December 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

sendmail upgrade and new sendmail.cf
by Ronald Wiplinger 07 Dec '02

07 Dec '02

I would like to upgrade to the newest sendmail version 8.12.6 on my SuSE 8.0 prof. system (Is this via Yast possible?) At the same time I would like to change / upgrade my sendmail.cf file, so that additional features are enabled: 1. rbl lists 2. virus scan (I got the key for amavaris) 3. authentication for SMTP (SASL right? how to install / activate that) 4. SSL any more ideas I could / should do? Further I need to make sure that SuSE does not change it for me anymore! (Of course, if can do this all in SuSE without creating a new sendmail.cf file by myself, I also would be happy) bye Ronald -- Ronald Wiplinger (CEO of ELMIT) http://www.elmit.com +886 (0) 915 653-452 - I'm a SpamCon Foundation Member, #694, Verify it at http://www.spamcon.org

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Moneydance......non-existant!
by Fred A. Miller 07 Dec '02

07 Dec '02

Well, I've been waiting to hear what Appgen was going to do with Moneydance.....I'm still waiting. However, I find this morning that the site http://www.moneydance.com is no longer......there's NO link on the Appgen site to Moneydance that I could find....NO news....nothing. More later......I hope. Fred -- Fred A. Miller Systems Administrator Cornell Univ. Press Services fm(a)cupserv.org, www.cupserv.org

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Re: [SLE] Random freezes, barrier=none and SuSE-8.1
by Mark Gray 07 Dec '02

07 Dec '02

"Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas(a)tiscali.es> writes: [snip] > The 02.11.26 at 01:37, Mark Gray wrote: >> Could someone point me to it. Also, I have several large >> reiserfs 3.5 partitions left over from 7.3, is there any risk to >> mixing reiserfs 3.5 and 3.6 filesystems in the same machine? > I have such mixture, I haven't noticed anything. I don't know what to look > for in that respect, either :-) That could be the link behind why we both had random freezes though. Since adding barrier=none all my computers have been rock solid with 8.1 too, so I am quite happy with it, but I wish SuSE would update their "known problems" web page, or their Support Database.

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Is everyone happy with there time&date not changing now on boot up, Re: [SLE] time & date problem
by Eric Richards 07 Dec '02

07 Dec '02

Bugger sent to a person and not the group => I think it was "wolfi" and "Anders" (may be more?) who solved it => => I had to try it a couple of times before it worked OK. => => below a reply from wolfi => ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ => => Hi all, => => I now managed to shut down the box and reboot it without getting the => time settings messed up. => What I did: => After Anders suggested, that my /etc/adjtime file might be faulty, I => renamed it to /etc/adjtime.old to disable it. => Then I went into YaST2, timezone settings, changed something, changed it => back, just to make sure YaST2 will write the data which I basically only => wanted to make sure it will be 'kept'. => => The new /etc/adjtime looks as follows: => => 0.000000 0 0.000000 => 0 => UTC => => Thanks to Anders & Cheers .... Wolfi => ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ => mine came out as => 0.000000 1038853285 0.000000 => 1038853285 => LOCAL => => were the old copy was => 11187.809267 1038803068 0.000000 => 1038803068 => LOCAL => ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ => => => Just to refresh your memory on Saturday 07 December 2002 00:59 New Zealand => time, Carlos E. R. told us: => => => The 02.12.01 at 22:32, wolfi wrote: => => => => => => > Did you find a solution for this? => => > I have got exactly the same problem on one of my boxen. => => > In /etc/init.d/boot.clock it says -> see below. => => > => => > This one seems to be important: => => > /sbin/hwclock --hctosys $HWCLOCK => => > which means, that on boot system time is adjusted to BIOS time. But in => => > fact, the opposite happens. => => => => It sets system clock from CMOS (BIOS) time. Look the manual page: => => => => --hctosys => => Set the System Time from the Hardware Clock. => => => => Also set the kernel's timezone value to the local timezone as => => indicated by the TZ environment variable and/or /usr/share/zoneinfo, as => => tzset(3) would interpret them. The obsolete tz_dsttime field of the => => kernel's timezone value is set to DST_NONE. (For details on what this => => field used to mean, see settimeofday(2).) => => => => This is a good option to use in one of the system startup scripts. => => => => => => > The BIOS time gets adjusted to system time, and then it's wrong. => Exactly => > as described in Eric's first email. => => > => => > ANY IDEAS ???!?!? => => => => Timezones, adjtime, set up bios time (UTC) from the bios itself... => => => -- From Eric (KMail 1.4.3 in Linux, SuSE 8.1) http://www.oh-bugger.net.nz http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/erichard/ NO ATTACHMENT WAS SENT WITH THIS EMAIL IF THERE IS ONE IT IS A UNDETECTED VIRUS, IF THERE IS ONE PLEASE LET ME KNOW ....

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SuSE 8.1
by Ted Wager 07 Dec '02

07 Dec '02

Hi I have just installed 8.1 instead of upgrading from 8 and I find my cdrom not supported...This is from /var/log/messages Dec 6 14:57:36 linux kernel: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Dec 6 14:57:36 linux kernel: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Dec 6 14:57:36 linux kernel: sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Dec 6 14:57:36 linux kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 Dec 6 14:57:36 linux kernel: sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 0x/48x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Dec 6 14:57:44 linux kernel: cdrom: open failed. Dec 6 14:57:46 linux kernel: cdrom: open failed. Dec 6 14:57:46 linux kernel: ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0) Dec 6 14:57:46 linux kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 64 Dec 6 14:57:46 linux kernel: ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0) Dec 6 14:57:46 linux kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 66 Dec 6 14:57:46 linux kernel: ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0) Dec 6 14:57:46 linux kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 68 Dec 6 14:57:46 linux kernel: ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0) I also find if I look at the hardware panel in the control lists I get the small window opening which says braille and then it freezes at a 4% search Any advice appreciated before I go back to v8 :-( Regards Ted Wager -- Regards Ted Wager

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Re: [SLE] SuSE 8.1 boot disk hangs
by Alexandros Karypidis 07 Dec '02

07 Dec '02

I am trying to disable DMA but I can't seem to find the correct parameter. I have disabled it in the BIOS but the kernel insists on reporting: "... BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio" "... BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA" I tried using "ide0=nodma ide1=nodma" as well as "hda=nodma hdc=nodma hdd=nodma" but none of these seem to work. When the computer boots, the BIOS does report all drives to be in PIO mode. On Saturday 07 December 2002 05:20, Fred A. Miller wrote: > On Friday 06 December 2002 7:59 pm, Alexandros Karypidis wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I have a system which has been running SuSE 8.0 and would like to install > > 8.1. I have to install via the network, so I am trying to boot a system > > via the boot disks provided in SuSE 8.1. The system hangs at the point > > where the IDE subsystem is initialized. The last thing I see is: > > > > [...] > > VP_IDE: chipset revision 6 > > VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later > > VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686b (rev 40) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci:00:07.1 > > VP_IDE: ATA-66/100 forced bit set (WARNING)!! > > ide0: BM-DMA at 0xc000-0xc007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio > > ide1: BM-DMA at 0xc008-0xc00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio > > > > Is this a known issue and is there a work-around? > > There are 2 issues. First, it has a VIA chipset, which is problematic, the > other is that a lot of people have reported that with ASUS and other MOBs > using the VIA chipset, they have to disable DMA. > > Fred -- To err is human, but to forgive is beyond the scope of the Operating System... Αλέξανδρος Καρυπίδης Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλίας Τμήμα Μηχ/κών Η/Υ, Τηλεπικοινωνιών & Δικτύων Alexandros Karypidis University of Thessaly Computer & Communications Engineering dept.

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Mounting a floppy
by jalal 07 Dec '02

07 Dec '02

Hi all I can mount DOS floppies easily on my machine, but Mac floppies give me a "Cannot determine file type..." sort of answer. If I do 'mount -t hfs /dev/fd0 /floppy' then I get a "Only root can do that..." error. Root can mount it OK. How can I mount the floppy as a normal user? TIA jalal Oh, and I do have a /etc/filesystems with hfs in it. -- GPG fingerprint = 3D45 5509 D380 26A4 523E A9D8 A66A 5F38 CA43 BB0E

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Re: [SLE] non-graphical login question
by Mads Martin Joergensen 07 Dec '02

07 Dec '02

On Dec 06, 2002, Dominic Maraglia wrote: > > echo 0 > /proc/splash > > > > insserv -r splash > > Performed the above, as root of course, but to no avail. The login screen > is precisely the same -- blue SuSE "frame", white lizard in the upper right, > globe in the left...hmm.... After a reboot too? Try chkconfig | grep splash, and then remove them there is. -- Mads Martin Jørgensen, http://mmj.dk "Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic and totally illogic, with just a little bit more effort?" -- A. P. J.

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little problem with my network card on suse8.0
by TROTET ALEXIS 07 Dec '02

07 Dec '02

hi I access internet throught adsl over an ethernet card, and i encountered a little problem today...My connection works good but when i want to redirect my dinamic ip to my dns it direct it to 192.168.0.1 .I looked to my configuration and eth0 is set to dhcp, and when i load the system i can see that it assigned 192.168.0.1 to eth0, why this happened? i just reinstalled the suse 8.0 and before while loading the system it was saying that the ip will be delivered later... I hope somebody will help me resolve this little problem! have a nice day all of u alexis ___________________________________________________________ Soyez solidaire soutenez laction du Téléthon avec Yahoo! France. http://www1.telethon.fr/030-Espace-Relais-Dons/webtirelire1.asp?hebergeur_i…

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Re: [SLE] Update files for Suse 8.1
by MichaelHoeller＠t-online.de 07 Dec '02

07 Dec '02

> The '*patch.rpm' packages contain only what has actually > changed in the full package on the SuSE CD. > > Installation wise the only difference between the full > package and the '*.patch.rpm' package is that in order to > apply the '*.patch.rpm' package the original package from the > CD _must_ already be installed. Hi, reading the above lines, how do I proceed to update? 1. Download all *.patch.rpm files 2. which command can I use to update rpm -Fhv ?? Thanks a lot Michael

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