Re: [gentoo-user] No mail from list

2008-04-27 Thread Roy Wright
Anthony E. Caudel wrote: I haven't received any mail from the gentoo-user mailing list for 4 days now. Anyone else having problems with the list? If you are using Thunderbird, check your junk folder. This happened to me. I added the mail lists to my address book and everything is working

[gentoo-user] nscd doing IPV6 requests on an IPV4-only system ???

2008-04-27 Thread Walter Dnes
The preliminaries... - I start off my USE variable in /etc/make.conf with -* - I have *NOT* enabled IPV6 anywhere - This is North America folks; my ISP's owners know what IPV6 is and are working on getting it operational, but it's not running yet. - I'm not a pro or anti IPV6 zealot.

[gentoo-user] rkhunter and /dev/dev

2008-04-27 Thread ti . liame
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Re: [gentoo-user] rkhunter and /dev/dev

2008-04-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:33:03 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This morning, out of curiosity, I ran rkhunter: it gave me a warning about GasKit. It's because there's a /dev/dev folder Have you run rkhunter --update? I used to see this warning, but it disappeared a while ago with a database

Re: [gentoo-user] No mail from list

2008-04-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 01:56:43 -0500, Roy Wright wrote: I haven't received any mail from the gentoo-user mailing list for 4 days now. Anyone else having problems with the list? If you are using Thunderbird, check your junk folder. I hope you CCed this to the OP, otherwise he probably won't

Re: [gentoo-user] Would emerge --sync remove old profiles?

2008-04-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 06:40:30 +0100, Neil Walker wrote: The portage tree is not required to even be present. Nothing will stop working without it (other than portage itself - and emerge --sync will fix that). The OP made it sound like running emerge --sync had trashed his system by removing

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] gentoo-wiki.com

2008-04-27 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 4/26/08, Dan Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is it only me or does someone else have problems with gentoo-wiki.com today? On 4/15/08, ionut cucu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a fine page to bookmark: http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ Liviu -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] No mail from list

2008-04-27 Thread Roy Wright
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 01:56:43 -0500, Roy Wright wrote: I haven't received any mail from the gentoo-user mailing list for 4 days now. Anyone else having problems with the list? If you are using Thunderbird, check your junk folder. I hope you CCed this to the OP,

[gentoo-user] Re: rkhunter and /dev/dev

2008-04-27 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 27 April 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:33:03 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This morning, out of curiosity, I ran rkhunter: it gave me a warning about GasKit. It's because there's a /dev/dev folder Have you run rkhunter --update? I used to see this

Re: [gentoo-user] What overwrites resolv.conf

2008-04-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 23 April 2008 21:00:25 Alan McKinnon wrote: My solution: don't use static ip's at home, set up a dhcp server with a permanent lease for your machine, then have it download the resolv.conf that you really do want at home. My solution was simply to chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up - how do I emerge coreutils once coreutils is gone?

2008-04-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 25 April 2008 06:45:34 Alan McKinnon wrote: Elog messages with yellow stars should *never* be ignored. Unlike UAC, they are not there with the express purpose of annoying users. Having no knowledge of Vista, nor a wish to try it, what is a UAC? Google tells me it's a Universal air

Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up - how do I emerge coreutils once coreutils is gone?

2008-04-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 27 April 2008, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday 25 April 2008 06:45:34 Alan McKinnon wrote: Elog messages with yellow stars should *never* be ignored. Unlike UAC, they are not there with the express purpose of annoying users. Having no knowledge of Vista, nor a wish to try it, what

Re: [gentoo-user] Would emerge --sync remove old profiles?

2008-04-27 Thread Neil Walker
Neil Bothwick wrote: I suggest you read the subject header and the original post. It is quite clear what Mark was talking about, and these files are removed by emerge --sync. I have done that - in fact, I have been following the entire thread. However, it cannot be assumed that everyone

Re: [gentoo-user] Doubt about FLAG use

2008-04-27 Thread Ian Graeme Hilt
Enrico Weigelt wrote: BTW: is there an way for passing an temporary package.use filename to portage (for trying out certain configs) ? What do you mean by temporary? You could execute 'USE=tmpflag emerge cat/packagename'. But as already pointed out, this is not a good idea for future use.

Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up - how do I emerge coreutils once coreutils is gone?

2008-04-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 27 April 2008 11:55:12 Alan McKinnon wrote: Sudo is so much better and infinitely less intrusive. It's also a solved problem years ago. Why didn't they use it? NIH. -- Rgds Peter -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Batch audio converter?

2008-04-27 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I've got about 200GB of OGG and FLAC files on my local machine. My son bought an iPod and wants me to do a batch conversion to mp3. Can anyone recommend something in portage that can do this in more or less a single step? Directory hierarchy is basically band/album/audio_files. Extra

Re: [gentoo-user] Batch audio converter?

2008-04-27 Thread dexters84
Tweak below script a little and it should do the trick - should work the way it is - but I haven't tested it, it's a port of mine video encoder for multiple directories. #!/bin/bash new_files=$(find /path/to/input/ -iname *.ogg) inc=1 for x in $new_files do filename[$inc]=$x

Re: [gentoo-user] Batch audio converter?

2008-04-27 Thread dexters84
There was a bug in my pervious script #!/bin/bash new_files=$(find /path/to/input/ -iname *.ogg) inc=1 for x in $new_files do filename[$inc]=$x char_count=$(stat $filename[$inc]|wc -c) name_end=$(($char_count - 6)) out_name[$inc]=$(*stat*

Re: [gentoo-user] Batch audio converter?

2008-04-27 Thread Mark Knecht
Thanks Dexter. Good stuff! Cheers, Mark On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 9:04 AM, dexters84 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There was a bug in my pervious script #!/bin/bash new_files=$(find /path/to/input/ -iname *.ogg) inc=1 for x in $new_files do filename[$inc]=$x

Re: [gentoo-user] Would emerge --sync remove old profiles?

2008-04-27 Thread b.n.
Neil Walker ha scritto: Neil Bothwick wrote: I suggest you read the subject header and the original post. It is quite clear what Mark was talking about, and these files are removed by emerge --sync. I have done that - in fact, I have been following the entire thread. However, it cannot be

Re: [gentoo-user] Batch audio converter?

2008-04-27 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 4/27/08, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've got about 200GB of OGG and FLAC files on my local machine. My son bought an iPod and wants me to do a batch conversion to mp3. Can anyone recommend something in portage that can do this in more or less a single step? Directory

Re: [gentoo-user] Would emerge --sync remove old profiles?

2008-04-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 4:14 AM, Neil Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: I suggest you read the subject header and the original post. It is quite clear what Mark was talking about, and these files are removed by emerge --sync. I have done that - in fact, I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Batch audio converter?

2008-04-27 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Mark Knecht: Hi, I've got about 200GB of OGG and FLAC files on my local machine. My son bought an iPod and wants me to do a batch conversion to mp3. Can anyone recommend something in portage that can do this in more or less a single step? Directory hierarchy is basically

Re: [gentoo-user] Batch audio converter?

2008-04-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 27 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I've got about 200GB of OGG and FLAC files on my local machine. My son bought an iPod and wants me to do a batch conversion to mp3. Can anyone recommend something in portage that can do this in more or less a single step? Directory hierarchy

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rkhunter and /dev/dev

2008-04-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:37:15 +0200, Francesco Talamona wrote: It's because there's a /dev/dev folder Have you run rkhunter --update? I used to see this warning, but it disappeared a while ago with a database update. I've just checked back and in my case it was /dev/md/n, which are

Re: [gentoo-user] Would emerge --sync remove old profiles?

2008-04-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 26 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: I don't buy that it's my issue created by a long time between updates. I could turn on any machine that's sitting in a junk heap or back room somewhere. It hasn't been

Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up - how do I emerge coreutils once coreutils is gone?

2008-04-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 27 April 2008, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 27 April 2008 11:55:12 Alan McKinnon wrote: Sudo is so much better and infinitely less intrusive. It's also a solved problem years ago. Why didn't they use it? NIH. Of course, silly me. I was forgetting who exactly the who in

Re: [gentoo-user] Batch audio converter?

2008-04-27 Thread Nicolai Beuermann
Hi, On 27.04.2008 17:16:50, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I've got about 200GB of OGG and FLAC files on my local machine. My son bought an iPod and wants me to do a batch conversion to mp3. Can anyone recommend something in portage that can do this in more or less a single step? Directory

Re: [gentoo-user] --as-needed in LDFLAGS - hot or not?

2008-04-27 Thread Sebastian Magri
I have been using these among with others by default with no problems at the moment I consider it safe for use... but some packages as the mentioned above will fail.. so I have an auxiliar LDFLAGS line commented to use wit these packages that only haves -Wl,-O1... 2008/4/28, Vaeth [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] Re: rkhunter and /dev/dev

2008-04-27 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 27 April 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: Why do I have duplicated md devices? It sounds like a udev rule may be causing this, possibly an incorrectly written one, because the /dev part of node names is implicit in udev, so if you set a name or symlink to dev/foo, you'll get

Re: [gentoo-user] Would emerge --sync remove old profiles?

2008-04-27 Thread Henry Gebhardt
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 8:33 PM, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 26 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: (...) default so it's really slow). I'm thinking of these things: - Install every currently

Re: [gentoo-user] Batch audio converter?

2008-04-27 Thread Joseph
Here is a shorter one: for i in `ls *.ogg | sed -e 's/.ogg//'`; do echo Converting $i.ogg to $i.mp3; ogg123 -d wav -f - $i.ogg | lame- $i.mp3; done -- #Joseph GPG KeyID: ED0E1FB7 On 04/27/08 18:04, dexters84 wrote: There was a bug in my pervious script #!/bin/bash new_files=$(find

Re: [gentoo-user] Would emerge --sync remove old profiles?

2008-04-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:30:07 +0200, Henry Gebhardt wrote: It hasn't been mentioned yet, but ebuilds of all installed packages can be found in /var/db/pkg/category/pkg-ver/pkg-ver.ebuild. emerge --sync can mess around with /usr/portage all it wants, your ebuilds will still be there until you

Re: [gentoo-user] Would emerge --sync remove old profiles?

2008-04-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:30:07 +0200, Henry Gebhardt wrote: It hasn't been mentioned yet, but ebuilds of all installed packages can be found in /var/db/pkg/category/pkg-ver/pkg-ver.ebuild. emerge --sync can mess

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo for embedded-linux

2008-04-27 Thread James
Yoav Luft yoav.luft at gmail.com writes: I've recently grown interested in Linux for embedded devices, specifically, ARM computers and ARM core DSP's. I am a Gentoo-linux user and an electronics technician, and know nothing about programming operating systems. Are there any relevant projects,

Re: [gentoo-user] Very old machine blocking/update questions

2008-04-27 Thread Mark Shields
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 26 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks Alan, Sorry for top posting. I noticed these very old machine have only 8GB drives in them. Looks like I'm actually going to replace the drives and then do new