May 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [SLE] Warning to Americans!
by Kevanf1 02 May '06

02 May '06

On 02/05/06, jdd sur free <jdanield(a)free.fr> wrote: > Kevanf1 wrote: > > >> Well, the French being what they are, ensure nothing fits their > >> stuff. ;-) > >> > > > > I couldn't possibly comment....other than a big :-))))))) > > so I shouldn't received as much spam :-) > > jdd > Other than another big :-)))))))))))) it's good to know that the first was with tongue firmly in cheek. There's too much rivalry going on in the world. I'm tired of the anti American crap that keeps getting spouted. There are good and bad in every country. Then there are the daft buggers....that's me ;-) -- ============================================== I am only human, please forgive me if I make a mistake it is not deliberate. ============================================== PLEASE DON'T drink and drive it's not clever, it's just stupid. Kevan Farmer Linux user #373362 Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR

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text formatting under link icons on SuSE 10.0 desktop
by Gil Weber 02 May '06

02 May '06

Hello, Gurus. Hope someone can help me with an oddity. On my SuSE 9.3 machine if I drag a file to the desktop and click "link here" an icon appears on the desktop along with its descriptive text. That text is italicized. The italicized text makes it easy to distinguish a link on the desktop from an actual file residing on the desktop. However, on my 10.0 machine, when I do the same thing the text under the link icon is **not** italicized. It looks no different than the text under an icon of a file that actually resides on the desktop. Unless this is a known difference between 9.3 and 10.0, I am assuming there must be a setting somewhere to italicize the icon text that I have overlooked despite searching. Can anyone point me to where this customization option might be? Interestingly, if I drag that link icon to the trash folder and then look in the trash folder, the linked text **is** italicized. So this really has me puzzled that it would be italicized but only when in the trash folder, not when on the desktop. Thanks, Gurus. Gil

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Soc@2006: User Restrictions (not Child Protection).
by Peter Flodin 02 May '06

02 May '06

I have a proposal that we don't call this feature Child Protection, or Parental Control or anything similar. In addition to filtering (I would only use whitelisting) what I would like to see is an easy way to configure restrictions for users. I will give a personal example. I have a several computers, one of which is in a central location visible from our kitchen and eating area, and is often used by my 4 year old daughter. I'm quite proud of the fact that she can logon (with username and password) and run Gcompris and Tux Paint, all by herself, (she can't read or write). She is allowed to use this computer whenever she wants, just like she allowed to get pens and paper out and do drawings. Now this computer has connection to the internet, and at the moment I am just relying on her lack of knowledge to get on the internet. In a Microsoft Windows domain there is something called Global Policy, which means on a per user and per machine, I could lock down all sort of settings. eg I could hide control panels, Internet Explorer, ability to get to a command line, various system rights etc by just checking boxes. And it would apply to my selection of users and/or computers in the network. I am well aware that many of these restriction can be setup in Linux, but there is no central tool (that I am aware of) that I can use to do this. eg define these group of settings, restrictions, application settings and apply them to these Users. Peter "Pflodo" Flodin

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AppArmor profile for postfix fix for SuSE 10.1
by Vitaly Shishakov 02 May '06

02 May '06

Dear OpenSuSE developers, on http://en.opensuse.org/AppArmor#Contribute i found info that all app-armor related fixes should be directed here, so after fighting some time with getting postfix to work with cyrus, i found that the following changes to postfix AppArmor profiles has to be added: in /etc/apparmor.d/usr.lib.postfix.local: /var/spool/postfix/private/lmtp rw, in /etc/apparmor.d/usr.lib.postfix.smtpd /usr/share/mysql/charsets/Index.xml r, in /etc/apparmor.d/usr.lib.postfix.master /usr/lib/postfix/lmtp prx, <--- not sure. in order to make local LMTP transport (via unix socket) work. and to enable mysql posfix plugin (thanks to Sandy Drobic who helped me to find this solution on suse-linux-e ) Probably some additional fixes might be required in order to make other mail_transports work as well (network lmtp socket, cyrus ?) Sincerelly, Vitaly.

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Creating a patched OpenSuSE DVD ?
by Low Kian Seong 02 May '06

02 May '06

Dear all, Just went through this wonderful guide : http://www.users.on.net/~rgarth/weblog/fedora/patch_cd.autumn 2 questions : 1. Does novi work on SuSE ? 2. Does such a guide also exists for OpenSuSE ? Thanks.

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Upgrade RC1 to RC3?
by Jerry Westrick 02 May '06

02 May '06

Ummm, What is the best best method to upgrade from RC1 to RC3? Jerry

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Re: [SLE] Warning to Americans!(now going OT)
by Kevanf1 02 May '06

02 May '06

On 01/05/06, Wendell Sexson <jwsthree(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: > I would be willing to bet that public transport is > more practicable and reliable in the UK than it is > where I live (Los Angeles). It will have to be > improved. In the big cities it is excellent. These are the places that have loads of cycle lanes or people could indeed walk. Out in the country, where I live, more and more buses and trains are being taken off the timetable. A few years ago you could walk to the end of my street, go a few more yards round the corner and catch a bus within 20 minutes to the nearest town. That sort of public transport encourages use. Yes, it was used to the point where you could often not get a seat. Today, you are lucky if a bus comes by within an hour. There is no shelter so this is not ideal for the elderly or disabled. Where there are shelters, by the way, idiots have this ingrained need to vandalsie them :-( Now, I said you were lucky if that bus came within an hour. Well, you are very lucky if the bus comes at all. My daughter lost a job due to very poor public transport. I recently helped conduct a survey - I used SuSE for much of the paperwork - of many aspects of village life. Transport was one them. Nobody trusts public transport to turn up here. I know it's a different story in Australia as I used the buses every day and they were like clockwork. > If employers do not give leeway for being late due to > public transport delays they will no longer have any > employees. Employers here have to give leeway for > being late due to traffic congestion because it is all > but impossible to avoid getting stuck in traffic > sometimes (frequently, even). Things will adjust to > what is unavoidable. It will have to do so over here too. > I am going by the assumption that automobile use as > the primary means of personal transportation will > become uneconomical for the majority of people, even > in the wealthiest countries, in the coming decades. I > may be mistaken. Perhaps developments in so called > "alternative energy" will make it so that the majority > will still be able to just barely afford driving. We > shall see. There are alternatives but one is branded a conspiracy theorist if you so much as hint at the oil companies perhaps keeping them quiet. There is no reason why we shouldn't have safe engines running on water. There is no need to have a tank of highly flammable hydrogen gas (from the split H20) as it can be split in small quantities and fed into the engine that way. Bearings can be made that are magnetic and far, far more friction free (and energy sapping) than the present metal type. Heat energy from braking can also be harnessed and poured back into automotive power. These are nothing new, they are not science fiction but they simply do not get implemented. I do believe that the average member of the public could still have their own private transport in 100, 200 years time. Could being the operative word. There are, of course, other reasons why private travel might want to be curtailed. -- ============================================== I am only human, please forgive me if I make a mistake it is not deliberate. ============================================== PLEASE DON'T drink and drive it's not clever, it's just stupid. Kevan Farmer Linux user #373362 Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR

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RC1 + RC1_RC3 delta iso fail
by Hans du Plooy 02 May '06

02 May '06

Doing: applydeltaiso SUSE-Linux-10.1-RC1-i386-CD1.iso SUSE-Linux-10.1-RC1_RC3-i386-CD1.delta.iso SUSE-Linux-10.1-RC3-i386-CD1.iso fails, ends like this: yast2-theme-SuSELinux.noarch (bzip): applying delta yast2-trans-ko.noarch (bzip): applying delta yast2-tv.noarch (bzip): applying delta yast2-x11.noarch (bzip): applying delta md5sum mismatch, iso is corrupt But the md5sums for SUSE-Linux-10.1-RC1-i386-CD1.iso and SUSE-Linux-10.1-RC1_RC3-i386-CD1.delta.iso are correct. Has anyone seen this? Thanks Hans

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[10.1Rc2] yast2 problem
by Jens Weisse 02 May '06

02 May '06

Hi, I have a stupid problem with yast. Yesterday I tried an update from 10.1 rc1 to rc2. But now the most parts of yast don't work. For example: Command: /sbin/yast2 sw_single & No such client module sw_single Command: /sbin/yast2 inst_source & No such client module inst_source Command: /sbin/yast2 online_update_setup & No such client module online_update_setup [...] I downloaded older yast packages, installed with "rpm -U --force", run SuSEconfig but it doesn't work :-( I have got no idea how to solve this situation :-( Ciao Jens Weiße

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Summer of Code 2006 -- open for application
by Christoph Thiel 02 May '06

02 May '06

Hi everyone, first of all many thanks to all of you who have contributed ideas and suggestions to last weeks openSUSE & Summer of Code thread. Google Summer of Code 2006 is now open for your application (provided that your are a student). The student application page can be found at http://code.google.com/soc/student_step1.html We have create a page on the openSUSE.org wiki at http://en.opensuse.org/Summer_of_Code_2006 which lists some proposals, that could be turned into SoC projects. The list is not exclusive. If you have other great ideas, please feel free to propose them as well! If you have questions, don't hesitate to ask here or contact me off-list. Regards Christoph

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