December 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Installing PHP5 onto Apache (Suse 10.0)
by John Meyer 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

What's the best way to graft PHP5 onto Apache with the least (if any) damage to my setup?

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semi-[OT] "christmas" trimmings all year long
by elefino 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

All, We seem to be getting lots of new people on the list recently, which is generally a good thing. However, some participants seem to be a little inexperienced in how to write a reply. Remember, this is not ICQ and Instant Messaging. You have some control over where and how your text appears. Use it wisely. In the interests of peace, good order, and getting lots of helpful responses, would everybody please: - edit your replies -- that means trim off everything from the old message except the paragraph or two to which you are replying. Never reproduce somebody's signature and tag-lines, unless that is specifically what you are replying to. If somebody included a lengthy excerpt from a log file or a shell script, or program output, then everybody in the list received it at least once. They don't need you to quote it to them again - trim it out of your reply. - write your replies below the material to which you are replying -- that means, either start writing at the bottom, or else write your replies between paragraphs of the other person's message, and there should be no quoted text after your last sentence. Writing your replies above quoted material is called "top-posting" and it seems to offend some of the old-timers (the people with the most experience and knowledge, whom you would therefore least like to offend...), and it makes it difficult to follow an ongoing conversation. As well, if you leave a lot of untrimmed quoted text in a message, it annoys people who scroll all the way down, only to find out that you made them waste their time. People who are receiving a digest version have to scroll past all your useless quoting just to get to the next message in the digest. You want to be more polite and accommodating than that, don't you? Good. We appreciate it. If you are using KMail, then when you see a sentence or a paragraph that really needs a response from you, highlight just that piece of text and press the "L" key. This creates a new message in the thread, containing only the text that you highlighted, and addressed to the mailing list (not to the original sender, who doesn't really need or want to see two copies of your reply in his in-box). In other words, text-select plus "L" key does most of the things that list-etiquette requests. The only thing that it doesn't seem to do automatically is to place your cursor at a starting position below the last line of quoted text. I guess the makers of KMail wanted to leave something for you to do. If you are using another mail program that doesn't support these KMail functions........ fake it. There. It's not Christmas or Hannukah yet, and I'm not sure about the other observances, but it is the solstice today.... so enjoy a lovely solstice and trim, trim, trim. Cheers, Kevin

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Suse 10.0 backup problem
by Art Fore 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

I have a machine with Suse 10.0 running with raid 1. One of the disks died, and I wanted to backup the other disk before I installed the new disk to replace the old. Suse was working fine until I executed the tar command to backup the drive excluding /tmp, /proc, and one other I don't recall now. After a few hours, tar came back that it run out of disk space and could not continue and there was a command prompt, but the machine appeared to be locked up. I rebooted, and it would not boot. Got a new installation of suse on a new disk, mounted the /dev/md0 of the old working disk and could read the files, but properties showed it a 100% capacity. The disk is a 148GB and had 27.6 GB on it. Now I don't think it takes the 120GB to backup the 27.6GB, but I was trying to back it up wot a mounted USB drive. There were no files on it. I searched the md0 and found 5 tar.gz files in the /var directory of several hundred MB each. I deleted those 5 files, but it said there was still only 3.5MB free. I ran the ls -s command on all of the directories, and found nothing spectacular. I did get the necessary files recovered including a postgresql database and machine is back in operation now, but I would like to understand what happened. Why would tar cause the disk to go to 100% useage, which probably caused it not to boot, and how would I find out what is taking all of this space? Art

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Re: [SLE] semi-[OT] "christmas" trimmings all year long
by Kai Ponte 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

> You're right, it is the solstice, but interestingly enough, the sun has been > setting slightly _later_ each day for at least a couple of weeks. No, > I don't understand it, but you can check your daily papers if you still have > them, and verify that. That depeneds on which hemisphere you're in. The earth is actually kind of pear-shaped with the northern hemisphere being slightly smaller than the southern. As such, as we approach the equinox, the actual time of sunrise and sunset changes very little. As we leave the equinox the time starts changing drastically. This is dfferent depending on the lattitude you're at. For example, for us at 37 degrees north, here's the data for today and several weeks prior and after: Date Rise Set 11/16 - 6:27 - 4:49 11/23 - 6:34 - 4:46 11/30 - 6:40 - 4:44 12/07 - 6:46 - 4:44 12/14 - 6:51 - 4:45 12/21 - 6:55 - 4:48 12/28 - 6:58 - 4:52 01/04 - 7:00 - 4:58 01/11 - 7:00 - 5:04 You'll notice that for weeks up to the 21st, there's little change in the time of sunset. Right after, there's a major swing in sunset times. Switching back on topic for a moment - for those who haven't Celestia is an awesome appliction. http://www.shatters.net/celestia/ http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/58/Celestia_3D_Space_Simulation.pdf I have it running and it is a blast. -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com linux - genuine windows replacement part

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Developing for Flash on my Linux machine
by John Meyer 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

In a word: how? Are there any open source development environments, etc, out there?

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converting from musepack to mp3
by Phil Burness 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

I have some .mpc files that play OK, but I would like to burn them to an audio CD. K3b recognises the files and can play them but can it convert them to mp3 or wav files? If not is there another program that can? Thanks Phil -- Phil Burness Linux User since 1991 - currently using SuSE 9.3 Warrington - United Kingdom ------------------------------------------------------- -- Phil Burness Linux User since 1991 - currently using SuSE 9.3 Warrington - United Kingdom

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Re: [SLE] OT: KDE v. GNOME
by Kai Ponte 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

> Hi all: > I've been in several Linux rooms and I notice a very big anti-KDE > stance. My question is, what is so wrong with KDE? What about it > inspires such hatred? Just read the initial replies to Matthias' remarks about starting KDE way back when. http://groups.google.com/group/de.comp.os.linux.misc/msg/cb4b2d67ffc3ffce Even then people said, "hey we don't need another tool set," or "CDE is the best," or "Motif rocks!" People deride it because <a> it looks too much like windows, <b> it doesn't use a true "open source" toolkit (Qt), <c> it has a rather large footprint and <d> because it is popular. I first started using it back in '99 when I was on Mandrake 6.1 and really liked it over Motif or CDE. You will certianly find those who will think it is a pile of horse manure and they have their valid reasons. Anyway, much like anything, those who argue against something are often louder than those who argue for something. In short the Gnome people feel left out. As for me, I studied in Tubingen, so I think it is Kool. :) -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com linux - genuine windows replacement part

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emailaddress normal suse mailinglist
by Jan van Kollenburg 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Can anyone give me the emailaddress to subscribe to the normal SUSE mailinglist?

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Re: [SLE] Media error
by Joe Stuart 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

I was installing it to use as a test environment, because that is what one of our production boxes is running. The path I'm using is pub/suse/i386/9.0 Thanks >>> suse-list(a)bout-tyme.net 12/21/2005 11:59:55 AM >>> On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 11:51 -0600, Joe Stuart wrote: > I'm trying to do a network install of suse 9.0 and during the install > on the installation settings part I get "Cannot read package data from > media. Media Error?" under the software section. I've tried using > different mirrors with no luck. Has anyone else had this problem or > have any suggestions? > Any reason you need to install a version that is going to be obsoleted in four months? The 2.4 kernel is the only reason I can think of. Can you supply the exact network path you are trying to use? -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- 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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Media error
by Joe Stuart 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

I'm trying to do a network install of suse 9.0 and during the install on the installation settings part I get "Cannot read package data from media. Media Error?" under the software section. I've tried using different mirrors with no luck. Has anyone else had this problem or have any suggestions? Thanks Joe

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