November 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Autoplaying video DVDs [SUSE 10.0].
by pelibali 08 Nov '05

08 Nov '05

Hi, I found various ways on the net for several distros, how to get DVD autoplaying; but none of them worked for me on SUSE Linux 10.0 [KDE, Mplayer]. Please, is there a known way to achieve this? I know, that generally DVDs playing _well_ on my machine, but suspecting problems with subfs while trying to do autoplay... Thank you, Pelibali

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DNS nsupdate woes
by Chadley Wilson 08 Nov '05

08 Nov '05

Greetings, Has anyone experienced this error while doing and nsupdate to a Suse10 dns server. I also get time out errors when my windows clients try and update dns via dhcp. in my rndc.key file I have created a new key with rndc-confgen -k metsi -a as suggested earlier today. My /etc/sysconfig/named is set to include /etc/rndc.key and I have turned off my firewall. my zones files are in /var/lib/named/master/ They are owned by named dig fqnd returns proper values for my current systems as does dig -x <ip-addr> ping fqdn works returns the IP correctly, OK! ping <ip-addr> works and returns the FQDN, OK! So dns is working properly, in my opinion. Its just the zone updates and keys that are a problem. I have enabled allow-transfer and allow-updates in named.conf Here is the error I get when running nsupdate: #nsupdate -y metsi:XXXXXXX >update add test.metsi.gov.za 7200 A 172.150.0.3 >send Communication with server failed: Time out > Does anyone have clues as to where I can start looking, this server must only allow updates from the localnets. and dhcp. (Will fight DHCP later.. 1st get zone updates to work) :) Thanks Chadley

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SL10 : Where is xgettext ?
by Andreas 08 Nov '05

08 Nov '05

Hi, I'd like to compile postgresql and it complains about missing xgettext. A member on the suse-linux list said it was in gettext-devel but I can't find this either with YaST's software install module. Any sugestions so I can get airborne again ? Cheers Andreas

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Installing Suse 10 on multiple machines with same selection of software
by Hugo Garcia 08 Nov '05

08 Nov '05

Hi I would like to install Suse 10 on about ten machines with only certain software. I would like to know if one can set a new softwre configuration so that it shows up in the installer. That way I can select that profile without having to manually select software for each machine. Is this possible? Can someone direct me to where I can find out more of how to do it? Thank you in advance. -H

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Yast on 10.0 no longer configures multiple fetchmailrc servers
by Mark Gray 08 Nov '05

08 Nov '05

There is no longer an option on "yast2 mail" allowing one to configure for more than one email download location. (Unless there was a button there which aged eyes failed to detect.)

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SLES & NOES questions
by Damian Mihai Liviu 08 Nov '05

08 Nov '05

Hello, I know this is not the best place to ask this but I don't want to subscribe to suse-linux-e mailing list. If someone will answer me here I would be very thankful. What is the difference between SLES (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server) and NOES (Novell Open Enterprise Server)? Is Novell providing the src.rpm packages for these products like RedHat does for RHEL? Are the sources free to download? If yes, from where? Cheers, -- Damian Mihai Liviu Mobile: +40 741 226993; Fax: +1 347-632-4117 Phone : +1 360-526-6441; +1 347-632-4117; +44 0870-3403339 URL: http://liviudm.blogspot.com

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Re: [SLE] stopping dictionary attacks on sshd
by kevin.j.lisciotti＠jpmchase.com 08 Nov '05

08 Nov '05

Dan Abernathy <dapub(a)charter.net> 11/07/2005 07:52 PM Please respond to dapub To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com cc: Subject: [SLE] stopping dictionary attacks on sshd 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 -- 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 The simple solution to this problem is to disable password logins and make use of public key authentication. With no chance to log in, there is no chance to brute force.

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Floppy drive vs. SUSE 10.0
by pelibali 08 Nov '05

08 Nov '05

Hi, I have three comps with SUSE 10.0 installed. All of them desktops and all of them can copy a 500kb file in about _20 minutes_ to a floppy. No joke, but seemingly "common feature". Reading floppies is no problem at all, only writing to a floppy is like a nightmare. Anyone else seeing the same strange behaviour?! All of the systems fully updated and the automounter is active for floppy/CD. The corresponding fstab things are defaults from the installations themselves... Thanks, Pelibali

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DHCP update DNS denied
by Chadley Wilson 08 Nov '05

08 Nov '05

Greetings, How do I proceed with generating a key entry for DNS and DHCP so that DHCP will be allowed to update DNS?? I have tried the option include "/etc/rndc.key" but no luck! :{ Thanks Chadley

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Re: [SLE] FYI: Floppy drive vs. SUSE 10.0
by Matt Stamm 08 Nov '05

08 Nov '05

---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: BandiPat <penguin0601(a)earthlink.net> Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 23:57:14 -0500 >Matt, >Removing "sync" from the floppy line in /etc/fstab fixed my problems. >Don't understand why it did not for Pelibali. I also set my floppy to >manual mount instead of the subfs, automatic mounting. Don't know if >that is the difference or not, but writes are quite fast now for me. > >regards, >Lee > Lee, So far it seems to work. Thanks! I just did a breif test with a 200k+ file, which took several minutes before, now takes 5 to 10 seconds. I noticed in previous discussions on this subject that by removing "sync" from fstab you're just avoiding real-time write to the floppy, and possibly not actually getting the faster performance. So here's what I did... - if /dev/fd0 is mounted then unmount it - mount /dev/fd0 - perform copy to floppy - umount /dev/fd0 - moved floppy to my old suse 8.1 system and read it - it worked! Thanks again Lee!

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