Re: [opensuse-factory] Printing in openSUSE 10.3

2007-03-07 Thread JP Rosevear
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 10:58 +0100, Johannes Meixner wrote: Hello, On Mar 5 13:09 JP Rosevear wrote (shortened): On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 15:30 +0100, Johannes Meixner wrote: What about http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell Intrinsic design of CUPS for printing in the

Re: [opensuse-factory] Printing in openSUSE 10.3

2007-03-07 Thread Johannes Meixner
Hello, On Mar 7 10:30 JP Rosevear wrote (shortened): On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 10:58 +0100, Johannes Meixner wrote: Your info is too terse for me. I still do not understand the end-user's situation. Please do not misunderstand me - I don't want to do nitpicking. But I need to understand

Re: [opensuse-factory] Printing in openSUSE 10.3

2007-03-07 Thread JP Rosevear
On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 16:39 +0100, Johannes Meixner wrote: Hello, On Mar 7 10:30 JP Rosevear wrote (shortened): On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 10:58 +0100, Johannes Meixner wrote: Your info is too terse for me. I still do not understand the end-user's situation. Please do not misunderstand

Re: [opensuse-factory] Printing in openSUSE 10.3

2007-03-07 Thread Robert Love
On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 16:39 +0100, Johannes Meixner wrote: Frommy point of viwe it seems from mail to mail you change the issue (it started with USB printers, became network printers, now it is about typing passwords) and it seems you still don't tell the whole story. There are several

Re: [opensuse-factory] Printing in openSUSE 10.3

2007-03-07 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:46:37AM -0500, JP Rosevear wrote: On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 16:39 +0100, Johannes Meixner wrote: Hello, On Mar 7 10:30 JP Rosevear wrote (shortened): On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 10:58 +0100, Johannes Meixner wrote: Your info is too terse for me. I still do not

[opensuse] Xfce 4.4 disaster with OpenSuSE-factory

2007-03-07 Thread Horst G. Burkhardt III
Hi. I posted this a while ago and got no reply. There is a _huge_ problem with the Xfce packages in -factory. Computing transaction... error: Can't install [EMAIL PROTECTED]: no package provides

Re: [opensuse] Why other Boot Options

2007-03-07 Thread Alexander Osthof
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

Re: [opensuse] Xfce 4.4 disaster with OpenSuSE-factory

2007-03-07 Thread Goksin Akdeniz
Hi there, Any help would be really appreciated. I'm told the missing package would be something like `xfcegui4-devel' - if the situation has since been rectified please let me know. Also, any workarounds would be appreciated. I installed xfce using YAST. YAST Software Managment module solved

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

2007-03-07 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Tue, March 6, 2007 18:56, 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. Worked like a bomb on my Compaq Armada m700 - too bad the notebook could only take 512mb memory,

Re: [opensuse] Beryl and xgl

2007-03-07 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 16:30 +0100, Matthias Hopf wrote: On Mar 05, 07 16:43:13 +0200, Hans van der Merwe wrote: I use AIGLX in nVidia driver - works perfectly - movies play on rotated cube - folding maxed windows etc. You are NOT using AIGLX in the NVIDIA driver - NVIDIA doesn't use

Re: [opensuse] Beryl and xgl

2007-03-07 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 16:58 +0100, Matthias Hopf wrote: 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

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

2007-03-07 Thread John Andersen
On Tuesday 06 March 2007, 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. Mdadm can help with that. It has a monitor mode which you can run which will send email if this sort of

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

2007-03-07 Thread John Andersen
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 don't run it you get stuttering sound,

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

2007-03-07 Thread John Andersen
On Tuesday 06 March 2007, Paul Gardiner wrote: Marcus Meissner wrote: On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 11:52:15AM +, Paul Gardiner 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

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

2007-03-07 Thread John Andersen
On Tuesday 06 March 2007, Marcus Meissner 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] Keyboard repeat on SELD10

2007-03-07 Thread Gordon Ross
I've just installed SLED10 (plus all the updates) on a DellD820 laptop. The install went fine. After the install, however, I had a major problem with the keyboard: Uncontrolled/random repeating of keys. For example, just typing hello could result in helooo I've never seeen

Re: [opensuse] Need explanation - question 1

2007-03-07 Thread Verner Kjærsgaard
Onsdag 07 marts 2007 07:48 skrev 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,

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

2007-03-07 Thread John Andersen
On Tuesday 06 March 2007, peter nikolic wrote: 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 In my experience, there is never a

[opensuse] Hint: ZMD Eating CPU/Disc

2007-03-07 Thread Gordon Ross
I've built several OpenSuSE 10.x machines, and on all of them, I've had the fun of finding that at startup/login, the ZDM stuff just eats CPU disc. On quiet PCs, the CPU fan has to work overtime just to support the stuff, and on laptops, ZMD just eats disc I/O. For a while, I just switched off

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

2007-03-07 Thread John Andersen
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 for years on Suse and now also on Kubuntu. What

[opensuse] KDM default session selection (previous session)

2007-03-07 Thread Sylvester Lykkehus
Hi, I use KDE as my main desktop environment. When updates comes in for various other DE's, I like to check them out, by starting a new session from the K-Menu, and in the sessions menu at KDM prompt, select the DE in question. So, for quite some time a have been living with this little

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

2007-03-07 Thread Verner Kjærsgaard
Onsdag 07 marts 2007 10:44 skrev Gordon Ross: I've built several OpenSuSE 10.x machines, and on all of them, I've had the fun of finding that at startup/login, the ZDM stuff just eats CPU disc. On quiet PCs, the CPU fan has to work overtime just to support the stuff, and on laptops, ZMD just

Re: [opensuse] Audio just stopped

2007-03-07 Thread John Andersen
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 playing and silence. I have done

Re: [opensuse] Xfce 4.4 disaster with OpenSuSE-factory

2007-03-07 Thread Horst G. Burkhardt III
In my opinion, YaST often breaks more than it fixes. And on my system it's a right memory hog. But if you can provide simple instructions on how to make yast use the opensuse-factory sources on ftp5.gwdg.de and how to get Xfce using it, I'll give it a jolly good college try. -- /---Horst G.

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

2007-03-07 Thread Gordon Ross
On 07 March 2007 at 09:54, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Verner Kjærsgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Onsdag 07 marts 2007 10:44 skrev Gordon Ross: I've built several OpenSuSE 10.x machines, and on all of them, I've had the fun of finding that at startup/login, the ZDM stuff just eats CPU

Re: [opensuse] Keyboard repeat on SELD10

2007-03-07 Thread Clayton
I've just installed SLED10 (plus all the updates) on a DellD820 laptop. The install went fine. After the install, however, I had a major problem with the keyboard: Uncontrolled/random repeating of keys. For example, just typing hello could result in helooo I've never seeen

[opensuse] remove files

2007-03-07 Thread Vince Oliver
Hi All, How to easily remove some particular files from more than one directory. For example I have directories: $ ls -l total 12 drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:36 DHbox1 drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 7 08:30 DHbox10 drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:36 DHbox2

[opensuse] Changing Remote Administration screen resolution

2007-03-07 Thread Tim Nicholson
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 the higher res option on port 5902

Re: [opensuse] remove files

2007-03-07 Thread Sylvester Lykkehus
Vince Oliver wrote: Hi All, How to easily remove some particular files from more than one directory. For example I have directories: $ ls -l total 12 drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 6 16:36 DHbox1 drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0 Mar 7 08:30 DHbox10 drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0

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

2007-03-07 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-03-07 at 09:54 -, Gordon Ross wrote: Hi - may we ask as to the whereabouts of bespoken script :-) I just edited /etc/init.d/novell-zmd Look for the line that just says ${ZMD_BIN} $ZMD_OPTIONS and prefix it with

Re: [opensuse] To the well again

2007-03-07 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-03-06 at 22:51 -0600, Stevens wrote: What happens if I blow away the /home partition? How do I then create the root user? Something about booting to the install disk in repair mode, I think. Mr. root does not use /home, he

Re: [opensuse] remove files

2007-03-07 Thread Gordon Ross
On 07 March 2007 at 10:49, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sylvester Lykkehus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vince Oliver wrote: Hi All, How to easily remove some particular files from more than one directory. For example I have directories: $ ls -l total 12 drwx--+ 2 ovince None 0

Re: [opensuse] Monitoring for Linux

2007-03-07 Thread Carlos E. R.
-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 looking for something

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

2007-03-07 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-03-06 at 18:42 -0500, Chris C wrote: 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

Re: [opensuse] remove files

2007-03-07 Thread Philippe Andersson
Gordon Ross wrote: On 07 March 2007 at 10:49, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sylvester Lykkehus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vince Oliver wrote: Hi All, How to easily remove some particular files from more than one directory. For example I have directories: $ ls -l total 12 drwx--+ 2

Re: [opensuse] remove files

2007-03-07 Thread Vince Oliver
thanks for reply. trick works :) May I ask you for one more trick? How to remove ALL files from directories EXCEPT '*.pro'? Many thanks Sylvester On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Sylvester Lykkehus wrote: Vince Oliver wrote: Hi All, How to easily remove some particular files from more than one

Re: [opensuse] remove files

2007-03-07 Thread Philippe Andersson
Vince Oliver wrote: thanks for reply. trick works :) May I ask you for one more trick? How to remove ALL files from directories EXCEPT '*.pro'? $ find DHbox* -type f -not -name *.pro -exec rm -f {} \; Beware that find will recurse any directory below your DHbox*. Make sure that's what you

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

2007-03-07 Thread Damon Register
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 out of date or overworked. I am glad you posted that. I just installed

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

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 out of date or

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

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

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] 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 10:00:00 2007

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] 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] 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 work on

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

[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

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

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. However, it

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 evil. They

[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 '\'

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/repomd.xml

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. I

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, all else is

[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:

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

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 AIGLX

Re: [opensuse] remove files

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

Re: [opensuse] Why other Boot Options

2007-03-07 Thread JB
On 07 March 07 07:09, Chris C wrote: top-post put where it should be 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

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 playing and

[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=9147fe18079ca59d058dcf0983dc5385showtopic=66544 and that

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 e.g. not be

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 permission via

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]: [...] snip 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

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 files, execing

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 10GB

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 for

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

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 the

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

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 Prompt

[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

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 kept

Re: [opensuse] To the well again

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

[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] 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 X :~

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. It

[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

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:

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...

[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.

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. Detail:

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 the

[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

[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

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 don't run

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 could

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 only catches those

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 up

[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.

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 few

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

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

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. When you

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... marketing is

[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

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

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 up I have

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