April 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [SLE] Questions about parport0 (parly solved)
by Koenraad Lelong 04 Apr '06

04 Apr '06

Joachim Schrod schreef: >>>>>>"KL" == suse-linux-e <suse-linux-e(a)suse.com> writes: > > > KL> Remains the fact that I have to 'chmod root:lp /dev/parport0' after > KL> every reboot to be able to use the port (I'm member op group lp). Any > KL> suggestions for that ? > > Edit /etc/udev/static_devices.txt and change the permissions of that > device to 666. Sadly, I don't know where ownership of these static > devices are specified. > > Joachim > Thanks, but this does not work. I think it has to do with ppdev. When I rmmod ppdev, parport0 does not exist any more. Then modprobing ppdev again creates it, but with 660 permissions. I'm going to file a support request with VMware. -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Koenraad Lelong R&D Manager ACE electronics n.v. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is it such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?

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Neat program
by Bob S 04 Apr '06

04 Apr '06

Hello SuSE people, A challenge for out programmers/codewriters. There is a really neat program from Google that allows sattelite zooming from space down to a specific location on Earth. You have to download it and install it to make it work. Supposedly it is a generic Windows/Mac program. Here is some info: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- <http://earth.google.com/index.html> Go to Google Earth Home A 3D interface to the planet Google Earth Home Downloads <http://earth.google.com/downloads.html> Products <http://earth.google.com/products.html> Industries <http://earth.google.com/industries.html> Support <http://earth.google.com/support> <http://earth.google.com/images/dot2.gif> Google Earth -Explore, Search and Discover Want to know more about a specific location? Dive right in -- Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Where would someone post to have some guru develop this for Linux? I have already chastised Google for not offering a Linux version. Bob S.

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installation problem, Can't mount the CDROM
by Adinda Praditya 04 Apr '06

04 Apr '06

Dear list, Just bought Intel Dual Core PC and tried to installed SuSE 10.0 in it. I chose "installation" from GRUB CD #1. Everything went normal, until suddenly an error message came up said "There's no installation media" or something like that. And it turned out to text-based menu. When i chose "start system / installation" and finally chose "CDROM", i got "Can't mount the CDROM" message. I use the CDs to install my other machines (Pentium III and IV) and it works normally. Is there any special options before running the first CD? Please help me. Thanks, Adinda Praditya

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Hotplugging for USB hard drive stopped working
by Mike Coan 04 Apr '06

04 Apr '06

I have a Maxtor USB hard drive that I use for backup purposes. Previously when I plugged the drive into a USB port, the drive was recognized automatically and mounted to /media/USBDISK I am using SUSE 10.0 (x86_64) version. I have googled on udev, hal, and hotplug. I have looked at /etc/sysconfig and /etc/hotplug, but haven't been able to figure anything out. If I plug the drive into another SuSE 10.0 system it is recognized and all the data is there. I know the event that triggerd the failure, and it is related to Windows :). My machine also runs vmware since the business has some apps that run only on Windows. vmware has a feature that if the guest operating system has the focus, then that operating system will recognize the usb device. Unfortunately Windows had the focus when I plugged in the usb drive. A number of dialogue boxes in both Windows and linxu opened. I was in a hurry and clicked no on all of them. Anyway, after giving the focus back to SuSE and replugging the usb drive, it doesn't recognize it. I have found articles that talk about the entries to put in fstab if you don't want hotplugging and automount, but it was convenient to have hotplugging work. Any ideas on fixing this would be appreciated. Mike -- Michael A. Coan Woodlawn Foundation 524 North Avenue, Suite 203 New Rochelle, NY 10801-3410 Tel 914-632-3778 Fax 914-632-5502

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Mounting floppy drive on a laptop
by Filianx 04 Apr '06

04 Apr '06

hi all running SUSE 10 kde3.4.2 on a laptop, when I attach my usb floppy I get the following message mount: can't find /dev/sda in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab this my fstab..../dev/hda2 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1 /dev/hda1 swap swap defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 /dev/dvdrecorder /media/dvdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 none /subdomain subdomainfs noauto 0 0 for mtab............/dev/hda2 / reiserfs rw,acl,user_xattr,commit=600 0 0 proc /proc proc rw 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 /dev/dvdrecorder /media/dvdrecorder subfs rw 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0 what do I enter in fstab and mtab to get the floppy to mount and be functional? Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. -- Filianx

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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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Neat Program Part II - FlashEarth
by kai 04 Apr '06

04 Apr '06

Just as a follow up to this morning's post on Google Earth, which is AFAIK being written for Mac/Unix, I found a site which does similar features using Javascript and Flash. It is called flashearth and can be found at www.flashearth.com Here's a screenshot of my office from the site taken a few minutes ago. http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/sbcounty/flashearth_sbc_isd.jpg -- kai - www.perfectreign.com www.livebeans.com - the new NetBeans community 43...for those who require slightly more than the answer to life, the universe and everything.

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Re: [SLE] PDF viewing in firefox
by Kai Ponte 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

> Hi! > > For some reason, viewing pdf from firefox don't work anymore on my suse-10.0 > box. When I download them to HD and start acroread or xpdf from the shell, > it works fine. > > Any ideas what could be screwed here? No, but here's how you fix it. I just read that the 1.5 verison in 10.1 is available, so install Acroread 7.05 RPM (used in Suse 10.1 Beta), which will install the newer version of nppdf.so in /usr/X11R6/lib/Acrobat7/Browser/intellilinux/nppdf.so That should work. If you want the existing solution then go for... http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?showtopic=18191 -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com || www.livebeans.com linux - genuine windows replacement part

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Re: [SLE] Stopping spam to postmaster@ account?
by david rankin 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

>From: "Per Jessen" <per(a)computer.org> > david rankin wrote: > >> Guys, >> >> How are you handling all of the spam that is being sent to >> postmaster@ >> addresses. In order to be RFC compliant, you are supposed to have >> postmaster active, but since the spammers have now made this a >> favorite address, how do you handle it? I'm considering blocking it >> temporarily to generate rejects to see if that helps. Any other >> thoughts? > > Hi David, > > rejecting would be a waste of time. Why don't you filter the > postmaster@ mail using whatever means you use for "regular" users? > > <blatant plug> > > Or, try our service - http://www.spamchek.com/ - up 2 months for free. > Setup takes less than 30mins. > > </blatant plug> > > > You're obviously quite knowledgeable and I guess you like and have got > the time to fiddle, but otherwise a law firm is quite a typical > customer of ours. Pricewise we charge USD5/user/month. > > Sorry about "hijacking" your question. > No problem, it is good information. Right now I just blocked it with recepient_check.pcre for the time being. I'll see how many rejects I get in 24 hours and see if they don't dwindle away. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN LAW FIRM, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax www.rankinlawfirm.com --

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PDF viewing in firefox
by Josef Wolf 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

Hi! For some reason, viewing pdf from firefox don't work anymore on my suse-10.0 box. When I download them to HD and start acroread or xpdf from the shell, it works fine. Any ideas what could be screwed here?

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