January 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

YAST2: Change Source Media
by Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. 31 Jan '03

31 Jan '03

SuSE v8.1. When I attempt to change the source media directory in YAST2 I get the message: Unable to create Installation source from URL 'dir:///windows/C/Software/8.1 ERROR(InstrSrcE_no_instsrc_on_media) where /windows/C/Software/8.1 is the complete path to the rpms that I want to install. Previous editions of SuSE would allow this. How do I accomplish this? Thanks in advance

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Perl - system(su)
by Brian 31 Jan '03

31 Jan '03

after the line 'system(su -)' when its running i enter the password for root and it takes me to the command line. is their a way to stop this? Thanks -- Brian York http://www.brianyork.net

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PGP vs GPG
by Gedi 31 Jan '03

31 Jan '03

I have no idea which one to use. I know PGP seems to be more commercial. Is this compatable with PGP 8.0? Also is GPG compatable, this for instance a PGP users on a windows system? What are the pros and cons of the 2 ? Thanks for your input, Gedi ***Unix is like a wigwam -- no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside***

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MySQL password setup
by Ronald Wiplinger 31 Jan '03

31 Jan '03

I have setup the root password for MySQL, but did so far not bother with setting up users and their passwords. Since I get another user on the database I have to set it up now. I would like to setup so that I can move out the database to an extra machine without that programs have to be changed. a. the web server gets the name www b. the database server gets the name db (now alias to www) c. the users may connect from anywhere with their password d. root may only connect from local Can anybody guide me to finish that without troubles? bye Ronald -- Ronald Wiplinger (CEO of ELMIT) http://www.elmit.com +886 (0) 915 653-452 - I'm a SpamCon Foundation Member, #694, Verify it at http://www.spamcon.org PS: Spam prevention! Our system is protected with a spam prevention program. If you send us an e-mail, our system will send you a confirmation message back. Just reply to this confirmation message please. After receiving this confirmation message, our system will send the hold message (one) and all future messages (after the received confirmation message) to me without asking you again.

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RE: [SLE] Booting from RAID0 in Linux using GRUB?
by Quinlan, Grant 31 Jan '03

31 Jan '03

Philipp, The HighPoint PCI cards allow a bootable RAID 0, 1, or 0+1 array to be set up using ATA100 drives, and made bootable, entirely in hardware. This is not a software RAID array that Alex is trying to boot. The trick is that during boot the boot array appears as an RO IDE device, but you need to get the HighPoint driver loaded, which maps the arrays to SCSI devices, before the real root can be mounted. HighPoint and SuSE only document this for LILO, but it is actually easier with GRUB, once I figured out what to do. See my posting on Thursday. Grant Q -----Original Message----- From: Philipp Thomas [mailto:pth@t-link.de] Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 12:06 AM To: SuSE Subject: Re: [SLE] Booting from RAID0 in Linux using GRUB? Alex Daniloff <alex(a)daniloff.com> [Tue, 28 Jan 2003 21:46:23 -0800]: >Is there any chance to boot Linux from RAID0 partition using GRUB? GRUB currently can't boot off of RAID partitions. Either use LILO or boot from a non-RAID Partition. Philipp -- Philipp Thomas work: pthomas(a)suse.de Development SuSE Linux AG private: pth(a)t-link.de -- 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

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RE: [SLE] Booting from RAID0 in Linux using GRUB?
by Quinlan, Grant 31 Jan '03

31 Jan '03

Alex, I recently bought the HighPoint RoketRaid 404 card, which is very similar to the 1520. Due to the lack of any useful documentation on SuSE's configuration and implementation of the GRUB loader in SuSE 8.1 I had to figure it out myself by searching config files, source code, etc., and by trying over and over again until I got it right. I am now successfully booting an HP NetServer E60 system from a 180 GB RAID array on the HighPoint PCI card, and once I figured out how, it was very easy to do. Look for my posting on January 30th under "How to set up the HighPoint RocketRaid 404 controller (hpt374 dri ver) with SuSE 8.1 Professional on Intel" for details. I think that the steps will be about the same when using the 1520 card. Let us know if this works for you. Grant Q

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Hbrowser history?ow to clear Konqueror
by tauzero.com/suse 31 Jan '03

31 Jan '03

How can I clear the history for the Konqueror broswer?

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Kernel panic on compile of installed sources of 8.1
by Vishal Khanna 31 Jan '03

31 Jan '03

Hi a.I just tried to compile the complete Suse 8.1 kernel after going through the layers of questions ( is there no file which contains the details of these flags) after adding a bigphysarea patch to the kernel. Did a build .. installed the new kernel At Boot I get the following error: Kernel Panic: -- VFS: Unable to mount root FS 08:33 Please help.. Vishal

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Kmail and "reply to" an html message.
by Nick Katsamas 31 Jan '03

31 Jan '03

Hi, I just install KDE 3.1. When I use Kmail and try to reply to an html message, it quote the source code of the message and not only the letters. Is there any way to remove the tags ( "<h5>" , "<b>" ....etc) from the quoted message? -- Best regards ******************************** Nick Katsamas e-Mail: nkat(a)forthnet.gr OS: SuSE Linux v7.3 Kernel: 2.4.19 XFree: 4.2.0 ********************************

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Runaway Samba Processes
by Stuart Powell 31 Jan '03

31 Jan '03

Hello, everyone. I'm ashamed to say that I HAD to reboot my Linux server last night to fix a problem with Samba. We had been having trouble for a few days with reading and writing large files or large numbers of files. It turns out that the server had dozens of smbd processes running, which were pegging three of the CPUs at 99% and the fourth at about 85%. I tried 'kill -9' and 'kill -15' on the PIDs, to no avail, and 'killall smbd' did nothing either. I stopped both the smbd and nmbd services through SWAT, but the processes persisted. Luckily, this is just a home server, so rebooting it was no big deal, but I would like to know if anyone out there has any explanation as to why Samba would suddenly just run rampant like that, and how I can prevent it in future. This is an 8.1 Pro box running Samba 2.2.5-124, on an IBM quad PPro-200 server. Thanks, Stuart.

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