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[opensuse] I can not filter out some systemd messages in syslog
by Carlos E. R. 17 May '16

17 May '16

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have this in "/etc/rsyslog.conf": if ($programname == 'named' or $syslogtag == '[named]:') \ then -/var/log/named & stop ... if ($msg contains 'Started Session' and $msg contains 'of user') \ then -/var/log/systemdpurged & stop # # the rest in one file # *.*;mail.none;news.none -/var/log/messages I get the expected entries in "/var/log/systemdpurged": <3.6> 2014-03-01 16:30:01 Telcontar systemd 1 - - Started Session 93 of user cer. <3.6> 2014-03-01 16:33:01 Telcontar systemd 1 - - Started Session 94 of user news. But I'm also getting them in "/var/log/messages": <3.6> 2014-03-01 16:30:01 Telcontar systemd 1 - - Starting Session 93 of user cer. <3.6> 2014-03-01 16:33:01 Telcontar systemd 1 - - Starting Session 94 of user news. And they should not be there. So the "stop" line for those systemd entries is not acting. However, it works for other sections, like the "named" section shown above, and others I do not show for clarity. Are systemd entries special? - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlMSADcACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WCgwCdEgnb+Apy47tcjI31Dv5brA9X +TMAoIt87JaGgMoP5Zf11OZM0XevIjif =uI81 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Leap - default install - out of space?
by Greg Freemyer 27 Jan '16

27 Jan '16

All, I setup a test install of Leap in a VM. Using BTRFS as per default. My first experience with BTRFS. This is purely for Leap experimentation so I hope 32GB is plenty. I accepted the default partition setup with a 32 GB drive. I have 100GB free on the underlying hypervisor filesystem, so that should not be an issue and I can easily re-install if the partition setup is just wrong. Per "df -h" I have a couple GB of freespace in / (root) and 16GB free in /home. But when I try to do anything I'm told I'm out of diskspace. Is this really how Leap is supposed to work? Not exactly user friendly. What is the immediate fix? Is there a long term fix? Greg -- Greg Freemyer www.IntelligentAvatar.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] memtest only seeing 48GB out of 64GB?
by Greg Freemyer 18 Jan '16

18 Jan '16

All, I have a new machine with 64GB per the bios (and the receipt). Windows 8.1 and Memtest are only reporting 48GB. Do I need to do anything, or do I have a defective RAM chip? Is there a Live Leap DVD I can try? == details I have a new custom-built desktop machine with 64GB or ram (in theory). Its a ASUS X99 mother board. It came with Windows 8.1 pre-loaded, but Windows is only reporting 48GB. As a first troubleshooting test I have a openSUSE 13.1 live DVD that I'm using to boot. The normal boot/kernel is halting, apparently due to a graphics issue. (I will try Leap if there's a live dvd?) The 13.1 failsafe boot works, but top is only showing 4GB. I assume that is a feature of failsafe. Memtest starts fine, but it is only reporting 48GB. Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer www.IntelligentAvatar.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] making iso from distribution bootable usb stick
by jdd 13 Jan '16

13 Jan '16

Hello, We all probably know several ways to create a bootable usb stick from an iso image. I have lot of them in my openSUSE booth kit. But from time to time, pretty rarely, I get a computer that do not want to boot my usb pen. I had that yesterday, a 32 bits computer that booted leap 64 usb (onbly to say it can't install it, of course), but refused to boot 13.2 32 bits (that booted perfectly on the next computer). So, as I don't want to keep several dvd with me, I would like to know how to extract the iso from the usb device to copy it to a blank dvd (I can have spare ones). optionally, I was said it's possible with debian usb pen to boot any (probably debian) media, plug the usb and continue install from there. Is it possible to do the same with openSUSE? If so, I could use a single boot dvd and run after this any usb pen in other words, is it possible to launch yast-install from the command line? thanks jss -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] KDE Connect
by John Andersen 12 Jan '16

12 Jan '16

If you run KDE and have an Android phone, and you haven't heard about this little gem you might want to look into it. Free app for the phone, and a plugin to the KDE system settings panel. I run it on KDE 4.xx on OS 13.2 as well as on KDE5/Plasma 5 on Manjaro Linux. Very slick for sending files, and not having to reach for your phone just see who is sending you messages, clipboard integration, and it even mutes your music on the computer when your phone rings. -- After all is said and done, more is said than done. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] New to desktop usage of Linux, is OpenSuSE the right distro for this use-case?
by cagsm 01 Jan '16

01 Jan '16

I recently tried Leap for a desktop machine, but e.g. Firefox would not play most web video sites, e.g. youtube or similar, sites telling me my setup was not supported, lacked codecs and stuff. I wonder if OpenSuSE has some copyright or licensing problems of to offer the codecs? Or is there a simple way to add all the missing stuff that maybe OpenSuSE cannot provide due ot legal reasons via other means? Packman? What other stuff am I missing with OpenSuSE as to-be desktop user? Maybe I should stick with Windows or Mac? Thank you in advance for giving a basic run-down for a Linux desktop noob. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] HDMI Display to Screen?
by Lew Wolfgang 31 Dec '15

31 Dec '15

Hi Folks, I'm not sure this can be done, but I'd like to be able to watch my Fox News channel :-) distributed by my cable TV provider, in a resizeable window on my KDE desktop. I'm currently doing this with a WinTV adapter based on the Bt878 chipset. It's been working fine for many years, but my cable provider is dropping all analog channels next month. So it would be nice to be able to install a board that would have HDMI input that would display on KDE the way tvtime currently does. I'd be able to use a TiVo Mini if this were possible. There seems to be some options, but they're all targeted for Windows systems. Does anyone have any experience displaying HDMI content on a KDE Linux desktop? (audio too!) Regards, Lew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Wiki as foundation of a community
by Xen 31 Dec '15

31 Dec '15

Back in the day, when I was still someone not entirely lost in the world, I remember having had a personal wiki page on the OpenSUSE wiki. I had collected some information that was relevant to me and created a personal page, then linked to it from a community page on the same subject, more or less. Today, really, when I go to the wiki it doesn't seem inviting to me. It seems badly organized or in any case doesn't invite reading. I'm sure a lot of work has gone into it and there is probably a wealth of information contained in these pages. But it seems too BIG to find your way there. I do not know why. Not straight away. In this mailing list, the wiki is also never mentioned or linked to, as far as I can tell. A wiki usually is a place where there's room for individuality. A good wiki invites users to make their own custom personal pages. If a wiki is just used as "official documentation" then its maintainers are also people in "official positions". But that doesn't create community. Back in the day, the first internet community in the Netherlands was the /Digital City of Amsterdam/. Under the dds.nl domain, which still operates, but no longer as the same thing, people created houses as part of squares, streets, etc. I never much participated but they also had the first chat rooms in the new internet era that they called "metros" which were refreshing HTML pages. It was a pretty vibrant community back then. But such a thing functions because people /can do their own thing/. It doesn't seem the same is true of OpenSUSE today. [( Back then I posted some inflammatory opinions on the topic of mp3/dvd codecs being supplied, and the lack of it making life really hard. But it was on my personal page. I am still of the same opinion. People came in though and tried to "make me see the light". I budged, and removed some of the language. Still, I had a place, and there was a way for me to "contribute". )]. Today there seems to be very little room for personal contribution. Usually people want you to do some kind of work in some kind of official capacity. When back in the day I was a frequent visitor of that wiki, today I don't care for it at all. And it is not because I have changed. I am still the same person. We seem to be living in a different world. So a wiki needs to be a bit messy. The way a real neighbourhood is messy. It can't be perfectly aligned and organized because that means the barrier to entry becomes really high. The pages can't reside /too deep/ and I think this is the case today a bit, I believe. The wiki is also just a tiny link at the bottom of a very commercial front page. A front page the likes of many front pages these days that seem only to be intended for tablet viewing. They are horrible to use on a real computer. These modern day webpages, and their layout, with the BIG IMAGES and the BIG TEXT and you have to SCROLL THE ENTIRE PAGE just to see the NEXT LINE OF TEXt and it is just a flawed concept. It is a broken concept. It doesn't work. It is pretty but it doesn't work. It is not a website for people to feel at home in. It is really a front page that scares you away: YOU DO NOT WANT TO REVISIT THAT PAGE if you don't have to. There is probably a lot of blabla going on in the design community as to how wonderful they are, but yeah. I am saying we have seen a deteroriation compared to what we had in the past. It is 80% regression and 20% progress. The front page scares you away, and the wiki is not inviting. That is two main elements of an internet community. The forums do not really foster community, they are also tightly controlled with a certain marketing goal in mind. I was more content with OpenSUSE in the past. Maybe 5x more. Ubuntu.com also has a front page like that, better or more usable than OpenSUSE's, but it still communicates right away: this is NOT a community site where you have your own account. "Community" is a TINY link and when you click on it you see a big crowd but it definitely doesn't feel as a place to feel at home in. It scares people off and doesn't invite them in. And I am wondering here how many of you have the same feeling? *I* for the life of me cannot change a thing like that. I had no part in its construction, and I could never improve any of it; it is way beyond my control. 'Reading someone else's code is a horror anyway, and improving someone else's product is not a lot of fun'. But certainly what I say today must not come as a suprise, or come across as something alien to more people here? Does this resonate with anyone? Regards, Xen. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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RE: Re: [opensuse] Re: Moderation on mailing list
by stakanov＠freenet.de 31 Dec '15

31 Dec '15

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: ianseeks > Gesendet: Do. 24.12.2015 20:43 > An: opensuse(a)opensuse.org > Betreff: Re: [opensuse] Re: Moderation on mailing list > > On Thursday 24 Dec 2015 18:52:01 buhorojo wrote: >> On 23/12/15 09:35, Richard Brown wrote: hopeful that when he returns in February we can >> > all experience his positive involvement in the Project witho >> >> Please reinstate him now. His off list help in both Spanish and English >> has been invaluable to us. >> Thanks. > > i second that > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org > To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org > > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht Ende----- As Carlos never caused me any harm and helped me on several occasions I would also second his reinstatement at the first possible occasion. This would allow him to continue his useful contribution. And if such a measure (ban) wants to be useful, it can only be it through its very time limitless. Isn't it? Otherwise we would send all people sooner or later for "renewal" as in 1976's "Logan's run". So +1 from me. --- Alle Postfächer an einem Ort. Jetzt wechseln und E-Mail-Adresse mitnehmen! http://email.freenet.de/basic/Informationen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse] KDE Connect
by John M Andersen 31 Dec '15

31 Dec '15

On 12/31/2015 12:44 AM, Josep Solé wrote: > By the way, do you know if it is possible to copy sms messages from > your phone to pc? Google will help: http://www.mobikin.com/android-backup/transfer-text-messages-from-android-t… http://www.recovery-android.com/transfer-sms-from-android-to-computer.html http://www.howtogeek.com/112852/how-to-backup-your-text-messages-to-your-gm… -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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