March 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

where are security patches?
by dep 26 Mar '02

26 Mar '02

greets. i just went looking for the security patch directory on the suse ftp site and didn't find it, at least not in any recognizable form. i'm disinclined to entrust much of anything to YOU, because it tends to mung stuff i want left alone. so. could someone point me to the location of the update rpms? tia. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- linux for the rest of us. hey, it loads fast, anyway.

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Re: [SLE] Boot Disc Construction Time Again
by Alexandr Malusek 26 Mar '02

26 Mar '02

Oliver Ob <ob_ok(a)gmx.net> writes: > I want to learn how to create my own Linux boot disk using which > I can run a REAL TIGHT linux from this disk. Search for distributions containing the word "single" on http://www.linux.org/dist/english.html. Some new distributions may not be there (e.g. DemoLinux 2.0, http://www.demolinux.org/). Also see the Bootdisk-HOWTO. -- Alexandr.Malusek(a)imv.liu.se

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QuickCam Express USB in SuSE 7.3
by Scott Nichols 26 Mar '02

26 Mar '02

Hello, I hope that there is someone out here that can help me out with this situation. I will try to be as brief as possible and still give the details. I have a bttv card that works fine and is using /dev/video0. So I have a QuickCam Express USB and I want to set it up on /dev/video1. I load the module mod_quickcam that came with SuSE and I see in USBView that its installed and working fine. Then I use xawtv -c /dev/video1 and the screen opens I get this error in Term: This is xawtv-3.72, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.10-4GB) /dev/video1 [v4l]: no overlay support v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway config: invalid value for input: Television valid choices for "input": "Camera" ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(0,fmt=3,size=176x144): Invalid argument Now I have been told that is normal. but when xawtv starts I get a green window with a small line at the top that is video. I can run my hand over the cam and see it in this small line in xawtv. I look in xconsole and it tells me, repeated several times: error: quickcam: frame size is incorrect! This will repeat until I turn xawtv off. I have been everywhere looking for a answer for this and how to adjust the frame size to make this work but nothing. I have been in chat's and all over the web. I even emailed SuSE about it and no help. Does anybody have any idea on how to get the problem fixed? Thanks for your time, Scott

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(OT) HP Toner/Drum question ...
by Jim Hatridge 25 Mar '02

25 Mar '02

HI all Would someone with HP know-how please tell me something? I'm looking at a couple of used HP laserJets, 4 and 5 /5L... They all say "without Toner/drum". in German "Ohne Toner/trommel-einheit". I've looked thru my office supply lists and can not find a drum for these printers. Is the toner and drum one unit? Or is the drum just not find-able? I've found ads for toner for about 70euro. Is this a good price? If not, can someone suggest a source in Germany for this. Thanks! JIM -- Jim Hatridge Linux User #88484 ------------------------------------------------------ BayerWulf Linux System # 129656 The Recycled Beowulf Project Looking for throw-away or obsolete computers and parts to recycle into a Linux super computer

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Install KDE 3 in SuSE 7.3
by Jose Thadeu Cavalcante 25 Mar '02

25 Mar '02

Hi, How can I do to install KDE 3 in SuSE 7.3? Thanks -- Jose Thadeu Cavalcante thadeu(a)superig.com.br Linux user #228006

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[NFS] Block/Buffer Sizes - no reply in 4 months?
by Oliver Ob 25 Mar '02

25 Mar '02

Simon Oliver schrieb: > > > in client fsta i have server_name /home /home nfs > > rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr > that should be server_name:/home > > > and in server /etc/exports i have /home client_name(rw,no_root_squash) > > Also check you are running hte portmapper service on the NFS server and if > you are using hosts_access control you have allowed the IP address of the > client machine via /etc/hosts.access > > -- > Simon Oliver Also one Oliver here, has anyone of you experimented with the above size values? Wouldn't 4096 be best (measured to through-put) ? Kind regards -- *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ =Oliver@home= *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ I http://www.bmw-roadster.de/Friends/Olli/olli.html I I http://www.bmw-roadster.de/Friends/friends.html I I http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VGAP-93 I I http://home.t-online.de/home/spacecraft.portal I >>> Telek0ma iBBMS - soon back online +49.4503.TRSi1/TRSi2 <<<

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SuSEfirewall2 and FW_REDIRECT
by Ken Hughes 25 Mar '02

25 Mar '02

I posted this question a bit ago (thanks to those who responded!) but unfortunately I never got it working, so... I'm setting up a firewall with stock SuSE 7.3 and SuSEfirewall2. I also run Squid on this box and would like to use the FW_REDIRECT parameter to force all www traffic through the proxy so I do as suggested and enter: FW_REDIRECT="192.168.0.0/24,0/0,tcp,80,3128" however when I do this all the user gets is an error page saying that the requested url "/" cannot be retrieved. What's wierd is the "/" is a link to the actual requested page. This worked flawlessly in SuSEfirewall so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong with firewall2? Thanks for any help. Stout of your choice goes to whoever can help me with this the next time your in Tacoma, WA. ;^) Ken -- Economists can certainly disappoint you. One said that the economy would turn up by the last quarter. Well, I'm down to mine and it hasn't. -- Robert Orben

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LaTeX
by Debbie Rogers 25 Mar '02

25 Mar '02

Hello all, I was wondering if there is LaTeX support as part of the Suse 7.3+ releases, specifically latex2e, DVI, viewers, etc... THANKS!! Debbie ===== -------------------------------------------------------- When I am good, I am very good...but when I am bad, I am even better! -Mae West __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards� http://movies.yahoo.com/

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[AUDiO] ANDREW-SMITH's Mp3-Jukebox PM
by Oliver Ob 25 Mar '02

25 Mar '02

Hi folks, Andrew Smith, if you read this, your Email seems not to work or I might have got some old one. Please get back to me because of your mpg123-jukebox script for bash. Anyone else reading this: Has anyone of you also already done such a script? If you, send it via PM. Thanks ahead! Andrew, you Email does not work, please contact me via PM it is about your jukebox script. as below > > Hi > > Sorry, I thought I had replied... <<< Checks Sent Items Folder >>> ... ah, > yes, I have replied, although I think that may have been when I was having > mail server problems. Anyway, I have attached the email I attempted to send. > > I hope this helps, > > Andrew > > -----Original Message----- > From: Oliver Ob [mailto:ob_ok@gmx.net] > Sent: 09 July 2001 12:19 > To: Andrew Smith > Subject: [AUDiO] Mp3-Jukebox *** No answer?? ???? *** > > Andrew Smith schrieb: > > > > Hi > > > > mpg123 will run well on low spec machines (i.e. a 486). Will probably go > > lower by changing some options. > > > > If you are interested, I have made a bash script to control mpg123 as a > > jukebox. I also have a perl script that gives a web interface... it works > > surprisingly well! :o) > > > > Andrew > > hi andrew, simply attach it for me, tia > > next, i am not familiar with perl, what is it good for, is it easy to > learn (i code 6k assembler, PPE, Ansi-C and TP (both a bit)) and : is > perl usable from ANYWARE in linux (i.e. shell ?) > > please introduce me a little to perl if you still have some bytes free. > thank you. but what about the idea to add support for XM, IT, MOD, CD audio and all that in your script`? what i need is some sonique/xmms for console use only, that supports the above formats #and# mp3, ogg, wav, s3m and ideas? -- *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ =Oliver@home= *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ I http://www.bmw-roadster.de/Friends/Olli/olli.html I I http://www.bmw-roadster.de/Friends/friends.html I I http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VGAP-93 I I http://home.t-online.de/home/spacecraft.portal I >>> Telek0ma iBBMS - soon back online +49.4503.TRSi1/TRSi2 <<<

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Galeon 1.20 RPMs
by James Ogley 25 Mar '02

25 Mar '02

Hi, Thought people might be interested to know that I've built .rpm and .src.rpm packages of Galeon 1.2.0 for SuSE. They're built against the Mozilla 0.9.9 packages from ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/mozilla (hooray for them - I really am too lazy to do Mozilla builds too) You can grab them from http://www.rubberturnip.org.uk/galeon.html James -- James Ogley, Unix Systems Administrator, Pinnacle Insurance Plc james.ogley(a)pinnacle.co.uk www.pinnacle.co.uk +44 (0) 20 8731 3619 Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 7.x) This email was created and sent with Ximian Evolution 1.0.2 NEW: Advogato diary at www.advogato.org/person/riggwelter *********************************************************************** CONFIDENTIALITY. This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the named recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to another person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Pinnacle Insurance Plc. If you have received this e-mail in error please immediately notify our Helpdesk on +44 (0) 20 8207 9555. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **********************************************************************

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