Re: [opensuse] SATA RAID recommendations?

2007-03-06 Thread Anders Norrbring
Hans du Plooy skrev: [8<] I actually haven't heard anything negative about Highpoint so far, not much positive either... At least they do manufacture quite some chips for Adaptec, so I guess their stuff shouldn't stink too much? Which chips do they manufacture? The RAID controller (shudder) or

Re: [opensuse] Is it just me not receiving YUM updates

2007-03-06 Thread Simon Roberts
--- Marcus Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 03:43:08PM -0800, Simon Roberts wrote: ... > > I have never had a single online update since the day I installed > 10.2. > > I suspect that mine isn't configured correctly ... > The easiest way to add one, is to run the "YAS

Re: [opensuse] Need explanation - question 1

2007-03-06 Thread Ken Jennings
On Friday 2006-12-01 15:52, usr wrote: > ... > I gave 10.2 a 3GB partition for / > > I also made separate partitions for /tmp, /var, and /home, each 10GB in > size. I went to update 10.2 and was warned that the / partition is 97% > full. /tmp, /var, and /home don't necessarily have a lot of stuf

[opensuse] Need explanation - question 1

2007-03-06 Thread usr
Hello SuSE people Recently installed 10.2 on a new hard drive. Triple boot all on their own harddrives. I gave 10.2 a 3GB partition for / I also made separate partitions for /tmp, /var, and /home, each 10GB in size. I went to update 10.2 and was warned that the / partition is 97% full. How c

Re: [opensuse] Is it just me not receiving YUM updates

2007-03-06 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 03:43:08PM -0800, Simon Roberts wrote: > > --- Paul Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I run Online Update about twice a week, but I've had > > nothing for maybe almost a month. Is that to be > > expected? Or is it likely I have something misconfigured? > > > > Ju

Re: [opensuse] ZEN update error on startup (OSL 10.2) (SOLVED) WHY DOES THIS FIX THIS ISSUE?

2007-03-06 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 06:42:44PM -0500, Chris C wrote: > Thanks Brad > Got it...I went to that path of the file and noticed that the file is > there again...so are you saying unlike Windows, Linux will rebuild a > file if it's missing? Does this go for all "system" or "application" > files? No,

Re: [opensuse] Daylight Savings Time and Suse 9.x and 10.0

2007-03-06 Thread Darryl Gregorash
On 2007-03-06 21:54, James D. Parra wrote: > > > Changed the name of /etc/localtime to /etc/localtime.old and ran tzselect, > however it did not create a new localtime file. Any ideas? > > > Yast is your friend -- use it to re-select your timezone. Either that, or copy the appropriate file from

[opensuse] To the well again

2007-03-06 Thread Stevens
The help on this forum has been tremendous. I'll try it again, maybe someone knows why... I installed Suse 10.2 on an old P3/900 box that previously had 9.1 on it. Both / and /home partitions were reiser but I reformatted / as ext3 and kept /home unchanged. I expected a few configuration problem

RE: [opensuse] Daylight Savings Time and Suse 9.x and 10.0

2007-03-06 Thread James D. Parra
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 05:14:55PM -0800, James D. Parra wrote: > zdump -v /etc/localtime PST8PDT |grep 2007 > /etc/localtime Sun Apr 1 09:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Apr 1 01:59:59 2007 PST isdst=0 gmtoff=-28800 > /etc/localtime Sun Apr 1 10:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Apr 1 03:00:00 2007 PDT isdst=1 gmt

Re: [opensuse] openSUSE no more

2007-03-06 Thread Rajko M.
On Tuesday 06 March 2007 21:10, Kai Ponte wrote: ... > I even have one super-mega-geek friend using KDE on BSD. :P ... Free, Open, Net, PC, -BSD ;-) -- Regards, Rajko. http://en.opensuse.org/Portal -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] shell script newbie: how to display progress of a pipe?

2007-03-06 Thread M Harris
On Monday 05 March 2007 19:50, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > What would you suggest for my case to report progress? Write a non-buffering stage to preceed the sed stage. command | non-buffering-counter | sed-stage | command2 The non-buffering counter stage immediately passes each i

Re: [opensuse] openSUSE no more

2007-03-06 Thread Kai Ponte
On Saturday 03 March 2007 07:35:20 am Rami Michael wrote: > I don't see a big deal about people switching between distros. It > really just depends on luck. I know people who swear by a distro > until they get a new laptop and then suddenly another distro works > better out of the box on that har

Re: [opensuse] software raid missing a drive??

2007-03-06 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-03-06 at 16:26 +0100, Leen de Braal wrote: > >> > Look at the logs... it's the only way. It could be a glitch. There > >> > is a temporary problem sometime, a disk is removed, and it awaits > >> > manual intervention. It will autom

Re: [opensuse] SUSE 9.2 x86_64 and DST

2007-03-06 Thread Darryl Gregorash
On 2007-03-06 11:28, Tim Donnelly wrote: > SUSE 9.2 is no longer supported by YAST (at least I am not getting any > updates from it). > > Copy /usr/share/zoneinfo/* from any updated system onto the 9.2 system, then: a) if /etc/localtime is a symlink, you are done. b) otherwise, over-write it wit

[opensuse] KDE login screen doesn't appear anymore after installing Xgl & compiz...

2007-03-06 Thread Daniel Antonio Peraza Cedrez
Hi, I'm a little bit confused about all the Xgl and compiz/beryl stuff. I installed Xgl and compiz, but my KDE login screen doesn't appear anymore. I just have a grey/green screen asking me for my login/password combination and a little window titled XConsole which seems to be a kind of terminal.

Re: [opensuse] Daylight Savings Time and Suse 9.x and 10.0

2007-03-06 Thread Seth Arnold
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 05:14:55PM -0800, James D. Parra wrote: > zdump -v /etc/localtime PST8PDT |grep 2007 > /etc/localtime Sun Apr 1 09:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Apr 1 01:59:59 2007 PST > isdst=0 gmtoff=-28800 > /etc/localtime Sun Apr 1 10:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Apr 1 03:00:00 2007 PDT > isdst

RE: [opensuse] Daylight Savings Time and Suse 9.x and 10.0

2007-03-06 Thread James D. Parra
>>We are running Suse 9.1 through 9.3 and 10.0 in our shop. What is the best >>method to get DST settings changed to reflect the new DST dates? >> >>Will running online update automatically fix DST? Is there a config file >>that can be changed or viewed to confirm that the system is ready for the >

Re: [opensuse] software raid missing a drive??

2007-03-06 Thread Joe Morris (NTM)
Leen de Braal wrote: > It is running ok now, as far as i can see, all in sync. > For me it means that I will have to pay more attention to monitor this > kind of errors. Will look into mdadm, as I have seen, that it has > parameters that can make it do this, and report me by mail or something > lik

Re: [opensuse] Why other Boot Options

2007-03-06 Thread Joe Morris (NTM)
Chris C wrote: > Thanks Joe. > Which one should be used. It's defaulting to the > "kernel-2.6.18.2-34-bigsmp" option...but the others are still > there...should the "boot" file be updated to delete the other options > not being used? > I would suggest leaving it as is. > So what if I boot to t

Re: [opensuse] ZEN update error on startup (OSL 10.2) (SOLVED) WHY DOES THIS FIX THIS ISSUE?

2007-03-06 Thread Chris C
Thanks Brad Got it...I went to that path of the file and noticed that the file is there again...so are you saying unlike Windows, Linux will rebuild a file if it's missing? Does this go for all "system" or "application" files? Chris On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 16:40 -0700, Brad Bourn wrote: > renaming a

Re: [opensuse] Is it just me not receiving YUM updates

2007-03-06 Thread Simon Roberts
--- Paul Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I run Online Update about twice a week, but I've had > nothing for maybe almost a month. Is that to be > expected? Or is it likely I have something misconfigured? > > Just wondering what other's are seeing. > > Cheers, > Paul. --

Re: [opensuse] Why other Boot Options

2007-03-06 Thread Chris C
Thanks Joe. Which one should be used. It's defaulting to the "kernel-2.6.18.2-34-bigsmp" option...but the others are still there...should the "boot" file be updated to delete the other options not being used? So what if I boot to the normal "OpenSuse 10.2"...I'm using a different Kernel? If t

Re: [opensuse] ZEN update error on startup (OSL 10.2) (SOLVED) WHY DOES THIS FIX THIS ISSUE?

2007-03-06 Thread Brad Bourn
renaming a file basically deletes it (makes it invisible to what is looking for it) causing the using application to rebuild it. Re-naming instead of actually deleting gives you the option to restore the original if need be. B-) On Tuesday 06 March 2007 4:31 pm, Chris C wrote: > Wow that fixed

Re: [opensuse] ZEN update error on startup (OSL 10.2) (SOLVED) WHY DOES THIS FIX THIS ISSUE?

2007-03-06 Thread Chris C
Wow that fixed the update issue...but why does renaming the file with a different extension fix this issue? What is really happening? Chris On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 18:12 -0500, Chris C wrote: > Thanks KEN!! > Chris > > On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 16:13 -0500, Chris C wrote: > > > Hello all, > > We have

Re: [opensuse] Why other Boot Options

2007-03-06 Thread Joe Morris (NTM)
Chris C wrote: > Can somebody shed some light on the new options that are now in my boot > menu? > I have the normal such as: > OpenSuse 10.2 > OpenSuse Fail-Safe 10.2 > but now I have two other options which read: > Opensuse 10.2 (XEN) > Kernel-2.6.18.2-34-bigsmp > > What are these new options an

Re: [opensuse] ZEN update error on startup (OSL 10.2) (SOLVED)

2007-03-06 Thread Chris C
Thanks KEN!! Chris On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 16:13 -0500, Chris C wrote: > Hello all, > We have been having this problem for a while now...but we really don't > have any idea what to do about it. > > When the system boots to the desktop, I get this error window: > > "System.NullRef

Re: [opensuse] Linux on Dell preloads

2007-03-06 Thread Greg Freemyer
On 3/6/07, Randall R Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Greg, Peter, On Tuesday 06 March 2007 14:12, Greg Freemyer wrote: > On 3/6/07, Peter Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... You put *what* on it??? Linux > > You can get Memtest86+ for a boot floppy. That is actually how I run > i

Re: [opensuse] Linux on Dell preloads

2007-03-06 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Randall R Schulz: I think Peter was just anticipating the response of his hardware vendor. Anyway, the SuSE installation disks include Memtest86+ as one of their boot options. Greg Yeah, I was; but there'd be no harm is saying to the vendor: "Here's a boot CD with Mem

Re: [opensuse] Linux on Dell preloads

2007-03-06 Thread Randall R Schulz
Greg, Peter, On Tuesday 06 March 2007 14:12, Greg Freemyer wrote: > On 3/6/07, Peter Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... You put *what* on it??? Linux > > You can get Memtest86+ for a boot floppy. That is actually how I run > it most of the time. > > http://www.memtest.org/#downiso

[opensuse] Why other Boot Options

2007-03-06 Thread Chris C
Can somebody shed some light on the new options that are now in my boot menu? I have the normal such as: OpenSuse 10.2 OpenSuse Fail-Safe 10.2 but now I have two other options which read: Opensuse 10.2 (XEN) Kernel-2.6.18.2-34-bigsmp What are these new options and where did they come from? Thank

Re: [opensuse] Linux on Dell preloads

2007-03-06 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Greg Freemyer: You can get Memtest86+ for a boot floppy. That is actually how I run it most of the time. http://www.memtest.org/#downiso(See the 6th download choice) For windows people it makes them better understand that it is just a diagnostic tool not related at all to Lin

Re: [opensuse] Linux on Dell preloads

2007-03-06 Thread Greg Freemyer
On 3/6/07, Peter Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm much relieved to hear that Randall. I think the obvious course is to see if I can find my receipts and stuff and then to see if I can persuade the vendors to swap the memory without hosing my entire system. You put *what* on it??? Linux

Re: [opensuse] Linux on Dell preloads

2007-03-06 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Randall R Schulz: Peter, Well, BIOS configuration doesn't involve internal surgery, you know. It's just more of that magical keyboard incantation stuff that programmer geeks do so well... Hell no! I might be tempted to write the program that allows you to make the incantati

Re: [opensuse] X start help

2007-03-06 Thread Stevens
On Tuesday 06 March 2007 02:39, Tom Burt wrote: > On 2007. 03. 06., Tuesday 00:28, Stevens wrote: > > What is the difference between "init 5" and "startx" as it pertains to > > starting the X system? I ask because my system (on boot) now goes to > > init 5, does not start X windows, does not give m

RE: [opensuse] ZEN update error on startup (OSL 10.2)

2007-03-06 Thread Ken Gramm
Hi Chris, I had the same problem yesterday. Check out Don Raboud's post: RE: [opensuse] ZMD on 10.2 without warning has gone T**s up .. It should fix your problem. Good luck, K > -Original Message- > From: Chris C [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 3:14 PM > T

Re: [opensuse] undeleting files [OT]

2007-03-06 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Billie Erin Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [03-06-07 10:47]: > IMHO: > > If the e-mail settings for the list are to reply to the sender, there > should be no complaint if someone does just hit the reply. It is, > after all, the way the list is engineered, so quitcherbitchin. There's > a key marked "D

Re: [opensuse] More 10.2 nightmares

2007-03-06 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Billie Erin Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [03-06-07 10:08]: > Actually, when I added it to my install list I DID NOT get any warning > message. Had to learn the hard way. Now I'm a tiny bit smarter. Life > is a learning experience. Every time I blow up SuSE I learn a little > something. Then, just p

[opensuse] ZEN update error on startup (OSL 10.2)

2007-03-06 Thread Chris C
Hello all, We have been having this problem for a while now...but we really don't have any idea what to do about it. When the system boots to the desktop, I get this error window: "System.NullReferenceException. A null value was found where an object instance was

Re: [opensuse] Daylight Savings Time and Suse 9.x and 10.0

2007-03-06 Thread James Knott
Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-03-06 at 13:20 -0500, James Knott wrote: You can use the updated /etc/localtime file from your 9.3 system and copy it to your 9.1/9.2 boxes. We used a 9.3 updated zone file on a very old SuSE 6.4 system wit

Re: [opensuse] Daylight Savings Time and Suse 9.x and 10.0

2007-03-06 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-03-06 at 13:20 -0500, James Knott wrote: > > You can use the updated /etc/localtime file from your 9.3 system and > > copy it to your 9.1/9.2 boxes. > > > > We used a 9.3 updated zone file on a very old SuSE 6.4 system without issue.

Re: [opensuse] ZMD on 10.2 without warning has gone T**s up ..

2007-03-06 Thread Brad Bourn
I've seen on my own system behavior like that and most of the time it turns out to be something like running out of disk space or the like. When applications are updating files (making bigger, like the db for zmd) and they run out of space, they usually recover (don't crash) but don't continue

Re: [opensuse] Daylight Savings Time and Suse 9.x and 10.0

2007-03-06 Thread Darryl Gregorash
On 2007-03-06 11:03, James D. Parra wrote: > > > Thank you for the response. So what file can be modified on the 9.1 & 9.2 > machines to get them on the new DST standard? > > > Copy /usr/share/zoneinfo/* from any updated system over to the 9.1 and 9.2 systems. Then copy the appropriate file fro

Re: [opensuse] Linux on Dell preloads

2007-03-06 Thread Randall R Schulz
Peter, On Tuesday 06 March 2007 12:08, Peter Bradley wrote: > ... > > > > Did you, by any chance, tweak your RAM access parameters in the > > BIOS for speed purposes? If so, go back into the BIOS and let it > > use the RAM's SPD (Serial Presence Detect) to determine the > > appropriate RAM access

Re: [opensuse] Linux on Dell preloads

2007-03-06 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Randall R Schulz: [ For this kind of information, turning off line wrap when sending is advisable. ] Thanks. I'll remember that in future. The bottom table was coloured a frightening shade of red. Do I have a problem? What do you think?? Hoping against hope, y

Re: [opensuse] ZMD on 10.2 without warning has gone T**s up ..

2007-03-06 Thread peter nikolic
On Tuesday 06 March 2007, Don Raboud wrote: > On Tuesday 06 March 2007 10:47, peter nikolic wrote: > try as root > rczmd stop > mv /var/lib/zmd/zmd.db /var/lib/zmd/zmd.db.bak (or something else) > rczmd restart > > and wait. I've also had to reboot (or drop to runlevel 1 and back) to get > this t

Re: [opensuse] Linux on Dell preloads

2007-03-06 Thread Randall R Schulz
Peter, On Tuesday 06 March 2007 11:25, Peter Bradley wrote: > ... > > OK. I've run memtest as one or two of you suggested. Could I now > prevail on you to interpret the results for me, please? > > I left memtest running all day while I was out. The following is a > transcript of the screen as i

Re: [opensuse] No DST update for SUSE 10.0

2007-03-06 Thread Mike McMullin
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 17:45 +0100, Marcus Meissner wrote: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 11:38:08AM -0500, Coach-X wrote: > > > Marcus Meissner wrote: > > > Then you should run "YAST Online Update" and install the current > > > security and > > > recommended updates. > > > > > > Ciao, Marcu

Re: [opensuse] No DST update for SUSE 10.0

2007-03-06 Thread Mike McMullin
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 16:49 +0100, Marcus Meissner wrote: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:47:40AM -0500, James Knott wrote: > > My firewall is running SUSE 10.0. One thing I've noticed is that it > > doesn't seem to have been updated for the new DST dates. I've even > > tried the fix on DesktopLin

Re: [opensuse] Linux on Dell preloads

2007-03-06 Thread James Knott
Peter Bradley wrote: Ysgrifennodd Peter Bradley: Ysgrifennodd Hans du Plooy: On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 19:18 +, Peter Bradley wrote: However it has been flakey: and the once-a-month issue with the grapics card has been the least of my worries. Thunderbird regularly freezes or crashes and h

Re: [opensuse] Linux on Dell preloads

2007-03-06 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Peter Bradley: Ysgrifennodd Hans du Plooy: On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 19:18 +, Peter Bradley wrote: However it has been flakey: and the once-a-month issue with the grapics card has been the least of my worries. Thunderbird regularly freezes or crashes and has to be re-started (i

Re: [opensuse] ZMD on 10.2 without warning has gone T**s up ..

2007-03-06 Thread Don Raboud
On Tuesday 06 March 2007 10:47, peter nikolic wrote: > Hi .. > > working away on my laptop no problems at all (apart from the darn windows > box on the next desk) , I noticed an update showing for xsane so told it > to carry on and update it sits there for the best part of 2.5 hours > checki

Re: [opensuse] Daylight Savings Time and Suse 9.x and 10.0

2007-03-06 Thread Bruce Ferrell
James D. Parra wrote: On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 08:52:15AM -0800, James D. Parra wrote: Hello, We are running Suse 9.1 through 9.3 and 10.0 in our shop. What is the best method to get DST settings changed to reflect the new DST dates? Will running online update automatically fix DST? Is ther

Notebook (ACPI) (Was: Re: [opensuse] SATA RAID recommendations?)

2007-03-06 Thread David Brodbeck
Hans du Plooy wrote: > Ha ha! Problem on my notebooks is my fans don't switch on. Whic hwas OK > before CPU frequency scaling started working, because the chip was > underclocked and barely ever hit 60 degrees celcius. But at some point > that was fixed (the frequency scaling) which now gives me

[opensuse] Audio just stopped

2007-03-06 Thread John ffitch
I was using my laptop (Suse10.2) and tried switching my microphone on in alsamixer -- everything went quiet. Now I have no sound other that the beeps. aplay says it is playing but silence. Audacity says it is playing and silence. I have done the obvious -- nothing is muted in alsamnixer; re-co

[opensuse] Audio just stopped

2007-03-06 Thread John ffitch
I was using my laptop (Suse10.2) and tried switching my microphone on in alsamixer -- everything went quiet. Now I have no sound other that the beeps. aplay says it is playing but silence. Audacity says it is playing and silence. I have done th eobvious -- nothing is muted in alsamnixer; re-co

Re: [opensuse] undeleting files [OT]

2007-03-06 Thread David Brodbeck
Billie Erin Walsh wrote: > away all you want. Seems to be your best answer. > Well, if he eventually killfiles the entire list, it *will* solve his problem with direct replies. ;) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Daylight Savings Time and Suse 9.x and 10.0

2007-03-06 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:38:57AM -0800, Michael Nelson wrote: > There is also an update for Sun Java on Sun's site... Apparently Sun Java > has some issues with DST2007 too. We also have already published SUN and IBM Java updates via Online Update to fix their DST issues. Ciao, Marcus -- To un

[opensuse] Shorewall (was; Re: [open suse] Martin Glötzl-Koch STOP BOUNCING LIST MAIL)

2007-03-06 Thread Jon Clausen
On Sat, 03 Mar, 2007 at 12:23:10 +0100, Sandy Drobic wrote: > Can you set up rules for outgoing traffic in Shorewall? Certainly, and quite easily too. I'll refrain from quoting documentation (too much) and instead you try to give a short high-vantagepoint view: Shorewall uses the concept of '

Re: [opensuse] Daylight Savings Time and Suse 9.x and 10.0

2007-03-06 Thread Michael Nelson
There is also an update for Sun Java on Sun's site... Apparently Sun Java has some issues with DST2007 too. Michael -- If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is "Probably because o

RE: [opensuse] Daylight Savings Time and Suse 9.x and 10.0

2007-03-06 Thread Michael S. Dunsavage
SLES9/NLD9/OES - Novell patch-10738 required to update to Version 2.2.3-98.61 or later http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/dc796dd9dbb5e75506f5d45ed63aa3b3.h tml Sould be the patch for DST. > -Original Message- > From: James Knott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March

Re: [opensuse] Daylight Savings Time and Suse 9.x and 10.0

2007-03-06 Thread Coach-X
> You can use the updated /etc/localtime file from your 9.3 system and > copy it to your 9.1/9.2 boxes. > > We used a 9.3 updated zone file on a very old SuSE 6.4 system > without issue. > > So, I should be able to copy from my 10.2 to 10.0 system? I would use the offical update for

Re: [opensuse] No DST update for SUSE 10.0

2007-03-06 Thread James Knott
Coach-X wrote: James, Are you running timezone-2.3.5-40.5? If so, try running SuSEconfig to create the new /etc/localtime file. That does not appear to update or create a new localtime file. The date on that file shows Sept 9. Run yast > System > Date and Time change time zone

Re: [opensuse] No DST update for SUSE 10.0

2007-03-06 Thread James Knott
Marcus Meissner wrote: On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 11:38:08AM -0500, Coach-X wrote: Marcus Meissner wrote: Then you should run "YAST Online Update" and install the current security and recommended updates. Ciao, Marcus I have done that and it doesn't currently show any security upda

Re: [opensuse] No DST update for SUSE 10.0

2007-03-06 Thread Coach-X
> James, > Are you running timezone-2.3.5-40.5? If so, try running SuSEconfig to > create the new /etc/localtime file. > > That does not appear to update or create a new localtime file. The date > on that file shows Sept 9. Run yast > System > Date and Time change time zone to differe

Re: [opensuse] Daylight Savings Time and Suse 9.x and 10.0

2007-03-06 Thread James Knott
Coach-X wrote: Thank you for the response. So what file can be modified on the 9.1 & 9.2 machines to get them on the new DST standard? Many thanks, ~James You can use the updated /etc/localtime file from your 9.3 system and copy it to your 9.1/9.2 boxes. We used a 9.3 updated zone file

[opensuse] Connecting?

2007-03-06 Thread James Hatridge
Hi all! I am using SuSE 10.1 with XP on Vmware. So far I've never allowed XP access to the 'net. But it seems that I might have to. The deal is I'm needing to upload allot of auctions to Ebay by using their TurboLister. Of course turbolister only works under W$. My question is if I use only I

Re: [opensuse] Daylight Savings Time and Suse 9.x and 10.0

2007-03-06 Thread Coach-X
> Thank you for the response. So what file can be modified on the 9.1 & 9.2 > machines to get them on the new DST standard? > > Many thanks, > > ~James You can use the updated /etc/localtime file from your 9.3 system and copy it to your 9.1/9.2 boxes. We used a 9.3 updated zone file on a very o

Re: [opensuse] No DST update for SUSE 10.0

2007-03-06 Thread James Knott
Coach-X wrote: Marcus Meissner wrote: Then you should run "YAST Online Update" and install the current security and recommended updates. Ciao, Marcus I have done that and it doesn't currently show any security updates, just optional updates James, Are you running timezone-2.3

Re: [opensuse] ZMD on 10.2 without warning has gone T**s up ..

2007-03-06 Thread peter nikolic
On Tuesday 06 March 2007, Nick Zentena wrote: > On Tuesday 06 March 2007 12:47, peter nikolic wrote: > > Hi .. > > > > working away on my laptop no problems at all (apart from the darn > > windows box on the next desk) , I noticed an update showing for xsane > > so told it to carry on and upda

Re: [opensuse] ZMD on 10.2 without warning has gone T**s up ..

2007-03-06 Thread Nick Zentena
On Tuesday 06 March 2007 12:47, peter nikolic wrote: > Hi .. > > working away on my laptop no problems at all (apart from the darn windows > box on the next desk) , I noticed an update showing for xsane so told it > to carry on and update it sits there for the best part of 2.5 hours > checki

[opensuse] ZMD on 10.2 without warning has gone T**s up ..

2007-03-06 Thread peter nikolic
Hi .. working away on my laptop no problems at all (apart from the darn windows box on the next desk) , I noticed an update showing for xsane so told it to carry on and update it sits there for the best part of 2.5 hours checking dependencies then the ZMD icon changes to a red square

Re: [opensuse] Daylight Savings Time and Suse 9.x and 10.0

2007-03-06 Thread Andreas Jaeger
The timezone source data is changed in glibc, you should be able to update these on your old systems and regenerate the data manually. See Uli's blog entry http://udrepper.livejournal.com/15543.html Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products Gmb

Re: [opensuse] undeleting files [OT]

2007-03-06 Thread Billie Erin Walsh
Once there was a man that was on a long journey. Being a beautiful day, and a great view, he decided to sit beneath a shade tree and rest a while. On a branch above him was a beautiful bird. As he sat there contemplating the beauty of the world around him the bird crapped all over him. Angrily he s

Re: [opensuse] mod_auth_ldap

2007-03-06 Thread Jorge Raimundo
I wrote an answer thinking I was sending it to the mailing list but I didn't notice it was a direct answer. Kindly, Gaël answered back, so I send the result of both mails in the hope it may help someone. Best regards, Jorge -- Forwarded message -- From: Gaël Lams <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [opensuse] SUSE 9.2 x86_64 and DST

2007-03-06 Thread Tim Donnelly
SUSE 9.2 is no longer supported by YAST (at least I am not getting any updates from it). I am running SUSE 9.2, kernel 2.6.8-24.25-smp running on a Dell PowerEdge 2850 with a 2.8GHz Xeon processor. The particular version of glibc that is installed is 2.3.3-118. I wish I could find the page ag

Re: [opensuse] SATA / SAS controllers.

2007-03-06 Thread Russell Jones
Greg Freemyer wrote: On 3/6/07, Russell Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I assume the opposite is not true? ie. That a SAS disk can talk SATA? I'd think not. But IDK. It would actually make my job easier if I could use a SATA controller to talk to a SAS drive, but that seems unlikely? Try

Re: [opensuse] MSworks (huh!) [OT]

2007-03-06 Thread Russell Jones
Kai Ponte wrote: On Monday 05 March 2007 08:38:44 pm John Andersen wrote: On Monday 05 March 2007, Russell Jones wrote: John Andersen wrote: On Thursday 01 March 2007, Kai Ponte wrote: went about their business for the sole reason of "snubbing Trolltech" as you said.

Re: [opensuse] Smart. [OT]

2007-03-06 Thread Russell Jones
Fred A. Miller wrote: On Thursday 22 February 2007 4:09:02 am John Andersen wrote: On Wednesday 21 February 2007, Clayton wrote: At least with Synaptic, the new users caught on within a couple minutes. Like i've said in other threads, the one thing that (k)(X)Ubuntu does right

Re: [opensuse] undeleting files [OT]

2007-03-06 Thread JB
On 06 March 07 09:44, Billie Erin Walsh wrote: > IMHO: > > If the e-mail settings for the list are to reply to the sender, there > should be no complaint if someone does just hit the reply. It is, after > all, the way the list is engineered, so quitcherbitchin.

Re: [opensuse] SUSE 9.2 x86_64 and DST

2007-03-06 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:07:59AM -0700, Tim Donnelly wrote: > I have been able to successfully patch all of my servers running the various > flavors of SUSE (9.0 through 10.1) that I have inherited, with the exception > of 3 that are running 9.2 on an x86_64 platform. > > For many I had to use

Re: [opensuse] Daylight Savings Time and Suse 9.x and 10.0

2007-03-06 Thread Greg Freemyer
On 3/6/07, James D. Parra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 08:52:15AM -0800, James D. Parra wrote: > Hello, > > We are running Suse 9.1 through 9.3 and 10.0 in our shop. What is the best > method to get DST settings changed to reflect the new DST dates? > > Will running online

[opensuse] SUSE 9.2 x86_64 and DST

2007-03-06 Thread Tim Donnelly
I have been able to successfully patch all of my servers running the various flavors of SUSE (9.0 through 10.1) that I have inherited, with the exception of 3 that are running 9.2 on an x86_64 platform. For many I had to use the manual method found here: http://www.novell.com/support/search.do?

RE: [opensuse] Daylight Savings Time and Suse 9.x and 10.0

2007-03-06 Thread James D. Parra
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 08:52:15AM -0800, James D. Parra wrote: > Hello, > > We are running Suse 9.1 through 9.3 and 10.0 in our shop. What is the best > method to get DST settings changed to reflect the new DST dates? > > Will running online update automatically fix DST? Is there a config file

Re: [opensuse] Daylight Savings Time and Suse 9.x and 10.0

2007-03-06 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 08:52:15AM -0800, James D. Parra wrote: > Hello, > > We are running Suse 9.1 through 9.3 and 10.0 in our shop. What is the best > method to get DST settings changed to reflect the new DST dates? > > Will running online update automatically fix DST? Is there a config file >

[opensuse] Daylight Savings Time and Suse 9.x and 10.0

2007-03-06 Thread James D. Parra
Hello, We are running Suse 9.1 through 9.3 and 10.0 in our shop. What is the best method to get DST settings changed to reflect the new DST dates? Will running online update automatically fix DST? Is there a config file that can be changed or viewed to confirm that the system is ready for the tim

Re: [opensuse] No DST update for SUSE 10.0

2007-03-06 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 11:38:08AM -0500, Coach-X wrote: > > Marcus Meissner wrote: > > Then you should run "YAST Online Update" and install the current > > security and > > recommended updates. > > > > Ciao, Marcus > > > > I have done that and it doesn't currently show any security u

Re: [opensuse] No DST update for SUSE 10.0

2007-03-06 Thread Coach-X
> Marcus Meissner wrote: > Then you should run "YAST Online Update" and install the current > security and > recommended updates. > > Ciao, Marcus > > I have done that and it doesn't currently show any security updates, > just optional updates James, Are you running timezone-2.3.5-40

[opensuse] OpenOffice Presentations - problems with graphics file formats

2007-03-06 Thread Don Raboud
Hi all, sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this. I would appreciate any help with this, or a pointer on a more appropriate place to look. I am using openSUSE 10.2. I am trying to put some presentations together using OpenOffice Impress (version 2.0.4, build 2.0.4.7), and I want to include

[opensuse] Monitoring for Linux

2007-03-06 Thread Jose
Hi Gents/Ladies, I am looking for a monitoring software for Linux, I know about Big Brother, but I am looking for something like gkrellm, this software gives me reading for heat, fans working, but it runs local, does anybody knows something like this that can be monitored remotely? Thanks J

Re: [opensuse] No DST update for SUSE 10.0

2007-03-06 Thread James Knott
Marcus Meissner wrote: On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:59:18AM -0500, James Knott wrote: Marcus Meissner wrote: On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:47:40AM -0500, James Knott wrote: My firewall is running SUSE 10.0. One thing I've noticed is that it doesn't seem to have been updated for th

Re: [opensuse] No DST update for SUSE 10.0

2007-03-06 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:59:18AM -0500, James Knott wrote: > Marcus Meissner wrote: > >On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:47:40AM -0500, James Knott wrote: > > > >>My firewall is running SUSE 10.0. One thing I've noticed is that it > >>doesn't seem to have been updated for the new DST dates. I've ev

Re: [opensuse] X start help

2007-03-06 Thread Matthias Hopf
On Mar 05, 07 17:28:23 -0600, Stevens wrote: > This started as soon as I removed beryl. There is a clue there, right ;-) Maybe you're hitting bug #227660 (if you have been using Xgl, that is). In that case make sure that in /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager DISPLAYMANAGER_XSERVER="Xorg" is set correct

Re: [opensuse] No DST update for SUSE 10.0

2007-03-06 Thread James Knott
Marcus Meissner wrote: On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:47:40AM -0500, James Knott wrote: My firewall is running SUSE 10.0. One thing I've noticed is that it doesn't seem to have been updated for the new DST dates. I've even tried the fix on DesktopLinux.com, but it still shows the wrong date.

Re: [opensuse] Beryl and xgl

2007-03-06 Thread Matthias Hopf
On Mar 05, 07 21:02:07 +0100, Tom Burt wrote: > Does this mean that the page http://en.opensuse.org/Beryl is also incorrect > in > saying: > > Beryl with nVidia drivers - no Xgl/AIGLX > "...This uses nVidia's AIGLX; not Xorg's inbuilt/optional AIGLX..." Well - partially. It just shouldn't be ca

Re: [opensuse] MSworks (huh!) [OT]

2007-03-06 Thread Kai Ponte
On Monday 05 March 2007 08:38:44 pm John Andersen wrote: > On Monday 05 March 2007, Russell Jones wrote: > > John Andersen wrote: > > > On Thursday 01 March 2007, Kai Ponte wrote: > > >> I remember thinking that the Gnome group were a bunch > > >> of whining children about the whole idea and that

Re: [opensuse] No DST update for SUSE 10.0

2007-03-06 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:47:40AM -0500, James Knott wrote: > My firewall is running SUSE 10.0. One thing I've noticed is that it > doesn't seem to have been updated for the new DST dates. I've even > tried the fix on DesktopLinux.com, but it still shows the wrong date. > > http://www.desktop

[opensuse] No DST update for SUSE 10.0

2007-03-06 Thread James Knott
My firewall is running SUSE 10.0. One thing I've noticed is that it doesn't seem to have been updated for the new DST dates. I've even tried the fix on DesktopLinux.com, but it still shows the wrong date. http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS3988059943.html tnx jk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [opensuse] undeleting files [OT]

2007-03-06 Thread Billie Erin Walsh
IMHO: If the e-mail settings for the list are to reply to the sender, there should be no complaint if someone does just hit the reply. It is, after all, the way the list is engineered, so quitcherbitchin. There's a key marked "Delete" on every keyboard in existence. Take a good look and learn wher

Re: [opensuse] software raid missing a drive??

2007-03-06 Thread Leen de Braal
> On 3/6/07, Leen de Braal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> > Hash: SHA1 >> > >> > >> > The Tuesday 2007-03-06 at 13:28 +0100, Leen de Braal wrote: >> > >> >> Still asking myself how this could have happened? Any idea? >> > >> > Look at the logs... it's the

Re: [opensuse] Is it just me not receiving YUM updates

2007-03-06 Thread Paul Gardiner
Marcus Meissner wrote: On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 03:08:09PM +, Paul Gardiner wrote: Marcus Meissner wrote: You can check for instance against MozillaFirefox, which was brought to version 2.0.0.2 What does: rpm -q MozillaFirefox report on your machine? 2.0.0.1 Can you find it on th

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