Re: [ilugd] What happens in BASH when you do Ctrl-C (hint, it's not simply sending a SIGINT)

2011-07-17 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
How about an strace of both methods to see what is the difference in signal handling between the shell and sudo?  I'd do it myself but I'm Here you go. At first glance, I don't see anything revealing in the dumps. http://pastebin.com/e6mDBJKK (interrupted by ^C) http://pastebin.com/aG6R8pYh

Re: [ilugd] What happens in BASH when you do Ctrl-C (hint, it's not simply sending a SIGINT)

2011-07-17 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
There is no program called `http' on a GNU/Linux system. What you have is one of those confounded members of the apt, dpkg family has what they call 'method' to get the packages. If you configured your I agree that it is part of apt but http is an elf, executable program in itself. It is

Re: [ilugd] What happens in BASH when you do Ctrl-C (hint, it's not simply sending a SIGINT)

2011-07-17 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
Reason for the executable (note: not even a Perl script) is probably that apt-get (dpkg?) can run on a bare system before anything else is Yup, that makes sense. SB ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org

Re: [ilugd] Data xfer rates from flash disk in Feisty

2008-11-20 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Sudev Barar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/11/20 Parijat Garg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: After mounting the disk see output of hdparm -tT /dev/YOUR-DRIVE /dev/sdd1: Timing cached reads: 1664 MB in 2.00 seconds = 831.30 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 18 MB

Re: [ilugd] Data xfer rates from flash disk in Feisty

2008-11-20 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
A shot in the dark: BIOS have this option called something like Enable USB legacy support. Having it enabled sometimes does not allow you to boot into Linux (don't ask me why, this used to happen on my old laptop). Try disabling it. It might force Linux to recognize the port as USB 2.0? Sharad

Re: [ilugd] Data xfer rates from flash disk in Feisty

2008-11-20 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:17 AM, Sharad Birmiwal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A shot in the dark: BIOS have this option called something like Enable USB legacy support. Having it enabled sometimes does not Or may be it was having disabled that screwed up the booting thing. Either ways, it's worth

Re: [ilugd] Can we code in Hindi ??

2008-09-23 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
lol, Its not possible, why you forget about documentation ?? will documentation be in English There are books available for say hindi speaking people to learn say japanese. You don't have to learn English first to learn Japanese. You just don't see the books around 'cause you are present in a

Re: [ilugd] suggest a CMS

2008-05-01 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
it seems logical once you get it going). We did not want a website where a guest visitor should be able to modify/add content and that is what I have been able to turn it into (just had to disable a plugin and make a few changes in the template (skin/theme)). Sharad Birmiwal 1. http://modxcms.com/ 2

Re: [ilugd] Network programming..

2007-12-30 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
and the in-between network (internet) should allow packets to reach the other side. Hope this helps Sharad Birmiwal On 12/27/07, Shamail Tayyab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: H Is it possible to have a direct connection between two computers over the internet, without involvement of a central server (where

Re: [ilugd] Broadcom 59xx Driver

2007-09-28 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
On 9/28/07, hemant ritturaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I was trying to install Fedora core 7 on my new Dell XPS M1330 system, but dvd fails to recognize the harddisk. Then I manage to install FC6 on the same system , but its Broadcom ethernet card is not working, I tried installing

Re: [ilugd] Installing Linux on an External Hard Disk

2007-09-28 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
On 9/24/07, Sharad Birmiwal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been struggling with the same thing for quite sometime but haven't had the time recently to delve further. I chose Knoppix because it does autoconfig at bootup. There was some tutorial about installing from the iso and then having

Re: [ilugd] TTS software with Indian/CJK language support

2007-09-25 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Dhvani https://sourceforge.net/projects/dhvani/ I found the links myself. Thanks :) ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September

Re: [ilugd] Installing Linux on an External Hard Disk

2007-09-24 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
up, but ultimately things didn't work. Though I've just had an idea now and write back soon if it works :) Sharad Birmiwal On 9/23/07, Vikas Rawal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have thought of a solution on which I want to get some views. I have spare USB External Hard disk lying around

[ilugd] TTS software with Indian/CJK language support

2007-09-24 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
will be able to read out text in Indian languages and Japanese language in particular. Thanks Sharad Birmiwal ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28

Re: [ilugd] cheap trick with multiple gmail accounts for concurrent logins

2007-09-15 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
for a way to do that for so long now! thanks sharad birmiwal ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org

Re: [ilugd] proxy prob

2007-08-19 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
Hi This is Sharad Birmiwal. Just wanted to let you have my email address. Cheers Sharad On 8/6/07, devesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi , Can anybody tell me how to use localhost or 127.0.0.1 with proxy. I mean my network is behind a proxy server and i have to set NO PROXY for localhost

Re: [ilugd] proxy prob

2007-08-19 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
Hi Saleem Sharad Birmiwal here. I wanted to say hello, but I couldn't there. I don't know if you would remember but I was at JMI last year as well when you were organizing some event. I had earlier asked some of your juniors about what you were upto and Devesh told me that you had joined some

Re: [ilugd] proxy prob

2007-08-19 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
Sorry, that wasn't meant to be a private email. ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at:

Re: [ilugd] proxy prob

2007-08-19 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
Sorry again. (I'm such an idiot) ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi

Re: [ilugd] Mandriva 2007 Spring Edition

2007-08-16 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
I've had only too many broken downloads and lost quesues because d4x crashed that I wouldn't even recommend it to a pro. wget and proz work best for me. Sharad Birmiwal On 8/16/07, Anupam Jain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/16/07, Andrew Michael Lynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kenneth

Re: [ilugd] Mandriva 2007 Spring Edition

2007-08-14 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
I can probably arrange that for you. I think my friend has the 3/4(?) CD edition. I'll write back to you (off the list) by the end of the day. Sharad On 8/14/07, Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sahil Dave wrote: Hi all LUG-D members, we urgently require a DVD of Mandriva 2007

Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu Freezing on Boot

2007-08-05 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
There is a boot parameter which is used as resume=swap partition used to resume sessions. Remove that from your grub/lilo config and that should atleast get rid of the first problem. Sharad Birmiwal On 8/5/07, Sudev Barar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 05/08/07, Parijat Garg [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [ilugd] Silan NIC

2007-07-27 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
source should be the fix then. Sharad Birmiwal On 7/27/07, Shiv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Darshan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ndiswrapper module not found -- on 2.6.22 kernel. It works perfectly on the older 2.6.18 so I removed ndiswrapper with the yast software manager , then rebooted

Re: [ilugd] Silan NIC

2007-07-26 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
If that doesn't work, I would suggest you compile ndiswrapper[ http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net] from source. Sharad Birmiwal On 26 Jul 2007 17:27:18 -, Darshan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 22:31:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Shiv [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ilugd

Re: [ilugd] ilugd Digest, Vol 52, Issue 34

2007-07-26 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
. Sharad Birmiwal On 26 Jul 2007 12:48:06 -, Darshan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 5 Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:30:56 +0530 From: Sharad Birmiwal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ilugd] Silan NIC To: Darshan [EMAIL PROTECTED],The Linux-Delhi mailing list ilugd

[ilugd] embedded kits

2007-07-25 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
appreciated. Thanks Sharad Birmiwal ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi

Re: [ilugd] embedded kits

2007-07-25 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
with such details.. Sharad On 7/25/07, Shakthi Kannan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On 7/25/07, Sharad Birmiwal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for some embedded kit for hobby projects -- no special requirements (high ram, x86/PPC?), So, why not use an Intel PII or PIII machine? SK

Re: [ilugd] embedded kits

2007-07-25 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
I probably didn't mention this but I was looking for a cheap board. I wasn't going to go out of the way to pay much for a board. Inline replies follow. On 7/25/07, Shakthi Kannan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On 7/25/07, Sharad Birmiwal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a matter of fact, I have

Re: [ilugd] embedded kits

2007-07-25 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
the thing only to find that the top of all chips (two big ones representing probably the processor and memory) had been fused (probably custom chips inside).. Yeah probably its an overkill to do blinking lights.. Thanks Sharad Birmiwal On 7/25/07, vivek khurana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [ilugd] Silan NIC

2007-07-25 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
Install ndiswrapper again with the new kernel running. That would compile the ndiswrapper module for the new 2.6.22.1 kernel and ndiswrapper should work. Sharad Birmiwal On 25 Jul 2007 19:08:15 -, Darshan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A friend of mine installed Opensuse 10.2 for the first time

Re: [ilugd] Centos - 4.x - VAIO notebook heating up

2007-05-28 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
Hi sharad, I guess these changes will be for Centos only and will not effect the windows heating up problem also. Pl. clarify, Thanks, Abhishek jain Yes - enabling this feature will affect CentOS only. Sharad Birmiwal ___ ilugd mailinglist

Re: [ilugd] Centos - 4.x - VAIO notebook heating up

2007-05-27 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
userspace I echo the desired governor to /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor and it works fine for me. FYI, i've an HP laptop and I run gentoo. For more info, see /usr/src/linux/Documentation/cpu-freq. Sharad Birmiwal On 5/27/07, PJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: abhishek jain

Re: [ilugd] mounting problems

2007-04-26 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
be as simple as # mkdir /mnt/usb # mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb # ls /mnt/usb Sharad Birmiwal On 4/25/07, hemant ritturaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** On 4/25/07, Shakthi Kannan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On 4/25/07, hemant ritturaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am wokring with fedora core 4

Re: [ilugd] Own Linux Distro

2007-04-07 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
based distros. I'm currently using Gentoo. There is a related project (for Gentoo only?) called SCIRE for remote administration and possibly installation (unsure)? Sharad Birmiwal On 4/5/07, PJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/4/07, Gora Mohanty gora at ... wrote: Redhat does handle

Re: [ilugd] proftpd 550 error

2006-12-28 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
the directory. BTW i just saw this now, you have defined two anonymous sections in the config file? If I log in as user anonymous, how does proftpd decide if I should be logged into ~ftp or /media/sda1/bf (maybe it takes the last defined path)? sharad birmiwal On 12/28/06, अभिनव सहाय [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [ilugd] answer seeking by an admin

2006-11-07 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
this disk on next reboot. use dd? 5) without using dmesg and message file, how one can get prior information that a particular disk is malfunctioning and going to crash / fail. Thank in Advance sharad birmiwal ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd

Re: [ilugd] need help for blender to work fine

2006-10-01 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
hey rohit how did you install blender3d? sharad birmiwal On 10/1/06, Rohit Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings there, i am trying to install blender on my system, i had posted my problem at a forum here:(http://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=35020). No response yet. Please

Re: [ilugd] error opening .ps file

2006-08-07 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
Install libxaw3d[http://freshmeat.net/projects/xaw3d]. Which distro are you working on? Sharad Birmiwal On 8/7/06, abhinav sahai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all i downloaded a file which was in the format sadhna.ps.gz format after some googling i found the command : gunzip sadhna.ps.gz

Re: [ilugd] file transfer

2006-06-25 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
would just like to point out that DCGUI project name has changed to valknut( http://dcgui.berlios.de/), and connects to the direct connect network. Though this project hasn't a new stable release for quite sometime.. sharad birmiwal On 6/25/06, vikram ranade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: try

Re: [ilugd] replicating a directory structure with links to all the files at origin

2006-05-14 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
i'm a little lost about what you wasnt to do myself but lndir might help (comes with x.org, i think!). creates directory structure like some specified directory and creates symlinks in them to all the files. sharad birmiwal On 5/14/06, Sameer N Ingole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tanveer Singh

Re: [ilugd] Someone trying to break pass mine server pl. help

2006-04-10 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
or on a slightly unrelated note, maybe you can try exotic solutions like opie or s/key (one time passwords) :) sharad birmiwal On 4/10/06, Raj shekhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http

[ilugd] symphonyos

2006-03-29 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
, the Symphony OS team has created the revolutionary Mezzo Desktop environment. Symphony provides what we consider to be the easiest to use Linux experience there is. You will find its screenshots at http://www.symphonyos.com/screenshots.html. Sharad Birmiwal

Re: [ilugd] Centralize server based on Linux

2006-02-28 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
if you want to use all windoZe 2003 _features_ and _security_, why not go for that? (i know what mailing list i'm on). if you want more, i'd recommend gentoo. sharad birmiwal On 2/28/06, SWAPNIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Sir, We need to build Linux based server for following purpose

Re: [ilugd] gaim connection problem

2006-02-25 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
it would help if you let us know what kind of proxy you are using and what settings you tried. sharad birmiwal On 2/25/06, Gaurav Mishra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: mailvsingh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Feb 26, 2006 12:49 PM Subject: [gzlug] gaim

Re: [ilugd] kernel panic

2005-11-02 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
chrooting into the root (/) fs on the hdd and exploring. if you use lilo, try running lilo from the chroot-ed environment. did you swap hard-drives recently? did the computer reboot by itself/power failure? could it be that you use ext2 filesystem? sharad birmiwal On 11/2/05, Manish Popli [EMAIL

Re: [ilugd] Timing problem with vixie-cron 3.0.1 on RHEL3

2005-10-07 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
you would find the reason for such behavior here http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/time.txt sharad birmiwal On 10/6/05, Rajesh Kumar Mallah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks, Very often our crond goes berserk . Eg below is the normal state wherein the times in line

Re: [ilugd] community project (need contribution)

2005-08-27 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
there is also groups.google.com http://groups.google.com (formerly deja.com http://deja.com) where you don't even have to pay. that brings us to prevailing forums.. sharad birmiwal On 8/25/05, Ankit Kumar Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Google has a similar service http

Re: [ilugd] How to create a new linux user on the fly

2005-08-21 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
i thought there was some email in this thread about thread hijacking? sharad birmiwal On 21 Aug 2005 12:24:51 -, Satnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi There, I am a new user and interested in development on linux environment. For this I have setup SuSE linux on my system. I have a problem

Re: [ilugd] Secure wireless network

2005-08-19 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
i haven't followed the two links but here are my 2 paise wep (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WEP) is weak. there are instruction guides on breaking it available on the net. better go for wpa2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WEP2). sharad birmiwal On 8/19/05, Ankur Rohatgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [ilugd] How to create a new linux user on the fly

2005-08-19 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
try system(useradd username); and then to set passwd, put the passwd in a file 2 to 3 times and system(passwd file); worst solution i've ever come up with but it should work :) i'm not sure if your perl scripts will be run as root. try running a script that shows you the effective id? sharad

Re: [ilugd] Setting Up external modem on Ubuntu

2005-07-26 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
kppp has some debug mode too. try getting some message from that. one thing i need to connect to my isp is to add nomagic to pppd arguments. sharad birmiwal ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo

Re: [ilugd] Open lx Problem

2005-07-25 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
that can play common codecs. you can use kppp to setup your modem. it will also come with your regular set of games for linux? sharad birmiwal ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http

Re: [ilugd] Squid uses 98% CPU

2005-07-12 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
to set ram size, you can use the mem kernel parameter. (it's explained in kernel_source/Documentation/kernel-parameter.txt, search for mem=) sharad birmiwal On 7/12/05, SWAPNIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, Please help me My squid uses 98 % CPU and my swap space is not getting utilized

Re: [ilugd] Squid uses 98% CPU

2005-07-12 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
yes, you're right. i should have probably also mentioned that linux using only 128MB probably isn't the reason why squid is hogging up so much cpu. i've no experience with setting up squid so can't help you with that. sharad birmiwal On 7/12/05, Shivkumar Jagannath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi

Re: [ilugd] Configure USB Pen Drive

2005-07-04 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
you can try running $ tail -f /var/log/messages (or is it /var/log/kern.log?) and then connect your pen drive. see what that registers and post that on the list. sharad birmiwal On 7/4/05, Sudev Barar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/3/05, Udyan Kushwaha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i need some

Re: [ilugd] K3b does not copy CDs containing multiple data tracks

2005-06-26 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
a little initial googling revealed that you still can't copy discs with multiple tracks (eg SVCD). i don't know if things have changed recently.. :( sharad On 25 Jun 2005 09:55:43 -, Navneet Choudhary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, i am using Mandrake-10.1(Official) on Intel based pc