May 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Hosts file "corrected" by something
by Michael D Green 10 Jun '03

10 Jun '03

Hi! When I add lines like the following to my hosts file on the machine puddleglum: 198.162.0.201 fred.puddleglum.mylocaldomain.com fred.puddleglum 198.162.0.201 lili.puddleglum.mylocaldomain.com lili.puddleglum 198.162.0.201 lulu.puddleglum.mylocaldomain.com lulu.puddleglum something (!?!) comes along behind me and "corrects" these lines (it leaves the other lines alone) to simply: 198.162.0.201 puddleglum.mylocaldomain.com puddleglum (The reason I am putting these lines in my hosts file is to be able to access virtual hosts on my Apache web server on puddleglum from puddleglum.) BTW I'm using SuSE 8.2. Ideas? TIA! Mike Green

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Problems with low resolution modelines in X
by Pieter Hulshoff 08 Jun '03

08 Jun '03

Hello all, I've been adding some modelines for low resolution setups for xmame a few days ago but some are not accepted. An example: Modeline "320x224" 16.55 320 328 376 416 224 225 228 234 doublescan The XFree86 logfile states: (II) RADEON(0): Clock range: 20.00 to 400.00 MHz (II) RADEON(0): Not using mode "320x224" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) My assumption (the mother of all f**kups) is that the modeline is not accepted due to the clock range starting at 20 MHz. Any idea on how I can decrease that 20 MHz? My old computer using a TNT chipset had no problems running these modelines, so I think they're correct in themselves. Regards, Pieter Hulshoff

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KDE service releases via YOU?
by Johnny Ernst Nielsen 08 Jun '03

08 Jun '03

Good day, has anyone got a feeling how long time it usually takes for a KDE service release to show up in YOU? I'm on SuSE Linux 8.2 Professional. Best regards :o)

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Monitor
by Carl William Spitzer IV 07 Jun '03

07 Jun '03

Has anyone gotten a Futura 19" monitor to work correctly in SUSE? Or have you defaulted to VESA mode? CWSIV ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!

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mldonkey process refuses to die
by FX Fraipont 06 Jun '03

06 Jun '03

I have been experimenting with mldonkey. After exiting the program, I noticed my system was slow, with unusual disk activity and a lot of processor usage. Ksysguard shows a persistent mldonkey process that consumes 22 % of system resources. I can't seem to kill it,. I've tried killall mldonkey, kill 1505, kill -9 1505, as user and as root, but the process is still there. Any suggestions, apart from rebooting? Thanks FX -- ______________________ Courtesy of SuSE Linux http://www.nibz.org

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LINUX USERS DARE SCO TO SUE THEM(OT)
by Fred A. Miller 06 Jun '03

06 Jun '03

LINUX USERS DARE SCO TO SUE THEM Online Staff -- May 22 2003 Over 2500 Linux users have signed an online petition calling on the SCO Group to sue them over allegations made by the company that its intellectual property has been unauthorisedly used in the Linux kernel. Titled, "Hey SCO, sue me", the petition says: "I am a Linux user. I feel that SCO's tactics toward an operating system of my choice are unjust, ill founded and bizarre. http://www.petitiononline.com/scosueme/petition.html -- Powered by SuSE Linux 8.2 Pro & KMail 1.5.1 Never forget: At Microsoft, the engineering department are the Ferengi... The marketing and legal departments are the Borg!

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I need ideas for Linux training course (OT)
by James Mohr 05 Jun '03

05 Jun '03

Hi All! It is a nice coincidence that we have a headline "Indian president in favor of Linux". I have been approached by a training company in India to help develop course work for introductory Linux course (eventually advanced topics). In the first stage we will be developing a course for people who are moving up from Windows to Linux. That is, they have some basic computer knowledge (at least what is necessary to run Windows), so they need Linux-specifica. There are the obvious things like differences in commands/options, dual booting, SAMBA, and so forth. However, I would really appreaciate some brain storming ideas on what I could/should include. My partner tells me that India is pretty much "Microsoft country" and there are no companies that provide Linux training. This would be a great oppotunity to show IT people the power of Linux. Any help would be greatly appreaciated. Regards, jimmo -- --------------------------------------- "Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are." -- John Wooden --------------------------------------- Be sure to visit the Linux Tutorial: http://www.linux-tutorial.info --------------------------------------- NOTE: All messages sent to me in response to my posts to newsgroups, mailing lists or forums are subject to reposting.

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mailman problem
by Infra 05 Jun '03

05 Jun '03

hi, when i try to start mailman using "rcmailman start" i get the following error: Starting mailmanSite list is missing: mailman failed does anybody have any ideas what the problem could be? thanks --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.481 / Virus Database: 277 - Release Date: 5/13/2003

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YaST2 Software Install does not show uninstalled packages
by Sylvanus A. Currie 05 Jun '03

05 Jun '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I wish to install xsane but YaST2 does not show it. In fact it refuses to list any uninstalled packages. Any ideas, plaese? Regards, Syl -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+z5WZRNQ96ZZBo4oRArqWAJ4z8t9/jvsAgrv74A8R6f36IRrGYACdEkxw 3trp1fuRMq/92N2cVf4obmM= =rQs4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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portmap, and another ...
by John 04 Jun '03

04 Jun '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi gang, I ran lsat a few days ago, and finally stumbled on the output log. It's suggesting I rid myself of portmap. I did a 'man portmap' and a 'man rpc', and they both might as well have been written in latin. But I think I picked up on enough to guess that if I'm not running any kind of server for the internet (a server being something someone from 'outside' my own home can use?), then I really don't need portmap...is this correct? When I tried 'rpcinfo -p' , I got back portmap on 111, twice, so I guess it's the only thing 'open'? Next quicky question...when I did a nanoprobe test of all services ports <http://nanoprobe.grc.com/>, I have port 113 'closed' instead of 'stealth'. Okay, this one I'll need to ask the tech guys at my ISP if I can actually stealth this, am I correct? Since it's the ident port? All other ports were 'stealth', but I also failed the ping test (icmp echo). Is there a way to make it so that my machine doesn't answer 'pings'? This is just a plain ol' everyday machine, not running anything special, I use it for mail, surfin', and not a whole lot else. Steve talked about how ZoneAlarm "adaptively stealths" port 113, is there some way to get SuSEFirewall2 to do this also? Thanks for the help as always. John - -- I needed fresh bugs for my SuSE gecko, and Linux penguin. So I went out and caught this huge ugly blue and red and green and yellow butterfly. They won't need fresh food for 3 months now. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+0404H5oDXyLKXKQRAqg0AJ9cUwF5MCPtcMnrjgEiCvwnRbidWwCfWYfG uvf+Xo/7F7SIJPoVLUxKg14= =C/UT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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