March 2009 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] KMail vs Evolutiob
by Keith B. Boykin 27 Mar '09

27 Mar '09

Hi, The subject says it all. What are people using most? Using Evolution with KDE? Pros and Cons of both. Evolution is syncable with Treo 800w and looks alot like Outlook. I know I could use KDE 3.5 and sync as well, but I prefer KDE 4.2. Hope this is not OT -- if it is, I apologize. 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] Cannot open master raw device '/dev/rawctl' (No such file or directory)
by sundar mahadevan 27 Mar '09

27 Mar '09

I'm trying to create shared raw devices on opensuse 10.3. 1) I created raw partitions but when i try #raw -qa i receive the mentioned error. I tried all options but does not work. 2) I would like to know how to check / access raw partitions from a different system within the network. may be some example commands to view raw partitions from system 2 I created 5 logical partitions (under the extended partitions option on my second hard drive) of 150M each with fdisk /dev/sdb and i created the binding file as well. Any help is extremely appreciated. Newbie. So no shortforms pls. sunny@sunny1:~> su - Password: sunny1:~ # uname -a Linux sunny1 2.6.22.5-31-default #1 SMP 2007/09/21 22:29:00 UTC i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux sunny1:~ # fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40027029504 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4866 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0003b052 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 96 771088+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda2 * 97 2012 15390270 83 Linux /dev/sda3 2013 4866 22924755 83 Linux Disk /dev/sdb: 20.0 GB, 20020396032 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2434 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xbfffbfff Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 2434 19551073+ 5 Extended /dev/sdb5 1 19 152554+ 83 Linux /dev/sdb6 20 38 152586 83 Linux /dev/sdb7 39 57 152586 83 Linux /dev/sdb8 58 76 152586 83 Linux /dev/sdb9 77 95 152586 83 Linux sunny1:~ # cat /etc/fstab /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_MAXTOR_6L040J2_362215724756-part1 swap swap defaults 0 0/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_MAXTOR_6L040J2_362215724756-part2 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1 /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_MAXTOR_6L040J2_362215724756-part3 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0 debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 sunny1:~ # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 15G 3.1G 11G 23% / udev 252M 100K 252M 1% /dev /dev/sda3 22G 188M 21G 1% /home sunny1:~ # cat /etc/raw raw5:sdb5 raw6:sdb6 raw7:sdb7 raw8:sdb8 raw9:sdb9 sunny1:~ # zgrep -i raw /proc/config.gz CONFIG_IP_NF_RAW=m CONFIG_IP6_NF_RAW=m CONFIG_IEEE1394_RAWIO=m CONFIG_ARCNET_RAW=m CONFIG_HDLC_RAW=m CONFIG_HDLC_RAW_ETH=m CONFIG_SERIO_RAW=m CONFIG_RAW_DRIVER=m CONFIG_MAX_RAW_DEVS=4096 CONFIG_SND_RAWMIDI=m CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_SIERRAWIRELESS=m sunny1:~ # zgrep -i 162 /etc/modprobe.conf alias char-major-162 raw sunny1:~ # cd /dev sunny1:/dev # ls -l *raw* cannot access *raw*: No such file or directory sunny1:/dev # mkdir raw sunny1:/dev # cd raw sunny1:/dev # mknod raw5 c 162 5 sunny1:/dev # mknod raw6 c 162 6 sunny1:/dev # mknod raw7 c 162 7 sunny1:/dev # mknod raw8 c 162 8 sunny1:/dev # mknod raw9 c 162 9 sunny1:/dev/raw # ls -l crw-r--r-- 1 root root 162, 5 Mar 25 20:20 raw5 crw-r--r-- 1 root root 162, 6 Mar 25 20:20 raw6 crw-r--r-- 1 root root 162, 7 Mar 25 20:20 raw7 crw-r--r-- 1 root root 162, 8 Mar 25 20:21 raw8 crw-r--r-- 1 root root 162, 9 Mar 25 20:21 raw9 sunny1:/dev/raw # /etc/init.d/raw start sunny1:/dev/raw # /sbin/chkconfig raw on sunny1:/dev/raw # raw -qa Cannot open master raw device '/dev/rawctl' (No such file or directory) sunny1:/dev/raw # raw /dev/raw/raw5 /dev/sdb5 Cannot open master raw device '/dev/rawctl' (No such file or directory) Note: /dev/raw directory(with files: raw5,raw6,raw7,raw8, raw9 created by mknod ) gets deleted on reboot. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Gazillion mails from Gmail/imap/thunderbird
by Verner Kjærsgaard 27 Mar '09

27 Mar '09

Hi list, - I've got 3G+ of mail on my Gmail account. I pop all mail from there to my SuSE11.1 Thunderbird. Works fine, but takes A LOT of disk space. I would make a lot more sense to use gmail IMAP for my mail. Last time I tried to set it up, TB and SuSE11.0 (not 11.1) froze completely. Has anyone any experience, is it al all adviseable - to use imap for such numbers of mails? FWIW: I receive email into my mailserver directly. From there it is imediately forwarded (dot forward) to my gmail account. Here it is indexed and spam cleaned. I now have a (politically questionably...) cyberspace indexed repo of all my mails. I then pop them back to my SuSE11.1 Best regards, Verner -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] why is /etc/crontab almost empty on one of my 11.0 (clean install) systems?
by cagsm 27 Mar '09

27 Mar '09

salam, just realized, that crontab is almost empty on one of my clean x86 11.0 systems (all current onlineupdates applied). affected system looks like: SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/lib/news/bin MAILTO=root # # check scripts in cron.hourly, cron.daily, cron.weekly, and cron.monthly # -*/15 * * * * root test -x /usr/lib/cron/run-crons && /usr/lib/cron/run-crons >/dev/null 2>&1 on some other system i dont have this problem. there are several cron.daily, hourly, monthly and weekly or something lines. who and when do these lines get created, and how can i get them created? also grep for crontab in /var/log/messages only displays lines when cron gets started or restarted. Mar 16 11:29:52 linux /usr/sbin/cron[3479]: (CRON) STARTUP (V5.0) the other system displays all those starts of hourly, daily, weekly and monthly. greetings. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] KMail Question
by Keith B. Boykin 27 Mar '09

27 Mar '09

Hi, Using KDE 4.2.1 and KMail. How do I make the default reply to reply to mailing list only like it was in 4.1.x and 4.2.0? I used to be able to click reply and it only went to the list. Thanks, Keith -- 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] BASH - Why does trap output 45 blank lines to the terminal?
by David C. Rankin 27 Mar '09

27 Mar '09

Aaron Kulkis wrote: > David C. Rankin wrote: > > <snip happens> > >> Here trap was called on exit and it doesn't give me any indication of where >> all the space is coming from. I did try removing the 'echo' statement from >> cleanup(), but you were right, it made no difference. >> >> What is really strange, is I modified the trap to remove the 'EXIT' signal and >> just added cleanup at the end to cover the normal exit. Still it makes no >> difference. As long as trap is in the script, I get the big blank... >> >> Any other thoughts?? >> > > File it as a bug with the bash folks. > Then I would have been asking for more salt.... (crow tastes better that way..) -- 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] smbclient not executable when attaching SMB printer
by Verner Kjærsgaard 27 Mar '09

27 Mar '09

Hi list, - sigh... - I'm trying to attach my SMB-shared printer to 11.1 - I go into the-not-at-all-intuitive-add-a-printer-interface of YaST 11.1 - I select the MicrosoftWindows/SAMBA(SMB/CIFS) option, when I want to test the connection to the printer (which otherwise works fine with 10.3, Ubuntu, you-name-it), I get: "smbclient not executable" ...this just cannot be true...eh..just a sec, I just lost my cursor in Thunderbird, makes it a little hard to type correctly. ...got it back again now, copied the contents above to the clipboard and started over again. Just one of those little things with 11.1 :-) - back to the issue, I can't seem to locate smbclient at all...any ideas? Best regards, Verner Kjærsgaard -- 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] KMail Question
by Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. 27 Mar '09

27 Mar '09

On Thursday 26 March 2009 20:01:56 Keith B. Boykin wrote: >Using KDE 4.2.1 and KMail. Same here. >How do I make the default reply to reply to >mailing list only like it was in 4.1.x and 4.2.0? It hasn't changed for me. >I used to be able to > click reply and it only went to the list. I still can. I'm not entirely sure that's configurable. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss(a)iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/

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[opensuse] WEBEX and openSUSE issues
by James Tremblay aka SLEducator 27 Mar '09

27 Mar '09

according to WEBEX SuSE is supposed to be compatible but they make no reference to SLE or openSUSE and I can't get it to recognize our platform as compatible, so it kicks me out. Can anyone help? -- James Tremblay Volunteer openSIS Product Specialist http://www.os4ed.com e-mail james "at" os4ed.com e-mail sleducator "at" opensuse.org CNE 3,4,5 MCSE w2k CLE in training Registered Linux user #440182 http://en.opensuse.org/education

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[opensuse] SLED 11
by osskbboykin＠comcast.net 27 Mar '09

27 Mar '09

Hello All, Can anyone tell me if SLED 11.0 is based on openSuSE 11.0 or 11.1? Thanks, Keith -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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