Re: databases, which one?
Hi Jean-Yves, So far as I know pretty much all the databases on Linux are client server using SQL. So that's not quite the same as dbase which has an integrated dbengine and language running on the client. Probably the best known dbms' on Linux and MySql and Postgresql. They each have pros and cons. Postgresql is more free and has transactions, mysql is faster for reading data. You will need a language to access them. There are many choices depending on your needs. I use java and python but perl will access both and they have odbc drivers too (so you could use dbase on a windows machine as the client). Regards Dave Hi all, I wonder if there's a package with easy-to-use-and-powerfull database? (something like dBase III+/IV) Thanks in advance, JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ask not for whom the CONTROL-G tolls. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Exim. How correct sender that has no domain
Hi, When I send messages from Netscape to exim there is a Sender: header field that is my user name but without the domain. ie Sender: david when it should be Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This only seems to happen with Netscape communicator clients. I think I ought to be able to use an exim re-writing rule to correct this but I have not yet been successful. What should the rule be? According to the manual typing exim -brw david should show how the rewriting works for various headers. In every case it shows [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is now causing me a problem with the validation of mailman messages, any message I send to a mailman listserver gets rejected because my sender is not correct. Any help please. Thanks Dave -- David Warnock Sundayta Ltd
Mail has incorrect Sender (Exim or Netscape?)
Hi, Although generally my email works fine I have 1 small problem. It seems that my outgoing mail has an incorrect sender (the header has Sender: david). I assume it should be Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is causing one mailing list (DebianUk) to reject any messages I send to it. Does anyone know where this header is created and how I change it (I cannot see it anywhere in Netscape preferences or in the exim configuration)? Thanks David -- David Warnock Sundayta Ltd
Potato broke my samba
Hi, I have just upgraded our server from slink to potato (I wanted the new exim amoungst other things). Now we cannot connect to samba. I have checked my smb.conf with the testparams, it all looks OK (and of course it was working with the previous version of samba that came with slink). I have recreated my smbpasswd (just in case there was a problem with the old version). I have been working through diagnostics.txt and always fail TEST 3 like this romans:~$ smbclient -L GENESIS Added interface ip=192.168.100.28 bcast=192.168.100.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 Password: Domain=[SUNDAYTA] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.0.5a] tree connect failed: ERRSRV - ERRbadpw (Bad password - name/password pair in a Tree Connect or Session Setup are invalid.) Tests 7 and 8 fail as well. We don't have a guest user, samba was using nobody before (bit nopbody was and is not in smbpasswd Samba is now not showing up in Windows 98 network neighbourhood. Anyone got any ideas about what is wrong or what I need to try? Sorry I am so stupid. Regards Dave -- David Warnock Sundayta Ltd
Re: Potato broke my samba
Jim, I had a problem with samba 2.0.5a. It required that I upgrade to a 2.2.x kernel. There was another problem that showed up on the list about bad passwords. As you seem to have remade the smbpasswd file, maybe try a 2.2.x kernel. The error I had in the logs was a cannot become user x error followed by authentication errors (bad user name/passwd). OK this sounds very similar, I will upgrade to kernel 2.2 and see what happens. Thanks Dave -- David Warnock Sundayta Ltd
Re: Potato broke my samba
Jens, I am sorry that I seem to have upset you by posting to the list. I have spent some hours time attempting to find a solution before posting although this does not extend to looking into the source or the packages but in testing a number of different configuration files and working throught the supplied diagnostics and documentation. I will take your advice and check for bug reports in the future. However, my assumption throughout was that the most likely problem was me being stupid user which is why I did not assume it was a problem with the maintainer. For this reason I would not and did not mail the maintainer about problems like this before checking that I am correct via the list. Anyway the good news is that the solution suggested by Jim has worked fine for me, switching to a 2.2.10 kernel has meant that samba has started working loverely again. I don't mind moving to a 2.2 kernel at all. So this solution does not worry me. Thanks Dave -- David Warnock Sundayta Ltd
Dial in server
Hi, We want to setup a machine on our lan so I can dial in from home and gain access to my mail, cvs etc. I will also want to access the internet in this way (calls from home to office are free, home to internet is not). My wife will also want to be able to connect from home but she will be using Windows 98. She will need to access samba facilities (printer, network drives) and the internet. We have a working firewall (running potato) and also a file/app server (currently slink, will move to potato soon). The firewall has a 64k permanent link to the internet. Which packages should I start looking at installing on the dial in server? Thanks Dave -- David Warnock Sundayta Ltd
Re: EXIM, Help stop relaying spam
George and everyone else. Thanks for the help. We are now relay free according to all the tests I can do. I have put exim on the firewall and am currently directly accessing it via pop3 (qpopper). Now I would like to instead relay from exim on the firewall to exim inside the firewall. How do I do that? Thanks Dave -- David Warnock Sundayta Ltd
Re: EXIM, Help stop relaying spam
Many thanks George. Dave snip As the final entry in the section under directors: smart: driver = smartuser new_address = [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip -- David Warnock Sundayta Ltd
EXIM, Help stop relaying spam
Hi, We have just had out exim router on our server abused by some spammers. We had thought that we were securely setup, but it appears that our ISP has recently changed something in their dns setup and it meant that spammers have been able to use us as a relay. I have some temporary fixes in which stop all outgoing mail (turned off just while I send this) - this is obviously not ideal but does stop these nasty people. How do we stop this problem? I have spent a whole day pulling my hair out trying to stop exim allowing other people in but I have not suceeded unless I also stop us being able to send (or in some cases recieve). Our setup is that our firewall forwards port 25 onto the main server which is running exim. This is using redir at present and I think that is part of the problem. If someone telnets onto exim they appear to be coming from the firewall. I have turned off all relaying (but don't know how to check that it is sucessful). But it seems that I am still allowing telnet onto port 23 to issue the smtp commands to send mail from an invalid user to outside our domain. I don't want that to happen. How can I fix that? The bits of my exim.conf (comments removed to save space) are relay_domains = *.sundayta.co.uk relay_domains_include_local_mx = true never_users = root host_lookup_nets = 0.0.0.0/0 rbl_domains = rbl.maps.vix.com rbl_reject_recipients = true rbl_warn_header = false sender_host_reject_relay = * sender_host_reject_relay_except = romans.sundayta.co.uk:proverbs.sundayta.co.uk sender_net_reject_relay = 0.0.0.0/0 sender_net_reject_relay_except = 192.168.100.0/8 # firewall is 192.168.101.2 sender_verify_reject = true # I don't want to incorrectly blame anyone but all the spam had a name within this domain # as the to and from sender_reject = *.quintessenz.at I would like to reject all hosts apart from some named machines at sundayta.co.uk but whenever I try that I stop all incoming mail from other hosts which is obviously not correct. Any help much appreciated while I still have some hair left. -- David Warnock Sundayta Ltd
Re: EXIM, Help stop relaying spam
I am using the version that installs with slink which is 2.0.5 (I think) Thanks Dave Pollywog wrote: On 03-Aug-99 David Warnock wrote: I would like to reject all hosts apart from some named machines at sundayta.co.uk but whenever I try that I stop all incoming mail from other hosts which is obviously not correct. Any help much appreciated while I still have some hair left. You did not say which Exim version you are using. The exim.conf file format changed with version 3.x so that might be important. -- David Warnock Sundayta Ltd
Re: Compatability with Windows-only programs
Jessie, I am thinking about changing over to Linux, but I am worried about the time and money necessary for the changeover. I have recently moved my whole business to Linux. I keep 1 machine with the abilty to boot into Windows 95 for my kids to play games and I keep one machine able to boot into Windows NT for the few windows apps I still need (delphi 3 and Powerdesigner and SQL Anywhere) . To make the initial switch easy these machines use boot floppies for Linux so I did not need to modify the windows setup's at all. You can get dual boot working but I preferred not to. You will also need to either put extra disks in or use a tool such as Partition Magic to re-organise your disks to make space for Linux. Only simple hardware a Linux installation seems to be much quicker than a windows NT installation. (especially after the first time). But by testing on a spare machine or by using boot floppies you can get going with Linux without affecting your product ive use of the machine. Obviously before changing partitions or installing linux you will have made and tested a full backup. Specifically, I am worried about my many Windows-only programs, and the time and cost of changing to Linux alternatives. I would suggest you visit some of the linux webs sites and look for the applications first. For example I have a full-time Java developer and I have setup his machine so he is very productive and have only had to buy once software package (Visual Slick Edit - a wonderful editor). You could start by listing the applications you use and asking for Linux suggestions here. Dave David Warnock Sundayta Ltd
Re: Stable GUI Web Browser
** Reply to message from Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 17 Nov 1998 23:57:15 +0100 Let's not talk about the food :-) I quite agree, we have far too many Macdonalds and Burger King. Dave David Warnock Sundayta Ltd
Re: Stable GUI Web Browser
** Reply to message from Kenneth Scharf [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 17 Nov 1998 05:35:56 -0800 (PST) After watching Monty Python's Flying Circus and Benny Hill thoughout my college years, I have gotten used to British humor, it even makes sense now. It's good that you started with our most subtle forms of British humour. Dave David Warnock Sundayta Ltd
Stable GUI Web Browser
Hi all, Does anyone/everyone have problems with Netscape communicator? I have had the same problem with 4.06, 4.07, 4.08 and the latest beta of 4.5 After I have been browsing for a while it just suddenly crashes - no error message (well in the beta I get a talkback thing to report the error - but it tells me nothing). Alternatively it will suddenly goto 99.x processor utilization and freeze - at this point I cannot even kill it. When I kill the task it is still running at 99.x processor according to top. Naturally as this is not windows my machine is still perfectly usable. So Q1 is there a more stable GUI Browser than Netscape for linux. I need javascript support but not java. Q2 is there anything to make netscape less prone to crashing? I have stopped using messager - would I be best moving to plain navigator instead of communicator? Thanks Dave PS I am pretty uptodate with Debian 2.0 - did an upgrade using apt last week. But I have not upgraded by X 11 for a couple of months (it is one of the suse servers as I have a Permedia video card). David Warnock Sundayta Ltd
Re: Stable GUI Web Browser
** Reply to message from Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 16 Nov 1998 15:20:45 -0500 (EST) Odd, I use NS every day (I work for an ISP). Occasional glitches, but nothing like that. My netscape is sometimes ope for three days straight. I am using 4.5 currently. H'mm I wonder where to look for the reason. Both our machines that use NS have this problem and they use different versions of X - otherwise standard Debian 2 with NS installed using the install .deb which requires the tar file in /tmp. We use the standard kernel, connect to the internet through our fileserver (running squib and junkbuster) to our firewall using ipmasq and an ISDN dial-up connection. We switch to a permanent connection in a couple of weeks - I wonder if that will help. Javascript only exists in netscape (or mozilla I think). Thats what I suspected - it's a pain that sites won't use nice and simple html. Maybe in a while mozilla will be a stable alternative. Thanks for the response Dave David Warnock Sundayta Ltd
Re: Stable GUI Web Browser
** Reply to message from Jeff Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 16 Nov 1998 15:48:43 -0500 Maybe you should call Microsoft and see if they're porting InternetExplorer to Linux anytime soon! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA Gee thanks. Dave PS I am British and I am always sarcastic, I have been warned that US citizens are unable to recognise sarcasm - I guess thats why so many Americans use M$ software. David Warnock Sundayta Ltd
Plan for Debian based LAN
Hi, As I have mentioned before I have a small company, now all 4 machines have linux and I only dual boot 1 machine into NT when I have to run powerdesigner or Delphi 3. Now a customer has expressed an interest in moving to Linux. But whilst out setup is fine for a small company of developers we would need to install very differently for them. Basically we would need the following 1. 100% controlled application installation and management. 2. Users to be permitted to customize preferences (themes, preferences etc) 3. Users to be able to roam and get their own setup on any machine (even if the machines capabilities are different eg higher resolution monitor). 4. Tight security control - no floppy drives for example. 5. Use of winframe technology to run windows applications (at least for a migration period). I would be looking at Debian with StarOffice 5 as the standard desktop. There would also need to be a AutoCad replacement. It seems to me that there are 2 common ways of working with multiple users on *nix a) A fast server and terminals - gives the control but not the distributed processing. b) PC's running linux connecting to a linux boxes as web/file/print/application servers. But in this situation the PC's all have independant linux installations and hence no central management control. Is there a 3rd way? I wonder if something like: Linux kernal and some configuration files on each PC but all other elements of linux accessed from a central server. Users home directories would be on the server as would /usr. Applications only need to be installed/configured on the server. Where there are different configurations required for the various hardware options then these would be on the local PC's (eg Xserver and XF86Config). Does this sound crazy? I am really new to Linux but this is similat to the way that we used to work Netware with Dos until windows came along and spoiled it. Are there any resources available that will let me find out more about managing Linux on large LANS (we are looking at a small part of a 3,000 node LAN)? Thanks Dave
CD Writer Recommendation
Hi, I need to add a CD Writer to my system. Can anyone give me a recommendation for a very reliable and fast writer (I only need writeable not re-writeable). I am only interested in a SCSI interface and would prefer an internal unit. What software do I need? Is it included in Hamm? For the record (in case it affects anything) I have 2 adaptec scsi cards both 2940's one is scsi 2 and the other scsi 3. The scsi 2 has a jaz drive on it and the scsi 3 my hard disk. I will be using the cd writer for archive backups and also for creating installation cd-roms for our applications. Thanks Dave
Re: Microsoft = Trustworthy? What was I thinking???
Now what do you guys say I try? Ryan, I don't know enough about Linux to suggest a rescue procedure. But I have a sugestion to use instead of Lilo. I have a floppy disk to boot for Linux (yes I know ancient technology and slow to boot). There are some real advantages. 1. I don't have to play with any of the methods to attempt to get NT and Linux to co-exist. 2. (This is the big one). I frequently have to move between Linux and NT (I do Java development on Linux but currently do my Database entity modelling on NT). By using the floppy I can decide which OS to boot into next as soon as I start the shutdown of either OS. eg I am limping along in NT and decide to use Linux. So I insert the floppy, tell NT to Shutdown and Restart - go away, make coffee and return to Linux. eg 2 I am whizzing in linux, decide I need some instability in my life so I eject the floppy, press Ctl+Alt+Backspace to exist X then Ctrl+Alt+Delete to shutdown and restart, go make coffee or 2 and come back to NT login. Regards Dave
XEmacs novice customisation
Hi, I am attempting to work with XEmacs, so far I can't say I am particularly enjoying the experience ;-) There are some things I really miss and one is the ability to select text using the shift key combined with any cursor movement. From the latest FAQ where it talks about windows versions it mentions a package called pending-delete. I have found /usr/lib/xemacs-20.4/lisp/pending-del.elc on my Debian 2.0 system. Is this something that would make shift and cursors movement select text? If so how do I install it? Another thing I really miss is the effective use of the mouse for selecting text. With 3 buttons I would love to have something line button1 + drag = select text from start to current point button2 + drag = select rectangle of text from start to current point I can't get used to a mouse button causing a paste at the text cursor. Finally I would like to disable all the cursor movement by Control + a letter as the cursor keys work fine. That would allow me C-x, C-c and C-v for my cut copy and paste which are so convenient. Any suggestions. Thanks Dave
Re: XEmacs novice customisation
Matt, Thanks for your reply. I have been attempting the (x)emacs way of selecting text as you describe and I agree the functionality is similar but I find it is not as easy for me to remember. All I needed to remember in MultiEdit was that the cursor keys worked, the control key made them go further and the shift key caused selection. The Control xc and v are easy to remember due to their logical position together on the keyboard. From looking at sample.emacs it appears relatively easy to change the Ctrl-W (I ask you W meaning cut - someone has a sense of humour) to Ctrl-X and the same for Meta-W and Ctrl-Y (yank! = horrible name for inserting text). That leaves me with getting used to Ctrl-Space (which is a long way from the cursor keys) unless I can get the shift to replace it. Well... I find mouse cut'n'paste with Unix easier than windows. If I wanted to select the quoted text above, I would use mouse button1 (my left-most button), press it, and drag the mouse over the text I wanted. Upon releasing the mouse button, the region should remain highlighted. The fact that in Unix if I select text and then press delete (or any key) and it does not disapear seems really odd. Also the fact that it is too easy to get text into the paste buffer - by that I mean highlight with your mouse, and then accidently click the middle button and you paste it, I prefer to make an extra step to select, then copy, cut, delete or paste and so control what goes in the paste buffer. I definately do not want to start any kind of flame war on this. I believe that our preferences here are simply due to the what we learnt first (the best block support I have ever used was in MultiEdit on msdos). I also believe that as (x)emacs is so very customizable that it should be able to support both our preferred way of working. The only dificulty is learning how to do the customization. I don't know if this is the default behavior -- I have the gpm package installed, and that may be what does this for me. (On the other hand, I compiled xemacs 20 withOUT gpm support, and this still works... shrug). gpm has caused me problems so I disabled it. I have a MS Intellimouse on a PS/2 port. This works fine with gpm unless I have run X then the mouse goes crazy back in a virtual console with it automatically selecting text and moving erratically. Good luck! Thanks. Dave
Entity Modelling sw for Linux?
Hi, As you may have seen from other messages I am moving the whole office onto Debian. The FileServer and Firewall are working fine as pure Linux. My Java programmer is fine as pure linux. I am left with needing NT for a few things such as Delphi 3 Development (against SQL Anywhere dbms). One other application I still need windows NT for is PowerDesigner from Powersoft. It is a graphical database entity modeling tool. I am looking for alternatives that will run under X on Linux. This is currently a pain as the databases I am designing are being used by the java programmer so I keep having to switch between NT and Linux. Just to clarify what I mean by entity modelling. The tool is to allow me to design relational databases. It needs a visual display of the relationships between entities and needs to be able to produce the sql code to actually generate the database for a number of different dbms. There need to be a variery of reports on the model which can be customised for particular target readers. The whole model must support being divided into sub-models as my brain can't cope with the whole thing in one go. Any suggestions open source, free, or commercial? Thanks Dave Warnock Sundayta Ltd
Re: Keeping multiple systems up-to-date with apt: how?
Ian, I have been setup by Phil Hands to have the following. 1. My Server as a complete copy of Hamm as at 1 Sept. 2. My sources.list in /etc/apt first points to the copy on my server and then to the copy on the debian ftp site. Now I only pay to collect the changes. If I install the same thing on multiple machines one after the other then the squid cache means less downloads. I also have a thing called resync which can be used to update the complete copy on my fileserver by only collecting the changes. Don't know where Phil got that from (my guess is that it will be in the unstable directories somewhere). Hope this helps. Dave
Re: Exim questions
Georg Thanks, I am looking at the docs now. There are a lot! I have not yet understood the smartuser so I think I will start by using the aliases (I found out how to do them when looking at the docs for smartuser ;-). Dave Georg Bauer wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Warnock) wrote: this behaviour so that instead all messages that are not to a valid account get sent to a named account and do not get rejected. You should look up the description of the smartuser director in the exim documentation. That does exactly what you need. bye, Georg
Re: X windows...
Noel Yap wrote: David Warnock wrote: I suggest you look in the man pages for startx. You should see that the default X server to start is X. On my system that was starting the wrong server so I changed X to be a symbolic link to XF86_SVGA. On a Debian system, /usr/bin/X11/X is not a symlink at all but actually a wrapper program that checks the file /etc/X11/Xserver for the proper X server to call. You'll want the first line in that file to read /usr/bin/X11/XF86_SVGA. See /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian for more information. Noel Thanks, looks like I goofed. I was sure I had not done this the right way but had a lot of dificulty finding what was happening. There seem to be so many files used in the startup of X. I guess that if I get dselect to re-install the base X package I can get the correct X file back? That README.Debian is bery useful - I wish I had found it sooner. Thanks Dave
Printing accross a LAN
My fileserver (running Hamm) has 2 printers attached. The printcap and everything is setup so I can print. This machine also runs samba and both printers are made available across the lan by samba. When I use Windows NT on a client I can print to either printer attached to the server via samba. When I use Linux on a client how do I configure it so that I can print to either printer? I am not currently running the samba client (instead I am using nfs to mount the server directories). Thanks for any help Dave
Re: StarOffice
David, Thanks for your answer. I am very new to Linux and Unix. I have read a bit about the diferent libraries and I have created a couple of symbolic links but I am not clear about this part of your message. mkdir /usr/local/StarOffice mkdir /usr/local/StarOffice/lib ln -s libc.so.5 libXpm.so.4 ln -s /lib/libc.so.5.4.38 libc.so.5 What is my current directory when I make these links. What do they actually mean? Thanks Dave
Re: Correction of Clock for summer time
Robert Wilderspin wrote: On 4 Sep 98 10:37:53 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It turned out to be option a. The help from the list was great as always. My problem is that I don't know where to start looking in the MAN pages (I would never have guessed the names tzconfig or hwclock). Try man -k clock to get a list of all commands that have clock in their man description. The command apropos is an alias of this. Rob, Thanks, missed that. Dave
Re: X windows...
Taylen wrote: hey, I recently got a new system, and decided that maybe this time my video card(now an STB nVidia, Riva 128 chipset, with 8 megs of vram)...anyway, I get it setup with XF86Setup and do startx, it starts, but in 320x240 resolution, I tried doing alt+ctrl+ +or- but that wouldn't work...after that I tried to set up the resolutions in XF86Config, but it still ends up small, any explanation for why? --this is with debian 1.31 Taylen, I am also very new indeed to Linux. But I have just got a STB Velocity 128 to work. I suggest you look in the man pages for startx. You should see that the default X server to start is X. On my system that was starting the wrong server so I changed X to be a symbolic link to XF86_SVGA. You can see if this solution will work by running XF86_SVGA directly (I think you need to be root). It wonlt give you a menu or anything but it should show the resolution that you will get if you do change the X symbolic link. Regards Dave
deb for StarOffice 4
I have downloaded StarOffice 4. I have not seen a package to install this (there is one for StarOffice 3.1). a) Is there a package somewhere that will install so40sp3_lnx_01.tar.gz b) If there is not how easy is it to create on like the one for StarOffice 3.1 (or Netscape 4)? I am interested not just for StarOffice but for apps we write and need to install/uninstll on our own LAN. Thanks Dave
X App Launcher?
Hi, I am using XFree86 (the suse one that supports Permedia 2 cards). I am currently using icewm as my window manager. I am looking for an application launcher that will sit on my desktop and provide direct access to applications. I guess I could change the menu but I would prefer to lick on icons. I would prefer something that does not tie me into a single window manager but it would also be nice if I could specify which virtual window items load in. It would be nice if it had a .deb package and was quick to setup. What are your suggestions? Thanks Dave
X Background
I am using XFree86 with icewm. The desktop background is a distracting pattern. So far I clear this (which has sort of difraction patterns at high res) by using the fishtank application. I am quite a boring person and wondered how to clear it to a single colour. Thanks Dave
Re: X Background
Nils Rennebarth wrote: On Sat, Sep 05, 1998 at 12:45:43PM +, David Warnock wrote: I am quite a boring person and wondered how to clear [the X background] to a single colour. Nils, Great thanks, just what I wanted. Dave
Re: Correction of Clock for summer time
Gilbert, It turned out to be option a. The help from the list was great as always. My problem is that I don't know where to start looking in the MAN pages (I would never have guessed the names tzconfig or hwclock). Anyway all hunky dory now. Dave Gilbert Laycock wrote: David During the installation of Hamm I was asked if my PC was David running on GMT or not. I guess I answered this wrong as the David time is displayed an hour ahead of what it should be. David It should be showing British Summer time now which is GMT + 1 David but is in fact showing GMT + 2. David Where / How do I correct this, I have checked all I can see in David Man for time and have not found the correct info. I have been David able to confirm the above using tzselect. The time your machine reports depends on two things: the time the system clock is set to, and the timezone it thinks it is in. Matters are further complicated by the hardware clock, which is used to set the system clock. Any one being wrong could cause your problem. For instance, if your system clock was already set to local time (BST, which is GMT+1), when you installed hamm, and you told it: a) that the system clock was set to GMT (when it wasn't really), and b) that you are in time zone Europe/London, or GB or whatever, ie local time is BST then you would get the time reported as GMT+2 but the date command would show it as BST. If this is the case then you need to reset the system clock, using the date command, and then set the hardware clock from the system clock using the hwclock command. Alternatively it could be that your system clock really is set to GMT, but you have set the wrong time zone (to something that is GMT+2 at the moment). If that is the case runs tzconfig to set it to the right time zone (I use Europe/London). -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock Leicester Universityphone: (+44) 116 252 3902
Netscape 4.06 Messenger
Hi, I have installed netscape 4.06 communicator but I am concerned that the message filter is not working correctly. Basicly I want to move all the messages from various lists into folders. When I define multiple rules (which are after all very simple) it appears that messages go missing ie I see it collect 7 messages but only 4 show up as new mail. Anyone got any ideas? Also to help me debug this does anyone know how I could get exim to put a copy of all the incoming messages in another mailbox so that I can check the rules are working OK. Thanks Dave
Exim questions
Hi, I have Exim as my mail server. Currently it seems to reject messages to anyone that does not have a valid mail account. This is understandable but I would like to change this behaviour so that instead all messages that are not to a valid account get sent to a named account and do not get rejected. Does anyone know if this is possible. I am struggling through the man pages at present but have not found what I want. Thanks Dave
bash shell prompt
Hi, On Hamm, if I login as root or while logged in as myself do a su then my shell prompt shows the host and current directory. When I am logged in as myself my prompt is just a $ I much prefer to see the current directory in my prompt. So how do I change it? My guess was that the .bashrc in my home directory needed the same PS1 environment as the .bashrc in the root directory so I added export PS1='\h:\w\$ ' but this does not solve the problem UNLESS I login as myself and then type bash at which point the prompt changes. So I seem to have the right environment variable but do I need to put it in a different file or what? Thanks Dave Dave Warnock Sundayta Ltd www.sundayta.co.uk
Re: bash shell prompt
To everyone who has replied to my question. Thanks I have my prompt as I want it, I also now understand some of the bash man information. I also just wanted to check that my new netscape 4.06 is working. Dave
Correction of Clock for summer time
During the installation of Hamm I was asked if my PC was running on GMT or not. I guess I answered this wrong as the time is displayed an hour ahead of what it should be. It should be showing British Summer time now which is GMT + 1 but is in fact showing GMT + 2. Where / How do I correct this, I have checked all I can see in Man for time and have not found the correct info. I have been able to confirm the above using tzselect. Dave
3com 3c905b support in Hamm
Hi, Cards recognised by Hamm? I am about to get Hamm installed on 4 PC's. I have been checking out the hardware for Linux compatability by starting the installation of a RedHat 5.0 CD (my Installer arrives on Tuesday with the Debian CD and I want to be sure everything is going to be ready). Currently I have as many different network cards as PC's. Two are recognised by RH 5.0 two are not. The ones that are NOT recognised by RH5.0 are a Intel EtherExpress Pro 100/B and a 3Com 3c905b-tx Fast Etherlink XL PCI 10/100base-tx. Are these going to be recognised / work with Hamm? What confuses me is that a slightly older 3com 3c905 tx (ie not the b) is recognised by RH5.0 but as a 3c59x (Vortex). Thanks Dave PS When I say recognised by RH5.0 is means I start the installation, at the point of FDISK I jump to the menu and choose network configuration. With the working PCI card the installation just shows me it's name and goes straight to the setting of IP address etc. With the other cards I get a menu of supported cards, when I choose what I think is the correct one I get the change to autoprobe but it never finds the card. I realise a) Hamm installation is completely different and b) it may be possible to get these cards to work by setting some parameters manually. So what I really need to know is a) will Hamm support these cards automatically or if not can I get them to work with some manual parameter setting. Dave Warnock Sundayta Ltd www.sundayta.co.uk
Re: 3com 3c905b support in Hamm
Thanks Nathan. Dave On 28 Aug 98, at 10:36, Nathan E Norman wrote: Debian 2.0 works with the 905b just fine. Install the 3C59x module. Dave Warnock Sundayta Ltd www.sundayta.co.uk
Re: 3com 3c905b support in Hamm
Akop, Many thanks. On 28 Aug 98, at 21:36, Akop Pogosian wrote: Snip The 3c900/905 cards are supported with the latest 3c59x driver. Even if redhat 5.0 does recognize your card it will not function. At least, this was my case. This is because, the RedHat CD that I had came with 2.0.32 kernel. Before, you had to solve that problem by d/loading the 3c59x.c driver compiling it, putting it the /lib/modules/2.0.xx/, and adding a line alias eth0 3c59x in /etc/conf.modules. However the latest stable kernels already include the 3c59x driver that will work with 3c900/905 cards out of box. Hamm, does not recognize or detect your ethernet cards during install. You have to make sure that you select 3c59x module manually. It worked out of box. My computer was online once I rebooted after the install. Dave Warnock Sundayta Ltd www.sundayta.co.uk
