November 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Laptop mode tools
by Alistair Hamilton 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

Hi Is there a reason why there are no laptop mode tools included in 10.0? I cannot find anything in Yast to do the same job. Regards Alistair

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smartd
by B. Stia 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

Hello Suse people. I installed the smartmontools just to keep an eye on my two hard drives. Would be great to know if one of them is about to die. Run a check on them, say once a day, on boot-up? Read the smartd man page, all 1,616 lines of it. Very informative and very inconclusive. Doesn't tell me what to do. And I really don't need to know all of the options or everything about it. I just simply want to monitor the hard drives on a daily basis and send me an email message that everything is OK, or is not. I can run the commands individually from the cli. Soooo, humor me here please. How do I get it to do that? Bob S.

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Yast Error
by B. Stia 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

Hello SuSE people. Tonight I went to install the package sharutils from the 9.2 disks. It would not install and gave me the following error. I have no idea what it means. Anybody can explain/rectify this??? --------------------------------------------------------------------- ERROR(InstTarget:E_RpmDB_subprocess_failed) --- error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Operation not permitted (1) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm --------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for any help/guidance. Bob S.

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Kmail crashing with signal 6
by Rikard Johnels 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

My Kmail has started to mysteriously just die on me. I started it up from prompt and after a while it gave me: *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (out): 0x087dfb80 *** *** KMail got signal 6 (Crashing) And thats all she wrote... I have no clue on why... Bug in kmail? Bug in glibc? A well known feature in either? All i know is that it is very annoying. -- -- /Rikard ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- email : rikard.j(a)rikjoh.com web : http://www.rikjoh.com mob : +46 (0)736 19 76 25 ------------------------ Public PGP fingerprint ---------------------------- < 15 28 DF 78 67 98 B2 16 1F D3 FD C5 59 D4 B6 78 46 1C EE 56 >

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Monitoring servers for problems
by Dana Jaeger 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

Hi, I have heard that a product called Dell Openmanage exists to monitor events such as disk space usage, I/O rates, cpu utilization etc. Does any one know of this and where I can find more information on it. Are there other ways I can do this on SUSE 8 and 9 boxes. We do some checking on AIX and Solaris servers. Any help would be appreciated. Thank You Dana Jaeger Hartford Hospital Hartford, Connecticut, 06102 jaeger(a)harthosp.org 860-545-4212 ----------------------------------------------- Confidentiality Notice This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential or proprietary information which is legally privileged. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please promptly contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.

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ftpd command isn't there ... what is it? Where should it be?
by M.Blackmore 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

I'm still trying to get suse 10.0 gm onto my desktop (emailing here from a P200/128mb "server" until a network install works!). In the context of mounting a loopback dvd.iso image into a directory for export via nfs (which didn't work with an nfs error returned) it was suggested I mounted another way and then started an ftp "server" (I assume). The command to do this was suggested as ftpd -D However, this returned a - command not found in bash - error. What is ftpd? i.e. what is it starting up? Is there anything else in suse 9.3 that is supposed to do the same thing (different name or different program)? If it is on the installation, where would it live? And how do I direct the 'pooter to find it in its search path? Trying to get suse10.0 onto my desktop is proving quite an obstacle course. At least in windows I'd have some clue where to start poking about ... <takes cover> Good thing I'm into free/open source stuff for political/ideological reasons, eh? That's if I can get "in" to it...

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