January 2001 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

The correct address
by Togan Muftuoglu 08 Jan '01

08 Jan '01

Hi everyone , >From time to time I receive mails which are suppose to go to suse-linux-e(a)suse.com however as seen clearly below this is not the case. Is this happening on my end since I am getting my mail via fetchmail (which I do noth thinks is the case since it should behave continously for all other suse-linux-e(a)suse.com mail also) or is it that somepeople for some reason make a typo in their mailto part of the email ? Subject: [SLE] What package is /usr/bin/info in? Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 15:11:48 -0600 From: wilson(a)claborn.net (Jonathan Wilson) To: suse-linux-e(a)ns2.suse.com -- Togan Muftuoglu toganm(a)turk.net

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What package is /usr/bin/info in?
by wilson＠claborn.net 08 Jan '01

08 Jan '01

Somehow I didn't get /usr/bin/info installed on my system and I need it pretty bad - but I can't find it on the CD. There's no rpm package named "info", and a search for info apparently shows up every package with info pages in it. Can someone please do an rpm -qf /usr/bin/info and tell me what package it belongs to (I don't have another SuSE box nearby)? ---------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson System Administrator Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com Central Texas IT http://www.centraltexasit.com

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Re: [SLE] goodbye YaST?
by Corvin Russell 08 Jan '01

08 Jan '01

Servus! Let me add my voice to the chorus. SuSE, know thyself! YaST2 is only one symptom of the new marketing-driven SuSE strategy. I think some people at the top of SuSE have been swayed by US market Bolshevism, even as the economic weakness of that simplistic, totalizing model is now being exposed (and you ain't seen NOTHIN' yet), what to say of its spiritual and moral bankruptcy. Stay with your roots, SuSE, which made you good. At the beginning of my linux experience, when I knew nothing about linux, I had just tried RedHat before switching to SuSE. It is true that at that time I complained to feedback(a)suse.de that there was no linuxconf-type tool in SuSE. I am not even sure that I knew about YaST. In any case, SuSE, I utterly retract what I said, and by the way you shouldn't listen to the opinions of complete newbies, like parents shouldn't, as a rule, take advice from kids when the kids have no basis on which to have an opinion (another regrettable fashion). Personally, I am going to wait for 7.1. We'll see how that goes. If it is even more vitiated by a marketing ethos, less quality-driven, less honest, then I will upgrade to Debian. Better to vote with our feet now, when there is a chance to change things. Too many companies take their established customer base for granted when trying to grab new customers. But it's really quite easy to switch to a new distribution. Corvin -- Corvin Russell <corvinr(a)sympatico.ca>

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RE: [SLE] lilo woes
by Seth Payne 08 Jan '01

08 Jan '01

I have no SCSI. This is a linux system I built from scratch (linuxfromscratch.org) and my root partition is on /dev/hdb # LILO configuration file # Start LILO global Section # If you want to prevent console users to boot with init=/bin/bash, # restrict usage of boot params by setting a passwd and using the option # restricted. #password=bootpwd #restricted boot=/dev/hda #compact # faster, but won't work on all systems. vga = normal # force sane state read-only prompt timeout=100 # End LILO global Section # # image = /boot/lfskernel root = /dev/hdb label = lfs -----Original Message----- From: Nick Zentena [mailto:zentena@hophead.dyndns.org] Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 10:47 AM To: Seth Payne; 'suse-linux-e(a)suse.com' Subject: Re: [SLE] lilo woes On January 8, 2001 12:33 pm, Seth Payne wrote: > I have a non SuSE specific question: > > When running lilo I get the error: > > fatal: /dev/hda no such file or directory > > I also get this error when trying to install lilo on a floppy or the /boot > partition or anywhere else for that matter! Anyone have an idea as to how > to fix this? What does lilo.conf look like. Also tells us what your system is setup like? Is it all Scsi? Nick

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Sony E500 Monitor and YaST2 ?
by Dee McKinney 08 Jan '01

08 Jan '01

Does the monitors supported by YaST2 include the Sony E500 ? Thanks /Dee

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RE: [SLE] HTML editors
by Montgomery-Recht, Evan 08 Jan '01

08 Jan '01

I've been working with bluefish a lot lately and it seems to be pretty stable and has lots of nice features including PHP4 definition syntax help. evan > -----Original Message----- > From: Bryan S. Tyson [SMTP:bryantyson@earthlink.net] > Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 1:28 PM > To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com > Subject: Re: [SLE] HTML editors > > On Mon, 08 Jan 2001, Damon wrote: > > > My boss just said that he wants to order M$ Front Page so someone in > > our department can create web pages for our group. I would like > > very much to get away from M$ and since Front Page is just one more > > way to get locked into M$, I want to suggest something in the Linux > > world. Can anyone suggest Linux software for creating/editing > > web pages? I remember a similar thread last year but don't remember > > much about it since at that time I wasn't interested in web pages. > > Please help me convince my boss to use SuSE linux instead of > > M$ Windoze. > > Take a look at Quanta. It is possibly not quite as powerful as Front > Page, but it is very nice for most uses in my opinion. > > *************************************************** > Powered by SuSE Linux 7.0 Professional > KMail 1.0.29.2 > > Bryan S. Tyson > bryantyson(a)earthlink.net > *************************************************** > > -- > 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/faq

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SMP headers, kernel source?
by Marty Galyean 08 Jan '01

08 Jan '01

Hi, I am probably missing something obvious, but after installing SuSE 7.0 personal I attempted to run vmware, which led to running vmware-config.pl which then informed me that I didn't have the SMP kernel headers installed required to compile for my SMP kernel. So I go to the CDs and can't find the kernel source packages that I am familiar with under RH, so I go to the SuSE site and still can't find them. My question? Not sure. Probably many. I do like to recompile the kernel for various patches etc so I'd like to get my hands on the 'correct' kernel sources. I write 'correct' because during install I noticed that there were the headers, then there were the suse headers. Has SuSE modified the kernel to the point that they need different headers? What is the extent of this? I need to know the framework I'm working in here and would definitely like to get kernel source/headers that will work 'correctly' with my SuSE. Sorry if this is vague but I find it pointless to overdefine a problem I don't fully understand. Any feedback welcome! Rgds, Marty mgalyean(a)effsols.com

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RE: [SLE] HTML editors
by Stew Benedict 08 Jan '01

08 Jan '01

Quanta+ is also nice - with a built in previewer. It also outlines your document structure, and I believe your can create multi-file projects. Stew Benedict

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RE: [SLE] HTML editors
by Seth Payne 08 Jan '01

08 Jan '01

There is no comparison between Front Page and dreamweaver! In my opinion, Dreamweaver is God's gift to web developers. As was mentioned in a previous message, wysiwig editors do mess around with code somewhat and this is especially true of Front Page. It is like an virus that infects every aspect of your web page. Dreamweaver on the other hand is far less intrusive. It even has a tool called "Clean Up MS Word 97/2000 HTML" which I have found to be a nice feature. Dreamweaver is more difficult to learn than Front Page but you get much more professional results in the end. Another annoying thing about Front Page is its "extensions" which allow for the creation of message boards etc... These extensions, of course, are server side features so when you use Front Page you are stuck with their extentions. In Dreamweaver, or anything else for that matter, you can simply go to a site like phpbuilder.net and use an open source scripting language instead of MS stuff. -----Original Message----- From: Damon Register [mailto:damon.w.register@lmco.com] Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 10:40 AM To: Seth Payne Subject: Re: [SLE] HTML editors Thanks for your answer. Seth Payne wrote: > windows my my web development. My advice would be to stay away from Front > Page and buy Macromedia's Dreamweaver. Is that because of what I said about wanting to get away from M$ or is Dreamweaver actually better than FrontPage anyway? > I said above, they do not offer the wysiwig environment that Dreamweaver > does. So far this may be the best response. I would like to see a Linux product just to get as far away from M$ as possible but even if this is Windows, at least the product is from someone else and I am guessing that I might not be able to convince my boss to take the big step of changing the OS I just downloaded Bluefish and am going to try it. Maybe if I show my boss some results, he might go for it especially if it is free. Damon Register

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lilo woes
by Seth Payne 08 Jan '01

08 Jan '01

I have a non SuSE specific question: When running lilo I get the error: fatal: /dev/hda no such file or directory I also get this error when trying to install lilo on a floppy or the /boot partition or anywhere else for that matter! Anyone have an idea as to how to fix this? Seth PS. Howdy BEN!!

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