May 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Changing IPs on a SuSE 9.1 system?
by John N. Alegre 27 May '05

27 May '05

I am in a situation where I have to change the static IP and DNS reslover for my network. The network is composed of 2 Mac OS X systems, one SuSE 9.1 pro. Naturally the IPs of all machines are going to change. No issue with the OS X systems, things just work there, as Jobs says. (Easy dialogs). The SuSE box exports files with NFS. So the question is what has to be changed for the new IPs and DNS entries on SuSE. Here is what I think I know ... DNS ... all in the /etc/resolv.conf file. Change the entries and reboot. static IPs .... NFS ... change entries in /etc/exports to new IPs. Reboot hosts ... same as above to /etc/hosts Now what I don't know ... greping on files in /etc I see IP entries in /etc/cups/client.conf /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2 /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth-id-XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX /etc/sysconfig/network/routes The SuSEfirewall2 entry is in the FW_TRUSTED_NETS parameter which i know i can change as above and reboot. I have NO CLUE as to the entries in the cups file or more important in the files in /etc/sysconfig/network Do these have to be entered by hand or is there a YAST shortcut? If they have to be entered by hand could someone point me to the info I need to digest in the network sysadmin guide. Also, are there YAST tools to do all of the above and not have to do hand editing. AND MOST IMPORTANT ... did i miss and files in which i have to alter IP or DNS entries?? I only looked in all the files in /etc and all its subdirectories using grep on my existing IP so this would not hit any binary files affected. Thanks for anyones help john

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Automatic updates for SLES9
by Rikard Johnels 27 May '05

27 May '05

Hi! I have a friend who just bought himself a used server. It had SLES 9 installed, but a corrupt disk made him (or actually it was me) reinstall it. The problem is that as it is a used server, he has no service agreement with SuSE, and thus no login/password for the update servers. Is there a "public" anonymous server to use for SLES upgrades available, or does he either have to get a license from SuSE or install 9.2/9.3 instead? -- /Rikard " Sharing knowledge is the most fundamental act of friendship. Because it is a way you can give something without loosing something." -R. Stallman --------------------------------------------------------------- Rikard Johnels email : rikjoh(a)norweb.se Mob : +46 763 19 76 25 PGP : 0x461CEE56 ---------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [SLE] Kopete
by Jeff Dierking 27 May '05

27 May '05

Erik Jakobsen wrote .. > As I have a problem with MSN in Kopete, I need to reinstall it. What > package contains Kopete ? > > -- KDE Jeff Dierking jeff(a)lordjester.com ------------------------ GPG/PGP KeyID 0x5F355DB4 Retrieve pgp-public-keys(a)pgp.mit.edu?subject=get%200x5F355DB4 ------------------------ They both savoured the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were only ignorant of ordinary things. -- Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

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RE: [SLE] linux clock drift
by James D. Parra 27 May '05

27 May '05

>I have a problem with clock drift on an opteron machine running suse >9.2. I think I've narrowed the problem down to the kernel clock. I >stopped NTP so that isn't confusing the issue. I manually set the system >clock and the hardware clock to match another NTP-synchronized clock >that is working properly and left it for an hour. The hardware clock is >still showing the correct time, but the system clock has gained 52 >minutes in an hour. I have had a similar problem and had to resort to setting a cron job restarting xntp every 30 minutes. This appears to be a Suse problem (I have a similar hardware setup as you, 4 dual Opterons running Suse 9.1). The Mandrake servers I have make use of the drift files frequently. Oddly, I have noticed that on the Suse boxes the ntp daemon dies for no apparent reason; # rcxntpd status Checking for network time protocol daemon (NTPD): dead ~James

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dvdrip
by Glenn Pedersen 27 May '05

27 May '05

Im trying to get Dvdrip working under Suse 9.3 but to no avail. It hangs when ripping the dvd. It makes no matter what dvd I try it always hangs the machine. I thought it may have had something to do with hal "the auto mounter thingy" so I stopped it by typing "rchal stop" and then try to rip the dvd. When i have hal disabled it rips further that with it enabled but still hangs at about 20% or so. With hal enabled it only get to about 10% or so. Btw I believe libdvdread is used to rip the dvd and the ver i have installed is libdvdread-0.9.4-2.pm.1 I have tried using vobcopy to rip but it hangs as well. :( Has anyone got dvdrip to work successfully under 9.3 btw using the same hardware and 9.2 I had no problems at all. Cheers, Glenn

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How to install only libraries compiled for the standard pentium processor ? (on newer hardware)
by Bo Jacobsen 27 May '05

27 May '05

With a new version of SuSE i normally do a basic installation on one machine, and then clone the disk to other systems. I originally did the virgin installation on an AMD K6-2 machine, and this installation would run on almost all machines (Intel P4, AMD-XP etc.) My problem is that clones of a virgin installations done on an AMD XP machine, will not run on AMD K6-2 machines etc. This is because the SuSE installation installs sets of libraries compiled for the specific hardware it's running on (and libraries compiled for P4 and AMD-XP do not run on an old AMD K6 processor). Is it anyway possible to make the SuSE installation program install libraries compiled for the plain pentium processor (which I presumed is used when installing on K6 hardware), when the installation of SuSE (9.3) is done on a P4 or AMD-XP ? /Bo

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Two internet connections
by Hans du Plooy 27 May '05

27 May '05

Hi guys, I have a slight problem with a mailserver. The server is accepting mail for four domains, all of which have their MX records hosted with different ISPs. The mailserver is being moved from one line to another, so at the moment it is connected to both, with the gateway set as the firewall on the new line. Problem is not all of the domains' MX records have been changed yet, and connections to the old line simply doesn't work. I don't even get a reply if I try to telnet into it. My feeling is that the mailserver tries to respond to the connection via it's default gateway. How do I tell it to respond via the interface that the connection was made on? Thanks -- Hans du Plooy SagacIT (Pty) Ltd hansdp at sagacit dot com

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USB wireless lan
by eddieleprince 27 May '05

27 May '05

I thinking of getting a USB wireless lan. Does anyone know of one that will work well with SuSE 9.3? I can't get the Edimax to work with ndiswrapper and the Belkin tends to "freeze" the system after 5 - 10 mins. Without the Belkin inserted my system works fine. Perhaps someone knows of a good site where I could check compatibility. Thanks alot. Eddie

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USB problems - SuSE 9.2 with KDE 3.4 installed
by SuSE User 27 May '05

27 May '05

I am running SuSE 9.2 at home. After update to KDE 3.4 (using rpms for suse) my problems with usb began. When I plug usb stick into computer, it freezes. I tried different usb sticks with same results. The only way to call machine back to life is to reset computer... I didnt have this problems with default install of SuSE 9.2. Anyone with idea where(what) to check? (sorry for my bad English) Greetings,

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Suse 9.3 and ATI fglrx 8.driver
by Tore H. Larsen 27 May '05

27 May '05

Hi, PC with ATI 9200SE card. Driver fgrlx 8.10.19 I believe. When using higher resolutions than 800x600 I have random pixels on right side of screen for high fps. Known issue? I do not see the problem with latest 8.12.10 driver with FC3 on same machine. Regards, Tore -- Tore H. Larsen | Switch: +47 55 21 80 00 Silicon Graphics AS | Bus.fax: +47 55 21 80 01 Bergen - Norway | Phone: +47 55 21 80 14 Technical Support Engineer | Cellul: +47 918 33 670 V-net: SGI Global Services Organization | E-mail: torel(a)sgi.com 736-8014 Instant SGI Support | Skype id: torehlarsen

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