[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (UNAME)

One Day One GNU/Linux Command = uname - Display system informations Summary:- Display system informations like OS Type, Kernel Version, Arch, Host Name etc., It will collect all this info from the /proc/sys/kernel/ {ostype, hostname, osrelease, version, domainname}.

[Ilugc] May Month ILUGC Meet

ILUGC Meet (May 10th):- = Time : Sat May 10th 15:00 IST 2008 Venue: ADI-TeNeT Seminar Hall, Room No: CSD 320, Electrical Science Block, IIT-Madras. Map: http://chennailug.org/tenet > Talk 1: Freeing Geographical Information By Kenneth Gonsalves

[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (AC)

One Day One GNU/Linux Command = ac - Print statistics about users' connect time Summary: "ac" command will print the users' connect time details in different formats (Total, Per day, Per user, etc..). It collect this information from the /var/log/wtmp file. Example

[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (COMM)

One Day One GNU/Linux Command = comm - Compare 2 sorted files line by line Summary: Compare two sorted files F1 and F2 line by line. Examples: $ comm F1 F2 -- Output contain 3 columns (Col1 - Uniq to F1, Col2 - Uniq to F2 and Col3 - Common to F1 &

[Ilugc] May Month ILUGC Meet

ILUGC Meet (May 10th):- = Time : Sat May 10th 15:00 IST 2008 Venue: ADI-TeNeT Seminar Hall, Room No: CSD 320, Electrical Science Block, IIT-Madras. Map: http://www.chennailug.org/tenet > Talk 1: Freeing Geographical Information By Kenneth Gonsa

Re: [Ilugc] Development board in chennai...

On Thu, 8 May 2008, ramya krishnan wrote: > I am looking for a shop to get a development boards preferably a > shop that sells arm processor / jtag. AFAIK, No one is selling the board for development here. Bcoz it is very costly (~20K) and less market. Options are 1. Ask your friends to buy it

[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (CD)

One Day One GNU/Linux Command = cd -- Change the Current Directory Summary: cd is bash shell's built-in command. It is used to change the present working Dir to specific Dir. Examples: $ cd -- Change the current Dir to $HOME ($HOME is the default). $ cd ~ -- Same

Re: [Ilugc] Difference between IOSTAT vs SAR(System Activity Report) in LINUX !

On Fri, 9 May 2008, guitar vasu wrote: > Can you please do, let me know the exact difference between > iostat(input/output statistics) and sar(System Activity Report) iostat show the live status from /proc. sar - collect and save the status for off-line processing. Read the man pages of iostat a

Re: [Ilugc] Help needed with Linux in school

> On 5/11/08, sen kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am a teacher in a government school in Viluppuram. We have > > received computers with Linux installed > Being may, Its likely that all schools around will be having > Holidays. Will it be possible for you to convene a meeting of all It is

[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (TOUCH)

One Day One GNU/Linux Command = touch - Change File Timestamps Summary : Update the access and modification times of each FILE to the current time. If FILE not exist, then it will create an empty file with that name. Examples : $ touch myfile -- Set the time stamp

[Ilugc] GSoC and DebDev Meet

Dear All, As we discussed in the Sat Meet, ILUGC is organizing small meeting with this year GSoC Candidates and Debian Developers. I request XGSoC candidates and other FOSS developers also to join in this meet and share your experiences. Plz pass this info 1st and 2nd year college students. NRC-F

[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (ULIMIT)

One Day One GNU/Linux Command = ulimit - Control the resources available to processes Summary: ulimit, Bash built-in command, provides control over the resources (Virtual Mem, Max no .of process, Core file size, ...) available to processes started by the shell. For

[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (SORT)

One Day One GNU/Linux Command = sort - Sort lines of text files Summary : Sort the file contents based on options given to it. By default the output is showed in the console. Examples : $ sort -- Take the input from stdin, sort and output in stdout. $

[Ilugc] TOP-POSTING

PLEASE STOP TOP-POSTING TO THE LIST and REMOVE UNWANTED TEXT BEFORE REPLY TO THE LIST. IF YOU DON'T KNOW, "WHAT IS TOP-POSTING?" PLEASE READ THE "RFC 1855" FROM THE NET. -- Bharathi S ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in

[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (TAIL)

One Day One GNU/Linux Command = tail - Output the last part of files. Summary: Display the last 10 lines of each FILE to stdout. With more than one FILE, precede each with a header giving the file name. Examples: $ tail midas.txt -- Show only the last 10 Lines. $

[Ilugc] GSoC Meet

Dear All, The GSoC Meet is schduled on Sat May 17th from 4PM to 6PM at ADI-TeNeT Seminal Hall, #CSD 320, ESB, IIT-Madras. I request the XGSoCs, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and other FOSS developers and contributors to join this meet. Directions: http://www.chennailug.org/tenet Bye :) -- Bharathi S _

[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (HEAD)

One Day One GNU/Linux Command = head - Output the 1st part of files. Summary: Show the first 10 lines of each FILE. With more than one FILE, precede each with a header giving the file name. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, then read the input from stdin. Examples:

[Ilugc] GSoC Meet

Dear All, The GSoC Meet is scheduled on Sat May 17th from 4PM to 6PM at ADI-TeNeT Seminar Hall, #CSD 320, ESB, IIT-Madras. I request the Students, XGSoCs, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, other FOSS developers and contributors to join this meet. GSoC: http://code.google.com/soc/ Directions: http://www.

[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (SPLIT)

One Day One GNU/Linux Command = split - Split a file into pieces. Summary: Split is used to split a file into equal no .of lines. The output files are created with the default Prefix as 'x' and suffix as 2 digit number. Examples: $ split -l 10 myfile -- Split myfil

Re: [Ilugc] Effect of strace

On Thu, 22 May 2008, Deepak Pandian wrote: > I am wondered whether running a application with strace will make it > behave differently. May be. When you run the app with strace, some of critical point never occure, due to the strace overhead/delay. Use core-dump or print to figure out the crash p

Re: [Ilugc] time

On Thu, 22 May 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was checking how much time for one my script takes.? I used > 'time' command.? The output looks like, Read man time OR info time Bye :) -- Bharathi S ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "

[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (SHUTDOWN)

One Day One GNU/Linux Command = Warning: Don't try this in the production/server machines. shutdown -- Bring the system down (Need Root privilege) Summary: shutdown brings the system down in a secure way. All logged-in users are notified that the system is going do

[Ilugc] CMI OPC

Chennai Mathematical Institute Online Programming Contest is on 25th may. Visit: http://opc.cmi.ac.in/pages/home -- Bharathi S CMI's online programming contest on 25t= h may. Visit : http://o= pc.cmi.ac.in/pages/home -- Siva Theja.M += 91-9962396323 --

Re: [Ilugc] Software Watchdog

On Mon, 26 May 2008, Deepak Pandian wrote: > Sorry I am forced to ask you back how to do this.How to refresh the > timer from our application. I am using busybox 1.6.1 Using watchdog daemon. See src/busybox-xyz/miscutils/watchdog.c > One more doubt.. whether the device shown in /dev/watchdog is

Re: [Ilugc] Configuring BSNL WLL internet in Ubuntu 8.04

On Tue, 27 May 2008, Anand Prabhu wrote: > am able to connect to internet in Windows with my BSNL Wireless > Land Line. I am not able to configure it in Ubuntu 8.04. Is it connected thru serial port / Ethernet? PS: WLL == Wireless in Local Loop :) Bye :) -- Bharathi S ___

Re: [Ilugc] Configuring BSNL WLL internet in Ubuntu 8.04

On Tue, 27 May 2008, Anand Prabhu wrote: > It is connected through a USB serial port. Did you tried wvdial? Give more info about the PC to Modem connection and modem type etc. How did you tried to make a data call from Linux? Any error message? Bye :) -- Bharathi S ___

Re: [Ilugc] Configuring BSNL WLL internet in Ubuntu 8.04

On Tue, 27 May 2008, Anand Prabhu wrote: > Yeah i tried the wvdial but it reports '/dev/modem' not found. In wvdial.conf, the default string for modem is /dev/modem. It is must be replaced with the correct ttyS. Example: Modem = /dev/ttyS2 (COM3 == ttyS2). If ttyS2 is not working then try one

Re: [Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (SHUTDOWN)

On Thu, 29 May 2008, meendar wrote: > What happened to 'One Day One GNU/Linux Command' nowadays, is it > shutdown. No. It is taking a small break. I will start this agian by coming monday. Bye :) -- Bharathi S ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTEC

[Ilugc] Fwd: LJ Links

Online Storage with Wuala by Daniel Bartholomew http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/online-storage-wuala At it's most basic level, Wuala is an online storage service. Like other services it aims to allow you to access your files from anywhere. The big difference that sets Wuala apart from other o

[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (CSPLIT)

One Day One GNU/Linux Command = csplit - Split a file into sections determined by Context Summary: Output pieces of FILE separated by PATTERN(s) to files `xx01', `xx02',.., and output byte counts of each piece to display. PATTERN(s) are Line Number or Regexp. Exam

[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (MORE)

One Day One GNU/Linux Command = more -- File perusal filter for viewing Summary: Perusal means the act of reading, especially of reading through or with care. More is a filter for paging through text one screenful at a time. Press `q' to Quit. Examples: $ more my

Re: [Ilugc] Outlook Equilavent application

On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can you please tell me any one open source application which will be > equivalent to outlook that should display the global address list of > Exchange 2007. Take a look at Mozilla ThunderBird, Zimbra, Evolution. 1. Teach your mail client to wrap the

[Ilugc] [OT] HELP: BSNL DataOne Modem

Dear All, Recently applied for the BSNL Broadband connection. I like to get your suggestions on ADSL modem (with Ethernet + WiFi). 1. Is it good to buy it from BSNL or ext src? 2. If ext src, then which modem and where? 3. Anybody willing sell your modem? NOTE: Please send your reply to me. Not

[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (LESS)

One Day One GNU/Linux Command = less -- Filter for paging through text one screen full at a time. Summary: It is a filter for showing the text in page by page format to user. It supports No. of commands for screen operations, different prompts and Input Preprocessing

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] HELP: BSNL DataOne Modem

Hi All, Thanks for the reply. I got mixed response about the Modem, perticularly about WiFi. Suggections: 1. Go for the Type I (just Ethernet) modem and add your own WiFi router with that. 2. If you have the own modem then service people will simply say it your device issue and Esc. 3. -

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] HELP: BSNL DataOne Modem

On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Arun Khan wrote: > > 3. Oops. I pressed Ctrl X instead of Ctrl C :( -- Bharathi S ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo

[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (TR)

One Day One GNU/Linux Command = tr - TRanslate or Delete characters Summary: tr will translate, squeeze, and/or delete characters from stdin, writing to stdout. 'tr' supports few standard Esc sequences, regular expressions, char classes (lower, upper, space, blank, a

[Ilugc] Fwd: The Moblin Event Invite

-- Forwarded message -- From: "Valsa Williams" Moblin is an open source initiative bringing developers together all over the world to create rich media and internet experience based on Linux operating systems for Intel(r) Atom(tm) Processors

[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (CAL)

One Day One GNU/Linux Command = cal - Displays a calendar Summary: (BSD) Cal displays a simple calendar. If arguments are not specified, the current month is displayed. Try GNU Cal or gcal for more options. Examples : $ cal -- Displays current month $ cal -3 -- Di

[Ilugc] Speakers

Hi, Whoever already committed to give talk on this month ILUGC meet, Plz send a mail to me with the following details: Topic: Abstract: Links: Speaker Name: Intro: Thanks, -- Bharathi S ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (TPUT)

One Day One GNU/Linux Command = tput -- Initialize a terminal or query terminfo database Summary: The tput utility uses the terminfo database to make the values of terminal dependent capabilities and information available to the shell to initialize/reset/query the te

Re: [Ilugc] Help : Linux/Unix - @ char problem in command line

On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, carti wrote: > In Linux / unix, when I tried to type @ character, it is either > taking/consider as ^c OR backspace. 1. Check your KB Layout 2. Try to set TERM=linux 3. Is it happening on all type terminal (konsole,xterm,gnome-term,..) Bye :) -- Bharathi S _

[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (WC)

One Day One GNU/Linux Command = wc - Count & Print the No. of Bytes, Words & Lines in files. Summary: Print byte, word, and newline counts for each FILE, and a total line if more than one FILE is specified. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read the input from keyboar

[Ilugc] Jun Month ILUGC Meet

ILUGC Meet (Jun 14th):- = Time : Sat Jun 14th 15:00 IST 2008 Venue: ADI-TeNeT Seminar Hall, Room No: CSD 320, Electrical Science Block, IIT-Madras. Map: http://www.chennailug.org/tenet > Talk 1: Brief intro to Deb Packages and the Release cycle: Speaker

Re: [Ilugc] Jun Month ILUGC Meet

On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, Aanjhan R wrote: > this meet, I would like atleast the Debian talk to be postponed ;-) No way. Bcoz before the next month meet, Kumar will be @ Univ of Texas for his PhD. Apart from this, Porting talk was decided in the last meet itself and Mr Luis availability on next month

[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (SLEEP)

One Day One GNU/Linux Command = sleep/usleep -- Sleep for a specified amount of time Summary : Sleep will introduce a delay for a specified seconds (Seconds may be an arbitrary floating point number). usleep sleeps some no of micro- seconds (default is 1). Examples :

Re: [Ilugc] query regarding ethtool

On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Preetish wrote: > Now if we do a 'service network stop' and then do a 'ethtool eth0' > then it gives a output Link detected: no > > Now 'mii-tool eth0' in both the cases gives the output as link ok mii-tool is using the MII interface available in the HW. It is indenpent of

[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (MOUNT)

One Day One GNU/Linux Command = mount -- Mount/Attach a File System to a File Tree. Summary : All files accessible in a Unix system are arranged in one big tree, the file hierarchy, rooted at /. These files can be spread out over several devices. The mount command s

Re: [Ilugc] query regarding ethtool

On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Preetish wrote: > > mii-tool is using the MII interface available in the HW. It is > > indenpent of the interface status. But ethtool might be using status > > avail in the driver itself (Not sure), which depends on the interface > > status. > > But is it not returning the wr

Re: [Ilugc] query regarding ethtool

On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Preetish wrote: > > mii-tool will return correct link status, even if the eth0 is down. > > But AFAIK it is not the case with ethtool. > > so can this be considered as a bug ? Not sure. When interface is down, I am not getting any status info in the ethtool output and man pa

Re: [Ilugc] query regarding ethtool

On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Balu manyam wrote: > > So i guess the summary will be that none of the tools are perfect :( > hey guys - from my exp - mii-tool is not capable of reporting correctly for > NICs linking at 1000mbps FD - ethtool can do that -- so yeah if all NICs > are ifconfig up'ed - ethtool

[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (W)

One Day One GNU/Linux Command = w -- show Who is doing What Summary : w is part of the procps package. w shows information about the users currently on the machine, and their processes. The header shows, in this order, the current time, Uptime, no. of current users, &

[Ilugc] Jun Month ILUGC Meet

ILUGC Meet (Jun 14th):- = Time : Sat Jun 14th 15:00 IST 2008 Venue: ADI-TeNeT Seminar Hall, Room No: CSD 320, Electrical Science Block, IIT-Madras. Map: http://www.chennailug.org/tenet > Talk 1: Small tutorial on IP routing and a Redundancy Demo Speaker

[Ilugc] Two useful sites

Thanks to FN and Safar Pokharel (FOSS-Nepal) * http://www.osalt.com - This is the opensource alternatives for almost all popular commercial softwares. * http://www.portableapps.com - Portable and opensource softwares, no need to install, just unzip & run from pen drives, where ever you go. HTH :

[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (WHO)

One Day One GNU/Linux Command = who -- show WHO is logged on Summary : `who' prints the info (login name, terminal line, login time, and remote hostname or X display) about each user currently logged on. `who' uses /var/run/utmp file to know about the current users.

Re: [Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (WHO)

On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Mehul Ved wrote: > > $ who X X -- Ester Egg. X can be any string. > > I tried this on xterm, screen session, gnome-terminal, Terminal, > konsole and tty. It only works on the last one, what's the reason > for that? For me, it works on all the above. Are you getting any outp

Re: [Ilugc] Re: One Day One GNU/Linux Command (WHO)

On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Rajesh Prabhu G wrote: > whoami - shows the current logged in user It takes the current user id. > who am i - shows from which user we switched off. It takes the current terminal owner. Bye :) -- Bharathi S ___ To unsubscribe,

Re: [Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (WHO)

On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Mehul Ved wrote: > Same goes for the konsole, gnome-terminal,Terminal and xterm. > BTW, I am on gentoo, if it does matter, I believe it shouldn't. No idea. I tried it in RH9. Anyone seen such a behavior in other distro. Bye :) -- Bharathi S

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] - photo /pic /jpeg related problem - GIMP can help?

On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Raja Subramanian wrote: > Try connecting your camera directly to your computer through the USB > port. gphoto2 (gphoto.org) has pretty good support for Canon Try this option. I use only gphoto2 with my Fiji F21 camera in PTP mode thru the USB Port. No issues with image quali

[Ilugc] Re: Linux and Tamil (was: ilugc Digest, Vol 49, Issue 44)

On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, shane vel wrote: > I'm very new to linux. Welcome. Always give proper subject to your mail and Don't reply to Digest mails. > i am well known in tamil language and interested in linux in tamil. > I want Linux in Tamil Language. Are you using any Linux distro in your PC? If

Re: [Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (WHO)

On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, sivaji j.g wrote: > well i tried all the possible combination and confused who -- In this case, who show the all users currently logged in the system. who X -- In this case, who interpret the X as the user name and try to show the user detail of the X, only if X is current

Re: [Ilugc] Release of the Open Movie, Big Buck Bunny

On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Sudharshan S wrote: > Why not screen the movie sometime, its only 10 minutes long and can > be used as a catalyst for flame wars on an ILUGC meet. :D Good. Plz bring that movie file during the next month meet, we will show it. -- Bharathi S ___

[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (CHMOD)

One Day One GNU/Linux Command = chmod -- CHange file access permission MODes Summary: chmod is used to change the permission of the file(s) or Dir(s). Interpretation of one line of ls -l command output :- -rwxr-xr-- 1 sbharathi dsg 10 Feb 14 15:00 myfile ^\ /

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] - photo /pic /jpeg related problem - GIMP can help?

On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, carti wrote: > I tried different ways. But it did not work. Reason: The Flash > memory card it got corrupted I guess. The card shows empty (with out > any files). May be. When I bought my camera from camera city. It came with a (used and problematic) 1GB Free card. After a do

Re: [Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (CHMOD)

On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Arun Tejasvi Chaganty wrote: > I think some mention should be made about the 'other' modes, namely > the sticky bit and the setuid bit. I consider this extra flags as Advance stuff and I am planning to cover it at the later part of this ODOC. Bye :) -- Bharathi S _

[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (CHOWN)

One Day One GNU/Linux Command = chown -- CHange file OWNer and Group Summary : `chown' changes the user and/or group ownership of each given file to the specified user and/or group. Examples : $ chown usr1 file1 -- Make usr1 as the owner of the file1. No

Re: [Ilugc] Re: [OT] Volunteering - ways and means

senthilraja P said: > She told, she dont know anything.. (she has completed ME, and > completed a project in neural networks).. and asked me teach > those.. Try to catch that opportunity and spread the message > When we propose anything to college staffs or management, the > first thing they w

[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (CHGRP)

One Day One GNU/Linux Command = chgrp -- CHange the GRouP ownership. Summary : `chgrp' changes the group ownership of each given file(s) to the specified group (group name or a numeric group id). Examples : $ chgrp grp1 file1 -- Change the group ownership to grp1.

[Ilugc] Web Share Tool

Hi, I am trying to make our own small web share with Apache and it's htaccess. I like to know, Is there any FOSS tool are available for this kind of application? I am trying to achieve the following: To send a file to User1, the file will be uploaded in his folder/ account and send a mail to him

[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (RM)

One Day One GNU/Linux Command = rm -- ReMove files or directories. Summary : rm removes each specified file. By default, it does not remove directories. Examples : $ rm myfile -- Remove the myfile from current dir. $ rm f1 f2 f3 -- Remove f1,f2 and f3. $ rm f? --

[Ilugc] Web File Share

Hi All I am looking for a tool, which will help me to setup a small web based file sharing server. Now I am just trying with Apache and .htaccess. Is there any FOSS tools are already available for this purpose? Bye :) -- Bharathi S ___ To unsubscribe,

Re: [Ilugc] Web File Share

On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > how about trac+subversion? I feel, it is a over kill. Bcoz most of the files are docs, bin and ISO images. As of now, I am using the technique explained by Kapil. Bye :) -- Bharathi S ___ To unsubscribe

Re: [Ilugc] Setting up a web server using BSNL Dataone 500 plan

On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Arun Khan wrote: > > Do BSNL ADSL connections come with a static IP? Airtel doesn't but > > Tata does. > > Static IP is charged extra. No(?). Recently applied for the BSNL-BB. In that, there was a check box for "Need a Global IP" (I ticked the yes). Now I am getting a same g

[Ilugc] Fwd: Devanagari Documents in LyX

WikiHow. LyX/LaTeX is a word processing alternative that is completely open source and free. Summary: With the incorporation of XeLaTeX in all major distributions of LaTeX including MikTeX, it has become easy to incorporate Devanagari and other Unicode characters in LaTeX/LyX documents. Here we de

[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (SHRED)

One Day One GNU/Linux Command = shred -- Overwrite/Delete a file securely. Summary: `shred' overwrite the specified devices/ files repeatedly and remove, in order to make it harder for even very expensive hardware probing to recover the data. Normally when you remove

[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (MKDIR)

One Day One GNU/Linux Command = mkdir -- MaKe DIRectories. Summary : mkdir create the directories with the specified names, only if they do not already exist. Examples : $ mkdir dir1 -- Create a dir1, if dir1 is NOT an existing file or a directory.

[Ilugc] FYI: ELCOT Student Labtop Offer

ELCOT (ELectronics Corporation Of Tamilnadu Limited) is offering laptops with good configuration, for the "students" studying in TN, at a lower price (~Rs.25000/-). Check the ELCOT site for more info. Link: http://www.elcot.in/NewStudentLaptop/index.php Bye :) -- Bharathi S

[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (JOBS)

One Day One GNU/Linux Command = jobs -- Lists the active jobs Summary : jobs is bash build-in command, which is used to list the actives jobs in the current shell. Examples : $ sleep 60 & -- Just run this command 5 times. Create dummy active jobs f

[Ilugc] FYI: MobLin Seminar

In last ILUGC meet, someone asked me about the Venue details for the Intel MobLin Seminar. Here is the detail about the event. Date : Friday 27th June, 2008 Time : 9AM to 5PM Venue : Muthian Hall, Centre for Environmental Studies, Anna University Campus, Chennai. Event Registration Lin

[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (WALL)

One Day One GNU/Linux Command = wall -- Send a message to everybody's terminal. Summary : Wall sends a message to everybody logged. The length of the message is limited to 20 lines. You MAY need root permission, on some system, to run this command. This command is us

Re: [Ilugc] Character encoding issues

On Thu, 3 Jul 2008, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > in Debian Etch, but I got some unreadable characters. The problem is > not with my terminal (xfce4-terminal) as it handles even Tamil > script. The file is probably encoded in ISO-8859-1. So how do I cat > it? I don't want to change my locale, which

[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (CUT)

One Day One GNU/Linux Command = cut -- CUT a specified part form the file and Print it on stdout. Summary : Print selected parts of lines from each file(s) to standard output. Examples : Create file1 with 10 columns (separated by TAB) of data for 10 lines and file

[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (TREE)

One Day One GNU/Linux Command = tree - List contents of dirs in a TREE-like format. Summary : Tree is a recursive directory listing program that produces a listing of files in different formats according to the options. Examples : $ tree -- Recursive listing of Dir

[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (TEE)

One Day One GNU/Linux Command = tee - Read from stdin and write to stdout and files Summary : Tee will copy the stdin to file(s) and also to stdout output. Actually tee is doing the redirection. The following ASCII art(!) will shows "How Tee works". STDIN >---+--

[Ilugc] Jul Month ILUGC Meet

ing between different processors d) How to write porting friendly code? > Talk 3: VRRP Speaker: Bharathi Subramanian, Midas Duration: ~30mis This talk cover the basic and implementation details of the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) and its use in a LAN Env. HTH :)

[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (SEQ)

One Day One GNU/Linux Command = seq -- Prints a sequence of Numbers Summary : `seq' prints the numbers from Start to End in steps. By default, Start and Step are 1, and by default each number is separated by a new line. All numbers can be reals, not just integers.

[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (FOLD)

"No Software Patents!" -- Allowing patents over software ideas will seriously affect the creativity, productivity and freedom of all. Link: http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ One Day One GNU/Linux Command = fold -- Wrap each input line to fit in specified width. Summar

[Ilugc] Jul Month ILUGC Meet

ing between different processors d) How to write porting friendly code? > Talk 3: VRRP Speaker: Bharathi Subramanian, Midas Duration: ~30mis This talk cover the basic and implementation details of the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) and its use in a LAN Env. HTH :)

Re: [Ilugc] Need some help with routing on a WA1003A

On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Arnold Noronha wrote: > And, two different IP addresses on this WAN, cannot use the same > reliance login at the same time! This is my problem currently. I don't know the feature set of WA1003A. But try this, 1. Make WA1003A to get the IP thru DHCP from WAN. 2. Enable DHCP S

[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (FMT)

"No Software Patents!" -- Allowing patents over software ideas will seriously affect the creativity, productivity and freedom of all. Link: http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ One Day One GNU/Linux Command = fmt -- Simple optimal text ForMatTer Summary : `fmt' reads fr

[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (PASTE)

"No Software Patents!" -- Allowing patents over software ideas will seriously affect the Creativity, Productivity and Freedom of all. Link: http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ One Day One GNU/Linux Command = paste - Merge lines of files. Summary : Paste write the l

[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (TOP)

"No Software Patents!" -- Allowing patents over software ideas will seriously affect the Creativity, Productivity and Freedom of all. Link: http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ One Day One GNU/Linux Command = top -- Display TOP Intensive processes Summary : TOP prov

[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (KILL)

"No Software Patents!" -- Allowing patents over software ideas will seriously affect the Creativity, Productivity and Freedom of all. Link: http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ One Day One GNU/Linux Command = kill -- Sends a signal to processes. Summary : The comman

[Ilugc] Fwd: DNS Cache Poisoning Problem

Few links about the DNS Issue/Bug, which is discussed by Kapil during this month meet. http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/602 http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/security-alert-dns-security-vulnerability http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3757746/DNS+at+Risk+From+Multivendor+

[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (PS)

Hurd -- Hird of Unix Replacing Daemons Hird -- Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth One Day One GNU/Linux Command = ps - Process Status report Summary : ps gives a snapshot of the current processes. Lot of info, like CPU and MEM Usage, PID, UID, Status,..., about th

Re: [Ilugc] [xpost] xinerama dual display with Intel graphics

On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Arun Khan wrote: > In my first post, I was trying a xinerama setup using a laptop with > it's a onboard Intel graphics chip; display 0 the DFP of the laptop > and display 1 monitor connected to the VGA port. Bit confused. Are you talking about Twin Display (What is see in la

Re: [Ilugc] [xpost] xinerama dual display with Intel graphics

On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Arun Khan wrote: > > Bit confused. Are you talking about Twin Display (What is see in > > laptop screen and external screen is same) or Xinerama (combine both > > screens into single big screen)? > > Talking about Xinerama - combining 2 screens into one big screen. Xinerama

[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (YES)

Hurd -- Hird of Unix Replacing Daemons Hird -- Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth One Day One GNU/Linux Command = yes -- Print a string until interrupted Summary : It prints the command line arguments, separated by spaces & followed by a newline, forever until it

[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (UNIQ)

Read: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.html One Day One GNU/Linux Command = uniq -- Remove duplicate lines from a SORTED file. Summary : It prints the unique lines in a sorted file. If input is NOT in sorted order then, only adjacent duplicate lines are d

[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (RDATE)

One Day One GNU/Linux Command = rdate -- Get the time from Remote machine. Summary : It connects to an Remote Time Server over a IP network, printing the returned time and/or setting the system clock. The time in remote server is maintained properly. So that all mach

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