March 2007 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Scanner-Fax-Printer for Linux
by Dennis J. Tuchler 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Is there a good Scanner-Fax-Printer which will work under Linux? I would need one with an electronic phone switch which determines whether the incoming call is voice or fax -- Best regards, Dennis J. Tuchler 7330 Kingsbury Boulevard University City, Missouri 63130 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] USB mouse sensitivity
by Francesco Scaglioni 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Hi, I occ need to plug a USB mouse into this laptop (running suse 10 and windowmaker). Whilst the trackpad "sensitivity" is fine the USB mouse (have tried different ones) is always over sensitive. Any suggestions as to how I might turn it down a bit? TIA F -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Ploting functions
by Lívio Cipriano 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

His there any program or utility in Linux that plots the graphic of a given equation? -- Regards, Lívio Cipriano -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] printing size mismatch with magicolor 2530DL
by Ross P. Davis 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Using 10.0 OSS and the RPM supplied by Konica Minolta (2530DL2.0.0-1.i386.rpm), I am able to print to a networked magicolor 2530DL. But whenever I print, the LCD on the printer reads "SIZE MISMATCH" and the printer seems to try to print on a larger paper size despite everything being configured for "Letter" size. When this has happened with other printers, I usually find that "A4" has been defaulted somewhere; changing to "Letter" gets things working properly. But in this case, I cannot find any place where "A4" is being specified... lpoptions -p magicolor -l | grep A4 PageRegion/PageRegion: Letter Legal Executive A4 A5 ISOB5 UKQuarto Foolscap Folio Com10 DL C5 Monarch Statement JPostcard DPostcard C6 JISB5 16Kai 32Kai EnvChou3 EnvChou4 EnvYou4 GovtLegal LetterPlus GovtLetter 16_K Photo_4x6 Photo_10x15 PageSize/Paper Size: *Letter Legal Executive A4 A5 ISOB5 UKQuarto Foolscap Folio Com10 DL C5 Monarch Statement JPostcard DPostcard C6 JISB5 16Kai 32Kai EnvChou3 EnvChou4 EnvYou4 GovtLegal LetterPlus GovtLetter 16_K Photo_4x6 Photo_10x15 Custom One weird thing I noticed is that it seems to be impossible to set a default for both PageRegion and PageSize. As in, if /etc/cups/lpoptions reads: Default magicolor PageRegion=Letter PageSize=Letter Then I'll see "*Letter" in PageSize but just "Letter" in PageRegion. But if /etc/cups/lpoptions reads: Default magicolor PageSize=Letter PageRegion=Letter Then I'll see just "Letter" in PageSize but "*Letter" in PageRegion. Something I'm not understanding there. Anyway, I've checked the ppd... grep -i default /etc/cups/ppd/magicolor.ppd | grep Letter *DefaultPageSize: Letter *DefaultPageRegion: Letter *DefaultImageableArea: Letter *DefaultPaperDimension: Letter I've tried using the web interface to configure/print, but still get the same problem. Can someone lend advice before I blow all my toner on test pages? Thanks, Ross -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Re: John Backus Dead at 82
by Joachim Schrod 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Randall R Schulz wrote: > On Tuesday 20 March 2007 14:15, M Harris wrote: >> John Backus died today. He is the programmer in the 1950's >> who pioneered high level programming languages by inventing the >> Fortran language for the IBM 701. > > More importantly (arguably), he gave us the notation we use to describe > virtually all computer languages (and not just programming languages, > but everything whose form is sequential and governed by rules that must > be formalized and whose recognition / validation automated), the > so-called Backus-Naur form. I don't want to diminish BNF, but it doesn't describe a language, "just" the context-free part of the syntax. (Not even the lexical part.) Which is extremely important and was a major breakthrough, not to diminish it. IMO, full description of programming languages was eventually made available by Donald Knuth's seminal work on attribute grammars, which is the foundation of most semantic models of programming languages. In fact, DEK once told me at a dinner that he considers attribute grammars the sole scientific achievement that he has really done, way beyond TACP. Backus is also remembered for his work on functional programming languages. His Turing Award lecture ("can programming be liberated from the von-neumann style" or similar) is still worth a read, and will get important again when we have 1,000s of cores in our future processors. Best, Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod(a)acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] What script does user creation in SuSE10.2
by Verner Kjærsgaard 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Hi list, - what script (I assume it's a script, not a binary) is run when a new user is created using YaST. I'm looking for the script(s) that creates the homedir, copies /etc/skel and all the other stuff... -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] multiple vhosts need ssl
by James D. Parra 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Hello, Running apache2 and using vhost-ssl.conf to host ssl sites, however I need three different sites (different domain names) using ssl on port 443 and I only see the ability to host one in the conf file. For example, the below entries in vhosts-ssl.conf show a path to the ssl certificate for, presumably, one site; <snip> # Server Certificate: # Point SSLCertificateFile at a PEM encoded certificate. If # the certificate is encrypted, then you will be prompted for a # pass phrase. Note that a kill -HUP will prompt again. Keep # in mind that if you have both an RSA and a DSA certificate you # can configure both in parallel (to also allow the use of DSA # ciphers, etc.) SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl.crt/server.crt #SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl.crt/server-dsa.crt # Server Private Key: # If the key is not combined with the certificate, use this # directive to point at the key file. Keep in mind that if # you've both a RSA and a DSA private key you can configure # both in parallel (to also allow the use of DSA ciphers, etc.) SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl.key/server.key #SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl.key/server-dsa.key <snip> How would you set this up for three separate certificates and three separate keys? Many thanks, James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Dreamhost ?
by Greg Freemyer 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

All, Anyone familiar with dreamhost? Are their servers always slow? Maybe they are faster in the middle of the night? Anyway, I noticed how cost-effective Dreamhost was last week. Decided this morning I would sign-up for their 300GB plan and use it as an offsite DR site via rsync. The functionality is there (ssh / rsync / login by keys or password), but so far I'm not very happy. The price is great, but they seem _really_ slow. I can handle slow network bandwidth for my needs, but I need their server to be somewhat responsive to rsync activity. My plan is to keep about 150GB of slowly changing (encrypted) data archived at Dreamhost as a DR site. So far I've only got 1 GB there and it feels very slow to do anything. ie. At arizona.dreamhost.com, "du -sh ." on my 1 GB of data takes a couple minutes to finish. The same thing on my local machine is 10 seconds or less, even when its busy. I'm concerned that by the time I have 150GB of data there doing an rsync even with minimal changes will take too long. (This is part of my nightly backup. In theory I can take almost 24 hours, but I hope it is faster than that.) Has anyone tried anything like this with dreamhost? Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] zmd woes, part N
by Janne Karhunen 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Hi, What's this (10.2, x86-64): System.NullReferenceException: A null value was found where an object instance was required. Server stack trace: at Novell.Zenworks.Zmd.Packaging.PackageManager.GetUpdates (Novell.Zenworks.Zmd.Catalog catalog) [0x00000] at Novell.Zenworks.Zmd.Packaging.PackageManager.GetUpdates () [0x00000] at Novell.Zenworks.Zmd.Packaging.RemotePackageMa Seen this in several boxes lately. What's up? -- // Janne -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] What software responsible for process update-status?
by Terry Eck 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

I notice there is a process called "update-status". Anyone know what software is responsible for this process? If it is beagle or zdm then what is the safest way of removing either/both packages. As a side note, I would like to replace zmd with the old YOU updater icon in the taskbar. If anyone has done this can they tell me how? -- openSUSE 10.2 (i586) -- 2.6.18.8-0.1-default -- Tue 03/20/07 8:25pm up 3 days 3:59, 6 users, load average: 2.17, 1.78, 1.21 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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