[opensuse] keeping a copy of installed rpms

Is there a way of automatically keeping a copy of everything yast installs from online repositories? At the moment I have to download manually and restart yast after refreshing (createrepo) my local repo. Its very useful for people like me that are not only poor (limited cap ) and like to

Re: [opensuse] Grub strangeness

On Wednesday 19 December 2007 21:37:23 Tim Hempstead wrote: > Hi, > > I've been fighting about with my 10.3 system today and have been > having a few issues with Grub and I was wondering if anyone knew why > they were happening. > > I have a server running 32bit 10.3. This system has a Gigabyte In

Re: [opensuse] Kopete stopped working (SOLVED)

Lørdag 22 december 2007 22:55 skrev Rajko M.: > On Saturday 22 December 2007 02:43:11 pm Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: > > If I start Kopete from the CLI, I get: > > > > kopete: symbol lookup error: /opt/kde3/lib/libkopete.so.1: undefined > > symbol: _ZN9KLineEdit17mouseReleaseEventEP11QMouseEvent > > H

[opensuse] where is libg2c.so in SuSE 10.3 ?

I have just downloaded a package for spectral analysis . I followed the instructions. But when I launch it I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Breathing-Curves-Dir> ./Spectra & [2] 19675 [1] Exit 127./Spectra ./Spectra: error while loading shared libraries: libg2c.so.0: cannot open shared

Re: [opensuse] Grub strangeness

On Dec 23, 2007 8:56 AM, eddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 19 December 2007 21:37:23 Tim Hempstead wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've been fighting about with my 10.3 system today and have been > > having a few issues with Grub and I was wondering if anyone knew why > > they were happening

Re: NFS sync vs. async mounts (was Re: [opensuse] OpenSuse 10.2 - Fortran compilation very slow through NFS network with a 64bit server and 32bit clients.)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2007-12-23 at 08:10 +0100, primm wrote: I setup an nfs server to export /home to 5 other clients. The same server handles nis logins. No eggageration, it took me 1/2 hour most of which was reading man exports until I discovered that Ya

Re: NFS sync vs. async mounts (was Re: [opensuse] OpenSuse 10.2 - Fortran compilation very slow through NFS network with a 64bit server and 32bit clients.)

You can get close with samba and cifs, but like Carlos says it's more work. There is also afs. On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 12:47:44PM +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > The Sunday 2007-12-23 at 08:10 +0100, primm wrote: > > >I setup an nfs server

Re: NFS sync vs. async mounts (was Re: [opensuse] OpenSuse 10.2 - Fortran compilation very slow through NFS network with a 64bit server and 32bit clients.)

On Sunday 23 December 2007 08:10:47 primm wrote: > On Friday 21 December 2007 20:28:04 Randall R Schulz wrote: > > On Friday 21 December 2007 11:10, primm wrote: > > > > NFS is kind of ugly itself, don't you think? > > > > > > Ugly? Naah! It's s neat. With nis and nfs anyone can login > > > any

Re: [opensuse] Backup scheduling

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2007-12-22 at 19:50 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote: On Saturday 22 December 2007 19:43:50 Jerry Houston wrote: (1) SHOULD I be able to run crontab as a standard user? Do I need to add my user account to a specific group in order to b

Re: [opensuse] Problen with SLES + postfix + sals+ ldap

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2007-12-22 at 13:10 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote: The problem here seems to be that you've changed the defaults. The default is to use pam, which will automatically find the system users in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow, but you've cha

Re: [opensuse] Modem working on openSuSE 10.2

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El 2007-12-23 a las 11:34 +0530, umesh b escribió: Please, mail to the list, and trim it. On Dec 23, 2007 1:49 AM, Carlos E. R. <> wrote: Telcos don't like redialling a number too soon after the previous attempt failed. Dialing is an operation

Re: [opensuse] Panel pop-ups

Rodney Baker wrote: > > CCSM -> Preferences -> Backend. > > Check that it is using the Flat File backend, not GConf or KDE. That is the only option i have, Flat file backend. It is set for flat file -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] where is libg2c.so in SuSE 10.3 ?

On Sunday 23 December 2007 20:22:12 Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote: > I have just downloaded a package for spectral analysis > . > I followed the instructions. But when I launch it I > get: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Breathing-Curves-Dir> ./Spectra & > [2] 19675 > [1] Exit 127./Spect

Re: [opensuse] Problen with SLES + postfix + sals+ ldap

On Sunday 23 December 2007 13:11:45 Carlos E. R. wrote: > The Saturday 2007-12-22 at 13:10 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote: > > The problem here seems to be that you've changed the defaults. The > > default is to use pam, which will automatically find the system users in > > /etc/passwd and /etc/shad

Re: [opensuse] where is libg2c.so in SuSE 10.3 ?

On Sunday 23 December 2007 23:15:41 Rodney Baker wrote: > On Sunday 23 December 2007 20:22:12 Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote: > > I have just downloaded a package for spectral analysis > > . > > I followed the instructions. But when I launch it I > > get: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Breathing-Curve

Re: [opensuse] Problen with SLES + postfix + sals+ ldap

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2007-12-23 at 13:46 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote: I guess he wants to have virtual, not system, users, ie, mail only users. I suppose he would need pam for the system users, and sasl/ldap for the mail only users. This should be quite a

[opensuse] Problem with Yast2 - error when loading config modules

Hi all. I have a problem with Yast 2 generating an error message when trying to load certain modules, such as the User Management module under Security and Users. It started after attempting to change the Mail Transfer Agent settings. The message complained about not being able to find Net/IMA

[opensuse] Re: NFS sync vs. async mounts

> > > > > NFS is kind of ugly itself, don't you think? > > > > > > > > Ugly? Naah! It's s neat. With nis and nfs anyone can login > > > > anywhere and get their own files and start work right after they've > > > > got a coffee. It just works. Just like NT server before someone > > > > downlode

Re: [opensuse] Problem with Yast2 - error when loading config modules

On Sunday 23 December 2007 14:09:08 Rodney Baker wrote: > Hi all. I have a problem with Yast 2 generating an error message when > trying to load certain modules, such as the User Management module under > Security and Users. It started after attempting to change the Mail Transfer > Agent settings.

Re: [opensuse] Re: NFS sync vs. async mounts

On Sunday 23 December 2007 14:09:44 primm wrote: > > > > > > NFS is kind of ugly itself, don't you think? > > > > > > > > > > Ugly? Naah! It's s neat. With nis and nfs anyone can login > > > > > anywhere and get their own files and start work right after they've > > > > > got a coffee. It just

[opensuse] Re: Frozen Throne

Hi all, On Saturday 22 December 2007 13:56, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: > Nothing counts against Duke-Nukem-Forever > > Feeling lucky punk :) On this subject, I just got a very nice 3d video card. Can someone suggest a good game (or something) to "show off" all the 3d? Thanks, JIM -- Jim

Re: [opensuse] Problem with Yast2 - error when loading config modules

On Sunday 23 December 2007 23:48:54 Anders Johansson wrote: > On Sunday 23 December 2007 14:09:08 Rodney Baker wrote: > > Hi all. I have a problem with Yast 2 generating an error message when > > trying to load certain modules, such as the User Management module under > > Security and Users. It sta

Re: [opensuse] Re: NFS sync vs. async mounts

Anders Johansson wrote: > On Sunday 23 December 2007 14:09:44 primm wrote: > >> I'm now reading that Linux nfs which I installed by yast all by myself is >> also a security risk. >> > > It is a security risk in that it's not encrypted. > > Another problem is that the nfs server in versions

Re: [opensuse] Re: NFS sync vs. async mounts

On Sunday 23 December 2007 14:59:12 James Knott wrote: > Anders Johansson wrote: > > On Sunday 23 December 2007 14:09:44 primm wrote: > >> I'm now reading that Linux nfs which I installed by yast all by myself > >> is also a security risk. > > > > It is a security risk in that it's not encrypted. >

Re: [opensuse] Problem with Yast2 - error when loading config modules

On Sunday 23 December 2007 14:51:01 Rodney Baker wrote: > There is no perl-Net-IMAP package listed (which would provide Net/IMAP.pm) In 10.3, Net/IMAP.pm is provided by the package perl-NetxAP Then again, I don't have it installed. Come to think of it, I don't have any IMAP.pm file installed, an

Re: [opensuse] will pay for wireless help

Jerry Houston wrote: > Rajko M. wrote: > >> On Saturday 22 December 2007 05:36:03 pm Steve Reilly wrote: >> ... >> >> >>> you need to install both the kernel >>> >>> >> Do you mean kernel sources, and compile package? >> >> > > The directions tell you to install (or

Re: [opensuse] will pay for wireless help

Here is some info I sent to another poster, but not to the whole board. Without being overkill, it is a little bit about what I have loaded on the machine and messages I see: >From yast, here is what I have put on the system: madwifi-kmp-default 0.9.3.3_2.6.22.9_0.4-0.1 x86_64 madwifi 0.9.3.99

Re: [opensuse] will pay for wireless help

On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 01:48 -0600, Rajko M. wrote: > On Sunday 23 December 2007 01:06:05 am Jerry Houston wrote: > > Rajko M. wrote: > > > On Saturday 22 December 2007 05:36:03 pm Steve Reilly wrote: > > > ... > > > > > >> you need to install both the kernel > > > > > > Do you mean kernel sources,

Re: [opensuse] Re: Frozen Throne

James Hatridge wrote: > Hi all, > On Saturday 22 December 2007 13:56, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: > >> Nothing counts against Duke-Nukem-Forever >> >> Feeling lucky punk :) > > On this subject, I just got a very nice 3d video card. Can someone suggest a > good game (or something) to "show o

Re: [opensuse] where is libg2c.so in SuSE 10.3 ?

On Sunday 23 December 2007, Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote: > But I do have gcc installed: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Breathing-Curves-Dir> gcc > gcc: no input files > > Where is the required library on SuSE 10.3 ?   I > searched for it with Yast but could not find it. I was able to run the program you

Re: [opensuse] will pay for wireless help

Mike et al: So you'll know, ubuntu didn't work for this card either. I think it is an issue with support for the atheros 5006 chipset. I understand some older atheros chips work, but this one has ben driving me nuts. Regarding my wish for more than just the usual advice from internet docs, I

Re: [opensuse] will pay for wireless help

On Sunday 23 December 2007 16:42:55 James Gardner wrote: > Mike et al: > > So you'll know, ubuntu didn't work for this card either. I think it is an > issue with support for the atheros 5006 chipset. I understand some older > atheros chips work, but this one has ben driving me nuts. > > Regarding

[opensuse] Re: Frozen Throne

Hi Rui et al! On Sunday 23 December 2007 16:26, Rui Santos wrote: > James Hatridge wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > On Saturday 22 December 2007 13:56, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: > >> Nothing counts against Duke-Nukem-Forever > >> > >> Feeling lucky punk :) > > > > On this subject, I just got a very

Re: [opensuse] Why beagle?

On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 12:29:33 PM -0500, Aaron Kulkis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Most computer users' behavior is equivalent to drivers who are not > yet qualified to have a license...they need constant supervision. > > Why? > > Because they *REFUSE* to learn even basic principles of effective >

[opensuse] FOSS vs non-programmers, was: Why beagle?

On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 16:13:23 PM -0800, Randall R Schulz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > We're talking about everyday, end users. Everything from school > children to harried parents to senior citizens. If IT professionals > cannot make this technology self-evident, they have failed. I not only agre

Re: [opensuse] Re: Frozen Throne

On Sunday 23 December 2007 07:26, Rui Santos wrote: > James Hatridge wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > On Saturday 22 December 2007 13:56, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: > >> Nothing counts against Duke-Nukem-Forever > >> > >> Feeling lucky punk :) > > > > On this subject, I just got a very nice 3d video

Re: [opensuse] will pay for wireless help

> Try http://madwifi.org/ download and build the driver and it should work. This > is the only way I got my Atheros wifi card working. They actually have a suse repositury at http://madwifi.org/suse, so you do not need to build the driver yourself. Dmitry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [opensuse] Re: Frozen Throne

On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 08:53 -0800, Kai Ponte wrote: > On Sunday 23 December 2007 07:26, Rui Santos wrote: > > James Hatridge wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > On Saturday 22 December 2007 13:56, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: > > >> Nothing counts against Duke-Nukem-Forever > > >> > > >> Feeling l

[opensuse] yast source on multiple media

Hello list users: I would like to create a real packman yast (susetags) source on DVDs or CDs. As the packman repository is ~ 8 GB I have to split the source to parts to fit the DVD or CD. I have downloaded the whole repo to my HD. I found the openSUSE wiki article as a reference how to create

Re: [opensuse] will pay for wireless help

> > And someone else says this device isn't supported yet, which I suspected, but > I know there are people here who can do almost anything. That's why I > offered to pay. This is a work machine and I need wireless. But maybe it > can't be done in this case, but I really do appreciate the res

Re: [opensuse] Re: Frozen Throne

On Sunday 23 December 2007 09:06, Bryen wrote: > On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 08:53 -0800, Kai Ponte wrote: > > On Sunday 23 December 2007 07:26, Rui Santos wrote: > > > James Hatridge wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > On Saturday 22 December 2007 13:56, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: > > > >> Nothi

Re: [opensuse] will pay for wireless help

On Sunday 23 December 2007 17:59:09 Dimych wrote: > > Try http://madwifi.org/ download and build the driver and it should > > work. This > > > is the only way I got my Atheros wifi card working. > > They actually have a suse repositury at http://madwifi.org/suse, so you do > not need to build the

Re: Beagle performance: end-user problem? (was Re: [opensuse] Beagle under 10.3 is really eating up my CPU)

Linda Walsh wrote: The Saturday 2007-12-22 at 16:06 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote: The real solution here is to find and fix the bug that causes beagle to allocate so much memory. It doesn't happen on all systems. ---. Without question, this is the best solution. Anders Johansson wro

Re: Capping memory (and, indirectly, swap) use of programs (was Re: [opensuse] Beagle under 10.3 is really eating up my CPU)

Linda Walsh wrote: Aaron Kulkis wrote: I just checked the man page for ulimit, and did a search for the string "swap" and it came up empty... so it looks like ulimit might not help herealthough ulimit -v can set an upper limit on virtual memory, --- You want to cap virtual memory usage

Re: [opensuse] Software updates and repositories understanding

Rodney Baker wrote: > On Sunday 23 December 2007 02:50:13 Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: >> Anders Johansson wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Version updates for released products are extremely rare. Essentially, >>> they only happen when there is a serious bug or security problem, and a >>> backport of the

Re: NFS sync vs. async mounts (was Re: [opensuse] OpenSuse 10.2 - Fortran compilation very slow through NFS network with a 64bit server and 32bit clients.)

primm wrote: On Friday 21 December 2007 20:28:04 Randall R Schulz wrote: On Friday 21 December 2007 11:10, primm wrote: NFS is kind of ugly itself, don't you think? Ugly? Naah! It's s neat. With nis and nfs anyone can login anywhere and get their own files and start work right after they'v

Re: [opensuse] Re: NFS sync vs. async mounts

primm wrote: NFS is kind of ugly itself, don't you think? Ugly? Naah! It's s neat. With nis and nfs anyone can login anywhere and get their own files and start work right after they've got a coffee. It just works. Just like NT server before someone downloded a virus. Well, I guess if someon

Re: [opensuse] Beagle under 10.3 is really eating up my CPU

On Sunday 23 December 2007 01:26:08 Carlos E. R. wrote: > The Saturday 2007-12-22 at 18:09 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote: > >> Actually, it helps solve it, sometimes. The application crashes, > >> probably > > > > I wouldn't say "probably". It shouldn't be par for the course for an > > application

Re: [opensuse] Software updates and repositories understanding

Bob S wrote: > On Saturday 22 December 2007 11:20:13 am Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: >> Anders Johansson wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Version updates for released products are extremely rare. Essentially, >>> they only happen when there is a serious bug or security problem, and a >>> backport of the f

Re: [opensuse] Re: NFS sync vs. async mounts

Anders Johansson wrote: > It is a security risk in that it's not encrypted. > > Another problem is that the nfs server in versions 3 and below fully trusts > the client about user IDs. It won't put viruses on your machines, but it does > mean that if you don't control the root account on all ma

Re: [opensuse] will pay for wireless help

I have tried both using the madwifi source in yast, and downloading and compiling my own madwifi. Neither worked for me. I tried compiling again this AM after the suggestion came in, just to make sure I got the latest version. But no change. Regards, James -Original Message- >From:

Re: [opensuse] Re: Frozen Throne

James Hatridge wrote: > Hi all, > On Saturday 22 December 2007 13:56, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: > >> Nothing counts against Duke-Nukem-Forever >> >> Feeling lucky punk :) > > On this subject, I just got a very nice 3d video card. Can someone suggest a > good game (or something) to "show of

Re: [opensuse] Re: Frozen Throne

Rui Santos wrote: > James Hatridge wrote: >> Hi all, >> On Saturday 22 December 2007 13:56, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: >> >>> Nothing counts against Duke-Nukem-Forever >>> >>> Feeling lucky punk :) >> On this subject, I just got a very nice 3d video card. Can someone suggest a >> good game (o

Re: [opensuse] Re: Frozen Throne

James Hatridge wrote: > Hi Rui et al! > On Sunday 23 December 2007 16:26, Rui Santos wrote: >> James Hatridge wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> On Saturday 22 December 2007 13:56, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Nothing counts against Duke-Nukem-Forever Feeling lucky punk :) >>> On this sub

Re: [opensuse] Software updates and repositories understanding

Anders Johansson wrote: > On Saturday 22 December 2007 17:49:50 Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: >> If I get that dreaded upgraditis, I am then on my own, > > I've never liked that expression. The whole point of a community is that > you're not on your own. There are mailing lists and forums, and

Re: [opensuse] Re: NFS sync vs. async mounts

On Sunday 23 December 2007 19:12:41 Joe Sloan wrote: > Anders Johansson wrote: > > It is a security risk in that it's not encrypted. > > > > Another problem is that the nfs server in versions 3 and below fully > > trusts the client about user IDs. It won't put viruses on your machines, > > but it d

Re: [opensuse] Re: NFS sync vs. async mounts

> > > > > > nfs is good, it mostly just works. But v3 has drawbacks in security, so > > > if you're not in total control of the network, it might not be so good > > > > > > nfsv4 + kerberos can provide real authentication and encryption though, > > > so you still don't have to abandon nfs > > > >

Re: [opensuse] Re: NFS sync vs. async mounts

On Sunday 23 December 2007 18:17:54 Aaron Kulkis wrote: > primm wrote: > >> NFS is kind of ugly itself, don't you think? > > > > Ugly? Naah! It's s neat. With nis and nfs anyone can login > > anywhere and get their own files and start work right after they've > > got a coffe

Re: [opensuse] Re: NFS sync vs. async mounts

Anders Johansson wrote: > On Sunday 23 December 2007 19:12:41 Joe Sloan wrote: > remote nfs root >> access gets mapped to nobody, with limited rights and privileges. > > I already responded to that, but ok: it only helps if root is the only one > allowed to write to the share. As soon as you hav

Re: [opensuse] Re: NFS sync vs. async mounts

On Sunday 23 December 2007 15:17:46 Anders Johansson wrote: > On Sunday 23 December 2007 14:59:12 James Knott wrote: > > Anders Johansson wrote: > > > On Sunday 23 December 2007 14:09:44 primm wrote: > > >> I'm now reading that Linux nfs which I installed by yast all by myself > > >> is also a secu

Re: [opensuse] Software updates and repositories understanding

Anders Johansson wrote: > On Saturday 22 December 2007 17:49:50 Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: >> If I get that dreaded upgraditis, I am then on my own, > > I've never liked that expression. The whole point of a community is that > you're not on your own. There are mailing lists and forums, and

Re: [opensuse] Re: NFS sync vs. async mounts

On Sunday 23 December 2007 19:31:45 primm wrote: > > > > nfs is good, it mostly just works. But v3 has drawbacks in security, > > > > so if you're not in total control of the network, it might not be so > > > > good > > > > > > > > nfsv4 + kerberos can provide real authentication and encryption > >

Re: [opensuse] Grub strangeness

On 2007/12/23 09:57 (GMT) Tim Hempstead apparently typed: > On Dec 23, 2007 8:56 AM, eddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wednesday 19 December 2007 21:37:23 Tim Hempstead wrote: >> > I've been fighting about with my 10.3 system today and have been >> > having a few issues with Grub and I was

Re: [opensuse] Re: Frozen Throne

On Sunday 23 December 2007 10:17, Joe Sloan wrote: > Rui Santos wrote: > > James Hatridge wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> On Saturday 22 December 2007 13:56, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: > >>> Nothing counts against Duke-Nukem-Forever > >>> > >>> Feeling lucky punk :) > >> > >> On this subject, I

Re: [opensuse] Re: NFS sync vs. async mounts

primm wrote: > OK guys. Anoraks off and xmas ties on. This is the works xmas outing. Hands > up: > Which of the posters to this thread actually runs a network? That works. LOL, good one. I "run a network" at my home office - rather smallish, 7 linux boxes, and 3 macs, but I do have similar thing

Re: [opensuse] Re: NFS sync vs. async mounts

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2007-12-23 at 19:31 +0100, primm wrote: Another problem is that the nfs server in versions 3 and below fully trusts the client about user IDs. It won't put viruses on your machines, but it does mean that if you don't control the root a

Re: [opensuse] Re: NFS sync vs. async mounts

primm pecked at the keyboard and wrote: > On Sunday 23 December 2007 15:17:46 Anders Johansson wrote: >> On Sunday 23 December 2007 14:59:12 James Knott wrote: >> > > OK guys. Anoraks off and xmas ties on. This is the works xmas outing. Hands > up: > Which of the posters to this thread actually r

Re: [opensuse] Re: NFS sync vs. async mounts

primm wrote: nfs is good, it mostly just works. But v3 has drawbacks in security, so if you're not in total control of the network, it might not be so good nfsv4 + kerberos can provide real authentication and encryption though, so you still don't have to abandon nfs

Re: [opensuse] where is libg2c.so in SuSE 10.3 ?

I am developing my project with R. Therefore the first thing I did is to look in the R repository for a package implementing SSA. Such a package does exist (clim-pact) But for some reason it won't install on Linux platforms. At the bottom I am copying he message from another R user who tried to ins

[opensuse] GRUB Help - Howto boot 10.3 RAID 1 hardware SATA controller ?

Listmates, I can't get grub to boot a fresh 10.3 install from my promise SATA raid controller with two new 320G drives in RAID 1. I thought I knew GRUB, but RAID is completely new to me. I really, really need HELP! I have included as much information as I can including the screen messages

Re: [opensuse] Software updates and repositories understanding

On Monday 24 December 2007 04:20:07 Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: [...] > > I have a directory currently that is called Downloads in my Home > directory. Guess I'll be keeping it :) especially as it gets backed up. > > When I install from an ~/downloads/*.rpm, should I rather copy it to > /tmp an

Re: [opensuse] keeping a copy of installed rpms

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2007-12-23 at 10:51 +0200, Dave Plater wrote: Is there a way of automatically keeping a copy of everything yast installs from online repositories? AFAIK, no. Perhaps an ftp proxy cache :-? - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -

Re: [opensuse] Beagle under 10.3 is really eating up my CPU

Anders Johansson wrote: On Sunday 23 December 2007 01:26:08 Carlos E. R. wrote: The Saturday 2007-12-22 at 18:09 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote: Actually, it helps solve it, sometimes. The application crashes, probably I wouldn't say "probably". It shouldn't be par for the course for an applica

[opensuse] CD player irritation

Since 10.3 no longer includes Kscd, except the KDE4 version, I've been using Kaffine to play CD's. However, one very irritating thing about it, is the "video" that plays along with the song. Is there any way to turn off or otherwise get rid of that annoying crap? -- Use OpenOffice.org

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

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-12-07 at 11:36 -, Dave Howorth wrote: Google showed it may be a restriction of NFS V2 though why that is now running is another mystery. rpcinfo and nfsstat shows that server and client are both running both v2 and v3. I haven'

Re: [opensuse] Why beagle?

On Saturday 22 December 2007 13:42, Rajko M. wrote: > > None up to now told what version of SUSE is used. I did. Hey, over here. I did. (hand waving frantically) Didn't seem to make any difference, though. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PR

Re: [opensuse] Why beagle?

On Saturday 22 December 2007 17:27, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > No, it is the responsibility of the practitioners of IT to make its > artifacts accessible and useable to people without the need for an > understanding of the inner workings of those technologies. > > > Randall Schulz Ahhh, the Holy

Re: [opensuse] Problen with SLES + postfix + sals+ ldap

hello Than thesolution is not chage the defaults for SASLAUTHD_AUTHMECH (pam) to ldap? my sister has beed asking to the spanis list and has one great problem. if she doesn't change the defaults (pam) she must to execute the command: saslpasswd2 -c -u domain user for adding each user for alowing

Re: [opensuse] Why beagle?

On Sunday 23 December 2007 12:51, Stevens wrote: > On Saturday 22 December 2007 17:27, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > No, it is the responsibility of the practitioners of IT to make its > > artifacts accessible and useable to people without the need for an > > understanding of the inner workings of th

Re: [opensuse] CD player irritation

On Sunday 23 December 2007 21:27:12 James Knott wrote: > Since 10.3 no longer includes Kscd, except the KDE4 version, kdemultimedia3-extra > I've been > using Kaffine to play CD's. However, one very irritating thing about > it, is the "video" that plays along with the song. Is there any way to

Re: [opensuse] Problen with SLES + postfix + sals+ ldap

On Sunday 23 December 2007 21:52:55 Carlos wrote: > hello > Than thesolution is not chage the defaults for SASLAUTHD_AUTHMECH (pam) to > ldap? > my sister has beed asking to the spanis list and has one great problem. > > if she doesn't change the defaults (pam) she must to execute the command: > sa

Re: [opensuse] where is libg2c.so in SuSE 10.3 ?

On Sunday 23 December 2007, Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote: > I am developing my project with R. Therefore the first > thing I did is to look in the R repository for a > package implementing SSA. Such a package does exist > (clim-pact) But for some reason it won't install on > Linux platforms. At t

Re: [opensuse] CD player irritation

Anders Johansson wrote: > On Sunday 23 December 2007 21:27:12 James Knott wrote: > >> Since 10.3 no longer includes Kscd, except the KDE4 version, >> > > kdemultimedia3-extra > > >> I've been >> using Kaffine to play CD's. However, one very irritating thing about >> it, is the "video"

Re: [opensuse] CD player irritation

Anders Johansson wrote: > On Sunday 23 December 2007 21:27:12 James Knott wrote: > >> Since 10.3 no longer includes Kscd, except the KDE4 version, >> > > kdemultimedia3-extra > Found it. tnx I don't have a problem with someone adding that sort of garbage to an application, providing t

Re: [opensuse] CD player irritation

On Sunday 23 December 2007 22:17:19 James Knott wrote: > Anders Johansson wrote: > > On Sunday 23 December 2007 21:27:12 James Knott wrote: > >> Since 10.3 no longer includes Kscd, except the KDE4 version, > > > > kdemultimedia3-extra > > > >> I've been > >> using Kaffine to play CD's. However, on

Re: NFS sync vs. async mounts (was Re: [opensuse] OpenSuse 10.2 - Fortran compilation very slow through NFS network with a 64bit server and 32bit clients.)

On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 12:58 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote: > On Sunday 23 December 2007 08:10:47 primm wrote: > > On Friday 21 December 2007 20:28:04 Randall R Schulz wrote: > > > On Friday 21 December 2007 11:10, primm wrote: > > > > > NFS is kind of ugly itself, don't you think? > > > > > > > > U

Re: [opensuse] Re: NFS sync vs. async mounts

On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 19:40 +0100, primm wrote: > > OK guys. Anoraks off and xmas ties on. This is the works xmas outing. Hands > up: > Which of the posters to this thread actually runs a network? That works. Understand the remark: having heard somebody about using nfs it something different th

Re: [opensuse] Re: NFS sync vs. async mounts

primm wrote: nfs is good, it mostly just works. But v3 has drawbacks in security, so if you're not in total control of the network, it might not be so good nfsv4 + kerberos can provide real authentication and encryption though, so you still don't have to abandon nfs 4 years ago it cost me two d

Re: [opensuse] Problen with SLES + postfix + sals+ ldap

But when i used the lapd for the SASLAUTHD:AUTHMECH i had into the /etc/saslauthd.conf this: ldap_servers: ldap://localhost:389 ldap_search_base: ou=people,dc=domain,dc=com ldap_filter: uid=%U ldap_group_scope: sub ldap_password_attr:userPassword what must i to writte into this file now if the S

Re: [opensuse] where is libg2c.so in SuSE 10.3 ?

I could not find netcdf in SUSE 10.3 intsllation DVD. But a Linux repository contains a lot of netcdf files. http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/Applications_Engineering.html I do not know which ones are appropriate for my SuSE 10.3 64-bit architecture. Any suggestion is welcome. Merry Christmass, Mau

Re: [opensuse] Re: NFS sync vs. async mounts

On Sunday 23 December 2007 22:51:23 Hans Witvliet wrote: > On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 19:40 +0100, primm wrote: > > OK guys. Anoraks off and xmas ties on. This is the works xmas outing. > > Hands up: > > Which of the posters to this thread actually runs a network? That works. > > Understand the remark:

Re: [opensuse] Re: NFS sync vs. async mounts

On Sunday 23 December 2007 19:40:41 primm wrote: > OK guys. Anoraks off Why is a technical discussion "anorak"? Anders -- Madness takes its toll -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NFS sync vs. async mounts (was Re: [opensuse] OpenSuse 10.2 - Fortran compilation very slow through NFS network with a 64bit server and 32bit clients.)

On Sunday 23 December 2007 22:43:24 Hans Witvliet wrote: > If you are not in control of your network, use openswan or strongswan > for vpn, and put nfs-v3 over it. We have been using it in a test for > connecting several locations. Works ok. huh? You're connecting each client to the server using v

Re: [opensuse] GRUB Help - Howto boot 10.3 RAID 1 hardware SATA controller ?

David C. Rankin pecked at the keyboard and wrote: > Listmates, > > I can't get grub to boot a fresh 10.3 install from my promise SATA raid > controller with two new 320G drives in RAID 1. I thought I knew GRUB, > but RAID is completely new to me. I really, really need HELP! I have > included

Re: [opensuse] Problen with SLES + postfix + sals+ ldap

On Sunday 23 December 2007 22:55:18 Carlos wrote: > But when i used the lapd for the SASLAUTHD:AUTHMECH i had into the > /etc/saslauthd.conf this: > ldap_servers: ldap://localhost:389 > ldap_search_base: ou=people,dc=domain,dc=com > ldap_filter: uid=%U > ldap_group_scope: sub > ldap_password_attr:u

Re: [opensuse] keeping a copy of installed rpms

> The Sunday 2007-12-23 at 10:51 +0200, Dave Plater wrote: > > > Is there a way of automatically keeping a copy of everything yast > > installs from online repositories? > It's pretty hard (but do-able) to know in advance what the dependancies are of what you are going to install... easiest w

Re: [opensuse] CD player irritation

Anders Johansson wrote: > On Sunday 23 December 2007 22:17:19 James Knott wrote: > >> Anders Johansson wrote: >> >>> On Sunday 23 December 2007 21:27:12 James Knott wrote: >>> Since 10.3 no longer includes Kscd, except the KDE4 version, >>> kdemultimedia3-extra >>>

Re: NFS sync vs. async mounts (was Re: [opensuse] OpenSuse 10.2 - Fortran compilation very slow through NFS network with a 64bit server and 32bit clients.)

Anders Johansson wrote: > On Sunday 23 December 2007 22:43:24 Hans Witvliet wrote: > >> If you are not in control of your network, use openswan or strongswan >> for vpn, and put nfs-v3 over it. We have been using it in a test for >> connecting several locations. Works ok. >> > > huh? You're

[opensuse] MySQL GUI frontends

I've played around with MySQL on the command line, creating an addressbook database and importing some data. I'd like to use a GUI frontend to add/edit the data, but I'm not sure what's available in linux. Any suggestions? Happy Christmas :) -- Bob openSUSE 10.3, Kernel 2.6.22.13-0.3-default,

Re: [opensuse] Re: NFS sync vs. async mounts

On Sunday 23 December 2007 14:07, Anders Johansson wrote: > On Sunday 23 December 2007 19:40:41 primm wrote: > > OK guys. Anoraks off > > Why is a technical discussion "anorak"? I think he's referring to a kind of jacket. It's Britishism, like "boot" or "bum" or "lift" or "lorry" or "petrol"...

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