July 2002 - openSUSE KDE - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [suse-kde] Knotes forgets which notes are open
by Matthew W. Sheffield 02 Nov '02

02 Nov '02

I've had the same problem, too. It also happens with knotes 2.2x under kde 3.01. I hope you get an answer on this. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com

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Virus Scan Software
by Bill.Stephens＠sungardrs.com 12 Aug '02

12 Aug '02

Hi ... Can anyone suggest a (free) downloadable virus-scan product for Suse 7.3? I think my distro is passing around the klez virus ... Regards, Bill Stephens Sungard Availability Services Phone: (215) 351-1099 Fax: (215) 451-4436

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Installing F-PROT Virus Scanner
by Bill.Stephens＠sungardrs.com 12 Aug '02

12 Aug '02

Hi, guys ... Here is a mini-HOWTO describing my experience in installing F-PROT. Obtaining and Installing the Product -------------------------------------------- Go to "http://www.f-prot.com/download/getfplinfree.html". Select the download site and type of download; I selected the rpm install. Konqueror offered to install the package using "Package Manager", and I let it go ahead. The files wind up being installed under "/usr/local/f-prot". Configuring the Product ----------------------------- The product installs with two scripts: "f-prot.sh" and "check-updates.sh". "f-prot.sh" runs the virus scanner, while "check-updates.sh" checks for and downloads updated virus signature files (which all end in a ".DEF" extension; there are 3 of these). Basically, the product is ready to go at this point, so what I did from here on was some local tweaking. I wanted "f-prot.sh" and "check-updates.sh" to be run by cron at specific times each day. In particular, I wanted "f-prot.sh" to write a report file in my home directory, but the problem is that cron runs as root, so the report file would not be readable from my userid unless I got into superuser. So, what I did was write a "wrapper" script around "f-prot.sh" to chown the report file after it was created so that I could read it. I called this script "vscan", and it looks like this: #!/bin/sh # # This is a shell script to invoke the F-Prot OnDemand Scanner for Linux. # It creates a report file called "f-prot.rep" in the subdirectory of # "/home" corresponding to the specified userid. It then chowns this # report file so that the user can look at it without being superuser. # /usr/local/f-prot/f-prot / -report=/home/$1/f-prot.rep chown $1:users /home/$1/f-prot.rep I then did a "crontab -e" and created a pair of entries that look like this: 30 19 * * * /usr/local/f-prot/check-updates.sh -cron -quiet 30 07 * * * /usr/local/f-prot/vscan bill When "vscan" runs, $1 in the script is replaced by "bill", so the report gets written to (in this case) "/home/bill/f-prot.rep". So this way, at 7:30am every morning, f-prot is invoked to do the virus scan, and at 7:30pm every evening, I check to see if there are any new virus definition files to download. f-prot, when it runs, tells you the date and time of the virus signature files it's using, so you know indirectly that "check-updates.sh" is running. The only other thing I did was to define an icon on the KDE desktop to open the report file with "kwrite"; this way, all I have to do to check the virus scan log is to click on the icon. Regards, Bill Stephens Sungard Availability Services Phone: (215) 351-1099 Fax: (215) 451-4436

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Re: [suse-kde] Suse 8 kde 3 Crash
by Sebastian Vogelsang 11 Aug '02

11 Aug '02

Hi, > > The whole system just freezes (very randomly). Most of the times it does > > that in the first minute, after I've logged in with my default user > > account. > > It hasn't happened as root so far, but with every user account I've > > created. > Check file permissions on all files in the home dir and /tmp , making sure > they are appropriate. I did that and recognized that the link .Xresources -> .Xdefaults was owned by root, also group root. But could that possibly crash the whole system? Funny thing is that it really does not happen as root, but only as a normal user. So if anyone has any other recommendations, I'd be very very happy... Thanx in advance, Sebastian ________________________________________________________________ Keine verlorenen Lotto-Quittungen, keine vergessenen Gewinne mehr! Beim WEB.DE Lottoservice: http://tippen2.web.de/?x=13

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Fwd: screensaver fails password check
by Martin Knoblauch 02 Aug '02

02 Aug '02

Hi, resend, asthis never showed up on the list. The same happened on a second system. It was not the SuSE update, but the KDE 3.0.2 images. This time I checked when it happened :-) Martin ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: screensaver fails password check Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 15:42:03 +0200 From: Martin Knoblauch <martin.knoblauch(a)mscsoftware.com> To: suse-kde(a)suse.com Hi, today I installed the latest online update for SuSE-8.0 and additionaly upgraded to KDE-3.0.2. Since then the scrensaver locks me out. Logging in to the console or via KDE login works OK. Just the screensaver. Calling "kcheckpass" manually yields: mknoblau@knobi:~> kcheckpass Password: authentication failure for user mknoblau [uid 15833] mknoblau@knobi:~> This is found in /var/log/messages: Jul 29 15:40:27 knobi kcheckpass[1237]: pam_unix2: pam_sm_authenticate() called Jul 29 15:40:27 knobi kcheckpass[1237]: pam_unix2: username=[mknoblau] Jul 29 15:40:27 knobi kcheckpass[1237]: pam_unix2: wrong password, return PAM_AUTH_ERR Any idea what has gone wrong? Thanks Martin -- Martin Knoblauch MSC.software GmbH Am Moosfeld 13 D-81829 Muenchen, Germany e-mail: martin.knoblauch(a)mscsoftware.com http://www.mscsoftware.com Phone/Fax: +49-89-431987-189 / -7189 Mobile: +49-174-3069245

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Newbie screensaver question
by Darrell Cormier 31 Jul '02

31 Jul '02

Is there a way to make KDE recognize screen savers that are loaded with other desktops. I know that there are more screensavers on my system, but they don't show up in the KDE Control Center's screensaver list. Darrell Cormier

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upgrade save
by Michael McGibben 31 Jul '02

31 Jul '02

Hi, I have upgraded my system (Suse 8.0) and now need to do a reinstall. What do I save (via cdrecord perhaps) to make sure that I don't need to redo the update? Thanks. Michael.

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Potential Kmail Problem
by Ralph F. De Witt 31 Jul '02

31 Jul '02

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi: I am running Kmail 1.4.2 on KDE 3.0.2 on SuSE 8. I seem to remember in the past that I was able to copy from email attachments and paste to a new document, that is not case now copy and paste do not work. Can someone confirm that this is a bug or that I am confused beyound all belief? - -- Yours, Ralph. It said Use Windows XP or better, so I installed SuSE 8.0 Professional Register Linux User 168814 ICQ #49993234 AIM ralphdewitt GPG Public Key available at http://www.keyserver.net Key fingerprint = 6426 1CFF 0987 9D51 76D6 06BC F22A CFF4 559A 03E7 Kernel version 2.4.18-4GB Current Linux uptime: 3 days 11 hours 25 minutes. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9SDKu8irP9FWaA+cRApiCAKCAZCVDMiDHFMhCzZgkTsWgolHB2QCcCXME YGyDywZOV+oMtO9IKhMvXSU= =FvDY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Remote kdm-login
by Anders Dahlqvist 31 Jul '02

31 Jul '02

I'm trying to enable remote kdm-login between two machines, tor and oden. oden is running 8.0 and kdebase3-3.0.2-45 while tor is running 7.3 and kdebase3-3.0.2-7. It doesn't seem to work. I din't see any other hosts or user@host coming up in kdm and logging in as Anders@tor or Anders@oden fails. They have exactly the same coupling between user-names and UIDs and tor nfs-exports /home to oden. I have edited the following files thus: 1. /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc thus: ---------------snip------------------- [Xdmcp] Enable=true ---------------snip------------------- 2. /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess ---------------snip------------------- %hostlist oden #on tor and vice versa on oden * CHOOSER %hostlist ---------------snip------------------- 3. /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config ---------------snip------------------- #DisplayManager.requestPort :0 ---------------snip------------------- Furthermore I have restarted kdm on both machines. What have I missed or done wrong ? -- Lewis's Law of Travel: The first piece of luggage out of the chute doesn't belong to anyone, ever.

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I can't compile any KDE package :?
by Alberto Curro 27 Jul '02

27 Jul '02

Hi everyone, I'm using the 7.2 release, almost fully updated, and now I've XFree86 4.2.0 and KDE 3.0.1 (binaries). As I want to improve the speed of KDE (I have a i686 plattform) and install the same time the 3.0.2 release, I have downloaded the .spm and installed it. What's my surprise when I do a "./configure" and it fails. The matter is this happens with every application designed for KDE 3.x. For example, with caitoo 2.0Beta1, this is the output from ./configure. alberto@linux:/usr/src/packages/SOURCES/caitoo-0.6.6 > ./configure creating cache ./config.cache checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/ginstall -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes checking for working aclocal... found checking for working autoconf... found checking for working automake... found checking for working autoheader... found checking for working makeinfo... found checking for a C-Compiler... checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no checking whether we are using GNU C... yes checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for a C++-Compiler... checking for g++... g++ checking whether the C++ compiler (g++ -s) works... no configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler cannot create executables. Any idea? BTW, I have installed these packages and versions : autoconf-2.5 automake-1.5 gcc-2.95.2 g++-2.95.2 and almost everything, though, that KDE3 needs to compile succesfully. Do I need another package, or 'tune' anything to get it? Regards Alberto Curro

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