January 2004 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [SLE] Running RealPlayer binary
by Alexandr Malusek 02 Jan '04

02 Jan '04

Jim Sabatke <jsabatke(a)execpc.com> writes: > >Forget about "xhost +localhost". Use "sux" instead of "su" and you > >won't need the dangerous xhost. ("man xhost" will give you more > >info.) > > > Unless you need it, like I do for some KOffice development. Are you really sure you need host-based access control in X? Actually, I hope this mechanism will be removed from the "production" version of X in the future since too many people use it without knowing how insecure it is. People think Linux is safer than MS-Windows but they don't realize there are many old concepts in Linux which, if not used cautiously, can make the system very insecure (telnet, ftp, .rhosts based authentication, NFS, ...) -- A.M.

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A musical suggestion
by Paul W. Abrahams 02 Jan '04

02 Jan '04

I don't particularly like the theme that KDE 3 uses for entering KDE when it starts up after login (entirely a matter of taste, of course). It's possible to change it -- and I did. As a classical music buff, I chose the opening phrase of the second movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony as the replacement. Perfecto! Just right to set the mood. Paul Abrahams

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Replying to posted messages
by Paul W. Abrahams 02 Jan '04

02 Jan '04

My method of replying to posted messages is awkward and inelegant even if it does produce the right result. I choose "reply to all" and then manually delete the original poster from the "To:" line, figuring that the poster is on the list and so will receive a copy anyway but not an extra one. That method also shows the poster's name at the beginning of the quoted message. What I don't like about that is having to do the deletion manually. Is there a more elegant way to get the same result (under Kmail)? Paul Abrahams

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Mouse selection weirdness
by Paul W. Abrahams 02 Jan '04

02 Jan '04

There are two ways to select the mouse type under Yast2: through Hardware / Select Mouse Model and through Hardware / Graphics Card and Monitor. The latter route gets you into Sax2, which has an Input Devices section. The odd thing is that the two modules have very different lists of mice. It's quite mysterious as to how the two selections interact, especially if the selections are different. I ran into an odd problem where my mouse wheel was recognized when it was moving down but not when it was moving up. (I verified by booting into Windows that the hardware was OK.) Eventually by fiddling with the mouse selections I got the upward motion to be recognized too, but I'm very unclear as to what is going on. Paul Abrahams

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Problems Booting WIndoze (GRUB)
by Olipro 02 Jan '04

02 Jan '04

I have a 200GB HDD as Primary Master and a 60GB as Slave the 200GB contains SuSE and of course, GRUB. the 60GB contains GRUB (but not in use obviously) Windows XP & SuSE (my old installation) I will shortly be deleting the second partition (SUSE) on the 60GB. Windows XP used to boot as primary master and now whenever I select the entry from GRUB (I did update GRUB) the computer instantly "reboots". here is what I have setup grub as (bare necessary info): Disk Order: /dev/hda, /dev/hdb Sections: SuSE Linux 9: *(on hd(0,0))* Windows XP: type: Other root: hd(1,0) chainloader: +1 I have changed my Windows XP boot.ini appropriately also but I don't think it's actually even managing to get that far. help would be appreciated --------------------------------- SUSE - 1,000 Possibilities, not 1,000 Vulnerabilities Olipro - GTA Global <Olipro(a)GTAGlobal.net>

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xhost, su, and sudo (REPOST)
by Paul W. Abrahams 02 Jan '04

02 Jan '04

On Friday 02 January 2004 1:37 pm, Alexandr Malusek wrote: > Forget about "xhost +localhost". Use "sux" instead of "su" and you won't > need the dangerous xhost. ("man xhost" will give you more info.) Interesting - my system has xhost (as most do!) but no manpage for xhost. Is there a version of "sudo" that avoids the need for "xhost +localhost"? Paul Abrahams (reposted under a more appropriate thread title)

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Re: [SLE] Problems loading kernel-source
by Carlos E. R. 02 Jan '04

02 Jan '04

El 2004-01-01 a las 22:51 -0500, Roger Saur escribió: You forgot to email to the list. > > > The rpm module I'm trying to install is kernel-source-2.4.21-144.src.rpm > > > > That's not the one. It is one without the .src. in it. > > > > Ignore my ignorance, but all the files in in > ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.0/suse/src > have the .src.rpm extension in it. Am I looking in the wrong place? Yes :-) It will be in .../i586/ or roundabouts. The kernel-source you need is not a typical sources rpm, but it is treated as a binary rpm. It is an exception, it is in the same directory as the binary rpm (k_deflt.rpm, etc), and it doesn't install on the same place as *.src.rpm do - nor is it compiled the same way they are. This was comented on the list not long ago, search it for more info. -- Saludos Carlos Robinson

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Re: [SLE] GRUB menu.lst entry questions (boot splash verbosity)
by Mark Gray 02 Jan '04

02 Jan '04

Bruce Marshall <bmarsh(a)bmarsh.com> writes: > On Fri January 2 2004 12:48 am, Philipp Thomas wrote: >> Bruce Marshall <bmarsh(a)bmarsh.com> [Sun, 28 Dec 2003 20:12:32 -0500]: >>>'info' is an abomination. >> >> Why so? OK, it's very different from man, but besides that I really don't >> see a reason to call it an abomination. >> >> Philipp > > It is far from intuitive... I haven't found very many people that like it > and every time I give it a whirl, I get the same opinion. info files are best read using emacs in my opinion (if you have a year to spare, I heartily recommend learning to use emacs:-) If you do not like the info program now, you should have seen it before they broke down and added cursor key support (now THAT was painful -- and is probably why so many old-timers dislike info so much.)

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Re: [SLE] SuSeconfig Question
by Chuck Stuettgen 02 Jan '04

02 Jan '04

On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 01:46, John Andersen wrote: > > > Have the same problem with my Pcmcia card Chuck. > > man insserv > > Insserv sets the order of those links based on the requirements > that are in the individual files. Theoretically, you should be able > to edit the /etc/init.d/pcmcia and add network as one of the > "requires" options, and insserv should calculate the order. > > But when you do this you get a nasty loop condition > and insserv refuses to set anything. > Yep happened to me as well. No matter how I edited the files PCMCIA always gets set to S08pcmcia. At one point the startup order was significantly different from what it was before I started to the point I was afraid to restart the computer out of fear that it would not start up properly. I had made back copies of each the init scripts before I edited them so if things got out of hand I could restore them. Evidently, there is some other file that I am not aware of that is part of this process as even after I restored them and ran insserv -d the order did not return to the way it was before I started. Fortunately, I had captured the start order to a text file so I could manually rename to files as a last resort. I have spent the last two days reading documentation on insserv. While I understand the concepts, it is just not complete enough for someone other than the programmers who wrote it to understand how to configure the init scripts to get services to start in a particular order. > I havent found the solution yet, but thats the direction > I'm looking at the present time. If you get it figured out I would appreciate you letting me know. I've got a spare laptop that I'm going to install Suse on and play around with the scripts to see if I figure it out. I'll keep the list posted.

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AMD ?
by Hoyt Bailey 02 Jan '04

02 Jan '04

Can anyone tell me what kind of processer I have. (i.e K6/I/II/III, K7, etc) As far as I know it is an amd +2100, but all refferences to amd never mention the model #. Just wondering. Hoyt

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