December 1999 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[SLE] ssh programs
by tomas＠primenet.com 04 Jan '00

04 Jan '00

What kind of experience have users had with ssh, openssh and lsh (gnussh). I know ssh is the original, but I'm curious if any one has implemented the other two versions that arn't commercial and what their experiences have been. -- S.Toms - tomas(a)primenet.com - homepage is in the works SuSE Linux v6.2+ - Kernel 2.2.13 Even though they raised the rate for first class mail in the United States we really shouldn't complain -- it's still only two cents a day. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] What is Xwrapper?
by jmgrant＠primenet.com 04 Jan '00

04 Jan '00

Other than a wrapper for X I mean. :) What does it do? -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] "Please imagine to load the agpgart kernel module first"
by billmadsen＠aya.yale.edu 04 Jan '00

04 Jan '00

This is the instruction that appears on the screen when you download the xi810 package using yast: "Please imagine to load the agpgart kernel module first. This module is needed to cause the X_server working." I guess it's clear enough what one is supposed to do, but this is _not_ English. My son-in-law, who is a professional translator from the Russian, tells me that the cardinal rule of translation is this: professional translation should be done by native speakers of the language being translated into. It is only too obvious that the English versions of SuSE documentation (the manual, etc.) are being prepared by native speakers of German who are less than thoroughly conversant with English idioms. I complained about this over a year ago and was assured that the problem was being taken care of. Apparently not, since German locutions and word orders and even literal German words are liberally sprinkled throughout the manual. Bill Madsen in St. Louis -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] Volunteer?
by rear＠sirius.com 04 Jan '00

04 Jan '00

I love the Open Source movement and would like to be a contributor. I don't program, but I can write clear prose. Is there a way of contributing to documentation? I could improve the English of something? How could I do this? -- Bob Rea Freedom is only privilege extended unless enjoyed by one and all --Billy Bragg rear(a)sirius.com rrea(a)askjeeves.com www.sirius.com/~rear -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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Re: [SLE] vmware again
by matt.wong＠intelligroup.co.nz 03 Jan '00

03 Jan '00

On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Kenneth Kellum wrote: Hi Kenneth > Thanks very much, but I've tried what you suggest and it simply didn't work > for > me. I may well be that vmware won't work with my video card. To make it > worst, vmware doesn't support my Logitech mouse and says that because of > that > it won't run in full screen mode! My wife and kids use 98. When I ran > vmware > it screwed up my 98 display settings which I had to repair when they booted > 98. That's strange, because I haven't set any hardware configurations for Windows. If I boot into 98 using VMware it picks up the VMware VGA driver and if I boot normally into 98 (which hasn't occured in a long time) then it picks up the correct display driver. In Settings > Configuration Editor there is an option under "Mouse" to either autodetect or specify; mine is on autodetect, but I'm using a MS PS/2 mouse and it works fine.....which doesn't really help you a lot. > I looked at the vmware web site and their suggestion for working with > vmware > on a physical disk involves setting up two windows configuration files, one > for > booting 98 for real and the other with vmware. As best I can tell this > requires having to choose the configuration each time I boot 98. That's > why I > gave up and tried installing on a virtual disk See above comment about hardware configuration and Win 98. Which version of VMware are you running? We'll sort this one out yet =) Cheers Matt -- Matt Wong matt.wong(a)intelligroup.co.nz Senior Basis Consultant Intelligroup New Zealand Mobile: +64 25 710 233 http://www.intelligroup.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] Re: All lines end with ^M under 21.1.8 and RH 6.1
by activex1＠one.net 03 Jan '00

03 Jan '00

Enlightenment about text files... DOS (Win xx, OS/2, and compatable OS's) all have both the line feed (LF, ANSI character 10, 0Ah) and the cartrage return (CR, ANSI character 13, 0Dh) to denote the end of a line in a text file. Macs only have the CR, and Unix only has the LF. Why? Same reason does uses the back slash and Unix the forward.slash. What to do about it? One way of dealing with it to FTP the files correctly. There is both a binary mode and an ASCII mode to trasfer files. What is the difference, you might ask... The binary mode trasfers the file EXACTLY as it is from one box to another, which is what you normally want, but... The ASCII mode will do things like convert the CRLF to simply LF if the file is going from a DOS system to a Unix system, and from simply LF to CRLF if going from Unix to DOS. The program that does the such a conversion is very simple to write, I am sure there is a utility in Linux to do that for you. One a Sun Sparc station it is dos2unix, and I would guess unix2dos. There are some "smart" editors, one of them that I like very much in the DOS world is Boxer (http://www.boxersoftware.com/), that will read in a text file from DOS, Mac, or Unix and allow you to save in any of the three formats. I would not be surprized if there are also some Linux editors that can do the same, again it is a very simply process. Sam P.S. I will post this message and then take five minutes to write a quick dos2unix and unix2dos program in C, for those of you that care. Gary Bankston wrote: > Matt Braun wrote: > > > I just reinstalled RedHat and xemacs (it was easier than tracking down a > > weird error) but I'm getting this error with xemacs: all files I read in any > > mode end with ^M. These are files that I've created in Linux, not just DOS > > files (even source I got from a friend shows up with ^M). I've looked around > > and while I've found a similar problem has manifested in shell mode under > > TCSH (which is my shell), the fix to that problem has no effect on my > > problem. > > Strangely, if I create the file from scratch in xemacs, I don't see ^M at > > the end of the line, so if it's a problem with the files only (for whatever > > reason), how can I guarantee that xemacs views them properly? > > Thanks for any help you can offer! > > humm thats interesting as I have the reverse problem under NT. If I open an > existing text thile and edit it, everything is fine. But if I create a new file > with xemacs the file ends up with unix style line ends (i.e. just a carriage > return instead of a carriage return/line feed). > > Unfortunately, I don't know what the solution here, but its driving me nuts. I > have tried reading through all the documentation, but thats getting me nowhere > fast as well. I did think it strange that we are both having the opposite > problem on opposite platforms though. > > -- > __^__ > /_______\ glary > \_______/ sandstorm > /|\ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] Crashes
by rear＠sirius.com 02 Jan '00

02 Jan '00

I have ahd two crashes lately in KDE. The display locks up and i can't do anything. Nor ctrl-alt-bksp nor ctrl-alt-del do anything, not does trying another console. Any idea what's up with this? Any suggestions for ways to break out of it. -- Bob Rea Freedom is only privilege extended unless enjoyed by one and all --Billy Bragg rear(a)sirius.com rrea(a)askjeeves.com http://www.sirius.com/~rea -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] What's happening?
by keithp＠psilink.co.uk 02 Jan '00

02 Jan '00

Hello all. I've had an automatic message from the ezmlm program which manages the list, saying that messages to me are bouncing and if the probe to me bounces, I'll be removed from the mailing list. As I get over 100 messages a day from the list, I cannot see how they can be bouncing. There's no query address to write to, in order to find out what this is all about. Any ideas, please, what to do, before I'm removed from the list? I'd much rather stay on it! Cheers and a Very Happy Christmas Keith keithp(a)psilink.co.uk -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] Happy millennium & NZ
by bobbyg＠ihug.co.nz 02 Jan '00

02 Jan '00

Hi All, SuSE worked just fine, as the clock ticked over here down in New Zealand & I am getting wonderfully drunk with some friends now... ;-) Oh, the power goes too, as do the phones.... Greek Geek :-) -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] cd #4
by cliff＠delaware.net 02 Jan '00

02 Jan '00

Hello, all; Last week I finally received SuSE 6.3 from CheapBytes, when I try to install it hangs on cd #4, using either yast1 or 2. Has anyone else experienced this? (6.2 installs fine...) Thanks, Cliff Pankonien System Administrator Delaware.Net, Inc. cliff(a)delaware.net icq#5486073 -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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