May 2007 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Best way to copy mail (kmail)
by Jim Flanagan 02 Jun '07

02 Jun '07

Hi all, This is a basic question, but what is the best way to copy my email files from one install (9.3) to my new install (10.2). Same machine. Old install is mounted as same user name mounted at "data1". I have not used kmail on the new install yet, but did open kmail once, have not set up users. I see may old mail in /data1/home/user/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail. I see the same folder in the new install, with only a few sub-folders. Should I just copy the whole /mail folder over the new one and be done with it? Or would "cat" be better? Again, there is no mail in the new folder so I can overwrite it if need be. TIA, Jim Flanagan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] knetwork manager issues
by Gordon J. Holtslander 02 Jun '07

02 Jun '07

Hi: I have a laptop hp nx 7300. If I leave the system running for more than a few hours the networkmanager program quits running and can't be restarted. I use it to manage the wireless networking on this system If I stop the network manager program and restart, I am returned a message that the network manager is not running. It does not appear to be possible to restart the network manager. In order to re establish a wireless network connection I am forced to restart the computer. Any way around this? I have the wireless card setup to be managed as a regular user with networkmanager. Gord -- Gordon J. Holtslander Dept. of Biology gordon.holtslander(a)usask.ca University of Saskatchewan Tel 306 966-4433 112 Science Place Fax 306 966-4462 Saskatoon SK., CANADA homepage.usask.ca/~gjh289 S7N 5E2 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] opensuse repositories now illegal in Germany
by Thomas Meindl 01 Jun '07

01 Jun '07

Reading the news I came across the legal issue of a new law in Germany. It is now illegal to own, write or distribute preventive software which can test the security of a computer by using the internet. As far as I can see this means that portscanner like nmap are now illegal. Does anyone know how this affects the opensuse distribution? Kind regards, Tom -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] updating problem (opensususeupdater)
by Carlos E. R. 01 Jun '07

01 Jun '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, opensuse updater says there is one package available: Name Type New Version Catalog perl-Archive-Tar: Update to satisfy missing dependency Patch 3438-0 20070216-193512 But when I choose to update, there is nothing (in YOU). I close it, and the next round there it is again. A day has passed already and it keeps insisting there is one update when there is none. What is wrong? If I manually search in YOU for "perl-Archive-Tar", I find a package not selected for update, installed version 1.30-17 and available version 1.30-22.1. Why doesn't it update automatically? And, if it should not be updated, why does opensuse-updater says there is one update pending? If I search for the patch, it says thus: perl-Archive-Tar - perl-Archive-Tar: Update to satisfy missing dependency A earlier spamassassin update added a new dependency for perl-Archive-Tar. This causes illegible errormessages from the update stack which are not do not point to this problem.Since it requires the package to be pulled from the installation media which might not be listed anymore this update just contains the package to fulfill the new dependencies. It contains no changes compared to the original shipping version. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGXI1mtTMYHG2NR9URAu/XAKCAwdjNlfW5r1hFE3xTDDuL3ErhpgCggyyt kQh9dZwGrwmeYNfczMhLrKo= =8Kw6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Adding an installation source to YaST (SUSE 10.0 AMD64 x 2)
by Peter Bradley 01 Jun '07

01 Jun '07

It's time I got this business of adding installation sources to YaST thing sorted. I'd really like to install the latest versions of Mono and Monodevelop, so I went to the web site, which advises SUSE uses to add the installation source: http://go-mono.com/download-stable/suse-100-x86_64 to YaST. In YaST --> Software --> Installation Source, I clicked on add --> http and, in the dialog that appears added the following details: Server Name: go-mono.com Directory on server: download-stable/suse-100-x86_64 After clicking OK in the dialog, it went away and thought about it for a while and then added 27 identical URLs to the list in the Software source media dialog. The URLs added are all listed (immediately after the line specifying my installation DVD source) as: http://go-mono.com/download-stable/suse-100-x86_64 (which, I guess, is what you'd expect except that I was only expecting it to add a single line) I then turned refresh on for each of these entries and clicked Finish. Back in the YaST Control Centre I chose Software Management. YaST then tried to refresh each of these sources. On every attempt, the error message: ERROR(InstSrc:E_no_instsrc_on_media) was displayed. Very user friendly, I thought :-) When I eventually got back to YaST, nothing from this installation source appeared to be displayed (i.e. there was nothing I could see that indicated that I had any version of Mono available to me except 1.1.8x that I had from the installation DVD, and which I had uninstalled prior to adding the new source). The source column in YaST was empty in all cases. Finally, just for the heck of it, I turned refresh off and tried again. The result was the same. Does anyone know what the undoubtedly obvious thing is that I've missed? Thanks, Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] CD question
by James Hatridge 01 Jun '07

01 Jun '07

Hi all, Sometimes I have a CD/DVD go bad etc and it will not come out of the CD reader. As root I try the eject command and it will not work saying that the CD is busy. So far I've ended up rebooting to get the !"§$ CD out. Is there a way to force the eject command to work without rebooting? Thanks, JIM -- Jim Hatridge Linux User #88484 Ebay ID: WartHogBulletin ------------------------------------------------------ WartHog Bulletin Info about new German Stamps http://www.WartHogBulletin.de Many Enemies -- Much Honor! Anti-US Propaganda stamp collection http://www.manyenemies-muchhonor.info An American in Bavaria http://www.gaubodengalerie.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] OpenOffice.org 2.2
by Siegfried Wolkenstein 01 Jun '07

01 Jun '07

Hello, is there a SuSE rpm package for OpenOffice.org available? I cannot find one. There is an error int the OOo 2.1.14.package: [quote] this chunk of code should be correct, but it doesn't work as expected. [code] oTables = myDocument.getTextTables() oTable = oTables(0) tableHeight = oTable.Rows.Count-1 tableWidth = oTable.Columns.Count [/code] tableHeight equals 50, but tableWidth equals 0 (there are actually 9 columns...). [/quote] Thanks. -- 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: [opensuse-security] Need help with SuSE 9.3 and /var/log/auth.log
by John Andersen 01 Jun '07

01 Jun '07

On Tuesday 29 May 2007, Andreas wrote: > Hi, > sorry for not using english in the other post. > > I've got an old SuSE 9.3 system that serves as a firewall/router/samba > for a small office. > I use ssh for maintenance. > Recently I learned that on other systems there is a /var/log/auth.log > that logs who is coming in. > This files doesn't exist on my system and I couldn't find an entry in > the 2 files in /etc/syslog-ng. > Could someone give me a hint how to set this auth.log up? > I have to admit that I'm not really hot with this setup stuff that goes > beyond yast. I don't think 9.3 uses syslog-ng just the old syslog. Therefore /var/log/messages would be the place to look for messages about "who is coming in" (whatever that might mean). You could type "last" as root and see the list of logins. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] SSH Login Message
by Bob 01 Jun '07

01 Jun '07

Does anyone know how to stop this message from being displayed when someone logs in using SSH sshd[26987]: pam_unix2: session started for user xxxx, service sshd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] nVidia Video Card Advice Please
by Mike 01 Jun '07

01 Jun '07

I just recently replaced my motherboard with a newer board with PCIe support (AMD x2 Dual Core 5200+) and an integrated nVidia 6100 video adapter. The integrated adapter works and I was finally able to install the nVidia drivers for 3D support, but it leaves a lot to be desired. First off, it wasn't even recognized by OpenSUSE. It came up as a Vesa Framebuffer adapter and I couldn't change it. I ran "sax2 -r -m 0=nv" to get wide screen resolution from my monitor, then installed the nvidia drivers. It still shows up as a Vesa Framebuffer adapter even though the nVidia drivers are loaded. Also, I am getting extremely bad ghosting (shadowing) of my fonts which is especially noticeable while typing on a white background. I've tried adjusting the aliasing/anti-aliasing and changing to and from sub-pixel hinting with varying hinting styles, but so far I haven't come across the magic combination yet to get rid of the lousy looking fonts. I've got a MAG 22" wide screen LCD monitor and the setup with my old motherboard worked perfectly for me with a nVidia GeForce FX 5200 AGP card. My question is this: Is there something I may be missing in the setup of the integrated 6100 or should I just buy a separate PCIe 16x adapter? Which nVidia adapter would you folks recommend? I don't have a whole lot to spend on it at this point but would like something that works with 3D enabled and renders the fonts like my old 5200 did. I checked the HCL and found that the GeForce 7300LE PCIe is supposed to work properly with 10.2. Are any of you using that adapter and if so how is it working out for you? Thanks very much for your help. Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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