Re: [opensuse-factory] Boot speed and services

2007-03-15 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Wed 14 Mar 2007 23:24:49 NZDT +1300, Gaël Lams wrote: There used to be the following lines in /etc/sysconfig/mail: ## Type:yesno ## Default: no ## Config: postfix # # Set this to yes if mail from remote should be accepted # this is necessary for any mail server. # If

Re: [opensuse-factory] Boot speed and services

2007-03-15 Thread Gaël Lams
Hi It hasn't been removed: I have it (10.2) However, notice that that line does not prevent mail from being _sent_ to outside. It just prevents mail from being sent to that system using smtp (ie, postfix or sendmail). I thought it had been removed because I just installed a few days ago a

[opensuse-factory] Re: dvd-delta-isos

2007-03-15 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Andreas Vetter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Andreas Vetter wrote: On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Andreas Jaeger wrote: I'm glad to announce the second public alpha release of openSUSE 10.3. ... I try to get the dvd-delta-isos using ktorrent. It says Tracker: invalid

Re: [opensuse-factory] Boot speed and services

2007-03-15 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-03-15 at 09:08 +0100, Gaël Lams wrote: I thought it had been removed because I just installed a few days ago a virtual machine with opensuse 10.3 and these lines were not present. I don't know about 10.3. Somebody else can

Re: [opensuse] Why I don't upgrade often

2007-03-15 Thread riccardo35
On Thu 15 Mar 2007 01:44, Kai Ponte wrote: While dealing with various comprimises to our Windows 2003 workstations in the cold room, I went to login Security of Passwords _ as mass-market brings price down . . . RSA key-ring Number-Generators start to make sense for academia business

Re: [opensuse]:Why I don't upgrade often

2007-03-15 Thread riccardo35
On Thu 15 Mar 2007 01:51, M Harris wrote: In fact, DOS was still very much evident in Windows 95, 98, and even... yes even W2000. DOSEMU Freedos are handy to have installed :) Every day use of DOS . . . yes, some old DOS programs have not been bettered friendly greetings -- To

Re: [opensuse] Yast - to upgrade Distribution ?

2007-03-15 Thread riccardo35
On Thu 15 Mar 2007 02:05, Bob S wrote: Don't know about now, but way back when, I upgraded 8.0 to 8.1 with apt-get.  Just changed my source files from 8.0 to 8.1 and let it go.  Worked pretty well but there were things that had to be fixed. Would be interesting to know if it can still be

Re: [opensuse] mod_perl in OpenSuse 10.2

2007-03-15 Thread Richard Bos
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 09:42:49PM -0700, Bruce Ferrell wrote: Michael Folsom wrote: Folks: New to mod_perl and am having trouble getting mod_perl going on OpenSuse 10.2. Have a system with apache installed and working and used yast to install mod_perl from the install DVD. It

Re: [opensuse] Why I don't upgrade often

2007-03-15 Thread Hartmut Meyer
Hi, On Thursday 15 March 2007 05:43, John Andersen wrote: On Wednesday 14 March 2007, Hartmut Meyer wrote: There are hardly any scenarios where one could give any other advise but to upgrade from an old/unsupported version to a newer/supported version. 9.1 might be better for you, but

Re: [opensuse] how to run multiple version of firefox

2007-03-15 Thread Wolfgang Rosenauer
Hi, Dan wrote: Does anyone know how you can run multiple versions of firefox. I have version 2.0.0.2 installed on opensuse 10.2 and I downloaded firefox 1.5.0.10. When I have one version running and try to open up a new window using the other version it just runs the same version that I

[opensuse] ALC850 problems in 10.2

2007-03-15 Thread Anders Norrbring
Anyone who's managed to get any sound from a Realtek ALC850 chip in 10.2? I just tried to install on a MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum and the sound is detected as nVidia nForce3.. The mobo carry the nForce chipset, but the audio part is served by the Realtek chip... -- Anders Norrbring Norrbring

[opensuse] install a tar file?

2007-03-15 Thread dwain
can i install a tar file; and how would i accomplish this? the program, cabaret for linux, is not an rpm. would some one please explain the process to me? thanks, dwain -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Why I don't upgrade often

2007-03-15 Thread John Andersen
On Thursday 15 March 2007, Hartmut Meyer wrote: Hi, On Thursday 15 March 2007 05:43, John Andersen wrote: On Wednesday 14 March 2007, Hartmut Meyer wrote: There are hardly any scenarios where one could give any other advise but to upgrade from an old/unsupported version to a

[opensuse] Installation problem with Linux Format dvd version 10.2

2007-03-15 Thread scsijon
to the package installation step and errors Base message: insert 20070315-094527 CD1 Detailed message: Failed to mount cd:///?devices=/dev/hdb: mount media failed cdrom is /dev/hdb listed as /dev/hdb cdrom,dev3:64 model matshitadvd-ram uj-840s revision 1.0 driver piix_ide checked this in loaded

Re: [opensuse] install a tar file?

2007-03-15 Thread Verner Kjærsgaard
Torsdag 15 marts 2007 10:27 skrev dwain: can i install a tar file; and how would i accomplish this? the program, cabaret for linux, is not an rpm. would some one please explain the process to me? thanks, dwain Hi Dwain,, - you don't directly install a tar file. It's a packed 'tape

[opensuse] Login problems

2007-03-15 Thread udo
Hi all, I'm new to this list and also new to OpenSuse. I've installed 10.2 on my system and it worked fine for almost 2 weeks. Since today I can't login with the normal username/password in KDE. Root login is possible. When login in, the screen turns to black for a few seconds and I'm

Re: [opensuse] ssh

2007-03-15 Thread Patrick Kirsch
Hey, In the file: /etc/ssh/sshd_config you can change the line with #PermitRootLogin yes into PermitRootLogin without-pasword This retrict you either to do a su - from a nonpriviliged user, or use a key-pair. Works like a charm! But how can i tweak this value in xml for autoyast? One idea

[opensuse] Re: Why I don't upgrade often

2007-03-15 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: Eberhard Roloff wrote: Well, not exactly CD/DVD, but: -anytime I connect my external disk for backup, the two partitions on it are named differently, which does not really simply my rsync scripts that I use for backup. What I did for that is first umount via

Re: [opensuse] Why I don't upgrade often

2007-03-15 Thread Hartmut Meyer
Hi, On Thursday 15 March 2007 10:28, John Andersen wrote: On Thursday 15 March 2007, Hartmut Meyer wrote: On Thursday 15 March 2007 05:43, John Andersen wrote: On Wednesday 14 March 2007, Hartmut Meyer wrote: Linux isn't exactly Windows which can be hacked by 12 year olds riding

Re: [opensuse] Login problems

2007-03-15 Thread David Mayr
Hi Udo, I'm new to this list and also new to OpenSuse. I've installed 10.2 on my system and it worked fine for almost 2 weeks. Since today I can't login with the normal username/password in KDE. Root login is possible. When login in, the screen turns to black for a few seconds and I'm

Re: [opensuse] Login problems

2007-03-15 Thread Michael Schueller
Am Donnerstag, 15. März 2007 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, I'm new to this list and also new to OpenSuse. I've installed 10.2 on my system and it worked fine for almost 2 weeks. Since today I can't login with the normal username/password in KDE. Root login is possible. When login in,

Re: [opensuse] Re: Why I don't upgrade often

2007-03-15 Thread Joe Morris (NTM)
Eberhard Roloff wrote: Thanks Joe, I do it just like this and indeed it works. This is the plain great unix style that works anytime. Glad it also worked for you. Now, one question: What do you mean by adding code to fsck? And what do you achieve doing this? I decided it would be

Re: [opensuse] Yast - to upgrade Distribution ?

2007-03-15 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-03-14 at 08:57 -0400, Abstract wrote: I know in the past I heard you could not upgrade suse major revision upgrades, just minor. Rubish! I upgraded from 9.3 to 10.2, via the install dvd. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R.

Re: [opensuse] Why I don't upgrade often

2007-03-15 Thread Russell Jones
Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: We probably should not want any one operating system, be it proprietary, open-source or a hybrid, to displace all others. Monopolies and monocultures have bad consequences by their inherent nature. Very true. Just as tool boxes are full of both metric and

Re: [opensuse] Why I don't upgrade often

2007-03-15 Thread James Knott
Kai Ponte wrote: Those server guys have one odd sense of humor. I have often referred to users as mere mortals. ;-) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Why I don't upgrade often

2007-03-15 Thread James Knott
John Andersen wrote: On Wednesday 14 March 2007, Hartmut Meyer wrote: There are hardly any scenarios where one could give any other advise but to upgrade from an old/unsupported version to a newer/supported version. 9.1 might be better for you, but unless your system is not connected to

[opensuse] Re: Why I don't upgrade often

2007-03-15 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: Eberhard Roloff wrote: Thanks Joe, I do it just like this and indeed it works. This is the plain great unix style that works anytime. Glad it also worked for you. Now, one question: What do you mean by adding code to fsck? And what do you achieve doing this?

Re: [opensuse] Why I don't upgrade often

2007-03-15 Thread Chuck Amadi
James Knott wrote: John Andersen wrote: On Wednesday 14 March 2007, Hartmut Meyer wrote: There are hardly any scenarios where one could give any other advise but to upgrade from an old/unsupported version to a newer/supported version. 9.1 might be better for you, but unless your

Re: [opensuse] Why I don't upgrade often

2007-03-15 Thread Chuck Amadi
Chuck Amadi wrote: James Knott wrote: John Andersen wrote: On Wednesday 14 March 2007, Hartmut Meyer wrote: There are hardly any scenarios where one could give any other advise but to upgrade from an old/unsupported version to a newer/supported version. 9.1 might be better for you,

Re: [opensuse] samba vs cifs ... what's the diff?

2007-03-15 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* John Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [03-15-07 01:10]: On Wednesday 14 March 2007, Marcus Meissner wrote: sales losses are quite difficult for a product that is mostly downloaded. The next 10.2 kernel update will include USBFS again btw. Cool, use support returns for Vmware. How soon?

Re: [opensuse] install a tar file?

2007-03-15 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Verner Kjærsgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] [03-15-07 05:40]: [...] This should give you a lot/some files, all located in a directory of their own. Change to this dir. Become root, perhaps by issuing a 'su' Read the README if it's there. Follow whatever instructions are there. Which will

Re: [opensuse] Yast - to upgrade Distribution ?

2007-03-15 Thread Richard Bos
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 12:11:46PM +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-03-14 at 08:57 -0400, Abstract wrote: I know in the past I heard you could not upgrade suse major revision upgrades, just minor. Rubish! I upgraded from

Re: [opensuse] Checkinstall fails before running make install (Was: install a tar file?)

2007-03-15 Thread Sylvester Lykkehus
Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Verner Kjærsgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] [03-15-07 05:40]: [...] This should give you a lot/some files, all located in a directory of their own. Change to this dir. Become root, perhaps by issuing a 'su' Read the README if it's there. Follow whatever instructions are

Re: [opensuse] Yast - to upgrade Distribution ?

2007-03-15 Thread Philippe Andersson
Richard Bos wrote: On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 12:11:46PM +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: The Wednesday 2007-03-14 at 08:57 -0400, Abstract wrote: I upgraded from 9.3 to 10.2, via the install dvd. And me too :) I'm planning to do just that real soon now on several boxen (laptop, desktop, servers,

[opensuse] setting up a raid (Suse 10.0)

2007-03-15 Thread James D. Parra
Hello, I have two identical drives, mirrored as /dev/md0, however I am unable to carve out mount points on it or put a swap partition on it. One drive is a system drive and I'd like to mirror it. What is the best way to accomplish this? Thank you, James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [opensuse] SuSe 10.2/64 4Gb memory problem

2007-03-15 Thread Per Jessen
Bas hendriks wrote: I am building a vmware server with SuSe10.2/64 as host os. The problem is that only 2 Gb ram is available in SuSe, while 4 Gb is installed. I think you need to use a kernel with support for 4Gb memory. Either rebuild yourself, or find a suitable opensuse kernel. (maybe a

Re: [opensuse] Checkinstall fails before running make install (Was: install a tar file?)

2007-03-15 Thread Verner Kjærsgaard
Torsdag 15 marts 2007 13:54 skrev Sylvester Lykkehus: Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Verner Kjærsgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] [03-15-07 05:40]: [...] This should give you a lot/some files, all located in a directory of their own. Change to this dir. Become root, perhaps by issuing a 'su'

[opensuse] LVM as root revert

2007-03-15 Thread Jose
Hi Everybody, I create an LVM volume and mounted it as /, but I would like to revert it to it's original partition, I tried it from reverting from the LVM gui, but it couldn't do it because / is mounted, is there any way to do this, I am thinking safe mode or starting from disk, but I am not

Re: [opensuse] SuSe 10.2/64 4Gb memory problem

2007-03-15 Thread Anders Norrbring
Per Jessen skrev: Bas hendriks wrote: I am building a vmware server with SuSe10.2/64 as host os. The problem is that only 2 Gb ram is available in SuSe, while 4 Gb is installed. I think you need to use a kernel with support for 4Gb memory. Either rebuild yourself, or find a suitable opensuse

Re: [opensuse] udev problem

2007-03-15 Thread todd
Joe Morris Is there a reason you do not just add that user to the video group? While I agree this is a workable solution to the problem at hand. I am more interested in why udev no longer responds to changes made to device permissions through rules.d -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [opensuse] Yast - to upgrade Distribution ?

2007-03-15 Thread S Glasoe
On Thursday 15 March 2007 07:56:46 am Philippe Andersson wrote: Richard Bos wrote: On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 12:11:46PM +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: The Wednesday 2007-03-14 at 08:57 -0400, Abstract wrote: I upgraded from 9.3 to 10.2, via the install dvd. And me too :) I'm planning to

[opensuse] Determine Web Server type

2007-03-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all, Is there a way to determine what Web Server (Apache or IIS) is running a particular website? It should be something like the host command. I think I came across such a command some time ago. :-) Al -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [opensuse] Yast - to upgrade Distribution ?

2007-03-15 Thread Philippe Andersson
S Glasoe wrote: Watch out for the kernel 2.6.18.8-0.1 update either during or post update/upgrade. Known issue is that /boot/grub/menu.lst is being changed in ways that are not always user friendly. I advise making backups of /boot/grub/menu.lst to /etc/or /home/some-user before doing the

Re: [opensuse] Yast - to upgrade Distribution ?

2007-03-15 Thread Joe Morris (NTM)
S Glasoe wrote: Watch out for the kernel 2.6.18.8-0.1 update either during or post update/upgrade. Known issue is that /boot/grub/menu.lst is being changed in ways that are not always user friendly. I advise making backups of /boot/grub/menu.lst to /etc/or /home/some-user before doing the

Re: [opensuse] Determine Web Server type

2007-03-15 Thread Carl Hartung
On Thu March 15 2007 09:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to determine what Web Server (Apache or IIS) is running a particular website? It should be something like the host command. I think I came across such a command some time ago. I don't know of a commandline solution, but this

Re: [opensuse] suse 10.1 and sata II vt8251

2007-03-15 Thread anckerDJ
SuSE 10.1 do not recognize/support this controller vt8251(...from scratch..) and no HDD is available to begin install. I switch to 10.2 and ok. thanks. On Wednesday 14 March 2007 23:43, Bob S wrote: On Wednesday 14 March 2007 14:33, anckerDJ wrote: How to install suse 10.1 on sata II vt8251?

Re: [opensuse] NVidia driver and acpi on 10.2

2007-03-15 Thread Matthias Hopf
On Mar 14, 07 08:49:10 -0700, Mike Noble wrote: Tried that, did not help. Screen goes blank and all I can do is reset. MB: Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939 Video: EVGA Nvidia 6200 LE In that case, please file a bug report, so we can ask NVidia to work on that. The 6200 is certainly new enough to be

Re: [opensuse] udev problem

2007-03-15 Thread Matthias Hopf
On Mar 14, 07 11:39:44 -0400, M. Todd Smith wrote: Which makes sense because my LDAP user is not part of the video group and the perms on nvidiactl look like crw-rw root video There's a file /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia, which normally reads options nvidia NVreg_DeviceFileUID=0

Re: [opensuse] mod_perl in OpenSuse 10.2

2007-03-15 Thread Michael Folsom
Richard: Thanks! I logged in and voted for the bug and added a comment. It just seems that all the parts and pieces are installed but it doesn't work. Thanks again! M- On 3/15/07, Richard Bos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 09:42:49PM -0700, Bruce Ferrell wrote:

Re: [opensuse] udev problem

2007-03-15 Thread Matthias Hopf
On Mar 15, 07 07:40:01 +0800, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: Changing these permission via root and restarting the application as the user makes things peachy .. until they reboot and the perms are reset to these defaults. Is there a reason you do not just add that user to the video group? In a

Re: [opensuse] Why I don't upgrade often

2007-03-15 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Thursday 15 March 2007 04:36, James Knott wrote: Kai Ponte wrote: Those server guys have one odd sense of humor. I have often referred to users as mere mortals. ;-) Or the classic: Lusers. RRS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [opensuse] LVM as root revert

2007-03-15 Thread Carlos Lorenzo Matés
Hi. El Jueves, 15 de Marzo de 2007, Jose escribió: Hi Everybody, I create an LVM volume and mounted it as /, but I would like to revert it to it's original partition, I tried it from reverting from the LVM gui, but it couldn't do it because / is mounted, is there any way to do this, I am

[opensuse] Novell's Virtual Server Deployment Solution [Was: VMware]

2007-03-15 Thread Greg Freemyer
On 3/15/07, John Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 14 March 2007, Kai Ponte wrote: This particulary when compared to a series of $20K servers that can also run some form of virtualization for lesser-demand apps. 20K? Try 1/10th of that. I'm running a low end Dell Poweredge

Re: [opensuse] Checkinstall fails before running make install (Was: install a tar file?)

2007-03-15 Thread Randall R Schulz
Sylvester, On Thursday 15 March 2007 05:54, Sylvester Lykkehus wrote: ... As a side note, I often find checkinstall failing, before running make install. That is on *some* packages, I have to do make install; checkinstall; make uninstall, for the RPM to be build. Interesting. I've had

Re: [opensuse] LVM as root revert

2007-03-15 Thread Adam Williams
I create an LVM volume and mounted it as /, but I would like to revert it to it's original partition, I tried it from reverting from the LVM gui, but it couldn't do it because / is mounted, is there any way to do this, I am thinking safe mode or starting from disk, but I am not sure how to

Re: [opensuse] [SLE] Slow transfers from Linux Server

2007-03-15 Thread Anders Johansson
On Thursday 15 March 2007 06:48, John Andersen wrote: On Wednesday 14 March 2007, Anders Johansson wrote: Just in case you're still interested, I'm doing this now, and I'm getting a constant data rate of over 10MB/s (in real data, not bits over the wire). This means a 100MB file transfers

Re: [opensuse] Determine Web Server type

2007-03-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 10:02 -0400, Carl Hartung wrote: http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph hth regards, Carl Yes, it helps, thanx. Curiously I get IIS on Linux ?? OS Web Server Last changed Linux Microsoft-IIS/6.0 24-Feb-2007 Linux Microsoft-IIS/6.0 17-Dec-2006 Linux Microsoft-IIS/6.0

Re: [opensuse] VMware

2007-03-15 Thread Kai Ponte
On Wednesday 14 March 2007 09:56:48 pm John Andersen wrote: On Wednesday 14 March 2007, Kai Ponte wrote: This particulary when compared to a series of $20K servers that can also run some form of virtualization for lesser-demand apps. 20K? Try 1/10th of that. Heh. I just looked.

Re: [opensuse] setting up a raid (Suse 10.0)

2007-03-15 Thread Wade Jones
On Thursday 15 March 2007 07:57, James D. Parra wrote: I have two identical drives, mirrored as /dev/md0 One drive is a system drive and I'd like to mirror it. Which is it? Perhaps you should post your fstab and raidtab.. I am unable to carve out mount

[opensuse] Re: Novell's Virtual Server Deployment Solution [Was: VMware]

2007-03-15 Thread Greg Freemyer
Top posting the quote the below is talking about. No other edits. From Page 5 of http://www.moreinterop.com/tca-roadmap.pdf that got so disparaged on this list. Novell Data Center Management Solutions The brain of Novell data center management is Novell ZENworks(r) Orchestrator. It allows

Re: [opensuse] Determine Web Server type

2007-03-15 Thread alex
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Is there a way to determine what Web Server (Apache or IIS) is running a particular website? It should be something like the host command. I think I came across such a command some time ago wget -S http://www.microsoft.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail:

[opensuse] usb flashdisk error

2007-03-15 Thread chika
before i've edited fstab then myFlashdisk don't mount correctly. recently i've got some advice from irc for fixing the fstab so the flashdisk can mount automaticaly. the problem is it cant mount automaticaly, but nothing to do. i can't copy or write on it... there is error message input/output

RE: [opensuse] setting up a raid (Suse 10.0)

2007-03-15 Thread James D. Parra
-Original Message- From: Wade Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 8:23 AM To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse] setting up a raid (Suse 10.0) On Thursday 15 March 2007 07:57, James D. Parra wrote: I have two identical drives, mirrored as /dev/md0

[opensuse] What I Want (was Why I don't upgrade often)

2007-03-15 Thread Stevens
On Wednesday 14 March 2007 22:59, you wrote: Fred, Give Zenwalk a look/try! If you want KDE and other things, ZW would be the choice, but if you just want a speedy fast Linux, take a stab at Vector! Might save you a lot of time rather than dealing with FC6. regards, Lee I see you are

Re: [opensuse] Why I don't upgrade often

2007-03-15 Thread Randall R Schulz
Kai, On Thursday 15 March 2007 09:03, Kai Ponte wrote: On Wednesday 14 March 2007 09:29:34 pm Randall R Schulz wrote: On Wednesday 14 March 2007 20:56, Kai Ponte wrote: ... ...and don't forget that WinNT (XP/Vista/2003) is not preemptive multitasking either. At least not at the

Re: [opensuse] Determine Web Server type

2007-03-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 19:35 +0400, alex wrote: wget -S http://www.microsoft.com Great, wget -S --spider http://www.xyz.abc; is what I was looking for. :-) Al -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] What I Want (was Why I don't upgrade often)

2007-03-15 Thread Sunny
On 3/15/07, Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I want is a system that has a web browser that can display the streaming videos included on many websites, including the different news services like Reuters, ABC, CNN, etc at Yahoo.com and the trailers at film.com. Basically the same

Re: [opensuse] Why I don't upgrade often

2007-03-15 Thread Kai Ponte
On Wednesday 14 March 2007 09:29:34 pm Randall R Schulz wrote: On Wednesday 14 March 2007 20:56, Kai Ponte wrote: ... ...and don't forget that WinNT (XP/Vista/2003) is not preemptive multitasking either. At least not at the kernel level like Linux 2.6+ is. You really ought to check

Re: [opensuse] NVidia driver and acpi on 10.2

2007-03-15 Thread Rauch Christian
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthias Hopf schrieb: On Mar 14, 07 08:49:10 -0700, Mike Noble wrote: Tried that, did not help. Screen goes blank and all I can do is reset. MB: Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939 Video: EVGA Nvidia 6200 LE In that case, please file a bug report, so we

Re: [opensuse] Determine Web Server type

2007-03-15 Thread Carl Hartung
On Thu March 15 2007 11:35, alex wrote: wget -S Thanks, Alex, *much* more convenient! Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] udev problem

2007-03-15 Thread todd
MH wrote: There's a file /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia, which normally reads options nvidia NVreg_DeviceFileUID=0 NVreg_DeviceFileGID=33 NVreg_DeviceFileMode=0660 AFAIR changing this to 0666 still works on 10.2 and factory. This works, many thanks :) MH wrote: udev creates the device nodes

Re: [opensuse] What I Want (was Why I don't upgrade often)

2007-03-15 Thread Stevens
On Thursday 15 March 2007 11:53, Sunny wrote: On 3/15/07, Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I want is a system that has a web browser that can display the streaming videos included on many websites, including the different news services like Reuters, ABC, CNN, etc at Yahoo.com and the

Re: [opensuse] mod_perl in OpenSuse 10.2

2007-03-15 Thread David Bolt
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Michael Folsom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:- Folks: New to mod_perl and am having trouble getting mod_perl going on OpenSuse 10.2. Have a system with apache installed and working and used yast to install mod_perl from the install DVD. It created the directory /srv/www/perl-lib

Re: [opensuse] What I Want (was Why I don't upgrade often)

2007-03-15 Thread Sunny
On 3/15/07, Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it were that simple, I would not be bitching. I did not follow the thread from the beginning, so what is the problem? That is my point. They run with Windows and should also with Linux. They _are_ proprietary. Bitch to their authors, and why

Re: [opensuse] Why I don't upgrade often

2007-03-15 Thread John Andersen
On Thursday 15 March 2007, Hartmut Meyer wrote: Just for the sake of it, let's have a look at the most recent recommended update as announced on the suse-security-announce mailing list on the 6th of March: --- snip -                         SUSE Security Announcement         Package:  

[opensuse] Getting YaST to update 3rd party apps

2007-03-15 Thread Adam Jimerson
Is there a way to get YaST to list available updates to third party programs like it does for every other program? It is slightly annoying to run the online update in YaST and it will tell me that there is no updates, then I go into Package All Packages Update if Newer Version is Available and

Re: [opensuse] setting up a raid (Suse 10.0)

2007-03-15 Thread John Andersen
On Thursday 15 March 2007, James D. Parra wrote: Isn't mirroring a swap partition a bad idea, or at the least wasteful? Mirroring is not too bad for swap. When the system needs to read swap the raid drivers will read from which ever disk is not busy, so it might be faster than non-raid, but

Re: [opensuse] Microphone fixed on laptop

2007-03-15 Thread drek
Robert Lewis wrote: drek wrote: Robert Lewis wrote: I have very good news. Hopefully this may help others. For the last 3-months or so my Microphone on my HP5237 laptop has not worked. I actually purchased a USB microphone which did work in the mean time. Now I have it

Re: [opensuse] Re: Novell's Virtual Server Deployment Solution [Was: VMware]

2007-03-15 Thread John Andersen
On Thursday 15 March 2007, Greg Freemyer wrote: Novell Data Center Management Solutions The brain of Novell data center management is Novell ZENworks(r) Rest of post missed due to the commotion of every one running screaming from the room. -- _ John

Re: [opensuse] mod_perl in OpenSuse 10.2

2007-03-15 Thread Michael Folsom
David: Thanks! You are right - it works from the cgi-bin directory. Now why oh why did they ship the mod_perl.conf file that way when they had created the directory /srv/www/perl-lib to put perl scripts in? The next question is - how do you fix the file to get it to work? Contents of the

Re: [opensuse] Getting YaST to update 3rd party apps

2007-03-15 Thread riccardo35
On Thu 15 Mar 2007 18:44, Adam Jimerson wrote: Is there a way to get YaST to list available updates to third party programs like it does for every other program? - maybe, it is good to use Yast for the basics smart for the goodies :) . friendly greetings -- To

Re: [opensuse] Determine Web Server type

2007-03-15 Thread John Andersen
On Thursday 15 March 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 10:02 -0400, Carl Hartung wrote: http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph hth regards, Carl Yes, it helps, thanx. Curiously I get IIS on Linux ?? OS Web Server Last changed Linux Microsoft-IIS/6.0 24-Feb-2007

Re: [opensuse] RAM problems - Was: Linux on Dell preloads

2007-03-15 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Randall R Schulz: Yes, indeed, you have bad RAM. It's far from rare. 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] setting up a raid (Suse 10.0)

2007-03-15 Thread David Mayr
Am Donnerstag, 15. März 2007 19:47 schrieb John Andersen: On Thursday 15 March 2007, James D. Parra wrote: Isn't mirroring a swap partition a bad idea, or at the least wasteful? Mirroring is not too bad for swap. When the system needs to read swap the raid drivers will read from which ever

Re: [opensuse] RAM problems - Was: Linux on Dell preloads

2007-03-15 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Thursday 15 March 2007 12:05, Peter Bradley wrote: ... Sorry to resurrect this thread. Just thought you might like to know that I've just got my machine back from the vendors (who've replaced the memory with not one quibble, fair play). I'm glad it worked out. Nothing's crashed yet.

Re: [opensuse] Getting YaST to update 3rd party apps

2007-03-15 Thread Benji Weber
On 3/15/07, Adam Jimerson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to get YaST to list available updates to third party programs like it does for every other program? It is slightly annoying to run the online update in YaST and it will tell me that there is no updates, then I go into Package

Re: [opensuse] Checkinstall fails before running make install (Was: install a tar file?)

2007-03-15 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-03-15 at 13:54 +0100, Sylvester Lykkehus wrote: As a side note, I often find checkinstall failing, before running make install. That is on *some* packages, I have to do make install; checkinstall; make uninstall, for the RPM

[opensuse] lyx GUI fonts

2007-03-15 Thread Istvan Gabor
Hello list users: I've installed the new lyx 1.5 beta version (lyx-beta-1.5.0beta1- 1.guru.suse102) on my openSUSE 10.2 system. The program starts fine but the GUI fonts are very small. I tried to change the GTK font sizes in KDE control center but it had no effect. I ran gnome-font-properties

Re: [opensuse] mod_perl in OpenSuse 10.2

2007-03-15 Thread David Bolt
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Michael Folsom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:- David: Thanks! You are right - it works from the cgi-bin directory. Now why oh why did they ship the mod_perl.conf file that way when they had created the directory /srv/www/perl-lib to put perl scripts in? No idea. I always

Re: [opensuse] lyx GUI fonts

2007-03-15 Thread Scott Jones
On Thursday 15 March 2007, Istvan Gabor wrote: Hello list users: I've installed the new lyx 1.5 beta version (lyx-beta-1.5.0beta1- 1.guru.suse102) on my openSUSE 10.2 system. The program starts fine but the GUI fonts are very small. I tried to change the GTK font sizes in KDE control center

Re: [opensuse] mod_perl in OpenSuse 10.2

2007-03-15 Thread Richard Bos
Op donderdag 15 maart 2007 21:30, schreef David Bolt: Now why oh why did they ship the mod_perl.conf file that way when they had created the directory /srv/www/perl-lib to put perl scripts in? No idea. I always install any scripts into /cgi-bin/. It makes things much easier as it just works.

Re: [opensuse] What I Want (was Why I don't upgrade often)

2007-03-15 Thread BandiPat
On Thursday 15 March 2007, Stevens wrote: Lee: What I want is a system that has a web browser that can display the streaming videos included on many websites, including the different news services like Reuters, ABC, CNN, etc at Yahoo.com and the trailers at film.com. Basically the same

Re: [opensuse] lyx GUI fonts

2007-03-15 Thread Istvan Gabor
Hello list users: I've installed the new lyx 1.5 beta version (lyx-beta- 1.5.0beta1- 1.guru.suse102) on my openSUSE 10.2 system. The program starts fine but the GUI fonts are very small. I tried to change the GTK font sizes in KDE control center but it had no effect. I ran

Re: [opensuse] Why I don't upgrade often

2007-03-15 Thread Hartmut Meyer
Hi, On Thursday 15 March 2007 19:39, John Andersen wrote: On Thursday 15 March 2007, Hartmut Meyer wrote: Just for the sake of it, let's have a look at the most recent recommended update as announced on the suse-security-announce mailing list on the 6th of March: --- snip -      

Re: [opensuse] Why I don't upgrade often

2007-03-15 Thread M Harris
On Thursday 15 March 2007 11:21, Randall R Schulz wrote: It does do user-level preemptive multitasking but not kernel level. Perhaps you're drawing some real distinction here, but I'm not sure what it is. The distinction (which I am now re-researching) is that there is a difference

[opensuse] YaST partitioner question - mounted disks

2007-03-15 Thread Don Raboud
Hi, When I fire up YaST - System - Partitioner, there is a warning that pops up, essentially saying, among other things, NEVER (my emphasis) partition disks that may in any way be in use (mounted, swap, etc) unless you know exactly what you are doing. Let's pretend for a moment that this

Re: [opensuse] Why I don't upgrade often

2007-03-15 Thread M Harris
On Thursday 15 March 2007 16:15, Hartmut Meyer wrote: Are you saying that only kernel security issues are relevant? The next security advisory (from today) was about PHP ... I'm afraid I just don't get what your talking about :-( You are talking past each other... ... you are

Re: [opensuse] LVM as root revert

2007-03-15 Thread Carlos Lorenzo Matés
Hi. El Jueves, 15 de Marzo de 2007, Adam Williams escribió: I create an LVM volume and mounted it as /, but I would like to revert it to it's original partition, I tried it from reverting from the LVM gui, but it couldn't do it because / is mounted, is there any way to do this, I am

Re: [opensuse] ALC850 problems in 10.2

2007-03-15 Thread M Harris
On Thursday 15 March 2007 04:24, Anders Norrbring wrote: Anyone who's managed to get any sound from a Realtek ALC850 chip in 10.2?  I just tried to install on a MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum and the sound is detected as nVidia nForce3.. The mobo carry the nForce chipset, but the audio part is served

Re: [opensuse] mod_perl in OpenSuse 10.2

2007-03-15 Thread David Bolt
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Richard Bos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:- Op donderdag 15 maart 2007 21:30, schreef David Bolt: Now why oh why did they ship the mod_perl.conf file that way when they had created the directory /srv/www/perl-lib to put perl scripts in? No idea. I always install any scripts

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