[gentoo-user] Holiday greetings!

2011-12-24 Thread Joseph Davis
Just wanted to say thanks and Happy Holidays to everyone on the list, I love reading here! Cheers - Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-23 Thread Joseph Davis
I agree a list of issues, just broad ones, would be helpful. I am interested in VMs, so knowing which ones have what problems, and my own needs, would be help me make a good choice. Please, disparage with details! ;-) Thanks - Joseph Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: The 23/11/11, Alan McKinnon wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] sed/awk question

2011-11-21 Thread Joseph Davis
I'd use sed and the regex -[0-9] to delimit the field foo=`echo '123--bad-2xyz-3--' | sed -r -e s/-[0-9].*//` echo $foo 123--bad Helpful? Adam Carter wrote: Hi All, I need to cut a string, which happens to be a filename, using the first dash that's followed by a numeral, so cut -f 1 -d-

Re: [gentoo-user] sed/awk question

2011-11-21 Thread Joseph Davis
Oh, and you can get the other end next by foo2=`echo '123--bad-2xyz-3--' | sed -r -e s/$foo//` echo $foo2 -2xyz-3-- Joseph Davis wrote: I'd use sed and the regex -[0-9] to delimit the field foo=`echo '123--bad-2xyz-3--' | sed -r -e s/-[0-9].*//` echo $foo 123--bad Helpful? Adam Carter

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: spontaneous reboots.. what to look for

2009-02-16 Thread Joseph Davis
I believe he is referring to capacitors, you should be able to google for some pictures of common capacitors. They look like little barrels, usually dark blue as I look at my motherboard... They have special electrical paste in them, if it leaks, they are dead. Harry Putnam wrote: Volker

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge on new install has die econf failed

2009-02-13 Thread Joseph Davis
Feb 2009 16:36:31 -0600 Joseph Davis jos...@uh.edu wrote: I looked as you suggested, and this is what I found - I'm still clueless. which: no gtkdoc-rebase in (/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/lib/portage/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i486-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.1.2) make[5

[gentoo-user] emerge on new install has die econf failed

2009-02-12 Thread Joseph Davis
Hey Folks: I am building a new system, and the install is done, and I emerged a few things, vim for instance, and they went OK. Then I tried to emerge ntp apache samba postgresql php and I got --- ERROR: dev-libs/libpcre-7.8 failed. * Call

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge on new install has die econf failed

2009-02-12 Thread Joseph Davis
Alexander Pilipovsky wrote: Joseph Davis написав(ла): Hey Folks: I am building a new system, and the install is done, and I emerged a few things, vim for instance, and they went OK. Then I tried to emerge ntp apache samba postgresql php and I got