[gentoo-user] A Gentoo Equivalent

2005-09-18 Thread C. Beamer
Hi all, I'm not sure how to do the equivalent of the following in Gentoo, so any help would be appreciated. When I used Fedora Core, on a daily basis, I could fire up Pine (or Mutt) and would get an e-mail that was essentially the output from my log files. One of the things that would be listed

Re: [gentoo-user] A Gentoo Equivalent

2005-09-18 Thread Mike Williams
On Sunday 18 September 2005 20:14, C. Beamer wrote: How would this be accomplished in Gentoo? Logwatch is the closest I can think of. To get it sent to you all depends on the MTA you're using. As I've never used ssmtp (the default MTA for Gentoo), a quick glance via google suggest it has some

Re: [gentoo-user] A Gentoo Equivalent

2005-09-18 Thread W.Kenworthy
and set /etc/mail/aliases if needed. BillK On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 22:59 +0100, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Sunday 18 September 2005 20:14, C. Beamer wrote: Hi all, I'm not sure how to do the equivalent of the following in Gentoo, so any help would be appreciated. When I used Fedora Core,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo equivalent to yum provides

2005-08-22 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Graham Murray wrote: However it should be possible to know all of files that the package may install. You would have to write a utility that looked at ALL the possible USE flags a package could make use of and build a tree that was stored in a database (not to mention, you

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo equivalent to yum provides

2005-08-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rennie deGraaf schreef: What command does one use to find what package(s) provide a particular file, given that that particular file is not present on my system? For example, I need a program called foobar, but don't know what package provides it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo equivalent to yum provides

2005-08-21 Thread Nick Rout
neither equery nor any other program can predict what will be installed in a package, because that varies with architecture and USE flags. So there is no direct equivalent. You either have to work it out for yuorself, ggogle or ask here. This topic has been covered many times on this list. If