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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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PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function mysql_connect()
by Boyd Lynn Gerber 30 Dec '22

30 Dec '22

Hello, OpenSUSE Leap 15.4 PHP 8.0.10, I needed to upgrade to PHP 8 becuase on my wordpress sites I needed php 7.2.30 or greater. PHP 7.4.25 is was installed. In my /etc/php7/apache2/php.ini files I had extension=mysqli extension=pdo_mysql All my wordpress sites worked and phpinfo displayed mysqli Sadly after upgrading to PHP 8 It isn't found. Pastebin will not allow the contents of In my https://www.zenez.com/cgi-bin/phpinfo.php Pastebin’s SMART filters have detected potentially offensive or questionable content in your Paste. The content you are trying to publish has been deemed potentially offensive or questionable by our filters, because of this you’re receiving this warning. This Paste can only be published with the visibility set to "Private". I have in my /etc/php8/apache2/php.ini extension=mysqli extension=pdo_mysql Just as before but in the php7 directory. My system has /usr/lib64/php8/extensions/mysqli.so But all my wordpress sites which haven't changed are getting this erro. PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function mysql_connect() in ... Obvioulsy, my system isn't loading the extiontion. Note one my apache2handler php8 isn't found, but in /etc/sysconfig/apache2, I have APACHE_MODULES="suexec authz_host actions alias auth_basic authn_file authz_groupfile authz_user autoindex cgi dir env include log_config mime negotiation setenvif status userdir asis cache headers imagemap logio proxy proxy_http rewrite ssl perl wsgi-python3 itidy socache_shmcb wsgi wordpress proxy_wstunnel authn_core version authz_core mailman reqtimeout php8-fpm apache2-mod_php proxy_fcgi php php8" PHP Additional files parsed does have /etc/php8/conf.d/mysqli.ini which has ; comment out next line to disable mysqli extension in php extension=mysqli.so So it should be loaded. Any ideas on how to resolve the issue? Thanks in advance. Regards, -- Boyd Gerber <gerberb(a)zenez.com> 801 849-0213 ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047

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remote desktop between machines with private IP addresses
by Roger Oberholtzer 05 Dec '22

05 Dec '22

I have a situation where a user has a computer that they only have a private IP address for (ISP assigned). My computer is at work and also has a private IP address. Using TeamViewer, I can access the remote computer's desktop. My question is: is there an open source program that can accomplish the same thing? I suspect that TeamViewer works because it has a server that can be contacted and, I assume, set up a tunnel or whatever it does. I don't have such a server with a public IP address. This is something that I only do occasionally. So I don't want to buy a bunch of TeamViewer licenses if I do not need to. Any ideas? -- Roger Oberholtzer

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phishing?
by jdd＠dodin.org 03 Dec '22

03 Dec '22

Hello, I just received a mail stating: "Your 8 important incoming emails are stuck on the opensuse.org Email server." a link sent me to the "https://ipfs.io" server that asked me for credentials, see screenshot https://www.cjoint.com/doc/22_11/LKEldUzfzvk_Screenshot-20221130-115948.png I find this very suspect what do you think? (source of the mail available) thanks jdd -- mon serveur usenet: dodin.fr.nf c'est quoi, usenet? http://www.dodin.org/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Usenet.Usenet

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Thunderbird - New Address Book Missing Most Admin Functionality, No Export
by David C. Rankin 30 Nov '22

30 Nov '22

All, Does anyone have a solution for exporting your thunderbird address book from tbird 102+? I've used thunderbird 102 with 15.4 and didn't really have many complaints at all -- until I tried using the addressbook. The new web-ish interface lacks the ability to copy an e-mail with name and lacks any ability to backup or export your addressbook to any usable format. I have 20 years of contact information in the addressbook -- that I presume was converted from Mork format to the new address book format when it changed sometime around ver. 79. Today I had reason to copy a few e-mail from it, and then went to export/backup as I've done in the past. However, addressbook is no longer a stand-alone UI and is now implemented as a web-page style tab in tbird. So I open it and right-click the address seeking to bring up the context menu with "copy" and "copy with name" entries. The first would copy the raw e-mail address, the latter would copy the formal e-mail with, e.g. "John Q. Public" <jpublic(a)domain.tld>. The context menu contains no ability to copy any e-mail address or anything else for that matter. Moreover, it is difficult to manually copy the raw e-mail due to attempts to select the address dragging it instead of allowing selection. Only by carefully moving the mouse while watching for the cursor change from pointer to I-beam can you even select the e-mail to manually copy it. Then I wanted to export my address book (to ldif at least as in the past), but the new and improved address book has no export function at all. In fact this prompted a search of all of thunderbird to find out where the export feature was and to my great disappointment the only option that exists is to export the entire profile as a .zip file... WTF?? Hell, if I wanted to that I'd just tar --zstd the profile. So if you rely on the tbird addressbook be aware it is now nothing but a crippled rewrite lacking most of the administrative, or backup features it has traditionally had since version 1.X 20 years ago. That said, does anyone know how to manually export backup from the new .sqlite mess? What was a very efficient and concise Mork address book format, e.g. -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 163980 May 13 2022 abook.mab (I'm guessing this last save was immediately before my 15.4 install) is now an unholy sqlite mess: -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 1048576 Nov 24 03:21 abook-1.sqlite -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 196784 Nov 29 12:48 abook-1.sqlite-wal -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 1048576 Sep 17 04:05 abook-1.v3.sqlite -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 589824 Nov 29 00:47 abook-2.sqlite -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 0 Nov 29 00:53 abook-2.sqlite-wal -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 589824 Sep 17 04:05 abook-2.v3.sqlite -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 786432 Nov 18 22:16 abook-3.sqlite -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 0 Nov 29 00:53 abook-3.sqlite-wal -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 786432 Sep 17 04:05 abook-3.v3.sqlite -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 262144 Sep 20 04:36 abook-4.sqlite -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 0 Nov 29 00:53 abook-4.sqlite-wal -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 262144 Sep 17 04:05 abook-4.v3.sqlite -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 327680 Oct 30 04:18 abook-5.sqlite -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 0 Nov 29 00:53 abook-5.sqlite-wal -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 327680 Sep 17 04:05 abook-5.v3.sqlite -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 851968 Nov 24 03:21 abook-6.sqlite -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 0 Nov 29 00:53 abook-6.sqlite-wal -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 851968 Sep 17 04:05 abook-6.v3.sqlite -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 262144 Sep 20 04:36 abook.sqlite -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 0 Nov 29 00:53 abook.sqlite-wal -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 262144 Sep 17 04:05 abook.v3.sqlite (total sqlite size 8454320 bytes, as 5055% increase) All of the different sqlite file seem to be actively used as they are all saved recently. Apparently the is one sqlite file for each category of e-mail address now (reply-to saved, any group of addresses, by account, etc..). So even a manual sqlite query is unlikely without knowing which sqlite file has what you want or looping over each sqlite file -- are you kidding me? Anybody run across a solution for this Mozilla created cluster-fsck? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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raid on hpz230
by jdd＠dodin.org 28 Nov '22

28 Nov '22

Hello, A visitor asked me last week how to install linux as double boot on a windows 10 *raid* hpz230. the raid is a firmware raid, not a software one, present on the motherboard. on the spot I was not able to make openSUSE to see the raid 1 two disks presents on the system. YaST-install sees two disks, but can't configure the free space (locked obviously by the raid software). However, these computers are SLES/SLED compatible http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c04487632.pdf however, I don't see any suse/linux specific data on the raid config page https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c02815117 any clue? (I don't have the computer at hand, but I expect the user to come again soon) thanks jdd -- mon serveur usenet: dodin.fr.nf c'est quoi, usenet? http://www.dodin.org/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Usenet.Usenet

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[oS-en] I get hundreds of these error messages in the log
by Carlos E. R. 27 Nov '22

27 Nov '22

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I upgraded my small laptop to 15.4 (DVD offline upgrade method). Soon after, I noticed hundreds of these messages: <1.4> 2022-11-27 20:25:04 Legolas tlp 22942 - - >>> Invoke 'systemctl mask systemd-rfkill.socket' to correct this. <1.4> 2022-11-27 20:25:05 Legolas tlp 22972 - - Warning: systemd-rfkill.socket is not masked, radio device switching may not work as configured. <1.4> 2022-11-27 20:25:05 Legolas tlp 22972 - - >>> Invoke 'systemctl mask systemd-rfkill.socket' to correct this. <1.4> 2022-11-27 20:25:15 Legolas tlp 23005 - - Warning: systemd-rfkill.socket is not masked, radio device switching may not work as configured. <1.4> 2022-11-27 20:25:15 Legolas tlp 23005 - - >>> Invoke 'systemctl mask systemd-rfkill.socket' to correct this. <1.4> 2022-11-27 20:25:16 Legolas tlp 23037 - - Warning: systemd-rfkill.socket is not masked, radio device switching may not work as configured. I read <https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/522060-I-don-t-know-if-TLP-is-wo…>, but I do not have tlp enabled: Legolas:~ # systemctl status tlp.service ○ tlp.service - TLP system startup/shutdown Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/tlp.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: inactive (dead) Docs: https://linrunner.de/tlp Legolas:~ # I also read <https://github.com/linrunner/TLP/issues/552> So, what are those messages about? Desktop is XFCE. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.3 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCY4O9uBwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVca8AmwaGZcbMnInw3gK7ii9r qId2xPnIAKCCLUyjlSTtVtdFV0YnvW/sCONt0A== =fN5L -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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raid on hpz230
by jdd＠dodin.org 24 Nov '22

24 Nov '22

Hello, A visitor asked me last week how to install linux as double boot on a windows 10 *raid* hpz230. the raid is a firmware raid, not a software one, present on the motherboard. on the spot I was not able to make openSUSE to see the raid 1 two disks presents on the system. YaST-install sees two disks, but can't configure the free space (locked obviously by the raid software). However, these computers are SLES/SLED compatible http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c04487632.pdf however, I don't see any suse/linux specific data on the raid config page https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c02815117 any clue? (I don't have the computer at hand, but I expect the user to come again soon) thanks jdd -- mon serveur usenet: dodin.fr.nf c'est quoi, usenet? http://www.dodin.org/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Usenet.Usenet

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nVidia rollback?
by Robin Klitscher 24 Nov '22

24 Nov '22

Leap 15.4; Plasma 5.26.3; Frameworks 5.100.0; Qt 5.15.7 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650; desktop X11 not Wayland. I have a serious problem after an update that included the G06 nvidia drivers, from 525.53-15.1 to 525.53-16.1. The Plasma desktop comes up, but among several other things the windows have no titlebar or borders with all that that entails, click-to-focus doesn't work, and the four virtual desktops I normally use are absent. Overall the system is barely usable, and then only with difficulty. An attempt to re-instate the virtual desktops results in an error message that there was a problem requesting information from the compositor, and it's tempting to think that the problem might lie with the G06 driver update, though I guess it could be many other things beyond my ken. But I can't find a way of testing this by rolling back the nvidia packages. Is there one, or am I cast until there's another update??? -- Robin K Wellington "Harbour City" New Zealand

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Leap 15.4 jpg png tiff trouble
by Jos van Kan 23 Nov '22

23 Nov '22

Yesterday I upgraded from 15.3 to 15.4 from a usb stick. That went smoothly enough, but there is something strange afoot wrt the handling of some graphics files, in particular jp(e)g, png and tiff files. They are displayed as empty folders in the file manager (tested in Plasma X11, Icewm and Gnome) and gwenview cannot open them. They can be opened by Okular and Gimp and properly processed, so it is only a minor nuisance. Yet I would like to know what could possibly cause this and repair this. They are properly recognized by the CLI command "file". Any suggestions are welcome. Regards, -- Jos van Kan registered Linux user #152704

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Replacing Nvidia with AMD Radeon (decided to start Radeon config)
by Ianseeks 22 Nov '22

22 Nov '22

Hi I removed the nvidia board and installed my new old HD6570 and booted up but it just drops to a cli login with an error about SP5100-tco (nvidia also displays this message so i've assumed its not important). It first blew out with an error to say i had to enable a BIOS setting for Virtualisation which I did and it cleared that error. I've also put "radeon.cik_support=1 radeon.si_support=1" on the kernel parameters via yast but still no joy. The Radeon software is installed and running according to the logs, i've checked journalctl for Radeon errors but no joy. What simple thing have I missed as I'm a bit out of my depth here? regards and thanks Ian -- opensuse:tumbleweed:20221119 Qt: 5.15.7 KDE Frameworks: 5.100.0 - KDE Plasma: 5.26.3 - kwin 5.26.3 kmail2 5.21.3 (22.08.3) - akonadiserver 5.21.3 (22.08.3) - Kernel: 6.0.8-1-default - xf86-video-nouveau: 1.0.17

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Moving Home
by Mark Misulich 22 Nov '22

22 Nov '22

Hi, I recently bought a 1TB hard drive to add in to my computer. My drives will be dev/sda, a SSD which presently contains Leap 15.4 / and /home. dev/sdb is a standard drive, which contains Win 10 and Win XP. The third drive will be /dev/sdc, which will be the new 1TB drive. I want to move the Leap 15.4 /home from the SSD drive (dev/sda) to the 1TB drive (dev/sdc). I think the way to do this is as follows, but I'm asking the list to check this out to make sure I've got it correct. #fdisk -l (to identify the disks and make sure I've got the correct discs planned out) Then I will create a partition on /dev/sdc and format it. #mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt (Once I've made and formatted the partition on the new drive, I will need to mount it.) #cd /mnt (to see if I can change directories to the new filesystem) #ls -ahl (to see what is in the new filesystem) #rm -rf lost+found (remove the lost+found directory) #cp -rp /home/* /mnt (copy the home directory to the new filesystem on the new harddrive) #ls (to find out that everything is copied) #mv /home /home.orig (rename old home directory) #mkdir /home (make a new home directory) #cd / #umount /dev/sdc1 #mount /dev/sdc1 /home/ (to mount the new home directory) #cd / #cd ~ #pwd #ls #cd /home #ls #cd (my home name) #ls #ls -a (to make sure everything that is supposed to be in /home is there) #cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.org #gedit /etc/fstab Add a line at the bottom of the file to mount the new /home directory Type the name of the partition at the start of the line, and then press Tab. (dev/sdc1) Type the mount point, /home, and press Tab. Type the filesystem description ext4, and press Tab. Type defaults for the mount options, and press Tab. Type the digit 0 for the filesystem dump option, and press Tab. Type the digit 0 for the filesystem check option. It should look like this when done: /dev/sdc1 /home ext4 defaults 0 0 Then save the file. Then #reboot now Then once rebooted #df /dev/sdc1 (check that it's mounted on /home) If everything is good, then: #cd / #rm -rf home.org/ Look good? Thanks Mark

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firewalld routing problem
by Marc Chamberlin 17 Nov '22

17 Nov '22

Hello gurus! I am running an OpenSuSE 15.3 system and using it as a gateway between the internet and my internal network of computers. This is a SOHO system which I administer myself. Internal security is not something I have to worry about since my wife and I are the only users. I have set up this gateway computer, which I call Quasar, with one internet facing NIC card, and one internal network facing NIC (192.168.10.100). On the internet facing NIC I used Yast2 to configure it with one "main" public IP address and 4 additional public IP addresses. Each of these external IP addresses I want to route to/from different systems on my internal network. So for example the following table shows what I want (with actual public IP addresses obscured) - IP address 200.xxx.xxx.10 <--------- routed to/from --------> 192.168.10.100 (this is for quasar, the gateway computer itself with the interface name simply eth0) IP address 200.xxx.xxx.11 <--------- routed to/from --------> 192.168.10.51 (this is for bigbang and the interface name is eth0:bigbangExt) IP address 200.xxx.xxx.12 <--------- routed to/from --------> 192.168.10.21 (this is for nova and the interface name is eth0:novaExt) IP address 200.xxx.xxx.13 <--------- routed to/from --------> 192.168.10.31 (this is for darkstar and the interface name is eth0:darkstarEx) etc. I have been trying to set these routes up with firewalld, but so far no joy getting it to work. Examples to the 2 main approaches I have tried are shown below. First, I configured a sejparate zone for each of the external IP address, so for example for the computer I call bigbang, I configured a zone called bigbangExt and assigned the interface eth0:bigbangExt to it. I then configured the IP Port Forwarding data such that there is an entry for each port I wanted to configure and forward to bigbang. The xml file for this configuration is shown here - quasar:/etc/firewalld/zones # cat bigbangExt.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <zone> <service name="apache2"/> <service name="apache2-ssl"/> <service name="http"/> <service name="https"/> <service name="smtp"/> <service name="smtps"/> <service name="smtp-submission"/> <service name="imap"/> <service name="imaps"/> <service name="pop3"/> <service name="pop3s"/> <protocol value="icmp"/> <protocol value="tcp"/> <protocol value="udp"/> <masquerade/> <forward-port port="9000-9001" protocol="tcp" to-port="9000-9001" to-addr="192.168.10.51"/> <forward-port port="465" protocol="tcp" to-port="465" to-addr="192.168.10.51"/> <forward-port port="587" protocol="tcp" to-port="587" to-addr="192.168.10.51"/> <forward-port port="25" protocol="tcp" to-port="25" to-addr="192.168.10.51"/> <forward-port port="110" protocol="tcp" to-port="110" to-addr="192.168.10.51"/> <forward-port port="995" protocol="tcp" to-port="995" to-addr="192.168.10.51"/> <forward-port port="993" protocol="tcp" to-port="993" to-addr="192.168.10.51"/> <forward-port port="10000" protocol="tcp" to-port="10000" to-addr="192.168.10.51"/> <forward-port port="80" protocol="tcp" to-port="80" to-addr="192.168.10.51"/> <forward-port port="143" protocol="tcp" to-port="143" to-addr="192.168.10.51"/> <interface name="eth0:bigbangExt"/> </zone> SURPRISINGLY to me at least, this did not work. For example, if I bring up a web browser and connect directly to the internal IP address 192.168.10.51 I will get the appropriate web page displayed. But if I connect to the external public IP address 200.xxx.xxx.11 it's no joy! So, for my second attempt, I tried using Direct Configuration in firewalld. Since I cannot do a copy/paste from firewalld, I will just show the configuration file - direct.xml, when set up just to do routing for bigbang - quasar:/etc/firewalld # cat direct.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <direct> <rule ipv="ipv4" table="nat" chain="PREROUTING" priority="0">-d 200.xxx.xxx.11 -i eth0:bigbangExt -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.10.51</rule> <rule ipv="ipv4" table="nat" chain="POSTROUTING" priority="0">-s 192.168.10.51 -j SNAT --to-source 200.xxx.xxx.11</rule> <rule ipv="ipv4" table="filter" chain="FORWARD" priority="0">-s 192.168.10.51/32 -j ACCEPT</rule> <rule ipv="ipv4" table="filter" chain="FORWARD" priority="0">-d 192.168.10.51/32 -j ACCEPT</rule> </direct> However, again no joy! I am not getting routing from the external interface/IP addresses as I want/expect. I looked through the log files and iptables listings and I could not see anything obviously wrong, but then again my ability to grok iptables lists is somewhat limited. (I am by no means an expert on iptables!) I have reached the end of my ability to debug and figure out what I am doing wrong, so need some help from firewalld and iptables gurus to help me get over this hump. As always, many thanks in advance for any and all forms of assistance! MarcC -- *"The Truth is out there" - Spooky* -- *_ _ . . . . . . _ _ . _ _ _ _ . . . . _ . . . . _ _ . _ _ _ . . . . _ _ . _ . . _ . _ _ _ _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . * Computers: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the user Marc. His mission: to explore strange new hardware. To seek out new software and new applications. To boldly go where no Marc has gone before! (/This email is digitally signed. My public key for sending encrypted email to me can be found at - https://keys.openpgp.org/search?q=marc@domesweetdome.us.com or just ask me for it and I will send it to you as an attachment. If you don't understand, no worries, just ignore it and/or ask me to explain it further./)

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Updates mess with thunderbird translations (yes/no buttons)
by Karl Sinn 10 Nov '22

10 Nov '22

Hi, in thunderbird, when one uses the keyboard shortcut "n" to navigate to the next unread message and the next unread message is in another folder a window opens asking for confirmation to actually go to the next folder. Now my system is entirely configured for the German language settings and should therefor label the buttons with Ja/Nein. Now I realized a few times that when I run updates, they mess with these buttons, they then appear in English language as Yes/No while the rest of thunderbird (as far as I can tell) still uses German language. Depending on the update I have different language on these buttons... Two questions: - How can I set that back? - Is there a way to prevent this? thanks, Karl

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TW firewall and zeroconf / smb3 on TrueNAS
by Stakanov 09 Nov '22

09 Nov '22

I have two machines running, a TW (most recent always) and a trueNAS (FreeBSD based). I have in the TrueNAS running a jail with miniDLNA to stream movies via the network (to a smart TV but also to a PC). I also have put the pools with samba on a share with appropriate permissions. I did allow in firewall of TW (via yast): upnp, zeroconf, samba client. Now guess what, if I am running the dolphin to search the network for services, he does not see on TW neither upnp services nor zeroconf not even samba. When I do instead stop the firewall and search, all appears and works. This is true also after reboot - just in case anybody suggested it. Are the yast allowances to the FW still working or has all to be edited via some config file / table? Thank you.

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Mess of locales in TW
by Stakanov 06 Nov '22

06 Nov '22

while trying to find out how to fix sudo in the "newly intended way" (communication is as usually woefully flawed by hubris in thinking that problems will go away by posting a "notice" on some exotic email list, very funny, just that as a toxic side note, SCNR), I have now an issue in TW that I do not even marginally understand. My system is set up locale IT. So all should be in Italian.......should it? a) while writing the update requests, the system does inform as expected in Italian. Then it switches to .... German???? And finally it gives the warning for dup in English. Provided I am a user of many languages on this system, for personal means. But the users are all set up in Italian. No user is setup in German (but the geographical "time zone" is set to Berlin because I am in Germany currently, does the German thing comes from that? > Alcuni programmi in esecuzione utilizzano ancora file e librerie rilevati e > aggiornati da upgrade recenti. Riavviarli per trarre vantaggio dagli ultimi > aggiornamenti. Eseguire 'zypper ps -s' per visualizzare l'elenco di questi > programmi. > > entropy@silversurfer:~> sudo zypper dup > [sudo] password di entropy: > »entropy« ist nicht in der sudoers-Datei. > > Dieser Vorfall wurde an den Administrator gemeldet. > entropy@silversurfer:~> su - > Password: > silversurfer:~ # zypper dup > Loading repository data... > Reading installed packages... > Warning: You are about to do a distribution upgrade with all enabled > repositories. Make sure these repositories are compatible before you > continue. See 'man zypper' for more information about this command. > Computing distribution upgrade... > Nothing to do. > silversurfer:~ # exit > logout > entropy@silversurfer:~> sudo zypper dup > [sudo] password di entropy: > Riprovare. > [sudo] password di entropy: > »entropy« ist nicht in der sudoers-Datei. > > Dieser Vorfall wurde an den Administrator gemeldet. > entropy@silversurfer:~> Try to make me understand why my system is so much about "inclusion". Thank you very much, grazie tante (e quelli con l'idea del avviso per sudo senza spiegazioni specialmente un "Grazia, Graziella, e grazie al..."), Danke vielmals.

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[oS-en] I'm finally getting things done with LibreOffice Base
by Carlos E. R. 04 Nov '22

04 Nov '22

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 After several years, I'm finally progressing with LibreOffice Base. I have a catalogue of my books in MySQL, done with the application Rekall (KDE3). The app is not maintained, so I have been trying for years to migrate to something else, the obvious one LibreOffice Base. It is more difficult that Microsoft Base, which I learned to use without documentation in a month back in 1998. It appears that the trick is that to write to my table I have to use a form, not a table. See what I have (created by the wizard, then modified): <https://susepaste.org/56891822> Top is the table as is, and in the subform below are the controls. See the first row, with a "0_test" book selected. The same book is displayed below. The data Autor, SegundoAutor and TercerAutor display the numbers 1, 2, 3, corresponding to an auxiliary table of authors. The entries below in white background show the text, the names of the first author, second and third, selectable from the list. This has been the hurdle for years (true, I have not dedicated intense study to it). (In Rekall, or in Office, I get the name of the authors directly in the main table. It knows how to handle the relationship automatically, r/w. It was trivial). The simple detail that remains now is to join the label "Autor 1" to the control below, so that when I click there in design view both move as a single object. I have not seen this in the tutorial: Getting Started Guide 7.3 Chapter 8, Getting Started with Base Relational databases in LibreOffice <https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/9/99/GS7308-GettingStartedWithBa…> This has been done automatically somehow by the wizard in all the controls it has created. But I do not know how to replicate, and it should be trivial. Somebody knows? - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.3 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCY1Wh+Rwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfV4wkAmwf+UHoVx8oCqJVs5mPa VOrEXyzwAJ9KelawLONAPhjSYzf3qOEV0P4Eiw== =C+Op -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Server-side mail folders problem with Thunderbird
by Philippe Andersson 03 Nov '22

03 Nov '22

Hello list, Last week, I switched to using OAuth2 (aka "Modern Authentication") from Thunderbird to access my company's Office365 mailbox over IMAP. Everything went swell for 2 days. Over the week-end, I applied the (Leap 15.3) online update for Thunderbird (to v102.4.0), and this morning all my server-side folders were gone. The Inbox itself could still be accessed, and the local folders have no issue. I then reverted to the earlier version of TB (v102.2.2), and after some fiddling, I could get some of the server-side folders to reappear and to resynch, but: - even though the messages are listed in those folders, the message contents won't display if I select one of them (status says "loading") forever - sent messages aren't copied to the "sent items" folder -- there as well, it waits forever Has anyone else here been confronted with a similar behaviour? TIA Ph. A. -- *Philippe Andersson* Unix System Administrator IBA Particle Therapy | Tel: +32-10-475.983 Fax: +32-10-487.707 eMail: pan(a)iba-group.com <http://www.iba-worldwide.com> Disclaimer | Use of IBA e-communication<https://iba-worldwide.com/disclaimer> The contents of this e-mail message and any attachments are intended solely for the recipient (s) named above. This communication is intended to be and to remain confidential and may be protected by intellectual property rights. Any use of the information contained herein (including but not limited to, total or partial reproduction, communication or distribution of any form) by persons other than the designated recipient(s) is prohibited. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free. Ion Beam Applications does not accept liability for any such errors. Thank you for your cooperation.

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Network Names (ESSID) discovery faoled
by Boyd Lynn Gerber 02 Nov '22

02 Nov '22

Hello, I do not know when this started. I rebooted my machine and couldn't connect to the internet. Execution of command "[["/usr/sbin/ip", "link", "set", "wlan0", "up"]]" failed. Exit code: 2 Error output: RTNETLINK answers: Input/output error I am not sure how to deal with it The device is a RT-AC3100 router. It has been working flawlessly for over 2 years. My other devices using wireless do not have any proplems connecting/ OopenSUSE Leap 15.4 Regards, -- Boyd Gerber <gerberb(a)zenez.com> 801 849-0213 ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047

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Rosegarden segfault (Leap, AGAIN!)
by bent fender 02 Nov '22

02 Nov '22

If I try to start Rosegarden 21.06.bp154.1.51-x86_64 first all by itself and then after having purged everythiong *rosegarden* and started qjackctl I get the folowing errors: ---------------------------- # rosegarden [main] *** This is the first time running this Rosegarden version Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory Cannot connect to server request channel jackdmp 1.9.12 Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others. Copyright 2004-2016 Grame. Copyright 2016-2017 Filipe Coelho. jackdmp comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details Cannot create RT messagebuffer thread: Operation not permitted (1) Retrying messagebuffer thread without RT scheduling Messagebuffer not realtime; consider enabling RT scheduling for user no message buffer overruns Cannot create RT messagebuffer thread: Operation not permitted (1) Retrying messagebuffer thread without RT scheduling Messagebuffer not realtime; consider enabling RT scheduling for user no message buffer overruns Cannot create RT messagebuffer thread: Operation not permitted (1) Retrying messagebuffer thread without RT scheduling Messagebuffer not realtime; consider enabling RT scheduling for user no message buffer overruns JACK server starting in realtime mode with priority 10 self-connect-mode is "Don't restrict self connect requests" Cannot lock down 86611866 byte memory area (Cannot allocate memory) audio_reservation_init Acquire audio card Audio0 creating alsa driver ... hw:II,0|hw:II|1024|2|48000|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit configuring for 48000Hz, period = 1024 frames (21.3 ms), buffer = 2 periods ALSA: final selected sample format for capture: 32bit integer little-endian ALSA: use 2 periods for capture ALSA: final selected sample format for playback: 32bit integer little-endian ALSA: use 2 periods for playback Cannot use real-time scheduling (RR/10)(1: Operation not permitted) AcquireSelfRealTime error Segmentation fault (core dumped) # rosegarden [main] *** This is the first time running this Rosegarden version Cannot lock down 86611866 byte memory area (Cannot allocate memory) Cannot use real-time scheduling (RR/5)(1: Operation not permitted) JackClient::AcquireSelfRealTime error [AlsaDriver] setCurrentTimer(): WARNING: using system timer with only 250 Hz resolution! JackEngine::XRun: client = rosegarden was not finished, state = Triggered JackAudioDriver::ProcessGraphAsyncMaster: Process error Segmentation fault (core dumped) openSUSE Leap 15.4, Kernel=5.14.21-150400.22-default on x86_64, DM=sddm, DE=sle-Classic:GNOME, ST=x11,grub2, GPT, BIOS-boot

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Re: Network Names (ESSID) discovery failed
by Boyd Lynn Gerber 01 Nov '22

01 Nov '22

On Tuesday 2022-11-01 16:29, Andrei Borzenkov wrote: > On Tue, Nov 1, 2022 at 4:10 PM Boyd Lynn Gerber <gerberb(a)zenez.com> wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 31 Oct 2022 17:23:08 -0600, Boyd Lynn Gerber <gerberb(a)zenez.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I do not know when this started. I rebooted my machine and couldn't >>>> connect to the internet. >>>> >>>> Execution of command "[["/usr/sbin/ip", "link", "set", "wlan0", "up"]]" >>>> failed. >>>> Exit code: 2 >>>> Error output: RTNETLINK answers: Input/output error >>>> >>>> I am not sure how to deal with it >>>> >>>> The device is a RT-AC3100 router. It has been working flawlessly for >>>> over 2 years. My other devices using wireless do not have any proplems >>>> connecting/ >>> >>> I don't know anything about the error message, but you could try power >>> cycling, or rebooting, the router. >> >> Done that before posting. Driving me crazy. Google search doesn't >> help. >> > > You could start with explaining where you see this message, what you > do before this message appears. Are you using wicked or NetworkManager > or something else. yast2->Network Setting->Edit wlan0 (Wireless) Choose Network. scanning for Network Window pops up Error Execution of command "[["/usr/sbin/ip", "link", "set", "wlan0", "up"]]" failed. Exit code: 2 Error output: RTNETLINK answers: Input/output error > Educated guess is that to bring the wireless interface up it has to be > associated with the access point which means this message is probably > the consequence of a failed association. Also the subject of your post > says "discovery failed" but there is absolutely nothing about > "discovery" of any kind in your message. yes the discovery failed. I have 8 other devices that do nothave any trouble accessibng it with the sames Network Name (ESSID) and mode/password. Thanks, -- Boyd Gerber <gerberb(a)zenez.com> 801 849-0213 ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047

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Vietnamese virtual keyboard
by Jon Cosby 01 Nov '22

01 Nov '22

I'm traveling to Vietnam next month and I'm looking for a Vietnamese virtual keyboard for my laptop. I can only find it online, I want a local VK. I don't want to configure the physical keyboard. I just want something for passwords and URLs. Anybody have a suggestion? I have Leap 15.4 and GNOME 41.2. Jon Cosby

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xrdb and display:0
by Roger Oberholtzer 01 Nov '22

01 Nov '22

I use x11vnc and a vnc client to connect to remote Linux desktops from other Linux computers. I have no problem connecting to display :0. As such, I can remotely access that desktop and help users with support and such. I would like Windows clients to be able to do the same. So I have installed Xrdp. And I can get a desktop from the Linux computer (Leap 15.3). There are two problems I do not seem to be able to solve: 1. I can only get icewm. I want KDE. I have tried editing /etc/xrdp/startwm.sh so that it should start plasma. But it does not work. 2. I cannot get it to share display:0. In fact, that's what I really want. It is running the desktop I am really after. I have tried things like making my own definition in Xrdp that should access display:0, based on various suggestions. No go. My question is: has anyone gotten either of these things to work? Or, should I install a Windows client and access x11vnc? I have been trying not to need to install software on the Windows clients if at all possible. But I can if Xrdp won't do as I would like. -- Roger Oberholtzer

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