[gentoo-ppc-user] Re: Are there any Pegasos users?

2011-03-28 Thread nello martuscielli
you could get a working linux config (for peg2) from CRUX-PPC install iso. cheers, Nell

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-forensics/chkrootkit finds INFECTED binaries on ~amd64

2011-03-28 Thread Mick
On Sunday 27 March 2011 22:09:00 walt wrote: I just got an email from cron on my ~amd64 machine, containing these lines: Checking 'find'... INFECTED Checking 'netstat'... INFECTED Took me a few minutes to deduce that sys-forensics/chkrootkit was the source of those messages. I ran

[gentoo-user] hdparm and write caching

2011-03-28 Thread Coert Waagmeester
Hello all, Running a box with 2x1TB software raid disks. A while back I read up about disk write caching and it's pros/cons. I then decided to disable it on my box. Edited /etc/conf.d/hdparm and added -W0 for sata_all_args. And added it to the default runlevel. It works, on bootup it turns off

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating world

2011-03-28 Thread JM
You're right - could the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS be only used for the troublesome packages? On 27 March 2011 22:54, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 21:25:18 +0100, JM wrote: You can allow it to install the masked packages by typing: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating world

2011-03-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:23:15 +0100, JM wrote: You're right - could the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS be only used for the troublesome packages? Yes, by setting in in portage.accept_keywords. BTW - to-posting is frowned upon on this list. -- Neil Bothwick Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and

Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm and write caching

2011-03-28 Thread Mick
On Monday 28 March 2011 09:11:51 Coert Waagmeester wrote: Hello all, Running a box with 2x1TB software raid disks. A while back I read up about disk write caching and it's pros/cons. I then decided to disable it on my box. Edited /etc/conf.d/hdparm and added -W0 for sata_all_args. And

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating world

2011-03-28 Thread JM
to-posting? Am I using the wrong email address for replying to the list? Please excuse my ignorance :) On 28 March 2011 09:32, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:23:15 +0100, JM wrote: You're right - could the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS be only used for the troublesome

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating world

2011-03-28 Thread Mick
On Monday 28 March 2011 09:43:47 JM wrote: to-posting? Neil meant to say top-posting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style and http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html (there are many links if you google about netiquette and usenet etiquette). BTW, some typos like Neil's are allowed to

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating world

2011-03-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:43:47 +0100, JM wrote: to-posting? Am I using the wrong email address for replying to the list? Please excuse my ignorance :) No, I'm using a new netbook with a less sensitive keyboard than the old one. I meant top-posting. On 28 March 2011 09:32, Neil Bothwick

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating world

2011-03-28 Thread JM
On 28 March 2011 10:11, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 28 March 2011 09:43:47 JM wrote: to-posting? Neil meant to say top-posting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style and http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html (there are many links if you google about

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: python-2.7 update: re-emerge of cracklib failed, how can I fix it?

2011-03-28 Thread Mr. Jarry
Apparently, both methods work. But I agree your way is easier... BTW, when we are at the subject, is it possible to switch to python 3.x, and get rid of python 2.x completely? I noticed there are still both versions of python installed: 2.7.1 and 3.1.3... Jarrry On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 10:13

Re: [gentoo-user] Xulrunner 2.0 seems to demand Alsa : any advice ?

2011-03-28 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 27.03.2011 20:51, schrieb Philip Webb: Wanting to try Firefox 4.0 , I tried to emerge Xulrunner 2.0 ran into this problem : root:526 profile emerge -pv xulrunner ... net-libs/xulrunner-2.0 [1.9.2.15] USE=-alsa -crashreporter% -custom-optimization dbus -debug

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: python-2.7 update: re-emerge of cracklib failed, how can I fix it?

2011-03-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:34:29 +0200, Mr. Jarry wrote: BTW, when we are at the subject, is it possible to switch to python 3.x, and get rid of python 2.x completely? I noticed there are still both versions of python installed: 2.7.1 and 3.1.3... Possible, yes. Advisable, no. Many (most?) Python

Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.7 python-updater

2011-03-28 Thread KH
Am 25.03.2011 05:48, schrieb Paul Hartman: On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: And if we should set python to 2.7, should we remove python-2.6? I don't think we want to break something, portage in particular. ;-) I have no trace of python-2.6 on my system at

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-forensics/chkrootkit finds INFECTED binaries on ~amd64

2011-03-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 4:09 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: I just got an email from cron on my ~amd64 machine, containing these lines: Checking 'find'... INFECTED Checking 'netstat'... INFECTED Took me a few minutes to deduce that sys-forensics/chkrootkit was the source of those

[gentoo-user] The difference between 'emerge --update xyz' and 'emerge xyz'

2011-03-28 Thread Pandu Poluan
Hello list! Please bear awhile with the Gento n00b here... If I have a package 'xyz-1.1.0' already installed, and there's a newer 'xyz-1.2.0', what's the difference between 'emerge --update xyz' and 'emerge xyz'? The latter I saw also pulled in and installed the latest version. So, I am

Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.7 python-updater

2011-03-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 6:22 AM, KH gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de wrote: Am 25.03.2011 05:48, schrieb Paul Hartman: On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: And if we should set python to 2.7, should we remove python-2.6?  I don't think we want to break something,

Re: [gentoo-user] The difference between 'emerge --update xyz' and 'emerge xyz'

2011-03-28 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 28.03.2011 16:50, schrieb Pandu Poluan: Hello list! Please bear awhile with the Gento n00b here... If I have a package 'xyz-1.1.0' already installed, and there's a newer 'xyz-1.2.0', what's the difference between 'emerge --update xyz' and 'emerge xyz'? The latter I saw also pulled

Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.7 python-updater

2011-03-28 Thread Roman Zilka
KH (Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:22:55 +0200): I do have python-2.7 and python-3.1 emerged. I just took al look in /usr/lib64/ and I can find trace of python2.4 python2.5 python2.6 python2.7 python3.1 . Are those folders (2.4; 2.5; 2.6) needed anymore? If no, why are the still there? Is there anything

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM (Was: the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?))

2011-03-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 26 March 2011 23:46:26 Alan McKinnon wrote: So LVM takes a bunch of disks or arrays and lets you combine them in ways you want them (not ways the hardware forces you to have them). And that's all it does I also find it handy for creating more partitions than the standard hardware

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating world

2011-03-28 Thread Elaine C. Sharpe
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: --20cf3054aa33c36405049f87abd7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On 28 March 2011 10:11, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 28 March 2011 09:43:47 JM wrote: to-posting? Neil meant to say top-posting:

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating world

2011-03-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 28 March 2011 18:27:03 Elaine C. Sharpe wrote: But yes, top posting does suck -- almost as badly as all the ==20 crap polluting all the kmail users' messages. Almost. Would you mind sending me an example of this from me and my kmail? -- Rgds Peter

[gentoo-user] Spellchecker in KDE

2011-03-28 Thread Andrzej Styczeń
Hello, what I need to install or set to enable spellchecker in KDE (in kwrite, kate, kile, kmail)? I set LINGUAS=en and I install enchant, aspell, aspell-en, but this didn't work in these applications, so what to do elese to enable spellchecker ? Greetings, Andrzej

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating world

2011-03-28 Thread Elaine C. Sharpe
In linux.gentoo.user, Peter Humphries wrote: On Monday 28 March 2011 18:27:03 Elaine C. Sharpe wrote: But yes, top posting does suck -- almost as badly as all the ==20 crap polluting all the kmail users' messages. Almost. Would you mind sending me an example of this from me and my kmail?

Re: [gentoo-user] Spellchecker in KDE

2011-03-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 28 March 2011 20:02:17 Andrzej Styczeń wrote: Hello, what I need to install or set to enable spellchecker in KDE (in kwrite, kate, kile, kmail)? I set LINGUAS=en and I install enchant, aspell, aspell-en, but this didn't work in these applications, so what to do elese to enable

Re: [gentoo-user] Spellchecker in KDE

2011-03-28 Thread Andrzej Styczeń
On Monday 28 of March 2011 20:22:41 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: systemsettings 'local' or 'regional' or whatever it is called in your language. 'Regionales' in german. Spell check enable it. Thank you, I did make it, but this not work. I install the English version of my system, so:

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating world

2011-03-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Elaine C. Sharpe ela...@southernstarsolutions.com wrote: In linux.gentoo.user, Peter Humphries wrote: On Monday 28 March 2011 18:27:03 Elaine C. Sharpe wrote: But yes, top posting does suck -- almost as badly as all the ==20 crap polluting all the kmail users'

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating world

2011-03-28 Thread Elaine C. Sharpe
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Elaine C. Sharpe ela...@southernstarsolutions.com wrote: In linux.gentoo.user, Peter Humphries wrote: On Monday 28 March 2011 18:27:03 Elaine C. Sharpe wrote: But yes, top posting does suck -- almost as badly as all the ==20

Re: [gentoo-user] Spellchecker in KDE

2011-03-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 28 March 2011 20:38:51 Andrzej Styczeń wrote: On Monday 28 of March 2011 20:22:41 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: systemsettings 'local' or 'regional' or whatever it is called in your language. 'Regionales' in german. Spell check enable it. Thank you, I did make it, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Spellchecker in KDE

2011-03-28 Thread Andrzej Styczeń
On Monday 28 of March 2011 21:26:35 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: you do have turned on the spell use flag? Which and where ? Maybe I missed it ? Thank you in advance.

Re: [gentoo-user] Spellchecker in KDE

2011-03-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 28 March 2011 22:10:30 Andrzej Styczeń wrote: On Monday 28 of March 2011 21:26:35 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: you do have turned on the spell use flag? Which and where ? Maybe I missed it ? Thank you in advance. it is just he use flag 'spell'. kdelibs need it. Maybe more

Re: [gentoo-user] Persistent modification time in the future

2011-03-28 Thread Alexey Mishustin
28 марта 2011 г., 1:57:34, Volker Armin Hemmann пишет: just two of guesses: you don't sync the resulting correct clock to hwclock or /etc/adjtime is full of crap. If this happens again, remove that file. 28 марта 2011 г., 1:26:28, Alex Schuster пишет: Maybe hardware and software clock are

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating world

2011-03-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 28 March 2011 20:25:41 Elaine C. Sharpe wrote: Such a burden, being exceptionally competent, isn't it? If you say so... :-) -- Rgds Peter

[gentoo-user] Circular blockage

2011-03-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
How do I get out of this? $ emerge -uptDN world These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies ... done! [nomerge ] app-admin/sudo-1.7.4_p5 [nomerge ] virtual/mta-0 [ebuild N] mail-mta/ssmtp-2.62-r8 USE=ipv6 ssl -maxsysuid (-md5sum)

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating world

2011-03-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:11:55 -0400, Elaine C. Sharpe wrote: Apparently not everyone who uses kmail has the problem. Maybe it's the people who use html mail? Neil Bothwick's posts often have the ==20, but usually just one or two. Some posts are positively riddled with them, to the point of

[gentoo-user] Re: sys-forensics/chkrootkit finds INFECTED binaries on ~amd64

2011-03-28 Thread walt
On 03/28/2011 07:24 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 4:09 PM, waltw41...@gmail.com wrote: I just got an email from cron on my ~amd64 machine, containing these lines: Checking 'find'... INFECTED Checking 'netstat'... INFECTED Took me a few minutes to deduce that

Re: [gentoo-user] Circular blockage

2011-03-28 Thread Xi Shen
try unmerge 'ssmtp' first, then update world, then emerge ssmtp if necessary. On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: How do I get out of this? $ emerge -uptDN world These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating

Re: [gentoo-user] The difference between 'emerge --update xyz' and 'emerge xyz'

2011-03-28 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 22:26, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 28.03.2011 16:50, schrieb Pandu Poluan: Hello list! Please bear awhile with the Gento n00b here... If I have a package 'xyz-1.1.0' already installed, and there's a newer 'xyz-1.2.0', what's the difference

[gentoo-user] New bugzilla has broken search?

2011-03-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Either I'm doing something wrong, or the new bugzilla version at bugs.gentoo.org really sucks at searching. Let's for example go here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/query.cgi?format=specific and select All for Status. Then search for kde-base/kdelibs. It takes a *lot* of time to complete, and worse,

Re: [gentoo-user] New bugzilla has broken search?

2011-03-28 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Either I'm doing something wrong, or the new bugzilla version at bugs.gentoo.org really sucks at searching. Let's for example go here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/query.cgi?format=specific and select All for Status. Then search for kde-base/kdelibs. It takes a *lot* of

[gentoo-user] inaccessible virtual machine

2011-03-28 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, I have been using a windows 7 virtual machine guest with a gentoo linux virtualbox host for a while. I was never able to get sound working on the guest but it works on the host. Recently I decided to re-emerge virtualbox with the USE flag pulseaudio to try to get sound working. After the

[gentoo-user] Re: New bugzilla has broken search?

2011-03-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/29/2011 07:11 AM, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Either I'm doing something wrong, or the new bugzilla version at bugs.gentoo.org really sucks at searching. Let's for example go here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/query.cgi?format=specific and select All for Status. Then search for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New bugzilla has broken search?

2011-03-28 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 03/29/2011 07:11 AM, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Either I'm doing something wrong, or the new bugzilla version at bugs.gentoo.org really sucks at searching. Let's for example go here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/query.cgi?format=specific and select All for