Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo User Guide XML error : solved ?

2007-09-29 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 12:10:17AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote Following the usual procedure in such cases of trying simple changes, I changed the file extension to '.html' Epiphany now has no problem. Does anyone have any comment on this strange sequence of events ? WAD (Working As Designed).

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking into zip files

2007-09-29 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 02:11:33PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote I tried mc but haven't figured out the keyboard commands ot make it do anything. Drag and drop in ark looks good for my needs. If you go Options == Layout == Keybar visible you'll see the following line at the bottom of your

Re: [gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset

2007-09-29 Thread forgottenwizard
On 16:32 Fri 28 Sep , Patrick May wrote: On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 03:43:52PM -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: On 08:31 Fri 28 Sep , Patrick May wrote: I missed this thread earlier, so pardon me commenting to the OP so far down the thread. On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:00:33

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking into zip files

2007-09-29 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 9/22/07, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I wonder if anyone knows of a GUI app that can display the hierarchy in a large zip file - maybe hundreds of directories, tens of thousands of files and a couple of gigs of zip - without actually unzipping the archive and using up both

Re: [gentoo-user] set xdm to start after agetty

2007-09-29 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 22:41 +0300, Thanasis wrote: How can we set the xdm/gdm not to start before the agetty processes (during the boot phase)? I actually run /etc/init.d/xdm manually after a boot because, chances are, if I've rebooted my machine there's stuff I'm gonna want to do from the

[gentoo-user] gcc 3.3.6

2007-09-29 Thread pat
Hi, I have cetrino processor and I want to update system, but it's not possible, because of gcc 3.3.6. Yes, I've read previous threads, but I have another questions: 1) is it possible to block the gcc 3.3.x? 2) how to find ebuilds which are depends on this gcc? Thanks a lot. Pat --

[gentoo-user] dzen + portage

2007-09-29 Thread Stratos Psomadakis
i tried to emerge x11-misc/dzen but it was masked... does anybody know why?...and if i can do something... :S thx... signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] diskless booting [solved, I hope]

2007-09-29 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Dan, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:03:59 -0230 Roger Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The client boot process hangs, with the following dialog between the server (192.168.0.2, 00:04:75:77:98:4f) and client (192.168.0.3, 00:01:03:ce:52:a8) repeated three

[gentoo-user] Re: Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset

2007-09-29 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-09-29, forgottenwizard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since I'm using cable, I figure if I need to, in 17 month I can get a converter, or afford to buy a better card. If you're using cable, you may not need to. Cable companies are free to continue distributing analog signals as long as they

Re: [gentoo-user] dzen + portage

2007-09-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 29 September 2007, Stratos Psomadakis wrote: i tried to emerge x11-misc/dzen but it was masked... does anybody know why?...and if i can do something... :S thx... It's not masked, it's keyworded ~86, which is something quite different. It was imnported into portage in July so it's

Re: [gentoo-user] dzen + portage

2007-09-29 Thread Stratos Psomadakis
i run gentoo 2007.0 amd64... this is the output when i try to emerge dzen: # emerge -av dzen These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies | !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy dzen have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to

Re: [gentoo-user] dzen + portage

2007-09-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 29 September 2007, Stratos Psomadakis wrote: i run gentoo 2007.0 amd64... ^ There you go, that's your problem. The ebuild is keyworded ~x86, meaning it won't emerge on amd64 without the necessary keyword. There's nothing wrong with this keytword, it simply

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc 3.3.6

2007-09-29 Thread Florian Philipp
pat schrieb: Hi, I have cetrino processor and I want to update system, but it's not possible, because of gcc 3.3.6. Yes, I've read previous threads, but I have another questions: 1) is it possible to block the gcc 3.3.x? 2) how to find ebuilds which are depends on this gcc? 1) echo

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Strange apache2 access_log entries

2007-09-29 Thread Grant
Does anyone else get entries like this in their apache2 access_log: 127.0.0.1 - - [26/Sep/2007:03:10:08 -0700] GET / 400 470 I get a whole slew of them every day. They always show up in batches and each entry in a batch is logged at almost the same second. - Grant This is fully explained

[gentoo-user] ext3 with errors

2007-09-29 Thread Arnau Bria
Hi, My system runs on several ext3 partitions. Last times I restart it, it has fs errors, so I have to fsck it. Now, I have a new disk and I want to set a RAID1, but first, I'm wondering what to do to save my fs consistency. So, I want to copy data from old disk to new disk, but I'm not sure if I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset

2007-09-29 Thread forgottenwizard
On 13:41 Sat 29 Sep , Grant Edwards wrote: On 2007-09-29, forgottenwizard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since I'm using cable, I figure if I need to, in 17 month I can get a converter, or afford to buy a better card. If you're using cable, you may not need to. Cable companies are free

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo User Guide XML error : solved ?

2007-09-29 Thread Philip Webb
070929 Walter Dnes wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 12:10:17AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote Following the usual procedure in such cases of trying simple changes, I changed the file extension to '.html' Epiphany now has no problem. Does anyone have any comment on this strange sequence of events ?

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking into zip files

2007-09-29 Thread Philip Webb
On 9/22/07, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a GUI app that can display the hierarchy in a large zip file maybe hundreds of directories, tens of thousands of files and a couple of gigs of zip - without actually unzipping the archive and using up both time and disk space. Any app

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc 3.3.6

2007-09-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello pat, I have cetrino processor and I want to update system, but it's not possible, because of gcc 3.3.6. What does this mean? What is GCC 3.3.6 doing that prevents your upgrading? Or do you mean that something wants to install gcc-3.3.6? If the latter, adding --tree to the emerge command

Re: [gentoo-user] ext3 with errors

2007-09-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Arnau Bria, Now, I have a new disk and I want to set a RAID1, but first, I'm wondering what to do to save my fs consistency. So, I want to copy data from old disk to new disk, but I'm not sure if I must do a cp -a or a dd. I mean, if I do a cp -a my new disk will have a new journaling,

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking into zip files

2007-09-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Philip Webb, Is there a GUI app that can display the hierarchy in a large zip file maybe hundreds of directories, tens of thousands of files and a couple of gigs of zip - without actually unzipping the archive and using up both time and disk space. Any app which looks inside

[gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-29 Thread Grant
Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system? - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 30. September 2007, Grant wrote: Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system? - Grant /var because with /var gone its complete-reinstall time. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-29 Thread Grant
Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system? - Grant /var because with /var gone its complete-reinstall time. Do you back up hidden files and directories in the home directory? There seems to be a lot of junk in there. Does something like '--exclude

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-29 Thread Steen Eugen Poulsen
Grant skrev: Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system? In a Gentoo system nothing is really standard, so I backup everything from / and then have a small exclude list with things like: /dev, /proc, /sys, /exports, /var/cache/squid, /srv/BackupPC. /var contains

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 30. September 2007, Grant wrote: Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system? - Grant /var because with /var gone its complete-reinstall time. What about splitting tar.gz files across multiple CDs? Can that be done? - Grant man tar: -M,

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 30. September 2007, Grant wrote: Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system? - Grant /var because with /var gone its complete-reinstall time. Do you back up hidden files and directories in the home directory? yes, they contain settings, pw,

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-29 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 15:26 -0700, Grant wrote: Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system? I pretty much back up everything that's not ubiquitous on the Internet on a on an external drive. Disk space is so cheap these days so I figure why not. -- Albert W. Hopkins

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-29 Thread Grant
Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system? - Grant /var because with /var gone its complete-reinstall time. What about splitting tar.gz files across multiple CDs? Can that be done? - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Logitech trackball optical cordless, scroll wheel doesn't work

2007-09-29 Thread Alan E. Davis
I've read bunches of WWW pages about this. The model number is C-BA4-MSE. It's worked in the past. The vertical wheel is seen by logitech_applet. I have tried a large number of different configs in xorg.conf. Obviously, this is a common problem. Can anyone who has had this problem in the past

[gentoo-user] Users in passwd/shadow

2007-09-29 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi, I'm fetching the users from the files '/etc/passwd' and '/etc/shadow'. (I use a simple Ruby script.) def users fn ; File.open fn do |f| f.map { |l| l[ /^[^:]*/] } end ; end pw = users /etc/passwd sh = users /etc/shadow Now I detect there are users in passwd that don't have a shadow

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-29 Thread Mark Shields
On 9/29/07, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system? - Grant /var because with /var gone its complete-reinstall time. What about splitting tar.gz files across multiple CDs? Can that be done? - Grant -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] ext3 with errors

2007-09-29 Thread Mark Shields
On 9/29/07, Arnau Bria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, My system runs on several ext3 partitions. Last times I restart it, it has fs errors, so I have to fsck it. Now, I have a new disk and I want to set a RAID1, but first, I'm wondering what to do to save my fs consistency. So, I want to copy