Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with script calling OOCalc on amd64

2010-03-17 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 16 March 2010 07:40:04 Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: What does xterm -fg green -bg black -e 'gpg Personal/data.ods.gpg;echo $?' tell you? It doesn't return anything on the terminal I launch it from, but decrypts the file in an xterm and then closes it (the xterm). So the gpg part works

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

2010-03-17 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 01:17:58AM +, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 16 March 2010 17:33:13 Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: usually always look to see if ... Sorry, but I'm having terrible trouble parsing this expression. -- Rgds Peter. Haha, no wonder. In the initial reply I

Re: [gentoo-user] Strategy for using SAN/NAS for storage with Gentoo...

2010-03-17 Thread Steve
Keith Dart wrote: I recommend setting up your server hardware on a decent mini-PC with server grade disks and installing openfiler. The openfiler uses XFS for local storage and exports NFS and CIFS (and iSCSI if you want that). http://www.openfiler.com/ It is based on rpath linux and uses a

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/net.ra0 is not bringing up the interface?

2010-03-17 Thread Tony Miller
Well it was working, then I wanted to add this to my /etc/conf.d/net: essid_ra0=( my essid ) Now the same problem is happening again, any advice? Nothing else in my /etc/conf.d/net except for this: sleep_scan_ra0=5 config_ra0=( dhcp ) On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Tony Miller

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:50:42 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: It is? In that case I don't know how I've managed with Linux since 1993 without it. That's what everyone who hasn't used screen says, I said the same. There are those that use screen and those that haven't tried it, I've yet to meet

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-17 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:50:42 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: It is? In that case I don't know how I've managed with Linux since 1993 without it. That's what everyone who hasn't used screen says, I said the same. There are those that use screen and those that

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with script calling OOCalc on amd64

2010-03-17 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
ok. I didn't realize that oocalc actually executed in your first attempt. Out of ideas then. FWIW - a few guesses: I'd execute oocalc under strace, and try to find what is killing oocalc (does it decide to exit, or is it sent some signal). If your suspecting xterm to be the culprit (i.e., yr

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about Seamonkey and a test.

2010-03-17 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 04:06:56AM -0500, Dale wrote: Hi, I just gave Seamonkey a fresh start. Now I have a question. I had the old set up so that when I opened Seamonkey, it would start both the browser and email. Now it only starts the browser. I remember it was in the preferences

[gentoo-user] Re: Question about Seamonkey and a test.

2010-03-17 Thread Hartmut Figge
Dale: I just gave Seamonkey a fresh start. Now I have a question. I had the old set up so that when I opened Seamonkey, it would start both the browser and email. Now it only starts the browser. I remember it was in the preferences somewhere but I can't find it for the life of me. Check

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng filtering

2010-03-17 Thread Fred Leon
Ralph Slooten axll...@gmail.com a écrit : On 17 March 2010 13:00, Roy Wright r...@wright.org wrote: I just started with the example at: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Syslog-ng HTH, Roy Thanks Roy, however they have the same syntax which isn't working on my side. filter f_shorewall { not

[gentoo-user] Question about Seamonkey and a test.

2010-03-17 Thread Dale
Hi, I just gave Seamonkey a fresh start. Now I have a question. I had the old set up so that when I opened Seamonkey, it would start both the browser and email. Now it only starts the browser. I remember it was in the preferences somewhere but I can't find it for the life of me. Does

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about Seamonkey and a test.

2010-03-17 Thread Dale
Hartmut Figge wrote: Dale: I just gave Seamonkey a fresh start. Now I have a question. I had the old set up so that when I opened Seamonkey, it would start both the browser and email. Now it only starts the browser. I remember it was in the preferences somewhere but I can't find it for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about Seamonkey and a test.

2010-03-17 Thread stosss
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 6:04 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hartmut Figge wrote: Dale: I just gave Seamonkey a fresh start.  Now I have a question.  I had the old set up so that when I opened Seamonkey, it would start both the browser and email.  Now it only starts the browser.  I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about Seamonkey and a test.

2010-03-17 Thread Dale
stosss wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 6:04 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hartmut Figge wrote: Dale: I just gave Seamonkey a fresh start. Now I have a question. I had the old set up so that when I opened Seamonkey, it would start both the browser and email. Now it

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 17 March 2010 08:46:36 Dale wrote: You really need to check out screen Peter. I'd be glad to help with the basics of it. That's a generous offer, Dale. I may take you up on it... -- Rgds Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about Seamonkey and a test.

2010-03-17 Thread stosss
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: stosss wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 6:04 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com  wrote: Hartmut Figge wrote: Dale: I just gave Seamonkey a fresh start.  Now I have a question.  I had the old set up so that when I opened

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng filtering

2010-03-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 17 March 2010 01:22:59 Ralph Slooten wrote: Hi all, Has anyone here worked out how to filter out syslog messages using syslog-ng v3? The old syntax doesn't work (well complains bitterly about performance and says to use regex), and no matter what I try I cannot get the new

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about Seamonkey and a test.

2010-03-17 Thread Dale
stosss wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I think I have it set up on the gmail server to do whatever Seamonkey says. Then I have to set up Seamonkey to send text only to gentoo.org and kde.org . Those are the two mailing lists I regularly reply to.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about Seamonkey and a test.

2010-03-17 Thread stosss
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 6:51 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: stosss wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com  wrote: I think I have it set up on the gmail server to do whatever Seamonkey says.  Then I have to set up Seamonkey to send text only to gentoo.org and

[gentoo-user] Re: syslog-ng filtering

2010-03-17 Thread Robert Fekete
That's right, the value() parameter specifies which part of the message to check. This helps to cut down the performance cost of filtering, because there is no need to process the entire message if you are filtering on the program name, for example. Also, check the syslog-ng Administrator Guide

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about Seamonkey and a test.

2010-03-17 Thread Dale
stosss wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 6:51 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: stosss wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.comwrote: I think I have it set up on the gmail server to do whatever Seamonkey says. Then I have to set up Seamonkey to

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

2010-03-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 04:59 -0500, Dale wrote: If that don't work, I may go to Firefox, which is installed anyway, and Thunderbird. From what I have read I can transfer the emails and such over from there since they are set up like Seamonkey. That's my understanding at least. I could be

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

2010-03-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 08:56 +0100, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 01:17:58AM +, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 16 March 2010 17:33:13 Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: usually always look to see if ... Sorry, but I'm having terrible trouble parsing this

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strategy for using SAN/NAS for storage with Gentoo...

2010-03-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 09:37 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: There was talk of opensolaris going by the wayside with the Oracle takeover of Sun... but Oracle has since announced its intention of puttin even more resources into `opensolaris' development than Sun was doing. that will kill it for

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

2010-03-17 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:28:16PM +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 08:56 +0100, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 01:17:58AM +, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 16 March 2010 17:33:13 Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: usually always look to see if

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

2010-03-17 Thread Dale
Iain Buchanan wrote: On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 04:59 -0500, Dale wrote: If that don't work, I may go to Firefox, which is installed anyway, and Thunderbird. From what I have read I can transfer the emails and such over from there since they are set up like Seamonkey. That's my understanding

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

2010-03-17 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 02:05:12PM +0100, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: I don't see any need for excuses, it sounds like fine common English to me, with the possible exception of a run-on if. The full sentence was I usually always look to see if Dale has been involved in a thread if HAL

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync backup system

2010-03-17 Thread Ward Poelmans
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 17:11, Ward Poelmans wpoel...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 16:41, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: A much better way is to run a dedicated agent on the client. If the server needs to schedule backups, it can ask the agent to do so using regular

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng filtering

2010-03-17 Thread Ralph Slooten
Fantastic, you hit the nail right on the head! Works like a charm now. Now I'm wondering how it is you found out that it was this way and not the other? Robert maintains the documentation for rsync which I did look at, but with 225 pages I wasn't able to find this useful piece of information. Man

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng filtering

2010-03-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 17 March 2010 22:16:20 Ralph Slooten wrote: Fantastic, you hit the nail right on the head! Works like a charm now. Now I'm wondering how it is you found out that it was this way and not the other? Robert maintains the documentation for rsync which I did look at, but with 225

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about Seamonkey and a test.

2010-03-17 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 17.03.2010 12:21, schrieb Dale: stosss wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 6:51 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: stosss wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.comwrote: [...] I assume that is what you are talking about. I have not been able

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng filtering

2010-03-17 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Thu, 03/18, Ralph Slooten wrote: === Maybe I'm the idiot here, however I thought that this was a common way of getting rid of unwanted crud from the syslog? === Probably the best method is to not send it there in the first place. For example, the script run by cron,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strategy for using SAN/NAS for storage with Gentoo...

2010-03-17 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 16.03.2010 22:26, schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:13:29 +, Stroller wrote: How does your system boot if your RAID1 system volume fails? You put GRUB on both disks, then you can boot from either on its own. Is this reliable? I don't contest it, I'm just asking.

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/net.ra0 is not bringing up the interface?

2010-03-17 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 17 March 2010 08:24:07 Tony Miller wrote: Well it was working, then I wanted to add this to my /etc/conf.d/net: essid_ra0=( my essid ) Now the same problem is happening again, any advice? Yes, first please try not to top post because it messes up the natural flow of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about Seamonkey and a test.

2010-03-17 Thread Dale
Florian Philipp wrote: I've never tried it but couldn't you just create a filter in Seamonkey which copies all mails in 'Sent Items' to your inbox which where sent to a mailing list (Extras - Filter ...)? Also, at least in Thunderbird, you can set the 'Sent Items' folder for each account and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strategy for using SAN/NAS for storage with Gentoo...

2010-03-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:44:34 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: Just for clarification: Is it really necessary to unplug the broken disk for this to work? If read access fails on sda and the BIOS tries sdb, would this also work? Isn't grub's hd0 always the disk on which grub resides (e.g. the

[gentoo-user] Re: Question about Seamonkey and a test.

2010-03-17 Thread Hartmut Figge
Dale: The biggest problem with that is that the first message I send doesn't thread properly. So basically anyone who responds just appears out of nowhere. If I send a new message to this list and two people respond, it is two separate threads. Which is sometimes confusing. I usually tag

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about Seamonkey and a test.

2010-03-17 Thread Dale
Hartmut Figge wrote: Dale: The biggest problem with that is that the first message I send doesn't thread properly. So basically anyone who responds just appears out of nowhere. If I send a new message to this list and two people respond, it is two separate threads. Which is sometimes

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng filtering

2010-03-17 Thread Ralph Slooten
On 18 March 2010 09:40, Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz wrote: You can comment that out and then those annoying run-cron entries won't be logged. Yes, dropping those entries on the client side is an option, however then I have to do it for each client in the network. Doing it on the server

Re: [gentoo-user] (EE) XKB: No components provided for device Virtual core keyboard

2010-03-17 Thread Leandro Boscariol
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 18:38, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 16 March 2010 16:35:09 Leandro Boscariol wrote: Hi Mick. On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 19:26, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 12 March 2010 19:37:33 Leandro Boscariol wrote: Hi guys.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about Seamonkey and a test.

2010-03-17 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mittwoch 17 März 2010 schrieb Dale: I only want plain text to the mailing lists and html for everyone else. I send pics and other things to other folks. Ya don’t need HTML for that. ;-) I have even seen mails that were multiparted plain-text, i.e. text, image attachment, text,

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with script calling OOCalc on amd64

2010-03-17 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 17 March 2010 09:15:17 Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: ok. I didn't realize that oocalc actually executed in your first attempt. Out of ideas then. FWIW - a few guesses: I'd execute oocalc under strace, and try to find what is killing oocalc (does it decide to exit, or is it sent some

Re: [gentoo-user] (EE) XKB: No components provided for device Virtual core keyboard

2010-03-17 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 17 March 2010 22:20:12 Leandro Boscariol wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 18:38, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: What does 'cat /etc/env.d/90xsession' show? If nothing, then create it and add to it: XSESSION=fluxbox None existed. Created it. Tried kdm, kde, kde4,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about Seamonkey and a test.

2010-03-17 Thread stosss
On Wednesday, March 17, 2010, Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote: Am Mittwoch 17 März 2010 schrieb Dale: I only want plain text to the mailing lists and html for everyone else.  I send pics and other things to other folks. Ya don’t need HTML for that. ;-) I have even seen mails that

[gentoo-user] top does not save settings

2010-03-17 Thread Mick
This is another little nuisance that I have noticed on this new amd64 laptop: In an aterm I launch top. Then press z c and Shift+W. I get: Wrote configuration to '/home/michael/.toprc' Fine I think, Ctrl+c to end it and move on. Next time I fire up top, even from the same terminal,

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

2010-03-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 10:25 -0400, Willie Wong wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 02:05:12PM +0100, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: I don't see any need for excuses, it sounds like fine common English to me, with the possible exception of a run-on if. I meant to use the word apology instead of

[gentoo-user] Re: Udev error and how to fix it.

2010-03-17 Thread walt
On 03/17/2010 05:29 PM, Iain Buchanan wrote: ...That's why we have programming languages, because English is too forgiving and fuzzy! By George, I think you've got it. From now on, all political campaign speeches should be written in C. Well, okay, maybe in COBOL for the older ones.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with script calling OOCalc on amd64

2010-03-17 Thread Dan Wallis
On 16 March 2010 12:41, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have run into a problem which I cannot explain.  I am trying to run this script in a amd64 installation: xterm -fg green -bg black -e 'gpg Personal/data.ods.gpg oocalc \ Personal/data.ods; shred --remove -z -v