March 2001 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

SuSE 7.1 /etc/init.d/boot bug
by Dong Liu 18 Mar '01

18 Mar '01

Hi, I noticed a bug in SuSE 7.1 /etc/init.d/boot. It runs hwclock --hctosys to set system time before local file system being mounted. For this to work, the local time zone info (/etc/localtime) must be valid. But /etc/localtime is a symlink to /usr/share/zoneinfo/YourZoneInfo. So if /usr is in a different file system which hasn't been mounted yet, hwclock --hctosys will set wrong system time. As a matter of fact, my old system which was SuSE 6.3, ran hwclock after all local file systems being mounted. Dong

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Re: [SLE] WordPerfect8 Icon
by Jerry Van Brimmer 18 Mar '01

18 Mar '01

Your right! It was installed as root. I hadn't even looked at that before. In the icon dialog, I selected "Run as a different user", entered my username, and now the icon works. Thanks for the tip!! On Friday 16 March 2001 00:58, you wrote: > A message recieved from Jerry Van Brimmer, on Saturday 17 March 2001 > 04:01 contains: > ** I have SuSE 7.1, KDE 2.0.1, standard install with office. I > installed shlibs5 ** and then WordPerfect8. When I create an icon for > it by right-clicking on the ** Desktop, and then click on the newly > made icon, nothing happens, WordPerfect ** doesn't start. All of my > other Desktop icons work. If I type <path>xwp in a ** terminal, > WordPerfect starts. The icon just doesn't work. Anybody out there ** > seen this problem, or have a clue as to what's wrong? > ** > ** Thanks, > ** Jerry > ** > have you checked the permissions? I found on one of my 7.1 installs no > matter who installed what app it was always set to root only and no > execute permissions for anyone .. ??? ( although a sort of workaround > , but clumsy, was to select "run as another user" , then It might let > you run it at root, but then again, maybe not? Sepended here on the > phases of the moon, or something ... I've given up asn decided to > reinstall the os as I royally screwed something up anyway. BUT at > least it's a place to start looking ??? > Blondely -------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [SLE] Firewalls
by Paul C.Leopardi 18 Mar '01

18 Mar '01

I'm also a home user, but use ADSL. After reading various stuff about firewalls, including some of the IPChains doc, SeaWall, etc. I took another look at the doc on SuSEfirewall and decided it wasn't so complicated after all. With my current SuSEfirewall config, I can use http, ftp, X via ssh, RealAudio and can catch at least some scans. It probably needs a lot of improvement, but here it is anyway. If there are experts who can point out the obvious holes, please let me know. I especially want to know how to keep RealAudio and still DENY INCOMING_HIGHPORTS_UDP. I made a one line change in /sbin/SuSEfirewall to prevent DENY of port-unreachable: #$IPCHAINS -A output -j "$DENY" -p icmp -s $i --icmp-type port-unreachable $LDC # Unreachable Here is everything in my /etc/rc.config.d/firewall.rc.config which is not commented out or set to "": FW_DEV_WORLD="eth0 ppp0" FW_DEV_WORLD_eth0="10.10.0.1 255.255.255.0" FW_ROUTE="no" FW_MASQUERADE="no" FW_MASQ_DEV="$FW_DEV_WORLD" # e.g. "ippp0" or "$FW_DEV_WORLD" FW_PROTECT_FROM_INTERNAL="yes" FW_AUTOPROTECT_GLOBAL_SERVICES="yes" # "yes" is a good choice FW_ALLOW_INCOMING_HIGHPORTS_TCP="ftp-data" # Common: "ftp-data" (sadly!) FW_ALLOW_INCOMING_HIGHPORTS_UDP="yes" # Common: "DNS" or "domain ntp" FW_SERVICE_DNS="no" # if yes, FW_SERVICES_*_TCP needs to have port 53 FW_SERVICE_DHCLIENT="yes" # if you use dhclient to get an ip address FW_SERVICE_DHCPD="no" # set to "yes" if this server is a DHCP server FW_SERVICE_SAMBA="no" # set to "yes" if this server uses samba as client FW_LOG_DENY_CRIT="yes" FW_LOG_DENY_ALL="no" FW_LOG_ACCEPT_CRIT="yes" FW_LOG_ACCEPT_ALL="no" FW_KERNEL_SECURITY="yes" FW_STOP_KEEP_ROUTING_STATE="no" FW_ALLOW_PING_FW="yes" FW_ALLOW_PING_DMZ="no" FW_ALLOW_FW_TRACEROUTE="no" FW_ALLOW_FW_SOURCEQUENCH="yes" FW_MASQ_MODULES="autofw cuseeme ftp irc mfw portfw quake raudio user vdolive" Note: I am running pppoed via an ethernet card attached to an ADSL modem. This should explain the 10.10.0.1 address.

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Re: [SLE] ipchains: Protocol not available
by Jerry Kreps 18 Mar '01

18 Mar '01

mmm... ftp.suse.com doesn't seem to be answering. Iptraf shows I am connecting but ftp.suse.com doesn't respond to dl requests. JLK On Sunday 18 March 2001 07:34, you wrote: > Have You updated to the new version of SuSE firewall /personal > firewall? > > The verson shipping with 7.1 had various bugs, and I used to get > the 'ipchains: protocol not available" message too. > > Upgrading solved the problems. > > > > http://www.suse.de/en/support/download/updates/71_i386.html > > fxf > > -- > ______________________ > Courtesy of SuSE Linux

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A second Bravo to SuSE
by Avi Schwartz 18 Mar '01

18 Mar '01

Couple of weeks ago I upgraded my IBM A21P laptop to 7.1 with almost zero problems. I then posted a bravo message. I just finished upgrading my second machine to 7.1 with zero problems! The reason for the exclamation point is that I expected to have some problems since it has quite a bit of hardware in it: Tyan Thunderbolt based dual processor machine with on-board audio, dual SCSI controllers, dual IDE controllers and a Matrox G450 video card. Therefore SuSE deserves a second round of applause from me. Tomorrow machine number 3 (4 and 5 later) but these machines are quite generic. I don't expect any problems there. Avi -- Avi Schwartz Get a Life, avi(a)CFFtechnologies.com Get Linux!

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Re: [SLE] ipchains: Protocol not available
by Jerry Kreps 18 Mar '01

18 Mar '01

On Saturday 17 March 2001 21:07, Jeffrey Taylor wrote: > Do you have CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL=y? I'm assuming you are running the > 2.2.18 kernel. I haven't configure the 2.4.x kernel yet. CONFIG_FIREWALL=y CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL=y CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL_NET=y Seems so. JLK > > Jeffrey > > Quoting Jerry Kreps <jerrykreps(a)jlkreps.net>: > > root@JLKreps:/home/jerry > ipchains -P forward MASQ > > ipchains: Protocol not available > > root@JLKreps:/home/jerry > modprobe ipchains > > modprobe: Invalid line 210 in /etc/modules.conf > > snd_device_gid > > modprobe: Invalid line 233 in /etc/modules.conf > > snd_dma1 > > modprobe: Invalid line 242 in /etc/modules.conf > > amixer > > modprobe: Invalid line 285 in /etc/modules.conf > > isp16_cdrom_dma > > modprobe: Invalid line 325 in /etc/modules.conf > > /sbin/modprobe > > root@JLKreps:/home/jerry > > > > > YaST2 installed ipchains and turned ip forwarding > > on when I installed 7.1. I can see IP-FORWARDing > > enabled when the boot msgs fly by. The service is > > modular, but doing a modprobe on them gives the same > > errors the kernel reports when it tries to install them > > during the boot. > > > > Any advice besides 'reinstall'.? > > JLK > > > > CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE=y > > # Protocol-specific masquerading support will be built as > > modules. # > > CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_ICMP=y > > # > > # Protocol-specific masquerading support will be built as > > modules. # > > CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_MOD=y > > CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_IPAUTOFW=m > > CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_IPPORTFW=m > > CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_MFW=m

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Scsi-emulator in SuSE 7.1
by Gunnar Håland 18 Mar '01

18 Mar '01

I have finaly got the SuSE 7.1 and it is just fine. But in 7.0 I was able to use the ide cd burner plextor 12-10-32 ti write cd, but somehow I can not find the text in the Configurationbook that came with 7.1, I can not find /sbin/init.d/boot.local, it is not on my system. I am using kernel 2.4 What can I do, can someone help me.....????? Gunnar

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Word to TeX (or LaTeX)
by Álvaro A. Novo 18 Mar '01

18 Mar '01

I am looking for a piece of software to convert MS Word files to TeX (LaTeX is also acceptable). Any recommendation? Good experiences? I looked into "word2x"... failed miserably rtf2latex2e worked so, so... And what about TeX --> Word? I have to put with a co-author who still use the MS crap... it drives me nuts! ___________ Alvaro Novo SuSE 7.1 -=- Kernel 2.4.2-4 -=- KDE 2.1 2:58pm up 1 day, 14:26, 7 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

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Firewire support and external drives
by Jamie O'Shaughnessy 18 Mar '01

18 Mar '01

I'm currently looking for a solution to moving a large (well, 20-60Gb) of data around, mainly between two linux machines. A nice solutions seems to be to get an external firewire hard drive (say the Maxtor external 80Gb drive) and some firewire controllers in each machine. I've looked into support for firewire on linux and it seems it should work, using the firewire drivers from http://linux1394.sourceforge.net and also the SBP-2 drivers to support external mass storage devices. Question is, has anyone else done this (external direwire drives and linux)? What firewire controller card did you use? How reliable is it? I'm not that interested in being able to hot-swap the drive, but it would be very nice to be able to umount it, unplug it from one machine and plug it into another and mount it, all without rebooting. Cheers, Jamie PS : networking or other ways of solving the problem aren't acceptable/viable in this case, it's got to be some kind of external mass storage device (read/writable). It's doesn't have to be blindingly fast, but it does have to be generally hard drive speed/access.

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Postgres - trouble starting the database on a suse 7.0 box - data dir not found
by Lars Forseth 18 Mar '01

18 Mar '01

Hi! I'm looking for a little help on starting Postgres on my SuSE 7.0 box. I've installed all the relevant rpm's, but suse.config is having trouble accessing the data dir of postgres (var/lib/pgsql/data) for configuration of the database dir: I have found this in my var/log/messages : /var/log/messages:8349:Mar 18 09:58:19 Yoda yast[1568]: Initializing the PostgreSQL database for location ~postgres/data ... -su: initlog: Permission denied BTW: A textfile with relevant messages from var/log/messages are included with this message. I have - I must admitt - messed around a bit to try to sett the data dir (PGDATA) variable. Now it is set to: root@Yoda:/home/larsf > echo $PGDATA /var/lib/pgsql/data . Trying to connect to a database with psql gives this result: postgres@Yoda:/home/larsf > psql psql: connectDBStart() -- connect() failed: Connection refused Is the postmaster running at 'localhost' and accepting connections on Unix socket '5432'? I have searched the SuSE support database; and I found an old artickle dealing with the lack of package pg_datab.rpm; but this seems to not be any part of the distro today; at least a search in yast1 gives no such package. Where do I go now; hints and tips are werry much apreciated as I am now at the end of my limited knowledge on this matter. Regards Lars Forseth

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