Re: [gentoo-user] Help with Asterisk PABX

2005-04-08 Thread Nick Rout
looks like you are not the only one: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85655 On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 09:49 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Hi All, I'm trying to play around with asterisk and I just emerged version 1.07 and on startup I get these errors. $ sudo asterisk

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache vulnerability warning

2005-04-08 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Have you installed mod_proxy on your server? If so you may be vulnerable. But I do not know how to reconfigure the proxy. You should scan your web logs after connect attempts. If they return HTTP 400, there is no problem you have to care about. But there might be other opinions on that issue.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Docs FAQ: Rules Suggestion

2005-04-08 Thread Martoni
Yeah, rules might be fine. Will everyone follow them I wonder. The risk with introducing strict rules for a discussion group (or list) is that, IMHO, increases the risk of starting flamewars. People not expecting one or more, more or less polite pointers to Google, f.g.o and whatnot, might easily

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - sudo doesn't do echo

2005-04-08 Thread Chris Prior
On 2005.04.08 08:06:47 -0400, Bill Roberts wrote: I've started using sudo in preference to su'ing, but I've found that echo doesn't seem to work with sudo. $ sudo echo something /etc/portage/package.keywords -/bin/bash: /etc/portage/package.keywords: Permission denied This is more a job

[gentoo-user] /dev/dsp: No such device... but mplayer has sound?

2005-04-08 Thread daniel
I just installed Amarok (I don't use arts) and it kept failing with this error: [GStreamer Error] ALSA device default is already in use by another program Switching to the xine-engine rendered this error: xine was unable to initialise any audio-drivers. So I decided to wander through /dev

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation

2005-04-08 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, J. Michael Morse wrote: I get the following message: !!! ERROR: sys-apps/texinfo-4.8 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 41, Exitcode2 !!! (no error message) !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. I have yet to figure out

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf problem

2005-04-08 Thread Edward Catmur
Then checked the stato of /usr/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp and realised as it's a binary it contains some weird lines like: 1. line: /etc/config-archive/usr/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp Later line: == I thought it was dispatch-conf inserted this lines :-( Currently I'm emerge xorg-x11 (-B) again

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - sudo doesn't do echo

2005-04-08 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 08:51:44 -0400 Daniel Westermann-Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | sudo sh -c echo something /etc/portage/package.keywords If you've got quotes, or if your input is non-trivial, it's sometimes easier to do: echo something | sudo tee -a /etc/portage/package.keywords -- Ciaran

Re: [gentoo-user] what's the use of etcat use?

2005-04-08 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mercredi 06 avril 2005 à 12:46 +0100, Russ Brown a écrit : Christoph Gysin wrote: $ etcat versions mplayer [...] $ equery list -p -o mplayer [...] More keypresses than the etcat form, and I prefer etcat's output format, but at least it's possible with equery. Man page still needs

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Don't buy from NETGEAR

2005-04-08 Thread Keith Gable
On Apr 5, 2005 5:56 PM, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:I've been screwed over by Netgear for being a Linux user and I need tospread the word.I've been having a seriously difficult time gettingmy Gentoo machines reliably connected to my wireless network foralmost 6 months.The software end of things

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Docs FAQ: Rules Suggestion

2005-04-08 Thread Martoni
On Apr 8, 2005 5:19 PM, Shawn Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:I think using the word rules might have been a poor choice of words(on my part) :)...I think more so what I was thinking of wasguidelines for posting...To that end I think Nick Rout made the bestsuggestion...ESRs doc on how to ask a

Re: [gentoo-user] How to cause uniq(1) to filter this output ?

2005-04-08 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Maxim Vexler wrote: = $ man -k mkdir mkdir(1) - make directories mkdir(2) - create a directory mkdirhier(1x) - makes a directory hierarchy mkdir(1) - make directories mkdir(2) - create a

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless switches off when I run laptop on the battery

2005-04-08 Thread Richard Fish
William Kenworthy wrote: iwconfig eth2 power off # card is on Now _that_ is a usability issue! :- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] {OT} Don't buy from NETGEAR

2005-04-08 Thread Dave Nebinger
My problem with my netgear dsl modem/router is how difficult it is to script against... Even doing simple things like trying to wget the status page in order to determine what my external ip address is a pain in the ass. And you really can't script changes to the thing in any way that I could

Re: [gentoo-user] How to cause uniq(1) to filter this output ?

2005-04-08 Thread Maxim Vexler
On Apr 8, 2005 8:19 PM, Dave Nebinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #man -k mkdir | sort a | uniq mkdir(1) - make directories mkdir(2) - create a directory mkdirhier(1x) - makes a directory hierarchy Sure, this kind of thing will work, but

Re: [gentoo-user] learning to write ebuilds, failed to login anonymously into cvs server

2005-04-08 Thread Statux
Concurrent Versions System On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 22:19 -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote: [snip] (BTW I don't know exactly what, if anything!, CVS' stands for -- never bothered to learn yet, but 'cvs' *is* a 'vcs'.) (At Least In English! (my native language) -- I do know that other languages