August 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

gFTP
by James Ogley 30 Aug '02

30 Aug '02

Hi, I've just added packages of gFTP (version 2.0.13) to www.usr-local-bin.org If you use gFTP, you may want to try it out... -- 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 **********************************************************************

1 0

Unwanted startup
by David Johanson 30 Aug '02

30 Aug '02

For some reason unknown to me, kscd began to load as part of the 7.1 desktop a couple weeks ago, (much as if I had placed a program in the windows startup folder,) so I'm assuming it has somehow been placed in a startup script, but I have no idea where that might be. I've searched in /etc/rc.d but have yet to find anything that gives a clue. Could someone tell me how to disable this unwanted "feature." thanks, dave -- David C. Johanson Linux Counter # 116410 Powered by SuSE Linux 7.1 People who behold a phenomenon will often extend their thinking beyond it; people who merely hear about the phenomenon will not be moved to think at all. -- Goethe

1 0

iSpell no longer works in either KDE 2 or KDE 3 after apt-get upgrade to KDE 3.
by Brian Durant 30 Aug '02

30 Aug '02

After an apt-get upgrade to KDE 3, I get the following error: "ISpell/Aspell could not be started. Please make sure you have ISpell or Aspell properly configured and in your path." There is nothing in the archive at all that I could find on this issue. Cheers, Brian

2 1

Firewall and internet issue
by Chris Roubekas 30 Aug '02

30 Aug '02

Hi there Susers!!!! Well I am very happy to see that my SuSE box is currently operating as fileserver for a small network of 4 PCs (Win9X). All the users have also roaming profiles and they all have a local intranet account so they can pass along e-mail messages! Now here comes the final and the hardest (for me) part. I want all the PCs to have the ability to connect to the internet. That is, I want all the PCs to be able to access everything (no limitations) on the internet everytime the linux-box connects to it but I do not want anyone to access from the internet anything on my private lan. I was looking at the firewall examples that SuSE came with but I cannot understand anything for the life of me!!! Can someone please send me any suggestions? If you have something already running which looks a lot like my case, please tell me what you did so that I can just follow up with your knowledge... :-) Well here is the situation INTERNET <-------modem56Kconenction----->SuSE 7.3 Box <-----Hub 10/100Mbps----> 4 PCs All PCs on the lan receive their IP from the Linux DHCP Server and is of the format 192.168.2.XX. Linux-box IP 192.168.2.1 Currently Samba is running for file sharing. Want to setup firewall (with a proxy like Squid to generate log files of users that access services on the net) so that: Any PC on the 192.168.2.XX can access EVERYTHING on the internet (that goes for www,ftp,pop3 mail, winmx, etc); services will be restricted based on the user-name (is this possible??). Noone outside the 192.168.2.XX can access anything on the private Lan. Samba continues to carry on the work of the internal lan without being affected and/or published to the net. There is no local intranet web running on linux-box. In the case of a power-failure, when electricity is re-established and the linux box reboots, all firewall considerations should be restored as they were. Thank you all in advance for any help you can give me on this!!! :-) Chris

1 0

NFS or NIS or both?
by Helgi Örn Helgason 30 Aug '02

30 Aug '02

Hello SuSE'rs! I got SuSE 8.0 installed on a stationary box and a laptop, both are connected to the same switch, both run dhcp, same username and uid. I want these two to be able to connect to each other but I don't know how to do that. I've never done this before with Linux and I don't know which way doing this is the most common (and perhaps easiest) one. Both boxes also run W2k where I can connect between them, but I use Linux 99% of the time so I need a connection between those. Can someone give me a hint on how to do this?, as you can probably guess I'm not that much into networking...:o] Cheers, Helgi Örn -- ~~~~ <http://www.sacred-eagle.com/> ~~~~ ~~~~~~ Gnupg signature ID 83AC4814 ~~~~~

2 1

ISDN Configuration
by Linux WebPlanet 30 Aug '02

30 Aug '02

Dear All, I have an Eico Diva 2.01 PCI ISDN controller which I can`t make it work properly. Let me write down what I do: 1., I configured the ISDN card and the connection with YAST2. Now you see I am not an expert.:)) I know that it creates the options.ippp0.xxx file which contains the options for the ipppd deamon. 2., I started the isdn subsystem(HISAX and the contr0 device) with /etc/init.d/isdn start command. 3., I configured the ippp0 interface using isdnctrl command. isdnctrl addif ippp0 isdnctrl encap ippp0 syncppp isdnctrl l2_prot ippp0 hdlc isdnctrl addphone ippp0 out 0651690690 isdnctrl secure ippp0 on isdnctrl dialmode ippp0 manual isdnctrl pppbind ippp0 0 isdnctrl huptimeout ippp0 60 isdnctrl dialmax ippp0 5 4., I added the user name and the password to the pap-secrets and the chap-secrets file. 5., I tried to dial to the provider using isdnctrl dial ippp0, but it couldn`t establish the connection. Sometimes it was working, the routing table was modified though maybe not properly, but I never could ping anything except the DNS and the default gateway. Now I can`t even connect. What different now is that I have an eth1 connection to the internet and the LAN. Please give me more help because I have no more ideas where I made the mistaked. Also if you have english documentation about SUSE ISDN HOWTO I would be happy to receive. Thank you in advance. -------------------------------------------------- http://www.mailbox.hu - Mert levelezni kell...

2 1

KDE tool bar drops settings
by Robert Fenney 30 Aug '02

30 Aug '02

When I log into my systems as root configure the tool bar (I think that is what it is called in KDE) and then logout and back in I loose the configuration. Is there something I can do to fix this? Thanks! Robert

2 1

Open Source Alternatives to VMWare
by propheci 30 Aug '02

30 Aug '02

hi, i've been trying to find an open source alternative to vmware. freemware.org seems to be MIA and i just don't know about some others. can someone enlighten me on this. i'm using 8.0 if that matters. thank you, xiaolei

2 1

Re: [SLE] How To Boot Into Character Mode With SuSE 8.0
by Greg Krpan 30 Aug '02

30 Aug '02

Edit the /etc/inittab file. Change the line for initdefault from run level 5 to run level 3. This will take effect at the next reboot. To have it take effect iummediately, type 'init 3' in an xterm to drop to the character interface. ~~~~~~~~ "I once thought of making a Linux distribution... then I slapped myself silly and went back to trying to cure cancer." -- Anonymous Greg Krpan (krpan(a)usgs.gov) Senior System Administrator / UNIX Team Lead Raytheon ITSS USGS EROS Data Center, Mundt Federal Building Sioux Falls, SD 57198 (605) 594 6854 "Kenneth Becker" <kjbecker(a)cais.c To: "SuSE Linux List" <suse-linux-e(a)suse.com>, "SuSE Linux List" om> <suse-linux-e(a)suse.com> cc: 08/29/2002 10:22 Subject: [SLE] How To Boot Into Character Mode With SuSE 8.0 PM Dear List, Hate to ask this, but how does one avoid going directly into X-windows at boot time? I would prefer to begin with the Character User Interface, if a simple change would make that happen. Thank you for any assistance offered. Respectfully, Ken Becker -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com

3 2

How To Boot Into Character Mode With SuSE 8.0
by Kenneth Becker 30 Aug '02

30 Aug '02

Dear List, Hate to ask this, but how does one avoid going directly into X-windows at boot time? I would prefer to begin with the Character User Interface, if a simple change would make that happen. Thank you for any assistance offered. Respectfully, Ken Becker

1 0