July 1998 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] KDE upgrade lost some utilities
by cruel＠rocketmail.com 31 Jul '98

31 Jul '98

kbase-1.0-5.SuSE.i386.rpm 2822 Kb Thu Jul 23 09:56:00 1998 klibs-1.0-3.SuSE.i386.rpm 1046 Kb Thu Jul 23 09:57:00 1998 These 2 files where updated on july 23 did you download them before this date?? install with upgrade option rpm -U "filename" === john bitar cruel(a)rocketmail.com ---RICK CHANDLER <chandlerrick(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > > >I upgraded SuSE 5.2 from KDE Beta3 to 1.0, and now a few utilities are > not > >functioning. > > > >I'm particularly annoyed by the loss of the "K File System Control" > utility. > I upgraded the same way and mine works. The one thing I have problems > with is when you right click to get the new option, none of it works. > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at <A HREF="http://www.hotmail.com"><A HREF="http://www.hotmail.com</A">http://www.hotmail.com</A</A>> > - > To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with > this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at <A HREF="http://mail.yahoo.com"><A HREF="http://mail.yahoo.com</A">http://mail.yahoo.com</A</A>> - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

3 2

[S.u.S.E. Linux] PPP and NT RAS
by ingi＠elit.se 31 Jul '98

31 Jul '98

Hi, I have a NT RAS Server at work with callback enabled. So when I make a connection to my work with my NT Workstation, the NT RAS server recognises me and gives me an oppurtunity to be called back (yes I can enter any phone number I want, default is my home). And then the line is hung up and the RAS Server calls my NT where the RAS Dialer is waiting for a call. I would love to have the same functionality for my Linux box. Has anyone made that kind of configuration. I know that my RAS Server is using PPP and that it does not prompt for login/password. I do not know how the RAS client and RAS Server agree's that a callback should be made, maybe in the LCP, maybe something else, please tell me. The RAS Server allows authentication in clear text. I dont know if that means that the RAS Server uses MS CHAP / PAP authentication, please inform me about that one to. I have Suse 5.2, Kernel 2.0.34, PPPD 2.3 patch 5 (without MS CHAP enabled). I used KPPP (from KDE 1.0) to call into the RAS Server with PAP authentication, but no callback. There is a mgetty for the modem (I think). Telephone bills will pile up If I dont get this callback working. The alterntiv is to stick with my NT Workstation as my primary workstation but then I'll miss all the fun... Please advise. Best regards - Ingvaldur Sigurjonsson Sweden - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

2 2

[S.u.S.E. Linux] problems with rpm
by Jochen_Hayek＠ACM.org 30 Jul '98

30 Jul '98

why is this: root@Hayek5 # rpm -bl /cdrom/suse/zq1/kadmin.spm Unknown Field: í«îÛb Build failed. root@Hayek5 # rpm --recompile /cdrom/suse/zq1/kadmin.spm Installing /cdrom/suse/zq1/kadmin.spm * Package: kadmin + umask 022 + echo Executing: 0rep Executing: 0rep isn't `-bl' a valid option to build a package from a `.spm'? I consulted the SDB before, but I did not an answer there. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

1 0

[S.u.S.E. Linux] DEXE and binfmt
by hlarons＠ComCAT.COM 30 Jul '98

30 Jul '98

Part of my boot message refers to "registered DEXE for binfmt" or something like that. I can't find any man or help info on either topic. Can someone give me a hint or pointer? Howard Arons -- Powered by SuSE Linux 5.2 -- kernel 2.0.33 Communications by Mutt 0.89 - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

2 1

[S.u.S.E. Linux] installing Masqdialer
by alfiesty＠chaffee.net 30 Jul '98

30 Jul '98

slashdot has a link to a masqdialer client on sundays list. Where is tyhe masqdialer server? Is it on the SuSe distro? This sounds like just what I need to get my wife's Win95 box hooked to the internet so she doesn;t need to keep bugging me. Jim - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

1 0

[S.u.S.E. Linux] X-Windows Question
by pbrun＠sympatico.ca 30 Jul '98

30 Jul '98

Hello all, I successfully loaded X-Windows with my Diamond Stealth II S220 card running only 8 bits. When I tried 16 bits, the screen flickers when I move an xterm window. Is there a way to reset the Refresh Rate in Linux? Also, what does one do to configure your X-Windows desktop? Where can you download different backgrounds, screen-savers, etc....? How can you save your current Desktop configuration? For instance, when I switch to Afterstep, I can't save my desktop like in fvwm2 Window Manager? How do I select Afterstep as my default WM? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Paul P.S. Anybody know anything about Network Address Transalation (NAT), meaning routing Internet traffic from one ethernet card to a home network? --------------------------------------------------------------- Pavel (Paul) Brun Carleton University, Canada Email: pbrun(a)sympatico.ca Internet Pager: <A HREF="http://wwp.mirabilis.com/3731432"><A HREF="http://wwp.mirabilis.com/3731432</A">http://wwp.mirabilis.com/3731432</A</A>> Internet: <A HREF="http://www.public.asu.edu/~pbrun"><A HREF="http://www.public.asu.edu/~pbrun</A">http://www.public.asu.edu/~pbrun</A</A>> --------------------------------------------------------------- - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

1 0

Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] e-mail question
by cruel＠rocketmail.com 30 Jul '98

30 Jul '98

There is a dail up networking program like in windows for linux. You should be able to connect to just about any ISP. I suggest you have a daul boot system, that way there is always windows as a backup till you get your linux system configured. I have used EzPPP, an X windows program and it worked well for me. There are others, like Xisp and Kppp. The EzPPP Project - tool to automate PPP sessions <A HREF="http://www.serv.net/~cameron/ezppp/"><A HREF="http://www.serv.net/~cameron/ezppp/</A">http://www.serv.net/~cameron/ezppp/</A</A>> by the way SuSE 5.3 is out now Good Luck === john bitar cruel(a)rocketmail.com ---Robert Farquhar <112063.2652(a)compuserve.com> wrote: > > > Greetings! > I am a Linux newbie and I am planning to change my current operating system > to SuSE 5.2. I have an e-mail account with AOL and one with CompuServe. > For those of you that use Linux, do any of you use AOL or CompuServe as a > provider? I asked both companies if they had interface software for Linux > and neither has. Do you use a Windows emulator (Wabi?)? Is there an > Internet provider out there that is Linux friendly? If so, do they have > nodes throughout the US? I'll need to log in via a 202 area code. > Thanks in advance for your help! > Ert > - > To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with > this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at <A HREF="http://mail.yahoo.com"><A HREF="http://mail.yahoo.com</A">http://mail.yahoo.com</A</A>> - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

1 0

[S.u.S.E. Linux] HP Scanjet 4c and Linux
by aubry＠univ-lemans.fr 30 Jul '98

30 Jul '98

A new Linux user, Has anyone already used an HP SCANJET 4c with Linux ? If so, what are the drivers and the applications ? (I use S.u.S.E Linux 5.2) Thanks, Christophe, France. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

2 1

[S.u.S.E. Linux] In time of war do we want to be running NT??
by fmiller＠lightlink.com 30 Jul '98

30 Jul '98

'Thought all of you would enjoy this. _____________________ In time of war do we want to be running NT?? <A HREF="http://www.gcn.com/gcn/1998/July13/cov2.htm"><A HREF="http://www.gcn.com/gcn/1998/July13/cov2.htm</A">http://www.gcn.com/gcn/1998/July13/cov2.htm</A</A>> GOVERNMENT NEWS GCN July 13, 1998 Software glitches leave Navy Smart Ship dead in the water. By Gregory Slabodkin GCN Staff The Navy's Smart Ship technology may not be as smart as the service contends. Although PCs have reduced workloads for sailors aboard the Aegis missile cruiser USS Yorktown, software glitches resulted in system failures and crippled ship operations, according to Navy officials. Navy brass have called the Yorktown Smart Ship pilot a success in reducing manpower, maintenance and costs. The Navy began running shipboard applications under Microsoft Windows NT so that fewer sailors would be needed to control key ship functions. But the Navy last fall learned a difficult lesson about automation: The very information technology on which the ships depend also makes them vulnerable. The Yorktown last September suffered a systems failure when bad data was fed into its computers during maneuvers off the coast of Cape Charles, Va. The ship had to be towed into the Naval base at Norfolk, Va., because a database overflow caused its propulsion system to fail, according to Anthony DiGiorgio, a civilian engineer with the Atlantic Fleet Technical Support Center in Norfolk. "We are putting equipment in the engine room that we cannot maintain and, when it fails, results in a critical failure," DiGiorgio said. It took two days of pierside maintenance to fix the problem. The Yorktown has been towed into port after other systems failures, he said. Not officially. Atlantic Fleet officials acknowledged that the Yorktown last September experienced what they termed "an engineering local area network casualty," but denied that the ship's systems failure lasted as long as DiGiorgio said. The Yorktown was dead in the water for about two hours and 45 minutes, fleet officials said, and did not have to be towed in. "This is the only time this casualty has occurred and the only propulsion casualty involved with the control system since May 2, 1997, when software configuration was frozen," Vice Adm. Henry Giffin, commander of the Atlantic Fleet's Naval Surface Force, reported in an Oct. 24, 1997, memorandum. Giffin wrote the memo to describe "what really happened in hope of clearing the scuttlebutt" surrounding the incident, he noted. The Yorktown lost control of its propulsion system because its computers were unable to divide by the number zero, the memo said. The Yorktown's Standard Monitoring Control System administrator entered zero into the data field for the Remote Data Base Manager program. That caused the database to overflow and crash all LAN consoles and miniature remote terminal units, the memo said. The program administrators are trained to bypass a bad data field and change the value if such a problem occurs again, Atlantic Fleet officials said. But "the Yorktown's failure in September 1997 was not as simple as reported," DiGiorgio said. "If you understand computers, you know that a computer normally is immune to the character of the data it processes," he wrote in the June U.S. Naval Institute's Proceedings Magazine. "Your $2.95 calculator, for example, gives you a zero when you try to divide a number by zero, and does not stop executing the next set of instructions. It seems that the computers on the Yorktown were not designed to tolerate such a simple failure." The Navy reduced the Yorktown crew by 10 percent and saved more than $2.8 million a year using the computers. The ship uses dual 200-MHz Pentium Pros from Intergraph Corp. of Huntsville, Ala. The PCs and server run NT 4.0 over a high-speed, fiber-optic LAN. Blame it on the OS. But according to DiGiorgio, who in an interview said he has serviced automated control systems on Navy ships for the past 26 years, the NT operating system is the source of the Yorktown's computer problems. NT applications aboard the Yorktown provide damage control, run the ship's control center on the bridge, monitor the engines and navigate the ship when under way. "Using Windows NT, which is known to have some failure modes, on a warship is similar to hoping that luck will be in our favor,"DiGiorgio said. Pacific and Atlantic fleets in March 1997 selected NT 4.0 as the standard OS for both networks and PCs as part of the Navy's Information Technology for the 21st Century initiative. Current guidance approved by the Navy's chief information officer calls for all new applications to run under NT. Ron Redman, deputy technical director of the Fleet Introduction Division of the Aegis Program Executive Office, said there have been numerous software failures associated with NT aboard the Yorktown. "Refining that is an ongoing process," Redman said. "Unix is a better system for control of equipment and machinery, whereas NT is a better system for the transfer of information and data. NT has never been fully refined and there are times when we have had shutdowns that resulted from NT." Hauled in. The Yorktown has been towed into port several times because of the systems failures, he said. "Because of politics, some things are being forced on us that without political pressure we might not do, like Windows NT," Redman said. "If it were up to me I probably would not have used Windows NT in this particular application. If we used Unix, we would have a system that has less of a tendency to go down." Although Unix is more reliable, Redman said, NT may become more reliable with time. The Navy is moving the service's command and control applications from Unix to NT as part of IT-21. Under IT-21, the Navy also plans to modernize ships in the Atlantic and Pacific fleets with asynchronous transfer mode LANs. Large ATM networks running NT have already been installed on the USS Abraham Lincoln and USS Essex. But DiGiorgio said the LANs might experience a chain reaction of computer failures like those experienced on the Yorktown. That domino effect is inherent to the system design of shipboard LANs, he said. "There is very little segregation of error when software shares bad data," DiGiorgio said. "Instead of one computer knocking off on the Yorktown, they all did, one after the other. What if this happened in actual combat?" Although the Yorktown did not have backup systems, Redman said that future Smart Ships will have systems redundancy to ensure that ships can continue to operate. But DiGiorgio said that the Smart Ship project needs to do more engineering up front. "Installing a control system on a warship and resolving problems as the project progresses is a costly and naive process," DiGiorgio wrote in the Proceedings article. "Now, with the top people rotated off the Smart Ship Project, it would be wise for the Navy to investigate this fiasco more fully." Redman has a different perspective. "If it were me, I wouldn't say all the things that Tony [DiGiorgio] has said out of discretion and consideration for being a long-term employee," he said. "But I will say this about Tony, he's a very bright engineer." "Everybody plays the obedience role where you cannot criticize the system," said DiGiorgio, a self-described whistle-blower. "I'm not that kind of guy." -- Fred A. Miller, Systems Administrator Cornell Univ. Press Services fmiller(a)lightlink.com fm(a)cupserv.org - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

8 11

[S.u.S.E. Linux] NEWS!
by fmiller＠lightlink.com 30 Jul '98

30 Jul '98

The following sites will make your day or night! Fred _________________________ <A HREF="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/zdnn_smgraph_display/0,3441,2123618,00.ht…"><A HREF="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/zdnn_smgraph_display/0,3441,2123618,00.ht…</A">http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/zdnn_smgraph_display/0,3441,2123618,00.ht…</A</A>> <A HREF="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/zdnn_smgraph_display/0,3441,2123524,00.ht…"><A HREF="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/zdnn_smgraph_display/0,3441,2123524,00.ht…</A">http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/zdnn_smgraph_display/0,3441,2123524,00.ht…</A</A>> -- Fred A. Miller, Systems Administrator Cornell Univ. Press Services fmiller(a)lightlink.com fm(a)cupserv.org - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

1 0