January 2001 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

LDAP authentication
by Sander van Vugt 29 Jan '01

29 Jan '01

Hi, I want to redirect authentication on my (SuSE 6.4) workstation to an LDAP server. Has anyone ever had the experience of getting this working? If so, please tell me how. I tried to modify my pam-files, but that doesn't seem to work. Sander ********************************************************************** Disclaimer This email is confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is adressed. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do do not necessarily represent those of the Azlan Holdings bv and/or subsidairy. If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing or copying of this email is strictly prohibited If you have received this email in error please notify Azlan Holdings MIS Helpdesk by telephone on +31 (0) 79 3443200. *********************************************************************

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Re: [SLE] SuSE 6.4 crashes during install (every time)
by Cliff Sarginson 29 Jan '01

29 Jan '01

> IMO you got way too small space for SuSE and the ext2 & swap partitions are > totally illogical to me. For a standard SuSE installation I would do: > > /boot 10MB (within the 1024 limit if you are going to use SuSE 6.4 Lilo to > boot) > > /swap 192MB (if your RAM is 192MB as you say; why do a 100MB swap?) > > / at least 3.5GB, with the size of harddisk you got I would make it still > bigger. > > On a single box I would never divide the partitions into /home or /temp like > you do, the /data1 is OK if you are going to use it for CD-burning for ex. > > I can understand the installer to crash on these premises, I would do that > too. Well, I can't understand why it would crash...the disk sizes have nothing to do with it..possibly the swap, but even so for an installation and a machine with that much memory. I have installed Suse into much smaller spaces with no trouble at all. The question of a /homes or not is also irrelevant to the problem. But that is a religious question.. Cliff > > On Monday 29 January 2001 11:25, Guy Van Sanden wrote: > > Hello everyone > > > > I advised a colleague to install SuSE (6.4) on his system (he's > > currently running windows). > > He tried it, but during install, it crashes every time (while copying > > packages to the harddrive). > > It beeps, the screen goes blank and the system reboots, leaving Linux > > semi-installed. > > > > Which, off course is very embarrasing for me... because he installed > > Win95 and Win2000 earlier without problems. > > > > He configured his 45 GB HD like this > > > > ------------------------------- > > Windows 95 - 1 GB > > ------------------------------- > > Windows 2000 - 1.5 GB > > ------------------------------- > > / Ext2 - 2 GB > > ------------------------------- > > NTFS - ? > > ------------------------------- > > SWAP 100 MB > > ------------------------------- > > /tmp 300 MB > > ------------------------------- > > /home 1 GB > > ------------------------------- > > /data 1 GB > > ------------------------------- > > FAT > > ------------------------------- > > Unused about 30 GB > > ------------------------------- > > > > Has anybody got any ideas? > > I was considering whether the controller could be the problem... > > > > THANKS > > > > Guy > > > > Specs: > > -------------------------- > > Intel Celeron 450 > > Mobo: ABIT BH6 > > 192 MB RAM > > Matrox G200 Mystique > > Iomega buz > > SoundBlaster 16 > > CDWRITER: ACER 4x4x32 (master on secondary controller on mobo) > > > > PROMISE Ultra 66 IDE controller card > > IBM GXP75 - 45 GB > > -- > @~~ EagleIce ~ gnu4u(a)linux.nu ~~@ > @~~ Running GNU/Linux & KDE ~~@ > > -- > 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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Installing on Dell PowerEdge
by Dunphy Richard-rdunph01 29 Jan '01

29 Jan '01

Hi, I'm just about to try installing SuSE7.0 on a dell Poweredge 4500. Has anyone tried this? Does SuSE detect the PERCraid during installation? Can I install via NFS? Any info you can give would be greatly appreciated! Thanks RikD.

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Re: [SLE] SuSE 6.4 crashes during install (every time)
by Cliff Sarginson 29 Jan '01

29 Jan '01

> Even so, The installation program crashed, flat out, without > warnings... > the location of /boot and sizes of partitions should not cause such a > thing... <snip> No it should not (does not) cause such a problem. Do some obvious things first, check all the hardware connections in the machine, particularly the IDE cables. If you can swap the CDROm drive with another (i assume you are installing from CD), I have had problems sometimes with CD's on certain drives. Remember Linux is much more vigorous than Windows in it's hardware requirements. Windows answers shaky hardware by giving you blue screens, Linux tends to hit it earlier on ! Try doing the absolute minimum install you can under Suse. The othe problem may be drive geometry, check the BIOS settings vis a vis large drives. Disable PNP in the Bios. Good luck Cliff

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Re: [SLE] Opinions on Slashdot....
by Sean Akers 29 Jan '01

29 Jan '01

Sean Akers@ROMAX 29/01/2001 09:50 The Register is quite good I find http://www.theregister.co.uk Cheers, Sean. Matthew Johnson <matthew(a)psychohorse.com> on 26/01/2001 23:19:44 To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com cc: (bcc: Sean Akers/Romax) Subject: [SLE] Opinions on Slashdot.... Good day, I know this may not be the place, but I have found Slashdot to be one of the worst places of information or news for anyone. Especially for Linux newbies... Unfortuantly I see a lot of mis-information or mis-understanding on there. My question is: What do people use for news concerning Tech news that is accurate? I know I use newsforge and linuxtoday, is there anymore? Matt -- 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] Xwindow sytem: no mouse, no keyboard, please help
by Cleary_Mike＠emc.com 29 Jan '01

29 Jan '01

I have exactly the same problem (and exactly the same mouse). When you first start SAX, DO NOT touch your mouse. Use TAB until you get the large button "Disable" highlighted, and hit ENTER. Confirm disable by answering "Yes" (hit Y). Use TAB again until you get back into the mouse type box again - then use the down arrow to pick Microsoft & hit ENTER. I believe it sends you to the next box over and you should use the down arrow again to choose the scroll mouse (third one down I think). This one uses the IMPS/2 protocol which is what you want. Once you hit ENTER to choose this one, it will ask you if you want to enable this setting. Enter "Y" and you should now be able to use you mouse. Don't forget to enable "emulate 3 buttons" so you can use your scroll button for cut & paste. Hope it works! Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Cleary UNIX Qualification and Commands Data General, a Division of EMC2 62 T.W. Alexander Dr. Research Triangle Park, NC mdcleary(a)dg-rtp.dg.com (919) 248-6033 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: mhf [mailto:michael.flug@snet.net] Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 12:25 PM To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: [SLE] Xwindow sytem: no mouse, no keyboard, please help For the time being I have given up on getting my ATI Radeon graphics card to work under XFree86 4.0.2 I am now trying to set up the Xwindow system using the lowest and most standard settings: Standard VGA monitor settings 640 X 480, 16-color mode, 2 megs. of video ram, etc. When I choose standard /dev/mouse setting and start Xwindow system, all my mouse does is flicker across the top of the screen when I move it, and my keyboard ceases to function. When I choose /dev/ttyS2 mouse setting and start Xwindow system, my mouse does not function at all, and keyboard also does not function. I am using Suse 7.0 Professional. My mouse is a standard Mitsumi mouse with a PS/2 interface. It has 3 buttons, the middle one being a scroll button that you can either push up or down. My keyboard is a simple 101 key standard board with a PS/2 interface. Can anyone point me in the right direction to fix these things. Also, if you have any suggestions for a decent graphics card that will work with XFree 3.3.6, I would greatly appreciate it. I am thinking of wiping out my current installation of Suse 7.0 and starting over from scratch using XFree 3.3.6. Thank you for your time and help. Mike Flug michael.flug(a)snet.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/faq

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SuSE 6.4 crashes during install (every time)
by Guy Van Sanden 29 Jan '01

29 Jan '01

Hello everyone I advised a colleague to install SuSE (6.4) on his system (he's currently running windows). He tried it, but during install, it crashes every time (while copying packages to the harddrive). It beeps, the screen goes blank and the system reboots, leaving Linux semi-installed. Which, off course is very embarrasing for me... because he installed Win95 and Win2000 earlier without problems. He configured his 45 GB HD like this ------------------------------- Windows 95 - 1 GB ------------------------------- Windows 2000 - 1.5 GB ------------------------------- / Ext2 - 2 GB ------------------------------- NTFS - ? ------------------------------- SWAP 100 MB ------------------------------- /tmp 300 MB ------------------------------- /home 1 GB ------------------------------- /data 1 GB ------------------------------- FAT ------------------------------- Unused about 30 GB ------------------------------- Has anybody got any ideas? I was considering whether the controller could be the problem... THANKS Guy Specs: -------------------------- Intel Celeron 450 Mobo: ABIT BH6 192 MB RAM Matrox G200 Mystique Iomega buz SoundBlaster 16 CDWRITER: ACER 4x4x32 (master on secondary controller on mobo) PROMISE Ultra 66 IDE controller card IBM GXP75 - 45 GB

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no carrier
by Arturo David Suárez Suárez 29 Jan '01

29 Jan '01

I´ve a problem with U.S. Robotics 56K external modem and wvdial (suse 6.3). I tried Autodetect Modem and this show all Ok, but I select Run Wvdial this show 'no carrier' after of dial.

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Re: Re: [SLE] Xwindow sytem: no mouse, no keyboard, please help
by mhf 29 Jan '01

29 Jan '01

> >Have you tried the new sax2, located at > >ftp2.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/X/Xfree86/XFree86-4.0.2-SuSE/suse70/sax2/sax2-4… Yes. SaX2 will report that it tried to find a driver in 4.0 that recognizes my card. It fails to find a match. Then, it will report that it is also checking with 3.3.6, and accordingly does not find a driver that works with the ATI Radeon. > >Also, have you tried xf86config4 and worked through the graphics card and mouse >sections there? > I didn't know there was such a thing as xf86config4. All the time that I was trying to set up the Xwindow system, I was using the command "xf86config." I tried a couple of others like xf86cfg, but they wouldn't run or the program wasn't found on my system. _________________________________________________________________________________________ I went ahead yesterday and wiped my hard drive clean. This time I did a minimal install of Suse 7.0. The only programs I have added to the 180 meg. install so far are: 1. allman-- (all man pages collected by Suse) 2. Vim -- (Vi improved) 3. Joe -- (nice and simple text editor) 4. mc --- (midnight commander) I may buy another card that is known to be supported by Xfree86 3.3.6. Not sure yet. Mike michael.flug(a)snet.net

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RE: [SLE] SCO FoxBase binaries compatibility?
by GAUNT Dr N, Cons Microbiologist PHLS 29 Jan '01

29 Jan '01

No, I haven't run SCO Foxplus so I can't help you there. Sorry. Nick Gaunt -----Original Message----- From: Manuel Martínez Valls [mailto:mmartinez@datosred.com] Sent: 25 January 2001 21:22 To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] SCO FoxBase binaries compatibility? First at all thanks for your responses. "GAUNT Dr N, Cons Microbiologist PHLS" wrote: > I have used iCBS2 successfully on SuSE 7.0. Just install the rpm and load the > module. Some progs need SCO specific libraries, so access to a SCO > system that can run your application is advisable. > > I have had one minor problem with iCBS - a data server we use (Sculptor > kfserver) would not spawn multiple processes under iBCS. Don't know why! > > Nick Gaunt Have you run the sco foxplus using iBCS? If afirmative, witch version? I think I've read something about locks and multiple processes under iBCS these days, I'll take a look. At 10:30 PM 1/24/2001 -0600, Jerry Kreps wrote: >http://x2c.dtop.com/x2c-linux.htm will let you convert xbase to c. >So does http://www.icewalk.com/softlib/app/app_00664.html >You can run FoxPro for DOS under Linux in DOS emulation. >SuSE used to have FlagShip on their CDs. (Now?) >http://www.fship.com/demo_linux7.html >FlagShip apparently has a Visual version coming soon. >JLK I know about the FlagShip package on SuSE (there is a functional evaluation version and the comercial one) but I don't have the sources (.prg), just have the .fox files(I think is pseudocode interpreted by foxrun). I think I'll try to exec the application under windows or dos using FoxPro or Clipper or something like that. Do you know if the sco fox files are compatible with windows FoxPro? (remember I don't have the sources and I can't recompile the .prg files) If this works I can execute the application under DOSEMU without any problem, but I doubt. Samy Elashmawy wrote: > That wont work , unless he has the source code to it , so he need a way to > tun the binaries. I think you're right but I'd like to solve the problem :-) Following with my problem, if I exec the 'file' command on: foxplus.pr, foxpcomp.pr, ... I get the following " Microsoft a.out separate pure segmented word-swapped V2.3 V3.0 386 small model executable" and on the install program i get " Microsoft a.out separate pure segmented fixed-stack word-swapped pre-SysV V3.0 286 small model executable". Do you think iBCS can run this files? Please, If you are running SCO apps can you exec 'file' and tell me the results? 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 ***************************************** The information in this e-mail and any attachments are confidential and are intended for the attention and use of the named addressee(s). It must not be disclosed to any other person without our authority. If you are not the intended recipient, or a person responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient or are aware that this e-mail has been sent to you in error, you are not authorised to and must not disclose, copy, distribute, or retain this message or any part of it. We sweep all outgoing mail for the presence of computer viruses however we cannot accept any responsibility for any loss or damage to your systems due to viruses or malicious code not detected. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust. The Trust does not automatically take any responsibility for the views of the author. *****************************************

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