July 2007 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Looking for Kernel .20
by Kai Ponte 06 Jul '07

06 Jul '07

I'm curious - any idea as to when kernel version 2.6.20 might be released to us SUSE folk? I want to use it to gain a feature on my laptop (integrated media reader) that .18 won't support. I don't particularly feel comfortable rolling my own kernel. -- k www.perfectreign.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] CUPS problem
by James Hatridge 06 Jul '07

06 Jul '07

HI all... CUPS stopped working. I'm not sure what I did wrong but cups will not work at all now. I went into YAST and changed a filter on my printer conf. After that cups will not allow any printing at all, no user or root. I try to fix cups via the browser and no password works at all, user or root. Any ideas or suggestions? Thanks, JIM -- Jim Hatridge Linux User #88484 Ebay ID: WartHogBulletin ------------------------------------------------------ WartHog Bulletin Info about new German Stamps http://www.WartHogBulletin.de Many Enemies -- Much Honor! Anti-US Propaganda stamp collection http://www.manyenemies-muchhonor.info An American in Bavaria http://www.gaubodengalerie.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] powerful graphical ftp software?
by Zhang Weiwu 06 Jul '07

06 Jul '07

Dear all I am used to lftp, a very powerful commandline ftp software. I wish to introduce my colleague a ftp software that can help her maintain the website she's working on. She recently finished the move from Windows to OpenSuSE and feel happy about gftp. yet gftp is not powerful enough for her, what she want is an ftp software that can upload a folder of 200 files and: I. if local file is newer than remote file (mdate), the file is changed locally and the file on the server should be overwritten; II. if local file is older than file on server or they have the same date, that file probably should be skipped. Having graphical user interface is important because if I start by suggesting commandline I have too much to explain to her, including concepts like current-working-directory, single dot and double dot. She is the kind of person think graphically, she knows it when she see it (e.g. she know it's a folder because it's a folder on screen) I do tried to introduce her commandline and failed more than once. gftp isn't good enough because as the version come with SuSE 10.2 it doesn't know to compare local file and remote file. I tried to compile a developing version which do implemented some logic on comparing which file should be uploaded, and it also have prolems: I. if local file is newer and longer than remote file, the ftp client suggest resume upload, which is almost 100% incorrect thing to do for her; II. some file changed locally is simply missing in list of files to upload; III. it should highlight the file that it wishes to upload from a list of 200 files; IV. when she finally examed the long list of 200 files, change "resume" to "overwrite" etc, and click yes, the control connection already timed out; I also tried j-ftp, which simply don't know to do the compare logic (e.g. it runs mkdir when the directory on ftp server already exist, causing error). Also it's very useful for her that the ftp software can do character-set conversion on-the-fly, which is a good feature existing in gftp. Can you suggest something I can try? Or at least let me know a good solution is simply missing. Thanks a lot in advance! -- 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: speaking of cloning....
by Joachim Schrod 06 Jul '07

06 Jul '07

Per Jessen wrote: > James Tremblay wrote: > >> How does on build an image for and what tools does one need to clone a >> master image to a lab? >> Is there a set of commands like "sysprep" for creating a master? Is >> there a guide? > > Here is what I do: > > Create image file: > > 1. create the model system > 2. stop the model system > 3. boot e.g. Knoppix or other rescue system > 4. for each partition to be copied do > 4a. mount <part> /mnt > 4b. cd /mnt > 4c. tar czvf <imagefile> * .* Just tar czvf <imagefile> . is sufficient. No need to play games with wildcards. Btw, does your tar support ACLs now? It does not on my system. > 4d. cd - > 4e. umount /mnt > > Install image file: > > 1. boot target system from knoppix or rescue or with NFS-root or or or > 2. partition drive > 3. create filesystems > 4. for each partition do > 4a. mount <part> /mnt > 4b. cd /mnt > 4c. tar xzvf <imagefile> > 4d. cd - > 4e. umount /mnt > 5. run lilo if you intend to boot from harddisk. 6. Remove HAL information from the old system, otherwise you end up with network interfaces named eth1, eth2, ... 7. Sanitize /etc/sysconfig/network/, where the mac address is part of the ifcfg-eth* files. 8. Rename the system (several files to edit for that, if you don't use full DHCP) 9. Generate a new ssh host key; maybe distribute that public key 10. Generate a new ssh key for root 11. Check where the hostname might be: postfix, samba 12. check if hardware monitoring (lm_sensors, smartd) work on the new system 13. change X configuration if necessary 14. change sound configuration if necessary And there might be more things that I have forgotten right now; it's 2am here. ;-) 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] .forward operation not permitted
by Bruce Ferrell 05 Jul '07

05 Jul '07

I'm trying to use the vacation program from .forward with sendmail and I'm seeing operation not permitted in /var/log/mail. How can I make this work? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] openSUSE 10.2, desktop PC, disk being constantly written to. Any way to reduce it?
by Tero Pesonen 05 Jul '07

05 Jul '07

Hi all! I subscribed to this list to ask about this issue. I've not found almost any coverage on this topic, or then I've searched for wrong keywords on Google and on various mailing lists. My issues is as follows: I've recently upgraded to openSUSE 10.2 from SuSE Linux 9.3 on my desktop PC. This is no server or anything, and I'm the only user. I've noticed that at least on my upgraded installation the system seems to be almost constantly accessing through file I/O's the "/" mounted disk and also the "/home" partition. I realised this as I studied the output given by "iostat." If I leave it to monitor the system while running X and KDE, it shows constant "blocks written" action on hda, which contains both the root partition "/" and home partitions. I tried and mounted my /tmp to hdb, to see if the temp directory would be the subject of constant disk I/O (rather logical), especially while running KDE. But the /tmp partition actually shows only very limited read and write actions. If my KDE runs idle without me doing anything in particular, with some applications running such as Kontact, couple of konsoles, Firefox, couple of Konquerors, etc., the tmp sees almost no activity unless some application is operated on. Still, hda is constantly being written to. How does it show? Well, first of all, there's constantly (every few seconds) from some 8 to few dozens blocks being written, according to iostat. Almost no reading at all. Then, every so often, maybe after every 2 or 3 minutes (I'm not sure yet if this varies), it writes a bigger burst of data, one that I can easily hear the hard drive doing, and it can least a few seconds, but less than 10 seconds I'd say. This constant writing (constant writing plus regular bursts) is done irrespective to the activity of the desktop. Whether I do something or not, this happens. Even when back on pure console on run level 3. I've studied my memory utilisation. I've 512MB of RAM, and despite what "free" shows, this happen. My swap partition is on hdb, so it is not that, and it is almost always zero Kb any way. So the system is not swapping under low memory or anything. My swappiness is "60"; altering this value has no effect. And my memory utilisation (+/- buffers in cache) never seems to go below 300MB free. Anyway, as mentioned, the amount of free memory seems to have no effect on the constant writing on hda. I've searched the web to find something related to this, but have come up with nothing useful. I've closed down all unnecessary processes I know I can, but that has as little effect as anything else I try. None of the logs seem to be flooded with data, and I even turned off firewall logging. I uninstalled all Apparmor etc. stuff and even closed sshd and similar. No effect. I didn't find any way to monitor which files are constantly being written to. One command listed all open files per process, but it prints hundreds of lines, and seems to be of no use for knowing where the constant disk output is headed. So I tried to find via kfind which files have most recently been written to (access date changed to current.) There were tons of those, but at least it seems that in /sys and especially in /proc huge amount of files are updated so that they're always marked as having been updated at the same time as the current time shown by system clock. Not even a minute behind, never. Might this folder be the subject to this constant disk output? It seems it could be, or at least could be one of the culprits. All my hda partitoons were formatted for SuSE 9.3 when it was installed, and are ReiserFS. According to Yast partitioner, they seem to have been set to "ordered data mode" from the three possible (journal, ordered, writeback.) This is what was then set by default, as I don't remember to having changed those. Why is this constant I/O a problem? Well, I have a feeling my old SuSE 9.3 did not do this. What is more, I'm worried if my poor IDE hard drive can take all this strain the system is putting on it. If my hard disk is writing 24h/day, how long will it last before it dies under such server-level use? The heads need to constantly move and write... and these standard IDE HDD's are definitely no server level units that are designed to perform under constant stress. Linux being a server OS, it may not care by default about my hardware all that much. So I would definitely want to know if there was any way to make the system (Kernel?) not to write non-stop (to /proc? and/or elsewhere), and if this was a symptom of something being wrong somewhere. I've also read on the web about "laptop modes" etc. that avoid excess and unnecessary disk I/O to allow spinn-downs etc. Could something like this be employed on my desktop PC? Would there be anything in /etc/sysconfig to edit--I already even turned off all weird sounding man pages related jobs put there in "cron". And above all, do others' systems show similar disk I/O behaviour? Oh, almost forgot: I don't offer any network services etc. Not even SSH like I used to. Thank you for providing any insight you might have on this. Any kind of advice will be appreciated. I may have forgotten to mention something very elementary that I've tried or looked at, so feel free to ask if you believe I've not checked something obvious. Thank you, Tero Pesonen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] lmtp socket - permission denied / Postfix + Cyrus + LDAP.
by lauro＠npd.ufsc.br 05 Jul '07

05 Jul '07

I'm on opensuse 10.1. I read the mailing list and noticed many people with the same problem. Cyrus and Postfix are on the same machine. Postfix cannot connect to the ltmp socket and deliver mail to Cyrus, so it can then deliver to users: --- host postfix/lmtp[7070]: A8721F25E: to=<xx@xx>, relay=none, delay=17, status=deferred (connect to /var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp[/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp]: Permission denied) --- srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jun 25 10:33 /var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp drwxr-x--- 13 cyrus mail 4096 Jun 26 08:03 imap (/var/lib/imap) --- user cyrus is cyrus.mail user postfix is postfix.postfix --- I tried to stop apparmor, but even so it didn't work, with the same message. I went thru the apparmor profiles and there was nothing about the postfix user/group neither the executable or that particular diretory. The apparmor profiles are the same from default install, and all mentioned software are from the 10.1 repositories. When I add the postfix user to the mail group, it works ok. But I don't want to do that, it might cause some misbehavior(?), I would like a different more "correct" approach, say to change apparmor config to let the postfix user or the executable from postfix which tries to use that socket to do so. What do you think would be more appropriated? thanks, lauro --------- imapd.conf sasl_mech_list: PLAIN sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd sasl_auto_transition: no configdirectory: /var/lib/imap defaultpartition: default partition-default: /var/spool/imap partition-news: /var/spool/imap/news newsspool: /var/spool/news altnamespace: no unixhierarchysep: no admins: cyrus allowanonymouslogin: no popminpoll: 1 autocreatequota: 0 umask: 007 sievehomedir: false sievedir: /var/lib/sieve hashimapspool: true allowplainttext: yes lmtpsocket: /var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp idlesocket: /var/lib/imap/socket/idlei notifysocket: /var/lib/imap/socket/notify sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail tls_cert_file: /var/lib/imap/server.pem tls_key_file: /var/lib/imap/server.pem tls_ca_file: /var/lib/imap/server.pem tls_session_timeout: 1440 tls_cipher_list: TLSv1:SSLv3:SSLv2:!NULL:!EXPORT:!DES:!LOW:@STRENGTH servername: xx.xx (masked) postmaster: postmaster reject8bit: no quotawarn: 90 timeout: 30 poptimeout: 10 dracinterval: 0 drachost: localhost lmtp_overquota_perm_failure: no lmtp_downcase_rcpt: yes --------- cyrus.conf START { recover cmd="ctl_cyrusdb -r" idled cmd="idled" } SERVICES { imap cmd="imapd" listen="imap" prefork=0 pop3 cmd="pop3d" listen="pop3" prefork=0 sieve cmd="timsieved" listen="sieve" prefork=0 lmtpunix cmd="lmtpd" listen="/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp" prefork=1 } EVENTS { checkpoint cmd="ctl_cyrusdb -c" period=30 delprune cmd="cyr_expire -E 3" at=0400 tlsprune cmd="tls_prune" at=0400 } --------- main.cf (postfix - just some parts) ... mailbox_transport = lmtp:unix:/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp mail_spool_directory = /var/mail ... --------- end ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] sound issues
by Michael Derek Barnett 05 Jul '07

05 Jul '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Greetings, After 9 years, I'm finally sick of my linux box sounding like bacon frying, so I've spent most of the last week reading and fiddling with settings and now I'm stuck. I'm using 10.2 and the alsa drivers (tried oss, alsa quality was better) for both of the cards I've tried so far, an ensoniq es1370 and the onboard via 8233. The 8233 has more noise in mp3 playback than the es1370. However, dvd audio from the 8233 isn't bad at all, while on the 1370 it is only marginally better than mp3. I have okay sound in kaffeine with dvd playback, but system sounds, ogg vorbis, and mp3's have alot of static behind them. If it weren't for the dvd's being acceptable, I'd just give it up as a lost cause. I'm not looking for perfection, I'd just like to be able to listen to podcasts and actually understand what is being said. At this point, here's what I've done. I've switched from the default oss drivers to the alsa drivers. I've turned off artsd. kaffeine and amarok are both using the xine engine. I tried helix banshee with no success. I've got PCM turned down in the alsa mixer. Add to this list a half dozen other things I've tried and promptly forgotten. (As a side note, for those of you having trouble with flash not having any sound in mozilla, at some point in this process, the switch to alsa, and turning off artsd i think, sound magically appeared on youtube. Unfortunately, I wasn't primarily concerned about this at the time, so there might be some other bit of finger twiddling that also has to be done, but it's possible.) If anyone has any advice about what else I can try, I'd love to hear it. Again, I'm not looking for crystal clear audio (not that I'd turn that down) so much as looking for 'listenable' audio. I accept that I'll probably have to bite the bullet and install a different sound card, but I'll worry about that later if that's the case. Thanks, Derek -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGjO6vg39m4F98CH4RAtIyAJ9a6qc2WDKojhZ1kAWvdhmq0aBmnwCfUJnP g16993RGzFZxEZ1yd5HxX7s= =m8tB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse] Question for openSUSE installation disk space.
by Giorgos 05 Jul '07

05 Jul '07

Hi again!!! :-) THANKS for your help!!! :-) > Stop using Outlook Express. That's your first fault. :P :-) I'll gladly switch to Thunderbird, as soon as I can get rid of Windows (hopefully the next few days)! ;-) > First of all, you don't say what sort of partition structure you have. Ooops! SORRY!!! :-( I have an IDE 230GB disk, which is partitioned (with GParted LiveCD), to: * 1 primary FAT32, (~1GB, with FreeDOS installation), * 1 primary NTFS, (~90GB with WinXP installation), * 1 extented (~100GB), occupied 100%, by 1 logical partition NTFS (I have "My Documents" there, for reducing the Windows installation space (usefull when backing up - restoring partitions, or reformating). * ~40GB unallocated space. > If you're installing just to experiment and don't forsee using the > system you set up over the long term... No!!! I came to Linux to stay! :-) I'm preffering Linux, than BSDs or Solaris for desktop use (don't get mad, just a personal preference) and I'm using for years, open source win ported multiplatform products (apps and games) (eg. Mozzila suite, OO, etc.) or platform independent (semi-interpreted) ones (usually Java or Python). > If Windows is working properly OpenSuSE will resize the partition and > repartition everything just fine. OK! I'll follow your suggestions. I have allready backup up (at DVDs) my documents and Windows installation image files, so I'll just let the installer do its job. I''' tell you what happened then. THANKS AGAIN for your help!!! ;-) Giorgos. :-) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Ideas on disk cloning?
by Anders Norrbring 05 Jul '07

05 Jul '07

I usually use dd and ssh to clone disks from one machine to another, but that only works when the target is equally big or larger than the source. Is there any easy way to do it from a 13% filled 60GB disk to a remote disk that's only 16GB? Obviously dd won't work... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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