October 2004 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Tabs in FireFox
by Darrell Cormier 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

I have just started using Firefox as my somewhat default browser in KDE. Is there a way to make Kmail open a new tab in Firefox instead of a new window when I click a link in an email. TIA, Darrell

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OT: Calculating 95th Percentile
by Neil White 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Sorry for the off topic post, but I cant think of anywhere else to ask about this. I have googled and failed to find any valid answers. I understand the principle of 95th percentile for bandwidth charging, but I dont get how it is monitored. Our bandwidth is provided through a Summit48 switch / router. We get given 1MB/s bursting to 2MB/s. Is this achieved by configuring our port on the switch/router to have a max speed of 2MB/s ? then querying the switch/router every 5 minutes for the current throughput ? I am just interested really - I dont have any experience with high end switches like the Summit. - Is it even possible to set a max bandiwdth on the switch's ports ? If I am off the mark here, can anyone point me at any info explaining how it is implemented. Thanks Whitey

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Hard drive limitations
by Synthetic Cartoonz 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Stupid question time. I could not find anything related in the FAQ or the hardware database online. Is the 128G (or 137G if you count like a hard drive manufacturer) ATA hard drive limitation a problem with the interface hardware or the software driver? So, if I get a 250G hard drive can I expect SuSE 9.2 to be able to use all of it? On the assumption this is an interface problem is there a list of supported ATA interfaces/chipsets that SuSE 9.2 can use? Thanks Ken Jennings

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Real World
by Aaron Bridge 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Is anyone using 9.x pro for any mission critical situations? How have they been performing? Is Microsoft mixed in also?

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Firewall Script (Not using NAT)
by Neil White 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

I have been asked by my boss to firewall a server that we have down in a datacentre, but I am a bit lost as to where to start. I have looked on the internet for sample scripts but they all seem to be related to people running NAT based firewalls. I simply need a script that will restrict access to certain ports and services, and block everything else. Can anyone point me in the direction of some sample scripts that I can look at to learn / adapt to my use ? Thanks Whitey

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network start fails on boot
by Patrick Shanahan 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

About eight months ago I installed SuSE 9.0 Pro on a friend's XP machine on a newly added hard drive as dual boot, with linux default. My friend is *not* what you would call computer literate. I directed him to some beginning linux courses on the web and gave him my 9.0 manuals to read/referrrence. He has slowly become about 75 per cent linux user, booting windoz only for streaming media that we cannot seem to make work in linux. A couple of days ago, he booted windoz for an hour and returned to linux to find that he could not access the net. Previous he had had no problems accessing his cable connection thru a router. I ran ifconfig and it only showed lo, so I ran 'rcnetwork start' and ifconfig showed lo and eth0. Access to the net was restored. I ran yast2 to check that network was enabled in runlevels 2,3,5. It was. Rebooted to see if the network would start normally and again, the network did not start. rcnetwork start restored net access. Knoppix and the SuSE 9.2 Live CD both provide net access w/o user intervention. I do not know what else to check, suggestions welcome. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/photos

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NTP Server - US Daylight Savings Time
by Ann Hopkins 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I always tell myself that I need to write down how I solve this problem twice a year, but I either lose what I wrote or I just forget. I run an ntp server for the pc's connected to my home network. When daylight savings times rolls around I get errors about too large a difference to change the time. How would I fix this? The best I can remember was I had to reboot the server and go into CMOS to change the time. Thanks. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBhHqNhs7JGk93PT0RAqY4AJ4m/h2FDIY/9aEp9F6HI663ivyFMwCfWyMu fsg6Yv3PE59U88XUcwomNCs= =0V2a -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Burnatonce or equlivalent for Linux
by Peter B Van Campen 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Hi, Has anyone enough experience with burning DVDs on Linux to tell us if there is anything like Burnatonce for us. I have used Burnatonce on XP with CDs but have never used it for DVDs. I note that burnatonce used a "plugin" called ProDVD which requires a Free Non-Commercial Lic key from Frauhofer. I would love to hear your sucess stories about writing and copying DVDs. PeterB -- Using SUSE since 5.2 Loving SUSE 9.1 Pro My Blog: http://vancampen.org/blog --

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[SLE] Boot Log status indicators
by Ted Hilts 31 Oct '04

31 Oct '04

Please confirm: 0 status in boot log means success and the deamon is actually running? In other words there is no reasons to expect it to stop running? If so they why would the deamon not show up on a "ps -A" unless it has stopped running? I have this happen with portmap. Would it be correct to assume that if "ps -A" cannot see the deamon running then it is NOT running? I have this happen with portmap. 1 status is a failure to run because of a dependecny failure. I have this happen with processes that portmap works with such as ypserv, ypbind, nfsserver, etc., and this results in failed servcies (nfs, smbfs, autofs all of which require portmap) in runlevel 5. 6 status is failure of the deamon to execute I don't know the others (2,3,4,5, and 7) The comments in the config files provide a short definition for status values and I assume they apply universally? Ted

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xntp???
by Darrell Cormier 31 Oct '04

31 Oct '04

I am trying to change which server is used by xntp to get time. in my /etc/ntp.conf I have changed the following lines: ## ## Outside source of synchronized time ## ## server xx.xx.xx.xx # IP address of server server ntp-uh.usno.navy.mil TO: ## ## Outside source of synchronized time ## ## server xx.xx.xx.xx # IP address of server server now.cis.okstate.edu BUT, when I try to do a restart on xntp it is still trying to use the old server: # ./xntpd stop Shutting network time protocol daemon (NTPD) done # ./xntpd start Try to get initial date and time via NTP from ntp-uh.usno.navy.milError : Name or service not known failed Starting network time protocol daemon (NTPD) done Anyone know how to make this use the new server for time/date lookup???? BTW, I have also tried with the I.P. address of the new server and that doesn't work either. Thanks, Darrell

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