February 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Sane.
by Erik Jakobsen 01 Feb '02

01 Feb '02

Hi. I'm running SuSE 7.3. Is it possible to run a parallel scanner with (x)sane ??. -- Med venlig hilsen / Best regards / Vy 73 de OZ4KK Erik Jakobsen - erik(a)urbakken.dk

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Video encoding?
by Clayton Cornell 01 Feb '02

01 Feb '02

In my attempts to break my "heroin addiction" to Windows, I have a question for everyone... one of the last few Windows applications I have not been able to replace is a slick little program called VirtualDub. I use it on a regular basis to re-encode episodes of Enterprise that I download each week. The best quality episodes are MPEG encoded at about 450MB each. I can use VirtualDub to re-encode to AVI using the latest DivX and get a file size of about 200MB - that means I can cram 3 episodes onto one CDROM instead of 1 per CDROM if I leave them alone. So, the question is, are there are any Linux apps that can do this? I haven't discovered anything yet. BCast2000 is targetted (as far as I can tell) at building a video.. stitching audio tracks to video etc. All I want it an app that will simply re-encode a video to a DivX4.x codec.... haven't found one that did it either reliably, or at all. Any suggestions would be more than welcome. C. -- This is Linux country. If you listen carefully, you can hear Windows reboot...

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More newbie questions!!
by Harry G 01 Feb '02

01 Feb '02

OK, in KDE, I need to know how to get 2 applets (?) bak on my taskbar: 1. The KPPP dialer that looks like a electrical plug, and 2. The Desktop listing Desktops 1-4 (or however many you use). Lost them playing around. (Blush) Harry G

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Orb USB drive with SuSE?
by w7ntf＠aol.com 01 Feb '02

01 Feb '02

Hello... I have a Castlewood Orb USB 2.2 gig removable hard drive. It uses a USB interface to connect to the computer. They provide a SCSI to USB adapter with the particular one I purchased. It is predominantly used with M$ Winders. I would like to use mine with SuSE Linux 7.2. Has anyone done this? If so, how did you accomplish it? The PIII computer I use for my amateur radio TCPIP gateway has the standard pair of built-in USB ports. Is there any possibilty of accessing the Orb drive through them? Thanks in advance. Best regards, Gary

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errors with tar
by Ron Cordell 01 Feb '02

01 Feb '02

I'm trying to back up my home directory using the following command from the /home directory: tar cvf /backup/rcordell.tar rcordell tar gets most of the way through, then at the same place every time it stops with the error message: Exit delayed due to error I can't seem to find out why it is failing; it isn't lack of disk space or anything like that. Does anyone have an idea what might be happening? Is there a better method to backing up a branch of a directory tree? Thanks, Ron Cordell

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HP Scanjet 5100C parport scanner and suse 7.3
by Harry G 01 Feb '02

01 Feb '02

Has anyone been successful in getting this scanner to work? Harry G

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Re: [SLE] Finding files less then 31 days old?
by JW 01 Feb '02

01 Feb '02

FYI I figure it out, the following worked: find /log/ -type f -mtime +30 -name "*log.gz" -exec cp -p {} . \; ---------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson System Administrator Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com Central Texas IT http://www.centraltexasit.com

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RE: [SLE] Lotus Notes client
by Jostein Berntsen 01 Feb '02

01 Feb '02

I believe you must implement the Enterprise solution to get the Notes platform with SuSE Linux: http://www.suse.de/en/products/suse_business/groupware_server/ Jostein >===== Original Message From "CT" <ctewksbury(a)mediaone.net> ===== >does one exist for SuSE 7.3? >========================= >Chuck >ctewksbury(a)mediaone.net > > >-- >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 and the >archives at http://lists.suse.com

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SSH behind a Router
by Martin.Guillen＠siemens.com.ar 01 Feb '02

01 Feb '02

Hi: I installed a Linux box as a router. All right with that, but now I can't use shh to connect the machine on the "other side" Before the network split I use to connect to that machine via ssh. Know somebody why? It seems that ssh only accepts local subnet by default but I can't find where to change it. Thank you, Martin.

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Path
by Harry G 01 Feb '02

01 Feb '02

Dumb newbie questions: 1. How do I add a directory to my path for executing commands, i.e. inetd start, which is in /usr/sbin ? 2. Where do I add this comand so it runs upon startup? Harry G

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