Re: [gentoo-user] Knock on wood

2009-08-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:46:24 +0600, Mike Kazantsev wrote: I question the wisdom of installing kernels in a directory intended for bootloader files, but if you really must... INSTALL_PATH=/boot/grub make install I'd also add that you can always look at /sbin/installkernel and make

[gentoo-user] Re: crashing X.org

2009-08-13 Thread Remy Blank
Pat wrote: I have interesting problem. When I running a video (using mplayer) and another window partially overlap the video window the X.org crashes (better say restarts) and the login screen appears. The log is clean. The graphics card is intel i915 (or i945?). Using:

[gentoo-user] Error compiling sandbox.

2009-08-13 Thread Andrew MacKenzie
I get the error below when compiling sandbox (any version): mv -f .deps/libsandbox_la-canonicalize.Tpo .deps/libsandbox_la-canonicalize.Plo make[2]: *** No rule to make target `../libsbutil/.libs/libsbutil.a', needed by `libsandbox.la'. Stop. make[2]: Leaving directory

Re: [gentoo-user] Starting a daemon automatically without rc-update

2009-08-13 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:53:28 -0700, Grant wrote: Hmmm, it didn't come back up with the server. I have this in /etc/init.d/rc.local: My mistake, I misread the path you were using. You shouldn't change /etc/init.d/rc.local, you put your commands in the start

Re: [gentoo-user] Knock on wood

2009-08-13 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:54:52 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I'm starting to picture my 3/4 ton pick-up on top of that DSL box. It's starting to look pretty darn good too. Would sort of miss the ole truck tho. But then you'll be back to dialup indefinitely ... i wonder if

[gentoo-user] gentoo sites go down too much!

2009-08-13 Thread Dan Farrell
Last week the gentoo forums went down. Then gentoo-wiki.com went down. Now it seems as though all of gentoo.org is down. What's the deal? What are we to do about this shoddy hosting?

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo sites go down too much!

2009-08-13 Thread William Hubbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:05:24PM -0500, Dan Farrell wrote: Last week the gentoo forums went down. Then gentoo-wiki.com went down. Now it seems as though all of gentoo.org is down. I just went to www.gentoo.org and got the web site with

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo sites go down too much!

2009-08-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 13 August 2009, Dan Farrell wrote: Last week the gentoo forums went down. Then gentoo-wiki.com went down. Now it seems as though all of gentoo.org is down. What's the deal? What are we to do about this shoddy hosting? gentoo-wiki has nothing to do with gentoo.org. Nothing.

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo sites go down too much!

2009-08-13 Thread pk
Dan Farrell wrote: Last week the gentoo forums went down. Then gentoo-wiki.com went down. Now it seems as though all of gentoo.org is down. What's the deal? What are we to do about this shoddy hosting? gentoo.org works for me (both this afternoon, around 15.00 and right now, 20.03).

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo sites go down too much!

2009-08-13 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 12:05 -0500, Dan Farrell wrote: Last week the gentoo forums went down. Then gentoo-wiki.com went down. Now it seems as though all of gentoo.org is down. What's the deal? What are we to do about this shoddy hosting? Gentoo.org works for me. IIRC gentoo-wiki.com

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo sites go down too much!

2009-08-13 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:01:53 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: gentoo-wiki has nothing to do with gentoo.org. Nothing. Sure, they're completely seperate ... officially. But that's not the point. For good or for ill, gentoo-wiki is - or at least used to be before

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo sites go down too much!

2009-08-13 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:05:07 +0200 pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: gentoo.org works for me (both this afternoon, around 15.00 and right now, 20.03). f.g.o. also works right now. g-w.com also works. Your're all right; the gentoo.org thing must have been a transient hiccough somewhere between me

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo sites go down too much!

2009-08-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/13/2009 08:05 PM, Dan Farrell wrote: Last week the gentoo forums went down. Then gentoo-wiki.com went down. Now it seems as though all of gentoo.org is down. What's the deal? What are we to do about this shoddy hosting? Before posting site down issues, please try this first:

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo sites go down too much!

2009-08-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 13 August 2009 20:22:41 Dan Farrell wrote: On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:01:53 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: gentoo-wiki has nothing to do with gentoo.org. Nothing. Sure, they're completely seperate ... officially. But that's not the point. For

Re: [gentoo-user] Knock on wood

2009-08-13 Thread Dale
Dan Farrell wrote: On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:54:52 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I'm starting to picture my 3/4 ton pick-up on top of that DSL box. It's starting to look pretty darn good too. Would sort of miss the ole truck tho. But then you'll be back to dialup

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo sites go down too much!

2009-08-13 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Dan Farrelld...@spore.ath.cx wrote: Last week the gentoo forums went down. Then gentoo-wiki.com went down. Now it seems as though all of gentoo.org is down. What's the deal? What are we to do about this shoddy hosting? The deal: Gentoo forums went down

Re: [gentoo-user] Knock on wood

2009-08-13 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Dan Farrell wrote: On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:54:52 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I'm starting to picture my 3/4 ton pick-up on top of that DSL box. It's starting to look pretty darn good too. Would sort of miss the

Re: [gentoo-user] Starting a daemon automatically without rc-update

2009-08-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:53:18 -0500, Dale wrote: Question. Could I put a command that changes the divisor for my fan speeds here? It would look something like this: echo 8 /sys/devices/platform/w83627hf.656/fan1_div Would that work or does it have to be a service? It's just a shell

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo sites go down too much!

2009-08-13 Thread Joseph
On 08/13/09 21:12, Alan McKinnon wrote: So what do you suggest? I mean, other than whinging about something that Gentoo can do absolutely nothing about, what do you suggest one actually DOES? Had a cancel/board meeting and see if it is possible to host gentoo.org with somebody who is more

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo sites go down too much!

2009-08-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 13 August 2009, Joseph wrote: On 08/13/09 21:12, Alan McKinnon wrote: So what do you suggest? I mean, other than whinging about something that Gentoo can do absolutely nothing about, what do you suggest one actually DOES? Had a cancel/board meeting and see if it is possible to

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo sites go down too much!

2009-08-13 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 14:29 -0600, Joseph wrote: On 08/13/09 21:12, Alan McKinnon wrote: So what do you suggest? I mean, other than whinging about something that Gentoo can do absolutely nothing about, what do you suggest one actually DOES? Had a cancel/board[sic] meeting and see if it

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo sites go down too much!

2009-08-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 13 August 2009 18:05:24 Dan Farrell wrote: Last week the gentoo forums went down. Then gentoo-wiki.com went down. Now it seems as though all of gentoo.org is down. What's the deal? What are we to do about this shoddy hosting? Just calm down, learn now not to whinge

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo sites go down too much!

2009-08-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:29:52 -0600, Joseph wrote: Having Gentoo.org forum or wiki down when most of us rely heavily on them is not acceptable. If the current sever is not reliable (and it is NOT; regardless if it is free or not) move it somewhere else. Which server: gentoo.org, the forums or

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo sites go down too much!

2009-08-13 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:12:07 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: So what do you suggest? I mean, other than whinging about something that Gentoo can do absolutely nothing about, what do you suggest one actually DOES? That is exactly my question. Is it important to do

[gentoo-user] sorry for fanning flames [site downtime]

2009-08-13 Thread Dan Farrell
i'm sorry to everyone, i started a bit of a heated debate. i didn't mean to imply that the gentoo sites hosting is less than adequate. I think the gentoo sites do a good job. I couldn't bring up the site for like 3 seconds today, and wouldn't you know it, I mentioned it on the mailing lists,

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: crashing X.org

2009-08-13 Thread pat
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:33:09 +0200, Remy Blank wrote Pat wrote: I have interesting problem. When I running a video (using mplayer) and another window partially overlap the video window the X.org crashes (better say restarts) and the login screen appears. The log is clean. The graphics

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

2009-08-13 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I am looking for a faster way to do a cp -a r thisdir thatdir locally on one machine with one harddisk inside. Is there a neat trick to accomplish this faster than good old cp? (I have to reorder greater part sof user data on my harddisc...) Thank you very much in advance for

RE: [gentoo-user] gentoo sites go down too much!

2009-08-13 Thread Adam Carter
Having Gentoo.org forum or wiki down when most of us rely heavily on them is not acceptable. If the current sever is not reliable (and it is NOT; regardless if it is free or not) move it somewhere else. Cool. So you're volunteering to pay for it right?

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

2009-08-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/14/2009 05:47 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I am looking for a faster way to do a cp -a rthisdir thatdir locally on one machine with one harddisk inside. Is there a neat trick to accomplish this faster than good old cp? Nope. Some people like to use pipes in hope

Re: [gentoo-user] Knock on wood

2009-08-13 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:31:31 +0100 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: I did, it is passed the install directory as an argument, so I looked at the kernel makefile and found it uses INSTALL_PATH to determine this. I originally thought about modifying installkernel, but it's good that that