Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread John J. Foster
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012, at 08:22 AM, John J. Foster wrote: > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012, at 07:59 AM, Dale wrote: > > John J. Foster wrote: > > > Dale - I've been using Fastmail since 2005. Absolutely no issues at all. > > > I do pay for the enhanced account. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread John J. Foster
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012, at 07:59 AM, Dale wrote: > John J. Foster wrote: > > Dale - I've been using Fastmail since 2005. Absolutely no issues at all. > > I do pay for the enhanced account. > > > > Good luck > > festus > > > > > Do they allo

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread John J. Foster
Dale - I've been using Fastmail since 2005. Absolutely no issues at all. I do pay for the enhanced account. Good luck festus On Thu, Jan 26, 2012, at 01:16 AM, Dale wrote: > Hi list, > > I ran across this news item about Google: > > http://alturl.com/s7xi5 > > The long URL is below. I'm sort

Re: [gentoo-user] Previous system uptime - not Gentoo specific

2010-05-13 Thread John J. Foster
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 05:18:08PM -0600, John J. Foster wrote: > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 01:02:01AM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > > John J. Foster writes: > > > > > I lost utility power for 2 hours today while at work (on my home > > > machine). UPS probably hel

Re: [gentoo-user] Previous system uptime - not Gentoo specific

2010-05-13 Thread John J. Foster
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 01:02:01AM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > John J. Foster writes: > > > I lost utility power for 2 hours today while at work (on my home > > machine). UPS probably help for 20 minutes, or so. Just out of > > curiousity, is there a way to determine p

[gentoo-user] Previous system uptime - not Gentoo specific

2010-05-13 Thread John J. Foster
I lost utility power for 2 hours today while at work (on my home machine). UPS probably help for 20 minutes, or so. Just out of curiousity, is there a way to determine previous system uptime. I know I was getting close to 11 months, which would be a record for me. Thanks, festus -- It is not unu

Re: [gentoo-user] Making sure I am a good netizen and secure.

2009-09-05 Thread John J. Foster
Hey Willie - a 67 line sig ? festus -- I just want to break even. pgpu1Of2XUcCi.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't extend an LVM2 volume

2009-01-13 Thread John J. Foster
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 09:16:40PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:16:10 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Also have a look at the physical device the pv lives on. Do the device > > size and the pv data about it's size match? > > This isn't a size problem, in that case lvresi

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't extend an LVM2 volume

2009-01-13 Thread John J. Foster
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 07:53:02PM +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Dienstag, 13. Januar 2009 19:31:33 schrieb John J. Foster: > > In trying to extend a volume I get the following error: > > > > mockingbird ~ # lvextend -v -L400G /dev/vg00/data > > Finding volume g

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't extend an LVM2 volume

2009-01-13 Thread John J. Foster
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 08:44:38PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 13 January 2009 20:31:33 John J. Foster wrote: > > In trying to extend a volume I get the following error: > > > > mockingbird ~ # lvextend -v -L400G /dev/vg00/data > > Finding volume g

[gentoo-user] Can't extend an LVM2 volume

2009-01-13 Thread John J. Foster
In trying to extend a volume I get the following error: mockingbird ~ # lvextend -v -L400G /dev/vg00/data Finding volume group vg00 Archiving volume group "vg00" metadata (seqno 22). Extending logical volume data to 400.00 GB Creating volume group backup "/etc/lvm/backup/vg00" (seqn

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-21 Thread John J. Foster
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 09:32:26AM +0800, Mark David Dumlao wrote: > I think you're missing the point. I never asked the community to > change its rules. I'm only saying that these particular rules were > invisible, and there's no way to find out about it, and that's going > to be a problem for any

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] gentoo vmware guest on winXP

2008-12-08 Thread John J. Foster
On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 08:56:06PM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > "John J. Foster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 12:56:39PM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: >> > >> However my attempts consistently break out with the mes

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] gentoo vmware guest on winXP

2008-12-08 Thread John J. Foster
On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 12:56:39PM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > I've been monkeying around with a vmware appliance of gentoo.2008.0 > from July. Downloaded from bagvapp.com. > > It fired right up inside vmware running on winXP with no problems. > > But now updating I'm finding I cannot get a new

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting Putty window title to currently executing command

2008-12-06 Thread John J. Foster
On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 03:58:36PM -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 3:11 PM, John J. Foster > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I seem to remember ssh'ing into an old Gentoo box and having the window > > title change to the currently executin

[gentoo-user] Setting Putty window title to currently executing command

2008-12-06 Thread John J. Foster
I seem to remember ssh'ing into an old Gentoo box and having the window title change to the currently executing command. For instance, when emerging something that had 10 packages, the title would show something like emerging (4 of 10) perl_something_or_other I'm not sure whether I was using scr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Email client for a SLOW connection

2008-10-21 Thread John J. Foster
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 03:42:04PM +, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2008-10-21, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm on an excruciatingly slow internet connection right now. > > The email client seems to be the major productivity blocker. > > Thunderbird spends a lot of time loading or whate

Re: [gentoo-user] [getting on-topic I think] dial-up, switching isp's and other thoughts.

2008-09-16 Thread John J. Foster
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 02:32:54AM -0500, Dale wrote: > For me, I have the following biggies: > > Inbox: ~660 > Gentoo-dev: ~13,000 > Gentoo-user: ~27,000 > Kde-linux list: ~3,000 > LVM: ~2,200 > Hey Dale - just out of curiosity, why do you store mailing lists when they're all available online?

Re: [gentoo-user] I've hosed portage

2008-03-20 Thread John J. Foster
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 10:05:54AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:51:05 -0600, John J. Foster wrote: > > > > You could unpack a stage 3 tarball to a temporary location then copy > > > the portage files over. If you have portage-utils or equery ins

Re: [gentoo-user] I've hosed portage

2008-03-19 Thread John J. Foster
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 08:29:57AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:31:29 -0600, John J. Foster wrote: > > > This was installed in an empty VM and it would be real slow to recompile > > all of Gentoo. There has to be a way to fix it. > > You could unp

Re: [gentoo-user] I've hosed portage

2008-03-17 Thread John J. Foster
Please !!! This was installed in an empty VM and it would be real slow to recompile all of Gentoo. There has to be a way to fix it. Pointers and links greatly appreciated. TIA, festus On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 07:22:41PM -0600, John J. Foster wrote: > I unmasked portage-2.2_pre4 to see if

Re: [gentoo-user] I've hosed portage

2008-03-17 Thread John J. Foster
Chris, Strong and Emil - most excellent suggestions, and I'd love to try them out as soon as someone helps me get portage working again! Thanks, festus pgpAMIgASTf6H.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] I've hosed portage

2008-03-16 Thread John J. Foster
I unmasked portage-2.2_pre4 to see if it would help with the extreme slowness of portage updating of its cache during a sync. I had also previously emerged cdb to try to help with that also. Anyway, I'm not really sure what state my portage is in right now, except that now every emerge command retu

Re: [gentoo-user] date and gentoo running under vmplayer

2008-03-07 Thread John J. Foster
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 09:28:01AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Just for interest, what are the Hz settings on host and guest? Guest - Gentoo - now set at 250Hz and working just fine Host - XP Professional SP2 - I don't have a clue. How do I find out? Thanks, festus > -- > Alan McKinnon > alan

Re: [gentoo-user] date and gentoo running under vmplayer

2008-03-06 Thread John J. Foster
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 08:00:00PM -0700, John J. Foster wrote: > On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 08:25:59PM -0700, John J. Foster wrote: > > Hi all - it's been awhile > > > > This past week I've set up Gentoo running in a VM built by > > http://www.easyvmx.c

Re: [gentoo-user] date and gentoo running under vmplayer

2008-03-06 Thread John J. Foster
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 08:25:59PM -0700, John J. Foster wrote: > Hi all - it's been awhile > > This past week I've set up Gentoo running in a VM built by > http://www.easyvmx.com/ under a XP host. Installation and configuration > went fine. I normally leave the VM runn

[gentoo-user] date and gentoo running under vmplayer

2008-03-05 Thread John J. Foster
Hi all - it's been awhile This past week I've set up Gentoo running in a VM built by http://www.easyvmx.com/ under a XP host. Installation and configuration went fine. I normally leave the VM running when I walk away from the machine, but when I return, time is way off. Shutting down Gentoo & the

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating eix bombs

2007-06-06 Thread John J. Foster
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 10:41:09PM +0200, Vaeth wrote: > > > I resynced this morning, but nothing has changed. > > Resync once more. The patch was included in the tree today > without a revbump. Thanks you so much Vaeth! festus -- It is not unusual for those at the wrong end of the club to hav

[gentoo-user] Updating eix bombs

2007-06-06 Thread John J. Foster
Yesterday morning while updating world I got the following errors during the emerge of app-portage/eix: i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -o update-eix update-eix.o varsreader.o global.o setmask.o database/libdatabase.a portage/libportage.a portage/conf/libporta

Re: [gentoo-user] Wha' hoppen to firestarter?

2007-06-06 Thread John J. Foster
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 06:35:18AM -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > That helps some, but in net-firewall I'm finding a lot of unstable > packages, and no really good idea which ones will be the best for a > personal firewall, let alone which ones are best supported upstream so > this doesn't h

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't start X after a few months of updates

2007-05-22 Thread John J. Foster
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:03:23PM -0500, deface wrote: > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers#Module_Requirement_Mismatch > > On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 22:52 -0400, John J. Foster wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > My system had been happily chugging along with X and KD

[gentoo-user] Can't start X after a few months of updates

2007-05-21 Thread John J. Foster
Hi, My system had been happily chugging along with X and KDE running for a few months nonstop. Every Saturday I'd run an update world. But, I never restarted X and obviously never rebooted. Yesterday we had a 3 hour power outage that my UPS couldn't keep up with, and when I finally got power back,

Re: [gentoo-user] daylight savings time [Slightly OT]

2007-03-02 Thread John J. Foster
Anyone else having trouble with the format (^M's) in Ennis' email? On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 09:29:16AM -0500, McCaffrey, Ennis wrote: > > > -Original Message- > From: Hans-Werner Hilse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 7:35 AM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.or

Re: [gentoo-user] Mails getting lost?

2007-02-06 Thread John J. Foster
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 12:26:46PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > Are my mails to the list getting to anyone else? I'm not seeing them > myself, and I wanted to make sure they weren't disappearing into the > ether. I checked that I could email myself directly, so I don't think > it's a

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypt USB flash drive

2007-02-05 Thread John J. Foster
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 04:09:45PM -0500, Thomas Lingefelt wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Hi. I'm looking for a portable (Linux, *BSD, Mac, Win) way to carry > around encrypted files on a USB drive. I would like for the > encryption/decryption to be transparent to

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get php4

2007-01-09 Thread John J. Foster
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 09:38:34AM -0500, John covici wrote: > OK, that did it -- now I have to find out why it wants a bunch of X > libraries, but that is another question for another day. > > thanks much guys for all your help. > Thanks so much for listening to others concerning group etiquette

Re: FW: [gentoo-user] Protecting a package in package.keywords?

2006-12-15 Thread John J. Foster
> > Am I the only person getting these emails? > Not any more. pgpjwgktqDQvL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] changing CHOST

2006-09-09 Thread John J. Foster
On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 05:34:55PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > > Me thinks the mail list bug has struck again. Let me know if you > don't get this one. ;-> > Just an FYI - I didn't get your other mail. festus -- In all the millions of years dinosaurs roamed this planet, did any of them feel

Re: [gentoo-user] Why you use Gentoo

2006-09-08 Thread John J. Foster
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 06:33:40PM -0500, Colleen Beamer wrote: > > I'm not, but I *could* be a grandmother, so I guess I'm not the average > Well, I *couldn't* be a grandmother, because I am a grandfather who has pretty much no clue what average is. festus -- In all the millions of years dinos

Re: [gentoo-user] Why you use Gentoo

2006-09-07 Thread John J. Foster
[user] source-based control documentaion -- In all the millions of years dinosaurs roamed this planet, did any of them feel the need to invent, say, nuclear weapons? Mickeyz pgpZU6ZPkxR79.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] former regular contributor here

2006-08-22 Thread John J. Foster
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 06:29:27PM +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: > That is not right. Her last posting on my harddrive is dated 29th of March > this year. You're right, my eyes are obviously deceiving me! -- In all the millions of years dinosaurs roamed this planet, did any of them feel the need to in

[gentoo-user] [OT] former regular contributor here

2006-08-22 Thread John J. Foster
Anybody know whatever happened to Holly? She hasn't been around for about a year and a half, and I miss her rambling dissertations. festus -- In all the millions of years dinosaurs roamed this planet, did any of them feel the need to invent, say, nuclear weapons? Mickeyz pgp8qQkDi8U5F

[gentoo-user] [OT] Missing more mails than ever

2006-08-17 Thread John J. Foster
Does anyone here know who runs this list? The number of missing emails is running quite high lately, and some threads are getting hard to follow, depending on the respondents quoting and snipping style. I seem to have missed almost half of the discussion on domainname going on. I know everyone isn

Re: [gentoo-user] Guidance on encrypting my /home

2006-08-14 Thread John J. Foster
On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 11:59:48PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > > If you want to get started on this before your new laptop arrives, I > suggest starting with the initramfs and encrypting swap only. You > should be able to create an initramfs that will setup the mapping and > do the swapon before

Re: [gentoo-user] Guidance on encrypting my /home

2006-08-13 Thread John J. Foster
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 06:32:49PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > On 8/12/06, John J. Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Do you encrypt your home directory? > > I encrypt everything except /boot. > > >What apps and/or combination of apps do you use, and why? >

[gentoo-user] Guidance on encrypting my /home

2006-08-12 Thread John J. Foster
Hi, I've been playing with encrypting my home directory using cfs and following the instructions at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Encrypt_Your_Home_Directory_Using_CFS I guess it mostly works, although I've had cfsd die randomly a few times in a couple days. It sorta bothers me that app-crypt/cfs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is available besides samba

2006-08-11 Thread John J. Foster
Please turn off your html. Thanks, festus -- In all the millions of years dinosaurs roamed this planet, did any of them feel the need to invent, say, nuclear weapons? Mickeyz pgp3M1b95hde0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mail client recommendation?

2006-08-07 Thread John J. Foster
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 12:33:16PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > > My recommendation is setting up an imap server and accessing your emails > with whatever client comes to hand. Divorce the mbox/maildir > storage choice from your client. > If you don't want to use your ISP's IMAP services for whatev

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mail client recommendation?

2006-08-05 Thread John J. Foster
On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 06:18:02PM -0700, Grant wrote: > Which mail client do you guys use? I'm looking for something > lightweight. I use xfce4. the mutt -- Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy. pgpOWhw8G1vDe.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Test for X from cli

2006-08-01 Thread John J. Foster
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 11:37:17PM +0400, dg wrote: > On Tuesday 01 August 2006 23:20, John J. Foster wrote: > > One possible solution would be to check the value of $TERM variable... If it > is 'xterm' then you're probably in the X terminal emulator. "probably&

Re: [gentoo-user] Test for X from cli

2006-08-01 Thread John J. Foster
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 03:43:12PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > 060801 John J. Foster wrote: > > In a bash script, how can I test whether the script itself is being run > > from a virtual terminal, or from an emulator like konsole within X? > > 'echo $DISPLAY' r

[gentoo-user] Test for X from cli

2006-08-01 Thread John J. Foster
Good afternoon, In a bash script, how can I test whether the script itself is being run from a virtual terminal, or from an emulator like konsole within X? Thanks, festus -- Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy. pgpGfTreHkh94.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] harmful "Reply-To" Munging on Gentoo mailing lists

2006-08-01 Thread John J. Foster
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 06:21:03AM -0400, John J. Foster wrote: > On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 09:00:20AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:23:18 -0400, John J. Foster wrote: > > > > > > My preferred MUA (mutt) is smart > > > > enough and con

Re: [gentoo-user] harmful "Reply-To" Munging on Gentoo mailing lists

2006-08-01 Thread John J. Foster
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 09:00:20AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:23:18 -0400, John J. Foster wrote: > > > > My preferred MUA (mutt) is smart > > > enough and configurable enough to treat mailing lists properly. > > > > > Here, here

Re: [gentoo-user] harmful "Reply-To" Munging on Gentoo mailing lists

2006-07-31 Thread John J. Foster
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 08:43:09PM -0400, Willie Wong wrote: > > My preferred MUA (mutt) is smart > enough and configurable enough to treat mailing lists properly. > Here, here. -- Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy. pgpa1ta5KFB8F.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] grub passwords - how do I limit OS selection?

2006-07-30 Thread John J. Foster
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 04:49:42PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 7/30/06, John J. Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks very much. It's a great solution for what I need. > > It does limit the use of Windows, which is what I wanted, until the > password is typed

Re: [gentoo-user] grub passwords - how do I limit OS selection?

2006-07-30 Thread John J. Foster
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 04:59:34PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote: > On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 07:09:41AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like to limit OS selection at boot time. The machine has > > Gentoo and Windows. Gentoo *must* be the booted OS unless a passw

Re: [gentoo-user] grub passwords - how do I limit OS selection?

2006-07-30 Thread John J. Foster
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 07:09:41AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, > I would like to limit OS selection at boot time. The machine has > Gentoo and Windows. Gentoo *must* be the booted OS unless a password > is entered. I have tried the password feature in grub but it does not > implement this fea

[gentoo-user] [OT] - Waypoint management & Garmin eTrex GPS

2006-07-27 Thread John J. Foster
Good morning, I'm looking for recommendations for waypoint management software for my Garmin eTrex (basic GPS functions, not mapping). All I really want to be able to do is 2 things. 1. Transfer UTM coordinates derived from topo maps to GPS waypoints. 2. Export waypoints in GPS to any number

[gentoo-user] Anyone know why sys-apps/qtparted went masked

2006-07-26 Thread John J. Foster
A couple days ago I noticed this: garbanzo:/root # emerge -auvDNt world These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating world dependencies | !!! Packages for the following atoms are either all !!! masked or don't exist: sys-apps/qtparted ... done! garbanzo:/root # ei

Re: [gentoo-user] Big thanks to spyderous

2006-07-05 Thread John J. Foster
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 09:51:43AM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > Just want to give a big public "Thank You" to spyderous for hanging > out in -user and helping out those who had/are having trouble with the > modular-X upgrade. > ditto -- A lensatic compass weighted for the northern hemisphere will

Re: [SOLVED - new xorg related?] Re: [gentoo-user] Whoa - .xsession-errors at 340MB in less than 24 hours!

2006-07-04 Thread John J. Foster
On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 02:21:26PM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > John J. Foster wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 04:43:34PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote: > >> > >> Warning: Cannot convert string > >> "-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-*-140-*-*-p-*-

Re: [SOLVED - new xorg related?] Re: [gentoo-user] Whoa - .xsession-errors at 340MB in less than 24 hours!

2006-07-04 Thread John J. Foster
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 08:59:17PM -0400, Michael Crute wrote: > > This sounds like a font issue. I am running unstable X 7.1 and I don't > have any of these errors, I do however have quite a few fonts > installed. > 2 things here. First, I'm not sure why added SOLVED to the subject. I just know

Re: [gentoo-user] package version notification (~/+)?

2006-07-03 Thread John J. Foster
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 10:09:53PM -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > At Mon, 03 Jul 2006 21:06:07 -0400 "John J. Foster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Neil - I _think_ this is what I have not been able to understand for > > over a year now. I run an almos

Re: [gentoo-user] package version notification (~/+)?

2006-07-03 Thread John J. Foster
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 08:07:24PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > No, but if you put a specific version in /etc/portage/package.keywords, > only that version will be installed from testing. It will only be > upgraded when a newer version goes stable. Neil - I _think_ this is what I have not been

[SOLVED - new xorg related?] Re: [gentoo-user] Whoa - .xsession-errors at 340MB in less than 24 hours!

2006-07-03 Thread John J. Foster
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 04:43:34PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote: > OK, at line 490 (of about 10 million right now) I got this error: > > Warning: Cannot convert string > "-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-*-140-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1" to type > FontStruct > > followed

[gentoo-user] Whoa - .xsession-errors at 340MB in less than 24 hours!

2006-07-03 Thread John J. Foster
OK, at line 490 (of about 10 million right now) I got this error: Warning: Cannot convert string "-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-*-140-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct followed by about 10 million of these lines: Warning: Name: textfield Class: XmTextField Character '\61' not

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with new xorg and just 1 multimedia key

2006-07-03 Thread John J. Foster
Sorry about the double posting. The first one was sent while my satellite connection was down. I didn't think it was really sent. festus -- It is not unusual for those at the wrong end of the club to have a clearer picture of reality than those who wield it.

[gentoo-user] Trouble with new xorg and just 1 multimedia key

2006-07-03 Thread John J. Foster
Since going to x11-base/xorg-x11-7.0-r1 2 days ago, I've been having trouble with just 1 multimedia key on a Logitech cordless keyboard (Model Y-RJ20). The key is labeled "Media" and produces legitimate KeyPress and KeyRelease events in xev. ...snip keycode 237 (keysym 0x1008ff32, XF86AudioMedia)

[gentoo-user] Trouble with new xorg-x11 and 1 (one) keycode

2006-07-03 Thread John J. Foster
Since going to x11-base/xorg-x11-7.0-r1 2 days ago, I've been having trouble with just 1 multimedia key on a Logitech cordless keyboard (Model Y-RJ20). The key is labeled "Media" and produces a legitimate KeyPress and KeyRelease events in xev. ...snip keycode 237 (keysym 0x1008ff32, XF86AudioMedia

Re: [gentoo-user] direct rendering only works with root???

2006-07-03 Thread John J. Foster
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 09:28:23AM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > On 7/3/06, John J. Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Check your xorg.conf for the following: > > > >Section "DRI" > >Mode 0666 > >EndSection > > Or for a bit better secur

Re: [gentoo-user] direct rendering only works with root???

2006-07-03 Thread John J. Foster
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 03:17:18PM +0200, Mauro Arnoldi wrote: > I installed ati-drivers and "partially" works correctly: > > As user nothing works: > --- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ fglrxinfo && glxinfo | grep rendering > libGL error: failed to open DRM: Operation not permitted > libGL error: rev

Re: [gentoo-user] Null Modem Cables Between Windoze XP and Linux

2006-06-25 Thread John J. Foster
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 10:20:39PM +0200, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: > On Sunday 25 June 2006 22:02, John J. Foster wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 12:46:16PM -0700, Lord Sauron wrote: > > > I have it on extremely good authority that it goes 2MB/sec. > > > > it

Re: [gentoo-user] Null Modem Cables Between Windoze XP and Linux

2006-06-25 Thread John J. Foster
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 12:46:16PM -0700, Lord Sauron wrote: > I have it on extremely good authority that it goes 2MB/sec. > it's always a good thing to question authority. > I'll start looking for Kermit now. Thanks. > emerge -av kermit later, festus -- It is not unusual for those at the wr

[gentoo-user] mailx on reboot from within local.start

2006-06-23 Thread John J. Foster
Good evening, I just realized I'm no longer receiving email notification on system reboots. This quit working between April 23rd and April 27th. The following lines are in /etc/conf.d/local.start # Record system restart echo "System restart on `date +%F` at `date +%R`" >> /var/log/reboot.l

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware clock, software clock and ntpd

2006-06-13 Thread John J. Foster
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 06:39:52AM -0400, John J. Foster wrote: > On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 02:52:59PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > > > The following output is what /var/log/ntp.log looks like after issuing the > > following

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware clock, software clock and ntpd

2006-06-13 Thread John J. Foster
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 02:52:59PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote: > On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > The following output is what /var/log/ntp.log looks like after issuing the > following 2 commands: > > #/etc/init.d/ntpd stop > #ntpd -n > > 12 Jun 14:16:02

[gentoo-user] Peer review of ntp.conf file

2006-06-12 Thread John J. Foster
Good evening, After having some recent issues with ntpd (which I'm not certain are resolved), I decided to take a close look at my /etc/ntp.conf file. Below are the _only_ lines in /etc/ntp.conf that are not commented out. restrict 127.0.0.1 nomodify driftfile /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift logfile /var

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware clock, software clock and ntpd

2006-06-12 Thread John J. Foster
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Uwe Thiem wrote: after this: hwclock -wu to get your hardware clock right. Without "u" if your hw clock is running in local time. But all that shows in the /var/log/ntp.log is 12 Jun 09:05:46 ntpd[19515]: ntpd exiting on signal 15 It probably terminated right after

[gentoo-user] Hardware clock, software clock and ntpd

2006-06-12 Thread John J. Foster
Good morning all, About 10 days ago we had a lightning strike very nearby that fried our electric utilities transformer and my APC RS800 UPS. This in turn caused my system to crash. When I brought it back up, all CMOS settings had been lost. After setting what I could remember (no, I didn't ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Unpacking an ISO Image

2006-05-16 Thread John J. Foster
Kris Kerwin wrote: Hi folks, Quick question. Is there any way that one can unpack an ISO image: extracting the data that is contained within it like a tarball, without having to burn it to a CD? I'm sure there's an option somewhere within either the mkisofs or cdrecord man pages, but I feel

Re: [gentoo-user] package.mask and my thick skull

2006-05-15 Thread John J. Foster
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 06:14:41PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 15 May 2006 12:44:05 -0400, John J. Foster wrote: > > > I currently have > > > > app-office/openoffice ~x86# in package.keywords > > > > app-office/openoffice-2.0.2-r2 is currently i

[gentoo-user] package.mask and my thick skull

2006-05-15 Thread John J. Foster
Good afternoon, This has been discussed over and over in this list, but I am unable to find any references that make sense to me. Could someone please explain the different ways that you can specify an atom in package.mask? I currently have app-office/openoffice ~x86# in package.keywords ap

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild problem and gcc-3.4.5-r1

2006-05-14 Thread John J. Foster
On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 07:31:14PM +0300, Rumen Yotov wrote: > John J. Foster wrote: > > //garbanzo/root # revdep-rebuild -p > > ... > > broken /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/lib-org-w3c-dom.la > > (requires /usr/lib/libgcj.la) > > broken /usr/lib/gc

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild problem and gcc-3.4.5-r1

2006-05-14 Thread John J. Foster
Good morning all, I usually run //garbanzo/root # emerge -pv depclean followed by //garbanzo/root # revdep-rebuild -p after all world updates, and rarely have any issues at all. This is a stable x86 system, except for kde, mutt, amarok and their dependencies. For about a week now, revdep-rebuil

Re: [gentoo-user] glsa-check script

2006-05-11 Thread John J. Foster
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 05:09:41PM -0400, Nick Smith wrote: > On 5/11/06, Rasmus Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:35:46PM -0400, Nick Smith wrote: > >> has anyone written a script that checks for glsa security updates and > >> then has it auto emerge the packages it

Re: OpenWRT on Netgear (was: Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-()

2006-05-06 Thread John J. Foster
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 10:20:00AM +, Mick wrote: > > Thanks, I've had a look and it seems to be work-in-progress. When it > becomes stable I may have a go. I've been running White Russian RC3 for 9 months - zero problems. -- It is not unusual for those at the wrong end of the club to have

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp.conf security concern

2006-05-01 Thread John J. Foster
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 05:48:41PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote: > On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 02:37:20AM +0530, Farhan Ahmed wrote: > > > > How bout using msmtp? It's lightweight and is well documented (?).. To > > use it change the value of sendmail in your .muttrc to th

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp.conf security concern

2006-04-30 Thread John J. Foster
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 02:37:20AM +0530, Farhan Ahmed wrote: > > How bout using msmtp? It's lightweight and is well documented (?).. To > use it change the value of sendmail in your .muttrc to this: > I'm reading the manual right now, and will probably try it tonight. > Farhan Ahmed > > P.S: G

[gentoo-user] ssmtp.conf security concern

2006-04-30 Thread John J. Foster
Good afternoon, I solved my problem of a few days ago by adding [EMAIL PROTECTED] AuthPass=PASSWORD to /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf. This was related to my ISP now requiring SMTP AUTH for mail. But I'm concerned about the security implications of having this in a world-readable file. If this was only n

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp and/or mailx delivery problem

2006-04-29 Thread John J. Foster
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 06:58:53PM -0400, Maurice E Johnson wrote: > What is the senders address? > That is where the first clue will be. > Hi Maurice, Thanks for the reply. It turns out that my ISP has just started requiring SMTP AUTH. It took me a long time to figure out how to do this with ssm

[gentoo-user] ssmtp and/or mailx delivery problem

2006-04-27 Thread John J. Foster
The following script is run as part of a nitely cron job. //garbanzo/home/festus > cat /usr/bin/emerge_sync.sh #! /bin/bash ## /usr/bin/emerge_sync.sh # Sync now /usr/sbin/eix-sync 2>&1 glsa-check --test all 2>&1 | mailx -s "GLSA check on $(hostname)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] emerge world --update --d

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade/Downgrade loop for gst-plugins

2006-04-20 Thread John J. Foster
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 01:30:52PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote: > Good afternoon, > > For about the past 10 days I've been having problems with gst-plugins. > I'm in a constant upgrade/downgrade loop, and am not really sure what > brought me to this state. The only

[gentoo-user] Upgrade/Downgrade loop for gst-plugins

2006-04-19 Thread John J. Foster
Good afternoon, For about the past 10 days I've been having problems with gst-plugins. I'm in a constant upgrade/downgrade loop, and am not really sure what brought me to this state. The only _major_ changes have been adding ~x86 for kde and amarok. //garbanzo/home/festus > emerge -puvDNt w

[gentoo-user] [Maybe OT] Recommendations for getting started in Web design

2006-03-09 Thread John J. Foster
Good afternoon, I'm looking to get started in Web design, with the long term goal of bringing a business (mine) online. I know nothing about design, what to look for in choosing a hosting service, editing tools, or good reference materials. Basically, I'm quite a newbie in this area. Any and all

Re: [gentoo-user] Image resize question..

2006-03-05 Thread John J. Foster
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 12:07:32AM +, Rohit Sharma wrote: > Apologies in advance for this quick question which isn't about Gentoo > per se, but is about work on Linux. > Is there a command [hint "man command" shall do] which I can use to > resize an image? I have 200 of them in a directory whic

[gentoo-user] [OT] Buffalo LinkTheater Wireless Media Player

2006-02-27 Thread John J. Foster
Just wondering if anybody is using this device, and what their experience with it is. Possibly in conjuction with their TeraStation Home Server. Thanks, festus -- I contend we are both atheists, I just believe in one fewer gods than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possi

Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages?

2006-02-26 Thread John J. Foster
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 12:11:02AM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 18:29:52 -0500 "John J. Foster" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 04:11:08PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > | > Absolutely not. If there's one thing we

Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages?

2006-02-26 Thread John J. Foster
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 04:11:08PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Absolutely not. If there's one thing we've established over the years, > it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue > what's best for them in terms of package stability. > Excuse me my friend, but I swit

Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages?

2006-02-26 Thread John J. Foster
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 02:40:31PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > At this point, I'd really like to take this theoretical discussion off the > the general user list; I doubt many users will be interested. I haven't > done any coding work on this proposal or even began writing a GLEP, so

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