August 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

rsync without password?
by Ronald Wiplinger 17 Aug '05

17 Aug '05

I have a database server, but I would like to make a backup of some databases every hour via rsync. How can I do that? I use MySQL and SuSE 9.x Or, how can I setup the database as a slave on the backup server? bye Ronald Wiplinger

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problems in configuring a scanner with yast
by Darko Mocelj 17 Aug '05

17 Aug '05

Hello List, a couple of days ago I bought a new Canon Lide 20 scanner. Although sane supports this scanner fully, I was not able to use this scanner. To be more specific: I managed to install the scanner on my notebook within a few seconds without any problems. On my desktop and on my notebook I have almost the same configuration: Suse 9.3 with all You updates. On my desktop I' ve done the same steps as on my notebook: Plug in the USB cable -> new hardware found -> starting yast scanner module. This is the output: + Initializing scanner configuration + Read or create the scanner database -> Error, Aborting: Failed to create the scanner database I've tried to copy the sane files from the successful notebook installation to the desktop but unfortunately without any success. Unfortunately I did not find any hints in google, so maybe somebody has experienced the same problem before ... Thanks for any hints, Darko -- Darko Mocelj University of Basel Department of Physics and Astronomy Klingelbergstr. 82 CH-4056 Basel ------------------------------------------------------------------- Tel.: +41 61 267 37 85 Mail: darko.mocelj(a)unibas.ch Fax : +41 61 267 37 84 ------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- -- Darko Mocelj University of Basel Department of Physics and Astronomy Klingelbergstr. 82 CH-4056 Basel ------------------------------------------------------------------- Tel.: +41 61 267 37 85 Mail: darko.mocelj(a)unibas.ch Fax : +41 61 267 37 84 -------------------------------------------------------------------

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Bridge with wireless.
by Hans du Plooy 17 Aug '05

17 Aug '05

Hi, I have two questions regarding bridges. I have setup a bridge on a 9.3 box, with two network cards (wired), as per the bridge howto. No hassles, it works really well. My first question is, how do I configure it so that it fits in with the SUSE configuration files? At the moment my network interfaces goes up as normal, and after botting, my little script change them and set up the bridge. Second question. Last night I tried to add a wireless card to the bridge. With the wireless card in the bridge, I couldn't ping the bridge from another wireless machine, but the wired part seemed to work as normal. What could be the problem? The other option I have is to set up the wireless card in AP mode - It's an Intersil Prism, so it can do that. Can anyone tell me (or point me to the appropriate documentation) how to make the AP work like any normal standalone access point? I am able to connect to it, but I can ping anything on the network, it's like the AP doesn't know what to do with the traffic. Thanks Hans

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Re: [opensuse] SUPER, SUSE Performance Enhanced Release.
by Andreas Girardet 17 Aug '05

17 Aug '05

Hello there I send my reply to the list, since I might not have been clear enough about one particular issue. >> 3.) Personally I want to stay as close as possible to the openSUSE >> code, since this means that each openSUSE release gets followed on the >> day by our "addon" packages. > ... >> In short I do not want to create a new distro out of this or a fork > > That's a most commendable attitude. As I said above, this way I get the > best of both worlds! > Correct, Compatibility is certainly what I am personally after. What some of us want to do additionally is really up to the project, but personally I want things to just be usable by any standard openSUSE user by pointing the system out to a YOU/Yum or apt repository, containing a set of packages that will replace your current ones with optimised ones. Same code, just tweaked to be faster. What the project will come up with is really not just up to me, but I certainly do have my views on this matter, which are inline with yours. >> Those packages should and could be >> installed on top of an existing openSUSE install > > I strongly support this idea, since this will enable ordinary users like > me to install the enhancement too. > >> we could also create a 1 CD base desktop distro a user can download and >> install quickly and then install additional packages onto with Yast or >> Kynaptic/Synaptic against the gwdg.de repository , > > This would mean difficulty for me, since I do not have access to > unlimited bandwidth, I can't download everything myself. Right now I > have about 4 gig of SuSE 9.3 installed on my system, and all but 200 KB > of it is from the CDs. So I really prefer the idea with the packages on > top of a clean SUSE 10 install. > I probably did not explain it well enough, but I was actually talking about at least 2 iso's. The #1 iso is already a full desktop. You get a full blown base desktop (KDE) and then just add things you want additionally. The mini-install is just for me and my requirements to have a minimal mini server install. Something that could be further optimised to create one of those USB stick distro's ;). If anyone wants to add a 3rd iso (Gnome Desktop), then anyone can do that. Thanks to the awesome work the guys and girls in Nuernberg and Prag do and did, this is all very easy with SUSE. >> really like. We could also create a mini install containing <150 base >> packages on top of which a geek can install the rest. A real minimal >> install, which I personally also like. > > Ah, the keyword here is "geek". We are not geeks, but still would like > to take the advantage of your tweaking. So such a mini install would not > be for us. > I think the iso #1 is for the home user or anyone really. 1 CD comes with all you need to get a desktop going and installs without asking too many questions (using autoyast.xml). The mini geek CD is just for me and Mike and others who like the rough and small since we both like to have a very small Linux running on some of our systems. >> 5.) Personally, we should have scripts at the end of this which >> automatically create our custom version out of each SUSE release. That >> we we can spend time fine tuning instead of constant hacking and >> packaging. > > I hope that this custom version will be the additional packages like you > said above, and not a separate release. I mean, not even like NLD is > different from SUSE. > Yeah it will be IMHO like an enhancement pack to your normal distro installable by anyone via YOU/Yum/Apt. Once we have scripts ready we could potentially run the same scripts against SLES/NLD and create an optimised version of those. Well so the theory. At least I can get a few of my colleagues in the office happy. > In short, my mail is to request you to not forget the home user who is > *not* a geek, and allow him to run SUSE on steroids anyway! > Always has been my intention, and I probably did not explain it well enough, thanks for asking and allowing me to explain this more. The geek comment was referring to iso #2, the mini install. Andreas

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automounter bug #104955
by jdd 17 Aug '05

17 Aug '05

Bonjour, je ne l'ai pas trouvé dans la liste des bugs sur bugzilla, donc j'ai rentré un nouveau bug, mais je le sigbale ici au cas où je l'aurais juste zappé. quand je met un cd dans mon graveur, il est monté automatiquement sur /media/CDROM au lieu du /media/cdwriter qui est prévu par l'install (et dans fstab). ce n'est pas grave :-) jdd -- pour m'écrire, aller sur: http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.net http://arvamip.free.fr

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SuSE9.3 KDE 3.4.2 RPM site
by Donn Washburn 17 Aug '05

17 Aug '05

KDE seems to be found on a ftp site here. On the cammandline or in a xterm "ftp ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/" then login as "anonymous". cd to " pub/kde/stable/3.4.2/SuSE/ix86/9.3 " Then "mget *" when the first file ask type "p". get ready for many megs of rpms -- 73 de Donn Washburn Hpage: " http://www.hal-pc.org/~n5xwb " Ham Callsign N5XWB Email : " n5xwb(a)hal-pc.org " 307 Savoy St. HAMs: " n5xwb(a)arrl.net " Sugar Land, TX 77478 BMW MOA #: 4146 - Ambassador LL# 1.281.242.3256 " http://counter.li.org " #279316

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Re: [SLE] Obtaining soundtrack from a DVD
by Adam Vazquez Kb2jpd Mobile w/ Treo 17 Aug '05

17 Aug '05

You need a DVD drive for one. Get vobcopy and rip the dvd onto the hard drive. The vob file needs to be taken apart as a mp2 video and stereo tracks. Which software do that? I dunno. Who is next on the soapbox, people. Adam SuSE 9.3 -----Original Message----- From: Simon Roberts <thorpflyer(a)yahoo.com> Subj: [SLE] Obtaining soundtrack from a DVD Date: Tue Aug 16, 2005 3:57 am Size: 616 bytes To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Hi all, I would like to take the soundtrack off a DVD, much in the same way as I might "rip" a CD. Can I do this? Cheers, Simon "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." Naguib Mahfouz ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- 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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Just installed 9.3 and having some problems with video card and monitor -- any ideas?
by Gil Weber 16 Aug '05

16 Aug '05

Hi, everyone. Was using 9.2. Just upgraded to 9.3 but problems. I formatted the drive and did a clean install. At the same time I added a video card (previously was using the on-board chip). The video card is a GeForce FX5500 PCI card ,128 MB memory, by PNY technologies (please note, that's PCI, not PCI-e). The MB does not have an AGP slot so I had to get a PCI video card. SuSE recognizes the card, but it absolutely will not let me configure it (set resolution or number of colors) and it will not let me set my monitor to the correct brand and model. If I go into Yast2modules/hardware/graphics card and monitor/<password> I am presented with 2 choices: text mode only graphical desktop environment. I tick the button next to graphical desktop envirnment and click "change" but nothing happens. The screen just sits and I am never taken to the screen for setting resolution or screen colors (or 3D acceleration if I were so inclined). In addition, that should be where I can choose my monitor settings. But no luck. "Reprobing" does no good after the screen flashes and comes back. So I then tried opening a shell as root, and I entered sax2. Here's the output I get: gil@phred:~> su Password: phred:/home/gil # sax2 SaX: initializing please wait... SaX: ups lost card during probing... abort phred:/home/gil # Again, I can't configure the video card or monitor. Any ideas? The video quality is not good. The picture is OK as long as it's still. But, for example, when I scroll up or down in Firefox or Konqueror the scrolling is horribly slow and jerky, and I get lines and lines of artifacts (ghosts of the text that is passing). After I move the scroll wheel many times all of a sudden the video seems to break loose and I'm suddenly at the bottom of the page. It's as if the video were under some terrible constraint while I turn the mouse wheel, and then suddenly it lets go. Many thanks, everyone, for your helpful suggestions. Gil

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YaST2 and "NO_PROXY" setting
by David J N Begley 16 Aug '05

16 Aug '05

Folks, I've found a problem with YaST2 as shipped with SuSE Linux 9.2 and would appreciate if someone could check to see if the 10.0 beta (or even 9.3 if anyone has it installed) still has the same problem. Essentially, YOU (YaST Online Update) doesn't honour the NO_PROXY variable in /etc/sysconfig/proxy; if you try to access a user-defined update site such as "updates.my.dom" and have either "my.dom" or ".my.dom" (I tried both just in case - neither worked) in the NO_PROXY variable, YOU will still go via the defined proxy server. I even removed all http_proxy and ftp_proxy variables from my environment before running YOU, just in case - made no difference. This may not be much of a problem for a single client running YOU, but as the number of clients increases the behaviour becomes intolerable (the Internet proxy server ends up having to serve requests that would be better serviced by the clients talking directly to the update server - that's why NO_PROXY exists in the first place). Reports either way would be appreciated, thanks... -- "I want my mum!" "Yes, it'd be good to see her. I should imagine a maternally-outraged gorilla could be a useful ally when it comes to the final scrap." - Private Baldrick and Captain Blackadder (Blackadder Goes Forth)

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Re: [SLE] how to configure $PATH for root?
by Mike Dewhirst 16 Aug '05

16 Aug '05

Michael Green wrote: > On 8/16/05, Mike Dewhirst <miked(a)dewhirst.com.au> wrote: > > >>Sorry Michael >> >>I'm a newbie - never seen or used tcsh - but I did know about the bash >> > > > Well I did some reading and apparently there is nothing like > profile.local for tcsh. > tcsh man page states that when tcsh is invoked as a login shell it will source > csh.cshrc > csh.login > everything in /etc/profile.d/*.csh > ~/.cshrc > ~/.tcshrc In tcsh check your env and then grep all files in /etc for something which appears in env. That ought to show you which file to edit. Good luck

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