February 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Mailing adresses
by houghi 04 Mar '06

04 Mar '06

Is there any interest and/or willingness to let people have an @openSUSE.org email adress? Just a forwarder, not a mailbox. This could be given to people using their Bugtrack login. Advantages: People wil get an emailadress and then also have the login for bugzilla. This would make it easier for people to add bugs. People will get a feeling of belonging really to openSUSE (coolness factor) Other people will see the domain name, wich means free advertisement. Disadvatages: Extra server to maintain. Making rules of when to remove the account (X bounces, spam abuse) Extra trafic. Setting up and configuration What do you think about this idea and would Novell be willing to think about this, as this would be completely sponsored by Novell. houghi -- Nutze die Zeit. Sie ist das Kostbarste, was wir haben, denn es ist unwiederbringliche Lebenszeit. Leben ist aber mehr als Werk und Arbeit, und das Sein wichtiger als das Tun - Johannes Müller-Elmau

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Font settings
by Bob S 03 Mar '06

03 Mar '06

Hello SuSE people, Running 10.0 and KDE3.5.1 In my non KDE apps, Firefox, NVU, GQView etc. the fonts are normally very small. I installed and use gnome-control-center to make the fonts readable and comparable to the KDE settings. Works just fine, except when I shut-down and reboot the fonts in those apps revert to their original size. I just have to open gnome-control-center and close it again to regain the font size I want. Question is: Where and what do I do to have the settings maintained between reboots? It is probably some init file at boot but which one and what do I put in there? Bob S.

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Re: [SLE] http server setup problem in suse 10.0
by Kai Ponte 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

> Hello all: > > I would like to set up apache http server only for serving > localhost requests. I installed the apache and other required > packages through yast/network services/HTTP server. > When it turned to the server configuration (HTTP server wizard) > I could not pass the first step as there was not anything in the > "Listen to Interfaces" window. It was completely empty. > Now I am stucked. I think the localhost interface should be > there at least. What should I do? First check if the daemon is running. Yast > System > System Services > Runlevel Look for Apache2 and see if it is enabled. If it isn't set to 'yes'. You could also be geeky and drop into terminal mode and as root (su) type /etc/init.d/apache2 start (You can also do stop/restart if you want.) The old version used to be /etc/init.d/httpd (At least that's how it is on our SLES boxen. -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com || www.livebeans.com linux - genuine windows replacement part

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Is the hard disk full? Long post.
by Istvan Gabor 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

Hello all: I have the following problem with my suse 10.0 OSS with kde 3. 4. I wanted to install my own freedb database. For this purpose I created a separate partition with 10 GB size. I exctracted the tar archive to this partition. The extraction took a really long time, for hours so I left the machine alone. After the extraction has finished tar gave some error messages that could not extract everything since no space left on the drive. However df -h showed this: df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda4 9.2G 4.9G 3.9G 56% /home/user/sda4 After rebooting the computer I found that my lilo was corrupted that I had to fix using the rescue boot disk. When I was able login in again I wanted to create new directories on the abovementioned drive but I got this error message: mkdir sda4/temp mkdir: cannot create directory `sda4/temp': No space left on device However df -h shows the same as above: df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda4 9.2G 4.9G 3.9G 56% /home/user/sda4 When I run fsck.ext3 (with /dev/sda4 unmounted) it does not report any error: fsck.ext3 /dev/sda4 e2fsck 1.38 (30-Jun-2005) /dev/sda4: clean, 1221600/1221600 files, 1301070/2441880 blocks Now I don't know what the problem is and how I could fix it. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, IG ___________________________________________________________________________ [origo] klikkbank lakossági számlacsomag havi 199 Ft-ért, bankkártya éves díj nélkül! www.klikkbank.hu

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http server setup problem in suse 10.0
by Istvan Gabor 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

Hello all: I would like to set up apache http server only for serving localhost requests. I installed the apache and other required packages through yast/network services/HTTP server. When it turned to the server configuration (HTTP server wizard) I could not pass the first step as there was not anything in the "Listen to Interfaces" window. It was completely empty. Now I am stucked. I think the localhost interface should be there at least. What should I do? Thanks, IG ___________________________________________________________________________ Levelező NYELVTANFOLYAMOK online házifeladat lehetőséggel és CD melléklettel! Jelentkezzen most! http://www.elo.hu/free

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DVD Data backup script
by DanTheMan 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

Hi all. I was wondering if someone can point me in the direct of a simple script that I can use to make a nightly DVD backup of our data. Currently our data is about 4gb and fits onto one dvd. I have been manually backing up the data to another linux box but I would also like to make a nightly DVD-RW that rewrites the DVD which we can then store. We plan to store about 7 days worth of data and will reuse the DVDs. The data is stored in the /data directory of our OpenSuSE server. I have created a /backup directory and I plan to implement nightly tarballs of the data. If I have one file like: /backup/2/data.tar.gz - what command should I use to copy it to the DVD drive? Thanks in advance and regards from Denmark, Dan

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What?? [Fwd: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender]
by Carl William Spitzer IV 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

The Postfix program <pk(a)localhost.linux.site> (expanded from <pk@localhost>): host 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1] said: 451 4.5.0 Error in processing, id=07831-01, virus_scan FAILED: virus_scan: NO VIRUS SCANNERS AVAILABLE (in reply to end of DATA command) Email message/mailbox attachment, "Undelivered Message" Is anyone else getting these or did my message somehow get bounced from the list?? -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/

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fetchmail peculiarity
by Peter Collier 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

A few months ago, I tried to set up mail via yast. (network services -> mta.) I got things wrong because I stopped getting mail other than local mail and all mail was returned to senders with message something like localhost could not accept mail, no such address. So using yast again, I selected no connection and this solved the problem. Looking through my filesystem today, I noticed that in fetchmailrc, it still had my old email address (which I can still get emails from). So I changed the entry to my new email address. Since then I've been getting fetchmail messages in my in box saying that Fetchmail could not get mail from "pecb(a)pop3.apm-internet.net" (which I have never had or used). I've grepped through my file system and I found a few references to my old email address but cannot find any reference to the above address. How did that get into fetchmail and other than uninstalling fetchmail, how do I cure this? Peter C

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sumf (SCPM) in 10.1/GNOME?
by Glenn Holmer 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

I'm considering switching to GNOME; what's the equivalent of sumf (SCPM front-end) for GNOME? I didn't see sumf at all in 10.1 beta 5, is there something different? -- ====================================================== Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) ====================================================== "Greater coherence cannot be achieved. Not even the Netherlanders have managed this." -Anton Webern ======================================================

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gnome shortcuts
by nicola .:kOoLiNuS:. losito 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

Hi to everyone, after an upgrade or two using the smart pm and the supplementary Gnome repository [SUSE 10.0 here] i can't get keyboard shortcut to work propery anymore. I've also tried the tool in the gnome control panel, changed the key-combo (still doesn't work) and go back to the default one, but I had no luck :-( Also, clicking on the icons of software needing the insertion of the root password (ie YaST) results in the coming up of the window requesting the password, then a silent fail on launching the application itself .... On KDE, instead, all it's working charmfully .... Any idea ? -- nicola .:kOoLiNuS:. losito http://kool-solutions.blogspot.com http://www.koolinus.net icq: 62837984 jabber-id:koolinus@jabber.linux.it Y!: koolinus msn:koolinuz@hotmail.com callto://nicola.losito

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