May 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [SLE] Wine.
by zentara 01 May '03

01 May '03

On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 23:54:41 -0400 "Fred A. Miller" <fmiller(a)lightlink.com> wrote: >> Pan is catching up fast, but it still dosn't match Agent. > >I wish the author would get his head otta the MickySoft bucket and port Agent >to Linux.....should have been done a long time ago!! The only problem in that >install is the Agent debugger keeps coming up. I haven't been able to find an >answer to this one. I wrote to Forte.inc a long time ago and asked about a linux port, and they said it wouldn't ever happen. They said they way Agent is written, it relies alot on "windows-specific" code, and it wouldn't port to linux without alot of re-writing. I'm just glad that they are keeping it "wine-compatible". I've been able to both run, and install agent from wine. I had the "debugger problem" with it on an old laptop with a pentium processor. It worked when I mounted a real "C" drive with Agent and windows on it. It didn't seem to like running purely off of linux. But my duron system dosn't need a real C drive at all. One other tip I have is that wine can be a "slow-starter" when it has to "build font metrics". A way to bypass this, is to let it build the font metrics once, then chmod the "cachedmetrics.:0.0" to 444, and add this to ./wine/config [fonts] "FontMetrics" = "/home/zentara/.wine/cachedmetrics.:0.0" -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation

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Yast2 problem
by Gerrit Jan Eldering 01 May '03

01 May '03

> > Which is the problem with the SuSE apt, ie who checks the packages ? In > Debian as I understand it you can choose stable, unstable, testing etc. > > moral : > > be very careful using SuSE apt. >In this (kde) case all pkgs come from suse: >linux01:6 20:47:46 /ftp/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/8.2-i386/base $ zgrep qt3\; >contlist.bz2 >qt3;3.1.2-21;i586;kde >qt3;3.1.2-26;i586;suse-people >Perhaps the new newer 3.1.2-26 solves the problem from 3.1.2-21 >(suse-people provide pkgs from sue employees that are not officially >released). >Richard Bos Oke I did try it with de newer qt3 3.1.2-26 from (suse-people), but it won't work, get the same bug! The yast controle-center will hang with the option "cancel". No problems with qt3 3.1.1-62! GJ Eldering

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Port scanning
by Manx Biaggi 01 May '03

01 May '03

Hi, my current setup from my router sends all unauthorised traffice to the DMZ, at this IP i have a P1 266 running 8.2, with ethereal i can see what traffic is being sent here. Now i have turned the firewall on and unchecked the allow traceroute box, and done have any services enabled in xinetd. The problem is this: Port 113 is showing as Closed on port scanners, i want the box to drop any packets to this port as it does on all others, not reject ! The box still replys to ICMP 8 pings, i dont want this, my idea is to log all incoming packets and not respond. I could do this when the box ran smoothwall using IPTABLES but i cannot find a similar config file in 8.2? Basically this machine will sit there log everything and never respond to anything. If anyone has any ideas please let me know. Rob

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Has someone hacked my server? Has someone gotten root on my machine?
by Dan Eskildsen 01 May '03

01 May '03

Hi all! (Please note that I am VERY new to linux and the only reason I have gotten a linux machine up and running is the user-friendliness of suse linux. Thanks SuSE!) This is one depressed linux newbie here. I have suddenly and for no apparent reason started to have a *LOT* of problems with my little linux box (a Pentium II, 233mhz, 128mb ram) which has suse linux 8.0 installed. I wonder why I can have so many problems differening in nature, all at the same time. I noticed two days ago that I could not check my email which resides on the server via IMAP. I have had the machine up and running for about 2 months without the need to reboot, serving pages via apache, running mysql and also UW Imap with sendmail. I also run WEBMIN on the server and access nearly all of the functions via webmin, which has always worked perfectly. I also have samba running on it. When I had those emails problems I decided to reboot the machine, thinking that it may have become unstable. Rebooting caused problems. The machine started to shut down but then stopped, like it had frozen. I logged on via webmin which was still running, thankfully, and sent another reboot command to the server, and it then rebooted. Startup also froze, this time at "Starting sound" (I can't remember the exact command.) I wrote to this group and was told to try and disable the sound driver. I renamed the sound file (via webmin) and rebooted. This time it rebooted and started up. It is now running, but very strangely. When the machine comes up, Apache isn't running, I start apache via webmin and get an error - but seconds later apache starts up anyway. KDE is loaded on the server, when I issue a "telinit 3" from webmin nothing happens at all. If I issue a "ps -A" command webmin hangs. When I open a shell window on the server in KDE I am immediately greeted with an error message: bash: /bin/ls: Permission denied linux:~$ Then, regardless of what command I use I get this: if I enter the command "ls" I get this: bash: /bin/ls: Permission denied linux:~$ Whatever command I type, I'm told "Permission denied." I can't SU into superuser mode, this is what happens when I su: linux:~$ su Password: [I enter my su password] [1]+ Stopped su linux:~$ linux:/home/dan # So I really have no idea of what is going on. Has some hacked my box and gotten root? :-( :-( What should I do now? Backup htdocs and database and then format and reinstall the whole lot? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Dan the man.

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RE: [SLE] Problem with traceroute
by Peer Stefan 01 May '03

01 May '03

Hi, > From: Michael Satterwhite [mailto:michael@weblore.com] > I'm having a problem with traceroute. When I run it (e.g. traceroute > weblore.com), it pauses for a bit, then prints out a series > of hops with > absolutely no information. After a bit, it repeats this. > Here's a sample > output: > > linux:/home/michael # traceroute weblore.com > traceroute to weblore.com (198.65.246.22), 30 hops max, 40 > byte packets > 1 * * * > 2 * * * > 3 * * * > 4 * * * > 5 * * * > 6 * * * > > Is there something I'm missing? traceroute uses ICMP to determine the route. If you have SuSEFirewall2 installed then set FW_KERNEL_SECURITY and FW_ALLOW_FW_TRACEROUTE to "yes" in /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2. regards, Stefan

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How to make sendmail -q work with postfix (stopped)
by Bo Jacobsen 01 May '03

01 May '03

I use a combination of the Obtuse smtpd email agent together with sendmail -q. the smtpd receives the email on port 25 and forwards it to the sendmail queue. Running sendmail -q (as a cron-job), forwards the mail to my internal mailserver. I would prefer to use postfix, but apparently the sendmail -q command only works when postfix is running. I there any way to get postfix to forward queued mail without receiving mail on port 25 (or any other port for that matter). ? Thanks in advance Bo Jacobsen

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message redirection
by Eddie 01 May '03

01 May '03

Please can someone tell me the correct syntax for redirecting both standard output and error messages to /dev/null. Thanks Eddie

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Papaya & usr local bin archive
by James Ogley 01 May '03

01 May '03

Updated today on www.usr-local-bin.org * Papaya - Updated to the latest CVS snapshot (8 April 2003) - 0.98 prerelease Also, I've added a link to the apt4rpm archive for people using old versions of SuSE. -- 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 8.2) GNOME updates for SuSE: http://www.usr-local-bin.org

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FTP install over modem?
by Fred Sloniker 01 May '03

01 May '03

I hope I haven't asked this question already; I've been thinking about it for a while, but haven't (I think) gotten around to it. Is it possible to do an FTP install of SuSE over modem? I'm thinking ahead to 8.2, of course, but I presume the method wouldn't change from 8.1. I tried to do this with 8.1, in fact (before buying a copy), but as far as I could determine, the boot disks don't have support for establishing an FTP connection via modem. Yeah, I know it'd be slow as heck, but I don't have the cash to buy a copy of 8.2, I don't care about any of the buy-only programs (heck, I don't even know what they are), and I don't have any helpful broadband friends to burn a copy of the FTP tree for me, so... is it possible at all, or am I just SOL?

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sendmail smtp auth log
by Osman Demirhan 01 May '03

01 May '03

Hi, I configured sendmail on SuSE 8.1 with smtp auth. I am using PAM for pwcheck_method in /usr/lib/sasl/Sendmail.conf. But, when I send a message, the log of the message is writing in /var/log/messages instead of /var/log/mail. Without smtp auth settings, sendmail logs to /var/log/mail file. Is there any setting to log smtp auth logs in /var/log/mail? -- +------------------------------------------------------+ | Osman Demirhan Tel: +90 216 483 91 71 | | Sabanci University Fax: +90 216 483 91 86 | +------------------------------------------------------+

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