December 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Hex / ascii / Text editor recomendations please
by scsijon 28 Jan '06

28 Jan '06

Does anyone know of a decent simple linux Hex/ascii/text editor, like the one that use to be in Xtree in the old days (you used tab to move between the two formats). I've had a look at freshmeat's offers and they all seem to be all much more programmers editors and that is far more than the need to just add some missed initials and dates at three positions (varying locations unfortunately) over 83 files. thanks in advance scsijon ps, can someone give me the websubscription address for opensuse please, been meaning to subscribe for a while now.

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Monitor Driver Disk
by Ken Schneider 25 Jan '06

25 Jan '06

Is there some secret to reading a manufacturers driver data copied to a floppy disk? I own a KDS ExtremeFlat XF-9b monitor, downloaded the driver zip file from the manufacturer, copied the unzipped data to a floppy and get an error when trying to read the driver info: Read Error ________________________________________ Could not read from the CD or disk. This may point to a damaged medium or incorrectly formatted information files. If that company does not know how to format the info can someone point me to the monitor database file so I can manually add the correct data for my monitor? Also, where can I submit the information to be included in future SUSE updates? The default install seems to think that I have a PTS Proview Monitor which is not correct. Thanks, -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998

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[+/-OT] Does gmail pop3 work for you?
by Carlos E. R. 22 Jan '06

22 Jan '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Somebody convinced my to try gmail, and so I got a gmail account. I configured fetchmail to get the emails, and it worked for some time. I was testing it on this list, some may have noticed my change of address during a few days. Then, suddenly, without changing anything, it stopped working with this error message: Dec 20 14:08:47 nimrodel fetchmail[15825]: POP3< +OK [SYS/TEMP] Due to a temporary system problem, this mailbox will seem empty. But this "temporary" error hasn't changed since Dec 14, when it started. I have googled, and found an email thread in "debian-user" ([OT] Gmail POP fails), with some people reporting the exact same error even earlier than me, with diferent email configurations, but no solution. I have not found any mention of this in gmail help either. How about you people? Any clues, pointers? - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDsZ64tTMYHG2NR9URAurLAJ9tc1agIzOu8Y9bGhwuwz6m5Xs4ggCeP3iB T75sUX3qLKUEC6BBsd2lLio= =9JOX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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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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Apache setup on 10.0
by John Meyer 18 Jan '06

18 Jan '06

I set up Apache to run through YAST2, and anything located in my srv/www (I think) will publish. However, any of the user public_html directories do not publish. When I try to acccess them, I get the following error: Access forbidden! You don't have permission to access the requested object. It is either read-protected or not readable by the server. If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster. and I have mod_userdir enabled. What else do I need to do?

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Looking for a book that describes highly available DHCP setups
by Joachim Schrod 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

Hi, I'm looking for a book that explains reliable and manageable DHCP setups. In particular, it should cover installations with failover and load balancing configurations of dhcpd. Both static and dynamic addressing is used. In addition, an explanation how to integrate and manage an LDAP backend would be nice; maintaining the shared configuration in a text file would probably be too error-prone. On my SUSE system, I found the IETF drafts and some example configurations. I did not found any more documentation. I searched on O'Reilly's Safari for DHCP books, but found none that covers DHCP failover. (I was astonished that ORA published a book on DHCP for Windows, but not one for Unix/Linux. It got a sad world to live in when there are more relevant Windows than Unix ORA books.) Can anybody on this list recommend a book or an online reference for that topic on me. I have understood the basic technology, and I am interested in how-to reports that gives operational tips for enterprise-class installations and explains common pitfalls and how to avoid them. Thanks in advance for any answer, Joachim PS: For relevance to this list: It should work on SUSE 10.0. But since the dhcpd has been version 3.0.x since at least 8.1, the SUSE version probably won't matter. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod(a)acm.org Roedermark, Germany

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Apache2 Won't Start
by Linuxjim 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

Hi all. I'm setting up a new SuSE 10 install. Apache 2 won't start. I had apache2 working, with php5 and squirrelmail, but something dorked up. I get the following error... ------------ Starting httpd2 (prefork) Syntax error on line 10 of /etc/apache2/mod_status.conf: Invalid command 'Order', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration The command line was: /usr/sbin/httpd2-prefork -f /etc/apache2/httpd.conf [1A..failed --------- mod_status.conf reads as follows... -------- <IfModule mod_status.c> <Location /server-status> SetHandler server-status Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from localhost </Location> </IfModule> -------- I'm not sure what this means, but I don't see any misspellings. Not sure what other module it might be looking for. It was working, basic index.html came up (set owner and group to "root" in htdocs. I was looking around in Yast>Netwrok Services>http, I might have changed the running status of one or two modules, but not sure what happened. Many thanks, Jim

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X.org 7.0 release
by Osho GG 16 Jan '06

16 Jan '06

Hi, X.org 7.0 was released recently. Does anyone know where I can find SuSE 9.1 rpms? thanks, Osho

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HP PSC-1315
by Mike McMullin 15 Jan '06

15 Jan '06

My brother picked up the above mentioned all in one unit. Configuring it as a printer went without a hitch and works fine. Setting it in YaST as a scanner seems to have worked it's identified in the top pane twice. rpm -q sane returns sane 1.0.15-20.2 lsusb returns Bus 003 Device 002: ID 03f0:3f11 Hewlett-Packard PSC-1315/PSC-1317 xsane tells me that sane is not installed which is contradicted by the above rpm query. Kooka starts up and I get a "Select Scan Device" window with "1 hpaio:/usb/psc_1310_series: serial=cn535c31fbv6 hp psc_1310_series" The program interface itself loads and I get a window that tells me that no scanner was found. The "HP Device Manager (Toolbox)" doesn't list it at all. His system in new enough to have USB 2.0 on the motherboard. Any pointers, as this is one of the few things holding him back from dumping XP totally.

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Hylafax queue problem on SuSE 9.3
by Andre Truter 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

I have set up an oungoing fax server using Hylafax on SuSE 9.3 Everything seems to be fine, except that it never sends the faxes. Clients can submit faxes to the queue, but then the faxes just sit there. The queue is never processed. Any idea what could be wrong or where to start looking? -- 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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