Re: [opensuse] amavisd warning failure?
On 01/27/2008 08:54 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Sunday 2008-01-27 at 08:43 +0800, Joe Morris wrote:
On 01/27/2008 04:03 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I'll give clamav a try, but I have to find a way to disable
antivir: I
do not want both running. I'll check the config.
Check the clamd entry in amavisd.conf. All you would need to do is
comment out the entry for antivir for it not to be used.
I had to do way more.
First, comment out the section for antivir in amavis:
### Avira AntiVir (formerly H+BEDV) or (old) CentralCommand Vexira
Antivirus
#Cer
# ['Avira AntiVir', ['antivir','vexira'],
#'--allfiles -noboot -nombr -rs -s -z {}', [0], qr/ALERT:|VIRUS:/,
#qr/(?x)^\s* (?: ALERT: \s* (?: \[ | [^']* ' ) |
# (?i) VIRUS:\ .*?\ virus\ '?) ( [^\]\s']+ )/ ],
## NOTE: if you only have a demo version, remove -z and add 214,
as in:
## '--allfiles -noboot -nombr -rs -s {}', [0,214], qr/ALERT:|VIRUS:/,
This was all I was talking about, to NOT use antivir.
After installing clamav and started its daemon, amavis only detected
clamav as secondary scanner and as program, not daemon. I had to
un-comment clamd section:
# ### http://www.clamav.net/
# Cer
['ClamAV-clamd',
\ask_daemon, [CONTSCAN {}\n, /var/run/clamav/clamd],
qr/\bOK$/, qr/\bFOUND$/,
qr/^.*?: (?!Infected Archive)(.*) FOUND$/ ],
# # NOTE: run clamd under the same user as amavisd, or run it under
its own
# # uid such as clamav, add user clamav to the amavis group, and
then add
# # AllowSupplementaryGroups to clamd.conf;
# # NOTE: match socket name (LocalSocket) in clamav.conf to the socket
name in
# # this entry; when running chrooted one may prefer socket
$MYHOME/clamd.
This was mentioned in the thread.
But amavis failed to use it, because the socket was wrong. I had to
edit /etc/clamd.conf:
Better to edit amavisd.conf above to the correct path and name of the
clamd socket, i.e. /var/lib/clamsv/clamd-socket
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Re: [opensuse] Suse 9.2 need upgrade
On 01/26/2008 09:46 PM, Ronald Wiplinger wrote: I have installed on a machine still SuSE 9.2 I tried You to upgrade, but gives me just an error not found. How can I upgrade? To what should I upgrade? Upgrade to 10.3, 9.3 is already end of life, 9.2 has been for some time. You can download or buy the install discs from http://en.opensuse.org/Welcome_to_openSUSE.org HTH -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] amavisd warning failure?
On 01/26/2008 10:09 PM, Sandy Drobic wrote: My reason for clamd as primary and clamscan as secondary is, that the daemonized version is faster, so the slower command line scanner should only be used when the daemon is unavailable. Actually, I also have antivir installed (in parallel to clamd as primary). Both are looking for fresh signatures every hour. I learned something new. I assumed one primary was optimal, thus clamd is commented out by default with the suse amavisd and used as a secondary. I figured 2 primary may cause double scanning and load the server more or slow things down. But I guess I was wrong. I went ahead and corrected the socket path and name, uncommented the clamd entry, and reloaded, and it is now using clamd and antivir as primary and clamscan as secondary. Thanks again Sandy, you have taught me much over the years, and I am still learning. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] printer paused after using xsane
On 01/27/2008 05:37 AM, Ken Schneider wrote: openSUSE 10.3, up to date with patches. HP LaserJet 3300 all-in-one. Has anyone else come across the problem of xsane disabling the printer after using the scanner of an all-in-one device? I don't recall this happening with 10.0 which was installed previously. Perhaps this is the new default for printer/scanner devices? Are you sure it is xsane? Are you using hplip? version? I remember several folks having a problem with the cups-autoconf program disabling the printer due to a setting. I have a different device (Officejet 5610), and scanning (I use Kooka) works fine. I doubt scanning is the problem. If you are able to use the scanner, then permissions should be setup correctly. My guess is cups-autoconf. IIRC, it was set to disable if it failed to autoconf or something, which could be set to not do that. HTH. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] amavisd warning failure?
On 01/27/2008 04:03 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote: I'll give clamav a try, but I have to find a way to disable antivir: I do not want both running. I'll check the config. Check the clamd entry in amavisd.conf. All you would need to do is comment out the entry for antivir for it not to be used. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] printer paused after using xsane
On 01/27/2008 09:23 AM, Ken Schneider wrote: OK, to be a little more precise. Printer and scanner both work fine. But, after using the xsane program to scan something I have to use cupsenable in order to print again. And yes the backend is hplip. Assuming it does not only happen with xsane (which if it does, you should probably file a bug against xsane), check https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=334166 and see if this fix affects it, or uninstall cups-autoconfig. HTH. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] amavisd warning failure?
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] Update to Gimp 2.4
On 01/24/2008 03:50 PM, Jim Sabatke wrote: I removed my hand-made gimp and installed the packman version. Everything seems to work fine on it. I'll have to remember to d/l the rpms in the future as yast picks up another, non-EXIF version first. Thanks for the info, You can use the version tab in the qt version of Yast to specifically pick for instance the packman version, even if there are other versions with higher release numbers, etc. But glad it worked for you. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Update to Gimp 2.4
On 01/22/2008 08:59 AM, Jim Sabatke wrote: I did not try Pascal's version. I checked the files for gimp in yast before deleting it and they go into the same places that ./configure --prefix=/opt/gnome put them. Of course, I would rather have an RPM version. For me, the EXIF data show up on my photo website, which is where I noticed it was missing. I don't think I'm going to go back and re-edit the 100, or so, photos I've added before I noticed. You can also see the EXIF data in ufraw, but only in later versions. The 10.2 version is about 4 versions behind current and I don't believe it has EXIF support. I also hand compiled that one, which is no big deal as I believe it only produces one lib file. If you have ufraw available, then gimp will open raw files directly into ufraw and OK will take that file into gimp with EXIF data intact. It then writes it to jpeg files, but again only with the newer version if ufraw. Hope this all makes sense. Well, I think I learned enough to be able to check. I saw that some pictures had exif info, some did not. So I took one that did, edited it in Gimp24, saved a cropped version, and the saved version also had exif info. So IIANM, that should mean Pascal's version on Packman DOES support exif. HTH. BTW, I do have ufraw and ufraw-gimp also installed. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] amavisd warning failure?
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. HTH -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] permament symlinks in /dev
On 01/22/2008 07:32 PM, Juergen Weigert wrote:
I have attempted
/etc/udev/rules.d/99-cdrom.conf
containing:
KERNEL==dvd1 SYMLINK=cdrom, MODE=666
OPTIONS=last_rule
udev happily ignores this rule.
I'd expect to get a /dev/cdrom symlink.
But nothing is created, even after reboot.
Any hints how to debug?
It is controlled by 60-cdrom_id.rules, which calls a program called
cdrom_id, and 70-persistent-cd.rules contains the rules created by the
write_cd_rules script. For example, mine is:
# This file was automatically generated by the /lib/udev/write_cd_rules
# program, probably run by the cd-aliases-generator.rules rules file.
#
# You can modify it, as long as you keep each rule on a single line
# and set the $GENERATED variable.
# DVD_RW_ND-3520AW (pci-:00:0f.1-scsi-1:0:0:0)
ENV{ID_CDROM}==?*, ENV{ID_PATH}==pci-:00:0f.1-scsi-1:0:0:0,
SYMLINK+=cdrom, ENV{GENERATED}=1
ENV{ID_CDROM}==?*, ENV{ID_PATH}==pci-:00:0f.1-scsi-1:0:0:0,
SYMLINK+=cdrw, ENV{GENERATED}=1
ENV{ID_CDROM}==?*, ENV{ID_PATH}==pci-:00:0f.1-scsi-1:0:0:0,
SYMLINK+=dvd, ENV{GENERATED}=1
ENV{ID_CDROM}==?*, ENV{ID_PATH}==pci-:00:0f.1-scsi-1:0:0:0,
SYMLINK+=dvdrw, ENV{GENERATED}=1
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Re: [opensuse] Update to Gimp 2.4
On 01/21/2008 07:29 AM, Jim Sabatke wrote: Do you know if that compiled version includes EXIF support? If I were to hand compile, configure would pick up my EXIF lib, but the package I got from the SuSE site doesn't seem to have EXIF enabled. I would assume so, i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ rpm -q --requires gimp24 rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) = 3.0.3-1 gtk2 = 2.6.0 gnome-icon-theme /bin/sh /bin/sh rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) = 4.0-1 rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) = 3.0.4-1 /bin/sh /usr/bin/env libICE.so.6()(64bit) libORBit-2.so.0()(64bit) libORBitCosNaming-2.so.0()(64bit) libSM.so.6()(64bit) libX11.so.6()(64bit) libXau.so.6()(64bit) libXext.so.6()(64bit) libXmu.so.6()(64bit) libXpm.so.4()(64bit) libXrender.so.1()(64bit) libXt.so.6()(64bit) libaa.so.1()(64bit) libart_lgpl_2.so.2()(64bit) libasound.so.2()(64bit) libasound.so.2(ALSA_0.9)(64bit) libatk-1.0.so.0()(64bit) libaudiofile.so.0()(64bit) libavahi-client.so.3()(64bit) libavahi-common.so.3()(64bit) libavahi-glib.so.1()(64bit) libbonobo-2.so.0()(64bit) libbonobo-activation.so.4()(64bit) libbonoboui-2.so.0()(64bit) libbz2.so.1()(64bit) libc.so.6()(64bit) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3)(64bit) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4)(64bit) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4)(64bit) libcairo.so.2()(64bit) libcroco-0.6.so.3()(64bit) libcrypto.so.0.9.8()(64bit) libdbus-1.so.3()(64bit) libdbus-glib-1.so.2()(64bit) libdl.so.2()(64bit) libesd.so.0()(64bit) libexif.so.12()(64bit) libexpat.so.1()(64bit) libfontconfig.so.1()(64bit) libfreetype.so.6()(64bit) libgailutil.so.18()(64bit) libgconf-2.so.4()(64bit) libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0()(64bit) libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0()(64bit) libgimp-2.0.so.0()(64bit) libgimpbase-2.0.so.0()(64bit) libgimpcolor-2.0.so.0()(64bit) libgimpconfig-2.0.so.0()(64bit) libgimpmath-2.0.so.0()(64bit) libgimpmodule-2.0.so.0()(64bit) libgimpthumb-2.0.so.0()(64bit) libgimpui-2.0.so.0()(64bit) libgimpwidgets-2.0.so.0()(64bit) libglib-2.0.so.0()(64bit) libglitz.so.1()(64bit) libgmodule-2.0.so.0()(64bit) libgnome-2.so.0()(64bit) libgnome-keyring.so.0()(64bit) libgnomecanvas-2.so.0()(64bit) libgnomeui-2.so.0()(64bit) libgnomevfs-2.so.0()(64bit) libgobject-2.0.so.0()(64bit) libgpm.so.1()(64bit) libgsf-1.so.114()(64bit) libgthread-2.0.so.0()(64bit) libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0()(64bit) libgtkhtml-2.so.0()(64bit) libhal.so.1()(64bit) libjpeg.so.62()(64bit) liblcms.so.1()(64bit) libm.so.6()(64bit) libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit) libncurses.so.5()(64bit) libnsl.so.1()(64bit) libpango-1.0.so.0()(64bit) libpangocairo-1.0.so.0()(64bit) libpangoft2-1.0.so.0()(64bit) libpng12.so.0()(64bit) libpng12.so.0(PNG12_0)(64bit) libpoppler-glib.so.1()(64bit) libpopt.so.0()(64bit) libpthread.so.0()(64bit) libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit) libresolv.so.2()(64bit) librsvg-2.so.2()(64bit) librt.so.1()(64bit) libssl.so.0.9.8()(64bit) libtiff.so.3()(64bit) libutil.so.1()(64bit) libwmf-0.2.so.7()(64bit) libwmflite-0.2.so.7()(64bit) libxcb-render-util.so.0()(64bit) libxcb-render.so.0()(64bit) libxcb-xlib.so.0()(64bit) libxcb.so.1()(64bit) libxml2.so.2()(64bit) libz.so.1()(64bit) rpmlib(PayloadIsBzip2) = 3.0.5-1 Note, libexif.so.12()(64bit) is required. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Update to Gimp 2.4
On 01/22/2008 06:34 AM, Jim Sabatke wrote: snip I just removed gimp through yast, downloaded the newest version, compiled and installed it. I now have EXIF available. Jim Did you try Pascal's version from packman? It requires libexif, so I would assume it was built with exif support. Just curious as to why you built it, which must require many more devel packages to be installed that otherwise did not need to be. He is a highly respected package builder. When you say you have exif available, how do you know, or see. I am curious and would like to check this one, but see nothing obvious. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Update to Gimp 2.4
On 01/20/2008 02:29 PM, Joseph Loo wrote: I am worried about the dependencies. If I un-install the program it impacts sane, etc. I need to know what impacts on the other programs otherwise, i may need to re-install a series of programs. I installed the packman version of gimp24 2.4.3, which is the latest version from their web site, by Pascal Bleser, last night. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ rpm -q gimp24 gimp24-2.4.3-0.pm.1 It replaces the openSUSE version, which obsoletes gimp, and if you have it installed, gimp-devel. It also conflicts with the image pattern. You can safely uninstall the pattern (which marks for removal many image related packages). Just go to the Summary and keep all but gimp and gimp-devel (if installed). This works. BTW, I also needed to edit the startup icon, as it was pointing to gimp-2.2, but it is now gimp-2.4. It works great here, also on 10.3 x86_64 -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Easy backup for home users
On 01/20/2008 07:50 AM, Ciro Iriarte wrote: Hi, wouldn't it be a nice idea to include a tool similar to the Time Machine feature from OSX in Opensuse?, is there any project about that?. Home users would be really happy to recover a snapshot of a file they deleted accidentaly. I know there's rsync (I use it myself), but i'm talking about easy of use. There are some projects already working like Flyback and TimeVault. For versioned backups, I use storebackup. Once configured, it is really a no brainer. It runs from cron.daily, uses compression and hard links to make it super space efficient. Here at home (smaller needs and partition space) I have it keep 3 days worth backed up. At work, I now have it keeping 40 days worth of each file. It works very well for me. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Sshd _config options
On 01/18/2008 10:48 AM, Jim Flanagan wrote: To follow up on this, what would be involved for an automated process to log in as root in this manner? I would guess using sudo. I understand doing this manually, like any shell on the machine, but does there exist any automated login scripts that try to get user, then root, or is this considered too many steps to be practical from a crackers standpoint? Not sure, but you could allow a user restricted root commands using sudo, instead of suing to root to run a command. Also, if you set the SSH login to accept only a key (with or without passphrase), is it considered secure to allow direct root logins (or rather authentications) using a key only? I would think so, and is probably the best way to run a root required command remotely via ssh, since sudo would give the local user access to those root commands if local, while the key restricted root login would keep that process secure and not give more privilege to a user. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Sshd _config options
On 01/17/2008 11:22 PM, M. Todd Smith wrote: On Jan 17, 2008, at 10:08 AM, Kain, Becki (B.) wrote: I can't find a good write up of the options of PermitRootLogin - yes, no, without-passwd, etc... Can someone point me in the right directoin from 'man sshd_config' PermitRootLogin Specifies whether root can log in using ssh(1). The argument must be ``yes'', ``without-password'', ``forced-commands-only'', or ``no''. snip If this option is set to ``no'', root is not allowed to log in. Just for clarity, this means root cannot directly log in via ssh (best for security). After logging in via ssh, you can as a user su to root to do any kind of admin work. Root is not prevented from working via ssh if set to no, just not allowed to log in directly. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Java plugin for Firefox?
On 01/16/2008 05:17 PM, M9. wrote: j2re1.4.2/plugin/i386/mozilla/libjavaplugin_oji.so (BlackDown pkg) You did not get the amd64 package Do you agree to the above license terms? [yes or no] y Verifying archive integrity...OK Uncompressing Blackdown Java 2 Standard Edition Runtime Environment v1.4.2-rc1 for Linux/amd64.. Creating ./j2re1.4.2/lib/rt.jar Creating ./j2re1.4.2/lib/jsse.jar Creating ./j2re1.4.2/lib/charsets.jar Creating ./j2re1.4.2/lib/ext/localedata.jar Creating ./j2re1.4.2/lib/plugin.jar Creating ./j2re1.4.2/javaws/javaws.jar [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ Looks like you linked the wrong plugin. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ ls -l /usr/lib64/browser-plugins/ total 3236 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 89 2005-05-17 05:17 libjavaplugin_oji.so - /usr/lib64/Blackdown-j2sdk-1.4.2/j2sdk1.4.2/jre/plugin/amd64/mozilla/libjavaplugin_oji.so I don't undserstand how your amd64 Blackdown had an i386 plugin. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Java plugin for Firefox?
On 01/16/2008 07:14 PM, M9. wrote: Another thing: To test the java you go to: http://java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml If the red X is showing, the applet is not loaded. Correct, mine showed the red x. Right clicking in the frame gave me a choice to go to the java console, where I saw this error java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: testvmDynamicJavaCom (Unsupported major.minor version 49.0) Which only tells me the applet does not support this older version I am using (but the ONLY working 64 bit java plugin available). So there are more things that need to be done before Java works in a 64bits firefox. It does work for most things, but of course it is getting old. Why Blackdown could do it almost 4 years ago, but Sun still cannot, I do not understand. Seems not to be technical reasons, but political. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] email to fax
On 01/16/2008 03:17 PM, Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote: But I need to send out some letters I edited on my computer. I know there are plenty of companies offering such a service through a monthly payment. Most of them only support Windows and I am running SuSE. Moreover, it would be nice to have a pay-as-you-go service as I might send from home 1/2 faxes per year. Does anyone know of such a plan ? Thanks, Maura As I mentioned, an HP officejet, which includes a builtin fax, will do what you want. I am using an officejet 5600 with the hplip software, and it works very well. Maybe a different way than you are thinking, but very easy and not very expensive if you need to buy one. Check the hplip site at sourceforge for a list of supported printers if you need to buy. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Java plugin for Firefox?
On 01/15/2008 04:13 PM, Stan Goodman wrote: I've found BTW that somebody (probably many more) has opened a bug about this at Sun. Sun has put a note on it to the effect that a 64-bit plugin is committed for Java v1.7. No mention about when this will happen. I've been waiting for years. Don't hold your breath. I've also found the Blackdown Java v1.4.2, and will unstall it. Hopefully you mean install. Presumably I will need first to uninstall the Java 1.4.2 that YaST installed. Not at all. Since the Blackdown is not an rpm, it installs similar to uncompressing a file. Just install it to a directory, and link the plugin to /usr/lib64/browser-plugins I'm assuming also that I will need to make v1.4.2 the default JRE. If so, how do I do that? No need. You only really need it for the plugin. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Slow spamd/spamc
On 01/16/2008 03:38 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote: Hi, Since I updated to 10.3, I find spamd/spamc sluggish. My mail fetching setup is: fetchmail -- postfix -- procmail -- spamc/spamd A mail is scanned, then it stops for some seconds (almost no cpu usage) then it continues. It takes around 8 seconds per single email to check. I think it is querying some of the network databases that is slow. I believe that is the problem. Try commenting out # Enhance the uridnsbl_skip_domain list with some usefull entries # Do not block the web-sites of Novell and SUSE ifplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::URIDNSBL uridnsbl_skip_domain suse.de opensuse.org suse.com suse.org uridnsbl_skip_domain novell.com novell.org novell.ru novell.de novell.hu novell.co.uk endif # Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::URIDNSBL in /etc/mail/spammassassin/local.cf. HTH. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Java plugin for Firefox?
On 01/16/2008 03:14 AM, M9. wrote: Stan Goodman schreef: ** Reply to message from Joe Morris (NTM) [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:29:59 +0800 I've been waiting for years. Don't hold your breath. I've also found the Blackdown Java v1.4.2, and will install it. In fact,what I actually found was a _link_ to the Blackdown file. Now I have found others. What they all have in common is that they lead either to blank pages or to non-existent directories. The archived file seems to have vanished from the 'Net. Does someone know if it is present somewhere? Wow, seems the last place I downloaded it from has deleted it. I have it downloaded (the sdk not the jre version), but it is 32 MB. Not sure how to make it available to you. This package seems to have disappeared from all mirrors. Really too bad. Try the other link, you can ftp them down, many mirrors, surely there is one beside you. On 11.0 it does not work, firefox hangs on the java testpage, the manual shows a wrong way to symlink the plugin, What manual? system does not completely shutdown, had to use button. I threw away the symlink and the install, and than it wnt back to normal. What are you talking about? The pluginwrapper, that is installed by default does not work here either. That is to use a 32 bit plugin with a 64 bit browser. Blackdown has a 64 bit plugin. You can try it (BD) yourself, but it *might* be a waste of time, but maybe for you it is not. It is hardly a waste of time to have a working 64 bit java plugin, if you prefer to use a 64 bit firefox. The only thing that works is the 32bits fifefox, because there is only i mean i586. javaplugin Wrong. j2re1.4.2/plugin/i386/mozilla/libjavaplugin_oji.so (BlackDown pkg) You did not get the amd64 package -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Slow spamd/spamc
On 01/16/2008 08:07 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote: The Wednesday 2008-01-16 at 07:45 +0800, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: A mail is scanned, then it stops for some seconds (almost no cpu usage) then it continues. It takes around 8 seconds per single email to check. I think it is querying some of the network databases that is slow. I believe that is the problem. Try commenting out # Enhance the uridnsbl_skip_domain list with some usefull entries # Do not block the web-sites of Novell and SUSE ifplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::URIDNSBL uridnsbl_skip_domain suse.de opensuse.org suse.com suse.org uridnsbl_skip_domain novell.com novell.org novell.ru novell.de novell.hu novell.co.uk endif # Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::URIDNSBL in /etc/mail/spammassassin/local.cf. HTH. That does not disable that network test, and there are many other network tests. What it does is telling SA not to consider opensuse.org as a spammer site; ie, without those lines, opensuse.org will count as spammer. Besides, I do not want to disable network tests, they are quite useful. what I want is to analyze more emails at the same time. Commenting out ifplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::URIDNSBL will disable that plugin, which will stop the blacklist check, which on my systems get a lot of failures or slow DNS lookups. It does only that. It does not disable all network tests. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Slow spamd/spamc
Carlos E. R. wrote: The Wednesday 2008-01-16 at 08:20 +0800, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: Commenting out ifplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::URIDNSBL will disable that plugin, which will stop the blacklist check, which on my systems get a lot of failures or slow DNS lookups. It does only that. It does not disable all network tests. No, it does not stop the plugin at all. It justs add a list to the existing plugin. You are correct, sorry. It is /etc/mail/spamassassin/init.pre. Comment out URIDNSBL - look up URLs found in the message against several DNS # blocklists. # loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::URIDNSBL to stop the blacklists check. You could try it and compare before after to see if it significantly impacts spamassassin's processing speed. -- Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] email to fax
On 01/15/2008 05:07 AM, Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote: I have enrolled with a company service providing me with the facility of receiving faxed material directly to my home computer as an email attachment. I wonder whether the other way round is possible as well. That is I would like to send some material to a regular fax machine from my computer. I saw some mentioning in the ForgeNet web site. Any suggestion, please ? Possibly something straightforward to install and use. I have zero time to play around with hard installations. You can send a fax easily with an HP multifunction printer that includes a fax. It works more like printing than email, but sending a fax is easy with the hplip software. HTH. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] lost splash screen
On 01/09/2008 04:20 AM, jdd wrote: After a lot of tracking about having multiboot with vista, Xp, openSUSE 10.3 and USB :-))) I had lot of problems, now solved :-) but still one is not solved: I have no more the green screen during boot/shut down. my grub config is done by YaST, have the splash=silent and the message is 386Ko Make sure you have a gfxmenu line in your menu.lst file. Mine says gfxmenu (hd0,4)/boot/message -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] openSUSE 10.3 system freeze when reading secondary IDE channel
On 12/30/2007 03:57 AM, Theo Wollenleben wrote: Thank you for pointing my attention to the libata problem. Indeed when I start the Live CD with 'hwprobe=-modules.pata' no system freeze will occur. Apparently this boot parameter has no effect on an already installed system. Actually it does, but I suspect not what you were expecting. So if anybody knows how to disable libata without to reinstall, please tell me. I don't want to reinstall openSUSE 10.3 because the last time I went through the installation procedure one of my partitions was cleared from all data... You will need to change your drives device naming to correspond to the older method, i.e. hdx for ide, sdx for scsi (including cd and dvd drives) instead of sdx for drives and srx for optical (replace x with letter for drives and numbers for optical [no partitions]. This will need to be done in /etc/fstab, /boot/grub (at least menu.lst and device.map, as well as your modules used for your initrd in /etc/sysconfig/kernel and rebuild your initrd. Probably best to do all that after booting into the rescue system mode. HTH. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Install 10.3 on drive with the recover on it
On 12/21/2007 07:07 AM, Chris Arnold wrote: I am gonna try to explain this as clear as possible. I have an IBM thinkpad T43 and it has that other OS installed. It also has the recovery part on the hard drive that i do not want to destroy (as they did not ship recovery cd's with this system). I want to install suse 10.3 onto this ibm laptop without destroying the recovery section of the drive. The last time i tried this, i could not figure out how to do this without wipping-out the recovery section on the drive. Can anyone explain how to do this without formatting the entire drive? Do you know if the recovery partition is the first or last partition? You could find this either in Windows in the Logical Volume Manager, or through a live cd boot disk. If you want to be sure, I would recommend the gparted live cd, which will let you resize your Windows NTFS partition an add your necessary partitions for Linux, from which you could install 10.3 with great confidence. You can specify within the install exactly how and where it will install. Changing around the partitioning (and even formatting) within gparted (gui frontend to libparted IIANM) is quite intuitive and comfortable if you have some idea what you are doing. HTH. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Install 10.3 on drive with the recover on it
On 12/21/2007 07:47 AM, Chris Arnold wrote: Do you know if the recovery partition is the first or last partition? You could find this either in Windows in the Logical Volume Manager, or through a live cd boot disk. If you want to be sure, I would recommend the gparted live cd, which will let you resize your Windows NTFS partition an add your necessary partitions for Linux, from which you could install 10.3 with great confidence. You can specify within the install exactly how and where it will install. Changing around the partitioning (and even formatting) within gparted (gui frontend to libparted IIANM) is quite intuitive and comfortable if you have some idea what you are doing. HTH. According to the windoze logical volume manager, it appears to be the last partition In that case, I would definitely (if it were me) use the gparted live cd to make sure exactly what was happening, shrink the first partition, create a swap partition, then a logical containing 2 logical drives for / and /home, and then install 10.3 specifying those. I would also go ahead and format with gparted, but during 10.3 install let it format to be sure. This should not cause a problem with the recovery partition (which is usually a FAT partition with a specific partition code). With it being at the end, I would prefer to see exactly what I was doing, which is easier with gparted than the installer. HTH. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] My desktop has become lazy lately
On 12/20/2007 01:32 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote: I just tried, and my system crashed: echo jiffies /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource I tried again, in runlevel 3, and I discovered that the clock stopped. I tried again to go back to tsc, but the clock continued stopped. I tried to reboot, and reboot crashed. Is no good. * acpi_pm looses time, like several minutes per hour. * tsc appears to work well, but might be suspicious According to an error message on my system, I think your clock and lazy desktop are the same core problem. From your other posts, it appeared 10.3 introduced processor frequency control to your system. From my system, it says something to the effect, marking tsc as unstable due to cpufreq changes. My CPU does have Cool and Quiet, so it sounds correct. Mine uses therefore acpi_pm. jmorris:/home/joe # cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource acpi_pm I would therefore suggest to pass cpufreq=no as a boot argument, and use tsc, to see if that allows your clock to work correctly, without a cpu frequency change perhaps causing a lazy desktop spell. * jiffies doesn't even work, time stops, applications depending on the clock stop - even halt stops when issuing a beep because the beep never times out. Ouch. Sorry. I based that on what a few others wrote in. I had no idea it would cause such problems on your system. * pit I haven't tried. Should I? After what jiffies did, I wouldn't. Is this your system with xfs? Just trying not to offer bad advice. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] My desktop has become lazy lately
On 12/20/2007 08:25 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote: After what jiffies did, I wouldn't. Is this your system with xfs? Just trying not to offer bad advice. As a matter of fact, I do have some xfs partitions in my system, but not the root. Why? Do you think that clock problems can cause problems in xfs? That does interests me a lot, because the encrypted filesystem I mentioned above is xfs. No, nothing like that. I was just thinking of the effect of those kinds of crashes on xfs. I would feel really bad if the advice I gave caused a crash that corrupted a filesystem. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Having mdadm to email
On 12/18/2007 03:01 AM, André Malin wrote: With 10.2 having activitieson any drive (fail, remve,add) was emailing to root. Now, with 10.3, I d'nt get anything. There is any setup somewhere to have mdadm send an email in case of problem. Kindly, Andre. Same as 10.2. It is in /etc/sysconfig/mdadm MDADM_MAIL and perhaps MDADM_SEND_MAIL_ON_START, also reachable via Yast2 /etc/sysconfig Editor. These both assume you have mdadm running in monitor mode, which is most easily done via Yast2 Runlevel Editor. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] My desktop has become lazy lately
On 12/17/2007 10:20 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote: The Monday 2007-12-17 at 06:04 -0700, Jc Polanycia wrote: I have seen this type of behavior once before on one of our Sparc boxes. It would randomly stop processing, then wake up. You could watch the clock stop ticking and then start again. Some applications (that weren't looking for a clock tick) would be okay, but others (like Kerberos, for some reason) would stop responding. In that case it ended up being the onboard RTC. We had Sun swap out the system board and the box has been stable ever since. But I refuse to believe it can be a hardware problem, because 10.2 had no problems, and the problems started as soon as I upgraded to 10.3 Maybe it is not indicating a hardware failure, but the source of the problem. It sounds like it is related to your clock problem. Perhaps tsc is often marked as unreliable for a reason. Maybe try jiffies, since the acpi_pm seemed to cause your clock even more problems. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Audacity on 10.2
On 12/14/2007 10:13 PM, John ffitch wrote: That seems like a solution to my problems except I do not know HOW to upgrade my laptop to 10.3. Every attempt to install on other machines via CD+net has failed, and I have only had success with a DVD system; but my laptop does not have a DVD or CD (but i can borrow a USB/CD drive sometimes) I recently installed 10.3 from the mini.iso and net on an older computer with only a CDROM and CD writer (no DVD drive). It worked quite well. If you have a decent Internet connection, I would recommend it. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] ata2.0 post-mortem
On 12/15/2007 03:49 AM, Tom Patton wrote: Sometime after the online update last weekend, I developed problems in BOTH sata drives.../tmp on sda8 and /usr/lib on sdb2. Reiser reported bad blocks in those two partitions. Sounds like a problem in the reiserfs code. After two tries, reiser relocated the bad block in /tmp, but unfortunately was not able to correct the one in /usr/lib, saying it was in the reiser system section. If this was indeed caused by the update, have you tried booting with the rescue disk, which has the original kernel, and tried doing a reiserfsck on sdb2. It should have pre-update reiser code which should at least work. I now have a virgin 10.3 on an ide drive, and am able to mount all the other partitions, including two raid arrays. I have not lost any data, but can not restore the original (updated) system without having the /usr/lib files available. So I'm up a creek looking at re-installs of everything. Shouldn't be My question for the group here...well, actually two. First, isn't it strange to see problems on two (a Maxtor and a Seagate) drives at the same time? I'm leery of the update somehow! That definitely sounds fishy to me as well, worth a bugzilla AFTER you are running again. Second question...my laptop contains almost an identical load of programs, and the thought crossed my mind to try and copy its /usr/lib into master as a quick fix. Unless they have exactly the same mix of programs, not a good idea. However, it is an intel chip, and master is an Athlon...so I'm guessing there would be too many differences in the compiled libraries for that to work. Agreed? No, I don't think the processor would make that much difference. Thanks for any sane input here...;-) Tom in NM Try using the rescue system to check your filesystem. If that works, you could then copy the contents to your root partition and change your fstab (i.e. mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt, then cp /mnt /usr/lib), or some variation of that. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Java plugin OpenSuSE 10.3 x86_64
On 12/12/2007 04:50 PM, Olsson, Mattias wrote: Hi! I have been running OpenSuSE 10.2 x86_64 since it came out. All 64bit plugins i install are working. Are you sure? By default, 10.2 installed a 32 bit firefox because of plugin issues. Now i installed 3 new machines with 10.3 x86_64. But i just cant get Java plugin to work. 10.3 by default installs a 64 bit browser and a wrapper plugin to allow 32 bit plugins to work with the 64 bit browser. That wrapper does not work though with a 32 bit java. What is the correct link to create? ls -al /usr/lib64/browser-plugins/ javaplugin.so - /etc/alternatives/javaplugin libjavaplugin_oji.so - /usr/java/jre1.6.0_03/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so jre-1.6.0_03-fcs - works in 10.2, not in 10.3 java-1_6_0-sun-1.6.0.u3-0.5 - not in 10.3 java-1_6_0-sun-plugin-1.6.0.u3-0.5 - not 10.3 AFAIK, to use java in a 64 bit browser you will need to install an oldish Blackdown java 1.4.2. You will need to search for it, as their site has been taken down. That one has a functioning 64 bit java plugin. The only other thing you could do is install the 32 bit browser in 10.3. Then you do not need the wrapper, and the 32 bit plugins (flash, acroread, java) will work. HTH. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] [OT] spreadsheet data exchange format?
On 12/11/2007 09:05 PM, Zhang Weiwu wrote: Dear all, this is OT but I am not sure where to ask about it: Usually when we work on web applications and offer user some spreadsheets for downloading, my primary choice is CSV format. This is because both Excel and OpenOffice users can open it. Now we need to generate spreadsheet from the web application that has merged cells in it. This time CSV format doesn't work, it cannot represent merged cells. I prefer not to create Excel formats because I don't wish to encourage use of Excel format. I cannot use ODF because no one can open it (people use things like Excel 2003). PDF also doesn't work because we need to allow users to do some calculation based on table sell data. Is there another format I can offer? Would it be possible to go ahead and use the best choice, odf, and either allow them to use an add on for their MS Office, or co-install OpenOffice. It is still a free solution, and is better in the long run. Maybe they will learn OpenOffice is quite a viable choice and they will dump the MS tax. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Installation Problems
On 12/10/2007 10:55 PM, william oakes wrote: I have tried all suggestions. Downloaded the iso again, re-burned it at slower speeds, etc. and still wind up with a broken DVD. On attempting to install, still get message that it can't find the 10.3 repos. Md5 hashes match after download, but don't after burning the iso to DVD. Only the iso will match the md5 hash. It is a much more reliable test to test the DVD via the Yast media check, which obviously reads a different md5 hash made for the written DVD. There are some slight differences between the written DVD and the iso, I believe because of formatting of block sizes, or something like that. Media check utility IIRC has been available now since 9.3, and works on even the 10.3 DVD, since it retrieves info obviously on the DVD itself. Also, the 10.3 install offers to check the DVD as part of the install. So do not rely on the same md5 hash for the written DVD, it is different. If the downloaded iso matched, your download should be OK. If the disk passes the Media Check, it tests the disc (based on I assume the hash written to the disc, as well as the combination of the disc and drive reading capability (if checked on the machine being installed to). HTH. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Video 4x vs 8x question?
On 12/09/2007 08:44 PM, James Hatridge wrote: HI all, My motherboard can use a AGP 4x video card. I'm looking at an 8x video card. Will this 8x card work, just slower or not at all? It should work. Just make sure of the setting with sax2 when you set it up and limit it to 4x if needed. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] hwprobe=-modules.pata after installation completed
On 12/08/2007 07:05 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote: nimrodel:/usr/src/linux # mkinitrd ... Kernel image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.12-0.1-cer Initrd image: /boot/initrd-2.6.22.12-0.1-cer Root device:/dev/hdd6 (mounted on / as ext3) Resume device: /dev/hda5 Kernel Modules: processor thermal ide-core piix fan jbd mbcache ext3 edd reiserfs generic scsi_mod libata ata_piix ata_generic ide-disk usbcore ohci-hcd uhci-hcd ehci-hcd ff-memless hid usbhid Features: block usb resume.userspace resume.kernel Bootsplash: SuSE (1024x768) lddlibc4: cannot read header from `/usr/local/sbin/test': No such file or directory 46890 blocks I see it includes libata and also ide-disk, ide-core... but libata is not loaded on memory. Is it by any chance blacklisted? It appears it is loaded into your initrd because ata_piix and maybe ata_generic are in your initrd line in /etc/sysconfig/kernel file. Are those also not loaded according to lsmod? I wonder if you removed those from your INITRD_MODULES line, and rebuilt your initrd, if those 3 would be gone, and it would boot without the hwprobe line? Funny... raid modules are not included. I thought they should :-? I have a small raid partition for testing. That could explain an error I saw. I have raid1 module listed in mine (it better, I have a raid1 / and home). -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] hwprobe=-modules.pata after installation completed
On 12/08/2007 10:10 PM, Felix Miata wrote: On 2007/12/08 08:32 (GMT-0500) Carlos E. R. apparently typed: I rebooted without that option, and libata is not loaded, and I can access all my partitions. Now maybe the thread can get onto answering the reason why I started it, and the thread subject: does anyone know if hwprobe=-modules.pata has any meaning or relevance to anything other than the YaST installer? I sure don't understand your statement Felix. What do you think we were trying to do? It is obvious by what Carlos discovered by trial is that if the libata modules (in his case ata_piix and ata_generic) are not in the initrd, it boots even without the hwprobe line (if I understood what he did). It is also obvious with it in the boot arguments, that even if the libata modules ARE in the initrd, it keeps them from loading and allows the regular ide drivers to control. So hwprobe=-modules.pata does have relevance to more than the installer, but it is possible to work without it. It may not be able for the installer to work without it, since you can not change its initrd. At least that is my understanding AFTER the things Carlos has been willing to test. Mine would not be a good one to use to test, as I use libata. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Installation Problems
On 12/09/2007 07:03 AM, James Knott wrote: I have found DVD's tend to be a bit fussier than CD's. Can you burn CD images and use them? Another method is to loop mount the DVD ISO and share it via NFS. Then burn a network install CD and use that to do a network install from that shared ISO image. I have done this many times and it works well. However, one feature in 10.3 is the DHCP client on the install disks is busted, so you'll have to manually config the IP settings. I just the other day downloaded the mini iso and did a network install. The DHCP client worked on it. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] swap not available
On 12/07/2007 07:31 PM, Damon Register wrote: Carlos E. R. wrote: It is sometimes safer to have two disks not mounted as a raid, but a backup, updated daily (or as needed) and then umounted. Why? Because if you erase by accident a tree, or a program goes mad, or the kernel crashes, you are not protected by a raid: both copies will go bad at the same time. Raid only protects you from hard disk failure. I will go along with that. This is what an admin here at work suggested for my home setup. I used to have a soft RAID1 setup on SuSE 9.1 but the admin suggested that I would get slightly better performance without the RAID and I get the advantage you mentioned. The admin suggesting using rsync and that has been working quite well for me. It isn't an either/or situation. you can have both, if your drives are big enough. Raid 1 has advantages, backup with rsync, etc. Personally I have raid 1, an external backup via rsync, and use a versioned backup via storeBackup to another raid1 partition. They work very well for their intended strengths. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] hwprobe=-modules.pata after installation completed
On 12/08/2007 04:54 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote: The Friday 2007-12-07 at 14:08 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: On 2007/12/07 12:29 (GMT-0500) Carlos E. R. apparently typed: The Friday 2007-12-07 at 11:26 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: other than the YaST installer? Ok, ok, but it was Yast who wrote that parameter. kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/disk/by-label/H16A-22factory showopts noapic noresume splash=0 3 vga=788 # mount /dev/hda22 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,acl) /dev/hda7 on /disks/hda/boot type ext2 (rw,noatime,acl) /dev/hda14 on /home type ext3 (rw,noatime,acl) /dev/hda17 on /pub type ext3 (rw,noatime,acl) /dev/hda18 on /srv type ext3 (rw,noatime,acl) /dev/hda19 on /usr/local type ext3 (rw,noatime,acl) /dev/hda20 on /usr/src type ext3 (rw,noatime,acl) That is indeed a surprise to me. I'm utterly surprised... I don't understand. I'll have to try myself... I wonder if hwprobe=-modules.pata is passed to the installer, it includes the older module in the initrd and perhaps blacklists the libata one. Surely the initrd controls what module loads on boot to access the hard drives. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] vmware and fake scsi drivers-final
On 12/08/2007 07:08 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After trying a bunch of things on my problem of accessing a physical xp installation from my vmware server inside my 10.3 install, the final conclusion is that it can not be done. Suse 10.3 presents my hda1partition as sda1 to vmware and thus to all the virtual machines i can set up thru vmware, yet a dual boot configuration maintains the ide character of the hard drive. Thus, when booting from a dual boot, the doze partition knows it is an ide, when i try to access it thru vmware doze is being told it is a scsi! installing vmware's scsi driver allows booting from vmware, but it disables booting directly! trying to play tricks with hardware profiles and dual boot drive config is a catch 22 nightmare of doze impossibilities, as is changing a laptop main drive to scsi, so i gave up. next time i have a free day i will put back 10.2 on the laptop and stick to real hda's and sda's. thanks to all who helped:) d. Did you try the work around to disable libata to use the old system in 10.3? Boot with hwprobe=-modules.pata (from release notes). That would be much easier (and better IMHO) than downgrading to 10.2 just for that reason. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] hplip and family needs an update to 2.7.10
On 12/07/2007 05:15 AM, Robert Lewis wrote: I am using 10.3. rpm for hplip and family is 2.2.7-.37.2 So far I have not succeeded in installing my HP printer a PhotoSmart Hp2710. I had it working with HPLIP on 10.2 and 10.2. I notice on HP's WEB site they say: Release Notes: HPLIP 2.7.10 - This release has the following changes: (note the top one is listed here) 1) Made a change to 55-hpmud rules so that it also works for SUSE 10.3. Can someone please either point me to the repository that has these or put it out there for and update. Just add this to your Yast repositories http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/jsmeix/openSUSE_10.3/ -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] swap not available
On 12/07/2007 07:51 AM, Jim Flanagan wrote: Thanks for the great discussion on this! In my case I'm running a home server, that can be taken down for short periods of time when needed. I'm more interested in maintaining my setup and data, so I set up a raid1 to give me some redundancy here. That way if a disk encounters a problem between backups, I have some built in protection. I usually do a full backup every week, sometimes two, but not more than that. I don't have to have a failsafe setup here, but would like to not loose data. Your thinking is correct and sound. The reason I set up swap (and /boot, /, and /home) on raid was I was following the article about software raid on the opensuse wiki. That article indicated, and others I've read stated that in order to recover one lost disk with the other, ALL partitions on the disk had to be mirrored (not just /home for example). Is this true? No, that is not true. What is true is to recover, you need to be able to boot. Raid1 (assuming software raid1) can not be started by generic boot code in the MBR and needs to be booted via grub in the MBR, which is the Bios boot disk. If that dies, to be able to boot, you need to also have grub installed on the MBR of the second disk. After that, it can boot, load / and /home from only one disk if necessary. The only caveat is if you remove a disk (i.e remove the bad but do not replace) it will change disk naming), it could change disks mentioned in fstab). I have discovered if you change the BIOS boot order (i.e. to boot from the good disk if the bad disk is the one with grub on the MBR), it changes the order of the disks as far as GRUB is concerned, hd0 is now the other disk. BUT, once booted with the new disk in place, you can partition and add them to the running degraded array without reboot. I re-booted with the noresume option and can access swap now on the mirrored /dev/md1 so that's not an issue now, and I'm comfortable leaving swap mirrored on /dev/md1, but is that necessary or recommended? I did not, but it probably doesn't hurt. For performance sake I could make swap not raid, but what does that do to my recovery situation in the future if needed? NA. Software raid can run (and even be built outside of Yast) with only one disk. It would work as normal even if a disk went bad (though when it failed and then got removed it would run very slow for a few minutes). There is a lot of discussion regarding raid, and one thing I've learned is that there are many different implementations. Raid is not raid is not raid. It may be that the recovery issue related to the full disk being mirrored may be related to bios (fake) raid, and not an issue with linux software raid. But I am still unclear on this. So to ask my remaining question more clearly, can I recover a lost disk with the good one if it contains a mix of raid and non-raid partitions on it, or does the whole disk need to be raid1 for recovery? If you have data NOT mirrored on a bad disk, it is gone. All data should be mirrored. Since 8.2 IIRC it is no longer necessary to have a separate /boot to boot a raid partition. IMHO, swap is also not necessary, since that data is temporary by definition. I seldom see swap used. Everything else should be mirrored for data redundancy and protection. HTH. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] what is file /etc/aliases.YaST2save
On 12/05/2007 09:14 PM, David Bolt wrote: On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Roger Hayter wrote:- snip My understanding was that yast did not actually do anything with the aliases.YaST2save file, it just saves it in case it breaks something during an update, so that you can manually look in it to see what you had before the update. I could, of course, be wrong. AFAIK, if YaST2 is used to generate a file, in this case /etc/aliases and the original file has been modified by the user, YaST2 saves the file with the changes it's made to a file with the .YaST2save extension. I believe it is similar to rpmsave files. It is the original file saved with the YaST2save (meaning a backup created by YaST2). Yast does modify the original config file. SuSEconfig similarly does this as well. I do think you are correct though that it only does this when you have edited the file independently of Yast. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Help with Raid on 10.3
On 12/02/2007 03:32 PM, Jim Flanagan wrote: Greetings all, I'm trying to do a new install of opensuse 10.3 on a new server box. I'd like to have raid1 (mirror) set up with 2 drives. I don't know the full differences between md raid and dm raid, but I followed the instructions on installing md raid on the opensuse wiki, using yast to set up the raid partitions. The problem is the system won't boot on the first reboot after install. I originally set all partitions to be extended (not primary) which didn't boot. So I started over from scratch and set /boot as primary partition with all others, swap, /, /home, etc as extended, but it still won't boot. At this point I had enabled raid in the bios for both sata controllers, but not set up the raid volume in the motherboard raid controller. Switching gears I then tried setting up the dm raid in the bios and yast saw that as an nvidia_sometingorother and I believe that would have installed and booted, but I'm unsure whether or not I should use the dm raid or if the md raid is preferable. Mine did work, but I have had a fair bit of experience with md raid. First, you mentioned you had a separate boot partition. Is that also a part of your raid1? Since grub does not understand md raid yet, it needs to boot from the MBR of one of the drives. Obviously, the generic MBR (which boots the active partition) will not work with md raid, but that is the default. During install, you need to change where grub is installed, putting it in the MBR. On mine, my /boot is on my raid1 root. This is noted in grub's menu.lst. Grub finds the /boot/grub directory initially via one of the drives, i.e. sda5. It then loads stage 1.5, and the raid1 modules have to be a part of the initrd for it to find and use the raid1. When I upgraded our office server, I did change the defaults for grub, but it had no problems finding the raid1 root or boot, and installed quite smoothly, so it does work. Just remember, the default is a generic boot loader in the MBR, and grub is NOT installed in the MBR. Since if boot is on raid, that partition cannot be made active, so it cannot boot that way. GRUB needs to be installed in the MBR of the drive your BIOS is set to boot from. HTH. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Python freeze
On 12/01/2007 06:50 PM, Robert W Best wrote: Michal, I downloaded cx-freeze from download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mvyskocil/openSUSE_10.3/ In /root I have now freeze-3.0.3-2.2.src.rpm That is the source rpm. It might be easier to add the repository to yast and install it with software management. I click on it and on Install Packages with YaST YaST reads the SuSE 10.3 repository and says Error Following packages haven't been found on the medium: cx-freeze On Konsole: # rpm -iv '/root/cx-freeze-3.0.3-2.2.src.rpm' cx-freeze-3.0.3-2.2 # rpm -q cx-freeze-3.0.3-2.2 package cx-freeze-3.0.3-2.2 is not installed You are getting only source rpms. You need to install the already compiled, binary rpm packages. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Canon IP90V printer problem
On 12/01/2007 10:31 PM, Art Fore wrote: Have IP90V printer that I have been trying to get to work with SuSE 10.3 with no success. I have installed cnijfilter-common-2.70-1.i386.rpm and cnijfilter-ip90-2.70-1.i386.rpm via yast. When I setup the printer, it sets up fine, then do a test, cups says it is processing, but that goes forever and nothing prints. Tried installing cnijfilter-common-2.70-2.src.rpm Installing a source rpm just installs the source files in the rpm build directories (i.e. if root /usr/src/packages), so it definitely isn't an update. Try to find the built binary packages. which is supposed to be an update, but with yast I get Following packages haven't been found on the medium: cnijfilter-common Tried installing with rpmbuild but end up with unitelligible errors, at least to me they are unintelligible. Canon's Linux support is extremely bad. Hope you can figure it out. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Reply-to-List
On 12/01/2007 04:26 AM, Ken Schneider wrote: For anyone interested in getting Reply-to-List working in the latest version of Thunderbird for openSUSE 10.3 there is an updated xpi here: http://alumnit.ca/wiki/index.php?page=ReplyToListThunderbirdExtension It just plain works, finally. Thanks for the heads up. Mine has been working fine, but needed another extension, Mnenhy (it used to work with Enigmail, but that broke [enigmail, not reply-to-list] or at least changed behavior). Mnenhy had some annoying bugs (forwarding, etc.), so I am glad 3.0 no longer depends on either. Thanks again. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] 10.2 - printing sorta works
On 12/01/2007 10:24 AM, Felix Miata wrote: My printer is a LaserJet 4M with PS on ethernet. Printing a test page with YaST, or web pages with FF, SM Konq all work, but no matter what app I use to try to print a PDF, the online and form feed lights do their thing, but after a while stop without ever printing anything. Anyone know what to look for? What driver did you use. We use a 4Plus. i have found the hp-ijs driver to work the best. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Volume Mount Sequence
On 11/29/2007 09:23 PM, Donald D Henson wrote: Can anyone point me to an easily understandable procedure to make the external drives mount to the same mount point every time? Any assistance will be sincerely appreciated. Try Yast, System, Partitioner, and give them a label, and mount them by label. That should fix it. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Attyempted Update Stymied
On 11/30/2007 05:10 AM, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote: I was notified by the updater that I have need of cifs-mount, for Samba. The updater tried to install it but the effort ended with this message: Failed to mount cd:///?devices=/dev/sr0 on /var/adm/mount/AP_0x0001: No medium found (mount: No medium found) Problem downloading the package file from the repository: Failed to mount cd:///?devices=/dev/sr0 on /var/adm/mount/AP_0x0001: No medium found (mount: No medium found) Please, see the above error message to for a hint. What is this all about? How can I cure the problem? My guess would be that it needs to apply a delta to some package (perhaps a dependency) that it needs to install from your install CD/DVD. Just put in your DVD or CD, and it should work. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Volume Mount Sequence
On 11/30/2007 05:35 AM, Donald D Henson wrote: Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: On 11/29/2007 09:23 PM, Donald D Henson wrote: Can anyone point me to an easily understandable procedure to make the external drives mount to the same mount point every time? Any assistance will be sincerely appreciated. Try Yast, System, Partitioner, and give them a label, and mount them by label. That should fix it. Did all that. According to the partitioner, the volume label is 'Float' but when I look at properties, the volume label has not changed. I get the feeling that I'm missing something really simple here. I just can't figure out what it is. Did you umount the device, and perhaps unplug and replug (assuming USB external drives), then let hal remount. It should load to the mount point /media/Float. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] vsftpd ports
On 11/25/2007 07:15 PM, primm wrote: I've opened ports 20, 21 and 1025 to 1029 via SuSEfirewall2 on 10.3. If all the ports are taken is there a way of telling the next user to wait or try again later? As it is it just leaves them wondering and waiting and allowing more users makes the system too slow. Am I correct in assuming it's one port per user? ftp uses one control port and one data port. I have used it on outgoing ftp only so far, but I would suggest checking out the SUSE ftp proxy, proxy-suite is its package name. It helps a lot with a firewall. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Re: [opensuse-factory] 10.3 Review
On 11/21/2007 03:55 PM, Stanislav Visnovsky wrote: The installer is able to detect if there are old installations and get the list of the users also when doing a clean install side-by-side with other linux installation. I believe he referred to this functionality. I pleasantly discovered that when I did an update from 10.2. I decided when I had 9.3, and upgraded to 10.2, to add some disks and install on a fresh root. This time, I installed 10.3 cleanly on the old and reformatted former 9.3 / (home is on its own). It obviously scanned the 10.2 root and copied over all the users, saving me a ton of work. Next time I will just upgrade 11 over the 10.2 root. I remember how long it took to re-enter everyone when I upgraded to 8.0. Well done! -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] SAMBA options definitions
On 11/22/2007 07:31 AM, Bryen wrote: When using YaST2 to configure Samba shares, there are many many options available. Where can I get just a simple list of definitions for each option? Man samba or smb.conf doesn't offer a complete listing. I would suggest installing (if it isn't) samba-doc for the documentation, and the easiest way to get the details for each setting is to use swat, i.e. enable it in xinted and point a browser to http://localhost:901 -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Problems with package repositories
On 11/19/2007 06:37 AM, Daniel Antonio Peraza Cedrez wrote: Ok, thanks for the advice. But software.opensuse.org is the only repo I have configured so far, however, so I don't think that deactivating other repos would be necessary. I remember problems a few months ago with software.opensuse.org. Try downloads.opensuse.org. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Software RAID recovery
On 11/18/2007 05:57 AM, Johannes Nohl wrote: Dear list, hypothetically: How do I recover a software RAID 1? It was easy to install it, using 10.3 installer. But what do I have to do if something happens? Let's say one of two harddiscs is broken. OK, I turn the computer off, change the broken harddisc to a working one. And THEN? What do I have to do now? How do I get the mirrored data to the new disc? It is rather simple, but you didn't say what kind of RAID 1. I will assume linux software RAID 1, since you mentioned doing it via the installer. After replacing the disk, assuming it is a new disk, you first need to partition it. It needs to be the same size partitions as previously. For example here I have a raid 1 root (/) and /home. mdadm --detail /dev/md0 (which is root, md1 is home) will give you detailed info about your raid array, especially which partitions are part of the array. So, for mine it is /dev/sda5 and /dev/sdb5. Let's say /dev/sda went bad and was replaced. If it was now partitioned, mdadm /dev/md0 -a /dev/sda5 would add that partition back to the array. This would cause the array to sync (no need to format the disk) and copy over the data from the other disk. Caveat, assuming your BIOS is set to boot from sda (1st HD), grub will need to be reinstalled. Is there something like a primary and a secondary disc? No Is there a difference which harddisc dies? Not really. You can install grub on both MBRs, but since booting only happens from one HD, there is a difference. Could the system keep running if I just remove the damaged disc? Yes, assuming you had hot swappable disks. Does the installer have a option for recovering RAID? Not sure, but this can be done via command line. For more info, man mdadm. Any good documentation about RAID 1 known? I'm sure there is, but there are different kinds, which are quite different. There is true hardware raid through cards, there is fake raid, built in to many mainboards these days, and there is linux software raid. I am most familiar with the latter. man mdadm has a lot of good info. Google would also get you a lot of reading material. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] PCIe eSata Card Support
On 11/17/2007 12:27 PM, Philippe Landau wrote: Are you planning on enabling external drive functionality (mounting on connecting eSata, right-click unmount) or does this need an effort by Kernel developers ? Are they working on that ? Just so you know, he IS one of the main kernel developers. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Thunderbird Calendar [Solved]
On 11/16/2007 02:37 AM, Jason Craig wrote: Huh, that's odd...I was on 2.0.0.6-something and now I've just upgraded to 2.0.0.9 from the Mozilla build service, and with both versions lightning-0.7-tb-linux.xpi says Lighting could not be installed because it is not compatible with your Thunderbird build type (Linux_x86_64-gcc3). Back to trying to build it I guess :) The arch listed on their site for Linux is x86, so I think you are correct. BTW, Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 is available via the openSUSE build service. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Help! Can't boot after installing SuSE 10.3
On 11/16/2007 07:31 AM, Scott Simpson wrote: /dev/sda1 /boot /dev/sda2 / /dev/sda3 system LVM /dev/sdb1 system LVM I upgraded from 10.2 to 10.3. During the upgrade, 10.3 aborted during the making of the initial ram disk /boot/initrd* (it got some kind of udev error). All my kernels are there but I have NO ram disks, hence I can't boot. When I tried booting off the kernel without an initrd, it says it can't find the root partition (I believe it needs the via82cxxx device driver because the root=/dev/sda2 option to grub doesn't work). To fix this I tried 1. Booting off SUSE 10.3 disk using automatic repair - This didn't work and it added a line to my /etc/fstab I had to remove using a rescue disk. Don't use this, it is broken. 2. Booting into SUSE 10.3 rescue mode - I can't use mkinitrd to create a RAM disk here because the correct files aren't in the right places in rescue mode to make a RAM disk image. Also, When I boot in rescue mode, the rescue mode kernel is 2.6.22.5-23 and my on disk kernel is 2.6.22.5-31. Use the rescue system to fix this, if your lib directory is on / and not LVM. If it is, I don't know. Do this: log in as root. mount /dev/sda2 /mnt mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev mount -o bind /proc /mnt/proc mount -o bind /sys /mnt/sys cd /mnt chroot /mnt mkinitrd Now look around to see if everything looks OK. If it does, exit, then shutdown -r now If your filesystem is on LVM, I don't have any experience with it so someone else will need to help. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Opensuse 10.3: No 3D support, Nvidia drivers notcorrectly loaded
On 11/14/2007 08:04 PM, Rodney Baker wrote: Thanks Andreas, that was my problem. It seems that one click file associations work with Opera Konq, but not Firefox. This should not really be any kind of surprise to me, because FF has been nothing but a PITA on every 10.3 install I have done. That is unfortunate - it worked fine first time for me on a clean 10.3 install on my laptop. I don't think I've ever fired up either Opera or Konqueror (as a web browser anyway). Were these upgrades or (completely) clean installs where FF has given problems? It worked fine here in Firefox the only time I tried. I suspect there is a problem with his Firefox install. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Opensuse 10.3: No 3D support, Nvidia drivers not correctly loaded
On 11/14/2007 07:48 AM, Dave Barton wrote: Duh! Yes! And IF this fictitious So Called - ONE CLICK technology worked reliably, I would not be here asking for the application association for a .ymp file type. Install yast2-metapackage-handler. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Got Xorg 7.3 and Lost Compiz
David C. Rankin wrote: 18:42 Rankin-P35a~ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib compiz --replace compiz: Trying '/usr/$LIB/libIndirectGL.so.1' ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/$LIB/libIndirectGL.so.1' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. Segmentation fault Where is it getting /usr/$LIB/ from? Do you have an error in your /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ or /etc/ld.so.conf? Mine here is pretty stock 10.3, for reference. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ cat /etc/ld.so.conf /usr/X11R6/lib64/Xaw3d /usr/X11R6/lib64 /usr/lib64/Xaw3d /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/lib/Xaw3d /usr/x86_64-suse-linux/lib /usr/local/lib /opt/kde3/lib /lib64 /lib /usr/lib64 /usr/lib /usr/local/lib64 /opt/kde3/lib64 include /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] SUDO and YaST effects
On 11/11/2007 10:41 AM, Bryen wrote: I'm experimenting a little bit with sudo functionality and came across this interesting quirk. If I set up a user who is allowed to launch yast2 and then I run the sudo command, yast2 always reverts to yast (ncurses) instead of the GUI in GNOME. if I su into root and run 'yast2', yast2 always comes up in GNOME as the GUI. Why can't I SUDO a user to get yast2 gui? I just tested this on my SLES server and found the effect was the same as here on my 10.3 box. Intentional quirk or an oversight no one noticed before? It is probably an environment difference (probably Display) If you try launching yast2 from a console, not from within X, what do you get? I just tried it from Console 2, and that is correct. No DISPLAY environment variable set, not GUI Yast. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] opensuseupdater and 'secure' file permissions
On 11/10/2007 01:20 AM, JB wrote: Greetings All - I'm running openSuSE 10.2 and running into Bug 282674. The gist of the problem is that if I change the system's file permissions to be 'secure', then the OpenSuSE update applet fails with a yellow warning triangle. Bug report 282674 confirms that the updater requires setuid privileges for certain functions. snip I'd like to know if there has been a fix for this? or if you're using a temporary workaround? If you compare permissions.easy with permissions.secure, you will see what you need to do. I would suggest adding /usr/sbin/zypp-checkpatches-wrapperroot.root4755 to your permissions.local just in case an update over writes changes, as this one will be left alone. That way, SUSEconfig will not change the permissions incorrectly. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Hard Disk Failing
On 11/08/2007 07:15 AM, Randall R Schulz wrote: On Tuesday 06 November 2007 18:15, Fernando Costa wrote: Hi all, Some days ago I began to receive the following message: Your hard disk drive is failing! S.M.A.R.T. message: Device: /dev/sda, 1 currently unreadable (pending) sector ... I would like to get some authoritative and definitive information about the specific meaning of this warning. I'm a bit skeptical about the dire warnings that these messages mean the drive is near the end of its useful life. AFAIK, what it means is that your hard drives internal auto correction has already used up all the allocated space to relocate bad sectors. That drive presently has a bad sector but is out of space to relocate it. If it was possible, the bad sector would automatically be remapped to a different sector. This one cannot, thus the warning. It could be no more sectors will go bad, and only the one will be pending to be relocated or remapped. If so, it could last a while longer. It could be some platter defect that will only get worse. I have a drive that has only been in operation a few months (and it's been a few months of very light use, at that) that is giving me a couple of similar error messages: Device: /dev/sda, 2 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors Device: /dev/sda, 2 Offline uncorrectable sectors Above it was 1, is it now 2? Uncorrectable = not able to be remapped. Unreadable = bad. Pending = the drive auto correction would relocate it if it could. What precisely do these SMART diagnostics mean? How can I get a more detailed diagnosis or possibly remap the defective sectors? IIUC, your drives remap region is exhausted. It automatically remaps on its own if possible. All you could do is to reformat with bad blocks check to have the file system mark the bad sectors as bad so it does not try to write to it or read from it. Again, though, if the remap region is exhausted already, chances of failure are very high. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] thunderbird date and time format
On 11/06/2007 07:06 PM, Hans defaber wrote: Hi folks, Does somebody know how to change the timedate format in thunderbird ? its not related to the system or KDE settings. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Date_display_format -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Will we ever see ifconfig as a user?
On 11/07/2007 07:46 AM, Ben Kevan wrote: I am sure this has been discussed before, but will openSUSE ever allow the user to run ifconfig? or allow it to be run via sudo ifconfig? Ben You can now, just need the path. /sbin/ifconfig as a user works fine. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Trouble with Hal in 10.3
On 11/07/2007 07:26 AM, Adam Jimerson wrote: I am running KDE 3.5.8, and KDE is set up to auto mount things such as a flash drive, when I plugged in my flash drive the KDE deamon came up and asked what I wanted to do and listed: Open in a new window View Images with Digikam Do nothing When I told it to open in a new window konqueror came up and then I got this error message hal-storage-mount-removable no -- (action, result). KDE fail to auto mount it like it should, after I mounted it by hand everything worked like it should but it would be nice to have auto mount working again. Is this a common problem with Hal or has any one else at least had this problem before? I worked on this just yesterday. In summary, what I did was to edit /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf (check man PolicyKit.conf). I added match user=(my user name) return result=yes/ /match in between the config lines, putting my username above. It worked. Interestingly, this is on a machine I installed as a new install (except for home). Here at home, on 2 machines that were upgraded from 10.2, that is not in PolicyKit.conf, but automounting still works fine at home. Both the upgraded still have a permissions.d folder left over from 10.2, but they are empty. Anyway, HTH. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Removing hardware safely
On 11/04/2007 01:31 AM, Bryen wrote: Thanks. Actually, what I was looking for was whether there were procedures within suse to tell it that the device will no longer exist in the system. Physically removing the hardware as you described, I can do. :-) You could run Yast2, Hardware, Hardware Information, which causes it to rescan all your hardware and possibly get rid of left over info regarding the removed hardware. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] SuSE 10.3 Cannot see USB memory stick nor the CD drive ...
On 11/02/2007 07:38 AM, Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote: I am desperately trying to figure out why SuSE 10.3 cannot see either the USB memory stick nor the CD drive. As root I have read the last 100 lines of the /var/log/messages file when I plug my memory stick into the USB drive. I'm copying it in the end of this messge Appearantly it is detected but I cannot access it from my desktop. No icon is generated nor entry in SuSE Computer panel. Please, can someone help me with that ? Try as root, rchal restart. Then replug the usb drive. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] 10.3 upgrade
On 10/30/2007 11:05 PM, Stan Goodman wrote: That means that what I have to do is to get into YaST2 and redirect the loader to where it should be, or equivalently to give a command-line instruction that will do the same thing. I don't know how to do either of those things, and the books I have here don't tell me. I have never used the Rescue entry into SuSE. I have tried to go into it, and am confronted with a demand for an ID and PW. I tried root as ID, but I have no idea at all what it will accept as a PW. What's a reasonable password for Rescue? Your root password. You said this was an upgrade didn't you? How can I find how to select the loader location? In Yast2 boot loader, or etc/sysconfig Editor. In case you have never done this, you would log into the rescue system, then mount the root partition of the drive, i.e. mount /dev/md0 /mnt (Not sure if these are still needed in 10.3 or not) mount -o bind /proc /mnt/proc mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev mount -o bind /sys /mnt/sys cd mnt chroot /mnt That will put you into your old system as root. To run Yast2 ncurses mode, run yast. to exit out of your change rooted system, type exit. Then shutdown -r now to reboot. HTH. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] 10.3 amd64 firefox/java
On 10/31/2007 04:52 PM, Otto Rodusek (AP-SGP) wrote: Hi, Does anyone know if there is a solution to opensuse 10.3 on 64bit amd cpu with 64bit firefox and 64bit jre/java jre1.6.0_03. It seems that in the standard opensuse 10.3 64bit install it installs a 64bit version of firefox and java just doesn't seem to work in firefox. I've googled and found many others with similar problems and wondered if there has been a solution to 10.3 yet? Thanks and regards. Otto. No solution. Sun java does not have a functioning 64 bit plugin (why I don't know). Work around is to install the last 64 bit blackdown java and install it. It has a working 64 bit plugin, but it is version 1.4.2. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] 10.3 upgrade
On 10/31/2007 08:26 PM, Stan Goodman wrote: In Yast2 boot loader, or etc/sysconfig Editor. In case you have never done this, you would log into the rescue system, then mount the root partition of the drive, i.e. mount /dev/md0 /mnt (Not sure if these are still needed in 10.3 or not) mount -o bind /proc /mnt/proc mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev mount -o bind /sys /mnt/sys cd mnt chroot /mnt That will put you into your old system as root. To run Yast2 ncurses mode, run yast. to exit out of your change rooted system, type exit. Then shutdown -r now to reboot. HTH. Many, many thanks. I'm sure it would have taken me a long time to acquire all of that by myself. But logging into Rescue involves getting past the demand for an ID and password; I have tried using root and the PW that I have been using as root in normal use, but these don't fly. What does it want? I just rebooted to double check, and it only prompts for user. It does not prompt for a password. User is root. It is not that hard with the above instructions. Are you saying yours IS asking for a password? The rescue system has worked the same way since I have used SUSE (6.4). I have a hard time believing yours works differently than mine. I am using the DVD x86_64 flavor. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Help with Java installation on SuSE 10.3
On 11/01/2007 02:37 AM, Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote: I'm trying to install the GUI for R on SuSE 10.3. The package and instructions are from: http://rosuda.org/JGR/down.shtml Since I need the latest Java package I clicked on Linux Tips page There are no specific instructions for SuSe 10.3 so i kind of followed the instructions listed for SuSE 10.2 I clicked on SuSE Java page From here I tried to install Java from Yast but I got lost when I had to select a directory pathname. I browsed through the directory pub/opensuse/distribution on different mirror sites and was unable to find Java. I got lost in the maze of links that brought me nowhere. Can you please sow me the right way ? It is in the non-oss repository. Easiest way to add it is to use the community repository module of yast. After you have added at least the oss and non-oss directory, just do a search in the yast software manager and install all the java bits you need. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] How to install independant RPM packages in SUSE 10.3 GNOME?
On 11/01/2007 07:04 AM, Kevin Dupuy wrote: How can I install these RPMs on SUSE with a GUI? Do I need to use the command line? Install kdeadmin3 and try out kpackage. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] 10.3 upgrade
On 10/30/2007 02:26 PM, Stan Goodman wrote: So what options are available to me now? To discard what is there and make a New Install? Just use the rescue system to repair GRUB, reboot and complete the install. I also had a grub failure due to an old mdadm.conf file, but fixing it was not that hard and install picked up where it had left off. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] gimpshop overtakes gimp after being removed
On 10/29/2007 06:56 PM, Gavin Chester wrote: I've no idea how to clean my system of the gimpshop scourge and get gimp working again (it did work just fine before this). Any ideas? Try deleting the .gimp-2.2 folder in your home directory. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Google earth. Does it work?
On 10/28/2007 03:00 PM, Dennis E. Slice wrote: I am helping someone learn about computers who wants to use Google Earth. I am unfamiliar with the program, but a linux .bin downloaded and seemed to install cleanly. Starting it, however, only produces a Splash Screen, an Intializing message in the toolbar, and massive amounts of unending CPU usage. Are there any secrets to get this to work? Is it supposed to open a browser or something? Not at all sure what to expect. Yes it works, as long as your video card supports 3D. It opens its own program and connects to google servers for its images. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] yast squid module
On 10/28/2007 05:28 PM, Bob wrote: On Sunday 28 October 2007 04:21:28 Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: Where did you find this 'new Yast squid module'? It is in the Main oss repository. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] subnet mask for 192.168.1.2
On 10/28/2007 07:19 PM, primm wrote: In yast network card static IP adderss, Subnet Mask and Hostname My IP address is 192.168.1.2 and my hostname is hh1.local What's my Subnet Mask? Probably 255.255.255.0 assuming you have a class C network, for simplification means you can have 254 computers in that net. That really depends on your network. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] How do I fix dependency conflicts (preferably fromthe commandline)?
On 10/28/2007 09:04 PM, Aniruddha wrote: Is there no simple solution to fix these dependency conflicts? :( wesnoth-data obsoletes data-base and data-full. It looks like it is a version thing. data-full and data-base are used by 1.2.7, data by 1.3.9. To solve, update wesnoth, install data, uninstall data-full and data-base. Hopefully you will understand, as I took shortcuts with the names. HTH -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Canon Pixma MP830 problem
On 10/28/2007 02:42 AM, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote: I just set up the printer, self-test worked, connected the printer to a USB port on my Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop. Yast spotted both the printer and the scanner. The printer test failed. I checked and found that the printer was listed as a parallel printer connected to lp0. I changed the setting to USB printer only to get the message, No USB devices found. It seems that your USB bus is not properly configured I changed the connection to a USB connection that works with an external storage device. Same message. What do I do now? After asking for advise for what kind of printer to get you went out and got a Canon, IMHO the worst manufacturer for Linux support? Canon seems to be the most Linux unfriendly printers around. I think you will have problems with that one. I am not saying Canon printers are junk, but their Linux support is. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] FW_REDIRECT and masquerade
On 10/28/2007 05:56 AM, primm wrote: So we have a 192.168.1.x net on the lan side and a 192.168.0.x net on the adsl side of the linux router correct? Yes. It's as simple as that. I want some machines to have direct access all the time and some machines to be controlled by the proxy. IOW I can turn the Internet on or off for the proxied boxes. but still work on the non proxied boxes. Put the ones you want to have direct access in the FW_MASQ_NETS, i.e. 192.168.1.2/32 192.168.1.3/32, and the ones you want to redirect through squid in FW_REDIRECT, i.e. 192.168.1.4/32,0/0,tcp,80,3128, same for the other. HTH -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] FW_REDIRECT and masquerade
On 10/28/2007 08:49 AM, primm wrote: Thanks for the confirmation. I thought it was me going mad. That's exactly what I had in 10.2 (except I had /24 not /32 as the mask) and what I've tried to do in 10.3. I would use /32 since you are talking an exact IP address. After rereading your thread earlier, as i understood it, 192.168.1.1 is your LAN NIC. This would not need the rule, as it would not send packets out that interface to go to the internet, it would go out (IIUC 192.168.0.x) NIC and would be routed by the adsl router. 192.168.0.x (not sure what IP it is) should also be the gateway. So, IIUC, you would only need 192.168.1.2/32 in FW_MASQ_NETS. BTW, I am not sure /24 would work. I'm sure others will correct or verify that. In 10.2 it works. In 10.3 it doesn't. I can't find anything explaining the differences between /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2 in 10.2 and 10.3. I know there are. But it's obviously a secret. Yesterday I just upgraded our office server. I have used SuSEfirewall2 since 6.4, and have learned it is really quite a powerful firewall, but most of my FW_MASQ_NETS also include the destination address, protocol, and port. It is much more complicated than you seek. I also redirect the LAN through dansguardian (filter) and squid set up as a transparent proxy. I did not do extensive testing, but what I did said SuSEfirewall2 was work as it had in 10.2. I basically copied and pasted most of the rules I had from my 10.2 /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2. One change I noted, beside the return of eth0 type IF names, is the FW_MASQ_DEV. It used to be something like $FW_DEV_EXT, now it is zone:ext. Since mine seemed to work, I would suggest checking the subnet mask (i.e /32 for a single IP) and make sure your FW_MASQ_DEV is set correctly. Otherwise, perhaps try iptables -L to double check. HTH. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] yast squid module
When I checked out the new Yast2 SSHD module the other day, I also added the squid module. Yesterday I just upgraded our office server from 10.2 to 10.3. Part of that was reconfiguring squid (which as usual I did by hand comparing my old config and configuring the new). I just checked out the new Yast squid module. Wow, I not only could have used it (but didn't), but it made it so simple (and I saw some flaws in my config here at home). It would be nice to have an icon, but it is a very functional module. Great job! -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] How does one upgrade to the next stable release ofopenSUSE?
On 10/26/2007 07:33 PM, Aniruddha wrote: On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 13:28 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: Here are some of my perspectives, views and opinions. They are neither authoritative, definitive nor official. - The view long held by those among us inclined to be conservative about system stability and integrity have generally had a strong preference for using only clean installs, not upgrades. Thank you for stating that. This is a valuable lesson. I must say I am puzzled by the inconvenient upgrade path openSUSE (and most other distributions) offer. When you think about it any given system is only the sum of the kernel, gnu-utils and software packages like kde and X11. Look at Linux from scratch, you wouldn't install the whole system twice because this is a waist of time, you only upgrade the packages you need/want. In short we use the 'cathedral' model for handeling 'bazar' type software. Where is the best place to propose an alternative? Novell bugzilla? I have to say I do not agree. I think SUSE provides one of the best upgrades possible (don't have a lot to compare though). I have mostly upgraded, starting seriously at 6.4 (though I tried 6.2 and 6.3). I skipped til 7.3, then 8.0, then 8.2, and upgrading was not that hard. They even document the changes from version to version. My present system had a new install (because it was new hardware) with 9.1, upgrades to 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 10.2, and now 10.3. This may cause some small problems, but overall it works extremely well. I did do a new install at work when I upgraded from 9.3 to 10.2, since all the smaller changes that went from version to version are harder to deal with in such a big change in so many packages and in so many core areas. I do not mind the challenges brought by an upgrade, and my experiences since 6.4 have definitely not convinced me SUSE's upgrade path is inconvenient, but the opposite. But, like in most things, we all have our own personal opinions. Remember to have a lot of fun! -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Boot Splash not available when 10.3 installed without CD
On 10/26/2007 05:52 AM, Randall R Schulz wrote: Could you clarify the invocation that includes the VGA mode specification? I believe this was the line in menu.lst to set the accompanying frame buffer resolution for booting. Using mkinitrd -s 1600x1200 vga=794 The line is just mkinitrd. -s manually sets the resolution. There are other switches you could use, i.e. -k for kernel name, -i for initrd name, etc. I'm not sure but I think it may check menu.lst or maybe something else to see what your frame buffer is set for, and automatically use that for the -s resolution if not specified. BTW, are you sure your card supports a 1600x1200 frame buffer? -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] How To Route Out Leftover Pre-Upgrade Packages?
On 10/24/2007 05:30 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote: The Wednesday 2007-10-24 at 08:47 +0800, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: I agree about not sending such big attachments to a list like this out of consideration, but context in that exact instance (I am not the OP in question) was it was sent in that format so that it could be used by OpenOffice. OO would not have been able to use a png, thus making another formatted pic useless for the reason it was sent. No, you are mistaken: OO will happily accept png, jpg, and many other graphic formats. I know for certaing as I use them. I was referring to the splash screen. I had not seen the tiff when I replied. The splash screen is AFAIK hard coded to a specific name and type. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] 10.3 No Java Runtime for Firefox?
On 10/24/2007 02:11 AM, Anders Johansson wrote: On Tuesday 23 October 2007 19:47:16 Ness, Todd wrote: What is Blackdown java-1.4.2? where did you get it? I just tried a webex meeting and realized that my 10.3 64bit java plugin is not there. nspluginwrapper should make it possible to use 32 bit plugins in your 64 bit firefox. It should be installed by default on a 64 bit 10.3 Anders I got it at ftp://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/blackdown/JDK-1.4.2/amd64/03 nspluginwrapper does not work with the java plugin. Remember, you will need to manually make the symlink from the plugin to /usr/lib64/browser-plugins. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] How To Route Out Leftover Pre-Upgrade Packages?
On 10/24/2007 12:35 AM, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * David Bolt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [10-23-07 12:27]: I noticed. Interestingly enough, I notice that the message with the 846KiB uncompressed tiff as an attachment also has that same header. As to why the poster couldn't have used compression, I don't know. Saving it with Gimp as a PNG reduced it to 22KiB. A later post, also contained image attachments of 216KiB and 375KiB. These reduced to 17Kib and 25KiB. I noticed that but didn't comment. You *are* correct that graphics should have been presented in the least imposing popular format. The presenter is/was being quite presumptious and inconsiderate. There are *still* list members on dial-up and/or measured service. I agree about not sending such big attachments to a list like this out of consideration, but context in that exact instance (I am not the OP in question) was it was sent in that format so that it could be used by OpenOffice. OO would not have been able to use a png, thus making another formatted pic useless for the reason it was sent. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] How To Route Out Leftover Pre-Upgrade Packages?
On 10/24/2007 12:35 AM, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * David Bolt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [10-23-07 12:27]: I noticed. Interestingly enough, I notice that the message with the 846KiB uncompressed tiff as an attachment also has that same header. As to why the poster couldn't have used compression, I don't know. Saving it with Gimp as a PNG reduced it to 22KiB. A later post, also contained image attachments of 216KiB and 375KiB. These reduced to 17Kib and 25KiB. I noticed that but didn't comment. You *are* correct that graphics should have been presented in the least imposing popular format. The presenter is/was being quite presumptious and inconsiderate. There are *still* list members on dial-up and/or measured service. Sorry, I hadn't made it to the thread with (obvious to me now) the mentioned picture. My comment earlier was misinformed. I thought it was another big attachment. You guys are correct on this one. Sorry for the misinformed post. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] New Printer Info
On 10/23/2007 03:16 AM, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote: I am looking for users' experience with printers under OpenSuSE. I would highly recommend going with an all in one from HP, or better yet an Officejet to also include an easy to use fax. HP has been working hard to provide an excellent Linux driver and software solution, and the SUSE printer guru has been working hard to integrate all its features into the Yast printer module. The results are very good for the average user, hard to go wrong. One thing to check, since supplies are where they make their money now, check the amount of ink in the cartridges. Size is not that important, but a cartridge that only has 5ml of ink will not last long and will prove fairly expensive. Also, HP replaces the inkjets with the cartridge, meaning great looking printing for a long time. Epson only replaces the ink wells, meaning cheaper replacements, but clogging (and lots of wasted ink in cleaning and recleaning) of the inkjets. But Epson is also well supported in Linux. As always, check first at http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Missing functionality in Gnome Updater and YOU?
On 10/22/2007 06:58 AM, Terje J. Hanssen wrote: I.e yesterday I upgraded Seamonkey from 1.1.4 to 1.1.5 with KDE YOU. This could also be done with the identical YOU in 10.2 Gnome, or by using the Package menu from Add/Remove Software as well. But that was a security update. YOU only updates from the update repository. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] 10.3 No Java Runtime for Firefox?
On 10/20/2007 02:11 PM, David C. Rankin J.D. P.E. wrote: What say the gurus about getting java to work in firefox? Specifically, I want to see: http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=SHVproduct=N0Roverlay=1110loop=yes Worked here. I have Blackdown java 1.4.2 installed for my 64 bit browser. AFAIK, it is the only 64 bit java plugin. Which has always worked in my suse install since 9.0. Why not in 10.3? What arch? If you run i586, this would not apply. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
