June 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Root partition filled
by skyefire＠skyefire.org 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Well, darn. I think I'm in trouble. And I've only myself to blame. Here's the skinny: Laptop running 9.1Pro, with a / partition that was obviously, in hindsight, too small. I actually got started on trying to fix it before it hit critical, using my Knoppix CD and QTParted, but QTP wouldn't touch any hda partitions except the swap (/ and home are both reiserfs) -- the 'resize' option was greyed out. Then I was going to take it to my local LUG meeting this AM, but I had to work instead... and when I booted up, KDE refused to go past the graphical login screen, complaining about insufficient space on /. I'd quote the exact error message, but now KDE won't even give me that -- when I try to logon, I just get the 'waiting' icon for a moment, then I'm back at the login screen. So I figure, okay, I deserve this for procrastinating. I boot back to Knoppix, run parted on my USB backup drive to create an ext2 filesystem, and start trying to do a plain cp * of everything from my hda2 and hda3 into backup directories on the USB drive... and keep getting "read-only filesystem" errors. Say what? Well, I got past that, kind of, I think, and I've got backup copies of all my files (and from now on, I'm going to to full drive backups more regularly). But before I take the plunge, I thought I'd poll the list. From the looks of it, I'd guess I'm probably going to have to destructively re-part the hd, with a bigger / this time, and then copy everything back. Probably have to reinstall some stuff, too. Chalk it up to one more Linux learning experience. But if anyone knows any obvious pitfalls I should avoid while I'm doing this, I'd appreciate any advice offered.

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Firewall
by Gerald Humphreys 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

hi All I need some assistance here please. I go lan gaming quite offen, and use Windows for those games thats not supported by linux. I want to set up a firewall and a virus scanner on my SuSe 9.3 laptop to scan everything that goes out and comes in. I got my desktop connected to my laptop and my laptop connected to the lan. I am using 2 network cards in my laptop one onboard and one pcmcia. Please can someone guide me through the procedures. Regards Gerald Humphreys

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Waiting for 9.3 will 9.2 support the Prism WiFi adaptor
by Sean Rima 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Hello suse-linux-e, I am waiting for my 9.3 dvd to arrive. I do have 9.2 but will I be able to use the Prism Wifi adaptor and is it easier enough to upgrade from 9.2 to 9.3 using the new 9.3 dvd? Sean -- ICQ: 679813 YAHOO: thecivvie Jabber: thecivvie(a)jabber.org AIM: tcobone Vodafone +353879120530 Winamp is stopped

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Hörbuch question ...
by James Hatridge 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Hi all, My German wife wants to order a Hörbuch (speaking books) on the 'net. She wants to know if I can play it on my system. I use 9.2 at the moment. What format is these speaking books in? What will I need to do to play one? BTW I'm already using MP3 files. Thanks, JIM -- Jim Hatridge Linux User #88484 ------------------------------------------------------ WartHog Bulletin Info about new German Stamps http://www.fuzzybunnymilitia.org/~hatridge/bulletin/index.php Viel Feind -- Viel Ehr' Anti-US Propaganda stamp collection http://www.fuzzybunnymilitia.org/~hatridge/collection/index.php

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Ypbind port numbers change daily on SLES9
by Mark Andrews 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

I'm administering a SLES9 system. Daily, I receive an automated mail message similar to the following: OLD: /var/lib/secchk/security-report-daily 2005-06-12 00:00:02.528087228 -0400 NEW: /var/lib/secchk/security-report-daily.new 2005-06-13 00:00:02.220556009 -0400 * Changes (+: new entries, -: removed entries): + ypbind root UDP *:755 - ypbind root UDP *:986 This tells me that ypbind changed it's UDP listening socket, but I'm wondering two things: (1) What process or procedure performs the change? The ypbind process is not restarted (2) Why is it done? Thanks

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FTP access INVALID PORT COMMAND
by Alberto E. Gallardo Doñate 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Hi everybody. We need to access from our internal network to an external ftp server, but we can't do it because of an "invalid port command" problem. Our internal network is connected to internet via a suse 9.2 linux. I have already installed both modules ip_conntrack_ftp and ip_nat_ftp but it doesn't still work. Last week we coould access to this ftp server (of course, it works in non-passive mode) but since last thursday we can't access. Any idea? Thanks in advance. Alberto

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call back
by Chadley Wilson 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Greetings people, what do we use for callback in Suse 9.3? I know is has something to do with mgetty which is installed but I don't have acallback command like I did in RH. Thanks Chadley

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suse + ldap/kerberos/afs
by D'Arcy A MacIsaac 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Hello everyone, Having a bit of difficulty. In our environment we use kerberos (heimdal) for user authentication, afs for home dirs, with user information being stored in ldap (ver 3, no tsl/ssl for it). On linux clients /etc/passwd is still used however. Trying out SUSE 9.3, and I want to set it to use the above setup, minus using /etc/passwd (I want it grab that info from ldap instead, and limit passwd's usage to system accounts, root, etc.). I can get kerberos tickets, have my home dir be in afs, however I've been unsuccessful with regards to the ldap integration, that is it only seems to be working if the user account is specified in /etc/passwd. We did some debugging to make sure that the SUSE client was in fact talking to the ldap server, it was, but it still wasn't working. One problem was that it was looking for POSIX as being the objectclass. I changed that, however still no go even in setting the object class correctly. One very bad thing I did see however was that SUSE was sending out the account password over the net (in plain text of all things...) Again, I want kerberos to be taking care of that side, ldap for account info such as home dir, uid, etc. I'm thinking the solution to the problem lies somewhere in pam_unix2.conf or something, but the documentation is a bit on the sparse side. Any one have success in trying something along these lines? Thanks, D'Arcy MacIsaac

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Controlling umask on specific directory
by Chadley Wilson 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Hello Any one know how to control the umask, and ownership of a specific directory? I need anything created by anythng to be able to access the /var/spool/uucp folder as I run uucico in many different user profile and none of them can delete the lock files TIA Chadley Wilson

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autoinst.xml for dual boot.
by Ajay Mulwani 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Hello List, I have about 30 laptops to be installed as dual boot (Windows and SLES9). Currently the laptops are installed with Windows and other linux (most of them with redhat). Is it possible to create a single autoinst.xml file which should delete all the existing Linux partitions, if any and install SLES on that space? If yes, could you suggest the contents of that autoinst file. Thank you, Ajay

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