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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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