[opensuse] ThinkPad X61 prof
Hi list, I'm about to purchase a (Lenovo) ThinkPad X61 prof laptop. With 2G RAM, 100Gbyte SCSI (!) 7200 rpm HD, ATI GL and so. - It's to run OpenSuse10.3. - Has anyone on this list got any knowledge that this laptop will not run/is a no go/don't do it/what are you thinking of.. - Or should I just go ahead. I need the wireless to work in the box. I don't care about bluetooth. - as always, thank you! -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] ThinkPad X61 prof (SOLVED)
Tirsdag 29 januar 2008 13:55 skrev Teruel de Campo MD: On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 11:49 +0100, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: Hi list, I'm about to purchase a (Lenovo) ThinkPad X61 prof laptop. With 2G RAM, 100Gbyte SCSI (!) 7200 rpm HD, ATI GL and so. - It's to run OpenSuse10.3. - Has anyone on this list got any knowledge that this laptop will not run/is a no go/don't do it/what are you thinking of.. - Or should I just go ahead. I need the wireless to work in the box. I don't care about bluetooth. - as always, thank you! Yes it runs. My daugther got one and she runs opensuse 10.3 1. installs without problems 2. Bluetooth works 3. Wireless works. She ordered the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG because of linux compatibility. It did not connect with the default module but it connect with the new one. (follow the instructions from the opensuse 10.3 release notes). I believe this is key. They offer other wireless chips but all the info we got November-December 2007 was to choose this one. 4. The brightness bottom does not work and so far she has not found a way to enable it so when is plugin is very bright, when is running from battery is medium. (Of course you can change it at the BIOS) 5. you can run tpb and you have the graphic representation of the button. 6. sounds work and she runs the ipod/amarok better than in windows. 7. She uses /kde/compiz-fusion as default window manager. It works great. 8. The docking station works very well and she can dock and undock OK. 9. usb works well as the SD slot. 10. She has not done presentation (projector) or use firewire. I do have an X-40 and I use for presentation all the time. They are very similar but not the same. 10. She got the same HD as you, 4Gb and also the turbo memory. The turbo memory was an error because it does not work under linux. 11. She did not get the wi-fi neither the finger id. I heard both work ok. If you have any questions just post it. -=terry(Denver)=- A great THANK YOU to all to gave their voice. - I'll go and get it NOW. And let you know if I stumble onto/into something. Thanks again! -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Epson printer on ethernet connection
Torsdag 24 januar 2008 10:28 skrev Paul Ollion: Hello list I hope I am not OT with this question : I have been given an Epson stylus Color 1520 printer, which is very interesting since it can accept larger sizes of paper. It works nicely on a parallel connection, but it is provided vith an Ethernet connection add on card C823623 but I do not have the manual for this card and I do not know its default address and do not know how to change it. There is just a Mac address on the card. Is it possible to make this card work ? I asked on an Epson technical list but they said they did not know and they would be interested to know if anyone found a sulution on a linux list. Thanks in advance -- Paul Ollion Proud Linux user SuSE 10.2 Hi Can one not open a root shell and give: arp -s IP MAC for example: arp -s 172.16.13.20 00:D0:c8:00:6f:9d - would this set the IP of the interface and hence let you access it? -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Kmail, GMail and Imap
Onsdag 16 januar 2008 11:58 skrev Matthias Bach: Hi! But when I set up a folder (I name it GOOGLEMAIL) and connects to my gmail account using the IMAP protocol, Kmail fetches 119320 (!) headers. But I Are you sure, did you check the count in your All Mail Category? I bet the 119320 Messages is All Mail + Spam. As google mail doesn't have folders all those mail should be in one imap folder and only have different imap flags/categories set. Regards, Matthias Hi I just checked the amount of mails (my gmail account) in all_mails, it says: 38841 mails. Which I also believe is correct. I'll delete the GOOGLEMAIL folder in Kmail and try it again... -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Kmail, GMail and Imap
Hi list, - google (gmail) just made it possible to use IMAP for retrieval of mail. I use SuSE10.2/KDE3.5.8-release 22.3/Kmail 1.9.5 But when I set up a folder (I name it GOOGLEMAIL) and connects to my gmail account using the IMAP protocol, Kmail fetches 119320 (!) headers. But I only have around 4 mails in my Gmail account (total including spam). And during the proces, Kmail has a tendency to crash. So I restart Kmail and it continues to collect headers. - I don't understand... -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Kmail, GMail and Imap
Onsdag 16 januar 2008 12:15 skrev Carlos E. R.: The Wednesday 2008-01-16 at 11:46 +0100, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: - google (gmail) just made it possible to use IMAP for retrieval of mail. I use SuSE10.2/KDE3.5.8-release 22.3/Kmail 1.9.5 But when I set up a folder (I name it GOOGLEMAIL) and connects to my gmail account using the IMAP protocol, Kmail fetches 119320 (!) headers. But I only have around 4 mails in my Gmail account (total including spam). Funny. Using fetchmail, gmail imap reports only the new emails (ie, 4 in my case): Jan 16 12:03:15 nimrodel fetchmail[25868]: IMAP A0003 SELECT INBOX Jan 16 12:03:15 nimrodel fetchmail[25868]: IMAP * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen) Jan 16 12:03:15 nimrodel fetchmail[25868]: IMAP * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen \*)] Jan 16 12:03:15 nimrodel fetchmail[25868]: IMAP * OK [UIDVALIDITY 2] Jan 16 12:03:15 nimrodel fetchmail[25868]: IMAP * 4 EXISTS Jan 16 12:03:15 nimrodel fetchmail[25868]: IMAP * 0 RECENT Jan 16 12:03:15 nimrodel fetchmail[25868]: IMAP * OK [UNSEEN 4] Jan 16 12:03:15 nimrodel fetchmail[25868]: IMAP * OK [UIDNEXT 124033] Jan 16 12:03:15 nimrodel fetchmail[25868]: IMAP A0003 OK [READ-WRITE] INBOX selected. (Success) and 4 is what it retrieves. Maybe kmail tries to get the headers of the entire thing (124033?). I just deleted the GOOGLEMAIL folder in my Kmail. Shut down Kmail and started over. Created a GOOGLEMAIL folder, setup the IMAP account (named the same...) and Kmail started fetching Emails. When it reached 12+, it crashed. I have around 39000 emails in google, just checked again. I'm not familiar with fetchmail, how do you get to get the dialog you show?? As always, thank you! -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Kmail, GMail and Imap
Onsdag 16 januar 2008 14:20 skrev Carlos E. R.: The Wednesday 2008-01-16 at 13:43 +0100, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: ... I'm not familiar with fetchmail, how do you get to get the dialog you show?? It's a command line utility, that's the syslog (/var/log/mail), when fetchmail is called in verbose mode. The setup is: fetchmail -- postfix -- procmail -- user's box I don't know how well it would integrate with kmail. Probably the best thing would be deliver the mail to the system inbox, and let kmail get it from there. Otherwise, procmail can sort it to the final local folder (a task it is designed to do), but kmail will not notice that, and it's indexes will be out of sync. The disadvantage is, of course, that you loose the instant notice of new mail arrival that you get with remote imap acounts. The advantage is that is *very* reliable (and you get a mail log for trazability), and that it can work in the background with little cpu impact. Thanks to everyone! - it didn't fix my Google problem, but it sure did help me understand stuff! - I'll install 10.3 one of these weeks - and get back to the IMAP/GOOGLE thing - if it's still there. Thanks again! -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Graphical representation of directory
Onsdag 16 januar 2008 21:20 skrev James D. Parra: -Original Message- From: Carl Spitzer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 12:14 PM To: Suse-E Subject: [opensuse] Graphical representation of directory How do I get a graphical representation of the directorys of /home/user I have a fifteen gig partition and cant figure out what is taking up so much space. CWSIV ~~ Hello Carl, Run this command in the /home dir; # du -cks * |sort -rn |head -11 The results will show the 10 largest dir's under /home. ~James Hi list, also see: http://www.methylblue.com/filelight/ -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Kopete stopped working (SOLVED)
Lørdag 22 december 2007 22:55 skrev Rajko M.: On Saturday 22 December 2007 02:43:11 pm Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: If I start Kopete from the CLI, I get: kopete: symbol lookup error: /opt/kde3/lib/libkopete.so.1: undefined symbol: _ZN9KLineEdit17mouseReleaseEventEP11QMouseEvent Hi Verner, The answer is in the error: /opt/kde3/lib/libkopete.so.1 is probably obsolete and needs update. It slipped somehow from being updated. I would look repositories with browser and compare to installed version in /opt/kde3/lib/ -- Regards, Rajko Hi list and Rajko, - yes, indeed the answer was in the error message, of course. I just did not understand what to do/was afreid of updating and touching stuff. - I Z'd (updated) kde3network and dependencies from within YaST. This cured it. Thx !! PS: one of these days...I'll finally install SuSE10.3 on my machine, keeping my /home-dir. I guess that should preserve most of my stuff. Yes, I'll do a backup first.. :-) It's just - you know; If it ain't broken, don't fix it. And basically, my SuSE10.2 has been working ever since installation. The best SuSE ever. -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Kopete stopped working
Hi list, SuSE10.2 plain vanilla. - I just did a stupid thing...went into YaST and asked it to upgrade my software. The little whatever-thing at the buttom of my screen has been orange for many weeks, it always breaks when I try to upgrade my sw. Yesterday, for some odd reason I clicked it, and it worked. Well sort of. Now my kopete doesn't work. (KDE 3.5.6 release 25.2) If I start Kopete from the CLI, I get: kopete: symbol lookup error: /opt/kde3/lib/libkopete.so.1: undefined symbol: _ZN9KLineEdit17mouseReleaseEventEP11QMouseEvent Eh what to do now? (BTW: gaim works, but I do prefer Kopete...) -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Menu Config file location
Onsdag 12 december 2007 12:57 skrev Richard Creighton: Recently I posted a question about the location of the files KDE uses to keep the information about the KMENU icon in the lower left corner (on most systems). Only the Applications subpanel are directly editable with the menu editor and indirectly the Favorites. The 'Computer' subpanel contains several icons, one of which is the remote:/ icon. On my system, when I press this, I get a 'Malformed URL' error message. From the 'My Computer' icon with the navigation panel on, if I select the Network icon, same deal. HOWEVER, if I open up Konqueror and manually type in 'remote:/' I get a list including icons for previously defined 'fish' sesssions produced by the wizard. I have other users on my system WITHOUT this problem so I (as root) copied their desktop config file to my desktop (renamed) but that function still failed. Related is my TRASHCAN. I cannot open it. I can drag files to it and they are properly 'deleted' but I cannot empty the trashcan nor open it to recover deleted files. I know the drag and delete works because using MC the files are in the proper places in .local in my /home account and if I manually remove the contents in both places (the files and the index to them), the desktop icon changes to indicate empty. I just get the malformed url error anytime I try to open or manipulate the icon by clicking on it OTHER THAN by dropping files to be deleted on it which still works.Again, copying a trashcan from another user only creates another trashcan, neither of which work...and the original cannot itself be deleted. Please, I am sure this is a grunged configuration problem IF I can find it. I do not think the Microsoft solution of reinstallation is viable with Linux. Please don't suggest it, my mentality is too far removed from Windows to take that seriously at this point. :) As the problem is local to a single user, I believe the problem to be local to /home/.user/somewhere(possiblyKDEsomething). How does one edit a desktop icon like trash.desktop? HELP Richard Hi on my SuSE10.2 they (some of them...) went into: /home/my-username/.config/menus A trick; just before I change something, I go: touch /tmp/now Then I do my change, afterwords I find it with: find . -newer /tmp/now - hope this helped :-) -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 www.os-academy.dk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Menu Config file location
Onsdag 12 december 2007 15:47 skrev Richard Creighton: Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: Onsdag 12 december 2007 12:57 skrev Richard Creighton: Recently I posted a question about the location of the files KDE uses to keep the information about the KMENU icon in the lower left corner (on most systems). Only the Applications subpanel are directly editable with the menu editor and indirectly the Favorites. The 'Computer' subpanel contains several icons, one of which is the remote:/ icon. On my system, when I press this, I get a 'Malformed URL' error message. From the 'My Computer' icon with the navigation panel on, if I select the Network icon, same deal. HOWEVER, if I open up Konqueror and manually type in 'remote:/' I get a list including icons for previously defined 'fish' sesssions produced by the wizard. snip Hi on my SuSE10.2 they (some of them...) went into: /home/my-username/.config/menus A trick; just before I change something, I go: touch /tmp/now Then I do my change, afterwords I find it with: find . -newer /tmp/now - hope this helped :-) I appreciate your response. Apparently this is a 'toughie' because as of this writing, yours is the only response. Unfortunately, I still can't find why Konqueror can find 'remote:/' and the icon which points to 'remote:/' is considered a bad URL. Nor can I find where that Icon is defined to see if there is a hidden character in it that is 'wierd' and causing an error. If I could change it, your idea of using find to see where it is hiding would be very valuable but so far it seems the 'Computer' part of Kmenu is not in the same place as the user editable 'Applications', or I am overlooking something that is so obvious that if it was a rattlesnake, I'd already be dead :) Thanks and if you have any more ideas, I'm open to them. Richard I've worked a little with the KDE desktop - and I still don't understand most of it.. But try looking into /var/lib/kde-profiles/ and see what you can find. Also, look into /etc/opt/kde3 Look into /etc/kde-user-profile Look into /etc/kde3rc And all menuentries are XML files, as I see it, things are deleted by ADDING to a file, noting that the aforementioned entry (in another file) is now deleted anyhow Others on the list, please correct me if I'm wrong :-) -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] DOCX files and Novell OpenOffice
Mandag 10 december 2007 02:49 skrev Peter Van Lone: On Dec 9, 2007 7:22 PM, James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed that and it does not appear to make much difference. Also, my understanding was that v2.3 included support for OOXML. Is that package even necessary for the latest version of OpenOffice? It is also an i586 package. Will it work with 64 bit OpenOffice? from the web site I sent earlier: product description The OpenXML Translator provides support for opening and saving Microsoft* OpenXML-formatted word processing documents (.docx) in OpenOffice.org. The odfconverter-1.0.0-2.oxt file works only with Windows, and the odf-converter-1.0.0-5.i586.rpm file works only on SUSE(R) Linux Enterprise, SUSE Linux, and openSUSE. On both platforms, the OpenXML Translator works only with the latest Novell(R) edition of OpenOffice.org. I have not had any problems with it. Not sure what might be going on in your case. Peter Hi everyone, - you speak of things I can't seem to find? - the odfconverter-1.0.0-5.i586.rpm seems to be what I'm looking for...but where? - second; I'm on SuSE10.2. Could I just uninstall OOversion-whatever-is-on-my-machine and then install (?? how, actually) the Novell edition. I only seem to be able to find a pile of RPM's at go-oo.org. Would I download the bunch and go rpm -Uvh *.rpm, really? -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Starting apps automatically in console session - SOLVED
Søndag 02 december 2007 16:38 skrev Randall R Schulz: On Sunday 02 December 2007 00:14, Stephan Hegel wrote: Hi all, A while back I asked how to start console apps automatically in a certain konsole session. I just want share the little script I wrote last night: it launches the atop utility in an existing session named Atop. That looks handy. I can see using it. You might consider generalizing it a bit. E.g., if a script matching the session name can be found in a particular directory, say $HOME/session-startup/, then that script is launched in the matching session. Then the script need not be modified to accommodate changes in the complement of pre-assigned sessions you want to handle. Might be the general idea behind is useful for somebody out there. That's why I've put a few more comments in it ... Assuming an invocation of this script is to be placed in $HOME/.bash_profile, you might want to gracefully handle the case where the shell is running outside of KDE. That includes on virtual consoles, when connecting remotely via ssh and possible when using screen. I don't know if Gnome uses dcop or something else, so it might fail there and under different desktops and window managers as well. In short, be prepared for dcop to fail and do nothing (probably silently) in that case. Rgds, Stephan. Randall Schulz God morning, - how would one be able to detect if the script is being started outside of KDE? Can anyone come up with a short hint ? - thank you! -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Starting apps automatically in console session - SOLVED
Mandag 03 december 2007 09:41 skrev Pete Connolly: On Monday 03 December 2007 08:34:52 Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: God morning, - how would one be able to detect if the script is being started outside of KDE? Can anyone come up with a short hint ? - thank you! Hi Verner Maybe your script could check with env? Using konsole I get [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ env | grep KDE KDE_MULTIHEAD=false KDE_NO_IPV6=1 KDE_FULL_SESSION=true KDE_SESSION_UID=1000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ In a text console, nothing shows up. Cheers Pete - what can one say? - thank you! -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 www.os-academy.dk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Compiz and a real stupid question...
hi list, - SuSE10.3, ATI, 3D accelleration ON, X running just fine. - now I want to go cube/3d/rotating all compiz - I simply can't seem to remember/figure out how to start the darned thing...or to switch it on..in short: what to do? -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Compiz and a real stupid question...
Tirsdag 27 november 2007 21:20 skrev Erik Jakobsen: Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: hi list, - SuSE10.3, ATI, 3D accelleration ON, X running just fine. - now I want to go cube/3d/rotating all compiz - I simply can't seem to remember/figure out how to start the darned thing...or to switch it on..in short: what to do? See http://en.opensuse.org/Compiz For Compiz Fusion, see http://opensuse.org/Compiz_Fusion | XGL is for fglrx users only, otherwise use aiglx for better results and fewer issues with 3d apps and performance. see !aiglx with nvidia Was taken for the IRC #suse channel HTH /Erik - thanks! Done! -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] adding links in /etc/init.d/rc*.d/
Mandag 26 november 2007 21:06 skrev Jason Craig: Sorry, I've been struggling to find any information on this, mainly because it is difficult to find proper search terms. Say I've installed some software, like PostgreSQL, that adds a beautiful script to /etc/init.d/ that starts or stops the server. Now I want to start the server in, say runlevel 3, so I know I need to add links to /etc/init.d/rc3.d/ but I'm having trouble finding information on the proper way of doing this. Can anyone point me to some documentation, or give a quick explanation of the numbers, letters etc. used in these symlinks? thanks, --Jason I'd put it somewhere late in the runlevel sequence of events. Like, say 30 or so. On my SLES10 it's killed as no 10 and started as no 12. As root, goto /etc/init.d/rc3.d and do: ln -s ../postgresql S30postgresql Symlinks preceded by an S starts stuff. K kills stuff. See man init.d Actually I wouldn't do it by hand at all. I'd use YaST under System, Runlevel services. In there, I'd set it to run in runlevel 3 (and 5 for that matter). I'd also use YaST to start and stop the service. That should really do it. -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] OT - Linux and open source in use in public administration?
Fredag 23 november 2007 18:01 skrev Josef Assad: Johannes Nohl wrote: A friend of mine in the UK is looking for examples of Linux and/or open source being used in public administration. I've named quite a few of the German examples, but if anyone's got a list or useful resources, I'd much appreciate it. From anywhere. Often, a good argument for open source is via open standards. Danish local authorities (kommuner, not sure how that translates) are moving to open standards[1], FWIW. cut out To all; do consider reading this: http://videnskabsministeriet.dk/site/frontpage/information-and-communication-technology/agreement-on-the-use-of-open-standards-for-software-in-the-p (yes, the link IS correct, even it doesn't look so :-)) -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] OT - Linux and open source in use in public administration?
Fredag 23 november 2007 18:01 skrev Josef Assad: Johannes Nohl wrote: A friend of mine in the UK is looking for examples of Linux and/or open source being used in public administration. I've named quite a few of the German examples, but if anyone's got a list or useful resources, I'd much appreciate it. From anywhere. Often, a good argument for open source is via open standards. Danish local authorities (kommuner, not sure how that translates) are moving to open standards[1], FWIW. The Belgian government is there too[2]. This[3] Wikipedia page lists governments and other orgs which have adopted ODF which is exemplary of open standards which in turn open source arises from/facilitates. One nice thing about getting to open source through open standards is that the ODF folks have done most of the legwork acquiring a portfolio. :) JA [1] http://videnskabsministeriet.dk/site/forside/nyheder/pressemeddelelser/2007 /bred-aftale-om-aabne-standarder Sorry, Danish article. http://videnskabsministeriet.dk/site/frontpage/press/important-political-pr ogress-for-open-standards [2] http://www.belgif.be/index.php/Open_Document_Format_for_Office_Applications [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument_adoption -- http://www.DonAssad.com jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please consider the environment; do you really need to print out this e-mail? Hi list, the danish parliament made it law on the 30th. of march 2006 to only allow,- as far as practically possible - the use of open standards in all public data exchange. The exact text, in danish, law no B103/30. march 2006 is here for reference: Folketinget pålægger regeringen at sikre, at det offentliges brug af informationsteknologi, herunder brug af software, er baseret på åbne standarder. Regeringen bør senest den 1. januar 2008 indføre og vedligeholde et sæt af åbne standarder, der kan tjene til inspiration for øvrige offentlige myndigheder. Åbne standarder bør herefter være en del af grundlaget for det offentliges udvikling og indkøb af it-software med henblik på at fremme konkurrencen. Regeringen bør sikre, at alle digitale informationer og data, som det offentlige udveksler med borgere, virksomheder og institutioner, findes i formater, der er baseret på åbne standarder. Now the wording of above was originally seen as quite weak by the OS community in Denmark. The actual implementation is however, growing. We do see advances in many places. First and foremost, most public web-sites may now be viewed using FF and others. All banks, although not covered by this lawtext, will now let customers use FF and others. Some public institutions will now recieve OO files. Certainly not all, but growing. Perhaps some other dane on this list will do a precise translation? If so, thank you in advance! -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 www.os-academy.dk +45 5696 4223 Denmark. Download 660 sider Rute's Linux tutorial af Paul Sheer. En fantastisk LINUX lærebog, hent den fra www.os-academy.dk +===+ Powered by openSUSE 10.2 (i586) Kernel: 2.6.18.8-0.5-bigsmp KDE: 3.5.6 release 25.2 9:10pm oppe 4:27, 2 users, belastningennemsnit: 0,37, 0,20, 0,11 +===+ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] USB Scanner recommendation?
Torsdag 22 november 2007 11:14 skrev Lenz Grimmer: Hi, it's rare that I am soliciting this list for help, but maybe someone could share his experiences with me. I have browsed the hardware compatibility list at http://www.sane-project.org/sane-backends.html to find a suitable USB scanner model. However, it seems as if most of the models listed on there are no longer available (except as used devices on eBay). Does anybody have a recommendation for a flatbed scanner, connected via USB2 that works flawlessly with Linux (openSUSE 10.3 in particular) and is still on sale (especially in Europe/Germany)? Thanks in advance for your suggestions! Bye, LenZ -- -- Lenz Grimmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -o) [ICQ: 160767607 | Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/\\ http://www.lenzg.org/ V_V I'm quite happy with my EPSON V700 for which I use vuescan. -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Konquerer, how to disable F4 (open shell)
Hi list, - in Konquerer, under the menu Tools you may hit F4 to open a terminal. - in our one-machine, multiuser setup, we wish to take away that feature. - how can we do that? - I know of Kiosktool and the possibility to forbid shells altogether, but this feature also voids us from running login scripts... - as always, thank you ! -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] OpenOffice -cifs-and word format docs
Fredag 16 november 2007 18:28 skrev G T Smith: snip My smb,conf is rather complex ... and the word document extension was not included in the oplock veto list for the particular share definition, (for some reason I was under the impression I had included the extension)... ooo does not do oplocks well and this setting disables this fore these files... Thanks for the input... May the list see the actual line(s) from your smb.conf ? - thanks! - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Harddisk serial number (SuSE10.3), cloning disks
Tirsdag 06 november 2007 10:01 skrev Matthew Stringer: Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: Hi list, - reported by a friend of mine, when cloning (ghosting) a 10.3 disk in its entirety, the cloned disk will not boot due to the serial numbers of the cloned disk doesn't match the serial of the original disk. - apparently this serial is written somewhere in the conf files of GRUB. - I've not seen this as I've not been to his place (quite far from here, trying to solve the matter through e-mail...), can this be true?? - I mean, really? :-) Sort of I ran into this problem Instead of using something like /dev/sda2 as the root device in grub it has /disk/id-by-xxx or similar which it uses to identify the hard drive, so if this changes it screws up the initrd, if you edit the boot loader and create a new initrd it works fine from the rescue console. Not sure why it changed. THANKS to all!! -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Harddisk serial number (SuSE10.3), cloning disks
Hi list, - reported by a friend of mine, when cloning (ghosting) a 10.3 disk in its entirety, the cloned disk will not boot due to the serial numbers of the cloned disk doesn't match the serial of the original disk. - apparently this serial is written somewhere in the conf files of GRUB. - I've not seen this as I've not been to his place (quite far from here, trying to solve the matter through e-mail...), can this be true?? - I mean, really? :-) -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] HOW TO CONNECT TO A wINDOWS SERVER FROM MY LINUX/SUSE LAPTOP
Torsdag 01 november 2007 18:28 skrev David C. Rankin: Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote: I havw to move some data for analysis purposes from a Windows server to my SuSE laptop where I feel more comfortable. My laptop is connected via EThernet cable to such a network On a Windows box the address is: \\CTRC35\InfoSys\SOFTWARE\APPLICATIONS\create but such an address is not digested by Linux when I feed it to the Network Folder or try to add a new network by Wizard. Please, can someone show me the way ? Thank yoou in advance, Maura Maura Edelweiss M. In konqueror try: fish://CTRC35/InfoSys/SOFTWARE/APPLICATIONS/create it will prompt you for your username and password -- IN Konqueror, try: smb://CTRC35/InfoSys/SOFTWARE/APPLICATIONS/create -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Zend Studio 5.5 not installing/working on SuSE10.3 (SOLVED)
Søndag 14 oktober 2007 00:57 skrev Cristian Rodriguez: Verner Kjærsgaard escribió: Hi list, - just tried to install (crucial to me) my Zend Studio 5.5 onto my new SuSE10.3 - I got this: Launching installer... java: xcb_xlib.c:52: xcb_xlib_unlock: Assertion `c-xlib.lock' failed. - Any hints as to what causes this ? - as always, thank you! export LIBXCB_ALLOW_SLOPPY_LOCK=1 then work as usual. - thanks a LOT for the answers. When BOTH are applied (the sed AND the export variable) - things work just fine! - thanks again! -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Zend Studio 5.5 not installing/working on SuSE10.3
Hi list, - just tried to install (crucial to me) my Zend Studio 5.5 onto my new SuSE10.3 - I got this: Launching installer... java: xcb_xlib.c:52: xcb_xlib_unlock: Assertion `c-xlib.lock' failed. - Any hints as to what causes this ? - as always, thank you! -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] SuSE updater icon in taskbar (10.2)(SOLVED)
Fredag 12 oktober 2007 01:44 skrev Joe Morris (NTM): On 10/12/2007 04:44 AM, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: Hi list, - I wish to get rid of the SuSE updater (is it called so?), the little icon in the taskbar that turns to orange when updates are available. - I wish to do so, because the desktop is presented to students (LTSP) and I don't want the ordinary users desktop to show the icon. - what's the app called? - thank you in advance! That one is called zen-updater (different color than opensuseupdater) Uninstall the Zen pattern to get rid of it and its dependencies. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 - thanks to all! - will do so. -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] SuSE updater icon in taskbar (10.2)
Hi list, - I wish to get rid of the SuSE updater (is it called so?), the little icon in the taskbar that turns to orange when updates are available. - I wish to do so, because the desktop is presented to students (LTSP) and I don't want the ordinary users desktop to show the icon. - what's the app called? - thank you in advance! -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Couldn't complete LIST operation (SOLVED)
Tirsdag 02 oktober 2007 19:06 skrev Don Raboud: On Tuesday 02 October 2007 09:26, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: Hi list, - this puzzles me.. - Kmail has started to pop up a dialog (warning) box uppon its first retrieval of mail (POP3) from certain accounts, saying: Couldn't complete LIST operation (Translated from danish..) - but only the first fetch. And (I think), I get all mail subsequently. - it's not just my PC (SuSE10.2) but others too (SuSE10 and even 9.3) - anyone seen this? Yes. This has happened to me previously. What was happening in my case was that a particular message seemed to cause KMail grief and leads to that error. Only ever happened with POP accounts. I was not able to retrieve any messages in this situation. Other clients (like Thunderbird), or a webmail interface had no problems with the problem message. What I ended up doing was using Thunderbird to go through the new mail, delete those I didn't want, remark all of the new mail as unread and be sure to leave a copy on the server. After that KMail worked OK. Might be easier with webmail interface though. -- Don - indeed that was the case. Followed your advise. Problem solved. - thanks :-) -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 www.os-academy.dk +45 5696 4223 Denmark. Download 660 sider Rute's Linux tutorial af Paul Sheer. En fantastisk LINUX lærebog, hent den fra www.os-academy.dk +===+ Powered by openSUSE 10.2 (i586) Kernel: 2.6.18.8-0.5-bigsmp KDE: 3.5.6 release 25.2 9:10am oppe 0:31, 2 users, belastningennemsnit: 0,06, 0,12, 0,22 +===+ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Anyone taken the Novell SUSE 10 classes?
Tirsdag 02 oktober 2007 02:48 skrev JJB: Has anyone taken the Novell SUSE classes / certification programs? Any comments on their effectiveness? - Joel - harder than I thought. Read up on CLE (took CLP), will do CLE eventually. - has helped me quite a lot in my daily life. My work is more structured. I simply know more. - recommended. - personnal advise; take preparations seriously. - yes I know, I'm slow. But still... :-) -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 www.os-academy.dk +45 5696 4223 Denmark. Download 660 sider Rute's Linux tutorial af Paul Sheer. En fantastisk LINUX lærebog, hent den fra www.os-academy.dk +===+ Powered by openSUSE 10.2 (i586) Kernel: 2.6.18.8-0.5-bigsmp KDE: 3.5.6 release 25.2 9:32am oppe 0:57, 4 users, belastningennemsnit: 0,03, 0,03, 0,06 +===+ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Anyone taken the Novell SUSE 10 classes?
Tirsdag 02 oktober 2007 16:32 skrev Greg Freemyer: On 10/2/07, Brian Millett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JJB escribío: Has anyone taken the Novell SUSE classes / certification programs? Any comments on their effectiveness? Did not take the classes, just the clp test. I have the books for the classes. The test is a good measure of what you know, if you can do what you know, and do it in an organized timely fashion. If you do not take the classes, then get a test system, and enjoy every possible scenario to configure a working system with users, groups, disk quotas, partitions, ACLs, httpd, samba, email, ssh, etc. I think the best benefit is the satisfaction it is over :-) Sounds similar to the RHCE training I took a few years ago. Despite having years of real world UNIX/Linux experience I would have never gotten through the test in the time allocated (6 hrs?) if I had not just finished four 4 days of intensive boot camp. The 2 or 3 people who came into the class as Windows Admins with limited UNIX/Linux experience and trying to transition had no chance of getting through the test. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com Hi list, - in addition, somewhere Novell has this Linux skills assesments test on the web. We (me and some VERY skilled young sharks) were trying this test out. All of us failed. Perhaps because the test itself was not very clear in its language, but what on the surface looked EASY, wasn't just so... - as stated in this thread, a MS-Windows sysadmin with limited or no Linux/Unix experience doesn't have a chance. An experienced Linux/Unix admin stands better, but get up early :-) -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 www.os-academy.dk +45 5696 4223 Denmark. Download 660 sider Rute's Linux tutorial af Paul Sheer. En fantastisk LINUX lærebog, hent den fra www.os-academy.dk +===+ Powered by openSUSE 10.2 (i586) Kernel: 2.6.18.8-0.5-bigsmp KDE: 3.5.6 release 25.2 5:20pm up 0:30, 2 users, load average: 0.10, 0.11, 0.22 +===+ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Couldn't complete LIST operation
Hi list, - this puzzles me.. - Kmail has started to pop up a dialog (warning) box uppon its first retrieval of mail (POP3) from certain accounts, saying: Couldn't complete LIST operation (Translated from danish..) - but only the first fetch. And (I think), I get all mail subsequently. - it's not just my PC (SuSE10.2) but others too (SuSE10 and even 9.3) - anyone seen this? -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 www.os-academy.dk +45 5696 4223 Denmark. Download 660 sider Rute's Linux tutorial af Paul Sheer. En fantastisk LINUX lærebog, hent den fra www.os-academy.dk +===+ Powered by openSUSE 10.2 (i586) Kernel: 2.6.18.8-0.5-bigsmp KDE: 3.5.6 release 25.2 5:24pm up 0:34, 2 users, load average: 0.08, 0.12, 0.19 +===+ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Links in Thunderbird don't open in Firefox
Mandag 24 september 2007 17:28 skrev Ed Harrison: Suse 10.2, KDE 3.5 (or gnome 2.16), TB and FF at 2.0.0.6. When I click a link in an email message in TB, nothing happens--doesn't matter whether FF is running or not. No FF window opens to handle the request. Any help appreciated. Ed Harrison Hi Ed and list, -my ten cents... - in the URL line of FF, give: about:config - and see what happens :-) -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 www.os-academy.dk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] What USB Webcamera to use with OpenSUSE10.2 ?
Søndag 09 september 2007 23:53 skrev John Layt: On Sunday 09 September 2007, joe wrote: I picked up a Logitech Quickcam Chat recently at a very reasonable cost, and it works for me in kopete - not in aim, but I've tested it in yahoo chat, and it's said to work with msn chat as well. Joe I have a Logitech Quickcam Communicate STX which works well, great picture quality. Most Logitechs work well (but with notable exceptions). The best website to check for the status of most webcams is http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html. This is the home of the spca driver which supports a lot, but also lists most other popular cams/drivers and provides links to each projects page. Another major driver is http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/ for more recent cams. Just remember that kopete (and all linux clients) only supports sending the webcam picture, not the sound. Skype currently only supports sound and not video, so a combination of the two gets a strange out of sync experience :-) OpenWengo supports video and sound via SIP, but not many people use SIP, and it's not in the openSuse repos either. John. -- Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com - THANKS for the inputs, will check it out! -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] What USB Webcamera to use with OpenSUSE10.2 ?
Hi list, - my daughter (12 years) is using KDE/kopete extensively. - for her birthday coming up, I'd buy her a webcam to use with Kopete. - any hints, what should I go for? -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] PAM mk_homedir when coming through SSH
Hi list, - in PAM there's a thing called mk_homedir (I think). It works when you're doing AD integrations, i.e. it'll create a users homedir if the user exists in the AD but yet hasn't logged into the Linux box. - What if the user comes in (for the first time) though SSH, authenticates against the AD, and then wants a home-dir to be created. Which PAM file (in /etc/pam.d) should I modify? And what should I write in it? -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] PAM mk_homedir when coming through SSH
Mandag 03 september 2007 09:21 skrev Gaël Lams: Hi, - What if the user comes in (for the first time) though SSH, authenticates against the AD, and then wants a home-dir to be created. Which PAM file (in /etc/pam.d) should I modify? And what should I write in it? Here is what I use on my linux boxes with ssh configured to authenticate through ldap: # Modify /etc/pam.d/common-session echo 'session required pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel/ umask=027' /etc/pam.d/common-session Regards, Gael - in short; thanks ! -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] silly girls' cli copy problem
Søndag 02 september 2007 09:49 skrev primm: On Sunday 02 September 2007 02:07, Anders Johansson wrote: On Saturday 01 September 2007 17:51:40 primm wrote: Hi everyone. I've learned a lot by this thread. The way to go for novice webmistresses seems to be mc (what an amazing piece of kit- thanks to whoever suggested it) or rsync. I used rsync out of desperation. Did I miss something? I thought you said you used the idea of naming the directory with a dot rsync isn't bad, but I would call it serious overkill in this scenario. Hi I'm desperately trying to learn to be a good admin. I'm far from it. In Spain companies are prepared to pay you loadsa money if you can stop them getting viruses and you can speak English and Spanish. So I tried just about all methods everyone suggested. The only ones which worked first time viz me copying and pasting from this thread to my cli were the renaming as dot (yours I think) and the rsync alternative. I also used mc as my server does not have a gui. What amazes me is that hobbyists (it seems that most people on this site do not work as admins to earn a living) such as the folk on this list are so willing and eager to help. Indeed were it not for them I'd not be in the position I'm in now. You never get that in the workplace. All they do is complain that vista is so slow now I have the suse server in place. Love from Lynn. Hi list and Lynn, - well one more pro sys admin here... - the reason I didn't try to help in the first place is due to simply being afraid of giving wrong advice. - In *NIX OSses, there are usually more than one way of doing things. In your scenario, I was unsure of the correct way of doing it, mainly due to the very large amount of files ( 800) which, as noted, could cause a problem when using a simple *. Also, the copy dot files is not imminently easy. - I learn all the time. - I also learned from following this thread. Best of luck! -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] silly girls' cli copy problem
Søndag 02 september 2007 11:40 skrev primm: What amazes me is that hobbyists (it seems that most people on this site do not work as admins to earn a living) such as the folk on this list are so willing and eager to help. Indeed were it not for them I'd not be in the position I'm in now. You never get that in the workplace. All they do is complain that vista is so slow now I have the suse server in place. Love from Lynn. Hi list and Lynn, - well one more pro sys admin here... - the reason I didn't try to help in the first place is due to simply being afraid of giving wrong advice. - In *NIX OSses, there are usually more than one way of doing things. In your scenario, I was unsure of the correct way of doing it, mainly due to the very large amount of files ( 800) which, as noted, could cause a problem when using a simple *. Also, the copy dot files is not imminently easy. - I learn all the time. - I also learned from following this thread. Best of luck! Hi Thanks. That's encouraging. I'm glad you said, 'I also learned from following this thread.' How do you say 'mal de mucho, consuelo de tontos' in English? Beacause that's how I feel about taking on a lan and administering it. You make me feel safe in my void of anyone else to relate to if I have a problem. Using the non enterprize version of SuSE to run a network I feel is very much in it's infancy. The only method of support is through this list. SuSE will not help you. It is a very dangerous game to play being a non supported sys admin. I think we all operate in isolation with none of us being able to communicate our real fears and ideas. I believe that it prevents open source software from progressing to a greater extent. Love from Lynn. Hi - please allow me to disagree... - I manage a lot of systems, most of them running OpenSUSE some running SLES10 and so. - I read a lot, I try to help a little now and then, and - I get A LOT of positive feedback from this and other lists. Generally, I find the Linux community being very responsive, very responsible and very helpfull indeed. - in my experience, support from the community is A LOT better than some of the paid offers.. As I wrote earlier, I'm somewhat reluctant giving advice out of fear of giving wrong advise. I remember (many years ago, when I was a real Linux newbie) I asked a list why root couldn't start an X programme (Root was not allowed to use the X-server, fix it by going xhost + or something similar), I got an answer after 10 minutes. But it started a lenghty discussion on the list, if this advise was appropriate or not. I think it ran to 30+ answers or so :-) And a wrong advise can really steal your time. -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] silly girls' cli copy problem
Søndag 02 september 2007 14:11 skrev primm: On Sunday 02 September 2007 13:41, James Knott wrote: primm wrote: Using the non enterprize version of SuSE to run a network I feel is very much in it's infancy. The only method of support is through this list. SuSE will not help you. It is a very dangerous game to play being a non supported sys admin. I think we all operate in isolation with none of us being able to communicate our real fears and ideas. I believe that it prevents open source software from progressing to a greater extent. Love from Lynn. This is one of the models of open source, including Linux. The software is free for the taking, but if you want support, you have to pay for it. I have to disagree. I have free support built in from here. I pay nothing for it. Within minutes I get responses. Many alternative from which to try out. some which work and some which don't. I took a job as an admin based solely upon the support I could get from this list. it's a challenge but I know no different. I know I was second best. They hired me because of my languages. Not my Linux experience. Love from Lynn x - just a short note... - it may be that you were the second best at the time of hiring. - but that situation will change :-) -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] bash prompt login question
Fredag 24 august 2007 18:54 skrev James D. Parra: Hello, I have a user who doesn't get the normal bash prompt when he logs in, just a simple 'sh' prompt, for example; server Fri Aug 24 09:15:00 ~ $ snip All other users get the detailed bash prompt, for example; server Fri Aug 24 09:16:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/username snip I copied over one of the others user's .bashrc file (all are generic to the Suse install)to his home dir' and changed the ownership to the above user, but with no effect. Even deleting and recreating his account didn't solve the problem. What made this user's login so different than the others? At any rate, how can I fix this? Is there something missing? Many thanks, ~James Hi, - what does it say in this users line in /etc/passwd? -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Windowsserver supplying a home-dir on SuSE10.2
Onsdag 22 august 2007 22:54 skrev Sloan: Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: Onsdag 22 august 2007 20:47 skrev Sloan: Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: Hi list, - I know (well, think) this can be done. - I've got a Wintendo file server that needs to supply the home-dirs of all users of a multiuser SuSE10.2 system. - let's not discus why...it's just so. Sigh. Yeah but... no more pipes, sockets, symlinks, and other nasty surprises for unix users. I would at least go on record to point out the technical problems to the PHB beforehand. - the users are already authenticating against a Wintendo AD, works fine. - I simply forgot how to do... - Do I just (in /etc/fstab) mount or what? IMHO amd or autofs would be the way to implement that sort of thing. Joe - Thank you for the answer. - may I ask; what's amd ? - and in what manner could I use autofs to do this tast with? - I thought I would need to haven en entry in /etc/fstab, something like...: mount -t smbfs something-here something-here some-options-here... amd is the auto mounter daemon which is a mature cross platform (unix) automatic network disk mounting solution, but in current linux distros it's been pretty much superseded by autofs, a native linux implementation of the same general idea. If you have autofs installed on your linux workstation, there should be some files there, such as /etc/auto.master and others, including auto.home and auto.net which I've found useful. There should also be a file called auto.smb for mounting remote pc-lan shares. Take a look at /etc/auto.smb, as it should provide a good starting point. Joe Thanks for the info, I'm on to it with man pages, info, google and all. I'll try to remember to let the list know of my progres. Best regards, - V. -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Windowsserver supplying a home-dir on SuSE10.2 (SOLVED)
- succes. - this is how-to let a wintendo mashine deliver home-dirs to a linux box. - on win: create the share, name it (say) wintendo. Create a user named root, give him a password, set it to never expire and it should not be changed uppon first login. Give this user root all rights to the wintendo share. - fire up Konqueror, type in an URL like this: SMB://IP-of-win-machine/wintendo -and check that root has access and all. Close konqueror. Now, on the Linux box, edit /etc/fstab. Comment out the mount for /home (you DID put that on a partition for itself, right?). Add a line to fstab: (the next two lines is in fact ONE line in fstab... //IP-of-windows-machine/wintendo /home cifs rw,user=root,password=very-secret 0 0 On the linux box, as root, create a dir like this: mkdir /home Now, as root, reread /etc/fstab, do it with mount -a Go into YaST. Create a new user, name him whatever, and see that his home-dir indeed now resides on the win-box. - thanks to the list again for directing me ! Best regards, Verner -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Windowsserver supplying a home-dir on SuSE10.2
Hi list, - I know (well, think) this can be done. - I've got a Wintendo file server that needs to supply the home-dirs of all users of a multiuser SuSE10.2 system. - let's not discus why...it's just so. Sigh. - the users are already authenticating against a Wintendo AD, works fine. - I simply forgot how to do... - Do I just (in /etc/fstab) mount or what? -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Windowsserver supplying a home-dir on SuSE10.2
Onsdag 22 august 2007 20:47 skrev Sloan: Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: Hi list, - I know (well, think) this can be done. - I've got a Wintendo file server that needs to supply the home-dirs of all users of a multiuser SuSE10.2 system. - let's not discus why...it's just so. Sigh. Yeah but... no more pipes, sockets, symlinks, and other nasty surprises for unix users. I would at least go on record to point out the technical problems to the PHB beforehand. - the users are already authenticating against a Wintendo AD, works fine. - I simply forgot how to do... - Do I just (in /etc/fstab) mount or what? IMHO amd or autofs would be the way to implement that sort of thing. Joe - Thank you for the answer. - may I ask; what's amd ? - and in what manner could I use autofs to do this tast with? - I thought I would need to haven en entry in /etc/fstab, something like...: mount -t smbfs something-here something-here some-options-here... -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Why do I get this back all the time..
A couple of minutes ago, I started receiving LOTS of emails back from a server. All my postings over the last 10 days or so to this list are coming back...like this one: --- Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender Fra: Mail Delivery System [EMAIL PROTECTED] Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is the Postfix program at host linux02.gaup.name. I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below. For further assistance, please send mail to postmaster If you do so, please include this problem report. You can delete your own text from the attached returned message. The Postfix program [EMAIL PROTECTED] (expanded from [EMAIL PROTECTED]): Host or domain name not found. Name service error for name=localhost type=: Host not found --- In fact, I just got my posting Windows server supplying back right now. And, at the same time, I see it posted perfectly fine on this list. I really don't understand what's happening here? -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Loggin internet activites
Hi list, - as I'm going to use OpenSuSE for this one, so it's not completely off topic. I think. - In Denmark a new law is being enforced by the 15th. of September this year. It states that all internet activity must be logged, if you run a hotel or similar. I do. - this means I have to have a router/switch that gives out fixed IP-adresses to fixed rooms. I can do that, we're not wireless but give guests access through cables. - I now need to log all internet access per IP-adress/room onto a central server - somewhere in the chain. - All in the name of anti-terrorism. Yes, I know, it's all in vain, it will not keep any taleban or criminal from doing what they do. But that's not up to me. I just have to log...however stupid this is. - has anyone any ideas as to how with what? -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Loggin internet activites
Fredag 17 august 2007 12:27 skrev Dave Howorth: Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: Hi list, - as I'm going to use OpenSuSE for this one, so it's not completely off topic. I think. - In Denmark a new law is being enforced by the 15th. of September this year. It states that all internet activity must be logged, if you run a hotel or similar. I do. Do you also have data privacy laws in Denmark? If so, I would think you need to be quite careful with guarding access to these logs. If you have professional societies in Denmark (Dansk Dataforening or Dansk Selskab for Datalogi perhaps?) they may have guidance on how to comply with the law. Cheers, Dave All technical aspects aside, I do agree. A law like this is terribly problematic. It opens up for who knows what. It does require a court order for the police to get to the records. But still... It's the same with your mobile cell phone. The telephone companies are recording of your whereabouts (roaming), records of which have been used in trivial cases (not just murder or something equally serious) in dahish courts. It is problematic, also because the department of justice and the majority of politicians don't know anything about what they are doing technically. I bet you could get certain politicians to catch the idea of taking a backup of the internet overnight... -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Loggin internet activites
Fredag 17 august 2007 13:26 skrev James Knott: Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: - All in the name of anti-terrorism. Yes, I know, it's all in vain, it will not keep any taleban or criminal from doing what they do. But that's not up to me. I just have to log...however stupid this is. Just to prove how effective that sort of thing is, last winter, I was staying at a ski resort in Quebec. They wanted $14/day for internet access. They'd block browser access, but somehow they neglected to block OpenVPN. I was able to connect to my home network and to the internet from there. If anyone logged the data, all they'd see is a bunch of unintelligible UDP packets going to/from my home IP. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org I quite agree. See my former post. For people in the know, and all terrorists are... this will not prevent or stop anything. -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Loggin internet activites
Fredag 17 august 2007 14:35 skrev Dave Howorth: Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: Fredag 17 august 2007 12:27 skrev Dave Howorth: Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: Hi list, - as I'm going to use OpenSuSE for this one, so it's not completely off topic. I think. - In Denmark a new law is being enforced by the 15th. of September this year. It states that all internet activity must be logged, if you run a hotel or similar. I do. Do you also have data privacy laws in Denmark? If so, I would think you need to be quite careful with guarding access to these logs. If you have professional societies in Denmark (Dansk Dataforening or Dansk Selskab for Datalogi perhaps?) they may have guidance on how to comply with the law. Cheers, Dave All technical aspects aside, I do agree. A law like this is terribly problematic. It opens up for who knows what. It does require a court order for the police to get to the records. But still... I wasn't so much thinking about police access but abuse by others. I guess you will need to provide physical and other security to prevent your staff or other guests or intruders from accessing logs that may contain personal details of guests. Cheers, Dave Yes, that's a problem also. I was thinking of loggin to a remote server (hosted) in Germany...making direct access a little harder. -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] restart a print job?
Torsdag 16 august 2007 12:15 skrev jdd: (openSUSE 10.1) I have often the problem than a printer is stopped when I launch a print, of course it don't print :-) the IPP report say printer stopped but switching on the printer (USB) don't change anything, it still don't print... what can I do? thanks -- http://www.dodin.net http://gourmandises.orangeblog.fr/ Check out man lppasswd first. Then, as root, do lppasswd -a -g sys some-user-name-could-be-root a long password a long password Now fire up your browser, goto http://localhost:631 and try managing your printer(s). When prompted for username and password, use the set you just defined. ok? -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Active Directory Integration
Onsdag 15 august 2007 19:02 skrev Kai Ponte: My division is moving towards Active Directory. We have a MS guy in-house right now working on migrating from our NT 4 PDC to a Win2k3 AD scheme for our 1500 or so workers. As some of you know, I have one laptop and one desktop here on opensuse. I asked him about AD integration and he wasn't sure what to do for *nix clients. From my google searches, it seems I need a combination of SAMBA (which I run), PAM, Kerberos, and a few other acronyms. What are your experiences authenticating and obtaining resources in an AD world? Here's some of the links I found... http://reverendted.wordpress.com/2006/09/12/linux-goes-mad/ http://www.channelinsider.com/article/Moving+from+NT+to+Samba/135527_1.aspx http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly.aspx?p=413095rl=1 http://muyiwataiwo.com/main/book/print/39 http://www.novell.com/coolblogs/?p=954 http://en.opensuse.org/YaST_Kerberos_Client http://blog.scottlowe.org/2007/03/22/sled-integration-into-active-directory / Ugh! Hi - I did a setup like what you describe for +15000 users. No, that's not a typo. - should I do that again, I'd go with...:: Centeris Likewise Identity 3.0 is a cross-platform identity management solution that allows seamless integration of Linux® and UNIX® systems with Microsoft® Active Directory™. Organizations of all sizes running mixed networks and mixed identity management systems (such as non-networked authentication and Network Information System (NIS)) can use Likewise Identity to allow UNIX, Linux and other systems/applications to use Microsoft Active Directory for their authentication needs. http://www.centeris.com/products/likewiseIdentity.jsp - hope this helps. -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 www.os-academy.dk +45 5696 4223 Denmark. +===+ Powered by openSUSE 10.2 (i586) Kernel: 2.6.18.8-0.3-default KDE: 3.5.6 release 25.2 9:37pm oppe 5:50, 3 users, belastningennemsnit: 0,13, 0,20, 0,09 +===+ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Printing Failure
Tirsdag 14 august 2007 14:05 skrev Dave Barton: I recently did a fresh 10.2 install. Initially the printer setup went with any problems and printing from any app worked fine. For the last couple of days I have not been able to get any of my 5 usb printers to work. I have tried uninstalling cups, deleting previous cups configurations and reinstalling to no avail. YaST correctly identifies the printers and selects the appropriate drivers, but the test function produces nothing. Sending a file to a print queue from any app (eg. kate) show up in KDE's print manager as processing, but the process never finishes. No errors are displayed during either the setup test or normal printing. I have ruled out hardware issues, because other usb devices (scanners, ext hdd, cameras, etc.) work fine under Linux and all printers work perfectly under Windows on this box. Am I missing something obvious here, or is there a cups issue with 10.2 that I should know about? Any pointers or suggestions would be welcome. TIA Dave - my ten cents - create a CUPS admin, use (as root) lppasswd -a -g sys root - check the syntax of lppasswd with man lppasswd before you go ahead, I'm not sure I remember that one correctly. Then open your browser, goto http://localhost:631 and select printers. See if it's red or green and take appropriate action. - hope this helps. -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Kiosktool, where are users mapped to groups?
Hi list, - I use kiosktool to lock-down my SLED10 desktop. Kiosktool is able to map groups and users to profiles, simplifying management. - where does kiosktool store info about what users belong to what profile? - I've been looking around, but I find it hard to find a comprehensive manual describing the inner anatomy of the KDE's menu system...any hints? -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] HP Pavilion DV6000 No Microphone input
Hi list, oohhh, what a blunder. I did it again, bought an HP apparatus although I'd sworn never to buy HP (being a pseudo suporter of OSS only) again. But, sigh, it was very good offer. My elderly mother (74) is going to keep closer contact with freinds using this modern thing called E-mail. It had MS Vista on it - for about 4 minutes - and then OpenSuSE10.2 clean. Works with wireless (after a little fiddling), works with 1280x800 screen (after a lot of fiddling and searching this list, thanks!) Only the microphone input, needed with Skype, doesn't work. Any good hints, what info shall I provide? -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] HP Pavilion DV6000 No Microphone input
Mandag 06 august 2007 09:06 skrev Casey Stamper: On 8/6/07, Verner Kjærsgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, oohhh, what a blunder. I did it again, bought an HP apparatus although I'd sworn never to buy HP (being a pseudo suporter of OSS only) again. But, sigh, it was very good offer. My elderly mother (74) is going to keep closer contact with freinds using this modern thing called E-mail. It had MS Vista on it - for about 4 minutes - and then OpenSuSE10.2 clean. Works with wireless (after a little fiddling), works with 1280x800 screen (after a lot of fiddling and searching this list, thanks!) Only the microphone input, needed with Skype, doesn't work. Any good hints, what info shall I provide? -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] At the risk of sounding obvious, have you enabled the microphone in the mixer applet? Mine was disabled by default. -- Casey Stamper http://www.stampersite.com/wordpress Hi - Eh, mixer applet? - I fired up a KDE app called Kmix. In that I get two tabs, one output and one input. There's a mic input, the radiobutton i s red. When I click it, it becomes pink (sort of), not green. I push the vertical slider to the top. Still no sound. Does this help? -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] HP Pavilion DV6000 No Microphone input
Mandag 06 august 2007 09:16 skrev Casey Stamper:
On 8/6/07, Verner Kjærsgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mandag 06 august 2007 09:06 skrev Casey Stamper:
On 8/6/07, Verner Kjærsgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi list,
oohhh, what a blunder. I did it again, bought an HP apparatus
although I'd sworn never to buy HP (being a pseudo suporter of OSS
only) again.
But, sigh, it was very good offer. My elderly mother (74) is going to
keep closer contact with freinds using this modern thing called
E-mail.
It had MS Vista on it - for about 4 minutes - and then OpenSuSE10.2
clean. Works with wireless (after a little fiddling), works with
1280x800 screen (after a lot of fiddling and searching this list,
thanks!)
Only the microphone input, needed with Skype, doesn't work.
Any good hints, what info shall I provide?
--
-
Med venlig hilsen/Best regards
Verner Kjærsgaard
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At the risk of sounding obvious, have you enabled the microphone in
the mixer applet? Mine was disabled by default.
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Hi
- Eh, mixer applet?
- I fired up a KDE app called Kmix. In that I get two tabs, one output
and one input. There's a mic input, the radiobutton i s red. When I click
it, it becomes pink (sort of), not green. I push the vertical slider to
the top.
Still no sound.
Does this help?
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Kmix is one of the apps. I'm don't have my laptop right now so I can't
remember how to get to the other one but it should be in the
multimedia apps group (sound controls or something like that). It's
odd that the X goes pink, though. Mine goes away and I then have mic
input. Sorry I can't be of more help. Maybe it's an HP thing. I'm
using a Dell Inspiron 5160.
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http://www.stampersite.com/wordpress
- thank you for your help!
- well, on my DELL PRECISION M90 (SuSE10.2) the Kmixer looks exactly the
same - and the mic doesn't work on that machine either.
- I'll let it be for now, will look into it some day :-)
- thank you all the same!
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[opensuse] DHCPd, how to ignore one particular host...
Hi list, On SUSE10.2, I've got my dhcp server running, serving out IPs just perfect. - for a number of reasons, I want one particular client (a windoze box) which is actually set to be a dhcp client, to be ignored by my dhcp server. I know the MAC adr of that box. How can I deny that box from getting an adress from my dhcp server? -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] dictionary attacks
Mandag 16 juli 2007 18:00 skrev joe: Richard Creighton wrote: Just about every day, often several times a day, my logs include hours of log entries that look like this: Jul 16 00:35:25 raid5 sshd[6966]: Invalid user admin from 83.18.244.42 snip My question is what, if any firewall rule could I write that could detect such attacks and automatically shut down forwarding packets from the offending node or domain? That would give me an additional layer of defense as well as freeing up a significant amount of log file space. I prefer a more simple approach. Rather than adding more firewall rules, I set the sshd allowed_users parameter to the 2 accounts that actually have a reason to log in, and I also limit the IP addresses which will accept an ssh connection using tcp wrappers (hosts.allow, hosts.deny). Joe Hi Joe, quote: sshd allowed_users parameter to the 2 accounts in what file do you do that? Would that be an additional line in /etc/ssh/sshd_config, 'cause I can't seem to find an empty line like that in my system? -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] can't have my USB detected by VMware
Mandag 09 juli 2007 11:32 skrev Dave Barton: Original Message From: Hans Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon 09 Jul 2007 18:45:02 EST why i can't get my USB interface detected by guest OS on my VMware? If i plug my flash disk to my system, only my host (SUSE) can detect it, but not my guest OS. I try to enable it from menu VM - Removable Devices - USB devices, but it shows nothing. I do have USB device on the setting (USB device present) More version info would be helpful, but before starting VMWare open a su terminal and type: mount -t usbfs /dev/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb If this works, you can recompile your kernel to restore the usb functionality used by VMWare. that SuSE removed. Search the list archives for more details. HTH Dave SUCCES! - a combination of the answers given in this thread led to succes. - Yes, I have 6 USB ports on my machine (DELL Precision M90), only the first two works. I figured out which was which by looking into /var/log/messages with #tail -f /var/log/messages while inserting the printers USB. The above mentioned mount command was then issued before starting VMware and - voila - I have USB support in my MS2003 session through vmware. - Thanks to all. -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Gutenprint, CUPS and EPSON R2400
Hi list, - in my SuSE10.2, I see that gutenprint 5.0.0.1 is installed and marked not to be updated or changed in any way. - from the gutenprint website I see that the EPSON R2400 (and many, many others) is supported though gutenprint. - I can't seem to figure out, how to get my SuSE10.2 to support an EPSON R2400 as it does not appear in the list (in YaST) over printers available. - Should I just go and find a PPD file for the R2400 and proceed as normal with YaST/CUPS? - Would this be the correct procedure -and thus not break anything in my SuSE10.2? -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] CUPS problem
Torsdag 05 juli 2007 14:48 skrev James Hatridge: HI all... CUPS stopped working. I'm not sure what I did wrong but cups will not work at all now. I went into YAST and changed a filter on my printer conf. After that cups will not allow any printing at all, no user or root. I try to fix cups via the browser and no password works at all, user or root. Any ideas or suggestions? Thanks, JIM -- Jim Hatridge Linux User #88484 Ebay ID: WartHogBulletin -- WartHog Bulletin Info about new German Stamps http://www.WartHogBulletin.de Many Enemies -- Much Honor! Anti-US Propaganda stamp collection http://www.manyenemies-muchhonor.info An American in Bavaria http://www.gaubodengalerie.de hi- this is not a solution, but it's a start.. do man lppasswd, read it. Then, as root, do: lppasswd -a -g sys root (or someone else...) this should setup a password to use with (in a browser on that very machine): http://localhost:631 -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Rotating logs
Hi list One special programme produces entries into its very own log. I'd like that log to be included into the normal log rotating thing that SuSE10.2 does. So as to avoid having one log growing bigger and bigger and bigger and... how-to? :-) -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Rotating logs (SOLVED)
Tirsdag 19 juni 2007 22:13 skrev Darryl Gregorash: On 06/19/2007 02:04 PM, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: Hi list One special programme produces entries into its very own log. I'd like that log to be included into the normal log rotating thing that SuSE10.2 does. So as to avoid having one log growing bigger and bigger and bigger and... how-to? Look in /etc/logrotate.d/, and place your own file there. You can read man logrotate to find out all the various kinds of options there are (weekly, daily, monthly rotates, rotations based on maximum file size, compress or don't compress the rotated files, etc etc). If you wish, post your prototype control file here before installing it. I am sure that will generate lots of comments about different ways to do things :-) -- Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue. -- François de La Rochefoucauld - thank you! - no, I shall not post my file here, your advise was to the point and just what I needed. I looked into the files already there and got inspired. - thanks again! -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] simple LAN
Lørdag 16 juni 2007 11:45 skrev Robert Best: On Saturday 16 June 2007 10:21, jpff wrote: Just a minor suggestion; use SSH/SCP and/or rsync to transfer files. Much easier than ftp transfers ==John ffitch Sorry John, I don't know SSH/SCP and/or rsync. Please explain. Robert -- http://rwbest.no.sapo.pt/ Hi Robert, - did you get fish:// going? -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] simple LAN
Lørdag 16 juni 2007 08:53 skrev Robert Best: I have two computers running SuSE 10.2 and connected by Ethernet cables to the same ADSL router. Internet works fine on both computers. Please help to configure a LAN to transfer files (FTP) from one computer to the other. I cannot figure out from Ch 21, Basic Networking in the Reference documentation, how to do it. Robert Best -- http://rwbest.no.sapo.pt/ A quickie fire up Konqueror and in the url line type: fish://IP-of-that-other-machine-on-your-local-net. Check that the firewall on that other machine is open for traffic on port 22 (YaST). Check that you can - from within a shell as any user - do: ping IP-of-that-other-machine-on-your-local-net escape from ping with ctrl-c. If ping doesn't work, then your network is buggy. If you don't want to type the IP-of-that-other-machine-on-your-local-net all the time, make an entry, as root, into /etc/hosts like this: IP-of-that-other-machine-on-your-local-net secondmachine i.e.: 192.168.0.3 secondmachine then go: fish://secondmachine This should get you going, this list will give you 20+ others ways of doing the same thing :-) -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] RE: CD Data Burning application
Lørdag 16 juni 2007 09:30 skrev Registration Account: I have tried with an unreal load of frustration to create a data CD. The KDE desktop I believe is limited to either KB3 or X-CD Roast. What application is every one using to create CD data disks? Using KB3 and the unreal amount of different errors to just erase of create a data CD, I now consider the application nothing more than BETA and X-CD Roast will not even load! There is a CD Data recorder available with via Nautalis, however it is dependant on a GNOME desktop. What application are all you guys using to get an existing downloaded file to the HDD burned onto a data CD? There must be something out there besides KB3 that will work well with a KDE desktop and actually be able to at least erase and burn a data that's not in the distro 10.2. Many Many thanks to those who can help with this one Scott Hi Scott I believe you have a problem with K3b... K3b is a most excellent CD burner. Check your logs, what output do you get and so. Let's have a little more info. I'm quite confident that we'll get you burning. And mind you, K3b is not beta. It's quite mature and - in fact -excellent :-) -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Not a question, rather a statement
Hi list, - this list has often debated the useability of SuSE/Linux in general - over that other OS. - at 11:15 this morning I powered up my brand new Epson Perfection V700 Photo scanner. I plugged in the USB cord. My SuSE10.2 found the scanner and subsequently downloaded software to run it. - at 11:21 I did my first scan. Perfect. - at 11:24 I did my second scan, this time a transparency. Perfect. - I did not touch the CDs that came with the scanner. I'm now reading the manual. Linux/Suse rules and rocks! -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] iptables config file and reboot
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Re: [opensuse] Publisher alternatives
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. -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] So many dbus-daemon print-pid processes...
Hi list, - on a SuSE10.2 dual 64bit machine with 10+ users, a standard ps auxw | grep -i print-pid | wc gives me 650 instances of lines (like) this: victor 30770 0.0 0.0 4792 632 ?Ss 13:36 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 4 --print-address 6 --session ...eh, can this be true? What is it, should I do something to get rid of them/it? My systemload is very often over 8.0 which I think is high... I just disabled Beagle autostart just for the same reason. Don't know yet if that lowers my system load. -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Re: Wanna umask inhereted from parent directory
Onsdag 23 maj 2007 09:49 skrev Joachim Schrod: Fajar Priyanto wrote: I do the same in Opensuse. But, the file created in the directory have the permission: -rw-r--r-- 1 geecko sales 4 2007-05-23 09:17 filegeecko (notice the rw-r--r--). This permission makes other user in sales group cannot edit geecko's file. User geecko has to specifically set the permission to 664 on the file. How do I achive the default umask inhereted from the parent directory? I read some suggestions from google to adjust the global default umask, but I think it's a bit risky, or is it the only way? Phil answered your question how to enable the RH behavior by setting the umask globally. If you don't want to do this, there is the possibility to use access control lists (ACLs); the default ACL determines the access right of newly created files. I don't know if the global umask setting is sufficient for you, so I stop here with the explanation; ask, if you need more info. But note: both methods don't support changing the access rights of files that are created elsewhere, e.g., in a personal directory, and moved to the shared directory. (That's because moving doesn't create a file, it just changes the directory entry. (Reality is even more complex, but hopefully you'll see what I mean.)) Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim SchrodEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Roedermark, Germany Hi, perhaps I don't understand your problem, but could you not just put umask 002 (or whatever you desire) into .bashrc in the /home/geecko directory? -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] LightZone on SuSE10.2
Onsdag 16 maj 2007 23:19 skrev André Malin: Le May 16, 2007 03:07:51 pm Verner Kjærsgaard, vous avez écrit : hi list, - in the latest edition of Linux Format (pg 11) an article talks of a Photoshop/GIMP compeditor, now available for Linux. And free as in beer, not speech. Named LightZone. - I downloaded the sw and had it running in a matter of seconds...on SLED10, ahem. I got it from http://sonic.net/~rat/lightcrafts. So, I repeated the download to my SuSE10.2 (main) box, and I can't get it to run. It's started through a shell script from whereever you put it. It comes with its own JAVA environment - and that's where the trouble is. I've not been able to detect where the script breaks in its effort to run LightZone with its own JAVA system. The programme, al beit being non-free, looks very interesting, at least from the point of view of a photographer. Has anyone in our community succeded in getting it launched on SuSE10.2 ? Anyhow, if one has got 5 minutes spare time, give it a whirl :-) -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Remember installing on 10.2 whithout any pb. -- André - what's a pb ? -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] LightZone on SuSE10.2
Torsdag 17 maj 2007 15:51 skrev André Malin: Le May 17, 2007 09:41:27 am Verner Kjærsgaard, vous avez écrit : Onsdag 16 maj 2007 23:19 skrev André Malin: Le May 16, 2007 03:07:51 pm Verner Kjærsgaard, vous avez écrit : hi list, - in the latest edition of Linux Format (pg 11) an article talks of a Photoshop/GIMP compeditor, now available for Linux. And free as in beer, not speech. Named LightZone. - I downloaded the sw and had it running in a matter of seconds...on SLED10, ahem. I got it from http://sonic.net/~rat/lightcrafts. So, I repeated the download to my SuSE10.2 (main) box, and I can't get it to run. It's started through a shell script from whereever you put it. It comes with its own JAVA environment - and that's where the trouble is. I've not been able to detect where the script breaks in its effort to run LightZone with its own JAVA system. The programme, al beit being non-free, looks very interesting, at least from the point of view of a photographer. Has anyone in our community succeded in getting it launched on SuSE10.2 ? Anyhow, if one has got 5 minutes spare time, give it a whirl :-) -- - -- -- Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Remember installing on 10.2 whithout any pb. -- André - what's a pb ? A problem, sorry. -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- André Malin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +1 819 770 7932 Fax: +1 819 770 1810 Cel: +1 613 282 6229 Hi list, - this one is really troubling me... this is the output I get when I try launching the programme..: ./LightZone Preparing JRE ... testing JVM in /home/vk/Documents/downloads/light_zone/LightZone/jre ... testing JVM in /usr ... - and that's all. I get my prompt back and nothing happens. Nothing in my log. I tried downloading version 2.1, this one runs just fine (!). But, lacks a certain feature that I use a lot, sigh.. - any hints? -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] LightZone on SuSE10.2
Torsdag 17 maj 2007 17:04 skrev Sunny: On 5/17/07, Verner Kjærsgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, - this one is really troubling me... this is the output I get when I try launching the programme..: ./LightZone Preparing JRE ... testing JVM in /home/vk/Documents/downloads/light_zone/LightZone/jre ... testing JVM in /usr ... - and that's all. I get my prompt back and nothing happens. Nothing in my log. I tried downloading version 2.1, this one runs just fine (!). But, lacks a certain feature that I use a lot, sigh.. - any hints? As per the site, ver. 2.4 needs processor with SSE2 (I.e. Pentium 4, AMD Opteron and Athlon 64). On the other side, 2.1 will work without SSE2 support. What processor you have? Hi - and thank you! - I've got a number of machines. My primary is a DELL Precision M90 running openSuSE10.2 with a Centrino Duo CPU. Version 2.4 dos NOT run on this machine, version 2.1 does RUN however. - I've also got an IBM Thinkpad R50 with a standard Centrino CPU. Version 2.4 runs FINE on this machine. The OS is SLED10. Eh..I actually thought that the 2.4 would run on my DELL Centrino Duo as it's working on the ordinary Centrino CPU on the Thinkpad. Hmmm., I'll just fire up the ol' ThinkPad and be happy :-) -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] LightZone on SuSE10.2
hi list, - in the latest edition of Linux Format (pg 11) an article talks of a Photoshop/GIMP compeditor, now available for Linux. And free as in beer, not speech. Named LightZone. - I downloaded the sw and had it running in a matter of seconds...on SLED10, ahem. I got it from http://sonic.net/~rat/lightcrafts. So, I repeated the download to my SuSE10.2 (main) box, and I can't get it to run. It's started through a shell script from whereever you put it. It comes with its own JAVA environment - and that's where the trouble is. I've not been able to detect where the script breaks in its effort to run LightZone with its own JAVA system. The programme, al beit being non-free, looks very interesting, at least from the point of view of a photographer. Has anyone in our community succeded in getting it launched on SuSE10.2 ? Anyhow, if one has got 5 minutes spare time, give it a whirl :-) -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] 32 bit DVD
Tirsdag 15 maj 2007 16:32 skrev Stuart Murray-Smith: Hi list Can I install openSuSE 10.2 32 bit DVD onto 64 bit architecture? Regards, Stu@ -- Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. Short: YES. Many from this list would actually recommend you to do so - if your memory count is below 4G. (I suppose your 64Bit architecture is either INTEL or AMD...) -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] PAM, YaST GUI and CLI
Torsdag 03 maj 2007 23:14 skrev Benji Weber: On 5/3/07, Verner Kjærsgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, - I've strange problem...If I invoke YaST from the a shell, giving yast2 After giving my root password, I get a GUI YaST as expected. If I select YaST from the GUI menu in my (SuSE10.2) standard desktop, it prompts me (as expected) for my root password - and then it persistently tells me that it's wrong..?? The log says: May 3 22:38:02 dell102 sudo: vk : pam_authenticate: User not known to the underlying authentication module ; TTY=pts/5 ; PWD=/home/vk ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/opt/kde3/bin/kdesu_stub - Probably you played with the yast2 sudo module, at release there was a bug that would break kdesu from working. This was later fixed with an online update but that doesn't help if you've already broken your sudoers file. See https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=223719 for more information The simplest workaround is to save the following as ~/.kde/share/config/kdesurc [super-user-command] super-user-command=su _ Benjamin Weber - THANKS ! -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] PAM, YaST GUI and CLI
Hi list, - I've strange problem...If I invoke YaST from the a shell, giving yast2 After giving my root password, I get a GUI YaST as expected. If I select YaST from the GUI menu in my (SuSE10.2) standard desktop, it prompts me (as expected) for my root password - and then it persistently tells me that it's wrong..?? The log says: May 3 22:38:02 dell102 sudo: vk : pam_authenticate: User not known to the underlying authentication module ; TTY=pts/5 ; PWD=/home/vk ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/opt/kde3/bin/kdesu_stub - Eh, now what?? -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Synaptics touchpad, how to get rid of
Hi list, - I've got a laptop with SuSE10.2 and this stupid touchpad, a synaptics thing. I want to switch it off. I tried commenting it out in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but it seems to driven by somthing so low (a module somewhere) that this was not enough. - any ideas as to how to kill it? -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Synaptics touchpad, how to get rid of
Tirsdag 01 maj 2007 09:30 skrev Azael Avalos: Hi there, On 5/1/07, Verner Kjærsgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, - I've got a laptop with SuSE10.2 and this stupid touchpad, a synaptics thing. I want to switch it off. I tried commenting it out in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but it seems to driven by somthing so low (a module somewhere) that this was not enough. - any ideas as to how to kill it? Try ksynaptics, here's a link to it: http://repos.opensuse.org/KDE:/Backports/openSUSE_10.2/i586/ksynaptics-0.3. 1-2.1.i586.rpm It's not the latest version, but it should do the work. Saludos Azael - thank you! - I found ksynapctics version 0.31 as a part of my SuSE10.2 - installed it. - it gives me a small icon in my taskbar - alas, with everything grayed out...nothing can be done. And it gives me a warning when starting it: Shared memory is not accessible. Please add the option UseShm true into the touch pad section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf I did: Section InputDevice Driver synaptics Identifier Mouse[3] Option Buttons 7 Option Device /dev/input/mice Option Emulate3Buttons on Option HorizScrollDelta 0 Option InputFashion Mouse Option Name Synaptics;Touchpad OPtion UseShm On Option Protocol explorerps/2 Option SHMConfig on Option Vendor Sysp Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Restarted X, no luck. Restart box, no luck. ?? :-) -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Synaptics touchpad, how to get rid of
Tirsdag 01 maj 2007 11:09 skrev lists Guillot: On 5/1/07, Verner Kjærsgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shared memory is not accessible. Please add the option UseShm true into the touch pad section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf I did: Section InputDevice Driver synaptics Identifier Mouse[3] Option Buttons 7 Option Device /dev/input/mice Option Emulate3Buttons on Option HorizScrollDelta 0 Option InputFashion Mouse Option Name Synaptics;Touchpad OPtion UseShm On Option Protocol explorerps/2 Option SHMConfig on Option Vendor Sysp Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Restarted X, no luck. Restart box, no luck. ?? :-) Perhaps a simple case of case? ;) You wrote On, try on and see what happens. g Hi, - I saw that, modif'd. No good. - and True or true doesn't work either. ?? :-) -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Synaptics touchpad (SOLVED)
Tirsdag 01 maj 2007 13:07 skrev Jens Nixdorf: Am Dienstag, 1. Mai 2007 schrieb Verner Kjærsgaard: Hi list, - I've got a laptop with SuSE10.2 and this stupid touchpad, a synaptics thing. I want to switch it off. I tried commenting it out in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but it seems to driven by somthing so low (a module somewhere) that this was not enough. - any ideas as to how to kill it? in a console-window: synclient TouchpadOff=1 to switch it off and synclient TouchpadOff=0 to switch it on again. Runs here fine with OpenSUSE 10.2 and a Toshiba. HTH, Jens Hi Jens and list, - SOLVED!! - now I can't hold back... - how on earth did you know that?? - where should I have looked to find that myself... - Thanks! -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Synaptics touchpad, how to get rid of
Tirsdag 01 maj 2007 13:19 skrev Russell Jones: Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: Tirsdag 01 maj 2007 11:09 skrev lists Guillot: On 5/1/07, Verner Kjærsgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shared memory is not accessible. Please add the option UseShm true into the touch pad section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf I did: OPtion UseShm On ?? :-) Perhaps a simple case of case? ;) You wrote On, try on and see what happens. - I saw that, modif'd. No good. - and True or true doesn't work either. ?? :-) How about OPtion - Option ? Hi - no, I saw those typos after I mailed. I corrected them,- and tried several combinations. No good... mind you, the problem has been solved by now, see later in this thread. -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Synaptics touchpad, how to get rid of
Tirsdag 01 maj 2007 13:19 skrev James Knott: Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: Hi list, - I've got a laptop with SuSE10.2 and this stupid touchpad, a synaptics thing. I want to switch it off. I tried commenting it out in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but it seems to driven by somthing so low (a module somewhere) that this was not enough. - any ideas as to how to kill it? In my work Dell notebook, that's done in the BIOS settings. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org In my DELL Precision M90, I can switch it off too. Only,it doesn't work. -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Ooffice startup error
Mandag 30 april 2007 15:35 skrev Gavin Chester: On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 07:07 -0600, Pueblo Native wrote: Are you downloading it, or installing it as a RPM? The latter should eliminate any of those problems. Can't go wrong with that advice, but the only thing I would add is to switch to 'smart' for package management. Once you add the useful set of repositories it leaves yast for dead and will 'smartly' resolve and dependency issue like you saw with OO.o If unsure, google for 'smart' on suse. Gavin Wait a sec., the binary programname for OO is NOT oofice, rather it's soffice! - what have you been installing? -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] simple way to lock accounts with 'n' of failed login attempts
Mandag 30 april 2007 20:58 skrev James D. Parra: Hello, Is there a simple way to lock accounts with 'n' number of failed attempts without using pam? Possibly for ssh logins and terminal logins also. Many thanks, James Denyhosts denyhosts.sourceforge.net -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] IBM Select Copywrite Principles
Fredag 27 april 2007 02:27 skrev SOTL: Every now and then something is posted that is a must read for ALL computer programmers. In the SCO vs IBM case IBM IBM has posted such a document as Amendment A. http://www.groklaw.net/pdf/IBM-1034ExA.pdf http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070425224227125 Thank You! - someone ought to wave this piece of paper in front of the noses of all pro-sw-patents people. It's clearcut and very valuable to bring with you in any discussion over patens. -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Centrino Duo, what kernel
Hi list I've got a centrino Duo CPU, my kernel is 2.6.18.2-34-default, a SuSE10.2 plain vanilla. Shouldn't that have been some -smp kernel?? (Although htop reveals two CPUs...) -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Centrino Duo, what kernel
Fredag 27 april 2007 13:22 skrev Verner Kjærsgaard: Hi list I've got a centrino Duo CPU, my kernel is 2.6.18.2-34-default, a SuSE10.2 plain vanilla. Shouldn't that have been some -smp kernel?? (Although htop reveals two CPUs...) -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard - so I answer my own question... - in YaST it is explained...this kernel (mine) is the one for both single and multiprocessor systems. So it's fine. -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] multimedia buttons in KDE
Onsdag 25 april 2007 14:00 skrev lists Guillot: On 4/25/07, Kai Ponte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just use Lineakd. It comes with SUSE, then use the OSD (on screen display) to show my settings http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/suse/desktop+audio.jpg ...works like a charm on my systems. I wish I could say the same! Following your tip I installed lineakd, lineakconfig, lineak_defaultplugin, lineak_kde and lineak_xosdplpugin (xosd was already installed). I followed the instructions: I run `lineakd -c DELL-6000` and then edited ~/.lineak/lineakd.conf (giving the values alternatively as 174, 0x1008ff12 or XF86AudioLowerVolume, since I didn't know the format expected), but in each case I just get errors when I run lineakd. I get the following: lineakd *** Xlib error caught *** Major opcode of failed request: 33 (XKEYBOARD) Minor opcode of failed request: 0 (XkbSetMap) Resource ID of failed request: 68 Serial number of failed request: 14 Error code: 10 Type: 0 Maybe we should exit now? *** Xlib error caught *** Major opcode of failed request: 33 (XKEYBOARD) Minor opcode of failed request: 0 (XkbSetMap) Resource ID of failed request: 68 Serial number of failed request: 15 Error code: 10 Type: 0 Maybe we should exit now? [...] and so on, twelve times that error block. If I run lineakd as root I get: sudo lineakd root's password: FATAL ERROR: $DISPLAY is not defined. Could not open a display. Um, display? What does display have to do with anything? My understanding of the system is too superficial for me to know what's happening here. But in any case, no joy yet. Hi, I cannot answer all your questions, but one I think I can... When you become root, use sux rather than just su. Or as a normal user, do xhost + That should do away with your $DISPLAY problem, I think :-) -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard + -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Pam SSH (or similar)
Tirsdag 24 april 2007 13:12 skrev Matthew Stringer: Hi, I've seen the Pam modules for SSH which allow you to restrict brute force attacks by blocking users after a determined number and frequency of failed log ins. Does anyone know if there's a similar module that blocked the source IP of a repeated failed log in attempt? My servers are public facing constantly get brute-force attacks they use random usernames and passwords in an attempt to gain access. But as they often come from a static IP, I think it would be useful if I could automatically identify and block these source IP's from logging in via SSH. Anyone done such a thing and if so is there a module for Pam I could download rather than having to create something. Regards Matthew http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/ :-) -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Transparency scanning, was (Re: [opensuse] Scanner recommendation? Epson 4490 any good?)
Mandag 23 april 2007 10:25 skrev Johannes Meixner: Hello, [..] I've been following this thread was interest. But haven't found anything about this...: I need to scan my 6x6cm bw and colour slides for quality printing later on. I need a (flatbed, cannot afford otherwise) transparency scanner that'll let me scan my slides in high (4800dpi or higher) quality. Any recommendations, experiences?? -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Transparency scanning, was (Re: [opensuse] Scanner recommendation? Epson 4490 any good?)
Mandag 23 april 2007 11:41 skrev Verner Kjærsgaard: Oops, sorry! I thought I was starting a new thread...I wasn't it appears. -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Can't see shared folders on my Windows machines
Mandag 23 april 2007 13:02 skrev Clark Sann:
How to I get Samba working on Suse 10.2 so I can see shared folders on
my windows machines?
- install (YaST) the samba filer server suite.
- install (YaST) the nmbd also.
- edit your /etc/samba/smb.conf file to suit your needs (start simple)
- restart your smb file server service, as root do: rcsmb restart.
- try man smb.conf
- from my /etc/samba/smb.conf:
# Global parameters
[global]
unix extensions = Yes
writeable = yes
printing = cups
socket options = SO_KEEPALIVE IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY
workgroup = LINUXGROUP
map to guest = Bad User
#time server = Yes
printcap name = CUPS
security = user
veto files = /*.eml/*.nws/riched20.dll/*.{*}/
syslog = 0
log level = 2
add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -c
Machine -d /var/lib/nobody -s /bin/false %m$
domain logons = No
domain master = No
read only = No
interfaces = 172.16.9.100 eth0
os level = 30
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
valid users = %S
read only = No
create mask = 0640
directory mask = 0750
browseable = No
[a_general_share]
comment = Alles anarki bibliotek
path = /SMB/alles
write list = vk,@gosa
browseable = yes
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Med venlig hilsen/Best regards
Verner Kjærsgaard
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Re: [opensuse] Iomega Rev drive
Mandag 23 april 2007 15:03 skrev Koenraad Lelong: Roger Oberholtzer schreef: On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 12:02 +0200, Koenraad Lelong wrote: Hi, Is anyone using a Iomega Rev-drive (70GB native) ? I would like to use it as a backup device. ... If you have a choice, look for something else. Prior to the REV we used the Peerless. That worked great. So of course it was discontinued. We now use basic USB disks like LaCie or Maxtor. They may cost a bit more than a REV disk, but we reuse them as they are only for data transport. For backups, they are perhaps more than you want to pay. Depends on how important the data is. Thanks for your vision. Like I said, I use it on a Windows machine, works fine. Backing up about 80Gb in about 4 hours over the network I find acceptable. But that's on Windows. I do the same with some USB disks also on the Windows 2K machine, but there the disks sometimes disconnect for no apparent reason. And another con is the size : a Rev disk is very small. Anyway, I'm gathering information to virtualise some servers. I would like the host OS to be Suse. Maybe it will be Windows :-( Thanks again. -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Koenraad Lelong RD Manager ACE electronics n.v. FWIW: I bought a REV device to use with Linux (USB) about a year ago. Never worked. I then hooked it up to a MS-2003 server, still USB. Worked often..., but not always. Would want its software to be reinstalled every now and then. Never really got very good. Delivered it for repair. It came back, same story. Still is. I wouldn't buy it. -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] AutoCAD and Linux?
Torsdag 19 april 2007 10:11 skrev Clayton: I know this is an oft asked question, but... well, I'm going to ask it again to see if anyone here has recently been playing with getting AutoCAD working in Wine etc. A friend of mine is asking me if he can use AutoCAD with Linux (wants to move to Linux at some point, and this is the last blocker). I've done some digging and AutoCAD 2002 seems to be working reasonably well in Wine (or Crossover). Beyond that version though, there is a noticeable lack of information. Has anyone here had any success with newer versions of AutoCAD in Linux? We toyed with the idea of running a VMware instance, but that was discarded as overkill since the end user would simply be running Linux to run VMWare to run AutoCAD. Not much point there. AutoCAD is a fixed requirement in this situation, and native Linux alternatives cannot be used. Long story that is not worth repeating here... suffice to say, AutoCAD is a must. C. Would this work for you? - put AutoCAD onto a Win2003 terminal server. - make a Linux desktop icon with rdesktop -some-parameters... -s C:\Program Files bla. bla.autocad.exe IP-of-w2003-server That would give the user a perfect fine SuSE/Linux desktop with an AC icon. -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] DVD ripping software for suse 10.2
Onsdag 18 april 2007 08:27 skrev Tommy Lim KW: Hi, Any free and good DVD ripping software for Suse 10.2? Recommend please... Regards, Tommy grip, k3b ?? -- - Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
