January 2009 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Creating a boot CD
by Philip Burness 11 Jan '09

11 Jan '09

Many years ago it was possible to create a boot (floppy) disk for those times when loading windowz after Linux your boot partition was lost. Is it possible to do this still only create a boot CD disk with your image on so you can re- load grub? Thanks Phil -- 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: good... kill superuser daemons :-)
by jdd 11 Jan '09

11 Jan '09

Carlos E. R. a écrit : > > > On Sunday, 2009-01-11 at 16:59 +0100, jdd wrote: > >> good news, on my 11.1 (kde4) I could kill on the daemon manager >> (control esc) a root deamon - it asked for the root passwd > >> usually I had only a forgiven message > >> good ! > > That's not the proper way. Find out the init script, and tell it to stop > instead. not always. When you lauch an app like yast, with kdesu, you don't have the opportunity to stop it jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-eic8MSSfM http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1412160445 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] good... kill superuser daemons :-)
by jdd 11 Jan '09

11 Jan '09

good news, on my 11.1 (kde4) I could kill on the daemon manager (control esc) a root deamon - it asked for the root passwd usually I had only a forgiven message good ! jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-eic8MSSfM http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1412160445 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] BASH help - Better way to test if remote host running openSuSE or windows?
by David C. Rankin 11 Jan '09

11 Jan '09

Listmates; I'm looking for a quick test to see whether a remote host is running Linux (openSuSE) or windows. One test I have come up with is: SERVER="//${1:-nirvana}" if ssh ${SERVER} "cat /etc/SuSE-release" > /dev/null 2>&1; then echo "${SERVER} running linux" else echo "${SERVER} running windows" fi Then for testing whether samba is available, I have: if smbclient -U% -L${SERVER} >/dev/null 2>&1; then echo -e "\n\t${SERVER} up and samba connection available\n" else echo -e "\n\t${SERVER} samba connection NOT available\n" fi I know there must be a cleaner or quicker way. Does anyone else have a favorite way to testing the OS on a remote host they wouldn't mind sharing? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.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] Re: is avahi mandatory
by jdd 11 Jan '09

11 Jan '09

Anton Aylward a écrit : > If I take away libavahi-client3 I also loose Thunderbird > > YAST - software managemnt has a "depends on" box. > Using that I find I would also loose > > gnome-vfs - which a lot of my Java applications seem to depend on > OUCH! > gstreamer - and that takes out a lot of multimedia > libdns_sd - which in turn cripples things like k3b, cups, > dekorator, kaffine, NetworkManager, compiz-kde > > Somewhere in there is also a few plugins for Thunderbird and Firefox and > also acroread. and also openoffice!!! really dumb! this remind me of old times with apt-get :-(( jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-eic8MSSfM http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1412160445 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] PHP Applications [Was: MediaWiki For openSUSE 11.1?]
by Henare Degan 11 Jan '09

11 Jan '09

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 11:46, Cristian Rodríguez <crrodriguez(a)suse.de> wrote: > PHP applications are a mayor pain in the back to maintain, zillions of > security problems, too much workload.. You have to look for it in > server:php:applications for now on. Can I assume that this is also the case with packages like Cacti[0] then? It was included[1] in the base 11.0 and now it's not even in the build service[2] for 11.1. I always liked to install these packages from a repo then if the upstream package is updated, you're updated too (assisting with the aforementioned security issues). Does anyone have any plans to maintain these types of packages? Cheers, h [0] http://www.cacti.net/ [1] http://software.opensuse.org/search?baseproject=openSUSE:11.0&q=cacti [2] http://software.opensuse.org/search?baseproject=openSUSE:11.1&q=cacti -- 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: is avahi mandatory
by jdd 11 Jan '09

11 Jan '09

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=465204 filled a bug jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-eic8MSSfM http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1412160445 -- 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: Fixing Grub via rescue mode [WAS: Re: Creating a boot CD]
by jdd 11 Jan '09

11 Jan '09

Greg Freemyer a écrit : >> Do you know how to do this using the rescue menu? If you want to use the rescue system, and know yous partitions are ok and only the boot sector is wrong, use only the expert options, else you will have to wait an hour or so, the rescue system insisting to fsk all the partitions (in any of the two other modes). you have to recreate the boot system - you have only a basic system. boot your openSUSE normally and then, in YaST, boot loader, ask YaST to make a new guessed boot system. on 11.1, at least, YaST guesses very well and find all the installed OS in the system (I have used this with vista ans 11.0 out of the 11.1) else (manually), chrooting in your linux and aking grub-install /dev/yourdisk should work jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-eic8MSSfM http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1412160445 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Compile Problem
by Stephen P. Molnar 11 Jan '09

11 Jan '09

I find myself in a position where it is necessary for me to recompile a quantum chemistry program for my OpenSuSE 10.3 Linux computer. The problem is that the Makefile, supplied with the distribution, requires g77, e.g.: F77 =g77 -c -finit-local-zero -fno-automatic -Iinclude -O -o F77o =g77 -c -finit-local-zero -fno-automatic -Iinclude -o CC = cc -o LD =g77 -o g77 has been replaced by gfortran which does not recognize either the -finit-local-zero option nor the -fno-automatic option. As a consequence, even though I get an executable by substituting gfortran for g77 in the Makefile generated by amsol.compile it does not function entirely correctly. My question is which options does gfortran require that are equivalent to those used by g77? Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. -- -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and multivariate http://www.geocities.com/FoundationForChemistry -- 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: is avahi mandatory
by jdd 11 Jan '09

11 Jan '09

Per Jessen a écrit : > jdd wrote: >> I just noted that avahi-daemon is taking 50% of my cpu. > I have stopped it and removed it from the init-sequence on the last 2-3 > systems I've installed. I think I also saw it using up a lot of CPU. > > > an other beagle? may be openSUSE should make something more usefull? thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-eic8MSSfM http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1412160445 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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