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[opensuse] Patch management for OpenSUSE
by Ivan De Masi 17 Jan '11

17 Jan '11

Hello, I am wondering since some time how others cope with patch management on OpenSUSE Clients, when you have a bunch of PCs in a network. Somebody who can recommend a open source tool to cover the basics (e.g. a tool automating updates with zypper over ssh or something similar)? Thanks! Regards, Ivan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] What is the proper entry for /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1?
by David C. Rankin 13 Jan '11

13 Jan '11

Guys, What is the proper entry for 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts? I have seen discussion that 127.0.0.2 is deprecated so that leaves a problem with dnsdomainname if you remove the 127.0.0.2 entry and leave the 127.0.0.1 entry as: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost yourRealHostname In this situation, dnsdomainname resolves to localdomain: 15:39 phoenix:~> dnsdomainname localdomain Setting the entry as: 127.0.0.1 localhost.youReadDomainName.com localhost yourRealHostname fixes the return of dnsdomainname, but does not having localdomain cause problems as well? What say the gurus? -- 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] opensuse 11.3 power down system with apcupsd (solution)
by Dieter Werner 06 Jan '11

06 Jan '11

Hi, I searched for a way to power down my box at a predefined time including switching off the power from the UPS. "shutdown -h time" handles the shutdown of the system nicely, but to power down the UPS some changes have to be done: /etc/sysconfig/shutdown : HALT_POWERDOWN_INSERT="/etc/init.d/apcupsd powerdown" "try-powerdown" will only power down the UPS if it is running on battery at this time. The script /etc/init.d/apcupsd from apcupsd-3.14.6-8.1 contains a wrong path for the apcupsd-lite binary, it should be APCUPSD_LITE=/sbin/apcupsd-lite instead of APCUPSD_LITE=/usr/sbin/apcupsd-lite Additionally, the action performed in case of "powerdown)" has to be changed: it should perform action "--power-off" instead of "--killpower". "--killpower" only takes effect if the UPS is running on battery at this time. Following patch can apply the changes: --- apcupsd 2010-07-05 18:34:19.000000000 +0200 +++ apcupsd_my 2010-12-18 12:29:01.741526103 +0100 @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ ### END INIT INFO APCUPSD=/usr/sbin/apcupsd -APCUPSD_LITE=/usr/sbin/apcupsd-lite +APCUPSD_LITE=/sbin/apcupsd-lite test -x $APCUPSD -o -x $APCUPSD_LITE || exit 5 # Shell functions sourced from /etc/rc.status: @@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ ## Special command: Instruct UPS to shutdown. sync & echo -n "Instructing UPS to powerdown " - $APCUPSD_LITE --killpower >/dev/null 2>&1 || rc_failed + $APCUPSD_LITE --power-off >/dev/null 2>&1 || rc_failed rc_status -v ;; try-powerdown) Dieter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] samba packaging gurus - what's the correct translation for spec file options to samba ./configure options?
by David C. Rankin 04 Jan '11

04 Jan '11

Guys (Lars), I'm building an updated samba (3.5.6) for an old 10.3 box (to run in standalone mode) and wanted to make sure I got the configure options as close as possible to the spec file options. I think I have the basic options correct, but want to check if there are any additional options I should set/change to make sure that there are no conflicts with any other packages that may rely on the samba files being in any one particular place. I don't think there is any way to build an rpm from the spec due to non-existent dependency packages. From picking through the last 10.3 spec from discontinued/update it looks like the following will work: ./configure \ --prefix=/usr \ --localstatedir=/var \ --docdir=/usr/share/doc/packages \ --with-privatedir=/etc/samba \ --with-lockdir=/var/lib/samba \ --with-logfilebase=/var/log/samba \ --with-statedir=/var/run/samba \ --with-swatdir=/usr/share/samba \ --with-configdir=/etc/samba \ --enable-cups \ --with-libsmbclient \ --with-winbind Anybody see any missing or wrong options? Thanks. -- 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] Connecting iPod to OpenSUSE
by Terry Eck 04 Jan '11

04 Jan '11

Connected an iPod to USB port on OpenSUSE 11.3 and nothing shows up. Anyone know of software which will "see" the iPod directories? Is this even possible. Thanks, Terry -- openSUSE 11.3 -- Kernel 2.6.34 -- GNU/Linux -- Sun 12/26/10 21:10pm up 3 days 11:52, 3 users, load average: 0.11, 0.18, 0.23 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] booting from a duplicated hard disk
by Sampsa Riikonen 03 Jan '11

03 Jan '11

Dear List, I have duplicated my hard disk using "dd", including the boot partition to another hard disk (a sata drive in a usb box). Now I am trying to boot from this duplicated disk, but nothing happens.. grub does not start at all. I googled around and found these two posts: http://www.idlecool.net/how-to-clone-the-linux-root-file-system-and-set-up-… http://stackoverflow.com/questions/247030/ Based on those, I tried the following: 1) My current (original) root partition is "/dev/sda4" (mounted at "/") 2) The root partition at the (duplicated) usb drive is "/dev/sdb4", mounted at "/media/disk-17" 3) I login as the root and give the commands mount --bind /dev /media/disk-17/dev mount --bind /proc /media/disk-17/proc 4) Then I give the command chroot /media/disk-17 If I have understood correctly, now "/" will be "/media/disk-17" = "/dev/sdb4" But the system sees "/" as "/dev/sda4" Next I type: grub-install /dev/sda And get the following output: -------------------------------- Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time. GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory) [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible completions of a device/filename. ] grub> setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 --force-lba (hd0,3) (hd0,3) Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0,3)"... failed (this is not fatal) Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0,3)"... failed (this is not fatal) Running "install --force-lba --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0,3) /boot/grub/stage2 p /boot/grub/menu.lst "... failed Error 15: File not found grub> quit ------------------------------------------ What might be the problem here..? Regards, Sampsa "Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell." -- Edward Abbey -- 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 connect to MySQL
by xPol 02 Jan '11

02 Jan '11

I have been using a local dictionary, until a few day ago, with no problems. The dictionary can be reached by a web browser pointing at http://localhost:9000. Recently, probably following the installation of a mysql-related package, my dictionary cannot be reached any more. Here is the message i get: Can't connect to MySQL server on '127.0.0.1' (111) I am using kde 4.4.4 opensuse 11.3 Any hints to solve my problem? thank you -----p -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] 11.3 i586 - firefox crash and desktop lockup after updates
by David C. Rankin 30 Dec '10

30 Dec '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Guys, Updated my 11.3 i586 box and firefox crashed in both kde3 and gnome after updates. I uninstalled kde4-integration and it is still crashing. In gnome, it locks the whole desktop requiring a hard-reset of the box. The crash reports are: 20:34 zephyr:~/.mozilla/firefox/Crash Reports/submitted> for i in *; do echo $i; cat $i; done bp-0aaf7807-8fc4-46be-8dc3-32c162101229.txt Crash ID: bp-0aaf7807-8fc4-46be-8dc3-32c162101229 bp-15f91019-5328-45c0-82f2-b35192101229.txt Crash ID: bp-15f91019-5328-45c0-82f2-b35192101229 bp-f4389959-5ec8-47ae-a642-364202101229.txt Crash ID: bp-f4389959-5ec8-47ae-a642-364202101229 Installed packages: 20:34 zephyr:~/.mozilla/firefox/Crash Reports/submitted> rpm -qa | grep - -i moz | sort MozillaFirefox-3.6.13-0.2.1.i586 MozillaFirefox-branding-openSUSE-3.5-16.2.i586 MozillaFirefox-theme-oxygen-1.4.92-4.1.noarch MozillaFirefox-translations-common-3.6.13-0.2.1.i586 MozillaThunderbird-3.0.11-0.5.1.i586 ca-certificates-mozilla-1.62-2.3.noarch libproxy0-pacrunner-mozjs-0.3.1-2.2.i586 libproxy1-pacrunner-mozjs-0.4.3-1.3.i586 mozilla-js192-1.9.2.13-0.2.1.i586 mozilla-nspr-4.8.6-1.1.1.i586 mozilla-nspr-devel-4.8.6-1.1.1.i586 mozilla-nss-3.12.8-1.1.1.i586 mozilla-nss-certs-3.12.8-1.1.1.i586 mozilla-nss-devel-3.12.8-1.1.1.i586 mozilla-xulrunner191-1.9.1.16-0.2.1.i586 mozilla-xulrunner191-devel-1.9.1.16-0.2.1.i586 mozilla-xulrunner191-gnomevfs-1.9.1.16-0.2.1.i586 mozilla-xulrunner191-translations-common-1.9.1.16-0.2.1.i586 mozilla-xulrunner192-1.9.2.13-0.2.1.i586 mozilla-xulrunner192-devel-1.9.2.13-0.2.1.i586 mozilla-xulrunner192-gnome-1.9.2.13-0.2.1.i586 mozilla-xulrunner192-translations-common-1.9.2.13-0.2.1.i586 Anybody else see this? Any suggestions? tbird is working fine... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk0b8PUACgkQRppWw8ZWD4GFZgCgxcJ5nd7Ol/DMEdHukpfTZdt0 4c8AoLNtXci9LMoTopGCI6MQ2OYGMb4P =Cf0m -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[opensuse] .bashrc tip for managing multiple boxes, multiple user configs
by David C. Rankin 30 Dec '10

30 Dec '10

Guys, This is nothing special, but it was a clever approach to managing your .bashrc over multiple boxes with different user configs for root, you, and other users. The basic approach is just to make use of includes with a couple of conditional checks on $UID or $USER to set the environment accordingly. Here is what I did (no doubt there are much better ways): The .bashrc skeleton: test -s ~/.alias && . ~/.alias || true ## functions & general aliases . /home/admin/cnf/bashrc-gen.inc ## exports . /home/admin/cnf/bashrc-exp.inc ## aliases for builtins . /home/admin/cnf/bashrc-bins.inc ## general aliases . /home/admin/cnf/bashrc-gen.inc ## Application Aliases . /home/admin/cnf/bashrc-apps.inc ## Directory Aliases . /home/admin/cnf/bashrc-dirs.inc ## zypper Aliases . /home/admin/cnf/bashrc-zyp.inc <snip> The directory holding the include files: 11:06 phoenix:~> l1 /home/admin/cnf bashrc-apps.inc bashrc-bins.inc bashrc-dirs.inc bashrc-exp.inc bashrc-gen.inc bashrc-zyp.inc bashrc-ssh.inc Then the contents of the various files (just 2 examples): 11:08 phoenix:~> cat /home/admin/cnf/bashrc-exp.inc ## exports [[ $UID -eq 0 ]] && { # root prompt export PS1="\[\e[1;34m\][\[\e[1;31m\]\A \[\e[1;34m\]\h\[\e[0;31m\]:\w\[\e[1;34m\]] # \[\e[0m\]" } || { # user prompt export PS1="\[\e[0;37m\]\A\[\e[1;34m\] \[\e[1;34m\]\h:\w> \[\e[0m\]" } export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/usr/sbin export HISTFILESIZE=15000 export HISTSIZE=15000 11:09 phoenix:~> cat /home/admin/cnf/bashrc-gen.inc ## general alias functions wgnc() { if [[ -z $1 ]]; then echo -e "\n Usage: wg <filename>\t\t(runs wget --no-check-certificate --progress=bar)\n" else wget --no-check-certificate --progress=bar $1 fi } showhist() { [[ -z $1 ]] && { echo -e "\nUsage: hist <search term>\n"; return 1; } history | grep $1 return 0 } mkdircd() { [[ -z $1 ]] && { echo -e "\nUsage: mdcd <newdir>\n"; return 1; } mkdir -p $1 && cd $1 || { echo -e "\n Failed to make or change to directory: $1\n"; return 1; } return 0 } perledinln() { if [[ ! -f $2 ]]; then echo -e "\n Usage ${0##*/} REGEX filename\n\n Will edit the file in-place based on REGEX using perl\n" else REGEX=$1 INFILE=$2 perl -p -i -e $REGEX $INFILE fi } ## user specific aliases [[ $UID -eq 0 ]] && { alias tmsg='tail -n150 /var/log/messages' alias tmsgf='tailf /var/log/messages' #<snip> } [[ $USER == david ]] && { alias tmsg='sudo tail -n150 /var/log/messages' alias tmsgf='sudo tailf /var/log/messages' #<snip> } ## general aliases alias difscl='diff -y --suppress-common-lines' alias hist='showhist' alias mdcd='mkdircd' alias ppie='perledinln' alias wg='wgnc' #requires 1 input Basically, the setup allows the use of 1 .bashrc file among all boxes and users and all you have to remember to do is rsync the /home/admin/cnf dir between boxes (or where ever you would put that kind of stuff on your box) Then when changes are needed, you simply edit a singe ../cnf/bashrc-xxx.inc file and rsync the change to hosts and not have to edit 50 individual bashrc files. I'm open if there are other ways or setup tweaks that would make this easier. Also, let me know if you see any red flags. (I'm not concerned about users being able to 'see' what the root bashrc includes - the users I have couldn't even read the thing) Enjoy. -- 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] Sound | Skype
by ka1ifq 30 Dec '10

30 Dec '10

I have never used any sound input devices, now I find that things are greyed out for inputs on my sound card. Yast lists it as MCP51 High Def Audio Hardware info lists driver as snd_hda_intel , Vendor Nvidia. System is a Dell Dimension C521, Athalon64x2, 6g ram, os11.3-64. I installed Skype and it seems to be working if I could get my mic to function, get audio from the other end. On the other hand, is there some functional sound fob I could use??? Thanks, Mike.. --- Sent from my SuseLinux Desktop. --- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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