October 2004 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [SLE] Booting Problem
by Jerome Lyles 10 Oct '04

10 Oct '04

On Sunday 10 October 2004 10:07 am, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Jerome Lyles <susemail(a)hawaii.rr.com> [10-10-04 15:00]: > > Here I am willing and ready to go. > > Ok, first let's delete all quoted text that is not specifically > relevant. > > I believe that when you boot, your system halts in a text console (#1) > saying that the root filesystem is fscked and will mount read-only and > asks you for root password. > > am I on base here so far. Yes you are. The message is that fsck failed. Do you want me to respond on or off list? Jerome

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Re: [SLE] Kprinter "Print to file" directory
by James Knott 10 Oct '04

10 Oct '04

Branimir Vasilic wrote: >>I can change that line, but the next time, it's back to pointing to that >>one directory. That directory, is one I used for one specific purpose >>and I don't want most of my pdfs going there. > > > It seemed like it was a more nontrivial problem then just changing that > line :). I just tried grep -R print.pdf * on my .kde directory and got > nothing. > > >>I don't know how or why Kprinter decided to make that the default >>directory. > > > Unfortunately I'm out of ideas. I noticed that when you change it from a given > application it remembers your last entry for the output file but when you > restart the application it resets it back to print.pdf in your home > directory. > > Brana I found the file. It's .kde/share/config/kprinterrc and contains the line, that sets the default directory. tnx jk

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20 Most Critical Internet Security Vulnerabilities
by doc 10 Oct '04

10 Oct '04

The new 20 Most Critical Internet Security Vulnerabilities updated list just came out: http://www.sans.org/top20/ I was shocked to read the following on another list: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Big suprise that BIND is at the top of the UNIX list :P They even mentioned it by name unlike the horrible sendmail which they just lumped in with the other buggy mail programs. This proves once again that absolutely ANY DNS server is better than BIND. Even Microsoft's." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Are Sendmail and BIND as bad as he implies or do I take this as the grumblings of an uninformed person? Or is it just a matter of vulnerability only if one does not take proper care in the configuration phase? I find it hard to believe that anything MS produces may be secured to a superior level of a UNix/Linux app. -- Thanks! & 73, doc kd4e West Central Florida 100% Linux. Suse 9.1 Drake, Hallicrafters, Heathkit, TenTec, Yaesu Radio Life: http://www.gospelcom.net/twr/ Linux-Incompatible hardware is defective! USA Pres. Election 2004: http://www.rnc.org/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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mozilla
by Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) 10 Oct '04

10 Oct '04

Hi all, Is the number of messages 'received/sent/declared as spam' stored anywhere ie on a daily basis on Mozilla 1.4? I am looking for an alternative to entering the details into the spreadsheet when I connect. Purely out of interest I would like to see what sort of averages I have for messages received and spam therein. -- ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Currently using SuSE 9.0 Professional with KDE 3.1 Licenced Windows user ========================================================================

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Interesting experiment with thunderbird
by Jim Sabatke 10 Oct '04

10 Oct '04

I had one of those experimental urges, and pressed ctrl-L. A reply window popped up, but with no address filled in at all. I'm guessing they are preparing a reply-to-list function. Jim

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Locking Down NIC Speed
by Lucky Leavell 10 Oct '04

10 Oct '04

OS: SuSE 9.1 Pro Is there a way of locking the speed on a 10/100 card down to 10Mbs with SuSE? Thank you, Lucky Leavell

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Re: Re: [SLE] unsubscription
by Moussa Fall 10 Oct '04

10 Oct '04

I have the same problem. Tried everything but failed to unsubscribe. There should be a way that the admin manually unsubscribe people who wish to leave the list. > >The 2004-10-06 at 16:17 -0400, Allen wrote: > >> Well, when you sign up you are given an Email that tells you HOW to get away >> from the list. > >Now and then some people complain that they try (correctly), but don't get >unsubscribed. Then, they write to the admin, and they get no answer... so >they mail the list. > >I can not corroborate this - except that getting an answer from the admin >is becoming very dificult. Sometimes I have had to go to the feedback form >to get a response. > >-- >Cheers, > Carlos Robinson > > >-- >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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Re: [SLE] Booting Problem
by Jerome Lyles 10 Oct '04

10 Oct '04

On Friday 08 October 2004 05:37 pm, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote: > boot the first CD and run rescue. > you should run fsck.reiserfs and fix that partition. > > > cwsiv@linux:~> apropos reiser > reiserfsck (8) - checking tool for the ReiserFS filesystem > mkreiserfs (8) - create tool for the Linux ReiserFS file system > reiserfstune (8) - tunning tool for the ReiserFS filesystem > fsck.reiserfs (8) - checking tool for the ReiserFS filesystem > mkfs.reiserfs (8) - create tool for the Linux ReiserFS file system > resize_reiserfs (8) - resizer tool for the ReiserFS filesystem > debugreiserfs (8) - debugging tool for the ReiserFS filesystem > cwsiv@linux:~> man reiserfsck > Reformatting reiserfsck(8), please wait... > cwsiv@linux:~> man fsck.reiserfs > Reformatting fsck.reiserfs(8), please wait... > cwsiv@linux:~> > > If you cant get to the man page Ill try to send it to you. > > > CWSIV > > On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 16:23, Jerome Lyles wrote: > > I was following Carl Spitzer's advice concerning getting my firewire > > drive to let me write to it(It worked,thanks Carl). He also noticed that > > in my fstab I had my floppy and dvdrecorder devices under subfs and he > > suggested I add 'users' to the fs= part of the media under subfs,which I > > did using vim. But I still couldn't write to the floppy even though I > > owned it. So I decided to run SuSEconfig-no help. Then I decided to > > reboot and this has led to a serious problem for me. Thanks Carl for you're reply. This a problem I can only solve with the help of others or a clean install. As I reported in a later email I've run reiserfsck, reiserfsck --fix-fixable, reiserfsck --rebuild-tree, reiserfsck --rebuild-sb and e2fsck on the other filesystems-all in rescue mode. My filesystems have all been fixed according to e2fsck and reiserfsck. Mount lists my filesystem twice, my devices:/ folder is empty and I can't access the internet, but everything else works fine. I don't think the filesystems are the problem but I do want to take a look using debugreiserfsck, maybe I can find a clue. Right now I think my only option is to clean install and restore my home folder and whatever else I need--to save as much of my system as I can. I'm surprised that only you and Anders have responded. I had thought a problem like this would have been more popular on the list. If you like, check my other later emails on this thread, you might notice something that could help me out of this. You know what they say: 'Two minds are better than one' (most of the time):-) Thanks, Jerome

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Re: [SLE] new v9.2 is out
by peter Nikolic 10 Oct '04

10 Oct '04

On Saturday 09 Oct 2004 21:43, John Boyle wrote: > peter Nikolic wrote: > >On Saturday 09 Oct 2004 04:56, John Boyle wrote: > >>Randall R Schulz wrote: > >>>John, > >>> > >>>On Friday 08 October 2004 18:15, Allen wrote: > >>>>On Friday 08 October 2004 21:09, John Boyle wrote: > >>>>>.... > >>>>> > >>>>>>Too late - Netscape's dead. Oh, were we talking about SuSE? > >>>>>> > >>>>>>... > >>>>> > >>>>>To ALL: If Netscape's dead, then what am I replying to you on? > >>>>>Secondly, you cannot use IE on Linux, so which is it that is dead? I > >>>>>wish you people that keep on lying about Netscape or Mozilla, would > >>>>>just go away to stay on MSFT!!! >:o > >>>> > >>>>Actually, you can use IE on Linux with WINE. I've seen it. > >>> > >>>And actually, Netscape _is_ dead. Just 'cause Netscape (i.e., AOL) puts > >>>its name on Mozilla doesn't mean it's a distinct piece of software. > >>> > >>> > >>>Randall Schulz > >> > >>To Randall Schulz et al: AOL dropped out of Mozilla/Netscape a long time > >>ago, that is why the overal organization is called "Mozilla.org"! Why > >>not search for that sometime before any flame wars start? Which I hope > >>they have not, and I can say I use Netscape on both WIN98SE and SuSe > >>Linux 9.0! I have nothing with AOL associated with it! :-D > > > >Never mind all the argy bargy arguments folks how many have actuall > >committed to purchasing 9.2 in november ..?. > > > >pete. > > To Pete Nikolic: Arguements aside, when my Linux sig leader gets through > his demonstration of the product, of which he always buys the latest > version, and if it proves to be a landmark better version, then I will > consider it, regardless of browser!! :-) well as long as it NEVER comes with IE we will all be ok .. -- Linux user No: 256242 Machine No: 139931 G6NJR Pete also MSA registered "Quinton 11" A Linux Only area Happy bug hunting M$ clan, The time is here to FORGET that M$ Corp ever existed the world does not NEED M$ Corp the world has NO USE for M$ Corp it is time to END M$ Corp , Play time is over folks time for action approaches at an alarming pace the death knell for M$ Copr has been sounded . Termination time is around the corner ..

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?Deny port in a Hosts file
by scsijon 09 Oct '04

09 Oct '04

Can someone remind me what to do to deny a port using the hosts file please. I'm 400km from my manuals. thanks scsijon

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