July 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Ckeck firewall external
by Johan 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

Hi list, Kindly is there a way that I can prove externally that suse 9.2 and suse 9.3 firewall on the gateway is keeping the not so welcome visitors out? I ckeck internally with chkrootkit and rkhunter if such visitors are already in hiding. I would rather them be outsiude. Thanks Regards Johan

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Re: [SLE] Internet Problem Over LAN
by John Andersen 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

On Thursday 14 July 2005 06:03 pm, John Scott wrote: > On 7/14/05, John Andersen <jsa(a)pen.homeip.net> wrote: > > On Thursday 14 July 2005 12:54 pm, James Wright wrote: > > > Apparently I have a DNS problem, but I can't seem to > > > figure it out. For my DNS I had two local addresses (for the Windows > > > Server 2003 boxes). I added one of the ISPs DNS to the list, but it did > > > not resolve the problem. > > > > You may be confused as to how the dns servers work. The second and > > third etc. dns servers are only used if the first one fails, (goes off > > line). > > > > You need to open up a shell and ping the sites where these "unreachable > > pages" are. Ping by name, (not IP) and see if an ip is returned. If an > > ip Is returned, its not a dns problem. > Ping doesn't always provide as much info as it used to because some > sites drop icmp echo_* packets from entering/leaving the network/host, > I do (based on where it comes from). If he tries to ping (it won't > hurt) and gets no response, it still may not mean anything. But, as I instructed, it doesn't matter if the ping returns at all. All that the ping is for is to see if it will resolve a numeric IP when he pings a name. If so, regardless of whether the ping returns, its not a dns problem. The OP is jumping to the conclusion that he has a DNS problem when in fact some sites do work, which indicates that DNS is unlikely to be the real problem. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen

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/etc/profile.local twice on 9.3?
by Matt Hurd 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

This feels like a faq as google turned up some references to 9.0 and 9.1 but I couldn't find an answer... Extending the path wth a simple export PATH=$PATH:/whatever in the /etc/profile.local extends the path twice? Is there a preferred simple way of adding a path for all users that works cleanly? Regards Matt linux noobie matthurd(a)acm.org

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grub splash-image
by Steven Pasternak 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

Hi! I want to change grub's look from the default suse look to a picture I made. I looked at how gentoo does it (using the line 'splashimage (hd0,0)/boot/grub/image.xpm.gz'), but when I do it grub completely ingores the line. If I replacd splashimage with gfxmenu, grub says that it is too big. The xpm.gz file is 30 k, when /boot/message is 130 k and it works. should I change my xpm.gz file to a jpeg and cpio it, or is there more to do? Thanks! -Steven

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SuSE 9.3 DVD iso for 64 Bits available yet ? (ftp Version)
by Eduardo J. Vega A 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

Hi To all,,, any ISO of the SuSE 9.3 DVD x86_64 yet ? not the eval, the FTP one? I look at the SuSE site and it said that there exist a x86_64 for download... but there is any at the ftp.suse.com site... =( --ed He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you .Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 146

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Epson Stylus Color R200/R300
by L. Mark Stone 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

My Epson Stylus Color C84 is getting a little long in the tooth. I'm running 9.2 Pro and am looking for a printer YaST supports right out of the box. Both the R200 and the R300 are listed; anyone have any good or bad experiences with these printers? I'm a little nervous because these printers seem to be USB printers, and heretofore I've always used either network or parallel printers. I use USB on this box for UPS management and syncing with my Palm. The UPS works flawlessly, the Palm seems to utilize a random number generator when it comes to selecting which USB ports it will use, hence, my nervousness. Thanks, Mark P.S. Alternate printer suggestions are welcomed. I don't need super high-speed printing, but I do print enough client presentations and the like that I tend to wear out these printers every year or so. I need crystal-clear 720-dpi printing and reasonably good printing of screen shots on high-quality inkjet paper. I don't need to print real photos, scan docs, or anything else. Just a good basic color inkjet printer that's reasonably fast. -- _________________________________________________________ A Message From... L. Mark Stone Reliable Networks of Maine, LLC "We manage your network so you can manage your business." 477 Congress Street Portland, ME 04101 Tel: (207) 772-5678 Web: http://www.rnome.com

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S3 ProSavage8 onboard graphics & SuSE
by BandiPat 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

Hi All, From the subject is anyone using this in your computer? What drivers did you use, success, failure? Sax2 doesn't seem to see it when run, but the graphics set seems to be included in many laptops and onboard graphics in many motherboards. I found several things through Google, but nothing substantial enough to base any settings on with SuSE. Anyone using such? Settings? 3D? Quirks, complaints, accolades? Setting up an ASRock K7VM3 motherboard, but it's looking like adding a graphics card is the best solution. Any help welcomed. TIA, Lee -- --- KMail v1.8 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse! ...Calvin & Hobbes

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RE: [SLE] Motherboard for SuSE 9.3
by mlist＠safenet-inc.com 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

Felix Miata [mailto:mrmazda@ij.net] > > Is there any performance (or other) problem if I have one > > HD on the IDE bus and a new one on SATA? Would that > > arrangement confuse YaST? > > Linux pretends SATA is SCSI, which might confuse anyone not used to > using SCSI, maybe you. Hey, up until just a couple of SuSE releases ago, it pretended that ISA was SCSI, didn't it? Kevin The information contained in this electronic mail transmission may be privileged and confidential, and therefore, protected from disclosure. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer without copying or disclosing it.

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SuSE 9.3 patch CD
by Gabor Istvan 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

Dear list members: I have a machine that is not hooked into the internet. I have installed SuSE 9.3 onto this machine from DVD. I wanted update the system so I made a patch CD according to the description at: http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/09/fhassel_patchcd.html I used the second, rsync method, exactly the same command that is in the description. When I wanted to update/patch the system, I got error messages about missing Multimedia Pack rpms and OpenOffice1 rpms. I realized that these packages are not included in the original install media ie these are not real updates but more likely supplementary packages/patches. My concern is if I fetch again the updates how I know which rpms not to exclude. Is there a list of the rpms/packages that are not available on the original media? (I think this type of patches should be handled different from the real updates.) Thanks, IG _______________________________________________________________________ [freemail] extra 1GB-os postafiókkal, Önnek már van? http://freemail.hu

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Request Speculation
by Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

SuSE9.3/KDE3.4.0 Level "b" I find that the cursor disappears from my desktop at seemingly random times. The only way that I have found to restore the cursor is CTRL-ALT-Backspace followed by restarting KDE. The desktop had been running without this problem since 4/22/05. It just started a few days ago. Has anyone else noticed this behavior and found a solution? Thanks in advance. -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and multivariant http://www.geocities.com/FoundationForChemistry

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