Re: [gentoo-user] About Gnome desktop

2006-10-09 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Iain, gdmsetup is part of gdm. Do you have gdm installed? Even though you're running gnome, it's possible not to have gdm... # equery l gdm [ Searching for package 'gdm' in all categories among: ] * installed packages [I--] [ ] gnome-base/gdm-2.14.9-r1 (0) * end * It is there. Tks

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot unsubscribe

2006-10-09 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 15:02 -0400, Ed Jabbour wrote: I sent mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] which bounced with a notice:_Recipient_address_rejected:_User_unknown_in_local_recipient_table. Consequently, I'm still getting list mail. Not sure anyone here with a clue for the clueless, but if so . .

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE login with non-us keyboard

2006-10-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 08 Oct 2006 16:53:42 +0200, Charles Trois wrote: No. One finds only US English there. French is not available. It's the same with Control Centre - Regional - Country and Language. How could one make the system aware of French? It sounds like you don't have kde-i18n installed. Set

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage: Show list of required files without downloading anything?

2006-10-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 8 Oct 2006 22:08:29 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: # export DISTDIR=$(emerge --info | sed -n 's/^DISTDIR=\(.*\)$/\1/p') DISTDIR=$(portageq distdir) looks less like line noise and it harder to mis-type :) -- Neil Bothwick I do not like this dumb machine I really ought to sell it.

[gentoo-user] OT - mbox to maildir conversion

2006-10-09 Thread Michael Sullivan
I want to reconfigure my SMTP server from mbox to maildir. The problem is that I have hundreds of messages saved in imap folders in the mbox style. Is there a way to convert those folders to maildir style? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - mbox to maildir conversion

2006-10-09 Thread Rasmus Andersen
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 04:21:12AM -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: I want to reconfigure my SMTP server from mbox to maildir. The problem is that I have hundreds of messages saved in imap folders in the mbox style. Is there a way to convert those folders to maildir style? This one worked fine

Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning up my gentoo

2006-10-09 Thread Pawel K
I would like to clean up my gentoo installation. ... What about old ebuilds in /usr/portage/ directory should they be removed as well. What about other things that I'm not aware of. They should be automatically removed with rsync. Does this mean that they are removed during

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - mbox to maildir conversion [SOLVED]

2006-10-09 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 11:39 +0200, Rasmus Andersen wrote: On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 04:21:12AM -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: I want to reconfigure my SMTP server from mbox to maildir. The problem is that I have hundreds of messages saved in imap folders in the mbox style. Is there a way to

Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning up my gentoo

2006-10-09 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 9. Oktober 2006 11:46 schrieb ext Pawel K: They should be automatically removed with rsync. Does this mean that they are removed during emerge-webrsync as well ? Yes. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dvdrip permissions error, alternative?

2006-10-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 8 Oct 2006 20:56:45 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: You're right. I read this information some years ago in a normally reliable source, and saw no reason to doubt it as it made sense. bit I've just tried a dd copy and it worked. It failed on the first attempt, but after running lsdvd, it

Re: [gentoo-user] Auto-mount USB device

2006-10-09 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Iain, Still failed. # cat /etc/group | grep plugdev plugdev:x:1004:haldaemon,satimis if the logout-login doesn't work, then post the relevant part of /var/log/messages when plugging in the usb device. /var/log/message .. Oct 10 02:53:09 localhost usb 1-3: configuration #1 chosen from

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - mbox to maildir conversion

2006-10-09 Thread Alexander Skwar
Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I want to reconfigure my SMTP server from mbox to maildir. The problem is that I have hundreds of messages saved in imap folders in the mbox style. Is there a way to convert those folders to maildir style? formail in combination with procmail. You use

Re: [gentoo-user] About Dictionary

2006-10-09 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 09 October 2006 11:40, Stephen Liu wrote: [SNIP] I just have dictionary installed. # equery l dictionary [ Searching for package 'dictionary' in all categories among: ] * installed packages [I--] [ ] app-misc/jdictionary-1.8-r1 (0) * end * But it did not work on OpenOffice.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem getting UTF-8 locale

2006-10-09 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello BoOn 10/6/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 06 October 2006 20:51, Liviu Andronic wrote: Thanks for answering.Was a mistake by me that I replied to the wrong mail of yours.. ;) [SNIP] Please note that here locale -a doesn't show en_US.UTF-8, but en_US*.utf8 *(case

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no usb mouse in xorg 7.1

2006-10-09 Thread Andrew Frink
Harm Geerts wrote: On Sunday 08 October 2006 18:38, Harm Geerts wrote: On Sunday 08 October 2006 17:10, Andrew Frink wrote: Will evdev handle unicode charecters? i have a mouse that has the copyright symbol in it's name. No idea about that, just have to try, but you can

Re: [gentoo-user] Auto-mount USB device

2006-10-09 Thread Andrew Frink
Stephen Liu wrote: Hi Iain, Still failed. # cat /etc/group | grep plugdev plugdev:x:1004:haldaemon,satimis if the logout-login doesn't work, then post the relevant part of /var/log/messages when plugging in the usb device. /var/log/message .. Oct 10 02:53:09

Re: [gentoo-user] Auto-mount USB device

2006-10-09 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Andrew, Still failed.# cat /etc/group | grep plugdevplugdev:x:1004:haldaemon,satimis if the logout-login doesn't work, then post the relevant partof /var/log/messages when plugging in the usb device. /var/log/message..Oct 10 02:53:09 localhost usb 1-3: configuration #1

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dvdrip permissions error, alternative?

2006-10-09 Thread Grant
and dd means bad portability. What do you mean by this? dd simply mirrors the UDF filesystem from the disc in a file? According to someone else's post, the CSS keys would need to be cracked again if the backup was moved to a different computer. That's all I meant. If you want to extract

[gentoo-user] [OT] RSA Vs DSA keys for SSH authentication

2006-10-09 Thread Mick
Hi All, I have looked around and have found confusing info regarding which is a better key cipher to use for ssh authentication. Some say that RSA is widely considered more secure than DSA. Some say that it doesn't really matter, as long as you use a large enough bits setting in creating

[gentoo-user] Re: usb- seriial(minicom) problem

2006-10-09 Thread James
Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace.net.au writes: and you see this: usb 2-1: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now attached to ttyUSB0 Hello Ian, which is strange cause I also see /dev/ttyUSB0... did you actually manually check for the device /dev/ttyUSB0? Yes apart from that, I'm not

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dvdrip permissions error, alternative?

2006-10-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 9 Oct 2006 07:55:10 -0700, Grant wrote: Would vobcopy -m decrypt the DVD so that it can be played back without a need to crack or use stored CSS keys? Yes. -- Neil Bothwick IBM: Inferior But Marketable. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] About Dictionary

2006-10-09 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi BoØrsted, Tks for your advice. # cat `equery w openoffice` [...] pkg_postinst() { [...] einfo Spell checking is now provided through our own myspell-ebuilds, einfo if you want to use it, please install the correct myspell package einfo according to your language needs.

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] RSA Vs DSA keys for SSH authentication

2006-10-09 Thread Remy Blank
Mick wrote: I have looked around and have found confusing info regarding which is a better key cipher to use for ssh authentication. Some say that RSA is widely considered more secure than DSA. Some say that it doesn't really matter, as long as you use a large enough bits setting in

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dvdrip permissions error, alternative?

2006-10-09 Thread Grant
Would vobcopy -m decrypt the DVD so that it can be played back without a need to crack or use stored CSS keys? Yes. That does seem to work with the stubborn The Life of Mammals. I wish I didn't have to mount the DVD before running vobcopy though. I suppose a mkisofs command after vobcopy

[gentoo-user] Re: About Dictionary

2006-10-09 Thread Harm Geerts
On Monday 09 October 2006 17:30, Stephen Liu wrote: # cat `equery w openoffice` !!! No masked or unmasked packages found for openoffice (hanging here) amd64 only supports openoffice-bin And the command was only used to show you the einfo lines which would have told you to use myspell. --

Re: [gentoo-user] ath0 turbo mode (108Mbps)

2006-10-09 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 08 October 2006 20:14, Grant wrote: Has anyone gotten turbo mode to work with their madwifi/ath0 cards? It is supported according to this (search for turbo): http://madwifi.org/wiki/FAQ/HowDoI I'm using the latest madwifi-ng on my router and client, and the client

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dvdrip permissions error, alternative?

2006-10-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 9 Oct 2006 09:42:21 -0700, Grant wrote: That does seem to work with the stubborn The Life of Mammals. I wish I didn't have to mount the DVD before running vobcopy though. vobcopy reads the VOB files directly, rather than reading /dev/dvd as a video source. I suppose a mkisofs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] RSA Vs DSA keys for SSH authentication

2006-10-09 Thread Mick
On Monday 09 October 2006 16:59, Remy Blank wrote: DSA keys are always 1024 bits, as this is mandated by the standard. RSA keys can have variable length. From man ssh-keygen: -b bits Specifies the number of bits in the key to create. For RSA keys, the minimum size is 768 bits and

[gentoo-user] Xorg 7.0+composite+radeon OSS drivers+radeon9200se : X cpu usage sometimes rockets to 80%

2006-10-09 Thread b.n.
Hi, Today I tried to enable the composite extension on my Xorg. Nice eye candy :) and everything works pretty good. The only problem is that sometimes the CPU usage shots to 80% for intervals of 20-60 minutes (at pretty random intervals, but it seems to me that switching desktops a lot

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] RSA Vs DSA keys for SSH authentication

2006-10-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 09 October 2006 09:07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] [OT] RSA Vs DSA keys for SSH authentication': Some say that RSA is widely considered more secure than DSA. DSA is mathematically stronger than RSA. However, that doesn't mean much since most attacks don't

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] RSA Vs DSA keys for SSH authentication

2006-10-09 Thread Mick
On Monday 09 October 2006 22:48, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Monday 09 October 2006 09:07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] [OT] RSA Vs DSA keys for SSH authentication': Some say that RSA is widely considered more secure than DSA. DSA is mathematically stronger than

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] RSA Vs DSA keys for SSH authentication

2006-10-09 Thread Drew
DSA is mathematically stronger than RSA. However, that doesn't mean much since most attacks don't come from attacking the core of the algorithm anyway. Do you mean that an RSA key with twice the number of bits (e.g. 2048 or even higher) is still weaker (i.e. easier to crack) than the DSA

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Problem with disk: cannot mount as ext3 but can as ext2

2006-10-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 10/8/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try |dmesg | tail or so This was good advice | # fsck.ext3 -p /dev/hdd | fsck.ext3: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hdd | /dev/hdd: Should

Re: [gentoo-user] About Gnome desktop

2006-10-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 09:13 +0100, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi Iain, gdmsetup is part of gdm. Do you have gdm installed? Even though you're running gnome, it's possible not to have gdm... # equery l gdm [ Searching for package 'gdm' in all categories among: ] * installed packages [I--] [

Re: [gentoo-user] Auto-mount USB device

2006-10-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 09:37 -0400, Andrew Frink wrote: Stephen Liu wrote: Hi Iain, Still failed. Also, post details of the usb thing that you're trying to use - what is it? USB enclosure is a box for mounting a HD inside to be used for external storage. It is

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] RSA Vs DSA keys for SSH authentication

2006-10-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 09 October 2006 17:51, Drew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] RSA Vs DSA keys for SSH authentication': RSA has the advantage of allowing longer key lengths From what I understand, the DSA algorithm has no particular ties to the 1024-bit key length

[gentoo-user] Java Config Problems.

2006-10-09 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
Java Config is screwing up. (The gentoo java changes have been a long haul of sucky experiance.) I have severeal systems that now work, and one that doesn't which i will speak of. I have others, but likely they all have the same problems: java-config-2 doesn't exist. java-config-1 reports:

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dvdrip permissions error, alternative?

2006-10-09 Thread Grant
That does seem to work with the stubborn The Life of Mammals. I wish I didn't have to mount the DVD before running vobcopy though. vobcopy reads the VOB files directly, rather than reading /dev/dvd as a video source. I suppose a mkisofs command after vobcopy would make for a pretty good

Re: [gentoo-user] Java Config Problems.

2006-10-09 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 10 October 2006 01:47, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: Java Config is screwing up. (The gentoo java changes have been a long haul of sucky experiance.) I have severeal systems that now work, and one that doesn't which i will speak of. I have others, but likely they all have the same

Re: [gentoo-user] lsmod and startx don't agreeRESOLVED

2006-10-09 Thread maxim wexler
--- Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 09 October 2006 06:54, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: At that point you were supposed to follow the migration to modular X guide [1]. Heh, forgot the reference.. [1]