Re: [opensuse-factory] Making Basic Utilities work under normal user

2007-05-29 Thread Ludwig Nussel
Jonathan Arsenault wrote: On Sat, 2007-05-26 at 02:35 +0300, Alexey Eremenko wrote: Anyways, I'm not satisfied. I want to have access to my ifconfig from normal user. Yes, lets change the UNIX way for the unsatisfied kid ... Snip from the FHS. /sbin : System binaries Purpose

Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: swapfile during installation

2007-05-29 Thread Steffen Winterfeldt
Hi, On Mon, 28 May 2007, Peter Czanik wrote: Steffen Winterfeldt wrote: The latest linuxrc (version 2.1.25) can create swap partitions and swap files now. If you're going for swap files, you have to watch out not to reformat the partition later yourself. Thank, you, I tested

Re: [opensuse-factory] Command disclosure

2007-05-29 Thread Ladislav Slezak
Hello, Donn Washburn wrote: Hey Group; As a person that like to know what the system program is doing to carry out a command in the back ground. I suggest, if Yast/Yast2 could have a field on the face of Yast/Yast2 (a blank charcacter line) that is filled with the under lying command

Re: [opensuse-factory] How can we support better Virtualization in openSUSE ?

2007-05-29 Thread Ladislav Slezak
Keith Goggin wrote: [...] I created testvm.qcow (20GB) OK but then couldn't execute the next step.. # qemu -sda /home/kg/Desktop/openSUSE-10.3Alpha4-DVD-x86_64.iso -boot d qemu: invalid option -- '-sda' Note both my HDD and DVD-ROM (Burner) are SATA II devices. Does qemu support SATA

Re: [opensuse-factory] Making Basic Utilities work under normal user

2007-05-29 Thread Jonathan Arsenault
On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 09:08 +0200, Ludwig Nussel wrote: Jonathan Arsenault wrote: On Sat, 2007-05-26 at 02:35 +0300, Alexey Eremenko wrote: Anyways, I'm not satisfied. I want to have access to my ifconfig from normal user. Yes, lets change the UNIX way for the unsatisfied kid ...

Re: [opensuse-factory] Making Basic Utilities work under normal user

2007-05-29 Thread Kenneth Schneider
On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 09:08 +0200, Ludwig Nussel wrote: Jonathan Arsenault wrote: On Sat, 2007-05-26 at 02:35 +0300, Alexey Eremenko wrote: Anyways, I'm not satisfied. I want to have access to my ifconfig from normal user. Yes, lets change the UNIX way for the unsatisfied kid ...

[opensuse-factory] Gnome YaST interface

2007-05-29 Thread James Tremblay
The Edu-CD project is beginning to produce. Our first test disk http://www.opensuse-education.org/download/openSUSE-Education-Alpha4-Addon.iso is having trouble with the new software management interface under Gnome. it is as far as I can tell not our fault. Could I get some idea of when

Re: [opensuse-factory] Making Basic Utilities work under normal user

2007-05-29 Thread Dominique Leuenberger
So what? That doesn't tell anything about whether it makes sense to have sbin in $PATH. I'd vote for appending sbin to regular users' $PATH by default. There are many tools in sbin that can be called as user to display at least some status information (or even just the help text). The

Re: [opensuse-factory] Making Basic Utilities work under normal user

2007-05-29 Thread Ludwig Nussel
Jonathan Arsenault wrote: On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 09:08 +0200, Ludwig Nussel wrote: I'd vote for appending sbin to regular users' $PATH by default. There are many tools in sbin that can be called as user to display at least some status information (or even just the help text). The clueless

Re: [opensuse-factory] yast-tftpboot

2007-05-29 Thread Stanislav Visnovsky
Dňa Ut 8. Máj 2007 07:25 Birger Kollstrand napísal: Would it also be possible to support atftp in yast-tftpboot? I notice that in the openSUSE wiki, atftp seems to be the prefered tftp package. Or is there a good reason not to support atftp? I would suggest to ask on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stano

Re: [opensuse-factory] Making Basic Utilities work under normal user

2007-05-29 Thread Benji Weber
On 29/05/07, Ludwig Nussel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The question was not whether the file system layout as we know it still makes sense but whether non-root users would benefit from quick access to sbin binaries by default. Changing the default[1] PATH is the probably the most simple way to

[opensuse-factory] joke of the day

2007-05-29 Thread Peter Czanik
Hello, I wanted to install the latest factory. When I tried to add an additional install source (for factory-extra), I entered, as usual, the IP address of the server under Server Name. When used OK, I got the following message: A valid domain name consists of components separated by dots. Each

Re: [opensuse-factory] joke of the day

2007-05-29 Thread Kenneth Schneider
On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 16:59 +0200, Peter Czanik wrote: Hello, I wanted to install the latest factory. When I tried to add an additional install source (for factory-extra), I entered, as usual, the IP address of the server under Server Name. When used OK, I got the following message: A valid

Re: [opensuse-factory] joke of the day

2007-05-29 Thread Rafał Miłecki
2007/5/29, Peter Czanik [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A valid domain name consists of components separated by dots. Each component contains letters, digits, and hyphens. A hypen may nt start or end a component and the last component may not begin with a digit. And the IP address is not accepted. What is

Re: [opensuse-factory] joke of the day

2007-05-29 Thread Bernhard Walle
* Rafał Miłecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-05-29 18:04]: I think IP address should be accepted by YaST. I even can not see any reason why it should be not. I think you should create a bug report. Not every YaST developer reads that list ... Thanks, Bernhard

Re: [opensuse-factory] Command disclosure

2007-05-29 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-05-29 at 12:38 +0200, Ladislav Slezak wrote: In this case the yast module is just a GUI for checkmedia binary. You can check a physical medium or an ISO image - e.g. checkmedia /dev/sdb or checkmedia img.iso Each medium