Re: [gentoo-user] Prioritizing mpd

2009-06-13 Thread Mike Kazantsev
.mp3 file.mp3 Try tweaking quality settings / listening to results in different formats to pick the best one for you. ogg and mp3 should result in some loss of sound quality, although it might be insignificant while compression benefit over flac is quite noticeable. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Considering launching into Gentoo

2009-06-13 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:04:57 -0700 walt wrote: > It's me and gentoo til death do us part. And I hope I go first... C'mon, something better might always come along, obsoleting gentoo, like gentoo-ng ;) -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Idle Process Scheduling

2009-06-14 Thread Mike Kazantsev
meone on lkml should've noticed it. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing python packages for different versions

2009-06-14 Thread Mike Kazantsev
hon on system if some use-flag like "multislot" is enabled (it might also be impossible for some pkgs, which also sit in share/bin/lib) look better and somewhat easier - just a eselech switch flip and +x (un)installs. I wonder, what do you have in mind? -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing python packages for different versions

2009-06-14 Thread Mike Kazantsev
ed with will yield unpredictable results - it might work for 2.4-2.5 but I'm pretty sure it won't for 2.6-3.1. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I get a tip for reading eix output?

2009-06-15 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 6/15/2009 8:28 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: Can I get a likely search string for the massive man page of eix to understand all the info contained in its ouput. A quick search on `output' seems to miss it. The eix man page is way too long, and about 90% of it is only useful to the people trying

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Whey two dangling symlinks /etc/init.d/ depscan.sh runscript.sh

2009-06-15 Thread Mike Kazantsev
x86. > > Would an 06/07 to current have involved the switch you mention? Yes. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing apache with USE='-suexec'

2009-06-15 Thread Mike Kazantsev
it allows to handle different urls / vhosts with different privileges, so, say, to return some "john.myserver.com" page apache will drop privileges to local user "john", while serving "myserver.com" from "www" user on the same port by the same daemon, so joh

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] RAID 1 over network

2009-06-16 Thread Mike Kazantsev
common shell scripts, although I believe any dedicated non-bash-hack implementation should be better suited for such task. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I get a tip for reading eix output?

2009-06-16 Thread Mike Edenfield
eral. (Side note: the man page only has one entry for PROPERTIES although eix knows of at least 4. Is there somewhere else this kind of portage information is documented?) --Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem -- is timing?

2009-06-19 Thread Mike Kazantsev
Fri Jun 12 04:24:55 2009 rc boot logging started at Fri Jun 12 04:24:55 2009 * Setting system clock using the hardware clock [Local Time]... [ ok ] * Autoloaded 0 module(s) * lvm uses addon code which is deprecated * and may not be available in the future. * Setting up t

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem -- is timing?

2009-06-20 Thread Mike Kazantsev
. Mounting encrypted partitions from there is a bonus and while root is not encrypted (although it doesn't even holds most configuration from /etc) it is an LVM volume. Can linux boot from lvm root w/o initrd these days? -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem -- is timing?

2009-06-20 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 11:01:33 +0200 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Samstag 20 Juni 2009 09:37:24 schrieb Mike Kazantsev: > > > Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > > > I believe there's "after device-mapper" line already in lvm-2.02.45, so > > > > it should

[gentoo-user] Power management updates?

2009-06-22 Thread Mike Mazur
on these things would be much appreciated. A few details: I'm running gentoo-sources-2.6.30-r1 I updated a cpufreqd to version 2.3.4 by coping the version 2.2.1 .ebuild file into my local overlay and bumping the version I updated the files installed by powermgmt-base with those in upstream ver

Re: [gentoo-user] [off-topic] diary/blog desktop software advice

2009-06-22 Thread Mike Kazantsev
an try bournal for "simple" and "easy". It's bash, CLI and features encryption, although it doesn't seem to be intended for anything but pure text. http://frankpena.googlepages.com/bournal.html -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] xterm man page has broken link to X

2009-06-23 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On my system it indeed does and "man 7 X" is able to show it. File is /usr/share/man/man7/X.7.bz2 (might be gz or lzma as well), if it exists, then it's just man that can't find it, if it doesn't then you probably need "app-doc/xorg-docs" package installed. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Power management updates?

2009-06-23 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi, On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 04:44, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 22 June 2009 15:56:47 Mike Mazur wrote: >> >> I noticed some issues with the power management setup I had when I >> upgraded kernels over the last few months. This past weekend I decided >> to crack

Why does /sbin/rc not work when called from a script? (WAS: Re: [gentoo-user] Power management updates?)

2009-06-24 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi, On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 17:50, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 24 June 2009 03:28:55 Mike Mazur wrote: >> Still one issue remains -- why are my RC states not automatically >> switched between default and battery even though my acpid setup is >> right and works

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM HDD problem

2009-06-25 Thread Mike Kazantsev
at once that there's something wrong with the drive (-H flag). And if it doesn't, you can use it to perform SMART-tests (-t flag) to make sure that drive is ok. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user]WAS lvm problem -- NOW sleep tweak?

2009-06-28 Thread Mike Kazantsev
d during bootup ;( You can: 1. Add that sleep to fsck (or any earlier script) instead of localmount. 2. Create separate initscript, say, "disks-wait" with nothing but sleep and either add it to sysinit runlevel or to boot, but with appropriate "before" dependencies, so fsck

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc update failed...

2009-07-06 Thread Mike Edenfield
process generated an incomplete insn-attrtab.c file which cut off in the middle of an opcode, most likely in the middle of a register name like %eax. Its possible that there was another error buried up further in the output that got lost in the parallelizing. --Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc update failed...

2009-07-06 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 7/6/2009 4:23 PM, Jarry wrote: Mike Edenfield wrote: On 7/6/2009 2:23 PM, Jarry wrote: MAKEOPTS="-j2" Can you try this again without -j2 in the make opts? The gcc build process is enough of a pain to debug when you can see output sequentially, running parallel makes make

[gentoo-user] emerge and running tests as non-root

2009-07-17 Thread Mike Edenfield
In trying to merge the most recent mysql, I am getting this notice at the start of the ebuild: * Testing with FEATURES=-userpriv is no longer supported by upstream. Tests MUST be run as non-root. Is there a way to actually do what it suggests using just emerge, or would I need to ebuild this

[gentoo-user] Changing xorg.conf at runtime (nVidia cards)

2009-07-28 Thread Mike Mazur
t XRandR but I'm not sure what's the best way forward. Does anyone have something like this already set up? What did you use? Will these nvidia tools do what I need or should I look to XRandR? How do I get started with setting up XRandR? Thanks! Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing xorg.conf at runtime (nVidia cards)

2009-07-30 Thread Mike Mazur
x27;m using the xorg.conf files as generated by the nvidia-settings tool. I'll try starting X without an xorg.conf file to see if this has any effect. Thanks, Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing xorg.conf at runtime (nVidia cards)

2009-07-31 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi, On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:23, Dale wrote: > Mike Mazur wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 05:44, Fernando Antunes wrote: >>>  I don't use xorg.conf in my notebook Lenovo T61, Intel 965GSM , xorg and >>> xfce ~x86, gentoo 2.6.30 with KMS, anymore. >>&g

Re: [gentoo-user] File synchronisation utility (searching for/about to program it)

2009-08-01 Thread Mike Kazantsev
orry about architectural incompatibilities of binaries or missing misc libs, against which they're linked here and there. That's what portage is made for, after all. Just think of trendemous space efficiency here - no binaries are backed up at all, and all you need to do to restore 3G root from 2M pack is "git clone (or receive-pack) && emerge -uDN @world" ;) -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: python 3.1 safe as default python?

2009-08-02 Thread Mike Kazantsev
lean without giving the list a good looking over. For that to happen, emerge must've set it as "default python" instead of 2.6, otherwise dependencies (e.g. from sys-apps/portage itself) wouldn't let this happen. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Java jdk

2009-08-02 Thread Mike Kazantsev
e crash? emerge -1 dev-util/strace && strace -f ooffice 2>strace.log grep -2 -e EACCES -e EPERM strace.log tail -500 strace.log | less (to see what happened last) -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: python 3.1 safe as default python?

2009-08-02 Thread Mike Kazantsev
you try it as root? Is your user in the portage group? It really is python SyntaxError, not permission problem: python3 doesn't even began to execute this code and it won't do that, as long as code contains that line, since it should be "except PermissionDenied as e" for py3. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Java jdk

2009-08-03 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Mon, 3 Aug 2009 00:38:32 + (UTC) James wrote: > Mike Kazantsev gmail.com> writes: > > > > emerge -1 dev-util/strace && strace -f ooffice 2>strace.log > > grep -2 -e EACCES -e EPERM strace.log > > tail -500 strace.log | less (to see what ha

[gentoo-user] bash stopped running python scripts...

2009-08-03 Thread Mike Edenfield
dev-lang/python/python-2.6.2-r1.ebuild install will re-merge python successfully, which I have now done for both python and bash, to no effect. Any ideas? --Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] bash stopped running python scripts...

2009-08-03 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 8/3/2009 5:03 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 03 August 2009 22:56:51 Mike Edenfield wrote: kut...@apollo ~ $ cat test.py #!/usr/bin/python import sys print "Python Ok." kut...@apollo ~ $ ./test.py X connection to localhost:11.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). ./tes

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: bash stopped running python scripts...

2009-08-03 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 8/3/2009 5:14 PM, Remy Blank wrote: Mike Edenfield wrote: I dunno what I did, but I've managed to break python shell scripts, which of course is playing havoc with portage. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279915 The whole issue seems to be handled quite strangely IMO. You

Re: [gentoo-user] bash stopped running python scripts...

2009-08-03 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 8/3/2009 5:48 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 03 August 2009 23:22:08 Mike Edenfield wrote: On 8/3/2009 5:03 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 03 August 2009 22:56:51 Mike Edenfield wrote: kut...@apollo ~ $ cat test.py #!/usr/bin/python import sys print "Python Ok." kut

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: bash stopped running python scripts...

2009-08-04 Thread Mike Edenfield
t;= 2.6.28 now supports nesting up to 4 levels of script in the #! lines, if I'm reading that right, whereas < 2.6.28 it only supported 1 level. I'll go update the b.g.o entry and try upgrading my kernel. Though I dunno what that means for Gentoo/FreeBSD. --Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody tried shake defragmenter?

2009-08-06 Thread Mike Kazantsev
iles are > being written. For example, miro is showing a constant 3.5Mbps write > in iotop, and I only have 50kbps downloading and 30kbps uploading. > I'd really like to know what is being written to. Check out sys-fs/inotify-tools (need inotify enabled in kernel). -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Knock on wood

2009-08-12 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 8/12/2009 4:19 PM, Stroller wrote: On 12 Aug 2009, at 15:20, Dale wrote: ... maske install does that for you, it also sets up the vmlinuz and vmlinuz.old symlinks so you don't need to mess with your GRUB config. But it doesn't do it the way that I do. I have used it a few times but it didn

Re: [gentoo-user] Knock on wood

2009-08-12 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 8/12/2009 5:08 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Mittwoch 12 August 2009, Mike Edenfield wrote: $ make&& make modules_install&& make install too much to type. make all modules_install install is much better. I always forget that the 'all' target (typical

Re: [gentoo-user] Knock on wood

2009-08-12 Thread Mike Kazantsev
f you really must... > > INSTALL_PATH=/boot/grub make install I'd also add that you can always look at /sbin/installkernel and make it "support" anything you want - it's just a few lines of bash, after all. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Knock on wood

2009-08-13 Thread Mike Kazantsev
nks or hardlinks in my setup, which seemed quite a waste to me, but at some point that was fixed and now I'm happy with vanilla version as well. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] fast recursive local copy

2009-08-14 Thread Mike Kazantsev
ouldn't hurt to test it against cp: rsync -HaAX Flags are: -H - hardlinks -a - ids, modes, timestamps -A - ACLs -X - extended attributes You might want to throw in '-x' for 'one-file-system', but that contradicts with behavior of given cp example. -- Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] Network message encryption

2009-08-16 Thread Mike Kazantsev
are happening on client machines, so server (or any intermediate host) is unable to spoof conversation, provided the encryption (GPG) keys aren't compromised. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] In search for a undeclared identifier...

2009-08-16 Thread Mike Kazantsev
ces... > > Does anyone know to what glActiveTexture belongs to? > And where I can buy one for my Linux box ;) > > Thank you very much in advance for any helpful hint ! On my system it's in /usr/include/GL/glew.h header, which belongs to media-libs/glew, so you probably need t

[gentoo-user] Problem with pppd-added routes

2009-08-16 Thread Mike Kazantsev
ind it in man page or google. Prehaps I can ban pppd from adding _any_ routes somehow? Sorry for such a long post, just wanted to make the problem as clear as possible. Thanks. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] In search for a undeclared identifier...

2009-08-16 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:42:12 +0600 Mike Kazantsev wrote: > On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 05:20:05 +0200 > meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > I try to build the developper branch of a software project, > > which is not in Gentoo. > > > > This works a longer time. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with pppd-added routes

2009-08-17 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 02:37:42 -0700 Keith Dart wrote: > === On Mon, 08/17, Mike Kazantsev wrote: === > > But then, as usual, pppd messes up the routing table, adding the > > following route: > > > > __pptp_server_ip__ dev ppp0 proto kernel scope link src >

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with pppd-added routes

2009-08-18 Thread Mike Kazantsev
ng table via preup() function, parsing output of dig with awk. Still, overriding garbage route like that is a hack and it should be easy to write a patch for that behavior, when I'll have some spare time, provided I won't forget about the issue... ;) -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] fixing raid1 /boot

2009-08-19 Thread Mike Kazantsev
an, maybe it'll just work now, then I guess something wrong should be happening during boot. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] high priority task as user (nice/ionice)

2009-08-23 Thread Mike Kazantsev
eans that you just have to type 'sudo /usr/local/bin/capture' to run the script as root, no questions asked. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinions on -fstack-protector

2009-08-23 Thread Mike Kazantsev
sing a point, but if you want really secure kernel, why'd you use 2.6.30+ instead of hardened-sources something like PaX and grsecurity? -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] lm_sensors: dependency problem...

2009-08-23 Thread Mike Edenfield
. BTW, sensord can write data to round-robin database even if no rrd-tool is installed. There's no need to put net-analyzer/rrdtool as a dependency... Tell that to the upstream: make: *** No rule to make target `rrd.h', needed by `prog/sensord/rrd.rd'. Stop. --Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] high priority task as user (nice/ionice)

2009-08-23 Thread Mike Kazantsev
er rights for all other puposes. > But thank you for your help anyway. Ah, sorry, must've missed that part. How about this: #!/bin/sh exec nice -n -10 ionice -c 1 sudo -u user capture-command (with the same initial sudo-invocation) -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Port Multiplier Support

2009-08-26 Thread Mike Kazantsev
rent to software. Alas, I've only heard of such devices, but never used one and I have no clue about the performance. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Port Multiplier Support

2009-08-26 Thread Mike Kazantsev
expensive than fifty pounds and this one shouldn't have any interface to draw power from CPU via OS drivers. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] keyboard copy paste

2009-08-31 Thread Mike Kazantsev
mmand outputs - you just pipe it into xclip (or it's alias w/ appropriate buffer pre-set) and paste where it's needed. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] "checking for working mkstemp....." taking forever

2009-09-02 Thread Mike Kazantsev
. I found out that > > mkstemp was some standard C function so I remerged glibc, > > mktemp is now in coreutils > > It used to be in debianutils > > Not glibc. I believe you're confusing mktemp with mkstemp, the latter being C function indeed - man 3 mkstemp. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} reverse DNS problem?

2009-09-03 Thread Mike Kazantsev
7;t need a full-fledged MTA to receive mail, I'd suggest to try out msmtp. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Luks: Which cipher to use

2009-09-09 Thread Mike Kazantsev
t thing I heard is that AES-256 is actually easier to break (although it hasn't gone that far) than AES-128, but that stuff can be easily found on a regular newsfeeds. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Off site storage solution

2009-09-09 Thread Mike Kazantsev
. Note that there are several backup utils that support S3 storage specifically, take a look at that: grep '^app-backup.*:s3' /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Off site storage solution

2009-09-09 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 11:12:27 +0200 Momesso Andrea wrote: > Is anyone aware of a off site storage solution that could satisfay my > needs? Aside from S3, there's also ADrive (adrive.com), which allows access via ftp and webdav and (unlike S3) doesn't charge for bandwidth. --

[gentoo-user] Firefox 3 automatic spell check broken

2008-11-18 Thread Mike Mazur
What am I missing? Thanks, Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 automatic spell check broken

2008-11-18 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi, On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 18 November 2008 11:54:15 Mike Mazur wrote: >> With Firefox 2.x whenever I typed into a text area and misspelled >> something, the word would be underlined. Ever since I updated to

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 automatic spell check broken

2008-11-20 Thread Mike Mazur
t/hunspell-1.2.6 (0) I should also note that spell checking works fine in Pidgin, though I think Pidgin has its own spell checker somehow. I also just tried in Opera, and automatic spell checking doesn't seem to work either, but I'm not sure if it ever worked, I only use Opera seldom for testing. Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 automatic spell check broken

2008-11-20 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi, On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 1:19 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 18:54 +0900, Mike Mazur wrote: >>> With Firefox 2.x whenever I typed into a tex

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox 3 automatic spell check broken

2008-11-20 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi, On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Mike Mazur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With Firefox 2.x whenever I typed into a text area and misspelled > something, the word would be underlined. Ever since I updated to > Firefox 3 this no longer happens. > > I've looked at USE

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 automatic spell check broken

2008-11-21 Thread Mike Mazur
all the language pack myself. Isn't that portage's job? Thank you so much for that pointer! Mike [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:3

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage wants KDE4, I don't

2008-11-25 Thread Mike Williams
upport in the package manager, portage 2.1.4.5 does not implement EAPI 2, portage 2.1.6_rc1 proabably does (2.2 certainly does). You either need to mask all the kde4 ebuilds, or keyword only the 3.5 SLOT versions. -- Mike Williams

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-26 Thread Mike Edenfield
Dale wrote: I'm not expecting a answer but along the lines of a viewpoint in a question form. Why is it that smart, I mean seriously smart, people have the worst social skills? They can invent a super fast CPU, memory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger_syndrome

Re: [gentoo-user] locale issue to clean up

2008-12-07 Thread Mike Edenfield
Mark Knecht wrote: lightning ~ # cat /etc/locale.gen en_US ISO-8859-1 en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 Just to be safe, try running locale-gen again. The glibc ebuild does this automatically, but if you've changed locale.gen since the last time that ebuild ran, you need to run locale-gen to pick up the c

Re: [gentoo-user] locale issue to clean up

2008-12-07 Thread Mike Edenfield
hould create them. If you're missing any of the first three, then you will probably need to emerge -1 glibc to get everything back. --Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] locale issue to clean up

2008-12-07 Thread Mike Edenfield
tings have no direct effect on the USE flags, so portage won't notice anything. You also don't need to reinstall an application to switch locales, as long as the language packs for your new locale are installed via LINGUAS and/or by default. --Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] locale issue to clean up

2008-12-08 Thread Mike Edenfield
smallnow wrote: Mike Edenfield wrote: Um, on my system, i have /usr/share/i18n/charmaps/UTF-8.gz /usr/share/i18n/charmaps/IS8859-1.gz notice charmaps vs charsets the other folders all have en_US files and folders, no utf8 extensions. And my locale stuff seems to work fine. Do you actually

Re: [gentoo-user] locale issue to clean up

2008-12-08 Thread Mike Edenfield
Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks for joining in. I have mucho craziness in these directories! /usr/share/locale has way too much stuff, but it doesn't have what I want. It's missing en_US.utf8 and en_US.ISO8859-1. Also, all of what I think are the font files are in a directory called charmaps, not c

Re: [gentoo-user] locale issue to clean up

2008-12-08 Thread Mike Edenfield
Mark Knecht wrote: You may be correct about setting all of this in 02locale. I noticed that the Gentoo formatting stuff for vi is treating LC_ALL and LC_COLLATE differently than LINGUAS. The manual seems to say set system wide stuff in 02locale and user stuff in your own account. They are diff

Re: [gentoo-user] locale issue to clean up

2008-12-08 Thread Mike Edenfield
Mick wrote: Now I am getting confused - at least one box of mine does not have /etc/env.d/02locale at all. Am I supposed to create it manually? The file isn't automatically created by anything, since strictly speaking you can get away without using it. However, if you are going to add the

Re: [gentoo-user] Restricting Firefox website access

2009-01-09 Thread Mike Kazantsev
imit to a traffic from/to a specific user account(s) or groups, leaving root unrestricted? Makes sense, since root would be able to lift any restriction, anyway ;) -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] non-PHP webmail in portage?

2009-01-09 Thread Mike Kazantsev
bunch of python webmail systems, just type 'python webmail' into google. And if you're looking for performance I would suggest to abstrain from cgi and apache in favor of fcgi with daemons like nginx or lighttpd. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Restricting Firefox website access

2009-01-10 Thread Mike Kazantsev
ase as emerge from root) you can write a simple SUID wrapper for firefox binary, which changes group to restricted one (but leaves uid and home unchanged), then launches true firefox binary, to which only that group has access. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] 'emerge -e world' question

2009-01-13 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:52:05 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > read the man page. > > Especially the bit about bdeps - these are usually not included > in 'emerge -uND world' but will be included when you use -e I'd also suggest checking out the @installed set. -- Mi

Re: [gentoo-user] Restricting Firefox website access

2009-01-13 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:33:14 + Mick wrote: > On Sunday 11 January 2009, Mike Kazantsev wrote: > > > If blocking every possible user is too much trouble or you wish to > > block just firefox, but not wget to http port for _all_ users (not the > > same case as emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Restricting Firefox website access

2009-01-16 Thread Mike Kazantsev
ss rsync traffic you'll need to specify rsync ports in squid.conf, like this: acl SSL_ports port 873 # rsync acl Safe_ports port 873 # rsync -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable remote login for certain user

2009-01-16 Thread Mike Kazantsev
ss.conf (it's also quite well documented). That way you'll block ssh/ftp/mail etc logins for that account, which should also be prone to brutforce attacks because of weak password. The catch is, of course, that you should have pam on your system ;) -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net si

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable remote login for certain user

2009-01-17 Thread Mike Kazantsev
ev/null 2>&1 || echo -n "$usr "; done -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trouble decrypting message from firefox ebuild

2009-01-18 Thread Mike Kazantsev
- Jan 10) 'Trouble with portage' thread, started by econti with answers from AllenJB. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing PAM from my system, is it adviseable?

2009-01-23 Thread Mike Kazantsev
one place, disallow remote access of any kind for local users. Also it allows to use same credentials for pretty much anything - mounting LUKS-encrypted home dir at login (to any service) or using pgp keys, for example. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] mail server

2009-01-24 Thread Mike Kazantsev
ll consider you to be anonymous spammer and won't deliver any mail from your MTA. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] mail server

2009-01-25 Thread Mike Kazantsev
y some organizations) or just shrug, which is often the case with common users. So the answer is likely - "it won't matter, you won't get a name", but that's entirely up to your ISP. That said, there are always possibilities to use the services of (or set up) some

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing outside of Portage & cruft removal

2009-01-26 Thread Mike Kazantsev
ript into an ebuild file and use portage to build it - as simple as it gets ;) -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing outside of Portage & cruft removal

2009-01-26 Thread Mike Kazantsev
ly affect the paths to which it has access, and that's probably only your ~ and /tmp. And as soon as portage will start to "clean up" your home from app-created files like, say, some documents you've spent weeks working on, it'll certainly make it to the top-10 evil linux viruses

Re: [gentoo-user] mail server

2009-01-26 Thread Mike Kazantsev
g to connection at home, of course. > I don't get e-mail when replyed from external mailbox. Probably means there's something wrong with your configuration, or (considering previous post) just wrong message headers. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] When did bzImage move?

2009-02-02 Thread Mike Kazantsev
launches some (your) script. I've created one in /root/bin, so it'll cp && symlink bzImage, instead of making two copies, you'd probably want to put just 'cp && mv && ln' in there. Can't see much point in doing it by hand every time, really. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: games-fps without blood

2009-02-03 Thread Mike Kazantsev
for me with both visa and mastercard. You don't even have to register for a single (not too large) transaction. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] libtool problem

2009-02-03 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:03:00 +0100 (CET) Helmut Jarausch wrote: > I do love this !!! And I hate to re-emerge same gcc every time some minor bug (which I didn't happen to reproduce) is fixed. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Different servers behind the same router

2009-02-03 Thread Mike Kazantsev
offers ability to access IPv6 from anywhere (like public hotspots) w/o setting up any tunneling. Of course, it's not much use for public server, but certainly useful for ssh (among over things) to networks behind nat. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Different servers behind the same router

2009-02-03 Thread Mike Kazantsev
49.101. That's the only way to reach me from WAN. Not quite what I've meant, but just to illustrate a point... emerge miredo (I think it's ebuild is still in bugzilla) /etc/init.d/miredo start And there you go, now you can access this machine by IPv6 address on teredo interface. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-05 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 2/5/2009 7:01 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: no. He is an idiot if he does not read the docs. Simple. Like people who don't read the manual to their car or vcr and then complaining if something does not work. Idiots. "They should read the manual" is *not* a valid design goal for a system.

Re: [gentoo-user] Using portage through NFS

2009-02-06 Thread Mike Kazantsev
f locally-compiled ones - you can just use rsync, via cron, if it's kinda constant need. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] ezmlm

2009-02-07 Thread Mike Kazantsev
as it keeps functioning > - uninstall ezeml an reinstall from source I'd suggest to add latest ezmlm available to some overlay, so it'll be installed as a proper package. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Change colours of xterm

2009-02-07 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:57:18 + Ian Lee wrote: > but still no white on black xterm, what am I missing?? You can try putting XTerm*background: #001800 XTerm*foreground: #A8A8A8 to ~/.Xresources WFM -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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