Linux-Misc Digest #351, Volume #20 Wed, 26 May 99 01:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Tools for Linux Hard disk duplication ? (James Yu)
Re: Road Runner Customer User Agreement Violation - Using Alternative Operating
Systems (Edward Germain)
Help me fir a Wedding (Jean-Christophe GONZATO)
libncurses.so.4 (Brian Stewart)
kppp and RH6.0 ("CHAN Kin Poon")
Re: How to Stay Online - ISP Kicks my off during inactivity (Ben Short)
Re: Desktop items and suse login ?? (me!)
Re: How to Stay Online - ISP Kicks my off during inactivity (Shawn K. Quinn - NO
SOLICITING)
Re: Road Runner Customer User Agreement Violation - Using Alternative Operating
Systems ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul E. Larson))
Re: Cannot use ZGV with user account (Colin Watson)
Re: Crontab? (Herb Stein)
Re: Road Runner Customer User Agreement Violation - Using Alternative Operating
Systems ("David A. Spicer")
Re: A Capitalists view of freedom (Christopher Browne)
Re: Middleware to connect PostgreSQL to Web forms ? (Christopher Browne)
Re: Odd Kernel panic (Andrew)
Re: Dial-in terminal server... (mike murray)
Re: Linux Winzip utility (J.M. Paden)
Re: Linux Winzip utility (Ed Young)
Re: How to Stay Online - ISP Kicks my off during inactivity
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Perl & Html ("Jeff Goodman")
Re: How to Stay Online - ISP Kicks my off during inactivity ("William B. Cattell")
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From: James Yu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Tools for Linux Hard disk duplication ?
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 19:20:21 -0700
Hi
Does anyone know any tool that I can use to duplicate my Linux hard disk
?
I need to duplicate the hard disk of my Linux box running Redhat 5.2 to
3 different brand hard disks. The size of the hard disk can be the same
or
different. I want to duplicate the disk and plug them into three
machines, each with
the same hardware configuration (same hardware cards, CPU, mother
boards)
except the hard disk, and run it right after I power on. This means the
boot
sector needs to be duplicated too. Any idea ?
Thanks
James
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edward Germain)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.misc,alt.fan.roadrunner
Subject: Re: Road Runner Customer User Agreement Violation - Using Alternative
Operating Systems
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 23:59:19 GMT
I have Mediaone cable connection. OS/2 is no problem in actuality.
Anyone who wants to do it, just have Mediaone set you up in Windows.
Make sure everything works. Then carefully implement your own OS/2
setup. Then forget about the Windows setup.
Of course this means you have to be able to dual-boot, but it
certainly has been worth it for me; I've NEVER been off-line with
OS/2, and I frequently go off-line w/ Windows (95).
My experience w/ Mediaone suggests that they hire young people to do
house-to-house installs who know how to plug tab A into slot B, but
often not much more. They have a supervisor, of course, but he's back
at the end of the telephone line, in the office. There's no way these
guys are going to know how to install a cable setup in OS/2. It looks
to me as though there is a financial disinclination for Mediaone
(they'd have to pay and train the guys more).
But the bottom line is that you can do it, and get help here. And
your setup will work better than theirs, cause them fewer problems,
less hassle. So how can they object to that. All you have to do is
not pester them w/ technical support questions--about which they will
know little. Ask those questions here.
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From: Jean-Christophe GONZATO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.music.midi,comp.os.geos.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Help me fir a Wedding
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 16:47:44 +0200
Hi every News_surfers
I need you help to make a surprise for two of my friends (David and
Magali) which have planned to get married next 07-03-1999.
May you lost 2 minutes for me, please, by filling a simple wishes
weeding form located at :
http://dept-info.labri.u-bordeaux.fr/~gonzato/DavidMag
In advance, I send you many thanks.
Jean-Christophe
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From: Brian Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: libncurses.so.4
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 11:08:48 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have slackware 3.6 installed with kernel 2.0.35, it currently has
ncurses 1.9.8x installed, is there any know problems with installing
ncurses ver. 4.2
Thanks in advance
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From: "CHAN Kin Poon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kppp and RH6.0
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 23:13:55 +0800
Greetings,
I'm having problem with RH6.0 and kppp. I have no problem establishing a
connection
with my ISP. However, after securing a connection, I couldn't surf
anywhere. Netscape
time out and returns with an error not being able to reach my ISP's proxy
server. I've
not problem with Windows or RH5.2. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks
in advance
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Short)
Subject: Re: How to Stay Online - ISP Kicks my off during inactivity
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 12:42:51 +1000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> Does anyone out there know of a program that automatically sends out a
> packet every (specified) amount of time?
> My damn ISP kicks me off if I'm inactive for something like 5
> minutes....and it's starting to get annoying. I used to use Netprophet
> for windows....is there something similiar for Linux? Thanks kindly,
>
> Jason
>
>
hehe, have a cron job perhaps?
0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * ping -c 3 <someIP> >/dev/null
2>&1
I'm sure theres programs out there, but they would all work on a similar
method ;)
Ben
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (me!)
Subject: Re: Desktop items and suse login ??
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 18:51:50 -0500
On Mon, 24 May 1999 22:48:42 GMT, Confused! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>After installing suse 6.0, how can i reduce the size of my desktop
>folders, taskbar, and the graphical suse login prompt which appear
>twice the size than on a previous install??
did you end up with a virtual screen larger than the actual screen?
i.e. when you move the mouse to the edge does it scroll over?
--
yours,
Andy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shawn K. Quinn - NO SOLICITING)
Subject: Re: How to Stay Online - ISP Kicks my off during inactivity
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 03:41:24 GMT
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jason Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Does anyone out there know of a program that automatically sends out a
| packet every (specified) amount of time?
| My damn ISP kicks me off if I'm inactive for something like 5
| minutes....and it's starting to get annoying. I used to use Netprophet
| for windows....is there something similiar for Linux? Thanks kindly,
Yes, it's called buying a dedicated link from your ISP. This is the
real fix regardless of what OS you are running.
BTW, five minutes is way too low of an inactivity timeout; are you
sure it's not 15 or 20?
--
Shawn K. Quinn - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Thank you, Microsoft, and please get out of the way."
-- Richard Stallman
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Crossposted-To: alt.fan.roadrunner,comp.os.os2.misc
From: whistler<blahblah>@twcny.rr.com (Paul E. Larson)
Subject: Re: Road Runner Customer User Agreement Violation - Using Alternative
Operating Systems
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 00:51:22 GMT
In article <NOG23.738$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "elliottb"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>What does supported by mean? Usually it means if you have a problem you're
>on your own, that's all. hacking would be a leap for them to claim. I
>don't think they care what you use. You just got a form letter, not a
>specific reply.
>
They don't seem to care, at least in Central New York, since there is a
newsgroup specifically for Road Runner and Linux issues.
Paul
>
>Eddie wrote in message <374a8915.229005@news-server>...
>>My Road Runner account will be terminated shortly...here is the letter
>>I will be mailing to Time Warner on Tuesday:
>>
>>[deleted address]
>>Westerville, OH 43081
>>May 24, 1999
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Terry O'Connell
>>Time Warner Communications
>>1266 Dublin Road
>>Columbus, OH 43215
>>
>>Dear Mr. O'Connell:
>>
>>I was disappointed to learn from someone in your organization recently
>>that I am violating the Customer User Agreement by using an
>>unsupported operating system, BeOS for Intel. I have made
>>arrangements to terminate my service from Time Warner, including cable
>>and Road Runner. If Time Warner wishes to reconsider its position
>>please send a written version of the amended Customer User Agreement
>>to me at the address above. Here is a portion of an email I received
>>from "Roadrunner Customer Support" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>
>>"... At this time, the operating platforms which we support are:
>>Windows 95, 98,
>>and NT, and MacOS(excluding 8.5.x).
>>
>>In the end, accessing the Service using means not supplied by us is
>>'hacking', and if discovered, can lead to suspension and/or
>>termination of
>>Service."
>>
>>Sincerely yours,
>>
>>
>>
>>Eddie Rowe
>>
>
>
Get rid of the blahs to email me :}
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Cannot use ZGV with user account
Date: 26 May 1999 00:58:58 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Chris Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I recently downloaded the console-based jpeg/gif viewer known as
> "zgv", but I'm only able to run it correctly when logged in as root.
> When I'm logged into my user account, it won't open. Here are the
> explanations given to me by the computer:
>
> When in the console: svgalib: Cannot get I/O permissions
>
> When in X: zgv: not running on console and no free VTs found (Note:
> I am able to run zgv in X when logged in as root.)
zgv, in common with other svgalib programs (i.e. programs that use
your console in SVGA mode) needs to have root privileges in order to
manipulate the graphics card in the way it wants. To get round this,
it needs to be "setuid root" or "suid root", so that it acquires root
permissions when it starts; type
chmod u+s `which zgv`
to do this (note that those are backquotes, not ordinary quotes).
However, many people consider suid root programs a security risk,
mainly because they frequently are. If this is basically a single-user
system, that's probably fine. However, you might still want to
consider making zgv executable only by members of a particular group,
with permissions perhaps something like "-r-s--x---". (Don't do this
indiscriminately; some programs, like passwd, *need* to be suid root
and executable by everybody. Read 'info chmod', 'info chown', and
'info chgrp' for information on file ownership and permissions.)
> Any help would be appreciated -- please CC your reply to my address.
Posted and mailed.
--
Colin Watson [cjw44 at cam.ac.uk]
Trinity College, Cambridge, and Computer Science [riva.ucam.org]
"*BEEP* Troll Detected. Killfile, Ignore, Flame?"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Herb Stein)
Subject: Re: Crontab?
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 03:20:24 GMT
man 5 crontab
The descriptions are in section 5, not section 1 of the manual.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Are the fields for crontab documented anywhere? I've looked. Any pointer
>would be great.
>
> Thanks
> Nick
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The Herb Stein Group
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From: "David A. Spicer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.fan.roadrunner,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Road Runner Customer User Agreement Violation - Using Alternative
Operating Systems
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 00:54:53 GMT
Eddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:374a8915.229005@news-server...
> I was disappointed to learn from someone in your organization recently
> that I am violating the Customer User Agreement by using an
> unsupported operating system, BeOS for Intel.
I think you're taking this a little too seriously. TWC is never going to
support all OS's, but the key word here is support. I can't imagine why
TWC would care what OS you are using...they just won't be able to
help you support wise.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: A Capitalists view of freedom
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 04:20:08 GMT
On Tue, 25 May 1999 16:30:52 +0100, Ed Avis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Marco Antoniotti wrote:
>>You are not the lender. And an individual should be able to know what
>>is known about him/herself. An information gathering agency,
>>especially if private, should not have *any* right whatsoever to keep
>>information about an individual, without allowing the individual the
>>"right to know".
>
>That's very much a matter of opinion. They aren't doing you any harm
>- surely what they do, in private, behind closed doors is none of your
>business.
That is all well and good; the problem is that what is happening *isn't*
a purely private matter; agencies like Equifax and TRW are exchanging
the information they collect with all sorts of people.
>It's a very short step from 'you shouldn't have *any* right to keep
>information' to 'you shouldn't have *any* right to hold secret
>meetings' or 'you shouldn't have *any* right to distribute damaging
>information about a person'.
If somebody in the bowels of Equifax/TRW makes a keying error, or (more
likely) an ex-girlfriend, ex-lawyer, ex-employee, ex-boss, or some such
person who has cause to dislike you, introduces damaging information
into their systems, this can have practically damaging effects despite
representing falsehoods.
Somebody tells a lie or makes a mistake, and suddenly you find that your
credit card gets cancelled, and you can't access services that you
desire/need.
The appropriate "balance of power" is not easy to determine.
--
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Julk, August, September, October, November, December.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: Middleware to connect PostgreSQL to Web forms ?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 04:21:45 GMT
On Mon, 24 May 1999 22:39:53 GMT, Gene Wilburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Depending on your definition, PHP3 would certainly qualify as
>middleware. It is to Apache what Cold Fusion is to IIS. Excellent
>database links built in and rapid development (embedded coding within
>your html forms).
Does it provide:
- Distributed processing (ala OMG Naming/Trader services)?
- Transaction support (e.g. ACID, ala OMG "Transaction Service")?
- Robust messaging queueing with configurable quality of service (ala
OMG "Messaging Service")?
- Event notifications (ala OMG "Event Service")?
That's the sort of thing that middleware provides.
PHP seems to merely be Yet Another Web Page Language.
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one such. Live by the Bill, suffer by the Bill, die by the Bill."
-- Tom Christiansen
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From: Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Odd Kernel panic
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 17:38:30 +0100
On Tue, 25 May 1999, Eric E. Fronheiser wrote:
> I am having this small, but annoying problem, with Redhat 6.0 on a Dell
> Inspiron 3200 (dual boot linux/win98).
>
> If I allow LILO to time out and automatically launch linux I get the
> following error:
>
> VFS: Cannot open root device 00:30
> Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:30
>
> If I just hit enter at the LILO prompt to start linux everything works as it
> should.
>
It sounds like the default entry in your /etc/lilo.conf file is pointing
to a non-existent place. Have a look, and if the first entry is something
other than 'linux', or if one of them says "default" in it - this is the
default entry - try removing that, and reinstall lilo (type in lilo on the
root prompt).
Hope that works,
Andrew
> This happened first with the 2.2.5 kernel from the redhat cd. I compiled
> and installed the 2.2.9 kernel and am having the same problem. I've ran
> both
> Slakware and SuSE on this machine without any problems.
>
> Any help would be appreciated
>
>
>
>
>
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From: mike murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dial-in terminal server...
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 06:28:50 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grand Poobah of PRAM) wrote:
> >
> > I'm interested in configuring my linux box (running RedHat 6) for
> > use as a dial-in terminal server. Can anyone point me to any howtos
> > on this-LDP doesn't seem to have anything on this.
> >
> > --
> > "Somehow there's cosmic justice in the fact that movie makers can now
> spend
> > the gross national product of Romania on special effects and still
> wind
> > up with something that looks like a teenager's Web page."-Andrew
> O'Hehir
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> well, few months ago I have the same problem to configuring my box to
> answer incoming calls and I solved the problem using information of
> PPP-HOWTO (/usr/doc/HOWTO) section 26, Serial-HOWTO section 7 and the
> information about getty_ps (or uugetty_ps), especially the file under
> /usr/doc/getty_ps-2.0.7j/Examples/default/uugetty.autoanswer. If you
> have time, look to the other files in this same directory, like
> uugetty.ringback (This last one is very nice !!!).
>
> I hope this helps :-)
>
> Claudio Cuqui
> Computer Scientist
> Institute of Mathematics and Statistics
> University of Sao Paulo - Sao Paulo - Brazil
> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Voice: +55 11 9916-2051 (cel.)
> Fax : +55 11 5506-9182
>
> --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==--
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mgetty seems to be easier (at least for me :-) to set up
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.M. Paden)
Subject: Re: Linux Winzip utility
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 01:53:19 GMT
Kevin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is anyone aware of a utility for linux which understands ".zip" files?
>It would be awfully convienent if I could unzip files created by Winzip
>(in WinX environment of course) in linux.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Kevin
>
Take a look in your /usr/bin directory. You should see something
like:
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 Sep 27 10:00 1995 ./
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 Sep 4 13:32 1995 usr/
drwxr-xr-x root/bin 0 Aug 25 21:41 1995 usr/bin/
-rwxr-xr-x root/bin 39196 Aug 28 20:19 1995 usr/bin/mtools
-rwxr-xr-x root/bin 71272 Aug 28 20:22 1995 usr/bin/unzip
-rwxr-xr-x root/bin 50644 Aug 28 20:20 1995 usr/bin/zip
-rwxr-xr-x root/bin 23484 Aug 28 20:20 1995 usr/bin/zipnote
-rwxr-xr-x root/bin 25388 Aug 28 20:20 1995 usr/bin/zipsplit
-rwxr-xr-x root/bin 2980 Aug 28 20:19 1995 usr/bin/fromdos
-rwxr-xr-x root/bin 13716 Aug 28 20:22 1995 usr/bin/funzip
-rwxr-xr-x root/bin 33468 Aug 28 20:22 1995 usr/bin/unzipsfx
-rwxr-xr-x root/bin 1203 Sep 24 17:52 1994 usr/bin/zipgrep
The unzip command should handle any zip file created by WinZip.
If the filename is long you may find that it will be created as
<filename>_zip. When you copy the file into Linux, you should rename
the file <filename>.zip ( replacing the underline with a period).
This problem frequently occurs with .tgz files downloaded in Windows
and copied into Linux.
Regards,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"The last temptation is the greatest treason:
To do the right deed for the wrong reason."
--T.S. Eliot
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From: Ed Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Winzip utility
Date: 26 May 1999 01:59:30 GMT
Kevin Scott wrote:
>
> Is anyone aware of a utility for linux which understands ".zip" files?
> It would be awfully convienent if I could unzip files created by Winzip
> (in WinX environment of course) in linux.
>
Check out: http://www.pcnet.com/~proteus/TkZip/TkZip.html
If you use rpm's locate:
TkZip-1.0.8-1.noarch.rpm
For locating rpm's try: http://ftpsearch.lycos.com/
Enjoy...
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Subject: Re: How to Stay Online - ISP Kicks my off during inactivity
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 04:05:14 GMT
According to Jason Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Does anyone out there know of a program that automatically sends out a
> packet every (specified) amount of time?
Yeah, uh, 'ping'. ;-)
> My damn ISP kicks me off if I'm inactive for something like 5
> minutes....and it's starting to get annoying. I used to use Netprophet
> for windows....
Ping works for windows, too. Leave it to windows people to re-write
the obvious...
-p.
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From: "Jeff Goodman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Perl & Html
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 19:24:21 -0700
Hmmm...normally the URL would directly invoke a CGI program, which could be
a Perl script. The CGI program would query the database and dynamically
create and return the HTML page.
Jeff
Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have a web page
> that I created. It's several perl scripts that I wrote to search through
my
> databases. The databases are current network status on different
machines.
> It's
> searchable, and It's using a quick database program that I wrote, I was
just
> wondering, is there a way in html, where i can create a homepage
completely
> in
> perl, i.e eldiante/nlog.pl? right now my scripts are called through the
> html
> interface, however it would be much faster if perl could directly call the
> scripts through i/o, instead of interpretting them... thanks.
>
>
>
>
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From: "William B. Cattell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How to Stay Online - ISP Kicks my off during inactivity
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 02:27:36 GMT
Jason Bond wrote:
>
> Does anyone out there know of a program that automatically sends out a
> packet every (specified) amount of time?
> My damn ISP kicks me off if I'm inactive for something like 5
> minutes....and it's starting to get annoying. I used to use Netprophet
> for windows....is there something similiar for Linux? Thanks kindly,
>
> Jason
Since I use Netscape for email I have it check for new mail every 10
minutes. that's worked like a champ for me.
Bill
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