May 2008 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] New install questions
by Chris Arnold 12 May '08

12 May '08

Excuse my noviceness but i just got a HP Pavilion a6313w with a 640gig drive or so it was billed on the box as a 640gig drive. When i go to install 10.3, yast says it is 2 drives of 320gig. I take the cover off and it is in fact 2 320gig drives. My question is what is everybody doing in this situation? Raid 1 (i don't even know if this thing can do raid) or 1 drive is mounted as root with a swap and the other is mounted as /home? I would think that if 1 drive is mounted as "/" with the swap on it, there is alot of wasted space (does / need 320gigs). If raid 1, could someone post a doc link as to how to do software raid in linux. I also have a question about the 15 in 1 reader: does 10.3 find and work with card readers? Chris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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FW: [opensuse] LAMP Setup Issue.
by Cornelius Franken 12 May '08

12 May '08

Hi All Well I had a look at all my installed modules. I have all the pear packages installed on the distribution DVD of 10.3 that I got with the book opensuse unleashed. However I did discover that the DB.php package has been deprecated and replaced by the MDB2 interface. The theory at the moment is that the DB.php is not included anymore though you can download it and use it. I will modify the code snippets tonight and change it to use the MDB2 interface and well maybe I am on the right track here. Regards Neil PS thanks to MS VISTA I am now using Linux. ________________________________________ From: member fxrsliberty [mailto:fxrsliberty@opensuse.us] Sent: 08 May 2008 05:02 PM To: Cornelius Franken Cc: opensuse Linux Subject: Re: [opensuse] LAMP Setup Issue. On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 10:56 AM, member fxrsliberty <fxrsliberty(a)opensuse.us> wrote: Did you insure that you have "PEAR_Mod" (not sure of exact name) installed? as far as I know these PHP support modules for Apache are all separate RPM's. On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 5:12 AM, Cornelius Franken <Cornelius.Franken(a)engenoil.com> wrote: Hi Guys Last night while playing my pet project which uses the Lamp setup I was ran into a problem. I was working through some examples from the MySQL cookbook (O'Reilly publication) on how to connect to MySQL from a php page. The book is using the PEAR package and when I tried the example I got a error that it could not find the DB.php file. Basically the book uses the msqli methods instead of the mysql methods. However when the PHP interpreter hits the line require_once "DB.php" it states it cannot find this file. I did a find and locate and could not find this file on my box. So anyway I tried a example from the book Setting UP LAMP. Using the mysql methods such as mysql_connect I could access the database and display my results on the page. Now I would really like to use the mysqli methods as I am planning to try all sorts of experiments with the LAMP setup. From what I understand the mysqli interfaces is much better to use if you are going for advanced SQL type of functionality. Anyway my main problem is how can I get this PEAR extension to work. I looked at Yast and search for the PEAR package I have all the pear packages installed but they don't seem to be the DB packages. Can someone shed some light? Regards Neil ----------------------------------------- Engen Petroleum Limited, disclaims liability for any loss, damage or expense however caused, arising from the sending, receipt, or use of this e-mail and on any reliance placed upon the information provided through this service and does not guarantee the completeness or accuracy of the information. Please visit http://www.engen.co.za/home/server/common/disclaimer.asp to view the full disclaimer. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.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] Konqueror background
by Carl Spitzer 12 May '08

12 May '08

I wish to set the background for Konqueror not for each folder but for /home/<user>/ and all folders below. Where is this setting stored. -- _______ _______ _______ __ / ____\ \ / / ____|_ _\ \ / / | | \ \ /\ / / (___ | | \ \ / / | | \ \/ \/ / \___ \ | | \ \/ / | |____ \ /\ / ____) |_| |_ \ / \_____| \/ \/ |_____/|_____| \/ | \ /|\ || |\ / |~~\ /~~\ /~~| //~~\ | \ / | \ || | X |__/| || |( `--. |__ | | \| \_/ / \ | \ \__/ \__| \\__/ -- 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] using vtund in Suse
by James D. Parra 12 May '08

12 May '08

> Has anyone on this list had any experience setting up vtund (for tunneling) > on their Suse system(s)? I am trying to find a simple conf file, server & > client, to use as an example. I used vtund back in 2001-2002 but have since switched all vtund installations to openvpn, which is a superior tool, and unlike vtundm is actively maintained. Is there any reason you don't want to use openvpn? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Well, no, I have no reason to not use openvpn. One thing I like about vtund is that it establishes a persistent tunnel upon boot-up, without dropping its connection, but I imagine that openvpn can do that as well. I'll read up on it and create a persistent tunnel. 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] using vtund in Suse
by James D. Parra 12 May '08

12 May '08

Hello, Has anyone on this list had any experience setting up vtund (for tunneling) on their Suse system(s)? I am trying to find a simple conf file, server & client, to use as an example. 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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Re: [opensuse] Preferred PDF Reader
by Randall R Schulz 12 May '08

12 May '08

On Sunday 11 May 2008 00:44, Andreas van dem Helge wrote: > On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > > In the not-too-distant past, the Linux Reader lagged considerably > > behind its counterparts for the other OS platforms, but no longer. > > So much so that the Linux version of Adobe Reader even prompts you to > "upgrade to pro"... which does not exist on the Linux platform. I've never encountered that. RRS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Restricting a user to one directory for FTP access
by John Meyer 12 May '08

12 May '08

I had a friend who's a novice on Linux ask me about this so I'm looking for a solution that is relatively simple. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse]v11.0 Beta2 Not installing graphical YaST? zypper issue also
by Larry Stotler 12 May '08

12 May '08

I've installed Beta2 on 3 systems so far, all low resource systems, so I don't install zypper. Each time, the yast-qt package doesn't get installed and I just figured that out today. Not sure why that package is skipped. Also, the printer module for YaST doesn't get installed either. As for zypper, I keep setting it to taboo in the package system, but every time I install something else, it's added back in. My system works just fine without it, and it's really annoying to have it put back in all the time. Is there really that much of a benefit to having it installed? I generally just run YOU one a week, and I get tired of getting told once a day that some update or other is available. My Fedora 8 box is just as bad. Unless it's a critical update, I don't see the point in doing it more often. All 3 are running stable without zypper installed. Other than an issue with my wireless cards, everything else seems to be working. I've even managed to install it on a PowerMac 6500 603ev @ 250Mhz with 128MB RAM(max) and a 2MB ATI video chip(max). It's slow, but it works. Keeping resources down is a big deal on this kind of low end machine. While it's not a production box, it's nice to be able to make use of it. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] how to make reboot skip self test
by Ying Shi 12 May '08

12 May '08

Hi, all: A quick question: Every time I reboot, it carry out self test. I don't get this behaviour in Windows. How can I config to skip this step? 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] General software update question concerning dependencies
by Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) 12 May '08

12 May '08

Hi, OS: OpenSuSE/ Linux Application version numbers are hypothetical in the below example. Assume I have an older version of a software package and know there is a newer release i.e. OpenOffice/org. I am currently on version 1.3 and would like to update to the latest version, assume 3.0. Having never compiled or hell even installed away from Yast, please excuse the incorrect procedures. I download the source and dependencies, compile into an RPM and update/install it, The update/install process takes care of any dependency updates since my last install of OOo 1.3. Looking at the dependency as program code that assists an app(OOo) to run, can I assume that apps(Kontact) that used to work with an older version of the dependency(i.e. kdm 2.4) will definitely also work with the new dependency version(kdm 4.5)? What happens if older apps don't work with the newer version, as you no doubt can't have two different version of the same file in the same directory being accessed by different apps? I am pretty sure this is where 'dependency hell' starts. :) Besides a generic TLDP link is there somewhere I can read about this? Regards Hylton -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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