Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth is impossible

2010-01-27 Thread Stroller
On 26 Jan 2010, at 01:00, Grant wrote: ... You mentioned that the headset's PIN can't be changed. Couldn't anybody pair with it if they enter ? They can't because you have to hold the button down to initiate the pairing process. Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up system time caused messed up file modification times...

2010-01-27 Thread Stroller
On 25 Jan 2010, at 20:12, Kyle Bader wrote: This is rather blunt but... Find / -name *|xargs touch I am pleased to award you, on behalf of the gentoo-users mailing list, a golden prize for this year's most redundant use of wildcards in a command line. Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] [footnote] The purpose of pam

2010-01-27 Thread Stroller
On 27 Jan 2010, at 00:34, walt wrote: ... After thinking awhile I realized that pam can be used to combine muliple forms of authentication to reduce the well documented risk of single-factor authentication (like our traditional password system). ... Any sysadmins out there that can confirm my

Re: [gentoo-user] deleting virtual cd in usb hard disc

2010-01-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:49:23 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: Why would you want to do that? The virtual CD is not taking up any space on the disk oRly? Toshiba used to sell USB keys that came built in with a cd (or hd?) partition that you couldn't get rid of but it took up space. They

Re: [gentoo-user] deleting virtual cd in usb hard disc

2010-01-27 Thread Stroller
On 26 Jan 2010, at 20:54, Paul Hartman wrote: ... I don't think it is possible to remove it. Disks with this kind of helpful stuff are annoying because of violating corporate policies, being seen as non-hdd by some devices that accept external hard drives (like a dvr, media center etc). It

Re: [gentoo-user] [footnote] The purpose of pam

2010-01-27 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 04:34:56PM -0800, walt wrote: After thinking awhile I realized that pam can be used to combine muliple forms of authentication to reduce the well documented risk of single-factor authentication (like our traditional password system). Example: if I have an ordinary

Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth is impossible

2010-01-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:33:57 +, Stroller wrote: You mentioned that the headset's PIN can't be changed. Couldn't anybody pair with it if they enter ? They can't because you have to hold the button down to initiate the pairing process. Even if they could, what's the point? It

Re: [gentoo-user] deleting virtual cd in usb hard disc

2010-01-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:24:52 +, Stroller wrote: It should be mentioned that these virtual CDs can be immensely useful if your operating system doesn't ship with drivers for the unit - think home users of Windows. The virtual drive appears as a standard CD drive, supported by all

[gentoo-user] slightly ot: amd64, thunderbird 3.0.1: lightning ?

2010-01-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
I am looking for a working version of the lightning-addon for thunderbird 3.0.1 on gentoo amd64 ... The version in portage doesn't work, the mozilla-overlay does not contain a more recent release and my googling also lead me to some downloads which can't be installed. Do you gentoo-users know

[gentoo-user] how to get edid info. for monitors in gentoo amd64

2010-01-27 Thread Xi Shen
hi, my system is gentoo amd64. i want to get the edid info. for my monitor. the read-edid package would do this, but it only works in 32bit env. do we have a alternative way to get the edid info. in a 64bit env.? -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/

Re: [gentoo-user] how to get edid info. for monitors in gentoo amd64

2010-01-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 27 Januar 2010, Xi Shen wrote: hi, my system is gentoo amd64. i want to get the edid info. for my monitor. the read-edid package would do this, but it only works in 32bit env. do we have a alternative way to get the edid info. in a 64bit env.? lm_sensors-2.XY ---

[gentoo-user] How to get a backtrace from a core dump?

2010-01-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I need to get a backtrace from a core dump file. I followed the instructions here: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml I added -g to CFLAGS and splitdebug to FEATURES and built the application with those new setting (that would be media-sound/lmms in this case.) I then did

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get a backtrace from a core dump?

2010-01-27 Thread Steffen Loos
Nikos Chantziaras schrieb: I need to get a backtrace from a core dump file. I followed the instructions here: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml I added -g to CFLAGS and splitdebug to FEATURES and built the application with those new setting (that would be media-sound/lmms in

Re: [gentoo-user] how to get edid info. for monitors in gentoo amd64

2010-01-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:12:34 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: my system is gentoo amd64. i want to get the edid info. for my monitor. the read-edid package would do this, but it only works in 32bit env. What makes you think that? The read-edid package is amd64 keyworded and works fine here. -- Neil

[gentoo-user] Re: How to get a backtrace from a core dump?

2010-01-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/27/2010 04:58 PM, Steffen Loos wrote: Nikos Chantziaras schrieb: I need to get a backtrace from a core dump file. I followed the instructions here: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml I added -g to CFLAGS and splitdebug to FEATURES and built the application with those new

[gentoo-user] shutdown: device and target are missing

2010-01-27 Thread Jarry
Hi, I noticed one strange message when doing full shutdown. It appears at the very end, before turning computer off: ... * Stopping fcron ... [ ok ] * Stopping syslog-ng ... [ ok ] * Terminating remaining processes ...

Re: [gentoo-user] how to get edid info. for monitors in gentoo amd64

2010-01-27 Thread Neil Walker
Neil Bothwick wrote: my system is gentoo amd64. i want to get the edid info. for my monitor. the read-edid package would do this, but it only works in 32bit env. What makes you think that? The read-edid package is amd64 keyworded and works fine here. get-edid is not installed on

Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth is impossible

2010-01-27 Thread Grant
You mentioned that the headset's PIN can't be changed.  Couldn't anybody pair with it if they enter ? They can't because you have to hold the button down to initiate the pairing process. Even if they could, what's the point? It would only mean that you would be able to make and

Re: [gentoo-user] slightly ot: amd64, thunderbird 3.0.1: lightning ?

2010-01-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 6:57 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: I am looking for a working version of the lightning-addon for thunderbird 3.0.1 on gentoo amd64 ... The version in portage doesn't work, the mozilla-overlay does not contain a more recent release and my googling also

Re: [gentoo-user] slightly ot: amd64, thunderbird 3.0.1: lightning ?

2010-01-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 27.01.2010 20:30, schrieb Paul Hartman: Enable the lightning USE flag on Thunderbird. No need to manually emerge the separate package. oh my ... must have been blind ... I really looked for that but didn't see it sorry. Thanks ... emerge up and running already. Stefan

Re: [gentoo-user] how to get edid info. for monitors in gentoo amd64

2010-01-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:16:56 +, Neil Walker wrote: What makes you think that? The read-edid package is amd64 keyworded and works fine here. get-edid is not installed on non-x86 platforms, only parse-edid. % emerge --info Portage 2.2_rc61

Re: [gentoo-user] [footnote] The purpose of pam

2010-01-27 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 27 January 2010 11:01:52 Willie Wong wrote: On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 04:34:56PM -0800, walt wrote: After thinking awhile I realized that pam can be used to combine muliple forms of authentication to reduce the well documented risk of single-factor authentication (like our

Re: [gentoo-user] slightly ot: amd64, thunderbird 3.0.1: lightning ?

2010-01-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 27.01.2010 20:30, schrieb Paul Hartman: Enable the lightning USE flag on Thunderbird. No need to manually emerge the separate package. oh my ... must have been blind ... I really looked for that but didn't see it

Re: [gentoo-user] how to get edid info. for monitors in gentoo amd64

2010-01-27 Thread Neil Walker
Neil Bothwick wrote: % emerge --info Portage 2.2_rc61 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.2, glibc-2.11-r1, 2.6.32-gentoo-r2 x86_64) % qlist read-edid /usr/share/man/man1/get-edid.1.bz2 /usr/share/man/man1/parse-edid.1.bz2

Re: [gentoo-user] how to get edid info. for monitors in gentoo amd64

2010-01-27 Thread Beau Henderson
Neil Walker wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: my system is gentoo amd64. i want to get the edid info. for my monitor. the read-edid package would do this, but it only works in 32bit env. What makes you think that? The read-edid package is amd64 keyworded and works fine here. get-edid is

Re: [gentoo-user] deleting virtual cd in usb hard disc

2010-01-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 09:49 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: But it's not, not once you eject the virtual CD. Is it really worth bricking your hardware and invalidating the warranty to get rid of something that disappears after a couple of microseconds anyway? sorry, you're asking the wrong guy

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get a backtrace from a core dump?

2010-01-27 Thread meino . cramer
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de [10-01-27 17:09]: I need to get a backtrace from a core dump file. I followed the instructions here: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml I added -g to CFLAGS and splitdebug to FEATURES and built the application with those new setting

[gentoo-user] Re: How to get a backtrace from a core dump?

2010-01-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/28/2010 01:22 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de [10-01-27 17:09]: I need to get a backtrace from a core dump file. I followed the instructions here: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml I added -g to CFLAGS and splitdebug to FEATURES and

Re: [gentoo-user] how to get edid info. for monitors in gentoo amd64

2010-01-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:58:21 +, Neil Walker wrote: The stable version (keyworded amd64, as you said) does not install get-edid. Try reading the Changelog. I was referring to amd64 in general, as opposed to x86; I made no mention of stable or testing builds. And the OP said that it

Re: [gentoo-user] deleting virtual cd in usb hard disc

2010-01-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:42:45 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: But it's not, not once you eject the virtual CD. Is it really worth bricking your hardware and invalidating the warranty to get rid of something that disappears after a couple of microseconds anyway? sorry, you're asking the

Re: [gentoo-user] how to get edid info. for monitors in gentoo amd64

2010-01-27 Thread Neil Walker
Neil Bothwick wrote: I was referring to amd64 in general, as opposed to x86; I made no mention of stable or testing builds. It might have been what you were thinking but it wasn't what you said. Remember, some people are very uncomfortable with testing ebuilds. Be lucky, Neil

Re: [gentoo-user] how to get edid info. for monitors in gentoo amd64

2010-01-27 Thread Xi Shen
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Neil Walker n...@ep.mine.nu wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: I was referring to amd64 in general, as opposed to x86; I made no mention of stable or testing builds. It might have been what you were thinking but it wasn't what you said. Remember, some people are

[gentoo-user] Error in Emerge

2010-01-27 Thread Konstantinos Bekiaris
I get the following error from emerge. The same happens when I try to emerge -uDN world. I can't update anything. * Messages for package dev-lang/perl-5.8.8-r8: * ERROR: dev-lang/perl-5.8.8-r8 failed: * Unable to configure * * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 54: Called src_compile

Re: [gentoo-user] Which IPSEC to go?

2010-01-27 Thread kashani
On 1/24/2010 1:38 PM, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: Hi, since I am a while out of the game of doing ipsec with Linux: What's the way to go? Strongswan/Openswan or ipsec-tools for kame/racoon. Emerge -p gave me some ~ for ipsec-tools while openswan goes without. Any input welcome. I need this

Re: [gentoo-user] Which IPSEC to go?

2010-01-27 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
kashani wrote: On 1/24/2010 1:38 PM, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: Hi, since I am a while out of the game of doing ipsec with Linux: What's the way to go? Strongswan/Openswan or ipsec-tools for kame/racoon. Emerge -p gave me some ~ for ipsec-tools while openswan goes without. Any input