openSUSE Users December 2012

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[opensuse] installation from live cd or install dvd?

by George Olson

Hi everyone, This is just a general question, but I am interested in different points of view. I read about some people installing openSUSE from the live CD, and others installing openSUSE from the install DVD. I have only done installations from the install DVD, whether they were upgrades or clean installs. So my question is, what is the advantage and why do people do an installation from the live CD? I have used a live CD or a live USB boot stick for various things from time to time (usually testing), so I am very curious as to why someone would want to use that to do an installation. I know there is an installation option on the boot menu. It just seems that there is just a ton more software available on the install DVD than on the live CD, although of course it would always be possible to set up the repositories and do a full system update. And now with openSUSE 12.2, the installation from the DVD doesn't take more than about 15 minutes, at least on the different machines I have made the installations on. -- George Olson Box #1: 12.2 | KDE 4.9.2 | AMD Phenom IIX4 | 64 | ATI Radeon HD 3300 | 16GB Box #2: 12.2 | KDE 4.9.1 | AMD Athlon X3 | 64 | nVidia C61 GeForce 7025 | 4GB Laptop: 12.2 | KDE 4.9.2 | Core i7-2620M | 64 | Intel HD Graphics 3000 | 8GB learning openSUSE and loving it -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

8 years, 1 month

[opensuse] Q: Moving Software RAID 0 to another server

by andreil1

Hi, folks ! I was requested to move software SATA RAID 0 (no LVM) from one OpenSUSE server to another. Both are Intel based but 2nd is much more beefy. I have checked which kernel modules are required for server #2 and loaded into initial ramdisk. Apart from adding kernel modules to initrd, what else should be checked in order to load system on PC #2? /etc/fstab entries / mount points options? What would be the best options for /etc/fstab/ entries (taking into account software RAID 0 config): UUID, Device ID, Device path ? Anything else to be taken into consideration (apart from re-assgning network cards)? This is working server, used for web / mail / calendaring / IP telephony for 5 offices simultaneously, so I had to be very quick even if move will be performed on holidays. Thanks in advance for any suggestion(s) A.Verovski -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

8 years, 1 month

[opensuse] Re: installation from live cd or install dvd?

by Malcolm

On Fri 14 Dec 2012 07:41:39 PM CST, Rajko wrote: >On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 09:03:33 +0800 >George Olson <grglsn765(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> So my question is, what is the advantage and why do people do an >> installation from the live CD? > >Which way has advantage mainly depends on time passed after release >day, and to minor extent on type of Internet connection one has. > >Linux distros accumulate updates fast, so after few months there will >be couple hundreds MB of updates. Using DVD at that time means double >download. Once DVD versions of software, and right after installation >updates. In other words DVD makes sense after release day, but as time >is passing it is losing advantage. > >Also, there is another factor - testing. >Majority of Factory testers don't download DVD, but use either Live or >NET install iso, most likely "burned" to USB memory stick for >installation on physical machine, or even more often install iso >directly in virtual machine. In other words, those versions are better >tested then DVD. > Hi AFAIK, if your wanting to boot via UEFI, 1 your hardware needs to support usb UEFI booting, plus the live cd's don't have the efi files necessary..... Both my HP ProBook 4525s and this DELL Latitude E5510 needed the DVD to install grub2-efi (aside from having to manually create (via gparted) the gpt partitioned disk and efi boot partition). -- Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890) openSUSE 12.2 (x86_64) Kernel 3.4.11-2.16-desktop up 3 days 1:29, 3 users, load average: 0.10, 0.12, 0.07 CPU Intel i5 CPU M520(a)2.40GHz | Intel Arrandale GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

8 years, 1 month

[opensuse] root login via graphic console

by Roger Oberholtzer

On a 12.1 system, I cannot log in as root via KDM/XDM. I remember this change from a while back and have made these changes in /etc/sysconfog/displaymanager: DISPLAYMANAGER_ROOT_LOGIN_REMOTE="yes" DISPLAYMANAGER_ROOT_LOGIN_LOCAL="yes" DISPLAYMANAGER_SHUTDOWN="all" In addition, in /etc/sysconfig/security, I have: PERMISSION_SECURITY="easy local" Nonetheless, I get a popup that root logins are not allowed. Did I miss a setting? The system is up-to-date, running KDE 4.9.4 Yours sincerely, Roger Oberholtzer Ramböll RST / Systems Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 roger.oberholtzer(a)ramboll.se ________________________________________ Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden www.rambollrst.se -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

8 years, 1 month

[opensuse] YaST appears 'squished'

by Monte Milanuk

So... new install of 12.2 on Lenovo ThinkPad T530, 1600x900 resolution, selected XFCE as default WM. When I open up any YaST module , it always comes up in a fairly small box on the screen (maybe 4" w x 3"h) regardless of how it is configured when I close it out. I then have to drag/expand it to a usable size, and click/drag all the frames between window areas to get them to where I can actually read/use the menus and lists contained within. Any ideas on why this is happening, and on how to fix it? TIA, Monte -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

8 years, 1 month

[opensuse] systemd service units with ExecStartPre=-/bin/echo 'Starting something:' ?

by Per Jessen

I have a couple of systemd service units with ExecStartPre=-/bin/echo 'Starting something:' (e.g. spamd and postfix I think). The echo just leaves lines like these in /var/log/messages: 2012-12-07T12:23:48+01:00 dupont5 echo[2799]: Starting mail service 2012-12-07T16:15:03+01:00 dupont5 echo[4778]: Starting spamd: I was just wondering what the purpose of this ExecStartPre is? -- Per Jessen, Zürich (-1.4°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free DNS hosting, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

8 years, 1 month

[opensuse] how to set global environment variables in crontabs

by Meike Stone

Hello list, I've a question related to cron on SuSE. I like to set global environment variables for all cron jobs. I see, that per default the cron runs a /bin/sh (link to /bin/bash). But in this mode of bash, the profile file will not included. So my questions are: 1) Is there a possibility to set global environment variables with using /bin/sh? 2) Or if not, how do I configure the /bin/bash as default for all crontabs? I know, that I can set environment variables in the crontabs (cron.d, cron.daily, ...) itself, but that is not the requested solution. I tried to set the SHELL=/bin/bash in the /etc/crontab, but that is not working! Thanks for help Meike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

8 years, 1 month

[opensuse] Opensuse 12.2 - Disable turning off display and following symlinks with samba

by James Pifer

I recently updated my mythtv systems to opensuse 12.2 and mythtv 0.25. I'm still having a couple opensuse nagging issues and hoping someone here can help. 1) My frontends go to sleep and turn the displays off even if I'm watching something. Hitting a key on my remote does not wake them up, I actually have to go hit a key on the keyboard. Looking at System Settings I cannot find an option under Power settings to never turn off the display. Where can I disable this? 2) On my backend system I have samba configured with symlinks to get access to my recorded programs and using myth's script to write them in friendly names. I just use the "homes" share. When I try to copy or open any of the recordings I get permission denied. I have the following in settings for samba: [global] workgroup = WORKGROUP printing = cups printcap name = cups printcap cache time = 750 cups options = raw map to guest = Bad User include = /etc/samba/dhcp.conf logon path = \\%L\profiles\.msprofile logon home = \\%L\%U\.9xprofile logon drive = P: usershare allow guests = Yes unix extensions = no follow symlinks = yes wide links = yes [homes] comment = Home Directories valid users = %S, %D%w%S browseable = No read only = No inherit acls = Yes Any help or suggestions are appreciated. thanks, James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

8 years, 1 month

[opensuse] Suse 7.2 for sparc

by Amy Tran

Hello there, Do you know ftp site is available to download Suse 7.2 for sparc? Thanks in advance. Amy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

8 years, 1 month

[opensuse] Looking for hot-plug capable SATA card

by Josef Wolf

Hello everybody, I am looking for a hot-plug capable SATA card with 4 or 8 ports with PCIe interface. It is very important for me that the kernel supports this card out-of-the box. Any recommendations? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

8 years, 1 month

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