[gentoo-user] Have portage lost its memory?

2006-03-23 Thread Jules Colding
Hi, Todays emerge --sync emerge -vauDN world made me wonder a lot. A lot of packages should be updated according to portage, but a lot of them seems to be wrong with regard to the reported version number. Take e.g. Evolution of which I have version 2.4.2.1 installed. Portage is saying that I

Re: [gentoo-user] alps touchpad problem

2006-03-23 Thread scwang
AZixMapping doesn't work. I think it's for mouse driver of x, not for synaptics drivers! -- Wang ShaoChun(王绍春) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question : specific software version no more available

2006-03-23 Thread sebastien Pastor
Thanks a bunch to you Iain and richard as well for pointing me into the right direction ! I ll have a look @ this PORTDIR_OVERLAY feature. Cheers seb Iain Buchanan wrote: On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 11:37 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 3/22/06, sebastien Pastor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] mozplugger is masked

2006-03-23 Thread THUFIR HAWAT
On 3/22/06, Boris Fersing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .. Hi, ~x86 means that this package is marked as unstable because it needs some testing, if you want to test it (don't worry, I've my whole system in ~x86 and it's quite stable), just unmask it this way : echo net-www/mozplugger ~x86

Re: [gentoo-user] skype experiences: good/bad/etc

2006-03-23 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Question is, why other guys do not start a real open source project to make a phone application? tou mean like ekiga http://www.ekiga.org ? Fred -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Have portage lost its memory?

2006-03-23 Thread Jules Colding
On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 10:40 +0100, Jules Colding wrote: So what exactly is going on here? Having an SSH session on another machine and forgetting ll about it. Please forgive my stupidity here. Sorry, jules -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Have portage lost its memory?

2006-03-23 Thread Teresa and Dale
Jules Colding wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 10:40 +0100, Jules Colding wrote: So what exactly is going on here? Having an SSH session on another machine and forgetting ll about it. Please forgive my stupidity here. Sorry, jules I thought only I could do that. Funny ain't it?

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE version

2006-03-23 Thread Petr Kocmid
On Wednesday 22 March 2006 08:31, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Wednesday 22 March 2006 02:42, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: But the times, that gentoo was pretty actual in the stable tree are over. You do realize the above sentence makes no freakin' sense, right? nope. If I had

Re: [gentoo-user] Have portage lost its memory?

2006-03-23 Thread Jules Colding
On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 06:26 -0600, Teresa and Dale wrote: Jules Colding wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 10:40 +0100, Jules Colding wrote: So what exactly is going on here? Having an SSH session on another machine and forgetting ll about it. Please forgive my stupidity here.

[gentoo-user] Sendmail virtusertable

2006-03-23 Thread Hiren Dave
Hi, I am running sendmail 8.13 on RHELv4WS. Now I have configured this server1 as mailhub.I have enter below lines in the /etc/mail/virtusertable file. ##/etc/mail/virtusertable[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]@ yahoo.com[EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] skype experiences: good/bad/etc

2006-03-23 Thread Pongracz Istvan
Looks fine. thank you Frédéric Grosshans wrote: Question is, why other guys do not start a real open source project to make a phone application? tou mean like ekiga http://www.ekiga.org ? Fred -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Have portage lost its memory?

2006-03-23 Thread Toby 'qubit' Cubitt
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 01:43:15PM +0100, Jules Colding wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 06:26 -0600, Teresa and Dale wrote: Jules Colding wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 10:40 +0100, Jules Colding wrote: So what exactly is going on here? Having an SSH session on another

Re: [gentoo-user] Have portage lost its memory?

2006-03-23 Thread Jules Colding
On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 14:36 +0100, Toby 'qubit' Cubitt wrote: Having an SSH session on another machine and forgetting ll about it. Please forgive my stupidity here. Sorry, jules I thought only I could do that. Funny ain't it? Not when you do it in public ;-) I

Re: [gentoo-user] Sendmail virtusertable

2006-03-23 Thread jarry
Hiren Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have enter below lines in the /etc/mail/virtusertable file. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] @yahoo.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Then I run this command. # m4 virtusertable virtusertable.db # service sendmail restart # echo Nice to meet you. | mail -s

Re: [gentoo-user] LG L1730P in 1280x1024 - solved

2006-03-23 Thread Stefán István
csütörtök 23 március 2006 08.30 dátummal Stefán István ezt írta: csütörtök 23 március 2006 07.30 dátummal Stefán István ezt írta: Hello again, I tried to execute xvidtune -show during my monitor is in big resolutions: # xvidtune -show 800x600 49.50800 816 896 1056600

Re: [gentoo-user] Have portage lost its memory?

2006-03-23 Thread Bo Andresen
On Thursday 23 March 2006 15:07, Jules Colding wrote: I used to give the shell prompts different colours on different machines to help avoid this. Or rather, the local one would always be the same colour, but shells under ssh sessions were colour-coded by machine. I've lost the script

[gentoo-user] ftp -- connection refused

2006-03-23 Thread maxim wexler
Hi everyone, Can't get this thing to work on a crossover LAN. Pings OK, route etc. I've edited the /etc/hosts file every which way. Currently it's 127.0.0.1 sarawak localhost 192.168.0.2 xlan yeti # IPV6 versions of localhost and co ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0

Re: [gentoo-user] Several problems of a newbie

2006-03-23 Thread maxim wexler
--- Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, ...thanks a lot for all your helping answers to my previous questions! I opened a new thread, because I got some problems. In the meanwhile my gentoo system has grown fast. KDE is installed, X is installed and other nice

RE: [gentoo-user] Current state of the Gentoo installation process

2006-03-23 Thread Michael Kintzios
-Original Message- From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 March 2006 00:56 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Current state of the Gentoo installation process On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 15:12:25 -0800, Grant wrote: Also, if you start

[gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso - DMA related problem

2006-03-23 Thread Joseph
A week ago I was posted a message when struggling trying to copy my own DVD with: dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso or cat /dev/dvd backup.iso After following several leads from Gentoo folks (including replacing DVD cable) I've narrow it down to problem with dma resetting itself on eject. When I

[gentoo-user] How to tar?

2006-03-23 Thread Michael Kintzios
I think I need to go back to basics here to get out of a hole: I have move my /usr onto a different machine as part of a migration exercise, but the partition in question will barely contain it. Is there a way of running tar so that: 1. Only part of /usr is untarred in a different partition

Re: [gentoo-user] How to tar?

2006-03-23 Thread Michael Crute
On 3/23/06, Michael Kintzios [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I need to go back to basics here to get out of a hole: I have move my /usr onto a different machine as part of a migration exercise, but the partition in question will barely contain it. Is there a way of running tar so that: 1.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to tar?

2006-03-23 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Thursday 23 March 2006 17:46, Michael Kintzios wrote: I think I need to go back to basics here to get out of a hole: I have move my /usr onto a different machine as part of a migration exercise, but the partition in question will barely contain it. Is there a way of running tar so that:

RE: [gentoo-user] How to tar?

2006-03-23 Thread Michael Kintzios
-Original Message- From: Michael Crute [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 March 2006 17:03 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to tar? On 3/23/06, Michael Kintzios [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I need to go back to basics here to get out of a

RE: [gentoo-user] How to tar?

2006-03-23 Thread Michael Kintzios
-Original Message- From: Etaoin Shrdlu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 March 2006 17:33 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to tar? What about doing two separate tar files, one for /usr/portage and the other for the rest of /usr? Then untar

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE version

2006-03-23 Thread Christopher O'Neill
I've been using 3.5.1 for a while also, imo it should stay in unstable for now. There are a few bugs with the desktop, Konqueror and Kaffeine also has a habit of seg-faulting. I am considering rebuilding it with the debug flags to I can submit some useful bug reports. I think packages in stable

Re: [gentoo-user] How to tar?

2006-03-23 Thread Michael Crute
On 3/23/06, Michael Kintzios [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm... basics... I would start with `man tar` and see where that takes you. Not very far. ;-) That's why I'm asking for some quick help. I also need to add that I was seeking answers to the above questions in the context of having

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE version

2006-03-23 Thread Teresa and Dale
Christopher O'Neill wrote: I've been using 3.5.1 for a while also, imo it should stay in unstable for now. There are a few bugs with the desktop, Konqueror and Kaffeine also has a habit of seg-faulting. I am considering rebuilding it with the debug flags to I can submit some useful bug reports.

Re: [gentoo-user] Current state of the Gentoo installation process

2006-03-23 Thread Grant
Also, if you start with Stage3, you may not even need to rebuild the installed packages, as if it's been a little while since the Stage3 image was created, there will be new versions of everything, so you'd be rebuilding when you do a 'emerge -u system' anyways. Nice.

[gentoo-user] OT - Linewrap in vim

2006-03-23 Thread Michael Sullivan
Is there a way to turn off the line wrap function in vim/gvim? I know it doesn't actually wrap lines in the file - I just want to turn off the visual line wrap in the editor. Is that possible? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Linewrap in vim

2006-03-23 Thread Michael Crute
On 3/23/06, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to turn off the line wrap function in vim/gvim? I know it doesn't actually wrap lines in the file - I just want to turn off the visual line wrap in the editor. Is that possible? :set wrap! You can add it to your .vimrc and

Re: [gentoo-user] Have portage lost its memory?

2006-03-23 Thread alain . didierjean
Selon Toby 'qubit' Cubitt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I used to give the shell prompts different colours on different machines to help avoid this. Or rather, the local one would always be the same colour, but shells under ssh sessions were colour-coded by machine. I've lost the script I wrote for

Re: [gentoo-user] file limit

2006-03-23 Thread JimD
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 20:50:26 -0500 Bruce Therrien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a limit to the files contained in a directory? No. Though the file system type can have an affect on performance if there are a lot of files/directories. For example, reiserfs is much faster at handling a lot

[gentoo-user] Re: dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso - DMA related problem

2006-03-23 Thread Sven Köhler
I've run onto few posting on Google regarding DMA resetting itself but no solution. That is simply annoying, that the Linux-Kernel resets DMA. You could try hdparm -k1 - but somethimes that doesn't help either. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] USB TV / Video capture devices

2006-03-23 Thread Joseph
Are there any USB type TV / Video capture devices that works with Linux? -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Init sequence

2006-03-23 Thread Sergio Polini
Ryan Tandy: Try calling your favorite rc-script with 'help' as the argument (for example, /etc/init.d/net.eth0 help).  This gives a fairly detailed description of what you're asking. Neil Bothwick: Run any init script with help instead of start/stop and you'll see a fairly comprehensive

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso - DMA related problem

2006-03-23 Thread Joseph
On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 20:18 +0100, Sven Köhler wrote: I've run onto few posting on Google regarding DMA resetting itself but no solution. That is simply annoying, that the Linux-Kernel resets DMA. You could try hdparm -k1 - but somethimes that doesn't help either. Yes, I've tried -k1

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] How to tar?

2006-03-23 Thread Michael Kintzios
From:: Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to tar? Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:32:55 -0500 In that case I would create /usr on one filesystem and /portage on another partition then create /usr/portage and mount /portage to it then

[gentoo-user] My Gentoo is too secure ... ;)

2006-03-23 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
Hi, in general I like systems to be more secure. But in the current configuration'n'installing phase of my new linux my system is a little too secure: I can login as root at the text console. But as soon as I login as normal user, start X (startx) and try an su I'll get fired. No chance.

Re: [gentoo-user] My Gentoo is too secure ... ;)

2006-03-23 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Thursday 23 March 2006 21:35, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: Where do I have to tweak to allow su from xterm, mrxvt or whatever owned by a normal user ? I think you just need to add the user to the wheel group. HTH -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] USB TV / Video capture devices

2006-03-23 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:22:00 -0700 Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any USB type TV / Video capture devices that works with Linux? Check out http://www.linuxtv.org/ Cheers, Renat -- Probleme kann man niemals mit derselben Denkweise loesen, durch die sie entstanden sind.

[gentoo-user] big trouble with emerge

2006-03-23 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Hi list wise guys, I am trying to run emerge --metadata on a fresh installed gentoo box and all I am receiving is segmentation fault What Can I do, I can not emerge the rest of the systems I have to use because emerge stops with segmentation fault every time .. :( -- An application asked:

Re: [gentoo-user] autofs, supermount, submount... which is best for Gentoo?

2006-03-23 Thread hawat . thufir
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] autofs, supermount, submount... which is best for Gentoo? On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Jochen Schalanda wrote: From: Jochen Schalanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] autofs,

Re: [gentoo-user] autofs, supermount, submount... which is best for Gentoo?

2006-03-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 15:06:59 + (GMT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Determining the location of the kernel source code * Found kernel source directory: * /usr/src/linux * Could not find a usable .config in the kernel source directory. * Please ensure that /usr/src/linux points

[gentoo-user] Re: fstab

2006-03-23 Thread James
Keats neokeats at wanadoo.fr writes: I have set my /etc/fstab following the instractions of the Handbook. In the example there is this entry: /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user0 0 you have to know the device of your cdrom generaly it's a secondary

Re: [gentoo-user] autofs, supermount, submount... which is best for Gentoo?

2006-03-23 Thread Holly Bostick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: Very informative, thanks. I think I'll go with submount. These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] sys-fs/submount-0.9-r2 159 kB Total size of downloads: 159 kB localhost ~ # emerge submount

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fstab

2006-03-23 Thread Keats
Le jeudi 23 mars 2006 à 21:08 +, James a écrit : so I should make my /etc/fstab look like this? /dev/hdc /mnt/?auto noauto,user0 0 /dev/hdd /mnt/cdromauto noauto,user0 0 mkdir /mnt/cdrom2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom2auto noauto,user0 0 /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo

2006-03-23 Thread Holly Bostick
JimD schreef: I have been using Linux for a number of years and the one trick I have never read how to do is something like: sudo echo app-portage/porthole ~* /etc/portage/package.keywords Well this one I do with a set of revised command nicked from the list, entered into ~/.bashrc, and

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo

2006-03-23 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 3/23/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been using Linux for a number of years and the one trick I have never read how to do is something like: sudo echo app-portage/porthole ~* /etc/portage/package.keywords if you do this, you'll execute sudo echo and try to redirect the output as

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso - DMA related problem

2006-03-23 Thread Joseph
On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 16:15 -0500, JimD wrote: On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:54:44 -0700 Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I've tried -k1 too, it doesn't help. It seems like kernel bug, I was able to duplicate resetting CD/DVD DMA on both machines: amd64 with BenQ DVD writer and x86 with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso - DMA related problem

2006-03-23 Thread Joseph
On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 14:26 -0700, Joseph wrote: Before ejecting put any CD / DVD disk IN and run: dd if=/dev/hdc of=backup.iso or cat /dev/hdc backup.iso When finished run eject ... to be specific: eject /dev/hdc and hdparm /dev/hdc See if the parameter using_dma was reset. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso - DMA related problem

2006-03-23 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:54:44 -0700 Joseph wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 20:18 +0100, Sven Köhler wrote: I've run onto few posting on Google regarding DMA resetting itself but no solution. That is simply annoying, that the Linux-Kernel resets DMA. You could try hdparm -k1 - but

Re: [gentoo-user] My Gentoo is too secure ... ;)

2006-03-23 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 21:58:10 +0100 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Thursday 23 March 2006 21:35, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: Where do I have to tweak to allow su from xterm, mrxvt or whatever owned by a normal user ? I think you just need to add the user to the wheel group. HTH which you

Re: [gentoo-user] USB TV / Video capture devices

2006-03-23 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:22:00 -0700 Joseph wrote: Are there any USB type TV / Video capture devices that works with Linux? -- #Joseph From the mythtv docs: USB Capture Devices. The Plextor ConvertX PVR devices are supported through Linux drivers available from

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo

2006-03-23 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 16:03:08 -0500 JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been using Linux for a number of years and the one trick I have never read how to do is something like: sudo echo app-portage/porthole ~* /etc/portage/package.keywords That's because your _current_ shell

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo

2006-03-23 Thread Alexander Skwar
JimD wrote: I have been using Linux for a number of years and the one trick I have never read how to do is something like: sudo echo app-portage/porthole ~* /etc/portage/package.keywords echo whatnot | sudo sh -c foo If you don't wish to append, the following can be used as well: echo

Re: [gentoo-user] send mail to gentoo-user locally

2006-03-23 Thread stupendoussteve
There is a great tutorial for postfix/fetchmail and gmail at http://souptonuts.sourceforge.net/postfix_tutorial.html On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stroller and Simon, Thank you so much for the helpful information. Finally, I changed the settings of postfix, and let all my

Re: [gentoo-user] How to tar?

2006-03-23 Thread Bo Andresen
On Thursday 23 March 2006 21:24, Michael Kintzios wrote: What should I run to untar the rest of /usr (excluding /usr/portage) into /dev/hda3 and at the same time delete it from within the gentoo_usr.tgz archive, so that I get some space in /dev/hda2 to untar /usr/portage? Really, what I think

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo

2006-03-23 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 16:03:08 -0500 JimD wrote: I have been using Linux for a number of years and the one trick I have never read how to do is something like: sudo echo app-portage/porthole ~* /etc/portage/package.keywords Another one I always wanted to know if it is possible is: sudo

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo

2006-03-23 Thread Alexander Skwar
Holly Bostick wrote: JimD schreef: I have been using Linux for a number of years and the one trick I have never read how to do is something like: sudo echo app-portage/porthole ~* /etc/portage/package.keywords Well this one I do with a set of revised command nicked from the list,

Re: [gentoo-user] My Gentoo is too secure ... ;)

2006-03-23 Thread b.n.
I think you just need to add the user to the wheel group. HTH which you probably cannot do without logging in as root at a console as once you log into X as user, you cannot su. chicken egg chicken egg. ?!? where's the problem? logins as root at the tty -- adds user to wheel -- startx --

[gentoo-user] How to install iplimit?

2006-03-23 Thread Mariusz Zalewski
Hello I would like to use iplimit in my firewall. I use iptables-1.3.4 with extensions USE flag and gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r1 I can't find iplimit module in that kernel: # grep -i iplimit /usr/src/linux/.confg {none} How to install iplimit on my server? What should I do? Maybe there is other

Re: [gentoo-user] My Gentoo is too secure ... ;)

2006-03-23 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Thursday 23 March 2006 22:42, Nick Rout wrote: which you probably cannot do without logging in as root at a console as once you log into X as user, you cannot su. chicken egg chicken egg. Not necessarily: if you use kde, konsole has a root shell feature. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] My Gentoo is too secure ... ;)

2006-03-23 Thread Antoine
so that means log into root before you run X. # vi groups (or whatever the correct way of doing it is) add your user to wheel you're done Cheers Antoine On 23/03/06, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 23 March 2006 21:35, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: Where do I have to tweak

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo

2006-03-23 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 3/23/06, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JimD schreef: I have been using Linux for a number of years and the one trick I have never read how to do is something like: sudo echo app-portage/porthole ~* /etc/portage/package.keywords Well this one I do with a set of revised

Re: [gentoo-user] big trouble with emerge

2006-03-23 Thread Michael Crute
On 3/23/06, Allan Spagnol Comar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list wise guys, I am trying to run emerge --metadata on a fresh installed gentoo box and all I am receiving is segmentation fault What Can I do, I can not emerge the rest of the systems I have to use because emerge stops with

Re: [gentoo-user] How to tar?

2006-03-23 Thread Bo Andresen
On Thursday 23 March 2006 22:52, Bo Andresen wrote: On Thursday 23 March 2006 21:24, Michael Kintzios wrote: What should I run to untar the rest of /usr (excluding /usr/portage) into /dev/hda3 and at the same time delete it from within the gentoo_usr.tgz archive, so that I get some space in

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo

2006-03-23 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:27:46 -0300 Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sudo takes a command as parameter, enclose the whole command in quotes and try again, like this: sudo echo app-portage/porthole ~* /etc/portage/package.keywords ^ ^ ^

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo

2006-03-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 09:45:16 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: the elevation of privilege does not seem to survive the redirection. I suspect you need to know more than I do about the way redirection is handled by the shell to explain it. Redirection is applied before the command is executed, so you

Re: [gentoo-user] My Gentoo is too secure ... ;)

2006-03-23 Thread Gabriel Dain
I think you just need to add the user to the wheel group. HTH which you probably cannot do without logging in as root at a console as once you log into X as user, you cannot su. chicken egg chicken egg. Thats true... However: I can login as root at the text console. useradd -G wheel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso - DMA related problem

2006-03-23 Thread Joseph
On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 17:25 -0500, JimD wrote: On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 14:26:20 -0700 Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before ejecting put any CD / DVD disk IN and run: dd if=/dev/hdc of=backup.iso or cat /dev/hdc backup.iso When finished run eject ... and hdparm /dev/hdc See

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo

2006-03-23 Thread Bo Andresen
On Thursday 23 March 2006 23:38, Renat Golubchyk wrote: On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:27:46 -0300 Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sudo takes a command as parameter, enclose the whole command in quotes and try again, like this: sudo echo app-portage/porthole ~*

Re: [gentoo-user] autofs, supermount, submount... which is best for Gentoo?

2006-03-23 Thread hawat . thufir
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Jochen Schalanda wrote: From: Jochen Schalanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] autofs, supermount, submount... which is best for Gentoo? Newsgroups: linux.gentoo.user On 10/13/2004 11:10 PM, Felix Tiede wrote: submount is supposed to supersede

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fstab

2006-03-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 21:08:33 + (UTC), James wrote: so I should make my /etc/fstab look like this? /dev/hdc /mnt/?auto noauto,user0 0 /dev/hdd /mnt/cdromauto noauto,user0 0 I also have hal/ivman/dbus installed. If you use ivman (or KDE's HAL-based media

Re: [gentoo-user] Hosted server as distcc machine

2006-03-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 22 March 2006 17:10, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Hosted server as distcc machine': Is there anything wrong with making a remote machine [a] distcc system? Not really, but you do need to realize that distcc doesn't guarantee that jobs will be

Re: [gentoo-user] My Gentoo is too secure ... ;)

2006-03-23 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 23:16:54 +0100 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Thursday 23 March 2006 22:42, Nick Rout wrote: which you probably cannot do without logging in as root at a console as once you log into X as user, you cannot su. chicken egg chicken egg. Not necessarily: if you use kde,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE version

2006-03-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 23 March 2006 11:22, Christopher O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Re: KDE version': I've been using 3.5.1 for a while also, imo it should stay in unstable for now. There are a few bugs with the desktop, Konqueror and Kaffeine also has a habit of seg-faulting.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to tar?

2006-03-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 23 March 2006 16:31, Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] How to tar?': Perhaps that link wasn't as useful to you as I thought when I transmitted it. Here are a couple of other examples. I think it requires GNU tar. This compacts data recursively from

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo

2006-03-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 23 March 2006 16:33, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo': If you type something like the following: /tmp/myfile.foo It will truncate the file. I use it when I want to clear out logs real quick. I can sudo su and then just type (without the

Re: [gentoo-user] My Gentoo is too secure ... ;)

2006-03-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 23 March 2006 17:08, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] My Gentoo is too secure ... ;)': On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 23:16:54 +0100 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: Not necessarily: if you use kde, konsole has a root shell feature. Which I suspect only works if you can use

Re: [gentoo-user] My Gentoo is too secure ... ;)

2006-03-23 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 23:08:36 + b.n. wrote: I think you just need to add the user to the wheel group. HTH which you probably cannot do without logging in as root at a console as once you log into X as user, you cannot su. chicken egg chicken egg. ?!? where's the problem? logins

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo

2006-03-23 Thread David Morgan
On 23:38 Thu 23 Mar , Renat Golubchyk wrote: Careful with those quotation marks - you might want to escape them ;-) I would use single quotes on the outside to avoid the confusion: sudo 'echo app-portage/porthole ~* /etc/portage/package.keywords' Do that and it'll say sudo: echo

Re: [gentoo-user] alps touchpad problem

2006-03-23 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/23/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AZixMapping doesn't work. I think it's for mouse driver of x, not for synaptics drivers! Hmm, your other choice is xmodmap. Something like: xmodmap -e pointer = 1 2 3 5 4 might work. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ)...

2006-03-23 Thread Alexander Kirillov
Hi all, I needed to restart sendmail more than once after upgrade and noticed the script always produces these warnings: # /etc/init.d/sendmail restart * Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ)... * Stopping sendmail ... [ok] * Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ)... * Re-caching

Re: [gentoo-user] My Gentoo is too secure ... ;)

2006-03-23 Thread Matt Richards
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 23:16:54 +0100 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Thursday 23 March 2006 22:42, Nick Rout wrote: which you probably cannot do without logging in as root at a console as once you log into X as user, you cannot su. chicken egg chicken egg. Not necessarily: if you use kde,

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo

2006-03-23 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 23:12:38 + David Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 23:38 Thu 23 Mar , Renat Golubchyk wrote: Careful with those quotation marks - you might want to escape them ;-) I would use single quotes on the outside to avoid the confusion: sudo 'echo

Re: [gentoo-user] Have portage lost its memory?

2006-03-23 Thread Toby 'qubit' Cubitt
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 03:07:08PM +0100, Jules Colding wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 14:36 +0100, Toby 'qubit' Cubitt wrote: Having an SSH session on another machine and forgetting ll about it. Please forgive my stupidity here. Sorry, jules I thought only I

[gentoo-user] pump - dhcp - reject: msgtyp: 6 ??

2006-03-23 Thread Dave Moore
Hello all I am having a problem with pump apparently failing to renew leases. See logs.. Mar 23 07:11:03 arrakis pumpd[9212]: failed to renew lease for device eth0 Mar 23 07:11:03 arrakis pumpd[9212]: reject: msgtyp: 6 Mar 23 07:11:08 arrakis pumpd[9212]: reject: msgtyp: 6 Mar 23 07:11:15

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE version

2006-03-23 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 23 March 2006 18:22, Christopher O'Neill wrote: I've been using 3.5.1 for a while also, imo it should stay in unstable for now. There are a few bugs with the desktop, Konqueror and Kaffeine also has a habit of seg-faulting. I am considering rebuilding it with the debug flags to I

Re: [gentoo-user] How to tar?

2006-03-23 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Michael Kintzios wrote: As things currently are gentoo_usr.tgz is in /dev/hda2, which is destined to house the /usr/portage directory. /dev/hda2 is a 4.0G partition with only 74M available. How big is gentoo_usr.tgz? What's the rest on /dev/hda2? /dev/hda3 will have the rest of the

[gentoo-user] Splash livecd-2006.0 not working

2006-03-23 Thread Bo Andresen
I did follow this guide a long time ago and again yesterday. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash When I use emergence as theme everything is working just like it is supposed to. But when I change to livecd-2005.1 or livecd-2006.0 (I think any theme that has activity instead of just a picture)

Re: [gentoo-user] How about ieee 1394 was:USB TV / Video capture devices

2006-03-23 Thread Joseph
On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 09:40 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:22:00 -0700 Joseph wrote: Are there any USB type TV / Video capture devices that works with Linux? -- #Joseph From the mythtv docs: USB Capture Devices. The Plextor ConvertX PVR devices are supported

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo

2006-03-23 Thread Bo Andresen
On Thursday 23 March 2006 23:48, JimD wrote: addkey() { sudo sh -c echo $* /etc/portage/package.keywords } For keywording I prefer to use this script: http://users.cybercity.dk/~dsl89966/keix It allows me to do: $ eix porth * app-portage/porthole Available versions: ~0.4.1

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE version

2006-03-23 Thread Rafael Fernández López
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Tuesday 21 March 2006 16:40, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] KDE version': On Tuesday 21 March 2006 22:12, Thierry de Coulon wrote: On Tuesday 21 March 2006 21.13, [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] resuming emerges

2006-03-23 Thread TN
Hi all, I see that emerge has a resume option - but it only compiles from where the the previous emerge was stopped and when you issue a resume, it starts at the beginning of the next package to be emerged. Is it possible to get emerge to continue from where the actual compile was broken

Re: [gentoo-user] big trouble with emerge

2006-03-23 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
yes mike, I had, when it was rebuild the metadata after --sync it crashs the first time. now I am in trouble with my instalation. On 3/23/06, Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/23/06, Allan Spagnol Comar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list wise guys, I am trying to run emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE version

2006-03-23 Thread Philip Webb
060324 Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: KDE 3.4.3 has its bugs too.. a lot of them fixed in the 3.5 releases. 3.5.1 is not in stable, and 3.5.2 is already looming around the corner Isn't the solution to have 3 levels: 'testing', 'probation' 'stable' ? 'Testing' would be literally that,

[gentoo-user] screen flickers/static

2006-03-23 Thread THUFIR HAWAT
I recently switched from fedora to gentoo, it's a dual boot system. Never in Fedora, not in windows, but in gentoo, I get screen flickers/static. It's not a hardware problem as just a little bit ago I was in windows, no problem. The connections to the monitor and so forth are fine. When I type

Re: [gentoo-user] How about ieee 1394 was:USB TV / Video capture devices

2006-03-23 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:10:14 -0700 Joseph wrote: I have a ieee-1394 card and Kino application supports ieee-1394. I have as well Analog to Digital S-VHS converter. But is it possible to have a cable from S-VHS to FireWire 4 or 6pin; to connect it to ieee-1394 card? I am unclear what you

Re: [gentoo-user] How to install iplimit?

2006-03-23 Thread Chad Feller
Hello, I'm still using 2.6.11-r9, but, it appears to be in yours too. From make menuconfig under the 2.6.11-r9 it is here: Device Drivers --- Networking support -- [*] Networking Support Networking options --- [*] Network packet filtering (replaces

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