On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 11:15 -0600, Rajko M. wrote: > On Tuesday 22 January 2008 04:57:57 am Mike McMullin wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 21:55 -0800, Kai Ponte wrote: > ... > > > > Perhaps completely beside the point, but perhaps you could try > > > > strongswan for making your vpn. It has built in support for smartcards > > > > (in contrast to other vpn-software), and is available on the download > > > > server. > > > > > > I just installed strongswan from here: > > > http://software.opensuse.org/search?p=1&q=strongswan > > > > > > However, I can't seem to make it work. I looked for an icon and don't > > > see one. Resorting to the CLI, I get nothing there either. > > > > > > Ideas? > > > > > > jabba:/home/kai/Desktop # rpm -i strongswan-4.1.10.5-1.1.i586.rpm > > > package strongswan-4.1.10.5-1.1 is already installed > > > jabba:/home/kai/Desktop # strongswan > > > bash: strongswan: command not found > > > jabba:/home/kai/Desktop # > > > > I'm kinda wondering if it put the executable outside of roots path. I > > know you can view where an rpm puts files using YaST's software module, > > and I'm thinking that rpm might have a switch that does basically the > > same thing. > > If you have installed the 'rpm' and 'mc' packages you can browse any rpm file > as described in: > http://en.opensuse.org/Midnight_Commander/Tips > section 'RPM browsing'. > > The rpm alone provides that ability too, though I had to browse manual to > find > all options that I need. That is the reason for me to use 'mc'. Instead of > browsing manual or remembering a number of switches for all that 'mc' > presents I have to remember to highlight a file and press Enter.
Or use your mouse and double click on the file. I have mc installed but really don't do much with it, though I know there are those on list who are quite proficient with it. > Inside the rpm highlight CONTENTS.cpio and again press Enter. The 'mc' will > extract files in /tmp directory and present them as a browsable tree. > > To see what is in the file, for instance, /usr/sbin/ipsec highlight the file > and press F3, which will invoke viewer and that is how I know that 'ipsec' is > the script. > > Holding Shift key highlight with mouse text that you want to copy, go to mail > program place cursor where you want to copy highlighted, press middle button > on mouse and text is copied, as in my another mail. > > BTW, have you seen my other mail? Not at that the time of answering Kai. > Are you use threading? I wasn't, but I did turn it on just now. I'll see how that goes. > Evolution should be able to do that. My answer to Kai is hanging > in 2 hours before your reply. > > This is only to show files using rpm: > rpm --qery --list --package ./strongswan-4.1.10.5-1.22.i586.rpm > > It will show list of files where /usr/sbin/ipsec is the only binary. > The 'rcipsec' is the symlink to 'ipsec'. Though I can't find what option to > add to above line, to see symlinks marked as such. > > -- > Regards, > Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
