[opensuse] simple LAN

2007-06-15 Thread Robert Best
I have two computers running SuSE 10.2 and connected by Ethernet cables to the same ADSL router. Internet works fine on both computers. Please help to configure a LAN to transfer files (FTP) from one computer to the other. I cannot figure out from Ch 21, Basic Networking in the Reference docume

[opensuse] What happend to the System Monitor?

2007-06-15 Thread Clark P. Case
I got the update a week or two ago to the Gnome menu with the latest patches and updates to the system and just noticed that when I click on the hard drive entry in the "Computer" menu on the panel I now get a window opening my home folder rather than the system monitor with the running processes,

Re: [opensuse] US Patent, Subpixel Hinting and Liberation fonts

2007-06-15 Thread Mohammad Bhuyan
Anyway, lest all my tongue-in-check ramblings be misinterpreted, you should feel perfectly free to use and configure the software you have in the way you see fit. That includes rebuilding the FreeType renderer to enable the hint interpreter. I agree completely on the freedom over patents (or t

Re: [opensuse] program startup

2007-06-15 Thread M Harris
On Friday 15 June 2007 08:49, Dan wrote: > I was wondering if there is a way for a terminal program to startup > automatically when a machine is restarted, and when you login it will > show as an open window? I'm not entirely sure what you're asking for here... (several permutations) but

Re: [opensuse] Re: Software being accessed by another program??

2007-06-15 Thread M Harris
On Friday 15 June 2007 20:44, Jonathan Arnold wrote: > YaST does single click selection. Its neither here nor there... but I wish the interface standards would just do away with the whole double-click thing. Mac has been a single button, single click (I think forever) and it wo

Re: [opensuse] US Patent, Subpixel Hinting and Liberation fonts

2007-06-15 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Friday 15 June 2007 18:36, Mohammad Bhuyan wrote: > Hi, > > Somewhere on the net a read that the MS patents (in that regards all > US patents) does not apply outside US. Is that true?!!? > > My issue is to decide if I can enable sub pixel hinting or not? What do you think might happen if you do

Re: [opensuse] Re: Interesting Novell Write-up on clustering

2007-06-15 Thread joe
Michael Folsom wrote: > I think we are asking about having it and possibly a few other things > included in the distro - > > By-the-by, when I go to the directory you list it contains many rpms > but none of the heartbeat rpms listed above. hmm, not sure what directory you mean, I just copied a

Re: [opensuse] Re: what happened to kdict?

2007-06-15 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Jonathan Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [06-15-07 21:44]: > Sorry, I meant don't try searching with the Description checked. > There's a million packages with the substring 'pin' in the description > and it takes forever to find them. You apparently missed something. "pin" is not what the OP was lo

Re: [opensuse] US Patent, Subpixel Hinting and Liberation fonts

2007-06-15 Thread Tony Alfrey
Mohammad Bhuyan wrote: Hi, Somewhere on the net a read that the MS patents (in that regards all US patents) does not apply outside US. Is that true?!!? US patents are US patents only. One may file separately for patents in Europe for the same invention. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PR

[opensuse] Re: Software being accessed by another program??

2007-06-15 Thread Jonathan Arnold
Andrew Syrewicze wrote: > Trying to use Yast to install this Citrix RPM I have. I right click the icon > and it bring up the Yast software installer like it should. then it > says that yast is in use by another process. > > I looked for any other Yast like process with top and couldn't fi

[opensuse] Re: what happened to kdict?

2007-06-15 Thread Jonathan Arnold
Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Jonathan Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [06-15-07 14:16]: >> If you use YaST, often you need to check the Description check box in >> order to find tools. If you're sure it should be around, try doing >> that with kdict and it finds it. > > this does work. > >> Just don't

Re: [opensuse] New Subject - building clusters with OpenSuse

2007-06-15 Thread Ciro Iriarte
2007/6/15, Pascal Bleser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexey Eremenko wrote: > Alternatively, you can write some custom scripts to share hard disk > data between nodes, use "webmin" to manage nodes together, and use > Cisco's NAT with Load Balancing to use b

[opensuse] US Patent, Subpixel Hinting and Liberation fonts

2007-06-15 Thread Mohammad Bhuyan
Hi, Somewhere on the net a read that the MS patents (in that regards all US patents) does not apply outside US. Is that true?!!? My issue is to decide if I can enable sub pixel hinting or not? Is there any open equivalent to the technology? From what I have read, the Liberation fonts (RedHat)

Re: [opensuse] New Subject - building clusters with OpenSuse

2007-06-15 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexey Eremenko wrote: > Alternatively, you can write some custom scripts to share hard disk > data between nodes, use "webmin" to manage nodes together, and use > Cisco's NAT with Load Balancing to use both servers. Scripts ? to "share" ? Seems we've

Re: [opensuse] RE:Back Door Prosiak client connection in Linux

2007-06-15 Thread Registration Account
Dear James, Yes we both know that improvements have been made and you have indicate a great knowledge of the groups of protocols we know as TCP/IP. I agree we have made inroads since the early inception of the protocols - however you understand that - Particularly Windows relies on the ability we

Re: [opensuse] New Subject - building clusters with OpenSuse

2007-06-15 Thread Alexey Eremenko
Alternatively, you can write some custom scripts to share hard disk data between nodes, use "webmin" to manage nodes together, and use Cisco's NAT with Load Balancing to use both servers. This should work for basic workloads... such as HTTP server. I'm not sure how good or bad openSUSE is at "cl

Re: [opensuse] Samsung 204b problem

2007-06-15 Thread BandiPat
On Friday 15 June 2007, Michael Fischer wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, Sloan wrote: > > Why not just rsync all the files of interest over to the new box? > > The integrity of the filesystem is really not connected to the > > display issues... > > Well, in the ongoing saga. > > The new machine is a sp

Re: [opensuse] New Subject - building clusters with OpenSuse

2007-06-15 Thread Michael Folsom
I absolutely agree - I was just wondering aloud if the inclusion of a few basic tools may make it an easier choice for the cluster building crowd. There is no way that any distro could do it all - M- On 6/15/07, Thomas Hertweck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Michael Folsom wrote: > I checked S

Re: [opensuse] Re: Interesting Novell Write-up on clustering

2007-06-15 Thread Michael Folsom
I think we are asking about having it and possibly a few other things included in the distro - By-the-by, when I go to the directory you list it contains many rpms but none of the heartbeat rpms listed above. Later - Michael On 6/15/07, Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sunny wrote: > On 6/1

Re: [opensuse] Re: what happened to kdict?

2007-06-15 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-06-15 at 15:29 -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > Just don't try doing it with 'pin':-) > > Would you please explain this statement. That is the *entire* purpose > of the app "pin". Unfortunately, pin doesn't work as reliably as it

Re: [opensuse] Samsung 204b problem

2007-06-15 Thread Sloan
Michael Fischer wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, Sloan wrote: > > >> Why not just rsync all the files of interest over to the new box? The >> integrity of the filesystem is really not connected to the display issues... >> > > Well, in the ongoing saga. > > The new machine is a spanking HP pav

Re: [opensuse] RE:Back Door Prosiak client connection in Linux

2007-06-15 Thread James Knott
Kai Ponte wrote: > On Fri, June 15, 2007 12:09 pm, James Knott wrote: > > >>> As an example, in order to increase the security (by obscurity) of >>> our >>> voting tally systems, we use Token Ring on all election tally >>> systems. >>> There's only one machine with a token ring/ethernet bridge u

Re: [opensuse] RE:Back Door Prosiak client connection in Linux

2007-06-15 Thread Kai Ponte
On Fri, June 15, 2007 12:09 pm, James Knott wrote: >> As an example, in order to increase the security (by obscurity) of >> our >> voting tally systems, we use Token Ring on all election tally >> systems. >> There's only one machine with a token ring/ethernet bridge used to >> pass data out. >> >

Re: [opensuse] Samsung 204b problem

2007-06-15 Thread Michael Fischer
On Fri, Jun 15, Michael Fischer wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, Michael Fischer wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 15, Sloan wrote: > > > > > Why not just rsync all the files of interest over to the new box? The > > > integrity of the filesystem is really not connected to the display > > > issues... > > > > Well,

Re: [opensuse] Re: what happened to kdict?

2007-06-15 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Jonathan Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [06-15-07 14:16]: > If you use YaST, often you need to check the Description check box in > order to find tools. If you're sure it should be around, try doing > that with kdict and it finds it. this does work. > Just don't try doing it with 'pin':-) Would yo

Re: [opensuse] smart channels disabled

2007-06-15 Thread Goksin Akdeniz
On Friday 15 June 2007 08:07:00 Bob S wrote: > > BTW, which is the best for current but not bleeding edge? > Hi Bob, I am running smart and KDE. Here is two KDE selection options: 1-Run KDE 3.5.5 (base install) + Packman Repo + GURU Repo So you can KDE 3.5.5 and full multimedia support. 2-KDE R

Re: [opensuse] Samsung 204b problem

2007-06-15 Thread Michael Fischer
On Fri, Jun 15, Michael Fischer wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, Sloan wrote: > > > Why not just rsync all the files of interest over to the new box? The > > integrity of the filesystem is really not connected to the display issues... > > Well, in the ongoing saga. > > The new machine is a spanking

Re: [opensuse] RE:Back Door Prosiak client connection in Linux

2007-06-15 Thread James Knott
Kai Ponte wrote: On Thu, June 14, 2007 10:07 pm, John Andersen wrote: On Thursday 14 June 2007, Registration Account wrote: In Australia we will NOT use TCP/IP for government or direct Banking requirements. Thats why do don't worry about massive amounts of data being hijacked. H

Re: [opensuse] Samsung 204b problem

2007-06-15 Thread Michael Fischer
On Fri, Jun 15, Sloan wrote: > Why not just rsync all the files of interest over to the new box? The > integrity of the filesystem is really not connected to the display issues... Well, in the ongoing saga. The new machine is a spanking HP pavilion, dual core athlon 64. And 10.1 doesn't re

Re: [opensuse] RE:Back Door Prosiak client connection in Linux

2007-06-15 Thread Kai Ponte
On Thu, June 14, 2007 10:07 pm, John Andersen wrote: > On Thursday 14 June 2007, Registration Account wrote: >> In Australia we will NOT use TCP/IP for government or >> direct Banking requirements. Thats why do don't worry >> about massive amounts of data being hijacked. > > Huh? > No on line banki

Re: [opensuse] smart channels disabled

2007-06-15 Thread Kai Ponte
On Fri, June 15, 2007 1:13 am, Kevin Donnelly wrote: > On Fri 15 June 2007 06:07:00 Bob S wrote: >> I've noticed lately that none of my KDE packages are being updated. >> Did a smart channels show command and see that all of my three KDE >> channels are disabled. Been searching high and low (the re

Re: [opensuse] New Subject - building clusters with OpenSuse

2007-06-15 Thread Thomas Hertweck
Michael Folsom wrote: > I checked Science and Productivity and its not there - > > However, before we do that - it might be worthwhile to consider what > else do we need for clustering? It would be really great to see > OpenSuse shipped on clusters of all sizes from the little guys to > biggies

[opensuse] k3b LANG issue

2007-06-15 Thread Jonathan Arnold
I'm getting the following warning from k3b: === System locale charset is ANSI_X3.4-1968 Your system's locale charset (i.e. the charset used to encode filenames) is set to ANSI_X3.4-1968. It is highly unlikely that this has been done intentionally. Most likely the locale is not set at all. An inva

[opensuse] Re: what happened to kdict?

2007-06-15 Thread Jonathan Arnold
Chuck Davis wrote: > Thanks, Patrick. I probably would never have looked for it in that > package. If you use YaST, often you need to check the Description check box in order to find tools. If you're sure it should be around, try doing that with kdict and it finds it. Just don't try doing it wit

Re: [opensuse] last.fm stream does not play

2007-06-15 Thread Stuart Neill
On Friday 15 June 2007 09:15, Chris Haynes wrote: > Using AMAROK I attempt to start a last.fm stream playing. > What does not work: > 1) No sound emerges > 2) The AMAROK spectrum visualisation along the bottom shows no activity > 3) The performance monitor, looking at the eth0 interface, shows no

Re: [opensuse] Re: Interesting Novell Write-up on clustering

2007-06-15 Thread Sloan
Sunny wrote: > On 6/14/07, Michael Folsom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Don't really think this is about yast - the rpm for heartbeat isn't >> included in OpenSuse 10.2 or 10.3 Alpha 4 and it is in SLES10. If >> heartbeat isn't there you really don't need the yast2-heartbeat >> module. >> >> How d

Re: [opensuse] New Subject - building clusters with OpenSuse

2007-06-15 Thread Greg Freemyer
On 6/15/07, Michael Folsom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks! I checked Science and Productivity and its not there - However, before we do that - it might be worthwhile to consider what else do we need for clustering? It would be really great to see OpenSuse shipped on clusters of all sizes fr

[opensuse] Got the Durabrand SF-MW205 working

2007-06-15 Thread Pueblo Native
Guess the charger cradle doesn't work for crap, but all in all a fairly decent optical mouse so far. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Samsung 204b problem

2007-06-15 Thread Sloan
Michael Fischer wrote: > On Thu, Jun 14, BandiPat wrote: > >> Michael, >> My first suggestion would be that it's a good time to update the video >> card as well. I'm guessing that card will not display the resolution >> that monitor needs. Also, a newer card, even just a 9600 or 9200 will >

[opensuse] New Subject - building clusters with OpenSuse

2007-06-15 Thread Michael Folsom
Thanks! I checked Science and Productivity and its not there - However, before we do that - it might be worthwhile to consider what else do we need for clustering? It would be really great to see OpenSuse shipped on clusters of all sizes from the little guys to biggies but to make that easy the

Re: [opensuse] [SOLVED] How to unlink LDAP from PAM?

2007-06-15 Thread Jan Tiggy
> Now is everything OK. Geez, forgot SOLVED again. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] [SOLVED] /var/log/boot.msg gives me: (bad exit status: 10)

2007-06-15 Thread Jan Tiggy
me fool wrote: > What the hell is it? dkms_autoinstaller!! Me fool. ;) Thx anyway. Jan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] smart channels disabled

2007-06-15 Thread S Glasoe
On Friday June 15 2007 3:13:57 am Kevin Donnelly wrote: > On Fri 15 June 2007 06:07:00 Bob S wrote: > > I've noticed lately that none of my KDE packages are being updated. > > Did a smart channels show command and see that all of my three KDE > > channels are disabled. Been searching high and low (

Re: [opensuse] Re: Interesting Novell Write-up on clustering

2007-06-15 Thread Sunny
On 6/14/07, Michael Folsom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Don't really think this is about yast - the rpm for heartbeat isn't included in OpenSuse 10.2 or 10.3 Alpha 4 and it is in SLES10. If heartbeat isn't there you really don't need the yast2-heartbeat module. How does one petition the folks dev

RE: [opensuse] program startup

2007-06-15 Thread Marlier, Ian
> -Original Message- > From: Dan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 9:50 AM > To: opensuse@opensuse.org > Subject: [opensuse] program startup > > Hello, > > I was wondering if there is a way for a terminal program to startup > automatically when a machine is rest

Re: [opensuse] program startup

2007-06-15 Thread Mike McMullin
On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 08:49 -0500, Dan wrote: > Hello, > > I was wondering if there is a way for a terminal program to startup > automatically when a machine is restarted, and when you login it will > show as an open window? > If not, can it be startup if a user automatically logs in to the gui

Re: [opensuse] program startup

2007-06-15 Thread James Knott
Dan wrote: Hello, I was wondering if there is a way for a terminal program to startup automatically when a machine is restarted, and when you login it will show as an open window? If not, can it be startup if a user automatically logs in to the gui? Can it be startup just in the console wit

[opensuse] program startup

2007-06-15 Thread Dan
Hello, I was wondering if there is a way for a terminal program to startup automatically when a machine is restarted, and when you login it will show as an open window? If not, can it be startup if a user automatically logs in to the gui? Can it be startup just in the console with no gui? (

Re: [opensuse] Re: Interesting Novell Write-up on clustering

2007-06-15 Thread Clint Tinsley
I would think it is only available in Enterprise (SLES 10). Also noticed that this link is to beta documentation on SLES 10 and not released product. > - Original Message - > From: "Michael Folsom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Greg Freemyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [opensuse] Re

[opensuse] Opening attachments in Kontact'S KMail directly with OOo

2007-06-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all, When I try to open an OOo-Writer document directly from Kontact's KMail, I get the following message: "/tmp/kde-/Letter name with spaces.doc_[AIN1nb].doc does not exist." Only after saving it can the document be opened. :-) Al -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additiona

[opensuse] Re: /var/log/boot.msg gives me: (bad exit status: 10)

2007-06-15 Thread Joachim Schrod
Jan Tiggy wrote: Getting following out of /var/log/ snip... .Starting httpd2 (prefork) done ...checkproc: /opt/kde3/bin/kdm 4204 .(bad exit status: 10) Build failed. Installation skipped. Starting Firewall Initialization (phase 2 of 2) done Master Resource Control: runlevel 5 has bee

Re: [opensuse] /var/log/boot.msg gives me: (bad exit status: 10)

2007-06-15 Thread Jan Tiggy
G T Smith wrote: > Well checkproc is called early in the /etc/init.d/xdm start section to > check whether kdm is running but this is not one of checkprocs error > codes according to the man page. The Build failure seems to suggest some > sort of corruption in KDE configuration, I would have a look

Re: [opensuse] Converting reiserfs 3.5 to 3.6; listing fs version

2007-06-15 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-06-15 at 00:26 -0700, Charles Obler wrote: ... > know whether the reiserfs version has actually changed. I can't find > any file utilities that actually list the version -- as far as I can > see, fsck doesn't do it, reiserfstune d

Re: [opensuse] How to unlink LDAP from PAM?

2007-06-15 Thread Jan Tiggy
Petr Klíma wrote: > You have deleted them by yourself instead of uninstalling specific > package? Well, you should stop deleting system files, it's direct and > proven road to the burning hell. Hi Petr, LOL, I'm not that good to delete all those files manually. Sorry for being confusing! However

Re: [opensuse] /var/log/boot.msg gives me: (bad exit status: 10)

2007-06-15 Thread G T Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jan Tiggy wrote: > Getting following out of /var/log/ > > snip... > > .Starting httpd2 (prefork) done > ...checkproc: /opt/kde3/bin/kdm 4204 > .(bad exit status: 10) > Build failed. Installation skipped. > Starting Firewall Initialization

Re: [opensuse] firefox add-ons don't install - SOLVED

2007-06-15 Thread Daniel Bauer
On Freitag, 15. Juni 2007, Daniel Bauer wrote: > Hello, > > I tried to install an add-on for firefox, but if I look under "add-ons" in > the menu, it just tells me, hat it will be installed after a restart of > firefox. I restarted firefox several times, even logged out and in again as > user to re

Re: [opensuse] How to unlink LDAP from PAM?

2007-06-15 Thread Petr Klíma
You have deleted them by yourself instead of uninstalling specific package? Well, you should stop deleting system files, it's direct and proven road to the burning hell. Anyway, such thing would be easily accomplished using yast (Network services -> LDAP client and then select "do not use LDAP"),

[opensuse] /var/log/boot.msg gives me: (bad exit status: 10)

2007-06-15 Thread Jan Tiggy
Getting following out of /var/log/ snip... .Starting httpd2 (prefork) done ...checkproc: /opt/kde3/bin/kdm 4204 .(bad exit status: 10) Build failed. Installation skipped. Starting Firewall Initialization (phase 2 of 2) done Master Resource Control: runlevel 5 has been reached Skipped s

[opensuse] last.fm stream does not play

2007-06-15 Thread Chris Haynes
Using AMAROK I attempt to start a last.fm stream playing. What does work: 1) Buffering is reported as completed, 2) WireShark shows lots of packets arriving, but also quite a lot of errors 3) last.fm announces each new track after about the right play time, which gets displayed by AMAROK What d

Re: [opensuse] smart channels disabled

2007-06-15 Thread Kevin Donnelly
On Fri 15 June 2007 06:07:00 Bob S wrote: > I've noticed lately that none of my KDE packages are being updated. > Did a smart channels show command and see that all of my three KDE > channels are disabled. Been searching high and low (the really good Wiki, > Google, etc.) for the way to enable with

[opensuse] How to unlink LDAP from PAM?

2007-06-15 Thread Jan Tiggy
After switching from LDAP to local and deleting LDAP files I'm getting a PAM error as following on bottom. In which scrypt do I unlink LDAP from PAM? Beside this there is no problem with PAM, but such logs drive me crazy. Thx Jan # tail /var/log/messages: Jun 15 09:54:08 server su: PAM unable to

[opensuse] firefox add-ons don't install

2007-06-15 Thread Daniel Bauer
Hello, I tried to install an add-on for firefox, but if I look under "add-ons" in the menu, it just tells me, hat it will be installed after a restart of firefox. I restarted firefox several times, even logged out and in again as user to restart x, but still firefox tells me, it would install t

[opensuse] Converting reiserfs 3.5 to 3.6; listing fs version

2007-06-15 Thread Charles Obler
Another interesting problem! When I laid out my partitions for my new 10.2, I mistakenly specified 3.5 instead of 3.6 as the reiserfs version. I was afraid that 3.6 might not be compatible with my 9.0 SuSE. After completing the install, I found out that 3.6 IS compatible with the 2.4 nucleu