September 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [SLE] file modifications on 8.0
by Susan Buczak 29 Sep '02

29 Sep '02

Nice idea but access.conf is not accessible through /etc/sysconfig. niether are lots of other important files. Am I suppose to put them in there or something? how? * Susan Buczak <sbuczak2(a)comcast.net> [Sep 29. 2002 16:31]: > On 8.0, if I make modifications to files in /etc (for instance, > access.conf) the system doesn't notice the changes. Example? > anyone know how to get the updated files to be recognized by the system? Why not change to config files /etc/sysconfig and have SuSEconfig do it?

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file modifications on 8.0
by Susan Buczak 29 Sep '02

29 Sep '02

On 8.0, if I make modifications to files in /etc (for instance, access.conf) the system doesn't notice the changes. anyone know how to get the updated files to be recognized by the system?

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procmail[1634]:suspiciousrcfile"/home/user/.procmailrc"
by Alain Barthélemy 29 Sep '02

29 Sep '02

Hello, I have some problem with Procmail (I use Postfix/Fetchmail/Procmail/Mutt). Normally my /home/user/.procmailrc file is configured to distribute e-mails to different directories according to sender. Yesterday it stopped distributing mails in different directories and all mails were sent to default mailbox /var/mail/user I want to check .procmailrc with vi and I have error messages: E297 erreur d'écriture dans le fichier swap. E297 writing error in swap file. when I open the file If I want to modify the file (instruction :wq in vi): erreur d'écriture - système de fichier plein. writing error - filesystem full. I remember I captured audio files (.wav files) before the problem occurred and I had a 220Mb large file in /home/user (/dev/hda9) directory. I deleted this file and the vi errors disappeared. ==== But Procmail keeps not distributing the files in the different directories like said in .procmailrc and the messages keeps being distributed in /var/mail/user (not in /home/user/Mail and MAILDIR=/home/alain/Mail in .procmailrc config file). The .procmailrc file has worked without problems till the problems occurred. If I check /var/log/messages or /var/log/warn I have the messages: Sep 28 23:16:21 portable procmail[1634]:suspiciousrcfile"/home/user/.procmailrc" Can somebody tell me what is "suspicious" in my .procmailrc file? It looks thus like the .procmailrc is not read correctly. With fetchmail I have a /home/user/.forward file with instruction: |/usr/bin/procmail >From frits(a)wuthrich.cc Fri Sep 27 22:37:03 2002 Subject: Re: [SLE] Pre-ordering 8.1 Folder: /home/user/Mail/suse-e_fetchmail ==> here everything is OK it is sent to the right folder. It is friday 22:37 2958 >From list-s(a)andelsweb.dk Fri Sep 27 22:37:03 2002 Subject: Re: [suse-multimedia-e] Konq file asociation Folder: /home/user/Mail/suse-multimedia_fetchmail ===> still OK 2227 procmail: No space left to finish writing "/home/alain/Mail/cyrus_fetchmail" procmail: Truncated file to former size procmail: Skipped "O:" >From owner-info-cyrus(a)lists.andrew.cmu.edu Sat Sep 28 18:39:16 2002 Subject: Re: ACAP Status Folder: /var/spool/mail/user ==> saturday 18:39 - now start the problems - everything is sent to folder /var/mail/user Files are "truncated" "0" is skipped Can somebody tell me what the problem in Procmail could be? -- Alain Barthélemy cassandre(a)gminformatique.com bartydeux(a)gminformatique.com http://bartydeux.gminformatique.com

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.procmailrc file is not read SOLVED
by Alain Barthélemy 29 Sep '02

29 Sep '02

Problem solved permissions of .procmailrc were changed from rw------- to rwxrwxr-- and I fixed it. Alain I have some problem with Procmail (I use Postfix/Fetchmail/Procmail/Mutt). Normally my /home/user/.procmailrc file is configured to distribute e-mails to different directories according to sender. Yesterday it stopped distributing mails in different directories and all mails were sent to default mailbox /var/mail/user Procmail keeps not distributing the files in the different directories like said in .procmailrc and the messages keeps being distributed in system default folder /var/mail/user (not in /home/user/Mail although MAILDIR=/home/alain/Mail in .procmailrc config file). The .procmailrc file has worked without problems till the problems occurred. If I check /var/log/messages or /var/log/warn I have the messages: Sep 28 23:16:21 portable procmail[1634]:suspiciousrcfile"/home/user/.procmailrc" See above Can somebody tell me what is "suspicious" in my .procmailrc file? It looks thus like the .procmailrc is not read correctly. With fetchmail I have a /home/user/.forward file with instruction: |/usr/bin/procmail >From frits(a)wuthrich.cc Fri Sep 27 22:37:03 2002 Subject: Re: [SLE] Pre-ordering 8.1 Folder: /home/user/Mail/suse-e_fetchmail ==> here everything is OK it is sent to the right folder. It is friday 22:37 2958 >From list-s(a)andelsweb.dk Fri Sep 27 22:37:03 2002 Subject: Re: [suse-multimedia-e] Konq file asociation Folder: /home/user/Mail/suse-multimedia_fetchmail ===> still OK 2227 procmail: No space left to finish writing "/home/alain/Mail/cyrus_fetchmail" procmail: Truncated file to former size procmail: Skipped "O:" >From owner-info-cyrus(a)lists.andrew.cmu.edu Sat Sep 28 18:39:16 2002 Subject: Re: ACAP Status Folder: /var/spool/mail/user ==> saturday 18:39 - now start the problems - everything is sent to folder /var/mail/user Files are "truncated" "0" is skipped Can somebody tell me what the problem in Procmail could be? -- Alain Barthélemy cassandre(a)gminformatique.com bartydeux(a)gminformatique.com http://bartydeux.gminformatique.com ------------------------------------------------------- ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Qui fut le plus à plaindre: Cassandre que personne n'écouta ou ceux qui n'écoutaient pas Cassandre ====== Who was more to be pitied Cassandra whom nobody listened to or those who were not listening to Cassandra -- Alain Barthélemy bartydeux(a)gminformatique.com cassandre(a)gminformatique.com Voyez mon site web sur: http://bartydeux.gminformatique.com Ma généalogie et la petite histoire de Herve et sa région ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Qui fut le plus à plaindre: Cassandre que personne n'écouta ou ceux qui n'écoutaient pas Cassandre ====== Who was more to be pitied Cassandra whom nobody listened to or those who were not listening to Cassandra -- Alain Barthélemy bartydeux(a)gminformatique.com cassandre(a)gminformatique.com Voyez mon site web sur: http://bartydeux.gminformatique.com Ma généalogie et la petite histoire de Herve et sa région

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LiLo and a Memory mix up
by Constant Brouerius van Nidek 29 Sep '02

29 Sep '02

I know that my second memory (unbuffered DIMMs)stick, -one and two are both 64 MB-, is failing at 127,3MB. Wanting to buy 258MB I found that for the moment the supply of those sticks is interrupted and I have to live until there is new stock with my slightly imperfect memory. I have two questions. First: If I request KDE the use of my memory the information I am given is that my total physical memory is 126.45.as Linux found some more bad memory during booting? Or else where is the 1.55MB which is not accounted for? Second: If I want to exclude the bad part of the memory for use I heard that this could be done by inserting mem=127M in my Lilo.conf. I did and after running lilo I got following info: "unrecognised token mem at or above line 18 in /etc/lilo.conf" What went wrong. I read the man lilo and see nothing wrong. -- NTReader v0.36w(P)/Beta (Registered) in conjunction with Net-Tamer.

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.procmailrc file is not read
by Alain Barthélemy 29 Sep '02

29 Sep '02

Hello, Here somme add-ons: If I check /var/log/messages or /var/log/warn I have the messages: Sep 28 23:16:21 portable procmail[1634]:suspiciousrcfile"/home/user/.procmailrc" man procmail: Suspicious rcfile "x" The owner of the rcfile was not the recipient or root, the file was world writable, or the directory that contained it was world writable, or this was the default rcfile ($HOME/.procmailrc) and ei ther it was group writable or the directory that contained it was group writable (the rcfile was not used). But the owner of files in /home/Mail/my_name is well the my_name with permissions rw------- and directory /home/user//Mail is drwx------ and in .fetchmailrc I have: poll mail.gminformatique.com with proto POP3 user cassandre there with password xxxxxx is my_name here <====== Other point: I have "no space left to finish writing /home/alain/Mail/reception_folder If I see man procmail: No space left to finish writing "x" The filesystem containing "x" does not have enough free space to per mit delivery of the message to the file. But I have 217Mb free space in /home. Thus it is not really a problem of free space (free inode?). Thank you for any help ======================================= I have some problem with Procmail (I use Postfix/Fetchmail/Procmail/Mutt). Normally my /home/user/.procmailrc file is configured to distribute e-mails to different directories according to sender. Yesterday it stopped distributing mails in different directories and all mails were sent to default mailbox /var/mail/user Procmail keeps not distributing the files in the different directories like said in .procmailrc and the messages keeps being distributed in system default folder /var/mail/user (not in /home/user/Mail although MAILDIR=/home/alain/Mail in .procmailrc config file). The .procmailrc file has worked without problems till the problems occurred. If I check /var/log/messages or /var/log/warn I have the messages: Sep 28 23:16:21 portable procmail[1634]:suspiciousrcfile"/home/user/.procmailrc" See above Can somebody tell me what is "suspicious" in my .procmailrc file? It looks thus like the .procmailrc is not read correctly. With fetchmail I have a /home/user/.forward file with instruction: |/usr/bin/procmail >From frits(a)wuthrich.cc Fri Sep 27 22:37:03 2002 Subject: Re: [SLE] Pre-ordering 8.1 Folder: /home/user/Mail/suse-e_fetchmail ==> here everything is OK it is sent to the right folder. It is friday 22:37 2958 >From list-s(a)andelsweb.dk Fri Sep 27 22:37:03 2002 Subject: Re: [suse-multimedia-e] Konq file asociation Folder: /home/user/Mail/suse-multimedia_fetchmail ===> still OK 2227 procmail: No space left to finish writing "/home/alain/Mail/cyrus_fetchmail" procmail: Truncated file to former size procmail: Skipped "O:" >From owner-info-cyrus(a)lists.andrew.cmu.edu Sat Sep 28 18:39:16 2002 Subject: Re: ACAP Status Folder: /var/spool/mail/user ==> saturday 18:39 - now start the problems - everything is sent to folder /var/mail/user Files are "truncated" "0" is skipped Can somebody tell me what the problem in Procmail could be? -- Alain Barthélemy cassandre(a)gminformatique.com bartydeux(a)gminformatique.com http://bartydeux.gminformatique.com -------------------------------------------------------

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Automount Drive at Startup - How?
by L. Mark Stone 29 Sep '02

29 Sep '02

My PC boots Windows 2000 and SuSE Linux 8.0. To share data files between the two operating systems, I use a separate FAT32 partition (/dev/hdf6). When I boot Linux, I'd like this partition to be mounted automagically, so that all users on my home network (all of two machines) can access files on this partition. I tried changing the parms in fstab to "auto, user" and "auto, users", and while this mounted the drive on boot, it made all the files read-only. Any ideas on how I can do this? Here's fstab, if it helps: /dev/hde3 / reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hde1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0 usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs noauto 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/sda1 /windows/C ntfs ro,noauto,user,umask=022 0 0 /dev/sda5 /windows/D ntfs ro,noauto,user,umask=022 0 0 /dev/hdf6 /windows/E vfat noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hde2 swap swap pri=42 0 0 /dev/hdf5 swap swap pri=42 0 0 Thanks! -- _________________________________________________________ Another Message From... L. Mark Stone Email: LMStone(a)LMStone.com Web: http://www.lmstone.com

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selective directory access
by steve 29 Sep '02

29 Sep '02

Hi. How do I give only selected users access to /usr/local/httpd/htdocs ? Thanks, Steve. SuSE 8.0.

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kinternet
by Stuart Sears 29 Sep '02

29 Sep '02

anyone know how to stop Kinternet running automatically - I can't find it anywhere, and as far as I can see, KPPP is much better (and always works!) thanks Stuart -- To err is human, to forgive is Not Company Policy. -- con algo hay que empezar Registered Linux User #284465

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Problems with serial port/suse 8
by Nick Selby 29 Sep '02

29 Sep '02

Hi, I have tried plugging my palm into the port (the palm works, as they always say, under a windows machine (a different one, not on this box)) and it is not recognized. I went into hwinfo and don't see the port listed. Perhaps that was a stupid place to look but it's where I looked... Can anyone give me some ideas about how to tell (a) if the port is working and (b) to troubleshoot the connection process? Thanks in advance, Nick

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apache
by R. R. 29 Sep '02

29 Sep '02

can someone explain this entry in the apache log the " - " i dont understand nor the 408 code 64.192.78.89 - - [28/Sep/2002:09:03:51 -0400] "-" 408 -

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Epson Perfection 1660 Photo (USB 2.0)
by wolfi 29 Sep '02

29 Sep '02

Hi fellows, Would this one be working well with Linux, just as it is said with all the other Epsons except the 1250??? I am looking for a scanner which can handle slides. Another option would be the Epson Perfection 1260 Photo, this one would even be cheaper. The linux USB scanner site is out of date:-( http://www.buzzard.org.uk/jonathan/scanners-usb.html Cheers ... Wolfi ============================================= mailto:wolfi_z@gmx.net

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Re: [SLE] Player for video CD
by Constant Brouerius van Nidek 29 Sep '02

29 Sep '02

wo>On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 22:08, Constant Brouerius van wo>Nidek wrote: wo>> wo>> I know that I have worked with video cd's but after wo>Works perfectly with xine. wo>http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/~jcm/skyblade/XINE wo>-0.9.13/i686.RPMs/ And where could I get the necessary lib's? Needed are libSDL-1.2.so.0, libaa.so.1 and libslang.so.1 -- " Every little BYTE helps " NTReader v0.36w(P)/Beta (Registered) in conjunction with Net-Tamer.

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SuSE Owners in Bombay/India, Anyone?
by Rohit 29 Sep '02

29 Sep '02

Hi all, Is there anyone of you from Bombay/India? I needed some help figuring out the issues with installation CDs of SLE-8.0 first hand. Discussion here would be probably TOOOOOO length [and forgive the signatures below - employer knoweth not what he doeth]. Rohit -- (+91-22-692) 2101 D2, floor-3, Chand : SE : TLSI : 3578 SuSE 8.0 2.4-18-4GB on i686 : sendmail-8.9.3-42 : pine-4.44-121 rohit.sharma(a)iitbombay.org [maximus_two(a)yahoo.com] 9821394599(a)bplmobile.com ********************************************************* Disclaimer This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. ********************************************************* Visit us at http://www.mahindrabt.com

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Re: [SLE] Player for video CD
by Constant Brouerius van Nidek 29 Sep '02

29 Sep '02

Thanks Wolfi, that was the program I was looking for. wo>On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 22:08, Constant Brouerius van wo>Nidek wrote: wo>> wo>> I know that I have worked with video cd's but after wo>some wo>> reorganising and reinstalling my computer I do not wo>remeber wo>> which program worked. wo>> I seem to have a memory problem ;-). wo>> Could somebody help me with the names of programs wo>that wo>> work? wo>Works perfectly with xine. wo>http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/~jcm/skyblade/XINE wo>-0.9.13/i686.RPMs/ wo>Cheers .... Wolfi -- " Every little BYTE helps " NTReader v0.36w(P)/Beta (Registered) in conjunction with Net-Tamer.

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Lexmark E210 Laser Printer
by Bryan Tyson 29 Sep '02

29 Sep '02

I finally received a reply from Lexmark about the E210 Laser Printer: The E210 printer is certified to work with Windows and with RedHat Linux 7.0 and 7.1 ONLY. Thank you, Jennifer Lexmark Technical Support Center Wow, what a helpful answer. *************************************************** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson(a)earthlink.net ***************************************************

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sudo + rpm = seg. fault
by Ben Rosenberg 29 Sep '02

29 Sep '02

Anyone have any idea what could cause rpm / sudo to seg. fault 4-10 times their used? I got this earlier installing nmap. ----- 6:23PM ben@zeus:/tmp/ > sudo rpm -ivh nmap* nmap ################################################## nmap-frontend ################################################## zsh: 18855 segmentation fault sudo rpm -ivh nmap* ----- I have no clue why this would happen. I've not done anything weird on my home machine which would differ from the 8.0 installs at work. -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org Tell me what you believe.. I tell you what you should see.

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8.1
by Fred A. Miller 29 Sep '02

29 Sep '02

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The SuSE announcement that was recently sent out, I think said that Boarders would be having SuSE 8.1. I called them today, and was told that they don't sell software, but books. A CD may be included with a book, but "we don't sell software." Can someone clarify this? I also called Best Buy, as the "announcement" said the companies listed would have 8.1 in stock for sale on Oct. 7th. Best Buy said it would be near the end of the month. Fred - -- "DRM.. Digitally Retarded Media. That's exactly what it is - content that cannot reach its full potential because of artificial restraints." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Netscape - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAj2VFlUACgkQeNJ3p8sZ/uvsCACgjjbHwO19kDie+Jmbha9FdQ0v FscAnjOlRvue6QfV5816fLoT86znA63y =GuYR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Installing SuSE Linux PPC 7.3 in Firewire hard drive
by Akiko Ogawa 29 Sep '02

29 Sep '02

Hi, I want to install SuSE Linux PPC 7.3 in a Firewire hard drive connected to my iBook (Dual USB). My iBook has only OS 9 and OS X. I found an article in the knowledge base at http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/olh_ppc_sleep.html The article says I need to modify my /etc/modules.conf and add lines: pre-install ohci1394 modprobe ieee1394 pre-install sdp2 modprobe ohci1394 My question is how I do this when you boot from the installation CD. Booting from CD takes me directly to YaBoot and have no chance to modify the module.conf file. I would appreciate your help. Thanks.

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checkinstall - fails to find rpm for installation
by Sylvanus A. Currie 29 Sep '02

29 Sep '02

when attempting to install using checkinstall I always get the following: Building RPM package...OK Installing RPM package... FAILED! *** Failed to install the package Do you want to see the log file? [y]: ... error: cannot open file /usr/src/packages/RPMS/i386/<package.rpm>: no such file or directory ... Has anyone got an idea? -- Twist it, stomp it, bounce it, shake it 'Cos you know the vibe is what you make it

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Real X-Keyboard for an Inte box?
by Steven T. Hatton 28 Sep '02

28 Sep '02

I'm sick and tired of messing with trying to figure out how to type F13, Mod5, Cut, Paste, Meta, Command, Option, and so forth. Are there keyboards which actually *have* keys labled as such? I have the feeling one USB keyboard is as good as the next, as far as being able to talk to the system. Any suggestions? STH

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Fwd: [B2K] Celling Lies: More Spurious Stem Cell Claims
by doc 28 Sep '02

28 Sep '02

Very interesting ... doc Subject: Celling Lies: More Spurious Stem Cell Claims Source: National Review; September 26, 2002 Celling Lies: More Spurious Stem Cell Claims by Michael Fumento [Pro-Life Infonet Note: Michael Fumento is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C. where he's currently writing BioEvolution: How Biotechnology is Changing our World.] Electricity Appears Worthless for Illumination." If you saw such a headline you'd be rather skeptical, wouldn't you? Yet here we go again with another massively publicized study purporting to show that adult stem cells don't work, notwithstanding that they've been saving lives for over a decade now. "Promise of Adult Stem Cells Put in Doubt," proclaimed UPI. "Study Deals Blow to Abilities of Adult Stem Cells," declared Scientific American in its online publication. "Study Finds Adult Blood Stem Cells Will Not Transform into Other Tissue Cells," insisted the Associated Press. The fuss concerns an article in the highly respected journal Science detailing efforts of Stanford researchers to trace the development of blood stem cells after placing them into mice whose bone marrow had been destroyed. They reported that blood stem cells replenished marrow but appeared worthless for creating other tissues. "Blood-forming stem cells from adults make blood," primary researcher Irving Weissman insisted to UPI. "They don't make brain; they don't make heart muscle or any of these things." Such smugness from a scientist who should know a single study never proves anything. As it happens, a report published in Nature Medicine in November 2000 showed that such cells when injected into mice rebuilt liver tissue. A minor co-author of the piece was named Irving Weissman. Weissman's sureness was just for show. Indeed, "The Stanford paper is the one at odds with the bulk of the published literature," Indiana State University biologist David Prentice told me. While nobody knows yet just how capable non-embryonic stem cells will prove, we know they will be extremely useful because they have been. Ever hear of bone marrow or umbilical-cord-blood transplants? It's the stem cells in the marrow and blood that makes them work. They've been used therapeutically since the 1980s and now some 70 different diseases, primarily forms of leukemia, are treated with them. True, these comprise direct infusions rather than the next step of "reprogramming" the stem cells outside the body to make them into various types of mature cells. But there's tremendous progress here, too. As of last year, over 30 different anti-cancer applications alone involving non-embryonic stem cell therapies on humans had been reported in peer-reviewed medical literature. Over 100 non-embryonic-stem-cell experiments in animals have shown success against a vast array of diseases. The very newspapers that now pooh-pooh adult stem cells were only days earlier reporting on the almost-miraculous cure of a Dutch child afflicted with "bubble boy syndrome." His immune system was worthless. But it was restored when stem cells from his marrow were removed, cultured, and injected back into him. Even if blood stem cells were worthless for tissue, we'd still have other types of stem cells that have been cultivated not just from marrow and umbilical cords but also from placentas, amniotic fluid, skin, brains, spinal cords, dental pulp, muscles, blood vessels, corneas, retinas, livers, pancreases, hair follicles, and even liposuctioned fat. Catherine Verfaillie and her co-workers at the University of Minnesota's Stem Cell Institute recently published a report in Science's main competitor, Nature, suggesting that a certain type of marrow stem cells may give rise to almost any type of tissue in the body. They have isolated them from the marrow of mice, rats and people and so far have transformed them into cells of blood, the gut, liver, lung, brain, and other organs. Yet time and again a single study like the Stanford one is shoved forward to show that non-embryonic-stem-cell therapy is the biological version of cold fusion. Why? Some of the media coverage may reflect sheer ignorance. But Science and Weissman know better. They're both part of a deliberate disinformation campaign by those who see embryonic stem cell research and non-embryonic stem cell research locked in mortal combat. The worse the non-embryonics look, the stronger the case for using embryonic stem cells. With every breakthrough in non-embryonic research comes the need to turn up the screech knob on the disinformation box. That's because while the government can make grants on a whim, venture capital flows towards success. Thus almost all capital is going to non-embryonic research. Those working with embryonic cells are desperate for government funds. It's hardly surprising, therefore, that Dr. Michael D. West, head of Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester, Mass., told the AP that the Stanford study indicates "stem cells from the bone marrow will not be a practical source for many cell types needed" to treat disease. That is, it wouldn't be surprising if the AP had told you West's company does research with embryonic stem cells. Just as a 30-year-old panhandler will claim to be a Vietnam vet to shake money out of your pockets, those desperate for funding are obviously not above misrepresenting research to keep their labs running. But whatever the promises of embryonic research, the actual applications are coming from non-embryonic stem cells. The miracles they have already performed are but little compared to those of which they are capable. We dare not let that progress be hamstrung by the politics of pork. -- "And God said, let there be light ... " "I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic, for which it stands; one nation, UNDER GOD indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. "

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Creating encrypted file with loop device doesn't work
by Bo Jacobsen 28 Sep '02

28 Sep '02

Hi list, I'm trying to create an encrypted file system on a file. I use the description in http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/jsj_crypto_filesystem_mini_howto.html but I can not make it work. I run the following commands dd if=/dev/urandom of=/tmp/cryptfile bs=1024 count=20000 # No problem losetup -e twofish /dev/loop1 /tmp/cryptfile # No problem Password: When I write a password and press enter, the losetup command replies with the message below and I can't get any further: ioctl: LOOP_SET_STATUS: Invalid argument Any ideas I run SuSE 7.3 and have tried different kernels (the present is 2.4.19-22). No loadable modules are used and the block devices loop and loop-twofish, is included in the kernel. Thanks in advance Bo Jacobsen

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mindi question
by Robert Stia 28 Sep '02

28 Sep '02

Hello SuSE folk, Installed Mindi and making boot disks, After being asked if I wish to use my own kernel and answering yes, I am presented with a choice of two kernels. vmlinuz, or vmlinuz SuSE2.4.18GB. Now I know one of them is the safe settings and the other the normal boot. Question is, which is which. I'm gonna get this going yet! Bob S.

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SuSEFirewall2 port forwarding
by Thiago Lucas 28 Sep '02

28 Sep '02

Hi, I'm using a linux gateway box that does masquerading with SuSEFirewall2 using iptables. Masquerading works fine, but I'm trying to get it to forward port 80 to my webserver but it DROPs the packets instead of forwarding them. I've set the "FW_FORWARD_MASQ" in /etc/sysconfig/SuSEFirewall2, but it doesn't seem to work. I checked the /var/log/messages, and tcp 80 packets are DROPped. Please help. Thiago ___________________________________________ Visit my band's Web Site: www.71worship.com My AIM id: infratl ___________________________________________ --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com) Version: 6.0.389 / Virus Database: 220 - Release Date: 9/16/2002

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