Re: [opensuse] After installation nvidia driver is command line unreadable/cramped

[Catimimi]

Krupanský Rastislav a écrit :

Hello
I´ve bought a new monitor Benq FP202W.I´ve got a VGA Asus Nvidia 
6600.After installation Nvidia driver when i switch to command 
line(ctrl+alt+F1), monitor has got blurred picture.It is impossible to 
read, so i can´t work in command line-it is unusable.And when i turn 
off pc, blue splash screen is blurred also.

I hope you understand me, what i mean.
For better explanation I´d like to make a screenshots of command line, 
but i don´t know if it possible and how.

Up to now i had Prestigio P1710 and it worked fine.

Regards, Rasto

Hello,
This problem is well known and is discussed on the nvidia forums :

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=e7a0c7b6751c176fae127134c5e2cf1f&f=14

It is known to happen when you have a TV connected at boot, this limits 
the framebuffer resolution

at 800x600. So delete any vga= at boot and it should work.

Michel.


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Re: [opensuse] iptables config file and reboot

[Stephan Schöffel]

thanks for the hint. i'll think about that approach. yet there has to be 
a file somewhere, where the yast firewall settings are stored. i figured 
there is a file /etc/sysconfig/Susefirewall2 but it does not like 
iptable entries to me. aint there a file where configuration is saved 
except in a start script?


gtx
stephan


Verner Kjærsgaard schrieb:

Onsdag 30 maj 2007 17:42 skrev Stephan Schöffel:
  

hi there,

in 10.2 i switched off the firewall using yast. when i run iptables -L
now it shows the following (as i wanted):

Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source   destination

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source   destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source   destination

if make change manually now it will work but only until i reboot the
computer. how can i save the configuration and make suse use it
automatically?  i tried iptables-save > /etc/sysconfig/iptables but it
wont work either.

any hints?

gtx
stephan



Hi

I suggest that you use a standard template, put it into /etc/init.d/ and link 
to it from /etc/init.d/rc3.d and /etc/init.d/rc5.d


I once made a thing like that, it allowed me to "start/stop/status/ it...

Here goes:

#!/bin/sh
#
# Shell functions sourced from /etc/rc.status:
#  rc_check check and set local and overall rc status
#  rc_statuscheck and set local and overall rc status
#  rc_status -v be verbose in local rc status and clear it afterwards
#  rc_status -v -r  ditto and clear both the local and overall rc status
#  rc_status -s display "skipped" and exit with status 3
#  rc_status -u display "unused" and exit with status 3
#  rc_failedset local and overall rc status to failed
#  rc_failed   set local and overall rc status to 
#  rc_reset clear both the local and overall rc status
#  rc_exit  exit appropriate to overall rc status
#  rc_activechecks whether a service is activated by symlinks
. /etc/rc.status

# Reset status of this service
rc_reset


### General variables
EXT_IF=eth1
EXT_IP=10.11.12.106
INT_IF=
INT_IP=




case "$1" in
start|restart|reload)
echo -n "Starting Firewall "
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses
for f in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/*/accept_redirects
do
echo 0 > $f
done
#Block source routed packets
for f in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/*/accept_source_route
do
echo 0 > $f
done

### default policy
iptables -P INPUT DROP
iptables -P OUTPUT DROP
iptables -P FORWARD DROP

### flush existing rules
iptables -F
iptables -t nat -F
iptables -X

### Allow to and from loopback
iptables -A OUTPUT -o lo -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT  -i lo -j ACCEPT

### Drop all invalid packets
### INPUT chain first
iptables -A INPUT -m state --state INVALID -j DROP
### OUTPUT chain next
iptables -A OUTPUT -m state --state INVALID -j DROP

### INPUT chain
iptables -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
### OUTPUT chain
iptables -A OUTPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT

### SSH input, state checking
	iptables -A INPUT -i $EXT_IF -p TCP  --dport 22 -m state --state NEW -j 
ACCEPT


### SSH output, state checking
	iptables -A OUTPUT -p TCP -o $EXT_IF --dport 22 -m state --state NEW -j 
ACCEPT





### Allow PING IN/OUT
iptables -A INPUT -p ICMP -i $EXT_IF -j ACCEPT
iptables -A OUTPUT -p ICMP -o $EXT_IF -j ACCEPT

### Allow query to DNS
iptables -A OUTPUT -p UDP -o $EXT_IF --dport 53 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT  -p UDP -i $EXT_IF --sport 53 -j ACCEPT

### Allow SSH to me
#iptables -A INPUT -p TCP -i $EXT_IF --dport 22 -j ACCEPT
#iptables -A OUTPUT -p TCP -o $EXT_IF --sport 22 -j ACCEPT

### Allow outgoing SSH
#iptables -A INPUT -p TCP -i $EXT_IF ! --syn --sport 22 -j ACCEPT
#iptables -A OUTPUT -p TCP -o $EXT_IF --dport 22 -j ACCEPT

### Allow browsing the web
iptables -A INPUT -p TCP -i $EXT_IF ! --syn --sport 80 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A OUTPUT -p TCP -o $EXT_IF --dport 80 -j ACCEPT

### Do some logging of dropped packages
	iptables -A INPUT -j LOG --log-prefix "VK INPUT-DROP " 
	

### Reject packets instead of dropping...
iptables -A INPUT -p TCP -j REJECT --reject-with tcp-reset

### Allow TCP packet to go out from our computer
iptables -A OUTPUT -p TCP -o $EXT_

[opensuse] RE: vncserver access via putty but not from remote desktop sharing

[Alexander.Herr]

 Hi list,

I am trying to use KDE desktop sharing. However I am unable to login
into the remote desktop via http (time out error) or via remote desktop
connection (Kwallet asks for a password but does not accept the
invitation password).

I have enabled Firewall access to ports etc. 

So what I would need is a how-to to that explains from scratch what
other things need to be enabled to run desktop sharing.

Also I cannot find the log file for the vnc server (none under
/var/log/) - where would that be located and under what name.

Oddly I can start vnc manually and tunnel into it via putty/tighvnc. The
logfile than is in my home directory.

Thanx
Herry
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Re: [opensuse] Extremely large fonts when connected to lcd tv

[Kevin Donnelly]

On Thursday 31 May 2007 01:10, Alistair M wrote:
> The problem I had when I tried running
> sax2 is i couldn't actually see the save settings button, so i had to keep
> hitting tab to hopefully get it.

Press Alt and click and drag the mouse to pan the screen.

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Re: [opensuse] Publisher alternatives

[Kevin Donnelly]

On Thursday 31 May 2007 00:45, Pueblo Native wrote:
> While not completely disagreeing with you, I think there are a couple of
> levels between professional publisher and home user.  The most common
> one I would think of is a person who runs a small newsletter for an
> organization or club of some sort.  They don't need _all_ the features
> of an InDesign, but they would like the publication to come off a little
> more professionally.  Another group might be people that run a
> professional document, but infrequently (an annual or semi-annual
> report) and their primary business is not publishing.  I really wouldn't
> want to shell out close to a grand for a program I use very infrequently.

This is a long thread about something that seems to me to be a non-issue.  
Scribus does what you specify here, and is also intended for pro-am work 
where you hand things off to printers.  It is cross-platform, handles PDFs to 
a very high standard, and is intended to work closely with Inkscape for 
non-photo graphics.  Is there any reason why the OP, after having looked at 
it, is casting around (almost perversely, one might say) for something else?  

Scribus is very easy to use (my 13-year old found his way around it easily, 
and I can assure you I found it a lot easier than Microsoft Publisher), but 
has also been the basis for "proper" publishing work (there was a series in 
Linux Magazine last year from someone who was using it to publish a community 
newspaper in Belfast).  

So instead of spending time looking at "alternatives" which are not going to 
be as good, the OP would be better advised, IMO, to start experimenting with 
Scribus.

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[opensuse] After installation nvidia driver is command line unreadable/cramped

[Krupanský Rastislav]

Hello
I´ve bought a new monitor Benq FP202W.I´ve got a VGA Asus Nvidia 
6600.After installation Nvidia driver when i switch to command 
line(ctrl+alt+F1), monitor has got blurred picture.It is impossible to 
read, so i can´t work in command line-it is unusable.And when i turn off 
pc, blue splash screen is blurred also.

I hope you understand me, what i mean.
For better explanation I´d like to make a screenshots of command line, 
but i don´t know if it possible and how.

Up to now i had Prestigio P1710 and it worked fine.

Regards, Rasto
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Re: [opensuse] opensuse repositories now illegal in Germany

[Pascal Bleser]

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Darryl Gregorash wrote:
> On 2007-05-29 14:56, James Knott wrote:
>> 
>> Politicians also talk.  They must therefore be illegal.  ;-)
>>   
> If not, they should be ;-)
> 
> Conventional wisdom says that there are 3 kinds of lies: lies, damn
> lies, and statistics. To that should be added the worst kind of lie
> of all: a political promise.

And there are three deadly issues on this list: off-topic, off-topic and
off-topic.

Please stick to the topic. Thanks ;)

cheers
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Re: [opensuse] Adding an installation source to YaST (SUSE 10.0 AMD64 x 2)

[Registration Account]

Peter, just to start with I would remove all the
duplicated identical data sources.

Then type the data source in your browser and make sure
 you get a directory/file listing in reply.

Lets us all know what happens after this
Scott

Peter Bradley wrote:
> Ysgrifennodd Peter Bradley:
>> It's time I got this business of adding installation sources to YaST
>> thing sorted.
>>
>> I'd really like to install the latest versions of Mono and
>> Monodevelop, so I went to the web site, which advises SUSE uses to add
>> the installation source:
>>
>> http://go-mono.com/download-stable/suse-100-x86_64
>>
>> to YaST.
>>
>> In YaST --> Software --> Installation Source, I clicked on add -->
>> http and, in the dialog that appears added the following details:
>>
>> Server Name: go-mono.com
>> Directory on server: download-stable/suse-100-x86_64
>>
>> After clicking OK in the dialog, it went away and thought about it for
>> a while and then added 27 identical URLs to the list in the Software
>> source media dialog.  The URLs added are all listed (immediately after
>> the line specifying my installation DVD source) as:
>>
>> http://go-mono.com/download-stable/suse-100-x86_64
>>
>> (which, I guess, is what you'd expect except that I was only expecting
>> it to add a single line)
>>
>> I then turned refresh on for each of these entries and clicked Finish.
>>
>> Back in the YaST Control Centre I chose Software Management.  YaST
>> then tried to refresh each of these sources.  On every attempt, the
>> error message:
>>
>> ERROR(InstSrc:E_no_instsrc_on_media)
>>
>> was displayed.  Very user friendly, I thought :-)
>>
>> When I eventually got back to YaST, nothing from this installation
>> source appeared to be displayed (i.e. there was nothing I could see
>> that indicated that I had any version of Mono available to me except
>> 1.1.8x that I had from the installation DVD, and which I had
>> uninstalled prior to adding the new source).  The source column in
>> YaST was empty in all cases.
>>
>> Finally, just for the heck of it, I turned refresh off and tried
>> again.  The result was the same.
>>
>> Does anyone know what the undoubtedly obvious thing is that I've missed?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> Peter
>>
> I hope that no-one will mind if I reply to this to bring it back up the
> list.  I suspect it got lost in the holiday traffic: so if anyone does
> have any suggestions, I'd be very pleased to hear.
> 
> Many thanks.
> 
> 
> Peter
> 


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Re: [opensuse] copying music CD's

[BandiPat]

On Wednesday 30 May 2007, Doug McGarrett wrote:
> Since my Win machine crashed, and I am now stuck with XP/sp2,
> a lot of software no longer works, including Roxio CD Creator, which
> came free with a drive, and now sells for $100, I am going to put
> a CD recorder in my Linux machine.  What is the program or command
> to copy a music CD, so I can play it in my car without risking damage
> to the original?
>
> --doug

=

Just use k3b or gnomebaker to create your audio cds from ogg/mp3 files.  
Copying an audio cd is just as easy, just select copy from the menus.


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[opensuse] copying music CD's

[Doug McGarrett]

Since my Win machine crashed, and I am now stuck with XP/sp2,
a lot of software no longer works, including Roxio CD Creator, which
came free with a drive, and now sells for $100, I am going to put
a CD recorder in my Linux machine.  What is the program or command
to copy a music CD, so I can play it in my car without risking damage
to the original?

--doug
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Re: [opensuse] XVNC Activating itself -- sign of scurity breach?

[Patrick Shanahan]

* David McMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05-30-07 21:36]:
> Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> >* David McMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05-30-07 20:56]:
> >>In the past two months, I've had two incidents where, when I ran 'top,' 
> >>I found XVNC running (and taking up a good 75% of my CPU), for no 
> >>apparent reason on my 10.2 system.
> >>Now, I have "Remote Desktop Sharing" turned on on this machine (though 
> >>I've never been able to get VNC to connect across the LAN from my WXP 
> >>laptop -- only browsing to http://host:5801 works so far), but at 
> >>neither of these incidents had I been using, or even attempting to use, 
> >>a VNC or RD connection to the 10.2 machine, at any time in the recent 
> >>past.
> >
> >You *are* using vnc, http://host:5801 is a vnc connection.
> 
>   Yes, I know -- what I meant was, *at the time of the incidents,* I 
> hadn't made any VNC connection attempts, via HTTP or otherwise, in 
> *days,* if not weeks.  There were definitely no VNC connections being 
> made from any of *my* machines on my LAN.  That's what's puzzling (and 
> worrying me) about seeing XVNC active, and eating up so much CPU.

man vnc

rpm -ql vnc

there is a server, client, viewer, .


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Re: [opensuse] Publisher alternatives

[Doug McGarrett]

On Wednesday 30 May 2007 19:45, Pueblo Native wrote:
> Doug McGarrett wrote:
> > Yes, I know UNIX programs are horrendously expensive, but they are such
> > because the purchasers are going to make a lot of money using them. 
> > (Does the expression "Microsoft" ring a bell?)  If you really need a
> > "real" publishing system, you are probably making money using it.  Pay
> > the tab.
>
> While not completely disagreeing with you, I think there are a couple of
> levels between professional publisher and home user.  The most common
> one I would think of is a person who runs a small newsletter for an
> organization or club of some sort.  They don't need _all_ the features
> of an InDesign, but they would like the publication to come off a little
> more professionally.  Another group might be people that run a
> professional document, but infrequently (an annual or semi-annual
> report) and their primary business is not publishing.  I really wouldn't
> want to shell out close to a grand for a program I use very infrequently.

I am the editor of a very nice little newsletter, The Pedal Steel Newsletter, 
published by the Pedal Steel Guitar Association, Inc.  It comes out 10 times 
a year, and runs 12 to 16 pages. It includes digital photographs, ads, and is 
published on a Macintosh, using M/S Word, and up to now, Pagemaker. Since 
Pagemaker is obsolete and not  supported any more, it will go to Adobe 
InDesign, which costs around $270. InDesign runs on Mac Os X version 4, which 
is BSD UNIX, I believe. (A version also runs on Windows.)  That does not mean 
it runs on Linux, of course, but it's a UNIX routine that is not at the
$1K level.  If enough Linux users asked, it might be ported.  This program 
provides copy ready for a commercial printer.  (We run about 1500 copies a 
month.)  Oh, the PSGA is not making money on the publication; it is a
dues-paying self-supporting non-profit organization.

--doug



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Re: [opensuse] XVNC Activating itself -- sign of scurity breach?

[Patrick Shanahan]

* David McMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05-30-07 20:56]:
>   In the past two months, I've had two incidents where, when I ran 'top,' 
> I found XVNC running (and taking up a good 75% of my CPU), for no 
> apparent reason on my 10.2 system.
>   Now, I have "Remote Desktop Sharing" turned on on this machine (though 
> I've never been able to get VNC to connect across the LAN from my WXP 
> laptop -- only browsing to http://host:5801 works so far), but at 
> neither of these incidents had I been using, or even attempting to use, 
> a VNC or RD connection to the 10.2 machine, at any time in the recent 
> past.

You *are* using vnc, http://host:5801 is a vnc connection.
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[opensuse] XVNC Activating itself -- sign of scurity breach?

[David McMillan]

	In the past two months, I've had two incidents where, when I ran 'top,' 
I found XVNC running (and taking up a good 75% of my CPU), for no 
apparent reason on my 10.2 system.
	Now, I have "Remote Desktop Sharing" turned on on this machine (though 
I've never been able to get VNC to connect across the LAN from my WXP 
laptop -- only browsing to http://host:5801 works so far), but at 
neither of these incidents had I been using, or even attempting to use, 
a VNC or RD connection to the 10.2 machine, at any time in the recent 
past.
	So, if I'm not trying to access this machine via VNC, is there any 
reason that XVNC would show so much activity?  Is this, potentially, a 
sign that my machine is being accessed from outside?  And if so, how do 
I go about nailing down exactly what's happening?  I've never had to 
deal with intrusions before, so I'm a bit out of my depth here.




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Re: [opensuse] Extremely large fonts when connected to lcd tv

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The Thursday 2007-05-31 at 10:10 +1000, Alistair M wrote:

> Thanks Stan, I'll give that a try. The problem I had when I tried running sax2
> is i couldn't actually see the save settings button, so i had to keep hitting
> tab to hopefully get it.

Try the --reinit or --lowres options.

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Re: [opensuse] Publisher alternatives

[Carl Spitzer]

On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 18:43 +0200, jdd wrote:
> Ken Jennings wrote:
> 
> > wife's boss insisted their simple web site be done in publisher.
> 
> what a horrible idea :-)))
> 

Cant we do that now in OOo for those not inclined to use text editors or
Quanta?


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Re: [opensuse] Extremely large fonts when connected to lcd tv

[Alistair M]

Thanks Stan, I'll give that a try. The problem I had when I tried running 
sax2 is i couldn't actually see the save settings button, so i had to keep 
hitting tab to hopefully get it.


Regards,
Alistair.



From: S Glasoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: opensuse@opensuse.org
Subject: Re: [opensuse] Extremely large fonts when connected to lcd tv
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 19:04:58 -0500

On Wednesday May 30 2007 6:37:19 pm Alistair M wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running OpenSUSE 10.2 with KDE, using a Matrox G550 graphics card. 
When

> I connect my system to a normal lcd monitor (resolution 1024 x 768) the
> display looks fine.
> But when I connect the same system to my 32" Loewe lcd tv the fonts look
> enormous! All applications look very large and unusable too as the fonts
> are so huge.
>
> Has anyone else experienced this problem before?
> Please help...
>
> Thank you,
> Alistair.

Did you re-run sax2 to account for the change in monitors? If not, then you
are dispaying 1024x768 on a huge screen and your fonts should look huge.

There isn't any automatic display resolution changing due to a change in
monitors on openSUSE 10.2 and KDE 3.x.

After switching monitors, log out of KDE, switch to a console such as
Ctrl+Alt+F1, login as root, issue the 'init 3' command (without the 
quotes),

run sax2 and verify that it detects the 32" Loewe correctly, test+save that
config, issue the 'init 5' command to re-start X and KDE, login and see 
what

it looks like.
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Re: [opensuse] Extremely large fonts when connected to lcd tv

[S Glasoe]

On Wednesday May 30 2007 6:37:19 pm Alistair M wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running OpenSUSE 10.2 with KDE, using a Matrox G550 graphics card. When
> I connect my system to a normal lcd monitor (resolution 1024 x 768) the
> display looks fine.
> But when I connect the same system to my 32" Loewe lcd tv the fonts look
> enormous! All applications look very large and unusable too as the fonts
> are so huge.
>
> Has anyone else experienced this problem before?
> Please help...
>
> Thank you,
> Alistair.

Did you re-run sax2 to account for the change in monitors? If not, then you 
are dispaying 1024x768 on a huge screen and your fonts should look huge.

There isn't any automatic display resolution changing due to a change in 
monitors on openSUSE 10.2 and KDE 3.x. 

After switching monitors, log out of KDE, switch to a console such as 
Ctrl+Alt+F1, login as root, issue the 'init 3' command (without the quotes), 
run sax2 and verify that it detects the 32" Loewe correctly, test+save that 
config, issue the 'init 5' command to re-start X and KDE, login and see what 
it looks like.
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Re: [opensuse] beryl and video

[Andy Harrison]

On 5/30/07, josenildo marques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hello!
Since I started to use beryl, I haven't been able to play videos.
Kaffeine doesn't even start. My card is: NVidia GeForce MX/MX400.
How could I fix that?
Thansks in advance.


Error messages would be helpful.  ~/.xsession-errors, maybe also
/var/log/messages

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Re: [opensuse] Publisher alternatives

[Pueblo Native]

Doug McGarrett wrote:
> Yes, I know UNIX programs are horrendously expensive, but they are such
> because the purchasers are going to make a lot of money using them.  (Does
> the expression "Microsoft" ring a bell?)  If you really need a "real" 
> publishing system, you are probably making money using it.  Pay the tab.
>
>   
While not completely disagreeing with you, I think there are a couple of
levels between professional publisher and home user.  The most common
one I would think of is a person who runs a small newsletter for an
organization or club of some sort.  They don't need _all_ the features
of an InDesign, but they would like the publication to come off a little
more professionally.  Another group might be people that run a
professional document, but infrequently (an annual or semi-annual
report) and their primary business is not publishing.  I really wouldn't
want to shell out close to a grand for a program I use very infrequently.




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[opensuse] Extremely large fonts when connected to lcd tv

[Alistair M]

Hi,

I'm running OpenSUSE 10.2 with KDE, using a Matrox G550 graphics card. When 
I connect my system to a normal lcd monitor (resolution 1024 x 768) the 
display looks fine.
But when I connect the same system to my 32" Loewe lcd tv the fonts look 
enormous! All applications look very large and unusable too as the fonts are 
so huge.


Has anyone else experienced this problem before?
Please help...

Thank you,
Alistair.

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Re: [opensuse] clean /tmp

[Carlos E. R.]

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The Wednesday 2007-05-30 at 19:58 +0200, Richard Bos wrote:

> >   The name "LONG_TMP" of the variables must be indicative of something :-?
> 
> LONG as in time.  This one can be used for e.g. /var/tmp as that can be 
> populated by users and they may want to have access to their files after some 
> time.
> 
> The other varsTMP_DIRS_TO_CLEAR and MAX_DAYS_IN_TMP are meant for e.g. /tmp 
> To 
> remove garbage left behind by system processes.

Still... 

My /var/tpm contains 17 directories named like "zypp.CU5YqK", containing 
about 14 KB each, dating since March (system was updated to 10.2 in mid 
Feb). They seem to contain gpg data. That data should not be there still.

There is also a checkinstall.C18067 dir containing 73MB of files of a 
would be rpm, failed.

Neither of those two things are long term needed, I think. Not to mention 
two files dated 2005

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Re: [opensuse] Publisher alternatives

[Doug McGarrett]

On Wednesday 30 May 2007 15:56, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote:
> Onsdag 30 maj 2007 21:47 skrev Ken Jennings:
> > On Wednesday 2007-05-30 14:34, Pueblo Native wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > > I'm not completely biased against commercial software, but it would
> > > depend upon circumstances.  

There have to be UNIX programs to do this.  It is impossible for there not
to be.  So buy one.  If it won't run on Linux, there are (relatively) cheap
UNIX os's out there.  I have Solaris, which I got for very little, but never
installed.

Yes, I know UNIX programs are horrendously expensive, but they are such
because the purchasers are going to make a lot of money using them.  (Does
the expression "Microsoft" ring a bell?)  If you really need a "real" 
publishing system, you are probably making money using it.  Pay the tab.

(As an aside, you probably got a free Photoshop teaser with your graphics
card.  The full program costs US$ 998.00, according to the latest B&H 
catalog from New York.)  

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Re: [opensuse] Publisher alternatives

[Doug McGarrett]

On Wednesday 30 May 2007 12:15, Ken Jennings wrote:
> On Friday 2007-05-25 08:41, Kai Ponte wrote:
> > On Thu, May 24, 2007 7:57 pm, Pueblo Native wrote:
> > > I'm putting together a document listing alternatives for Microsoft
> > > Publisher, and so far I can only think of Scribus.  Are there any
> > > others
> > > out there that show  promise?
> >
> > AFAIK, no. There's really nothing that matches the simplicity and
> > power of MS Publisher unfortunately. My wife just used it the other
> > day for a open house flyer and my mom has it running in Crossover
> > Office on her SUSE system. You can see a ongoing list of linux/windows
> > alternatives here:
> >
> > http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html
> >
> > It has been a little while since the last update, but they seem to be
> > there on occasion.
>
> (Does it have to be "free" as in zero cost?) As far as DTP features go I'd
> recommend PageStream.  http://www.grasshopperllc.com
>
> Other than low-end DTP work, don't use MS Publisher for anything else.  My
> wife's boss insisted their simple web site be done in publisher.  It looked
> OK, but I wondered why it took so long for the pages to load.  I looked at
> the html and discovered that when Publisher exports to HTML it generates
> horribly bloated HTML and unnecessarily converts some text boxes to
> bitmaps. I rebuilt their web site using straight HTML and the new version
> was about 1 percent of the size of the Publisher version.

This may be heresy, but why not make a little money off of M/S?  Sell them
the revised code!  Make them a reasonable offer based on the time you put in,
and they'll probably buy it.

Another thought:  Copyright all the contributions you made--_ before _
you offer it.  I'm not a lawyer, so you should check with one before 
proceeding.  


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Re: [opensuse] Re: [opensuse-factory] Making Basic Utilities work under normal user

[M Harris]

On Wednesday 30 May 2007 14:22, Alexey Eremenko wrote:
> > > Adding /sbin/ to user's $PATH doesn't lower your security. (because
> >
> > Thats your oppinion or do you have some way to prove that?
>
> 1. Well, you're still bound to the Linux security model.
hi Alexey,  
The security model is not the issue. In fact, security really has 
nothing to 
do with the core issue here--- the other respondents are attempting to 
address the LSB issue which is unfortunately at permanent odds with your idea 
regarding sbin utils. 
What is at stake is the Linux Standard Base, and LSB certification 
compliance. Please reference the following link:

http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Products

The products listed above are certified to be in compliance with the 
open 
standards ---Linux Standard Base... for instance openSUSE 10.0 is in 
compliance with the core LSB version 3.0.  There are lots of good ways to 
organize a system... and I could probably think of some myself... but the 
idea here is to prevent Linux from fragmenting. What differentiates one 
distribution from another should *not* be its basic organization and 
functionality. I should be able to drive Fedora just as easily as openSUSE, 
as Ubuntu. The greater benefit of course  that comes from LSB is an open 
standard development platform. We want developers to write code for Linux... 
and the only way that really works in practice is to have the core system 
pretty much an open standard so that developers know what to expect... not to 
mention users! ---a new app should install and run fine on Fedora, and on 
openSUSE, and on Ubuntu.

LSB is a good thing for everyone over the long haul.


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[opensuse] monitor sync ranges

[Herbert Georg]

Hi there,

I installed the latest Nvidia driver and it detected correctly my
graphics card and monitor. And assigned correctly the sync ranges. I'm
using the 1280x1024 mode.
But I wanted to lower the monitor frequencies to do a test. So I opened
sax2 and lowered the maximum values. But when I test the sax2
configuration it shows me the old high frequency values. Even if I save 
the configuration (and looking at the /etc/X11/xorg.conf the ranges are
correctly modified) sax2 keeps on showing the old high values. Same if I
restart X.
My modified ranges are: HorizSync 28-65 kHz and VertRefresh 56-60 Hz.
But sax2 says, in that test screen, that the current values are 80kHz
and 75Hz.

So, is sax2 not showing the actual values or X is not using the values
in the range?
How can I be sure about the frequencies actually being used? Is there a
command that shows me this information?

My xorg.conf:

# /.../
# SaX generated X11 config file
# Created on: 2007-05-30T18:15:34-0300.
#
# Version: 7.1
# Contact: Marcus Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2002
#
# Automatically generated by [ISaX] (7.1)
# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!
#




Section "Monitor"
  DisplaySize  340 270
  HorizSync28-65
  Identifier   "Monitor[0]"
  ModelName"LG ELECTRONICS L1753T"
  Option   "DPMS"
  VendorName   "GSM"
  VertRefresh  56-60
  UseModes "Modes[0]"
EndSection


Section "Modes"
  Identifier   "Modes[0]"
  Modeline  "1280x1024" 105.15 1280 1360 1496 1712 1024 1025 1028 1059
  Modeline  "1280x960" 97.68 1280 1352 1488 1696 960 961 964 993
  Modeline  "1280x800" 80.58 1280 1344 1480 1680 800 801 804 827
  Modeline  "1152x864" 78.82 1152 1216 1336 1520 864 865 868 894
  Modeline  "1280x768" 77.37 1280 1344 1480 1680 768 769 772 794
  Modeline  "1024x768" 61.89 1024 1080 1184 1344 768 769 772 794
  Modeline  "800x600" 36.88 800 832 912 1024 600 601 604 621
  Modeline  "768x576" 33.74 768 792 872 976 576 577 580 596
  Modeline  "640x480" 23.06 640 656 720 800 480 481 484 497
EndSection


Section "Screen"
  DefaultDepth 24
  SubSection "Display"
Depth  15
Modes  "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" 
"1024x768" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480" 
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
Depth  16
Modes  "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" 
"1024x768" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480" 
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
Depth  24
Modes  "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" 
"1024x768" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480" 
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
Depth  32
Modes  "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" 
"1024x768" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480" 
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
Depth  8
Modes  "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" 
"1024x768" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480" 
  EndSubSection
  Device   "Device[0]"
  Identifier   "Screen[0]"
  Monitor  "Monitor[0]"
EndSection


Section "Device"
  BoardName"GeForce FX 5200 (0x0322)"
  BusID"3:0:0"
  Driver   "nvidia"
  Identifier   "Device[0]"
  Option   "NoLogo"
  Screen   0
  VendorName   "NVidia"
EndSection


Section "ServerLayout"
  Identifier   "Layout[all]"
  InputDevice  "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
  InputDevice  "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
  Option   "Clone" "off"
  Option   "Xinerama" "off"
  Screen   "Screen[0]"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Group  "video"
Mode   0660
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
EndSection


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Re: [opensuse] opensuse repositories now illegal in Germany

[Darryl Gregorash]

On 2007-05-29 14:56, James Knott wrote:
> 
> Politicians also talk.  They must therefore be illegal.  ;-)
>   
If not, they should be ;-)

Conventional wisdom says that there are 3 kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and 
statistics. To that should be added the worst kind of lie of all: a political 
promise.

:-D

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Re: [opensuse] setting up PTR DNS records in Suse

[david rankin]

From: "James D. Parra"

Hello,

Setup DNS in YAST, great tool for this by the way, however where can you
setup the Reverse Lookup records?

Many thanks,

James


However, in the second screen (Domain setup) after you set up the
forwarder addresses does give help on how to set up the reverse lookup
records.



Thank you. Using Suse 10.0 Yast and all I see in the DNS Server menu is;
Start-up, Forwarders, Logging, & DNS Zones. Under Forwarders you can add 
IP

addresses manually and not much else.

Where can I add these PTR records/Reverse Lookup Records, either through
Yast or with 'vi', my preferred terminal editor for making quick changes.

Many thanks,

James


James, just do something like this for your named.conf

providence:/home/david # grep -v '#' /etc/named.conf
include "/etc/named.keys";
include "/etc/rndc.key";
include "/etc/named.conf.include";

controls {
   inet 127.0.0.1 allow { localhost; } keys { rndc-key; };
};

options {
   directory "/var/lib/named";
   dump-file "/var/log/named_dump.db";
   statistics-file "/var/log/named.stats";
   forwarders { 208.180.42.68; 208.180.42.100; 68.1.208.30; };
   forward first;
   listen-on-v6 { none; };
   notify no;
};

zone "." in {
   type hint;
   file "root.hint";
};

zone "localhost" in {
   type master;
   file "localhost.zone";
};

zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" in {
   type master;
   file "127.0.0.zone";
};

zone "rbpllc.com" in {
   file "dyn/rbpllc.com";
   type master;
   allow-update{ key DHCP_UPDATER; };
};

zone "7.168.192.in-addr.arpa" in {
   file "dyn/192.168.7.zone";
   type master;
   allow-update{ key DHCP_UPDATER; };
};


Then for your /var/lib/named/dyn/{reverse zone file} (or 
/var/lib/named/master/{reverse zone file} if dynamic updates are not used):


providence:/home/david # cat /var/lib/named/dyn/192.168.7.zone
$TTL 2d
@   IN SOA  providence.rbpllc.com. 
root.providence.rbpllc.com. (

   2007050402  ; serial
   3h  ; refresh
   1h  ; retry
   1w  ; expiry
   1d ); minimum

   IN NS  providence.rbpllc.com.

13  IN PTR gw.rbpllc.com.
15  IN PTR bonza.rbpllc.com.
16  IN PTR providence.rbpllc.com.
   IN PTR www.rbpllc.com.
   IN PTR mail.rbpllc.com.
   IN PTR ftp.rbpllc.com.

That's all there is to it!



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Re: [opensuse] Amarok 1.4.5 and MySQL

[Pascal Bleser]

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Will Stephenson wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 May 2007, Druid said:
>> the one from guru repo
> 
> I disagree, it worked for me with the distro packages - wasn't any faster 
> though.

AFAIK MySQL and PostgreSQL support is disabled from the Amarok builds in
the oBS (KDE3:/Backports), so I'd strongly assume it is in the stock
10.2 packages as well.
The reason was to avoid adding MySQL and PostgreSQL as dependencies to
Amarok.

Using MySQL is heaps faster, especially when updating the collection (on
write operations). It's easily 3 times faster than sqlite3 (just gut
feeling, didn't run any benchmarks).

With larger collections, I'd definitely recommend using MySQL instead of
sqlite3.

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Re: [opensuse] Package needed

[Patrick Shanahan]

* Aigars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05-30-07 15:55]:
> Sorry for interrupting you, but this package did not help. I'm afraid
> that I need php5-pdo_mysql-5.2.2 specifically not php5-pdo-5.2.2
> (whitch I already have).

Sorry, that is the one I use.  

But rpmfind.net gives: 
ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/SuSE-Linux/i386/update/10.1/rpm/i586/php5-pdo_mysql-5.1.2-29.25.6.i586.rpm
and 
http://benjiweber.co.uk:8080/webpin/
 gives: 
http://benjiweber.co.uk:8080/webpin/packageinfo.jsp?checksum=9c00064081167fc9ac8251df328b88629e4c98f4&distro=SUSE_Linux_101


> Could you help me on this issue?

maybe.

btw, questions posed on the list should be answered/discussed on the
list unless there is a *compelling* reason otherwise.  I have sent
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Re: [opensuse] Filesystem becomes read-only

[Gavin Chester]

On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 10:43 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 10:24 -0600, Tim Donnelly wrote:
> > I am using Suse 10.2 on two different machines.  One is a new Dell
> > Poweredge 2970, the other is an older (2002) "no-name" server.
> 
> I have the same problem with two machines, one a dual core x86_64 and a
> AMD XP2000 ... self built together and working 2 and 5 years
> respectively.
> 
> >   Both have experienced a strange and severe problem since I installed
> > Suse.
> 
> i had it with SuSE 9.3, 10.0, 10.1 (Boxed Novell purchased version) and
> now with OpenSUSE 10.2
> 
> > 
> > Basically the file system is put into a read-only state. 
> 
> This I noticed only now with OpenSUSE 10.2, the others just locked up
> solid.

I wonder if you have considered that the problem is hardware related and
the timing of installing a new OS is coincidental? I say that from my
own experience wherein a Dell server box was poorly ventilated and on
really hot days (no airconditioning) the server filesystem would
suddenly become either 'read-only' or I would have a complete hard
freeze that required cycling the power button. Eventually I saw the
connection with box temperature and the bad behaviour. Turned out that
soon after the scsi drive in that box terminally failed so the software
issues were just an early warning sign. My problems didn't end there,
because after replacing the scsi drive the LSI controller card soon
failed and refused to recognise/initialise the new drive. Moral of the
story, you could have bad drive(s), controllers or ram that could cause
the symptoms you see, and not software at all.

Gavin

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Re: [opensuse] Re: [opensuse-factory] Making Basic Utilities work under normal user

[Kenneth Schneider]

On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 21:22 +0200, Alexey Eremenko wrote:
> On 5/30/07, Druid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 5/30/07, Alexey Eremenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Adding /sbin/ to user's $PATH doesn't lower your security. (because
> >
> > Thats your oppinion or do you have some way to prove that?
> >
> 1. Well, you're still bound to the Linux security model.
> 2. as a normal user can execute /sbin/* programs anyways.
> 3. ifconfig executed by the user can only be used for show command
> 4. try run ifconfig as a normal user, like that: "ifconfig eth0
> 10.0.0.1" to change something.
> This will fail, because of rule 1.
> That is - while the /sbin/* command are available to type, they are
> *only* functioning to the point allowed for non-root users. Users
> don't get any extra privileges because of changing the $PATH.
> 5. The above proves that security is stayed the same.
> 

Then write the LSB people and tell them to change the standard and quit
your bitching here about it. And remember you can always customize your
install of linux to _your_ liking which is not necessarily my liking.

-- 
Ken Schneider
UNIX  since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE  since 1998

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Re: [opensuse] Publisher alternatives

[Verner Kjærsgaard]

Onsdag 30 maj 2007 21:47 skrev Ken Jennings:
> On Wednesday 2007-05-30 14:34, Pueblo Native wrote:
> [...]
>
> > I'm not completely biased against commercial software, but it would
> > depend upon circumstances.  I'm sure your going to have some people
> > scratching their heads asking why they would delete publisher and
> > purchase another program (as opposed to a free download like
> > OpenOffice).
>
> Publisher is probably the worst part of the Microsoft Office suite.  It
> just doesn't work for reasonably serious work or for things Microsoft touts
> as the target uses of Publisher.
>
> I wrote earlier about the lame web page export from publisher.   My wife
> also designed some postcard mailers for her business using publisher. 
> Don't let those registration marks in the output fool you -- the output
> from Publisher is completely unusable at every professional bulk printing
> service we tried. Output to postscript and/or converting that to PDF does
> not improve Publisher output usability either.
>
> In the end I did her postcards in OpenOffice.  The only sticking point was
> determining exactly the page size to use. Once that was solved the OOo PDF
> files were good everywhere we tried to print them and the finished results
> were perfect.
>
> Publisher is unsuitable for anything other than the most simple DTP
> projects that you will output directly to your own printer.

Please let me add to the above (very true) statement...

MS-Publisher is a disaster in a number of ways. One of my very good friends is 
a virtual expert in MSP. He's done 1000s of hours of work in the programme, 
only to realize that NO printer will take his files. And they cannot be 
converted to anything proper without loosing contents and all.

So now, when he is so dammed good at the programme, he realizes that all his 
expertize is lost due to a clear case of vendor lock-in.

I said that to him 5 years ago. He didn't listen. The reason for not listening 
was simple, MSP is so simple to use, that it to the untrained it appears very 
attractive. Once trapped...

My advice; Linux has got Scribus and propably others too, stick to them (or 
OO) and avoid MSP at all costs. As simple as that.

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Re: [opensuse] Publisher alternatives

[Ken Jennings]

On Wednesday 2007-05-30 14:34, Pueblo Native wrote:
[...]
> I'm not completely biased against commercial software, but it would
> depend upon circumstances.  I'm sure your going to have some people
> scratching their heads asking why they would delete publisher and
> purchase another program (as opposed to a free download like
> OpenOffice).

Publisher is probably the worst part of the Microsoft Office suite.  It just 
doesn't work for reasonably serious work or for things Microsoft touts as the 
target uses of Publisher.   

I wrote earlier about the lame web page export from publisher.   My wife also 
designed some postcard mailers for her business using publisher.  Don't let 
those registration marks in the output fool you -- the output from Publisher 
is completely unusable at every professional bulk printing service we tried.   
Output to postscript and/or converting that to PDF does not improve Publisher 
output usability either.  

In the end I did her postcards in OpenOffice.  The only sticking point was 
determining exactly the page size to use. Once that was solved the OOo PDF 
files were good everywhere we tried to print them and the finished results 
were perfect.

Publisher is unsuitable for anything other than the most simple DTP projects 
that you will output directly to your own printer.
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Re: [opensuse] problems with mplayer plugin for mozilla

[jdd]

Patrick Shanahan wrote:


I can view the file via Firefox/quicktime.  Saved it for you:
  http://wahoo.no-ip/~pat/jdd.videoFile


thank you :-)) but the problem is with any such file and I wont bother 
you each time :-)


in fact I have an other computer with 10.2 (box) and with it I can 
read the two flavors with mplayer. May be I will try to copy the 
plugin folder :-)


thanks again
jdd


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Re: [opensuse] Re: [opensuse-factory] Making Basic Utilities work under normal user

[Alexey Eremenko]

On 5/30/07, Druid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On 5/30/07, Alexey Eremenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Adding /sbin/ to user's $PATH doesn't lower your security. (because

Thats your oppinion or do you have some way to prove that?


1. Well, you're still bound to the Linux security model.
2. as a normal user can execute /sbin/* programs anyways.
3. ifconfig executed by the user can only be used for show command
4. try run ifconfig as a normal user, like that: "ifconfig eth0
10.0.0.1" to change something.
This will fail, because of rule 1.
That is - while the /sbin/* command are available to type, they are
*only* functioning to the point allowed for non-root users. Users
don't get any extra privileges because of changing the $PATH.
5. The above proves that security is stayed the same.

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Re: [opensuse] Re: [opensuse-factory] Making Basic Utilities work under normal user

[JB2]

On Wed 30 May 07 11:31, Druid wrote:

> lunatic

  You've finally started to help yourself by recognizing of your problem.  
Now, go get treatment for it.
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Re: [opensuse] problems with mplayer plugin for mozilla

[Patrick Shanahan]

* jdd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05-30-07 14:04]:
> I can't read the videos on my daugther blog  (end of the page)
> 
> http://www.orangeblog.fr/web/jsp/blog.jsp?blogID=170322
> 
> they ask for quicktime or realplayer. For QT, say I have no plugin, 
> for Real mplayer starts but stops without playing. Tha videos are not 
> downloadable, so I'm stuck
> 
> I have the same result for several seamonkey and firefox or mozilla 
> installs (probably same plugin)

I can view the file via Firefox/quicktime.  Saved it for you:
  http://wahoo.no-ip/~pat/jdd.videoFile
  
you can download it and view it as you wish. 

"mplayer jdd.videoFile" works for me.

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Re: [opensuse] problems with mplayer plugin for mozilla

[jdd]

Kai Ponte wrote:


No issues here. I'm on 10.2 with FF 2.0.0.2 on KDE with mplayer 1.0rc1
and plugin 3.40-0.pm.1

I clicked on the real icon for that.


I suppose you mean you could read the video, great...



Do you have real player installed?


I just dl the last version, the helix plugin seems to be recognised, 
but the mplayer if first :-(



Um, there's something you have to copy to the
/opt/bin/Mozillafirefox/plugins folder. I forget exactly what.

yes, this I know, but what I meaned is that we can change plugins by 
configuring something in prefs.js or users.js, for example to use 
kaffeine plugin in place of mplayer, but I forgot the details


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Re: [opensuse] Publisher alternatives

[Pueblo Native]

Kai Ponte wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2007 9:15 am, Ken Jennings wrote:
>   
>> (Does it have to be "free" as in zero cost?) As far as DTP features go
>> I'd
>> recommend PageStream.  http://www.grasshopperllc.com
>> 
>
> Well, I downloaded it. First impressions aren't that great, but I'm
> sure it would work. It didn't easily let me wrap text in a box nor did
> it have any templates for me to start from.
>
> On top of that, it is a SDI app - yech. I can't tell you how annoying
> SDI apps are to me.
>
> All the same, if I'm needing DTP, I might buy it. It would be worth
> $99 to give Linux DTP more support.
>
>   
I'm not completely biased against commercial software, but it would
depend upon circumstances.  I'm sure your going to have some people
scratching their heads asking why they would delete publisher and
purchase another program (as opposed to a free download like
OpenOffice).  Of course, if they're looking to buy or upgrade, it would
be a whole different discussion.  I guess it depends upon why they are
moving.
>
>   

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Re: [opensuse] loading custom kernel modules

[Matthew Stringer]

On Wednesday 30 May 2007 18:56:24 Sean Craig wrote:
> depmod -a

Yup, that's the bit I missed.

Cheers

Matthew


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Re: [opensuse] problems with mplayer plugin for mozilla

[Kai Ponte]

On Wed, May 30, 2007 11:02 am, jdd wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I can't read the videos on my daugther blog  (end of the page)
>
> http://www.orangeblog.fr/web/jsp/blog.jsp?blogID=170322
>
> they ask for quicktime or realplayer. For QT, say I have no plugin,
> for Real mplayer starts but stops without playing. Tha videos are not
> downloadable, so I'm stuck

No issues here. I'm on 10.2 with FF 2.0.0.2 on KDE with mplayer 1.0rc1
and plugin 3.40-0.pm.1

I clicked on the real icon for that.

Do you have real player installed?


>
> I have the same result for several seamonkey and firefox or mozilla
> installs (probably same plugin)
>
> I already have changed plugins in mozilla, but I don't remember the
> way and can't find it on google.
>

Um, there's something you have to copy to the
/opt/bin/Mozillafirefox/plugins folder. I forget exactly what.

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[opensuse] SUSE Laptop Now Setup with VMWare

[Kai Ponte]

As some may recall, I got a new laptop a few weeks ago with Vista
installed...

http://www.perfectreign.com/?q=node/64&size=_original

...as I mentioned, I couldn't stand Vista. It is - IMO - worse than XP
for usability.

http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/2007/20070519_vista_register1.jpg.jpg

http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/2007/20070519_vista_register2.jpg.jpg


In any case, I went ahead and installed SUSE 10.2 and had a major
issue with the system locking up. Loading the binary NVidia drivers
fixed that and all is well...

http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/2007/20070528_suse_desktop.jpg


...now the last thing I needed was XP to be loaded for those apps
requiring it at work. Being a dual-core 2.x GHz processor with 2G RAM,
this can handle VMWare no problem. So, I'm now done...

http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/2007/20070530_suse_xp.jpg



Onward!  The only thing I notice with the laptop is the SD/MMC/SM/XD
card reader on the front. It isn't enabled for some reason.

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[opensuse] problems with mplayer plugin for mozilla

[jdd]

Hello,

I can't read the videos on my daugther blog  (end of the page)

http://www.orangeblog.fr/web/jsp/blog.jsp?blogID=170322

they ask for quicktime or realplayer. For QT, say I have no plugin, 
for Real mplayer starts but stops without playing. Tha videos are not 
downloadable, so I'm stuck


I have the same result for several seamonkey and firefox or mozilla 
installs (probably same plugin)


I already have changed plugins in mozilla, but I don't remember the 
way and can't find it on google.


Do you have any idea?

thanks
jdd

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Re: [opensuse] setting up PTR DNS records in Suse

[G T Smith]

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James D. Parra wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Setup DNS in YAST, great tool for this by the way, however where can you
>> setup the Reverse Lookup records?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> James 
> 
> However, in the second screen (Domain setup) after you set up the
> forwarder addresses does give help on how to set up the reverse lookup
> records.
> 
> 
> 
> Thank you. Using Suse 10.0 Yast and all I see in the DNS Server menu is;
> Start-up, Forwarders, Logging, & DNS Zones. Under Forwarders you can add IP
> addresses manually and not much else.
> 
> Where can I add these PTR records/Reverse Lookup Records, either through
> Yast or with 'vi', my preferred terminal editor for making quick changes.
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> James
> 

Sorry, did not ask which version you where using, I am on 10.2.

The base configuration file is /etc/named.conf ..

But before you go further I suggest you look at the documentation and
examples in...

/usr/share/doc/packages/bind

The /etc/named.conf will point to the working directory with the
directory directive, in my case it is /var/lib/named but yours may
differ. The example files in the documentation will give a good feel for
the syntax and relationship between the /etc/named.conf /etc/named.d
directory and the working directory, better than I can in a single e-Mail.

HTH


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Re: [opensuse] Publisher alternatives

[Kai Ponte]

On Wed, May 30, 2007 9:15 am, Ken Jennings wrote:
>
> (Does it have to be "free" as in zero cost?) As far as DTP features go
> I'd
> recommend PageStream.  http://www.grasshopperllc.com

Well, I downloaded it. First impressions aren't that great, but I'm
sure it would work. It didn't easily let me wrap text in a box nor did
it have any templates for me to start from.

On top of that, it is a SDI app - yech. I can't tell you how annoying
SDI apps are to me.

All the same, if I'm needing DTP, I might buy it. It would be worth
$99 to give Linux DTP more support.



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Re: [opensuse] clean /tmp

[Richard Bos]

Op Wednesday 30 May 2007 12:24:40 schreef Carlos E. R.:
>    Correction,  it is included, but as those files are owned by root, they
>    are not cleaned up. Plus, there are two new variables:

New?  They are there since, well since a long time suse-8.2 or somewhere 
around there.

>    MAX_DAYS_IN_LONG_TMP
>    LONG_TMP_DIRS_TO_CLEAR
>
>   The name "LONG_TMP" of the variables must be indicative of something :-?

LONG as in time.  This one can be used for e.g. /var/tmp as that can be 
populated by users and they may want to have access to their files after some 
time.

The other varsTMP_DIRS_TO_CLEAR and MAX_DAYS_IN_TMP are meant for e.g. /tmp To 
remove garbage left behind by system processes.

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Re: [opensuse] loading custom kernel modules

[Sean Craig]

Hi Matthew,

After building and installing the module, did you run 'depmod -a' ?

Once you can modprobe the module, you can edit /etc/sysconfig/kernel:
   edit the line INITRD_MODULES="..."

You will then need to build a new initrd by running 'mkinitrd'.  This
will forceload the module at boot time.
 
Regards

Sean


Matthew Stringer wrote:
> I'm sure this is a daft n00b question but I've not found the answer via 
> Google 
> so I thought I'd try you guys.
>
> I've a server with a Areca RAID card running 10.2
>
> Now there isn't a default driver for this so I have to compile either a 
> custom 
> kernel or module.
>
> For ease I'd rather compile the stand alone module and just load it in as 
> it'll make updating the kernel easier.
>
> So I go into the driver source directory and run the following command:
>
> make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build CONFIG_SCSI_ARCMSR=m SUBDIRS=$PWD 
> modules modules_install
>
> Which builds the correct module and installs it to:
>
> /lib/modules//extra/arcmsr.ko
>
> Now I can use insmod /lib/modules/2.6.18.8-0.3-default/extra/arcmsr.ko to 
> load 
> it and it works fine.
>
> However unlike the rest of the modules in the kernel it's not pathed so I 
> can't add it to /etc/modprobe.conf.local as it doesn't like absolute paths in 
> there.
>
> This means I can't auto mount the logical drive on this card via /etc/fstab.
>
> I can get around it by using a startup script that loads the module and then 
> mounts it but as it's not 'the proper way' of doing things it's bugging me.
>
> If I create a whole new custom kernel then it's fine but I don't want to have 
> to build all that every time a new one comes out when I could just compile a 
> single module in a second.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Regard
>
> Matthew
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Re: [opensuse] mysql will not start after php upgrade

[Patrick Shanahan]

* Patrick Shanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05-30-07 13:38]:
> 
> openSUSE 10.1 x86_64
> 
> updated mysql yesterday to mysql-5.0.41-4.1 and php5 today to
> php5-5.2.2-49.1.  Noticed my photo gallery was down and found mysqld
> not running.  Restart attempt yields:
> 
> 13:20 wahoo:~ # rcmysql start
> Updating MySQL privilege database... 
> /usr/bin/mysql_upgrade: relocation error: /usr/bin/mysql_upgrade:
> symbol dynstr_append_os_quoted, version libmysqlclient_15 not defined
> in file libmysqlclient.so.15 with link time referencefailed
> 
> reverted php5 to earlier version php5-5.1.2-29.25.6.x86_64.rpm and
> still got same error.  reverted mysql to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
> still no cigar.
> 
> can someone explain what I need to do to get mysql daemon up and
> running?
> 


Well, I got it started, but not properly.  I started the daemon:
   mysqld -u mysql

and now 'rcmysql status' reports 'running', but has no control.

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[opensuse] loading custom kernel modules

[Matthew Stringer]

I'm sure this is a daft n00b question but I've not found the answer via Google 
so I thought I'd try you guys.

I've a server with a Areca RAID card running 10.2

Now there isn't a default driver for this so I have to compile either a custom 
kernel or module.

For ease I'd rather compile the stand alone module and just load it in as 
it'll make updating the kernel easier.

So I go into the driver source directory and run the following command:

make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build CONFIG_SCSI_ARCMSR=m SUBDIRS=$PWD 
modules modules_install

Which builds the correct module and installs it to:

/lib/modules//extra/arcmsr.ko

Now I can use insmod /lib/modules/2.6.18.8-0.3-default/extra/arcmsr.ko to load 
it and it works fine.

However unlike the rest of the modules in the kernel it's not pathed so I 
can't add it to /etc/modprobe.conf.local as it doesn't like absolute paths in 
there.

This means I can't auto mount the logical drive on this card via /etc/fstab.

I can get around it by using a startup script that loads the module and then 
mounts it but as it's not 'the proper way' of doing things it's bugging me.

If I create a whole new custom kernel then it's fine but I don't want to have 
to build all that every time a new one comes out when I could just compile a 
single module in a second.

Any help would be appreciated.

Regard

Matthew
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[opensuse] mysql will not start after php upgrade

[Patrick Shanahan]

openSUSE 10.1 x86_64

updated mysql yesterday to mysql-5.0.41-4.1 and php5 today to
php5-5.2.2-49.1.  Noticed my photo gallery was down and found mysqld
not running.  Restart attempt yields:

13:20 wahoo:~ # rcmysql start
Updating MySQL privilege database... 
/usr/bin/mysql_upgrade: relocation error: /usr/bin/mysql_upgrade:
symbol dynstr_append_os_quoted, version libmysqlclient_15 not defined
in file libmysqlclient.so.15 with link time referencefailed

reverted php5 to earlier version php5-5.1.2-29.25.6.x86_64.rpm and
still got same error.  reverted mysql to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
still no cigar.

can someone explain what I need to do to get mysql daemon up and
running?

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Re: [opensuse] Publisher alternatives

[jdd]

Ken Jennings wrote:


wife's boss insisted their simple web site be done in publisher.


what a horrible idea :-)))

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Re: [opensuse] Urge creation of a standard documented way to share a directory [WAS Re: Wanna umask inhereted from parent directory]

[Greg Freemyer]

In 5/29/07, Fajar Priyanto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Wednesday 30 May 2007 06:37, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> All,
>
> I tried to click discussion on Fajar's page and put this there, but it
> did not seem to work.  Surely there is a way to discuss a new howto
> without having to do it here?

Hello Greg,
I guess it's better if we put the howto into the root directory? Because I
notice when we 'search' for article, User's talk is not included by default.
So I have put it in
http://en.opensuse.org/How_to_share_directories_between_groups_of_users_using_ACL
with all the latest updates, please edit it if you find anything missing.


Great.  Now that it is moved the "discussion" button on the bottom
brings us a page.  I added some comments there and added that page to
my watch list.  That way we can continue to tweak that Howto without
having to bother the whole list. Please read that discussion page.

FYI: In the footer of the new howto it shows that the page has already
been accessed 99 times.  Several of those were likely me, but it seems
other people are looking at it as well.


> ===> Howto issues
> I tested the concepts in the write-up using existing users.
>
> On an XFS volume it works.  On ext3 by default, it does not (ie. ACLs
> not supported).
>
> Per an old suse 8.1 article it needs to be enabled for ext3.
> http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:POSIX_Access_Control_List_%28ACL%29_Support

On Opensuse10.2 I notice that ACL support is enabled by default in
the /etc/fstab:
/dev/sda2/ext3   acl,user_xattr1 1
/dev/sda3/homeext3   acl,user_xattr1 2

> I added a first step that says to enable ACLs and points to the above.
>  Likely that needs fleshing out.

I added the example of the content of /etc/fstab to check whether ACL is
enabled.


I tweaked this some.


> Also, it looks like that ACL article may need an update to something
> written in the last couple years.

Good idea. It will give good impression too to the new users.
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Re: [opensuse] Re: [opensuse-factory] Making Basic Utilities work under normal user

[Druid]

> Thats your oppinion or do you have some way to prove that?

It does neither improve neither lower it. Obscurity is not security.


Breaking standards among the linux distros improves anything?

And here we are again wasting time in a dumb discussion... Thanks a
lot, alexey, again, for making people waste time with your lunatic
thoughts

regards

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Re: [opensuse] Publisher alternatives

[Ken Jennings]

On Friday 2007-05-25 08:41, Kai Ponte wrote:
> On Thu, May 24, 2007 7:57 pm, Pueblo Native wrote:
> > I'm putting together a document listing alternatives for Microsoft
> > Publisher, and so far I can only think of Scribus.  Are there any
> > others
> > out there that show  promise?
>
> AFAIK, no. There's really nothing that matches the simplicity and
> power of MS Publisher unfortunately. My wife just used it the other
> day for a open house flyer and my mom has it running in Crossover
> Office on her SUSE system. You can see a ongoing list of linux/windows
> alternatives here:
>
> http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html
>
> It has been a little while since the last update, but they seem to be
> there on occasion.

(Does it have to be "free" as in zero cost?) As far as DTP features go I'd 
recommend PageStream.  http://www.grasshopperllc.com  

Other than low-end DTP work, don't use MS Publisher for anything else.  My 
wife's boss insisted their simple web site be done in publisher.  It looked 
OK, but I wondered why it took so long for the pages to load.  I looked at 
the html and discovered that when Publisher exports to HTML it generates 
horribly bloated HTML and unnecessarily converts some text boxes to bitmaps.  
I rebuilt their web site using straight HTML and the new version was about 1 
percent of the size of the Publisher version.
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Re: [opensuse] backup for home users

[jdd]

Eberhard Roloff wrote:


rsnapshot, doing backups to usb-drive(s)? ;-)


backup forn home user can only be acheived on a one by one thinking.

let me give an example:

my son spend much time downloading films and games from the net (I 
know it's not fair, but are your sure your son don't?) - it's just an 
example


He got a 200Gb internal drive.

If I had to backup all and every file on his computer, I should have 
100 Tb of usb drives...


to have consistent backup, one must look at his own kind of work.

rigth now I work mostly by browser on a web site not of my own. Hope 
simply the owner makes a backup. On an other site I'm the owner, but 
my work is on pmwiki, very small flat files app. The hole web site is 
under 100Mo and the usefull pmwiki less than 10Mb, so tar file copied 
on ma server account and on my persobnal computer. very soon, I will 
have a rsync system, no need of diff...


I try to keep my data folders under 4Gb large and write them to dvd 
frequently


all the other data is saved when created.

and my personal data (photos...) are duplicated on web servers, free 
from fire or water


jdd


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Re: [opensuse] Help about help

[penguin_powered]

Pueblo Native wrote:
> I'm trying to put together an article not so much to help the user
> directly with OpenOffice, but training them as to how to find the
> answers themselves in a methodical way (From looking through the help
> screens to searching the site to searching the archives before finally
> asking a mailing list.).   Has this been done before?  If somebody is
> interested, I'd be happy to share what I've put together so far.
>   

I would recommend you refer them to the OOO Forums rather than having
them join a mailing list, since these users will not appreciate all the
emails when they're rolling along just fine. For occasional help, Forums
make more sense to me.

My $0.02 worth.

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Re: [opensuse] backup for home users (was: Re: Undelete)

[Patrick Shanahan]

* Eberhard Roloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05-30-07 11:10]:
 [...] 
> [...rsnapshot does basically anything that you will ever need...]
 [...]
> I admit that it took me MUCH longer to figure out how to include my
> windows machines transparently into the rsnapshot backup that runs on my
> Linux machine. But this  only shows that there is nmuch more potential
> in it, than most people can get from a paid solution. And seriously, a
> non-professional tool will have a hard time to do professionl backups? I
> do not think so. Remember: The User never ever needs to know that her
> backup is running. It simply works...

And so now you need to impart this gleened knowledge.  Can you provide
a sample script providing backup of a local machine and a windoz
remote (local network) to a usb connected hard-drive?

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[opensuse] backup for home users (was: Re: Undelete)

[Eberhard Roloff]

G T Smith wrote:

Hi G T,


> 
 Absolutely.
>> Well, "data safety" setup is difficult for home use. However, as has
>> been pointed out before, usb-storage is cheap. 
> 
> In comparison to what? In comparison to equivalent HD in a USB drive
> caddy maybe. In comparison to 10/20Gb tape definitely. In comparison to
> a DVD definitely not.

In comparison to anything that can be considered a backup media. DVDs
don't count for me. While they are larger than CDs, I cannot think of an
automated DVD changer, that could automatically do my backups for me.
And "automatical, no user intervention required" imho is, what
differentiates "sorry no backup, I forgot" from "There are so may
backups, which day of last week do I think, I will need to restore this
damned file?".
> 
> You can get the advantange of random RW which is damn difficult on most
> media orientated DVD/CD devices and media. (DVD-RAM is possible if can
> find the media and an appropriate device)
> 
And pay the prize ;-), while still having just DVD capacity. I agree it
would be cheaper and transparent to the user.
Anyone know how do CD packetwriting in Linux?

[...rsnapshot does basically anything that you will ever need...]
> 
> This is a good serious professional tool, but unfortunately to get the
> most out it you need to be a good serious professional.

ok. But there is good news, to- To get the least of it, i.e. do an
automated, regularly scheduled  backup of one machine to an usb
connected harddrive, you need much less than an afternoon. Very cheap in
comparison to a loss of valuable data.

I admit that it took me MUCH longer to figure out how to include my
windows machines transparently into the rsnapshot backup that runs on my
Linux machine. But this  only shows that there is nmuch more potential
in it, than most people can get from a paid solution. And seriously, a
non-professional tool will have a hard time to do professionl backups? I
do not think so. Remember: The User never ever needs to know that her
backup is running. It simply works...
Moreover it is free as in beer and speech and it even saves
transparently all the valuable data from your windows colleages. What
more can you expect from a free solution?


>>>
>> Well, while this may be true, I would think that most home users will be
>> ok with an automated, regularly scheduled backup of different
>> hours/days,weeks/monthes/years... to external media.
> 
> 
> Yep but with what?
rsnapshot, doing backups to usb-drive(s)? ;-)

> 
> I think Verity Stobs summarises the situation of machine deterioration
> rather succinctly in the link below...
> 
>> http://www.ddj.com/184405140
> 
> I am certain that someone can come up with equivalent metrics for linux:-)
> 
Agreed! Nevertheless, I prefer to do what I can to save my data, just
now! And I probably will need to restore it or a portion before my
machine deteriorates.

> 
>> In case that does not suffice, you might add a few more portable
>> usb-harddisks, that you store externally at a remote location away from
>> your computer.
> 
> As in many cases this would lead to a additional 40% -50% of home user
> machine cost in backup storage so I doubt it is a goer. They spend the
> same much in DVDs in the end but it not an up front financial jolt so
> more likely to be born.
> 
Agreed! But it usually gets much more "go" after a serious data
loss.;-))From my perspective, there is a harmless question: What
happens, if your harddisk dies now?

Nearly always this helps to easily calculate a fair prize for a backup
strategy. If not, well then let people do what they prefer to do.
They'll come back, sooner or later ;-))


> 
>> If that does not do the trick, imho your needs are ripe for a
>> professional backup solution that needs a professional budget, accordingly.
> 
> 
> The difficulty is many of the current home solutions are dire. GHOST has
> degenerated from being something very useful to both windows and linux
> users to being a temperamental monster. Most others solutions require
> some understanding of backup cycles, and systems management.

Imho this depends. If you want to have a Ghost lookalike, you might use
partimage. For backup, I prefer solutions that work transparently, and
smartly, anytime, everytime.
If this requires understanding of backup cycles and systems management,
it might not be ideal for Joe Homeuser.

However, once again, he will listen carefully, when you talk to him
about the value of his digital photographs, his letters, his projects,
his MP3 digitized vinyl records and his Mails
> 
> 
>> regards
>> Eberhard
> 
> 
> 

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Re: [opensuse] IMAP filters not working in latest kmail

[Mike Coan]

> I tried upgrading to the KDE 3.5.7 on a 32bit machine.  Had the same
> problem with kmail both on imap and pop accounts.  I sent in a bug report
> which I think has been ignored because I had used the wrong account name. 
> Anyway, suffice it to say that I've just now downgraded to KDE 3.5.5 and
> everything is working as before.

Everything works fine if I simply downgrade kdepim3 to the 3.5,5 version. this 
gives me kontact 1.23 and kmail 1.9.5 instead of kontact 1.2.5 and kmail 
1.9.7.  All the rest of kde is 3.5.7.  I reiieved an email that the bug 
report I filed is the same as kde bug report 126182.  that bug is still open 
and acknowledged as a bug, and it affects distros other than opensuse as 
well.

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Re: [opensuse] Re: How to limit/eliminate CPU/FAN Noise?

[Gaël Lams]

Hi,

Thanks to all for you answer.

Here is was I tried for the time being:
- I ran sensors-detect but nothing was detected :-(
- I modify the power management profile and change the scheme to
"Acoustic", i.e "scheme optimized to let machine run as quietly as
possible", with no success (i.e same noise)


3. Lastly, if that does not work (with Linux), I would go the extra mile
and invest cheaply into electronics that controls my fan speeds
independantly of anything manufacturer related, just relying on the
actual temperature.
My experience with these is very good:
http://www.noisemagic.de/pdf/thermocontrol/nmt-2/ver02/an_loet_de-eng_screen.pdf


We are testing SLED on a few models as a kind of prototype to a
migration from XP to SLED 10. Only a few users have the xw4400 but one
of them is my responsible: he has already XP running on it but is
interested in trying SLED10. I would therefore like to find a solution
possibly software-based

I will try dual-booting with opensuse 10.2 as someone with the same
model said (s)he has no pb with it. If the noise "disappears", I will
try to understand what makes the difference.

Thanks for the advice and, if someone has other ideas/advices, 

Regards,

Gael
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[opensuse] beryl and video

[josenildo marques]

Hello!
Since I started to use beryl, I haven't been able to play videos.
Kaffeine doesn't even start. My card is: NVidia GeForce MX/MX400.
How could I fix that?
Thansks in advance.
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[opensuse] suse 10.2 64 bit booting problem

[Jose]

Hi List,

I decided to install a second instance on my already 10.2 32 bits 
machine, using the boot loader from the 32 bits version, I added up a 
fourth option (third is Centos on another partition) for the 64 bits 
version (as I have a intel 2 dual core chip on this machine), the setup 
was using chainloader, pointing to the /dev/sda2 partition where I 
loaded the 64B version, with options "do not check system" and "activate 
partiton when booting" like I have with my Centos instance. and some 
other distros I used to have on my IDE drive.


Problem is that after installation goes back to the 32bits version grub, 
I choose to startup the 64 version and immediately after pressing Enter, 
goes back to grub and does not starts or send any kind of error 
messages, if I get the 10.2-64 I choose to startup OS, it does boots up.


I wonder if it's because this partition is allocated on a sata slave 
drive, all of the others were/are sitting on the primary master IDE and 
they work fine, this is the first time I use the sata /dev/sda2 to 
install a distro.


Any advice would be welcome

Thanks

Jose
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RE: [opensuse] setting up PTR DNS records in Suse

[James D. Parra]

> Hello,
> 
> Setup DNS in YAST, great tool for this by the way, however where can you
> setup the Reverse Lookup records?
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> James 

However, in the second screen (Domain setup) after you set up the
forwarder addresses does give help on how to set up the reverse lookup
records.



Thank you. Using Suse 10.0 Yast and all I see in the DNS Server menu is;
Start-up, Forwarders, Logging, & DNS Zones. Under Forwarders you can add IP
addresses manually and not much else.

Where can I add these PTR records/Reverse Lookup Records, either through
Yast or with 'vi', my preferred terminal editor for making quick changes.

Many thanks,

James

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[opensuse] Re: Package needed

[Jonathan Arnold]

Aigars wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I need package php5-pdo_mysql-5.2.2 - can you please tell me where can I
> find it..
> 
> 
> I tried http://repos.opensuse.org/server:/php/SUSE_Linux_10.1/i586/ but
> it is not there :(

You can find it at the openSUSE Software Search page:



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Re: [opensuse] Re: Undelete

[Clayton]

I'm talking of a versioning method handled directly and transparently by
the operating system. It is not a backup system, you still need them.

I know we can use dozens of methods to use instead, but that is not what
I'm talking about, and none can compare with a versioning filesystem.



Well... Sun's ZFS does this.  The filesystem snapshot thing is pretty
slick... actually, I think it's more than slick, but I'm often
distracted by shiny objects so :-)

Kinda sucks that the Linux implementation has been started in FUSE
instead of in the Kernel... but the license issues kinda force it to
userspace.
http://zfs-on-fuse.blogspot.com/

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Re: [opensuse] Undelete

[Dave Howorth]

G T Smith wrote:
> VMS if I remember correctly defaulted to 3 being available but the
> version numbers incremented (on the setup I was working one could flag
> files to be archived overnight and ask for them back later). Most
> editing applications I have dealt with create a backup copy by default
> so three versions is only a minor improvement.

ICL's George 3 had this some 5-10 years before VMS (late 60s perhaps,
definitely by early 70s). Files were version-numbered and George
automatically saved them to tape and retrieved them as necessary,
depending on disk availability (I remember using 8 MB disks the size of
washing machines). It managed all the tape volumes, knowing just where
every version of every file was.

The filesystem also had user and group access control bits :)



It's interesting watching people reinvent wheels over and over again.

Cheers, Dave
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Re: [opensuse] stunnel certificates

[George Stoianov]

I have used this:
http://www.5dollarwhitebox.org/wiki/index.php/Howtos_Self_Signed_SSL_Certificates

To create a csr and cert etc. I had to only add a flag to generate the
file for the serial number.
I am not sure what is causing this issue, but trying a different
approach may help or llead to a different error message.
HTH
George


On 5/30/07, Koenraad Lelong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi,
I want to secure access to a databese server (Firebird). I want to do
this with stunnel. I'm having troubles with the certificates. This is
what I did, using standard Suse 10.0 stuff (I modified openssl.cnf to
have a number of defaults) :
#in a clean directory create structure :
mkdir demoCA
mkdir demoCA/private
mkdir demoCA/newcerts
touch demoCA/index.txt
echo 00 > demoCA/serial
#Create CA files
openssl req -new -x509 -keyout demoCA/private/cakey.pem -out \
  demoCA/cacert.pem
#Create server key & signing request
openssl req -nodes -new -newkey rsa:1024 -keyout server.key -out \
  server.req
#sign server certificate
openssl ca -policy policy_anything -notext -in server.req -out \
  server.crt
#Create client key & signing request
openssl req -nodes -new -newkey rsa:1024 -keyout client.key -out \
  client.req
#sign client certificate
openssl ca -policy policy_anything -notext -in client.req -out \
  client.crt
cp demoCA/newcerts/00.pem /etc/stunnel/server.pem
cp demoCA/cacert.pem /etc/stunnel/cacert.pem
chmod 740 /etc/stunnel/server.pem

My stunnel.conf is :
client = no
foreground = yes
debug = 7
verify = 3
CApath = certs
CAfile = cacert.pem
cert = server.pem
[firebird]
accept = 3051
connect = localhost:3050

When I try to start stunnel I get :
ace-cad-3:/etc/stunnel # stunnel stunnel.conf
2007.05.30 12:59:33 LOG7[14071:1076660896]: Snagged 64 random bytes from
/root/.rnd
2007.05.30 12:59:33 LOG7[14071:1076660896]: Wrote 1024 new random bytes
to /root/.rnd
2007.05.30 12:59:33 LOG7[14071:1076660896]: RAND_status claims
sufficient entropy for the PRNG
2007.05.30 12:59:33 LOG6[14071:1076660896]: PRNG seeded successfully
2007.05.30 12:59:33 LOG5[14071:1076660896]: Could not load DH parameters
from server.pem
2007.05.30 12:59:33 LOG4[14071:1076660896]: Diffie-Hellman
initialization failed
2007.05.30 12:59:33 LOG3[14071:1076660896]: Error reading certificate
file: server.pem
2007.05.30 12:59:33 LOG3[14071:1076660896]:
SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file: 906D06C: error:0906D06C:PEM
routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line
ace-cad-3:/etc/stunnel #

This procedure is an adaptation from a document from the Firebird
community. What am I missing ? I think the Diffie-Hellman stuff can be
ignored.
I tried three other documents (from the stunnel-site) but these don't
work either (for me ;-) ).
Anyone can give suggestions, tips, links ? They will be very much
appreciated.
Are there other methods ? I don't want to give ssh access to the users.
I know of zebedee, but this seems old (unsupported ?).
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Re: [opensuse] iptables config file and reboot

[Verner Kjærsgaard]

Onsdag 30 maj 2007 17:42 skrev Stephan Schöffel:
> hi there,
>
> in 10.2 i switched off the firewall using yast. when i run iptables -L
> now it shows the following (as i wanted):
>
> Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
> target prot opt source   destination
>
> Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
> target prot opt source   destination
>
> Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
> target prot opt source   destination
>
> if make change manually now it will work but only until i reboot the
> computer. how can i save the configuration and make suse use it
> automatically?  i tried iptables-save > /etc/sysconfig/iptables but it
> wont work either.
>
> any hints?
>
> gtx
> stephan

Hi

I suggest that you use a standard template, put it into /etc/init.d/ and link 
to it from /etc/init.d/rc3.d and /etc/init.d/rc5.d

I once made a thing like that, it allowed me to "start/stop/status/ it...

Here goes:

#!/bin/sh
#
# Shell functions sourced from /etc/rc.status:
#  rc_check check and set local and overall rc status
#  rc_statuscheck and set local and overall rc status
#  rc_status -v be verbose in local rc status and clear it afterwards
#  rc_status -v -r  ditto and clear both the local and overall rc status
#  rc_status -s display "skipped" and exit with status 3
#  rc_status -u display "unused" and exit with status 3
#  rc_failedset local and overall rc status to failed
#  rc_failed   set local and overall rc status to 
#  rc_reset clear both the local and overall rc status
#  rc_exit  exit appropriate to overall rc status
#  rc_activechecks whether a service is activated by symlinks
. /etc/rc.status

# Reset status of this service
rc_reset


### General variables
EXT_IF=eth1
EXT_IP=10.11.12.106
INT_IF=
INT_IP=




case "$1" in
start|restart|reload)
echo -n "Starting Firewall "
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses
for f in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/*/accept_redirects
do
echo 0 > $f
done
#Block source routed packets
for f in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/*/accept_source_route
do
echo 0 > $f
done

### default policy
iptables -P INPUT DROP
iptables -P OUTPUT DROP
iptables -P FORWARD DROP

### flush existing rules
iptables -F
iptables -t nat -F
iptables -X

### Allow to and from loopback
iptables -A OUTPUT -o lo -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT  -i lo -j ACCEPT

### Drop all invalid packets
### INPUT chain first
iptables -A INPUT -m state --state INVALID -j DROP
### OUTPUT chain next
iptables -A OUTPUT -m state --state INVALID -j DROP

### INPUT chain
iptables -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
### OUTPUT chain
iptables -A OUTPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT

### SSH input, state checking
iptables -A INPUT -i $EXT_IF -p TCP  --dport 22 -m state --state NEW -j 
ACCEPT

### SSH output, state checking
iptables -A OUTPUT -p TCP -o $EXT_IF --dport 22 -m state --state NEW -j 
ACCEPT




### Allow PING IN/OUT
iptables -A INPUT -p ICMP -i $EXT_IF -j ACCEPT
iptables -A OUTPUT -p ICMP -o $EXT_IF -j ACCEPT

### Allow query to DNS
iptables -A OUTPUT -p UDP -o $EXT_IF --dport 53 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT  -p UDP -i $EXT_IF --sport 53 -j ACCEPT

### Allow SSH to me
#iptables -A INPUT -p TCP -i $EXT_IF --dport 22 -j ACCEPT
#iptables -A OUTPUT -p TCP -o $EXT_IF --sport 22 -j ACCEPT

### Allow outgoing SSH
#iptables -A INPUT -p TCP -i $EXT_IF ! --syn --sport 22 -j ACCEPT
#iptables -A OUTPUT -p TCP -o $EXT_IF --dport 22 -j ACCEPT

### Allow browsing the web
iptables -A INPUT -p TCP -i $EXT_IF ! --syn --sport 80 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A OUTPUT -p TCP -o $EXT_IF --dport 80 -j ACCEPT

### Do some logging of dropped packages
iptables -A INPUT -j LOG --log-prefix "VK INPUT-DROP " 

### Reject packets instead of dropping...
iptables -A INPUT -p TCP -j REJECT --reject-with tcp-reset

### Allow TCP packet to go out from our computer
iptables -A OUTPUT -p TCP -o $EXT_IF --tcp-flags ALL ack,rst -j ACCEPT


# Remember status and be verbose
rc_status -v
;;
stop)
echo -n "Shutting down Firewall "
iptables -F
iptables -t nat -F
iptables -X
iptables -P INPUT   ACCEPT
iptables -P O

Re: [opensuse] Re: [opensuse-factory] Making Basic Utilities work under normal user

[Carlos E. R.]

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> On 5/30/07, Alexey Eremenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Adding /sbin/ to user's $PATH doesn't lower your security. (because
> 
> Thats your oppinion or do you have some way to prove that?

It does neither improve neither lower it. Obscurity is not security. 

It is not necesary, it may not be inconvenient, but it is not insecure. 
Programs that a user should not use are simply not executable by him.

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[opensuse] iptables config file and reboot

[Stephan Schöffel]

hi there,

in 10.2 i switched off the firewall using yast. when i run iptables -L
now it shows the following (as i wanted):

Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source   destination

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source   destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source   destination

if make change manually now it will work but only until i reboot the
computer. how can i save the configuration and make suse use it
automatically?  i tried iptables-save > /etc/sysconfig/iptables but it
wont work either.

any hints?

gtx
stephan
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[opensuse] Re: [opensuse-factory] Making Basic Utilities work under normal user

[Druid]

On 5/30/07, Alexey Eremenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Adding /sbin/ to user's $PATH doesn't lower your security. (because


Thats your oppinion or do you have some way to prove that?

Its very interesting that everybody using linux and defining LSB and
FHS are wrong and you are correct...

Let's not make some weirdness that will make us a joke among the linux
distros, ok? Pascal said everything...

Marcio
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Re: [opensuse] Filesystem becomes read-only

[G T Smith]

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Chuck Payne wrote:
> On 5/30/07, G T Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 10:24 -0600, Tim Donnelly wrote:
>>> I am using Suse 10.2 on two different machines.  One is a new Dell
>>> Poweredge 2970, the other is an older (2002) "no-name" server.
> 
>> I have the same problem with two machines, one a dual core x86_64 and a
>> AMD XP2000 ... self built together and working 2 and 5 years
>> respectively.
> 
>>>   Both have experienced a strange and severe problem since I installed
>>> Suse.
> 
>> i had it with SuSE 9.3, 10.0, 10.1 (Boxed Novell purchased version) and
>> now with OpenSUSE 10.2
> 
>>> Basically the file system is put into a read-only state.
> 
>> This I noticed only now with OpenSUSE 10.2, the others just locked up
>> solid.
> 
>>>  While the OS and all apps are still running and I can log in a view
>>> files/logs etc. nothing can write to the disks.
> 
>> I could only log in ssh from another machine.
> 
>>> Obviously this causes all kinds of problems.  The only way to get the
>>> filesystem into a more interactive state is a hard reboot.
> 
>> Same here
> 
>>> The first two times this occurred, there were messages in
>>> the /var/log/messages file relating to megasas,
> 
>> I did not see it at all. The x86_64 system has SATA, and the other IDE
> 
>>>  however as soon as the system was restarted, these warnings
>>> disappeared.
> 
>> Until some days later perhaps. I have excessive problems with some
>> versions of Evolution and the newest OpenOffice 2.2 running high disk
>> access, then no access to the system is possible; the disks are in
>> constant access (LED permanently on). Just the M$ reset trick works.
> 
>> :-(
>> Al
> 
> 
> I have been experiencing something similar, the last occurrence involved
> FAM writing several hundred messages complaining about to many files
> being open. On a previous occasion I noted fam at 100% utilisation just
> before everything locked up (no log message ... the log was then read
> only). I suspect this is a symptom not a fault. In my case there seem to
> indications of a memory leak of some sort but I am not in position to
> pin it down anything in particular yet.
> 
> What I do not know is whether if the kernel detects an internal problem
> it sets the file system to read only to avoid possible file corruption.
> 
> 
> 
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>>

> I had the same issue, I had to run e2fsck to clear the issue. My
> journal appear to have gotten damage, once I ran that. It fixed. So of
> you got your dvd, you might want to do a recuse you and run that
> command.

I use reiserFS on this machine not ext2/ext3. In my case there are other
symptoms particularly with network connections that indicate this is not
just a file system issue.

I also found out today why some people have reservations about ext3. As
an experiment I have one ext3 partition on my laptop... Which decided
today to do an enforced fsck. If the whole thing was ext3 it would have
taken 20 minutes to login. Not amused...

[I know someone will tell me this is configurable... but alarm bells
ring for me if a file system cannot trust itself]



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Re: [opensuse] Package needed

[Patrick Shanahan]

* Aigars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05-30-07 02:56]:
> I need package php5-pdo_mysql-5.2.2 - can you please tell me where can I 
> find it..
> 
> I tried http://repos.opensuse.org/server:/php/SUSE_Linux_10.1/i586/
> but it is not there :(

try:  php5-pdo-5.2.2-49.1

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Re: [opensuse] reject external mail to local address

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* Sandy Drobic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05-30-07 05:47]:
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> To make it short: you can only discard (dangerous!) or tag the mails
> when you work with fetchmail. :-(

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Re: [opensuse] Problem with Mailgraph

[Chuck Payne]

Go ahead place solved on this one. Come to find out that it wanted the
old path to rrd, I created the a link so it can find it, it was
calling for the font in that dir.

On 5/30/07, Sandy Drobic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Chuck Payne wrote:
> Hi,
> Got a strange problem. Seem that mailgraph no longer adds the text the
> graphs it creates, I have updated both mailgraph and rrdtools to the
> lastest that hasn't help, anyone else had that issue?
>
No, everything works as desired (on Suse 10.0). What packages did you
change and how exactly does mailgraph now render the pictures?


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[opensuse] stunnel certificates

[Koenraad Lelong]

Hi,
I want to secure access to a databese server (Firebird). I want to do 
this with stunnel. I'm having troubles with the certificates. This is 
what I did, using standard Suse 10.0 stuff (I modified openssl.cnf to 
have a number of defaults) :

#in a clean directory create structure :
mkdir demoCA
mkdir demoCA/private
mkdir demoCA/newcerts
touch demoCA/index.txt
echo 00 > demoCA/serial
#Create CA files
openssl req -new -x509 -keyout demoCA/private/cakey.pem -out \
 demoCA/cacert.pem
#Create server key & signing request
openssl req -nodes -new -newkey rsa:1024 -keyout server.key -out \
 server.req
#sign server certificate
openssl ca -policy policy_anything -notext -in server.req -out \
 server.crt
#Create client key & signing request
openssl req -nodes -new -newkey rsa:1024 -keyout client.key -out \
 client.req
#sign client certificate
openssl ca -policy policy_anything -notext -in client.req -out \
 client.crt
cp demoCA/newcerts/00.pem /etc/stunnel/server.pem
cp demoCA/cacert.pem /etc/stunnel/cacert.pem
chmod 740 /etc/stunnel/server.pem

My stunnel.conf is :
client = no
foreground = yes
debug = 7
verify = 3
CApath = certs
CAfile = cacert.pem
cert = server.pem
[firebird]
accept = 3051
connect = localhost:3050

When I try to start stunnel I get :
ace-cad-3:/etc/stunnel # stunnel stunnel.conf
2007.05.30 12:59:33 LOG7[14071:1076660896]: Snagged 64 random bytes from 
/root/.rnd
2007.05.30 12:59:33 LOG7[14071:1076660896]: Wrote 1024 new random bytes 
to /root/.rnd
2007.05.30 12:59:33 LOG7[14071:1076660896]: RAND_status claims 
sufficient entropy for the PRNG

2007.05.30 12:59:33 LOG6[14071:1076660896]: PRNG seeded successfully
2007.05.30 12:59:33 LOG5[14071:1076660896]: Could not load DH parameters 
from server.pem
2007.05.30 12:59:33 LOG4[14071:1076660896]: Diffie-Hellman 
initialization failed
2007.05.30 12:59:33 LOG3[14071:1076660896]: Error reading certificate 
file: server.pem
2007.05.30 12:59:33 LOG3[14071:1076660896]: 
SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file: 906D06C: error:0906D06C:PEM 
routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line

ace-cad-3:/etc/stunnel #

This procedure is an adaptation from a document from the Firebird 
community. What am I missing ? I think the Diffie-Hellman stuff can be 
ignored.
I tried three other documents (from the stunnel-site) but these don't 
work either (for me ;-) ).
Anyone can give suggestions, tips, links ? They will be very much 
appreciated.

Are there other methods ? I don't want to give ssh access to the users.
I know of zebedee, but this seems old (unsupported ?).
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[opensuse] RE:How to get old bugs just look at and may be accepted - OTJust a little

[Registration Account]

In 2 separate discussions re Email clients I mention amongst some other
strong, but desperately apparent issues with bug reporting and actioning.

During the separate discussions I mentioned the number of outstanding
bugs and enhancements for Evolution that have been logged and not looked
at since 10.0.

Well it appears people take more notice of the mail list than running
reports in Bugzilla as I just got 14 bugs related solely on Evolution
opened for consideration in one email hit.

If you have a favourite application and have logged bugs and
enhancements the best way of getting them actioned seems to be asking
for help here on how to get around them.

Unfortunately with the disastrous incident with  10.2 Evolution and KDE
desktop, I had to change the company , and are very happy now with the
new direction and commitment to Thunderbird. I might even get time off
work and time off work at home to work  one  of my own new  "extension"
and see how I go

I wont repeat the single harshly worded issue that concerned me, however
I will say I get very distressed when some one sends me a need info and
says "I don't believe you" - I just close the bug.

If I report in a bug a procedure that is 100% reproducible and then
someone sends me a needinfo for additional logs rather than perform 4
clicks for them self - I worry.

I must say that on the whole the guys at Novell.de and Mozilla are
really great and descent to deal with once they get to know you a little
and I cannot imagine the shear number of bugs KDE gets.


Good night
Scott :-P  21:12 GMT +10


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Re: [opensuse] Filesystem becomes read-only

[G T Smith]

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 10:24 -0600, Tim Donnelly wrote:
>> I am using Suse 10.2 on two different machines.  One is a new Dell
>> Poweredge 2970, the other is an older (2002) "no-name" server.
> 
> I have the same problem with two machines, one a dual core x86_64 and a
> AMD XP2000 ... self built together and working 2 and 5 years
> respectively.
> 
>>   Both have experienced a strange and severe problem since I installed
>> Suse.
> 
> i had it with SuSE 9.3, 10.0, 10.1 (Boxed Novell purchased version) and
> now with OpenSUSE 10.2
> 
>> Basically the file system is put into a read-only state. 
> 
> This I noticed only now with OpenSUSE 10.2, the others just locked up
> solid.
> 
>>  While the OS and all apps are still running and I can log in a view
>> files/logs etc. nothing can write to the disks.  
> 
> I could only log in ssh from another machine. 
> 
>> Obviously this causes all kinds of problems.  The only way to get the
>> filesystem into a more interactive state is a hard reboot.
> 
> Same here
> 
>> The first two times this occurred, there were messages in
>> the /var/log/messages file relating to megasas,
> 
> I did not see it at all. The x86_64 system has SATA, and the other IDE
> 
>>  however as soon as the system was restarted, these warnings
>> disappeared.  
> 
> Until some days later perhaps. I have excessive problems with some
> versions of Evolution and the newest OpenOffice 2.2 running high disk
> access, then no access to the system is possible; the disks are in
> constant access (LED permanently on). Just the M$ reset trick works.
> 
> :-(
> Al
> 

I have been experiencing something similar, the last occurrence involved
FAM writing several hundred messages complaining about to many files
being open. On a previous occasion I noted fam at 100% utilisation just
before everything locked up (no log message ... the log was then read
only). I suspect this is a symptom not a fault. In my case there seem to
indications of a memory leak of some sort but I am not in position to
pin it down anything in particular yet.

What I do not know is whether if the kernel detects an internal problem
it sets the file system to read only to avoid possible file corruption.



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Re: [opensuse] clean /tmp

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Carlos E. R. wrote:
> 
> The Wednesday 2007-05-30 at 10:00 +0800, tino perez wrote:
> 
>> Too late, now the machine wont boot! :)
> 
> X-)
> 
> 
>> Seriously.. what directories are safe to clean?
> 
>> i too had a problem few-moths ago in where my system run out of space in
> 
>MAX_DAYS_IN_LONG_TMP
>LONG_TMP_DIRS_TO_CLEAR

I think the LONG refers to long term.

These two settings wrong footed me after I upgraded to 10.2. I was a bit
puzzled as to why my Windows Profile completely disappeared, (I find
using a roaming profile is a useful way of ensuring that some windows
stuff gets backed up). I found that the samba profile directories were
in the latter, while checking something else out. Now how they got there
is a complete mystery g


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Re: [opensuse] clean /tmp

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The Wednesday 2007-05-30 at 10:00 +0800, tino perez wrote:

> Too late, now the machine wont boot! :)

X-)


> Seriously.. what directories are safe to clean?
> 
> i too had a problem few-moths ago in where my system run out of space in
> a few short days after I inadvisable installed a intrusion detection
> system that created huge log files... 

Well, /tmp is prety safe. Then there is /var/tmp, which some times is a 
link to /tmp, sometimes not. I don't know why there are two temp dirs.

   In fact, I have noticed that my "/etc/sysconfig/cron" doesn't have 
   /var/tmp included to cleanup. 

   Correction,  it is included, but as those files are owned by root, they 
   are not cleaned up. Plus, there are two new variables:

   MAX_DAYS_IN_LONG_TMP
   LONG_TMP_DIRS_TO_CLEAR

  The name "LONG_TMP" of the variables must be indicative of something :-?


Then, there are programs that use their own temporary space, which might 
be under /tmp or not.

Plus, some old files have to be purged by their own applications. Printer 
queues, fax, mail... usually, somewhere under /var/spool.

And there are some that don't clean up; for instance, snort.


Jobs for the admin!  ;-)
 

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Re: [opensuse] setting up PTR DNS records in Suse

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James D. Parra wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Setup DNS in YAST, great tool for this by the way, however where can you
> setup the Reverse Lookup records?
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> James 

I would not go as far as to say that it is great tool for this, the YaST
configuration tool does not pick up my internal view.

However, in the second screen (Domain setup) after you set up the
forwarder addresses does give help on how to set up the reverse lookup
records.

Personally, much prefer to maintain this manually with my preferred text
editor for this kind of job. (No I am not going to rattle cages in the
text editor debate :-)).

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Re: [opensuse] Re: Undelete

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Eberhard Roloff wrote:
> G T Smith wrote:
>> Carlos E. R. wrote:
>>> The Sunday 2007-05-27 at 07:53 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:



>>> Absolutely.
> 
> Well, "data safety" setup is difficult for home use. However, as has
> been pointed out before, usb-storage is cheap. 

In comparison to what? In comparison to equivalent HD in a USB drive
caddy maybe. In comparison to 10/20Gb tape definitely. In comparison to
a DVD definitely not.

You can get the advantange of random RW which is damn difficult on most
media orientated DVD/CD devices and media. (DVD-RAM is possible if can
find the media and an appropriate device)

For example, I use
> rsnapshot to do full backups, using symlinks. That's smart, because it
> works automatically, and it in fact "only safes" differential data,
> while still maintaining a "full backup anytime" structure that makes it
> ease to revert to previous (backup-)versions. You can configure it to
> backup yearly, monthly, daily, hourly, minutely..., whatever you need,
> according to your needs.

This is a good serious professional tool, but unfortunately to get the
most out it you need to be a good serious professional.


<< stuff deleted >>

>>
>> The only solution I can see is the use of external media sets. While
>> commercial outfits can afford the hardware and personnel to make
>> differential systems work well with external media and more
>> sophisticated strategies, there is not really anything reliable and easy
>> to use for home users in this category.
>>
>>
> Well, while this may be true, I would think that most home users will be
> ok with an automated, regularly scheduled backup of different
> hours/days,weeks/monthes/years... to external media.
> 

Yep but with what?

I think Verity Stobs summarises the situation of machine deterioration
rather succinctly in the link below...

> http://www.ddj.com/184405140

I am certain that someone can come up with equivalent metrics for linux:-)


> In case that does not suffice, you might add a few more portable
> usb-harddisks, that you store externally at a remote location away from
> your computer.

As in many cases this would lead to a additional 40% -50% of home user
machine cost in backup storage so I doubt it is a goer. They spend the
same much in DVDs in the end but it not an up front financial jolt so
more likely to be born.


> 
> If that does not do the trick, imho your needs are ripe for a
> professional backup solution that needs a professional budget, accordingly.
> 

The difficulty is many of the current home solutions are dire. GHOST has
degenerated from being something very useful to both windows and linux
users to being a temperamental monster. Most others solutions require
some understanding of backup cycles, and systems management.


> 
> regards
> Eberhard
> 


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Re: [opensuse] RE: Have you experienced a general sligish DNS resolution - OT - Just slightly

[G T Smith]

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Registration Account wrote:
> Thanks everyone for their help.
> 
> As far as complex editing of files - yes I can easily do that - but I am
> a user an if its not on the GUI screen - its not there (not always).
> 
> The DNS server is a Cache server only and is zones as to only ask for a
> no-authoritative response .  

I am not sure I understand this.


As far as their DNS servers are concerned I
> am just 1 of thousands which cannot resolve locally and  going up the
> TLD 's they cannot resolve so the request for resolution *towards* the
> TLD world root servers is easy safe and I my DNS I have zones thinks of
> me as just another request for resolution that a lower TLD could not
> resolve.
> 
That is what a forwarder zone is supposed to do. However, they will need
periodic maintenance as DNS servers addresses can and do change.


> Beside - This is a secure site - The worst they can do is deny my all my
> requests. I am quite safe I can assure you and so is the DNS server I
> have chosen.

The comment was in regard to attempting to duplicate a zone. You are
unlikely to get notification from the zone master of any changes to the
zone unless you let the owners know you want them, if you setup a slave
zone,

Scanning for members of a zone or manually building a zone will look
very suspicious from the ISPs and zone owners end. You misunderstand me
the worst they can do is terminate your connection. A malconfigured DNS
can create havoc, go down this route and get it wrong and someone will
drop on you from a great height.


> 
> You worry too much you will give me grey hair
> Scott
> 
> G T Smith wrote:
>> Carlos E. R. wrote:

< Stuff deleted >


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Re: [opensuse] Undelete

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Carlos E. R. wrote:
> 
> El 2007-05-29 a las 12:59 +0100, Kevin Thorpe escribió:
> 
>   [You forgot to email to the list]
> 
>> Carlos E. R. wrote:
>>> I remember that. OOo also has this feature. What I talk about is different:
>>> it uses one file for each version, with a version field in the file name
>>> managed directly by the operating system, not the application program. It is
>>> also different from external backup, as it is automatic and continuous, and
>>> can be affected by disk failure, of course.
>>>   
>> Novell NetWare did exactly that. Every time you saved a file it wrote a 
>> new copy and left the old one hidden in 'free' space on the hard drive. 
>> These old copies only got overwritten when the space was needed, in an 
>> oversized drive that seemed to be forever. A little utility allowed the 
>> administrator to retrieve old versions. Saved our bacon quite a number 
>> of times and I miss it badly.
> 
> Cute :-)
> 
> Yes, that's the thing I'm talking about.
> 
>> The nearest I've seen on Linux is subversion but that's a repository not 
>> a filesystem. I seem to remember coming across a subversion filesystem 
>> but it wasn't finished.
> 
> Pity.
> 

VMS if I remember correctly defaulted to 3 being available but the
version numbers incremented (on the setup I was working one could flag
files to be archived overnight and ask for them back later). Most
editing applications I have dealt with create a backup copy by default
so three versions is only a minor improvement.

Yes Netware does this and it was great for short term file recovery.
Netware still outperforms almost anything else as a secure file store
and print server (It is damn near impossible to crack a properly
configured Netware server). Not so good at some other server stuff
unfortunately, and most definitely $$$ not OSS.

I have looked at the idea of using Subversion for this purpose.
Theoretically it should be possible to set up a background commit cycle,
then use subversions dump mechanism to generate a dump of the latest
revisions which then could be stored to wherever for backup purposes.
(Already doing this in part for my coding projects). Unfortunately, the
down side to this is that filestore can end up cluttered with an awful
lot of unused data.




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Re: Re: [opensuse] How to limit/eliminate CPU/FAN Noise?

[fazer]

I dont know exacly if it help in normal desktop but in my laptop help me 
suspend and resume process after it fans are working as on M$

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Temat: Re: [opensuse] How to limit/eliminate CPU/FAN Noise?

> On Wednesday 30 May 2007, Clayton wrote:
> > > > I install SLED 10 on an HP workstation xw4400. Everything is working
> > > > perfectly except for the noise: compared to the same workstation with
> > > > Windows XP installed, which is pretty silent, the linux box makes
> > > > quite a lot of noise.
> > >
> > > I have similar problems on a different system (MSI).  I had intended
> > > to use it as a MythTV box, but the fans would never get quite enough
> > > for that, and I reloaded windows on the box.  Windows quiets the
> > > fans immediately after boot, and from then on they run based on
> > > demand (cpu heat) rather than full speed all the time.
> > >
> > > I never did solve this problem in spite of loading every sensor
> > > package I could find.
> >
> > Have you tried this?
> > http://www.tinet.org/~com.ea/rtsensors/
> > I've never used it myself, but maybe it's a solution to
> > controlling fans speeds and thus noise factor?
> 
> No, haven't tried that.
> 
> My problem was that lm-sensors could never find any sensors
> which it could control.  It always crapped out saying it could not
> find any sensors.  Since this package relies on lm sensors it seems
> unlikely to work.
> 
> I suspected that my mobo uses some odd-ball chip set for its sensors
> and the version of lm sensors found on SuSE 9.3 were not up to the
> task.  I periodically throw various Live CDs into the machine
> to see if any of them can manage it, but so far no luck.
> 
> 
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Re: [opensuse] Problem with Mailgraph

[Sandy Drobic]

Chuck Payne wrote:
> Hi,
> Got a strange problem. Seem that mailgraph no longer adds the text the
> graphs it creates, I have updated both mailgraph and rrdtools to the
> lastest that hasn't help, anyone else had that issue?
> 
No, everything works as desired (on Suse 10.0). What packages did you
change and how exactly does mailgraph now render the pictures?


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[opensuse] Re: How to limit/eliminate CPU/FAN Noise?

[Eberhard Roloff]

Gaël Lams wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I install SLED 10 on an HP workstation xw4400. Everything is working
> perfectly except for the noise: compared to the same workstation with
> Windows XP installed, which is pretty silent, the linux box makes
> quite a lot of noise.
> 
> I've googled a little bit but did not find any extensive response.
> 
> Is there something on SLED (or opensuse, or even from source code to
> compile) that I can install and configure to have the system
> automatically slowing down or up the fan?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Gael
Hi,

imho "normally" your fan(s) should be controlled by the temperature that
is emitted by your cpu/gpu/psu and many other elements of your computer.

Consequently, if your computer consumes more power, the fan will speed
up to ensure proper cooling of the resulting heat.
Basically, this should work independant of any OS and it should also
work, when no OS is running.

Now,
I would try this:

1. ensure that you have some overview of your systems temperature and
fanspeeds:
install lm-sensors, run sensors-detect and if "something" is detected,
use ksensors (for KDE) and ensure that it works. Unfortunately, from my
experience, not any computer is supported by sensors.

2. ensure that your powermanagement is setup properly, so that your
computer uses only the power that it needs at any given moment:

There are dozens of howtos around and you should see what  you can do
depending on what you have in regard to motherboard, cpu type
Imho Windows fares much better here, but you can do a lot in Linux, it
just sometimes takes time...

3. Lastly, if that does not work (with Linux), I would go the extra mile
and invest cheaply into electronics that controls my fan speeds
independantly of anything manufacturer related, just relying on the
actual temperature.
My experience with these is very good:
http://www.noisemagic.de/pdf/thermocontrol/nmt-2/ver02/an_loet_de-eng_screen.pdf

Note: Even if your fans are controlled properly by your
motherboard/bios, the onboard fan regulation imho very often is crap
because anyone wants to have highspeed, highperformance, high... but
basically no one is interested in quiet computers. So what you get is
what you (did not) ask for. ;-)

kind regards
Eberhard


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Re: [opensuse] How to limit/eliminate CPU/FAN Noise?

[John Andersen]

On Wednesday 30 May 2007, Clayton wrote:
> > > I install SLED 10 on an HP workstation xw4400. Everything is working
> > > perfectly except for the noise: compared to the same workstation with
> > > Windows XP installed, which is pretty silent, the linux box makes
> > > quite a lot of noise.
> >
> > I have similar problems on a different system (MSI).  I had intended
> > to use it as a MythTV box, but the fans would never get quite enough
> > for that, and I reloaded windows on the box.  Windows quiets the
> > fans immediately after boot, and from then on they run based on
> > demand (cpu heat) rather than full speed all the time.
> >
> > I never did solve this problem in spite of loading every sensor
> > package I could find.
>
> Have you tried this?
> http://www.tinet.org/~com.ea/rtsensors/
> I've never used it myself, but maybe it's a solution to
> controlling fans speeds and thus noise factor?

No, haven't tried that.

My problem was that lm-sensors could never find any sensors
which it could control.  It always crapped out saying it could not
find any sensors.  Since this package relies on lm sensors it seems
unlikely to work.

I suspected that my mobo uses some odd-ball chip set for its sensors
and the version of lm sensors found on SuSE 9.3 were not up to the
task.  I periodically throw various Live CDs into the machine
to see if any of them can manage it, but so far no luck.



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Re: [opensuse] How to limit/eliminate CPU/FAN Noise?

[Glen Masgai]

Gaël Lams schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> I install SLED 10 on an HP workstation xw4400. Everything is working
> perfectly except for the noise: compared to the same workstation with
> Windows XP installed, which is pretty silent, the linux box makes
> quite a lot of noise.
>
> I've googled a little bit but did not find any extensive response.
>
> Is there something on SLED (or opensuse, or even from source code to
> compile) that I can install and configure to have the system
> automatically slowing down or up the fan?
>
> Regards,
>
> Gael
Hi,

either the fan is controlled by the bios or you can control it by i2c.
If it's controlled by bios and its louder using linux, then your bios is
simply broken (windows bios). In such case it helps to modify the "dsdt"
but thats quite hard.
If the sensor-chipset provides funtions to control the fan, then the
fancontrol is your friend. In openSUSE it's part of the sensors package,
I don't know if this is the same for SLED 10.

Regards,
Glen
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Re: [opensuse] reject external mail to local address

[Sandy Drobic]

Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> * Carlos E. R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05-29-07 19:29]:
>> I'm tired, so what I'm about to say I haven't thought it out carefully
>> ;-) - - You are using fetchmail, I think. Mail handled off from
>> fetchmail to postfix is considered local or remote for the purpose of
>> this new checks?
> 
> You may have something here.  But, according to TFM:
> 
> As each message is retrieved fetchmail normally delivers it via SMTP
> to port 25 on the machine it is running on (localhost), just as though

Uh, you might want to stop right here with rejecting mails that came in
via fetchmail!

The recipe that I gave you will only work when the mail is sent directly
to your server, not for mails polled with fetchmail. In that case the mail
has already been accepted for you (by the provider in your order).

Any reject after that will only bounce the mail, not reject it.

Additionally, fetchmail uses localhost, so it will probably be in
$mynetworks as a trusted host, so the recipe will not work as desired anyway.

To make it short: you can only discard (dangerous!) or tag the mails when
you work with fetchmail. :-(

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Re: [opensuse] How to limit/eliminate CPU/FAN Noise?

[Clayton]

> I install SLED 10 on an HP workstation xw4400. Everything is working
> perfectly except for the noise: compared to the same workstation with
> Windows XP installed, which is pretty silent, the linux box makes
> quite a lot of noise.

I have similar problems on a different system (MSI).  I had intended
to use it as a MythTV box, but the fans would never get quite enough
for that, and I reloaded windows on the box.  Windows quiets the
fans immediately after boot, and from then on they run based on
demand (cpu heat) rather than full speed all the time.

I never did solve this problem in spite of loading every sensor
package I could find.


Have you tried this?
http://www.tinet.org/~com.ea/rtsensors/
I've never used it myself, but maybe it's a solution to
controlling fans speeds and thus noise factor?

C.
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Re: [opensuse] How to limit/eliminate CPU/FAN Noise?

[John Andersen]

On Wednesday 30 May 2007, Gaël Lams wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I install SLED 10 on an HP workstation xw4400. Everything is working
> perfectly except for the noise: compared to the same workstation with
> Windows XP installed, which is pretty silent, the linux box makes
> quite a lot of noise.

I have similar problems on a different system (MSI).  I had intended
to use it as a MythTV box, but the fans would never get quite enough
for that, and I reloaded windows on the box.  Windows quiets the 
fans immediately after boot, and from then on they run based on 
demand (cpu heat) rather than full speed all the time.

I never did solve this problem in spite of loading every sensor
package I could find.



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Re: [opensuse] How to limit/eliminate CPU/FAN Noise?

[Petr Klíma]

I have the same computer running OpenSuse 10.2 and I don't experience
such problems. Well, there's the noise from fan on graphics card in text
mode, which is not (mostly) present while in X but apart from that, it's
OK. Graphics card is HP supplied Quadro FX1500.

I can't compare with Windows though...

Anyway - only fan noise I can hear is from graphics card. There's little
 high-RPM fan there producing some sort of swish instead of (less
noticeable and less disturbing) humming produced by larger slower
rotating fans.

Cheers, Tosuja

Gaël Lams wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I install SLED 10 on an HP workstation xw4400. Everything is working
> perfectly except for the noise: compared to the same workstation with
> Windows XP installed, which is pretty silent, the linux box makes
> quite a lot of noise.
> 
> I've googled a little bit but did not find any extensive response.
> 
> Is there something on SLED (or opensuse, or even from source code to
> compile) that I can install and configure to have the system
> automatically slowing down or up the fan?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Gael

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Re: [opensuse] unable to connect to network printer

[Johannes Meixner]

Hello,

On May 29 15:23 mickeydog wrote (shortened):
> I am unable to connect to a network printer in opensuse 10.2
> The printer is an HP 4101 mfp.

See
http://hplip.sourceforge.net/troubleshooting/network.html

But
http://hplip.sourceforge.net/supported_devices/mono_laser_mfp.html
indicates that there is "No" network support for the LaserJet 4101mfp
so that you may have to connect it only directly via USB.


By the way:

For plain printing (i.e. youn don't need scanning or device service
or device status via the hp-toolbox):

All you need for plain printing is the HPIJS driver from the HPLIP
software together with the matching PPD file for CUPS to produce the
right printer specific data for your particular model or whatever
generic PCL5e driver e.g. the "ljet4" Ghostscript driver via
/usr/share/cups/model/Generic/PCL_5e_Printer-ljet4.ppd.gz

You neither need the HPLIP daemons running (used for direct device
communication which seems to be not supported via network for your
particular model) nor do you need GUI programs like "hp-toolbox".

Have a look at
http://hplip.sourceforge.net/tech_docs/hpijs.html
and
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell
and see our online "Reference" manual (package opensuse-manual_en)
/usr/share/doc/manual/opensuse-manual_en/manual/index.html
chapter "Printer Operation", section "Network Printers", and
section "Troubleshooting", sub-section "Network Printer Connections".


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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Re: [opensuse] RKHunter reports possible infection

[Gaël Lams]

With a properly configured firewall, dictionary attacks are pretty
much a non-issue.  My firewalls rate limit ssh connection attempts
which pretty much stops dictionary attacks in their tracks.

I still think no convincing case for limiting root ssh logins has
come foreward.


I agree with what you said. The only reason why I disable ssh root
access is to force myself (and other colleagues) to get use to log in
with their normal user and su (if they have the root password) only
when they really need it: When remote root ssh was allowed, some
people always logged in as root, thinking for instance that compiling
software required to be root when actually only the installation
really require it. Just to make them more "security-aware"

Best regards,

Gael
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Re: [opensuse] Filesystem becomes read-only

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On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 10:24 -0600, Tim Donnelly wrote:
> I am using Suse 10.2 on two different machines.  One is a new Dell
> Poweredge 2970, the other is an older (2002) "no-name" server.

I have the same problem with two machines, one a dual core x86_64 and a
AMD XP2000 ... self built together and working 2 and 5 years
respectively.

>   Both have experienced a strange and severe problem since I installed
> Suse.

i had it with SuSE 9.3, 10.0, 10.1 (Boxed Novell purchased version) and
now with OpenSUSE 10.2

> 
> Basically the file system is put into a read-only state. 

This I noticed only now with OpenSUSE 10.2, the others just locked up
solid.

>  While the OS and all apps are still running and I can log in a view
> files/logs etc. nothing can write to the disks.  

I could only log in ssh from another machine. 

> Obviously this causes all kinds of problems.  The only way to get the
> filesystem into a more interactive state is a hard reboot.

Same here

> 
> The first two times this occurred, there were messages in
> the /var/log/messages file relating to megasas,

I did not see it at all. The x86_64 system has SATA, and the other IDE

>  however as soon as the system was restarted, these warnings
> disappeared.  

Until some days later perhaps. I have excessive problems with some
versions of Evolution and the newest OpenOffice 2.2 running high disk
access, then no access to the system is possible; the disks are in
constant access (LED permanently on). Just the M$ reset trick works.

:-(
Al

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[opensuse] How to limit/eliminate CPU/FAN Noise?

[Gaël Lams]

Hi,

I install SLED 10 on an HP workstation xw4400. Everything is working
perfectly except for the noise: compared to the same workstation with
Windows XP installed, which is pretty silent, the linux box makes
quite a lot of noise.

I've googled a little bit but did not find any extensive response.

Is there something on SLED (or opensuse, or even from source code to
compile) that I can install and configure to have the system
automatically slowing down or up the fan?

Regards,

Gael
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Re: [opensuse] Amarok 1.4.5 and MySQL

[Will Stephenson]

On Wednesday 30 May 2007, Druid said:
> the one from guru repo

I disagree, it worked for me with the distro packages - wasn't any faster 
though.

Will


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Re: [opensuse] Amarok 1.4.5 and MySQL

[zoran]

Hi Pascal,

I found in SETTINGS=>CONFIGURE AMAROK=>COLLECTION (here you can add anything 
that you want to be scaned by amarok self and on that way it should appear on 
your play list)

I hope that this is enough.

Zoran


On Wednesday 30 May 2007 09:10, Pascal Bleser Schreef:
> Pueblo Native wrote:
> > Can somebody tell me which packages I need installed so that Amarok can
> > store my music library on a MySQL database?
>
> Complete instructions are here:
> http://opensuse-community.org/Amarok
>
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