Re: [arch-general] manage starting and stopping processes with less typing

2010-04-14 Thread Linas
David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > > One thing I miss with Arch are init-script shortcuts for starting and > stopping > processes. rc-commands really help cut down on typing. For example, all suse > did > was to create links to the files in /etc/rc.d/... with a naming convention of > rc. So,

Re: [arch-general] manage starting and stopping processes with less typing

2010-04-14 Thread Shacristo
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Brendan Long wrote: > On 04/13/2010 01:22 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: >> Guys, >> >>       One thing I miss with Arch are init-script shortcuts for starting and >> stopping >> processes. rc-commands really help cut down on typing. For example, all suse >> did >>

Re: [arch-general] manage starting and stopping processes with less typing

2010-04-14 Thread Brendan Long
On 04/13/2010 01:22 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > > One thing I miss with Arch are init-script shortcuts for starting and > stopping > processes. rc-commands really help cut down on typing. For example, all suse > did > was to create links to the files in /etc/rc.d/... with a naming

Re: [arch-general] First Time Using AUR

2010-04-14 Thread Jim Pryor
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:53:45AM -0600, Gary Wright wrote: > On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 08:16 -0500, Burlynn Corlew Jr (velcroshooz) > wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Carlos Mennens wrote: > > > > > I am getting ready to use my newly built Arch Linux system for the 1st > > > time and use

Re: [arch-general] Repo mirrors

2010-04-14 Thread Pierre Schmitz
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:36:49 +0200, Florian Pritz wrote: > http://karif.server-speed.net/~flo/tmp/mirrorsync.sh.txt > > C&C welcome :) Some comments here: * There is no public http master * mirrors might only have incoming rsync access (firewall) * the script tends to be complicated and relies

Re: [arch-general] manage starting and stopping processes with less typing

2010-04-14 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:03:50 -0500 "David C. Rankin" wrote: > On 04/13/2010 02:58 PM, Flavio Costa wrote: > > What about that: for i in $(ls -1 /etc/rc.d); do alias > > rc-$i="/etc/rc,d/$i"; done > > That's simple and dynamic, just insert it on your .bashrc ou > > /etc/bash.bashrc (global) > > >

Re: [arch-general] manage starting and stopping processes with less typing

2010-04-14 Thread Gary Wright
On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 07:29 -0600, Benjamin Campbell wrote: > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Frank Thieme wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 21:22, David C. Rankin > > wrote: > > >One thing I miss with Arch are init-script shortcuts for starting > > and stopping > > > processes. rc-c

Re: [arch-general] First Time Using AUR

2010-04-14 Thread Gary Wright
On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 08:16 -0500, Burlynn Corlew Jr (velcroshooz) wrote: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Carlos Mennens wrote: > > > I am getting ready to use my newly built Arch Linux system for the 1st > > time and use AUR and read the Wiki but I have a question that I am not > > clear on: >

Re: [arch-general] VirtualBox

2010-04-14 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Lukas Fleischer wrote: > How did you install X? All those packages get installed automatically if > you install X via `pacman -S xorg` as described in the wiki [1]. > > [1] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#Installing I didn't install X on the server. It's

Re: [arch-general] VirtualBox

2010-04-14 Thread Lukas Fleischer
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:11:54AM -0400, Carlos Mennens wrote: > Just for VirtualBox I have installed: > > sudo pacman -S libxcursor > sudo pacman -S sdl > sudo pacman -S fontconfig > > And now it's still complaining about "libXi.so.6"...Is there no way > just to resolve everything or loca

Re: [arch-general] VirtualBox

2010-04-14 Thread Burlynn Corlew Jr (velcroshooz)
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Carlos Mennens wrote: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Lukas Fleischer > wrote: > > You need to install sdl if you want to use the VirtualBox GUI, have a > > look at the optional deps. > > I installed that and yes I want to use the GUI but its dependency > afte

Re: [arch-general] VirtualBox

2010-04-14 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Lukas Fleischer wrote: > You need to install sdl if you want to use the VirtualBox GUI, have a > look at the optional deps. I installed that and yes I want to use the GUI but its dependency after dependency and it doesn't seem to end... Is there no way just to i

Re: [arch-general] VirtualBox

2010-04-14 Thread Lukas Fleischer
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 09:44:58AM -0400, Carlos Mennens wrote: > ## > [code][r...@ghost ~]# /etc/rc.d/vboxdrv start > -bash: /etc/rc.d/vboxdrv: No such file or directory[/code] > ## This PKGBUILD currently doe

Re: [arch-general] VirtualBox

2010-04-14 Thread Daniel Riedemann
Am 14.04.2010 15:44, schrieb Carlos Mennens: Now when I try to start VirtualBox I get the following error: ## [code][cmenn...@ghost virtualbox_bin]$ VirtualBox VirtualBox: supR3HardenedMainGetTrustedMain: dlopen("/opt/VirtualBox/VirtualBox.so",) failed:

Re: [arch-general] First Time Using AUR

2010-04-14 Thread Ray Rashif
On 14 April 2010 21:20, Jim Pryor wrote: > Safer to do it in a place that regular users can write to, and to do > all your makepkg-ing as a non-root user. You only need root privileges > for the actual install step. You could do a makepkg followed by a sudo > pacman -U packageyoumade-1.0.0-1-arch.

Re: [arch-general] VirtualBox

2010-04-14 Thread Guilherme M. Nogueira
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Carlos Mennens wrote: > ## > [code][r...@ghost ~]# /etc/rc.d/vboxdrv start > -bash: /etc/rc.d/vboxdrv: No such file or directory[/code] > ## > Actually, vboxdrv is a kernel mo

Re: [arch-general] VirtualBox

2010-04-14 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Guilherme M. Nogueira wrote: > It seems to me that you are not familiar with AUR, are you? No, I have never used until today. Which is why I am posting back. > If not, you should read the wiki about it [1] and after that, have a > look at the virtualbox_bin packa

Re: [arch-general] manage starting and stopping processes with less typing

2010-04-14 Thread Ray Rashif
On 14 April 2010 21:29, Benjamin Campbell wrote: > I promote the use of tab completion as it helps with reinforcing the > directory structure in my head. In addition too many soft links makes me > feel as though I am chasing ghosts around my computer. Tab completion and > good old fashion elbow gr

Re: [arch-general] First Time Using AUR

2010-04-14 Thread Benjamin Campbell
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 7:12 AM, Carlos Mennens wrote: > I am getting ready to use my newly built Arch Linux system for the 1st > time and use AUR and read the Wiki but I have a question that I am not > clear on: > > Next choose an appropriate build directory. A build directory is > simply a direc

Re: [arch-general] manage starting and stopping processes with less typing

2010-04-14 Thread Benjamin Campbell
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Frank Thieme wrote: > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 21:22, David C. Rankin > wrote: > >One thing I miss with Arch are init-script shortcuts for starting > and stopping > > processes. rc-commands really help cut down on typing. For example, all > suse did > > wa

Re: [arch-general] First Time Using AUR

2010-04-14 Thread Jim Pryor
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 09:12:11AM -0400, Carlos Mennens wrote: > I am getting ready to use my newly built Arch Linux system for the 1st > time and use AUR and read the Wiki but I have a question that I am not > clear on: > > Next choose an appropriate build directory. A build directory is > simpl

Re: [arch-general] First Time Using AUR

2010-04-14 Thread Burlynn Corlew Jr (velcroshooz)
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Carlos Mennens wrote: > I am getting ready to use my newly built Arch Linux system for the 1st > time and use AUR and read the Wiki but I have a question that I am not > clear on: > > Next choose an appropriate build directory. A build directory is > simply a direc

Re: [arch-general] First Time Using AUR

2010-04-14 Thread Nick Stepa
On 04/14/2010 04:12 PM, Carlos Mennens wrote: I am getting ready to use my newly built Arch Linux system for the 1st time and use AUR and read the Wiki but I have a question that I am not clear on: Next choose an appropriate build directory. A build directory is simply a directory where the pack

[arch-general] First Time Using AUR

2010-04-14 Thread Carlos Mennens
I am getting ready to use my newly built Arch Linux system for the 1st time and use AUR and read the Wiki but I have a question that I am not clear on: Next choose an appropriate build directory. A build directory is simply a directory where the package will be made or "built" and can be any direc