March 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Zero empty space on partition ???
by John N. Alegre 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

Could someone please remind me. Im old and brain dead. There is a command to Zero the empty space on a hard disk into a file and I just forgot it. You set the file size to be bigger then the empty space and it creates a file that is all the empty space zeroed and then you delete the file. Could some kind person please remind me of the command? Thanks john

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Looking for FOSS file transfer lockbox type s/w
by Kevin F. Berrien 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

I'm looking for an open source, web based, file exchange lock box type software. Something that will allow uploading/dl of files (rather than using FTP) via http, but ideally with a lockbox feature to password isolate files. Thought I'd post here if anyone is familiar with such a package. Searched Sourceforge, etc., with no luck.

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Book: "SUSE Linux 9 Bible"
by Randall R Schulz 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

Hi, I'd like to hear from anyone who is familiar with the book "SUSE Linux 9 Bible" (<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0764577395/>) to get their review / impressions of this book. Thanks. Randall Schulz

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Adaptec 2120 problems
by Anders Norrbring 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

Hiya! Anyone with experiences from Adaptec 2120S RAID controllers? I've tried to install one with Compaq 9.1GB disks, the controller low-level formats the drives as the correct size. But when I go to the "Manage Arrays" section and should define an array, the controller say that the drives are 4GB, not 8.4 as they should be (formatted). Anyone with ideas on this? Anders Norrbring

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9.2 when was it released?
by Kevanf1 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

Just a quicky to settle a debate. Could somebody tell me just when SuSE 9.2 was released? I thought SuSE/Novell had a 6 month release schedule. Does 9.3 actually fit in with this? Thank you :-) -- Take care. Kevan Farmer 34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR

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How to get rid of low disk space warning
by Paul W. Abrahams 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

I have a partition in which I've installed the contents of the Suse 9.1 DVD. I deliberately set the size of the partition to be only a little larger that what was needed, since I'll never add anything to that partition. But on several occasions I've gotten a "low disk space" warning about it. Is there any way I can turn off the warning for that one partition while retaining the warning for all other partitions? Paul

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Acrobat Reader 7.0 on AMD-64w/Suse9.2
by Art Fore 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

Has anyone installed the new Acrobat reader on an AMD-64 system? I followed the instructions, but get the following after the install ln: creating symbolic link `/usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Reader/intellinux/lib/libldap.so' to `/usr/lib/libldap-2.2.so.7': No such file or directory ln: creating symbolic link `/usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Reader/intellinux/lib/liblber.so' to `/usr/lib/liblber-2.2.so.7': No such file or directory The files are there except for the /Reader/intellinux and when I try to execute, I also get a message that it cannot find the intellinux. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Art

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Nigerian spam filter?
by Paul W. Abrahams 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

Has anyone come up with an effective filter for detecting Nigerian spam, much of which these days doesn't come from Nigeria? Anything that would work with kmail? Paul

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Re: [SLE] Nigerian spam filter?
by W.D.McKinney 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

>-----Original Message----- >From: Mirko Perak [mailto:m.perak@com-yu.com] >Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 10:16 AM >To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com >Subject: Re: [SLE] Nigerian spam filter? > >On Friday 25 March 2005 15:06, Paul W. Abrahams wrote: >> Has anyone come up with an effective filter for detecting Nigerian spam, >> much of which these days doesn't come from Nigeria? Anything that would >> work with kmail? > >I am using Bogofilter with KMail, and it detect about 70% of Nigerian SPAM. > I use a Barracuda to stop all those bad e-mails. Sweet and Linux based. Dee

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[SLE] 9.2 - Mic does not record properly - RPM problem ?
by Dumb Waiter 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

Have been scratching my head due to this, for several nights now: I have tried to record sound in KDE (Krecord, Audacity, even Qarecord) and also did try out Skype, but the microphone seems to be a problem - it records on a very very low level, like a whisper really, and in Skype the fellow in the other end barely hears me. While I can hear myself in the headphones just fine, loud and clear, a recording ends up useless "whisper". Have played with various mic settings, mic boost is on, have played with etc/asound.state settings based on an usenet msg, and with sound related permissions. In Skype I tried starting Skype with "artsd something" parameter based on a newsgroup article; no help. As I see it here and there in usenet messages that other people too do have this problem in Suse 9.2, and as someone else - apart from Jake Sallee - wrote something about Suse (artsd?) packages being broken, could this be due to some Suse (artsd or other) RPM's being "bad". If so, which packages should one download and rebuild, to get a consistent upgrade to the sound system? I use a Terratec Aureon Fun 5.1 card, but earlier I had Creative Live Player 5.1 and if I remember correct, it did not perform too well either. (Did not try Skype with it, though.) There's an integrated sound chip on my PC, but it is disabled in the BIOS settings. The mic/headphone set is a good quality Labtec one and should be working just fine. Test sound in Control Centre / Sound System works o.k. but test midi produces no sound whatsoever. MP3's and Wav's play ok. Alsa mixer looks like the recording level settings etc. would be as they should. Thanks for any input, especially for instructions on getting and rebuilding the relevant RPM's. 2.6.8-24.11-smp / artsd (whatever it is..) version is 1.3.0 dw / Mike

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