February 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

What is the proper tool for sharing a POP mailbox ?
by chiefoldmist 28 Feb '03

28 Feb '03

Dear All I am trying to set up a mail server for my small home network. I have a domain name (pipandtim.com) with unlimited email addresses but these all get forwarded to one email address. I can get fetchmail to retrieve the email but i want to be able to distribute the received email (tim(a)pipandtim.com & pip(a)pipandtim.com) to the two internal users - my wife and I. Having thought i had done my research i settled on using procmail. Having set it up it promptly failed - i adjusted it and it failed again (repeat for 3 days). I then decided to read the man pages - and came across "Procmail is not the proper tool for sharing one mailbox among many users". What should i use please ? Thanks in advance Tim __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

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Wireless card not reporting quality, signal or noise!
by Marc Christensen 27 Feb '03

27 Feb '03

Hello everyone, I have a Lucent Technologies Orinoco Silver (11Mbit) card which works great as far as connecting to the net goes. However, I cannot get iwconfig to report the link quality, signal level or noise level. Here is the ouput of iwconfig: eth0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"WaveLAN Network" Nickname:"sushi" Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:2.457GHz Cell: 00:02:2D:0A:DD:AB Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/3 Retry limit:4 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off ---> Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:2 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 I am running SuSE 8.1 with all YOU updates applied. The same card, when placed in my friend's Debian laptop works great and all these statistics are displayed correctly. On my machine: *** /proc/net/wireless exists and it's content is: Inter-| sta-| Quality | Discarded packets |Missed face | tus | link level noise| nwid crypt frag retry misc |beacon eth0: 0000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 *** The relevant loaded PCMCIA modules are: orinoco_cs 4488 1 orinoco 29912 0 [orinoco_cs] hermes 5700 0 [orinoco_cs orinoco] pcmcia_core 40448 0 [orinoco_cs ds yenta_socket] *** Kernel version (default installed): # uname -a Linux sushi 2.4.19-4GB #1 Fri Sep 13 13:14:56 UTC 2002 i686 unknown So, what's going on here? -- Marc Christensen http://www.mecworks.com/~marc/resume/ http://counter.li.org/cgi-bin/runscript/display-person.cgi?user=9502

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by Carl William Spitzer IV 27 Feb '03

27 Feb '03

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by Carl William Spitzer IV 27 Feb '03

27 Feb '03

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RE: [SLE] Maintaining a local install/YOU mirror
by Alleman, Lowell 27 Feb '03

27 Feb '03

> I'm thinking I should also mirror the YOU site so that in addition to > installing new systems, I can immediately update them to be > "current" as well. I wonder, however, if I were to place the > "update" files from the YOU server in the same location as they > were originally on the CD, would the "installation" process > automatically install the latest version, thus cutting out the extra > "update immediately" step? [or am I smoking something you can't > buy at the corner drugstore?] > I've also wanted to do this but have never found an acceptable alternative. To me, It reminds me of installing NT 4.0: (FYI, this was before my 'conversion'.) Install NT 4.0, Install 2 or 3 service packs, Install IE 4, Install IE 5, ...... (Well, at least you don't have to reboot with SuSE... but you still have to run YOU several times just to get the most recent stuff) To me, it just seems like there should be a better way! It make no sense to install OLD, BROKEN, or INSECURE packages, when I already have the updates downloaded and shared. I really like how beautifully that is handled in Debian (with apt-get). Yeah, I know that apt-get is available for SuSE, but I hesitate to switch to that when SuSE doesn't support it. And I don't think that you can do an install with apt-get for SuSE... (Anybody know anything about this?) I think that the new package manager YPM is helping, but it needs work (e.g. If you upgrade package xyz but don't have packages xyz-devel installed, then you find out that you need xyz-devel. You have a couple of choices, disregard the dependence failures and install the old version and update later, uninstall the updated version and install xyz and xyz-devel from the CD, or manually download and upgrade xyz-devel..... Most likely, any course of action will confuse either the package manger or YOU. They don't seem to 'share' information between the themselves. Why can't it just download the updated xyz-devel package and install it automatically? The real question is this: Why is the package source / installation source (YPM) and the update source (YOU) two different types of repositories? Why isn't the update repository just another source for the package manger? I know that there would be some financial issues here (with freeloaders), but I would be more that happy to pay for this service if it came down to that. The current system is just a pain. Ok, basically I'm saying "me too" to the question above. Has anybody found a good solution to this. Has anybody else had these same frustrating issues? Can I somehow merge the installation repository (RPMs from the CD) with the online update repository (YOU)? Thoughts and suggestions are welcome. - Lowell

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RE: [SLE] YOU FTP/HTTP initialization
by Olsson Mattias 27 Feb '03

27 Feb '03

You need top open two ports on youre firewall if you have one:) 111/tcp 635/udp ftp is not enough.... Regards /Mattias -----Original Message----- From: Carlos E. R. [mailto:robin1.listas@tiscali.es] Sent: den 26 februari 2003 15:32 To: suse-linux-e Subject: Re: [SLE] YOU FTP/HTTP initialization The 03.02.08 at 13:31, Jerry Feldman wrote: > Whenever I run Online Update, after I select the > server:ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse it takes about 5 minutes or longer > for YOU to complete the "Initializing FTP/HTTP". > I have /etc/suseservers set to a list of servers, and in > /etc/sysconfig/onlineupdate I have YAST2_LOADFTPSERVER="no". > > I've selected other servers with similar results. Does this include the > process of loading the update headers also? > Once that completes and I select the downloads, everything is quick. I have the idea that selecting a server that uses http instead of ftp will be faster. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -- 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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Is there an easy way to search through the archives of this mailing list?
by PTsapralis＠Yahoo! 27 Feb '03

27 Feb '03

GlacierI wonder whether the contents of this mailing list are maintained as a newsgroup, so that it would make it easier for anybody to search through for specific keywords. The current Web-based format in the SUSE site (messages grouped by month) is not convenient: I have to search on a month-by-month basis to find what I'm looking for. Regards, Panos Platon Tsapralis, SAP-R/3 Specialist, ABAP/4 Developer, Athens, GREECE, cell phone: +306936353566, telefax: +18019925665, panosplaton(a)in.gr

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Re: [SLE] new laptop woes
by Michael Sacco 27 Feb '03

27 Feb '03

On Tuesday 25 February 2003 07:01 am, S. Bulterman wrote: > Michael Sacco wrote: > > I use pci=biosirq, but I found a solution apart from that. In > > /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia, I added "irq_list=11" to PCMCIA_PCIC_OPTS. > > > > However, I'm still curious about anything I can do with the graphics > > card...hey, at least one thing's fixed!! YAHOO! > > > > On Sunday 23 February 2003 03:55 pm, Ewan Leith wrote: > >>try pci=bios when booting? > >> > >>Ewan > >> > >>Michael Sacco wrote: > >>>Ok, where to start.... > >>> > >>>I had a toshiba satelite laptop with SuSE 8.1. I had a wireless nic > >>>(pcmcia) set up configured in it. I recently bought a Compaq Presario > >>>2110US and am trying to get the same setup, and have noticed some > >>> issues. > >>> > >>>FIRST, before I could do anything with my fresh install of 8.1, I had to > >>>hard reboot, boot with NOPCMCIA=yes (otherwise it would hang at the > >>>pcmcia startup), and download the updated k_athlon rpm. That worked. > >>>Then, I had to edit /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia, so that I had > >>>"PCMCIA=external", otherwise it would hang. System now boots. This is > >>>good :) > >>> > >>>THEN, I set up the wireless nic, loading the orinoco_cs driver (same as > >>>on the previous laptop). The minute that the pcmcia detects the > >>> wireless nic, I no longer have a functioning touchpad. Just stops > >>> working. I rebooted the machine without the card in, the touchpad > >>> worked, plopped the card in, and prestochango, no touchpad :( > >>> > >>>AND, when I try to bring up the network, I get output along the lines > >>>of... Tx timeout! Resetting card. ALLOCFID=0127, TXCOMPFID=0126, > >>>EVSTAT=808c over and over and over.... > >>> > >>>Any clues? > >>> > >>>Also, if I have an ethernet card (eth0) and a wireless nic (eth1), why > >>> do I get "invalid interface name" if I try to bring up eth1? > >>> > >>>And, anybody know of a solution for an ATI Mobility Radeon Graphics > >>> card. Right now I'm using generic 16bit. > >>> > >>>Thanks in advance for ANY help on this. > > What does lspci command as user root say??? > > > -- > Thanks in advance, > Stefan lspci output is this.... 00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device cab0 (rev 13) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 700f (rev 01) 00:02.0 USB Controller: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03) 00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 02) 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV] 00:08.0 Modem: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5457 AC-Link Modem Interface Controller 00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6912 Cardbus Controller 00:10.0 IDE interface: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5229 IDE (rev c4) 00:11.0 Bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M7101 PMU 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4336

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remote acces via web page
by sparkz 27 Feb '03

27 Feb '03

hi my 1st question on here so be gentle with me. i want to be able to shut down a running process via a web page with a given PID, then run a script to start up the process again from buttons/links located on the web site, the web site is also located on the same linux box. can this be done? via php,dhtml or any web based language. basically i've got 3 game servers located on my linux box, with pid 1000 and 1001 and 1002 for instance. at time i need to shutdown these servers/processes and restart them using a different startup script.sh but i want to allow users to log onto a passworded website. with buttons/links on that will allow them to startup and shutdown these servers from anywhere at the click of a button. any ideas, if this can be done or is there any software out there that might do this or something similar......

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Crash with Geforce MX 440
by Prengel, Ralf 27 Feb '03

27 Feb '03

Im trying to install a Gainward Geforce 4 MX440. The problem: The system crashes (freezes) when starting Sax2. I made tests with the NVIDA SUse rpms an the tar packages but nothing works until now. Any hints? Thanks Ralf Prengel

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