July 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

How to start samba...
by Mauro Boschi 03 Jul '02

03 Jul '02

Hi, I installed succesfully samba, it works wery well, but I've noticed that it doesn't start at boot, so I've to start it manually. What I've to do to solve this situation? Thanks a lot! mauro

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Re: [SLE] What do I need to activate Evolutions spell checker?
by James Ogley 03 Jul '02

03 Jul '02

When you exited and restarted Evo for the upgrade, did you run oaf-slay? Bonobo uses OAF, so you need to make sure all OAF processes are dead for new Bonobo components (which gnome-spell is) to be detected... > Yes, I also have aspell-en installed along with > aspell, pspell, and gnome-spell. I've also checked > gnomecc and spell-checking is enabled with "en" as the > language in HTML Viewer|Miscelleaneous. > I also upgraded to Evolution 1.0.8 and upgraded the > above-mentioned spelling packages to the most recent > versions (using the very nice SuSE apt-get!). Still, > Evolution won't spell-check my emails. Any other > suggestions would be most appreciated. -- James Ogley, Unix Systems Administrator, Pinnacle Insurance Plc james.ogley(a)pinnacle.co.uk www.pinnacle.co.uk +44 (0) 20 8731 3619 Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 8.0) Updated GNOME RPMs for SuSE Linux: www.usr-local-bin.org ********************************************************************** CONFIDENTIALITY.This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the named recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to another person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Pinnacle Insurance plc. If you have received this email in error please immediately notify the Pinnacle Helpdesk on +44 (0) 20 8207 9555. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **********************************************************************

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Re: Kernel Compilation for Dual Xeon system
by Simon Oliver 03 Jul '02

03 Jul '02

Rob, thanks again. Here's what the Kernel help system says on selecting "User address space size": Typically there will 128 megabytes less "user memory" mapped than the number in the configuration option. Saying that another way, "high memory" will usually start 128 megabytes lower than the configuration option. Selecting "05GB" results in a "3.5GB/0.5GB" kernel/user split: On a system with 1 gigabyte of physical memory, you may get 384 megabytes of "user memory" and 640 megabytes of "high memory" with this selection. Why would I want that? What is the advantage of having a high ratio of "high memory"? What is this "high memory" used for, the kernel and drivers? How do I gauge how much high memory I need? Selecting "1GB" results in a "3GB/1GB" kernel/user split: On a system with 1 gigabyte of memory, you may get 896 MB of "user memory" and 128 megabytes of "high memory" with this selection. This is the usual setting. And on a 2GB system would I get 1152 MB high and 896MB user? Selecting "2GB" results in a "2GB/2GB" kernel/user split: On a system with less than 1.75 gigabytes of physical memory, this option will make it so no memory is mapped as "high". Does that mean I get 128/1920 with 2GB of physical RAM? And 0/1024 with 1GB of physical RAM? And what are the cons of having no high memory? To summarize, how much does all this affect performance and in what way? -- Simon Oliver

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RE: [SLE] Replacing Wine with Codeweavers CrossOver Office
by Dunphy Richard-rdunph01 03 Jul '02

03 Jul '02

You don't need to uninstall wine. Codeweavers crossover products are self contained. So far I've got several wine products installed Corel Photopaint IBM HPBuilder Crossover office Crossover plugin and of course plain wine. Also - I think Kylix is based on Wine - not too sure though. All work perfectly happily alongside each other. RikD. > -----Original Message----- > From: Keith Jacobs [mailto:keithjacobs@blueyonder.co.uk] > Sent: 02 July 2002 21:37 > To: Suse-Linux-E > Subject: [SLE] Replacing Wine with Codeweavers CrossOver Office > > > I installed Wine on my SuSE 8 system but now want to use > CrossOver Office > which I have downloaded. > > Question: Do I need to un-install Wine and if so how, before I install > CrossOver Office? > > Regards > Keith Jacobs > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com) > Version: 6.0.372 / Virus Database: 207 - Release Date: 20/06/02 > > > -- > 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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Re: [SLE] NFS upload speed decreases after 40mb copied.
by joep.verhaeg＠philips.com 03 Jul '02

03 Jul '02

The disks/memory aren't the bottleneck, with Samba it runs great (67mbit/s upload speed). I don't have made any kernel adjustments, just installed SuSE 7.3 out of the box. "Herman L. Knief" <herman(a)knief.net> 2002-07-02 06:24 PM To: suse_ground_zero <suse(a)aspec.ro> cc: Keith Winston <kwinston(a)twmi.rr.com> <suse-linux-e(a)suse.com> (bcc: Joep Verhaeg/EHV/CE/PHILIPS) Subject: Re: [SLE] NFS upload speed decreases after 40mb copied. Classification: Sorry about that last one. Too quick to hit the wrong key. Couple of things to look at. How much memory do you have in the system? Did you ever do any benchmarks of the Disk subsystem by itself to see what kind of performance it will provide? Have you made any adjustments to any kernel parameters? - Herman On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, suse_ground_zero wrote: ->On Tuesday 02 July 2002 19:13, suse_ground_zero wrote: -> -> -> well I got the same pb. on 7.3 i didn't try NFS on 8.0 yet ... kinda hard to -> update an online machine. Pls let me know when and how it is solved. -> -> ->-- ->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 -> -> -- 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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Eurpoean Computer Driving Licence and Non-MS Operating Systems
by Terence McCarthy 03 Jul '02

03 Jul '02

It appears from the various sites relating to the ECDL that only Microsoft o/s are supported (vide winzip and Acrobat for Windows as the only downloads in support of ECDL materials). Can you please assure me that: a. The ECDL is not a front organisation for Microsoft (as it appears to be), b. That any o/s and appropriate software is (or is to be) considered as a suitable vehicle for ECDL qualification, c. That answers to module questions (such as the example at http://www.ecdl.co.uk/common/sample/module1.htm) "1.1.4 Explain what a computer virus is and describe two measures you can take to protect your computer from a computer virus." are acceptable according to the o/s and software used, d. That if b. and c. above are not accepted, then the reasons why they are not will be made public, and the subsequent limited value of ECDL certification publicised on all ECDL promotional material(as endorsing a UK driving licence with, e.g., "Valid for driving Ford cars only"). There is an increasing awareness, especially in Europe, of the undisirability of proprietary, closed software, on a number of grounds, not least cost, unreliability, and lack of security, all of which Microsoft exemplifies. With the welcome increase of European governmental spending on alternative o/s (Germany- IBM & Linux, France- Mandrake Linux), it is important that the ECDL is, and is seen to be, non-O/S and non-software specific. It is thus also important that non-O/S specific question/answer combinations exist. For example, the sample question quoted above could have answers from a Unix/Linux/BSD user along the lines of: "1. Use an inherently secure o/s (that is: NOT ANY of the various flavours of the MS o/s), 2. If you can't, NEVER use, or allow other users to use, MS Outlook." You may also get answers about user/group permissions, firewall configuration etc.. Thank you for your help in this matter. I look forward to an early reply (as I hope to use my (SuSE) Linux system and Sun Open Office 1.0, along with postgresql and other such programmes to qualify for my Computer Driving Licence!). Terence McCarthy

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misbehaving hwclock (or where can i get another /dev/rtc?)
by stewart hale 03 Jul '02

03 Jul '02

greetings, does anybody know how i can go about getting or generating a new '/dev/rtc' for SuSE 7.3 on an intel? mine seems to have been corrupted somehow -- hangs the hwclock at boot. can i just replace it with another or does it need to be compiled for this motherboard? i'm hoping not to have to recompile the kernel for this minor issue. thanks in advance... regards, stewart

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ifup: Configuration not found for sit0
by Art Fore 03 Jul '02

03 Jul '02

Can anyone tell me what "ifup: Configuration not found for sit0" message in the console means? I am wondering if this has anything to do with my USB keyboard no longer working. Art

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SSH error at startup.
by Brian Durant 03 Jul '02

03 Jul '02

Anyone know why I am getting this error at startup (?): Starting SSH daemon<notice>startproc: execve (/usr/sbin/sshd) [ /usr/sbin/sshd ], [ PWD=/ BOOT_FILE=/boot/vmlinuz HOSTNAME=thor CONSOLE=/dev/console vga=0x0317 PREVLEVEL=N AUTOBOOT=YES MACHTYPE=i386-suse-linux LINES=34 SHLVL=2 COLUMNS=104 BOOT_IMAGE=linux SHELL=/bin/bash HOSTTYPE=i386 OSTYPE=linux HOME=/ TERM=linux PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin RUNLEVEL=5 INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.78 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/sbin/sshd ] failed I haven't changed anything that I know of. Cheers, Brian

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Yast 2 not working after KDE 3.0.1 update
by Robert Culver 03 Jul '02

03 Jul '02

Hi all, I am still tying to get the graphical version of Yast2 to work. I can get the command line to work fine - but not the graphical version. Please help Thanks Robert

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