December 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Problems with SCSI Tape Backups
by Donald Polak 10 Dec '02

10 Dec '02

I'm having nothing but troubles with my SCSI Tape drives. PLEASE HELP!!! I lost one server because a drive failed and I couldn't backup the drive. This is the error I get when I try to tar to the drives. gatekeeper:/ # tar -cvf /dev/st1 ./usr/local/httpd/htdocs/photo/ ./usr/local/httpd/htdocs/photo/ ./usr/local/httpd/htdocs/photo/lost+found/ ./usr/local/httpd/htdocs/photo/Birthdays/ ./usr/local/httpd/htdocs/photo/Birthdays/Dad/ ./usr/local/httpd/htdocs/photo/Birthdays/Dad/2001/ ./usr/local/httpd/htdocs/photo/Birthdays/Dad/2001/640/ ./usr/local/httpd/htdocs/photo/Birthdays/Dad/2001/640/P1090265.jpg ./usr/local/httpd/htdocs/photo/Birthdays/Dad/2001/640/P1090267.jpg ./usr/local/httpd/htdocs/photo/Birthdays/Dad/2001/640/P1090268.jpg ./usr/local/httpd/htdocs/photo/Birthdays/Dad/2001/descriptions/ ./usr/local/httpd/htdocs/photo/Birthdays/Dad/2001/comments/ ./usr/local/httpd/htdocs/photo/Birthdays/Dad/2001/P1090265.jpg tar: /dev/st1: Cannot write: Input/output error tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now Here is my configuration: SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional ASUS P5A Super Socket 7 Motherboard AMD K6-2 500MHz 256MB PC133 SDRAM WD 100GB EDIE Quantum 20GB EIDE ASUS 40X EIDE CDROM ASUS SC875 NCR 53c875 controllerd PCI SCSI Card Sony SDT-5200 DDS2 SCSI Tape Drive IBM Branded Seagate Python DDS3 SCSI Tape Drive 3Com 3C590 10BaseT NIC D-Link DE-220P PnP ISA NIC Everything works great except for the SCSI tapes, everything is also seen too. Here is the details from proc. gatekeeper:/ # cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00 Vendor: SONY Model: SDT-5200 Rev: 3.30 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00 Vendor: ARCHIVE Model: Python 04106-XXX Rev: 743B Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 The SCSI card is auto terminating, so I have removed the Power Term and Termination off of both drives, since they are on the same cable. Thank you in advance for any help that you can offer me! Don -- http://slovakia.homeip.net

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[SLE][OT] Office apps
by DB Troll 10 Dec '02

10 Dec '02

Which office app would anyone suggest? I have tried OO and Koffice but they both seem hard to use. I only recently switch to linux and have a problem with the office apps, in M$OS I used Corels Office 2000 and Print Office, esp print office because it had tons of templates. I would appreciate any suggestions. Thanks David

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phpMyAdmin and Mysql
by Donn aka N5XWB 10 Dec '02

10 Dec '02

Hey Groups; I have screwed up and set the MySQL password using phpMyAdmin incorrectly. I am now denied access. It seems that to reset it I need to know what it was set as. Is there a file that contains the password that can either to removed or edited? -- 73 de Donn Washburn __ " http://www.hal-pc.org/~dwash " Ham Callsign N5XWB / / __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 307 Savoy St. / /__ / / / \/ / / /_/ / \ \/ / Sugar Land, TX 77478 /_____/ /_/ /_/\__/ /_____/ /_/\_\ LL# 1.281.242.3256 a MSDOS Virus "Free Zone" OS Email: n5xwb(a)arrl.net Info: http://www.austinlug.org

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SuSE Firewall accepting and dropping same packets?
by Jeric 10 Dec '02

10 Dec '02

In my firewall logs (/var/log/messages), generated by SuSEfirewall2 in SuSE 8.1 I will get two identical lines, both time stamped the same second and everything, except the first one is ACCEPT, and the second one is DENY. Has anyone seen this and know what causes this, or how to fix it. The packets in question should be denied. I don't have anything complex set up on the firewall (i.e. no masq, routing, dmz, etc. are set up). I don't understand how two similar packets (if not the same packets) are being both accepted and denied, this shouldn't be. Thanks, -Jeric -- JericAtSbcglobalDotNetwork 4:02am up 17 days, 19:51, 7 users, load average: 0.07, 0.05, 0.01

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Changing IP addresses
by Doug Roberts 10 Dec '02

10 Dec '02

Greetings all I have a problem looming.. I have 3 Windows boxes (2Win 98SE and a Win 2k pro) behind a SuSE 7.1 box that is doing NAT/Firewall duty for them. The firewall script is a custom made ipchains script. Currently the SuSE box (eth0) had a static networked address of 10.10.x.x and the 3 Windodws boxes (connected to the SuSE box through eth1) have static addresses in the range of 198.162.0.2 through 198.162.0.4. Now my ISP says that I must connect to the net using DHCP. This is fine in theory, but I have no experience setting up a DHCP system. From my readings so far it seems easy to initially set up a DHCP client to my ISP, but I would also like to set the SuSE box up to do DHCP/Nat/Firewall for the Win boxes as well. I understand that when I set up the SuSE box as a DHCP server for the Win boxes I should be able to specify the 192.168.0.0/16 IP address set for the Win boxes to use to connect to the net through the SuSE server. Is it simple to do this as well? What is the procedure for changing everything from static IP to DHCP? Is there any doc's I can look at to get more info? I have read nice large green book that came in the box that 7.1 came in and found it to be disturbingly lacking in info for making this kind of change. TIA Doug

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Connecting to M$ SQL 2000 via Perl?
by Darrell Cormier 10 Dec '02

10 Dec '02

Has anyone had any luck, via some free/opensource client, connecting to a M$ SQL Server 2000 database using Perl. I am running SuSE 8.0 and trying to connect to a Windoze 2000 server that is running M$ SQL Server 2000. I need to retrieve data using Perl. My company is currently in a "no money out" mode and so I must find a cost free solution.. I am not a sys admin, just a developer with my hands tied. The sys admins are clueless as to a solution. We currently have an earlier version of Sybase (11.9.2) but it will only connect to SQL Server versions prior to 2000. An upgrade to a version of Sybase that will access SQL 2000 is a $40K upgrade. We have also tried ODBC Socket Server but cannot get it to function. It will only allow for single column data sets for some odd reason. The sys admins also tried FreeTDS and could not get it to function on our systems. The data that I will need to retrieve is fairly large, with as many as 3.5 million rows of data. Any ideas or experiences are greatly appreciated. TIA, Darrell Cormier

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Graphics tablets for SuSE Linux
by Jay Vollmer 10 Dec '02

10 Dec '02

Hi everybody! Which Graphics tablets are supported by SuSE Linux? Wacom's website has links to a opensource driver for their stuff. Does anyone know if it works? Should I be looking at something else? -- JAY VOLLMER JVOLLMER(a)VISI.COM TEXT REFS DOUBLEPLUSUNGOOD SELFTHINK VERGING CRIMETHINK IGNORE FULLWISE

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Anyone know if Mandrake 9, Red Hat 8 are any good?
by Preston Crawford 10 Dec '02

10 Dec '02

Does anyone know if either of these have the same problems with Kernel Panic. I've had my daily kernel panic just now while composing a long email. The 9th time in the last couple weeks. I'm so tired of this. It's probably happened to me at least 30 times. It's worse than Windows. I just want to be able to work. Isn't that what I paid $80 for? Preston

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Nvidia troubles
by bill brothers 10 Dec '02

10 Dec '02

Can anyone here tell me why I can't get the 3D drivers to work in I log on my user account? As root they work fine, but otherwise KDE locks up when the startup status bar appears. I'm new to Suse and have version 8.1. I have used the same drivers version of these drivers for Mandrake and Debian. Thanks Bill

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Why is this so DA*N difficult?!?
by Marshall Heartley 09 Dec '02

09 Dec '02

Hello list, Sorry for the abruptness of the subject line but I have REALLY HAD enough of this! I'm trying to get gramofile to work and I CANNOT! It starts file but will not "hear" any input from the sound card. I can hear it as I play the tape that I want to digitize but any application doesn't. I have disabled the arts server and even tried it with it running and no avail. The program wants a prgram called xmixer that SuSE did not package with the system. I found xmix but the program gramofile doesn't see it! It is not this hard in M$. What do I have to do to get this crap to work as designed? I'm using 8.1 and the sould card is a SB16. Any ideas will be appreciated. Meantime I'll be banging my head on the wall. -- Marshall "Nothing is impossible, We just do not have all the anwsers to make the impossible, possible."

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