Re: [gentoo-user] Reconciling users and services

2009-01-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 18 January 2009 00:09:31 Grant wrote: > I have some users on a system and some services. How can I make sure > only certain users can log into certain services? Do I need to > explicitly define which users can log into each service? Are there > different types of users so that some can

Re: [gentoo-user] digikam, gtkam,... what's else?

2009-01-17 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
On Sunday 18 January 2009 10:37:56 Dale wrote: > > Most Canon cameras that I have read about are p2p or something. It > should just work but maybe there is something specific about your model > or they are changing the camera part. ~2-3 months ago all did work. > I'm just glad I like my little

Re: [gentoo-user] Avahi Keeps failing on Emerge - Maybe a Python Error?

2009-01-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 18 January 2009 06:38:15 Richard Watson wrote: > I'm sorry about the delay in closing this. I finally figured out if I > remove "-pipe" from my /etc/make.conf CFLAGS that all my compile errors go > away. Looking at the reference on the subject this option tells GCC not to > create tempora

Re: [gentoo-user] digikam, gtkam,... what's else?

2009-01-17 Thread Dale
Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > On Sunday 18 January 2009 01:11:51 Dale wrote: > >> In my past, it was a permissions issue that got me. Make sure you are >> in the right groups, or try as root. If it works as root, then it >> should be a permissions problem or missing group. >> >> If it don't work as

Re: [gentoo-user] digikam, gtkam,... what's else?

2009-01-17 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
On Sunday 18 January 2009 01:11:51 Dale wrote: > > In my past, it was a permissions issue that got me. Make sure you are > in the right groups, or try as root. If it works as root, then it > should be a permissions problem or missing group. > > If it don't work as root, oh boy, you got problems n

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable remote login for certain user

2009-01-17 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 10:50:31 -0800 Grant wrote: > Can anyone tell me how to find out which users on a system have a > login shell (e.g. not /bin/nologin)? echo 'Unavailable user accounts:'; for usr in `cat /etc/passwd`; do usr=${usr%%:*}; exit | su "$usr" >/dev/null 2>&1 || echo -n "$usr "; don

RE: [gentoo-user] Avahi Keeps failing on Emerge - Maybe a Python Error?

2009-01-17 Thread Richard Watson
I'm sorry about the delay in closing this. I finally figured out if I remove "-pipe" from my /etc/make.conf CFLAGS that all my compile errors go away. Looking at the reference on the subject this option tells GCC not to create temporary files when compiling but to turn this off if low on RAM. Not s

[gentoo-user] Re: uvesafb - does it require use of initramfs/initrd?

2009-01-17 Thread »Q«
In <58965d8a0901171927q12cac290ocead4eb8409d9...@mail.gmail.com>, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Paul Hartman > wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 6:32 PM, »Q« wrote: > >> On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:42:30 -0600 > >> You mean you are now successfully using uvesafb *without*

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: uvesafb - does it require use of initramfs/initrd?

2009-01-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 6:32 PM, »Q« wrote: >> On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:42:30 -0600 >> Paul Hartman wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Paul Hartman >>> wrote: >>> > Hi, >>> > >>> > Does anyone here use uvesafb? I followed the ins

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: uvesafb - does it require use of initramfs/initrd?

2009-01-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 16 January 2009 19:27:53 Paul Hartman wrote: > >> Now I just need to find a good consolefont that doesn't look >> "squished" in 16:9 aspect ratio. Right now I'm using ter-112n (from >> terminus-fonts) and it's pretty good but still

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: uvesafb - does it require use of initramfs/initrd?

2009-01-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 6:32 PM, »Q« wrote: > On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:42:30 -0600 > Paul Hartman wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Paul Hartman >> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > Does anyone here use uvesafb? I followed the instructions to install >> > uvesafb from this page: >> > >> > http

Re: [gentoo-user] Reconciling users and services

2009-01-17 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Saturday January 17 2009 20:09:31 Grant wrote: > I have some users on a system and some services. How can I make sure > only certain users can log into certain services? Depends on the service and how it is configured. Can you be more specific on what services yo want limited access?

[gentoo-user] Re: uvesafb - does it require use of initramfs/initrd?

2009-01-17 Thread »Q«
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:42:30 -0600 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Paul Hartman > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Does anyone here use uvesafb? I followed the instructions to install > > uvesafb from this page: > > > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/ > > > > However

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash completion annoyance: escapes directory variables.

2009-01-17 Thread Jean-Baptiste Mestelan
2009/1/18 Peter Alfredsen : > Did you try using unstable gentoo-bashcomp too? Yes, exact same result, meaning gentoo specific completion is disabled. Does it work for you folks ?

[gentoo-user] Re: uvesafb - does it require use of initramfs/initrd?

2009-01-17 Thread »Q«
On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 15:32:38 + Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 16 January 2009 19:27:53 Paul Hartman wrote: > > > Now I just need to find a good consolefont that doesn't look > > "squished" in 16:9 aspect ratio. Right now I'm using ter-112n (from > > terminus-fonts) and it's pretty good bu

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash completion annoyance: escapes directory variables.

2009-01-17 Thread Peter Alfredsen
On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:59:38 +0100 "Jean-Baptiste Mestelan" wrote: > BUT (there had to be a 'but') ... > gentoo-bashcomp does not play well with this latest version, meaning > that after re-installing bashcomp, completion does not work after > gentoo commands (emerge, ebuild ...). Did you try us

Re: [gentoo-user] Reconciling users and services

2009-01-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 17 Januar 2009, Grant wrote: > I have some users on a system and some services. How can I make sure > only certain users can log into certain services? Do I need to > explicitly define which users can log into each service? Are there > different types of users so that some can only lo

[gentoo-user] Re: X Program to show tty messages

2009-01-17 Thread Fernando Antunes
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Fernando Antunes wrote: > Hi. > I looking for a way to see/monitor messages sent to the tty when a running > X programs. > I tryed xconsole, but it only works with /dev/console. Does anybody knows > such a program ? > Sorry if my poor english vocabulary didn't hel

Re: [gentoo-user] digikam, gtkam,... what's else?

2009-01-17 Thread Dale
Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > On Sunday 18 January 2009 00:48:25 Dale wrote: > > >> If that many programs can't access your camera, either the system is not >> able to recognize the camera or you have other problems. Maybe you can >> post the related portion of /var/log/messages or whatever log your

[gentoo-user] Reconciling users and services

2009-01-17 Thread Grant
I have some users on a system and some services. How can I make sure only certain users can log into certain services? Do I need to explicitly define which users can log into each service? Are there different types of users so that some can only log into certain services? For example, I know an

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub Error 21: Selected disk does not exist

2009-01-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-01-17, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 17 January 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: >> grub> root (hd0,2) >> >> Error 21: Selected disk does not exist > Did you try tab completion at: > > grub> root ( <--tab Nope, I didn't know about tab completion. And now that I've got grub installed and

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub Error 21: Selected disk does not exist

2009-01-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-01-17, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 05:31:22PM +, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> I was following the "quick install" doc, and everything went >> fine until I got to the section on installing grub. After >> emerging grub, the "root" command failed: >> >> grub> root

Re: [gentoo-user] digikam, gtkam,... what's else?

2009-01-17 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
On Sunday 18 January 2009 00:48:25 Dale wrote: > If that many programs can't access your camera, either the system is not > able to recognize the camera or you have other problems. Maybe you can > post the related portion of /var/log/messages or whatever log your > system uses and we can help. R

Re: [gentoo-user] digikam, gtkam,... what's else?

2009-01-17 Thread Dale
Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > On Saturday 17 January 2009 22:38:43 Dale wrote: > >> Andrew Gaydenko wrote: >> >>> On Saturday 17 January 2009 21:52:19 Dale wrote: >>> It doesn't here either but it is most likely miss configured here since I use gtkam. You may want to try gtkam

Re: [gentoo-user] More on /sys files

2009-01-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 09:13:44 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > I'm in the process of rsyncing an OS to a remote file system. > > when rsyncing /sys to remote /sys... I get piles of errors /sys is a virtual filesystem, like /dev and /proc. Even if you do succeed on copying the contents,you'll only was

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub Error 21: Selected disk does not exist

2009-01-17 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 05:31:22PM +, Grant Edwards wrote: > I was following the "quick install" doc, and everything went > fine until I got to the section on installing grub. After > emerging grub, the "root" command failed: > > grub> root (hd0,2) > > Error 21: Selected disk does not

Re: [gentoo-user] X Program to show tty messages

2009-01-17 Thread Mick
On Saturday 17 January 2009, Fernando Antunes wrote: > Hi. > I looking for a way to see/monitor messages sent to the tty when a running > X programs. > I tryed xconsole, but it only works with /dev/console. Does anybody knows > such a program ? I think you need to comment out /dev/tty12 and enter

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub Error 21: Selected disk does not exist

2009-01-17 Thread Mick
On Saturday 17 January 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: > I just did an install onto a machine with a single internal IDE > hard drive. hda1 is Win2K (NTFS), hda2 is swap, hda3 is Gentoo > root (ext3). > > I was following the "quick install" doc, and everything went > fine until I got to the section on

Re: [gentoo-user] digikam, gtkam,... what's else?

2009-01-17 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
On Saturday 17 January 2009 22:38:43 Dale wrote: > Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > > On Saturday 17 January 2009 21:52:19 Dale wrote: > >> It doesn't here either but it is most likely miss configured here since > >> I use gtkam. You may want to try gtkam if all else fails. Put > >> CAMERAS="canon ptp2"

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash completion annoyance: escapes directory variables.

2009-01-17 Thread Jean-Baptiste Mestelan
2009/1/17 Stroller : > > I don't know much about this, but I wonder if it may be related to some of > Gentoo's 3rd-party Bash-completion features? I have unmerged gentoo-bashcomp, but the problem remains. So, this would put the blame on bash-completion. I am using bash-completion-20060301. Follow

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable remote login for certain user

2009-01-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 17 Januar 2009, Grant wrote: > >> >> an ssh config setting, in shorewall, or somewhere else? > >> > > >> > You can: > >> > > >> > 1) use pam as described by Mike > >> > > >> > or > >> > > >> > 2) use sshd_config "AllowUsers" > >> > >> Thanks a lot, I went with 'AllowUsers root' in sshd_c

Re: [gentoo-user] X Program to show tty messages

2009-01-17 Thread Dale
Fernando Antunes wrote: > Hi. > I looking for a way to see/monitor messages sent to the tty when a > running X programs. > I tryed xconsole, but it only works with /dev/console. Does anybody > knows such a program ? I'm not sure this is what you are looking for but try knotify. * kde-base/knotif

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable remote login for certain user

2009-01-17 Thread Dale
Grant wrote: > an ssh config setting, in shorewall, or somewhere else? > You can: 1) use pam as described by Mike or 2) use sshd_config "AllowUsers" >>> Thanks a lot, I went with 'AllowUsers root' in sshd_config since sshd >>> is t

Re: [gentoo-user] digikam, gtkam,... what's else?

2009-01-17 Thread Dale
Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > On Saturday 17 January 2009 21:52:19 Dale wrote: > >> It doesn't here either but it is most likely miss configured here since >> I use gtkam. You may want to try gtkam if all else fails. Put >> CAMERAS="canon ptp2" in your make.conf and it should work. >> > > Alre

Re: [gentoo-user] digikam, gtkam,... what's else?

2009-01-17 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
On Saturday 17 January 2009 21:52:19 Dale wrote: > Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > > digikam (during this KDE3-to-KDE4 epoch) can not be installed (see Gentoo > > bugs related to 'digikam'), gtkam shows PTP I/O error... Is there other > > software I have missed? I have Canon ixus 40 camera. > > Does one o

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable remote login for certain user

2009-01-17 Thread Grant
>> >> an ssh config setting, in shorewall, or somewhere else? >> > >> > You can: >> > >> > 1) use pam as described by Mike >> > >> > or >> > >> > 2) use sshd_config "AllowUsers" >> >> Thanks a lot, I went with 'AllowUsers root' in sshd_config since sshd >> is the only service running on the system.

[gentoo-user] Re: Restricting Firefox website access

2009-01-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Grant writes: >>> But I had expected Squid + module to be the answer, and no-one >>> mentioned it. A couple of clowns mentioned OpenDNS, and DansGuardian >>> was the only serious reply I got, so you might want to look at that, >>> too. >>> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/user/175114

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable remote login for certain user

2009-01-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 17 Januar 2009, Grant wrote: > >> an ssh config setting, in shorewall, or somewhere else? > > > > You can: > > > > 1) use pam as described by Mike > > > > or > > > > 2) use sshd_config "AllowUsers" > > Thanks a lot, I went with 'AllowUsers root' in sshd_config since sshd > is the only se

Re: [gentoo-user] Restricting Firefox website access

2009-01-17 Thread Matt Harrison
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 17 January 2009 20:12:06 Grant wrote: This requires only that the computer in question has a static IP or a permanent lease (so you always know what it is), and you know the IP of the web sites to be accessed (dig is a very good friend). Allow these, deny everyt

Re: [gentoo-user] digikam, gtkam,... what's else?

2009-01-17 Thread Dale
Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > digikam (during this KDE3-to-KDE4 epoch) can not be installed (see Gentoo > bugs > related to 'digikam'), gtkam shows PTP I/O error... Is there other software I > have missed? I have Canon ixus 40 camera. > > > Does one of these in Konqueror work? media:/camera sys

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable remote login for certain user

2009-01-17 Thread Grant
>> Should I do that via an ssh config setting, in shorewall, or somewhere else? > > I believe the right way would be to add 'account required > pam_access.so' line to /etc/pam.d/system-auth and define login > restrictions in /etc/securety/access.conf (it's also quite well > documented). > > That wa

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable remote login for certain user

2009-01-17 Thread Grant
>> an ssh config setting, in shorewall, or somewhere else? > > You can: > > 1) use pam as described by Mike > > or > > 2) use sshd_config "AllowUsers" Thanks a lot, I went with 'AllowUsers root' in sshd_config since sshd is the only service running on the system. - Grant > or > > 3) What I usua

Re: [gentoo-user] Restricting Firefox website access

2009-01-17 Thread Grant
>>> >> That sounds good, how can I do that? >>> > >>> > iptables module "owner" handles that stuff, just "man iptables" if >>> > you'll have any trouble. >>> > >>> > iptables -A OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner someuser -m tcp --dport http -j >>> > REJECT >>> >>> I brought this to the shorewall list fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Restricting Firefox website access

2009-01-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 17 January 2009 20:12:06 Grant wrote: > > This requires only that the computer in question has a static IP or a > > permanent lease (so you always know what it is), and you know the IP of > > the web sites to be accessed (dig is a very good friend). Allow these, > > deny everything els

Re: [gentoo-user] Restricting Firefox website access

2009-01-17 Thread Grant
>> >> That sounds good, how can I do that? >> > >> > iptables module "owner" handles that stuff, just "man iptables" if >> > you'll have any trouble. >> > >> > iptables -A OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner someuser -m tcp --dport http -j >> > REJECT >> >> I brought this to the shorewall list for config

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Restricting Firefox website access

2009-01-17 Thread Grant
>> But I had expected Squid + module to be the answer, and no-one >> mentioned it. A couple of clowns mentioned OpenDNS, and DansGuardian >> was the only serious reply I got, so you might want to look at that, >> too. >> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/user/175114 >> >> I really should

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash completion annoyance: escapes directory variables.

2009-01-17 Thread felix
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 03:27:04PM +, Stroller wrote: > > On 17 Jan 2009, at 13:23, Jean-Baptiste Mestelan wrote: >> ... >> Now, I am unsure whether this is a feature, but: >> when I tab-complete 'cd ' followed an environment variable, bash >> insists on escaping this variable. >> >> ex: cd $

Re: [gentoo-user] Restricting Firefox website access

2009-01-17 Thread Grant
>> I brought this to the shorewall list for config advice, but I was told: >> >> a) NO PACKET FILTERING FIREWALL (which includes Shorewall) has any >> notion of domains. So filterinG by domain is a non-starter. >> ... >> >> I'd like to restrict the websites one of the computers on my network >> can

[gentoo-user] Grub Error 21: Selected disk does not exist

2009-01-17 Thread Grant Edwards
I just did an install onto a machine with a single internal IDE hard drive. hda1 is Win2K (NTFS), hda2 is swap, hda3 is Gentoo root (ext3). I was following the "quick install" doc, and everything went fine until I got to the section on installing grub. After emerging grub, the "root" command fai

[gentoo-user] Re: Restricting Firefox website access

2009-01-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Stroller writes: > But I had expected Squid + module to be the answer, and no-one > mentioned it. A couple of clowns mentioned OpenDNS, and DansGuardian > was the only serious reply I got, so you might want to look at that, > too. > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/user/175114 > > I r

[gentoo-user] X Program to show tty messages

2009-01-17 Thread Fernando Antunes
Hi. I looking for a way to see/monitor messages sent to the tty when a running X programs. I tryed xconsole, but it only works with /dev/console. Does anybody knows such a program ?

[gentoo-user] Re: More on /sys files

2009-01-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Vladimir Rusinov writes: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> What do I need to do to get remote /sys to mirror local /sys >> Will booting the remote... once the transfer is done cure the problem? >> > > Why do you need to sync /sys? It's completely useless - kernel creat

Re: [gentoo-user] Restricting Firefox website access

2009-01-17 Thread Stroller
On 17 Jan 2009, at 05:34, Grant wrote: ... I brought this to the shorewall list for config advice, but I was told: a) NO PACKET FILTERING FIREWALL (which includes Shorewall) has any notion of domains. So filterinG by domain is a non-starter. ... I'd like to restrict the websites one of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: uvesafb - does it require use of initramfs/initrd?

2009-01-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 16 January 2009 19:27:53 Paul Hartman wrote: > Now I just need to find a good consolefont that doesn't look > "squished" in 16:9 aspect ratio. Right now I'm using ter-112n (from > terminus-fonts) and it's pretty good but still a little too wide for > my taste. Thanks for the pointer to

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash completion annoyance: escapes directory variables.

2009-01-17 Thread Stroller
On 17 Jan 2009, at 13:23, Jean-Baptiste Mestelan wrote: ... Now, I am unsure whether this is a feature, but: when I tab-complete 'cd ' followed an environment variable, bash insists on escaping this variable. ex: cd $ -> cd \$ Which means I end up typing for example # cd \$DOC and this is not

Re: [gentoo-user] More on /sys files

2009-01-17 Thread Vladimir Rusinov
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > What do I need to do to get remote /sys to mirror local /sys > Will booting the remote... once the transfer is done cure the problem? > Why do you need to sync /sys? It's completely useless - kernel creates all files in /sys automatically.

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable remote login for certain user

2009-01-17 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Saturday January 17 2009 03:28:07 Grant wrote: > an ssh config setting, in shorewall, or somewhere else? You can: 1) use pam as described by Mike or 2) use sshd_config "AllowUsers" or 3) What I usually do is, disable pam in ssh so only keys are accepted. Only if you have the key, you can

[gentoo-user] More on /sys files

2009-01-17 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm in the process of rsyncing an OS to a remote file system. when rsyncing /sys to remote /sys... I get piles of errors of the form: WARNING: devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/ACPI_CPU:00/power/wakeup failed verification -- update discarded (will try again). This is after a session failed so I'm

[gentoo-user] Re: uvesafb - does it require use of initramfs/initrd?

2009-01-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Nikos Chantziaras writes: > rea...@newsguy.com wrote: >> Paul Hartman writes: >> >>> I'm ashamed to admit I made the most basic mistake. I compiled uvesafb >>> as a module. Oops! Compiled it as "Y" instead of "M" and now I have a >>> pair of Tux sitting atop my kernel boot screen and no more 80x

[gentoo-user] Re: Append string on Kernel builds

2009-01-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Robert Bridge writes: > On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:36:42 -0600 > rea...@newsguy.com wrote: >> What I asked was if there is some tricky syntax I could use on that >> kernel setting that would do: linux-2.6.26-gentoo-$HOST-N >> Where N is an incremented number every time I build the kernel without >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with Kde 4.1.X

2009-01-17 Thread Nicola
Alle sabato 17 gennaio 2009, Chris Walters ha scritto: > Nicola wrote: > > Hi, > > I have searched on google and bugtrack for weeks for people with a > > similar problem with the new kde 4.1.X but I didn't find anything. I have > > some problem even to describe the problem beacause I don't know how

[gentoo-user] digikam, gtkam,... what's else?

2009-01-17 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
digikam (during this KDE3-to-KDE4 epoch) can not be installed (see Gentoo bugs related to 'digikam'), gtkam shows PTP I/O error... Is there other software I have missed? I have Canon ixus 40 camera.

Re: [gentoo-user] Permissions of files in /sys/

2009-01-17 Thread pk
Momesso Andrea wrote: > Hmmm... Having not recived any answers might mean that my suspects are > right and there is no way to create an udev rule for my scope. > > I think I will have to change those permissions manually at boot time You can make udev run a *sh script... man udev, locate RUN k

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem with Kde 4.1.X

2009-01-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Nicola wrote: Hi, I have searched on google and bugtrack for weeks for people with a similar problem with the new kde 4.1.X but I didn't find anything. I have some problem even to describe the problem beacause I don't know how to figure out what is wrong with my system. The real problem is tha

[gentoo-user] Re: uvesafb - does it require use of initramfs/initrd?

2009-01-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Paul Hartman writes: I'm ashamed to admit I made the most basic mistake. I compiled uvesafb as a module. Oops! Compiled it as "Y" instead of "M" and now I have a pair of Tux sitting atop my kernel boot screen and no more 80x25 horror. :) Is there some difference in

[gentoo-user] Bash completion annoyance: escapes directory variables.

2009-01-17 Thread Jean-Baptiste Mestelan
Hello all. Now, I am unsure whether this is a feature, but: when I tab-complete 'cd ' followed an environment variable, bash insists on escaping this variable. ex: cd $ -> cd \$ Which means I end up typing for example # cd \$DOC and this is not resolved right. If the variable path is not prece

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Append string on Kernel builds

2009-01-17 Thread Robert Bridge
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:36:42 -0600 rea...@newsguy.com wrote: > What I asked was if there is some tricky syntax I could use on that > kernel setting that would do: linux-2.6.26-gentoo-$HOST-N > Where N is an incremented number every time I build the kernel without > running `mrproper'. Not quite w

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with Kde 4.1.X

2009-01-17 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Nicola wrote: > Hi, > I have searched on google and bugtrack for weeks for people with a similar > problem with the new kde 4.1.X but I didn't find anything. I have some > problem even to describe the problem beacause I don't know how to figure ou

[gentoo-user] Problem with Kde 4.1.X

2009-01-17 Thread Nicola
Hi, I have searched on google and bugtrack for weeks for people with a similar problem with the new kde 4.1.X but I didn't find anything. I have some problem even to describe the problem beacause I don't know how to figure out what is wrong with my system. The real problem is that kde 4.1.X did

Re: [gentoo-user] Restricting Firefox website access

2009-01-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 17 January 2009 06:30:45 Mike Kazantsev wrote: > And since you're using gentoo you can also pass rsync traffic through > a proxy. Rsync (as well as wget and lots of other tools) will use proxy > automatically if RSYNC_PROXY (http_proxy/ftp_proxy for other apps, > lower- and uppercase)

Re: [gentoo-user] Restricting Firefox website access

2009-01-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 17 January 2009 07:34:59 Grant wrote: > >> That sounds good, how can I do that? > > > > iptables module "owner" handles that stuff, just "man iptables" if > > you'll have any trouble. > > > > iptables -A OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner someuser -m tcp --dport http -j > > REJECT > > I broug