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by tallison＠tacocat.net 18 Jun '03

18 Jun '03

I'm trying to figure out what MTA's are available for Suse, but they don't have anything on their website that's really specific. Other than Cyrus, what else is available. Is Courier supported? If not, has anyone experience with installing it via generic RPM's or something else?

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RE: [SLE] SuSE on Dell Laptop
by NOUTH, LENA R (CONTRACTOR) 18 Jun '03

18 Jun '03

Hello Vincent, Hello, I have Dell Inspiron 7500 with 8.2 Pro Installation. I remember of having to install twice: the first, the installation did not proceed as expected -- it messed up my window installation which was already on it. So, I used Partion Magaic to divide/set partitions for Linux installation, and installed again -- then it went fine. I performed custom installation. I am experiencing some difficulties getting things to work via network but that is all. Regards, LN. -----Original Message----- From: Vincent Colombo [mailto:vcolombo@wi.rr.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 12:37 PM To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: [SLE] SuSE on Dell Laptop Hey, I'm trying to get SuSE set up on my girlfriends new Dell Inspiron 1100 and am having some issues. The ACPI doesn't install properly (I get the message about parts being installed but some things missing) and the bootsplash doesn't work. Even with splash=silent in the menu.lst I still get the plain ol' text boot. I've tried doing the install with the boot option of acpi=force and that didn't help. Doing it with acpi=off apm=on got apm working correctly but I don't know if that will allow me to do things like suspend to disk. If anyone here is running 8.2 on a Dell laptop and has any tips I'd appreciate it. Thanks, Vince -- 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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unmounting a floppy (moronic newbie question)
by Peter Evans 18 Jun '03

18 Jun '03

Boy, learning Linux is fun. Today I used (copied from) a floppy for the second time! Took me all of ten minutes with CP/M, but with Linux. . . . mount tells me (inter alia): /dev/fd0 on /media/floppy type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,sync,user=peter) Having copied from it, I no longer want it. I'm not using it (as far as I know, and I've thought about this for some time). peter@linux:~> umount /dev/fd0 brings me the message umount: /media/floppy: device is busy Can I just ignore this and take the silly thing out before it fries? (I'd like to return it to its owner.) (Yes, I have attempted to look in the user guide, the unofficial FAQ, and one O'Reilly book about Linux to see how a diskette can be busy when it appears not to be in use -- no results.)

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log files, where to look for....
by Constant Brouerius van Nidek 18 Jun '03

18 Jun '03

After having not been able to use my X after a change of a video card any more I am looking for the reason why. Sax is not working and yast in console is not doing all the things I expect. I started looking into the various log files but have no idea where to find answers. Thought that warn and boot e.g would give me clues but to no avail. Found things which did not ring a bell like scpm which could find scdb whatever that is and gave an error. In warn I found a lot of things from which I thought they were working ok. Could somebody point me out reading material and mention log files which are really matter? -- NTReader v0.36w(P)/Beta (Registered) in conjunction with Net-Tamer.

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Setting up procmail
by John Pettigrew 18 Jun '03

18 Jun '03

I've got the email system on my SuSE 8.2 box working fne, with one exception - procmail. Can anyone tell me how to enable the procmail package supplied with 8.2, to work alongside fetchmail and postfix? I can't see anything in YaST to do this, so I guess it's time to fiddle with some config files? John -- John Pettigrew Headstrong Games john(a)headstrong-games.co.uk Fun : Strategy : Price http://www.headstrong-games.co.uk/ Board games that won't break the bank Fields of Valour: 2 Norse clans battle on one of 3 different boards

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Backup Plugin for J-Pilot error with YOU
by Paul Benjamin 18 Jun '03

18 Jun '03

Does anybody know if any of the ftp sites listed in YOU has the Backup plugin for J-Pilot. YOU says that I have to update it because of a security problem but the ftp sites I try don't have the file! I just want to get rid of the orange ball in my kicker panel and get back the SuSE lizard. Thanks, pben

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To be ..or what?
by Ben Rosenberg 18 Jun '03

18 Jun '03

Is it my imagination or do we spend more time discussing SCO vs. IBM then discussing SuSE lately. hmmm. I so wish this crap would just end so we can have some more rants about " Why SuSE doesn't give iso's. " or " Why doesn't my WinModem work. " *grin* Ok..back to the news. heh Ben -- The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in the opposite direction. ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org

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Samba Conf
by Turd Ferguson 18 Jun '03

18 Jun '03

Why does YaST2 not include a Samba configurator? Is there any way to do it other than editing the file? -- "Turd Ferguson. Yeah, he's a funny guy." ~Burt Reynolds (As portrayed by Norm McDonald of SNL)

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Study: Open source produces best results
by Carl William Spitzer IV 18 Jun '03

18 Jun '03

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If they didn't use MickySoft, they would have problems like this!
by Fred A. Miller 18 Jun '03

18 Jun '03

If they didn't use MickySoft, they would have problems like this! Fred _______________ NEWEST BUGBEAR VIRUS TARGETS FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS Posted June 12, 2003 5:40 AM Pacific Time The latest variant of the BugBear computer virus is being investigated by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) after the virus was found to be specifically targeting banks among its many potential victims. Bill Murray, a spokesman for the FBI in Washington, said the investigation began last Friday and will seek to track down the originators of the virus through electronic "fingerprints" often left behind within the intricate code. The FBI is also reminding businesses and home users to adopt safe computing habits, including using up-to-date antivirus protection, firewalls, strong passwords, and other methods to protect their systems. For the full story: http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/06/12/HNnewbugbear_1.html -- Planet Earth - a subsidiary of Microsoft®. We have no bugs in our software, Never!, We do have undocumented added features, that you will find amusing, at no added cost, to you, at this time.

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