Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with script calling OOCalc on amd64

2010-03-23 Thread Steve Dommett
On Friday 19 March 2010 19:14:21 Mick wrote: I also tried /usr/bin/oocalc, but it didn't work. :-( Try: oocalc -no-oosplash :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with script calling OOCalc on amd64

2010-03-23 Thread Steve Dommett
On Tuesday 23 March 2010 16:04:04 Mick wrote: Do you know why it behaves differently with -no- oosplash, when the binary installation does not seem to be bothered either way? It seems the binary package doesn't install the optional oosplash.bin program. The code responsible for the differing

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Dell PowerEdge 2600 / 2800? AMI / LSI MegaRAID driver?

2007-12-23 Thread Steve Dommett
On Thursday 20 December 2007, Stroller wrote: ... I was expecting something similar to when I've hotplugged SATA drives on my desktop machine. What controller is in that, please? Does it do hardware RAID, or is it just a regular SATA controller? I've done it using both the onboard

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Dell PowerEdge 2600 / 2800? AMI / LSI MegaRAID driver?

2007-12-19 Thread Steve Dommett
On Thursday 20 December 2007, Stroller wrote: I haven't done much digging yet, but thought a quick show of hands here might save some time. It looks like the SCSI hot-swap / RAID controller uses an AMI / LSI MegaRAID driver which is (?) part of the main kernel - anyone know if that does status

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync via ssh

2007-11-04 Thread Steve Dommett
On Sunday 04 November 2007, Roger Mason wrote: Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately that did not work, the same error ocurs. This may not be applicable, but I run rdiff-backup from cron on many machine with no problems at all. It uses librsync, so may be of interest to you.

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync via ssh

2007-11-04 Thread Steve Dommett
On Sunday 04 November 2007, Roger Mason wrote: Did you have to do anything special to make it work from cron? No, but then the crontab entry is simply: 47 4 * * * /root/backup.sh The backup.sh is essentially: rdiff-backup \ --print-statistics \ --exclude /mnt \ --exclude /dev \

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync via ssh

2007-11-04 Thread Steve Dommett
On Sunday 04 November 2007, Shawn Haggett wrote: Roger Mason wrote: How have you setup the passwordless ssh? If your using keys with the ssh keyagent, then when the command is run in cron it wouldn't know where to find your ssh-agent... Shawn I use a use a key with no password without

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Video encoder

2007-11-03 Thread Steve Dommett
On Saturday 03 November 2007, Grant wrote: I'm looking for an easy way to encode the video files I acquire into a single format and level of quality. It would also be nice to be able to easily burn a DVD of the resultant file that will play on a home DVD player. I'm sure there are at least

Re: [gentoo-user] Vixie Cron

2007-11-02 Thread Steve Dommett
On Friday 02 November 2007, sean wrote: How is vixie-cron setup to accept remote connections? Eh? Why would a cron daemon need to accept connections, what does that even mean in the context of cron? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] apache: Directory index forbidden by Options directive

2007-10-08 Thread Steve Dommett
On Monday 08 October 2007, Arnau Bria wrote: My apache2 worked fine until lasta Friday I update it to 2.2.6. Now, when I try to access my drupal site, I see this error in firefox: I'm just guessing, but Apache 2.2.6 removed index.htm from the list of default index files. It may be possible

Re: [gentoo-user] apache: Directory index forbidden by Options directive

2007-10-08 Thread Steve Dommett
On Monday 08 October 2007, Arnau Bria wrote: You're right, I needed index.php... but now php does not work!!! Have you run revdep-rebuild, or even simply manually re-emerged PHP after updating Apache? not sure if all those dir should be empty... could you please confirm? I have only php.ini,

Re: [gentoo-user] X.Org 1.4 with Nvidia?

2007-10-02 Thread Steve Dommett
On Tuesday 02 October 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hello. When X.Org 1.4 first hit the portage tree, I masked it, as I had quite some problems getting it to work work with my Nvidia graphics card. I decided to stay with 1.3.0.0 for the time being. Now x11-base/xorg-server-1.4-r2 is in the

Re: [gentoo-user] doing minimall install from a pc within a lan

2007-10-02 Thread Steve Dommett
On Tuesday 02 October 2007, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: (ssh livecd from my pc does not work even after startin sshd in the remote machine where i am trying to install gentoo) I frequently install to remote machines in this way. Have you tried using its IP address? Are you sure the livecd machine

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend questions

2007-10-02 Thread Steve Dommett
On Wednesday 03 October 2007, James Colby wrote: The reason for that is because the suspend kernel is configuring my hard disk as /dev/hda and my standard kernel is configuring it as /dev/sda. Does anyone know how I can get the suspend kernel to assign my hard disk as /dev/sda? I think

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate mails

2007-09-30 Thread Steve Dommett
On Sunday 30 September 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote: I'm getting a lot of duplicate messages lately, especially from gentoo-users. I don't know if it's an error on my side or not. Not here. I've never seen duplicates from any gentoo list. I /have/ seen several other folks on gentoo-user report

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-30 Thread Steve Dommett
On Sunday 30 September 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: Other data in /var/lib. For example, any databases kept in /var/lib/mysql. Rather than backup MySQL's or Postgres' binary storage I prefer to use the relevant tool (mysqldump, pgdump[all]) to backup the database to /root/backups/ just prior to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge world

2007-09-28 Thread Steve Dommett
On Friday 28 September 2007, Arnau Bria wrote: --- Couldn't find 'media-gfx/splashutils-1.5.2' to unmerge. No packages selected for removal by unmerge is it normal? According to your earlier post you don't have any versions of splashutils installed, so yes this is normal: *

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge world

2007-09-28 Thread Steve Dommett
On Friday 28 September 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: Yep. It's saying, that any version before 1.5.2 is blocking. So, do: emerge -C 'media-gfx/splashutils-1.5.2' Or if you'd rather not remove splashutils, you'll need to tell portage you're happy to run version 1.5.2 which is currently marked

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge world

2007-09-28 Thread Steve Dommett
On Friday 28 September 2007, Arnau Bria wrote: Ok, so, why is portage blocking the update? It's not an update, it's a new install. Something else which is installed (and probably wanting to be updated) is trying to pull in splashutils-1.5.2 or later as a dependency. As this version is not

Re: [gentoo-user] is http://packages.gentoo.org/ off-line?

2007-08-07 Thread Steve Dommett
ツ Leandro Sales wrote: Here I have the same response! Unable to Connect As was recently established in thread packages.gentoo.org down?: Christian Heim phreak at gentoo.org wrote: It's being closed until further notice. PS Leandro, please don't top post. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] IO scheduling

2007-07-31 Thread Steve Dommett
Aleksey V. Kunitskiy wrote: Hi, Is there any possibility to adjust IO scheduling priority ? There's ionice which is part of sys-process/schedutils. At least it's in v1.5.0. ionice -c2 -p `pidof rtorrent` will make IO very nice. ionice -c3 -p `pidof rtorrent` claims to wait until

Re: [gentoo-user] IO scheduling

2007-07-31 Thread Steve Dommett
I forgot to mention that I think you need to be using the CFQ scheduler. Change ionice class doesn't seem to affect the deadline and anticipatory schedulers' behaviour. Also I think I had an extra space in there after the -p. Try: ionice -c2 -p`pidof rtorrent` -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Still can't play audio CD's

2007-07-24 Thread Steve Dommett
Colleen Beamer wrote: If anyone can provide me with direction, I would sure appreciate it. Sorry I can't help you with your ALSA config. I've been stuck for months now trying to enable SPDIF-out on my own laptop. However: I notice from your first post on this topic that you're trying to

Re: [gentoo-user] notebook lcd resolution problem

2007-07-18 Thread Steve Dommett
Stefán István wrote: (II) NV(0): Monitor0: Using default hsync range of 31.50-37.90 kHz (II) NV(0): Monitor0: Using default vrefresh range of 50.00-70.00 Hz is the reason all the other modes are being disabled: (II) NV(0): Not using default mode 640x350 (vrefresh out of range) (II) NV(0): Not

Re: [gentoo-user] OT serial port program with a gui interface

2007-06-30 Thread Steve Dommett
James wrote: Hello, I'm looking for a serial port program, with a simple gui interface, that can be extended. I do not really snip Any ideas of something I can use as a starting point? Perhaps Komport will be a nice starting point: http://komport.sourceforge.net/ or maybe Cutecom:

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD 2.4 to DVD5

2007-06-13 Thread Steve Dommett
Nicola Degl'Innocenti wrote: The only problem is that this disk is only 1.4 GB and I want to merge more miniDVD in a single DVD video without making divx or similar. I want to obtain a single DVD (3 miniDVD on a 1 DVD) with chapter, title and so on using the minor loss of data, but I don't