March 2000 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[SLE] missing email message bodies
by zentara＠gypsyfarm.com 31 Mar '00

31 Mar '00

Hi, I've run into a problem with the mail list. It is sporadic. Once a week maybe? Apparently one of the hundred or so suse-linux-e messages loses it's message body as it's being sent. This results in a "hanged download" when I try to download the list mail. Netscape or xfmail will "stall" on the message without error, and the mail download needs to be cancelled. I then need to get a list of headers and delete the first email , which dosn't have a body, thereby allowing normal download to resume. Has anyone else experienced the problem? I'm trying to track down where the loss is occuring. If no one else experienced this, then it must be in my local ISP's problem. Please say something to alleviate my paranoia over this. :-) -- 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] WINDOWS NT and LINUX
by ft-uki＠centrin.net.id 31 Mar '00

31 Mar '00

i'm newbie in LINUX. my server : WINDOWS NT my workstation: LINUX 6.2 i'dont know how to link in short time would you help me? -- 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] Attachments in this list
by kevin.jackson＠jhallpr.demon.co.uk 31 Mar '00

31 Mar '00

Yeah. Funny. I wasn't out for personal attacks. Kev -----Original Message----- From: BobF [mailto:FBob@wt.net] Sent: 31 March 2000 10:56 To: Kevin Jackson Cc: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: RE: [SLE] Attachments in this list On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, you wrote: > Did I say I wanted to set up Linux as my mail server? No. > Did I make it clear this wasn't to do with Linux but with the list? Yes. > I was trying to achieve a standard way of fixing things... I don't know if > you've heard of it - its called elimination. > > Kev > > -----Original Message----- > On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Kevin Jackson wrote: > > I use Outlook on our NT Exchange Email system to send/receive email - a > very > > common set up in any > > company using NT. > > We also use Dr Solomon/McAffee Anti Virus on the Exchange server. > > Before anyone says this is a Linux list - I'm not stupid. > > All I want to know is why are there a lot of attachments to emails... > > Business cards, and the like. > > But... now and again I get ones which Exchange locks up because our Anti > > Virus it is scanning it. I have the > > option to unlock it... but would rather not. > > What are you trying to send to the list that will cause our anti virus to > > lock emails? > > I'm one of the systems administrators here and know exactly why Exchange > > does this - I want to ask people to > > stop sending attachments. > > I am not sure what you are trying to accomplish with this. > > I have about 50 emails from the list, none with attachments. > > You say you know exactly why your system locks. Why don't you fix it? > > This sounds like a NAL or M$ problem, not a Linux question. > > Do you want to set up Linux as your mail server? > -- > Bob F In that case I would suggest you eliminate your address from the list which will solve the problem for everyone. Your system will not lock up and others will not have to configure their email to accomodate you and your broken system. Fair enough? -- Bob F EMail FBob(a)wt.net A Truly Wise Man Never Plays Leapfrog With A Unicorn... -- 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/ -- 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] Printing to a HP Laserjet 5L XTRA - help?
by agtiger＠coolnet.net 31 Mar '00

31 Mar '00

Further to my last problem report, I used the command "lprm -Qlp -" to remove all jobs. I then rebooted with a dos disk and tested printing using EPP printing mode in the bios. Worked beautifully, no problems whatsoever. That proves the printer works with the cable, and the box, and that the problem seems to be in linux. So, booting back into linux, I signed in as root and executed the following commands and got the following output. machine:/var/spool # lpr /etc/hosts.allow lpr: connect: Connection refused jobs queued, but cannot start daemon. machine:/var/spool # lpq waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?) Rank Owner Job Files Total Size 1st root 4 /etc/hosts.allow 272 bytes Theory: The SuSEfirewall 2.1 package is preventing connections/starting the daemon? -- 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] Attachments in this list
by FBob＠wt.net 31 Mar '00

31 Mar '00

On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, you wrote: > Did I say I wanted to set up Linux as my mail server? No. > Did I make it clear this wasn't to do with Linux but with the list? Yes. > I was trying to achieve a standard way of fixing things... I don't know if > you've heard of it - its called elimination. > > Kev > > -----Original Message----- > On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Kevin Jackson wrote: > > I use Outlook on our NT Exchange Email system to send/receive email - a > very > > common set up in any > > company using NT. > > We also use Dr Solomon/McAffee Anti Virus on the Exchange server. > > Before anyone says this is a Linux list - I'm not stupid. > > All I want to know is why are there a lot of attachments to emails... > > Business cards, and the like. > > But... now and again I get ones which Exchange locks up because our Anti > > Virus it is scanning it. I have the > > option to unlock it... but would rather not. > > What are you trying to send to the list that will cause our anti virus to > > lock emails? > > I'm one of the systems administrators here and know exactly why Exchange > > does this - I want to ask people to > > stop sending attachments. > > I am not sure what you are trying to accomplish with this. > > I have about 50 emails from the list, none with attachments. > > You say you know exactly why your system locks. Why don't you fix it? > > This sounds like a NAL or M$ problem, not a Linux question. > > Do you want to set up Linux as your mail server? > -- > Bob F In that case I would suggest you eliminate your address from the list which will solve the problem for everyone. Your system will not lock up and others will not have to configure their email to accomodate you and your broken system. Fair enough? -- Bob F EMail FBob(a)wt.net A Truly Wise Man Never Plays Leapfrog With A Unicorn... -- 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] Setting up /etc/ld.so.cache failed
by yatsenng＠casema.net 31 Mar '00

31 Mar '00

Hi there, During bot I get the following message: Setting up /etc/ld.so.cache failed I didn't change anything in my configuration - that message just appeared this morning when I booted my system. How can I fix this? Thanks. -- Yatsen Ng yatsenng(a)casema.net Den Haag, The Netherlands It said "Needs Windows 95 or better". So I installed Linux... -- 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] Message refilling [was: Re: [SLE] Infamous pppd died unexpectedlly]
by pinard＠iro.umontreal.ca 31 Mar '00

31 Mar '00

Warrl <warrl(a)blarg.net> writes: > > * please keep your lines under 79 columns when using email. > Standard quoting will lengthen the line by 1 character for each level > of quoting. Thoughtful consideration to those who might want to reply to > your message, and possible ensuing discussion, suggests that you should > keep your new lines under 75 characters. I often see 76, and sometimes, even 70. 79 is really a maximum. Note that if quoting a message many times has the eventual effect of going over 79 columns, best is to refill the quote within limits, before sending. For most good editors, this requires no effort, and this is polite. By the way, I just shared with a few friends the following piece of Emacs LISP, maybe it might be useful to some of you as well. The idea is that the `M-q' command, in Emacs, refills a paragraph by considering one line at a time, and this does not yield very satisfying results. The GNU `fmt' program, contributed by Ross Paterson, does much better, and relies on techniques published by Donald Knuth, in which the whole paragraph is taken under consideration to make the right ragging less apparent, as well as the fact that lines are better cut after some punctuation, and such things. `fmt' uses a (Dreyfus) dynamic programming engine if I remember well. So I managed to substitute the `M-q' processing with a connection to that external program. In my `.bash_login' file, there is something like `export FMT=/usr/bin/fmt'. If that variable is not set, `M-q' keeps its old behaviour. `C-u M-q' also keeps the old behaviour. (The default `C-u M-q' does simultaneous left-right justification, which is considered _real bad_ with fixed width fonts, so it did not annoy me at all to get rid of that heresy :-). Here is the code from my `.emacs' file. For those who read Emacs LISP, one difficulty was to restore point within the paragraph after having filtered it through `fmt', but I hope I got it right for most cases. (setq EMACS20 t) (when (getenv "FMT") (defun fp-fill-paragraph (arg) (interactive "P") (if arg (if EMACS20 (let (fill-paragraph-function) (fill-paragraph nil)) (real-fill-paragraph nil)) (let* ((here (point)) (end (progn (forward-paragraph) (point))) (start (progn (backward-paragraph) (point))) (count 0)) (goto-char start) (skip-chars-forward " \t\n" here) (while (< (point) here) (forward-char 1) (setq count (1+ count)) (skip-chars-forward " \t\n" here)) (goto-char start) (shell-command-on-region start end (concat (format "%s -u -w%d" (getenv "FMT") fill-column) (if fill-prefix (format " -p '%s'" fill-prefix) "")) t) (goto-char start) (skip-chars-forward " \t\n" here) (while (> count 0) (forward-char 1) (setq count (1- count)) (skip-chars-forward " \t\n" here)))) t) (if EMACS20 (setq-default fill-paragraph-function 'fp-fill-paragraph) (unless (fboundp 'real-fill-paragraph) (fset 'real-fill-paragraph (symbol-function 'fill-paragraph))) (defun fill-paragraph (arg) (interactive "P") (fp-fill-paragraph arg)))) -- 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] New Web Site Announce - Your Views On This
by kevin.jackson＠jhallpr.demon.co.uk 31 Mar '00

31 Mar '00

I am currently in the final stages on getting a new Linux web site started. It will depend heavily on user input and would like help from the good people from this list. I will only announce it on this list if you lot don't mind. I've already rubbed the hairs on some of your backs the wrong way and don't want to cause further hassle! The site will be initially as a first calling site to Newbies and users wanting to keep an eye on latest software releases (and a central point for getting them) Main features will include: Driver repository And a notification feature Tutorials Message board Let me know what you think and then, and only then, I will announce the URL. BTW - this isn't some half-baked idea... its taken many a night "umming" and "arring" over numerous pints of beer before even agreeing on a title! Cheers, Kevin Jackson -- 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] VCards (Formerly RE: [SLE] WINDOWS NT and LINUX)
by kevin.jackson＠jhallpr.demon.co.uk 31 Mar '00

31 Mar '00

Cheers Philipp... that what I was trying to say, but went about it in the wrong way! Kev -----Original Message----- From: Philipp Thomas [mailto:pthomas@suse.de] Sent: 31 March 2000 01:25 To: Rogier Maas Cc: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] WINDOWS NT and LINUX Rogier, [megaquote cut] ome notes on your message, if you don't mind. First of all, please edit your quotes in the future to include only the relevant parts, not the whole thread. It's a waste of bandwith and peoples time to do otherwise. Please remember that some of those on the list have to pay rather dearly for accessing the internet and any megaquote such as yours wastes their money. It's also good style to place your comments *after* the quote, not before. And please also refrain from unnecessary attachments such as your vcard. They're commonly frowned upon, specially as they're a) only readable by persons using Netscape and b) rather useless in a mailing list such as this. Philipp -- Philipp Thomas <pthomas(a)suse.de> SuSE GmbH, Schanzaecker Str. 10, D-90443 Nuremberg, Germany -- 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/ -- 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] wvdial permissions?
by jpennington＠atipa.com 31 Mar '00

31 Mar '00

Paul Evans <pevans(a)bigfoot.de> said: > Hi all > > Could someone tell me how one can change the permissions of wvdial to allow > a user to access the modem? > According to the SuSE book if you add the user to the groups uucp and > dialout it should work, however I still get the message that access to the > serial port, in my case /dev/ttyS0, is denied. So I guess my question is > really, how does one change the permissions of the serial port? Did you select "Allow access to modem" in the User Administration form? -- -=|JP|=- Jon Pennington | Atipa Linux Solutions jpennington(a)atipa.com | http://www.atipa.com Kansas City, MO, USA | 816-241-2641 x121 -- 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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