December 2004 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

How to control text session?
by Oxiel Contreras 16 Feb '05

16 Feb '05

Hello gurus I don't need VNC. How can i take control of another text session in my server (ssh/telnet), i want to help my users with their work, i want to see and correct what they type in their screen. Tried ttysnoop but with no results. Greetings Oxiel

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rkhunter-1.1.9-1.ps.noarch.rpm available
by Patrick Shanahan 12 Feb '05

12 Feb '05

rkhunter-1.1.9-1.ps.noarch.rpm is available for download: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/~pat/rkhunter-1.1.9-1.ps.noarch.rpm Rootkit Hunter scans files and systems for known and unknown rootkits, backdoors, and sniffers. The package contains one shell script, a few text-based databases, and optional Perl modules. It should run on almost every Unix clone. This release contains support for RH-Sharpe's rootkit and the SHV5 rootkit, a special test for tripwire, metalog (syslog), and support for many new distributions. Many MD5 hashes have been added to the database, and some code/documentation cleanup has been performed. Description Rootkit scanner is scanning tool to ensure you for about 99.9%* you're clean of nasty tools. This tool scans for rootkits, backdoors and local exploits by running tests like: - MD5 hash compare - Look for default files used by rootkits - Wrong file permissions for binaries - Look for suspected strings in LKM and KLD modules - Look for hidden files - Optional scan within plaintext and binary files Rootkit Hunter is released as GPL licensed project and free for everyone to use. * No, not really 99.9%.. It's just another security layer * 1.1.9 (28/12/2004) New: - Added RH-Sharpe's rootkit (rootkit) - Added SHV5 rootkit (rootkit) - Added special test for tripwire - Added support for metalog (syslog daemon) - Added support for ALTLinux 2.2 and 2.4 - Added support for CentOS 3.3 - Added support for Gentoo 1.6 - Added support for FreeBSD 4.10 (alpha platform) - Added support for SuSE SLES8. Thanks to Mario Lenz - Added support for SuSE 9.2 (i586) - Added support for Fedora Core 3 - Added support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES/WS release 4 - Added hashes for Fedora Core 3. Thanks to Steph - Official port is now available for ALTLinux - Change text when an old software package has been found. This will happen with backporting operating systems (Red Hat, Fedora etc) Changes: - Improved logging for lsof test - Updated hashes for Fedora Core 1 - Updated hashes for Debian woody - Updated hashes for Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES/WS release 3 - Updated hashes for Slackware 9 - Updated hashes for Slackware 10 - Updated hashes for SuSE 9.1 - Updated wishlist/todo, updated readme and manpage. - Code cleanup (added more remarks, cleanup of old/buggy things).. - Improved logging Bugfixes: - Changed binary search path due typo. Thanks to Bertrand author: Michael Boelen <michael(a)rootkit.nl> http://www.rootkit.nl -- 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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Grip fails rip on SCSI CDROM after 2.6.8-24.10 upgrade (9.2)
by Philip Amadeo Saeli 30 Jan '05

30 Jan '05

[SUSE Linux 9.2 Professional] After the kernel upgrade to 2.6.8-24.10, Grip no longer will rip audio CDs. The Rip: progress indicator only blips for an instant than goes to Idle status. The Enc: progress indicator goes through all the tracks, spending approx 2-3 seconds on each track then finishes as if all was OK. However, no files are generated at all! Some clues: - Syslog has messages: "Dec 29 15:32:35 xxxxx kernel: sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive." - Running strace on Grip shows the following (in one of the threads): "write(20, "Unable to open cdrom drive.\n", 28) = 28" However, the open on /dev/sg0 succeeds earlier in the trace. All of the needed devices have appropriate permissions: - /dev/scd0 - /dev/sg0 I am using Grip's buil-in cdparanoia for ripping. Has anyone else encountered this? Everything was working just fine last week and there have been no hardware changes. I can find no other error messages!?! BTW, this system has all of the 9.2 security patches installed (via YOU). BTW, anyone know of any other audio CD rippers/encoders? Thanks, Phil -- Philip Amadeo Saeli SuSE Linux 9.2 psaeli(a)zorodyne.com

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Apex/Digitrex/Colorado DSC-3500Z Camera?
by doc 18 Jan '05

18 Jan '05

I bought my wife one of the $$59.95 (with $20. rebate) digital cameras on sale at TigerDirect. It is labeled Digitrex DSC-3500Z but appears as an Apex on some Google searches and shows up under Yast as a Colorado Digital Camera. It is not detected by Digikam under Suse 9.1 or 9.2. Anyone talking to one of them under Suse? I am going to set it to use the SD card only for now because I can access that ... will pull the Christmas Eve images off the internal 16m of memory using the Office laptop if necessary. -- Thanks! & 73, doc kd4e A blessed and joy-filled Christ-mas to all! West Central Florida 100% Linux. Suse 9.2 Hallicrafters, Heathkit, Homebrew, TenTec, Yaesu Radio Life: http://www.gospelcom.net/twr/ Linux-Incompatible hardware is defective! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Traffic shaping questions (NAT, Bursting etc)
by Richard Curtis 17 Jan '05

17 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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Backup utility: does it exist?
by Paul W. Abrahams 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

I'm looking for a utility to be used for a disk-to-disk backup that recurses through a directory and does the following for each file and subdirectory: 1. If the backup file exists but the original doesn't, the backup is deleted. 2. If the backup file exists and is as new as the original, no copying is done. 3. If the backup file does not exist, the original is copied to the backup. I could certainly write a shell script using "find" for doing this, but I wonder if there's some handy-dandy utility around that already does it for me. Paul

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aic7xxx_abort returns 0x2000 on SuSE 9.1 Pro
by Jason Joines 11 Jan '05

11 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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Where's kpgp in SuSE 9.1?
by James Knott 11 Jan '05

11 Jan '05

In SuSE 9.0, there's a front end for gpg called kgpg. However, it doesn't seem to be included in the 9.1 DVD or on the SuSE website. Any idea where it might be? tnx jk

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Missing WIFI Interface
by Rob Young 11 Jan '05

11 Jan '05

I have been running SUSE 9.1 very successfully on my work laptop (Dell C640) for several months. This is quite the feat as my company is completely MS-centric. The problem is that an interface for the internal WIFI adapter is not reliably created at boot time. The internal WIFI card (TrueMobile 1150 Series PC Card) is always detected and the kernel loads orinoco_cs on every boot. The problem is that an interface (should be eth1 as eth0 is the internal fast ethernet adapter) is not created unless the laptop is in close proximity to the access point and the WIFI configuration is correct for that AP. For example, when configured for my home network, the laptop will not create eth1 if booted in the living room (fairly weak signal) but will create eth1 when started in the office (strong signal). Sometimes it takes several reboots for the interface to be created. Nothing changes from one reboot to the next, the interface is just magically created. As the internal WIFI adapter is on the PCMCIA bus, I have tried "cardctl ident" when the interface is missing and the card is correctly identified. Running "cardctl reset" or "eject"/"insert" has no effect. Changing the Network Device configuration in Yast correctly saves the modified config, but does not restart the interface (maybe because there is no interface?) Can anyone help me with this?

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SuSE 9.2 Pro changing eth0 to eth1
by Jason Joines 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

I'm trying to get SuSE 9.2 Pro installed on a machine with two NIC's. It was previously running 9.1 and whichever NIC I configured first got eth0. That doesn't work with 9.2. I'm not sure how it's choosing which one gets eth0 but it seems to always picke the one that should be eth1. I tried disabling the NIC I want to be eth1 in the BIOS and then re-installing. After the install, the one I wanted to have eth0 did have it. Then I re-enabled the other NIC and when the box came up it had swapped eth0 and eth1 again. Seems modprobe.conf has replaced modules.conf and says to make changes in modprobe.conf.local. I tried adding "alias eth0 e100" (the NIC that should be eth0 is an Intel using e100 and the one that should be eth1 is a BroadCom using something else) as the only line in modprobe.conf.local but that did not work. The first couple of lines in modprobe.conf are "install eth0 /bin/true" and "install eth1 /bin/true". I've read the modprobe.conf man page but still have not idea what those lines are doing and there are no "alias eth0 ..." or "alias eth1 ..." lines anywhere. What does "install eth0 /bin/true" do and how can I specify which NIC gets eth0 and which gets eth1? Jason Joines =================================

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