Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-08 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Neil Bothwick (n...@digimed.co.uk) [07.02.09 22:42]: On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 20:43:04 +0100, Sebastian Günther wrote: If i have to do *multiple* installs for several copumters, which I do not use myself, I choose debian, because fai rocks. Shouldn't this fai be adopted for Gentoo? I

[gentoo-user] Update mime database - won't!

2009-02-08 Thread Mick
Hi All, I tried following the elog suggestion after emerging x11-misc/shared-mime-info-0.51, but I get this message back: # update-mime-database /usr/local/share/mime/ update-mime-database: I don't have write permission on /usr/local/share/mime. Try rerunning me as root. Looking for it reveals

Re: [gentoo-user] Update mime database - won't!

2009-02-08 Thread Justin
Mick wrote: Hi All, I tried following the elog suggestion after emerging x11-misc/shared-mime-info-0.51, but I get this message back: # update-mime-database /usr/local/share/mime/ update-mime-database: I don't have write permission on /usr/local/share/mime. Try rerunning me as root.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard disk power save

2009-02-08 Thread Danis Petkakis
ok thank you for your response...will do as suggested... Danis 2009/2/8 Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk He wrote the lines of his post upside down, because he thinks you're wrong to top-post. If you read it as: Usually, you have to umount it before you put it too sleep. There's

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE-4.2 missing Oxygen

2009-02-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Naga wrote: On Thursday 05 February 2009 20:32:53 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Naga wrote: I've reinstalled KDE-4.2 from portage at least 3 times, and in between compiling it from svn. The svn copy always works ok, the portage one is always missing Oxygen. Do you have

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} xfce4 network management?

2009-02-08 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 08 February 2009, Grant wrote: Why choose wicd over NetworkManager? Hi guys I'm back with a differend mail address, hope someone missed me :-) I tested both, but NM keeps shutting down wired NIC randomly, sometimes is eth0, other times is eth1. eth0 and ath0 are connected to the

[gentoo-user] Re: media-video/gspcav1 or kernel module?

2009-02-08 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 08 February 2009, Iain Buchanan wrote: [...] I recently upgraded from 2.6.26 to 2.6.28.  My el-cheapo webcam (lsusb: 0c45:602c Microdia Clas Ohlson TWC-30XOP WebCam) used the media-video/gspcav1 driver, but that no longer compiles:

Re: [gentoo-user] media-video/gspcav1 or kernel module?

2009-02-08 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi, On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Iain Buchanan iai...@netspace.net.au wrote: I recently upgraded from 2.6.26 to 2.6.28. My el-cheapo webcam (lsusb: 0c45:602c Microdia Clas Ohlson TWC-30XOP WebCam) used the media-video/gspcav1 driver, but that no longer compiles: Maybe this page will

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What version of nvidia-drivers to use with FX5200?

2009-02-08 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 08/02/09 Grant Edwards said: I know. 173.15 and newer don't support FX5200 cards. I tried several different 173.14.xx versions and none of them work for me (I don't remmeber if .09 was one of them). I always got an illegal instruction traps when Xorg is starting. Other people reported

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} xfce4 network management?

2009-02-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 15:46:18 -0800, Grant wrote: The only thing I wish it would handle, that the latest NetworkManager does, is 3G modem connections. Why choose wicd over NetworkManager? It was far easier to set up so that my wireless connection was available before the desktop loaded.

Re: [gentoo-user] Change colours of xterm

2009-02-08 Thread Ian Lee
Mike Kazantsev wrote: On Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:57:18 + Ian Lee i...@leehouse.eclipse.co.uk wrote: but still no white on black xterm, what am I missing?? You can try putting XTerm*background: #001800 XTerm*foreground: #A8A8A8 to ~/.Xresources WFM Thanks that worked. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 8 Feb 2009 01:57:39 +0100 (CET), Jesús Guerrero wrote: Yes. That's true and I agree. But since emacs was proposed as a way to overcome the natural limitations of info, I guess that's completely fair if others point out also the disadvantages of doing so. All in all, we could also say

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard disk power save

2009-02-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 8 Feb 2009 11:51:00 +0200, Danis Petkakis wrote: ok thank you for your response...will do as suggested... The suggestion was not to top-post... -- Neil Bothwick Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy. -- Robert Heinlein signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-08 Thread Graham Murray
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes: Everyone's more or less agreeing here, that the info format is useful but the standard info reader sucks. Once you start reading info pages in a decent reader, like Konqueror, they are useful for more complex documents. Although I'd still prefer HTML,

Re: [gentoo-user] Update mime database - won't!

2009-02-08 Thread Mick
On Sunday 08 February 2009, Justin wrote: Mick wrote: Hi All, I tried following the elog suggestion after emerging x11-misc/shared-mime-info-0.51, but I get this message back: # update-mime-database /usr/local/share/mime/ update-mime-database: I don't have write permission on

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-02-08, Graham Murray gra...@gmurray.org.uk wrote: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes: Everyone's more or less agreeing here, that the info format is useful but the standard info reader sucks. Once you start reading info pages in a decent reader, like Konqueror, they are useful

Re: [gentoo-user] Update mime database - won't!

2009-02-08 Thread Justin
Mick wrote: On Sunday 08 February 2009, Justin wrote: Mick wrote: Hi All, I tried following the elog suggestion after emerging x11-misc/shared-mime-info-0.51, but I get this message back: # update-mime-database /usr/local/share/mime/ update-mime-database: I don't have write permission on

[gentoo-user] Re: What version of nvidia-drivers to use with FX5200?

2009-02-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-02-08, Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca wrote: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] [...] msoul...@anton:~$ equery list | grep nvidia media-video/nvidia-settings-169.07 x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.15 msoul...@anton:~$ uname

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 8 Feb 2009 09:54:48 +0100, Sebastian Günther wrote: Did you look at quickstart, mentioned earlier in this discussion? Nope, unless fai-quickstart was meant... Any links? Yes, posted twice already but not to hand now. -- Neil Bothwick Math and alcohol don't mix. Don't drink and

[gentoo-user] share control rights to a daemon by both root and another user

2009-02-08 Thread zhangweiwu
Me as root user of a server wish to share the control privilege (to start and stop) a daemon with another non-root user and find it difficult. The requirement: 1) either me or him can start the daemon then stop it; 2) he can stop the daemon started by me; 3) I can stop the daemon started by him.

Re: [gentoo-user] SecurDisc Software ?

2009-02-08 Thread Yannick Mortier
2009/2/7 meino.cra...@gmx.de: Hi, is there any open sourced software, with which I can use the SecurDisc funtionality of my LG HL-DST DVD-RAM GH22NP20 DVD burner ? Thank you very much in advance for any help! Have a nice weekend! :) mcc This is some Nero-specific feature that was

Re: [gentoo-user] share control rights to a daemon by both root and another user

2009-02-08 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am Sonntag, den 08.02.2009, 23:59 +0800 schrieb zhangwe...@realss.com: Me as root user of a server wish to share the control privilege (to start and stop) a daemon with another non-root user and find it difficult. The requirement: 1) either me or him can start the daemon then stop it; 2) he

[gentoo-user] [OT] Sendmail and Comcast

2009-02-08 Thread Mick
Hi All, If any of you guys has a working sendmail configuration with Comcast I would be grateful if you could share off list. Although I have followed the instructions detailed here (except for the masquerade options) I cannot get it to work: http://www.linuxha.com/other/sendmail/ After a

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Sendmail and Comcast

2009-02-08 Thread Harry Putnam
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: Hi All, If any of you guys has a working sendmail configuration with Comcast I would be grateful if you could share off list. Although I have followed the instructions detailed here (except for the masquerade options) I cannot get it to work:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard disk power save

2009-02-08 Thread Stroller
On 8 Feb 2009, at 13:39, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 8 Feb 2009 11:51:00 +0200, Danis Petkakis wrote: ok thank you for your response...will do as suggested... The suggestion was not to top-post... He was replying to one of my messages, and I did not suggest that. I was actually slightly

Re: [gentoo-user] share control rights to a daemon by both root and another user

2009-02-08 Thread zhangweiwu
Daniel Troeder schrieb: Hello :) You can use app-admin/sudo to achieve your goal. It can be configured to allow certain users to execute certain commands as other users (possibly root). You can even restrict the allowed arguments to a command. Hi. Thanks for that suggestion. I am thinking I

[gentoo-user] mit kerberos running on Gentoo Linux

2009-02-08 Thread zhangweiwu
Dear all. I've installed mit version of kerberos V on my Gentoo Linux through the package repository (called portage in Gentoo). krlogin works but krsh strangely quit with a message I don't understand: zhangwe...@esmeralda:~$ krlogin emerson.realss.com Last login: Fri Feb 6 14:09:47 from

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard disk power save

2009-02-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 01:37:00 +, Stroller wrote: ok thank you for your response...will do as suggested... The suggestion was not to top-post... He was replying to one of my messages, and I did not suggest that. No, although the response was will do as suggested not will do as you

[gentoo-user] Time keeper app for KDE 4.2

2009-02-08 Thread Hung Dang
Hi all I know that there is an option in GNOME which allows the computer keyboard, mouse and screen to freeze for a certain time for example 3 minutes for each hour. I wonder if there is something similar in KDE? Thanks Hung

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard disk power save

2009-02-08 Thread Stroller
On 9 Feb 2009, at 02:30, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 01:37:00 +, Stroller wrote: ok thank you for your response...will do as suggested... The suggestion was not to top-post... He was replying to one of my messages, and I did not suggest that. No, although the response

[gentoo-user] Permissions of /etc/sudoers

2009-02-08 Thread Stroller
Hi there, I'm just in the process of setting up my lovely new system :D, in the very first post-install steps. I install sudo, give my user wide sudo rights and then set PermitRootLogin no in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. (Critique of this measure welcomed). Anyway, as root I started to edit

Re: [gentoo-user] Permissions of /etc/sudoers

2009-02-08 Thread Michael Hentsch
Stroller schrieb: Hi there, I'm just in the process of setting up my lovely new system :D, in the very first post-install steps. I install sudo, give my user wide sudo rights and then set PermitRootLogin no in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. (Critique of this measure welcomed). Anyway, as root I

[gentoo-user] Using root=LABEL=xxxx in grub.conf

2009-02-08 Thread Stroller
Hi there, Is anyone using root=LABEL= grub.conf, please? Anyone also using ext4 for their root? I can find numerous references to this syntax going back to 2005 or so, and some major distros seem to use it as the default way of describing root= to the kernel.

Re: [gentoo-user] Using root=LABEL=xxxx in grub.conf

2009-02-08 Thread Dale
Stroller wrote: Hi there, Is anyone using root=LABEL= grub.conf, please? Anyone also using ext4 for their root? I can find numerous references to this syntax going back to 2005 or so, and some major distros seem to use it as the default way of describing root= to the kernel.

Re: [gentoo-user] Using root=LABEL=xxxx in grub.conf

2009-02-08 Thread Stroller
On 9 Feb 2009, at 07:42, Dale wrote: Stroller wrote: ... strol...@hex ~ $ sudo mount -v -L boot /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw,noatime) strol...@hex ~ $ ... You may have done this but just in case, you did use the tools to set the label on the drive right? tune2fs does it for ext2