January 2018 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] newbie to xen virtualization / pciback or possible to pass device node (character special?)
by Paul Neuwirth 12 Jan '18

12 Jan '18

Hello, I am new to virtualization at all, and just created first vm using xen. Someone have good tips/guides for administration (creation was not an issue using yast..)? and I did not find out by searching the web, if it is possible to pass a character-special device (in my case /dev/capi20) to a client machine (like using chroot and bind...), or is pciback the only possibility? thank you and sorry for disturbance :) Paul -- 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] A couple questions about systemd
by Marc Chamberlin 11 Jan '18

11 Jan '18

Hi - I am working on some service software for some ham radio services that I am porting from SysV to systemd management and I have a couple questions that I could use a bit of guidance on. (and yes I tried to Google for the answers, but no joy groking things in any deep fashion.) My first question concerns forking and the PID file that systemd wants me to define. My main systemd exec script reads in a configuration file that a user defines which describes the types of hardware devices and services that need to be started. Basically this script will start up multiple daemons to handle the configuration the user wants to support, such as multiple hardware devices, multiple types of services to monitor traffic, log data, run beacons etc. I have the main systemd process fork itself, and from the child process it starts up a bunch of other processes, then the main process terminates itself and leaves all these child processes running indefinitely. So what should the PID files be set up for? The man pages state that for a forked process I should also have the child process define a PID file, but it is unclear what to do when there are multiple child processes started. A related question is how exactly does systemd use the PID file that is defined in a .service file? My second question concerns the status reporting from a systemd daemon. I don't see a way this can be customized and configured to display special status info that should be displayed for all my child forked daemons. The old SysV scripts typically handled this via a case statement that handled Start, Stop, Restart, Status etc., but with the systemd configureation I only see hooks for Start and Stop, but not for Status. How do I get systemd to display and present a customized status report? A related question is that the systemd status info that is shown, by default, shows the last few lines from the system log files. In my case that is kinda useless since I am starting up multiple child processes which are all contributing stuff, (in no particular order) to the system logs. Can this be turned off, or customized? My apologies if this is not the right forum to ask these questions, but I am working on OpenSuSE systems so thought this might be a good place to start and ask. Feel free to shoo me to some other group is this in not the appropriate place to ask such questions... Thanks in advance... Marc... -- 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] Suse prime for 42.2/42.3 repository?
by Daniel Bauer 11 Jan '18

11 Jan '18

Hello, I finally want to update my laptop from 42.1 to 42.3. I want to do it with zypper dup in two steps, just changing all repositories from 42.1 to 42.2, upgrade, then change from 42.2 to 42.3 and upgrade again. I just can't find the repositories for Suse prime. (In only see 42.1 and tumblweed). Where do I find the correct repo so that suse prime (hopefully....) will work after the upgrades, too? Thanks for hints, Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Barcelona https://www.patreon.com/danielbauer http://www.daniel-bauer.com -- 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] IPv6 dead on Tumbleweed?
by Lew Wolfgang 11 Jan '18

11 Jan '18

Hi Folks, This this the correct venue for Tumbleweed? I've got a desktop with Tumbleweed that I've been using for testing. But I noticed that it's not able to obtain a global v6 address. This is on a dual-stacked network with many other boxes, including Leap, that work fine with v6. It seems that I can kickstart it by first: systemctl disable wicked.service Then: dhclient -6 -v eno1 This gives me a nice global address and all is well until the next reboot. Does anyone have a clue? is there a problem with wickedd-dhcp6? Is this the right place to ask? 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] Meltdown & Spectre list of cpus affected?
by Larry Stotler 11 Jan '18

11 Jan '18

I can't seem to pin down whether the Core 2 or Pentium 4/Ms are affected by either of these issues. Most reports say since 1995 or Pentium Pro & Newer. Intel's list starts with the Core ix series and doesn't go back further. Of course I can't find the list on their site, but I found this one: https://www.tweaktown.com/news/60411/heres-list-intel-cpus-affected-spectre… Also what about AMD? Their arch has differences. Is there a list for them? Athlon, AthlonXP, Athlon64? I've read that even the POWER chips have a spectre vuln(which seems to be more mitigatable).. While there seems to be a great deal of hype about all this, I have to wonder how easy it is to compromise a system. Most reports save having to already have access to the machine. If that's the case, then I think you are already in trouble. It's also hard to tell how long the spy agencies have known about this and been (ab)using it. I dunno. I just can't see that much interest in mitigating this on older chips/systems(even though a lot of us find them perfectly usable). Looks like a forced upgrade is going to be contemplated for many even though it's really hard to tell how many other issues are going to be found all things considering. We could all rush out and get the "fixed" hardware when it's released only to end up in the same boat sooner or later. -- 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] Upgrading 42.2 to 42.3
by Dave Howorth 10 Jan '18

10 Jan '18

I'm upgrading 42.2 to 42.3 and following instructions at https://doc.opensuse.org/release-notes/x86_64/openSUSE/Leap/42.3/ Specifically I'm looking at section 2.2.2 and going through the steps there. I do have an '@' subvolume. There is no /var/cache.old at step 6. When I try to perform step 7 I see: # rm -rf /mnt/var/cache.old/ rm: cannot remove '/mnt/var/cache.old/': Operation not permitted Does anybody know what the problem is? Cheers, Dave -- 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] qgis 2.18.15 on openSUSE Leap 42.3
by Roger Oberholtzer 10 Jan '18

10 Jan '18

I just installed qgis 2.18.15-3.2 from Application:Geo, and I get this when trying to start it. qgis: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/libqgis_core.so.2.18.15: undefined symbol: OGR_F_SetFieldNull Anyone else running this qgis version? -- Roger Oberholtzer -- 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] How to figure how my server is able to be used to send malicious emails?
by Greg Freemyer 10 Jan '18

10 Jan '18

All, I have VM on the internet that for the last day or so is sending out 10's of thousands of malicious emails. openSUSE 42.2 Fully updated with security patches. I know I need to update to 42.3, but at least for now it is still getting security patches. I assume the bad guys are somehow using it as a relay site, but I'm not sure. The server has a GUI on it I think, but I rarely, if ever use it. Almost all admin is via ssh. Troubleshooting advice appreciated. First all the malicious emails have "Banco" in the content of the email, so I'm cleaning up all the deferred emails that are now accumulating via: cd /var/spool/postfix/deferred grep -l Banco */* | sed -r 's/^.{2}//' | postsuper -d - I've deleted about 100,000 emails total by running the above a few times over the last day. But additional emails show up within several hours. (I'm not checking every hour or more.) The contents of /etc/postfix/relay are: # for relaying domain # domain.de OK IAC-Forensics.com OK So, I think I only relay emails for that domain, but the malicious emails are not to or from that domain. FYI: The server has been RBL Blacklisted. It's a minor issue that I assume will clear up in a day or two. In the meantime, I can ignore the problem. This server originates very little email. Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made by questioning answers. — Bernard Haisch -- 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] Backup to bluray tool?
by Carlos E. R. 09 Jan '18

09 Jan '18

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I wonder if there is a nice tool for handling backups to blueray disks. The idea is to backup, say, documents, preferably encrypted, to one or several disks, and then do incremental backups of what changed or is new; so the tool has to know on which disk is stored what. Using incremental backups it should also keep note of what was deleted, to be able to recreate the current state. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlpVHssACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XwAACePllxT062q7Rcop0itFwY9M82 B+4An29oGO6f/TDdMJWQAN8q2nkIc+sB =vduw -----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] yast, zypper, apt, ... ?
by David T-G 09 Jan '18

09 Jan '18

Hi, all -- What's the preferred/right/best/easiest way to install & update software on my Leap system? I grew up on YaST (and then YaST2), but I keep seeing folks using zypper, and there are even occasional comments about apt. My goal is simply to be able to find the most software the most easily and reliably, since it's already challenging enough to know which RPM repositories and archives to search... TIA & HAND :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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