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: 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: 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

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

[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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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

2015-01-09 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

[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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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

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

2014-12-08 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] 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] 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

2014-12-05 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] 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

[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] Fonts and bad eyes

2014-05-21 Thread Benjamin Lee
) but among free options Liberation Sans (media-fonts/liberation-fonts). [1] http://blog.typekit.com/2012/09/24/source-code-pro/ -- Benjamin Lee http://www.b1c1l1.com/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] problem: frequently auto suspend

2014-05-01 Thread simsilver Lee
the lid. I remember to had lots of problem with ACPI configuration, and some key are still not working as expected, anyway, I've may in my case mess with some ACPI script. Maybe you could look at this first? Manoel Le 2014-04-30 15:13, simsilver Lee a écrit : Forget to mention, I have

[gentoo-user] problem: frequently auto suspend

2014-04-30 Thread simsilver Lee
Hello everyone, I have met a problem recently after once update. My laptop suspends automatically after booting up, and suspends on and on after wakeup. I have checked up the log and there is no obvious errors. It works well on Win7 and Ubuntu Live, and on Gentoo the CPU is about 60 ℃. It also

Re: [gentoo-user] problem: frequently auto suspend

2014-04-30 Thread simsilver Lee
Forget to mention, I have tried kernel 3.14, 3.14.1, 3.13.7, and none works well on this. On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 10:11 PM, simsilver Lee yihuanlingj...@gmail.comwrote: Hello everyone, I have met a problem recently after once update. My laptop suspends automatically after booting up

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:

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

[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] 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

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] 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

[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] Tell cron to send email using sender:passwd@host:587 syntax?

2013-11-16 Thread Benjamin Lee
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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

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] 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] 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] grub2 on macbook pro

2013-01-22 Thread Benjamin Lee
boot options (like legacy BIOS emulation mode and Mac OS). blee@supra /mnt/macos/efi $ ls grub rEFIt License.rtf rEFIt ReadMe.rtf refit tools blee@supra /mnt/macos/efi $ ls grub/grub.efi grub/grub.cfg grub/grub.cfg grub/grub.efi -- Benjamin Lee http://www.b1c1l1.com/ signature.asc

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] sed/awk question

2011-11-21 Thread Benjamin Lee
=net-snmp-5.3.2.2-5.cp843034001.i386.rpm blee@eclipse ~ $ echo ${foo%%-[0-9]*} net-snmp -- Benjamin Lee http://www.b1c1l1.com/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-libs/efreet-9999 revision 57773 fails to emerge

2011-03-15 Thread Ian Lee
On 15/03/11 19:15, Mick wrote: I'm trying to emerge the latest dev-libs/efreet-, but it fails as shown below: = Emerging (1 of 2) dev-libs/efreet- from enlightenment * Package:dev-libs/efreet- * Repository: enlightenment *

Re: [gentoo-user] XDG_CONFIG_DIRS and XDG_DATA_DIRS env variables with E17

2011-02-27 Thread Ian Lee
On 26/02/11 16:41, Mick wrote: Where are being these set? I currently have: $ echo $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS /etc/xdg $ echo $XDG_DATA_DIRS /usr/local/share:/usr/share I'm asking because although Enlightenment-17 picks up the kde menu from there, it does not seem to recognise the respective

Re: [gentoo-user] why always display this when kernel start

2011-01-15 Thread Ian Lee
ls -l /fixit/dev/{console,null} crw--- 1 root tty 5, 1 10. Jun 2010 /mnt/dev/console crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 10. Jun 2010 /mnt/dev/null Eh? You list /fixit/dev and get files in /mnt/dev, did you symlink /fixit to /mnt? I would have expected ls -l /fixit/dev/{console,null}

Re: [gentoo-user] problems adding local overlay and ebuild

2010-09-01 Thread Ian Lee
On 01/09/10 11:21, Arnau Bria wrote: Hi all, I'd like to install mcollective and developer provides its ebuild. so I've followed http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Overlay for adding a local overlay. *I had a problem when adding source /usr/local/portage/layman/make.conf to my make.conf. That file

Re: [gentoo-user] problems adding local overlay and ebuild

2010-09-01 Thread Ian Lee
On 01/09/10 13:57, Arnau Bria wrote: On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:25:03 +0100 Ian Lee wrote: Hi Ian, Try replacing the DEPEND= line with DEPEND=server? ( || ( =dev-ruby/stomp-1.1=dev-ruby/stomp-1.1.6 ) ) fails on manifest: # ebuild mcollective-0.4.8.ebuild manifest Error(s) in metadata

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] [OT crypto] How to encrypt a directory without root?

2010-01-01 Thread Ming-Che Lee
Hi, On Friday 01 January 2010 19:32:07 Harry Putnam wrote: I want to encrypt a directory heirarchy on a remote machine where I don't have root. I can use either an openbsd, or gentoo remote. Maybe of some help: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9880 Regards, Ming-Che

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem -- is timing?

2009-06-21 Thread Ian Lee
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:16:49 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: mount: /dev/vg/tmp already mounted on /tmp mount: tmpfs already mounted on /tmp It's nothing to do with your problem, but why are you mounting two filesystems on /tmp? Couldn't find device with uuid

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb will not work on my dell d820 laptop?

2009-06-20 Thread Ian Lee
John covici wrote: Hi. I have a Dell Latitude D820 laptop and for the life of me, I can't get uvesafb to work. There are no messages, I just get the 25 lines by 80 column screen. I emerged clib, and v86d and made sure my .config had /usr/share/v86d/initramfs as the initramfs source, and I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x86 versus amd64 - where is it set / overwritten

2009-02-13 Thread Ian Lee
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 13 Feb, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'm working on an AMD opteron, definitely an AMD64 machine. /etc/make.conf contains CHOST=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu my profile is default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop Still, when

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

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