Re: [opensuse] amavisd warning failure?

2008-01-27 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2008-01-25 at 18:06 +0200, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: The Wednesday 2008-01-23 at 15:57 +0200, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Looking at the Alt-Ctrl-F10 tty I see that anavis is warning that 'all primary

Re: [opensuse] amavisd warning failure?

2008-01-25 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2008-01-23 at 15:57 +0200, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Looking at the Alt-Ctrl-F10 tty I see that anavis is warning that 'all primary virus scanners failed, considering backups' It only means that you

Re: [opensuse] amavisd warning failure?

2008-01-25 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: On 01/23/2008 09:57 PM, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Looking at the Alt-Ctrl-F10 tty I see that anavis is warning that 'all primary virus scanners failed, considering backups' What should I do to rectify this problem i.e. I assume update amavisd, but how, at least

Re: [opensuse] amavisd warning failure?

2008-01-25 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Joe Sloan wrote: Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Hi, Looking at the Alt-Ctrl-F10 tty I see that anavis is warning that 'all primary virus scanners failed, considering backups' What should I do to rectify this problem i.e. I assume update amavisd, but how, at least via YAST? You either

Re: [opensuse] postfix master.cf question

2008-01-24 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Carlos Lorenzo Matés wrote: Hi. El Domingo, 20 de Enero de 2008, Sandy Drobic escribió: Carlos Lorenzo Matés wrote: Well, the case is exactly this one. I have a mail to fax gateway, but the fax jobs are sent always with the same user (the sendfax). What i want is that the fax job is sent

[opensuse] amavisd warning failure?

2008-01-23 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Hi, Looking at the Alt-Ctrl-F10 tty I see that anavis is warning that 'all primary virus scanners failed, considering backups' What should I do to rectify this problem i.e. I assume update amavisd, but how, at least via YAST? Tnx Hylton -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

[opensuse] Opensuse updater error log file location?

2008-01-06 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Using opensuse 10.2 and I rely on opensuse update icon/app to notify me of any security updates. On occasions opensuse updater comes up with a yellow triangle that indicates that one or more of the repositories checked was unavailable. If I rest my mouse on the yellow triangle a pop-up displays

Re: [opensuse] Software updates and repositories understanding

2007-12-23 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
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 fix is too

Re: [opensuse] Software updates and repositories understanding

2007-12-23 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
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 fix is too

Re: [opensuse] Software updates and repositories understanding

2007-12-23 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
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 you

Re: [opensuse] Software updates and repositories understanding

2007-12-23 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
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 you

Re: [opensuse] Software updates and repositories understanding

2007-12-23 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: 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

[opensuse] Software updates and repositories understanding

2007-12-22 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Hi, This has been bothering me for a long time as I am battling to understand the usage of software repositories. I haven't been able to find a reference in the fine manual of 10.2 that describes this , hence my question. I realise that the repositories are used for updates but why has some of

Re: [opensuse] Frozen Throne

2007-12-22 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
aledr wrote: There is World of Warcraft 2 and other games in wine-doors... You can give a try... 2007/12/21, Kai Ponte [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thursday 20 December 2007 13:35, Kaare Rasmussen wrote: Hi Can anybody help me make my kids happy? I would really like to run World of Warcraft

Re: [opensuse] Software updates and repositories understanding

2007-12-22 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
jdd wrote about the triplicate installation sources I have listed: Tnx jdd, I'll do a clean-up although doesn't having more than one source provide greater accessibility i.e. if the suse site goes down, perhaps the updates have already been transferred to a mirror which I might then be able to

Re: [opensuse] Software updates and repositories understanding

2007-12-22 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Philippe Landau wrote: Hi Hylton Unfortunately updating OpenSuse is a mess, but it is easy once you know the tricks. Would you like to update to OpenSuse 10.3 ? snip It is the tricks I wanted to learn and updating to 10.3 I have decided against although 11.0 is a 'definite' after watching

Re: [opensuse] Software updates and repositories understanding

2007-12-22 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
the classic Linux answer of 'anywhere'? On Saturday 22 December 2007 12:43:53 Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: ...Before loading it is as a source I would load it into my browser. Here I see there are several sub directories. I would need to know where to end i.e. at the parent folder ..openSUSE_10.2

Re: [opensuse] Software updates and repositories understanding

2007-12-22 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Druid wrote: On Dec 22, 2007 9:43 AM, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, This has been bothering me for a long time as I am battling to understand the usage of software repositories. I haven't been able to find a reference in the fine manual of 10.2 that describes

Re: [opensuse] Advanced postfix question: IP and reverse DNS

2007-12-20 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Johannes Nohl wrote: Dear list, maybe someone here's a postfix guru. I have a problem which I don't know if it's solvable at all. I have a machine running as mail server for several domains. Each domain has its own IP. For each IP I can set up a reverse DNS entry. How can I configure

Re: [opensuse] Opensuse and USB card reader?

2007-12-20 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Aaron Kulkis wrote: Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Hi, I am currently in the market for a flash card and floppy disk reader. Yes, floppy disks, the 3.5 ones. The reason I would like a reader for floppy disks as I have in excess of 100 disks that contain Windows drivers that I have

Re: [opensuse] [OT] spreadsheet data exchange format?

2007-12-16 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Zhang Weiwu wrote: Dear all, this is OT but I am not sure where to ask about it: snip Now we need to generate spreadsheet from the web application that has merged cells in it. This time CSV format doesn't work, it cannot represent merged cells. I prefer not to create Excel formats

[opensuse] Opensuse and USB card reader?

2007-12-16 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Hi, I am currently in the market for a flash card and floppy disk reader. Yes, floppy disks, the 3.5 ones. The reason I would like a reader for floppy disks as I have in excess of 100 disks that contain Windows drivers that I have needed over the years. Some of these have not been replaced by

Re: [opensuse] 'Separating' Dual head cards?

2007-12-14 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Hi, I am investigating obtaining another machine and monitor for my amateur radio use, but I do not want to have an additional kb and mouse so I figured I could cable it into my KVM switch. What I would like to find out is if a dual output on the nVidia

[opensuse] 'Separating' Dual head cards?

2007-12-11 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Hi, I am investigating obtaining another machine and monitor for my amateur radio use, but I do not want to have an additional kb and mouse so I figured I could cable it into my KVM switch. What I would like to find out is if a dual output on the nVidia GeForce 8800GT can be split i.e. with the

[opensuse] FYI re Seagate drives

2007-12-11 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Seagate's FreeAgent Drives and Linux Don't Mix - http://www.hothardware.com/News/Seagates_FreeAgent_Drives_and_Linux_Dont_Mix YMMV but use it lose it, your call. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Re: save rpm files from online update

2007-12-03 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Carlos E. R. wrote: The Sunday 2007-11-25 at 15:36 +0900, Gavin Chester wrote: I'd love to have this option BACK. Yes, I say back, because we had that option in SuSE 8 and 9, before we got zypper and zmd et families. It was removed, and not because it was not wanted, I guess. You can

Re: [opensuse] Re: save rpm files from online update

2007-12-03 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Stanislav Visnovsky wrote: Dňa Sunday 25 November 2007 13:16:32 Carlos E. R. ste napísal: The Sunday 2007-11-25 at 15:36 +0900, Gavin Chester wrote: I'd love to have this option BACK. snip Not an option for me: I want the official tools only, or at least, mainly. It's on our radar for

Re: [opensuse] Re: save rpm files from online update

2007-11-04 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Ben, Ben Kevan wrote: No, all he is requesting is the OPTION to save them. Nothing would force you or anyone else to keep them if you don't want them but the OPTION to do so should be there. What would this proposed option be set to? My suggestion is that it would default to NOT storing

Re: [opensuse] save rpm files from online update

2007-11-01 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Coach-X wrote: If I wanted zypper/yast to save the rpm files it downloads when doing an online update, how would this be done? Please see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=293100 and vote for it. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [opensuse] Cannot browse network since updates

2007-10-21 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Richard Gelling wrote: Hi, I have been running Opensuse 10.3 for about a week now and up until the kernel was updated I could access my Laptop which is running Windows XP fine, now although it is seen in workgroup I cant access any shared folders. I get 'Could not connect to host for

Re: SV: [opensuse] Resizing partitions safely

2007-10-07 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Anders Norrbring wrote: On 2007/09/25 16:36 (GMT+0200) Anders Norrbring apparently typed stuff about partitioning: snip Hi Anders, Sorry I am coming in late on this but DO NOT use PM as it writes partitions that Winblows understands but Linux doesn't. Have a look for a product called

[opensuse] Opensuse software updates and repositories?

2007-09-26 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Hi all, I would like to clear my understanding up on the opensuse software management side. After the distro is first installed, and provided no online updates have been done during the install, there will normally be a requirement to obtain the latest software versions of the installed

[opensuse] To Thunderbird or not to Thunderbird

2007-09-18 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Hi all, To settle some nerves after Mozilla announced recently that theyt were ditching Thunderbird... Thunderbird flies: Mozilla spins off e-mail client Echoing the move the Mozilla Foundation made with Mozilla Corp. and Firefox back in 2005, Mozilla Corp. on Monday spun off a for-profit

Re: [opensuse] Autoyast Installation 10.2

2007-09-17 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Hi Jeff, jeff garner wrote: I have tried on three different occasions to do an FTP installation using the autoinst file created from a base install image of openSUSE10.2. all three times it fails giving me an error that it cannot find the profile on my FTP server. I know that when I create

Re: [opensuse] No openSUSE 10.4

2007-09-16 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Doug McGarrett wrote: On Saturday 15 September 2007 00:24, Tom Patton wrote: On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 08:32 +0200, jdd wrote: Felix Miata wrote: Maybe this time we can get rid of the point release silliness like Fedora did. Call it 11. Call the next 12, and the next 13 true. the .x should

Re: [opensuse] openoffice java

2007-09-16 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
G T Smith wrote: Carlos E. R. wrote: snip Can I suggest one of you submit a bug report? How about it Carlos? Hylton -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] openoffice java

2007-09-16 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Carlos E. R. wrote: The Sunday 2007-09-16 at 13:29 +0200, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: snip Can I suggest one of you submit a bug report? How about it Carlos? But I don't see a bug... it's designed that way. What I need is documentation. ... And therefore the bug is lack

Re: [opensuse] 3.25 disk and memory card reader recommendations

2007-09-15 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Hi Aaron, Aaron Kulkis wrote: Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Hi, I have a need for an external device that is primarily OpenSUSE compatible and that will enable me to read and write to legacy stiffy(3.25) disks. An added option would for the device to be able to read/write on a range

Re: [opensuse] Printer on LTSP client

2007-09-02 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Ken Schneider wrote: On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 14:41 +0200, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Andre Truter wrote: Hi All, Hi Andre, I have a ltsp server and a thin client that works. Now I need to connect a USB printer to the client and make that work. I have googled and followed

Re: [opensuse] Printer on LTSP client

2007-09-01 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Andre Truter wrote: Hi All, Hi Andre, I have a ltsp server and a thin client that works. Now I need to connect a USB printer to the client and make that work. I have googled and followed the documentation, and different variations of it, but I cannot get it to work. snip Could

Re: [opensuse] Tape Drive for personal usage

2007-09-01 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Hi Jorge, G T Smith wrote: Jorge Fábregas wrote: Hello Guys, Do anyone of you use any tape drive for personal backup? I personally use a 2nd internal hard-drive where I perform nightly backups but twice a year I backup to offline media (DVD-R DL media)...but right now I'm reaching 100 GB

Re: [opensuse] channel trouble

2007-08-25 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Bob S wrote: On Thursday 23 August 2007 06:14:13 Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Bob S wrote: HelloSuSE people, That's Fellow Susians to you Bob, :) What is wrong with the following URL's that Smart complains they have an invalid directory. Yast doesn't like them either. http

Re: [opensuse] VMWare-users list?

2007-08-25 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Randall R Schulz wrote: On Thursday 23 August 2007 06:38, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: ... I am afraid I do not know how RSS feeds work Look into Akregator. It's a very good RSS reader. It directly integrates a Konqueror Web viewer so you need not leave that application for viewing

Re: [opensuse] VMWare-users list?

2007-08-25 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Peter Van Lone wrote: On 8/25/07, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: , so I see from the reply I rec'd from the webmaster. He did identify how I could integrate it with email, so I am going to give that a try and see if the result is something I can work with. how

Re: [opensuse] channel trouble

2007-08-23 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Bob S wrote: HelloSuSE people, That's Fellow Susians to you Bob, :) What is wrong with the following URL's that Smart complains they have an invalid directory. Yast doesn't like them either. http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/software.opensuse.org/xorg73/openSUSE_10.2/

[opensuse] VMWare-users list?

2007-08-23 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Hi, I am using VMWare Server on 10.2 and am very happy with it. To improve my knowledge and ask the od question I wanted to join an active users group ie like this one for opensuse. I checked the VMWare site and found nothing, did a Google search which gave me several hits and one list at

Re: [opensuse] VMWare-users list?

2007-08-23 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Aug 23 2007 12:51, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: I am using VMWare Server on 10.2 and am very happy with it. To improve my knowledge and ask the od question I wanted to join an active users group ie like this one for opensuse. I checked the VMWare site and found

Re: [opensuse] VMWare-users list?

2007-08-23 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Russell Jones wrote: Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Aug 23 2007 12:51, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: I am using VMWare Server on 10.2 and am very happy with it. To improve my knowledge and ask the od question I wanted to join an active users group ie like this one for opensuse. I checked

Re: [opensuse] move SuSE from one harddisk to another

2007-08-23 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Zhang Weiwu wrote: Hello. After installed additional 320GB harddisk to my desktop computer which used to have OpenSuSE 10.2 installed on single harddisk (80GB), naturally I prefer using the new and fast harddisk for '/' and use the old and slow harddisk for data only (e.g. /var) So,

Re: [opensuse] Software updates

2007-08-20 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Hi Ben, Ben Kevan wrote: Yes, you can update openoffice using a repo like you listed, however you cannot choose exactly what version you want. The current version is 2.2.1 and not 2.0.4.7, but as the repo says, it is stable. Thats good. FYI, I currently have version 2.0.4.7 installed and

[opensuse] Software updates

2007-08-19 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Hi all, I am looking to update OOo.org and perhaps Thunderbird, although I have just got the Reply-to-list working on Thunderbird 1.5. I have the version of OOo 2.0.4.7 and Thunderbird 1.5 that shipped with the 10.2 DVD. Would adding the following source to my update sources(Configured software

Re: [opensuse] HOWTO enable Thunderbird 'Reply to list' feature

2007-08-18 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
G T Smith wrote: Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: G T Smith wrote: Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Hi, After a recent thread, I decided that I really should install the ability to Reply-to-list feature in Thunderbird as I am subscribed to a number of mailing lists. snip The replyto list

Re: [opensuse] HOWTO enable Thunderbird 'Reply to list' feature

2007-08-18 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Billie Walsh wrote: On 08/16/2007 Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: snip The replyto list extension can be found at.. http://open.nit.ca/wiki/?ReplyToListThunderbirdExtension You will also need to install mnenhy from.. http://mnenhy.mozdev.org mnenhy I downloaded and installed

Re: [opensuse] Re: Is it possible to edit and save PDF forms?

2007-08-18 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Hi Carlos, Carlos E. R. wrote: The Monday 2007-08-13 at 17:55 +0200, Joachim Schrod wrote: If anybody is writing something, he or she should have a look at pdftk. This can fill in forms and can save them. I did look at it. It is a command-line tool and not a viewer, though, and

Re: [opensuse] HOWTO enable Thunderbird 'Reply to list' feature

2007-08-18 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
G T Smith wrote: Dave Barton wrote: Original Message From: Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat 18 Aug 2007 07:41:56 PM EST G T Smith wrote: 8-- snip --8 I'm still lost! Do I need to login to the page or what? where is halfway downunder cos its

Re: [opensuse] HOWTO enable Thunderbird 'Reply to list' feature

2007-08-18 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Dave Barton wrote: Original Message Subject: Re:[opensuse] HOWTO enable Thunderbird 'Reply to list' feature From: Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: OpenSUSE opensuse@opensuse.org Date: Sat 18 Aug 2007 10:18:44 PM EST G T Smith wrote: Dave Barton wrote

Re: [opensuse] HOWTO enable Thunderbird 'Reply to list' feature

2007-08-16 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
G T Smith wrote: Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Hi, After a recent thread, I decided that I really should install the ability to Reply-to-list feature in Thunderbird as I am subscribed to a number of mailing lists. snip The replyto list extension can be found at.. http

[opensuse] HOWTO enable Thunderbird 'Reply to list' feature

2007-08-15 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Hi, After a recent thread, I decided that I really should install the ability to Reply-to-list feature in Thunderbird as I am subscribed to a number of mailing lists. While all but this list support the 'incorrect' method, and I am getting tired of the delete key and Reply-to-All, I thought that

[opensuse] FYI: AMD Seems the way to go..

2007-08-12 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
AMD Backs openSUSE with Huge New Infrastructure from the money-where-mouth-is dept. posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday August 09, @23:09 (AMD) http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/10/0044231 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[opensuse] Secondary HDD as installation and update repository/source

2007-08-11 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
I have opened a bug for this. You can view at https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=293100 Vote for it and see it come alive :) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[opensuse] Services start order affecting shutdown?

2007-08-10 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Hi, I have a machine that is cycled once a day. On the shutdown of the machine I notice that amavisd-new has to be given a KILL signal by the system after it fails to end after the system has given it a TERM signal. I am wondering whether my recent foray into Yast:System:System Services has

[opensuse] FYI: Linux and laptops

2007-08-09 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Lenovo to sell laptops with Linux Laptops to be preloaded with Linux software from Novell This from a recent Computerworld article: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasicarticleId=9029178source=NLT_LINnlid=40 :) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: [opensuse] Repositories question

2007-08-07 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Hi Rajko, Rajko M. wrote: On Monday 06 August 2007 01:30:08 am Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Hi, When Linux is mentioned the word, and possibly its biggest benefit, repositories snip Beautifully explained, and thankfully how I understood it. Mirrors are usually better than original

[opensuse] Repositories question

2007-08-06 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Hi, When Linux is mentioned the word, and possibly its biggest benefit, repositories, also comes into play. I understand a repository as a software update store, where, once updates have been released and tested, are placed i.e. similar to TUCOWS for the other operating system. It is my

Re: [opensuse] Networking problems

2007-07-30 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Willem Grooters wrote: SUSE 10.1, 10.2, fresh install, on Compaq EVO 600 (laptop). In my network, I have a DHCP server that supplies all non-server systems (Windows XP, Linux) with IP information: IP address, DNS servers, default gateway, Internet domain etc). The client will supply the

Re: [opensuse] opensuse-bugs email limit?

2007-07-29 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Hi, I am subscribed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] after raising an enhancement request(293100). Tnx Anders for the prompt reply. I didn't realise I didn't need to be subscribed to get notifications about the bug I had raised. Andreas, Tnx as well. I know about

Re: [opensuse] opensuse-bugs email limit?

2007-07-29 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Rajko M. wrote: On Sunday 29 July 2007 05:24, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: I know about the email options on Bugzilla but they only seemed to marginally decrease the amount of email received. Hi Hylton, the bugzilla preferences doesn't influence what you get if you subscribe

[opensuse] opensuse-bugs email limit?

2007-07-28 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Hi, I am subscribed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] after raising an enhancement request(293100). This item is still open and whilst I am waiting for it to be worked on, I am receiving notice on all new bugs founds as well as when each bug is commented on ie close on 250- a day I have browsed the help

[opensuse] Online update error?

2007-07-23 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Hi, This message copied from a Yast2 window whilst doing updates specified by opensuseupdater: Curl error for: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.2/rpm/i586/clamav-db-0.91.1-2.1.i586.patch.rpm: Error code: Unrecognized error Error message: FTP response timeout Whats happening and why?

Re: [opensuse] Loosing KDE settings (again)

2007-07-22 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Hi Hans, Hans van der Merwe wrote: Hi, Im goint try this again, Im running KDE 3.4 on openSUSE 10.2. Couple of reboots ago I started loosing my keyboard and mouse settings. Single click, keyboard repeat, mouse acceleration is all messed-up. When I go to the Configure Panel and click on

Re: [opensuse] openSUSE 10.2 Update package store location?

2007-07-20 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Carlos E. R. wrote: The Tuesday 2007-07-17 at 16:12 +0200, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: I would like to reload the entire system from scratch but do not want to have to re-download all the patches I have already downloaded. What I would like to know, is where openSUSE stores its

Re: [opensuse] openSUSE 10.2 Update package store location? - Update

2007-07-19 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Hi, I would like to reload the entire system from scratch but do not want to have to re-download all the patches I have already downloaded. After spending about an hour or two searching opensuse.org via Google advanced search, without luck, I found and wrote

Re: [opensuse] openSUSE 10.2 Update package store location?

2007-07-18 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Hi Sunny, Sunny wrote: On 7/17/07, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would like to reload the entire system from scratch but do not want to have to re-download all the patches I have already downloaded. What I would like to know, is where openSUSE stores its updates

Re: [opensuse] openSUSE 10.2 Update package store location?

2007-07-18 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
G T Smith wrote: Sunny wrote: On 7/17/07, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would like to reload the entire system from scratch but do not want to have to re-download all the patches I have already downloaded. snip I think the OP is after something slightly different

Re: [opensuse] openSUSE 10.2 Update package store location?

2007-07-18 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Peter Van Lone wrote: On 7/17/07, G T Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sunny wrote: On 7/17/07, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would like to reload the entire system from scratch but do not want to have to re

Re: [opensuse] Cannot shut down

2007-07-18 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Hi, Just checking your shutdown syntax FYI. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, I'll try that. Well, I can't shutdown using either: 1. Shutdown using KDE's K menu 2. Ctrl-Alt-F1, root login, and call shutdown -h Do remember that the shutdown argument needs a time variable as well. I normally do

Re: [opensuse] openSUSE 10.2 Update package store location?

2007-07-18 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
S Glasoe wrote: On Wednesday July 18 2007 6:57:07 am Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: G T Smith wrote: Sunny wrote: On 7/17/07, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would like to reload the entire system from scratch but do not want to have to re-download all the patches

[opensuse] openSUSE 10.2 Update package store location?

2007-07-17 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Hi, I would like to reload the entire system from scratch but do not want to have to re-download all the patches I have already downloaded. What I would like to know, is where openSUSE stores its updates and how those same updates can be used again. What would I need to do to have them stored in

Re: [opensuse] update kernel via yast

2007-07-16 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Hi Hans, Dave Barton wrote: Original Message From: James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon 16 Jul 2007 21:12:22 EST Hans Linux wrote: how do i update opensuse10.2 kernel via Yast? is it risky to update kernel since i dont know much about linux? It's very easy. Just

Re: [opensuse] HOWTO Documents for openSUSE aka HOWTOFORGE

2007-07-15 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Hi Ciro, Ciro Iriarte wrote: 2007/7/13, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I am a subscriber of http://www.howtoforge.com/ and receive a regular newsletter with articles on how to accomplish certain tasks on a Linux system ie 'Installing Zabbix (Server And Agent) On Debian Etch

[opensuse] HOWTO Documents for openSUSE aka HOWTOFORGE

2007-07-13 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Hi, I am a subscriber of http://www.howtoforge.com/ and receive a regular newsletter with articles on how to accomplish certain tasks on a Linux system ie 'Installing Zabbix (Server And Agent) On Debian Etch'. What I have not seen is any articles on doing things on a SUSE/openSUSE system and I

Re: [opensuse] Ideas on disk cloning?

2007-07-04 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Anders Norrbring wrote: Christopher Stender skrev: On Tuesday 03 July 2007 13:33, James Knott wrote: Christopher Stender wrote: On Tuesday 03 July 2007 12:06, Anders Norrbring wrote: I usually use dd and ssh to clone disks from one machine to another, but that only works when the target is

[opensuse-doc] Lfl Query

2007-07-04 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Hi, I have decided to learn more about openSUSE including compiling from source, which files to edit to change certain settings and configurations etc. Would the Lfl be the right place to start? I have downloaded the lessons4lizards-fop.pdf file and wonder if this is the right file and if there

Re: [opensuse-doc] Online Manual input source

2007-05-15 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Thomas Schraitle wrote: Hi Hylton, welcome to opensuse-doc! :-) Tnx Thomas, Sorry for the delay in replying. On Dienstag, 8. Mai 2007, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Have you looked into the Lessons for Lizards project? It might be an excellent way to get the information you consider

Re: [opensuse-doc] Online Manual input source

2007-05-08 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Rebecca Walter wrote: On Sunday 06 May 2007 20:58, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: As a subscriber to the opensuse-users list for a few years and seeing the queries that are answeered there, may I suggest that the mailing list posts become a part of the online manual as it is here

Re: [opensuse] Dropping network cnx to to do backup

2007-04-25 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
James Knott wrote: Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: I have a 32-bit 10.2 install running as a caching mailserver/workstation. From time to time I would like to take backups of the mail in the mailserver and therefore need to stop the mailserver from fetching any email from my ISP. I thought

[opensuse] Dropping network cnx to to do backup

2007-04-24 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
I have a 32-bit 10.2 install running as a caching mailserver/workstation. From time to time I would like to take backups of the mail in the mailserver and therefore need to stop the mailserver from fetching any email from my ISP. I thought that the easiest would be to stop/temporarily disable

Re: [opensuse] Updating software via update sources?

2007-04-19 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Billie Erin Walsh wrote: Patrick Shanahan wrote: * jdd [EMAIL PROTECTED] [04-18-07 13:01]: Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Software I would like to update is Thunderbird, Firefox, and OOo. these applications have very convenient native installers (from the own site), so

[opensuse] Updating software via update sources?

2007-04-18 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
I am interested in updating at least 2 items of software that have not been updated significantly by the ftp.skynet.be update source since I installed. Software I would like to update is Thunderbird, Firefox, and OOo. I currently have version 2.0.4 of OOo and version 1.5.0.10 of Thunderbird. My

Re: [opensuse] openoffice index/table problem

2007-04-15 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Istvan Gabor wrote: Hello all: When I edit index/table in openoffice writer the window's content does not fit the window and because of this some options can't be set. I have the suse version of openoffice OpenOffice_org-2.0.4-38.3 OpenOffice_org-kde-2.0.4-38.3

Re: [opensuse] Setting up the scanner on a Lexmark ALL-IN-ONE X1240

2007-04-14 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Adam Jimerson wrote: Lexmark refuses to make a Linux driver for their all-in-one X1240, so I had to use the Linux driver for the Z600 to get my printer to work. Now I am trying to get the scanner to work on it and things are not looking good, none of the drivers listed in Sane will work on it.

[opensuse] Updating antivir?

2007-04-10 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Hi, I have a 10.2 caching mailserver and workstation and only use Yast for software management when notifoed of updates by the opensuseupdater on the taskbar. Recently I ran the # 'less /var/log/messages' and noticed that I was getting multiple messages warning me: antivir[7810]: Warning: The

[opensuse] opensuse update sources?

2007-04-10 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
I have the following entries configured as software catalogue and would assume that these sources are used when searching for updates for an installed system: ftp.skynet.be/pub/ftp.opensuse.org/opensuse/distribution/10.2/repo/oss ftp.skynet.be/pub/ftp.suse.com/suse/update/10.2/

Re: [opensuse] Help Killling Process

2007-03-24 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Donald D Henson wrote: Hi Donald, I seem to have gotten myself into a situation where a Firefox process will not die nor will it display anything. (The problem seems to have something to do with You Tube.) When I try to start up another instance of Firefox, I get an error message that tells

Re: [opensuse] Server for online-updates

2007-03-14 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Josef Wolf wrote: On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 06:49:28PM -0600, Rajko M. wrote: On Friday 09 March 2007 16:43, Josef Wolf wrote: In 10.2, the mirror for online-updates is randomly choosen. There's no chance anymore to choose a specific mirror. I'd rather choose the same mirror for all of my

Re: [opensuse] Dual boot vista/opensuse 10.2

2007-02-01 Thread Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)
Dirk Gorissen wrote: Hello, I have just purchased a brand new HP laptop which comes with vista preinstalled. Of course the first thing Id like to do is install 10.2. Some googling, however taught me that there have been some problems with getting a dual boot setup to work without nuking

Re: [opensuse] Virtualization and printing

2007-01-29 Thread Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)
M Harris wrote: On Friday 26 January 2007 04:30, Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC) wrote: So the questions asked are: 1. Can the base OS(OpenSUSE) use the VM OS printer? 2. Can CUPS be configured to print to/forward print requests to a VM OS printer? Now, what say ye? I see

Re: [opensuse] Mac OS X and Linux Product inter-compatibility?

2007-01-29 Thread Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)
Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC) wrote: The IT world is faced with 3/4 main desktop operating systems, each with its own quirks and therefore each has hardware which will or wont work on it. I would specifically like to find out, as a non user of two of the OS's, if any of the OS's can be likened

[opensuse] Mac OS X and Linux Product inter-compatibility?

2007-01-27 Thread Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)
The IT world is faced with 3/4 main desktop operating systems, each with its own quirks and therefore each has hardware which will or wont work on it. I would specifically like to find out, as a non user of two of the OS's, if any of the OS's can be likened to another in terms of

Re: [opensuse] Virtualization and printing

2007-01-26 Thread Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)
for their ealier replies M Harris wrote: On Thursday 25 January 2007 09:36, Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC) wrote: I am almost in the process of setting up OpenSUSE 10.2 with a VM of Windows XP. Attached to the PC is a printer. Which printer? Epson stylus 800+ Please see above for a better

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