April 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Fwd: Re: [SLE] Sun
by fsanta 08 Apr '03

08 Apr '03

Guess the identity of the last person to post in this thread and win a night out with Alan Sugar. Second prize, 2 nights out with Alan Sugar. ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: [SLE] Sun Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 19:02:10 +0200 From: xxxxxxxx(a)xxxxxx.xx To: SuSE <suse-linux-e(a)suse.com> > On Tuesday 08 April 2003 09:27 am, Derek Fountain wrote: > > My LUG has just had a presentation from a guy from Sun Microsystems. I've > > never been at all enthused about Sun's plans in the Linux market, but he > > was quite convincing. > > > > One thing he did talk about was that Sun have dropped their own "Sun > > Linux", and are going to support 2 of the main Linux distro creators. He > > couldn't mention any names because the papers aren't being signed for a > > few more days, but he described a large US Linux vendor and a large > > European Linux vendor. > > > > Hmmm. Who could they be? > > I bet it's Mandrake and SCO..... ;-) Nonsense. My money's on Corel and Amstrad. Respectively.

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Sun
by Derek Fountain 08 Apr '03

08 Apr '03

My LUG has just had a presentation from a guy from Sun Microsystems. I've never been at all enthused about Sun's plans in the Linux market, but he was quite convincing. One thing he did talk about was that Sun have dropped their own "Sun Linux", and are going to support 2 of the main Linux distro creators. He couldn't mention any names because the papers aren't being signed for a few more days, but he described a large US Linux vendor and a large European Linux vendor. Hmmm. Who could they be? -- "...our desktop is falling behind stability-wise and feature wise to KDE ...when I went to Mexico in December to the facility where we launched gnome, they had all switched to KDE3." - Miguel de Icaza, March 2003

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How-swap IDE question
by Jyry Kuukkanen 08 Apr '03

08 Apr '03

Hello I have been asked to set up a Linux box that will handle backups of a Linux server using removable IDE discs instead of tapes. The actual location is somewhat troublesome when it comes to dust and hence no tape but hard-drive backup method. I have the system setup on /dev/hda and runs fine, but what is required, harware or sofware wise, so that I could safely A) remove slave IDE drive and replace it with another, while box is switched on B) mount /dev/hdc1 (if retuired: partition, mkfs.msdos etc.), rsync -a server::backupserver /path/to/hdc1 and then unmount the device C) jump to A) and repeat the process. Cheers, --Jyry :-( C:-/ C========8-O C8-/ C:-(

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Konqueror
by Adam Leach 08 Apr '03

08 Apr '03

Recently I've had to restart KDE every few hours, because Konqueror seems to start loads of processes that never stop. When I start KDE I normally have around 171 processes, with little or no load, but after visiting several websites using Konqueror, this normally reaches around 275-300 processes and performances really slow and unresponsive. The vast majority of these are kdeinit processes, is there a serious bug with KDE or could I have a rogue option somewhere. I got this problem with KDE 3.0.4 and I get the same problem with the KDE 3.1 update from SuSE's website. Any one got any suggestions, I'm having to use either Mozilla or IE5 (via Wine) to access website. I'm sad to say it but IE5 runs better on KDE then Konqueror (thanks Codeweavers) Adam

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RE: [SLE] GIVE ME A BREAK! [was] Re: [SLE] 8.2
by M. Edwin 08 Apr '03

08 Apr '03

I agree, I'm Indonesian and please do not teach us how to think and speak in American way and act like cowboy in this list. But if you all can talk about how to use and operate linux so people like me (and the rest poor country in the world)who don't have enough money to buy M$ can finally have a chance to enjoy the affordable OS and PC I'll stay in this list. M. Edwin -----Original Message----- From: Jerry Feldman [mailto:gaf@blu.org] Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 9:09 AM To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] GIVE ME A BREAK! [was] Re: [SLE] 8.2 On Mon, 7 Apr 2003 20:00:45 -0500 Paul Alfille <palfille(a)earthlink.net> wrote: > Could you please keep your comments to the 1-wire topic? I thoroughly agree with this. Let's focus on SuSE related subjects and not politics. We've got people on this list form many different places in the world, we've got people of just about every religion, and just about every political persuasion. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf(a)blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9

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LVM, IDE Software RAID, 2 Channles, 4 Disks
by Simon Oliver 08 Apr '03

08 Apr '03

When creating a software RAID volume using IDE devices the advice is to put just one disk per channel. According the the Software RAID FAQ... "It is very important, that you only use one IDE disk per IDE bus. Not only would two disks ruin the performance, but the failure of a disk often guarantees the failure of the bus, and therefore the failure of all disks on that bus." For my purpose I'm not interested in fault-tolerance but speed. The performance problem is due to trying to access two devices at the same time on the same channel. So why not make a linear disk out of the two devices on the each channel and then stripe across the two linear disks. This should effectively double disk performance. But is it possible with LVM? ______disk0 Ch.A ----<______ disk1 ______disk2 Ch.B ----<______ disk3 lvm_a = linear disk0 + disk1 lvm_b = linear disk2 + disk3 lvm_z = stripe lvm_a + lvm_b Is this possible? Is there a flaw in my proposal? P.s. I know there are hardware solutions to this problem. -- Simon Oliver

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SLOX4/Palm Syncing Question
by Stuart Powell 08 Apr '03

08 Apr '03

Hello, everyone. I am just setting up a new SLOX4 server and one of my colleagues asked me a question for which I have no answer. Is it possible to sync a Palm device with the SLOX server ? I doubt it can be done via the Groupware/Webmail interface, but I'm sure there must be tools out there that can extract the new email via IMAP and pull the contact list out of the LDAP directory. And how about the todo lists ? Anyone know of any tools that would be able to do this ? I have a mixed environment of W2K and SuSE 8.x on the desktops, so I'd need to consider both platforms. I am also trying to move us away from MS Outlook, hence the SLOX server in the first place. Thanks, Stuart.

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No cdrom, cdr
by DB Troll 08 Apr '03

08 Apr '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ok I am stumped, have tried google and have not found anything to help with this. When I try to mount a cd in cdrom I get the following error; could not mount device the reported error was /dev/cdrom: no such file or directory On cdr it just says No media found. /etc/fstb> /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 > /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 //var/log/messages> Apr 7 22:30:40 linux kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device ide0(3,64) > Apr 7 22:30:40 linux kernel: ide-scsi: hdb: unsupported command in request queue (0) > Apr 7 22:30:40 linux kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 0 > Apr 7 22:30:40 linux kernel: FAT: unable to read boot sector > kernel: sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. > Apr 7 22:31:06 linux kernel: cdrom: open failed. > Apr 7 22:31:06 linux kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device sr(11,0) > Apr 7 22:31:06 linux kernel: sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. > Apr 7 22:31:06 linux kernel: cdrom: open failed. > Apr 7 22:31:06 linux kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device sr(11,0) /var/log/boot> <4>hdb: CD-ROM Drive/F5E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > <4>hdc: LG CD-RW CED-8120B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > 4>hdb: no flushcache support > <4>hdc: no flushcache support > <6>scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices > <4> Vendor: CD-ROM Model: Drive/F5E Rev: 0.25 > <4> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > <4> Vendor: LG Model: CD-RW CED-8120B Rev: 1.01 > <4> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > <4>Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 > <4>Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 > <4>sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 0x/56x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray > <6>Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 > <4>sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/32x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray > <4>reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 03:03) ... What have I goofed up now. TIA David -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+kkZk3VVncqMjOZsRAmGEAJ98OTEc+9Ke8LBnh+tQyTl5KklKhgCgg+M2 kUjUOO5GOinAmL5/niPHH4o= =WLUf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Evolution again
by James Ogley 08 Apr '03

08 Apr '03

Apparently there was a cpio checksum error in the evolution-1.2.4 package I uploaded to www.usr-local-bin.org earlier, so I've re-uploaded it now. -- 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 8.1) GNOME updates for SuSE: http://www.usr-local-bin.org

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Does Yast in 8.2 have cron run capability built-in?
by Jeric 08 Apr '03

08 Apr '03

In the sense that I could have my updates be updated overnight without any kind of human intervention, on a repetitive timed basis? Thanks, -jeric

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