April 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

The Linus Letter
by John B 01 Apr '02

01 Apr '02

Hey gang, Is that letter *really* an april fool's thing or not? This shouldn't be allowed to be kept unclear too long, too many times jokes have proved they can do amazing damage. So, if anyone can give us enough info on it to let us give a sigh of relief, please do so. Thanks, John -- Give us your money, we are MicrosoftBorg, we will make it better later...maybe.

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OpenOffice 641D
by Ron Cordell 01 Apr '02

01 Apr '02

In light of the recent discussions about reading/writing MS docs and general office/prodctivity suites, I thought that I would report on the latest OpenOffice release, 641D. This is the last release before OpenOffice 1.0, and was just made available Friday. One of the biggest complaints has been how long it takes OpenOffice to start up. That situation has been greatly improved. Total time to startup the Word processor for OpenOffice has decreased from 20 seconds to 8 seconds on my machine. Until MS opens up their doc formats and conforms fully to an open XML document specification, OpenOffice remains the best means of working with complex MS docs that I have. It does very well at PowerPoint and Excel; it is quite useable with complex Word docs as well. This is you last chance to use OO and submit requests for the 1.0 release. I encourage you to do so. -ronc

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Fetchnews doesn't fetch news
by frankh＠terra.com.br 01 Apr '02

01 Apr '02

I installed leafnode and it seams to work, just that fetchnews doesn't work. I activated the debug mode and the log file below shows that the upstream server requires a password ("<381 PASS required") and within the same second emits an Authentication error ("<502 Authentication error"). I would interpret it as an error of the upstream server to expect a response within less than a second from a dialup connection, but with Netscape I can access newsgroups. Any idea, link, help? The fetchnews debug log follows. Mar 24 18:41:44 office fetchnews[395]: 1.9.18: verbosity level is 4 Mar 24 18:41:44 office fetchnews[395]: config: debugmode is 1 Mar 24 18:41:44 office fetchnews[395]: Last LIST ACTIVE done 4939862 seconds ago: NEWGROUPS Mar 24 18:41:44 office fetchnews[395]: <200 news.terra.com.br DNEWS Version 5.5b5, S0, posting OK Mar 24 18:41:45 office fetchnews[395]: <381 PASS required Mar 24 18:41:45 office fetchnews[395]: <502 Authentication error Mar 24 18:41:45 office fetchnews[395]: >MODE READER^M Mar 24 18:41:45 office fetchnews[395]: <200 DNews is in reader mode - posting ok. Mar 24 18:41:45 office fetchnews[395]: >NEWGROUPS 020324 213900 GMT^M Mar 24 18:41:45 office fetchnews[395]: <480 User and password still required, authinfo command Mar 24 18:41:46 office fetchnews[395]: <381 PASS required Mar 24 18:41:46 office fetchnews[395]: <502 Too many attempts in 4 seconds - try later Mar 24 18:41:46 office fetchnews[395]: >QUIT^M Mar 24 18:41:46 office fetchnews[396]: Process forked. ------------------------------------------------- Frank Hrebabetzky Tel./Fax: +55 / 48 / 235 1106 Florianopolis email: frankh(a)terra.com.br Brazil

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Log sizes
by Philip Burness 01 Apr '02

01 Apr '02

Is there any way to (automatically) limit the size of logfiles? i.e scrollkeeper.log, ppp-log, firewall etc. I guess I can write a script to do it, but if there is already a tool out there then....... (not that I'm lazy, just that somebody'll do it a whole lot smarter than I could :-) ) Phil

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Re: [SLE] OpenOffice 641D aborts
by Philip Burness 01 Apr '02

01 Apr '02

>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >On April 1, 2002 04:11 pm, Philip Burness wrote: >...snip... > >> I did the install as root with the /net option. I then also installed as a >> regular user. I get the same result if I use KDE2 or Gnome 1.4 so I guess >> it's not the window manager. It aborts irrespective of which user I am >> :-(( also. I installed into /opt/OpenOffice.org641D. Guess I'll have to >> wait for the *really* stable version. > >Try the 642 version. It can't hurt... > Will do, it's just the download time (I'm 56K, with a 2hr max logon period) Phil

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Crossover & printing
by Philip Burness 01 Apr '02

01 Apr '02

Not strictly a SuSE question, but I guess there are some users here who are using crossover. How well can you print from M$ Office using crossover? Phil

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FW: [SLE] MS VPN - PPTP Server PoPToP
by Zdeněk Hornych 01 Apr '02

01 Apr '02

Dear Alan, thank you very much for your perfect translation of my message ... As I've already written - my problem´s been solved by turning SuSE Firewall off and turning my own packet filter on ... So - you are right - problem was in firewall ... Thank you once more, see you Zdenek.Hornych(a)brandysnl.cz -----Original Message----- From: Alan [mailto:ally@chariot.net.au] Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 12:02 PM To: SuSE mailinglists Subject: Re: [SLE] MS VPN - PPTP Server PoPToP On Sun, 31 Mar 2002 17:46, Zdeněk Hornych wrote: > Zdravim Vas vsechny o velikonocich. Resim problem s pripojenim > dial-up klienta do lokalni site, klient ma MS W2K, pripojuje se > pres box SuSE 7.2 se SuSE Firewallem 2 a jde na svuj server > v lokalni siti - Samba na SuSE Linuxu. > > Zapojeni: > ========= > > dynam. IP _ eth0=194.108.47.241 (Ext) 192.168.4.10 > _______ __ _/ \_ ____________ ______________ > > | | / \_/ \ | | | > | | | > | > | W2K | ---> / Internet / ---> | firewall | ---------> | fileserver > | | > | > | | \ __ _| | | | > | | | > > ------- ---/ \--/ ------------ > -------------- eth2=192.168.4.1 (Internal) > > Resim to pomoci baliku pptp.rpm ze SuSE Linuxu 7.2, bohuzel napoveda, > i ta, co jsem nasel na www.poptop.org, mi nejak nedostacuje ... > Pokud mam zastaveny firewall, obcas se pripojim, ale je to asi veci > nahody(?). Jakmile firewall spustim, nepripojim se, at firewall > konfiguruji jak chci! (Pracuji s jadrem 2.4.4-4GB z distribuce.) > > Vedel byste nekdo radu? Kofiguraky zde samozrejme vypisu ... > > Zdenek.Hornych(a)brandysnl.cz Hi there Zdenku! I understand czech well but have no idea about your problems any way you need to send your questions in english.Here is a very loose translation: Hello to everyone over the Easter holiday.I`m currently trying to figure out client dial up connection to local network , client is on MS W2k and is connecting via SuSE 7.2 box with SuSE firewall2 and reaching his server at local network - Samba on SuSE-Linux Connection diagram: dynam. IP _ eth0=194.108.47.241 (Ext) 192.168.4.10 > _______ __ _/ \_ ____________ ______________ > > | | / \_/ \ | | | > | | | > | > | W2K | ---> / Internet / ---> | firewall | ---------> | fileserver > | | > | > | | \ __ _| | | | > | | | > > ------- ---/ \--/ ------------ > -------------- eth2=192.168.4.1 (Internal) I`ve tried to configure it with the package pptp.rpm from SuSE 7.2 distro but even the advice from www.poptop.org is not helpfull. When firewall is not active I`m able to connect but it culd be just a good luck of some sort.If firewall is active I can`t connect no matter what configurations I try.Is anyone able to help me with the configuration.I`ll of course publish the configuration .System is standard suse kernel 2.4.4-4GB. To me it sound like misconfigured firewall setup. See ya Alan -- 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 archives at http://lists.suse.com

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Motherboard/processor recommendations?
by Robert C. Paulsen Jr. 01 Apr '02

01 Apr '02

I am considering an upgrade to my system and have been recommended the following motherboards and processor: motherboards: EPOX EP-8KHA+ (cheaper) ABIT KG7-RAID (better?) processor: AMD ATHLON XP 2000+ These were recommended by someone who does not run Linux so I am asking here to see if anyone has any comments or warnings from a Linux/SuSE perspective. I don't think I care too much about the raid since I will be moving my SCSI adapter and drives from my current system. Also, any recommendations about memory? I see the following listed as possibilities: DDR 266mhz 64x64 PC2100 non-parity Unbuf DIMM 2.5v DDRAM (cheaper) DDR 64x64 PC266 non-parity Unbuf DIMM 2.5v CL2.5 (better?) The second choice is about $43 more. What is the advantage? Any info appreciated! -- Robert C. Paulsen, Jr. robert(a)paulsenonline.net old -> paulsen(a)texas.net

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Re: [SLE] http://localhost doesn't work
by Michael Fischer 01 Apr '02

01 Apr '02

On Mon, Apr 01, steve wrote: > On Monday 01 April 2002 18:54, you wrote: > > On Mon, 1 Apr 2002 17:37:48 +0200 > > Thanks for your patience. This really is a pain I know. Steve. Are you using any iptables/ipchains/SuSEFirewall? I have been unable to surf the 'localhost' via http:// unless I include a rule like the following $ipt -t filter -A tcprules -d 127.0.0.0/24 -j ACCEPT where the chain tcprules will be applied to the INPUT chain. and $ipt is the path to iptables. grope, grope Michael -- Michael Fischer Happiness is a config option. michael(a)visv.net Recompile and be happy.

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zaurus pda
by RR 01 Apr '02

01 Apr '02

can someone explain the reasoning for sharp to have a windows driver to link the a linux pda and not have a linux driver? was it easier to write a windows driver? I am not critizing shapr, hey it looks like the best linux pda for the next 2 + years.... but i am curious for the decision making

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