March 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

MySQL
by Drew J. Como 28 Mar '02

28 Mar '02

All, I have MySQL installed and working perfectly on my SuSE 7.2 system. Now, I would like to build a new version of MySQL and run two database servers on the same physical machine. If I do the standard (make && make install, etc), will it make changes to the current installation? If yes, what can I do to make them co-exist separately?? Any help will be greatly appreciated!! Thanks :-) ============================================ Drew J. Como Phone: 631-434-6600 Systems Administrator Fax: 631-434-7800 dcomo(a)bascom.com Web: www.bascom.com Bascom Global Internet Services, Inc. -------------------------------------------- "When quality is the goal, winning is guaranteed."

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syslog function
by Chris Large 28 Mar '02

28 Mar '02

I'm trying to get a pm3 to give me more info and it uses a syslog function to do this. this info is stored on a suse machine. How do i get the suse machine to except this info. The pm3 now stores it's info via radius to the suse machine. Suse doesn't actually have a syslog log file well at least on my machine. any ideas? Thanks *--------------------------------* | Chris Large clarge(a)macn.bc.ca | | http://clarge.bc.ca | *--------------------------------*

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KDE3/SuSE
by Anthony W. Marino 28 Mar '02

28 Mar '02

I've installed the Adrian rpms for KDE3 and can't get it to work. I'm having a DCOPserver error which, in general, the message states that it can't find and/or make a network connection with ".DCOPserver-xxxxxx__0". I've deleted DCOP files in user dir as well in /tmp. I've also renamed ALL .kde dirs in user dir. I would LOVE to evaluate the latest KDE3 release and would appreciate any suggestions! Thank You, Anthony

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Re: [SLE] Windows programs under Linux
by w7ntf＠aol.com 28 Mar '02

28 Mar '02

I must say that Star Office does a terrible job at importing M$ Excel documents as well. A document created on Microsoft Office was imported into my SuSE 7.3 box at work, with Star Office installed. Work was done on the Excel document and several days later it was exported again... When I sent that document to my corporate office for review, they were fit to be tied. Star Office changed the previous formats of many cells, and corrupted many others. It was a total waste of my time. The assumption is faulty that one can work on a real Excel or any other Microsoft Office document, import it to Star Office, work on it some more, and then export it again without difficulty. It just can't be done. That's why I continue to do my corporate work on a laptop with Windows 98SE, and keep my personal computer with SuSE Linux on the desk for telecomputing and playing... If and when someone can come up with a nearly 100% MS Office compatible office suite for linux, I would like to try it. Until then I am begrudgingly forced to keep the laptop with M$ products. ;-( Regards, Gary

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sound modules inserted twice
by Cincai Patron 28 Mar '02

28 Mar '02

Hi, every time I logon to KDE, the xconsole display this: Mar 28 00:15:05 <machine_name> insmod: insmod: insmod sound-service-0-0 failed Mar 28 10:36:30 <machine_name> insmod: insmod: insmod sound-service-0-0 failed I've checked /etc/modules.conf, and it contains these entries: 1. alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 2. alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss 3. alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss 4. alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss 5. alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss 6. alias sound-service-0-11 snd-mixer-oss 7. alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss I've tried to comment out line 5,6,7, but problem remains. The sound, strangely, are perfectly run in KDE. This has happen since I installed suse (7.2) -- for several times. Anybody know what cause this problem? TIA. Verdi __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards� http://movies.yahoo.com/

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rm doesn't ask any more
by Tom Nicholson 28 Mar '02

28 Mar '02

My rm doesn't ask an, Are you sure? question any more. Is this something I opted out of? a setting somewhere? on install? or something changed in SuSE? The man page says it should; like I remember it doing on my previous Linux (redhat).

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Source rpms and suse_update_config
by Paul W. Abrahams 28 Mar '02

28 Mar '02

Sometimes it's necessary for one reason or another to install a SuSE rpm package by going back to the source and rebuilding the object RPM. It's remarkably easy. Here are the steps: 1. Get the source RPM from the SuSE online archives or your installation media. 2. Move the package foo.src.rpm to the directory /usr/src/packages/SRPMS. 3. cd to that directory and do rpm -ihv foo.src.rpm 4. cd up and across to /usr/src/packages/SPECS 5. Do rpm -bb foo.spec which will invoke a lot of whirring machinery. 6. The newly built package foo.rpm will show up in /usr/src/packages/RPMS. However, I encountered a "gotcha" pertaining to a SuSE-defined rpm macro suse_update_config. The process in step 5 may die because that macro is undefined (if that's the problem, a glance at the end of the output will make that obvious). A likely cause is that you have a file /etc/rpmrc left over from some older SuSE installation. If you do, delete it. It belongs to no package in current SuSE systems and will not be missed. That will make the definition of suse_update_config visible again. (It took me a couple of days to discover all that.) SuSE folks, please put something about suse_update_config in your support database. Paul Abrahams

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only root has access to port 21?
by Eric Carbone 28 Mar '02

28 Mar '02

The FTP server software I am using keeps telling me that port 21 "is in use ..." However, if I log on as ROOT and THEN run the same software, it works fine on port 21. And there are NO OTHER ftp servers running on this machine. The guy who wrote the software sent me the following 'fix': (BTW ... the server software is a java app, and the following instructions apply to Mac OS X): == Open a terminal session. Issue the following command. (Copy paste) == sudo chmod u+s /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.3.1/Commands/java == == Now when you launch CrushFTP, you have permission to launch and open a port below 1025. == == PLEASE NOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! == This will allow CrushFTP root access to your computer. It will also allow ANY == other .jar file you double click on root access. You have been warned! == That said...it works very nice like this...just like classic did. so ... how would I 'translate' this command to work in linux? I tried issuing the same command as above, but only changing the path to where java lives: sudo chmod u+s /usr/lib/jdk1.3.1/bin/java but this didn't work. Any ideas or suggestions? Thanks, --------------------------- Eric Carbone

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[OT]SuSE's Enterprize server kernel?
by Mark Hounschell 28 Mar '02

28 Mar '02

I'm having a go round with Dell support people about what appears to me to be a hardware problem on a 6400 server box. We have 1 slot in this box that if we put any cards in, the box will lock up. It's a 33Mhz 32/64 bit slot of which there are 4. We have 2 of our own cards in adjacent slots. We have suspected an apic problem with their bios because of a known apic/irq0 problem with their bios that there is a kernel patch for and does in fact fix. We suspect there are more bios bugs in their board/bios. They insist (as always) that the problem is not theirs. They say that we have to run an "Enterprise kernel" to get support for 4 processors. Is that a crock or what? What this "slot" problem has to do with the kernel is beyond me. Either way I was wondering if anyone knows of specific things in SuSE Enterprise kernel that could possibly help with this kind of thing. I can see that is is a 2.4.7 kernel from the info in their site. Is there anyway to get a copy of it without buying the $1000 package? Is Dell giving me a line of sh#t. We have tried MANY kernels and also even Red Hat 7.2 like Dell says they support. We are back to using SuSE 7.3 with a vanilla 2.4.18 kernel. We have tried all the SuSE kernels available. I think we have been wasting time trying all these different kernels. Sorry if this is OT. I know that there are many knowledgeable people and SuSE people watching this list and I am just looking for advise/help. Thanks in advance Mark

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2.4.16-36 kernel
by Richard Bos 28 Mar '02

28 Mar '02

Did anyone install the latest available official 2.4.16 kernel? This 1 one is located in the certified directory. However, the kernel minor version is 36 (2.4.16-36), which was not recommended last time it was available (a month ago or so). Anyone experience with the kernel, is it okay to upgrade? -- Richard Bos For those without home the journey is endless

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