November 2004 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

User automagically logging in ?
by Gerard ter Beke 06 Nov '04

06 Nov '04

Hello all, Still quite new to Linux, but learning every single day. I have four users on my system (Suse 9.1 on AMD 64 3200+). One of the users is automatically logged on as soon as i start the 'puter. Even though i specifically told it (through YAST) to not start with a specific user. Any ideas which file i should examine to see what is happening ? Regards, Gerard ter Beke

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.bat in SuSE
by John N. Alegre 06 Nov '04

06 Nov '04

Is there a way to run .bat files under SuSE linux without using and Windows emulator? john

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Re: [SLE] firefox interface font woes
by Donn L Washburn 06 Nov '04

06 Nov '04

Hi Group; It is curious to me why people insist on using RPMs. Just simply download it from the Mozilla source and install it. "www.mozilla.org" They normally come with a very nice install.sh. install.sh is a custom build install script to run in a XWindow Managers which allows you to install the file anywhere. Best of all they come from the people that supply the source files. On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 20:38:04 -0500 Patrick Shanahan <paka(a)wahoo.no-ip.org> wrote: > * Henry Harpending <harpend(a)xmission.com> [11-04-04 19:50]: >> Changing DPI fixed it by half. A new profile fixed it. > > MozillaFirefox_0.12-1_i586.rpm > > rpm -qi MozillaFirefox > > Name : MozillaFirefox Relocations: (not >relocateable) > Version : 0.12 Vendor: SuSE Linux >AG, Nuernberg, Germany > Release : 1 Build Date: Thu 04 Nov >2004 03:10:33 AM EST > Install date: Thu 04 Nov 2004 01:17:09 PM EST Build Host: >ivanova.suse.de > Group : Productivity/Networking/Web/Browsers Source RPM: >MozillaFirefox-0.12-1.src.rpm > Size : 23930014 License: MPL/GPL > Signature : DSA/SHA1, Thu 04 Nov 2004 03:46:08 AM EST, Key ID >1b1ac7a971423d59 > Packager : http://www.suse.de/feedback > URL : http://www.mozilla.org/ > Summary : The OpenSource version of the Netscape browser > Description : > Originally based on the Netscape Navigator source, the Mozilla >project > grew to the and most advanced webbrowser currently available. > It supports new techniques like CSS2, MathML, (SVG), XML, >transparent > PNGs and its look is fully themeable. > Distribution: SuSE Linux 9.0 (i586) > > > -- > 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 > > -- > 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 > > 73 de Donn Washburn aka N5XWB

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"provider settings" not "modem detection"!
by Bahram Alinezhad 06 Nov '04

06 Nov '04

(SuSE 9.1 running KDE 3.2.1) Every time I go for changing my internet provider settings, YaST starts to detect modems and the mouse stops working. It is not very bad problem (because is solved by logout/login). It may be good to consider in newer versions (distinguishing between "provider settings" and "modem detection"). My modem is ISA non-pnp on COM3. My mouse is serial on COM2. Thank you for your notice, Bahram Alinezhad, Rudehen, Tehran, Iran. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com

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Re: [SLE] Web Site editor in SuSE 9.2?
by DC Parris 06 Nov '04

06 Nov '04

---------- Original Message ------------- Subject: Re: [SLE] Web Site editor in SuSE 9.2? Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 21:35:15 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Lars_Nor=E9n?= <lars.noren(a)mbox321.swipnet.se> To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com At least in Pro version: Bluefish (http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/) NVU (http://www.nvu.com/) But i prefer Gedit+Epiphany :-) /Lars Jerry Westrick wrote: > Hello all... > > Anybody know what options I have to create webpages on SuSE 9.2? > > > Jerry > -- DC Parris Matheteuo Christian Fellowship webdev(a)matheteuo.org http://matheteuo.org/ Free software is like God's love - you can share it with anyone anywhere anytime!

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Gnome Kdesu Equivilient
by Simon Taplin 06 Nov '04

06 Nov '04

In Gnome 2.4/2.8 is there an equivilient app to the kdesu command? Thanks Simon _____________________________________________________________________ For super low premiums ,click here http://www.dialdirect.co.za/quote

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Determing IP address
by Paul Ryan 06 Nov '04

06 Nov '04

How can I determing the IP address of a server, when I use ping and then the ftp:// address I get the response unknown host.

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qemu and suse kernel
by Marc Collin 06 Nov '04

06 Nov '04

hi i would like to use qemu in fast mode to do it, we need a patched kernel we can read that here: http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/qemu-doc.html#SEC23 somebody have a kernel 2.6.5.-7.111.... with this modification? somebody can do it for me or explain me step by step how to do it? thanks -- La boîte à prog http://www.laboiteaprog.com

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Gnome 2.8
by Simon Taplin 06 Nov '04

06 Nov '04

I've finally managed to get Gnome 2.8 installed on my system after struggling to get apt to work. Now its all installed as far as I can see but I can't get into it. By this I mean when I try choose which Windows Manager to use (KDE, Gnome, etc). I can log into Gnome but it just kicks me straight back out. I assume I need to change a config file somewhere. Simon _____________________________________________________________________ For super low premiums ,click here http://www.dialdirect.co.za/quote

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Re: [SLE] USB disk problem
by Silvio Moioli 06 Nov '04

06 Nov '04

silvio@linux:~> cat /etc/fstab /dev/md0 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1 /dev/hda2 /boot ext2 acl,user_xattr 1 2 /dev/md1 /home reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2 /dev/hda1 /windows/C vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=utf8 0 0 /dev/hdc1 swap swap pri=42 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0 /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 00 /dev/dvdram /media/dvdram subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0 /dev/sda1 /media/usbdisk vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,exec,sync 0 0 As you can see I'm using /media/usbdisk. Hope someone has ideas... Thanks very much for the help anyway, S.

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So who's shipping now
by Robert Cunningham 06 Nov '04

06 Nov '04

Well I'll tell you I am bummed I Ordered a copy from Amazon 2 weeks ago on a preorder they said it will ship around the 11 of Nov., I checked back today and they pushed it back to the 18 and beyond. But you go to the order site and the say it is currently available and is shipping. I have had this problem with them before, It seems the ones that preorder have designated copies that are shipped when they come in from the factory and the ones who order after them get the ones in stock a lot sooner. So I canceled my order and ordered it from buy.com they are predicting that I will get it by Nov 9th BoB C >On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 14:52:34 -0600, Joe Morris (NTM) <joe_morris(a)ntm.org> wrote: >> David Krider wrote: >> > >>> > I've seen lots of messages that people are getting it. Are these >>> > hit-and-miss, or are tier-1 suppliers shipping 9.2 (update) as of >>> > right now? The SuSE shop doesn't indicate that they are shipping, nor >>> > does Amazon. > >> >> Mine just arrived from Amazon. I'm in Wisconsin. >> >>

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Re: [SLE] dma_timer_expiry weirdness with SUSE LINUX 9.2.
by Martin Moeller 06 Nov '04

06 Nov '04

On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 19:34:41 -0600, Donn Washburn <n5xwb(a)hal-pc.org> wrote: > ? are you using the 80 IDE cable? Try hdparm --help and see if it will > tell you anything. Also what file system are you using. I have heard > reiser may give you problems. But after about 5 years of reiser as the > main file sytem type - no problem. > > also check " /usr/sbin/smartctl " > Unfortunately the problem show up even before the disk is partitioned so filesystems have little to do with it. Yes, I'm using the 80 cable and most of my partitions are reiserfs, but the problem manifests itself way before we get to filesystem level. The 'funny' thing is that linux 2.4.x doesn't have this issue, although I have not yet run tests in that environment, I think. Maybe of no consequence, but one of the connectors on the disk is 'half-height' and can be moved back and both about half a millimetre. No clue as to why.... /Martin.

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dma_timer_expiry weirdness with SUSE LINUX 9.2.
by Martin Moeller 06 Nov '04

06 Nov '04

Hi all. Recently my harddisks in an older system have seemed to fail or be close to failing and I decided to splash on a new disk, just in case. However, now I get some very annoying timeout messages during startup of the above mentioned variety (dma_timer_expiry) typically followed by either 0x21, 0x61 or 0x41 as the 'error'. Nothing much of relevance shows up in google searches. I tried booting PartitionMagic just to see if this is Linux only and there were no delays for Partition Magic (DOS version). I then tried a 2.4 kernel KNOPPIX boot. Also no problems (or maybe it's just not smart enough to know there should be any?). The weird thing is that afterwards the drives function well enough and at full DMA speed (typically UDMA5 or UDMA6). Can anyone explain to me why 2.6 kernels (at least 2.6.8/2.6.8.1) does this and if I can prevent it in some way? I've tried turning APIC on and off, using idewait=50 and such. I have not tried ide=nodma, since I *want* DMA :). PS: It's the exact same thing with Yoper. The new disk is a Hitachi DeskStar 7K250 160 GB disk. After setting both this and the previous disk on 80 connector cables, both exhibit this behaviour. Jumpers are set correctly. Cabling is correct, according to tech docs at Hitachi Storage homepage.... Anyone? /Martin.

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LPRng and Mozilla - printing problem
by Zvone Zagar 06 Nov '04

06 Nov '04

Hi! I use SuSE 9.1 on two machines. Today I have found an interesting issue. I cannot print from Mozilla (regardless of version), FireFox or Opera (including version 7.54 from opera.com) if I use LPRng. Using CUPS there is no problem. But Netscape 7.1 and Konqueror don't complain. In /var/log/messages is an entry: Dispatch_input: bad request line 'POST /HTTP/1.1'. If I start printing the named browsers stop. In Mozilla I tried the 'old' print command lpr -Pprinter. The result is the same. As soon as I activate the print command, Mozilla stops responding. When I run 'rcldp restart' the browser responds again. I must say that under SuSE 9.0 everything is OK. Printing from CLI , OpenOffice.org and other applications presents no problem. I would appreciate any clue. Regards Zvone Zagar

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RE: [SLE] boot to command line ???
by Paul Agner 06 Nov '04

06 Nov '04

once i get on my old hard drives.... can anyone suggest a good way to pull the MYSQL database to safety? Something that will import into the new database...

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RE: [SLE] boot to command line ???
by Paul Agner 06 Nov '04

06 Nov '04

Thanks for the answers all! -----Original Message----- From: Richard [mailto:ratcheson@earthlink.net] Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 4:52 PM To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] boot to command line ??? On Friday 05 November 2004 05:37 pm, Paul Agner wrote: > Hi All, > I had an older installation of suse 8.1 crash on me. I am no longer able > to boot into the gui. > > It goes as far as the login screen, and just before the login window > appears, it freezes. > > My question is. How can i boot in text only mode? I did it the other day > by accident, and was able to CD around on the hard drives .... I > desperately need to get the data off this machine as it was a server When your first boot screen appears, press a key then in the line near the bottom of the screen, insert init 3 and hit enter. I t should boot into level three from there. RA -- Old age ain't for Sissies! -- 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] boot to command line ???
by Paul Agner 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

type "init 3" <enter> is that what i should put in option at the boot screen? rather than root=/dev.... does that mean run level 3 ? thanks, Paul -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Shanahan [mailto:paka@wahoo.no-ip.org] Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 3:50 PM To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] boot to command line ??? * Paul Agner <paul.agner(a)consumerinfo.com> [11-05-04 18:40]: > > My question is. How can i boot in text only mode? I did it the other > day by accident, and was able to CD around on the hard drives .... I > desperately need to get the data off this machine as it was a server... When the boot screen displays, type "init 3" <enter> -- 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 -- 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] boot to command line ???
by Paul Agner 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

Good idea about the live cd... My 8.1 has a rescue disk on the installer cd1 , but it hangs when "searching for isofile" or something to that extent.. I was going to install another hard drive with a fresh copy of linux and then try to copy my files over... the live cd is brilliant .. i hope it works! -Paul -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Shanahan [mailto:paka@wahoo.no-ip.org] Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 3:50 PM To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] boot to command line ??? * Paul Agner <paul.agner(a)consumerinfo.com> [11-05-04 18:40]: > > My question is. How can i boot in text only mode? I did it the other > day by accident, and was able to CD around on the hard drives .... I > desperately need to get the data off this machine as it was a server... When the boot screen displays, type "init 3" <enter> -- 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 -- 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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Doesn't ANYONE use SCSI CD-ROM's?
by David Krider 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

I think I've lost more time to this cotton-pickin' "resmgr" than any other problem in Linux. Once again, with this new version (9.2), I have to sort out why programs like Grip and sound-juicer can't read from my SCSI CD-ROM. Now, mind you, Grip can read the CD, and lookup the info in the CDDB, but I can't actually, you know, READ IT for actually playing the CD or ripping from it. Explain that one to me. Apparently, I'm the only mortal on the planet who has an actual, real-life SCSI CD-ROM. Because this problem has existed ever since SuSE decided to start using this infernal "resmgr" software. I've once again hacked up /etc/resmgr.conf, restarted the daemon, and as root done both ``resmgr logout <user>'' and ``resmgr login <user> :0''. As my user, I can see: rws- /dev/cdrom rws- /dev/cdrom11 rw-p /dev/dvd rws- /dev/sr0 rws- /dev/sr1 Which shows that I *ought* to have read-write access to my SCSI CD-ROM, my SCSI CD-RW, my IDE DVD ($10 after rebate!), and the base SCSI devices pointed to by the /dev/cdrom and /dev/cdrom11 devices. I've even got this on the actual device: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov 2 18:43 /dev/cdrom -> sr0 brw------- 1 david disk 11, 0 Oct 2 03:38 /dev/sr0 I'm at a loss. Again. Can anyone out there tell me how many chickens I'm going to have to sacrifice before resmgr lets me access my hardware? And just to head it off early, yeah, I can rip a CD from the IDE DVD, but this same problem is also preventing me from burning discs with K3B. Thanks, dk

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OOPS! Re: [SLE] NVIDIA Driver Won't Load On Kernel 2.6.9
by Steven Pasternak 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

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[Fwd: OOPS! Re: [SLE] NVIDIA Driver Won't Load On Kernel 2.6.9]
by Steven Pasternak 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

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inet6 addr=YES; inet addr=NO
by Ed Harrison 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

I know that this has been asked before, but I cannot find it in the archives. ifconfig says that my PCMCIA network card (3Com 575) has an inet6 addr, but no inet addr. I am behind a linksys router that doesn't do inet 6 addresses. What is the solution? Ed Harrison

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NVIDIA Driver Won't Load On Kernel 2.6.9
by Steven Pasternak 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

I use SuSE 9.1 and upgraded to kernel-2.6.9. The only patch that I applied was a bootsplash patch. I was sick of : 1. Bootsplash patch not working properly 2. CD burning problem 3. other annoyances with kernel 2.6.8/2.6.8.1 The botsplash patch applied nicely and everything works great except the NVIDIA driver. I compile my own because I want a newer version than YaST offers. When I compile it, It has no precompiled interface - like 2.6.8 (When I first got it) , none on 'ftp.nvidia.com' - like 2.6.8 , but can't build its own properly - unlike 2.6.8. I get this error: ERROR: Unable to load the kernel module 'nvidia.ko'. This is most likely because the kernel module was built (I think some of it got cut off there, sorry) I built it in /usr/src/linux with 'make menuconfig', 'make', make modules_install', and 'make install' I am currently using the 'nv' driver for X. What is wrong?

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postfix update?
by Carlos E. R. 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Previously, at ftp.suse....people/choeger, we could find postfix 2.1 updates - but only for suse 8.2, 9.0, and sles 8 and 9 - 9.1 is not included. I had assumed he had done it, without really checking till now. Is somebody else perhaps doing it? There is not a postfix directory under .../projects, either. I'm interested because now and then, postfix-2.0.19_20040312-11 (suse 9.1) stalls, stopping accepting any connections, in the middle of a dial-up transfer. I have to restart it, and then continues working quite happily, till next reboot. This behaviour had stopped, but it has sudenly started to do it again. So, I'm interested - not so much as to compile it myself, because in two weeks I hope to update to suse 9.2. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFBi8HItTMYHG2NR9URAlgFAJ0UrGIFBUVT7rScKZYOqeHTLEGVvQCgj+eM EwclNuSmybwIq0CbiNnELzs= =6Iza -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Apt GUI Question
by Simon Taplin 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

Is it possible to pass the --no-checksig option to kynaptic or synaptic. Either that or which rpmkey do I need to install to get MPlayer? Simon

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Web Site editor in SuSE 9.2?
by Jerry Westrick 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

Hello all... Anybody know what options I have to create webpages on SuSE 9.2? Jerry

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9.2 missing HTML packages?
by thom＠tendata.com 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

I just got my 9.2 from Germany last night. So far so good other than NVIDIA requiring a few installs. I can't seem to find the HTML editors in yast install software. They should be here: Productivity/Publishing/HTML/editors according to the package listing on SuSE web site, but I can't find them (bluefish, NVU, etc) nor are they on the disks. anybody else have this problem? thanks Thom Nuzum

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RE: [SLE] So who's shipping now
by Cleary_Mike＠emc.com 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

I ordered mine from buy.com last Friday (10/29), and it was delivered this Wednesday morning (11/3). :) They were quicker than predicted... Mike ------------------------------- Cleary_Mike(a)emc.com ------------------------------- A wink is as good as a nod to a blind horse. -----Original Message----- From: Robert Cunningham [mailto:rcunning@kettering.edu] Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 2:16 PM To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: [SLE] So who's shipping now Well I'll tell you I am bummed I Ordered a copy from Amazon 2 weeks ago on a preorder they said it will ship around the 11 of Nov., I checked back today and they pushed it back to the 18 and beyond. But you go to the order site and the say it is currently available and is shipping. I have had this problem with them before, It seems the ones that preorder have designated copies that are shipped when they come in from the factory and the ones who order after them get the ones in stock a lot sooner. So I canceled my order and ordered it from buy.com they are predicting that I will get it by Nov 9th BoB C >On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 14:52:34 -0600, Joe Morris (NTM) <joe_morris(a)ntm.org> wrote: >> David Krider wrote: >> > >>> > I've seen lots of messages that people are getting it. Are these >>> > hit-and-miss, or are tier-1 suppliers shipping 9.2 (update) as of >>> > right now? The SuSE shop doesn't indicate that they are shipping, nor >>> > does Amazon. > >> >> Mine just arrived from Amazon. I'm in Wisconsin. >> >> -- 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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Windows backups to a Linux server
by jalal 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

I have a client who is using Windows XP and wants to backup his files (preferably automatically) to my Linux server. Normally in Linux I would suggest rsync, or tar/gzip/ftp or similar solutions But what would work under Windows? Does Windows have a shell and shell tools? I suspect not. And this is not a computer guru anyway. Anyone have any experience and/or solutions in this area? TIA jalal -- GPG fingerprint = 3D45 5509 D380 26A4 523E A9D8 A66A 5F38 CA43 BB0E

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signcode.exe and more
by Donn Washburn 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

Hey UNIX Group; In this very fresh version of SuSE 9.2 guess what I found in /usr/bin? signcode.exe Yes .exe What the heck is a .exe doing in a /usr/bin directory? To add more to the list /usr/bin> ls -l *.exe -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25600 2004-10-01 21:08 al.exe -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 2004-10-01 21:08 cert2spc.exe -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15360 2004-10-01 21:08 certmgr.exe -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9728 2004-10-01 21:08 chktrust.exe -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18432 2004-10-01 21:08 cilc.exe -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10240 2004-10-01 21:08 disco.exe -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30208 2004-10-01 21:08 gacutil.exe -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4608 2004-10-01 21:08 genxs.exe -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 325632 2004-10-01 21:08 ilasm.exe -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20480 2004-10-01 21:08 MakeCert.exe -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2004-10-01 21:08 mono-find-provides.exe -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2004-10-01 21:08 mono-find-requires.exe -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22528 2004-10-01 21:08 monop.exe -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22016 2004-10-01 21:08 monoresgen.exe -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10240 2004-10-01 21:08 secutil.exe -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10240 2004-10-01 21:08 setreg.exe -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11264 2004-10-01 21:08 signcode.exe -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29184 2004-10-01 21:08 sn.exe -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15360 2004-10-01 21:08 soapsuds.exe -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49152 2004-10-01 21:08 sqlsharp.exe -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 54784 2004-10-01 21:08 wsdl.exe -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20992 2004-10-01 21:08 xsd.exe file xsd.exe xsd.exe: MS Windows PE 32-bit Intel 80386 console executable Say What? -- 73 de Donn Washburn __" http://www.hal-pc.org/~n5xwb " Ham Callsign N5XWB / / __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 307 Savoy St. / /__ / / / \/ / / /_/ / \ \/ / Sugar Land, TX 77478 /_____/ /_/ /_/\__/ /_____/ /_/\_\ LL# 1.281.242.3256 Dump Microsoft Software - Stop virus email Email: n5xwb(a)hal-pc.org " http://counter.li.org " #279316

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Full sound in XINE?
by Eric Scott 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

Yo; I'm playing DVD's with xine on SuSE 9.1 Personal. I get a little background music and misc sounds, but no voice at all. Any help? Thanx; ES -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.4) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't "real" OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah!

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Acrobat Reader problems.
by Rikard Johnels 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

Hi all! Does anyone know if Adobe changed anything in their PDF files lately? I received a file from my accountant that wont open. The first error is: There was an error proicessing a page. Too few operands. And the second is: An unrecognized token '-7.1g' was found What is wrong? Or what am I doing wrong? -- /Rikard --------------------------------------------------------------- Rikard Johnels email : rikjoh(a)norweb.se Web : http://www.rikjoh.com Mob : +46 735 05 51 01 PGP : 0x461CEE56 ---------------------------------------------------------------

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staroffice 7.0 ". ppt " output format
by Maura Edelweiss Monville 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

I'd appreciate hearing from someone who's used STARTOFFICE 7.0 for a presentation (slides, screenshots, etc..) My question: Is "startoffice 7.0 Power-Point output compatible with MicroSoft Office for Windows/XP PowerPoint ? Thank you so much. Maura

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SuSE 9.2 - Installed on laptop that previously liked 9.1...
by Steve Kratz 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

I installed it today, seemed to go through fine, tried the ACPI install (this is on an old Celeron 366 Thinkpad with 192 megs of RAM), after KDE got up and running, I used it for about 10 minutes, then it hard-locked. No mouse, capslock/numlock toggling, nothing. Trying to set things up again w/o ACPI... The new & improved laptop support might not be quite so nice for this old laptop of mine. If anyone has any insites, please let me know. Steve

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Fwd: signcode.exe and more
by Donn L Washburn 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

This is a message from a Austin, TX friend - Joe Barr. You may see his aricles in lot of Linux related article. 73 de Donn Washburn aka N5XWB _____________________________________________

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A question for emacs/gnus users
by Trey Sizemore 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

I have a seemingly elementary question that I can't seem to find an answer to. I'm getting into using Emacs (ideally exclusively for things like editing, email, newsgroups, etc.). I've gotten gnus to display articles from a newsgroup server and I've been going through the manual learning how to mark, score, etc. However, I don't seem to be able to post or mail from gnus. The default is set to use sendmail as the agent (which I thought was working on my system) but no mail goes out. So I'd like to change it to use my ISP's smtp server and was not sure about the syntax and where to put it (I don't currently have a ~/.gnus file (using SUSE) but I do have a ~/.gnu-emacs file. Do I need to create a .gnus file? This is a portion of my ~/.emacs file that I thought would allow for sending mail, but I probably have the syntax messed up (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.gmane.org" ; (nntp-port-number 119))) (setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it smtpmail-default-smtp-server "mail.alltel.net") Thanks for any assistance. -- Cheers, Trey You can create your own opportunities this week. Blackmail a senior executive. Linux salamander 2.6.8-20041025161453-default #1 Mon Oct 25 16:14:53 UTC 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux 8:51pm up 5 days 1:35, 4 users, load average: 0.27, 0.29, 0.43

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SuSE 9.0 - sound problem - /dev/dsp0 busy
by Thomas F. Bechteler 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

Dear Reader! I am using SuSE 9.0 pro out of the box, I have an onboard soundchip and the Hoontech DSP 24 Value soundcard. Problem: When I am using recording software ("audacity" or "snd") the sound is being recorded. However, when playing back and the playback is finished (either by pressing stop or the sound file is simply finished) the programs are crashing (they close). After this, there is no sound at all! And I could not get it back, even by playing around with YaST. Opening the recording software and trying to play back results then in an immediate crash. The program "snd" gave me fortunately at least this message: open read /dev/dsp0: Device or resource busy [audio.c[1956] linux_audio_open_with_error] With my limited knowledge in Linux I could only get around by rebooting the computer. During the shutdown the screen showed me the following information (I give just an excerpt): snd-mixer: Device or resource busy ... snd-* Device or resource busy failed After rebooting the sound was there. (Just a remark: after crashing the audio it is not possible to restart the X-server by "ctrl-alt-backspace". The computer hangs, no GUI, and also to switch to any console is of no use. I only could brutally switch off the computer.) Also switching off the "arts" was of no use ... What is the reason that the device is busy? And how can I solve this problem? Thanks for any hints and comments Cordially Thomas

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Tiny font in KDE
by Daryl Lee 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

When KDE launches, the desktop font is about one pixel high, totally unreadable. Having memorized the keystrokes, I can login, and my Xterm window opens with normal size font. But all the text on the desktop is about one pixel high. Any ideas on what the problem is? I'm running SuSE 9.0 Pro. -- Daryl Lee Open the present--it's a gift.

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Banned mounts
by Andreas Philipp 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

It seems as if some all-too-prude system administrator had banned us from discussing the mounting of filesystems and shares on the list, as I just got this one in my mail: A message sent by you was blocked by GWAVA - Content protection for Novell GroupWise. The message was blocked for the following reason(s): Content filter The message contained the following information: Subject: Re: [SLE] User mounting smbfs From:andreas.philipp@noemasol.com Recipient(s): [No To Addresses] [No Cc Addresses] timh(a)eics.ab.ca_Addresses The following information details the events that prevented delivery of this message: =========================================================== Content within this message was disallowed. =========================================================== No, 'User mounting smbfs' is not about a review of a swinger club for geeks, but nevertheless I would like to apologize to everybody whose sensitive feelings may have been hurt. I remember that not long ago other list members have received similar mails and would like to suggest to the list admin to unsubscribe the user timh(a)eics.ab.ca, until his system administrator has resolved that dumb filter problem or until the user may suscribe using another less rigidly controlled mail account. Regards, -- Andreas Philipp Noema Ltda. Bogotá, D.C. - Colombia

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SuSe on IBM T42p - impressions
by Tomasz Koziara 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

Hi, Let me share some impressions on running SuSe 9.1 on IBM T42 laptop. As I have lost last three days trying to make everything running, i need to share my frustration with someone ... Lets start with regular SuSe 9.1 - I installed it from DVD then updated using YaST. It is noteworthy that the only reason I decided to abandon gentoo (that I run flawlessly with my previous laptop) was thas T42 is certified to run with SuSe - so I thought: OK, maybe this is not "users distro" but I'll support everything out of the box. Of course,I was wrong. Things that are working/not working with SuSe 9.1 - without modifications (kernel 2.6.5*): Graphics (ATI FireGL Mobile T2): * XFree 4.3.99 + basic "ati" driver (XV, no DRI) * XFree 4.3.99 + fglrx ATI driver (XV + DRI) * Xorg 6.7.0 + bacis "ati" driver (XV, no DRI) Centrino Speedstep (Dothan 735, 1.7 GHz): * Not working - speedstep-centrino module supports only centrino from Banias branch. DVD - multidrve (Matsita DVD-RAM UJ-812) * blanking cdrw wokrs * writteing cdrw does not work * reading data from cd works * reading data from DATA dvd works * reading data from MOOVIE dvd DOES NOT work. Bloototh, Wireless, Irda - not testet yet. Things that are working/not working with SuSe 9.1 - whit kernel 2.6.8 (taken from 9.2 branch update) or kernel 2.6.9 (kernel.org) Graphics (ATI FireGL Mobile T2): * XFree 4.3.99 + basic "ati" driver (XV, no DRI) * XFree 4.3.99 + fglrx ATI driver (XV + DRI) - but FREEZES laptop after restart of X (e. g. kde logout) * Xorg 6.7.0 + bacis "ati" driver (XV, no DRI) * Xorg 6.7.0 + fglrx ATI driver (XV + DRI) - also FREEZES like above. Centrino Speedstep (Dothan 735, 1.7 GHz): * Works OK DVD - multidrve (Matsita DVD-RAM UJ-812) * like above - CAN NOT READ multimedia DVDs (or copy their data to hdd) Bloototh, Wireless, Irda - not testet yet. Not to mension ACPI suspend, which I tested with minor succes with any kernel mensioned. So what is the purpose of certyfying laptop to SuSe ? The fact that some basic functionality is aviable is not to spectacular - everybady could do that. Any way - If You have any comments, advices, hints - whatever I will appreciate them all. I am giving SuSe few days more to surprise me - then I am switching back to gentoo. Probably: thinks will not run flawlessly as well, but at least It will be much easyier to experiment with different solutions. Best Regards, Tomek

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Iptables config
by Chadley Wilson 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

Greetings, I have freed up a card in my bond config to link to my main network, I need to implement a firewall before I do the uplink, It is quite simple and I have started. But I am not sure? Here is what I have, Production network 192.168.2.0 mainnetwork 196.2.1.0 my server on the production network with 2 interfaces bond0 192.168.2.1 and eth0 196.2.1.151 the main network is a windows domain. and the gateway to the www there is 196.2.1.xx I have one critical machine sitting in the production network that needs to access the main network. 192.168.2.5 The rest of the production must have no access to the main network All the machines on production including 192.168.2.5 have a default gw of 192.168.2.1 (my server) The firewall 196.2.1.xx on the main main network routes all production traffic back to my server on eth0 196.2.1.151 here is my iptables file, I don't think this is very secure, =========================================== *nat :PREROUTING DROP [4:440] -A PREROUTING -i bond0 -s 192.168.2.0/255.255.255.0 -j ACCEPT -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -s 192.168.2.5 -j ACCEPT :POSTROUTING ACCEPT [0:0] -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -s 192.168.2.5 -j MASQUERADE :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0] COMMIT *filter :INPUT DROP [5:716] -A INPUT -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -i bond0 -m icmp -p icmp -j ACCEPT :FORWARD DROP [0:0] -A FORWARD -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT -A FORWARD -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0] -A OUTPUT -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT COMMIT ============================================ TIA Chadley Wilson Redhat Certified Technician Cert Number: 603004708291270 Pinnacle Micro Manufacturers of Proline Computers ==================================== Exercise freedom, Use LINUX =====================================

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'GLIBC_2.3.4' not found
by Berge, Harry ten 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

Hi, I've got a problem: I built an application on a SUSE 9.1 system and am trying to run this application on a SUSE 8.2 system. Now I get the following error: ...'GLIBC_2.3.4' not found Now I'm lost. Because the libc on a SUSE 9.1 is version 2.3.3! So how could this be? Met vriendelijke groet / Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind Regards, H.J. ten Berge

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Dualboot.
by Erik Jakobsen 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

Hi. I have just installed my SuSE 9.1 It has been installed on the first partition of my harddisk, where I had XP before. On my other partition I have SuSE 9.1 installed. I can boot both systems now by booting from their DVD's. How can I make the system to dualboot ?. Erik Jakobsen

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does 9.2 have a jabberd rpm?
by Silviu Marin-Caea 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

That's a jabber server (an open IM protocol). http://www.jabber.org

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firefox interface font woes
by Henry Harpending 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

I just upgraded to 9.2 with no problems save that I should have downloaded the driverloader rpm for my wireless card _before_ the upgrade since my old one was kernel specific. Yast failed to download the firmware for the acx111 chipset even when I strung a long wire to a regular nic to get back on the internet. Now firefox comes up with a huge interface font--menus etc. I can get it to look right by running gnome-settings-daemon but that is a pain in the neck: it resets my keyboard mappings set by xmodmap and, now, the new version whines about "{" when it expected "}", xscreensaver can't find things, etc etc. My question is why won't firefox honor the settings in userChrome.css? Mozilla does, thunderbird does. It must be detecting gnome somehow and reading some setting somewhere? Where? Can I change these static settings or delete them? After all firefox must run on gnome-free linux systems, right? I have put font specifications in .gtkrc-everything in my home directory with no effect. On my other machines I am not going to upgrade until Mr. Ogley or someone comes up with a cleaned up gnome: I lost a lot of the ulb-gnome programs as the installation "resolved" incompatibilities. thanks, Henry Harpending

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DLT 7000 on SuSE 9.1
by S. Cowles 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

I have a DLT 7000 drive connected to an IBM Thinkpad 770Z via an Adaptec 1460D SCSI pcmcia card. There are two devices that I connect on this chain, a python 4mm dat drive and the DLT 7000. The dat drive is detected just fine; cat /proc/scsi/scsi shows the device. There is no sign of the DLT, though. When the same devices are connected in the same manner on a Sony Vaio running Knoppix 3.4, both tape drives show up and are functional. Installed modules on the SuSE 9.1 system are: 8390 agpgart aha152x_cs binfmt_misc dm_mod ds edd evdev exportfs ext3 freq_table hid ide_cd intel_agp ip_conntrack ip_conntrack_ftp ip_tables ipt_LOG ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_REJECT ipt_limit ipt_state iptable_filter iptable_nat ipv6 jbd joydev lp nfsd nvram parport parport_pc pcmcia_core pcnet_cs snd snd_cs4231_lib snd_cs4236 snd_cs4236_lib snd_hwdep snd_mixer_oss snd_mpu401_uart snd_opl3_lib snd_page_alloc snd_pcm snd_pcm_oss snd_rawmidi snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq_oss snd_timer soundcore speedstep_lib subfs uhci_hcd usbcore usbserial yenta_socket. Kernel is 2.6.5-7.111-default. Installed modules on the Knoppix system are: 3c574_cs 8250 ac97_codec af_packet agpgart ali_agp amd64_agp amd_k7_agp apm ati_agp autofs cloop ds efficeon_agp evdev ide_cd ide_scsi ieee1394 intel_agp intel_mch_agp ipv6 joydev loop lp md5 nvidia_agp ohci1394 ohci_hcd parport parport_pc pcmcia_core rtc serial_core sis_agp snd snd_mixer_oss sound soundcore sworks_agp tsdev uart401 uhci_hcd usb_storage usbcore usbhid usblp via_agp yenta_socket ymfpci. Kernel is 2.6.6. Am I missing a module? Is there some other problem that I'm missing? I've tried googling this, but didn't find applicable situations. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, scowles at earthlink dot net

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Re: [SLE] DVD Permissions -How to Fix and make it stick?
by Steve Lett 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

Thanks Mr. Kan, xmcd works nicely. Although with all the knowledgeable folks on the list and all the complicated questions, most I can't even begin to understand, much less answer, it seems relatively odd to me that I got only your response. And I hope I'm not misunderstood. I have the highest respect for the forum participants as I am well aware that this is not a paid service and I think it is wonderful that there are so many helpful and willing folks out there. The OpenSource community is a super place to live. But the questions remain unanswered and I'm trying to learn. So I remain a little disappointed that I didn't get to learn anything about the issue. Well, ce la vie. Perhaps the symptoms are just too odd to be easily answered and could be too time consuming to try and resolve. But if anyone has any ideas, I would still be interested to see what might be offered up by way of an explanation of the odd behavior. Again THANKS MR. Kan! ----- Original Message ----- From: ti(a)amb.org (Ti Kan) To: jeepnut(a)linuxmail.org Subject: Re: [SLE] DVD Permissions -How to Fix and make it stick? Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 02:37:22 -0800 (PST) > > Steve Lett writes: > > Maybe there is a better tool to play audio CD's than KsCD? > > Yes, indeed. http://www.amb.org/xmcd > > -Ti :) > -- > Ti Kan > http://www.amb.org/ti > Vorsprung durch Technik > > In a world without walls or fences, who needs Windows or Gates? Registered Linux User #287453 ---------------------------------------- '87 Street Comanche #24/100 '92 Cherokee '88 Grand Wagoneer '87 Grand Wagoneer ...and they say there's only one... --------------------------------------- -- ______________________________________________ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze

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signcode.exe
by Donn Washburn 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

Hey UNIX Group; In this very fresh version of SuSE 9.2 guess what I found in /usr/bin? signcode.exe Yes .exe What the heck is a .exe doing in a /usr/bin directory? -- 73 de Donn Washburn __" http://www.hal-pc.org/~n5xwb " Ham Callsign N5XWB / / __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 307 Savoy St. / /__ / / / \/ / / /_/ / \ \/ / Sugar Land, TX 77478 /_____/ /_/ /_/\__/ /_____/ /_/\_\ LL# 1.281.242.3256 Dump Microsoft Software - Stop virus email Email: n5xwb(a)hal-pc.org " http://counter.li.org " #279316

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Re: [SLE] smbmount permissions
by James Knott 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

Andreas Philipp wrote: > El Jue 04 Nov 2004 21:26, James Knott escribió: > >>Andreas Philipp wrote: >> >>>Paul, >>> >>>El Jue 04 Nov 2004 20:54, Paul W. Abrahams escribió: >>> >>>>I had a shell script working for backup that used smbmount (under 9.1). >>>>Now, after an automated Yast Online Update, it doesn't work because >>>>smbmount lacks suid permission. When I tried increasing the permissions >>>>of /usr/sbin/smbmount by +s, however, and calling smbmount again, I got a >>>>complaint from libsmb that "you must NOT suid smbmount". (That's not the >>>>exact wording; the machine where all this was happening is not at the >>>>same place I'm now writing from.) >>>> >>>>What's the correct way to enable ordinary users to run smbmount and to >>>>ensure that an online update doesn't undo that action? >>> >>>You should set the suid bit on /usr/bin/smbmnt and /usr/bin/smbumount, >>>NOT smbmount. >> >>The above, was a typo on my part. On my system, /usr/bin/smbmnt is a >>sym link to another sym link, to /usr/lib/samba/classic/smbmnt, which I >>have set to suid. > > > Now I am getting lost ... my reply was directed at Paul Abraham's post, not > yours. So, what do you mean by it was a typo on your part? Sorry, my mistake. Too much Guinness tonight. I didn't see Paul's name at the top. Disregard that note.

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AVI to MPEG
by Joe Polk 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

Does anyone know of an AVI to MPEG converter for Linux? I'd almost prefer a console app. -- <<JAV>>

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So who's shipping 9.2 NOW?
by David Krider 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

I've seen lots of messages that people are getting it. Are these hit-and-miss, or are tier-1 suppliers shipping 9.2 (update) as of right now? The SuSE shop doesn't indicate that they are shipping, nor does Amazon. Regards, dk

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Re: [SLE] Explain this
by Ryan McCain 04 Nov '04

04 Nov '04

Hello, As you can see here: > dss-dr93la01:~ # who > tstaffor pts/4 Nov 4 10:08 (172.20.11.82) ...the logged in user was "tstaffor". Are you referring to the ~ in the prompt? Thanks, Ryan >>> Anders Johansson <andjoh(a)rydsbo.net> 11/4/2004 3:33:03 PM >>> On Thursday, 4 November 2004 22.22, Ryan McCain wrote: > Can someone help me understand this? > > the user "tstaffor" does not have the same UID as root, however when he > does "su -", it doesnt prompt him for a password. I've never seen > this. > > > dss-dr93la01:~ # who > tstaffor pts/4 Nov 4 10:08 (172.20.11.82) > dss-dr93la01:~ # w > 13:13:49 up 6 days, 4:50, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 > USER TTY LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT > tstaffor pts/4 10:08 0.00s 0.14s 0.01s sshd: tstafford [priv] > dss-dr93la01:~ # su - That prompt looks a bit suspicious. What did "whoami" say before the su here? Are you sure he wasn't already su:ed to root? root doesn't get asked for a password. > dss-dr93la01:~ # whoami > root > dss-dr93la01:~ # I'll bet you have to do "exit" twice here to get back to a regular user -- 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] Explain this
by Ryan McCain 04 Nov '04

04 Nov '04

Root does have a password. hmmm. rn >>> Ken Schneider <suse-list-e(a)bout-tyme.net> 11/4/2004 3:30:25 PM >>> On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 16:22, Ryan McCain wrote: > Can someone help me understand this? > > the user "tstaffor" does not have the same UID as root, however when he > does "su -", it doesnt prompt him for a password. I've never seen > this. > > > dss-dr93la01:~ # who > tstaffor pts/4 Nov 4 10:08 (172.20.11.82) > dss-dr93la01:~ # w > 13:13:49 up 6 days, 4:50, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 > USER TTY LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT > tstaffor pts/4 10:08 0.00s 0.14s 0.01s sshd: tstafford [priv] > dss-dr93la01:~ # su - > dss-dr93la01:~ # whoami > root > dss-dr93la01:~ # This tells me root doesn't have a password. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989 SuSE since 1998 * Only reply to the list please* -- 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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Explain this
by Ryan McCain 04 Nov '04

04 Nov '04

Can someone help me understand this? the user "tstaffor" does not have the same UID as root, however when he does "su -", it doesnt prompt him for a password. I've never seen this. dss-dr93la01:~ # who tstaffor pts/4 Nov 4 10:08 (172.20.11.82) dss-dr93la01:~ # w 13:13:49 up 6 days, 4:50, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 USER TTY LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT tstaffor pts/4 10:08 0.00s 0.14s 0.01s sshd: tstafford [priv] dss-dr93la01:~ # su - dss-dr93la01:~ # whoami root dss-dr93la01:~ #

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zip drive and 9.2
by Chris 04 Nov '04

04 Nov '04

I had myatapi zip 250 working fine on 9.1. I did the same set up steps on 9.2 and no joy. Has any one set one up on 9.2? If so how did you do it? Chris -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/

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Suse 9.2 + wireless network
by coutand christophe 04 Nov '04

04 Nov '04

Hi, I'm trying to connect my latop to an open wireless network and I can't figure-out why any address IP is a allocated to my laptop. I'm using the hostap_pci drivers. The ESSID is ok and so is the Access Point. ifstatus wlan0 gives : wlan0 device: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset (rev 01) wlan0 dhcpcd is still waiting for data wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"default" Nickname:"linux" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:0F:3D:09:54:59 Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Sensitivity=1/3 Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality=35/70 Signal level=-65 dBm Noise level=-100 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:1490 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:68 Invalid misc:13 Missed beacon:0 iwlist wlan0 scanning gives wlan0 Scan completed : Cell 01 - Address: 00:0F:3D:09:54:59 ESSID:"default" Mode:Master Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6) Quality:0/70 Signal level:-63 dBm Noise level:-100 dBm Encryption key:on Bit Rate:1 Mb/s Bit Rate:2 Mb/s Bit Rate:5.5 Mb/s Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Bit Rate:22 Mb/s Extra:bcn_int=100 Extra:resp_rate=20 The ifcfg-wlan0 generated by Yast is : OOTPROTO='dhcp' MTU='' REMOTE_IPADDR='' STARTMODE='auto' UNIQUE='WL76.Y1PWjKOI+W6' USERCONTROL='no' WIRELESS_AP='' WIRELESS_AUTH_MODE='open' WIRELESS_BITRATE='auto' WIRELESS_CHANNEL='' WIRELESS_DEFAULT_KEY='0' WIRELESS_ESSID='' WIRELESS_FREQUENCY='' WIRELESS_KEY='' WIRELESS_KEY_0='' WIRELESS_KEY_1='' WIRELESS_KEY_2='' WIRELESS_KEY_3='' WIRELESS_KEY_LENGTH='128' WIRELESS_MODE='Managed' WIRELESS_NICK='' WIRELESS_NWID='' WIRELESS_POWER='yes' WIRELESS_WPA_PSK='' _nm_name='bus-pci-0000:00:09.0' and dmesg¦tail gives : wifi0: LinkStatus=1 (Connected) wifi0: LinkStatus: BSSID=00:0f:3d:09:54:59 wifi0: LinkStatus=2 (Disconnected) wifi0: LinkStatus: BSSID=00:0f:3d:09:54:59 wifi0: LinkStatus=1 (Connected) wifi0: LinkStatus: BSSID=00:0f:3d:09:54:59 martian source 255.255.255.255 from 192.168.0.1, on dev wlan0 ll header: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:0f:3d:09:54:59:08:00 Any ideas what goes wrong ? Chris. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Hotmail : antivirus et antispam intégrés http://www.msn.fr/newhotmail/Default.asp?Ath=f

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Re: [SLE] Can apache 1.3 and 2.0 coexist?
by David Bank 04 Nov '04

04 Nov '04

Yes, they can, but you need to be careful with the configuration files, and make sure each has its own unique space for logs and the like. You also need to be sure that they both don't try to bind to the same IP address and port (for example, put in another NIC or add a second IP address to an existing NIC, and be sure to use the appropriate settings in httpd.conf to limit each version to its assigned NIC or IP address). >>> David Kramer <david(a)thekramers.net> 11/4/2004 2:40:49 PM >>> I have a server at home with a bunch of stuff on it. It's running SuSE 9.0, and I'm still using apaceh 1.3. I would like to install Apache 2.0, but I would need to migrate things over slowly. I downloaded the RPM for apache2, and it looks like it uses different directories than 1.x. Just to be on the safe side, though, can someone verify that both apache 1.x and 2.0 can coexist on the same server? I know I need to change the port for apache 2 so they don't confict. Thanks in advance. -- 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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Question about Firefox
by Dennis J. Tuchler 04 Nov '04

04 Nov '04

Can one do batch downloads using Firefox 1.0 PR? If yes, How? dj tuchler

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new v9.2 is out
by Gary 04 Nov '04

04 Nov '04

Just announced on /. "Novell have issued a press release announcing SUSE Linux 9.2. The new version comes with kernel 2.6, KDE 3.3, Gnome 2.6 and features (amongst other things) enhanced wireless support as well as Evolution 2.0 with Groupwise / Exchange connectivity. The WYSIWYG web development tool Nvu is also included. The new release is expected to hit the retail shelves in early November." -- Gary

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RE: [SLE] Determing IP address
by Kwasneski, Christopher D (Northrop Grumman) 04 Nov '04

04 Nov '04

> -----Original Message----- > From: James Knott [mailto:james.knott@rogers.com] > Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 7:17 AM > To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com > Subject: Re: [SLE] Determing IP address > > > Paul Ryan wrote: > > How can I determing the IP address of a server, when I use > ping and then > > the ftp:// address I get the response unknown host. > > > > > > ???? > > How can you ping, if you don't know the IP or host name. > > What application are you using? What happens if you use the > ftp command. I think the problem is that the name can't be resolved (IE Paul has a host name. Just no IP). ping SOMEHOST and ftp://SOMEHOST both return unknown host, so without knowing the IP address off the top of your head or being able to go to a box that can reach that host via its name, your stuck. -Chris Kwasneski System Engineer Yuma Proving Grounds, AZ

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Network Scanning
by Daniel Thivierge 04 Nov '04

04 Nov '04

Hi everyone, I been searching for a tool/software that will scan our network and display information about the hosts it found. I am more interested on the Unix servers side. I will like to find them on the network and if possible to tell me which OS they are running. Additionally, if it could tell their patch level and if it is a new server that was just turn on (red color for new type of think). I know Lisa but I don't know if they are any add on/plugin that could generate the information I need out of it? Any suggestion will be appreciated. Thanks.

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Syncing evolution 2 between two computers
by Steve 04 Nov '04

04 Nov '04

Hi, I use a couple of different computers for work and like to use evolution for my email and calendar. With 9.1, I can use multisync to synchronize evolution between the two computers. 9.2, I believe, comes with evolution 2 and, currently, multisync doesn't work too well with evolution 2 (or, at least, that's my reading of the multisync mailing list). If I used another tool, like unison, to just sync the ~/evolution directories on both computers, would that be sufficient to keep evolution synced? Or does evolution keep some information elsewhere? I'll probably try it anyway this weekend, but I was hoping somebody might know to put my mind at ease. Thanks, Steve

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avi file
by Jake 04 Nov '04

04 Nov '04

I can't seem to get xine to play the avi files which my Canon SD200 produces. Format not recognised. Xine will play most everything else I throw at it (courtesy of packman of course); is the camera producing a special type of avi file? Any pointers -- please don't tell me to use mplayer -- gratefully accepted, Jake

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Remote control
by zio budda 04 Nov '04

04 Nov '04

Hi, this is my first message so sorry if this question was been made more and more time. I need to watch the monitor of one client (Suse 9.0 and Suse 9.1) via remote control, this because I need to see the result of one X11 application. I have installed vnc packages and via Yast I have enable the remote control, but when I exec vncviewer x.y.w.z I get that there is not a vncserver on the machine x.y.w.z, but if I start Mozilla and open http://x.y.w.z:5801/ I see the machine but only the "login stage" (where I need to insert login+password). I need to see what the application do. Tnx in advance.

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suspend to ram on dell latitude d600
by Ernest Byaruhanga 04 Nov '04

04 Nov '04

hi all, with 9.1 professional, has anyone managed to get suspend to ram working on a dell latitude d600? regards, ernest.

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suse 9.2 pro or update?
by Ernest Byaruhanga 04 Nov '04

04 Nov '04

hello, i have read previous threads comparing the pro and update releases of previous versions of suse. with 9.2, is there still no difference in these releases apart from the user guide in the box? (if so, i wonder why suse do not indicate that on their website) regards, ernest.

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DVD to VCD
by News＠Linsoft 04 Nov '04

04 Nov '04

Hello Who can i convert my DVD to VCD. DVD is some near about 1.3 GB and I want it to get converted to 2 VCDs. How can I do that ?? Is there any application in Linux. In K3b how can i part 1 DVD into 2 VCDs. with Rgrds kanak kanak.patel(a)linsoftindia.org

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Converting .png to .ps with ImageMagick
by cincaipatron＠gmx.net 04 Nov '04

04 Nov '04

Hi, I use "convert" (ImageMagick) to convert .png to .ps, but the resulted .ps is very large. The original .png is about 33KB, but the resulted .ps is 2.9MB. I tried using Gimp to save the .png as .ps, which produced a smaller .ps (only about 166KB). What type of parameters I need to pass to "convert" so the size of resulted .ps can be reduced? I've tried "-density 200" (since the resolution of .png is 200dpi), and although it affects the size of the portscript when displayed, the filesize still remains at 2.9MB. Here are some information on the files as shown by Gimp ("convert" was run with "-density 200"). =============================================================== Orignal .png .ps (gimp) .ps (convert) =============================================================== Pixel dimension 804x624 804x624 306x238 Print size (inch) 4.020x3.120 4.020x3.120 3.060x2.380 Resolution (dpi) 200x200 200x200 100x100 =============================================================== Regards, Verdi -- NEU +++ DSL Komplett von GMX +++ http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl GMX DSL-Netzanschluss + Tarif zum superg�nstigen Komplett-Preis!

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DVD Permissions -How to Fix and make it stick?
by Steve Lett 04 Nov '04

04 Nov '04

SuSE 8.2 running on my desktop PC. I'll shoot some details on the hardware if needed but I don't think that will matter for this question.... My DVD Player/Burner is functional "sometimes". When I first install SuSE, the DVD player works fine to play audio CD's using KsCD. But it seems like anytime I install, change preferences, or configuration for any audio or video apps the stupid thing won't play audio CD's anymore. It will still play .mpg files, .mp3 files, and all manner of video just fine in GXine and XMMS. When I try to play an audio CD this is the error I see thrown by KsCD: CD-ROM read or access error (or no audio disc in drive). Please make sure you have access permissions to: /dev/dvdrecorder When I look at /dev/dvdrecorder I see the settings are rw-r----- and it is owned by root and in the group called disk. Now this seems to me to be the weird part. When I log on as root I cannot change any of these permissions. The check boxes are all "greyed out". I CAN edit the owner and group names, but they don't stay put after I click OK. In fact, when I choose the dvdrecorder file and choose "permissions", I see owner as root and group as disk as mentioned above. BUT then when I look at the directory of /dev and see the Owner and Group columns in the window it shows root and root instead of root and disk. Doesn't that seem ridiculous? And I'm not so sure I really want to reassign the owner or the group settings anyway. If I set ownership to my primary user name, then no one else will be able to read/write to/from it would they? In any case, I cannot seem to be able to modify these. I KNOW you folks will have an idea how I can get the DVD to play the audio CDs reliably. Maybe there is a better tool to play audio CD's than KsCD? Oh yes, and the preferences in KsCD are set to read from /dev/dvdrecorder. Thanks All! ************************************ In a world without walls or fences, who needs Windows or Gates? Registered Linux User #287453 -- ______________________________________________ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze

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k3b mad plugin
by Phil Burness 04 Nov '04

04 Nov '04

One day I'll get this sucker to work!!!! I've finally gotten k3b to see and use my cd writers but when I drop mp3's into the audio CD window it says it can't handle the format. I've checked the k3b feedback page and have seen several other people with a similar problem and a response that they need the k3b mad plugin. Where can I get this from? I'm using kde 3.3.1, k3b 0.11.17, suse 9.0 Phil

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Lost network connection -- how to diagnose?
by Paul W. Abrahams 04 Nov '04

04 Nov '04

Yesterday I did a Yast online update, which seemed to go uneventfully. However, it included a new version of the kernel, with the note that I should reboot the system after the install was completed. I did so but then (as I remember) walked away from the machine and left it running overnight without doing anything more. Today I came back to find that I had no network connection -- all addresses were unreachable. The little light next to the ethernet jack was on, and the lights on the hub to which the machine directly connects were also on. I tried (in Yast) uninstalling and reinstalling the network interface card; that had no effect. I can think of four possible causes for the failure: 1. The Ethernet hardware failed some time during the night. 2. There's a cabling problem (other machines on the net are working fine). 3. There's a software problem induced by the online update. 4. There's some other software problem. Any suggestions on how to go about diagnosing the failure? Paul Abrahams

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apt for 9.2
by Bob S 04 Nov '04

04 Nov '04

Hello SuSE folk, Went to get apt & apt-libs from gwdg.de for my new 9.2 64 system. No suser-rbos in that directory. Did find the files in 9.1 64 though. Anyone think that they will work in 9.2 ?? Didn't see any src's either. Bob S.

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Trouble setting up Network card with SuSE 8.2
by Darrell 04 Nov '04

04 Nov '04

I have many years of experience on IBM mainframes, but am relatively new to Linux/Unix. I have sucessfully installed SuSE 9.1. I needed to have 8.2 because products that I support are not yet supported on version 9. When I install 8.2, all works except the DHCP client. It is the same machine and card as I have installed version 9, so it should not be the card. Any help would be appreciated. Here is information I have collected. /etc/sysconfig/network/config (with comments removed) DEFAULT_BROADCAST="+" GLOBAL_POST_UP_EXEC="yes" GLOBAL_PRE_DOWN_EXEC="yes" CHECK_FOR_MASTER="yes" CHECK_DUPLICATE_IP="no" DEBUG="no" USE_SYSLOG="yes" MODIFY_RESOLV_CONF_DYNAMICALLY="yes" MODIFY_NAMED_CONF_DYNAMICALLY="no" CONNECTION_SHOW_WHEN_IFSTATUS="no" CONNECTION_CHECK_BEFORE_IFDOWN="no" CONNECTION_CLOSE_BEFORE_IFDOWN="no" CONNECTION_UMOUNT_NFS_BEFORE_IFDOWN="no" CONNECTION_SEND_KILL_SIGNAL="no" WAIT_FOR_INTERFACES="" FIREWALL="no" /etc/sysconfig/network/dhcp (with comments removed) DHCLIENT_BIN="" DHCLIENT_DEBUG="no" DHCLIENT_SET_HOSTNAME="yes" DHCLIENT_MODIFY_RESOLV_CONF="yes" DHCLIENT_SET_DEFAULT_ROUTE="yes" DHCLIENT_MODIFY_NTP_CONF="no" DHCLIENT_MODIFY_NIS_CONF="yes" DHCLIENT_SET_DOMAINNAME="yes" DHCLIENT_KEEP_SEARCHLIST="no" DHCLIENT_LEASE_TIME="" DHCLIENT_TIMEOUT="999999" DHCLIENT_REBOOT_TIMEOUT="" DHCLIENT_HOSTNAME_OPTION="AUTO" DHCLIENT_CLIENT_ID="" DHCLIENT_VENDOR_CLASS_ID="" DHCLIENT_RELEASE_BEFORE_QUIT="no" DHCLIENT_SCRIPT_EXE="" DHCLIENT_ADDITIONAL_OPTIONS="" DHCLIENT_SLEEP="0" /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth0 BOOTPROTO='dhcp' MTU='' REMOTE_IPADDR='' STARTMODE='onboot' UNIQUE='WL76.Bfm+4klc7ZA' WIRELESS='no' FROM Running System linux:/sbin # ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:88:3D:9B:B2 inet6 addr: fe80::20d:88ff:fe3d:9bb2/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:10 Base address:0xb000 >From startup log: Setting up network interfaces: lo done eth0 (DHCP) <notice>startproc: execve (/sbin/dhcpcd) [ /sbin/dhcpcd -H -D -N -t 999999 -h linux eth0 ], [ CONSOLE=/dev/console TERM=linux SHELL=/bin/sh OLDPWD=/etc/sysconfig/network progress=19 INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.82 RUN_FROM_RC=yes REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 COLUMNS=118 PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/etc/sysconfig/network/scripts vga=0x317 RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/etc/sysconfig/network PREVLEVEL=N LINES=38 HOME=/ SHLVL=4 splash=silent sscripts=36 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/sbin/dhcpcd ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . no IP address yet... backgrounding. done >From System Log (this repeats every so often Nov 3 20:27:08 linux kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Nov 3 20:27:08 linux kernel: eth0: Tx queue start entry 4 dirty entry 0. Nov 3 20:27:08 linux kernel: eth0: Tx descriptor 0 is 00002000. (queue head) Nov 3 20:27:08 linux kernel: eth0: Tx descriptor 1 is 00002000. Nov 3 20:27:08 linux kernel: eth0: Tx descriptor 2 is 00002000. Nov 3 20:27:08 linux kernel: eth0: Tx descriptor 3 is 00002000. Nov 3 20:27:08 linux kernel: eth0: Setting 100mbps full-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 45e1. from /proc/modules 8139too 15752 1 mii 2528 0 [8139too] from /proc/iomem ee000000-ee0000ff : D-Link System Inc RTL8139 Ethernet ee000000-ee0000ff : 8139too from /proc/ioports d000-d0ff : D-Link System Inc RTL8139 Ethernet d000-d0ff : 8139too

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[9.1] Perl bundles install problems
by Rikard Johnels 04 Nov '04

04 Nov '04

Hi all Trying to install the perl Xmms bundle sparhawk:~ # perl -MCPAN -e shell cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.7601) ReadLine support enabled cpan> install Bundle::Xmms CPAN: Storable loaded ok [Lots of lines cut] Config.xs:5:29: xmms/configfile.h: No such file or directory Config.xs:7: error: parse error before '*' token And a load of similar ones Config.c:219: warning: implicit declaration of function `xmms_cfg_write_string' make[1]: *** [Config.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/.cpan/build/Xmms-Perl-0.12/Config' make: *** [subdirs] Error 2 /usr/bin/make -- NOT OK Running make test Can't test without successful make Running make install make had returned bad status, install seems impossible Bundle summary: The following items in bundle Bundle::Xmms had installation problems: Xmms cpan> What am i doing wrong?? -- /Rikard --------------------------------------------------------------- Rikard Johnels email : rikjoh(a)norweb.se Web : http://www.rikjoh.com Mob : +46 735 05 51 01 PGP : 0x461CEE56 ---------------------------------------------------------------

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Problems mounting NIKON Coolpix 2000 with subfs
by Sylvanus A. Currie 04 Nov '04

04 Nov '04

I get the kde new hardware dialog asking to mount file:/media/usb-NIKON-NIKONDSCE2000:0:0:0p1. but when I try to access this directory access is denied because no medium is found. sylvanus@arizona:~> uname -a Linux arizona 2.6.5-7.111-default #1 Wed Oct 13 15:45:13 UTC 2004 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux sylvanus@arizona:~> rpm -q hotplug hotplug-0.44-32 sylvanus@arizona:~> rpm -q submount submount-0.9-33.6 extract from /var/log/messages (when plugging in) <<< Nov 3 21:35:54 arizona kernel: usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using address 5 Nov 3 21:35:59 arizona kernel: usb 3-2: control timeout on ep0out Nov 3 21:35:59 arizona kernel: usb 3-2: Product: NIKON DSC E2000 Nov 3 21:35:59 arizona kernel: usb 3-2: Manufacturer: NIKON Nov 3 21:36:00 arizona kernel: scsi5 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Nov 3 21:36:00 arizona /etc/hotplug/usb.agent[19719]: need a device for this command Nov 3 21:36:00 arizona kernel: Vendor: NIKON Model: DSC E2000 Rev: 1.00 Nov 3 21:36:00 arizona kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Nov 3 21:36:00 arizona kernel: SCSI device sda: 15745 512-byte hdwr sectors (8 MB) Nov 3 21:36:00 arizona kernel: sda: assuming Write Enabled Nov 3 21:36:00 arizona kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through Nov 3 21:36:00 arizona /etc/hotplug/block.agent[19779]: try 1 while waiting for /block/sda's bus_id 5:0:0:0 Nov 3 21:36:01 arizona /etc/hotplug/block.agent[19779]: try 2 while waiting for /block/sda's bus_id 5:0:0:0 Nov 3 21:36:02 arizona /etc/hotplug/block.agent[19779]: try 3 while waiting for /block/sda's bus_id 5:0:0:0 Nov 3 21:36:03 arizona /etc/hotplug/block.agent[19779]: try 4 while waiting for /block/sda's bus_id 5:0:0:0 Nov 3 21:36:04 arizona /etc/hotplug/block.agent[19779]: try 5 while waiting for /block/sda's bus_id 5:0:0:0 Nov 3 21:36:05 arizona /etc/hotplug/block.agent[19779]: new block device /block/sda Nov 3 21:37:12 arizona kernel: sda:SCSI error : <5 0 0 0> return code = 0x70000 Nov 3 21:37:12 arizona kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 15744 Nov 3 21:37:12 arizona kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 15744 Nov 3 21:37:42 arizona kernel: SCSI error : <5 0 0 0> return code = 0x70000 Nov 3 21:37:42 arizona kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 15744 Nov 3 21:37:42 arizona kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 15744 Nov 3 21:37:42 arizona kernel: sda1 Nov 3 21:37:42 arizona kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi5, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Nov 3 21:37:42 arizona kernel: Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi5, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0 Nov 3 21:37:42 arizona kernel: USB Mass Storage device found at 5 Nov 3 21:37:43 arizona /etc/hotplug/block.agent[20227]: new block device /block/sda/sda1 <<< -- Then a man said: Speak to us of Expectations. He then said: If a man does not see or hear the waters of the Jordan, then he should not taste the pomegranate or ply his wares in an open market. If a man would not labour in the salt and rock quarries then he should not accept of the Earth that which he refuses to give of himself. Such a man would expect a pear of a peach tree. Such a man would expect a stone to lay an egg. Such a man would expect Sears to assemble a lawnmower. -- Kehlog Albran, "The Profit" 9:20pm up 0:36, 6 users, load average: 4.08, 1.96, 1.34

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Mozilla Firefox Version 1.0 Preview issue
by Jerry Feldman 04 Nov '04

04 Nov '04

I have SuSE 9.2 installed, and Firefox runs reasonably well with one anomaly, when I click on Edit/Find in this page, the dialog box fails to appear. I've tested this with popup blocking enabled and disabled. -- Jerry Feldman <gerald.feldman(a)hp.com> Partner Technology Access Center (contractor) (PTAC-MA) Hewlett-Packard Co. 550 King Street LKG2a-X2 Littleton, Ma. 01460 (978)506-5243

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Problems with Kmail and encryptions
by Rikard Johnels 04 Nov '04

04 Nov '04

Hi all! If i try to scan for cryptographics in Kmail Settings -> Configure Kmail -> Security -> Rescan i get a popup stating While scanning for S/MIME support in backend GpgME: GPGME was compiled without support for S/MIME What is it? And why does it complain? And subsequently, Whats broken? -- /Rikard --------------------------------------------------------------- Rikard Johnels email : rikjoh(a)norweb.se Web : http://www.rikjoh.com Mob : +46 735 05 51 01 PGP : 0x461CEE56 ---------------------------------------------------------------

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SUSE 9.2 Installs With Little RAM
by Don Parris 04 Nov '04

04 Nov '04

Someone previously mentioned having read that SUSE 9.2 would not install on anything less than 256 MB of RAM. I just wanted to let folks know (who may not) that I have installed it on a box with a measley 192 MB of RAM. The HP Vectras (P-II 450MHz/192MB RAM) will get KDE only. These are a tad slow, but actually handle 9.2 better than I expected. If you're worried about your CPU/RAM capabilities - you can relax. Don -- DC Parris GNU Evangelist http://matheteuo.org/ http://chaddb.sourceforge.net/ "Free software is like God's love - you can share it with anyone anytime anywhere!"

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Re: [SLE] Windows backups to a Linux server
by Martin Farmilo 04 Nov '04

04 Nov '04

On Wednesday 03 Nov 2004 23:08, jalal wrote: > Its great, but it doesn't really help me backing up to a linux server does > it? I was going to say that, using Samba, it makes no difference to the Windows machine whether the server is running Linux. But I see from your original post that you don't specifically say the machines are connected - hence I guess Samba isn't an option. Sorry, my mistake. With Samba it *would* have been a piece of cake (I do it here all the time). Martin Farmilo

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Re: [SLE] For those of you that've gotten 9.2 already - cxoffice question...
by Bob S 04 Nov '04

04 Nov '04

On Tuesday 02 November 2004 15:28, cwsiv wrote: >On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 23:35, Bob S wrote: >> On Friday 29 October 2004 10:40, Sid Boyce wrote: >> >jfweber(a)bellsouth.net wrote: >> >> Do they have thier Suse 9.2 copies already ??? >> >> "Brown" delivered mine this afternoon. Will open the box tomorrow morning. >> Will be a few days though because I am going to proceed "cautiously" from >> my old 8.2 onto a brand new AMD 64 box. Stay tuned. > >Remember to use the right side of the DVD and not the left. > Hmmmm....How can you tell ? No line down the middle or marking right and left. :-) Seriously though, the face/top of the DVD is marked as both 32 bit and 64 bit and has a kind of matte finish. And not one word in the admin manual which I have been studying diligently. Bob S. Patiently awaiting my new AMD Athlon64 +3500 and a whole gig of ram. Think I'm gonna swoon !!!

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Yast Partiitioner hangs
by Lan Tran 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

Hi, Yast Partitioner hangs whenever I try to open it. DOes anyone know where I can get the source code to take a look at what it's doing? Thanks! Lan

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root=LABEL=xxx syntax in GRUB menu.lst on SUSE 9.1 - does it work?
by fraser_bailey＠agilent.com 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

Hi I'm trying to boot with a labelled root disk. I specify root=LABEL=<label name> in my grub menu.lst file. I have used e2label to put a label on the root filesystem. Howver all I get is the message Waiting for /dev/LABEL to appear... Does this syntax work? The following note: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-25-73544-1 suggests it worked on SLES8. Am I doing something wrong?

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OT Mysql database sync
by Phil Burness 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

Are there any tools available to synchronise two mysql databases on different servers, as in a redundancy sort of way? Phil

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Re: [SLE] Suse 9.2
by Web Developer 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

---------- Original Message ------------- Subject: Re: [SLE] Suse 9.2 Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 16:23:22 -0500 From: Paul Cartwright <paul_tbot(a)pcartwright.com> To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com On Sunday 31 October 2004 11:42 am, Don Parris wrote: > <snip> I like GNOME. That's the advantage > of GNU/Linux - choice. And that choice can be simply a matter of taste. still, can I run Gnome without uninstalling KDE ?? I remember gnome, but it was almost 10 years ago, I'd like to see the difference between it and KDE right now.. ____________________________ Of course. Just run Yast --> Install/Remove Software. :) We've always been able to load multiple desktops in the Linux world. Most people tend to choose one or the other, and you can frequently choose one or the other to be the default. Some organizations - maybe most - run a single desktop as a means of cutting down the admin & support headaches. In 9.2, you'll have to choose the Menu (I liked the drop down menu in 8.0 much better), and then Session Type, in order to choose which desktop to login to. ____________________________ > I should say that K3B did a great job of burning on my HP CD Writer > 9500. While it was possible under SUSE 8.0, it was really easy last > night. Frankly, I still can't get over the automation of the > installation. I've heard Xandros may be simpler (3-click install), but > Yast managed my sound card, video card & montior, and my HP 970Cse > inkjet printer (with duplex module). I did test my monitor (Cybervision > C70) and sound card (on-board), as well as print a test page. But I'm > so used to having to select my monitor, and the correct printer driver > (from about 3 possiblities), that I was totally blown away by the > auto-configuration. I've had more difficulty with Win98/XP. > I just bought a new Epson Scanner, 4180. xsane says there are no devices available. I installed K3B, the new update, but I haven't tried a CD today, I'm really concerned about the scanner. I bought it specifically because of the resolution, and the fact it does slides and negatives ( not to mention 4800 DPI). I wonder if 9.2 will recognize it.. _____________________________________ Don't know for sure on that one. Did you check that the Epson was compatible with Linux before you bought it? Don't know if it would appear on the lists yet - depends on how new it is. It probably will be recognized under 9.2, but don't take that as my guarantee. Better do some homework. ______________________________________ > I know not everyone's experience will be as easy as mine, but some may > have it even easier. I just couldn't decide on the partitioning scheme. I'm looking to add a /home partition myself. > > :) I would like to ask if anyone is familiar with the new /srv > > directory. Is that partt of the FSH/LSB or whatever standard the Linux > vendors agreed to? I see it contains apache and somthing else. I was > just curious as to hown new it is, and how it came to be. Does it help > to provide better security? If so, how? > did it prompt you during the 9.2 install to create one, or how did you learn about it?? ___________________________ When I was in the partitioning stage, it was in the list of filesystems that you can mount as separate partitions. It wasn't part of SUSE 8.0, so it was new to me. I've read the FHS, but guess mine was outdated. See Anders' comments on this one. The link he included explains it fairly well. It doesn't state the motive, but explains the purpose. Regards, Don -- Web Developer Matheteuo Christian Fellowship webdev(a)matheteuo.org http://matheteuo.org/ Free software is like God's love - you can share it with anyone anywhere anytime!

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Great Idea
by David Herman 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

Having just deleted more than half of todays messages to the list because they were OT (although most not marked as such) I had an Idea, Recently someone mentioned (on this list) that the SuSE-ot list is fairly low volume. Since there seems to be no stopping people making OT posts and continuing OT threads on this list maybe everyone that subscribes to this list for the purpose of asking questions about and using SuSE Linux could move over to the low volume (OT) list and leave this list for those that really should be posting on the other list. No-one will be the wiser because if they were on the OT list where they belong they wouldn't be posting here. To paraphrase Loydd Bridges from the movie "Airplane" "I chose a bad month to quit drinking" :-( If anyone is interested (which I'm afraid they are not) The SuSE-Linux-e faq that we all recieved when we signed up had this to say about (OT) off topic posts... A17. Sorry, we really have no choice. We've asked nicely over the years for people to take their off-topic threads elsewhere in the interestof keeping the messages per day on SLE under 200 and, well, that just didn't work. We now have a list, suse-ot, that's devoted solely to off-topic discussions. That's right, all off-topic all the time. Email suse-ot-subscribe(a)suse.com to subscribe. See ya -- dh

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Cant find mixer
by Gunnar Håland 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

If I boot SUSE 9.2 with a cd in the cdrom, I get a red X over my speaker and I have to restart so my system can find the mixer again. Why ??. Gunnar

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webcam
by chuck holland 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

Waiting for the knock on the door with my 9.2..........Anyone know any webcams that work good with 9.2................................thanks

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SUSE 9.2 Triumph
by CorvusE 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

Well, I know I'm a bit late in the "report on 9.2 installs" game, but I'm typing this from my brand new HP/Compaq nx9500 laptop which is sporting, not only an install of SuSE 9.2, but the SuSE decal where the designed for Windows XP decal once lurked. So here are the configuration issues I was afraid I'd run into and the result of dealing with them: 1) Successfully shrinking the XP partition? One chckdsk /f and all was good. 2) 17" wide-format LCD (1440x900)? Configured and working, no issues. 3) Broadcom Wireless? Configured via ndiswrapper and happy. 4) Geforce Go 5700? Installed via YOU, played the Doom 3 demo to prove it. 5) Old 9.1 system transferred? Mounted the old home directory via NFS and copied away. 6) Wireless keyboard, wireless mouse, and docking station functionality? All devices detected, configured and working! 7) Boot into WinXP? Sadly, this is the one portion of the program that didn't to so well. I can boot into WinXP with no problems, but boy, is WinXP dog slow and terrible to work in! I had to load drivers before the wireless keyboard and mouse would work and multitasking performance is a joke. -- __________ CorvusE Linux User #370082

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RE: [SLE] OT Mysql database sync
by Kwasneski, Christopher D (Northrop Grumman) 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Replication.html You may want to try the MySQL docs and their mailing lists in the future. You'll prolly get more help and less offensive replies ;) -Chris Kwasneski System Engineer Yuma Proving Grounds, AZ -----Original Message----- From: Phil Burness [mailto:pburness@btopenworld.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 12:13 PM To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: [SLE] OT Mysql database sync Are there any tools available to synchronise two mysql databases on different servers, as in a redundancy sort of way? Phil -- 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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Fonts with Kprinter
by Erik Jakobsen 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

Hi. How can I change fonts in Kprinter under suse 9.1 ?. Erik Jakobsen

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Suspend to ... .local scripts
by Jeffrey L. Taylor 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

Is there a "standard" way to execute a script on suspend to (ram|disk)? I have a dual boot laptop. I would like to make sure the Windows partitions are unmounted at suspend or shutdown. TIA, Jeffrey

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Mozilla/Firefox font problem
by Darrell Cormier 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

I have an odd problem when I print from Mozilla or Firefox. I am currently using MozillaFirefox-0.10.0-6.7 but this has been a problem since the initiall installation of SuSE 9.1. The printed font looks like boards nailed together to form letters. Quite annoying. However, if I look at the font in preferences, they are all set to serif or san serif. Where it the setting that controls the printed font? TIA, Darrell

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Bonding in SuSE SLES9
by Nicholas DeClario 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

Hey guys. I was wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction for some documentation exclusive to SuSE 9.x or SLES9 for ethernet bonding. I found many resources on bonding in general but nothing specific to SuSE. Thanks! -Nick

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LDAP vs. NIS Question
by Web Developer 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

The new 9.2 manual addresses the very question I was about to pose to the list - whether to use LDAP or NIS. It just seems to me to make sense to implement NFS, and use PAM/LDAP for user authentication & directory service. If that doesn't make sense, I'd love to hear why not. Put another way, is there a good argument to use NIS in favor of LDAP? Any other issues I should be aware of here? Thanks, Don -- Web Developer Matheteuo Christian Fellowship webdev(a)matheteuo.org http://matheteuo.org/ Free software is like God's love - you can share it with anyone anywhere anytime!

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What to backup
by David Sexton 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

Hi I am running suse 9.1 and wish to come up with some type of backup system. How ever I don't know what I should backup. I was thinking that /home and /etc should be backed up. Can any one give me some suggestions on what to backup? I was thinking I could use yast they have a nice backup tool. to make tar files. Thanks David

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Disappearing bookmark toolbar
by eddie 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

I'm using KDE 3.3.1, SuSE 9.1., konqueror 3.3.1. I use my bookmarks frequently and it is very convenient to have them in a toolbar, which is one of the main things I like about konqueror. However, I find that every now and again the bookmark toolbar disappears and I have to go the menu options again and again to reset it. Is there a way of getting it to stay permanently? Why does it disappear sometimes? I'd appreciate any advice as I find this behaviour very annoying. Thanks Eddie

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Network Printer Problem
by Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

I am running SuSE9.0/KDE3.3.1 and have setup my printer with Webmin. The printer is connected to a Win 2000XP platform on the same LAN as the linux box. When I attempt to print a test page (in Webmin) I get the following error messages: Status Information, attempt 1 of 3: sending job 'root@abnormal+696' to HP(a)192.168.2.14 connecting to '192.168.2.14', attempt 1 cannot open connection to 192.168.2.14 - Connection refused Make sure the remote host supports the LPD protocol repeated twice at ten second intervals. What have I failed to do at this point. Konqueror connects to the win box without any problems. Thanks in advance. -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and multivariant http://www.geocities.com/FoundationForChemistry

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VMWare
by Aaron Bridge 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

I have VMware 4.0 workstation running on a Windows XP machine. However, after I load the NIC modules and try to connect via FTP for the install it always comes up with a red box saying no network modules are used. When I do a clean install on a empty hard drive I never have any problems using the same FTP methods. It seems to be a VMware Problems. Has anyone experienced the same or have any suggestions? Thanks as always.

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Mysql Devleopment packages
by Brad Bourn 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

I have recently installed SuSE 9.2, from CD's on a 32-bit system. I use Qt and require mysql-dev package to get the proper include file to build Qt with mysql support. There doesn't seem to be a mysql-dev package in 9.2. Was this an oversite? B-)

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Problem installing Samba 3.0.7-1.1
by Koenraad Lelong 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

Hi, Yesterday evening I tried to install that samba-version (from the samba-site) on a 9.1 box. I got a dependency-error : libpopt.so.0 is needed for samba-client.... The only file I can find is libpopt.so.1 so I made a link from libpopt.so.0 to libpopt.so.1, and ignored the dependency-error. But the rest of the packages also complain, so I don't trust it to use it. Any ideas to solve this ? I will try it this way this evening, since it's a test-box. Worst case I could compile, but I prefer not. TIA -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Koenraad Lelong R&D Manager ACE electronics n.v.

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S-ATA HDs not detected during installation of SuSE 9.2 Pro
by Michael Eberhard 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

Hello, I'm trying to install SuSE 9.2 on a Workstation from Fujitsu-Siemens (M430, EM64T). My Problem is, that the S-ATA Harddrives are not detected during installation. I've tried to load some S-ATA-Modules with the manual-installation, but that did not work as well. Has anyone an Idea? Greetings Michael

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Compiling CVS tip Emacs on Suse 9.0 box
by Richard Fieldsend 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

Hi All, I'm a keen Emacs user and I've recently been experimenting with the Wiki module. I've discovered a new take on the Wiki model (Muse) which publishes to multiple document types (html, pdf, LateX etc) simultaneously. Unfortunately the project publish requires an entry in the files.el which only exists in the newer CVS versions of the Emacs software, so I've been trying to get this installed. So far I've downloaded from anonymous CVS, and unpacked the file. When I follow the instructions in the install-cvs file I have a problem. The ./configure appears to complete without errors. However the make bootstrap step (which I think is meant to do a byte compile on the lisp scripts) fails. There are two errors:- Error 2, with something about makeinfo not found and Error 127, also something about makeinfo (unfortunately I'm not in front of the machine right now, so I can't give more information than that). Has anyone built this on their Suse box, and were any mods required to get the compile to complete? Thanks in anticipation... Richard

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ping
by James Ogley 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

Sorry for this ping mail, I've not received anything on this list in about 12 hours, but the archives seem to have plenty in them, with subjects I don't recall having seen. If I don't get this mail back, will mail SuSE :) -- James Ogley james(a)usr-local-bin.org GNOME for SuSE: http://usr-local-bin.org/rpms

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KLIPS (freeswan) in SUSE 9.0
by Silviu Marin-Caea 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

On SUSE 9.0 if I run /usr/lib/ipsec/verify Checking your system to see if IPsec was installed and started correctly Version check and ipsec on-path [OK] Checking for KLIPS support in kernel [FAILED] Checking for RSA private key (/etc/ipsec.secrets) [OK] Checking that pluto is running [OK] DNS checks. Looking for forward key for router-d4b [FAILED] Looking for TXT in reverse map: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.in-addr.arpa[FAILED] Does the machine have at least one non-private address [OK] It displays KLIPS support failed. What does that mean? Doesn't SUSE 9.0 have all that's needed for IPSEC? Do I need to recompile something? Thanks

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Language Support in SuSE
by Laurenz, Dirk 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

Hello, i have the following Problem connecting a samba instance to an german windows domain. This is not a samba problem so far, i found out. If a user access a file via an smb share where he's not the owner, the samba directive dos filetimes allows him to reset the date. This works fine, if the primery group of the user has no german characters (e.g. ä,ö,ü). If the primary group has those, this doesn't work. (e.g. the primary group is: Domänen-Benutzer) mapped via winbind. I found out, that via strace the smbd process calls the utime function: 08:35:15 utime("Test/owner - ob.xls", [2004/11/03-08:36:25, 2004/11/03-08:36:25]) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted) This is the id output of that user: DOMAIN+fscadmin@SERVER:~> id uid=10000(DOMAIN+fscadmin) gid=10000(DOMAIN+Domänen-Benutzer) groups=10000(DOMAIN+Domänen-Benutzer),10001(DOMAIN+Domänen-Admins),10002(DOMAIN+GRUPPE_ADMIN),11054(ges_bt_r),11055(ges_bt-test) If an other user access a file of fscadmin, it works. Here's the id output of that user: AGESTT74:~ # su - DOMAIN~USER DOMAIN~USER@AGESTT74:~> id uid=12513(DOMAIN~USER) gid=10040(DOMAIN~GRUPPEA) groups=10040(DOMAIN~GRUPPE),10000(DOMAIN~Domänen-Benutzer),.... The main difference from my point of view is, that the primery group of fscadmin contains a german character "ä" and the other one does not. Here's my locale configuration: LANG=de_DE@euro LC_CTYPE="de_DE@euro" LC_NUMERIC="de_DE@euro" LC_TIME="de_DE@euro" LC_COLLATE="de_DE@euro" LC_MONETARY="de_DE@euro" LC_MESSAGES="de_DE@euro" LC_PAPER="de_DE@euro" LC_NAME="de_DE@euro" LC_ADDRESS="de_DE@euro" LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE@euro" LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE@euro" LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE@euro" LC_ALL=de_DE@euro Here's the configuration directive from smb.conf unix charset = ISO8859-15 Any help would be fine.... Mit freundlichem Gruß, Dirk Laurenz Systems Engineer Fujitsu Siemens Computers Sales Central Europe Deutschland Professional Service Organisation Nord / Ost Hildesheimer Strasse 25 30880 Laatzen Germany Telephone: +49 (511) 84 89 - 18 08 Telefax: +49 (511) 84 89 - 25 18 08 Mobile: +49 (170) 22 10 781 Email: mailto:dirk.laurenz@fujitsu-siemens.com Internet: http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com http://www.fujitsu-siemens.de/rl/servicesupport/itdienstleistungen/competen… *******************************************************************************************************************

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Re: [SLE] Tools for migrating from Novell to SuSe
by David Bank 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

<pet peeve> "Novell" is a company. "NetWare" is a product. Considering that Novell now owns SUSE, you;re not talking about leaving Novell at all. </pet peeve> No, there never was any "NET" command associated with NetWare. Your're thinking about Windoze and the silly NET USE stuff they "borrowed" from IBM's PC Network (circa 1984). If you desire to migrate your NetWare environment to a SUSE platform, all you need to do is await the arrival of Open Enterprise Server, which will offer you the OPTION of installing the NetWare services atop EITHER a "traditional" NetWare kernel OR a SUSE Linux kernel. Once you have it atop the SUSE Linux kernel, I think that would be the time to start migrating clients to a different access method. If you just can't wait, then NetWare ALREADY offers you the ability to use different access methods - its called Native File Access Protocols, and its available on modern versions of NetWare (v5.1 thru v6.5). NFAP allows a NetWare server to appear as an NFS server to *NIX clients (including Linux), an AppleTalk server to Macs, and as a CIFS server to Windoze clients. Its been available for YEARS. See http://www.novell.com/products/nfa >>> John Walter <John.Walter(a)OZITEM.COM> 11/2/2004 11:25:50 AM >>> Thanks I'll to try to get some info about this command. John On 2/11/04 17:03, "Jerry Westrick" <jerry(a)westrick.com> wrote: > If I remember right there was a Netware "Net" dos command, > which allowed you to create batches... > > I can't recall the name of it though... > > Jerry > > > -------------John uppsed and sent this to me------------- > Thanks for your reply. > > This is indeed a possibility. However the idea is to migrate all the data as > quickly as possible and I'm not sure if it can be done with your solution. > > There are a huge amount of user accounts to migrate and I just can't create > the directories, the unix accounts and above all keep the file permissions > by hand. I'm all but a Netware expert so I don't know if there is any way to > script it (in that case my probelm is solved). > > In fact I'm looking for utilities like the ones provided by Microsoft in the > Windows Services for Netware > (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/techinfo/overview/sfnmig.mspx) > > Thanks > > John > > > > > On Tuesday 02 November 2004 16:31, Jerry Westrick wrote: >> On Tuesday 02 November 2004 15:37, John Walter wrote: >>> Hello >>> >>> I'd like to migrate a Novell environment (mostly some file servers) to a >>> Linux one (probably SuSe for many reasons). >>> >>> I was wondering if there were any tool that allow me to do that. I've >>> read some information about some NetWare services for SuSe and OES, but >>> the idea is to completely get rid of the NetWare environment (ie. Servers >>> and clients). >>> >>> Of course Novell is not very verbose about that... >> >> Okay, The way I've done it in the past was to simulate the current Netware >> file shares on linux server... In this way I could turn of the old >> servers, and continue with a smooth (read very slow) conversion. >> >> Basically, all new systems access files via samba, all old ones via >> Netware.. >> >> >> Is that something like what you are looking for? >> >> Jerry -- 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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Suse Wine Rack
by Paul Ryan 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

Geht die Suse Wine Rack 9.0 an 9.1 order gibt es compataliltates probleme ?

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SuSE 9.0 NFS Server
by Mohamed Kamil Mansor 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

Hello, I have installed SuSE 9.0 with NFS server. This PC connected to the Internet through dial-up PC as gateway. If the dial-up PC did not connect to the Internet, and when I turn on my PC. My PC will stop at "Starting kernel based NFS Server" for 3 to 5 minutes. I'm not sure why this happened. But if the dial-up PC connected to the internet, my PC boot-up properly. Can someone tell me how to aviod this problem, and make it faster to initialize on startup. Tq. -- Mohamed Kamil Mansor Axiomatic Solutions Sdn Bhd Website: http://www.axiomsol.com --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude AntiVirus]

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Re: [SLE] VMWare
by lm.astudillo＠sc-aigs.com 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

Hi Aaron, With all due respect this is a Suse Linux newsgroup not a Win XP. I personally use VMware v4.5.2 under Suse 9.0 Pro and not under Windows. Please look at VMware web site for FAQs and newsgroups. Good luck. Luis ---------- Original Message ------------- Subject: [SLE] VMWare Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 20:37:10 -0500 From: Aaron Bridge <a.bridge(a)insightbb.com> To: Suse-Linux-E <suse-linux-e(a)suse.com> I have VMware 4.0 workstation running on a Windows XP machine. However, after I load the NIC modules and try to connect via FTP for the install it always comes up with a red box saying no network modules are used. When I do a clean install on a empty hard drive I never have any problems using the same FTP methods. It seems to be a VMware Problems. Has anyone experienced the same or have any suggestions? Thanks as always. -- 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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literature?
by Dennis J. Tuchler 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

Is there material available for techies in an IT department on the compatibility of MS workstations and a Linux network? dj tuchler

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Differense between suse Personal and suse Pro
by Georgi Ivanov 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

Hello, What is the difference between Suse Personal and Suse Pro ? Are there development tools in personal edition ?

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How to kil the "modulated clock mode" message ?
by Michael W Cocke 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

Something (Darned if I can figure out from where, I've shut off ACPI and sensors) is sending messages: "Message from syslogd@mwcdt at Tue Nov 2 15:52:41 2004 ... mwcdt kernel: CPU0: Running in modulated clock mode" How do I suppress them? For that matter, should I care? Thanks! Mike- -- If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs... You may have a great career as a network administrator ahead! -- Please note - Due to the intense volume of spam, we have installed site-wide spam filters at catherders.com. If email from you bounces, try non-HTML, non-encoded, non-attachments,

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Strange Route Table Entry
by Paul Trevethan 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

Running a brand new install of v9.2 (very impressed BTW) with a Win2000 box and this Linux box running peer to peer through a Linksys adsl router. I have a strange (to me) entry in my Route Table that has me perplexed. Here is the result of 'route -n' and 'ifconfig': route -n: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.100.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 ifconfig: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:B5:11:F9:42 inet addr:192.168.1.100 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::210:b5ff:fe11:f942/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:203009 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:134429 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:226896248 (216.3 Mb) TX bytes:14366030 (13.7 Mb) Interrupt:11 Base address:0xa000 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:BF:79:E4:F1 inet addr:192.168.100.1 Bcast:192.168.100.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::250:bfff:fe79:e4f1/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:756 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:176788 (172.6 Kb) Interrupt:5 Base address:0xc000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:113990 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:113990 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:18730435 (17.8 Mb) TX bytes:18730435 (17.8 Mb) What I have no clue about is the entry in the route table of 169.254.0.0? I have no idea how it got there, whether it should be there, whether it suggests a breakin??? I've never had an 'external' address like that turn up in here in prior installs. I have very limited knowledge when it comes to networking and was hoping someone could advise me on how to remove the entry, if in fact it should be removed, as well as how it might have got in there in the first place - certainly it was no concious effort on my part? Regards, Paul.

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Re: my list mail has stopped
by John Sowden 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

Solved-might be of interest to others. I use my ISP's web mail access to read my mail remotely. I created 2 mailboxes, one for suse, one for kde and moved those messages from the 'inbox' to the other two. The web mail program then, on its own, started routing my suse mail from the inbox to the suse box, same for kde. So, when I downloaded my mail, there was no suse or kde to download to kmail. the ISP is looking into it. Thanks for the help. John Sowden American Sentry Systems. Inc. 1221 Andersen Drive San Rafael, CA 94901 U.L. Listed Central Station Alarm Service Serving the San Francisco Bay Area Since 1967 mail(a)americansentry.net http://www.americansentry.net

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Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: qtpixmap
by Siebe ytsma 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

Recognize this warning? I have read a lot of so called solutions in mailinglists, forums etcetera. Unfortunately these solutions were based on guessing and not research or facts. And yes, I am also a victim of the same warning and it annoyed the hell out of me. So I set out to solve it once and for all. The problem occurs (like some of you have correctly stated) when you upgrade gtk2 from 2.2.0 to 2.4.0. The problem lies in the QtPixmap-0.28-22.i586.rpm <ftp://ftp.univie.ac.at/systems/linux/suse/i386/9.1/suse/i586/QtPixmap-0.28-22.i586.rpm> package. It installs the qtpixmap libs to /opt/gnome/lib/gtk-2.0/2.2.0/engines but the upgraded gtk2 looks for the libraries in /opt/gnome/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/engines. Solution: Move the files libqtpixmap.la and libqtpixmap.so from /opt/gnome/lib/gtk-2.0/2.2.0/engines to /opt/gnome/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/engines. Hopefully this makes some people happy!

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KMail question
by Dennis J. Tuchler 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

I can't find a way to back up the address book with the "categories" field included. 1) How might this be done? 2) Where do I find the actual address book file(s)? dj tuchler

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suse mail has stopped
by John Sowden 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

I am no longer getting messages from this group. I don't know if it is due to a failure of the suse list, or something at my end. If someone reads this, this means that it made it to the list an the list is working. Please drop me a note at jsowden(a)americansentry.net to I can figure out my next step. thanks, John Sowden American Sentry Systems. Inc. 1221 Andersen Drive San Rafael, CA 94901 U.L. Listed Central Station Alarm Service Serving the San Francisco Bay Area Since 1967 mail(a)americansentry.net http://www.americansentry.net

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SuSE 9.2 and running Windows programs under WINE
by Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

Hi all, Looking to visit my local SuSE supplier in the next week or so to possibly pickup my own copy of 9.2, BUT, I will only do so if the GUI ability to setup the WINE system, under KDE, to run Windows programs is there. I have read that Quicken is supported under WINE and whilst I know there are Linux alternatives, the few I have tried are not as user friendly. Please do let me know what results you have on running Windows apps on Linux. -- The Little Helper ======================================================================== 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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Tools for migrating from Novell to SuSe
by John Walter 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

Hello I'd like to migrate a Novell environment (mostly some file servers) to a Linux one (probably SuSe for many reasons). I was wondering if there were any tool that allow me to do that. I've read some information about some NetWare services for SuSe and OES, but the idea is to completely get rid of the NetWare environment (ie. Servers and clients). Of course Novell is not very verbose about that...

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Yast2 development environment
by Chris H 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

Greets; Playing around with yast and installing various development tools specific for yast ended up breaking yast completely. Update no longer works and Yast/Yast2 fail to launch at all. So I needed to repair this asap. I looked at the /var/log/Yast/y2log and it tells me that no ui is available aside from a lot of output. looking at the installation log gives the following; 2004-10-31 18:15:18 yast2-devtools-2.9.17-3.noarch.rpm install failed rpm output: 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 2004-10-31 18:15:19 y2pmsh-2.9.3-2.i586.rpm install failed rpm output: 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 2004-10-31 18:15:28 yast2-core-2.9.79-3.i586.rpm installed ok 2004-10-31 18:15:48 yast2-packagemanager-devel-2.9.37-0.i586.rpm installed ok 2004-10-31 18:16:13 yast2-core-devel-2.9.79-3.i586.rpm installed ok 2004-10-31 18:16:15 yast2-debugger-2.9.2-11.i586.rpm installed ok 2004-10-31 18:16:17 yast2-devel-2.9.60-5.i586.rpm install failed rpm output: Ok...so I removed all the various yast-devel packages that were installed, and re-installed the following; yast2-2.9.60-5.i586.rpm yast2-core-2.9.79-3.i586.rpm yast2-packagemanager-2.9.37-0.i586 yast2-packager-2.9.43-3.i586.rpm and yast2-qt-2.9.21-0.i586.rpm Running SuSEconfig gives no errors and Yast2 finally is functional again. So in trying to install a yast2 development environment for testing I noticed a couple of things: 1. There are a number of dependencies that require you to downgrade existing installed packages. 2. The various devel packages seem to have version dependencies unique to itself. 3. Installing the various requirements and developer packages seems to break a functioning Yast2 Sorry for the long post, but a very simple question follows: What is the recommended way to setup a Yast developer environment? Regards and thanks /ch

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Re: [SLE] Postfix, fetchmail and locks
by Jerry Feldman 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

> my output of 'postconf -d|grep lock': > deliver_lock_attempts = 20 > deliver_lock_delay = 1s > mailbox_delivery_lock = fcntl, dotlock Thanks. I had been looking in the postfix docs. I use sendmail on my home system, but I am planning to move to postfix. I think back in SuSE 8.2 I had switched to postfix and was unable to get procmail running. The bottom line for me is that I should RTFM, bit as I mentioned, I had not found the information in the faqs. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf(a)blu.org> Associate Director Boston Linux and Unix http://www.blu.org

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Re: [SLE] Postfix, fetchmail and locks
by Jerry Feldman 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

On Tuesday 02 November 2004 8:29 am, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > IF you use procmail as the lda, postfix *does* use procmail. Postfix > default delivers to /var/mail/$USER. If you set postfix to use > procmail, procmail accepts mail from postfix (before delivery to $USER) > and delivers mail according to your recipies, and utilizes locks *only* > where you have placed them in your recipies. At the present time, at work, I do not use procmail. I just use a vanilla postfix with the built-in postfix lda. (And yes, postfix does deliver email to /var/mail/$USER (/var/mail is symlinked to /var/spool/mail). The question is in the case where I am not using postfix, how does postfix set its locks. (The kmail default is /var/spool/mail/$USER.lock). --- At home I do use procmail with many recipies and sylpheed. And procmail does deliver to my mh directories. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf(a)blu.org> Associate Director Boston Linux and Unix http://www.blu.org

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How to set up PXE server?
by Hugo 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

Hi! I have an old laptop that does not hava CD. I need to try some different operating systems on it to find which it can run. The laptop can boot from network adapter. I also have a SuSE 9.1 professional on my network. I also have a NAT box that is acting as DHCP server. So, the guestion is, can I set up the SuSE 9.1 box as PXE server and start the installation of Win98, Win2K and SuSE from there? I do have the original installation CD's for both windowses (not pirated!). For some use (such as testing), I also would like to setup a simple DOS boot from the PXE server. Has anybody done this with SuSE? I've seen some very short descriptions about it, but they are generic and feel outdated (no YAST, well not SuSE at all...) and they always mention having a DHCP server at the linux box (without any great explanation to why). I have it at the NAT box and can not really change that - unless it really is impossible to do it otherways. Anybody? -- HG

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Re: Re: [SLE] changing to diffrent wirless netowrks
by David Sexton 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

> > From: James Oakley <joakley(a)solutioninc.com> > Date: 2004/11/01 Mon PM 01:03:00 EST > To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com > Subject: Re: [SLE] changing to diffrent wirless netowrks > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 01 November 2004 1:31 pm, David Sexton wrote: > > Dues any one know of an easy way to switch between wireless networks? One > > network uses wep and the other network is open. I am using Suse 9.1 > > waproamd - http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/waproamd/ > > An RPM for SUSE can be found here: > > http://packman.links2linux.com/?action=383 > > - -- > James Oakley > Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd. > joakley(a)solutioninc.com > http://www.solutioninc.com James I like the idea of using this program it looks pretty straight forward. What files should I backup be for I get started installing and changing things. That way If it brakes I at least can copy things back and fix it tell I get it working. Thanks David

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RE: [SLE] Scalix
by Heupink, Mourik Jan C. 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

ok. very short, three issues I've seen after half an hour of playing around: * scrolling messages using mouse button only works in ie? (or: does NOT work with firefox 1.0 Preview Release!) * in webaccess, after opening outbox, the "to", "subject" etc etc STAY grey (so: no sorting possible) (attempting anyway generates javascript error message) ("wait until folder is done loading before sorting") * after installation, the url to access the admin interface is wrong: should be /sac/Admin.jsp instead of /sac/Admin.html) * adding users doesn't work via admin interface. ("create user(s)" box is grayed out) (using ie box is NOT grey, but clicking it gives: "administration server is not responding. <br>Possible lost connection or server problem") mj > -----Original Message----- > From: a.bridge(a)insightbb.com [mailto:a.bridge@insightbb.com] > Sent: 29 October 2004 14:30 > To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com > Subject: [SLE] Scalix > > > I am going to try a demo of an email product called Scalix. > Does anyone have experience, knowledge, or suggestions on > this Scalix product? > > -- > 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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RP: USB disk problem on SuSE 9.1
by Silvio Moioli 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

I hope this re-post doesn't bug anyone... My problem is: 1) I have an USB flash disk that used to work some YOU ago (recognised as Oti Flash Disk or something like that) 2) After an (official) kernel upgrade the disk is recognised as a Oti Ultra Floppy, so it's being mounted with subfs. The ID number is wrongly reported to be 7777777777777777 (it's in fact mounted in usb-storage-7777777777777777:0:0:0p1) 3) Both mounting with subfs and vfat cafile:/home/silvio/documents/Downloads/Incoming uses ANY command to hang and/or block the entire system I hope someone can help me, Thanks in advance S.

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MBR
by Aaron Bridge 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

I was dual booting with Windows XP and Linux and I had to use "fixmbr" to re-write the master boot record because, I guess Grub got messed up because it wouldn't boot. Is there anyway to save my installed Linux because now I just have the regular Windows XP boot without an option for LInux?

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Postfix, fetchmail and locks
by Jerry Feldman 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

This is surely an RTFM, but I was not able to locate it in the FAQs. KMail uses a lock file (or fcntl) to lock a local mailbox when incorporating email. Procmail(1) uses /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME.lock. However, since Postfix does not use procmail I was wondering if it followed the same convention that procmail does? Also, AFAIK, fetchmail simply pipes its output into postfix via the sendmail interface, so the only guys updating /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME are postfix and kmail. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf(a)blu.org> Associate Director Boston Linux and Unix http://www.blu.org

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How to copy Audio Cassettes to MP3 EFFICIENTLY ???
by Ronald Wiplinger 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

I have a collection of good 400 C-60 audio cassettes (music, but also courses). I would like to copy these cassettes to mp3 files on my SuSE machine. (I am just thinking of moving my house: compare the size / weight of 400 cassettes to a few DVDs ;-) ) Problems I would like to solve automagically: 1. Maximal length of recording should be the length of the cassette I am not planning to sit in front of the computer and listen all cassettes. To put a cassette into the player and record and after the expected recording time, I will come back to put in a new cassette. The recording should end after the length of the cassette automatically 2. Silent detection at the end It can happen that the tape is not full recorded. The silent end of the tape should be cut off automatically! (Only the end, not if in a course a silent time happened) Is there any good way available? BTW, I am looking for the same for (30 only!) VHS (PAL system) to transfer to DVD. bye Ronald

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Re: [SLE] Cool' n' quiet feature
by Ed Harrison 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

Dear all, is it possible to enable the AMD "cool' n' quiet" feature on Linux? My distros are: SuSE 7.1 kernel 2.4.16 SuSE 8.1 kernel 2.4.19 Bye emilio I use fvcool from freshmeat.net/projects/fvcool. Cools and quiets, but messes with pci sound card. Ed Harrison SuSE 9.1, Kernel 2.6.9-vanilla PolarBar Mailer 1.25a

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re: MBR
by Ben 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

Naughty for not making a boot disk If you have knoppix you could boot knoppix then chroot and mount your old linux and run lilo or grub and it will then replace your mbr to be dual bootable again then make a boot disk -- Unix & Linux Linux & Unix Unix Linux. GOD, uses linux / / __ __ __ __ __ __ __ / /__ / / / \/ / / /_/ / \ \/ / /_____/ /_/ /_/\__/ /_____/ /_/\_\ Create a safe environment - Dump Microsoft Software - Stop virus email Email: <willcu(a)paradise.net.nz> Yours...Ben <willcu(a)paradise.net.nz> :)

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[?OT] failed make Obex 0.10.4
by Francesco Scaglioni 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

Hi, I cannot find any referneces to this on the obex site and googling hasn't helped. Am trying to make obex 0.10.4. Configure seems OK but make erors out as follows :: ,------ | obexftpd.o(.text+0x79): In function `start_server': | /home/fgs/download/obexftp-0.10.4/apps/obexftpd.c:116: undefined reference to `OBEX_ServerAccept' | collect2: ld returned 1 exit status `------ Does anyone have any suggestions for a workround for this? Cheers and TIA F

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RE: [SLE] Scalix
by Heupink, Mourik Jan C. 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

I'm doing the same at the moment. I've started installing linux on the server, so it'll be a while before I have scalix up and running... But I'm very much interested in your comments or feedback so far..? mj > -----Original Message----- > From: a.bridge(a)insightbb.com [mailto:a.bridge@insightbb.com] > Sent: 29 October 2004 14:30 > To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com > Subject: [SLE] Scalix > > > I am going to try a demo of an email product called Scalix. > Does anyone have experience, knowledge, or suggestions on > this Scalix product? > > -- > 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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SUSE now on Dell
by Allen 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

I just read an article showing SUSE Linux is now going too be on Dell systems, and won't cost more like it used too over RedHat, as they made you pay for custom options. One step forward again, good job Dell.

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Re: [SLE] OT: Calculating 95th Percentile
by Neil White 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

> > Yes, this is correct. However, the thing I am interested in, is HOW > > is this actually done ? I.e, is the reading taken via SNMP off the > > router / switch ? Is this even possible. I dont know what can and > > cant be done with the high end routers / switch. > > Also, would the providor set the router / switch to allow up to 2MB/s > > ? or if not, what is restricting me to up to 2MB/s ? > > There are network appliances available that allow for bandwidth > "shaping" per user, protocol, port, application, etc, including support > for rate caps and bursting. They should also allow for some sort of > exporting of bandwidth reports to allow for custom billing. > > For example: http://www.packeteer.com/prod-sol/products/packetshaper.cfm > > I'm sure there are many others... Cameron, Danny, Thanks to both of you for the information. I now know what I wanted to know. Thanks for the info. Whitey

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OT: ltmodem SOLVED
by Charles McColm 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

In an earlier post I mentioned that a recent kernel upgrade and driver upgrade for my Lucent winmodem seemed to make the modem disappear. The solution was simple: cd /lib/modules/2.6.5-override-default/ depmod Basically the idea is to run depmod where the ltmodem.ko files were. Modem works fine now. Hope this helps anyone else using a Lucent chipset modem or Compaq Armada E500 notebook. Cheers, Charles

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Connection test please disregard
by Alex Daniloff 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

Connection test please disregard

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test-delete me
by John Sowden 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

-- John Sowden American Sentry Systems. Inc. 1221 Andersen Drive San Rafael, CA 94901 U.L. Listed Central Station Alarm Service Serving the San Francisco Bay Area Since 1967 mail(a)americansentry.net http://www.americansentry.net

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any body run in to this yet
by Hans Krueger 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

I did the last bunch of up date with yast now I getting KDEInit could not launch 'CheckHardware when kde starts I'm still getting run away cpu proc but it doesn't show up under top or KDE System Guard suse 9.1 KDE 3.2.1 linux 2.6.5-7.111-default #1 Wed Oct 13 15:45:13 UTC 2004 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux thanks -- Hans hanskrueger(a)adelphia.net

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SuSEFirewall and phase 2 and 3 module boot error
by Donn Washburn 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Hey Group; No one answered this question so I figured out the problem. It is proof SuSE never tried it before shipping SuSE 9.2. Maybe they are just becoming Splash at boot only folks. There are 3 file involved. All are in /etc/init.d 1. SuSEfirewall2_init 2. SuSEfirewall2_setup 3. SuSEfirewall2_final All come with ______________________________________________ SUSEFWALL="/sbin/SuSEfirewall2" test -x $SUSEFWALL || exit 5 test -r /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2 || exit 6 . /etc/rc.status rc_reset case "$1" in start) echo -n "Starting Firewall Initialization " echo -n '(phase 3 of 3) ' $SUSEFWALL status rc_status -v _________________________________________________ Of course the "phase" number differs in each file. Problem is seen at boot time (Try "F2" at bootup and see what you find - some very interesting thing showup during boot). SuSE didn't verify that "/sbin/SuSEfirewall2" doesn't mind starting multiple times. Problem is it does mind. It will even tell you it does - hence the error at boot time. To fix the problem simply comment out "$SUSEFWALL start" by replacingq it with "# $SUSEFWALL start" in two files. 2. SuSEfirewall2_setup 3. SuSEfirewall2_final Take a look at "/sbin/SuSEfirewall2 --help" -- 73 de Donn Washburn __" http://www.hal-pc.org/~n5xwb " Ham Callsign N5XWB / / __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 307 Savoy St. / /__ / / / \/ / / /_/ / \ \/ / Sugar Land, TX 77478 /_____/ /_/ /_/\__/ /_____/ /_/\_\ LL# 1.281.242.3256 Dump Microsoft Software - Stop virus email Email: n5xwb(a)hal-pc.org " http://counter.li.org " #279316

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Kmail files
by Dennis J. Tuchler 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

where are the kmail files (e.g.address book) located under SuSE? dj tuchler

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Re: [SLE] unable to get kernel (from kernel.org) to work
by Eric Schoneveld 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

At 11:41 1-11-2004, you wrote: >I'm trying to compile a kernel for my 8.2 system. I thought that I would >try 2.6.9, but It won't mount the root filesystem. > >I use grub and here is my entry in grub What drive/controller combo are you using ? I had the same problems using the 2.6.8.1 kernel, because all the drive letters changed. I am using the SATA Via controller which suddenly became a scsi drive. Still don't understand why Linus is making these big changes ! I am stucking with 2.6.7 since that has been working very nice so far for quite some time. Eric

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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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boot params for live cd
by Ken Schneider 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Is it possible to specify a swap device in the boot params? I d/l'd the DVD version of the 9.2 live eval and only have 256mb of ram in my laptop and would like to try it before buying it. I keep getting a kernel panic when I run out of memory. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989 SuSE since 1998 * Only reply to the list please*

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changing to diffrent wirless netowrks
by David Sexton 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Dues any one know of an easy way to switch between wireless networks? One network uses wep and the other network is open. I am using Suse 9.1 David

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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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problem with dialup, Kinternet, Kmail
by Constant Brouerius van Nidek 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Running 9.1 with KDE 3.3.0 with dialup. I am using Kmail and since years I have had no problems whatshowever. I have the feeling that my ISP is playing around with their server but they deny that this is the case. Since two days dialing goes fine but after some waiting I get the message that the pop.indo.net.id could not be found. This pop server is the one which is included in my Kmail setup since years. If I okay the error message I can connect to my ISP pop server without any problems. Is there a method to make visible what the ISP is expecting instead of the (my) usual input? Why can I connect the second time without problems? Is my ISP the second time not receiving the string pop.indo.net.id? The actual problem is not severe but prevents me from an automated download of my email at hourly intervals. And by the way, I am also not able to send email after having made the connection. Unknown host: smtp.indo.net.id not found.

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Possible bug in dhcpcd package or modify_resolvconf script?
by Nicholas DeClario 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

I have been having an issue on a customized SuSE setup where my '/etc/resolv.conf' wasn't getting populated when using dhcp. After investigating further with debugging mode I found that my dhcp server was returning two hosts. dhcpcd would pass the information on to a SuSE script '/sbin/modify_resolvconf'. That script would then use 'getopt' to parse the command line parameters. To pass a nameserver to the script the '-n' flag is used. So in our case we want '-n $NS1 $NS2' however, getopt was parsing it as '-n $NS1' '$NS2'. $NS2 being a standalone parameter which the script was interpreting as an 'action' by modify_resolvconf. This was resulting in the following error: ERROR: Exactly one action may be given. Currently given actions: modify 10.4.21.11 I found that if I changed the command line to '-n $NS1 -n $NS2' it worked ok. So I made the following change to 'dhcpconfig.c' from the dhcpcd package. - sprintf(NameserverList + strlen(NameserverList), "%u.%u.%u.%u", + sprintf(NameserverList + strlen(NameserverList), "%u.%u.%u.%u -n ", However, this resulted in the following in my '/etc/resolv.conf': <clip> ### END INFO search ******.****.com nameserver 10.4.21.11 nameserver -n nameserver 10.4.21.10 nameserver -n So I made one last quick change to '/sbin/modify_resolvconf' to resolve this. - -n|--nameservers) DNS="$2"; shift 2;; + -n|--nameservers) DNS="`echo $2 | sed -e 's/-n//g'`"; shift 2;; I didn't have a great deal of time to mess around with this much, I just needed to get it working. So I am not sure if this is the best solution for this or if this possibly isn't a bug at all given our modified setup. I was able to reproduce the original problem on several pieces of hardware running the same modified SuSE system and the above appears to fix the problem on every system. Regards, -Nick

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RE: [SLE] 9.2 Pro Student Version
by Cleary_Mike＠emc.com 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

I did what I should have done in the first place, ask SuSE. :) Here was my question: What is the "SuSE 9.2 Pro Student Version"? How is it different from the SuSE Pro and Upgrade versions? I could not find any product comparisons on the web site. And the response was: There is no difference. If you are a student or an educational institution, you get a discount from the regular price. Mike ------------------------------- Cleary_Mike(a)emc.com ------------------------------- A wink is as good as a nod to a blind horse. -----Original Message----- From: Jerome R. Westrick [mailto:jerry@westrick.com] Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2004 4:13 PM To: Suse Users Subject: Re: [SLE] 9.2 Pro Student Version On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 21:53, martin mcleod wrote: > I think it's the same as the upgrade version. > > regards > > martin > > > On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 15:22:54 -0400, cleary_mike(a)emc.com > <cleary_mike(a)emc.com> wrote: > > This may be a dumb question, but does anyone know if the "Student Version" > > just reflects > > > > academic pricing? I have searched the Novell site trying to see if there > > is a difference between > > > > 9.2 Pro and 9.2 Pro Student Version. But I can't find anything... > > > > TIA, > > > > Mike > > > > ------------------------------- > > > > Cleary_Mike(a)emc.com > > > > ------------------------------- > > > > A wink is as good as a nod to a blind horse. > > > > Remember The only diference between the upgrade and the pro version is the number of dead trees... (ie. on missing manual!) The software is always the same... Jerry -- 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] Samba or Novel?
by David Bank 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Couple of obervations: 1) The company name is spelled "Novell". 2) "Novell" is a company. It makes a number of products, among them "NetWare" (a NOS) and SUSE Linux. You are considering substituting SAMBA for NetWare, not "Novel". 3) The next released of NetWare, dubbed "Open Enterprise Server" (OES), will offer you the OPTION of installing NetWare's services atop EITHER the "traditional" NetWare kernel OR a SUSE Linux kernel. This is due out in the next 3 months or so. 4) If you're running a modern version of NetWare (v5.1 or later), you ALREADY have the option of using a SAMBA-like environment. Its called Native File Access Protocols (NFAP). This allows a NetWare server to appear as a Windoze CIFS server, and can be thought of as "SAMBA for NetWare"). See http://www.novell.com/products/nfa So.... unless you're still running a version of NetWare from LAST century, you already have the capability to implement what you're looking at, without any additional cost or investment - you simply turn the functionality on. As for migrating wholesale, why not wait for OES to be released, and see what that offers, before you make a decision. At least you'll be making a decision with all the info. >>> "Chris Roubekas" <croubekas(a)panafonet.gr> 11/1/2004 6:15:49 AM >>> Dear friends, I am thinking about substituting Samba for Novel. Do you know of any good document and/or manual that perhaps I could read prior to making such a change (website perhaps) ? I thought of making this change since I am facing some problems with mapped drives from Windows to Samba and I would like to examine the Novel case as a possibility (hopefully better one). In addition if there is anyone that has a Novel Server (emulation) running already with SuSE9.1 or prior, I would be very interested in hearing your impressions and thoughts. Do you consider Novel to be a better solution than Samba? Kind Regards, Chris

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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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SuSE9.1 & Hylafax 4.1.8-21
by Chris Roubekas 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Dear all, I have recently installed a machine with the above mentioned configuration. The machine will be a fax-server. It will only receive (at the moment) faxes and store them on its hard-drive. the problem is that all the faxes that I receive are either black pages or they are white pages with a black thick stripe horizontaly. Can someone please give me a hand with this?? I have received a total of 9 faxes and they are all the same (mostly white pages with black stripe). Tons of thanks! Chris

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Re: [SLE] dir /s
by Bahram Alinezhad 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "Bahram Alinezhad" (alineziad(a)yahoo.com) wrote: ---------- Can you see the file-location with this?! <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<- ->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "Patrick Shanahan" (paka(a)wahoo.no-ip.org) wrote: ---------- Bahram, this is *not* a good question. Try it *yourself* and see if it works. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<- Rhetorical question; Negative answer is implied. Thank you for your notice, Bahram Alinezhad, Rudehen, Tehran, Iran. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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Dell printers
by Jerry Feldman 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

A friend of mine bought a new Dell system (actually his daughter ordered it without my input) and it comes with a DELL 922 all-in-one printer. I installed SuSE 9.2 on it and it detected the printer but I was unable to get it to print. That printer is also not listed in Linux printing.org. The other problem was that I was unable to get the internal modem to connect, but he is getting a cable modem shortly, so I can find the right driver for this at a future time. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf(a)blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9

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Visor Module For SuSE 8.2 and Palm Zire 31 Available
by L. Mark Stone 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Using the instructions provided by Lars Risan's web page, I successfully recompiled just the visor.o module. If anyone would like it, it is available for download at: http://www.rnome.com/visor.o I am using it successfully with the KPilot packaged with KDE 3.3.1 and pilot-link 11.8. If you want to compile your own, just follow the directions on Lars' page at: http://folk.uio.no/lrisan/Palm/zire.html Note that I did not use the "make modules..." sequence of commands, but instead used the "gcc..." command to recompile only the visor module. I also edited the gcc command to match my version of the kernel. Happy syncing! Mark -- __________________________________________________________ A Message From... L. Mark Stone Reliable Networks of Maine, LLC 477 Congress Street Portland, ME 04101 (207) 772-5678

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Re: [SLE] Epson 4180 USB scanner
by James Knott 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Sunday 31 October 2004 6:39 pm, you wrote: >>Epson is one of the best scanners, for support in Linux. My Perfection >>1260 Photo Scanner certainly works. > > > so how did you get it to work? > and what software are you using? > I've tried to install vuescan, but it doesn't recognize my scanner. > I just plugged it in and it was instantly recognized. As I recall, I had to select a model, but that was about it. I use it with xsane and OpenOffice.

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slowness encountered with java applets
by Toh Boon Wee 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

I have installed the necessary applications that comes with Suse Linux Professional 9.1. However, the webpages with java applets load extremely slow. It takes almost 5 minutes for a webpage with simple java applet to load. my java version is as follows: Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2_03-b02) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2_03-b02, mixed mode) and i am using mozilla. I do not encounter slowness with non-java applets webpages. Hope that someone can help advise. Thanks.

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Samba or Novel?
by Chris Roubekas 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Dear friends, I am thinking about substituting Samba for Novel. Do you know of any good document and/or manual that perhaps I could read prior to making such a change (website perhaps) ? I thought of making this change since I am facing some problems with mapped drives from Windows to Samba and I would like to examine the Novel case as a possibility (hopefully better one). In addition if there is anyone that has a Novel Server (emulation) running already with SuSE9.1 or prior, I would be very interested in hearing your impressions and thoughts. Do you consider Novel to be a better solution than Samba? Kind Regards, Chris

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Cool' n' quiet feature
by contiemilio＠virgilio.it 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Dear all, is it possible to enable the AMD "cool' n' quiet" feature on Linux? My distros are: SuSE 7.1 kernel 2.4.16 SuSE 8.1 kernel 2.4.19 Bye emilio

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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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Keeping system UIDs and GIDs across re-install
by Michael James 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

One of the advantages of doing an OS upgrade (instead of a new install) is it looks at your existing passwd file and keeps the old UIDs. But I don't trust upgrades, I install into new partitions and merge in the customisations of the old machine. This gives me a new passwd file sometimes with changed UIDs. Then I have the messy job of changing them back and finding any new owned files to change them too. It's a big machine (800 Gig) to run this command from root: find . -user <old-UID> -exec chown <username> {} \; Note this is only a problem for system entries (dhcpd etc.) real users have UIDs above 1000 and can be added later simply by appending that part of the old passwd file. I do have to keep system UIDs consistent as I have multiple machines running different steppings of Suse and sharing files. 3 questions: Is there a way of feeding the old password file into the install to ensure existing UIDs are preserved? Do the Suse UIDs depend on which packages are installed? Could I build things from a published, reliable list "These are the numbers that Suse will always choose"? michaelj -- Michael James michael.james(a)csiro.au System Administrator voice: 02 6246 5040 CSIRO Bioinformatics Facility fax: 02 6246 5166

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Re: [SLE] 9.2 printers Q
by Web Developer 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

---------- Original Message ------------- Subject: [SLE] 9.2 printers Q Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 18:27:28 -0500 From: Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett(a)optonline.net> To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Hopefully 9.2 will show up on my doorstep in a few days. If I have two printers installed, will it find both of them? (They will both be on LPT ports.) If it will not, I will disconnect the color printer aned leave the Laserjet. The color printer is manually shared at present with another old computer, and is not always connected to this one that I will put 9.2 on. --doug _______________________________ Doug, Off-hand, I cannot think of a reason why SUSE wouldn't detect both of them - assuming SUSE recognizes them. Are the printers on separate boxes, or do you have 2 LPT ports on one box? Unless SUSE has problems with multiple LPT ports (which I would have to see to believe), you should be good to go. If you're talking about networking the two boxes (each with its own printer), again, you should be o.k. I've never hooked up more than one printer to a PC, even under Windoze, so take my input with a grain of salt. Don -- Web Developer Matheteuo Christian Fellowship webdev(a)matheteuo.org http://matheteuo.org/ Free software is like God's love - you can share it with anyone anywhere anytime!

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Re: [SLE] Suse 9.2
by Web Developer 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

---------- Original Message ------------- Subject: Re: [SLE] Suse 9.2 Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 18:02:17 -0500 From: James Knott <james.knott(a)rogers.com> To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com rkimber(a)ntlworld.com wrote: > On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 12:06:17 -0500 > Don Parris <webdev(a)matheteuo.org> wrote: > >>Peter, >> I believe I read somewhere about Mandrake having problems with Maxtor >> >>drives, and Maxtor not being very Linux friendly. Before I get too >>far with thought, I'll check it out, and get back to you. It may have >>some bearing on your situtation. > > > My Maxtor drives seem OK. So do both of my 60 GB drives. ________________________________ Unfortunately, I wsn't able to find the discussion I was thinking of. I've never heard of hard drives being OS-biased, but apparently Mandrake 9.something had issues with a hard drive by a certain manufacturer. That discussion was on another list, and searching my gmail archives didn't turn it up. It may also have been specific to Mandrake. At any rate, since I don't have the right info, I'll shut up now. <g> Don -- Web Developer Matheteuo Christian Fellowship webdev(a)matheteuo.org http://matheteuo.org/ Free software is like God's love - you can share it with anyone anywhere anytime!

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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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9.2 and two problems
by Donn Washburn 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Hey Group; Two problems have surfaced in 9.2 after upgrading from the Update sites. 1. Yast finds and has setup the sound. "Test" works, however, KDE has not. Mixers claim that the resource is locked or busy. I cleared my /home/lil-me/kde directory with no change to the sound problem. 2. SuSEFirewall is at boot time complaining about ipfwadm.ko already in use. I have looked all over etc for it and final tracked it to /usr/sbin/SuSEFire*. That is where the error is coming from. -- 73 de Donn Washburn __" http://www.hal-pc.org/~n5xwb " Ham Callsign N5XWB / / __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 307 Savoy St. / /__ / / / \/ / / /_/ / \ \/ / Sugar Land, TX 77478 /_____/ /_/ /_/\__/ /_____/ /_/\_\ LL# 1.281.242.3256 Dump Microsoft Software - Stop virus email Email: n5xwb(a)hal-pc.org " http://counter.li.org " #279316

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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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Apache PHP and no email
by Warren Mason 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

I have a standard installation of 9.1 and I am attempting to get a web page to send mail. I have tried varions scripts (all of them work on a redhat server) but they all stop at the same point and don't send any mail. If I do somthing simple such as <?php mail("me(a)my-real-email.com.au","test message","This is a test"); ?> The error is Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mail() in /srv/www/htdocs/test/mailtest.php on line 2 Can anyone tell me why the mail() function is missing or how to get it working? I thought is was a core component of PHP. thanks in advance Warren ----------------------------------------------------- This message is intended for the addressee named and may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it and notify the sender. Views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and are not necessarily the views of the Mid Western Area Health Service. ----------------------------------------------------- <<<<gwavasig>>>>

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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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