Re: [gentoo-user] non-root crontab failure (permissions issue?)

2008-05-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 17 May 2008, King Spook wrote: crontab -e does not error out when run as root. crontab -u myuser -e, when run as root, does create a crontab, which appears to be owned by root, grouped by root, and with rw permissions for owner only. How can I fix this? Thanks. I would guess

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to set package.use for layman overlays

2008-05-18 Thread Stroller
On 17 May 2008, at 16:00, Alexander Meinke wrote: So again, if one wanted to set some use flags differently for layman packages ... where and how would that be done? I think that you should use package.use. Yes. According to Strollers post this is done by an package.use file in

[gentoo-user] [OT] gxineplugin insists on opening link

2008-05-18 Thread Mick
Hi All, I have changed all the video file associations in Opera to use mplayerplug-in but for some reason it continues to try to open this link with gxine. It wouldn't bother me if gxine could play it. The darn thing fails. Any ideas how to associate this type of link with mplayer?

[gentoo-user] [OT] Kmail spell checker having problems with German Umlaut

2008-05-18 Thread Dan Johansson
I'm having a small problem with spell checking in kmail (v. 1.9.7, KDE 3.5.8). e.g. if a have the word beigefügte in a text, the spellchecker will treat it as two words, beigef and gte, which of course is not in the dictionary. Any suggestions how to solve this? -- Dan Johansson,

Re: [gentoo-user] non-root crontab failure (permissions issue?)

2008-05-18 Thread King Spook
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 12:32 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 17 May 2008, King Spook wrote: crontab -e does not error out when run as root. crontab -u myuser -e, when run as root, does create a crontab, which appears to be owned by root, grouped by root, and with rw

Re: [gentoo-user] opengl apps not running

2008-05-18 Thread Mateusz A. Mierzwiński
Marzan, Richard non Unisys pisze: I’m having trouble running opengl apps like glxgears and tremulous. The nvidia kernel module is loaded and eselect reports that opengl is being handled by nvidia but still no opengl app runs. Glxgears complains about it being run in the wrong display. Try

[gentoo-user] Re: How to set package.use for layman overlays

2008-05-18 Thread reader
Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 17 May 2008, at 16:00, Alexander Meinke wrote: So again, if one wanted to set some use flags differently for layman packages ... where and how would that be done? I think that you should use package.use. Yes. According to Strollers post this is done by

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to set package.use for layman overlays

2008-05-18 Thread Alexander Meinke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a little confused .. the question (that you quoted in your reply) asks how to set use flags separately for layman overlay. So your answer doesn't appear to make sense... but maybe I'm missing something here. Hi, the subject is How to set package.use for layman

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to set package.use for layman overlays

2008-05-18 Thread William Hubbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 08:32:40AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 17 May 2008, at 16:00, Alexander Meinke wrote: So again, if one wanted to set some use flags differently for layman packages ... where

Re: [gentoo-user] non-root crontab failure (permissions issue?)

2008-05-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 18 May 2008, King Spook wrote: . So I checked mine using, and you were right in that the permissions were different. So then I tried to make them mirror yours using: sudo chmod u=rwx,g=rs,o=x /usr/bin/crontab But the permissions would up like so: -rwxr-S--x 1 root crontab 35120

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to set package.use for layman overlays

2008-05-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 18 May 2008, Alexander Meinke wrote: So I think you wont be able to set USE-Flags specially for layman packages. That appears to be correct, as there is no mention of overlay-specific USE settings anywhere in the layman docs. So, it seems that one still has only the same two

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to set package.use for layman overlays

2008-05-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 18 May 2008 09:01:12 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: There is no way to set use flags separately for packages in overlays. That's not always true. If the overlay provides a version that is not in portage, like a cat/pkg- for a CVS/SVN ebuild, then a version-specific entry in package.use

Re: [gentoo-user] Nice level for X11

2008-05-18 Thread Abraham Gyorgy
by selecting a suitable process scheduler and configuring your HZ to 1000 It is already done. (the Hz). Well thanks very much for these information (you and other people on this thread). I believe what you say but I believe too what I see with my own eyes. If we will ever meet on a Gentoo

[gentoo-user] acpid problems

2008-05-18 Thread Mick
Hi All, I keep having acpid problems with a box of mine. I noticed that when hald starts at bootup it takes around 11 to 12 seconds! acpid never starts. If I try to start it manually it fails with the error: acpid: can't open /proc/acpi/event Trying to put the machine into hibernation

[gentoo-user] Where did HP Ink Jet support run off to?

2008-05-18 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, It seems that I cannot find where this support has run to for my home office PSC 1610 All-in-One printer. 1) 6 months ago I used a package called something like hpcij but that was removed from portage. 2) Then I seemed to get by for a while using gutenprint and something from foomatic

[gentoo-user] $LINGUAS question

2008-05-18 Thread »Q«
I only need English support, but USan English is preferred. I have in make.conf LINGUAS=en_US en thinking that if an app supports en_US that will be used since it's first. Is that the way it works? I guess this is just a trivia question -- I don't even know if there are apps which could use

Re: [gentoo-user] $LINGUAS question

2008-05-18 Thread Michał 'shpaq' Laszuk
Dnia 2008-05-18, nie o godzinie 15:07 -0500, »Q« pisze: ng that if an app supports en_US that will be used since it's first. Is that the way it works? The LINGUAS variable should be only en. en_US is a localization. -- Nie istnieje bariera nieskończenie ostateczna, Nie istnieje nic, co nie

[gentoo-user] Re: Where did HP Ink Jet support run off to?

2008-05-18 Thread Remy Blank
It seems that I cannot find where this support has run to for my home office PSC 1610 All-in-One printer. I think you're looking for hplip: # emerge -s hplip Searching... [ Results for search key : hplip ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * net-print/hplip Latest version available: 2.7.10

[gentoo-user] problem emerging vte

2008-05-18 Thread David Relson
When I run emerge vte I get an access violation, just like bug #219211 x11-libs/vte-0.16.13 ACCESS VIOLATION during compilation describes. The bug report recommends run python-updater when updating to python 2.5 It's been a while since I upgraded to python-2.5 and removed python-2.4. When I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Where did HP Ink Jet support run off to?

2008-05-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Remy Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that I cannot find where this support has run to for my home office PSC 1610 All-in-One printer. I think you're looking for hplip: # emerge -s hplip Searching... [ Results for search key : hplip ] [

Re: [gentoo-user] non-root crontab failure (permissions issue?)

2008-05-18 Thread King Spook
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 7:08 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 18 May 2008, King Spook wrote: . So I checked mine using, and you were right in that the permissions were different. So then I tried to make them mirror yours using: sudo chmod u=rwx,g=rs,o=x /usr/bin/crontab

Re: [gentoo-user] acpid problems

2008-05-18 Thread Henry Gebhardt
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I keep having acpid problems with a box of mine. I noticed that when hald starts at bootup it takes around 11 to 12 seconds! acpid never starts. If I try to start it manually it fails with the error: acpid: can't open

Re: [gentoo-user] acpid problems

2008-05-18 Thread Mick
On Sunday 18 May 2008, Henry Gebhardt wrote: On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I keep having acpid problems with a box of mine. I noticed that when hald starts at bootup it takes around 11 to 12 seconds! acpid never starts. If I try to start it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Where did HP Ink Jet support run off to?

2008-05-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Remy Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that I cannot find where this support has run to for my home office PSC 1610 All-in-One printer. I think you're looking for hplip: Seems to

Re: [gentoo-user] $LINGUAS question

2008-05-18 Thread Graham Murray
Michał 'shpaq' Laszuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The LINGUAS variable should be only en. en_US is a localization. In that case why do packages such as mozilla-firefox support (amongst others) linguas_en, linguas_en_GB and linguas_en_US? They use the LINGUAS variable to select which localised

Re: [gentoo-user] $LINGUAS question

2008-05-18 Thread felix
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 11:02:07PM +0100, Graham Murray wrote: Micha?? 'shpaq' Laszuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The LINGUAS variable should be only en. en_US is a localization. In that case why do packages such as mozilla-firefox support (amongst others) linguas_en, linguas_en_GB and

Re: [gentoo-user] $LINGUAS question

2008-05-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 18 May 2008 16:02:25 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is LINGUAS supposed to do? Tell portage which languages you want support for when building an application. It does not set the default language for that application, which is either handled by the locale environment variables or

Re: [gentoo-user] $LINGUAS question

2008-05-18 Thread felix
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 12:22:45AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 18 May 2008 16:02:25 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is LINGUAS supposed to do? Tell portage which languages you want support for when building an application. It does not set the default language for that

Re: [gentoo-user] problem emerging vte

2008-05-18 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Relson wrote: When I run emerge vte I get an access violation, just like bug #219211 x11-libs/vte-0.16.13 ACCESS VIOLATION during compilation describes. The bug report recommends run python-updater when updating to python 2.5 It's

Re: [gentoo-user] $LINGUAS question

2008-05-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 18. Mai 2008, »Q« wrote: I only need English support, but USan English is preferred. I have in make.conf LINGUAS=en_US en thinking that if an app supports en_US that will be used since it's first. Is that the way it works? no. It installs the en_US and en language files. Set

Re: [gentoo-user] problem emerging vte

2008-05-18 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 18 May 2008 16:35:22 -0700 Zac Medico wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Relson wrote: When I run emerge vte I get an access violation, just like bug #219211 x11-libs/vte-0.16.13 ACCESS VIOLATION during compilation describes. The bug report

[gentoo-user] Cant accept licence

2008-05-18 Thread W.Kenworthy
I am trying to install an older version of java (1_5_0_12) using an ebuild from the attic and am getting a problem accepting the licence. After displaying the licence, More ... is printed at the bottom of the screen as expected. Pressing any and every key does move the cursor around the screen,