May 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [SLE] CheckInstall users?
by Andrei Verovski 28 May '02

28 May '02

>WIth all the things have been installing of late, I have taken an interest >in >CheckInstall. Is there anyone on the list using it that has good things to >say about it running on SuSE 7.3 or has general comments about it? I am using checkinstall. One of the most useful software I ever had. You may find my notes on http://homepage.mac.com/macgurutemple/linux_tips_and_tricks.html#15 with set regards Andrei

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Why No T-Shirts?
by Bryan Tyson 28 May '02

28 May '02

Why No T-Shirts? http://www.suse.com/us/products/gear4geeks/index.html The Gear4Geeks section has no T-Shirts. Why? *************************************************** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson(a)earthlink.net ***************************************************

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webserver failover
by Silviu Marin-Caea 28 May '02

28 May '02

Given two web-servers that will be connected to the internet through different providers, how can I implement, in an elegant fashion a failover solution? Load-balancing is not necessary, just failover; the user that types www.whatever.com in the web-browser _must_ get served in case one of the servers failed or a provider's link is down. I know that there is plenty of information about this, but I'm asking for some directions, from someone who did this, in order to spend less time searching through non-relevant documentation. Thank you. -- Silviu Marin-Caea Systems Engineer Linux/Unix http://www.genesys.ro Phone +4093-267961

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Gnome is crap
by Ben Rosenberg 28 May '02

28 May '02

Well, I removed every Ximian rpm on the machine and all it's config files. I installed the Gnome rpm's from the supp. directory on SuSE's ftp server..all of them. And you know what I am beginning to thing that having Evolution 1.0.5 running after the last upgrade prior to the apt fiasco was a fluke. Screw Gnome.. /end rant -=Ben --=====-----=====-- mailto:ben@whack.org --=====-- If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. -GC --=====-----=====--

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DVD - RW
by Berge, Harry ten 28 May '02

28 May '02

Hi! Is it possible to write/record DVD-RW's on Linux (SuSE)? Kind regards, Harry ten Berge Test Engineer Holland Institute of Traffic Technology HITT B.V. P.O. box 717 Apeldoorn email :berge@hitt.nl <http://www.hitt.nl> tel : +31 555432537 fax : +31 555432554

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libsip dependency error for PyQt KDE3 update with rpm -Fvh
by Eric Maryniak 28 May '02

28 May '02

Hello SuSE kde3/python users, I have succesfully upgraded on a SuSE 7.3 system all KDE3 files to kde 3.0.1 (May 23 files on SuSE's update ftp server). I got no dependency conflicts whatsoever except PyQt: rpm -Fvh ./applications/PyQt-3.2.4-0.rpm error: failed dependencies: sip = 3.2.4 is needed by PyQt-3.2.4-0 libsip.so.9 is needed by PyQt-3.2.4-0 I've searched SuSE's ftp server and the net thoroughly, however could not find sip (= package 'sip' from d3) version 3.2.4 (on SuSE 7.3 it's 2.5-68). Note that the order of rpm-ing was critical and sometimes it was necessary to rpm -e (remove) an old package first. However, I never had to resort to --nodeps and/or --force. I started with with simulataneously rpm -Fvh'ing the base+devel kde3 and qt3 packages first. That worked for me. However, I would be nice if SuSE would put some hints about (the order of) the installation of kde3, instead of just putting the all rpm's on their LinuKS site (which is much appreciated, by the way!). Thanx for any help! Bye-bye, Eric -- Eric Maryniak <e.maryniak(a)pobox.com> WWW homepage: http://pobox.com/~e.maryniak/ Mobile phone: +31 6 52047532, or (06) 520 475 32 in NL. It's enough to make you wonder sometimes, if you're on the right planet. - FGTH

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Create multi backup files using tar
by Kestutis Saldziunas 28 May '02

28 May '02

Hello, I am enough new in doing backups on Linux. So I am just starting discover the power of tar. At a momet I do backup into tar file (tar -c -gzip /serv1/ > /backup/serv1.tar ), however creted backup file exceeds 4GB size, so taring hangs ... (SuSE 7.2 2.4.4-4GB ). What are solutions ? I found in tar documentation option --multi-volume (Informs tar that it should create or otherwise operate on a multi-volume tar archive), but for me it is says nothing... I would appresiate any advice :) Kestutis

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Change DPI
by Phil Shrimpton 28 May '02

28 May '02

Hi, How do I change my graphical stuff (KDE, Gnome etc.) to use 100dpi, instead of 75dpi? This should be easy, but I just can't find what to change. Phil -- Linux 2.4.4-4GB 11:58am up 2 days, 20:57, 2 users, load average: 0.08, 0.02, 0.01

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ext3 runs fsck
by Robert Storey 28 May '02

28 May '02

Dear All, I got SuSE 8.0 up and running last night. So far, not bad, but one question: Despite the fact that I have the ext3 journaled filesystem installed on every partition - every 20 boots causes an fsck. That was standard procedure with ext2, but it's not supposed to happen with ext3. Any ideas? Is anybody else out there running ext3 and experiencing this? Does ReiserFS and/or XFS do the same? I can say for sure from my Redhat days that ext3 never had to run this check (ext2 did), so I'm puzzled why SuSE is doing it. - Robert Storey

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any pptp cookbook ?
by Olivier Hislaire 28 May '02

28 May '02

Hi, does anybody know about a minimum pptp cookbook/howto (got pppt-linux from sourceforge) ? I want a linux box (permanenttly connected to the internet, which means no ppp dialup mandatory) to connect to a MS PPTP server (on the internet as well). It should not be too difficult, but I just can't find the right documentation. Where should I store the mschap2 password ? Is mppe included in the 7.2 kernel ? What about mppc ? Any track/success story appreciated. Olivier.

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