Re: [gentoo-user] ssl timeout when downloading file(s)

2007-10-26 Thread Florian Philipp
Eric W Phillips schrieb: I have been trying to install firefox extensions and kept getting timeout errors. I have since discovered that I am unable to download files over an ssl (https://) encrypted connection using Firefox or Konqueror. I have not been able to find any help on this issue,

Re: [gentoo-user] Cross-compiling

2007-10-26 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:32:13 -0300 Davi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Em Qui 25 Out 2007, Iain Buchanan escreveu: On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 17:23 +0300, Stratos Psomadakis wrote: O/H Michael Sullivan έγραψε: [...] and of course start distccd in each partitipating pc... but after all that,

Re: [gentoo-user] pam limits

2007-10-26 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:55:45 +0200 Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why can't you specify the -g users when running useradd? -- guess: scripted? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] pam limits

2007-10-26 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Friday 26 October 2007, Dan Farrell wrote: On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:55:45 +0200 Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why can't you specify the -g users when running useradd? -- guess: scripted? And scripts can be changed, can't they? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Online photo album software in Portage?

2007-10-26 Thread Remy Blank
Iain Buchanan wrote: On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 11:55 -0700, Grant wrote: Can anyone recommend a photo album package either in Portage or an overlay? jalbum looks good but it doesn't seem to be in either: http://jalbum.net even though it's not in portage, I'd highly recommend you try it - I

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a local portage/rsync mirror on OpenBSD

2007-10-26 Thread Florian Philipp
Samuel Baldwin schrieb: I don't use OpenBSD but I can assure you that there is nothing special about portage's usage of rsync. Every howto about rsync servers and BSD should work. Just look into the script for settings like recursion and compression. Well, I mean't every gentoo one says emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] ssl timeout when downloading file(s)

2007-10-26 Thread Eric Phillips
Florian Philipp wrote: Eric W Phillips schrieb: I have been trying to install firefox extensions and kept getting timeout errors. I have since discovered that I am unable to download files over an ssl (https://) encrypted connection using Firefox or Konqueror. I have not been able to find

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer with libmp3lame

2007-10-26 Thread Pawel K
MPlayer was compiled without libmp3lame support. -lameopts is not an MEncoder option Try to recompile it with lame use flag. My mplayer-1.0_rc1_p20070824 doesn't have lame (or similar) flag. I use equery uses mplayer to retrieve the USE flag settings. thank You for help

Re: [gentoo-user] smartctl strangeness

2007-10-26 Thread Eric Martin
On 10/26/07, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since you didn't specify how you determined that it has only 131G, perhaps you should check with fdisk to see what the actual capacity is? The BIOS has 131G for the Samsung in a sub-menu for that drive: Maximum Capacity

Re: [gentoo-user] new box: 2 small puzzles (1 solved)

2007-10-26 Thread Eric Martin
Another responder mentioned block sizes. Yes, that mb the problem. I'm new to USB sticks haven't formatted them in any way: they seem to have an existing file system on them, but mb it's Fat32, which seems likely to be inefficient. So are there any standard recommendations for formatting

Re: [gentoo-user] ssl timeout when downloading file(s)

2007-10-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 08:15:46AM -0600, Penguin Lover Eric Phillips squawked: I have gnutls and openssl installed, and have run revdep-rebuild. I am able to visit https sites, only downloads are affected. neither wget nor ping will work. wget returns unable to resolve name. however my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Online photo album software in Portage?

2007-10-26 Thread Grant
Can anyone recommend a photo album package either in Portage or an overlay? jalbum looks good but it doesn't seem to be in either: http://jalbum.net even though it's not in portage, I'd highly recommend you try it - I use it and it produces some fantastic looking albums! I second

Re: [gentoo-user] pam limits

2007-10-26 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:55:04 +0200 Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 26 October 2007, Dan Farrell wrote: On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:55:45 +0200 Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why can't you specify the -g users when running useradd? -- guess: scripted? And

[gentoo-user] compiz-fusion, emerald and xfce

2007-10-26 Thread Marc Blumentritt
Hi, for some reason I do not get compiz-fusion running with xfce. I installed from portage tree and not from xeffects overlay. I want to use emerald as window decorator. Therefore I added in ccsm under window decorations - command emerald --replace. Using compiz-start seems to start compiz, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Which Partition type does iPod Nano use

2007-10-26 Thread Eric Martin
On 10/12/07, Thufir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:16:12 +0200, Dan Johansson wrote: The Nano get recognized but not it's Partition type (it works OK on a Wintendo box). Someone know which partition type an iPod Nano uses? Doesn't Apple use HFS+? Depends on the machine

[gentoo-user] Question re desktop-file-utils

2007-10-26 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
On several emerges I see the message Install dev-util/desktop-file-utils, if you want to help to improve Gentoo. Can't really tell what this package does but how does it help Gentoo? Tony -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither

Re: [gentoo-user] compiz-fusion, emerald and xfce

2007-10-26 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Marc Blumentritt schrieb: Hi, for some reason I do not get compiz-fusion running with xfce. I installed from portage tree and not from xeffects overlay. I want to use emerald as window decorator. Therefore I added in ccsm under window decorations - command emerald --replace. Using

RE: [gentoo-user] Networking Issue

2007-10-26 Thread Jonathan Haws
Here is the output of ifconfig -a: crush jrhaws # ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-11-06-66-F5-4A-25-9E-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0

Re: [gentoo-user] mobo onboard Intel graphics: some progress

2007-10-26 Thread Philip Webb
071025 Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 10/25/07, Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got X working on my new box with Fluxbox (KDE is more work). I used 'Xorg -configure' to create the basic xorg.conf . It runs without any obvious problems, but there are 2 niggles: (1) the log file shows

[gentoo-user] Disk ARchiver command line questions

2007-10-26 Thread Thufir
Disk ARchiver command line questions From: Thufir hawat.thufir at gmail.com Subject: Disk ARchiver command line questions Newsgroups: gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general Date: 2007-10-17 09:09:22 GMT I've been reading the man pages, but command line stuff isn't my forte :( I want to backup some