Re: [gentoo-user] USe rsync to backup RAID0 to RAID1?

2010-04-16 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 16.04.2010 02:03, schrieb Neil Bothwick: > On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:30:04 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > >>I would like to back up a mounted RAID0 to a mounted RAID1. > > The RAID makes no difference, because rsync works at the filesystem level. > >>Would the following command be appropria

[gentoo-user] KDE4 doesn't detect power capabilities (hibernate, suspend, battery and frequency scaling)

2010-04-16 Thread Yoav Luft
After some experiments with the ndiswrapper driver, KDE4 stopped providing a frontend to various power capabilities. It doesn't detect the battery, it doesn't offer suspend or hibernate it the shutdown script, et cetera. The battery properties are still accessable through /sys/class/power/BAT1 and

Re: [gentoo-user] USe rsync to backup RAID0 to RAID1?

2010-04-16 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 16 Apr, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:30:04 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > >>I would like to back up a mounted RAID0 to a mounted RAID1. > > The RAID makes no difference, because rsync works at the filesystem level. > >>Would the following command be appropriate to backup

Re: [gentoo-user] i cannot browser if the system is up too long

2010-04-16 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 16 April 2010 04:06:37 Xi Shen wrote: > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 2:55 AM, Stroller > > wrote: > > How are you connecting to the net? > > yes, i connect to the net through a router. and i share the router > with my roommates. > > > Are you sure this isn't the router? Have you tried swit

[gentoo-user] Re: Gnome bluetooth in Gentoo

2010-04-16 Thread Damian
Daniel da Veiga writes: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 06:46, Damian wrote: > > Did anybody could manage to get gnome-bluetooth working? First I had > problems with permissions, so I added some udev rules and the > permissions in rfkill. But now, if I launch the applet I just get a big >

Re: [gentoo-user] ssd: using TRIM

2010-04-16 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 09.04.2010 21:41, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > For sure, I will keep my old hdd, and pull images and backups from > my thinkpad every few days. update: and now it's dead. The SSD lost its firmware and shows up as an 8 MB "Intel Bootloader". Oh my.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xine problem

2010-04-16 Thread mischdele
On Friday 16 April 2010 04:38:40 James wrote: > gmx.de> writes: > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 5 22:33 /dev/dvd1 -> hda > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 5 22:33 /dev/dvdrw1 -> hda > > > > Looking at the files you listed I guess /dev/dvd doesn't exist on your > > system. You should probab

[gentoo-user] [OT] Setting up a fall back ISP SMTP in sendmail

2010-04-16 Thread Mick
Hi All, Is there a (native) way to configure sendmail to send messages via a secondary smtp account, if dor some reason the primary ISP smtp is down, without some bespoke DIY script? -- Regards, Mick

[gentoo-user] Re: vixie-cron keeps stopping

2010-04-16 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Thursday 15 April 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 15 April 2010 02:58:15 Matt Harrison wrote: > > I apologise if this has come twice, it didn't appear to post > > correctly first time, not even on the archives. > > > > Its been happening for a while but I haven't got round to find out

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vixie-cron keeps stopping

2010-04-16 Thread Stroller
On 16 Apr 2010, at 18:58, Francesco Talamona wrote: On Thursday 15 April 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... You probably don't want to hear this, but: vixie-cron is problematic in the extreme. I have endless hassle with it's weird behaviours. Use a different cron daemon. Your advice is vague :)

Re: [gentoo-user] vixie-cron keeps stopping

2010-04-16 Thread kashani
On 4/15/2010 1:20 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 15 April 2010 02:58:15 Matt Harrison wrote: I apologise if this has come twice, it didn't appear to post correctly first time, not even on the archives. Its been happening for a while but I haven't got round to find out why, but every so of

Re: [gentoo-user] vixie-cron keeps stopping

2010-04-16 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 15 April 2010 02:58:15 Matt Harrison wrote: I apologise if this has come twice, it didn't appear to post correctly first time, not even on the archives. Its been happening for a while but I haven't got round to find out why, but every so often (anything betw

Re: [gentoo-user] vixie-cron keeps stopping

2010-04-16 Thread Mick
On Friday 16 April 2010 19:22:42 kashani wrote: > On 4/15/2010 1:20 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Thursday 15 April 2010 02:58:15 Matt Harrison wrote: > >> I apologise if this has come twice, it didn't appear to post correctly > >> first time, not even on the archives. > >> > >> Its been happenin

Re: [gentoo-user] Nepomuk can't find database backend

2010-04-16 Thread Jim Cunning
On Thursday 15 April 2010 14:01:02 Jim Cunning wrote: > I have KDE 4.4.2 installed on an AMD64 system. On login, I get the popup > "Nepomuk was not able to find the configured database backend 'sesame2'. > Existing data can thus not be" > > I have installed: > jlc64 ~ # eix -I nepomuk > [D] kde-b

Re: [gentoo-user] Nepomuk can't find database backend

2010-04-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Jim Cunning wrote: > I have KDE 4.4.2 installed on an AMD64 system.  On login, I get the popup > "Nepomuk was not able to find the configured database backend 'sesame2'. > Existing data can thus not be" > > I have installed: > jlc64 ~ # eix -I nepomuk > [D] kde-bas

Re: [gentoo-user] vixie-cron keeps stopping

2010-04-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 16 April 2010 20:29:27 Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Thursday 15 April 2010 02:58:15 Matt Harrison wrote: > >> I apologise if this has come twice, it didn't appear to post correctly > >> first time, not even on the archives. > >> > >> Its been happening for a while but I have

[gentoo-user] Re: xine problem

2010-04-16 Thread walt
On 04/15/2010 07:38 PM, James wrote: gmx.de> writes: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 5 22:33 /dev/dvd1 -> hda lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 5 22:33 /dev/dvdrw1 -> hda Looking at the files you listed I guess /dev/dvd doesn't exist on your system. You should probably try /dev/dvd1 or /de

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vixie-cron keeps stopping

2010-04-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 16 April 2010 19:58:23 Francesco Talamona wrote: > On Thursday 15 April 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Thursday 15 April 2010 02:58:15 Matt Harrison wrote: > > > I apologise if this has come twice, it didn't appear to post > > > correctly first time, not even on the archives. > > > >

[gentoo-user] Re: monitor identification question (Gnome)

2010-04-16 Thread walt
On 04/15/2010 05:38 PM, David Relson wrote: I just retired my Viewsonic 19" CRT in favor of a Viewsonic VX2433WM. Looking in Xorg.0.log it's obviously recognized (as the following lines indicate): (II) RADEON(0): Serial No: R4F100901594 (II) RADEON(0): Ranges: V min: 50 V max: 75 Hz, H min: 24 H

[gentoo-user] How many ways are there for a user to increase their permissions?

2010-04-16 Thread Jonathan
I'm trying to work out how many ways there are to increase the permissions of a user. 1: su -: Needs root password and you need to be in the group "wheel". 2: sudo: You need to be in the group "wheel" or in the /etc/sudoers file, using your own user password. I'm not counting gksu and gksud

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: monitor identification question (Gnome)

2010-04-16 Thread David Relson
On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:08:55 -0700 walt wrote: > On 04/15/2010 05:38 PM, David Relson wrote: > > I just retired my Viewsonic 19" CRT in favor of a Viewsonic > > VX2433WM. Looking in Xorg.0.log it's obviously recognized (as the > > following lines indicate): > > > > (II) RADEON(0): Serial No: R4F10

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up a fall back ISP SMTP in sendmail

2010-04-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Mick writes: > Hi All, > > Is there a (native) way to configure sendmail to send messages via a > secondary smtp account, if dor some reason the primary ISP smtp is > down, without some bespoke DIY script? Not give you the runaround, and there may well be some sendmail experts here... but I thin

[gentoo-user] Re: How many ways are there for a user to increase their permissions?

2010-04-16 Thread walt
On 04/16/2010 03:13 PM, Jonathan wrote: I'm trying to work out how many ways there are to increase the permissions of a user. ... I'm very happy Gentoo user but I find that configuring things can get very messy.> I've been an amateur linux/*BSD user for about ten years or so, and I would l

Re: [gentoo-user][SOLVED] Nepomuk can't find database backend

2010-04-16 Thread Jim Cunning
On Friday 16 April 2010 12:42:44 Mark Knecht wrote: [...] > > So if I'm clear about this, you have a stable AMD64 system with ~AMD64 KDE? > > If you upgraded from KDE 4.3 did you try deleting all the old KDE > configuration stuff and starting new? I've not had your problems with > nepomuk but I r

Re: [gentoo-user][SOLVED] Nepomuk can't find database backend

2010-04-16 Thread Dale
Jim Cunning wrote: On Friday 16 April 2010 12:42:44 Mark Knecht wrote: [...] So if I'm clear about this, you have a stable AMD64 system with ~AMD64 KDE? If you upgraded from KDE 4.3 did you try deleting all the old KDE configuration stuff and starting new? I've not had your problems with ne