September 2009 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] curious copy action
by jdd 16 Sep '09

16 Sep '09

Hello :-) I'm just saving my photo collection to a USB Hard drive. I simply clic on the photo folder, copy and paste it on a free space on the HDD. So there is nothing on the destination at start. I had during the (14Go) copy 2 (*two*) questions "do you want to override the image xxx with the image YYY the first time the two images where identical, the second time different (but with same name). I renamed to keep losing one. But I don't understand why there was a question? After copying, there where exactly the same number of files on the two supports (8535)! of course not the same size as not the same filesystem (probably ext3 on the computer and fat32 on the external HDD) copy done with konqueror (kde 3.5, opensuse 11.1) thanks jdd Note: could this be a "case" problem? one upper/lower case file name? -- 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] kmail/kaddress queries KDE 4.3.1
by ianseeks 16 Sep '09

16 Sep '09

Hi Just a couple of simple queries... 1. How can i set "Forward Inline" to be the default when pressing "Forward"? 2. How can i change/update/create new labels to the phone number descriptions when creating/amending a contact? For example, instead of just having "Work" "mobile" etc as phone number descriptions. I would like to create a description to identify a phone number as being the contact's assistant phone number rather than have a separate contact or adding it to the detail. thanks Ian -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] ldap slpd config
by Linda Walsh 16 Sep '09

16 Sep '09

I'm trying to get ldap configured to manage my logins, network shares, passwd file, group file, my "samba" users (domain) stuff...etc... I first tried to follow some books and got lost. I then made sure I had the packages installed for suse and yast2 and tried yast2 -- Now I am getting: [today...many times...] Ishtar slapd[27910]: SASL [conn=1] Failure: GSSAPI Error: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information (Configuration file does not specify default realm) ......message repeated [many times].... filling up my /var/log/messages. Somehow I don't think this is right. Anyone have any further clues on how to get this working? I got YAB (yet another book) but the book got lost as soon as I went to my /etc/open-ldap/ dir and looked in slapd.conf and saw: # Note: The OpenLDAP configuration has been created by YaST. YaST does not # use /etc/openldap/slapd.conf to store the OpenLDAP configuration anymore # YaST uses OpenLDAP's dynamic configuration database (back-config) to # store the LDAP server's configuration. # # A copy of the original /etc/openldap/slapd.conf file has been created as: # /etc/openldap/slapd.conf.YaSTsave # # To access the new configuration backend easily you can use SASL external # authentication. I.e. the following ldapsearch command, executed as the root # user, can be used to print the complete slapd configuration to stdout: # ldapsearch -Y external -H ldapi:/// -b cn=config --------- I tried this, but it doesn't work; ldap_sasl_interactive_bind_s: Can't contact LDAP server (-1) So...how come my backend isn't working and why do I feel rather silly asking why it isn't working on a suse list? Help? -linda -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] SPAM filter in openSUSE 11.1
by Roger Oberholtzer 15 Sep '09

15 Sep '09

I have an openSUSE 11.1 system that uses ProcMail for local mail delivery. Via that, I send mail to Spam Assassin with rules like this: # Check for SPAM # pipe files smaller than 256k through stand alone spamassassin :0fw * < 256000 | spamc # Spam :0: * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes ".SPAM/" All works great. Spam Assassin detects lots of messages as being spam. My question is how Spam Assassin can learn about messages that were missed as being SPAM? Since this is done outside of my mail reader (evolution), I can't just tell the reader to tell that it is SPAM and that the filter should learn. At least I would not imagine this would be the case. The reason I am doing it this way is that ProcMail is also putting the mail into Maildir folders for my Courier IMAP daemon. I access my mail from numerous mail programs at various locations, and using ProcMail/IMAP to sort mail once is really great. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Ohio LINUX Fest 2009 (Sept. 25 - 27)
by Adam Tauno Williams 15 Sep '09

15 Sep '09

Any other openSUSE users planning on attending? Looks like Novell is going to be there again this year; I've scored some good SWAG in previous years. ------------OHIO LINUXFEST REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS SEPT 18------------ Ohio LinuxFest 2009 Free and Open Source Software Conference and Expo Columbus, Ohio : September 25-27, 2009 http://www.ohiolinux.org Registration Deadline: September 18, 2009 The Ohio LinuxFest 2009 registration deadline is September 18, 2009. If you have not registered yet, please hurry over to http://www.ohiolinux.org and register today. Join us for the seventh annual Ohio LinuxFest conference to celebrate 40 years of Unix. We have an exciting line up of talks and this year the conference extends from Friday to Sunday. Friday, September 25, features professional training courses (Professional package registration required) and a course for Linux beginners which includes a refurbished computer, with Linux pre- installed for you (Quick Start package required). A series of conference talks and other sessions will be held on Friday as well. Saturday, September 26, features the expo and four conference tracks. We have a great line up of speakers; Doug McIlroy, Shawn Powers, Dr. Peter Salus, and many more. The Diversity in OpenSource Workshop will be held on Sunday, September 27th. A mix of talks and open discussion will help attendees identify biases and learn ways to break down barriers, invisible or blatant. Also, two certification examinations will be held on Sunday the 27th. Linux Professional Institute will host an LPI certification exam, and the BSD Certification Group will offer the BSDA certification exam for Ohio LinuxFest attendees. Four registration packages are available for the Ohio LinuxFest this year. The Enthusiast Package is available at no cost for students, enthusiasts, and those that want to come to the event to find out more about Free and Open Source software. The Supporter Package is available again at a low cost of $65.00 to support the event. As a measure of appreciation, the supporter package includes lunch on Saturday and a commemorative Ohio LinuxFest tee-shirt. The Quick Start Package is available for $250.00, which in addition to access to the events on Saturday, includes a full day of Linux Basics training on Friday and a refurbished Linux computer to take home. The Professional Package is available for $350.00, which in addition to Saturday's activities, also includes access to the one day OLFU tutorials on Friday. The Ohio LinuxFest welcomes people from all 50 states and international participants. We have had participants from Canada, England, Argentina, Brazil, and Australia in years past. Note that the Ohio LinuxFest is a 501c3 non-profit, volunteer organization. All proceeds are used for conference costs. Thank you and hope to see you in Columbus, The Ohio LinuxFest team. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Can't get drive to mount
by Duaine & Laura Hechler 15 Sep '09

15 Sep '09

hechler:~ # mount /dev/sdb3 /mnt mount: /dev/sdb3 already mounted or /mnt busy hechler:~ # umount /dev/sdb3 umount: /dev/sdb3: not mounted hechler:~ # umount /mnt umount: /mnt: not mounted I've checked the obvious - device and mount point not mounted; not in directory /mnt; tried the "lazy" mount; no entry in /etc/fstab; does not show up in /etc/mtab Help ? -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler(a)att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home & Business user of Linux - 10 years -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Does YaST Support ADS Security Setting in Samba
by Anthony Simonelli 15 Sep '09

15 Sep '09

I followed the instructions from this posting: http://en.opensuse.org/Setting_up_Squid_NTLM_DansGuardian_Sarg to be able to setup NTLM Authentication. One instruction says to change the security setting in smb.conf to "security=ads". Everything works, and Winbind lists the users and groups. However, when I go into YaST to add SMB shares, YaST changes the security back to being "user". This means that all of the shares created on the server cannot be accessed unless a user account is added to smbpasswd. What I would like is to have Samba shares authenticated by AD. Can I setup Samba using YaST to be able to join a domain as a member server (security=ads) and authenticate Samba shares using AD through YaST and, if so, how is it done? Anthony Simonelli -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Old SuSE archives
by Mike 15 Sep '09

15 Sep '09

I'm trying to restore an old machine and would like to put an early SuSE on it. Is there a source to download the early packages. I have a copy of 4.2 on a Walnut Creek CD and am looking for something older. -- Collector of vintage computers http://www.ncf.ca/~ba600 -- 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] Backup Question
by Carlos E. R. 15 Sep '09

15 Sep '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 El 2009-09-15 a las 02:02 -0400, Osamalamadingdong escribió: > Carlos E. R. wrote: >> >> On Monday, 2009-09-14 at 08:28 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: >> >> > That is only a variation of (b) above - if you can't trust your backup >> > procedure, a missing backup not your primary problem. >> >> Well, what I mean is that a compressed tar is not reliable as a backup >> procedure. > > Only if your storage media is flaky, in which case, it doesn't > matter what backup program you're using. > > That being said, I prefer uncompressed tar files for long-term > backup precisely because a 1-bit error in the tar file is, if > conditions are right, much easier to correct (if say, it was > part of the archive storing a text file) than a 1-bit error in > a compressed file (regardless of compression method). > >> >> I don't know what is reliable in Linux, but tar isn't. It is much less >> reliable than, for example, the old pctools backup from central point >> software was twenty years ago. I still have backups in 360 KB floppies >> that work... it had compression and low level error recovery codes. Not >> portable, of course. > > In 20+ years of using tar, I've never experienced a problem with it. > > I think your problem is not in the software, but in storage > media that went bad. Media does go bad now and then, it is unavoidable. But those backups in flopies I mention above have errors (perhaps 2 in 80 disks), and the program is nevertheless capable of making a full, clean recovery of every archived file. That's what I want to have in linux, and I haven't. - -- Saludos Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkqvqXUACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WTcQCgg0LmUBSA90Pj7H0qLcpKSAqc 9EYAn17QeTs7/GEwtcnXqKvKEP2FJYr+ =QYnc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[opensuse] Streaming MP3 from Internet Radio w/XMMS
by Stan Goodman 15 Sep '09

15 Sep '09

I have been using xmms to listen to an MP3 stream for several years. Clicking on the desired stream always brought up the xmms window, complete with graphical pre-amp controls. Recently, because there are several buttons on that window whose function was not clear to me, I experimented by clickin one. This caused the xmms window to disappear, and I have never been able to recover it. At the same time, xmms appears in the panel as an active app; just as I can't cause it to display on the Deskktop, I am unable to close it and disappear from the panel. Since xmms has been doing this disappearing act, opening an audio stream does nothing with FF's Action for PLS files set to xmms. I therefore installed gecko-mediaplayer, and fortunately FF gave me the option of setting Action for PLS streams to that app. The Action for MP3 is still set to xmms, because FF does not offer the option of setting it to gecko-mediaplayer, and I have no clue what the name of the executable of that program might be. (Applications often have obscure names for their executables. It might be helpful if their rpm packages would offer a hint, perhaps within man or info, but they don't.) Streams still play, apparently through gecko-mediaplayer, but this is not the way things should be. Among other things, I would like to get the pre-amp sliders back. How can I restore the previous behavior? -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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