May 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

automounting of Floppy 9.3
by Mike McMullin 14 May '05

14 May '05

How does one switch back to automounting the floppy under 9,3? The user mounting is spotty.

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RapidSVN
by Moby 13 May '05

13 May '05

Has anyone been able to compile or come across an RPM of RapidSVN (a GUI client for subversion) on SuSE 9.3? I used to download the sources and make my own RapidSVN, but with heimdal being replaced by krb packages on SuSE 9.3, I can no longer make RapidSVN. If not RapidSVN, then is anyone aware of some other GUI client for Subversion that is available for SuSE 9.3? Thanks in advance for any help, -- --Moby They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me. -- Pastor Martin Niemöller

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9.3 rocks
by Kevanf1 13 May '05

13 May '05

Right, after all the negative posts about 9.3 here's my verdict after running the Live DVD for a couple of hours. WOW!!!! It is very nice. It detected both of my printers (HP Laserjet which I expected and the Epson Stylus C84 which I was dubious about, it's a USB only printer), my soundcard works even though it is an onboard Realtek (had problems in the past) and it detected my modem but didn't have the drivers (they are on the full install disks) as it's an Intel 536EP type internal. The interface is very nice and smooth and despite it being a Live DVD lightning fast so I would love to see how the full install goes. So, am I tempted to buy? Would I recommend SuSE 9.3? You blinking well bet I would, it rocks. Well done SuSE/Novell. -- Take care. Kevan Farmer 34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR

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announcement twinkle sip client
by Richard Bos 13 May '05

13 May '05

I would like to announce a nifty little sip client called twinkle. I have made rpms of this sip client for suse93. BTW those rpms can be applied on suse92 as well. More information about twinkle is present on wiki dedicated to suse: http://www.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Twinkle Happy Twinkling :) -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless

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rkhunter-1.2.6-1.noarch.rpm available
by Patrick Shanahan 13 May '05

13 May '05

rkhunter -1.2.6-1.noarch.rpm is available for download: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/~pat/rkhunter-1.2.6-1.noarch.rpm http://wahoo.no-ip.org/~pat/rkhunter-1.2.6-1.src.rpm http://wahoo.no-ip.org/~pat/rkhunter-1.2.6.tar.gz Project description: Rootkit Hunter scans files and systems for known and unknown rootkits, backdoors, and sniffers. The package contains one shell script, a few text-based databases, and optional Perl modules. It should run on almost every Unix clone. The changes in this release are as follows: This release fixes the updater bug and adds support for Tao Linux and Trustix 2.2 (Sunchild). Release focus: 6 - Minor bugfixes Changelog Below is the changelog of Rootkit Hunter. It will contain changes of early released versions and the active development version. Current public version: 1.2.6 Current development version: 1.2.7 (not available yet) ----------------------------------------------- * 1.2.6 (10/05/2005) New: - Added support for Tao Linux - Added support for Trustix 2.2 (Sunchild) Bugfixes: - Fixed problem with updater author: Michael Boelen <michael(a)rootkit.nl> http://www.rootkit.nl -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery

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how to write large (> 2GB) files onto DVD
by Gabor Istvan 13 May '05

13 May '05

Dear list members: How can I write large, (eg 4.4 GB) files onto DVD? Can I use k3b for that? File system does not not need to be iso9660. TIA, IG

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connect a webcam
by Laurent Renard 13 May '05

13 May '05

Who knows the name of the device of a usb webcam ? /dev/ ? Thank you -- Laurent Renard

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RE: [SLE] connect a webcam
by Gustavo.Dutra 13 May '05

13 May '05

> -----Mensaje original----- > De: Catimimi [mailto:catimimi@libertysurf.fr] > Enviado el: Friday, May 13, 2005 1:43 PM > Para: SuSE Linux E... > Asunto: Re: [SLE] connect a webcam > > > Laurent Renard a écrit : > >Who knows the name of the device of a usb webcam ? > >/dev/ ? > > > >Thank you > > > Hi all, > > It is /dev/video0 if you have no other video device such as > TV card. If you have a TV card it depends on the order of > loading the modules. > > In my case, I force in modprobe.conf, the bttv module to load > before the Webcam module spca5xx, and the Webcam is always /dev/video1 > hi, You can also pass unit_video=1 in modprobe.conf, and it will be seen as /dev/video1 options ov511 unit_video=1

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Scripting Question
by Ben Higginbottom 13 May '05

13 May '05

Hi Folks, A rather general question on scripting. I'm taking a file and using awk, removing the first column from it which consists of lines like this: 208A03860010237500300767698/00125.04.20050521770084998030132879550012 I then want to remove the 2nd and 3rd characters and dump them to a separate file (each extraction on a separate line) at which point uniq -c will be run on the file and the results emailed out. The question is does anyone have any idea on removing the 2nd and 3rd characters, I suspect I can use some kind of regular expression and piping the file through sed to expand everything out and then use awk again to remove the desired parts. However what I know of regex can be written in very large type on the back of a postage stamp. Any suggestions or different approaches gratefully received. Regards, Ben

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Re: [SLE] connect a webcam
by Kevanf1 13 May '05

13 May '05

On 5/13/05, Laurent Renard <lrenard(a)epicuria.be> wrote: > Le vendredi 13 mai 2005 à 17:29 +0100, Kevanf1 a écrit : > > On 5/13/05, Laurent Renard <lrenard(a)epicuria.be> wrote: > > > Who knows the name of the device of a usb webcam ? > > > /dev/ ? > > > > > > Thank you > > > -- > > > Laurent Renard > > > > > > -- > > > 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 > > > > > > > > I think you would need to check USB View. It would be assigned a > > specific name to your PC. > > > > I think :-) but I could be wrong... > > > > -- > > Take care. > > Kevan Farmer > > > > 34 Hill Street > > Cheslyn Hay > > Staffordshire > > WS6 7HR > > > > no : i can see omnivision OV511+ but nothing else > -- > Laurent Renard > > Ah, sorry :-( -- Take care. Kevan Farmer 34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR

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Sil 3114 and two disk
by zio budda 13 May '05

13 May '05

Hi, I have a Gygabite MotherBoard with Sil3114 Raid Chipset and 2 HD. Into the bios of Sil 3114 I have set one Raid0 so when I boot the PC (before the boot manager menu) I see the text: "Sil0 138GB". Ok, it is correct. Now I want to install Suse 9.3 Pro, I boot from DVD and I see 2 HDx73GB and not HD 1x138GB. Why ? This is correct ? Tnx in advance for all and sorry for my bad english. M.

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firefox 1.0.4 whants to remove many unrelated packages
by Sunny 13 May '05

13 May '05

Hi, I checked what will happen if I upgrade firefox to 1.0.4 (currently running 1.0.3). Strange, but apt-get wants to remove a bunch of unrelated (in my eyes) packages, like DVDRip and transcode ?!?!? Running SuSE 9.1 and apt-get, here is the output of the upgrade command: suse:/home/sunny # apt-get -s dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following packages will be upgraded MozillaFirefox libavc1394 libdvdnav libraw1394 mozilla The following packages will be REMOVED: Video-DVDRip libdc1394 libquicktime transcode The following packages have been kept back k3b kdemultimedia3-jukebox 5 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 removed and 2 not upgraded. Remv Video-DVDRip (0.52.3-0.pm.0 SuSE:9.1/stable) Remv libdc1394 (0.9.3-20 SuSE:9.1/stable) Remv transcode (0.6.14-0.pm.0 SuSE:9.1/stable) Remv libquicktime (0.9.3-0.pm.0 SuSE:9.1/stable) Inst mozilla [1.7.7-0.1] (1.7.8-0.1 SuSE:9.1/stable) Inst MozillaFirefox [1.0.3-0.5] (1.0.4-0.1 SuSE:9.1/stable) Inst libdvdnav [0.1.9-63] (0.1.10-0.pm.0 SuSE:9.1/stable) Inst libavc1394 [0.4.1-56] (0.5.0-1.pm.1 SuSE:9.1/stable) [] Inst libraw1394 [0.10.1-20] (1.2.0-1.pm.1 SuSE:9.1/stable) Conf MozillaFirefox (1.0.4-0.1 SuSE:9.1/stable) Conf mozilla (1.7.8-0.1 SuSE:9.1/stable) Conf libdvdnav (0.1.10-0.pm.0 SuSE:9.1/stable) Conf libraw1394 (1.2.0-1.pm.1 SuSE:9.1/stable) Conf libavc1394 (0.5.0-1.pm.1 SuSE:9.1/stable) If in synaptic I remove the update of firefox, these packages are not forced to be removed. Someone else with this problem? Here is my sources.list: rpm ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/ SuSE/9.1-i386 rpmkeys base update-prpm update kde gnome mozilla samba3 suser-rbos suser-oc2pus suser-guru suser-gbv suser-tcousin suser-scorot suser-sbarnin suser-jogley suser-ollakka labplot funktronics packman packman-i686 wine kde3-stable security-prpm security ximian Cheers Sunny

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Any thoughts? Dell gives $99.5M to Red Hat
by James D. Parra 13 May '05

13 May '05

http://money.cnn.com/2005/05/10/technology/redhat/index.htm?cnn=yes James

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Network Issue on New Laptop
by Ron Joffe 13 May '05

13 May '05

I've got my hands on a new Dell 9300 Inspiron laptop. I'm having some strange networking problems. OS is SLES-9. lspci lists the nic as : BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02) The module that was loaded (selected automatically) is b44. On boot, eth0 is assigned a dhcp address, and the nameservers are properly populated in /etc/resolv.conf. So from this I know I am getting some connectivity. If I try to ping a device on my local subnet, I get: Destination Host Unreachable for a few hundred times Then I get very slow ping times(in the 10's of seconds) for a few hundred times Then I get sendmsg: No buffer space available I have tried using the bcm4400 drivers, and no luck there. What other suggestions would you have. Thanks, Ron

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KPILOT daemon question
by Jerry Feldman 13 May '05

13 May '05

I use jpilot for syncing my Treo650, but sometimes when I either sync with the Treo or when I mount a USB thumb drive, the KPILOT icon shows up. I've actually configured it not to look at /dev/pilot. It's simply a minor annoyance. I am running SuSE 9.2 professional. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf(a)blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9

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Yast install from ISO images
by Allison Maury 13 May '05

13 May '05

Hi, I have SLES 9 installed. I have followed the directions from the following Cool Solutions page http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/8973.html for saving images of the install CDs to the hard disk so that I can install packages without the CDs. So, I ripped the CDs to the hard disk, then mounted the 5 image files, and then changed the source of installation within yast. The problem is that when I try to install something, for example logsurfer (medium is CD2), it's still asking me to insert 'SUSE CORE Version 9 CD 2.' I don't know if it's related to the warning that I get for the last 3 cds ("There is no product information available..."). But the Cool Solutions page says it's safe to continue with this warning. I have installed 2 packages though this method, but it hangs on most. Did I forget something? Any ideas? THANKS!

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More mad bounces from list member (gbrown from unionavenue stop com)
by Carlos E. R. 13 May '05

13 May '05

Hi, I wouldn't mention this, but as nobody else commented on it, I thought that perhaps it could be only me, and the rest of you have a configuration that rejects them. Is one of those bounces from a lister with a misconfigured postfix from days (weeks?) ago. Anyway. I copy here the important parts of the bounce; I would like to reject it in postfix. But how? Return-Path: <> --> this is the envelope from, impossible to reject. ... Received: from mail.aculink.net (65.173.158.7) by netmail.tiscalinet.es (6.7.021.1) id 426E55CC001473B4 for *; Wed, 11 May 2005 22:18:38 +0200 Received: from linux.local ([204.118.157.51]) by mail.aculink.net (Merak 6.2.1) with ESMTP id EDA37003 for <robin1.listas@>; Wed, 11 May 2005 14:18:31 -0600 ... Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 10:41:59 -0600 (MDT) From: MAILER-DAEMON(a)linux.local (Mail Delivery System) Subject: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender To: robin1.listas@ ... This is the reason, the misconfiguration. People should really test their setup locally before going on internet... <gbrown(a)localhost.linux.local>: host localhost[127.0.0.1] said: 451 4.5.0 Error in processing, id=03813-07, virus_scan FAILED: NO VIRUS SCANNERS AVAILABLE (in reply to end of DATA command) ... Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by linux.local (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57C8C331A6 for <gbrown@localhost>; Sat, 30 Apr 2005 20:00:07 -0600 (MDT) Received: from mail.unionavenue.com [65.173.158.7] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-6.2.3) for gbrown@localhost (single-drop); Sat, 30 Apr 2005 20:00:07 -0600 (MDT) Received: from lists.suse.com ([195.135.221.131]) by mail.aculink.net (Merak 6.2.1) with SMTP id EDA37003 for <gbrown at unionavenue.com>; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 18:25:23 -0600 ^^^^^^^ This one is the culprit. Does anybody know him? Can somebody tell him to reconfigure his postfix correctly? -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

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GRUB Hard Disk Error in SuSE 9.2
by Arie Reynaldi Z 13 May '05

13 May '05

All, I just install suse 9.2, after going trough all installation process, i reboot my system. But I found my system can't be boot without CD 1. I have add 'Activate Boot' in Yast, but still I have to use CD 1 to boot my system. Any clue ? regards, -- Arie Reynaldi Zanahar reymanx at gmail.com http://www.reynaldi.or.id

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Open Source Presentation..
by Ryan McCain 13 May '05

13 May '05

I am giving a presentation in a few weeks to some very big wigs w/in my company as to why we should offer open source solutions on proposals and also implement open source solutions where it makes sense internally. rather than me re-inventing the wheel, does anyone know of any good presentations (or any info) directed towards the executive level audience? Thanks, Ryan

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USB device and scsi resets
by Leen de Braal 13 May '05

13 May '05

Hi, Having troubles with external USB harddisk, that is used for backups. Yesterday in the logs, when device is attached: May 12 08:56:34 linux kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:1d.7-2, assigned address 5 May 12 08:56:34 linux kernel: WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured May 12 08:56:34 linux kernel: USB Mass Storage device found at 5 This is OK. Then: May 12 08:59:23 linux kernel: scsi: device set offline - not ready or command retry failed after bus reset: host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 May 12 08:59:23 linux kernel: SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 50000 May 12 08:59:23 linux kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 At noon first backup (it is done twice a day, again at 17:00) is started from cron, having problems of course: May 12 12:00:00 linux /USR/SBIN/CRON[3447]: (root) CMD (/root/backup_usb) May 12 12:00:00 linux automount[1401]: attempting to mount entry /mnt/backup/usb May 12 12:00:00 linux automount[3456]: >> mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device May 12 12:00:00 linux automount[3456]: mount(generic): failed to mount /dev/sda1 (type reiserfs) on /mnt/backup/usb What could be causing the scsi-resets? This is happening on random times and days, sometimes repeating after 3 days, sometimes no problems for weeks. I have not found another solution than to reboot the system to get it running again. System is SuSE9.0 on an IDE hdd of 40G, there are no other scsi devices: linux:~ # cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: USB 2.0 Model: Storage Device Rev: 0100 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 -- L. de Braal BraHa Systems NL Terneuzen T +31 115 649333 F +31 115 649444

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Speedtouch ADSL modems on SUSE 9.3
by Jason 13 May '05

13 May '05

Starting a new thread, but prompted by the thread about ADSL hadware on SuSE... These are my experiences trying to get my old green SpeedTouch 'frog' working with 9.3 on my UK ADSL account. Hope this might be useful for others, as it certainly spoilt the experience of installing 9.3 for me... but once sorted it's been fine. I've also got a silver Speedtouch 330 working on my laptop - I use to verify customers broadband connections... On Thursday 12 May 2005 01:23, Cristian Rodriguez wrote: end a complaint to your ISP or your modem manufacturer. the problem > with usb modems is not a linux problem,is in fact, a manufacturer > problem,they don ' t provide the necesarry documentation-specs to > code a driver for it. The common Thomson Alcatel Speedtouch USB Adsl modems supplied with many ISPs work very well with Linux - but you need to fiddle a little to get them to work. You need to get the correct firmware from the Thompson site: http://www.speedtouch.com/support.htm Just use the Linux firmware download link! for 9.2 I more or less followed the instructions on the Support Database (search for speedtouch), but I found I had to modprobe pppoatm before I could get a connection. Use Yast to set up the DSL connection using pppoatm as the transport. The modem loading and modprobe went into my /etc/init.d/boot.local Other resources are on: http://linux-usb.sourceforge.net/SpeedTouch/ I had some difficulties getting the modem working in SUSE 9.3. I've reported to both the installation support and (at their suggestion) duplicated to Suse feedback.... that was a couple of weeks ago now. At the very least they should update their notes on the sdb. In summary for 9.3 to get a SpeedTouch modem working: 1. Get the correct firmware and split it. 2. Copy speedtch-1.bin speedtch-2.bin to /lib/firmware : kernel loads firmware automatically when modem is plugged in. Which is nice. 3. Mend Suse's packaging of ppp by copying a binary of pppoatm.so pppd plugin from another distro. Make sure the ppp version numbers match. 4. Set up DSL properties using Yast. For the UK, PPP Mode is PPP over ATM, and vpi/vci should be 0.38. More detailed notes: 1. For 9.3 (or kernel 2.6.10+) firmware loading has changed and is automated by the kernel. Follow the instructions at: http://linux-usb.sourceforge.net/SpeedTouch/firmware/firmware.html (I couldn't get their ./configure and make script to work, but manually compiled the firmware program - using gcc on the command line - ran it in the build directory and then copied the split firmware files to /lib/firmware ) 2. When the modem is plugged in the firmware is automagically loaded - you can verify by looking at /var/log/messages. Which is more elegant than messing with speedmgmt or modem_run 3. Then I had a problem that had my head banging against the keyboard in frustration. No matter what settings I had in Yast, kinternet/ppp would not connect. I kept getting an error 2 or something. It turns out that SUSE haven't included the pppoatm.so plugin for pppd - that lives in /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.3/ so the default ppp won't connect using ATM - which is needed in the UK at least. Previous versions of Suse's ppp all include this plugin. Back to Google - and found a Mandrake Cooker rpm with a matching ppp version number: ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/cooker/i586/media/main/ppp-pppoatm-2… Extract the pppoatm.so file from this rpm and copy it to /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.3/ and ppp connects fine. I used rpm2cpio and cpio to get it out. Anyway, hope this is useful! And, yes, I was sorely tempted to go out and buy an ADSL modem/router. But the Speedtouch has been working solidly for 4 years for me now, and is fine for my needs. Jason

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What does this group think of the Tyan or Asus MOBOs?
by jfweber＠bellsouth.net 13 May '05

13 May '05

Wizards... Esp. you guys that are into hot hardware and ¨roll yer own¨ computers.. Please comment on this matter. I , no doubt, am labouring under some misconceptions.. But having decided that my own baby needs an upgrade.. ( the Hard drives are ok.. and the power supply, oh yean the case...( thermaltake X) Tho I haven´t put the fishtank mod in yet.. I suspect this case will be around for a very long time. I am most interested in Athlon 64bit processors rather than Intel, tho.. I am open to suggestions . Would like to find a MOBO that could or would have up to 4 spots for processors, but which wont bother anything if there is only one, or two.. to start .. For Athlon 64s, multi proc...( i.e. 2or more of Athlon 64 or Opteron , Which looks as if it is intended as a ¨celeron¨ lower price points etc..??? ) And just for fun, is anyone using Suse ( any level I guess but 9.3 certainly ) on any of the dual processors in one chip??? Would it be better to use two of those rather than 4 opterons, for instance. I need the processing power, but don´t see too many MOBOs that would be *desktop* ready. They seem not to have builtins i.e.onboard firewire, USB, sound chip,ethernet, and so on... they also seem to have only two or three slots for things like ethernet or sound, or video etc. That is understandable if they expect folks to just build a server around that system... but ye olde reality requires that the Mobo have builtins for a lot of that stuff, or enough pci slots to take care of those items... As to the two named boards, Asus /Tyan I don´t see any adverts ffor any others, so you most certainly enlighten me there . :-) TIA -- j

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Filesystem not checked for 136 years?B
by Jay Vollmer 13 May '05

13 May '05

Hi Everybody. I had SuSE 9.3 crash on me the other day. Since it was locked up solid, I had to hit the reset button. At the GRUB prompt I booted into single user mode and fscked each filesystem. Unce all filesystems showed as clean, I rebooted again, only to find that the system was telling me that each of these filesystems which I had just checked had not been checked for 49710 days. By my calculations, that's slightly more than 136 years. I know that I can use tune2fs to change the check interval, but is that a good idea? These numbers aren't right. Someone please hit me with the clue-stick - but not too hard please, I'm frail. -- JAY VOLLMER JVOLLMER(a)CONSOLIDATEDLINT.COM TEXT REFS DOUBLEPLUSUNGOOD SELFTHINK VERGING CRIMETHINK IGNORE FULLWISE

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"Linux leaders flee Novell"...
by Basil Chupin 12 May '05

12 May '05

..is the heading of an article at http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23123 Ciao. -- "It's in our country's interests to find those who would do harm to us and get them out of harm's way." George W Bush 28 April 2005.

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2 small PIA's, not really 'problems' with Konqueror and Kmail
by JB 12 May '05

12 May '05

Hey gang, Been using 9.3 since it came out, and loving the hell out of it. There are two small things though that are just frustrating. When I use Konqueror as my web browser (which is all the time, it's my main browser), often some pics don't show up on a site, of if I click a link, it'll pop up a 'site can't be found'-like thing. I can keep hitting the reload button, and at the very least it will pop up a small window saying something like that server can't be found and I have to click OK and then the reload button over and over anywhere from 3 to 12 times, then all of a sudden it seems to 'take' and the page opens up. Basically what it feels like is Konq trying to 'move' too fast and not catching what it should. The other problem is with Kmail. Once in a while when I click on the 'check mail in' button (for two accounts), it'll pop up a window saying something about unknown host. I can click OK on it and then it will continue to get the mail from the second account, then I can click on it again to check mail in and it works just fine. Anyone else seeing this? It's more a PIA than a 'problem', but it gets old, especially with Konqueror since it's my main browser. If I use Firefox for browsing, nothing like it happens *ever*, but I like firefox as a backup only. Thanks, JB

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Need help with a sed script
by Greg Freemyer 12 May '05

12 May '05

Anders, I see your online, maybe you can answer this fairly quickly for me. I don't use sed very often, how do I shift the first 2 chars of every line to chars 5 & 6. In otherwords if I have lines like: 123456rest of line. I need it to be: 345612rest of line. Reading a tutorial, I think it is something like: sed -e 's@^$?$$?$$?$$?$$?$$?$@\3\4\5\6\1\2@' file I'm going off to try that now. PS: Any tool can be used, but I have 80,000 lines to modify in a single file, and sed is the only tool I know for the job. Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century

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Re: 9.3 install
by Bruce Marshall 12 May '05

12 May '05

On Thursday 12 May 2005 06:31 pm, Ken Schneider wrote: > So far I have installed on my laptop (my test machine) and my old > reliable server. I even learned a couple of new things about postfix and > may come to like it yet (old sendmail fan). > The server gave me fits as the DVD drive is on it's last legs and starts > to run very hot. I think it, the heat, ruined the DVD copy I made. I > still have the original you sent me so I can make another copy. Next > will be my desktop machine, maybe this weekend. I'm hoping it will clear > up a couple of USB problems I have been having, mainly the USB sound > card I use and I like the way that HP has added support for the MFP > machines as the scanner is now recognized by YaST, at least it was with > the live dvd. > Good deal. I've now have it on 3 machines and I have run into some problems, but I am getting them licked. In my server machine, I have the usual two NIC's and it seems that at one point I had swapped the configuration for them. One uses dhcp from a router for its IP address and the other is static. Quite often after I would boot, the LAN NIC would not be usable and I finally tracked it down to an added route line where 192.168.0.0 was going to each of the NICs!! Took me awhile to figure out where that was coming from but there was old info left in the /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth-xxxxxxx file for the dhcp NIC. It still had it's static IP information and that was setting the pointer to the LAN when it shouldn't have pointed to anything. I wrote that one up as my first ever bug submitted to SuSE in abvout 7 years. > Has it seemed lately that the amount of traffic on the list has gone > down? It sure seems like it to me. Not really.... I had about 100 messages in the queue today after not being near the computer for about 8 hrs. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh(a)bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 05/12/05 18:51 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "When you're in love, you're at the mercy of a stranger."

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9.2 or 9.3 Pro Fujitsu Siemens Econel 50 P4 compatibility ?
by Robert Rozman 12 May '05

12 May '05

Hi, I wonder if anyone is sucessfully running Suse Pro 9.2 or 9.3 on this machine ? Any experience, advice ? Thanks in advance, regards, Rob.

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openafs and ioctl failure
by David Bear 12 May '05

12 May '05

wondering if anyone else is using the stock openafs bundled with suse 9.3... I noticed today after running openafs on my system that when I attempted to klog or use any afs files, the openafs client would issue a ioctl error. Stopping and restarting the afs client seemed to fix this issue. But this is a little scary. I've run openafs code on suse 9.0 and other linux platforms and have never seen this. -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax: 480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 "Beware the IP portfolio, everyone will be suspect of trespassing"

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Quanta and ssh
by Chadley Wilson 12 May '05

12 May '05

Greetings Yesterday, I saw a friend of mine running quanta, with a ssh plugin allowing him to access his servers from his laptop using quanta, nice and graphical Since Suse92 doesn't have Quanta, what do we use instead? -- Chadley Wilson Redhat Certified Technician Cert Number: 603004708291270 Pinnacle Micro Manufacturers of Proline Computers ==================================== Exercise freedom, Use LINUX =====================================

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Re: [SLE] Printer blinking but not printing Epson EPL-5900
by su.petr＠seznam.cz 12 May '05

12 May '05

Epson EPL-5900. paolo napsal(a): > Hi > which is the model of your printers? > > > > su.petr(a)seznam.cz ha scritto: > >> ----- The attached message is an automatically >> ----- generated copy of mail delivered to paolo.cerini(a)tiscali.it >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> Oggetto: >> [SLE] Printer blinking but not printing Epson EPL-5900 >> Da: >> "su.petr(a)seznam.cz" <su.petr(a)seznam.cz> >> Data: >> Wed, 11 May 2005 22:00:45 +0200 >> A: >> suse-linux-e(a)suse.com >> >> A: >> suse-linux-e(a)suse.com >> >> >> I have problem, >> when i print PDF or document from OpenOffice 2.0 longer than one >> page, printer blinking orange (standard state before start printing), >> bu than do not pronting only light orange (it should printing). After >> 10 to 15 minutes printer crazy blow up paper. >> >> >From Koffice and from Kate i do not discovere problems till now. >> >> When i want print again from Kate, i must restart SuSE linux and >> power off, on printer. Restart only CUPS + power off, on printer do >> not help. >> >> Have you any idea where is the bug? In CUPS or in driver for printer? >> Where is some errorlog? >> >> Thank You, Petr Novák >> su.petr(a)seznam.cz >> >> > > > > __________ Informacia od NOD32 1.1094 (20050512) __________ > > Tato sprava bola preverena antivirusovym systemom NOD32. > http://www.eset.sk

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Re: [SLE] Any thoughts? Dell gives $99.5M to Red Hat
by Doug McGarrett 12 May '05

12 May '05

Maybe it'll cause Novell to straighten up and fly right! --doug At 09:51 AM 5/12/2005 -0700, James D. Parra wrote: > >http://money.cnn.com/2005/05/10/technology/redhat/index.htm?cnn=yes > >James > >-- -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.9 - Release Date: 5/12/2005

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restricting email
by Ken Schneider 12 May '05

12 May '05

Does anyone know if it is possible to restrict email to system accounts like root, sys, bin, mail to the internal network only and not have those addresses available from internet mail? Using postfix for the MTA on SuSE 9.3 pro. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge

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Does samba server require cups daemon
by Allison Maury 12 May '05

12 May '05

Hi everyone, I'm new to SUSE (and linux admin in general) and am trying to configure a samba server using yast. When I start the yast samba server configuration tool, it hangs at 50% on printer settings (I then have to kill yast). As the machine is a file server and I haven't had the need, I don't have any printer set up for this machine. To attempt to get past this hanging point, I tried to set up a printer, during which I get "Error CUPS daemon died during initialization" and two different points. Since the machine is a file server, I tried to minimalize what I installed on it. So, I only have cups-client, cups-libs, cups-libs-32bit, and xpp installed. From chkconfig --list, I don't see any cups daemon listed. With this information, I'd appreciate any suggestions/advice on how to get the samba server configuration tool to stop hanging. Does samba require cups to be running? Do I need to set up cups? Do I need to install more packages? Thanks for any and all advice! Allison

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RE: [SLE] Suse Linux information required - New user
by Cleary_Mike＠emc.com 12 May '05

12 May '05

Welcome to Linux - and especially SuSe! 1. Open the YaST Control Center 2. Click on "Online Update" 3. Choose an installation source from the list, then click "Next". 4. Pick the patches you want to install from the list shown OR, during step 3, choose not to manually select patches (uncheck the box if it is checked), and click on "Configure Fully Automatic Update". This will then automatically update your machine when there is a new patch that is relevant to the software installed on your machine. That's a quick summary - but it is pretty easy. Enjoy! Mike ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------- cleary_mike(a)emc.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------- There are 10 types of people in the world. Those that understand binary and those that don't. -----Original Message----- From: Padiyath Sreekumaran [mailto:Kumar.Padiyath@psi.ch] Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 8:16 AM To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: [SLE] Suse Linux information required - New user Hello, Iam new to Linux as well as to this list. I have taken the responsibility of 2 Suse Linux machines. I see that Suse Linux V9.1 is installed on the machine. I have not done much with Linux. I see that Suse has given some security patches for some of the SW. These machines are production machines (one is 32bit and another 64bit) I would like to know the following: 1. How I can get and install the patches(any utlities like up2date etc. on Suse) I will appreciate very much if I can get step by step procedure so that I can keep the the downtime very less. I can get a listing of the SW installed on the machine with rpm -qa command. But afterwards? If there is a kernel patch then I would like to know how I have to proceed with this. Present kernel version 64 bit: 2.6.4-52-smp #1 SMP 32 bit: 2.6.5-7.111-bigsmp #1 SMP Thanks in advance. With regards, Kumar ------------------------------------------------------------------ Padiyath Sreekumar | Tel: +41.56.310.3643 Paul Scherrer Institut | email: kumar.padiyath(a)psi.ch AIT | Office: WHGA/U132 WHGA/U132 | Fax: +41.56.310.3649 CH-5232 Villigen PSI | Switzerland | ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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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Cannot Enable 3-D with NVidia GeForce 5200
by John Bailo 12 May '05

12 May '05

Platform: Suse 9.2, ftp-iso install Nvidia GeForce 5200 Video card Problem: I am not able to Enable 3-D Configuration after installing an NVidia GeForce 5200 video card using the standard documented installation procedure. I did the following: 1) Installed the NVidia driver via YOU Patches. 2) Used Control Center to deselect the (nv) driver and pick an NVidia driver for the GeForce 5200. 3) At that point, 3-D acceleration is already selected ( which is what the documentation tells me should happen )... Here is the documentation: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/XFree86/nvidia-installer-H… 4) After finalizing the selection, I notice that 3-D is now set to Disabled! (And I've gone through the process at least 3 times now ). 5) If I run /glxgears/ or /glxinfo/ I see that there is no direct rendering or 3D support. I am really hoping not to have to compile my own kernel modules. I bought this card today after looking in the Novell/Suse hardware database list and it said specifically that it was supported "Fully" including 3D, so I'm kind of steamed !!!!

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tunneling through an intermediate host
by Dave Howorth 12 May '05

12 May '05

I have [SuSE] machines at home and at work. I'd like to be able to connect to my machine at work from home and use X-based applications, copy files etc. But from home I have to login to a gateway machine at work and from there I can connect to my own machine. This is done by our administrators for security reasons. The login to the gateway is via ssh. Is there some way to set up a connection from my home machine through the gateway to my work machine that makes the gateway become invisible? So I can run programs that open connections from my home machine to my work machine or vice-versa? I know about the -X option of ssh for example, but setting that on the connection from home to the gateway and again from the gateway to my work machine doesn't seem to allow me to run X clients on my work machine and display them at home. Pointers to any useful resources would be welcome as well as direct suggestions. Thanks, Dave

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mounting an encrypted partition, and more ...
by John Sowden 12 May '05

12 May '05

I have an encrypted partition that works fine, but I have a few Q': Suse v8.2 During boot, if I don't get to the computer fast enough, the log in key prompt fails, and the boot continues. Hw do I "mount" an encrypted partition, once the computer is booted. This is not referenced in the suse manual on cd. When I copy text from a encrypted partition to a plaintext partition, it is no longer encrypted. How do I encrypt a file from the command line? I am primarily interested in encrypting my backup cd's, as now I have to use dos with an encryption program. Does decrypting with the wrong key fail, or does it hopelessly re-encrypt your data with an unknown key due to a typo? --- John Sowden American Sentry Systems. Inc. 1221 Andersen Drive San Rafael, CA 94901 U.L. Listed Central Station Alarm Service Serving the San Francisco Bay Area Since 1967 mail(a)americansentry.net http://www.americansentry.net

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Problem with mouse
by Taavi Dovnar 12 May '05

12 May '05

I installed new computer with Suse 9.3, got everything to work and I put machine to use in classroom. But then after few logins I think, mouse doesn't work nicely. When user logins (even root), mouse cursor is displayed, but it doesn't move... When I just run Yast->Hardware->Mouse model, mouse starts to work nicely. It is USB mouse, when I unplug-plug it, in shows messages in log file nicely. I tried to use ps2 mouse, but it didn't help also... Any suggestions?

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SuSE supported aDSL devices
by Jan Sedivy 12 May '05

12 May '05

Hi ! I am just starting using Linux (SuSE 9.2) and I´d like to use it also for my connection to Internet via aDSL. But I´m not sure which devices are capable running under SuSE. There are these types of modems (Draytek Vigor 318 USB or Microcom AD 2622), and routers (Alcatel SpeedTouch 510i or Draytek Vigor 2600 Ge) that could be used. I was searching in the hardware database at http://cdb.novell.com, but I could find there only two of older Draytek routers (2200X and 2500We), both with "problematic! status. Does somebody USE any of above mentioned four devices and if, are there any problems? Thank in advance for any advice Jan Sedivy jsedivy(a)stonline.sk

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Dual NICs
by Steven R. Sharp 12 May '05

12 May '05

Has anyone had any experience with a dual-homed machine? One NIC gets its info from a DHCP server, the other one has a static IP address. The DHCP-assigned NIC is the main interface for the internet, etc. The static is only used for a few internal networks. Can they both have a default gateway? If so, how is that setup?

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Mozilla Mail 1.7.7
by Marek Pawinski 12 May '05

12 May '05

Hi Am i missing something here in 9.3 ? I can't seem to find the spell checker for mozilla-mail, is there an extra package i need to install ? Marek

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Nvidia NVsound trouble or SuSE 9.3 bug ??
by Titiriga Dorin 12 May '05

12 May '05

Hi, until recent, I was able to run with no problem the latest nvidia nforce2 soundstorm driver with suse 9.2. After I have switch to SuSE 9.3, there is no way to make this driver to work. It is compiled, installe, the proper modification are done in /etc/modules.d/sound, but, from strange reason, suse keep loading alsa driver i810 - and with that driver I have no 5.1 sound using my analogic sound sistem, Even worse, alsa keep to start, even I have disabled the alsasound daemon in Yast. After every restart If I go in Yast services bla bla, alsa it is there nice and running, and that I think stop nvaudio driver to load ! So , if there is any solution, i will be glade to see a post on this site - because I think that I am not the only user out there using a nvidia nforce 2 mb *in my case a asus a78nx deluxe) with soundstorm Tanks !

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Athlon on Gigabyte motherboard GA-K8NXP-9 & SuSE 9.2
by Ronald Wiplinger 12 May '05

12 May '05

I have installed SuSE 9.2 pro on an Athlon with IDE hard disk. I got some problems with my motherboard Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-9 1. my USB memory stick is not recognized: 396-May 12 08:09:55 www kernel: subfs: unsuccessful attempt to mount media (256) 397:May 12 08:10:16 www kernel: usb 1-6: new high speed USB device using address 2 398:May 12 08:10:16 www kernel: usb 1-6: Product: USB_HUB 399:May 12 08:10:16 www kernel: usb 1-6: Manufacturer: JMTek LLC. 400-May 12 08:10:16 www kernel: hub 1-6:1.0: USB hub found 401-May 12 08:10:16 www kernel: hub 1-6:1.0: 1 port detected 402:May 12 08:10:17 www kernel: usb 1-6.1: new high speed USB device using address 3 403:May 12 08:10:17 www kernel: usb 1-6.1: Product: USB_Storage 404:May 12 08:10:17 www kernel: usb 1-6.1: Manufacturer: JMTek LLC. 455-May 12 08:16:13 www modprobe: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.8-24-default/modules.dep: No such file or directory 456-May 12 08:16:14 www last message repeated 73 times 457:May 12 08:17:18 www kernel: usb 1-6: USB disconnect, address 2 458:May 12 08:17:18 www kernel: usb 1-6.1: USB disconnect, address 3 2. as in line 455 above to see modules.dep not found How to fix it? 3. My floppy is not recognized If I put in a floppy, I cannot mount it (mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy) 4. My motherboard has two Ethernet ports and a wireless port, however I can only get one Ethernet port to work. How can I activate the other two? (ethernet and wireless) bye Ronald

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swfdec
by B. Stia 12 May '05

12 May '05

Hello SuSE people, Did an apt-get update and a simulated dist-upgrade tonight. Apt proposes to remove two files. One is swfdec-mozilla and the other is swfdec. Don't know what they do and asking if I should allow it. Thanks, Bob S.

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Any new viruses/worms/trojans for Linux
by Chadley Wilson 12 May '05

12 May '05

Greetings I am experiencing and interesting problem with my 92 box, Specifically with Kontact. A bout a week ago I changed the routing on my box so that I did not need to go through the proxy. For a week all was fine, Today all of sudden I keep getting request for my proxy username and pass from Kontact/KMail. It seems something is trying to go somewhere!?! I have dbl checked the global variables and Yast proxy settings but can't pin what is causing the abnormal behaviour. Anyone here have and ideas ? -- Chadley Wilson Redhat Certified Technician Cert Number: 603004708291270 Pinnacle Micro Manufacturers of Proline Computers ==================================== Exercise freedom, Use LINUX =====================================

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cups start fails
by Colin Carter 12 May '05

12 May '05

Hi, I am not deep into Linux OS as yet, so could somebody please help interpret the following log file. My cups doesn't start up. Perhaps I am looking for the wrong thing. Thanks, Colin ... Starting ptal Currently defined device names ([*]=default): "mlc:usb:OfficeJet_6100_Series" Model is "OfficeJet 6100 Series". Serial number is "MY33AF20J42R". Syntax for the root user: ptal-init start|stop|setup|status|condrestart [-q[uiet]|-v[erbose]] failed <notice>exit status of (sshd smpppd ptal powersaved fbset alsasound) is (0 0 2 0 0 0) <notice>start services (splash postfix kbd) Starting mail service (Postfix)done snip log> Master Resource Control: runlevel 5 has been reached Failed services in runlevel 5: portmap ptal Skipped services in runlevel 5: smbfs <notice>killproc: kill(683,3) end of log

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Permission Problem
by Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. 12 May '05

12 May '05

I have just upgraded to v9.3 by doing a new installation and am have a question about permissions. I have an application, Tinder, that has a default installation directory of /opt for the file tree and the need to install symlinks in /usr/local/bin. Naturally, all of these directories are root/root. I want to run the installer as a user, not as root. I have one user on the system, computation which belongs to th dialout, video and users group. So I need to know how to set the permissions so that I can install, and run, tinker as the user computation. Another problem, about which I have no clue, is that i get a message from the installer: 'install4j An error occurred: java.io.IOException: Too many open files Error log: /tm//install4jError19740log' This causes the installer to bomb at about 70% completion (I tried running the installer as root one time, although I wasn't happy doing that). Thanks in advance. -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and multivariant http://www.geocities.com/FoundationForChemistry

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Rename My Computer Dynamically
by L. Mark Stone 12 May '05

12 May '05

On the Windows servers we manage, we use a little utility to hack the registry. The hack changes the title of the "My Computer" icon to whatever we want. Novell's Cool Whatevers site has one of these as well. The example they use is to rename the My Computer icon with a mix of static text and environment variables, so the icon reads something like "LMStone on Server48", using the environment variables for user and computer name, and the static text " on ". Is there an equivalent utility for SuSE KDE? It's very handy when you are patching a bunch-o machines and you want to know exactly which server you are about to reboot!. Mark -- _________________________________________________________ A Message From... L. Mark Stone Reliable Networks of Maine, LLC "We manage your network so you can manage your business." 477 Congress Street Portland, ME 04101 Tel: (207) 772-5678 Web: http://www.rnome.com

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Re: [SLE] "Linux leaders flee Novell"...
by DC Parris 12 May '05

12 May '05

---------- Original Message ------------- Subject: Re: [SLE] "Linux leaders flee Novell"... Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 17:48:20 -0500 From: "Donn L Washburn" <n5xwb(a)hal-pc.org> To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Me too! I just hope Novell doesn't screw up SuSE 9.4 or 10. whatever. It is one of the best full featured distros out there. I however, wish they would stop trying to act like Winblows. Taking control of everything. They are finally offering a runlevel control while loading. --------------- I'll buy *that* for a dollar! No acting like Windows! I dropped Red Hat at 7.2 over the Windows-ish installation routine. I know they were trying to cross the bridge, but I was trying to get on across to the Linux side. I still prefer the old StarOffice 5.2 interface to the current OOo offering. The tabbed documents concept was way-cool, in my book! Give me GNU/Linux innovation - not Microsoft mimicry. Don -- DC Parris Matheteuo Christian Fellowship webdev(a)matheteuo.org http://matheteuo.org/ Free software is like God's love - you can share it with anyone anywhere anytime!

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