June 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

chmod smbmount question
by Jon Doe 29 Jun '02

29 Jun '02

A little while back someone sent to the list a chmod command to make smbmount and smbumount accessable to users without su. Is it: chmod 755 /usr/bin/smbmount I can't remember now and I kinda lost my back up CD. Also where are the searchable email lists on SuSE?

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Basic SuSE Config Q's (longish)
by Chris Roberts 29 Jun '02

29 Jun '02

After some fair time playing with SuSE 7.2, I regret to say I still have some gaps in my knowledge which often give rather fundamental problems with installation of software outside YAST's framework. Hey, I *CAN* do things like set up Cups with Gimp Print and configure Samba, Apache and Tomcat etc., so (hopefully!) I'm not a complete dummy - But the following STILL elude me... 1) X-applications work OK under a user account but I often have problems when some applications or (graphical?) installation procedures require "su"-ing or indeed run under root because of errors like: Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server etc. etc. ISTR on unix systems setting and exporting the DISPLAY variable but can't get anywhere far with that one. Fwiw, all my users and root echo $DISPLAY as ":0.0" Now I kinda "know" the display should be a bit more substantial than just ":0.0" but WHERE is that "0.0" being set up and WHERE do I correct it and to WHAT?? I use the default bash shell and can e.g. make changes to my .bashrc file or whatever is most appropriate... 2) Next: For networking applications, I don't MIND the system being identified as "linux", "localhost" (or whatever it b*** well wants! <grin> but I'd *like* it to be called something more imaginative- like "anubis", so WHERE do I set that up?? I notice e.g. where I set up the NIC I/P address (192.168.0.1) under "YAST > Network/Basic", it allows for a "hostname" & "domain name" - set to "linux" and "local" at the moment. But is THAT the correct place?? Or should I be doing something with /etc/hosts etc. Is the "domain" name above also likely to be the workgroup name ("ennead") that I use for identifying my windows systems? 3) (Finally!) Some applications FAIL with problems with a "LOCALE" setting. Some just warn and default to "C" - But some others just bomb out. I thought the locale WAS correctly set up correcly... for the UK - under the dialog for YAST>Personalization>Country&Language, but maybe I'm missing something? Sorry for being a bit verbose and for the confusion, but I just want to get some of these things NAILED finally - No urgency, but if someone has the patience, I'd be very grateful! :-) Chris

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RE: [SLE] readline libs
by John Ross Hunt 29 Jun '02

29 Jun '02

> Greetings: > > Where would I find the readline libs in SuSE. Specifically > libreadline.so.3 > > Many thanks > > Chris H readline is part of the bash package. You'd need to compile an older version of bash, I presume. -jrh

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Gnome Update and broken nautilus
by Jamie O'Shaughnessy 29 Jun '02

29 Jun '02

I've just updated by install of Gnome (1.4) from ftp.suse.com and now when I run Nautilus it complains: ** WARNING **: Can't find description even for "x-directory/normal". This probably means that your gnome-vfs.keys file is in the wrong place or isn't being found for some other reason. And Nautilus won't open directories, crashes on opening preferences, etc. >From having a nose around on the net it seems that /opt/gnome/share/mime-types/gnome-vfs.keys is missing now? Any ideas? Cheers, Jamie -- Jamie O'Shaughnessy jamie.oshaughnessy(a)ntlworld.com

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gdbm fatal: read error (man pages)
by John Lamb 29 Jun '02

29 Jun '02

I've been getting gdbm fatal: read error when trying to use man pages recently. Does anyone know what this might mean? A fix is to remove /usr/local/man from the MANPATH. There is actually nothing in /usr/local/man except the standard man* folder. All the permissions in /usr/local/man are the same as those in /usr/share/man. All suggestions welcome. JDL

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firewall problem
by Thomas Nyman 29 Jun '02

29 Jun '02

Subject: firewall problem Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 15:24:04 +0200 From: Thomas Nyman <thomas(a)bostaden.swedlaw.com> To: suse-security(a)suse.com Hi, I have a problem with my SuSEfirewall2..despite reading the examples and faq I cant get it to allow incoming and otugoing traffic on port 25 the firewall is run on a machine configured as follows eth0 = external network (internet) eth1 = internal network (192.168.1.1) the machine runs postfix and postfix can't open port 25. I've enclosed my firewall script..I'm hoping someone can see what I've done wrong. Thomas ------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Installing advices
by Thomas Widlundh 29 Jun '02

29 Jun '02

Hi again, I've just installed SuSE 8.0 on the second HDD (new) on my WinXP machine, and it worked like dream. :-) Totally automatic. And I can still launch WinXP just like that. All I had to do was to switch the CD's on demand. A modem question though. The machine has one of these win modems on COM3. I'm not going to use this. I'm intending to use an external modem on COM1. In the references there are a device path to /dev/modem. This doesn't exist. There is only a directory called modems, containing just one file called wav-something. How do I solve this? Can I just make a file called modem, put in /dev and symlink it to /dev/ttyS0, or something? Any thoughts on this? Thanks, Thomas

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Linux dedicated server on SuSE-NWN
by Matthew Johnson 29 Jun '02

29 Jun '02

Good day, Just wondering if there is way to get this server running after I log out from an SSH session. Crontab seems to only work a rot, whcih is not desirable for obvious reasons. Any idea? Matt

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Grub with SuSE 8.0
by michael norman 29 Jun '02

29 Jun '02

Has anybody using Grub got a configuration that boots SuSE 8.0 with the standard kernek they could share. I have one root (no separate boot) partition on hda2. I have a lot of different combinations but always end up with a kernel panic. thanks Mike

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Suse 8.0 & USB 2.0
by eric.linux＠t-online.de 29 Jun '02

29 Jun '02

Does anyone know if USB 2.0 works with Suse 8.0? I've tried usbview and it doesn't show up. Is there something I need to do? Thanks! Eric

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