Re: [opensuse] Switching to more RAM

[peter]

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Chee How Chua schrieb:

| At which point during the installation do you choose 32-bit or 64-bit?
| It occurred to me that I've never got to install 64-bit openSUSE.

Usually you use the whole 64bit Opensuse. I'm not quite sure if it's
that smart to use the 64bit kernel with 32bit userland.

| While we are on this topic, so if you are currently on the default
| kernel, to move to the bigsmp kernel, you simply use Software
| Management to uninstall the default kernel and install the bigsmp
| kernel?

Well first I've installed bigsmp kernel, reconfigured the kernel source,
compiled modules for bigsmp and then after some testing removed the
default kernel.

| Would that mean that for modules that you compiled by hand will have
| to be re-compiled?

Affirmative.

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Re: [opensuse] Switching to more RAM

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Benji Weber schrieb:

| Your AM2 CPU will be a 64bit CPU presumably, so you won't need to
| change the kernel, unless you're using 32bit openSUSE.

Thx Benji!
I use 32bit indeed. I think I'll stick to it (bigsmp) for now.
The move to the new Asrock motherboard (alias Frankenstein) went smooth,
beside the one issue with udev and that stupid CM6501.

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Re: [opensuse] USB to ATA IDE Adapter, howto boot from it?

[John Andersen]

On Jan 25, 2008 8:15 AM, Philipp Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I haven't tried with USB, but with any other boot media I've encountered.

Nuff said.



Presumably the OP wanted to boot some other OS off of the USB disk.
You are going on about initrd like you ASSUME he is going to boot
linux off of a USB.

Say he has Windows on the USB device.  Then what?  You expect that
to boot with linux drivers?

GRUB is a boot loader, a mini operating system all to itself.  It does
not relay on Linux.  It can boot almost any OS, BUT ONLY if it can
read the media.

I see no reason to expect Windows or Solaris to run with Linux drivers
found in the initrd.


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Re: [opensuse] question

[Jonathan Wilson]

On Friday 25 January 2008 15:46:57 steve wrote:
> Jonathan Wilson wrote:
> | I use ATI cards all the time and they are excellent - I'm using a dual
>
> hed ATI
>
> | card right now and formerly had two dualhead cards on here for a
>
> 3-monitor
>
> | config. I have no trouble with them. In fact I buy ATI whenever I can,
>
> having
>
> | had less actual trouble with ATI than I have with nVidia.
>
> I gave up on ATI years ago, as I suspect a respectable percentage of
> this list. Its not my intention to turn this into a flame war or
> anything, but you ARE joking right?

I certainly DO NOT want to start anything, however I am not joking:

1. They work good for me (and I do all kinds of odd things with them - I hack 
my own xorg.conf quite often - and I usually have at least dual monitors, 
sometimes more)

2. I really have had more probs with nVidias than ATIs

Not trying to say any one else's experiences aren't valid, but that's how it's 
been for me. 

JW


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Re: [opensuse] Postfix - howto deliver mail for user to 2 machines?

[David C. Rankin]

David C. Rankin wrote:

David C. Rankin wrote:

Sandy Drobic wrote:

David C. Rankin wrote:

Marcin Floryan wrote:

On 22/01/2008, David C. Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Listmates, Sandy,

Where do I tell postfix to deliver mail for a user to 
localhost and

deliver a copy to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It has to be easy, -- I hope.


I tend to use procmail in such case and setup a rule to forward the
message to another address. This can easily be done by the user
themselves in the local .procmailrc file.

Alternatively the .forward file in the user account can be used.

Another (and possibly the simplest option) is to define an alias in
the /etc/aliases file adding a similar line

user: [EMAIL PROTECTED], \user

Regards,


Thanks Marcin,

The tough part was I wanted a 'copy' forwarded to another box, 
not just a plain forward. Procmail was the answer.




Not necessarily. I would do this in virtual_alias_maps.

/etc/postfix/virtual:
[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]




Hmm. Sandy,

I am trying to implement the /etc/postfix/virtual solution you 
suggested, but it doesn't seem to be working. Here is what I did.


(1) edit /etc/postfix/virtual, and added

me_at_rbpllc.com me_at_rbpllc.com, me_at_trinity.rbpllc.com

(2) postmap hash:/etc/postfix/virtual
(3) rcpostfix reload
(4) disabled the .procmailrc solution
(5) sent mail to me_at_rbpllc.com

Mail arrives at rbpllc.com and is delivered to rbpllc.com by NOT 
to trinity.rbpllc.com?  Can you offer any suggestions or point out 
where I screwed up? It just goes to show I can screw up the simple 
ones...




Sandy,

For some reason there are strange greeting errors between the boxes 
using the virtual solution:


Jan 25 21:29:43 bonza postfix/smtp[11264]: 5FF1026D838: 
to=, orig_to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 
relay=trinity.rbpllc.com[192.168.7.17]:25, delay=1236, 
delays=935/0.02/300/0, dsn=4.4.2, status=deferred (conversation with 
trinity.rbpllc.com[192.168.7.17] timed out while receiving the initial 
server greeting)


an 25 21:14:43 bonza postfix/error[11182]: 5FF1026D838: 
to=, orig_to= relay=none, 
delay=335, delays=335/0.02/0/0.03, dsn=4.4.2, status=deferred (delivery 
temporarily suspended: conversation with 
trinity.rbpllc.com[192.168.7.17] timed out while receiving the initial 
server greeting)


Huh?

I tried increasing smtp_connect_timeout = 60s, but that didn't help 
either. Any help?





I think I'm on the right track. I believe I've screwed up my 
virtual_alias_domain, I'm checking it out.


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Re: [opensuse] Difference between Yast->Group Mgmt. and groupadd

[David C. Rankin]

Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* David C. Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-25-08 15:59]:
	When adding a group with Yast, the group is added with an 'x' for the 
unset password:



ochiltree:x:1002:david



If the group is added with 'groupadd' an '!' is used for the password:



dcr:!:1051:david



Why? What is the difference?


a guess from scanning the man pages (which *are* available), groupadd
defaults to disabling the account.  I said "a guess".



And, from where did you glean your guess old wise one??

groupadd(8)


NAME
   groupadd - create a new group entry

SYNOPSIS
   groupadd [-D binddn] [-P path] [-g gid [-o]] [-p password]
   [-r] [--service service] [--help] [--usage] [-v] group

DESCRIPTION
   groupadd  creates  a new group entry using the values specified 
on the command line. Depending on the
   command line options the new entry will be added to the system 
files or LDAP database.


   The group name must begin with an alphabetic character and the 
rest of the string should be from  the

   POSIX portable character class ([A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_-.]*).

OPTIONS
   -g, --gid gid
  Force  the  new  group  ID to be the given number. This 
value must be positive and unique. The
  default is to use the first free ID after the greatest 
used one.  The  range  from  which  the

  group ID is choosen can be specified in /etc/login.defs.

   -o, --non-unique
  Allow duplicate (non-unique) group IDs.

   -p, --password password
  Encrypted  password as returned by crypt(3) for the new 
account. The default is to disable the

  account.

   -r, --system
  Create a system group. A system group is an entry with an 
GID between SYSTEM_GID_MIN and  SYS-
  TEM_GID_MAX as defined in /etc/login.defs, if no GID is 
specified.


   --service service
  Add the group to a special directory. The default is 
files, but ldap is also valid.


   -D, --binddn binddn
  Use  the  Distinguished  Name binddn to bind to the LDAP 
directory.  The user will be prompted

  for a password for simple authentication.

   -P, --path path
  The group file is located below the specified directory 
path.  groupadd will use  this  files,

  not /etc/group.

   --help Print a list of valid options with a short description.

   --usage
  Print a short list of valid options.

   -v, --version
  Print the version number and exit.

FILES
   /etc/group - group account information

SEE ALSO
   login.defs(5), group(5), groupdel(8), groupmod(8)

AUTHOR
   Thorsten Kukuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>



pwdutilsDecember 2003 
 groupadd(8)



GROUP(5)



NAME
   group - user group file

DESCRIPTION
   /etc/group  is  an ASCII file which defines the groups to which 
users belong.  There is one entry per

   line, and each line has the format:

  group_name:passwd:GID:user_list

   The field descriptions are:

   group_name
  the name of the group.

   password
  the (encrypted) group password.  If this field is empty, 
no password is needed.


   GIDthe numerical group ID.

   user_list
  all the group member's user names, separated by commas.

FILES
   /etc/group

BUGS
   As the 4.2BSD initgroups(3) man page says: No-one seems to keep 
/etc/group up-to-date.


SEE ALSO
   login(1), newgrp(1), passwd(5)



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Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux?

[Randall R Schulz]

On Friday 25 January 2008 19:43, Kai Ponte wrote:
> ...
>
> Oh, and FWIW, Amazon runs everything - Windows, Linux, UNIX, MacOS.
> They have no "platform of choice" and run "whatever works" for the
> API. I remember reading that one amazon.com webpage may be loaded
> from 50 different servers running ten different OS's and variants.

It's true there's a mix, but the workhorses of their on-line presence 
are all Linux. Their data warehouse is based on Oracle, but I'm not 
sure which OS platform runs it. Many desktops within the organization 
are Windows, of course, but the software developers mostly use Linux. 
They do use virtualization, but it's Xen and both the host and guests 
are Linux.

But the preponderance of their operational IT infrastructure is vastly 
dominated by Linux.


And yes, I worked for them as a software engineer for a year and a half 
(in 2005 and 2006), so I have first-hand experience.


> ...
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Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux?

[Joe Sloan]

Chuck wrote:

> 
> lawl. Dude Sun and Sarc are going no where any time soon... just the
> opposite... Sparc IV+ & Solaris 10 dance circles around Linux on any
> hardware.. You need to spend some time in a true top-tier enterprise
> class data center. Linux still has scores or limitations holding it
> back in the enterprise realm. There is a reason the stuff is expensive
> -- its damn good.

I work for a fortune 100 company, and we run AIX, HPUX, Solaris, and
SuSE Enterprise Linux in our data centers. I have to smile at the idea
that solaris is somehow more robust than linux. Solaris is great, but so
is linux.

More and more, we're moving apps off of the old school legacy unix
platforms onto HP/Compaq servers running linux. And the results have
been very very good.

We have dozens of busy linux servers with over 500 days uptime - and the
uptime champ, by far for our whole enterprise? Take a guess:


[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> uptime
  5:32pm  up 1016 days  1:24,  1 user,  load average: 2.47, 2.56, 2.36

An very busy old compaq 2450 running DB2, apache and websphere on SLES 9

Dude, there is *nothing* holding linux back here, other than fear and
ignorance - and now that the SCO lawsuit has all but died, that fear is
giving way to a new boldness - and I'm doing everything I can to fix the
ignorance.

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Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux?

[Kai Ponte]

On Friday 25 January 2008 03:42:16 pm Randall R Schulz wrote:
> On Friday 25 January 2008 14:54, Chuck wrote:
> > ...
> >
> > > I'm old school too.  But Suns and SPARCs are yesterday dude :)
> > > Linux and x86-64 are NOW!
> >
> > lawl. Dude Sun and Sarc are going no where any time soon... just the
> > opposite... Sparc IV+ & Solaris 10 dance circles around Linux on any
> > hardware.. You need to spend some time in a true top-tier enterprise
> > class data center. Linux still has scores or limitations holding it
> > back in the enterprise realm. There is a reason the stuff is
> > expensive -- its damn good.
>
> How do you explain the Googles and Amazons of this world, whose stock OS
> platform for customer-fronted services is Linux?
>
> I'm not saying Solaris is on its way out, but one can most certainly run
> very-large-scale enterprise operations on Linux. I tend to doubt
> it's "held back."

I had an interesting discussion regarding my data center yeterday. While 
advocating Linux for the data center the topic was brought up that we should 
use a "true server" such as FreeBSD UNIX or another UNIX variant.

I then reminded my peers that Linux runs several thousands of "true servers" 
and we should be the ones to talk, since we run Windows Workstations in our 
data center, with the exception of one ancient HP 3000. 

Oh, and FWIW, Amazon runs everything - Windows, Linux, UNIX, MacOS. They have 
no "platform of choice" and run "whatever works" for the API. I remember 
reading that one amazon.com webpage may be loaded from 50 different servers 
running ten different OS's and variants.

I know this is off-topic, and we should probably be discussing beer or at 
least wet t-shirts, but

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Re: [opensuse] Postfix - howto deliver mail for user to 2 machines?

[David C. Rankin]

David C. Rankin wrote:

Sandy Drobic wrote:

David C. Rankin wrote:

Marcin Floryan wrote:

On 22/01/2008, David C. Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Listmates, Sandy,

Where do I tell postfix to deliver mail for a user to 
localhost and

deliver a copy to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It has to be easy, -- I hope.


I tend to use procmail in such case and setup a rule to forward the
message to another address. This can easily be done by the user
themselves in the local .procmailrc file.

Alternatively the .forward file in the user account can be used.

Another (and possibly the simplest option) is to define an alias in
the /etc/aliases file adding a similar line

user: [EMAIL PROTECTED], \user

Regards,


Thanks Marcin,

The tough part was I wanted a 'copy' forwarded to another box, 
not just a plain forward. Procmail was the answer.




Not necessarily. I would do this in virtual_alias_maps.

/etc/postfix/virtual:
[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]




Hmm. Sandy,

I am trying to implement the /etc/postfix/virtual solution you 
suggested, but it doesn't seem to be working. Here is what I did.


(1) edit /etc/postfix/virtual, and added

me_at_rbpllc.com me_at_rbpllc.com, me_at_trinity.rbpllc.com

(2) postmap hash:/etc/postfix/virtual
(3) rcpostfix reload
(4) disabled the .procmailrc solution
(5) sent mail to me_at_rbpllc.com

Mail arrives at rbpllc.com and is delivered to rbpllc.com by NOT to 
trinity.rbpllc.com?  Can you offer any suggestions or point out where I 
screwed up? It just goes to show I can screw up the simple ones...




Sandy,

	For some reason there are strange greeting errors between the boxes 
using the virtual solution:


Jan 25 21:29:43 bonza postfix/smtp[11264]: 5FF1026D838: 
to=, orig_to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 
relay=trinity.rbpllc.com[192.168.7.17]:25, delay=1236, 
delays=935/0.02/300/0, dsn=4.4.2, status=deferred (conversation with 
trinity.rbpllc.com[192.168.7.17] timed out while receiving the initial 
server greeting)


an 25 21:14:43 bonza postfix/error[11182]: 5FF1026D838: 
to=, orig_to= relay=none, 
delay=335, delays=335/0.02/0/0.03, dsn=4.4.2, status=deferred (delivery 
temporarily suspended: conversation with 
trinity.rbpllc.com[192.168.7.17] timed out while receiving the initial 
server greeting)


Huh?

	I tried increasing smtp_connect_timeout = 60s, but that didn't help 
either. Any help?



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Re: [opensuse] Switching to more RAM

[Chee How Chua]

On Jan 25, 2008 11:33 AM, Benji Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Your AM2 CPU will be a 64bit CPU presumably, so you won't need to
> change the kernel, unless you're using 32bit openSUSE.
>
> --
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Hi,

At which point during the installation do you choose 32-bit or 64-bit?
It occurred to me that I've never got to install 64-bit openSUSE.

While we are on this topic, so if you are currently on the default
kernel, to move to the bigsmp kernel, you simply use Software
Management to uninstall the default kernel and install the bigsmp
kernel?

Would that mean that for modules that you compiled by hand will have
to be re-compiled?

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Re: [opensuse] Strange SATA problems with openSUSE

[Tom Patton]

On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 15:43 +0100, Clayton wrote:
> I've posted a couple times about this with no replies yet
> as anyone encountered this before?  Could it be a hardware issue.. a
> failing SATA controller on the motherboard, or is it some obscure
> Linux thing?
> 
> 
> C.
I can't add any meaningful info, but a month or so ago there were
several posts of issues with sata, including my case (an Asus A7V600
MB /w 2 sata drives).  The initial sluggish performance and the
resultant crash ate all the log messages and one drive.  I have not had
time to investigate or re-create the issue.  I am rather certain that it
happened after an online update, about 2 months after going from 10.2 to
10.3.  I do believe there is a grimlin lurking here, and not a hardware
issue. (My present config of 1 sata and 1 EIDE is fine).

Tom in NM


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Re: [opensuse] Postfix - howto deliver mail for user to 2 machines?

[David C. Rankin]

Sandy Drobic wrote:

David C. Rankin wrote:

Marcin Floryan wrote:

On 22/01/2008, David C. Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Listmates, Sandy,

Where do I tell postfix to deliver mail for a user to 
localhost and

deliver a copy to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It has to be easy, -- I hope.


I tend to use procmail in such case and setup a rule to forward the
message to another address. This can easily be done by the user
themselves in the local .procmailrc file.

Alternatively the .forward file in the user account can be used.

Another (and possibly the simplest option) is to define an alias in
the /etc/aliases file adding a similar line

user: [EMAIL PROTECTED], \user

Regards,


Thanks Marcin,

The tough part was I wanted a 'copy' forwarded to another box, not 
just a plain forward. Procmail was the answer.




Not necessarily. I would do this in virtual_alias_maps.

/etc/postfix/virtual:
[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]




Hmm. Sandy,

	I am trying to implement the /etc/postfix/virtual solution you 
suggested, but it doesn't seem to be working. Here is what I did.


(1) edit /etc/postfix/virtual, and added

me_at_rbpllc.com me_at_rbpllc.com, me_at_trinity.rbpllc.com

(2) postmap hash:/etc/postfix/virtual
(3) rcpostfix reload
(4) disabled the .procmailrc solution
(5) sent mail to me_at_rbpllc.com

	Mail arrives at rbpllc.com and is delivered to rbpllc.com by NOT to 
trinity.rbpllc.com?  Can you offer any suggestions or point out where I 
screwed up? It just goes to show I can screw up the simple ones...


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[opensuse] Firefox 32b

[Teruel de Campo MD]

ref: opensuse 10.3 64b
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071128
SUSE/2.0.0.11-3.1 Firefox/2.0.0.11

I would like to try firefox 32b in opensuse 64b.

1. I can download it from mozilla.org and run it.

2. I can also install it from one of the rpm from the repository

Q: do I have to remove firfox 64 in either of both options?
Of course I will delete the present ~/.mozilla folder (well just rename
it)

Q should I use #1 or #2

The decision I had to make is why do I need to run firefox 64b when some
of the plugins do not work mainly java (I tried blackdown without
success). Also shockwave that is only available in 32 and  I can run
with crossover. I know I can run java in Konqueror so is not a big deal.
Any thoughts.

TIA

-=terry=-

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Re: [opensuse] Duel Screening

[Jesse Shaver]

> What is the video card brand? Do they have native linux drivers? Did
> you install them? Did you try to config it using the native programs?

The card is an "Intel 965G" It has linux drivers that are installed and 
working. I tried configuring it with sax2, that did not work.

I have been playing with the xorg.conf file and have made some progress with 
xrandr which gives me the status as:
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 1280 x 1280
VGA connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right) 376mm x 301mm
   1024x768   75.1 +   70.1 60.0
   1280x1024  60.0 +   75.0 59.9
   1152x864   75.0 74.8
   832x62474.6
   800x60072.2 75.0 60.3 56.2
   640x48075.0 72.8 66.7 60.0
   720x40070.1
   1024x768_6060.0*
LVDS connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right) 246mm x 185mm
   1024x768   50.0*+   60.0 40.0
   800x60060.3
   640x48060.0 59.9

(notice that on the first line: "maximum [resalution =] 1280 x 1280"


But this does not match my config file. From xorg.conf:

Section "Screen"
  Identifier   "LScreen"
  Device   "Intel 965G"
  Monitor  "monitor-LVDS"
  SubSection "Display"
Depth  16
Modes  "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
Virtual2304 2304
  EndSubSection
EndSection
..
This is the only screen section, and notice the "Virtual2304 2304"... 
When I run: 
$xrandr --output VGA --right-of LVDS  
(which apears to be the command I want)
I get:
xrandr: screen cannot be larger than 1280x1280 (desired size 2048x768)

I have restarted the computer with the hope that this will take effect, but it 
did not. How do I get my virtual screen size to change? (note that sax2 is 
probably not a good option as I just ripped out a lot of its extra stuff)

Thanks,

-Jesse


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Re: [opensuse] amavisd warning failure?

[Joe Morris (NTM)]

On 01/26/2008 04:08 AM, Sandy Drobic wrote:
Now you get off you lazy butt and see for yourself how clam-av and 
amavisd-new are configured. (^-^)


egrep -v "^#" /etc/clamd.conf | egrep -v "^$"
LogTime yes
LogSyslog yes
LogFacility LOG_MAIL
PidFile /var/lib/clamav/clamd.pid
# Same localSocket as in /etc/amavisd.conf!
LocalSocket /var/run/clamav/clamd
FixStaleSocket yes
TCPSocket 3310
TCPAddr 127.0.0.1
User vscan
Foreground no
ScanOLE2 yes
ScanPDF yes
ScanMail yes
PhishingSignatures yes
PhishingScanURLs yes

Some important parts of /etc/amavisd.conf:
$daemon_user = 'vscan';   # yes, same user as clamd!
$daemon_group = 'vscan';
@av_scanners = (
 ['Clam Antivirus-clamd',
   \&ask_daemon, ["CONTSCAN {}\n", "/var/run/clamav/clamd"],
   qr/\bOK$/, qr/\bFOUND$/,
   qr/^.*?: (?!Infected Archive)(.*) FOUND$/ ],
  ['H+BEDV AntiVir or CentralCommand Vexira Antivirus',
['antivir'],
 '--allfiles -noboot -nombr -rs -s -z {}', [0], qr/ALERT:|VIRUS:/,
 qr/(?x)^\s* (?: ALERT: \s* (?: \[ | [^']* ' ) |
 (?i) VIRUS:\ .*?\ virus\ '?) ( [^\]\s']+ )/ ],
);
@av_scanners_backup = (
  ['Clam Antivirus - clamscan', 'clamscan',
'--stdout --no-summary -r {}', [0], [1],
qr/^.*?: (?!Infected Archive)(.*) FOUND$/ ],
  ['FRISK F-Prot Antivirus', ['f-prot','f-prot.sh'],
'-dumb -archive -packed {}', [0,8], [3,6],
qr/Infection: (.+)/ ],
  ['Trend Micro FileScanner', ['/etc/iscan/vscan','vscan'],
'-za -a {}', [0], qr/Found virus/, qr/Found virus (.+) in/ ],
  ['KasperskyLab kavscanner', ['/opt/kav/bin/kavscanner','kavscanner'],
'-i1 -xp {}', [0,10,15], [5,20,21,25],
qr/(?:CURED|INFECTED|CUREFAILED|WARNING|SUSPICION) (.*)/ ,
sub {chdir('/opt/kav/bin') or die "Can't chdir to kav: $!"},
sub {chdir($TEMPBASE) or die "Can't chdir back to $TEMPBASE $!"},
  ],
);

Check that clamd actually is running:
rcclamd status
and is set to start at boot:
chkconfig clamd on

and finally, that you call fresh-clam from cron.


Interesting.  I never noticed before that the default amavisd setup is 
to NOT use clamd as a primary antivirus scanner (but antivir is).  Mine 
sees antivir as primary and clamscan as secondary.  So the problem for 
the OP is he only has clamav installed and no primary (by default).  I 
assume he could correct the socket path and uncomment the section for 
clamd to allow it to work as a primary scanner.  Best I assume would be 
to install a primary scanner from the offering in amavisd.conf, and 
leave clamscan as a secondary.


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Re: [opensuse] How can I give the password to an ssh session on the command line?

[Carlos E. R.]

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The Friday 2008-01-25 at 15:54 -0800, Jim Cunning wrote:


Interesting. It might be possible to modify the firmware image before
re-flashing the device, if it is a bootable disk image. For example, the
IPcop router software is available as a bootable image that can be
transferred to a flash card and booted on a diskless system.

What does "file " show?


Well, this router (a comtrend CT536+) gets its image depending on the ISP 
supplying it, and my ISP hasn't published any image, as far as I know. The 
other ISP has, but it is slightly different so I won't flash it with that 
image. And I can not extract the current contents, there is no command for 
it.


I can run 'file' on the other isp flash image, but it says it is just 
data:


[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Documentation/PC/router_comtrend/Jazztel> file 
CT-536B-A101-302JAZ-C01_R05.bin
CT-536B-A101-302JAZ-C01_R05.bin: data

I do have the sources, but also for the other provider, and no "making" 
documentation, so I will not try - you know the saying, if it works, don't 
touch it ;-)


It has a kernel 2.4.17 and uses BusyBox v0.60.4, as the log shows:



Apr  9 22:19:26 router BCM96345  started: BusyBox v0.60.4 
(2005.10.07-11:27+)
Apr  9 22:19:26 router klogd: klogd started: BusyBox v0.60.4 
(2005.10.07-11:27+)
Apr  9 22:19:26 router klogd: Total Flash size: 4096K with 71 sectors
Apr  9 22:19:26 router klogd: Scratch pad is not used for this flash part.
Apr  9 22:19:26 router klogd: 96348GW-11 prom init
Apr  9 22:19:26 router klogd: CPU revision is: 00029107
Apr  9 22:19:26 router klogd: Primary instruction cache 16kb, linesize 16 bytes 
(2 ways)
Apr  9 22:19:26 router klogd: Primary data cache 8kb, linesize 16 bytes (2 ways)
Apr  9 22:19:26 router klogd: Linux version 2.4.17 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc 
version 3.1) #1 五 10月 7 19:23:37 CST 2005
Apr  9 22:19:26 router klogd: Determined physical RAM map:
Apr  9 22:19:26 router klogd:  memory: 00fa @  (usable)
Apr  9 22:19:26 router klogd: On node 0 totalpages: 4000
Apr  9 22:19:26 router klogd: zone(0): 4000 pages.
Apr  9 22:19:26 router klogd: zone(1): 0 pages.
Apr  9 22:19:26 router klogd: zone(2): 0 pages.
Apr  9 22:19:26 router klogd: Kernel command line: root=/dev/mtdblock0 ro
Apr  9 22:19:26 router klogd: bcm_console_setup
Apr  9 22:19:26 router klogd: Calibrating delay loop... 255.59 BogoMIPS
Apr  9 22:19:26 router klogd: Memory: 14228k/16000k available (1161k kernel 
code, 1772k reserved, 80k data, 48k init, 0k highmem)




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Re: [opensuse] How can I give the password to an ssh session on the command line?

[Jim Cunning]

On Friday 25 January 2008 15:08:57 Carlos E. R. wrote:
> The Friday 2008-01-25 at 14:03 -0800, Jim Cunning wrote:
[...]
> > However, it may not be possible to copy his public key to the "'remote'
> > router with embedded" (linux?). Carlos didn't say what limited commands
> > were available, or whether it was even possible to copy files onto the
> > router.
>
> And that is true as well. There is no way I can send any file there; I
> can't even do an 'ls'. I can re-flash it with a new firmware, that's all,
> aside from the allowed configuration parameters. I know it is a linux
> thing by looking at the log and because nmap says so. But none of the
> commands are "shell" commands, it has its own restricted shell.
>
> I can't even change the default or admin user name! It is 1234. Worse, the
> default password is also 1234, and every body knows it, once they know the
> model name. But I have dissabled all type of remote administration except
> from the inside network.
Interesting. It might be possible to modify the firmware image before 
re-flashing the device, if it is a bootable disk image. For example, the 
IPcop router software is available as a bootable image that can be 
transferred to a flash card and booted on a diskless system.

What does "file " show?

Jim
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Re: [opensuse] repos back?

[Sergey Mkrtchyan]

On January 23, 2008 04:57:42 pm CF wrote:
>
> Yes, skynet.be is a mirror, indeed a very good one... you do not need to
>  add the same repository twice at all.
>
> Pay close attention to the errors regarding dependencies. Sometimes it
> is just the request for installing a newer version of a package from
> another repository.
>

I've checked it gives a lot of dependency problems and there I have the option 
of "Install amarok, although it will change the vendor", but anyways when I 
tick it and click Ok - Try Again it brings that again...

But you mean repositories are up and running normally?

Sergey
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Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux?

[Randall R Schulz]

On Friday 25 January 2008 14:54, Chuck wrote:
> ...
> >
> > I'm old school too.  But Suns and SPARCs are yesterday dude :) 
> > Linux and x86-64 are NOW!
>
> lawl. Dude Sun and Sarc are going no where any time soon... just the
> opposite... Sparc IV+ & Solaris 10 dance circles around Linux on any
> hardware.. You need to spend some time in a true top-tier enterprise
> class data center. Linux still has scores or limitations holding it
> back in the enterprise realm. There is a reason the stuff is
> expensive -- its damn good.

How do you explain the Googles and Amazons of this world, whose stock OS 
platform for customer-fronted services is Linux?

I'm not saying Solaris is on its way out, but one can most certainly run 
very-large-scale enterprise operations on Linux. I tend to doubt 
it's "held back."


> ...
> --
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> Galileo Educational Solutions


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Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux?

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 04:54:05PM -0600, Chuck wrote:
> lawl. Dude Sun and Sarc are going no where any time soon... just the
> opposite... Sparc IV+ & Solaris 10 dance circles around Linux on any
> hardware..

They do?  On what hardware?  That doesn't match up with any benchmark
I've ever seen run in the past few years.

> You need to spend some time in a true top-tier enterprise
> class data center. Linux still has scores or limitations holding it
> back in the enterprise realm. There is a reason the stuff is expensive
> -- its damn good.

What are the limitations that you think Linux is having relating to
Solaris that is holding it back?  There are a few nicer clustering
options for Solaris that people are working on addressing, but Linux has
tons of things that Solaris just can't even do which are causing
customers to drop Sun very quickly.

Curious,

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Re: [opensuse] How can I give the password to an ssh session on the command line?

[Carlos E. R.]

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The Friday 2008-01-25 at 14:03 -0800, Jim Cunning wrote:


On Friday 25 January 2008 13:25:25 Ken Schneider wrote:

Hans Witvliet pecked at the keyboard and wrote:

On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 14:12 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:

[...]

I want to enter an ssh session without having to type the password (to
be used by a script). The "remote" is a router with embedded, and it is
not possible to create public key pairs because it is not a shell, but
one with a limited command set.


As other posters mentioned 'expect' i won't.
But as you specifically mention "ssh" i would rather advise you to
generate a ssh-key-pair and copy the public-one over to the other
machine into the authorizedkeys file.


I would if it were possible.


No asking for pwd's anymore


What part of "it is not possible" is not understood here?


Don't be so quick to be critical. I took Carlos statement to mean it was not
possible on the REMOTE system, but it is certainly possible on his local one,
which is all that is required so far as generating keys goes.


Yes, that's true...


However, it may not be possible to copy his public key to the "'remote' router
with embedded" (linux?). Carlos didn't say what limited commands were
available, or whether it was even possible to copy files onto the router.


And that is true as well. There is no way I can send any file there; I 
can't even do an 'ls'. I can re-flash it with a new firmware, that's all, 
aside from the allowed configuration parameters. I know it is a linux 
thing by looking at the log and because nmap says so. But none of the 
commands are "shell" commands, it has its own restricted shell.


I can't even change the default or admin user name! It is 1234. Worse, the 
default password is also 1234, and every body knows it, once they know the 
model name. But I have dissabled all type of remote administration except 
from the inside network.


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Re: [opensuse] postfix relay host problem.

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The Friday 2008-01-25 at 23:38 +0100, Sandy Drobic wrote:


Carlos E. R. wrote:


 Now, what I want to get working is this:

 sender_dependent_relayhost_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sender_relay


Er.. hello?!? I just gave you a complete, tested and working example in my 
previous post. Granted, my file wasn't named sender_relay (this is an 
ARBITRARY name you can decide yourself!). My example used the file name 
"sender_relayhost".


Sorry O:-)

That was in another mail I saw later.



Once again:

/etc/postfix/main.cf:
sender_dependent_relayhost_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sender_relayhost
smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/smtp_relayhost_auth
smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
smtp_sender_dependent_authentication = yes


yep, yep.



/etc/postfix/sender_relayhost
[EMAIL PROTECTED][mail.gmx.de]
[EMAIL PROTECTED][mail.gmx.de]

/etc/postfix/smtp_relayhost_auth:
[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]:password1
[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]:password2


Aye, aye, sir!  :-)

I got it working a minute ago.



 But there is no sample sender_relay file, so I'm stuck. I'm googling it,
 and so far what I have found are questions but no answers. I only found
 this:


See above (^-^)

Documented is the parameter "sender_dependent_relayhost_maps".


Yep, the parameter is documented, what is not is a sample file, as they 
have for transport, virtual, etc.




Grin! You need sleep. (^-°)


Sure!

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Re: [opensuse] postfix relay host problem.

[Carlos E. R.]

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The Friday 2008-01-25 at 22:44 +0100, Sandy Drobic wrote:


 That part I solved in the transport file with this syntax:

 lists.sourceforge.net   :
 users.sourceforge.net   :

 localhost   :
 valinor :
 nimrodel.valinor:
 .localhost  :
 .valinor:
 .nimrodel.valinor   :

 #Default:
 *smtp:[smtp.telefonica.net]


I liked your previous configuration with relayhost better. This is exactly 
the same, only the configuration needs much more lines. (^-^)


Except that exceptions did not work, or I did it wrong. I didn't find a 
way to handle the "users.sourceforge.net" line.




>  I think you need to look up the sender_dependent_relayhost_maps
>  parameter in postfix.


Simple: domain or user as key and relayhost as result. That's why it is 
called

 "...relayhost_maps" (^-°)


I guess! But sometimes I very thick headed O:-)


A sender-dependent override for the global relayhost parameter setting. The 
tables are searched by the envelope sender address and @domain. My example 
uses the extreme (two senders that use the same relayhost but different 
authentication.


Yes, I also need that.



 But there is no sample "sender_relay" file to guide me :-/

 I have just googled that parameter and found many people asking for a
 solution for the very same problem I have: sending to diferent smtp relay
 hosts depending on the "from" address, and using the correct auth id each
 time for each server, based as well on the from address.


Strange... Anyway, here's a sample I used to verify that it works:

/etc/postfix/main.cf:
sender_dependent_relayhost_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sender_relayhost
smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/smtp_relayhost_auth
smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
smtp_sender_dependent_authentication = yes


Ok, except for the "sender_dependent_relayhost_maps" I had the same thing. 
And "smtp_sasl_security_options" was empty.




/etc/postfix/sender_relayhost
[EMAIL PROTECTED]   [mail.gmx.de]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]   [mail.gmx.de]


I'll try right now.


/etc/postfix/smtp_relayhost_auth:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]   [EMAIL PROTECTED]:password1
[EMAIL PROTECTED]   [EMAIL PROTECTED]:password2



[...]


It works! Thanks :-)


I think we talked about this time ago, but I most have lost my notes, or 
didn't save them properly. Sounds familiar.



I configured my postfix with no default relay, so if I don't specify one 
my postfix will try to send itself. If the sender matches, then it will 
use the addecuate relay. And, if I understand correctly, if I define a 
particular transport rule, it will override the sender_relay rule.


Next thing is to check what will happen with bounces. Or wait.


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Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux?

[Chuck]

On Jan 25, 2008 1:44 PM, Lincoln Rutledge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
>
> Lincoln Rutledge
> Network Engineer
> OSC Networking
> 800-627-6420
>
> >>> Simon Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01/25/08 10:33 AM >>>
> OK, I've been wanting to answer this question for ages, but there's just so 
> much to say. In the end, I've given up trying to say everything completely 
> cohesively, and I'm just going to allow myself to ramble and hope it helps 
> some. First, a little background. I have a pretty good computer background. I 
> wrote 6502, Z80, 8088, 68000 and other machine languages starting  25 years 
> ago. I was a programmer for 15 years, writing network protocol software 
> before the TCP stack was generally available, Unix device drivers, and a 
> bunch of distributed control systems. Eventually I moved to corporate 
> teaching, which I still do. I was using Linux to
>
> Sounds like you've worked on some cool stuff :)  I wrote some Z80 assembler 
> myself.  I miss it.
>
>  teach TCP and Unix system administration in 1994, and other than Linux, I'm 
> mostly a Solaris body. I have 3 Linux systems at home, two of which dual-boot 
> with windows so I can run Photoshop in a color managed environment. I use 
> VMWare for some other windows stuff that's less crucial to me. I also have a 
> dual processor
>  SPARC/Solaris 10 system. I loath and detest bill gates and everything he 
> stands for. I regularly point out to
>
> I'm old school too.  But Suns and SPARCs are yesterday dude :)  Linux and 
> x86-64 are NOW!
>

lawl. Dude Sun and Sarc are going no where any time soon... just the
opposite... Sparc IV+ & Solaris 10 dance circles around Linux on any
hardware.. You need to spend some time in a true top-tier enterprise
class data center. Linux still has scores or limitations holding it
back in the enterprise realm. There is a reason the stuff is expensive
-- its damn good.


>  my students that his company is a marketing company (very effective one, 
> sadly) not a technology company. I believe they've never invented anything 
> good, and have damaged many, if not most, of the ideas they've 
> "appropriated". Until about 6 months ago, I was on a one man crusade to try 
> to get my friends all using Linux. Around about then (after one success,yay! 
> :) I finally gave up :( I can't begin to tell you the heartache, sadness, and 
> sense of failure I felt when I reached that decision. Anway, what follows are 
> some of the key/memorable personal experiences that wore me down and made me 
> give up. Please remember that I love Linux, I love the people who put their 
> effort into creating and maintaining it, and I think it has improved
>  tremendously in recent years. I blame nobody for the "weaknesses" outlined 
> below, other than what I see as bill
>  gates' unreasonable and amoral (but sadly, probably entirely legal) 
> practices.
>
> It's hard to support computers for friends and family.  I had to define a 
> boundary in my life:  no PC support off the clock.  It miffed some people but 
> I needed to do it.  And I like life better :)  Now, if they were running 
> Linux, I would spend lots of time fixing things :)
>
> 1) Hardware issues.
>   If you just walk into a store and ask for a machine that will be good to go 
> with Linux, they'll look at you blankly. It's a major effort to check the 
> details yourself. Most off the shelf machines don't tell you exactly what 
> cards they contain, and then it's often hard to find the devices in the HCLs.
>   New hardware--inevitably--is most likely to be unsupported or buggy.
>   Finding the HCLs used to be hard. I just checked, and this seems to have 
> been fixed (thanks someone! :)
>   HCL is online, and I don't usually have access to the internet when I'm in 
> a store browsing!
>   Whichever way you slice it, having to care about the exact hardware is a 
> pain. I don't see any way (other than having the leverage of micky$loth) to 
> get round this, and I certainly laud the efforts that have been made to 
> improve life
>
> This is true.
>
> 2) Photography related. I use Windows to run Photoshop CS2 in a color managed 
> workflow. In this, Linux doesn't cut it for two reasons:
>
>   Color management. I tried to work out how to do the LCMS stuff, and a bunch 
> of related color management options I though I was looking at, and just gave 
> up, too much like hard work. Also, I seem to have the wrong colorimeter 
> hardware already and am not willing to pay all over again for something else.
>
>   GIMP is only 8 bit. That's fire in theory, but when you mess with stuff 
> much, you quickly run into posterization (I see this even in some 
> professional's work and while those in question don't seem to care, I 
> personally hate it).
>
> I don't know.
>
> 3) Irritations with web plugins. Idiots out there keep writing stuff that's 
> windows only, and there always seems to be trouble trying to get the latest 
> Flash player. When it's available, it's tricky to in

Re: [opensuse] postfix master.cf question

[Sandy Drobic]

Carlos Lorenzo Matés wrote:


Okay, I finally realized just what you wanted to do. This is a script I
adjusted for your purpose.

You need to add error handling to your faxmail routine to achieve a robust
transport.


#-
#!/bin/sh
# I set this up in /var/lib/filter
INSPECT_DIR=/var/lib/filter

# Exit codes from 
EX_TEMPFAIL=75
EX_UNAVAILABLE=69

# Clean up when done or when aborting.
trap "rm -f in.$$" 0 1 2 3 15

# Start processing.
cd $INSPECT_DIR || {
 echo $INSPECT_DIR does not exist; exit $EX_TEMPFAIL; }

cat >in.$$ || {
 echo Cannot save mail to file; exit $EX_TEMPFAIL; }

# Specify your content filter here.
# filter 



Thank you very much, Sandy, I will try with your script on monday, as i need 
this in my job.


just to enhance my knowledge, could you explain a bit this sentences please?


 cat >in.$$ || {
  echo Cannot save mail to file; exit $EX_TEMPFAIL; }

I assume this gets the piped mail into "in.PID"


The mail gets piped into the file or if this is not possible the script 
reports the problem and sets exit code to tempfail and exits.


I need no content filter, as faxmail parses teh mail contents and convers teh 
multiparts to postscripts


That script is taken from the example of the simple filter script of the 
postfix documentation. The part with the content filter is commented out to 
show where the content filter should be called.


In your case I would probably check the error code of faxmail and report back 
to the sender if the fax was sent or not.




faxmail -o $owner -d -n $destination then the way to pass the piped mail is with the < in.$$ saved previously, 
rigth?


Yes.


how should i call this script form master.cf like i was calling mine?


Exactly as you have shown. Otherwise the script parameters probably would not 
be $1 and $2.

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Re: [opensuse] postfix relay host problem.

[Sandy Drobic]

Carlos E. R. wrote:


Now, what I want to get working is this:

sender_dependent_relayhost_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sender_relay


Er.. hello?!? I just gave you a complete, tested and working example in my 
previous post. Granted, my file wasn't named sender_relay (this is an 
ARBITRARY name you can decide yourself!). My example used the file name 
"sender_relayhost".


Once again:

/etc/postfix/main.cf:
sender_dependent_relayhost_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sender_relayhost
smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/smtp_relayhost_auth
smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
smtp_sender_dependent_authentication = yes

/etc/postfix/sender_relayhost
[EMAIL PROTECTED][mail.gmx.de]
[EMAIL PROTECTED][mail.gmx.de]

/etc/postfix/smtp_relayhost_auth:
[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]:password1
[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]:password2



But there is no sample sender_relay file, so I'm stuck. I'm googling it, 
and so far what I have found are questions but no answers. I only found 
this:


See above (^-^)

Documented is the parameter "sender_dependent_relayhost_maps".

Grin! You need sleep. (^-°)
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Re: [opensuse] question

[Barry Premeaux]

Victor,

I recently had a problem with Google Earth.  It had been working fine
until a recent update.  Then, opening the application caused
everything to crash and put me back to the log in prompt.  A bit of
searching on google came up with this.

Check /usr/lib/googleearth to see if you have the file libGL.so.1.  If
not, then go to http://www.ground-impact.com/libGL.so.1.2.  Down load
the file and rename it libGL.so.1 and copy it over to
/usr/lib/googleearth.

That took care of the problem for me.

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Re: [opensuse] postfix relay host problem.

[Carlos E. R.]

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The Friday 2008-01-25 at 21:17 +0100, Sandy Drobic wrote:

...

Either they (telefonica) require that you use their domain as sender domain 
or they fubared their dns servers and used something like 
reject_unknown_sender_domain with broken dns. Only the postmaster of 
smtp.telefonica.net can tell you.


It seems the former. I was told that they had dropped this policy, and for 
some time I was able to relay some mail, but either it didn't last, or it 
is random. As to asking the postmaster, that's impossible: you have to 
phone customer service which is attended by very nice voices that know 
nothing aside from the very usual.






 So I want to attempt sending again from my local postfix (yes, on dynamic
 IP). I remove the "relayhost = [smtp.telefonica.net]" line, and edit the
 transport file:

 localhost   smtp:
 valinor smtp:
 nimrodel.valinorsmtp:


Don't you want to send mails for these recipients to your own host? In that 
case you should tell your box to use "local:" as transport.


Though I wonder why that should be necessary. Postfix uses the default 
transport for the domain class if the domain is member of mydestination, 
relay_domains or virtual_mailbox_domains:


mydestination   local_transport
relay_domains   relay_transport
virtual_mailbox_domains virtual_transport



I got that part running this way:

lists.sourceforge.net   :
users.sourceforge.net   :

localhost   :
valinor :
nimrodel.valinor:
.localhost  :
.valinor:
.nimrodel.valinor   :

#Default:
*smtp:[smtp.telefonica.net]



Now, what I want to get working is this:

sender_dependent_relayhost_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sender_relay


But there is no sample sender_relay file, so I'm stuck. I'm googling it, 
and so far what I have found are questions but no answers. I only found 
this:


sender_relay:
@example.com[thisrelay.example.com]
@example.net[thatrelay.example.com]

Some people have complained that with this setup they have another 
problem: when an email is rejected, the bounced mail is attempted to be 
sent through the relay host (empty envelope from) and it is dutifully 
rejected by the relay, obviously. The bounced should use the local 
transport instead. So far I haven't deduced how to avoid that (and I have 
suffered that problem in my tests, too).


For instance, I found a thread in 
 
where finally they say:


] If I can do it, anybody can. Go back about two weeks in the archives. 
] Victor gave me some pretty good advice on how it was done.


and I'm trying to locate that message with no luck so far.

...


 I think I also need to define my transport based on the "FROM" address,
 not the destination, but I don't know or rather forgot if this is
 possible. Guess I'll have to RTFM. O:-)


Yes, this is possible with "sender_dependent_relayhost = yes", but please 
define first, what sender address should use what host as nexthop.


That's no problem. Each from address gets a different relay host, except 
two redirectors that have none and I have to attempt to send from my 
postfix directly.


The above solution in "transport" is a temporary workaround while I find 
some docu about "sender_relay"


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Re: [opensuse] postfix master.cf question

[Carlos Lorenzo Matés]

Hi Sandy.


El Viernes, 25 de Enero de 2008, Sandy Drobic escribió:
> Carlos Lorenzo Matés wrote:
> >>> I'm having a lot of feedback in the hylafax list, i'm playing around a
> >>> few ideas they told me. But i will try in the postfix list if i don't
> >>> find a good solution
> >>
> >> Have you tried to use the command in mailbox_command as I suggested?
> >> That would take care of the user rights problem, provided the user is a
> >> system user.
> >
> > I tried with a custom script but i cant find how to get the mail to a
> > variable to pass it to the mailfax command, i get the rest of the
> > parameters, but no idea of how to get the mail itself (it comes form the
> > pipe)
> >
> > I don't really understand right what you mean with mailbox:command, sorry
> > :-(
>
> http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#mailbox_command
>
> This is only available for recipient address in $mydestination. The
> documentation also lists the variables that can be used in mailbox_command.

I'm going to read this just now.

>
> > the users ara autentified against pam and ldap, but there is not problem,
> > the command is executed as user fax, this is right , but i can pass it a
>
> That is what would be different with mailbox_command. The script is called
> as the user, that the command is run for.
>
> > parameter to set the job owner, the problem is that parameter is not in
> > the proper way in the postfix master.cf.
> >
> > What i tried to do is call a custom script in the master.cf like that
> >
> >  fax   unix  -   n   n   -   1   pipe
> > flags= user=fax argv=/usr/local/bin/customfax.sh $(user) $(sender)
> >
> > then the customfax.sh shoul do
> >
> > #owner sender
> > owner='cut -f 1 -d @ $sender'
> >
> > #destination is user
> > destination=$1
> >
> > faxmail -o $owner -d -n $destination (and here should pass the piped
> > mail)
> >
> > this is the point i'm stoped in this way
>
> Okay, I finally realized just what you wanted to do. This is a script I
> adjusted for your purpose.
>
> You need to add error handling to your faxmail routine to achieve a robust
> transport.
>
>
> #-
> #!/bin/sh
> # I set this up in /var/lib/filter
> INSPECT_DIR=/var/lib/filter
>
> # Exit codes from 
> EX_TEMPFAIL=75
> EX_UNAVAILABLE=69
>
> # Clean up when done or when aborting.
> trap "rm -f in.$$" 0 1 2 3 15
>
> # Start processing.
> cd $INSPECT_DIR || {
>  echo $INSPECT_DIR does not exist; exit $EX_TEMPFAIL; }
>
> cat >in.$$ || {
>  echo Cannot save mail to file; exit $EX_TEMPFAIL; }
>
> # Specify your content filter here.
> # filter  #   echo Message content rejected; exit $EX_UNAVAILABLE; }
>
>   #owner sender
>   owner=`echo $2|cut -f 1 -d"@"`
>
> #destination is the user
>   destination=$1
>
>   faxmail -o $owner -d -n $destination 
> exit $?
> #-
> --



Thank you very much, Sandy, I will try with your script on monday, as i need 
this in my job.

just to enhance my knowledge, could you explain a bit this sentences please?


 cat >in.$$ || {
  echo Cannot save mail to file; exit $EX_TEMPFAIL; }

I assume this gets the piped mail into "in.PID"

I need no content filter, as faxmail parses teh mail contents and convers teh 
multiparts to postscripts

faxmail -o $owner -d -n $destination 

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Re: [opensuse] How can I give the password to an ssh session on the command line?

[Jim Cunning]

On Friday 25 January 2008 13:25:25 Ken Schneider wrote:
> Hans Witvliet pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 14:12 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
[...]
> >> I want to enter an ssh session without having to type the password (to
> >> be used by a script). The "remote" is a router with embedded, and it is
> >> not possible to create public key pairs because it is not a shell, but
> >> one with a limited command set.
> >
> > As other posters mentioned 'expect' i won't.
> > But as you specifically mention "ssh" i would rather advise you to
> > generate a ssh-key-pair and copy the public-one over to the other
> > machine into the authorizedkeys file.
> >
> > No asking for pwd's anymore
>
> What part of "it is not possible" is not understood here?

Don't be so quick to be critical. I took Carlos statement to mean it was not 
possible on the REMOTE system, but it is certainly possible on his local one, 
which is all that is required so far as generating keys goes.  

However, it may not be possible to copy his public key to the "'remote' router 
with embedded" (linux?). Carlos didn't say what limited commands were 
available, or whether it was even possible to copy files onto the router.

Jim
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[opensuse] OpenSuSE 11.0 alpha 1running in VirtualBox container : great way to test a new version!

[Paul Hands]

Hi all,

Just thought I'd pass this on in case anyone else wants to try it.

I got 11.0 apha1 running in VirtualBox.  The first install attempts
seemed to work - got all the way through the install, but the first
reboot failed with a message.

This kernel requires the following features not present on the CPU : 0:6
Unable to boot - please use a kernel appropriate for your CPU.

I got some help from the VirtualBox end user forums.  Turns out that you
can't use the PAE kernel, which is the SuSE default at install time, in
a VirtualBox container. 
Selecting kernel-default and deselecting kernel-PAE at the software
configuration step solves the problem.

Now I can test 11.0 without even a reboot of 10.3.   Cool.

Paul
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Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux?

[M. Fioretti]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 07:33:38 AM -0800, Simon Roberts ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> OK, I've been wanting to answer this question for ages, but there's
> just so much to say.

Thanks for sharing these thoughts! Just one comment:

> All other attempts to migrate my friends were met with legitimate
> objections that I couldn't counter.

I have recently written a "How to turn into Free Software supporters
people who couldn't care less" with some practical advice at
http://digifreedom.net/node/103 . Judging from your very practical and
detailed notes, it is likely that that advice doesn't apply to at
least some of your friends, but there is one thing which is still
worth trying, namely the first paragraph:

"Focus on making people support Free Software, rather than using it"

At least in this particular moment (cfr OpenXML) it is quite urgent
that as many people as possible ask for adoption of really open
ICTstandards and Free Software (in this order) in Public
Administrations, even if they don't use Linux and don't plan to use
it.

Marco

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Re: [opensuse] question

[steve]

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Jonathan Wilson wrote:

|
| I use ATI cards all the time and they are excellent - I'm using a dual
hed ATI
| card right now and formerly had two dualhead cards on here for a
3-monitor
| config. I have no trouble with them. In fact I buy ATI whenever I can,
having
| had less actual trouble with ATI than I have with nVidia.
|

I gave up on ATI years ago, as I suspect a respectable percentage of
this list. Its not my intention to turn this into a flame war or
anything, but you ARE joking right?



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Re: [opensuse] postfix relay host problem.

[Sandy Drobic]

Carlos E. R. wrote:


That part I solved in the transport file with this syntax:

lists.sourceforge.net   :
users.sourceforge.net   :

localhost   :
valinor :
nimrodel.valinor:
.localhost  :
.valinor:
.nimrodel.valinor   :

#Default:
*smtp:[smtp.telefonica.net]


I liked your previous configuration with relayhost better. This is exactly the 
same, only the configuration needs much more lines. (^-^)



I think you need to look up the sender_dependent_relayhost_maps
parameter in postfix.


Simple: domain or user as key and relayhost as result. That's why it is called 
 "...relayhost_maps" (^-°)


A sender-dependent override for the global relayhost parameter setting. The 
tables are searched by the envelope sender address and @domain. My example 
uses the extreme (two senders that use the same relayhost but different 
authentication.



But there is no sample "sender_relay" file to guide me :-/

I have just googled that parameter and found many people asking for a 
solution for the very same problem I have: sending to diferent smtp 
relay hosts depending on the "from" address, and using the correct auth 
id each time for each server, based as well on the from address.


Strange... Anyway, here's a sample I used to verify that it works:

/etc/postfix/main.cf:
sender_dependent_relayhost_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sender_relayhost
smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/smtp_relayhost_auth
smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
smtp_sender_dependent_authentication = yes

/etc/postfix/sender_relayhost
[EMAIL PROTECTED]   [mail.gmx.de]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]   [mail.gmx.de]

/etc/postfix/smtp_relayhost_auth:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]   [EMAIL PROTECTED]:password1
[EMAIL PROTECTED]   [EMAIL PROTECTED]:password2



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Re: [opensuse] postfix master.cf question

[Sandy Drobic]

Carlos Lorenzo Matés wrote:


I'm having a lot of feedback in the hylafax list, i'm playing around a
few ideas they told me. But i will try in the postfix list if i don't
find a good solution

Have you tried to use the command in mailbox_command as I suggested? That
would take care of the user rights problem, provided the user is a system
user.


I tried with a custom script but i cant find how to get the mail to a variable 
to pass it to the mailfax command, i get the rest of the parameters, but no 
idea of how to get the mail itself (it comes form the pipe)


I don't really understand right what you mean with mailbox:command, sorry :-(


http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#mailbox_command

This is only available for recipient address in $mydestination. The 
documentation also lists the variables that can be used in mailbox_command.


the users ara autentified against pam and ldap, but there is not problem, the 
command is executed as user fax, this is right , but i can pass it a 


That is what would be different with mailbox_command. The script is called as 
the user, that the command is run for.


parameter to set the job owner, the problem is that parameter is not in the 
proper way in the postfix master.cf.


What i tried to do is call a custom script in the master.cf like that

 fax   unix  -   n   n   -   1   pipe
flags= user=fax argv=/usr/local/bin/customfax.sh $(user) $(sender)

then the customfax.sh shoul do

#owner sender
owner='cut -f 1 -d @ $sender'

#destination is user
destination=$1

faxmail -o $owner -d -n $destination (and here should pass the piped mail)

this is the point i'm stoped in this way


Okay, I finally realized just what you wanted to do. This is a script I 
adjusted for your purpose.


You need to add error handling to your faxmail routine to achieve a robust 
transport.



#-
#!/bin/sh
# I set this up in /var/lib/filter
INSPECT_DIR=/var/lib/filter

# Exit codes from 
EX_TEMPFAIL=75
EX_UNAVAILABLE=69

# Clean up when done or when aborting.
trap "rm -f in.$$" 0 1 2 3 15

# Start processing.
cd $INSPECT_DIR || {
echo $INSPECT_DIR does not exist; exit $EX_TEMPFAIL; }

cat >in.$$ || {
echo Cannot save mail to file; exit $EX_TEMPFAIL; }

# Specify your content filter here.
# filter 

Re: [opensuse] Talking about Linux usage.....this in from Lightscribe.

[John Layt]

On Friday 25 January 2008, Mike wrote:
> On Friday 25 January 2008 20:08, Fred A. Miller wrote:
> > LightScribe is just starting support for Linux, and we apologize for
> > the limited support.
> >
> > At this point, the only applications available for Linux are the
> > LightScribe Simple Labeler and LaCie 4L. LightScribe has released a
> > public SDK for Linux and would really like to see some Linux
> > developers pick up and use our SDK and start creating some labeling
> > applications. Again, I apologize for the limited support.
>
> Now wouldn't that be a nice addition to K3b.. Wish I could program.
>
> Mike
>

Send a feature request to the author, I'm sure he would be keen to add it.

John.
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Re: [opensuse] Difference between Yast->Group Mgmt. and groupadd

[Patrick Shanahan]

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>   When adding a group with Yast, the group is added with an 'x' for the 
> unset password:
> 
> ochiltree:x:1002:david
> 
>   If the group is added with 'groupadd' an '!' is used for the password:
> 
> dcr:!:1051:david
> 
>   Why? What is the difference?

a guess from scanning the man pages (which *are* available), groupadd
defaults to disabling the account.  I said "a guess".

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Re: [opensuse] How can I give the password to an ssh session on the command line?

[Ken Schneider]

Hans Witvliet pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 14:12 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
>> Hash: SHA1
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to enter an ssh session without having to type the password (to be 
>> used by a script). The "remote" is a router with embedded, and it is not 
>> possible to create public key pairs because it is not a shell, but one 
>> with a limited command set.
>>
> 
> As other posters mentioned 'expect' i won't.
> But as you specifically mention "ssh" i would rather advise you to
> generate a ssh-key-pair and copy the public-one over to the other
> machine into the authorizedkeys file.
> 
> No asking for pwd's anymore

What part of "it is not possible" is not understood here?

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[opensuse] About tv- tuner

[Renars Celapiters]

Hello, 
I have now one question about my tv card... Is there any support for Avermedia 
avertv studio 503 
because it is detected as>>> 0-TV saa7133/saa7135 video broadcast decoder, but 
it doesnt 
work-detect any program (i also installed v4l-tools, that was asked)...
 When I tryed configure manually (find in the list of vendors and cards but it 
wasn`t there).

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Re: [opensuse] question

[Sloan]

Jonathan Wilson wrote:
> On Friday 25 January 2008 13:55:03 Sloan wrote:
>   
>> Victor Antonio Chávez de Anda wrote:
>> 
>>> Oh thank you very much, i'll uninstall the program... and yes, i have an
>>> ATI video card, why?
>>>   
>> ATI cards have a problematic history with linux. That should be changing
>> soon, since official, open source 3D drivers are on the way, but for
>> now, ATI cards are more trouble than I'd want to deal with.
>> 
>
> I use ATI cards all the time and they are excellent - I'm using a dual hed 
> ATI 
> card right now and formerly had two dualhead cards on here for a 3-monitor 
> config. I have no trouble with them. In fact I buy ATI whenever I can, having 
> had less actual trouble with ATI than I have with nVidia.
>   
I'm glad to hear that you've not had trouble with ATI, but I've had
exactly the opposite experience - and I've done an awful lot of
consulting, and a lot of free linux work for friends and relatives, so
I've seen and worked with a good variety of hardware.
> All the proprietary drives are troublesome to some extent, but I know of no 
> reason to say that ATI is worse than any of the others.
>
>   
I do.

Nvidia linux drivers are always kept up to date, tracking kernel changes
within a day or so of kernel releases, are full featured and performance
is on par with ms windows.

ATI drivers lag kernel and X11 releases by months, are lacking features
compared to the windows versions, and performance is bad compared to the
windows versions.

But it will all be a moot point soon, when the official OSS ATI drivers
are in the mainline kernel. At that point I might well agree that ATI is
the way to go, but for now, I try to avoid the hassle.

Joe

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Re: [opensuse] Open Source Graphics Cards

[Benji Weber]

On 25/01/2008, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Sigh. Nvidia had been writing drivers for its cards for some time when
> > they started supporting linux as well. So clearly, the binary nvidia
> > driver is not a derivation of the linux kernel. They also supply a
> > linux-specific "shim" which provides an interface between the linux
> > kernel and the nvidia binary blob, and they provide the source of that
> > linux specific shim in the download.
> >
> > Seriously, where's the crime?
>
> Sorry, but providing a "shim" does not protect you from the GPL license
> of the Linux kernel.  The Samba group has proved this many times in the
> past with lots of precident in going after companies that tried to do
> this with their code base.

Also the shim is not even GPLed either, from the files:

/* _NVRM_COPYRIGHT_BEGIN_
 *
 * Copyright 1999-2001 by NVIDIA Corporation.  All rights reserved.  All
 * information contained herein is proprietary and confidential to NVIDIA
 * Corporation.  Any use, reproduction, or disclosure without the written
 * permission of NVIDIA Corporation is prohibited.
 *
 * _NVRM_COPYRIGHT_END_
 */

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[opensuse] beagleindex => bogus i_mode

[Stephen Berman]

Starting four days ago, the kernel sends bogus i_mode messages after
automatic beagle indexing, like this:

Jan 25 21:15:02 escher su: (to beagleindex) root on none
Jan 25 21:15:02 escher su: (to beagleindex) root on none
Jan 25 21:18:09 escher syslog-ng[2198]: SIGHUP received, restarting syslog-ng
Jan 25 21:18:10 escher syslog-ng[2198]: new configuration initialized
Jan 25 21:18:36 escher kernel: klogd 1.4.1, -- state change -- 
Jan 25 21:19:07 escher su: (to nobody) root on none
Jan 25 21:19:07 escher su: (to nobody) root on none
Jan 25 21:19:11 escher su: (to nobody) root on none
Jan 25 21:19:20 escher syslog-ng[2198]: last message repeated 4 times
Jan 25 21:19:20 escher kernel: init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (33060)
Jan 25 21:19:20 escher kernel: init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (30072)
Jan 25 21:19:20 escher kernel: init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (31460)
Jan 25 21:19:20 escher kernel: init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (30060)
Jan 25 21:19:20 escher kernel: init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (30462)
Jan 25 21:19:20 escher kernel: init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (31462)
Jan 25 21:19:20 escher kernel: init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (57553)
Jan 25 21:19:21 escher kernel: init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (30057)
Jan 25 21:19:21 escher kernel: init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (30170)
Jan 25 21:19:21 escher kernel: init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (72145)
Jan 25 21:19:21 escher kernel: init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (71145)
Jan 25 21:19:21 escher kernel: init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (55440)
Jan 25 21:19:21 escher kernel: init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (35063)

Can anyone tell me what this means, and is it a cause for concern?
Thanks,

Steve Berman

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[opensuse] KDE4- where system:/ media:/ sysinfo:/ ???

[Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru)]

Hi !


I have just installed KDE4, basically works fine, but I see 2 problems.

1) Special URLs like "system:/", "media:/", "sysinfo:/".do not work anymore

May be I have missed to install something, or these URLs are not yet supported 
in KDE4 ?


2) It is impossible to use any other icon theme exept Oxygen and KDE Classic. 
Does it mean icon themes have to be rearranged in order to support KDE4?


Thanks in advance for any suggestion(s)
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Re: [opensuse] question

[Jonathan Wilson]

On Friday 25 January 2008 13:55:03 Sloan wrote:
> Victor Antonio Chávez de Anda wrote:
> > Oh thank you very much, i'll uninstall the program... and yes, i have an
> > ATI video card, why?
>
> ATI cards have a problematic history with linux. That should be changing
> soon, since official, open source 3D drivers are on the way, but for
> now, ATI cards are more trouble than I'd want to deal with.

I use ATI cards all the time and they are excellent - I'm using a dual hed ATI 
card right now and formerly had two dualhead cards on here for a 3-monitor 
config. I have no trouble with them. In fact I buy ATI whenever I can, having 
had less actual trouble with ATI than I have with nVidia.

All the proprietary drives are troublesome to some extent, but I know of no 
reason to say that ATI is worse than any of the others.

JW

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Re: [opensuse] Re: Missing a drive in 10.3

[Bob]

On Friday 25 January 2008 07:10:33 Clayton wrote:
> > If I check in the BIOS, all drives connected to the motherboard SATA
> > ports are detected correctly.
> >
> > Three of the drives are connected to the motherboard on SATA 1, SATA 2
> > and SATA 3.  SATA 4 is empty.  Two of the drives are connected to the
> > SATA1 RAID card (and are working and mounted correctly).  The IDE
> > drives are on ODE0 (and work fine).
> >
> > When I boot 10.3 to install, one drive on the motherboard connectors
> > is not found.  A clean install of 10.3, and the missing drive is still
> > not found.  If I start up the YAST partitioner tool, it only sees 6
> > SATA drives (2xPATA, 2xSATA on the motherboard and 2x SATA on the RAID
> > card).  The missing drive is identical to the one on /dev/sdd.
>
> I have been doing some more troubleshooting on this problem.  I
> swapped the drive connections around, putting SATA drives on the
> SATA1, 2, 3, and 4 connectors on the motherboard and just one drive on
> the SATA1 RAID card.  The BIOS finds all 4 drives on the onboard SATA
> controller.  SUSE cannot find the drives on SATA 3 and 4 though.
>
> Is it possible/likely that the SATA RAID card is interfering with the
> onboard SATA controller?  This is about the only thing I can think of
> right now that would cause this behaviour... anyone have any ideas on
> this?
>
> C

Please look at bug 331610 (and vote for it, if you think it relates to your 
problem).

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Re: [opensuse] postfix relay host problem.

[Carlos E. R.]

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The Friday 2008-01-25 at 20:02 +0100, Per Jessen wrote:


Carlos E. R. wrote:


So... what is the proper configuration of the transport file, so that
all mails are sent through my ISP relay host, with some exceptions,
like local mail?




That part I solved in the transport file with this syntax:

lists.sourceforge.net   :
users.sourceforge.net   :

localhost   :
valinor :
nimrodel.valinor:
.localhost  :
.valinor:
.nimrodel.valinor   :

#Default:
*smtp:[smtp.telefonica.net]




I think I also need to define my transport based on the "FROM"
address, not the destination, but I don't know or rather forgot if
this is possible. Guess I'll have to RTFM. O:-)


Hola Carlos,

I think you need to look up the sender_dependent_relayhost_maps
parameter in postfix.


Ah! Yes, that's it.

But this feature has almost no documentation. The only text I found is in 
"RELEASE_NOTES-2.3":


- - Sender-dependent smarthost lookup tables.  The maps are searched
  with the sender address and with the sender @domain.  The result
  overrides the global relayhost setting, but otherwise has identical
  behavior. See the postconf(5) manual page for more details.

  Example:
/etc/postfix/main.cf:
sender_dependent_relayhost_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sender_relay



And the postconf(5) manual page doesn't clarify much:

   sender_dependent_relayhost_maps (default: empty)

   A sender-dependent override for the global relayhost parameter
   setting. The tables are searched by the envelope sender address and
   @domain.

   This information is overruled with relay_transport,
   default_transport and with the transport(5) table.

   For safety reasons, this feature does not allow $number
   substitutions in regular expression maps.

   This feature is available in Postfix 2.3 and later.


But there is no sample "sender_relay" file to guide me :-/

I have just googled that parameter and found many people asking for a 
solution for the very same problem I have: sending to diferent smtp relay 
hosts depending on the "from" address, and using the correct auth id each 
time for each server, based as well on the from address.


I have a lot to read...


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[opensuse] Difference between Yast->Group Mgmt. and groupadd

[David C. Rankin]

Listmates,

	When adding a group with Yast, the group is added with an 'x' for the 
unset password:


ochiltree:x:1002:david

If the group is added with 'groupadd' an '!' is used for the password:

dcr:!:1051:david

Why? What is the difference?


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Re: [opensuse] How can I give the password to an ssh session on the command line?

[Hans Witvliet]

On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 14:12 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I want to enter an ssh session without having to type the password (to be 
> used by a script). The "remote" is a router with embedded, and it is not 
> possible to create public key pairs because it is not a shell, but one 
> with a limited command set.
> 

As other posters mentioned 'expect' i won't.
But as you specifically mention "ssh" i would rather advise you to
generate a ssh-key-pair and copy the public-one over to the other
machine into the authorizedkeys file.

No asking for pwd's anymore
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Re: [opensuse] postfix relay host problem.

[Sandy Drobic]

Carlos E. R. wrote:



Hi,

I though I had this solved, but it is not so.

I had defined:

relayhost = [smtp.telefonica.net]


but my stupid ISP rejects some from domains I need to send from, like 
@users.sourceforge.net to @lists.sourceforge.net.


This is the verbose log excerpted:


Jan 25 14:47:04 nimrodel postfix/smtp[31626]: < 
smtp.telefonica.net[213.4.149.228]: 220 ctsmtpout3.frontal.correo ESMTP 
Service (7.2.056.6) ready
Jan 25 14:47:04 nimrodel postfix/smtp[31626]: > 
smtp.telefonica.net[213.4.149.228]: EHLO nimrodel.valinor ...
Jan 25 14:47:04 nimrodel postfix/smtp[31626]: > 
smtp.telefonica.net[213.4.149.228]: AUTH LOGIN ...
Jan 25 14:47:04 nimrodel postfix/smtp[31626]: < 
smtp.telefonica.net[213.4.149.228]: 235 LOGIN authentication successful


I am thus authenticated, no?


Yes.

Jan 25 14:47:04 nimrodel postfix/smtp[31626]: > 
smtp.telefonica.net[213.4.149.228]: MAIL 
FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=4437 BODY=8BITMIME AUTH=<>
Jan 25 14:47:04 nimrodel postfix/smtp[31626]: > 
smtp.telefonica.net[213.4.149.228]: RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
ORCPT=rfc822;[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jan 25 14:47:04 nimrodel postfix/smtp[31626]: > 
smtp.telefonica.net[213.4.149.228]: DATA
Jan 25 14:47:04 nimrodel postfix/smtp[31626]: < 
smtp.telefonica.net[213.4.149.228]: 553 MAIL 
FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> domain not accepted


Either they (telefonica) require that you use their domain as sender domain or 
they fubared their dns servers and used something like 
reject_unknown_sender_domain with broken dns. Only the postmaster of 
smtp.telefonica.net can tell you.



So I want to attempt sending again from my local postfix (yes, on 
dynamic IP). I remove the "relayhost = [smtp.telefonica.net]" line, and 
edit the transport file:


localhost   smtp:
valinor smtp:
nimrodel.valinorsmtp:


Don't you want to send mails for these recipients to your own host? In that 
case you should tell your box to use "local:" as transport.


Though I wonder why that should be necessary. Postfix uses the default 
transport for the domain class if the domain is member of mydestination, 
relay_domains or virtual_mailbox_domains:


mydestination   local_transport
relay_domains   relay_transport
virtual_mailbox_domains virtual_transport

postconf -d local_transport relay_transport virtual_transport
local_transport = local:$myhostname
relay_transport = relay
virtual_transport = virtual

Setting the transport to smtp: practically tells Postfix to use the 
relay_host. (^-^)



I think I also need to define my transport based on the "FROM" address, 
not the destination, but I don't know or rather forgot if this is 
possible. Guess I'll have to RTFM. O:-)


Yes, this is possible with "sender_dependent_relayhost = yes", but please 
define first, what sender address should use what host as nexthop.



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Re: [opensuse] Installing SLED on top of SLES

[Hans Witvliet]

On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 09:02 +, Marcin Floryan wrote:
> On 24/01/2008, Frank Steiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > a little HOWTO for people who are interested in this :-) What I do is
> > installing SLES and SLED on top of a SuSE 10.1 installation. Installing
> > SLED on SLES (or vice versa) will work the same way.
> 
> Frank,
> 
> It would be nice to have this info posted on the openSuSE Wiki as
> well, where it would be even more accessible. Let me know if you need
> any help.
> 

hm,

I remember that after a long session i had to upgrade a sleS10 system,
By mistake i took the sleD10-SP1 dvd instead of the sleS10SP1 dvd,

Installed properly without a single error or even a single warning


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Re: [opensuse] complete system halt..

[Kai Ponte]

On Friday 25 January 2008 06:41:24 am Sampsa Riikonen wrote:
>
> ...could this be some powersave & nvidia combined problem
> (it seems to me that in laptops the screen behaviour is
> very integrated to the powersave stuff..) ?
>
> Jose and Kai, should we make a bug report to the powersave people?
> ... or is it the nvidia driver.  Did you have nvidia cards when
> the problem occurred?

I'm not sure about a bug report ATM, but I did have the powersave daemon 
running. (KPowersave).

I did upgrade to the latest/greatest NVidia (Quadro FX 1500M) drivers using 
the openSUSE links, so that issue supposedly is at least not part of the 
equation.

thanks for the suggestions.


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Re: [opensuse] amavisd warning failure?

[Sandy Drobic]

Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:

Joe Sloan wrote:

Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:

Hi,

Looking at the Alt-Ctrl-F10 tty I see that anavis is warning that 'all
primary virus scanners failed, considering backups'

What should I do to rectify this problem i.e. I assume update amavisd,
but how, at least via YAST?

You either don't have clamav installed, or have changed the
configuration so that it's not listening to the port or socket that
amavisd expects.

If you do have clamav installed there should be additional warnings,
something about a socket.


I have clamav installed, have not changed anything and there are no
socket warnings that I could see on the Alt-F10 list.

So, now what?


Now you get off you lazy butt and see for yourself how clam-av and amavisd-new 
are configured. (^-^)


egrep -v "^#" /etc/clamd.conf | egrep -v "^$"
LogTime yes
LogSyslog yes
LogFacility LOG_MAIL
PidFile /var/lib/clamav/clamd.pid
# Same localSocket as in /etc/amavisd.conf!
LocalSocket /var/run/clamav/clamd
FixStaleSocket yes
TCPSocket 3310
TCPAddr 127.0.0.1
User vscan
Foreground no
ScanOLE2 yes
ScanPDF yes
ScanMail yes
PhishingSignatures yes
PhishingScanURLs yes

Some important parts of /etc/amavisd.conf:
$daemon_user = 'vscan';   # yes, same user as clamd!
$daemon_group = 'vscan';
@av_scanners = (
 ['Clam Antivirus-clamd',
   \&ask_daemon, ["CONTSCAN {}\n", "/var/run/clamav/clamd"],
   qr/\bOK$/, qr/\bFOUND$/,
   qr/^.*?: (?!Infected Archive)(.*) FOUND$/ ],
  ['H+BEDV AntiVir or CentralCommand Vexira Antivirus',
['antivir'],
 '--allfiles -noboot -nombr -rs -s -z {}', [0], qr/ALERT:|VIRUS:/,
 qr/(?x)^\s* (?: ALERT: \s* (?: \[ | [^']* ' ) |
 (?i) VIRUS:\ .*?\ virus\ '?) ( [^\]\s']+ )/ ],
);
@av_scanners_backup = (
  ['Clam Antivirus - clamscan', 'clamscan',
'--stdout --no-summary -r {}', [0], [1],
qr/^.*?: (?!Infected Archive)(.*) FOUND$/ ],
  ['FRISK F-Prot Antivirus', ['f-prot','f-prot.sh'],
'-dumb -archive -packed {}', [0,8], [3,6],
qr/Infection: (.+)/ ],
  ['Trend Micro FileScanner', ['/etc/iscan/vscan','vscan'],
'-za -a {}', [0], qr/Found virus/, qr/Found virus (.+) in/ ],
  ['KasperskyLab kavscanner', ['/opt/kav/bin/kavscanner','kavscanner'],
'-i1 -xp {}', [0,10,15], [5,20,21,25],
qr/(?:CURED|INFECTED|CUREFAILED|WARNING|SUSPICION) (.*)/ ,
sub {chdir('/opt/kav/bin') or die "Can't chdir to kav: $!"},
sub {chdir($TEMPBASE) or die "Can't chdir back to $TEMPBASE $!"},
  ],
);

Check that clamd actually is running:
rcclamd status
and is set to start at boot:
chkconfig clamd on

and finally, that you call fresh-clam from cron.


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Re: [opensuse] question

[Victor Antonio Chávez de Anda]

Sloan wrote:
> Victor Antonio Chávez de Anda wrote:
>   
>> Oh thank you very much, i'll uninstall the program... and yes, i have an
>> ATI video card, why?
>>   
>> 
>
> ATI cards have a problematic history with linux. That should be changing
> soon, since official, open source 3D drivers are on the way, but for
> now, ATI cards are more trouble than I'd want to deal with.
>
> Joe
>   

h well, then, may the problem is the fu%&ing
video card... ¡¡thankx!!


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Re: [opensuse] question

[Sloan]

Victor Antonio Chávez de Anda wrote:
> Oh thank you very much, i'll uninstall the program... and yes, i have an
> ATI video card, why?
>   

ATI cards have a problematic history with linux. That should be changing
soon, since official, open source 3D drivers are on the way, but for
now, ATI cards are more trouble than I'd want to deal with.

Joe
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Re: [opensuse] question

[Gabriel .]

Sabe Ud. que si lo desea existe una lista en español en la dirección
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Re: [opensuse] How can I give the password to an ssh session on the command line?

[Carlos E. R.]

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The Friday 2008-01-25 at 20:15 +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:


Ignore previous odd post.


:-)


To get you started, there is autoexpect. Check the man page.


Ah!  :-)


Essentially, you do your thing once and autoexpect saves what is needed
to automate it. The script usually needs editing to remove things that
are too specifc. But it does the grunt work. expect does much more than
what these simplistic automated login scripts do. It is worht checking
out. And, it is cross-platform.


Very nice. I did use things like this, time ago, to connect to a BBS 
terminal and fetch my mail package for bluewave. My script was quite 
complicated, but it did it all pretty fast. Nice to know there is a good 
for all program to do that kind of thing in linux.


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Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux

[Lincoln Rutledge]

There's a good article this month in Dr. Dobbs' Journal about the Brazilian 
development culture.  They have always had a 'must be grown here' ethic.  They 
banned DOS in the 80's, wrote LUA, and adopted Linux three years ago as a 
government IT plan.  It's only second to the US in number of skilled 
developers.  Sun GPL'd java because of Brazil.  And if Microsoft doesn't at 
least open up the sources for their libraries, eventually people are going to 
stop slamming their hand in the door on purpose and write in an environment 
where they do have source for the libraries.

Seriously, grepping through libraries beats printStackTrace().

Why would you pay for pain when there is pain and pleasure for free? :)

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>>> "M. Fioretti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01/25/08 8:55 AM >>> 

On Mon, January 21, 2008 4:58 am, Aaron Kulkis wrote:

> With AutoCad, the better approach is to get them to port
> to Linux
> Of course, this is difficult to do as individuals, but
> small to medium-sized IT departments can.  You tell the
> AutoCad rep that the company's strategic direction is
> to move from Winows XP to Linux, and that if they want
> to continue selling, they have to keep up. IF not,
> you're going to be buying SDRC Ideas, or some other
> product that fits into your company's plans to NOT
> migrate to Vista.
>
> The threat of permanent loss of sales is an excellant
> motivator to these sorts of companies.

The problem is that such threats are only plausible if the customer
doesn't have plenty of data locked in a format that only Autocad
can fully understand, or will never receive from partners or potential
customers files in such formats that need to be read or modified. Not
really likely, see:

cfr the Autocad paragraph and links in the second part of:
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/focus_format_history/

Same scenario here:

> Once Linux captures a significant share of business desktops

this won't happen until those business users continue to receive
(or are required to send) files in the latest Microsoft Office formats,
whatever that is in any given moment.

In both cases, the most effective strategy, even if it's unglamourous,
to get to the point where you can really do everything you need under
Linux may be to demand laws that force all Public Administrations to
only accept, store or distribute files in non proprietary formats, or
at least formats that are 100% guaranteed to be fully usable under any
operating system, with _more_ than one software program.

Once businesses know that to keep selling goods or services to the state
or city Government they MUST deliver contracts, bids, technical drawings,
whatever, in formats that are completely usable with any operating sytems,
the rest will happen by itself.

And much sooner than if we wait for businesses who couldn't care less
of the license of the software they use, not when changing it would make
their existing files less readable (= interfere with "business as usual").

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Re: [opensuse] Talking about Linux usage.....this in from Lightscribe.

[Mike]

On Friday 25 January 2008 20:08, Fred A. Miller wrote:

>
> LightScribe is just starting support for Linux, and we apologize for
> the limited support.
>
> At this point, the only applications available for Linux are the
> LightScribe Simple Labeler and LaCie 4L. LightScribe has released a
> public SDK for Linux and would really like to see some Linux
> developers pick up and use our SDK and start creating some labeling
> applications. Again, I apologize for the limited support.

Now wouldn't that be a nice addition to K3b.. Wish I could program.

Mike


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Re: [opensuse] question

[Victor Antonio Chávez de Anda]

Sloan wrote:
> Victor Antonio Chávez de Anda wrote:
>   
>> i install yesterday the GoogleEarthLinux in my computer, and, doens't
>> works, i don't know why, i run the program in the shell hopeing some
>> error message... and i don't get it... just... reboot my machine (just
>> like when i want close my session) i'm useing the root session, and i
>> want uninstall that application (and others) and i don't know how... can
>> u help me please?
>>
>>   
>> 
>
> Google earth has always worked well for me, on linux systems with intel
> or nvidia video drivers.
>
> I suspect you may not have properly set up OpenGL on the machine in
> question. Just a wild guess, does the machine have an ATI video card?
>
> Removing the app is easy:
>
> rm -rf ~/google-earth .googleearth
>
> Joe
>   
   
Oh thank you very much, i'll uninstall the program... and yes, i have an
ATI video card, why?


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Re: [opensuse] question

[Victor Antonio Chávez de Anda]

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Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux?

[Lincoln Rutledge]

Hi Simon, 
 

Lincoln Rutledge
Network Engineer
OSC Networking
800-627-6420

>>> Simon Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01/25/08 10:33 AM >>> 
OK, I've been wanting to answer this question for ages, but there's just so 
much to say. In the end, I've given up trying to say everything completely 
cohesively, and I'm just going to allow myself to ramble and hope it helps 
some. First, a little background. I have a pretty good computer background. I 
wrote 6502, Z80, 8088, 68000 and other machine languages starting  25 years 
ago. I was a programmer for 15 years, writing network protocol software before 
the TCP stack was generally available, Unix device drivers, and a bunch of 
distributed control systems. Eventually I moved to corporate teaching, which I 
still do. I was using Linux to

Sounds like you've worked on some cool stuff :)  I wrote some Z80 assembler 
myself.  I miss it.

 teach TCP and Unix system administration in 1994, and other than Linux, I'm 
mostly a Solaris body. I have 3 Linux systems at home, two of which dual-boot 
with windows so I can run Photoshop in a color managed environment. I use 
VMWare for some other windows stuff that's less crucial to me. I also have a 
dual processor
 SPARC/Solaris 10 system. I loath and detest bill gates and everything he 
stands for. I regularly point out to

I'm old school too.  But Suns and SPARCs are yesterday dude :)  Linux and 
x86-64 are NOW!

 my students that his company is a marketing company (very effective one, 
sadly) not a technology company. I believe they've never invented anything 
good, and have damaged many, if not most, of the ideas they've "appropriated". 
Until about 6 months ago, I was on a one man crusade to try to get my friends 
all using Linux. Around about then (after one success,yay! :) I finally gave up 
:( I can't begin to tell you the heartache, sadness, and sense of failure I 
felt when I reached that decision. Anway, what follows are some of the 
key/memorable personal experiences that wore me down and made me give up. 
Please remember that I love Linux, I love the people who put their effort into 
creating and maintaining it, and I think it has improved
 tremendously in recent years. I blame nobody for the "weaknesses" outlined 
below, other than what I see as bill
 gates' unreasonable and amoral (but sadly, probably entirely legal) practices.

It's hard to support computers for friends and family.  I had to define a 
boundary in my life:  no PC support off the clock.  It miffed some people but I 
needed to do it.  And I like life better :)  Now, if they were running Linux, I 
would spend lots of time fixing things :)

1) Hardware issues.
  If you just walk into a store and ask for a machine that will be good to go 
with Linux, they'll look at you blankly. It's a major effort to check the 
details yourself. Most off the shelf machines don't tell you exactly what cards 
they contain, and then it's often hard to find the devices in the HCLs. 
  New hardware--inevitably--is most likely to be unsupported or buggy.
  Finding the HCLs used to be hard. I just checked, and this seems to have been 
fixed (thanks someone! :)
  HCL is online, and I don't usually have access to the internet when I'm in a 
store browsing!
  Whichever way you slice it, having to care about the exact hardware is a 
pain. I don't see any way (other than having the leverage of micky$loth) to get 
round this, and I certainly laud the efforts that have been made to improve life

This is true.

2) Photography related. I use Windows to run Photoshop CS2 in a color managed 
workflow. In this, Linux doesn't cut it for two reasons:

  Color management. I tried to work out how to do the LCMS stuff, and a bunch 
of related color management options I though I was looking at, and just gave 
up, too much like hard work. Also, I seem to have the wrong colorimeter 
hardware already and am not willing to pay all over again for something else.

  GIMP is only 8 bit. That's fire in theory, but when you mess with stuff much, 
you quickly run into posterization (I see this even in some professional's work 
and while those in question don't seem to care, I personally hate it).

I don't know.

3) Irritations with web plugins. Idiots out there keep writing stuff that's 
windows only, and there always seems to be trouble trying to get the latest 
Flash player. When it's available, it's tricky to install.

This is true.

4) Palm pilot-:
  Several versions of palm device just don't sync, needless to say, this 
includes some that matter to me.
  I don't know how to sync my palm and evolution-etc. with web calendars like 
google or yahoo. That's important to me. I gave up using my palm pilot because 
of this. Consequently, I'm appallingly badly organized and regularly double 
book myself and miss meetings. 

This is true.

5) Video; I have failed repeatedly to build a system that plays all reasonable 
kinds of video. Mostly this seems to be a deliberate policy on bill gates' part 
(and 

Re: [opensuse] question

[Randall R Schulz]

Victor,

Please put something informative in the Subject: header of your messages 
to this list!

Almost everything posted here starts as a question. And since the volume 
of messages on this list is so high, many subscribers need to be able 
to skim through the list and concentrate on those messages that 
interest them or which they may be able to answer.

Randall Schulz


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Re: [opensuse] question

[Marcin Floryan]

On 25/01/2008, Victor Antonio Chávez de Anda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> i install yesterday the GoogleEarthLinux in my computer, and, doens't
> works, i don't know why, i run the program in the shell hopeing some

Victor, first, please try to give more meaningful subjects when you
email this group with a question.

I have seen the very topic few days ago on this group so it may be
worth checking that out first, here is the link:

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2006-09/msg02550.html
Please read this as well:
http://en.opensuse.org/Google_Earth

Uninstalling an application in linux is usually simply down to
removing the files.

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Re: [opensuse] question

[Sloan]

Victor Antonio Chávez de Anda wrote:
> i install yesterday the GoogleEarthLinux in my computer, and, doens't
> works, i don't know why, i run the program in the shell hopeing some
> error message... and i don't get it... just... reboot my machine (just
> like when i want close my session) i'm useing the root session, and i
> want uninstall that application (and others) and i don't know how... can
> u help me please?
>
>   

Google earth has always worked well for me, on linux systems with intel
or nvidia video drivers.

I suspect you may not have properly set up OpenGL on the machine in
question. Just a wild guess, does the machine have an ATI video card?

Removing the app is easy:

rm -rf ~/google-earth .googleearth

Joe
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Re: [opensuse] How can I give the password to an ssh session on the command line?

[Ken Schneider]

Carlos E. R. pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> 
> 

> [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:
>  ->
> 
> 
> The ping command is not sent... Ah, got it!
> 
> expect "[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: "
> send "\n"
> expect " ->"
> send "ping -c 5 192.168.1.12\n"
> interact
> 
> 
> 
>   THANK YOU!   :-)))
> 
> 
> (I need the router to send pings to my PC, or this computer stops
> working - - that's another story, there is a bugzilla about it)
> 
> 

If my failing brain is working right you can also nest "expect"
statements to send different commands depending on what was sent from
the machine you are connecting to. I had to do this with the Cisco
routers because the command prompt was different depending on which
version of the IOS was installed. This way I only needed one script to
cover all of the routers I maintained.

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Re: [opensuse] How can I give the password to an ssh session on the command line?

[Roger Oberholtzer]

Ignore previous odd post.

To get you started, there is autoexpect. Check the man page.
Essentially, you do your thing once and autoexpect saves what is needed
to automate it. The script usually needs editing to remove things that
are too specifc. But it does the grunt work. expect does much more than
what these simplistic automated login scripts do. It is worht checking
out. And, it is cross-platform.

I use expect all the time to do an ssh to a system, and then another ssh
to a system from there. Works every time.


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Re: [opensuse] Strange SATA problems with openSUSE

[Don Raboud]

On Friday 25 January 2008 07:43, Clayton wrote:
> I've posted a couple times about this with no replies yet
>
> Earlier today, the entire computer came crashing to a halt... so it
> forced me to spend more time looking into the problem.
>
> The motherboard I have (ASUS M2N-e SLI) has 4 SATA2 ports.  SATA 1, 2,
> 3 and 4.  I also have a SATA1 RAID controller with 2 SATA ports.  I
> have drives connected on IDE0 and IDE1 and they are working fine.
>
> Scenario 1: If I leave the RAID card out, and just connect drives to
> SATA 1 and SATA 2 the computer boots fine.  BIOS finds the SATA
> drives, and Linux is happy.
>
> Scenario 2: If I add drives to SATA 3 and 4 in Scenario 1, the BIOS
> sees all four drive2, but when I boot Linux, it errors out.  I can
> boot the OS, but the error logs fill up with errors, and I have
> serious performance issues.. until it just dies altogether.
>
> The boot errors look like this:
> -
> <6>ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
> <4>ata3.00: qc timeout (cmd 0x27)
> <4>ata3.00: failed to read native max address (err_mask=0x4)
> <4>ata3: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs
> <6>ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
> <4>ata3.00: qc timeout (cmd 0x27)
> <4>ata3.00: failed to read native max address (err_mask=0x4)
> <3>ata3.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5)
> <4>ata3: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps
> <4>ata3.00: limiting speed to UDMA7:PIO5
> <4>ata3: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs
> --
> and continue on for quite some time.
>
> Scenario 3: If I add the RAID card in to Scenario 1, but do not
> connect any drives to the RAID, all boots and works OK.
>
> Scenario 4: If I connect 2 SATA drives to the RAID card, and have two
> drives from Scenario 1 also connected, all works and boots OK.
>
> Scenario 5:  If I connect a SATA drive to SATA 3 or 4 in Scenario 4, I
> get the same results as with Scenario 2... a long list of SATA errors
> on the boot.
>
> Has anyone encountered this before?  Could it be a hardware issue.. a
> failing SATA controller on the motherboard, or is it some obscure
> Linux thing?

Hi Clayton,

Was all this working before your crash?  

In reading your posts (this one and others), I've not seen any scenario since 
the crash where disks on SATA ports 3 and 4 work with 10.3, at best they are 
recognized by the bios.  Have you eliminated the possibility of any hardware 
problems with those two ports?

I would suggest booting your Scenario 1 but with the two disks attached to 
SATA 3 and 4 (instead of 1 and 2). (You might have to 
adjust /boot/grub/device.map temporarily.)  Perhaps boot just one disk at a 
time?  Maybe boot with a live CD to see if there is something specific to 
10.3?

Not sure what else to suggest.  Best of luck.

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[opensuse] Talking about Linux usage.....this in from Lightscribe.

[Fred A. Miller]

The following is a response to me from Lightscribe. There is some hope 
yet..


Fred

Hello Fred,

Thank you for your request for help.

LightScribe is just starting support for Linux, and we apologize for the 
limited support.


At this point, the only applications available for Linux are the 
LightScribe Simple Labeler and LaCie 4L. LightScribe has released a 
public SDK for Linux and would really like to see some Linux developers 
pick up and use our SDK and start creating some labeling applications. 
Again, I apologize for the limited support.



If you have further questions or comments, please feel free to reply to 
this message.



Best Regards,
John Matthews

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Re: [opensuse] Open Source Graphics Cards

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:28:14AM -0800, Sloan wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> >> Sloan wrote:
> >> 
> >>> They have tried, but their answers make no sense,
> >>> and fall apart as soon as you take a close look.
> >>> I don't see what good this witch hunt can do -
> >>> 1. nvidia makes video cards.
> >>> 2. they write drivers for those cards, for windoze, solaris, freebsd and
> >>> linux
> >>> 3. the linux license nazis scream "lawbreaker!"
> >>>   
> >
> > "Nazis"?  Ugh, have we already sunk that low in this thread?
> >   
> 
> Apologies, this snippet was part of a private reply to  Mr Kulkis who
> sent me a PM about the nvidia module, then forwarded my personal reply
> to the list, looking to generate controversy I suppose. I would have
> been much more careful in my choice of words had I known it was destined
> to be broadcast.

Ah, that wasn't very nice of Mr. Kulkis to do, apology accepted.

> Sigh. Nvidia had been writing drivers for its cards for some time when
> they started supporting linux as well. So clearly, the binary nvidia
> driver is not a derivation of the linux kernel. They also supply a
> linux-specific "shim" which provides an interface between the linux
> kernel and the nvidia binary blob, and they provide the source of that
> linux specific shim in the download.
> 
> Seriously, where's the crime?

Sorry, but providing a "shim" does not protect you from the GPL license
of the Linux kernel.  The Samba group has proved this many times in the
past with lots of precident in going after companies that tried to do
this with their code base.

The Linux developers have also successfully enforced this in the past,
so there really isn't any discenting opinion here among the legal
community that works with the GPL.

I prefer not to get into the legal details as I spend enough time
talking to lawyers.  Also, don't take legal advice from a programmer,
just like you should not take medical advice from a lawyer.  If you have
questions about this, ask a lawyer, then can give you more information
than you could ever want to know about this topic...

thanks,

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[opensuse] question

[Victor Antonio Chávez de Anda]

i install yesterday the GoogleEarthLinux in my computer, and, doens't
works, i don't know why, i run the program in the shell hopeing some
error message... and i don't get it... just... reboot my machine (just
like when i want close my session) i'm useing the root session, and i
want uninstall that application (and others) and i don't know how... can
u help me please?
¡¡thankx!!

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Re: [opensuse] Adding php-mssql shared object to opensuse 10.3 to use freetds

[Moby]

Sloan wrote:

Moby wrote:
  

While this is not exactly what you asked for, we use php to connect to
MS SQL Servers on OpenSuse 10.3 via unixODBC.

PHP uses ODBC through unixODBC, unixODBC then uses the FreeTDS ODBC
drivers to connect to SQL. Works like a charm.



That's interesting - we didn't have any luck with that, couldn't ever
get the freetds drivers to connect successfully to the pc sql server and
ended up going with the easysoft odbc drivers, which worked like a charm
out of the box.

Does the pc sql server have to be operated in some sort of compatibility
mode or something, to allow interoperability with the freetds drivers?
I'm curious if we might have missed something.

Joe

  
No - we are using freetds-unixodbc version 0.63-1 - works like a charm 
out of the box.  It's odbc driver is libtdsodbc.so and we are connecting 
to SQL Server 2000 and 2005 without any issues.



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Re: [opensuse] Personal Weather Stations

[Greg Freemyer]

Thanks to all.

I have a 7 or 8 year laptop that I think will make the perfect
dedicated weather station PC.

Greg

On Jan 25, 2008 7:54 AM, Morten Bjørnsvik
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> | Greg Freemyer wrote on 24. jan 2008 19:07:
> |Okay Enthusiasts,
> |
> |I'm new to weather stations, so tell me what I'm doing right/wrong.
> |Anyway these are my thoughts:
> |
> Hi
>
> I have a LaCrosse ws2350 connected to opensuse10.2 box. Using the enclosed 
> usb-serial adaptor.
> The enclosed software was just crap. AFAK most models with serial port are 
> compatible
> with ws23xx and share almost the same memorymap.
>
> I'm using this excellent perl module for interfacing the ws2350:
> http://search.cpan.org/~esm/Device-LaCrosse-WS23xx-0.06/lib/Device/LaCrosse/WS23xx.pm
> I found it being way faster and more accurate than open2300 commands for 
> fetching data.
>
> I use rrtdool for storing and presenting the data and a crontab to fetch data 
> and update rrdtool
> every 5minutes (can be more frequent if you are wired and not wireless).
>
> A similar example related to temp measurement using rrdtool:
> http://ronin-tech.com/Content/pid=26.html
>
> If you want to control it like resetting high and lows, you must use 
> open2300, but
> I find it easier to fetch that data out of the rrdtool database.
>
> The only problem I encountered was getting the serial-usb converter to work. 
> the ws23xx protocol
> is rather strange so not all serial-usb converters seem to work well.
>
> There is a yahoogroup where all the experts hang around:
> Lacrosse_weather_stations(at)yahoogroups.com
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Re: [opensuse] Strange SATA problems with openSUSE

[Greg Freemyer]

On Jan 25, 2008 1:08 PM, Clayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > If all is good with a couple disks, and then starts failing with more,
> > I would expect the PS to be the problem.
>
> True, but I can have two drives connected to SATA 1 and 2, and a
> third drive connected to SATA 3 sends things for a loop.  If I do not
> connect anything to SATA 3 and 4,instead connecting 2 drives to the
> motherboard and 2 drives to my 3rd party RAID card... everything works
> fine... so with 3 drives I get failures, but with 4 it's fine as long
> as the 3rd and 4th are not plugged into the motherboard SATA
> controller.
>
> I have a fairly new 600W PSU from BeQuiet in the case... so there
> should be enough power for all devices.

Bigger PSUs are often harder to work with.  I believe they tend to
have multiple separate power subsystems.  If you are indiscriminate
about which connectors you use you can overload one subsystem while
the overall unit is just chugging along fine.  I think they call each
subsystem a lane?

The old classic 450W was just one big system, so all the connectors
were effectively equivalent.

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Re: [opensuse] Open Source Graphics Cards

[Sloan]

Druid wrote:
 linux
 3. the linux license nazis scream "lawbreaker!"
 
>
> Sloan,
>
> Dont like the GPL? Dont use the GPL software.
>   

Sorry, Mr Kulkis edited and forwarded a PM to the list which might have
given you the wrong idea.

At any rate, I will stop using linux when you pry it from my cold dead
fingers ;)

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Re: [opensuse] Open Source Graphics Cards

[Sloan]

Greg KH wrote:
>> Sloan wrote:
>> 
>>> They have tried, but their answers make no sense,
>>> and fall apart as soon as you take a close look.
>>> I don't see what good this witch hunt can do -
>>> 1. nvidia makes video cards.
>>> 2. they write drivers for those cards, for windoze, solaris, freebsd and
>>> linux
>>> 3. the linux license nazis scream "lawbreaker!"
>>>   
>
> "Nazis"?  Ugh, have we already sunk that low in this thread?
>   

Apologies, this snippet was part of a private reply to  Mr Kulkis who
sent me a PM about the nvidia module, then forwarded my personal reply
to the list, looking to generate controversy I suppose. I would have
been much more careful in my choice of words had I known it was destined
to be broadcast.

> What would you call a company that took legal action against another
> company that was violating the copyright license for source code it had
> created?
>
>   
Sigh. Nvidia had been writing drivers for its cards for some time when
they started supporting linux as well. So clearly, the binary nvidia
driver is not a derivation of the linux kernel. They also supply a
linux-specific "shim" which provides an interface between the linux
kernel and the nvidia binary blob, and they provide the source of that
linux specific shim in the download.

Seriously, where's the crime?

Joe
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Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux?

[Rajko M.]

On Friday 25 January 2008 09:33:38 am Simon Roberts wrote:
> GIMP is only 8 bit.

Sounds strange. Do you mean 8 bit per color?

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Re: [opensuse] amavisd warning failure?

[Sloan]

Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
>
> Most strange since I have both amavis and clamav installed.?? Although
> Linux 'doesn't' get virii, I am receiving mail from Windows boxes and
> would like to check the stuff before I send it on to more windows boxes.
>
> What next, un-install and then reinstall amavis and clamav and anything
> else to do with virii i.e. ignoring the dependency warnings and
> continuing as the dependencies will be met when the app is re-installed?
>   
No, reinstalling won't fix the problem - just make sure the amavis
config file matches the clamav config file as to the location of the
listening socket. A mismatch there is the problem.

Joe


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Re: [opensuse] Strange SATA problems with openSUSE

[Clayton]

> If all is good with a couple disks, and then starts failing with more,
> I would expect the PS to be the problem.

True, but I can have two drives connected to SATA 1 and 2, and a
third drive connected to SATA 3 sends things for a loop.  If I do not
connect anything to SATA 3 and 4,instead connecting 2 drives to the
motherboard and 2 drives to my 3rd party RAID card... everything works
fine... so with 3 drives I get failures, but with 4 it's fine as long
as the 3rd and 4th are not plugged into the motherboard SATA
controller.

I have a fairly new 600W PSU from BeQuiet in the case... so there
should be enough power for all devices.

I have done some more digging, and it might be related to an obscure
problem with the sata_nv kernel module.  Some people are reporting
similar problems.. not identical, but similar.  I found most of the
info via a long search through the mailing list archives at kernel.org
(thanks for the pointer Felix).  It only seems to affect some people
though... and I am not clear yet what exactly is going wrong... or if
there is a fix or patch to clear it up anywhere.  Still looking.


> * If you have an extra power supply lying around, connecting some of
> SATA devices to a separate PSU (don't do it for PATA) and seeing whether
> the problem continues and on which devices is a great way to rule out
> power problem.  You can power up a PSU without connecting it to a system
> by...
>
>  http://modtown.co.uk/mt/article2.php?id=psumod

I will give that a try and see.  I think I have a spare 400W PSU somewhere...

C
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Re: [opensuse] Adding php-mssql shared object to opensuse 10.3 to use freetds

[Sloan]

Moby wrote:
> While this is not exactly what you asked for, we use php to connect to
> MS SQL Servers on OpenSuse 10.3 via unixODBC.
>
> PHP uses ODBC through unixODBC, unixODBC then uses the FreeTDS ODBC
> drivers to connect to SQL. Works like a charm.

That's interesting - we didn't have any luck with that, couldn't ever
get the freetds drivers to connect successfully to the pc sql server and
ended up going with the easysoft odbc drivers, which worked like a charm
out of the box.

Does the pc sql server have to be operated in some sort of compatibility
mode or something, to allow interoperability with the freetds drivers?
I'm curious if we might have missed something.

Joe

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Re: No VGA Input (was: Re: [opensuse] WARNING! - Latest Update Kills Server)

[Rajko M.]

On Friday 25 January 2008 10:44:07 am D Henson wrote:
> I now get no display at all, not even the stuff you normally get when
> you boot the system. Correct me if I'm wrong but shouldn't any PC
> monitor display that stuff, regardless of whether or not a driver is
> installed? All that I do get is "No VGA Input" and "Monitor going to
> Sleep". This sounds like a hardware problem. I removed my existing card
> (GeForce 2) and installed a newer one (GeForce FX 5200). No display.
> Reinstalled the older card. Replaced VGA cable. No display. Removed
> power for 20 seconds & reconnected power. No display. Replaced monitor
> with known good monitor. No display. Now I'm really lost.
>
> Anybody have any suggestions on how to proceed?

It sounds like your problem has nothing to do with latest updates :-( 

Check is there any lights on computer, any noise.

If yes, than opening the box is next step. 

Reseat all components, RAM first, than all cables you can see. 
Power on.

If nothing happens.
Strip down all components on motherboard to bare minimum ie.:
- power supply
- one RAM module and
- graphic adapter

If you have known good components use them. It will tell you on the spot is 
motherboard OK or not. 

Try to reboot. 
If nothing happens look to reset CMOS RAM, usually there is some jumper, or 
simply pull the battery out and replace it. Don't rush, let capacitors 
discharge. 
Power on.

If nothing.
Do as you already did replace graphic adapter, than RAM, power supply one at 
the time and power on to check is there any changes. 
 
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Re: [opensuse] postfix relay host problem.

[Per Jessen]

Carlos E. R. wrote:

> So... what is the proper configuration of the transport file, so that
> all mails are sent through my ISP relay host, with some exceptions,
> like local mail?
 
> I think I also need to define my transport based on the "FROM"
> address, not the destination, but I don't know or rather forgot if
> this is possible. Guess I'll have to RTFM. O:-)

Hola Carlos,

I think you need to look up the sender_dependent_relayhost_maps
parameter in postfix.  



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Re: No VGA Input (was: Re: [opensuse] WARNING! - Latest Update Kills Server)

[Jonathan Wilson]

On Friday 25 January 2008 10:44:07 D Henson wrote:
> I now get no display at all, not even the stuff you normally get when
> you boot the system. Correct me if I'm wrong but shouldn't any PC
> monitor display that stuff, regardless of whether or not a driver is
> installed? All that I do get is "No VGA Input" and "Monitor going to
> Sleep". This sounds like a hardware problem. I removed my existing card
> (GeForce 2) and installed a newer one (GeForce FX 5200). No display.
> Reinstalled the older card. Replaced VGA cable. No display. Removed
> power for 20 seconds & reconnected power. No display. Replaced monitor
> with known good monitor. No display. Now I'm really lost.
>
> Anybody have any suggestions on how to proceed?
>
> Don Henson

Do you have a CRT or an LCD laptop? Please check to make sure the monitor's 
settings haven't been corrupted. Just this week I had a friend call and say 
his big 24" LCD monitor wasn't working anymore - no lights, no display. After 
poking a lot of buttons I finally figured out that it had just lots it's 
mind - was listening to the wrong input, was set to partial resolution, a 
bunch of things. I assume a surge hit the monitor or something.

You are saying, I take it, that you do not see even the BIOS messages 
scrolling by when you first boot up. That makes me wonder if the BIOs is set 
to send it's output to something other than the AGP/PCIe port. 

Is there  a built-in VGA on the mainboard that you are not using? If so, plug 
your monitor into it and see if it's getting signal. If so you'll have to go 
into the BIOS and tell the BIOS to use the AGP/PCIe port (it will probably be 
an options called "Init Display First"

You might also need to clear your CMOS memory. How to do this depends on the 
specific computer. Its usually done by moving a jumper temporarily.

Is the computer turning on at all? Go you get power lights, do the fans start 
to turn when you turn the computer on?

If so and my pervious advice still doesn't work, you might try using a PCI 
video card too, at least temporarily.

JW


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Re: [opensuse] Strange SATA problems with openSUSE

[Greg Freemyer]

I did not follow all the scenarios, but SATA is very, very picky about
power supply issues.  And has been the cause of about 50% of the
reported issues on linux-ide.

If all is good with a couple disks, and then starts failing with more,
I would expect the PS to be the problem.

There is good news:  The Sata cable does not have a ground line, so
you can power the drives from a different source than the rest of the
computer without fear of ground loops.  (A big issue normally.)

Quoting from the linux-ide list:

* If you have an extra power supply lying around, connecting some of
SATA devices to a separate PSU (don't do it for PATA) and seeing whether
the problem continues and on which devices is a great way to rule out
power problem.  You can power up a PSU without connecting it to a system
by...

 http://modtown.co.uk/mt/article2.php?id=psumod

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Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux?

[M9.]

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Simon Roberts schreef:
| OK, I've been wanting to answer this question for ages, but there's
just so much to say. In the end, I've given up trying to say everything
completely cohesively, and I'm just going to allow myself to ramble and
hope it helps some. First, a little background. I have a pretty good
computer background. I wrote 6502, Z80, 8088, 68000 and other machine
languages starting  25 years ago. I was a programmer for 15 years,
writing network protocol software before the TCP stack was generally
available, Unix device drivers, and a bunch of distributed control
systems. Eventually I moved to corporate teaching, which I still do. I
was using Linux to teach TCP and Unix system administration in 1994, and
other than Linux, I'm mostly a Solaris body. I have 3 Linux systems at
home, two of which dual-boot with windows so I can run Photoshop in a
color managed environment. I use VMWare for some other windows stuff
that's less crucial to me. I also have a dual processor
|  SPARC/Solaris 10 system. I loath and detest bill gates and everything
he stands for. I regularly point out to my students that his company is
a marketing company (very effective one, sadly) not a technology
company. I believe they've never invented anything good, and have
damaged many, if not most, of the ideas they've "appropriated". Until
about 6 months ago, I was on a one man crusade to try to get my friends
all using Linux. Around about then (after one success,yay! :) I finally
gave up :( I can't begin to tell you the heartache, sadness, and sense
of failure I felt when I reached that decision. Anway, what follows are
some of the key/memorable personal experiences that wore me down and
made me give up. Please remember that I love Linux, I love the people
who put their effort into creating and maintaining it, and I think it
has improved tremendously in recent years. I blame nobody for the
"weaknesses" outlined below, other than what I see as bill
|  gates' unreasonable and amoral (but sadly, probably entirely legal)
practices.
|
| 1) Hardware issues.
|   If you just walk into a store and ask for a machine that will be
good to go with Linux, they'll look at you blankly. It's a major effort
to check the details yourself. Most off the shelf machines don't tell
you exactly what cards they contain, and then it's often hard to find
the devices in the HCLs.
|   New hardware--inevitably--is most likely to be unsupported or buggy.
|   Finding the HCLs used to be hard. I just checked, and this seems to
have been fixed (thanks someone! :)
|   HCL is online, and I don't usually have access to the internet when
I'm in a store browsing!
|   Whichever way you slice it, having to care about the exact hardware
is a pain. I don't see any way (other than having the leverage of
micky$loth) to get round this, and I certainly laud the efforts that
have been made to improve life
|
| 2) Photography related. I use Windows to run Photoshop CS2 in a color
managed workflow. In this, Linux doesn't cut it for two reasons:
|
|   Color management. I tried to work out how to do the LCMS stuff, and
a bunch of related color management options I though I was looking at,
and just gave up, too much like hard work. Also, I seem to have the
wrong colorimeter hardware already and am not willing to pay all over
again for something else.
|
|   GIMP is only 8 bit. That's fire in theory, but when you mess with
stuff much, you quickly run into posterization (I see this even in some
professional's work and while those in question don't seem to care, I
personally hate it).
|
| 3) Irritations with web plugins. Idiots out there keep writing stuff
that's windows only, and there always seems to be trouble trying to get
the latest Flash player. When it's available, it's tricky to install.
|
| 4) Palm pilot-:
|   Several versions of palm device just don't sync, needless to say,
this includes some that matter to me.
|   I don't know how to sync my palm and evolution-etc. with web
calendars like google or yahoo. That's important to me. I gave up using
my palm pilot because of this. Consequently, I'm appallingly badly
organized and regularly double book myself and miss meetings.
|
| 5) Video; I have failed repeatedly to build a system that plays all
reasonable kinds of video. Mostly this seems to be a deliberate policy
on bill gates' part (and the lawyers and the evil patent system, of
course). I've reached the point where I can do most file types with the
exception of AVI with the type 9 codec.
|
| 6) Strange inconsistencies ("That can't happen"):
|
|   These are really hard, time-consuming, and often fruitless to debug.
My laptop (dual core 64bit Intel) won't shut down without crashing the
kernel. It will hibernate, and the file system journaling means that
I've been able to kill it when I have to shut it down completely, but
it's still irritating, and I long-ago gave up trying to fix it.
|
|   Updates that break things, the various me

Re: [opensuse] Open Source Graphics Cards

[Druid]

> >> linux
> >> 3. the linux license nazis scream "lawbreaker!"
>

Sloan,

Dont like the GPL? Dont use the GPL software.

Regards

Marcio
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No VGA Input (was: Re: [opensuse] WARNING! - Latest Update Kills Server)

[D Henson]

I apologize for not responding to some of you but the symptoms have 
changed. I'll get to that in a moment. First, I want to clear up some 
apparently mistaken assumptions about me and my system.


From some of the comments, it appears that many of you think I'm a 
professional system administrator with a 'significant' system. (I take 
this as a complement, by the way.) While I am an IT professional, I'm 
not a *professional* system administrator. The system I administrate is 
a small home network with a server/workstation (the one that's broke), a 
dual-boot workstation, and a Windows laptop. I guess you could say that 
I'm a part-time administrator. Now to the new symptoms.


I now get no display at all, not even the stuff you normally get when 
you boot the system. Correct me if I'm wrong but shouldn't any PC 
monitor display that stuff, regardless of whether or not a driver is 
installed? All that I do get is "No VGA Input" and "Monitor going to 
Sleep". This sounds like a hardware problem. I removed my existing card 
(GeForce 2) and installed a newer one (GeForce FX 5200). No display. 
Reinstalled the older card. Replaced VGA cable. No display. Removed 
power for 20 seconds & reconnected power. No display. Replaced monitor 
with known good monitor. No display. Now I'm really lost.


Anybody have any suggestions on how to proceed?

Don Henson

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Re: [opensuse] Open Source Graphics Cards

[Greg KH]

> Sloan wrote:
> > They have tried, but their answers make no sense,
> > and fall apart as soon as you take a close look.
>> I don't see what good this witch hunt can do -
>> 1. nvidia makes video cards.
>> 2. they write drivers for those cards, for windoze, solaris, freebsd and
>> linux
>> 3. the linux license nazis scream "lawbreaker!"

"Nazis"?  Ugh, have we already sunk that low in this thread?

What would you call a company that took legal action against another
company that was violating the copyright license for source code it had
created?

Ok, so why is it any different when an individual developer does the
same thing?

Actually, if you look closely, a large majority of the copyright owners
of the Linux kernel today are very big companies, with lots of very good
lawyers.  If you want to go up against IBM, Intel, HP, Novell, Red Hat,
and other legal teams, fine, go violate the copyright of the Linux
kernel, for all of these companies have publically stated that it is
a violation of the license that the Linux kernel was released under to
distribute closed source Linux kernel drivers.

Are you calling those companies "Nazis" now?

So sad,

greg k-h
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Re: [opensuse] complete system halt..

[David Bolt]

On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, PerfectReign wrote:-



>This is the same behavior I was witnessing on my nw9440 (Compaq/HP)
>laptop prior to downgrading to Vista a few weeks back.

In my case, with an Acer Aspire 3002LMi, using 10.1 I had hard locks if
power management was enabled. The only way to recover was to pull the
battery and power cords. After I installed 10.3 as well, I don't get the
hard locks when using 10.1 unless the it starts using the battery[0],
and using 10.3 is fine whether I have mains power or not.


[0] I get round this by having a second entry in the grub menu that
disables ACPI for when I know I'll be using 10.1 on batteries.

Regards,
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Re: [opensuse] amavisd warning failure?

[Carlos E. R.]

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The Friday 2008-01-25 at 18:06 +0200, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:


The Wednesday 2008-01-23 at 15:57 +0200, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:


Looking at the Alt-Ctrl-F10 tty I see that anavis is warning that 'all
primary virus scanners failed, considering backups'


It only means that you don't have an antivirus installed. Once you
install any one, amavis will detect and use it. Or don't install any,
and disable antivirus checking:


Most strange since I have both amavis and clamav installed.??


Strange indeed.


What next, un-install and then reinstall amavis and clamav and anything
else to do with virii i.e. ignoring the dependency warnings and
continuing as the dependencies will be met when the app is re-installed?


Possible... but I don't know if that would work. I think not.


@bypass_virus_checks_maps = (1);  # controls running of anti-virus code


And it can be accessed how as 'man' has not heard of it and
etc/sysconfig hasn't either?


amavis-new has no man page; there is 
/usr/share/doc/packages/amavisd-new/README_FILES/amavisd-new-docs.html, 
but the configuration file is "/etc/amavisd.conf".


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Re: [opensuse] ktorrent

[Russ Fineman]

On Thursday 24 January 2008 08:14:44 pm Joe Sloan wrote:
> David C. Rankin wrote:
> > No firewall enabled, ktorrent just runs for a few hours and dies. This
> > is on a 10.0 box where (aside from ktorrent) everything else works
> > flawlessly. I mean flawlessly. It runs until I take it down for
> > maintenance, uptimes of 75 days +.
>
> Pardon me if this has already been answered but have you successfully
> downloaded torrents with other programs e.g. Azureus? If not, I'd fathom
> a guess that your ISP is filtering p2p traffic...
>
> Joe
Will be trying Azureus as soon as I download it and install it. I finally got 
a complete download but it took along time 9over 4 hours on 100mb fiber. It 
could be my ISP.


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Re: [opensuse] How can I give the password to an ssh session on the command line?

[Carlos E. R.]

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The Friday 2008-01-25 at 10:01 -0500, james wright wrote:


On Friday 25 January 2008 08:37:24 am Ken Schneider wrote:



Try using expect to do what you want. I used expect when connecting to
Cisco routers to do configuration changes with the password embedde3d in
the expect script.


Ah, expect! Got the name wrong.


You should obviously read the man page, but if you want to start having fun
right away, paste the below script into a file, change the name, host, and
password to fit your environment and run it with:

expect FileYouSaved

Here is the script:

#!/usr/bin/expect
spawn ssh -l UserNameHere 192.168.1.111
expect Password:
send "PassWord\n"
interact


Note:  You need the \n at the end of your password.



Good! Seems easy... but doesn't quite work. I have:

#!/usr/bin/expect
spawn ssh -l 1234 router
#expect [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:
expect Password:
send "password\n"
interact


but I get:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> router_ssh
spawn ssh -l 1234 router
[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:


and it doesn't enter. I modify the script:

#!/usr/bin/expect
spawn ssh -l 1234 router
expect [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:
send "password\n"
interact


and now I get:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: invalid command name "password:"
while executing
"password:"
invoked from within
"expect [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: "
(file "/home/cer/bin/router_ssh" line 3)


I escape the ' with \ and still I get:


[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> router_ssh
spawn ssh -l 1234 router
[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: invalid command name "password:"
while executing
"password:"
invoked from within
"expect [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: "
(file "/home/cer/bin/router_ssh" line 3)


Why is it trying to execute "password"? That's absurd.

Ah! I got it!

expect "[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: "



Well... now I want one step more:


#!/usr/bin/expect
spawn ssh -l 1234 router
expect "[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: "
#expect Password:
send "\n"
send "ping -c 5 192.168.1.12"
interact



[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> router_ssh
spawn ssh -l 1234 router
[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:
 ->


The ping command is not sent... Ah, got it!

expect "[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: "
send "\n"
expect " ->"
send "ping -c 5 192.168.1.12\n"
interact



  THANK YOU!   :-)))


(I need the router to send pings to my PC, or this computer stops working 
- - that's another story, there is a bugzilla about it)



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Re: [opensuse] kernel 2.6.22.13-0.3-default causes instant reboot on Dell GX270

[Julian Dunn]

>>> On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at  1:36 PM, Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> On 2008/01/24 11:26 (GMT-0500) Julian Dunn apparently typed:
> 
>> I have a Dell GX270 here (Pentium 4 with HT) that will instantly reboot 
> early in the kernel boot process with the above OpenSuSE kernel (I have 10.3 
> installed). The only way I can get it to boot is to use the failsafe option 
> in GRUB.
> 
>> How can I start to debug this problem?
> 
> Grub provides you the option to edit the cmdline on the selected kernel. Try
> removing one additional parameter per boot from the failsafe selection until
> you see which one's removal reproduces the problem.

Looks like turning off Hyperthreading in the system solved this problem. System 
did not have problems with HT turned on and SLED 10, so there must be some bug 
in this version of the kernel, oh well :-(

- Julian



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Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux?

[Stevens]

On Friday 25 January 2008 10:06, Billie Walsh wrote:
>
> Big hassle. Plop in the CD that comes with whatever, click a few check
> box's, and it works. Bigger hassle, go to the web site and download a
> file. Run the file. Click a few check box's. It works.
>
> OK, OK, OK! I know it's not a "LINUX" problem. HOWEVER, it is a problem
> FOR Linux.
>

Billie:

That is the reason why Gates & Co are so big. They figured early on what it 
would take to get those ordinary morons to buy and use computers. 

As that old commercial said, "We don't want tunas with good taste, we want 
tuna that tastes good". 

Every Linux enthusiast who doesn't realize that you gotta "Keep It Simple, 
Stupid!" will never really understand what it takes to get Linux to the 
mass market. In today's reality Linux and, by extension, software that
runs on that platform, is just too much of a hassle for most people to 
accept. Most people don't want to take the time to screw around with a 
tool that they are trying to use to do a job.

Gates approach is absolutely correct. If it weren't, 80% or more
of the world's computers wouldn't be running his software. If those
in the Linux community want greater penetration of the market,
their mindset has to change.

Fred
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Re: [opensuse] USB to ATA IDE Adapter, howto boot from it?

[Philipp Thomas]

* John Andersen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20080124 23:05]:

> Have you actually DONE this?  It sounds like speculation
> to me.

How do you think your kernel boots, given that the ide/sata/scsi drivers
and the drivers for the file system you use aren't compiled into the kernel?
They're loaded via the initrd and that incorporates the drivers that the
install determined to be needed.

I haven't tried with USB, but with any other boot media I've encountered. If
the kerrnel can boot off that media, it can also load the initial ramdisk
and that in turn is easiest built by using mkinitrd.

Philipp

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Re: [opensuse] amavisd warning failure?

[Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)]

Joe Sloan wrote:
> Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Looking at the Alt-Ctrl-F10 tty I see that anavis is warning that 'all
>> primary virus scanners failed, considering backups'
>>
>> What should I do to rectify this problem i.e. I assume update amavisd,
>> but how, at least via YAST?
> 
> You either don't have clamav installed, or have changed the
> configuration so that it's not listening to the port or socket that
> amavisd expects.
> 
> If you do have clamav installed there should be additional warnings,
> something about a socket.

I have clamav installed, have not changed anything and there are no
socket warnings that I could see on the Alt-F10 list.

So, now what?
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Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux?

[Stevens]

On Friday 25 January 2008 09:33, Simon Roberts wrote:
> 
> . Meanwhile, Linux seems to me to be a 
> good choice for companies where one install effort can be rolled out to
> hundreds of users, but less viable for intermediate home users who want
> to do interesting and different things, but aren't able to help
> themselves. The really basic users, who browse, send email, write the
> odd document, and look at jpeg images from their cameras have no
> problem. 

Simon:

Thanks for an excellent rant. I couldn't agree with you more. I share
your view of Gates & Co and your frustration with the steep learning
curve needed to transition from M$ to Linux for those intermediate
users which, unfortunately, is where most home users are. My mom
is almost 84 and she is running opensuse 10.2. All her apps are web
based: email and web browsing. She could be running a diskless
box with a live cd for all she cares. She is very computer
illiterate but she manages to read her bank account online and
can tell which renters have paid on time and she can read her mail.
Anything else stretches her tired old brain too far.

She is my only success story. My daughter and family had an
opensuse system but the slope-headed son-in-law had to have
Windows for his games. Their hardware is too limited to run
VirtualBox and wine doesn't run the games so they have WinXP
and a crapper full of trojans, etc which I won't fix. Tit for tat.

Sorta ditto for my other kid who is involved in some serious online
realtime high performance gaming which would be a major pain
in the ass to get working with Linux, if it were at all possible. So,
I use Linux primarily, have VirtualBox to use those Windows apps
that I need for business and, on those rare occasions where a
VB session won't work right, I have a bootable XP drive on the bus
that I can bring up. 

I have had more success with moving people to OpenOffice from
M$. I believe that once they learn firsthand that they can wean
away from Gates, they are more apt to look at an alternative to
Windows. But I also draw to inside straights.

Fred

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Re: [opensuse] amavisd warning failure?

[Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)]

Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
> On 01/23/2008 09:57 PM, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
>> Looking at the Alt-Ctrl-F10 tty I see that anavis is warning that 'all
>> primary virus scanners failed, considering backups'
>>
>> What should I do to rectify this problem i.e. I assume update amavisd,
>> but how, at least via YAST?
>>   
> What antivirus programs do you have installed?  Amavisd update will not
> fix this problem, it is saying your antivirus program has a problem.  A
> couple good possibilities are antivir and clamav.

To my knowledge I have both installed, at least when I last checked.
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[opensuse] postfix relay host problem.

[Carlos E. R.]

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Hi,

I though I had this solved, but it is not so.

I had defined:

relayhost = [smtp.telefonica.net]


but my stupid ISP rejects some from domains I need to send from, like 
@users.sourceforge.net to @lists.sourceforge.net.


This is the verbose log excerpted:


Jan 25 14:47:04 nimrodel postfix/smtp[31626]: < 
smtp.telefonica.net[213.4.149.228]: 220 ctsmtpout3.frontal.correo ESMTP Service 
(7.2.056.6) ready
Jan 25 14:47:04 nimrodel postfix/smtp[31626]: > smtp.telefonica.net[213.4.149.228]: EHLO nimrodel.valinor 
...
Jan 25 14:47:04 nimrodel postfix/smtp[31626]: > smtp.telefonica.net[213.4.149.228]: AUTH LOGIN 
...

Jan 25 14:47:04 nimrodel postfix/smtp[31626]: < 
smtp.telefonica.net[213.4.149.228]: 235 LOGIN authentication successful

I am thus authenticated, no?

Jan 25 14:47:04 nimrodel postfix/smtp[31626]: > smtp.telefonica.net[213.4.149.228]: MAIL 
FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=4437 BODY=8BITMIME AUTH=<>
Jan 25 14:47:04 nimrodel postfix/smtp[31626]: > smtp.telefonica.net[213.4.149.228]: 
RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ORCPT=rfc822;[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jan 25 14:47:04 nimrodel postfix/smtp[31626]: > 
smtp.telefonica.net[213.4.149.228]: DATA
Jan 25 14:47:04 nimrodel postfix/smtp[31626]: < smtp.telefonica.net[213.4.149.228]: 
553 MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> domain not accepted
...
Jan 25 14:47:04 nimrodel postfix/smtp[31626]: send attr diag_text = 553 MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> domain not accepted 
...

Jan 25 14:47:04 nimrodel postfix/smtp[31626]: C6751B73BC: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 
relay=smtp.telefonica.net[213.4.149.228]:25, delay=0.81, delays=0.08/0.07/0.58/0.08, 
dsn=5.0.0, status=bounced (host smtp.telefonica.net[213.4.149.228] said: 553 MAIL 
FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> domain not accepted (in reply to MAIL FROM command)


So I'm rejected, and I'm a client using an IP of them. I know this is not 
a problem on other countries, but... Spain is different. :-/



So I want to attempt sending again from my local postfix (yes, on dynamic 
IP). I remove the "relayhost = [smtp.telefonica.net]" line, and edit the 
transport file:


localhost   smtp:
valinor smtp:
nimrodel.valinorsmtp:

*smtp:smtp.telefonica.net


Problem? Local mails are sent to smtp.telefonica.net too - including 
emails of the content filter :-/



I then try:


localhost   smtp:nimrodel.valinor
valinor smtp:nimrodel.valinor
nimrodel.valinorsmtp:nimrodel.valinor

*smtp:smtp.telefonica.net


but I can't send local mails:


Jan 25 15:10:04 nimrodel postfix/smtp[721]: 66E8DD2D91: 
to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=none, delay=0.11, delays=0.11/0/0/0, 
dsn=5.4.6, status=bounced (mail for nimrodel.valinor loops back to myself)




So... what is the proper configuration of the transport file, so that all 
mails are sent through my ISP relay host, with some exceptions,

like local mail?

I think I also need to define my transport based on the "FROM" address, 
not the destination, but I don't know or rather forgot if this is 
possible. Guess I'll have to RTFM. O:-)


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   Carlos Robinson

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