Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo

2006-03-23 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 16:03:08 -0500 JimD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been using Linux for a number of years and the one "trick" I > have never read how to do is something like: > > sudo echo "app-portage/porthole ~*" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords That's because your _current_ shel

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: awk scripting

2006-03-24 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 14:34:22 +0100 (CET) Sascha Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want the awk analogon for "cut -f2-", which prints fields #2 to #n. > Is this possible? > > awk '{print $2???}' I'd do the following: awk '{$1="";print $0}' (awk recalculates $0 when $n is modified) This

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: awk scripting

2006-03-24 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:15:09 +0100 (CET) Sascha Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > > awk '{$1="";print $0}' > > > > (awk recalculates $0 when $n is modified) > > This still leaves you with o

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: awk scripting

2006-03-24 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:49:22 -0600 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 24 March 2006 07:34, Sascha Lucas > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] OT: > awk scripting': > > I want the awk analogon for "cut -f2-", which prints fields #2 to > > #n. Is this po

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing linux's internet connection with an iMac?

2006-03-27 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 01:29:54 -0600 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes. Set up a bridge device on the laptop between the wifi interface > and the iMac interface; assuming your setup is as simple as I think, > that should be all you need to do. Most likely it wouldn't w

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing linux's internet connection with an iMac?

2006-03-27 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 18:23:24 +0200 Matthias Bethke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on Monday, 2006-03-27 at 13:36:38, you wrote: > > Most likely it wouldn't work because of the wlan link layer. Most > > WiFi cards don't go well with bridging... So routing is the option > > which is left. > > Th

Re: [gentoo-user] another iptables question...

2006-03-28 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:44:07 +0530 "Hiren Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did this: > [...] > #iptables -A OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner 0 -j ACCEPT > #iptables -A OUTPUT -j DROP > [...] > Still other users including root can ping other PCs. Why is this not > working? please post the outp

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh2 and xover LAN

2006-04-03 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 08:44:02 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For some reason scp concatenates the source with the > destination into one non-existing path. Then why on earth don't you quote actually _useful_ data for us to help you, i.e. the command you issued when you g

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge without download

2006-04-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 6 Apr 2006 09:22:11 -0700 (PDT) go moko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Moreover, why 'emerge digest' try to > > > > download the file instead of creating the > > > > corresponding digest file? > > > > > > The command you wanted was 'ebuild'... > > > > Or 'emerge --digest packag

Re: [gentoo-user] gpm (X11): touchpad OR usb-mouse?

2006-04-11 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 21:55:46 +0200 Jarry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to configure gpm so, that if usb-mouse is > attached, then only mouse can be used as pointing device? You may try to use udev for that. It can call scripts when devices are plugged in and out or just present

Re: [gentoo-user] error after update

2006-04-12 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 23:03:39 +0800 (CST) "wcw84" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > config_eth0=( "222.20.45.71 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 222.20.45 255" ) There's a dot missing right before the last "255". -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] udev/initramfs problem

2006-04-18 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 09:44:09 -0500 "Johnson, Maurice E CTR NSWCDL-K74" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We rescently upgraded to the 2.6.15-r1 kernel and life is great on the > systems that use the adaptec scsi controllers. However, LSI Logic does > not appear to be seen by udev or, more likely,

Re: [gentoo-user] udev/initramfs problem

2006-04-18 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 11:25:52 -0500 "Johnson, Maurice E CTR NSWCDL-K74" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # genkernel -- menuconfig --install all Hm, I don't really know genkernel. Does it create the initramfs? > When in the ash shell environment, I notice that there are few static > nodes in /d

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] tv tunner

2006-04-19 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:37:37 +0300 Catalin Trifu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I would like to get a TV Tunner installed on my gentoo linux box. >Could you please share some of your experience with setting up > a TV Tunner and which cards/software you used. I'm currently running a DVB

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for best tutorial on creating initramfs

2006-04-20 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 08:05:50 -0500 "Johnson, Maurice E CTR NSWCDL-K74" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Need to find a better tutorial on initramfs. One that doesn't rely on > tools that automate the process. In fact, an initramfs doesn't differ much from other root fs'es. Physically, it is a gz

Re: [gentoo-user] Do NOT install evolution

2006-04-22 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi Alexander, On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 13:15:31 +0200 Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to make emerge/Portage pretend that > mail-client/evolution is already installed WITHOUT actually > installing it? I do NOT want to deinstall gnome-base/gnome and I also > don't really wan

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: IrDA crashes every time

2006-04-22 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 02:17:20 +0200 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Apr 23 01:01:01 lappy smsc_ircc_present: can't get sir_base of 0x3e8 Try checking and changing BIOS settings for IRDA IO port, IRQ settings and DMA and - maybe - Plug&Play. Then you might want to use the IO/IRQ/DMA paramete

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: IrDA crashes every time

2006-04-24 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 13:47:24 +0200 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I've tried passing all sort of different parameters to the > module but it comes back with errors: > [...] Well, there are two things left I would try: #1: I remember some kind of "findchip" utility (try that name) th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: IrDA crashes every time

2006-04-24 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi again, On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 15:09:43 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got partial success! I can modprobe smsc-ircc2 which seems to > successfully install the module: > = > # modprobe -v smsc-ircc2 ircc_sir=0x3e8 ircc_irq=3 > insmod /lib/modules/2.6.15-gentoo-r1

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: IrDA crashes every time

2006-04-24 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 17:50:37 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, no error. The module is installed fine as long as I have run > setserial first. Hm, that's how it should be with fast infrared drivers. All OK, then, I guess. > > You might want to try to have the default > > serial

Re: [gentoo-user] Initramfs question

2006-04-25 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, short note at the start: Don't hijack other threads (like you did here), don't answer a mailing list mail but write a new one to the list, when you want to start a new thread. On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 11:32:52 -0400 "K. Mike Bradley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone tell me why the latest

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: FontForge needs conversion from ISO-8859-1 to UCS2 - iconv (glibc-2.3.5-r2) does not support it on amd64

2006-04-26 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 11:43:09 -0400 "Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Although FF seems to work now if compiled --without-iconv, I would > like to know why this conversion is not working on my system. > > Here is what happens if I type: > [...] Hm. Works for me. And t

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: FontForge needs conversion from ISO-8859-1 to UCS2 - iconv (glibc-2.3.5-r2) does not support it on amd64

2006-04-26 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:42:09 -0400 "Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you say that those conversions work for you on amd64? Ah, I'm seeing it now in the subject. No, I was quietly assuming you're talking about x86. I don't have an amd64 machine at hand, so I can't

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: FontForge needs conversion from ISO-8859-1 to UCS2 - iconv (glibc-2.3.5-r2) does not support it on amd64

2006-04-26 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 14:09:18 -0400 "Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is the strace output: http://plouj.sh.nu/straceiconv from that output: ---snip open("/usr/lib32/gconv/UNICODE.so", O_RDONLY) = 4 read(4, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0 \5\0\000

Re: [gentoo-user] My box freezee sometimes

2006-04-28 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:24:19 -0300 "Fernando Antunes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've already run memtest86, no problem report. positive testing of a hypothesis is not a proof of correctness. Negative testing is a proof of its falseness. That said, you can only validate the hypothesis of

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

2006-05-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 2 May 2006 17:42:26 +0100 (WEST) Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2 May 2006, Zac Slade wrote: > > > You can find the PID of the last backgrouned process using the bash variable > > $! > > > The child is not backgrounded! > > So something like: > > subprocess & > >

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of gentoo-sources

2006-05-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 2 May 2006 21:09:44 +0200 "Leopold Gouverneur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I prevent emerge from merging gentoo-sources (I now use sources > from ftp.kernel.org).I tried --unmerge whithout success. Something will always try to pull it in. But you can tell portage that it's t

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

2006-05-03 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 3 May 2006 20:38:49 +0100 (WEST) Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 3 May 2006, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > Putting something in the background doesn't change what it's std(in|out| > > err) are attached to. They will still go to the [pt]ty like normal. If >

Re: [gentoo-user] Web mail

2006-05-03 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 03 May 2006 08:59:23 -0500 Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know about event-driven programming (I wrote in VB for years before I > achieved the enlightenment of Linux), but I didn't know that it was > possible with PHP. I use event-driven techniques in Gambas and qt.

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

2006-05-04 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 4 May 2006 18:55:28 +0300 Moshe Kaminsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Funny, I just tried the same, and it worked. It also didn't print any > "after" (appropriately, since the sig handler includes 'exit'), and I > didn't find any sleep process. Maybe it was from some different > ex

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 05 May 2006 08:22:29 +0200 Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Monday 01 May 2006 11:03 pm, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > Outlook and Outlook Express are the two worst mail clients in the > >> > universe. > >> > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 5 May 2006 18:49:29 +0530 Farhan Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The difference is: with -j2 box is slow. A lot of packages do not > > compile because of ooms. > > > > with -j1 box is normal. No ooms. Compiling does not take longer as > > with -j2. > > This is the first time I'

[gentoo-user] OOM-Killer upon compilation/emerge on AMD64 (was: Re: why firefox is so slow?)

2006-05-05 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 5 May 2006 17:28:06 +0200 "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is an example: > > [ 1151.984763] oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x80d2, order=0 Huh? If I understand Linux' memory management correctly that says that the OOM condition was triggered by trying to reserve 1 pa

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown pauses partway with "Give root password"

2006-05-09 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 09 May 2006 07:20:57 -0700 glen martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Resending ... anyone have a clue as to why the "Give root password for > maintenance ..." prompt would come up occasionally at shutdown time? That's "sulogin". Did you mess up your /etc/inittab (like uncommenting tha

Re: [gentoo-user] 1366x768 HDTV

2006-05-15 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 15 May 2006 02:05:28 + (UTC) James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to get the SVGA input on a HDTV to work with my gentoo > system. The monitor manual says it works with 1366x768. The video > card in the machine is: VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation > NV34 [GeF

Re: [gentoo-user] ReiserFS extended attributes?

2006-05-15 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 15 May 2006 20:18:26 +0200 (CEST) Sascha Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > and then mount it with user_xattr: > > # mount -o remount,user_xattr /mnt/reiserfs_mountpoint > > but it seems not to work? I can't be of much further help, but my immediate question after reading this was:

Re: [gentoo-user] ReiserFS extended attributes?

2006-05-15 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 15 May 2006 21:22:50 +0200 (CEST) Sascha Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can't be of much further help, but my immediate question after > > reading this was: what does /proc/mounts contain after doing this? > > something different then mount shows: > > # mount | grep home > /

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading to gcc 4.1: emerge -e world required?

2006-05-26 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 26 May 2006 16:01:14 +0200 Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Of course. You don't need to have gcc installed to be able to > run a *compiled* program. but one might want to have the libstdc++ and libgcj installed that came with the compiler for the case that C++/Java progr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DNSDOMAIN in /etc/conf.d/domainname has no effect?

2006-05-26 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 26 May 2006 19:40:02 +0200 Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Zac Slade wrote: > > On Friday 26 May 2006 08:25, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > >> But I wonder what this DNSDOMAIN setting in /etc/conf.d/domainname is > >> supposed to do. Because of > > It sets the domain in /etc

Re: [gentoo-user] SSHD running under Linux, SSH running under Windoz

2006-05-29 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 29 May 2006 11:19:30 +0200 Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Monday 29 May 2006 11:08 skrev Norman Rieß: > > With Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/), you can install a X11-Server > > on you Windowsmachine. Then switch on the X11 forwarding of your > > ssh client. > > Be aw

Re: [gentoo-user] Reconstructing a Gentoo Installer Computer

2006-05-31 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 31 May 2006 08:29:49 -0400 "Timothy A. Holmes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Raymond - the dev-lang/php use flag is there to pull in the PHP stuff > as BASE requires it. What makes you think there's a) a slash-notation in USE flags b) this specific USE flag? "dev-lang/php" really look

Re: [gentoo-user] march athlon-xp to athlon64

2006-05-31 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 00:51:47 +0930 Raymond Lewis Rebbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday, 1 June 2006 0:38, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > > > Also -ftracer is not in the safe cflags list, personally I would not > > > > use it but if you believe it benefits you then go ahead. > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] xrdb woes

2006-05-31 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, first: I saw your "answer" to your own question, but I rather answer this :-) (Besides: 2 hours is not quite the amount of time I would expect a competent answer to a very individual problem...) On Wed, 31 May 2006 11:01:58 + (UTC) James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While the 'peripheral

Re: [gentoo-user] how to trigger complete rebuild after changing CFLAGS oder USEFLAGS

2006-05-31 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 31 May 2006 13:57:10 -0600 Justin R Findlay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 09:10:48PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > What does > > emerge system > > exactly do ? > > system is an alias for a bunch of core packages. I forgot where it's > defined. That's

Re: [gentoo-user] march athlon-xp to athlon64

2006-05-31 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 31 May 2006 18:38:05 +0200 "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 31 May 2006 18:29, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > > On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 00:51:47 +0930 > > Raymond Lewis Rebbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no suEXEC logging on errors

2006-06-08 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 03:37:01 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Justin R Findlay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 01:51:09AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > >> A few people have mentioned not having used Suexec making me > >> wonder if there is some other way to al

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-4.1.1

2006-06-08 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 05:34:49 -0700 "Bob Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, sorry that's just wrong. gcc is slotted, if the above were true > there would be no need for gcc-config in order to select a default > compiler. Did you follow the documentation pointer given in the mail you are r

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no suEXEC logging on errors

2006-06-08 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 13:32:17 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What you're experiencing seems to be just a missing ScriptAlias. RTFM > > about calling CGIs... > > What I've found is that if I set Scr

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing mailserver with ssh

2006-06-17 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 23:09:57 +0200 Jarry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 17/06/06, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You cannot use an ssh client in this manner. > > But what if mail-server uses secure connection (SSL) and secure > authentication? Could I use ssh-client

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing mailserver with ssh

2006-06-18 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 09:20:53 + Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 17/06/06, Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 23:09:57 +0200 Jarry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > But what if mail-server uses secure connection (

Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder: error encoding, following howto

2006-06-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:01:51 -0400 fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I opt to go for the supposedly higher quality x264, so I do two > passes: > > 1: > > mencoder -v ../vob/title1.vob -alang en -vf > crop=720:352:0:62,scale=752:320 -ovc x264 -x264encopts > subq=4:bframes=4:b_pyramid:

Re: [gentoo-user] initramfs, network diskless boot, init process, problems with switchroot (pivot_root)

2006-06-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 13:50:12 -0700 "Richard Fish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > pivot_root is specifically *not* allowed from an initramfs > environment. What you want to do is simply mount the new root > filesystem, chroot into it, and execute init. Something like: > > cd /new_root ; exec

Re: [gentoo-user] initramfs, network diskless boot, init process, problems with switchroot (pivot_root)

2006-06-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:51:51 -0700 "Richard Fish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My final comments on that bug are based on the attached email that I > received from Andrew Morton that made it clear that Al Viro was > opposed to pivot_root being used from an initramfs. (BTW, viro's > comments

Re: [gentoo-user] tun/tap - ifconfig tun0 - device not found

2006-07-08 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 7 Jul 2006 19:04:41 -0300 "Claudinei Matos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to use tun/tap to assign some ip to my server (since I'll need it > to my LVS solution) and I think it's a trivial task to put tun to work, but > I'm trying in 3 different machines (with 2 different k

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: A/V muxing application ?

2006-07-08 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 8 Jul 2006 10:48:28 +0100 Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 08:47:53 +0200 (CEST), Meino Christian Cramer wrote: > > > I would like to mux them again...which application can do > > that job for me (formats: *.m2c/*.ac3 ) ??? > > mplex should do this, i

Re: [gentoo-user] What does "perl" USE flag do?

2006-07-10 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:38:39 +0200 Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The "perl" USE flag is new. What does it do? I just replied on the german ML to this question, but since it was re-asked here: The perl USE flag pulls in dev-lang/perl as a dependency. It is now a default USE fl

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-11 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:07:42 +0200 Gerhard Hoogterp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Show me what is added or removed. And since it can only do that by comparing > the new file to a clean, untouched, original file I innocently suggested to > have such a file, make changes there and leave it up

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: d

2006-07-12 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 03:07:44 -0500 Roy Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Beagle is a mono application. Mono is the open source implementation > of C# which is a derivative of java aimed specifically at windoze by M > $. wrong. C# is a dialect one can use to create .NET programs. .NET is a

Re: [gentoo-user] Lirc problems

2006-07-13 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:14:00 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I made a serial reciever I found at Lirc.org a very few components. > I emerge lirc with LIRC_OPT=serial. When it goes and compiles the > lirc_serial module it fails. Can any one help > kernel Gentoo-2.6.12-R9 > lirc 0.8 What's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: chkrootkit LKM trojan ?

2006-07-17 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 19:36:30 +0100 Dave S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How accurate is chkproc? > If you run chkproc on a server that runs lots of short time processes it > could report some false positives. chkproc compares the ps output with > the /proc contents. If processes are create

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix + Auth with SASL

2006-07-19 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:07:33 -0300 "Leandro Melo de Sales" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! I'm trying to setup postfix with authentication. I have > PAM/NSSwitch configured to use LDAP backend. I also installed > cyrus-sasl, but when I test authentication I got some errors. What I'm > doing

Re: [gentoo-user] remote login help

2006-07-20 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 00:21:56 +0100 krgn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am using ddclient to get to my router (which works) but can login > to my machine behind the router (ssh for now, ftp and http later). Is that router a machine running linux or is it one of those little consumer appliance

Re: [gentoo-user] eBook reader

2006-07-20 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 01:25:09 -0500 "Anthony E. Caudel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking for a good eBook reader (software). No packages in > portage that I could find. I found etr but no ebuild and its not > great. What are you missing (except the ebuild)? What functionality are yo

Re: [gentoo-user] eBook reader

2006-07-20 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 08:20:10 -0500 "Anthony E. Caudel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Basically looking for text readers, although PDF, HTML and others would > be nice. Need for it to be able to automatically save position, change > fonts, fg/bg colors, etc. OK, I don't know of such multi-pur

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11, $VIDEO_CARDS & binary packages

2006-07-20 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:40:39 -0300 "Daniel da Veiga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe I'm wrong, but binary packages are BINARY (-k), so, you can't > change their USE, because they're already compiled, they'll use the > flags that were used by the time the package was created. If you > inst

Re: [gentoo-user] changing user id

2006-07-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 12:02:49 +0200 Arnau Bria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to change cyrus id from currently to 120. Why's that? You will at least bork the existing files to a degree that they can't be automatically uninstalled by emerge anymore. > I tried usermod, but cyrus files

Re: [gentoo-user] MythTV vs. Gentoo VDR

2006-07-22 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 15:19:31 +1200 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes but what has that to do with gentoo? Its not a gentoo project! > I was confused by the OP referring to "gentoo vdr" Me too. I know there's a Gentoo project for the VDR application. But basically I think the OP was

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage Storage using SVN

2006-07-23 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 02:42:43 -0600 "Trenton Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I proposed this awhile back, and got shot down. At the time, the > arguments for using SVN for portage storage were pretty shallow, and > someone was able to easily shoot them down. I believe I have come up > wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Network is not starting

2006-07-23 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 10:02:49 +0300 Adrian Vraciu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # ifconfig -a > No usable address families found. > socket: No such file or directory You seem to have no IP protocol support compiled into your kernel. Or is there a module reg. IP support that you need to modprob

Re: [gentoo-user] apache/php: chroot?

2006-07-25 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 21:42:46 +0200 Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Now my question is: does apache/php support chrooting too? > > And are there some other services, which can be chrooted > > like bind? > > should work without any problems, like the most of the other > standard internet s

Re: [gentoo-user] Lots of missing gentoo-user mail

2006-07-27 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 07:40:03 +0200 Ralph Slooten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I am trying to work out if if it's just me having an issue with > gmail (which I will confront the gmail team there about), or if the > gentoo-user mailing server is skipping addresses or having issues > sendin

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Bugzilla as support system w/ maillist integration

2006-07-27 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:09:36 +0200 Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What do you think about this idea ? If you're really talking about gentoo-user, then I think your idea is way, way, way too complex. Basically, I think, this ML "just works". Heck, it hasn't even a FAQ posted regu

Re: [gentoo-user] memory leak with gtk+-2.8.20-r1

2006-08-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 12:58:33 +0200 gwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Someone has the same problem or an solution to solve this leak of > memory? Thank you very much. You should at least describe the problem you have. You're just describing the things you've tried to nail it down, but what are

Re: [gentoo-user] print to PDF within Firefox

2006-08-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 2 Aug 2006 09:54:42 -0300 "Cláudio Henrique" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't remember wich, but an old version of firefox allowed me to > print to PDF. how do I do this in this new one (1.5)? Firefox was probably compiled with XPrint support. The USE flag "xprint" should do this

Re: [gentoo-user] memory leak with gtk+-2.8.20-r1

2006-08-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 13:49:04 +0200 gwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sorry > I post only the end of log file of valgrind (the entire file is very big > ~22500 lines). > This is the result of execute the source code : > ==13767== LEAK SUMMARY: > ==13767==definitely lost: 36 bytes in 1 b

Re: [gentoo-user] memory leak with gtk+-2.8.20-r1

2006-08-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 18:14:02 +0200 gwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ah yes, I wasn't aware that there was a function for this. You should > > definitely use this in place of the delete statement because it will do > > deeper cleaning. > > the GTK Api said gtk_exit is deprecated and shou

Re: [gentoo-user] Change Partition Type [OT]

2006-08-04 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 17:36:00 +0200 Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hm - UNTESTED: What happens, if you've got a JFS on a "NTFS partition" > and then boot Windows? It's probably being reported as non-formatted media. Windows will offer to format it, then. Click "OK", and your shiny JF

Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox without/with gdm ?

2006-08-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 05 Aug 2006 11:59:10 -0400 dnlt0hn5ntzhbqkv51 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tweaked .initrc, startx'd and fluxbox was great. exceptwhen > entering passwords (e.g. su; gpg), I'd frequently have to reenter 5-8 > times. > > Out of desparation, I emerged gdm (without xdm

Re: [gentoo-user] How to see network activity?

2006-08-09 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 22:03:55 +0400 Boris Sobolev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I' m not sure if I need packet analyzer or another tool. A packet analyzer would be fine, I think. Although me as a CLI-junkie would have suggested tcpdump instead of wireshark :-) Emerge tcpdump, and as root do $ t

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing unneeded libraries

2006-08-11 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 17:10:47 +0200 (CEST) JC Denton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does "eclean" or "emerge --depclean" remove libs that are orphaned? > And if not, how can I find out if a lib could be removed from the > system? "emerge --depclean" does. Orphaned meaning "installed as a depend

Re: [gentoo-user] initng or runit?

2006-08-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 22:01:24 -0400 Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would some kind soul save me a bit of research time? Which of the two > alternative init schemes are faster, initng or runit? That most likely doesn't depend on the init process. Most time is consumed by the numer

Re: [gentoo-user] initng or runit?

2006-08-23 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 13:58:01 +1200 "Thomas Kear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Having just had a quick look at runit, it appears we have the larger > collection of init scripts, however being simple bash scripts it could > be expected that runit's are slightly easier to make. Runit does *not*

Re: [gentoo-user] Outputing 15.9kHz?

2006-09-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 17:13:55 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to figure out if a device that converts a VGA output to a > component output for HDTV connection will work with a standard TV that > has component inputs. Your VGA card can probably generate that signal itself. Y

Re: [gentoo-user] Outputing 15.9kHz?

2006-09-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 6 Sep 2006 08:03:48 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The guy there says it won't work because a computer outputs a > non-interlaced signal and a standard TV uses interlaced. Basically, > exactly what you said. From your link, it looks like an interlaced > signal can be speci

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf problem

2006-09-09 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 11:40:11 -0500 Colleen Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mick wrote: > > Viewport refers to your virtual screen which is larger than the physical > > monitor screen. Placing the cursor at the edge of the monitors scrolls the > > screen in that direction, until the edg

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf problem

2006-09-09 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi (again), On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 08:14:47 -0500 Colleen Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) I can't view some things in full screen. For instance, I play the > game Blobwars and if I try to set it to use full screen mode, the game > shows in the middle of the screen, the same size as it was w

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: gkrellm ??? Only as daemon ???

2006-09-10 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 06:28:30 +0200 (CEST) Meino Christian Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But: Why contains gkrellm's default USE-flags "-X", so no gkrellm2 is > compiled? > I had to change package.use accordingly and recompiling makes gkrellm2 > then. There are no ebuild specific defa

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: gkrellm ??? Only as daemon ???

2006-09-10 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 13:36:12 +0200 (CEST) Meino Christian Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I set "X" by default in /etc/make.conf...what happens to programs, > which simply doesn't know anything about "X" ... for example > "basename" (...yes, I know, "basename" is an builtin in most

Re: [gentoo-user] Real CPU speed

2006-09-12 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 20:31:00 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > How can I determine my current CPU speed? I have a Celeron 700 > > > that should be running at 1050 if I insulated one of its pins > > > correctly. All of the information I can find on determining CPU > > > speed is re

Re: [gentoo-user] Outputing 15.9kHz?

2006-09-13 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:21:44 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using the modeline from this link: > > http://www.sput.nl/hardware/tv-x.html > > and my xorg.conf looks like this: > > Section "Monitor" > Identifier "monitor1" > Modeline "736x485i" 14.16 736 760 824

Re: [gentoo-user] MyWorld - how to set this up?

2006-09-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 13:44:22 +0200 (CEST) Helmut Jarausch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to keep several configurations. > Is it possible to setup additional "sets" like MyWorld,... > in addition to "world" and say "emerge MyWorld" ? you can create a (meta-)ebuild that doesn't instal

Re: [gentoo-user] multicast routing from satillite to lan

2006-09-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 14:30:06 +0200 (SAST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > mrouted doens't work with 2.4 (according to docs) What docs? Well, I see it being written in the ebuild, but given that mrouted-3.9-beta3 is existing since June 1999, I don't think it is actually true. Did you try compiling

Re: [gentoo-user] multicast routing from satillite to lan

2006-09-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 15:01:01 +0200 (SAST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> mrouted doens't work with 2.4 (according to docs) > > > > What docs? Well, I see it being written in the ebuild, but given > > that mrouted-3.9-beta3 is existing since June 1999, I don't think > > it is actually true. Did

Re: [gentoo-user] Outputing 15.9kHz?

2006-09-15 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, (sorry, must have overlooked your last answer...) On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 01:32:36 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I always seem to get hsync out of range errors trying to go this low. > I guess my card can't go as low as necessary. Argh, my failure. I must have read "19.5 kHz" instead

Re: [gentoo-user] xhost +local:root ???

2006-09-16 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 19:29:14 +0100 Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > emerge sux > > Use sux instead of su. or, if using sudo, do the following: append to /root/.bashrc: snip [[ -n "$SUDO_USER" ]] && [[ -n "$DISPLAY" ]] && export XAUTHORITY=/home/$SUDO_USER/.Xauthority sni

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Why directories aren't files?

2006-09-18 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 11:10:57 +0200 Matteo Pillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wondering why Linux doesn't treat directories like files, as > many other unix implementations do. Pragmatic answer: because nobody implemented it for most filesystems. Most filesystems just define "generic_

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Why directories aren't files?

2006-09-18 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:13:11 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > For example, in Linux, you can't do 'cat .' while on FreeBSD you can. > > > Why? There is a practical reason? > > > Try vim . or, better view . It was mentioned before that applications have support for "reading directories".

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating a LFS system with Portage

2006-09-18 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:05:21 + "Alon Keren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm considering using Portage to build a Linux From Scratch system > (LFS basically means building a completely customized Linux machine, > using a toolchain). Hm, that's what portage does, anyway... So what exactly

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Why directories aren't files?

2006-09-18 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, > because nobody implemented it for most filesystems. Most filesystems > just define "generic_read_dir" as handling function for "readdir". > "generic_read_dir" always returns -EISDIR. sorry short correction, should read: ... as handling function for "read". "readdir" of course should be imp

Re: [gentoo-user] NTP or chrony?

2006-09-26 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 22:28:28 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm, for some reason my ISP's ntp server does not work with my Gentoo > (it works with WinXP): > [...] > What's this "port time unreachable" message - the rdate command times > out of course. Well, the "time" port (37 tcp/u

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