Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

2007-05-07 Thread Troy Curtis Jr
On 4/26/07, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've found myself with a full hard disk and no obvious choices for reducing usage. Are there any not-so-obvious ways to free up hard disk space? - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list I don't know if this is *obvious* or not, but you might

[gentoo-user] Xorg 7.1 and Legacy Nvidia Drivers

2006-10-12 Thread Troy Curtis Jr
I say in the newsletter that the stabilization of Xorg 7.1 was being held up until there where updated drivers for Nvidia that added support for this version. So does this mean that you MUST use the latest Nvidia driver to use Xorg 7.1? I know that I had an issue with the libraries not getting

Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb question

2006-10-10 Thread Troy Curtis Jr
On 10/10/06, Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been using Gentoo for more than 2 years now and have always wondered (but never asked - That's the dumb part) how Gentoo manages to update a package that happens to be running at the time. Given that the old version (the one

Re: [gentoo-user] vixie-cron and ssmtp

2006-09-15 Thread Troy Curtis Jr
On 9/15/06, David Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Forget it, I gave up on ssmtp as it is the problem. I've now gone to postfix and it is so much easier. Setting up postfix involed 3 simple steps. Setting relayhost in /etc/postfix/main.cf and creating .forward files in root and normal user

Re: [gentoo-user] Practical log reviewing

2006-08-22 Thread Troy Curtis Jr
Logwatch is really designed to be run as a cronjob which sends you an email after it has parsed through your logs. The configuration for logwatch is located in the /etc/log.d/ directory. In that directory you will find many scripts and configuration options for a wide range of different log

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] MS debug equivalent

2006-07-05 Thread Troy Curtis Jr
I used debug.exe just a few semesters ago, but I don't remember it well. If you have an executable that you have already assembled, then check out gdb...(GNU debugger). It is a staple for any linux programmer, in fact, if you go on to higher level programs like c or c++ you can use if for those

Re: [gentoo-user] Twin monitor setup (Not strictly Gentoo I know)

2006-06-22 Thread Troy Curtis Jr
I don't typically use the Xorg -configure option (I use vi!), but doesn't it create a temporary xorg.conf file in root's home directory so that you can test it? If it works then I would copy it from /root/xorg.conf (if it is there) to /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Hope it helpsOn 6/22/06, Stewart Taylor

Re: [gentoo-user] Reading ~/.xsession file

2006-06-18 Thread Troy Curtis Jr
The only time .xsession is read is if you select the Custom option in KDM. And if that is the case you need to put your WM in there and everything. I think. Also I think that you have to put the Sha-bang entry in there: #!/bin/shAnd set it as executable...it seems like I remember having trouble

Re: [gentoo-user] Reading ~/.xsession file

2006-06-18 Thread Troy Curtis Jr
, Troy Curtis Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only time .xsession is read is if you select the Custom option in KDM. And if that is the case you need to put your WM in there and everything. I think. Also I think that you have to put the Sha-bang entry in there: #!/bin/shAnd set it as executable