Re: [gentoo-user] A Thank you to the Developers for the Free Software

2007-07-27 Thread Billy McCann
Hear hear! I guess this would be better suited in the -dev mailing list, but whatever! The Gentoo devs rock! Three cheers! -- #end_transmission# #earth_creature# -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge masked pidgin with flagedit

2007-07-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 27 July 2007, maximuswork [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] emerge masked pidgin with flagedit': Thufir пишет: --- Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.keywords: net-im/pidgin-2.0.2 Aha! See there's a problem with your /etc/portage/package.keywords. localhost ~ #

Re: [gentoo-user] A Thank you to the Developers for the Free Software

2007-07-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 27 July 2007, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] A Thank you to the Developers for the Free Software': I just wanted to take some time to officially say *Thank You* for all the good things which you guys/gals have made to my(/our) benefit. +1 -- Boyd Stephen

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge masked pidgin with flagedit

2007-07-27 Thread Luis Ortiz
Thufir wrote: -- SNIP -- localhost ~ # localhost ~ # flagedit net-im/pidgin-2.0.2 -- +~x86 localhost ~ # -- SNIP -- Remove the one you just added by doing: localhost ~ # flagedit net-im/pidgin-2.0.2 -- %~x86 The command that you should've run was: localhost ~ # flagedit =net-im/pidgin-2.0.2

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge masked pidgin with flagedit

2007-07-27 Thread Dale
maximuswork wrote: Thufir пишет: Here's where I'm at: localhost ~ # localhost ~ # localhost ~ # cat /etc/make.conf ## ATTENTION: THIS IS THE MAKE.CONF ON THE LIVECD ## ## PLEASE EDIT /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf INSTEAD ##

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge masked pidgin with flagedit

2007-07-27 Thread Thufir
On 7/26/07, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] ## ATTENTION: THIS IS THE MAKE.CONF ON THE LIVECD ## ## PLEASE EDIT /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf INSTEAD ## [...] Is it me or is all

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge masked pidgin with flagedit

2007-07-27 Thread Dale
Thufir wrote: On 7/26/07, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] ## ATTENTION: THIS IS THE MAKE.CONF ON THE LIVECD ## ## PLEASE EDIT /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf INSTEAD ##

[gentoo-user] Winbind...

2007-07-27 Thread Anders Trobäck
Hi, new to this list and Gentoo, keep that in mind:-) I'm trying to set up winbind on a Gentoo box but I can't get it to work! I have joined the domain and I have added winbind to /etc/nsswitch.conf. wbinfo -u and wbinfo -g are working but getent passwd and getent group only list the local

[gentoo-user] Asterisk, ISDN, beginners question

2007-07-27 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi, as there seem to be technical problems at the Asterisk list server I may ask here. I successfully listen to `demo-congrats' with Xlite. Now I want to hear it by calling the ISDN card. I configured Asterisk for Capi/ISDN as described in the common tutorials. In `extensions.conf' I added the

[gentoo-user] Re: cannot read symbolic link, Invalid argument

2007-07-27 Thread Paulo Roberto Candido dos Santos
Solved. After reinstalling coreutils, the system can handle symlinks. On 7/26/07, Paulo Roberto Candido dos Santos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I run a Gentoo hardened mail server. After an upgrade this morning, some problems appeared. Code: atreides ~ # ls -l /usr/src/ ls: cannot read

Re: [gentoo-user] How should I kill a daemon from an ebuild file?

2007-07-27 Thread Jules Colding
On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 08:45 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 14:54 +0200, Jules Colding wrote: Hi, I have an ebuild (see below) for a small keyring daemon. I would like to kill the daemon process, if it is running, whenever it is emerged again to ensure that no

Re: [gentoo-user] How should I kill a daemon from an ebuild file?

2007-07-27 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 14:54 +0200, Jules Colding wrote: Hi, I have an ebuild (see below) for a small keyring daemon. I would like to kill the daemon process, if it is running, whenever it is emerged again to ensure that no running daemon process refers to an old install. Is there a

Re: [gentoo-user] Winbind...

2007-07-27 Thread Anders Trobäck
On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:02:46 +0400 Vladimir Rusinov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/27/07, Anders Trobäck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to set up winbind on a Gentoo box but I can't get it to work! I have joined the domain and I have added winbind to /etc/nsswitch.conf. wbinfo

[gentoo-user] Re: insert text onto a PDF

2007-07-27 Thread Anno v. Heimburg
Thufir wrote: I emerged gimp, but am still emerging krita and kde.  From gimp, as advertised, I was able to insert text and save the file as foo.xcf, but need krita, apparently, to convert the xcf file to a pdf, at least according to the tutorial. I don't understand. Why don't you have gimp

Re: [gentoo-user] Winbind...

2007-07-27 Thread Stroller
On 27 Jul 2007, at 09:12, Anders Trobäck wrote: ... I'm trying to set up winbind on a Gentoo box but I can't get it to work! I have joined the domain and I have added winbind to /etc/nsswitch.conf. wbinfo -u and wbinfo -g are working but getent passwd and getent group only list the local

[gentoo-user] The Future of the Gentoo Foundation

2007-07-27 Thread Daniel da Veiga
http://www.osnews.com/story.php/18315/The-Future-of-the-Gentoo-Foundation A friend provided me this link, and I'm a little worried... Is this truth, and if it is, how is this problem being solved? I guess this is the right place to ask, as all of us users should be concerned about this... --

[gentoo-user] Thanks to the user community

2007-07-27 Thread Albert Hopkins
While we're on the subject... I'd like to the free software user community. Free software would be meaningless without you. I especially appreciate the users who have * Used free software. * Submitted bug reports, ideas, corrections, artwork, documentation, translations,

[gentoo-user] How should I kill a daemon from an ebuild file?

2007-07-27 Thread Jules Colding
Hi, I have an ebuild (see below) for a small keyring daemon. I would like to kill the daemon process, if it is running, whenever it is emerged again to ensure that no running daemon process refers to an old install. Is there a clean and recommended way of doing this in an ebuild or should I just

[gentoo-user] Running Scripts

2007-07-27 Thread Greg Lindstrom
Hello- I am programming Python (2.4.1) scripts to run on our Gentoo boxes and am having a bit of trouble I was hoping you could help me with. My file, hello.py looks like this: #!/usr/bin/python print 'hello, python' I add execute permission to the file and try to run it as follows: myprompt

Re: [gentoo-user] Winbind...

2007-07-27 Thread Vladimir Rusinov
On 7/27/07, Anders Trobäck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to set up winbind on a Gentoo box but I can't get it to work! I have joined the domain and I have added winbind to /etc/nsswitch.conf. wbinfo -u and wbinfo -g are working but getent passwd and getent group only list the local

Re: [gentoo-user] The Future of the Gentoo Foundation

2007-07-27 Thread Samir Faci
Well, we should ask the devs as well, since I'd say they're the ones primarily involved with this. Or at least those who could actually do something about it. -- Samir On 7/27/07, Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] A Thank you to the Developers for the Free Software

2007-07-27 Thread Sourcecode
Then, this is a Thank you to US all, FOSS is not a Term for special People, EVERYONE here can distrube a bit from his Brain about it. Then, ALL do their best, and here we are. All about FOSS with Thank You is in everyone of us wo distrube anything about Brainstuff to make something in this

[gentoo-user] Re: A Thank you to the Developers for the Free Software

2007-07-27 Thread James
Ow Mun Heng Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com writes: I was feeling a bit un-appreciated as a Developer and I thought of all the other developers of Open Source (Free) Software who relentlessly contribute to/make Open Source (free) software. Hello Ow Mun, I agree with your sentiments. One only has to

Re: [gentoo-user] Running Scripts

2007-07-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 27 July 2007, Greg Lindstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Running Scripts': -bash: ./hello.py: /usr/bin/env: bad interpreter: Permission denied running /usr/bin/python brings up the python shell, so that's in place. which env ls -l /usr/bin/env ls -l /usr/bin/python

Re: [gentoo-user] Running Scripts

2007-07-27 Thread Alex Schuster
Greg Lindstrom writes: I am programming Python (2.4.1) scripts to run on our Gentoo boxes and am having a bit of trouble I was hoping you could help me with. My file, hello.py looks like this: #!/usr/bin/python print 'hello, python' I add execute permission to the file and try to run it

Re: [gentoo-user] Running Scripts

2007-07-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 27 July 2007, Greg Lindstrom wrote: Hello- I am programming Python (2.4.1) scripts to run on our Gentoo boxes and am having a bit of trouble I was hoping you could help me with. My file, hello.py looks like this: #!/usr/bin/python print 'hello, python' I add execute permission to the

Re: [gentoo-user] The Future of the Gentoo Foundation

2007-07-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 27. Juli 2007, Daniel da Veiga wrote: http://www.osnews.com/story.php/18315/The-Future-of-the-Gentoo-Foundation this is only a (small) part of what Mr Robbins wrote. here is the complete blog-post: http://blog.funtoo.org/ A friend provided me this link, and I'm a little

Re: [gentoo-user] Running Scripts

2007-07-27 Thread Greg Lindstrom
Wow! Thanks for the help. See my comments below pertaining to individual remarks. --greg Alex asked: is is possible that you saved the text file in DOS format, with CR-LF endings instead of LF only? If od -t x2 hello.py shows 0a0d sequences, this is the case. You could use dos2unix to

Re: [gentoo-user] Running Scripts

2007-07-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 27 July 2007, Greg Lindstrom wrote: Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This leads to the question whether you can start *any* executable from your home directory (assuming you stored your script somewhere under your home directory). If not so, do you mount your /home partition with the

Re: [gentoo-user] Running Scripts

2007-07-27 Thread Greg Lindstrom
On 7/27/07, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Post the content of your /etc/fstab. You should be able to do that as a normal user. Nope. I am denied access to /etc/fstab. Could this be (part of) the problem? --greg

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge masked pidgin with flagedit

2007-07-27 Thread Thufir
On 7/27/07, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] That's a holdover from the networkless install via the live cd :) It's on a hard drive. -Thufir OK. Sounds good. I was just thinking about what a mess it would be when you rebooted. o_O Dale :-) :-) ROFLMAO ! -Thufir --

Re: [gentoo-user] Running Scripts

2007-07-27 Thread Eric Martin
what does ls -l /etc/fstab show? On 7/27/07, Greg Lindstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/27/07, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Post the content of your /etc/fstab. You should be able to do that as a normal user. Nope. I am denied access to /etc/fstab. Could this be (part of)

[gentoo-user] ntpd clock adjusting

2007-07-27 Thread Aleksey V. Kunitskiy
Hi, I've just deployed my home server, of course using Gentoo :) I setup openntpd there and /var/log/messages says to me that every few minutes clock is adjusted by ~100s. Is it a bug or I've missed smth? chipset: nForce2 And, btw, what is also strange - ntpd use different time in different log

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get Alsa (mic) to work with my Intel HDA board

2007-07-27 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Gabriel Rossetti wrote: I used to have more inputs/outputs to play with in alsamixer, but now all I have are Master, PCM, CD, Mic, Mic Boos, IEC958, and IEC958P. I used to have for instance Front Mic, You might need to pass a different model option during modprobe. First check with 'aplay -l'

Re: [gentoo-user] Running Scripts

2007-07-27 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Freitag 27 Juli 2007 21:04 schrieb Greg Lindstrom: On 7/27/07, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Post the content of your /etc/fstab. You should be able to do that as a normal user. Nope. I am denied access to /etc/fstab. Could this be (part of) the problem? --greg Please post the

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd clock adjusting

2007-07-27 Thread Aleksey V. Kunitskiy
On Friday 27 July 2007 23:04, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Don't know openntpd because I'm using ntpd, but: It seems the numbers are decreasing, so it looks like normal operation. At some point time will be adjusted completely. Yes, it is OK. I've just found it on openbsd.org: ...Once your clock is

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd clock adjusting

2007-07-27 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 27. Juli 2007 schrieb Aleksey V. Kunitskiy: Hi, I've just deployed my home server, of course using Gentoo :) I setup openntpd there and /var/log/messages says to me that every few minutes clock is adjusted by ~100s. Is it a bug or I've missed smth? chipset: nForce2 And, btw,

[gentoo-user] Slapd doesn't start after update

2007-07-27 Thread ツ Leandro Sales
Hi, I update my openldap to the latest available stable version. After this I can't restart my server. So, I tried to downgrade and any ldap command that I try to execute I got: slapcat: error while loading shared libraries: liblber-2.3.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or

[gentoo-user] Best virtual machine for my needs

2007-07-27 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi! I need a way to use Napster or iTunes on Linux. (I don't like DRM but it's not my PC and not my decision) I think my best bet would be a virtual machine with Windows 2000 (I can spare the licence). The PC is an older AMD64 without AMD-V. Therefore I need something that a) is free or at

Re: [gentoo-user] Best virtual machine for my needs

2007-07-27 Thread A. R.
On 7/27/07, Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I need a way to use Napster or iTunes on Linux. (I don't like DRM but it's not my PC and not my decision) I think my best bet would be a virtual machine with Windows 2000 (I can spare the licence). The PC is an older AMD64 without

Re: [gentoo-user] Running Scripts

2007-07-27 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Greg Lindstrom wrote: Nope. I am denied access to /etc/fstab. Could this be (part of) the problem? Try sending us the output of the mount command. - -- Arturo Buanzo Busleiman - Consultor Independiente en Seguridad Informatica SHOW DE

Re: [gentoo-user] Best virtual machine for my needs

2007-07-27 Thread Joshua Doll
A. R. wrote: On 7/27/07, Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I need a way to use Napster or iTunes on Linux. (I don't like DRM but it's not my PC and not my decision) I think my best bet would be a virtual machine with Windows 2000 (I can spare the licence). The PC is an older

[gentoo-user] Re: Slapd doesn't start after update

2007-07-27 Thread ツ Leandro Sales
I reinstall openldap 2.2.28 and when I start slapd, I got (from the log): Jul 27 17:55:11 embedded slapd[2957]: bdb_db_init: Initializing BDB database Jul 27 17:55:11 embedded slapd[2958]: bdb(o=Embedded,c=BR): Program version 4.5 doesn't match environment version 0.22 Jul 27 17:55:11 embedded

Re: [gentoo-user] Best virtual machine for my needs

2007-07-27 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Freitag 27 Juli 2007 22:40 schrieb Joshua Doll: A. R. wrote: On 7/27/07, Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I need a way to use Napster or iTunes on Linux. (I don't like DRM but it's not my PC and not my decision) I think my best bet would be a virtual machine with

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get Alsa (mic) to work with my Intel HDA board

2007-07-27 Thread Gabriel Rossetti
Benno Schulenberg wrote: Gabriel Rossetti wrote: I used to have more inputs/outputs to play with in alsamixer, but now all I have are Master, PCM, CD, Mic, Mic Boos, IEC958, and IEC958P. I used to have for instance Front Mic, You might need to pass a different model option during

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slapd doesn't start after update

2007-07-27 Thread Tim Allingham
Have you tried using revdep-rebuild to check the links on that library? an updated version may have broken the links On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 17:59 -0300, ツ Leandro Sales wrote: I reinstall openldap 2.2.28 and when I start slapd, I got (from the log): Jul 27 17:55:11 embedded slapd[2957]:

Re: [gentoo-user] Best virtual machine for my needs

2007-07-27 Thread Tim Allingham
I run a few virtual machines using qemu, which can be run without hardware virtualisation support. One of the things it will happily do is mount a physical CD drive, so you may be able to burn the music off in this manner (using the -cdrom switch with /dev/dvdrw gives me a DVD burner through the

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge masked pidgin with flagedit

2007-07-27 Thread Thufir
On 7/26/07, Luis Ortiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thufir wrote: -- SNIP -- localhost ~ # localhost ~ # flagedit net-im/pidgin-2.0.2 -- +~x86 [...] The command that you should've run was: localhost ~ # flagedit =net-im/pidgin-2.0.2 -- +~x86 That the wiki doesn't mention to include the

Re: [gentoo-user] Thanks to the user community

2007-07-27 Thread Kent Fredric
On 7/28/07, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While we're on the subject... I'd like to the free software user community. Free software would be meaningless without you. I especially appreciate the users who have * Used free software. * Submitted bug reports, ideas,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slapd doesn't start after update

2007-07-27 Thread ツ Leandro Sales
Hi Tim, After I run revdep-rebuild, the log message is: Jul 27 22:12:14 embedded slapd[7610]: @(#) $OpenLDAP: slapd 2.3.30 (Jul 27 2007 21:41:58) $ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/tmp/portage/net-nds/openldap-2.3.30-r2/work/openldap-2.3.30/servers/slapd Jul 27 22:12:20 embedded slapd[7610]: auxpropfunc

Re: [gentoo-user] The Future of the Gentoo Foundation

2007-07-27 Thread Dan Cowsill
Then the idea that the Gentoo Foundation might 'cease to exist as an entity' isn't really bad news? Some clarification might be in order. On 7/27/07, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Freitag, 27. Juli 2007, Daniel da Veiga wrote:

[gentoo-user] Receiving GWN via email?

2007-07-27 Thread Billy McCann
Hi. Could someone confirm that they are receiving the GWN to their inbox, so that I'll know it's just me not getting it? That'd be swell. Thanks. BW -- #end_transmission# #earth_creature# -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge masked pidgin with flagedit

2007-07-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 27 July 2007, Thufir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] emerge masked pidgin with flagedit': Didn't I do that? For some things, the equals sign doesn't seem to be required when using flagedit, for others it seems to be. Yes, because it is expecting an ebuild atom. Do

Re: [gentoo-user] Receiving GWN via email?

2007-07-27 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 22:11 -0500, Billy McCann wrote: Hi. Could someone confirm that they are receiving the GWN to their inbox, so that I'll know it's just me not getting it? That'd be swell. Thanks. BW I haven't been getting it... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] The Future of the Gentoo Foundation

2007-07-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 27 July 2007, Dan Cowsill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] The Future of the Gentoo Foundation': Then the idea that the Gentoo Foundation might 'cease to exist as an entity' isn't really bad news? It's bad news, but not as bad as you think. Some clarification might

Re: [gentoo-user] Receiving GWN via email?

2007-07-27 Thread forgottenwizard
On 22:16 Fri 27 Jul , Michael Sullivan wrote: On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 22:11 -0500, Billy McCann wrote: Hi. Could someone confirm that they are receiving the GWN to their inbox, so that I'll know it's just me not getting it? That'd be swell. Thanks. BW I haven't been getting

Re: [gentoo-user] Receiving GWN via email?

2007-07-27 Thread Billy McCann
I think they are having trouble finding things to put in it. I think they covered it on w.g.o, so you can look there to see why it hasn't been going out. Hi. My apologies, but i'm not familiar with what w.g.o. stands for. Could you fill me in? Thanks. :) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Receiving GWN via email?

2007-07-27 Thread Norberto Bensa
Billy McCann wrote: Hi. My apologies, but i'm not familiar with what w.g.o. stands for. Www.Gento.Org ;) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Receiving GWN via email?

2007-07-27 Thread forgottenwizard
On 22:51 Fri 27 Jul , Billy McCann wrote: I think they are having trouble finding things to put in it. I think they covered it on w.g.o, so you can look there to see why it hasn't been going out. Hi. My apologies, but i'm not familiar with what w.g.o. stands for. Could you fill me

Re: [gentoo-user] Receiving GWN via email?

2007-07-27 Thread Dale
forgottenwizard wrote: On 22:16 Fri 27 Jul , Michael Sullivan wrote: On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 22:11 -0500, Billy McCann wrote: Hi. Could someone confirm that they are receiving the GWN to their inbox, so that I'll know it's just me not getting it? That'd be swell. Thanks. BW

Re: [gentoo-user] Receiving GWN via email?

2007-07-27 Thread Billy McCann
Yes. The GWN has been appearing on g.w.o. (which also can mean www.gnome.org, by the way), hence this thread. :) Maybe they lost some subscriptions? Just to check, I sent another subscription request, only to receive a you're already subscribed message. I'll check the projects page to see