[gentoo-user] Re: emerge advises upgrade profile

2009-10-26 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: [1] default/linux/x86/10.0 * [2] default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop [3] default/linux/x86/10.0/developer [4] default/linux/x86/10.0/server [5] hardened/linux/x86/10.0 [6] selinux/2007.0/x86 [7]

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT Xfce4/KDE] A URL aware applet

2009-10-18 Thread Harry Putnam
Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz writes: Then, whenever I know I have some url selected (I don't need an applet to tell me) I just have to press the key combination and off it goes. :-) Thanks for the input and example. The applet I'm remembering was very unobtrusive... the one recommended here

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT Xfce4/KDE] A URL aware applet

2009-10-18 Thread Harry Putnam
hp_sebastian hp_sebast...@supersein.de writes: xfce-extra/xfce4-clipman-plugin Thank, that looks pretty flexible.

[gentoo-user] [OT Xfce4/KDE] A URL aware applet

2009-10-17 Thread Harry Putnam
I once was a KDE desktop user... Lasted quite a while. But over time I went to Xfce4 Been using it now a good while, but one applet from KDE is sorely missed. There was some kind of panel applet, that was URL aware. Any time you highlighted text that looked like some kind of URL, a dialog

[gentoo-user] Re: commands to show where a package is installed?

2009-10-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Zhengquan Zhang zhang.zhengq...@gmail.com writes: 2009/10/9 Justin jus...@j-schmitz.net: Zhengquan Zhang wrote: Hi, Gentoo users, I am new to gentoo and am wondering if there is a command to show where a package is installed? which file is installed in which directory? Thanks a lot,

[gentoo-user] Re: commands to show where a package is installed?

2009-10-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com writes: Zhengquan Zhang wrote: Hi, Gentoo users, I am new to gentoo and am wondering if there is a command to show where a package is installed? which file is installed in which directory? Thanks a lot, I'm not sure this is what you are talking about but

[gentoo-user] Re: Fed up with Xorg + hal mess [SOLVED]

2009-10-08 Thread Harry Putnam
Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org writes: I'm curious about the actual key strokes. Is it Alt-SysRq and then REISUB And what is `SysRq' a reference to on a keyboard?

[gentoo-user] Re: Fed up with Xorg + hal mess [SOLVED]

2009-10-07 Thread Harry Putnam
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com writes: I also know the SysReq key trick now. It can take you back to a console. I'll bite ... what is it?

[gentoo-user] about layman and eix search

2009-10-03 Thread Harry Putnam
How to make eix search an overlay too. The manpage for layman says: You can search through the ebuilds available in the overlays on http://overlays.gentoo.org by using eix. Emerge the package and run update-eix-remote update. But I find no such option in eix or eix --help|grep update

[gentoo-user] Re: Abut smb:// aware tools

2009-10-03 Thread Harry Putnam
walt w41...@gmail.com writes: [...] Well, it sounds like you know more about the subject than I do, but do you know about smbmount that comes as part of samba? Seems to me like that's what you're asking for. I had forgotten about smbmount but that too is not the same as being able to cd

[gentoo-user] Re: Abut smb:// aware tools

2009-10-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes: Emacs is said to be able to do this using tramp but I haven't ever gotten it to work. Konqueror can do it... but I don't run kde, and don't really want to fiddle with it in that direction. Midnight Commander can do it. Haa, there is an

[gentoo-user] Re: Abut smb:// aware tools

2009-10-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de writes: Hmm, Not commonly used, don't know. First versions of autofs date back to April 97, amd is much older, I think. So no, automounting is NOT new in Linux, it's there for over a decade now. At nearly 70, I can call a decade `fairly recent'. I

[gentoo-user] Re: Abut smb:// aware tools

2009-10-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de writes: Hi, I really wonder about this discussion. This tool can do it, that tool can do it, the other one, too. WTF? No problem, don't read it. Just mount the damn share and _EVERY_ tool can access it. So what? Settle down bub... you're not in a

[gentoo-user] Re: Abut smb:// aware tools

2009-10-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de writes: Am Samstag 03 Oktober 2009 17:31:28 schrieb Harry Putnam: `eix midnight' fails as does `eix commander' Does it have a different name in portage? No, it has the same name as everywhere: mc ;-) Dirk, Your wisacre additions are really starting

[gentoo-user] Re: about layman and eix search

2009-10-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Roy Wright r...@wright.org writes: update-eix-remote is an executable, not an option to the eix executable. After running update-eix-remote your normal eix queries will include overlays. Ha.. no wonder I didn't find it. However its not a part of the eix package nor is it visible on portage.

[gentoo-user] Re: Abut smb:// aware tools

2009-10-03 Thread Harry Putnam
walt w41...@gmail.com writes: [...] Nifty, I didn't know that. Amazing what mc can do. Couple of points that are not obvious in case Harry wants to try mc: it needs to be compiled with the samba USE flag set; and you access your samba shares using the Right or Left dropdown menus at the

[gentoo-user] Re: about layman and eix search

2009-10-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes: [...] It must be common task for people using overlays... so anyone know how its done. Hi, Create the file /etc/eix-sync.conf with this one character in it: * Then you can simply run eix-sync to automatically sync your overlays, main

[gentoo-user] Re: Abut smb:// aware tools

2009-10-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Walker n...@ep.mine.nu writes: Linux is much older than 1997... Not at all. [...] I really meant unix... where most of linux cmds and base tools comes from. But as people do unix/linux is often thought of as one kind of thing. [...] Hmm. Most of the people who used (actually, played

[gentoo-user] About layman... and the color output

2009-10-03 Thread Harry Putnam
New to layman but after at least a semi-careful look thru man layman I don't find anything explaining what the different color asterisks mean. I didn't read every word but scanned the whole thing twice and did a few searchs like /color and /output But those didn't do much good. Anyone know what

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Linux as a first platform? Was: Abut smb:// aware tools

2009-10-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: In separate posts, Harry Putnam wrote: I started my computer life on linux 1996.. only moved to windows for some things when editing video (I like the adobe tools... and linux just doesn't have anything remotely comparable.) ... I knew

[gentoo-user] Abut smb:// aware tools

2009-10-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Do we have tools other than Konqueror that are aware of smb/UNK addressing? Before you answer please note that: I know about ssh I know about fuse I know about mount -tcifs I'd really like to be able to use UNK addressing from the cmd line. cd //host/share I don't now how many of you have

[gentoo-user] Re: Am I wrong?..

2009-10-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com writes: Grant Edwards wrote: SNIP and my brain just doesn't work the way vi does. I'm with you Grant. Mine doesn't work that way either. You guys do know that Bill Joy was lopsided drunk when he wrote the bulk of vi ... right? (or so it is said by oldtimers)

[gentoo-user] Re: Abut smb:// aware tools

2009-10-02 Thread Harry Putnam
walt w41...@gmail.com writes: On 10/02/2009 01:56 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Do we have tools other than Konqueror that are aware of smb/UNK addressing? Before you answer please note that: I know about ssh I know about fuse I know about mount -tcifs I'd really like to be able to use UNK

[gentoo-user] [ot fonts in firefox]

2009-09-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Can anyone here coach me a little about getting a decent look in firefox. I've monkeyed around with the font settings endlessly but it seems I can only get a look where like in a google search.. The hits are displayed in a decent and reasonable size. But the font size in the search box where you

[gentoo-user] Re: [ot General Textmode q]

2009-09-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: On Wednesday 23 September 2009, Willie Wong wrote: On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 04:37:15PM -0500, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam squawked: Can any one tell me how to copy with mouse (really the left mouse button provided on the touchpad) but paste from

[gentoo-user] Re: [ot General Textmode q]

2009-09-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: On Wednesday 23 September 2009, Willie Wong wrote: On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 04:37:15PM -0500, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam squawked: Can any one tell me how to copy with mouse (really the left mouse button

[gentoo-user] [ot General Textmode q]

2009-09-22 Thread Harry Putnam
I use a laptop with one of those touch pads you use for a mouse where you drag your finger around on it and have two buttons for left and right mouse. Can any one tell me how to copy with mouse (really the left mouse button provided on the touchpad) but paste from keyboard while in text (console)

[gentoo-user] Re: [ot General Textmode q]

2009-09-22 Thread Harry Putnam
Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com writes: [...] One assumes that console mode means he's not running X. That said, I presume gpm holds the answer. But, I don't run gpm and don't know much about it... James Ausmus james.aus...@gmail.com writes: [...] then edit /etc/conf.d/gpm and add

[gentoo-user] Re: Why am I seeing only black screen in mplayer

2009-09-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Following my most recent update world of Sept. 13, mplayer only produces a black screen when playing quicktime .mov files. It works for me on ~amd64. I'm using mplayer

[gentoo-user] Why am I seeing only black screen in mplayer

2009-09-20 Thread Harry Putnam
Following my most recent update world of Sept. 13, mplayer only produces a black screen when playing quicktime .mov files. Ditto in firefox. This was working. But I'm not sure really what is playing the videos ... I do have gecko installed but in the firefox settings/applications it lists:

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up correct domainname

2009-09-20 Thread Harry Putnam
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: -The following addresses had permanent fatal errors- email_acco...@isp.com (reason: 550 5.1.0 nag...@myserver.mydomain.com sender rejected : invalid sender domain) -Transcript of session follows - ... while talking to smtp.ISP.com:

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up correct domainname

2009-09-20 Thread Harry Putnam
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: I think you might avoid the problem by making sendmail Impersonate your isps domain. Using some or all of these settings in sendmail.mc MASQUERADE_AS(`yourISP.domain')dnl MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(`youractual.domain')dnl

[gentoo-user] Re: fcron fetchmail procmail and the why not?

2009-09-20 Thread Harry Putnam
Ward Poelmans wpoel...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 17:34, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: When using the line:    @ 5 fetchmail -a nothing happens: The mail remains on the server and can be downloaded with    fetchmail -a from the commandline. May be I am a little

[gentoo-user] Re: mplayer troubles since update world

2009-09-19 Thread Harry Putnam
Kelly Hirai ke...@met.fsu.edu writes: Harry Putnam wrote: I didn't notice that mplayer wasn't working in firefox right away but I think it may have started with a recent update. (All updated packages are listed at the bottom) [...] i had trouble with console mplayer after the last update

[gentoo-user] Re: mplayer troubles since update world

2009-09-19 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: i had trouble with console mplayer after the last update as mplayer was built against another version of /usr/lib/libx264.so revdep-rebuild fixed that. Thanks... revdep-rebuild here, turns up several pkgs needing rebuild but all are related

[gentoo-user] Where is mplayer?

2009-09-19 Thread Harry Putnam
The newest version of mplayer offered in todays sync is: media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20090919-r1 It cannot be found in any of around a dozen repos that emerge tries with emerge -vu mplayer Anyone know where it can be found. By the way I did try downloading the sources from:

[gentoo-user] Re: Where is mplayer?

2009-09-19 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: The newest version of mplayer offered in todays sync is: media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20090919-r1 It cannot be found in any of around a dozen repos that emerge tries with emerge -vu mplayer Anyone know where it can be found. By the way I

[gentoo-user] Re: Icons on the xfce4 Desktop

2009-09-19 Thread Harry Putnam
dhk dhk...@optonline.net writes: I recently started using the xfce4 desktop with Gentoo and something happened where the icons disappeared. When I go to the Desktop folder I can still see them there, the problem is I can get them to display again or they are displayed but off the screen.

[gentoo-user] mplayer troubles since update world

2009-09-18 Thread Harry Putnam
I didn't notice that mplayer wasn't working in firefox right away but I think it may have started with a recent update. (All updated packages are listed at the bottom) Now I just get a black screen in player window on a web page. The player loads and indicates its loading the video and playing

[gentoo-user] Re: Strange desktop happening following update world

2009-09-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes: In short, jpeg-7 breaks some things :) It's not compatible with previous versions and while most programs don't have a problem with that, some do. I'm not sure exactly what causes XFCE to break, but gtk+ is broken with jpeg-7 and causes

[gentoo-user] Re: Screen resolution problem

2009-09-15 Thread Harry Putnam
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: Subsection Display Depth 24 Modes 1280x1024 #1024x768 800x600 640x480 Virtual 2048 1536 ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection EndSection [...] Sure, but we're talking about setting modelines and what

[gentoo-user] Strange desktop happening following update world

2009-09-14 Thread Harry Putnam
On reboot following recent update world I find the xfce4 manager is not able to display the former desktop wallpaper or even the wallpapers packaged with the install. Other obvious changes are that ctrl-alt-bkspc no longer shuts X down And the desktop seems to take a good bit longer to initially

[gentoo-user] Re: Strange desktop happening following update world

2009-09-14 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: On reboot following recent update world I find the xfce4 manager is not able to display the former desktop wallpaper or even the wallpapers packaged with the install

[gentoo-user] Re: Screen resolution problem

2009-09-14 Thread Harry Putnam
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: On my old computer it detected the highest resolution as 1280x1024, but could actually do 1600x1200 with no problems. I had to create a custom Modeline and put it in xorg.conf - this was before the HAL revolution. I've got no idea if modelines still

[gentoo-user] Re: mplayer and sound in firefox during playback

2009-09-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de writes: On 09/09/2009 10:05 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 09 September 2009 01:49:15 Harry Putnam wrote: I've installed mplayer and am able to play back online vidoes like quicktime. However, I get no sound. Playing the same file retrieved from

[gentoo-user] mplayer and sound in firefox during playback

2009-09-08 Thread Harry Putnam
I've installed mplayer and am able to play back online vidoes like quicktime. However, I get no sound. Playing the same file retrieved from browser cache, directly with mplayer, works with sound. What do I need to do with firefox to get the sound of videos? I have the gecko-media player

[gentoo-user] Re: After yrs of silence... I need sound

2009-09-07 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: [...] Hoping some kind sole will take the time to provide a brief outline off the top of there head... how to get started and cut right to the chase in an hour or two. [...] Thanks too: Arttu V., Dale, Mick, Joshua Murphy That alsaconf is way cool...

[gentoo-user] After yrs of silence... I need sound

2009-09-06 Thread Harry Putnam
I've gone literally for yrs with no sound on my desktop machines I rarely find a need for it. But now I'm trying to take some online courses and find trying to work on windows machine when coding and other sorts of editor intensive stuff is involved... I really feel much more adept on linux.

[gentoo-user] USE flags confusing on emerge gimp

2009-09-04 Thread Harry Putnam
After some resent discussion here of USE in thread: Subject: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox I'm a little confused by what I see when investigating the emerge of gimp (wrapped for mail). Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] media-libs/babl-0.0.22 USE=-mmx

[gentoo-user] Re: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox

2009-08-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: Actually, I think there used to be an mplayer USE flag that behaved in exactly this way - it was associated with RealPlayer /or their codecs. However I would assume this to be the exception rather than the rule, and one would generally assume

[gentoo-user] keyboard copy paste

2009-08-30 Thread Harry Putnam
How can I copy and paste with the keybard between application windows. I think I remember knowing how to do this at some time in the past but now just coming up blank as to how. I want to copy something in Emacs... ok .. no problem.. there are many ways with keyboard inside emacs. Now I want to

[gentoo-user] Re: keyboard copy paste

2009-08-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de writes: Am Sonntag, 30. August 2009 schrieb Harry Putnam: Now I want to paste whats on the clipboard into an Xterm cmd line, without going to the mouse. I'm running recent Xfce4 desktop... but not finding a way to do this. Can I just steal whatever events

[gentoo-user] Re: keyboard copy paste

2009-08-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Jesús Guerrero i92gu...@terra.es writes: [...] Tab will navigate to next and shifttab to previous link and I see they are selected... but I find no keyboard action that does whatever a mouse click does to hyperlinks...[/quote] That entirely depends on the browser you use. But usually it's

[gentoo-user] Re: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox

2009-08-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: You have it wrong. A not unusual state of affairs for me, I'll admit. After several yrs on gentoo... I still don't understand fully the use of the USE flags. USE=thing is supposed to add *support* for thing, not necessarily *install* something

[gentoo-user] Re: keyboard copy paste

2009-08-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Jesús Guerrero i92gu...@terra.es writes: On Sun, August 30, 2009 19:52, Harry Putnam wrote: Jesús Guerrero i92gu...@terra.es writes: [...] Tab will navigate to next and shifttab to previous link and I see they are selected... but I find no keyboard action that does whatever a mouse

[gentoo-user] Re: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox

2009-08-29 Thread Harry Putnam
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: I'm surprised you emerged mplayer with USE=-quicktime, since the purpose of doing so is to play Quicktime videos. :P emerge came up with those setting... I just didn't change it.

[gentoo-user] Re: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox

2009-08-29 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Harry Putnamrea...@newsguy.com wrote: I'm having a heck of a time getting firefox setup so it can handle quicktime videos. [...] Paul wrote: Seems to possibly be related to win32codecs and/or quicktime USE

[gentoo-user] Re: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox

2009-08-29 Thread Harry Putnam
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de writes: On 08/29/2009 10:59 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Strollerstrol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: I'm surprised you emerged mplayer with USE=-quicktime, since the purpose of doing so is to play Quicktime videos. :P emerge came up with those setting

[gentoo-user] How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox

2009-08-28 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm having a heck of a time getting firefox setup so it can handle quicktime videos. I understand I need mplayer to be installed but haven't been able to emerge it. I'm hoping someone will recognize what this problem is... I certainly do not. But I do see others having trouble related to

[gentoo-user] Firefox - Couldn't Load XPCOM

2009-08-02 Thread Harry Putnam
This must be a known issue, but I don't see recent messages that appear to be about this problem with firefox. Over the last few updates I'm unable to run firefox at all. If called from cmdline I see: firefox Couldn't load XPCOM. I read somewhere it might have something to do with Xulrunner.

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox - Couldn't Load XPCOM

2009-08-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: This must be a known issue, but I don't see recent messages that appear to be about this problem with firefox. Over the last few updates I'm unable to run firefox at all. If called from cmdline I see: firefox Couldn't load XPCOM. I read somewhere

[gentoo-user] Re: How send mail when user login on ssh or local ?

2009-07-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Vagner Rodrigues vag...@litrixlinux.org writes: Hi Folks ! Somebody know how I to so send mail with IP and Date/time when same user login on shell ( remote or local ) ? I work with another admin's and I never told me when they access and for what my server to do something, I

[gentoo-user] check for nfs systems offered for mounting

2009-07-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Is there anyway to check for nfs filesystems that are mountable? Something like smbclient can do for cifs/smb shares. equery tools nfs-utils doesn't show anything likely.

[gentoo-user] Re: [nfs] nfs mount settings

2009-07-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: There is nothing much you can do about this except: Renumber your gid's locally to match the nfs server, or renumber the nfs share gids to match your local machine Looking into that I noticed, as you thought the gid of the share on solaris is

[gentoo-user] Re: [nfs] nfs mount settings

2009-07-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: Further to A McK's reply, suggest use of `ls -ln`. Assuming the -n is supported on Slowaris all will become clear. But after the changes mentioned in a reply to Alan M. it now shows the same on both the source /projects (on solaris) and the

[gentoo-user] Re: [nfs] nfs mount settings

2009-07-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: [...] Logging my user out and back in I see the gid 15 now is wheel so the same as solaris. When you do this, you only change the username attached to the gid. Remember that the filesystem does not know or care what username you use, it only

[gentoo-user] [nfs] nfs mount settings

2009-07-26 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm not that familiar with nfs usage ... only used lightly a few times. I have an opensolaris nfs server serving a share to my gentoo box. The mount point is set as owner:group of my user (reader). Also has the set-gid bit set. ls -ld /projects drwxr-sr-x 2 reader wheel 48 Jun 24 07:08

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] File merge tool

2009-07-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Roy Wright r...@wright.org writes: kdiff3 is my favorite graphical merge tool (hey, even have it running on my macbook). Thanks.. I'm pretty sure that would involve installing some part of kde which I'm not interested in doing. Just too much grind time when updating and not that much in

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] File merge tool

2009-07-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Justin jus...@j-schmitz.net writes: Along time I used tkdiff and it worked really fine, since yesterday I swapped to the new package diffuse, which is actually the same in gtk. Now that does look usefull. Too bad I see no way to ignore differences in dates of the various entries. That

[gentoo-user] Where to start with this kind of X problem

2009-07-25 Thread Harry Putnam
I've had X running and running xfce4 desktop for mnths. This is a single user machine on a home lan uptodate gentoo. Today I decided to create a new user and start an x session for that user. I moved to a virtual terminal Ctrl-alt-F2 Then copied the .xinitrc file I use to start xfce from my

[gentoo-user] Re: Where to start with this kind of X problem

2009-07-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: How can I have all these module problems but have no trouble booting as my regular user? It must be something else causing the error? I'm not understanding why one user can startx but not another on the same hardware and same .initrc file. Whooops

[gentoo-user] Re: Where to start with this kind of X problem

2009-07-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: I'm backing up xorg-server to pre 1.6.1.902 to see it that does any good but have a hunch it will involve more reinstalls than that. Seems to have cured the problem... now able to start multiple X sessions on different displays

[gentoo-user] [OT] File merge tool

2009-07-22 Thread Harry Putnam
Summary: Any suggestions for a file merge tool? Details: I'd like to try just actually manually merging bookmarks.html files from different computers. Diff and Patch seem kind of hard or maybe impossible to use for this. If you have identical parts in different places they will just keep

[gentoo-user] Re: Still getting calls to gcc-i486

2009-07-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Heiko Wundram he...@xencon.net writes: On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:13:01 -0500, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: snip So far I haven't found any instance of i486 files remaining on the system... what else might evoke that output? As I said: some Python makefile retains the reference

[gentoo-user] Re: Still getting calls to gcc-i486

2009-07-15 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: Also ... anyone have another idea how to iron this out. I've done everything suggested here in this thread but still cannot compile pycairo successfully. How about it folks... anymore suggestions on this: emerge error: [...] building 'cairo._cairo

[gentoo-user] Still getting calls to gcc-i486

2009-07-14 Thread Harry Putnam
On a recent update world I get a failure on pycairo that appears to be the result of a call for gcc-i486. A month or more ago I went thru the process of changing /etc/make.conf from i486 to i686... deleting all instances of files with i486. I've lost track of where all the guff was located

[gentoo-user] Re: Still getting calls to gcc-i486

2009-07-14 Thread Harry Putnam
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com writes: [...] i486-pc-linux-gnu-gcc: No such file or directory error: command 'i486-pc-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1 [...] did you run fix-libtool.sh? Doing so failed to help in any way. root # fix_libtool_files.sh `gcc

[gentoo-user] Re: Still getting calls to gcc-i486

2009-07-14 Thread Harry Putnam
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com writes: That went off without error, but then going back to update world fails at pycairo with same error message. you could grep for i486-pc-linux-gnu-gcc I'm not sure what you had in mind there... or where to grep -r but a grep -r from `/'

[gentoo-user] Request for [OT] advice

2009-06-28 Thread Harry Putnam
How can I go about merging two bookmarks.html style files... and not lose any or duplicate any? I realize the de-duping part is probably not going to be all that thorough so maybe just at some level, remove dups. It seems with diff and patch I end up losing bookmarks. Also I'm not so sure I

[gentoo-user] gcc error compiling imagemagic

2009-06-24 Thread Harry Putnam
emerging imagemagick ... I hit this gcc error: [...] -L/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/imagemagick-6.5.2.9/work/ImageMagick-6.5.2-9/PerlMagick/../magick/.libs -lMagickCore -L/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/imagemagick-6.5.2.9/work/ImageMagick-6.5.2-9/PerlMagick/../wand/.libs -lMagickWand

[gentoo-user] Re: gcc error compiling imagemagic

2009-06-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: emerging imagemagick ... I hit this gcc error: [...] -L/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/imagemagick-6.5.2.9/work/ImageMagick-6.5.2-9/PerlMagick/../magick/.libs -lMagickCore -L/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/imagemagick-6.5.2.9/work/ImageMagick

[gentoo-user] need smbpasswd coaching

2009-06-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Its so seldom that I have to work on samba config I forget between times whatever steps are needed. This time I just copied an old config over to a new[ish] gentoo install. Now attempting to set smbpasswds. First I tried to give a windows client user name (but no such user on gentoo OS). Failed

[gentoo-user] Re: need smbpasswd coaching

2009-06-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: So next tried an actual Gentoo user name: smbpasswd reader root # smbpasswd reader Gackkk I left out the all important -a Sorry for the line noise

[gentoo-user] Re: Canonical place to list modules to load

2009-06-19 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes: On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:31:23 -0400, Mark Shields wrote: So if I want to load `fuse' at boot... where do it put it? It's been the same as long as I've been using Gentoo the past 5 years: /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6. This has always been in

[gentoo-user] Re: Canonical place to list modules to load

2009-06-19 Thread Harry Putnam
Mark Shields laebsh...@gmail.com writes: It's been the same as long as I've been using Gentoo the past 5 years: /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6. This has always been in the handbook as long as I've been using Gentoo, too. Yeah... thats why I was confused. But as you see, things are

[gentoo-user] Re: Sysloggers

2009-06-19 Thread Harry Putnam
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: Perhaps rsyslog? http://www.rsyslog.com Among others, it offers support for on-demand disk buffering, reliable syslog over TCP, SSL, TLS and RELP, writing to databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and many

[gentoo-user] Canonical place to list modules to load

2009-06-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Where do we list modules we want loaded at boot? When I run modprobe fuse WARNING: Deprecated config file /etc/modprobe.conf, all config files belong into /etc/modprobe.d/. /etc/modprobe.conf doesn't actually appear to have any modules listed but does list a herd of aliases for

[gentoo-user] Installing apache with USE='-suexec'

2009-06-15 Thread Harry Putnam
Starting to emerge apache I see the default USE flags include -suexec. I'm not much of an apache buff but wondered if that would have a bad effect on allowing users to run cig scripts. I'm not even sure its related... but recall something dimly about using suexec to run such scripts.

[gentoo-user] Can I get a tip for reading eix output?

2009-06-15 Thread Harry Putnam
Can I get a likely search string for the massive man page of eix to understand all the info contained in its ouput. A quick search on `output' seems to miss it. Things like found in this output: eix ^apr$ * dev-libs/apr Available versions: (1) 1.2.11!t (~)1.2.12!t (~)1.3.0!t 1.3.2!t

[gentoo-user] Re: apache dep apr no emerge

2009-06-15 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: Setup: pc 2.6.30-gentoo-r1_rdr_3 profile=default/linux/x86/2008.0 This a fresh install... just being built up now. Attempting to emerge apache, and breaking on the depenedency apr. Apparently something to do with not being able

[gentoo-user] Re: Whey two dangling symlinks /etc/init.d/ depscan.sh runscript.sh

2009-06-15 Thread Harry Putnam
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com writes: On Montag 15 Juni 2009, Harry Putnam wrote: This is a very new install but somehow I have two dangling symlinks in /etc/init.d. depscan.sh and runscript.sh Anyone know where these come from or if they are signs of a problem? have

[gentoo-user] Re: About procmail and getline

2009-06-14 Thread Harry Putnam
Sebastian Günther sam...@guenther-roetgen.de writes: * Harry Putnam (rea...@newsguy.com) [12.06.09 16:41]: There is a patch offered but still one would think using standard emerge on a package that is outside the `~' daredevil stage and is not masked, it should `just work' [tm]. When

[gentoo-user] Re: About procmail and getline

2009-06-14 Thread Harry Putnam
Sebastian Günther sam...@guenther-roetgen.de writes: * Harry Putnam (rea...@newsguy.com) [12.06.09 16:41]: There is a patch offered but still one would think using standard emerge on a package that is outside the `~' daredevil stage and is not masked, it should `just work' [tm]. When

[gentoo-user] Re: About procmail and getline

2009-06-14 Thread Harry Putnam
Sebastian Günther sam...@guenther-roetgen.de writes: First of all the bug is fixed, and a working patch was there 1 day after the opening. I call this a fast response... For ~x86 this is a working solution, and if you use ~x86: b.g.o *is* the users information system and applying patches

[gentoo-user] Whey two dangling symlinks /etc/init.d/ depscan.sh runscript.sh

2009-06-14 Thread Harry Putnam
This is a very new install but somehow I have two dangling symlinks in /etc/init.d. depscan.sh and runscript.sh Anyone know where these come from or if they are signs of a problem?

[gentoo-user] Re: Introduce Manual manipulation during an emerge

2009-06-13 Thread Harry Putnam
Arttu V. arttu...@gmail.com writes: Is there a reason to use i486 stage3? I think an i686 one might have been available and a better hit if your system is/was set up as an i686 before this? Well, not that it counts now, gotta go with what you have unpacked. Looking at those stages again...

[gentoo-user] set local kenel version

2009-06-13 Thread Harry Putnam
Setting a version to local kernel builds has been discussed here so sorry to bang on it some more. I found information here from a previous thread and kept one of the answers but finding now that I don't really understand it. Or am doing the proceedure wrong. It was Neil B's post: From: Neil

[gentoo-user] Re: set local kenel version

2009-06-13 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: So for linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r1 and in /usr/src/linux cat localverion1: _reader_ Cat .version: 1 And the symlink ls -l localversion2 lrwxrwxrwx [...] Jun 12 18:01 localversion2 - .version I get this naming after a build:

[gentoo-user] Re: set local kenel version

2009-06-13 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: On Saturday 13 June 2009 18:05:37 Harry Putnam wrote: Is that a real mistake, or just a typo in your mail? Its a typo... I just checked to make sure though.. would have been nice if a real missnaming was the problem. ls -l /usr/src/linux

[gentoo-user] apache dep apr no emerge

2009-06-13 Thread Harry Putnam
Setup: pc 2.6.30-gentoo-r1_rdr_3 profile=default/linux/x86/2008.0 This a fresh install... just being built up now. Attempting to emerge apache, and breaking on the depenedency apr. Apparently something to do with not being able to determine `tagged configuration' Anyone recognize what

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