August 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Weird sound problem
by Hans du Plooy 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

Hi guys, On my Compaq Armada m700 notebook (P-III 1ghz), when I play music with xmms, or movies with MPlayer, from time to time the sounds just stops, and the application hangs, until I press any key on the keyboard. Then it continues as normal. This is in SUSE 9.3 Pro, all updates applied. It also happened Debian Sarge and Etch, so I don't think it's a SUSE problem. Any ideas? The soundcard is an ESS maestro: 0000:00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1978 Maestro 2E (rev 10) Thanks Hans

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mkinitrd
by Donn Washburn 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

Hey SuSE; You need to fix mkinitrd from mismatching kernel modules and the kernel. I decide to play with a xen kernel. I put it in grub and rebooted. On reboot the xen kernel complained about not having an initrd file. OK -> mkinitrd. Done! That is when the problem showed up. SuSE9.3 updated found the vmlinuz kernels just fine but the modules it assigned to a kernel is always the " 2.6.11.4-21.7-default " modules. Talk about a mismatch. -- 73 de Donn Washburn Hpage: " http://www.hal-pc.org/~n5xwb " Ham Callsign N5XWB Email: " n5xwb(a)hal-pc.org " 307 Savoy St. HAMs: " n5xwb(a)arrl.net " Sugar Land, TX 77478 BMW MOA #: 4146 - Ambassador LL# 1.281.242.3256 " http://counter.li.org " #279316

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Suse 9.3 and sendmail woes
by James Parra 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

Hello, Trying to rebuild sendmail.cf, but I get this error; # m4 linux.mc > sendmail.cf linux.mc:11: m4: Cannot open ../m4/cf.m4: No such file or directory ... and afterwards the sendmail.cf is empty. That was a nice surprise. How can I fix this? Thank you, -- James

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SuSE on HP's dv1340us
by Jason Riker 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

Hello, I recently purchased an HP dv1340us laptop. I'm trying to install SuSE on it, but am running into some difficulty. Does anyone else on the list own this device? If so, I'd really like to hear from you. Thanks! Sincerely, Jason

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Some questions about administration of a mail server and...
by JB 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

Hi gang, First, let it be known that I'm familiar with using SuSE linux as a normal, everyday *user*, and can *usually* fix any small problems that pop up on my system. I've *never* administrated any kind of 'server', ever. So, what I'm looking to do is this... How hard is it to run a simple e-mail server on a system at a friends house (he has DSL which I can't get way out here in the woods) for maybe a few hundred people to use? They're all in different states from me, so it's not a networking thing...I hope (networking confuses me to no end). How would these folks send an e-mail to/through it and it get to where they want it to be? I mean, say I send an e-mail with Kmail. I have to use my ISP's smtp host/server thing, so how would the people who want to use this server do this? (I hope that makes sense) What would be a good, secure e-mail server to setup? Would it be much different setting up this server than say setting up my Kmail that I use every day? What would be the things that I should be most concerned about when setting it up and using it? Next, I've also been asked if I'd be willing to manage a web server. This scares me even more than trying an e-mail server thing, but I said I'd look into it. Say I use Apache to serve a website (is that correct?), would I just be able to take the current website's html stuff and just drop it to wherever in Apache and it would run? How would I know what the URL would be for people to see it? As you can see, it's a lot to ask, and I could do a mess of reading, but I'm hoping for some sorta quick and easy/simple answers to just get me started so I'll have an idea if it'll be too difficult for me to do or not. Also, I understand that a simple, not-too-expensive system would work fine, but would the graphics card make a difference in how anyone coming to the site on my server make any difference, or is that just for the monitor that's hooked up to the system? Thanks folks, John B -- "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing." -Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

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RE: [SLE] Some questions about administration of a mail server and...
by Marlier, Ian 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

I started to write a reply to this, and then I got 3 paragraphs into the "note that you're entirely out of luck if this condition applies....or this one....or this one...." section. Basically: This _can_ be done, but it's going to be painful. The amount of time, energy, and expense that will go into getting this set up properly is a little absurd, given the payoff. So I would second what the prior poster said: find a web hosting company that will offer: domain registration, web hosting, and unlimited accounts. Then just create an account for anyone who wants one, and go from there. You can work that for $5/month (plus domain fee of $30 or so), instead of DSL craziness. But if you still want to torture yourself, I could be talked into putting the (many, many, many) steps and permutations into an e-mail on this list. ;-) - Ian -----Original Message----- From: JB [mailto:yonaton@localnet.com] Sent: Tue 8/2/2005 6:04 PM To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: [SLE] Some questions about administration of a mail server and... Hi gang, First, let it be known that I'm familiar with using SuSE linux as a normal, everyday *user*, and can *usually* fix any small problems that pop up on my system. I've *never* administrated any kind of 'server', ever. So, what I'm looking to do is this... How hard is it to run a simple e-mail server on a system at a friends house (he has DSL which I can't get way out here in the woods) for maybe a few hundred people to use? They're all in different states from me, so it's not a networking thing...I hope (networking confuses me to no end). How would these folks send an e-mail to/through it and it get to where they want it to be? I mean, say I send an e-mail with Kmail. I have to use my ISP's smtp host/server thing, so how would the people who want to use this server do this? (I hope that makes sense) What would be a good, secure e-mail server to setup? Would it be much different setting up this server than say setting up my Kmail that I use every day? What would be the things that I should be most concerned about when setting it up and using it? Next, I've also been asked if I'd be willing to manage a web server. This scares me even more than trying an e-mail server thing, but I said I'd look into it. Say I use Apache to serve a website (is that correct?), would I just be able to take the current website's html stuff and just drop it to wherever in Apache and it would run? How would I know what the URL would be for people to see it? As you can see, it's a lot to ask, and I could do a mess of reading, but I'm hoping for some sorta quick and easy/simple answers to just get me started so I'll have an idea if it'll be too difficult for me to do or not. Also, I understand that a simple, not-too-expensive system would work fine, but would the graphics card make a difference in how anyone coming to the site on my server make any difference, or is that just for the monitor that's hooked up to the system? Thanks folks, John B -- "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing." -Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com

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Suse 9.3, Sendmail & MailScanner
by James D. Parra 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

Hello, I've been running into some errors with Sendmail on Suse 9.3. After installing and configuring MailScanner, which starts in own instances of sendmail, I was getting the following error; Aug 1 13:57:47 sendmail-out[26165]: unable to write pid to /var/run/sendmail.pid: file in use by another process No other application, outside of MailScanner starting sendmail, was running. On a Mandrake 9.1 box, that I have that is also running MailScanner, the sendmail processes a split between an in and out session. For example, # ls /var/run/sendmail sendmail.in.pid sendmail.out.pid However, in Suse 9.3 there is only one pid file; # ls /var/run/sendmail sendmail.pid Is anyone familiar with MailScanner running on Suse? Many thanks in advance. James

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Postfix + sasl auth
by Hans du Plooy 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

When I try to setup smtp authentication with sasl on 9.3, my mail log tells me postfix is not compiled with sasl supprt. Huh??? I thought leaving out mysql lookup support was shortsighted, but his is worse. Does anyone know of prebuilt packages for SUSE 9.3 that supports mysql and sasl auth? Thanks Hans

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Proposals for SUSE list managers
by Arun Khan 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

Hello members, In the past couple of weeks I have sent a few suggestions to the list owner but have not received any feedback from him/her. Basically here are my suggestions: a) "Reply To" header - each SuSE list must use the "Reply To" header in the messages sent to members e.g. for this list, it should be "Reply To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com" All other lists that I am a member of use this feature. When members reply, they do not have to worry about editing the "To" header or right clicking in their message body or whatever. With this header the response _simply_ goes to the relevant SuSE list. I don't understand why SuSE list manager is not configured to do so. b) Digest mode - provide a digest option when member subscribes to any of SuSE's list. Again, all other lists that I am a member of provide this feature. Personally, I prefer the digest since the messages downloaded are fewer. I am sure the mailer program for SuSE lists has the digest feature. c) Google search bar for each of SuSE list archives. At http://lists.suse.com/archive/ I did not see any search capability. Perhaps they will listen if enough people voice their opinion. Thank you. -- Arun Khan <knura at yahoo dot com> Linux is a wigwam: No Windows, No Gates, Apache inside.

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High end web stats package recommendations?
by bronto＠csd-bes.net 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

I have a client who wants sophisticated web site tracking and analysis. He was previously on a Windows server, and is used to the slick packaging of WebTrends and DeepMetrix. Are there any packages like that (GPL or commercial) for Linux? I am aware of Webalyzer, Analog and awstats. He wants something that automatically produces an Excel spreadsheet with graphs. Thanks Rob ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

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