September 2011 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Howto run Apache web server on read-only root file system
by Monika Kistler 02 Sep '11

02 Sep '11

Hi all, I'm running the Apache web server 2.2.17 on an openSUSE 11.4 system. Out of security reasons I need to have the root file system mounted read-only. /var is mounted read/write on a separate partition, thus the log files do not cause any problem. When booting my system I get the following errors, due to read-only rootfs. mv: inter-device move failed: `/tmp/apache2.PLbqAdT67tqh' to `/etc/apache2/sysconfig.d/loadmodule.conf'; unable to remove target: Read-only file system /usr/share/apache2/get_module_list: line 113: /etc/apache2/sysconfig.d/global.conf: Read-only file system /usr/share/apache2/get_module_list: line 114: 3: Bad file descriptor /usr/share/apache2/get_module_list: line 136: 3: Bad file descriptor /usr/share/apache2/get_module_list: line 140: 3: Bad file descriptor /usr/share/apache2/get_module_list: line 141: 3: Bad file descriptor /usr/share/apache2/get_module_list: line 144: 3: Bad file descriptor /usr/share/apache2/get_module_list: line 151: 3: Bad file descriptor /usr/share/apache2/get_includes: line 15: /etc/apache2/sysconfig.d/include.conf: Read-only file system /usr/share/apache2/get_includes: line 16: 3: Bad file descriptor /usr/share/apache2/get_includes: line 43: 3: Bad file descriptor Does anybody have some experience with that topic and can provide a solution? I came up with two ideas. Either link the affected files to some place on var or try to remount rootfs rw in the apache2 init script and afterwards mount it ro again. Any suggestions, which idea to prefer and/or howto implement it in a reasonable way? Thanks, Moni http://www.telemotive.de ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Firmensitz: Telemotive AG - Breitwiesen - 73347 Mühlhausen Vorstand: Franz Diller, Markus Fischer, Markus Stolz Vorstandsvorsitzender: Peter Kersten Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Dipl. Kaufmann Thomas Derlien Amtsgericht: Ulm HRB 541321 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] postfix+mailman configuration problem
by J. Bakshi 02 Sep '11

02 Sep '11

Hello, This is opeensuse 11.4 This is an operational mail server supporting multidomain and based on postfix+dovecot+mysql. The virtual domain related config at main.cf is as below [....] alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases, hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases ######################################### ## virtual domain setting ######################################### virtual_alias_domains = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual virtual_alias_maps = mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual-alias-maps.cf,mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-email2email.cf virtual_gid_maps = static:5000 virtual_mailbox_domains = mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual-mailbox-domains.cf virtual_mailbox_maps = mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual-mailbox-maps.cf virtual_transport = dovecot dovecot_destination_recipient_limit = 1 virtual_uid_maps = static:5000 [....] `````````````` I have installed mailman here and to support virtual domain also have the following at /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py [....] DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'http://%s/mailman/' DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'list.mydomain.com' DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'list.mydomain.com' MTA = 'Postfix' POSTFIX_ALIAS_CMD = '/usr/sbin/postalias' POSTFIX_MAP_CMD = '/usr/sbin/postmap' DELIVERY_MODULE = 'SMTPDirect' SMTPPORT = '25' add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST) POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS = ['list.infoservices.in'] IMAGE_LOGOS = '/mailmanicons/' [....] after reloading postfix and mailman I have created a list and also copy paste the suggested aliases at /etc/aliases and executed "newalias" command. If I send a request to <listname>-request(a)list.mydomain.com I get an error from postfix as ` ` ` ` Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtual mailbox table ` ` ` ` Do I need to create all such an account required by mailman? I am confused...... any clue is very much welcome. TIA -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] 11.2/Evergreen post-updates DNS trouble
by Felix Miata 02 Sep '11

02 Sep '11

Night before last I got everything updated, and right before the last 2 packages downloaded and installed, everything outside my router became unreachable, with zypper giving no clues as to why everything requiring access to the net was failing. I though maybe rebooting would help, but it didn't. Eventually I solved the immediate problem by deleting all nameservers from /etc/resolv.conf, and putting in it only my router's IP. Now I think I may be seeing fallout from trying to use my router's DNS service. Gecko, wget & curl are getting Earthlink 404 HTML pages instead of announcing 404 normally if I try to fetch a bad URL, or if trying to access a generic mirror that randomly resolves to various actual servers (e.g. download.mozilla.org) What does nscd actually do? Does it actually need to be running on a home network server? Chkconfig -l shows "on" in 3 & 5, but I don't remember ever actually setting it that way, or ever selecting it to be installed in the first place. What could have been included in updates to precipitate this? Was the inception of the problem's timing concurrent with updates just a fluke? Are there DNS IPs available I can substitute for those provided by Earthlink, so that I can get past Earthlink's idiotic/broken help pages that load instead of the browsers' standard 404 pages when loading a bad URL is attempted? Those stupid Earthlink pages all but prevent editing the typing or other mistakes in a bad URL in the browsers' urlbars. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.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] grub
by e-letter 01 Sep '11

01 Sep '11

Readers, Can someone advise the version of grub that is used with opensuse11? Please reply directly; I have subscribed to nomail option due to absence of digest mode. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] command line question
by George OLson 01 Sep '11

01 Sep '11

I am migrating my music over from itunes to run on Amarok (or another player that may be better and can sync an ipod touch running ios 4.2.1). The first step is to copy my music files from my itunes directories into the music folder on my hard drive, /home/music. The problem is, I have about 1/3 or 1/4 of these files purchased directly from itunes, and so they are in the proprietary itunes format, *.m4p. I will not be sharing my purchased music with anyone, so I will not be violating any copyright laws, so no worries there. However, I still need to be able to read these songs with the music player in OS 11.4, and I still need to be able to manage my ipod touch in OS without going back to windows. My first thought is that I would like to segregate all the m4p files into one directory folder. /homes/music has multiple sub-directories with the artists names, and those have sub-directories with album names on them. I was thinking the command line would be faster than one by one, if there is a command line program similar to 'mv' that will look into a directory and all its sub-directories to find files of type *.m4p, and move them to a separate directory. From there I can work with them in some way. At the very least I will know which ones are in the m4p format so that I can go back to my windows pc, burn them to audio cd (if there are not too many), and then rip them back to mp3. Or, if there is a better way to just use amarok or some other program to read all the files, find the m4p files, and convert them, that would be the easiest. thanks George -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Computer unreachable by browser
by Wolfgang Mueller 01 Sep '11

01 Sep '11

I have a small network with four computers, connected to a router and declared in /etc/hosts as follows: 192.168.0.3 router # (Fritz Box) 192.168.0.16 acer # SuSE 11.4 192.168.0.15 toshiba # SuSE 10.1 192.168.0.13 yakumo # SuSE 11.2 192.168.0.14 sony # SuSE 9.1 Now, my most recent computer, "acer", running under SuSE 11.4, can be accessed by ping from any other computer in the network, but not by a browser, i.e. neither by kfmclient nor by Firefox nor by Opera. I tried specifying both, the name "acer" and the IP number 192.168.0.16, but nothing helps. What can I do? Thanks in advance for your help, Wolfgang Müller ______________________ An der Silberkuhle 10 30655 Hannover Tel (+49 511) 546 3837 mailto:wm@ariannuccia.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] digest mode request
by e-letter 01 Sep '11

01 Sep '11

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[opensuse] camera, skype, microphone
by George OLson 01 Sep '11

01 Sep '11

Joy in every success, frustration in failures, but always an opportunity to learn! and many thanks to all of you who have continually helped me solve the little configuration problems that come up as I get my system started and complete the windows migration! So, here I am now with skype and a camera and a microphone. My microphone is a simple plug in, line input. My camera is an a4tech pk-720mj usb 2.0 camera. I plugged it in and didn't really know what to do. Searched the internet, found a suggestion - download a webcam program and see if it works! So I went to Yast, found 2 packages, wxcam, and webkam. I got both of them. When I open up the program, wxcam has a very good clear image (yea! :) ) Webkam says it cannot find the device (aw :( ). The GUI for webkam does not allow me to select a device - it just says no device found. So using wxcam, I took a test video recording. It records movement fine, but it does not record sound. Yet my camera has sound with it. I opened audacity and set it to look to the usb pc camera (a box next to the microphone) for the input, and it records sound very clearly. The camera is about 2 feet in front of me, so the microphone is of good quality to pick me up well from there. I installed and set up skype. The chat feature works. I tried to get it to use the camera as the sound input, but it will only take the plug-in microphone. It says that pulse audio is managing my sound, so I downloaded pulse audio manager in yast, but I don't know what to do with it. I tested the skype video also. My video is really really dark, but not totally black. It is dark when using skype, but on wxcam, it has a good, clear, bright video. Ok, I know I haven't given a ton of technical specs, only general things. I am wanting to figure out how to: 1 - get skype to be able to use the microphone from the webcam 2 - get the skype video to be bright and clear like it is on wxcam 3 - get wxcam to record both video and audio instead of only video 4 - if there is a better program for managing audio and video input devices, to know what that is and how to use it. It can be gui or command line, as long as I can figure out where to look up the information on how to use the program. I know that my pc is running pulseaudio, but I am not sure how to get the best information. The pulseaudio manager lists under the 'devices' tab the soundcard on the motherboard (alsa_input.pci-0000_00_05.0.analog-stereo), and the a4tech pc camera. Beyond that I don't know what else to put here. Thanks, George -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Libraoffice 3.4 - (64bit)
by ianseeks 01 Sep '11

01 Sep '11

Hi Anyone know when this version will make the Stable branch? regards Ian -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] FF 6+ - Howto have it open only 'tab pinned' pages on start?
by David C. Rankin 01 Sep '11

01 Sep '11

Guys, Wolfgang, With the new 'tab pins' in Firefox, how do you tell it to just open the pinned tabs at start? The pinned tabs reopen, but FF also opens my home pages or tabs from last time as well. Since I have pinned the pages I want to open on start -- that's all I want to open.. But, you only have the preferences options to "Start with Homepage", "Blank Page, or "Open my Tabs from Last Time". Is there some way I can just get it to open the pinned tabs and nothing else? All hacks and workarounds appreciated... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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