June 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Mozilla FTP problem w/ SuSE 8.2
by bis9170＠cox.net 09 Jun '03

09 Jun '03

Hi all: Recently started using Mozilla for my web browser, and like it's speed and stability. But one thing that's really bugging me is the fact that I can't get to any FTP sites. The ftp site I'm trying to get to (stew.sdsu.edu) requires a particular username and password, but when I send Mozilla there, it immediately reports that my "username and password are invalid", and doesn't give me a prompt window to enter the real username/password (like Konqueror and every other browser does on the very same machine). And no, trying to login as "Anonymous/password(a)somewhere.com" won't cut it. I've dug through the Mozilla options menus already -- what the heck am I missing here...? //TB

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Breaking Threads
by Ron Joffe 09 Jun '03

09 Jun '03

After the recent thread on broken threads, I was wondering if anyone had come up with a way to programmatically correct broken threads in an mbox? Ron

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Cyphering cluster
by Rich3800＠aol.com 09 Jun '03

09 Jun '03

Has anyone heard about an encryption cluster where one can increase the length of encryption keys by adding processing machines to the network? No matter how long the encryption keys are, sooner or later, considering the increase in CPU power, the encryption keys will be broken. How would one go about building such a scalable key-encryption cluster using linux?

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[Fwd: Re: [SLE] Flightgear]
by Hans Krueger 09 Jun '03

09 Jun '03

that would be great thanks e-mail me direct if you like -----Forwarded Message----- From: Basil Fowler <bjfowler(a)chanzy.eclipse.co.uk> To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Flightgear Date: 09 Jun 2003 14:00:17 +0000 I have just built FlightGear-0.9.6 under SuSE 8.0. There is a lot of preliminary work to do like ensuring all the SimGear and plip libraries are installed. Reading the documentation is abolutely essential, but once I got round all of my misreadings, typos, etc the thing compiled nicely and ran OK If you need any help, I will list the packages that have to be installed. Hope this helps Basil Fowler On Monday 09 Jun 2003 11:27, Hans Krueger wrote: > has anybody got Flightgear to run on 8.2 yet if so how > thanks > > -- > Hans > hans007(a)prexar.com > > registered Linux user 289023 > > "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little > temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." > -Benjamin Franklin > -- 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 -- Hans hans007(a)prexar.com registered Linux user 289023 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin

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Re: [offlist]: [SLE] Breaking threads...
by Anders Johansson 09 Jun '03

09 Jun '03

On Monday 09 June 2003 18.39, M. Fioretti wrote: > Offlist, as you (implicitly) requested: No I didn't, I said that when you want to tell someone to correct their threading behaviour, it's best kept off list. > > The reason to immediately reply *on* the list as soon as you see > someone screwing threads exists. There is no such reason, flame wars about threads account for a great deal of the mail in the archives, and do far more to mess up threads than the OP ever did. > The real damage (in the sense > specified by Patrick, ie hiding useful info) You're confused. You're talking about two different things. One is the so-called "hijack", which to my mind isn't even a problem with email, and the other is the breaking of the threads by stripping out the headers in the reply. > is *not* done by the > *single* person that, often unvoluntarily, hijacks the original thread. > > It is done by the five, ten, fifteen knowledgeable morons that, > invariably, *answer* to that badly placed question, hiding the > *solution*. A moron? > > They are the ones that must be stopped and teached better: The word is "taught" > since they > are many, and one doesn't know them in advance, it *is* necessary to > say ASAP to them all, and only once, That's the real bitch, isn't it, it isn't "only once", it's a million frigging times. Check the archives. IT DOESN'T WORK AND SERVES NO GOOD PURPOSE > "please don't answer until the OP > starts a new thread": the only way to do it is answering on the list. If you do and keep doing it, then you are very welcome to my killfile

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RE: [SLE] ASCII text, with CR line terminators
by VANTASSLE, GEORDON M (SBCSI) 09 Jun '03

09 Jun '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Try dos2unix (I believe that is the command) That should strip out the CR terminators. > -----Original Message----- > From: Jenny Wang [mailto:jenny_wjwang@yahoo.co.uk] > Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 11:37 AM > To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com > Subject: [SLE] ASCII text, with CR line terminators > > > Hi, > > I transfered a text file from PC to linux. It become > to a n ASCII text, with CR line terminators (see > below) when it was opened using emacs. Can you advise > me how to remove the CR line terminators? > > Thnaks, > > Jenny > > __________ > ss: 20149^M ^M^MGAG^M^M ^M ^M ^M > ^M ^M ^M ^M^M > PRO ^M^M L010I^M L090M^M M046I^M V077I^M ^M ^M > ^M ^M ^M > ^M ^M^M^MRE ^M^M K103N^M V189I^M ^M > ^M ^M > ^M ^M ^M ^M ^M ^M > ^M ^M ^M ^M > ^M^M^M^M > > > __________________________________________________ > Yahoo! Plus - For a better Internet experience > http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/yplus/yoffer.ht> ml > > -- > 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0 Comment: This message signed to ensure authenticity. iQA/AwUBPuS32RnDT1v4QosXEQLYIACfbAsEF/Ah6YCxo2in8/ZW7oNz8zMAoO8n qwI4BKAovpOoJ0AYOml2PF3h =/O0T -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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The GIMP
by James Ogley 09 Jun '03

09 Jun '03

Also updated on www.usr-local-bin.org today: * The GIMP - Built new packages with Python scripting support, since Perl support doesn't work with the 1.3 tree. James -- 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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Does SuSE deviate from "standards"
by Rich3800＠aol.com 09 Jun '03

09 Jun '03

To follow more faithfully established standards, one should remove or decrease the profit motivation involved. For example, the primary goal of a commercial company is to make a profit. A commercial entity needs to distinguish itself from its competitors and sometimes, it is at the expense of open standards.

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re: [SLE] Linux NFS mount for OS X. Was "Re: [SLE] Samba and OS-X"
by Greg Freemyer 09 Jun '03

09 Jun '03

>> > just as well. I would like to follow this thread if someone has some >> > simple pointers for nfs for osx. I haven't been patient enough to >> > burn through the man and online references. >> > >> > For what it's worth, >> > >> > will >> Did it like this: >> First: >> 1) Start the "NetInfo Manager" from "/Applications/Utillities". >> 2) Use "Check Identitie" from menu item "Security". >> 3) Click on the dir "machines". >> 4) Add a new directory from menu item "Directory". >> 5) Change the value of "name" propertie from "new_dir" into >> "name_of_nfs_server". >> 6) Add a new propertie from menu item "Directory". >> 7) Change "new_propertie" into "ip_address". And change "new_value" into >> "ip_adress_of_nfs_server". >> 6) Add a new propertie from menu item "Directory". >> 7) Change "new_propertie" into "serves". And change "new_value" into >> "../name_of_nfs_server". >> Don't know if the above step are needed, and don't know the function of >> the "serves" propertie. >> Then: >> 1) Start the "NetInfo Manager" from "/Applications/Utillities". >> 2) Use "Check Identitie" from menu item "Security". >> 3) Click on the Dir "mounts". >> 4) Add a new directory from menu item "Directory". >> 5) Change the value of "name" propertie from "new_dir" into >> "server:/dir/to/import". >> 6) Add a new propertie from menu item "Directory". >> 7) Change "new_propertie" into "dir". And change "new_value" into >> "/dir/to/mount/nfs-share". >> 8) Add a new propertie from menu item "Directory". >> 9) Change "new_propertie" into "vfstype". And change "new_value" into >> "nfs". >> 8) Add a new propertie from menu item "Directory". >> 9) Change "new_propertie" into "opts". >> 10) Select "opts" and use "Add New Value" from menu item "Directory". >> And change "new_value" into "-s". >> 11) Select "opts" and use "Add New Value" from menu item "Directory". >> And change "new_value" into "-P". >> 12) Select "opts" and use "Add New Value" from menu item "Directory". >> And change "new_value" into "-b". >> 13) Select "opts" and use "Add New Value" from menu item "Directory". >> And change "new_value" into "net". >> 14) Select "opts" and use "Add New Value" from menu item "Directory". >> And change "new_value" into "rw". >> 15) Restart your Mac and it should work. >> Or you could download "NFSManager". This only works with the user "root". >> This worked for me under MacOS 10.2.6. >> Hope this helpes.......... >> Haven't looked at netatalk yet. So any info how to set it up is welkom. >> Stefan. Stefan. Have you done any benchmarking? Even just copying over a large amount of data? I did something very similar to your process a couple of weeks ago when I first connected my OS-X box to SuSE 8.2 It worked fine, but it was awfully slow. Maybe you have better options than I did. I just did the math and I think a 100 Mbit/Sec connection at 100% efficientcy should do about 36 GB/hr. I'm only getting around 3 GB/hr with NFS writes from OS-X to SuSE 8.2 (default kernel). ie. less than 10% efficient. I have done other NFS write testing to SuSE 8.2 (default kernel), and it seems to always be similarly slow. Samba on the other hand is much faster, but I have to have "*" supported in file names for my app, and samba does not do it. I am going to try some nfs tuning tonight. (Never done that, will have to do some googling.) Thanks Greg

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[Fwd: Re: [SLE] Running a webserver from a home machine...how?]...a response
by Tom Nielsen 09 Jun '03

09 Jun '03

Boy did you guys opened up on me! Ouch! I guess I should have expected it. It was late when I wrote it and I wanted to go to bed, so let me revise my statement a bit. My comment "I hate reading manuals" means I'm the type of guy that sets up first and what ever I "need to know" or if something doesn't work, I read about it afterwards. If I become really interested in something...then I'll read up on it. Basically, you all can't tell me that you can't recommend certain "critical" areas that I should examine first and that the only way to get setup is by reading the whole manual. ???? I don't need to know about load balancing or other things that a "home user" would care to know about to get up and running. I just want to be up and running and get some "advice" about critical areas of security. I received some helpful advice from other folks so I'm sure its out there. If at a later time I decide to become more advanced, then I'm sure I'll have to read up on it. As an example, I just want to publish pictures of my carpet. (It's really nice carpet). I can do it know, but how can I keep folks out of my other directories? I've seen you all answer these types of questions before. I really do appreciate the input I've received and will receive...including the RTFM parts. Here's one for example....having to always change, add or modify pages or images as root is rather a pain. I understand why I need to, but it's still a pain. If I were to change the path from /srv/www to /home/tom/public_html would this cause any security issues? Again, I know in order for me to get all the information anyone would ever want to know about Apache, I should read the manual....but I just want to test and slowly increase my knowledge. I just want to play around right now and I'm sure there are simple tips that can be given to an Apache newbie. (I think). Thanks to all again! Tom -----Forwarded Message----- > From: Tom Nielsen <tom(a)neuro-logic.com> > To: SuSE English <suse-linux-e(a)suse.com> > Subject: Re: [SLE] Running a webserver from a home machine...how? > Date: 07 Jun 2003 23:15:44 -0700 > On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 22:29, Derek Fountain wrote: > The downside is security. Once you have an entry point into your box from the > outside world, especially with a static IP address, you need to understand > exactly what that entry point allows and what abuse it might get put to. In > other words, you need to read up on Apache and ensure the config is set as > you need it. Don't just assume SuSE have set up a secure config which meets > your needs. > > If you just want to serve static pages and photos, make sure you don't allow > PHP, mod_perl or any other of the other abusable things to be accessed from > the outside world. I really, really, really hate reading manuals!! I could stress that more, but I don't have enought time. Most have too much information that would apply on an enterprise level rather than a home user/newbie. Is there a "crib notes" version that I can look at some where? I've always had a static IP, but no reason for anyone to look at it. Thanks for the info! Tom - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems, Inc. 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems, Inc. 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com

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