February 2001 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

ICQ client
by Derek Fountain 15 Mar '01

15 Mar '01

Anyone know of a decent ICQ client for Linux? I use kicq under KDE2, which works, just about. But it leaves a lot to be desired in the UI areas! Such is alpha software. Are there any better ones? Freshmeat brings up a few, but rather than trying them all I thought I'd ask for a recommendation.

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7.1 problems so far
by Lewis E. Wolfgang 15 Mar '01

15 Mar '01

Hi Folks, I purchased four Professional boxes last week for use at a government lab. I started to install on a 1200-Mhz Athlon system on Monday and encountered the following problems. 1. A "Modules" disk was bad in one of the boxes, glad I purchased more than one! 2. I used yast1, and after a few false starts booted to a working system. Alas, the keyboard was messed up, as in hitting the "Y" key gave you a "Z" on the screen. Alas, the "/" key mapped to "_", so I couldn't cd around to fix the problem. End of first day. 3. I booted the rescue system and mounted the / partition to edit /etc/rc.config where I found the keyboard mapping to be latin. I'm not sure if I screwed up, or if the default is screwey. Removing the latin entry fixed things up. 4. Now, I notice that when I type the "more" command, all I get is the following: /var/log> more boot.log more: unknown option "--" usage: more [-dflpcsu] [+linenum | +/pattern] name1 name2 ... This error is the same regardless of the argument to the program. less, and zmore work okay. One wonders, "If more is broken, what else is affected?" Don't get me wrong, I like SuSE and have been using it since 5.2. I just thought I'd report my experiences to date. Regards, Lew Wolfgang SPAWARSYSCEN San Diego

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redhat vs suse
by faisal 09 Mar '01

09 Mar '01

Hello i am a user of redhat linux waiting for the suse linux 7.1 iso image to be available so that i could get it .. i was thinking what are the benifits i will have when i install suse on my workstation ? *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤Allah Hafiz*º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*Faisal Gillani *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤Allah Hafiz*º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*Faisal Gillani *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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2.4.2 kernel 386 vs athlon
by joe 06 Mar '01

06 Mar '01

On an athlon system: Does it make a big performance difference selecting an Athlon kernel as opposed to a generic 386 kernel that will run on anything? Is the difference noticable? thanks in advance joe

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Re: [SLE] stupid question
by wilson＠claborn.net 06 Mar '01

06 Mar '01

At 02:59 PM 2/16/2001 -0700, you wrote: >Hello! > >I am going to buy a big (80 GB) hard drive for my machine tonight. The >problem is, my machine is 3 yrs old so the bios can only "see" an 8 GB >drive. How do i get Linux to recognize that the Drive is actually 80 GB? As far as I know, Linux cannot correctly deal with a hard drive that your BIOS can't see. It could cause you other hardware problems too. >Seth R. Payne >Education Marketing >Legato Systems www.legato.com >801.437.8180 > "World Domination. Fast." >-- Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux Operating System > > > >-- >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 ---------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson System Administrator Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com Central Texas IT http://www.centraltexasit.com

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Minimal Install package selection
by Togan Muftuoglu 06 Mar '01

06 Mar '01

Hi everyone, I am trying to create a minimalistic file selection list to build a firewall/router machine ( I looked LRP/Coyote but I did not feel comfortable with them and at least I understand Suse's interface better ) I did a check on the mailist archives and I found a list of packages (for 6.4 yet I am planning to modify this for 7.0 or 7.1 ). This is the list and the packages marked are, when I am not sure if they are used by any cron jobs or dependent to other packages or scripts or libraries. So I need help in making the list more efficient. Any other suggestions are also welcomed # Configuration YaST Version 1.05.2 -- (c) 1994-2000 SuSE GmbH Description: firewall Toinstall: aaa_base aaa_dir aaa_skel ash base bash bc ---my guess is not a must bdflush bind8 bindutil compress cpio cracklib ---my guess is not a must cron ddrescue devs dhcpcd diff ---my guess is not a must elm -- no need for a mail reader on firewall ? ext2fs file fileutil find firewals ---my guess is not a must since this is the suse firewall script fwproxys gawk gdbm gpm ---my guess is not a must gppshare groff ---my guess is not a must gzip ipchains ipmasqad iproute2 k_i386 -- idealy my idea is to build a rpm for my kernel kbd less libjpeg ---my guess is not a must libz lilo localedb ---my guess is not a must lsof lvm ---my guess is not a must (but could be usefull if I need more space later) mailx man ---my guess is not a must metamail mktemp modules ncftp -- ??? ncurses net_tool netcfg nkita nkitb ntop openssh openssl pam pciutils perl pgp ppp procmail ps qtlib2 ---my guess is not a must recode reiserfs ---??? will it be a good idea to install it on a firewall/router purposed machine rpm rsync sash -- if I have installed this package do I need bash and gzip also ? seccheck sendmail -- or postfix ? or something else any ideas sh_utils shadow sharutil shlibs smtpd syslogd sysvinit tcsh ---my guess is not a must unless there are suse scripts using it terminfo textutil timezone util uucp vim w3m ---my guess is not a must xshared ---my guess is not a must y2base ---my guess is not a must yast yast2 ---my guess is not a must -- Togan Muftuoglu

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Re: [SLE] Beautiful KDE2.1
by Fergus Wilde 05 Mar '01

05 Mar '01

Hi, yes, There's a link towards the bottom of: http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-2.1.html Haven't tried the 6.3 rpms, but the 6.4 ones went in very nicely, just using rpm -Uvh, with --nodeps or --force occasionally. On Wednesday 28 February 2001 13:06, you wrote: > any URL for the suse 6.3 rpms ? > thanks > > yann > >

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7.1. does not install on Dell Optiplex GXM 5133
by Koos Pol 05 Mar '01

05 Mar '01

Hello all, I have problems installing 7.1 on a Dell Optiplex GXM 5133. When booting from cd-rom or the floppy disk, I see the SuSE splash screen, but than it hangs. I don't even get the "boot:" prompt. If have seen this problems with 6.3 as well I believe. Does anyone know what the prorbem might be and how to tackle it? I have successfully booted the Dell Optiplex with a 6.4 boot disk, but I can't finish off the 7.1 installation with it (kernel/modules incompatibilities). Your help is much appreciated. -- ---------------------------------------------------- Koos Pol T: +31 20 3116122 Systems Administrator F: +31 20 3116200 Compuware Europe B.V. E: koos_pol(a)nl.compuware.com Amsterdam PGP public key available

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Squid cache access offline
by Paul Evans 05 Mar '01

05 Mar '01

HI Does anyone know how to implement the offline cache mode in squid? I tried adding offline_mode on in the squid.conf file, but it didn't work - of course, nothing is that simple :-) One extra question: Is it possible to set a cron job to retrieve web pages or update already cached web pages? Thanks Paul

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SuSE Manual On CD 7.1
by b stephen harding 03 Mar '01

03 Mar '01

On the 7.1 CD is the PDF manual the 7.1 Manual(the print one) or as with 7.0 it is the 6.4 Manual. b stephen harding Black & White Rhino Press ----------------------------------------------- "A man is involved in life, leaves his impression on it, and outside of that there is nothing." Jean-Paul Satre The Contemporary World

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