September 2004 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

USB external drive
by Johan Sch 01 Sep '04

01 Sep '04

Hi, Running suse 9.1 - kernel 2.6.3-15mdk.(Mandrake 10.0 alternately). Installed and updated this last weekend. All this on a new pc. Do not know if my problem existed before the update. When I transfer data to sda1 or 2 then the external drive light comes on and stays on. This hangs my pc too. Nothing works and the only recourse is to press the reset switch. I remember sometime ago some discussions about hotplug/usb. That some application was to be re-installed from cd. I did not take that much notice of the problem because I did not have a problem. Kindly please what was suggested to overcome this. The new hardware may be suspected but works like a charm in Mandrake 10.0. Thanks. -- Johan Sch Registered Linux User #330034 May this be a good day for learning

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Oo speadsheets & csv files....
by James Hatridge 01 Sep '04

01 Sep '04

Hi all... I have in a speadsheet a number for example "1.23", but it is actually "1.299999995". When I save this to a csv file I want the 1.23, but I get the !"§§!"§ 1.29999995. How can I tell Oo to save the short form? Thanks, JIM -- Jim Hatridge Linux User #88484 ------------------------------------------------------ WartHog Bulletin Info about new German Stamps http://www.fuzzybunnymilitia.org/~hatridge/bulletin Viel Feind -- Viel Ehr' Anti-US Propaganda stamp collection http://www.fuzzybunnymilitia.org/~hatridge/collection

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9.1 amavis-new/spamassassin broken?
by Scott Leighton 01 Sep '04

01 Sep '04

Anyone know if something changed in the amavis-new/spamassasin setup that SuSE installs? I've noticed that sa's headers are not getting inserted into my mail like they used to. Best I can pin down is that something altered the behavior late July. /etc/amavisd.conf # default values, can be overridden by more specific lookups, e.g. SQL $sa_tag_level_deflt = -20.0; # add spam info headers if at, or above that level $sa_tag2_level_deflt = 10.0; $sa_kill_level_deflt = $sa_tag2_level_deflt; # triggers spam evasive actions Yet when I run with debug on, it looks to me like sa is using an entirely different setting, here's a typical message from sa debug: is spam? score=-4.901 required=5 tests=BAYES_00 Note the 'required' is 5, where the heck is sa getting that from? It's acting like it is completely ignoring the settings in amavisd.conf. The piece of mail scored as shown in the debug line above did _not_ have a header inserted, yet it should have since it is scored greater than the -20.0 tag level in amavisd.conf Scott -- POPFile, the OpenSource EMail Classifier http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ Linux 2.6.5-7.104-default x86_64

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Tech Tip XMMS & internet radio
by Carl William Spitzer IV 01 Sep '04

01 Sep '04

For skip-free Internet radio listening on a busy or flaky connection, crank up the buffer size in XMMS. Right click on the XMMS window, then, from the drop-down menu, select Options -> Preferences. From the Audio I/O Plugins tab, select MPEG Layer 1/2/3 Player and then click Configure. Next, select the Streaming tab and increase the buffer size. If you have a lot of free memory, go ahead and make the buffer as big as you want. You also can reduce the Pre-buffer (percent) entry so that you don't have to wait a lot of pre-buffering time before your music starts playing. Happy listening. More on XMMS here: http://www.xmms.org/. www.linuxjournal.com ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!

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Samba mount problem
by Kirk Coombs 01 Sep '04

01 Sep '04

I have my computer connected to a Windows 2000 share via samba. I have problems, however, if that server is ever restarted. The mount point becomes inaccessable (i.e. 'ls' gives and error), and I cannot umount it ('server is busy' error). A umount -f does not work either. The only option I have found is to restart, which I hate to do. Any suggestions on how to avoid this, or at least how to get it re-mounted? I am mounting the server via /etc/fstab, with the following line: //xeon/c /xeon smbfs credentials=/etc/mypasswords,uid=1000,gid=100 0 0 (BTW, what does the '0 0' at the end do? I have never understood those numbers) Thanks, Kirk -- visit me at http://www.sparticus.us

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Re: [SLE] ftp servers ftpwho
by Jack Malone 01 Sep '04

01 Sep '04

At 12:50 PM 8/31/2004, Allen wrote: >ftpwho should work. well ftpwho does not exist in 9.1 as far as i can tell. where did you find it at if your using it. thanks

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