Re: Different database for create a program

2023-09-24 Thread Marco
Am 24.09.2023 14:59 schrieb Charles Curley: > Answer 2) You can use either one, or install others, e.g. sqlite3. Although, some are incompatible to each other, e.g. mariadb and MySQL cannot be installed at the same time on the same system.

Re: Different database for create a program

2023-09-24 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 24 Sep 2023 14:45:41 -0600 William Torrez Corea wrote: > Can I use a different database to create a program? > > In my operating system have installed two databases: > >1. MySQL >2. PostgreSQL Answer 1) You can use any database to which you have access. M

Re: Different database for create a program

2023-09-24 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 24 Sep 2023 14:45 -0600, from willitc9...@gmail.com (William Torrez Corea): > Can I use a different database to create a program? What do you mean by "create a program"? Why do you think a database engine is the correct tool for what you are trying to do? -- Mic

Different database for create a program

2023-09-24 Thread William Torrez Corea
Can I use a different database to create a program? In my operating system have installed two databases: 1. MySQL 2. PostgreSQL -- With kindest regards, William. ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org ⠈⠳⣄

Bid Writing, Volunteering & Fundraising Workshops plus Trusts Database

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Re: MariaDB database under /home

2020-11-11 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 11/11/2020 15:42, Nicolas George wrote: Tony van der Hoff (12020-11-11): It is known that the maintainers of MariaDB deprecate the database files residing under /home, in fact going so far as making it an error, unless /usr/lib/systemd/system/mariadb.service has ProtectHome=true commented

MariaDB database under /home

2020-11-11 Thread Tony van der Hoff
It is known that the maintainers of MariaDB deprecate the database files residing under /home, in fact going so far as making it an error, unless /usr/lib/systemd/system/mariadb.service has ProtectHome=true commented out. Now, this is all very well, and I'm sure there are good reasons f

Re: MariaDB database under /home

2020-11-11 Thread Sven Hartge
Tony van der Hoff wrote: > It is known that the maintainers of MariaDB deprecate the database > files residing under /home, in fact going so far as making it an > error, unless /usr/lib/systemd/system/mariadb.service has > ProtectHome=true commented out. > Now, this is all ver

Re: MariaDB database under /home

2020-11-11 Thread Nicolas George
Tony van der Hoff (12020-11-11): > It is known that the maintainers of MariaDB deprecate the database files > residing under /home, in fact going so far as making it an error, unless > /usr/lib/systemd/system/mariadb.service has ProtectHome=true commented out. > > Now, this is all

RE: Sophos Users Database

2020-10-23 Thread daniel rossie
-user@lists.debian.org' Subject: Sophos Users Database Importance: High Hi, Would you be interested in acquiring Sophos Users Database for your marketing campaigns? The database will have access to decision makers and companies using Sophos with their emails, direct numbers, company name

Re: Where is spamassassin's bayes database?

2020-09-30 Thread Victor Sudakov
Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 11:41:37PM +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote: > > Nope, just https://wiki.debian.org/DebianSpamAssassin needs to be fixed. > > It suggests for Exim "spam = nobody" or "spam = nobody:true", while it > > should be "spam = debian-spamd" or "spam = debian-spa

Re: Where is spamassassin's bayes database?

2020-09-30 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 11:41:37PM +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote: Nope, just https://wiki.debian.org/DebianSpamAssassin needs to be fixed. It suggests for Exim "spam = nobody" or "spam = nobody:true", while it should be "spam = debian-spamd" or "spam = debian-spamd:true" of course. The example is

Re: Where is spamassassin's bayes database?

2020-09-29 Thread Victor Sudakov
Dan Ritter wrote: > Victor Sudakov wrote: > > F*ck! > > > > I wonder why it is trying to create it as nobody:nogroup... > > > > spamd[32333]: plugin: eval failed: bayes: (in learn) locker: safe_lock: > > cannot create tmp lockfile > > /var/lib/spamassassin/.spamassassin/bayes.lock.ip-172-31-3

Re: Where is spamassassin's bayes database?

2020-09-29 Thread Dan Ritter
Victor Sudakov wrote: > F*ck! > > I wonder why it is trying to create it as nobody:nogroup... > > spamd[32333]: plugin: eval failed: bayes: (in learn) locker: safe_lock: > cannot create tmp lockfile > /var/lib/spamassassin/.spamassassin/bayes.lock.ip-172-31-37-150.us-west-2.compute.internal.3

Re: Where is spamassassin's bayes database?

2020-09-29 Thread Victor Sudakov
> My question is, when SpamAssassin is accessed over the network > > > (127.0.0.1:783), where does it keep its Bayesian database? > > > > > > A command like > > > spamc -u nobody -L ham < mail.txt > > > > > > returns that "Message was

Re: Where is spamassassin's bayes database?

2020-09-29 Thread Dan Ritter
> My question is, when SpamAssassin is accessed over the network > > > (127.0.0.1:783), where does it keep its Bayesian database? > > > > > > A command like > > > spamc -u nobody -L ham < mail.txt > > > > > > returns that "Message was

Re: Where is spamassassin's bayes database?

2020-09-29 Thread Victor Sudakov
> > (127.0.0.1:783), where does it keep its Bayesian database? > > > > A command like > > spamc -u nobody -L ham < mail.txt > > > > returns that "Message was already un/learned", but for the life of me, > > where is the database kept? > &g

Re: Where is spamassassin's bayes database?

2020-09-29 Thread Dan Ritter
Victor Sudakov wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > Is anyone running Debian's default SpamAssassin package together with > some MTA (exim, postfix etc)? > > My question is, when SpamAssassin is accessed over the network > (127.0.0.1:783), where does it keep its Bayesian data

Where is spamassassin's bayes database?

2020-09-29 Thread Victor Sudakov
Dear Colleagues, Is anyone running Debian's default SpamAssassin package together with some MTA (exim, postfix etc)? My question is, when SpamAssassin is accessed over the network (127.0.0.1:783), where does it keep its Bayesian database? A command like spamc -u nobody -L ham <

Re: Example(s) of recutils project flow? - was [FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?]

2020-08-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 07 aug 20, 07:33:05, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I had done similar search with DuckDuckGo receiving similarly useless hits. [...] > That's why I'm looking for a human's answer. It helps to specify in advance what you tried already and didn't work. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.de

Re: Example(s) of recutils project flow? - was [FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?]

2020-08-07 Thread Richard Owlett
On 08/07/2020 06:46 AM, David wrote: On Fri, 7 Aug 2020 at 21:31, Richard Owlett wrote: On 07/27/2020 10:13 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: You may wish to have a look at recutils: https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/ I've done a first read of the well written manual which has many examples of

Re: Example(s) of recutils project flow? - was [FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?]

2020-08-07 Thread David
On Fri, 7 Aug 2020 at 21:31, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 07/27/2020 10:13 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: > > You may wish to have a look at recutils: > > https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/ > I've done a first read of the well written manual which has many > examples of individual commands. Are there

Example(s) of recutils project flow? - was [FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?]

2020-08-07 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/27/2020 10:13 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: You may wish to have a look at recutils: https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/ but it may not have some of the functionality you wish (although you could build on it with shell scripts & awk, say). I've done a first read of the well written manual

Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-30 Thread Tom Dial
ith respect, Joe is right, in my opinion based on some about 20 as a DBA and later head of the database branch in a DOD agency. I quite understand what you are proposing, and over the years the branch spent a good deal of time and taxpayer resources sorting such applications developed by accounta

Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-30 Thread Joe
On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 10:51:06 -0400 Miles Fidelman wrote: > On 7/30/20 5:21 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: > > > On Wednesday, 29 Jul 2020 at 04:40, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> On 07/27/2020 10:13 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: > >>> You may wish to have a look at recutil

Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-30 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/30/2020 09:51 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.  Yogi Berra

Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-30 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 7/30/20 5:21 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: On Wednesday, 29 Jul 2020 at 04:40, Richard Owlett wrote: On 07/27/2020 10:13 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: You may wish to have a look at recutils: A database is over-kill for some personal preferences. I had mentioned spreadsheets in original post as I

Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-30 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Thursday, 30 Jul 2020 at 06:15, Richard Owlett wrote: > Does that sound at all like I saw anything in favor of SQL ? ! No but you said: > IIRC, dBase was simpler. so I suggested a simple FOSS database system. Like I said, no worries. I obviously misunderstood what you were looki

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-30 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/30/2020 08:03 AM, Linux-Fan wrote: Richard Owlett writes: On 07/27/2020 10:13 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: You may wish to have a look at recutils: https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/ but it may not have some of the functionality you wish (although you could build on it with shell script

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-30 Thread Linux-Fan
Richard Owlett writes: On 07/27/2020 10:13 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: You may wish to have a look at recutils: https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/ but it may not have some of the functionality you wish (although you could build on it with shell scripts & awk, say). I've just begun going th

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-30 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/27/2020 10:13 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: You may wish to have a look at recutils: https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/ but it may not have some of the functionality you wish (although you could build on it with shell scripts & awk, say). I've just begun going through the manual [https

Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-30 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/30/2020 04:21 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: On Wednesday, 29 Jul 2020 at 04:40, Richard Owlett wrote: On 07/27/2020 10:13 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: You may wish to have a look at recutils: A database is over-kill for some personal preferences. I had mentioned spreadsheets in original post as

Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-30 Thread tomas
On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 01:09:15PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > On 2020-07-29 05:03, Richard Owlett wrote: > > >[A suggested] approach is literally orders of magnitude more than I want. > > > Consider these idealized cost functions for solution technologies A, > B, and C: > > fA(t) = t

Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-30 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Wednesday, 29 Jul 2020 at 04:40, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 07/27/2020 10:13 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: >> You may wish to have a look at recutils: > > A database is over-kill for some personal preferences. > > I had mentioned spreadsheets in original post as I had visualized

Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-29 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-07-29 05:03, Richard Owlett wrote: [A suggested] approach is literally orders of magnitude more than I want. Consider these idealized cost functions for solution technologies A, B, and C: fA(t) = t*t + 1 fB(t) = (t/3)*(t/3) + 10 fC(t) = (t/10/*(t/10) + 100 Observe:

Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-29 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/29/2020 06:13 AM, Joe wrote: [snip] I'd recommend using the right tool for the job. Which is why I'll investigate. Your approach is literally orders of magnitude more than I want.

Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-29 Thread Joe
lthough you > > could build on it with shell scripts & awk, say). > > > > A database is over-kill for some personal preferences. Which isn't what you're talking about. > > I had mentioned spreadsheets in original post as I had visualized a > multipl

Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-29 Thread mick crane
On 2020-07-29 10:40, Richard Owlett wrote: A database is over-kill for some personal preferences. apropos of nothing I found this great, clear introduction to Perl/Tk for inputting how many cups of coffee and bacon sandwiches you had. https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au

[Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-29 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/27/2020 10:13 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: You may wish to have a look at recutils: https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/ but it may not have some of the functionality you wish (although you could build on it with shell scripts & awk, say). A database is over-kill for some pers

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-28 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 7/27/20 9:59 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Somebody wrote: But... isn't the tool the least of your problems? The big one being, where are you going to get your nutritional database. (Seems to me that most of what Weight Watchers and Noom do is collect data on millions of pro

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-27 Thread mick crane
On 2020-07-27 22:46, Michael Stone wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 10:34:39PM +0100, Joe wrote: The OP is in a learning experience, it's what retirement is for. Huh. I thought it was for doing what you want instead of what other people tell you that you "have to" do. That's funny considering

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-27 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
0, 8:59 PM wrote: > >> Somebody wrote: >> > But... isn't the tool the least of your problems? The big one being, >> > where are you going to get your nutritional database. (Seems to me that >> > most of what Weight Watchers and Noom do is collect data on millions

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-27 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
here are you going to get your nutritional database. (Seems to me that > > most of what Weight Watchers and Noom do is collect data on millions of > > products.) > > From my records in my free format database (which would not be suitable > for > your program (at least not in

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-27 Thread rhkramer
Somebody wrote: > But... isn't the tool the least of your problems? The big one being, > where are you going to get your nutritional database. (Seems to me that > most of what Weight Watchers and Noom do is collect data on millions of > products.) From my records in my fre

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-27 Thread David Wright
gt; For a project of this size and scope, a Tcl application with an sqlite3 > > > > database in a local file seems well suited. > > > > > > Only on the internet can someone ask a simple question and get tcl as the > > > answer. :-/ > > > > OK, here

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-27 Thread Joe
On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 17:46:35 -0400 Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 10:34:39PM +0100, Joe wrote: > >The OP is in a learning experience, it's what retirement is for. > > Huh. I thought it was for doing what you want instead of what other > people tell you that you "have to" do.

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-27 Thread Joe
On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 22:22:12 +0200 wrote: > On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 04:04:16PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 09:52:28PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > >And, in Greg's defense, he provided some code, something no > > >one of us did -- I'd say this round goes to him

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-27 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 10:34:39PM +0100, Joe wrote: The OP is in a learning experience, it's what retirement is for. Huh. I thought it was for doing what you want instead of what other people tell you that you "have to" do.

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-27 Thread Joe
arily learn to add users, change privileges etc. As a hobbyist, I've never needed to go near stored procedures, transactions etc. I was once SQLphobic, avoiding the use of applications which required a MySQL database, looking around for 'simpler' ways to do things, which invariably

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-27 Thread tomas
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 04:04:16PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 09:52:28PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >And, in Greg's defense, he provided some code, something no > >one of us did -- I'd say this round goes to him ;-) > > How? The OP request was for something simpler

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-27 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 04:04:16PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 09:52:28PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > And, in Greg's defense, he provided some code, something no > > one of us did -- I'd say this round goes to him ;-) > > How? The OP request was for something simpl

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-27 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 09:52:28PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: And, in Greg's defense, he provided some code, something no one of us did -- I'd say this round goes to him ;-) How? The OP request was for something simpler than SQL (presumably because he didn't want to learn SQL?), so the res

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-27 Thread tomas
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 03:46:08PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 11:39:11AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: [...] > >OK, here's a quick program to show how it might be done. > > The question wasn't "what's your favorite programming language", was it? To be fair, the question

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-27 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 11:39:11AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 11:16:45AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 08:09:36AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > For a project of this size and scope, a Tcl application with an sqlite3 > database in a local file

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-27 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 7/27/20 11:16 AM, Michael Stone wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 08:09:36AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: For a project of this size and scope, a Tcl application with an sqlite3 database in a local file seems well suited. Only on the internet can someone ask a simple question and get tcl as

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-27 Thread tomas
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 11:16:45AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 08:09:36AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > >For a project of this size and scope, a Tcl application with an sqlite3 > >database in a local file seems well suited. > > Only on the inter

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-27 Thread David Wright
On Mon 27 Jul 2020 at 11:16:45 (-0400), Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 08:09:36AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > For a project of this size and scope, a Tcl application with an sqlite3 > > database in a local file seems well suited. > > Only on the inter

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-27 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 11:16:45AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 08:09:36AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > For a project of this size and scope, a Tcl application with an sqlite3 > > database in a local file seems well suited. > > Only on the inter

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-27 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 08:09:36AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: For a project of this size and scope, a Tcl application with an sqlite3 database in a local file seems well suited. Only on the internet can someone ask a simple question and get tcl as the answer. :-/

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-27 Thread Eric S Fraga
You may wish to have a look at recutils: https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/ but it may not have some of the functionality you wish (although you could build on it with shell scripts & awk, say). -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.3.7 on Debian bullseye/sid

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-27 Thread Ajith R
Hi, If you decide against a command line system and  decide to go SQL / Klexi way, I want to suggest to you a relatively lesser known integrated database system - http://www.suneido.com. It has been around for nearly 20 years. It is pretty easy to design and stable. It is FOSS. The only

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-27 Thread Greg Wooledge
uld all suit this project extremely well, I think. The OP should choose whichever of those 3 he likes best, and learn how to talk to a database with it. If a pure command line interface is desired, then there's not much else he needs to know. If a GUI interface is desired, all 3 of those

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-27 Thread David Christensen
accessed with a library. Reports are generated with a PDF library. The key is that everything must fit into memory at once. As complexity, change, and/or size increase, a database management system and SQL become necessary. David

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-26 Thread Michael Stone
me years ago, I've just installed it and looked again, and it *still* cannot connect to an existing SQL database. It can use an SQL server, but only to make its own databases. It can import data. But it can't share an existing database with other types of client. As I understood the OPs

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-26 Thread Joe
the way for the OP. I looked at it some years ago, I've just installed it and looked again, and it *still* cannot connect to an existing SQL database. It can use an SQL server, but only to make its own databases. It can import data. But it can't share an existing database with other typ

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-26 Thread tomas
On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 10:24:25AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 12:38:10PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > >Back in 70's/80's I wrote programs as part of routine job duties. > > {8080/8085 assembler, dBase and Paradox} > >Neither I, nor my employers, classed me as a "program

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-26 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 12:38:10PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Back in 70's/80's I wrote programs as part of routine job duties. {8080/8085 assembler, dBase and Paradox} Neither I, nor my employers, classed me as a "programmer". I was "Senior Engineering Tech" or "Junior Engineer". IOW, I was n

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-26 Thread Joe
worked for me back > >> in the day: > >> > >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamp_stack > > > > I have a couple of early web applications written in Perl, but then > > I found PHP. There's still no SQL user interface RAD tool like > > Access, which uses SQL

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-26 Thread mick crane
found PHP. There's still no SQL user interface RAD tool like Access, which uses SQL internally and externally, and has a lot of database design knowledge built into it. I'm not very good at this and wondered how to do it and thought could have things in a hash of hashes. As you tend

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-26 Thread Joe
P. There's still no SQL user interface RAD tool like Access, which uses SQL internally and externally, and has a lot of database design knowledge built into it. -- Joe

Re: Fwd: Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-25 Thread Rh Kramer
I suspect the threading on this will be broken -- I forwarded it to another computer where I have my notes on my adventures with "nutrition" programs. On Saturday, July 25, 2020 6:40:47 PM you wrote: > -- Forwarded Message -- > > Subject: Re: FOSS equivalent

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-25 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-07-25 13:22, Joe wrote: Shame about that. If you didn't need FOSS I'd recommend Microsoft Access, by far the best piece of software they ever produced (not that it's a high bar). It combines a simple database server, OK for one user, with a visual RAD system to make the

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-25 Thread rhkramer
ieve -- I'm pretty sure the source is available) program that does that -- can't recall the name -- will check my notes this evening. It is a little less slick than some of the commercial programs, but it does import a database with the nutritional values of quite a few foods (it's from

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-25 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-07-25 10:38, Richard Owlett wrote: Back in 70's/80's I wrote programs as part of routine job duties.   {8080/8085 assembler, dBase and Paradox} Neither I, nor my employers, classed me as a "programmer". I was "Senior Engineering Tech" or "Junior Engineer". IOW, I was not in abject *AWE*

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-25 Thread Joe
ll most simple jobs need. > > What current FOSS system might I be comfortable with? Shame about that. If you didn't need FOSS I'd recommend Microsoft Access, by far the best piece of software they ever produced (not that it's a high bar). It combines a simple database server,

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-25 Thread David Wright
hich referred back to the OP's own thread https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/06/msg00757.html > Gone are the days of xBase and the like. SQL is the lingua franca for > all modern database systems. And SQLite3 has bindings for most modern > languages. > > Since you probably w

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-25 Thread Miles Fidelman
at current FOSS system might I be comfortable with? You might try googling "open source alternatives to dbase" - there seems to be quite a list.  Or you could go with a NoSQL database like CouchDB. But... isn't the tool the least of your problems?  The big one being, where are y

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-25 Thread tomas
On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 12:38:10PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Back in 70's/80's I wrote programs as part of routine job duties. > {8080/8085 assembler, dBase and Paradox} > Neither I, nor my employers, classed me as a "programmer". > I was "Senior Engineering Tech" or "Junior Engineer". > IOW

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-25 Thread Paul M Foster
I'd select SQLite3. Gone are the days of xBase and the like. SQL is the lingua franca for all modern database systems. And SQLite3 has bindings for most modern languages. Since you probably would like an application with a nice interface (curses, GUI, web), I'd suggest PHP. The platform fo

FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-25 Thread Richard Owlett
Back in 70's/80's I wrote programs as part of routine job duties. {8080/8085 assembler, dBase and Paradox} Neither I, nor my employers, classed me as a "programmer". I was "Senior Engineering Tech" or "Junior Engineer". IOW, I was not in abject *AWE* of computers. *ROFL* Right now I'm working o

Buster 10.2, new mediawiki install unable to connect to database

2019-12-16 Thread Keith Christian
et up the wiki" link. Got this status "The environment has been checked. You can install MediaWiki." Clicked Continue. Got this: Cannot access the database: No such file or directory (localhost). Check the host, username and password and try again. Started

Re: relational database tracking of packages and updates

2019-09-11 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 01:23:20PM -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > I was hoping to have some sort of package I could install on each system I > admin. There would be a script or something that would keep a database > updated of what is happening with packages on that system. Th

Re: relational database tracking of packages and updates

2019-09-11 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
domain? > > https://wiki.debian.org/UltimateDebianDatabase/ Thanks for the pointer, Greg. I was hoping to have some sort of package I could install on each system I admin. There would be a script or something that would keep a database updated of what is happening with packages on that sy

Re: relational database tracking of packages and updates

2019-09-10 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 02:55:20PM -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > Does anyone know of a "software inventory" solution for Debian (or other > GNU/Linux OSes) ? > > I'm thinking something that keeps track of packages. I.e. when various > package versions become available and when upgrades happen to

relational database tracking of packages and updates

2019-09-10 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
Greetings, Does anyone know of a "software inventory" solution for Debian (or other GNU/Linux OSes) ? I'm thinking something that keeps track of packages. I.e. when various package versions become available and when upgrades happen to said packages. There are a variety of ways of attacking this

Re: How to set access permissions to protect a database file?

2019-06-10 Thread David Christensen
On 6/9/19 2:32 PM, Markos wrote: Many thanks to Mick, David and Joe, To guarantee "some" protection to the file containing the database I decided to use the following strategy: I created, as root, the directory /home/reading_room And activated the "sticky bit" of the re

Re: How to set access permissions to protect a database file?

2019-06-10 Thread john doe
On 6/10/2019 7:56 AM, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sun, Jun 09, 2019 at 06:32:42PM -0300, Markos wrote: >> Many thanks to Mick, David and Joe, >> >> To guarantee "some" protection to the file containing the database I decided >> to use the follow

Re: How to set access permissions to protect a database file?

2019-06-09 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, Jun 09, 2019 at 06:32:42PM -0300, Markos wrote: > Many thanks to Mick, David and Joe, > > To guarantee "some" protection to the file containing the database I decided > to use the following strategy: > > I created, as root, the directory

Re: How to set access permissions to protect a database file?

2019-06-09 Thread Dan Ritter
sktop that I used to > use as a home server. I'll just point out that in 2000, a midsized database server might have four cpu cores running at 1GHz each, 512MB of RAM and four disks capable of a total of 400 operations per second and a total read bandwidth of perhaps 500MB/s. We hav

Re: How to set access permissions to protect a database file?

2019-06-09 Thread mick crane
On 2019-06-09 22:32, Markos wrote: reading_room.db rw-r--rw- (owner markos) why give world write access to the database ? -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: How to set access permissions to protect a database file?

2019-06-09 Thread Markos
Many thanks to Mick, David and Joe, To guarantee "some" protection to the file containing the database I decided to use the following strategy: I created, as root, the directory /home/reading_room And activated the "sticky bit" of the reading_room directory with the

Re: How to set access permissions to protect a database file?

2019-05-26 Thread Joe
reading_room program. > > Now I want that any user logged in the Linux be able to run the > program reading_room.tcl, which will access the database (books.db) > > But I want to protect the file books.db so that only the the program > reading_room.tcl can access the books.db file. But t

Re: How to set access permissions to protect a database file?

2019-05-25 Thread mick crane
administrator users in the reading_room program. Now I want that any user logged in the Linux be able to run the program reading_room.tcl, which will access the database (books.db) But I want to protect the file books.db so that only the the program reading_room.tcl can access the books.db file

Re: How to set access permissions to protect a database file?

2019-05-25 Thread David Christensen
program. Now I want that any user logged in the Linux be able to run the program reading_room.tcl, which will access the database (books.db) But I want to protect the file books.db so that only the the program reading_room.tcl can access the books.db file. But that no user could delete or write to the

Re: How to set access permissions to protect a database file?

2019-05-25 Thread David Christensen
in the Linux be able to run the program reading_room.tcl, which will access the database (books.db) But I want to protect the file books.db so that only the the program reading_room.tcl can access the books.db file. But that no user could delete or write to the file books.db (only the program

Re: How to set access permissions to protect a database file?

2019-05-25 Thread mick crane
the Linux be able to run the program reading_room.tcl, which will access the database (books.db) But I want to protect the file books.db so that only the the program reading_room.tcl can access the books.db file. But that no user could delete or write to the file books.db (only the program

How to set access permissions to protect a database file?

2019-05-25 Thread Markos
program reading_room.tcl, which will access the database (books.db) But I want to protect the file books.db so that only the the program reading_room.tcl can access the books.db file. But that no user could delete or write to the file books.db (only the program reading_room.tcl) Please, how can

Re: Apt Database

2019-01-26 Thread Jens Holzhäuser
synaptic? > Next question is regarding Database. Apt stores everything in a database, is > there any "technical" way to access it? Maybe check out the python-apt package (I don't know it, I just googled its existence). Jens

Apt Database

2019-01-26 Thread J.Arun Mani
something. Do you have any solution? Next question is regarding Database. Apt stores everything in a database, is there any "technical" way to access it? Example- If I give this command- $ apt recommends python I get output something like this- "Apt found the following packages as recom

Re: [OT] An easier database

2018-07-26 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 03:02:29PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > On 07/25/2018 02:00 PM, Clive Standbridge wrote: > > > I wonder if it would be nice for apt to have a feature so that a > > > user could mark packages "never install". > > Anyone remember "File Cabinet" for Win3.1? It didn't get easier t

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