September 1998 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [SuSE Linux] ppp server--HELP
by ingi＠elit.se 08 Sep '98

08 Sep '98

Hi, > If I read your page correctly it describes a Linux box > connecting to an NT PPP server, thats a piece of cake. I did not think it was piece of cake. > I'm trying to do the opposite i.e. use the Linux > box as the PPP server and login to it from the NT 4.0 box. Because I have callback from the NT RAS Server activated, my Linux box must be acting as PPP Server for NT when the callback occurs :) There were several documents which discussed Linux/NT PPP setup. I'll come back later on that subject. - Ingvaldur - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

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Re: [SuSE Linux] I love KMail...but...
by jljr＠paonline.com 08 Sep '98

08 Sep '98

On Mon, 7 Sep 1998 21:29:33 -0700, Steve Mills wrote: > >I'd like to see at least one added feature to KMail. I use filters for my mail >so it will land in seperate folders, but you have to look in each one to see if >there is any content or not. A simple bold text for folder names....or >highlight...something would be nice to let you know if there is a reason to >look. > >How about some right click capability, as well? Like entering a "favorites" >file for addresses. > >Oh, I'm just spoiled by that other OS. What was it called? > Sounds like PMmail ( for OS/2 &/or Windows ). I have contacted the people that are make PMmail and they are considering a version for Linux. It sounded like it is pretty high on their list, and with a little encouragement fro, some Linus users, I am sure we would see a PMmail for Linux. If anyone is interested they are at <A HREF="http://www.southside.com"><A HREF="http://www.southside.com</A">http://www.southside.com</A</A>> joe - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

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[SuSE Linux] I love KMail...but...
by steve＠millsphoto.com 08 Sep '98

08 Sep '98

I'd like to see at least one added feature to KMail. I use filters for my mail so it will land in seperate folders, but you have to look in each one to see if there is any content or not. A simple bold text for folder names....or highlight...something would be nice to let you know if there is a reason to look. How about some right click capability, as well? Like entering a "favorites" file for addresses. Oh, I'm just spoiled by that other OS. What was it called? :) -- Steve Mills steve(a)millsphoto.com <A HREF="http://www.millsphoto.com"><A HREF="http://www.millsphoto.com</A">http://www.millsphoto.com</A</A>> Great wallpapers live here. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

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[SuSE Linux] A Mutt config question
by mwagnon＠ixpres.com 08 Sep '98

08 Sep '98

Is anybody using mutt? I'm not sure if what I want to do is possible, but I'll ask anyway. I want to change how the messages are displayed in the index. Currently it displays (in this order) the message number, the message status, date, the To header, the filesize, and the subject. I'd like to change the order, and display the sender (From header) instead of the To header. Actually now that I look at it, I don't think that it is the To header I'm looking at. I think it's the argument of the lists command (I have the line lists suse-linux-e in my .muttrc file). Does anyone know what I'm yapping about? If so, could you give me a shove in the right direction? TIA Mark - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

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[SuSE Linux] setserial broken :/
by steve＠millsphoto.com 08 Sep '98

08 Sep '98

Ok, tell me not to tinker with certain things. I deserve the scolding. I was trying to edit the file /sbin/setserial in order to see how to make my boot do the following: setserial /dev/ttyS2 irq 11 What I did was hose the file. It can't be used since it is now a binary file. Can I just recompile and restore it? Maybe just make dep? Advice, please. Does anyone know what file I should edit to add "setserial /dev/ttyS2 irq 11" to the boot sequence? I haven't toyed with this in Linux. One other item so I can keep this down to one post: I have wvdial working perfectly. As soon as I ask xfmail to check my mail, the connection breaks. I suppose by the time I get to NS mail (yuk) I won't have this problem, right? Has anyone used xfmail here? Better ideas are always welcome. :) Thanks, all. Steve <A HREF="http://www.millsphoto.com"><A HREF="http://www.millsphoto.com</A">http://www.millsphoto.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

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Re: [SuSE Linux] hotmail.com
by kevcol＠yahoo.com 08 Sep '98

08 Sep '98

---Michael Lankton <mlankton(a)home.com> wrote: > > I would encourage any list members using hotmail not to do so on this > list. Most of my spam comes from hotmail accounts To be fair, I would suspect most of the ones with hotmail.com return addresses are forged bogus Hotmail addresses and is spewed from dial up accounts. That is certainly my experience. >and I'm finally > adding the whole domain to my email filter. I'm sure I'm not the only > one who has a spam problem. Could you not tweak it further to still accept hotmail with [SuSE Linux] in the subject? On a related note, A girlfriend of mine who used a usa.net account on the road wondered why her mail to me was bouncing. I found out the sysadmin my then ISP was totally filtering out that domain without even bothering to tell the customers. I cancelled service after getting into a debate about it with them. These free web accounts get such a bad rap by being convenient targets by spammers using them to forge a return address that doesn't in fact exist, I hate to see legitimate mail get bounced merely by association. Sorry to take up the bandwidth, just thought I could offer a perspective. I get loads of spam too. Cheers _________________________________________________________ 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

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[SuSE Linux] Who is going to ISPCON
by deem＠wdm.com 08 Sep '98

08 Sep '98

Just wondering who from SuSE is going to ISPCON ? Thanks -Dee W.D.McKinney (Dee) deem(a)wdm.com Faith is acting on your passions & beliefs. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

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Re: [SuSE Linux] The scroll bar in xterm ? SuSE 5.3
by marc_bouron＠hotmail.com 08 Sep '98

08 Sep '98

>I dumped the first install for a much trimmed down one >on my home PC and I'd like to find the rpm/package the gives the xterms >a scrollbar in 5.3. Anyone know what package it's in per chance ? > >Thanks >-Dee You can get a scrollbar either by: 1. putting "-sb" on the xterm command line 2. setting them in your .Xdefaults (or wherever you put them) - check the xterm manpage 3. hold down the Control key and press the middle mouse button to pop up a menu from which you can choose to display the scrollbar Hope this helps. Cheers, Marc. ______________________________________________________ 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

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[SuSE Linux] The K environment revisited
by mezger＠usa.net 08 Sep '98

08 Sep '98

Ok I was real bored this evening and disatisfied with how I had my system setup so I decided to reinstall everything:) Since I didn't have any means to back-up all of the newer files that I had replaced I just took everything from the 5.2 disks. After installing the beta4 KDE I noticed that there are a lot of things that the newer 1.0 lacks. It has an rpm tool (I haven't really used it yet just checked it out), more games,more graphics, and can handle my video card (et4000w32i) a heck of a lot better than the newer one. I know that some of these programs are still available and that they probally were not stable enough for the 1.0 release... but why is it that this older version is displaying colors a heck of alot better than with the newer release? Perhaps because the newer one has more bloat (so less memory for color mapping)? When I say that the colors are displaying better I am refering to things like gradient title bars being more even... xpm's more vivid and such. Any know anything about this? TIA, Harry - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

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[SuSE Linux] *** Severe bug found ***
by mantel＠suse.de 08 Sep '98

08 Sep '98

Hi, we finally found the "fdisk bug". Symptom: -------- When trying to do an installation from scratch, YaST crashes and leaves the console in an unsane state, so that the <return> key does not work anymore and the message "An error occurred during installation!" pops up in a red window. What triggers the bug: ---------------------- The error only occurs when doing an installation in english language _AND_ when there is free space on one of the harddisks (this means: not all available space is used for partitions on the disk). Technical explanation: ---------------------- YaST uses text files which can contain format strings. Here is the offending text in german and english language: german: Auf der Platte wurden 0 Megabyte ungenutzer Plattenbereich gefunden. english: There is 0 MB of free space on . As you can see, the 0 and the are swapped. C programmers know what that means: As soon as YaST tries to display this specific text, it crashes with a segmentation violation. Workaround: ----------- Workaround is to avoid display of this text. There are several possibilities: 1. As soon as YaST starts, switch to console 2 and create your partitions by starting fdisk manually. After you have written the partition table and left fdisk, please reboot the system before continuing. On the second run, just don't partition your harddisk(s) with YaST but make sure you format all the newly created partitions. 2. Start a rescue system and modify you partition table(s) to your needs. Reboot and start a normal installation. 3. Create your partitions with another tool and only change the type in YaST. A fixed YaST is currently being built. We stopped shipping of the broken version. No other language besides english is affected by this bug (which made it very hard for us to find, because nobody in Germany reported the problem). I'm very sorry about this inconvenience, and we will provide fixed disks as fast as possible. -o) Hubert Mantel /\\ _\_v - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

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