Linux-Misc Digest #843, Volume #21 Fri, 17 Sep 99 01:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Re: Does Linux offer an alternative to ASP? (Adrian Hands)
Re: PostScript to Word? (Alan Shutko)
Netscape won't start (Lewis Berman)
Re: File Table Overflow ... (Alejandro)
Re: Figure Out The MS Source Code Yourself (Joel Hanger)
Re: killall (John Hasler)
Re: fetchmail and postfix (Rod Smith)
Re: Scroll with arrow keys? (Adrian Hands)
Re: REQ: The fastest Window Manager for a slow Laptop? (Ilya)
please help with menus in KDE (mazman)
R: Man documents in HTML or PDF format ? ("luca")
Re: PostScript to Word? ("Steve D. Perkins")
Re: AutoPPP and assigning ip numbers based on port! (John Hasler)
Re: *nix vs. MS security (Matthew Kirkcaldie)
Program to Edit Wav files? (Jason Bond)
Problem (end parenthesis show up as a bar | (TXS II)
Re: xf86config (Oooo)
Re: please help with menus in KDE ("Ralph Kaiser")
Re: HTML based Telnet client? ("Brian Markielewski")
Re: Dim Display ("Cliff McCullough")
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From: Adrian Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Does Linux offer an alternative to ASP?
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 23:39:48 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I'm about to begin using M$ apps to write Active Server Pages.
>
> I was wondering if there was a purely Linux solution that could be used in place
> of M$ ASP in function, as well as apps used in the creation of such pages. For
> example, instead of using Interdev, I can simply ftp my work to my server, but
> (as I am also still learning) I don't know if Perl can be used to replace Visual
> Basic or if there is an alternative to using Access.
>
> I want to *rid* myself of M$, not be forced to use *more* of their garbage. Nor
> do I want to increase M$ or M$ related content on the net.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> Thanks
>
> Wade Segade
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove the obvious)
I've never used asp, but if it is what I think it is:
emb_perl can be used to embed perl in html documents
i'm sure there's something similar for python
php
jrunner
alternatives to ms-access ? how about mSQL, mySQL, postgreSQL
and all the biggies (oracle, informix, sybase, db2)
for really *small* databases you can use gdbm or xml
http://www.freshmeat.net is a great resource for finding this stuff.
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Crossposted-To: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: PostScript to Word?
From: Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 02:53:05 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne) writes:
> It is not inconcievable that one could write a program that would
> *try* to pull out the text from such a document in Postscript form;
> there are no guarantees available that you will get useful information
> out of this...
There are equivalent programs for PDF, actually. It's basically the
same problem as OCR, but easier since you don't have to recognize the
letters.
--
Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors!
Would you care to drift aimlessly in my direction?
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From: Lewis Berman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Netscape won't start
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 23:49:16 -0400
I have installed Netscape Communicator 4.6.1 on Debian 2.1, Kernel
2.0.36. When I start Netscape, I get messages about libraries not
found. Some of these, such as libXpm.so.4, are on my system in
/usr/X11R6/lib. Some, like libstcd++, are not on my system. I have
libc6 and libc5 installed. How do I get Netscape to work? (Do I need
YET ANOTHER version of libc? Or do I need another library? Or do I
need to set some shell variable? Or...?)
Lewis
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From: Alejandro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: File Table Overflow ...
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 02:31:24 GMT
xfleblon wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm doing batch PPP connections to a Linux server in order to perform
> file transfers.
> Sometime, the upload fails returning the message "File Table Overflow
> ..." ! But the same upload (same file, same server, same location)
> performed few seconds after is successfull !
>
> Does anybody have an idea of the problem, and perhaps know a solution ?
> Please answer at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Thanks
There are some dynamic configuration parameters so issue this at prompt
echo 4096 > /proc/sys/kernel/file-max
echo 10000 > /proc/sys/kernel/inode-max
there are more but this will get rid off your problem.
you must put this in your rc initialization script, so the next
time you boot your system this parameters will be set.
Maybe /etc/rc.d/rc.local
>
> FX
>
>
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From: Joel Hanger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Figure Out The MS Source Code Yourself
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 20:02:44 -0700
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bilge wrote:
> Joel Hanger [EMAIL PROTECTED] blared:
>
> >If Reverse Engineering is breaking the law then they who persecuting you
> >have broken the law, for how is it that they know that you used their
> >code without reverse engineering it??? The way I see it is that if you
> >use someone elses code then how are they going to prosecute you when in
> >doing so they have just admitted to breaking the law themselves?
>
> How many examples of such practicess in long existing areas
> of law enforcement would be required to convince you how
> little their actions to prosecute you can negatively affect
> their prosecution of you?
>
Why is it so that Bill Gates can get away with such an offense without
punishment... such as did apple???
--
"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute,
and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty
girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.
THAT'S relativity."
Albert Einstein
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bilge wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE>Joel Hanger [EMAIL PROTECTED] blared:
<P> >If Reverse Engineering is breaking the law then they who persecuting
you
<BR> >have broken the law, for how is it that they know that you used
their
<BR> >code without reverse engineering it??? The way I see it is that
if you
<BR> >use someone elses code then how are they going to prosecute
you when in
<BR> >doing so they have just admitted to breaking the law themselves?
<P> How many examples of such
practicess in long existing areas
<BR> of law enforcement would
be required to convince you how
<BR> little their actions to
prosecute you can negatively affect
<BR> their prosecution of you?
<BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
Why is it so that Bill Gates can get away with such an offense without
punishment... such as did apple???
<PRE>--
"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute,
and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty
girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.
THAT'S relativity."
Albert Einstein</PRE>
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: killall
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 01:12:16 GMT
James Lee writes:
> 2) I did a
> killall -V
> to display version information, but the whole X session got killed,
> as well as the shell that I was using.
> This was on a Debian machine running kernel 2.2.10
> 3) Inside an X session, in an xterm, I issued
> killall telnet
> and my window manager (ctwm) got killed.
> Any idea what is happening?
Nope. killall works fine on my Debian system (mostly "unstable", with
kernel 2.0.36). 'killall -V' says:
killall from psmisc version 18
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: fetchmail and postfix
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 03:49:51 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Sparrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Alex Flinsch wrote:
>>This is most likely a configuration problem, I have tried to read all of
>>the man pages faqs (could not find a postfix howto).
There's no HOWTO per se, but there is a web site: http://www.postfix.org
(actually, that gives you a list of quite a few mirrors).
>>I have a script that uses fetchmail to download all of my mail from
>>assorted pop3 servers 'round the net and load them to my local machine.
>>It seems to work, but the mail never seems to get delivered to the
>>correct user's local mailbox. I have found it residing in postfix's
>>deferred queues, but can't seem to get them out to the local mailboxes.
...
> posting from home now, the messages in /var/log/maillog seem to mostly be like
> this one:
>
> Sep 16 13:06:06 localhost postfix/qmgr[1436]: AEF28495C:
> to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=none, delay=55236,
> status=deferred (Name service error for domain localdomain: Host not found,
> try again)
Three things to check:
1) The /etc/postfix/main.cf file. In particular, check the mydestination
setting. It should include both $myhostname and localhost.$mydomain.
Likewise, you should check the settings for $myhostname and $mydomain.
You could also try a brute-force approach, and put
"localhost.localhost.localdomain" in as one of the mydestination
options.
2) Your host name settings. Since you say you're using Mandrake, it's
probably easiest to set this from linuxconf.
3) Your fetchmailrc file, wherever it is. It's probably configured to
send mail to "localhost". You could try setting this to the actual
machine name instead.
Basically, what's happening is that fetchmail is trying to send to
"localhost," only that gets translated into
"localhost.localhost.localdomain" because something along the way is
interpreting "localhost.localdomain" as your domain name (sans
hostname). It's possible that option #1 will correct the problem by
making postfix recognize "localhost.localhost.localdomain" as itself.
This is rather inelegant, but it ought to work. Setting a regular
fully-qualified domain name and telling fetchmailrc to deliver to it
rather than to "localhost" alone should also fix the problem.
In any event, I do suggest you read through the entire
/etc/postfix/main.cf file, since it's pretty well commented and can
therefore be rather informative.
Note that if you send e-mail via postfix, you'll definitely want to have a
valid hostname (either set on the computer itself or on the myhostname
line in /etc/postfix/main.cf). You may also want/need to look into
the address rewriting options of postfix. For instance, if you're using a
dialup ISP called rhubarb.net, and you're [EMAIL PROTECTED], but on your
Linux machine you're alexf and the machine is called nowhere.man, then you
can use the address rewriting to change mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] so
most of the header addresses reflect the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] This
will prevent a lot of mail bounces from sites that put strict anti-spam
rules in place.
--
Rod Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://members.bellatlantic.net/~smithrod
Author of _Special Edition Using Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux_, from Que
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From: Adrian Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Scroll with arrow keys?
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 18:49:06 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Matt O'Toole wrote:
>
> I can't scroll up and down a web page with my arrow keys in Linux like I can
> in Windows. Should I be able to, and if something's wrong, how do I fix it?
> I'm tired of reaching for the mouse...
>
> Matt O.
Works okay on mine.
up-arrow, down-arrow, page-up, page-down, ...
I'm using Netscape 4.6
well, the arrow keys (on the "inverted tee") work... but, I can't use
the num keypad for arrow keys regardless of num-lock (just noticed
that).
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From: Ilya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,de.comp.os.unix.linux.newusers,de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc
Subject: Re: REQ: The fastest Window Manager for a slow Laptop?
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 18:50:11 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Grant Edwards <grant@nowhere.> wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, William Firkser wrote:
>>David,
>>
>>You might want to look into more ram. Linux needs at least 32mb to run
>>at a reasonable speed
> Nonsense. It depends entirely on what you run.
> My main machine at work is a P166 24M Linux machine. It's
> quite comfortable though I wouldn't try to run Star Office,
> Applix, Gnome, or KDE. But, it works great with fvwm2 as a
> window manager.
That's my point exactly. Try fvwm. You might like it. Or even twm or mwm. In
terms of appearance, it is the same thing minus the virtual part. twm might
be even simpler.
>> - 64mb would make a big difference.
Yes, it would. In a perfect world....
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From: mazman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: please help with menus in KDE
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 20:25:57 +1700
I have installed redhat 6.0 on my machine a few times, and I
am trying to duplicate something that accidentally happened
on a previous install. I started out booting into X with
Gnome and enlightment. I switched to KDE and I was able to
see the menu items from Gnome and Another Level under KDE's
personal menu. I really liked this, because it has the icon
for linuxconf and other utilities. But I forgot to put the
C compiler and a few other things in, and I wanted to make
the partions bigger, so I just reinstalled linux from
scratch. Now the icons for the other window managers don't
show up under the personal menu in KDE, and I can't figure
out what I did to get them there in the first place. They
just appeared on their own(so it seems). Any help or
suggestions are appreciated! :) Thanks...
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From: "luca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: R: Man documents in HTML or PDF format ?
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 18:09:20 GMT
www.redhat.com
Vitaly Lipovetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Where can I find Man documents in HTML or PDF format ?
>
> --
> My best regards,
> Vitaly Lipovetsky.
>
>
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From: "Steve D. Perkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: PostScript to Word?
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 14:50:50 -0400
> Don't quite know where to post this one...
>
> Does anyone know if it is possible to convert .ps documents
> created by, say LaTeX and dvips, into MS Word 6.0 .doc files?
>
> Pardon the naive question...shot in the dark...
Not that I know of.
Why are you wanting to do this in the first place? Do you have to
edit them under MS Word, or are you just looking for a means to find a
format usable by Windows machines so you can pass files along to
colleagues for viewing? If the latter is the case, you might want to
play with "ps2pdf" (probably already installed on your system by
default)... a nifty little command-line tool that can translate most
PostScript files into Adobe Acrobat PDF format, which is usable (though
not EDIT-able, unfortunately) on just about any Windows-based machine.
Steve
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: AutoPPP and assigning ip numbers based on port!
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 17:38:45 GMT
Dustin Puryear writes:
> Okay, the million dollar question is.. how do I have AutoPPP use the
> appropriate options file?
Just create the appropriate options.ttySX files. Pppd knows what serial
port it is connected to and will read the correct one.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Kirkcaldie)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: *nix vs. MS security
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 03:35:33 GMT
>>> Open source programs have to implement real security meaning that even
>>> though one has access to the code, one cannot use that to circumvent
>>> the system, because the security is made that way.
... otherwise, the people who *do* have access to the code at Microsoft
could breach your security. Do you trust every single employee there who
might have access to the source code? To whom are *they* accountable?
Matthew.
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From: Jason Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Program to Edit Wav files?
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:29:29 -0700
Does anyone out there know o a good program freely available
to edit and re-record wav files? That is, a program that will
let me cut off certain parts of wav files and fade others to the
end, say. Thanks kindly,
Jason
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From: TXS II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem (end parenthesis show up as a bar |
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 06:26:21 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does anyone have this strange problem. I think it only happends on
netscape. When people put an end parentesis it shows up as a "|". I
find this strange. The main thing is, it is hard to read other people's
code. Looks something like this.
#include iostream.h
void main (|
{
if (1 > 2 | {cout<<"The day has come, one is now greater than
two"<<endl;}
elseif (1 == 2 | {cout<<"The day has come, one is now equal to
two"<<endl;}
else {cout <<"Today is your normal boring day"<<endl;}
}
this is how things look to me.
later
-TXS II
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From: Oooo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,hk.comp.os.linux,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: Re: xf86config
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 12:35:41 +0800
u is good i only display to 320x 240
so i dont know to set
my display card is G400
Mon. is viewsonic 14es
Lohengrin wrote:
> Hello, I'm new to Linux.
> I got a problem with configuring Xf86 (My ver is 3.3.2).
>
> The window can only be set to 1024 x 768.
> My mon goes off when attempting with other res.
>
> I can't even set it to a standard VGA with 640x 480.
> The most awful thing is that the screen split into 2!
>
> My video card's Leadtek WinFast 3D S680 w/2M
> The chip's S3 ViRGE/GX2; DAC: S3 SDAC
> My mom's MAG XJ500.
>
> How can I fix this apart from downloading X 3.3.5 (I would, of course.)?
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> Regards,
>
> PS Mail reply is appreciated.
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From: "Ralph Kaiser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: please help with menus in KDE
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 23:37:40 -0500
mazman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have installed redhat 6.0 on my machine a few times, and I
> am trying to duplicate something that accidentally happened
> on a previous install. I started out booting into X with
> Gnome and enlightment. I switched to KDE and I was able to
> see the menu items from Gnome and Another Level under KDE's
> personal menu. I really liked this, because it has the icon
> for linuxconf and other utilities. But I forgot to put the
> C compiler and a few other things in, and I wanted to make
> the partions bigger, so I just reinstalled linux from
> scratch. Now the icons for the other window managers don't
> show up under the personal menu in KDE, and I can't figure
> out what I did to get them there in the first place. They
> just appeared on their own(so it seems). Any help or
> suggestions are appreciated! :) Thanks...
In the System menu run Appfinder.
Ralph
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From: "Brian Markielewski" <:)[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HTML based Telnet client?
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 23:09:45 -0500
There is a company called Accusoft Enterprises which has
a terminal emulator called AccuTerm. Recently, they released
AccuTerm Internet edition which is exactly that, a html based
terminal emulator. I believe it requires IE4 though. I played with
it for a few days, haven't tried using it through a firewall yet.
it worked pretty good, several emulations, custom
colors, etc., the same features as their emulator product. I believe you
can
download a trial version from their web site.
Brian E. Markielewski
Independant Consultant
Creative System Development Services
Jacek M. Holeczek wrote in message ...
>> This may be a dumb question, but is there such a thing as a HTML based
>> Telnet client?
>You might try the following java telnet aplet :
> http://www.first.gmd.de/persons/leo/java/Telnet
>Hope this helps,
>Jacek.
>
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From: "Cliff McCullough" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dim Display
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 03:56:21 GMT
Sorry bout that. My monitor is a Capetronics model CDS-423A.
I used a NEC 5FG as a monitor type.
Stuart R. Fuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:n2sqr7.o4d.ln@localhost...
> Cliff McCullough ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> : My display is very dim almost washed out. My display was not listed in
the
> : list and I used a model one that I thought was close to my monitor. Is
> : there something I can check.
>
> How about checking the brand name and model number of the display
(monitor?),
> and the brand name and the model number of what you used, and then posting
> them here.
>
> Cripe man, if you want help, at least post some details other than "it
doesn't
> work".
>
> Stu
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