On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 10:14:28AM -0500, John J. Foster wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 08:16:07AM -0500, John J. Foster wrote:
> > >
> > I did note something I consider quite odd, though. While rebooting,
> > local.start runs right _before_ inittab starts to bring the
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 10:52:20PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
> If the same command works in a terminal, it could be a difference in the
> environment. The first thing I would try is running "source /etc/profile"
> right before the mutt call.
No go. Just for review, here's a few lines from loc
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 08:16:44AM +0100, Francesco Talamona wrote:
> > source /etc/profile
> > /usr/bin/date | /usr/bin/mutt -s "System restarted" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > Now, the error message
> >
> > Error sending message, child exited 1 ().
> > /etc/conf.d/local.start: line 15: 19174 Done
> >
Good evening all,
Just before I had to kill-file a thread earlier today, I saw mention of
emerge --security
Running this on my system produces:
//garbanzo/root # emerge --security
!!! Error: --security is an invalid option.
This is with portage-2.0.51.22-r3. Is this an option in an upcoming
ve
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 01:07:19AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 19:07:51 -0500, John J. Foster wrote:
>
> > //garbanzo/root # emerge --security
> > !!! Error: --security is an invalid option.
> >
> > This is with portage-2.0.51.22-r3. Is
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 03:57:27PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
> Also, the KDE clock has a (IMO a very annoying) "feature" that will
> change the timezone it displays in response to the scroll wheel. So
I never knew of that feature till you just mentioned it. I think
that's pretty cool!
John
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On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 01:20:12PM -0600, kashani wrote:
>
> The last top posting/html thread was 3 weeks ago... so yes it's time
> for another "Keep Gentoo leet" thread. Gentoo isn't about pain, it's
> about getting work done. Anything, and I mean *anything*, that allows me
> to spend le
On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 10:20:15PM -0600, Dale wrote:
>
> Now wvdial, it dials out, then sits for a minute, then disconnects with
> the error that my password is wrong, which is crap because it is
> correct. I only got wvdial to work once on another rig. It has never
> worked on this one though.
Good afternoon,
I have a Linksys WRT54GS router running openWRT firmware that gets its
IP via DHCP from my ISP. That's all working fine. I also have an account
with dyndns.org that is supposed to get updated when my IP changes. This
is where I've screwed something up because it's wasn't. I think I
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 03:14:43PM -0500, Jeff wrote:
> Hey all.
>
> Just a quick one - where can I find the USE flag compendium?
>
For convenience, try emerging profuse.
John
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On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 05:07:22PM -0800, Ryan Tandy wrote:
> >I have a Linksys WRT54GS router running openWRT firmware that gets its
> >IP via DHCP from my ISP. That's all working fine. I also have an account
> >with dyndns.org that is supposed to get updated when my IP changes. This
> >is where I
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 09:22:23PM +0100, Holly Bostick wrote:
> Also possible. Certainly there's nothing /wrong/ with running emaint
> --check world. I only wanted to point out that this error could also be
> a "false positive".
Simple question here, but what is emaint? No trace of it on my
up-to
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 07:46:07PM -0500, Willie Wong wrote:
> portage-2.0.53, I have it on my laptop running ~x86, but not on my
> desktop running x86.
>
> running it without arguments give:
>
> "Currently emaint can only check and fix problems with one's world
> file. Future versions will inte
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 09:53:27AM -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
>
> My personal favorite for my desktop and laptop is using 'dar' with big
> USB hard drivesbut that's what works well for me.
>
ditto - very easy, very efficient
John
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On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 12:41:51PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What options are out there?
>
My personal favorite is
app-crypt/gnupg
John
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Good evening all,
3 days ago I rebuilt my system to use gcc-3.4.4-r1. I first used
gcc-config to change to the new compiler, and then ran emerge -aev system,
followed by emerge -aev world. All went extremely well, I thought. Today
I noticed that courier-imap has failed to start. (The only reason I
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 06:43:40PM -0500, Dan Meltzer wrote:
> On Friday 23 December 2005 18:22, John J. Foster wrote:
> > Good evening all,
> >
> > 3 days ago I rebuilt my system to use gcc-3.4.4-r1. I first used
> > gcc-config to change to the new compiler, and
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 09:43:12PM -0500, Dan Meltzer wrote:
> On Friday 23 December 2005 19:38, John J. Foster wrote:
> >
> > What is the correct syntax for starting manually? What should I be
> > looking for?
>
> I've never used courier/imap, but if you look in
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 03:06:03PM +0100, Christoph Gysin wrote:
> >
> Just run:
>
> /usr/lib/courier-imap/gentoo-imapd-ssl.rc
>
//garbanzo/root # /usr/lib/courier-imap/gentoo-imapd-ssl.rc
gives the following 2 new processes, but no connection still.
//garbanzo/root # ps aux|grep courier-imap
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 06:22:23PM -0500, John J. Foster wrote:
> Good evening all,
>
> 3 days ago I rebuilt my system to use gcc-3.4.4-r1. I first used
> gcc-config to change to the new compiler, and then ran emerge -aev system,
> followed by emerge -aev world. All went extremely
Good afternoon,
For about the past 10 days I've been having problems with gst-plugins.
I'm in a constant upgrade/downgrade loop, and am not really sure what
brought me to this state. The only _major_ changes have been adding ~x86
for kde and amarok.
//garbanzo/home/festus > emerge -puvDNt w
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 01:30:52PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote:
> Good afternoon,
>
> For about the past 10 days I've been having problems with gst-plugins.
> I'm in a constant upgrade/downgrade loop, and am not really sure what
> brought me to this state. The only
The following script is run as part of a nitely cron job.
//garbanzo/home/festus > cat /usr/bin/emerge_sync.sh
#! /bin/bash
## /usr/bin/emerge_sync.sh
# Sync now
/usr/sbin/eix-sync 2>&1
glsa-check --test all 2>&1 | mailx -s "GLSA check on $(hostname)"
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
emerge world --update --d
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 06:58:53PM -0400, Maurice E Johnson wrote:
> What is the senders address?
> That is where the first clue will be.
>
Hi Maurice,
Thanks for the reply. It turns out that my ISP has just started
requiring SMTP AUTH. It took me a long time to figure out how to do this
with ssm
Good afternoon,
I solved my problem of a few days ago by adding
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
AuthPass=PASSWORD
to /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf. This was related to my ISP now requiring SMTP
AUTH for mail. But I'm concerned about the security implications of
having this in a world-readable file. If this was only n
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 02:37:20AM +0530, Farhan Ahmed wrote:
>
> How bout using msmtp? It's lightweight and is well documented (?).. To
> use it change the value of sendmail in your .muttrc to this:
>
I'm reading the manual right now, and will probably try it tonight.
> Farhan Ahmed
>
> P.S: G
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 05:48:41PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote:
> On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 02:37:20AM +0530, Farhan Ahmed wrote:
> >
> > How bout using msmtp? It's lightweight and is well documented (?).. To
> > use it change the value of sendmail in your .muttrc to th
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 10:20:00AM +, Mick wrote:
>
> Thanks, I've had a look and it seems to be work-in-progress. When it
> becomes stable I may have a go.
I've been running White Russian RC3 for 9 months - zero problems.
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On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 05:09:41PM -0400, Nick Smith wrote:
> On 5/11/06, Rasmus Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:35:46PM -0400, Nick Smith wrote:
> >> has anyone written a script that checks for glsa security updates and
> >> then has it auto emerge the packages it
Good morning all,
I usually run
//garbanzo/root # emerge -pv depclean
followed by
//garbanzo/root # revdep-rebuild -p
after all world updates, and rarely have any issues at all. This is a
stable x86 system, except for kde, mutt, amarok and their dependencies.
For about a week now, revdep-rebuil
On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 07:31:14PM +0300, Rumen Yotov wrote:
> John J. Foster wrote:
> > //garbanzo/root # revdep-rebuild -p
> > ...
> > broken /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/lib-org-w3c-dom.la
> > (requires /usr/lib/libgcj.la)
> > broken /usr/lib/gc
Good afternoon,
This has been discussed over and over in this list, but I am unable to
find any references that make sense to me. Could someone please explain
the different ways that you can specify an atom in package.mask?
I currently have
app-office/openoffice ~x86# in package.keywords
ap
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 06:14:41PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 15 May 2006 12:44:05 -0400, John J. Foster wrote:
>
> > I currently have
> >
> > app-office/openoffice ~x86# in package.keywords
> >
> > app-office/openoffice-2.0.2-r2 is currently i
Kris Kerwin wrote:
Hi folks,
Quick question. Is there any way that one can unpack an ISO image:
extracting the data that is contained within it like a tarball,
without having to burn it to a CD? I'm sure there's an option
somewhere within either the mkisofs or cdrecord man pages, but I feel
Good morning all,
About 10 days ago we had a lightning strike very nearby that fried our
electric utilities transformer and my APC RS800 UPS. This in turn caused
my system to crash. When I brought it back up, all CMOS settings had been
lost. After setting what I could remember (no, I didn't ha
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Uwe Thiem wrote:
after this:
hwclock -wu
to get your hardware clock right. Without "u" if your hw clock is running in
local time.
But all that shows in the /var/log/ntp.log is
12 Jun 09:05:46 ntpd[19515]: ntpd exiting on signal 15
It probably terminated right after
Good evening,
After having some recent issues with ntpd (which I'm not certain are
resolved), I decided to take a close look at my /etc/ntp.conf file.
Below are the _only_ lines in /etc/ntp.conf that are not commented out.
restrict 127.0.0.1 nomodify
driftfile /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift
logfile /var
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 02:52:59PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Uwe Thiem wrote:
>
> The following output is what /var/log/ntp.log looks like after issuing the
> following 2 commands:
>
> #/etc/init.d/ntpd stop
> #ntpd -n
>
> 12 Jun 14:16:02
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 06:39:52AM -0400, John J. Foster wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 02:52:59PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote:
> > On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> >
> > The following output is what /var/log/ntp.log looks like after issuing the
> > following
Good evening,
I just realized I'm no longer receiving email notification on system
reboots. This quit working between April 23rd and April 27th.
The following lines are in /etc/conf.d/local.start
# Record system restart
echo "System restart on `date +%F` at `date +%R`" >>
/var/log/reboot.l
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 12:46:16PM -0700, Lord Sauron wrote:
> I have it on extremely good authority that it goes 2MB/sec.
>
it's always a good thing to question authority.
> I'll start looking for Kermit now. Thanks.
>
emerge -av kermit
later,
festus
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On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 10:20:39PM +0200, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote:
> On Sunday 25 June 2006 22:02, John J. Foster wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 12:46:16PM -0700, Lord Sauron wrote:
> > > I have it on extremely good authority that it goes 2MB/sec.
> >
> > it
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 03:17:18PM +0200, Mauro Arnoldi wrote:
> I installed ati-drivers and "partially" works correctly:
>
> As user nothing works:
> ---
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ fglrxinfo && glxinfo | grep rendering
> libGL error: failed to open DRM: Operation not permitted
> libGL error: rev
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 09:28:23AM -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
> On 7/3/06, John J. Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Check your xorg.conf for the following:
> >
> >Section "DRI"
> >Mode 0666
> >EndSection
>
> Or for a bit better secur
Since going to x11-base/xorg-x11-7.0-r1 2 days ago, I've been having
trouble with just 1 multimedia key on a Logitech cordless keyboard
(Model Y-RJ20). The key is labeled "Media" and produces a legitimate
KeyPress and KeyRelease events in xev.
...snip
keycode 237 (keysym 0x1008ff32, XF86AudioMedia
Since going to x11-base/xorg-x11-7.0-r1 2 days ago, I've been having
trouble with just 1 multimedia key on a Logitech cordless keyboard
(Model Y-RJ20). The key is labeled "Media" and produces legitimate
KeyPress and KeyRelease events in xev.
...snip
keycode 237 (keysym 0x1008ff32, XF86AudioMedia)
Sorry about the double posting. The first one was sent while my
satellite connection was down. I didn't think it was really sent.
festus
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clearer picture of reality than those who wield it.
OK, at line 490 (of about 10 million right now) I got this error:
Warning: Cannot convert string
"-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-*-140-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1" to type
FontStruct
followed by about 10 million of these lines:
Warning:
Name: textfield
Class: XmTextField
Character '\61' not
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 04:43:34PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote:
> OK, at line 490 (of about 10 million right now) I got this error:
>
> Warning: Cannot convert string
> "-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-*-140-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1" to type
> FontStruct
>
> followed
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 08:07:24PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
> No, but if you put a specific version in /etc/portage/package.keywords,
> only that version will be installed from testing. It will only be
> upgraded when a newer version goes stable.
Neil - I _think_ this is what I have not been
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 10:09:53PM -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> At Mon, 03 Jul 2006 21:06:07 -0400 "John J. Foster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Neil - I _think_ this is what I have not been able to understand for
> > over a year now. I run an almos
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 08:59:17PM -0400, Michael Crute wrote:
>
> This sounds like a font issue. I am running unstable X 7.1 and I don't
> have any of these errors, I do however have quite a few fonts
> installed.
>
2 things here. First, I'm not sure why added SOLVED to the subject. I
just know
On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 02:21:26PM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> John J. Foster wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 04:43:34PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote:
> >>
> >> Warning: Cannot convert string
> >> "-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-*-140-*-*-p-*-
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 09:51:43AM -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
> Just want to give a big public "Thank You" to spyderous for hanging
> out in -user and helping out those who had/are having trouble with the
> modular-X upgrade.
>
ditto
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A couple days ago I noticed this:
garbanzo:/root # emerge -auvDNt world
These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
Calculating world dependencies |
!!! Packages for the following atoms are either all
!!! masked or don't exist:
sys-apps/qtparted
... done!
garbanzo:/root # ei
Good morning,
I'm looking for recommendations for waypoint management software for my
Garmin eTrex (basic GPS functions, not mapping). All I really want to be
able to do is 2 things.
1. Transfer UTM coordinates derived from topo maps to GPS waypoints.
2. Export waypoints in GPS to any number
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 07:09:41AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
> I would like to limit OS selection at boot time. The machine has
> Gentoo and Windows. Gentoo *must* be the booted OS unless a password
> is entered. I have tried the password feature in grub but it does not
> implement this fea
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 04:59:34PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 07:09:41AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I would like to limit OS selection at boot time. The machine has
> > Gentoo and Windows. Gentoo *must* be the booted OS unless a passw
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 04:49:42PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On 7/30/06, John J. Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks very much. It's a great solution for what I need.
>
> It does limit the use of Windows, which is what I wanted, until the
> password is typed
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 08:43:09PM -0400, Willie Wong wrote:
>
> My preferred MUA (mutt) is smart
> enough and configurable enough to treat mailing lists properly.
>
Here, here.
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On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 09:00:20AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:23:18 -0400, John J. Foster wrote:
>
> > > My preferred MUA (mutt) is smart
> > > enough and configurable enough to treat mailing lists properly.
> > >
> > Here, here
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 06:21:03AM -0400, John J. Foster wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 09:00:20AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:23:18 -0400, John J. Foster wrote:
> >
> > > > My preferred MUA (mutt) is smart
> > > > enough and con
Good afternoon,
In a bash script, how can I test whether the script itself is being
run from a virtual terminal, or from an emulator like konsole within X?
Thanks,
festus
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On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 03:43:12PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
> 060801 John J. Foster wrote:
> > In a bash script, how can I test whether the script itself is being run
> > from a virtual terminal, or from an emulator like konsole within X?
>
> 'echo $DISPLAY' r
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 11:37:17PM +0400, dg wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 August 2006 23:20, John J. Foster wrote:
>
> One possible solution would be to check the value of $TERM variable... If it
> is 'xterm' then you're probably in the X terminal emulator.
"probably&
On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 06:18:02PM -0700, Grant wrote:
> Which mail client do you guys use? I'm looking for something
> lightweight. I use xfce4.
the mutt
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On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 12:33:16PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
>
> My recommendation is setting up an imap server and accessing your emails
> with whatever client comes to hand. Divorce the mbox/maildir
> storage choice from your client.
>
If you don't want to use your ISP's IMAP services for whatev
Please turn off your html.
Thanks,
festus
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them feel the need to invent, say, nuclear weapons? Mickeyz
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Hi,
I've been playing with encrypting my home directory using cfs and
following the instructions at
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Encrypt_Your_Home_Directory_Using_CFS
I guess it mostly works, although I've had cfsd die randomly a few
times in a couple days. It sorta bothers me that app-crypt/cfs
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 06:32:49PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
> On 8/12/06, John J. Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Do you encrypt your home directory?
>
> I encrypt everything except /boot.
>
> >What apps and/or combination of apps do you use, and why?
>
On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 11:59:48PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
>
> If you want to get started on this before your new laptop arrives, I
> suggest starting with the initramfs and encrypting swap only. You
> should be able to create an initramfs that will setup the mapping and
> do the swapon before
Does anyone here know who runs this list? The number of missing emails
is running quite high lately, and some threads are getting hard to
follow, depending on the respondents quoting and snipping style. I seem
to have missed almost half of the discussion on domainname going on.
I know everyone isn
Anybody know whatever happened to Holly? She hasn't been around for
about a year and a half, and I miss her rambling dissertations.
festus
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them feel the need to invent, say, nuclear weapons? Mickeyz
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On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 06:29:27PM +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> That is not right. Her last posting on my harddrive is dated 29th of March
> this year.
You're right, my eyes are obviously deceiving me!
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them feel the need to in
[user]
source-based
control
documentaion
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them feel the need to invent, say, nuclear weapons? Mickeyz
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On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 06:33:40PM -0500, Colleen Beamer wrote:
>
> I'm not, but I *could* be a grandmother, so I guess I'm not the average
>
Well, I *couldn't* be a grandmother, because I am a grandfather who has
pretty much no clue what average is.
festus
--
In all the millions of years dinos
On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 05:34:55PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
>
> Me thinks the mail list bug has struck again. Let me know if you
> don't get this one. ;->
>
Just an FYI - I didn't get your other mail.
festus
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