December 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

gtk2, eclipse and Suse 8.0 pro...
by p p 01 Jan '03

01 Jan '03

I needed to install GTK2 to run eclipse.. With my desktop this went smoothly and less thatn 30 mins I got everything fixed. But now with my laptop I used same sources, configured them, make and make installs went through without errors, but now when I try to launch eclipse i get: "No fonts found, this propably means that the fontconfig library is not correctly configured. You may need to edit the fonts.conf" I have fonts installed, Ihave installed: pkgconfig Xft (Xft2) fontconfig 2.1 glib 2.2.0 atk-1.2.0 Pango-1.2.0 gtk+-2.2.0 Any ideas how to get this working ? Pete

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ftp client problems
by fsanta 01 Jan '03

01 Jan '03

Hi everyone. gftp freezes my machine solid in 8.1. There are no messages in /var/log/messages. Can anyone recommend an alternative? Cheers and happy new year from Steve.

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Path.
by Erik Jakobsen 01 Jan '03

01 Jan '03

Hi. On my newly installed SuSE 8.1, I have installed Mozilla in /usr/local/mozilla. After I have made a file /etc/profile.d/mozilla.sh, that contains: PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/mozilla/mozilla But mozilla doen't start up. Where's the culprit ?. -- Erik Jakobsen

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How to Print Landscape with CUPS?
by Dom Incollingo 01 Jan '03

01 Jan '03

Hi everyone, I am running 8.1 and using CUPS to print. Whenever I try to print landscape from an application (Mozilla, KView, etc.), the output prints in portrait. According to the SuSE support database, the solution is to add the following command to the application: sed -e 's/Orientation: Landscape/Orientation: Portrait/' | lpr I added this command to Mozilla (Print Command within Print Properties), and it works fine. But I do not know WHERE to enter this command in the various K-applications (KView, KWrite, etc.). Does anyone know where to enter this command to be able to print landscape in K-applications such as KWrite? Thanks very much. Dom -- ______________________________________________ http://www.linuxmail.org/ Now with POP3/IMAP access for only US$19.95/yr Powered by Outblaze

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Strange LILO problem
by Bob S. 01 Jan '03

01 Jan '03

On Saturday 28 December 2002 08:35, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote: > On Fri, 27 Dec 2002, Bob just had to get this off his chest: > > Hello SuSE folks, > > > > Running 8.0 Just did an upgrade of my kernel to 2.4.19 > > Did my mk_initrd and then a LILO. The LILO message stated > > " added Linux* > > skipping /boot/vmlinuz.suse > > added /windows (dual boot) > > fatal open /boot/memtest.bin No such file or directory" > > > > When I rebooted it failed at LI. Had to reboot with a floppy > > Why did you ignore this error? I'm sure it also said it didn't > write lilo so that should've given you ample warning not to reboot > just yet.. Hi, Thanks for answering......Why ignore it?, Welllll...because I didn't know what to do about it at that point and still don't, ie: the purpose of this message. Can't tell you why, but I thought it did write it and it would boot OK at the time and then fix it afterwards. Guess I was wrong about that. Live & learn. > > and then edited lilo.conf by removing the memtest line. > > Then rebooted properly. But, without the two options of > > failsafe and memtest. > > > > Can anybody explain/help me fix what has caused this? > > Also there is no time delay to choose the OS. Boots > > almost immediately to Linux. > > Did you use a SuSE kernel (rpm) for the upgrade or did you build > one yourself? It is a SuSE rpm downloaded from their 8.1 repository. (k 5deflt_2.4.19-110_i586.rpm) > Boot delay in lilo.conf has nothing to do with the installation of > another kernel, see if your $EDITOR saved a backup copy so you can > see what changed. Fixed that already. Soooo......Can anybody explain why, or help me get back those two options in the Lilo menu? lilo.conf still shows the failsafe label, but does not show it in the menu, and of course the memtest86 label is gone because I removed it to make it boot. (see above original post) TIA, Bob.S

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[SLE] Can Victor Shear Bring Down Microsoft?(OT)
by Curtis Rey 31 Dec '02

31 Dec '02

Ouch! They could be in real trouble here. 144 patents and they only really need one to hit M$ big. Like it was said - "consider these like nuclear warheads". If you take out 143 inbound nukes and just one gets through - you're still screwed. If more than one, its just about the size of the crater at that point! And Philips and Sony won't likely come to a deal to let M$ off the hook if one exists. They may not bring M$ down in the manner the InterTrust might, but I can garauntee they'd hold it over M$ like a pissed off 10 ton gorilla - nothing like having a rope around someones neck. I could see the XBox going bye-bye, or the cellphone market suddenly dry up for M$, not to mention what might happen to the MediaCenter PC that MS and certain OEMs are producing. Oh, but remember that this is a case of parallel development. M$ didn't rip off InterTrust. No, they came up with and invented this all by themselves (like everything else they use - the concept of the gui - Windows (did I hear Steve Jobs choking?), etc...)! Hmmm, this is going to be very interesting (hehehe - is that sweat on Bill and Steve's forehead and do they seem to be turning a funny color red to you?). Cheers, Curtis. :)

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Backup compression question
by Harry G 31 Dec '02

31 Dec '02

I have a Documents directory that is 53.2 MB in size. Using ark, I backed it up to another hard drive as a tar file. The tar file is 53.5 MB. I thought that the file would be smaller in size. What am I missing here? If it becomes larger, I could just do a cp command, and save space! Is it ark that is the problem? Harry G

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Syslog-ng current version
by netsec novice 31 Dec '02

31 Dec '02

I have just installed the boxed copy of SuSE 8.1 and am wanting to use the current stable release of syslog-ng which from what I see is 1.4.17 on the balabit site. Do I need to download a version that has the 'SuSE' stamp of approval or will a download straight from the balabit site work just fine? I am attempting to use YOU to do the download from SuSE which apparently only has 1.4.14 but keep getting timeouts(VERY slow) and other various errors. Am I proceeding in the wrong direction or is this the way to go? Help appreciated, N _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963

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Free AntiVirus email scanning software
by Graham Smith 31 Dec '02

31 Dec '02

Hi, Just wondering if anyone has used Clam AntiVirus software or Messagewall with postfix. If so are there any pitfalls and or tips in setting up and using this software. Also which is the better of the two products, or is there any other free AntiVirus scanning products I should consider. >From reading both sites messagewall appears to be the better of the two as it does spam filtering as well. http://clamav.elektrapro.com/ http://www.messagewall.org/ I'm really not interested in commercial AntiVirus software as once bitten twice shy. I either find the companies totally unresponsive and/or charge the earth for their products. -- Regards, Graham Smith ---------------------------------------------------------

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booting in text mode
by Hagen Finley 31 Dec '02

31 Dec '02

Typically, I boot up suse 8.1 using the graphical X login interface, but occasionally, like when X fails to load over and over again, it would be useful to specify booting up in text mode. Is there a boot parameter which allows me to override the default graphical login? Regards, Hagen Finley

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