January 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Log files not compressing
by Dan 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

Hi all! I have just noticed a problem with my logs files. Usually they are automatically compressed (gziped) regularly (usually every second day) depending on how large they are. However I have just noticed that they have stopped being compressed, so my logs are HUGE. The last time they were compressed was on the November 23. My /var/log/mail is now 58 mbs my /var/log/httpd/access_log is a whopping 1168 mbs my /var/log/httpd/error_log is a huge 768 mbs. The problem is that I don't know much about this process at all. I assume that it is a cronjob that automatically compresses the logs. How do I restart the compressing process? Thanks in advance, and regards from Denmark! Dan Eskildsen

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UTC and localtime
by Donn Washburn 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

Hey Group; Has SuSE been screwing around with the UTC and localtime again. Around SuSE 6 or 7 they had a problem which caused the clock to be set wrong every time you booted up again. If you set it with netdate or something and then shut it down. When you booted back up it was 6 hours off. It is 10:06PM (22:06) here right now. But the KDE clock is showing 19:36. I have since the last setting the time turned this machine off and back on several time. I have forgotten what I did to fix it! Central Standard Timeq ___________________________ netdate now.cis.okstate.edu hwclock --systohc ___________________________ Now KDE shows 22:11 -- 73 de Donn Washburn Hpage: " http://www.hal-pc.org/~n5xwb " Ham Callsign N5XWB Email: " n5xwb(a)hal-pc.org " 307 Savoy St. " n5xwb(a)arrl.net " Sugar Land, TX 77478 LL# 1.281.242.3256 " http://counter.li.org " #279316

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Re: [SLE] Problem with SuSE 9.2 and SATA
by Andre Truter 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 11:29:07 +0100, Ventura Valderrábano Ornedo <valderrabano(a)gthv.es> wrote: > Hi. > > Problem: Seagate's SATA drives doesn't change to "write mode" when the SATA > controller is from Silicon Image. > > Solution: Change your drives to Western Digital or Maxtor. No more solutions > found yet. > > I tried to solved it 6 months ago and finally that was the best solution. It's > a Seagate failure, not from Silicon Image. > Hmmm.. Looks like the problem is far worse. I tried a Western Digital WD800 ATA/100 drive and it gives the same problem. Maybe the kernel that SuSE 9.2 ships with has an issue with the mobo. Does anybody know of a Gigabyte GA-8TRS350MT system that runs SuSE 9.2? I see there is a newer BIOS version out. Will give that a go. -- Andre Truter | Software Engineer | Registered Linux user #185282 ICQ #40935899 | AIM: trusoftzaf | http://www.trusoft.za.org ~ A dinosaur is a salamander designed to Mil Spec ~

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Czech Post Office Adopts SUSE Linux
by Fred A. Miller 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

The Czech Postal system migrated @ 4k servers and 12k terminals in 3400 locations to SUSE Linux. Interesting stuff about the training costs, etc. http://i-newswire.com/pr4519.html -- The only bug free software from MickySoft is still shrink-wrapped in their warehouse..."

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Re: [SLE] "mms is not a registered protocol"
by Ganeshram Iyer 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

> ** Reply to message from Ganeshram Iyer <ganeshramiyer(a)gmail.com> on Thu, 27 > Jan 2005 22:22:47 -0600 > > > > > > Just wondering if the person who started this thread got this problem > > fixed. I tried it on two different machines Suse 9.1 and FC 3 with > > Firefox 1.0 and Firefox 1.0PR and it works well on both machines > > (except for the AF_INET6 error). > > Ganesh > > > > > No, Ganesh. Still getting error message despite all suggested changes. ;o( > Gil Also along with the information requested by Carl, let us also know on the following: Type about:config and in the filter type "mms". Post the two (should be only two) results that show up. the following are mine. if ther are different from yours, try deleting your values and readding. network.protocol-handler.app.mms user set string /usr/local/bin/gmplayer network.protocol-handler.external.mms user set boolean true also see if Kaffeine will play the required mms stream directly without opening from a browser. i know gmplayer plays it directly using the URL. If these tips dont help, we can try another route. Thanks Ganesh

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Re: [SLE] "mms is not a registered protocol"
by Ganeshram Iyer 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

try this: new string: network.protocol-handler.app.mms value: /usr/local/bin/gmplayer (of course you can try opt/kde3/bin/kaffeine also. i do not have kaffeine on my Suse 9.1. i prefer gmplayer) new boolean: network.protocol-handler.external.mms value: true i tried this on a whim and it works for the site videos you provided but i do receive this error and i dont know what it means: Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: www.name-of-domain.com (could be a mplayer error) but it plays the videos Ganesh On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 19:20:31 -0500, Gil Weber <gil(a)gilweber.com> wrote: > Hi, everyone. Last fall I wrote to the list asking for help with an error > message I was getting when trying to watch videos on the following site: > http://www.mlsnet.com/MLS/sights/ > > The message was: "mms not supported protocol." > > At the time I was using Mozilla 1.6 and SuSE 9.1, and some of you supplied the > following solution: > > 1) open Mozilla, type about:config and click enter > 2) right click on the screen and choose new/string from the menu that appears > 3) enter preference: network.protocol-handler.apps.mms > 4) in the next screen enter path to Kaffeine: opt/kde3/bin/kaffeine. > > That worked great. > > However, I just did a clean install of 9.2, did the on-line update using YaST, > and I am using Firefox 1.0. > > I am getting another error message now that reads: "mms is not a registered > protocol." I tried the Mozilla solution shown above but it isn't working. I'm > still getting the error message. > > Any ideas? > > Would appreciate guidance on getting Firefox to play the videos on this site. > > Thx > Gil > > -- > 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 > > -- Ganeshram Iyer 415 South Oak St #117 Arlington, TX, 76010 Ph (H) - 817-274-7827

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Remastering Linux
by Laurent Renard 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

Hello everyone, I tried several times to remaster a linux live distro ( Knoppix, Slax, ... ) Is there an easier way to generate your own distro ? I'd like to add some features like "mambo server", phpmyadmin, ... and boot on KDE Thanx for all ;) -- Laurent Renard

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Building X.Org from source
by Paul Howie 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

I have a laptop with an S3 Twister-K graphics chip and Im want to enable its OpenGL support under SuSE 9.2. I have found a page (http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Building) which has instructions for doing just that, but it involves compiling a new version of X.Org, MESA and DRM. I don't think that I can do any of this via RPM, so I was wondering what issues I might have with YAST once I'm finished. Paul

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Logitec Web Cam on SuSE 9.2 can it work?
by George Stoianov 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

Hello everyone, I have a Logitec Web Cam that I am wondering if it is at all possible to make it work on SuSE. It is a USB cam and I read that "CPiA webcam driver for Linux" (http://webcam.sourceforge.net/) does not even listed as supported. Do you have any tips? Thanks in advance. George ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca

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FUSE -- filesystem in user space.
by Paul Alfille 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

Can I propose FUSE be included with the standard SUSE distribution? The FUSE system has gained a lot of momentum. It is a generic filesystem driver that exports all its calls to the user space. This allows easy creation of innovative file systems, like database-backed filesystems, encrypted filesystems, and (mine) the OWFS 1-wire filesystem. See http://fuse.sourceforge.net FUSE has been included with the mm series of kernels. Unfortunately, having an external kernel module means my users have to reinstall FUSE after every kernel update, which seems to be rather common. Including fuse with the standard distribution would add no significant complexity or tradeoffs, and make SuSE a stronger distribution.

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