Re: [gentoo-user] cronie setup questions

2024-10-09 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Oct 03, 2024 at 07:47:34PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote > The Gentoo install suggested using "cronie". I want to run a script > daily as local user. The config I want is... > > 35 7 * * * waltdnes /home/waltdnes/pm/check4update/check4update My email shows that the job is launching, but

Re: [gentoo-user] [PLEASE IGNORE] Haven't been able to post to list...

2024-10-09 Thread Mark Knecht
Made it On Wed, Oct 9, 2024, 2:30 PM Andrew Lowe wrote: > Is this getting through? > > Sorry for the "fluff" but as the subject says, I've been trying to > post > to the list but nothing gets through. On the other hand, I'm getting > messages from the list, no problem. > > Andrew

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: Creating a custom kernel from a -bin kernel

2024-10-09 Thread Michael
Hi Andrew, On Sunday 6 October 2024 15:16:46 BST Andrew Lowe wrote: > For some reason this didn't go through yesterday so, once again.. > > > Forwarded Message > Subject: Creating a custom kernel from a -bin kernel > Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2024 18:55:50 +0800 > From: Andrew Lowe

[gentoo-user] Re: Creating a custom kernel from a -bin kernel

2024-10-09 Thread Peter Böhm
> Have a look at this page: > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel/Configuration or take the hard way and do it yourself: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Pietinger/Tutorials/ Manual_kernel_configuration

Re: [gentoo-user] Losing emails

2024-10-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 9 October 2024 15:41:16 BST I wrote: > You may remember my mentioning a fly in the ointment recently. Well, today I > went to post a follow-up, only to find that the message had disappeared > from my client, which is KMail. Perhaps I didn't actually send that mail, I > thought, so I c

[gentoo-user] Losing emails

2024-10-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
Greetings, You may remember my mentioning a fly in the ointment recently. Well, today I went to post a follow-up, only to find that the message had disappeared from my client, which is KMail. Perhaps I didn't actually send that mail, I thought, so I checked the archive and there it was. KMail

Re: [gentoo-user] cronie setup questions

2024-10-09 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Wed, 9 Oct 2024 at 17:31, Walter Dnes wrote: > What do I need to do to allow "geeqie" to open up in an X window as > user "waltdnes". Prepend the cron command with the display variable. Most likely this would look like: DISPLAY=:0.0 /home/waltdnes/pm/check4update/check4update Regards, Arve

Re: [gentoo-user] cronie setup questions

2024-10-09 Thread Michael
On Wednesday 9 October 2024 16:31:16 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > On Thu, Oct 03, 2024 at 07:47:34PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote > > > The Gentoo install suggested using "cronie". I want to run a script > > > > daily as local user. The config I want is... > > > > 35 7 * * * waltdnes /home/waltdnes/

[gentoo-user] [PLEASE IGNORE] Haven't been able to post to list...

2024-10-09 Thread Andrew Lowe
Is this getting through? Sorry for the "fluff" but as the subject says, I've been trying to post to the list but nothing gets through. On the other hand, I'm getting messages from the list, no problem. Andrew

[gentoo-user] Fwd: Creating a custom kernel from a -bin kernel

2024-10-09 Thread Andrew Lowe
For some reason this didn't go through yesterday so, once again.. Forwarded Message Subject: Creating a custom kernel from a -bin kernel Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2024 18:55:50 +0800 From: Andrew Lowe Reply-To: a...@wht.com.au Organization: Wombat High Tech To: gentoo-user@lists.ge

[gentoo-user] Suppressing some "emerge" output

2024-10-09 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Greetings, after a recent KDE upgrade among other new packages "emerge" also in- stalled "dev-qt/qtwebengine" as a new dependency. Since on my five year old laptop this package requires about 6 hours 20 minutes to build, I decided to slightly redesign my package managing script and to use b

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: Creating a custom kernel from a -bin kernel

2024-10-09 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 10/9/24 6:08 PM, Michael wrote: >> I have a recollection of reading somewhere online mention of a > script >> that will take the .config file from the "-bin" kernel and then >> modprobe, I think, each listed module in turn to see if it is actually >> being used and subsequently writing a n

Re: [gentoo-user] Losing emails

2024-10-09 Thread William Kenworthy
Check the permissions on the email in .maildir.  I am using imap and very occasionally Thunderbird wont display an email  as the permissions were not set correctly for some reason. (glitch? on download) BillK On 9/10/24 22:45, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 9 October 2024 15:41:16 BST I