June 2000 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[SLE] 2.2.16 Kernel update
by bshelton＠online-isp.com 28 Jun '00

28 Jun '00

Hmmm. 2.2.16 kernel updated and boots fine... unfortunately, my 3c905 no longer works. Back to 2.2.14. That is TOO MUCH security for me... not being able to talk at all. I'll take my chances.... -- Brad Shelton On Line Exchange http://online-isp.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] Restoring TCP/IP Performance!!
by noesis＠inaxx.net 28 Jun '00

28 Jun '00

I don't know about you but I have had severe FTP download and browser access speed issues with the newer S.u.S.E releases. I have a 6.4 as a firewall and when NT was downloading a file or browsing the Internet through the firewall I got the speed I expected. However, if the download or browse was initiated from a S.u.S.E, either the firewall or a client, I got 1/4 the expected speed, stalls, timeouts, aborts, etc. I tried different NICs and different drivers to no avail. Since NT was not experiencing the slowdown I began to suspect the TCP implementation on S.u.S.E. After much research I came across the following resource: Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), Carnegie Mellon University http://www.psc.edu/networking/perf_tune.html and the kernel docs on www.linuxhq.com. Lo, and behold, the information I found indicated that newer Linux kernels since have implemented different defaults for TCP/IP per RFC1323. One of these was setting tcp_timestamps TRUE. According to the performance pages from CM, one thing to do was to set these back to false. i.e.: echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_timestamps Wow! What a difference in speed!!! Question: why isn't this info "front and center" at the S.u.S.E. web site?? Am I the only one who had this problem or am I the only one who took so long to figure it out. Replies to my email address are welcome if you want to contact me. I'm dropping out of the mail list due to time constraints. Have fun! ==================== Scott A. Martin NOESIS Open Systems noesis(a)inaxx.net 877-852-3612 ==================== -- 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] apache setting to secure links
by Daniel_Casey＠mail.jbhunt.com 28 Jun '00

28 Jun '00

I need to help securing everything _except_ the initial web page on a local web server. The local page we would want to be public, but anything below that we would want userid/password restrictions. Also, does it use /etc/passwd for authentication? TIA, Daniel -- 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] wget settings...
by Daniel_Casey＠mail.jbhunt.com 28 Jun '00

28 Jun '00

Does anyone know of a way to tell wget to use proxy when doing ftp? I've set it up (via /etc/wgetrc) to use proxy on http, no problems there, but when I try to do a wget ftp:// it chokes. Thanks, Daniel -- 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] Dissaponted in SuSE update..
by A3＠telkom.net 28 Jun '00

28 Jun '00

Hello suSE, First, I say thank's for provide suse update, especially XFree86 4.0 update from SuSE 6.2 But I dissapoined that, XFree 4.0 is not edited yet from SuSE (or maybe not tested). Because of that, KDM Service fail and error, startx have a lot of problem. But I use configuration (/etc/X11/xdm;xinit) and startx (script) from original SuSE 6.2, work fine. -- Best regards, Syeh mailto:A3@telkom.net -- 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] back to static compiled applications ?
by mircea.andrei＠wanadoo.fr 28 Jun '00

28 Jun '00

I observe that 95 percent (at least) of the application installation problems are related to the inadequacy of some libraries. We spend our life downloading libraries and testing them. In an open source world, the average program developer uses some version of a library he or she happens to have in the computer at a given time. Then, they cross fingers and hope that their program will work with some other versions of those libraries, or, if they want to be on the safe side, they distribute their version with the application. I guess that I have more libraries than applications I really use on my machine... Given the huge RAM memory available in present computers, I wonder if it would not be more reasonable to go back to the old system of statically linked programs. Dynamic linking sure is a bright idea, but...what do other people on this list think ? -- 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] manpath problem
by vcardona＠home.com 28 Jun '00

28 Jun '00

Hi everyone, I just installed SuSE 6.4, and have noticed that manpath runs for hours and sucks up like 90% of my cpu resources. Is there any way to correct this? Thanks, Victor -- 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] Kernel message
by ncfcrh＠global.co.za 28 Jun '00

28 Jun '00

Hi All Below is a section of /var/log/messages which was recorded when our server stopped accepting connections. Can anybody interpret it simply for me? I would really like to know what was going on. I managed to shutdown the machine and reboot, albeit without the root partition being unmounted properly. Thanks Grant. ----------------------------Start excerpt /var/log/messages--------------------------------------------------------- May 10 15:21:22 samba kernel: general protection fault: fff4 May 10 15:21:22 samba kernel: CPU: 0 May 10 15:21:22 samba kernel: EIP: 0010:[ext2_find_entry+191/752] May 10 15:21:22 samba kernel: EFLAGS: 00010297 May 10 15:21:22 samba kernel: eax: c0a26cc0 ebx: fffffff4 ecx: 0000000c edx: 0000000f May 10 15:21:22 samba kernel: esi: c0366f20 edi: c3f74a00 ebp: c0e7bf54 esp: c0e7be8c May 10 15:21:22 samba kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 May 10 15:21:22 samba kernel: Process mktemp (pid: 2079, process nr: 50, stackpage=c0e7b000) May 10 15:21:22 samba kernel: Stack: c0a26cc0 c0e7bf54 83b10000 c0e7bed0 00000000 2c783b10 448d507d c3f74a00 May 10 15:21:22 samba kernel: c0511d38 247c8b00 448b5724 44892824 6a501024 00012a20 00013a20 00013a20 May 10 15:21:22 samba kernel: 00000214 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 May 10 15:21:22 samba kernel: Call Trace: [ext2_lookup+48/124] [real_lookup+85/132] [lookup_dentry+296/488] [open_namei+102/848] [filp_open+68/240] [sys_open+54/148] [system_call+52/56] May 10 15:21:23 samba kernel: Code: 07 7e 8e c7 44 24 1c 00 00 00 00 c7 44 24 20 00 00 00 00 8b May 10 15:21:23 samba kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 1241e720 May 10 15:21:23 samba kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 01b8f000, %cr3 = 01b8f000 May 10 15:21:23 samba kernel: *pde = 00000000 May 10 15:21:23 samba kernel: Oops: 0002 May 10 15:21:23 samba kernel: CPU: 0 May 10 15:21:23 samba kernel: EIP: 0010:[block_getblk+588/612] May 10 15:21:23 samba kernel: EFLAGS: 00010256 May 10 15:21:23 samba kernel: eax: c0df8440 ebx: fffffffe ecx: 0000000c edx: 00000000 May 10 15:21:23 samba kernel: esi: c2387260 edi: c3f74a00 ebp: c2387260 esp: c0967efc May 10 15:21:23 samba kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 May 10 15:21:23 samba kernel: Process lpd (pid: 2074, process nr: 57, stackpage=c0967000) May 10 15:21:23 samba kernel: Stack: c2387260 c0df8440 c2387260 00000000 c0967f44 00000000 00000000 c02b5bf8 May 10 15:21:23 samba kernel: c3f74a00 00000000 c011ccf3 0000004e c011ce9d c3bce660 00001000 40015000 May 10 15:21:23 samba kernel: 00000000 00001000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 May 10 15:21:23 samba kernel: Call Trace: [do_generic_file_read+1095/1532] [do_generic_file_read+1521/1532] [ext2_unlink+39/400] [vfs_unlink+233/240] [sys_unlink+106/164] [system_call+52/56] May 10 15:21:23 samba kernel: Code: 20 85 c0 74 09 50 e8 61 2d fe ff 83 c4 04 89 f8 5b 5e 5f 5d May 10 15:35:24 samba -- MARK -- Grant R Walton New Creation Family Church PO Box 1638 Cresta South Africa 2118 Tel. +27-11-792-1151 -- 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] Upgrading from 6.3 to 6.4
by raghav＠easi.soft.net 28 Jun '00

28 Jun '00

Hi SuSE, Sorry for sending this mail once again, but i did not get any reply to my 3 mails which i sent previously. Actually, I am interested in upgrading my 6.3 OS to 6.4 OS. My m/c is a P III with Intel 810 chipset. Are there any advantages in upgrading from 6.3 to 6.4 OS?? Any performance issues in 6.4?? Or can i just upgrade my Xfree 86 version 3.3.5 (which comes with 6.3) to 3.3.6 (in 6.4) or 4.0?? Also, Can i use the 6.4 CDs for upgrading only the Xserver?? Hope i get a reply this time. Raghav -- 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] Silly question - I don't know how to use man
by mendes＠mgconecta.com.br 28 Jun '00

28 Jun '00

Hello I know that this is a rather silly question but I definitely need help. For instance, I installed procmail on my system. The manuals were placed at /usr/man/man1 and /usr/man/man5 as *.1.gz or *1.bz2 and *.5.gz or *.5.bz2. When I type man procmail the sys returns no manual page for it. What am I missing here? Thanks a lot. Ed -- 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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