Re: [opensuse] saving boot-time console output

2007-12-10 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 01:03 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > The Monday 2007-12-10 at 17:40 -0500, M. Todd Smith wrote: > > > From what I can tell from what she wrote Linda is already familiar with > > /var/log/boot.msg as well as /var/log/bo

Re: [opensuse] Installation Problems

2007-12-10 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Monday 10 December 2007 21:28, william oakes wrote: > ... > > ... Dumb question, I have seen IIRC used in several posts, > but I have no clue as to it's meaning or what it is, could you > clarify? IIRC: "If I recall correctly." One of those lazy typist things. > .. > > Thanks, Bill... RRS

Re: [opensuse] smart gui tiny fonts

2007-12-10 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/12/10 00:02 (GMT-0500) Bob S apparently typed: > I am visually impaired. I just cannot use the smart --gui because the fonts > are so small. What is it written in? Is there a config file I can change? The Smart GUI fonts here in 10.2 look the same as the rest of my KDE desktop fonts as

Re: [opensuse] Installation Problems

2007-12-10 Thread william oakes
On Monday 10 December 2007 18:52, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: > On 12/10/2007 10:55 PM, william oakes wrote: > > I have tried all suggestions. Downloaded the iso again, re-burned it at > > slower speeds, etc. and still wind up with a broken DVD. On attempting > > to install, still get message that it

Re: [opensuse] Bash script problem regarding with some math

2007-12-10 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Monday 10 December 2007 18:34, Carlos E. R. wrote: > Hi, > > I have a bash script with this line: > > DIFF=$[ ($LOC_H - $HWC_H)*3600 + ($LOC_M - $HWC_M)*60 + ($LOC_S - > $HWC_S) ] > > to calculate a time difference in seconds. Well, when the seconds are > "08" it fails: As Carl mentioned, BASH

Re: [opensuse] smart gui tiny fonts

2007-12-10 Thread Bob S
On Monday 10 December 2007 01:44:38 am Kevin Dupuy wrote: > On Dec 9, 2007, at 11:02 PM, Bob S wrote: > > Hello SuSE people, > > > > I am visually impaired. I just cannot use the smart --gui because > > the fonts > > are so small. What is it written in? Is there a config file I can > > change? > >

Re: [opensuse] Bash script problem regarding with some math

2007-12-10 Thread Carl Hartung
On Mon December 10 2007 09:34:34 pm Carlos E. R. wrote: > Obviously, it is thinking it is an octal number. How do I convince bash > to use standard base ten math? Is there a prefix? Hi Carlos, A bit of Google research reveals the prefix '10#' tells bash to use base 10 (decimal) instead octal int

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 Screen Resolution problem

2007-12-10 Thread todd
>From http://www.suse.com/relnotes/i386/openSUSE/10.3/RELEASE-NOTES.en.html#12 Older Intel Graphics Chips Older Intel graphics chips are supported by two drivers ( "i810" and "intel" ). The intel driver is the default on openSUSE 10.3 due to the high demand for features like native mode setting (

Re: [opensuse] How to get diskspace of my ramfs filesystem?

2007-12-10 Thread todd
> ka1ifq wrote: >> On Saturday 08 December 2007 04:09:30 am Jake Conk wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm trying to my disk space information (total and used) of my RAM >>> disk file system. I mounted the filesystem like so: >>> >>> $ mount -t ramfs ramfs /tmp -o size=150m >From the man mount page Moun

Re: [opensuse] another webmail and calendar program

2007-12-10 Thread David C. Rankin
Chuck Payne wrote: > Guys, > > I been using squirrelmail for some time, at one point I tried to > install openxchange, with no luck. I am looking for a program that is > "FREE" that let do webmail you share calendars. > > Ones that I know and don't want are ... > > OpenWebMail > IlohaMail > and

Re: [opensuse] saving boot-time console output

2007-12-10 Thread todd
> Carlos E. R. scribbled: > I'll make a somewhat educated guess. > > The startup scripts can run in parallel, but I think the output is > delayed, and printed to the screen at the end of each script, or earlier > if a timeout ends first. Thus, they appear ordered in the screen. > > However, the log

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 Screen Resolution problem

2007-12-10 Thread David C. Rankin
Bikram Chatterjee wrote: > Thanks a lot d... that saved me from copying mails :D > > On Dec 10, 2007 4:24 PM, d_garbage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:14:38 -, David C. Rankin >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> I didn't keep all of your original posts. Can you tell u

[opensuse] Bash script problem regarding with some math

2007-12-10 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have a bash script with this line: DIFF=$[ ($LOC_H - $HWC_H)*3600 + ($LOC_M - $HWC_M)*60 + ($LOC_S - $HWC_S) ] to calculate a time difference in seconds. Well, when the seconds are "08" it fails: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> echo $[ (00 - 00)*36

Re: [opensuse] Not enough rights for VMWare on SuSE 10.3

2007-12-10 Thread Masim "Vavai" Sugianto
On 12/11/07, peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi guys, > > I got an existing WindowsXP (physical drive access) running on SUSE 10.3 > ...but it works only as root. *mad* > > So the question is with what rights and what access do I have to provid

Re: [opensuse] Yast software install - blue update for existing packages

2007-12-10 Thread Rajko M.
On Monday 10 December 2007 12:43:03 am Robert Lewis wrote: > On Dec 9, 2007 9:07 PM, Rajko M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 09 December 2007 10:48:58 pm Robert Lewis wrote: > > > I am sure this is a very dumb question but so far I haven't > > > been able to find a solution. It is possib

Re: [opensuse] Not enough rights for VMWare on SuSE 10.3

2007-12-10 Thread Jonathan Ervine
On Tuesday 11 December 2007 02:39:59 peter wrote: > Hi guys, > > I got an existing WindowsXP (physical drive access) running on SUSE > 10.3 ...but it works only as root. *mad* > > So the question is with what rights and what access do I have to > provide a new user let say "virtual" in order to be

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 Screen Resolution problem

2007-12-10 Thread Bikram Chatterjee
Thanks a lot d... that saved me from copying mails :D On Dec 10, 2007 4:24 PM, d_garbage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:14:38 -, David C. Rankin > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I didn't keep all of your original posts. Can you tell us again how you > > http://lists.op

Re: [opensuse] saving boot-time console output

2007-12-10 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-12-10 at 15:55 -0800, Linda Walsh wrote: No? Did you look in /var/log/boot.msg? --- Yes. It contains some of the output, but I'm not sure it's complete -- it certainly isn't "the same" -- i.e. boot.msg contains any other

Re: [opensuse] Locked GUI? Recovery?

2007-12-10 Thread Rajko M.
On Monday 10 December 2007 12:49:43 pm David C. Rankin wrote: > Paul Constable wrote: > > On Sunday 09 December 2007 20:13, Rajko M. wrote: > >> On Sunday 09 December 2007 12:19:22 pm Greg Freemyer wrote: > >>> Okay, I'm sending this from a Windows box because my Linux GUI is > >>> locked. > >>> >

Re: [opensuse] OOCALC Locks GUI on save as?

2007-12-10 Thread Rajko M.
On Sunday 09 December 2007 01:07:46 pm Greg Freemyer wrote: > I find this hard to believe, but I'm able to repeatably lock my GUI > (KDE) via oocalc and a simple "file - save as" command. > > If I cntrl-alt-F2 and use that console to kill oocalc associated > process, everything is working again. >

Re: [opensuse] SED help

2007-12-10 Thread Jason Craig
Randall R Schulz wrote: On Monday 10 December 2007 13:45, Jason Craig wrote: In the original sample script I wrote for Chris, there were slashes in the target and / or replacement text, so I illusrated the technique of using an alternate separator character to avoid having to escape that ch

Re: [opensuse] Need help doing a batch conversation lf - cr/lf

2007-12-10 Thread Tony Alfrey
Aaron Kulkis wrote: James Knott wrote: Aaron Kulkis wrote: Randal Jarrett wrote: I wish that I could wring some necks for that also. But since when did Micro$oft ever do anything logically? I firmly believe that Microsoft does some things just to make life as annoying and difficult for anyon

Re: Θέμα: Re: [opensuse] Ba ghira...help

2007-12-10 Thread Aaron Kulkis
primm wrote: Just out of curiosity... are your users that stupid that if they can't find an apple, You've obviously never met a macbore. Oh, yes, I have. During the Apple ][ / Apple ][+ days, I was a very big Apple fan. Then, at a pre-relaese demonstration, an Apple rep came to Purdue and

Re: [opensuse] Need help doing a batch conversation lf - cr/lf

2007-12-10 Thread Aaron Kulkis
James Knott wrote: Aaron Kulkis wrote: Randal Jarrett wrote: I wish that I could wring some necks for that also. But since when did Micro$oft ever do anything logically? I firmly believe that Microsoft does some things just to make life as annoying and difficult for anyone who has to deal wit

Re: [opensuse] How to get diskspace of my ramfs filesystem?

2007-12-10 Thread Aaron Kulkis
ka1ifq wrote: On Saturday 08 December 2007 04:09:30 am Jake Conk wrote: Hello, I'm trying to my disk space information (total and used) of my RAM disk file system. I mounted the filesystem like so: $ mount -t ramfs ramfs /tmp -o size=150m That works file and everything is working as expected

Re: [opensuse] SED help

2007-12-10 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Monday 10 December 2007 13:45, Jason Craig wrote: > Chris Arnold wrote: > ... > I'm not sure of the semicolon syntax you have used, thus i have > replaced the semicolons with the standard forward slashes. In the original sample script I wrote for Chris, there were slashes in the target and / o

Re: [opensuse] saving boot-time console output

2007-12-10 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-12-10 at 17:40 -0500, M. Todd Smith wrote: From what I can tell from what she wrote Linda is already familiar with /var/log/boot.msg as well as /var/log/boot.log .. /var/log/boot.log is always 0 bytes. At least, I have seen it em

Re: [opensuse] saving boot-time console output

2007-12-10 Thread Linda Walsh
Carlos E. R. wrote: Specifically, on virtually every system, at times, messages just wiz by on a bootup (especially after upgrades). Problem is that these init-boot-script error messages are not saved anywhere. No? Did you look in /var/log/boot.msg? --- Yes. It contains some of the o

Re: [opensuse] get info about memory and CPU

2007-12-10 Thread Sloan
Aaron Kulkis wrote: > Sloan wrote: >> Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: >>> x86info gives more info than /proc. Source is available. less, >>> more, and cat >>> aren't part of the Linux kernel, so /proc/ may be standard, but >>> almost anyway >>> you examine it is non-standard by your definition. >>> >

[opensuse] another webmail and calendar program

2007-12-10 Thread Chuck Payne
Guys, I been using squirrelmail for some time, at one point I tried to install openxchange, with no luck. I am looking for a program that is "FREE" that let do webmail you share calendars. Ones that I know and don't want are ... OpenWebMail IlohaMail and Horde Sorry just I have tried the three

Re: [opensuse] Installation Problems

2007-12-10 Thread Joe Morris (NTM)
On 12/10/2007 10:55 PM, william oakes wrote: > I have tried all suggestions. Downloaded the iso again, re-burned it at > slower speeds, etc. and still wind up with a broken DVD. On attempting to > install, still get message that it can't find the 10.3 repos. > > Md5 hashes match after download,

Re: [opensuse] saving boot-time console output

2007-12-10 Thread Ken Schneider
Linda Walsh pecked at the keyboard and wrote: > James Knott wrote: >> Linda Walsh wrote: >>> Is there any easy way to save the boot-time output after the kernel >>> has booted and init has started running '/etc/rc.d/boot'? >>> >> Try the dmesg command. > > I would, but it doesn't help. When "

Re: [opensuse] cluster solutions ?

2007-12-10 Thread Greg Freemyer
On Dec 10, 2007 5:50 PM, Jan Kalcic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aaron Kulkis wrote: > > Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: > >> On 2007-12-09T05:04:10, Aaron Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>> That's how it was done before specific clustering products > >>> were available... original clusters had

Re: [opensuse] Re: resistance

2007-12-10 Thread Ken Schneider
Carlos E. R. pecked at the keyboard and wrote: > > > The Monday 2007-12-10 at 21:20 +0100, Philipp Thomas wrote: > >> On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:25:05 -0500, James Knott wrote: > >>> Resistance is futile, if less than one ohm. ;-) > >> Make that one milliohm and it fits. > > ROTFL! > > Here I a

[opensuse] is this a bug?: earlysyslog missing in rc2 & 3, but present in run level 5; why?

2007-12-10 Thread Linda Walsh
In looking at another problem, I noticed in SuSE 10.3 (and 10.2) there is a "boot step" called "S01earlysyslog". It seems to check to see if any logs are configured to use the net (looks for tcp & udp), and if they are, start them right away. For those not going to the net (those logged locally)

Re: [opensuse] saving boot-time console output

2007-12-10 Thread Linda Walsh
James Knott wrote: Linda Walsh wrote: Is there any easy way to save the boot-time output after the kernel has booted and init has started running '/etc/rc.d/boot'? Try the dmesg command. I would, but it doesn't help. When "boot" starts (1st script called by init), it redirects stdou

Re: [opensuse] cluster solutions ?

2007-12-10 Thread Jan Kalcic
Aaron Kulkis wrote: > Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: >> On 2007-12-09T05:04:10, Aaron Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> That's how it was done before specific clustering products >>> were available... original clusters had only 2 nodes. >>> >>> this was back in the 80's. >> >> Sure, 2 node cluste

Re: [opensuse] saving boot-time console output

2007-12-10 Thread M. Todd Smith
On Dec 10, 2007, at 5:25 PM, Ken Schneider wrote: M. Todd Smith pecked at the keyboard and wrote: Have you tried looking through /var/log/messages? Actually they are in /var/log/boot.msg From what I can tell from what she wrote Linda is already familiar with /var/log/boot.msg as well as

Re: [opensuse] SED help

2007-12-10 Thread Jason Craig
Chris Arnold wrote: Open the file in Kate and do a search and replace on the string indexFRMB01C001 and replace it with indexFRMB01C002 I don't need to do a "replace". I need to add some text before the indexFRMB01C00? Oh, sorry I went straight to the script and didn't read your mes

Re: [opensuse] saving boot-time console output

2007-12-10 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-12-10 at 12:45 -0800, Linda Walsh wrote: Is there any easy way to save the boot-time output after the kernel has booted and init has started running '/etc/rc.d/boot'? Specifically, on virtually every system, at times, messages jus

Re: [opensuse] SED help

2007-12-10 Thread Chris Arnold
On Dec 10, 2007, at 4:49 PM, Chris Arnold wrote: then do a search on indexFRMB01C00 and replace it with indexFRMB01C00 Good call Todd! Thank you! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Re: resistance (was: UNSUBSCRIBE)

2007-12-10 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-12-10 at 21:20 +0100, Philipp Thomas wrote: On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:25:05 -0500, James Knott wrote: Resistance is futile, if less than one ohm. ;-) Make that one milliohm and it fits. ROTFL! Here I am, quoting The Borg, and

Re: [opensuse] saving boot-time console output

2007-12-10 Thread Ken Schneider
M. Todd Smith pecked at the keyboard and wrote: > Have you tried looking through /var/log/messages? > Actually they are in /var/log/boot.msg -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] 2GB File size limit exceeded over NFS on 10.3

2007-12-10 Thread M. Todd Smith
On Dec 10, 2007, at 4:39 PM, Hans Witvliet wrote: On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 12:38 -0500, M. Todd Smith wrote: The default options since SuSe 9.x have been for TCP and NFSv3 by default. It is still worth it to declare it in /etc/fstab for the sake of clarity. I wouldn't put any money on that s

Re: [opensuse] saving boot-time console output

2007-12-10 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 16:02 -0500, M. Todd Smith wrote: > Have you tried looking through /var/log/messages? or possibly /var/log/boot.msg -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Kapellgränd 7 P.O. Box 4205 SE-102 65 Stockholm, Sweden Tel: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Fax: Int

Re: [opensuse] SED help

2007-12-10 Thread Patrick Shanahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Chris Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [12-10-07 16:50]: > >>Open the file in Kate and do a search and replace on the string > >>indexFRMB01C001 and replace it with indexFRMB01C002 > I don't need to do a "replace". I need to add some text before the > i

Re: [opensuse] SED help

2007-12-10 Thread M. Todd Smith
On Dec 10, 2007, at 4:49 PM, Chris Arnold wrote: Open the file in Kate and do a search and replace on the string indexFRMB01C001 and replace it with indexFRMB01C002 I don't need to do a "replace". I need to add some text before the indexFRMB01C00? then do a search on indexFRMB01C00 and

Re: [opensuse] Dell Latitude D630 feedback

2007-12-10 Thread Jan Kalcic
Ben Kevan wrote: > On Monday 10 December 2007 03:15:42 am Jan Kalcic wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I'm about to buy myself a brand new Laptop for Christmas :-) and I >> thought of the Dell Latitude D630. I'm looking around for any kind of >> information about the hardware compatibility (unfortunatel

Re: [opensuse] SED help

2007-12-10 Thread Chris Arnold
>>Open the file in Kate and do a search and replace on the string >>indexFRMB01C001 and replace it with indexFRMB01C002 I don't need to do a "replace". I need to add some text before the indexFRMB01C00? On Dec 10, 2007, at 3:54 PM, Chris Arnold wrote: > Using SLED SP1 and SED. I need to add s

Re: [opensuse] SED help

2007-12-10 Thread Jason Craig
Chris Arnold wrote: Using SLED SP1 and SED. I need to add some text before some existing text in 1 file, in about 100 different spots. The existing text is as follows: 1 The section of text above will differ in every line. So the section indexFRMB01C001 will appear as indexFRMB01C002 on the ne

Re: [opensuse] 2GB File size limit exceeded over NFS on 10.3

2007-12-10 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 12:38 -0500, M. Todd Smith wrote: > The default options since SuSe 9.x have been for TCP and NFSv3 by > default. It is still worth it to declare it in /etc/fstab for the > sake of clarity. I wouldn't put any money on that statement! Regularly we have a system falling

Re: [opensuse] cluster solutions ?

2007-12-10 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Rajko M. wrote: On Sunday 09 December 2007 04:04:10 am Aaron Kulkis wrote: although I do NOT think that's what the a,b,c run levels were originally meant for... Where did you found reference to runlevels a,b,c in Linux? Oh, they've been around before Linux was around 4.3 BSD, I think ma

Re: [opensuse] swap not available

2007-12-10 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Hans Witvliet wrote: On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 14:28 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote: Hans Witvliet wrote: On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 12:59 -0500, James Knott wrote: The Data General Eclipse line had a feature called "Writable Control Store", which could be used to add custom instructions to the CPU. The VA

Re: [opensuse] get info about memory and CPU

2007-12-10 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Sloan wrote: Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: Quoting Aaron Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: x86info isn't standard. /proc filesystem is. x86info gives more info than /proc. Source is available. less, more, and cat aren't part of the Linux kernel, so /proc/ may be standard, but almost anyway you

Re: [opensuse] swap not available

2007-12-10 Thread Aaron Kulkis
James Knott wrote: Aaron Kulkis wrote: Initially, i thought RISC was a crazy idea, compared to the ultra-CISC VAX-11 instruction set...but then when I read about the issues with page faults... I was almost immediately convinced that yes indeed, the RISC guys did have a very, very important point

Re: [opensuse] cluster solutions ?

2007-12-10 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: On 2007-12-09T05:04:10, Aaron Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That's how it was done before specific clustering products were available... original clusters had only 2 nodes. this was back in the 80's. Sure, 2 node clusters are the easiest to build. But in the 80s

Re: [opensuse] creating a local repository.

2007-12-10 Thread d_garbage
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:43:53 -, Darragh O'Heiligh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, Can someone tell me where to start with creating a local Yast repository? I have one machine here that will be used as a server and another six or Found this: http://en.opensuse.org/Creating_YaST_Install

Re: [opensuse] I should have known!

2007-12-10 Thread Theo v. Werkhoven
Sun, 09 Dec 2007, by [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Aaron Kulkis wrote: > > Carlos E. R. wrote: [..] > > 32-bit time will run out sometime in 2038. > > Oh no!!! What happens when we run out of time??? Will the universe > end??? ;-) Big party at Milliways. Deposit 1 penny now, to pay for all future expe

Re: [opensuse] SED help

2007-12-10 Thread M. Todd Smith
Open the file in Kate and do a search and replace on the string indexFRMB01C001 and replace it with indexFRMB01C002 You don't need a script to do this at all. This is basic functionality in every text editor I have used for the past 10-15 years Cheers Todd Systems Administrator ---

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 Screen Resolution problem

2007-12-10 Thread d_garbage
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:14:38 -, David C. Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I didn't keep all of your original posts. Can you tell us again how you http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2007-12/msg00104.html :) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [

Re: [opensuse] Not enough rights for VMWare on SuSE 10.3

2007-12-10 Thread Ben Kevan
On Monday 10 December 2007 11:21:49 am peter wrote: > Vaibhav Kaushal schrieb: > > Well, did you install the VMware as root? Or did you do 'su' from other > > user? > > Switched to superuser by using 'sux -' > Reconfigured VMWare and setup the virtual machine. > I gave also access to vm files to my

Re: [opensuse] adding links in /etc/init.d/rc*.d/

2007-12-10 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Bryen wrote: On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 00:31 +0100, jdd wrote: Jason Craig wrote: are you root? Yes, at least supposedly. I'm logging in as root, but I'm not entirely sure if this is "root" or "root-like" access, as it is a VPS and not a dedicated server. well... I see two ways of knowing so (t

Re: [opensuse] OOCALC Locks GUI on save as?

2007-12-10 Thread Kevin Donnelly
On Monday 10 December 2007 13:14, John (raz0r) wrote: > After X is back up and running, I can then go back to oocalc and the > same thing that locked up X doesn't anymore.  I go a couple of days > w/o problems with oocalc, then it starts all over. Wasn't there a thread a few weeks ago about OO fre

Re: [opensuse] saving boot-time console output

2007-12-10 Thread M. Todd Smith
Have you tried looking through /var/log/messages? There are various logging mechanisms used by various startup items. Perhaps you can narrow the gamut a little and tell us what is failing? Cheers Todd Systems Administrator - Soho VFX - Visual Effe

Re: [opensuse] 2GB File size limit exceeded over NFS on 10.3

2007-12-10 Thread Linda Walsh
Dave Howorth wrote: On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 15:34 +0100, Hans Witvliet wrote: For larger files, you can not use the default mount options anymore! You must use nfsvers=3 instead on nfsver=2 (and use tcp instead of udp) Hi Hans, Thanks for this. I will try it on Monday. But again, *this has been

Re: [opensuse] saving boot-time console output

2007-12-10 Thread James Knott
Linda Walsh wrote: Is there any easy way to save the boot-time output after the kernel has booted and init has started running '/etc/rc.d/boot'? Try the dmesg command. -- Use OpenOffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-ma

[opensuse] SED help

2007-12-10 Thread Chris Arnold
Using SLED SP1 and SED. I need to add some text before some existing text in 1 file, in about 100 different spots. The existing text is as follows: 1 The section of text above will differ in every line. So the section indexFRMB01C001 will appear as indexFRMB01C002 on the next line and so on for

[opensuse] saving boot-time console output

2007-12-10 Thread Linda Walsh
Is there any easy way to save the boot-time output after the kernel has booted and init has started running '/etc/rc.d/boot'? Specifically, on virtually every system, at times, messages just wiz by on a bootup (especially after upgrades). Problem is that these init-boot-script error messages are

[opensuse] Re: resistance (was: UNSUBSCRIBE)

2007-12-10 Thread Philipp Thomas
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:25:05 -0500, James Knott wrote: >Resistance is futile, if less than one ohm. ;-) Make that one milliohm and it fits. Philipp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Recent kernel update....wifi improvement?

2007-12-10 Thread JP Rosevear
On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 03:02 -0500, Fred A. Miller wrote: > This adventure started earlier tonight when I received a long distance > call from a developer I consult for. He's been frustrated with wifi and > Linux for a long time, as many have been and still are. He was about > ready to dump 10.3 an

Re: [opensuse] Re: [OT] British time

2007-12-10 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Russell Jones wrote: Aaron Kulkis wrote: Maccy wrote: On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Dave Howorth wrote: Stafford Beer made the interesting suggestion that instead of cars being fitted with seat belts, they should be fitted with a row of spikes along the dashboard. You'd hope to God that nobody ever

Re: [opensuse] Anyone Recommend Good US Based Managed Hosting Provider

2007-12-10 Thread Ken Schneider
Per Jessen pecked at the keyboard and wrote: > Chuck wrote: > >> We are looking for reputable managed hosting providers that offer >> packages that give us full root control over the box, offer backups, >> and hardware raid 1 for system disks. (currently using rackspace but >> we feel service/hard

RE: [opensuse] Yast software install - blue update for existing packages

2007-12-10 Thread Philip Dowie
The problem with that method is when (occasionally it happens) a package has broken dependancies, it can be a real pain to find out what one did it. I have found it is easier to turn dependancy checking on, and click them to update one at a time, that way, when one breaks, you know what one it

Re: [opensuse] UNSUBSCRIBE

2007-12-10 Thread Jos van Kan
Renegade Penguin schreef: > (unsubscribe) Congratulations! You're the 256th this year. It earns you... *a lifelong subscription to this list* -- Jos van Kanregistered Linux user #152704 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [opensuse] vlc rpm install issue

2007-12-10 Thread Robert Lewis
On Dec 10, 2007 10:54 AM, peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Patrick Shanahan schrieb: > > > rpm -e vlc > > and any dependencies rpm chocks on > > > zypper rr vlc > > > zypper in vlc > > plus anything else you removed above > > The problem is

Re: [opensuse] Not enough rights for VMWare on SuSE 10.3

2007-12-10 Thread peter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vaibhav Kaushal schrieb: > Well, did you install the VMware as root? Or did you do 'su' from other > user? Switched to superuser by using 'sux -' Reconfigured VMWare and setup the virtual machine. I gave also access to vm files to my common user, but

Re: [opensuse] Dell Latitude D630 feedback

2007-12-10 Thread Cristian Rodríguez
Jan Kalcic escribió: > "Intel 3945ABG" I have that, one, works out of the box in a dell XPS M1330 -- "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education." - Albert Einstein Cristian Rodríguez R. Platform/OpenSUSE - Core Services SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Research & Development ht

Re: [opensuse] creating a local repository.

2007-12-10 Thread peter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Darragh O'Heiligh schrieb: > Can someone tell me where to start with creating a local Yast repository? > I have one machine here that will be used as a server and another six or > seven that will need to get updates via this machine. The question

Re: [opensuse] vlc rpm install issue

2007-12-10 Thread peter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrick Shanahan schrieb: > rpm -e vlc > and any dependencies rpm chocks on > zypper rr vlc > zypper in vlc > plus anything else you removed above The problem is that vlc from videolan needs an unpatched ffmpeg and the one from packman needs h

Re: [opensuse] Anyone Recommend Good US Based Managed Hosting Provider

2007-12-10 Thread Per Jessen
Chuck wrote: > We are looking for reputable managed hosting providers that offer > packages that give us full root control over the box, offer backups, > and hardware raid 1 for system disks. (currently using rackspace but > we feel service/hardware offered isn't worth the cost) Can't help you wi

Re: [opensuse] Locked GUI? Recovery?

2007-12-10 Thread David C. Rankin
Paul Constable wrote: > On Sunday 09 December 2007 20:13, Rajko M. wrote: >> On Sunday 09 December 2007 12:19:22 pm Greg Freemyer wrote: >>> Okay, I'm sending this from a Windows box because my Linux GUI is locked. >>> >>> The locked CPU is OpenSUSE 10.3 fully updated. I don't think I have >>> and

Re: [opensuse] Recent kernel update....wifi improvement?

2007-12-10 Thread David C. Rankin
Fred A. Miller wrote: > > Now, my question is, has anyone else noticed any improvement? What was > done in the new kernel to bring about all this joy and glad tidings near > Christmas? ;) > > Thanks, > > Fred > Fred, far be it for me to play the role of Ebenezer Scrooge this time of ye

[opensuse] Not enough rights for VMWare on SuSE 10.3

2007-12-10 Thread peter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi guys, I got an existing WindowsXP (physical drive access) running on SUSE 10.3 ...but it works only as root. *mad* So the question is with what rights and what access do I have to provide a new user let say "virtual" in order to be able to run Wi

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 Screen Resolution problem

2007-12-10 Thread David C. Rankin
Bikram Chatterjee wrote: > I do not have mu preferences to that... > [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] will do they are in the supported > list...but none is coming... > I didn't keep all of your original posts. Can you tell us again how you are trying start the x-window system (using kdm, g

Re: [opensuse] First Moonlight port of Silverlight to Linux due in six months, ported by Novell.

2007-12-10 Thread Jason Craig
Philipp Thomas wrote: On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 11:28:44 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: 2.) Moonlight will save *LOTS* of people from having to run Internet Explorer in order to access sites they MUST use in order to do their jobs. Oh come on! At least in its current state, I really doubt

Re: [opensuse] 2GB File size limit exceeded over NFS on 10.3

2007-12-10 Thread M. Todd Smith
On Dec 7, 2007, at 3:49 PM, Dave Howorth wrote: On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 15:34 +0100, Hans Witvliet wrote: For larger files, you can not use the default mount options anymore! You must use nfsvers=3 instead on nfsver=2 (and use tcp instead of udp) The default options since SuSe 9.x have been

Re: [opensuse] Anyone Recommend Good US Based Managed Hosting Provider

2007-12-10 Thread Greg Freemyer
On Dec 10, 2007 12:14 PM, Chuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We are looking for reputable managed hosting providers that offer > packages that give us full root control over the box, offer backups, > and hardware raid 1 for system disks. (currently using rackspace but > we feel service/hardware off

Re: [opensuse] UNSUBSCRIBE

2007-12-10 Thread M9.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carlos E. R. schreef: > > > The Monday 2007-12-10 at 10:06 -0500, Renegade Penguin wrote: > >> Subject: [opensuse] UNSUBSCRIBE > > Resistance is futile: YOU will be assimilated. :-P Borg!?! Here!?! > > -- Cheers, >Carlos E. R. > - --

[opensuse] Anyone Recommend Good US Based Managed Hosting Provider

2007-12-10 Thread Chuck
We are looking for reputable managed hosting providers that offer packages that give us full root control over the box, offer backups, and hardware raid 1 for system disks. (currently using rackspace but we feel service/hardware offered isn't worth the cost) Thanks for any info, CC -- To unsubscr

[opensuse] Kernel rebuild procedure - RESOLVED

2007-12-10 Thread Glen
Sorry - I found it, in /usr/src/linux/README.SUSE. Sorry! Glen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[opensuse] Kernel rebuild procedure?

2007-12-10 Thread Glen
All - I've been told I need to recompile my OpenSuse 10.3 kernel to attempt to compensate for a network problem under the Xen kernel, until the next kernel is released. This is a skill I should have, but I've never done this before. I"ve built software, know how to use make, and have the ker

Re: [opensuse] 2GB File size limit exceeded over NFS on 10.3

2007-12-10 Thread Dave Howorth
You'll need to read my reply using the (1), (2), (3) sequence for it to make sense :) Sorry, it was easier than cutting and pasting bits Dave Howorth wrote: > Rui Santos wrote: >> Dave Howorth wrote: >>> I have a server that's been running fine for some years with Suse 9.2. >>> I've just installe

Re: [opensuse] ESATA

2007-12-10 Thread Philipp Thomas
* Greg Freemyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20071209 17:15]: > Auto rescan is supposed to happen now for many drivers. > > To check your hardware's support, see > http://linux-ata.org/driver-status.html#matrix (this is actually 6-9 > months old) According to that matrix, auto rescan should work with

Re: [opensuse] UNSUBSCRIBE

2007-12-10 Thread Tony Alfrey
James Knott wrote: Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-12-10 at 10:06 -0500, Renegade Penguin wrote: Subject: [opensuse] UNSUBSCRIBE Resistance is futile: YOU will be assimilated. :-P Resistance is futile, if less than one ohm. ;-) One

Re: [opensuse] UNSUBSCRIBE

2007-12-10 Thread James Knott
Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-12-10 at 10:06 -0500, Renegade Penguin wrote: Subject: [opensuse] UNSUBSCRIBE Resistance is futile: YOU will be assimilated. :-P Resistance is futile, if less than one ohm. ;-) -- Use OpenOffice.org

Re: [opensuse] convert .mov to streaming format

2007-12-10 Thread Ken Schneider
Cristian Rodríguez pecked at the keyboard and wrote: > Ken Schneider escribió: >> I'm not sure how to word the question... >> >> I'm looking to convert some .mov files taken with my camera and would >> like to convert them some sort of streaming format > > What type of video does the "MOV" files c

Re: [opensuse] Dell Latitude D630 feedback

2007-12-10 Thread Ben Kevan
On Monday 10 December 2007 03:15:42 am Jan Kalcic wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm about to buy myself a brand new Laptop for Christmas :-) and I > thought of the Dell Latitude D630. I'm looking around for any kind of > information about the hardware compatibility (unfortunately that model > is not listed

Re: [opensuse] First Moonlight port of Silverlight to Linux due in six months, ported by Novell.

2007-12-10 Thread James Knott
Benji Weber wrote: On 09/12/2007, Adam Tauno Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I posted this here so everyone would know about it, rather than another list. http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1020&tag=nl.e539 Why do I keep getting the feeling Miguel de Icaza has sold his soul? 1.) Developed

Re: [opensuse] convert .mov to streaming format

2007-12-10 Thread Cristian Rodríguez
Ken Schneider escribió: > I'm not sure how to word the question... > > I'm looking to convert some .mov files taken with my camera and would > like to convert them some sort of streaming format What type of video does the "MOV" files contain.. ? I ask because "mov" is a container format, that can

Re: [opensuse] The spamd daemon dies unexpectedly halting mail processing.

2007-12-10 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-12-10 at 09:44 -, G T Smith wrote: ... Out of curiosity had a look at my copy of this Perl module. Firstly, this code does not appear in the same place in my version. Could tell more if the line involved is highlighted in the

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