Re: Web Database

1998-06-23 Thread Derek Balling
I have had the exact opposite results. My first experience with web-based database applications was at my last employer using first Postgres95, then PostgreSQL 6.x. I'm now using PostgreSQL 6.3.1 on a RH5 system for all manner of database apps for my current employer - trouble ticket tracking, pag

Re: Telnetting into

1998-06-22 Thread Derek Balling
Another possible solution is the perl Telnet package, which will allow you to automate login/password and execute a command. But that requires a little Perl knowledge. :) D At 11:24 AM 6/22/98 -0400, you wrote: >Try "expect". > > _

Re: SMTP

1998-06-22 Thread Derek Balling
At 06:47 AM 6/22/98 -0500, you wrote: >I have a 5.1 box running IMAP and POP3 that lets me read mail from a pop3 >or imap client fine, but when I try to send mail from these clients, I get >an error saying the server can't forward mail. What did I miss? POP and IMAP are mail RETRIEVAL systems, n

Re: Redhat Apache WebServer

1998-06-19 Thread Derek Balling
At 11:10 AM 6/19/98 -0500, webmaster wrote: >First of all, can you ping the IP of the webserver? If you can, the next thing to >do is to see if your httpd daemon is running. Do a > ps -ax |grep httpd >If httpd is currently running, you will see a list of httpd pids. The smallest PID >is

Re: Pine/Sendmail

1998-06-17 Thread Derek Balling
6/17/98 -0500, Derek Balling wrote: >[about setting the "From:" in pine/sendmail] >>Your answer doesn't mean much if the person asking the question hasn't >>installed the bloat that is X Windows. Yes, I have it installed and you >may >>have it installed, but

Re: HTML-formatted mail

1998-06-17 Thread Derek Balling
>One size does not fit all. Besides, the only bandwidth saved will be for >those users that do not retrieve the document. That will vary on a >case-by-case basis. There _is_ a place for HTML mail. That may be. But not in my mailbox. :) -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the M

Re: Pine/Sendmail

1998-06-17 Thread Derek Balling
>At 06:15 6/17/98 -0400, wward wrote: >>Hello, >>I'am trying to standardized my "From:" in my e-mail. To be more specific >>I'am trying to use the name my ISP has assign me, which is different >>than my user name. I tried to use the Pine mechanism, customize-header, >>but when I went to send an e-

Re: HTML-formatted mail

1998-06-16 Thread Derek Balling
At 02:29 PM 6/16/98 -0600, David Hauck wrote: >>> As far as I'm concerned, adding bloody HTML tags makes the mail >>> *harder* to read and certainly doesn't increase its >>> comprehensibility. >> >> Without a doubt. > >If you see html tags in the text ... get another mail reader ;) Nah, I pr

Re: RHL5 and Postgres 6.2.1

1998-06-15 Thread Derek Balling
At 09:54 AM 6/15/98 -0700, gary steve shelton wrote: >i've been so far unsuccessful in my attempts at accessing PostgreSQL from remote machines, UNIX or Win32 (using ODBC for Win32). I guess it takes a bit more than editing the pg_hba.conf file, eh? > >at one time, long ago and on another RHL5 box

Re: X Quick Poll

1998-05-26 Thread Derek Balling
You seem to be confusing X _SERVERS_ with X _WINDOW MANAGERS_. There are two basic popular X Servers for Red Hat users : MetroX and XFree86. (Yes, others exist, but we're talking about popularity with RH customers, a good chunk of whom will use one of the two that came on their CD). There are a

Printcap for Laser Printer

1998-05-24 Thread Derek Balling
Odd question: Would anyone happen to have a good printcap for a Panasonic KXP-4420 Laser printer? Derek -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists To unsubscribe: mail [EMAI

Re: FTP Only Access

1998-05-20 Thread Derek Balling
There was a discussion about this on linux-isp I think. You need to add the users to the ftpusers group (if you're running wuftpd, which I suspect you are), which will then set them chroot'ed into their home directory. the "/./" will no longer be needed. :) D On Wed, 20 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Remote X Apps

1998-05-11 Thread Derek Balling
I believe Exceed will do what you are looking for. :) > I am wondering if there is an X-server I can put on my Windows 95 machine > that will let me run X apps from my Linux server at home over the Internet. > I have to go through a proxy server to get to the Internet, so I was > wondering if the

Re: virtusertable problems

1998-05-06 Thread Derek Balling
Are they in your sendmail.cw or your Cw line in your sendmail.cf? e.g. you need to tell sendmail "YES! I can deliver mail for primordialsoup.com, so no need to go looking for where to deliver it to". On Wed, 6 May 1998, Doug Elznic wrote: > Hello, > I have a mail domain set up in virtusertab

Re: System Load when using Linux as a router

1998-05-01 Thread Derek Balling
On Fri, 1 May 1998, Eric L. Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Chuck Carson wrote: > > I am curious as to what kind of load using Linux as a router places on > > a machine. I want to use a RH box with an ISDN circuit to route to a > > 5 to 6 computer lan. I want to also use t

Re: We are Declaring War, Not M$ Offics

1998-05-01 Thread Derek Balling
On Fri, 1 May 1998, aoc wrote: > > "Sekou, this is kind of beyond the scope of the list, but here is what > > I did to get my tac_plus.3.0.12.alpha to compile on RH5.0" > > > > Now tell me everybody, who is out of TOPIC here, me or you who > > are talking about M$ Office? > > both? this is t

Re: Accidentally deleted /usr

1998-04-29 Thread Derek Balling
On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, [iso-8859-1] Linus Ã…kerlund wrote: > Has anyone else been in the same situation? Any advice on what to do > would be greatly appreciated. Insert your weekly backup media into your tape device (or other backup medium) and restore from backup. Oh, you don't backup? :) You w

Re: RH5.1 - not when, but WHAT?

1998-04-23 Thread Derek Balling
On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Marco Shaw wrote: > I'm not looking for trouble herebut I didn't see much difference between > 4.2 to 5, so I don't expect much of a difference from 5 to 5.1. I was the > one that brought up this subject last week...out of curiosity...and being a > little bored. What?!!

Warnquota problem

1998-04-23 Thread Derek Balling
I thought I asked this question, but I went to Comdex in the interim, went back through the digests and couldn't find either my asking or a solution, so I'll ask again (and pardon me if you already answered this, but I can't find it so please answer again *grin*) I am trying to use warnquota, bu

Quota

1998-04-16 Thread Derek Balling
Next silly question for the day. I have user quotas enabled. I want to scan every so often for users who have exceeded their soft limit (and warn them) or their hard (and let them know why future writes fail). I thought there was something built into the whole quota setup that did this automagic

RE: /etc/aliasese

1998-04-16 Thread Derek Balling
OK, two things: When the mail originates, it will originate from root, so when it goes to expand the alias, it won't include "root" in security's alias. It just goes "oh, I don't need to worry about him". Try sending the mail from a different address, just for haha's and find out if it works.

Re: Legato and Red Hat

1998-04-16 Thread Derek Balling
l those old PHT monthly CDROMS just for the old libs sections > and do just this to get some of the older software to work. > Havnt needed to do it for a while, but unless someone has a better more > correct solution, you could give it a try. If it busts things, sinmply remove > it again

Legato and Red Hat

1998-04-16 Thread Derek Balling
Our company has recently gone with Legato for its "corporate-wide" backup utility, which is not bad all things considered. It's a fairly nice piece of software, and I'm not terribly unhappy with it, EXCEPT... It doesn't like our RedHat 5.0 machines. Boxhill supplies a Linux client, EXCEPT it ret

RE: gateway

1998-04-14 Thread Derek Balling
On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Beth Gemeny wrote: > Checkm out /etc/sysconfig/network this lists among other things, what > gateway your machine should use. I believe that rebooting afterwards will > make the change effective. Rebooting WILL make the change effective, but, kids, let's try to remember tha

Re: Kernel

1998-04-09 Thread Derek Balling
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Pat Hennessy wrote: > > >> cd /usr/src > > >> rm linux (this should remove the symbolic link) > > > > > >I would insert here: > > > > > >mkdir linux-2.1.93 > > >ln -s linux-2.1.93 linux > > > > > > > I'd rather do this: > > > > mv linux linux-2.1.93 > > ln -s linux-2.1.93

Re: Kernel

1998-04-08 Thread Derek Balling
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Pat Hennessy wrote: > cd /usr/src > rm linux (this should remove the symbolic link) I would insert here: mkdir linux-2.1.93 ln -s linux-2.1.93 linux > tar -zxvf /path/to/linux-2.1.93.tar.gz > cd linux > cd Documentation > > there is a changes file or maybe its in the rea

Re: Sendmail vs MS Exchange Server

1998-04-07 Thread Derek Balling
Cost: Hardware: Lesser machine required Software: Zero. vs NT Server, MS Exchange Server and all appropriate license fees. (can get hefty in a heavy multi-user environment) Reliability: Linux servers tend to have uptimes rated in months, whereas a

Re: ip_alias, how to put in modules.conf?

1998-04-07 Thread Derek Balling
I've always put it in /etc/rc.d/init.d/network myself. Then just do a series of ifconfig's to bring up the virtual IP's, and then a series of route commands to add the routes, and voila, instant ip_aliasing. As for how to get it to autoload... well, I've always done it as part of the kernel, but

Re: Network Monitoring

1998-04-07 Thread Derek Balling
http://www.megacity.org/pong3/ It'll at least do some of what you want. (And I wrote it myself, so I'm always open to suggestions *grin*) D On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Son of a Preacherman wrote: > I was wondering what are the different network monitoring packages > available right now. I'm looking f

Re: RH 5 not suitable as Server

1998-04-03 Thread Derek Balling
Dunno about your experiences, but we're running a veritable plethora of combinations here (Bind8/RH5, Bind8/RH4.2, Bind4/RH5, Bind4/RH4.2) and have no problems with DNS on any of them. Sounds like there was something else at play there, be it particular hardware 5.0 didn't like or something, but

Re: rvplayer expired

1998-04-03 Thread Derek Balling
Perhaps one which doesn't expire? On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, John Franks wrote: > It appears that the rvplayer from rvplayer-5.0b2-5.i386.rpm has > expired on April 1 rather than April 30 as expected. Will there > be another update soon? > > > John Franks > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > PLEASE

Re: anonymous ftp problems

1998-04-02 Thread Derek Balling
More correct answer: remove user "ftp" from /etc/passwd On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, ramon wrote: > > The problem is now that I'd only want to give access to REAL users but > > when I edit ftpaccess -file deleting the anonymous from class > > specification I can't login as a real user anymore. > > edit

Re: Newbie problem

1998-04-02 Thread Derek Balling
Better solution: tar -xzf thefilename.tar.gz Then you don't have the larger, decompressed tarfile remaining behind. On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Tad Johnson wrote: > gunzip thefilename.tar.gz > > then: > > tar -xf thefilename.tar > > Tad > > At 03:55 AM 1/4/97 +0100, you wrote: > >Hi ! > >I have do

Re: How is linux not an O/S Was: Re: Want to give back to linux?

1998-03-25 Thread Derek Balling
> > Um... AmigaOS contained a window system, user interface, applets, and > > system tools. No it didn't. My AmigaOS system booted fine and multi-tasked nicely without screwing around with the GUI. (Well, one of them did, the other I used the GUI on). It was, therefore, not part of the OS, but

Re: How is linux not an O/S Was: Re: Want to give back to linux?

1998-03-25 Thread Derek Balling
On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Joe Klemmer wrote: > Heh, anyone remember the very first CD distribution of linux? It > was called LGX and later became Yggdrasil. Want a copy? I still have a copy of that disc sitting on my bookshelf. :) ==

Re: RPM on NT?

1998-03-24 Thread Derek Balling
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Jon Hale wrote: > Does anybody know if there is any effort underway to port RPM to NT? > Thanks for any pointers, Isn't it called InstallShield? :) == Derek J. Balling | "Bill Gates is a monocle an

Re: Running Perl program

1998-03-19 Thread Derek Balling
On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Remy FAURES wrote: > A perl program is located in my /home directory, and when I try to run it > (entering either prog1.pl or ./prog1.pl), I receive the following message : > bash: ./prog1.pl: No such file or directory > Does anybody have an idea about this problem ? Thanks

Re: a couple of problems in RH5

1998-03-19 Thread Derek Balling
On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Lane J. Bryson wrote: > First, when any user uses xlock, entering the root password at the > prompt will stop xlock, returning to the user's screen. Is this > intended as a backdoor-type feature? Yes, so that the administrator could walk through a lab, and be able to unlock

Re: hosts & hosts.allow (Was Unable to FTP oddity. . .)

1998-03-18 Thread Derek Balling
This is fundamentally a bad thing. What happens when I take MY DNS server, and tell it that 10.100.2.23 IN PTR foobar.my.domain.com [acknowledging that 10.x is an RFC1918 address, but SOME valid address]. Your "security" will confirm that "YES, 10.100.2.23 is part of .domain.com" a

RE: RH4.2/2.0.33 web server performance...

1998-03-13 Thread Derek Balling
On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, Jonathan Peterson wrote: > It depends what you are doing. For flat files, Zeus is widely acknowledged > as the fastest web server around: http://www.zeus.co.uk/ Does anyone actually HAVE servers that are doing just flat-files? ===