[gentoo-user] portage-2.1 elog...

2006-06-11 Thread Peter Karlsson
Hi! I'm trying to get the emerge logs mailed to my user. Problem is that I've set postfix to listen only on unix sockets (i.e. it refuses tcp smtp-connections) and I want it that way, for now. One solution would be PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM=custom and do some mail -s-magic. I don't know how portage

Re: [gentoo-user] portage-2.1 elog...

2006-06-11 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, Alexander Skwar wrote: snip Portage calls your PORTAGE_ELOG_COMMAND and sets two env vars, which are to be given to your command. You might want to have a look at http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Making_portage_use_/usr/sbin/sendmail_to_send_out_ELOG_mails. Thanks! Best

[gentoo-user] deptree...

2005-12-18 Thread Peter Karlsson
Hello! Recently (when I upgraded to gentoo-sources-2.6.14-r5) I've been having boot problems. I think I'm having the exact same problem as: http://www.usenetlinux.com/t-324913.html ... where the user gets his /var/lib/init.d/deptree duplicated (the dependencies gets repeated twice). My

Re: [gentoo-user] Make a running process nohup?

2005-09-07 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Qiangning Hong wrote: Is it possible make a running process nohup so that I can leave it running after I logout without interrupt it? man nohup? (+nice/renice?) Best regards Peter K -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-15 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Paul Hoy wrote: I really like Gentoo and I like that fact that it does a pretty good job at supporting Gnome, however, it's still behind other releases, such as Fedora, in terms of when it releases updates, etc. I find that hard to believe... Linux from Scratch looks

Re: [gentoo-user] real-time priority

2005-08-12 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Joseph wrote: I'm not sure if that what they mean with real-time priority. Realtime has nothing to do with 'nice'. With 'nice' you set the process' time-slice so that it gets more (or less) processor-time. With realtime (soft or hard realtime - there's a difference) the

[gentoo-user] FYI: Gimp + xscanimage

2005-07-31 Thread Peter Karlsson
Hi! I was struggling with getting gimp to accept xscanimage as a plugin but no matter what I did I always got this: --- /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/xscanimage: GIMP support missing. (gimp:19576): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: gimp:

Re: [gentoo-user] Matlab under gentoo

2005-07-30 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005, Yuan MEI wrote: Hi, Anybody know how to solve it? I know under suse this could be done by LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 but I don't want to leave gentoo. Have you tried it? You need to have a linuxthreads-compatible glibc... (i.e. not a NPTL-only version) See:

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to xdm/gdm?

2005-06-19 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: I found 'entrance' but there are too many ~x86 packages for my liking. Can anyone else recommend a graphical login manager that might have the ability to allow a user to shut the system down from the login screen? gdm wants to emerge pretty much all of

Re: [gentoo-user] sorta OT - honest (!) opinions on mailservers

2005-06-13 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: yes, but most knowledgable people know that exim blows the pants off qmail and postfix. Ok, then perhaps you could explain why a mail server (running exim4) suddenly stops to relay emails (this worked before) and then all of a sudden

Re: [gentoo-user] sorta OT - honest (!) opinions on mailservers

2005-06-13 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: I would suggest you go to the very active exim-users mail list and be prepared to show your config and the log entries. You can find a link to the mail list at www.exim.org . The author of exim is very forthcoming and helpful as well

Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm HDIO_SET_DMA failed

2005-05-17 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Sat, 14 May 2005, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: is this not deafault? Not on my system. m16 sets to 16 ;) but: is m16 not the default setting? Again not on my system. I don't know, if there is any combination today, that makes probs, but not using -u is wasting performance. Don't complain about

Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm HDIO_SET_DMA failed

2005-05-14 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Fri, 13 May 2005, Peter Gordon wrote: My understanding is that the kernel will automagically configure DMA as appropriate if you build support for the IDE controller statically, but hdparm is needed to initialize DMA stuff if you build your IDE controller's driver as a module. I'm not certain

Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm HDIO_SET_DMA failed

2005-05-14 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Sat, 14 May 2005, Grant wrote: Thanks Peter. Is your -u1 a typo? No. That option works fine, afaict, with my drive/chipset combination (maxtor/ich5). Best regards Peter K -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] - BIOS after Gentoo is up

2005-05-07 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Fri, 6 May 2005, James wrote: The most uncooperative company is Intel, which has started a sham open source BIOS project. The software consists of all the unimportant parts of of a BIOS, without the hard parts. It won't run, and doesn't bring us any closer to a BIOS that does run. It is just a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] - BIOS after Gentoo is up

2005-05-06 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Thu, 5 May 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: My main interest in this area is one that most here won't probably have much experience on - Gentoo-xbox. In the case of Gentoo proper running on the XBox there is a large amount of confusion and differing opinions about BIOS. Clearly you have to make a

[gentoo-user] Hickups in X...

2005-05-05 Thread Peter Karlsson
Hi! I'm having an annoying problem. Running X(org-6.8.2-r1) and xscreensaver(-4.21 - this also happen with previous versions). When the screen blanks the computer freezes for a brief moment (1 second) and then continues as nothing happened (how do I detect this? Xmms stops playing during

Re: [gentoo-user] udev and v4l and xawtv

2005-05-03 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Tue, 3 May 2005, Al Bayrouni wrote: How to create /dev/v4l/video* ? I am using udev under kernel-2.6.11-r6. I created the /dev/v4l/dev* manually and even using the MAKEDEV script in linux/Documention but this doeasn't work. No changes if I reboot the system, Still no /dev/v4l/video* or

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms segmentation fault

2005-04-11 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Robert G. Hays wrote: Things like this are why I only update when there is something I **really** need... smug smile But then you don't get the joy of trying to fix a problem... ;-) Might be time to think SLOTs? Or maybe a re-emerge of Xmms. Oh, it works fine now, since I

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla/Gecko and mathematical symbols

2005-04-10 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Berger Gerald wrote: http://rooster.stanford.edu/, e.g. http://rooster.stanford.edu/~ben/notes/numberfield/split.php This seems to work for me (I haven't checked _thouroughly_)... http://www.mathe-online.at , e.g. http://www.mathe-online.at/mathint/diff2/i.html#Fraktal This

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla/Gecko and mathematical symbols

2005-04-10 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Berger Gerald wrote: After doing some hours of research, I discovered that there is no Type1 font encoded to render ISO-8859-1 symbols. Therefore ISO-10646 is used to translate the symbols. That causes partial wrong rendering. I found a nice document: