Re: [gentoo-user] sharing evolution calendars, kinda

2005-02-17 Thread Frank Schafer
Right, but the thing still isn't in portage ... :-p (see the last sentence of my post) Cheerio Frank On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 03:50 +, Douglas James Dunn wrote: if you use gentoo it would be better to emerge it. easier to keep it updated and everything. On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 16:03 +0100,

Re: [gentoo-user] find + ls + grep + cp + CLI + Bash madness

2005-02-17 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 08:10, Matt Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 daniel wrote: | On January 14, 2005 01:19 pm, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: | |On Friday 14 January 2005 07:00 am, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] | you could probably use: | | $ find . -type f

[gentoo-user] Screen + Split screen to moving aroun

2005-02-17 Thread Ow Mun Heng
I need a primer in how to use screen. I know C-a S makes a split screen. But how can I switch from one window to the other? -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 16:33:53 up 6:36, 8 users, load average: 0.11, 0.39, 0.33 --

[gentoo-user] /proc/net/ip_conntrack nonubtroasive! parsing .... anyone

2005-02-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hi, there is many tools that parse /proc/net/ip_conntrack and display usefull informatom such as : grep, ipstate, netstat-nat the problem with this is that the if there is many entires in it cpu usage skyrockets for long time (in my case for ~1min), which is not suitable for

[gentoo-user] Re: firefox versus duplex (double-sided) printing?

2005-02-17 Thread Botykai Zsolt
-= Eredeti zenet (Original message) =- Kld (From): Botykai Zsolt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cmzett (To): [EMAIL PROTECTED] currently realised that there is something wrong (for me) with printing from firefox. My cups setup is a HP 4050 LJ (duplex capable - and set up as every job should be printed

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen + Split screen to moving aroun

2005-02-17 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 02/17/05 Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit notamment: I need a primer in how to use screen. I know C-a S makes a split screen. But how can I switch from one window to the other? C-a TAB cheers, -- Jean Magnan de Bornier 3 Cours Victor Hugo, 13980 Alleins France Tel: 08 70 39 34 03

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen + Split screen to moving aroun

2005-02-17 Thread Dirk Raeder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ow Mun Heng wrote: I need a primer in how to use screen. I know C-a S makes a split screen. But how can I switch from one window to the other? man screen says C-a ' Prompt for a window name or number to switch to C-a Show a list of currently

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen + Split screen to moving aroun

2005-02-17 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 02/17/05 Dirk Raeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit notamment: Ow Mun Heng wrote: I need a primer in how to use screen. I know C-a S makes a split screen. But how can I switch from one window to the other? man screen says C-a ' Prompt for a window name or number to switch to C-a Show a

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage alternating between upgrade and downgrade of media-libs/gst-plugins [solved].

2005-02-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Daevid Vincent wrote: I finally figured out why portage keeps fluctuating between upgrading and downgrading these packages. It seems that every time I upgrade system or world, it isn't the right version. *sigh* I added '-t' to my emerge and discovered a package that isn't in my keywords file.

Re: [gentoo-user] Giving a user his own partition

2005-02-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:59:24 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: My problem right now is that I'd like to mount /dev/sda8/herb under /home/herb but I don't know how to mount the directory there. I also don't know how to mount the top of the drive under /home/herb and give him write access. The root of

Re: [gentoo-user] Giving a user his own partition

2005-02-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:59:24 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: My problem right now is that I'd like to mount /dev/sda8/herb under /home/herb but I don't know how to mount the directory there. I also don't know how to mount the top of the drive under /home/herb and give him write

Re: [gentoo-user] sharing evolution calendars, kinda

2005-02-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Frank Schafer wrote: Right, but the thing still isn't in portage ... :-p (see the last sentence of my post) Cheerio Frank No, but it is in the BreakMyGentoo tree, which you can use as an overlay, so it would still be known to and managed by Portage, and (hopefully) all the dependencies would

Re: [gentoo-user] find + ls + grep + cp + CLI + Bash madness

2005-02-17 Thread Stroller
On Feb 17, 2005, at 8:42 am, Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 08:10, Matt Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 daniel wrote: | On January 14, 2005 01:19 pm, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: | |On Friday 14 January 2005 07:00 am, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] | you

[gentoo-user] wvdial not writing to /etc/resolv.conf

2005-02-17 Thread Nick Rout
I only occasionally use my laptop for dialup, I use it mainly through the home lan or office lan. Therefore before I go away somewhere I test wvdial to make sure it is still working. I tried it tonight and it connected ok, but didn't write the nameserver lines from the ISP into /etc/resolv.conf.

[gentoo-user] OT - making thick tiffs in GS from vectorial pdfs

2005-02-17 Thread Antoine
Hi, I can't seem to find any parameters for the algorithm for the tiff devices that would enable me to thicken the lines produced in the tiff (i.e., more than one pixel across for a line, I understand that GS is doing the right thing, just wanted to make the tiff look more like the

Re: [gentoo-user] X and I855GM

2005-02-17 Thread Sascha Hlusiak
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 | what is you problem with X?? 3D acceleration?? | | | yes, the graphic card normally do it but it doesn't.and it seems for dvd | play, it use cpu ressource instead of using the graphic card accel. And of course you need to compile xorg-x11 with the

Re: [gentoo-user] Giving a user his own partition

2005-02-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:06:51 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: The root of a partiton belongs to the user that mounted, whjich is root if it was mounted from fstab. Check out the uid and gid options in man mount to mount it as a different user. You need something like /dev/hdX /home/herb

[gentoo-user] which /etc/devfsd.conf

2005-02-17 Thread D.Wilkening
Hi, after having some trouble using dvb-t (Computer #1 working, computer #2 not) i found, that the /etc/devfsd.conf is managed by two packages: #sh: qpkg -f /etc/devfsd.conf sys-apps/baselayout * sys-fs/devfsd * both configs differ a lot, so that with baselayout installed as last pkg, devfs

Re: [gentoo-user] Giving a user his own partition

2005-02-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:06:51 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: The root of a partiton belongs to the user that mounted, whjich is root if it was mounted from fstab. Check out the uid and gid options in man mount to mount it as a different user. You need something like /dev/hdX

Re: [gentoo-user] LISA problems

2005-02-17 Thread David Corbin
For the record, I've found that help:lisa in konqueror gives some reasonable help on the config file. (But it's still inexcusable that it silently fails with no config file, and a mistake not to provide a default one). David On Wednesday 16 February 2005 08:50 pm, Nick Rout wrote: On Wed, 16

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen + Split screen to moving aroun

2005-02-17 Thread Robert Svoboda
* Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-02-17 09:50]: I know C-a S makes a split screen. But how can I switch from one window to the other? C-a TAB -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] find + ls + grep + cp + CLI + Bash madness

2005-02-17 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Stroller ha scritto: [snip] I also believe that xargs saves problems with whitespace quoting in the filename. Stroller. this is valid for -exec too () try # find path/ -exec ls -ld {} \; Francesco -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Error in the emerge of gpm-1.20.1

2005-02-17 Thread Jason Cooper
John Myers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: On Wednesday 16 February 2005 09:32, Jason Cooper wrote: Dave Nebinger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: My questions are : a. Why is this happening (i.e. is this a bug, or a misconfiguration on my side) b. How should I fix this ?

Re: [gentoo-user] Error Messages while Booting

2005-02-17 Thread derek tracy
I know this is a little late to bring this up but in case you or someone else has not found closure on this issue. This happens when both udev and devfs are activated. You can fix it by disabling devfs or configuring your kernel to not automatically mount devfs at boot time and passing the

[gentoo-user] 2 mice

2005-02-17 Thread Luke Albers
I have posted similar messages at multiple places with no response, so I'm hoping someone here might have something to say. I got a USB I-Pen Pro (it's a usb mouse that is shaped like a pen, with the left mouse button being the pen tip). I configured XF86Config to use 2 mice. The only thing

[gentoo-user] spamassassin 3 does no bayes filtering?

2005-02-17 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Hi all, just finished upgrading my spamassassin installation to version 3.0.2 and it seems to work fine, but with one exception: I think it does not use any bayes filtering. IIRC there was some info on bayes filters in every spam mail with spamassassin-2.x, but I can't see them any more in my

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: top illegal instruction with 2.6.10-r6 SMP kernel

2005-02-17 Thread Jesse Guardiani
A. Khattri wrote: On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Jesse Guardiani wrote: Also is your System.map for the current kernel under /boot on the problem box? Yes. Ive seen this problem on a RedHat box and that was due to upgrading some components but not others. I think I rebooted after some upgrades

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious lockups

2005-02-17 Thread Matt Garman
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 08:27:42AM -0800, Bob Sanders wrote: Typically it's the graphics drivers hanging the AGP bus. But you didn't memtion if you were running xscreensaver. If you're running xscreensaver, do - Then, when it hang again, ssh in and killall xscreensaver. Well, a lockup

RE: [gentoo-user] mysterious lockups

2005-02-17 Thread Dave Nebinger
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 08:27:42AM -0800, Bob Sanders wrote: Typically it's the graphics drivers hanging the AGP bus. But you didn't memtion if you were running xscreensaver. If you're running xscreensaver, do - Then, when it hang again, ssh in and killall xscreensaver. Well, a

[gentoo-user] Monitor stability of HDD which has no SMART support

2005-02-17 Thread Qiangning Hong
I have a SAMBA server running. The hard disk is a ATA-1 flash drive which does not support S.M.A.R.T. However, I still want to know it's stablity status. Actually, according to the customer requirement, it should generate an alarm message everytime a non-correctable error has occurred. The data

Re: [gentoo-user] wvdial not writing to /etc/resolv.conf

2005-02-17 Thread Robert Crawford
On Thursday 17 February 2005 05:42 am, Nick Rout wrote: I only occasionally use my laptop for dialup, I use it mainly through the home lan or office lan. Therefore before I go away somewhere I test wvdial to make sure it is still working. I tried it tonight and it connected ok, but didn't

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - genkernel and NFS

2005-02-17 Thread Mike Williams
On Thursday 17 February 2005 03:01, Michael Sullivan wrote: Do genkernels have NFS support turned on by default? Yes, compiled in. -- Mike Williams pgp4Q6PKfPsMa.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] Soft power off lost

2005-02-17 Thread Ducky Z.
I've upgraded my kernel to 2.6.10-morph21 and my notebook now stops at Power Down when halting. It used to turn itself off automatically with my previous kernel. Any help is highly appreciated. D -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 mice

2005-02-17 Thread Bob Sanders
I got a USB I-Pen Pro (it's a usb mouse that is shaped like a pen, with the left mouse button being the pen tip). I configured XF86Config to use 2 mice. The only thing that I can think of with my configuration here is that maybe the protocol isn't IMPS/2. Technically, yes, you should

[gentoo-user] starting custom scripts/applications at boot time

2005-02-17 Thread Zbynek Houska
Hello, I wonder how to start a custom application at boot time. I have webcam using binary called webcam. When I start it issuing webcam /var/log/webcam.log 21 it works fine but adding following with sleep 60 into /etc/conf.d/local.start causes webcam grabing few images and hanging. This

Re: [gentoo-user] ntfs raid 0

2005-02-17 Thread Frank Schafer
mount -t ntfs? On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 18:28 +0200, PK wrote: I have 3 ntfs raid 0 partitions How do I mount them ? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Frank Schafer System specialist T-Systems Czech s.r.o. Klobounick 1435/24, 140 00 Praha 4 Tel.: +420 296529522 Fax: +420

[gentoo-user] --newuse does it work?

2005-02-17 Thread Gareth Hastings
Hello, Could anyone tell me if emerge -newuse package Actually works? I've tried it after I've changed my use flags but it didn't appear to work. Thanks Gareth -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] sharing evolution calendars, kinda

2005-02-17 Thread Frank Schafer
Well, thanks ... but: (from the Breakmygentoo.net Howto) ... Point your browser to BreakMyGentoo. Under the Ebuilds area you will find a directory listing of downloadable Ebuilds that are at your disposal - pick the one you'd like, and proceed to save it. ... there is no Ebuilds area :( On

Re: [gentoo-user] mpg joiner

2005-02-17 Thread Jan Oppolzer
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 01:43:31 +0100, Christian Johansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does anyone know of any mpg/avi joining program in portage? To join two files into one (when a movie is clipped for instance)? try avimerge (it's in transcode package) or if you prefer gui try avidemux.. -- Jan

Re: [gentoo-user] --newuse does it work?

2005-02-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Gareth Hastings wrote: Hello, Could anyone tell me if emerge -newuse package Actually works? I've tried it after I've changed my use flags but it didn't appear to work. Thanks Gareth Did the package you tried to re-emerge actually use any of the USE flags you changed? The most common use for

Re: [gentoo-user] ntfs raid 0

2005-02-17 Thread Joel Merrick
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 17:23 +0100, Frank Schafer wrote: mount -t ntfs? On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 18:28 +0200, PK wrote: I have 3 ntfs raid 0 partitions If it's hardware RAID it'd probably be just a mount. If it's software raid (via volumes) then you'll probably need dynamic volume support in

RE: [gentoo-user] --newuse does it work?

2005-02-17 Thread Gareth Hastings
Did the package you tried to re-emerge actually use any of the USE flags you changed? The most common use for --newuse is emerge --newuse (--update) world, to re-emerge all packages that use the new flags. Yes it did or at least I'm sure it should! Is there anyway to find out? I was

Re: [gentoo-user] --newuse does it work?

2005-02-17 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gareth Hastings wrote: | Hello, | | Could anyone tell me if | | emerge -newuse package | | | Actually works? I've tried it after I've changed my use flags but it | didn't appear to work. The --newuse option only makes sense when it is used for the

Re: [gentoo-user] ntfs raid 0

2005-02-17 Thread PK
Frank Schafer wrote: mount -t ntfs? On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 18:28 +0200, PK wrote: I have 3 ntfs raid 0 partitions How do I mount them ? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list no go on that one houston. It doesnt seem to like it for some reason :/ any other ideas? Thanks for your trouble --

Re: [gentoo-user] sharing evolution calendars, kinda

2005-02-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Frank Schafer wrote: Well, thanks ... but: (from the Breakmygentoo.net Howto) ... Point your browser to BreakMyGentoo. Under the Ebuilds area you will find a directory listing of downloadable Ebuilds that are at your disposal - pick the one you'd like, and proceed to save it. ... there is no

Re: [gentoo-user] ntfs raid 0

2005-02-17 Thread Holly Bostick
PK wrote: Frank Schafer wrote: mount -t ntfs? On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 18:28 +0200, PK wrote: I have 3 ntfs raid 0 partitions How do I mount them ? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list no go on that one houston. It doesnt seem to like it for some reason :/ And what would the reason be (i.e., what

Re: [gentoo-user] --newuse does it work?

2005-02-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Gareth Hastings wrote: Did the package you tried to re-emerge actually use any of the USE flags you changed? The most common use for --newuse is emerge --newuse (--update) world, to re-emerge all packages that use the new flags. Yes it did or at least I'm sure it should! Is there anyway to find

RE: [gentoo-user] --newuse does it work?

2005-02-17 Thread Ivan Yosifov
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 16:47 +, Gareth Hastings wrote: Did the package you tried to re-emerge actually use any of the USE flags you changed? The most common use for --newuse is emerge --newuse (--update) world, to re-emerge all packages that use the new flags. Yes it did or at least

Re: [gentoo-user] Giving a user his own partition

2005-02-17 Thread Mike Noble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bothwick wrote: | On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:06:51 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: | | |The root of a partiton belongs to the user that mounted, whjich is |root if it was mounted from fstab. Check out the uid and gid options |in man mount to mount it as a

Re: [gentoo-user] Soft power off lost

2005-02-17 Thread Chris Cox
Ducky Z. wrote: I've upgraded my kernel to 2.6.10-morph21 and my notebook now stops at Power Down when halting. It used to turn itself off automatically with my previous kernel. Any help is highly appreciated. How did you upgrade your kernel? Did you use your previous working .config file

[gentoo-user] ntfs vs *nix fs

2005-02-17 Thread Antoine
Hi, I had a google but didn't find anything. Anyone know of any investigations trying to measure ntfs vs other *nix fss? I know that it is a bit like comparing apples with oranges but might be nice. Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] --newuse does it work?

2005-02-17 Thread Stefan Onken
Am Donnerstag, 17. Februar 2005 18:17 schrieb Ivan Yosifov: Or maybe you need to manually enable mssql in the php config. grep mssql /etc/php/apache2-php4/php.ini ;extension=php_mssql.dll mssql.allow_persistent = On mssql.max_persistent = -1 mssql.max_links = -1 mssql.min_error_severity = 10

Re: [gentoo-user] perl: ithreads USER flag?

2005-02-17 Thread Rumen Yotov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 fire-eyes wrote: | Is anyone using ~x86 perl with the ithreads USE flag? | | Using an SMP (not HT) system, and thinking that could help things out. | Looking for reasons not to, first... | | | -- | gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list | | Hi, Yes using

RE: [gentoo-user] ntfs vs *nix fs

2005-02-17 Thread Dave Nebinger
I had a google but didn't find anything. Anyone know of any investigations trying to measure ntfs vs other *nix fss? I know that it is a bit like comparing apples with oranges but might be nice. Last I heard write support to ntfs was still classified as experimental. I don't know that I'd

[gentoo-user] Solved: proftpd 1.2.10(-r1,-r2) segfaulting due to mod_delay, excessive delays

2005-02-17 Thread fire-eyes
I was not able to turn off mod_delay per the instructions, so my solution was to edit the ebuild to not attempt to build mod_delay support. Apparently this has been solved on proftpd's side: http://bugs.proftpd.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2540 I have commented to the appropriate gentoo bugs. At this

Re: [gentoo-user] ntfs vs *nix fs

2005-02-17 Thread Bob Sanders
I had a google but didn't find anything. Anyone know of any investigations trying to measure ntfs vs other *nix fss? I know that it is a bit like comparing apples with oranges but might be nice. NTFS is a variation of VAX/VMS' original filesystem. Internally at DEC it was known as ODS2 (On

[gentoo-user] Logging traffic to MySQL -- Am I pushing it?

2005-02-17 Thread Grant
I've started logging each page request made to my site as an entry in a MySQL table. I get about 5000 page requests per day, and I wonder if I'm asking to much of MySQL. Is there a limit on how big a table can be? Other considerations? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Logging traffic to MySQL -- Am I pushing it?

2005-02-17 Thread Jeff Smelser
On Thursday 17 February 2005 12:18 pm, Grant wrote: I've started logging each page request made to my site as an entry in a MySQL table. I get about 5000 page requests per day, and I wonder if I'm asking to much of MySQL. Is there a limit on how big a table can be? Other considerations?

Re: [gentoo-user] Logging traffic to MySQL -- Am I pushing it?

2005-02-17 Thread pepone pepone
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 10:18:02 -0800, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've started logging each page request made to my site as an entry in a MySQL table. I get about 5000 page requests per day, and I wonder if I'm asking to much of MySQL. Is there a limit on how big a table can be? Other

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Weird apache2 stuff

2005-02-17 Thread Grant
Thanks, worked like a charm! I wonder how apache2 could have been restarted manually though. Should I be worried? Issuing a '/etc/init.d/apache reload' while apache is not running will start it in such a way that a later issued '/etc/init.d/apache whatever' will behave as apache was not

Re: [gentoo-user] Logging traffic to MySQL -- Am I pushing it?

2005-02-17 Thread Grant
I've started logging each page request made to my site as an entry in a MySQL table. I get about 5000 page requests per day, and I wonder if I'm asking to much of MySQL. Is there a limit on how big a table can be? Other considerations? Are you serious? We log 4-7 million rows a day

Re: [gentoo-user] Logging traffic to MySQL -- Am I pushing it?

2005-02-17 Thread Stefan Onken
Am Donnerstag, 17. Februar 2005 19:18 schrieb Grant: I've started logging each page request made to my site as an entry in a MySQL table. I get about 5000 page requests per day, and I wonder if I'm asking to much of MySQL. Is there a limit on how big a table can be? Other considerations?

[gentoo-user] Re: wvdial not writing to /etc/resolv.conf

2005-02-17 Thread James
Nick Rout nick at rout.co.nz writes: according to man wvdial, auto dns should be on by default, and there is nothing in /etc/wvdial.conf to turn it off. Ideas anyone? man wvdial.conf talks about dns and default routes in a little bit more detail (on an older debian-woody system) I have

Re: [gentoo-user] proftpd 1.2.10: mod_delay disabling

2005-02-17 Thread Stefan Onken
Am Donnerstag, 17. Februar 2005 17:09 schrieb fire-eyes: clients (nasty with IE). IfModule mod_delay.c DelayEngine off /IfModule http://www.castaglia.org/proftpd/modules/mod_delay.html cu stonki -- www.stonki.de:the more I see, the more I know... www.proftpd.de: Deutsche

[gentoo-user] logrotate trouble

2005-02-17 Thread Grant
logrotate doesn't seem to be rotating my logs properly and I'm having some apache2 problems that must be related to my use of postrotate in logrotate.conf. In logrotate.conf I have this: daily rotate 4 create include /etc/logrotate.d notifempty nomail noolddir Are daily and rotate n defaults?

[gentoo-user] Re: ups recommendations

2005-02-17 Thread James
Cosmin Nicolaescu casper at camelot.homelinux.com writes: I know that they're all ~1000V which for a home computer seems a lot, but I am planning on buying at least one more box in the near future, and I figured that it's better to have more than to see that I'll need to buy another UPS in a

Re: [gentoo-user] gpm

2005-02-17 Thread Martin Scharrer
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 20:57, PK wrote: nope no joy I keep getting an error message saying please use -m /dev/mouse -t protocol if I use the above settings. Did you loaded the module usbhid? Is you kernel right configured? Martin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Logging traffic to MySQL -- Am I pushing it?

2005-02-17 Thread Russ Brown
Grant wrote: I've started logging each page request made to my site as an entry in a MySQL table. I get about 5000 page requests per day, and I wonder if I'm asking to much of MySQL. Is there a limit on how big a table can be? Other considerations? Are you serious? We log 4-7 million rows a day

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 mice

2005-02-17 Thread Luke Albers
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 07:34 -0800, Bob Sanders wrote: Technically, yes, you should configure 2 seperate mice. However, you don't have to. I suggest configuring your main mouse - insure that it works, then just plug in the I-pen and see if it works as well. It'll use the same settings as

Re: [gentoo-user] Logging traffic to MySQL -- Am I pushing it?

2005-02-17 Thread Jeff Smelser
On Thursday 17 February 2005 12:31 pm, Grant wrote: I'm very glad to hear that. What about performance issues? Will the insert be slower as the table grows? That could be a problem. If you use myisam, no, unless your deleting a lot.. if you use innodb and you dont optimize it, its

Re: [gentoo-user] proftpd 1.2.10: mod_delay disabling

2005-02-17 Thread fire-eyes
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 19:33 +0100, Stefan Onken wrote: Am Donnerstag, 17. Februar 2005 17:09 schrieb fire-eyes: clients (nasty with IE). IfModule mod_delay.c DelayEngine off /IfModule http://www.castaglia.org/proftpd/modules/mod_delay.html Yep, that didn't work. See my later

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 mice

2005-02-17 Thread Bob Sanders
my normal mouse is ps/2 and this one is USB, so that won't work for me. I am going to try using the I-Pen as the only mouse (comment out the main mouse in XF86Config), and see how that goes. Why not? Both map to /dev/psaux or /dev/input/mouse0. And yes, I have done this with multiple

[gentoo-user] 4 hours of emerge -e down the drain?

2005-02-17 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, After looking into a problem with Evolution it appears that a few people solved the problem doing an 'emerge -e gnome' so I decided to give that a try. It ran for 4 hours and got to item 104 out of 260 and then failed because for some reason portage wasn't smart about the alsa-driver and

[gentoo-user] Need help with apache2 setup

2005-02-17 Thread Ian Truelsen
I am not sure what I am doing wrong, but I am doing something wrong. I am trying to setup apache2, but I cannot get access from outside my machine. I have it set to listen on port 8000 and have that forwarded from my router, however, I can only connect to the server locally and only by specifying

Re: [gentoo-user] 4 hours of emerge -e down the drain?

2005-02-17 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Knecht wrote: | Hi, |After looking into a problem with Evolution it appears that a few | people solved the problem doing an 'emerge -e gnome' so I decided to | give that a try. It ran for 4 hours and got to item 104 out of 260 and | then

Re: [gentoo-user] 4 hours of emerge -e down the drain?

2005-02-17 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Mark Knecht wrote: Anyway, if I have to restart this is there a way to pick up from here? How can I start emerge -e gnome with item #105 (whatever that might be) and not lose 4 hours of work? emerge --resume --skipfirst -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/

Re: [gentoo-user] 4 hours of emerge -e down the drain?

2005-02-17 Thread aaron
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 11:11:28AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, After looking into a problem with Evolution it appears that a few people solved the problem doing an 'emerge -e gnome' so I decided to give that a try. It ran for 4 hours and got to item 104 out of 260 and then failed because

Re: [gentoo-user] 4 hours of emerge -e down the drain?

2005-02-17 Thread Mark Knecht
Thanks to all. It started at 1 of 156. By my calulation that looks correct: 103 of 260 passed 104 failed 1 of 156 to do 103+156=259 Looks great! Thanks! Now, how will I figure out why portage wanted to build alsa-driver for -e gnome? Does that require reading the gnome ebuild? (A capability

Re: [gentoo-user] 4 hours of emerge -e down the drain?

2005-02-17 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks to all. It started at 1 of 156. By my calulation that looks correct: 103 of 260 passed 104 failed 1 of 156 to do 103+156=259 Looks great! Thanks! Now, how will I figure out why portage wanted to build alsa-driver for -e gnome? Does that require reading the gnome ebuild?

[gentoo-user] Show command execution text result on X desktop?

2005-02-17 Thread fprosper
Hi all, I just would like to be pointed on the right direction to accomplish this: I want to show on the X desktop the result of a command, let's say, calendar -A 7, which Shows my appointments for the next 7 days, just like, i.e. root-tail, shows tail -f on the desktop. I am quite sure it must

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with apache2 setup

2005-02-17 Thread fire-eyes
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 11:12 -0800, Ian Truelsen wrote: I am not sure what I am doing wrong, but I am doing something wrong. I am trying to setup apache2, but I cannot get access from outside my machine. I have it set to listen on port 8000 and have that forwarded from my router, however, I

RE: [gentoo-user] Need help with apache2 setup

2005-02-17 Thread Dave Nebinger
I am trying to setup apache2, but I cannot get access from outside my machine. I have it set to listen on port 8000 and have that forwarded from my router, however, I can only connect to the server locally and only by specifying 127.0.0.1:8000. Outside of the machine, all I get is connection

Re: [gentoo-user] 4 hours of emerge -e down the drain?

2005-02-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:19:50 -0600, Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks to all. It started at 1 of 156. By my calulation that looks correct: 103 of 260 passed 104 failed 1 of 156 to do 103+156=259 Looks great! Thanks! Now, how will I figure out

[gentoo-user] is it possible to emerge only the docs for a package

2005-02-17 Thread Catalin Trifu
Hi, I don't usually use docs, so i add doc to package.use but i forgot :) to add it to a package. is there a possibility to emerge only the docs from a package Thanks, Catalin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Show command execution text result on X desktop?

2005-02-17 Thread Bob Sanders
Hi all, I just would like to be pointed on the right direction to accomplish this: I want to show on the X desktop the result of a command, let's say, calendar -A 7, which Shows my appointments for the next 7 days, just like, i.e. root-tail, shows tail -f on the desktop. I am quite sure

Re: [gentoo-user] logrotate trouble

2005-02-17 Thread Guilheme Cirne
On Thursday 17 February 2005 16:42, Grant wrote: ... My log config sections are like this: /var/log/apache2/access_log { daily rotate 99 postrotate /etc/init.d/apache2 restart endscript } for access_log, ssl_access_log, ssl_request_log,

[gentoo-user] Gentoo's Bandwidth Measurement Abilities

2005-02-17 Thread James
Hello All, I need to use a portable with 2 ethernet interfaces as a bandwidth measurement device to measure the actual bandwidth used by ethernet devices. For this measurement, I inted to put the device under test and only one other pc on the hub/switch so that all other forms of ethernet/ip

Re: [gentoo-user] Logging traffic to MySQL -- Am I pushing it?

2005-02-17 Thread Grant
I'm very glad to hear that. What about performance issues? Will the insert be slower as the table grows? That could be a problem. If you use myisam, no, unless your deleting a lot.. if you use innodb and you dont optimize it, its possible.. So you're saying if I use the default MySQL

Re: [gentoo-user] logrotate trouble

2005-02-17 Thread Grant
My log config sections are like this: /var/log/apache2/access_log { daily rotate 99 postrotate /etc/init.d/apache2 restart endscript } for access_log, ssl_access_log, ssl_request_log, error_log, and ssl_error_log with apache2

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with apache2 setup

2005-02-17 Thread Ian Truelsen
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 14:27:59 -0500 fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's make sure it's actually listening on something other than 127.0.0.1. as root: netstat -anp | grep :8000 dark-lord root # netstat -anp | grep 8000 tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:80000.0.0.0:*

Re: [gentoo-user] Logging traffic to MySQL -- Am I pushing it?

2005-02-17 Thread Jeff Smelser
On Thursday 17 February 2005 02:25 pm, Grant wrote: So you're saying if I use the default MySQL storage engine and don't delete records, the size of the table will not affect the insert performance? Depends on how big the table gets.. This depends on hardware/fs types/memory and a host of

Re: [gentoo-user] logrotate trouble

2005-02-17 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Guilheme Cirne: On Thursday 17 February 2005 16:42, Grant wrote: ... My log config sections are like this: /var/log/apache2/access_log { daily rotate 99 postrotate /etc/init.d/apache2 restart endscript } for

[gentoo-user] Xorg and Gnome or KDE on Gentoo

2005-02-17 Thread Dennis Taylor
I have read the DOCs, but I am missing something. I want to run X-windows on my Gentoo box (2.6.10-gentoo-r6), but so far have been unsuccessful. It is unclear to me whether Gnome or KDE need me to first install Xorg. When Gnome would not emerge without error, I tried first

[gentoo-user] desktop publishing

2005-02-17 Thread timothy johnson
what opensource software to we have to recommend to do some small desktop publishing, ie family newletterm and such. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ups recommendations

2005-02-17 Thread Cosmin Nicolaescu
On Thu, February 17, 2005 1:39 pm, James said: Cosmin Nicolaescu casper at camelot.homelinux.com writes: I know that they're all ~1000V which for a home computer seems a lot, but I am planning on buying at least one more box in the near future, and I figured that it's better to have more

Re: [gentoo-user] Logging traffic to MySQL -- Am I pushing it?

2005-02-17 Thread Jeff Smelser
On Thursday 17 February 2005 02:25 pm, Grant wrote: So you're saying if I use the default MySQL storage engine and don't delete records, the size of the table will not affect the insert performance? Grant, Here is a excellent discussion, and its how we do things here so I know it works

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg and Gnome or KDE on Gentoo

2005-02-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 15:41:33 -0500, Dennis Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have read the DOCs, but I am missing something. I want to run X-windows on my Gentoo box (2.6.10-gentoo-r6), but so far have been unsuccessful. It is unclear to me whether Gnome or KDE need me to first install

Re: [gentoo-user] desktop publishing

2005-02-17 Thread Jean-Francois Gagnon Laporte
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 12:42:17 -0800, timothy johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what opensource software to we have to recommend to do some small desktop publishing, ie family newletterm and such. Desktop publishing = scribus or openoffice but mostly scribus. If it's good enough for some

Re: [gentoo-user] desktop publishing

2005-02-17 Thread Christoph Eckert
what opensource software to we have to recommend to do some small desktop publishing, ie family newletterm and such. Scribus. Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] desktop publishing

2005-02-17 Thread Christoph Eckert
Desktop publishing = scribus or openoffice but mostly scribus. If it's good enough for some newspaper it is good enough for you ;) Are you sure ;-) ? Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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