Linux-Misc Digest #714, Volume #20 Sun, 20 Jun 99 21:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: Which hardware 2 buy? (Robert Heller)
Re: Debian advocates (Andrew Comech)
Which hardware 2 buy? ("WME")
Re: open systems?!? Re: Why does Apple not cooperate with Be? (meeroh)
Re: Problem with Iomega Zip ("Alice Hansen")
Which port is "Postgres' " postmaster listening on? ("WME")
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft Retest
News ("Chad Mulligan")
Re: Linux viruses (Johan Kullstam)
Re: postgres prob, dbase recommeation ("WME")
Re: Postgresql starting problem ("WME")
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft Retest
News ("Chad Mulligan")
Re: New to mutt: problem (William Burrow)
Re: making linux go away (Jim McIntyre)
Re: Linux viruses ("WME")
Parallel Port Scanner Under Linux (Melvin Branch)
Re: RH modem problem (John W. Dougherty)
IMAP for a few users (Ken Williams)
Re: ATAPI ZIP disk file corruption (L J Bayuk)
Re: Which hardware 2 buy? ("WME")
Re: postgres prob, dbase recommeation (L J Bayuk)
Re: postgres prob, dbase recommeation (Robert Lynch)
Re: New to mutt: problem (brian moore)
Re: Red-Hat - Linux? (brian moore)
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which hardware 2 buy?
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 22:50:00 GMT
"WME" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
In a message on Sun, 20 Jun 1999 17:55:05 -0400, wrote :
"> I am thinking of buying the following items:
">
"> - UMAX Astra 1220P scanner.
"> - IOMEGA Zip 250 parallel drive.
"> - WACOM tablet.
"> - Western Digital 13.1G HDD.
">
"> From those 4 items, I know that there is no problem with the hard drive, nor
"> should there be a problem with the tablet because Wacom as far as I have
"> seen has drivers for linux. Can anybody tell me about the scanner and the
"> zip drive? Please note that it is a 250M not the 100M.
If it is like the 100M drive with the same parallel port <=> SCSI hack,
the Zip drive should work just fine.
">
"> Thanks
">
">
">
--
\/
Robert Heller ||InterNet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/~heller || [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.deepsoft.com /\FidoNet: 1:321/153
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Comech)
Crossposted-To: linux.debian.user,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Debian advocates
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 20 Jun 1999 19:15:52 -0500
On 19 Jun 1999 21:18:51 GMT, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Salman Ahmed wrote
> ...
> >I would really like to hear people's positive and negative experiences with
> >Debian, and also arguments in favor of switching to Debian.
>
> Debian negative: The install procedure for media other than CD ROM
> is poorly documented.
Good enough to get everything running. And, again, they
warn that the CD-ROM installation is the _easiest_. And, is not
RedHAt even more CD-ROM-oriented?
> And if you start reading the package descriptions, your initial dselect run
> can be three hours or more. It's a *big* distribution.
It suffices to find the packages you want (e.g. emacs, tex, ppp),
and they will suck in the dependencies as well.
> >My system configuration is :
...
> >Acer 56k internal ISA modem
>
> This will work if it is not a "Winmodem."
AFAIK, all Acer's 56K _ISA_ modems are true modems (with the
"truest" being FM56-ITU/2 ;-).
Best,
a.
--
Looking for a Linux-compatible V.90 modem? See
http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/CheapBox.html#modems
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From: "WME" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Which hardware 2 buy?
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 17:55:05 -0400
I am thinking of buying the following items:
- UMAX Astra 1220P scanner.
- IOMEGA Zip 250 parallel drive.
- WACOM tablet.
- Western Digital 13.1G HDD.
>From those 4 items, I know that there is no problem with the hard drive, nor
should there be a problem with the tablet because Wacom as far as I have
seen has drivers for linux. Can anybody tell me about the scanner and the
zip drive? Please note that it is a 250M not the 100M.
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (meeroh)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.be.misc,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: open systems?!? Re: Why does Apple not cooperate with Be?
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 19:46:23 -0400
In article <yfab3.227$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "William Edward
Woody" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>2) Multidohicky, uh, excuse me, MultiFinder was preceeded by a cute
>little system extension called "Switcher" which allowed you to
>switch between applications. "Switcher" was rather cute in that
>it added a couple of arrows in the menu bar--one which would
>rotate your entire world (screen and all if animation was on)
>to the left to another running application, and the other would
>rotate to the right.
Remember that Switcher was rewritten for MacOS 8 compatibility at Machack
1998, so you can still use it :-) See <http://www.machack.com/>
meeroh
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | <http://meeroh.mit.edu/meeroh/> | MIT I/S Mac developer
"In the present circumstances, the only profession I would choose would be one
where earning a living has nothing to do with the search for knowledge"
-- Albert Einstein, 1955
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From: "Alice Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat,linux.scsi,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Problem with Iomega Zip
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 19:33:11 -0400
Sorry... can't help you with your problem.... but was wondering... My zip
drive is an external scsi.... I have the AVA 1505 card for it and have not
been able to get my Linux RedHat 6.0 to find it... Any chance you could
help me?? Thanks...
~Alice
Luca Satolli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I've a paraller port Iomega zip.
> It works good with Linux Red Hat 6.0, I've just to do modprobe ppa and
> then to mount the zip disk.
> I also have an AVA1505 used to drive my Scanner (Agfa 1236s). It also
> work fine after 2 days of hard work.
> The problem is that when I exec modprobe ppa the scanner don't work!
> When I exec rmmod ppa the scanner works fine.
> Why happens these? Is possible to make work both scanner and Zip?
> Thanks a lot & Best Regards
> Luca Satolli
>
>
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From: "WME" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.java.databases,linux.postgres
Subject: Which port is "Postgres' " postmaster listening on?
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 21:40:08 -0400
Yes it is. I can connect to it using "psql", but when I try to connect to it
using the
"rst-jdbc", I get a "connection refused"
When I try to telnet to it, i get a connection refused. When i do
"netstat -a", I don't see anybody listening to port 5432. What is the
problem? And how do i know which port it is listening on?
Thanks
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From: "Chad Mulligan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Subject: Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft
Retest News
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 16:37:51 -0700
Stuart Fox wrote in message <7khtpg$2bu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
>Chris Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:7kggrj$n4e$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> says...
>> >
>> >On Sat, 19 Jun 1999 13:22:10 +1200, "Stuart Fox"
>> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >
>> >:> This would be easy to program, but would never work, because
>> >:> Unix users just *don't* set up their software to
>> >:> automatically execute e-mail attachments.
>> >
>> >
>> >Wow, this was a beautiful piece of FUD I missed.
>>
>>
>> What FUD? How do you think BO got to be so popular with the Windows set?
>>
>FUD because Outlook doesn't open attachments automatically. It will by
>default show images inline....
>
Which anyone with any brains, turns off.
>
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Subject: Re: Linux viruses
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 20 Jun 1999 19:32:12 -0400
jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How many times has this question got to be asked in a week? I
> though we had already had the recomended daily allowance of "Linux
> Viri" questions. Has this question made it to #1 in the FAQ yet?
no, number one has got to be:
how do i get my pos pci modem of lose to work in linux?
this has to be asked a bazillion times a day.
--
J o h a n K u l l s t a m
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Don't Fear the Penguin!
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From: "WME" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: postgres prob, dbase recommeation
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 20:07:51 -0400
Java & Postgres' postmaster. I can connect to "postmaster" using "psql". I
can access my tables, do everything I please with them, but when I try to
connect to it using the "rst-jdbc" driver, I get a "connection refused"
When I try to telnet to port 5432, i get a connection refused. When i do
"netstat -a", I don't see anybody listening to port 5432. What is the
problem? And how do i know which port it is listening on? May be it is
listening to another port.
(Sorry I had to repost this, but I have got no answers yet. Do you suggest
any other driver other than the rst-jdbc? I prefer GNU drivers).
Thanks
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From: "WME" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Postgresql starting problem
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 20:07:38 -0400
Java & Postgres' postmaster. I can connect to "postmaster" using "psql". I
can access my tables, do everything I please with them, but when I try to
connect to it using the "rst-jdbc" driver, I get a "connection refused"
When I try to telnet to port 5432, i get a connection refused. When i do
"netstat -a", I don't see anybody listening to port 5432. What is the
problem? And how do i know which port it is listening on? May be it is
listening to another port.
(Sorry I had to repost this, but I have got no answers yet. Do you suggest
any other driver other than the rst-jdbc? I prefer GNU drivers).
Thanks
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From: "Chad Mulligan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Subject: Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft
Retest News
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 16:40:23 -0700
Stuart Fox wrote in message <7khubm$3be$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
>Scott MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:6EGa3.299$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>>
>> Stuart Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>> news:7keqqo$7gk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> >
>> > Jason O'Rourke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>> > news:7kemol$sr0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> > > Stuart Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >
>> > >
>> > > >It isn't MS's problem if someone exploits the tools provided in an
>> Office
>> > > >app. However it might be if a product didn't work as advertised -
>win
>> > 3.1
>> > > >on DR-DOS for instance.
>> > > >Does this mean that if I wrote a virus in VB that MS would be
>> > responsible?
>> > >
>> > > In my mind, yes. They created a 'feature' that has brought IS
>> departments
>> > > using Office to their knees. This started with the tame but annoying
>> word
>> > > macro virus and has now gotten quite dangerous.
>> > >
>> > > >>and the knowledge
>> > > >> that anyone could exploit IIS with a single line of code.
>> > > >Are you suggesting that *nix has no bugs? Or requires no patches to
>> get
>> > > >running securely? ALL operating systems have bugs that must be
>> patched,
>> > I
>> > > >don't care if it's linux, NT, Solaris etc. And why has no-one found
>> this
>> > > >bug until now - IIS 4.0 has been out for quite a while now...
>> > >
>> > > Unix certainly has had its troubles, especially with sendmail. But
at
>> > > this point, most of the issues have been resolved.
>> >
>> > Excluding of course every new app that is released, or every new
>update...
>> >
>> > Open source code and
>> > > 20 years of release time have been helpful. Meanwhile, Windows and
NT
>> > > have been used for networking for but a few years and it's pretty
>clear
>> > > that this is going to continue for quite some time. MS won't get
sued
>> > > over it, they'll make a killing selling fixes instead. Or perhaps
>> people
>> > > will start to realize the costs and move on.
>> >
>> > They don't sell fixes - they are free.
>> >
>> Win 98 was a fix for Win95 don't try to tell me they don't sell them.
Every component that was a fix for 95 was available for free via download.
>>
>>
>Your opinion only. Heard of service packs - they are fixes. And also
free.
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Burrow)
Subject: Re: New to mutt: problem
Date: 20 Jun 1999 23:46:25 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 20 Jun 1999 09:04:39 -04-59,
Tom Shannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 20 Jun 1999 03:12:45 GMT, Frederic L. W. Meunier
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am evaluating mutt
>with an eye toward switching to it from pine. I >like some of the
>features like scoring. I also like the fact that >most commands can
>be carried out by hitting one key. Both of these >features make it
>very much like slrn (for news reading). Very >functional.
>>---
>
>>Edit your ~/.muttrc and change:
Try adding a my_hdr line, eg:
my_hdr From: Tom Shannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
or whatever address you want.
Also, there is a newsgroup just for mutt, comp.mail.mutt I think?
--
William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada o
Copyright 1999 William Burrow ~ /\
~ ()>()
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From: Jim McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: making linux go away
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 20:56:29 -0300
idfx wrote:
> You might want to take a look at DragonLinux (http://www.dragonlinux.nu) to
> test whether it's worth it to you to use Linux. DragonLinux is a good test
> because it allows you to install Linux in DOS, creating a pseudo-root in it's
> own directory, and it doesn't muck with the rest of your drive. You take a
> little performance hit, because it has to talk thru USMSDOS, but it's probly the
> easiest way to install.
>
> yrs,
> in_sanity,
>
> idfx
>
> J Chan wrote:
>
> > YOu guys are great. The info here is priceless.
> >
> > I've actually given up (for now, no time) on installing any variant of
> > linux, (Caldera 2.2, Red Hat 6.0, Mandrake, debian, etc.)
> >
> > I've tried the various recommendations in the list, but my equipment, a
> > Compaq LTE 5000 laptop and a Compaq 486/66SX won't cooperate.
> >
> > SOmeday, Linux will be simpler.
> >
> > J CHan
> > John Sowden wrote in message <7k3p9g$3s5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > >I read the responses, just flames. The problem is you are asking a valid
> > >question. I also need to know how to remove Linux from a hard drive, as I
> > >am installing a new copy (caldera) and it doen't discuss in the newbie part
> > >about installing over an existing linux os.
> > >
> > >Can someone please take our requests seriously.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >adam howard wrote in message <7iv13k$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > >>talk about a waste of bandwidth....do we really need a few dozen people to
> > >>give the same answer?
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>> How do I get rid of Linux in the boot sector (I guess that's where it
> > >>> is) once and for all?
> > >>
> > >>To uninstall Linux from the mbr, insert the boot disk from Windoze, and boot
> the PC to this floppy. The type <fdisk /mbr>, at the command prompt. This will
> write over lilo with comand.com. Hope this helps
Jim McIntyre
Webmaster Program
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
>
> > >
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From: "WME" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux viruses
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 19:57:11 -0400
> > How many times has this question got to be asked in a week? I
> > though we had already had the recomended daily allowance of "Linux
> > Viri" questions. Has this question made it to #1 in the FAQ yet?
>
> no, number one has got to be:
>
> how do i get my pos pci modem of lose to work in linux?
>
> this has to be asked a bazillion times a day.
Sorry, what was the answer to that ? :))
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From: Melvin Branch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Parallel Port Scanner Under Linux
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 00:29:30 GMT
Has anybody ever gotten a parallel port scanner to work under linux?
If so please teach me. I have an INFO scanner, but in order to use it I =
must
leave linux and go back to Winblows.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John W. Dougherty)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: RH modem problem
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 16:58:53 -0700
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> Jimmy Navarro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> [..]
>
> >then "kill -9 460" and "kill -9 467" but then it can't re-dial out
> >either via usernet nor Minicom saying /dev/modem locked.
>
> >How can I unlock the modem? Thanks... )-:
>
> Remove the lockfile in /var/locks .
>
You can also simply delete the "lock" from the
/etc/ppp/options file.
I think you should probably leave the locks file in
/var/locks alone. The system is supposed to lock and unlock
files and resources on a demand basis, and (I may be
mistaken here) the lock file is where the system keeps track
of what is locked at any given moment.
"Who says they're snart bombs? They're suicical aren't
they?"
jwdougherty
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Williams)
Subject: IMAP for a few users
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 07:13:38 GMT
I want to keep my normal pop3 setup on my linux server the way it is. What is
the easiest way to add IMAP capabilities for a few users without messing
anything else up? UW or cyrus? Primary clients will be eudora pro 4 and
probably outlook 97/98.
Linux 2.2.9 glibc2.1.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (L J Bayuk)
Subject: Re: ATAPI ZIP disk file corruption
Date: 21 Jun 1999 00:28:08 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>On 20 Jun 1999 02:02:46 GMT, L J Bayuk wrote:
>>I am getting file corruption on my new ZIP drive (100MB internal ATAPI).
>>No error to the process writing the file, but syslog gets:
>> ide-floppy: hdd: I/O error, pc=2a, key=4, asc=47, ascq=0
>> end_request: I/O error, dev 16:41, sector <some_number>
>>
>>The resulting file on disk has a block (512 bytes) all zeros
>>or maybe containing the data which was on the sector before.
>[...]
>>I'm using Linux 2.0.35.
>
>I'm running 2.2.9, but I beleive I ran mine with 2.0.36 (the original kernel
>that came with my distro. I mounted my ZIP disk to retreive my stored 2.2.2
>kernel (at the time)).
>
>>Do I have a bad drive? Does anyone have an ATAPI ZIP which works
>>reliably?
>
>I'm not sure about the bad drive, but how are you mounting it? I haven't
>put an entry in fstab yet, so I mount it manually every time I need it, like
>so;
>
>mount -t ext2 /dev/hdd /zip
>
>I haven't used it with a FAT filesystem at all yet, only ext2, and I haven't
>had any problems with it.
>
>Could the disk itself be bad? Have you tried another disk?
Yes, I tried several disks, all had the same problem.
I've used the regular mount command with -t ext2 or -t msdos. I've
also used mtools (mdir, mcopy).
I ran a test program which writes, reads, and checks data over
and over, but it won't detect errors; maybe due to the buffer cache.
There was a change in ide-floppy at 2.0.36 to limit the max sectors
to 64 for a specific ZIP firmware level. I don't have that level,
but I was going to try to limit it anyway, just to see what happens.
In the meantime, if you use your ZIP for backups or archiving, I
urge everyone to check the data after writing, using cksum or cmp.
Also check your syslog for errors. I have gotten the error logged
sometimes without finding corrupt files, but I have never had corrupt
files without the error.
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From: "WME" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which hardware 2 buy?
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 19:52:22 -0400
> "> From those 4 items, I know that there is no problem with the hard
drive, nor
> "> should there be a problem with the tablet because Wacom as far as I
have
> "> seen has drivers for linux. Can anybody tell me about the scanner and
the
> "> zip drive? Please note that it is a 250M not the 100M.
>
> If it is like the 100M drive with the same parallel port <=> SCSI hack,
> the Zip drive should work just fine.
It is backwards compatible with the 100M. It can read the 100M disks, but
does this mean the driver can be the same ? I doubt it.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (L J Bayuk)
Subject: Re: postgres prob, dbase recommeation
Date: 21 Jun 1999 00:32:32 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>Java & Postgres' postmaster. I can connect to "postmaster" using "psql". I
>can access my tables, do everything I please with them, but when I try to
>connect to it using the "rst-jdbc" driver, I get a "connection refused"
>
>When I try to telnet to port 5432, i get a connection refused. When i do
>"netstat -a", I don't see anybody listening to port 5432. What is the
>problem? And how do i know which port it is listening on? May be it is
>listening to another port.
>
>(Sorry I had to repost this, but I have got no answers yet. Do you suggest
>any other driver other than the rst-jdbc? I prefer GNU drivers).
>
>Thanks
Make sure you start postmaster with "-i", else it doesn't listen
to TCP/IP port 5432, so you get "connection refused".
Very common problem.
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Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 17:21:02 -0700
From: Robert Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: postgres prob, dbase recommeation
WME wrote:
>
> Java & Postgres' postmaster. I can connect to "postmaster" using "psql". I
> can access my tables, do everything I please with them, but when I try to
> connect to it using the "rst-jdbc" driver, I get a "connection refused"
>
> When I try to telnet to port 5432, i get a connection refused. When i do
> "netstat -a", I don't see anybody listening to port 5432. What is the
> problem? And how do i know which port it is listening on? May be it is
> listening to another port.
>
> (Sorry I had to repost this, but I have got no answers yet. Do you suggest
> any other driver other than the rst-jdbc? I prefer GNU drivers).
>
> Thanks
The whole thing is laid out in the copious docs supplied with Postgres.
You are investigating the innards of a Unix socket. You need to have a
TCP/IP connection.
Here's from the HOW-TO:
=======
Preparing the Database for JDBC
Because Java can only use TCP/IP connections, the Postgres postmaster
must be running with the -i flag.
Also, the pg_hba.conf file must be configured. It's located in the
PGDATA directory. In a default installation, this file permits access
only by UNIX domain sockets. For the JDBC driver to connect to the same
localhost, you need to add something like:
host all 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 password
Here access to all databases are possible from the local machine with
JDBC.
The JDBC Driver supports trust, ident, password and crypt authentication
methods.
======
HTH.
Bob L.
--
Robert Lynch-Berkeley CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.best.com/~rmlynch/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: New to mutt: problem
Date: 21 Jun 1999 01:01:19 GMT
On Sun, 20 Jun 1999 09:04:39 -04-59,
Tom Shannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 20 Jun 1999 03:12:45 GMT, Frederic L. W. Meunier
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am evaluating mutt
> with an eye toward switching to it from pine. I >like some of the
> features like scoring. I also like the fact that >most commands can
> be carried out by hitting one key. Both of these >features make it
> very much like slrn (for news reading). Very >functional.
> >---
>
> >Edit your ~/.muttrc and change:
>
> ># If Mutt is unable to determine your sites domain name correctly,
> > you can
>
> Actually, I had already tried this along with several variations of
> 'realname'. No dice.
You'll have to set up sendmail properly. You probably want the
'genericstab' feature so that your envelopes are rewritten to use a
proper address.
--
Brian Moore | "The Zen nature of a spammer resembles
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | a cockroach, except that the cockroach
Usenet Vandal | is higher up on the evolutionary chain."
Netscum, Bane of Elves. Peter Olson, Delphi Postmaster
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: Red-Hat - Linux?
Date: 21 Jun 1999 01:07:33 GMT
On 19 Jun 1999 17:39:03 +0100,
Timothy Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tom Alsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >why do so many people say Red Hat is /not/ really Linux?
>
> I never heard anyone say that.
> In any case, it is a very silly remark.
> Ignore it.
But it's true.
Then, again, SuSE isn't Linux either, nor is Slackware, nor Mandrake,
nor Debian.....
Linux is just the kernel: RedHat is the packaging of a stack of
applications, an installer, a book, support, a pretty box, and
distribution channels along with that kernel.
Linux itself isn't very useful (you'll need much more than the kernel to
boot :)).
RH is not Linux: they may have a few kernel developers on the payroll,
but they don't control it. (And from all appearances RH doesn't seem to
influence their kernel developers much at all -- Alan Cox seems to work
on whatever he feels like that day.)
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