June 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Install Problems
by Angela 13 Jun '03

13 Jun '03

Hi, I would appreciate any help and advice. I am new to linux and have recently installed SuSE Professional 8.2 on a new PC. The install went well and all hardware seems to have been recognised but I seem to have a problem connecting to the internet. The PC is standalone connecting via a dial up modem which was correctly identified by SuSE as Intel 536EP Data Fax Modem and on install I accepted the defaults which all looked reasonable (which simply means within my limited knowledge). The problem appears to be when I attempt to configure mail in YAST2. It asks for the outgoing mail server (I entered my ISP's smtp server name) and then the incoming server name at which point I attempted to enter the pop3 server name of my ISP. My ISP happens to have the same server name for both but this does not appear to be acceptable and gives an error. I have tried all sorts of combinations but nothing seems to work. The KInternet log reports, at best, that: "pppd died: pppd options error (exit code 2)" which appears to be conflicting information, presumably the pop/smtp name being the same. Have I correctly identified the problem or have I completely missed the point? Is there a way around this or do I need a new ISP? This whole mail and internet connection regime in linux has me completely confused and the manuals and online information appear to simply skip over the parts which are causing the problems. Is there a straight forward description of how all this works anywhere aimed at someone who simply wants to use a standalone PC with email and web access? Thanks in anticipation, Angela

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Re: [SLE] CRON Anger...
by Richard Whittaker 13 Jun '03

13 Jun '03

DOH!!! <Insert kicking myself here>... Thanks, that was incredibly dumb, and I can believe it took me a month of looking and I didn't find it... Sometimes the smallest silliest things will get ya! Cheers, Richard. Richard Whittaker, CISSP System Manager NorthwesTel Inc. Whitehorse, YK (867) 393-7756 >>> "Ken Schneider" <kschneider(a)rtsx.com> 06/12/03 06:05PM >>> -----Original Message----- From: "Richard Whittaker" <RWHITTAKER(a)nwtel.ca> To: <suse-linux-e(a)suse.com> Cc: <richard(a)connections.yk.ca> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 17:35:50 -0700 Subject: [SLE] CRON Anger... > Greetings: > > I'm trying to setup a shell script to run regularly, and thus far, all > my quests for information have turned up dry, so I am hoping this list > will provide what I seek.. > > I have this shell script, demonstrating the attendant permissions: > > shaggy:~ # cat archmrtg.sh > #!/bin/sh > export FILEDATE=`date +%m%d%Y` > export ARCHDIR=$1"archive/"$FILEDATE > > mkdir $ARCHDIR > cp $1index.html $ARCHDIR > cp $1*day.png $ARCHDIR > You have new mail in /var/mail/root > shaggy:~ # ls -l archmrtg* > -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 132 Jun 12 17:16 archmrtg.sh > shaggy:~ # > > ...I am trying to run this file in CRON with this crontab entry: > > 31 17 * * * * /root/archmrtg.sh > /db/shaggy_oravl01/opt/apache/htdocs/servers/laurel/ > One to many * in the cron entry, there are only five fields for the date and time settings. Ken -- 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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Running a webserver from a home machine
by Rich3800＠aol.com 13 Jun '03

13 Jun '03

How about using a dynamic DNS service such as dyndns.org?

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can't kill X
by George Reynolds 13 Jun '03

13 Jun '03

I have tried ctrl+alt+x, ctrl+alt+backspace, and killall X as a root user under a virtual console and neither kill X, it just starts up again. I need to kill it to install my Nvidia drivers Does anybody know how to kill it George x

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Microsoft bought antivirus technology from GeCAD
by Silviu Marin-Caea 13 Jun '03

13 Jun '03

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=3D9944 It wouldn't have to do with Linux if only GeCAD didn't produce a very complete line of antiviruses for *nix mailservers. And they were very good too, I use RAV for postfix on my linux mail servers. Now everything related to "antivirus" in GeCAD belongs to Microsoft. Which I think means death to all the *nix antivirus product line. Even if M$ doesn't explicitly terminate it, who wants to run M$ software on their Linux machine? This is unfortunate.

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What happened to the 'compose' keyboard feature?
by Steven T. Hatton 13 Jun '03

13 Jun '03

I need to be able to type the following without major obsticles. I spent dozens of hours getting this working in the past. It is no longer working. Can someone tell me how to get the compose keyboar back under 8.2? Þar stendr salr einn fagr undir askinum við brunninn, ok ór þeim sal koma þrjár meyjar, þær er svá heita: Urðr, Verðandi, Skuld. Þessar meyjar skapa mönnum aldr. Þær köllum vér nornir. Enn eru fleiri nornir, þær er koma til hvers barns, er borit er, at skapa aldr, ok eru þessar goðkunnigar, en aðrar álfa ættar, en inar þriðju dverga ættar, svá sem hér segir: Sundrbornar mjök segi ek at nornir vera, eigu-t þær ætt saman; sumar eru áskunngar, sumar eru álfkunngar, sumar dætr Dvalins." Steven

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Re: [SLE] NO X after video card change
by Constant Brouerius van Nidek 13 Jun '03

13 Jun '03

BF>Can you start X from the console? No. No X from console. What I get after startx is: There is no link /var/X11R6/bin/X to the correct X server binary. Please configure the correct X server with SaX/SaX2, which will create the missing link. I'm aborting now. BF>Type in '/usr/X11R6/bin/X' The X is a symbolic link to /var/X11R6/bin/X which is connected to the /usr/X11R6/bin/X86???? BF>That will start the server. You will see nothing but a BF>series of dots on the BF>screen, but it shows that your X server is working. To BF>stop it, log in at BF>another console and kill the process. No dots. BF>Then try 'startx > startlog' at the console. This BF>should fire up X and KDE. BF>if it doesn't, startlog will contain valuable clues. Gives the same result as '/usr/X11R6/bin/X' Finally the monitor stops receiving data and starts a sleeping phase. Using Sax2 also ends in a sleeping monitor after telling me: Initializing Please wait... startup No further action. So I think I have to do some editing but where? BF>On Friday 13 Jun 2003 14:07, Constant Brouerius van BF>Nidek wrote: BF>> Sorry for the repost but I did not get an answer so BF>here it BF>> goes. My video card, a Matrox G 200 went down and a BF>> replacement S3, Savage 4 was the replacement. BF>> During booting the new hardware was with the 8.1 BF>version BF>> recognised correctly and the XF86Config was changed BF>> accordingly with Yast2 in console. BF>> BF>> After reboot I ended up in console. The grafic login BF>did BF>> not work. Console works okay but X and KDE are out of BF>> reach. BF>> What should I do to get X back? -- " Every little BYTE helps " NTReader v0.36w(P)/Beta (Registered) in conjunction with Net-Tamer.

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Nagios web-showing problem ...
by magre 13 Jun '03

13 Jun '03

I had configured and installed Nagios, version 1.1(and plugins some time after). Everything installed fine, and I managed to check one computer in my network. I edited needed config-files, so ./nagios -v ../etc/nagios.cfg runs now without any errors. But - there is a web-type of showing, what he checked. What should I type in a line of a browser ? I ran configure with such parameters: --with-cgi-bin=/nagios/cgi-bin It is installed as usually in /usr/local/nagios What should I type, or what should i change to get html view of my check ? -- -- Jedis are alive --

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$MODEM not set and stdin not read/write
by Jerome Lyles 13 Jun '03

13 Jun '03

Hello, What do I do to fix this? SuSE Meta pppd (smpppd-ifcfg), Version 1.00 on orion. We are connecting. pppd: Plugin passwordfd.so loaded. pppd: --> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.42 pppd: --> Initializing modem. pppd: --> Sending: ATZ pppd: --> Sending: ATQ0 pppd: ATZ pppd: OK pppd: --> Re-Sending: ATZ pppd: ATE0 pppd: OK pppd: --> stdin not read/write and $MODEM not set pppd: Connect script failed We are disconnected. pppd died: Connect script failed (exit code 8) Thanks, Jerome

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Help with crontab & script
by Sean M Lentner 13 Jun '03

13 Jun '03

I have a script I use to check the state of machine, when I run it from the /jobtrig directory it runs fine as "root". When I add the entry to crontab as "root" using syntax crontab -e: # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (/tmp/crontab.9682 installed on Wed May 21 22:19:53 2003) # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $) #minute hour mday month wday command 00 23 * * * cd /jobtrig && sh sweeper > sdtrace.log <-- word wrapping in Outlook I get this in an email: ./sweep: sdsweep: command not found But when I do an "ls" on the /jobtrig directory I see all the files: drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 128 May 21 22:19 . drwxr-xr-x 25 0 0 656 May 21 22:18 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 0 Jun 12 23:00 sdtrace.log -rwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 15 May 21 22:18 sweep -rwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 860 May 21 22:18 sweeper What am I doing wrong? -Sean

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