December 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [SLE] Firewall advice
by Stuart Powell 31 Dec '02

31 Dec '02

Hello, Derek. I have a couple of wild and crazy ideas about this matter. Firstly, a quick and dirty fix for you. Pop the NIC out of the firewall machine, and drop it into one of your other machines with a full blown OS on it. Configure the DSL modem with that machine. Then put the card back into the firewall box, and, as if by magic, your firewall will be using the same MAC address as the machine it was configured with and your DSL modem should be happy. Secondly, and this one is a bit more technical, and may even be wrong (I'm sure someone will correct me if my logic is flawed), but if the firewall is running NAT, then does it really matter which machine configures the DSL modem ? With NAT enabled, all outgoing packets inherit the IP and MAC address of the NAT machine's external interface. Therefore, you should be able to hook up your firewall machine to the DSL modem, and configure it from any of the machines behind the firewall. I am assuming you have NAT enabled so as to hide the other machines from the DSL modem. Bye for now, Stuart. >>> Derek Fountain <derekfountain(a)yahoo.co.uk> 12/30/02 07:26AM >>> > => Does it carry a web browser that supports frames and > => Javascript, and can I > => install it onto a box with no CD drive? > > Well, it's small, has a very good support page, requires no CD-ROM (I > assume you could FTP it to the box ??), and is configured by editing a > couple of fully-commented conf files... If it doesn't carry a copy of Mozilla, Netscape4/7 or Konqueror, I won't be able to configure my ADSL modem with it. The modem is configured using a browser interface, and will only subsequently work when used from the same MAC address as it was configured from. That was the reason I switched from Smoothwall, which is a fine firewall, to SuSE in the first place.

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what the heck keeps running at 1am?
by Jeric 31 Dec '02

31 Dec '02

Most, but not all, nights several things run in the background. This includes the following that I have seen active (via "top") during this time period each time: find, sort, rpm, grep, and cleanup. It is not (or at least should not) be my cron jobs as my cron is set up to run at 6am (I attached /etc/crontab at end of email, in case I unwittingly messed it up). What else runs around 1am that may include some/all of the above mentioned programs? Only my cron.daily and cron.d directories have anything in them. I only know of "at" and "cron" that run on time delays, and "at" is empty, while crontab times are listed below. Any ideas? Thanks -jeric /etc/crontab: -*/15 * * * * root test -x /usr/lib/cron/run-crons && /usr/lib/cron/run-crons >/dev/null 2>&1 59 * * * * root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly 14 6 * * * root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.daily 29 6 * * 6 root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.weekly 44 6 1 * * root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.monthly -- JericAtSbcglobalDotNetwork 1:05am up 1 day, 1:52, 6 users, load average: 1.74, 1.37, 0.85

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Redhat to Suse and ext2 FS
by Jason Jonas - Sapien 30 Dec '02

30 Dec '02

I've been building a new suse 8.1 pro box to replace an old redhat box. Everything is working on the new box - mail, apache... - but I tried moving an 80GB Maxtor IDE drive over and was not able to mount the system. The device is recognized. The FS type is ext2, but when I tried mounting as ext2 I received a 'bad fstype' message. I have SCSI drives that take care of the important stuff and this IDE drive is used for long-term, online data storage. Does anyone know why taking an ext2 drive from redhat to suse would fail? Thanks. Jason

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drive errors
by Mike 30 Dec '02

30 Dec '02

I'm starting to get errors from one of my SCSI drives (see below) I know about badblocks but are there any other programs for testing and fixing the drive? kernel: scsi0: ERROR on channel 0, id 5, lun 0, CDB: 0x28 00 00 03 af 90 00 00 3f 00 kernel: Info fld=0x3af9a, Current sd0b:01: sns = f0 3 kernel: ASC= 2 ASCQ= 0 kernel: Raw sense data:0xf0 0x00 0x03 0x00 0x03 0xaf 0x9a 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 kernel: I/O error: dev 0b:01, sector 966248 kernel: scsi0:0:5:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message kernel: scsi0:0:5:0: Command not found kernel: aic7xxx_abort returns 8194

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Fwd: Re: [SLE] cups network printer
by fsanta 30 Dec '02

30 Dec '02

Hi. Did that and this: The following are the basics to get you started Add to /etc/cups/cupsd.conf on your Server in the appropiate places ---- BROWSING SECTION----- BrowseAddress 192.168.2.255 BrowseAllow 192.168.2.* ------ SECURITY SECTION ------ <Location /> Order Deny,Allow Deny From All Allow From 127.0.0.1 Allow From 127.0.0.2 Allow From 192.168.2.* </Location> and now the client says that it can see the server but no queue appear in the printer dialogue on the server and there are no errors in /var/log/messages on either box. Any ideas? THanks, Steve. ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: [SLE] cups network printer Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 07:38:28 +0000 From: Linux World 999 <linuxworld999(a)yahoo.co.uk> To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com On Sunday 29 December 2002 20:09, Graham Smith wrote: <snip> > In /etc/cups/client.conf on ALL your client machines add > ServerName 192.168.2.1 Even if this modification is not done, the cups printer will be accessible. -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com -------------------------------------------------------

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Video card 2D-3D for Linux?
by Alex Daniloff 30 Dec '02

30 Dec '02

Hello SuSE folkz, Could somebody please recommend any good 2D-3D video card or a chipset name for Linux with at least 64MB or 128MB RAM. It has to be fully supported, be easy in installation and configuration without a fuzz. I'm building ultimate Linux machine for game programming and other very heavy graphical stuff. Any info, thoughts or suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks. Alex

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Dial on demand with smpppd
by Jim Cunning 30 Dec '02

30 Dec '02

I have an 8.0 system that I'm trying to get smpppd to do dial on demand. It seems that it's just supposed to work, because I have found very little that explains how it works, how to configure it, and what to do to troubleshoot things when it doesn't work. The man pages talk about the configuration files mostly, and the few brief paragraphs in the 8.0 SuSE Linux Reference are no help. Nothing useful came out of a Google and SDB search, either. I configured the modem with Yast2, defined a provider, supplied a user name and password, etc. That all seemed to work; smpppd is running, wvdial is installed (I think it needs that.) Nothing happens. For example, when I ping an external IP address, the message connect: Network is unreachable is printed. Questions: 1. Is there a definitive (and complete) description of the use and configuration of smpppd somewhere? 2. Does it require a dummy network device? If so, how does one go about configuring one, if I originally answered "no" to the offer when installing? 3. Where should the default route point before the ppp session is brought up? 4. Am I asking the wrong questions? Thanks, Jim

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What is it with SuSE 8.1 (lot's of errors)?
by Rune Madsen 30 Dec '02

30 Dec '02

Well, I'm dissapointed.... My computer is just a plain simple one, with a Asus A7-VE mainboard, and an Duron at 800 Meg. No peculiar or special hardware involved at all!! The funny thing is that, i had SuSE 7.3 installed before 8.1, and everything just worked right "out of the box". The first time I installed 8.1, I din't include the development tools, thinking I was able to install it afterwards. I did so (all of the tools and libraries), but the damned thing could not compile ANYTHING. I reinstalled 8.1, with the tools, and now it is working fine. I compiled and installed Xine (don't like Mplayer), expecting to have a cozy afternoon with some DVD movies, but i did't went that way, since the kernel was resetting the dma on my DVD-drive all the time. Does anyone know what to do about this? Some info about the drive: IDE 02.0: 10602 CD-ROM (DVD) [Created at ide.122] Unique ID: hY5p.8HChSw0lu7D Hardware Class: cdrom Model: "LG DVD-ROM DRD-8160B" Device: "LG DVD-ROM DRD-8160B" Revision: "1.01" Serial ID: "" Driver: "ide-cdrom" Device File: /dev/hdc Size: 14993988 sectors a 512 bytes Config Status: cfg=yes, avail=yes, need=no Attached to: #19 (IDE interface) I have also a lot of errors on my hdd (LG CD-RW CED-8080B). "ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0) end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 64" and "cdrom: open failed" The patch for kernel-2.4.19 from SuSE, IS installed! Can anybody help me before I'm giving up SuSE 8.1 completely, and switch back to SuSE 7.3? I'm beginning to get frustrated........ Anyway, have a happy new year, and let's hope SuSE is doing a lot better distro than 8.1 in the future!!

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Re: [SLE] local rec't of mail doesn't work
by Graham Smith 30 Dec '02

30 Dec '02

On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 05:52, you wrote: > * Graham Smith <gqs(a)iinet.net.au> [12-30-02 13:23]: > > Have you set up your DNS fully? You need a MX record to point to your > > email server. > > How do I get an MX record ?? I'm kind of dumb about this > <sheepish-grin>. So was I about 3 weeks ago. I just set up (still setting up) my office with email and new domain name, etc. All I can tell you is how I did it. 1) bought the domain via http://www.Namescout.com/ 2) I used dyndns.org to host the DNS part. It costs US$30 as a once only fee. 3) In their setup utilities you can do a number of fancy things as well as setting up your MX record to point to our mail server. Have a look at their site http://www.dyndns.org/ There is plenty of info on the site especially their white papers on E-mail, Mail Exchangers, and DNS http://support.dyndns.org/whitepapers/mail.php BTW. I ended up having to setup a internal DNS server to distribute the incoming email to another mail server. I've been up all night and am pretty tired, so have a read on that site and get back to me with any questions. BTW there are a couple of other providers of DNS services about, I just used DynDns.org because I had used them in the past and their charges seemed reasonable and had time pressures. Have a look around for others. Happy New year. -- Regards, Graham Smith ---------------------------------------------------------

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X and nolisten tcp
by irvine＠vuosaari.hai.fi 30 Dec '02

30 Dec '02

Hello I have read that if one doesn't want to have X listen for remote connections one need only change ... :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 vt07 to :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 vt07 -nolisten tcp in the file ... /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers I have done so. I restarted xdm but netstat still shows X listening on all interfaces. I rebooted and still X is listening for remote connections. Anyone any ideas what the problem may be or which other config files could be changed to have the same effect. t-irvine

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