[arch-general] okular print preview error

2009-06-13 Thread prad
when i try to do a print preview with okular i get a dialogbox saying it couldn't open an okular.ps file in /tmp. this is weird too because the file has rw permissions for the user. suggestions? -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Fre

Re: [arch-general] Making logs readable by other user than root

2009-06-13 Thread Magnus Therning
waldek wrote: Dnia sobota 13 czerwiec 2009 o 11:05:13 Thomas Bächler napisał(a): Magnus Therning schrieb: interesting, it did not work for me. in the /etc/syslog-ng.conf there was: group("log"); and syslog-ng ignored this setting, I changed it to: group(19); as specified in the man page and

Re: [arch-general] Package groups

2009-06-13 Thread Xavier
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Biru Ionut wrote: > Xavier wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Aaron Griffin >> wrote: >>> >>> Yeah, as far as I know, this shouldn't happen, as it breaks "pacman -S >>> gnome-extra" in a way >>> >> >> I don't think it is a problem. pacman will just ask fo

Re: [arch-general] Package groups

2009-06-13 Thread Biru Ionut
Xavier wrote: On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Aaron Griffin wrote: On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: Is it OK for a package in [community] to be part of a package group? AFAIK package groups dont exist in [community] or if they do they are not the same as the ones in

Re: [arch-general] dmraid disk failure - howto rebuild new disk - gparted hates Me :-(

2009-06-13 Thread David C. Rankin
David C. Rankin wrote: > David C. Rankin wrote: >> Listmates, >> >> My Seagate drives are dropping like flies with less than 1400 hours of >> run >> time. (that's less than 58 days of service!) > >> That's pretty much where I am now. My next thought is to just use dd to >> copy >> the

Re: [arch-general] dmraid disk failure - howto rebuild new disk - gparted hates Me :-(

2009-06-13 Thread Jonathan Brown
For the situation you are in (failing drives), dd or ddrescue or dd_rescue (I prefer dd_rescue myself) is definitely the best method for cloning failing drives- I usually just boot up into RIPLinux or System Rescue CD (nothing gets mounted)... and away you go..!! with ddrescue, if you have s

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.30-2

2009-06-13 Thread David C. Rankin
Thomas Bächler wrote: > > You have to use the PKGBUILDs to build your own version against 2.6.30. > I think new PKGBUILDs updates to build with 2.6.30 will appear in AUR > within days. > Thanks Thomas! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas

Re: [arch-general] Package groups

2009-06-13 Thread Xavier
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: >> Is it OK for a package in [community] to  be part of a package group? >> AFAIK package groups dont exist in [community] or if they do they are >> not the same >> as the ones in extr

Re: [arch-general] Making logs readable by other user than root

2009-06-13 Thread Jan de Groot
On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 12:01 +0200, bardo wrote: > I was requested by a user to create a /var/log/mldonkey/ directory and > put log files there, owned by the daemon-configured user, however I'm > not too fond of the idea of having user-owned files in a system > directory like /var/log/, even though

Re: [arch-general] Making logs readable by other user than root

2009-06-13 Thread waldek
Dnia sobota 13 czerwiec 2009 o 11:05:13 Thomas Bächler napisał(a): > Magnus Therning schrieb: > >> interesting, it did not work for me. in the /etc/syslog-ng.conf there > >> was: > >> > >> group("log"); > >> > >> and syslog-ng ignored this setting, I changed it to: > >> > >> group(19); > >> > >> as

Re: [arch-general] Making logs readable by other user than root

2009-06-13 Thread Alessandro Doro
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 09:54:08AM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: > waldek wrote: >> Dnia sobota 13 czerwiec 2009 o 09:50:47 Thomas Bächler napisał(a): >>> Magnus Therning schrieb: Is there a good HOWTO on making syslog-ng create files with owner:group other than root:root? I'd like to ma

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.30-2

2009-06-13 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:52:15 +0300 Roman Kyrylych wrote: > On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 12:49, Dieter Plaetinck > wrote: > > On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:41:33 +0200 > > Tobias Powalowski wrote: > > > >> Am Samstag 13 Juni 2009 schrieben Sie: > >> > On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:19:24 +0200 > >> > > >> > > >> > W

Re: [arch-general] Making logs readable by other user than root

2009-06-13 Thread bardo
2009/6/13 Thomas Bächler : > syslog-ng uses root:log in its default configuration. If it doesn't check > /etc/syslog-ng.conf.pacnew and see if the log group exists for you. I'll almost hijack the thread because I have an issue open with log files in a [community] package, mldonkey. This package ha

[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.30-3

2009-06-13 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Hi guys, kernel26-2.6.30-3 please signoff, both arches. Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges Arch Linux bugfixes: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15067 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14879 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14485 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14958 http://bugs.arch

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.30-2

2009-06-13 Thread Roman Kyrylych
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 12:49, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:41:33 +0200 > Tobias Powalowski wrote: > >> Am Samstag 13 Juni 2009 schrieben Sie: >> > On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:19:24 +0200 >> > >> > >> > What's the Arch policy on the new default mount options for ext3? >> > data=orde

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.30-2

2009-06-13 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:41:33 +0200 Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Am Samstag 13 Juni 2009 schrieben Sie: > > On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:19:24 +0200 > > > > > > What's the Arch policy on the new default mount options for ext3? > > data=ordered (old, safe, slow behaviour) > > or > > data=writeback (new def

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.30-2

2009-06-13 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:19:24 +0200 Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Hi guys, > kernel26-2.6.30-2 > please signoff, both arches. > And tell me your opinion about madwifi and openswan-klisp > > Upstream changes: > http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges > > Arch Linux bugfixes: > http://bugs.archlinux.or

Re: [arch-general] Making logs readable by other user than root

2009-06-13 Thread Thomas Bächler
Magnus Therning schrieb: interesting, it did not work for me. in the /etc/syslog-ng.conf there was: group("log"); and syslog-ng ignored this setting, I changed it to: group(19); as specified in the man page and it works fine now. Yes, same here. There should be a bug raised I guess. If n

Re: [arch-general] Making logs readable by other user than root

2009-06-13 Thread Magnus Therning
waldek wrote: Dnia sobota 13 czerwiec 2009 o 09:50:47 Thomas Bächler napisał(a): Magnus Therning schrieb: Is there a good HOWTO on making syslog-ng create files with owner:group other than root:root? I'd like to make it possible for some users to read the logs in /var/log. Any good suggestion

Re: [arch-general] Making logs readable by other user than root

2009-06-13 Thread waldek
Dnia sobota 13 czerwiec 2009 o 09:50:47 Thomas Bächler napisał(a): > Magnus Therning schrieb: > > Is there a good HOWTO on making syslog-ng create files with owner:group > > other than root:root? I'd like to make it possible for some users to > > read the logs in /var/log. > > > > Any good suggest

Re: [arch-general] Making logs readable by other user than root

2009-06-13 Thread Thomas Bächler
Magnus Therning schrieb: Is there a good HOWTO on making syslog-ng create files with owner:group other than root:root? I'd like to make it possible for some users to read the logs in /var/log. Any good suggestion for an already existing group to use? I was thinking of either log or wheel, a

Re: [arch-general] resolution stuck at 640x480

2009-06-13 Thread Thomas Bächler
prad schrieb: this is on an older machine 450MHz with 128M ram and 3D rage card - working off an lcd monitor for whom i've had to set horizsync 30-35 vertrefresh 50-100 (or it tries to overshoot the monitor's capabilities and the screen locks up with an outofrange error for the horizsync. Ple

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.30-2

2009-06-13 Thread Thomas Bächler
David C. Rankin schrieb: Remove binary modules from extra? Guys opinions on this? madwifi -> AUR # supported by ath5k and ath9k normally Tobias, I have 2 Toshiba laptops. In the past madwifi would not work with ath5k or ath9k and would only function with ath_pci. I haven't had tim

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.30-2

2009-06-13 Thread David C. Rankin
Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Hi guys, > kernel26-2.6.30-2 > please signoff, both arches. > And tell me your opinion about madwifi and openswan-klisp > Remove binary modules from extra? > Guys opinions on this? > madwifi -> AUR # supported by ath5k and ath9k normally Tobias, I have 2 Tosh

Re: [arch-general] resolution stuck at 640x480

2009-06-13 Thread David C. Rankin
prad wrote: > this is on an older machine 450MHz with 128M ram and 3D rage card - > working off an lcd monitor for whom i've had to set > horizsync 30-35 > vertrefresh 50-100 > (or it tries to overshoot the monitor's capabilities and the screen > locks up with an outofrange error for the horizsync