January 2001 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

How to extend swap partition (2)
by Dan Navarro 17 Jan '01

17 Jan '01

All, Thanks to eveyone who responded to my question on how to extend my swap space. My only problem now is using fdisk to create a new swap space. I did a 'man' on fdisk to understand it's usage and this is what I came up with, but I am still unable to create the partition. (This partition stuff is definitely not for newbies). fdisk -s 133056 /dev/hda4 error msg: unable to open 133056 What am I doing wrong? Here is my current partition settings: Device Name Frm To Blocks Partition Type ----------- --- -- ------ -------------- /dev/hda1 1 5 20128 83 Linux Native /dev/hda2 6 38 133056 82 Linux Swap /dev/hda3 39 1023 3971520 83 Linux Native TIA, Daniel N. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

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Catching a hacker
by Guy Van Sanden 17 Jan '01

17 Jan '01

Hello I've discovered that someone is trying to brute-hack all the UNIX systems in our company. I administer a small Linux server, luckely he didn't get in to mine... The thing is, this happened during a period when I was sick and at home... So, I'd like a system that monitors my Linux and takes actions (like mailing someone) when an attack occurs. Anyone got any ideas? Thanks Guy

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Problems with network
by Jan Erik Moström 17 Jan '01

17 Jan '01

I've got two question regarding networking. I've got a machine with a D-Link DFE 530-TX network card Problem 1: On sunday I managed to get the card working again after a week of trying to understand why it didn't work. The problem seems to be related to the hardware address of the card. When I ran ifconfig the hardware address was 0. I opened the machine and changed slot, turned the machine on and it worked again. Running ifconfig gave the proper hardware address. Yesterday my son decided that it was time to run Ages of Empire so I booted up the machine in Windows mode. Today when I booted up the machine in Linux again the address was once again set to 0. A bit suspicious I turned off the main power to the machine, waited 10-15 minutes and tried again and this time the hardware address was OK. So once again I booted up the machine in Windows (98 SE) and then rebooted into Linux again and ... the hardware adress was once again 0. Shutting down the power and the booting up in Linux again gives the card the right address again. I'm no windows expert (the only reason why I got the machine was to run Linux) so I have no idea what is happening. Does anyone have an idea? Problem 2: The machine is connected to a hub to which I also have a number of Macs connected. At work I downloaded the Java 1.3 files to my PowerBook, went home, connected it to the hub and tried to copying the files using FTP. At the beginning everythings seems fine but after a few second the transfer stops (about 4.5 MB is transferred) and when I look in /var/log/messages it says: mommo kernel: eth0: MII PHY found at address 8, status 0x7829 advertising 01e1 Link 0021 What does it mean? How can I fix this? jem -- Jan Erik Moström mailto:jem@mostrom.pp.se Free Elektron http://www.mostrom.pp.se/folk/jem/

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ncftp?
by MaD dUCK 17 Jan '01

17 Jan '01

i use ncftp. many people use ncftp. in fact, many programs nowadays require ncftp. it's the best ftp client out there. suse 7.0 comes with a package of version 2.4.3 from march 1998. version 3.0.2 - significantly improved by the addition of background processing and other goodies (ncftpget to name one) has been out since mid-october 2000. but the suse ftp server still lists 2.4.3 as being the current version. are there licensing problems, or why is the update not happening? thanks, martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo madduck@!#:1:s@\@@@.net -- to vacillate or not to vacillate, that is the question ... or is it?

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Linksys Network Card/AT&T @home Cable Modem
by Tim Bogue 17 Jan '01

17 Jan '01

Hi, I'm new to SuSE Linux 7.0, and during the process of setting up the hardware for the computer I did pickup a Linksys NIC card and found that it didn't work correctly. I didn't spend much on the next one and it worked. Good Luck. Tim >Hi, >I am trying to install a Linksys LNE100TX PCI ethernet card into >linux, so I can use my Cable modem for an >internet connection in >Linux. I am using Suse Linux 7.0. >When I run YAST1 or YAST2, the ethernet card is not recognized. Is >there something I need to do to configure >the card properly. >Thanks, >Brian

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hdparm
by Stefano Papini 17 Jan '01

17 Jan '01

Hello linux guys, after wandering on several docs I had to recognize that for both of my UDMA drives (IBM 4.3 and Quantum EL 7.6GB) the UDMA feature slow them down rather than speed them up. More, the strange thing is that I got different speeds at any boot (same set of running services). Ok, I can see tolerances in speed recognition, but is there anything but kernel and hdparm settings which can change their speed? I found the following setting giving good results: hdparm -p -c1 -d0 -m16 -W1 /dev/hda (IBM, giving about 7,7 MB/s) and the same for hdb Quantum, giving about 11 MB/s. Any idea on getting better results? What about a scsi device (Quantum Atlas 18.2 SCSI2)? How can I speed it up? (hdparm -t gives about 20MB/s) Ciao e grazie, Stefano

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RE: [SLE] reiserfs
by Cleary, Mike 17 Jan '01

17 Jan '01

I have tried to expand my reiserfs partition many times using resize_reiserfs to no avail. Then I realized I was trying to use free space which was not formatted as reiserfs, but as ext2! :( By the way, anyone know how to format some free space as reiserfs...........? :) 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: Guy Van Sanden [mailto:sienix@crosswinds.net] Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 4:21 AM To: Jerry Kreps; Jerry VB Cc: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] reiserfs Yes there is: resize_reiserfs growing can be done online, without unmounting (though unmounting is safer), shrinking offline. Good luck! >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 07/01/2001, 04:00:27, Jerry Kreps <jerrykreps(a)jlkreps.net> wrote regarding Re: [SLE] reiserfs: > AFAIK, there is not. When you change the partition sizes you > have to reformat. > JLK > On Saturday 06 January 2001 19:29, Jerry VB wrote: > > May I jump in here and ask a question about Reiser? > > > > Is there an easy way to resize/move reiser partitions, like > > Partiton Magic does? > > > > Jerry Kreps wrote: > > > What does the "notail" option do? > > > > > > On Saturday 06 January 2001 08:03, Nick Zentena wrote: > > > > On January 6, 2001 08:48 am, Jerry Kreps wrote: > > > > > I read somewhere that /boot shouldn't use ReiserFS. Is this > > > > > still true? > > > > > > > > I don't have a true /boot. I just keep it under /. The > > > > issues that I'm aware of are it needs to be big enough. Second > > > > the way the kernel file was written could cause problems for > > > > lilo. But if you use the notail options in /etc/fstab then lilo > > > > isn't an issue. My understanding is that newer versions of lilo > > > > and reiser don't even have that limitation. > > > > > > > > My /etc/fstab looks like: > > > > > > > > > > > > /dev/hda4 swap swap > > > > defaults 0 0 /dev/hda2 / > > > > reiserfs defaults,notail 1 1 > > > > /dev/hda6 /var reiserfs > > > > defaults 1 2 /dev/hda8 /opt > > > > reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hda10 /usr > > > > reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hda12 /tmp > > > > reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hda9 /home > > > > reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hda11 > > > > /usr/local reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hda7 > > > > /var/spool reiserfs defaults 1 2 > > > > /dev/hda1 /dos vfat > > > > defaults 1 2 /dev/hda5 /dosd vfat > > > > defaults 1 2 > > > > > > > > /dev/hdb /cdrom auto > > > > ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 > > > > > > > > /dev/fd0 /floppy auto > > > > noauto,user 0 0 > > > > > > > > none /proc proc > > > > defaults 0 0 # End of YaST-generated fstab lines > > > > > > > > So I'm pure reiser. > > > > > > > > Nick > > > > > > -- > > > Scientific theories, according to Sir Karl Popper, can be > > > "falsified," or proven wrong, by experiment. Unscientific > > > theories -Marxist dialectical history and Freudian psychology > > > were Popper's favorites- are formed in such a way that they > > > cannot be falsified by data. > > > > > > -- > > > 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 > -- > Scientific theories, according to Sir Karl Popper, can be "falsified," or proven wrong, by experiment. > Unscientific theories -Marxist dialectical history and Freudian psychology were Popper's favorites- > are formed in such a way that they cannot be falsified by data. > -- > 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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Re: [SLE] root prompt
by Cliff Sarginson 17 Jan '01

17 Jan '01

> Hi, > > I'm using SuSE 7, and I have a couple of queries - if anyone can point me in > the right direction I would appreciate it. > > 1. The root prompt is '$' rather than the more traditional '#'. I'd prefer > the latter - how do I change it? > > 2. I'm accessing the SuSE machine from a Windoze box via Reflexion (an X > client for Windows). It works very well, except that in the shell backspace > acts as delete, and shift-backspace acts as backspace. Anyone got any ideas > how to change this? If that doesnt work for backspace try stty erase ^h Cliff

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Re: [SLE] root prompt
by Cliff Sarginson 17 Jan '01

17 Jan '01

> Hi, > > I'm using SuSE 7, and I have a couple of queries - if anyone can point me in > the right direction I would appreciate it. > > 1. The root prompt is '$' rather than the more traditional '#'. I'd prefer > the latter - how do I change it? PS1="# " (put this in root's .profile) > 2. I'm accessing the SuSE machine from a Windoze box via Reflexion (an X > client for Windows). It works very well, except that in the shell backspace > acts as delete, and shift-backspace acts as backspace. Anyone got any ideas > how to change this? > stty erase <backspace> where you actually type the backspace key where I have put <backspace> Cliff

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WGET corrupts files?
by Avi Schwartz 17 Jan '01

17 Jan '01

Hi, For a while I was using wget to download new update files from ftp.suse.com. Recently though I noticed that many of the RPMs downloaded with wget are corrupted and are not recognized as RPMs anymore. Downloading the same files with an ftp program is OK. Is this a problem with WGET or with the SuSE ftp site? Avi -- Avi Schwartz Get a Life, avi(a)CFFtechnologies.com Get Linux!

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