December 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

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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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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