June 2006 - openSUSE KDE - openSUSE Mailing Lists

mounting the CD as somebody other than root
by John Meyer 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

I know this is on the FAQ, if somebody could just point out where this is. -- Online library -- http://pueblonative.110mb.com 126 books and counting.

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Editor that warns when file on disk changes
by Felix E. Klee 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

Is there any simple editor for KDE 3.3.2 (level "a") that, like EMACS, warns users if a file that they are trying to edit has been changed on disk since it was loaded? I tried kwrite 4.3 and kate 2.3.2, and in both, even when saving to a file that has been changed on disk there is no prior warning. Yes, I did enable the option "Warn about files modified by foreign processes" in kate. OS is SuSE 9.2. -- Felix E. Klee

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4 questions
by Paul Foerster 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

Hi List, ... I finally installed SUSE 10.1 on my old and trusty laptop. Everything works great except four little things: 1. The settings for the launch feedback delay have vanished. It works fine but I can't adjust it anymore because there simply is no way to adjust it anymore after I initially adjusted it once. 2. Is there a way to clone my complete KDE settings to a newly created user? Will copying the ~/.kde directory to the new user's home directory work? 3. I use Gaim for Google Talk. When I log into KDE, it always pops up its buddy list window. It works like a charm but is there a way to prevent it from popping up the buddy list window? 4. I installed Thunderbird and it works fine so far. I installed the English SUSE version because I don't like localized operating systems. Same goes for Thunderbird. My mother tongue is German so I tried to additionally install the German language pack for spell checking in Thunderbird because I also write German mails for obvious reasons. The installation went fine and it didn't spit out any error message. But the spell checking preferences do not show the German dictionary and it hence does not do German spell checking. What went wrong? I'm not new to Linux (been there since Slackware 0.99.15 and later went to SUSE 4.3 and from there onwards always with SUSE), KDE and especially SUSE but these things are just beyond me. My installation is 10.1 on an Acer Travelmate 621 LV with all current updates including zen, rug and that stuff. I even made the hotkeys work with acerhk and a little self written shell script and made the screen resolution go to 1400x1050 using the XiG X-server. But the above things remain a mystery to me. Oh, before I forget: Up to and including SUSE 10.0 YOU showed a variety of update sites. Now there's only the installation DVD and the location ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.1/. Since this can possibly be slow at times or unavailable, are there any mirror sites I can add to the list? Also, sorry, that's more than four questions. ;-) I'd very much appreciate help from you folks. Thanks very much in advance. :-) -- cul8er Paul paul.foerster(a)gmx.net

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Screenblanker problem back?
by BandiPat 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

I thought the screen blanker had been fixed? It worked for a bit, I know, but just today, I noticed all that it will do is just go into the password protected blanker. It had been working correctly prior to last evening. I know I installed a few update files and 99.5% of those were Packman provided files, no new KDE files. Anyone else seeing this behavior? thanks, Lee

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Re: [suse-kde] Automating disk roller
by Johannes Kastl 18 Jun '06

18 Jun '06

On 06/18/2006 04:14 PM John Meyer wrote: > Archive Manager, I believe it's under the utility menu in the start > menu. I'm wondering if there are command line options. I'm backing up > to a tarball. I would say it just uses the normal tar-command (or zip) to do the actual stuff, and just has a nice gui for that. So I would use a little script with tar, or zip, or cpio,... OJ -- Working with Unix is like wrestling a worthy opponent. Working with windows is like attacking a small whining child who is carrying a .38.

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Automating disk roller
by John Meyer 18 Jun '06

18 Jun '06

Hi: I'm trying to figure out the archiving program. Is there a way to automate it (I'm sure there is), so that each week, it opens a particular backup file and adds certain directories with files only if they have changed? -- Online library -- http://pueblonative.110mb.com 126 books and counting.

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NFS shares + KDE 3.5.3
by Alvin 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

Hello all, I have several NFS mount points that are mounted on boot. When I use My Computer (or Storage Media applet) to open a one, I get an error "Malformed URL". Anyone know how I can fix this? Thanks, Alvin KDE 3.5.3 level "a" OpenSUSE 10.1

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Device Desktop Icons
by Dave Barton 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

Since installing 10.1 (KDE 3.1 no add-ons or extras) the device icons do not appear on my desktop (both as root or user) until I mount a device in addition to swap & \ (eg. mount /dev/hdd1 /media/hdd1) Making changes to device icon display in Control Center or Configure Desktop has no affect. I see the same thing on the 3 boxes I have installed 10.1 on. Is anyone else experiencing this issue and if so, is there a solution? TIA Dave

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USB-stick not showing up in media:/
by Sven Burmeister 15 Jun '06

15 Jun '06

Hello! It seems that using the KDE 3.5.3 packages for SuSE 10.0 I cannot get my USB-stick to appear in media:/ after I plugged it in. It is mounted and accessible though, since I can just cd to /media/usbdisk and have a look at its contents. I read on bugs.kde.org that this could be related to a broken linkage to HAL which results in it not reporting the mount-states correctly. How can I find out, if this is really the case? Thanks, Sven

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Fwd: [kde-announce] [KDE Security Advisory] KDM symlink attack vulnerability
by Shriramana Sharma 15 Jun '06

15 Jun '06

Will we have updated packages? ---------- punaf'pres'itam ---------- Subject: [kde-announce] [KDE Security Advisory] KDM symlink attack vulnerability Date: Thursday 15 June 2006 00:00 From: Dirk Mueller <mueller(a)kde.org> To: kde-announce(a)kde.org Cc: bugtraq(a)securityfocus.com KDE Security Advisory: KDM symlink attack vulnerability Original Release Date: 2006-06-14 URL: http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20060614-1.txt 0. References CVE-2006-2449 1. Systems affected: KDM as shipped with KDE 3.2.0 up to including 3.5.3. KDE 3.1.x and older and newer versions than KDE 3.5.3 are not affected. 2. Overview: KDM allows the user to select the session type for login. This setting is permanently stored in the user home directory. By using a symlink attack, KDM can be tricked into allowing the user to read file content that would otherwise be unreadable to this particular user. This vulnerability was discovered and reported by Ludwig Nussel. 3. Impact: KDM might allow a normal user to read the content of /etc/shadow or other files, which allows compromising the privacy of another user or even the security of the whole system. 4. Solution: Source code patches have been made available which fix these vulnerabilities. Contact your OS vendor / binary package provider for information about how to obtain updated binary packages. 5. Patch: A patch for KDE 3.4.0 - KDE 3.5.3 is available from ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches : 9daecff07d57dabba35da247e752916a post-3.5.0-kdebase-kdm.diff A patch for KDE 3.3.x is available from ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches : f2e1424d97f2cd18674bef833274c5e3 post-3.3.0-kdebase-kdm.diff A patch for KDE 3.2.x is available from ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches : 8aa6b41cccca4216c6eb1cf705c2370a post-3.2.0-kdebase-kdm.diff

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