Re: [Ilugc] [[Need help]] Few *nix questions

On Tue, 2016-02-23 at 00:27 +0530, sahil साहिल wrote: > "Namaste" as salutation as this is our Indian culture It is not. AFAIK, none of the Tamilians I know say Namaste to each other (as most of the Southies I believe). If you believe Tamilians (or Southies) are not Indians, than your saying is cor

Re: [Ilugc] [[Need help]] Few *nix questions

On Mon, 2016-02-22 at 13:08 +0530, sahil साहिल wrote: > * Identify which IP address and port the Apache daemon listens on. sudo ss -4tlnp | grep 'httpd' | awk '{print $4}' > * Find all IP addresses between your server and www.google.com (dest="www.google.com"; ip=$(host "${dest}" | head -1 | awk '

Re: [Ilugc] Is it time to say good bye?

On Fri, 2016-02-19 at 17:53 +0530, Shakthi Kannan wrote: > Why do you think it is not possible to setup a forwarder from > ilugc@ae.iitm.ac.in to another domain? I think it is possible (n00b here, forgive me if I'm wrong) if someone is willing to put a routing entry in the MTA (running in www.ae.i

Re: [Ilugc] Learning on backup systems

On Thu, 2015-12-24 at 01:04 +0530, Shrinivasan T wrote: > We had few servers attacked by rootkits. Any investigations about the rootkits? how did they come in? how did they spread? Would be helpful to learn and take steps to prevent. Thanks, Mohan R __

Re: [Ilugc] [[OT]] How to make server traffic totally encrypted?

On Sat, 2015-04-25 at 23:19 +0530, sahil साहिल wrote: > My question is : How is it possible to make servers every request and > response encrypted so that there is no trace of it? It may be > impossible to > make it completely encrypted but up to certain extent of level drug > market > guys have

Re: [Ilugc] [LIKELY_SPAM]Chennai hackathon

On Tue, 2015-04-14 at 10:57 +0530, Dilli Babu K wrote: > Thanks for your reply. I'll do that. > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 8:37 PM, Vijai Ganapathy < > vijai.ganapa...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Dear dilibabu > > > > Please go through the link and contact the organisers for your > > query. I rea

Re: [Ilugc] Support for Internet Neutrality in India

On Sun, 2015-04-12 at 12:17 +0530, Balasubramaniam Natarajan wrote: > Support for Internet Neutrality in India > I have a question, how come Telcos identify that I'm using facebook if I'm behind 7 proxies (aka Tor)? (they can still reduce my bandwidth

Re: [Ilugc] Forking of Debian

On Tue, 2014-11-25 at 18:47 +0530, Narendiran wrote: > > 1) If I want to change my hostname dynamically, why I need to contact > > pid-1 to change it? do you have a seperate systemd-hostnamed running in > > your pc? > > If I need to configure hostname, I will use > hostnamectl(http://www.freedeskt

Re: [Ilugc] Forking of Debian

On Tue, 2014-11-25 at 11:21 +0530, Narendiran wrote: > systemd in its present > form is an umbrella project which aims to collect everything related > to init system and couple them with well defined api. Thats exactly the problem, why on earth an init system need to be an umbrella project. > If

Re: [Ilugc] Forking of Debian

On Mon, 2014-11-24 at 14:34 +0530, Shrayas rajagopal wrote: > I see. Would be nice if someone could wrap this up neatly and give a > talk, with timelines of what happened at the LUG meet. It seems you are on the road to became a Project Manager (If you are not already!!). Asking someone else to do

Re: [Ilugc] Forking of Debian

On Thu, 2014-11-20 at 11:59 +0530, Narendiran wrote: > Most of the people bashing systemd are people with very little > technical information about the project. Nonsense!! It has its own design flaw. I'm against everything pid-1 crap!! and merging udev with systemd is pure political just to make l

Re: [Ilugc] Forking of Debian

On Thu, 2014-10-23 at 19:28 +0530, Shrayas rajagopal wrote: > I was waiting for this conversation to popup here. There is *SO* much > ruckus going around the systemd/sysvinit issue. Seems like theres a lt > of politics going around this. systemd controversy started way long before when it is i

Re: [Ilugc] Question | Workflow while replying to emails on a mailing list

On Sat, 2014-10-18 at 20:27 +0530, Shrayas rajagopal wrote: > Would clients like GNUS or Mutt make this easier? I've never tried them > out, I'm just curious. setting "Reply-Style" as "Quoted" in evolution will make it easier to do inter-leaved posts. I don't think trimming (by selecting unwanted

Re: [Ilugc] Event Report- Software Freedom Day at Trichy Sept 17 2014.

On Thu, 2014-09-18 at 15:57 +0530, Thyagarajan தியாகராஜன் wrote: > Some of the photo snaps are at > https://picasaweb.google.com/117663838271582667209/September182014# This link is not working. Could you please provide the updated link? Thanks, Mohan R ___

Re: [Ilugc] Sad demise of our dear KG (Keneth Gonsalvas)

> Just now I got a message that our dear KG (Kenneth Gonsalvas) passed away. The post which he replied about how he did business with FOSS, It was One of the best reply we got till date. We miss you KG. Give some python tips to those in heaven. Make them not to top post in their mailing list. I'

Re: [Ilugc] compiling dhvani in ubuntu 11.10

> > http://paste.ubuntu.com/925071/ > > Here is the correct error messages link. > > Can't compile it. > Do a clean build from top directory. I seems 'autotools' messed-up somewhere in previous compilation. 1. make distclean 2. make all Thanks, Mohan R _

Re: [Ilugc] compiling dhvani in ubuntu 11.10

> output and error of make is here. > http://paste.ubuntu.com/924409/ I don't see errors in this link. Did you compile sucessfully? Thanks, Mohan R. Watchout: another mohan here, not Mr.L.Mohan. I hope one day I'll be like him. ___ ILUGC Mailing List:

[Ilugc] The GitHub Story

Hi, To those who got a mail from GitHub which asks to verify the ssh fingerprint, GitHub was p0wned. Here is how it got p0wned. http://homakov.blogspot.in/2012/03/how-to.html Thankfully, GitHub didn't send FBI to Russia. Also, they reinstated his account back. If someone is having a production

Re: [Ilugc] help in ad-hoc networks setting up

On Sat, 2012-02-25 at 13:10 +0530, Arun p das wrote: > I tried the following command > * iwconfig wlan0 mode ad-hoc You need to mention name and channel, I use the following command, # iwconfig eth1 mode ad-hoc essid "dark" channel 1 Here you see 'eth1' instead of 'wlan0' becaus

Re: [Ilugc] [ILUGC]-wifi-connectivity problem in samsung notebook.

On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 00:04 +0530, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > Perhaps posting the results of lspci, dmidecode and the relevent > network tool (similar to ethtool for wired connection) will help > others narrow down to the cause of problem. > Yes, 'sudo lspci -v' will give us more details ab

Re: [Ilugc] Shell tip : Renaming multiple files.

On Wed, 2011-12-28 at 08:05 +0530, Pratap Chakravarthy wrote: > $ for i in *.css; do hg mv "$i" "${i/.css}".tss ; done do we need 'mercury' to rename a file? Isn't this just 'mv' instead of 'hg mv'? Above command line is specific to renaming multiple files under 'mercury'. We can rename multipl