November 2000 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Possibility of shared swap filespace on a dual-boot Linux/Win98
by phollings＠atl.mediaone.net 23 Nov '00

23 Nov '00

Message-ID: <013501c054fa$fca801c0$44601f18(a)atl.mediaone.net> From: "peter hollings" <phollings(a)atl.mediaone.net> Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 22:10:51 -0500 Subject: Possibility of shared swap filespace on a dual-boot Linux/Win98 I have a Pentium II running Windows 98 that I'm preparing for a fresh install of SuSE Linux 7.0. The machine is used as a home workstation. While I have adequate diskspace (8.4 GB), I'd like to make it all count. A little over half is available for Linux. One option is to use the same space (about 250 MB) under both Windows 98 and Linux for a swapfile. Here's what I understand I'd have to do: Create a separate partition solely for the swapfile (I could use a logical partition). I'm not sure what partition type this would be (Using YAST I'd set it as 82 for Linux?). Add a command to delete win386.swp near the end of autoexec.bat to delete the file as a part of Windows 98 shutdown processing. Add a mkswap command to my Linux bootscript (where?) to create the Linux swapfile just before the swapon command. Then as a part of Linux shutdown, just after swapoff (where is this script?) I'd need to reformat the swapfile for Windows (what command/arguments?). Finally, I'd have to designate the file for swap purposes in Windows (System Properties>Virtual Memory Tab) and in Linux (Yast setup??). Being a Linux newbie, I don't understand all the details. Also, I'm not sure that this is a good overall strategy. For example, suppose there is a powerfailure, normal shutdown processing doesn't occur and then you start the OTHER OS which finds an incompatibly formatted swapfile. Would it be better to always format the swapfile as a part of startup processing (then it wouldn't matter how the system was shutdown)? I'm expecting that this might add 5 seconds to my boot process, which is acceptable (not if it is MUCH longer). I'm thinking that the extra 250MB is worth having, but not if it causes serious problems. Has anyone made this work reliably? What are the pitfalls?? Another issue: I'm considering using ReiserFS for my Linux partitions. I understand that I'd have to use the NOTAIL option when mounting my boot partition to make the files accessable to LILO. I have no compelling need to use ReiserFS except a desire to have a better, more reliable system and to push the limits a little bit. I'm assuming SuSE wouldn't release ReiserFS unless it was reliable. I understand that it may lack all the utilities, like fsck. Am I making a mistake?? TIA, Peter Hollings Atlanta, Georgia phollings(a)alum.mit.edu

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Internet access control / monitoring
by davidm＠comrad.co.nz 23 Nov '00

23 Nov '00

From: "David Milligan" <davidm(a)comrad.co.nz> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 15:04:15 +1300 Message-ID: <001701c054f1$af058540$1f2aa8c0(a)radnet.co.nz> Subject: Internet access control / monitoring Can anyone point me to some good utilities to use to control and monitor internet activity? I have installed a linux box running SuSEFirewall to give Windows users internet access. I have made my own script which runs after SuSEfirewall which modifies the ipchain input rules it makes to REJECT all ip input packets for my various user subnets and then explicitly ACCEPTs ip input packet for specific IP addresses only. This works to allow internet access for certain PC's only but is a bit of a pain to manage. I would also like a monitoring utility that provides summaries of traffic by IP address, type (eg web, mail etc), and destination (eg hostname). Any ideas? David

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Popular Vacation package is updated :)
by sean.rima＠tcob1.net 23 Nov '00

23 Nov '00

Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 01:18:32 +0000 From: Sean Rima <sean.rima(a)tcob1.net> Message-ID: <20001123011832.A20335(a)tcob1.tcob1.net> Subject: Popular Vacation package is updated :) That popular and ever so handy package, Vacation has been updated this evening. Several minor changes and a couple of major ones. Download this package from: http://download.sourceforge.net/vacation/vacation-1.2.3.tar.gz Sean -- GNUPG ID 92B9D0CF | Fidonet: 2:263/950 ICQ: 679813 | Homepage: http://www.tcob1.net Linux User: #124682 | My Current Uptime is 1d, 12h and 42m on Linux 2.2.17 ...What's a new brides' wedding night dread? Microsoft.

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Re: [SLE] Upgrading 6.3 -> 7.0 : Justification[solved]
by jramberg＠looksmart.net 22 Nov '00

22 Nov '00

Message-ID: <3A1C562F.5EC6BDA8(a)looksmart.net> Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 15:26:39 -0800 From: Jim Ramberg <jramberg(a)looksmart.net> Subject: Re: [SLE] Upgrading 6.3 -> 7.0 : Justification[solved] Thanks for all your useful advice. Will wait until 7.1 and then see. Jim Ramberg <p><p>

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Vmware for Linux locks when heavy network activity
by jramberg＠looksmart.net 22 Nov '00

22 Nov '00

Message-ID: <3A1C5374.991B9CA2(a)looksmart.net> Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 15:15:00 -0800 From: Jim Ramberg <jramberg(a)looksmart.net> Subject: Vmware for Linux locks when heavy network activity I was wondering if anyone ran into the problem of the guest OS ( in my case NT 4.0) locking up and requiring you to do a cold boot when you start up IE or netscape. The problem seems not to show up if I pay attention to the number of net based apps I start in NT and Linux SuSe 6.3). If there is a configuration thing that I can play around with; I would appreciate getting a e-mail. I also filed an inicident report with vmware on it. regards Jim Ramberg <p><p>

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problem with mail message downloads
by zentara＠gypsyfarm.com 22 Nov '00

22 Nov '00

Message-ID: <3A1C1300.7E38C835(a)gypsyfarm.com> Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 13:40:00 -0500 From: zentara <zentara(a)gypsyfarm.com> Subject: problem with mail message downloads Hi, Occaisionally I get mail downloads "stalling" during mail downloads with Netscape. I have to manually log on to my mail server, and delete the first entry, then proceed with netscape downloads. Well it happened again and I decided to pursue this, to see if it is a corrupted header problem, or whatever? My latest run in with this problem involve all emails from Carlos Illana, regarding "pdf print problems". I've had to manually delete them from my pop server. So I went to the suse mail list archive: http://lists.suse.com/archives/suse-linux-e/2000-Nov/ [SLE] pdf print problems Carlos Illana (Tue Nov 21 2000 - 06:45:50 PST) When I try to download it, it stalls. So it apparently is more than a mail problem. Is anyone else experience this problem; or is it something happening along my route only? What is the likely cause?

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[SLE] follow up...secure email headers
by richard＠activitysuperstore.com 22 Nov '00

22 Nov '00

Message-ID: <212BC45BF324D3119CBD00E02928D546103812@MAILSERVER> From: Richard Booth <richard(a)activitysuperstore.com> Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 12:41:43 -0000 Subject: [SLE] follow up...secure email headers Hi all Does anyone have ADSL or cable access on SuSE? My post yesterday was concerning the availability of IP addresses and using ADSL or cable. Presumably with always on connection the IP address is static and therefore from email headers and the like your IP address can easily be obtained and your network hacked over a number of days. The plan is to have a firewall setup with SuSE 7 to provide cover, but I have seen some email headers that do not display the computer name or IP address, they just show [unverified] for the IP address and wondered if this is possible to provide further cover? Thanks Rich > > When sending email from Kmail the receipent can see the server name and > the > IP address of the sender. Is there a way of not showing the IP address or > server name in the email headers when sending mail using Kmail? > >

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Re: [SLE] problem with mail message downloads
by bbcat＠linuxstart.com 22 Nov '00

22 Nov '00

Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 17:48:34 -0500 Message-Id: <200011222248.eAMMmYQ25048(a)tbird.iworld.com> From: Michel Catudal <bbcat(a)linuxstart.com> Subject: Re: [SLE] problem with mail message downloads zentara <zentara(a)gypsyfarm.com> wrote: >Hi, >Occaisionally I get mail downloads "stalling" during mail downloads >with Netscape. I have to manually log on to my mail server, and delete >the first entry, then proceed with netscape downloads. > >Well it happened again and I decided to pursue this, to see if it is >a corrupted header problem, or whatever? > >My latest run in with this problem involve >all emails from Carlos Illana, regarding "pdf print problems". >I've had to manually delete them from my pop server. > >So I went to the suse mail list archive: > >http://lists.suse.com/archives/suse-linux-e/2000-Nov/ >[SLE] pdf print problems Carlos Illana (Tue Nov 21 2000 - 06:45:50 PST) > >When I try to download it, it stalls. So it apparently is >more than a mail problem. > >Is anyone else experience this problem; or is it something >happening along my route only? > >What is the likely cause? > One thing I know is that my mail is screwed up and I can't access any mail past a certain point. If you are correct in your conclusion it would be wise that whoever is doing it stops. Since that mail is at linuxstart.com I have no control on cleaning the garbage. linuxstart.com has so far ignored my complaints. Vous en avez plein l'casse du plantage de Ti-Mou? alors il est temps d'essayer Linux http://www.netonecom.net/~bbcat ---------------------- Do you do Linux? :) Get your FREE @linuxstart.com email address at: http://www.linuxstart.com

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Re: [SLE] Clock problem (fwd)
by cwaiken＠telerama.com 22 Nov '00

22 Nov '00

Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 17:31:05 -0500 (EST) From: "Christopher W. Aiken" <cwaiken(a)telerama.com> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011221722420.3236-100000(a)darkstar.local> Subject: Re: [SLE] Clock problem (fwd) -|Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 10:45:19 -0800 (PST) -|From: Greg Thomas <ethant(a)pacificnet.net> -|To: Christopher W. Aiken <cwaiken(a)telerama.com> -|Cc: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com -|Subject: Re: [SLE] Clock problem -| -|On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: -| -|> -|> Eight hours? Isn't Pacific time equal to GMT-8 ? Try setting your -|> hardware clock to GMT, i.e local time +8. If your hardware -|> clock is set to GMT and you have the correct TZ set, Linux should -|> automatically get the right time and correct for time changes such -|> as daylight savings time. -|> -| -|I'm kind of confused with this. On SuSE 5.3 through 6.4 I always set my -|hardware clock to localtime and set my timezone to PST and I haven't had -|this problem. -| -|7.0 is the first release where this has shown up for me. -| -|Why does it change only once a day? The machine isn't being rebooted and -|I don't see any cron jobs that run hwclock or date. -| -|Greg -| I'm not sure either but my clock was off by 5 hours when I installed SuSE 7.0. My TZ is EST (Atlantic coast). EST is GMT-5. I read something on another news group that Linux/UNIX/BSD uses GMT as its standard time. After reading this, I set my hardware clock to GMT and my TZ to EST. I haven't had any problems since. My time was even auto updated last month when we left daylight savings time. (Yeah.... some of us do change our clocks ahead in spring, and back in fall.... This gives us an extra hour to "work" out in the yard instead of "working" on out Linux boxes..... ) -=[cwa]=- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: SuSE 7.0 Professional Linux

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Linux Printer Sharing Solved
by bryantyson＠earthlink.net 22 Nov '00

22 Nov '00

From: "Bryan S. Tyson" <bryantyson(a)earthlink.net> Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 16:46:52 -0500 Message-Id: <00112217040800.01216@desk> Subject: Linux Printer Sharing Solved On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Dax wrote: > you must list the machines in /etc/hosts.equiv or /etc/hosts.lpd. > You must do this on the SUSE Box. If I have stated the obvious, no offense > intended. Now why would I be offended when I just printed my first page, thanks to you! My /etc/hosts.lpd had nothing in it. When I added the Caldera box, it was able to print to the SuSE box! Thank you for your advice! Thanks also to everyone who commented. I learned a lot from everyone's posts, and I intend to study them more when I am able to get back into this on Monday. *************************************************** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.0 Professional KMail 1.0.29.2 Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson(a)earthlink.net ***************************************************

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