March 2023 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Leap 15.4 mailx quite dated
by David C. Rankin 15 Mar '23

15 Mar '23

Devs, mailx is a fantastic command line mailer, but the version for 15.4 is more than a DECADE out of date, e.g. $ mailx -V 12.5 7/5/10 Uhhh, that's July 2010 folks? Why are we not using the s-nail package which still enjoys active development? E.g. $ mailx -V mail v14.9.24, 2022-03-26 (built for Linux) At least that's only 11 months old, not 13 years... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Test
by Peter Suetterlin 15 Mar '23

15 Mar '23

Sorry for the noise. But since some days I'm no longer receiving my own posts from the list - this is a test with changed settings...

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Re: JOB | Linux: on-premises, automation, vm (Edinburgh)
by David C. Rankin 14 Mar '23

14 Mar '23

On 3/7/23 05:21, James Tobin wrote: > Hello, I'm working with a global platform that is looking to hire > someone to fulfill a position in Edinburgh that is similar to that of > a systems administrator or devops engineer where you will run and > mentor a small on-premises data center infrastructure team. VM and > automated deployment of servers is critical. Consequently, I had > hoped that some members of this list may like to discuss further. I > can be contact using "JamesBTobin (at) Gmail (dot) Com". Kind regards, > James Well ... at least James was smart enough to look in the right places, and should also drop by the Unix & Linux and Server Fault StackExchange sites. https://unix.stackexchange.com/ https://serverfault.com/ -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[oS-en] How to turn off wifi on terminal (not nmcli) [and solved]
by Carlos E. R. 13 Mar '23

13 Mar '23

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have just upgraded my miniserver to 15.3. The wifi has turned automatically off, and I don't remember how to turn it off in the CLI. The command has rotated out of the command history. Problem is this noise: 0.4> 2023-03-05T21:10:26.569573+01:00 Isengard kernel - - - [ 3646.480233] IPv4: martian source 192.168.255.255 from 192.168.1.16, on dev wlan0 <0.4> 2023-03-05T21:10:26.569578+01:00 Isengard kernel - - - [ 3646.480247] ll header: 00000000: ff ff ff ff ff ff 4c cc 6a 61 50 a1 08 00 <0.4> 2023-03-05T21:10:26.569580+01:00 Isengard kernel - - - [ 3646.481572] IPv4: martian source 192.168.255.255 from 192.168.1.16, on dev wlan0 <0.4> 2023-03-05T21:10:26.569583+01:00 Isengard kernel - - - [ 3646.481584] ll header: 00000000: ff ff ff ff ff ff 4c cc 6a 61 50 a1 08 00 <0.4> 2023-03-05T21:10:28.409398+01:00 Isengard kernel - - - [ 3648.321785] IPv4: martian source 192.168.255.255 from 192.168.1.16, on dev wlan0 <0.4> 2023-03-05T21:10:28.409440+01:00 Isengard kernel - - - [ 3648.321791] ll header: 00000000: ff ff ff ff ff ff 4c cc 6a 61 50 a1 08 00 I tried: Isengard:~ # iw dev wlan0 disconnect command failed: Operation not permitted (-1) Isengard:~ # It is not network manager. sengard:~ # nmcli radio wifi off Error: NetworkManager is not running. Isengard:~ # iw dev wlan0 [tab][tab] doesn't work. Google search fails. Insist of using the GUI, or NM, or turning it ON. google "turn off wifi on terminal opensuse" FOUND IT! Isengard:~ # ifdown wlan0 wlan0 device-ready Isengard:~ # - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCZAT5uxwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVkygAoJE3eVF+PRjDPHnwMD0A VpIIl8MdAJ9a5/l3CaQCq86BlkTnFo3qW+eFTg== =m97E -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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How to remove duplicates (all but installed ver) from /var/cache/zypp/packages ?
by David C. Rankin 13 Mar '23

13 Mar '23

All, We have touched on this before, years ago, 10/11.x days, but the opensuse package name format and variations have changed a bit. What I want to do is find /var/cache/zypp/packages -type f -name "*rpm" | sort --version-sort all the rpm files in /var/cache/zypp/package and remove all duplicates leaving the currently installed rpm version in /var/cache using awk to split path/rpmname and then outputting the record while last == current to pipe to xargs rm -f (which seems to work fine and I'm not worrying about rpm names containing the '\n' character which would necessitate creating and processing records with a nul-character at the end, e.g. -print0 and xargs -0) How to best do that? So long as find ... | sort --verison-sort will give the rpms in version sort order, piping to a short awk script and then to xargs will do. I did this on a few zypp/package dirs by hand, but now I want to automate processing the entire cache for those repos that have --keep-packages set. But before I spend an hour or so testing and tweaking is the a standard way to discard all but installed from /var/cache -- that would keep me from reinventing the wheel? (I have additional repos like devel-gcc, etc.. so package names can have +gitxxx as a version number suffix -- if that makes a difference) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[oS-EN] Linux Command Library
by Carlos E. R. 10 Mar '23

10 Mar '23

This might be an interesting tool. Almost 5000 manual pages, lots of recipes. https://linuxcommandlibrary.com/ -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from Telcontar, using openSUSE Leap 15.4)

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Plantronics USB headset and mute button
by mh＠mike.franken.de 10 Mar '23

10 Mar '23

Hi *, I use a Plantronics USB headset, which has volume buttons (level up/down, mute). Pressing the mute button, the headset says "open mic on"/"open mic off". As for applications like Citrix workspace app or Microsoft Teams the mute state was synched, so that the app also shows a mic symbol, that was crossed out or not. If such an app was connected, the red led at the USB plug also showed the state of the mute button; if it was red, the headset's micro was muted. I could either press the headset's mute button or the virtual mute button in the app with the same result. Starting today, this sync stopped working. As for the GUI itself everything works as usual - "open mic on"/"open mic off" and level up and down. But the apps don't get the mute state any longer. To really mute or unmute the mic I have to klick the virtual button in the app, pressing the physical mute button of the headset has no effect. Also the red led does not show the mute state any longer. The only change from yesterday was the installation of the latest Tumbleweed snapshot 20230307, but as for the history it contains no package that could have such an effect - at least not obvious for me. I tried switching between pulseaudio and pipewire to no avail. Any idea, what might have caused this and what to do to get the desired state back? TIA. Bye. Michael.

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[oS-en] find problem
by Carlos E. R. 10 Mar '23

10 Mar '23

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I trying to find png files created recently in my home. So I do: cer@Telcontar:~> find * -name "*.png" -newermt 2023-01-01 find: ‘Backups Discos/Disco Seagate Basic 2TB para backup de Legolas/Seagate Basic/Seagate’: Permission denied p.png cer@Telcontar:~> Can I make it not print the error? If I try: find -L . -name "*.png" -newermt 2023-01-01 there are so many errors that I can not read the results. - -ignore_readdir_race doesn't do it. cer@Telcontar:~> find -L . -name "*.png" -path ./.dosemu/ -prune -ignore_readdir_race -newermt 2023-01-01 ind: ‘./.dosemu/drives/d/tmp/systemd-private-2d6e8e36b0594f8bbdd30cba975d2743-upower.service-y7EoBi’: Permission denied find: ‘./.dosemu/drives/d/tmp/systemd-private-2d6e8e36b0594f8bbdd30cba975d2743-rtkit-daemon.service-2odVpf’: Permission denied find: ‘./.dosemu/drives/d/tmp/BootInfo-JQ12X6Q3’: Permission denied find: ‘./.dosemu/drives/d/tmp/BootInfo-bzvrn7Gi’: Permission denied find: ‘./.dosemu/drives/d/tmp/systemd-private-2d6e8e36b0594f8bbdd30cba975d2743-power-profiles-daemon.service-UnAvYi’: Permission denied find: ‘./.dosemu/drives/d/tmp/systemd-private-2d6e8e36b0594f8bbdd30cba975d2743-geoclue.service-aQ0lfj’: Permission denied find: ‘./.dosemu/drives/d/tmp/systemd-private-2d6e8e36b0594f8bbdd30cba975d2743-ntpd.service-Mr8llh’: Permission denied ^C Prune is not working. Of course I know I'm doing it wrong, but man doesn't say how to do it: -prune True; if the file is a directory, do not descend into it. If -depth is given, then -prune has no effect. Be- cause -delete implies -depth, you can- not usefully use -prune and -delete together. For example, to skip the directory src/emacs and all files and directories under it, and print the names of the other files found, do something like this: find . -path ./src/emacs -prune -o -print That's all it says, and no more examples. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCY/5KoBwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVPGUAn1vQdZOD+mlK4YrHtFLp pJyObyQUAJ94m76QZiFjZhQ9y52HGMhB1Odcsg== =s+fF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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ssh and named/bind
by Marc Chamberlin 09 Mar '23

09 Mar '23

Hello - I am running an OpenSuSE 15.3 x64 system where I am also running a NAMED server for my network. > quasar:/etc/named.d # named -v > BIND 9.16.6 (Stable Release) <id:25846cf> > quasar:/etc/named.d # ssh -V > OpenSSH_8.4p1, OpenSSL 1.1.1d 10 Sep 2019 Apparently recently something has changed which is now breaking SSH's ability to connect to a URL with upper case letters in the host name. (I connect and use SSH within a port knocking script which has worked for many years, so I know it is not caused by something I am doing, but by a change that has occurred within either SSH or NAMED.) Internet and Googling searches seem to imply that Bind (NAMED) is now resolving URL's in a case sensitive fashion. https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-01113 and I suspect this change has just now caught up with me. But, I don't know if the fault lies entirely with Bind/NAMED. SSH appears to be mangling URLs, changing upper case letters within a URL, to lower case before asking a name server to resolve them. (IMHO this is extremely bad behavior on SSH's part because it is destroying user supplied data, something a program should never do!) Here is an example of what I am seeing that leads me to this conclusion - > ssh marc(a)darkstarINT.mydomain.com > ssh: connect to host darkstarint.mydomain.com port 22: No route to host Notice SSH changed the upper case "INT" in the host name "darkstarINT" to a lower case "int" in the query. I checked the log file at /var/log/named/named and indeed saw the query for the URL, from SSH, was all lower case. The message "No route to host" is misleading (probably because of bad error handling) and just means SSH was unable to get an IP address from the DNS server for the URL host name, that it mangled. Doing some further Googling, I found some references to using an ACL declaration in the NAMED configuration files, but I am unable to find any easy/clear guidance or examples on how to do this. Does anyone here know either how to keep SSH from converting a URL, that it is querying, to stop this horrid conversion of a URL to all lower case, or how to get NAMED to handle queries in a case insensitive manner? (perhaps using the ACL declaration that I found some references to.) If not, does anyone know of a better forum I could ask? Links to documentation, with examples, would also be appreciated, after hours of searching I was not able to find anything helpful. I know I could go through all my NAMED configuration files and and either add duplicate zones or use CNAME perhaps to add in all lower case equivalent host names but that seems like a huge burden and a bunch of extra maintenance overhead. Thanks and as always appreciate thoughts, ideas, and the time it takes to write a reply... Marc... -- *"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 and the OpenPGP electronic signature is added as an attachment. If you know how, you can use my public key to prove this email indeed came from me and has not been modified in transit. My public key, which can be used for sending encrypted email to me also, can be found at - https://keys.openpgp.org/search?q=marc@marcchamberlin.com or just ask me for it and I will send it to you as an attachment. If you don't understand all this geek speak, no worries, just ignore this explanation and ignore the OpenPGP signature key attached to this email (it will look like gibberish if you open it) and/or ask me to explain it further if you like./)

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Enlarging BTFS filesystem on Tumbleweed.
by Frank McCormick 08 Mar '23

08 Mar '23

I want to enlarge the file system on my Tumbleweed partition and even after Googling the situation, I feel the whole procedure is definitely above my pay grade :) I have a 500 gig main drive split into various partitions. Disk /dev/sda: 447.13 GiB, 480103981056 bytes, 937703088 sectors Disk model: KINGSTON SA400S3 Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0xf73048ad Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sda1 * 2048 489330687 489328640 233.3G 83 Linux /dev/sda3 489334782 937699691 448364910 213.8G 5 Extended /dev/sda5 489334784 712566783 223232000 106.4G 83 Linux /dev/sda6 712568832 933502975 220934144 105.3G 83 Linux /dev/sda7 933505024 937699691 4194668 2G 82 Linux swap / Solaris Tumbleweed is on sda6, Debian Sid on sda1 using ext4, Fedora is on sda5 also with ext4 with swap space on sda7. I would like to delete Fedora from sda5 and enlarge sda6 to include that space . I'm planning KVM in Tumbleweed with a version of Fedora. What is the best way to go about this? I know partition work can only be done with the disk not mounted so it appears I'd have to boot from an external utility. If possible I'd like suggestions on the best way to proceed. From what I've read a BTRFS file system can only be enlarged from the front and not from the rear? All help appreciated. Thanks

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