Re: [gentoo-user] HP Cluster on Gentoo

2007-02-20 Thread Zac Slade
make sure you have device-mapper installed. Can you give an update on what you've found and if you've made any progress? -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Music Database Collection

2007-01-03 Thread Zac Slade
e DB is currently 7.0 gigs. It was much much larger until I enabled autovaccuum... By having your musicDB split off onto a postgres backend you can do whatever you like with it. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] C programming use of isascii(), ispunct() and isblank() fails

2006-10-10 Thread Zac Slade
g _GNU_SOURCE you are locked in. We do have standards. They are sometimes a little hard to read and sometimes you just can't get the behavior you want by following them, try to use them when possible and be aware of the standards that functions are defined in on their man pages. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] gnucash 2 problem

2006-09-16 Thread Zac Slade
google be your guide. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Why you use Gentoo

2006-09-09 Thread Zac Slade
unds, because either I'm doing something wrong or there is an honest to goodness bug in the app. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] The Real Darkside...

2006-09-09 Thread Zac Slade
ng way in the last 6 years. I think even further than the proceeding years. Suse 10.1 is really a landmark. I say that from my Gentoo installation, but they really did something right with that release. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] dual scsi configuration?

2006-09-08 Thread Zac Slade
task as long as you know a little bit about what your workload is going to look like. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Why you use Gentoo

2006-09-07 Thread Zac Slade
all you want. All responses > off list please. Thanks. Please read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT Bookeeping recommendations

2006-09-06 Thread Zac Slade
like it. If you need accounting I'd start with GnuCash and then move on if it doesn't meet your needs. I'd also start with the latest stable 2 version out. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT Bookeeping recommendations

2006-09-05 Thread Zac Slade
ything fancy. > > Maybe > > GnuCash > http://www.gnucash.org/ GnuCash is very good. Also you should investigate KMyMoney. Both programs are capable. GnuCash has been around longer, but they lack some features now due to spending the last two years porting to GTK2. Good luck, -- Z

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST recursive problem

2006-09-05 Thread Zac Slade
On Tuesday 05 September 2006 00:33, Jean-Marc Beaune wrote: > Hi, > > Just a stupid question : What is bootstrap.sh used for ? This is the script used to "bootstrap" your system. Usually this is only used if installing from stage1. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: "hostname -d" returns no domainname

2006-05-27 Thread Zac Slade
domainname" fi return $((retval + retval2)) } ${DNSDOMAIN} and ${NISDOMAIN} are read out of /etc/conf.d/domainname earlier in the script. So it does as I said it did it sets a domain line in /etc/resolv.conf. However, this file does not exist in my /etc/init.d anymore. I'm not sure when that changed or why. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: DNSDOMAIN in /etc/conf.d/domainname has no effect? (was: [gentoo-user] "hostname -d" returns no domainname)

2006-05-26 Thread Zac Slade
atever, set this to 1. > OVERRIDE=1 > > I thought that this setting would have an effect. Seems not so... This will determin whether DHCP will be allowed to replace your domain statement in /etc/resolv.conf. I hope this clears it up. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] What can I use for a compressed file system?

2006-05-12 Thread Zac Slade
ends on the consistency of at least a partition anyway. Maybe you are trying to solve the wrong problem? -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome and KDE on same system!

2006-05-11 Thread Zac Slade
ifferent WM/DE when you startx all you have to do is "export XSESSION=". Then you will have the window manager/desktop environment of your choice. If you are already using kdm/gdm as a login manager then you have the ability to easily select what environment you want each time you login. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] kill a child and suicide

2006-05-03 Thread Zac Slade
ou are looking for with bash scripting, but you may be better served by using a more full featured programming language than shell offers. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] kill a child and suicide

2006-05-02 Thread Zac Slade
vely" to a process and its children. > Maybe I'm trying to solve a problem with wrong tools... > Thanks, You can find the PID of the last backgrouned process using the bash variable $! So something like: subprocess & $pid=$! Using trap along with maybe setting alarms should get y

Re: [gentoo-user] shell script

2006-04-17 Thread Zac Slade
o manipulate "parameters" and you should reference the man page for more. Look under "Parameter Expansion" for all the possibilities. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] User group problem

2006-04-13 Thread Zac Slade
be reflected. This is a shortcoming of the Unix strategy for dealing with users. They are immutable after they log in. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] User group problem

2006-04-11 Thread Zac Slade
instead just launching from the applications menu in your desktop (kde, gnome, blackbox) then you have to log out of X then log back in. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: "Space" opera

2006-04-07 Thread Zac Slade
as possible) > > Is cp -a sufficient ? Why not? Just make sure after you finish copying all the files that you install grub to the new disk and make it bootable etc. If you are using lvm this is easier because you can do a pvmove to migrate the data to the new disk..... -- Zac Slad

Re: [gentoo-user] Hosted server as distcc machine

2006-03-28 Thread Zac Slade
will then fall back to sending the jobs to localhost. If you have a lot of jobs you are sending to distcc then you will see a huge increase in your load average as a result. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] chroot

2006-03-28 Thread Zac Slade
ers. :) That is a much larger benefit than most people give it credit for. Almost double the registers! -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] can't compile audacity

2006-03-26 Thread Zac Slade
ot only is it under rapid development, each ebuild contains a release (even the betas) that is almost of release quality. I feel completely safe using the betas that come out of the audacity project for my every day audio work. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:tty

Re: [gentoo-user] can't compile audacity

2006-03-26 Thread Zac Slade
> that it tries to use gtk2 for the compilation. Is this on x86_64 here is my output from emerge -av audacity (using 2005.1 profile): ebuild R ] media-sound/audacity-1.2.4b-r1 USE="encode mad vorbis" 4,394kB What gtk use flag are you talking about??? I don't have one.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Where is perlfunc?

2006-03-14 Thread Zac Slade
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 19:35, JimD wrote: > On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 18:25:06 -0600 > perldoc perlfunc or man perlfunc -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ANDREW homepage is down!

2006-03-13 Thread Zac Slade
ake sure you read the man page, this ANDREW is really flexible. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ANDREW homepage is down!

2006-03-13 Thread Zac Slade
//krakrjak.com/pub/ANDREW/andrew-1.2.tar.bz2 Please anyone that can mirror this file do so! It will be needed for once it gets a package maintainer. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip help

2006-03-13 Thread Zac Slade
a wizard that does all of the "heavy lifting" > >for you. Here here! ANDREW Rules! > Just tried acidrip which is mplayer based instead of transcode. It > worked fine on the > one DVD I've tested with. You should give ANDREW a shot. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi

Re: [gentoo-user] sound recording software in gentoo

2006-03-05 Thread Zac Slade
ed" to have that issue. And they only had that issue when doing playback and record using integrated sound cards. This is now a non-issue. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Adding gw route in /etc/conf.d/net

2006-02-28 Thread Zac Slade
th1 is seeing another host at 192.168.1.1 and eth0 shows three hosts 192.168.0.10,20,22 and each of those it knows their hostname. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] no sound when playing flash

2006-02-28 Thread Zac Slade
ines without hardware mixing. So to recap, you don't need esd anymore, just working OSS (ALSA provides OSS compatibility). If you are having trouble with it playing while other things are playing sound try using aoss or artsdsp to mux the sounds for you (or esd if you like). -- Zac S

Re: [gentoo-user] no sound when playing flash

2006-02-28 Thread Zac Slade
e only solution. Flash uses esd for sound. You can start it everytime you start your web browser or you can add esound to your default run level. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: linux filesystem + transparent compression (rw)

2006-02-28 Thread Zac Slade
n't too processor intensive. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Adding gw route in /etc/conf.d/net

2006-02-28 Thread Zac Slade
0.19) at 00:10:B5:91:85:88 [ether] on eth0 It's interesting here that you don't see anything on 192.168.1.0/24. Perhaps nothing is connected to that interface right now? Congrats on the problem being fixed. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] accelerate emerge

2006-02-28 Thread Zac Slade
ge features? Read two lines above this one for the answer to your question. The other way is to read man portage, man emerge, man make.conf. The example file stays updated with new features (it may lag some) and so do the man pages. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-28 Thread Zac Slade
Gentoo system is to use rc single. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] SUID mounts

2006-02-28 Thread Zac Slade
ple as > the error symptom is the same) What is the other program? What is the real issue? Mount is sort of special. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding gw route in /etc/conf.d/net

2006-02-28 Thread Zac Slade
o > add a static route for config_eth1? This should not be required for your setup as I understand it. I'd be realy interested in your arp table too, arp -a. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-28 Thread Zac Slade
l in one shell for maintenece like busybox or nash. Also lvm is not statically linked and can require libraries out of /usr/lib also. So be careful and understand what you are doing. You just might need a livecd in some cases for shrinking. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA: All modules loaded, mixer unmuted, still no sound

2006-02-26 Thread Zac Slade
libraries to properly initialize the device. Not sure what the configuration issue is. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2006-02-26 Thread Zac Slade
ieve he said that! What he might have meant is that we should provide sane defaults to our users so newcomers don't get hosed systems due to us requiring intimate knowledge of the system. While we shouldn't make unsafe policies at the global level we should allow advanced users to do as they please. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA: All modules loaded, mixer unmuted, still no sound

2006-02-26 Thread Zac Slade
just fine (emu10k driver here). -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA: All modules loaded, mixer unmuted, still no sound

2006-02-26 Thread Zac Slade
1 snd > snd_page_alloc 8456 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm > xfs 543448 1 > ntfs 99440 1 Did you look at your mixer? Try alsamixer. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-24 Thread Zac Slade
o the task. And just because it's IBM's Unix doesn't make it more or less ready for the enterprise, it just makes it proprietary. You'd do well to judge based on features, capabilities and the completeness of the tools. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-24 Thread Zac Slade
y. Online resize is a *very* experimental experiment. Have good backups. For a good reference if one is ever needed to give to a friend, relative or foe try http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/extendlv.html -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] S/P diff question

2006-02-24 Thread Zac Slade
yer playing the "other" media files? Since something can play out the spdif port then it might be important to look at that program's setup for audio output. What device is it using etc. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] puzzled over why xrdb process hangs

2006-02-22 Thread Zac Slade
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 14:59, James wrote: > quickly running 'top' I find the culprit: > krdb. I can kill it off and the sequence completes and the system is fine. > > But 'eix xrdb' reveals: > x11-apps/xrdb > Available versions: [M]1.0.1 > Installed: none > > > If it's

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] AUTOTOOLS

2006-02-19 Thread Zac Slade
e information and a clearer statement of what you are trying to do would be very helpful. -- Zac Slade -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What about a new file system subtree?

2006-02-18 Thread Zac Slade
t into their home directory. However if they have the power to do this, they have the power to accidentally install into /. Pick your poison here. -- Zac Slade -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What about a new file system subtree?

2006-02-18 Thread Zac Slade
h emerge, just as autoconf/automake made it much simpiler in the past. If a user is going to compile and install software in their home directory they are going to have to at least learn --prefix as an option to configure. Fortunately/unfortunately this is a requirement. Just as learning to u

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What about a new file system subtree?

2006-02-18 Thread Zac Slade
me/doc/whatever", and so on. This is what --prefix is for. ./configure --prefix=~/ make && make install This puts it into /home/user/ where /home/user is considered to be / -- Zac Slade -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Panic

2006-02-18 Thread Zac Slade
n look for how to get the initrd image working. -- Zac Slade -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Zac Slade
king (reiser is excellent in this regard) will be invaluable. -- Zac Slade -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror as an FTP Client

2006-02-15 Thread Zac Slade
ror for this only for ftp downloads and can't really comment here. You might want to try a kde list for more insight. -- Zac Slade -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge troubles

2006-02-15 Thread Zac Slade
y allocation is one of those things that usually isn't. Normally you'd see physical memory errors as programs randomly crashing (like the kernel, with no PANIC). You also might notice when you start the system up that it is reporting less memory than you have installed. > Thank you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trying KDE (again)

2006-02-15 Thread Zac Slade
ows > lines of text over the top of each other - It is still very beta. This codebase will improve and more of the compositing functions will be put into the window managers. > is this what everyone else sees with translucency? Maybe not they might be using per application translucency like w

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge troubles

2006-02-14 Thread Zac Slade
ind stab in the dark. what does df -h give you? Anything interesting in dmesg? And just to make sure we have PLENTY of information here, can we get the end of emerge.log (some context prior to the error message). -- Zac Slade -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trying KDE (again)

2006-02-14 Thread Zac Slade
rated on fglrx, but there is a software fallback. It may not be worth it if you can't get HW acceleration. -- Zac Slade -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] is kde 3.5 stable enough?

2006-02-14 Thread Zac Slade
'm easily scared :P Well kde 3.5.1 is probably one of the most solid releases in a while. 3.5 had some issues, but so far 3.5.1 seems almost as mature as 3.4.4 was. YMMV. -- Zac Slade -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge troubles

2006-02-14 Thread Zac Slade
errors of any type. He very well may be just running out of memory. It happens. Send back the extra information and let's get to the bottom of the issue. -- Zac Slade -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list