August 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

rsync
by James Ogley 02 Aug '02

02 Aug '02

People using rsync may be interested to know that I've put a SuSE compatible package of the latest version (2.5.5) on www.usr-local-bin.org OK, it's not a GNOME package, but we needed to build the new version, cos of a hang bug when using the -v option in the version in SuSE 8.0. Have a lot of fun... ;) -- James Ogley, Unix Systems Administrator, Pinnacle Insurance Plc james.ogley(a)pinnacle.co.uk www.pinnacle.co.uk +44 (0) 20 8731 3619 Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 8.0) Updated GNOME RPMs for SuSE Linux: www.usr-local-bin.org *********************************************************************** CONFIDENTIALITY. This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the named recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to another person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Pinnacle Insurance Plc. If you have received this e-mail in error please immediately notify our Helpdesk on +44 (0) 20 8207 9555. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **********************************************************************

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cut and paste in KDE
by jalal 02 Aug '02

02 Aug '02

Two questions actually: 1. Has anyone found a way to cut and paste from emacs to a KDE3 application? 2. In KWrite and Kate, the cursor disappears when I move and reappears when I release the arrow key, making cursor movement a bit hit and miss. Has anyone found a work around for this? Or is it something to do with there being a common 'text widget' behind the scenes... TIA jalal SuSE71., Linux 2.4.18, KDE3

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(forw) Content Warning from MailScan to Mail-Sender!
by Ben Rosenberg 02 Aug '02

02 Aug '02

Whom ever is a user of this domain..I find email responses from your isp to be in poor taste and very dictitorial in nature. This is very uncool. ----- Forwarded message from postmaster(a)intraco.co.id ----- Message-id: <1111832294531753183931417970881(a)intraco.co.id> From: postmaster(a)intraco.co.id Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 08:52:21 +0700 To: ben(a)whack.org Subject: Content Warning from MailScan to Mail-Sender! The following email you sent was not delivered to the intended recipients as it had restricted contents in it! The restricted content present was "Damn". Action taken: The email was Forwarded to Postmaster. ============================================================= The Mail came from : ben(a)whack.org The Mail recipient : sugimin(a)intraco.co.id Subject of the Mail : Re: [SLE] Yast 2 SUCKS !!! Message-ID : <20020801232859.GB16801(a)whack.org> ============================================================= Use MailScan on your EMail Servers for maximum protection from Internet-borne viruses. ----- End forwarded message ----- -=Ben --=====-----=====-- mailto:ben@whack.org --=====-- Tell me what you believe..I tell you what you should see. -DP --=====-----=====--

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Fwd: Re: [SLE] SuSE Acrobat versus Windows Acrobat
by wolfi_z＠gmx.net 02 Aug '02

02 Aug '02

> Maura Edelweiss Monville <memonvil(a)artsci.wustl.edu> schrieb am 02.08.02 > 06:05:01: > > Sorry for my naive question but I'm not sure I can understand the > > command sequence you mention ... > > Is "ps" the logic name of the printer of the CUPS spooler or demon ??? > > ps is an option you have in the print menu, as if it were a printer. > Do File - Print, then you have to select a printer, and 'print to ps' > should be available there. > Of course you have to open the file with an apropriate editor for doing > this, and you can do this on GUI with mouse clicks:-). > Instead of a paper print you will then receive a file named print.ps in > your $HOME > And, the print to ps is present in the default printer setup of SuSE 8.0, > I did not tweak anything to get this on my machine. There is lpr, which is > the paper printer, and ps, and even pdf (see BUT below). SuSE 8.0 defaults > to lprng, and this works w/o problem on normal HP deskjet printers, so why > bother (in my case). It does not work with my new OfficeJet, but that's a > different issue *grrrrr* > > > Is the command "ps2pd" to be piped to the previous one ? > > Could you please give me an example of using such command sequence with > > the exact syntax ? > > e.g. it is: > %user@linux>ps2pdf print.ps > > Then you get a new file named print.pdf which is your pdf file > So no real pipe. Just one operation on GUI followed by another one on the > command line. > You can also do 'print to pdf' on the GUI, BUT ... according to my > experience this sometimes does not work properly. > > > Moreover, what does "print to ps" exactly do ? > > It creates the post script command set as a file instead of piping it to > your printer, what it would do in case you would want to print. > > > On Windows I can use Acrobat Dostiller to conver both a plain text file > > and a html file and also an rtf file to a "pfd" file. > > I cannot figute out whether I can do the same just "printing to ps" .... > > Apart from some ugly exceptional cases, it should work. Try it. > > > Regards, > > Maura > > Cheers .... Wolfi -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net

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[SLE] I need to recreate my LILO boot disk (dual boot with WinME) UPDATE!!
by MickJH＠bcs.org.uk 02 Aug '02

02 Aug '02

Thanks for the help. However "booting installed sys" from CD1 doesn't work entirely, it won't load USB. Also the fsck fails as filesys is not read-only. On the point of using dd to recreate the floppy from CD1. When I reboot the box, I just get a blank screen. What I really want is the graphic boot menu to choose win, linux 2.2, linux 2.4, memtest etc. that you get with the initial boot-floppy created on installation. I can't find any info (in suse-help) on how to do that, unless I'm looking in the wrong places! I'll try to track down more info from the net or other source, but if anyone has got any ideas I'd be happy to hear them. Ta MH ----- Original Message ----- From: <MickJH(a)bcs.org.uk> To: <suse-linux-e(a)suse.com> Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 2:34 PM Subject: [SLE] I need to recreate my LILO boot disk (dual boot with WinME) Hi, I am fairly new to Linux and not totally up on some of the details, so please bear with me. ;~) As indicated I have a dual boot WinME / SuSE 7.1 (2.4 kernel) machine. While using WinME to update a McAfee AV rescue (floppy)disk I put the LILO disk in instead [it had the same colour label! :~( ] and only realised when I took the disk out. Could some "patient" member of this list provide me with the details on how to recreate the LILO boot (floppy)disk without being able to boot into Linux. I'd rather not have to reinstall it, if possible! TIA MH

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3D in SuSE 8.0
by Jim Rohacek II 02 Aug '02

02 Aug '02

Can anyone tell how I can configure 3D acceleration in SuSE 8.0, without Yast2?. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Jim Powered by SuSE 8.0, Kernel 2.4.18

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kcron crashes
by Mike 02 Aug '02

02 Aug '02

I'm trying to run kcron, and it crashes when ever I try to save. I'm trying to set up a cron job to keep Seti running. The command I'm using is: /home/myname/seti/setiathome -nice 20 & Can anyone help read the debug listing? Debug listing follows: (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...0x40e33079 in wait4 () from /lib/libc.so.6 #0 0x40e33079 in wait4 () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x40eab8c4 in __DTOR_END__ () from /lib/libc.so.6 #2 0x405ff705 in KCrash::defaultCrashHandler () from /opt/kde2//lib/libkdecore.so.3 #3 <signal handler called> #4 0x40db9861 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.6 #5 0x40db9665 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6 #6 0x40dbac81 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6 #7 0x40d30e48 in __default_terminate () from /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 #8 0x40d30e6d in __terminate () from /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 #9 0x40d31926 in throw_helper () from /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 #10 0x40d31af5 in __throw () from /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 #11 0x08058445 in KDialog::marginHint () #12 0x08053a8d in KDialog::marginHint () #13 0x0806e6bc in KDialog::marginHint () #14 0x0806f7ae in KDialog::marginHint () #15 0x40888f6f in QObject::activate_signal () from /usr/lib/qt2/lib/libqt.so.2 #16 0x409b4b5a in QPopupMenu::activated () from /usr/lib/qt2/lib/libqt.so.2 #17 0x4095289d in QPopupMenu::actSig () from /usr/lib/qt2/lib/libqt.so.2 #18 0x40954fe4 in QPopupMenu::mouseReleaseEvent () from /usr/lib/qt2/lib/libqt.so.2 #19 0x408cfde2 in QWidget::event () from /usr/lib/qt2/lib/libqt.so.2 #20 0x40835dc6 in QApplication::notify () from /usr/lib/qt2/lib/libqt.so.2 #21 0x40565606 in KApplication::notify () from /opt/kde2//lib/libkdecore.so.3 #22 0x4080572b in QETWidget::translateMouseEvent () from /usr/lib/qt2/lib/libqt.so.2 #23 0x40803153 in QApplication::x11ProcessEvent () from /usr/lib/qt2/lib/libqt.so.2 #24 0x40802161 in QApplication::processNextEvent () from /usr/lib/qt2/lib/libqt.so.2 #25 0x408379ef in QApplication::enter_loop () from /usr/lib/qt2/lib/libqt.so.2 #26 0x408020db in QApplication::exec () from /usr/lib/qt2/lib/libqt.so.2 #27 0x08080a35 in KDialog::marginHint () #28 0x40da87ee in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6

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Root KDE background
by Paul Ketelaar 02 Aug '02

02 Aug '02

SLE, Does anyone have the fix for disabling the default background for the root account KDE desktop. You know the terrible exploding bomb on the tacky red background. Please help Regards Paul Ketelaar

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DWL-650+
by Steve Murphy 02 Aug '02

02 Aug '02

I am running SuSE 8.0 and recently purchased a D-Link DWL-650+ (802.11b+ PCMCIA card). Has anyone had any success in getting this to work? If yes, then how so? I have tried searching google for it but can only find installation instructions for the DWL-650. Please help. --- Steve Murphy steve(a)smurph.net

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RE: [SLE] Next version? -> Christmas!!
by Jonathan Cowherd 02 Aug '02

02 Aug '02

Will it really be Christmas before the next release? Will it be 9.0? I was hoping there would be an 8.1 release before October that included the latest usb drivers. I was planning to upgrade at home from 7.1 . Jonathan Paul Cowherd Linux and Java Administrator Genscape, Inc. Email: jonathan.cowherd(a)genscape.com Office: (502) 583-3730 -----Original Message----- From: Philipp Thomas [mailto:philippt@t-online.de] Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 6:24 PM To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Next version? -> Christmas!! Graham Murray <graham(a)gmurray.org.uk> [30 Jul 2002 22:19:04 +0100]: >It could be built with (and include) gcc 3.1 (or 3.1.1) rather than >2.95.3. Yes, it'll be a gcc3 based distribution. With the many different hardware platforms SuSE supports, including x86-64 (Hammer/Opteron), PPC (32/64 Bit) and IBM Z-Series (S/390), there wasn't much choice, given that we wanted to use only one version of gcc and not three or more versions. >I am sure that there are many other packages which have newer versions >than shipped with SuSE 8.0 or available via YOU. Given that our policy is to restrict updates to bugfixes and security fixes and to avoid version updates by all means, it's only natural to expect the next SuSE Linux version to ship with newer packagers. Philipp -- Philipp Thomas work: pthomas(a)suse.de Development SuSE Linux AG private: philippt(a)t-online.de -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com

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