to the list' site for a list of things to try before posting. The site is at http://botsie.tripod.com/beforeposting/
Re: [LIH] Fwd: Announcing the existence of kamadhenu@jncasr, INDIA.
On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 05:02:11PM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > >http://www.jncasr.ac.in/kamadhenu I can't get to this website. But frankly, this whole cluster business is getting too commoditized (Anyway, that's the intention right ?). I guess you saw the $2500 "supercomputer" at purdue running FreeBSD on slashdot yesterday. The "8 node Pentium III" part is relatively unimportant. The thing that differentiates one cluster from another is the kind of interconnect that binds them together and the bandwidth between the nodes. In that sense, the "channel bonding" work done by Donald Becker et al on Beowulf is pretty significant. Ok, I just got to that page (man, now I better appreciate the meaning of "slow"). It looks like they're using one card per node, except for the master which has two. May be that will solve their problem - but it doesn't make it a "supercomputer". -Arun PS: http://acme.ecn.purdue.edu - they did a 5x5 matrix using 10 Mbps cards. So their cluster will most probably "lose" to kamadhenu in performance, but probably not in "price/performance" --- The LIH mailing list archives are available at: http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/wilma/linux-india-help
Re: [LIH] openldap and md5 rootpw...
On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 07:19:23PM +0530, Kedar Patankar wrote: > And to top it all, the three outputs: viz. /etc/shadow, md5sum and this > perl script, ***don't*** match eachother... What the hell is happening > here? I guess I have to ask this on openldap mailing lists... md5sum = pure md5 algorithm /etc/shadow - appends a special prefix ($1$) to distinguish from a DES encrypted password Your script = md5 + base64 encoding -Arun --- LIH is all for free speech. But it was created for a purpose - to help people discuss issues about installing and running Linux. If your messages are counterproductive to this purpose, your privileges to submit messages can and will be revoked.
Re: [LIH]Winmodems
On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 10:03:49AM +0530, SEN wrote: > Almost all internal PCI modems will fail to work,(except those for > which OSS drivers have been written, which is rare.) though it is > hardly Linux's fault. I'll not comment on the political aspects of whether it's Linux's fault or not. That's -general stuff, and I'm sure people have seen enough of me there :) > some arn't even released.) These modems also end up chewing valuable > processor cycles during operation. This is not a valid argument any more. A 450 MHz AMD K6-2 sells for US $39. There is plenty of cheap CPU out there. Get a "real" modem, isn't a valid argument. If you make that argument, Linux will lose - for the same reasons why BSD lost to Linux (in popularity), by telling people to get a SCSI disk instead of IDE. -Arun --- Check out the 'What to do before posting to the list' site for a list of things to try before posting. The site is at http://botsie.tripod.com/beforeposting/
Re: [LIH] Linux or GNU/Linux? a philosophical problem
On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 08:43:35AM -0700, Diwakar R wrote: I've followed up on -general. Please move the discussion there, if you have anything to say. -Arun --- LIH is all for free speech. But it was created for a purpose - to help people discuss issues about installing and running Linux. If your messages are counterproductive to this purpose, your privileges to submit messages can and will be revoked.
Re: [LIH] What is DPMS support
On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 10:20:13AM +0400, Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil wrote: > > > Hello > I have installed RHL 6.1 on a maachine with SiS 6215 . I have used > frame buffer X server > When ever I start KDE a dialog box pops up saying that " Sorry this > server lacks DPMS support" It's the feature that turns off your monitor's power when not in use. man xset - search dpms. -Arun --- Check out the 'What to do before posting to the list' site for a list of things to try before posting. The site is at http://botsie.tripod.com/beforeposting/
Re: [LIH] Re: [OT] RFCs in HTML?
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 01:22:46PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > > http://www.faqs.org has the RFCs in HTML format. You can use one of those > web pages by email services to get the relevant page. The whole of the RFC enclosed in . So fundamentally, it's still text. No anchors, no sections. -Arun --- LIH is all for free speech. But it was created for a purpose - to help people discuss issues about installing and running Linux. If your messages are counterproductive to this purpose, your privileges to submit messages can and will be revoked.
Re: [LIH] [OT] RFCs in HTML?
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 10:13:14AM +0530, Rajeev Jha wrote: > hi list > to get any RFC i usually send an email request to list-server of pisa( > got the address from some book..) and they send the requested RFC in > email. problem is this way i can get RFCs in text only, as the other > options are .ps and .pdf . any idea if i can get RFCs in HTML in email > from any list-server ?? would appreciate your help very much Most RFCs are submitted in text form. So unless someone has taken the pains to format it in HTML, it will remain in text form. For example there is one here: http://www.gnupg.org/rfc2440.html -Arun PS: Interestingly, the author asserts copyright over HTML formatting :) --- For information on this and other Linux India mailing lists check out http://lists.linux-india.org/
Re: [LIH] Email load balancing?
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 10:25:14AM +0530, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > I have seen couple of mails on this thread. One small doubt I have. IIRC, > the question was for a query system. On such a system, I would like to > send all the mails of one thread to the same person. None of the solutions > suggested so far does this. Anythig on this? Basically, the core problem is maintaining the state. It's not too hard to write a python/perl script to maintain a counter and a frequently expired database of recent threads to do the appropriate routing. For simplicity, you can use a locked file as your database. Python distribution has a rfc822 parser, which should help. -Arun --- Check out the 'What to do before posting to the list' site for a list of things to try before posting. The site is at http://botsie.tripod.com/beforeposting/
Re: [LIH] File permissions
On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 06:58:29PM +0530, Ghins Mathai wrote: > Is not 'delete' in a way akin to a write operation ? Is there in a man page > ... that speaks more abt this ? When you 'delete' a file, you basically modify the directory (which is a file in UNIX) containing the file. Since you are the owner of the directory, you can do that. When you 'write' to the file, you modify the file itself, which you don't own. Note that there could be a hardlink to the file from a different directory, in which case, deleting the file from the directory, doesn't really 'delete' the file. This is the expected behavior. man pages: unlink(2), write(2) -Arun --- Check out the 'What to do before posting to the list' site for a list of things to try before posting. The site is at http://botsie.tripod.com/beforeposting/
Re: [LIH] Re: Which one to learn? Gtk or Qt?
On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 10:24:24PM +0530, Atul Mehta wrote: > Hi, > Besides Qt and GTK, there is still Java/Swing. It is quite easy to > learn too. Does not take too much time to learn provided that u know > OOP concepts well. Besides the UI's that u generate are quite cool. But > u need a m/c with at least 48Megs of RAM to start off with :-( Java > has a lot of other advantages too. > Also Java coding with Emacs/XEmacs is a great pleasure :-) While Java is great as a language and Swing has nice APIs and a complete widget set, the end result is less than pleasing. I'm yet to see a Java GUI that's actually responsive. -Arun --- For more information on the LIH mailing list see: http://lists.linux-india.org/lists/LIH
Re: [LIH] Re: Which one to learn? Gtk or Qt?
Forgot to mention kdevelop - www.kdevelop.org as a factor. It supports Gnome too. Also, instead of viewing this as qt vs gtk, see it as kde vs gnome. -Arun --- For more information on the LIH mailing list see: http://lists.linux-india.org/lists/LIH
Re: [LIH] Re: Which one to learn? Gtk or Qt?
On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 06:34:36PM +0530, Sachin Garg wrote: > Language bindings: > Qt: Basically C++ > GTK+: Basically C Both support Python bindings, which rivals VB in ease of use. > > Environment: > Qt: KDE (supported a lot by SuSE, a good environment) Supported by pretty much everyone other than Redhat. Redhat initially tried to completely shun KDE, as they had employed most of the Gnome team. But after Qt became open source, they back pedalled and included Qt/KDE. > GTK+: GNOME (GNU project, supported by RH, also good) > Documentation/books: > Qt: Documents at the KDE site etc. http://developer.kde.org/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1565925882/qid%3D959968698/002-2484191-0712835 > GTK+: Documents at GNOME, GTK website. Also a good beginner's book > available in a Indian edition. The last I looked, GTK C++ bindings were very incomplete. Qt makes changes to the C++ language itself (via a pre processor) to make GUI programming easy. People however make choices based on the following factors: 1. I love/hate C++ 2. I love/hate GPL -Arun --- The LIH mailing list archives are available at: http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/wilma/linux-india-help
