[opensuse] Re: Kernel only see 3 of 4GB

2007-06-04 Thread Craig Millar
On 04/06/07 11:05 +0100, G T Smith wrote: Frank Fiene wrote: On Montag, 4. Juni 2007, Jonathan Ervine wrote: Also 32bit Linux kernel should be fine with PAE, not? I'll have a look at the BIOS. I have been trying to track the article down, but I came across something recently that

[opensuse] Re: conflict in new KDE updates at repo.opensuse.org with suse 10.2

2007-06-04 Thread Craig Millar
On 04/06/07 08:18 +0200, Michal Hlavac wrote: when I am trying to update I get this error: file /opt/kde3/lib/libconnectionmanager.so.0.0.0 from install of kdelibs3-3.5.7-23.1 conflicts with file from package kdepim3-3.5.7-7.1 file /opt/kde3/lib/libconnectionmanager.la from install of

[opensuse] Re: Urge creation of a standard documented way to share a directory [WAS Re: Wanna umask inhereted from parent directory]

2007-05-26 Thread Craig Millar
On 26/05/07 08:30 +0100, Benji Weber wrote: It does not work if you are not the admin, and so cannot create groups. If one limited user wants to share their files with one specific other limited user, without letting other members of the group have access then they need ACLs. Unless you have a

[opensuse] Re: More softwares to download???

2007-04-24 Thread Craig Millar
On 24/04/07 14:32 +0800, Tommy Lim KW wrote: Can anybody suggest to me website that I can download more free and open source software for Suse/linux? Have a look at: Packman http://packman.links2linux.org/ Guru http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/rpm-navigation.php and the build service

[opensuse] Re: How to install 2.6.20 kernel on opensuse 10

2007-04-12 Thread Craig Millar
On 12/04/07 08:03 +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote: Perhaps just use the KOTD we provide in the openSUSE buildservice. I am using it on 10.2 ;) Probably of more immediate use to the OP of course. Still, no harm in learning about these things - it certainly helps to get a better understanding of

[opensuse] Re: How to install 2.6.20 kernel on opensuse 10

2007-04-11 Thread Craig Millar
On 11/04/07 13:21 -0500, david rankin wrote: Great link, Thanks. I haven't compiled the kernel from source before, but if I made it through compiling Xorg, Mesa and drm, there is no reason not to try. The only concern I have is how to make sure I get all of the pieces and modules that the

[opensuse] Re: SuSE removes files

2007-04-01 Thread Craig Millar
The Sunday 2007-04-01 at 22:44 +0200, Hudibras wrote: Thank you, indeed. But this is not the case. Files are mp3, jpg, avi, mpg, wmv, html, only certain links in my konqueror bookmarks, and all my Tellico databases of music. Does it not sound to any backdoor or similar I'm very sorry

[opensuse] Re: Beagle Configuration

2007-03-29 Thread Craig Millar
On 29/03/07 14:20 -0400, Joe Shaw wrote: (b) People who experience performance problems when running Beagle. 8 --- snip --- 8 The cron job issue is a problem, and I'm going to try to work with colleagues to see if we can come up with a solution that works. Perhaps beagle could check the

[opensuse] Re: streaming music

2007-03-13 Thread Craig Millar
On 13/03/07 11:21 +, Phil Burness wrote: I want to play the music on my Linux box via my XP machine through my amplifier downstairs when I'm not working in the study. Quite reasonable I think. I've looked at shoutcast, icecast and streamtunes all of which seem to need a playlist

[opensuse] Re: System Mail

2007-02-15 Thread Craig Millar
On 15/02/07 16:38 -0500, Peter Bloomfield wrote: I set up a machine under SuSE 10.2. during the setup I created a user and selected that the user receive any system mail. I now want to stop that so that root receives system mail. Does anyone know where to look to do this? Assuming the

[opensuse] Re: Sticky notes

2007-02-12 Thread Craig Millar
On 12/02/07 19:39 +0100, Jan Karjalainen wrote: Is there a program for openSUSE 10.2 like Stickes (http://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/stickies/index.html)? knotes? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[opensuse] Re: More 10.2 nightmares

2007-02-12 Thread Craig Millar
On 12/02/07 13:49 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: Do the Debian maintainers monitor security advisories and promptly release easily installed updates? Do they even have anything comparable to YOU? Actually, it's pretty easy to keep a Debian box updated. Add the appropriate security.debian.org

[opensuse] Re: standard for init scripts and usage

2007-02-10 Thread Craig Millar
On 10/02/07 10:58 -0500, Rami Michael wrote: Is there a standard for the way init scripts are supposed to be built? I like the idea of being able to write one script and have it work on all (or as many as possible) linux based systems. IME this is quite difficult to achieve, unless you use a

[opensuse] Re: OpenSuse KDE: Konqueror or Firefox?

2007-01-23 Thread Craig Millar
On 22/01/07 23:55 +0100, Samir van de Sand wrote: Hey everyone, after using Gnome for a very long time, I recently switched to the KDE environment (withhin my general switch to OpenSuse). So which browser should I choose? Konqueror is a native QT app and also integrates nicely with other

[opensuse] Re: ssh weirdness - ssh connects then hangs after transferring a few bytes

2007-01-22 Thread Craig Millar
On 22/01/07 08:37 +, Christopher Townson wrote: I'm having a weird problem connecting to certain servers: ssh connects absolutely fine, but attempting to run any commands once connected causes the session to hang. My investigations so far would seem to indicate that the session hang occurs

[opensuse] Re: Boxed 10.2 orders

2006-12-27 Thread Craig Millar
On 26/12/06 17:25 +0100, Marcus Meissner wrote: On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 12:51:21AM -0900, John Andersen wrote: scuze me while I suck a few more rpms off of Packman and Guru to get my machine up to the multi-media functionality Kubuntu 6.10 delivered right off blue and white the dvd. Does

[opensuse] zypper not installing updated packages

2006-12-21 Thread Craig Millar
I've noticed that zypper appears to be ignoring packages that it is aware have updated versions available. For instance, I know that there is a newer build of amarok in guru's repository, and it appears that zypper is aware of this too: fool:~ # zypper sh zypper ref # refreshes repos ok zypper

[opensuse] Re: block failed ssh login attacks? (like fail2ban on ubuntu)

2006-12-20 Thread Craig Millar
On 19/12/06 18:35 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [12-19-06 18:19]: Dec 19 14:28:39 shoehorn sshd[11104]: Invalid user operator from 200.222.17.14 ... on an older machine, I use fail2ban to look for this kind of harassment and block the IP for some

[opensuse] Re: adding user on command line

2006-11-30 Thread Craig Millar
On 30/11/06 01:39 -0600, Jay C Vollmer wrote: how do I add a user on the command line in suse 10.1? I thought it was adduser, but that didn't work. And is there a command line utility like KUser? adduser is an interactive perl script in Debian and its derivatives. From the man page:

[opensuse] Re: About system calls and FileZilla RPMs

2006-11-17 Thread Craig Millar
On 17/11/06 09:13 -0400, Daniel Antonio Peraza Cedrez wrote: Does anybody know if there's a RPM for FileZilla ftp client ???. I'm u... isn't filezillla a windows client? tired of seeing gFTP crashing all time, and I can't get the old KBear ftp client that was included in 10.0 release of

[opensuse] Re: What do you use for LDAP entry management

2006-11-16 Thread Craig Millar
On 16/11/06 15:41 +0100, Joachim Schrod wrote: I'm looking for recommendations for an LDAP client tool with a GUI, snip... I've seen that gq and luma exists on suser-guru/packman, and I have heard of LAT (http://dev.mmgsecurity.com/projects/lat/, existence SUSE rpm not known). LAT needs

[opensuse] Re: SUSE Equivalents

2006-09-26 Thread Craig Millar
On 26/09/06 10:23 +0200, Johan Venter wrote: with it. Can anyone please assist me with the equivalents for the following: * The network activity indicator like in Windows XP - the icon on the task bar that shows network activity. Try knemo. http://packman.links2linux.org/package/knemo

[opensuse] Re: smart outsmarted?

2006-09-20 Thread Craig Millar
On 20/09/06 22:56 +0200, Andreas Hanke wrote: Craig Millar schrieb: SyntaxError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 479344, column 58 Known: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=207111 Thanks. Guess that channel is off limits until someone either modifies the repodata or smart

[opensuse] Re: smart outsmarted?

2006-09-20 Thread Craig Millar
On 20/09/06 23:21 +0200, Andreas Hanke wrote: Craig Millar schrieb: Guess that channel is off limits until someone either modifies the repodata or smart is fixed. :( smart doesn't need to be fixed because it's not smart's fault. Thank you Andreas and Christoph. Ideally though, smart would

[opensuse] Re: Sources, revisited

2006-08-16 Thread Craig Millar
On 17/08/06 01:17 +0200, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Pete Connolly wrote: On Wednesday 16 August 2006 22:13, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: But you have to understand, I feel the need to kick any ass which is levering against my face. Don't worry, I wouldn't dare put my ass

[opensuse] Re: New Smart error.

2006-06-16 Thread Craig Millar
On 16/06/06 08:07 -0400, Fred A. Miller wrote: All of a sudden I get the following error when trying to update channels in Smart. I am getting the same issues ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). It happens when smart tries to fetch repository information at this address:

[opensuse] Re: New Smart error.

2006-06-16 Thread Craig Millar
On 16/06/06 19:26 +0200, Christoph Thiel wrote: It was an error on download.openSUSE.org -- I'v just fixed it ;) Thought it might be - thank you. Rgds Craig - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

[opensuse] Re: We, the community

2006-05-08 Thread Craig Millar
On 08/05/06 22:48 +0200, Pascal Bleser wrote: Yes please. opensuse-packaging is very, very low traffic... actually that list is near useless at the moment, unfortunately. Nevertheless, there are several experienced packagers subscribed to that list, and I'd say that if you have a question

[opensuse-packaging] denyhosts rpm

2006-05-05 Thread Craig Millar
/Libraries BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-buildroot Prefix: %{_prefix} BuildArchitectures: noarch Vendor: Phil Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Packager: Craig Millar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Url: http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net Distribution: %(head -1 /etc/SuSE-release) Patch0: %name-%version-env.diff Patch1

[opensuse] Re: 10.1 RC1 -- OpenOffice Calc Column Widths

2006-04-25 Thread Craig Millar
On 25/04/06 13:19 +0200, Jerry Westrick wrote: In 10.1 RC1, I've found OOCalc to have problems with the column widths. When I create a new spreadsheet, I column A covers more than the entire width of the screen. Adjustments made to widths are flaky... Can someone confirm that this has to

[opensuse] Re: Suse 10.1 RC1 - Wireless PCI card - can not enable it and get it up

2006-04-18 Thread Craig Millar
On 19/04/06 00:03 +0300, Audrius Verseckas wrote: I found on http://jbnote.free.fr/prism54usb/ site that if I have a PCI softmac card (and it seems that my SMC2802W V2 is) I have to put special firmware in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/ But I cannot find such dir in Suse 10.1... Maybe someone

[opensuse] KDE 3.5 Image Gallery bug

2005-12-01 Thread Craig Millar
There's a small bug in KDE 3.5 but I am not sure who to report it to because it appears to be a SUSE problem and not a KDE one. When you run Tools-Create Image Gallery Konqueror chokes on the images.html file that is output because of the following line in the source: meta name=GENERATOR

[opensuse] Re: KDE 3.5 Image Gallery bug

2005-12-01 Thread Craig Millar
On 01/12/05 17:05 +0100, Sonja Krause-Harder wrote: On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 03:53:04PM +, Craig Millar wrote: Where is this sort of thing reported? http://www.opensuse.org/Submit_a_bug Apologies - I've just been to that very link - reaching for the keyboard before consulting the brain

[opensuse] Re: ftp4.gwdg.de FTP Server Down (HTTP is OK)

2005-11-30 Thread Craig Millar
On 30/11/05 07:16 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: On Wednesday 30 November 2005 07:11, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: ftp4 is working and was all the time. Basta. All evidence to the contrary. Randall, I'm having no problem connecting via ftp, which means that the problem is your end. Regards

[opensuse] Re: Cannot execute scripts

2005-11-01 Thread Craig Millar
Ilker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When i try to use most of scripts and some programs (like doom3) i get an error: bash: /home/tux/script: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied Possibly the partition you are running files from has been mounted with the noexec option. Either remount it with

[opensuse] Re: installing source packages with smart

2005-10-28 Thread Craig Millar
On 28/10/05 00:51 +0200, Pascal Bleser wrote: Craig Millar wrote: On 27/10/05 18:19 +0200, Sören Wengerowsky wrote: Nothing about source-packages in smart-doku... = seems to be impossible :-( My point entirely. Am looking through the source code for a hint or two - none as yet. Indeed

[opensuse] installing source packages with smart

2005-10-27 Thread Craig Millar
Is it possible yet in smart to install a source package? For example, in apt I can use: apt-get source mutt And it will download and install the sources/spec files, etc in /usr/src/packages. Thanks Craig - To unsubscribe,

[opensuse] Re: installing source packages with smart

2005-10-27 Thread Craig Millar
On 27/10/05 10:07 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Craig Millar [EMAIL PROTECTED] [10-27-05 07:18]: Is it possible yet in smart to install a source package? the answer to your question and a lot more information may be obtained from the command-line via: smart --help You don't say

[opensuse] Re: installing source packages with smart

2005-10-27 Thread Craig Millar
On 27/10/05 18:19 +0200, Sören Wengerowsky wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ for i in update install reinstall upgrade remove check fix downloadsearch query info statschannel priority mirror flag; do smart $i --help ; done | grep -i source [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ Great! I was thinking of

[opensuse] Re: smart woes

2005-10-26 Thread Craig Millar
On 27/10/05 01:04 +0200, Pascal Bleser wrote: smart also works with dpkg on Debian distros I know - my sceptical debian loving colleague nearly choked on his cornflakes when I showed him the comparisons to apt in the README and had to admit that it was promising! ;-) Hmm... waiting for

[opensuse] anyone else have mkinitrd problems?

2005-10-11 Thread Craig Millar
I updated two suse 9.3 x86 boxes and on both they installed all the way to the end of the first disk and then gave a mkinitrd error, resulting on a kernel panic upon reboot. On both, I managed to restore using mkinitrd in a rescue environment (suse rescue and knoppix). I didn't get any debugging

[opensuse] Re: Another Mirror

2005-10-07 Thread Craig Millar
On 07/10/05 02:23 +0200, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: I'm not firm with those crappy szenes, but I have some portion of general human conciousness. I'm sure our giant squid overlords have taken note and are pleased. ;-) So my guess is to look into the docs and find out if --max_upload_rate is

[opensuse] Re: Another Mirror

2005-10-06 Thread Craig Millar
On 06/10/05 21:17 +0200, Khan wrote: Use Torrents. Download speed is enormous Normally i'd agree. However, my download has been going for over seven hours and I've downloaded a paltry 195MB using the SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-i386-GM torrent. This on a 2 meg line. It's currently downloading at 3.2 KB/s

[opensuse] Re: Another Mirror

2005-10-06 Thread Craig Millar
On 06/10/05 17:46 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: Set your upload speed to 10kb w/max 4 connects and your download speed will go off the chart. I have seen 385+. ok thanks, trying that. previously my upload rate was unlimited - it was going up at around 30KB/s - but that shouldn't effect

[opensuse] Re: Another Mirror

2005-10-06 Thread Craig Millar
On 07/10/05 01:53 +0200, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Craig Millar wrote: ok thanks, trying that. previously my upload rate was unlimited - it was going up at around 30KB/s - but that shouldn't effect download speed should it? It does should. If your upload speed comes