March 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

SUSE Firewall not like ZoneAlarm...
by Shriramana Sharma 05 Apr '06

05 Apr '06

I wonder how SUSE Firewall works. Back in Windows, with ZoneAlarm, when I first install it, it asks me for permission and preconfigures my default browser and mail client to access the net. After that, every new application that tries to access the net or every incoming connection from the net, it asks me for permission. But SUSE Firewall never asks me anything. How do I know which applications it forbids and which it allows? How does it know which applications to forbid and which to allow? I would much prefer a ZoneAlarm-like firewall that tells me what it is doing. Please share your knowledge with me. Thank you. -- Tux #395953 resides at http://samvit.org playing with KDE 3.51 on SUSE Linux 10.0 $ date [] CCE +2006-03-10 W10-5 UTC+0530

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suse 10.0 ftp installation
by Kai Zhang 05 Apr '06

05 Apr '06

Hi, i am downloaded and burned the first CD OSS installation CD. Due to limited number of CD and fast internet connection, i wish to install via ftp. After mounting the NIC, I can't find installation file on ftp server. I am using ftp://mirror.ac.uk/edunfs/mirrors/sites/ftp.suse.com/i386/10.0/iso/ Is this the right place to install via ftp? If not, can you point me to a right directory. I am fast access to mirror.ac.uk and wondering if there is direct installation files available on the ftp server. Thanks for your help! Regards, Kai

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YAST2/YOU Control
by Chiu, PCM (Peter) 05 Apr '06

05 Apr '06

Two questions really: a. where can I get more details in the setting up the control on YAST2 - YOU in particular? Both the man page on yast2 and the document refered in /usr/share/doc/packages/yast2 do not give more details in controller how the online update is handled. b. On a system that I have previously configured to have automated updates from yast2, I would like to disable one product from being updated. I am not convinced the way I did it have actually taken into effect. Basically from Yast2, on-line update, manually selected patches, next, searrch (as the one in question does not show up in the YOU Patches), found a grey-out product, select it, then from You Patch tab- All in this list - Protected - Do not modify. (Here I noticed the icon has not been changed.) Thanks. Peter

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Gnome 2.14??
by Dennis J. Tuchler 04 Apr '06

04 Apr '06

How can I find out whether SuSE intends to distribute the upgrade to Gnome shipped with SuSE 10.0? -- Best regards, Dennis J. Tuchler University City, Missouri 63130 USA Whatever is not forbidden is permitted -- Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller -- Wallensteins Lager

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security announces
by nicola -kOoLiNuS- losito 04 Apr '06

04 Apr '06

Is there a way to receive via RSS feed the security announcemens of SUSE products ? i mean something like this: http://fedoranews.org/cms/taxonomy/term/5/0 {which, btw, is maintained externally to fedora core team} -- nicola .:kOoLiNuS:. losito http://koolinus.wordpress.com http://www.koolinus.net [ITA] powered by SUSE Linux 10.0

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Re: [SLE] Questions about parport0 (parly solved)
by Koenraad Lelong 04 Apr '06

04 Apr '06

Joachim Schrod schreef: >>>>>>"KL" == suse-linux-e <suse-linux-e(a)suse.com> writes: > > > KL> Remains the fact that I have to 'chmod root:lp /dev/parport0' after > KL> every reboot to be able to use the port (I'm member op group lp). Any > KL> suggestions for that ? > > Edit /etc/udev/static_devices.txt and change the permissions of that > device to 666. Sadly, I don't know where ownership of these static > devices are specified. > > Joachim > Thanks, but this does not work. I think it has to do with ppdev. When I rmmod ppdev, parport0 does not exist any more. Then modprobing ppdev again creates it, but with 660 permissions. I'm going to file a support request with VMware. -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Koenraad Lelong R&D Manager ACE electronics n.v. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is it such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?

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Hotplugging for USB hard drive stopped working
by Mike Coan 04 Apr '06

04 Apr '06

I have a Maxtor USB hard drive that I use for backup purposes. Previously when I plugged the drive into a USB port, the drive was recognized automatically and mounted to /media/USBDISK I am using SUSE 10.0 (x86_64) version. I have googled on udev, hal, and hotplug. I have looked at /etc/sysconfig and /etc/hotplug, but haven't been able to figure anything out. If I plug the drive into another SuSE 10.0 system it is recognized and all the data is there. I know the event that triggerd the failure, and it is related to Windows :). My machine also runs vmware since the business has some apps that run only on Windows. vmware has a feature that if the guest operating system has the focus, then that operating system will recognize the usb device. Unfortunately Windows had the focus when I plugged in the usb drive. A number of dialogue boxes in both Windows and linxu opened. I was in a hurry and clicked no on all of them. Anyway, after giving the focus back to SuSE and replugging the usb drive, it doesn't recognize it. I have found articles that talk about the entries to put in fstab if you don't want hotplugging and automount, but it was convenient to have hotplugging work. Any ideas on fixing this would be appreciated. Mike -- Michael A. Coan Woodlawn Foundation 524 North Avenue, Suite 203 New Rochelle, NY 10801-3410 Tel 914-632-3778 Fax 914-632-5502

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Fwd: Re: [SLE] php4_unixODBC
by Sven Haberer 04 Apr '06

04 Apr '06

good idea - please see here: http://www.susewiki.org/index.php?title=HowTo:_PHP4_ODBC Hope this is detailed enough... BTW, thats my first wiki entry ever... Am Sonntag, 24. April 2005 22:36 schrieb Richard Bos: > Op zondag 24 april 2005 23:36, schreef Sven Haberer: > > If desired, I could post a short description how I did this... > > If you can put it own the wiki (http://www.susewiki.org): than we can all > maintain it. > > -- > Richard Bos > Without a home the journey is endless

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Repository metadata for projects/*
by Pascal Bleser 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Would it be possible to create yast2 or rpm-md metadata in the projects subdirectories (e.g. for projects/OpenOffice) ? At least running a createrepo for 10.0 ? Please ? ;) (@emoenke: I know there is apt-rpm metadata for it on gwdg.de ;)) BTW, current alternative is to use apt or smart: yast2 --install smart smart channel --add openoffice type=apt-rpm \ baseurl=ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/10.0-i386 \ components=openoffice smart update openoffice && smart upgrade OpenOffice_org thanks - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <pascal.bleser(a)skynet.be> <guru(a)unixtech.be> _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEKyApr3NMWliFcXcRAhN5AJ9S+JOU9rQeaEkGjg4s4cSQoqg3awCfZpoy /r1ePsck4LhRtuZtmgKhBNc= =SFxu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [opensuse] Where is the Source Code?
by Mark Gray 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

Peter Czanik writes: > Hello, > > Mark Gray wrote: >> This is probably a FAQ, but I just did a search for the source code >> for opensuse 10.1 Beta 8. The link on the opensuse website led me to >> ftp.ale.org which had only about a dozen src rpms on it. Similar >> searches of higher quality mirrors led to no source directory at all. > I can speak only about my situation: lack of space and bandwidth. And > forgot to mention, that /src/ generated less than 1/10000th of the > download traffic, while it takes a lot of resources to keep in sync. Bye, Understandable -- but it would be nice if download.opensuse.org's mirrored link to the source code only pointed to mirrors which actually had the source. (Just a minor irritation on such a beautiful spring day.)

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