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[opensuse] Project management software question for project managers
by Ted Byers 29 May '24

29 May '24

I am looking for project management software I can install on my Suse box. Alas, there are quite a number of prducts that claim to be suitable project management products, but I am hoping to obtain a little help separating the wheat from the chaffe. Basically, when I open the project management software, I want to be able to choose from among a number of projects that are under way, and then see the relation between a client's wish list and the functional requirements specs, and then how these specs relate to the UML diagrams that have been created, and from there, what tasks have been defined for each requirement and the identity of all persons involved, the developers and their managers, and the person who designed the code that supports the requirement. And with that, I want to be able to see the project's timeline, the related bugs, &c. I would even want to be able to open the source code files and examine the code that was actually written. Here is my wish list: 1) a web application that stores data in either PostgreSQL or MySQL. 2) easy integration with UML tool (or has it's own UML tool that supports round trip engineering) 3) resource management (e.g. computers, and development tools, that can be used, personelle assigned to each task) 4) documentation of relation between functional requirements specs to specific tasks and specific unit and integration tests. 5) time/effort tracking 6) bug tracking, including data relating the existance of the bug, and effort required to fix it, to the person who wrote the original code, the person who supervised him or her, and the person who designed the 'feature' in question, the time taken to complete the original task, and the technologies used (to imprrove accountability as well as to determine retraining and continuing education needs (people aren't disposable, so instead of taking a harsh aproach to problems identified, I prefer to use education as a corrective, but I can't design corrective instruction without knowing precisely what the need is). I also need to know if a developer has a higher than normal bug rate simply because he doesn't take enough time to ensure the job is done right, or because I haven't adequately trained him, or because of a poor choice of tools, or somethng else that may be my fault. 7) use of task effort tracking history to generate provisional effort/cost estimates from new project's functional requirements 8) easy integration with open source ERP products like OFBiz (which may make trakcing resources and manpower easier, as well as connect real production data to the enterprise's accounting systems) 9) easy integration with CMS products, like Wordpress (especally for production documentation, includng degin documentation and user guides and reference manuals) 10) easy integration with verion control systems such as subversion. If there is a decent product that supports all of this, great (and language used to implement it doesn't matter), but if I have to write code to add missing requirements, then I am limited to those implemented using Perl or Java (and running on Tomcat). I don't know PHP well enough, and I don't know Ruby at all; and I really don't want to think about implementing this sort of thing in C++ (though I could if absolutely necessary). If you have project management experience, and use tools that are available for Suse Linux, what software product(s) did you use, and with what result? While I await relies, I will continue to review web documentation for those products I have found so far, to see if any of them are a) suitable for use in production and b) to see to what extent they support the features I am after. I have seen a number of products so far in my search, that deserve to be nameless, because they provide no way to relate cost estimates to one's team's track record, or to the details of the design, and seem satisfied with production of a pretty gantt chart (which is why I have formed the view that there is a whole lots of chaffe in the set of applications that call themselves project menement software - I have yet to find anything that really has the potential of being labelled wheat). Thanks Ted -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Sorry SuSE: 9.1 is Waste of time and money!
by Terje J. Hanssen 17 May '24

17 May '24

I am sorry to conclude that my upgrade from SuSE 9.0 Pro to 9.1 Pro has been waste of time and money for me, so far. The same I have to say about the free SuSE "Installation support". The reason is that my SuSE 9.1 installation only detects 1 of my 3 SCSCI devices (as I wrote in another subject on this forum: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2004-May/3254.html) Yamaha 4416S CDRW recorder detected HP DVD Writer 100i NOT detected Epson 1640SU scanner NOT detected It's rather stupid. I have installed 9.1 using the DVD disk just in the HP DVD drive, but after the installation of 9.1, the KDE/Konqueror /media/recorder cannot access it and YaST2 cannot install additional software from it. Only one "Cdrecorder" is found in My computer and that is the Yamaha 4416 drive, which the KDE/Konqueror file manager assign as /media/recorder11. I am sure 9.1 is the reason, as I hadn't this problems with 9.0. I have tried both an update and two several new installation of 9.1. Neither SJDS nor Windows on the same multiboot PC have problems to detect these devices. In my opinion SuSE should therefore debug 9.1 better and longer, and not leave the problems to the customers. I see SuSE notes on their web saying that they know SCSI scanners are not detected in 9.1. But regarding my HP DVD writer problem, the SuSE support (as usual) don't take the responsibility and argue that this problem (a combination of IDE disk and SCSI devices) isn't included in their free installation support! This sounds remarkable, and I have never had a modern PC of so simple model or configuration that it has fitted the limited rules for the free installation support. Terje J. Hanssen

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[SLE] RealPlayer G2 on SuSe 6.2
by yh＠ottawa.com 03 Apr '24

03 Apr '24

Yesterday, I finally got sound going on my Linux setup. I downloaded RealPlayer G2 and it worked beautifully. Today, RealPlayer run but no sound coming out. All other sound functions still work. I can still play my CD, have system sound BUT no sound when I run RealPlayer. /var/log/message said kernel: Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error? but KDE sound still work. I have re-installed RealPlayer 3 times now, still no sound when I run the RealPlayer. Any help is appreciated. Ying yh(a)ottawa.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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Creating a new user for a deamon
by Rowan Reid 15 Jan '24

15 Jan '24

I'm setting up a cron job for a analysis tool, I'm trying to use the SuSE tools where possible but YAST doent' allow you to create new user without a home I tried /dev/null is there a proper way to do this ? Rowan Reid Job Captain, Systems Administrator STUDIO 3 ARCHITECTS 909 982 1717

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[opensuse] Kernel compilation the openSUSE way?
by Bjoern Voigt 28 Nov '21

28 Nov '21

I usually take the newest openSUSE kernel (from repository Kernel_stable). But since some month I have a DVB T2 HD card, which requires a patch (see https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194171). So I need to compile kernels myself. I have a working compilation path. But the current path has 12 steps! It takes some time. I wonder, why it is so complicated to configure, compile and install a Kernel under openSUSE. Is there a better/easier/automated way to configure, compile and install a Kernel under openSUSE? I know this blog article. But the article uses Vanilla kernels and also needs 6 steps. With additional patches (4 steps), third-party modules (2 steps) and cleanup (1 step) the article would also need 13 steps: Compiling the Linux Kernel, the SUSE way https://www.suse.com/communities/blog/compiling-de-linux-kernel-suse-way/ This is my Kernel configuration, compilation and installation path: 1. Update kernel-source and kernel-default from Kernel_stable repository 2. Save kernel-source: cp -a /usr/src/linux-4.x.y-... /usr/src/linux-4.x.y-my 3. Apply my patches cd /usr/src/linux-4.x.y-my patch -b -p1 < ~myuser/.../my-kernel-patch.patch 4. Copy standard configuration: cd /usr/src/linux-4.x.y-my cp -v /boot/config-4.11.4-1.gcba98ee-default .config 5. Edit .config: remove CONFIG_LOCALVERSION, CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL, CONFIG_EXPERT remove some hardware-dependent settings 6. edit configuration interactively: Disable CONFIG_EXPERT and CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL, because otherwise "make binrpm-pkg" creates huge kernel binaries. make oldconfig [...] Local version - append to kernel release (LOCALVERSION) [] (NEW) -my1 * * Configure standard kernel features (expert users) * Configure standard kernel features (expert users) (EXPERT) [N/y/?] (NEW) Kernel debugging (DEBUG_KERNEL) [N/y/?] (NEW) make menuconfig Do some additional configuration. 7. Compile kernel (-j4 for four processor cores, ionice and nice to reduce the load, binrpm-pkg for RPM without source-RPM) make clean nice ionice -c idle make -j4 binrpm-pkg 8. Install the kernel RPM package rpm -Uvh /usr/src/packages/RPMS/x86_64/kernel-4.x.y_my1-....x86_64.rpm 9. Install necessary symbolic links for "dkms" cd /lib/modules/4.x.y-my1 ln -sv /usr/src/linux-4.x.y-my source ln -sv /usr/src/linux-4.x.y-my build 10. Update third-party modules (e.g. Nvidia driver): dkms install -m nvidia -v 375.66 -k 4.x.y-my1 11. Cleanup cd /usr/src/linux-4.x.y-my make clean 12. Select Grub configuration and reboot grub2-once --list | less grub2-once 2 reboot Greetings, Björn -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Web Site Standards
by Bryan Tyson 25 Sep '21

25 Sep '21

On Wednesday 03 July 2002 03:38, Michael wrote: > I tried to visit this site. > http://www.bet365.com > The result upset me so much i sent them this. I sent the letter below, and I encourage everyone on the list to send a similar letter. ----------------------------------------- Subject: Create a Real Web Site Please From: Bryan S. Tyson <bryantyson(a)earthlink.net> To: webmaster(a)bet365.com When attempting to view your site using Konqueror 2.2.1 and Mozilla 0.9.4, both Linux web browsers, I was curtly informed that my browser is "incompatible." Your site, sir, is what is "incompatible." Stick with established standards and real html, not Microsoft proprietary "features." *************************************************** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson(a)earthlink.net ***************************************************

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Mount Windows NT(NTFS) drive as drive Z: for all users
by Keith Jacobs 25 Sep '21

25 Sep '21

We have an winNT server and need to auto mount a shared folder as if it were a windose mapped drive Z: on SuSE8 Could someone please explain how to do this and how to make sure it is set-up for every user everytime the system is booted. Thanks Regards Keith Jacobs New to Linux

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[opensuse] oS 13.1 : "gnome keyring socket is not owned with the same credentials as the user"
by ellanios82 11 Aug '19

11 Aug '19

Hello List am using Xfce : - in /var/log/warn : i see warning " The gnome keyring socket is not owned with the same credentials as the user login: /run/user/1000/keyring-4i77r7/control 2013-11-27T13:27:17.434100+02:00 su: gkr-pam: couldn't unlock the login keyring " ............... - any ideas how to fix ? thanks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse] Mapping and re-mapping Keyboard Keys
by Paul Groves 14 Mar '19

14 Mar '19

On 27/06/17 12:22, Paul Groves wrote: > > On 27/06/17 08:34, Aaron Digulla wrote: >> xmodmap -pke | less > > These keycodes do not seem to match the system. For example in the > output of this command it says: > > keycode 158 = XF86WWW NoSymbol XF86WWW > > I ran setkeycodes e020 158 > > When I press the e020 (Internet) button xev says I have pressed code > 166 (Back button). > > How on earth has this happened? I specified 158 not 166. What have I > done wrong? > > Just been emailed this link: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/49650/how-to-get-keycodes-for-xmod… To quote this article: Here you can see keycode 97 is unused on my system: |keycode 94 = less greater less greater bar brokenbar keycode 95 = F11 XF86Switch_VT_11 F11 XF86Switch_VT_11 keycode 96 = F12 XF86Switch_VT_12 F12 XF86Switch_VT_12 keycode 97 = keycode 98 = Katakana NoSymbol Katakana keycode 99 = Hiragana NoSymbol Hiragana | The keycode X uses and the keycode the kernel uses are OFF BY 8 for "historical reasons". So take 97 - 8 = 89 and use 89 with the setkeycodes command (again as root): So to make my vol - button work (xmodmap keycode 122 -8 = 114) setkeycodes e01e 114 This has worked! I have re-mapped apl the buttons apart from my hotkeys. >> No but there are lots of uncommon keycodes which you can use. For >> example, F13-F35 or KP_F1...KP_F4. > > In the output of the command xmodmap -pke | less there are no codes > for F13-F35 or KP_F1 etc > > I would like to set HK1 - HK4 to F13 - F16 How do I find the keycodes > for these buttons Still looking for the keycodes for F13-16 -- 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] Which distros for ReiserFS?
by Stevens 03 Apr '18

03 Apr '18

On the odd chance that I was ignored for possibly hijacking a thread, I shall start a new one but copy and paste my comments in hope of an answer: (re: Killing ReiserFS) I have been following this thread with some interest because of having been running ReiserFS since before he turned homicidal. I have had zero, count that ZERO, problems in all that time so I read with some dismay the effort to actively kill its usage in this whatever-you-call-it distro. I think that the more relevant question to ask is not "can we keep this file system around, pretty please" but "what distros are allowing its use by not actively trying to kill it"? I have used opensuse since before Mandrake went away, which has been a while and, although I don't really want to change distros, I am not married to suse (or leap, or whatever). I feel that what we have here with opensuse/leap is an example of the classic "swing" cartoon which shows the stages of project development from sales, engineering, installation and what the customer actually wanted. My need is not as complex as some and for that ReiserFS works quite well. So, my question remains, "If not suse/leap, then who"? Hopefully someone will know what distros allow the freedom to use whichever FS one wishes without running afoul of the FS nazis. -- 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] IPv6 Rogue Router Security Issue
by Lew Wolfgang 30 Dec '17

30 Dec '17

Hi Folks, There seems to be a flurry of IPv6 talk going on, maybe this is time for me to bring up the rogue router problem again? I asked about this a couple of times over the years but could never find anyone to comment on it. First, here's the RFC that describes the problem: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6104 Rogue routers have affected me personally at a customer's site. This is a large, professionally managed, dual-stacked network with a number of v4 class B addresses and thousands of hosts. Subnets seem to be /20 CIDR in size, so there are plenty of "neighbors" on any given subnet. I've encountered the situation where misconfigured Windows systems will advertise themselves as an IPv6 router. They then happily accept traffic and drop it all silently on the floor. This problem doesn't seem to bother other Windows boxes too much, but it absolutely kills SSH connections. SSH preferentially tries IPv6 port 22, which when sent to a dumb Windows box results in very long hangups and connection failures. My workaround for my cohort of Linux desktops and servers was to disable IPv6 for both ssh and sshd. This will work for as long as the host network supports dual stacks, but eventually? Then there's the issue of intentional MITM attacks using this vector. If a bad actor has physical access to a subnet, or has compromised a host on that subnet, your goose is cooked. This link mentions some mitigations, but they're quite technical and may require hardware support. https://community.infoblox.com/t5/IPv6-Center-of-Excellence/Holding-IPv6-Ne… So, what is the threat to a home IPv6 user who has WiFi and an Internet of Things with minimal/non-existent security? I personally feel safer behind a nice natted IPv4 firewall with ACL rules between my copper and WiFi subnets. I just feel that I have more control of the situation with a simpler network. Has SUSE addressed this issue? Tell me I don't have to worry about it! Regards, Lew -- 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] Big memory footprint: clamd
by Carlos E. R. 17 Dec '17

17 Dec '17

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, When I built my computer I put as much RAM as the board would allow, 8GiB. Today that is too little, but I can't add more. Telling 'mc' to sort by Resident memory, it shows: top - 22:44:32 up 28 days, 4:37, 4 users, load average: 0,26, 0,55, 1,02 Tasks: 521 total, 2 running, 517 sleeping, 0 stopped, 2 zombie %Cpu(s): 1,2 us, 0,6 sy, 0,0 ni, 97,3 id, 0,8 wa, 0,0 hi, 0,0 si, 0,0 st KiB Mem: 8174408 total, 7511580 used, 662828 free, 546440 buffers KiB Swap: 43744244 total, 1921984 used, 41822260 free. 3837656 cached Mem PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR SWAP S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 20581 cer 20 0 3553104 1,266g 263636 0 R 4,088 16,24 3:52.94 firefox 3493 vscan 20 0 1376180 536972 10364 14548 S 0,000 6,569 11:27.15 clamd 19773 cer 20 0 1452508 309508 141740 0 S 0,000 3,786 0:05.72 soffice.bin 3874 root 20 0 1090892 226564 154380 217968 S 0,798 2,772 182:22.08 X 31344 cer 20 0 206044 87728 7404 1664 S 0,000 1,073 1:55.04 alpine 4176 cer 20 0 748016 56796 21004 17136 S 0,000 0,695 2:56.67 xfdesktop 20088 cer 20 0 829220 53820 4596 0 S 0,000 0,658 0:02.04 gnome-software 9835 cer 20 0 784100 40604 17784 36520 S 0,100 0,497 1:46.40 gnote 4207 cer 20 0 891040 38988 22504 18136 S 0,000 0,477 0:32.57 keepassxc ... The worst offender this moment is Firefox (Thunderbird is closed now). But the next is clamd (clamav, antivirus mail scanner daemon)! It is using more than LibreOffice! How can that be? It is iddle at the moment, doing nothing. What can be done to reduce its footprint? Instead of the daemon, I could call it from amavis, one process per mail. But this impacts scan speed. Could the daemon be started "on demand", and be killed a minute after the last email goes through? - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlmGMxIACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UeCgCeNA+LGMhfhjS84U4h7EeEwlbT RhkAoIldf2vOQVms3CwHLc87ybN7vVDs =KoWk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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] Again, trying to find a suitable video editor.
by Carlos E. R. 02 Dec '17

02 Dec '17

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I simply can't find a suitable video editor that works. My goal is to extract the interesting parts of a TV recording. Ie, mark the start of the movie, the end, the commercials inside, and dump all that into a single file, perhaps recoding. One limitation is that movies here have two sound tracks, one in Spanish, and the other one in the original language, typically English. I want to keep both, obviously. I don't need any transition or effect, just a simple editor that allows me to remove unwanted sections. I have tried: pitivi - crashes on start LiVES - works for an hour at 100% CPU and can't load the file. dvbcut - says my mpeg file is not a video (and it certainly is!) tragtor - can convert, but not edit. openshot - almost. My video has two sound tracks, and this tool ignores the second track. cinelerra-cv - I can't make head or tails of it. I tell it to load a video file, it does, but then I don't see how to do anything. It doesn't even display the video. I may have to read the manual, but I dislike having to read a manual for a GUI. Still... kdenlive - Well... crashes too often. I can mark the cuts, but it does not display what I'm cutting. And only one sound track. HandBrake - no edit. Avidemux - one sound track only. Kino - abandonware. Lightworks ?? Shotcut - Segmentation fault on start. cer@Telcontar:~/Videos/Fusion/trabajo> shotcut QSqlDatabase: QSQLITE driver not loaded QSqlDatabase: available drivers: QMYSQL QMYSQL3 QSqlQuery::exec: database not open QSqlQuery::exec: database not open Database::Database(QObject*) Failed to get version. QSqlQuery::exec: database not open bool Database::upgradeVersion1() Failed to create thumbnails table. Database version is 0 Segmentation fault cer@Telcontar:~/Videos/Fusion/trabajo> Flowblade ?? I don't understand the tool. May need some reading. At least it runs. I would like something that would produce a command line to ffmpeg in a GUI. Then I could modify further the options. This would be ideal. tragtor works this way, but has no editor. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlbbJ80ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UmagCeK8UbAAz5/lAjBvscdhzBuxtb WUQAn2jmzoy7810hldN4WwVWQktgVp2g =muqW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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] Apache Start Up Problem
by Paul Groves 17 Nov '17

17 Nov '17

Hi All, I had a weird problem today. I noticed that after a reboot of my server, my owncloud instance on my desktop was complaining about an invalid certificate. I tried to 'open owncloud in browser' and was presented with my apache default page. So first thing I tried is restart the apache service. This fixed the problem. However, every time I reboot apache is not loading my configuration correctly and the problem repeats. It appears to be loading the default configuration file fine at boot but ignoring the other files. (including owncloud). But when I manually stop and start the service they load fine. Huh?? Any idea how I can diagnose what is causing this problem? What is the difference between the apache service loading at boot compared to manually starting the service? Thanks -- 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] Evolution default browser
by Christopher Myers 13 Nov '17

13 Nov '17

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hi all, I've got Evolution installed on oS Tumbleweed using KDE, and for some reason, it doesn't respect the fact that Firefox is my default browser - -- every link I try to click on opens in Chromium. Is there any way to change things around? I didn't see any option in the configuration for browser choice. I've googled around on and off for a couple of days now and haven't found anything useful. Thanks! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCgAdFiEE7GM/Dul8WSWn72odQ1nEo4DFCIUFAlm6k/QACgkQQ1nEo4DF CIWfBgf+K9LYvaYDDFUMJtRTMq+58e2lEP5GkXi7dKQhxhFkeKegwqnyo+fEfpvb RI1FT2aJAqBKsIZ5oZlxsGeJYcmp/+JO7AJ6Oa8XkWz02rmhgXjKPxqQgzQX87FM rNGqxOLXfcKu+CmcMERZswTQ/B/ZtA82eUls6Y5W7lIh2tAUbt2CnFP/6q5uM4wl pO2KNbcVJTTM2uEPSzEIBCQ/7jfZ9ogF+qIClPkn1UCmu3EqkLAhS+cdKzzJs+Cx pXyosNImtxW4FMl6W+m2NS08RCc69+U3Myr9aDe8q8/2fnM/HYApeezDsIpKkdnO t2Nr2WaxarbwUyqt15vTiNs0Q229jg== =joxc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[opensuse] I need more ram, but I can't.
by Carlos E. R. 17 Oct '17

17 Oct '17

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I need more ram than my 8GiB, but my board doesn't allow it. I use swap, but Leap is very slow when swapping; I have the feeling that it is slower than other releases. So I wonder if there is some type of small hard disk that can be used for fast swap. SSD? Would it wear out? SSD is typically slow at writing. A RAM based "disk"? No need for battery backup, unless to keep the format. Does it exist? - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlm/yMsACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WoeQCgkKbSLo1AZhJa29JhdYjE3myF HdsAn3dHyHmeqVDqNz08xUPhj712RDVz =S0mM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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] root in extended partition (42.3)
by listreader 16 Oct '17

16 Oct '17

Leap 423 upgraded from 422. Old drive has been in use probably since 10x. Bios. Generic code is in the MBR. I have 423 / in an extended partition. Grub2 is in 423 /. All was good. I used Yast2-bootloader module to change an option (boot loader password, if it matters). I then exited normally (OK) and yast rewrote/reinstalled the bootloader. Next boot failed at a blinking cursor. I booted with Parted Magic and found that Yast had set the extended partition itself as the boot partition, rather than / which was 2 or 3 partitions deep into the extended. I fixed that and rebooted normally. I went into Yast2-bootloader and Boot Loader Location was still correctly set there as Boot from Root Partition, even though that is not what it apparently wrote to the bootloader. So, my question is, is this expected behaviour? I don't remember this happening in previous releases. Thanks. Ralph -- 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] Run command as another user
by Paul Groves 07 Oct '17

07 Oct '17

Hi, I need to be able to run a command as another user. I have worked out that I can run the following from one user to execute a command as the other (bob). su - bob -c command prompt for password enter password command runs as bob but, how can I run this on one line for use in a script? (so that I am not prompted for a password). something like; su - bob -c command -p bobspassword The user executing the script is not a sudoer so I cannot use; echo bobspassword | sudo -S -u bob command thanks Paul -- 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] how does a user create systemd timers?
by Per Jessen 03 Oct '17

03 Oct '17

I wrote: > What I find less easy is to tell when cronjob is going to fire > > a) at 30 minutes past every 3rd hour. > b) at 2,17,32,47 minutes past every hour > c) 10 past midnight on the 1st of the month. > d) Sunday at 04:00. > Just as I sent this off, somehow it reminded me of Andrei mentioning /var/spool/cron/tabs - just being curious - how does a user create systemd timers for himself? Is there some really simple answer to this that I have completely missed? -- Per Jessen, Zürich (13.1°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - virtual servers, made in Switzerland. -- 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] Lost graphical display after TW udate
by Oszkó Albert 28 Sep '17

28 Sep '17

Hi all, Please help me solve my problem, shortly described in the subject. Today I updated my Tumbleweed (with GNOME) on an ASUS K5001UX laptop. All went fine until reboot. I got an apparent command line login and a mouse cursor in the middler of the screen. The command line did not accept any input, the mouse cursor moves. I suspect this is the fault of the nouveau driver. Can I get back X without reinstalling the whole thing? Thanks Albert

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[opensuse] rootmail does not work, no matter what
by stakanov 28 Sep '17

28 Sep '17

I tried to fix this since I updated to 42.3. Is there a bug with rootmail not working in that version? I do see there is mail in rootmail, I did set correctly to receive rootmail, but I do not receive anything. Seccheck: nothing rkhunter: nothing. Now these two run (or should run) on a daily basis and should give a report via rootmail. Any suggestion on how to receive rootmail with kmail again? Permissions are set correctly, I checked. -- 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] WD Green AV HD: rsync read errors mapping
by Felix Miata 28 Sep '17

28 Sep '17

Running OS 13.1: 2017/08/27 03:38:05 [2308] building file list 2017/08/27 03:38:08 [2308] .d..t...... movie/ 2017/08/27 03:40:09 [2308] >f+++++++++ movie/bigBang0113-201312151700GDMX10wd.ts 2017/08/27 03:40:09 [2308] rsync: read errors mapping "/disks/esata/movie/bigBang0113-201312151700GDMX10wd.ts": Input/output error (5) 2017/08/27 03:42:30 [2308] >f+++++++++ movie/bigBang0220-201310061730GDMX10wd.ts 2017/08/27 03:42:30 [2308] rsync: read errors mapping "/disks/esata/movie/bigBang0220-201310061730GDMX10wd.ts": Input/output error (5) ... 2017/08/27 06:15:56 [2308] >f+++++++++ movie/CLO/closer0406-201306270230GDMX09.ts 2017/08/27 06:15:56 [2308] rsync: read errors mapping "/disks/esata/movie/CLO/closer0406-201306270230GDMX09.ts": Input/output error (5) ... 2017/08/27 06:24:14 [2308] >f+++++++++ movie/CLO/closer0411-201307180130GDMX09.ts 2017/08/27 06:24:14 [2308] rsync: read errors mapping "/disks/esata/movie/CLO/closer0411-201307180130GDMX09.ts": Input/output error (5) ... Above is from rsync log. Before interrupting the rsync and restarting it I logged output from hdparm and smartctl: http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Hardware/Disk/hdpd-201207-fi965azbme-wd20eurs-os131… Similar logs from the first WD Green AV disk, first WD I ever bought: http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Hardware/Disk/smart-wdAVGP3200AVVS.txt The smaller 320GB device I consider functional but unreliable, removed from SD DVR service shortly after the warranty expired and the DVR began producing inexplicable errors. The larger (disk of of current interest) has been in a satellite receiver that runs on a variation of Mips Linux Dreambox FOSSware using a 3.92 kernel, resulting in original creation of the files that error'd. I was able to delete the 4 uncopyable files, then restore them from backup. Smartctl -x reports from my few other WD disks all seem to have identical Reallocated_Sector_Ct, 200 200 140 Reallocated_Event_Count, 200 200 0 Current_Pending_Sector, 200 200 0 Offline_Uncorrectable 100 253 0 except for 200 173 0 on the bad 320 for current pending. Can anyone suggest what most likely caused the 4 files to be repeatedly uncopyable? Driver error or other error in the Dreambox software maybe? Before the 320 AV and the 2TB AV I had never ever purchased a WD disk, due to miserable experiences with used WD HDs that had come into my possession over the years. I was Quantum user for as long as it lasted, eventually switching to Seagate after nearly as bad experiences with Toshiba and Maxtor. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- 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] About relatime and lazytime
by Carlos E. R. 28 Sep '17

28 Sep '17

Hi, relatively recently, "lazytime" has been added as the default for mounts - from man mount: lazytime Only update times (atime, mtime, ctime) on the in-memory version of the file inode. This mount option significantly reduces writes to the inode table for workloads that perform frequent random writes to preallocated files. The on-disk timestamps are updated only when: - the inode needs to be updated for some change unrelated to file timestamps - the application employs fsync(2), syncfs(2), or sync(2) - an undeleted inode is evicted from memory - more than 24 hours have passed since the i- node was written to disk. I understand that using this option (which is the default) supersedes using "relatime". However, I noticed that most mounts, not all, are using both options: > Telcontar:~ # mount | grep relatime | grep lazytime > /dev/sdd2 on /data/storage_d type xfs (rw,relatime,lazytime,attr2,inode64,noquota) > /dev/sdb8 on /opt type xfs (rw,relatime,lazytime,attr2,inode64,noquota) > /dev/sdb10 on /data/storage_b type xfs (rw,relatime,lazytime,attr2,inode64,noquota) > /dev/sda13 on /data/storage_a type xfs (rw,relatime,lazytime,attr2,inode64,noquota) > /dev/sdc13 on /var/spool/news type reiserfs (rw,relatime,lazytime,user_xattr,acl) > /dev/sda12 on /data/vmware type xfs (rw,relatime,lazytime,attr2,inode64,noquota) > /dev/sdc14 on /data/homedvl type reiserfs (rw,relatime,lazytime,user_xattr,acl) > /dev/sdc7 on /usr/local type reiserfs (rw,relatime,lazytime,user_xattr,acl) > /dev/sdc12 on /usr/gamedata type reiserfs (rw,relatime,lazytime,user_xattr,acl) > /dev/sdc6 on /usr/src type reiserfs (rw,relatime,lazytime,user_xattr,acl) > /dev/sdc16 on /data/storage_c type xfs (rw,relatime,lazytime,attr2,inode64,noquota) > /dev/sdc5 on /home_aux type xfs (rw,relatime,lazytime,attr2,inode64,noquota) > /dev/sdc8 on /home1 type xfs (rw,relatime,lazytime,attr2,inode64,noquota) > /dev/md0 on /data/raid type xfs (rw,relatime,lazytime,attr2,inode64,logbsize=128k,sunit=256,swidth=512,noquota) > /dev/mapper/cr_cripta on /data/cripta type xfs (rw,relatime,lazytime,attr2,inode64,noquota) > /dev/sda7 on /other/test_a1 type reiserfs (rw,relatime,lazytime,user_xattr,acl) > Telcontar:~ # Mounts that only use relatime: > Telcontar:~ # mount | grep relatime | grep -v lazytime > sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) > proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) > securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) > devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000) > cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,xattr,release_agent=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-cgroups-agent,name=systemd) > pstore on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) > cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/pids type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,pids) > cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpu,cpuacct) > cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/memory type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,memory) > cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer) > cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls,net_prio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,net_cls,net_prio) > cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/hugetlb type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,hugetlb) > cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/devices type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,devices) > cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,blkio) > cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuset) > cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/perf_event type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,perf_event) > configfs on /sys/kernel/config type configfs (rw,relatime) > /dev/sde5 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered) > mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,relatime) > debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,relatime) > sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw,relatime) > hugetlbfs on /dev/hugepages type hugetlbfs (rw,relatime) > systemd-1 on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=35,pgrp=1,timeout=0,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct) > nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw,relatime) > /dev/sde4 on /boot type ext2 (rw,relatime,block_validity,barrier,user_xattr,acl) > /dev/sdc17 on /home type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered) > binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,relatime) > tmpfs on /run/user/0 type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=817444k,mode=700) > tmpfs on /var/run/user/0 type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=817444k,mode=700) > tmpfs on /run/user/1000 type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=817444k,mode=700,uid=1000,gid=100) > tmpfs on /var/run/user/1000 type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=817444k,mode=700,uid=1000,gid=100) > gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=100) > gvfsd-fuse on /var/run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=100) > fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,relatime) > Telcontar:~ # Ie, ext4 parttions use only relatime, and non real disk partitions. xfs and reiserfs use both relatime and lazytime. It is not my doing: > Telcontar:~ # grep relatime /etc/fstab > # default is "relatime", no need to add it (or atime,nodiratime) > #/dev/mapper/cr_storage_e /data/test xfs nofail,relatime,noauto 1 5 > Telcontar:~ # relatime Update inode access times relative to mod- ify or change time. Access time is only updated if the previous access time was earlier than the current modify or change time. (Similar to noatime, but it doesn't break mutt or other applications that need to know if a file has been read since the last time it was modified.) Since Linux 2.6.30, the kernel defaults to the behavior provided by this option (unless noatime was specified), and the strictatime option is required to obtain traditional semantics. In addition, since Linux 2.6.30, the file's last access time is always updated if it is more than 1 day old. Should I use "norelatime" manually on fstab entries? -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)

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[opensuse] rkhunter: update not working?
by Markus Egg 27 Sep '17

27 Sep '17

I tried to do the usual rkhunter --update with some older version version 1.4.0 on an older machine, but it is stuck and never returns. "Checking rkhunter version..." is also stuck http://rkhunter.sourceforge.net/ also seems to be down: "It's not just you! rkhunter.sourceforge.net looks down from here." [ http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/rkhunter.sourceforge.net ] What is going on there? BR ME -- 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] Strange disk activity
by Carlos E. R. 27 Sep '17

27 Sep '17

Hi, I noticed in the graph of disk activity in GKrellM that there was some constant but intermittent activity on /dev/sda. Like this: __|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|__| It suddenly occurred to me that with GKrellM one can display a graph per partition! So I activated graphs for each one in /dev/sda and found the culprit: /dev/sda7. What do I have there? Well, nothing: Telcontar:~ # mount | grep sda7 /dev/sda7 on /other/test_a1 type reiserfs (rw,relatime,lazytime, user_xattr,acl) Telcontar:~ # It is a test partition of another system, nothing is active there: Telcontar:~ # cat /other/test_a1/etc/os-release NAME=openSUSE VERSION = 12.1 (Asparagus) VERSION_ID="12.1" PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE 12.1 (Asparagus) (x86_64)" ID=opensuse Telcontar:~ # I umounted it and the activity disappeared. Mounted it again and it kept silent. What was it? How can I find out the next time what is reading there? I see a similar intermitent activity on other partitions of disk /dev/sdc, on these partitions: /dev/sdc6 /dev/sdc7 /dev/sdc12 /dev/sdc14 /dev/sdc17 Telcontar:~ # mount | grep "sdc6\|sdc7\|sdc12\|sdc14\|sdc17" /dev/sdc17 on /home type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered) /dev/sdc14 on /data/homedvl type reiserfs (rw,relatime,lazytime, user_xattr,acl) /dev/sdc7 on /usr/local type reiserfs (rw,relatime,lazytime, user_xattr,acl) /dev/sdc12 on /usr/gamedata type reiserfs (rw,relatime,lazytime, user_xattr,acl) /dev/sdc6 on /usr/src type reiserfs (rw,relatime,lazytime, user_xattr,acl) Telcontar:~ # So yes, it affects most of my reiserfs partitions (/var/spool/news is not affected). What is going on? -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)

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