September 2009 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] mysql upgrade ?
by Per Jessen 17 Sep '09

17 Sep '09

I'm thinking of upgrading a production database this weekend as the running version 5.0.51a keeps crashing, see bug 516339. Would anyone care to make a recommendation as to which version to upgrade to? 5.0.x , 5.1.x ? Keep in mind that this is 24h production, I would rather not opt for the bleeding edge stuff. thanks Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (19.4°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Updated spamassassin section of server setup page
by David C. Rankin 16 Sep '09

16 Sep '09

Listmates, Just a note. I updated the spamassassin section of my server setup page so it is more readable and understandable (hopefully). If you run your own mail host with secure IMAP and want a solution where all mail is filtered through spamassassin where you have an easy option for managing spam, spam-probably, a way to tell spamassassin to learn-spam and a way to tell it to "un-learn" spam, and have fetchmail and cron do most of the work, then the setup is worth a look. http://www.3111skyline.com/linux/openSuSE-server.php#mail (The spamassassin info is about 1/2 down the mail section) -- 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] Apache2 failed to start because of 'SecRuleEngine'.
by Ricky Tompu Breaky 16 Sep '09

16 Sep '09

Dear my friends, I am really confused and stucked on my problem with Apache2 and 'SecRuleEngine'. I use OpenSuSE 11.1. But I can't launch my Apache2. Here is the error message I've gotten: " sussy:/usr/lib/YaST2/bin # rcapache2 start Starting httpd2 (prefork) Syntax error on line 3 of /etc/apache2/conf.d/mod_security2.conf: Invalid command 'SecRuleEngine', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration The command line was: /usr/sbin/httpd2-prefork -f /etc/apache2/httpd.conf ". What is the mistake? Please help me. Anybody has the same problem? Thank you very much 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: Backup Question
by jdd 16 Sep '09

16 Sep '09

Carlos E. R. a écrit : > Are there tape systems that may be used for, say, 30 years, by home > users or very small sites or professionals? I mean, not data centers > with big purses. What can we use? and, mostly, how can we be sure today that any system will be available 30 years in the future. The system allowing us to find back a 20 years old file sitting on tapes have to be extremely expensive. In fact my wife worked 30 years ago for the french educational minister and when making hes retirement document, nothing was found. Gladfully, mine was :-) but 30 years ago, did we have data tapes? jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://news.opensuse.org/2009/04/13/people-of-opensuse-jean-daniel-dodin/ -- 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: Backup Question
by jdd 16 Sep '09

16 Sep '09

Brian K. White a écrit : > Any hard drives that are currently 20 years old are nothing like the > ones today, and why should a hard drive degrade any more in 20 years > sitting unpowered on a climate controlled shelf than a tape and tape drive? the magnetic surface will probably not degrade, but the lubricant do. Oils is not good after more than a few years Most HDD I'v seen fail failed after the hollidays, not restarting from being stopped. Tape have no oil. The rubber may fail, but I have (audio) tapes from the 70' still good. however I have DAT tape backup drive failed... > about all that priceless NASA sattelite and remote probe research data > thats disintegrating _as we speak_ on tapes? and I was said NASA have lost some tapes :-) I've seen drafts as old as one hundred years and still in use (electric network) :-) oiled paper :-) no reader needed but eyes. only to show that this hole discussion have little meaning :-( If you need to keep the info, keep it on the today most available medium (cd, dvd, USB HDD, tape, whatever) and *copy* it on the next most available media asap. I copied my tapes to cd then cd to dvd and dvd to HDD. I dropped my tapes when my last tape reader broke, I have all my old cd somewhere. keep the old medium as long as possible. Thats all. jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://news.opensuse.org/2009/04/13/people-of-opensuse-jean-daniel-dodin/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Filesystem corruption on external USB disk
by Ciro Iriarte 16 Sep '09

16 Sep '09

Hi, i'm experiencing FS corruption on top of a USB from Transcend (StoreJet Elite 3.5") on OS 11.1@x86_64. It uses a JMicron controller and I've tried with XFS, Reiserfs and Ext3. Anybody have seen this?. As writing with dd to the whole disk doesn't fail, i'm not sure how to report it.... Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.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] Re: Backup Question
by jdd 16 Sep '09

16 Sep '09

Adam Tauno Williams a écrit : > Agree, my money is on the tape. well, compare the cost of the two systems (including management of spare tape readers, interfaces and computers, special rooms...) compare to the cost of duplicating any two years the complete on disk solution... and the time you will have to recover the special file you need and was backed ten years ago :-) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://news.opensuse.org/2009/04/13/people-of-opensuse-jean-daniel-dodin/ -- 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: Periodic problem resolving URLs?
by jdd 16 Sep '09

16 Sep '09

Clayton a écrit : >> it looks for me like a DNS outage. The provider Domain Name service is >> out of order (may be rebooting). Try using an other one as secondary > > Right, but you'd think then that the ISP would report it as a DNS > outage when I contact them about it... and since it's been happen for > at least 8 weeks now... I'd expect customers to be complaining. :-P don't think so. I last week had a severe mail outage (more than one week without mails) from a professional provider (a registrar!! I'm glad the DNS worked anyway) that obliged me to change to my own amateur serveur. It recovered (serving the lost mails) without any single apologize... true pros are also (often) true unpolite ones. jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://news.opensuse.org/2009/04/13/people-of-opensuse-jean-daniel-dodin/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Periodic problem resolving URLs?
by Clayton 16 Sep '09

16 Sep '09

This is a strange one that I cannot really pin down... is it my system? or is it my ISP? I think it's my ISP, but proving it is a bit hard. - Periodically (over the last 2 or 3 months), but with no fixed or at least identifiable pattern, I loose the ability to resolve URLs. If I open any installed browser (Firefox, Opera, Seamonkey etc) and browse to any random website, say.. YouTube, generally it opens immediately. But.. sometimes, I get nothing. Firefox will timeout at some point and tell me that the website is unreachable etc etc. Reloading during this timeout period does nothing. - When this problem pops up, all other web services continue to work fine... Torrents continue to download, FTP works fine, VoIP works perfectly... only resolving URLs fails. - The dropout lasts anywhere from a few seconds, to several minutes... and then when connectivity returns, it can continue to work for sometime hours.. and other times it'll drop off again right away. If I connect to one of my VPNs - my work VPN or my private one (a VPN service I subscribe to), I do not get any dropouts at all.. HTTP always works. This is what makes me think it's my ISP not me. So.... how do you go about showing that it's the ISP? I've contacted the ISP, and they say it's me... although they have provided me their DNS server addresses... they still think the problem is my side not theirs. Any ideas or suggestions? Could it be my side? if so, what can I look at to track it down? C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] updating with Konq
by jdd 16 Sep '09

16 Sep '09

Hello, I never really understood how konqueror works when updating a tree. still my photos. One month ago I copied the "digital" folder, under wich I have all my shots, classified as a folder for each shot day. If now I copy/paste this folder to the external HDD, Konk ask "ignore, ignore all, write over, write over all" (sorry, my message is french, this is only guess) if I say "ignore", it stops immediately How can I tell him to only copy the new files? (as rsync do, no removing necessary) thanks jdd (kde 3.5) -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://news.opensuse.org/2009/04/13/people-of-opensuse-jean-daniel-dodin/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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