[gentoo-user] Impossible question... Swithcing from "no multilib" to "multilib"

2010-07-22 Thread Andrea Momesso
That's impossible, isn't it? Swithcing profile and reemerging everithing isn't gonna work? Even from a chroot? Should I reinstall a new stage from scratch? Adobe stopped providing flash for linux 64 bit, and I some of the sites I need to visit for work need it. Mantaining a chroot is not w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Impossible question... Swithcing from "no multilib" to "multilib"

2010-07-22 Thread Andrea Momesso
On Thursday 22 July 2010 11:13:23 Alex Schuster wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras writes: > > On 07/22/2010 12:56 PM, Andrea Momesso wrote: > > > That's impossible, isn't it? > > I think so. > > > > Swithcing profile and reemerging everith

Re: [gentoo-user] netqmail and saving a copy of outgoing mail

2009-10-07 Thread Andrea Momesso
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Momesso Andrea wrote: > I have mail server running netqmail and vpopmail set up following > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/qmail-howto.xml. > > I can't find a way to make the server taking care of storing all sent > messages. > Googoling around I found that this is

[gentoo-user] Grub hangs when a USB disk is attached

2008-02-28 Thread Andrea Momesso
I had no problem booting since last time I partitoned my USB external disk. == Disk /dev/sdc: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x Device Boot

[gentoo-user] Turn off usb power on demand

2008-11-26 Thread Andrea Momesso
I have an usb external disk attached to a machine running gentoo. I only need this disk once a day, when a cron job mounts it, makes some backups, and then umounts it. I'd save a lot of electrical power (and I think also disk health) if I was able to turn on and off electrical power from the u

Re: [gentoo-user] Turn off usb power on demand

2008-11-26 Thread Andrea Momesso
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:11:00 +0100, Andrea Momesso wrote: > > > I only need this disk once a day, when a cron job mounts it, makes > > some backups, and then umounts it. > > > I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] Turn off usb power on demand

2008-11-26 Thread Andrea Momesso
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mittwoch 26 November 2008, Andrea Momesso wrote: > > I have an usb external disk attached to a machine running > > gentoo. > > > > > > I only need this disk once

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation problems on AMD64 box

2008-11-28 Thread Andrea Momesso
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 12:36 PM, R C Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I use Ubuntu for every day but as my box has a spare 40GB hard disk I decided > to have a go at installing Gentoo on it for evaluation > > Using the handbook documentation for AMD64 I burned a basic installation CD, > boo

Re: [gentoo-user] Permissions of files in /sys/

2009-01-09 Thread Andrea Momesso
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Momesso Andrea > wrote: >> I'd like to make the file /sys/class/backlight/asus-laptop/brightness >> writeable for users, so that I don't need to be root anymore to change >> the brightness. >> >> Of course I ca

Re: [gentoo-user] Permissions of files in /sys/

2009-01-12 Thread Andrea Momesso
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Re: [gentoo-user] What *-sources for laptop

2008-07-19 Thread Andrea Momesso
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 19 July 2008, Amar Cosic wrote: > > Hello all > > > > I am about to install Gentoo on laptop for first time.I use > > gentoo-sources on desktop but I would like to know is there maybe > > something better for l

[gentoo-user] Same package, same version, different USE flags, how to avoid rebuild?

2008-10-14 Thread Andrea Momesso
Yesterday I emerged app-office/openoffice-3.0.0, and as usual it took a lot of time. This morning, after sync, portage wants to reemerge the same package, and the same version, due to a new (and unused by me) useflag which is "-templates%". Of course the result would be a completely identical buil

Re: [gentoo-user] Same package, same version, different USE flags, how to avoid rebuild?

2008-10-15 Thread Andrea Momesso
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Wedn"esday 15 October 2008 08:20:40 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:" > > Yesterday I emerged app-office/openoffice-3.0.0, and as usual it took a > lot > > of time. > > > > This morning, after sync, portage wants to reemerge the

Re: [gentoo-user] Same package, same version, different USE flags, how to avoid rebuild?

2008-10-15 Thread Andrea Momesso
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Jean-Marc Beaune <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hi, > > I finished by emerging openoffice-bin instead, takes much less time. > But takes much more time to load and to work on 64bit machines. > > Actually now I use google documents... > > Which is pretty limited fo

[gentoo-user] How to send mail with attachment from a cron job?

2011-02-17 Thread Andrea Momesso
Hi, what is the best way to send a mail with a pdf attachment from a cron job? The machine is already set up with qmail + vpopmail + dovecot. I really don't know where to look for instructions on how to use qmail-send from a script. Thank you -- TopperH http://topperh.ath.cx

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to send mail with attachment from a cron job? [SOLVED]

2011-02-17 Thread Andrea Momesso
Yeah, that works great!! Thank you! On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2011-02-17, Andrea Momesso wrote: >> Hi, >> >> what is the best way to send a mail with a pdf attachment from a cron job? >> >> The machine is already set u