January 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Building RPM - Which architecheture?
by Jim Flanagan 28 Jan '06

28 Jan '06

I'm currently building a few packages using the "easy" methond listed on the susewiki, namely with "checkinstall". What is the best architecheure to choose for a box running an AthlonXP 2500? Tks, Jim

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cups problem
by Jack Malone 28 Jan '06

28 Jan '06

Last week I was able to login to http://localhost:631 an manage printers. This week I get error message of Forbidden You don't have permission to access the resource on this server. . I have reset the password but i never see anything asking to login. I have tried this from the server it self an remotely from my workstation. Like I say it was working fine up until this week. Being able to do admin on cups server from any point in the building is very nice an keeps me from having to go to server room an going into yast an seeing what the problem is. At times my users report that they can not print. I login to cups an find that the printer is stopped. just restarting it normally fixes the problem. If someone can help me solve this I would be happy again. On the problem of finding the printer stopped on stumped on why its doing that too. jack

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Re: [SLE] Strange behavior in konqueror and kmail
by airdvd 28 Jan '06

28 Jan '06

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Hex / ascii / Text editor recomendations please
by scsijon 28 Jan '06

28 Jan '06

Does anyone know of a decent simple linux Hex/ascii/text editor, like the one that use to be in Xtree in the old days (you used tab to move between the two formats). I've had a look at freshmeat's offers and they all seem to be all much more programmers editors and that is far more than the need to just add some missed initials and dates at three positions (varying locations unfortunately) over 83 files. thanks in advance scsijon ps, can someone give me the websubscription address for opensuse please, been meaning to subscribe for a while now.

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need to make sure data is gone ...
by Deep Thinker 28 Jan '06

28 Jan '06

Hello all, I am in the process of moving and I want to get rid of (sell, donate, give away) all of my old spare parts and self made boxes. I have about 20 hard drives of various sizes and I need to get rid of them as well. My question is, how can I make absolutely sure that all the data has been erased from those drives before I give them away. The drives all came from clients that I did upgrades for and they did not want to keep the old systems. I have no idea which drives have sensitive information on them and which ones do not. Thanks for any suggestions in advance. -- d33p th1nk3r

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Minimizing an open window
by sam 28 Jan '06

28 Jan '06

Dear Reader, I wonder why every window that I minimize ends up being lost, whereupon I need to relaunch the application's window once more. For some reason, my SuSE, SuSE Pro 9.0 running KDE, does not display a taskbar as on the Mac or Windows. Any ideas? Thanks. Sam __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Linux/SuSE + CrossOver + VGA projector ... a nightmare
by Maura Edeweiss Monville 28 Jan '06

28 Jan '06

I recently used my laptop for a presentation. It runs Linux/SuSe 9.3 and the Windows emulation package Cross-Over. They attavhed a VGA projector and by operating the keys Fn-F5 I managed to have the slides displayed on both the laptor monitor and the big screen on the wall. I used MS PowerPoint to generate the slides so I used it also to project them. Wne I cliked on the button "Slide Show" the slide was displayed in full-screen mode on the laptop monitor where it kept its aspect ratio. On the big screen instead the slide image was chopped laterally as well as at the bottom. One of my seminar attendees adjusted the projector so as the wall image looked fine laterally but still had 1/3 chopped off at the bottom. We tried to play with different monitor resolutions but this did not solve the problem. Finally we decided to reduce the slide size on the laptop monitor by giving up the "slide Show" mode and set back Power-Point to the editing mode. This way the wall projected image was entirely visible but the projected image kept flickering (not the monitor image) which was bery disturbing for the audience to read ,,, I have no idea what cuased this problem, either Cross-Over or the projector or XP/MS Power Point ...who knows ... All what I can say is that I presented the same set of slides elsewhere by using someone slse's laptop running native Windows XP and did not have any problem whatsoever . Any idea about a workaround ... ??? I do not have a projector at home to reproduce the problem and try to find a solution. Thank you in advance for your help. Regards, Maura

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PPTP server settings
by James D. Parra 28 Jan '06

28 Jan '06

Hello, Just set up a PPTP server using MPPE and Chap (v2) for authentication, however I have several questions. 1) How can I have /etc/ppp/chap-secrets not show the actual password? E.g.; # INBOUND CONNECTIONS #client hostname <password> 192.168.1.1 mrhappy myserver notsohappy "*" 2) How can the PPTP server handout DNS and WINS IP address info to the dial-in clients? 3) Since windows users will be connecting to this server, how can I make the PPTP server appear to be part of a domain? Windows VPN clients work better when the connection has an apparent domain authentication. Many thanks in advance, James

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LSI controller monitoring tools
by James D. Parra 28 Jan '06

28 Jan '06

Hello, Does anyone know of any monitoring tools for LSI MegaRAID SCSI controllers. 3ware has a great tool called the 3dm agent the allows you, via a browser, to setup the controller and set up e-mail alerts incase there are r/w errors or if a drive fails. Are there any third party tools or scripts I can run on Suse that accomplish something similar to 3ware's 3dm agent? Thank you in advance, James

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Problems with startup scripts
by Gabos Denes 27 Jan '06

27 Jan '06

I have a tunnel script in /usr/local/tunnel, the script should execute from boot.local but is doesn't. I also have a command like ifconfig eth2:0 192.168.0.1 ... but the interface doesn't come up. I tried installing the tunnel script in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d and rc5.d. Thanks

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