April 2001 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

mklilomsg
by Ole Kofoed Hansen 22 May '01

22 May '01

I just tried to make lilo use a picture when I boot. To some extent it even worked - at least the picture was displayed properly, but the menu was mangled beyond recognition. Can anyone give me an example of a mklilomsg commandline that gives a proper result. My picture was 320x200, but I can easily make one at another resolution, if your commandline does not fit 320x200. Regards Ole

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Everlasting email messages
by Eddie Howson 05 May '01

05 May '01

I am receiving the same email message from Yves Baudrier <baudyves(a)mail.pf> re: [SLE] help setting up lexmark z52 printer. What is going on and how can it be stopped? I am currently filtering it but need a more permanent solution. I don't think I am the only one. Thanks Eddie

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Sendmail update - permissions change?
by Dave Smith 04 May '01

04 May '01

Hi. I've just tried to update my version of sendmail (as shipped with 6.4), to the updated 7.0 version on the FTP server, and I've noticed that the permissions on the sendmail binary have changed - the suid bit has been removed. Is this an intentional change, or a bug in the RPM? -- David Smith Tel: +44 (0)1454 462380 (direct) STMicroelectronics Fax: +44 (0)1454 617910 1000 Aztec West TINA (ST only): (065) 2380 Almondsbury Home: 01454 616963 BRISTOL Mobile: 07932 642724 BS32 4SQ Work Email: Dave.Smith(a)st.com Home Email: David.Smith(a)ds-electronics.co.uk

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7.1 - Printing stopped working
by Jim Sabatke 04 May '01

04 May '01

My printing was working fine under 7.1 until last week. Now I can't print from programs or the command line (lpr). I have been routinely updating patches through YAST 2. I get mail messages with the following text: apsfilter: unable to print job reply_offer.txt Any help would be appreciated. I have checked the SuSE support dbase. -- Jim Sabatke SuSE 7.1 Linux Kernel - 2.4.0 http://www.execpc.com/~jsabatke Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear; Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. --Thomas Gray

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bandwith control
by Morsal Roudbay 03 May '01

03 May '01

I've been trying to search the suse list at lists.suse.com but I cant find anything related to this matter, it returns zero hits. I'd like to limit my current 100MBit eth0 to 0,5MBit. Preferably both in and out. This machine is serving as a router (kernel 2.2.x) for a LAN (192.168.0.0). Abuse is a problem so I'm forced to limit the bandwith somehow. Shapecfg and cbq are two options I have looked into, but are there any other options that work better? TIA

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Linux compatible scanners
by Gary Luther 03 May '01

03 May '01

Hello SuSE, My old scanner is dying and slow. I am in the market for a new one and would like to stay under $300 or so dollars. I really am trying to move from M$ to Linux so want one that will work under Linux with all the necessary drivers, etc. Any suggestions?? -- Best regards, Gary mailto:gkluther@operamail.com 3838 Beechnut Street #1 East Helena, MT 59635 (406) 227-2240 ...Always proof-read carefully to see if you any words out. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Age doesn't alsways bring Wisdom. Sometimes Age comes alone. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read." Groucho Marx (1895-1977) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- RRRRR Gary Luther RR RR SAF RR RR UTABEGAS 2500 Broadway RR RR Helena, MT 59602 RRRR gluther(a)safmt.org RR RR ULE !! RR RR Visit our website at RR RR http://www.safmt.org

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RE: [SLE] Simple Apache chmod question
by Prosser, Daniel 02 May '01

02 May '01

>Whilst trying to get some PHP pages to work, I chmod'ed the htdocs directory >to the wrong access rights, and now I can't even access static html pages. >Can anyone tell me what the chmod settings should be? The 'htdocs' should be 755. For security reasons the www requests aren't run as root but as "wwwrun" in the "nogroup" group, so that directory needs world read and execute permission. >Also, I installed Apache (SuSE 7.1) with mod_php4, but when using a browser > it insists on trying to download the *.php file, is there something I have >to switch on in Apache? Check to make sure something like this is in your httpd.conf (I'm running v1.3.14-6): <IfModule mod_php4.c> AddType application/x-httpd-php .php AddType application/x-httpd-php .php4 AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps </IfModule> You may also want to add this: <IfModule mod_dir.c> DirectoryIndex index.html index.php </IfModule> HTH, Daniel (ps -- don't forget to run "/etc/init.d/apache reload" once the changes are made)

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Let's Shrink NTFS, Resize Reiser!
by Timothy R.Butler 02 May '01

02 May '01

Hi everyone, I wanted to through this question out to you guys... I currently have a dualboot system with Win2k and SuSE. As it stands, Windows taked 10 gigs of space, and Linux gets 6 (this is because, when I partitioned the drive, Windows was still my primary desktop OS). So, now I would like to shrink the NTFS drive so that I can give Linux more room (and I admit, install Windows XP Beta too). So, here are my questions: 1.) Is there any such thing as a loss-less drive resizer for NTFS partitions? I'm thinking that GNU parted is what I need to look into, but that's just a shot in the dark. 2.) What is the best way to then go about filling some of the newly created space with my main Linux (ReiserFS) partition? 3.) Finally, my ReiserFS partition is on one side of the drive, my NTFS partition is on the other, with my Linux swap partition inbetween. So, if I want to expand my ReiserFS partition, I will need to destroy and recreate my swap partition. Can anyone give me a tip on how to recreate a swap partition (does it need any formatting, or do I just need to use fdisk and set the id of the new partition to "Linux Swap")? Thanks, Tim -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy R. Butler Universal Networks Information Tech. Consultant Christian Web Services Since 1996 ICQ #12495932 AIM: Uninettm An Authorized IPSwitch Reseller tbutler(a)uninetsolutions.com http://www.uninetsolutions.com ============== "Information Powered by Innovation" ==============

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linux discussion
by Purple Shirt 02 May '01

02 May '01

Hi, I know some of you don't like some of the recent discussions but I just feel the Linux movement is getting off track. Look at this article: http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/04/18/1542224&mode=nocomment Well thanks to IBM for supporting Linux but I would never buy this machine if I knew a percentage of my dollars went to Intervideo and eventually to some monopolistic movie corp. If I own a DVD I have the right to play whenever with whatever. I know IBM is also just out there to make a buck but it just shows Linux and commercialism have a problem mixing. Now if SuSE starts shipping with Intervideo's LinDVD in the future you can be sure I will not buy it. Can somebody tell me if there is pay software in the distribution SuSE have to give up a percentage of their sales for? Have all these companies become wussies? IBM doesn't want to get a lawsuit from the Mega-Corps. Oh great. Let it fight the small guy like the FSF. I want SuSE to include deCSS with their distribution but I will never see this happen because its all about the money these days. I know they would have to exclude deCSS from the US version but last I knew deCSS wasn't outlawed in Europe. But no we just sit back and let somebody else take on the fight and muddle with some other stuff nobody cares about when they have trampled down every fucking right to do anything with media. You think the German government would force a shutdown of their only OS company which seems to be striving because of a fucking 500 lines of code? Maybe but at least the public would become aware and this would turn into huge farce of where copyrights and mega corps have led us. At least have the guts to put a copy of deCSS on the European ftp servers. I know this is asking for a flamewar but I don't care. I don't care because no matter how good the KDE media player is SuSE delivers me. If I don't have the right to freely access my DVD under Linux even the best free media player is useless. But it is all too late now. SuSE should have created a deCSS package right when it came out more than a year ago. A small biz like copyleft can manage to keep the code alive on their site but SuSE can't get up to do something to move forward the freedom claims of the Linux users. Yeah I can't wait for the day SuSE ships with a Intervideo Linux DVD player and we all succumb to the prorietory hands again. It will be the day piracy will take another step into Linux. It will be the day you surf over to astalavista.box.sk to score some crack to get the full version just like with VMware. I remember a few weeks ago when a guy on this board asked if somebody would offer a valid full-license VMware code for trade (exchange for zilch). God what a shame. What have we us gotten into? Such thing would have been a non-issue 2 years ago. If you ask me Linux hasn't gone anywhere in the last 2 years except at making hardware detection easier, supporting more types of hardware, an XF86 upgrade, an the intro of journal file systems. All this KDE stuff is just packaging for the attention crowd and the rare Windows convent. bash is still bash. XF86 is still XF86. Netscape is still Netscape. Pine is still Pine. Samba is still Samba. Every release we hear what great improvements were made to SuSE Linux. There is no doubt that it evolves but does it evolve into the direction we want it to evolve? Some of you may say now it is not SuSE's job to fight for deCSS and it would risk the doom of their company. I don't care because if SuSE was 100% open source it would be meaningless if SuSE died because we could pick up SuSE's remnants and keep on working as non-corp, but with yast being proprietory you can't do that. If SuSE goes down it will go down, period. No possibility to bring it back as non-profit because the code has vanished into neverland. I don't know but it seems one has to become the prison bitch in this type of environment or go all out for non-profit status and community effort to actually be free of corporate interest. There is much more at issue here with SuSE and Linux than just plucking down 70 bucks for their distro every 6 months and shutting up. mk _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

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xconsole
by Victor R. Cardona 02 May '01

02 May '01

Hi everyone, I just upgraded to KDE 2.1, and it is really great. I am having one problem though. The settings for Xconsole have changed drastically. I know that I can set them in .Xdefaults, but was wondering where the default SuSE settings were? Thanks, - v -- Victor R. Cardona vcardona(a)home.com "Behold the keyboard of Kahless, the greatest Klingon code warrior that ever lived!"

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