January 2001 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

How do get a shell with mgetty?
by wilson＠claborn.net 09 Jan '01

09 Jan '01

Howdy, I asked the other day what the best way to set up a dialup server was (the goal being to get a remote shell). The uanimous answer was to use mgetty. I now have mgetty set up and working just fine, with one problem: I don't know how to use it as a shell. I know it works because I set up wvdial on our Red Hat box with my username and password and it dialed up and connected just fine. However, it tries to start ppp (which isn't really what I need, I don't think) and then after a bit the pppd dies because (of course) no connection is made. So basically, I can connect (thus I know mgetty is working) but I can't figure out how to get a shell out of the deal. Can anyone explain how to get a shell prompt? Am I even supposed to be using wvdial or should I be using some shell script? If a shell script could I see an example? TIA, ---------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson System Administrator Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com Central Texas IT http://www.centraltexasit.com

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Re: [SLE] Deleting old files by datastamp
by Cliff Sarginson 09 Jan '01

09 Jan '01

man find > Hi all > > Does anyone know of a way or a script to delete old files, say that are > older than a month? Older in what sense ? Accessed or modified ? find will find files on date criteria and you can -exec rm against them be careful ! > > Thanks > Paul > > -- > 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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Creative USB WebCam Pro under SuSE 6.4 (2.2.14)
by Martin Mielke 09 Jan '01

09 Jan '01

Dear all, I'm wanting to install a "Creative Webcam Plus" (supported) under SuSE 6.4 (2.2.14) but I'm having some problems. I followed the instructions described on http://sdb.suse.de/de/sdb/html/usb_ov511.html (sorry, it's only in german) and checked on http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/ that there's a driver for Linux. xawtv is recommended tp use the webcam, so I dowloaded it. Although the compilation/installation went fine (there are some warnings at compilation time though), I get the following error messages: --- # xawtv This is xawtv-3.28, running on Linux/i586 (2.2.14) visual: id=0x22 class=4 (TrueColor), depth=16 x11: 1024x768, 16 bit/pixel, 2048 byte/scanline, DGA can't open /dev/video: No such device v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway open /dev/video: No such device can't open /dev/video: No such device v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway open /dev/video: No such device no video grabber device available --- Taking a look at /dev/video* : --- # ls -l /dev/video* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jan 9 00:27 /dev/video -> /dev/video0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root video 81, 0 Jan 9 00:27 /dev/video0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root video 81, 1 Jan 9 00:27 /dev/video1 crw-rw-rw- 1 root video 81, 2 Jan 9 00:27 /dev/video2 crw-rw-rw- 1 root video 81, 3 Jan 9 00:27 /dev/video3 --- And finally, /dev/fb*: --- # ls -l /dev/fb* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jan 9 00:27 /dev/fb -> /dev/fb0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root video 81, 0 Jan 9 00:27 /dev/fb0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root video 81, 1 Jan 9 00:27 /dev/fb1 crw-rw-rw- 1 root video 81, 2 Jan 9 00:27 /dev/fb2 crw-rw-rw- 1 root video 81, 3 Jan 9 00:27 /dev/fb3 --- Furthermore, a /sbin/init.d/usb status shows that the USB modules have been loaded but no USB device was found :-( Do you know what could be going wrong? Thanks a lot in advance! Martin

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Registering MpegTV via Kagi
by joe 09 Jan '01

09 Jan '01

I registered MpegTV via their Kagi web site, they took my money, mailed me a receipt ( cost an extra dollar for a receipt) but I never got the registrations number from MPEGTV. I sent several emails, still nothing. It has been over two weeks now. Did anyone else register the MPEGTV viewer, if so did you have to wait a long time to get the registration number? thanks in advance,

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xmms installation
by Charlie Ti 09 Jan '01

09 Jan '01

Hi i wanted to install xmms 1.2.4 make give me this error : cdindex.c:24: parser.h: No such file or directory make[3]: *** [cdindex.lo] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/charlie/xmms-1.2.4/Input/cdaudio' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/charlie/xmms-1.2.4/Input' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/charlie/xmms-1.2.4' make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 it miss parser.h but what is this file and where can i find it ? thanks charlie ti

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Where is it ?
by Cliff Sarginson 09 Jan '01

09 Jan '01

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Re: [SLE] HTML editors
by Jerry Kreps 09 Jan '01

09 Jan '01

On Monday 08 January 2001 22:58, Fred A. Miller wrote: > Jerry Kreps wrote: > > Have you tried Quanta+. ?? It runs under KDE2 and is VERY nice. > > Site address? http://quanta.sourceforge.net > > Thanks, > > Fred -- 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.

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No sound in 2.4.0 Kernel and other obsticles?
by Alex Daniloff 09 Jan '01

09 Jan '01

Hello Linux folkz, I downloaded and compiled 2.4.0 kernel. After I rebooted I got no sound and these messages: Jan 8 20:29:02 gate modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-119 Jan 8 20:29:04 gate modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-10 Jan 8 20:29:12 gate modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-10-175 Jan 8 20:29:26 gate modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0 Jan 8 20:29:26 gate modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-3 Jan 8 20:29:28 gate modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-15 Jan 8 20:29:28 gate modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-15 Jan 8 20:29:33 gate modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0 Jan 8 20:29:33 gate modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-0 Jan 8 20:29:33 gate modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0 Jan 8 20:29:33 gate modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-0 ipchains: protocol not available Swap space didn't appear to be mounted. I did update modutils. Could somebody pleae give me a hint how to fix sound, ipchains and swap space. Many thanks in advance. Alex -- MS Windows users should be covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

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probelm with rpm
by Charlie Ti 09 Jan '01

09 Jan '01

Hi, When i wanted to install xmms-1.2.4 with rpm i got this error message : only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM What does it mean? I've try to install rpm 4.0 but i got the same error. What can I do. Thanks Charlie Ti

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Processes running out of control.
by quintaq＠yahoo.co.uk 09 Jan '01

09 Jan '01

Hi, Can any kind person explain to me what causes a process to run out of control, and whether a problem I have begun to experience is just a fact of linux life or is specific to my system ? I am running SuSE 7 on a PIII 800 / 815e mobo / XFree v4 / Afterstep WM. I first saw the problem when running faxgetty. For no particular reason the process suddenly (unpredictably) rises to 99% cpu usage. I thought initially that this might be unique to faxgetty, but I have seen it now with xman and asmodem (a simple modem monitor for Afterstep). Both of these have only run out of control once, and are otherwise well-behaved. I never see the problem begin, but then I glance at my system monitor and there it is. Thanks in anticipation, Geoff _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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