April 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

RE: [SLE] Is SUSE the market-place chicken or the egg?
by Kai Ponte 29 Apr '06

29 Apr '06

> [snip a bunch of good points about corporate/lawyer-influenced sociology] > > > > > So I'm looking for a persuasive argument to present to > > > those people who _do_ make such decisions and actions, > > > to justify additional resources for testing on new-to-us > > > platforms (SLES and the desktop SUSE) prior to > > > each release of our products. > > > > So you are seeking information that would be knowledge expected of > > sales personel in perhaps a cold call? > > Possibly in the future (though that would not go over well > on the list), but at present they'd have nothing to > offer, would they? If anybody is using our stuff with SUSE, > we don't seem to know about it, and they aren't proud to > publicize it. More to the point, NOBODY of any consequence is > admitting to using SUSE corporately, at least not that I've > heard. I believe I did. :) Hopefully I'll be getting SUSE in here at my new office, too. I just have to convince upper management that my 98,000 co-workers need to upgrade from Windows. (Yes, I am thinking more on a departmental level ATM. I'm not totally crazy....yet.) I've got a few convinced already that my laptop has the coolest screensaver (matrix) in the building. > > Primarily I want to pique the interest of a couple of Product Managers > and senior directors, who decide what we support, meaning that <snip> So this whole discussion is about what your company should produce?? What is your company? Is it SafeNet? http://www.safenet-inc.com/ If so, you'd probably have more luck asking the "platform" of choice question on Security Forums - http://www.security-forums.com/ - a very high-traffic site known by many who live/breathe and often sleep in cold rooms. Most here on this list – myself included – look at this type of hardware/application but are more users rather than implementers. <snip> HTH!! -- k

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RE: [SLE] Is SUSE the market-place chicken or the egg?
by mlist＠safenet-inc.com 29 Apr '06

29 Apr '06

> -----Original Message----- > From: Kai Ponte [mailto:kai@perfectreign.com] [...] > Hopefully I'll be getting SUSE in here at my new office, too. I just > have to convince upper management that my 98,000 co-workers need to > upgrade from Windows. You aren't holding your breath for that, are you? > (Yes, I am thinking more on a departmental level > ATM. I'm not totally crazy....yet.) You'll either convince a few people to start switching - or at least dual-booting - or you'll invoke the wrath of god (er, the IT dept.) who will come down on everybody like a load of bricks and mandate that nobody diverge from sacred Windows that they know how to support... and spy on... and push updates with Active Directory. > I've got a few convinced already that my laptop has the coolest > screensaver (matrix) in the building. Yeah, yeah. That's just because nobody is running MarineAquarium or DreamAquarium. At least the DreamAquarium guy is talking about an eventual port to Linux. There's hope. :-) Kevin The information contained in this electronic mail transmission may be privileged and confidential, and therefore, protected from disclosure. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer without copying or disclosing it.

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update evolution
by Peter Van Lone 29 Apr '06

29 Apr '06

I have experienced some "crashiness" and exchange connector slowness with Evolution 2.4.0 and I see from the wiki that: "Evolution-data-server-1.4.1.1 has been released with a fix for this. All versions of evolution-data-server after 1.4.1.1 would be having this fix in them." The evolution data server that ships with SUSE10 (and after updates) is: 1.4.0-5 But -- it looks from the gnome/evolution web site that I have to either install from source or use red carpet to get an updated version. Does red carpet work in KDE? I thought there was a subscription fee to use red carpet channels, is that gone now, and it's use is free? Is there a down-side to configuring red carpet on my KDE system? Peter -- A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people. James Madison Constitutional Convention (June 29, 1787)

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mysqlmanager looping on Suse enterprise 9.0
by Duzenbury, Rich 29 Apr '06

29 Apr '06

Hi all, I've got a looping mysqlmanager eating all the cpu on the system. On this server there are two instances of mysql. They get started just fine, they work fine, other than the cpu being eaten. For the time being, I've disabled mysqlmanager, and I've written a couple of shell scripts to fire up each instance, so things are ok. I'm asking here, rather than the mysql lists because I'm pretty SuSE ignorant and I've just inherited this server. My first thought was to upgrade to the latest mysql rpm's from mysql.com. In fact, there are other servers with Suse 10.0, running 5.0.18 and mysqlmanager that do not exhibit the looping behavior. I went into yast, however, and I see little padlocks on all the mysql packages. Is that something done by SuSE, or by the previous administrator? Here are the versions: MySQL-client-standard 5.0.13-0.sles9 MySQL-server-standard 5.0.13-0.sles9 I strace'd mysqlmanager, and it is looping as fast as it possibly can on a socket. Of course, I don't know what socket it's looping on, but I've got thousands and thousands of these: [pid 656] select(6, [3 5], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) [pid 656] select(6, [3 5], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) [pid 656] select(6, [3 5], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) [pid 656] select(6, [3 5], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) [pid 656] select(6, [3 5], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) [pid 656] select(6, [3 5], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) [pid 656] select(6, [3 5], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) [pid 656] select(6, [3 5], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) [pid 656] select(6, [3 5], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) [pid 656] select(6, [3 5], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) [pid 656] select(6, [3 5], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) [pid 656] select(6, [3 5], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) [pid 656] select(6, [3 5], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) [pid 656] select(6, [3 5], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) [pid 656] select(6, [3 5], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) [pid 656] select(6, [3 5], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) [pid 656] select(6, [3 5], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) [pid 656] select(6, [3 5], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) [pid 656] select(6, [3 5], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) [pid 656] select(6, [3 5], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) [pid 656] select(6, [3 5], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) [pid 656] select(6, [3 5], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) Since this server is only used to make backups (not replication) from another, I had the luxury of being able to wipe out all the data and restart the server. It still eats all the CPU. I've been using debian distros for the past few years so I'm much more familiar with apt than yast. So, my question is - what is the proper way to proceed? Try to replace the binaries? With Yast? Without Yast? If I go with downloading and installing the rpms from mysql.com, what will happen to the yast database? Thanks for any advice. Regards, Rich

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Any one have 10.1 wireless working with ndiswrapper
by clarkt＠cnsp.com 29 Apr '06

29 Apr '06

Currently running 10.1 rc 3 64 bit on a Compaq laptop with a Broadcom 4306 wireless chip. Have the 64bit windows driver loaded using ndiswrapper 1.15. If I use ifup/down wireless works fine. Networkmanager works with ndiswrapper only if the AP is encrypted. If the AP is unencrypted, NM stops at 28% (start of stage 3) and fails to connect the majority of the time if there is only 1 AP or only one id name. If your in an area where there are multiple AP with different names, both encrypted and unencrypted, then NM connects to the unencrypted network. Has anyone had success with just the single unencrypted AP points like those at the airport? Clark

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Re: [SLE] Can't mount USB drives in 10.1 RC1
by James Knott 29 Apr '06

29 Apr '06

Jacobus Venter wrote: > On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 19:44:19 -0400 > James Knott <james.knott(a)rogers.com> wrote: >> Greg Wallace wrote: >>> On Wednesday, April 26, 2006 @ 7:20 PM, James Knott >> wrote: >>>> I just tried mounting a couple of USB drives in SUSE >> 10.1 RC1 and got >>>> this error message. Does anyone know what this is >> about? > > Hi all > > I got a similar problem, although not in the physical > mounting of devices. My problem is that, when I mount a USB > drive, (80Gb), i can read from it, but not write to it. I'd > tried to change permisions as root, but that also returned > with a "access denied" error. What else can I try? I can write and transfer rates appear similar to read.

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logrotate question
by Till Wimmer 29 Apr '06

29 Apr '06

Hi, I want my apache log files to be rotated when they're bigger then 50M and ONLY when they're bigger. But my /etc/logrotate.conf says: # rotate log files weekly weekly I added a file /etc/logrotate.d/apache: /var/log/apache2/*.log { size=20M ... } What's gonna happen? Are the files rotated even when they're smaller than 50M? Do i have to change the global options and thus all other configurations in /etc/logrotate.d? Till

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Re: [SLE] Cut n Paste
by Matthew Stringer 28 Apr '06

28 Apr '06

On Thursday 27 April 2006 17:59, Charles Philip Chan wrote: > On 2006-04-27 11:55:30 -0400 Matthew Stringer <qube(a)firstnet.co.uk> > > wrote: > > Why is it that I can't copy n paste text from some websites from Konq > > into > > anything else other than Kmail but text displayed in FireFox can be > > copied n > > pasted anywhere? > > Try enabling "Synchronize contents of the clipboard and the selection" > in the "General" tab of your Klipper configuration dialog. That doesn't help. For example I just went to www.topgear.com in Konq but it displays nothing as it's not a konq friendly site, so I copied the URL from the address bar and opened FireFox to paste the address there. However there's nothing in the clipboard to paste. Open another Konq and hit paste and it's there. I don't know why KDE apps and not KDE apps can't talk to each other a little better. Matthew

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df and du reporting incorrect file sizes
by James Watkins 28 Apr '06

28 Apr '06

Hi all, has anyone seen this before? I'm using an opensuse 10.0 box as a samba file server to store backups of our other windows servers. It took a while to figure out that there was no disk space since the samba box was still reporting that there was plenty. Looking a bit deeper, I found that although 'ls -l' showed the sizes of the individual files correctly, the total was wildly incorrect. Here is an example of the output of 'ls -l' : total 29274510 -rwxr--r-- 1 M2\backup M2\domain admins 28353837056 2006-02-18 00:47 B2D000161.bkf -rwxr--r-- 1 M2\backup M2\domain admins 28456399872 2006-04-01 00:51 B2D000162.bkf -rwxr--r-- 1 M2\backup M2\domain admins 28456552448 2006-04-04 00:51 B2D000163.bkf -rwxr--r-- 1 M2\backup M2\domain admins 28456648704 2006-04-05 00:49 B2D000164.bkf -rwxr--r-- 1 M2\backup M2\domain admins 28451419136 2006-04-06 00:49 B2D000165.bkf -rwxr--r-- 1 M2\backup M2\domain admins 28448050176 2006-04-08 00:49 B2D000166.bkf -rwxr--r-- 1 M2\backup M2\domain admins 714 2006-04-25 23:00 Changer.cfg -rw-r--r-- 1 root M2\domain admins 672743424 2006-04-26 16:55 test -rw-r--r-- 1 root M2\domain admins 3363717120 2006-04-26 17:02 test2 This behaviour is reflected by df and du. Am I doing something stupid or is this an actual bug? By the way, I the same thing happens whether I use reiser or ext3 so I assume that it is not filesystem specific. Thanks in advance to anyone who can shed some light on this. Cheers, James.

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How to add next keyboard(s) layout
by Roland Turcan - RoTurSoft 28 Apr '06

28 Apr '06

Hello all! I don't know how can I add new keyboard layout in SuSE 9.2. I have found only forms for change language or keyboard, but not to add next keyboard layout. How? Thanks. TRoland.

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