Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rpm or deb package installs

2015-02-22 Thread R0b0t1
> For deb packages, you can use binutils' ar; there's no need for dpkg. > (IIRC, if you use rpm2tar, you don't need rpm installed unlike > rpm2cpio, but I'm not 100% sure.) > You are right, rpm2targz doesn't require rpm to be installed. I found I already had it installed yesterday (via libreoffice

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files

2015-02-22 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday 22 February 2015 20:57:43 Dale wrote: >> I think you need this: >> >> app-admin/logrotate >> >> Then I think a cron package is needed to run that, set to daily here I >> think. > It comes with logrotate: > > /etc/cron.daily/logrotate > The script does but if you d

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files

2015-02-22 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 22 February 2015 20:57:43 Dale wrote: > I think you need this: > > app-admin/logrotate > > Then I think a cron package is needed to run that, set to daily here I > think. It comes with logrotate: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate -- Rgds Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files

2015-02-22 Thread Dale
lee wrote: > IIUC, syslog-ng handles rotating the logs. Do I need to do something > to make it rotate them? I think you need this: app-admin/logrotate Then I think a cron package is needed to run that, set to daily here I think. Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] saslauthd startup parameters

2015-02-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 23 Feb 2015 01:07:55 +0100, lee wrote: > > There's probably a saslauthd file in /etc/conf.d > > Hm, I need to check again to be sure whether there is or isn't. > > If there is, then how is it included into the startup script? And why > isn't there anything in /etc/default for it, wher

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files

2015-02-22 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 6:41 PM, lee wrote: > > To me it is one of the good reasons, and an important one. Plain text > can usually always be read without further ado, be it from rescue > systems you booted or with software available on different operating > systems. It can be also be processed

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files

2015-02-22 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 6:48 PM, lee wrote: > > Stroller writes: > > > On Wed, 18 February 2015, at 8:40 pm, lee wrote: > > The log file seem to be some sort of binary that doesn't display too > well in less, and there doesn't seem to be any way to read them. > >>> > >>> I believe

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files

2015-02-22 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 6:41 PM, lee wrote: > > Neil Bothwick writes: > > > On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 21:49:54 +0100, lee wrote: > > > >> > I wonder if the OP is using systemd and trying to read the journal > >> > files? > >> > >> Nooo, I hate systemd ... > >> > >> What good are log files you can't rea

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files

2015-02-22 Thread lee
"Jan Sever" writes: > On 02/19/2015 08:02 PM, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: >> On Tuesday, February 17, 2015 7:26:05 PM lee wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> how do you read the log files when using syslog-ng? >>> >>> The log file seem to be some sort of binary that doesn't display too >>> well in less, and the

Re: [gentoo-user] saslauthd startup parameters

2015-02-22 Thread lee
Adam Carter writes: >> >> where are we supposed to set the parameters for saslauthd? >> >> I edited /etc/init.d/saslauthd, and that's probably not the right place >> to put them? >> > > There's probably a saslauthd file in /etc/conf.d Hm, I need to check again to be sure whether there is or isn'

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files

2015-02-22 Thread lee
Neil Bothwick writes: > On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 21:49:54 +0100, lee wrote: > >> > I wonder if the OP is using systemd and trying to read the journal >> > files? >> >> Nooo, I hate systemd ... >> >> What good are log files you can't read? > > You can't read syslog-ng log files without some reading

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files

2015-02-22 Thread lee
Stroller writes: > On Wed, 18 February 2015, at 8:40 pm, lee wrote: The log file seem to be some sort of binary that doesn't display too well in less, and there doesn't seem to be any way to read them. >>> >>> I believe this may be bug 406623. >>> >>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/sh

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: repos.conf migration lost overlay priority

2015-02-22 Thread Daniel Frey
On 02/22/2015 03:26 AM, lee wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras writes: > >> On a side note, someone should inform the portage devs that higher >> priorities should equal lower numbers. Don't do it the opposite way to >> the rest of the world, please :-P > > Why should "low" mean "high"? The rest of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory leak

2015-02-22 Thread Matti Nykyri
> On Feb 22, 2015, at 12:53, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > >> On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 11:05:59AM +0100, Alain Didierjean wrote: >> My so called memory, located somewhere in what's left of my old brain. >> >> I can't remember nor figure out how to set kdm keymap to azerty. >> Help welcome, > > I s

Re: [gentoo-user] how to solve this dependency problem?

2015-02-22 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 22 February 2015 00:35:59 lee wrote: > how would I solve this dependency problem: > > media-libs/openjpeg:2 > > (media-libs/openjpeg-2.1.0:2/7::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) > conflicts with (app-text/mupdf-1.3_p20140118:0/1.3::gentoo, installed) ^ >^^^ > I

Re: [gentoo-user] how to solve this dependency problem?

2015-02-22 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 1:35 AM, lee wrote: > Hi, > > how would I solve this dependency problem: > > > media-libs/openjpeg:2 > > (media-libs/openjpeg-2.1.0:2/7::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) > conflicts with > (app-text/mupdf-1.3_p20140118:0/1.3::gentoo, installed) > ^

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory leak

2015-02-22 Thread Mick
On Sunday 22 Feb 2015 14:53:19 Alain Didierjean wrote: > - Mail original - > > > De: "Mick" > > À: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > Envoyé: Dimanche 22 Février 2015 12:19:25 > > Objet: Re: [gentoo-user] Memory leak > > > > On Sunday 22 Feb 2015 11:05:59 Alain Didierjean wrote: > > > My s

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory leak

2015-02-22 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 5:05 AM, Alain Didierjean wrote: > My so called memory, located somewhere in what's left of my old brain. > > I can't remember nor figure out how to set kdm keymap to azerty. > Help welcome, > Just a suggestion that more accurate subject lines are more likely to get you he

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: repos.conf migration lost overlay priority

2015-02-22 Thread lee
Nikos Chantziaras writes: > On a side note, someone should inform the portage devs that higher > priorities should equal lower numbers. Don't do it the opposite way to > the rest of the world, please :-P Why should "low" mean "high"? The rest of the world usually considers "high" as high and "l

Re: [gentoo-user] nomachine on Gentoo

2015-02-22 Thread lee
Joseph writes: > Did anybody install "nomashine" on Gentoo? > I run onto this instruction, but did not try it yet: > http://www.thejach.com/view/2014/9/installing_nomachine_on_gentoo > > I'm running "nxclient-3.5xxx" and "nxserver-freenx-0.7xxx" > and I'm afraid something will stop working on my

[gentoo-user] how to solve this dependency problem?

2015-02-22 Thread lee
Hi, how would I solve this dependency problem: media-libs/openjpeg:2 (media-libs/openjpeg-2.1.0:2/7::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) conflicts with

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory leak

2015-02-22 Thread Alain Didierjean
- Mail original - > De: "Mick" > À: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Envoyé: Dimanche 22 Février 2015 12:19:25 > Objet: Re: [gentoo-user] Memory leak > > On Sunday 22 Feb 2015 11:05:59 Alain Didierjean wrote: > > My so called memory, located somewhere in what's left of my old > > brain. >

Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to my 2nd eth0?

2015-02-22 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 11:52 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > My DSL router modem is at 192.168.123.254. I have an HDHomerun > network TV tuner that insists on coming up somewhere in the 169.254.X.Y > block. Up until upgrading from 32 to 64 bits, I was able to see a 2nd > eth0 (i.e. eth0:1) using the f

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rpm or deb package installs

2015-02-22 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 1:30 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > rpms and debs are both cpio files so the easy way is to unpack them and > see what's going on: > > rpm2cpio name.rpm | cpio -iv --make-directories > dpkg -x somepackage.deb ~/temp/ For deb packages, you can use binutils' ar; there's no nee

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot up error messages. Init thingy needed now??

2015-02-22 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 3:13 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Dale wrote: >> >> My partitions are something like this. Normal partitions, /boot and >> root itself. /usr and /var on LVM. > > Gentoo dropped support for booting without mounting /usr early in boot > a while ba

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [NOTE] New default behavior in latest nfs-utils (1.3.2-r1)

2015-02-22 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 7:05 PM, walt wrote: > On 02/03/2015 03:29 AM, Tom H wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 8:46 PM, walt wrote: >>> >>> This morning I got "waiting on lockfile foo in /usr/portage/distfiles" >>> "locking not available" from my nfs3 clients when trying to download >>> needed sour

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory leak

2015-02-22 Thread Mick
On Sunday 22 Feb 2015 11:05:59 Alain Didierjean wrote: > My so called memory, located somewhere in what's left of my old brain. > > I can't remember nor figure out how to set kdm keymap to azerty. > Help welcome, Have a look in /usr/share/keymaps/i386/azerty/ If your desired keymap is say: fr

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory leak

2015-02-22 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 11:05:59AM +0100, Alain Didierjean wrote: > My so called memory, located somewhere in what's left of my old brain. > > I can't remember nor figure out how to set kdm keymap to azerty. > Help welcome, I set mine in an xorg config file to get qwertz not only in KDM but all o

[gentoo-user] Memory leak

2015-02-22 Thread Alain Didierjean
My so called memory, located somewhere in what's left of my old brain. I can't remember nor figure out how to set kdm keymap to azerty. Help welcome,

Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to my 2nd eth0?

2015-02-22 Thread Mick
On Sunday 22 Feb 2015 04:52:34 Walter Dnes wrote: > My DSL router modem is at 192.168.123.254. I have an HDHomerun > network TV tuner that insists on coming up somewhere in the 169.254.X.Y > block. Up until upgrading from 32 to 64 bits, I was able to see a 2nd > eth0 (i.e. eth0:1) using the fol