April 2000 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [SLE] Timezone source - Was [SLE] Daylight Saving Time
by kuhlmav＠elec.canterbury.ac.nz 29 Apr '00

29 Apr '00

> I looked further into this and it appears that the program zic compiles the > Timezone Files which end up in /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Sydney (in my case) > > My question is where can I find the source Timezone file for Sydney. I have > tried searching but have not found anything. A lot of source code re time zones is in the glibc source. You have to unpack the source rpm as these files are not installed by the glibc binary rpm. Volker -- 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] Re: Running Fetchmail as a deamon
by moseley＠hank.org 29 Apr '00

29 Apr '00

At 06:16 PM 04/28/00 -0700, S.Toms wrote: >(all on one line) >0-59/5 * * * * mail test "`ps acx | grep pppd`" != "" && /usr/bin/fetchmail -d 300 >if it finds that pppd daemon is running, it will launch fetchmail which >will begin checking for messages. A seperate line like the following > >(all on one line) >0-59/5 * * * * mail test "`ps acx | grep pppd`" = "" && /usr/bin/fetchmail -q > >which will check to see if pppd is down and kill fetchmail thus preventing >problems. I think this could all be simplified by using fetchmail's -M switch. Start fetchmail at boot (or first time ip-up.local is executed, and leave it running). Fetchmail will fetch mail while on-line, and it will wait while off-line. Bill Moseley mailto:moseley@hank.org -- 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] sending mail from hosts.deny
by moseley＠hank.org 29 Apr '00

29 Apr '00

In hosts.allow I have: ALL : 192.168.0. to allow all local access. Now, in hosts.deny I deny all. I was trying to send mail to myself when someone tries to access. Although access is blocked, I'm not getting any mail. ALL : ALL: (/usr/sbin/safe_finger -l @%h | \ /bin/mail -s %d-%h moseley) & Bill Moseley mailto:moseley@hank.org -- 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] FW: [SLE] Sendmail question.
by diddy＠diddyland.com 29 Apr '00

29 Apr '00

-----Original Message----- From: dids [mailto:diddy@host.diddyland.top] Sent: 28 April 2000 15:32 To: EXT-Moore, Kirk W Subject: RE: [SLE] Sendmail question. I think there is an option in /etc/rc.config/sendmail.rc.config set SENDMAIL_TYPE="no" to switch this off. I had the same jollity until I figured it out. This stops it from auto generating the sendmail file I think this is correct dids www.diddyland.com > -----Original Message----- > From: EXT-Moore, Kirk W [mailto:Kirk.Moore@PSS.Boeing.com] > Sent: 28 April 2000 14:32 > To: 'suse-linux-e' > Subject: [SLE] Sendmail question. > > > HELP..... > > Every time I install a new package that requires SuSEconfig to > run, it replaces the sendmail.cf file. Which of course on the > mail server is not a good thing. (unless you are trying to get > killed by your user base). > > It took me a while to figure out what was going on... Now that I > have... any Ideas..... statements.... Heckles.... FIXES..... > > -- > Kirk Moore > EPM - Release Management > environments - STL's and Training Development > 425-965-6543 (desk) > 425-797-9092 (pager) > > Black holes are created when God divides by zero! > > -- > 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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[SLE] Updates.
by fm＠cupserv.org 29 Apr '00

29 Apr '00

Is there either a Netscape update tarball, or patch tarball available, instead of RPM? The Kpackage app. in 6.4 is nonfunctional (or at least it is for me), and also there are those of us who know better than to load up the /opt dir with applications and have installed Netscape elsewhere. If it's available, I'd like the address. Thanks, Fred -- ----/ / _ Fred A. Miller ---/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Systems Administrator --/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / Cornell Univ. Press Services -/____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ fm(a)cupserv.org -- 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] Dual boot with Linux and NT
by warrl＠blarg.net 29 Apr '00

29 Apr '00

On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Raghavendra R wrote: > Hi, > > My BIOS recognises the 17 GB hard drive as one with 33416 cylinders, 16 heads and 63 > sectors. So, this comes to approx. 512 MB for the 1024 cylinder limit. But, i was able to > install linux 6.3 after the 4 GB partition (i,e from E:, C: and D: each taking 2 GB) and the > linux kernel reported the hard drive configuration as one with 2096 cylinders, 255 heads and > 63 sectors. So, according to the kernel the 1024 cylinder limit falls at 8 GB. Is it true?? > I read in one of the HOWTO docs. (i think it is Large-Disk), that the specs. for large disk > (i,e above 8 GB) will be reported as C/H/S = 16383/16/63. I think there is some kind of > translation between the kernel and the BIOS. It looks like your BIOS is recognising a "large" configuration, while Linux is recognising an "lba" configuration. LBA is much more friendly to old operating systems, because the combination of BIOS and IDE allows 1024/255/63 which is 8 meg per cylinder - over 8 gig within the 1024 cylinders. Software which thinks it is talking to old-style BIOS (e.g. the FAT16 file system in Win95, or lilo) can thus use the first 8 gig of the disk, rather than the first 512M. LBA must be supported by the drive *and* by whatever BIOS-level software is being used on the computer, in order to be used. This is because the drive actually does the translation, but only if the BIOS-level software gives it permission to do so. Most modern BIOSes support it, as does the BIOS-replacement code in the Linux kernel. I think the Windows NT BIOS-replacement code does too. (Any true, stable multitasking OS *must* replace the BIOS disk IO routines, because they aren't reliable in multitasking.) Lilo uses the BIOS, not replacement code. For situations where the BIOS does not recognise LBA but the Linux kernel does - and therefore the geometries do not agree - lilo internally will translate between either LBA or whatever the BIOS says, and a special internal mode called "linear" - one head, one cylinder, up to 16-million-plus sectors per track. Any given sector will always get the same address in this system, no matter how the geometries differ. You enable this by putting the word "linear" (without quotes) in the global section of lilo.conf. A "large" format is what the drive is actually doing, but is not compatible with old-style BIOSes and software which expects to talk to them. (What idiots picked the BIOS specs in the first place? They put a great deal of effort into making sure that an absolute sector address could fit in 3 bytes, on a 16-bit processor. They didn't bother to check the IDE specs. If they had simply been lazy, the BIOS would support 65,536 cylinders, 256 heads, and 256 sectors per track - 2 terabytes, with 512-byte sectors. Instead we get some restrictions that are entirely different from those of IDE, causing all sorts of complications: a celing at 512M, and another at 8-point-something gig, in addition to whatever the limit of IDE is and the limits of the actual drive in consideration at the moment.) (But, the history of standards can be interesting. The standard for the distance between railroad tracks, for example, is what it is because of a couple of horse's asses. Literally.) -- 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] various little ones,
by rost0005＠stud.uni-sb.de 29 Apr '00

29 Apr '00

hi Gary, Tom and all, On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Robert Alexander Stragies wrote: In the middle is a reply from Gary Bickford, which i commented on, raising further questions about proxying and remote cache-queries > > I have a few small questions. > Very small, but i'm unable fo find it, but somebody MUST know, (or a another cool consoleeditor with syntax-hilight and LineNr's??) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > How do i get into the menubar of the console-emacs? > how do i get the line numbers into every line? > Another small one using expect: why does expect show my password in clear, when i try to use expects command "expect" and "send 'password'\r" in an ssh session. I used the exact same prozedure for telnet, and there the password does not show up. I also tried using the stty -echo etc commands. MainQuestion #1 >How legal is mirroring a webpage like the java-api. i would like to mirror > it locally for me and a handfull of other users, to use as permanent and > fast online docu. I know, that a good tool is wget, are there others to recommend??. > any better ones, or a complete syntax? I used: wget --force-directories --no-host-directories --cut-dirs=5 --mirror --domains=java.sun.com --no-parent <JavaApi-Address> Comments? Gary Bickford <garyb(a)fxt.com> wrote >I won't speak to the legal/permissions issues, but one way to do this >might be to turn on the cacheing proxy features of Apache. I'm not sure >what the max lifetime can be set to. Of course you could also use Squid >to do this. Using either of these tools, any recently requested page >will be available immediately, and you won't have to worry about keeping >your copies up to date. yeah, good idea. but then the everyday stuff i surf to (alot) also gets stored for ages, clogging up lots of space, no? Is this featurecontrolable by domain, say, every page at *.java.sun.com gets stored for a great amount of time, while the rest vanish quick enough as usual?. And, will other users of my network be able to acces it via my computers apache or squid cache? ,without having to be the default proxy for these clients? could they acces it with an url of type like: http://squidhost/cache/javaApi/bla.html Main Question #2 > > How could i use one keyboard to control the consoles of two networked > machines, so that a can switch between them with ALT-F1(-3):pc1 and > ALT-F4(-6):pc2 > what are the equivalent files of /dev/pts/.. for the > consoles? /dev/tty[1-6]? > > I would like to: > <under X@pc1 :> press CTRL-ALT-F3(-F6) > <X-screen stays like before, pc2-screen shows me:> > "pc2 tty3 Login:" > <login and work> > <Additional Bonus-Feature:> > use mouse@pc1 on console@pc2 > <press ALT-F7, and be back on X11(@pc1) > > etc... > > I would like to find out where CTRL-ALT-FX gets handled?, the Xserver? > and where does ALT-FX from the console get handled? > > Could i for ex: cat /dev/kdb(@pc1) | <networksocket> | /dev/<TTY> ; > export <ACTIVE_SHELL>="TTY[X] @ pc2" > or the same with the mouse, like: Link /dev/ps2(@pc1) | <net>| /dev/netm ? > and then gpm --device /dev/netm --type ps2; > does this sound like an approach or bullshit to you? > Hints, tips, solutions? > Thanks, Alex -- 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] Any UK users of NTL?
by david＠bottrill.co.uk 28 Apr '00

28 Apr '00

We have had a phone and cable TV for around 3 years from Diamond Cable, latterly NTL, we haev experienced no problems with the service. We have just signed up for a Cable Modem, which is due to be installed on Sat 13th May, I will keep you posted as to how the service performs. 24x7 acces at 512K for 40 pounds per month, once proxied to my network it should give the kids all the surfing bandwidth they require. and the ability for me to quickly download large ISO files and service packs. David > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Abraham [mailto:Paul.Abraham@consultjoa.com] > Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 11:11 AM > To: 'suse-linux-e(a)suse.com' > Subject: [SLE] Any UK users of NTL? > > > [This message is only relevant to SuSErs in the UK, although > everyone else is allowed to sit and watch!] > > I am thinking of changing my phone from BT to NTL. The option > of unlimited free Internet access is too tempting. > > My question is this: Has anyone managed to connect to NTL > using wvdial or PPP and, if so, what settings were used? > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Paul. > >> -- 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] Console on TTYS1
by agtiger＠coolnet.net 28 Apr '00

28 Apr '00

At 14:44 04/28/2000 -0400, Tim Duggan <tduggan(a)dekaresearch.com> wrote: >Look in /etc/inittab and uncomment the line below the one that reads ># serial getty >Mine reads >S0:S12:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L 9600 ttyS0 I got mine running with: S1:S12:respawn/sbin/agetty -L 9600 ttyS1 >obviously mine runs on a different port and I think the original line >was wrong in that it had /usr/sbin/agetty (which doesn't exist on my >system). Yeah, it's in /sbin as you posted in your example. :-) >You will want to look over the agetty man page since IIRC there >are lots of options. Let us know if you have any trouble. Thanks! Argentium -- 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] install from cdwriter / 6.4?
by garyb＠fxt.com 28 Apr '00

28 Apr '00

I'm running 6.3 on a system with HP9100 CDwriter, Freetech mobo, Athlon 650, ATI XPERT 128. I was unable to boot the install disk from CDROM, so I had to boot from floppy. So I didn't have YaST2 available. In order to get X running I had to download a new ATI driver. For whatever reasons, various minor things didn't get installed correctly, which I ascribe to my inexperience with SuSE and the floppy boot/YaST method. I still have kernel loading issues with the Soundblaster Live!! soundcard, but I haven't worked very hard at it yet. Once booted, I've had no problems reading from the CDROM. If I get 6.4, what are the chances that I can boot the install disk, use YaST2, and get the ATI and Soundblaster working without hassles? If chances are good, then that's easier than figuring out the problems. -- 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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