May 2000 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[SLE] Zombie KDE processes
by paulsen＠texas.net 31 May '00

31 May '00

About every 2nd time I log in get 6 zombie KDE processes. Has anyone else seen this? Here is the output from "ps -efH". Try it on your system (when logged in to KDE) and see what you get! root 553 1 0 22:08 ? 00:00:00 /opt/kde/bin/kdm root 604 553 0 22:08 ? 00:00:16 /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 vt07 -au root 663 553 0 22:08 ? 00:00:00 -:0 robert 719 663 0 22:08 ? 00:00:01 kwm robert 826 719 0 22:08 ? 00:00:00 [kde <defunct>] robert 827 719 0 22:08 ? 00:00:00 [kde <defunct>] robert 828 719 0 22:08 ? 00:00:00 [kde <defunct>] robert 829 719 0 22:08 ? 00:00:00 [kde <defunct>] robert 836 719 0 22:08 ? 00:00:00 [kde <defunct>] robert 837 719 0 22:08 ? 00:00:00 [kde <defunct>] (Plus a bunch of other stuff that looks OK.) I am running SuSE 6.4. -- ____________________________________________________________________ Robert Paulsen -- 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] Gateway / firewall
by Chris.Smith＠raytheon.co.uk 31 May '00

31 May '00

Hi, ** M$ nooo way . W2K noooooo , Yep :-) Win2k. It's their best offering yet - but still miles off something stable, affordable, and well designed. ** The only way I can fight back is to vote with my $$$$$s , There are other ways. The main one is to find lots of vulnerabilities in the OS and then exploit them. Also lots of bad press does good (such as "We bought Linux because it's free and fast and dropped Windows because it's a primitive dog turd"). Also, physical violence from the extremes of pie chucking (he he) and crowbar+Bill's head might get a result. Problem is, that you'd have to kill them all off otherwise like bacteria, they will divide and conquer again... Injecting a few saboteurs into Microsoft would be cool. ** we are moving to linux with ALL NEW SYSTEMS while the current ** two M$ systems dual boot and are used to suport whats needed on M$ while we ** move apps to linux as they come avialable. I'd love to do that, but we have 800 Windows 98 PC's (help me!!!). We also have a whole pile of NT servers. Even (dare I say it), the firewall and proxy servers are NT (with SP3 if I remember). I'm still wearing my SuSE T-Shirt and poking various IS staff on a daily basis. Hopefully soon... ** Right now Im waiting for an ** affordable payroll app on linux and need to move a home built accounts ** ** [ snip ] ** ** accounts payable I could do in paradox with WPO2000 under wine if needed. Good luck. I use perl scripts to manage my home accounts (which sync nicely with my Palm V :-). Generates nice monthly and yearly reports (although I cant do a year report because I only wrote it 3 months ago). My main problem is that without Windows, I cannot play Homeworld (rather sadly, the main reason I exist on this planet)... ----------------------------------------------------------- Chris Smith IS Dept - Raytheon Systems Limited [chris.smith(a)raytheon.co.uk] +44 1279 407 103 ----------------------------------------------------------- Programmers are busy writing the next best idiot proof software. The universe, in the meantine, is busy making the next best idiot. The universe is winning... =========================================================== -- 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: Fwd: Re: [SLE] wvdial and lack of permissions
by dproc＠dol.net 31 May '00

31 May '00

Thank you friends. I forgot that pppd is suid root so is the real culprit here. I also forgot that ip-down executes as root so can be used to clean up. It seems to be a shame that wvdial only exits cleanly on signal #2 (SIGINT) but not on #15 (SIGTERM) but I know too little about process signals to understand why. By the way, the 'chmod' only works in ip-up, not in ip-down.local dproc On Mon, 29 May 2000, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote: > > > ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- > Subject: Re: [SLE] wvdial and lack of permissions > Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 12:51:49 +0200 > From: Ramon Diaz-Uriarte <rdiazuri(a)students.wisc.edu> > > > Thanks a lot for the last round of asnwers from Rik Dunphy and Ken Archer; that > solves the mistery and the problem. I reproduce their messages below. > > ** R Dunphy > > (...) did a look on support database and got this... > http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/hoe_wv_perm_tty.html > > Seems it is a problem when the PPPD doesn't terminate correctly, which > would explain why it only happens from time to time. The link includes a > work around which basically gets the pppd to reset the permissions every > time anyway. > > > **K. Archer ***** > According to the author of wvdial, it changes the permissions to root > every time you run it and then changes it back when you close it. > Sometimes, however, when it is not shut down properly, I think it should > be Ctrl-C if I remember correctly, it doesn't have a chance to change > the permissions back. You then have to do it manually. > ------------------------------------------------------- -- 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] Gateway / firewall
by Chris.Smith＠raytheon.co.uk 31 May '00

31 May '00

Hi, ** I have two systems running at home, both Cyrix MII, ** same (DFI) mobos. The Win2K one bombs about 4-6 times ** a day (sometimes while just running a standard ** screensaver!), The Linux one never stops. Hmm... One of my friends had that on a pants MediaGX with windows 98SE. He bought a proper system in the end (an Asus board + genuine Intel P2-450 processor). The MediaGX (currently running SuSE 6.4) has been up since it was upgraded from SuSE 6.3. Now that is scary. It's as solid as a rock and it's load spends most of it's time at about 0.8-1.0. You could be right blaming the OS. I always do. ----------------------------------------------------------- Chris Smith IS Dept - Raytheon Systems Limited [chris.smith(a)raytheon.co.uk] +44 1279 407 103 ----------------------------------------------------------- This mail is sent courtesy of Lotus Notes...Thats why it's broken... http://www.lotus.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] Linux EXPO2000
by peter＠hargroves.screaming.net 31 May '00

31 May '00

Who's going to this then,I'll be there :) -- TTFN Peter peter(a)hargroves.screaming.net SuSE LiNUX (6.4) -- 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] Mounting a Zip Drive
by mike＠universe.ne.mediaone.net 31 May '00

31 May '00

Afternoon: What is the correct syntax to mount an Iomega Zip Disk? (100 MB) - Mike -- 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] Latex on SuSE
by stephen＠math.missouri.edu 31 May '00

31 May '00

I'm new to this list - hope this is appropriate. I just bought SuSE Linux. I would like to have latex on it, so I installed the package tetex. It gives me tex, but not latex. Looking in /usr/share, I see nothing related to latex. I looked through the CDs looking for a seperate latex package, but found nothing. On other Unix's I have tried, tetex includes everything, including latex. Please help, Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen(a)math.missouri.edu -- 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] HP color inkjet printers
by fountai＠hursley.ibm.com 31 May '00

31 May '00

Shame, I thought it was just me. The printer works fine, but it's just too slow to be useful. I can't have my documents taking longer to print than they do to write! > > I have a DJ870Cxi and it's painfully slow. Printing one A4 > > page via ghostscript takes several minutes. It seems to > > print one scan line at a time. Do you have this problem? > > > > I actually stopped using Linux for desktop apps because the > > printing performance was so poor. I never could find anyone > > to help me fix the problem. > > > > > I am not a skilled SuSE user, but seeing that you did not get any > > > answer, I can tell you I have a Dj 870 Cxi printer and it works nicely > > > in black and white and color with the Dj 550 C driver. Did you try it > > > ? I'm running SuSE 6.2 I wish you have it on 6.0 or maybe you can try > > > another Dj driver. > > Sure it IS slow I used it with DOS Windoze before going to linux but > it was not much faster though I never went further than W3.1 into the > M$ trap. > however the results are good . I just bear with it and take a break > or read a book while printing. > I can send you a copy of my /etc/printcap if it is of any use to you ; > but I suppose you must have the same. just tell me if you are > interested. -- 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] Off the list... (again)
by grimmer＠suse.de 31 May '00

31 May '00

Hi, well, it seems like I am around the world all the time. I will be in London (Linux Business Expo) from tomorrow until the end of the week. See you next week! Bye, LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer 90443 Nuernberg, 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/

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[SLE] SCSI Tape Drive and socksified utilities?
by david_wendt＠agilent.com 31 May '00

31 May '00

Hi, I am new to the mailing list and have a couple of questions. I'm currently using SuSE 6.3. Where do I find socksified versions of telnet, ftp, ssh etc. Or, where can I find a version of 'runsocks'? I am trying to install a SCSI DDS tape drive on my workstation. I have a HP Vectra VL, and I installed a Adaptec, ULTRA 2930, SCSI card. The drive is a DDS2, SE SCSI device. When I first boot, the card and drive is seen. The drive is addressed at ID 0. I am using tar to try to access the drive through the device file /dev/st0. I also tried /dev/st1. No luck. I am using the default kernel, 2.2.13. When I try to access the drive, the 'st' module is loaded. Thanks in advance, David -- 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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