Linux-Misc Digest #494, Volume #19 Wed, 17 Mar 99 20:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: acitivating pppd as a non-root user (Jerry Lynn Kreps)
Re: Is Red Hat 5.2 worth fifty notes? (E. Frank Ball)
Re: Modem setup question (Bill Unruh)
Re: Telnet question (Steve Emms)
Re: acitivating pppd as a non-root user (Bill Unruh)
Re: acitivating pppd as a non-root user (NF Stevens)
Re: Linux spreadsheets Excel compatible (Steve Emms)
This bad? (Ken Williams)
Re: downloaded some SUSE disk sets , so how do i install them (Benjamin Smith)
Re: Linux spreadsheets Excel compatible ("Spud")
Re: Red Hat 5.2 + MS Proxy (Jeffrey L Straszheim)
Linux spreadsheets Excel compatible ("Paul Davies")
Re: Telnet question ("David Z. Maze")
Re: version control - complicated diff usage (Steve Peltz)
Re: Sendmail doesn't work (Michael Powe)
Re: Help a newbie (Paul Richards)
Re: Linux and Y2K (fernando)
Re: LILO problem remaining unsolved !!!!! (Harry)
Re: Freecell (Alan Curry)
Re: LILO problem remaining unsolved !!!!! (Harry)
Site Critque, Please (mickey foley)
configuration of AfterStep wm ? ("Frederic Hoerni")
Re: 10G disk and fdisk/diskdruid problems ("Dave C.")
Re: How many $$$ does Linux save? (Christopher Browne)
Linux server and multipile POP3 accounts (Iztok Polanic)
kppp won't accept password ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux spreadsheets Excel compatible (Christopher Browne)
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From: Jerry Lynn Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: acitivating pppd as a non-root user
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 16:43:23 -0600
Hugh wrote:
>
> Thanks to those who responded to someone else about being able to activate
> pppd as a user. I can activate by typing /usr/sbin/ppp-on. I would like to
> be able to type ppp-on only. Any help appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Hugh Brian
> --
> Remove NOSPAM from address to reply.
create a file named "ppp-on" in your home directory. It contains two
lines:
#!/usr/bin/bash
/usr/sbin/ppp-on
Mark it as an executable ("chmod u+x ppp-on")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (E. Frank Ball)
Subject: Re: Is Red Hat 5.2 worth fifty notes?
Date: 17 Mar 1999 21:26:53 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 17 Mar 1999 11:35:05 -0500 Harry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) @
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
} > Linux Central<
} Is that the full product? (Ie not littered with crashing betas?) Wot
} about the manuals - are they worth the hard-earned?
The cheap ($1-$3 plus shipping) CD from www.cheapbytes.com,
www.linuxcentral.com, www.lsl.com, www.linuxmall.com, are the real
thing. 1 or 2 CDs, no manual.
The Offical RedHat is a 3 CD set plus a manual and "support". The 3 CDs
are the "binaray", "source", and "commercial" CDs. The binary cd has
the full linux operating system. This is exactly what you get for $2.
The source CD has all the source code for the binary CD. Linuxcentral
includes this CD, cheapbytes sells it separately. You won't need this
unless you want to recompile something, even then you can get the latest
greatest source for just what you want off the web. The commercial CD
has BRU, a backup program, and a bunch of other non-free stuff. Most of
them are crippled or time limited.
You can download the manual direct from RedHat and print it out.
--
Frank Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Modem setup question
Date: 17 Mar 1999 23:07:56 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> john xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Your modem is fine. You are just not setting up ppp properly
Read
axion.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux for step by step instructions.
>this machine, everything seems Ok except modem card. I can dial in to my
>ISP PPP server and get the connection. Then enter username and
>password. I got connection and hundreds garbage characters. However,
Those are their ppp trying to negotiate. You are not yet negotiating.
>Is it possible due to my system memory be too small to cause the
>problem?
>This error repeated again and again and really bother me.
No everything is fine and yo uare almost there.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Emms)
Subject: Re: Telnet question
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 22:29:05 GMT
On Wed, 17 Mar 1999 17:02:21 -0500, "Toolman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>If I'm trying to connect to my Linux box via Telnet (from my Windows 98)
>station wouldn't you expect the root account to work?
>Each time I try this connection with the root account it won't connect
>(states my login is incorrect). Any ideas? I can most definitely login
>directly to the system using the root account.........Problem with telnet?
For obvious security reasons, telnetting to the root account is
disabled. Just telnet to a non-root user and su.
Regards
Steve
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxlinks.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: acitivating pppd as a non-root user
Date: 17 Mar 1999 23:09:48 GMT
In <01be7099$5e61af80$235033a1@nt1840> "Hugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Thanks to those who responded to someone else about being able to activate
>pppd as a user. I can activate by typing /usr/sbin/ppp-on. I would like to
>be able to type ppp-on only. Any help appreciated.
Put ppp-on into a directory in your path (eg /usr/local/bin) or put
/usr/sbin into your path. (Not a great idea as /usr/sbin is really root
type programs.)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NF Stevens)
Subject: Re: acitivating pppd as a non-root user
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 22:48:53 GMT
"Hugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Thanks to those who responded to someone else about being able to activate
>pppd as a user. I can activate by typing /usr/sbin/ppp-on. I would like to
>be able to type ppp-on only. Any help appreciated.
ln -s /usr/sbin/ppp-on /usr/bin
(as root)
Norman
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Emms)
Subject: Re: Linux spreadsheets Excel compatible
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 23:19:16 GMT
On Wed, 17 Mar 1999 23:08:47 -0000, "Paul Davies"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Are there any Linux spreadsheets that can read Excel spreadsheets?
>
>
You could try running Excel itself with Wine.
Regards
Steve Emms
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxlinks.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Williams)
Subject: This bad?
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 23:18:02 GMT
Mar 17 07:30:00 central kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 0a37b000, ^Lr3 = 0a37b000
Mar 17 07:30:00 central kernel: *pde = 00000000
And I'm getting
Mar 12 11:43:43 central kernel: Kernel panic: Aarggh: attempting to free lock
with active block list - shoot Andy
alot too.
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From: Benjamin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: downloaded some SUSE disk sets , so how do i install them
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 23:23:28 GMT
You'll need to get the disks directory from the SuSE ftp site in
addition to these packages. Or at the very least the EIDE01 (or SCSI if
you have a SCSI hard drive) and modules disk image files from the disks
directory. Use the DOS program rawrite.exe from the dosutils directory
on the SuSE ftp site to create a floppy from EIDE01 (or whatever boot
disk image you chose) and another floppy from the modules disk image.
Boot your machine with the EIDE01 disk and the SuSE setup routine should
take you from there. If the first EIDE disk image doesn't work on your
machine, try the other two in succession.
If this is your first time setting up Linux, I would strongly advise
investing in an official CD set from SuSE which comes with everything
you need and manual to help you install it. You're asking for trouble
downloading it in pieces this way. I run SuSE 6.0 as downloaded from
FTP, but I have a cable modem and consequently the full 2 gig download
wasn't a problem. I'm also well used to installing Linux.
Oh, and get a copy of Running Linux from O'Reilly if you don't already
have one.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> hi there
>
> i've downloaded a couple of the disksets from suse
> ftp site
>
> a1
> ap1
> ap2
> beo1
> contents
> d1
> d2
> x1
>
> they are big so itll take a while to get them all, anyway how do i
> install them i dont see a setup or install routine?
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From: "Spud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux spreadsheets Excel compatible
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 23:36:46 GMT
I believe gnumeric can read Excel spreadsheets. But this requires a
GNOME installation, or at least gnome-libs installed.
Paul Davies wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Are there any Linux spreadsheets that can read Excel spreadsheets?
>
>
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From: Jeffrey L Straszheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Red Hat 5.2 + MS Proxy
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 18:16:15 -0500
<name of original poster lost>
<snip>
>>I have MS Proxy Server installed on Windows NT,
>
>
>>wondering if anyone had any ideas on how I can get the Internet on my
>>linux box
You'll likely have no problem connecting through Netscape to get
to the web; however the other Internet services (mail, irc, etc.) are
a different story. Proxy Server provides support for other protocols
by installing a new winsock32 on the stations. This program provides
is smart enough to discriminate between requests to internal IP
addresses from external ones. Of course, no such support exists
for Linux. Proxy Server also provides support for some of the Socks
protocols, but that is outside my area of experience (hopefully someone
else on this group can let you know if the Socks interfaces will be useful
for you).
Good luck
Jeffrey Straszheim
Systems Engineer, Programmer
stimuli AT shadow DOT net
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From: "Paul Davies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux spreadsheets Excel compatible
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 23:08:47 -0000
Are there any Linux spreadsheets that can read Excel spreadsheets?
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From: "David Z. Maze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Telnet question
Date: 17 Mar 1999 18:58:50 -0500
Toolman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
tm> If I'm trying to connect to my Linux box via Telnet (from my
tm> Windows 98) station wouldn't you expect the root account to work?
Well, no, not particularly. I would expect the user account you do
most of your work as to work, though.
If you *must* log in as root remotely and su just isn't good enough
for you, you should be able to trivially find a solution on DejaNews.
--
David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/
"Hey, Doug, do you mind if I push the Emergency Booth Self-Destruct Button?"
"Oh, sure, Dave, whatever...you _do_ know what that does, right?"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Peltz)
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.emacs.xemacs,ed.linux
Subject: Re: version control - complicated diff usage
Date: 17 Mar 1999 23:17:00 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
William Burrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>This routine actually failed to correctly apply the update, though
>it successfully completed. I would suggest that the failure was due
>to a lack of context (patch will search for blocks meeting some
>context and apply the changes as it sees fit, unfortunately, the
>section used for context for my test was likely too small.)
>
>This problem may be harder than it first seems.
Use diff3, typically using
diff3 -mE file ancestor changes
(the -m option is specific to the GNU version of diff3)
v1.0 -- v1.0.1
| | (patch 1)
| v1.0.2
|
v1.1 -- v1.1.1
|
v1.2 -- v1.2.1
| | (patch 2)
v1.3 v1.2.2
Let's say, in the above tree, you made some changes from v1.0.1 to v1.0.2
and some changes from v1.2.1 to v1.2.2, and you want to apply those same
changes to v1.1.1 (resulting in v1.1.2), e.g. you want to apply patch 1 and
patch 2 to v1.1.1)
diff3 -mE v1.0 v1.0.1 v1.0.2 > file-1 (apply patch 1 to v1.0)
diff3 -mE v1.1 v1.0 file-1 > file-2 (apply patch 1 to v1.1)
diff3 -mE v1.2 v1.2.1 v1.2.2 > file-3 (apply patch 2 to v1.2)
diff3 -mE v1.1 v1.2 file-3 > file-4 (apply patch 2 to v1.1)
diff3 -mE file-2 v1.1 file-4 > file-5 (apply patch 2 to v1.1 patched with 1)
diff3 -mE v1.1.1 v1.1 file-5 > v1.1.2
You could eliminate some of the steps, e.g. you could use
diff3 -mE v1.1 v1.0.1 v1.0.2 > file-2
diff3 -mE v1.1 v1.2.1 v1.2.2 > file-4
and skip creating file-1 and file-3, but if there are conflicts it is
probably easier to go one version at a time. If there are conflicts at
any step, you need to resolve them before going on.
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From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sendmail doesn't work
Date: 17 Mar 1999 15:21:00 -0800
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[posted and mailed]
>>>>> "Karl" == Karl Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Karl> someone tell me what to do please? How can I stop sendmail
Karl> from starting automatically? And how do I fix it if I need
Karl> that service? (Just before this error started occuring, I
Karl> installed Netscape 4.51 and I also tried to setup a pppd
Karl> script according to the ISP-hookup HOWTO)
You can temporarily halt the sendmail daemon by editing the
appropriate .rc file in /etc/rc.d.
(Linux 2.2.0) [root] [ ~]
99 $ --> cd /etc/rc.d
(Linux 2.2.0) [root] [ /etc/rc.d]
100 $ --> ls | xargs grep sendmail
rc.M:# Start the sendmail daemon:
rc.M:if [ -x /usr/sbin/sendmail ]; then
rc.M: echo "Starting sendmail daemon (/usr/sbin/sendmail -bd
-q15m)..."
rc.M: /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q15m
Find the correct file on your system and comment it out.
mp
- --
Michael Powe Portland, Oregon USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.trollope.org
"Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write."
-- Anthony Trollope
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From: Paul Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help a newbie
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 23:47:15 +0000
Reply-To: Paul Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
benjamin j snyder writes,
[snip]
Right,
I think I've got this all sorted apart from what I put in fstab, I just
guessed that bit. Here's my fstab file:
/dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 /win95 vfat defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc1 /backups vfat defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
It's the 3rd and 4th line that I put in, is it OK?
The sound saga...
I still get an error when it attempts to play the sound sample after
configuration.
IRC...
I had a look at the program IRCII but when I try to connect to
efnet.demon.co.uk I get an error saying that I can't log in as ROOT or
something. So I made a new user account thingy and enabled all the
privileges but when I used that I couldn't get the network thingy up to
start the PPP connection. Any ideas?
Thanks for all your help so far, hopefully my next post will be from
Linux!
--
Paul Richards (aka. Pauldoo)
EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HTTP www.dunvegan1.demon.co.uk/paul/
ICQ# 14106503
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From: fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux and Y2K
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 18:55:39 +0500
M. Buchenrieder wrote:
>
> Please do yourself a favour and use a search engine.
> Hint: UN*X doesn't have a Y2K problem.
Not really true.
Some UN*X DO have Y2K problems.
At least SCO products had.
>
> Michael
> --
> Michael Buchenrieder * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.muc.de/~mibu
> Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
> Note: If you want me to send you email, don't munge your address.
--
============================================
This are my personal opinions
Real email: sanabriaf at yahoo dot com
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From: Harry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO problem remaining unsolved !!!!!
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 09:20:58 -0500
> If your running a SCSI disk <
hda ... hdb ... master ... slave ... SCSI???
Am I missing something?
Harry
BTW s/your/you're/
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Subject: Re: Freecell
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Curry)
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 00:31:37 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jeffrey L Straszheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Howdie
>
>So I think that I can convince my wife to start using
>Linux (and get rid of that darn Win95 partition I've
>hanging around) if only I can provider her with a
>version of the game Freecell that runs on Linux. I
>actually found one with the KDE distribution, but
>guess what: she doesn't like it because the UI is more
>difficult than on windows. (Actually she's right, in the
>windows version it's much easier to move the cards
>around and such.) Anyhow, does anyone know
>where I might find this game?
My curses-based freecell has a much more efficient interface: all keyboard,
no mouse. See http://www.cqc.com/~pacman/projects/freecell/
--
Alan Curry |Declaration of | _../\. ./\.._ ____. ____.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]|bigotries (should| [ | | ] / _> / _>
==============+save some time): | \__/ \__/ \___: \___:
Linux,vim,trn,GPL,zsh,qmail,^H | "Screw you guys, I'm going home" -- Cartman
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From: Harry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO problem remaining unsolved !!!!!
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 09:23:13 -0500
> When i boot without floppy, Win95 is starting <
I think this means that the MBR is Microsoft's. You have to install
LILO on hda to ensure it's written in the MBR and not the boot
sector.
Harry
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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 19:34:47 -0500
From: mickey foley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Site Critque, Please
Crossposted-To: alt.hackers.malicious,microsoft.public.frontpage.client
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Hello
Finally finished my site. Please critique.
One Concern -
Is my blue background color difficult to read?
Best Wishes Barry
http://www.woodsolutions.com/
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<b><i>Hello</i></b><b><i></i></b>
<p><b><i>Finally finished my site. Please critique.</i></b>
<br><b><i>One Concern -</i></b>
<br><b><i>Is my blue background color difficult to read?</i></b><b><i></i></b>
<p><b><i>Best Wishes Barry</i></b>
<p><A HREF="http://www.woodsolutions.com/">http://www.woodsolutions.com/</A>
<br>
<br> </html>
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From: "Frederic Hoerni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,fr.comp.os.linux.configuration
Subject: configuration of AfterStep wm ?
Date: 16 Mar 1999 06:15:23 GMT
hello,
i'd like to configure AfterStep window manager and change some of the menus,
or put one of my pictures in the background.
I did not find any file that enables me to configure it (like fvwm2 for
example).
Is it possible to configure it and how ?
thanks
--
______________________________________________
fred ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Dave C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: 10G disk and fdisk/diskdruid problems
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 18:35:07 -0500
I'm a relative newbie to Linux, but why would you need to create a Linux
native partition of more than 8GB? The full default install of Linux
Mandrake (RH5.2 +KDE+ a bunch of other software) took less than 400MB.
When I'm done installing all the Linux software I would ever need, I
imagine I'll still have less than 1GB of disk space used for Linux
files. If you need more space for data files, I would imagine you could
just create say, two linux native partitions of ~5000 MB each, plus a
linux swap partition of about 100MB. That should be about 10GB total
storage space. Why would you need it all in one partition? -Dave
Bill Unruh wrote in message <7cpc65$gp8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>A friend is trying toinstall Linux on a PII-333 AsusMB system with a
10G
>IDE Fujitsu disk.
>When he uses the Win98 fdisk, he can format the whole disk as 1300 cyl
>and max heads and sectors. However all fdisk or disk druid ever tell
him
>is that there are a max of 1024 cyl and 8GB of space.
>How does one get around this to be able to use the whole of the disk?
>According to the large disk howto, Linux is supposed to just use the
>flat disk model, without worrying about the cyl. But thee seems to be
no
>way to persude fdisk or diskdruid to believe this. What is the trick?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: How many $$$ does Linux save?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 00:57:41 GMT
On Wed, 17 Mar 1999 15:31:53 -0600, Nathan Cuka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Alan Gauld wrote:
>> Paul Davies wrote:
>> > I'm just trying to understand approximately how much I'd save using Linux
>> > compared to say Solaris. Does anyone know how much Solaris costs per
>> > license?
>>
>> Solaris for x86 was about $500-600 last time I looked
>> (including compilers etc!)
>>
>
>Actually, Sun charges nothing for Solaris 7 for non-commercial use
Which is irrelevant if the plan is to make commercial use of the system.
--
"What is the purpose of a person acquiring perfect French pronunciation
if they have nothing of value to say in any language?" -- Walter Ong
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/lsf.html>
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From: Iztok Polanic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux server and multipile POP3 accounts
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 21:46:35 GMT
We are running a local Linux server. We want also to be Linux our POP3
server and would download all our emails (7 accounts). How can we make this?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: kppp won't accept password
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 00:45:10 GMT
i have recently installed kde and started trying to use kppp as i heard it
was dead easy to set up. But after reading the instructions and the faq i
can't find an answer to my problem. When I try to connect to my isp, it dials
in and connects and sends my username, then it prints the password prompt and
hangs there with the mesage in the debug window saying expect password.
I have my password typed into the small window that kppp connects with, just
under my username. I also have a login script which deals with the expect and
send details which also contains my password. (actually why do i have to have
2 instances of my username and password?)
I was using usernet before in windowmaker which worked fine (and still does)
is it because i have already editted the resolv.conf file which causes funny
things to happen? i'm using redhat 5.2 with kde 1.1. kppp seems like a really
good dialup program with accounting and so i would really like to use it so
any help would be greatly appreciated.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: Linux spreadsheets Excel compatible
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 00:57:49 GMT
On Wed, 17 Mar 1999 23:19:16 GMT, Steve Emms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Wed, 17 Mar 1999 23:08:47 -0000, "Paul Davies"
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Are there any Linux spreadsheets that can read Excel spreadsheets?
>>
>You could try running Excel itself with Wine.
Alternatively, there are quite a large number of spreadsheets that run
natively on Linux that have varying degrees of ability to read various
proprietary data formats. See the URL below...
--
"What is the purpose of a person acquiring perfect French pronunciation
if they have nothing of value to say in any language?" -- Walter Ong
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/spreadsheets.html>
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