[gentoo-user] Re: Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-06 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Thursday 06 January 2011, Dale wrote: Francesco Talamona wrote: On Wednesday 05 January 2011, Dale wrote: Now on my old system, it would adjust the drift file and the adjustments would get smaller and smaller. On the new rig, as you can see it stays about the same. I would like it

Re: [gentoo-user] The pound sign SOLVED

2011-01-06 Thread Mike
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 10:31:17PM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: different fonts maybe? Turns out after some more research that it was that the locale was not set. Mike. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with eix-test-obsolete

2011-01-06 Thread Vaeth
Lately it seems that eix disregards the content of /etc/portage/package.keywords.nowarn From the ChangeLog: *eix-0.22.1 [...] - use /etc/portage/package.nowarn instead of /etc/portage/package.*.nowarn; the latter is now obsolete. If you want continue to use it, set

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-06 Thread Dale
Francesco Talamona wrote: On Thursday 06 January 2011, Dale wrote: Francesco Talamona wrote: On Wednesday 05 January 2011, Dale wrote: Now on my old system, it would adjust the drift file and the adjustments would get smaller and smaller. On the new rig, as you can see it

[gentoo-user] Re: Help with eix-test-obsolete

2011-01-06 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Thursday 06 January 2011, Vaeth wrote: Lately it seems that eix disregards the content of /etc/portage/package.keywords.nowarn From the ChangeLog: *eix-0.22.1 [...] - use /etc/portage/package.nowarn instead of /etc/portage/package.*.nowarn; the latter is now obsolete. If

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: New Install Problems with X

2011-01-06 Thread KIM WHALEN
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 6:25 PM, walt wrote: On 01/05/2011 06:41 AM, KIM WHALEN wrote: On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:56 AM, walt wrote: On 01/04/2011 08:10 AM, KIM WHALEN wrote: I'm trying to do a new install on an amd64 box and there are a lot of problems somewhere between X, Gnome, and the

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: New Install Problems with X

2011-01-06 Thread KIM WHALEN
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 1:38 PM, KIM WHALEN wrote: On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 6:25 PM, walt wrote: On 01/05/2011 06:41 AM, KIM WHALEN wrote: On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:56 AM, walt wrote: On 01/04/2011 08:10 AM, KIM WHALEN wrote: I'm trying to do a new install on an amd64 box and there are a lot

[gentoo-user] Re: Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-06 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Thursday 06 January 2011, Dale wrote: I deleted the /etc/adjtime but it has not been recreated. What creates this file? I deleted it a couple days ago and nothing has brought it back yet. /sbin/hwclock --systohc does. What happens in the long run if you don't run any synchronization

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-06 Thread kashani
On 1/5/2011 12:04 AM, Thanasis wrote: I think you should prefer openntpd over ntpd, because I think openntpd is developed by openbsd, which means more secure ... I tried openntp a couple years ago. It was a giant pain in the ass. IIRC it was combination of crap defaults, poor docs, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 06 Jan 2011 11:31:30 -0600, Dale wrote: Well, I tried openntp for a good while last night and it was worse than ntp. It was adjusting the clock by something like 20 seconds at a time. Even ntp wasn't that bad. ntpd won't shift the clock by too much at a time. If your clock is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-06 Thread Jacob Todd
The only thing I have changed with openntp is in /etc/ntpd.conf, I added `listen on *`, maybe a few servers and in /etc/conf.d/ntpd or whatever it's called, I added `-s` to OPTIONS. I've been using that on a server for a year and my laptops for over two. I've had no problems with syncing.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-06 Thread Thanasis
on 01/06/2011 07:31 PM Dale wrote the following: Well, I tried openntp for a good while last night and it was worse than ntp. It was adjusting the clock by something like 20 seconds at a time. That's probably because you didn't put -s in the start up options in /etc/conf.d/ntpd: # See

Re: [gentoo-user] Slotted PHP behavior

2011-01-06 Thread Grant
But watch out -- after the eselect, you'll need to move your php.ini from e.g. /etc/php/apache2 to /etc/php/apache2-php5.3. Here I get confused.  I believe a development version of php.ini was installed to /etc/php/apache2-php5.3/php.ini.  It included a development value for error_reporting

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-06 Thread Dale
Francesco Talamona wrote: On Thursday 06 January 2011, Dale wrote: I deleted the /etc/adjtime but it has not been recreated. What creates this file? I deleted it a couple days ago and nothing has brought it back yet. /sbin/hwclock --systohc does. What happens in the long run if

[gentoo-user] Re: New Install Problems with X

2011-01-06 Thread walt
On 01/06/2011 10:43 AM, KIM WHALEN wrote: Sorry, I did # echo =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-177.0.0 /etc/portage/package.mask first Good, you're now trying to install the correct version. then tried it again and got the following error. Your kernel was configured to include nvidiafb

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: New Install Problems with X

2011-01-06 Thread KIM WHALEN
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 3:02 PM, walt wrote: On 01/06/2011 10:43 AM, KIM WHALEN wrote: Sorry, I did # echo =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-177.0.0 /etc/portage/package.mask first Good, you're now trying to install the correct version. then tried it again and got the following error. Your

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-06 Thread Dale
Jacob Todd wrote: The only thing I have changed with openntp is in /etc/ntpd.conf, I added `listen on *`, maybe a few servers and in /etc/conf.d/ntpd or whatever it's called, I added `-s` to OPTIONS. I've been using that on a server for a year and my laptops for over two. I've had no

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-06 Thread Dale
kashani wrote: On 1/5/2011 12:04 AM, Thanasis wrote: I think you should prefer openntpd over ntpd, because I think openntpd is developed by openbsd, which means more secure ... I tried openntp a couple years ago. It was a giant pain in the ass. IIRC it was combination of crap defaults,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New Install Problems with X

2011-01-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 06 January 2011 20:10:15 KIM WHALEN wrote: On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 3:02 PM, walt wrote: On 01/06/2011 10:43 AM, KIM WHALEN wrote: Sorry, I did # echo =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-177.0.0 /etc/portage/package.mask first Good, you're now trying to install the correct

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New Install Problems with X

2011-01-06 Thread KIM WHALEN
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Thursday 06 January 2011 20:10:15 KIM WHALEN wrote: On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 3:02 PM, walt wrote: On 01/06/2011 10:43 AM, KIM WHALEN wrote: Sorry, I did # echo =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-177.0.0 /etc/portage/package.mask first

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New Install Problems with X

2011-01-06 Thread Jake Moe
On 01/07/11 09:51, KIM WHALEN wrote: On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Thursday 06 January 2011 20:10:15 KIM WHALEN wrote: On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 3:02 PM, walt wrote: On 01/06/2011 10:43 AM, KIM WHALEN wrote: Sorry, I did # echo

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-06 Thread William Kenworthy
On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 14:46 -0600, Dale wrote: kashani wrote: On 1/5/2011 12:04 AM, Thanasis wrote: I think you should prefer openntpd over ntpd, because I think openntpd is developed by openbsd, which means more secure ... I tried openntp a couple years ago. It was a giant pain

[gentoo-user] Re: pdf -gt; txt

2011-01-06 Thread James
meino.cramer at gmx.de writes: I want to convert a couple of pdf-documents, which are of test and ASCIIbased tables, to pure text (ASCII, vim-editable ;) ). app-text/pdftk http://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/ Is very cool for all things PDF on linux. hth, James

[gentoo-user] More locale oddness

2011-01-06 Thread Stroller
Hi there, Can anyone else reproduce this, please, or tell me what behaviour is expected? $ locale LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_NAME=en_GB.UTF-8

Re: [gentoo-user] More locale oddness

2011-01-06 Thread Dale
Stroller wrote: Hi there, Can anyone else reproduce this, please, or tell me what behaviour is expected? $ locale LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New Install Problems with X

2011-01-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 06 January 2011 23:51:38 KIM WHALEN wrote: I made the kernel with the nvidia driver as a module and the emerge x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers worked. However, running Xorg -configure still fails. you don't even need that. cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section ServerLayout

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-06 Thread Dale
William Kenworthy wrote: Dale, can you post (a sanitised) version of what 'ntpq -p' gives after ntpd has been running for some time, and the sanitised result of 'ntptrace. Also include your full (sanitised) ntp.conf and /etc/conf.d/ntpd. This might help us see more detail of what is

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-06 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 14:31:52 Dale wrote: William Kenworthy wrote: Dale, can you post (a sanitised) version of what 'ntpq -p' gives after ntpd has been running for some time, and the sanitised result of 'ntptrace. Also include your full (sanitised) ntp.conf and /etc/conf.d/ntpd. This

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-06 Thread Dale
Paul Colquhoun wrote: On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 14:31:52 Dale wrote: This is ntp.conf but I omitted the parts that are commented out. server 64.6.144.6 server 67.159.5.90 server 67.59.168.233 server 204.62.14.98 Have you tried switching servers? I'm using server 0.au.pool.ntp.org

Re: [gentoo-user] More locale oddness

2011-01-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 03:49 on Friday 07 January 2011, Stroller did opine thusly: Hi there, Can anyone else reproduce this, please, or tell me what behaviour is expected? $ locale LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New Install Problems with X

2011-01-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 22:10 on Thursday 06 January 2011, KIM WHALEN did opine thusly: On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 3:02 PM, walt wrote: On 01/06/2011 10:43 AM, KIM WHALEN wrote: Sorry, I did # echo =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-177.0.0 /etc/portage/package.mask first Good,