Re: [gentoo-user] Instrumenting emerges

2023-07-08 Thread David M. Fellows
>Hello list, > >Has anyone here developed a utility to record the one-minute load average once >per minute and log the results? The first bit is easy: just cat /proc/loadavg, >but the logging has me stumped for the moment. while [ true ] ; do cat /proc/loadavg |logger; sleep 60; done But you

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd query ...

2023-05-16 Thread David M. Fellows
>Le lun. 15 mai 2023 à 11:58, Wols Lists a écrit : > >> Nothing to do with but sparked by the Apache problem ... >> >> One of the emails mentioned that the "ExecStop" section didn't appear to >> be working ... That's caused me considerable grief in a systemd config >> file I've written ... >> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting shell globs to regular expressions

2023-04-13 Thread David M. Fellows
>Greetings, > >does anybody know about some command to convert shell globs (shell pat- >terns) into regular expressions? Back in the old Unix days there was a >"glob" command, but "e-files" only turns up a GNU library. Would one of the functions in dev-perl/Text-Glob do what you need? DaveF

Re: [gentoo-user] mailing list problem?

2023-04-06 Thread David M. Fellows
>I've recently gotten a few of my usual "Bouncing messages" messages >from the mailing list, but when I go to the archives to see if I can >identify the problematic messages, I don't see anything since the >middle of March. I've filed a bug (https://bugs.gentoo.org/903753) a >few days

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting printer working, the road of Pain.

2022-09-09 Thread David M. Fellows
>On Thursday, 8 September 2022 21:40:25 BST Wols Lists wrote: >> On 08/09/2022 21:24, Lee wrote: >> > Who needs to go to the hassle maintaining a printer of their own, buying >> > cartridges, paper etc? I set up an online account at my neighborhood >> > Kinkos, and I just upload whatever docs I

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc 12.1.1 compile error on loongson2f Yeeloong

2022-07-29 Thread David M. Fellows
>Dear friends, I am updating the gentoo mip-n32 system on my Yeeloong >netbook. During updating of the @world, it began to update the gcc >12.1.1 from gcc 11.3.0 which is also the one doing the compilation. And >after a long-time compilation, it stops with error messages: " .. Hmm. 1G ram and

Re: [gentoo-user] problem emerging virt-manager 4.0.0

2022-04-06 Thread David M. Fellows
>Hi. In today's world update, I get the following strange output when >trying to emerge virt-manager. I am not even sure what this means. Small consolation, no great help, but you are not alone. See https://bugs.gentoo.org/836645 >From the bug title maybe downgrading dev-python/setuptools

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Compile large packages as last package

2021-09-08 Thread David M. Fellows
>Thank you for your ideas! > >I was actually hoping for a neat hack with "/etc/portage/env/" and >"/etc/portage/package.env/", where you can set environment variables. Did you look at example 2 in https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/package.env ? It seems to address your problem. DaveF >

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon navi cards and opencl

2021-08-31 Thread David M. Fellows
>On Monday, 30 August 2021 16:08:27 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: >> Hello list, >> >> Does anyone know whether AMD intend to make their navi cards usable with >> opencl under Linux? I have a Radeon Pro W5500, which is a navi 14 card, and >> from what I can see neither rocm-opencl nor

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: File transfer via USB?

2021-04-25 Thread David M. Fellows
>On 4/25/21 12:14 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> Nope. Many years ago I used UUCP a number of times for "production" >> projects involving data gathering from remote systems via dial-up. > >:-) > >> 25+ years ago, I wrote an article about one of those projects for >> Linux Journal. > >Can you

Re: [gentoo-user] SSSD and nsupdate installation issue

2021-03-13 Thread David M. Fellows
>Hey all, > >I've been trying to install SSSD on my Gentoo laptop over the past week >and keep getting stuck at the same spot. I've tried 2.2.0-r1, 2.3.1-r2, >and even 2.4.2 - all are failing during initial configuration, claiming >that "nsupdate does not support 'realm'". I've manually run the

Re: [gentoo-user] package updated rss feed not working

2021-02-02 Thread David M. Fellows
>Lets try this again, 1st mail did not seem to get through?! > It got through to my part of tyhe world. > >On 2021-01-30 11:29, smurfd wrote: >> hey >> >> since a while back the rss feed : >> https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/updated.atom >> >> is not working. today i looked into it, i get :

Re: [gentoo-user] sci-electronics/ngspice-27-r1 missing tcl

2020-12-22 Thread David M. Fellows
>Neil Bothwick: >> On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 18:30:47 +0100 (CET), k...@aspodata.se wrote: >> >> > What can I do to make ./configure below use the suggested option ? >> > >> > sci-electronics/ngspice-27-r1's build log contains: >> > >> > checking for tclConfig.sh... >> > can't find Tcl

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @world output unfamiliar. Am I updated?

2020-10-02 Thread David M. Fellows
>On 2020-10-02 10:45, n952162 wrote: >> Have I successfully updated my system? >> >> I ran this command: >> >> emerge \ >>     -v \ >>     --verbose-conflicts \ >>     --deep \ >>     -update \ >>     --changed-use \ >>     --keep-going \ >>     --with-bdeps=y \ >>     --changed-deps \ >>    

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple replacement for "getmail"?

2020-07-22 Thread David M. Fellows
>On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 01:02:43 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > >> Would "fetchmail" work as a drop-in replacement for getmail here? Are >> there any better, simpler solutions? > >I switched to getmail years ago because of frustrations with fetchmail. >At the moment I have getmail in my overlay and

Re: [gentoo-user] arpwatch changed syntax?

2020-07-01 Thread David M. Fellows
>hi. > > >background: --- > >previously, i used to run it by this: > >> arpwatch -i enp7s0 -m cave...@domain.com -s /usr/sbin/sendmail > >but now, after some update, apparently this doesn't work any more. > >what seems to have changed is: > >* "-m" is replaced by "-w" or "-W". *

Re: [gentoo-user] Console serial terminal/console with command history?

2018-05-22 Thread David M. Fellows
>On 05/22/2018 12:45 PM, David M. Fellows wrote: >> Since you want to blast to the past... kermit may do what you >> need. Back in the day it connected everything to everything. >> See http://www.kermitproject.org/ emerge ckermit. > >Are you advocating kermit as

Re: [gentoo-user] Console serial terminal/console with command history?

2018-05-22 Thread David M. Fellows
>Hi > >I am currently exploring Mecrisp-Stellaris FORTH on a STM32F103C8 uC. > >To communicate with the FORTH-system I use a serlal terminal console >like picocom. > >Since I am still learning this quirky though fascinating language I >really would appreciate a commandline history. > >For that I

Re: [gentoo-user] media-sound/podracer doesn't name downloaded podcasts

2018-02-25 Thread David M. Fellows
>Hello, > >As per my thread a month ago [1], I've now installed Podracer and gave >it a spin last night. > >I started by trying to download NPR's Planet Money podcast: >https://www.npr.org/sections/money/ > >I tried 3 different URLs that I found on that page, none of them worked: > >•

Re: [gentoo-user] boost-1.63 dependency confusion

2017-11-11 Thread David M. Fellows
>The confusion is all mine, because I cannot decipher what is masking dev-util/ >boost-build-1.63: >= ># emerge -uaNDv world > >These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > >Calculating dependencies... done! > >Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 KiB > >!!! The

Re: [gentoo-user] How do you emerge emacs 25 with xwidgets support?

2017-04-20 Thread David M. Fellows
> > >On 2017-04-20 14:48, Raffaele Belardi wrote: >> Danny YUE wrote: >Still not working. > >BTW I got: >~ $ euse -i -l xwidgets >local use flags (searching: xwidgets) > >[- ] xwidgets >

Dale: Re: [gentoo-user] flash plugin in seamonkey, user problem

2016-11-07 Thread David M . Fellows
Forwarded per Dale's request DaveF --- Begin Message --- David M. Fellows wrote: >> Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> On Thu, 3 Nov 2016 01:25:14 -0500, Dale wrote: >>> >>>> [I--] [??] www-plugins/adobe-flash-11.2.202.635:0 >>>> [IP-] [ ] www-plugins/a

Re: [gentoo-user] flash plugin in seamonkey, user problem

2016-11-03 Thread David M. Fellows
>Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Thu, 3 Nov 2016 01:25:14 -0500, Dale wrote: >> >>> [I--] [??] www-plugins/adobe-flash-11.2.202.635:0 >>> [IP-] [ ] www-plugins/adobe-flash-23.0.0.205:22 >> >>> Don't ask me >>> how two versions can be installed at the same time tho. I dunno. I >>> don't think it is

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 49.0 & Youtube....Video: Yes - Audio: No...

2016-10-16 Thread David M. Fellows
>Hi, > >this evening I updated GENTOO and a new firefox was installed. >This one seem completly to disable flash video finally... >since I got no video/audio at all. > >I disabled all flash-related addons of my firefox and >restarted it. > >Now I got a video ... but without any audio. >(I am

Re: [gentoo-user] Keep alive within SSH session

2016-07-17 Thread David M. Fellows
On Sun, 17 Jul 2016 17:35:55 +0100 Mick wrote - > On Sunday 17 Jul 2016 16:20:30 Ralf wrote: > > On 07/17/2016 04:02 PM, Mick wrote: > > > I am not sure of the correct approach to achieve a prolonged remote= > > > > debugging session through SSH and avoid the SSH session timing out.= > What

Re: [gentoo-user] EAPI-6 dev-python ebuilds

2016-03-21 Thread David M. Fellows
On Mon, 21 Mar 2016 15:50:02 + James wrote - > Hello, > > I'm looking for some EAPI-6 examples or ebuild templates to > to review. > > > Is there a simple way to parse the portage tree for EAPI=6 examples > regardless if they are testing, stable or still just beta in a git > repo

Re: [gentoo-user] Record sizes of directories of a directory tree (huge) most efficiently

2016-01-27 Thread David M. Fellows
On Wed, 27 Jan 2016 17:25:37 +0100 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote - > Hi, > > I want to determine the size of the contents of all directories of a > tree of directories on a hexacore AMD64 machine with 4GB RAM an one > harddisk (containing that tree) -- most efficiently (least time > consuming). > >

Re: [gentoo-user] [WAY OT] wanna learn networking internals

2015-09-02 Thread David M. Fellows
On Wed, 2 Sep 2015 14:19:24 -0300 Francisco Ares wrote - > --089e013a029e929a39051ec6e045 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Hi, > > Sorry for such WAY out of topic message, but Gentoo users are also way out > of regular computer users. > > I intend to learn more deep details about

Re: [gentoo-user] missing dependencies

2014-02-26 Thread David M. Fellows
On Wed, 26 Feb 2014 08:12:35 -0300 Francisco Ares wrote - --001a113311e686e7f304f34d4a39 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hi All, It has been for a while, now: every now and then, when updating a perl module, it fails to emerge. Checking the log, it is possible to see something

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore

2013-01-05 Thread David M. Fellows
On Sat, 5 Jan 2013 12:44:07 -0800 Mark Knecht wrote - On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: I think I touched on this a couple of weeks ago but never had time to dig in. At that time I thought this problem was only on one machine but now I see it's on