Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 1+0 question

2006-03-01 Thread Matt Randolph
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marton Gabor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - could someone give me a good howto? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-tipsntricks.xml#software-raid - do I need to make a /boot partition which is not part of any arrays or will grub boot from raid1+0?

Re: [gentoo-user] $PKGDIR is getting full of old cruft - script for cleaning?

2006-01-01 Thread Matt Randolph
Alexander Skwar wrote: Hi! In my $PKGDIR, old cruft gets accumulated over time - eg. 6 versions of kernel source (suspend2-sources), multiple releases of mozilla-firefox and so on. Does anyone know of a script that cleans all that stuff? Basically, I'd be happy to have just the *latest*

Re: [gentoo-user] Wearab le Gentoo Computer?

2005-10-28 Thread Matt Randolph
A. Khattri wrote: On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Matt Randolph wrote: My gosh! They've invented the world's most expensive Knoppix CD. I forgot, the Knoppix CD is writable and comes with a fingerprint reader... This is a very interesting product and I am glad that you mentioned

Re: [gentoo-user] Wearab le Gentoo Computer?

2005-10-27 Thread Matt Randolph
A. Khattri wrote: On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Mark Shields wrote: You want to be a gargoyle ( http://tecfa.unige.ch/perso/staf/nova/blog/2003/09/23/gargoyle-and-self-gargoyle/ )? Heh. I'd start with a mac mini. Or get Gentoo running on this: http://www.projectblackdog.com/ My gosh!

Re: [gentoo-user] burning compressed iso

2005-10-22 Thread Matt Randolph
damian bamforth wrote: I want to burn an iso image with a .bz2 extension (the full file name is livecd64-ahorn5.iso.bz2). I only have windows xp. I tried the 'bsdtar' tool, but, whilst it decompresses the file, it doesn't leave an iso image which I can then burn. What do I do? Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] burning compressed iso

2005-10-22 Thread Matt Randolph
damian bamforth wrote: --- Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: damian bamforth schreef: On Sat, 2005-10-22 14:59:02, Rumen Yotov wrote: IIRC you can use 7zip for Windows to uncompress .bz2 compressed files. Or search for bzip2 for Windows (was win

Re: [gentoo-user] My Continuing ALSA Woes

2005-10-22 Thread Matt Randolph
Michael Sullivan wrote: On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 08:51 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: On 10/22/05, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. I sent the output in a previous post. I don't use aplay very often, but I believe that the output it gave was the output it's supposed to give

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU upgrade - make.conf

2005-10-19 Thread Matt Randolph
Andreas Karlsson wrote: I went back to -march=athlon-xp. I don´t know how much k8 optimizations does performance-wise, but I guess it ain´t woth a reinstall. Best regards, Andreas Karlsson Sweden You might want to ask your question again in the gentoo-amd64 list. - Matt --

Re: [gentoo-user] script in /etc/cron.daily never runs

2005-09-22 Thread Matt Randolph
Dave Nebinger wrote: Also, check that the environment in the cron script is correct. It does not execute with the environment that you sit down at a terminal with, in particular $PATH. Another tip RE: environment variables cron, if you submit the job via at (sys-process/at), it will

Re: [gentoo-user] script in /etc/cron.daily never runs

2005-09-22 Thread Matt Randolph
Renat Golubchyk wrote: On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:15:04 -0500 John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 17:11 -0400, Matt Randolph wrote: I have a script in /etc/cron.daily that never runs. It works properly when run manually and it's been in there for weeks (and a reboot

[gentoo-user] script in /etc/cron.daily never runs

2005-09-21 Thread Matt Randolph
I have a script in /etc/cron.daily that never runs. It works properly when run manually and it's been in there for weeks (and a reboot or two). I'm using vixie-cron. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks, Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-06 Thread Matt Randolph
Holly Bostick wrote: Matt Randolph schreef: But does the Knoppix user's system have an administrator NOW? I say it does not. It has been configured by an admin... heck, the OS was installed to it's filesystem by an admin... but there is no admin looking over the shoulder of the Knoppix

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-06 Thread Matt Randolph
Matt Randolph wrote: Mr. Lee's problem is not that he cannot send email. It is that he cannot send email by the method he has chosen to use because he hasn't the knowledge necessary to make that method work. I assume he could probably resort to webmail in a pinch. If his distribution had

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-05 Thread Matt Randolph
Holly Bostick wrote: Matt Randolph schreef: [I just thought I'd chip in my two cents on the question of whether Linux is easy or hard. It's turned into more like my $11.62, so it's a good thing it's broken into sections.] Linux is easy. snip of Matt's tour-de-force, virtually all

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-05 Thread Matt Randolph
Holly Bostick wrote: Matt Randolph schreef: I don't think Knoppix really has an administrator. It really is an enduser only flavour of Linux. It's sort of a fire and forget distro. Sure, someone had to go to a lot of trouble to get it set up just right in the first place, but once

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-04 Thread Matt Randolph
[I just thought I'd chip in my two cents on the question of whether Linux is easy or hard. It's turned into more like my $11.62, so it's a good thing it's broken into sections.] Linux is easy. That's not to say that it can't be hard. Depending on what you're trying to do, you may have to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /dev/cdrom has gone!

2005-09-03 Thread Matt Randolph
Alex Korshunov wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 08:32:56PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: no error on reboot now, but i will try to switch to windows to see if the cdrom works well All my cdroms in /dev/cdroms/cdrom. May be...? I didn't see the beginning of

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is man-pages-de package installed?

2005-09-03 Thread Matt Randolph
Alexander Skwar wrote: Hello! [16:00:20 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] $ sudo emerge -Duvat world These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [..] [ebuild N] app-i18n/man-pages-de-0.4 0 kB [..] As you can see there, the package

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is man-pages-de package installed?

2005-09-03 Thread Matt Randolph
Matt Randolph wrote: Alexander Skwar wrote: Hello! [16:00:20 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] $ sudo emerge -Duvat world These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [..] [ebuild N] app-i18n/man-pages-de-0.4 0 kB [..] As you can see

Re: OT [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

2005-09-01 Thread Matt Randolph
Uwe Thiem wrote: On 01 September 2005 09:30, Philip Webb wrote: NB this will build up rapidly, so be careful if your disk space is limited. I like that: ... if your disk space is limited. Where can I purchase unlimited disk space? Sorry - couldn't resist. ;-) Uwe You just

Re: [gentoo-user] extreme clock drift / openntpd won't sync

2005-08-31 Thread Matt Randolph
This is almost certainly a hardware problem. If it isn't a hardware problem, it is at least not distribution specific. This doesn't really belong in a Gentoo mailing list. That being said... Some rhetorical questions (in no particular order): Does the problem persist when you use Knoppix?

Re: [gentoo-user] To emerge -e world or not to emerge -e world?

2005-08-30 Thread Matt Randolph
hours? Mark Shields wrote: Depending on what you have installed, it will take more than 14 hours. Are you sure they're talking about emerge -e system and not emerge -e world? On 8/29/05, *Matt Randolph* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that upgrading glibc can

Re: [gentoo-user] what is wrong with script

2005-08-30 Thread Matt Randolph
Have a look at the comp.unix.shell newsgroup. There are some insanely talented people in there dispensing free advice. bshlists wrote: I've been trying run this script on my gentoo laptop, but for some reason it does not work. If you see what is wrong could you email me. Thanks.

[gentoo-user] To emerge -e world or not to emerge -e world?

2005-08-29 Thread Matt Randolph
I know that upgrading glibc can cause some programs to break if they were built against the previous glibc. This happens to me all the time and I have gotten in the habit of simply re-emerging any packages that misbehave since a glibc upgrade. Well, I have upgraded both glibc and gcc within

[gentoo-user] Personal firewall for Linux?

2005-08-29 Thread Matt Randolph
I've seen related threads here recently, but I think my question is different enough to warrant a new thread. I'm looking for a personal firewall along the lines of the ZoneAlarm product for Windows. I don't want to take the time to teach myself iptables if there is a simple alternative.

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive activity indicator light

2005-08-19 Thread Matt Randolph
John - I have a similar story to yours but it probably has nothing to do with your situation. I will tell it anyway just in case it helps anyone. Once upon a time, I had Windows on my computer. All of the LEDs worked perfectly. One day I upgraded my BIOS (in Windows) and rebooted into

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD recorder recommendations

2005-08-19 Thread Matt Randolph
Sean Johnson wrote: I'm pretty stuck on Plextor drives. I've found them to all be very reliable, and will tend to read damaged disks that other drives choke on. Just my 2c. I could have bought another brand for less, but my Plextor has yet to meet a brand of disc that it couldn't burn.

Re: [gentoo-user] Compression tools Compared

2005-08-16 Thread Matt Randolph
Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 09:36 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: On Saturday 13 August 2005 01:32 am, Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 00:58 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: Anyone else here subscribe to the LINUX JOURNAL? In the September issue there's a neat

Re: [gentoo-user] Compression tools Compared

2005-08-16 Thread Matt Randolph
Matt Randolph wrote: Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 09:36 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: On Saturday 13 August 2005 01:32 am, Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 00:58 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: Anyone else here subscribe to the LINUX JOURNAL? In the September issue

Re: [gentoo-user] Compression tools Compared

2005-08-16 Thread Matt Randolph
Matt Randolph wrote: Matt Randolph wrote: This may be a case of a different paradigm being used by 7-zip than that used by traditional (*nix) compression tools. If my memory serves me, the 7-zip format is very similar to the pkzip format in its usage. By that I mean that one

[gentoo-user] How do you remove packages made with --buildpkg?

2005-08-08 Thread Matt Randolph
First off, let me say that I know perfectly well that you can `emerge -C package_name` at any time. That's not what I'm talking about. What I want to do is to remove the built binary too. Let me explain what I do and what I'm trying to do in more detail... Sometimes, I like to be able to

Re: [gentoo-user] How do you remove packages made with --buildpkg?

2005-08-08 Thread Matt Randolph
Neil Bothwick wrote: Or you can do it automatically with qpkg -I -nc -v | while read p; do touch --no-create $PKGDIR/$p.tbz2 touch --no-create $PKGDIR/All/$(basename $p).tbz2 done find $PKGDIR ! -mtime +1 -exec rm {} \; Since qpkg is being phased out, I guess the

Re: [gentoo-user] How do you remove packages made with --buildpkg?

2005-08-08 Thread Matt Randolph
Matt Randolph wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: Or you can do it automatically with qpkg -I -nc -v | while read p; do touch --no-create $PKGDIR/$p.tbz2 touch --no-create $PKGDIR/All/$(basename $p).tbz2 done find $PKGDIR ! -mtime +1 -exec rm {} \; Since qpkg is being phased

Re: [gentoo-user] How do you remove packages made with --buildpkg?

2005-08-08 Thread Matt Randolph
Neil Bothwick wrote: find $PKGDIR ! -mtime +1 -exec rm {} \; This line is wrong, it should be find $PKGDIR -mtime +1 -exec rm {} \; Oops! I should read more slowly too. Thanks again, btw. -- Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate - W. of O. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Am I dumb?

2005-08-05 Thread Matt Randolph
Willie Wong wrote: the address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] W On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 07:50:39PM -0500, AJ Spagnoletti wrote: I have recently become busy with a couple of things and dont have time to sift through all the emails from the mailing list so I decided that i want to unsubscribe... On

Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse not working

2005-07-24 Thread Matt Randolph
smoke3 wrote: On 7/24/05, Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * the right PS/2 plug (not that keyboard one...) nice joke, but... no! Did you get the mouse working under M$ on this computer or a different one? If you have never gotten it to work on this computer, you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: update - was 1.) Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interupt handler

2005-07-22 Thread Matt Randolph
Joseph wrote: [snip] No, I still have the same Sata Drive is just I'm playing with IRQ assignment and configuration. I've changed to BIOS PnP to YES, so my skge (network controller) and libata (Sata Controller are shifted to IRQ 10 But it makes me wonder both controllers on the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [Update] - was 1.) Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interupt handler

2005-07-22 Thread Matt Randolph
Robert Crawford wrote: Joseph, Sorry- I haven't been reading this thread from the beginning, so I might have missed some of your first posts. If we eliminate heat as the problem (not saying we absolutely have), I'm starting to think it could be a misconfigured kernel, or kernel bug itself.