January 2004 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [SLE] xhost, su, and sudo (REPOST)
by Mark Gray 03 Jan '04

03 Jan '04

"Paul W. Abrahams" <abrahams(a)acm.org> writes: > On Friday 02 January 2004 1:37 pm, Alexandr Malusek wrote: >> Forget about "xhost +localhost". Use "sux" instead of "su" and you won't >> need the dangerous xhost. ("man xhost" will give you more info.) > > Interesting - my system has xhost (as most do!) but no manpage for xhost. > > Is there a version of "sudo" that avoids the need for "xhost +localhost"? You should have no need for xhost +localhost when you use sudo. The command will run with the same $HOME as the original login and uses the same .Xauthority file ($DISPLAY also remains the same.)

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My wlan does not get IP from DHCP
by Roberto 03 Jan '04

03 Jan '04

Good Morning from Chicago! I have been trying to install a wireless network for a while under suse 9 pro, that I bought a few weeks ago. I'm having trouble getting my wireless card working. I had it working on madrake using madwifi drivers. In any case after trying madwifi (downloaded and the one that comes in the system), I never got and IP trough dhcp, nor I would be able to connect setting the parameters manually. So, I've decided to try linuxant driverloader with the same success rate, everything works card gets recognize, I can " iwlist wlan0 scan " and check my environment, iwconfig shows my card properly connected, and ifconfig shows my card, but without IP address: wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:41:AD:D3:21 UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:7 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) this is my ifcfg_wlan0: BOOTPROTO='static' MTU='' REMOTE_IPADDR='' STARTMODE='onboot' DHCLIENT_MODIFY_RESOLV_CONF='yes' DHCLIENT_SET_DEFAULT_ROUTE='yes' DHCLIENT_PRIMARY_DEVICE='yes' UNIQUE='' WIRELESS_ESSID='OhrockNet' WIRELESS_KEY='' WIRELESS_MODE='Ad-hoc' WIRELESS_NICK='' WIRELESS_NWID='' I also tried setting the mode as Managed, same result. I read somewhere that ISC dhclient worked better that dhcpcd, so I did try changing them, if exactly the same result. I also went out and bought a different card with a different chipset supported by linuxant driveloader, and to my dismay I got to the same point. I think that this is something related to suse...but I don't know where to look of how to troubleshoot the problem any further. Any suggestions, advise, etc will be more than welcome. Roberto

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[SLE] TCP / IP Printing
by fareed＠iplex.co.zw 03 Jan '04

03 Jan '04

Dear list, To achieve the above I used ICE.TCP on SCO Openserver 5.0.x and it worked wonders. It comes with a application called ICELPD which listens to port 2346. When a user sends a print to the printer its executes a printer interface script, example printermodel.scr. The *.scr creates a file-file stores it in /usr/tmp. Client gets it via port 2346 and it prints locally. I've got the ICELP printing deamon for Linux working. My question is where do I place the script file. You could possibly call the script file a driver? In SUSE it asks for a ppd file and does not recognise *.scr. I've check in /usr/share/cups/model Perhaps someone can recommend something? Perhaps even a diffrent solution totally? I use the ICE.TCP printing solution for speed. Its very very fast. Check out www.jriver.com Thanks Fred

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Network Printing Problems ???
by W.D.MCKinney 03 Jan '04

03 Jan '04

Hey, Awhile back someone posted some line by line help for getting a network printer up and running via cups. I had to re-install my worksation (9.0) and now the HP LaserJet 5M acts like it's going to print but nada. Tried searching the archives with no success. Anyone ? Thanks, Dee

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Boot messages
by BandiPat 03 Jan '04

03 Jan '04

Can someone tell me about this? I am getting this in my bootup and wondering why and what it is and if it can be stopped? ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide appears about 65 times, once it begins from the excerpt shown below. I haven't been able to track it down yet or determine if it can be stopped. You'll notice I get it earlier, then the cdrom thing, then 65 of them again. Doesn't seem to be a problem, as the system and all drives work well, so just guessing it is being generated from something odd? <6>ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide <4>hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver. <6>hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache <6>Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 <6>cdrom: open failed. <6>ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide <6>ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide <6>ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide <6>ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide Thoughts, solutions? Lee -- --- KMail v1.5.4 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.0 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...

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Tracking down Martian Source
by Dylan 03 Jan '04

03 Jan '04

Hi all, My gateway has started logging martian source packets. They have Jan 3 01:19:13 mordor kernel: martian source 192.168.250.3 from 192.168.250.251, on dev eth1 Jan 3 01:19:13 mordor kernel: ll header: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:08:c7:fa:ed:6f:08:06 Jan 3 01:21:26 mordor kernel: martian source 192.168.250.1 from 192.168.250.251, on dev eth1 Jan 3 01:21:26 mordor kernel: ll header: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:08:c7:fa:ed:6f:08:06 192.168.250.0/24 is my LAN, and eth1 on the gateway is 192.168.250.251, so it looks like the gateway is sending packets to itself with incorrect source address. The mac address for the gateway's eth1 is contained in the ll header line. The source is only ever the IP of a machine which is currently running, never a powered down one, or an IP which isn't present on the LAN. I have tried watching the log while using the client machines, but can't see a link between my activity and the bad packets. They occur approximately every 20 minutes, and are often followed by: Jan 3 00:59:06 mordor kernel: SuSE-FW-DROP-DEFAULT IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:60:94:6b:e5:ee:00:80:ad:ba:b2:c8:08:00 SRC=194.164.127.4 DST=10.0.0.12 LEN=76 TOS=0x10 PREC=0x00 TTL=248 ID=213 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=123 DPT=123 LEN=56 (10.0.0.12 is the IP of the gateway's external interface - eth0 - connected to my ADSL router) Looks like an NTP connection attempt? I use ntp here from 194.164.127.4 (ntp0.sandvika.net) but don't know why the server would be trying to make a connection to me. Cheers for any hints, info or pointers to tracking this down... Dylan -- Sweet moderation Heart of this nation Desert us not We are between the wars - Billy Bragg

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RE: [SLE] Dir command question...
by Dalziel, Josh 03 Jan '04

03 Jan '04

Its so user that have never used Linux before can move from the MS world a little easier. -----Original Message----- From: Paul Cooke To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Sent: 1/2/2004 3:46 PM Subject: [SLE] Dir command question... Why with 'dir' existing in /usr/bin as a program coming from the Gnu coreutils, is there also an alias aliasing 'dir' to "ls -l"??? "alias dir='ls -l'" is in the alias list... with the coreutils, surely the alias is surplus to requirements??? Also, how can it be removed from the aliases? technical question... If I were to type 'dir', which would actually get executed??? the alias to the ls -l command or the 'dir' program? -- 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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Kernel 2.6
by Örn Hansen 02 Jan '04

02 Jan '04

Does anyone know if there's a kernel 2.6 release for SuSE available somewhere, as an rpm package preferrable or patches to fit SuSE ? Mvh, Örn

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Re: [SLE] Audigy Rear Speakers
by Mark Gray 02 Jan '04

02 Jan '04

Pacheco Jason NPRI <PachecoJ(a)Npt.NUWC.Navy.Mil> writes: > In SuSE 9.0, do the EMU10K1 drivers support all of the speaker > configurations that the sound cards handle? I have an Audigy2 > ZS, but I had the same problem with my Audigy Xgamer. I cannot > figure out how to get the rear speakers on. Everything works > fine in windows, so I know it's not a hardware issue. Is there > a setting somewhere. Using alsamixer, you need to adjust the "Wave Surround" setting.

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Re: [SLE] Running RealPlayer binary
by Alexandr Malusek 02 Jan '04

02 Jan '04

Jim Sabatke <jsabatke(a)execpc.com> writes: > >Forget about "xhost +localhost". Use "sux" instead of "su" and you > >won't need the dangerous xhost. ("man xhost" will give you more > >info.) > > > Unless you need it, like I do for some KOffice development. Are you really sure you need host-based access control in X? Actually, I hope this mechanism will be removed from the "production" version of X in the future since too many people use it without knowing how insecure it is. People think Linux is safer than MS-Windows but they don't realize there are many old concepts in Linux which, if not used cautiously, can make the system very insecure (telnet, ftp, .rhosts based authentication, NFS, ...) -- A.M.

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