Re: [opensuse] Does PPTP VPN actually work in SUSE 10.2?

2007-01-09 Thread Sylvester Lykkehus
James Knott wrote: I'll have to give that a try. I may have time tomorrow. In the example above, you show a domain login. Would "domain\\username" be replaced by just "username" or perhaps \\username? tnx Just username. The backslashes are for domain usernames only ;-) Best regards Sylve

Re: [opensuse] NO PROBLEM. zypper does not use proxy settings?

2007-01-09 Thread Dominique Leuenberger
>>> On 10-01-2007 at 03:46, Darryl Gregorash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-01-09 08:37, Dominique Leuenberger wrote: >> >> It's already bad if somebody get's so far in your computer, but if he >> did, you have small chances to protect this file (except HD >> encryption). >> > One wonders

Re: [opensuse] Ordering the "FizzBall" game for Linux.

2007-01-09 Thread Mathias Homann
Am Dienstag, 9. Januar 2007 23:08 schrieb Alexey Eremenko: > The game looks very primitive. I prefer something more Serious: > Warcraft, Unreal, ... Well, it IS simple: breakout meets katamari. and that's the point: it's just plain fun. When i want serious gaming, i usually play neverwinter night

Re: [opensuse] encrypted usb disk under linux how-to]

2007-01-09 Thread Bob S
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 14:07, Dennis E. Slice wrote: > Oops, I replied directly to the sender. I meant to post the following > to the list... > > > I just went through this. See the relevant sections at: > > http://en.opensuse.org/SUSE_Security_Lockdown_-_Hardening_Your_Linux_S >ystem > Wel

Re: [opensuse] Help with spamassassin -- Sandy??

2007-01-09 Thread J Sloan
david rankin wrote: > Sandy! > >I am now trying to incorporate spamassassin into my anti-spam > arsenal. I am finding a dearth of information. > usr/share/doc/packages/spamassassin is not much help. I have spamd up > and running. I am confused by the reference to creating a .procmailrc in >

[opensuse] Help with spamassassin -- Sandy??

2007-01-09 Thread david rankin
Sandy! I am now trying to incorporate spamassassin into my anti-spam arsenal. I am finding a dearth of information. usr/share/doc/packages/spamassassin is not much help. I have spamd up and running. I am confused by the reference to creating a .procmailrc in my home directory mentioned on t

RE: [opensuse] dammit! what have I missed now?

2007-01-09 Thread Greg Wallace
On Tuesday, January 9, 2007 @ 12:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >No screensaver of any type... no matter what I choose . Apparently some >update broke the autostart of the daemon.. but I can't find it now.. >suggestions? ( Go boil yer 'ead will be met w/ extreem prejudice on my >part and *you*

Re: [opensuse] Bootup mount of Fat32 filesystem fails -- but it doesn't!

2007-01-09 Thread Paul Abrahams
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 10:16 pm, Carl Hartung wrote: > > > /dev/hdb6/windows/D vfat > > > user,iocharset=iso8859-1,users,rw,umask=0 0 0 > > Addendum: > > Maybe "correct" was hasty? *All* of my partitions end in > '0 0' or '1 1' or '1 2' and not '? ? ?' Maybe the third '0'

Re: [opensuse] Re: Any experiences with ATI 8.32.5 (x86_64)?

2007-01-09 Thread Curtis Rey
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 17:44, Johannes Nohl wrote: > Section "Device" > Identifier  "Device[0]" > Driver      "radeon" > VendorName  "ATI" > BoardName   "Radeon X300 (RV370) 5B60 (PCIE)" > BusID       "1:0:0" > EndSection > > Section "Device" > Id

[opensuse] Re: [opensuse-doc] Re: [klik] Excellent news: Looking Glass 3D article entered Lessons for Lizards

2007-01-09 Thread Alexey Eremenko
On 1/10/07, Patrick Shanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Alexey Eremenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-09-07 16:58]: > Kurt wrote: > >Do you have a link? Or should we wait for Google to have it > >indexed? > > Google won't help. It is in Subversion repository (not in Web servers) > at Novell. > Unfort

Re: [opensuse] Beryl

2007-01-09 Thread Joseph Loo
Jigish Gohil wrote: > On 1/9/07, Joseph Loo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I am beginning to experiment with beryl (1.4) on opensuse 10.2. It seems >> that fo some users, adding the beryl-manager in the gnome session will >> invoke beyrl-xgl. In other users, it will not be invoked at all. The >> eff

Re: [opensuse] Can you say ripoff - OT

2007-01-09 Thread Billie Erin Walsh
On 01/09/2007 Digvijoy Chatterjee wrote: > on a more realistic front though for whatever practical reasons > mainly Hardware vendors not readily embracing OpenSource or OpenSuse > ;-) > somebody who has bought that wrong laptop and wants to run > linux.now..can easily give up with a very sad e

Re: [opensuse] Run command as different user (especially on SuSE9.2)

2007-01-09 Thread Rajko M.
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 17:47, James Knott wrote: > 1) You shouldn't be running as root Everyone will discover why not, sooner or later ;-) -- Regards, Rajko. http://en.opensuse.org/Portal -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Re: openSuSE 10.2 crashing too often

2007-01-09 Thread Rajko M.
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 03:56, Eberhard Roloff wrote: > w83627thf-isa-0290 > Adapter: ISA adapter > VCore:     +1.60 V  (min =  +0.00 V, max =  +3.84 V) > +12V:     +12.28 V  (min =  +7.78 V, max =  +0.00 V)       ALARM > +3.3V:     +3.36 V  (min =  +0.42 V, max =  +0.74 V)       ALARM > +5V:  

[opensuse] Sound Device Mapping

2007-01-09 Thread Clark P. Case
I wonder if anyone has run across this or knows what I can do about it. I am using a Tyan 2098 MB and the audio devices under Gnome don't seem to be mapped correctly. For 10.1 and 10.2, the "Master" seems to do nothing and the "Headphones" seems to be acting as the master volume control. No matter

Re: [opensuse] Bootup mount of Fat32 filesystem fails -- but it doesn't!

2007-01-09 Thread Carl Hartung
> > /dev/hdb6/windows/D vfat > > user,iocharset=iso8859-1,users,rw,umask=0 0 0 Addendum: Maybe "correct" was hasty? *All* of my partitions end in '0 0' or '1 1' or '1 2' and not '? ? ?' Maybe the third '0' above is just being ignored? Is this a YaST-built line? Carl --

Re: [opensuse] Which graphic card should I buy?

2007-01-09 Thread Digvijoy Chatterjee
Hardware Compatibility List (http://hardwaredb.suse.de/?LANG=en_UK) is your friend Thx Digz On 1/9/07, Johannes Nohl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear list, I had a nvidia and a ATI card. Since I don't play 3d games I could live without 3d effects. I want to buy a graphic card which is completel

Re: [opensuse] Can you say ripoff - OT

2007-01-09 Thread Digvijoy Chatterjee
Perfectly agree, didnt know.abt that list.. will definitely advise everyone i know to stay away from licenses and updates ..and Vistas...etc...as far as possible and check that URL before buying stuff... on a more realistic front though for whatever practical reasons mainly Hardware vendors

Re: [opensuse] Bootup mount of Fat32 filesystem fails -- but it doesn't!

2007-01-09 Thread Carl Hartung
On Tue January 9 2007 21:41, Paul Abrahams wrote: Hi Paul, The first one is correct: > /dev/hdb6/windows/D vfat > user,iocharset=iso8859-1,users,rw,umask=0 0 0 The second has a superfluous '0 0' tacked to the end. I'll bet if you remove that, the error message will go away

Re: [opensuse] Bootup mount of Fat32 filesystem fails -- but it doesn't!

2007-01-09 Thread Paul Abrahams
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 8:36 pm, Carl Hartung wrote: > On Tue January 9 2007 13:45, Paul Abrahams wrote: > > On bootup I get the following failure message: > > > > /dev/hdb9 on /windows/E type vfat > > (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0) > > failed'boot.localfs start' exits with

Re: [opensuse] Re: openSuSE 10.2 crashing too often

2007-01-09 Thread Basil Chupin
Clayton wrote: > M/B Temp:+32°C (high = +65°C, hyst =+0°C) sensor = thermistor > CPU Temp: +25.5°C (high = +80°C, hyst = +75°C) sensor = thermistor > temp3: -48.0°C (high = +80°C, hyst = +75°C) sensor = thermistor I don't know if I would trust these temperature

[opensuse] Which graphic card should I buy?

2007-01-09 Thread Johannes Nohl
Dear list, I had a nvidia and a ATI card. Since I don't play 3d games I could live without 3d effects. I want to buy a graphic card which is completely supported by linux (ergo open source). Is there any? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [opensuse] NO PROBLEM. zypper does not use proxy settings?

2007-01-09 Thread Darryl Gregorash
On 2007-01-09 08:37, Dominique Leuenberger wrote: > > It's already bad if somebody get's so far in your computer, but if he > did, you have small chances to protect this file (except HD > encryption). > One wonders, then, why bother to encrypt all the users' system passwords? > -- The bes

Re: [opensuse] dammit! what have I missed now? Never mind, I fixored it!

2007-01-09 Thread jfweber
On Tue January 9 2007 1:03 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] scratched these words onto a coconut shell, hoping for an answer: > No screensaver of any type... no matter what I choose . Apparently > some update broke the autostart of the daemon.. but I can't find it > now.. suggestions? ( Go boil yer 'ead will

Re: [opensuse] Re: Any experiences with ATI 8.32.5 (x86_64)?

2007-01-09 Thread Johannes Nohl
1. Which display are you using. CRT or LCD? 2. Show your xorg.conf with your display's spec. 1. LCD 2. xorg.conf (partially): Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Layout[all]" Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0 InputDevice"Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"

Re: [opensuse] Bootup mount of Fat32 filesystem fails -- but it doesn't!

2007-01-09 Thread Carl Hartung
On Tue January 9 2007 13:45, Paul Abrahams wrote: > On bootup I get the following failure message: > > /dev/hdb9 on /windows/E type vfat > (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0) > failed'boot.localfs start' exits with status 0 > > However, the /windows/E drive gets mounted anyway and

Re: [opensuse] Re: [klik] Excellent news: Looking Glass 3D article entered Lessons for Lizards

2007-01-09 Thread Darryl Gregorash
On 2007-01-09 16:32, Peter Van Lone wrote: > On 1/9/07, Alexey Eremenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Kurt wrote: > >> NOTE: The link above is just temporal solution, until someone agrees >> to host that article. >> -- > > http://susewiki.org/index.php?title=Main_Page > > would not the wiki be a l

Re: [opensuse] Can you say ripoff - OT

2007-01-09 Thread Martin Mielke
Hi there, far from wanting to sound rude... maybe it would be a good idea to check the so called Hardware Compatibility List (http://hardwaredb.suse.de/?LANG=en_UK) before compulsively buying anything... :-) A for your question... maybe not for "all" but for most of them. Cheers (and good nig

Re: [opensuse] Can you say ripoff - OT

2007-01-09 Thread Digvijoy Chatterjee
As much as I hate M$ , let me share my experiences with my new HP dv6171cl , laptop with AMD TL-52 dual core , 2GB Ram , M$ Media Centre. blabla I pick it off of the store , i run to my house to shrink the windows partition and install Opensuse-10.2 ok 1) Normal install breaks in partitioning

Re: [opensuse] FlightGear

2007-01-09 Thread Curtis Rey
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 15:32, Kai Ponte wrote: > On Tuesday 09 January 2007 14:16, Curtis Rey wrote: > > On Tuesday 09 January 2007 11:22, J. Scott Thayer M.D. wrote: > > > Is FlightGear included in 10.2? I didn't see it on a quick check of > > > YAST. > > > > Yep, if you add the Packman repo t

Re: [opensuse] Run command as different user (especially on SuSE9.2)

2007-01-09 Thread James Knott
Roland Turcan - RoTurSoft wrote: > Hello all, > > I am running on linux as root, but I need to run my application as > normal user, but "switch user" takes long time. I have some small > problem, which occures only on NONroot accounts, but my developer tool > is already installed in root's home. >

Re: [opensuse] FlightGear

2007-01-09 Thread Kai Ponte
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 14:16, Curtis Rey wrote: > On Tuesday 09 January 2007 11:22, J. Scott Thayer M.D. wrote: > > Is FlightGear included in 10.2? I didn't see it on a quick check of YAST. > > Yep, if you add the Packman repo to the installation source you'll get it. > Works much better than p

Re: [opensuse] Run command as different user (especially on SuSE9.2)

2007-01-09 Thread Sunny
sudo -u username On 1/9/07, Roland Turcan - RoTurSoft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello all, I am running on linux as root, but I need to run my application as normal user, but "switch user" takes long time. I have some small problem, which occures only on NONroot accounts, but my developer tool

[opensuse] Run command as different user (especially on SuSE9.2)

2007-01-09 Thread Roland Turcan - RoTurSoft
Hello all, I am running on linux as root, but I need to run my application as normal user, but "switch user" takes long time. I have some small problem, which occures only on NONroot accounts, but my developer tool is already installed in root's home. Is there any command (such as sudo) but

Re: [opensuse] Wrong passwd in Yast2 (Administrator seting)

2007-01-09 Thread Martin Andersson
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 23:15, Benji Weber wrote: > Yes, if you configured sudo using the yast sudo module it will have > removed the line that kdesu requires in order to work, there is an > online update to fix the yast module now. See the comments on > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi

Re: [opensuse] Ordering the "FizzBall" game for Linux.

2007-01-09 Thread Pete Connolly
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 22:08, Alexey Eremenko wrote: > The game looks very primitive. I prefer something more Serious: > Warcraft, Unreal, ... The game looks fantastic - great graphics, good gameplay, nice little diversion. I'm taking the view of a dad of a 4 year old boy. I think our needs

[opensuse] Re: Re: Excellent news: Looking Glass 3D article entered Lessons for Lizards

2007-01-09 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Alexey Eremenko wrote: >> Hi, >> Great and interesting news! Please forgive my ignorance but could you >> please briefly explain where to check it out and how? >> >> Thanks for shedding some light on me >> >> Eberhard > > Read earlier - my 3rd post. It has a link. Thanks very much! I read your ea

Re: [opensuse] FlightGear

2007-01-09 Thread Curtis Rey
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 14:27, Bruce Ferrell wrote: > Curtis Rey wrote: > > On Tuesday 09 January 2007 11:22, J. Scott Thayer M.D. wrote: > >>Is FlightGear included in 10.2? I didn't see it on a quick check of YAST. > > > > Yep, if you add the Packman repo to the installation source you'll get >

Re: [opensuse] Ordering the "FizzBall" game for Linux.

2007-01-09 Thread Pete Connolly
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 13:13, Russell Jones wrote: > Kenneth Schneider wrote: > > > > Have you tried running Sims2 in wine or using Crossover Office? > > Not working under wine yet... > http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iAppId=1942 > I'd think a big pile of games will start working when DX9c

Re: [opensuse] Ordering the "FizzBall" game for Linux.

2007-01-09 Thread Pete Connolly
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 07:26, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 21:28 +, Pete Connolly wrote: > > I still have a Win32 boot partition on this system in case I need to run > > a game that doesn't work on Linux. Haven't booted into it in 6+ months > > :) > > My daughter has a

Re: [opensuse] Ordering the "FizzBall" game for Linux.

2007-01-09 Thread Pete Connolly
On Monday 08 January 2007 23:09, Kai Ponte wrote: > On Monday 08 January 2007 13:28, Pete Connolly wrote: > > > > Don't forget Frozen Bubble 2 (very nice), > > Very addictive! Too much so. Doesn't work too well for coloiur blind folk like me ('is it yellow or green') but still great fun. > > >

Re: [opensuse] Ordering the "FizzBall" game for Linux.

2007-01-09 Thread Anders Johansson
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 23:08, Alexey Eremenko wrote: > The game looks very primitive. I prefer something more Serious: > Warcraft, Unreal, ... The game is basically a breakout clone for small kids. I doubt if the target market include people who play Warcraft -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMA

Re: [opensuse] Re: Excellent news: Looking Glass 3D article entered Lessons for Lizards

2007-01-09 Thread Alexey Eremenko
Hi, Great and interesting news! Please forgive my ignorance but could you please briefly explain where to check it out and how? Thanks for shedding some light on me Eberhard Read earlier - my 3rd post. It has a link. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: [opensuse] FlightGear

2007-01-09 Thread Pete Connolly
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 22:27, Bruce Ferrell wrote: > Curtis Rey wrote: > > On Tuesday 09 January 2007 11:22, J. Scott Thayer M.D. wrote: > >>Is FlightGear included in 10.2? I didn't see it on a quick check of YAST. > > > > Yep, if you add the Packman repo to the installation source you'll get >

[opensuse] Re: Excellent news: Looking Glass 3D article entered Lessons for Lizards

2007-01-09 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Alexey Eremenko wrote: > Hi susers ! > > I have great news: after experimenting for several days with Project > Looking Glass 3D on my home desktop, I decided to write an article > about this technology - about it's installation, coverage of 3D > Desktop and navigation in 3D space, I also include

Re: [opensuse] Re: [klik] Excellent news: Looking Glass 3D article entered Lessons for Lizards

2007-01-09 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 1/9/07, Alexey Eremenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kurt wrote: NOTE: The link above is just temporal solution, until someone agrees to host that article. -- http://susewiki.org/index.php?title=Main_Page would not the wiki be a likely place for this information? Peter -- To unsubscribe,

Re: [opensuse] FlightGear

2007-01-09 Thread Bruce Ferrell
Curtis Rey wrote: On Tuesday 09 January 2007 11:22, J. Scott Thayer M.D. wrote: Is FlightGear included in 10.2? I didn't see it on a quick check of YAST. Yep, if you add the Packman repo to the installation source you'll get it. Works much better than previous iterations IMHO. Also a ne

[opensuse] Solved: Re: k3b on suse 10.2: no devices

2007-01-09 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Hi, I finally solved it and found some very strange things on my computer: 1. I installed gnomebaker and found that it can see the devices, when started as a user. Someone knows why? ;-) 2. I remembered that although I had my / partition fully formatted during the install, I remerbered that I had

Re: [opensuse] Wrong passwd in Yast2 (Administrator seting)

2007-01-09 Thread Benji Weber
On 1/9/07, Martin Andersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hej Something strange has happend with my Yast2 (and I think it happend after I configured sudo for ifconfig). Yes, if you configured sudo using the yast sudo module it will have removed the line that kdesu requires in order to work, there

Re: [opensuse] FlightGear

2007-01-09 Thread Curtis Rey
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 11:22, J. Scott Thayer M.D. wrote: > Is FlightGear included in 10.2? I didn't see it on a quick check of YAST. Yep, if you add the Packman repo to the installation source you'll get it. Works much better than previous iterations IMHO. Also a new game that's a real ti

Re: [opensuse] Ordering the "FizzBall" game for Linux.

2007-01-09 Thread Alexey Eremenko
The game looks very primitive. I prefer something more Serious: Warcraft, Unreal, ... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Does PPTP VPN actually work in SUSE 10.2?

2007-01-09 Thread Herbert Graeber
Am Dienstag, 9. Januar 2007 17:11 schrieb James Knott: > I have been trying unsuccessfully to use PPTP VPN to connect to a couple > of remote networks. One requires a domain name and the other doesn't. > I have been following some advice in this forum as well as google > searching. I have tried w

[opensuse] Re: [klik] Excellent news: Looking Glass 3D article entered Lessons for Lizards

2007-01-09 Thread Alexey Eremenko
Kurt wrote: Do you have a link? Or should we wait for Google to have it indexed? Google won't help. It is in Subversion repository (not in Web servers) at Novell. Unfortunately, I don't own any web sites to publish that myself. Here is the link: (it will expire soon) -- it weights at 2.5 MB in

[opensuse] Excellent news: Looking Glass 3D article entered Lessons for Lizards

2007-01-09 Thread Alexey Eremenko
Hi susers ! I have great news: after experimenting for several days with Project Looking Glass 3D on my home desktop, I decided to write an article about this technology - about it's installation, coverage of 3D Desktop and navigation in 3D space, I also included a good amount of info, nice scree

[opensuse] Wrong passwd in Yast2 (Administrator seting)

2007-01-09 Thread Martin Andersson
Hej Something strange has happend with my Yast2 (and I think it happend after I configured sudo for ifconfig). If I from the "Start menu" (SuSE 10.2), go to Computer -> Administrator Settings I will be prompted for a password, the problem is that when I enter the Password (I doit correctly) I

Re: [opensuse] Does PPTP VPN actually work in SUSE 10.2?

2007-01-09 Thread James Knott
Sylvester Lykkehus wrote: James Knott wrote: I have been trying unsuccessfully to use PPTP VPN to connect to a couple of remote networks. One requires a domain name and the other doesn't. I have been following some advice in this forum as well as google searching. I have tried webmin, kvnc,

Re: [opensuse] encrypted usb disk under linux how-to]

2007-01-09 Thread George Stoianov
On 1/9/07, Dennis E. Slice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Oops, I replied directly to the sender. I meant to post the following to the list... I just went through this. See the relevant sections at: http://en.opensuse.org/SUSE_Security_Lockdown_-_Hardening_Your_Linux_System and the discussion of

[opensuse] FlightGear

2007-01-09 Thread J. Scott Thayer M.D.
Is FlightGear included in 10.2? I didn't see it on a quick check of YAST. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [opensuse] Tomcat5 on Suse 10.0

2007-01-09 Thread James D. Parra
If you want to use tomcat with apache you need to install the rpm apache2-mod_jk (10.2) or mod_jk-ap20 (prior versions). > On 1/8/07, James D. Parra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Just installed Tomcat5 from Yast and, I was curious, how can one tell if > > it is running as a stand a

Re: [opensuse] Can you say ripoff - OT

2007-01-09 Thread Clayton
> 2. The day that a linux box with open source code works as > seamlessly and trouble-free as my intel mac (or my ppc mac), then linux > will have truly arrived. You'll know that day has come when you no > longer see any postings that start with "my printer doesn't work" or "my > sound card

Re: [opensuse] USB joystick

2007-01-09 Thread J. Scott Thayer M.D.
On Monday 08 January 2007 01:32, Mike McMullin wrote: > On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 22:42 -0500, J. Scott Thayer M.D. wrote: > > > If you go to KDE's control center, in the peripherals section there is > > > an entry "joystick" where you should be able to test if it works or not > > > > Thanks for pointi

Re: [opensuse] encrypted usb disk under linux how-to]

2007-01-09 Thread Dennis E. Slice
Oops, I replied directly to the sender. I meant to post the following to the list... I just went through this. See the relevant sections at: http://en.opensuse.org/SUSE_Security_Lockdown_-_Hardening_Your_Linux_System and the discussion of mounting encrypted USB drives under the subject: "encry

Re: [opensuse] Can you say ripoff - OT

2007-01-09 Thread Paul Abrahams
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 1:02 am, Pascal Bleser wrote: > E. Hoon Shim wrote: > > I'm a firm believe that Microsoft is in a perpetual loop, they raise > > prices to make up for all of the piracy and/or all the work they put > > into the product to prevent piracy. The high price makes piracy even

[opensuse] Bootup mount of Fat32 filesystem fails -- but it doesn't!

2007-01-09 Thread Paul Abrahams
On bootup I get the following failure message: /dev/hdb9 on /windows/E type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0) failed'boot.localfs start' exits with status 0 However, the /windows/E drive gets mounted anyway and works as it should. I have another Windows drive with an id

Re: [opensuse] Can you say ripoff - OT

2007-01-09 Thread Richard Pace
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 10:13, Tony Alfrey wrote: > 2. The day that a linux box with open source code works as > seamlessly and trouble-free as my intel mac (or my ppc mac), then linux > will have truly arrived. You'll know that day has come when you no > longer see any postings that star

[opensuse] encrypted usb disk under linux how-to

2007-01-09 Thread George Stoianov
Hi guys, I was wondering if someone migth have experience with this? TIA -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[opensuse] System won't shut down

2007-01-09 Thread Paul Abrahams
When I attempt to shut down my 10.2 system from KDE, the shutdown process stops when it's almost done. I get to runlevel 0, and then get these messages: Failed services in runlevel 0: lm_sensors webmin Skipped services in runlevel 0: Susefirewall2_setup And then the computer just sits there.

Re: [opensuse] Does PPTP VPN actually work in SUSE 10.2?

2007-01-09 Thread Sylvester Lykkehus
James Knott wrote: I have been trying unsuccessfully to use PPTP VPN to connect to a couple of remote networks. One requires a domain name and the other doesn't. I have been following some advice in this forum as well as google searching. I have tried webmin, kvnc, the knetworkmanager mods

Re: [opensuse] Can you say ripoff - OT

2007-01-09 Thread Tony Alfrey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a mac fanatic in the family.. he still insists the mac doesn't need the usual parts one expects in a computer.. ( Harddrive, mobo, processor, etc. )because, well, "it's a mac" ( and he is an idiot , but hey, every family has at least one..) The guy blows gla

Re: [opensuse] Can you say ripoff - OT

2007-01-09 Thread jfweber
On Tue January 9 2007 12:36 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] scratched these words onto a coconut shell, hoping for an answer: > On Tue January 9 2007 10:12 am, Randall R Schulz scratched these > words > > onto a coconut shell, hoping for an answer: > > On Tuesday 09 January 2007 01:33, Mathias Homann wrote:

[opensuse] Help with logdigest

2007-01-09 Thread Andre Truter
I am using logdigest to notify me of some important messages in logfiles and it normally works quite well. But now I have a configuration problem with it and I cannot find any real documentation on it. The only documentation is the README file and that is not much. Maybe someone here can help me

[opensuse] dammit! what have I missed now?

2007-01-09 Thread jfweber
No screensaver of any type... no matter what I choose . Apparently some update broke the autostart of the daemon.. but I can't find it now.. suggestions? ( Go boil yer 'ead will be met w/ extreem prejudice on my part and *you* won't get any more good karma points. I know at least some of you ki

Re: [opensuse] Can you say ripoff - OT

2007-01-09 Thread jfweber
On Tue January 9 2007 10:12 am, Randall R Schulz scratched these words onto a coconut shell, hoping for an answer: > On Tuesday 09 January 2007 01:33, Mathias Homann wrote: > > Curtis Rey schrieb: > > > ... > > > > > >> can you get a mac at best buy? > > > > > > Ja können Sie! And at Fry's (large

Re: [opensuse] Yast install working but DB_PAGE_NOTFOUND

2007-01-09 Thread Martin Andersson
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 02:17, Rajko M. wrote: > > Hi Martin, > > rpm --rebuilddb > should fix database related problems. Thanks that fixed the annoying problem. /Martin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[opensuse] Re: Re: k3b on suse 10.2: no devices

2007-01-09 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Lennart Börjeson wrote: > tisdag 09 januari 2007 16:50 skrev Eberhard Roloff: >> My first suspect is this hal policy thing, which also forces me to >> manually mount a cdrom (as root, of course) before I can access it's >> contents as a user. Seems that opensuse in essence rolls back half a >> dec

[opensuse] Re: k3b on suse 10.2: no devices

2007-01-09 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Matthias Titeux wrote: > Le Mardi 9 Janvier 2007 15:55, Eberhard Roloff a écrit : > > Hi, > > Be sure to install the K3b package from packman. > (along with mad, lame...). > > I installed OpenSUSE 10.2 a month ago, and DVD burning works great with > k3b. > > Regards > Thanks much. This is wh

Re: [opensuse] Re: k3b on suse 10.2: no devices

2007-01-09 Thread Erik Jakobsen
Lennart Börjeson wrote: tisdag 09 januari 2007 16:50 skrev Eberhard Roloff: My first suspect is this hal policy thing, which also forces me to manually mount a cdrom (as root, of course) before I can access it's contents as a user. Seems that opensuse in essence rolls back half a decade in re

Re: [opensuse] Re: k3b on suse 10.2: no devices

2007-01-09 Thread Lennart Börjeson
tisdag 09 januari 2007 16:50 skrev Eberhard Roloff: > My first suspect is this hal policy thing, which also forces me to manually > mount a cdrom (as root, of course) before I can access it's contents as a > user. Seems that opensuse in essence rolls back half a decade in regard to > device permiss

[opensuse] Does PPTP VPN actually work in SUSE 10.2?

2007-01-09 Thread James Knott
I have been trying unsuccessfully to use PPTP VPN to connect to a couple of remote networks. One requires a domain name and the other doesn't. I have been following some advice in this forum as well as google searching. I have tried webmin, kvnc, the knetworkmanager mods etc., but cannot fin

Re: [opensuse] k3b on suse 10.2: no devices

2007-01-09 Thread Matthias Titeux
Le Mardi 9 Janvier 2007 15:55, Eberhard Roloff a écrit : > Hi, > > I did a fresh install from scratch, changing from (K)ubuntu to OpenSuSE > 10.2/KDE. > just wanted to burn an iso with k3b and found to my surprise that as an > ordinary user, k3b is NOT configured to have access to my DVD-Rom and >

Re: [opensuse] Re: k3b on suse 10.2: no devices

2007-01-09 Thread Graham Smith
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 02:42, Eberhard Roloff wrote: > well, this simplifies running k3b in root mode, but this is not what I am > after. > Honestly, imho it is absolutely rediculous that you have to be root to burn > a cdrom. I last experienced this with xcdroast about five years ago. > I h

[opensuse] Re: k3b on suse 10.2: no devices

2007-01-09 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Peter Bradley wrote: > Ysgrifennodd Peter Bradley: >> Ysgrifennodd Dominique Leuenberger: >>> >>> I would say that can only be a workaround. I remember on my system I >>> don't have to su for k3b. (but I did not upgrade that machine to 10.2 >>> yet). >>> >>> Will this be something I'll have to tak

Re: [opensuse] 10.2 and iFolder

2007-01-09 Thread Andreas Jaeger
"Chris Rolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > Does anybody know what has happened to the nautilus-ifolder package > that goes with the version of ifolder included with 10.2. It just did not work and therefore was stopped shipping, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.

[opensuse] Re: k3b on suse 10.2: no devices

2007-01-09 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Erik Jakobsen wrote: > Eberhard Roloff wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I did a fresh install from scratch, changing from (K)ubuntu to OpenSuSE >> 10.2/KDE. >> just wanted to burn an iso with k3b and found to my surprise that as an >> ordinary user, k3b is NOT configured to have access to my DVD-Rom and >> DVD

Re: [opensuse] k3b on suse 10.2: no devices

2007-01-09 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Peter Bradley: Ysgrifennodd Dominique Leuenberger: I would say that can only be a workaround. I remember on my system I don't have to su for k3b. (but I did not upgrade that machine to 10.2 yet). Will this be something I'll have to take care after updating? One solution I've

[opensuse] afs client

2007-01-09 Thread Gianluca Cerminara
Is there any documentation about how to configure an afs client with Suse 10.2? -- -- Gianluca Cerminara Tel. CERN +41 (0)22 76 71519 Tel. TO +39 011 670 7374 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] k3b on suse 10.2: no devices

2007-01-09 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Dominique Leuenberger: I would say that can only be a workaround. I remember on my system I don't have to su for k3b. (but I did not upgrade that machine to 10.2 yet). Will this be something I'll have to take care after updating? One solution I've seen mentioned, although I've

Re: [opensuse] k3b on suse 10.2: no devices

2007-01-09 Thread Erik Jakobsen
I would say that can only be a workaround. I remember on my system I don't have to su for k3b. (but I did not upgrade that machine to 10.2 yet). Will this be something I'll have to take care after updating? Maybe You are right. But that's the way I do it, and it always work. There's pos

Re: [opensuse] Can you say ripoff - OT

2007-01-09 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 01:33, Mathias Homann wrote: > Curtis Rey schrieb: > > ... > >> > >> can you get a mac at best buy? > > > > Ja können Sie! And at Fry's (large wherehouse like outlet) and at > > CompUSA! > > I wouldn't know, I've been to the usa once so far, for one weekend... > and when

Re: [opensuse] k3b on suse 10.2: no devices

2007-01-09 Thread Dominique Leuenberger
>>> On 09-01-2007 at 17:06, Erik Jakobsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eberhard Roloff wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I did a fresh install from scratch, changing from (K)ubuntu to OpenSuSE >> 10.2/KDE. >> just wanted to burn an iso with k3b and found to my surprise that as an >> ordinary user, k3b is NOT con

Re: [opensuse] k3b on suse 10.2: no devices

2007-01-09 Thread Erik Jakobsen
Eberhard Roloff wrote: Hi, I did a fresh install from scratch, changing from (K)ubuntu to OpenSuSE 10.2/KDE. just wanted to burn an iso with k3b and found to my surprise that as an ordinary user, k3b is NOT configured to have access to my DVD-Rom and DVD-Recorder. Even worse, being an ordinary u

Re: [opensuse] NO PROBLEM. zypper does not use proxy settings?

2007-01-09 Thread Mark Goldstein
On 1/9/07, Dominique Leuenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The password is stored to create some action without user intervention (ie. without the user having to type his password), and as such the algorithm of storing these passwords has to be reversible -> and thus, however you encrypt it, us

[opensuse] k3b on suse 10.2: no devices

2007-01-09 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Hi, I did a fresh install from scratch, changing from (K)ubuntu to OpenSuSE 10.2/KDE. just wanted to burn an iso with k3b and found to my surprise that as an ordinary user, k3b is NOT configured to have access to my DVD-Rom and DVD-Recorder. Even worse, being an ordinary user, I have no chance to

Re: [opensuse] NO PROBLEM. zypper does not use proxy settings?

2007-01-09 Thread Mark Goldstein
On 1/9/07, Marcus Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 04:24:48PM +0200, Mark Goldstein wrote: > BTW, it uses proxy user and password from /root/.curlrc. > This file, though readable by root only, contains password in plain test. > I think it's not a good idea. Anyone wi

Re: [opensuse] NO PROBLEM. zypper does not use proxy settings?

2007-01-09 Thread Dominique Leuenberger
>>> On 09-01-2007 at 16:24, "Mark Goldstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/9/07, Mark Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 1/9/07, Mark Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On 1/9/07, Dinar Valeev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > Set a proxy URL >> > rug set proxy-url url_path >>

Re: [opensuse] NO PROBLEM. zypper does not use proxy settings?

2007-01-09 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 04:24:48PM +0200, Mark Goldstein wrote: > On 1/9/07, Mark Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 1/9/07, Mark Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 1/9/07, Dinar Valeev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> Set a proxy URL > >> rug set proxy-url url_path > > > >Hi

Re: [opensuse] NO PROBLEM. zypper does not use proxy settings?

2007-01-09 Thread Mark Goldstein
On 1/9/07, Mark Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 1/9/07, Mark Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/9/07, Dinar Valeev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Set a proxy URL > rug set proxy-url url_path Hi Dinar, I defined proxy in Yast2 and rug works fine, so it looks like rug now uses pr

Re: [opensuse] Query Repository for Package information

2007-01-09 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 12:36 +, Russell Jones wrote: > Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 21:48 +1100, Jeffery Fernandez wrote: > > > > If the RPM is not available (actually downloaded into your machine, > > though not necessarily installed) then the file list is not available

Re: [opensuse] Ordering the "FizzBall" game for Linux.

2007-01-09 Thread Russell Jones
Kenneth Schneider wrote: On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 08:26 +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 21:28 +, Pete Connolly wrote: I still have a Win32 boot partition on this system in case I need to run a game that doesn't work on Linux. Haven't booted into it in 6+ months

[opensuse] Re: Re: openSuSE 10.2 crashing too often

2007-01-09 Thread Eberhard Roloff
James Knott wrote: > Clayton wrote: >>> ###start of sensors output### >> [snip] >>> temp3: -48.0°C (high = +80°C, hyst = +75°C) sensor = >>> thermistor >> [snip] >> >> -48.0°C ?? Wow, that's impressive :-) >> > > He put in a bigger fan. ;-) You know there is nothing but good coolin

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