Re: [gentoo-user] vixie cron

2007-11-10 Thread Malte Langermann
> > hey all, > > Recently, I set up a local news server and want to fetch news by using > vixie cron. For security, I want to drop root to news ( only news and > root can run fetchnews). So I add one line in crontab by using > "crontab -e": > > */5 * * * * news fetchnews > > > Actually, I just foll

Re: [gentoo-user] vixie cron

2007-11-10 Thread Teng Wang
I see, thank you! Do I need add news to /etc/cron.allow? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] can't emerge anything, wrong files downloaded

2007-11-10 Thread fei huang
On Nov 10, 2007 3:24 PM, Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Samstag, 10. November 2007 schrieb fei huang: > > It has been a long since my last update to the system, found lots of > weird > > problem today, > > > > 1. the worst among those was that I could not emerge anything now, the >

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash 3.2/3.1 compatibility?

2007-11-10 Thread jan.pradac
Hi, I have the same problem and I was trying to solve it few weeks ago, after almost two weeks of searching and compiling I substituted =~ with expr: - orig use with ~= : # if [[ "test" =~ ".*" ]]; then echo "ok"; fi - alternative use with expr : # export TEST_VAR="test" # if [[ ${#TEST_VAR} ==

Re: [gentoo-user] can't emerge anything, wrong files downloaded

2007-11-10 Thread Dale
fei huang wrote: > > > tks for your reply. > > I've got enough space for the portage directory, and I think the point > is why it downloaded a wrong file? > while inspecting the output again, I suspect that the downloaded file > is probably a web page! > > > >>> Downloading > 'http://file

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS and portage tree

2007-11-10 Thread PaulNM
Uwe Thiem wrote: Too big a thing for A. There is a reason why it doesn't have its own portage tree. ;-) Uwe You could also loopback mount a file just for portage, which shrinks the needed space down considerably. I use reiserfs with tail packing to fit the whole tree onto a 260 megabyte fi

Re: [gentoo-user] can't emerge anything, wrong files downloaded (solved)

2007-11-10 Thread fei huang
well, because the mirror "files.gentoo.org" is not accessible here, wget downloaded the web page that reports error, remove the mirror from make.conf works. tks fei On Nov 10, 2007 4:20 PM, fei huang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Nov 10, 2007 3:24 PM, Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

Re: [gentoo-user] can't emerge anything, wrong files downloaded

2007-11-10 Thread fei huang
On Nov 10, 2007 4:47 PM, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > fei huang wrote: > > > tks for your reply. > > I've got enough space for the portage directory, and I think the point is > why it downloaded a wrong file? > while inspecting the output again, I suspect that the downloaded file is > prob

Re: [gentoo-user] can't emerge anything, wrong files downloaded

2007-11-10 Thread fei huang
On Nov 10, 2007 4:47 PM, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > fei huang wrote: > > > tks for your reply. > > I've got enough space for the portage directory, and I think the point is > why it downloaded a wrong file? > while inspecting the output again, I suspect that the downloaded file is > prob

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash 3.2/3.1 compatibility?

2007-11-10 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Friday 9 November 2007, Willie Wong wrote: > The question: > > Is there a switch that I can use to make bash run in some sort of > compatibility mode for the string comparison? I.e, can I somehow > force bash (in the script) to behave like before? Low-tech solution: can't you just instal

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS for Pentium Dual Core E2160 ?

2007-11-10 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
David W Noon schrieb: > You need to consider CHOST as well, to ensure you make the most of the > newer CPUs. > > Here is what I use on an E6600 machine: > > CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" > CFLAGS="-march=nocona -mmmx -m3dnow -msse -msse2 -msse3 -mfpmath=sse,387 -O2 > -pipe" > > Note that -fomit-

[gentoo-user] APM kills harddrives?

2007-11-10 Thread Thomas Hobbes
Hi, there are some reports that Ubuntu GNU/Linux 7.10 "kills harddrive": http://ubuntudemon.wordpress.com/2007/10/28/laptop-hardrive-killer-bug-how-to-discover-whether-you-are-affected/ I can confirm this behaviour for FreeBSD 6.2 STABLE 200710 i386 and Gentoo Linux 2007.0 i386. My Load_Cycle_Cou

Re: [gentoo-user] can't emerge anything, wrong files downloaded

2007-11-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 16:20:16 +0800, fei huang wrote: > while inspecting the output again, I suspect that the downloaded file > is probably a web page! Check it with the file command. This can sometimes happen when there's a fault on the server. Try a different mirror. -- Neil Bothwick There'

Re: [gentoo-user] can't emerge anything, wrong files downloaded

2007-11-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 14:46:14 +0800, fei huang wrote: > 2. 2007.0 seems missing lots of useful use flags, many apps not > functioning properly after I switch to that profile (for nptl) Try 2007.0/desktop. -- Neil Bothwick User-friendly: (adj.) trivialized, slow, incapable, and boring. signat

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash 3.2/3.1 compatibility?

2007-11-10 Thread Alex Schuster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have the same problem and I was trying to solve it few weeks ago, > after almost two weeks of searching and compiling I substituted =~ with > expr: > > - orig use with ~= : > # if [[ "test" =~ ".*" ]]; then echo "ok"; fi > > - alternative use with expr : > # export TE

[gentoo-user] OT - Need help enabling iptables support in kernel

2007-11-10 Thread Michael Sullivan
I have a big problem. I've asked this question here in the past, and have never gotten a straight answer. I use ipkungfu as my firewall sofware. I noticed yesterday when I had to reboot my server box that ipkungfu wasn't starting. baby ~ # /etc/init.d/ipkungfu restart * Starting ipkungfu ...

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help enabling iptables support in kernel

2007-11-10 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 06:53:42 -0600 Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a big problem. I've asked this question here in the past, and > have never gotten a straight answer. I use ipkungfu as my firewall > sofware. I noticed yesterday when I had to reboot my server box that > ipk

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help enabling iptables support in kernel

2007-11-10 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Michael Sullivan wrote: > # CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_IPV4 is not set This should be switched on. > # CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_IPV6 is not set And if you use IPv6, then this one too. But if you don't absolutely need IPv6, better switch all support for it off, just because it is less confusing that way.

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS for Pentium Dual Core E2160 ?

2007-11-10 Thread David W Noon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 10 Nov 2007 09:30 in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> of linux.gentoo.user, Stefan G. Weichinger([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > David W Noon schrieb: > >> You need to consider CHOST as well, to ensure you make the most of >> the newer CPUs. >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash 3.2/3.1 compatibility?

2007-11-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 11:13:10AM +0200, Penguin Lover Etaoin Shrdlu squawked: > > The question: > > > > Is there a switch that I can use to make bash run in some sort of > > compatibility mode for the string comparison? I.e, can I somehow > > force bash (in the script) to behave like before

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash 3.2/3.1 compatibility?

2007-11-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 01:46:33PM +0100, Penguin Lover Alex Schuster squawked: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I have the same problem and I was trying to solve it few weeks ago, > > after almost two weeks of searching and compiling I substituted =~ with > > expr: > > > > - orig use with ~= : > >

Re: [gentoo-user] APM kills harddrives?

2007-11-10 Thread Florian Philipp
Thomas Hobbes schrieb: Hi, there are some reports that Ubuntu GNU/Linux 7.10 "kills harddrive": http://ubuntudemon.wordpress.com/2007/10/28/laptop-hardrive-killer-bug-how-to-discover-whether-you-are-affected/ I can confirm this behaviour for FreeBSD 6.2 STABLE 200710 i386 and Gentoo Linux 2007.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help enabling iptables support in kernel

2007-11-10 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 15:40 +0200, Daniel Iliev wrote: > On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 06:53:42 -0600 > Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have a big problem. I've asked this question here in the past, and > > have never gotten a straight answer. I use ipkungfu as my firewall > > sofware.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about the 2007.1

2007-11-10 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 10 November 2007 01:42:04 am Daniel Barkalow wrote: > On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, James wrote: > > If you do not like my opinion, you should look at what Daniel Robbins > > had to say, as I ran across a posting of his today, about this very > > issue. An awesome collection of techies does not g

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS for Pentium Dual Core E2160 ?

2007-11-10 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 10. November 2007 schrieb David W Noon: > If you change the CHOST, CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS variables, then do: >emerge -e system >emerge -e world Since -e means "emptytree" (as in dependency tree), the latter would be enough, right? Bye... Dirk signature.asc Descript

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS for Pentium Dual Core E2160 ?

2007-11-10 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 02:18:46PM +, David W Noon wrote: > If you change the CHOST, CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS variables, then do: >emerge -e system >emerge -e world > you will have converted everything except your kernel to 64-bit. Clearly you are completely clueless. Do *NOT* do this. It w

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS for Pentium Dual Core E2160 ?

2007-11-10 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Bo Ørsted Andresen schrieb: > On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 02:18:46PM +, David W Noon wrote: >> If you change the CHOST, CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS variables, then do: >>emerge -e system >>emerge -e world >> you will have converted everything except your kernel to 64-bit. > > Clearly you are compl

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS for Pentium Dual Core E2160 ?

2007-11-10 Thread Qian Qiao
On Nov 10, 2007 2:18 PM, David W Noon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you change the CHOST, CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS variables, then do: >emerge -e system >emerge -e world > you will have converted everything except your kernel to 64-bit. This > was what you were planning anyway, but the chang

[gentoo-user] OT - cvsd

2007-11-10 Thread Michael Sullivan
I've set up cvsd according to http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_CVS_Server . Now, how do I create a module? I can log in remotely just fine, but I want to create a new module. This is what I get when I try: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ourrpg $ cvs import -m "Our RPG" ourrpg xyz start cvs import: cannot make pa

[gentoo-user] ERROR: net-misc/iputils-20070202 failed

2007-11-10 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
ppet of code: * emake -j1 html man || die * The die message: * (no error message) * * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. * A complete build log is located at '/var/log/portage/net-misc:iputils-20070202:20071110-201009.log'. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] IPI shortcut/no shortcut mode question

2007-11-10 Thread »Q«
I'm using tuxonice-sources on an x86 machine. After switching from 2.6.23 to 2.6.23-r1, I notice that during boot I get "Using IPI No-Shortcut mode" followed by a count from 1 to 100. I don't think I had this delay before; it's possible, but unlikely, that I just didn't notice it; it takes abou

Re: [gentoo-user] Is gentoo-wiki.com down?

2007-11-10 Thread Herbert Laubner
Am Freitag, 9. November 2007 01:21:28 schrieb Dan Farrell: > Gentoo-wiki goes down a lot. That's why I keep my documentation > elsewhere... How and where? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS for Pentium Dual Core E2160 ?

2007-11-10 Thread David W Noon
On Saturday 10 Nov 2007 19:20 in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> of linux.gentoo.user, Bo Ørsted Andresen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 02:18:46PM +, David W Noon wrote: >> If you change the CHOST, CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS variables, then do: >>emerge -e system >>emerge -e

[gentoo-user] Excessively simple flatfile database

2007-11-10 Thread Alan E. Davis
I am posting to this list as a first resort. I hope this is not off topic. I've been searching for a very simple database program. I've used edb (emacs database) and that works ok, for some things. All I need right now is a simple, searchable, sortable list of laboratory and field data for a r

Re: [gentoo-user] Excessively simple flatfile database

2007-11-10 Thread felix
On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 11:23:42AM +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: > May I elicit suggestions? Do you want simple key=value pair (perl hash, associative array, etc) where one key gives one value? Your value may of course be tab separted sub values or anythig really. They are hard to search, but if y

Re: [gentoo-user] Excessively simple flatfile database

2007-11-10 Thread Alan E. Davis
Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree. I want to have a record of my specimens and preparations, in a format that can be retrieved in various ways, sorted, and printed. A record, like a card file. Nothing compilcated, don't need a server. I'm thinking emacs data base. I guess I want database fun

Re: [gentoo-user] Excessively simple flatfile database

2007-11-10 Thread Bryan Whitehead
Sounds like you want to use a spreadsheet. You try OpenOffice? On Nov 10, 2007 6:55 PM, Alan E. Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree. I want to have a record of my > specimens and preparations, in a format that can be retrieved in various > ways, sorted, and prin