Re: [gentoo-user] Internet radio?

2009-01-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:51:23 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: The one thing I'm not liking about it was it is that it created /etc/portagexs which now stops me from bash auto-completing my tab commands the way I'm used to doing it for all these years. A trade off... That's fixed in the latest

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet radio?

2009-01-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 27 January 2009 23:41:32 Mark Knecht wrote: I should have stated that he has almost no interest in listening to music. He wants to listen to news form around the world. BBC, NPR and whatever he can find. I don't know whether the BBC streams in mp3 or just allows you to download

Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok only masked with ~x86 keyword

2009-01-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 27 January 2009 22:50:59 Paul Hartman wrote: Overall I would say at this poin, other than the Last.fm support, I prefer the old Amarok in almost every way to the new one. UI was better, performance was better, display of collection was better. Maybe there are some new features that

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet radio?

2009-01-28 Thread Stroller
On 28 Jan 2009, at 12:45, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 27 January 2009 23:41:32 Mark Knecht wrote: I should have stated that he has almost no interest in listening to music. He wants to listen to news form around the world. BBC, NPR and whatever he can find. I don't know whether

[gentoo-user] how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)?

2009-01-28 Thread Miernik
I am doing a 'emerge -uD' but one of the packages the version currently in portage doesn't compile, so I want to keep my current version, and prevent emerge from trying to update it. How can I put a package on hold (like in Debian)? I tried inserting: =x11-wm/awesome-3.1-r1 ~amd64 in

Re: [gentoo-user] how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)?

2009-01-28 Thread Stroller
On 28 Jan 2009, at 15:33, Miernik wrote: I am doing a 'emerge -uD' but one of the packages the version currently in portage doesn't compile, so I want to keep my current version, and prevent emerge from trying to update it. How can I put a package on hold (like in Debian)? I tried

[gentoo-user] Network access to mysql

2009-01-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
Afternoon all, I have mysql running on my workstation and on my local server, and I want to connect as an ordinary user from the workstation to the server; I can't. This is what happens: $ mysql -p -h serv.ethnet Enter password: ERROR 2003 (HY000): Can't connect to MySQL server on

Re: [gentoo-user] Network access to mysql

2009-01-28 Thread AllenJB
Peter Humphrey wrote: Afternoon all, I have mysql running on my workstation and on my local server, and I want to connect as an ordinary user from the workstation to the server; I can't. This is what happens: $ mysql -p -h serv.ethnet Enter password: ERROR 2003 (HY000): Can't connect to

Re: [gentoo-user] Network access to mysql

2009-01-28 Thread Alejandro
2009/1/28 AllenJB gentoo-li...@allenjb.me.uk Peter Humphrey wrote: Afternoon all, I have mysql running on my workstation and on my local server, and I want to connect as an ordinary user from the workstation to the server; I can't. This is what happens: $ mysql -p -h serv.ethnet Enter

Re: [gentoo-user] how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)?

2009-01-28 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Miernik pub...@public.miernik.name wrote: I am doing a 'emerge -uD' but one of the packages the version currently in portage doesn't compile, so I want to keep my current version, and prevent emerge from trying to update it. How can I put a package on hold

[gentoo-user] wlan0 promiscuous mode

2009-01-28 Thread Grant
Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley on my network in wireshark? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] wlan0 promiscuous mode

2009-01-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley on my network in wireshark? wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode monitor

[gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode

2009-01-28 Thread Miernik
Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley on my network in wireshark? ifconfig eth1 promisc But at least tcpdump puts the interface into promiscous mode

[gentoo-user] KDE 4.2: Emerge of ksysguard and ksmserver failed

2009-01-28 Thread Tomas Linhart
Hello all, I've decided to try out KDE 4.2. I unmasked all the packages that I needed, but when I was emerging kde-base/ksysguard I got the following error: Linking CXX shared library ../../lib/libkdeinit4_ksysguard.so [ 98%] Built target kdeinit_ksysguard Scanning dependencies of target

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode

2009-01-28 Thread Dominic Kexel
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:17:18 +0100 Miernik pub...@public.miernik.name wrote: Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley on my network in wireshark? ifconfig eth1

Re: [gentoo-user] X-forwarding questions

2009-01-28 Thread pk
Grant wrote: That's the weird part. Local gimp and remote gimp side-by-side on the same screen look different. For example, the edges of the buttons and widgets in local gimp are rounded but they aren't in remote gimp. Not a big deal though. So what do gimp look like when you run it

Re: [gentoo-user] X-forwarding questions

2009-01-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP When I ssh -X, start gimp, close gimp, and close the ssh session, the terminal prompt disappears and only the cursor is visible in the terminal. I have to ctrl+c to bring the prompt back. This doesn't happen with ssh -X

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode

2009-01-28 Thread Saphirus Sage
Dominic Kexel wrote: On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:17:18 +0100 Miernik pub...@public.miernik.name wrote: Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley on my network

Re: [gentoo-user] how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)?

2009-01-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:48:37 -0500, Joshua Murphy wrote: =x11-wm/awesome-3.1-r1 ~amd64 in /etc/portage/package.keywords but 'emerge -uD world' still tries to build x11-wm/awesome-3.1.1 which fails, so the whole process is stopped. echo \x11-wm/awesome-3.1-r1

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode

2009-01-28 Thread Grant
Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley on my network in wireshark? ifconfig eth1 promisc But at least tcpdump puts the interface into promiscous mode automatically, so there is a chance that

Re: [gentoo-user] X-forwarding questions

2009-01-28 Thread Grant
That's the weird part. Local gimp and remote gimp side-by-side on the same screen look different. For example, the edges of the buttons and widgets in local gimp are rounded but they aren't in remote gimp. Not a big deal though. So what do gimp look like when you run it locally on the

Re: [gentoo-user] X-forwarding questions

2009-01-28 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am Dienstag, den 27.01.2009, 14:25 -0800 schrieb Grant: Using -C, gimp is about 10x more responsive than if I don't. I was surprised too. My laptop and the remote system are 15 feet away from each other on the same wireless network, with the router in between. Most X programs store their

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode

2009-01-28 Thread Saphirus Sage
Grant wrote: Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley on my network in wireshark? ifconfig eth1 promisc But at least tcpdump puts the interface into promiscous mode automatically, so

Re: [gentoo-user] how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)?

2009-01-28 Thread momesso . andrea
Sorry for topposting (BlackBerry behavior). I think that if emerge =x11-wm/awesome-3.1.1 fails, you should file a bug before masking it. Momesso Andrea -Original Message- From: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:10:05 To:

[gentoo-user] Disable xterm scroll-to-bottom and auto scrolling

2009-01-28 Thread David Sveningsson
Hi, I disabled xterm scroll-to-bottom using -si but it is pretty much useless since the output keeps scrolling anyway. I would like to be able to scroll freely in the terminal output without any interfering automatic scrolling. Like Terminal.app in Mac OSX. I've tried reading the manual and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode

2009-01-28 Thread Grant
Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley on my network in wireshark? ifconfig eth1 promisc But at least tcpdump puts the interface into promiscous mode automatically, so there is a chance that

Re: [gentoo-user] how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)?

2009-01-28 Thread Man Shankar
On 20:41 Wed 28 Jan , momesso.and...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry for topposting (BlackBerry behavior). I think that if emerge =x11-wm/awesome-3.1.1 fails, you should file a bug before masking it. Momesso Andrea +1 FWIW, have been using that version

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode

2009-01-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley on my network in wireshark? ifconfig eth1 promisc But at least tcpdump puts the

Re: [gentoo-user] X-forwarding questions

2009-01-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Daniel Troeder dan...@admin-box.com wrote: Am Dienstag, den 27.01.2009, 14:25 -0800 schrieb Grant: Using -C, gimp is about 10x more responsive than if I don't. I was surprised too. My laptop and the remote system are 15 feet away from each other on the same

Re: [gentoo-user] How to remove packages from /usr/portage/packages ?

2009-01-28 Thread Shawn Haggett
On Wednesday 28 January 2009 17:14:46 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Is there some automated way to remove the packages I created with 'quickpkg' and reside inside /usr/portage/packages without doing it by hand? I don't mean 'eclean'. That won't remove those that are installed. You want to get rid

[gentoo-user] Re: How to remove packages from /usr/portage/packages ?

2009-01-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Shawn Haggett wrote: On Wednesday 28 January 2009 17:14:46 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Is there some automated way to remove the packages I created with 'quickpkg' and reside inside /usr/portage/packages without doing it by hand? I don't mean 'eclean'. That won't remove those that are installed.

Re: [gentoo-user] how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)?

2009-01-28 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:48:37 -0500, Joshua Murphy wrote: =x11-wm/awesome-3.1-r1 ~amd64 in /etc/portage/package.keywords but 'emerge -uD world' still tries to build x11-wm/awesome-3.1.1 which fails, so the whole

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to remove packages from /usr/portage/packages ?

2009-01-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:41:23 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: You want to get rid of ALL of them? rm -rf /usr/portage/packages/* If that's safe, then I guess that'll do :P Even rm -fr /usr/portage/packages is safe. If you want to do it selectively, remove the tbz2 files from

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2: Emerge of ksysguard and ksmserver failed

2009-01-28 Thread Nick Cunningham
2009/1/28 Tomas Linhart tomas.linh...@gmail.com Hello all, I've decided to try out KDE 4.2. I unmasked all the packages that I needed, but when I was emerging kde-base/ksysguard I got the following error: Linking CXX shared library ../../lib/libkdeinit4_ksysguard.so [ 98%] Built target

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode

2009-01-28 Thread Grant
Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley on my network in wireshark? ifconfig eth1 promisc But at least tcpdump puts the interface into promiscous mode automatically, so there is a chance that

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo mail server

2009-01-28 Thread Tom Brown
Freakin awesome guys! Thank you very much for your replies. This is what I got out of it: 1) Gentoo evolves. There are no major upgrades. This is a huge go with gentoo point. I've never seen an operating system that didn't have issues after a major upgrade. This means an updated system with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode

2009-01-28 Thread Grant
Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley on my network in wireshark? ifconfig eth1 promisc But at least tcpdump puts the interface into promiscous mode automatically, so there is a chance that

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2: Emerge of ksysguard and ksmserver failed

2009-01-28 Thread Tomas Linhart
2009/1/29 Nick Cunningham n...@monkeydust.net: Some basic info like emerge --info (or paludis equivilant) would be a good start, likewise confirming that the build still fails with portage would also be useful (im not saying anything about paludis before any flamewars start, just wanting to

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2: Emerge of ksysguard and ksmserver failed

2009-01-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 28 Januar 2009, Tomas Linhart wrote: Hello all, I've decided to try out KDE 4.2. I unmasked all the packages that I needed, but when I was emerging kde-base/ksysguard I got the following error: Linking CXX shared library ../../lib/libkdeinit4_ksysguard.so [ 98%] Built target