December 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Phone answering machine...
by Des Aubery 08 Jan '04

08 Jan '04

What software is available in SuSe 9.0 Professional to enable my system to act as a 'Phone Answering Machine'? Thanks in advance for your assistance. Des Aubery... (adTherm Technology - www.adtherm.com - info(a)adtherm.com) -- Best regards, Des Aubery... (The Home of Virtual Thermal Engineering) (adTherm Technology - www.adtherm.com - des(a)adtherm.com)

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Samba printing problem from XP
by Mark Hounschell 07 Jan '04

07 Jan '04

I've got 3 boxes on a private net. 2 Linux 9.0 and one Windows-XP. One of the Linux boxes is setup as a Samba server/Cups server. From the Linux box I can print to the printer as follows cat /etc/fstab | lpr This works and causes the following to be written to the /var/log/cups/error_log file I [30/Dec/2003:06:24:01 -0500] Adding start banner page "none" to job 19. I [30/Dec/2003:06:24:01 -0500] Adding end banner page "none" to job 19. I [30/Dec/2003:06:24:01 -0500] Job 19 queued on 'hp_deskjet870' by 'markh'. I [30/Dec/2003:06:24:01 -0500] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel (PID 2116) for job 19. Or I can print via the smbclient command as such: cat /etc/fstab | smbclient "//softtail/hp_deskjet870" -c "print -" -N -W "HOME-NET" This also works and causes the following to be written to the /var/log/cups/error_log file. I [30/Dec/2003:06:25:42 -0500] Adding start banner page "none" to job 20. I [30/Dec/2003:06:25:42 -0500] Adding end banner page "none" to job 20. I [30/Dec/2003:06:25:42 -0500] Job 20 queued on 'hp_deskjet870' by 'nobody'. I [30/Dec/2003:06:25:42 -0500] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/texttops (PID 2120) for job 20. I [30/Dec/2003:06:25:42 -0500] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 2121) for job 20. I [30/Dec/2003:06:25:42 -0500] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip (PID 2122) for job 20. I [30/Dec/2003:06:25:42 -0500] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel (PID 2123) for job 20. Yet when I try to print from an app on the XP box I get this in the /var/log/cups/error_log file. E [30/Dec/2003:06:26:50 -0500] print_job: Unsupported format 'application/octet-stream'! I [30/Dec/2003:06:26:50 -0500] Hint: Do you have the raw file printing rules enabled? I have uncommented the application/octet-stream application/vnd.cups-raw line from the /etc/cups/mime.convs file on the server to no avail. The XP box sees the print share as well as all the other "shares" configured. What is the magic trick to print from the XP box? I've seen a similar problem reported on the list recently but my problem "seems" different at least according to the messages above. Thanks in advance Regards Mark

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K3b stops writing with "Unkown Error 254"
by James Mohr 07 Jan '04

07 Jan '04

Hi All! I am using the default version of k3b which came with Suse 9.0 (0.10). I have tried writing as both root and my normal user, with various speeds, but it always dies at about 8%. Someone posted a bug reported on kde.org with basically the same problem although they say that they cannot write at all. This was reported about a month ago and it is still listed as "unconfirmed". I am using an AOPEN CD-RW CRW5224 and thing most annoying thing is that it did work once. Obviously something happened, but I cannot figure out what it was. Any help would be greatly appreaciated. Regards, jimmo the error was: _______________________________________ ... Cdrecord returned an unknown error! (code 254) Unkown Error 254 Please send me an email with the last output. System ----------------------- K3b Version: 0.10 KDE Version: 3.1.4 QT Version: 3.2.1 cdrecord ----------------------- scsidev: '0,0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.25 /usr/bin/cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (okir(a)suse.de-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.75-resmgr-patch '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c 1.75 02/10/21 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling'). SCSI buffer size: 64512 Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a18-dvd (i686-suse-linux) Copyright (C) 1995-2003 Jörg Schilling Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original. Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to <warly(a)mandrakesoft.com>. Note: The author of cdrecord is not to be bothered with problems in this version. TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM Using libscg version 'schily-0.7' atapi: 1 Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info : 'AOPEN ' Identifikation : 'CD-RW CRW5224 ' Revision : '1.05' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Current: 0x0009 Profile: 0x0008 Profile: 0x0009 (current) Profile: 0x000A Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE FORCESPEED Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R96R Drive buf size : 1359872 = 1328 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: data 625 MB Total size: 717 MB (71:07.80) = 320085 sectors Lout start: 718 MB (71:09/60) = 320085 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 5 Is not unrestricted Is not erasable Disk sub type: Medium Type B, low Beta category (B-) (4) ATIP start of lead in: -11933 (97:22/67) ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74) Disk type: Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar) Manuf. index: 43 Manufacturer: Acer Media Technology, Inc. Blocks total: 359849 Blocks current: 359849 Blocks remaining: 39764 Forcespeed is OFF. Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 1 in real SAO mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting real write in 2 seconds. 1 seconds. 0 seconds. Operation starts. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. trackno=0 BURN-Free is OFF. Performing OPC... Sending CUE sheet... Writing pregap for track 1 at -150 Starting new track at sector: 0 Track 01: 0 of 625 MB written. Track 01: 1 of 625 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 40%] 0.9x. Track 01: 2 of 625 MB written (fifo 87%) [buf 33%] 12.9x. Track 01: 3 of 625 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 38%] 25.6x. Track 01: 4 of 625 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 43%] 24.9x. Track 01: 5 of 625 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 48%] 25.6x. Track 01: 6 of 625 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 52%] 24.5x. Track 01: 7 of 625 MB written (fifo 96%) [buf 56%] 25.7x. Track 01: 8 of 625 MB written (fifo 96%) [buf 62%] 25.1x. Track 01: 9 of 625 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 67%] 25.9x. Track 01: 10 of 625 MB written (fifo 96%) [buf 72%] 25.1x. Track 01: 11 of 625 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 59%] 20.8x. Track 01: 12 of 625 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 63%] 25.0x. Track 01: 13 of 625 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 67%] 25.8x. Track 01: 14 of 625 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 71%] 25.0x. Track 01: 15 of 625 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 75%] 25.6x. Track 01: 16 of 625 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 78%] 25.0x. Track 01: 17 of 625 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 82%] 25.8x. Track 01: 18 of 625 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 85%] 24.9x. Track 01: 19 of 625 MB written (fifo 96%) [buf 88%] 25.6x. Track 01: 20 of 625 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 87%] 24.8x. Track 01: 21 of 625 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 77%] 20.9x. Track 01: 22 of 625 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 79%] 24.8x. Track 01: 23 of 625 MB written (fifo 96%) [buf 81%] 25.6x. Track 01: 24 of 625 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 82%] 24.5x. Track 01: 25 of 625 MB written (fifo 95%) [buf 84%] 25.6x. Track 01: 26 of 625 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 86%] 24.7x. Track 01: 27 of 625 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 87%] 25.4x. Track 01: 28 of 625 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 88%] 24.6x. Track 01: 29 of 625 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 89%] 25.5x. Track 01: 30 of 625 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 72%] 21.2x. Track 01: 31 of 625 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 73%] 24.0x. Track 01: 32 of 625 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 73%] 24.6x. Track 01: 33 of 625 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 72%] 25.1x. Track 01: 34 of 625 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 72%] 26.1x. Track 01: 35 of 625 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 72%] 25.2x. Track 01: 36 of 625 MB written (fifo 96%) [buf 71%] 26.0x. Track 01: 37 of 625 MB written (fifo 96%) [buf 70%] 25.1x. Track 01: 38 of 625 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 69%] 25.9x. Track 01: 39 of 625 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 68%] 25.2x. Track 01: 40 of 625 MB written (fifo 93%) [buf 48%] 21.0x. Track 01: 41 of 625 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 47%] 25.1x. Track 01: 42 of 625 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 44%] 25.5x. Track 01: 43 of 625 MB written (fifo 96%) [buf 42%] 25.1x. Track 01: 44 of 625 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 39%] 25.7x. Track 01: 45 of 625 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 37%] 25.0x. Track 01: 46 of 625 MB written (fifo 95%) [buf 34%] 25.8x. Track 01: 47 of 625 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 32%] 25.0x. Track 01: 48 of 625 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 29%] 25.7x. Track 01: 49 of 625 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 19%] 23.3x. Track 01: 50 of 625 MB written (fifo 96%) [buf 2%] 21.8x. /usr/bin/cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 2A 00 00 00 64 DF 00 00 1F 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 06 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00 00 29 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x6 Unit Attention, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x29 Qual 0x00 (power on, reset, or bus device reset occurred) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 39.887s timeout 200s /usr/bin/cdrecord: A write error occured. /usr/bin/cdrecord: Please properly read the error message above. write track data: error after 52885504 bytes Writing time: 80.158s Average write speed 59.2x. Min drive buffer fill was 2% Total of 1 possible drive buffer underruns predicted. Fixating... Fixating time: 0.003s /usr/bin/cdrecord: fifo had 897 puts and 834 gets. /usr/bin/cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 257 times full, min fill was 84%. cdrecord comand: ----------------------- /usr/bin/cdrecord -v gracetime=2 dev=0,0,0 speed=1 -dao -eject -data -tsize=320085s - mkisofs ----------------------- 320085 0.16% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:31:06 2003 0.31% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:31:06 2003 0.47% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:31:06 2003 0.63% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:31:06 2003 0.78% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 22:17:53 2003 0.94% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 22:13:43 2003 1.10% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 22:07:33 2003 1.25% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 22:03:03 2003 1.41% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:59:31 2003 1.57% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:57:41 2003 1.72% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:55:18 2003 1.88% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:53:18 2003 2.03% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:52:25 2003 2.19% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:50:52 2003 2.34% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:49:35 2003 2.50% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:48:24 2003 2.66% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:48:01 2003 2.81% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:47:05 2003 2.97% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:46:15 2003 3.13% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:46:00 2003 3.28% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:45:18 2003 3.44% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:44:40 2003 3.59% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:44:04 2003 3.75% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:43:59 2003 3.91% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:43:27 2003 4.06% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:42:59 2003 4.22% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:42:33 2003 4.37% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:42:31 2003 4.53% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:42:07 2003 4.69% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:41:45 2003 4.85% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:41:45 2003 5.00% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:41:25 2003 5.16% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:41:07 2003 5.32% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:40:49 2003 5.47% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:40:50 2003 5.63% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:40:34 2003 5.78% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:40:19 2003 5.94% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:40:21 2003 6.09% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:40:07 2003 6.25% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:39:54 2003 6.41% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:39:40 2003 6.56% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:39:43 2003 6.72% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:39:32 2003 6.87% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:39:20 2003 7.03% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:39:23 2003 7.19% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:39:12 2003 7.34% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:39:02 2003 7.50% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:38:52 2003 7.66% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:38:56 2003 7.81% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:38:46 2003 7.97% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:38:37 2003 8.13% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:38:28 2003 8.28% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:38:32 2003 8.44% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:38:24 2003 8.59% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 26 21:38:16 2003 mkisofs comand: ----------------------- /usr/bin/mkisofs -gui -graft-points -V Young Net B1 -volset -A K3B THE CD KREATOR VERSION 0.10 (C) 2003 SEBASTIAN TRUEG AND THE K3B TEAM -P -p K3b - Version 0.10 -sysid LINUX -volset-size 1 -volset-seqno 1 -sort /tmp/kde-root/ k3bhMe6Ra.tmp -r -hide-list /tmp/kde-root/k3bzuoZob.tmp -l -iso-level 2 -path-list /tmp/kde-root/k3bJSnrUb.tmp

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wlan0 DSL HELP
by Mailing 06 Jan '04

06 Jan '04

Hi, I discovered that Suse named wireless NIC wlanX instead ethX. This it's ok but the problem is that DSL YAST module doesn't give me the possibility to choose it. With Any other distribution is possible to use wireless PCMCIA to use DSL connections. Any ideas? Thanks Andrea

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Font Question - where to change
by Charles Love 06 Jan '04

06 Jan '04

A while ago I was trying to get my ATI Card working.. And for what ever reason what ever I did, didnt quite work. My laptop has a default res of 1280X1600 and My fonts always looked big. The other day i was doing something and a crash happened. I then lost my lower taskbar, when I rebooted all my fonts were tiny.. I think this is how it should look like at 1280X1600 res. But now I am used to the large fonts. Where can I go to change it? I went through the right click of the desktop and went through the configure desktop menu and it seems to make my desktop icons nice but my apps like Mozilla, and Evolution are still small.. where should i be looking for these?? Thanks! Charles

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DHCP & Networking - HTH
by humvee 05 Jan '04

05 Jan '04

Hi All I have been struggling for some time to configure Suse 8.2 for network & internet access via a 2nd old computer running Smoothwall 1.0 and usb adsl (although I would imagine this would apply to anyone using a router as well but don't know for sure.) But I now have had success. I provide the detail in the hope that it helps someone else. Ensure that dhcpcd is installed. If you have a message - as i did -similar to: eth0 [dhcp] ...no IP address yet ......backgrounding during boot and subsequent rcnetwork restart does nothing and ifup/down/status/config doesn't help either it may be that you need to identify whether the acpi is the cause of the problem (seems from forum posts that this is more prevalent on newer systems) boot into safe mode. If this reveals an ip number for ethx where x= the number for your nic go into YAST2 as at 2) below. An additional problem was self-inflicted in as much that I had scanned a number of forums/maillists for help and had tried lots of different solutions and had basically scrambled the eth0 configuration!! The process I went through therefore was: 1) a clean install of Suse. - I had been trying to set up my network for quite some time and had followed all sorts of advice from this list and many others and this had "clogged" up the process. 2) I amended the GRUB bootloader via YAST2 to include the "acpi=off" instruction. path= YAST2_System_Boot Loader Configuration. Then select "Edit Configuration Files" and in the section of the file headed "Linux" enter "acpi=off" (without the quotes) - I entered this after the entry for "hdd=ide-scsi" but I imagine anywhere after the "root=" bit would work. 3) My system is nVidia orientated so I then installed the latest kernel binary RPM to set up the nvidia mobo & nic. See: ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/nforce/1.0-0261/ReleaseNotes_Linux_nForce… (or later depending on when you might use this note) 4) Restart the computer. (rcnetwork restart didn't do the job) 5) Test your browser connectivity and it should - hopefully - all be working ;-) Anyway hope this helps someone and my thanks to all who have tried to help me. humvee (still a n00b and proud of it)

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Re:[SLE] Quake 3 and sound in Suse 9
by sebastien 05 Jan '04

05 Jan '04

hi, got the same problem as you : Since I installed SuSE 9.0, no sound with quake 3, with the same error message. And I can't get alsa ouput work with xmms (oss works fine). It tells me there is no output device. What kind of chip you are using for sound ? I use a SiS chipset for sound, the one which is integrated on the motherboard. I tried different kernel (2.4.22 and 2.4.23rcX) and i updated the alsa drivers, but this did not fix the sound problem with quake 3 and xmms. I think I will buy a cheap sound blaster live which is better supported. ---------- Initial Header ----------- From : Glenn Pedersen <glennped(a)optusnet.com.au> To : Suse <suse-linux-e(a)suse.com> Cc : Date : Fri, 28 Nov 2003 09:29:27 +1000 Subject : [SLE] Quake 3 and sound in Suse 9 Hi guys, Just recently got Suse 9 and am having problems with the sound in quake3. Btw this worked fine in 8.2. I get no sound at all and this is the error message that i get from the console. btw i have tried as root and the same thing happens. ------- sound initialization ------- Could not mmap dma buffer PROT_WRITE|PROT_READ trying mmap PROT_WRITE (with associated better compatibility / less performance code) /dev/dsp: Input/output error Could not mmap /dev/dsp ------------------------------------ Any ideas? Cheers, Glenn -- 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 ********** L'ADSL A 20 EUR/MOIS********** Avec Tiscali, l'ADSL est à 20 EUR/mois. Vous pourrez chercher longtemps avant de trouver moins cher ! Pour profiter de cette offre exceptionnelle, cliquez ici : http://register.tiscali.fr/adsl/ Offre soumise à conditions.

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Ripping CDs: alternatives to kaudiocreator
by Paul W. Abrahams 05 Jan '04

05 Jan '04

Does the SuSE distribution include any better alternatives for ripping tracks from CDs than kaudiocreator (which comes in the kmultimedia package for KDE)? The kaudiocreator program has several drawbacks: 1. It seems to be hardwired to read from /dev/cdrom; I can't find any way of telling it to read from anywhere else. 2. It has no documentation that I can find. 3. It doesn't allow for ripping just the initial part of a track. Paul Abrahams

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User .xintrc ignored ?
by Jan Elders 04 Jan '04

04 Jan '04

Hello world, Could it be that the .xinitrc file in my home directory is ignored ? Reason I ask is that I have added in the .xintrc file in my home directory the following (near the end of the file) : # # Add your own lines here... # xmodmap -e 'keycode 96 = EuroSign' However, after my user-session is started, key 96 still renders the F12 function and not the eurosign. When I go to shell and give the same command then it works OK. So, my preliminary conclusion is that the .xinitrc file in my home directory is ignored at startup of the session. Is that possible ? If so, how could I remedy that ? TIA and HAND, -- Jan Elders the Netherlands http://www.xs4all.nl/~jrme/ "Home of the Network Acronyms"

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sa-learn on server (Postfix/Procmail/Cyrus)
by Jon Clausen 03 Jan '04

03 Jan '04

Hi list At this point I'm more looking for opinions than actual help... I have the server set up with system-wide spamassassination. Lately SA misses spam more frequently, and I need to train it. The server runs Cyrus, and I access mail from Mutt via IMAP. I've been reading some, but I have a hard time deciding which avenue to take. It seems there two main roads with this situation; 1: Put the missed spam in a separate (IMAP) folder, and have a cronjob call a script which pipes the files to sa-learn. 2: Set up a 'training account' and forward the missed spam to this account. As seen on: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-slox-e/2003-May/0107.html What opinions/experiences do you all have with the two methods? One thing I'm particilarly interested in, is with option 1: Since /var/spool/imap and below, is cyrus', any script acting on the files in there can't be user owned. So what do you guys do? Make an entry in roots crontab, with user = cyrus? Also how does Cyrus react when files get moved/deleted from the imap-directories? What if there are several accounts on the server? I mean, then the 'teach-sa' script has to look in several different directories. Not neccessarily a big problem, except if the users change the name of the missed-spam-folder... Is option 2 in fact a 'better' (easier/more painless to set up/maintain), than option 1, when we're talking about a 'real' server, with multiple accounts? TIA /Jon -- Whatever rocks your boat!

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GRUB menu.lst entry questions (boot splash verbosity)
by Philip Amadeo Saeli 03 Jan '04

03 Jan '04

Under SuSE Linux 9.0 (freshly installed), though I've edited an entry in the GRUB menu.lst, setting "splash=verbose", I still have to hit the "F2" key to get the boot messages, otherwise only the progress bar shows. After the system boots, looking at the contents of /proc/cmdline shows "splash=silent" in the cmdline!?! Where does that come from??? I've looked everywhere and haven't been able to solve this one! For reference, I've included relevant lines from my menu.lst. The first entry is the default one created by YaST during installation. The second one is the one I modified. The problem is that when I select the second entry, the boot splash is still silent. Also, I have some questions about some of the entries in the GRUB menu.lst to which I've not been able to find answers. Any help would be appreciated: 1. What does the "native" splash option mean (e.g., "splash=native")? I assume the other two ("silent" and "verbose") are as their names would suggest. 2. What does "showopts" mean??? I've looked everywhere and googled extensively and still can find no documentation on this one (I'even grepped the entire kernel source tree and "string"ed all the grub binaries looking for it!). I only found -one- message (on the web) that even addressed the term, but I couldn't really make sense of the explanation. I really wish that stuff like this would be at least minimally documented! Thanks, Phil ----- Begin included menu.lst entries ----- gfxmenu (hd0,1)/message color white/blue black/light-gray default 0 timeout 10 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title Linux kernel (hd0,1)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda8 vga=0x31A splash=silent desktop showop ts initrd (hd0,1)/initrd title SuSE Linux 9.0 Prof kernel (hd0,1)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda8 vga=0x31A splash=verbose desktop showo pts initrd (hd0,1)/initrd ----- End included menu.lst entries ----- -- Philip Amadeo Saeli SuSE Linux 8.2 (soon 9.0, if I can get it working correctly ...) psaeli(a)zorodyne.com

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Firebird
by Donald Henson 03 Jan '04

03 Jan '04

(SuSE 9.0, Gnome 2.2.2, Firebird 0.6.1-55) I decided to try MozillaFirebird. I installed it via Synaptic. When I try to run it using the bash command "MozillaFirebird", a window appears for about 2-3 seconds and then disappears. Help shows about a gazillion options. Can anyone tell me the minimum I need to do to start Firebird and make it actually do something? Any assistance will be appreciated. Don Henson

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VNC riddle
by Dan Am 03 Jan '04

03 Jan '04

Hi folks, thought I'd get vnc up to relax a bit. Uncommented the lines in /etc/xinetd.d/vnc to get my Browser-kdm window. So: <whine on> netstat shows the relevant ports to be open. nmap does not. not even from localhost. (???) Same thing if I start vnc from the command line. Only thing that works is starting a vncserver from kde directly. But there I do not get a login: connection refused, even though I set my vnc-password. </whine off> Any hints ? Regards Dan -- buddha 2.4.20-4GB 1:44pm up 1:52, 5 users,

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[SLE] TCP / IP Printing
by fareed＠iplex.co.zw 03 Jan '04

03 Jan '04

Dear list, To achieve the above I used ICE.TCP on SCO Openserver 5.0.x and it worked wonders. It comes with a application called ICELPD which listens to port 2346. When a user sends a print to the printer its executes a printer interface script, example printermodel.scr. The *.scr creates a file-file stores it in /usr/tmp. Client gets it via port 2346 and it prints locally. I've got the ICELP printing deamon for Linux working. My question is where do I place the script file. You could possibly call the script file a driver? In SUSE it asks for a ppd file and does not recognise *.scr. I've check in /usr/share/cups/model Perhaps someone can recommend something? Perhaps even a diffrent solution totally? I use the ICE.TCP printing solution for speed. Its very very fast. Check out www.jriver.com Thanks Fred

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SuSeconfig Question
by Chuck Stuettgen 02 Jan '04

02 Jan '04

Does anyone know what configuration file controls the start order for the services in the /etc/rc.d/rcx.d folders? Specifically, which file resets the order to the SuSe defaults if the order has been modified? I know how to disable SuSeconfig, but at this point I am not interested in that. I simply want SuSeconfig to stop changing the startup order of the PCMCIA service. With Mandrake and Redhat once I changed the startup order so that PCMCIA started before network I *never* had to worry about Redhat's up2date or the Mandrake update utility changing it back. SuSeconfig on the other hand insists on setting PCMCIA to S08pcmcia which comes after S05network. I set pcmcia to be S04pcmcia so it starts before network. This insures that I always get a network connection no matter what network I am connecting to. I realize that hotplugger is supposed to start pcmcia but it is simply unreliable when it comes to pcmcia cards. I should note however, it works fine with USB devices. Before I changed the boot order so that PCMCIA would start first I would not get a network connection when first booted up. This because when the network is set to start first and the only connection to the network is a wireless pcmcia card, that hasn't started yet, you can't get an DHCP assigned ipaddress. So if someone can tell me which file I can modify so the startup order of PCMCIA won't be reset when yast or YOU is run I would be grateful. Thanks -- Chuck Stuettgen <cstuettgen(a)myrealbox.com> http://www.cfs-tech.homelinux.net

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OT - SA defeating thesauri
by Nick Selby 02 Jan '04

02 Jan '04

Hi, It seems that the latest spate of spam is loaded with seemingly arbitrary words to defeat the Baysian processes of SpamAssassin, such as "thayer earsplitting fatal scatterbrain landfill circumstance configuration dowling system smokescreen incompletion oscillatory burgeon boorish mallow repudiate elysee bermuda cohort upbring unix bitnet depressive enigma" I guess that they're doing this to increase the message size with un-spamlike words to decrease the ratio of spam-like words to non-spam-like words? Does this sound right? Anyone heard of this and/or have a sense of how to defeat this strategy with current available configurable settings on SA? Spastic? Anything? TIA

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What is this bootps message?
by Richard Atcheson 01 Jan '04

01 Jan '04

On SuSE 9.0 running the IP Traffic I see this message quite frequently: UDP (350 bytes) from 10.54.64.1 bootps to 255.255.255.255:bootpc on eth0. What is going on? Tnx, Richard

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you auto updates from private server
by nmayotte＠charter.net 01 Jan '04

01 Jan '04

I've been looking at the YOU auto updates in suse 8.2, and I'd like to make it so that my machine will automatically download updates from a server I specify (another one of my computers). Is this possible? I think it would work if I configure YAST2_LOADFTPSERVER="no" in the file /etc/sysconfig/onlineupdate on the client machine. Then I'd have to like comment out all the entries in /var/lib/yast2/you/youservers (I'm assuming /etc/suseservers is obsolete since there is no reference to it in /etc/sysconfig/onlineupdate) and then add my server to /etc/youservers. And on the server side. Do I just have to have a certain directory for the updates, does there have to be a certain tree format or can I just point the client to ftp://ftp.myserver.com/onlineupdates (or whatever I name the direcory). Also, would this work for a url as well or does it have to be ftp? Someone please let me know if I'm way off base here ;). Thanks, Nathan Mayotte

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Network Card setup problem
by ka1ifq 01 Jan '04

01 Jan '04

Hello List, I am new to Suse, not new to linux but not an expert. I picked up a couple of ISA Fiber cards to use for a remote computer where cat5 run would be too long. The cards are Allied Telesyn AT-1500FT-PNP, Fiber and Twisted Pair. I checked and Suse V7.1 to V8.1 support these cards, I have installed V8.1 and the system can see the card (/proc/isapnp shows the card) but I cannot get it to come up and function. On boot I get the message " Could not get a valin interface name". Any help is appreciated.. Mike -- From the SuSe Desktop <ka1ifq(a)adelphia.net> Linux, Because rebooting is for new hardware!

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Updating to SpamAssassin 2.61 from sources (SuSE 8.2)
by Carlos E. R. 01 Jan '04

01 Jan '04

[report and questions] Hi, I have just updated to Mail-SpamAssassin-2.61 from sources my SuSE 8.2 - previously, I had a look at ftp:.../people/mmj, but there was no rpm for 8.2; however, the process is very simple: Download and expand Mail-SpamAssassin-2.61.tar.bz2. Change to the directory, and run 'perl Makefile.PL' (or hit enter on 'mc'), then 'make' Using yast, uninstall spamassassin-2.50-12.i586.rpm and perl-spamassassin-2.50-12.i586.rpm - but first make a backup copy of files '/etc/init.d/spamd' and '/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf' Then proceed with 'make install', or 'checkinstall' - the second will create an rpm, that I don't know if it is fully usable, but anyways, will keep the rpm database happy. Add options SPAMD_OPTS, SPAMD_AWL and SPAMD_NICE to file '/etc/sysconfig/spamd' - I have this: # SPAMD_OPTS="..." add these options to the spamd command line # (read `man spamd`). # SPAMD_AWL=yes Enable the autowhitelist. The same as adding # "-a" to SPAMD_OPTS. # SPAMD_NICE=<prio> Set the scheduling priority to <prio>; keeps # spamd from soaking up your system resources. # "yes" is equivalent to "5". #SPAMD_ARGS="-d -c -a" SPAMD_OPTS="-d -c" SPAMD_AWL=yes SPAMD_NICE=yes Interestingly, you can run the daemon "niced" :-) Copy '.../Mail-SpamAssassin-2.61/spamd/suse-rc-script.sh' to '/etc/init.d/spamd', and flag it as executable by root. Create a symlink: /usr/sbin/rcspamd -> /etc/init.d/spamd* Edit '/etc/init.d/spamd' as appropriate comparing it to the original file ow which we made a backup. There are some changes, some files that have different paths (I think some of it is pre-8.x) - here are the changes: Remove line '. /etc/rc.config' Comment out lines referencing 'base' and 'link' and the two tests; ie, code lines following "# Determine the base..." and "# Force execution if..." Insert this code instead (substitutes rc.config for >=8.x): # Check for existence of needed config file and read it # # Later, we may want to make startup behavior (user ID, firewalling, ...) # configurable, as there are security implications (read README.spamd). SPAMD_CONFIG=/etc/sysconfig/spamd test -r $SPAMD_CONFIG || exit 6 . $SPAMD_CONFIG In 'function my_getpid()' comment out the last test - this is a hack around a bug, about which I wanted to ask here: # is that a spamd or what? # test $cmd = $SPAMD_BIN || return 11 With that, test 'rcspamd start', 'rcspamd status' and 'rcspamd stop', and we are almost done - I am assuming your setup uses 'spamd' and 'spamc' instead of calling directly 'spamassassin': cd /etc/init.d/ chkconfig spamd on chkconfig (should respond "on") rcspamd start And finally, test the mail setup - which I assume was previously working. You probably want to edit '/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf' with your old configurations; I have this: rewrite_subject 0 report_header 1 use_terse_report 1 defang_mime 0 User preferences will not be changed, except that I think the bayes database will be modified on the first run. Ok, here go my questions. The 'spamd' startup script uses a new code to see if the spamd daemon is running, instead of using SuSE's normal code; the author explanation is this: # Note: The SuSE {start,kill,check}proc utils can't handle perl scripts # which change there $0 -- like spamd. So I implemented my own # routines which rely on the existence of the pid file. # is there any process running at that pid? test -d /proc/$pid || return 10 cmd=`cat /proc/$pid/cmdline 2>/dev/null | cut -d' ' -f1 test -n "$cmd" || return 1 # is that a spamd or what? test $cmd = $SPAMD_BIN || return 11 But this code fails. It tries to get the command line associated with the daemon PID, reading from '/proc/$PID/cmdline' this: /usr/bin/perl-T -w/usr/bin/spamd-d-r/var/run/spamd.pid-d-c-a Notice the absence of spaces between the program call and the parameters: is that a kernel bug, or a characteristic? The problem is that the output of "cut" is "/usr/bin/perl-T", so the comparison to "/usr/bin/spamd" fails. My hack was to remove that final test, but then if the daemon died previously I might kill an innocent program when closing the service. My second question is this; when a mail is detected, the spam mail is edited containing: a text informing this is spam a "Content preview" section a "Content analysis detail" section the original mail untouched, as a mime attach Previously I didn't have a "Content preview", and I don't want it. How do I remove it, if possible? -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

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Continuous Boot Loop
by Russ 01 Jan '04

01 Jan '04

Hi All, Me again. When I boot the computer, I choose SuSE and the screen goes blank (normal) then it returns to the GRUB screen. Anyone know why it does this? It did this when I was installing SuSE. I gave up and went to bed that time. When I woke up the next morning I booted the comp and it booted up normally. I booted to the install disk and chose to boot to installed system and it worked fine. Rebooted and it did the same thing (looped back to GRUB). So I booted to the install disk again and chose to reinstall GRUB (neat feature that). Rebooted, and same thing (looped back to GRUB). Why would it do this? I didn't do anything this time, honest. Well actually I just finished burning the SuSE live eval CD and booting to it (took forever). Any ideas. Thanks Russ

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Fwd: Re: [SLE] Configuring a Router
by Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. 01 Jan '04

01 Jan '04

>X-pair-Authenticated: 217.235.114.54 >From: Nick Selby <ns(a)nickselby.com> >Organization: Flyguides.com >To: "Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D." <smolnar(a)jadeinc.com> >Subject: Re: [SLE] Configuring a Router >Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 16:21:10 +0100 >User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 >X-RCPT-TO: <smolnar(a)jadeinc.com> > > >Hi, >This will seem rude but it's not - you really need to post this reply to me >(thanks for it) to the list itself. The reason is that people use the list >archives as learning tools and reference material, so making this a private >conversation deprives future users of the benefits of the thread. > >So how about resending everything below to the list and then I'll reply there? > >FYI, there are separate issues here: > >The router seems to be routing so that's actually a SOLVED issue. > >The telnet into the MS workstation is a second issue; someone on the list >will >be able to help with configuring your windows box to allow this. > >Having your machines truly networked and each others drives available is >another issue, which will involve your sharing the drives on your windows >machines, setting up SAMBA on the Linux machine, mapping the network drives >on your windows box (to allow your windows machines to see the hard disk of >the linux machine) and mounting your windows shared drives on the Linux >machine via Samba (which amounts to the same thing as mapping a network >drive). > >Those last issues are all separate, but rather straightforward. SAMBA has a >browser based configuration tool. > >So go ahead and re post and I;ll give the same response and add to it, as >will >other users more expert than me (I have just described most users). > >Nick > > > >On Wednesday 31 December 2003 16:13, you wrote: > > WOW! Let me say that backwards !WOW > > > > Many, many thanks for your quick reply to my query. > > > > Amazingly simple, at least so far > > > > At 08:52 AM 12/31/2003, you wrote: > > >On Wednesday 31 December 2003 14:44, Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote: > > > > I have just installed a Linksys router on my LAN. As I am functionally > > > > illiterate with regard to such things (it took me three days and many > > > > hours on the telephone to get my Win2000 box working with the router) > > > > what is the simplest way for me to get the linux machine on my LAN to > > > > communicate with the router? > > > > > > > > Oh yes, I have a DSL connection to the internet. > > > > > >Should be rather trivial. > > > > > >1. Plug the router into the wall, into the DSL modem and plug your linux > > >machine into it. > > > > > >2. I assume you already have the router on speaking terms with your DSL > > >provider; if not you can do it after you get it on speaking terms with the > > >Linux machine. > > > > > >3. Go into Yast and configure the ethernet device you will use to speak > > > with the router to be DHCP everything - IP, host name, etc. Click okay > > > and let it run suse config > > > > OK, it's at this point that I don't know what I'm doing. I have > > reconfigured the nic to accept a dynamic IP via DHCP and that seems to > > work. I can log on to 192.168.1.1/Index.htm and that gets me to the > > Linksys page via my browser, I assume that is on my router. The routing > > table shows me that I have local and internet interfaces. > > > > I can ping my Win 2000 box at 192.168.1.100, but when I attempt to telnet > > in my connection is rejected. LinNeighborhood AddMachine gives me a query > > error when I attempt to access the machine via that route. > > > > I am totally intimidated by the plethora of choices that yast give me for > > configuring things - and there lies the continuation of the problem. > > > > >4. You should be able now to ping the router; look in the quick set up > > >instructions in the box it came in for the router IP address. Open a > > > browser window and type in the IP address, something like > > > > > >http://192.168.123.100 > > > > > >5. You should now be looking at the router's configuration page. Enter > > > your ISP's user name and password and other information it wants and have > > > the router try connecting. It should be that simple. > > > > > >HTH! > > > > > >-- > > >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 > > > > Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set > > Foundation for Chemistry Multivariant and stochastic > > http://www.geocities.com/FoundationForChemistry > >-- >---------------------------- >Nick Selby > >US Mobile: +1 347 804 4410 >Germany: +49 89 2737 4527 >Germany Fax: +49 89 2737 4529 >*Currently in: MUNICH*

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SuSE 9 Pro Symlink Missing?
by Colburn 01 Jan '04

01 Jan '04

I am trying to get Sync to work with my Kyocera 6035 cellphone/PDA via a USB-Serial adapter from sewelldev.com All of the USB ports seem to be set up OK as I tried mknod /dev/usb/ttyUSBx x 188 x on 1 through 10 and was informed that they were already present. Sync is looking for dev/pilot so I tried symlink /dev/usb/ttyUSB4 /dev/pilot and discovered that symlink doesn't exist. How please, do I make this happen? Thanks! doc -- "Wars and rumors of wars, disasters, and social decay, yet undaunted for love and peace we pray." dmc ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Matrox G550 3D acceleration activated on Suse Linux 9.0
by Jörg 01 Jan '04

01 Jan '04

Just a quick note on my successful installation of 3D acceleration on my MATROX G550 dual head graphics card. Allows me to play the arcade game Armagetron on SUSE Linux 9.0. see also ftp://ftp.matrox.com/pub/mga/archive/linux/2003/lnx30notes.txt 1. get mgadrivers-3.0.tgz from www.matrox.com 2. tar xvzf mgadrivers-3.0.tgz 3. cd mgadrivers 4. su 5. sh install.sh 6. change in /etc/sysconfig/kernel MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT=" cdrom ide-cd ide-scsi" to MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT=" cdrom ide-cd ide-scsi mga agpgart" 7. cp /etc/X11/XF86Config /etc/X11/XF86Config_bac 8. change in /etc/X11/XF86Config Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "glx" Load "speedo" Load "v4l" Load "extmod" EndSection to Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "glx" Load "dri" Load "speedo" Load "v4l" Load "extmod" EndSection and save in /etc/X11/XF86Config_with_3D You can leave Multihead activated. To use 3D and one monitor, do cp /etc/X11/XF86Config_with_3D /etc/X11/XF86Config to use both monitors and no 3D, do cp /etc/X11/XF86Config_bac /etc/X11/XF86Config and reboot.

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Synaptic question...
by Tom Nielsen 01 Jan '04

01 Jan '04

I'm using synaptic to update programs. A few weeks ago I installed zenity to use with a program someone made for me, but it had some dependency problems. It works, but without some other stuff. Now synaptic wants to delete it everytime I try to update something. Anyone know a way to get around this? I mean other than to install Zenity correctly....which I don't think will happen. Tom

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