On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:09:55 -0200, Norberto Bensa wrote:
On the other hand, learning PAM has its benefits.
Yes, it allows you to make a more informed decision about whether to keep
or remove it.
--
Neil Bothwick
Don't forget that MS-Windows is just a temporary workaround until you can
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:58:20 -0500, James Homuth wrote:
I heard there were some programs that won't be emerged or won't work
properly if PAM is removed. An example given in the posted wiki article
is Open Office. Is that still accurate?
There have been some OOo builds (mainly betas/rcs I
On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 06:38:50 +0530, Man Shankar wrote:
mount -oremount,ro /boot solves that problem for me. It's the last
command in the update script I mentioned before. And there's always
GRML, just in case :-)
Since, /boot seldom requires work i have this in fstab
/dev/sda1
On Friday 23 January 2009 14:58:32 Grant Edwards wrote:
Mainly because I use ntfsclone to keep a bunch of backup copies of the
NTFS partition, and having a 2GB swap file in every backup copy starts to
eat up a lot of disk space.
In the days when I ran Windows I used to have at least one
On 23 Jan 2009, at 21:10, Paul Hartman wrote:
...
From memory it's just to delete it, which is perfect.
It would take too long to zero it out - I don't think that's the
purpose.
...
After further googling, it appears it *does* fill the pagefile.sys
with zeros, and adds a significant delay
I'm in the process of installing Gentoo on a rather old
machine. It's an old HP Pavilion with a 450MHz Celeron
Mendocino and 256MB of PC133 SDRAM. I'm using an nVidia PCI
FX6200 video board instead of the i810 on-board chip, and it's
got a decent hard drive (160GB).
I was wondering if
I believe he means that generally speaking, trying to build OO from
source on a low-end (and especially low RAM) machine is ill-advised and
can often be the cause of build failures as OO is well known to require
a lot of RAM and hdd space while it compiles.
He has plenty of disk. It may use
OK folks, all have a seat please. I ran a full blown KDE on a 133Mhz
machine with 256Mbs of ram. A friend if mine played Solitaire on it and
it worked well. It even had sound on it.
I started running fvwm on a 486 w/ 16MB of core and
a pair of 20MB disk drives (one RLL one MFM). Face
it:
In Google Books I found something called Linux Live CDs:Building
and Customizing Bootables. It had the following link which is dead.
Did it move somewhere? I cannot find it yet.
The book does a decent job of describing how to
use gentookit to get a working CD -- they worked
for me.
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How can I accomplish this?:
Use a non-standard port for yourself (e.g., ,
34567). A port entry in your .ssh/config will
handle that. With that back door you can set up
any remaining rules on port 22.
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Steven Lembark85-09 90th St.
Workhorse
This ebuild is from the java-overlay. Is it just a bad ebuild or can
I fix this? I tried disabling the nsplugin USE flag with the same
result.
57 DEPEND=${RDEPEND}
58 || ( =virtual/gnu-classpath-jdk-1.5
59 dev-java/icedtea6
60
On 2009-01-24, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote:
On Friday 23 January 2009 14:58:32 Grant Edwards wrote:
Mainly because I use ntfsclone to keep a bunch of backup copies of the
NTFS partition, and having a 2GB swap file in every backup copy starts to
eat up a lot of disk space.
On 2009-01-24, Steven Lembark lemb...@wrkhors.com wrote:
OK folks, all have a seat please. I ran a full blown KDE on a 133Mhz
machine with 256Mbs of ram. A friend if mine played Solitaire on it and
it worked well. It even had sound on it.
I started running fvwm on a 486 w/ 16MB of core
On Saturday 24 January 2009 15:35:32 Grant Edwards wrote:
I didn't have a spare primary parition to put the swap file on. I had a
bunch of spare extended partitions but all the docs say you can't put the
XP swap file on en extended paritition...
Ah, I didn't know that. In Win98, I think it
Steven Lembark wrote:
OK folks, all have a seat please. I ran a full blown KDE on a 133Mhz
machine with 256Mbs of ram. A friend if mine played Solitaire on it and
it worked well. It even had sound on it.
I started running fvwm on a 486 w/ 16MB of core and
a pair of 20MB disk drives
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 02:14 -0500, Joshua Murphy wrote:
if radeontool or something will allow you to disable the display even
when you aren't in X, or without proper access to the display (like
xset requires) you might be able to even escape needing that xhost
setting. No way of testing it at
Does anyone have any ideas on this compile failure? It's for icedtea6
from the java-overlay:
make[7]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/dev-java/icedtea6-1.3.1-r2/work/icedtea6-1.3.1/openjdk/control/build/linux-amd64/hotspot/outputdir/linux_amd64_compiler2/product'
make[6]: Leaving directory
On 2009-01-24, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote:
On Saturday 24 January 2009 15:35:32 Grant Edwards wrote:
I didn't have a spare primary parition to put the swap file
on. I had a bunch of spare extended partitions but all the
docs say you can't put the XP swap file on en
Hi,
I recently installed Hugin and autopano-sift-C and the first couple
times, it worked like a champ. Now, it gives me a error like this when
I load images or tell it to try to match up my pics:
command: autopano-sift-c --maxmatches 10 /tmp/ap_res0eoHtu
Hi Gentoos,
I want to install an e-mail server solution, based on postfix.
I'm reading this how-to:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml
From a level simple to complexe I would like a solution that is not to
hard at first to have time, to understand the basics, and have it
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Grant Edwards wrote:
I still can't believe that Windows does it's swapping using a
normal filesystem -- and by default it's the same filesystem
used for system and application files. It seems like the
filesystem code would end up being a serious
Each ripped CD in my music collection is accompanied by a high
resolution scan of the album's cover. There is a new plugin for gmpc
that displays that cover art at full screen on my HDTV. As the huge
cover art images appear on the TV, I notice one or more sides that
need to be cropped, or that
For some reason, evince won't open PDFs anymore. I've tried different
versions of evince, poppler, and shared-mime-info, but evince says:
File type PDF document (application/pdf) is not supported
epdfview works, but it segfaults when trying to open shipping labels
from usps.com. Does anyone
On 2009-01-24, ABCD en.a...@gmail.com wrote:
There actually is a good reason (oddly enough) for Windows
using a file on the filesystem for its swap space. Because it
is a simple file on disk, if Windows realizes that the swap
file is almost full, it can expand your swap without having to
do
Greetings,
I am trying to get Spamassassin working. I am following this guide...
http://www.hurring.com/scott/howto/postfix_spamd/
The configuration on that page is very minimalist and that's how I want to
start off. I can get progressively more complex as I learn more but I want
to keep it as
On 24 Jan 2009, at 18:54, laurent wrote:
... I first just need my apache to send mails via mod_php and
mod_neko.
If it's just for _outgoing_ email you'll probably get away with ssmtp.
It's very easy to configure - look at /etc/ssmtp
Stroller.
At Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:09:32 -0800 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
For some reason, evince won't open PDFs anymore. I've tried different
versions of evince, poppler, and shared-mime-info, but evince says:
File type PDF document (application/pdf) is not supported
epdfview works, but it
Grant wrote:
For some reason, evince won't open PDFs anymore. I've tried different
versions of evince, poppler, and shared-mime-info, but evince says:
File type PDF document (application/pdf) is not supported
epdfview works, but it segfaults when trying to open shipping labels
from
On 24 Jan 2009, at 19:08, Grant wrote:
... I wonder if there is an easier way than scp'ing each image
to my laptop, opening it in gimp, editing it, saving it, and scp'ing
it back to the HDTV system (especially sshd_config AllowUsers only
allows my user and the user running gmpc is different).
On 24 Jan 2009, at 17:22, Grant Edwards wrote:
I still can't believe that Windows does it's swapping using a
normal filesystem -- and by default it's the same filesystem
used for system and application files. It seems like the
filesystem code would end up being a serious bottleneck.
3.
Greetings,
I am trying to get Spamassassin working. I am following this guide...
http://www.hurring.com/scott/howto/postfix_spamd/
The configuration on that page is very minimalist and that's how I want to
start off. I can get progressively more complex as I learn more but I want
to keep
On 2009-01-24, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
3. Does creating the swapfile on a journaled filesystem (e.g.
ext3 or reiser) incur a significant performance hit?
None at all. The kernel generates a map of swap offset - disk
blocks at swapon time and from then
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:55:10 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
I have a server running that hets that null/console missing message
every boot
- and it does not hurt it at any way.
A missing /dev/console stops the boot process here. It boots
without /dev/null, but only after udev spews out a
I'm getting the following error too much, many packages are no longer
insalling with this problem ;o(
Emerging dev-libs/libmcrypt-2.5.8-r1
* libmcrypt-2.5.8.tar.gz RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-)
...
... I wonder if there is an easier way than scp'ing each image
to my laptop, opening it in gimp, editing it, saving it, and scp'ing
it back to the HDTV system (especially sshd_config AllowUsers only
allows my user and the user running gmpc is different).
The obvious thing that springs to
On 2009-01-24, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:55:10 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
I have a server running that hets that null/console missing
message every boot - and it does not hurt it at any way.
A missing /dev/console stops the boot process here. It
On 2009-01-25, Grant Edwards gra...@visi.com wrote:
On 2009-01-24, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:55:10 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
I have a server running that hets that null/console missing
message every boot - and it does not hurt it at any way.
A
I could have sworn there was a way to specify a patch to be applied to
an emerge from the command line, something like:
EPATCH=file.patch emerge packagename
I've been searching Google and the mailing list but I can't find
mention of it anywhere. Was it a figment of my imagination?
- Grant
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Grant Edwards wrote:
One implication of that is that the filesystem is then not
allowed to move blocks around if they are part of an active
swap file? Not that I'm aware of filesystems that shuffle
blocks around while they're part of an open
On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:54:05 +0100
laurent laur...@logiquefloue.org wrote:
I first just need my apache to send mails via mod_php and mod_neko.
I'd also suggest using lite smtp client, like msmtp, which I find a
bit more feature-packed and stable than ssmtp, while being just as easy
to set up.
Without looking it up, I'm pretty sure there's no pdf use flag. Make
sure Evince is listed as the default application for pdfs in your web
browser.
-Chris
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Saphirus Sage saphirus...@gmail.com wrote:
Grant wrote:
For some reason, evince won't open PDFs anymore.
Chris Thomas wrote:
Without looking it up, I'm pretty sure there's no pdf use flag. Make
sure Evince is listed as the default application for pdfs in your web
browser.
-Chris
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Saphirus Sage saphirus...@gmail.com wrote:
Grant wrote:
For some
For some reason, evince won't open PDFs anymore. I've tried different
versions of evince, poppler, and shared-mime-info, but evince says:
File type PDF document (application/pdf) is not supported
epdfview works, but it segfaults when trying to open shipping labels
from usps.com. Does
My network's firewall is rejecting a bunch of attempts by my laptop to
reach 192.168.x.x systems which don't exist. The requests are from
and to very high port numbers. This must have to do with the p2p
software I'm running (transmission), but I thought it was pretty
creepy. Is that sort of
On Sunday 25 January 2009 05:49:31 Grant wrote:
For some reason, evince won't open PDFs anymore. I've tried different
versions of evince, poppler, and shared-mime-info, but evince says:
File type PDF document (application/pdf) is not supported
epdfview works, but it segfaults when
Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2009-01-25, Grant Edwards gra...@visi.com wrote:
On 2009-01-24, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:55:10 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
I have a server running that hets that null/console missing
message every boot -
Am Freitag, 23. Januar 2009 15:48:48 schrieb Grant Edwards:
On 2009-01-23, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Freitag 23 Januar 2009, Grant Edwards wrote:
You are still able to see the output from all the init scripts?
yes
That's interesting, because on my
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