[ilugd] FC3 - chown: changing ownership of `amit': Operation not permitted

2004-12-17 Thread Amit Sharma
Hi, i just installed FC3 and made one user named amit with home directory in /u1 (/dev/hda3 ext3 partition) it gets created successfully : drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 8192 Dec 17 12:34 amit owner and group is root, i tried changing it chown and chgrp but i get : chown: changing ownership of `amit':

Re: [ilugd] FC3 - chown: changing ownership of `amit': Operation not permitted

2004-12-17 Thread Manpreet Singh Nehra
Amit Sharma wrote: Hi, i just installed FC3 and made one user named amit with home directory in /u1 (/dev/hda3 ext3 partition) it gets created successfully : drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 8192 Dec 17 12:34 amit owner and group is root, i tried changing it chown and chgrp but i get : chown: changing

Re: [ilugd] FC3 - chown: changing ownership of `amit': Operation not permitted

2004-12-17 Thread Amit Sharma
Manpreet Singh Nehra wrote: Amit Sharma wrote: Hi, i just installed FC3 and made one user named amit with home directory in /u1 (/dev/hda3 ext3 partition) it gets created successfully : drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 8192 Dec 17 12:34 amit owner and group is root, i tried changing it chown and chgrp

[ilugd] Re: Linux Delhi meet suggestion

2004-12-17 Thread Tarun Dua
Viksit Gaur wrote: Possibly. But even if they are not, why don't we get some sort of a strategy to actually contact those colleges and see how many of them have inhouse LUGs, failing which we could help them set it up. Ah! Finally a volunteer to write a strategy document. With more

[ilugd] random thoughts of a student on linux(NoT mE)

2004-12-17 Thread Sriram J
Please comment on how such ignorance can be removed from the mind of newbies You have to know the arcane commands in Linux. For example, in normal computer languages like C++ and BASIC, 'if' statements are either if...else, if..then..else, or if...then...else...end if, but in Linux, it's

Re: [ilugd] FC3 - chown: changing ownership of `amit': Operation not permitted

2004-12-17 Thread vivek khurana
--- Amit Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: trying as root only. Amit, Check /etc/groups, does a group called amit exists and also just check //etc/passwd to confirm the creation of user called amit. Ownership of root for a user home directory is unusual. Reagrds VK = Hug the

[ilugd] Petition Regularization of Broadband Services in India

2004-12-17 Thread Warren Brian Noronha
You can sign it here: http://www.petitiononline.com/trai/petition.html To: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India To, The Chairman, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) Dear Mr.Chairman, We, the customer of so called Broadband services provided by the so called Broadband

[ilugd] (fwd) Open Source Software: developers survey

2004-12-17 Thread Raj Mathur
[Forwarding without prejudice -- Raju] This is an RFC 1153 digest. (1 message) -- Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: FLOSSpols [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Open Source Software: developers survey Date: Fri,

[ilugd] (fwd) [SECURITY] Samba: Integer overflow

2004-12-17 Thread Raj Mathur
[Please upgrade Samba on all platforms -- Raju] This is an RFC 1153 digest. (1 message) -- MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=nextPart1971032.dNzMX19FFW; protocol=application/pgp-signature;

[ilugd] server config?

2004-12-17 Thread Vikram Mandal
Hi All, I need to recommend the hardware needs for hosting of two corporate websites of a major telecom company. The sites will be based on popular open source content management systems developed in PHP, MySQL. We will be having two instances of the CMS e.g. one for each. The site is