It allows to play a music file by letting the cursor over it, without opening a player.
Very easy to set up :
$ zypper install mpg123
and it should work immediatly.
Category Archives: Linux
No Nessus gui client and limited support of the server for openSUSE
As I work on security, I used to use Nessus on my openSUSE system.
But it seems that Tenable Network Security dropped support for the client on our favorite distribution.
At least, for some reason, they stopped making an universal statically linked binary (though they keep doing it for the server part) and it hasn’t changed since april.
Even the server has a rather limited and obsolete support of openSUSE 10, whereas Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora have support for various versions and architectures. Check there.
This is rather a shame, as openSUSE is one of the major distribution.
I tried some workarounds like converting the deb packages, but, as expected, there are some dependancies issues.
So far, it seems that not many people are affected, because there are not many voices on the forum. I can live without it, but however, this is often a nice and useful tool.
Does anyone use it here ? Or did you get it to work somehow ? If you feel concerned, please let it know to Tenable !
openSUSE : default desktop going to be KDE, but…
What is this ?
It is said that this change is useless and won’t make any difference. In a few words, you consider that the request was stupid.
On that point, and also as a Gnome user, I agree.
In that case, why would you change anything ?
No one is going to be satisfied with this. It is not a compromise, just nonsense.
KDE users will be disappointed and Gnome users will feel marginalized.
The only thing that would have made sense were either following the request and focussing on KDE integration, or clearly reject it and leave things as they are.
openSUSE kernel sources : patching against sock_sendpage() NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability
I am using the 2.6.30 kernel sources from Kernel:linux-next and noticed that it has not yet been patched against the ’sock_sendpage()’ NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability.
The threat is serious as it could allow a local user to gain root privileges.
Those who compile their own 2.6.x kernel should apply this patch (from Linus, check there for more info) .
Within your kernel source folder :
$ patch -u -p0 < sock_sendpage.patch
I hope an official patch will be released soon for all kernels. I did not check if the 11.1 kernel has already been patched or not.
Yersinia : patch to compile under openSUSE (11.1)
Yet another post in the series of compilation failures due to unexpected libraries paths.
This time, it is about Yersinia and the ncurses library. I made the following yersinia-opensuse11.1 patch which should work for openSUSE 11.1 and maybe other versions or distros.
Compilation of PackETH on openSUSE
PackETH is a nice gkt tool to play with Ethernet packet.
I encountered some path issues with the Makefile and openSUSE 11.1 64 bits to compile it, so here is the packETH-opensuse patch to compile correctly.
If you are on a 32 bits system, all you will have to do is editing the CPPFLAGS line and replace all lib64 occurences with lib.
I hope one will find it useful.