April 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Sudden mouse loss
by Mark Doucette 27 Apr '02

27 Apr '02

Hello, I just installed XFree 4.2 from the suse ftp on my 7.3 machine. All was well until I decided to run sax2. First off...sax2 wouldn't start up at all....just went to 'startup' then aborted without any errors. Then I noticed that I wasn't able to use my mouse anymore. The pointer just sits motionless in the middle of the screen. I reboot etc and still nothing. I checked XF86Config and all the settings are still the same. So then I noticed that /dev/psaux was gone, but the symlink from /dev/mouse was still pointing to it. Now there is no /dev/psaux, but there is one called '/dev/psaux-disabled'. I can't seem to find any info on what the heck this means or why /dev/psaux is gone. Also I tried another mouse just in case, but no change. Thanks for input Mark Doucette kranked(a)oberon.ark.com WinFree and Lovin' it. SuSE Rox Linux! Registered Linux User # 240512 ----////----

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email scanner /antivirus
by Manral 27 Apr '02

27 Apr '02

I am using suse email server II for my enterprise emails can some one suggest any antivirus or email scanner which would scan the attachments for worms and torjans . is there any anti virus which checks for attachments and deletes them . Regards neeraj ...

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RPMs for updating
by Rob Blomquist 27 Apr '02

27 Apr '02

I just made the switch to SuSE 7.3 from Redhat 7.x, and one of the big deals that I have is that I have to update cups to 1.1.14 as I need it for my Epson C80 printer. Under RH I had it running fine, and I was able to compile it from source, but during the compile last night gcc had a fit with some of the code and bombed out. For RH I have found that it is easy to upgrade as rpms are so easy to come by, but under SuSE it seems harder. Where, or what versions of rpms do you use for updating your system? -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA

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Installing SuSE 8.0 on Dell Inspiron 8200
by Bill Sheehan 27 Apr '02

27 Apr '02

Freude schoner Gotterfunken, Tochter aus Elysium, Wir betreten feuertrunken, Himmliche dein Heiligtum! SuSE 8.0 arrived on my front porch last night. In honor of the fine folks who labored so long and hard at Software und Systementwicklung, I fired up Beethoven's Ninth and started installing it on my new Dell Inspiron 8200. Setup took no time flat. I had previously saved my /etc and /home directories, so I did a new install, creating a 200 MB root volume (ReiserFS) and making an LVM partition for the rest. (What can I say - I think LVM is the greatest thing since sliced raisin bread.) Everything went fine until the reboot. When the boot process got to "loading kernel PCMCIA," it locked up solid. A quick search of the SuSE Support Database gave some good hints. They put PCMCIA in the kernel for 8.0. Powered off machine, restarted with "linux NOPCMCIA=yes" at the lilo prompt, and the system came right up. Edited /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia, changing PCMCIA_SYSTEM= to "external". Rebooted - yeah! SuSE rules! I already had a properly working XF86Config file from SuSE 7,3, so I really didn't do anything except run Sax2 so it would link the right X server, then replaced the resultant config file with my old one. The built-in Ethernet and sound chip were detected immediately and have no problems. I also like the default security - no Telnet, no FTP, no Sendmail. The only ports that show up on an nmap scan are SSH, RPC, and X11. I liked the old default SuSE wallpaper, but this new pattern is even nicer. Kudos to all at SuSE! Bill Sheehan Postmaster 617-373-7927

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Re: [SLE] Anti-Virus Program ~ Icelanders have written F-Prot for Linux
by Brian Galbraith 27 Apr '02

27 Apr '02

On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 23:16:55 +0200 Anders Johansson <andjoh(a)cicada.linux-site.net> wrote: > For a commercial solution there is also the finnish F-Secure for linux. > > http://www.fsecure.com > f-secure uses the f-prot scan engine. Also f-prot is free for personal use, but unlike Antivir......you can install all the updates . Regards Brian

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Compile failure kwintv
by Brian Marr 27 Apr '02

27 Apr '02

Suse 7.1 kernel 2.4.17 kde 2.2.2 qt 2.3.2-92 I would like to upgrade to the latest kwintv. After downloading kwintv-0.8.5.tar.gz I tried both ./configure and rpm -ta kwintv-0.8.5.tar.gz. Both failed to detect my qt version. Can anyone suggest a fix ? Brian Marr gringo@gringo:~/kwintv-0.8.5 $./configure creating cache ./config.cache checking for extra includes... no checking for extra libs... no configuring for KDE 2 and Qt 2.x checking for libz... -lz checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for non-GNU ld... /usr/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B checking whether ln -s works... yes checking for dlopen in -ldl... yes checking for shl_unload in -ldld... no checking for X... libraries /usr/X11R6/lib, headers /usr/X11R6/include checking for IceConnectionNumber in -lICE... yes checking for libXext... yes checking for libpng... -lpng -lz -lm checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes checking for main in -lcompat... no checking for crypt in -lcrypt... yes checking for the third argument of getsockname... socklen_t checking for dnet_ntoa in -ldnet... no checking for dnet_ntoa in -ldnet_stub... no checking for inet_ntoa... yes checking for connect... yes checking for remove... yes checking for shmat... yes checking for killpg in -lucb... no checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= 2.0) (headers and libraries) not found. Please check your installation! gringo@gringo:~/kwintv-0.8.5 $r

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Re: [SLE] suse firewall on cd
by steve 27 Apr '02

27 Apr '02

Hi. The personal firewall seems to need configuring because it asks for REJECT_ALL_INCOMING_CONNECTIONS If I put eth0 and eth1 there (our internet and local ethernet cards) once again nothing passes through. Can I just leave this blank and still be protected? Thanks, Steve. On Friday 19 April 2002 14:00, you wrote: > ** On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 10:43:08 +0200 steve <fsanta(a)arrakis.es> tossed > this note into the solar wind: > > > **Hi everyone > ** > **I see that SuSE sell a firewall on cd for over $1000. What is the > difference **between this firewall and SuSE firewall2 that comes with 7.3? > Is the latter **an inferior product? > ** > **Very confused! > > None of the firewalls offered are inferior, just different types for > different user settings > > Have you tried just selecting the "personal" firewall for a start? it > seems to protect things very nicely ( I've been *invisable* to some > intentional scans by various security folks I know, using just the > personal" version.) > > It requires no setup ,by which I mean, it's configured "out of the > box" and will protect you ( your lan etc) , as much as anything can do, > while you learn what you need to know to setup Firewall 2 If you need > it, Firewall2 is much more *user* ( i.e netadmin) configurable, so you > can pick and choose the various ports tprograms can use , or not use .. > etc. > I don't believe in the current internet climate that anyone should just > be surfing , emailing or anything else that requires a connection to the > internet w/o some sort of firewall . Whether its a commercial product > or a "roll your own" > > oh yes, > The firewall on a CD product is also something that comes preconfigured > , but it's advantages are no cracker or haxsor can tamper w/ the > firewall , ( neither can anyone who is already on your lan open any > ports that aren't "permitted") usually this is for a larger group than a > school lan. > > Firewall2 isn't inferior , neither is the "personal" version, just > different for diferent jobs. > I have one SOHO that uses thepersonal version.. there are only a few > computers there and the group doesn't need any exotic settings. whereas, > another , larger company uses the FireWall2 product, but there are about > 20 folks in that group and some more configurations were required to > keep some computers ( and their users) inside the network from going out > onto the internet ... > hope this helps

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what advantages using a nameserver
by steve 27 Apr '02

27 Apr '02

The SuSE documentation says that 'it makes absolute sense to use a nameserver if you have squid running' OWTTE, so I went through the chore of writing a nameserver according to the bind documentation.and the helios earth example in the SuSE manual a few weeks ago for our small school 22 computer lan with samba and a mix of w98 and 7.3 boxes. Before that we just put the client names in /etc/hosts. I can see no advantage in having spent so much time in doing so. What are the advantages? Thanks, Steve.

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Re: [SLE] Possible problem with PROMISE ide-raid integrated on Asus mobo (+ solve)
by Henne Vogelsang 27 Apr '02

27 Apr '02

Hi, On Friday, April 26, 2002 at 03:17:48, Gert-Jan Rodenburg wrote: > I own a Asus A7V133, and it has a promise Fasttrack100 integrated on the > board. > > When installing SuSE 8.0 pro, things go bad when configured as a raid cluster. > > When partitioning the raid cluster (/dev/ataraid/d0) somehow the new > partitiontable fails to sync to the disks. It is written to the disks, but > not refreshed for the OS, which results in a failure to format the > partitions. > > Rebooting the machine AFTER having partitioned the raid-cluster (and the > errors that formatting failed) and restarting the installationprocess using > the partitions as layd out in the previous install-run, results in a > successfull install. Yes thats the current solution. Thats a known "bug", rather a missing features in the ataraid / pdcraid kernel modules. They are ot able to tell the kernel that the normal devices the raid is build from, like hdg and hdg, are not available anymore. We hope they will soon. I wrote a SDB article but it is not translated to English yet :( Henne -- Hendrik Vogelsang aka Henne mailto: hvogel<at>hennevogel.de The liberator who destroyed my property has realigned my perceptions. # random sigs made with fortune

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Anti-Virus Program ~ Icelanders have written F-Prot for Linux
by tabanna 27 Apr '02

27 Apr '02

Hi SuSErs :) the url of F-Prot is :- www.complex.is best wishes ____________ sent on Linux ____________

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