August 2002 - openSUSE KDE - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Virus Scan Software
by Bill.Stephens＠sungardrs.com 12 Aug '02

12 Aug '02

Hi ... Can anyone suggest a (free) downloadable virus-scan product for Suse 7.3? I think my distro is passing around the klez virus ... Regards, Bill Stephens Sungard Availability Services Phone: (215) 351-1099 Fax: (215) 451-4436

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Kinternet will not log me on to my ISP
by Matt Prastein 12 Aug '02

12 Aug '02

I've just fired up SUSE 8 and KDE 3, and it looks good. But I have an access problem with kinternet. I dial up, get connected, but fail to login. I use Earthlink as my ISP, and Earthlink tells me to I login as ELN/myid. This works fine with kppp or wvdial, but the Yast2 configuration of kinternet (SUSE 8.0, fully updated) insists on changing this to ELNmyid, which of course doesn't work. FWIW, this was a manual configuration of the modem. It's a PCI-based unit on ttyS4 and could not be identified by YAST2 configuration (though it shows up properly on the hardware lists). After some rooting around, I was led to look at /etc/sysconfig/network/providers, and discovered a configuration file ELNmyid. I tried renaming the file from the console, but attemts to insert the "/" character were rejected, presumably because it is unacceptable in a file name. When I explicitly identify my ISP in the YAST2 configuration (US, Earthlink Net), YAST2 creates an entry in /etc/sysconfig/network/providers called earthlink_net. It doesn't work, either. I don't recall having this problem in SUSE 7.3, which I haven't used for a while. Is this a SUSE 8 problem? A KDE 3 problem? Is there a work-around, or do I just have to use kppp? Thanks for your help. Regards, Matt Prastein

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Installing F-PROT Virus Scanner
by Bill.Stephens＠sungardrs.com 12 Aug '02

12 Aug '02

Hi, guys ... Here is a mini-HOWTO describing my experience in installing F-PROT. Obtaining and Installing the Product -------------------------------------------- Go to "http://www.f-prot.com/download/getfplinfree.html". Select the download site and type of download; I selected the rpm install. Konqueror offered to install the package using "Package Manager", and I let it go ahead. The files wind up being installed under "/usr/local/f-prot". Configuring the Product ----------------------------- The product installs with two scripts: "f-prot.sh" and "check-updates.sh". "f-prot.sh" runs the virus scanner, while "check-updates.sh" checks for and downloads updated virus signature files (which all end in a ".DEF" extension; there are 3 of these). Basically, the product is ready to go at this point, so what I did from here on was some local tweaking. I wanted "f-prot.sh" and "check-updates.sh" to be run by cron at specific times each day. In particular, I wanted "f-prot.sh" to write a report file in my home directory, but the problem is that cron runs as root, so the report file would not be readable from my userid unless I got into superuser. So, what I did was write a "wrapper" script around "f-prot.sh" to chown the report file after it was created so that I could read it. I called this script "vscan", and it looks like this: #!/bin/sh # # This is a shell script to invoke the F-Prot OnDemand Scanner for Linux. # It creates a report file called "f-prot.rep" in the subdirectory of # "/home" corresponding to the specified userid. It then chowns this # report file so that the user can look at it without being superuser. # /usr/local/f-prot/f-prot / -report=/home/$1/f-prot.rep chown $1:users /home/$1/f-prot.rep I then did a "crontab -e" and created a pair of entries that look like this: 30 19 * * * /usr/local/f-prot/check-updates.sh -cron -quiet 30 07 * * * /usr/local/f-prot/vscan bill When "vscan" runs, $1 in the script is replaced by "bill", so the report gets written to (in this case) "/home/bill/f-prot.rep". So this way, at 7:30am every morning, f-prot is invoked to do the virus scan, and at 7:30pm every evening, I check to see if there are any new virus definition files to download. f-prot, when it runs, tells you the date and time of the virus signature files it's using, so you know indirectly that "check-updates.sh" is running. The only other thing I did was to define an icon on the KDE desktop to open the report file with "kwrite"; this way, all I have to do to check the virus scan log is to click on the icon. Regards, Bill Stephens Sungard Availability Services Phone: (215) 351-1099 Fax: (215) 451-4436

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books?
by Carl William Spitzer IV 12 Aug '02

12 Aug '02

I am looking for a good comprehensive book on SUSE 7.2, 8.0 both PRO Sams Publishing last published a book related to SUSE 6.x but has not updated since then. English only CWSIV ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.

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tabs
by Hans Krueger 11 Aug '02

11 Aug '02

does any body know when tabs for Konqueror will be ready. -- Hans Krueger hans007(a)prexar.com "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither libKonquerorerty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin

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Re: [suse-kde] Suse 8 kde 3 Crash
by Sebastian Vogelsang 11 Aug '02

11 Aug '02

Hi, > > The whole system just freezes (very randomly). Most of the times it does > > that in the first minute, after I've logged in with my default user > > account. > > It hasn't happened as root so far, but with every user account I've > > created. > Check file permissions on all files in the home dir and /tmp , making sure > they are appropriate. I did that and recognized that the link .Xresources -> .Xdefaults was owned by root, also group root. But could that possibly crash the whole system? Funny thing is that it really does not happen as root, but only as a normal user. So if anyone has any other recommendations, I'd be very very happy... Thanx in advance, Sebastian ________________________________________________________________ Keine verlorenen Lotto-Quittungen, keine vergessenen Gewinne mehr! Beim WEB.DE Lottoservice: http://tippen2.web.de/?x=13

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desk top icons
by Hans Krueger 11 Aug '02

11 Aug '02

does any body know why my desk top icons dissaper and how to get them back with out logging out of kde. kde 3.0.2 thanks -- Hans Krueger hans007(a)prexar.com "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin

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Koffice 1.2rc1
by Graham Murray 10 Aug '02

10 Aug '02

I have recently upgraded to this from the supplementary/KDE/updatefor_8·0 directory at ftp.gwdg.de. Since doing this, I am missing most of the menus and toolbars in kWord. Only the 'file', 'insert' (which only has an option 'scan image'), 'Setting', and 'help' menus are shown. *None* of the formatting menus or toolbars are shown. I upgraded (these and other kde packages) using kpackage, selecting to update the packages, stopping KDE (init 3), running SuSEconfig and restarting KDE (init 5). My first suspicion was that there is a configuration file which needs regenerating, but I could not find one. Any hints as to how to rectify the situation?

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LinuxWorld
by Carl 10 Aug '02

10 Aug '02

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 . Will Suse be at LinuxWorld? Seems no one's heard from them lately. Sun Casts Shadow Before Linux Gathering http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml;jsessionid=BYDYIM05IPVV4CRBAEKSFF… -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAj1VBc0ACgkQnQ18+PFcZJvFpgCaA1oMZH11cVv3EXC6vvSmbJLv rj8AniIea9Lct+BNc7PDtmVwNi8wp6I7 =EGGM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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KMail Q - changing font with a filter action?
by K Pfeiffer 08 Aug '02

08 Aug '02

Hallo liebe Leute, (ihr konntet auch auf Deutsch antworten) I'm using KMail with a non-monospaced font. But when I read messages in the Perl Beginners mail list for example, I'd like to switch automatically to a monospace font. Is there any way to do this with the filter actions (all mailing list messages get filtered)? -Kevin (Using KDE 3.02) -- Kevin Pfeiffer International University Bremen

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