May 2007 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Automating the NFS mount
by Mohamed Haidar 09 May '07

09 May '07

Hello all, I finally got the nfs service to work. In retrospect i see that it was kind of trivial but for a newbe nothing really is. My question now is how to make the hole process automated. I have tried to add the line ip:folder /mnt/folder nfs rw,no_root_squash 0 0 to my fstab but with no result. I still have to manually mount the folder at startup. Thx for your help everybody. _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Riso CR1610EP printer
by Stuart Murray-Smith 09 May '07

09 May '07

Hi list Could anyone please inform me how to get the Riso CR1610EP printer configured under SuSE 10.x? TiA Regards, Stu@ -- Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] cron issue
by Nick Jones 09 May '07

09 May '07

Hello everyone. I've been having problems with cron running cron.daily jobs. I can't for the life of me figure it out and it is embarrassing and frustrating. First off cron doesn't log for shit. Sendmail wasn't running so I turned postfix on to see if mail shows up in root, it hasn't after 6 hours. I can see cron starting up in /var/log/messages, but that is it. I simply want to place a script called backup under cron.daily. So I run service cron restart, it checks /var/spool/tabs/ and /etc/crontab. The crontab is the default and should run cron.daily scripts. I've read that I need a file cron.daily under lastrun (which is empty now) so it's timestamp can be used. I've tried manually creating this and it doesn't work. Please HELP! Where do I look to see what is going wrong. I need hints. I *should* be able to reinstall cron, put a file under cron.daily, and sit back and relax (ie. cron.daily jobs are run by default on a fresh system with cron), but this doesn't work. Cron seems to be running (ie, sleeping, but not zombie or defunct). According to timestamps it is not reading any files in the system every 15 minutes and it should at least look in lastrun I believe. Here's some debug info. I restarted cron at 11:01 and it is a fresh install (uninstalled through yast, then reinstalled) dendrite:/var/spool # ls -lu /etc/cron.daily/ total 52 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 409 2007-05-07 16:10 backup -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2928 2007-05-03 15:55 beagle-crawl-system -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 393 2007-05-03 15:55 logrotate -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 948 2007-05-03 15:55 suse-clean_catman tail /var/log/cron | grep -i cron May 8 11:01:35 dendrite /usr/sbin/cron[8398]: (CRON) STARTUP (V5.0) dendrite:/var/spool # ls -lu /var/spool/cron/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 2007-05-06 04:00 lastrun drwx------ 2 root root 48 2007-05-08 11:01 tabs dendrite:/var/spool # ls -lu /etc/crontab -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 274 2007-05-08 11:01 /etc/crontab dendrite:/var/spool # cat /etc/crontab SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/lib/news/bin MAILTO=root # # check scripts in cron.hourly, cron.daily, cron.weekly, and cron.monthly # -*/15 * * * * root test -x /usr/lib/cron/run-crons && /usr/lib/cron/run-crons > /dev/null 2>&1 dendrite:/var/spool # ls -lu /var/spool/cron/tabs/ total 0 dendrite:/var/spool # ps -Al | grep cron 1 S 0 8398 1 0 78 0 - 494 - ? 00:00:00 cron dendrite:/var/spool # ps -Al | grep syslog 5 S 0 3023 1 0 75 0 - 1239 - ? 00:00:19 syslog-ng 5 S 0 3043 1 0 75 0 - 430 syslog ? 00:00:14 klogd dendrite:/var/spool # cat /etc/cron.daily/backup #!/bin/sh date >> /var/log/backup.log mount -v /backup >> /var/log/backup.log rsync -au / /backup/ --exclude ppg --exclude fmri --exclude /Network/people --exclude /backup --exclude /sys --exclude /proc --exclude /var/tmp --exclude /backup --exclude /home/bruss/external_mp3.dir --exclude /mnt >> /var/log/backup.log umount /backup >> /var/log/backup.log echo "backup complete" >> /var/log/backup.log dendrite:/var/spool # Perhaps I should compile it from source, this is a yast binary. Thanks alot for the help. Nick -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Re: cron problems
by Joachim Schrod 09 May '07

09 May '07

Mohamed Haidar wrote: > Hello guys, I have a problem with cron. I got a program for updating my > ip to a internet dns host and i set it up correctly. The program works. > Now with the program came a file that i putt in the /etc/cron.d dir > because the program instructed me to do that. Basically what I want to > do is to let the program run once a minute. The file I putt in the > cron.d dir contains these entries : > > * * * * * root /usr/bin/ipdetect.sh > */15 * * * * root /usr/bin/ipdetect.sh -p host -r browser -c > > Now cron doesn't run the ipdetect script, never. I did some > investigation and I found out that cron doesn't have any log files or > conf files on my system, which I thought was a bit strange. cron logs via syslog; there should be log records about the start of each job in /var/log/messages. The exception is when your crontab line starts with "-" (a hyphen), then job start logging is turned off. (In fact, when your ipdetect cron job really works, you might want to turn off job start logging that way.) If there are no respective log entries, execute "touch /etc/cron.d" to be on the save side. cron detects changes in files in cron.d only if the timestamp of the directory /etc/cron.d changes as well. Alternatively, call "rccron restart". After touching cron.d, there must be log entry that cron re-read the crontab files, maybe one or two minutes later. Your crontab syntax itself is OK, that's not the cause. Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod(a)acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] cron problems
by Mohamed Haidar 09 May '07

09 May '07

Hello guys, I have a problem with cron. I got a program for updating my ip to a internet dns host and i set it up correctly. The program works. Now with the program came a file that i putt in the /etc/cron.d dir because the program instructed me to do that. Basically what I want to do is to let the program run once a minute. The file I putt in the cron.d dir contains these entries : * * * * * root /usr/bin/ipdetect.sh */15 * * * * root /usr/bin/ipdetect.sh -p host -r browser -c Now cron doesn't run the ipdetect script, never. I did some investigation and I found out that cron doesn't have any log files or conf files on my system, which I thought was a bit strange. So all I did was to putt the file in the /etc/cron.d dir, do I have to do anything else or is the a problem with the cronsetup on my system or what do you guys think. If I do a ps aux then I find that cron is running on the system from boot. Thx guys for your aid. Regards, mohed. _________________________________________________________________ Don't just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Dualhead with TV
by michael norman 09 May '07

09 May '07

Hi I'm trying to set up dualhead on 10.2 with a geforce fx5200 card, an Acer pc monitor and a Phillips tv which sax identifies as PHL PHILIPS 23"WXGATV. I have set the resolution for the tv to 1024x768 (WXGA). This fails with the error that " parse error in line 135 section device in file /var/lib/sax/xorg.conf "WXGATV" is not a valid keyword in this section " Any clues what to do ? I'm quite happy to edit the xorg files by hand if I have to. TIA Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Could not connect my camera via USB
by Michal Hlavac 09 May '07

09 May '07

hello, I have opensuse 10.2 with latest updates. After last kernel update I cannot connect my camera Canon PowerShot G2. There was no problem before. dmesg says this: usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4 usb 3-1: new device found, idVendor=04a9, idProduct=3055 usb 3-1: new device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 usb 3-1: Product: PowerShot G2 usb 3-1: Manufacturer: Canon Inc. usb 3-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice usb 3-1: usbfs: usb_submit_urb returned -22 thanks, m.

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Re: [opensuse] Error's on raid disk
by Wilfred van Velzen 09 May '07

09 May '07

>>> "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas(a)telefonica.net> 2007-05-08 16:39:29 >>> > The Tuesday 2007-05-08 at 15:17 +0200, Wilfred van Velzen wrote: > > > I'm in no hurry, I'll wait until tomorrow, by which time the remaining > > 30% should be finished. > > Ok! Now we'll sit waiting for your email a week from now: It's going at > 99% still! > > I'm joking :-P Good, I was worried. ;) The test is finished now. Here's part of the '-a' output: ~~~ SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always - 4 SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 1651 - ~~~ So no errors where found, and the Reallocated_Sector_Ct hasn't changed. So the disk seems to be ok... for now... > My 300 GiB from Seagate, a test like that makes postfix growl with all > kinds of timeout errors. I have to stop services (no raid). You are lucky > with yours ;-) Our disks are also Seagate: Device Model: ST3750640AS So it might be due to the raid-1 configuration I'm not experiencing any delays when the test is running... > > > Also, you know that you can have an "active spare" inside the raid. If > > > there is a problem, it will immediately activate it and switch over. > > > The disadvantage is, obviously, that the spare is powered up, although > > > idle. In those cases, I would have an spare outside, too - maybe I'm > > > too paranoid ;-) > > > > There isn't room inside the server (it's a 1U 19" with only two HD > > drive bays), so I don't have to consider this. ;) > > Ah, lucky again, no worries! I'm sleeping very well! ;) Met vriendelijke groet / Best regards, Wilfred van Velzen -- SERCOM Regeltechniek b.v. Heereweg 9 2161 AB Lisse Nederland +31 (0)252 416530 (voice) +31 (0)252 419481 (fax) <http://www.sercom.nl/> Op al onze offertes, op alle opdrachten aan ons en op alle met ons gesloten overeenkomsten zijn toepasselijk de METAALUNIEVOORWAARDEN, gedeponeerd ter Griffie van de Rechtbank te Rotterdam, zoals deze luiden volgens de laatstelijk aldaar neergelegde tekst. De leveringsvoorwaarden worden u op verzoek toegezonden. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Groupwise - Open-Xchange
by Catherine Carminati 09 May '07

09 May '07

Hi all I work at a company that has about 160 users, we are thinking of upgrading our servers, one of them being the mail server. what i would like to find out is if anyone works with Groupwise 7 and if you would recommend the product. Almost all our users use Outlook 2000 / outlook xp / outlook 2003 and outlook 2007, some also use outlook express. I have also read about Open-xchange. anyone using the product? Thanks in advance!! Catherine -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] foomatic-rip failed
by George Osvald 09 May '07

09 May '07

Recently I upgraded my computers to Suse 10.2. Two of them were no problem but the third one gives me a headache. Since the upgrade it would not print into my HP Officejet. It still prints into Dymo labelwriter because I have it set up as raw printer. I get this error message from my CUPS server: "/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed" I tried all sorts of things without a success. This printer was printing fine with a previous version and I also have two other (with SuSe 10.2) computers printing into HP printers no problems. I'd appreciate any help. -- Regards, George Osvald OK Studio ® http://www.okstudio.com.au Email: mail(a)okstudio.com.au -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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