Re: [gentoo-user] SUDO: running /etc/init.d/cupsd restart

2006-12-04 Thread Daniel Waeber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi jak gentoo wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to allow users in the wheel group to run /etc/init.d/cupsd restart I edited /etc/sudoers with visudo to the following but it doesn't work, any ideas? %wheel ALL=(ALL)NOPASSWD:

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with revdep-rebuild

2006-12-02 Thread Daniel Waeber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 JC Denton wrote: Hi group! It is the first time I had such kind of troubles. What can I do about it? I found that xmms is not longer supported under Gentoo. So how to solve this emerge problems when all the packages does not exist any more?

Re: [gentoo-user] Escaping a * in bash script

2006-10-08 Thread Daniel Waeber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ow Mun Heng wrote: Does anyone know how to go about escaping a * in a bash script? I want to do the following query= select * from table where column1='something' As you use the it is still a * in the $query, but you have to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Audio CD support

2006-09-01 Thread Daniel Waeber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You won't need to mount the cd, but make sure the user who plays the cd is in the cdrom group. If this simple suggestion does not help, try to start xmms in a terminal and look what it has to say. Post the output here if you can't find the problem.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT logitech mouse recommendation (MX1000 vs G7)

2006-07-08 Thread Daniel Waeber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hullo Richard Fish wrote: On 7/7/06, Daniel Waeber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At least in my laptop the devices still work like they did before. I only got one problem right now: xorg does not start, if the mouse is inside the xorg.conf (using

Re: [gentoo-user] Clean up world file

2006-07-08 Thread Daniel Waeber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If I'm not mistaken, you can simply run vim /var/lib/portage/world, :sort it and ddelete the packages you don't need. It did work for me, but I'm not sure if something breaks if you just edit the world file or if you have to chance something else.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT logitech mouse recommendation (MX1000 vs G7)

2006-07-07 Thread Daniel Waeber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Allan Gottlieb wrote: Now that I have xorg-7.0-r1 installed, I am planning to upgrade my logitech cordless mouseman optical to one of the new toys, either the MX1000 or the G7. I have read the helpful gentoo-wiki entry. I'm currently using a

Re: [gentoo-user] Encryption in Kopete

2006-06-25 Thread Daniel Waeber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Sunday 25 June 2006 21:02, Mick wrote: Is there a similar function in Gaim, or does it only do vanilla messaging (unencrypted)? I have no experience with encryption in instant messengers so can't help with that.

Re: [gentoo-user] post-tetex?

2006-05-30 Thread Daniel Waeber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jorge Almeida wrote: Anyone has any idea about what will be the gentoo way to cope with the no-more-tetex issue? There was a discussion about it a some days ago in the dev-list: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/38615 -BEGIN

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-17 Thread Daniel Waeber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Willie Wong wrote: On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 02:56:46PM -0500, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam squawked: I also looked for a drop-down term. Couldn't find one that I really liked, so just made a wrapper myself for aterm in fvwm using a borderless window,

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-13 Thread Daniel Waeber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mick wrote: On a limited resources box I have always used rxvt/aterm. I have also used Konsole but it slows things down. I am waiting for real transprency to work with aterm. Unlike pseudo-transparency which just looks pretty I think real

[gentoo-user] netfilter: -P INPUT DROP in kernel

2006-04-21 Thread Daniel Waeber
Benno Schulenberg wrote: (By the way, please do not reply to another message when starting a new topic.) Benno Sorry for that. So I start a new thread now. Daniel Waeber wrote: I was looking for a way to set the default rule for the INPUT chain to DROP. I do not want to change the rule

[gentoo-user] netfilter: -P INPUT DROP in kernel

2006-04-20 Thread Daniel Waeber
I was looking for a way to set the default rule for the INPUT chain to DROP. I do not want to change the rule with iptables -P INPUT DROP after loading the kernel, I want that the kernel/modules automatically DROPS everything after it has been loaded. You can do this with the FORWARD chain

Re: [gentoo-user] setting the time

2006-04-02 Thread Daniel Waeber
thank you for your help, everything is running perfect now :) it's easy if you know the difference between system and hwclock, but confusing if you only now about the date program. it would be nice if there would be a link to hwclock in the manpage of date, like it is the other way round. but

[gentoo-user] setting the time

2006-04-01 Thread Daniel Waeber
hi i have a problem with changing the time/date of my computer. I only can change it temporally till the next reboot. I tried date and ntptime to set it. after setting it the system shows the right time, but after a reboot i have the old time again. i have no other system running on the computer