November 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

screen, mouse, kb lockup
by Doug McGarrett 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

While attempting to stop a video playing on Macro Media Flash Player 7, I managed to lock out everything. I could not move the mouse cursor, the arrow keys and the rest of the kb didn't work, ctl-alt-del did nothing. None of the function keys did anything. (The video was something downloaded from the 'net via Firefox.) I wound up pulling the big switch, as us hams like to say. Is there anything else I could have done? I'm trying to put Linux to practical use, and this is the first time I've seen 10.0 crash, so it's good, but not fool-proof. (If something can be broken, this fool will break it!)

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Fwd: Re: [SLE] php4_unixODBC
by Sven Haberer 04 Apr '06

04 Apr '06

good idea - please see here: http://www.susewiki.org/index.php?title=HowTo:_PHP4_ODBC Hope this is detailed enough... BTW, thats my first wiki entry ever... Am Sonntag, 24. April 2005 22:36 schrieb Richard Bos: > Op zondag 24 april 2005 23:36, schreef Sven Haberer: > > If desired, I could post a short description how I did this... > > If you can put it own the wiki (http://www.susewiki.org) than we can all > maintain it. > > -- > Richard Bos > Without a home the journey is endless

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stopping dictionary attacks on sshd
by Dan Abernathy 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

Hello all I notice several automated break-in attempts appearing in /var/log/messages regarding sshd. A small sample: Nov 7 14:34:10 d8400 sshd[18607]: Invalid user a from 71.129.198.189 Nov 7 14:34:11 d8400 sshd[18609]: Invalid user aaron from 71.129.198.189 Hundreds of entries like the above, working their way through every English letter using common first names, also names of services like Apache. I ran across this Novell Cool Solutions article: http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/trench/16341.html It describes the use of a shell script, run once per minute using a cron job, that parses information from /var/log/messages and adds offending IP addresses to /etc/hosts.deny. I saved the script as ssh-block.sh in my home folder, in a subdirectory named cronjobs. I used su to become root and ran crontab -e, and added the script to run once per minute. Entries in /var/log/messages confirm that the shell script is indeed being run every minute, but the contents of /etc/hosts.deny hasn't changed at all, despite the presence of failed sshd log-ins (also written to /var/log/messages). Can someone knowledgeable about shell scripts take a look at the URL above and see if there is a problem with the script? If not, what did I do incorrectly? What's the proper way to run this job regularly? I assume it must be run as root, both to read /var/log/messages and to write to /etc/hosts.deny. Dan

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TV spool
by Carlos E. R. 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Is there a program in Linux, that allows me to save the TV stream to a file, then watch that file somewhat later, at the same time you are saving the program? There are hardware boxes that do this. You know, you are watching a program, somebody phones you, so you press a key, and later you continue watching from the point you stopped, while the box continues saving the rest of the program that is still on air. But to do that on a PC, in Linux? - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDcKEHtTMYHG2NR9URAjhGAJ4zENessY1F846qOYQQQlql7EE9MACfVo+j kWFCdTZLa39Rrm+1k9BBaMk= =AQcO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Mounting an SD card with a Ricoh CardBus
by CPHennessy 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

Hi, I've a laptop with a SD card reader, which when I use "lspci" I can see is a 06:09.0 Cardbus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev b3) When I insert an SD card it is not mounted automatically. Should it be ? How can I mount it manually ? Thanks, CPH

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Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG under SuSE 9.2?
by Jesper Andersson 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

Dear everyone, I wonder if anyone has any experience of getting the wireless eth-card in a Dell Latitude D600 to work for SuSE 9.2? The card is an Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG. It is recognised by the system as such, and I am able to configure it in Yast without any obvious problems. However, it doesn't get an IP-address. This is in contrast with the same laptop in the same location booting the XP partition, in which case it finds the network, gets an IP and chats away happily. The setup is the same for SuSE and XP: DHCP, named ssid, WEP-ASCII-5char encryption. The following may be relevant version numbers Kernel 2.6.8-24 wireless-tools 27pre26-10 ipw-firmware 3.3 During boot I get the following messages (some of which sound a bit omnious, but I am not certain how serious they are) that I interpret as related to the problem <4>ieee80211_crypt: unsupported module, tainting kernel. ("tainting is bad, right?") <7>ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL' <4>ieee80211: unsupported module, tainting kernel. . . <4>ipw2200: unsupported module, tainting kernel. <6>ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200 Network Driver, 0.8 <6>ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation . . <6>eth1: Setting MAC to 00:0e:35:ad:e3:81 <3>ipw2200: Calibration and the later on when trying to connect eth1 device: Intel Corp. PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05) eth1 configuration: wlan-id-00:0e:35:ad:e3:81 ERROR: command 'iwconfig eth1 mode Managed' returned Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) : SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported. eth1 (DHCP) . . . . . no IP address yet... backgrounding. waiting If anyone recognise the problem and has a solution to it I would be for ever grateful. Please also be gentle with me if/when replying. I am a bit of a beginner and don't handle jargon very well. Puss Jesper

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postfix setup.
by pelibali 12 Feb '06

12 Feb '06

Hi, I'm not sure, that its easily possible, but running few comps in a network, I would like them to pass my root e-mails to my own machine. I setup already the alias, so my "normal" user can read everything already, but only locally. This I would like to change by the following scheme: - if my computer is available, then the messages should be transfered, - if my computer is not online, messages should wait in a queue, until it appears again. This should happen with no error-messages, no expiring, etc. I don't ask for complete solution for this problem, but please let me know, what I would need to get the above system up and running. At present I have postfix installed and running on all the comps; UIDs/GIDs are identical on all of them; all SUSE, but various versions. Thank you, Pelibali

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External disk choice
by Maura Edelweiss Monville 11 Feb '06

11 Feb '06

I have a 4-year old DELL desktop with a heavy CRT monitor that I'm going to give away soon . I also have a 2 month old laptop. Both computers run Linux/SuSE. I would like to buy an external disk to save most of my s/w development now residing on my old desktop. But I would like to be able to use it also with my laptop. Both computers have some USB ports so I daresay an external USB disk would be fine .. I'd appreciate some suggestion about a USB reliable, large capacity but portable, external disk or any alternative solution. Thank you in advance. Maura

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unsuscribe
by Linda Miller 07 Feb '06

07 Feb '06

unsuscribe

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SCSI RAID recovery
by Robert Amodeo 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

I have a fileserver running SuSE 8.0 with 2 IDE Drives and a SCSI RAID (RAID5). The system boots up to one of the IDE drives, and the SCSI RAID drive runs as a mounted filesystem (/dev/md0). (all filesystems are REISERFS). Problem: The SCSI RAID drive has crashed (won't boot up), and I need to recover it (repair it, through some utility). Further: The software does not seem to want to mount the disks, even though the SCSI BIOS (Adaptec) recognizes the disks, and they are listed as OPTIMAL. I tried to repair the disk(s) (with reiserfsck), but it produced an error message: reiserfs_open: bread failed reading block 2 reiserfs_open: bread failed reading block 16 reiserfs_open: neither new nor old reiserfs form found on /dev/md0 The literature suggested that this error message is hardware related (either a disk is physically damaged, or maybe the RAID isn't recognized), but again, the disks are recognized (and therefore, so is the SCSI Card). I tried to boot up with SuSE CD 1 in Recovery mode, but not sure what to do there (i.e., after the root prompt - just run reiserfsck?). Literature suggests there are plenty of tools to handle disk recovery, and especially RAID support, I can't find reference to them anywhere. The installation of the RAID was trivial (using the YAST2 partitioning GUI window on startup), and yet recovery seems to be a mystery. This can't be right. Does anyone know where there are "decent" and "usable" recovery tools? OR ... does anyone know what "specifically" to do in this case? Can I re-partition without formatting, and recover the existing data? Any help is appreciated - I'm sure I'm missing something "obvious", but can't find "obviously" what to do in the literature, docs, etc. Thank you. Robert Amodeo School of Engineering and Applied Science University of California, Los Angeles

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