February 2004 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

suse 9.0 installation problem
by Kenan Erdey 27 Feb '04

27 Feb '04

hi; i am trying to install suse 9.0 over netrwork. i've tried ftp.suse.com besides local ftp servers. but while installing some packages, it freezes and nothing happens. What can be the problem ? any suggestions are welcome. Kenan.

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mail attachment from commandline
by Hans du Plooy 27 Feb '04

27 Feb '04

Hi everybody, How can I mail an attachment with either the sendmail (from postfix) or mail (from mailx) command? The relevant man pages don't mention attachments, but I'm sure there's some fancy piping or something that would allow this. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thank you -- Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za

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Strange 'login' behaviour
by Christophe Greisberger 27 Feb '04

27 Feb '04

Hi! I have a strange problem with the "login' command on SuSE 8.2 1. I can log on the console and with ssh with a user errrr let's say 'hector' :-) 2. When log on as root, and I use the 'login' command (either on the console or ssh), I'm not asked for the password and get logged out. I didn't find any error message I searched the whole day in the man pages, in the SuSE db, on internet, but I didn't find anything about login rights or login problems :-( Does anyone have a clue? It's _very_ annoying since I need to have the login command to work to setup a ppp dialin server :-/ -- Christophe Greisberger

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migrating to 2.6 kernel
by David M. Fetter 27 Feb '04

27 Feb '04

I'm looking into migrating from the 2.4 to the 2.6 kernel under SuSE 9.0. Since it comes with it I'm assuming there really isn't too much difficulty to do this. Are there any caveats or problems in doing this? My main problem however is the potential security vulnerabilities and/or just plain improvements. If I move to the out-of-box 2.6-pre kernel, will suse have newer version available from the online update tool? How about just for getting a stable release of the 2.6 kernel instead of the 2.6-pre? Even though I'm doing this just on my desktop, I still like things to be stable. I'm not much into having a half buggy system to work on. Anybody know anything about this? Thanks. -- David M. Fetter - UNIX Systems Administrator Portland State University - www.oit.pdx.edu

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Installed java SDK package.
by infotechsys＠pivot.net 27 Feb '04

27 Feb '04

Hi, I've installed SDK package, but I have a few problems. Is there other instruction I have to do to finish the inatall? To run javac I have to enter the whole path name. TIA. Wayne P.S. I'm using suse 8.2

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RE: [SLE] no MII interfaces found
by Berge, Harry ten 27 Feb '04

27 Feb '04

On Thursday 26 February 2004 4:34 pm, Ryan McCain wrote: > Hello, > > Has anyone ever seen this.. The user is logged in as root, and the NIC > actually functions, however, I can't use mii-tool to change some of the > settings. This is on SUSE 9. > > cisrael02:~ # mii-tool > SIOCGMIIPHY on 'eth0' failed: Operation not supported > no MII interfaces found > cisrael02:~ # > Try 'ethtool'. Personally I've got better experiences with it than mii-tool. Regards Harry

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Re: [SLE] Strangeness in Gaim --for MSN and AIM
by wmeler 27 Feb '04

27 Feb '04

1)Well, I don't have problem #1 below when I'm logged in as root! (I use the same MSN and AIM log ins that I was using under my user account.) Any ideas why this would be? I"m using the same box. Also, MSN never worked on either before I installed the SSL stuff today, so the fact that it now works for both makse me believe I'm using the same build. Thoughs, comments, questions? I obviously want it to work properly under my user account, because having to switch over to my root console just to use gaim seems very excessive and slightly dangerous if any unknown security holes currently exist in gaim. 2)#2 below never works anywhere, anytime for me in Gaim. (Yahoo, that is.) -----Original Message----- From: wmeler <wmeler(a)earthlink.net> Sent: Feb 27, 2004 12:50 AM To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: [SLE] Strangeness in Gaim --for MSN and AIM 1) This is really weird. I finally realized after much reading (and pain) that I need to get SSL installed to make MSN happy in Gaim. Done. I can now get in MSN (and have always been able to get in AIM). HOWEVER, I've noticed something really weird. If I have both Yahoo and MSN set to log in automatically (with passwords and everything)., I get in AIM about a second or two before MSN. As soon as MSN connects, it totally kills Gaim. In other words, I can't run both. Individually, they work fine, but not together. Very baffled. Thoughts? 2) Okay, I've essentially given up on getting Yahoo to work in Gaim 0.75. I've seen nothing anywhere when googling which helps, except the developers saying "wait for 0.76". I'm only slightly upset about this. Cheers, wmeler -- 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 Cheers, wmeler

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kopete crash when closing chat window (SUSE's kde 3.2 binary)
by cincaipatron＠gmx.net 27 Feb '04

27 Feb '04

Hi, Sometime, kopete 0.8 (included in SUSE's kdenetwork3-3.2 binary) crashes when closing a chat window (MSN or Yahoo chat window). Has anybody who use self-compiling KDE 3.2 experienced the same? Here's the error message: libkopete: WARNING: [virtual KopetePluginManager::~KopetePluginManager()] Destructing plugin manager without going through the shutdown process! libkopete: libkopete: WARNING: [virtual KopetePluginManager::~KopetePluginManager()] Deleting stale plugin 'unnamed' libkopete: WARNING: [virtual KopetePluginManager::~KopetePluginManager()] Deleting stale plugin 'unnamed' libkopete: WARNING: [virtual KopeteProtocol::~KopeteProtocol()] Deleting protocol with existing accounts! Did the account unloading go wrong? libkopete: WARNING: [virtual KopetePluginManager::~KopetePluginManager()] Deleting stale plugin 'unnamed' libkopete: WARNING: [virtual KopetePluginManager::~KopetePluginManager()] Deleting stale plugin 'unnamed' libkopete: WARNING: [virtual KopeteProtocol::~KopeteProtocol()] Deleting protocol with existing accounts! Did the account unloading go wrong? Regards, Verdi -- GMX ProMail (250 MB Mailbox, 50 FreeSMS, Virenschutz, 2,99 EUR/Monat...) jetzt 3 Monate GRATIS + 3x DER SPIEGEL +++ http://www.gmx.net/derspiegel +++

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Strangeness in Gaim --for MSN and AIM
by wmeler 27 Feb '04

27 Feb '04

1) This is really weird. I finally realized after much reading (and pain) that I need to get SSL installed to make MSN happy in Gaim. Done. I can now get in MSN (and have always been able to get in AIM). HOWEVER, I've noticed something really weird. If I have both Yahoo and MSN set to log in automatically (with passwords and everything)., I get in AIM about a second or two before MSN. As soon as MSN connects, it totally kills Gaim. In other words, I can't run both. Individually, they work fine, but not together. Very baffled. Thoughts? 2) Okay, I've essentially given up on getting Yahoo to work in Gaim 0.75. I've seen nothing anywhere when googling which helps, except the developers saying "wait for 0.76". I'm only slightly upset about this. Cheers, wmeler

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Do you read the security news?
by Steven T. Hatton 27 Feb '04

27 Feb '04

A rather fortuitous series of accidents enabled me to catch an actual compromise of a password yesterday. I found some useful information by running the KNewsTicker for the first time ever. That in combination with some other evidence suggested _VERY STRONGLY_ that one of my passwords had been compromised. Fortunately that password is virtually useless to anyone. STH

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