April 2001 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

No Sound from Kscd
by George H. Griffin 06 Apr '01

06 Apr '01

Hello: I too am unable to get sound from my CD drive using the Kscd player. The display on the player, and LED on the CD drive, indicate that everything is functioning OK, but there's no sound. My sound card is an SB-Live with support compiled into the kernel. I've checked the mixer settings, nothing's muted and the volumes are set up I can hear the the system bell, play MP3s with Noatun, and even get music from the CD when I use XMMS to play /dev/cdrom instead of Kscd. Does somebody out there have another suggestion for me to try to get Kscd working. (I find it more convenient than XMMS.) Thanks in advance, George -- George H. Griffin Powered by SuSE Linux 7.1, kernel 2.4.2 "Always believe your observations, not your theories (no matter how near they may be to your heart) if the two are in conflict!" John Gribbin

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Re: [SLE] XNTPD...
by Paul Edwards 06 Apr '01

06 Apr '01

ntpd =< 4.0.99k remote buffer overflow was released on bugtraq @ 22:27 04/04/01 http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike? mid=174011&threads=0&fromthread=0&end=2001-04-07&start=2001-04-01&list=1& FreeBSD patch is in CURRENT. -- paule

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Officials: Federal systems increasingly falling prey to hackers
by Fred A. Miller 06 Apr '01

06 Apr '01

http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV63_STO59280,00.html?RCKEY= -- -- ----/ / _ Fred A. Miller ---/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Systems Administrator --/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / Cornell Univ. Press Services -/____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ fm(a)cupserv.org

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What do do if searching doesn't search
by Paul Abrahams 06 Apr '01

06 Apr '01

OK, I can't find the earlier thread, but someone was asking about what to do if the search function in KDE/SUSE isn't working. The answer: go to htdig.org, pick up the htdig software, and install it. That's what worked for me. Paul Abrahams

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[KDE] KDE 2.1.1 freezes with ypbind running
by Vosahlo, Jakub 06 Apr '01

06 Apr '01

I am running 7.1 with KDE 2.1.1 upgrade from SuSE site. I have tried to get the NIS client running (successfully), but now when the KDE desktop starts, it freezes in the phase when the splash screen says "Loading toolbar". I would appreciate any hint where to look for error messages or to solve this. I have no experience with the NIS setup at all. Jakub

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[DEV] What's aclocal (somehow related to compiling/package building)
by wilson＠claborn.net 06 Apr '01

06 Apr '01

Hey, I'm trying to make a SuSEified version of Aethera, but the src.rpm they have available for download dies with this: Executing(%build): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.74514 + umask 022 + cd /usr/src/packages/BUILD + cd aethera-0.9.1 + make -f Makefile.cvs This Makefile is only for the CVS repository This will be deleted before making the distribution *** Concatenating configure tests into acinclude.m4 *** Creating list of subdirectories in subdirs *** Searching for subdirectories... *** Retrieving configure tests needed by configure.in make[1]: aclocal: Command not found make[1]: *** [cvs] Error 127 make: *** [all] Error 2 Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.74514 (%build) Can anyone lend me some mindshare on this? I'm not really a programmer :-) ---------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson System Administrator Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com Central Texas IT http://www.centraltexasit.com

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Re: [SLE] Mount : No Medium Found
by Sean Akers 06 Apr '01

06 Apr '01

Sean Akers@ROMAX 06/04/2001 16:35 Last time I had this message was when my CDROM had failed. Installing a new one solved the problem. (Actually, the broken one was just gunked up with nicotine and dust and a good clean made it work perfectly again). Sean.

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Re: [SLE] Starting MySQL at boot[Done. Thanks to All.]
by Fredrick Bartlett 06 Apr '01

06 Apr '01

Ok, mySQL is not in my rc.config. How can I add it, what is the command syntax? Albert Wagner wrote: > On Wednesday 04 April 2001 21:44, you wrote: > > I need the same, what does "yasted" mean? > > > Sorry, Fredrick. It's just a made up word. I mean that I started up yast2, > and went to: > > ControlCenter->Misc->RCConfigEditor->StartVariables->StartApplications > > I'm new to SuSE too. Apparently most configuration is done in the yast2 app. > > > Albert Wagner wrote: > > > I uninstalled the MySQL rpms and installed the SuSE rpms, then yasted it > > > to start=yes. Thanks to everyone who replied. > > > > > > -- > > > 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] useful bash scripts
by Ole Kofoed Hansen 06 Apr '01

06 Apr '01

This in not actually a bash script, but useful anyway. It is supposed to do something to each normal user on the system. This version makes a new folder (or directory if you prefer) in their $HOME, but just changing the line with the system call will let you do lots of other useful stuff like sending a mail to all users or whatever you can imagine. Of course, you will probably have to be root to use the script if it needs to write in the users' $HOMEs. Oh, for the mail-to-all version, just cange the system line to something like: system("cat mailtextfile | mail -s "System down for maintenance tomorrow" $username"); Since I used the -w flag, perl will issue warnings for each field in the userentry which is not used. These warnings can be disregarded. Regards Ole #!/usr/bin/perl -w # Just open the the passwd file and read it quickly open FILE, "/etc/passwd" or die "Where are my users???"; @userlist = <FILE>; close FILE; foreach $userentry (@userlist) { # Split the userentry into atoms. # Note that the password often does not contain anything useful, # but it is still a field, so we have to consider it anyway. ($username, $password, $userID, $groupID, $fullname, $home, $shell) = split(':',$userentry); # The 'nobody' user is usually not above UID 500, but just making sure. if ($UID >= 500 && $username ne 'nobody') { # Give each existing user a new folder and set ownership and permissions system("mkdir $home/foldername && chown $username:users $home/foldername && chmod 0700 $home/foldername"); } }

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Searchable suse archives?
by otto porter 06 Apr '01

06 Apr '01

I have tried to use both Mail Archive, and WebCrawler, and also Suse's own list archive. These search engines are brain dead. The designers of these systems must have been from planet X. Is there any other searchable access to the suse lists. Or maybe techniques for using the existing search engines. thanks, Otto Porter

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