March 2000 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[SLE] html mail warning
by wulfie＠wulfric7.co.uk 07 Mar '00

07 Mar '00

Sorry guys - using someone else's pc this morning, didn't realise html mail was set so a couple of posts may be pine-unfriendly. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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Re: [SLE] Samba and Windows 2000
by wulfie＠wulfric7.co.uk 07 Mar '00

07 Mar '00

Sorry - I'm a domain admin where I work, I always forget that not everybody can add users to an NT/Win2K system. You do need a tame sys admin for this. -----Original Message----- From: Ralph Clark <ralph_clark(a)bigfoot.com> To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com <suse-linux-e(a)suse.com>; kmoore(a)aa.net <kmoore(a)aa.net> Date: 06 March 2000 03:59 Subject: Re: [SLE] Samba and Windows 2000 >I just got this working myself. Ironically it's a lot more complicated than >setting Linux up as a Samba server! Here's what you do if another (Windows) >machine acts as the Primary Domain Controller and password server (as opposed to >using the Linux box itself for those functions): > >(i) Choose a unique Netbios host name for your Linux box. > >(ii) (Logged in as root) install Samba on your Linux box, configure /etc/smb.conf >appropriately, including your chosen Netbios hostname and the IP addresses of the >PDC and password server, set START_SMB="yes" in /etc/rc.config and run SuSEConfig. > >(iii) Get the NT Sysadmin to register your NetBIOS hostname on the PDC. > -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] Some mail problems
by kar＠webline.dk 07 Mar '00

07 Mar '00

I have some problems with an email soulution. I use fetchmail to get email for a domain trough a multidrop mailbox at an Internet Provider. Locally it delivers the mail to qmail. Sometimes it happens that a domain name doesn't exist. I'm not sure, but it seems that qmail checks to see not only the sender's domain name, but also other receipients'. Anyway, it happens, and unfortunately fetchmail leaves this email in the provider's mailbox, and all the following emails too, until someone manually deletes the email or otherwise removes the problem. Can qmail be softened to not being so hard on missing domain names? Can fetchmail be told to pick up the other emails? The other problem has to do with mailing lists. It seems that the email address of the receiver is chumped somewhere on the way, so all email from mailing lists are sent to the local postmasterm who's getting tired of receiving tons of email per day. Help, anyone?? -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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Re: [SLE] SuSE for old PC
by pinard＠iro.umontreal.ca 07 Mar '00

07 Mar '00

Jon Pennington <jpennington(a)atipa.com> writes: > > Which version of SuSE is better for old PC (386, 486). > They all run, and with the better memory management of the 2.2 series > kernels and speed improvements to glibc 2.1.2, the latest release (6.3 > ATM) is still the best. I had a problem reinstalling an IBM Aptiva with SuSE 6.2, which flawlessly ran 5.3 before (if I remember well). YaST said early that it does not have enough memory to run (6 Megs of RAM). The management decided the machine is not even worth the effort of trying to go back to 5.3. Yet, just to show them that Linux wins, I would have liked if it worked :-). -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] Re: problems with SWAT login
by tomas＠primenet.com 07 Mar '00

07 Mar '00

On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Svenne Krap wrote: sk> Hi, sk> sk> I have installed a SuSE 6.3 systems (w/ updated Samba-suite) sk> sk> I have installed samba, and it works. sk> sk> I have enabled swat, like "man swat" told... sk> but I cannot authorize as a user (so I end up with stupid 401-errors) sk> Are you logging onto swat as root? or a regular user? Sounds as if your trying as a regular user in which case there lies your problem. sk> sk> Does anyone know, what I have forgotten... sk> sk> Svenne sk> -- S.Toms - tomas(a)primenet.com - www.primenet.com/~tomas SuSE Linux v6.3+ - Kernel 2.2.14 No animal should ever jump on the dining room furniture unless absolutely certain he can hold his own in conversation. -- Fran Lebowitz -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] can't mount floppy from 6.3 with RH 5.0
by joelerch＠earthlink.net 07 Mar '00

07 Mar '00

I tried two times to take a floppy to work with wvdial on it. Both times the fellow says his RedHat 5.0 system will not read the floppy. My son's system with SuSE 6.3 reads the floppy with no problem. I formated the floppy to the 1440, ran mke2fs and copied the files to it. He told me his system says he needs some kind of parameter, but I don't know what is wrong. Can someone explain to me why his RedHat 5.0 system won't mount a floppy made by my SuSE 6.3 system, and what I must do to format a floppy that he can read with his RedHat system. thanks in advance joe -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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Re: [SLE] CNN, SusE, Lousy PR
by budr＠sirinet.net 07 Mar '00

07 Mar '00

Greg Thomas <ethant(a)earthlink.net> writes: > On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Avi Schwartz wrote: > > > Sorry, but the ability to read a document or relay it back is different > > then doing collaborative work on some very large an complex documents. > > When I talk about complex documents I am talking about documents with > > embedded graphics, tables, Visio diagrams, VB macros, etc. Anyone that > > tells me that StarOffice does a very good job with Word/Excell 97 > > documents didn't use it in the above mentioned scenarios. Sorry. > > > > It seems to me you are saying Linux is not ready for 1) complex electronic > publishing scenarios, and 2) it's not ready to interoperate with MS > products. It takes a big stretch of the imagination to then say that it > is flat out not ready for the desktop. If normal people are using Linux > on the desktop then is it not ready for the desktop? I mean, come one, > one could easily say that Windows isn't ready for the internet because of > it's lack of or poor implementation of common utilities but does that mean > nobody is using Windows to access the internet? No. Also, I've worked > for small, medium, large, and very large companies in a couple of > different industries and at none of them were the documents as complex as > you mention above (I'm not saying that they aren't elswhere). I have to agree with Avi. I just changed jobs within our company. I got among other things, an office and a new NT box to play with. It was an eye opener. I am fast discovering the possibilites inherent in 300 people sharing Outlook and an Exchange server. It's all fairly new to most of the people in the company, so I'm not alone on the learning curve of how to share calendars and task lists and so on. And as more and more people get engaged in the process there is a kind of critical mass phenomenon going on. I don't know of anything even close to that for Linux. Staroffice will do most of what M$ Office will do. There is even a calendar server I think. But AFAIK there is nothing even close to the collaborative possibilities of Outlook/Exchange. It does no good to talk about what you can do with Latex or Koffice or anything else. Corporate America is not going to drop what they're doing and learn Latex. They're going to ask if it can import/export Word files and Excel files and can they share documents on the Exchange server. Is Linux ready for the desktop? Yes, it's ready for my desktop and yours. But it will never be ready for Corporate America's desktops until we can do everything the M$ boxes are doing already. Including but not limited to seamlessly and painlessly sharing M$ format documents And even that will not be enough. There is no incentive to change to something just as good. We will have to embrace and extend everything M$ is doing and make it better. That is the only way to break the strangle hold M$ has on Corporate America. -- Bud Rogers <budr(a)sirinet.net> http://www.sirinet.net/~budr/zamm.html Though all my neighbors are barbarians, and you are a thousand miles away, there are always two cups on my table. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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Re: [SLE] HELP (again :-/) ?hardware err???
by bartosh＠ocean.tamu.edu 06 Mar '00

06 Mar '00

I disabled both L1 and L2 cache from the bios, and I switched dimms out :-( No dice. It core dumps on booting NT. Sudden hardware failure?? I'm really disappointed- it's a nice board (Dual PII w/ onboard ultra wide scsi and 100bt enet) and I doubt I can find a replacement for a reasonable price. Thx- -mab On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Dennis Soper wrote: > On 5 Mar 00, at 23:48, Michael Bartosh wrote: > > > > > Booting from CD or Floppy fails like this: > > > > SYSLINUX 1.4 80x3812e44a by: someon's name > > > > Boot Failed Please Replace disk and continue. > > I had the same thing happen on a box of mine. Worked fine, then > wouldn't boot NT or Linux, but 95 worked. Turned out to be bad > cache RAM. If NT boots, the first thing I'd look at is the floppy disk- > - they don't make 'em like they used to.... > > Cheers, > Dennis > "Custard pies are a sort of esperanto: a universal language." > --Noel Godin > -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] suse printer question
by rlyons＠faithdesign.com 06 Mar '00

06 Mar '00

Hello all, Has anybody out there had in luck setting up a Canon BJC-5000 printer with linux. The suse support database says it is not supported, but I figured somebody out there may have proven this untrue. Eventually I would like to print to this printer which is connected to my windows computer through Samba Thanks, Robert -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] Kernel Compile Script
by dmarkh＠cfl.rr.com 06 Mar '00

06 Mar '00

After a fresh install of 6.3 the script "susewmif kernel en" that I used in 6.2 no longer works. This script enabled me to compile a kernel while logged in as a user. (root password required). It also gave me the luxury of not having to manually enter the "make dep clean bzImage..." command after doing a make xconfig. Using the script as a normal user would put me into what I got as root doing "make xconfig". Then after changing the configuration file and saving it, it would then put me into another GUI to let me do what ever make I required. Then after the compiles were all finished it would put me in a mode where I could search the output of all the compiles for errors or whatever. Very nice script. On 6.2 it was even provided in KDE. SuSE/System tools/Compile kernel. Well needless to say neither myself nor anyone else I know that has gone to 6.3 can get this to work. What follows is the output from the command "susewmif kernel en". First from my 6.2 box at work then my 6.3 box at home. Any help from anyone would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance and sorry it's so long. This is SuSE 6.2 output of the command "susewmif kernel en" &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Please enter now the password for root. Password: rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) if [ ! -s Documentation/lang/en/Configure.help ]; then \ cp Documentation/lang/configlang.help.en Documentation/lang/en/Configure.help;\ cat Documentation/Configure.help >>Documentation/lang/en/Configure.help;\ fi make -C scripts kconfig.tk make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.10.SuSE/scripts' cat header.tk >> ./kconfig.tk cd ..;source scripts/set_helpfile.sh ; cd -; \ rm -f /usr/src/linux/config.in.tmp; \ ./cfconv ../$helpfile < ../arch/i386/config.in >/usr/src/linux/config.in .tmp ./tkparse < /usr/src/linux/config.in.tmp >> kconfig.tk echo "set defaults \"arch/i386/defconfig\"" >> kconfig.tk echo "set ARCH \"i386\"" >> kconfig.tk cat tail.tk >> kconfig.tk chmod 755 kconfig.tk make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.10.SuSE/scripts' wish -f scripts/kconfig.tk &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& This is the output from 6.3 and command "susewmif kernel en" &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Please enter now the password for root. Password: rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) if [ ! -s Documentation/lang/en/Configure.help ]; then \ cp Documentation/lang/configlang.help.en Documentation/lang/en/Configure.help;\ cat Documentation/Configure.help >>Documentation/lang/en/Configure.help;\ fi make -C scripts kconfig.tk make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/srcide/linux-2.2.13.SuSE/scripts' cat header.tk >> ./kconfig.tk cd ..;source scripts/set_helpfile.sh ; cd -; \ rm -f /usr/src/linux/config.in.tmp; \ ./cfconv ../$helpfile < ../arch/i386/config.in >/usr/src/linux/config.in .tmp ./tkparse < /usr/src/linux/config.in.tmp >> kconfig.tk rm /usr/src/linux/config.in.tmp echo "set defaults \"arch/i386/defconfig\"" >> kconfig.tk echo "set ARCH \"i386\"" >> kconfig.tk cat tail.tk >> kconfig.tk chmod 755 kconfig.tk make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/srcide/linux-2.2.13.SuSE/scripts' wish -f scripts/kconfig.tk Application initialization failed: couldn't connect to display "harley:" Error in startup script: invalid command name "button" while executing "button .ref" (file "scripts/kconfig.tk" line 55) make: *** [xconfig] Error 1 --------------------------------- Please press Return > Mark Hounschell dmarkh(a)cfl.rr.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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