Re: [gentoo-user] Wierd key bindings in Firefox

On Tue, 24 May 2011 21:17:14 + Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Gentoo. > > In Firefox 3.6.17, I would expect Page up/down to scroll ~a page up / > down, and for up/down arrow to scroll a small number of lines up/down. > > This doesn't happen. Instead Page up/down do nothing, arrow down > scroll

Re: [gentoo-user] How to exclude a directory from rsync

On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 09:02:49 +0100 Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 11/25/10 22:51:36, Renat Golubchyk wrote: > > The man page is actually pretty clear on this issue. Quote: > > > > if the pattern starts with a / then it is anchored to a particular > > spot in the hiera

Re: [gentoo-user] How to exclude a directory from rsync

On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:01:51 + Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 16 November 2010 22:26:28 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > Am 2010-11-16 22:24, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > > > Apparently, though unproven, at 23:12 on Tuesday 16 November > > > 2010, Mick did > > > > > > opine thusly: > > >> Excellent, it

Re: [gentoo-user] ridiculously wide handbook pages

On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 18:32:57 +0100 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 02 October 2010 10:06:05 Renat Golubchyk wrote: > > > Probleme kann man niemals mit derselben Denkweise loesen, > > durch die sie entstanden sind. > > Please translate into English - thanks. We can&#

Re: [gentoo-user] ridiculously wide handbook pages

On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 03:16:24 +0100 Stroller wrote: > > On 1 Oct 2010, at 23:18, Renat Golubchyk wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:13:24 + (UTC) Grant Edwards > > wrote: > >> I've noticed recently that the Gentoo handbook web pages are > >> ridiculous

Re: [gentoo-user] ridiculously wide handbook pages

Hi! On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:13:24 + (UTC) Grant Edwards wrote: > I've noticed recently that the Gentoo handbook web pages are > ridiculously wide. (It seems to me that they didn't used to be, but I > wouldn't swear to that). As fas as I can remember they've always been that wide. Anyway, sinc

Re: [gentoo-user] p7zip-4.65-r1 considered obnoxious

On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 08:44:41 -0700 "Kevin O'Gorman" wrote: > For some reason, the latest x86 stable p7zip wants to force me to > remove 'odbc' from wxGTK. This seems wrong, and I'm masking it out > for the moment, but I'm wondering what justification there is. Well, you could check the ChangeLog

Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono?

On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:07:08 +0800 Xi Shen wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Neil Bothwick > wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:37:04 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: > > > >> yeah, digikam is great. i tried it on kde. but i am using gnome, > >> and i want to keep my system compact. > > > > Then why

Re: [gentoo-user] top does not save settings

Hi! On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:19:34 + Mick wrote: > In an aterm I launch top. Then press z c and Shift+W. I get: > >Wrote configuration to '/home/michael/.toprc' > > Fine I think, Ctrl+c to end it and move on. Next time I fire up top, > even from the same terminal, it's all looking

[gentoo-user] [OT] Screen sharing software or similar

Hi all! I'm looking for a solution to the following problem. My relatives live 200 km away. They have a daughter, and I need to help her out with school homework etc. At the moment we cannot do it on a regular basis, because doing it over the phone is really difficult and time consuming. I though

Re: [gentoo-user] Scheduled wakeup from suspend to ram

On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:09:48 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 10 January 2010 23:40:57 Stroller wrote: > > This was my reaction, too, but c'mon, Linux's sleep functionality > > must have a rewake feature, mustn't it? > > I dunno. Think about this - in suspend, nothing is working and no > us

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-power/powermgmt-base blocks sys-power/pm-utils, but it's not installed yet

Hi! On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:49:05 -0600 Michael Sullivan wrote: > * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be > * installed at the same time on the same system. > > ('ebuild', '/', 'sys-power/powermgmt-base-1.22', 'merge') pulled in > by > >=sys-power/powermgmt-base-

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building static libraries

On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:25:46 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > I'm not sure why you have a problem. A quick search on my box shows > that most libs (of the small number I checked) have .a and .so Most libs, but not all. glibc is one of them. Anyway, I've added "--enable-static" to EXTRA_ECONF and it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building static libraries

On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:28:21 -0800 walt wrote: > Renat Golubchyk wrote: > > > As you said, you really are confused. :-) Maybe I wasn't clear > > enough. Anyway, I've written a program, and I need it as a > > statically linked binary. In order to link statically

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:43:23 + Stroller wrote:> > On 14 Dec 2009, at 13:01, Renat Golubchyk wrote: > >> ... > >> The file which is responsible for the size of the .doc is > >> immediately obvious when I rename this document.odt to > >> docu

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:48:57 + Stroller wrote: > > On 13 Dec 2009, at 15:01, Sebastian Beßler wrote: > > Am 13.12.2009 09:46, schrieb Stroller: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> A .doc file contains an image. Is there any way to extract the > >> image file in its original format, please? > > > > Open th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building static libraries

On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:53:15 -0500 Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 01:27 +0100, Renat Golubchyk wrote: > > Since portage does not build static libraries by default... > > But portage *does*. I think it does build static libs for packages > that provide them, it&#

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building static libraries

On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:47:04 -0800 walt wrote: > On 12/13/2009 11:18 AM, Renat Golubchyk wrote: > > I need to build a static binary of a program I wrote. The problem is > > that most packages only install dynamic version of the libraries. > > There are the "static&qu

Re: [gentoo-user] Building static libraries

On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:40:34 -0500 Albert Hopkins wrote: > GTK+, i believe, can't be built statically as it uses dynload for > themes, input methods, etc etc. Even most proprietary gtk-based > software that I know of (e.g. Adobe Flash and VMWare) either are > distributed with GTK+ linked dynamica

[gentoo-user] Building static libraries

Hi everyone! I need to build a static binary of a program I wrote. The problem is that most packages only install dynamic version of the libraries. There are the "static" and "static-libs" USE flags, but only a tiny fraction of packages support them. Modifying every relevant ebuild is not really a

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Need advice from people who use non-ascii all day long

On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 12:07:26 -0800 fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > So do people type in Busingen different ways depending on how they > feel, do some people always leave off the umlaut, do some always use > it? If you want to leave of the umlaut you have to be absolutely sure that there exists no other

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Need advice from people who use non-ascii all day long

Hi! On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:20:03 -0800 fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > In Germany is a district "Busingen", with an umlauted 'u'. Is it > reasonable to consider it the same word whether with or without the > unlauted u? No. For many words it would be ok, but not for all. For example, "drucken" means "

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] interrupting runscripts during startup

On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:02:47 +0200 Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: > When hitting Ctrl-C during startup, I manage to interrupt services at > the early stages of init, yet later-on I can no-longer do this. It > seems that up till runlevel 'default', services can be hit with the > interrupt. Why do you wan

Re: [gentoo-user] mysql USE flag error

On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:56:57 +0100 Mick wrote: > I am not sure I understand this message about the mysql USE flag: > = > # emerge -upDv world > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Interpreting /proc/cpuinfo

Hi! On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:40:44 +0200 Florian Philipp wrote: > Does this output from /proc/cpuinfo make any sense: > > processor : 0 > vendor_id : GenuineIntel > cpu family : 6 > model : 26 > model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5520 @ 2.27GHz > stepping

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot fonts in firefox]

On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 02:08:00 -0500 Harry Putnam wrote: > I've monkeyed around with the font settings endlessly but it seems I > can only get a look where like in a google search.. The hits are > displayed in a decent and reasonable size. But the font size in the > search box where you enter your

Re: [gentoo-user] Adjusting brightness on videos. kmplayer in particular.

On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:16:58 -0500 Dale wrote: > Renat Golubchyk wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:07:39 -0500 > > Dale wrote: > > > > > >> Graham Murray wrote: > >> > >>> Dale writes: > >>> > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Adjusting brightness on videos. kmplayer in particular.

On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:07:39 -0500 Dale wrote: > Graham Murray wrote: > > Dale writes: > > > >> I downloaded CSI and a NCIS video a while ago. I'm trying to > >> watch it but it is really dark. I am using kmplayer with mplayer > >> for the backend. I found where it says you can adjust brig

Re: [gentoo-user] how to clean up /usr/portage/distfiles?

Hi! On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 22:59:09 +0800 Xi Shen wrote: > as you emerge, the /usr/portage/distfiles get stuffed with old > packaged. even through it is safe to delete them all, and d/l again > when needed, but i just want to remove only the old version. is there > any way, or any tool to help with t

Re: [gentoo-user] my gentoo wont read .bashrc automatically

Hi! On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 20:09:12 +0800 Xi Shen wrote: > every time i reboot the system, the ~/.bashrc will not be > read/executed automatically. i have give it x attribute. also i have > checked the /etc/bash/bashrc file, and i did not find and logic about > reading/executing the ~/.bashrc file. i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I lost the ability to boot into single user

Am Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:47:15 -0400 schrieb ABCD : > Openrc no longer supports the softlevel= option on the kernel command > line (this hit me as well, as I use a number of different runlevels). Is this documented somewhere? I'm asking because I have no problem with booting into different runlevels

Re: [gentoo-user] installing/upgrading with emerge from non-root

Am Wed, 5 Aug 2009 17:48:06 +0200 schrieb Galevsky : > 2009/8/5 Kevin Haddock : > > I'm trying to do distributed compile with a remote machine that I > > don't have root password to. I have a local account with sudo > > permissions and an account of the same name on the remote machine. > > I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Website disabling right click

Hi! Am Wed, 05 Aug 2009 03:27:11 -0500 schrieb Dale : > Hi folks, > > I have this website that I purchase products off of and this is > getting on my nerves. I'm accustomed to right clicking and opening > in new tabs and such, especially when searching for products. Is > their some way I can d

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Use of sed

Am Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:18:02 +0100 schrieb Peter Humphrey : > On Wednesday 24 June 2009 12:28:05 Alex Schuster wrote: > > > man sed answers your second question :) > > s/regexp/replacement/ > Attempt to match regexp against the pattern space. If successful, > replace that portion match

Re: [gentoo-user] Umlaut trouble in filenames

Hi! Am Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:31:09 +0200 schrieb Alex Schuster : > I have a problem with umlauts in file names. They are working fine > when I create a file, but I have lots of files I moved from my former > system that show umlauts just as a question mark. I think I > transferred them via NFS. > >

[gentoo-user] [OT] RAID 1 over network

Hi all! Short: What is the best way to setup something similar to RAID 1 over a WAN? Background: Two LAMP servers are located in geographically different locations connected through a load balancer to the net: LAMP ALAMP B \ / \ / \ /

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installing via GRML

On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:03:39 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hello, > > > > Over the last week, I read where many folks recommend installing > > Gentoo using GRML. > > Since I have a p3 (650Mz) system I'm installing to build a > > small web server for a fri

Re: [gentoo-user] RANT: WTF does a *SPREADSHEET* need SVG and unicode?

On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:49:53 -0500 "Walter Dnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tried to do an update today. Gnumeric has a new dependancy, namely > goffice. Trying to build goffice fails with the following message... > [snip] > SVG is an OpenSource replacement for Schlockwave-Trash, to be use

Re: [gentoo-user] Create mutli-file .zip archives from the command line?

On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:45:53 +0100 Jesús Guerrero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know nothing about samba+big files, I did never use it with big > files, but I haven't hear of such a problem before. As far as I know, Samba doesn't have problems with big files. I've burned large (>4GB) DVD images o

Re: [gentoo-user] Create mutli-file .zip archives from the command line?

Hi! On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:21:30 + Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I thought to do was to break the .iso into a multi-part .zip > archive, transfer the separate files over to the Windows PC and then > unzip them back into the original big file using Explorer's built-in > (XP)

Re: [gentoo-user] Daniel Robbins' come back ?

On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:07:39 -0500 Richard Marzan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Although he works for Microsoft, Daniel is the one who created this > project. He doesn't work for Microsoft any longer. Check Wikipedia or Google for relevant news. Cheers, Renat -- Probleme kann man niemals mit d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel setting for frame buffer (2.6.23-r5)

On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 22:17:37 +0100 Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 9 January 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > do you know of a chart that shows the decimal notation like you > > > posted? (Its not in `man vga') > > > > > > And I don't reca

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided

On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 14:35:27 +0200 Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to compile mplayer in a way not supported by the ebuild and use > portage only to keep record of the files installed in system for > future uninstallation. > > The system amd64 stable. > > I have done the following

Re: [gentoo-user] Incredibly slow disk access

On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 20:51:02 -0500 "Mark Shields" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd also recommending after checking for the above, also check what > level of UDMA is set. Try this: hdparm -I /dev/hda | grep -i dma > > Yours should say probably either udma3 or udma4. Why not udma5 ? All my PATA d

Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI in Windows (was: Any newer Gentoo install CDs?)

On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 07:46:34 -0800 "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 7, 2008 3:34 AM, Renat Golubchyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi! > > > > On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 16:31:43 -0800 "Mark Knecht" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI in Windows (was: Any newer Gentoo install CDs?)

Hi! On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 16:31:43 -0800 "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >OK, I took a few minutes away from his Half Life game to look at > BIOS. I found the AHCI option and enabled it. Of course he wanted to > get back to gaming so we tried to boot back into Windows but XP goes > blue

Re: [gentoo-user] Need ebuild no longer in Portage

On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 11:01:44 -0800 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know if there is a way to prevent eclean from removing a > distfile for an installed package. Seems like that should be default > behavior. From the eclean manpage: If you use the --destructive option, eclean will o

Re: [gentoo-user] Enabling mmx USE flag on a Pentium 4 HTT?

On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 18:15:57 + Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm, does this mean I should remove my mmmx CFLAGS? I must have been > running this lot for at least 2.5 years now and cannot say that I > have seen any problems with them: > > CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -m

Re: [gentoo-user] Enabling mmx USE flag on a Pentium 4 HTT?

On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:25:40 -0700 "Jonathan Haws" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a really stupid question I know, but I want some second > opinions: > > > > Should the mmx global USE flag be enabled on a Pentium 4 machine and > why or why not? Yes, it should. (Multimedia) programs that s

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Opera or Firefox believe my location is the UK?

Hi! On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:40:53 +0200 "Liviu Andronic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to make Opera or Firefox believe that I am located in > the UK? I am using (on a regular basis) the following environment > variables. > LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8 > LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 > Nonetheless, it seems

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel rollback

Hi! On Sat, 13 Oct 2007 11:24:11 -0300 "Danilo Marcelo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yesterday i did a kernel update using emerge gentoo-sources, but i > have other drivers, like ieee80211 and ipw2200 which was installed > using old kernel. Not an answer to your question, but just a tip. If you d

Re: [gentoo-user] font corruption ???

Hi! On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:33:20 -0400 David Relson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After starting OOw, the first document (typically a single page) is > fine. Reprinting it, gives garbled output. An example is word > "When:" printing as "$ henC:" and "Where:" printing as "$ hereC". > Typically cap

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrecord says permission denied

On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:27:15 -0500 "Stephen Wittig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only things that I can guess are that it is trying to update > something in "/proc" or it needs to load a kernel module before > writing. Why would cdrecord want to update anything in /proc? There is no informatio

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrecord says permission denied

On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:04:04 -0300 "Rafael Barrera Oro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > did you try adding yourself to the cdrom group? I *am* in the cdrom group, as I have already wrote. > > $ groups > > adm wheel cron audio cdrom video cdrw usb users locate portage plugdev > >

[gentoo-user] cdrecord says permission denied

Hi folks! For years I've been using cdrecord as a non-root user and without suid bit set. Now it doesn't work any more. Here is the error message and some other info: $ cdrecord -eject -v -driveropts=burnproof -data dev=/dev

Re: mplayer fonts (was: [gentoo-user] playing mms with totem)

On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 16:55:09 -0400 Allan Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At Tue, 04 Sep 2007 07:09:00 +1200 (NZST) Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > can't say for sure if totem does mms:// - but vlc and mplayer both > > do. > > Thanks I tried mplayer and as soon as it starts it c

Re: [gentoo-user] vim syntax hi-lighting - Added .X68 file extension

Hi! On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 22:48:28 -0700 (PDT) Richard Broersma Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone explain or point out a link that describes the process of > adding a file type extension for syntax high-lighting? > > I would like to configure vim to automatically recognize the .X68 > file

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge claws-mail

On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 19:48:01 -0400 David Relson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why is emerge giving me 2.9.2 rather than the newer 2.10.0_rc1 ??? Because it is hard-masked in package.mask ;-) If you really want it you can unmask it in /etc/portage/package.unmask Cheers, Renat -- Probleme kann man

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with yelp while doing --update world

On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 15:38:07 -0400 John covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. While doing an emerge --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse > world I have run into a problem compiling yelp: > > Here is the output. > > Script started on Sun Jun 3 15:32:23 2007 > > These are the packages that w

Re: [gentoo-user] Bug in bash ?

On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 10:44:09 +0200 Jan Seeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is no bug. Bash globs everything that begins with A-Z (also > directories) and then gives that list to ls. So ls lists all these > files and the directories that begin with A-Z. Strangely though, bash > seems to ignore

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.19-r5 kernel disaster

Hi! On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:02:54 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After running make menuconfig 4x on a PIII, > re-emerging --emptytree world and either booting to a > highly unstable system or a maintenance login I feel > it's time to call on the authorities. > > Don't even

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGS "...-O3 -pipe" vs "...O2 "

On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:10:40 -0300 Davi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I rebuild my system with O2?? =P > > I've configured my system with O3 and the HD space is going out... =P Change your CFLAGS to have -O2 instead of -O3 and then run "emerge -e world". If you don't have enough space then

Re: [gentoo-user] sylpheed claws quotes colourisation (was: Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?)

On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 12:26:31 -0500 Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 21:07:02 +0200 > Tony Stohne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mick said the following on 2007-04-05 19:07: > > | ... > > | Hmm, neither less not cat give me color output. Passing --color=y > > to either >

Re: [gentoo-user] Mplayer2, where is it?

On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 17:18:38 -0600 Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Renat Golubchyk wrote: > > On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 12:06:52 -0600 Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >> I went to a link a bit ago in Seamonkey and a box came up that it > >> needed m

Re: [gentoo-user] Mplayer2, where is it?

Hi! On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 12:06:52 -0600 Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I went to a link a bit ago in Seamonkey and a box came up that it > needed mplayer2 plugin. I don't see it in portage so can someone > tell me where I can find it? mplayer2 is the name of the main executable of the old Win

Re: [gentoo-user] My CPU seems to run hotter with Gentoo as opposed to Windows XP

On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 17:46:45 +1000 Richard Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, I've loaded Gentoo on a Compaq nx 6150 notebook which reports > a Intel (R) Pentium (R) M Processor 1.73GHz Stepping 08 CPU at dmesg. > > For some reason the CPU seems to run very hot with a lot of fan > activit

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 and eth1 unwanted autoconfiguration

On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 19:17:06 -0700 darren kirby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > syslog-ng doesn't need network does it? It can need it if configured approprietly. Run "egrep '(use|need|after).*net' /etc/init.d/*" and read the Gentoo handbook at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?

Re: [gentoo-user] ctags & exuberant ctags conflict?

Hi! On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 09:58:50 -0400 Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wondering, what's the difference between ctags and exuberant-ctags, > and why one would take the place of the other? One of my users has > pointed out that 'there should be only one', and that he has always > used exuberant i

Re: [gentoo-user] Eclipse IDE For Java

Hi! On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 22:31:20 -0700 "Lord Sauron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * dev-util/eclipse-sdk > Latest version available: 3.0.1-r2 > Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] > Size of downloaded files: 54,314 kB > Homepage:http://www.eclipse.org/ > D

Re: [gentoo-user] CRON (Vixie) not working for local users ...

On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 14:17:35 -0600 "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chad Feller wrote: > > 2) Check your appropriate log file (I use sysklogd), so something > > like tail -f /var/log/syslog might reveal something of interest. > Nothing special, no errors and no sign of it runnin

Re: [gentoo-user] CRON (Vixie) not working for local users ...

Hi! On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 10:27:01 -0600 "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have several local users on my machine that are members of the cron > group. Vixie-Cron runs as my cron agent. It is running. However, > when I setup jobs to run in the users crontab, they are NEVER > e

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo

On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 23:12:38 + David Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 23:38 Thu 23 Mar , Renat Golubchyk wrote: > > Careful with those quotation marks - you might want to escape > > them ;-) I would use single quotes on the outside to avoid the > > confusio

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo

On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:27:46 -0300 "Daniel da Veiga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sudo takes a command as parameter, enclose the whole command in quotes > and try again, like this: > > sudo "echo "app-portage/porthole ~*" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords" ^ ^ ^

Re: [gentoo-user] USB TV / Video capture devices

On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:22:00 -0700 Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are there any USB type TV / Video capture devices that works with > Linux? Check out http://www.linuxtv.org/ Cheers, Renat -- Probleme kann man niemals mit derselben Denkweise loesen, durch die sie entstanden sind.

Re: [gentoo-user] wget won't concatenate(?)

On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:38:06 -0800 (PST) maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried wget'ing this on dialup: > ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/x86/2006.0/livecd/livecd-i686-installer-2006.0.iso > > Then, because I needed to use the phone, after > downloadin

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox PDF integration

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 13:27:18 -0800 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do you get firefox to open a PDF file instead of trying to > download it? The only plugins listed in about:plugins are > s-shockwave-flash and futuresplash. I do have acroread and gpdf > installed. Turn on USE-Flag "nsplug

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils

On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 17:07:37 +0100 Maarten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > /bin/link > > /bin/ln > ^^^ > > Ehm. Which possibly creates a chicken-egg problem. How do you make > the symlink from ln -> busybox without having /bin/ln in the first > place ? Boot from a

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Laptop: 2 problems

On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 00:26:28 + Thierry de Coulon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:34, Renat Golubchyk wrote: > > Hi! > > > > From the manpage: > > domainname - show or set the system's NIS/YP domain name > > dnsdo

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Laptop: 2 problems

Hi! On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 23:14:42 + Thierry de Coulon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First (but not very important): I can't get the system to use a > domain name. The domain name is correctly written > in /etc/conf.d/domainname, but typing domainname returns (none). I > can set the domainname wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slots

On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 11:10:31 -0800 Jeff Grossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the information. That is one are where I think Gentoo can > definitely improve. Making it so you can tell if removing a package > will kill anything. You can check whether the package you intend to remove is

Re: [gentoo-user] fixing fstab

On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:23:41 -0500 Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I thought so too. So I booted to the Universal CD. Then I did > mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo > > Then I did cd /mnt/gentoo and did a ls > > all I see is boot and lost+found > > Did I make a bigger mess than I thought? W

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Bash scripting 2

On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 18:57:40 +0100 Peper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > How can i check whether i can create or overwrite a file? > > For example: > If /etc/conf.d/net cannot be overwritten or created it return false. > > Overwriting test would be -w /etc/conf.d/net, but how can i check if

Re: [gentoo-user] Out of portage

On Wed, 9 Nov 2005 10:23:31 +0200 "Eray Aslan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Renat Golubchyk <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You'll just have to keep an eye for upgrades, because they > > will probably come without this patch. If you want this patch

Re: [gentoo-user] Developmnet Environment for PHP and PERL

On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 14:25:05 -0800 Michael Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A. Khattri wrote: > > >On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Michael Shaw wrote: > Well, my terminal does have some color, but not syntax hilighting > from within VIM. How would I changes this? I actually don't mind > VIM, as it is quite

Re: [gentoo-user] Out of portage

On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 20:03:45 +0200 "Eray Aslan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Renat Golubchyk <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyway, why do you want to manage those programs yourself? > > > > Because of this patch for postfix: > http://sbse

Re: [gentoo-user] Out of portage

Hi! On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 11:37:45 +0200 "Eray Aslan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am using portage for packet management. But there are a few > programs (postfix for example) that I have emerged and now would like > to manage myself. What is the best way to take a program out of > portage withou

Re: [gentoo-user] Convert windows-1250 database to UTF-8

On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 12:25:22 +0100 Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bruno Lustosa wrote: > > On 11/7/05, *Khan* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > wrote: > > > > > I'm trying to convert my windows-1250 database to Unicode, > > > UTF-8. Is there any script that can do the job? > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacement for qpkg... please!?!?

On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 18:14:56 -0500 "Walter Dnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > world suddenly seems to want a bunch of additional stuff... > > > [m3000][root][~] emerge --pretend --update --world > > > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > > > Calculating world dependencies

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel updates

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 19:43:07 +0100 Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The portage system seems pretty effective in keeping the user level > code up to date on a gentoo system - but now that I have had my > system installed for 6-7 months it has occured to me that my > kernel is no longer cur

Re: [gentoo-user] curious thing with net.eth0

On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:06:26 -0400 "Eric S. Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem was /etc/init.d/net.eth0 and /etc/init.d/net.lo were the > same. The net.eth0 code was overwritten with the lo code. > > This happened on two machines and I'm wondering how it happened? Did > someth

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS setting for Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHZ stepping 08

Hi! On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 01:31:32 +1000 Richard Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just got a new laptop I'm installing Gentoo on and was wondering > if anyone could advise on the CFLAG setting I'm using. The CPU is a > Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHZ stepping 08. Currently I've > set

Re: [gentoo-user] stealth ethernet

On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 22:50:51 +0200 Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Justin Patrin schrieb: > > > I would suggest using iptables to simply DROP all outgoing packets. > > This won't make the host be "stealth". Quite the opposite - it's > MUCH more visible. Why? Cheers, Renat -- Pro

Re: [gentoo-user] stealth ethernet

Hi! On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 23:19:56 + (UTC) James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For a variety of reasons, I need to be able to make an ethernet > interface on a gentoo system, change into listen only (stealth mode). > Kind of like half duplex, so to speak. Any simple tricks? > Just disabling all

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use EXTRA_ECONF?

On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:44:54 -0300 Matias Grana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But what I find confusing now is why I have this difference. > How does one update the use.local.desc file? It seems not to belong > to any package > (tried "equery belongs /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc" > and di

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] binary comparison

Hi! On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 20:30:48 +0400 Andrew Gaydenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 'diff' is text oriented tool. I there some kind of such tool > oriented to binary files/subtrees comparison? cmp Cheers, Renat -- Probleme kann man niemals mit derselben Denkweise loesen, durch die sie entstan

Re: [gentoo-user] porno filtering using squid?

On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 04:43:18 +0600 Gentoo Shadow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is it free to use for commercial purposes? It's GPL. Cheers, Renat -- Probleme kann man niemals mit derselben Denkweise loesen, durch die sie entstanden sind. (Einstein)

Re: [gentoo-user] Update installed packages, but not install new ones

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 20:10:40 +0200 Renat Golubchyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 19:52:47 +0200 Nikodemus Karlsson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > almost every time when I do a complete packages upgrade using emerge > > -u world, portage flags for

Re: [gentoo-user] Update installed packages, but not install new ones

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 19:52:47 +0200 Nikodemus Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > tisdag 11 oktober 2005 19.35 skrev Douglas James Dunn: > > Can you paste a emerge "-uDpvt" world please? > > Here we go... > Calculating world dependencies ...done! > [blocks B ] [ebuild U ] mail-client/pin

Re: [gentoo-user] OT worth upgrading hardware ?

On Sun, 2 Oct 2005 19:11:08 +0200 "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > some people like the fat,. bloated, eye-candy heavy desktops - > especially full experience of all components working together. > > Not all people choose kde/gnome because of their looks, but because > they WANT

Re: [gentoo-user] Java corruption after power failure

On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 06:46:45 -0700 Nelis Lamprecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have any other suggestions for me ? What else do Firefox > and Gaim have in common that I could possibly re-install ? For example GTK+. Otherwise try the command below. It will show you common dependencies

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