January 2001 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Gawk
by Togan Muftuoglu 05 Jan '01

05 Jan '01

Hi everyone, according to the support database Hylafax cron job cannot create proper fax reports which is my case it says also downdload th new gawk package from the ftp.suse.com updates for 7.0 yet there is no such package Now If I uninstall the gawk version 3.05 and downgraded to what ever version theres is on 6.4 is there any gawk depended SuSe System scripts that may be affected -- Togan Muftuoglu toganm(a)turk.net 100% MS FREE Absolutely no component of Microsoft was used in the generation or posting of this e-mail. So it is virus free

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KDE2 too slow
by Eduardo Díaz Uriarte 05 Jan '01

05 Jan '01

Hi, I running kde2 on a suse 6.4. My box is a pentium mmx 200, 128MB RAM (128MB swap). And kde2 goes too slow. This is problematic: it's really slow starting and launching applications and when I play music with xmms it is slower, and if do it with kaiman (kmedia player) it's even worst: music interrupts for moments. Nothing of this happens with my older kde (1.?). Thanks

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Kicq and SuSE firewals
by Corvin Russell 05 Jan '01

05 Jan '01

I need to get Kicq up and running PDQ, don't have time to figure it out... does anyone know what I need to put in /etc/rc.config.d/firewall.rc.config to enable Kicq? Or is there something I need to set in Kicq? Right now, nothing goes through, registration keeps waiting forever. I have also tried ICQJava, same problem. Happy New Year (where applicable)! TIA Corvin -- Corvin Russell <corvinr(a)sympatico.ca>

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Re: [SLE] package search
by Cliff Sarginson 05 Jan '01

05 Jan '01

That looks good. Now the next facility you need is to get it to somehow loginto Suse and find out all the updates and patches that have been made since the CD's were burnt and what packages are therefore out of date ... :) Cliff > Wow, great thing. If you ask me this should be included in the SuSE > distribution. Besides that it would help if they had a search index on the > web, which handles the same thing. > > > >From: Volker Kuhlmann <kuhlmav(a)elec.canterbury.ac.nz> > >To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com > >Subject: Re: [SLE] package search > >Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 15:02:29 +1300 (NZDT) > > > > > It's great that SuSE lists the packages on the website and what they > > > contain. I wish there was one thing though. Can you add a search feature > >for > > > the packages and their contents? > > > >Yes I know, it sucked so much that I decided to take action: > > > >http://volker.orcon.net.nz/soft/susegrep > > > >It's a bash script which 1) creates an index of your SuSE CDs (once), > >and 2) lets you search through it. With the 6-CD set the index is about > >22MB big, not that much these days and IMHO well worth the disk space. I > >use it all the time, and would answer your question with > > > >susegrep -f rz -w > >allman.rpm.ls:/usr/share/man/allman/man1/rz.1.gz > >rzsz.rpm.ls:/usr/bin/rz > >rzsz.rpm.ls:/usr/share/man/man1/rz.1.gz > >sdb_de.rpm.ls:/usr/share/doc/sdb/de/html/keylist.RZ.html > >sdb_de.rpm.ls:/usr/share/doc/sdb/de/html/keylist.RZ.txt > >sdb_en.rpm.ls:/usr/share/doc/sdb/en/html/keylist.RZ.html > >sdb_en.rpm.ls:/usr/share/doc/sdb/en/html/keylist.RZ.txt > > > >I.e., install package rzsz. > > > >Here's the --help: > > > >Usage: susegrep -i CDROM-mountpoint [CD-number] > > susegrep [-d DIR] -n|-s|-f [GREP-OPTIONS] PATTERN > >Version VK 2.5.2, 05 Jan 2001, <v.kuhlmann(a)elec.canterbury.ac.nz> > > > >Create indices of all packages on the CDs of a SuSE-Linux distribution > >(once), > >and search the created indices (any time later). > >This program does not require yast, or any of the CDs when searching. > > > >OPTIONS: > > -h|--help Show help > > -v|--verbose Show packages processed when generating indices > > -d|--data DIR Search the index in directory DIR > > -i|--index CD [NUM] Create an index of SuSE-CD NUM, mounted at CD, in > >./. > > If NUM is missing it's established from the CD > >itself. > > This needs GNU versions of find, xargs, awk, ls. > > -I|--wholeindex CD As --index, but for all 6 CDs. > > -c|--check CD [NUM] Check MD5 sums of CD. Similar to --index. > > -C|--cdcheck CD [NUM] Check MD5 sum of CD's ISO image. > > > >Searchable indices: > > -n|--name PATTERN Search names of all packages for PAT (default) > > -s|--summary PATTERN Search package summaries for PAT > > -f|--file PATTERN Search file names installed by packages for PAT > > -S|--size PATTERN Search the package name / package size index for > >PAT > > > >GREP-OPTIONS are any options as for grep. > >PATTERN is a pattern as for grep. > >Searchable index (-d to change) in: /usr/local/doc/SuSE > > > > > >Have fun! > > > >Volker > > > >-- > >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 > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.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 >

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Problems during boot
by rbr 05 Jan '01

05 Jan '01

Hi all, perhaps this is a result of a wrong manipulation, because the system (7.0) was running up till now without problems. Suddendly, during the boot, after the line Initializing random number generator done I got the following messages: /sbin/init.d/rc2.d/s17nfsserver: test: integer expression expected Starting kernel based NFS server lockdsvc: Input/output error Cannot register service: RPC: unable to send; errno = No buffer space available mountd: unable to register (mountd, 1, udp). startproc: exit status of /usr/sbin/rpc.kmountd: 1 nfssvc: Input/output error then the boot operations continues apparently ok and the system is usable. Has anyone an idea of what's happen? TIA Roberto Brisig rbr(a)ticino.com

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Re: [SLE] package search
by Purple Shirt 05 Jan '01

05 Jan '01

Wow, great thing. If you ask me this should be included in the SuSE distribution. Besides that it would help if they had a search index on the web, which handles the same thing. >From: Volker Kuhlmann <kuhlmav(a)elec.canterbury.ac.nz> >To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com >Subject: Re: [SLE] package search >Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 15:02:29 +1300 (NZDT) > > > It's great that SuSE lists the packages on the website and what they > > contain. I wish there was one thing though. Can you add a search feature >for > > the packages and their contents? > >Yes I know, it sucked so much that I decided to take action: > >http://volker.orcon.net.nz/soft/susegrep > >It's a bash script which 1) creates an index of your SuSE CDs (once), >and 2) lets you search through it. With the 6-CD set the index is about >22MB big, not that much these days and IMHO well worth the disk space. I >use it all the time, and would answer your question with > >susegrep -f rz -w >allman.rpm.ls:/usr/share/man/allman/man1/rz.1.gz >rzsz.rpm.ls:/usr/bin/rz >rzsz.rpm.ls:/usr/share/man/man1/rz.1.gz >sdb_de.rpm.ls:/usr/share/doc/sdb/de/html/keylist.RZ.html >sdb_de.rpm.ls:/usr/share/doc/sdb/de/html/keylist.RZ.txt >sdb_en.rpm.ls:/usr/share/doc/sdb/en/html/keylist.RZ.html >sdb_en.rpm.ls:/usr/share/doc/sdb/en/html/keylist.RZ.txt > >I.e., install package rzsz. > >Here's the --help: > >Usage: susegrep -i CDROM-mountpoint [CD-number] > susegrep [-d DIR] -n|-s|-f [GREP-OPTIONS] PATTERN >Version VK 2.5.2, 05 Jan 2001, <v.kuhlmann(a)elec.canterbury.ac.nz> > >Create indices of all packages on the CDs of a SuSE-Linux distribution >(once), >and search the created indices (any time later). >This program does not require yast, or any of the CDs when searching. > >OPTIONS: > -h|--help Show help > -v|--verbose Show packages processed when generating indices > -d|--data DIR Search the index in directory DIR > -i|--index CD [NUM] Create an index of SuSE-CD NUM, mounted at CD, in >./. > If NUM is missing it's established from the CD >itself. > This needs GNU versions of find, xargs, awk, ls. > -I|--wholeindex CD As --index, but for all 6 CDs. > -c|--check CD [NUM] Check MD5 sums of CD. Similar to --index. > -C|--cdcheck CD [NUM] Check MD5 sum of CD's ISO image. > >Searchable indices: > -n|--name PATTERN Search names of all packages for PAT (default) > -s|--summary PATTERN Search package summaries for PAT > -f|--file PATTERN Search file names installed by packages for PAT > -S|--size PATTERN Search the package name / package size index for >PAT > >GREP-OPTIONS are any options as for grep. >PATTERN is a pattern as for grep. >Searchable index (-d to change) in: /usr/local/doc/SuSE > > >Have fun! > >Volker > >-- >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 > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

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wvdial
by Charlie Ti 05 Jan '01

05 Jan '01

hi, sometimes when i connect to the web with wvdial he told me bad init strings. if i do it 3 times then it works. the problem is that it doesn't do this each time. do you know what's going wrong? thanks charlie ti

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Fwd: Re: [SLE] Suggestion for SuSE web site (and SuSE Linux)
by EagleIce 05 Jan '01

05 Jan '01

I agree, it would be better to put down energy on good old yast to make it even better, I simply hate this yast2 thing. And change to Debian package system...:-) ei On Friday 05 January 2001 06:56, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > On Friday 05 January 2001 00:54, Seth Payne wrote: > > Howdy! > > > > Actually, there is such functionality already in YaST. If you go to > > "Package Information" on the same menu as "change/create > > We get onto my pet subject again.. lol. > Yast wins no awards for design or intuitiveness. > It is however very very good. And it works. > > Yast2 is in comparison both an appalling piece > of human engineering, is incredibly slow, and doesn't work > half the time. > > I hate to say this but I believe yast2 is market driven, Yast > is about as sexy as a dead fish, so someone decided something > with brighter colours was needed. What looks good at presentations, > neve mind the quality. > > If yast is to be frozen out in the cold by it's bright new > but very dumb brother then Suse is putting even more writing on the > wall over what it's real intentions are. Ah well, they are not > the only fish, or even the most interesting one in the Linux sea. > > I don't suppose I will be counted as a loss to their customer base ... > > Cliff -- @~~ EagleIce ~ gnu4u(a)linux.nu ~~@ @~~ Running GNU/Linux & KDE ~~@

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strange proxy http error
by mathias rockel 05 Jan '01

05 Jan '01

Hi! I have a strange problem. We have made a server change recently, and I was pointing people from the old site to the IP of the new site with a framed html page. Now the domain change has reached everyone, i changed the IP to the full domain name on the new server so the bookmarks for those which reach the new site are correct (I have scripts which need to be given the server-name to work, so I had configured those also to use the IP, changed that now also). This is what I changed, now I don't know if its a coincidence, but ever since I changed that I get multiple 404 error reports a day from a site which seems to be a proxy server or a cache (see attached msg). Can someone tell me if this is a misconfiguration on my end or on the proxy's end ? mathias rockel > 404 Error Report > > A 404 error was encountered by 62.30.112.1 on 09:07 am, 5-Jan-2001. > > The URI which generated the error is: > http://www.europefn.net/HTTP/1.0 > > The referring page was: >

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Can't get emacs to work
by wilson＠claborn.net 05 Jan '01

05 Jan '01

I have a little problem here: I just installed SuSE 7 Pro on 2 boxes. On one of them I picked mostly automatic settings and on it, emacs is working just fine, so I know it's possible. However on the second install I did a lot of manual selections. When I selected emacs, I got the usual message saying that I must select one of two helper packages in order to satisfy some dependencies. I accidently missed selecting one and couldn't get the dialog box back. I couldn't remember what it said, so I installed emacs without them. Emacs won't work at all with out these. I finnaly figured out which two packges I'd missed, and went back and installed them but I'm getting errors: "Opening input file: No such file or directory, /usr/lib/X11/locale/locale.alias" And emacs opens but doens't open the file I tell it to. This is after manually installing the xaw3d rpm (the one I missed during the main install) I have tired removing emacs and xaw3d, and reinstalling them, and letting yast automatically pick the packages, and I've also tried installing xaw95 and xaw95d, several times, nothing is working. I really need emacs on this system badly. There's no xserver installed as it is a server. Does anyone know a way to find exactly what all packages emacs depends on, so I can check to make sure they exist? Any advise is greatly appreciated. I need emacs prettly badly..... ---------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson System Administrator Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com Central Texas IT http://www.centraltexasit.com

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