Re: samba over PLIP

2001-03-13 Thread debian
Hi Erik, What I have done in the past with non-bootable Windows situations was to copy ncftp onto a boot floppy with the Linux kernel (and the proper drivers for the network card and PCMCIA support), then do a recursive upload (put -R *) to a Linux FTP server (or unfortunately, IIS if you have i

samba over PLIP

2001-03-13 Thread Erik Peter P. Abella
Hello All, There's an Acer TravelMate here whose M$Windows was hit with an outlook macro virus (yes, such is the fate all who use this evil mailer). I need to save the data files and not truncate everything to 8.3 filenames. I will try for loss less repartioning; install Linux; mount the FAT32 pa

Re: samba over PLIP

2001-03-13 Thread debian
Hi Erik, What I have done in the past with non-bootable Windows situations was to copy ncftp onto a boot floppy with the Linux kernel (and the proper drivers for the network card and PCMCIA support), then do a recursive upload (put -R *) to a Linux FTP server (or unfortunately, IIS if you have

samba over PLIP

2001-03-13 Thread Erik Peter P. Abella
Hello All, There's an Acer TravelMate here whose M$Windows was hit with an outlook macro virus (yes, such is the fate all who use this evil mailer). I need to save the data files and not truncate everything to 8.3 filenames. I will try for loss less repartioning; install Linux; mount the FAT32 p

Re: latest postfix for potato? (was:Re: Compiling bind_8.2.3-0 for slink)

2001-03-13 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Russell Coker wrote: > Wichert, how are plans for getting a public repository for these things going? They should appear at ftp://ftp.valinux.com/pub/people/wichert/ somewhere in the next 30 hours. Please note that I do expect everyone who uses them to subscribe to the va-debian-users

Re: Sybase ASE 11.0.3.3

2001-03-13 Thread Eric Jennings
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Eric Jennings wrote: If only they'd open up the source completely, I'd move all of my web app development immediately to it from PostgreSQL/MySQL. Me too. But I don't think it's possible in the near future. I would be very surprised, if they decided to do so... They don't eve

Re: Sybase ASE 11.0.3.3

2001-03-13 Thread Przemyslaw Wegrzyn
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Eric Jennings wrote: > >From what I read today, InterBase (which is free nowadays; see e.g. > >http://www.ibphoenix.com/) has multi-level transactions. > > > Thanks for the info... I'll have to check that out. > > Anybody else have positive/negative experiences with Inter

Re: Sybase ASE 11.0.3.3

2001-03-13 Thread Przemyslaw Wegrzyn
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Eric Jennings wrote: > If only they'd open up the source completely, I'd move all of my web > app development immediately to it from PostgreSQL/MySQL. Me too. But I don't think it's possible in the near future. I would be very surprised, if they decided to do so... They do

Re: Sybase ASE 11.0.3.3 (fwd)

2001-03-13 Thread Przemyslaw Wegrzyn
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 12:27:32 -0800, Eric Jennings wrote: > > I can't comment on the stability of the product within a production > > environment, but I was very pleased with the multi-level transaction > > system, > > >From what I read today,

Re: Sybase ASE 11.0.3.3

2001-03-13 Thread Eric Jennings
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 12:27:32 -0800, Eric Jennings wrote: I can't comment on the stability of the product within a production environment, but I was very pleased with the multi-level transaction system, From what I read today, InterBase (which is free nowadays; see e.g. http://www.ibphoenix.c

Re: latest postfix for potato? (was:Re: Compiling bind_8.2.3-0 for slink)

2001-03-13 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Russell Coker wrote: > Wichert, how are plans for getting a public repository for these things going? They should appear at ftp://ftp.valinux.com/pub/people/wichert/ somewhere in the next 30 hours. Please note that I do expect everyone who uses them to subscribe to the va-debian-users

Re: Sybase ASE 11.0.3.3

2001-03-13 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 12:27:32 -0800, Eric Jennings wrote: > I can't comment on the stability of the product within a production > environment, but I was very pleased with the multi-level transaction > system, >From what I read today, InterBase (which is free nowadays; see e.g. http://www.ibphoe

RE: Sybase ASE 11.0.3.3

2001-03-13 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
I would guess that their intention is to discourage folks from running it on big iron Sun / IBM boxes that have the ability to run linux or linux applications on top of another OS. I imagine they want you to pay them for that. :) - jsw -Original Message- From: Przemyslaw Wegrzyn [mailto

Re: Sybase ASE 11.0.3.3

2001-03-13 Thread Eric Jennings
I've used it on a couple of development boxes and it ran very well for me. I can't comment on the stability of the product within a production environment, but I was very pleased with the multi-level transaction system, and the speed at which it queried very convoluted SQL statements (subselec

Re: Sybase ASE 11.0.3.3

2001-03-13 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 21:12:27 +0100, Przemyslaw Wegrzyn wrote: > Has anyone here experience with Sybase ASE 11.0.3.3 on Linux ? I don't. > I'm wondering, if it is a good choice for production enviroment... It has > a little strange license: If you're concerned about the license, why not use a

Re: Sybase ASE 11.0.3.3

2001-03-13 Thread Eric Jennings
>On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Eric Jennings wrote: > >> If only they'd open up the source completely, I'd move all of my web >> app development immediately to it from PostgreSQL/MySQL. > >Me too. But I don't think it's possible in the near future. I would be >very surprised, if they decided to do so...

Sybase ASE 11.0.3.3

2001-03-13 Thread Przemyslaw Wegrzyn
Has anyone here experience with Sybase ASE 11.0.3.3 on Linux ? I'm wondering, if it is a good choice for production enviroment... It has a little strange license: "You are allowed to install and use the Software for free as long as you operate the Software at all times only with the Open Source

Re: Sybase ASE 11.0.3.3

2001-03-13 Thread Przemyslaw Wegrzyn
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Eric Jennings wrote: > >From what I read today, InterBase (which is free nowadays; see e.g. > >http://www.ibphoenix.com/) has multi-level transactions. > > > Thanks for the info... I'll have to check that out. > > Anybody else have positive/negative experiences with Inte

Re: Sybase ASE 11.0.3.3

2001-03-13 Thread Przemyslaw Wegrzyn
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Eric Jennings wrote: > If only they'd open up the source completely, I'd move all of my web > app development immediately to it from PostgreSQL/MySQL. Me too. But I don't think it's possible in the near future. I would be very surprised, if they decided to do so... They d

Re: Sybase ASE 11.0.3.3 (fwd)

2001-03-13 Thread Przemyslaw Wegrzyn
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 12:27:32 -0800, Eric Jennings wrote: > > I can't comment on the stability of the product within a production > > environment, but I was very pleased with the multi-level transaction > > system, > > >From what I read today

Re: Sybase ASE 11.0.3.3

2001-03-13 Thread Eric Jennings
>On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 12:27:32 -0800, Eric Jennings wrote: >> I can't comment on the stability of the product within a production >> environment, but I was very pleased with the multi-level transaction >> system, > >From what I read today, InterBase (which is free nowadays; see e.g. >http://

Credit Like Card

2001-03-13 Thread Matt Fair
Hello, I need to create a card that when scanned in a credit card scanner it connects to my server via the phone line. I would like to have the web server receive information like what someone purchased, who they purchased from and record that on the server. This card isn't a credit card where it c

Re: Sybase ASE 11.0.3.3

2001-03-13 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 12:27:32 -0800, Eric Jennings wrote: > I can't comment on the stability of the product within a production > environment, but I was very pleased with the multi-level transaction > system, >From what I read today, InterBase (which is free nowadays; see e.g. http://www.ibpho

RE: Sybase ASE 11.0.3.3

2001-03-13 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
I would guess that their intention is to discourage folks from running it on big iron Sun / IBM boxes that have the ability to run linux or linux applications on top of another OS. I imagine they want you to pay them for that. :) - jsw -Original Message- From: Przemyslaw Wegrzyn [mailt

Re: Sybase ASE 11.0.3.3

2001-03-13 Thread Eric Jennings
I've used it on a couple of development boxes and it ran very well for me. I can't comment on the stability of the product within a production environment, but I was very pleased with the multi-level transaction system, and the speed at which it queried very convoluted SQL statements (subsele

Re: Sybase ASE 11.0.3.3

2001-03-13 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 21:12:27 +0100, Przemyslaw Wegrzyn wrote: > Has anyone here experience with Sybase ASE 11.0.3.3 on Linux ? I don't. > I'm wondering, if it is a good choice for production enviroment... It has > a little strange license: If you're concerned about the license, why not use

Sybase ASE 11.0.3.3

2001-03-13 Thread Przemyslaw Wegrzyn
Has anyone here experience with Sybase ASE 11.0.3.3 on Linux ? I'm wondering, if it is a good choice for production enviroment... It has a little strange license: "You are allowed to install and use the Software for free as long as you operate the Software at all times only with the Open Source

Credit Like Card

2001-03-13 Thread Matt Fair
Hello, I need to create a card that when scanned in a credit card scanner it connects to my server via the phone line. I would like to have the web server receive information like what someone purchased, who they purchased from and record that on the server. This card isn't a credit card where it

Re: long hang time for ftp

2001-03-13 Thread Vasil Kolev
On 12 Mar 2001, David Bishop wrote: > To follow up my own email, proftp has the exact same problem. Any other > ideas? > > Not really a idea, but I usually solve such things with strace e.g. strace -f -p (of the daemon or inetd, if it runs from there), and look where does it block ... I

Re: latest postfix for potato? (was:Re: Compiling bind_8.2.3-0 for slink)\

2001-03-13 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Russell Coker wrote: > Wichert, how are plans for getting a public repository for these things going? I pretty much have everything ready to go. There are two bugs I would like to fix first: 1. update-devfsd in my devfs package isn't executable. I suspect the debian/rules script cop

Re: latest postfix for potato? (was:Re: Compiling bind_8.2.3-0 for slink)\

2001-03-13 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Russell Coker wrote: > Wichert, how are plans for getting a public repository for these things going? I pretty much have everything ready to go. There are two bugs I would like to fix first: 1. update-devfsd in my devfs package isn't executable. I suspect the debian/rules script cop

Re: long hang time for ftp

2001-03-13 Thread Vasil Kolev
On 12 Mar 2001, David Bishop wrote: > To follow up my own email, proftp has the exact same problem. Any other > ideas? > > Not really a idea, but I usually solve such things with strace e.g. strace -f -p (of the daemon or inetd, if it runs from there), and look where does it block ...

Re: latest postfix for potato? (was:Re: Compiling bind_8.2.3-0 for slink)

2001-03-13 Thread Russell Coker
On Tuesday 13 March 2001 11:40, Neale Banks wrote: > > I have .deb's of the latest LDAP stuff for Potato. I didn't build them > > though. Hopefully we can establish some sort of official repository for > > such things and manage them properly... > > They're possibly the ones at http://people.debi

Re: latest postfix for potato? (was:Re: Compiling bind_8.2.3-0 for slink)

2001-03-13 Thread Neale Banks
On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Russell Coker wrote: > On Thursday 08 March 2001 04:29, Neale Banks wrote: [...] > > Then starts the slippery slope... the libldap2 in unstable depends on > > libsasl7, which in its turn recommends libsasl-modules (the only > > consolation here is that libsasl7 etc is also in t

Re: latest postfix for potato? (was:Re: Compiling bind_8.2.3-0 for slink)

2001-03-13 Thread Russell Coker
On Tuesday 13 March 2001 11:40, Neale Banks wrote: > > I have .deb's of the latest LDAP stuff for Potato. I didn't build them > > though. Hopefully we can establish some sort of official repository for > > such things and manage them properly... > > They're possibly the ones at http://people.deb

Re: latest postfix for potato? (was:Re: Compiling bind_8.2.3-0 forslink)

2001-03-13 Thread Neale Banks
On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Russell Coker wrote: > On Thursday 08 March 2001 04:29, Neale Banks wrote: [...] > > Then starts the slippery slope... the libldap2 in unstable depends on > > libsasl7, which in its turn recommends libsasl-modules (the only > > consolation here is that libsasl7 etc is also in

Re: long hang time for ftp

2001-03-13 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 04:49:33PM -0700, David Bishop wrote: > > All appropriate hosts?? Seeing as I plan on hitting this box from many > different places (it's going to be public), and even our local machines total > more than 300 boxes, that's not really an option... :-) > Sure, it's only a f

Re: Compiling courier on potato

2001-03-13 Thread I. Forbes
Hello Jeff I tried it, and I can answer my own question ... On 9 Mar 2001, at 23:26, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > I was looking at the unstable debian package for Courier, > > courier_0.31.1-2.dsc. > > > > What chances are there to get this to compile on potato, or should I > > just stick wit