November 2009 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] fake random sort
by jdd-gmane 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

Hello, I have a cheap electronic photo frame that is not able to dispaly phots randomly. I have more than 1000 photos to display, with a name roughtly made with the photo date. If I I simply set the frame I see the images from the older to the newest. this is quite boring :-) how could I sort the photos in a semi-random manner to let them look on the frame as if they where sorted randomly? I can of course change the file name. thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://news.opensuse.org/2009/04/13/people-of-opensuse-jean-daniel-dodin/ -- 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: postfix: Name service error
by Joachim Schrod 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

Otto Rodusek wrote: > Joachim Schrod wrote: >> Otto Rodusek wrote: >>> # >>> hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns >> >> There are two possible remedies: >> >> 1) If you don't know what Zeroconf is and have no Apple system, >> remove the string "mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] " from the >> line above. I.e., leave only files and dns. >> >> 2) Otherwise, check that avahi is running. >> > Hi, Thanks for all the helpful hints - tried all of them but > postfix/sendmail still can't send out any mail!! I'm a bit confused with > this dns issue - mainly if I open firefox or konquer, I have no problems > surfing the net - even zyppr does all the updates without complaint - > seems that ONLY postfix is giving an issue. As Joachim mentioned I > tried the host command with the following results: > > bunyip:/etc # host gmail.com > gmail.com has address 209.85.225.83 > gmail.com has address 74.125.79.83 > gmail.com has address 74.125.127.83 > ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached > bunyip:/etc # host -t mx gmail.com > ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached > bunyip:/etc # This tells that name resolution works, but not mx lookups. Actually, since the first command also outputs a time-out message, this probably also gets no answer from the DNS server. This is not good as the dig command yesterday worked. Before we make postfix work, dig and host must return results. Without them working, postfix won't work at all. Step 1) dig @202.156.1.58 gmail.com mx does that output a result? => This is the most basic way to check of you can access your DNS server. Step 2) host -v -t mx gmail.com 202.156.1.58 how about this? => This is a weeny bit more high-level, but the server is still accessed directly, without system configuation. Step 3) Make a backup copy of nsswitch.conf. Edit it: only "files dns" shall remain on the hosts line. host -v -t mx gmail.com what's the result now? => This uses the system configuration. If step 3 didn't return a result, stop now and come back. Step 4) What is the output of rcnscd status It may tell "command not found", that's OK, too. If it tells "running", call "rcnscd restart". Step 5) Restart postfix; otherwise the changed nsswitch.conf will not be activated: rcpostfix restart Hopefully these steps give more information to locate the problem at your system. 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] Re: [opensuse-gnome] Applications autostart in GNOME
by Marco Calistri 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

Il giorno gio, 26/11/2009 alle 18.00 +0100, Vincent Untz ha scritto: > Le jeudi 26 novembre 2009, à 14:36 -0200, Marco Calistri a écrit : > > On Thu 26 Nov 2009 at 11:54:08 (-0300 UTC), Vincent Untz wrote: > > > That certainly shouldn't happen. Can you look at ~/.config/autostart and > > > attach one of the desktop file there from such an application? > > > > You mean trying to setting up some app. directly into ~/.config/autostart? > > No, I'd like to know which applications you configured to autostart, and > see its file from ~/.config/autostart. If there's no such file there, > then that's either not an application you manually configured to > autostart, or well, it's gone. > > Vincent > > -- > Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. Hi Vincent! The ~/.config/autostart is present and it contains both the old configs as the new entry I inserted just to test, this last is the only one which autostart, all the others not, but fusion-icon. marco@linux-turion64:~> ls -la .config/autostart/ totale 56 drwx------ 2 marco users 4096 25 nov 22:26 . drwxr-xr-x 21 marco users 4096 24 nov 22:26 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 marco users 183 11 ott 22:53 cairo-dock.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 marco users 194 14 dic 2008 ClearWeatherScreenlet.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 marco users 293 5 ott 2008 fusion-icon.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 marco users 676 15 set 2008 ggreeter.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 marco users 5090 14 dic 2008 gnome-at-session.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 marco users 6812 29 ago 2008 gpk-update-icon.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 marco users 332 22 ott 15:54 gpk-update-viewer.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 marco users 281 24 nov 21:38 kupdateapplet-autostart.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 marco users 201 14 dic 2008 Screenlets Daemon.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 marco users 188 14 dic 2008 SysmonitorScreenlet.desktop Comparing fusion-icon with kupdateapplet, I suspect that the statements present tin the last: X-SuSE-translate=true or even: OnlyShowIn=KDE May be the cause of no show on Gnome, but this is just my bare guessing. Cheers, -- opensuse 11.2 - Linux 2.6.31.5-0.1-default x86_64 AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology MK-36 - GeForce Go 6150 Gnome 2.28

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[opensuse] Re: postfix: Name service error
by Joachim Schrod 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

Lars Müller wrote: > On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 01:49:27PM +0100, Joachim Schrod wrote: > >> Since: the actual problem with avahi is that the documentation is >> crap. Just look at http://avahi.org/wiki/Avah4users and tell me >> with a straight face that this bunch of information is sufficient >> for troubleshooting > > Simply change and fix it by contribution. [...] As you might have done > already. ;-) No, you won't succeed luring me to it. While I know avahi &al, I don't use it in our own networks and thus won't invest work there. (I'm a member of the LaTeX team, a CTAN administrator, and active in DANTE, being a founding member; almost all OSS work that I'm doing in my free non-work time is spent in the TeX world.) Having two parallel Internet connections, using policy based routing, and running experimental services on all systems doesn't lend itself to Zeroconf -- our system configuration is highly specialized and thus controlled with Puppet. But then, I run an IT consulting company; I'm not a normal Linux user. >> PS: And while I'm at ranting, the same holds for all those new *Kit >> daemons, too. There is no document to be found that explains how >> udev, HAL, ConsoleKit, and PolicyKit are supposed to work together. >> Not to speak of PackageKit; just look at the recent F12 disaster... >> The attitude of the *Kit developers ("I don't care about the >> traditional Unix way"), combined with their unwillingness to >> provide good documentation, makes this stuff a complete mess from a >> sysadmin point of view. > > Even this is part of the OSS concept. On the one side people like to > control a WiFi NIC from the desktop while others they like to keep the > "good" old netconfig approach. I do understand the intentions behind those systems, and I agree to the sentiment that the traditional Unix way is not sufficient for modern environments with hot-pluggable components. My problem is more the way that has been chosen as a remedy, where the overall architecture of hardware management is (a) quite complex and (b) does not take sysadmin tasks in account: while the system is configurable as hell, very few people know how to connect the dots of the myriads of XML configuration files. Having mostly API documentation for systems like HAL, D-BUS, or *Kit doesn't help either. E.g., I have started a HOWTO documentation for myself, and it has still more questions than answers. 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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Re: [opensuse] Odd behavior of Eclipse CDT Galileo
by Bogdan Cristea 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

On Monday 16 November 2009 23:20:02 you wrote: > Bogdan Cristea wrote: > > I have installed the latest version of Eclipse CDT Galileo downloaded > > from Eclipse site. In openSUSE 11.2 with KDE 4.31, when I open a dialog > > window in Eclipse (e.g. in order to open a new perspective) and I press > > with the mouse the OK button nothing happens. However, the focus is set > > on OK button so pressing the enter key (from keyboard) triggers the > > desired action. This behavior seems to me very odd, but it's not > > consistent (sometime I can use the mouse). Do you have noticed a similar > > behavior ? > > Interestingly I noticed something very similar with dialog boxes in > RSSOwl, a feed reader based on Eclipse. I am using OS 11.2 x64. > > ~/jc > It could be a bug in java virtual machine, I'll let other people to confirm this. -- 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: apache .htaccess and links
by jdd-gmane 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

Le 27/11/2009 09:23, John Andersen a écrit : > One picture may be linked into several other directories. Users would still only > be able to see the pictures linked into the directory they were authorized to browse. > yes but this is not what I want. permissions are that of the destination file is it possible to have /prive/one.html /prive/two.html and to link to one.html with a passwd and to two.html with an other passwd, without somebody smart being able to change one by two in the url and access two with the pass for one :-( thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://news.opensuse.org/2009/04/13/people-of-opensuse-jean-daniel-dodin/ -- 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 11.0, kde 3.5, vmware server console 1.0.7 -- keyboard problems
by Bernd Nies 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

hi, i have the latest patch level of opensuse 11.0, 32bit installation. i use kde 3.5 desktop. from time to time when administrating a windows vmware server image with vmware server console 1.0.7 it happens that the keyboard does become not fully functional on kde -- all special keys like capslock, shift, control, f-keys do not work on kde. but they do work inside the vm window. currently this is the case. can't type uppercase letters. other users with the same os release but with vmware workstation 6.5 report the same issue occasionally. any idea what causes this problem [questionmark] thanks in advance regards, bernd -- 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 set up LIRC?
by Marc Chamberlin 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

Well I am lost, so need a few pointers to get me started... I am running SuSE11.1 and need to get the lirc daemon up an running. Searching around on the internet I get quite a bit of difference information that relates to various other distro's or versions and nothing I can find seem to apply to SuSE. I have use YaST to install all the pertinent packages for LIRC, installed the config files for /etc/lircd.conf and .lircrc in my home directory as I was instructed to do. Most of the documentation I have read seem to imply there should be a device - /dev/lirc but I do not find such. Trying to start the lircd service gives me an error saying as much... So what do I have to do to get the lircd service up an running under SuSE11.1? Much appreciate any and all help offered.. Marc.. -- 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: /mnt/ vs. /media/*/
by jdd-gmane 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

looking in YaST, there seems to be four mount points: * /media for any removable medium (usb key, cd/dvd, may be external SATA) * /local for mounting of on board disk partitions * /windows for w partitions * /mnt for any other thing :-). I use ot for manually mouinted things jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://news.opensuse.org/2009/04/13/people-of-opensuse-jean-daniel-dodin/ -- 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: How to clone HDD
by jdd-gmane 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

Le 27/11/2009 02:41, Wong a écrit : > Hope you would help me sometime as I may be get difficulty to try it. before cloning, change the disk definition in fstab for the device one (/dev/sd...) with yaST, so the new disk should not change this one jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://news.opensuse.org/2009/04/13/people-of-opensuse-jean-daniel-dodin/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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