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Re: [opensuse] ranting and raving about dependancies.
by Carlos E. R. 27 Oct '08

27 Oct '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Content-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.00.0810271942220.4842(a)nimrodel.valinor> El 2008-10-27 a las 11:06 -0400, Anton Aylward escribió: I believe this should be on list, not off > Carlos E. R. said the following on 10/27/2008 04:36 AM > >> You still need to recompile many apps to not include ldap support, and one >> of the things that opensuse boasts about, is ldap integration. > > The subtext of what you have been saying is that openSUSE is not a > desktop packaging of Linux but is intended for corporate servers. not > even corporate workstations - leaf nodes, but the servers. With full IT > support. Not at all. I know of even home setups using ldap. The idea is that you should be able to use Yast as a wizzard to set it all up. However, I was talking about ldap client integration, that's the only part that is necesary. And clients are the desktop or mobile machine part, not the server part. >> Yes, pam may use plugins, but other apps don't. > > That is not the case. > Postfix uses plug-in (and so does Firefox and Thunderbird, but that's > another issue). So does Apache. So do a number of programs that use > audio and video codec, such as k3b, the CD burner. > > In fact one of the plug-in for Apache is to enable LDAP, you you can't > even argue that the idea of LDAP plug-in is unique to Postfix. I'm > sure if I dig a bit I could find other examples. > > * postfix-mysql - postfix plugin to support MySQL maps > * postfix-postgresql - postfix plugin to support PostgreSQL maps > > Someone made the decision to hard-wire in LDAP and not to hard-wire > MySQL and PostGres. Possibly. As I said, suse boasts of ldap integration, so that's a feature :-p [postfix and ldap] > so that option only becomes effective when the configuration needs to be > shared between a number of hosts that all refer to the single 'database' > on the shared LDAP server, which means that this integration of LDAP No, that's not the case. For postfix ldap is used, in combination with the imap server, as a virtual users database, on the same machine. And no, I don't like ldap. But I simply don't care about its inclussion. >> So I don't think it will be done. > > You reasoning is based on your assertion that its not possible and that > other programs don't use plug-in. This is false. > > The only reason it will not be done is if the packagers remain > intransigent. I asked earlier who they were and got no reply. You just have to look a field in the rpms. Just use the official channel, fill a bugzilla. There is also a packaging list, where you can argue with the people that package and know the whys. >> However, anybody could create a project in the buildservice doing just >> that: recompile all those apps that use ldap, without. > > I'm not to openSUSE so perhaps you'd grace me with a URL :-) I'm not a user of the buildservice, so I don't _really_ know how it works. Just go to the main web site, and enter "buildservice" as a search term, surely it comes out with a bunch of pages with help on that. No, forget it. Just go to the main opensuse.org page, it is one of the three big links there. > Even so, I no more want to spend my life rebuilding openSUSE than I want > to spend my life trying out each of the 139 LiveCD that are listed at > http://www.livecdlist.com Sure! :-) - -- Saludos Carlos E.R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkkGDQ4ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XN8ACePsvFPlc97un/DAELCks3snol 5BwAn1dRTwRNedZnK2GQALKBcSGD/mN8 =eaej -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[opensuse] WiFi with openSUSE 11.0 RTL8180L driver
by Jimmy PIERRE 27 Oct '08

27 Oct '08

Greetings, For our workshops / demos we are trying more and more to use WIFi. We cannot get WiFi with openSUSE 11.0 and a RTL8180 driver to work. Yast does find a wifi module and after entering the SSID, the paraphrase. KO. On the eeePC with openSUSE 10.3, all is fine. I presume that there is a modus operandi for integrating RTL8180 ? Best wishes, Jimmy www.nui.fr -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Display properties tool
by Robert E A Harvey 27 Oct '08

27 Oct '08

Hi There is a gadget on my GNOME 'panel' with an icon of a set-square in front of a CRT. It invokes a module for fiddling around with screen resolution, and the like. It has no 'about' entry on it's right-click menu. I can't get rid of it. I say 'remove from panel' and - poof- it is gone. Next time I log in it is back! I have an HP2133. It only has a tiny screen, I need all the space I can get. I am never going to change the settings, let alone need to do it in a hurry. The thing, when clicked, asks for a root password, then after that dialogue vanishes nothing happens. How do I get rid of it? Bob Harvey -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Using your own print filter script?
by Andrew Joakimsen 27 Oct '08

27 Oct '08

I have a setup using DOSEMU, for that I can direct the DOS program "LPT1:" output directly to a script and it works fine. I would like some Windows computer runnings the same DOS program to also use this script for their "printing," I can get the output from those machines to CUPS vis Samba without an issue -- of course to a normal printer thats setup in CUPS. All I need CUPS to do is pipe the raw data it receives from the client to a script, bypassing any print filters as no processing is needed. My question is, how can I accomplish that? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] PDF Import for Linux OOo v3.
by James Knott 27 Oct '08

27 Oct '08

I've been trying to install the PDF Import extension for Linux. First off, the automatic install doesn't work on either 32 or 64 bit versions of OpenSUSE 11.0. However, on the 64 bit system, I was able to download the extension and then install it. On the 32 bit system, after accepting the licence, I get an error message: loading component library failed file:///home/jknott/.ooo3/user/uno_packages/cache/uno_packages/9Be 5QJ_/pdfimport.oxt/pdfimport.uno.so Any ideas about what's causing this or how to get around it? tnx jk -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] PPC - too many ways to fail
by Felix Miata 26 Oct '08

26 Oct '08

Months ago I burned a 10.3 ppc boot.iso. Today I tried it on a G4 w/ 384M of RAM, starting with the self check of the media, and it failed. Afterward I downloaded the whole 11.0 DVD iso, checked the md5sum, then burned it on 10.2 using K3B. Media self check failed on it too. After trying to use it anyway several times, always crashing YaST2 at the end of package detailed selection, I tried just using it to start a network install. That too crashed at the end of package selection. So I tried to capture the y2logs, but that too fails. 'ls -l /sbin/sa*' gives me "/sbin/save_y2logs: No such file or directory", a totally absurd command response. I can see save_y2logs lives in /mounts/mp_0001/sbin. Why can't it work? Why don't 'ls -rt' or 'ls -alrt' work, while 'ls -l' does? Has anyone ever gotten 11.0 ppc to install? -- "Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry." James 1:19 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Missing Dependency?
by Kai Ponte 26 Oct '08

26 Oct '08

My SMART update failed today. I get the following cryptic message. Any ideas why? libxine1-1.1.15-44.pm.0 requires libxine1-codecs = 1.1.15 I googled this and got an Italian openSUSE forum but the particular thread page is giving a 404 error. -- kai www.filesite.org || www.perfectreign.com Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it. - Dee Hock -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse] Getting Rid of postfix and exim on my laptop
by Carlos E. R. 26 Oct '08

26 Oct '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, 2008-10-22 at 19:02 -0400, Anton Aylward wrote: Your mail did not reach the list. You need to subscribe first. Answering to selected parts only. If you want your full mail to be seen, then please mail it to the list yourself :-) > Carlos E. R. said the following on 10/22/2008 05:40 PM: >>> Then again cron might only be delivering locally - this used to be done >>> with mailx - so why is smtp needed. >> >> I suppose it uses the sendmail command to send, not mailx. And I >> understand that mailx uses the smtp server to send, anyway. > > I'm new to SUSE but classically mailx was the LOCAL delivery agent that > tools such as sendmail, exim and Postfix use. The other way round from > what you are suggesting. Er... in openSUSE, mailx was introduced about 2 or 3 years ago, and it is a MUA, mail user agent, aka mail client, that replaces the traditional "mail". It is not a local delivery agent. See "man mailx". >>> In reality, shouldn't cron deliver its error messages via syslog? >> >> No, it can't, or you might find thousands of syslog entries coming from >> cron output. Would you prefer that? > > It can - don't say "can't" about anything. Its a design decision. > I can open up the code or cron and make it all run though syslog, which > or an enterprise system makes more sense. If I want email notiicaiton I > strap SWATCH onto syslog. I would consider a bad design decision as worth of a "can't do" :-p > I know this is possible because I've done it on old UNIX, AIX, DG/UX, > AIX ... as I say, its not a "can't", its a decision. This dependency > shouldn't be "bolted in". > > As for "thousands" of syslog entries - that also means cron would be > producing thousands of emails. I don't mean that. A job called by cron might produce an output of thousands lines, for a single job. In openSUSE that output (if configured, on error) goes to a single email. However, if you don't like that behavior, but you want a philosophy so contrary to the manner that SUSE has always done this, then you need another distro, or roll your own, IMO. SuSE is designed around certain design considerations, certain scripts are included and supposed to work, and they need certain programs and services to be installed. > irewall system, which is useful. I get messages from the > authentication subsystem and much else, which on my laptop is quite > irrelevant, its not as if I'm short on disk space. And they get rolled > over by cron! You can configure that. Its the logrotate configuration. > The delivery doesn't have to be by mail - though it could with local > delivery. I could be by a message sent to a window or a pop-up. Certainly not! It would not work for headless machines or text only machines, or machines where the administrator is not logged it. > > The issue here is that if cron and others are not bolted in to mail then > they don't have to deliver notification by mail. if I *do* want to > receive notification by mail I'll set that up with SWATCH. > >>> I really hate all these dependencies that arise out of lack of >>> consideration of alternatives. >> >> Then perhaps you should design a distro with those premises >:-) > > Why? I'm not in the business. Then select another distro that does it your way :-) > Unless we point this out and ask or it, its not going to happen. Then ask for it officially, in Bugzilla. > I say "I'm not in the business" and I mean that. I don't have the time > to do the level of re-engineering for an "Anton's Distribution". But if > the guys at Novell pay attention and decouple many more things like > this we can all benefit. I don't think that will happen. Fortunately (IMO)! >:-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkj/wDQACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VfzACfazfm1PRy3hvT51i2sc23UZeM YLQAoI8vTSF2rDNKrPuqmBlVkOx8xZii =Ew8A -----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] Re: Status of squirrelmail in Opensuse 11.0?
by Joachim Schrod 26 Oct '08

26 Oct '08

Cristian Rodríguez wrote: > Sandy Drobic escribió: >> Can anyone tell me if squirrelmail has been dropped in version 11.0? >> I can't seem to find it anymore. > > Yes, it is no longer shipped with official openSUSE releases, you can > find it in the server;php:applications repository though, it may also > appear in the "contrib" repository for 11.1. Does SUSE now recommend/endorse/deliver an other Web mail frontend? (I assume the backend is IMAP.) 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] vsftpd and virtual users???
by Marc Chamberlin 26 Oct '08

26 Oct '08

Hi - I am trying to set up vsftpd and would like to configure it so that users who have web pages on my server can log directly in to their website files, via FTP, and not have to set up regular Linux accounts for them. Research on Google has lead me to what I believe is the solution, to set up virtual users for vsftpd, but it requires that I have a PAM password file authenticator called pam_pwdfile.so. (This is suppose to allow me to set up a file with user names and passwords and use that for PAM authentication, I believe.) Looking in /lib/security shows that this particular file did not come with the distribution of SuSE 11.0. Looking at all the various PAM modules available via Yast does not lead me to it either, though I could be mistaken as it is hard to know what files are included in modules that have not yet been installed... (that is a real drawback and makes it darn hard to find missing files... IMHO!) The documentation on the openSuSE website about PAM and VSFTPD is not very helpful either. Google seems to indicate this file does come with other distributions but I cannot determine where or what module should contain it.... So, does anyone have a clue where this particular PAM file is hiding? Or alternatively is there a better approach to setting up vsftp users without setting up regular Linux accounts for them, and chroot them to the location of their web files? Perhaps the PAM model has changed and we are now suppose to grok a new approach?? Marc... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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