January 2001 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

RE: [SLE] When does 7.1 Come Out?
by Cleary, Mike 24 Jan '01

24 Jan '01

I don't know about everyone else, but I want to know about 7.1 'cause I just totally HOSED my 6.4 installation & figured I might as well upgrade. If 7.1 is imminent, I don't want to go out & buy 7.0.......... 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: juergen.braukmann(a)ruhr-west.de [mailto:juergen.braukmann@ruhr-west.de] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 11:13 AM To: SuSE Linux English Subject: Re: [SLE] When does 7.1 Come Out? Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > zzzzzzzzzzzz > > What is this with 7.1, people fed up with all the bugs in 7.0 > so they need new ones ? > > Cliff > Since we all promised to to skip windows into the bin ... and did so ... Yes, new bugs please! ;-) (but not to soon) Juergen -- =========================================== __ _ 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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Subject: [SLE] Postfix
by Cliff Sarginson 24 Jan '01

24 Jan '01

>Hi, > >This may or may not be a question for SuSE users. Presently, I believe >that Sendmail is running by default on a SuSE 7.0 box. Now I have for the >past year heard more and more suggestions, that it is better to be running >Postfix or Qmail instead. If this is so, I'm thinking of running >Postfix. My reasoning is from numerous posts, Postfix is said to be easy >to work with and secure. > > >If I uninstall Sendmail what will get broken on my SuSE 7.0? What should I >be look for in advance to make sure there is a smooth transition. > >Just one additional note, this is not a network but a standalone machine, >if that should matter. Postfix on Suse works very well, and in your case it will probably work "out the box". I cannot recommend it highly enough. Life is really too short to face the struggle with sendmail. Strictly speaking it has never got out of Beta release yet, but since the release which you find on Suse's distro it has proved to be as solid as a rock. It officially comes out of Beta in february sometime.. There is one small glitch in the installation. Postfix runs in a chroot jail which means the installation makes copies into the jail of certain important files. This does not work properly for the timezone settings so you may see some Postfix processes reporting the time incorrectly. There is an updated Linux script for this, but in the meantime what I did was: In postfix's jail remove the file localtime (I think that is what it is called). Copy the timezone file for your timezone into the jail. Make a symbolic link to the timezone file called "localtime" in the jail. And voila! Postfix warns you if it's copies of any of the system files it has copies of are out of sync with the "real" ones. Go for it ! Cliff

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kde2 crash
by Michael Long 24 Jan '01

24 Jan '01

KDE2 was running fine. Installed samba server, kde2 crashed (coincidence?!). Run startx kde2 --:0 the server begins to startup get to splash screen and then dies. Go back into kde and try to run kmail2 and get the following error: ERROR: KUniqueApplication: Trying to launch kdeinit. ERROR: KUniqueApplication: Can't setup DCOP communication. What got screwed up? Mike

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Helix Gnome
by Fred A. Miller 24 Jan '01

24 Jan '01

OK...so I resisted for quite awhile. I think I'm beginning to see what all the fuss has been about Helix Gnome.....more later! Fred -- Failure is not an option, it comes pre-installed with your Windoze software.

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Switch dynamic/static IP configuration
by Pep 24 Jan '01

24 Jan '01

Hi Susers, I am running with laptop in two networks. In one I use static IP configuration and the other it's dynamic. I have to change manually (ifconfig, route, resolve.conf,...) Do you have any clever script to quickly switch between dynamic and static? Pep Serrano <pep(a)serrano.net> http://pep.serrano.net PGP Public Key Fingerprint: 8534 A441 2AD8 AF16 926C FD42 C5D1 1F94

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Re: [PLUG] ssh rsa authentication troubles
by MaD dUCK 24 Jan '01

24 Jan '01

also sprach gabriel rosenkoetter (on Wed, 17 Jan 2001 12:51:23PM -0500): > Presuming the sirius you mean is mine, Martin, it's actually running > OpenSSH 2.1.1 too. (I know /usr/local/sbin/sshd still exists and is > SSH.com's 1.2.27, but it's not the one that's run out of rc.local, > and it'll get wiped when that machine is upgraded to NetBSD 1.5 > later this week... especially since 1.5 ships with NetBSD's port of > OpenSSH 2.2.) of course it's yours. that's why i called them sirius and uriel and not A and B so you'd know. but yes, thanks for the pattern update... > OpenSSH is pickier about syntax. (For instance, where SSH.com's ssh > will accept any white space in its /etc/ssh_config and ~/.ssh/config > files, OpenSSH insists on tabs.) now, ssh_config was just now converted to all tabs but with no effect. uriel, sirius, localhost, and ceylon still ask for passwords... > I have no problem connecting to any of those machines with RSA > authentication, using either 1.2.2x or 2.1.1 clients. well, good to know. what was that thingy about micro$oft support center giving lightbulb support? "what do you mean your bulb doesn't work? we have approximately the same model here and it works perfectly." > What does your authorized_keys file look like? (It's safe to post > that, don't worry... all we could do with it is let you into our > computers.) ooooh. is that why the files are called identity.pub ? aha. find it attached... > Presuming you're using OpenSSH 2.1.1 locally, this config file > simply won't work. All those spaces MUST be tabs. Btw, I strongly done and doesn't work still. > disagree with allowing X11 and Agent forwarding to *... default > should be off, you should turn it on for specific, trusted hosts. i know, and i did enable * simply to get this working. once it's working, i'll kick the * setting. no worries, i am aware... > I'm shocked that OpenSSH's sshd isn't bitching loudly about this. > (Have you checked your logs?) bitching loudly about what? the indentation of the files pasted into my previous email was mine to make it easier for you to read. in the actual files /^[ ^I]* finds nothing... thanks for your time! martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo madduck@!#:1:s@\@@@.net -- i'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

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RE: [SLE] Which DVD Drives work best with SuSE?
by Dee McKinney 24 Jan '01

24 Jan '01

I have a cheap atapi dvd on my system. Works fine for reading data/music cd's no problem. Shows up as /dev/hdd every time :) /Dee -----Original Message----- From: emanon [mailto:charles.randle@gte.net] Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 10:39 AM To: Terry Eck; SLE Subject: Re: [SLE] Which DVD Drives work best with SuSE? greetings- i think we missed the point here. terry did not ask about watching dvd's on a linux box. he wants to use a dvd for data retreival. won't dvd drives install and function with linux? his second question is also significant. can he use a dvd drive to read cd-roms? thanks- larry Terry Eck wrote: > > I currently have a cdrom which I would like to replace with a DVD drive. > Questions: > 1) What are some of the better dvd drives wrt Linux? Will just about any > drive work? > 2) Will the DVD drive also operate as a normal cdrom drive? > Looking forward to installing SuSE using a single disk. > Thanks, > Terry > > -- > Terry Eck <eck(a)raytheon.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 -- 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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DumbQuestion::KernelUpgrade
by Martin Mielke 23 Jan '01

23 Jan '01

Dear all, I currently have SuSE 6.4, kernel 2.2.14, but need kernel 2.2.16 at least to install some utils, such as the ov511 drivers for my USB webcam. The questions are: a) which RPM(s) should I download from ftp.suse.com if I have a K6-II system with APM support? b) how do I upgrade from kernel 2.2.14 to 2.2.16? Please, keep in mind that it should be possible to revert to the 2.2.14 kernel if something goes wrong... Thanks, Martin

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[SLE] Random lock up of machine
by Eric Allan Lucas 23 Jan '01

23 Jan '01

Hope someone can point me in the right direction... I just installed SuSE 7.0 on my workstation this weekend. (Having Fun!) [system hardware description] Processor=200MHz MMX w/ 64Meg RAM Motherboard=Asus w/build in SCSI I/F Hard Drives=2 IDE (hda and hdb - mostly Windows95 files) 1 SCSI sda1 - swap sda2 - ext2 mounted at /boot sda5 - ReiserFS mounted at / sda7 - ext2 mounted at /home Network=3COM 3C905 Sound=Sound Blaster Vibra PNP [system software description] SuSE 7.0 KDE (default install with LOTS of programs added... base + development) Not set up for firewall or routing. Now, it randomly freezes (locks up), requiring a hardware reset to restore. This is either while working in KDE -OR- logged in as root on a console (KDE is still running, I'm just not using it at that moment.) No keyboard input accepted. No mouse. Ctrl-alt-del does not work. When I had sendmail turned on, the boot process would stop when sendmail started (happened twice). Sadly, turning off the sendmail did allow it to boot but did not stop the random freeze. Has anyone heard of a way to debug this kind of stuff? This is my first use of a Reiser file system so I'm curious if that could be the problem. Then again, KDE is new too. I just have no idea... cannot find any logs to indicate what happened. I hate to start uninstalling stuff (or reformat my root partition as ext2) and praying it won't randomly freeze anymore. Suggestions/solutions gratefully accepted :-D Eric ______________________________________________ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup

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RE: [SLE] ghost 2001 an linux
by Martin Mielke 23 Jan '01

23 Jan '01

Hello again, > > At 05:08 PM 1/23/2001 +0100, Martin Mielke wrote: > >Hello Jack and the others, > > > >I also CC to the SuSE list because I think that this could > be interesting > >for the rest as well... > > > >Are you talking about "Ghost", the same utility used on the > Windows machines to clone hard disks? > Hi Martin, > Yes i am talking about the ghost program that comes with > nortons/symantec. > It nice for using to copy/move an existing harddrive to a new > one. I gave > it a try on saturday an it wanted to increase the linux > partitions, i'm not > sure this is a good ideal on linux. It works with no trouble > to increase > windows partitions even ntfs. Im just wondering if anyone has > done it linux > partitions an if they ran into any trouble. Oops! but it's still (only) for Windoze... I'm looking for something similar for either Linux or Solaris... and please, don't tell me to use 'dd'... :-) > I am just replying to you since Im at work an can not send to the list from this address.. > Hmmm... yes, you can :-) Martin

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