November 2004 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Bad blocks on a ReiserFS volume. How to retrieve files?
by Silviu Marin-Caea 14 Aug '24

14 Aug '24

I have a large hard-disk (120 GB) on which some blocks went bad. Now, it cannot be mounted. Attached is what debugreiserfs says. What can I do; I'm newbie to reiserfs architecture. I thought that ReiserFS keeps copies of the superblock or something, like ext2/3 does. reiserfsck says "error occured looks like hardware problem. bread cannot read block 13271040". That's the actual number it displays. PS I have asked the same question on the reiserfs-list, but it's extremely low traffic. Maybe someone here knows more. Thank you Filesystem state: consistency is not checked after last mounting Reiserfs super block in block 16 on 0x1642 of format 3.6 with standard journal Count of blocks on the device: 29945160 Number of bitmaps: 914 Blocksize: 4096 Free blocks (count of blocks - used [journal, bitmaps, data, reserved] blocks): 29154954 Root block: 14969 Filesystem is NOT clean Tree height: 4 Hash function used to sort names: "r5" Objectid map size 10, max 972 Journal parameters: Device [0x0] Magic [0x34ae2c74] Size 8193 blocks (including 1 for journal header) (first block 18) Max transaction length 1024 blocks Max batch size 900 blocks Max commit age 30 Blocks reserved by journal: 0 Fs state field: 0x0 sb_version: 2 inode generation number: 35482 UUID: 48d29ced-fe37-4c68-adf8-32ace9f2be45 LABEL: Set flags in SB: ATTRIBUTES CLEAN

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Sorry SuSE: 9.1 is Waste of time and money!
by Terje J. Hanssen 17 May '24

17 May '24

I am sorry to conclude that my upgrade from SuSE 9.0 Pro to 9.1 Pro has been waste of time and money for me, so far. The same I have to say about the free SuSE "Installation support". The reason is that my SuSE 9.1 installation only detects 1 of my 3 SCSCI devices (as I wrote in another subject on this forum: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2004-May/3254.html) Yamaha 4416S CDRW recorder detected HP DVD Writer 100i NOT detected Epson 1640SU scanner NOT detected It's rather stupid. I have installed 9.1 using the DVD disk just in the HP DVD drive, but after the installation of 9.1, the KDE/Konqueror /media/recorder cannot access it and YaST2 cannot install additional software from it. Only one "Cdrecorder" is found in My computer and that is the Yamaha 4416 drive, which the KDE/Konqueror file manager assign as /media/recorder11. I am sure 9.1 is the reason, as I hadn't this problems with 9.0. I have tried both an update and two several new installation of 9.1. Neither SJDS nor Windows on the same multiboot PC have problems to detect these devices. In my opinion SuSE should therefore debug 9.1 better and longer, and not leave the problems to the customers. I see SuSE notes on their web saying that they know SCSI scanners are not detected in 9.1. But regarding my HP DVD writer problem, the SuSE support (as usual) don't take the responsibility and argue that this problem (a combination of IDE disk and SCSI devices) isn't included in their free installation support! This sounds remarkable, and I have never had a modern PC of so simple model or configuration that it has fitted the limited rules for the free installation support. Terje J. Hanssen

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[SLE] RealPlayer G2 on SuSe 6.2
by yh＠ottawa.com 03 Apr '24

03 Apr '24

Yesterday, I finally got sound going on my Linux setup. I downloaded RealPlayer G2 and it worked beautifully. Today, RealPlayer run but no sound coming out. All other sound functions still work. I can still play my CD, have system sound BUT no sound when I run RealPlayer. /var/log/message said kernel: Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error? but KDE sound still work. I have re-installed RealPlayer 3 times now, still no sound when I run the RealPlayer. Any help is appreciated. Ying yh(a)ottawa.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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Creating a new user for a deamon
by Rowan Reid 16 Jan '24

16 Jan '24

I'm setting up a cron job for a analysis tool, I'm trying to use the SuSE tools where possible but YAST doent' allow you to create new user without a home I tried /dev/null is there a proper way to do this ? Rowan Reid Job Captain, Systems Administrator STUDIO 3 ARCHITECTS 909 982 1717

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Web Site Standards
by Bryan Tyson 26 Sep '21

26 Sep '21

On Wednesday 03 July 2002 03:38, Michael wrote: > I tried to visit this site. > http://www.bet365.com > The result upset me so much i sent them this. I sent the letter below, and I encourage everyone on the list to send a similar letter. ----------------------------------------- Subject: Create a Real Web Site Please From: Bryan S. Tyson <bryantyson(a)earthlink.net> To: webmaster(a)bet365.com When attempting to view your site using Konqueror 2.2.1 and Mozilla 0.9.4, both Linux web browsers, I was curtly informed that my browser is "incompatible." Your site, sir, is what is "incompatible." Stick with established standards and real html, not Microsoft proprietary "features." *************************************************** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson(a)earthlink.net ***************************************************

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Mount Windows NT(NTFS) drive as drive Z: for all users
by Keith Jacobs 26 Sep '21

26 Sep '21

We have an winNT server and need to auto mount a shared folder as if it were a windose mapped drive Z: on SuSE8 Could someone please explain how to do this and how to make sure it is set-up for every user everytime the system is booted. Thanks Regards Keith Jacobs New to Linux

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Adding fonts?
by Tracer Bullet 22 Aug '16

22 Aug '16

Hi all, Reading some mails on the GIMP mail list, I ran across the procedure to install some more fonts for not only Gimp, but the system and StarOffice to use also. Well, I installed the fonts, went to the shell and issued the command xset fp+ <font directory> and then the rehash command and all fonts are there! Ok, that went well, but each time I restart the system, I have to do it all over again? Is there a way to make it permanent and read the new fonts like it does the ones the system installs or is that a no-no? end of line Tracer Shell commands: xset fp+ <new font directory> xset fp rehash -- ---KMail 1.2--- SuSE Linux v7.2--- Registered Linux User #225206 /tracerb(a)sprintmail.com/ *Magic Page Products* *Team Amiga* http://home.sprintmail.com/~tracerb

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print from K-Mail run together
by Doug McGarrett 02 May '06

02 May '06

I don't remember seeing this problem on the list. KMail print on screen is clear and most letters are separated. When I print out a mail, some letters, particularly the "t", the "si" and the "sk" combinations are scrunched together with adjoining letters. I am printing to an HP 2200D laserjet. The typeface on screen (and on paper) is a sans-serif font. Even on screen, it is slightly scrunched in spots. "ri" and "ti" and "tt" and "th" are too close together. Suggestions? TNX--doug

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screen, mouse, kb lockup
by Doug McGarrett 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

While attempting to stop a video playing on Macro Media Flash Player 7, I managed to lock out everything. I could not move the mouse cursor, the arrow keys and the rest of the kb didn't work, ctl-alt-del did nothing. None of the function keys did anything. (The video was something downloaded from the 'net via Firefox.) I wound up pulling the big switch, as us hams like to say. Is there anything else I could have done? I'm trying to put Linux to practical use, and this is the first time I've seen 10.0 crash, so it's good, but not fool-proof. (If something can be broken, this fool will break it!)

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External disk choice
by Maura Edelweiss Monville 12 Feb '06

12 Feb '06

I have a 4-year old DELL desktop with a heavy CRT monitor that I'm going to give away soon . I also have a 2 month old laptop. Both computers run Linux/SuSE. I would like to buy an external disk to save most of my s/w development now residing on my old desktop. But I would like to be able to use it also with my laptop. Both computers have some USB ports so I daresay an external USB disk would be fine .. I'd appreciate some suggestion about a USB reliable, large capacity but portable, external disk or any alternative solution. Thank you in advance. Maura

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SCSI RAID recovery
by Robert Amodeo 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

I have a fileserver running SuSE 8.0 with 2 IDE Drives and a SCSI RAID (RAID5). The system boots up to one of the IDE drives, and the SCSI RAID drive runs as a mounted filesystem (/dev/md0). (all filesystems are REISERFS). Problem: The SCSI RAID drive has crashed (won't boot up), and I need to recover it (repair it, through some utility). Further: The software does not seem to want to mount the disks, even though the SCSI BIOS (Adaptec) recognizes the disks, and they are listed as OPTIMAL. I tried to repair the disk(s) (with reiserfsck), but it produced an error message: reiserfs_open: bread failed reading block 2 reiserfs_open: bread failed reading block 16 reiserfs_open: neither new nor old reiserfs form found on /dev/md0 The literature suggested that this error message is hardware related (either a disk is physically damaged, or maybe the RAID isn't recognized), but again, the disks are recognized (and therefore, so is the SCSI Card). I tried to boot up with SuSE CD 1 in Recovery mode, but not sure what to do there (i.e., after the root prompt - just run reiserfsck?). Literature suggests there are plenty of tools to handle disk recovery, and especially RAID support, I can't find reference to them anywhere. The installation of the RAID was trivial (using the YAST2 partitioning GUI window on startup), and yet recovery seems to be a mystery. This can't be right. Does anyone know where there are "decent" and "usable" recovery tools? OR ... does anyone know what "specifically" to do in this case? Can I re-partition without formatting, and recover the existing data? Any help is appreciated - I'm sure I'm missing something "obvious", but can't find "obviously" what to do in the literature, docs, etc. Thank you. Robert Amodeo School of Engineering and Applied Science University of California, Los Angeles

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stable,updated,zero-cost,FLOSS virus software
by David Storrs 18 Oct '05

18 Oct '05

What are people using for anti-virus software? I've got BitDefender running on my machine, but I'd like to find something zero-cost that has a nice GUI so that when I set up boxes for friends and family, they can use it. Regularly (and automatically) updated virus definitions are a must, here. Dave

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Command Line Packet Sniffer
by Lucky Leavell 12 Jul '05

12 Jul '05

I need a command line based packet sniffer. (I would use tethereal but this system has no graphical stuff.) ALl it needs to do is collect raw packets for analysis by ethereal on a different box. Thank you, Lucky Leavell

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screensaver
by Mitja 26 Jun '05

26 Jun '05

Today I installed update for KDE 3.3 (Sept. 15th) and many screensavers stop work. Which versoin of kdeartwor3-screensavers works correct, please. Mitja

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Internet connection through modem in 9.1 is slow
by Carlos E. R. 09 May '05

09 May '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Since I updated, a month ago, from SuSE 8.2 to SuSE 9.1 I had the feeling that the modem connection was slower than previously. Previously I saw comments on this list to that effect, but they seemed to be related to winmodems. It could be just an unjustified feeling, therefore I started to pay more attention, and finally I ran some test to confirm it. Thus, I can now confirm it: there is something in SuSE 9.1 that makes Internet connection using a modem definitely slower than previous versions of SuSE. ** System ** SuSE 9.1 on a P-IV at 1.8 Ghz, with 700Mb ram. Internet connection through external serial modem (3COM US Robotics, V90 type) - no winmodem involved. I have tried reducing the TCP window to 8Kb, as recommended on the SDB: no noticeably change. Patches (YOU) are almost up to date - at 2K/s a kernel update is... fearsome :-( Connection is started using wvdial on an xterm (same definitions as in SuSE 8.2 previously). Desktop is gnome. Running susefirewall2 and DNS locally. More info: just ask for it :-) ** Symptoms ** Mail fetching (fetchmail) runs jerkily, it runs and stops, seldom reaching 5Kb/s. It may stop for as long as 1 minute, timing out. But connectivity is not lost: pings to the same server from which I'm downloading works; one provider yields 20% packet loss, another 1% - so packet loss is probably not the main issue. YOU takes seemingly for ever. Ftp downloads are slow. Browsing of large pages is also slow. ** Tests done ** 1) Plug the modem on my old Pentium 120 machine, running SuSE 7.3, text only. Route through intranet (one ethernet cable, direct, 100 Mb/s). Change default route in main computer (SuSE 9.1) to eth0, and do the downloading, name solving, etc, on this "fast" machine - no software is changed at all - except that wvdial and pppd runs on the other 7.3 machine. +----------+ +-----------+ +------+ | P-120 | | P-IV 1.8Gh| ---phone---|modem |---rs232---| SuSE 7.3 |--eth--| SuSE 9.1 | line +------+ | | | (fetch) | +----------+ +-----------+ Run and time a single download of 738442 bytes. During this download no other Internet activity is running (no fetchmail, no browsing, no email sending). There is the local firewall (Susefirewall2) and a local dns server. No high load tasks are running (no updatedb, for example), only the xterms on which I see the logs and enter the commands. 2), 3) Plug the modem back on my P-IV machine running SuSE 9.1. Remove default route to eth0. Repeat the download, using two different providers, to make sure. Everything else is the same. ** Conclusion of the 3 tests, in brief ** When routed through the old computer running SuSE 7.3, throughput is 5.04 KB/s (on previous, non meticulous tests, I saw speed peeks up to 8Kb when downloading email - surely due to compression). When using the fast, Pentium IV machine, with SuSE 9.1, average speed is between 1 - 2 Kbytes per second! (even less, in fact). This is a disgrace :-// I see a lot of ppp "decompression error" in the kernel logs: Jul 23 21:22:39 nimrodel kernel: PPP: VJ decompression error I count 37 of them during test #2 (none during test #3) - compared with 560 during 4 months usage of SuSE 8.2 on this same machine. ** Wild non-educated guess ** The kernel is loosing ACK packets, so the servers waits. ** Detailed results ** *********** TEST #1: teleline - routed through P120, SuSE 7.3 ************** cer@nimrodel:~> date ; time wget --timeout=45 --waitretry=10 --continue "http://old.spamassassin.org/released/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.63.tar.bz2" Fri Jul 23 20:52:39 CEST 2004 - --20:52:39-- http://old.spamassassin.org/released/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.63.tar.bz2 => `Mail-SpamAssassin-2.63.tar.bz2' Resolving old.spamassassin.org... 64.142.3.173 Connecting to old.spamassassin.org[64.142.3.173]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 738,442 [application/x-bzip2] 100%[==============================================================================>] 738,442 5.10K/s ETA 00:00 20:55:03 (5.04 KB/s) - `Mail-SpamAssassin-2.63.tar.bz2' saved [738442/738442] real 2m24.400s user 0m0.043s sys 0m0.065s cer@nimrodel:~> l Mail-SpamAssassin-2.63.tar.bz2 - -rw-r--r-- 1 cer users 738442 2004-01-20 23:06 Mail-SpamAssassin-2.63.tar.bz2 cer@nimrodel:~> rm Mail-SpamAssassin-2.63.tar.bz2 *********** TEST #2: teleline, direct, PIV - SuSE 9.1 ************** cer@nimrodel:~> date ; time wget --timeout=45 --waitretry=10 --continue "http://old.spamassassin.org/released/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.63.tar.bz2" Fri Jul 23 21:04:31 CEST 2004 - --21:04:31-- http://old.spamassassin.org/released/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.63.tar.bz2 => `Mail-SpamAssassin-2.63.tar.bz2' Resolving old.spamassassin.org... 64.142.3.173 Connecting to old.spamassassin.org[64.142.3.173]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 738,442 [application/x-bzip2] 5% [==> ] 37,314 541.56B/s ETA 23:15 21:06:27 (541.46 B/s) - Read error at byte 37314/738442 (Connection timed out). Retrying. - --21:06:28-- http://old.spamassassin.org/released/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.63.tar.bz2 (try: 2) => `Mail-SpamAssassin-2.63.tar.bz2' Connecting to old.spamassassin.org[64.142.3.173]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Continued download failed on this file, which conflicts with `-c'. Refusing to truncate existing file `Mail-SpamAssassin-2.63.tar.bz2'. real 1m57.632s user 0m0.005s sys 0m0.008s So, I remove the "continue" and increase the timeout value, and try again. cer@nimrodel:~> date ; time wget --timeout=90 --waitretry=10 "http://old.spamassassin.org/released/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.63.tar.bz2" Fri Jul 23 21:08:13 CEST 2004 - --21:08:13-- http://old.spamassassin.org/released/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.63.tar.bz2 => `Mail-SpamAssassin-2.63.tar.bz2.2' Resolving old.spamassassin.org... 64.142.3.173 Connecting to old.spamassassin.org[64.142.3.173]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 738,442 [application/x-bzip2] 10% [=======> ] 76,410 2.16K/s ETA 05:15 12% [=========> ] 95,234 601.24B/s ETA 10:52 22% [================> ] 166,186 694.98B/s ETA 10:40 29% [======================> ] 219,762 896.54B/s ETA 10:49 {xterm resize} 41% [=====================> ] 305,194 496.80B/s ETA 10:03 {xterm resize} 43% [================> ] 321,122 412.63B/s ETA 10:49 96% [======================================> ] 709,186 538.58B/s ETA 00:37 100%[========================================>] 738,442 2.21K/s ETA 00:00 21:23:27 (809.97 B/s) - `Mail-SpamAssassin-2.63.tar.bz2.2' saved [738442/738442] real 15m13.735s user 0m0.006s sys 0m0.016s Connectivity was not lost during pauses: cer@nimrodel:~> ping old.spamassassin.org PING bugzilla.spamassassin.org (64.142.3.173) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from bugzilla.spamassassin.org (64.142.3.173): icmp_seq=1 ttl=46 time=319 ms 64 bytes from bugzilla.spamassassin.org (64.142.3.173): icmp_seq=2 ttl=46 time=286 ms 64 bytes from bugzilla.spamassassin.org (64.142.3.173): icmp_seq=3 ttl=46 time=289 ms 64 bytes from bugzilla.spamassassin.org (64.142.3.173): icmp_seq=7 ttl=46 time=307 ms 64 bytes from bugzilla.spamassassin.org (64.142.3.173): icmp_seq=9 ttl=46 time=306 ms - --- bugzilla.spamassassin.org ping statistics --- 10 packets transmitted, 5 received, 50% packet loss, time 9003ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 286.976/302.200/319.884/12.398 ms cer@nimrodel:~> But you see a "50% packet loss" - although not always: cer@nimrodel:~> ping old.spamassassin.org PING bugzilla.spamassassin.org (64.142.3.173) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from bugzilla.spamassassin.org (64.142.3.173): icmp_seq=1 ttl=46 time=306 ms 64 bytes from bugzilla.spamassassin.org (64.142.3.173): icmp_seq=2 ttl=46 time=286 ms 64 bytes from bugzilla.spamassassin.org (64.142.3.173): icmp_seq=3 ttl=46 time=280 ms 64 bytes from bugzilla.spamassassin.org (64.142.3.173): icmp_seq=4 ttl=46 time=282 ms 64 bytes from bugzilla.spamassassin.org (64.142.3.173): icmp_seq=5 ttl=46 time=282 ms 64 bytes from bugzilla.spamassassin.org (64.142.3.173): icmp_seq=6 ttl=46 time=279 ms 64 bytes from bugzilla.spamassassin.org (64.142.3.173): icmp_seq=7 ttl=46 time=278 ms - --- bugzilla.spamassassin.org ping statistics --- 7 packets transmitted, 7 received, 0% packet loss, time 6005ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 278.978/285.684/306.956/9.035 ms cer@nimrodel:~> The round trip increases notably when the download resumes. I tend to leave a terminal pinging something continuously, else my wvdial session timeouts at 60" (local phone is charged by the minute here), so I do know the server from which I'm downloading is not down. cer@nimrodel:~> ping -a -A old.spamassassin.org PING bugzilla.spamassassin.org (64.142.3.173) 56(84) bytes of data. ... - --- bugzilla.spamassassin.org ping statistics --- 208 packets transmitted, 167 received, 19% packet loss, time 82875ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 277.933/412.677/1731.743/272.088 ms, pipe 4, ipg/ewma 400.366/677.842 ms *********** TEST #3: tiscali, direct, PIV - SuSE 9.1 ************** Test done using an alternate provider; everything else is the same as test number 2. cer@nimrodel:~> date ; time wget --timeout=90 --waitretry=10 "http://old.spamassassin.org/released/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.63.tar.bz2" Fri Jul 23 21:27:25 CEST 2004 - --21:27:25-- http://old.spamassassin.org/released/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.63.tar.bz2 => `Mail-SpamAssassin-2.63.tar.bz2.3' Resolving old.spamassassin.org... 64.142.3.173 Connecting to old.spamassassin.org[64.142.3.173]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 738,442 [application/x-bzip2] 2% [ ] 15,609 1.27K/s ETA 12:10 86% [==================================> ] 636,801 1.59K/s ETA 01:05 100%[========================================>] 738,442 885.09B/s ETA 00:00 21:36:03 (1.40 KB/s) - `Mail-SpamAssassin-2.63.tar.bz2.3' saved [738442/738442] real 8m37.800s user 0m0.006s sys 0m0.008s Pings during this download: - --- bugzilla.spamassassin.org ping statistics --- 714 packets transmitted, 705 received, 1% packet loss, time 444595ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 298.668/650.054/4098.931/515.073 ms, pipe 7, ipg/ewma 623.555/301.994 ms - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFBAnkdtTMYHG2NR9URAr2VAJ9lYUrntn4LwO74A160NqRfTHmfRACfZoZ6 2Mza1LzuBsEZwy/ccQAGQvA= =C0UE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Catalan localization files for OpenOffice
by Agustí Dosaiguas Falcó 07 May '05

07 May '05

Hi all, Does anyone in the SuSE team knows if the package OpenOffice_org-ca will be available for SuSE 9.1? Or if i want it i need to upgrade to 9.2? Thanks, Agustí

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Wacom Graphire 2 (USB) on SuSE9.1?
by Frits Wüthrich 04 May '05

04 May '05

I can't get my graphical tablet to work on my new SuSE. On SuSE8.1 it was useable as an USB wheel mouse, but on 9.1 there is no movement visible of the cursor when I choose one of the USB mice. How can I fix this? -- Frits Wüthrich

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Re: [SLE] Time synch problem
by Carlos E. R. 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

El 2003-07-09 a las 13:37, C Hamel escribió: (You forgot to post to the list) > I am afraid I don't even know how to ask a question, at this point, but I'll > make an attempt: Exactly where should this ntp thing be called to set the > clock ...or(/and) by what process? It is a very proper question :-) Well, it depends. There are two ways. If your computer is up all the time, and has a permanent network connection, you can use the ntpd daemon, which polls a set of servers about once a minute, and _very_ slowly adjusts the system clock; it can even note the systematic error or drift, and take that in to account to discipline the system clock. There are many options available for the daemon: see full doc in: http://localhost/usr/share/doc/packages/xntp-doc/html/index.htm Or, you may have a temporary network connection, like I do; I will explain this in some detail. We can adjust the clock to "internet" time, once, sometime after we connect to internet. This, apparently, can be done with the daemon, using some option I don't fully understand. Or we can use ntpdate - a program which is to disappear some time in the future, but that I use, and SuSE uses as well in its own script. For this, we can simply call "/etc/init.d/xntpd ntptimeset" - and assume that when "ntpdate" finally disappears SuSE will adjust the script appropriately ;-) Of course, /etc/ntp.conf has to be configured; at least, it must have a list of servers: server IP_address server name_address This is sufficient for "xntpd ntptimeset" to work; just leave the rest of the config at the default values. If you want to use the daemon, then I'm not the person to ask :-) Ok, so when is the appropriate time to make this time adjust? Well, ideally, during system boot-up, after network connection is established. This is done properly by the service xntpd, if enabled. The SuSE script "/etc/init.d/xntpd start" does first a clock set using ntpdate, if the variable XNTPD_INITIAL_NTPDATE is set to "AUTO". Then, it starts the daemon to keep time synchronized. And, if our network connection is not permanent? Then, the script "/etc/ppp/poll.tcpip", which is called from "/etc/ppp/ip-up", will adjust the clock first thing: assuming we have some servers configured, it will be done every time we connect to internet with the modem. I do it differently, only once every five times, and I also update the hwclock. The danger of this method is that the clock might suddenly go forward or backward a bit (seconds or hours, it depends): not very nice on a *nix system, but we can not avoid it. More details to be aware of: what happens to the hardware or CMOS clock? Well, the script "/etc/init.d/boot.clock" (read it, it is documented) does this sequence of things (using the command "hwclock") before starting system services: - Create if it doesn't exist, the file "/etc/adjtime" - Adjust hardware clock (CMOS) for known drift during the time the computer has been off; this depends on the previous file to work. - Copy CMOS clock (hardware) to system time (CPU and OS maintained). After this, the system goes fully up, and maybe, the clock is adjusted from the internet or by hand (danger!). But (and this is very different than windows) the CPU maintained clock has to be copied back to the CMOS, because the kernel doesn't do it. SuSE does it in the script "/etc/init.d/halt" that copies system time to hardware time just before power off. Me, I prefer to do it just after I adjust to network time, inside "ip-up.local", like this: /usr/sbin/rcxntpd ntptimeset /sbin/hwclock --systohc More things to be aware of: a common mistake is manually adjusting the system clock from kde control center (for example), and not updating the hwclock at the same time: the drift adjust algorithm of hwclock thinks that the CMOS clock is fast or slow by the same amount you adjusted the clock, and the next boot it will adjust the time by several hours... The solution is to delete "/etc/adjtime" and call "/sbin/hwclock --systohc" just then (documented on the SuSE sdb). Well, this has been enough chatter on my part; let's hope I didn't make many mistakes :-) -- Saludos Carlos Robinson

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Traffic shaping questions (NAT, Bursting etc)
by Richard Curtis 18 Jan '05

18 Jan '05

I am looking into setting up bandwidth limiting using cbq on Suse 9.1. I have a few questions though before I spend hours reading the man pages as they are quite heavy going. 1). Are there any quirks or issues using the 2.6 kernels ? 2). Will this work on a firewall that is using NAT ? Because all the traffic going out originates from the same IP. 3). Is it possible to use traffic shaping to split a connection (ADSL) four ways, so each user is guaranteed a quarter of the bandwidth, and also, to allow the other users to share unused bandwidth while a user is offline ?? 4). Can anyone point me at some documentation on this - howto's or examples ? The examples I have seen are all fairly complex. Thanks for any help people can offer. Richard

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aic7xxx_abort returns 0x2000 on SuSE 9.1 Pro
by Jason Joines 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

I've recently upgraded from SuSE 8.1 Pro to SuSE 9.1 Pro via a fresh install and am having big problems. I'm running a Dell PowerEdge 2550 with an integrated Adaptec Ultra3 AIC-7899, IBM Ulstrastar Ultra320 73 GB drive, and kernel is latest via YaST of 2.6.5.7-104-default. This is the same setup I've used for a long, long time with no problems under 8.1 Pro. At what seems to be completely random times I get tons of I/O errors and the machine completely ceases to function. I have syslog turned all the way up but nothing gets logged to syslog. Ocassionally I get to tty10 quickly enough to see: aic7xxx_abort returns 0x2000 SCSI error : <0 0 0 0> return code = 0x6000000 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector "varies but most recently 81773499". I've tried mutiple known good drives but the same problem occurs so unless I've had mass hard drive failures across multiple systems all at once, I'm fairly certain it's not a hard drive problem. I'm using the aic7xxx module. I noticed that there's also an aic7xxx_old module available via modprobe -l | grep -i aic7. If I used YaST to look at possible modules, it shows aic79xx and aic7xxx as suggestions. Any ideas? Should I try one of these other two modules? The latest 2.6.x-cvs kernel from SuSE's ftp site? Compile my own from kernel.org? Go back to 2.4 based system?.... Also, any good way to get some logging on this? I have cron sending the output of dmesg and a few other things to a file every ten minutes to try and catch something but it hasn't worked so far with gibberish being appended to and corrupting the file. Thanks, Jason Joines =================================

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Kylix 3 in SuSE 9.0
by Damon Register 11 Jan '05

11 Jan '05

Finally I got Kylix 3 installed on SuSE 9 but found trouble right away. Even a new blank project fails to compile. I get a bunch of errors with a file called time.h. After a little searching in this group and elsewhere on the net, I found several references to http://unvclx.sourceforge.net so I got 3.5.1 and installed but still I have the same problem. I have seem some posts here from those who say they have been using Kylix but I would certainly like to know how they got it to work. Yes, I know at least one post said there wasn't much future for Kylix and after my experience so far, I am inclined to agree. I would love to use something like Qt but I don't know of any gui builders for the windows side. I have heard of tools for Linux but since I am wanting to write for both platforms, it would be nice is there was a tool for both sides Damon Register

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Sound problem.
by Fred A. Miller 21 Dec '04

21 Dec '04

Why is it that ALL previous releases from SUSE, Alsa had no problem with a Crystal Audio chipset on this IBM motherboard, and 9.2 does?! The system sees it, and the test is fine, but Alsa can't find the card, therefore I'd screwed for sound. 'Anyone know of a fix? Thanks, Fred -- "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." - Benjamin Franklin 1759

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vmware on 9.2
by Jake 15 Dec '04

15 Dec '04

I thought I'd give vmware a try, and installed a 30 day evaluation rpm of VMware Workstation 4.5.2 build-884 using yast. No problems there. However, when I attempt to start vmware I'm told to run vmware-config.pl which produces the following output: linux:~ # vmware-config.pl Making sure services for VMware Workstation are stopped. Stopping VMware services: Virtual machine monitordone Trying to find a suitable vmmon module for your running kernel. None of the pre-built vmmon modules for VMware Workstationis suitable for your running kernel. Do you want this program to try to build the vmmon module for your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)? [yes] yes Using compiler "/usr/bin/gcc". Use environment variable CCto override. What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] /usr/src/linux/include // I was unsure about // this Extracting the sources of the vmmon module. Building the vmmon module. Using 2.6.x kernel build system. make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only' make -C /usr/src/linux/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24' Makefile:465: .config: No such file or directory WARNING: Symbol version dump /usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24/Module.symvers is missing, modules will have CONFIG_MODVERSIONSdisabled. CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o /bin/sh: scripts/basic/fixdep: No such file or directory make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24' make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2 make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only' Unable to build the vmmon module. ------- All of which is a little over my head. Have I made some obvious error?

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Upgrade Evolution to ver 2
by Henry Standing 15 Dec '04

15 Dec '04

I have been using Evolution for a couple of years now, and am very happy with it. I would quite like to upgrade to ver 2.0.2, can anyone give me some pointers on how to achieve this with the minimum of fuss? SUSE 9.1 evolution-1.4.6-18.2 Thanks -- _ Henry Standing (\o/) Systems Engineer /_\ Oxford Policy Management lists at opml dot co dot uk

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9.2 on a thinkpad 600x
by Tim Nicholson 13 Dec '04

13 Dec '04

When shutting down 9.2 on a thinkpad it does not perform a power down, which I have to do manually. 8.2 and 9.0 both managed it OK, so what has changed? Not sure where to start looking, there's nothing in the thinkpad utilities I can find. (The Thinkpad doesn't have acpi only apm) -- Tim Nicholson http://www.bbc.co.uk/ This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system. Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it and notify the sender immediately. Please note that the BBC monitors e-mails sent or received. Further communication will signify your consent to this.

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9.2 + XFCE 4.2RC1, Kmenu deleted.
by Ben Higginbottom 08 Dec '04

08 Dec '04

Hello All, I compiled and installed XFCE 4.2rc1 on my 9.2 system on its release, since then I've started a session in KDE only for the menu to have vanished. Removing .kde and .cache restores the default, but needless to say its annoying. Has anyone had a similar problem? I've been running XFCE 4.1 and 4.2 betas on both 9.1 and 9.2 without much of a problem, so I'm rather loath to report it as a bug until I've confirmation that someone else is having the same problems. Regards, Ben

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SUSE 9.2 hangs handling USB memory stick
by Jaroslaw Nozderko 08 Dec '04

08 Dec '04

Hi, I've just purchased 9.2 Pro - it's great, but I have serious problem with mobile USB memory devices. I've sent this post to installation support but it does not cover USB problems. I also reported it as technical feedback, but got no response. However, I found similar problem reports[3]. Registering newly connected device consume a lot of CPU - mostly by hwscan and kdeinit (up to 97%) and the whole system becomes unresponsive for about 10 s. The same for cleanup when device is disconnected. This wasn't happening in 9.0 - does it have something to do with this new, smart, automatic mounting/unmounting ? Is there a way to change that ? This is annoying, but not critical. The more serious is that the whole system usually freezes to death when I connect my 128 MB TwinMos pendrive[1] and perform some operations like file copying. Systems hangs irrecoverably - cold reset is the only solution. That's unbelievable, I've never seens anything like this in Linux before. The first crash happened when I moved mouse cursor over PDF file in Konqueror, so I thought it has something to do with previews in tooltips or other scanning file in background for some attributes. I disabled previews in tooltips in Konqueror settings, but it didn't help - systems still freezes suddenly, mostly during file copying. This happens almost always, but mainly for this pendrive - so far, I am trying to replicate this problem using Sony MS cards with Vantec card reader - so far it works without problems. Mobile disks have vfat filesystems (to be compatible with "leading" platform...) and there are messages in dmesg: FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive! dmesg after device is connected: usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 4 usb 1-2: Product: USB Mobile Disk usb 1-2: Manufacturer: TTI-MSA usb 1-2: SerialNumber: AAAA000021 scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Vendor: TTI-MSA Model: USB Mobile Disk Rev: 0.0A Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 SCSI device sda: 253120 512-byte hdwr sectors (130 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 4b 00 00 00 sda: assuming drive cache: write through sda: sda1 Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0 Vendor: TTI-MSA Model: USB Mobile Disk Rev: 0.0A Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 SCSI device sdb: 2880 512-byte hdwr sectors (1 MB) sdb: Write Protect is off sdb: Mode Sense: 4b 00 00 00 sdb: assuming drive cache: write through sdb: sdb1 Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 1 Attached scsi generic sg1 at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 1, type 0 USB Mass Storage device found at 4 New devices appear: /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 (there are 2 partitions) Opening sda1 in "My computer" triggers 2 messages in dmesg: FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive! FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive! $ mount [...] /dev/sdb1 on /media/usb-AAAA000021:0:0:1p1 type subfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,sync,procuid,iocharset=utf8) /dev/sda1 on /media/usb-AAAA000021:0:0:0p1 type subfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,sync,procuid,iocharset=utf8) Removing device: usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 4 ... but next time it can be: sdb : READ CAPACITY failed. sdb : status=0, message=00, host=7, driver=00 sdb : sense not available. sdb: Write Protect is off sdb: Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00 sdb: assuming drive cache: write through usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 5 sdb : READ CAPACITY failed. sdb : status=0, message=00, host=1, driver=00 sdb : sense not available. sdb: Write Protect is off sdb: Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00 sdb: assuming drive cache: write through sdb:<3>Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0 Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0 Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 262143 Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 262143 Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0 ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed. Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0 unable to read partition table That's interesting, because I didn't do explicitly anything to /dev/sdb All mentioned equipment works perfectly in SUSE 9.0 (exactly the same hardware[2], another HD). It seems other people have the same problem [3]. Anyone else ? It's almost impossible to reliably use USB sticks. Regards, Jarek PS. One more question: what's the status of POSIX4 message queues in 9.2 ? Is it fully operational or not really ? Call to mq_open always returns -1, errno: 22 (Invalid argument). All arguments seem to be OK, according to [4]. References: [1] USB1.1 Mobile Disk III http://www.twinmos.com/flash/flash_p_usb11_mobile3.htm [2] Hardware Mainboard: ASUS P3BF (bought in 2000) CPU: Celeron Coppermine 1.2GHz (to be more specific, 1 GHZ boosted to 1.2), 512 MB RAM [3] "Suse 9.2 usb memory stick problem, system hangs" http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php? s=&forumid=4&threadid=256832 [4] Bill O. Gallmeister, "POSIX.4: Programming for the real world"

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Wireless card not communicating using ndiswrapper !?
by Jan Elders 07 Dec '04

07 Dec '04

Hello, I have a problem with my SMC 2835W card seemingly not transmitting any radio signal while using ndiswrapper. I have installed and activated ndiswrapper on SuSE 9.1 (2.6.5-7.111-default). When inserting my SMC 2835W card in the PCMCIA slot, the system/ndiswrapper recognize the card. /var/log/messages is telling me : kernel: PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:00.0 (0000 -> 0002) kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:00.0 to 64 kernel: ndiswrapper: Buggy ndis driver trying to use unintilized spinlock. Trying to recover...ok. kernel: wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:04:e2:cb:c9:88 using driver 2835wicb.sys kernel: wlan0: no IPv6 routers present This look all-right to me, ndiswrapper sees the correct MAC of the card, but the card remains totally dark and ifstatus wlan0 tells me : wlan0 is up 4: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000 link/ether 00:04:e2:cb:c9:88 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 192.168.123.110/24 brd 192.168.123.255 scope global wlan0 inet6 fe80::204:e2ff:fecb:c988/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever wlan0 IP address: 192.168.123.110/24 Configured routes for interface wlan0: default 192.168.123.1 - - 169.254.0.0 - 255.255.0.0 wlan0 Active routes for interface wlan0: 192.168.123.0/24 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.123.110 169.254.0.0/16 scope link default via 192.168.123.1 1 of 2 configured routes for interface wlan0 up wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"" Nickname:"MEDION" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437GHz Access Point: FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF Bit Rate=2Mb/s Tx-Power:32 dBm RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B Encryption key:FABE-DEC5-12 Security mode:restricted Power Management:off Link Quality:100 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 Apparently it does not see the Access Point, which is 100% certain functioning all-right. Also "Signal level:0" suggests to me that the card is not transmitting any radio signal. Using the same card on the same laptop before with Linuxant DriverLoader did work correctly, but I abandoned that solution for other reasons. Also under Windows it works allright. Could there be some command I have to give in the ndiswrapper context in order to activate the wireless transmission of the card ? Help is greatly appreciated. TIA and HAND -- Jan Elders the Netherlands http://www.xs4all.nl/~jrme/ "Home of the Network Acronyms"

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AOL
by Jesse L. Purdom 07 Dec '04

07 Dec '04

Hello. Recently, I convinced a friend of mine who has been married to Windows up until now to give SUSE Linux a try. As he needed to rebuild his system due to issues with WindowsXP, I built the machine as a dual-boot system with SUSE Linux 9.1 Professional. My buddy likes Linux but the one sticking point is that under Windows he uses America Online, and there does not seem to be a replacement for the client under Linux. Has anyone run into this before? Is there an alternative client I can have him use in place of the AOL Windows client. I don't want to install Wine as the system he uses is rather slow and I'm not sure that performance would be acceptable. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Jesse

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slow local http access
by Phil Burness 06 Dec '04

06 Dec '04

My local http access is *very* slow when I'm not connected to the internet. Once connected to the internet it's fine. If I connect to music.desktop.home while not connected to the internet it takes about 1-2 minutes to display the opening page. If I connect to music.desktop.home while connected to the internet it takes about 1-2 seconds to display the opening page. Any advice warmly received. Phil Here is my configuration: /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.1.4 desktop desktop.home 192.168.1.13 music.desktop.home my network card is set up as (from ifconfig) wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:88:9E:50:AA inet addr:192.168.1.4 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::20d:88ff:fe9e:50aa/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:18778 errors:169163 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:20642 TX packets:21442 errors:301 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:199 RX bytes:2470882 (2.3 Mb) TX bytes:2295181 (2.1 Mb) Interrupt:11 Memory:f8d81000-f8d91000 wlan0:2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:88:9E:50:AA inet addr:192.168.1.13 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 Interrupt:11 Memory:f8d81000-f8d91000 My http.conf is standard as shipped with suse v9.0 (apache2) listen.conf is set as NameVirtualHost * In vhosts.d I have one file called music.conf and it's contents are:- <VirtualHost *> ServerAdmin root(a)desktop.home ServerName music.desktop.home AcceptPathInfo On # DocumentRoot: The directory out of which you will serve your # documents. By default, all requests are taken from this directory, but # symbolic links and aliases may be used to point to other locations. DocumentRoot /home/pburness/public_html/prirad/html # if not specified, the global error log is used ErrorLog /dev/null #CustomLog /vdev/null # log IP addresses HostnameLookups Off AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml .php3 .html .htm DirectoryIndex index.html index.php php_value include_path ".:/home/pburness/public_html/prirad/inc" php_value auto_prepend_file "prepend.php" php_flag track_vars on php_flag magic_quotes_gpc on # UseCanonicalName Off # ServerSignature On <Directory "/home/pburness/public_html/prirad/html/jukebox"> Options All AllowOverride All Order allow,deny Allow from all <Files s> ForceType application/x-httpd-php </Files> <Files stream> ForceType application/x-httpd-php </Files> <Files zip> ForceType application/x-httpd-php </Files> </Directory> <Directory "/home/pburness/public_html/prirad/html/feeds"> <Files feed> ForceType application/x-httpd-php </Files> </Directory> </VirtualHost> my resolv.conf file contains nameserver 127.0.0.1 search home My default gateway is 192.168.1.1

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Firefox 1.0 from SuSE won't launch
by Stephen Boulet 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

I've downloaded and installed firefox 1.0 from Suse's ftp site, but after installing without a problem it won't start: > /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib/firefox-bin /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib/firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libmozjs.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Is this because I had mozilla installed at the same time? -- Stephen If your desktop gets out of control easily, you probably have too much stuff on it that doesn't need to be there. Donna Smallin, "Unclutter Your Home"

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Rejecting backscatter mail in postfix
by Carlos E. R. 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

Hi, I'm receiving certain backscatter mail (ie, mail sent by postmasters, consisting of rejecting a mail with possible virus to the claimed originator, which in the case of virus, can be faked, and thus are possibly innocent). In this case, the bounce I get includes the full viral load, which is a nuisance - and no, amavis-new does not detect it. The problem is the "from": Return-Path: <> From: Mail Delivery System <Mailer-Daemon(a)mx.mixmail.com> I understand that the envelope-from is empty (!). See the log excerpt: Nov 26 23:57:25 nimrodel fetchmail[14958]: SMTP> MAIL FROM: <> SIZE=33229 Nov 26 23:57:25 nimrodel fetchmail[14958]: SMTP< 250 Ok Nov 26 23:57:25 nimrodel fetchmail[14958]: SMTP> RCPT TO:<cer@localhost> Nov 26 23:57:25 nimrodel postfix/smtpd[14970]: 11CBE20C4D: client=localhost[127.0.0.1] Nov 26 23:57:25 nimrodel fetchmail[14958]: SMTP< 250 Ok Nov 26 23:57:25 nimrodel fetchmail[14958]: SMTP> DATA Nov 26 23:57:25 nimrodel fetchmail[14958]: SMTP< 354 End data with <CR><LF>.<CR><LF> Nov 26 23:57:25 nimrodel postfix/cleanup[14973]: 11CBE20C4D: message-id=<E1CXnY0-0001VL-00(a)mx.mixmail.com> I have this rule in '/etc/postfix/access', which works for many others similar emails: mailer-daemon(a)mx.mixmail.com REJECT Blocking backscatter mail from virus scanners but it doesn't trigger in this case :-( Ideas? Perhaps the problem could be that postfix is not checking the sender address for existence :-? That would be: smtpd_sender_restrictions = hash:/etc/postfix/access,reject_unknown_sender_domain But that would cause a dns check for every mail, I suppose. What about reject_non_fqdn_sender? -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

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Synchronize mail between Laptop & Fixed PC
by Franky Goethals 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

Hi guys, I want to synchronize my mail (Kontakt) between my portable & my fixed PC, the way that they automatically synchronize in both ways, and i can work on both. Any ideas how to do this ? Greets, Franky.

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SuSE 9.2
by Mitja 02 Dec '04

02 Dec '04

SuSE 9.2 came and...my opinion: the worse version.Sound doesn't work under KDE. Suseplugger show me Creative SB Live! EMU10k1, everything is OK but there are not sound. I i run KAMix i got a msg that there are not soundcard available. ATI Radeon 9000 works ugly. Second day and i still try to configure KDE. Problem is also with firewall (all 3 phase): Starting Firewall Initialization (phase 3 of 3) WARNING: Error inserting ipfwadm (/lib/modules/2.6.8-24-smp/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipfwadm.ko): Device or resource busy SuSEfirewall2: Firewall rules successfully set from /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2 Thank you. Mitja

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SUSE taking over the World! Finally!
by Allen 02 Dec '04

02 Dec '04

http://pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/pcw.nsf/0/4662743FE8FF0106CC256F56007A25C7?Ope… Long link but a good read. I've been plugging for SUSE since I first used it and nothing can touch it. The only thing that even comes CLOSE is Slackware. SUSE is really getting up to par on the business world, and I think it's great. And look at the screen shot towards the bottom! BEAUTIFUL! Take that XP, RedHat, Sco, And every other shitty OS.

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SCSI Tape Drive with SUSE 9.2
by Greg Freemyer 02 Dec '04

02 Dec '04

All, How do I get SUSE 9.2 to use a SCSI tape drive? === Background I have just upgraded my tape server from SUSE 8.2 to 9.2. (It is a test upgrade, so I can still use the tape under 8.2) In 8.2, I did an insmod for the SCSI controller and a stinit. After that the tape drive was usable as /dev/st0. With 9.2 the scsi controller module is being loaded fine at boot, but there is not a stinit command. I have tried just accessing /dev/st0, but no luck. In /proc/scsi, I do see the "streaming device". Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer

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Re: [SLE] which suse distrib do you prefer?
by Bahram Alinezhad 02 Dec '04

02 Dec '04

I've always recommended people to use the last version of linuces, due to its fast development and improvement; Really sorry to hear these! Thank you for your notice, Bahram Alinezhad, Rudehen, Tehran, Iran. ->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "Synthetic Cartoonz" (synthetoonz(a)bellsouth.net) wrote: ---------- I started at 8.0 Professional, and bought every SuSE Professional version since. I use the most peculiar hardware I have -- my HP5295 laptop -- as the index of success for the distro. With 8.0 Pro hardly anything worked on the laptop. No sound, the CD burner wouldn't burn, USB wasn't functioning worth a darn, and the LAN wasn't working. At that time I had just bought into running Linux after experiencing the third Windows implosion on the laptop in a year. So, the lack of working stuff in 8.0 left me slightly disappointed. But, I managed to eventually make the LAN work, and figured that sooner or later I or someone else would figure out how to get the rest of the hardware running in this or the next version of SuSE. 8.1 Pro and 8.2 Pro saw progressive improvements. In 8.1 the LAN worked immediately after the install, sound and the CD-Burner also started working, tough sound was sometimes sporadic. USB required some personal hacking on a device by device basis. In 8.2, the sound stopped working, but USB support increased dramatically. Most thing I shoved into the USB port would mount without magic incantations. I think 9.0 Pro was really intended to be 8.3 Pro, but SuSE appeared to need to engage in Version Number Wars with other distros. That was the BEST version so far. Everything worked on the laptop. Sound was working without issue this time, and everything I needed was working happily. Some of the power management things didn't work so well, but I wasn't concerned with that, since I don't normally use the laptop without the AC power plugged in. I think 9.1 Pro is the originally intended 9.0 Pro. I get the "dot oh" feeling of being used as someone's unpaid beta tester. Everything is working, but sometimes it works strangely. USB is the biggest problem: USB devices sometimes move locations, so I end up having to remove and recreate icons on the desktop to make mounting/opening/browsing the devices convenient. Hotplugging USB devices often takes an irritatingly long time to recognize that something was plugged in. USB performance and reliability also took a nosedive. Devices that were working fine with 9.0 have intermittent I/O errors. Most annoying. Some recent patches and updates have fixed something, because I'm having far fewer I/O errors. (USB throughput still stinks.) Otherwise, the only improvement I see in 9.1 is that the power management features (that I don't care about) appear to be functioning much better. I just picked up SuSE Pro 9.2 yesterday at CompUSA and it is still on the floor next to my desk. Various computer parts are winging their way to me from a variety of Internet sellers as I write this. In the next week I plan to use 9.2 to build a file and print server for my personal linux boxes in the house (and my wife's nasty Win 98 box.) When that is done I'll start upgrading the other linux systems. to 9.2. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - What will yours do? http://my.yahoo.com

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Audacity not run
by Sunny 02 Dec '04

02 Dec '04

Hi, I'm running Suse 9.1. When I try to start Audacity, it fails with these errors: sunny@linux:~> audacity (audacity:8983): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkaccellabel.c: line 214 (gtk_accel_label_new): assertion `string != NULL' failed (audacity:8983): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkmisc.c: line 211 (gtk_misc_set_alignment): assertion `GTK_IS_MISC (misc)' failed (audacity:8983): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkcontainer.c: line 949 (gtk_container_add): assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed (audacity:8983): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkaccellabel.c: line 400 (gtk_accel_label_set_accel_widget): assertion `GTK_IS_ACCEL_LABEL (accel_label)' failed Segmentation fault So, I googled for it, but no resolution so far. I have ran it in debugger, so I'm attaching more info. Unfortunately I can not make use of that info :( Here is the output of the debugger: sunny@linux:~> gdb /usr/bin/audacity GNU gdb 6.2.1 Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i586-suse-linux"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/bin/audacity [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread 16384 (LWP 9024)] (audacity:9024): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkaccellabel.c: line 214 (gtk_accel_label_new): assertion `string != NULL' failed (audacity:9024): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkmisc.c: line 211 (gtk_misc_set_alignment): assertion `GTK_IS_MISC (misc)' failed (audacity:9024): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkcontainer.c: line 949 (gtk_container_add): assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed (audacity:9024): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkaccellabel.c: line 400 (gtk_accel_label_set_accel_widget): assertion `GTK_IS_ACCEL_LABEL (accel_label)' failed Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread 16384 (LWP 9024)] gtk_widget_show (widget=0x0) at gtkwidget.c:1962 1962 gtkwidget.c: No such file or directory. in gtkwidget.c Current language: auto; currently c (gdb) bt #0 gtk_widget_show (widget=0x0) at gtkwidget.c:1962 #1 0x40ab0d2a in gtk_menu_item_new_with_label (label=0x8 <Address 0x8 out of bounds>) at gtkmenuitem.c:280 #2 0x403a067f in wxChoice::GtkAppendHelper () from /usr/lib/libwx_gtk2-2.4.so.0 #3 0x403a1779 in wxChoice::Create () from /usr/lib/libwx_gtk2-2.4.so.0 #4 0x0808f3a6 in LangChoiceDialog (this=0xbfffee20, parent=0x0, id=-1, title=@0xbfffee10) at choice.h:35 #5 0x08090166 in ChooseLanguage (parent=0x0) at string.h:311 #6 0x08069535 in AudacityApp::OnInit (this=0x834d978) at AudacityApp.cpp:394 #7 0x40398060 in wxEntry () from /usr/lib/libwx_gtk2-2.4.so.0 #8 0x0806a3b7 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffff204) at AudacityApp.cpp:194 I'd appreciate any clue. Thanks Sunny -- Get Firefox http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=10745&t=85

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Re: SUSE taking over the World! Finally!
by Sean 02 Dec '04

02 Dec '04

On Mon, November 29, 2004 3:57 pm, Allen said: > I know who made the RPM, I just said they didn't get much from RedHat > other than that. With SUSE 8.1 Professional. which was my first Linux, it > shows a calender and how SUSE started. And a million books I have all show > SUSE was first a part of Slackware. SUSE has been around longer than > ReDHat and so has Slackware. Hi Allen, You're over discounting the incredible amount of work RedHat has contributed back to the community in many open source projects especially the kernel. The Suse products of today owe some thanks to Red Hat. Admitting this takes nothing away from Suse. Sean

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/etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc in 9.1
by Felix Miata 02 Dec '04

02 Dec '04

I couldn't find a man page for this. How can I find out what the following section from this file is for? [X-:*-Greeter] AdminSession=YaSTadminSession -- "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." U.S. Constitution, Amendment 1 Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/

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postfix and php on suse 9.1
by Chris W 01 Dec '04

01 Dec '04

I recently installed SUSE 9.1 and my php script that sent mail no longer works. It works fine on an suse 9.0 box. I was wondering if anyone can give me a hint as to what to look for to fix this. I understand there is some error in the PHP config that needs to be fixed. Can someone tell me where that config error is? Below is some of my error log from a send attempt. Nov 13 11:50:34 WebServer postfix/pickup[30613]: 1EF48D587: uid=30 from=<wwwrun> Nov 13 11:50:34 WebServer postfix/cleanup[31469]: 1EF48D587: message-id=<20041113175034.1EF48D587(a)aopro.com> Nov 13 11:50:34 WebServer postfix/cleanup[31469]: 1EF48D587: to=<unknown>, relay=none, delay=0, status=bounced (No recipients specified) Nov 13 11:50:34 WebServer postfix/cleanup[31473]: 2CA3DD5AF: message-id=<20041113175034.2CA3DD5AF(a)aopro.com> Nov 13 11:50:34 WebServer postfix/qmgr[3547]: 2CA3DD5AF: from=<>, size=1833, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Nov 13 11:50:34 WebServer postfix/local[31474]: 2CA3DD5AF: to=<root(a)aopro.com>, orig_to=<wwwrun(a)aopro.com>, relay=local, delay=0, status=sent (delivered to mailbox) Nov 13 11:50:34 WebServer postfix/qmgr[3547]: 2CA3DD5AF: removed Here is the simple mail script that I am using to test <?php $message = "This is a Test Message "; mail('1qazse4(a)cox.net', "test message", $message); ?> <HTML><BODY> Message sent. </BODY></HTML> Thanks for the help. -- Chris W Not getting the gifts you want? The Wish Zone can help. http://thewishzone.com

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Replacementsfor Windows Applications
by Russ 01 Dec '04

01 Dec '04

I am looking to replace Turbo Tax and Quicken. Does anyone know of any Linux based programs I can use to replace them? -- Russ

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Re: [SLE] Re: ***SPAM*** Re: [SLE] Re: Samba HOWTO
by James Knott 01 Dec '04

01 Dec '04

Don Parris wrote: > I don't see anything unusual. Just out of curiosity, did you delete the > ***SPAM*** bit from your subject header when sending to me? Also, I don't > see that in any thread on the list but this one. > > Don I didn't change the subject. When it left here, it still had ***SPAM*** in it. It got into the thread subject, because someone else was getting messages marked that way, and he then replied with it still in the subject. Apparently the problem was caused by spamassassin, at his ISP. It has since been corrected.

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RE: [SLE] network interface not found
by Ricci Graham 01 Dec '04

01 Dec '04

Sid, Thanks for the help, but that didn't fix it. Do you know where I can go in and manually change the interface? It is still picking up the Compaq Netelligent Card Interface and I need to change it to the Intel EE Pro 100. What config file is that housed in? It isn't changing it when I change it in Yast. Thanks, Ricci -----Original Message----- From: Sid Boyce [mailto:sboyce@blueyonder.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 10:28 AM Cc: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] network interface not found Ricci Graham wrote: > I am having the same problem with a Compaq 1850R with an integrated NIC. I > had originally installed > Compaq interface for the NIC and that one wasn't working. A co-worker said > he has Linux working on another machine > with the same NIC using an Intel EE Pro 100 so I am trying to install that > interface, but no matter what I do, it still > sees the old interface and then gives the same message as below. > > So I guess my question would be how do I get it to recognize a new NIC > interface??? > > Ricci > > -----Original Message----- > From: Taavi Dovnar [mailto:taavid@luunja.edu.ee] > Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 3:06 AM > To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com > Subject: [SLE] network interface not found > > > Suse 9.1 Pro. While booting, very often network card (integrated) is not > found. Usually "few" restarts helps. Messages from log file are below. > There is another computer with same configuration, usually no problems > there. And same problem occur sometimes with other computers also... > What could be reason & solution? > > MB: Epox 4PLAI 848P > > > > <notice>start services (network) > Setting up network interfaces: > lo > lo IP address: 127.0.0.1/8 > doneWaiting for mandatory devices: eth-id-00:04:61:4e:bb:5b > 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 > eth-id-00:04:61:4e:bb:5b No interface found > failedSetting up service network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > . .failed > <notice>exit status of (network) is (7) > Try "modprobe eepro100" lsmod|grep eepro ###to check it's in. rcnetwork restart If all is fine, then /etc/modprobe.conf may need modification. I'm not using an eepro100, so this line is commented out, it may need to be differnt on your box. # options eepro io=0x260 irq=10 mem=0x6000 Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE===== -- 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 IMPORTANT NOTICE - The information (both of the message and any attachments) contained in this message is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an agent responsible for delivering it to an intended recipient or has received this message in error, you are hereby notified that we do not consent to any reading, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message and any such actions are strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and destroy the transmitted information.

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Problem with amavis-new
by Hans du Plooy 01 Dec '04

01 Dec '04

Hi all, I'm having a weird problem on a mailserver. The setup is postfix-2.1.5-3 and amavisd-new-2.1.2-5 with clamav-0.80-2.1, BitDefender-Console-Antivirus-7.0.1-3, and antivir-2.1.1-4. OS is SUSE 9.2 with all updates applied. All users can receive mail, except one person who's mail gets sent to root. For each mail a "message undelivered mail gets set to root too, with Command died with status 99: "/usr/sbin/amavis" as the only hint. From the amavis logs I see: Nov 29 09:41:22 mpost /usr/sbin/amavisd[26107]: (client-XXr5Y7VL) AM.CL /var/spool/amavis/amavis-client-XXr5Y7VL: <root(a)company.com> -> <amanda(a)company.com> Nov 29 09:41:22 mpost /usr/sbin/amavisd[26107]: (client-XXr5Y7VL) body hash: d8e8fca2dc0f896fd7cb4cb0031ba249 Nov 29 09:41:22 mpost /usr/sbin/amavisd[26107]: (client-XXr5Y7VL) Checking: <root(a)company.com> -> <amanda(a)company.com> Nov 29 09:41:22 mpost /usr/sbin/amavisd[26107]: (client-XXr5Y7VL) Cached virus check expired, TTL = 180 s Nov 29 09:41:22 mpost /usr/sbin/amavisd[26107]: (client-XXr5Y7VL) cached d8e8fca2dc0f896fd7cb4cb0031ba249 from <root(a)company.com> (1,0,0) Nov 29 09:41:22 mpost /usr/sbin/amavisd[26107]: (client-XXr5Y7VL) Using (Clam Antivirus - clamscan): /usr/bin/clamscan --stdout --no-summary -r /var/spool/amavis/amavis-client-XXr5Y7VL/parts Nov 29 09:41:24 mpost /usr/sbin/amavisd[26107]: (client-XXr5Y7VL) run_av: /usr/bin/clamscan exit 0, /var/spool/amavis/amavis-client-XXr5Y7VL/parts/p001: OK Nov 29 09:41:24 mpost /usr/sbin/amavisd[26107]: (client-XXr5Y7VL) Using (H+BEDV AntiVir or CentralCommand Vexira Antivirus): /usr/bin/antivir --allfiles -noboot -nombr -rs -s -z /var/spool/amavis/amavis-client-XXr5Y7VL/parts Nov 29 09:41:25 mpost /usr/sbin/amavisd[26107]: (client-XXr5Y7VL) run_av: /usr/bin/antivir exit 0, AntiVir / Linux Version 2.1.2-15 +gui\nCopyright (c) 1994-2004 by H+BEDV Datentechnik GmbH.\nAll rights reserved.\n\nLoading /usr/lib/AntiVir/antivir.vdf ...\n\nVDF version: 6.28.0.94 created 28 Nov 2004\n\nAntiVir license: 149999 for Evaluation License for SuSE Linux\n\nchecking drive/path (list): /var/spool/amavis/amavis-client-XXr5Y7VL/parts\n\n------ scan results ------\n directories: ...1\n scanned files: ...1\n...alerts: ...0\n...suspicious: ...0\n...scan time: 00:00:01\n--------------------------\nThank you for using AntiVir. Nov 29 09:41:25 mpost /usr/sbin/amavisd[26107]: (client-XXr5Y7VL) Using (BitDefender): /usr/bin/bdc --all --arc --mail /var/spool/amavis/amavis-client-XXr5Y7VL/parts Nov 29 09:41:27 mpost /usr/sbin/amavisd[26107]: (client-XXr5Y7VL) run_av: /usr/bin/bdc exit 0, BDC/Linux-Console v7.0 (build 2490) (i386) (Dec 10 2003 16:11:35)\nCopyright (C) 1996-2003 SOFTWIN SRL. All rights reserved. \n\n\n\nResults: \nFolders ...:1\nFiles ...:1\nPacked ...:0\nArchives ...:0\nInfected files :0\nSuspect files ...:0\nWarnings ...:0\nI/O errors ...:0\n Nov 29 09:41:29 mpost /usr/sbin/amavisd[26107]: (client-XXr5Y7VL) spam_scan: hits=-2.574 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,DNS_FROM_RFC_WHOIS Nov 29 09:41:29 mpost /usr/sbin/amavisd[26107]: (client-XXr5Y7VL) SPAM-TAG, <root(a)company.com> -> <amanda(a)company.com>, No, hits=-2.574 tagged_above=-2200 required=9 tests=ALL_TRUSTED, AWL, DNS_FROM_RFC_WHOIS Nov 29 09:41:29 mpost /usr/sbin/amavisd[26107]: (client-XXr5Y7VL) FWD via SMTP: [127.0.0.1]:10025 <root(a)company.com> -> <amanda(a)company.com> Nov 29 09:41:29 mpost /usr/sbin/amavisd[26107]: (client-XXr5Y7VL) AUTH not needed, user='', MTA offers '' Nov 29 09:41:29 mpost /usr/sbin/amavisd[26107]: (client-XXr5Y7VL) mail_via_smtp: 250 2.6.0 Ok, id=client-XXr5Y7VL, from MTA: 250 Ok: queuedas 1603F11E98 Nov 29 09:41:29 mpost /usr/sbin/amavisd[26107]: (client-XXr5Y7VL) Passed, <root(a)company.com> -> <amanda(a)company.com>, Message-ID: <41AAD2A2.mailK7K1UA1PW(a)mpost.company.com>, Hits: -2.574 Nov 29 09:41:29 mpost /usr/sbin/amavisd[26107]: (client-XXr5Y7VL) Passed CLEAN, <root(a)company.com> -> <amanda(a)company.com>, Hits: -2.574, tag=-2200, tag2=9, kill=9, L/Y/0/0 Nov 29 09:41:29 mpost /usr/sbin/amavisd[26107]: (client-XXr5Y7VL) WARN: no recips left (forgot to set $forward_method=undef using milter?),250 2.6.0 Ok, id=client-XXr5Y7VL, from MTA: 250 Ok: queued as 1603F11E98 Nov 29 09:41:29 mpost /usr/sbin/amavisd[26107]: (client-XXr5Y7VL) mail checking ended: setreply=250 2.6.0 Ok,%20id=client-XXr5Y7VL,%20from%20MTA: %20250%20Ok:%20queued%20as%201603F11E98\nreturn_value=discard\nexit_code=99 Nov 29 09:41:29 mpost /usr/sbin/amavisd[26107]: (client-XXr5Y7VL) TIMING [total 6841 ms] - got data: 8 (0%), body_hash: 6 (0%), mkdir parts: 3 (0%), mime_decode: 38 (1%), get-file-type1: 27 (0%), decompose_part: 1 (0%), parts_decode: 0 (0%), AV-scan-1: 2120 (31%), AV-scan-2: 1036 (15%), AV-scan-3: 2030 (30%), spam-wb-list: 7 (0%), SA msg read: 3 (0%), SA parse: 7 (0%), SA check: 1359 (20%), update_cache: 4 (0%), fwd-connect: 30 (0%), fwd-mail-from: 5 (0%), fwd-rcpt-to: 10 (0%), write-header: 11 (0%), fwd-data: 1 (0%), fwd-data-end: 76 (1%), fwd-rundown:9 (0%), main_log_entry: 43 (1%), update_snmp: 0 (0%), unlink-1-files: 2 (0%), rmdir: 0 (0%), unlink-1-files: 1 (0%), rmdir: 0 (0%), rundown: 3 (0%) Nov 29 09:41:29 mpost /usr/sbin/amavisd[26107]: (client-XXr5Y7VL) load: 5 %, total idle 449.889 s, busy 23.596 s Postfix logs give me: Nov 29 09:41:29 mpost postfix/qmgr[25477]: 1603F11E98: from=<root(a)company.com>, size=895, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Nov 29 09:41:29 mpost postfix/pipe[26195]: 43D1B11E96: to=<amanda(a)company.com>, orig_to=<amanda>, relay=vscan, delay=7, status=bounced (Command died with status 99: "/usr/sbin/amavis") Nov 29 09:41:29 mpost postfix/local[26187]: 1603F11E98: to=<hansdp(a)company.com>, orig_to=<amanda(a)company.com>, relay=local, delay=0, status=sent (delivered to maildir) Nov 29 09:41:29 mpost postfix/qmgr[25477]: 1603F11E98: removed Nov 29 09:41:29 mpost postfix/cleanup[26167]: AB45111E97: message-id=<20041129074129.AB45111E97(a)mpost.company.com> Nov 29 09:41:29 mpost postfix/qmgr[25477]: AB45111E97: from=<>, size=2128, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Nov 29 09:41:29 mpost postfix/qmgr[25477]: 43D1B11E96: removed Nov 29 09:41:29 mpost postfix/local[26187]: AB45111E97: to=<hansdp(a)company.com>, orig_to=<root(a)company.com>, relay=local, delay=0, status=sent (delivered to maildir) I thought I'd make a temporary user and alias her mail to that user, but the new user had the same problem. Now I'm baffled. Anybody know what causes this? Even a simple test mail sent with mailx from command line causes this to happen. Thanks -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za

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XP/Suse network
by Scott Eschner 01 Dec '04

01 Dec '04

Hi, Wanted some/any recommendations for the following network: 25 or so XP and 2000 Clients. 3 or 4 wireless clients running XP. Want to configure Suse Linux Enterprise 9 running Samba w/ LDAP backend. 1. What kind of Anti-virus software is recommended? 2. what email service should be used? Postfix or Sendmail? Any other recommendations/suggestions, configuration ideas, are welcome. Scott <http://www.sadasystems.com/marketing/EmailSigOffers/> *** CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This message, together with any attachments, is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is directly addressed. It may contain information that is confidential and prohibited from disclosure. Any retransmission, dissemination or other use of the information by persons other than the intended recipient or entity is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the original sender immediately by telephone or by return e-mail and delete this message, along with any attachments, from your computer. Thank you. ***

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9.2 KDE updates via YAST?
by Peter B Van Campen 01 Dec '04

01 Dec '04

Hi Folks, There are a bunch of updated pkgs for KDE-base at: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_9.2/base Is there a way to use YAST to get and install these, as we do w/ YOU? How about if I d/l them into a local directory; can YAST then use them to update the KDE installed sys? PeterB

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New kernel at YOU today and a Quest.
by Peter B Van Campen 01 Dec '04

01 Dec '04

Hi ALL, Just saw a new batch of 'red' patches on YOU for 9.2 There is a new kernel 2.6.8-24.5 PeterB

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Odd issues with screen saver/power save
by Eric Wagar 01 Dec '04

01 Dec '04

To be able to leave my system on at night, I need to use the power save mode on my flatscreen. That way, it will blank, then turn itself off after 30 minutes. Recently, I have noticed that it doesn't turn itself off anymore. Instead it only does the screen saver. Where should I start looking to see why it is not doing power save? (I don't remember any patches that may have affected this.) thanks eric

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Is there a DEFINATIVE way to know if nvidia 3D is ON?
by Peter B Van Campen 01 Dec '04

01 Dec '04

Hi Folks, Since doing updates to, and fresh installs to 9.2 on systems w/ nvidia cards, I have started to doubt whether 3D Accl is really on, after d/l'ing the nvidia drivers via YOU. Is there a really difinative way to know if the nvidia drivers are really installed?? Whenever I let YOU get, and install them, and after a re-boot, YOU >YAST >Hardware >Graphics card & monitor gives "3D Disables" and when I ask it to enable it, a box pops open that says that "you must use YOU to get and install the nvidia drivers" and then it gives details how to RE-install them since last time. But when I do this, and then check the 3D capabilities via YOU it shows the same negative results. Loops like that forever? I have seen many times here that "Never mind, 3D is REALLY ON, but the system lies, trust me". So, is there a sure-fire way to verify that nvidia 3D is really ON? PeterB

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