Re: [opensuse-factory] Printing in openSUSE 10.3
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 10:58 +0100, Johannes Meixner wrote: Hello, On Mar 5 13:09 JP Rosevear wrote (shortened): On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 15:30 +0100, Johannes Meixner wrote: What about http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell Intrinsic design of CUPS for printing in the network What is the original end-user requirement behind? The original requirement is two fold 1) Ease of use for end users It works perfectly fine on Windows XP and OS X to browse network printers and print to one without requiring admin privileges. Your info is too terse for me. I still do not understand the end-user's situation. Please do not misunderstand me - I don't want to do nitpicking. But I need to understand the whole picture from the end-user's point of view - otherwise whatever nice-looking implementation may not solve the actual end-user problem. The situtation is the end user doesn't want to type in a password to do simple operations. What do you mean with browse network printers here? Browse the raw printers or browse associated SMB shares (or whatever kind of associated print queues)? Adding an SMB shared printer is the specific case I had in mind, but other types of network printers too if applicable Did you read http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell Intrinsic design of CUPS for printing in the network? When there is a CUPS server, there is _nothing_ to be set up at all on the client systems, see http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell Configuration of the clients Start cupsd. ... Under normal circumstances, you should not configure anything else, especially * no local queues on clients and * no changes in the default settings for cupsd on clients. Why do you want to implement Windows-stlye printing when we use CUPS on Linux? Because its what most users expect and want, even many linux ones. Or is there a special end-user environment why we need to do Windows-stlye printing even with CUPS on Linux? Perhaps you are talking about a user with a Linux laptop or Linux workstation in a Windows-only environment? Not just in these specific cases, I'm thinking home users in general. 2) Restricting root access for admins Admins want to allow straightforward operations like changing the wireless network or adding a printer without giving out the full root password (which allows things like installing new packages) Why cannot the admin set up appropriate stuff in cupsd.conf so that whatever users on whatever hosts are allowed to do whatever he likes? Why should we implement something anew when from my point of view everything is (and was) already implemented in CUPS? Since CUPS 1.2 there are even fine-grained policies, see http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/ref-cupsd-conf.html Policy and Limit (Policy) Ah, this is nice, I wasn't aware there was a policy system in 1.2, thanks for pointing this out. From my point of view all we may need is a nice GUI to set up those policies in cupsd.conf - e.g. an enhancement of the CUPS web-interface, see on a CUPS 1.2 system http://localhost:631/admin Server Yes, quite possibly with the policy system above. I might rather see a single yast module that is a starting point for various configurations of this type of options, ie something like: [ ] Primary user can mount removable media [ ] All users can mount removable media [ ] Primary user can add and remove printers [ ] All users can add and remove printers [ ] Primary user can install, update and remove software [ ] All users can install, update and remove software Where the primary user is the first user you create. Ideally we'd be able to keep this hidden and have a 'Home User' vs 'Traditional Unix Permissions' option or something. (I'm also not sure this is actually a Yast module, but it will do for now as an example). This would lead into a nice system for things like basic parental controls. Robert, you had some ideas around this right? -JP -- JP Rosevear [EMAIL PROTECTED] Novell, Inc. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] Printing in openSUSE 10.3
Hello, On Mar 7 10:30 JP Rosevear wrote (shortened): On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 10:58 +0100, Johannes Meixner wrote: Your info is too terse for me. I still do not understand the end-user's situation. Please do not misunderstand me - I don't want to do nitpicking. But I need to understand the whole picture from the end-user's point of view - otherwise whatever nice-looking implementation may not solve the actual end-user problem. The situtation is the end user doesn't want to type in a password to do simple operations. Frommy point of viwe it seems from mail to mail you change the issue (it started with USB printers, became network printers, now it is about typing passwords) and it seems you still don't tell the whole story. Why do you want to implement Windows-stlye printing when we use CUPS on Linux? Because its what most users expect and want, even many linux ones. I am afraid but it seems now we are at a dead end. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] Printing in openSUSE 10.3
On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 16:39 +0100, Johannes Meixner wrote: Hello, On Mar 7 10:30 JP Rosevear wrote (shortened): On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 10:58 +0100, Johannes Meixner wrote: Your info is too terse for me. I still do not understand the end-user's situation. Please do not misunderstand me - I don't want to do nitpicking. But I need to understand the whole picture from the end-user's point of view - otherwise whatever nice-looking implementation may not solve the actual end-user problem. The situtation is the end user doesn't want to type in a password to do simple operations. Frommy point of viwe it seems from mail to mail you change the issue (it started with USB printers, became network printers, now it is about typing passwords) and it seems you still don't tell the whole story. No, the user should not need root to include any printers, I just didn't explicitly call out network printers to begin with and I should have. Why do you want to implement Windows-stlye printing when we use CUPS on Linux? Because its what most users expect and want, even many linux ones. I am afraid but it seems now we are at a dead end. Why exactly are we at a dead end? We agreed in the dist meeting not needing root to configure a printer was a valid use case. -JP -- JP Rosevear [EMAIL PROTECTED] Novell, Inc. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] Printing in openSUSE 10.3
On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 16:39 +0100, Johannes Meixner wrote: Frommy point of viwe it seems from mail to mail you change the issue (it started with USB printers, became network printers, now it is about typing passwords) and it seems you still don't tell the whole story. There are several benefits to changing the backend, I grant, but the primary goal here is to not require root to do basic printer manipulation last. The use case is that a standard use should (optionally) be able to manage his printers without requiring the administrator. I don't think we should be at a dead end! :) Robert - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] Printing in openSUSE 10.3
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:46:37AM -0500, JP Rosevear wrote: On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 16:39 +0100, Johannes Meixner wrote: Hello, On Mar 7 10:30 JP Rosevear wrote (shortened): On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 10:58 +0100, Johannes Meixner wrote: Your info is too terse for me. I still do not understand the end-user's situation. Please do not misunderstand me - I don't want to do nitpicking. But I need to understand the whole picture from the end-user's point of view - otherwise whatever nice-looking implementation may not solve the actual end-user problem. The situtation is the end user doesn't want to type in a password to do simple operations. Frommy point of viwe it seems from mail to mail you change the issue (it started with USB printers, became network printers, now it is about typing passwords) and it seems you still don't tell the whole story. No, the user should not need root to include any printers, I just didn't explicitly call out network printers to begin with and I should have. Why do you want to implement Windows-stlye printing when we use CUPS on Linux? Because its what most users expect and want, even many linux ones. I am afraid but it seems now we are at a dead end. Why exactly are we at a dead end? We agreed in the dist meeting not needing root to configure a printer was a valid use case. Correct. We also agreed on: - Either do full automatic configuration on plugin / detection, if necessary driven by a database of known good printer - configuration mappings or: - Ask for the root password. Any interaction channel between desktop user and higher privileged processes should be protected by the root password. Ciao, Marcus - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Xfce 4.4 disaster with OpenSuSE-factory
Hi. I posted this a while ago and got no reply. There is a _huge_ problem with the Xfce packages in -factory. Computing transaction... error: Can't install [EMAIL PROTECTED]: no package provides libxfcegui4-devel = 4.3 ^^ that is the message i get when trying to install xfce 4.4 (with devels) using smart. Before you flame me, _yes_ I understand the situation, _no_ it's not possible for me to use bugzilla, _yes_ i do _need_ xfce _and_ its devel packages. Any help would be really appreciated. I'm told the missing package would be something like `xfcegui4-devel' - if the situation has since been rectified please let me know. Also, any workarounds would be appreciated. -- /---Horst G. Burkhardt III-\ | There's no place like localhost (127.0.0.1) | | http://pandora.k9-net.org/ - My Website | \--[EMAIL PROTECTED]---/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Why other Boot Options
Can somebody shed some light on the new options that are now in my boot menu? I have the normal such as: OpenSuse 10.2 OpenSuse Fail-Safe 10.2 but now I have two other options which read: Opensuse 10.2 (XEN) Kernel-2.6.18.2-34-bigsmp What are these new options and where did they come from? Thanks guys Chris OH THanks Ken for that update fix!! it worked great! Another thing came into my mind: can you please post your /boot/grub/menu.lst (or /etc/lilo.conf -- in case you use lilo)? Greetings -- Alex pgpunU0QgbIjb.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [opensuse] Xfce 4.4 disaster with OpenSuSE-factory
Hi there, Any help would be really appreciated. I'm told the missing package would be something like `xfcegui4-devel' - if the situation has since been rectified please let me know. Also, any workarounds would be appreciated. I installed xfce using YAST. YAST Software Managment module solved the problem due to earlier versions are included in the CD/DVD and Packman rpos etc. I selected all the packages I needed and installed them via YAST. After all is installed I run rug (Novell-zenworks cli tool) and checked any updates are available. If there are any rug will install them. I run smart but sometimes YAST fixex all. I hope it works for you. -- Goksin Akdeniz www.enixma.org www.linuxnet.com.tr pgp7zCwTGtACR.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Notebook (ACPI) (Was: Re: [opensuse] SATA RAID recommendations?)
On Tue, March 6, 2007 18:56, David Brodbeck wrote: ACPI is definitely a mixed bag. I don't think I've ever seen a system where it worked completely right, unlike APM, which was pretty mature. Worked like a bomb on my Compaq Armada m700 - too bad the notebook could only take 512mb memory, otherwise I would still have had it. Hans -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Beryl and xgl
On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 16:30 +0100, Matthias Hopf wrote: On Mar 05, 07 16:43:13 +0200, Hans van der Merwe wrote: I use AIGLX in nVidia driver - works perfectly - movies play on rotated cube - folding maxed windows etc. You are NOT using AIGLX in the NVIDIA driver - NVIDIA doesn't use AIGLX. NVIDIA had accelerated indirect rendering (guess what AIGLX stands for) almost since day one (say: 5 years ago or more). The AIGLX framework is *only* used by open source drivers as we speak. NVIDIA has implemented EXT_pixmap_from_texture as well, which enables compiz - just like the AIGLX and Xgl do as well. The NVIDIA implementation obviously works very well together with OpenGL and XVideo - though there are still some rough edges. Can everybody please stop distributing this FUD any further? Wrong statements don't get right by repeating them over and over... Matthias Sorry, me not using compiz and xgl - computer works. E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Beryl and xgl
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 16:58 +0100, Matthias Hopf wrote: On Mar 05, 07 21:02:07 +0100, Tom Burt wrote: Does this mean that the page http://en.opensuse.org/Beryl is also incorrect in saying: Beryl with nVidia drivers - no Xgl/AIGLX ...This uses nVidia's AIGLX; not Xorg's inbuilt/optional AIGLX... Well - partially. It just shouldn't be called AIGLX (this sentence is explicitly stating that is not the same as AIGLX as Xorg calls it). Correcting it. Reads now: Since Xorg 7.x, composite effects can be used without Xgl and simply an nVidia card. This uses nVidia's implementation of EXT_pixmap_from_texture, not the one from Xorg's inbuilt/optional AIGLX or from Xgl. Well, this page is quite confusing, at least for me. Can someone point to a decent article about the technologies/acronyms? No, unfortunately. Creating such a page would surely be appreciated. Matthias So I should not enable AIGLX in Xorg conf file? ps, my head is sore E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] software raid missing a drive??
On Tuesday 06 March 2007, Leen de Braal wrote: It is running ok now, as far as i can see, all in sync. For me it means that I will have to pay more attention to monitor this kind of errors. Mdadm can help with that. It has a monitor mode which you can run which will send email if this sort of problem happens. -- _ John Andersen pgphu3bJCptqT.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Notebook (ACPI) (Was: Re: [opensuse] SATA RAID recommendations?)
On Tuesday 06 March 2007, David Brodbeck wrote: ACPI is definitely a mixed bag. I don't think I've ever seen a system where it worked completely right, unlike APM, which was pretty mature. Most laptops now days need it. Period. End of story. If you don't run it you get stuttering sound, jerky mouse pointers, dead or flaky usb ports, etc, etc. Too many devices. So few interrupts. For my laptops (sony, dell) its worked very well since SuSE 8.2. Before that, it was a crap shoot. -- _ John Andersen pgpiVA53PRWG6.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [opensuse] Is it just me not receiving YUM updates
On Tuesday 06 March 2007, Paul Gardiner wrote: Marcus Meissner wrote: On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 11:52:15AM +, Paul Gardiner wrote: I run Online Update about twice a week, but I've had nothing for maybe almost a month. Is that to be expected? Or is it likely I have something misconfigured? Just wondering what other's are seeing. What servers do you have configured? There have been updates going out. Thanks for the reply. I've been using http://mirrors.kernel.org/suse/update/10.2. Run away from that mirror like your hair is on fire. Its frequently in-operable or out of date or overworked. -- _ John Andersen pgpijDNDMRPdS.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [opensuse] Daylight Savings Time and Suse 9.x and 10.0
On Tuesday 06 March 2007, Marcus Meissner wrote: On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 08:52:15AM -0800, James D. Parra wrote: Hello, We are running Suse 9.1 through 9.3 and 10.0 in our shop. What is the best method to get DST settings changed to reflect the new DST dates? Will running online update automatically fix DST? Is there a config file that can be changed or viewed to confirm that the system is ready for the time change? SUSE Linux 9.1, 9.2 are out of support and have likely not got the DST fixes. I used this method on an older suse distro, and it seems to work fine. I can't be sure it fixes everything, because I haven't tested everything. http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS6300294422.html -- _ John Andersen pgpRuVow6Gk0e.pgp Description: PGP signature
[opensuse] Keyboard repeat on SELD10
I've just installed SLED10 (plus all the updates) on a DellD820 laptop. The install went fine. After the install, however, I had a major problem with the keyboard: Uncontrolled/random repeating of keys. For example, just typing hello could result in helooo I've never seeen this on any other SuSE Linux (9.x, 10.x or SLES) A bit of goggling pointed me to a seemingly similar bug in Ubuntu (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.15/+bug/39315 ) In that rather long page, numerous potential fixes are suggested. One that I tried was to remove the Palm sync software. I took this route (I have no Palm so could see no harm) After forcing YaST to remove the Palm software without removing the entire KDE system (by package managers) my laptop seems to be much better, although I'm not convinced it's 100%. I had a quick search of the archives but I couldn't find anything similar for SuSE. Has anyone else had this, or got any other suggestions for fixes ? Thanks, GTG -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Need explanation - question 1
Onsdag 07 marts 2007 07:48 skrev Ken Jennings: On Friday 2006-12-01 15:52, usr wrote: ... I gave 10.2 a 3GB partition for / I also made separate partitions for /tmp, /var, and /home, each 10GB in size. I went to update 10.2 and was warned that the / partition is 97% full. /tmp, /var, and /home don't necessarily have a lot of stuff in them, especially after a fresh install. Big directories include /usr and /opt depending on what packages you have installed. Since you did not make separate volumes for those locations everything in /usr and /opt is on the same device as root (or / ). I have effectively the same setup. With just about everything worth installing (in x86_64) from the 10.2 DVD my root ( / ) occupies quite a bit of space: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 22G 11G 9.7G 54% / (P.S. Set your computer's clock.) Hi, may we see the output of df -h? -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] ZMD on 10.2 without warning has gone T**s up ..
On Tuesday 06 March 2007, peter nikolic wrote: On Tuesday 06 March 2007, Don Raboud wrote: On Tuesday 06 March 2007 10:47, peter nikolic wrote: try as root rczmd stop mv /var/lib/zmd/zmd.db /var/lib/zmd/zmd.db.bak (or something else) rczmd restart In my experience, there is never a need to move that database and you can just nuke it. zmd always rebuilds it, and the old one is clearly broke anyway. YMMV. -- _ John Andersen pgpoz9mYbgDWX.pgp Description: PGP signature
[opensuse] Hint: ZMD Eating CPU/Disc
I've built several OpenSuSE 10.x machines, and on all of them, I've had
the fun of finding that at startup/login, the ZDM stuff just eats CPU
disc. On quiet PCs, the CPU fan has to work overtime just to support
the stuff, and on laptops, ZMD just eats disc I/O.
For a while, I just switched off ZMD. Then I decided to be a bit
cleverer. I altered the init script that starts zmd, and changed the
start command line to be /usr/bin/nice -n 19 ${ZMD_BIN} $ZMD_OPTIONS
Viola ! My quiet PC is now quiet, and my laptop now runs well at start
up.
Yes, ZMD takes a lot longer to sort itself out, but it no longer
affects me, and that makes me happy.
All I need to do now, is work out why ZMD takes so flipping long to
install patches regardless of it's NICEness... (come back YaST, all is
forgiven !)
GTG
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Re: [opensuse] Shorewall (was; Re: [opensuse] Martin Glötzl-Koch STOP BOUNCING LIST MAIL)
On Tuesday 06 March 2007, Jon Clausen wrote: I'm by no means an iptables authority, and I'll probably never become one either. But Tom Eastep (Shorewall author) is. The guy is a wizard, and really knows his stuff. I've been using shorewall for years on Suse and now also on Kubuntu. What ever you do READ the QUICK START GUIDES. It will save so much time. Every site I maintain does egress filtering with Shorewall. Especially for port 25. -- _ John Andersen pgp3iJBXvV54m.pgp Description: PGP signature
[opensuse] KDM default session selection (previous session)
Hi, I use KDE as my main desktop environment. When updates comes in for various other DE's, I like to check them out, by starting a new session from the K-Menu, and in the sessions menu at KDM prompt, select the DE in question. So, for quite some time a have been living with this little issue: When I select a different session, let's say gnome, and enjoy myself a little in there, then end that session, going back to my already running KDE session. I then shut down the PC, and the next time it's booted, it will start gnome (if autologin enabled), or gnome will be the selected session in KDM. Can I change this behavior of KDM, so that it never selects the previous session / last used DE, but instead is fixed on e.g. KDE, even though the last DE I logged into was something else. Best regards Sylvester -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Hint: ZMD Eating CPU/Disc
Onsdag 07 marts 2007 10:44 skrev Gordon Ross:
I've built several OpenSuSE 10.x machines, and on all of them, I've had
the fun of finding that at startup/login, the ZDM stuff just eats CPU
disc. On quiet PCs, the CPU fan has to work overtime just to support
the stuff, and on laptops, ZMD just eats disc I/O.
For a while, I just switched off ZMD. Then I decided to be a bit
cleverer. I altered the init script that starts zmd, and changed the
start command line to be /usr/bin/nice -n 19 ${ZMD_BIN} $ZMD_OPTIONS
Viola ! My quiet PC is now quiet, and my laptop now runs well at start
up.
Yes, ZMD takes a lot longer to sort itself out, but it no longer
affects me, and that makes me happy.
All I need to do now, is work out why ZMD takes so flipping long to
install patches regardless of it's NICEness... (come back YaST, all is
forgiven !)
GTG
Hi
- may we ask as to the whereabouts of bespoken script :-)
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Re: [opensuse] Audio just stopped
On Tuesday 06 March 2007, John ffitch wrote: I was using my laptop (Suse10.2) and tried switching my microphone on in alsamixer -- everything went quiet. Now I have no sound other that the beeps. aplay says it is playing but silence. Audacity says it is playing and silence. I have done the obvious -- nothing is muted in alsamnixer; re-configured the sound card; rebooted the machien. Powered it off, waited and restarted -- and still silence. I was using the sound earlier in the day, and I NEED the sound to teach my DSP class. Any ideas of (a) what happened and more importantly (b) how to restore sounds? Machine is ThinkPadX40 ==John ffitch I'm guessing its an intel sound chipset. What a flaming piece of crap that High Definition Audio is. Start by yast, ripping out the sound system and putting it back in piece by piece. I had one new Dell 9200 desktop that simply refused to give sound for more than a few minutes. I dicked around with it for three hours and finally said enough, grabbed a ancient sound blaster card out of the spare parts bin, slapped it in and had sound in 5 minutes flat. -- _ John Andersen pgpDvqO1Smq4f.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [opensuse] Xfce 4.4 disaster with OpenSuSE-factory
In my opinion, YaST often breaks more than it fixes. And on my system it's a right memory hog. But if you can provide simple instructions on how to make yast use the opensuse-factory sources on ftp5.gwdg.de and how to get Xfce using it, I'll give it a jolly good college try. -- /---Horst G. Burkhardt III-\ | There's no place like localhost (127.0.0.1) | | http://pandora.k9-net.org/ - My Website | \--[EMAIL PROTECTED]---/ On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Goksin Akdeniz wrote: Hi there, Any help would be really appreciated. I'm told the missing package would be something like `xfcegui4-devel' - if the situation has since been rectified please let me know. Also, any workarounds would be appreciated. I installed xfce using YAST. YAST Software Managment module solved the problem due to earlier versions are included in the CD/DVD and Packman rpos etc. I selected all the packages I needed and installed them via YAST. After all is installed I run rug (Novell-zenworks cli tool) and checked any updates are available. If there are any rug will install them. I run smart but sometimes YAST fixex all. I hope it works for you. -- Goksin Akdeniz www.enixma.org www.linuxnet.com.tr -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Hint: ZMD Eating CPU/Disc
On 07 March 2007 at 09:54, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Verner Kjærsgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Onsdag 07 marts 2007 10:44 skrev Gordon Ross:
I've built several OpenSuSE 10.x machines, and on all of them, I've had
the fun of finding that at startup/login, the ZDM stuff just eats CPU
disc. On quiet PCs, the CPU fan has to work overtime just to support
the stuff, and on laptops, ZMD just eats disc I/O.
For a while, I just switched off ZMD. Then I decided to be a bit
cleverer. I altered the init script that starts zmd, and changed the
start command line to be /usr/bin/nice -n 19 ${ZMD_BIN} $ZMD_OPTIONS
Viola ! My quiet PC is now quiet, and my laptop now runs well at start
up.
Yes, ZMD takes a lot longer to sort itself out, but it no longer
affects me, and that makes me happy.
All I need to do now, is work out why ZMD takes so flipping long to
install patches regardless of it's NICEness... (come back YaST, all is
forgiven !)
GTG
Hi
- may we ask as to the whereabouts of bespoken script :-)
I just edited /etc/init.d/novell-zmd
Look for the line that just says ${ZMD_BIN} $ZMD_OPTIONS and prefix it with
/usr/bin/nice -n 19
GTG
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Re: [opensuse] Keyboard repeat on SELD10
I've just installed SLED10 (plus all the updates) on a DellD820 laptop. The install went fine. After the install, however, I had a major problem with the keyboard: Uncontrolled/random repeating of keys. For example, just typing hello could result in helooo I've never seeen this on any other SuSE Linux (9.x, 10.x or SLES) [snip] I had a quick search of the archives but I couldn't find anything similar for SuSE. Has anyone else had this, or got any other suggestions for fixes ? You're not alone with this problem. Look in the February archives. There are a couple threads on this subject. Also some in December and November. Take a look at https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=223561 and see if it is similar to your situation. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] remove files
Hi All, How to easily remove some particular files from more than one directory. For example I have directories: $ ls -l total 12 drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:36 DHbox1 drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 7 08:30 DHbox10 drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:36 DHbox2 drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:36 DHbox3 drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:36 DHbox4 drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 7 08:31 DHbox5 drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:37 DHbox6 drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:37 DHbox7 drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:37 DHbox8 drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:37 DHbox9 from all these directories I would like to remove JUST files that finish wit suffix = 'pro' and suffix = '.dat' keeping others untouched thanks oliver -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Changing Remote Administration screen resolution
The default Screen resolution for Remote Administration is set to 1024x768. I presume this is from the setting in file /etc/xinetd.d/vnc. I would like the option to switch to a higher resolution, and the above file seems to allow for such things. I have enabled the higher res option on port 5902 in the above file, (default is disabled) opened 5902 in the firewall, and restarted X. However I cannot connect to my server on 5902 (5901 works fine). Anyone know what bit I have missed? -- Tim Nicholson http://www.bbc.co.uk/ This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system. Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it and notify the sender immediately. Please note that the BBC monitors e-mails sent or received. Further communication will signify your consent to this. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] remove files
Vince Oliver wrote: Hi All, How to easily remove some particular files from more than one directory. For example I have directories: $ ls -l total 12 drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:36 DHbox1 drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 7 08:30 DHbox10 drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:36 DHbox2 drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:36 DHbox3 drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:36 DHbox4 drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 7 08:31 DHbox5 drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:37 DHbox6 drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:37 DHbox7 drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:37 DHbox8 drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:37 DHbox9 from all these directories I would like to remove JUST files that finish wit suffix = 'pro' and suffix = '.dat' keeping others untouched thanks oliver Hi Oliver, find DHbox* -name *.dat | xargs rm should do the trick. Best regards Sylvester -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Hint: ZMD Eating CPU/Disc
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Hi
- may we ask as to the whereabouts of bespoken script :-)
I just edited /etc/init.d/novell-zmd
Look for the line that just says ${ZMD_BIN} $ZMD_OPTIONS and prefix it with
/usr/bin/nice -n 19
I did the same some days back. What worries me is that those processes run
several times a day. I suppose it depends on /etc/zmd/zmd.conf, but it
has:
refresh-interval=86400
so that should be correct...
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Re: [opensuse] To the well again
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-03-06 at 22:51 -0600, Stevens wrote: What happens if I blow away the /home partition? How do I then create the root user? Something about booting to the install disk in repair mode, I think. Mr. root does not use /home, he uses /root. So yes, of course you can blow /home and still log in as root. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFF7puetTMYHG2NR9URAhRAAJsEWLD48QifLseQN5XMzycLAVAifACZAXXi 2kXjjJheJM8Ep6zHwX5BxCw= =ijnI -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] remove files
On 07 March 2007 at 10:49, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sylvester Lykkehus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vince Oliver wrote: Hi All, How to easily remove some particular files from more than one directory. For example I have directories: $ ls -l total 12 drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:36 DHbox1 drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 7 08:30 DHbox10 drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:36 DHbox2 drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:36 DHbox3 drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:36 DHbox4 drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 7 08:31 DHbox5 drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:37 DHbox6 drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:37 DHbox7 drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:37 DHbox8 drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:37 DHbox9 from all these directories I would like to remove JUST files that finish wit suffix = 'pro' and suffix = '.dat' keeping others untouched thanks oliver Hi Oliver, find DHbox* -name *.dat | xargs rm should do the trick. Don't you need quotes around the *.dat to stop the shell expanding it ? GTG -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Monitoring for Linux
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-03-06 at 11:26 -0500, Jose wrote: First, you hijacked a thread (Subject: Re: [opensuse] X start help). Please, don't. I am looking for a monitoring software for Linux, I know about Big Brother, but I am looking for something like gkrellm, this software gives me reading for heat, fans working, but it runs local, does anybody knows something like this that can be monitored remotely? gkrellm can do remote monitoring (man gkrellm). - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFF7pxXtTMYHG2NR9URAmmmAKCNOPOoIopUbYgoGoTtmtSRZEQ9AwCfSLs4 uvgaitivQS+ZQo/qywBxkkA= =aSpR -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] ZEN update error on startup (OSL 10.2) (SOLVED) WHY DOES THIS FIX THIS ISSUE?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-03-06 at 18:42 -0500, Chris C wrote: Got it...I went to that path of the file and noticed that the file is there again...so are you saying unlike Windows, Linux will rebuild a file if it's missing? Does this go for all system or application files? Certainly not! - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFF7p23tTMYHG2NR9URAmlsAJoC78t1LRnJuYJdOFTAeZdvYeA7JgCfVg4P wGHWWRnBkCd1RSXw4IcbUs0= =3wXZ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] remove files
Gordon Ross wrote:
On 07 March 2007 at 10:49, in message
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
Sylvester Lykkehus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Vince Oliver wrote:
Hi All,
How to easily remove some particular files from more than one
directory. For example I have directories:
$ ls -l
total 12
drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:36 DHbox1
drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 7 08:30 DHbox10
drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:36 DHbox2
drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:36 DHbox3
drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:36 DHbox4
drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 7 08:31 DHbox5
drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:37 DHbox6
drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:37 DHbox7
drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:37 DHbox8
drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:37 DHbox9
from all these directories I would like to remove JUST files that
finish wit suffix = 'pro' and suffix = '.dat' keeping others
untouched
thanks
oliver
Hi Oliver,
find DHbox* -name *.dat | xargs rm
should do the trick.
Don't you need quotes around the *.dat to stop the shell expanding it
?
That or a '\' in front.
$ find DHbox* -name *.dat -o -name *.pro -exec rm -f {} \;
would do. Omit the final -exec... to first check that it only catches
those files you want to get rid of.
HTH
Cheers. Bye.
Ph. A.
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Re: [opensuse] remove files
thanks for reply. trick works :) May I ask you for one more trick? How to remove ALL files from directories EXCEPT '*.pro'? Many thanks Sylvester On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Sylvester Lykkehus wrote: Vince Oliver wrote: Hi All, How to easily remove some particular files from more than one directory. For example I have directories: $ ls -l total 12 drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:36 DHbox1 drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 7 08:30 DHbox10 drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:36 DHbox2 drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:36 DHbox3 drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:36 DHbox4 drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 7 08:31 DHbox5 drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:37 DHbox6 drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:37 DHbox7 drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:37 DHbox8 drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:37 DHbox9 from all these directories I would like to remove JUST files that finish wit suffix = 'pro' and suffix = '.dat' keeping others untouched thanks oliver Hi Oliver, find DHbox* -name *.dat | xargs rm should do the trick. Best regards Sylvester -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] remove files
Vince Oliver wrote:
thanks for reply. trick works :)
May I ask you for one more trick? How to remove ALL files from
directories EXCEPT '*.pro'?
$ find DHbox* -type f -not -name *.pro -exec rm -f {} \;
Beware that find will recurse any directory below your DHbox*. Make sure
that's what you want before typing this command. Omit the -exec part to
have a look at the selected file list first.
HTH
Cheers. Bye.
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Re: [opensuse] Is it just me not receiving YUM updates
John Andersen wrote: On Tuesday 06 March 2007, Paul Gardiner wrote: I've been using http://mirrors.kernel.org/suse/update/10.2. Run away from that mirror like your hair is on fire. Its frequently in-operable or out of date or overworked. I am glad you posted that. I just installed openSuSE 10.2 last week and haven't had any major problems but I am rather disgusted with the online updates. It seems that I am too often getting various error messages about the servers. I can come back a few hours later and it works fine. In addition to the server mentioned, I find that the oss and non-oss ones are bad too. This weekend I was trying to install some packages and got an error message about http://suse.mirrors.tds.net/pub/opensuse/distribution/10.2/repo/oss/media.1/directory.yast I checked http://suse.mirrors.tds.net/pub/opensuse/distribution/10.2/repo/oss/media.1 and found that directory.yast was listed but it was a bad link. A few hours later it was working again. In my not so humble opinion the current online package management stinks. So, to answer the original poster, it isn't just you. Damon Register -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] openSUSE no more
Kai Ponte wrote: I never - more than in jest - put down anyone using Linux. I have friends on Ubuntu, Fedora, Red Hat, CentOS, YellowDog and Linspire. I must have the wrong friends. :-) All the people I know are MS slaves. There might be hope for my 6 year old son. I installed SuSE 10.2 on his PC and he loves playing with Rosegarden connected to an organ. Maybe I'll get his piano teacher interested too. I even have one super-mega-geek friend using KDE on BSD. :P How about Solaris 10? Damon Register -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Is it just me not receiving YUM updates
On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 06:41 -0500, Damon Register wrote: John Andersen wrote: On Tuesday 06 March 2007, Paul Gardiner wrote: I've been using http://mirrors.kernel.org/suse/update/10.2. Run away from that mirror like your hair is on fire. Its frequently in-operable or out of date or overworked. I am glad you posted that. I just installed openSuSE 10.2 last week and haven't had any major problems but I am rather disgusted with the online updates. It seems that I am too often getting various error messages about the servers. I can come back a few hours later and it works fine. In addition to the server mentioned, I find that the oss and non-oss ones are bad too. This weekend I was trying to install some packages and got an error message about http://suse.mirrors.tds.net/pub/opensuse/distribution/10.2/repo/oss/media.1/directory.yast I checked http://suse.mirrors.tds.net/pub/opensuse/distribution/10.2/repo/oss/media.1 and found that directory.yast was listed but it was a bad link. A few hours later it was working again. In my not so humble opinion the current online package management stinks. So, to answer the original Excuse me, but what does the online package management have to do with broken mirrors? Damon Register /Magnus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Microsoft ordered to pay Alcatel-Lucent $1.5 bln in patent case - MarketWatch
David Brodbeck wrote: Russell Jones wrote: As for whether the OGG formats are patent-encumbered: as I said before, by definition they are not. They just may not be backward compatible. They are not *known* to be patent-encumbered. It doesn't mean someone couldn't pop up with a submarine patent that happens to cover them. It's unlikely but it does happen. Right now it wouldn't be worthwhile, though, because no one with deep pockets is supporting Ogg. You misunderstand. If Vorbis v1.3 (say) infringes a (submarine or otherwise) patent, the next version, e.g. v2.0, will be changed such that it does not. You just won't be able to play v1.3 files on a v2.0 player. Depending on what the infringement is, it may be possible to build a converter without loss of quality. That converter may itself infringe patents, however. In practical terms, that would be less of a problem than mp3-like format patents. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Microsoft ordered to pay Alcatel-Lucent $1.5 bln in patent case - MarketWatch [OT]
David Brodbeck wrote: Russell Jones wrote: That is incorrect: http://www.vorbis.com/faq/#_fpsupport Their link to the integer-only implementation is broken. But I believe them that it exists. ;) Looks like one of Xiph's servers is down. SVN doesn't work and neither does their wiki. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Beryl and xgl
On Mar 07, 07 11:03:56 +0200, Hans van der Merwe wrote: So I should not enable AIGLX in Xorg conf file? It depends on whether you want to run compiz on AIGLX or Xgl. Both have advantages and disadvantages. compiz used to only work on Xgl. The current (read: really new) compiz package on openSUSE runs on both, even with ATI's fglrx driver using Xgl. Beryl runs on both, but AFAIK not at all with the fglrx driver, and probably not on NVIDIA with Xgl. Matthias -- Matthias Hopf [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____ __ Maxfeldstr. 5 / 90409 Nuernberg (_ | | (_ |__ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone +49-911-74053-715 __) |_| __) |__ R D www.mshopf.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Daylight Savings Time and Suse 9.x and 10.0
James D. Parra wrote: On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 05:14:55PM -0800, James D. Parra wrote: zdump -v /etc/localtime PST8PDT |grep 2007 /etc/localtime Sun Apr 1 09:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Apr 1 01:59:59 2007 PST isdst=0 gmtoff=-28800 /etc/localtime Sun Apr 1 10:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Apr 1 03:00:00 2007 PDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-25200 PST8PDT Sun Mar 11 09:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 2007 PST isdst=0 gmtoff=-28800 PST8PDT Sun Mar 11 10:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 2007 PDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-25200 This can't be good. Any ideas on how to fix it? Perhaps your /etc/localtime was just a copy from a previous timezone package. Suggest you re-run tzselect and/or move it out of the way and then re-try tzselect. ~~~ Changed the name of /etc/localtime to /etc/localtime.old and ran tzselect, however it did not create a new localtime file. Any ideas? Someone else suggested I try changing time zones and then back again. That did it for me. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Re: Win vs Lin info
John Summerfield wrote: On Tuesday 27 February 2007 23:58, Russell Jones wrote: Well, not as tidy as AD (nor, I suspect, as difficult to diagnose when it goes wrong) is to use something like AutoYaST to roll out software and configuration packages (which you roll yourself). Far more powerful than the MS mandated and controlled policy system, though you can do similar things with MSIs and the MS package distribution system (SMS is it?). At this point, the battle's over. One can control pretty much every aspect of I guess you'd better stop using Linux-based systems then. What an odd thing to say... I'm sure there's room for improvement, but there is no reason why windows cannot be displaced. Granted, it may be hard (though I don't think it is in many cases), but it's far from impossible, especially if Linux-based systems are being used on the desktop. Which is what we're talking about AFAIAA. As for institutions not rolling out FF, that's not true. http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox:2.0_Institutional_Deployment Again, it may be harder (I'd say less convenient in this case), but it's far from impossible. Of course, rolling out to Windows desktops, they use AD. But AD being a requirement to fully utilise windows desktops was an inevitable and predictable part of MS' server and lock-in strategies. If the roll out were to Linux desktops the same functionality is certainly possible, though probably harder. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] openSUSE no more
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 03:47:24 am Damon Register wrote: Kai Ponte wrote: I never - more than in jest - put down anyone using Linux. I have friends on Ubuntu, Fedora, Red Hat, CentOS, YellowDog and Linspire. I must have the wrong friends. :-) All the people I know are MS slaves. Well, I'm a MS slave at work, if that makes you feel better. In the groups of friends, though, I know many running *nix. They're out there! There might be hope for my 6 year old son. I installed SuSE 10.2 on his PC and he loves playing with Rosegarden connected to an organ. Maybe I'll get his piano teacher interested too. Hmm - rosegarden. Never heard of it. Installing as I write. I even have one super-mega-geek friend using KDE on BSD. :P How about Solaris 10? Know what? I only knew of one guy at my old work who had even downloaded Solaris 10. Kind of weird, too, because you'd think solaris would be more popular than any given Linux distro. My first real use of Unix came playing on SPARC boxes after I graduated college. Except for the poor UI (when compared to OS/2 and Win31) I thought they were interesting. -- k -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Beryl and xgl
On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 13:14 +0100, Matthias Hopf wrote: On Mar 07, 07 11:03:56 +0200, Hans van der Merwe wrote: So I should not enable AIGLX in Xorg conf file? It depends on whether you want to run compiz on AIGLX or Xgl. Both have advantages and disadvantages. compiz used to only work on Xgl. The current (read: really new) compiz package on openSUSE runs on both, even with ATI's fglrx driver using Xgl. Beryl runs on both, but AFAIK not at all with the fglrx driver, and probably not on NVIDIA with Xgl. Matthias But me with nVidia card, Beryl and AIGLX (or whatever) - do I place the AIGLX option in the conf file or not? Seeing that its doesn't really use AIGLX? E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Why other Boot Options
Alex, Hello, Please forgive me...but I don't understand what you mean. Although I would reallly like to know. I'm assuming the files that your looking for are log files? On this fourm, how should I post it...as an attachment or inline with this message? Where are you guys getting all this great information from. I have a couple of 1000 page book on SuSE Linux...but I haven't gotten to this stuff yet! Thanks Alex, Chris On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 09:25 +0100, Alexander Osthof wrote: Can somebody shed some light on the new options that are now in my boot menu? I have the normal such as: OpenSuse 10.2 OpenSuse Fail-Safe 10.2 but now I have two other options which read: Opensuse 10.2 (XEN) Kernel-2.6.18.2-34-bigsmp What are these new options and where did they come from? Thanks guys Chris OH THanks Ken for that update fix!! it worked great! Another thing came into my mind: can you please post your /boot/grub/menu.lst (or /etc/lilo.conf -- in case you use lilo)? Greetings -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] zmd problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, My zmd (suse 10.2) complains like this: Mar 7 13:28:45 nimrodel zmd: ServiceManager (ERROR): Service refresh failed for '20070302-213658': Failed to parse XML metadata: Unsigned file '/repodata/repomd.xml (ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/0.00pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/projects/OpenOffice.org/10.2-i386/2.1-0.1)' That repository I tried to add in Yast, then cancelled it: Yast doesn't show it. I tried using rug to remove the repo: rug unsub 20070302-213658 and it shows off: nimrodel:/etc/zmd # rug ca Sub'd? | Name| Service - ---+-+ Yes| 20070216-072531 | 20070216-072531 Yes| 20070216-192032 | 20070216-192032 Yes| 20070216-192152 | 20070216-192152 Yes| 20070216-193512 | 20070216-193512 | 20070302-213658 | 20070302-213658 But it is still there. How do I remove it completely? - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFF7rtztTMYHG2NR9URArBCAJ4t/C8bfs9Kfn/TzNyHEb7uLX1zfQCfactL jBLPIwFf26Rw3jJGUF1Brcs= =gvdI -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [opensuse] Hint: ZMD Eating CPU/Disc
|All I need to do now, is work out why ZMD takes so flipping |long to install patches regardless of it's NICEness... (come |back YaST, all is forgiven !) Mono is the root to all evil. I had the same problem with beagle. 100% cpu load when it indexes. I find it strange because all indexing Should be io-bound. When I do a similar indexing of my disks in perl/sqlite I get 1% cpu load and 100% io-wait, which is more what to expect. All mono programs seem to run at 100% cpu? Poor runtime interrupt handling, poor hardware detection or just bad implementation. Could someone please post some mono benchmarks to kill my suspicion. You can delete zmd, yast/you works fine for me: http://opensuse-community.org/Package_Sources -- MortenB -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] zmd problem
* Carlos E. R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Mar 07. 2007 14:17]: I tried using rug to remove the repo: rug unsub 20070302-213658 and it shows off: 'unsubscribe' just lowers the precendence. An unsubscribed service will e.g. not be considered when searching for packages to be update. However, it will still be valid for providing packages unavailable through other services. [...] But it is still there. How do I remove it completely? Use rug sd (service-delete) to remove it. Klaus --- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [opensuse] Hint: ZMD Eating CPU/Disc
On 07 March 2007 at 13:18, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Morten Bjørnsvik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |All I need to do now, is work out why ZMD takes so flipping |long to install patches regardless of it's NICEness... (come |back YaST, all is forgiven !) Mono is the root to all evil. They used to say the same about Java... I had the same problem with beagle. 100% cpu load when it indexes. I find it strange because all indexing Should be io-bound. I'd noticed that as well. It really only hits my machines after they've first been built. After that I never notice, so I don't care (Although I might notice now that ZMD is under control) But here's another thought: ZMD Beagle indexing are background tasks. So why do they either not have code in them to detect reduce system load, or get fired off at a lower priority. I mean, this is back software engineering/system administration. Hello ?!? Anyone home ? GTG -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] change directorie
hi All, When I want to change directory in Cygwin I simply copy the path from Windows's Command Prompt or Total Commander to Cygwin command line like (I do that when path is very long): cd c:\users\oliver\temp But it does not work since it can not recognise '\'. So I have to change '\' into '/' every time I wanna change directory in Cygwin. Is there a solution to this problem? I tried something with pipelines but no success. I tried for example: echo 'c:\users\oliver\temp' | sed 's_\\_/_g' | xargs cd How to properly pipeline these commands? Thanks Oliver -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] zmd problem
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 14:17:33 +0100 (CET) Carlos E. R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, My zmd (suse 10.2) complains like this: Mar 7 13:28:45 nimrodel zmd: ServiceManager (ERROR): Service refresh failed for '20070302-213658': Failed to parse XML metadata: Unsigned file '/repodata/repomd.xml (ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/0.00pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/projects/OpenOffice.org/10.2-i386/2.1-0.1)' That repository I tried to add in Yast, then cancelled it: Yast doesn't show it. I tried using rug to remove the repo: rug unsub 20070302-213658 and it shows off: nimrodel:/etc/zmd # rug ca Sub'd? | Name| Service - ---+-+ Yes| 20070216-072531 | 20070216-072531 Yes| 20070216-192032 | 20070216-192032 Yes| 20070216-192152 | 20070216-192152 Yes| 20070216-193512 | 20070216-193512 | 20070302-213658 | 20070302-213658 But it is still there. How do I remove it completely? http://opensuse-community.org/Package_Sources I'm going to give the instructions in that link a try tonight when I get home. Credit goes to a somebody else who just posted this link in another post just recently, but I can't find it now. Steve -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] KDM default session selection (previous session)
* Sylvester Lykkehus [EMAIL PROTECTED] [03-07-07 04:48]: [...] So, for quite some time a have been living with this little issue: When I select a different session, let's say gnome, and enjoy myself a little in there, then end that session, going back to my already running KDE session. I then shut down the PC, and the next time it's booted, it will start gnome (if autologin enabled), or gnome will be the selected session in KDM. Can I change this behavior of KDM, so that it never selects the previous session / last used DE, but instead is fixed on e.g. KDE, even though the last DE I logged into was something else. The 'session manager' defaults to the *last* 'desktop manager' initiated. In your case you started gnome, closed it and returned to an already open kde. I don't know how you would achieve your wishes w/o opening another kde session *after* opening the gnome session. Appears to be one of those 'cake and eat it' situations. gud luk, -- Patrick ShanahanRegistered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org@ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 OpenSUSE Linux http://en.opensuse.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Need explanation - question 1
On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 10:42 +0100, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: Onsdag 07 marts 2007 07:48 skrev Ken Jennings: On Friday 2006-12-01 15:52, usr wrote: ... may we see the output of df -h? Here's my layout, since about the 8.0 days, now fully loaded with 10.2. /boot is ext2, all else is reiserfs. master:~ # df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb1 3.1G 193M 2.9G 7% / udev 506M 216K 506M 1% /dev /dev/sda1 54M 9.6M 41M 19% /boot /dev/md0 11G 6.6G 3.5G 66% /data1 /dev/sda10 39G 1.5G 38G 4% /home /dev/sdb7 132G 61G 71G 47% /local /dev/sda7 4.1G 1.4G 2.7G 34% /opt /dev/sda9 11G 74M 10G 1% /srv /dev/sda8 4.0G 9.2M 3.8G 1% /tmp /dev/md1 11G 2.3G 7.8G 23% /usr /dev/sdb2 5.1G 1.4G 3.7G 27% /usr/lib /dev/sda3 5.1G 468M 4.6G 10% /var When I do a fresh install, I copy /home into /data1 (ie /data1/home92), then format everything except /data1 and /local. (I'd hate to accidentally loose one of the kids' homework papers...or the wife's favorite recipe!) I used to keep /usr and /usr/lib on separate hard drives, to improve load speed, but now /usr is on raid, and touches both sda and sdb anyway. I can't tell a big difference. I should probably rethink that and include /local in a raid instead...next computer, I guess. Tom in NM -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] [Repost]: Using an extra driver at install-time
Can anyone out there please help ? Any pointer to documentation explaining how to hack / customize the OpenSuSE installer would be welcome. Has any of you experience in installing on unsupported hardware ? Thanks in advance. Cheers. Bye. Ph. A. Original Message Subject: Using an extra driver at install-time Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 10:35:45 +0100 From: Philippe Andersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Ion Beam Applications, S.A. To: opensuse@opensuse.org Hello list, I'm trying to install OpenSuSE 10.2 on an oldish Dell PowerEdge 1300, fitted with a PERC 2/SC RAID controller. According to the documentation I found on the web, the PERC 2/SC requires the megaraid_legacy driver. That driver doesn't seem to be provided in OpenSuSE any longer (please correct me if I'm wrong). I already tried using the newer megaraid driver, but this one is meant for PERC 3/PERC 4 controllers and hangs during modprobe against a PERC 2. I'm familiar with the procedure of compiling a custom kernel / custom modules on a separate machine to generate the driver I need from sources, but could you please tell me what the easiest procedure is to then have the Yast installer use this extra module (and integrate it in the installed system/initrd -- the machine needs to eventually boot off the RAID array) ? Please also note that the Dell server doesn't have a floppy unit. It has USB ports, though, and a NIC of course. Any help would be appreciated. TIA Cheers. Bye. Ph. A. -- *Philippe Andersson* Unix System Administrator IBA Particle Therapy | Tel: +32-10-475.983 Fax: +32-10-487.707 eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.iba-worldwide.com The contents of this e-mail message and any attachments are intended solely for the recipient (s) named above. This communication is intended to be and to remain confidential and may be protected by intellectual property rights. Any use of the information contained herein (including but not limited to, total or partial reproduction, communication or distribution of any form) by persons other than the designated recipient(s) is prohibited. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free. Ion Beam Applications does not accept liability for any such errors. Thank you for your cooperation. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [opensuse] change directorie
Hi Vince, have you tried to escape the \'s ? something like: cd c:\\foo\\bar HTH, Martin - Original Message From: Vince Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: opensuse@opensuse.org Sent: Wednesday, March 7, 2007 2:49:37 PM Subject: [opensuse] change directorie hi All, When I want to change directory in Cygwin I simply copy the path from Windows's Command Prompt or Total Commander to Cygwin command line like (I do that when path is very long): cd c:\users\oliver\temp But it does not work since it can not recognise '\'. So I have to change '\' into '/' every time I wanna change directory in Cygwin. Is there a solution to this problem? I tried something with pipelines but no success. I tried for example: echo 'c:\users\oliver\temp' | sed 's_\\_/_g' | xargs cd How to properly pipeline these commands? Thanks Oliver -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8:00? 8:25? 8:40? Find a flick in no time with the Yahoo! Search movie showtime shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#news -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Beryl and xgl
On Mar 07, 07 12:51:41 +, Hans van der Merwe wrote: But me with nVidia card, Beryl and AIGLX (or whatever) - do I place the AIGLX option in the conf file or not? Seeing that its doesn't really use AIGLX? No. As I said, NVidia had accelerated indirect OpenGL from day one (the acrynom AIGLX wasn't even invented back then). There is no option to deactivate / activate this in the NVidia driver. The option AIGLX will be ignored. You need to have Composite activated (section Extensions). But that is the same for all AIGLX drivers. Matthias -- Matthias Hopf [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____ __ Maxfeldstr. 5 / 90409 Nuernberg (_ | | (_ |__ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone +49-911-74053-715 __) |_| __) |__ R D www.mshopf.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] remove files
On 07 March 07 05:29, Vince Oliver wrote: snip Vince, please don't top-post. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Why other Boot Options
On 07 March 07 07:09, Chris C wrote: top-post put where it should be On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 09:25 +0100, Alexander Osthof wrote: Can somebody shed some light on the new options that are now in my boot menu? I have the normal such as: OpenSuse 10.2 OpenSuse Fail-Safe 10.2 but now I have two other options which read: Opensuse 10.2 (XEN) Kernel-2.6.18.2-34-bigsmp What are these new options and where did they come from? Thanks guys Chris OH THanks Ken for that update fix!! it worked great! Another thing came into my mind: can you please post your /boot/grub/menu.lst (or /etc/lilo.conf -- in case you use lilo)? Greetings Alex, Hello, Please forgive me...but I don't understand what you mean. Although I would reallly like to know. I'm assuming the files that your looking for are log files? On this fourm, how should I post it...as an attachment or inline with this message? Where are you guys getting all this great information from. I have a couple of 1000 page book on SuSE Linux...but I haven't gotten to this stuff yet! Thanks Alex, Chris Please don't top-post, Chris. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Audio just stopped
John Andersen wrote: On Tuesday 06 March 2007, John ffitch wrote: I was using my laptop (Suse10.2) and tried switching my microphone on in alsamixer -- everything went quiet. Now I have no sound other that the beeps. aplay says it is playing but silence. Audacity says it is playing and silence. I have done the obvious -- nothing is muted in alsamnixer; re-configured the sound card; rebooted the machien. Powered it off, waited and restarted -- and still silence. I was using the sound earlier in the day, and I NEED the sound to teach my DSP class. Any ideas of (a) what happened and more importantly (b) how to restore sounds? Machine is ThinkPadX40 ==John ffitch I'm guessing its an intel sound chipset. What a flaming piece of crap that High Definition Audio is. Start by yast, ripping out the sound system and putting it back in piece by piece. I had one new Dell 9200 desktop that simply refused to give sound for more than a few minutes. I dicked around with it for three hours and finally said enough, grabbed a ancient sound blaster card out of the spare parts bin, slapped it in and had sound in 5 minutes flat. I have an HP dv5237cl and lost the Microphone sometime back. The audio out was very weak too. I replaced the alsa stuff by compiling the latest from the alsa web site and my audio volume out was restored to normal. The microphone issues persisted. I notice a new RC from Alsa now so will eventually get around to trying that. Meanwhile, I purchased a USB headset and the microphone works perfectly for Skype etc. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] [maybe OT] Mic on Skype won't work
Hi all, the mic won't work on openSuSE 10.2 when using the latest Skype version for Linux. That is, I can hear the other party but they can't hear me at all. Reading on the Skype forums I found this: http://forum.skype.com/index.php?s=9147fe18079ca59d058dcf0983dc5385showtopic=66544 and that leads me to: http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=66109 so... I double-checked with alsamixer and kmix that nothing needed was muted or disabled. And yes, cables are correctly plugged :-) Afterwards I also tried downgrading to Skype 1.2.x ... but it still doesn't work as it should. I also tried with the OSS wrapper aoss, just in case, with no luck at all... Then I fired up krecord and checked that it was possible to record/playback my own voice Has anyone found a solution for this?? TIA, Martin Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit. http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] zmd problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-03-07 at 14:35 +0100, Klaus Kaempf wrote: I tried using rug to remove the repo: rug unsub 20070302-213658 and it shows off: 'unsubscribe' just lowers the precendence. An unsubscribed service will e.g. not be considered when searching for packages to be update. However, it will still be valid for providing packages unavailable through other services. Ah. [...] But it is still there. How do I remove it completely? Use rug sd (service-delete) to remove it. Yes, that did it, thankyou! I guess that the man page lacks a yast to rug translation dictionary. I didn't see that repository is here service, but I thought it was a catalog. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFF7t/AtTMYHG2NR9URAi1uAJ9whQIXs713j+d/jXq8dOXo0tgNsACglFg+ 0ixsPLD/EYyzkZTrAAp46Qc= =Gc4a -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Why other Boot Options
Chris C wrote: Sorry about top-post I didn't know. Ok the /boot/grub/menu.lst is what Alex wants but what is really the correct way of getting access to that? I'm asking because it's a root permission only. How do you guys normally view this root only file? Do you change the permission via the command prompt or should I log in as root and then relog in as the normal user? Open a shell as yourself, then type: $ su - Then provide the root password. You're now root. Do what admin task you need to carry out (such as cat /boot/grub/menu.lst or something). Then type Ctrl-D to exit your root session. Your back in your own shell. HTH Cheers. Bye. Ph. A. -- *Philippe Andersson* Unix System Administrator IBA Particle Therapy | Tel: +32-10-475.983 Fax: +32-10-487.707 eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.iba-worldwide.com The contents of this e-mail message and any attachments are intended solely for the recipient (s) named above. This communication is intended to be and to remain confidential and may be protected by intellectual property rights. Any use of the information contained herein (including but not limited to, total or partial reproduction, communication or distribution of any form) by persons other than the designated recipient(s) is prohibited. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free. Ion Beam Applications does not accept liability for any such errors. Thank you for your cooperation. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [opensuse] KDM default session selection (previous session)
Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Sylvester Lykkehus [EMAIL PROTECTED] [03-07-07 04:48]: [...] snip The 'session manager' defaults to the *last* 'desktop manager' initiated. In your case you started gnome, closed it and returned to an already open kde. I don't know how you would achieve your wishes w/o opening another kde session *after* opening the gnome session. Appears to be one of those 'cake and eat it' situations. gud luk, Hi Patrick, That is exactly my problem, and indeed the 'workaround' I've been living with so far: open another KDE session after playing around in e.g. gnome, and before shutting down. I would be happier though, if I could default it to something fixed, instead of the last used session. Thanks for your reply anyway. Best regards Sylvester -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] remove files
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 03:12, Philippe Andersson wrote:
Gordon Ross wrote:
...
$ find DHbox* -name *.dat -o -name *.pro -exec rm -f {} \;
would do. Omit the final -exec... to first check that it only
catches those files you want to get rid of.
If there are very many such files, execing a separate rm for each will
be slow. The |xargs rm approach only invokes as many rm instances as
it takes to handle the number of arguments present. It also frees you
from the funky find -exec syntax, which many find confusing.
HTH
Cheers. Bye.
Ph. A.
Randall Schulz
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Re: [opensuse] Need explanation - question 1
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2006-12-01 at 15:52 -0500, usr wrote: Recently installed 10.2 on a new hard drive. Triple boot all on their own harddrives. I gave 10.2 a 3GB partition for / I also made separate partitions for /tmp, /var, and /home, each 10GB in size. I went to update 10.2 and was warned that the / partition is 97% full. How can that be? Does everthing on the DVD install into / ?? Now, do I have to reinstall 10.2 after making the / partition much larger ?? Some please explain what the problem is here. Please ?? Known feature. Simple get to one of the terminals, and manually mount the missing partitions. Use mount and df to see what is mounted and where, then mount whatever is needed, manually. I assume that you haven't installed yet 10.2 and you are waiting at the dvd install/upgrade screen. Or... no, hold on, you are asking something different. You have already installed, giving 3GB for /, and extra partitions for /tmp, /var, and /home, and now you see that / is almost full... obviously. Most of the stuff goes under /usr and /opt, which in your case goes to /. Well, you could substitute /var with /usr, but /var can also be big. There is a chapter in the admin book about proper partitioning for systems, you should read it. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFF7uSTtTMYHG2NR9URAn4zAJ4oWnrgRc8Bo5NBS//a/4X4T2k8FgCglYZc k+UJ7ljkKTwMwCIfyzGOjNU= =84qG -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Shorewall (was; Re: [opensuse] Martin Glötzl-Koch STOP BOUNCING LIST MAIL)
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, John Andersen wrote: On Tuesday 06 March 2007, Jon Clausen wrote: I'm by no means an iptables authority, and I'll probably never become one either. But Tom Eastep (Shorewall author) is. The guy is a wizard, and really knows his stuff. I've been using shorewall for years on Suse and now also on Kubuntu. What ever you do READ the QUICK START GUIDES. It will save so much time. Every site I maintain does egress filtering with Shorewall. Especially for port 25. Could I get a sample of some of your configs? My main problem is as such. I have SuSEfirewall working but complains from yast I would like to look at shorewall, but I have not gotten configs correct. I have a Class C network and all machine I want visiable to the world are one it. I also have part of an other Class C that I share with others. So I have a machine with three network cards as my router/firewall. Here is a diagram that shows network. Most machines have two NIC's public and private. Internet Internet || | X.X.X.X Partial Class C| Download Dynamic IP | Y.Y.Y.Y Full Class C |__ | | |System System | |shared shared | DHCP IP |storage storage| - - - - | | | | | | | | | |---+ | | | | | | | 1 | |P | 2 | | 3 | | 4 | | | |B | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |I | | | | | | - |P - - - || | || |- | || || HUB/ |-++ || Switch| | || | |- | || | | | | Other Systems | 192.168.x.x | | Unix/Linux | | | | MS Machines | | MS Masquarded -- - - - | HUB/ |-+| | | | | | | Switch | || | | | | | -- || 5| | 6 | | 7 |... +| | | | | | || | | | | | |- - - +|---|---| -- Boyd Gerber [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Monitoring for Linux
Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-03-06 at 11:26 -0500, Jose wrote: First, you hijacked a thread (Subject: Re: [opensuse] X start help). Please, don't. I am looking for a monitoring software for Linux, I know about Big Brother, but I am looking for something like gkrellm, this software gives me reading for heat, fans working, but it runs local, does anybody knows something like this that can be monitored remotely? gkrellm can do remote monitoring (man gkrellm). - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFF7pxXtTMYHG2NR9URAmmmAKCNOPOoIopUbYgoGoTtmtSRZEQ9AwCfSLs4 uvgaitivQS+ZQo/qywBxkkA= =aSpR -END PGP SIGNATURE- Hi Carlos, My sincere apologies about that, didn't mean to. Thanks for the suggestion, I would look into the help file Jose -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Why other Boot Options
Chris C wrote: Sorry about top-post I didn't know. Ok the /boot/grub/menu.lst is what Alex wants but what is really the correct way of getting access to that? I'm asking because it's a root permission only. How do you guys normally view this root only file? Do you change the permission via the command prompt or should I log in as root and then relog in as the normal user? Open a shell as yourself, then type: $ su - Then provide the root password. You're now root. Do what admin task you need to carry out (such as cat /boot/grub/menu.lst or something). Then type Ctrl-D to exit your root session. Your back in your own shell. HTH Cheers. Bye. Ph. A. Hi again, as Philippe already said, the output of the command cat /boot/grub/menu.lst is what I like to see. Just mark it and paste it inline in your next mail. BTW, it's the correct way that the file menu.lst has root permissions, so someone who maybe doesn't exactly know, what he is doing, can't change it easily. Thus he need root permission, and once you are root, you are expected to know what you are doing. ;) Erm, do you know under which circumstances this 2 new kernel entries have appeared? Greetings, -- Alex pgpHb2tTO2ekE.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [opensuse] shell script newbie: how to display progress of a pipe?
On 3/6/07, M Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 05 March 2007 19:50, Zhang Weiwu wrote: What would you suggest for my case to report progress? Write a non-buffering stage to preceed the sed stage. command | non-buffering-counter | sed-stage | command2 The non-buffering counter stage immediately passes each input to its output (does not buffer [stack] the data) and also keeps a running total of bytes/words that can be posted to a log file at convenient intervals of mbs. dd might be non-buffering if you set it low-enough blocksize. something like: command | dd bs=1b | sed-stage | command2 Then if you can figure out how to get the pid for dd. (ie. I don't know how to get the pid of a command in the middle of a pipe call like that. Maybe after the fact via ps -ef | grep | cut ...) You can have a loop that tells dd to give a status update every 10 minutes or so: while true do sleep 600 kill -sigusr1 $dd_pid done None of this is tested but you get the idea. Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] change directorie
Martin Mielke wrote: Hi Vince, have you tried to escape the \'s ? something like: cd c:\\foo\\bar or cd c:\foo\bar to cd c:\foo\bar using the home and end keys (and cursor keys). hi All, When I want to change directory in Cygwin I simply copy the path from Windows's Command Prompt or Total Commander to Cygwin command line like (I do that when path is very long): cd c:\users\oliver\temp But it does not work since it can not recognise '\'. So I have to change '\' into '/' every time I wanna change directory in Cygwin. Is there a solution to this problem? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] zmd mysteries
This whole ZMD business snuck up on me when I updated from 10.0 to 10.2. Suddenly it was there and didn't seem to be working. Right now I have an empty catalog -- probably as a result of desperate and somewhat misguided screwing around -- and no idea of how to create a useful catalog. I found out a little about zmd through a Google search, but so far I haven't found any useful overview documentation. So -- 1. If I have an empty catalog list (I found that out by calling zen-installer), how do I create a useful catalog list? 2. Where can I find an overview of ZEN and its buddies? 3. What is the current relationship between ZEN and Yast? Paul -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] To the well again
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 05:51, Stevens wrote: The help on this forum has been tremendous. I'll try it again, maybe someone knows why... I installed Suse 10.2 on an old P3/900 box that previously had 9.1 on it. Both / and /home partitions were reiser but I reformatted / as ext3 and kept /home unchanged. I expected a few configuration problems because of the new version, which I had, but there is some weird s.. stuff happening, too. First of all, please choose better subjects for your mails. They should in some way reflect your question, to make it easier for people to find interesting mail threads Secondly, between 9.1 and 10.2, suse changed user IDs. Before, a user got uid 100 and up by default, in 10.2 he gets 1000 and up. So odds are your old /home is simply owned by the wrong user. Simply log in as root and run chmod -R username.users /home/username and see if that helps -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] To the well again
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 18:47, I wrote: chmod -R username.users /home/username Oops, that should of course be chown -R username.users /home/username -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Saving Wireless settings
Hi All, How does one save security setting with a wireless device? Seems that my nic always connects to the neighbours unsecured wireless router. Every time I start up I have to go into yast and configure the security settings. It doesn't seem to save. Is there a way to save the settings? Phil -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Changing Remote Administration screen resolution
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 18:53:41 Tim Nicholson wrote: Tim Nicholson wrote: The default Screen resolution for Remote Administration is set to 1024x768. I presume this is from the setting in file /etc/xinetd.d/vnc. ... Think I have managed to answer my own question, Restarting X :~ /usr/sbin/rcxdm restart Doesn't seem to be enough, but a full shutdown reboot does it. Now being linux that is a very messy way to do it, so I guess I need to restart something else to make it all work! as you changed xinetds config... perhaps # /usr/sbin/rcxinetd restart might be a good point to try ;-) Have fun, Frank pgpQ477FZxdOH.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [opensuse] Saving Wireless settings
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 10:00:17 am Phil Savoie wrote: Hi All, How does one save security setting with a wireless device? Seems that my nic always connects to the neighbours unsecured wireless router. Every time I start up I have to go into yast and configure the security settings. It doesn't seem to save. Is there a way to save the settings? Yes - it is kind of hokey but this will work. I had the same problems with my local network. I kept logging into my neighbors' networks. First off, enable KWallet. This is the tool which will store your passwords. In my systems, KWallet is run with a blank password. When you login to your local network with the WEP or WPA password, then KWallet should pick up your password and store it. You will then be able to re-login and should connect without a problem. This worked for me on 10.1 until recently. For some reason - after a SMART update - I can no longer login with a password on my network. I tried a few things (see the emails KNetworkmanager Wierdness last week in the archives) but had no success. To get around it, I did a few things. I took off my password on my WiFi. I enabled MAC detection to only allow my laptops. I also disabled ESSID broadcasting, so I have to know what the WiFi network is. So far, I haven't had anybody login, and I don't expect to. -- kai Free Compean and Ramos http://www.grassfire.org/142/petition.asp http://www.perfectreign.com/?q=node/46 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] KDM login screen configuration
al though I have a server with a number of user accounts with desktop login disabled, they still appear in the list of accounts at the KDM login screen. What I would really like is to be able to disable this list completely so that no hint is given as to the valid users on the system. Having trawled through yast I cannot see any way to do this, nor can I find a KDM config file to tweak. Any ideas anyone? -- Tim http://www.bbc.co.uk/ This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system. Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it and notify the sender immediately. Please note that the BBC monitors e-mails sent or received. Further communication will signify your consent to this. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] [maybe OT] Mic on Skype won't work
On 3/7/07, Martin Mielke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the mic won't work on openSuSE 10.2 when using the latest Skype version for Linux. That is, I can hear the other party but they can't hear me at all. Reading on the Skype forums I found this: http://forum.skype.com/index.php?s=9147fe18079ca59d058dcf0983dc5385showtopic=66544 and that leads me to: http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=66109 so... I double-checked with alsamixer and kmix that nothing needed was muted or disabled. And yes, cables are correctly plugged :-) Afterwards I also tried downgrading to Skype 1.2.x ... but it still doesn't work as it should. I also tried with the OSS wrapper aoss, just in case, with no luck at all... Then I fired up krecord and checked that it was possible to record/playback my own voice Has anyone found a solution for this?? Hi Martin, I have almost :-) no problem with OpenSuSE 10.2/KDE/Skype 1.3.0.53/Realtech onboard AC'97 audio chip with ALSA driver. I mean, I just need to select MIC Boost, Capture control and set MIC control to max volume, and i works. Regards, Mark -- Mark Goldstein -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] openSUSE no more
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 06:39, Kai Ponte wrote: I must have the wrong friends. :-) All the people I know are MS slaves. Well, I'm a MS slave at work, if that makes you feel better. In the groups of friends, though, I know many running *nix. Free at last... free at last... thanks be I'm free at last!... from the NY to LA let freedom ring... from Redmond to FL Key let freedom ring... thanks be I'm free at last... :) -- Kind regards, M Harris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] opensuse updater is failing
Recently the orb turned to a different symbol. There was some discussion earlier on this but I have lost it, sorry. Now I have a yellow triangle exclamation mark. Hovering over it says twice: Error: Couldn't restore source. Detail: Can't check if source has changed or not. Aborting refresh. Removing zmd.db and reconstituting it has not helped this time. Two questions: what caused the normal icon to change ? Probably me ;-) What do I do about the message above? Cheers, Bob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] opensuse updater is failing
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 19:37, Robert Lewis wrote: Recently the orb turned to a different symbol. There was some discussion earlier on this but I have lost it, sorry. Now I have a yellow triangle exclamation mark. Hovering over it says twice: Error: Couldn't restore source. Detail: Can't check if source has changed or not. Aborting refresh. Removing zmd.db and reconstituting it has not helped this time. Two questions: what caused the normal icon to change ? Probably me ;-) What do I do about the message above? The mirror you have set as update source is no longer reachable. This (probably) isn't a local error on your side. Check the site manually in a browser, to see what happened with it -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] To the well again
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-03-07 at 18:47 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote: Secondly, between 9.1 and 10.2, suse changed user IDs. Before, a user got uid 100 and up by default, in 10.2 he gets 1000 and up. So odds are your old /home is simply owned by the wrong user. That situation is easy enough to detect, simply by isuing the command: ls -l /home/username If it comes out that files are owned by some number, instead of a username, then you are right. Simply log in as root and run chmod -R username.users /home/username and see if that helps Or change the uid in the passwd file. My main user is still #100. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFF7whOtTMYHG2NR9URArjZAJ0XHUQ0AMQnib+2cmh2bu/aTH/LeACeLhoV G4cROWOGb9g83XEAbk26yXA= =xRNp -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Recommended by Microsoft
I've tried to ignore the business of Novell's agreement with MS, but today Novell wrote to me offering a free seminar on SUSE Linux Enterprise 10. In their email they inform me that SUSE is, The only Linux recommended by Microsoft. Are they deliberately trying to annoy me? Anyway, I've written back and told them that I would never buy anything that came recommended by Microsoft. I've bought boxed versions of SUSE Linux since version 6.4 (I think it was). I won't be doing that again until Novell stop using that particular bit of marketing nonsense. I'm not the only one either. Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] SCPM and Windows domain membership
Is it possible to get SCPM to remember Windows domain memberships? I have a laptop that I routinely take between two offices with different domains. While YAST makes it pretty easy to switch back and forth, it'd be nice if SCPM could handle this for me the way it handles my other network settings. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Notebook (ACPI) (Was: Re: [opensuse] SATA RAID recommendations?)
John Andersen wrote: On Tuesday 06 March 2007, David Brodbeck wrote: ACPI is definitely a mixed bag. I don't think I've ever seen a system where it worked completely right, unlike APM, which was pretty mature. Most laptops now days need it. Period. End of story. If you don't run it you get stuttering sound, jerky mouse pointers, dead or flaky usb ports, etc, etc. Oh, I know. My Thinkpad T22 is sort of one of them. Under SUSE 10.1, if I turned off ACPI and turned on APM, I could get working suspend, but I had to disable CPU frequency switching in the BIOS or things got wonky when I switched from AC to battery. In 10.2, suspend doesn't work in APM, either. Suspend/resume have been gradually getting less reliable for me with every new release, which makes me wonder if the Linux developers have sort of given up on the whole thing as a bad job. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] SCPM and Windows domain membership
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 19:17:36 David Brodbeck wrote: Is it possible to get SCPM to remember Windows domain memberships? I have a laptop that I routinely take between two offices with different domains. While YAST makes it pretty easy to switch back and forth, it'd be nice if SCPM could handle this for me the way it handles my other network settings. Hi David Have a look at Yast-System-Profile Manager. At the bottom right is a configure button to configure resource groups. On my 10.2 system, samba isn't included in the default resource groups, but you should be able to add in the services (samba, smbfs and/or nmb), config files etc. to allow you to save two different samba states. Cheers Pete -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] remove files
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 08:01:10AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 03:12, Philippe Andersson wrote:
Gordon Ross wrote:
...
$ find DHbox* -name *.dat -o -name *.pro -exec rm -f {} \;
would do. Omit the final -exec... to first check that it only
catches those files you want to get rid of.
If there are very many such files, execing a separate rm for each will
be slow. The |xargs rm approach only invokes as many rm instances as
it takes to handle the number of arguments present. It also frees you
from the funky find -exec syntax, which many find confusing.
If you pipe into xargs, you probably want to also use find -print0/xargs
-0 to protect against filenames containing spaces and other oddities,
e.g.:
$ find DHbox* -name *.dat -o -name *.pro -print0 | xargs -0 rm
-print0 emits the list of files as a set of null terminated strings,
and -0 tells xargs to expect that format and compensate accordingly. As
usual, see the find(1) and xargs(1) man pages for more details.
--
Steve Beattie
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Re: [opensuse] Linux on Dell preloads
Randall R Schulz wrote: So I take it you didn't build this system yourself? Replacing RAM is not that big of a deal, but if you want to take advantage of the manufacturer's warranty, then I guess it doesn't really matter. If it's Dell, they probably *will* ask you to open the machine up and swap modules around and such. They always have when I've called with this sort of problem. They don't seem to have a problem with end users opening the case. A word of warning: If Dell's own diagnostic program doesn't see the problem, you will have a very hard time getting them to correct it. I had a Dell laptop that crashed repeatedly in Windows XP. They kept asking me to do system restores, which didn't fix the problem. Their diagnostics didn't see anything wrong with the hardware. Eventually I found it ran fine if I removed one of the memory modules, and that the problem followed the socket, not the module. I successfully convinced them to replace the motherboard, which turned out to have a bad memory socket, but it was an uphill struggle. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] YaST Software Management module not responding
I'm running the 64 bit version of Open SuSE 10.1. Often (nearly always) when I try to go into the Software Management module in YaST I get nothing. By nothing I mean, I click the icon, the thinking cursor appears and stays up for a few seconds then reverts back to the normal arrow cursor. And that's it. Rebooting the server generally allows me to use the module for some period of time, then the behavior starts again. Running a ps -ef | grep yast command produces the following output: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ ps -ef | grep yast root 30311 30206 0 12:23 ?00:00:00 kdesu -u root -c /sbin/yast2 root 30312 30311 0 12:23 ?00:00:00 /bin/bash /sbin/yast2 root 30352 1 0 12:23 ?00:00:00 /bin/bash /sbin/yast2 sw_single 1000 30530 30501 0 12:29 pts/400:00:00 grep yast I have tried running yast2 from the command line and get the same thing, namely nothing. The rest of the YaST modules seem to work fine, its only the Software Management one that is borked. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Tim Donnelly Systems/Network Administrator Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries (303)759-3399 x106 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] YaST Software Management module not responding
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 20:29, Tim Donnelly wrote: I'm running the 64 bit version of Open SuSE 10.1. Often (nearly always) when I try to go into the Software Management module in YaST I get nothing. By nothing I mean, I click the icon, the thinking cursor appears and stays up for a few seconds then reverts back to the normal arrow cursor. And that's it. Rebooting the server generally allows me to use the module for some period of time, then the behavior starts again. Running a ps -ef | grep yast command produces the following output: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ ps -ef | grep yast root 30311 30206 0 12:23 ?00:00:00 kdesu -u root -c /sbin/yast2 root 30312 30311 0 12:23 ?00:00:00 /bin/bash /sbin/yast2 root 30352 1 0 12:23 ?00:00:00 /bin/bash /sbin/yast2 sw_single 1000 30530 30501 0 12:29 pts/400:00:00 grep yast I have tried running yast2 from the command line and get the same thing, namely nothing. The rest of the YaST modules seem to work fine, its only the Software Management one that is borked. Any help would be greatly appreciated. The log file is /var/log/YaST2/y2log and it should contain a trace of what yast is up to, and hopefully some clues as to why it's failing -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Hint: ZMD Eating CPU/Disc
Gordon Ross wrote: All I need to do now, is work out why ZMD takes so flipping long to install patches regardless of it's NICEness... (come back YaST, all is forgiven !) I got thoroughly sick of this, and finally after having a couple of beers one day I decided to just remove all the zmd-related packages and see what happened. On my next boot, a nice opensuseupdater icon appeared where the zmd-updater one used to be, and my updates work much better now. So, my advice is to ditch zmd. I can't see what the benefit is. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Microsoft ordered to pay Alcatel-Lucent $1.5 bln in patent case - MarketWatch
Russell Jones wrote: You misunderstand. If Vorbis v1.3 (say) infringes a (submarine or otherwise) patent, the next version, e.g. v2.0, will be changed such that it does not. You just won't be able to play v1.3 files on a v2.0 player. That seems like a serious disincentive to designing hardware around the format, though. People are going to be unhappy if they spend $300 a new Yoyodyne Oggmaster music player and it doesn't play their old Ogg files. Or if the music player they bought a year ago suddenly can't play new music. I'd hate to be the tech support person who had to explain that one. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Saving Wireless settings
Kai Ponte wrote: On Wednesday 07 March 2007 10:00:17 am Phil Savoie wrote: Hi All, How does one save security setting with a wireless device? First off, enable KWallet. This is the tool which will store your passwords. In my systems, KWallet is run with a blank password. When you login to your local network with the WEP or WPA password, then KWallet should pick up your password and store it. You will then be able to re-login and should connect without a problem. Another way to do it is to choose the traditional method with ifup option in Yast's network device configuration module, instead of using knetworkmanager. Then you can set the password right there in Yast and it will remember it. If you need to store more than one configuration for different sites (say, your house and a coffee shop) you can set up multiple profiles with SCPM. This has worked quite well for me, and I travel around to a lot of different sites with different networks. I usually keep one profile for each network I frequent and one generic hotspot one (DHCP, no encryption) for coffee shops and the like. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Recommended by Microsoft
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 13:06, Peter Bradley wrote: The only Linux recommended by Microsoft. Are they deliberately trying to annoy me? Anyway, I've written back and told them that I would never buy anything that came recommended by Microsoft. Well, what can we say... marketing is *not* one of Novell's strong suits... in fact they are pretty much *void* in the skillset... sigh -- Kind regards, M Harris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] zypper fails update is one of the sources is unavailable?
It happens to me quite often: ...# zypper up Restoring system sources... Please insert media [Curl error for: http://packman.iu-bremen.de/suse/10.2/repodata/repomd.xml: Error code: HTTP response: 500 Error message: The requested URL returned error: 500 ] # 1. Retry [y/n]: n I/O error: Can't provide /repodata/repomd.xml from http://packman.iu-bremen.de/suse/10.2 (A)bort, (R)etry, (I)gnore? i I/O error: Can't provide /repodata/repomd.xml from http://packman.iu-bremen.de/suse/10.2 Failed to restore sources In Yast online updater if some of the sources fails, I can chose skip and continue with the rest of sources. As seen from above log, even when I chose Ignore, zypper refuse to continue. Is it a bug or am I missing something? -- Mark Goldstein -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] KDM login screen configuration
Tim Nicholson wrote: al though I have a server with a number of user accounts with desktop login disabled, they still appear in the list of accounts at the KDM login screen. What I would really like is to be able to disable this list completely so that no hint is given as to the valid users on the system. Having trawled through yast I cannot see any way to do this, nor can I find a KDM config file to tweak. Any ideas anyone? Hi Tim, You can do that from the KDE Control Center (kcontrol) System Administration - Login Manager In the Users tab, theres a column with hidden users, check the ones that _shouldn't_ be shown at the KDM login screen. I don't know the configuration file to do this in text mode though. Best regards Sylvester -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Saving Wireless settings
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 13:19, Kai Ponte wrote: On Wednesday 07 March 2007 10:00:17 am Phil Savoie wrote: Hi All, How does one save security setting with a wireless device? Seems that my nic always connects to the neighbours unsecured wireless router. Every time I start up I have to go into yast and configure the security settings. It doesn't seem to save. Is there a way to save the settings? Yes - it is kind of hokey but this will work. I had the same problems with my local network. I kept logging into my neighbors' networks. First off, enable KWallet. This is the tool which will store your passwords. In my systems, KWallet is run with a blank password. When you login to your local network with the WEP or WPA password, then KWallet should pick up your password and store it. You will then be able to re-login and should connect without a problem. This worked for me on 10.1 until recently. For some reason - after a SMART update - I can no longer login with a password on my network. I tried a few things (see the emails KNetworkmanager Wierdness last week in the archives) but had no success. To get around it, I did a few things. I took off my password on my WiFi. I enabled MAC detection to only allow my laptops. I also disabled ESSID broadcasting, so I have to know what the WiFi network is. So far, I haven't had anybody login, and I don't expect to. -- kai Thank you Kai! Phil -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
