July 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re:CD/RW
by Uzo Kemdi Anyamele 01 Jul '02

01 Jul '02

Hello, My favourite : YAMAHA CRW3200E E-IDE/ATAPI Why ? See: http://www.cdrinfo.com/hardware/yamaha3200e/index.shtml http://www.reviewboard.com/Section/Hardware/CRW3200E and perhaps more importantly, http://www.cdfreaks.com/document.php3?Doc=77&Page=12 This beauty will burn anything shown it. Forget the hype about +32X speed and arm yourself with proven 24x cdrs,then watch the Yamaha come to life. Good luck !! -- Kemdi IN_SuSE_d Since 5.2 123792 of counter.li.org ICQ:112290572

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Linux Install on Conmpaq Proliant 5000 Server
by James.Rocks＠equant.com 01 Jul '02

01 Jul '02

Hi, I am using SuSE 8 which works fine on my own workstation but locks up early in the install process on a Proliant 5000 ... it's a dual P200 (pro I think) with 512Mb memory and a couple of SCSI disk arrays (thinking of making it 1 array with 4, 5 if I can figure how to swap the enclosure, 9GB HD's in a RAID 5 array). I'm using the Pro edition, not server, which I can't afford (particularly since the machine is at home) :-) Any ideas? Thanks James C. Rocks Equant Archway House Canary Wharf London E14 9SZ Phone: 0207-5226856 Fax: 0207-5126087 Mobile Phone: 07771-767405 http://www.equant.com This e-mail (including any attachments) is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not an intended recipient or an authorized representative of an intended recipient, you are prohibited from using, copying or distributing the information in this e-mail or its attachments. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies of this message and any attachments. Thank you.

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VoIP compatible software to Net2phone or similar
by Ronald Wiplinger 01 Jul '02

01 Jul '02

I am looking for a VoIP software, which can work with Net2phone. I know Net2phone is not the best software, but it has worldwide gateways!!!! bye Ronald

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server hangs completely
by Leen de Braal 01 Jul '02

01 Jul '02

Hi all, server suse7.2 with kernel 2.4.16-4GB. When starting backup last week, (Arkeia free version, SC30 drive) I experience something new: Server hangs completely, not able to login in any way. In /var/log/messages I can find a line, that is completely filled with ^@^@^@ and so on. In Arkeia logs I cannot find anything, that was not there before also (when evrything ran OK). What do these ^@^@^@ mean?? TIA L1

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RE: [SLE] Synchronization of Supplementary Packages
by John Ross Hunt 01 Jul '02

01 Jul '02

> I know the extra updated packages on ftp.suse.com are > supplementary, but > it's a real pain that SuSE don't keep them in sync. e.g. > under Gnome there > is a mozilla-1.0-10.rpm but under Mozilla there is a > mozilla-1.0-4.i386.rpm - so you can't use the > mozilla-mail-1.0-4.i386.rpm > (to get mail in mozilla) package unless you install the > Mozilla directory > version of mozilla - of course then you can't use the galeon > out of the > Gnome directory :( > > I know it's work for SuSE to keep doing these builds, but > it's frustrating > as a user to go through this. That's why apt4rpm was invented: http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/ If that's too convoluted, just download from the FTP site: ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/8.0-i386/ It's synchronized with the latest and greatest updates + supplementary stuff. -jrh

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Dead Threads Recommendation to List./SuSE
by Brian W. Carver 01 Jul '02

01 Jul '02

I wonder if SuSE would consider assigning/hiring an employee to respond to unanswered requests to this list on a weekly basis. I suggest an employee, because I assume that if anyone on the list KNEW the answer, they would have already provided it. I'd guess, but don't know, that if this employee just devoted Mondays to cleaning up the prior week's dead threads that might be all the time it required (assuming a fairly knowledgable SuSE employee.) Or, it could be someone's full-time job and they could simply stay 1-week behind the list. If something was posted last Monday and hasn't gotten a response by this Monday, then the SuSE-Support-Guru tackles it. (And so on for Tuesday...) OR, in the open source collaborative spirit, perhaps a team of more experienced SuSE list-readers could volunteer to tackle this project. If one person took last Monday's dead threads, and one person took Tuesday's dead threads, etc., we'd only need 7 or so experienced SuSE users to make a go of this. In the case where you've stumped the expert, they should simply respond to the list that this is the case, and this might catch the eye of one of our other resident experts, and push things towards a solution. I'm defining a "dead thread" as a question that receives absolutely no responses. This doesn't handle those threads which receive numerous responses that don't resolve the problem. (I myself have started more of those than I care to think about right now.) But until list-users more actively posted [SOLVED] at the end of a successful thread, it would likely be too difficult for one person (especially a volunteer) to pour over every thread and then guess whether it was solved. That then leads to another recommendation I welcome comment on. While, an e-mail that just says "Thanks" adds to the already high volume of the list, if people more actively replied with Re: [SLE] My Topic [SOLVED] and then described which solution worked for them, it would become possible for us to more easily track which questions never got adequately addressed, and would make archive searching more valuable for those who come after us. P.S. If you think "dead threads" are a non-issue, I can count over 60 requests to this list, in just the last week, that received ZERO responses. (Some are not yet a week old and may yet be answered, but I think even a 3-4 day old request with no answer would likely alienate a newbie to the list. My 1-week plans above wouldn't address this exactly, but newbies could observe that dead-threads are tackled at the 1-week mark and would then be less likely to lose hope.) Anyway, I think it's in SuSE's best interest to hire people for this purpose as it could contribute significantly to the general opinion users have of the quality of the distribution. Or, if we users want to give back to SuSE and its users, then we need only find 7 SuSE gurus who are willing to devote one day a week to answering on average 9 or so questions that slip through the cracks. (I'd also be open to an area-of-expertise guru system, but then assigning the dead threads becomes a little more complicated, but workable.) Comments welcome. -- Brian Support EFF! http://www.eff.org/ They're defending YOUR rights online.

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re: [SLE] routing and default gateways
by Greg Freemyer 01 Jul '02

01 Jul '02

In general, you can't do what you want to do. Routing is typically done at the IP level of the 7-layer stack. You are asking for it to be done at the TCP level. I am not a Linux tcp/ip expert, so there might be a Linux specific solution. In particular, normal routing is done based on the destination IP. If the Linux ip driver supports source IP routing, you might be able to get this to work. I have seen source IP routing requested before, but I don't know of any implementations. Greg Freemyer Internet Engineer Deployment and Integration Specialist Compaq ASE - Tru64 Compaq Master ASE - SAN Architect The Norcross Group www.NorcrossGroup.com >> Hi, >> I was wondering if anyone could advise me? I have a web server live on the >> internet, which has two internet live network cards, on different IP >> addresses. >> Lets say, eth0 has the IP : 213.254.182.144/24 and eth1 has the IP : >> 193.128.89.158/24 >> Both are internet reachable. >> I would like to define some routing rules such that any traffic that >> originated through eth0, is sent back out via eth0, and likewise, traffic >> that came through eth1 goes out via eth1. >> I was thinking of something like : >> route add default gw 213.254.182.145 eth0 >> and >> route add default gw 193.128.89.157 eth1 >> where 213.254.182.145 and 193.128.89.157 are both routers. >> Would this work? I've not tried it yet and so this is all theory so far. >> Thanks in advance, >> Paul >> Please note, I completely made up the IP addresses! >> -- >> 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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Lots of Links about Linux.
by Ben Rosenberg 01 Jul '02

01 Jul '02

I know this is OT as far as SuSE is concerned, but I thought you newbies would just love to see this. If you can't find help on the subject your looking for on this site..I would be shocked. It's a site devoted to links about LINUX. :) http://loll.sourceforge.net/linux/links/ -=Ben --=====-----=====-- mailto:ben@whack.org --=====-- Tell me what you believe..I tell you what you should see. -DP --=====-----=====--

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RE: [SLE] OpenOffice
by John Ross Hunt 01 Jul '02

01 Jul '02

> The main problem with fonts in OpenOffice 1.0 seems to be its > unwillingness > to generate .afm's when .ttfs are installed though 'Print > Administration'. > > Where there are .afm's (such as those that come preinstalled in > .../OpenOffice.org1.0/share/psprint/fontmetric or are > imported together with > .pfb's in .../OpenOffice.org1.0/share/fonts/truetype), > antialiasing works > perfectly... > > I think I'd call it a bug. > > Michael Maybe generating your own fonts will help. 1) Make sure ttf2pt1-340-80.i386.rpm is installed. 2) cd to .ttf directory and: for X in *.ttf; do ttf2pt1 -b ${X} ${X%%.ttf}; done >/dev/null 2>&1 Will create .afm's and .pfb's from your .ttf fonts. It's worth a try. -jrh

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AZERTY on the `kdm' (?) display
by pinard＠iro.umontreal.ca 01 Jul '02

01 Jul '02

Hi, SuSErs. I'm not much familiar with KDE, so I hope to find some help here. Using SuSE 8.0 at initlevel 5, the nice login display displays one picture per user and two boxes, one for the user, and one for the password. The problem I have is that whenever I type in the user box, the keyboard is read in AZERTY mode. Clicking the picture fills that box, so I easily escape the difficulty that way. But I would like to know how to choose another keyboard in that situation. Typing the password is no problem for _me_ on _this_ machine, as by pure chance, my password does not use characters where AZERTY and QWERTY differ. Once logged in, the X keyboard is not AZERTY anymore. It works like `cf', which is my desire, and the choice I registered in `/etc/sysconfig/'. So the problem exists only in the login box (this is the fact of `kdm'?). -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard

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