[gentoo-user] emerge/build problem

2005-05-18 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
Hi, Since a few days, and after emerging a number of packages, emerge doesn't seem to be able to find libraries in the /usr/lib directory anymore. Or beter, as far as I can see it doesn't even look there. The problem shows while it looks for the openssl libraries. Already compiled programs know

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge/build problem

2005-05-19 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
> try #env-update and check "/etc/ld.so.conf" > it should be there, if not try to add it manually, run #ldconfig and > reemerge "sys-apps/baselayout". > Also I've heared of problems with this last one lately try to check the > forum ;) Nope, no sigar.. Actually the ldconfig checks the /lib and /u

[gentoo-user] mediamanager tries to open wrong path

2007-01-31 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
Hi, I try to install udev/hal/pmount in such a way that my usb devices are automounted. But not with a changable name in the media folder, but with a fixed name like /mnt/camera (or /media/camera.. whatever. As long as it's the same every time..) At this moment most things work, but when I ad

Re: [gentoo-user] mediamanager tries to open wrong path

2007-01-31 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 22:09, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:31:03 +0100, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: > > So adding a line to the fstab file just screws up the system as it > > seems. Removing it leaves me with changable names in the media folder > > (/med

Re: [gentoo-user] mediamanager tries to open wrong path

2007-01-31 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
> pmount.allow only specifies which devices may be automounted. > When mounting, pmount gets the name from either the disk's volume name or > the > device. Does your camera use a removable memory card? If so, try putting > it in a card reader and setting the volume name with mkdosfs or mtools. > M

Re: [gentoo-user] mediamanager tries to open wrong path (SOLVED)

2007-02-01 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
On Thursday 01 February 2007 00:44, Neil Bothwick wrote: > There is a way round this. It is possible, somewhere in the config of > pmount/hal, to have devices mounted according to the /dev name only. I > can't remember where this is, but Google and/or grep should find it. After some searching aro

Re: [gentoo-user] Regular user can't offload usb camera`

2005-12-29 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
On Thursday 29 December 2005 18:28, Christoph Eckert wrote: > Hi Michael, > > > My personal account (michael) cannot offload pictures from my usb > > digital camera - only root can do it.  michael is in the usb group. > > There used to be a file called /etc/security/console.perms which > > allowed

Re: [gentoo-user] Regular user can't offload usb camera`

2005-12-30 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
On Friday 30 December 2005 06:12, Glenn Enright wrote: > On Friday 30 December 2005 16:09, Glenn Enright wrote: > > On Friday 30 December 2005 06:43, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: > > Interesting I can get it to work the first time it is connected. But > > after disconnetcting or t

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/hda not created

2006-01-11 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 21:20, Michael George wrote: > I've got one of my servers that doesn't have /dev/hda on it at boot > time. > > I've got a lite-on DVD burner there that works just fine (once I create > the device) and is noted as "hda" in the boot messages. > > However, /dev/hda doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Can bash do comments on files?

2006-02-12 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
On Sunday 12 February 2006 23:03, Alan E. Davis wrote: > I remember a little MSDOG shell utility called 4dos. It alllowed me > to store comments that would appear alongside the filename. Can > anyone point to a way to do this transparently and easily with bash? > I don't want to run any extra pro

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my postfix being used as a relay?

2006-03-16 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
On Thursday 16 March 2006 20:12, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I get a lot of bounce messages from Postfix relating to emails > that are not actually from me, and the mail q shows lots of > stuff I don't recognize. > > I'd like to know how to interpret this, and if it is called-for, > to secure this daem

[gentoo-user] iPodder

2005-05-11 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
Hi, Im trying to get iPodder running under gentoo. But since I'm not much of a python head I hope someone can help me out. The error I get is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] iPodder]# ./ipodder.sh Traceback (most recent call last): File "iPodderGui.py", line 38, in ? import iPodderWindows File "/opt

Re: [gentoo-user] iPodder

2005-05-11 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
On Wednesday 11 May 2005 20:13, A. Khattri wrote: > > Python and python-gtk are there. But the rest doesn't seem to translate > > into ebuilds. > > Hmmm... looks like these are not hard to find in Portage: When you know what to look for it's always easy. Nevertheless, everything seems to be ther

Re: [gentoo-user] complaints about world file and ooodi

2005-11-22 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
On Tuesday 22 November 200> > portage says something is wrong with my world file. "emaint --check world" > produces this output: > 'app-office/ooodi' has no ebuilds available > > What am I to do? My first reaction would be to go to the /usr/portage/app-office en to remove or rename the ooodi dir

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - GIMP question

2005-12-03 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
On Saturday 03 December 2005 07:27, Glenn Enright wrote: > On Sat, 03 Dec 2005 18:14, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > It works great in Linux using Mozilla, but > > when my wife tries to view the page in Internet Explorer the image > > appears with a white background. What's going wrong here? Any ide

[gentoo-user] Compiling kde-meta for 3.5

2005-12-06 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
As I try to emerge kde-meta I run into the following error: /usr/kde/3.5/bin/meinproc --check --cache index.cache.bz2 ./index.docbook XPath error : Undefined variable compilation error: file /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/ksgmltools2/docbook/xsl/html/autotoc.xsl line 544 element

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED: Compiling kde-meta for 3.5

2005-12-09 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 22:45, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: As it seems xmlto needs the latest libxlst 1.1.15 and DOESN'T have a dependency for it. > As I try to emerge kde-meta I run into the following error: > > /usr/kde/3.5/bin/meinproc --check --cache index.cache.bz2 .

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

2005-12-09 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
On Friday 09 December 2005 23:20, Tom Smith wrote: > Gentoo is a source-based distribution. This means that the software you > receive comes in the form of source code. It's up to you to install (which > includes compiling) the software with your specific preferences--this is > what makes Gentoo wh

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

2005-12-10 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
On Saturday 10 December 2005 11:58, Holly Bostick wrote: > Gerhard Hoogterp schreef: > > While this is true and one of the things that makes gentoo gentoo, > > there are already binary packages in portage. mozilla-bin, > > openoffice-bin. Mostly big packages which take

Re: [gentoo-user] Unpacking an ISO Image

2006-05-16 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
On Tuesday 16 May 2006 17:18, Kris Kerwin wrote: > Quick question. Is there any way that one can unpack an ISO image: > extracting the data that is contained within it like a tarball, > without having to burn it to a CD? I'm sure there's an option > somewhere within either the mkisofs or cdrecord

Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server

2006-06-06 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
On Tuesday 06 June 2006 17:38, JimD wrote: > >From my perspective, I don't want an ftp server that will allow someone > > to get in to my gentoo box by brute forcing a username and password. I > guess I can install something like denyhosts if the ftp server uses tcp > wrappers. Maybe winscp is

Re: [gentoo-user] Null Modem Cables Between Windoze XP and Linux

2006-06-24 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
On Saturday 24 June 2006 21:49, Lord Sauron wrote: > I dug out of this ancient computer book (Upgrading and Repairing PCs > 12th Ed.) this relic technology of the Null Modem Cable. It's a > twisted Parallel Cable that allows 2 PCs to almost literally talk to > each other. While there were cables

Re: [gentoo-user] graphical ssh-enabled file system browser?

2006-06-24 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
On Saturday 24 June 2006 22:00, Mark Knecht wrote: >I use WinSCP on my WinXP machine. It works really great for this > purpose. Something like that which is Linux based would be great for > them but I cannot yet find anythign in the Online Package Database. > Probably I'm just not searching wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Null Modem Cables Between Windoze XP and Linux

2006-06-25 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
On Sunday 25 June 2006 22:02, John J. Foster wrote: > On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 12:46:16PM -0700, Lord Sauron wrote: > > I have it on extremely good authority that it goes 2MB/sec. > > it's always a good thing to question authority. Well, the used protocol has to do with it too.. and what I remember

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update

2006-06-29 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
On Thursday 29 June 2006 18:09, A. Khattri wrote: > On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, David Corbin wrote: > > > I don't see why use other tool. Etc-update works great... > > > > It works great, But the interface sucks. > > What exactly sucks? Be specific rather than making some vague sweeping > statement. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-08 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
> When I say "yes" I mean "yes". When I say "no" I mean "no". And I > don't mean "just until the next update" either. I have reasons for my > settings; please don't act like Windows and assume that you know better > than me. And there is no excuse whatsoever for wiping out the custom > settin

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-09 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
On Sunday 09 July 2006 17:29, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > As I wrote in an other mail: Stop interfering with the actual configfile > > and add the changes to a config.conf.dist file. > > Yep, you wrote that, and I answered that *I* would *NOT* like this. > I like it, that I can use a program right

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-11 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
> > I think there's a mis-understanding here. Gerhard and I are > > complaining about config files being possibly *OVERWRITTEN* with default > > settings. If there's no config file, sure write the default config > > file. But if someone has customized a config file, assume that they > > know w