[gentoo-user] Re: postup() syntax help

2008-04-14 Thread Remy Blank
Grant wrote: postup() { if [[ ${IFACE} = wlan0 ]]; then IIRC, the equality operator is ==, not =. HTH. -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Garbage in /tmp or /var/tmp

2008-04-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:36:42 -0400, Steven Lembark wrote: I second that, tmpfs for /tmp is great: Catch: You loose it all on reboot. You are supposed to. The LFS says that /tmp is for files that do not need to survive a reboot. Baselayout now defaults to wiping /tmp at boot anyway. Since

Re: [gentoo-user] Garbage in /tmp or /var/tmp

2008-04-14 Thread Philip Webb
080414 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:36:42 -0400, Steven Lembark wrote: vi keep their in-work backups there, loosing the entire contents of /tmp after a crash can be painful. Then they are broken, such data should be stored in /var/tmp. Vim defaults to keeping temporary files in

[gentoo-user] Re: Garbage in /tmp or /var/tmp

2008-04-14 Thread Michael Schmarck
Steven Lembark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sonntag, 13. April 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:38:31 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: Due to disk space restrictions I've decided to make /tmp a symlink to /var/tmp instead of reserving space for both.

Re: [gentoo-user] Webmin not accepting root logins

2008-04-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 13 April 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: This is the second in a series of at least 3 cries for help, each on a separate sub-part of my goal of making sense of cups, lpd and Windows Vista. I'm trying to use webmin to look at CUPS administration. I would not recommend this route, as I

Re: [gentoo-user] Garbage in /tmp or /var/tmp

2008-04-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 14 April 2008, Steven Lembark wrote: I second that, tmpfs for /tmp is great: tmpfs                 512M   12K  512M   1% /tmp Catch: You loose it all on reboot. Doesn't matter. The standard definition for /tmp (per FHS) is contains files that are not expected to persists across

Re: [gentoo-user] Old machine update - libexpat upgrade instructions?

2008-04-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 11 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote:    Now, if I knew anything at all about creating and maintaining my own overlay I'd be really dangerous. ;-) It's easy and very useful. There's even an article on the wiki somewhere that tells you how to do it. In summary: - create a parent

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: postup() syntax help

2008-04-14 Thread Alex Schuster
Remy Blank writes: Grant wrote: postup() { if [[ ${IFACE} = wlan0 ]]; then IIRC, the equality operator is ==, not =. Both is valid in bash. I'd put a set -xv before the if statement, this way you see which statements, if any, get executed. Wonko --

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] portage conflict

2008-04-14 Thread Sergey Kobzar
Etaoin, Thanks for help. It fixed the problem :) Monday, April 14, 2008, 1:50:02 PM, you wrote: On Monday 14 April 2008, 12:21, Sergey Kobzar wrote: # emerge -upvDN world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies... done! [ebuild U ]

Re: [gentoo-user] portage conflict

2008-04-14 Thread Emil Beinroth
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 01:21:24PM +0300, Sergey Kobzar wrote: I thought unmerge sys-apps/coreutils or sys-apps/mktemp and then update world, but it may corrupt my system. coreutils are rather important, they provide things like rm and ls. unmerge mktemp and merge coreutils directly afterwards.

[gentoo-user] portage conflict

2008-04-14 Thread Sergey Kobzar
After portage tree update I have # emerge -upvDN world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] net-misc/rsync-2.6.9-r6 [2.6.9-r5] USE=-acl -ipv6 -static -xinetd 793 kB [ebuild U ] sys-apps/coreutils-6.10-r1 [6.9-r1]

Re: [gentoo-user] portage conflict

2008-04-14 Thread Jacques Montier
Sergey Kobzar a gentiment tapote: After portage tree update I have # emerge -upvDN world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] net-misc/rsync-2.6.9-r6 [2.6.9-r5] USE=-acl -ipv6 -static -xinetd 793 kB [ebuild U ]

Re: [gentoo-user] portage conflict

2008-04-14 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Monday 14 April 2008, 12:21, Sergey Kobzar wrote: # emerge -upvDN world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] net-misc/rsync-2.6.9-r6 [2.6.9-r5] USE=-acl -ipv6 -static -xinetd 793 kB [ebuild U ]

Re: [gentoo-user] portage conflict

2008-04-14 Thread Mateusz A. Mierzwin'ski
Sergey Kobzar pisze: After portage tree update I have # emerge -upvDN world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] net-misc/rsync-2.6.9-r6 [2.6.9-r5] USE=-acl -ipv6 -static -xinetd 793 kB [ebuild U ]

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox crash when playing flash

2008-04-14 Thread Qi Baobin
Thanks, I'll try firefox 3. The problem got worse, the computer froze when I was watching the flash today. On 13:09 Sun 13 Apr , Gustavo Campos wrote: I'm a xmonad user here, no compiz at all and the problem exists. As I said, it looks pretty much like a sound problem. I believe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: postup() syntax help

2008-04-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 12:36 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: I'd put a set -xv before the if statement, this way you see which statements, if any, get executed. fantastic! I never knew about that... All the debugging it could have saved me! thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net

[gentoo-user] Salasaga

2008-04-14 Thread Francisco Ares
Hi, All Does anyone know if there is a portage package for Salasaga (http://www.salasaga.org/)? Or if one has had the experience of compiling it from source, any hints? Thanks Francisco -- If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] NFS through a firewall

2008-04-14 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:19:11 -0230 Roger Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm trying to configure the firewall on a client to allow that client to mount an nfs directory. The client runs a netfilter firewall, the server uses tcpwrapper.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] NFS through a firewall

2008-04-14 Thread Roger Mason
Hamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Friday 11 April 2008 13:49:11 Roger Mason wrote: Hello, I'm trying to configure the firewall on a client to allow that client to mount an nfs directory. The client runs a netfilter firewall, the server uses tcpwrapper. Do you have the option to run

Re: [gentoo-user] portage conflict

2008-04-14 Thread alain . didierjean
Selon Sergey Kobzar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: After portage tree update I have # emerge -upvDN world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] net-misc/rsync-2.6.9-r6 [2.6.9-r5] USE=-acl -ipv6 -static -xinetd 793 kB [ebuild

[gentoo-user] vmware-server-console: version `GCC_3.4' not found

2008-04-14 Thread Vladimir Rusinov
Hello! I'm dealing with this bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217650 I'm not able to run vmware-server-console-1.0.5 $ eix vmware-server-console [D] app-emulation/vmware-server-console Installed versions: 1.0.5.80187(14:04:36 14.04.2008) $ vmware-server-console

[gentoo-user] Thrustmaster RCS

2008-04-14 Thread Max
Hello, in my old Macintosh days I had this very nice Thrustmaster flight control system. It came with a joystick, a throttle control and pedals. The joystick itself is ADB based and doesn't work whithout an adapter or an old Mac. However the pedals are equipped with a standard gameport connector

[gentoo-user] [OT] Strange crash while setting up new box

2008-04-14 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, I've never seen this before: I needed a new mobo but I wanted to keep the cpu so I got another socket 754, an AsRock K8Upgrade-N3, which has a 939 option. I also got a new video card to go with it, a GeForce FX5500. I also got a new PS, an Enermax 400 Liberty. So I put it together

Re: [gentoo-user] Webmin not accepting root logins

2008-04-14 Thread Mick
On Monday 14 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 13 April 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: This is the second in a series of at least 3 cries for help, each on a separate sub-part of my goal of making sense of cups, lpd and Windows Vista. I'm trying to use webmin to look at CUPS

[gentoo-user] wifi

2008-04-14 Thread Roger Cahn
Hi, I can't have a connexion with wifi at boot. To connect I have to do: -iwconfig wlan0 essid xx -/etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start But when I reboot I must do it again. I tried to make rc-update add net.wlan0 default (even boot), but it doesn't work. I have a motherboard Asus P5K-E

Re: [gentoo-user] Garbage in /tmp or /var/tmp

2008-04-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 14. April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: vi is a sane program and will in all likelihood respect this almost-universal standard. If anyone wants different behaviour (can't think why...) then configure vi to use a different directory as a scratch pad it is not sane, but it would be

Re: [gentoo-user] Webmin not accepting root logins

2008-04-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 4/14/08, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 14 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 13 April 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: This is the second in a series of at least 3 cries for help, each on a separate sub-part of my goal of making sense of cups, lpd and Windows Vista.

Re: [gentoo-user] Webmin not accepting root logins

2008-04-14 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: It's been some years now and can't remember if webmin has its own root account (different from the OS root account). Have you tried login with root as the username and your normal user passwd? I also can't remember what the CUPS interface was on webmin, but what Alan suggests

[gentoo-user] SurroundSound, Pulseaudio CPU Usage

2008-04-14 Thread Gustavo Campos
Hello my fellows. Before my trouble I'll tell you a little story. I'm a (not so happy) owner of a Audigy SE 7.1 soundcard, unable to do hardware mixing. I own a 7.1 home theater system, so to hear sound from all satellites I use an Alsa fake device to upmix 2.0 to a 7.1 stream, using the route

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Strange crash while setting up new box

2008-04-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 12:37 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: [snip] Anybody seen this? no, sorry! There's a few things in the new BIOS that I'm not familiar with: Google is your friend! Fast Write, AGP Fast Writes? Bypasses main mem to write directly to AGP card

Re: [gentoo-user] SurroundSound, Pulseaudio CPU Usage

2008-04-14 Thread Ophidian
Gustavo Campos wrote: My point is: Is there any way to tell pulseaudio not to eat my cpu that much? Or better: Is there a solution that would allow me to be a happy child without having to use pulseaudio and it's extra layer between me and my beloved hardware? You guys can't imagine how much I

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server-console: version `GCC_3.4' not found

2008-04-14 Thread William Kenworthy
quick fix: locate the equivalent system libraries, move the problematic vmware ones out of the way and symlink to the system libs. Works fine with vmware workstation. And wait for gentoo/vmware to catch up and fix with the next iteration ... I am using vmware-workstation 5, and cant justify the

Re: [gentoo-user] SurroundSound, Pulseaudio CPU Usage

2008-04-14 Thread Gustavo Campos
Well, that would certainly help to trace the problem with pulseaudio, yes. But I must admit that I'm hoping someone here has a more pleasant suggestion. Something like a magical solution or that obvious shot I'd never think about =) Anyway, I don't believe that it's really a pulseaudio bug, so

[gentoo-user] growisofs fails as user, sometimes works as root!

2008-04-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
growisofs (and hence k3b, and nautilus-cd-burner) can't burn dvd's for me anymore! I used to burn them fine, and I've had dvd+rw-tools version 7 since 2006! k3b reports there are no problems on startup. I swapped drives, used different media, limited the speed, and tried all sorts of options

Re: [gentoo-user] Garbage in /tmp or /var/tmp

2008-04-14 Thread Philip Webb
080414 forgottenwizard wrote: On 03:58 Mon 14 Apr , Philip Webb wrote: Vim defaults to keeping temporary files in /var/tmp , but Mutt defaults to /tmp Vim called by Mutt does the same. Recently, I changed the default in .muttrc to use /var/tmp instead as a result I can happily

Re: [gentoo-user] Is gentoo-wiki Down?

2008-04-14 Thread ionut cucu
On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:23:05 +0400 Andrew Gaydenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: === On Monday 14 April 2008, Drew Tomlinson wrote: === For the past few days, anytime I've attempted to get to gentoo-wiki or gentoo-portage, my browser just sits. I connect to other sites just fine. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Is gentoo-wiki Down?

2008-04-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 08:33 +0300, ionut cucu wrote: Here's a fine page to bookmark: http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ lol. Put in downforeveryoneorjustme.com and see what they say :) -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au There is madmen in the world, and there are terror.