February 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

"Patch Update CD", how to make?
by Bob Drzyzgula 28 Feb '02

28 Feb '02

In Yast2, there is a menu option to apply a "Patch Update CD". Simply downloading the current updates from SuSE's website and placing them on a CD does not, however, appear to be sufficient to get it recognized as a Patch Update CD. Searching around in the sdb and online documents, I did not immediately see any notes on how to prepare a CD that would be recognized as a patch update CD. Can someone point me to documentation on how to do this, or perhaps explain it in a response to the list? In case it makes a difference, I'm runing 7.3/i386. Thanks, --Bob Drzyzgula

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Cron jobs...
by Michael Garabedian 28 Feb '02

28 Feb '02

.does anyone know how to setup a job for crom to go out and check drive usage and last logon then mail it to the sysadmin Mike

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CUPS remote access denied
by John Sved 28 Feb '02

28 Feb '02

Hello, With a fresh SuSE 7.2 Pro installation with the StarOffice option, I have now installed CUPS 1.14, Gimp-print 4.2 ppd and XPP 1.1 on two hosts: A) the server to which the Epson Color Stylus 600 is normally attached. It works as a samba server and allows other windoze units on the home/office LAN to print to a "rawEpson" defined in CUPS. B) a notebook PC (both run SuSe 7.2) NIS, NFS etc is running OK for directory mounting but rather slow file transfer. The problem: access to the remote printer is denied. Note: This is the installation procedure that worked. I have Ghostscript 6.51 RPM from the SuSE FTP (to ensure that HylaFax would send), CUPS 1.14 (to be full featured) tar.gz, Gimp 1.2 RPM from SuSE 7.2, and Gimp-Print 4.2 tar.gz (because it worked after Foomatic just confused me) and XPP 1.1. Most important: to compile the tar.gz stuff. Check via YAST2 that the following are installed. glib, gtk (including their devel toolkits), flex, autoconf, automake, window-maker-devel. Uninstall fltk via YAST2 go to www.fltk.org and download FLTK 1.1 tar.gz. unzip it into a suitable directory (usr/src/packages/SOURCES/FLTK ) and then /configure make make install If the "make" still does not work check if any other stuff could not be found. (Note "make distclean" will cleanup any aborted stuff before you try to install again) if all goes OK then remove via YAST2 any printing stuff such as LDP and CUPS (older version) (if you don't CUPS browser will not be complete), GS 5.x and immediately use the RPM installation command to install the GS 6.51. (Note YAST2 will later complain that CUPS or one of the other three is not installed - ignore - discard it) Then install the GS 6.51 RPM (not via YAST2) Then install CUPS as per the CUPS documents instruction page in linuxprinting.org Note: do install the cupsomatic and the foomatic (I do not know if foomatic is really necessary; it is still a mystery). Do restart cups or reboot when the linuxprinting.org instructions say. Test CUPS using a standard ppd via the browser tool http://localhost:631 (so friendly) for your printer that comes with it. Install the print-gimp (read the readme) with the ./configure -with-gimp -with-cups options. Boot again. Use the CUPS browser to configure your printer again; this time with a gimp-print ppd (note that they still have a multiple entry bug - just select the first entry for your printer). Now you should have lots of printer configuration commands. Install XPP and then issue the xpp command to see the XPP window with your already configured printer. You can define various instances of this printer (gray, economy, photo, viewgraph etc). Configure StarOffice as per the instructions in www.linuxprinting,org/ppd-doc.html Then you have a really nice level of control. Well, it worked for me .... Now, back to the present problem: remote CUPS printing - access denied. in /etc/cups/cups.conf set BrowseAddress 192.168.0.255 (for example) then the remote browser will see the printers on the server. Next problem: Attempting a test print or configuration caused access denied "you don't have permission to access the resource on this server" I checked /etc/hosts.deny and hosts.allow and explicitely listed the possible hosts on the local network 192.186.0.2 , 192.186.0.3 etc. After rebooting a test print still causes the message "Forbidden you don't have permission to access the resource on this server." Also observed: While the server printer is idle, accepting jobs (as seen on the server browser) the same printer is shown as "printer busy, will retry in 10 seconds ...." What should I check next ......? (Also what is necessary to configure StarOffice and Gimp etc on the notebook for the remote printer i.e. the printer name string ?) -- John

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Re: [SLE] Network configuration
by Phil Shrimpton 28 Feb '02

28 Feb '02

On Thursday 28 February 2002 12:52, zentara wrote: Hi, > I'm not sure how windows works it, but in linux, when you do masquerading, > you need to setup the PtoP (point to point partner) in the network setup. > Look thru the tcpip setup on your windows box, and find where it lets you > set it. Enter your linux box's ip (192.168.110.2). In the Windows machine I have had to set the IP addresses as follows.. IP Address : 192.168.110.3 Subnet Mask : 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway : 192.168.110.2 (Linux Box) DNS Server : 192.168.110.2 (Linux Box) I have been reading the DHCP how-to, and it seams that these can automatically be set by a DHCP server, so thats my next job. Phil -- Linux 2.4.4-4GB 3:44pm up 16:11, 1 user, load average: 0.33, 0.19, 0.10

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Network configuration
by Phil Shrimpton 28 Feb '02

28 Feb '02

Hi, After what seams like years of trying, I finally have got my USB ADSL modem working on my Linux box, and I can browse the web, send mail etc. fine Now the problem is, how do I get my Windows box to 'see' the internet connection? When I had the modem on my Windows box, I installed a proxy server on it, and set the 'proxy' of all the linux stuff to point to my Windows box, do I have to do the same thing on the Linux box? I have a working BIND configuration, and if I ping "www.slashdot.org" on my windows machine, I get... Pinging www.slashdot.org [64.28.67.150] .... Destination Host Unreachable... So I guess the DNS is working, but the Windows box can't get anything in or out. What do I need to setup? Cheers Phil -- Linux 2.4.4-4GB 9:27am up 1:59, 1 user, load average: 0.24, 0.14, 0.14

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Printing/Lexmark E210/KDE 2.2.2
by Anthony W. Marino 28 Feb '02

28 Feb '02

Does anyone have any advise with regards to the subject printing environment? I tried with CUPS to setup the E210 without any problems. YAST2 found the printer, however, nothing prints. There are no errors coming from the print programs. Any suggestions would be appreciated! Thank You, Anthonn

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ppp and resolv.conf
by zentara 28 Feb '02

28 Feb '02

Hi, I am trying to setup a bootable cd with dialup support. I can get the system to dial and connect, but it won't resolve ip addresses. I have /etc/resolv.conf. What am I missing? -- $|=1;while(1){print pack("h*",'75861647f302d4560275f6272797f3');sleep(1); for(1..16){for(8,32,8,7){print chr($_);}select(undef,undef,undef,.05);}}

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Anyone IPv6?
by Ronald Wiplinger 28 Feb '02

28 Feb '02

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Mono and C# for SuSE 7.1
by Jonathan Paul Cowherd 28 Feb '02

28 Feb '02

Is anyone using these products under 7.1 Pro? I would like to just install the RPM for SuSE if it is available opposed to compling from source, etc. Jonathan

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RE: [SLE] Any experience with the Sony 505 FX?
by Jostein Berntsen 28 Feb '02

28 Feb '02

To get everything running perfectly, you should install SuSE 7.3. Then after the installation, download the 2.4.16 kernel rpm from the SuSE ftp site. Some links: http://www.subside.com/mdk8/ http://www.ecology.uni-kiel.de:8080/User/schorsch/vaio/ http://www.gaugusch.at/vaio/ http://www.linux-laptop.net http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/sony.html These dudes sells Vaio with SuSE 7.3 preconfigured for you: http://xtops.de/xtops_sony.html Jostein >===== Original Message From <armin(a)approximity.com> ===== >Hi all, > > I think of buying a Sony 505 FX. >Are there any known problems? It listed >as OK in the suse support database, but >does the CDburner (using linux) work, too? > >Thanks, > A > > >-- >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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