Re: [opensuse] KDM login screen configuration

2007-03-07 Thread Tim Nicholson
jim barnes wrote: > On Wednesday 07 March 2007 11:19, Tim Nicholson wrote: >> Having trawled through yast I cannot see any way to do this, nor can I >> find a KDM config file to tweak. > > The tweak is in /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc, along with a plethora of > others: > > # Enable user list

Re: [opensuse] Keyboard repeat on SELD10

2007-03-07 Thread Joshua Raphael P. Fuentes
I am also experiencing this problem, but only when XGL is activated. If not, everything works normally as they should. You're not alone with this problem. Look in the February archives. There are a couple threads on this subject. Also some in December and November. Take a look at https://bugzi

Re: [opensuse] To the well again

2007-03-07 Thread Jim Cunning
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 21:01, Randall R Schulz wrote: > On Wednesday 07 March 2007 19:41, Fred A. Miller wrote: > > On Wednesday 07 March 2007 7:44:05 pm Randall R Schulz wrote: > > > On Wednesday 07 March 2007 16:31, Fred A. Miller wrote: > > > > On Wednesday 07 March 2007 12:57:09 pm Anders J

Re: [opensuse] K9copy

2007-03-07 Thread Sunny
On 3/7/07, Fred A. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: K9 is broken..current version. The author claims that it has a problem with "bad sectors" on DVDs. I'm not sure, as I just copied a dual-layer commercial DVD that I want to make an archive copy from, creating an ISO. K9 barfed on the ISO.

Re: [opensuse] To the well again

2007-03-07 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 19:41, Fred A. Miller wrote: > On Wednesday 07 March 2007 7:44:05 pm Randall R Schulz wrote: > > On Wednesday 07 March 2007 16:31, Fred A. Miller wrote: > > > On Wednesday 07 March 2007 12:57:09 pm Anders Johansson wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > > > > chown -R .users /home/

Re: [opensuse] To the well again

2007-03-07 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 7:44:05 pm Randall R Schulz wrote: > On Wednesday 07 March 2007 16:31, Fred A. Miller wrote: > > On Wednesday 07 March 2007 12:57:09 pm Anders Johansson wrote: > > > ... > > > > > > chown -R .users /home/ > > > > No, it should be: > > > > chown -R :users /home/ > > Both t

[opensuse] K9copy

2007-03-07 Thread Fred A. Miller
K9 is broken..current version. The author claims that it has a problem with "bad sectors" on DVDs. I'm not sure, as I just copied a dual-layer commercial DVD that I want to make an archive copy from, creating an ISO. K9 barfed on the ISO. Is there any other software that will compress a dua

Re: [opensuse] Linux and Sony DDS Compression

2007-03-07 Thread Wade Jones
>On Wednesday 07 March 2007 15:22, Bruce Marshall wrote: > On Wednesday 07 March 2007 15:53, Rejaine Monteiro wrote: > > I do not seem to be able to write over 12MB on the tape. > > I would expect more if compression is working. > I have a SDT9000 that I don't use anymore but in my experience, the

Re: [opensuse] To the well again

2007-03-07 Thread David Bolt
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Anders Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:- >Secondly, between 9.1 and 10.2, suse changed user IDs. Before, a user got uid >100 and up by default, in 10.2 he gets 1000 and up. So odds are your ^^^ On my 9.0 box, UID 100 is: privoxy:x:100:101:Daemon user for privoxy:/var/li

Re: [opensuse] KDM login screen configuration

2007-03-07 Thread jim barnes
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 11:19, Tim Nicholson wrote: > Having trawled through yast I cannot see any way to do this, nor can I > find a KDM config file to tweak. The tweak is in /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc, along with a plethora of others: # Enable user list (names along with images) in th

Re: [opensuse] Recommended by Microsoft

2007-03-07 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 16:40, David Brodbeck wrote: > From what I've seen on this thread, people will apparently stop using > a distribution if Microsoft endorses it. Clearly, the way for > Microsoft to eliminate Linux as a threat is just to endorse every > distribution, then no one will use i

Re: [opensuse] Installing jre-6-linux-i586-rpm.bin

2007-03-07 Thread Glenn Holmer
On Thursday 01 March 2007 09:32, Daniel Bornkessel wrote: > I just submitted java-1_6_0-sun to our build system ... so it should > be available for factory in a few days. Is this available yet? What's the URL? -- Glenn Holmer (Q-Link: ShadowM) http://www.lyonlabs.org/commodore/c64.html -- To u

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

2007-03-07 Thread Hans Krueger
James Knott wrote: 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

Re: [opensuse] To the well again

2007-03-07 Thread Jim Cunning
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 16:31, Fred A. Miller wrote: > On Wednesday 07 March 2007 12:57:09 pm Anders Johansson wrote: > > On Wednesday 07 March 2007 18:47, I wrote: > > > chmod -R .users /home/ > > > > Oops, that should of course be > > > > chown -R .users /home/ > > No, it should be: > > chown

Re: [opensuse] To the well again

2007-03-07 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 16:31, Fred A. Miller wrote: > On Wednesday 07 March 2007 12:57:09 pm Anders Johansson wrote: > > ... > > > > chown -R .users /home/ > > No, it should be: > > chown -R :users /home/ Both the colon and period separators work. > Fred Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe,

Re: [opensuse] Recommended by Microsoft

2007-03-07 Thread David Brodbeck
>From what I've seen on this thread, people will apparently stop using a distribution if Microsoft endorses it. Clearly, the way for Microsoft to eliminate Linux as a threat is just to endorse every distribution, then no one will use it anymore. ;) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: [opensuse] To the well again

2007-03-07 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 12:57:09 pm Anders Johansson wrote: > On Wednesday 07 March 2007 18:47, I wrote: > > chmod -R .users /home/ > > Oops, that should of course be > > chown -R .users /home/ No, it should be: chown -R :users /home/ Fred -- Remember, a consumer is a customer with no choic

Re: [opensuse] Linux and Sony DDS Compression

2007-03-07 Thread scsijon
At 07:53 AM 8/03/2007, Rejaine Monteiro wrote: I am using at Sony DDS3 SDT-9000 with 125M DDS3 tapes. I have set the hardware DC switch to perform hardware compression. I have used mt to set datcompression on. I do not seem to be able to write over 12MB on the tape. I would exprect more if c

Re: [opensuse] Recommended by Microsoft

2007-03-07 Thread Peter Bradley
I think this might already have become boring, so I'll make this my last comment on this subject. As one or two have pointed out, it is rather OT anyway, so perhaps I shouldn't have raised it at all. Ysgrifennodd tleslie: Their list might be rather generic, maybe there are a lot of MS people

Re: [opensuse] Recommended by Microsoft

2007-03-07 Thread tleslie
> > least take it to the OT list!!! > > > > /JK > Erm. Excuse me, but your reaction appears to me to be the only > hysterical one around here. > > But since you obviously missed the point of what was being said, let me > explain it for you. > > I do not object to Novell doing business with Mi

Re: [opensuse] Microsoft ordered to pay Alcatel-Lucent $1.5 bln in patent case - MarketWatch

2007-03-07 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-03-07 at 11:45 -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: > Russell Jones wrote: > > You misunderstand. If Vorbis v1.3 (say) infringes a (submarine or > > otherwise) patent, the next version, e.g. v2.0, will be changed such > > that it does not.

[opensuse] Service providers mail server blocked

2007-03-07 Thread philli
I have seen this occasionally on the other several network pieces, but the wireless connected laptop doesn't relent. The message is: You have timed out after 1 hour--login again. The url changes and the error reappears. I can right click on the push lock, up there, and click 'configuration' but d

Re: [opensuse] Recommended by Microsoft

2007-03-07 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Jan Karjalainen: JB wrote: On 07 March 07 13:06, Peter Bradley wrote: I've tried to ignore the business of Novell's agreement with MS, but today Novell wrote to me offering a free seminar on SUSE Linux Enterprise 10. In their email they inform me that SUSE is, "The only Linux

Re: [opensuse] Linux and Sony DDS Compression

2007-03-07 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 15:53, Rejaine Monteiro wrote: > I do not seem to be able to write over 12MB on the tape. > I would exprect more if compression is working. 12MB?I doubt that... a typo? I have a SDT9000 that I don't use anymore but in my experience, the best you can expect with c

Re: [opensuse] Recommended by Microsoft

2007-03-07 Thread Juergen Weigert
On Mar 07, 07 19:06:01 +, Peter Bradley wrote: > I've tried to ignore the business of Novell's agreement with MS, but > today Novell wrote to me offering a free seminar on SUSE Linux > Enterprise 10. In their email they inform me that SUSE is, "The only > Linux recommended by Microsoft". A

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

2007-03-07 Thread Greg Freemyer
On 3/7/07, David Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: John Andersen wrote: > On Tuesday 06 March 2007, David Brodbeck wrote: > >> ACPI is definitely a mixed bag. I don't think I've ever seen a system >> where it worked completely right, unlike APM, which was pretty mature. >> > > Most laptops now

Re: [opensuse] Recommended by Microsoft

2007-03-07 Thread M Harris
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 14:36, Jan Karjalainen wrote: > My recommendation is to GROW UP and stop this childish rant or at least > take it to the OT list!!! Well, I guess you told us... brought to you by "Micro$oft," the only backwater scumsucking bottom dweller to recomme

[opensuse] Linux and Sony DDS Compression

2007-03-07 Thread Rejaine Monteiro
I am using at Sony DDS3 SDT-9000 with 125M DDS3 tapes. I have set the hardware DC switch to perform hardware compression. I have used mt to set datcompression on. I do not seem to be able to write over 12MB on the tape. I would exprect more if compression is working. Is this a problem that

Re: [opensuse] Recommended by Microsoft

2007-03-07 Thread Jan Karjalainen
JB wrote: On 07 March 07 13:06, Peter Bradley wrote: I've tried to ignore the business of Novell's agreement with MS, but today Novell wrote to me offering a free seminar on SUSE Linux Enterprise 10. In their email they inform me that SUSE is, "The only Linux recommended by Microsoft". A

[opensuse] Solaris LDAP client with OpenLDAP server on openSUSE 10.2

2007-03-07 Thread Alexandr Malusek
Hi, I'm trying to configure a Solaris 9 machine as an LDAP client of the OpenLDAP server on openSUSE 10.2. Does anybody know how to do it? The OpenLDAP server works OK for Linux clients (SUSE 10.1 and openSUSE 10.2) but the configuration of the Solaris client doesn't seem to be quite easy. -- A

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

2007-03-07 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 g

Re: [opensuse] SCPM and Windows domain membership

2007-03-07 Thread Verner Kjærsgaard
Onsdag 07 marts 2007 21:05 skrev David Brodbeck: > Pete Connolly wrote: > > Have a look at Yast->System->Profile Manager. At the bottom right is a > > configure button to configure resource groups. On my 10.2 system, samba > > isn't included in the default resource groups, but you should be able

Re: [opensuse] KDM login screen configuration

2007-03-07 Thread Sylvester Lykkehus
Sylvester Lykkehus wrote: Tim Nicholson wrote: al though I have a server with a number of user accounts with desktop login disabled, they still appear in the list of accounts at the KDM login screen. What I would really like is to be able to disable this list completely so that no hint is give

Re: [opensuse] Recommended by Microsoft

2007-03-07 Thread JB
On 07 March 07 13:06, Peter Bradley wrote: > I've tried to ignore the business of Novell's agreement with MS, but > today Novell wrote to me offering a free seminar on SUSE Linux > Enterprise 10. In their email they inform me that SUSE is, "The only > Linux recommended by Microsoft". Are they

Re: [opensuse] Saving Wireless settings

2007-03-07 Thread Phil Savoie
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 13:19, Kai Ponte wrote: > On Wednesday 07 March 2007 10:00:17 am Phil Savoie wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > How does one save security setting with a wireless device? Seems that my > > nic always connects to the neighbours unsecured wireless router. Every > > time I start u

Re: [opensuse] KDM login screen configuration

2007-03-07 Thread Sylvester Lykkehus
Tim Nicholson wrote: al though I have a server with a number of user accounts with desktop login disabled, they still appear in the list of accounts at the KDM login screen. What I would really like is to be able to disable this list completely so that no hint is given as to the valid users on

[opensuse] zypper fails update is one of the sources is unavailable?

2007-03-07 Thread Mark Goldstein
It happens to me quite often: ...# zypper up Restoring system sources... Please insert media [Curl error for: http://packman.iu-bremen.de/suse/10.2/repodata/repomd.xml: Error code: HTTP response: 500 Error message: The requested URL returned error: 500 ] # 1. Retry [y/n]: n I/O error: Can't provi

Re: [opensuse] SCPM and Windows domain membership

2007-03-07 Thread David Brodbeck
Pete Connolly wrote: > Have a look at Yast->System->Profile Manager. At the bottom right is a > configure button to configure resource groups. On my 10.2 system, samba > isn't included in the default resource groups, but you should be able to add > in the services (samba, smbfs and/or nmb), co

Re: [opensuse] Recommended by Microsoft

2007-03-07 Thread M Harris
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 13:06, Peter Bradley wrote: > "The only > Linux recommended by Microsoft".  Are they deliberately trying to annoy me? > > Anyway, I've written back and told them that I would never buy anything > that came recommended by Microsoft. Well, what can we say... market

Re: [opensuse] Saving Wireless settings

2007-03-07 Thread David Brodbeck
Kai Ponte wrote: > On Wednesday 07 March 2007 10:00:17 am Phil Savoie wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> How does one save security setting with a wireless device? > First off, enable KWallet. This is the tool which will store your passwords. > In my systems, KWallet is run with a blank password. > > W

Re: [opensuse] Microsoft ordered to pay Alcatel-Lucent $1.5 bln in patent case - MarketWatch

2007-03-07 Thread David Brodbeck
Russell Jones wrote: > You misunderstand. If Vorbis v1.3 (say) infringes a (submarine or > otherwise) patent, the next version, e.g. v2.0, will be changed such > that it does not. You just won't be able to play v1.3 files on a v2.0 > player. That seems like a serious disincentive to designing hard

Re: [opensuse] Hint: ZMD Eating CPU/Disc

2007-03-07 Thread David Brodbeck
Gordon Ross wrote: > All I need to do now, is work out why ZMD takes so flipping long to > install patches regardless of it's NICEness... (come back YaST, all is > forgiven !) > I got thoroughly sick of this, and finally after having a couple of beers one day I decided to just remove all the zm

Re: [opensuse] YaST Software Management module not responding

2007-03-07 Thread Anders Johansson
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 20:29, Tim Donnelly wrote: > I'm running the 64 bit version of Open SuSE 10.1. Often (nearly always) > when I try to go into the Software Management module in YaST I get nothing. > By nothing I mean, I click the icon, the "thinking" cursor appears and > stays up for a f

[opensuse] YaST Software Management module not responding

2007-03-07 Thread Tim Donnelly
I'm running the 64 bit version of Open SuSE 10.1. Often (nearly always) when I try to go into the Software Management module in YaST I get nothing. By nothing I mean, I click the icon, the "thinking" cursor appears and stays up for a few seconds then reverts back to the normal arrow cursor. A

Re: [opensuse] Linux on Dell preloads

2007-03-07 Thread David Brodbeck
Randall R Schulz wrote: > So I take it you didn't build this system yourself? Replacing RAM is not > that big of a deal, but if you want to take advantage of the > manufacturer's warranty, then I guess it doesn't really matter. > If it's Dell, they probably *will* ask you to open the machine

Re: [opensuse] remove files

2007-03-07 Thread Steve Beattie
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 08:01:10AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: > On Wednesday 07 March 2007 03:12, Philippe Andersson wrote: > > Gordon Ross wrote: > > ... > > > > $ find DHbox* -name "*.dat" -o -name "*.pro" -exec rm -f {} \; > > > > would do. Omit the final "-exec..." to first check that it on

Re: [opensuse] SCPM and Windows domain membership

2007-03-07 Thread Pete Connolly
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 19:17:36 David Brodbeck wrote: > Is it possible to get SCPM to remember Windows domain memberships? I > have a laptop that I routinely take between two offices with different > domains. While YAST makes it pretty easy to switch back and forth, it'd > be nice if SCPM cou

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

2007-03-07 Thread David Brodbeck
John Andersen wrote: > On Tuesday 06 March 2007, David Brodbeck wrote: > >> ACPI is definitely a mixed bag. I don't think I've ever seen a system >> where it worked completely right, unlike APM, which was pretty mature. >> > > Most laptops now days need it. Period. End of story. > If you

[opensuse] SCPM and Windows domain membership

2007-03-07 Thread David Brodbeck
Is it possible to get SCPM to remember Windows domain memberships? I have a laptop that I routinely take between two offices with different domains. While YAST makes it pretty easy to switch back and forth, it'd be nice if SCPM could handle this for me the way it handles my other network settings

[opensuse] Recommended by Microsoft

2007-03-07 Thread Peter Bradley
I've tried to ignore the business of Novell's agreement with MS, but today Novell wrote to me offering a free seminar on SUSE Linux Enterprise 10. In their email they inform me that SUSE is, "The only Linux recommended by Microsoft". Are they deliberately trying to annoy me? Anyway, I've wri

Re: [opensuse] To the well again

2007-03-07 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-03-07 at 18:47 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote: > Secondly, between 9.1 and 10.2, suse changed user IDs. Before, a user got uid > 100 and up by default, in 10.2 he gets 1000 and up. So odds are your > old /home is simply owned by t

Re: [opensuse] opensuse updater is failing

2007-03-07 Thread Anders Johansson
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 19:37, Robert Lewis wrote: > Recently the orb turned to a different symbol. > There was some discussion earlier on this but > I have lost it, sorry. > > Now I have a yellow triangle exclamation mark. > Hovering over it says twice: > Error: > Couldn't restore source. > Det

[opensuse] opensuse updater is failing

2007-03-07 Thread Robert Lewis
Recently the orb turned to a different symbol. There was some discussion earlier on this but I have lost it, sorry. Now I have a yellow triangle exclamation mark. Hovering over it says twice: Error: Couldn't restore source. Detail: Can't check if source has changed or not. Aborting refresh. Remov

Re: [opensuse] openSUSE no more

2007-03-07 Thread M Harris
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 06:39, Kai Ponte wrote: > > I must have the wrong friends.  :-) > > All the people I know are MS slaves.   > > Well, I'm a MS slave at work, if that makes you feel better. In the groups > of friends, though, I know many running *nix. Free at last... free at last..

Re: [opensuse] [maybe OT] Mic on Skype won't work

2007-03-07 Thread Mark Goldstein
On 3/7/07, Martin Mielke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: the mic won't work on openSuSE 10.2 when using the latest Skype version for Linux. That is, I can hear the other party but they can't hear me at all. Reading on the Skype forums I found this: http://forum.skype.com/index.php?s=9147fe18079ca59d

[opensuse] KDM login screen configuration

2007-03-07 Thread Tim Nicholson
al though I have a server with a number of user accounts with desktop login disabled, they still appear in the list of accounts at the KDM login screen. What I would really like is to be able to disable this list completely so that no hint is given as to the valid users on the system. Having tra

Re: [opensuse] Saving Wireless settings

2007-03-07 Thread Kai Ponte
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 10:00:17 am Phil Savoie wrote: > Hi All, > > How does one save security setting with a wireless device? Seems that my > nic always connects to the neighbours unsecured wireless router. Every > time I start up I have to go into yast and configure the security settings. >

Re: [opensuse] Changing Remote Administration screen resolution

2007-03-07 Thread Frank Seidel
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 18:53:41 Tim Nicholson wrote: > Tim Nicholson wrote: > > The default Screen resolution for Remote Administration is set to > > 1024x768. I presume this is from the setting in file > > /etc/xinetd.d/vnc. > ... > Think I have managed to answer my own question, > Restarting

[opensuse] Saving Wireless settings

2007-03-07 Thread Phil Savoie
Hi All, How does one save security setting with a wireless device? Seems that my nic always connects to the neighbours unsecured wireless router. Every time I start up I have to go into yast and configure the security settings. It doesn't seem to save. Is there a way to save the settings?

Re: [opensuse] To the well again

2007-03-07 Thread Anders Johansson
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 18:47, I wrote: > chmod -R .users /home/ Oops, that should of course be chown -R .users /home/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Changing Remote Administration screen resolution

2007-03-07 Thread Tim Nicholson
Tim Nicholson wrote: > The default Screen resolution for Remote Administration is set to > 1024x768. I presume this is from the setting in file /etc/xinetd.d/vnc. > > I would like the option to switch to a higher resolution, and the above > file seems to allow for such things. > > I have enabled

Re: [opensuse] To the well again

2007-03-07 Thread Anders Johansson
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 05:51, Stevens wrote: > 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 > ke

[opensuse] zmd mysteries

2007-03-07 Thread Paul Abrahams
This whole ZMD business snuck up on me when I updated from 10.0 to 10.2. Suddenly it was there and didn't seem to be working. Right now I have an empty catalog -- probably as a result of desperate and somewhat misguided screwing around -- and no idea of how to create a useful catalog. I found

Re: [opensuse] change directorie

2007-03-07 Thread Russell Jones
Martin Mielke wrote: Hi Vince, have you tried to escape the \'s ? something like: cd c:\\foo\\bar or cd c:\foo\bar to cd "c:\foo\bar" using the home and end keys (and cursor keys). hi All, When I want to change directory in Cygwin I simply copy the path from Windows's Command Promp

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

2007-03-07 Thread Greg Freemyer
On 3/6/07, M Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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-

Re: [opensuse] Why other Boot Options

2007-03-07 Thread Alexander Osthof
> Chris C wrote: > > Sorry about "top-post" I didn't know. Ok the "/boot/grub/menu.lst" is > > what Alex wants but what is really the correct way of getting access to > > that? I'm asking because it's a root permission only. How do you guys > > normally view this root only file? Do you change t

Re: [opensuse] Monitoring for Linux

2007-03-07 Thread Jose
Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-03-06 at 11:26 -0500, Jose wrote: First, you hijacked a thread (Subject: Re: [opensuse] X start help). Please, don't. I am looking for a monitoring software for Linux, I know about Big Brother, but I am l

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

2007-03-07 Thread Boyd Lynn Gerber
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, John Andersen wrote: > On Tuesday 06 March 2007, Jon Clausen wrote: > > I'm by no means an iptables authority, and I'll probably never become one > > either. > > But Tom Eastep (Shorewall author) is. The guy is a wizard, and really knows > his stuff. I've been using shorewall

Re: [opensuse] Need explanation - question 1

2007-03-07 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2006-12-01 at 15:52 -0500, usr wrote: > 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 1

Re: [opensuse] remove files

2007-03-07 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 03:12, Philippe Andersson wrote: > Gordon Ross wrote: > ... > > $ find DHbox* -name "*.dat" -o -name "*.pro" -exec rm -f {} \; > > would do. Omit the final "-exec..." to first check that it only > catches those files you want to get rid of. If there are very many such fi

Re: [opensuse] KDM default session selection (previous session)

2007-03-07 Thread Sylvester Lykkehus
Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Sylvester Lykkehus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [03-07-07 04:48]: [...] The 'session manager' defaults to the *last* 'desktop manager' initiated. In your case you started gnome, closed it and returned to an already open kde. I don't know how you would achieve your

Re: [opensuse] Why other Boot Options

2007-03-07 Thread Philippe Andersson
Chris C wrote: > Sorry about "top-post" I didn't know. Ok the "/boot/grub/menu.lst" is > what Alex wants but what is really the correct way of getting access to > that? I'm asking because it's a root permission only. How do you guys > normally view this root only file? Do you change the permiss

Re: [opensuse] zmd problem

2007-03-07 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-03-07 at 14:35 +0100, Klaus Kaempf wrote: > > I tried using "rug" to remove the repo: > > > > rug unsub 20070302-213658 > > > > and it shows "off": > > 'unsubscribe' just lowers the precendence. An unsubscribed service will >

[opensuse] [maybe OT] Mic on Skype won't work

2007-03-07 Thread Martin Mielke
Hi all, the mic won't work on openSuSE 10.2 when using the latest Skype version for Linux. That is, I can hear the other party but they can't hear me at all. Reading on the Skype forums I found this: http://forum.skype.com/index.php?s=9147fe18079ca59d058dcf0983dc5385&showtopic=66544 and that le

Re: [opensuse] Audio just stopped

2007-03-07 Thread Robert Lewis
John Andersen wrote: > On Tuesday 06 March 2007, John ffitch wrote: > >> 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 >> pl

Re: [opensuse] Why other Boot Options

2007-03-07 Thread Chris C
On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 09:10 -0600, JB wrote: > On 07 March 07 07:09, Chris C wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 09:25 +0100, Alexander Osthof wrote: > > > > Can somebody shed some light on the new options that are now in my boot > > > > menu? > > > > I have the normal such as: > > > >

Re: [opensuse] Why other Boot Options

2007-03-07 Thread JB
On 07 March 07 07:09, Chris C wrote: > On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 09:25 +0100, Alexander Osthof 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

Re: [opensuse] remove files

2007-03-07 Thread JB
On 07 March 07 05:29, Vince Oliver wrote: Vince, please don't top-post. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Beryl and xgl

2007-03-07 Thread Matthias Hopf
On Mar 07, 07 12:51:41 +, Hans van der Merwe wrote: > But me with nVidia card, Beryl and "AIGLX" (or whatever) - do I place > the AIGLX option in the conf file or not? Seeing that its doesn't really > use AIGLX? No. As I said, NVidia had accelerated indirect OpenGL from day one (the acrynom A

Re: [opensuse] change directorie

2007-03-07 Thread Martin Mielke
Hi Vince, have you tried to escape the \'s ? something like: cd c:\\foo\\bar HTH, Martin - Original Message From: Vince Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: opensuse@opensuse.org Sent: Wednesday, March 7, 2007 2:49:37 PM Subject: [opensuse] change directorie hi All, When I want

[opensuse] [Repost]: Using an extra driver at install-time

2007-03-07 Thread Philippe Andersson
Can anyone out there please help ? Any pointer to documentation explaining how to hack / customize the OpenSuSE installer would be welcome. Has any of you experience in installing on unsupported hardware ? Thanks in advance. Cheers. Bye. Ph. A. Original Message Subject: Usin

Re: [opensuse] Need explanation - question 1

2007-03-07 Thread Tom Patton
On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 10:42 +0100, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: > Onsdag 07 marts 2007 07:48 skrev Ken Jennings: > > On Friday 2006-12-01 15:52, usr wrote: > > > ... > > > > may we see the output of "df -h"? > > Here's my layout, since about the 8.0 days, now fully loaded with 10.2. /boot is ext2,

Re: [opensuse] install tomcat 5.5 with jdk 1.5 from APT on 10.2

2007-03-07 Thread Daniel Bornkessel
On Thursday 01 March 2007 04:01, George Stoianov wrote: > On 2/28/07, Zoltan Levardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > dear All, > > > > i am new to the list, and first of all would like to say hello all of > > you. > > > > Trying to get tomcat 5 (or 5.5) installing with APT. The problem is i am > > u

Re: [opensuse] KDM default session selection (previous session)

2007-03-07 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Sylvester Lykkehus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [03-07-07 04:48]: [...] > So, for quite some time a have been living with this little issue: > When I select a different "session", let's say gnome, and enjoy myself > a little in there, then end that session, going back to my already > running KDE session.

Re: [opensuse] zmd problem

2007-03-07 Thread Steve Jeppesen
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 14:17:33 +0100 (CET) "Carlos E. R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > My zmd (suse 10.2) complains like this: > > Mar 7 13:28:45 nimrodel zmd: ServiceManager (ERROR): Service refresh > failed for '20070302-213658': Failed to parse XML metadata: Unsigned > file '/repodata/

[opensuse] change directorie

2007-03-07 Thread Vince Oliver
hi All, When I want to change directory in Cygwin I simply copy the path from Windows's Command Prompt or Total Commander to Cygwin command line like (I do that when path is very long): cd c:\users\oliver\temp But it does not work since it can not recognise '\'. So I have to change '\' into

RE: [opensuse] Hint: ZMD Eating CPU/Disc

2007-03-07 Thread Gordon Ross
>>> On 07 March 2007 at 13:18, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Morten Bjørnsvik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > |All I need to do now, is work out why ZMD takes so flipping > |long to install patches regardless of it's NICEness... (come > |back YaST, all is forgiven !) > > Mono is the root to all

Re: [opensuse] zmd problem

2007-03-07 Thread Klaus Kaempf
* Carlos E. R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Mar 07. 2007 14:17]: > > I tried using "rug" to remove the repo: > > rug unsub 20070302-213658 > > and it shows "off": 'unsubscribe' just lowers the precendence. An unsubscribed service will e.g. not be considered when searching for packages to be update. H

RE: [opensuse] Hint: ZMD Eating CPU/Disc

2007-03-07 Thread Morten Bjørnsvik
|All I need to do now, is work out why ZMD takes so flipping |long to install patches regardless of it's NICEness... (come |back YaST, all is forgiven !) Mono is the root to all evil. I had the same problem with beagle. 100% cpu load when it indexes. I find it strange because all indexing Shou

[opensuse] zmd problem

2007-03-07 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, My zmd (suse 10.2) complains like this: Mar 7 13:28:45 nimrodel zmd: ServiceManager (ERROR): Service refresh failed for '20070302-213658': Failed to parse XML metadata: Unsigned file '/repodata/repomd.xml (ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/0.00pub/linux

Re: [opensuse] Why other Boot Options

2007-03-07 Thread Chris C
Alex, Hello, Please forgive me...but I don't understand what you mean. Although I would reallly like to know. I'm assuming the files that your looking for are log files? On this fourm, how should I post it...as an attachment or inline with this message? Where are you guys getting all this great i

Re: [opensuse] Beryl and xgl

2007-03-07 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 13:14 +0100, Matthias Hopf wrote: > On Mar 07, 07 11:03:56 +0200, Hans van der Merwe wrote: > > So I should not enable AIGLX in Xorg conf file? > > It depends on whether you want to run compiz on AIGLX or Xgl. Both have > advantages and disadvantages. compiz used to only wor

Re: [opensuse] openSUSE no more

2007-03-07 Thread Kai Ponte
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 03:47:24 am Damon Register wrote: > Kai Ponte wrote: > > I never - more than in jest - put down anyone using Linux. I have friends > > on Ubuntu, Fedora, Red Hat, CentOS, YellowDog and Linspire. > > I must have the wrong friends. :-) > All the people I know are MS slaves

Re: [opensuse] Re: Win vs Lin info

2007-03-07 Thread Russell Jones
John Summerfield wrote: On Tuesday 27 February 2007 23:58, Russell Jones wrote: Well, not as tidy as AD (nor, I suspect, as difficult to diagnose when it goes wrong) is to use something like AutoYaST to roll out software and configuration packages (which you roll yourself). Far more powerful

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

2007-03-07 Thread James Knott
James D. Parra wrote: > 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

Re: [opensuse] Beryl and xgl

2007-03-07 Thread Matthias Hopf
On Mar 07, 07 11:03:56 +0200, Hans van der Merwe wrote: > So I should not enable AIGLX in Xorg conf file? It depends on whether you want to run compiz on AIGLX or Xgl. Both have advantages and disadvantages. compiz used to only work on Xgl. The current (read: really new) compiz package on openSUSE

Re: [opensuse] Microsoft ordered to pay Alcatel-Lucent $1.5 bln in patent case - MarketWatch [OT]

2007-03-07 Thread Russell Jones
David Brodbeck wrote: Russell Jones wrote: That is incorrect: http://www.vorbis.com/faq/#_fpsupport Their link to the integer-only implementation is broken. But I believe them that it exists. ;) Looks like one of Xiph's servers is down. SVN doesn't work and neither does their wiki.

Re: [opensuse] Microsoft ordered to pay Alcatel-Lucent $1.5 bln in patent case - MarketWatch

2007-03-07 Thread Russell Jones
David Brodbeck wrote: Russell Jones wrote: As for whether the OGG formats are patent-encumbered: as I said before, by definition they are not. They just may not be backward compatible. They are not *known* to be patent-encumbered. It doesn't mean someone couldn't pop up with a "subma

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

2007-03-07 Thread Magnus Boman
On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 06:41 -0500, Damon Register wrote: > John Andersen wrote: > > On Tuesday 06 March 2007, Paul Gardiner wrote: > >> > >> I've been using http://mirrors.kernel.org/suse/update/10.2. > > > > Run away from that mirror like your hair is on fire. > > Its frequently in-operable or o

Re: [opensuse] openSUSE no more

2007-03-07 Thread Damon Register
Kai Ponte wrote: I never - more than in jest - put down anyone using Linux. I have friends on Ubuntu, Fedora, Red Hat, CentOS, YellowDog and Linspire. I must have the wrong friends. :-) All the people I know are MS slaves. There might be hope for my 6 year old son. I installed SuSE 10.2 on h

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