June 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[OT] LINUX CREATOR LINUS TORVALDS JOINS OSDL
by Curtis Rey 17 Jun '03

17 Jun '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 <quote> First OSDL Fellow Will Devote Himself Exclusively to Linux Development BEAVERTON, OR, and SANTA CLARA, CA, June 17, 2003 -- OSDL, a non-profit, global consortium of leading technology companies dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux, and Transmeta Corporation, the leader in efficient computing, today announced that Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, will join OSDL as the first OSDL Fellow. As an OSDL fellow, Linus will work exclusively on leading the development of Linux, the open source software that he created in 1991 as a university student in Finland. Torvalds will dedicate himself now full-time to guiding a distributed team of thousands of Linux developers around the world. At OSDL, he will have hands-on access to its state-of-the-art computing resources and test facility. He will also help set priorities and direction for the Lab's different industry initiatives. "It feels a bit strange to finally officially work on what I've been doing for the last twelve years, but with the upcoming 2.6.x release it makes sense to be able to concentrate fully on Linux," Torvalds said. "OSDL is the perfect setting for vendor-independent and neutral Linux development." <end quote> http://www.osdl.org/osdlpress/2003_jun_17_beaverton.html I think Linus has decided to make a show that Linux has no intentions of slowing down - regardless of the outcome of the SCO incident. Cheers, Curtis. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+726wiqnGhdjCOJsRAtstAJ0RN/dTJH92bjvadOJAdLm0Qtjz1ACcDwsW rNhwSq1pxskjSxMi8+G47+g= =W5Cc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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after a power cut
by Peter Evans 17 Jun '03

17 Jun '03

Warning: I'm a dumb newbie. I did try to Google (etc.) for an answer to the following, but failed. The last time I read up on these things, it was thought to be better (for the computer, anyway) to leave a computer on all the time than to turn it on and off once a day. Under that assumption, mine's left on. We do occasionally have power cuts, and cleaners and others in this building occasionally unplug things. *Before* this happens, I'd like to have some idea of what it would entail with a SuSE 8.2 setup. Would I be greeted by a join-the-dots exercise ("Linux was terminated improperly; log on as root and run incomprehensibleabbreviation"), or would I be expected to know that I should, er . . . I don't know, um, run fsck perhaps? [Deep blush] I don't even know which file-system I'm using. How would I find out?

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SCO acronym I had it wrong
by David Blomber 17 Jun '03

17 Jun '03

I always thought SCO stood for Santa Clara Operations (now I know better) Seattle Company Owns-us Suing Companies Owners Stop Computing Operations Silly Corporate Owners SCO Caldera Ogars Software Coders Obfuscated Sigh Chuckle Ominously Sniffing Crack Odors Stopping Code Obligations Source Code Obliteraters Semaphores Caught On? Systems Changing-to OS/2 Suing Capitalist Opportunist Slander Commit-fraud Obviously

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RE: [SLE] To be ..or what?
by Quinlan, Grant 17 Jun '03

17 Jun '03

The name suse-linux-e generally implies general discussion about all things Linux. I would suggest a new list for technical discussions (suse-linux-tech), and give the existing list over to the politics, legal issues, humor, news, and business discussions that have come to dominate the list. I am concerned that creating an off-topic list is not going to draw very much of the non-technical stuff away from suse-linux-e. Grant Q -----Original Message----- From: Ben Rosenberg [mailto:ben@whack.org] Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 11:16 AM To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] To be ..or what? * BandiPat (penguin0601(a)earthlink.net) [030617 11:10]: ->On Tuesday 17 June 2003 13:58, Christopher Mahmood wrote: ->> * Anders Johansson (andjoh(a)rydsbo.net) [030617 06:27]: ->> > Is it perhaps time to resurrect the off-topic list? ->> ->> I thought about making a suse-ot(a)suse.com list the other day...maybe ->> it's time. ->> ->> -- ->> ->> -ckm ->================== -> ->Christopher, ->You may be right, since few are hesitant to use the ones already created ->for such things. Maybe one with suse attached to it's name would draw ->more users to it.

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Re: [SLE] ADSL connection problems
by fabio de francesco 17 Jun '03

17 Jun '03

On Sunday 15 June 2003 21:44, Martin wrote: > Don't use ppp on your Linux box, let dhcp to assign > you IP and stuff and you should be all set afterwards. > Martin I have gone to YaST2 --> Network Basics --> Network Card Configuration and I chose Automatic Address Setup (via DHCP), but nothing has changed. Have I got to set something different whether in the Detailed Settings --> Host Name and Name Server or --> Routing? For now I haven't setup anything in Routing screen, and I chose Update name servers and search list via DHCP in Host Name and Name Server screen. Thank you for your help. Fabio

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Porting of Half-Life2 for Linux.
by Ben Rosenberg 17 Jun '03

17 Jun '03

I don't know how many people on this list are gamers. I'm not much of one but I do like the occasional first person shooter game. And I thought this might be of interest to some of you. It's a petition to get Half-Life 2 ported natively to Linux. If you believe games should be ported to Linux why not sign the petition. http://cgi.riblet.plus.com/petition.php Ben -- The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in the opposite direction. ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org

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Re: [SLE] SCO acronym I had it wrong
by Jason Hale 17 Jun '03

17 Jun '03

here are some more.... Source Code Onanists Source Code Opportunists Source Code Obfuscators Single-Celled Organisms Seedy Corporate Octopus Single Corporate Opportunists Satanic Corporate Orcs SCO's Completely Ostracised >>> zentara <zentara(a)zentara.net> 06/17/03 11:02AM >>> On 17 Jun 2003 21:32:30 +0900 David Blomber <dblomber(a)davelinux.com> wrote: >I always thought SCO stood for Santa Clara Operations (now I know >better) > >Seattle Company Owns-us >Suing Companies Owners >Stop Computing Operations >Silly Corporate Owners >SCO Caldera Ogars >Software Coders Obfuscated >Sigh Chuckle Ominously >Sniffing Crack Odors >Stopping Code Obligations >Source Code Obliteraters >Semaphores Caught On? >Systems Changing-to OS/2 >Suing Capitalist Opportunist >Slander Commit-fraud Obviously How about Seriously Corrupt Organization or Scurrilous Corporate Opportunists -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation -- 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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mail load and spam/virus checking curiosity
by Carlos E. R. 17 Jun '03

17 Jun '03

I have a curiosity. O:-) On my home system, where I connect through a modem and download my email with fetchmail, and pass it to postfix + procmail + SpamAssassin + amavis, I see that the system load goes up to almost 100%, and there is a delay in the mail queue of 30..60 emails (from this list most of them, thus, small). And this is a P-IV @ 1800 with 750 Mb ram, not a slow system. What would the impact of that be on a bigger server, say, a business one? Is it worse, or perhaps better, because it is not so concentrated (no fetchmail)? -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

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CUPS printing
by Richard 17 Jun '03

17 Jun '03

Since setting up my printer with the CUPS system, StarOffice will not print, and neither will abiword. What do I need to do to get these to work with CUPS? When I try to install other programs (non-related) Yast says there is a conflict with CUPS and LPRNG. Should I do something about this or ignore it? Thanks for any help. Richard

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Re: [SLE] Samba - mass user entry
by Allen 17 Jun '03

17 Jun '03

>Tuesday 17 June at 10:13am, Allen Seelye wrote: > >> I need to add about 1000 users to the system (migrating from Novell to Linux). >> If I have to add them all manually then I guess that's what I'll have to do >> but it would save me a LOT of work if there was a script or some other method >> available for adding mass quantities of users. >> Ideally, something that would grab the names from a text file, add them to the >> system and give them a temp password. >> I have searched google and gone back quite a ways in the list archives and >> haven't been able to find anything. Any help would be greatly appreciated. > >Webmin is your answer. Here is a quote from the "Add users from a batch >file" tab: > >This form allows you to create, modify or delete many users at once from >an uploaded or local text file. Each line in the file specifies one action >to take, depending on its first field. The line formats are : > >create:username:passwd:uid:gid:realname:homedir:shell:min:max:warn:inactive:expire > >modify:oldusername:username:passwd:uid:gid:realname:homedir:shell:min:max:warn:inactive:expire > >delete:username > >In create lines, if the uid field is left empty, Webmin will assign a UID >automatically. If the gid field is empty, Webmin will create a new group >with the same name as the user. The username, homedir and shell fields >must be supplied for every user - all other fields are allowed to be >empty. If the passwd field is blank, no password will be assigned for the >user. If it contains just the letter x, the account will be locked. >Otherwise, the text in the field will be taken as the cleartext password >and encrypted. >In modify lines, an empty field will be taken to mean that the >corresponding user attribute is not to be modified. > >Webmin can be found on the 8.2 install CDs or at http://www.webmin.com. > >Jim Cunning That is exactly what I need. As far as adding them to samba I can probably come up with a script for that. Thanks guys! -Allen ---------------------------- Allen Seelye "DeadTOm" Aseelye(a)blackfoot.net ICQ# 8286205 http://www.geocities.com/alleninmt

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