October 2004 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

apt/ulb gnome
by boricua Orman 05 Oct '04

05 Oct '04

2? why if i did install ulb-gnome it still not running 2.8 why would -update and --check return the error below error: cannot get exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Operation not permitted (1) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm E: could not open RPM database

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basic shell signal question
by Brian Jackson 05 Oct '04

05 Oct '04

Hi- Think back to your shell programming days.... Ahh, the good times :) Ok, I'm trying to send a particular signal to a running process. I'm assuming that I use SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2. How do I go about configuring what those are signal values are in my shell script (bash in particular)? I don't need to do this in perl nor in C, but bash. I've dug on the net, but haven't been too successful, that and I don't have my UNIX Power Tools book with me right now. thanks, brian -- Brian Jackson Photo Sports ~ Editorial ~ People ~ Travel ~ Events http://www.BrianJacksonPhoto.com 650-218-5082

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dual boot suse 9.1 and XP
by Andrew Schuh 05 Oct '04

05 Oct '04

Sorry to bring up an often asked question, but I'm wondering about the best way to dual boot SUSE 9.1 and XP. I've previously used Redhat and Fedora (before Core 2) and in the past I've just installed GRUB/LILO to the MBR of my Windoze install. I'm a little wary concerning the issues that have been raised with dual booting the 2.6 kernel-based distributions and Windoze. Also my p4p800 doesn't have the option of LBA=enabled. I have two hard drives with Windoze on the first (80G primary)and I want SUSE on the second (20G slave). I tried installing GRUB to the MBR of hdb and then switching my boot order to make it first but it wouldn't boot that way. Any suggestions?

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SCSI ALLOW MEDIA REMOVAL
by Berge, Harry ten 05 Oct '04

05 Oct '04

Hi, Does anyone know how I can send a 'ALLOW/PREVENT MEDIA REMOVAL' command to a SCSI tape drive? Met vriendelijke groet / Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind Regards, H.J. ten Berge Test & Integration member of the HITT <mailto:createam-list@hitt.nl> CreaTeam HITT Traffic Oude Apeldoornseweg 41-45 P.O. Box 717 NL-7300 AS, APELDOORN The Netherlands Telephone +31-55-543 26 34 Fax +31-55-543 25 53 E-mail <mailto:berge@hitt.nl> berge(a)hitt.nl Internet <http://www.hitt-traffic.nl/> http://www.hitt-traffic.nl

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Yast
by Chris H 05 Oct '04

05 Oct '04

Greets; One of the features that was so much liked about Yast was the ability to point Yast to 'any' file system or ftp server, scan that resource and selectively install rpm packages from that source. Was wondering if that feature will ever be restored or any plans for that in the near future as it was a very handy and practical tool. Regards /ch

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passwords expire by themselves
by Heupink, Mourik Jan C. 05 Oct '04

05 Oct '04

dear list. I have search in various places, but cannot find the answer to these two, even though it sounds like very small things... first thing: i've just setup suse 9.1, ftp install. I've added some users, and and somehow, every morning when i try to logon with my user id, it says: password has expired, and i have to change it. (expiration date is set to somewhere in 2010... and yes, system time is current) (and it happened every morning for a week now) Could it have something to do with passwords being checked every night, and the system finding my password too weak? This is just a test setup, don't want to have difficult passwords in a test setup... And the other question: does anyone know the correct settings in putty to see nice lines in BOTH yast AND midnight commander? I can only get one of these two to work at the same time, can't find a setting that works for both of them. Searched internet, but only see people asking this same question... utf-8 works nicely for mc, for with yast i get characters like: qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq instead of horizontal line any clues? yours, mourik jan

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procmailrc
by C Hamel 05 Oct '04

05 Oct '04

Seems that no matter how I pharse the SuSE rule I cannot get the SuSE-list emails to go to the correct directory using procmail. I have tried different variations: To:.*suse-linux-e\@suse.com To:.*suse-linux-e To:.*suse.com ..all of which fail. Anyone care to share how they're doing it? Thanks. -- "Yogi" CH Namaste Yoga Studio

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Installation in Secondary Drive
by avt022＠student.uit.no 05 Oct '04

05 Oct '04

Hi, I originally tried to install SuSe 9.1 and Windows XP in the same hard drive (30 GB). But Yast didn't allow me to make the partitions in my drive. Win XP (NFTS) seemed to be occupying the whole disk... So I gave it a shot with only SuSe 9.1 in that drive for a couple of days (meaning I deleted the XP partition). But SuSe 9.1 gave me too much trouble with my hardware. I had gotten something working just before something else stopped functioning (sound card, video card, camera, printer, scanner...) I use too many hardware applications and I can't be too patient. I anyways want to give SuSe 9.1 a chance. Is it possible to install SuSe 9.1 in an external LaCie P2 hard drive that connects to my laptop through a USB cable? I'm thinking of buying such a hard drive, but only if Linux can be installed there. How does the computer boot into Linux then if I have Windows XP still in my main drive? Would this ruin something in Windows? Which steps should I follow to guarantee that I can switch with no problems between the main and external drive from one OS to the other? I need a step by step 'HowTo' on this. I don't consider trying to make the two systems share a drive... I have spent hours recovering XP and all of my files... I don't want to do that again! Thanks.

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Postfix question
by Bob S 05 Oct '04

05 Oct '04

Hello SuSE people, Have a question about Postfix. Back about the 9th or 10th I upgraded KDE to 3.3. That included Kmail which is my only e-mail program. The upgrade screwed up Kmail and I sent several messages which were refused by the server and remained in the outbox. Went looking and found that the outgoing SMTP was incorrect, changed it and resent my messages OK. Yesterday and today , while downloading my mail I received messages about undelivered mail from 5 or 6 days ago and was returned to me. These were evidently the messages I tried to send and failed. The question is: Does Postfix have anything to do with Kmail?? I don't know but would think not. With Spamassassin? And were the messages received by the server? even though it was stated that my messages were refused? and just now returned? and why if they had valid delivery addresses? Following is header source from one of the messages: ---------------------------------------- Received: from linux.local (pool-56.max4.marlowe.net [64.58.217.236] ) by SANCTUM.COM with ESMTP (IOA-IPAD 4.03g/96) id 75MX400 for <rnr(a)sanctum.com>; Sat, 18 Sep 2004 02:10:39 -0400 Received: by linux.local (Postfix) id F2B4023316; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 22:17:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 22:17:25 -0400 (EDT) From: MAILER-DAEMON(a)linux.local (Mail Delivery System) Subject: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender To: rnr(a)sanctum.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/report; report-type=delivery-status; boundary="3D54223317.1095473845/linux.local" Message-Id: <20040918021725.F2B4023316(a)linux.local> X-UID: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on linux.local X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.3 required=4.0 tests=DATE_IN_PAST_03_06 autolearn=no version=2.63 Status: R X-Status: NC X-KMail-EncryptionState: X-KMail-SignatureState: X-KMail-MDN-Sent: This is a MIME-encapsulated message. --3D54223317.1095473845/linux.local Content-Description: Notification Content-Type: text/plain This is the Postfix program at host linux.local. I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not be be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below. For further assistance, please send mail to <postmaster> If you do so, please include this problem report. You can delete your own text from the attached returned message. The Postfix program <Flashupgrades(a)esupport.com>: Host or domain name not found. Name service error for name=esupport.com type=MX: Host not found, try again --3D54223317.1095473845/linux.local Content-Description: Delivery report Content-Type: message/delivery-status Reporting-MTA: dns; linux.local X-Postfix-Queue-ID: 3D54223317 X-Postfix-Sender: rfc822; rnr(a)sanctum.com Arrival-Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 21:43:38 -0400 (EDT) Final-Recipient: rfc822; Flashupgrades(a)esupport.com Action: failed Status: 4.0.0 Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; Host or domain name not found. Name service error for name=esupport.com type=MX: Host not found, try again --3D54223317.1095473845/linux.local Content-Description: Undelivered Message Content-Type: message/rfc822 Received: from localhost (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by linux.local (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D54223317 for <Flashupgrades(a)esupport.com>; Sun, 12 Sep 2004 21:43:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Bob Stia <rnr(a)sanctum.com> To: "eSupport.com" <Flashupgrades(a)esupport.com> Subject: 3rd request - Please reply Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 21:43:35 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200409122143.35625.rnr(a)sanctum.com> Support, .......................<snip message>............. --3D54223317.1095473845/linux.local-- -------------------------------------------------- Would like to know about this and should I be disabling Postfix somehow? Bob S.

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changing defult browser, e-mail app
by Dennis J. Tuchler 05 Oct '04

05 Oct '04

Under SuSE 9.1 and XFCE4 (I have KDE and Gnome installed, but I use XFCE4) How do I change the default browser from Firefox to Opera How do I change the default e-mail app from Thunderbird to KMail? djtuchler

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