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[opensuse] accept ssh into boxen
by Patrick Shanahan 07 Mar '09

07 Mar '09

I have set up an older box with 11.1 Xfce4 and set the firewall to accept ext_tcp for port 22, reloaded the firewall and started sshd. sshd is running. but I cannot ssh into this machine. The firewall logs all show "DROP" for any access attempts (vnc also). pulling hair as I have never had this problem before. Is it old age and forgetfulness or *have* I found a ?problem? tks, -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Any experienced heartbeat active/active config HA2 (cib.xml) administrator here?
by LLLActive＠GMX.Net 07 Mar '09

07 Mar '09

Hi all, I am busy configuring an active/active HA2 (cib.xml) web server with SLES 10 SP2. I started manually with configuring a very basic with the YaST GUI and then manually checked ha.conf; thereafter I used hb_gui. For a manual config, I find the http://www.linux-ha.org website documentation a little difficult to follow between HA versions 1 & 2. They do not have a setup only for Version 2; you have to read all V1 and then find the V2 differences like using the cib.xml in stead of the haresources config files. I think I managed to get the basic heartbeat running as far as configuring the ha.conf file manually (and with Yast & hb_gui). I have set up a failover with a common IP and switched with hb_gui, and checked with ssh that the server actually switched. I then addad a Webserver on the common IP, which also works with a manual switching in hb_gui; actually stopping it on one server and starting on the other. Automatic failover does not seem to work. I found a more systematic description at http://www.novell.com/documentation/sles10/heartbeat/index.html?page=/docum… for heartbeat. I can find no actual description of setting up an active-active system which runs a web server on each node separately, that fails over to the other when a node fails. It means that at fail over, the one node should run both web servers, switching back to the default server as soon as it comes up again. I created a group which first switches the IP and then the web server. It works with a manual switch over, but not automatically. This is only switching from a resource on one node to another, i.e. another web server. I will create a NFS common data share for both on the same DRBD HA data cluster as a htdocs directory, then the content will be the same source. This is the one web server. Another web server has to host an ERP II (Web 2.0) system with its own database (also on a DRBD HA cluster) on the other node. Whenever one node fails, the other should take over and host both web servers. What I need then, are two web servers running each on its own node, and the takeover of the failing web server by the other node, which then runs both web servers till the default preferred server for the failed website comes back on. Any indicators as where to look for such a setup is highly appreciated. TIA :-) Al -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Can sendmail send to anotherOS?
by Bob S 07 Mar '09

07 Mar '09

Hello SuSE people, Here is an off-the-wall question, and the situation..... Background: My wife and I share the same email address.She wants me to download the mail and send her only "her stuff" leaving the other "garbage stuff" for me. (You know, mailing lists, jokes from my friends etc.) That was fine when we were both using 10.3. I would just use sendmail to forward her stuff to her own inbox in kmail, I have been testing 11.1 with KDE 4.2 (same computer - different partitions -multiboot ) and am about to use 11.1 regularly. (Wife no - won't deal with KDE 4 - doesn't like it) So my problem is: Can I download our mail in 11.1 and send "her stuff" to her in 10.3? Can sendmail do that? Bob S -- 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] How big should a file system journal be
by Anton Aylward 07 Mar '09

07 Mar '09

Osamalamadingdong said the following on 03/07/2009 02:05 AM: > Anton Aylward wrote: >> Greg Freemyer said the following on 03/06/2009 04:01 PM: >>> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Anton Aylward <anton.aylward(a)rogers.com> wrote: >>>> I want to try out external journals for Reiser and ext3 file systems and >>>> I'm wondering how large a journal device I need to allocate. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> The price of liberty is eternal vigilance. >>>> --Thomas Jefferson >>> 10 GB is way overkill I think, so you can experiment with that if you >>> have it readily available. >> ... for a 1G file systems ... !!! > >>From the tune2fs man-page: Thank you but that's not helpful. Assume I've read everything in the distribution and a lot of what Google returns, understand the tools but want realistic NUMBERS based on experience. Which is why I asked here. -- Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. -- Henry Kissinger, Wilson Library Bulletin, March 1979 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Battery widget...
by mukul 07 Mar '09

07 Mar '09

Hi, I installed opensuse 11.1 with KDE 4.1 on my laptop and updated the kde to 4.2 (factory). On adding the Batter Monitor widget, I get told that battery is not present. Does anyone know how to get a battery monitor running? Regards -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] How big should a file system journal be
by Anton Aylward 07 Mar '09

07 Mar '09

I want to try out external journals for Reiser and ext3 file systems and I'm wondering how large a journal device I need to allocate. -- The price of liberty is eternal vigilance. --Thomas Jefferson -- 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] Avantfax Rocks! - If you deal with faxes, you don't know what you are missing
by David C. Rankin 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

Anton Aylward wrote: > David C. Rankin said the following on 02/21/2009 02:44 PM: >> Anton Aylward wrote: >>> David C. Rankin said the following on 02/21/2009 05:15 AM: >>>> Listmates, >>>> >>>> After two avantfax server installs, I created a page that details the >>>> installation and configuration of Avantfax, including the Tesseract OCR engine. >>>> Take a look: >>>> >>>> http://www.3111skyline.com/linux/avantfax.php >>>> >>>> It's brand new, so if there are typos or fubars, send me an email and I'll fix >>>> it. This package is fantastic. >>> It seems heavy -- Apache plus OCR plus MySQL - just to send a fax from >>> my laptop. >> Anton, >> >> The only thing that goes on your laptop is hylafax-client. The rest is on the >> server. You send the data from your laptop to wherever you have the fax setup >> installed. > > Ah. So there it is on the server, back home, while I'm at the library, > coffee-house or park ... or client site ... > > I knew there was something I didn't understand. > > So what is the modem port on my laptop for? > Does my server need a modem? it can't use the one in my laptop, can it! > Sorry for the Late reply a "family trip" intervened: The modem port on your laptop is used for the same thing mine is ... a 4-contact dust collector. The beauty of the hylafax/avantfax setup is that no matter where you are in the world, you can send a fax outbound from your fax server simply by submitting a fax job to it from your laptop over the internet. Maybe I can draw a little ascii art diagram that will help: _____fax server_____ internet | | [laptop] <==========================>| hylafax/avantfax | | | | | | | fax send/rcv <----------->| (modem ttyS[1234]) | telephone | | line | | |--------------------| If this is intelligible, you can see that all the fax processing is done on the server which has the modem in it. For all practical matters your fax server functions just like a regular fax machine that is plugged in somewhere in some office. The difference is that instead of putting paper in the input tray and pushing the send button, you can simply submit a job from your laptop in postscript, pdf or tiff format and click the send button in the avantfax web interface to send your fax outbound from your office no matter if your half-way around the globe. On the receiving side it is also just like a regular fax machine except instead of it automatically printing all of the faxes out on paper in the output tray, hylafax/avantfax creates thumbnails of the faxes, notifies you by email that a fax has arrived and makes the fax available for download over the internet in pdf or tiff format no matter where you are. This solution is solid green solution for our office where we deal with 5-20 faxes a day varying from 2-50 pages each. Now I can just read the faxes on-line and download the pdf to the clients correspondence file without wasting paper for the usual multiple copies of a fax (file copy - read copy - multiple distribute copies). The real power of Avantfax is the ability to route faxes based on the destination voice number and distribute them to the appropriate user 'groups' with all the information stored in the mysql backend. For a 500 employee corp that could be (mgmt, sales, service, support, etc..) Coupled with tesseract OCR, this package is a can't live without if you deal with faxes. It is the perfect solution for my situation. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.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] Automatically mount removable disk
by Koenraad Lelong 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

Hi, I'm trying out Bacula. I have a removable disk (Iomega REV) I want to use with Bacula to make backups. I want the backup-operator to plug in the disk, let Bacula make the backup next night and the following morning the backup operator replaces the disk with another one, etc. without doing anything on the PC. The problem is that the system does not mount the disk when no-one is logged in. I tried with autofs, but I can't make it work. When I ssh into the box I see the disk in /dev/disk/by-label. And disappears when removing the disk and reappears when inserting it. When I start autofs, I get the mount-point (/mnt/REV70), but AFAIK the disk is not mounted since I can't ls the directory and mount does not give the mount-point. I can manually mount the disk to the mount-point. Any suggestions ? Thanks. My /etc/auto.master : +auto.master <- tried without this /mnt/ /etc/auto.REV70 --timeout=30 My /etc/auto.REV70 : REV70 -fstype=auto,rw :/dev/disk/by-label/REV\x2070 I got these from the Bacula-wiki. Running on OS 11.1. -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Koenraad Lelong

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[opensuse] All This For Yelp??
by Randall R Schulz 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

Hi, I was using Gnumeric for the first time in a long time and I wanted to view its help documentation, but when I tried to open it, I got an error alert proclaiming: Failed to execute child process "yelp" (No such file or directory) So I went to YaST Software Management to install yelp. To my considerable surprise, it entails the installation of quite a few packages that I cannot see as being legitimate dependencies for yelp. Unfortunately, there appears to be no way to export just a list corresponding to the "Installation Summary" view, so I took a snapshot and attached it. Is there any way (other than trial and error) to get a more minimal set of packages when installing yelp? Randall Schulz

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[opensuse] rsync with password?
by Greg Freemyer 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

All, I'm trying to connect to a remote rsync server. ie. It is running rssh as the shell and rsync is one of the few allowed programs to run. >From my local machine I can invoke rsync and it connects and rsync asks me for a password. I provide it an all proceeds fine. I need this to work from a script. So I'm trying to use the RSYNC_PASSWORD environment variable to pass in the password but it is not working. My simple test script is: == #!/bin/sh RSYNC_PASSWORD=<my_password> export RSYNC_PASSWORD echo RP = $RSYNC_PASSWORD rsync -avh --delete --stats --max-size=100M --links --timeout=600 /$BACKUP_PATH/config-enc-raw /$BACKUP_PATH/srv-enc-raw b291007@backup.abc.com:mach1/ == Am I missing something? the echo is working fine. FYI: by chance the password I'm trying starts with a shell special char, but I can't see why that would be an issue since the echo works. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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