November 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

How can I log less on /var/log/messages ?
by Tom Nielsen 28 Nov '03

28 Nov '03

I looked at my firewall's /var/log/messages log and it's about 8mb and climbing 10K about every 1 minute. I looked at it and noticed almost all lines relate to SuSE-FW-DROP-DEFAULT which are caused by other computers sniffing around. How can I reduce these so that those lines are not included? I imagine this would reduce my files and reduce my processor work.???? Thanks, Tom -- Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com

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Quota overload
by darryl penny 28 Nov '03

28 Nov '03

Greetings: SuSE 8.2 ; quota-3.08-27 (with quota_v2 enabled at boot) User hard limit = xxxMB on /home At some point quotas must have been off as quite a few are over quota. After removing stuff they bring use-age down to a lot less than hard limit. Turn quota off, run quotacheck, turn back on, then do repquota. Users's blocks used same as before. And they can't save a darn thing!! The only way is to increase the hard limit. At this rate they gonna squeeze me off the road :( (Users are on windoze, but that has no bearing, right?) I've googled, browsed, manned, doc'd, reinstalled (just quota, of course). Nothing. I really would appreciate some assistance. Darryl ---- Edgemead High School (Northern Suburbs, Cape Town) Powered by SuSE Linux 8.2 ----

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Cronjob - revisited
by darryl penny 28 Nov '03

28 Nov '03

Hi all. To this day I still can't get the following to work from a cron job: mt -f /dev/st0 setblk 32768 && tar -cSPf /dev/st0 -b 64 /store/bkup && mt -f /dev/st0 rewoffl It returns the following error: tar: /dev/st0: Wrote only 0 of 32768 bytes tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now The job runs without complaining on a root konsole. If anyone can help sort this out once and for all I *really* will be chuffed. TIA Best regards, Darryl ---- Edgemead High School (Northern Suburbs, Cape Town) Powered by SuSE Linux 8.2 ----

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Suse 9.0 and Promise raid.
by Francisco Acosta 28 Nov '03

28 Nov '03

I would like to know if somebody installed Suse Pro 9.0 in pc with a Promise Fastrack 100 ide raid; in this case one that comes with a soyo mb; and had some trouble. Of course backup will be made, but just to plan the change from a Suse 8.0 with proper timeline. Of particular interest, to know if it were needed some driver or software not included with the distribution. Thanks in advance!. -- -.Francisco Acosta.- chesco(a)idea.com.py

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ISDN Error
by sean＠tcob1.net 28 Nov '03

28 Nov '03

I bought an USR ISDN PCI TA but after installing I get: Setting up ISDN card contr0 USR ISDN PCI Card TA done Loading Driver contr0 hisaxcontr0: Invalid argument done Starting Firewall Initialization (phase 1 of 3) done Setting up network interfaces: lo done eth0 IP/Netmask: 192.168.0.1 / 255.255.255.0 done ippp0 error in /usr/sbin/isdnctrl addif ippp0 Anyone know the answer Sean -- GPG Key Id 120A02FB ICQ: 679813 Jabber: tcobone(a)jabber.org SuSE 9.0 for when you want to spend time doinmg and not rebooting

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XChat/Gweled
by James Ogley 28 Nov '03

28 Nov '03

Updated/new on www.usr-local-bin.org today: * XChat - IRC client - Updated to version 2.0.6 - lots of bugfixes, and some feature enhancements * Geweled - GNOME version of "Bejeweled" or "Diamond Mine" - In the Games section - Version 0.3 James -- James Ogley, Webmaster, Rubber Turnip james(a)rubberturnip.org.uk http://www.rubberturnip.org.uk Jabber: riggwelter(a)myjabber.net Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 9.0) GNOME updates for SuSE: http://www.usr-local-bin.org

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Zebra Routing Daemons
by Gary Ernst 28 Nov '03

28 Nov '03

I've noticed that the Zebra routing suite is onot on SuSE 9.0 prof. Has it been replaced by another routing protocol suite ? Gary Ernst

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Mozilla 1.6 install on SuSE Personal 9.0
by Jerry 28 Nov '03

28 Nov '03

Newbie here with SuSE 9.0 Personal edition and Linux in general. What is the best way to replace the Mozilla 1.4 that comes with the SuSE install CD to the newer version of 1.6 and have it work as 1.4 does. Extracted the tar.gz and ran the install file, but the flash won't work even downloading the flash plug-in from the Macromedia site. Reason the new 1.6 version has a newer ad blocker where you can stop flash ads, but also want to view flash applications like the weather radar loops on the U.S. NWS sites. Install the flash in 1.6, go back to the NWS radar loop and it tells me I need the flash plug-in. Could be Mozilla 1.6 was installed in the wrong directory? /users Jerry

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2 Perl versions on SuSe 7.3
by João Reis 28 Nov '03

28 Nov '03

Hi to all! I would like to have 2 perl versions running on SuSe 7.3. These are perl 5.6.1 (which come in the 7.3 distro) and perl 5.8.0. I already have the perl 5.6.1 installed and i would like to install the 5.8.0 version. Is there a binary version for suse 7.3 ? Is it possible to have two perl versions in the same machine and use the one i wish to ? If i install from source does the installation process erases the old perl version 5.6.1 ? Resuming, how do i install two perl versions on the same operating system ? :-) Thanks to all in advance :-) João Reis

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re: How can I send emails through a remote network
by Felipe Leon 28 Nov '03

28 Nov '03

At home I can easily configure the email client (mozilla) to access my university pop server and log in using my username and my password. Usually the username you just need to give once. In this way I can check my mails from the "Uni" account. Now, to send mails through this account I can use the smtp server from my internet provider, simply by giving the server address, unchecking password requirement in the email account configuration. So, pop server from your University account, smtp server from your ISP could be an alternative. Hope it helps, sorry if I misunderstood your question or if it is of little help, Felipe Leon.

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