December 1999 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[SLE] mingetty problem -- again
by mgx＠spruce.lsd.ornl.gov 01 Dec '99

01 Dec '99

ok, on some headless pc's (and mouseless/keyboardless) i've got suse 6.2 installed. they log these messages continuosly: Nov 29 02:46:27 nd2 mingetty[23970]: /dev/tty1: cannot open tty: No such device Nov 29 02:46:27 nd2 mingetty[23972]: /dev/tty1: cannot open tty: No such device Nov 29 02:46:27 nd2 mingetty[23974]: /dev/tty1: cannot open tty: No such device Nov 29 02:46:27 nd2 mingetty[23976]: /dev/tty1: cannot open tty: No such device Nov 29 02:46:27 nd2 mingetty[23978]: /dev/tty1: cannot open tty: No such device Nov 29 02:46:27 nd2 init: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Nov 29 02:46:28 nd2 mingetty[23980]: /dev/tty2: cannot open tty: No such device Nov 29 02:46:28 nd2 mingetty[23981]: /dev/tty3: cannot open tty: No such device Nov 29 02:46:28 nd2 mingetty[23983]: /dev/tty5: cannot open tty: No such device Nov 29 02:46:28 nd2 mingetty[23982]: /dev/tty4: cannot open tty: No such device Nov 29 02:46:28 nd2 mingetty[23984]: /dev/tty6: cannot open tty: No such device Nov 29 02:46:28 nd2 mingetty[23989]: /dev/tty2: cannot open tty: No such device Nov 29 02:46:29 nd2 mingetty[23990]: /dev/tty3: cannot open tty: No such device Nov 29 02:46:29 nd2 mingetty[23992]: /dev/tty5: cannot open tty: No such device Nov 29 02:46:29 nd2 mingetty[23991]: /dev/tty4: cannot open tty: No such device the problem goes away when i connect a keyboard/mouse. in inittab there is: # getty-programs for the normal runlevels # # <id>:<runlevels>:<action>:<process> # # The "id" field MUST be the same as the last # # characters of the device (after "tty"). 1:123:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --noclear tty1 2:123:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2 3:123:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3 4:123:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4 5:123:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5 6:123:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6 # i assume that if i comment out these entries my problem will go away, but that i'll not be able to login if i do put a head on these machines, is that correct? -- -- m -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] Changing hardware clock
by chris.reeves＠iname.com 01 Dec '99

01 Dec '99

How do I do the above from within Linux? I've just noticed that the time given by the date command is out by an hour, so I need a way to change the hardware clock (which is wrong). Oh, and I've got sound going again (I started that last OSS eval 5 days before the end of the month :( ). I'll buy a full license when the trial runs out. Thanks, Chris -- __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] Re: XEmacs man pages are in German!
by ke＠suse.de 01 Dec '99

01 Dec '99

Ben Taylor <bent(a)clark.net> writes: | When I installed SuSE 6.2, it defaulted to installing the german | pages and I added the english pages. Unfortunately, when I did a | man tar, I got a german page. After that I removed the german | pages and no longer had an english tar manpage. Yes, that's how it is ;-( tar doesn't come with an official manpage; the installation manual addresses this top (cf. chap. 16.5.3, p. 332, english version SuSE Linux 6.2). The german tar manpage is out-of-date (to be removed)... For the time being, please try tar --help | less -- work : ke(a)suse.de Karl Eichwalder personal: ke(a)gnu.franken.de -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] Re: XEmacs man pages are in German!
by ke＠suse.de 01 Dec '99

01 Dec '99

Derek Fountain <fountai(a)hursley.ibm.com> writes: | It doesn't: I don't have it installed: | | % rpm -q lpdmande | package lpdmande is not installed Oops, sorry, that's a typo; please try "ldpmande" (Linux Documentation Project). -- work : ke(a)suse.de Karl Eichwalder personal: ke(a)gnu.franken.de -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] suse6.3 and lvm
by alexm＠pycckue.org 01 Dec '99

01 Dec '99

hello, it looks like suse 6.3 will include lvm! will the lvm be installed by default? what if i have just one disk (i read lvm is not stable for rootvg)? what type of file system will be used? thanks, -alexm -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] login.access/access.conf skipped
by ahenry＠cusa.dyndns.org 01 Dec '99

01 Dec '99

Greetings, I am attempting to make use of the login.access(5) file. However, login(1) seems to skip the part about parsing through this configuration text. I also find that SuSE maps this file, which is described from the man page as being '/etc/login.access', as '/etc/security/access.conf'. Must I recompile something? Both of these files are ignored. Please, give me a clue. Thanks for your time. -- [-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- adam j henry =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=] | [http: www.heidelberg.edu/~ahenry] [pgp: 0x92B1EDF5] | | [mailto: ahenry(a)heidelberg.edu] [icq: 5794025] | [-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=] -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] Not able to login
by anandram＠wipsys.soft.net 01 Dec '99

01 Dec '99

HI guys Since i was falling short of diskspace i deleted some seemingly harmless packages. After that i am unable to login into my machine . However I am able to login into a SINGLE user mode but dont know what to do once in that mode . Even yast exists out with a error message . Also when i try to login into the machine in its default runlevel i am never prompted for the password after entering the login name ..Infact the login prompt again comes back I was able to see one error message at some point which complained of not able to create some temporary file.. My .profile is fairly simple and doesnt need any temp files to be created Can anybody PLEASE advise what to do .. I have hit the panic button as i need the files on my linux system urgently PLease advise Thanx for ur time Bye Anand Raman -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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Re: [SLE] bottleneck
by way＠netvigator.com 01 Dec '99

01 Dec '99

Thanks for your suggestion ! Could you give me more details ? My this web server will be acted WebMail Server and Web Hosting. Do I need SMP ? Or I just use one processor,256MB Ram, IDE harddisk. It's OK, or not ? Thanks again ! Best Regards, Andy -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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Re: [SLE] shell script question.
by markgray＠iago.nac.net 01 Dec '99

01 Dec '99

Nick Zentena <zentena(a)hophead.dyndns.org> writes: > Okay I'm trying to set my IP into my firewall script automatically. I > took the info posted here awhile ago by S.Toms. > > EXT_INT="eth0" # whichever you use > IPADDR="`ifconfig ${EXT_INT} | grep 'inet addr' | awk '{print $2}' | sed > -e 's/. > > Which won't work for some reason. I've managed to get: > > ifconfig ppp0 | grep 'addr' | awk '{printf $2}' | sed -e s/addr:// > > to work from the command line but I'm banging my head against the wall > getting it to work from within a script. So anybody willing to point out > the right way to do this? How about: export IPADDR=$(ifconfig ${EXT_INT}|perl -ne '/addr:([^ ]*)/ && {print "$1\n"}') -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] Wvdial vs. Diald
by sipper＠africaonline.co.zw 01 Dec '99

01 Dec '99

Good Morning Could anyone tell me how to enable diald over wvdial, so I can configure an auto dialup session. I believe you cannot use wvdial to auto dial. I connected to my ISP with wvdial, and watched it collecting mail for 20 minutes, now cannot find the mail. Any ideas where the mail may have been stashed. I would like to start using Pine but the man. is a bit difficult for me to understand. Is there an easier source of information. Thanks and kind regards Mark Annandale <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2314.1000" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=2>Good Morning</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Could anyone tell me how to enable diald over wvdial, so I can configure an auto dialup session. I believe you cannot use wvdial to auto dial.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>I connected to my ISP with wvdial, and watched it collecting mail for 20 minutes, now cannot find the mail. Any ideas where the mail may have been stashed. I would like to start using Pine but the man. is a bit difficult for me to understand. Is there an easier source of information.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Thanks and kind regards</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Mark Annandale</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY>

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