Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Best IRC client

2006-08-08 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 11:31:02PM -0400, Mike wrote: I have tried most of them and I prefer Xchat for a gtk app and IRSSI for the terminal but I am using Gaim right now for IRC because i like having all my text messaging in the same program. With centericq, irssi, and mutt I can run chat,

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} vi line breaks

2006-08-06 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 04:25:09PM -0700, Grant wrote: This worked great for plain vi, but the problem persists with mutt. Any suggestions for mutt? This is my mutt editor command. Suit it to your desires, although I reccommend keeping the line breaks unless you know of a way to get mutt to

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} vi line breaks

2006-08-05 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 02:19:41PM -0700, Grant wrote: Does anyone know how to prevent vi from inserting a line break after every however many characters? :set nolinebreak echo set nolinebreak ~/.vimrc Justin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers-8.27.10: total lock on logout

2006-08-04 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 11:10:57AM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 8/4/06, fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know what the heck is going on here? I mean this is TOTALLY unacceptable. I know it is not gentoos fault, it's ATI putting out crap drivers... But this is SO FRUSTRATING not

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the release date for 2006.1?

2006-08-03 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 08:05:52AM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: And because of lazy people, other people have to suffer? Yes. Otherwise I'd think you were discriminataing against me and I'd have to leave gentoo for another distro with loud exclamations of disgust. I don't think that this is

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the release date for 2006.1?

2006-08-02 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 02:38:49PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: You can check the official project page for current status and goals of the release: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/release/2006.1/2006.1.xml So why should I bother manually changing the /etc/make.profile symlink? Does this

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the release date for 2006.1?

2006-08-02 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 05:40:17PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: Well the main reason is because profiles will disappear from portage after a certain amount of time, and you can't really run without a profile!! Right, but I still don't understand why it doesn't auto update when it's ready,

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync exlusion for portage tree

2006-07-28 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 08:05:42PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, I'm using an rsync exclusion file to keep my portage tree some bits smaller. I'd now like to kick off app-docs, but include app-doc/xorg-docs. How can I do this ? I don't know much about how gentoo wraps rsync

Re: [gentoo-user] A directory name with spaces in it?

2006-07-21 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 09:07:14PM +0200, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: Escape the spaces with backslashes, or put the name inside single quotes or double quotes. Bash auto-completion escapes the spaces for you. Let's everyone take a moment to reflect upon how much bash means to us. PAUSE Thank you.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Missing device files for cdroms

2006-07-20 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 05:01:23PM -0700, don wrote: No they don't. It sounds like you may not have some important ide kernel module loaded. I would check /lib/modules/2.6.*/kernel/drivers/ide/ first for modules to load and then look at the kernel IDE config. Justin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] What's an ewarn?

2006-07-13 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 11:02:10PM -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've seen mention of something called an ewarn, which makes me hope it's related to those messages that fly by when I'm doing a big emerge update. I always mean to go back and look at them, but they get scrolled off. In

Re: [gentoo-user] Build error: gnumeric-1.4.3-r3

2006-07-13 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 05:32:03AM +0200, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: short question is there a way to change CFLAGS on-the-fly without hacking any *.conf files ? # CFLAGS=-Os -march=athlon-xp -pipe emerge gnumeric Or for more permanence (I know this is going way beyond what you asked,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: d

2006-07-12 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 03:27:30PM +, James wrote: Like man pages for ascii text, but which covers all of the various types and locations for docs. Collectively, a lot of time is wasted since each individual has to search ebuilds, lib, share, wikis, web sites and googling to find these

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-08 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 05:42:25PM +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote: Yes, I already have about 400MB of logs there. I still wonder when will come the day I'll wipe them out. :) I have a simple cron job that bzip2's them and about a year's worth of logs amounts to about 30 Mib, but I should probably

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing access to my laptop

2006-07-08 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 12:12:56PM -0700, Ow Mun Heng wrote: er... click New Login as it's presented at the xscreensaver prompt? I believe the newlogin feature was just introduced in xscreensaver-5.00 which came out just recently. Be sure to enable the new-login USE flag in

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrade xorg-x11 ; xprint missing [solved]

2006-07-02 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 07:15:28PM +0200, Mick wrote: On 02/07/06, Ptitjack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently upgraded from xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7 to xorg-x11-7.0-r1. Everything is ok except one little annoying point : Now, each time i open a console, i get the error message : -bash:

Re: [gentoo-user] no compiler cache

2006-06-25 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 12:26:03AM -0500, Jeremy Olexa wrote: Looks like there is files in the cache to me. =) Yeah, but I would expect more than 2.2 Mib of data in the cache after an 'emerge -e world' and at least some cache hits. Justin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kaudiocreator still giving me fits - added info

2006-06-24 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 10:18:02PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Colleen Beamer wrote: Jun 23 22:04:15 localhost hdc: drive not ready for command Jun 23 22:04:15 localhost hdc: ATAPI reset complete Jun 23 22:05:15 localhost hdc: irq timeout: status=0x80 { Busy } Jun 23 22:05:15

[gentoo-user] no compiler cache

2006-06-24 Thread Justin R Findlay
Recently I upgraded gcc to gcc-4.1.1 from gcc-4.0.3 and cleared out the ccache cache believing that cached compiler data across different compiler versions would be useless. However after doing an 'emerge -e world', there's nothing in the cache. I'm inclined to blame a specific unsupported

Re: [gentoo-user] 2GB of RAM

2006-06-20 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 09:01:26AM -0700, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: What are the names of the config options that change the memory split? I'm running gentoo-sources-2.6.17, and for the life of me, I can't find any config option that deal with memory (and I know they existed: I've set them

Re: [gentoo-user] Reading ~/.xsession file

2006-06-17 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 01:58:38PM -0600, Brad Camroux wrote: On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 07:47:18PM +, Mick wrote: I also use fluxbox (with xdm) and have also found that ~/.xsession is ignored. To start apps along with fluxbox I made entries in /etc/X11/Sessions/fluxbox. Would I have

Re: [gentoo-user] 64bit vs 32bit

2006-06-16 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 10:15:09PM +0300, Catalin Trifu wrote: I am planning to buy a new machine and lately I was thinking about a AMD64 X2 4800+ 2GB RAM. Is it worth to install 64bit linux or should I go for 32. As I have read there are issues with video stuff, flash player.

[gentoo-user] linux make modules solved

2006-06-15 Thread Justin R Findlay
I finally figured out why linux wouldn't build its modules. Although I learned a lot about make it was because I had set GREP_OPTIONS=--color=always in my /root/.bashrc which is sourced by shell invocations from make (and odd shell scripts as well, like configure scripts). So, the lesson is,

Re: [gentoo-user] Editing PDF and/or postscript

2006-06-13 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 05:54:00PM -0400, JimD wrote: Are there any tools/editors to edit a pdf or ps file? I am digitizing some books. I have the books as pdf and can convert that to postscript, text, html. I would like to be able to insert a few graphics into the PDF files. I could

[gentoo-user] Typesetting systems

2006-06-13 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 03:14:57AM +, b.n. wrote: JimD wrote: I was hoping there were tools/editors for PDF/PS. What the heck do book writers use? I hope not a word processor. I am only working with small books and it is a pain to have to deal with layout. They use LaTeX. If you

Re: [gentoo-user] Introduction - new list user

2006-06-12 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 09:58:54AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: My question is, what are the local rules around here for how to behave on list? I'm very much old school, and prefer lists over forums - in my world top posting, no snipping, HTML mail and hi-jacking threads are a huge no-no,

Re: [gentoo-user] ctrl-alt-f(123456) dono worky so good

2006-06-11 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 11:45:35PM -0700, Jason A. Booth wrote: Apologies if this is silly, but google didn't do it for me. I've recently updated a lot of things, and am doing emerge -u world right now.. but from my user account, I lost the ability to get back to a tty. seems really odd

Re: [gentoo-user] OT sorry for hijacking thread

2006-06-11 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 07:15:46PM +, Mick wrote: On 11/06/06, Jason A. Booth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry about that. ~J Don't worry about it. It is considered bad form especially when I was relying on that thread to improve my limited knowledge on cryptography in Linux, but we all

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no suEXEC logging on errors

2006-06-08 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 01:51:09AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A few people have mentioned not having used Suexec making me wonder if there is some other way to allow myuser to run cgi? I usually run apache as apache:web with the user creating the web stuff in the web group. Justin --

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH authentication attempts - serious issue

2006-06-05 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 02:15:34PM -0300, Leandro Melo de Sales wrote: How can I recompiler openssh to support tcpwrapper? I can't find /etc/hosts.allow neither /etc/hosts.deny. Is there something missing? Is there a way to put tcpwrapper as a turned on option for all programs that supports

Re: [gentoo-user] newly emerged apache permissions error

2006-06-02 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 12:03:11AM -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: I cannot get apache to actually serve any pages. check your apache logs. Try: # tail -F /var/log/apache/error_log and reload the page and see what happens. It should give you a specific reason why it fails. Even

Re: [gentoo-user] how to trigger complete rebuild after changing CFLAGS oder USEFLAGS

2006-05-31 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 09:10:48PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: What does emerge system exactly do ? system is an alias for a bunch of core packages. I forgot where it's defined. Justin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

2006-05-31 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 10:23:48PM -0700, Lord Sauron wrote: So I'm just going to untar it to / by tar xjvf gcc-3.4.5-r1.tbz2? No. [EMAIL PROTECTED] # cp gcc-3.4.5-r1.tbz2 /usr/portage/packages [EMAIL PROTECTED] # emerge -k =gcc-3.4.5-r1 And make sure PKGDIR is set to /usr/portage/packages

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

2006-05-31 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 10:40:13PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: Justin, remember the original problem...no libstdc++.so.6, so all C++ dependant packages are broken, and this includes python and thus portage. OK. I guess I should read the whole thread before spouting off directions. (-: