June 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Shell script query
by James Ogley 18 Jun '03

18 Jun '03

Hi, Hope someone can help me with this... I've got a directory with about 1000 or so files named with this convention: filename.SNG.txt (don't ask - long story...) Now, filename is a random sequence of between 5 and eight numeric characters. My question is this: Does anyone know of a way in bash script to rename all the files of the above format to filename.txt? To throw (potentially) a spanner in the works, the files that need to be renamed aren't the only files in the directory. Any help will be gratefully accepted. James -- James Ogley, Webmaster, Rubber Turnip james(a)rubberturnip.org.uk http://www.rubberturnip.org.uk Jabber: riggwelter(a)myjabber.net Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 8.2). GNOME updates for SuSE: http://www.usr-local-bin.org

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kde fonts
by sjb 18 Jun '03

18 Jun '03

This one is driving me a little mad *8-Q Is there any way to somehow force my fonts back to their original (just after the install) state? Mine seem to be really flaky - fonts in the konsole will just change for no reason and the font I was using disappears from the font selector - sometimes if I delete a font with the font manager the font I was using will reappear. I just don't seem to be able to get a stable setup going here >8-( sjb

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X Server Crashes with 8.2 & Nvidia
by Michael Nelson 18 Jun '03

18 Jun '03

Ever since upgrading to SuSE 8.2 from 8.1 a few weeks ago, I have had several X server crashes a day. I upgraded three machines to 8.2, and only the one with the Nvidia card exhibits this problem, so I am making the assumption it has something to do with the Nvidia drivers. What happens is this... I'll be typing some long missive, either on a website or in a konsole session with mutt (but it has also happened while running Applix spreadsheet), and suddenly and without warning, the X server resets, and I lose whatever I was doing at the time. This is happening so often that I have taken to doing an alt-f2 and opening a text mode session to write whatever I need and then cut & paste it into whatever X app I need it in. I look at the XFree*.old log in /var/log after the X server is reset and there is no clue in there as to what the cause was. Nothing gets logged to /var/log/messages either. I have tried running the "as installed initially" rpms for X, the stock kernel, as well as the patched X stuff on the SuSE ftp servers. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the Nvidia drivers several times, but the problem persists. I don't believe it's a hardware problem, as the system was rock solid before upgrading to 8.2, never even ONCE having an X server crash. Has anyone else seen this or a similar problem? It's so bad and has caused me to lose so much "in process" work that I am considering downgrading the system to 8.1. I guess I'll try an earlier Nvidia driver first if I can find one. Thanks Michael -- Michael Nelson San Francisco, CA

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can I get better fonts?
by jgamo＠cantv.net 18 Jun '03

18 Jun '03

I'm using SUSE 8.2, I installed my true type fonts from windows, turn on the anti aliasing, but still I feel like the fonts should be better... I'm not sure if I doning something wrong, I'm kind of new to Linux, or if I need to do something special because I'm a laptop user, but you people tell me something, your fonts are as good as the one in windows?, or I'm asking too much? If yours are good enough, how did you get it to work. So far my tru types looks like blur on the edge, effect that make me have a headache after a couple of minutes reading emails or something. Can I do something to improve my fonts? Other problem is, there are some program that seems not to use any of my selected fonts. I'm using yahoo messenegr, I know taht is an old version and maybe that's the problem, but that one and openoffice have a very poor fonts. I think I found the way of changing the font on openoffice, I have to try tonight, but there's anything I can do with the yahoo to take the fonts of the system? Thanks in advance. /Juan C. Gallardo

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OpenOffice / X Server conflict
by evan＠exclusivebooks.com 18 Jun '03

18 Jun '03

Hi My assistant tried to install OpenOffice on a SuSE 7.3 machine. He downloaded the tarball and followed the install instructions. Once complete - with no obvious errors - he rebooted the machine. However, it would only go to runlevel 3. A 'startx' command gave a black screen and total system freeze. I decided, in what I thought was my wisdom, that since the machine had essentially only been used to create documents and browse the web, that there would be no harm in backing up the data and reinstalling. This I did, and everything came up nicely. However, I soon noticed some problems. If I try to invoke Yast2 from inside a shell, I get an X Server permission denied error. However, if I invoke Yast2 from the KDE menu, it starts up fine. Hmm. I decided to proceed with the OpenOffice install. Again, I untarred the tarball and ran the ./install script. This time it wouldn't install at all. Again, I got an X Server permission denied error. The error says 'You do not have permission to connect to this server'. I find this bizarre, since in both instances when I got the error, I was operating as the superuser. Also, I obviously *can* connect to the X Server, because I'm working in the KDE. Thoughts, help, suggestions appreciated as always. Thanks Evan Morris evan(a)exclusivebooks.com +27 11 792 2777 (t) +27 11 792 2711 (f) --------------------------------- Is /usr/bin/perl related to /osama/bin/ladin?

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X-server freezes up mouse/keyboard when switching between consoles
by George Reynolds 18 Jun '03

18 Jun '03

I'm using the latest Nvidia drivers and sometimes, when i'm switching between consoles or even when I am logging out/back in again, the mouse/keyboard lockup causing me to have to restart. the alt+sysrq doesn't work, but the computer hasn't actually crashed- for example my news ticker continues scrolling and kmail still pops up with new emails. Any ideas why this should occur? I've done a clean SuSE 8.2 install..... I have not changed my configuration from the default- do you need to change something when you install the nvidia drivers? I just configured sax2 as suggested. thanks George

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Linksys WPC54G wireless pcmcia adapter
by Andrea GRIGOLO 18 Jun '03

18 Jun '03

Hello, I am running Suse 8.2 an I would like to know if this card (Linksys WPC54G wireless pcmcia adapter) will on my laptop work before buying it. I found a lot messages about it but none of them was a "YES" nor a "NO".... Bye Andrea Andrea Grigolo Storage & UNIX Solutions Systemat SA 435, Chaussée de Louvain 1380 Lasnes (BE) Tel. : 02.352.8593 www.systemat.be ************************************************************************** This message may contain confidential information and is intended solely for the use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose, use, disseminate or copy this message. The information contained in this message is subject to Systemat's General Terms and Conditions. Any personal opinion expressed in this message reflects the opinion of the sender and not Systemat's opinion. **************************************************************************

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Re: [SLE] routing question
by Paul Geary 18 Jun '03

18 Jun '03

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RE: [SLE] Shell script query
by Quinlan, Grant 18 Jun '03

18 Jun '03

Christopher, I didn't know that I could use sed-like substitutions with bash variables! Neat little tool! I checked and it doesn't work for ksh or sh however ;-< I would suggest, just to be safe, adding a -d option to the ls command like this: ls -d *SNG* | while read name; do new=${name/.SNG.txt/.txt} mv $name $new done Without this option, if there is a *SNG* that is a directory you may get very unsatisfactory results. Grant Q -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Mahmood [mailto:ckm@suse.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 2:59 PM To: SuSE List Subject: Re: [SLE] Shell script query * James Ogley (james(a)usr-local-bin.org) [030617 14:48]: > filename.SNG.txt > > (don't ask - long story...) > > Now, filename is a random sequence of between 5 and eight numeric > characters. > > My question is this: > > Does anyone know of a way in bash script to rename all the files of the > above format to filename.txt? Something like ls *SNG* | while read name; do new=${name/.SNG.txt/.txt} mv $name $new done -- -ckm -- 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 Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com

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RPM version on 8.2
by Kevin Brouelette 18 Jun '03

18 Jun '03

Hello, I was testing Suse 8.2 to run as a server with the intention of ditching Redhat and my requirements are the server must run the following services/progs: http https smtp imap pop samba dhcpd ntpd named duplicity http://www.nongnu.org/duplicity yum http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/ The only distro that I can get to do all the above is Mandrake 9.1. The reason Suse 8.2 fails the test is that it runs RPM version 3.0.6. Any plans to get Suse to a more recent version? I know that if I stick with Suse rpm's for everything it will work just fine but as normally happens, customers require additional software not in the original distro and yum happens to require rpm version 4.x+. Is there any plans to upgrade rpm on 8.2 or the next release of suse? TIA Kevin B --

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