February 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Installing SuSE 8.1 on a 486
by Sandor 28 Feb '03

28 Feb '03

Hi, I have an 486 DX4 100 comp. with 16 MB and some harddrives in it. I would like to make it a backup station in my Network. So I'd like to install SuSE 8.1 on it. But I have a problem compiling a kernel for it. When compiling a kernel for the boot disk what must be in it?? Does anyone have a .config file available so I can just put the processor type on 486 and GO?? It would be a great help. Sandor

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Re: Sound recording again
by Thomas Widlundh 28 Feb '03

28 Feb '03

> Nevermind, stupid me left the IGain turned down to nothing, it is > working now. This was the last thing on my list to get working before > totally removing windows. Finally, microsoft free!! yipppeee!!!! So I thought too, but suddenly I began to get errors from the burning in x-cd-roast. Espeially while it was doing the last thing "Fixating". This is needed to make a cd an adio dito. If this fails the disk is useless. No device whatsoever will find the disk. So, I experiment a little more in Linux to find out how to do adio CDs in a certain way, and with good sound. Compared to win the sound in Linux us a little "darker" or more base or... I think this has to do with the relations between the Line and IGain to do. Thomas

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Re: Sound recording
by Thomas Widlundh 28 Feb '03

28 Feb '03

> I have SuSE 8.0 and all the files you mentioned and audacity runs fine, > but no luck on LineIn recording here. Could you shed some light and > point me in the right direction. LineIn is turned up in my mixer and I > can hear the audio coming out of the speakers. I don't know! I do know > that I am sick of booting to Windose just to record. TIA for any input. Hi, Dale, I had the very same problem. I use Kmix. Above all toggles (or what you call them in english?) there are green lights. Click on them to open or shut the toggle you want to use. As you can hear the line in sound you already know the relation beetwen Volume and Line. Now, to make Audacity to hear it too while recording, you must use the IGain too. Then you have to make a balance beetwen Line and IGain. IGain has something with amplitude to do. I have the Line put up to 80% and IGain to 25%. I really have no idea about the best relations here, but this works anyway, so you are able to start recording. Then there are experimentings...... Godd luck Thomas

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RE: [SLE] Automating YOU updates with cron
by Olsson Mattias 28 Feb '03

28 Feb '03

I did a cron job befaure... this is how i remember doing it:) Try from a shell yast2 online_update .auto.get yast2 online_update .auto.install or yast2 online_update .auto.get security I think you should set YAST2_LOADFTPSEREVER="no" If this is working, put it in an shell script and execute it from cron Regards /Mattias -----Original Message----- From: Tom Emerson [mailto:osnut@pacbell.net] Sent: den 28 februari 2003 07:28 To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Automating YOU updates with cron On Thursday 27 February 2003 6:12 pm, Graham Smith wrote: > Has anyone successfully setup YOU to be run from a cron job successfully? ... > lin-2:~/bin # crontab -l > MAILTO=graham ... > I end up with the following error messages being emailed to myself > > Error opening terminal: unknown. > Error opening terminal: unknown. > > Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong with the crontab to get these > messages? Yes. Yast(2) uses ncurses if it cannot use an X display; SuSE's support DB goes into detail as to why, but the short answer is they suggest setting MAILTO to null ("") to keep cron from trying to e-mail a result. [which really defeats the purpose of doing this automatically -- you WANT to know when it fails so you can correct it manually...] If you've got the space for it (about 6 gigs, I think) you should look into rsync'ing the update site [from a mirror] which CAN be done in a cron job -- then all you need to do is actually perform an "update" whenever you see rsync download files that you use [with the added bonus that since rsync already brought down the file, YOU can work against a local directory and the initialization time should be VERY quick...] -- Yet another Blog: http://osnut.homelinux.net -- 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] SuSE support
by emir limar 28 Feb '03

28 Feb '03

-- On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 20:45:11 John wrote: >On Thursday 27 February 2003 14:30 pm, emir limar wrote: > >> Hey John, >>Do you know who am i? Do you know how i use this computer. Do you know i met >>the compuer just 6 years ago at the college. And this is my first computer >>and without knowing anything except as an an user i installed Suse 7.0 Pro >>by my self after a month i bought this computer. Partitioning, installing, >>configuring linmodem, and so on so forth. >>And accusing people playing games wurfing porn pages. >>Let me tell you one more thing In this six years you cannot find sixty hours >>of playing on my part. I don't know if you are doing the things you >>mentioned but i don't. >>Next time be more careful befor stamping the people you don't know. >>On the other hand, i just decided to try another flavor. >>What am i gone lose. Some time and another 40 bucks. Is it too much for a Red >>Hat set? I bought 3 times Suse and i tried and enjoyed and now it is time to >>see an other Flavor.How many flavor did you tried befor Suse? >> >>What is wrong by just trying? >> >>Finally, keep an earing this for yourself: Two things makes perfect; 1st >>trial and error 2nd Practice makes perfect there is a third one but it is >>for those who able to get a lesson from thier MISTAKES. >>emin > > Your whole email was more whine than rant. I asked you two questions. >Neither of which you have answered. Here you whine again. I was in the same >boat as you were. I'd never even *seen* linux, much less heard much about it, >but I'd got so sick and tired of M$, M$'s practices, and M$'s sorry OS's, >that I did a yahoo search for 'OS's', and found a mess of them. I tried >Peanut linux first. Then tried Mandrake 8.0 (IIRR), then Mandrake 8.1, then >finally now SuSE. I didn't know a thing about partitioning either. I didn't >know a thing about configuring or compiling (had to even look that word up in >the dictionary!). But I didn't ever *whine* about any troubles I was having, >with *any* distro I tried. I asked a *lot* of questions though, and got >through 99% of any problems I was having. It's all the same thing *you* >should have done, instead of posting your first ever (AFAIK) post in SLE >whining about all kinds of garbage. > Your above post, though, takes almost a completely *opposite* stance from >your original post. Make up my mind would ya? > > John > Hey John, if you read that message carefully you will see the answer. And this is my last message on this toppic to the list. There are other problems waiting to be solved on the list. "Look at the world from 360 degrees, not only from your angles" emin >-- >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 > > > _____________________________________________________________ Get 25MB, POP3, Spam Filtering with LYCOS MAIL PLUS for $19.95/year. http://login.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus&ref=lmtplus

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SuSE 8.1 + libnss-ldap + SSL = broken?
by nate 28 Feb '03

28 Feb '03

Hello .. I started using SuSE with v7.3 almost a year ago, maybe more ..my network is setup using LDAP w/SSL. I have Debian(x86/sparc), redhat(x86), solaris(sparc), and Suse(x86) here. All of them authenticate off my openldap server via SSL/TLS. Well all except for SuSE 8.1. SuSE 7.3 and 8.0 had no troubles authenticating with SSL/TLS but 8.1 does not for some reason. I checked the libs and the libnss-ldap is linked against ssl libs so it should work but for some reason it does not. I am using the same config as on the other systems. When I turn off SSL/TLS it immediately starts working. I tried searching the suse support database but came up empty. config for no-ssl(/etc/openldap/ldap.conf): host 10.10.10.7 base ou=People,o=aphroland,c=us uri ldap://redhat.aphroland.org:3890/ ldap_version 3 binddn cn=nss,o=aphroland,c=us bindpw MY_SUPER_SECRET_PASSWORD port 3890 nss_base_passwd ou=People,o=aphroland,c=us?one nss_base_group ou=Group,o=aphroland,c=us?one config for ssl: host 10.10.10.7 base ou=People,o=aphroland,c=us uri ldaps://redhat.aphroland.org:6360/ ldap_version 3 binddn cn=nss,o=aphroland,c=us bindpw MY_SUPER_SECRET_PASSWORD port 6360 nss_base_passwd ou=People,o=aphroland,c=us?one nss_base_group ou=Group,o=aphroland,c=us?one I cannot find any errors in the logs, all logs go to my syslog server and when grepping them for the system name, nothing ldap related comes up, it's like the system doesn't even TRY to query. though when running an strace(I'm testing using finger) it does show it connecting to 10.10.10.7 though thats about all the info I can decipher. when running finger some_user without SSL/TLS I get that info back from the ldap server, with SSL/TLS turned on, I get no such user. Running the slapd server in debug mode(running openldap on a redhat 7.3 box), I do see this message: TLS: can't accept. TLS: error:14094418:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:tlsv1 alert unknown ca s3_pkt.c:964 I do notice that SusE has openldap 2.1.x installed whereas all my other systems use 2.0.23, perhaps this is part of the problem? There is very little info in the ldap.conf manpage .. anyone else run into this? Can't find much on google. I suppose I could recompile openldap 2.0.23 on suse 8.1 but would rather work with what's on the CDs if possible. thanks. nate

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Converting address book
by Minimochi 28 Feb '03

28 Feb '03

I recently switched from kamil to evolution and I can't find how to convert my address book to something that evolution could import. Thnx. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, and more

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Kernel Compilation
by Eric 28 Feb '03

28 Feb '03

Just a quick question. What is the recommend amount of jobs to go at once to compile the kernel (or programs) and modules. At about what thresholds can I expect to see faster compiles and when is it excessive. Usually on my faster systems with more memory (1.5 Ghz 512MB) i use make -j 4 or -j 6. What do you gnu gurus out there think? -- #------------------------ #Eric Bambach #Eric(a)CISU.net #------------------------

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Re: [SLE] SuSE support
by emir limar 28 Feb '03

28 Feb '03

-- On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 01:59:28 John wrote: >On Wednesday 26 February 2003 11:31 am, emir limar wrote: > >On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 09:21:58 > Michael Hasenstein wrote: >>emir limar wrote: > > <snip> > >>Well i don't know how they gone do it but based on my observations it has >>more reputation and all the linux related hardware i attamted to try gives >>Red Hat as a reference and not other brans. >>So as an end user I would like to see more specifik and non technical >>language not all those fancy tech terms etc. >>I am an end user. > > Hey Emin, by saying/titling yourself as "an end user", are you saying you >*like* being stuck as the 'I'm too stupid to think for myself or figure >things out for myself so I'm going to stick with the M$ way of things' or are >you just trying to say you're too lazy and stupid to try and learn anything >at all other than 'I play freecell, me like surf web for pron (*pron >misspelled purposely), me think computer have pretty lights and funny sounds >come from it'? > > John Hey John, Do you know who am i? Do you know how i use this computer. Do you know i met the compuer just 6 years ago at the college. And this is my first computer and without knowing anything except as an an user i installed Suse 7.0 Pro by my self after a month i bought this computer. Partitioning, installing, configuring linmodem, and so on so forth. And accusing people playing games wurfing porn pages. Let me tell you one more thing In this six years you cannot find sixty hours of playing on my part. I don't know if you are doing the things you mentioned but i don't. Next time be more careful befor stamping the people you don't know. On the other hand, i just decided to try another flavor. What am i gone lose. Some time and another 40 bucks. Is it too much for a Red Hat set? I bought 3 times Suse and i tried and enjoyed and now it is time to see an other Flavor.How many flavor did you tried befor Suse? What is wrong by just trying? Finally, keep an earing this for yourself: Two things makes perfect; 1st trial and error 2nd Practice makes perfect there is a third one but it is for those who able to get a lesson from thier MISTAKES. emin >-- >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 > > > _____________________________________________________________ Get 25MB, POP3, Spam Filtering with LYCOS MAIL PLUS for $19.95/year. http://login.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus&ref=lmtplus

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Printing man pages without the fluff
by Derek Fountain 28 Feb '03

28 Feb '03

I vaguely remember someone on this list mentioning a filter program which will take the bolds and other assorted fluff out of, eg., man pages, so they can be printed. I currently use a line like: zcat /usr/share/man/man3/getopt.3.gz | nroff -man | lpr -Plist which works fine for my dot matrix printer. However, it'd go a lot quicker if I could get rid of all the backspacing etc. used to print the (superflous to me) emboldening of text. Can someone remind me what that filter is called? -- Microsoft Palladium: "Where the hell do you think YOU'RE going today?"

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