[opensuse-factory] Re: [opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.3 Alpha1 released

2007-02-16 Thread Alexey Eremenko
Very nice ! But one *important* thing seems to be lacking from this announcement. What about Lessons for Lizards ? Was it included ? -Alexey - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [opensuse-factory] Re: [opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.3 Alpha1 released

2007-02-16 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Alexey Eremenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Very nice ! But one *important* thing seems to be lacking from this announcement. What about Lessons for Lizards ? Was it included ? It's not yet available as package in our build system AFAIK, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: [opensuse-factory] createrepo updated, seems now to be able to create sqlite db

2007-02-16 Thread Christoph Thiel
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 02:42:09PM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Patrick Shanahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [02-11-07 14:31]: [...] 14:27 wahoo:~ rpm -q python python-2.4.2-18.5 update reverted to: python-sqlite2-2.0.4-1.guru.suse101 upgraded createrepo: createrepo-0.4.7-3.1 Just

[opensuse-factory] 10.3 install - mini cd

2007-02-16 Thread jdd
Hello :-) It looks like the mini-cd is the old 10.2 one? in fact it have the dhcp time consuming start (the cd 1 don't have it), and when dealing with the only 10.3 online source (factory) it have a warning about not using the good source version. I had also a great problem :-): the

[opensuse-factory] 10.3 - 1 cd install

2007-02-16 Thread jdd
I installed 10.3 with the first cd only on a free disk partition without real problems. continued with factory/kde so far so good. noticed: I use to make the boot from the root partition not to disturb the present install. When, one go to the relevant page, one have a choice of positions

Re: [opensuse-factory] createrepo updated, seems now to be able to create sqlite db

2007-02-16 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Christoph Thiel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [02-16-07 07:24]: Just failed to reproduce this on 10.1/SLED with stock python-sqlite package. Seems to be a problem in python-sqlite2 from Pascal? 2nd reply, solution effected: 09:43 wahoo:~ rpm -q createrepo python-sqlite2 createrepo-0.4.8-3.1

Re: [opensuse-factory] Multimedia Key presets

2007-02-16 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Dominique Leuenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, On my notebook (probably unknown, brand Littlebit Luzon X22), whenever I set it up, I have to configure the shortcuts for volume up and down, play and the like to work. Is there any way I could let this incorporate in the base

Re: [opensuse-factory] Multimedia Key presets

2007-02-16 Thread Dominique Leuenberger
On 16-02-2007 at 17:09, Andreas Jaeger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On my notebook (probably unknown, brand Littlebit Luzon X22), whenever I set it up, I have to configure the shortcuts for volume up and down, play and the like to work. Is there any way I could let this incorporate in the base

[opensuse-factory] Re: [opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.3 Alpha1 released

2007-02-16 Thread rmyster
On Thursday 15 February 2007 6:32:34 am Andreas Jaeger wrote: We have created Delta ISOs from the final version of openSUSE 10.2 Please use them for download. Is there an md5sum for the DVD created after applying the delta iso? I could only find md5sums for the delta and cd iso images.

Re: [opensuse-factory] Re: [opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.3 Alpha1 released

2007-02-16 Thread Andreas Jaeger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thursday 15 February 2007 6:32:34 am Andreas Jaeger wrote: We have created Delta ISOs from the final version of openSUSE 10.2 Please use them for download. Is there an md5sum for the DVD created after applying the delta iso? I could only find md5sums for the

Re: [opensuse-factory] Re: [opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.3 Alpha1 released

2007-02-16 Thread rmyster
Is there an md5sum for the DVD created after applying the delta iso? I'll add them now. But applydeltaiso will check the md5sum itself. That's good to know. I didn't see any reference to it in the man pages or on the suse download help pages. Thanks!

[opensuse] 10.2 on HP nx7400 laptop; does it work for you?

2007-02-16 Thread Silviu Marin-Caea
Does anyone have 10.2 on HP nx7400? Does it boot every time? I've seen a problem on two of these laptops where they would frequently stop at boot on Activating device mapper. I have filed a bug. If anyone has the same hw 10.2 please add a comment.

Re: [opensuse] Would like explanation from networking guru

2007-02-16 Thread Art Fore
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 15:30 +0700, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Friday 16 February 2007 14:56, Art Fore wrote: OK, if I delete the default 192.168.11.1 UG route and no longer have a default gateway, I can still get to the samba server on the windows network (eth0), but not the internet on the

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 alpha torrent

2007-02-16 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Jan Karjalainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The DVD-torrent for 10.3 i386 alpha doesn't seem to get any seeder... Should be fixed now, we had a small problem with our setup :-( Sorry, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus

Re: [opensuse] Wireless Card

2007-02-16 Thread John Andersen
On Thursday 15 February 2007, John Pierce wrote: I agree, I have to use the ndiswrapper and windows driver to get mine to work. So there's the answer then, back to ndiswrapper for a while. -- _ John Andersen pgpHoU8WrHKZT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [opensuse] Wireless Card

2007-02-16 Thread John Andersen
On Thursday 15 February 2007, Kenneth Schneider wrote: On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 13:23 +0100, Danesh Daroui wrote: Kenneth Schneider wrote: On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 11:59 +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote: Danesh Daroui [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Broadcom support is not quite fully working

Re: [opensuse] Wireless Card

2007-02-16 Thread John Andersen
On Thursday 15 February 2007, Danesh Daroui wrote: It is solved finally. Actually, I didn't want to use ndiswrapper and hence Windows drivers, since Windows is not welcomed to my systems at all, but the other approach which is bcm43xx-fwcutter workd at first, but it stopped after a while and

Re: [opensuse] french dealers for 10.2

2007-02-16 Thread John Andersen
On Thursday 15 February 2007, Michael Loeffler wrote: And I'm not happy at all with the expensive shipment we offer through shopNovell. YOU'RE NOT HAPPY? Guys in Canada got cheaper shipping than I did. -- _ John Andersen Juneau Alaska. pgpITRxa4T1m7.pgp

Re: [opensuse] The BBC is asking if they should support Linux

2007-02-16 Thread John Andersen
On Thursday 15 February 2007, Dave Howorth wrote: Clayton wrote: The BBC is asking if they should support Linux in the proposed on-demand media service they want to launch. http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=17103 Thanks for that heads-up. I just filled out their

Re: [opensuse] Adding new IMAP accounts with Kontact/Kmail

2007-02-16 Thread John Andersen
On Thursday 15 February 2007, Brian Jackson wrote: Hello- On my 10.2 box, I'm trying to add my various IMAP email accounts in Kontact, but everytime I go to 'Check What the Server Supports' in the 'Security' tab, I get the following error: Connect to most .. is broken I

Re: [opensuse] 10.2 on HP nx7400 laptop; does it work for you?

2007-02-16 Thread John Andersen
On Thursday 15 February 2007, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote: Does anyone have 10.2 on HP nx7400? Does it boot every time? I've seen a problem on two of these laptops where they would frequently stop at boot on Activating device mapper. If you hit Ctrl-C do they carry on with the boot process? --

Re: [opensuse] Wireless Card [SOLVED]

2007-02-16 Thread Danesh Daroui
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 00:22 -0900, John Andersen wrote: On Thursday 15 February 2007, Danesh Daroui wrote: It is solved finally. Actually, I didn't want to use ndiswrapper and hence Windows drivers, since Windows is not welcomed to my systems at all, but the other approach which is

[opensuse] tall PNG images don't load in Firefox

2007-02-16 Thread Dave Howorth
I have a problem with loading some PNG images in Firefox. The images are generated using GD and most of the images load OK, but some don't. As near as I can tell, it is tall (or maybe just big?) images that won't load. If I just load the PNG by itself, I see a message saying that the image cannot

Re: [opensuse] System Mail

2007-02-16 Thread Sandy Drobic
Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: Peter Bloomfield wrote: I set up a machine under SuSE 10.2. during the setup I created a user and selected that the user receive any system mail. I now want to stop that so that root receives system mail. Does anyone know where to look to do this? Though that

Re: [opensuse] tall PNG images don't load in Firefox

2007-02-16 Thread Wolfgang Rosenauer
Dave Howorth wrote: I have a problem with loading some PNG images in Firefox. The images are generated using GD and most of the images load OK, but some don't. As near as I can tell, it is tall (or maybe just big?) images that won't load. If I just load the PNG by itself, I see a message

[opensuse] backup data from server

2007-02-16 Thread Evan Ingram
Hi all I want to setup a backup system for a server where the data is backed up to my laptop which connects wirelessly on the network. There should be 1 day a week where it does a full backup and the other days just incrementals to a separate directory not affecting the full backup. I tried

Re: [opensuse] tall PNG images don't load in Firefox

2007-02-16 Thread Pete Connolly
On Friday 16 February 2007 09:57:03 Dave Howorth wrote: I have a problem with loading some PNG images in Firefox. The images are generated using GD and most of the images load OK, but some don't. As near as I can tell, it is tall (or maybe just big?) images that won't load. If I just load the

Re: [opensuse] Kopete google talk

2007-02-16 Thread Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett
On Thursday 15 February 2007 20:31, alex wrote: of course it was my first step. However options described on page http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=Kopete+Jabber+Jingle do not work in my case. The library qca is installed. Any other idea? Suse 10.2 64bit. KDE 3.5.5 from standard DVD

Re: [opensuse] tall PNG images don't load in Firefox

2007-02-16 Thread Wolfgang Rosenauer
Pete Connolly wrote: I put one of the files at http://www.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/dhoworth/f208c50af8a68669c364c22849f1d1de.png . It's 190 kB and 820x36564 pixels. The little feedback I got on the Firefox forum was that Firefox on Windows can load the image OK, whilst Ubuntu has the same problem

Re: [opensuse] tall PNG images don't load in Firefox

2007-02-16 Thread Dominique Leuenberger
On 16-02-2007 at 12:28, Wolfgang Rosenauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: another one: Firefox 2.0.0.1 on Windows shows some broken lines on the left side instead of any big picture. So it's most probably simply broken. Wolfgang Are you sure FF did not just reduce the size of the image to fit

Re: [opensuse] tall PNG images don't load in Firefox

2007-02-16 Thread Dave Howorth
Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote: Pete Connolly wrote: I put one of the files at http://www.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/dhoworth/f208c50af8a68669c364c22849f1d1de.png . It's 190 kB and 820x36564 pixels. The little feedback I got on the Firefox forum was that Firefox on Windows can load the image OK, whilst

Re: [opensuse] Print to file PDF Firefox 2 Konqueror

2007-02-16 Thread Jan Tiggy
Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: pdf:/directory/of/your/choice/ -E -P /usr/share/cups/model/distiller.ppd The directory of my choice was /home/vk/Documents/somedir/ What is it that I do not understand? I forgot to mention it, sorry. I don't know why, but CUPS needs there an output folder with the

Re: [opensuse][OT] The BBC is asking if they should support Linux

2007-02-16 Thread Fergus Wilde
On Friday 16 February 2007 09:51, Russell Jones wrote: John Andersen wrote: Given the quality of the BBC these last few years the whole organization should be outlawed. Harumph! Do you get the digital channels? BBC Three and Four show some excellent programmes. Radio 4 is very good, too.

Re: [opensuse] tall PNG images don't load in Firefox

2007-02-16 Thread Wolfgang Rosenauer
Dominique Leuenberger wrote: On 16-02-2007 at 12:28, Wolfgang Rosenauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: another one: Firefox 2.0.0.1 on Windows shows some broken lines on the left side instead of any big picture. So it's most probably simply broken. Wolfgang Are you sure FF did not just

Re: [opensuse] french dealers for 10.2

2007-02-16 Thread Mike McMullin
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 00:24 -0900, John Andersen wrote: On Thursday 15 February 2007, Michael Loeffler wrote: And I'm not happy at all with the expensive shipment we offer through shopNovell. YOU'RE NOT HAPPY? Guys in Canada got cheaper shipping than I did. Royal commission mayhap?

Re: [opensuse] tall PNG images don't load in Firefox

2007-02-16 Thread Russell Jones
Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote: Dominique Leuenberger wrote: On 16-02-2007 at 12:28, Wolfgang Rosenauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: another one: Firefox 2.0.0.1 on Windows shows some broken lines on the left side instead of any big picture. So it's most probably simply broken.

Re: [opensuse] tall PNG images don't load in Firefox

2007-02-16 Thread Dave Howorth
Russell Jones wrote: Windows actually seems to do the opposite: if you click on the image when the magnifying glass is shown, the picture disappears and the title bar says Scaled (1%). Looks like a cross-platform bug. The default scaling depends on your preferences, IIRC. Dave -- To

Re: [opensuse] tall PNG images don't load in Firefox

2007-02-16 Thread Wolfgang Rosenauer
Russell Jones wrote: oops, sorry. Yes, that's true. Windows Firefox 2.0.0.1 on WinXP works. So my first recommendation about filing a bug at mozilla.org is still valid ;-) Wolfgang Windows actually seems to do the opposite: if you click on the image when the magnifying glass is shown,

Re: [opensuse] tall PNG images don't load in Firefox

2007-02-16 Thread Russell Jones
Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote: Russell Jones wrote: oops, sorry. Yes, that's true. Windows Firefox 2.0.0.1 on WinXP works. So my first recommendation about filing a bug at mozilla.org is still valid ;-) Wolfgang Windows actually seems to do the opposite: if you click on the image

Re: [opensuse] Print to file PDF Firefox 2 Konqueror

2007-02-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 18:35 +0100, jdd wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I need to print to PDF from FireFox2. When print is selected, only the Print to file PostScript/default option is available besides the normal printers. select this option, go to properties and replace

Re: [opensuse] tall PNG images don't load in Firefox

2007-02-16 Thread Wolfgang Rosenauer
Russell Jones wrote: oops, sorry. Yes, that's true. Windows Firefox 2.0.0.1 on WinXP works. So my first recommendation about filing a bug at mozilla.org is still valid ;-) Wolfgang Windows actually seems to do the opposite: if you click on the image when the magnifying glass is

Re: [opensuse] The BBC is asking if they should support Linux

2007-02-16 Thread Billie Erin Walsh
John Andersen wrote: Given the quality of the BBC these last few years the whole organization should be outlawed. Harumph! Hey, give credit where credit is due here. They are still dreaming up sitcoms for American TV to copy. AND they DID bring back Dr. Who! -- (o:]*HUGGLES*[:o)

Re: [opensuse] tall PNG images don't load in Firefox

2007-02-16 Thread Matthias Titeux
Le Vendredi 16 Février 2007 10:57, Dave Howorth a écrit : I have a problem with loading some PNG images in Firefox. The images are generated using GD and most of the images load OK, but some don't. As near as I can tell, it is tall (or maybe just big?) images that won't load. If I just load

Re: [opensuse][OT] The BBC is asking if they should support Linux

2007-02-16 Thread michael norman
On Friday 16 February 2007 09:51:57 Russell Jones wrote: John Andersen wrote: Given the quality of the BBC these last few years the whole organization should be outlawed. Harumph! Please explain what is wrong with the BBC's output recently Do you get the digital channels? BBC Three and

[opensuse] Desktops and program behaviour

2007-02-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all, I use OpenSUSE 10.1. Installed is also Firefox 2. I use several Desktops to organise my work environment. When I use a program like Evolution and click on a link that requires Firefox to open something, it opens the last Firefox I used. If i change my Desktop to another one, Firefox

Re: [opensuse] tall PNG images don't load in Firefox

2007-02-16 Thread JB
On Friday 16 February 2007 03:57, Dave Howorth wrote: I have a problem with loading some PNG images in Firefox. The images are generated using GD and most of the images load OK, but some don't. As near as I can tell, it is tall (or maybe just big?) images that won't load. If I just load the

Re: [opensuse] tall PNG images don't load in Firefox

2007-02-16 Thread Russell Jones
Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote: Why? Above I wrote that FF displays an error on Linux and on Windows it works (only different behaviour for image scaling). So it's a Linux only issue probably in libpng. Why what? ( Click on the image = image disappears and will not come back without a reload )

Re: [opensuse] tall PNG images don't load in Firefox

2007-02-16 Thread Ken Jennings
On Friday 2007-02-16 05:18, Pete Connolly wrote: On Friday 16 February 2007 09:57:03 Dave Howorth wrote: I have a problem with loading some PNG images in Firefox. The images are generated using GD and most of the images load OK, but some don't. As near as I can tell, it is tall (or maybe

[opensuse] Grabbing MAC address of interface

2007-02-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Hello, now the question may seem simple (how to grab the MAC address of a given interface), but what is actually a portable way that does not potentially break when upgrading to a newer openSUSE? I could fiddle with `hwinfo --network` or try parse `ip l sh dev br0` output, but what's

Re: [opensuse] tall PNG images don't load in Firefox

2007-02-16 Thread Peter Nikolic
On Friday 16 February 2007 11:51, Matthias Titeux wrote: http://www.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/dhoworth/f208c50af8a68669c364c22849f1d1de.png I have just done a wget on the image and tried to view it using xv on 10.2 it displays a narrow vertical window full of alternate red white and green stripes

Re: [opensuse] tall PNG images don't load in Firefox

2007-02-16 Thread Dave Howorth
Ken Jennings wrote: Can you try loading the images and re-saving them using gimp? Sometimes that cleans up any irregularities in image formats. Interesting idea. gimp loads and saves it without any problem and the two files are different but firefox can't load either :( P00720 Enterobacteria

Re: [opensuse] Grabbing MAC address of interface

2007-02-16 Thread eshsf
Hello, On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:33:12 +0100 (MET) Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, now the question may seem simple (how to grab the MAC address of a given interface), but what is actually a portable way that does not potentially break when upgrading to a newer openSUSE?

Re: [opensuse] tall PNG images don't load in Firefox

2007-02-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 16 2007 08:28, Ken Jennings wrote: On Friday 2007-02-16 05:18, Pete Connolly wrote: On Friday 16 February 2007 09:57:03 Dave Howorth wrote: I have a problem with loading some PNG images in Firefox. The images are generated using GD and most of the images load OK, but some don't. As

Re: [opensuse] tall PNG images don't load in Firefox

2007-02-16 Thread Jan Tiggy
Peter Nikolic schrieb: I have just done a wget on the image and tried to view it using xv on 10.2 it displays a narrow vertical window full of alternate red white and green stripes with a few blues just for good measure . On my SLED10 system only konqueror displays that file. Neither

Re: [opensuse] tall PNG images don't load in Firefox

2007-02-16 Thread Russell Jones
Call me a numerologist mystic if you like, but I suspect the height being 32767 pixels (the limit of a signed 16-bit integer) has something to do with it. What happens if it's resized to less than this? What if it's just saved with the same size by e.g. gimp? Russell Jones Peter Nikolic

[opensuse] limiting coredumps

2007-02-16 Thread Matthew Stringer
Hi, more of a general Unix question than a specific openSUSE question: My meachines run BASH, if I log in and run a program it'll run under that shell, I can set the ulimit for core dumps in the BASH config. If I have a script that runs under '/bin/sh' I can add 'ulimit -H -c 0' to that

Re: [opensuse] tall PNG images don't load in Firefox

2007-02-16 Thread Jan Tiggy
Well forgot to mention that I've installed KDE 3.5.6 So tested some other progs. So none of them beside Konqueror works with that file. thx -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[opensuse] Error occurred while creating the catalog - Unknown error: unable to copy media directory

2007-02-16 Thread robermann
Hi all, an update: as promised, I kept searching and... I buied a Linux journal with an OpenSuse DVD. This time, that worked! I again cannot understand what changed; the only reason I can see is the different media type. How can I make sure about the new DVD having the same content of my other

Re: [opensuse] cgi script to open a iptable file and modify.

2007-02-16 Thread Russell Jones
Try googling for iptables php script e.g. http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpfwgen/ http://easyfwgen.morizot.net/gen/ also http://www.gege.org/iptables/doc/faq.html You can try similar for other scripting languages (python, ruby, perl (ugh)), I'd think. Chuck Amadi wrote: Hi Does anyone on

Re: [opensuse] Wireless Card

2007-02-16 Thread Russell Jones
John Andersen wrote: John Pierce has posted: The problem I found after quite some snooping is that it is on the pci express bus and not the standard bus. The developers are continuing to work on it but they haven't got there yet. If the OPs machine also has the chipset on the express bus it

Re: [opensuse] Desktops and program behaviour

2007-02-16 Thread Michael Skiba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 16. Februar 2007 13:17 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: How can I ensure that only the present Desktop is used when opening a link, even if it means starting a new Firefox session. I do not want to disturb the other sessions on the other

Re: [opensuse] Wireless Card

2007-02-16 Thread Russell Jones
John Andersen wrote: On Thursday 15 February 2007, Danesh Daroui wrote: It is solved finally. Actually, I didn't want to use ndiswrapper and hence Windows drivers, since Windows is not welcomed to my systems at all, but the other approach which is bcm43xx-fwcutter workd at first, but it

Re: [opensuse] tall PNG images don't load in Firefox

2007-02-16 Thread Dave Howorth
Russell Jones wrote: Call me a numerologist mystic if you like, but I suspect the height being 32767 pixels (the limit of a signed 16-bit integer) has something to do with it. What happens if it's resized to less than this? What if it's just saved with the same size by e.g. gimp? Call me a

Re: [opensuse] tall PNG images don't load in Firefox

2007-02-16 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 03:09:43PM +, Dave Howorth wrote: Russell Jones wrote: Call me a numerologist mystic if you like, but I suspect the height being 32767 pixels (the limit of a signed 16-bit integer) has something to do with it. What happens if it's resized to less than this? What

Re: [opensuse] Grabbing MAC address of interface

2007-02-16 Thread Sylvester Lykkehus
eshsf wrote: Hello, On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:33:12 +0100 (MET) Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, now the question may seem simple (how to grab the MAC address of a given interface), but what is actually a portable way that does not potentially break when upgrading to a newer

Re: [opensuse] Wireless Card

2007-02-16 Thread John Pierce
John Pierce has posted: The problem I found after quite some snooping is that it is on the pci express bus and not the standard bus. The developers are continuing to work on it but they haven't got there yet. If the OPs machine also has the chipset on the express bus it could be the same

Re: [opensuse] backup data from server

2007-02-16 Thread David Mayr
Hi Evan, I want to setup a backup system for a server where the data is backed up to my laptop which connects wirelessly on the network. There should be 1 day a week where it does a full backup and the other days just incrementals to a separate directory not affecting the full backup. I'm

[opensuse] Problem creating ipsec tunnel between two 10.2 boxes

2007-02-16 Thread Ken Gramm
I'm trying to setup a simple ipsec tunnel between two 10.2 boxes and I'm running into problems. If I look at /var/log/messages I can see that my tunnel has been established. Feb 16 08:32:39 server-01 ipsec__plutorun: 004 testlink #2: STATE_QUICK_I2: sent QI2, IPsec SA established

RE: [opensuse] backup data from server

2007-02-16 Thread Administrator (Pedro Marques)
Hi Evan, I've been usig DAR (stands for Disk Archive) for a long time without a problem. You can download it at http://dar.linux.free.fr/ Pedro -Original Message- From: Evan Ingram [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: sexta-feira, 16 de Fevereiro de 2007 10:16 To: opensuse@opensuse.org

Re: [opensuse] tall PNG images don't load in Firefox

2007-02-16 Thread Matthias Titeux
Le Vendredi 16 Février 2007 14:37, Peter Nikolic a écrit : On Friday 16 February 2007 11:51, Matthias Titeux wrote: http://www.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/dhoworth/f208c50af8a68669c364c22849f1d1de.pn g I have just done a wget on the image and tried to view it using xv on 10.2 it displays a narrow

Re: [opensuse] backup data from server

2007-02-16 Thread Dennis E. Slice
rsback (http://sourceforge.net/projects/rsback) is cheap (=free), easy, and very space efficient. rsback makes rotating backups using the common rsync program combined with hard-link copies on Unix-based backup hosts. This results in a fast and disk space saving backup technique. -- Dennis E.

Re: [opensuse] tall PNG images don't load in Firefox

2007-02-16 Thread Kai Ponte
On Friday 16 February 2007 06:32, Russell Jones wrote: Call me a numerologist mystic if you like, but I suspect the height being 32767 pixels (the limit of a signed 16-bit integer) has something to do with it. What happens if it's resized to less than this? What if it's just saved with the

RE: [opensuse] Grabbing MAC address of interface

2007-02-16 Thread Pedro Marques
Hi Jan, Try this in the command line: ifconfig | awk -F HWaddr '{ if ($2!=) print $2 }' If you have more than one NIC you can grep the ifconfig output with something like this: ifconfig | grep eth0 | awk -F HWaddr '{ if ($2!=) print $2 }' HTH, Pedro -Original Message- From:

Re: [opensuse] Desktops and program behaviour

2007-02-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 15:58 +0100, Michael Skiba wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 16. Februar 2007 13:17 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: How can I ensure that only the present Desktop is used when opening a link, even if it means starting a new Firefox

Re: [opensuse] Kopete google talk

2007-02-16 Thread alex
Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett wrote: I am using it right now. There is nothing special appart of: port 5223 server is talk.google.com uses ssl plan text password jid is your complete gmail address Oh, sorry for your time. I have removed and have anew created my account in Kopete. Now

Re: [opensuse] Adding new IMAP accounts with Kontact/Kmail

2007-02-16 Thread Brian Jackson
On Thursday 15 February 2007, Brian Jackson wrote: Hello- On my 10.2 box, I'm trying to add my various IMAP email accounts in Kontact, but everytime I go to 'Check What the Server Supports' in the 'Security' tab, I get the following error: Connect to most .. is broken I

Re: [opensuse] Grabbing MAC address of interface

2007-02-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 16 2007 16:15, Sylvester Lykkehus wrote: I could fiddle with `hwinfo --network` or try parse `ip l sh dev br0` output, but what's actually best? [Using sh.] How about this? % cat /sys/class/net/eth?/address Wonderul, many thanks. Or the long version: /sbin/ifconfig

Re: [opensuse] Maximum tar file size

2007-02-16 Thread Bryan S. Tyson
On Saturday 10 February 2007 21:53, James Knott wrote: Um, for some reason, K3B can't make a DVD out of one 4.7GB file. I don't quite understand why - something to do with math, and I suck at math. In any case, I can put two 2 GB files on a DVD without a problem. It has something to do

[opensuse] Re: [solved] Desktops and program behaviour

2007-02-16 Thread Michael Skiba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 16. Februar 2007 17:37 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This can also be enhanced in Firefox with Preferences - Tabs - New pages should be opened in: a new window/tab But It did not change the behaviour opening in another desktop. My problem

Re: [opensuse] tall PNG images don't load in Firefox

2007-02-16 Thread John Andersen
On Friday 16 February 2007, Dave Howorth wrote:  I put one of the files at http://www.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/dhoworth/f208c50af8a68669c364c22849f1d1de.png . It's 190 kB and 820x36564 pixels. Even Kuickshow complains about that particular image. -- _ John

[opensuse] problem with webcam labtec and kernel 2.6.18.2-34 x86_64

2007-02-16 Thread Piotr Modzelewski
Hi Recently I`ve changed computer and have problem with webcam. Before I used opensuse 10.2 32bit and this webcam worked perfectly Bus 001 Device 003: ID 046d:0929 Logitech, Inc. but on opensuse 10.2 64bit something goes wrong. In log messages I got kernel:

Re: [opensuse] backup data from server

2007-02-16 Thread John Andersen
On Friday 16 February 2007, David Mayr wrote: Hi Evan, I want to setup a backup system for a server where the data is backed up to my laptop which connects wirelessly on the network. There should be 1 day a week where it does a full backup and the other days just incrementals to a

Re: [opensuse] french dealers for 10.2

2007-02-16 Thread John Andersen
On Friday 16 February 2007, Mike McMullin wrote: On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 00:24 -0900, John Andersen wrote: On Thursday 15 February 2007, Michael Loeffler wrote: And I'm not happy at all with the expensive shipment we offer through shopNovell. YOU'RE NOT HAPPY? Guys in Canada got

[opensuse] Re: OpenSUSE updater

2007-02-16 Thread Robert Lewis
In addition, why does it hang for a very long time at the end of an updater operation at 99%. In fact often it goes to 100% and then drops back to 99%. During this time top reports: 7222 root 25 0 82432 44m 6248 R 91.7 4.4 5:09.40 update-status That's 91.7% CPU utilization for a

Re: [opensuse] Grabbing MAC address of interface

2007-02-16 Thread Sylvester Lykkehus
Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Feb 16 2007 16:15, Sylvester Lykkehus wrote: I could fiddle with `hwinfo --network` or try parse `ip l sh dev br0` output, but what's actually best? [Using sh.] How about this? % cat /sys/class/net/eth?/address Wonderul, many thanks. Or the

Re: [opensuse] Fortran 90

2007-02-16 Thread Kai Ponte
On Friday 16 February 2007 11:56, Leonardo Andres Espinosa Leal wrote: Hi guys, I have problems with fortran 90 in opensuse 10.2, it is not in my system. BLAS do not function, I dont know wath happen. People still use FORTRAN? Wow. -- kai getting to grips with the ups and downs thank

[opensuse] Re: [Fwd: Re: local network/ADSL router not available after boot - manual reconfiguration needed]

2007-02-16 Thread Peter Breger
John Andersen wrote: On Sunday 04 February 2007, Peter Breger wrote: John Andersen wrote: I thought I had seen where you configured your computer to use a nic rather than USB and then configured the router via a web browser, and the problem was solved. Did I confuse two threads? Yes

Re: [opensuse] Re: OpenSUSE updater

2007-02-16 Thread Robert Lewis
Robert Lewis wrote: In addition, why does it hang for a very long time at the end of an updater operation at 99%. In fact often it goes to 100% and then drops back to 99%. During this time top reports: 7222 root 25 0 82432 44m 6248 R 91.7 4.4 5:09.40 update-status That's

[opensuse] OpenSUSE updater

2007-02-16 Thread Robert Lewis
I would very much like to hear more from the SUSE developers on their future plans to resolve the many issues raised in this forum about the slowness and other issues of the Updater mechanism. For example: A) Do we have a buy in from the developers that the issues are real and worthy of

Re: [opensuse] Grabbing MAC address of interface

2007-02-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Hi, On Feb 16 2007 21:16, Sylvester Lykkehus wrote: Or the long version: /sbin/ifconfig [interface] | grep HWaddr | tail --bytes=20 | head --bytes=17 That is what I wanted to avoid because it will totally break when the locale changes. How could a locale change break a grep for

Re: [opensuse] Re: OpenSUSE updater

2007-02-16 Thread John Andersen
On Friday 16 February 2007, Robert Lewis wrote: B) That the mechanism is way to slow often taking an hour or tmore to install one rpm If you are having that problem, terminate the updater open a root shell, rczmd stop cd /var/lib/zmd and delete the .db file there in rczmd start then

Re: [opensuse] Re: [Fwd: Re: local network/ADSL router not available after boot - manual reconfiguration needed]

2007-02-16 Thread John Andersen
On Friday 16 February 2007, Peter Breger wrote: Question - in the boot sequence, what needs to be installed in what sequence to allow DHCP etc to be successfull i.e. if maybe one item is missing or starte din wrong sequence, then network detection, setup etc is not possible during boot. And

Re: [opensuse] tall PNG images don't load in Firefox

2007-02-16 Thread Dave Howorth
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 08:25 -0800, Kai Ponte wrote: GIMP - opened just fine. Krita - opened just fine. That's one bizarre image. Kwcikshow - crashed KolourPaint - crashed with segfault - out of graphics memory message GwenView - crashed with seg 11. Since I'm bored - or trying to

[opensuse] network manager vpn vpn client (a bit long, as I'm confused)

2007-02-16 Thread Peter Van Lone
Using SLED10, there is a nice-looking option in the network manager, a left click on the icon in the panel, and there is a VPN Connections option, you can configure vpn definitions, and then launch those that have been configured. If you choose to configure, there is a nice little wizard, and

Re: [opensuse] The BBC is asking if they should support Linux

2007-02-16 Thread Mike McMullin
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 06:48 -0600, Billie Erin Walsh wrote: John Andersen wrote: Given the quality of the BBC these last few years the whole organization should be outlawed. Harumph! Hey, give credit where credit is due here. They are still dreaming up sitcoms for American TV to

[opensuse] Re: network manager vpn vpn client (a bit long, as I'm confused)

2007-02-16 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 2/16/07, Peter Van Lone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: addendum: the documentation for Novell VPN client for Linux talks about copying your user certificate to a particular path. Where do I find/get a user certificate? It appears that I cannot setup a profile without one ... Peter -- To

Re: [opensuse] Re: network manager vpn vpn client (a bit long, as I'm confused)

2007-02-16 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Peter Van Lone [EMAIL PROTECTED] [02-16-07 16:17]: addendum: the documentation for Novell VPN client for Linux talks about copying your user certificate to a particular path. Where do I find/get a user certificate? It appears that I cannot setup a profile without one ... a google search

Re: [opensuse] network manager vpn vpn client (a bit long, as I'm confused)

2007-02-16 Thread Kai Ponte
On Friday 16 February 2007 12:59, Peter Van Lone wrote: Using SLED10, there is a nice-looking option in the network manager, a left click on the icon in the panel, and there is a VPN Connections option, you can configure vpn definitions, and then launch those that have been configured. If you

Re: [opensuse] Grabbing MAC address of interface

2007-02-16 Thread Sylvester Lykkehus
Jan Engelhardt wrote: Hi, 21:39 ichi:~ ifconfig lo loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:838 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:838 errors:0

Re: [opensuse] Grabbing MAC address of interface

2007-02-16 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Friday 16 February 2007 12:40, Jan Engelhardt wrote: Hi, ... How could a locale change break a grep for HWaddr ? ... 21:39 ichi:~ ifconfig lo loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 ... 21:39 ichi:~ LC_MESSAGES=de_DE ifconfig

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