January 2001 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Network dies under file transfer...
by Christopher D. Reimer 29 Jan '01

29 Jan '01

Greetings! If I transfer 150MB+ of files from Windows 98 machine to my file server using Samba, the network on the file server will occasionally die and a reboot is needed to restart the network. I always thought this was a Windows/Samba problem. When I transfer 150MB+ using FTP, the network will most definitely die. Anybody know what this could be? I'm using a SuSE 6.3 distribution, the standard 2.2.18 kernel with the 0.90 RAID and 3.5.29 ReiserFS patches, on a Cyrix M2 PR-333MHz, 64MB, MVP4 motherboard, and a Netgear FA310TX (tulip) NIC. Most of the network options are off in the standard kernel, and I only have a few turned on that are directly relevant to this particular machine. (It's a file server, not a router.) Thanks! Christopher Reimer

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Re: [SLE] Killustrator for Chemistry
by Volker Kuhlmann 29 Jan '01

29 Jan '01

> Scilab comes on the SuSE CD's also. Octave can be downloaded from: > > http://www.octave.org/ > In retrospect it is probably easier to just use Yast and install SciLab or > MuPad. Or it's of course just as easy to install octave from the SuSE CDs: > susegrep octave octave-2.0.16-77.i386.rpm cd1 ap1 octave.rpm octave-2.0.16-77.src.rpm cd5 zq1 octave.spm Volker

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Re: [SLE] Extracting a file from an RPM?
by Volker Kuhlmann 29 Jan '01

29 Jan '01

> Since SuSE's rpm2cpio cannot be used to extract files from a version 4 RPM > (and alien uses rpm2cpio so this option is out), is there a way to extract > a single file from an RPM without installing the whole package? Use http://volker.orcon.net.nz/soft/rpmdump to install rpm 3.0.5 from SuSE 7.0 CD 1 directory unsorted, and then either use its rpm2cpio, or use rpmdump again (with the rpm binary 3.0.5) to extract the version 4 rpm package you wnat that one file of. Volker

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Getting Fkeys, Del,Tab to work via telnet/ssh with yast
by Deja User 29 Jan '01

29 Jan '01

I'm using telnet/ssh (teraterm) to access suse6.4 I can't use YAST as it needs Fkeys, and "tab" to move around the fields. Can I get the terminal program to send these keys? what do I change? ------------------------------------------------------------ --== Sent via Deja.com ==-- http://www.deja.com/

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Re: [SLE] Killustrator for Chemistry
by Jonathan Drews 29 Jan '01

29 Jan '01

Hi Jerry and interested SuSE users: On Sunday 28 January 2001 19:30, you wrote: > On Sunday 28 January 2001 14:27, Jonathan Drews wrote > Jonathan, is that the student edition for Linux? How much? ;-) > And, how does it compare visually with MuPAD or MathCad? > JLK The Student version of Mathematica is about $140.00. It is very nice but it does not have a huge advantage over MuPad, which comes with SuSE professional. The chief difficulty with Mathematica is it tries to do too much. That is there are way too many commands and reserved words to remember. It's easier to use MuPad. I think Octave or Scilab is superior to MathCad. Scilab comes on the SuSE CD's also. Octave can be downloaded from: http://www.octave.org/ It runs very well under SuSE. You should have GNUplot installed also as Octave uses it to plot functions. GNUplot is on the SuSE cd's. Finally you need to install your development libraries to compile Octave. Most importantly Octave requires the g77 compiler. About half of Octave is FORTRAN code. In retrospect it is probably easier to just use Yast and install SciLab or MuPad. I use SciLab at work as it is also available for Windowze. -- Cheers, Jonathan

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Extracting a file from an RPM?
by Avi Schwartz 29 Jan '01

29 Jan '01

Since SuSE's rpm2cpio cannot be used to extract files from a version 4 RPM (and alien uses rpm2cpio so this option is out), is there a way to extract a single file from an RPM without installing the whole package? Thanks, Avi -- Avi Schwartz Get a Life, avi(a)CFFtechnologies.com Get Linux!

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rpm2cpio (alien) cannot handle new RPMs
by Avi Schwartz 29 Jan '01

29 Jan '01

Hi, While SuSE provides an alternative rpm program that can handle version 4 RPMs, I cannot not find a new SuSE rpm2cpio program that can handle them. As you may guess, I am trying to use alien to convert an RPM to a TAR archive. Any suggestions, SuSE? Avi -- Avi Schwartz Get a Life, avi(a)CFFtechnologies.com Get Linux!

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Killustrator for Chemistry
by Jonathan Drews 29 Jan '01

29 Jan '01

Hi Jerry (and SuSE users): I am discovering that Killustrator is well adapted to drawing Chemical compounds. The fact that the moving, rotating and resizing of the drawing elements are all done with the mouse, as opposed to using pull down menus, greatly speeds up the process. Getting used to the mouse clicks to change from movement to rotation is a little tedious at first but well worth the practice. I must say Killustrator is remarkably efficient. I should have some more substituents drawn up in the next few weeks, if you are interested. -- Cheers, Jonathan

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[OT] reading / writing parport
by Christian Klippel 29 Jan '01

29 Jan '01

hi all, this may be off-topic. just seen the /usr/doc/howto/en/mini/Coffee.tgz and some old circuits that brought up the idea of making some converters for the parport. can someone give me hints on how to read/write the parport data & status-lines from userland like with outportb() / inportb() under dos ? want to implement some adc/dac circuits and some lcd controllers. what do i have to #include in my c file and what lib (if any) is needed ?? any links to that on the net ? thanks and greets, chris -- visit me at http://mamalala.de

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failed Upgrade of shlibs rpm...
by Robert Sweet 29 Jan '01

29 Jan '01

I cannot get nssv1 or shlibs to upgrade: rpm -Uvh shlibs.rpm shlibs ############################can't rename /usr/lib/gconv/ISO-IR-197.so to /usr/lib/gconv/ISO-IR-197.so-RPMDELETE: Operation not permitted unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib/gconv/ISO-IR-197.so: cpio: unlink failed - Bad file descriptor I get a similar error from nssv1. And I cannot rm or mv the file??? -- _ _ __ _____ _____ ___| |_ | '__| / __\ \ /\ / / _ \/ _ \ __| | | _ \__ \\ V V / __/ __/ |_ |_|(_) |___/ \_/\_/ \___|\___|\__| rsweet(a)socal.rr.com "unix soit qui mal y pense."

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