September 2000 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[SLE] Experience w/ Soundblaster Live X-Gamer?
by MDCleary＠dgexchange.dg.com 05 Sep '00

05 Sep '00

I have lately been thinking about getting a new sound card, and the subject card seems to be highly recommended. Anyone had any problems w/ this card on SuSE 6.4? Any good/bad experiences? I noticed that the SuSE hardware file lists Soundblaster Live, but the database indicates it was last updated a year ago. But I did see that Alsa supported the Soundblaster Live and the "SB Live Platinum" version as well. TIA, Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Cleary UNIX Qualification and Commands Data General, a Division of EMC2 Research Triangle Park, NC -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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/faq

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[SLE] Internet software
by risselada-a＠hetnet.nl 05 Sep '00

05 Sep '00

> Hi, > Does anyone know what software is being used by ISP's > to give addtional email accounts, without shell > access? You get 1 login account, but can obtain > additional email addresses usually free or for a small > fee. What software do they use on the server-side? > > Thanks > -- There is a couple of ways that this could be done. By far the quickest solutions would be to do a little trick in the /etc/passwd file. For example, the normal shell account looks like this: aritso:x:13662:10:Alex Rissleada:/export/home3/aritso/bin/bash The last part "/bin/bash" is the shell the user has, what you can do is change that to in invalid shell like so: aritso:x:13662:10:Alex Rissleada:/export/home3/aritso/bin/false Run the command `pwconv` for it to take effect. Now if the user tries to login it will automatically kick them out. You can also use tcpwrappers on your telnetd (and compile support in for OpenSSHD) so that it won't even let them get to a login prompt. tcpwrappers accpets or denies connections based on IP address. ( ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/index.html ) With this method, the advantage is that it is quick and easy to setup and works with all existing program avaiable. The downfall to this, is that it isn't very flexiable and the scaleablility is limited. If you need to distrubate this among multi mail severs you can use NIS (very insecure) or NIS+ (secure, but complex to configure), but this isn't the best method. Also there is a limit on this to roughly 5000-6000 or so accounts. Another method would be to use OpenLDAP + mail server. OpenLDAP is a freely avaiable directory service ( http://www.openldap.org ). The combination I use is OpenLDAP + Qmail ( http://www.qmail.org ). Qmail includes both an SMTP and POP3 server (also IMAP server if I recall correctly). The patch to enabled LDAP support in Qmail is avaiable at http://www.nrg4u.com/ . Postfix if I recall correctly also has LDAP support, but I haven't tried this. Sendmail also has LDAP support in it's newest release, but I only worked with this shortly, also if you go with sendmail you will have to find a POP3 server that support LDAP, I could find one. The good things about using OpenLDAP + Qmail is that it is extremely flexiable and scaleable. You can distrubate your LDAP date base a cross multiply servers and also distrubate your Qmail servers (both SMTP and POP3) over multi (differant if need be) servers. Everyone can run off one machine or you can distrubate it across hunderds of servers. The amount of users is only limited to by what hardware you have avaiable. 1 machine running both Qmail server and OpenLDAP can easily do 8,000 users if you have really good i/o access. Also another good thing about using an LDAP database is you can get other (non-mail) programs that support it. For example there is an OpenLDAP - PAM module, ProFTPD supports LDAP. This means, you can say have one user only to be able to access email, and have another user only able to use ftp and another user to use both email and ftp and telnet, etc. Very flexiable. The other things, since everything is stored in an LDAP database you don't have to have entries in the /etc/passwd file. Only have the need accounts in the /etc/passwd (for example, on one machine there is only about 10 accounts, but it server email to 100 users). Virtual accounts is probably the word I am looking for. The bad thing? Takes a while to get everything compiled and for all the software to "play nice with each other". Not the easiest thing in the world to do, but alot easier in my humble opinion then to setup something like NIS+. There is also email aliases or forwarding. For example both sendmail and qmail have this option. Basically you have a real email account/ user on the system say called bob(a)domain.com you can setup an alias called robert(a)domain.com So anyone that sents robert(a)domain.com the email will automatically forward into the bob(a)domain.com. The robert(a)domain.com isn't a real account and you can't check it though pop3, you check the bob account and all the email is downloaded there. I don't think this is what you are looking for, if it is I can send over more information. I am not sure on how many users you have, or what type of setup you have over there, but atleast check in to the 2 methods above to see if either one will work for you. If not email me back with some more details on exactly what you are trying to do, number of users, etc and I will see if something would fit better. > > -- > Il brilgue: les t^oves libricilleux > Se gyrent et frillant dans le guave, > Enm^im'es sont les gougebosquex, > Et le m^omerade horgrave. > -- Lewis Carrol, "Through the Looking Glass" > __ > ----/ / _ ICQ # 81070861 > ---/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ > --/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / > -/____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ > SuSE6.4Kernel2.2.10KDE1.1.2 > 7:35pm up 40 min, 2 users, load average: 1.25, 1.45, 1.18 > ------------------------------------------------------- -- Higgeldy Piggeldy, Hamlet of Elsinore Ruffled the critics by Dropping this bomb: "Phooey on Freud and his Psychoanalysis -- Oedipus, Shmoedipus, I just love Mom." __ ----/ / _ ICQ # 81070861 ---/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ --/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / -/____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ SuSE6.4Kernel2.2.10KDE1.1.2 Bakhuizen-Friesland-Holland 9:30pm up 1:14, 3 users, load average: 1.71, 1.74, 1.70 -- 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/faq

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[SLE] susue -web-server-and-email
by landie＠concentric.net 05 Sep '00

05 Sep '00

why is suse web-server often dead and i also noticed email is super lagged? -- Rolando Roman Linux 10:00am up 14:20, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 -- 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/faq

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Re: [SLE] Opened port
by praisetazio＠tiscalinet.it 05 Sep '00

05 Sep '00

> Do you know for sure this is the way you can check the opened ports? I have a > FTP server running, which is invoced by the Internet Super Server inet, but > port 21 isn't in my list if I type netstat -a. I run nmap over the loopback > divece to check for any opend ports. > nmap did not say anything about that port. But netstat did, and I have found out what program needed it using fuser. Tazio -- 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/faq

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[SLE] [Fwd: [SLE] Booting problems on 486s]
by juergen.braukmann＠ruhr-west.de 05 Sep '00

05 Sep '00

just not quoting myself, but forwarding. I am sure sendmail chewed up a bunch of mails while I was experementing. here's my repost: juergen.braukmann(a)ruhr-west.de wrote: > > François Pinard wrote: > > > > Hi, people. Long time no talk. > > > > On some 486s we still use, we have problems installing SuSE 6.4, right at > > boot. The CD-ROM is not bootable, so we have to resort to boot disquettes. > > But these cannot be read either. Would it be possible that they use some > > over-density that older disquette drives cannot read? > > > > Besides changing hardware (:-), would someone have an idea about the options > > left to me? > > > > Keep happy, all! > > > > Are you sure these bootdisks are 486 optimised? I think all the 6.4 > bootdisks were Pentium optimised. Can you boot a DOS disk?? > > Juergen > > -- > =========================================== __ _ > Juergen Braukmann juergen.braukmann(a)gmx.de| -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ > Tel: 0201-743648 dk4jb(a)db0qs.#nrw.deu.eu | /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / > ===========================================_\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ -- =========================================== __ _ Juergen Braukmann juergen.braukmann(a)gmx.de| -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Tel: 0201-743648 dk4jb(a)db0qs.#nrw.deu.eu | /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ===========================================_\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ -- 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/faq

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[SLE] Adobe Acrobat Reader
by tabanna＠aig.forthnet.gr 05 Sep '00

05 Sep '00

Hi SuSErs ! . . . did anyone get the Adobe Acrobat Reader to work. I downloaded from Adobe, the latest version , BUT all I get, is, a Blank Page, when I try to open any .PDF file ! ~ any Tips/work_arounds, please ? thanks -- ____________ sent on Linux ____________ This Email is 100% Virus Free! How do I know? ~ Because no Microsoft products were used to generate it! -- 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/faq

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[SLE] Kgutenbook
by saint241＠mindspring.com 05 Sep '00

05 Sep '00

Can anyone tell me what the package Kgutenbook is used for. I cleaning up my system and if the package isn't needed I would like to remove it and capture the hard drive space. Michael -- 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/faq

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[SLE] Reiser file system
by snieto＠sc.sas.cica.es 05 Sep '00

05 Sep '00

Can I put disk quotas in a file system that has ben configured with reiserfs ? <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2614.3500" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Can I put disk quotas in a file system that has ben configured with reiserfs ?</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY>

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[SLE] A editor where I can copy and paste columns
by mendes＠mgconecta.com.br 05 Sep '00

05 Sep '00

Hello Could someone suggest me an editor that can copy and paste columns in addition to lines. If Xemacs is one of editors please tell me how. 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/faq

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RE: [SLE] System start Messages
by heroron＠yahoo.com 05 Sep '00

05 Sep '00

also, if you just want the trailing boot messages, try toggling between ctrl-alt-f1 (console) and f7 (X-Windows) ron --- Clinton Rogers <crogers(a)eGain.com> wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Clinton Rogers > Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 9:15 AM > To: 'Linux News User' > Subject: RE: [SLE] System start Messages > > > Hey there, > > Try the following: > 'dmesg' > > You might want to pipe the output to 'less' so you > can scroll up & down: > 'dmesg | less' > > Hope this helps, > -cr- > > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux News User [mailto:linux@ods.co.cr] > Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 9:03 AM > To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com > Subject: [SLE] System start Messages > Importance: High > > > Hi ! > > How could I read or recover all the system boot > messages that appear on the > Linux screen when the Linux box is starting up ? > > Thanks > > > -- > 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/faq > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.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/faq

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