March 2000 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[SLE] [suse-security-announce] majordomo vulnerability (fwd)
by jmgrant＠primenet.com 16 May '00

16 May '00

> To: suse-security(a)suse.com > Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 15:22:26 +0100 (MET) > Cc: suse-security-announce(a)suse.com, security(a)suse.de > X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL47 (25)] > Message-Id: <20000102142226.B93C667AE(a)Galois.suse.de> > From: marc(a)suse.de (Marc Heuse) > Subject: [suse-security-announce] majordomo vulnerability > > Hi, > > the mailinglist software "majordomo" was found having several local > vulnerabilties. However, the licence of the program prohibites us providing > a fix! :-( This is one big reason I'm trying to get away from non-free software. Anyone have recommendations for a good alternative to majordomo, hopefully one that's on my SuSE CDs? -- 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] Sound in Linux
by matt.wong＠intelligroup.co.nz 25 Apr '00

25 Apr '00

Hi Sam On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Sam Carleton wrote: > Ok, I have SuSE 6.2 running on two boxes at home. One is my main box > that has a sound card in it. I am running the fvwm2 window manager, not > KDE. Is there sound support for fvwm2? Other then games, is there any > real reason to install sound support? I got sound running on my machine at home last night. I don't have much (translate: any) experience with fvwm2 (running Window Maker) but I wanted sound to play MP3s and RM files. As such I haven't configured sound for Window Maker because it's damn annoying. I think it all comes down to personal preference. If you have a use for sound then go for it. Otherwise having something running that's taking up system resource can be all bad. My home machine is a workstation, not a server and I want it to do most things that Windoze can do, except do it in a very stable fashion =) Cheers Matt -- Matt Wong matt.wong(a)intelligroup.co.nz Senior Basis Consultant Intelligroup New Zealand Mobile: +64 25 710 233 http://www.intelligroup.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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[SLE] Hard Drive follies
by tjhanson＠home.com 23 Apr '00

23 Apr '00

I upgraded my system and along with the new board, processor, memory, and all that I bought a 30 gig hard drive. I could not get fdisk to see more than 7.9 gigs of it, even though I did all the standard things like flash the bios, use the installation diskette from the manufacturer, etc. The only way I was able to partition the drive was to use the Windows 95 fdisk, with all its limitations including the one from marketing which limits to one primary partition per drive. Eventually I partitioned a 15 gig primary and a 15 gig extended, then changed the type, formatted and gave mount points in YaST. Now there is a 15 gig primary, a Windows extended, with a Linux logical as the only partition there. Cripes. Is there a better way? -- 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] xmms strangeness
by tomas＠primenet.com 15 Apr '00

15 Apr '00

This is for anyone using the emu10k1 sound driver, I'm wondering whether xmms is behaving strangely for you. I switched from a SB16 (sb module) to an SB Live (emu10k1 module) and when a song finished in xmms the counter numbers start flashing and it doesn't move to the next song. If I let it sit for a while, like 5-10 min, then it finally jumps to the next song. These are all songs that I have been using for a while so it's not them doing it. I have also tried reinstalling xmms with same results as well as using the emu10k1 package that comes with suse and using the kernel patch acquired from creative's site. Again with the same results. All other sounds seem to work fine, it only seems to affect xmms somehow, but why I havn't figured out as of this time. Anyone else seen this or come across it in any way? -- S.Toms - tomas(a)primenet.com - www.primenet.com/~tomas SuSE Linux v6.3+ - Kernel 2.2.14 What I want is all of the power and none of the responsibility. -- 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] /etc/ppp/ip-up
by damianks＠netnet.net 12 Apr '00

12 Apr '00

BobF wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Damian Slavek wrote: > > Is the file /etc/ppp/ip-up read every time a ppp connection is > > established? I looked around quite a bit and coudn't find anything > > about that. I use a moden to connect to my ISP. > > > > I have been busting a nut trying to configure a few things just right > > and then I stumbled across this file with most of what I would like to > > do commented out. I would be quite pleased if all I had to do was > > delete a few # symbols and enter in some site specific info. If this is > > so I will have to join the throng of folks praising the suse team on a > > job well done. > > On my system (6.3) ip-up is a shell script and yes it is used every time you > make a connection to your dial up account. > > What are you trying to do? > -- > Bob F I was trying to fine tune the sendmail configuration from yast. Don't get me wrong, it worked flawlessly for what it was intented to do. Just wanted it to send my mail when I make a connection and have fetchmail get my new mail. After a few days of digging I finally found what I wanted, In the SuSE manual, my bad :( (feeling pretty stupid). I then stumbled upon the ip-up script and found the section #Maybe you want to start mail services Now that I know it is run at every ppp connect I just have to configure fetchmail, uncomment the proper lines, and I'm good to go. Thank you for the info. Damian -- 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] Soundblaster PCI128
by jpennington＠atipa.com 12 Apr '00

12 Apr '00

Paul Sims <psims(a)lombard.co.uk> said: > I've been playing around with SB PCI128 on a user's machine - great > sounding card for little dosh. How's support under Linux - do I need Alsa > or is there a suitable kernel driver? Take your pick ;). I use kernel modules, ALSA, or OSS (depending on my mood and task at hand) with a PCI128 at work and it's earlier sibling, the Ensoniq AudioPCI at home. It should be noted that these cards came with es1370, es1371, and es1373 chipsets on them. The '70 needs it's own module, but the '73 also uses the '71's module. -- -=|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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[SLE] ANNOUNCE: KDE Alpha 20000327 Binaries available (RPMS and bin.tar.gz's)
by molnarc＠nebsllc.com 11 Apr '00

11 Apr '00

I have just made available a new version of KDE2 Alpha binaries in RPM and -bin.tar.gz format. Also available are the sources that worked to compile these packages. Please read the README file in the directory, this tells you most of what you need to know to install and update. These files are available via ftp from: ftp://ftp.nebsllc.com/kde2/current or via http at: http://www.nebsllc.com (follow links for kde2 Alpha binaries) You will also be able to find these at (after a few days): http://www.htw-dresden.de/~s2697 If you want to try koffice from kde 1.x without updating the rest of kde you may want to try the RPMS from David Faure (faure(a)kde.org) at (these were packaged for Mandrake but should work on other RPM based distros): ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/linux/Mandrake-devel/contrib/RPMS/ These binaries are built from CVS as of 27 March 2000 at 6:30am Eastern Standard Time (-0500). Please bring all install questions to the un-official kde-alpha list at kde-alpha-request(a)nebsllc.com. The installs have been tested by me on a RedHat 6.1 machine. They have also been reported to work on all other distributions. You will need to do a --force and a --nodeps on the rpm installs. If you are running prior Alpha's I highly recommend you update. There are a lot of fixes and some structural changes in the packages. You will also find Source tar.gz's in the same directory. -- -------------------------------------------------------- Christopher Molnar RHCE New England Business Services, LLC Hartford, CT USA (860)956-9408 molnarc(a)nebsllc.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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[SLE] telnet port 25
by snieto＠sc.sas.cica.es 11 Apr '00

11 Apr '00

Hello I'd like to know if when you do telnet to port 25 ( SMTP ) are ther any command tha attach a file ? I want to mean that if with the telnet can you send a mail with a file attached? Thank you <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> Hello I'd like to know if when you do telnet to port 25 ( SMTP ) are ther any command tha attach a file ? <center> I want to mean that if with the telnet can you send a mail with a file attached? Thank you</center>

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Re: [SLE] SuSE list archive
by irwanhadi＠iname.com 08 Apr '00

08 Apr '00

At 16:33 05/03/2000 -0500, **Nicolas Beaulieu**, has written a message, and here is the reply : >There's an archive of this list on SuSE's website: > >www.suse.com > >Another one is available on www.geocrawler.com is there any , which I could download the entire passed discussion here ? so not by downloading all the messages one by one. ------- AFLHI 058009990407128029/089802---(102598//991024) -- 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] reiserfs - very cool
by pinard＠iro.umontreal.ca 05 Apr '00

05 Apr '00

Lenz Grimmer <grimmer(a)suse.de> writes: > But I must agree - ReiserFS is great. I have converted all my boxes > (private and at work) to it and it runs flawlessly. I would presume there is some decrease in speed. May I ask you, who are using it, if you found the decrease significantly noticeable? Did you find any other disadvantage? Better ask others who dived and tried, than discover the disadvantages ourselves, given the investment needed in reformatting and moving partitions around. Yet, to be more precise, most of the time is for reading documents, studying things, and taking preventive actions for being able to switch back in case we are not satisfied. How committed are the ReiserFS developers to stay back compatible with the current state, as the format evolves? If they are, this is a good incentive for trying it now. If not, this is an indication that we should wait. I just saw `ext3' mentioned, and have no more information. If someone happen to know, could the main features be sketched? Is `ext3' in the evolutionary line set by ReiserFS, or are these to be competing directions? Such information might help us to decide when (and where!) to switch. -- 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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