August 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [SLE] Acrobat Reader 7 on SuSE Linux 10.1 [The End of a Mystery]
by Lívio Cipriano 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

Well... like I suspected... the explanation was to simple... The hamster stuff :-) I tried to load acroread with beagle and zen turned on/off, I timed it with time command and I checked the running processes with ps -A and aux. Acroread, in the first run tooked 2 min to load and after was very irregular, so it was a obvious case of hogging. Solution: uninstall the SuSE version, download and install the Adobe version (has only 45Mb instead the 90Mb of SuSE). Now, I don't bother to count the time it takes to load... Might be that SuSE has good reasons to alter the original packages, but, I must confess, don't see an obvious reason for that. The same happens with eclipse. I use the plain download version. I only have to uncompress it to /opt and choose a java location. Lívio ----- Original Message ----- On Thursday 31 August 2006 03:13, Lívio Cipriano wrote: > Well... I just deleted my ".adobe" config dir and now loads must > faster. > > Mystery solved? As you so wonderfully put it: "... the explanation can be a mystery" :)

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Port Redirection Via IPTABLES
by Mel Payne 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

I'm new to this, so feel free to point me to the correct man page/ howto guide, etc... Situation: Web app communicating over port 443. Firewall rules block that port but allow 1443 traffic. Assume one cannot change the application nor the port restrictions. Can one easily setup iptables rules to redirect incoming (to the web app server) port 1443 traffic to 443 and outgoing traffic from 443 to 1443??

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MP3 playback on 10.1
by Allen 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

Hey all, I'm sure someone has asked this before but I just installed 10.2 on a machine here and only Banshee and like one other media player can seem to do MP3s, XMMS doesn't play them. Are there media packs I can download? I started YOU and it says there aren't any updates to install which I thought was a little weird, so I'm checking here to see if thereis maybe a problem with something I have to do after install for updates. And of course to see what I need to do for MP3 playback on XMMS. -Allen

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Re: [SLE] installing a webcam
by Ricardo Rodríguez - XEN 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

>>> Dave Cottondcotton(a)linuxautrement.com> 30/8/2006 11:04 >> > > http://users.xen.net/@rrodriguez/imaxes/usbview_error.png > >Went through all this until I did this in /etc/fstab > >usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 0 0 > >now usbview works totally, so does my scanner etc. > Thanks, Dave, I've added this line to fstab and the error remains. I've tried by login as root, several other users and even after rebooting the box. The same error http://users.xen.net/@rrodriguez/imaxes/usbview_error.png Any idea will be welcome! I'm afraid I am still far from understand what I'm doing by adding this line to fstab and why it is working for you and it is not working here. I'll keep trying. Best, Ricardo -- Ricardo Rodríguez XEN, Resources Management

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SpamAssassin-Still Having a LOT of Spam
by Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

Hi, I am using KMAIL on SuSE10.1 and still getting sick each day of big amount of spam. I have created special mailbox in KMail (in mbox format), where I am collecting all junk. Then after some time, I am run: sa-learn --spam --sync --showdots --mbox /home/andrei/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/zzz-DefineSpam The spam database seem to be updated. But later I have the same junk messages NOT filtered by Spamassassin. Anyone have a clue how to remedy situation. I am using Apple Mail at work (with the same incomming mail addresses), and the number of spam at Apple Mail left in inbox is definitely lower than in KMail. Thanks in advance for any suggestion(s)

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system fonts
by MAURA MONVILLE 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

Is there a command to know which fonts are installed on a pltatform ? I'm working with a Linux/Red-Hat nodes cluster. But I think these commands are common to all Linux distributions ... are they ? Thank you in advance, Maura Edelweiss M.

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A SuSe distribution running from a 2 GB stick
by jimmy Pierre 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

Greetings, There is a promotion of 2 GB USB key for 35 Euros. I was wondering if I could install one of SuSe distribution and carry with me for demo purposes? All comments welcome. Cheers, Jimmy www.nui.fr

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CMOS battery.
by pelibali 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

Hi, I had 2 threads already for this topic and even that my time-drift issue was finally solved simply by replacing the CMOS battery of my mom's compi, I would still need few answers. I tested our old battery, providing around 1.15V and also checked the new one, having 3V. I run with both of them SUSE's the croned default battery-check script and both gave OK as result. I just wonder how SUSE understands the OK signal if the mainboard itself feels that something is wrong and the time in fact was drifted a lot. (No BIOS settings were lost, but the old battery still had around 1V power.) What do you think, would it be possible to file e.g. a bug-report pro- viding some more details on this topic; maybe the battery-check script itself could be modified on a way to "feel the difference" between 1V and 3V! I also tought about to test the very same hardware with both of my batteries under Windows and see how it behaviours... Any ideas please what to do?! I feel that such a croned, but more sen- sitive way to test this battery would be extreme useful and help us a lot in the long run. Thanks, Pelibali

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RE: [SLE] DNS issues - Suse 10
by James D. Parra 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

> >Just set up Bind on Suse 10, to replace an MS DNS server, and everything >appears to be working well except for the MX record; an MX entry was made >for the domain in Bind. When I point a Linux workstation to the Bind server, >I can ping everything and find entries via nslookup and dig, however when I >try to use 'mail user(a)mydomain.com', I get the following error and the >e-mail doesn't make it to its destination; > >Pointed to Linux DNS; > >Aug 29 17:30:42 Linux-server postfix/smtp[23619]: 7CB3EF3E0C: >to=<jamesp(a)musicreports.com>, relay=none, delay=0, status=bounced (Host or >domain name not found. Name service error for name=musicreports.com >type=AAAA: Host found but no data record of requested type) Can you post the zone? Also, I think Suse Config is doing something because I set up the zones via Webmin and I don't see any of the MX entries in Yast/DNS Server. Thanks, ~James

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The most annoying thing about KDE menus
by Marius Roets 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

Hi everybody, It's grinding away at my nerves for some time, so I thought maybe I'm just missing an obvious solution here. The problem: In the K Menu, if there is only one application in a group (submenu), that application gets the name of the group (submenu) instead of it's own name and description. I know somebody will reply and say I must go to Personal Settings->Desktops->Panels->menus and select "Name(Description)", but this is done and it works; as long as there are more than one item in a submenu. Example: My only chat client is Kopete. In the "Internet" menu I see a program called "Chat". I now install Psi (another chat client), without changing anything to the menus. Now the "Chat" item becomes a submenu and I get 2 items in it namely "Kopete (Instant Messenger)" and "Psi (Jabber Client)" , which is exactly what I want. Is there any way I can get the same behaviour if I have only one item in a submenu? Thanks Marius Using Suse 10.1 btw., but KDE has behaved like this since I can remember.

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