Re: [gentoo-user] Is my data gone?

2010-04-30 Thread lee
Stroller wrote: On 29 Apr 2010, at 23:53, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 30 April 2010 00:43:41 dhk wrote: While setting up a new disk I accidentally ran mke2fs /dev/sda1 instead of mke2fs /dev/hda1. When I realized the mistake (about 2 seconds later) I hit Ctrl-C before mke2fs was done. Now

Re: [gentoo-user] Which tool to diagnose wireless connection problem?

2012-10-11 Thread Lee
On Oct 11, 2012 10:25 AM, Chris Stankevitz chrisstankev...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I never really understood wireless in linux, it has always just worked. I use wicd although I don't really even know what that means. I have no clue what is a wpa supplicant, ndis, etc. I now have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-04-03 Thread Lee
And if it's confusing for the 'bit jockeys' on this mailing list what do you think will be the effect on the casual user? This could have been handled better, imho. What happened to that documentation mojo Gentoo is known for? The post-install notes are a real head scratcher. On Apr 3, 2013 9:40

Re: [gentoo-user] cupsd (localhost:631) trouble

2013-09-03 Thread Lee
Just a shot in the dark, but have u tried printer mgmt from hp-setup instead of cups? There is an ASCII alternative to the qt interface included in hplips. On Sep 3, 2013 5:01 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On a reboot the cups main page appears in firefox (it is the plain, non-qt version, which I

Re: [gentoo-user] wlan0 failed to start

2013-10-02 Thread Lee
Usually this indicates a lack of kernel support. I would check kernel .config or menuconfig to ensure all your Broadcom support has been enabled. if you know which modules are involved you can use modprobe to check them out (see if they're loaded or unavailable or whatever ). Good luck!

Re: [gentoo-user] re: no dot profile/bashrc for root user

2013-10-15 Thread Lee
On Oct 15, 2013 12:35 PM, Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com wrote: I've noticed there's no .profile or .bash_profile or .bashrc in /root. Is that normal? What if I want to set/modify some environment variables? How would I do that? Thanks. IIRC there's a default profile in

[gentoo-user] New Gnome Systemd Upgrade Question

2013-12-22 Thread Lee
Hi, I installed Gentoo a long time ago with the desktop/gnome profile set. Now, I don't use gnome (i use fluxbox). However since I have the use tags, many gnome libraries were pulled in over time. Now, since the upgrade to gnome 3.8, Portage updates result in a conflict because the gnome libs

Re: [gentoo-user] MidnightCommander - exit in working directory

2013-12-30 Thread Lee
On the last update, there was an explanation of how to do this either in postinstall or man pages. I'm not near my puter, but will reply with more specifics once I can read the logs. On Dec 30, 2013 12:09 PM, Skippy linux...@204eastsouth.com wrote: Greetings; This should be simple, I've done

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 multiple kernels

2014-01-24 Thread Lee
I am using grub2 also, but on another distro, with multiple kernels/partitions. I don't have a lot of firsthand knowledge, because not having a lot of patience, I usu just drop to the grub cli. However, IIRC there is a grub2 command called update-grub that scans all your boot sectors on all your

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 multiple kernels

2014-01-24 Thread Lee
I misremembered. the correct command is indeed the mkconfig one. I'd recommend backing up your old config first or outputting to stdout so you can check everything first. On Jan 24, 2014 1:20 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Andrés Becerra Sandoval wrote: Hi James, If you put the

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse dies after a few minutes

2014-02-13 Thread Lee
Either that, or the battery is going bad - the mouse is drawing more current than the battery can supply. On Feb 13, 2014 9:13 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 13/02/2014 19:08, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I'm running a 64 bit KDE setup in a laptop. In the last few

[gentoo-user] Roland Boss Linux Drivers

2014-02-13 Thread Lee
The Boss BR-80 and BR-800 digital recorders use USB drivers for windows and apple to connect to pc. The manual says these drivers are needed - I think it has a proprietary partitioning scheme. I was wondering if the kernel has included modules that work with the Boss recorders so one can connect

[gentoo-user] Modifying Suspend Script?

2014-02-26 Thread Lee
Hi, I always need to reconnect my laptop pcmcia wireless card to my WAP when awaking from suspend. It would be nice if I could add two commands, ifconfig and dhpcd, to the script which controls awaking from suspend. Anyone know which file I can edit?

Re: [gentoo-user] Modifying Suspend Script?

2014-02-27 Thread Lee
Many thanks - will try it shortly. On Feb 27, 2014 7:06 AM, Poison BL. poiso...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 9:35 PM, Lee ny6...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I always need to reconnect my laptop pcmcia wireless card to my WAP when awaking from suspend. It would be nice if I could add

Re: [gentoo-user] No motherboard beep since kernel upgrade

2014-03-21 Thread Lee
I can't think of the name of the module, pcspkr IIRC or some such, but it prolly isn't loaded. Modprobe can tell you if it's available load it. On Mar 21, 2014 12:41 PM, Dat G rhan...@gmx.de wrote: On 21/03/14 19:54, Francesco Turco wrote: On Fri, Mar 21, 2014, at 18:51, null_ptr wrote:

[gentoo-user] installing Gentoo in a xen VM

2014-12-03 Thread lee
Hi, I'd like to give Gentoo a try and want to install it in a xen VM. The server is otherwise running Debian. What would be the best way to do this? -- Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons might swallow us. Finally, this fear has become reasonable.

Re: [gentoo-user] installing Gentoo in a xen VM

2014-12-04 Thread lee
Tomas Mozes tomas.mo...@shmu.sk writes: On 2014-12-04 02:14, lee wrote: Hi, I'd like to give Gentoo a try and want to install it in a xen VM. The server is otherwise running Debian. What would be the best way to do this? Either you can run a virtual machine using paravirtualization (PV

Re: [gentoo-user] installing Gentoo in a xen VM

2014-12-04 Thread lee
Vladimir Romanov bluebo...@gmail.com writes: Well, what's the problem? When i do this, then i just install debian, xen kernel, then create some config, download gentoo install cd, run it, and follow the handbook. How do you run the installer CD in a PV VM? It's not like you could just boot

Re: [gentoo-user] installing Gentoo in a xen VM

2014-12-04 Thread lee
Tomas Mozes tomas.mo...@shmu.sk writes: On 2014-12-04 11:08, lee wrote: Tomas Mozes tomas.mo...@shmu.sk writes: On 2014-12-04 02:14, lee wrote: Hi, I'd like to give Gentoo a try and want to install it in a xen VM. The server is otherwise running Debian. What would be the best way to do

Re: [gentoo-user] installing Gentoo in a xen VM

2014-12-04 Thread lee
Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org writes: On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 5:09 AM, lee l...@yagibdah.de wrote: Vladimir Romanov bluebo...@gmail.com writes: Well, what's the problem? When i do this, then i just install debian, xen kernel, then create some config, download gentoo install cd, run

Re: [gentoo-user] installing Gentoo in a xen VM

2014-12-04 Thread lee
Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org writes: On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 1:11 PM, lee l...@yagibdah.de wrote: Tomas Mozes tomas.mo...@shmu.sk writes: The kernel is not in stage3, you have to compile it yourself (or download from somewhere). When you have the kernel image binary, the xen configuration

Re: [gentoo-user] installing Gentoo in a xen VM

2014-12-04 Thread lee
Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org writes: On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 3:39 PM, lee l...@yagibdah.de wrote: Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org writes: On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 1:11 PM, lee l...@yagibdah.de wrote: Tomas Mozes tomas.mo...@shmu.sk writes: The kernel is not in stage3, you have to compile

Re: [gentoo-user] urxvt on i3wm as wallpaper

2014-12-05 Thread lee
behrouz khosravi bz.khosr...@gmail.com writes: Hello everyone. I was wondering that is it possible to have urxvt (or another terminal) on a portion of background? I used the override-redirect option but it didnt work properly. Have anyone tried this? thanks. Omit the window decorations?

Re: [gentoo-user] How to find out to what file(...) writes goes on a idle system...

2014-12-06 Thread lee
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: Hi, on different systems I see the write stats (/proc/dikstats) to physical existing disks steadily increasing. Looking at the output of lsof I cannot find any file suspicous for receiving those writes. In the context of preserving the live of flash media by

Re: [gentoo-user] urxvt on i3wm as wallpaper

2014-12-07 Thread lee
behrouz khosravi bz.khosr...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 5:44 AM, lee l...@yagibdah.de wrote: Omit the window decorations? I liked the picture, but actually I am not sure if that's what I want. I want a terminal that is on the background (wallpaper) of the screen

Re: [gentoo-user] installing Gentoo in a xen VM

2014-12-07 Thread lee
J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org writes: On Thursday, December 04, 2014 07:11:12 PM lee wrote: Why is the networking complicated? Do you use bridging? Yes --- and it was terrible to begin with and still is very complicated. One of the VMs has a network card passed through to do pppoe

Re: [gentoo-user] installing Gentoo in a xen VM

2014-12-08 Thread lee
J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org writes: create 1 bridge per physical network port add the physical ports to the respective bridges That tends to make the ports disappear, i. e. become unusable, because the bridge swallows them. pass virtual NICs to the VMs which are part of the bridges.

Re: [gentoo-user] installing Gentoo in a xen VM

2014-12-28 Thread lee
J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org writes: On Thursday, December 04, 2014 11:55:50 PM lee wrote: BTW, can I use xfs for the VM, or will it be difficult to get the VM booted from xfs? Using PV, not at all. As long as the kernel for the VM has XFS support built- in. (This is valid for other

Re: [gentoo-user] installing Gentoo in a xen VM

2014-12-28 Thread lee
J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org writes: On Monday, December 08, 2014 11:17:26 PM lee wrote: J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org writes: create 1 bridge per physical network port add the physical ports to the respective bridges That tends to make the ports disappear, i. e. become unusable

Re: [gentoo-user] installing Gentoo in a xen VM

2014-12-29 Thread lee
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: On Monday 29 Dec 2014 02:25:04 lee wrote: I tried out the latest Gentoo live DVD ... and I was surprised that the software it comes with is so old. Libreoffice 3.x? Seamonkey a couple versions behind? Is the software going to be more recent when I

Re: [gentoo-user] installing Gentoo in a xen VM

2014-12-29 Thread lee
thegeezer thegee...@thegeezer.net writes: On 08/12/14 22:17, lee wrote: J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org writes: create 1 bridge per physical network port add the physical ports to the respective bridges That tends to make the ports disappear, i. e. become unusable, because the bridge

[gentoo-user] pdf viewer

2015-01-02 Thread lee
Hi, what do you as PDF viewer? Most of the time, I was using xpdf, and that doesn't seem to be available in Gentoo. I compiled it from source and found out that it cannot display PDFs so well and gives error messages about not being able to find fonts. Pdfpc isn't a good alternative. --

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewer

2015-01-03 Thread lee
Thank you all for your answers! :) Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com writes: On Jan 3, 2015 7:15 AM, lee l...@yagibdah.de wrote: Hi, what do you as PDF viewer? mupdf. mupdf seems to display text only? llpp seems to work great and really fast, I'll use that for now. How

[gentoo-user] shorewall: which kernel options/modules

2015-01-03 Thread lee
Hi, does someone exactly know which options/modules are required for shorewall? I'm about to do a three-interface configuration, one of the interfaces being a bridge. I couldn't find any documentation for recent kernels and don't like the idea of enabling featuures that aren't required. --

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewer

2015-01-15 Thread lee
Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org writes: On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 01:21:19PM +0100, lee wrote Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org writes: Assuming you've already got Content Type PDF file in the list, click on the icon beside emacsclient in the Action column. This opens a dropdown menu

Re: [gentoo-user] fail2ban: You have to create an init script for each container ...

2015-01-15 Thread lee
Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org writes: On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 1:47 PM, lee l...@yagibdah.de wrote: Same here, so why does fail2ban get involved with containers? Seems like there are three options here. 1. Run fail2ban on the host and have it look into the containers, monitor their logs

Re: [gentoo-user] fail2ban: You have to create an init script for each container ...

2015-01-17 Thread lee
Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org writes: On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 3:32 PM, lee l...@yagibdah.de wrote: Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org writes: 2. Run fail2ban in each container and have it monitor its own logs, and then add host iptables rules to block connections. Containers must not be able

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files

2015-02-18 Thread lee
cov...@ccs.covici.com writes: Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 8:26 PM, lee l...@yagibdah.de wrote: Hi, how do you read the log files when using syslog-ng? The log file seem to be some sort of binary that doesn't display too well

[gentoo-user] saslauthd startup parameters

2015-02-18 Thread lee
Hi, where are we supposed to set the parameters for saslauthd? I edited /etc/init.d/saslauthd, and that's probably not the right place to put them? -- Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons might swallow us. Finally, this fear has become reasonable.

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files

2015-02-18 Thread lee
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: On Tue, 17 February 2015, at 6:26 pm, lee l...@yagibdah.de wrote: The log file seem to be some sort of binary that doesn't display too well in less, and there doesn't seem to be any way to read them. I believe this may be bug 406623. https

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files

2015-02-17 Thread lee
Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de writes: Hello, Lee. On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 07:26:05PM +0100, lee wrote: Hi, how do you read the log files when using syslog-ng? The log file seem to be some sort of binary that doesn't display too well in less, and there doesn't seem to be any way to read them

[gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files

2015-02-17 Thread lee
Hi, how do you read the log files when using syslog-ng? The log file seem to be some sort of binary that doesn't display too well in less, and there doesn't seem to be any way to read them. -- Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons might swallow us. Finally,

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewer

2015-01-10 Thread lee
Andrew Savchenko birc...@gentoo.org writes: On Fri, 09 Jan 2015 20:49:56 +0100 lee wrote: Andrew Savchenko birc...@gentoo.org writes: When I need something simple (e.g. to read pdf books) I use mupdf. How did you get mupdf to display a pdf? Just run it: $ mupdf file.pdf In my case

Re: [gentoo-user] installing Gentoo in a xen VM

2015-01-10 Thread lee
Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org writes: On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 4:02 PM, lee l...@yagibdah.de wrote: Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org writes: On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 8:55 AM, lee l...@yagibdah.de wrote: Just why can't you? ZFS apparently can do such things --- yet what's the difference

[gentoo-user] alternative to dvbcut

2015-01-10 Thread lee
Hi, since dvbcut isn't available in Gentoo and doesn't compile either, what's the alternative? -- Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons might swallow us. Finally, this fear has become reasonable.

Re: [gentoo-user] installing Gentoo in a xen VM

2015-01-11 Thread lee
Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org writes: On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 1:22 PM, lee l...@yagibdah.de wrote: Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org writes: You can dd from a logical volume into a file, and from a file into a logical volume. You won't destroy the volume group unless you do something dumb like

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative to dvbcut

2015-01-11 Thread lee
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes: On Sat, 10 Jan 2015 19:38:36 +0100, lee wrote: since dvbcut isn't available in Gentoo and doesn't compile either, what's the alternative? avidemux I tried that some time ago and found it unable to keep the sound in sync. dvbcut works great

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewer

2015-01-11 Thread lee
Andrew Savchenko birc...@gentoo.org writes: On Sat, 10 Jan 2015 19:25:54 +0100 lee wrote: Andrew Savchenko birc...@gentoo.org writes: On Fri, 09 Jan 2015 20:49:56 +0100 lee wrote: Andrew Savchenko birc...@gentoo.org writes: When I need something simple (e.g. to read pdf books) I use

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewer

2015-01-11 Thread lee
Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org writes: On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 07:25:54PM +0100, lee wrote Andrew Savchenko birc...@gentoo.org writes: 1) Configure your handlers in seamonkey. How? I've got Seamonkey 2.31. Go to Edit == Preferences == Category;Browser == Helper Aplications

Re: [gentoo-user] fail2ban: You have to create an init script for each container ...

2015-01-11 Thread lee
see https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=536320 lee l...@yagibdah.de writes: Hi, I'm trying to get fail2ban to work on the host and keep getting error messages like: , | Jan 08 21:13:04 [/etc/init.d/fail2ban] You have to create an init script for each container: | Jan 08 21

Re: [gentoo-user] installing Gentoo in a xen VM

2015-01-11 Thread lee
Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org writes: On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 8:14 AM, lee l...@yagibdah.de wrote: Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org writes: Doing backups with dd isn't terribly practical, but it is completely safe if done correctly. The LV would need to be the same size or larger, or else

Re: [gentoo-user] fail2ban: You have to create an init script for each container ...

2015-01-11 Thread lee
Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org writes: On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 10:48 AM, lee l...@yagibdah.de wrote: I don't want to run fail2ban in the container because the container must not mess with the firewall settings of the host. If a container can do that, then what's the point of having

Re: [gentoo-user] installing Gentoo in a xen VM

2015-01-09 Thread lee
thegeezer thegee...@thegeezer.net writes: Guess what, I still haven't found out how to actually back up and restore a VM residing in an LVM volume. I find it annoying that LVM doesn't have any way of actually copying a LV. It could be so easy if you could just do something like 'lvcopy

Re: [gentoo-user] installing Gentoo in a xen VM

2015-01-09 Thread lee
Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org writes: On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 8:55 AM, lee l...@yagibdah.de wrote: Just why can't you? ZFS apparently can do such things --- yet what's the difference in performance of ZFS compared to hardware raid? Software raid with MD makes for quite a slowdown. Well

Re: [gentoo-user] installing Gentoo in a xen VM

2015-01-09 Thread lee
J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org writes: On Monday, December 29, 2014 03:38:40 AM lee wrote: J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org writes: What do you mean with unusable? The bridge swallows the physical port, and the port becomes unreachable. IIRC, you can get around this by assigning an IP

Re: [gentoo-user] installing Gentoo in a xen VM

2015-01-09 Thread lee
J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org writes: with firewalling and routing in between. You can't keep the traffic separate when it all goes over the same bridge, can you? Not if it goes over the same bridge. But as they are virtual, you can make as many as you need. I made as few as I needed.

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewer

2015-01-09 Thread lee
Andrew Savchenko birc...@gentoo.org writes: When I need something simple (e.g. to read pdf books) I use mupdf. How did you get mupdf to display a pdf? I'd have removed it if it wasn't required by llpp ... How do I get seamonkey to suggest llpp as application to view PDFs? Sometimes it

Re: [gentoo-user] shorewall: which kernel options/modules

2015-01-03 Thread lee
Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk writes: On Saturday 03 January 2015 16:04:04 lee wrote: does someone exactly know which options/modules are required for shorewall? I'm about to do a three-interface configuration, one of the interfaces being a bridge. I couldn't find any documentation

[gentoo-user] lxc.network.flags

2015-01-04 Thread lee
Hi, what does 'lxc.network.flags=up' actually do/mean? 1.) makes the interface available in the container 2.) does 1.) and also configures the containers' interface 3.) something else (what?) In case of 2.), how do I set the gateway address, nameserver and domain in the containers' config? I

[gentoo-user] setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps

2015-01-04 Thread lee
Hi, I'm trying to use the CapsLock key as control key. With 'setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps' that works --- until I use 'xmodmap' to load my keymap. Once the keymap is loaded, the CapsLock key again works as CapsLock and not as control. This worked fine with other distributions. Is there

Re: [gentoo-user] setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps

2015-01-05 Thread lee
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: On Sunday 04 Jan 2015 19:53:37 lee wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use the CapsLock key as control key. With 'setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps' that works --- until I use 'xmodmap' to load my keymap. Once the keymap is loaded, the CapsLock key again works

Re: [gentoo-user] setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps

2015-01-05 Thread lee
Sid S r03...@gmail.com writes: You should be using xmodmap OR xsetkbmap OR the configuration file, not all three (though they shouldn't interfere with each other if configured properly - they'd just all be doing the same thing). It would be fine if they did what I want :) If you wish to set

[gentoo-user] metalog: postrotate_cmd

2015-01-05 Thread lee
Hi, what happens when a postrotate_cmd started by metalog never finishes? Am I assuming right that in ... , |postrotate_cmd | postrotate_cmd = /path/to/a/program. Run specified pro‐ | gram after a log file has been rotated. The program is |

[gentoo-user] fail2ban: You have to create an init script for each container ...

2015-01-08 Thread lee
Hi, I'm trying to get fail2ban to work on the host and keep getting error messages like: , | Jan 08 21:13:04 [/etc/init.d/fail2ban] You have to create an init script for each container: | Jan 08 21:13:04 [/etc/init.d/fail2ban] ln -s lxc /etc/init.d/lxc.container | Jan 08 21:13:05

Re: [gentoo-user] blockage

2015-03-22 Thread lee
Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 7:31 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: It looks to me like sysvinit-2.88-r7 was stabilized and the maintainer of apcupsd didn't notice. From the ebuild for apcupsd-3.14.8-r2: DEPEND= || (

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: blockage

2015-03-22 Thread lee
Jonathan Callen jcal...@gentoo.org writes: On 2015-03-21 23:24, lee wrote: Hi, when trying to update with 'emerge -j 8 -a --update --deep --with-bdeps=y @world' after 'emerge --sync', I'm getting the following message: * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot

Re: [gentoo-user] blockage

2015-03-22 Thread lee
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: On 22/03/2015 05:24, lee wrote: Hi, when trying to update with 'emerge -j 8 -a --update --deep --with-bdeps=y @world' after 'emerge --sync', I'm getting the following message: * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: blockage

2015-03-22 Thread lee
Jonathan Callen jcal...@gentoo.org writes: On 2015-03-22 09:04, lee wrote: Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 7:31 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: It looks to me like sysvinit-2.88-r7 was stabilized and the maintainer of apcupsd didn't notice. From

Re: [gentoo-user] Mutt emerge USE flags for novice

2015-03-21 Thread Lee
When I have a moment I'll send my Gmail enabled muttrc for u to ponder. Imap with Gmail on mutt is seamless ime. On Mar 21, 2015 3:42 PM, Julian Simioni jul...@simioni.org wrote: I don't currently use Mutt with Gmail, but one common suggestion is to use an external program like offlineimap for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new linux router

2015-03-28 Thread lee
James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com writes: Nicolas Sebrecht nicolas.s-dev at laposte.net writes: For the distribution, I'd recommend Alpine: http://www.alpinelinux.org/about Sorry, I can't. I don't have them anymore while I'm sure they are still used in production. It's something easy

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Please explain X fonts?

2015-03-29 Thread lee
walt w41...@gmail.com writes: On 03/26/2015 07:15 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: snip all questions I can't answer When I do a control-right-click on an xterm to manipulate fonts, the xterm crashes. I had the same problem once. IIRC, strace showed me that xterm was trying to load the default

Re: [gentoo-user] [distcc redux] A working distcc setup

2015-03-29 Thread lee
Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org writes: First of all, thanks to everybody who answered my questions, and helped me get it working. Now for the setup. This is a home LAN, so I don't bother with ssh tunneling, etc, which will be necessary if you're going over untrusted links, e.g. the

Re: [gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-03-29 Thread lee
Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk writes: The remaining question is: why is the user not allowed to halt it? It's because a user who wants to somewhat permanently disrupt the services the machine provides would need to remain at the keyboard to continue to reboot it and thus can be caught

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-03-29 Thread lee
Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net writes: 150322 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 22 March 2015 13:04:44 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I can reboot the system when I am a user by Ctrl+Alt+Delete. The user can reboot the system, but can't shut down ? Strange The thinking is that you can unplug the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: blockage

2015-03-28 Thread lee
James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com writes: If we have some quick way to install, then systems could be setup, customized, used for testing and torn down again, all in a few hours? I'd focus on simple, minimized installs and it would give the user base a way to duplicate systems for problem

[gentoo-user] zfs io scheduler

2015-02-23 Thread lee
Hi, is zfs setting the io scheduler to noop for the disks in the pool? I'm currently finding that the IO performance is horrible with a pool made from two mirrored disks ... -- Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons might swallow us. Finally, this fear has

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: repos.conf migration lost overlay priority

2015-02-22 Thread lee
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com writes: On a side note, someone should inform the portage devs that higher priorities should equal lower numbers. Don't do it the opposite way to the rest of the world, please :-P Why should low mean high? The rest of the world usually considers high as

[gentoo-user] how to solve this dependency problem?

2015-02-22 Thread lee
Hi, how would I solve this dependency problem: media-libs/openjpeg:2 (media-libs/openjpeg-2.1.0:2/7::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) conflicts with media-libs/openjpeg-2.1:2 required by (app-text/mupdf-1.3_p20140118:0/1.3::gentoo, installed) ^^^^ Is

Re: [gentoo-user] nomachine on Gentoo

2015-02-22 Thread lee
Joseph syscon...@gmail.com writes: Did anybody install nomashine on Gentoo? I run onto this instruction, but did not try it yet: http://www.thejach.com/view/2014/9/installing_nomachine_on_gentoo I'm running nxclient-3.5xxx and nxserver-freenx-0.7xxx and I'm afraid something will stop

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files

2015-02-22 Thread lee
Jan Sever n...@email.cz writes: On 02/19/2015 08:02 PM, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: On Tuesday, February 17, 2015 7:26:05 PM lee wrote: Hi, how do you read the log files when using syslog-ng? The log file seem to be some sort of binary that doesn't display too well in less

Re: [gentoo-user] saslauthd startup parameters

2015-02-22 Thread lee
Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com writes: where are we supposed to set the parameters for saslauthd? I edited /etc/init.d/saslauthd, and that's probably not the right place to put them? There's probably a saslauthd file in /etc/conf.d Hm, I need to check again to be sure whether there is

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files

2015-02-22 Thread lee
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes: On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 21:49:54 +0100, lee wrote: I wonder if the OP is using systemd and trying to read the journal files? Nooo, I hate systemd ... What good are log files you can't read? You can't read syslog-ng log files without some

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files

2015-02-22 Thread lee
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: On Wed, 18 February 2015, at 8:40 pm, lee l...@yagibdah.de wrote: The log file seem to be some sort of binary that doesn't display too well in less, and there doesn't seem to be any way to read them. I believe this may be bug 406623

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Please explain X fonts?

2015-04-01 Thread lee
Urs Schütz u.sch...@bluewin.ch writes: On 03/29/15 06:23, lee wrote: walt w41...@gmail.com writes: On 03/26/2015 07:15 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: snip all questions I can't answer As to fonts, I highly recommend Source Code Pro and Source Sans Pro. They finally resolved my long search

Re: [gentoo-user] xen on new install reboots by itself

2015-04-23 Thread lee
hydra hydrapo...@gmail.com writes: You mean the documentation at Gentoo about Xen sucks or the upstream documentation? What information are you missing from there? Maybe we can add the missing pieces for Xen being more accessible and easier to use, what do you think? :) I mean the

Re: [gentoo-user] xen on new install reboots by itself

2015-04-23 Thread lee
J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org writes: On 8 April 2015 14:43:02 GMT-07:00, lee l...@yagibdah.de wrote: hydra hydrapo...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 3:20 PM, lee l...@yagibdah.de wrote: symack sym...@gmail.com writes: Other than that, unless you really do need full

[gentoo-user] how to update spamassassin with sa-update

2015-04-26 Thread lee
Hi, installation notes for spamassassin say you need to do the rule updates yourself by running 'sa-update'. Now I'd do that with a crontab entry, and I don't want to add it to root's crontab. As what user should I run it, and where do I put the crontab entry for it? -- Again we must be

Re: [gentoo-user] xen on new install reboots by itself

2015-04-24 Thread lee
J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org writes: On Thursday, April 23, 2015 11:02:24 PM lee wrote: hydra hydrapo...@gmail.com writes: You mean the documentation at Gentoo about Xen sucks or the upstream documentation? What information are you missing from there? Maybe we can add the missing

Re: [gentoo-user] xen on new install reboots by itself

2015-04-24 Thread lee
J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org writes: On Thursday, April 23, 2015 11:03:53 PM lee wrote: J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org writes: I disagree. Been using Xen for over 10 years now and find it very easy to use. The documentation could be better on the Xen site itself, but there is plenty

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files

2015-05-04 Thread lee
Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 6:41 PM, lee l...@yagibdah.de wrote: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes: On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 21:49:54 +0100, lee wrote: I wonder if the OP is using systemd and trying to read the journal files? Nooo, I

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files

2015-05-04 Thread lee
Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org writes: On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 6:41 PM, lee l...@yagibdah.de wrote: To me it is one of the good reasons, and an important one. Plain text can usually always be read without further ado, be it from rescue systems you booted or with software available

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files

2015-05-04 Thread lee
Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de writes: Can you do all that with the binary files created by systemd? I can't even read them on a working system. What Canek and Rich already said is good, but I'll just add this: it's not like you can't run a classic syslog implementation alongside the systemd

Re: [gentoo-user] xen on new install reboots by itself

2015-05-01 Thread lee
J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org writes: On Friday, April 24, 2015 10:24:06 PM lee wrote: J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org writes: On Thursday, April 23, 2015 11:02:24 PM lee wrote: hydra hydrapo...@gmail.com writes: You mean the documentation at Gentoo about Xen sucks or the upstream

Re: [gentoo-user] xen on new install reboots by itself

2015-05-01 Thread lee
J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org writes: On Friday, April 24, 2015 10:23:01 PM lee wrote: J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org writes: On Thursday, April 23, 2015 11:03:53 PM lee wrote: Do you have anything that you find insufficiently documented or is too difficult? sure, lots Have you

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files

2015-05-09 Thread lee
Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 1:57 AM, lee l...@yagibdah.de wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 6:41 PM, lee l...@yagibdah.de wrote: I can't even read them on a working system. If that's true (which I highly doubt, more

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-05-09 Thread lee
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes: On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 00:06:33 +0200, lee wrote: How do you remember these keys? BUSIER backwards, or bookmark http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key in your phone's browser :) Phone's browser? If you need the SysRq

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files

2015-05-09 Thread lee
Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org writes: On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 2:14 AM, lee l...@yagibdah.de wrote: Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de writes: Personally, I'm probably going to uninstall syslog-ng, because journalctl is *such* a nice way to read logs, so why run something whose output I'll never read

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-04-14 Thread lee
Emanuele Rusconi ema...@gmail.com writes: On 8 April 2015 at 23:47, lee l...@yagibdah.de wrote: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes: On Tue, 07 Apr 2015 21:21:38 +0200, lee wrote: How do you remember these keys? BUSIER backwards, or bookmark http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

[gentoo-user] beep

2015-04-14 Thread lee
Hi, when the pcspkr module (or how it's called; I haven't compiled atm) is loaded, somehow the built-in speaker is used to sometimes beep. There also seems to be the option to play this beep via the sound card --- which usually sounds nicer. How is this done? Do I need to load a different

Re: [gentoo-user] xen on new install reboots by itself

2015-04-14 Thread lee
hydra hydrapo...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 3:20 PM, lee l...@yagibdah.de wrote: symack sym...@gmail.com writes: Other than that, unless you really do need full virtualization: I'm finding Linux containers to be far more manageable than virtual machines, and much more

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