[gentoo-user] RAM upgrade, kernel and swap

2008-01-21 Thread Michael Higgins
So, I just got 2 GB of RAM in the mail. Whoo hoo. Before I pop these in, soliciting any thoughts about the following: zcat /proc/config.gz |grep MEM CONFIG_SHMEM=y # CONFIG_TINY_SHMEM is not set # CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM is not set CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y

[gentoo-user] cron and ssmtp

2008-01-22 Thread Michael Higgins
Hello, folks -- Is anyone using cron (vixie-cron) without a real MTA and getting emails? The test is simple, just echo hello world. I expect this to come as an email to the address I put in MAILTO=. But it doesn't. No dead.letter to be found either. Not having found any examples of folks using

Re: [gentoo-user] cron and ssmtp

2008-01-22 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:48:05 + Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:36:46 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote: Is anyone using cron (vixie-cron) without a real MTA and getting emails? The test is simple, just echo hello world. I expect this to come as an email

Re: [gentoo-user] cron and ssmtp

2008-01-22 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:37:32 +0100 Jan Seeger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:36:46 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote: Is anyone using cron (vixie-cron) without a real MTA and getting emails? The test is simple, just echo hello world. I expect this to come

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM upgrade, kernel and swap

2008-01-23 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:44:53 +0100 Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Montag, 21. Januar 2008, Michael Higgins wrote: So, I just got 2 GB of RAM in the mail. Whoo hoo. Before I pop these in, soliciting any thoughts about the following: zcat /proc/config.gz |grep MEM

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread Michael Higgins
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:15:14 -0800 (PST) maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: something like this should do it: gcc -D LINUX -include string.h -lm -o tonegen tonegen.c Yup. Thanks Iain. ++ Very handy. ;-) -- |\ /|| | ~ ~ | \/ ||---| `|`

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-25 Thread Michael Higgins
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:59:25 -0800 (PST) maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure if that's what you want, but speaker-test from alsa-utils can generate sine waves, pink and white noise. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ speaker-test -t 2 speaker-test 0.0.8 Playback device is plughw:0,0

[gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?

2008-01-29 Thread Michael Higgins
Hello, folks -- Most days, I work remotely from the 'ndoze net via rdesktop when I have to access it for some reason. But the bandwidth there is getting choked as others follow suit. I'm thinking I'd have a better time of it if I just had my own little toybox -- I mean, Windows XP installation

Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?

2008-01-29 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:49:30 + Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:20:38 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote: So, the quick question is, is VM Ware the best way to go? I think XP is still lurking on a partition here... and I do need to run Internet Extorter

Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?

2008-02-04 Thread Michael Higgins
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 16:47:28 + Peter Humphrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 01 February 2008 13:21:38 Michael Sullivan wrote: Hos anyone been able to get 6.0.2 to work? Yes. I posted pretty much the whole session to the list. app-emulation/vmware-workstation-6.0.2.59824 is what I

[gentoo-user] [OT] fetchmail to procmail (or something) to arbitrary dir?

2008-02-15 Thread Michael Higgins
Hello, OT post here, but: I (the office, actually) have this lousy ISP that sells mailboxes limited to 50MB. Whatever, I can't change that just now. I have need to keep all mail in one place... for safekeeping, mostly. 50MB is not enough and I get a quota warning. So, knowing this situation is

[gentoo-user] killing gnome light - pathetic cry for help.

2008-02-25 Thread Michael Higgins
I use Gnome ['gnome-light'] as my WM. For the past few months (many months) I've had the 'gnome-panel' lock up on me. Nothing is clearly causing this. Rebuilding has not seemed to help. Of course, what to rebuild? Everything? I've adopted the strategy of kill -INT and (next time) kill -HUP (and

Re: [gentoo-user] killing gnome light - pathetic cry for help.

2008-02-26 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:02:58 + Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 26 Feb 2008, at 04:18, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 13:15 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote: (And I don't want to trash my .gnome* folders in a WAG at a fix. I have customization that will disappear

Re: [gentoo-user] installing vmware?

2008-04-02 Thread Michael Higgins
On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 19:10:20 -0300 luis jure [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello list, [8] i found a few pages on the net explaining how to install vmware on gentoo, but i'm not clear about those issues. thanks for any hint. http://archiver.mailfighter.net/gentoo-user/2008/January/1600.html

[gentoo-user] What overwrites resolv.conf

2008-04-23 Thread Michael Higgins
I received a used laptop a week or so ago, wiped the tinker-toy OS offered with it and proceeded to do the right thing. So far, I have got a machine I can (manually) put to sleep and use on a wireless network. So far, so good. At home, I don't have a wireless AP, but a 50-ft. ethernet cable. When

Re: [gentoo-user] What overwrites resolv.conf

2008-04-23 Thread Michael Higgins
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:03:55 -0400 Mike Edenfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Higgins wrote: So, what overwrites it, when, how, and how to stop it? Is there a definitive guide to the syntax of the various config files? Or, BETTER YET, is there anyone who has a smoothly-functioning

[gentoo-user] Install Windows XP on Gentoo Laptop

2008-05-02 Thread Michael Higgins
(Saw a similar thread, going the wrong way.) I have a laptop with a spare partition waiting for WinXP, to install from Dell OEM disks that came originally. Is this possible? I understand XP will overwrite the MBR. So, I'd have to re-install grub that's it? '-) Cheers, -- |\ /|| |

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Windows XP on Gentoo Laptop

2008-05-06 Thread Michael Higgins
On Sat, 3 May 2008 10:44:01 +0100 Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2 May 2008, at 19:03, Mark Knecht wrote: On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Michael Higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Saw a similar thread, going the wrong way.) I have a laptop with a spare partition waiting

[gentoo-user] DBD-ODBC installation problem

2008-06-04 Thread Michael Higgins
Folks — I'm having a problem getting a working *-perl/DBD-ODBC. I had one that was working just fine, but un-merged unixODBC in a fit of pique, or something. I re-emerged it, but then DBD-ODBC segfaults. So, getting to debug I: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr LANG= ODBCHOME=/usr ; FEATURES=nostrip

[gentoo-user] sanity check: fetchmail exim courier-*

2008-06-11 Thread Michael Higgins
Hi all — First question, where is $MAIL set for the users? It is set now to /var/mail/[user] somehow, or is by default. If so, where is that set? Anyway, I need to change to ~/.maildir. If not set to change, where should I set it? The situation (needing a reality check) is we have an ISP that

[gentoo-user] upgrade to expat 2 blows up system

2007-08-13 Thread Michael Higgins
, is there a proven way to do upgrade to have a system using expat 2 libs? Cheers, -- Michael Higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrade to expat 2 blows up system

2007-08-14 Thread Michael Higgins
be a fix? Cheers, -- Michael Higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] apache can't start after updating expat to 2.0.1

2007-08-16 Thread Michael Higgins
, thank you! That was a nasty one, glad you sleuthed it out. Cheers, -- Michael Higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] apache configuration woes

2007-09-07 Thread Michael Higgins
on the machine that requires I be able to access the files. Thanks for any quick reply. -- Michael Higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] apache configuration woes

2007-09-07 Thread Michael Higgins
On Fri, 7 Sep 2007 11:15:39 -0700 Michael Higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since upgrading one of my servers, I've been getting the standard HTACCESS password required dialogue. I didn't choose this consciously and I don't want it. The whole machine is not visible to the 'net. Where did

[gentoo-user] is it enchant stable on x86 -- oh, my spell checker, where did it go?

2009-01-26 Thread Michael Higgins
Claws-mail version 3.7.0 Locale: en_US.UTF-8 (charset: UTF-8) Spell checker could not be started. Couldn't initialize en dictionary: (null) Couldn't initialize en speller. eix app-dicts/*en [I] app-dicts/aspell-en Available versions: 0.51.0 0.51.1 6.0.0 Installed versions:

[gentoo-user] OT -- superuser file manager access to remote via ssh with no root login?

2009-02-24 Thread Michael Higgins
I can't figure this one out. Have disallowed root login, public key auth. Have a bunch of random renaming to do on that machine though, so would like to point and click for a change. Is this possible? No GUI libs on the remote machine... I was thinking sshfs, but since I can't login directly

Re: [gentoo-user] OT -- superuser file manager access to remote via ssh with no root login?

2009-02-25 Thread Michael Higgins
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:50:00 + Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 25 Feb 2009, at 03:42, Mike Kazantsev wrote: ... 3. Since it sounds like you have no need to do it repeatedly, why not open root and do the stuff? Provided you don't have '123' as password. The

[gentoo-user] how to switch laptop to usb keyboard

2009-03-02 Thread Michael Higgins
Hey, all -- I picked up a logitech usb keyboard to use with my laptop. Plugged it in and it works... almost. No number keys. How to I tell X to use this different device when I plug it in? Cheers, -- |\ /|| | ~ ~ | \/ ||---| `|` ? ||ichael |

Re: [gentoo-user] how to switch laptop to usb keyboard

2009-03-02 Thread Michael Higgins
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 11:42:53 -0600 Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Michael Higgins li...@evolone.org wrote: Hey, all -- I picked up a logitech usb keyboard to use with my laptop. Plugged it in and it works... almost. No number keys

Re: [gentoo-user] how to switch laptop to usb keyboard

2009-03-03 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 09:24:38 +0500 Mike Kazantsev mike_kazant...@fraggod.net wrote: On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 18:31:41 -0800 Michael Higgins li...@evolone.org wrote: Still no luck here, as this is new to me. Really, I'm lost on the process... figured it would just work, which it does, except

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how to switch laptop to usb keyboard

2009-03-04 Thread Michael Higgins
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 00:16:22 +0100 Miernik pub...@public.miernik.name wrote: Michael Higgins li...@evolone.org wrote: What the *keypad* does, after plugging in the usb keyboard, is act as a mouse. I've never seen this... it's kinda cool, actually. Like using an etch-a-sketch. You can

[gentoo-user] How to freeze my Gentoo system

2009-03-11 Thread Michael Higgins
Don't know the proper term, but I want to stop version updates for a while, yet allow package-rN updates... I spent most of the last couple of days killing two bugs that were a serious drag on my laptop, involving kacpid hogging the CPU on a resume, or bay swap, and gnome panel freezing on 7

Re: [gentoo-user] How to freeze my Gentoo system

2009-03-13 Thread Michael Higgins
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:51:05 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:13:30 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Could he just not sync and call it a day? I suspect this is going to bite him one day tho. We know Gentoo likes to be updated fairly regular. I been

Re: [gentoo-user] Usernames in ssh attacks

2009-03-19 Thread Michael Higgins
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:43:13 -0500 Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Johan Blåbäck johan.bluecr...@gmail.com wrote: I've always had usernames when it comes to sshd's log entries in auth.log, like the following: time hostname sshd[5926]:

Re: [gentoo-user] kacpid eating alot of cpu

2009-03-30 Thread Michael Higgins
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:57:11 +0200 Johan Blåbäck johan.bluecr...@gmail.com wrote: Is acpi suppose to act like this? No. But you probably really knew that. ;-) Can I fix it? I had to update to latest kernels, as bug patch for kacpid hogging CPU with certain laptops and certain configurations

[gentoo-user] emerge --prune: should it work?

2009-04-02 Thread Michael Higgins
I attempted to emerge 'twinkle', a soft phone, but whoever made the ebuild neglected to include a dependency on KDE libraries. Of course, since I don't have KDE libs, emerge failed. But before failing, the ebuild had pulled in, built, and installed two *new* packages. As these packages were

Re: [gentoo-user] How to freeze my Gentoo system

2009-04-02 Thread Michael Higgins
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:56:47 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 11 March 2009 22:40:54 Michael Higgins wrote: Don't know the proper term, but I want to stop version updates for a while, yet allow package-rN updates... This doesn't seem to be a built

Re: [gentoo-user] How to freeze my Gentoo system

2009-04-03 Thread Michael Higgins
On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 10:45:46 +0800 Mark David Dumlao madum...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 12 March 2009 10:07:03 Dale wrote: I do understand that getting something stable and working then wanting to keep it that

Re: [gentoo-user] What annoys you?

2009-04-06 Thread Michael Higgins
On Sat, 4 Apr 2009 13:31:35 +0200 Sebastian Günther sam...@guenther-roetgen.de wrote: * Alan McKinnon (alan.mckin...@gmail.com) [04.04.09 09:57]: emerge --lock some-package-some-version I find this suggestion very good, and would like to ask the more experienced participants, if such

Re: [gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-22 Thread Michael Higgins
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:30:52 -0400 Simon turne...@gmail.com wrote: hi there, i'm looking for suggestions and guidance. [] I tend to tell folks up front to never listen to me or believe anything I say, so here's my... $.02. I've looked into several ideas, but the last one that remains

Re: [gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-24 Thread Michael Higgins
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:08:48 +0100 Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: [...] If you want Asterisk to answer your conventional POTS phone line then you can use an X100P card which you can buy for c £17. AIUI this is basically a modem based on a certain chipset that Digium have

[gentoo-user] ebuild log for net-print/cups-1.3.10-r1

2009-04-27 Thread Michael Higgins
I _remember_ doing this just a few days ago, so I'm not doing it again... but why is it still throwing a warning? Is this a limitation of portage or the ebuild? -- WARN: postinst /usr/lib/cups exists - You need to remerge every ebuild that installed into /usr/lib/cups and

[gentoo-user] How to IPSEC M$oft VPN client setup

2009-05-05 Thread Michael Higgins
Is there a useful Gentoo document anyone might suggest describing how one *connects to* a VPN device of the 'Microsoft' flavour with IPSEC? Cheers, -- |\ /|| | ~ ~ | \/ ||---| `|` ? ||ichael | |iggins\^ /

Re: [gentoo-user] Cursor keys stopped working in VMware workstation

2009-05-08 Thread Michael Higgins
On Fri, 8 May 2009 09:46:55 +0800 Mike Mazur mma...@gmail.com wrote: But since you're seeing this issue too with existing VMs, perhaps it's related to the recent Xorg upgrade? I guess, yes. Happened like this for me too. Found the same fix. -- |\ /|| | ~ ~ | \/ |

Re: [gentoo-user] How to IPSEC M$oft VPN client setup

2009-05-11 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 05 May 2009 17:49:06 +0100 Graham Murray gra...@gmurray.org.uk wrote: Michael Higgins li...@evolone.org writes: Is there a useful Gentoo document anyone might suggest describing how one *connects to* a VPN device of the 'Microsoft' flavour with IPSEC? I do not know about

Re: [gentoo-user] How to IPSEC M$oft VPN client setup

2009-05-19 Thread Michael Higgins
On Sun, 17 May 2009 12:07:33 +0100 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 17 May 2009, Mick wrote: Thanks Graham, On Saturday 16 May 2009, Graham Murray wrote: Here are some samples. [8] The more I try to use VPN the more I love SSH! http://bugs.gentoo.org/87920 Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] How to IPSEC M$oft VPN client setup

2009-05-19 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 19 May 2009 13:57:21 -0500 Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: Based on a brief googling I didn't see anyone who has a working connection to a Checkpoint VPN. Thanks, Paul. I've already the solution, as I'm not so much trying to get something accomplished (access

Re: [gentoo-user] How to IPSEC M$oft VPN client setup

2009-05-19 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 19 May 2009 22:08:10 +0100 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 19 May 2009, Michael Higgins wrote: On Tue, 19 May 2009 13:57:21 -0500 Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: Based on a brief googling I didn't see anyone who has a working connection

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] moving mountpoint to folder [solved]

2005-12-13 Thread michael higgins
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:08:17 -0500 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 13 December 2005 03:33 pm, michael higgins wrote: Some time ago, I moved my /usr/lib folder to a separate partition to net some space on /. Now, I want to fix my partitions on that second drive

Re: [gentoo-user] My Rosegarden Woes

2005-12-28 Thread michael higgins
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 11:30:10 -0600 Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I emerged rosegarden the other day. When it starts up it tells me that the MIDI sequencer could not be started. I've been working with the rosegarden-user mailing list to work through this problem. They had me

Re: [gentoo-user] My Rosegarden Woes

2005-12-28 Thread michael higgins
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 12:31:39 -0600 Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 10:15 -0800, michael higgins wrote: On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 11:30:10 -0600 Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Do you have this installed? Again, just a guess. HTH. I

[gentoo-user] [OT] Shell redirection magic for audio capture?

2005-12-28 Thread michael higgins
Hello all. Being comparatively clueless, I've considered this particular problem for a long time. I finally came to what I believe is a solution, but a clunky one. Can any shell wizards make this work any better? Is there some other solution? In other words, it works, but I'd like to put an

Re: [gentoo-user] GConf Error

2006-02-15 Thread michael higgins
On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 18:40:06 +0100 Emanuele Morozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello to everybody, Since some day I get this error while starting Gnome: GConf Error: Error contactiong the configuration server; it may be necessary to enable necessario TCP/IP support for ORBit or there may

[gentoo-user] gentoo install on Dell restore partition... live?

2008-07-14 Thread Michael Higgins
So, I finally got the OK to nuke another Dell winbox. My dream is to: * Partition the restore partition (3.6 GB) for any small linux installation * make that partition active, bootable, with grub installed * reboot and ssh into that linux machine to finish by toasting NTFS partition and making

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail on multiple laptops

2008-07-15 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:11:08 -0400 (EDT) James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, July 15, 2008 9:05 am, Michael Pobega wrote: I've always had just one laptop so I've been a POP user for years now, but I'm finally buying a second laptop for travels (Asus Eee PC) and I was wondering what

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo install on Dell restore partition... live?

2008-07-15 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:52:20 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:42:20 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I assume you meant 'cp -ax' :P I did, it's tar that uses -l for this. rsync -ax / /root/hd/ Well, /root/hd is empty so there's nothing to win

[gentoo-user] how touchy is /var really? And how to keep tabs on a new disk?

2008-08-12 Thread Michael Higgins
So, in setting up a huge repository of junk, I mean, important business documents, I nearly ran out of disk space on rootfs. Much of it was living in /var, like half the disk's worth. I'd just dropped a new disk in for /home... to move some Outlook files to IMAP maildir folders. Had I been

Re: [gentoo-user] how touchy is /var really? And how to keep tabs on a new disk?

2008-08-12 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:18:39 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dienstag, 12. August 2008, Michael Higgins wrote: Now, was that a stupid thing to do, or should everything under /var continue to work still, without issues? afaik it should work. /home is mounted

Re: [gentoo-user] how touchy is /var really? And how to keep tabs on a new disk?

2008-08-12 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:52:59 -0700 kashani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: expire_logs_days = 7 is your friend. You must be psychic. Thanks for all your helpful suggestions, this one too! Cheers, -- |\ /|| | ~ ~ | \/ ||---| `|` ? ||ichael | |iggins

[gentoo-user] asterisk hardware recommendations?

2008-10-23 Thread Michael Higgins
Anyone have a success story with asterisk to voip phones? I'd like to start with a hardware recommendation for the T1 interface card and or CSU/DSU, if anyone can share. Is Digium, FEX the best way to go? TIA for any help or FMs to RT. '-) -- |\ /|| | ~ ~ | \/ |

[gentoo-user] [OT?] /etc/shadow perms group shadow?

2008-11-14 Thread Michael Higgins
I have a question which may or may not be Gentoo-specific, but here goes: An application runs as a web server. In this application I have hooks to PAM. The results I was getting from attempting to authorize against PAM were fruitless, until I looked at making a way for the user running this to

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] /etc/shadow perms group shadow?

2008-11-16 Thread Michael Higgins
On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 02:01:54 +0100 Michele Schiavo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /etc/sudoers ?? I think I'm trying to avoid running under sudo. Yes, that works, but must have other security implications? In researching the problem, the workaround I posted was cribbed from other distros which

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] /etc/shadow perms group shadow?

2008-11-16 Thread Michael Higgins
On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 06:45:54 + Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 15 Nov 2008, at 00:57, Michael Higgins wrote: ... An application runs as a web server. In this application I have hooks to PAM. The results I was getting from attempting to authorize against PAM were fruitless

[gentoo-user] package masked perl left and right... what now??

2008-11-18 Thread Michael Higgins
After the better part of an hour spent manually unmasking inexplicably newly-masked dependencies of installed packages, I finally: grep dev-perl /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask /etc/portage/package.unmask ... so I could [EMAIL PROTECTED]*()_ get on with an updated system. So, did anyone on

Re: [gentoo-user] package masked perl left and right... what now??

2008-11-18 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:51:06 -0800 Michael Higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To follow up, since I posted to the list, I got a reply from the maintainer who did this, who referred me here: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=247413#c1 Which also contains the explanation, Some perl modules

[gentoo-user] Perl woes MRO-Compat requires perl-5.10.0 [?!?!]

2008-12-11 Thread Michael Higgins
Hey, folks -- IMO, maintaining a decent perl library isn't difficult in the least. With Gentoo, there is an extra level of confusion when using Portage to manage the perl libraries and modules. Even so, it hasn't been too bad. Until now. I've come across this issue several times, solved it by

Re: [gentoo-user] Perl woes MRO-Compat requires perl-5.10.0 [?!?!]

2008-12-11 Thread Michael Higgins
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:39:34 +0100 Daniel Pielmeier daniel.pielme...@googlemail.com wrote: Michael Higgins schrieb am 11.12.2008 19:19: [8] dev-perl/MRO-Compat is not in portage, so from which overlay do you have it. The perl overlay (where you get catalystframework ebuilds). This overlay

Re: [gentoo-user] Perl woes MRO-Compat requires perl-5.10.0 [?!?!]

2008-12-12 Thread Michael Higgins
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:14:26 +0100 Daniel Pielmeier daniel.pielme...@googlemail.com wrote: Michael Higgins schrieb am 11.12.2008 20:54: On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:39:34 +0100 Daniel Pielmeier daniel.pielme...@googlemail.com wrote: and why do you blame Gentoo in bug #250632? Because I

Re: [gentoo-user] Perl woes MRO-Compat requires perl-5.10.0 [?!?!]

2008-12-12 Thread Michael Higgins
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:15:36 -0800 Andrey Falko ma3ox...@gmail.com wrote: It is about catalystframework, which is in the perl-experimental overlay (a misnomer if ever there was one, experimental). It is about perl 5.10.0, which is long overdue for making it into the tree (never mind

[gentoo-user] perl-5.10.0 [?!?!]

2008-12-17 Thread Michael Higgins
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:44:51 -0800 Michael Higgins li...@evolone.org wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:15:36 -0800 Andrey Falko ma3ox...@gmail.com wrote: It is about catalystframework, which is in the perl-experimental overlay (a misnomer if ever there was one, experimental

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo realtime-preempt kernel?

2005-04-21 Thread michael higgins
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:49:50 -0700 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm just poking around looking at kernels again this morning. Maybe I've missed it but I cannot find one in portage that uses Ingo Molnar's realtime-preempt patches. Is there one? I am now using both ck-sources as

[gentoo-user] fix a system suddenly un-networked and needing dhcpcd

2005-05-03 Thread michael higgins
Hey, all. I've just moved my work location for a couple of weeks while I house-sit for a relation. At _my_ home, I configure my IP addy and all manually, while sitting behind a router. Here, it seemed like I needed dhcpcd to make my connections, either directy via the cable modem or by

Re: [gentoo-user] docbook-sgml-utils-0.6.14 [0.6.12]

2005-06-10 Thread michael higgins
On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 17:36:38 + (UTC) James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, This docbook ebuild seems to fail Ideas on fixes are welcome. I already unmerged then emerge and that did not seem to work around the problem. Maybe some other missing/corrupt package? bugzilla was not any help

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc configuration

2005-06-21 Thread michael higgins
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:08:46 -0700 Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: michael higgins wrote: I have a couple of questions about using distcc. I have two machines. One is significantly faster than the other, both x86 (pentium 2 and amd athlon-xp). First, a big thanks to all who

[gentoo-user] cdrw advice?

2005-10-14 Thread michael higgins
Hello, all. Using 2.6.12-gentoo-r10. I followed the instructions here, sort of. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Packet_Writing_on_CD-RW Is anyone using this feature? Running cdrwtool seems to blank and format the disk, but, I'm stumped as to how to use it. From fstab, this is the device that

Re: [gentoo-user] adding comment on pdf files?

2005-10-19 Thread michael higgins
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 18:32:52 -0700 Luis Ortiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ big snip ] I haven't found any PDF editor to add annotations and such. FWIW, I concur. But for _automating_ pdf work I've used perl modules (say, pdf-reuse). Beats editing each by hand if it's not required. Just my 2

[gentoo-user] changing Apache installation

2005-11-03 Thread michael higgins
Hello, all. I've tried to install Template Toolkit, Apache2::Template under Apache2, mod_perl2 and am having, no suprise, issues. Though this may be possible, I'm not up to it. So, rather than try to make this work, I just want to unmerge cleanly all apache/mod_perl/TT stuff on my machine,

[gentoo-user] Partition backup and fix strategy

2005-11-18 Thread michael higgins
Was following the recent thread 'Re: udev: lost dvd' and I'm encouraged that it should be doable for me to backup to DVD, even some dual layer disks. So, does anyone have a good suggestion for making some backups to DVD? I guess my concern is, will I have to create an image and then burn it?

[gentoo-user] caching DNS the Gentoo way?

2005-12-09 Thread michael higgins
Hello, all. Need a clue, here. I've found that it'll often takes longer to get DNS resolution than content over my connection, so I thought a caching DNS server the way to go. With that in mind, I installed BIND. I couldn't find anything like a quickie Gentoo example of this minimal use of

Re: [gentoo-user] caching DNS the Gentoo way?

2005-12-09 Thread michael higgins
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 10:42:22 +1030 Shawn Haggett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: michael higgins wrote: Hello, all. Need a clue, here. I've found that it'll often takes longer to get DNS resolution than content over my connection, so I thought a caching DNS server the way to go

Re: [gentoo-user] caching DNS the Gentoo way?

2005-12-09 Thread michael higgins
On Fri, 9 Dec 2005 17:08:55 -0700 Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/9/05, michael higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've found that it'll often takes longer to get DNS resolution than content over my connection, so I thought a caching DNS server the way to go. With that in mind

[gentoo-user] Sylpheed-Claws / Claws-Mail / Postfix -- the gentoo way

2007-02-07 Thread Michael Higgins
now, or be able to use maildir? Does anyone know what the gentoo-preferred method is? Cheers, -- Michael Higgins [1]http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Postfix_Setup_for_Local_Mail_Only -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Sylpheed-Claws / Claws-Mail / Postfix -- the gentoo way

2007-02-07 Thread Michael Higgins
-Original Message- From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 09:40:59 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote: Anyway, what I don't understand is the maildir, MH, mbox, qmail delivery thing. I followed a wiki[1] which suggests I need to use rcvstore command

[gentoo-user] disk capacity mismatch

2007-02-08 Thread Michael Higgins
Linux /dev/hda4 44104 99582279614165 Extended /dev/hda5 44104 7184313980928+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 71844 9958213980424+ 83 Linux What major clue do I lack? :( -- Michael Higgins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] backing out of djbdns installation -- no DNS?

2007-02-22 Thread Michael Higgins
the nameservers. What else is in the DNS mix? Did I miss a step? Or is there some leftover thing that didn't get unmerged with djbdns? Any help greatly appreciated. Cheers, -- Michael Higgins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] remove DHCPCD/djbdns -- and now, manual setup fails...

2007-02-22 Thread Michael Higgins
installing and configuring djbdns. I can't get the nameservers in resolv.conf to give me dns, even though I can ping them. And, starting sshd calls dhcp and kills the eth0 device. How can I fix this? Any takers? -- Michael Higgins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[solved] RE: [gentoo-user] remove DHCPCD/djbdns -- and now, manual setup fails...

2007-02-22 Thread Michael Higgins
-Original Message- From: Michael Higgins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, list -- I have a server that had been running dhcpcd to get it's IP address. I don't want to do like this anymore, so I removed the package and attempted to configure the interface manually. However

RE: [gentoo-user] remove DHCPCD/djbdns -- and now, manual setup fails...

2007-02-22 Thread Michael Higgins
-Original Message- From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 1:40 PM On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:34:27 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote: I have a server that had been running dhcpcd to get it's IP address. I don't want to do like this anymore

RE: [gentoo-user] mounting my digital camera storage... not! [SOLVED]

2007-03-15 Thread Michael Higgins
disk support? CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y No, I did not. I do now, though. Thanks! ;-) -- Michael Higgins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Dell Poweredge 6450

2007-04-27 Thread Michael Higgins
configures the RAID array and some partitions, provides the driver(s)... It then does some helpful things for the Windows Server install... So maybe there's some boot magic for the linux flavors too? IDK. Good luck, -- Michael Higgins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] perl 5.8.6 install/update - @INC not working, solved?

2005-07-13 Thread michael higgins
Hello list. I just decided to rebuild perl as I recently noticed that perl wasn't working for me anymore. When I just happened to need to use it, of course. As an aside, if perhaps relevant, I had a couple of problems with failed compiles. As is usually is the fix for this machine, I opened

[gentoo-user] emerge wxGTK with gtk2 in your USE

2006-06-15 Thread michael higgins
Hello, all. When updating my world, I come across this error when upgrading Audacity: !!! set-wxconfig: Error: Can't find normal or debug version: !!! set-wxconfig: /usr/lib/wx/config/gtk2-ansi-release-2.6 not found !!! set-wxconfig: /usr/lib/wx/config/gtk2-ansi-debug-2.6 not

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge wxGTK with gtk2 in your USE

2006-06-16 Thread michael higgins
On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 07:49:41 +0300 Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: michael higgins wrote: Hello, all. When updating my world, I come across this error when upgrading Audacity: !!! set-wxconfig: Error: Can't find normal or debug version: !!! set-wxconfig: /usr/lib

[gentoo-user] emege -e system; emerge -e world and GCC4

2006-08-23 Thread michael higgins
Hello, list. I have a silly (I expect) question about the topic in the subject line. After (if and when?) this completes -- as I've had to emerge --resume --skip-first a bunch of times -- how will I be able to determine which packages failed so I may then attempt to emerge them individually

Re: [gentoo-user] emege -e system; emerge -e world and GCC4

2006-08-28 Thread michael higgins
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 11:25:03 -0700 Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/23/06, michael higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ 8 ] Considering that you just recompiled your system with a gcc version that the gentoo devs consider to be broken for your archyes, yes, and yes. :-( Now

Re: [gentoo-user] g-cpan not pulling in the correct depencies

2009-06-16 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:03:38 -0700 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to use g-cpan to pull in Bundle-InterchangeKitchenSink: http://search.cpan.org/~MIKEH/Bundle-InterchangeKitchenSink/InterchangeKitchenSink.pm but the list of dependencies is way off. Is g-cpan just broken?

Re: [gentoo-user] g-cpan not pulling in the correct depencies

2009-06-17 Thread Michael Higgins
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:07:31 -0700 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: You do have the (perl-experimental) overlay? Thanks Michael. I don't have that overlay. What would it do for me? It's where other ebuilds wind up if no one puts them in the official tree. So, if there needs to be

[gentoo-user] app-accessibility/speech-tools-1.2.96_beta build fails

2009-06-30 Thread Michael Higgins
Detected file collision(s): /usr/bin/dp Searching all installed packages for file collisions... Press Ctrl-C to Stop mail-client/nmh-1.1-r1 /usr/bin/dp Package 'app-accessibility/speech-tools-1.2.96_beta' NOT merged due to file collisions. If necessary, refer to your elog

[gentoo-user] Why did this happen?

2009-06-30 Thread Michael Higgins
Can anyone speculate as to why this error? Is the fix to usermod -s /sbin/nologin for each of these? ebuild log for sys-apps/baselayout-2.0.1 on evolone.org WARN: postinst The following users have non-existent shells! apache - /usr/sbin/nologin cron - /usr/sbin/nologin ldap -

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