May 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

SuSE E-ListServ Error: Returned mail: see transcript for details
by kevin.wilson＠comtrol.com 01 May '02

01 May '02

To: SuSE E-List server admin Subject: Errors sending to list. If the transcript attachments did not come through please contact me with an email address that I can forward them to. Thank You, Kevin -----Original Message----- From: Mail Delivery Subsystem [mailto:MAILER-DAEMON@linux1.bmarsh.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 9:18 AM To: Kevin Wilson Subject: Returned mail: see transcript for details The original message was received at Wed, 1 May 2002 10:17:54 -0400 from localhost [127.0.0.1] ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- <root@localhost> (reason: 127) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 554 5.3.0 unknown mailer error 127

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Kernel 2.4.18
by Alfredo Cole 01 May '02

01 May '02

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi: I have seen on various messages posted to this list, that some people are using kernel 2.4.18. I have SuSE 7.2 personal, and have searched the SuSE site for that kernel without any luck. Where can I find an official SuSE kernel 2.4.18 for SuSE 7.2? Thank you. - -- Alfredo J. Cole http://www.acyc.com (Accounting Systems) http://www.clshonduras.com (Linux Hardware) PGP Key available from certserver.pgp.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE80DG9u5DxuPWE298RAkDEAJ9PQgn/b1MvTD/EL1SVW3Ka+Bc3AgCeOeTC xZAZK327V2bsnXysG3EnghM= =JFU1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Suse 8 Installation Issues
by Richard Chamberlain 01 May '02

01 May '02

Hello, I'm trying to install Suse 8.0 on a pc. Once I've got past the initial setup screen and it brings up the preparing hard drive message I get an error message: FDisk failed. The disk has an unsupported partition table Repartition Disk /dev/hda I've tried repartitioning with both fdisk and pdisk. Originally this was a windows nt machine with two ntfs partitions. I've removed both partitions and put a single fat32 partition, but I still get the same error. Any ideas? Thanks, Richard _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com

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Samba Network Printing on 8.0
by Brian W. Carver 01 May '02

01 May '02

Hi, I want to get Samba running so that any computer on my lan can print to the printer connected to the new SuSE 8.0 server. I've never got Samba working before, so be gentle with me. In the past on other linux distros I've at least been able to get SWAT to run, but cannot even get that far right now. I used YAST2 to install the samba package. I'd like to get SWAT running now so I can use the GUI to edit my smb.conf file, among other things. So, I've edited /etc/inetd.conf to uncomment the line that says: swat stream tcp nowait.400 root /usr/sbin/swat swat I also see the following line in /etc/services swat 901/tcp # CONFLICT, not official assigned! I've edited my /etc/hosts.deny to look like this: # /etc/hosts.deny # See `man tcpd´ and `man 5 hosts_access´ as well as /etc/hosts.allow # for a detailed description. http-rman : ALL EXCEPT LOCAL swat: 127.0.0.1 192.168.0. because I want any local computer (192.168.0.x) to be able to access SWAT. I've rebooted once to allow inetd to restart but still if I type: http://localhost:901 or even http://192.168.0.1:901 into mozilla I get a pop-up box that says "The connection was refused when attempting to connect localhost:901" Also, if I do a netstat -an I don't see that the server is listening on 901 at all. Port 901 isn't even mentioned when I type that. All I want to do is print over the network! Ahhhh! Thanks for any help. Brian W. Carver

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Why not beta test with mailing list people before release?
by Cindy 01 May '02

01 May '02

After seeing how many patches, updates and bug fixes have already appeared for 8.0 and also how slow the updates download on the update server that it would be appropriate to give predistribution copies to some hard core users from the mailing lists to beta test each distribution before release to the general public.. This would significantly speed up the update servers due to less files downloaded and MORE IMPORTANTLY less bugs in releases would scare off less users that are new to linux.

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Dynamic DNS on Suse 7.2
by Fábio Rabelo 01 May '02

01 May '02

I'm trying to set up my home gateway/firewall to update IP via Dynamic DNS ( dyndns.org ) using the package ddt version 0.5-46 ( they came with suse ) but without any result yet ! No error msg and no log ... someone use this or any other service like that ? The doc. is realy poor, no example file, nothin at all ! anything can help .... from anyone ! thanks Fábio Rabelo .... user of Suse since version 6.3 ... in Brasil !

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Running firewall and services on one box?
by Alex Daniloff 01 May '02

01 May '02

Hello SuSE folkz, I apologize for a such stupid question, but my dept. manager didn't approve additional spendings for firewall hardware even el-cheapo pentium PC. He insists to run firewall on the same box with Web, DB, NFS and Mail servers to cut our department costs. So,I need to show him justification why it's dangerouse practice. His position on this issue is that using iptables you can separate Internet NIC from Intranet NIC, setup NAT and masquerading and put all unnessesary ports on Internet interface in stealth mode. All nessesary services for internal network will be provided on the Intranet NIC separately from Internet NIC. If a hacker breaks through the firewall into DMZ (Web, DB, Mail) server will become volnureable in any way. So he doesn't see a point to separate firewall from other servers. Could somebody please provide an explanation about this issue or point to the source of information, so I can show it to my staborn manager. Thank you very much in advance. Alex

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PCMCIA Card and SuSE 8.0
by Brian Carver 01 May '02

01 May '02

Hi, I may have to call/e-mail SuSE on this, but before I tried that I thought I'd ask here. I've installed 8.0 on a Sony PCG-F370 laptop with not much trouble. The problem is that it doesn't seem to like my D-Link PCMCIA network card, and so I can't get the laptop on the internet (via my home lan). The laptop connects fine when in Windoze 98, so hardware issues are mostly ruled out. After boot-up ifconfig shows that only the local loopback 127.0.0.1 is up and eth0 isn't even listed. If I do 'ifconfig eth0 up' then it will list it but it is not assigned an ip address. It should receive ip via dhcp and is set to do so via YAST2. DNS servers, domain, and hostname are correct in YAST2. (Actually the server's dhcpd.conf file is set to assign a static address to this laptop based on its MAC address, but this shouldn't matter, eh?) If I ping the server's internal address 192.168.0.1 then the laptop comes back with "Network is unreachable". Finally, on bootup there is a TERRIBLY long wait after it says "Hardware scan on boot" and then after nearly 2 minutes it says something about loading kernel pcmcia and finishes booting up. Do I have an IRQ conflict or something? Another funny thing is that I thought I got this same laptop working with the SuSE live eval 7.3 once, but maybe not. On a side note, I'm using a USB mouse with the laptop and was wondering if there was a way to also simultaneously make the touchpad mouse on the laptop work. I have both available in Windoze, so surely SuSE will allow me that same flexibility, no?! Thanks for any ideas on all this. -- Brian W. Carver

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RE: Re: [SLE] Re: Availability of 8.0 to Canadians
by gjmwalsh＠netscape.net 01 May '02

01 May '02

Thanks, Andre, for your thoughtfulness. I am debating whether to sit around for SuSE, switch to Caldera, or reorder to a US address. Seems pretty stupid, when all I am trying to do is buy from SuSE, exactly as I did last year when they had no trouble sending 7.3 to me, and I rather obviously had no trouble receiving it. We Canucks are quiet folks, but we do not handle uninformed arrogance very well at all. Thanks again .... George >George Walsh wrote: > > ><snip> >i wish i knew beforehand, usually i have the latest >version shipped by friends in UK/USA >and i could have easily just copied you disks and >couriered it to you. >but by the time we do this now you will probably >already have it ? >maybe next time ? > >krgds, > >andre > > > -- George Walsh, Managing Director, CruiseRoutes Division, DSC Directional Services Corp Courtenay, British Columbia, Canada __________________________________________________________________ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/

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Incorrect drive IDs in 8.0
by Yippee Three-eight 01 May '02

01 May '02

I've got three hard disks on my system, a cd-rom and cd-rw. The first two disks are on channel 0 on the IDE controller on my motherboard (Epox 8KHA+ / VIA KT266A chipset) and the cd-rom and cd-rw are on channel 1. These two hard disks hold my Win98 partitions. I have my third hard disk connected to channel 0 on my Abit HotRod 100 (Highpoint 370) controller in a non-RAID configuration. That disk has my Linux partitions. I had SuSE 7.3 running on that disk until earlier this week. With 7.3, my disks were identified as follows: IDE 0 Master = /hda IDE 0 Slave = /hdb IDE 1 Master = /hdc IDE 1 Slave = /hdd IDE 3 (add-on controller) Master = /hde. All of my Linux partitions were /hde partitions. When I installed 8.0, it identified the hard disks as follows: IDE 0 Master = /hde IDE 0 Slave = /hdf IDE 3 (add-on controller) Master = /hda. Install went fine with it set up like this, but LILO doesn't work (which isn't really surprising). I have to mess with it some more to see if I can get it to work. Does anybody have any idea why 8.0 would ID the drives differently than 7.3? Mike B __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com

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