November 2011 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [opensuse] how can i set wwwoffle?
by Linux Tyro 07 Nov '11

07 Nov '11

.........(continued)......... While on one side, wwwoffle could be a great utility but I really didn't go with it -- for understanding it would require some couple of hours and it seemed a little typical to me too (at this level of mine, being of a beginner....But still I get a step by step method, I would ready to go for that. Afterall its opensource and good! -- thx -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Automatically start Kopete
by James Knott 06 Nov '11

06 Nov '11

Is there any way to automatically start Kopete? I tried creating a link for it in ~/.kde4/Autostart, but it doesn't seem to do anything and I don't see anything in the settings. tnx jk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Moonlight
by Hans Witvliet 06 Nov '11

06 Nov '11

Hi all, Got a awkward dillema, perhaps someone knows a good solution. Last couple of years i tried to rais my kids in an "open" mindset. For doing their home works (making stories, presentations etc) that was no big deal: If you have to learn to use a office suite, why not start with openoffice? When they got cdroms from school, it got a bit harder, but most of them were working on top of wine. However, my eldest moved to secondary school, where they are using a pupil-following system, called "magister". It is drenched with microsoft hooks so it seems. Firstly when you go to the website it asks for Silverlight. Surprisingly, i got automatically redirected to the moonlight website. Here i can download their latest version (version four-R.C.) but as they themselves say: it works with firefox-3 and firefox-4. Latest releases of the distro/or their updates ship firefox-7. Any chance of ever seeing a update of Moonlight???? afaics does a downgrade of firefox me no good. btw, The offending school website is http://maris.swp.nl The mere fact that i'm forced to buy/install Windows, only for checking my kids homework and schoolresults is an utter nightmare scenario and driving nuts. Hans -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] eclipse on opensuse 11.4
by Bogdan Cristea 06 Nov '11

06 Nov '11

Hi I have uncompressed eclipse with linux tools SR1 downloaded from eclipse site, but eclipse crashes at start. It seems that there is no package available on openSUSE repos for 11.4. Does anyone succeded to use the latest eclipse on openSUSE 11.4 ? thanks -- Bogdan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] wlan0 will not initialize
by George Olson 06 Nov '11

06 Nov '11

I have a lenovo 3000 V200 laptop using openSUSE 11.4. The wireless was working fine before, but I could not get Knetwork manager to work, which I eventually found was an unresolved bug. So I have had to do the traditional method using Yast to manage networks. The wireless card I have is: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] Network Connection (rev 61) as listed on the pci bus. The driver is iwlagn. When I tried ifup wlan0, I get this response: wlan0 device: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] Network Connection (rev 61) wlan0 starting wpa_supplicant Could not set interface wlan0 flags: Unknown error 132 Could not set interface 'wlan0' UP Failed to initialize driver interface RTNETLINK answers: Unknown error 132 Starting DHCP4 client on wlan0. . wlan0 DHCP4 client NOT running RTNETLINK answers: Unknown error 132 Cannot enable interface wlan0. interface wlan0 is not up Now here is the story of how this all started. I was using traditional method to manage the network card in Yast, and had disabled knetwork manager. It ran fine for several weeks. Then I brought my laptop to another person's house, and to connect there I went into Yast and changed the SSID and the password (which was actually an open network with no password) to match the settings there and connected. When I returned home, I went back into Yast and changed the settings back to my home setting again. But I made a mistake and had the first letter of my network password capitalized when it should have been lower case. The connection would cycle on and off repeatedly (I use knemo to monitor my connection). The next day I realized it was the capital letter that needed to be lower case, so I changed that. Now when I boot up, knemo starts and indicates that wlan0 is down. I am at a loss as to what to do next to try and get my network card back up and running. George -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Kopete does not connect to WLM
by Oszkó Albert 06 Nov '11

06 Nov '11

Hi all, Since last week I met the above problem on both my oS 11.4 boxes. KDE versions are 4.7.3 and 4.7.2. Kopete version 1.1.3. After a short googling I found that similar difficulties occurred in 2009 and 2010 as well. Does anybody know some solution? Thanks, Oszkoa -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Post installation queries (FIRST successful installation of Linux)
by Linux Tyro 06 Nov '11

06 Nov '11

HI, I am very glad to say that I have installed openSUSE 11.4 finally and with it, I am glad that I have done it (the first Linux installation). Wow, it looks pretty cute, nice display. openSUSE is good but there are some issues which I definitely would be facing. Step by step I am writing it below. But before that I would thank to the creators and developers of openSUSE. 1. My printer Samsung ML-1610, was not detected (still not getting detected) and I am not able to take the prints.. What should I do? When to Yast and tried for detection but that doesn't help.. 2. Just after the installation, music player was not working, however, I just opened the file 'codecs-kde.ymp' (after downloading it) and it said me some warnings like that of some other repositories....(looked to me as if it is like that....), like 'pacman' or something else and it WARNED me that 'it could crash your system' BUT I just accepted that (I cannot live without music!) and I guess openSUSE is made by so skilled persons, why not to accept that warning, I did that....Now the music is working (amarok, etc...) But is it dangerous (that something like ...'pacman'...website..) and it was directly importing some keys from their (I don't know for which keys it warned me...). So was it safe? 3. I created one user during installation and gave its password. Now, is this user [which has system administrative privileges (was written underneath the user when I created it)] having some sort of root powers ... or that is different? Since when I go to yast, it says me to enter the root password and I only enter the password of this created user (with which I log-in too) and yast works, so by default that is the password of root also? Or different (since I didn't set the root password and it is accepting that password..!). Or could root password be set separately..? 4. After the live CD installation (KDE, x86_64), when I opened the Yast, it automatically was downloading files, so is it always safe that it downloads all those files (I don't know what exactly those all files and stuff...) it download and uses it. 5. When I opened the Firefox, it is saying its version is '4.0b12', so it is not stable, it may have some bug remaining (what I came to know...) so how could I do it (or make it) remain the stable Firefox version....Since I read (somewhere) that 'b' and 'alpha' releases are development releases and not stable, so they may have some sort of bug(s)... The only thing with me is of 'less time'. Though it took a little bit time to boot but it really doesn't matter for me. It looks great. I hope it would be good for me in the long terms. -- THX -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] openssl gurus - TLS/saslauthd key/cert generation - What's the difference?
by David C. Rankin 05 Nov '11

05 Nov '11

Guys, Going through howtos on generating TLS keys for saslauthd, I have run across a couple of approaches that leave me thinking "Why in the heck are they even doing that?" Specifically, a majority of the howtos show key generation similar to: openssl genrsa -des3 -rand /etc/hosts -out smtpd.key 1024 chmod 600 smtpd.key openssl req -new -key smtpd.key -out smtpd.csr openssl x509 -req -days 3650 -in smtpd.csr -signkey smtpd.key -out smtpd.crt openssl rsa -in smtpd.key -out smtpd.key.unencrypted mv -f smtpd.key.unencrypted smtpd.key openssl req -new -x509 -extensions v3_ca -keyout cakey.pem -out cacert.pem -days 3650 Why generate smtpd.key anyway if you are not using it?? Why not just do it the way dovecot certs are generated: openssl req -new -x509 -nodes -config $CFG -out $CERTFILE -keyout $KEYFILE -days 365 Which is basically the last step in the 5 part process above. I look at the 5 part process and it doesn't make sense. The first 4 openssl calls generate the private key, csr and the self signed certificate. But, then none of that is used in their example when they generate cakey.pem and cacert.pem. Further, by not using the -nodes, they are generating certs and keys that are password dependent and can potentially cause problems on server start with the system prompting for a password if used for say -- an apache certificate. Am I reading what the 5 step process is doing correctly? And the fact that the smtpd.key, ,.csr, and .crt have nothing to do with the cakey.pem and cacert.pem files they generate? If so, why even bother with the key, csr and crt when you can create the PKCS#10 (.pem) Self-Signed Certificate and Key in one shot?? I find it much easier just to author a small ssl.cnf file and use: openssl req -new -x509 -nodes -config $CFG -out $CERTFILE -keyout $KEYFILE -days 365 saslauthd and TLS seem perfectly happy with that. Any reason not to do it that way? Thanks for any help you can give clearing up this mud... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] samba authentication
by lynn 05 Nov '11

05 Nov '11

Hi 11.4 I've set up a samba server using Yast. It works. I can see the home shares on a linux client and I get asked for a username and password when I click the 'homes' share e.g. from Dolphin by clicking network and then samba. That's _almost_ what I want. What I want it to do is use samba to authenticate linux clients like I do with NIS at the moment. There are no users apart from root on the clients and /home on the server is mounted as /home on the clients by NFS. The kde login screen on the client displays all the users on the server. Using yast windows domain membership on a client I cannot check the box 'Use SMB information for Linux Authentication'. I get the error: 'Cannot use the workgroup 'hh1' for Linux authentication.'. All linux users on the server have been given samba passwords and I have tried the server and client with firewall enabled and disabled. My question is: can samba do what NIS/NFS does at the moment? Thanks. L x here is /etc/samba/smb.conf from the server: # smb.conf is the main Samba configuration file. You find a full commented # version at /usr/share/doc/packages/samba/examples/smb.conf.SUSE if the # samba-doc package is installed. # Date: 2011-07-28 [global] workgroup = hh1 netbios name = suse domain logons = yes domain master = yes local master = yes os level = 65 preferred master = yes security = user logon drive = P: passdb backend = tdbsam add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -c Machine -d /var/lib/nobody - s /bin/false %m$ name resolve order = wins bcast host lmhost server string = "opensuse" printing = cups printcap name = cups printcap cache time = 750 cups options = raw wins support = Yes [homes] comment = Home Directories valid users = %S, %D%w%S browseable = No read only = No inherit acls = Yes [profiles] comment = Network Profiles Service path = %H read only = No store dos attributes = Yes create mask = 0600 directory mask = 0700 [users] comment = All users path = /home read only = No inherit acls = Yes veto files = /aquota.user/groups/shares/ [groups] comment = All groups path = /home/groups read only = No inherit acls = Yes [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/tmp printable = Yes create mask = 0600 browseable = No [print$] comment = Printer Drivers path = /var/lib/samba/drivers write list = @ntadmin root force group = ntadmin create mask = 0664 directory mask = 0775 [netlogon] comment = Network Logon Service path = /var/lib/samba/netlogon write list = root -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] OT? packman repository
by Carl Hartung 05 Nov '11

05 Nov '11

Hi All, Didn't someone recently note this desktop pop-up error message, or was it another one? - - - - - 8< - - - - - Download (curl) error for 'http://packman.jacobs-university.de/suse/11.4/repodata/repomd.xml': Error code: Connection failed Error message: couldn't connect to host - - - - - 8< - - - - - I tried manually retrieving the file, and it's failing: - - - - - 8< - - - - - carlh@linux:~> wget http://packman.jacobs-university.de/suse/11.4/repodata/repomd.xml asking libproxy about url 'http://packman.jacobs-university.de/suse/11.4/repodata/repomd.xml' libproxy suggest to use 'direct://' --2011-11-05 14:46:11-- http://packman.jacobs-university.de/suse/11.4/repodata/repomd.xml Resolving packman.jacobs-university.de... 212.201.44.24 Connecting to packman.jacobs-university.de|212.201.44.24|:80... failed: Connection refused. - - - - - 8< - - - - - I've been seeing this for a few hours, now, and thought to check in here to see if anyone knows if it's temporary or not? Thx! Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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