May 2000 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [SLE] Illegal use of our email server
by milanuk＠yahoo.com 29 May '00

29 May '00

Bill Moseley wrote: > > At 10:02 AM 05/28/00 -0600, you wrote: > >that would be my email address. Not sure what you're talking about, > >though. I don't believe I've heard of 'noproblem.net' before. > > You are sending an invalid header in your mail. Get rid of your sender > header, or fully qualify it. That's what's causing the problem. > > Sender: monte(a)proxy1.ba.best.com > > Bill Moseley > mailto:moseley@hank.org I am not using sendmail/fetchmail/procmail (yet). I am just connecting straight to the pop & smtp servers w/ Netscape. I am unaware as to a way to change the 'Sender' portion of the header in Netscape. Yes, 'monte' is my local machine user name. HTH that is making it into my 'Sender' field in the header, I don't know. Any ideas? Monte __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.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] ISDN setup ..
by a_jalan＠vsnl.com 29 May '00

29 May '00

Hi all, I've just installed Suse 6.4 .. all i want this machine to do.. is connect to my ISP on demand and be a packet filtering firewall for my Lan. YAST2 seems to have a very basic ISDN setup module... SuSe detects my Zyxel TA 128 as an Unknown modem... Can someone please get me started on this .. and on ISDN4linux ? TIA Anurag -- 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] Linux on a laptop
by yatsenng＠casema.net 29 May '00

29 May '00

Hi there, I recall someone mentioning a website with info on installing Linux on laptops. Could someone please post that site once again? I'm interested in buying a Sony VAIO PCG-C1XD or VAIO B5 N505SN. If anyone has experience with one of these models I'd like to hear from you. Thanks! -- Yatsen Ng yatsenng(a)casema.net It said "Needs Windows 98 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] Get time from time server
by h.riesbeck＠home.net 29 May '00

29 May '00

To all persons who replied either direct or via the list, I thank very much. The easiest approach was utilizing the package 'ntpdate' which happened to be installed. Regards, Heri Riesbeck -- 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] partitioning problem
by ljbc＠bellsouth.net 29 May '00

29 May '00

I had something similar happen to me when installing. What you have to do is boot by floppy in DOS, then run fdisk, "remove" the offending partition, then put it back as a DOS partition. If you want to keep it as DOS, then reformat that partition, and you should be in business! Suse should acknowledge it whether it is a DOS partition or no, Windows is just persnikety on acknowledging it if it isn't formatted a certain way...the suse yast software just looks for partitions. Good Luck, Lynda -- 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] VIDIOCCAPTURE failed
by rost0005＠stud.uni-sb.de 28 May '00

28 May '00

hi all, I have installed XF40 using 2 gfx cards, one Riva128 and one matrox mill. Very Nice, i must say, Xinerama also works fine, But my problem is: My TvCard "Hauppauge blabla", which usually works just fine, has quit working. I tried this with kernel 2.2.15 and 2.4. I know that this card is functional. After loading the appropriate modules and watching the successful output on F9, and firing up kwintv or xawtv, I only get sound, no picture. when i start kwintv i get, among the startup messages, the note, that dga is non-present. Does this have something to do with my problem? i'm thankfull for any pointer.. greets, 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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[SLE] Re: Linux on a laptop
by smartart＠cableinet.co.uk 28 May '00

28 May '00

On Sun, 28 May 2000, you wrote: > On Sun, 28 May 2000, Yatsen Ng wrote: > > <-]Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 01:44:59 +0000 > <-]From: Yatsen Ng <yatsenng(a)casema.net> > <-]To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com > <-]Subject: [SLE] Linux on a laptop > <-] > <-]Hi there, > <-] > <-]I recall someone mentioning a website with info on installing Linux on > <-]laptops. Could someone please post that site once again? > <-] > <-]I'm interested in buying a Sony VAIO PCG-C1XD or VAIO B5 N505SN. If > <-]anyone has experience with one of these models I'd like to hear from > <-]you. > > You can find the Linux Laptop Volunteer Support Database at: > http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/volunteer.html > > The most interesting link is at: > http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ > > There you'll find a lot of models with their own Linux experiences... the > good ones and the bad ones too. You'll also find a link for a > Laptop-Howto. > > I'm searching for a laptop too and I have been reading these stories for 1 > month now, and many related links. I am sometimes convinced that IBM's > Thinkpads is the best choice, the next day the Sony's are the best. The > final result: I am totaly confused! > > Anyway, good luck. > > Sorry for not snipping but I think it's all fairly relevant. I use a Toshiba 460 CDX; its a 166MMX/32MB RAM/2MB CT video chip/2.1GB hdd. Bios dates back to 1996/97. Split partitions approximately 1.2GB for Win98 and the rest for Linux. I've had Linux on my "baby" for about 4 months now. I tried Redhat 6.1 but it took 3 weeks of messing about with XFree/XF86Config/LinuxConfig to get anything resembling a decent 800x600 screen display, and even then I could only manage 256 colours. And the sound quality was absolutely awful. I then slapped Mandrake 7 over the top of Redhat (just told it to upgrade) and found that Lothario made the job a lot easier, I'm now running it with 16K colours and the display is better than under Win98 (which I *must* have - not my choice - for my work). The sound config was a dream compared to Redhat 6.1 and produced excellent renditions of my MP3s. Toshiba also provide a set of laptop utilities, to run under Linux, there is a link for it on the laptop site; and SuSE also include the Tosh utilities on the full distro of 6.4. I'm about to take Mandrake off the laptop and install SuSE 6.4 tomorrow (as it's a public holiday, here in England). If anyone with a Tosh 460 wants a copy of my XF86Config, let me know and I'll happily email it. And I'd better post it off to the laptop site too :-) I keep forgetting too. You don't have to buy an all singing, all dancing, latest bells and whistles laptop to install Linux, my baby is nearly 3 years old and it was quite happy to run Linux, albeit a bit slow comapred to my main machine, an Athlon 500 with 256MB RAM. Perhaps you could ask a friend with a laptop to let you borrow it (back up everything first though) and see if it is suitable for your needs. Just my two pence worth. HTH -- Paul Hornshaw -- 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] Printing configuration
by aneiros1＠teleline.es 28 May '00

28 May '00

Hi, I am using linux Suse 6.4 and have a Epson 600 Color local printer configured with yast. I can print perfectly with most applications, but I can't print pdf files neither with the pdf reader xpdf nor with acroread from series "pay". Apsfilter simply infomrs me that job xxxxx cannot be printed. I would be grateful to you if you could help. Regards. Antonio -- 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] Setting directoy umask
by eilert＠Informatik.Uni-Bremen.DE 28 May '00

28 May '00

"Brevsville Administrator" <admin(a)brevsville.com.au> wrote: > Is it possible to set a umask for a directory such that every file placed > in that directory automatically sets a specified umask. No, the umask is only available as a per process setting. The only thing you can do is use a directory's SGID bit to automatically set the group ownership for newly created files, but it is not possible to automatically set the permissions based on a per directory setting. The functionality you are looking for is typically provided by Access Control Lists (ACL), but until now there is no ACL support in a standard Linux kernel (i.e., adding ACL support means patching the kernel). There are projects working on ACL implementations for Linux. You can find information about one of them under http://aerobee.informatik.uni-bremen.de/acl_eng.html, but I'm not sure if the work on this project is currently being continued. Eilert -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Eilert Brinkmann -- Universitaet Bremen -- FB 3, Informatik eilert(a)informatik.uni-bremen.de - eilert(a)tzi.org - eilert(a)linuxfreak.com http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~eilert/ -- 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] Is Linux Ready?
by kevin.jackson＠jhallpr.demon.co.uk 28 May '00

28 May '00

Firstly I want to make it clear that I am a Linux advocate and want it to become an alternative to Windows. And it will, Linux is becoming a very usable OS for the general public. The support is unbelievable. BUT... Linux has its shortcomings. It still needs another year or so development before you can walk into EVERY PC store and be able to choose a Linux PC in very much the same way you have the choice of Windows and Macs. Now, Windows in all its incarnations has its shortcomings aswell, but it is a mainstream product. It won't go away tomorrow. Windows NT is their best product yet - In my experience NT is very easy to install. > Just s few weeks ago 'they' forced me to install NT on my system at my > (new) job. At home, I am using Linux exclusive for over 5 years. > > It is hard to install NT... > You get error messages which have nothing to do with the problem. > If (when!) something goes wrong, you get no relevant > information and your > only hope is to reboot the damned thing again. > I'm not trying to be funny. I really did not understand the > messages the > few times there were error-messages. You don't understand because you say you've used Linux for the past 5 years. Now, imagine people coming from Windows and going to Linux. They are in the same boat. What does that say about Linux then? If you say NT isn't perfect - then Linux isn't neither. In work I work with both Linux and NT. And they coexist great. I don't need to put NT down in order to make Linux look better. There is far too much ANTI MICROSOFT in ALL Linux chatrooms/mailing lists. But where would we be without it? I bet the vast majority of the people on this list started off with a DOS machine. Ok, you have MS DOS, PC DOS and DR DOS but the fact of the matter is that MS DOS one out. Ok, you say the marketing was brilliant... but MS took the PC market by storm. What was available at that time? Not very much. And I agree, if Linux came out then then we will all be using Linux machines now... but it didn't happen like that. Face it - the fact is it DID NOT happen like that. Get used to it. Linux has improved on areas of OSes that we've loved to "hate". So it is fair to say, this - Windows is on every desktop because people know how to use it - from whatever their background and technical expertise (or lack thereof). How it ended up on their PC is another matter and something which goes into marketing and not technicallity. They know how to use it because they have grown up with it. I'm surely not the only one on this list who grew up with DOS5/6.x/Windows3.x/Win9x/NT and am making a transition to Linux. Why am I making that transition? Not because I hate Microsoft. Not because I have to reboot Windows everytime I install something. But because I want to be able to do things I can't with Windows. In the same light, I still use Windows because there is a lot which I can't do with Linux. I can see Linux only getting better and better - it happens that way. When the Linux world gets an environment that ALL walks of life can use, because, lets face it - Linux is still at the moment on your PC because you are technically interested in it (or it is part of your job)and can see it as the way forward - then, and only then, we will see PC store's staff demonstrating this superior alternative. It isn't there yet. Desktop PCs need an interface that my Gran can use. If it doesn't pass this grade then it won't go mainstream. Gnome and KDE are striving in this area, but why don't we all use them - because it isn't even up to scratch for use more technically adept people, let alone the average Joe Bloggs. The day Microsoft ends up in a museum I can stop writing emails like this. I'm fed up of the Microsoft v. Linux debate. I'm fed up of people saying "I get forced to use NT" or "I won't use it because it is Microsoft". Grow up. It is on your desktop because there are more people in the world than yourself. It won't happen overnight the change from MS to Linux. But whilst it is happening, get on with life and enjoy yourself. Hit that Start button as many times as you like and wonder why there is a shutdown command on it - but don't complain to Microsoft - just help develop Linux a lot further. Then let the devlopers of the Linux world get on with their work in producing the next big OS - because then we can all live happily ever after. Kev 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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