January 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Suse 9.2 & vsftp
by Art Fore 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

Have finally gotten vsftp started, but still connot log in to it. Followed the SuSE slox knowsedgebase article as much as possible and an email on the web. Still no success. I notice they are using PAM. Maybe that is causing the problem. If I enter the url ftp://localhost:20 in a browser on the server, I get port 20 is disabled, although I do not have the firewall on. Following questions Is there any howto on vsftp anywhere? I have not found one but maybe I didn't look in the right place.. Would I have better luck with wu-ftp server? Tried the tftp that shows up in the network services, but could not get that to work either. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Art

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'Pingus' on SUSE 9.1 -> I get crazy...
by Peli 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

Hi List, I got my cousin (1x years old boy) visiting me, and I showed him few games including the Lemmings-clone "Pingus" on my SUSE 9.1 box. He went through all of the tutorial-levels [too] quickly, and asked me how to proceed to the "normal" levels. I had and have no idea, being I don't know so well the above game, but while attempting to move on I simply found no "normal" levels after the Tutorial-Island! As earlier, just minutes ago I solved _again_ the last level, but after I saved the penguins needed, just saw a nice cartoon-story. Then I got back to the begin of the game, and could go on to solve the tutorial-stuff _again_ :( I'm sorry to post this topic to the list, but in case anyone could suggest me a way to move on, I would be extremely happy as my cousin will come again, most likely this weekend... Thanks a lot, Peli

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Yast repository server
by Chris H 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

greets; Went through this exercise last year and got it to work just fine. Then nuked it months later..:) Instructions on how to set up a yast repository server were extracted from the SuSE portal. However I cannot find this documentation for the life of me. Spend a few hrs now on the portal and google. Anyone have a URL for setting up a private yast repository server that Yast can be pointed too? From what I remember there were several scripts that SuSE supplied and some manual work was required to setup both the ftp tree and file system so that it can be interpreted by Yast clients. Best regards and tia. /ch

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set command
by Doug B 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

I wanted to see how some variable was set so from the command line I typed 'set'. All kinds of code flashed before my eyes. I did 'set > 92_set.txt so I could see what is being displayed. The usual variables show up then... here is the last few variables and the start of the code: XMODIFIERS=@im=local XNLSPATH=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/nls XSESSION_IS_UP=yes _=0 bash205='3.00.0(1)-release' bash205b='3.00.0(1)-release' bash3='3.00.0(1)-release' have=yes is=bash _ImageMagick () { local prev; prev=${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD-1]}; case "$prev" in -channel) COMPREPLY=($( compgen -W 'Red Green Blue Opacity \ Matte Cyan Magenta Yellow Black' -- $cur )); return 0 ;; -colormap) COMPREPLY=($( compgen -W 'shared private' -- $cur )); return 0 ;; -colorspace) Looking through it, the code/script/whatever seems ImageMagick related and the entire output of set is just under 3900 lines. I did a 'switch user' from the kde menu and logged in using another user and got the same thing. I tried 'set' on my 9.1 box and got much the same, but different code: XMODIFIERS=@im=local XNLSPATH=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/nls XSESSION_IS_UP=yes _= is=bash no_proxy=localhost _alias () { local cur; COMPREPLY=(); cur=${COMP_WORDS[$COMP_CWORD]}; case "$COMP_LINE" in *[^=]) COMPREPLY=($( compgen -A alias -S '=' -- $cur )) ;; *=) COMPREPLY=("$( alias ${cur%=} 2>/dev/null | sed -e 's|^alias '$cur'$.*$$|\1|' )") ;; esac } This one is just over 3000 lines. Any ideas as to what is going on and how to correct it? Doug

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The Linux Box: How To Speed Up Firefox
by Fred A. Miller 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

For broadband users.........VERY nice improvement! Fred http://thelinuxbox.org/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1104676550&archive=&… -- The only bug free software from MickySoft is still shrink-wrapped in their warehouse..."

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cron question
by Tim Hanson 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

I hope I'm writing to the right list. This isn't a question unique to SuSE. I've been to LDP, the SuSE admin manual, and a few other help pages. How do I give users access to cron? From what I can gather, the crontab for user egbert, for example, should be /var/spool/cron/egbert/crontab. Also, his user name shouldn't be in /var/spool/cron/deny. What am I missing?

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Command-line semaphores
by Paul W. Abrahams 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

Is there lurking somewhere in bash or as a utility program something I can use on a command line to construct a semaphore? The idea is that I have some resource and a couple of processes that want that resource. I want to make sure that if one gets the resource, the other is locked out until the first one is finished. For what it's worth, here's the specific case I'm interested in. I want to back up my home directory once a day. Easy enough, it seems -- create a cron job that does the deed at noon each day. But what if my machine isn't turned on at noon (since I don't leave it on all the time)? Again -- easy enough: do the backup when the machine is turned on, and set a signal indicating that it's been done. If the signal is set at noon, then don't do the backup. But things get interesting if I turn the machine on very slightly before noon. Then it's possible that the job will either get done twice or not at all if I don't handle the signal correctly. That's the problem that semaphores are supposed to solve. Paul

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deps error I've never seen before. HELP. <G>
by C Hamel 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

error: Failed dependencies: gdk-pixbuf = 0.18.0-447 | gdk-pixbuf = 0.18.0-606 is needed by gdk-pixbuf-0.18.0-610 Just what does this mean?? I have never seen it with the pipe ('|') and I have seen plenty of deps problems. -- ..."Yogi" CH Namasté Yoga Studio Closed 15DEC - 3JAN

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Delayed SLE postings
by Paul W. Abrahams 05 Jan '05

05 Jan '05

My apologies for the duplicate posting of my query about permission problems with rsync -a. There was something like a 12-hour delay in the first query reaching the list (including the archives), so I posted it again, figuring it was lost. Has anyone else had trouble with long-delayed postings in the last day or so, I wonder? Paul Abrahams

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Wlan help required :-(
by FX Fraipont 05 Jan '05

05 Jan '05

I've just replaced my router with a wireless one, to allow my wife to use her Acer laptop to access the Internet. The kit I bought is from Sitecom, and contains the router/access point, a 802.11g pcmcia card , and a usb "dongle" card. The pc card uses the Ralink 2500 chipset. I've downloaded the rt linux driver from sourceforge and compiled it. The problem is that the card does not seem to be recognized. Nothing appears in /var/log/messages when the card in inserted, even with rcpcmcia restarted. Cardctrl report two free slots. So if I load the module manually , of course nothing happens: ifconfig reports eth0 and lo, and iwconfig reports the same and sit0 (a bit of a mystery to me) with no wireless extensions. I've tried my son's pcmcia modem, and it is recognized as soon as it it inserted, so everything looks fine on the laptop front. The usb device is recognized when inserted. I've compiled the Zydas chip driver and installed it, but loading the prism2_usb module does not provide any wlan0 interface that I could then configure. By the way this chip is also used in Sweex cards. I've spent one full day and a half trying to get it to work, and frankly have not been very successful - to say the least - despite googling with a vengeance, and trying various drivers, many of which fail at the compilation stage because they won't work with the 2.6.8-24.10-default kernel. Has a distinguished list member been able to get one of these to work? Would he be prepared to do some extensive hand holding? thanks in advance. FX

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