March 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [SLE] USB Stick
by Kai Ponte 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

> Hi. > > On my SuSE 10.0 I have just plugged in a USB Stick. > > I changed my /etc/fstab with: > > /dev/sdb /media/usb auto > noauto,user 0 0 > > Shall I then mount the usb unit with: > > mount /dev/sdb /media/usb ? > Typically that's where it gets automounted on my system. -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com || www.livebeans.com linux - genuine windows replacement part

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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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Re: [SLE] A GUI to Alien?
by Kai Ponte 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

> Please, people: take a look at > http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=35802 and tell me whether > this is for real or just a prank? > > It asks for root privileges but I don't know why just converting a file from > one format to another will need root privileges. The program does not work at > all, Well, it is version 0.3, so I wouldn't be shocked that it doesn't work. :) -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com || www.livebeans.com linux - genuine windows replacement part

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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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smart pm
by nicola .:kOoLiNuS:. losito 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

hi to everyone .... i'm going to install a second machine and would like to know if there is a quick way to save the smart pm config file from machine A and copy it to machine B ... can anyone help me ? -- nicola .:kOoLiNuS:. losito http://www.koolinus.net http://kool-solutions.blogspot.com jabber-ID:koolinus@jabber.linux.it icq:62837984 msn:koolinuz@hotmail.com * Y!: koolinus * skype: nicola.losito

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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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A GUI to Alien?
by Shriramana Sharma 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

Please, people: take a look at http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=35802 and tell me whether this is for real or just a prank? It asks for root privileges but I don't know why just converting a file from one format to another will need root privileges. The program does not work at all, if I click on any button. Just a "has been created" message even when nothing at all is created. What bugs me most is that we can't see the source code... If it really works for you, please tell me what you did to get it to work. -- Tux #395953 resides at http://samvit.org playing with KDE 3.51 on SUSE Linux 10.0 $ date [] CCE +2006-03-02 W09-4 UTC+0530

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[SLE] No Suse after XP install - modem woes
by kushal hada 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

Dear SuSE community: I am from Kathmandu, Nepal. I have a 40 GB HDD on a Pentium Willamette (vintage P4 1.5 GHz) processor with a D845GLLY desktop board. The hard disk initially had partitions C and D. Being the perfect idiot that I am; I installed my Windows XP on D drive. When I installed SuSE 8.2, it correctly identified my chipset video D845 G/GL. However, it did not find my audio codec (Sigma Tel AC'97). It was not much of a problem to me as it could be that I could not configure it properly. My main problem here was my modem. I have an internal Frontech internal modem that says ITU-T V.92/90 56,000 bps Hayes AT command compatible 56,000/36,000 Data Download/Transmit Support voice function/TAM Support V.17, V.29 and V.27ter Group3 Fax Data compression V.42/MNP2-4 Fax Command set Class 1 Auto Diagnostics SuSE 8.2 did not even see it. I tried everything my friends suggested me. They told me that the modem was doomed as it was a Win Modem. Is there any progress in the field of these internal modems? Thank you for your kind consideration. I now have Win XP on C drive now and it is running fine. Kushal Hada Kushal Hada is not Wikipedia. How can I run SuSE now? dparker(a)utica.edu wrote: > I have a laptop that had Windows XP on and installed Linux 10 > trying to > convert a neighbor. The install went very well and everything > worked fine. > My neighbor then decided she found Linux more difficult than > Windows and > wanted to change it back, which I did. > Now she wants to make the laptop dual boot so she can learn > Linux while > still being able to use Windows. > > When I try to install Linux 10 now it gives an error 'No Hard > Disks > Found' even though the current drive has Windows XP installed > and works > fine. > > The laptop is an AOpen with a 40GB HDD set with one partition. > > Can anyone tell why Linux doesn't see the drive when booting > from CD1 > > Have tried normal and safe install but still have same problem. > Hello, Just for clarification, is the laptop hardware exactly the same as it was when you were able to install Linux before? Also, if you want to leave Windows on there, it might not hurt to repartition the drive with a utility like Partition Magic and make room for Linux before you try to install it. - Dave -- 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 Daniel Bauer <linux(a)daniel-bauer.com> wrote: kushal hada wrote: > Hi, I have a Wn XP on my computer. Sometimes ago I decided to fo for a dual-boot of SuSE 8.2 with Win XP but my Win was on D: and It would not start for some (common?) dll problem. hal.dll Win is very bitchy , egoistic and intolerant. It always prefers to have the first places. So install in on your first drive (C under Win). > then SuSE was fine until I had to check my mail. I have a dial-up modem which linuz did not find. so I again put XP but now on C: Winmodems are problematic. Sometimes you need a special kernel, and then you don't have a "standard-Linux" anymore. Why not buy a external standard modem, the run easy. If you need to have your internal Winmodem, search google and try what you find. > Now SuSE is not in bootloader >can yo please tell me how I can use internet in Linux with dial-up? any progress on the WinModem front? >thanks If you install Win it always takes the boot sector MBR for itself as if only Win would exist. So first install Win, then install the real operating system. Or reinstall the boot sector (again: search google for how to's) Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Switzerland professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.com special interest site: http://www.bauer-nudes.com -- 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 --------------------------------- Brings words and photos together (easily) with PhotoMail - it's free and works with Yahoo! Mail. Note: forwarded message attached. --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze.

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OT - a good developers list?
by Per Jessen 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

All, would anyone care to recommend a good (active and knowledgeable) Linux developers mailing-list? I've got a situation where I am receiving EAGAIN from a blocking stream, something I did not expect to have to deal with. Or rather, if I have to be able to deal with it anyway, I might as well not use a blocking stream. Where does one go to post that type of questions? /Per Jessen, Zürich

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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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