March 2000 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[SLE] the future of Linux?
by jeroen＠jota.nl 18 Mar '00

18 Mar '00

I just read this http://1.digital.cnet.com/cgi-bin1/flo?x=dAgBmgooEEwhBBKuA maybe interesting for some Jeroen Verstegen jeroen(a)jota.nl www.jota.nl -- 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] gtk,glib
by mitja.pavlovic＠guest.arnes.si 18 Mar '00

18 Mar '00

I downloaded gtk1.2.7 and glib 1.27 from ftp.gtk.org and now i have problem with compiling. Please help me about installation. Mitja -- 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] Save the Netscapes
by guynix＠crosswinds.net 18 Mar '00

18 Mar '00

Hello everyone I know this is off topic, but I urgently need help to prevent my company from dropping Netscape in favour of IE (horror) Therefore I would like to ask if anyone knows websites that don't work properly with IE or better even, don't work at all with it. Also known bugs (preferably security) in the latest versions (4-5) would be helpfull. You can also mail me directly at my work: guy.vansanden(a)siemens.atea.be Thaks for any help you can offer. Kind regards Guy -- 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] RPM FYI
by ethant＠earthlink.net 18 Mar '00

18 Mar '00

I was getting really slow installs and erases with RPM so I figured I'd try to understand why. My RPM databases were running anywhere from 16KB for conflictsindex.rpm to 29MB for packages.rpm to 43MB for requiredby.rpm. This is with SuSE's rpm-3.0.3-34. And this was a system that was installed fresh at 6.2 and upgraded to 6.3. I checked Maximum RPM on-line to see if there were any database optimizations available. The only one was --rebuildb and the documentation states that it is mostly for rebuilding corrupt databases. It goes on to state that it really isn't necessary to run --rebuilddb to reduce the size of the databases since RPM fills in empty spaces. Well, I decided to give it a shot anyway. After rpm --rebuilddb the above databases were 16KB, 18MB, and 2.8MB! Requiredby.rpm is now less than 1/10th the size! The result is that a simple install that was taking 20 to 40 seconds is only taking 3-4 seconds. Not to mention that I freed up a lot of space on my 172MB /var paritition! Just thought you all would like to know. Later, Greg -- 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] pcmcia
by tduggan＠dekaresearch.com 18 Mar '00

18 Mar '00

Hi, -----Original Message----- From: Robert Lyons [SMTP:rlyons@faithdesign.com] Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 12:48 PM >Is it possible to load the pcmcia modules for a specific ethernet >card after you have done the install of the system..If yes what is the >proper procedure for doing this? I have a working system on my >laptop and I want to addan ethernet card to it all... If you have the pcmcia package set up, the new card should be autodetected by cardmgr which should load the proper module. To configure the interface check out the PCMCIA-Howto. If you have any problems let us know :-) Tim >Thanks > robert -- 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] Identify public holidays
by gqs＠zip.com.au 18 Mar '00

18 Mar '00

Hi, I was wondering if anyone knows of any program which will confirm if today is a public holiday. I need this in conjunction with some scripts I run via cron to prevent certian programs running if its a public holiday. I know I can create a file containing a list of dates and compare that against today's date but I would prefer setting up a file similiar to the ones used in Korganizer and gcal where you don't need to specify actual dates. Thanks in Advance. Graham Smith ---------------------------------- -- 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] 6.4
by mgx＠spruce.lsd.ornl.gov 18 Mar '00

18 Mar '00

fwiw, the deutsch suse site has 27.03.2000 as the release date for 6.4: http://www.suse.de/ -- -- michael -- 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] CGI wizards around?
by pep＠serrano.net 18 Mar '00

18 Mar '00

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Perhaps this is not the place for the HelloWorld.pl. I'll be quick. On Thu, 16 Mar 2000 22:25:15 -0800, SJ Black wrote: >Here is a script i was given to run a roman numeral webpage counter. I'm >not a perl-er, so i don't know if it *should* be able to work in its >current state, and if so, i'd so love to be able to make it do so. It should work. But you may consider this points: - - Which working directory are you using. - - Which parameters is using your CGI call. - - Create for first time the counter file or change the script to create counters from scratch. - - The script needs to be executable (man chmod). - - Your working directory must be mapped into your cg-bin URL. Now let's take a look at the code: #!/usr/local/bin/perl # This first line is the invocation of PERL interpreter # This variable is used to store the working directory of your application # Make sure this is your working directory $directory = '/usr/local/httpd/cgi-bin'; # This first line opens standard output and prints out a MIME header # When it is call from your WEB server, the stdout is your output stream # to the server. So this line outputs back to the user a MIME header to # notice that a plain HTML page is coming. print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n"; # Here is where you use your $directory unless (chdir($directory)) { die "<BR>chdir($directory) failed - $!<BR>\n"; } # Checks if there's an enviroment variable. # Probably this data is passed in the CGI call inside a hidden value # The DOCUMENT_URI is used to name your counter file. unless ($ENV{'DOCUMENT_URI'}) { print "<BR>Document variable not supported.<BR>\n"; exit; } $Document = $ENV{'DOCUMENT_URI'}; # Strips any slash from the file name. $Document =~ s/\//_/g; # Opens the counter file for reading. This is a possible point to stop. # When starting for first time a counter the file doesn't exist. # You must create the file in advance... Or introduce some new changes. # open (COUNT, "<$Document") || create the file... if (open(COUNT,"<$Document")) { $Hits = <COUNT>; close(COUNT); } # This is the main functionality! $Hits++; # Opens file for writing the new value. if (open(COUNT,">$Document")) { print COUNT $Hits; close(COUNT); } else { print "\n"; } # Here you take the cardinal number in $Hits and split it in characters # The order is reversed and each character is put into the $Ones, $Tens... ($Ones,$Tens,$Hundreds) = split(//, reverse $Hits); print 'M' x int($Hits/1000); # Then prints a value from the array using $unit as the index print (('','C','CC','CCC','CD','D','DC','DCC','DCCC','CM')[$Hundreds]); print (('','X','XX','XXX','XL','L','LX','LXX','LXXX','XC')[$Tens]); print (('','I','II','III','IV','V','VI','VII','VIII','IX')[$Ones]); I suggest you to take a look at PERLREF and try to rewrite a clever routine to manage the file. Just open all in once in read/write mode, don't open twice... And if you can not find the file just write a new file starting with zero. Welcome to poetry world of PERL ;-) Pep Serrano pep(a)serrano.net http://pep.serrano.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPsdk version 1.7.1 (C) 1997-1999 Network Associates, Inc. and its affiliated companies. iQA/AwUBONLHisXRH5QDajQrEQJCeQCeOmF+eoKVC2NoH/GD7B8muQNAoNoAoMCm PA0USlTmrdR77eEVYkKLg0Lz =sDbp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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] Samba and Windows 2000
by kmoore＠aa.net 17 Mar '00

17 Mar '00

HELP..... Here's the problems.... I have a basic Linux network.. but we have to support W2K. Since this is the case, I want to have my printer sit on W2K. The USB seems to work better over there... and it printer already resides there.... So what would I do, to get Linux to print the to the W2K box... I have samba configured. I have read the manual... and still nothing. Any ideas? -- Kirk Moore Renton, Wa SuSE Linux 6.3, Black Holes are created when God divides by zero -- 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] High quality KOI8-R TrueType???
by genz1968＠mtu-net.ru 17 Mar '00

17 Mar '00

Hello, in case there are any Russian speakers on this thread, do high quality KOI8-R fonts exist? It seems that all the KOI8-R TrueType fonts on the net are poor quality. Is there any software out there with high quality KOI8-R fonts. If so, then I could just grab them off the CD. Thanks George -- 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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