May 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

When Installing Software (from RPM's)
by James.Rocks＠equant.com 31 May '02

31 May '02

Hi, When you install software from an RPM how do you know where it will be installed to and where does it put the link for it? Talking of links ... how (if say you create a link to an application) do you change the way it looks (its icon)? James James C. Rocks Equant Archway House Canary Wharf London E14 9SZ Phone: 0207-5226856 Fax: 0207-5126087 Mobile Phone: 07771-767405 http://www.equant.com This e-mail (including any attachments) is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not an intended recipient or an authorized representative of an intended recipient, you are prohibited from using, copying or distributing the information in this e-mail or its attachments. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies of this message and any attachments. Thank you.

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Barcode Scanner
by Geraint Jones 31 May '02

31 May '02

Hi, I've just been given a QuickLink scanner (made by: http://www.wizcomtech.com) to mess about with. It can scan text and barcodes and send it to a PC and comes with a lead to plug it into a serial port. The apps for it are Windows only and I would like to be able to use it to read barcodes into a web page. How would I go about setting up Linux to allow me to do this, and has anyone had any experience with this type of scanner before? Thanks, Geraint Jones.

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Audigy drive on 8.0
by Jakub Vosahlo 31 May '02

31 May '02

I experienced a pleasent surprise yesterday when the 8.0 installation recognised my Audigy soundcard (I was finaly disabled my on-board soundcard which I used to get a sound from my linux box). Does anybody know if there is a way how to use the Audigy Drive (I have the Audigy Platinum with the external drive)? I would pretty much like to use the optical output on the drive, it is very comfortable way to record my MDs... Cheers, Jakub

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8.0 and samba-2.24 - compile fails --with-ldapsam
by Dan Am 31 May '02

31 May '02

Hi running SuSE 8.0 with kernel 2.4.18-4GB. Compile run of samba-2.2.4 fails with option "--with-ldapsam" error "checking whether or not getgroups returns EGID too many times... yes" Anybody seen this before ? Any ideas ? Regards Dan

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Re: [SLE] More on YOU!
by James.Rocks＠equant.com 31 May '02

31 May '02

Hi Anders, > > Connection to YOU server failed. > > Try to connect to another SuSE server > Hm, how did you set it up? ftp or http? I can't see any form of connection > attempt in my logs. Either you misspelled something or you're not getting > through the proxy. Note that my server only accepts ftp connections, not > http. As you said I went in to Expert and set settings you said to ... I was quite careful about the spelling :-) > It means that if you've tried connecting to a server and failed, you'll be > returned to the setup screen for YOU. If then you try to change some settings > and have another attempt it will fail. You have to completely exit the online > update module and restart it for any changes to work. At least until the bug > is fixed. I see ... so when I get an error (or even try?0 I must exit the utiluity and go back in to try again? OK ... I tried again with the settings suggested and it failed with the same message (I exited the utility first) . To me this implies that YaST is not making a connection at all hinting that in some way it's not using the proxy setting. Maybe I'm missing some place that everyone else just does or maybe it's desinged primarily with dial up users in mind? James C. Rocks Equant Archway House Canary Wharf London E14 9SZ Phone: 0207-5226856 Fax: 0207-5126087 Mobile Phone: 07771-767405 http://www.equant.com This e-mail (including any attachments) is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not an intended recipient or an authorized representative of an intended recipient, you are prohibited from using, copying or distributing the information in this e-mail or its attachments. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies of this message and any attachments. Thank you.

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UK Gov MS Gateway?
by James.Rocks＠equant.com 31 May '02

31 May '02

Hi Ben, Ben Rosenburg: > Yeah, I guess Tony Blair selling out the Brits to Microsoft and letting > Microsoft setup a gateway to Government services that excluded people > using non-microsoft browsers isn't selling out. :) Are you sure this is true? I know our governement can be a bunch of morons at times but this sounds a bit dubious to me ... there are lots of people out there with non MS browsers (not just Linux users)! Maybe they did it then stepped back? Do you have an official link for it? James C. Rocks Equant Archway House Canary Wharf London E14 9SZ Phone: 0207-5226856 Fax: 0207-5126087 Mobile Phone: 07771-767405 http://www.equant.com

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Re: [SLE] More on YOU!
by James.Rocks＠Equant.com 31 May '02

31 May '02

Hi Anders, > If you set your online update to get patches from my server, I might be able > to see the error in my logs. Without logfiles these things are very difficult to > sort out. > Note that I'm not suggesting you should trust me enough to > actually install anything from my server. If you ever get that far, just hit abort. > This is just to get the log files. > If you want me to check it, go to the expert settings and set server > ftp.cicada.linux-site.net with directory /pub/ftp.gwdg.de Be it bad or good I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt so, yeah, I'll trust you :-) I did it and got the error message: Connection to YOU server failed. Try to connect to another SuSE server > Note that in 8.0 there is a bug in YOU that make changing settings > in one session impossible. You have to completely restart the online > update module if you want to - say - change the server you're using, > or change settings for that server. Not quite sure what this means ... if I come out of online update it doesn't remember what I was doing before? James James C. Rocks Equant Archway House Canary Wharf London E14 9SZ Phone: 0207-5226856 Fax: 0207-5126087 Mobile Phone: 07771-767405 http://www.equant.com

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can't login to KDE as user oracle
by Vlad 31 May '02

31 May '02

Hi All, Can anybody tell me about how login to KDE as user oracle. I can login to KDE as root, but as oracle - can not. Is there any config settings to login KDE as only root. -- Best regards, Vlad mailto:vlad@nkmz.donetsk.ua

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Re: [SLE] SuSE to band together with Caldera, Turbolinux, and Con ectiva?
by Brian Durant 31 May '02

31 May '02

On Friday 31 May 2002 10:02, Nick LeRoy wrote: - I've been lurking on this discussion, and decided to chime in a quick $.02 - worth.... - - There seems to be a good deal of US bashing going on here, which, in - general, - I'm unfornately inclided to agree with (note that I'm born & - raised in the - US). :-( Likewise. I don't know of anyone that is trying to bash Americans. There is a difference between bashing and noting differences in economic and political culture, as well as a difference of views as to the role of language, art and culture between the US and Europe. - However, I'd also like to note that many Americans are not really - represented - by these ideas, and that we indeed to hold much stronger - ideals. Some do. some don't. All Europeans are extremely conscious of their culture and it's role, they are just more conscious of it than Americans are in general and not as likely to put it up for sale. - Unfortunately, at least the way *I* see it, Americans are being - increasingly - held hostage by large corporations. The theory that we can - make a difference - at election time is a crock. It's almost like a one - party election; while we - do indeed have a "2 party" system (don't get me - started on that), neither - party really gives a damn about the average - citizen. It's the corporate cach - that they follow, wherever the corporate - money carot leads them. Well, you could actually go back to a presidential election that not one European understands. Of course there is a recount of ballots if there is a discrepency in reporting the actual figure! Particularly in an electoral system where the capturing of specific strategic states/regions play such a big role as that in the make up of the electoral college. - Sorry about the rant. Just wanted to say that we don't all view profit - above - all else. And, a lot of us *do* care. No problem. I would however, suggest that we all end the debate here. It has gone far a field from where I at least put my two cents in ;-) Cheers, Brian

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More on YOU!
by James.Rocks＠equant.com 31 May '02

31 May '02

Hi, Sorry about the length of this :-( This is based on a letter I sent to SuSE support though I sincerely doubt it will qualify within the 90 days installation support that I thought sounded so good when I bought a copy of the distro. As I said earlier I can't get YOU working. I get this error both at work and at home and the one at work particularly is a very standard install so I figure it has to be something others get and not just me. I have tried to get support in both the SuSE Linux E maillist and on line at a number of bulletin boards with no luck. The error message I get is: Connection to YOU server failed. Try to connect to another SuSE server If (as has been suggested on one forum) I change the expert settings to HTTP I get: Cannot get the patches from the server. Try another SuSE FTP/HTTP server. The following is the content of my /var/lib/YaST/update.inf file that one of the SuSE SDB articles hints it might be (though that was aimed at SuSE 7.3): # /var/lib/YaST/update.inf -- (c) 2001 SuSE GmbH # Basesystem: SuSE-Linux-Professional-INT-i386-8.0.0#0 DefaultInstsrcFTP: ftp.suse.com:/pub/suse/i386/current ftp.gwdg.de:/pub/linux/suse/i386/current ftp-suse.ruf.uni-freiburg.de:/pub/suse/i386/current PTFcrstsnItluafed: DefaultSrcPatchFTP: ftp.suse.com:/pub/suse/i386/update/8.0 Distribution_Name: SuSE-Linux-Professional-INT-i386 Distribution_Release: 0 Distribution_Version: 8.0.0 Nobackup: /var/lib/news/history /etc/ld.so.cache /var/spool/atjobs/.SEQ Pukcabon: Notarx: @PKG@ mmcore usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/Imake.rules usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/Motif.rules usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/Motif.tmpl usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/Project.tmpl usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/linux.cf var/X11R6/lib/config/Imake.rules var/X11R6/lib/config/Motif.rules var/X11R6/lib/config/Motif.tmpl var/X11R6/lib/config/Project.tmpl var/X11R6/lib/config/linux.cf ./usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/Imake.rules ./usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/Motif.rules ./usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/Motif.tmpl ./usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/Project.tmpl ./usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/linux.cf ./var/X11R6/lib/config/Imake.rules ./var/X11R6/lib/config/Motif.rules ./var/X11R6/lib/config/Motif.tmpl ./var/X11R6/lib/config/Project.tmpl ./var/X11R6/lib/config/linux.cf @PKG@ mmcore1 usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/Imake.rules usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/Motif.rules usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/Motif.tmpl usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/Project.tmpl usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/linux.cf var/X11R6/lib/config/Imake.rules var/X11R6/lib/config/Motif.rules var/X11R6/lib/config/Motif.tmpl var/X11R6/lib/config/Project.tmpl var/X11R6/lib/config/linux.cf ./usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/Imake.rules ./usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/Motif.rules ./usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/Motif.tmpl ./usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/Project.tmpl ./usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/linux.cf ./var/X11R6/lib/config/Imake.rules ./var/X11R6/lib/config/Motif.rules ./var/X11R6/lib/config/Motif.tmpl ./var/X11R6/lib/config/Project.tmpl ./var/X11R6/lib/config/linux.cf @PKG@ mmcore2 usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/Imake.rules usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/Motif.rules usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/Motif.tmpl usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/Project.tmpl usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/linux.cf var/X11R6/lib/config/Imake.rules var/X11R6/lib/config/Motif.rules var/X11R6/lib/config/Motif.tmpl var/X11R6/lib/config/Project.tmpl var/X11R6/lib/config/linux.cf ./usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/Imake.rules ./usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/Motif.rules ./usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/Motif.tmpl ./usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/Project.tmpl ./usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/linux.cf ./var/X11R6/lib/config/Imake.rules ./var/X11R6/lib/config/Motif.rules ./var/X11R6/lib/config/Motif.tmpl ./var/X11R6/lib/config/Project.tmpl ./var/X11R6/lib/config/linux.cf Xraton: Product_Name: SuSE-Linux Product_Version: 8.0 Prohibited: usr/X11R6/lib/X11 Detibihorp: I have set proxies in several places i.e. in Konqueror/KDE, in YaST2 (System Sysconfig Editor System Proxy) to http://proxycfg.lon.globalone.net/shell-cgi/proxy.pl can successfully reach the Internet using the proxy. The following is the content of my /etc/rc.config: # # /etc/rc.config # # Copyright (c) 1996-2002 SuSE Linux AG Nuernberg, Germany. # All rights reserved. # # Author: Werner Fink <werner(a)suse.de>, 1996 # Burchard Steinbild <feedback(a)suse.de>, 1996 # # Configuration database for shell scripts in /etc/init.d, /sbin/SuSEconfig # and /etc/cron.daily/aaa_base* # # Please edit this file and execute /sbin/SuSEconfig to configure everything. # # # Attention! This variable PATH is NOT setting the PATH for user or root # shells. It is only used internally for /etc/init.d/*, SuSEconfig and # cron.daily. Please do NOT change PATH here. # PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin ## ## Formatting the boot script messages, see /etc/rc.status. ## Source /etc/rc.status if rc_done isn't defined ## test "$rc_done"= = = -a -e /etc/rc.status && . /etc/rc.status # # Proxy Config Vars (JCR) # Note: This is the bit I modified as suggested by someone on SLE # HTTP_PROXY="http://proxycfg.lon.globalone.net/shell-cgi/proxy.pl FTP_PROXY="http://proxycfg.lon.globalone.net/shell-cgi/proxy.pl James C. Rocks Equant Archway House Canary Wharf London E14 9SZ Phone: 0207-5226856 Fax: 0207-5126087 Mobile Phone: 07771-767405 http://www.equant.com This e-mail (including any attachments) is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not an intended recipient or an authorized representative of an intended recipient, you are prohibited from using, copying or distributing the information in this e-mail or its attachments. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies of this message and any attachments. Thank you.

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