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Oct 9, 2010
I have been asked by a friend to install Linux on a Medion Akoya e1222. He is a Windows user and knows nothing about Linux, but has listened to what I have told him about the penguin. openSUSE 11.3 seems to work best on his netbook of the current systems, but I know almost nothing about SUSE, being a Debian/Ubuntu user myself. I am trying to install the following software, but am finding it difficult to locate.
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Apr 3, 2011
I have a box which I want to make a Samba PDC opensuse 11.3 server, but it doesn't have monitor nor keyboard during normal use. After a standard installation with keyboard and screen, I will have to remove the screen and the keyboard for lake of space. Are there ways to monitor this linux server through my laptop so it act as the screen and the keyboard of the linux server? At any times, the laptop is running desktop opensuse 11.3 or windows XP.
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Jul 11, 2011
I can't communicate with and UPS (Eaton) via a serial port. The serial port is UP and have been tested under a Windows OS.I have set up the communication parameters and tried to establish a dialog with the UPS. Minicom is installed. Nothing appears ont the screen and the VT102 has an offline status. The OS is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 64bits.Is somebody have examples to debug the serial port ?
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Sep 7, 2011
I've been using Debian for around ~3 months now, though before that a certain derivative thereof since the start of the year.Long story short is that I was installing packages, as you do, when apt-get prompted that I run apt-get autoremove, as it does. So, trusting the computer, I do, not bothering to read the chunk of packages that it recommends to remove. Life goes on, until a reboot reveals that there are issues.Short story shorter, a quick cat /var/log/dpkg.log | grep remove spits out the following:
root@kubrick:~# cat /var/log/dpkg.log | grep remove
2011-09-05 22:04:09 startup packages remove
2011-09-05 22:04:09 remove gnome-user-share 2.30.1-1 2.30.1-1
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Apr 30, 2011
I powered up my 2nd monitor in 10.10, and the screen was a mirror to the first.I'll fix this, thought I.unchecked 'mirror' in monitor dialog, and the bit about the virtual thing sounded good, then I rebooted into a horror I haven't felt since MSWindows days.
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Feb 1, 2010
hi i've searched the forums and haven't found anyting, so i'm posting. Linux SuSe 10. not sure of exact version. The remote desktop will not connect to windows server 2008. I'm assuming that i need to update rdesktop. So i go the Novell Add-on manager and point it to my ftp server with the extracted rdesktop files in the driectory. I can see the linux desktop accessing the folder with the files but a get an error. How do i install the new rdesktop using ftp and the Novell Add-on manager? it seams that the add-n manager is lookikng for a file listing the add-ons.
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Jun 30, 2010
I am new to Linux and wow, it did not take me long to run into a huge snag. I am running Suse Linux Enterprise 10 on a laptop and by some strange reason the computer froze from overheating and I was forced to shutdown improperly. Once I restarted it booted right to the command prompt when it usually instead boots to the default user. I managed to get gnome running using the "startx gnome" command. But when gnome loads, none of my normal extentions load like my wireless driver, the sound driver, etc. how to restore gnome to automatically load the default user on start up or fix any other damage I might have done? lol
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Feb 2, 2011
created a user but i forgot to change the home directory permission.so after user created when i go to the user and group mangement i cant see that permission filed related to the home permission directory.my purpose is to stop accessing other user to my home directory,how it can be possible??
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Sep 11, 2010
I have installed Suse on my Windows Vista 64bit machine a couple of times, but the last time I did it - after a disk change - presented some unanticipated problems. Prior to install, Windows Disk Management (whose output I was unable to paste into this question) showed that my disks were laid out as follows:
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Disk 0 is a Seagate ATA drive, while Disk 1 is a Western Digital Ext HDD Usb Device. Looking back, I think I should have carved out a partition after M before installing Suse, but I was uncertain whether to make it a logical one or a primary, and in the past the installation has taken the 25 or so gig it needed from the last defined partition on disk 0. This time, however, it went after disk 1, and reformatted the entire drive, deleting about 300 gig of user data, including my system backup. What really suprised me is that it took up the entire drive: 2 gig for the swapfile, then a 20 gig partition, and all the rest for the third partition.
This is not what I would have expected. I especially would not have expected the installation to re-format user data. In any case, I did not want Suse on disk 1, so I reformatted the drive and then used my Partition Manager to rebuild the boot Mbr. So now, I am able to boot into windows, do not have Suse on my machine, but have lost critical data. My disks are now back to the way they were when I started (see above), except that drive F is now all free space, except for my latest backup. My question is how do I ensure, when I reinstall Suse, that it will choose disk0 for the installation and will not overlay any of the data that I have on that drive.
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Aug 10, 2010
I just installed the latest openSUSE on my laptop. I actually had wireless working. Then it stopped. Wireless is fine on my desktop computer. When I take the cable from my router and plug it into the laptop then I have internet
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Mar 27, 2011
I am searching for a usefull PasswordManager for Opensuse 11.4. All I found till here are Apps that wont run. I found:
Password Gorilla (wont run)
KeePassX (I am not even able to install)
Password Dragon (is a Java App, that is just launchable via Terminal and I dont know how secure it is).
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Aug 19, 2010
after about 30 min of trying to get the cinepaint-0.22-1.tar.gz to build on 11.3 64 bit i figured i would do some searching took about 15 min but new suse users won't have to figure out the posting in the suse forum archive ( 2007) Up-to-date Rpm For Cinepaint?
there IS a cinepaint for 11.3
add the repo
Index of /repositories/home:/bekun/openSUSE_11.3
into yast / Software Repositories
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Aug 8, 2010
I've been trying on new installation for opensuse 11.3 on Intel P55 raid5 configured system, one non-raid disk for boot device, a raid5 array as data device. However, installation always gets hung on Searching Linux partition step and I was able to see the vgscan process was the last command to run. Is it a known bug? Does anyone have the same issue as mine?
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Mar 5, 2010
What would be the preferred method to establish a remote desktop session from one 11.2 machine to another 11.2 machine in the same location? No firewalls, local connection only. I've looked at VNC, RDP with xrdp, have not been able to establish a session to desktop. I would rather not use desktop sharing if possible, don't want invitations involved. Want something similar to hitting from Windows with VNC3and taking over the established desktop session. This is in my house, no security risks involved
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Jan 27, 2010
I'm trying to put together a script that will quickly run through an archive directory of log files that are named by day of the month 01.gz, 02.gz, 03.gz.... 31.gz. The script uses gunzip -c | grep | wc to count up the total number of hourly occurrences of a filename and outputs the results to stdout.
The only snag I have left is the octal limit when it gets to 08 and 09. I've seen examples using perl and awk, but this script uses a number of nested for loops and if statements that I don't want to have to rewrite in a different syntax. I found that I can use num=10#08 to set that variable to a base 10 instead of a base 8, but then I lose the leading 0 again when it passes the number to the next filename variable.
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Jun 5, 2010
I found a script that counts down to a date and time and after modifying my .conkyrc file I want things to line up nicely, so, now I need leading zeroes on the output, like one timer I have says "4m +2w 5d 20:0:0" and I want it to say "04m 02w 05d 20:00:00" and on a slightly separate issue, it doesn't seem to be counting the minutes and seconds correctly, but that can be dealt with later, the current script is
Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl
#Script Name: howLong.pl
#Author: Nathan Handler <nhandler @ubuntu.com>
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Jul 17, 2010
Out of the box, Bash in 10.04 is configured such that it won't expand/complete parameters when there's a single match for a parameter with a leading wildcard. For example, if I have the following files in a directory:
Code:
ABC.bin
DEF.bin
GHI.bin
...and I type cp *E*, I expect to be able to press TAB and have Bash expand *E* to DEF.bin, since that's the only file in the directory with a capital E in its name.
(Note: if I actually submit the command with the wildcards in place, the correct file will be used then, but I don't get to see it beforehand.) I imagine there's something in /etc/bash_completion that's preventing this from working properly. Does anyone know what it is?
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Mar 3, 2011
I'm trying to insert a line using sed that has leading spaces before the text. Sed seems to be just dropping the spaces and only inserting the text. Any ideas what I'm missing?
Code:
NAM=rb134
sed -i.bak -e "$i
host ${NAM} {" /etc/crap
Instead of inserting a line with 8 leading spaces inserts it with "host" at the beginning of the line. I tried
Code:
NAM=rb134
sed -i.bak -e "$i
^ host ${NAM} {" /etc/crap
but it put the "^" at the begging of the line.
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Mar 16, 2010
I recently installed Suse Linux enterprise Desktop 11 on my box. I created an user and logged in first time into a GNOME session without any problems. Last time I logged in I selected the session as TWM and that got me into the T windows manager just fine. Now when I log out and try to log back into a GNOME session, it will still log me into the TVM sessionI have tried restarting the boxHowever, when I remote log in to the machine it will let me get on the GNOME session just fine. I'm guessing this is probably a really simple fix, however I am a Linux newbie and doing a google search isn't yielding me what I'm looking for.
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Aug 10, 2010
I'm running a java app when my specific user (not root) login. It's running fine.The problem is that profile.local are calling my app twice ... The first call, it's blocking Linux environment until I close java app. After that, occurs the second call, then it's free Linux for usage.I tried to change my java app for gedit, and I can see the problem too.I tried with profile.local and /home/<my user>/.profile, the result is the same.
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Nov 12, 2010
I've been trying to figure out how to set up vsftpd on a test machine to emulate the ftp setup on our current ftp server. I was able to track down part of what I needed with the gracious help of poster AlucardZero on this forum, who pointed out that the vsftpd process likely being run via xinetd.
I've managed (or so I thought) to set everything up correctly - but I cannot connect to my test box as the user the ftp client program we're using expects. I can see in the vsftpd log that I'm making contact, but the client program is automatically failing, and attempts to get in from the Windows command line (ftp <ip>) request user and password, then fail out with '530 Login incorrect'.
Everything I've seen online so far indicates that the ftp login for a local user (with vsftpd configuration settings including anonymous_enable=NO and local_enable=YES) should be the same as the 'normal' login for that user, and that the passwords should be the same as well. This is the case on the current FTP server, where a Windows command line login uses the same password as attempting to su into the user in question. On my test machine, I can su into the user in question with the password as well. I simply cannot seem to connect with this user via ftp.
Below are the things I've found so far during my search on the two servers:
Code:
I'm obviously missing something simple, because I've read many posts on this site and others concerning successful setups - I simply haven't managed one on my own. Most of these eventually boiled back down to this howto page, and I've tried to follow the 'add and change user' instructions shown there to no avail.
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Nov 18, 2008
I am having Opensuse 11.0. Recently I upgraded my system including kernel. Now I am unable to login in X as user. However I can login as root and working perfectly. I can login as user in failsafe as well as after pressing ctrl-alt-f1 when login screen appears.I have tried following---1. Emptied /temp folder and 2. deleting and adding user.
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Jan 8, 2011
I need to rename some files. They are named:
NP1-1.mp3
NP1-2.mp3
NP1-3.mp3
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However, as there is no lead 0, the order gets confused by some software (some software mistakenly lists it as NP1-1.mp3, then NP1-10.mp3). I'd like to add zeros so the files are named like this:
NP1-0001.mp3
NP1-0002.mp3
NP1-0003.mp3
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How can that be done?
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Mar 28, 2010
I have a script that calls for a file description on a core file. I then pull the name of the process that caused the core file.
unfortunately, the process name is pulled with a leading ' amd a tailing'. I would like to remove the leading char and the last char.
code:
VAR=`file /tmp/core.1432 | awk '{ print $14}'`
echo "Process Name: $VAR"
output:
Process Name: 'ProcessName'
Results I need:
Process Name: ProcessName
I tried sed, but it seems to not like using the special char '.
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Jul 10, 2010
How do I make getchar() skip a leading space? The situation I am looking is this: I print a prompt that ends in a space printf("Input: ");and then when I use getchar() to read the text that was typed after the prompt, it appears to process the trailing space as a leading space that belongs to the input.
how can the space be skipped, preferably without inserting code that explicitly checks whether I'm reading the first character or not. I have already found out that I can skip such a space using scanf scanf (" %c", &ch); where the leading space in the format string eliminates leading spaces from the input string. That is the sort of thing I have in mind.
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Dec 28, 2010
What is the best way to install software in a linux machine if you dont have root permissions. I know that we can use few variables like PKG_CONFIG_PATH and switches like --prefix with configure to get a software installed in a local directory, but sometimes when there are recursive dependencies it is becoming tough for me to install all the packages manually. Is there a better automated way? What I meant by recursive dependencies is: to install package A, I should install package B, which in turn requires package C to be installed.
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Sep 2, 2009
I need to create a user account for a software developer. I am logged in as an administrator and was planning on using the 'useradd' command to add the developer. Where should I place his folder in the directory hierarchy?He will need to access the gcc compiler to do his development.
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Feb 24, 2011
what is default login and password for open suse?
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Apr 19, 2011
Is leading whitespace significant in bind9 config files? This reverse lookup file (/var/chroot/bind9/etc/bind/zones/rev.168.168.192.in-addr.arpa) did not work; /var/log/messages had "zone 168.168.192.in-addr.arpa/IN: has no NS records".Inserting 3 spaces before IN in the NS line fixed it:
Code:
; IP Address-to-Host DNS Pointers for the 192.168.168.0 subnet
@ IN SOA CW8vDS.localdomain. hostmaster.localdomain. (
2011041901 ; serial
8H ; refresh
[code]...
Reading the man pages and netsearching, I did not find anything about indentation requirements except for "This is usually indented for readability, but the indents are required syntactically" here.Although the above file works, named-checkconf reports an error in it:
Code:
root@CW8vDS:/var/chroot/bind9/etc/bind/zones# named-checkconf rev.168.168.192.in-addr.arpa
rev.168.168.192.in-addr.arpa:1: syntax error near ';'
but named initialisation does not log any errors or warnings in /var/log/messages when processing this file except "/etc/bind/zones/rev.168.168.192.in-addr.arpa:2: no TTL specified; using SOA MINTTL instead".
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Oct 28, 2010
I have a quirky situation whereby I'm using SED to selectively comment out a line in a crontab job (on Solaris, I know but it's connected to the Linux function I'm working with).
What's happening is this.
Remove hash symbol
Code:
/opt/csw/bin/gsed -i '/^.*/usr/local/scripts/mirror-fix.sh.*/ s/^#//' $TEMPFILE
Restore hash symbol
Code:
/opt/csw/bin/gsed -i '/^.*/usr/local/scripts/mirror-fix.sh.*/ s/^/#/' $TEMPFILE
The problem I'm running into is that the script can sometimes prepend an extra hash # symbol if run more than once (I have a lockfile that I poll for to discourage this, but that's not perfect).
I wonder how I can modify that sed statement to remove any/all leading hash marks up to the first other character, in this case it's a 0 (zero) which is a crontab file.
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