[opensuse-factory] Re: SuSEfirewall [was: Massive Feature Request of new Yast Modulesfor 10.3]

2006-11-27 Thread Dominique Leuenberger
>>> Reply on 28-11-2006 9:47:01 <<< > Pascal Bleser wrote: > >> What do you think ? > > > > I'd rather vote for enhancing the firewall module ;) > > FTP server isn't a bad idea though, help about that is asked now and > > then on #suse (IRC). > > I have plans (and features) to enhance the fir

Re: [opensuse-factory] Massive Feature Request of new Yast Modules for 10.3

2006-11-27 Thread Lukas Ocilka
Pascal Bleser wrote: > Lukas Ocilka wrote: >> Pascal Bleser wrote: What do you think ? >>> I'd rather vote for enhancing the firewall module ;) >>> FTP server isn't a bad idea though, help about that is asked now and >>> then on #suse (IRC). >> I have plans (and features) to enhance the firew

[opensuse-factory] K3B as root cant find growisofs

2006-11-27 Thread Keith Goggin
Hi, In openSUSE 10.2RC1 when I run K3B as root it can't find growisofs? When run with normal user privileges K3B runs OK. Is there now (10.2RC1) a need to run K3B as root? Thanks - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: [opensuse-factory] Why openSUSE 10.2 RC1 DVD-iso size is much smaller than BETA2 size ?

2006-11-27 Thread Alexey Eremenko
On 11/27/06, Andreas Hanke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alexey Eremenko schrieb: > I have downloaded openSUSE 10.2 RC1 DVD ISO and it takes just 3.6 > Gigabytes vs. 4.2 Gigabytes for BETA2 DVD ISO ! > > Why is this ? http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2006-11/msg00739.html (whole thread)

Re: [opensuse-factory] bcm43xxx on Asus A2D Laptop

2006-11-27 Thread Sid Boyce
Martin Schlander wrote: Mandag 27 november 2006 15:39 skrev Stanislav Brabec: Peter Buschbacher wrote: bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed. Known problem: [Bug 204826] Bcm43xx driver needs non-oss firmware https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=

Re: [opensuse-factory] Re: congratulations...

2006-11-27 Thread Juan Erbes
2006/11/26, jdd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: jdd a écrit : > I want to congratulate the openSUSE 10.2 developpers, because I'm on the > way of installing the RC1 on a very low end machine > > http://fr.opensuse.org/Utilisateur:Jdd/alb/La_Mouette finally the install goes well and gnome run quite well. I

Re: [opensuse-factory] /usr/X11R6/lib/libdpstk.so.1 lacks

2006-11-27 Thread Juan Erbes
2006/11/27, Terje J. Hanssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Trying to start a Cad system, results in the following error message on 10.1 as a first installation attempt: error while loading shared libraries: libdpstk.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory As far as I know this be

Re: [opensuse-factory] discussion about re-naming library packages such as "slang" to "libslang"

2006-11-27 Thread Andreas Hanke
Some clarifications: > The current policy is that the RPM package names should be identical to > the basename of the upstream tarball unless there is a technical reason > why it cannot be named this way. Examples of technical reasons include: - Multiple versions of a package are shipped, in this

Re: [opensuse-factory] Massive Feature Request of new Yast Modules for 10.3

2006-11-27 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 10:26 +0100, Jiri Srain wrote: > Hi! > > On Saturday 25 November 2006 19:35, Alexey Eremenko wrote: > > Hi all ! > > > > As 10.2 release nears I think into future - 10.3 features - and I > > would like to request massive updates in Yast - that is - new modules > > that I woul

Re: [opensuse-factory] Massive Feature Request of new Yast Modules for 10.3

2006-11-27 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 18:04 +0100, Lukas Ocilka wrote: > Pascal Bleser wrote: > >> What do you think ? > > > > I'd rather vote for enhancing the firewall module ;) > > FTP server isn't a bad idea though, help about that is asked now and > > then on #suse (IRC). > > I have plans (and features) to

Re: [opensuse-factory] Massive Feature Request of new Yast Modules for 10.3

2006-11-27 Thread Peter Buschbacher
Am Montag, 27. November 2006 20:14 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > AJ: Maybe it would make sense to have a special image on CD/DVD > > (possibly executable from Linuxrc) that would contain some r/w YaST > > modules, especially the partitioner. Just to tune the system. > > If I understand you correct

Re: [opensuse-factory] discussion about re-naming library packages such as "slang" to "libslang"

2006-11-27 Thread Marcus Rueckert
On 2006-11-27 23:10:39 +0200, Alexey Eremenko wrote: > There is a package needed mainly for midnight commander called "slang" > - as far as I understand it is a text-display library similar to > ncurses. Because this is library, maybe it would be smart to rename it > to "libslang", so that it will

Re: [opensuse-factory] discussion about re-naming library packages such as "slang" to "libslang"

2006-11-27 Thread Andreas Hanke
Alexey Eremenko schrieb: > There is a package needed mainly for midnight commander called "slang" > - as far as I understand it is a text-display library similar to > ncurses. Because this is library, maybe it would be smart to rename it > to "libslang", so that it will be easier to manipulate such

Re: [opensuse-factory] Massive Feature Request of new Yast Modules for 10.3

2006-11-27 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lukas Ocilka wrote: > Pascal Bleser wrote: >>> What do you think ? >> I'd rather vote for enhancing the firewall module ;) >> FTP server isn't a bad idea though, help about that is asked now and >> then on #suse (IRC). > > I have plans (and features)

Re: [opensuse-factory] Massive Feature Request of new Yast Modules for 10.3

2006-11-27 Thread Lukas Ocilka
Stan Glasoe wrote: > On Monday November 27 2006 11:04 am, Lukas Ocilka wrote: >> I have plans (and features) to enhance the firewall module in 10.3 but >> it would be nice to hear what exactly users need. >> >> Could you, please, give me more information? You can also send me a >> patch then :) ;)

[opensuse-factory] /usr/X11R6/lib/libdpstk.so.1 lacks

2006-11-27 Thread Terje J. Hanssen
Trying to start a Cad system, results in the following error message on 10.1 as a first installation attempt: error while loading shared libraries: libdpstk.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory As far as I know this be located as /usr/X11R6/lib/libdpstk.so.1 Where ca

[opensuse-factory] discussion about re-naming library packages such as "slang" to "libslang"

2006-11-27 Thread Alexey Eremenko
hi SUSErs ! There is a package needed mainly for midnight commander called "slang" - as far as I understand it is a text-display library similar to ncurses. Because this is library, maybe it would be smart to rename it to "libslang", so that it will be easier to manipulate such lib* packages? Wh

Re: [opensuse-factory] Massive Feature Request of new Yast Modules for 10.3

2006-11-27 Thread Lukas Ocilka
Alexey Eremenko wrote: >> I have plans (and features) to enhance the firewall module in 10.3 but >> it would be nice to hear what exactly users need. >> >> Could you, please, give me more information? You can also send me a >> patch then :) ;) >> > > Yes - I would like to have ability to do *traff

Re: [opensuse-factory] Why openSUSE 10.2 RC1 DVD-iso size is much smaller than BETA2 size ?

2006-11-27 Thread Andreas Hanke
Alexey Eremenko schrieb: > I have downloaded openSUSE 10.2 RC1 DVD ISO and it takes just 3.6 > Gigabytes vs. 4.2 Gigabytes for BETA2 DVD ISO ! > > Why is this ? http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2006-11/msg00739.html (whole thread) The DVD being smaller than 4 GB is a feature. And che

[opensuse-factory] Why openSUSE 10.2 RC1 DVD-iso size is much smaller than BETA2 size ?

2006-11-27 Thread Alexey Eremenko
Hi all ! I have downloaded openSUSE 10.2 RC1 DVD ISO and it takes just 3.6 Gigabytes vs. 4.2 Gigabytes for BETA2 DVD ISO ! Why is this ? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [opensuse-factory] Massive Feature Request of new Yast Modules for 10.3

2006-11-27 Thread Robby (M9.)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: >> AJ: Maybe it would make sense to have a special image on CD/DVD >> (possibly executable from Linuxrc) that would contain some r/w YaST >> modules, especially the partitioner. Just to tune the system. > > If I understand

Re: [opensuse-factory] Massive Feature Request of new Yast Modules for 10.3

2006-11-27 Thread B . Weber
> AJ: Maybe it would make sense to have a special image on CD/DVD > (possibly executable from Linuxrc) that would contain some r/w YaST > modules, especially the partitioner. Just to tune the system. If I understand you correctly we already have that. In the "repair" mode of installation, select "

Re: [opensuse-factory] USB drive formatted with ext3 still mounted with sync

2006-11-27 Thread Marcel Hilzinger
Am Montag, 27. November 2006 14:21 schrieb Jonathon M. Robison: > What I am finding hard to do is configure the usbdisk to mount with acl > and user_xattr. I have my usb stick formatted for reiserfs and I use it > to perform daily backups of /home, but I always have to manually remount > with the a

Re: [opensuse-factory] Massive Feature Request of new Yast Modules for 10.3

2006-11-27 Thread Robby (M9.)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carlos E. R. schreef: > > The Sunday 2006-11-26 at 15:23 +1300, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > Your problem is to have a /boot partition altogether. They haven't been needed in many years. If you decide to make a /boot anyway and make it o

Re: [opensuse-factory] Massive Feature Request of new Yast Modules for 10.3

2006-11-27 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Lukas Ocilka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Robby (M9.) wrote: If you use the partitioner from yast, which i do, you are not able to throw away, and recreate partitions, >>> This _is_ possible - and I did this (on a 10.1 system) successfully. >> >> This is not what i mean: >> suppose you

Re: [opensuse-factory] Massive Feature Request of new Yast Modules for 10.3

2006-11-27 Thread Jordi Bruguera i Cortada
El dl 27 de 11 del 2006 a les 19:34 +0200, en/na Alexey Eremenko va escriure: > Yes - I would like to have ability to do *traffic limiting* - IP > tables already supports that and I think it could be done at the GUI > level (in Yast). the only problem is that iptables limits IP packets > (they are

Re: [opensuse-factory] Massive Feature Request of new Yast Modules for 10.3

2006-11-27 Thread Stan Glasoe
On Monday November 27 2006 11:04 am, Lukas Ocilka wrote: > I have plans (and features) to enhance the firewall module in 10.3 but > it would be nice to hear what exactly users need. > > Could you, please, give me more information? You can also send me a > patch then :) ;) > > Thanks > Lukas Abilit

Re: [opensuse-factory] Massive Feature Request of new Yast Modules for 10.3

2006-11-27 Thread Alexey Eremenko
I have plans (and features) to enhance the firewall module in 10.3 but it would be nice to hear what exactly users need. Could you, please, give me more information? You can also send me a patch then :) ;) Yes - I would like to have ability to do *traffic limiting* - IP tables already supports

Re: [opensuse-factory] for 10.3 - strings too large to display

2006-11-27 Thread jdd
Lukas Ocilka a écrit : These problems need to be solved either case by case or as a general solution. there are so many I think a general solution is necessary, that's why I don't expect it soon :-) The problem is, don't take it personally, 'French' itself :) It's a very talkative languag

Re: [opensuse-factory] Massive Feature Request of new Yast Modules for 10.3

2006-11-27 Thread Lukas Ocilka
Pascal Bleser wrote: >> What do you think ? > > I'd rather vote for enhancing the firewall module ;) > FTP server isn't a bad idea though, help about that is asked now and > then on #suse (IRC). I have plans (and features) to enhance the firewall module in 10.3 but it would be nice to hear what

RE: [opensuse-factory] Massive Feature Request of new Yast Modules for 10.3

2006-11-27 Thread Marc Collin
> > Alexey Eremenko wrote: > Hi all ! > > As 10.2 release nears I think into future - 10.3 features - and I > would like to request massive updates in Yast - that is - new modules > that I would like to see: > ... > 3. SSH Server (Yast GUI to manage openssh) > ... > Those modules are really

Re: [opensuse-factory] Massive Feature Request of new Yast Modules for 10.3

2006-11-27 Thread Lukas Ocilka
Alexey Eremenko wrote: > Hi all ! > > As 10.2 release nears I think into future - 10.3 features - and I > would like to request massive updates in Yast - that is - new modules > that I would like to see: ... > 3. SSH Server (Yast GUI to manage openssh) ... > Those modules are really *very* needed

Re: [opensuse-factory] Massive Feature Request of new Yast Modules for 10.3

2006-11-27 Thread Alexey Eremenko
Thanks to all respones, especially to: Jiri Srain and Klaus Kaempf. I will look at this Yast tutorial later. Haven't saw it before. Also I ask people who go offtopic - such as discussions about *PartitionMagic* to start that discussion on a different mailing-list. ---

Re: [opensuse-factory] Massive Feature Request of new Yast Modules for 10.3

2006-11-27 Thread Lukas Ocilka
Robby (M9.) wrote: >>> If you use the partitioner from yast, which i do, you are not able to >>> throw away, and recreate partitions, >> This _is_ possible - and I did this (on a 10.1 system) successfully. > > This is not what i mean: > suppose you have 8 partitions: /boot, /root, /usr, /opt, /var

Re: [opensuse-factory] for 10.3 - strings too large to display

2006-11-27 Thread Lukas Ocilka
jdd wrote: > This was seen on 640x480 screen, text mode > > I think this will not be for present one, but must be adressed, probably > by a library patch. > > it's probably worst in french, but impact also the URL display. > > I speak of the width of many message strings on a small display, that

Re: [opensuse-factory] bcm43xxx on Asus A2D Laptop

2006-11-27 Thread Martin Schlander
Mandag 27 november 2006 15:39 skrev Stanislav Brabec: > Peter Buschbacher wrote: > > bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load > > failed. > > Known problem: > > [Bug 204826] Bcm43xx driver needs non-oss firmware > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=204826 I

Re: [opensuse-factory] bcm43xxx on Asus A2D Laptop

2006-11-27 Thread Stanislav Brabec
Peter Buschbacher wrote: > bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load > failed. Known problem: [Bug 204826] Bcm43xx driver needs non-oss firmware https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=204826 -- Best Regards / S pozdravem, Stanislav Brabec software developer

Re: [opensuse-factory] New openSUSE WIKI Document: YaST Remote Logging in Installation

2006-11-27 Thread Lukas Ocilka
Andreas Jaeger wrote: > Lukas Ocilka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Hi, >> >> I've just finished a new document about YaST Remote Logging in Installation. > > Cool - could you reference it from the bug reporting pages, please? Good idea. I've added a link to the bugreporting howto. Anyway, it

Re: [opensuse-factory] USB drive formatted with ext3 still mounted with sync

2006-11-27 Thread Jonathon M. Robison
What I am finding hard to do is configure the usbdisk to mount with acl and user_xattr. I have my usb stick formatted for reiserfs and I use it to perform daily backups of /home, but I always have to manually remount with the acl and user_xattr options. Any ideas on that? --Jon Robison On Mon, 20

Re: [opensuse-factory] Massive Feature Request of new Yast Modules for 10.3

2006-11-27 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2006-11-26 at 15:23 +1300, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > > Your problem is to have a /boot partition altogether. They haven't been > > > needed in many years. If you decide to make a /boot anyway and make it > > > only 15M, it's your own faul

Re: [opensuse-factory] RC1 installation

2006-11-27 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2006-11-26 at 22:47 +0100, Christian Boltz wrote: > > To test this, start fdisk and make your 10.2 partition active, and > > reboot > > I guess that's pointless because my 10.1 grub lives in the MBR. > > Nevertheless, I'll make the 10.2

Re: [opensuse-factory] USB drive formatted with ext3 still mounted with sync

2006-11-27 Thread jdd
Stephan Kulow a écrit : In KDE you can configure the sync option by pressing rmb on "my computer" right and wonderfull... I didn't know that. is this documented on the wiki? thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/mediawiki/index.php/GPS_Lowrance_GO --

Re: [opensuse-factory] RC1 installation

2006-11-27 Thread Christian Boltz
Hello, Am Sonntag, 26. November 2006 22:47 schrieb Christian Boltz: > Nevertheless, I'll make the 10.2 partition active - but I will > replace the reboot by shutdown, sleep, boot ;-) so I will report back > tomorrow. This did not change anything (as expected), so I finally reported this as https

Re: [opensuse-factory] USB drive formatted with ext3 still mounted with sync

2006-11-27 Thread jdd
Stephan Kulow a écrit : In KDE you can configure the sync option by pressing rmb on "my computer" added to SDB :-) thanks http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Changing_mount_options_on_USB_mass_storage_device Gnome users, may be there is something similar? jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.o

Re: [opensuse-factory] USB drive formatted with ext3 still mounted with sync

2006-11-27 Thread Stephan Kulow
Am Montag, 27. November 2006 12:09 schrieb Elliott Martin: > I have noticed that fat32 formatted USB drives are now mounted without the > sync flag and get faster transfer rates than before, but my ext3 formatted > USB drive is still mounted with sync and gets write speeds around 3.5 MB/s. > Is the

[opensuse-factory] USB drive formatted with ext3 still mounted with sync

2006-11-27 Thread Elliott Martin
I have noticed that fat32 formatted USB drives are now mounted without the sync flag and get faster transfer rates than before, but my ext3 formatted USB drive is still mounted with sync and gets write speeds around 3.5 MB/s. Is there time to get this fixed before the final release of 10.2?

Re: [opensuse-factory] Massive Feature Request of new Yast Modules for 10.3

2006-11-27 Thread Robby (M9.)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christian Boltz schreef: > Hello, > > Am Samstag, 25. November 2006 21:18 schrieb Robby (M9.): >> gpgkeys: key 5F9FD7E57E8BA438 not found on keyserver Something wrong about the key, the one i sent you, is the one i use (look at the header) > > BTW:

Re: [opensuse-factory] UPS monitoring

2006-11-27 Thread Andras Mantia
On Monday 27 November 2006 11:46, Andreas Klein wrote: > On Fri, 24 Nov 2006, Andras Mantia wrote: > > Hi, > > > > What was the reason of dropping any kind of UPS monitoring tool > > from SUSE? IIRC nut (http://www.networkupstools.org/) was included > > in earlier releases, but I cannot find in 10

Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: Directory structure for ftp tree of openSUSE 10.2

2006-11-27 Thread Adrian Schröter
Am Monday 27 November 2006 08:53 schrieb Peter Czanik: > Hello, > > Adrian Schröter wrote: > > Actually, I do not want to touch the factory directories atm, because we > > will anyway move them into the build service later. Changing it for that > > timeframe does only cause problems IMHO. > > What

Re: [opensuse-factory] Massive Feature Request of new Yast Modules for 10.3

2006-11-27 Thread Jiri Srain
Hi! On Saturday 25 November 2006 19:35, Alexey Eremenko wrote: > Hi all ! > > As 10.2 release nears I think into future - 10.3 features - and I > would like to request massive updates in Yast - that is - new modules > that I would like to see: > > 1. Swap Manager (Yast GUI to manage swap files & p

Re: [opensuse-factory] Massive Feature Request of new Yast Modules for 10.3

2006-11-27 Thread Klaus Kaempf
* Alexey Eremenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Nov 25. 2006 19:35]: > Unfortunately I don't know YCP to program those modules myself, so I > ask those, who can do it. The documentation I found is very scarse & > poor, disallowing me to write anything useful - anything beyond "Hello > World" in YCP. Pleas