Re: databases, which one?

Hi Jean-Yves, So far as I know pretty much all the databases on Linux are client server using SQL. So that's not quite the same as dbase which has an integrated dbengine and language running on the client. Probably the best known dbms' on Linux and MySql and Postgresql. They each have pros and

Exim. How correct sender that has no domain

of mailman messages, any message I send to a mailman listserver gets rejected because my sender is not correct. Any help please. Thanks Dave -- David Warnock Sundayta Ltd

Mail has incorrect Sender (Exim or Netscape?)

know where this header is created and how I change it (I cannot see it anywhere in Netscape preferences or in the exim configuration)? Thanks David -- David Warnock Sundayta Ltd

Potato broke my samba

not showing up in Windows 98 network neighbourhood. Anyone got any ideas about what is wrong or what I need to try? Sorry I am so stupid. Regards Dave -- David Warnock Sundayta Ltd

Re: Potato broke my samba

x error followed by authentication errors (bad user name/passwd). OK this sounds very similar, I will upgrade to kernel 2.2 and see what happens. Thanks Dave -- David Warnock Sundayta Ltd

Re: Potato broke my samba

kernel at all. So this solution does not worry me. Thanks Dave -- David Warnock Sundayta Ltd

Dial in server

start looking at installing on the dial in server? Thanks Dave -- David Warnock Sundayta Ltd

Re: EXIM, Help stop relaying spam

do that? Thanks Dave -- David Warnock Sundayta Ltd

Re: EXIM, Help stop relaying spam

Many thanks George. Dave snip As the final entry in the section under directors: smart: driver = smartuser new_address = [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip -- David Warnock Sundayta Ltd

EXIM, Help stop relaying spam

sender_reject = *.quintessenz.at I would like to reject all hosts apart from some named machines at sundayta.co.uk but whenever I try that I stop all incoming mail from other hosts which is obviously not correct. Any help much appreciated while I still have some hair left. -- David Warnock Sundayta

Re: EXIM, Help stop relaying spam

I am using the version that installs with slink which is 2.0.5 (I think) Thanks Dave Pollywog wrote: On 03-Aug-99 David Warnock wrote: I would like to reject all hosts apart from some named machines at sundayta.co.uk but whenever I try that I stop all incoming mail from other hosts

Re: Compatability with Windows-only programs

- a wonderful editor). You could start by listing the applications you use and asking for Linux suggestions here. Dave David Warnock Sundayta Ltd

Re: Stable GUI Web Browser

** Reply to message from Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 17 Nov 1998 23:57:15 +0100 Let's not talk about the food :-) I quite agree, we have far too many Macdonalds and Burger King. Dave David Warnock Sundayta Ltd

Re: Stable GUI Web Browser

subtle forms of British humour. Dave David Warnock Sundayta Ltd

Stable GUI Web Browser

with Debian 2.0 - did an upgrade using apt last week. But I have not upgraded by X 11 for a couple of months (it is one of the suse servers as I have a Permedia video card). David Warnock Sundayta Ltd

Re: Stable GUI Web Browser

. Maybe in a while mozilla will be a stable alternative. Thanks for the response Dave David Warnock Sundayta Ltd

Re: Stable GUI Web Browser

been warned that US citizens are unable to recognise sarcasm - I guess thats why so many Americans use M$ software. David Warnock Sundayta Ltd

Plan for Debian based LAN

Hi, As I have mentioned before I have a small company, now all 4 machines have linux and I only dual boot 1 machine into NT when I have to run powerdesigner or Delphi 3. Now a customer has expressed an interest in moving to Linux. But whilst out setup is fine for a small company of developers we

CD Writer Recommendation

Hi, I need to add a CD Writer to my system. Can anyone give me a recommendation for a very reliable and fast writer (I only need writeable not re-writeable). I am only interested in a SCSI interface and would prefer an internal unit. What software do I need? Is it included in Hamm? For the

Re: Microsoft = Trustworthy? What was I thinking???

Now what do you guys say I try? Ryan, I don't know enough about Linux to suggest a rescue procedure. But I have a sugestion to use instead of Lilo. I have a floppy disk to boot for Linux (yes I know ancient technology and slow to boot). There are some real advantages. 1. I don't have to play

XEmacs novice customisation

Hi, I am attempting to work with XEmacs, so far I can't say I am particularly enjoying the experience ;-) There are some things I really miss and one is the ability to select text using the shift key combined with any cursor movement. From the latest FAQ where it talks about windows versions it

Re: XEmacs novice customisation

Matt, Thanks for your reply. I have been attempting the (x)emacs way of selecting text as you describe and I agree the functionality is similar but I find it is not as easy for me to remember. All I needed to remember in MultiEdit was that the cursor keys worked, the control key made them go

Entity Modelling sw for Linux?

Hi, As you may have seen from other messages I am moving the whole office onto Debian. The FileServer and Firewall are working fine as pure Linux. My Java programmer is fine as pure linux. I am left with needing NT for a few things such as Delphi 3 Development (against SQL Anywhere dbms). One

Re: Keeping multiple systems up-to-date with apt: how?

Ian, I have been setup by Phil Hands to have the following. 1. My Server as a complete copy of Hamm as at 1 Sept. 2. My sources.list in /etc/apt first points to the copy on my server and then to the copy on the debian ftp site. Now I only pay to collect the changes. If I install the same

Re: Exim questions

] (David Warnock) wrote: this behaviour so that instead all messages that are not to a valid account get sent to a named account and do not get rejected. You should look up the description of the smartuser director in the exim documentation. That does exactly what you need. bye, Georg

Re: X windows...

Noel Yap wrote: David Warnock wrote: I suggest you look in the man pages for startx. You should see that the default X server to start is X. On my system that was starting the wrong server so I changed X to be a symbolic link to XF86_SVGA

Printing accross a LAN

My fileserver (running Hamm) has 2 printers attached. The printcap and everything is setup so I can print. This machine also runs samba and both printers are made available across the lan by samba. When I use Windows NT on a client I can print to either printer attached to the server via samba.

Re: StarOffice

David, Thanks for your answer. I am very new to Linux and Unix. I have read a bit about the diferent libraries and I have created a couple of symbolic links but I am not clear about this part of your message. mkdir /usr/local/StarOffice mkdir /usr/local/StarOffice/lib ln -s libc.so.5

Re: Correction of Clock for summer time

Robert Wilderspin wrote: On 4 Sep 98 10:37:53 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It turned out to be option a. The help from the list was great as always. My problem is that I don't know where to start looking in the MAN pages (I would never have guessed the names tzconfig or hwclock). Try

Re: X windows...

Taylen wrote: hey, I recently got a new system, and decided that maybe this time my video card(now an STB nVidia, Riva 128 chipset, with 8 megs of vram)...anyway, I get it setup with XF86Setup and do startx, it starts, but in 320x240 resolution, I tried doing alt+ctrl+ +or- but that wouldn't

deb for StarOffice 4

I have downloaded StarOffice 4. I have not seen a package to install this (there is one for StarOffice 3.1). a) Is there a package somewhere that will install so40sp3_lnx_01.tar.gz b) If there is not how easy is it to create on like the one for StarOffice 3.1 (or Netscape 4)? I am interested not

X App Launcher?

Hi, I am using XFree86 (the suse one that supports Permedia 2 cards). I am currently using icewm as my window manager. I am looking for an application launcher that will sit on my desktop and provide direct access to applications. I guess I could change the menu but I would prefer to lick on

X Background

I am using XFree86 with icewm. The desktop background is a distracting pattern. So far I clear this (which has sort of difraction patterns at high res) by using the fishtank application. I am quite a boring person and wondered how to clear it to a single colour. Thanks Dave

Re: X Background

Nils Rennebarth wrote: On Sat, Sep 05, 1998 at 12:45:43PM +, David Warnock wrote: I am quite a boring person and wondered how to clear [the X background] to a single colour. Nils, Great thanks, just what I wanted. Dave

Re: Correction of Clock for summer time

Gilbert, It turned out to be option a. The help from the list was great as always. My problem is that I don't know where to start looking in the MAN pages (I would never have guessed the names tzconfig or hwclock). Anyway all hunky dory now. Dave Gilbert Laycock wrote: David During the

Netscape 4.06 Messenger

Hi, I have installed netscape 4.06 communicator but I am concerned that the message filter is not working correctly. Basicly I want to move all the messages from various lists into folders. When I define multiple rules (which are after all very simple) it appears that messages go missing ie I see

Exim questions

Hi, I have Exim as my mail server. Currently it seems to reject messages to anyone that does not have a valid mail account. This is understandable but I would like to change this behaviour so that instead all messages that are not to a valid account get sent to a named account and do not get

bash shell prompt

Hi, On Hamm, if I login as root or while logged in as myself do a su then my shell prompt shows the host and current directory. When I am logged in as myself my prompt is just a $ I much prefer to see the current directory in my prompt. So how do I change it? My guess was that the .bashrc in

Re: bash shell prompt

To everyone who has replied to my question. Thanks I have my prompt as I want it, I also now understand some of the bash man information. I also just wanted to check that my new netscape 4.06 is working. Dave

Correction of Clock for summer time

During the installation of Hamm I was asked if my PC was running on GMT or not. I guess I answered this wrong as the time is displayed an hour ahead of what it should be. It should be showing British Summer time now which is GMT + 1 but is in fact showing GMT + 2. Where / How do I correct this,

3com 3c905b support in Hamm

Hi, Cards recognised by Hamm? I am about to get Hamm installed on 4 PC's. I have been checking out the hardware for Linux compatability by starting the installation of a RedHat 5.0 CD (my Installer arrives on Tuesday with the Debian CD and I want to be sure everything is going to be ready).

Re: 3com 3c905b support in Hamm

Thanks Nathan. Dave On 28 Aug 98, at 10:36, Nathan E Norman wrote: Debian 2.0 works with the 905b just fine. Install the 3C59x module. Dave Warnock Sundayta Ltd www.sundayta.co.uk

Re: 3com 3c905b support in Hamm

Akop, Many thanks. On 28 Aug 98, at 21:36, Akop Pogosian wrote: Snip The 3c900/905 cards are supported with the latest 3c59x driver. Even if redhat 5.0 does recognize your card it will not function. At least, this was my case. This is because, the RedHat CD that I had came with 2.0.32