Re: [opensuse] silly girls' cli copy problem

2007-09-02 Thread primm
On Sunday 02 September 2007 02:07, Anders Johansson wrote: > On Saturday 01 September 2007 17:51:40 primm wrote: > > Hi everyone. > > > > I've learned a lot by this thread. > > > > The way to go for novice webmistresses seems to be mc (what an amazing > > piece of kit- thanks to whoever suggested i

[opensuse] Installing JIKES

2007-09-02 Thread Stan Goodman
I wish to use the Jikes Java compiler. I have read the Jikes home page, and discovered that this application is said to be supplied with SuSE, which was good news. I was unable to find "Jikes*" on my openSuSE v10.2; The only related file present is jikes.vim; this appears to be a plugin for vim (t

Re: [opensuse] Printer on LTSP client

2007-09-02 Thread Andre Truter
On 02/09/07, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What is implied and what actually is are two different things. These > days I doubt a PC manufacturer, here in SA, would let a box out of their > store without a HDD. The OP needs to let us know. > In this case there are no impli

Re: [opensuse] Re: silly girls' cli copy problem

2007-09-02 Thread primm
> > To answer another question in this thread, I'm just a long time software > engineer who admins several of his own systems. > That's getting at what I really want to know. How do you deal with people in your company who tell you how to do your job who have absolutely no idea what they are tal

Re: [opensuse] silly girls' cli copy problem [solved]

2007-09-02 Thread primm
Hi everyone Just to say a big thank you to you all for saving my day. I have successfully solved this matter. Love from Lynn. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Installing JIKES

2007-09-02 Thread Bogdan Cristea
Have you tried the search software facility: http://benjiweber.co.uk:8080/webpin/index.jsp?searchTerm=Jikes&distro=openSUSE_102 On Sunday 02 September 2007 10:51, Stan Goodman wrote: > I wish to use the Jikes Java compiler. I have read the Jikes home page, and > discovered that this application i

Re: [opensuse] silly girls' cli copy problem

2007-09-02 Thread Jos van Kan
primm schreef: (snip)> > But I'm wondering. Is there anyway of getting into my cli only server from a > kde client on my lan? Or does the server have to have X installed too to be > able to do that? > > Love from Lynn. Open a console (konsole) in your kde client and type ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Updates and other s/w management on 10.3

2007-09-02 Thread John Layt
On Sunday 02 September 2007, Robert Lewis wrote: > This window is not movable and obscures other ICONS. If you single click on the window (well popup really) it goes away but it carries on working in the background. Double click the system tray icon to show the status again. > When it finishes

Re: [opensuse] Updates and other s/w management on 10.3

2007-09-02 Thread John Layt
On Saturday 01 September 2007, Robert Lewis wrote: > Why is it necessary to build a new database of > patches every time I choose another YaST > s/w function? > > The delays waiting to update or pick a new > package are quite a time hit. > > Even if these processes just completed and > I leave YaST

Re: [opensuse] silly girls' cli copy problem

2007-09-02 Thread Verner Kjærsgaard
Søndag 02 september 2007 09:49 skrev primm: > On Sunday 02 September 2007 02:07, Anders Johansson wrote: > > On Saturday 01 September 2007 17:51:40 primm wrote: > > > Hi everyone. > > > > > > I've learned a lot by this thread. > > > > > > The way to go for novice webmistresses seems to be mc (what

Re: [opensuse] silly girls' cli copy problem

2007-09-02 Thread primm
> > What amazes me is that hobbyists (it seems that most people on this site > > do not work as admins to earn a living) such as the folk on this list are > > so willing and eager to help. Indeed were it not for them I'd not be in > > the position I'm in now. You never get that in the workplace. A

Re: [opensuse] Updates and other s/w management on 10.3

2007-09-02 Thread Andreas Jaeger
"Robert Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why is it necessary to build a new database of > patches every time I choose another YaST > s/w function? > > The delays waiting to update or pick a new > package are quite a time hit. > > Even if these processes just completed and > I leave YaST an re-

Re: [opensuse] silly girls' cli copy problem

2007-09-02 Thread Verner Kjærsgaard
Søndag 02 september 2007 11:40 skrev primm: > > > What amazes me is that hobbyists (it seems that most people on this > > > site do not work as admins to earn a living) such as the folk on this > > > list are so willing and eager to help. Indeed were it not for them I'd > > > not be in the position

[opensuse] Re: XEN Help Please

2007-09-02 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) wrote: > On Sunday 02 September 2007 00:30:26 Alexey Eremenko wrote: >> Not sure about Xen, but you could try KVM or VirtualBox www.virtualbox.org > > Thanks for the excellent idea of using KVM, the only question I have, how > reliable it really is? Server should run

[opensuse] Bluetooth not visible to phone on SuSE 10.2

2007-09-02 Thread Andre Truter
After upgrading to openSUSE 10.2, my computer is not visible from my phone via bluetooth anymore. I can connect to the phone via OBEX and send files from the computer, but if I want to send files from the phone, it is not able to locate the computer when you search for devices on the phone. I tri

Re: [opensuse] Re: Fixed: Firefox won't show any webpages

2007-09-02 Thread Wilfred van Velzen
+++ "Rajko M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2007-09-01 20:41:01 +++ > > > After update? > > > > I don't remember exactly, but I don't think so, the last FireFox update > > was a few weeks ago, if I remember correctly? > > > > And I also had the same kind of symptoms before the reset. Only this > > was after

Re: [opensuse] Changing drivers on Xorg (intel card)

2007-09-02 Thread Ciro Iriarte
2007/8/30, Ciro Iriarte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2007/8/30, Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 2007/08/30 20:09 (GMT-0400) Ciro Iriarte apparently typed: > > > > > Hi, replaced the "i810" driver with "intel" looking for better results > > > on getting the s-video output to work but the server is

Re: [opensuse] silly girls' cli copy problem

2007-09-02 Thread James Knott
primm wrote: > Using the non enterprize version of SuSE to run a network I feel is very much > in it's infancy. The only method of support is through this list. SuSE will > not help you. It is a very dangerous game to play being a non supported sys > admin. I think we all operate in isolation w

[opensuse] Re: Fixed: Firefox won't show any webpages

2007-09-02 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Wilfred van Velzen wrote: [...[ >> Program that is changing it's behavior like that might be signal of > failing >> hardware, > > It's a brand new machine. So unlikely, but not impossible... > >> or your ISP DNS server was slow and Firefox considered that IPv6 >> should be used instead. > > Very

[opensuse] Re: Asus P5K3 Deluxe motherboard + OpenSUSE 10.3

2007-09-02 Thread Eberhard Roloff
BandiPat wrote: > On Saturday 01 September 2007, Matthew Stringer wrote: >> Hi, > [...] >> Couple of things I've not pinned down, main one is the motherboard, >> I'm leaning towards an Asus P5K3 Deluxe as it ticks all the boxes and >> looks sufficiently high quality to last. >> >> http://www.asus.c

Re: [opensuse] Of openSUSE KDE package releases and stabillity.

2007-09-02 Thread Will Stephenson
On Saturday 01 September 2007 22:10:44 Tero Pesonen wrote: > Relating to the topic of recent openSUSE KMail packages and stability > issues, now discussed on the list. > > I've been wondering which of these openSUSE KDE packages are actually > stable. There's this stable(?) "KDE3" repository alo

Re: [opensuse] silly girls' cli copy problem

2007-09-02 Thread primm
On Sunday 02 September 2007 13:41, James Knott wrote: > primm wrote: > > Using the non enterprize version of SuSE to run a network I feel is very > > much in it's infancy. The only method of support is through this list. > > SuSE will not help you. It is a very dangerous game to play being a non >

Re: [opensuse] silly girls' cli copy problem

2007-09-02 Thread James Knott
primm wrote: > On Sunday 02 September 2007 13:41, James Knott wrote: >> primm wrote: >>> Using the non enterprize version of SuSE to run a network I feel is very >>> much in it's infancy. The only method of support is through this list. >>> SuSE will not help you. It is a very dangerous game to pla

[opensuse] 10.3 Beta2 severily broken

2007-09-02 Thread Art Fore
Done a complete reinstall of 10.3 Beta2 as I could not get the Beta1 to Beta2 upgrade to work. The reinstall is a disaster. I downloaded and installed the 9639 nvidia driver successfully. Try running Sax2, it runs, but will not save the settings, (kills itself) or event test (again, kills itself).

Re: [opensuse] Asus P5K3 Deluxe motherboard + OpenSUSE 10.3

2007-09-02 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/09/02 07:51 (GMT-0400) Eberhard Roloff apparently typed: > BandiPat wrote: >> You take your chances with anything ASUS teaming it up with Linux. >> There are better choices. > if you don not mind, could you kindly name them? The real point is that ASUS support staff is openly hostile

Re: [opensuse] silly girls' cli copy problem

2007-09-02 Thread Verner Kjærsgaard
Søndag 02 september 2007 14:11 skrev primm: > On Sunday 02 September 2007 13:41, James Knott wrote: > > primm wrote: > > > Using the non enterprize version of SuSE to run a network I feel is > > > very much in it's infancy. The only method of support is through this > > > list. SuSE will not help y

Re: [opensuse] silly girls' cli copy problem

2007-09-02 Thread Anders Johansson
On Sunday 02 September 2007 09:49:16 primm wrote: > I'm desperately trying to learn to be a good admin. I'm far from it. In > Spain companies are prepared to pay you loadsa money if you can stop them > getting viruses and you can speak English and Spanish. So I tried just > about all methods everyo

Re: [opensuse] silly girls' cli copy problem

2007-09-02 Thread Anders Johansson
On Sunday 02 September 2007 11:19:54 Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: > - In *NIX OSses, there are usually more than one way of doing things. In > your scenario, I was unsure of the correct way of doing it, mainly due to > the very large amount of files (> 800) which, as noted, could cause a > problem when

Re: [opensuse] Updates and other s/w management on 10.3

2007-09-02 Thread Rajko M.
On Sunday 02 September 2007 04:14, John Layt wrote: > I've used every other major package management system out there, and I > don't recall any of them being so slow, not even urpmi.   > patience as it is under heavy development, but it had better improve by the > RC's.   Better no rush. One of

[opensuse] Miniature desktop slideshow ?

2007-09-02 Thread Francesco Scaglioni
Hi, My son has just purchased a vista laptop (needed for college). Whilst vista looks and feels awfull the miniature desktop slideshow in the side-bar is pleasant. Does anyone know of a linux equivalent ? All the slideshow progs I can find seem designed to run full screen. In an ideal world on

Re: [opensuse] Of openSUSE KDE package releases and stabillity.

2007-09-02 Thread Tero Pesonen
On Sunday 02 September 2007, Will Stephenson wrote: > On Saturday 01 September 2007 22:10:44 Tero Pesonen wrote: > > Relating to the topic of recent openSUSE KMail packages and stability > > issues, now discussed on the list. > > > > I've been wondering which of these openSUSE KDE packages are actu

Re: [opensuse] Updates and other s/w management on 10.3

2007-09-02 Thread Duncan Mac-Vicar P.
On Sunday 02 September 2007 11:14:41 am John Layt wrote: > Not sure if this is your problem, but in Yast in Software Repositories, you > can turn off Auto Update for the repositories, this is what forces zypper > to re-download the full repo listing from the server everytime you so much > as breath

Re: [opensuse] Updates and other s/w management on 10.3

2007-09-02 Thread jdd
Andreas Jaeger wrote: Can't a system be designed to at least give the user the illusion that it is going faster? the point is an update of the data is necessary only when Yast install don't find on the server the package it looks for. you could then add the "refresh" option on the error me

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 Beta2 severily broken

2007-09-02 Thread Rajko M.
On Sunday 02 September 2007 07:41, Art Fore wrote: > Done a complete reinstall of 10.3 Beta2 as I could not get the Beta1 to > Beta2 upgrade to work. The reinstall is a disaster. > > I downloaded and installed the 9639 nvidia driver successfully. Try > running Sax2, it runs, but will not save the s

Re: [opensuse] Miniature desktop slideshow ?

2007-09-02 Thread Will Stephenson
On Sunday 02 September 2007 14:09:55 Francesco Scaglioni wrote: > My son has just purchased a vista laptop (needed for > college). Whilst vista looks and feels awfull the miniature > desktop slideshow in the side-bar is pleasant. Does anyone > know of a linux equivalent ? All the slideshow progs

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 Beta2 severily broken

2007-09-02 Thread Art Fore
On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 20:41 +0800, Art Fore wrote: > Done a complete reinstall of 10.3 Beta2 as I could not get the Beta1 to > Beta2 upgrade to work. The reinstall is a disaster. > > I downloaded and installed the 9639 nvidia driver successfully. Try > running Sax2, it runs, but will not save the

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 Beta2 severily broken

2007-09-02 Thread Art Fore
On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 08:41 -0500, Rajko M. wrote: > On Sunday 02 September 2007 07:41, Art Fore wrote: > > Done a complete reinstall of 10.3 Beta2 as I could not get the Beta1 to > > Beta2 upgrade to work. The reinstall is a disaster. > > > > I downloaded and installed the 9639 nvidia driver succe

Re: [opensuse] silly girls' cli copy problem

2007-09-02 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Sunday 02 September 2007 03:12, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: > ... > > As I wrote earlier, I'm somewhat reluctant giving advice out of fear > of giving wrong advise. I think you should just go ahead. When you're unsure of something, say so. Or do what I sometimes do, use it as an opportunity to lo

Re: [opensuse] Up to date bonding documentation ?

2007-09-02 Thread Christian Zoz
On Thu, Aug 30, Frank Bonnet wrote: > > I've found some docs about "bonding" but it is written that it is an > obsolete page ! > > What is the "good" doc page URL for opensuse 10.2 ? man ifcfg-bonding -- ciao, christian 睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additio

Re: [opensuse] Re: silly girls' cli copy problem

2007-09-02 Thread G T Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jonathan Arnold wrote: > BandiPat wrote: >> On Saturday 01 September 2007, primm wrote: > simplist answer: > > cp * members/ > > lose the -a > > it won't try to copy members to itself. It won't copy all the folders (sic

[opensuse] No icons, distorted fonts

2007-09-02 Thread Bogdan Cristea
I don't know what happens, but now, when I start the system, I have lost all icons (I can see the task bar, but no visible buttons, as for example the K Menu). Same phenomenon when I use an application (KMail), the buttons from the toolbar are not visible. When I start a terminal, the font

Re: [opensuse] No icons, distorted fonts

2007-09-02 Thread Bogdan Cristea
Hi Pete Yes, it is related to something in my home dir. When I am logged as root all seems normal. Bogdan On Sunday 02 September 2007 18:22, you wrote: > Bogdan Cristea wrote: > > I don't know what happens, but now, when I start the system, I have > > lost all icons (I can see the task bar

Re: [opensuse] Updates and other s/w management on 10.3

2007-09-02 Thread Rajko M.
On Sunday 02 September 2007 08:37, jdd wrote: > the point is an update of the data is necessary only when Yast install > don't find on the server the package it looks for. YaST doesn't browse server to see what is there, or ask for and when it can't find it than update local database. If there

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 Beta2 severily broken

2007-09-02 Thread Rajko M.
On Sunday 02 September 2007 08:54, Art Fore wrote: > On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 20:41 +0800, Art Fore wrote: > > Done a complete reinstall of 10.3 Beta2 as I could not get the Beta1 to > > Beta2 upgrade to work. The reinstall is a disaster. > > > > I downloaded and installed the 9639 nvidia driver succe

Re: [opensuse] Up to date bonding documentation ?

2007-09-02 Thread Rajko M.
On Friday 31 August 2007 10:37, Christian Zoz wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, Frank Bonnet wrote: > > I've found some docs about "bonding" but it is written that it is an > > obsolete page ! > > > > What is the "good" doc page URL for opensuse 10.2 ? > > man ifcfg-bonding Hi Christian, If Frank prefer U

Re: [opensuse] Updates and other s/w management on 10.3

2007-09-02 Thread jdd
Rajko M. wrote: On Sunday 02 September 2007 08:37, jdd wrote: the point is an update of the data is necessary only when Yast install don't find on the server the package it looks for. YaST doesn't browse server to see what is there, or ask for and when it can't find it than update local dat

[opensuse] More about installation of the Jikes compiler

2007-09-02 Thread Stan Goodman
Sorry I am unable to thread this message with those that have gone before. I have to use a different mail client, which is a consequence of the progress of "Jikes". To review: I had been unable to install Jikes, and Bogdan was kind enough to direct me to

Re: [opensuse] Asus P5K3 Deluxe motherboard + OpenSUSE 10.3

2007-09-02 Thread Matthew Stringer
On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 08:54 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2007/09/02 07:51 (GMT-0400) Eberhard Roloff apparently typed: > > > BandiPat wrote: > > >> You take your chances with anything ASUS teaming it up with Linux. > >> There are better choices. > > > if you don not mind, could you kindly na

Re: [opensuse] More about installation of the Jikes compiler

2007-09-02 Thread Bogdan Cristea
How do you have installed Jikes? I recommend using yast or zypper by adding the url where the package is located and then install it. Using zypper from CLI, the commands are (run as root): zypper sa http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.2/repo/oss/suse zypper in jikes For other java progr

[opensuse] Re: Asus P5K3 Deluxe motherboard + OpenSUSE 10.3

2007-09-02 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Felix Miata wrote: > On 2007/09/02 07:51 (GMT-0400) Eberhard Roloff apparently typed: > >> BandiPat wrote: > >>> You take your chances with anything ASUS teaming it up with Linux. >>> There are better choices. > >> if you don not mind, could you kindly name them? > > The real point is that AS

Re: [opensuse] Asus P5K3 Deluxe motherboard + OpenSUSE 10.3

2007-09-02 Thread Nick Zentena
On Sunday 02 September 2007 13:41, Matthew Stringer wrote: > > http://www.mozillaquest.com/Linux04/Asus_Sucks_Story-01.html I got a not found with that link. When did Asus start dealing direct with end users? I've always understood if you have a bad board you deal with your dea

Re: [opensuse] Asus P5K3 Deluxe motherboard + OpenSUSE 10.3

2007-09-02 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/09/02 18:41 (GMT+0100) Matthew Stringer apparently typed: > I've never heard of someone being asked what OS/Software they were > running when returning faulty hardware, if I had a faulty mobo I'd > return it to the vendor not the manufacturer so can't see ever having to > speak to Asus or

Re: [opensuse] Asus P5K3 Deluxe motherboard + OpenSUSE 10.3

2007-09-02 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/09/02 14:03 (GMT-0400) Nick Zentena apparently typed: > On Sunday 02 September 2007 13:41, Matthew Stringer wrote: >> > http://www.mozillaquest.com/Linux04/Asus_Sucks_Story-01.html > I got a not found with that link. http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.mozillaquest.com/Linux04

Re: [opensuse] silly girls' cli copy problem

2007-09-02 Thread joe
primm wrote: > Using the non enterprize version of SuSE to run a network I feel is very much > in it's infancy. The only method of support is through this list. SuSE will > not help you. It is a very dangerous game to play being a non supported sys > admin. I think we all operate in isolation

Re: [opensuse] silly girls' cli copy problem

2007-09-02 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Sep 2 2007 11:40, primm wrote: > >Using the non enterprize version of SuSE to run a network I feel is >very much in it's infancy. The only method of support is through >this list. SuSE will not help you. It is a very dangerous game to >play being a non supported sys admin. The better sysadmins

Re: [opensuse] More about installation of the Jikes compiler

2007-09-02 Thread joe
Stan Goodman wrote: > Installing the package seemed successful (there was a notice announcing > this). > I rebooted, to assure myself that the installation actually "took". Rebooted? but why? To ensure that the installation took, it is necessary only to run the program. if it runs, the inst

Re: [opensuse] silly girls' cli copy problem

2007-09-02 Thread Anders Johansson
On Sunday 02 September 2007 20:58:59 Jan Engelhardt wrote: > The better sysadmins can solve the problems without enterprise support. Depends on the problem. Relatively few sysadmins know enough about development to be able to fix bugs. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

[opensuse] my evolution can not save (re-use) password

2007-09-02 Thread Patrik Hasibuan
Dear my friends... I use mandriva and suse mostly for working. I have a problem on my SuSE but not on mandrive about my ximian-evolution. I checked the "remember this password" for receiving and sending an email. But next time if I want to receive/send an e-mail than I have to re-type the pass

Re: [opensuse] More about installation of the Jikes compiler

2007-09-02 Thread Stan Goodman
On Sunday 02 September 2007 22:24, joe wrote: > Stan Goodman wrote: > > Installing the package seemed successful (there was a notice announcing > > this). I rebooted, to assure myself that the installation actually > > "took". > > Rebooted? but why? To ensure that the installation took, it is nece

Re: [opensuse] Asus P5K3 Deluxe motherboard + OpenSUSE 10.3

2007-09-02 Thread Matthew Stringer
On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 14:05 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2007/09/02 18:41 (GMT+0100) Matthew Stringer apparently typed: > > > I've never heard of someone being asked what OS/Software they were > > running when returning faulty hardware, if I had a faulty mobo I'd > > return it to the vendor not

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 Beta2 severily broken

2007-09-02 Thread Thomas Meindl
Hi, I can see that you have a Logitech mouse, so you might have a look at https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=262317#c19 and apply the patch if necessary. About the NVidia Driver please try to get the latest, because the old ones will not install properly, because some version number in t

[opensuse] VMware 64-bit

2007-09-02 Thread Janko Mivšek
Hi, I have a problem installing VMware Workstation 6.0. x86-64 on my 10.0 64-bit. Problem is, that VMware still doesn't want to run 64bit guest systems and also in YAST it still reports architecture as i386. Does anybody know how to install it correctly? Best regards Janko -- To unsubscribe,

Re: [opensuse] VMware 64-bit

2007-09-02 Thread Chris Worley
Are you building the guest from scratch from w/in VMWare, or trying to use an already running drive for the VM guest? I had a similar problem trying to run a Win/XP/64 already-built-and-running disk in VMWare Server (which is compatible [and free] w/ VMWare WorKstation 5) running under a 32-bit Op

Re: [opensuse] VMware 64-bit

2007-09-02 Thread Anders Johansson
On Sunday 02 September 2007 22:16:05 Janko Mivšek wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem installing VMware Workstation 6.0. x86-64 on my 10.0 > 64-bit. Problem is, that VMware still doesn't want to run 64bit guest > systems and also in YAST it still reports architecture as i386. Does > anybody know how

Re: [opensuse] VMware 64-bit

2007-09-02 Thread Janko Mivšek
I just checked my CPU with Processor Check for 64-Bit Compatibility and it seems that my CPU is too much "semi" 64-bit for VMware. More about that on http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/dynamickc.do?externalId=1901&sliceId=1&command=show&forward=nonthreadedKC&kcId=1901 Thanks Chris anyway for a h

[opensuse] Trying to internally redistribute a recompiled kernel.

2007-09-02 Thread Darragh
Hello, I have to add a package compiled into the kernel and I'm hoping to distribute this modified SuSE kernel to a few machines around here in rpm format or something else that's easily distributed. I'm running Open SuSE 10.2. I know that the kernel-source package will allow me to recompile a

Re: [opensuse] Trying to internally redistribute a recompiled kernel.

2007-09-02 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Sep 2 2007 21:49, Darragh wrote: > >I have to add a package compiled into the kernel and I'm hoping to >distribute this modified SuSE kernel to a few machines around here in rpm >format or something else that's easily distributed. > >I'm running Open SuSE 10.2. > >I know that the kernel-sourc

Re: [opensuse] silly girls' cli copy problem

2007-09-02 Thread primm
On Sunday 02 September 2007 16:37, Randall R Schulz wrote: > On Sunday 02 September 2007 03:12, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: > > ... > > > > As I wrote earlier, I'm somewhat reluctant giving advice out of fear > > of giving wrong advise. > > I think you should just go ahead. When you're unsure of somet

Re: [opensuse] Re: silly girls' cli copy problem

2007-09-02 Thread primm
O > > To the other question I have worked as a, programmers, systems > programmer, systems admin for a long time (mainly in an academic > environment)... > Phew. Frightening. Who'd risk being root on a lan these days. I'm having second thoughts. I used to have an easy job doing word processing! L

Re: [opensuse] silly girls' cli copy problem

2007-09-02 Thread primm
On Sunday 02 September 2007 20:56, joe wrote: > primm wrote: > > Using the non enterprize version of SuSE to run a network I feel is very > > much in it's infancy. The only method of support is through this list. > > SuSE will not help you. It is a very dangerous game to play being a non > > suppor

Re: [opensuse] silly girls' cli copy problem

2007-09-02 Thread primm
On Sunday 02 September 2007 20:58, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Sep 2 2007 11:40, primm wrote: > >Using the non enterprize version of SuSE to run a network I feel is > >very much in it's infancy. The only method of support is through > >this list. SuSE will not help you. It is a very dangerous game t

Re: [opensuse] Re: Asus P5K3 Deluxe motherboard + OpenSUSE 10.3

2007-09-02 Thread Richard Atcheson
On Sunday 02 September 2007 1:02:17 pm Eberhard Roloff wrote: > Well I feel unable to comment on that, since I always refer to my > vendor, when my hardware fails, which I never experienced with Asus. ;-(. > However I must say, that for years now, I am used to choose either Asus > (NEVER Laptops, j

Re: [opensuse] silly girls' cli copy problem

2007-09-02 Thread primm
On Sunday 02 September 2007 21:29, Anders Johansson wrote: > On Sunday 02 September 2007 20:58:59 Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > The better sysadmins can solve the problems without enterprise support. > > Depends on the problem. Relatively few sysadmins know enough about > development to be able to fix

Re: [opensuse] silly girls' cli copy problem

2007-09-02 Thread primm
> > - just a short note... > - it may be that you were the second best at the time of hiring. > - but that situation will change :-) > Hi. I think you may just be right. I didn't have to make the coffee today :-). But did get told off for wearing high heels-:( Lynn x -- To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [opensuse] silly girls' cli copy problem

2007-09-02 Thread primm
I also used mc > > as my server does not have a gui. > > Well > > shopt -s extglob > cp -a !(members) members > > should have worked, and so should > > export GLOBIGNORE=members > cp -a * members > > I did test them before sending off the suggestions (although I did have a > typo in there, so yes,

Re: [opensuse] silly girls' cli copy problem

2007-09-02 Thread joe
primm wrote: > On Sunday 02 September 2007 21:29, Anders Johansson wrote: >> On Sunday 02 September 2007 20:58:59 Jan Engelhardt wrote: >>> The better sysadmins can solve the problems without enterprise support. >> Depends on the problem. Relatively few sysadmins know enough about >> development

Re: [opensuse] silly girls' cli copy problem

2007-09-02 Thread Greg Freemyer
On 9/2/07, primm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > - just a short note... > > - it may be that you were the second best at the time of hiring. > > - but that situation will change :-) > > > > Hi. I think you may just be right. I didn't have to make the coffee today :-). > But did get told off fo

Re: [opensuse] silly girls' cli copy problem

2007-09-02 Thread Billie Walsh
primm wrote: In Linux you are very much on your own. Every Linux hobbyist I know thinks they can run a lan. Put them in charge for a day and I bet there would be little or anything left of /etc. Everyone seems to know better. Especially men. It's not about dealing with computers. It's about

RE: [opensuse] Trying to internally redistribute a recompiled kernel.

2007-09-02 Thread Darragh
Jan, Possibly a stupid question, but where are these packages. Yast hasn't found them and a quick search hasn't turned up anything either. I'll keep looking but if you could point me in the right direction I'd appreciate it. -Original Message- From: Jan Engelhardt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

[opensuse] SuSE 10.1: SMP kernel 2.6.17-rc2 (or later)

2007-09-02 Thread wmeler
I have SuSE 10.1 - KDE 3.5.1. Can somebody give me directions on how to install the latest stable kernel (later than 2.6.17-rc2)? I don't want to hassle with install going to SuSE 10.2. I need the kernel for some built-in drivers. I want to be sure the SMP functionality is working. I am comfor

[opensuse] 10.1 Multiple wireless routers 1 wireless card?

2007-09-02 Thread Adolph Weidanz
Hey all... This might be one of those that just can't be done... Ok... I have a DLink 451 (HSDPA hotspot wireless router) that I have setup as 192.168.1.1 w/ DHCP off (all the computers have set IPs). I also have a ancient linksys befw11s4 wireless. In a perfect world I want to have the linksys a

Re: [opensuse] silly girls' cli copy problem

2007-09-02 Thread Anders Johansson
On Sunday 02 September 2007 23:12:24 primm wrote: > In Linux you are very much on your own. That is very much not true. It is true that there are a lot of people out there who pretend to know things (or think they do) when they really don't, but that is not exclusive to linux. The ability to ju

Re: [opensuse] 32b compiled program not running in 64x environment - open SuSE 10.2

2007-09-02 Thread Alexandr Malusek
On Saturday 01 September 2007 17:05, Vahe Avedissian wrote: > Finally, if I run 'linux32 myexample' under a 64b booted linux it also > works fine! So it seems, for some applications, just running a 32b > executible under 64b environment is not enough, or am I wrong it trying to > run *any* 32b exe

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 Beta2 severily broken

2007-09-02 Thread Art Fore
On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 22:11 +0200, Thomas Meindl wrote: > Hi, > > I can see that you have a Logitech mouse, so you might have a look at > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=262317#c19 and apply the > patch if necessary. > > About the NVidia Driver please try to get the latest, because th

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 Beta2 severily broken

2007-09-02 Thread Art Fore
On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 22:11 +0200, Thomas Meindl wrote: > Hi, > > I can see that you have a Logitech mouse, so you might have a look at > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=262317#c19 and apply the > patch if necessary. > > About the NVidia Driver please try to get the latest, because th

[opensuse] Thoughts On OS Betas

2007-09-02 Thread Jerry Houston
How well one is served by a beta distribution (of nearly everything, but especially an OS distribution) depends on two major factors: (1) how much of the system you actually use, and (2) how important the particular machine is to you. With regard to (1), the less of a system you actually use, the

Re: [opensuse] Really need help from networking guru

2007-09-02 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-08-31 at 17:45 +0800, Art Fore wrote: > I really need some help on a networking problem that I have tried to > solve for several months now. At least point me to where I can find the ... > I put these commands in /etc/init.d/boot.lo

[opensuse] Re: Conflicts on KDE upgrade

2007-09-02 Thread Ciro Iriarte
2007/8/29, Ciro Iriarte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2007/8/29, Ciro Iriarte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi, trying to update a [EMAIL PROTECTED] system with the latest KDE3 > > packages from build service i get a lot of conflicts between kdelibs3 > > and kdelibs3-32bit. Shouldn't this libraries go to a dif

[opensuse] VirtualBox

2007-09-02 Thread Hans Linux
dear all i m having problem with my VirtualBox on my opensuse 102. The error is : VirtualBox kernel driver not installed. The vboxdrv kernel module was either not loaded or /dev/vboxdrv was not created for some reason. Re-setup the kernel module by executing '/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup' as root. V

Re: [opensuse] my evolution can not save (re-use) password

2007-09-02 Thread Srinivasa Ragavan
Hi, On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 02:28 +0700, Patrik Hasibuan wrote: > Dear my friends... > > I use mandriva and suse mostly for working. I have a problem on my SuSE but > not on mandrive about my ximian-evolution. > > I checked the "remember this password" for receiving and sending an email. > But n

Re: [opensuse] VirtualBox]

2007-09-02 Thread Brian Craft
Hi Hans, I too had the same error and I followed the instructions in the error message: execute '/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup' as root. This patched the kernel and fixed it. - Brian Craft Jabber id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM id: linuxman67 Yahoo IM id: bcraft67 Linux Counter id: 97873 Linux..

Re: [opensuse] Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition

2007-09-02 Thread Francisco José Cadaval Arrola
Thank, you. I changed to KDE from GNome and there was CCC !! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] my evolution can not save (re-use) password

2007-09-02 Thread Patrik Hasibuan
Hi Srinivasa, Thank you for your respond. I use OpenSuSE10.2 . Evolution ver.2.8.2 Groupware suite. On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 09:54:05 +0530 Srinivasa Ragavan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 02:28 +0700, Patrik Hasibuan wrote: > > Dear my friends... > > > > I use mand

Re: [opensuse] my evolution can not save (re-use) password

2007-09-02 Thread Srinivasa Ragavan
Hi Patrik, On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 13:05 +0700, Patrik Hasibuan wrote: > Hi Srinivasa, > > Thank you for your respond. > > I use OpenSuSE10.2 . Evolution ver.2.8.2 Groupware suite. There is an update to Evolution (Evolution-data-server rpm) for OpenSUSE 10.2 which fixes the problem. https://bugzi

Re: [opensuse] Emerald theme, how to apply to gnome panel

2007-09-02 Thread Munkii
On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 11:15 +0700, Hans Linux wrote: > anyone can tell me how to apply the selected emerald theme to gnome > panel? the theme only applies on window. emerald themes can't be applied to gnome menu (unless maybe for the shadows), they are meant to be window decoration themes not des

Re: [opensuse] my evolution can not save (re-use) password

2007-09-02 Thread Munkii
On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 02:28 +0700, Patrik Hasibuan wrote: > Dear my friends... > > I use mandriva and suse mostly for working. I have a problem on my SuSE but > not on mandrive about my ximian-evolution. > > I checked the "remember this password" for receiving and sending an email. > But next

[opensuse] Re: Asus P5K3 Deluxe motherboard + OpenSUSE 10.3

2007-09-02 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Richard Atcheson wrote: > When asked about getting a non defective board they told > him to take it or leave it or he could purchase another board. > > He did, and gave the ASUS to someother poor fool. No ASUS boards in either > of > our computer rooms again. > I fully agree that ASUS and x