Re: [gentoo-user] OT ( was : Cannot boot 2.6.21-gentoo-r4)

2007-07-20 Thread Ian Hastie
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:49:04 +0200 Luigi Pinna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alle giovedì 19 luglio 2007, Billy McCann ha scritto: > [...] > > > 2. Copy old .config and "make". In this case you miss any > > > new kernel options. > [...] > > That is no true. > If you copy your old .config a

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/modules.d how to understand

2007-07-16 Thread Ian Hastie
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:46:27 +0200 (CEST) Helmut Jarausch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to understand the "magic" of files in /etc/modules.d > How to write such an 'alias' line. > Can anybody point me to a HowTo? Have you read the manual page for modprobe.conf? That will tell you all the

Re: [gentoo-user] debugging init scripts

2007-07-15 Thread Ian Hastie
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:37:26 +0930 Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it's a funny workaround, but sometimes you have to type > > cat file | less > > to stop less being "intelligent". Or you could disable it's input > preprocessor: > > LESSOPEN="" less /usr/bin/echo-client-2 Or you ca

Re: [gentoo-user] ot Light Scribe

2007-03-15 Thread Ian Hastie
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:36:19 GMT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have recently upgraded my dvd burner which has the light > scribe fuctionality(being able to burn the label into the top of the > disc with the laser) i have searched everywhere but havent been able > to find anything to support

Re: [gentoo-user] My Gentoo is too secure ... ;)

2006-03-23 Thread Ian Hastie
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 22:52:58 +0100 Antoine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > so that means log into root before you run X. > # vi groups (or whatever the "correct" way of doing it is) vigr is the right editor for the group file and vipw for passwd. The -s switch makes them edit the shadow file. As t

Re: [gentoo-user] leap second

2005-12-25 Thread Ian Hastie
On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 06:59:20 -0500 Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The details are in Appx E : it seems a warning bit is set manually > by the operator of the primary time server during the previous day Seems like I should have looked more carefully. > & one supposes -- hopes (smile) --

Re: [gentoo-user] leap second

2005-12-25 Thread Ian Hastie
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 19:33:26 -0500 Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There will be a leap second between 051231 235959 & 060101 00 . > Does anyone know how the time servers used by NTP handle this ? > Is it just left to the local machine to realise it's 1 sec fast > & adjust over a fe

Re: [gentoo-user] GNU Time

2005-09-20 Thread Ian Hastie
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 01:53:58 -0300 Norberto Bensa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Justin Hart wrote: > > The version of time included doesn't seem to include the -o switch, > > allowing the output to be put in a file. > > > > Is there a way to get this? > > You want sys-process/time Also time is

Re: [gentoo-user] My movie clips have lost their colour

2005-09-03 Thread Ian Hastie
On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 13:39:39 +0800 William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, but Ive just fixed it - well rather its fixed but I dont know > the cause. I recompiled a number of video programs and related stuff, > and after a reboot its all back to normal. The reboot would have fixed

Re: [gentoo-user] My movie clips have lost their colour

2005-09-02 Thread Ian Hastie
On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 19:47:56 +0800 William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Ive recently rebuilt a few things and Ive just noticed that my > movies (the few clips that I have are mostly MS AFS and avi are all > greyscale) have no colour! This occurs with xine and totem - mplayer > is go

Re: [gentoo-user] Which drivers to use for audio and video?

2005-09-02 Thread Ian Hastie
On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 01:18:00 -0400 "Walter Dnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did some RTFM, and it appears that emerging 32-bit apps requires a > bit of a hassle. You basically have to install a 32-bit chroot > environment, which you drop into to do the 32-bit emerges. This is a hassle, but

Re: [gentoo-user] booting into single mode

2005-09-02 Thread Ian Hastie
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:07:28 +0200 Renat Golubchyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes. Append "softlevel=single" to kernel boot parameters. Do you know what the difference is, if any, between that and bootlevel? -- Ian. EOM -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot load libc, permission denied

2005-08-27 Thread Ian Hastie
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:44:47 -0700 David Busby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A. Khattri wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, David Busby wrote: > > > > > >>cdrtx / # fcrontab -e > >>fcrontab: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot > >>open shared object file: Permission denied > >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread Ian Hastie
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 12:38:42 -0400 Michael Crute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All you really need is an account with sudo rights then `sudo passwd > root` and your all set, else your suck with singleuser. This is a bad idea as it creates two effective root passwords. One of them even has the abi

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - looking for reference research software

2005-07-31 Thread Ian Hastie
On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 10:44:13 +0200 Martin S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've looked at freshmeat and googled a bit (my terms seem a bit vague) I just used the search term "bibliographic" on Freshmeat and it seemed to come up with some stuff you may find useful. Then there's always esearch $ es

Re: [gentoo-user] question about revdep-rebuild

2005-07-10 Thread Ian Hastie
On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 15:37:06 +0200 Renat Golubchyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 15:18:53 +0200 (CEST) Tamas Sarga > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I confused about revdep-rebuild. I thought that revdep-rebuild > > without any parameter would investigate all of my bin,