February 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Printing problems
by Art Fore 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

These printing problems are about to drive me up the wall in Suse 10. Don't know if it is Suse 10 or Linux in general. I open a PDF file in Opera which opens KPDF. When I print, it prints A4 eventhough the printer is setup for letter in Yast, CUPS, and KDE print manager and the file itself is a letter size document. If I save the file, and open it in Acrobat, it prints OK, but openening it in KPF still wants to print A4. Why is this? Is there some hidden configuration file somewhere I am not aware of? Art

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Networked, duplexing, colour laser printer
by 'o-Dzin Tridral 26 May '06

26 May '06

Dear everyone, I'm looking for a duplexing colour laser printer that I can put onto our small home network, either wired or wireless. If possible I'd prefer something where the toner cartridges aren't extortionatelly priced, but that might be too much to ask. I've been looking at something like the Epson Aculaser C1100N. I've looked at /www.linuxprinting.org/ and checked the general level of linux compatibility and Epson look like a good bet. I'd appreciate hearing peoples' experiences with linux and colour laser printers. Any recommendations? Anything to avoid? Thank you for any advice. 'ö-Dzin

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How to update the database ?
by Erik Jakobsen 23 May '06

23 May '06

You sure know the situation, that you have erased some files, but after you see, that they are still visible, because the database had not been updated. I have forgotten how that is to be done. Can anybody help me ?. TIA -- Venlig hilsen - Best regards - Erik Jakobsen SuSE Linux 10.0 Eval.. Licensed HAM-RADIO with the callsign OZ4KK http://www.urbakken.dk Registered Linux user #114875 with http://counter.li.org

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How to assign a keyboard shortcut to each keyboard
by Shriramana Sharma 07 May '06

07 May '06

I use at least four keyboards -- US normal, US international, Indian Devanagari and Indian Tamil. I would like to assign keyboard shortcuts to each of these individually so while typing US normal I can shift to US international without reaching for the mouse. Back in Windows where I use Keyman (http://tavultesoft.com) I have this facility. Please tell me how I can assign individual shortcuts. The KDE Control Center Keyboard Layout dialog has some stuff called Switching Options and Xkb options but they do not seem to contain what I want. Thank you. -- Tux #395953 resides at http://samvit.org playing with KDE 3.51 on SUSE Linux 10.0 $ date [] CCE +2006-02-10 W06-5 UTC+0530

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print from K-Mail run together
by Doug McGarrett 01 May '06

01 May '06

I don't remember seeing this problem on the list. KMail print on screen is clear and most letters are separated. When I print out a mail, some letters, particularly the "t", the "si" and the "sk" combinations are scrunched together with adjoining letters. I am printing to an HP 2200D laserjet. The typeface on screen (and on paper) is a sans-serif font. Even on screen, it is slightly scrunched in spots. "ri" and "ti" and "tt" and "th" are too close together. Suggestions? TNX--doug

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Can't open Transcode tarball or it doesn't exist
by Peter B Van Campen 29 Apr '06

29 Apr '06

Hi Folks, I have been trying to get a tarball of transcode to compile on my SUSE 9.2 system. Every pkg I have d/l'd from the sites listed on the Transcode Wiki page: http://www.transcoding.org/cgi-bin/transcode are unopenable. Every one, including the beta versions. Have I made one of those embarrassing newby errors? Konqi Filemgr says : "The file does not exist" even tho it lists it. Is there a location for a transcode I can open and compile? PeterB p.s. The pkgs are unopenable on my SUSE 8.2 sys also -- -- Proud SUSE user since 5.2 Loving SUSE 9.2 My BLOG == http://vancampen.org/blog --

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screen, mouse, kb lockup
by Doug McGarrett 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

While attempting to stop a video playing on Macro Media Flash Player 7, I managed to lock out everything. I could not move the mouse cursor, the arrow keys and the rest of the kb didn't work, ctl-alt-del did nothing. None of the function keys did anything. (The video was something downloaded from the 'net via Firefox.) I wound up pulling the big switch, as us hams like to say. Is there anything else I could have done? I'm trying to put Linux to practical use, and this is the first time I've seen 10.0 crash, so it's good, but not fool-proof. (If something can be broken, this fool will break it!)

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suse 10.0 ftp installation
by Kai Zhang 05 Apr '06

05 Apr '06

Hi, i am downloaded and burned the first CD OSS installation CD. Due to limited number of CD and fast internet connection, i wish to install via ftp. After mounting the NIC, I can't find installation file on ftp server. I am using ftp://mirror.ac.uk/edunfs/mirrors/sites/ftp.suse.com/i386/10.0/iso/ Is this the right place to install via ftp? If not, can you point me to a right directory. I am fast access to mirror.ac.uk and wondering if there is direct installation files available on the ftp server. Thanks for your help! Regards, Kai

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Fwd: Re: [SLE] php4_unixODBC
by Sven Haberer 04 Apr '06

04 Apr '06

good idea - please see here: http://www.susewiki.org/index.php?title=HowTo:_PHP4_ODBC Hope this is detailed enough... BTW, thats my first wiki entry ever... Am Sonntag, 24. April 2005 22:36 schrieb Richard Bos: > Op zondag 24 april 2005 23:36, schreef Sven Haberer: > > If desired, I could post a short description how I did this... > > If you can put it own the wiki (http://www.susewiki.org) than we can all > maintain it. > > -- > Richard Bos > Without a home the journey is endless

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stopping dictionary attacks on sshd
by Dan Abernathy 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

Hello all I notice several automated break-in attempts appearing in /var/log/messages regarding sshd. A small sample: Nov 7 14:34:10 d8400 sshd[18607]: Invalid user a from 71.129.198.189 Nov 7 14:34:11 d8400 sshd[18609]: Invalid user aaron from 71.129.198.189 Hundreds of entries like the above, working their way through every English letter using common first names, also names of services like Apache. I ran across this Novell Cool Solutions article: http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/trench/16341.html It describes the use of a shell script, run once per minute using a cron job, that parses information from /var/log/messages and adds offending IP addresses to /etc/hosts.deny. I saved the script as ssh-block.sh in my home folder, in a subdirectory named cronjobs. I used su to become root and ran crontab -e, and added the script to run once per minute. Entries in /var/log/messages confirm that the shell script is indeed being run every minute, but the contents of /etc/hosts.deny hasn't changed at all, despite the presence of failed sshd log-ins (also written to /var/log/messages). Can someone knowledgeable about shell scripts take a look at the URL above and see if there is a problem with the script? If not, what did I do incorrectly? What's the proper way to run this job regularly? I assume it must be run as root, both to read /var/log/messages and to write to /etc/hosts.deny. Dan

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