[gentoo-user] portage-2.1 elog...
Hi! I'm trying to get the emerge logs mailed to my user. Problem is that I've set postfix to listen only on unix sockets (i.e. it refuses tcp smtp-connections) and I want it that way, for now. One solution would be PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM=custom and do some mail -s-magic. I don't know how portage would output the info to get this to work however. Another solution would be to fix the mail-module (/usr/lib/portage/pym/elog_modules/mod_mail.py) to accept non-smtp mail as well. Problem is that I don't know python... Anyone that has the same (or similar) problem? A hint or two would be very much appreciated. Best regards Peter K -- We Can Put an End to Word Attachments: http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] portage-2.1 elog...
On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, Alexander Skwar wrote: snip Portage calls your PORTAGE_ELOG_COMMAND and sets two env vars, which are to be given to your command. You might want to have a look at http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Making_portage_use_/usr/sbin/sendmail_to_send_out_ELOG_mails. Thanks! Best regards / MfG Peter K -- We Can Put an End to Word Attachments: http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] deptree...
Hello! Recently (when I upgraded to gentoo-sources-2.6.14-r5) I've been having boot problems. I think I'm having the exact same problem as: http://www.usenetlinux.com/t-324913.html ... where the user gets his /var/lib/init.d/deptree duplicated (the dependencies gets repeated twice). My symptoms are the same; i.e. the deptree file gets printed during boot and sometimes results in an error where /sbin/depscan.sh is required to be run manually. Does anyone know how to fix this? I've tried to re-emerge baselayout. Best regards Peter K -- We Can Put an End to Word Attachments: http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Make a running process nohup?
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Qiangning Hong wrote: Is it possible make a running process nohup so that I can leave it running after I logout without interrupt it? man nohup? (+nice/renice?) Best regards Peter K -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Paul Hoy wrote: I really like Gentoo and I like that fact that it does a pretty good job at supporting Gnome, however, it's still behind other releases, such as Fedora, in terms of when it releases updates, etc. I find that hard to believe... Linux from Scratch looks very interesting: it appears to rapidly support the latest updates and it has decent documentation. Does any one have any perspectives on Linux from Scratch, from a Gentoo point-of-view? Does anyone wish to share a comparison of the two? The short version: LFS is for those who wishes to learn how to build an operating system from scratch. Or for control-freaks (like me). Or a combination of both... :-) Gentoo is a more practical version of LFS, where practical means less time-consuming, since you don't have to install each package (and it's dependencies) yourself and there are default settings/scripts that usually works ok with no/minor tweaking. Though you can install a package manager in LFS too (like rpm, apt, ports etc.). HTH Best regards Peter K -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] real-time priority
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Joseph wrote: I'm not sure if that what they mean with real-time priority. Realtime has nothing to do with 'nice'. With 'nice' you set the process' time-slice so that it gets more (or less) processor-time. With realtime (soft or hard realtime - there's a difference) the process is guaranteed to have processor-time within certain time-limits, something which normal schedulers don't do. See 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing'. HTH Best regards Peter K -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] FYI: Gimp + xscanimage
Hi! I was struggling with getting gimp to accept xscanimage as a plugin but no matter what I did I always got this: --- /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/xscanimage: GIMP support missing. (gimp:19576): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: gimp: wire_read(): error --- After examining the ebuild for sane-frontends, it is looking specifically for a USE=gimp flag. So if someone has a problem building xscanimage with gimp support the solution is to add 'gimp' (without '') in your make.conf file (if you want it to be permanent that is)... Best regards Peter K -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Matlab under gentoo
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005, Yuan MEI wrote: Hi, Anybody know how to solve it? I know under suse this could be done by LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 but I don't want to leave gentoo. Have you tried it? You need to have a linuxthreads-compatible glibc... (i.e. not a NPTL-only version) See: http://www.mathworks.com/support/solutions/data/1-1ATCE.html?solution=1-1ATCE Best regards Peter K -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to xdm/gdm?
On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: I found 'entrance' but there are too many ~x86 packages for my liking. Can anyone else recommend a graphical login manager that might have the ability to allow a user to shut the system down from the login screen? gdm wants to emerge pretty much all of gnome so I cannot use that. xdm seems so sparce and doesn't allow shutdown. Yep, gdm is a pita in that it requires gnome. I use xfce4 and xdm. Xfce4 allows you to shutdown or reset the system, via sudo. Would this not suffice? Otherwise xdm is quite flexible and here's a solution to make your own shutdown button: http://neilt.org/computing/xdmshutdownbutton.html hth Best regards Peter K -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] sorta OT - honest (!) opinions on mailservers
On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: yes, but most knowledgable people know that exim blows the pants off qmail and postfix. Ok, then perhaps you could explain why a mail server (running exim4) suddenly stops to relay emails (this worked before) and then all of a sudden starts to relay them again (without me changing any settings)... I have looked for clues in the logs and tried the debug mode but I still haven't understood why. Help? Best regards Peter K -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] sorta OT - honest (!) opinions on mailservers
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: I would suggest you go to the very active exim-users mail list and be prepared to show your config and the log entries. You can find a link to the mail list at www.exim.org . The author of exim is very forthcoming and helpful as well as the well established and knowledgable userbase. Ok, I'll try that. Thanks! Best regards Peter K -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm HDIO_SET_DMA failed
On Sat, 14 May 2005, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: is this not deafault? Not on my system. m16 sets to 16 ;) but: is m16 not the default setting? Again not on my system. I don't know, if there is any combination today, that makes probs, but not using -u is wasting performance. Don't complain about stuttering sound and video-hangs, if you have not tried -u1 I use it... why? default is 256.. why changing it? Again it's not the default on my machine... Best regards Peter K -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm HDIO_SET_DMA failed
On Fri, 13 May 2005, Peter Gordon wrote: My understanding is that the kernel will automagically configure DMA as appropriate if you build support for the IDE controller statically, but hdparm is needed to initialize DMA stuff if you build your IDE controller's driver as a module. I'm not certain though. I tend to build everything into the kernel, and I've not needed to use hdparm. There's a whole lot more one can do with hdparm. What the kernel _can_ do is enable dma only. hdparm is used to set other performance enhancing options. My '/etc/conf.d/hdparm' contains 'hda_args=-d1A1m16u1a64' which means: -d1 - enables dma for this drive (to ensure dma is set). -A1 - enables the IDE drive's read-lookahead feature. -m1 - set sector count to 16. This reads 16 sectors per interrupt instead of one. Some drives run slower with this. -u1 - set interrupt-unmask for the drive. Can be dangerous with some drive/controller combinations. Allows the kernel to service other i/o interrupts, afaicu. -a64 - set sector count for filesystem read-ahead to 64 sectors. A cache-mechanism. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_hdparm_to_improve_IDE_device_performance Best regards Peter K -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm HDIO_SET_DMA failed
On Sat, 14 May 2005, Grant wrote: Thanks Peter. Is your -u1 a typo? No. That option works fine, afaict, with my drive/chipset combination (maxtor/ich5). Best regards Peter K -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] - BIOS after Gentoo is up
On Fri, 6 May 2005, James wrote: The most uncooperative company is Intel, which has started a sham open source BIOS project. The software consists of all the unimportant parts of of a BIOS, without the hard parts. It won't run, and doesn't bring us any closer to a BIOS that does run. It is just a distraction. Yep, intel is very uncooperative, which is why linuxbios recommends amd motherboards... Bios is involved in more than the boot processes in today's machines. Linux or not. Which is why I mentioned linuxbios. The (cold) bootstrap needs to initialise memory, and certain other hardware, which is what linuxbios does. It then leaves the rest up to the payload (which can be the linux kernel, filo, etherboot etc.). Removing chip (flash/eeprom/whater) when a motherboard has power on it is a really,really bad idea. It's quite easy for static or dc voltages to jump pins and kill the chip, if not smoke the board/buss. Beside, The fact that you have to remove the chip while the system that is booted/powered up substantiates my claim of nefariuos activities as this is just plain ridiculous. The link that I gave specifically warns about this; all I wanted to say is that it can be done... The part I like is when Richard talks about Intel and certain software companies that want you to replace the motherboards native firmware with an executable. This speaks volumes about the situation. Even wonderful IBM is in on the action. AS a firmware engineer, you'd be surprised at the vendor request for code that does strange things on USB, I2C and FAT16 ... just in little embedded products. Evil lurks in things undocumented, and it's just not only the American companies at work on this. That's why the FBI and CIA will use COTS products for anything anymore. Most other nations do the same shitOnly the little and honest people get screwed! Who knows what's inside your BIOS and now it can be remotely changed! Yes, that situation is quite sad, which is why projects like linuxbios is all the more important, even though the initial goal of linuxbios was a little bit different... Best regards Peter K -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] - BIOS after Gentoo is up
On Thu, 5 May 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: My main interest in this area is one that most here won't probably have much experience on - Gentoo-xbox. In the case of Gentoo proper running on the XBox there is a large amount of confusion and differing opinions about BIOS. Clearly you have to make a change to get Gentoo to even load on the XBox because the M$ BIOS doesn't boot from a DVD. However what the BIOS does in that architecture after boot seems unclear to me from the small amount of reading I've done so far. For the XBox there is the Cromwell BIOS but there are also other BIOS's done by groups outside of Linux development. (As best I understand them.) Certainly most are to allow more sorts of game playing and hacks, which is of no interest to me, but some of them allow booting from a DVD, hence my interest in whether to use one fo them or wait for a version of Cromwell for my XBox. (Since it isn't out yet.) Afaiu, you don't need to modify the bios. http://www.xbox-linux.org/Software_Method_HOWTO If you still want to modify the bios: http://www.xbox-linux.org/Hardware_Method_HOWTO Afaiu, you cannot play xbox games anymore with one/some of the option(s) above. Also: http://www.xbox-linux.org/Version_1.6_Warning While the XBox and a normal PC aren't identical by any means it seems to me that the Linux kernel running on either of these platforms is, more or less, the same and would likely make the same sort of requests to BIOS if it had any interest in doing so. If the 2.6.XX kernel on an X86 PC doesn't talk to BIOS it seems a reasonable change that the same kernel on an XBox won't either, but that's a guess. Yes, the xbox is a normal pc... http://www.xbox-linux.org/FAQ#The_Xbox_is_a_standard_PC.2C_isn.27t_it.3F and... http://www.xbox-linux.org/docs/xboxpc.html Best regards Peter K -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Hickups in X...
Hi! I'm having an annoying problem. Running X(org-6.8.2-r1) and xscreensaver(-4.21 - this also happen with previous versions). When the screen blanks the computer freezes for a brief moment (1 second) and then continues as nothing happened (how do I detect this? Xmms stops playing during this). This also happens two minutes later when the screen lock kicks in. According to Jamie Zawinski (the xscreensaver author) xscreensaver is not to blame so there is probably something in X or, more likely, the drivers (ati's closed source unfortunately). Is there anyone that has a solution to this problem, or know anything about what may cause this? Best regards Peter K -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] udev and v4l and xawtv
On Tue, 3 May 2005, Al Bayrouni wrote: How to create /dev/v4l/video* ? I am using udev under kernel-2.6.11-r6. I created the /dev/v4l/dev* manually and even using the MAKEDEV script in linux/Documention but this doeasn't work. No changes if I reboot the system, Still no /dev/v4l/video* or /dev/video*. I am using pure udev (in grub I add gentoo=nodevfs). Are you using kernel modules? If so, have you loaded the 'videodev.ko' module? With the default udev installation this should give you a '/dev/v4l/video*' (after you have loaded the module)... Best regards Peter K -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xmms segmentation fault
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Robert G. Hays wrote: Things like this are why I only update when there is something I **really** need... smug smile But then you don't get the joy of trying to fix a problem... ;-) Might be time to think SLOTs? Or maybe a re-emerge of Xmms. Oh, it works fine now, since I removed the volume control from the xfce4-panel. Best regards Peter K -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla/Gecko and mathematical symbols
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Berger Gerald wrote: http://rooster.stanford.edu/, e.g. http://rooster.stanford.edu/~ben/notes/numberfield/split.php This seems to work for me (I haven't checked _thouroughly_)... http://www.mathe-online.at , e.g. http://www.mathe-online.at/mathint/diff2/i.html#Fraktal This site seems a bit weird (or maybe I'm not familiar with the mathematics on this page); the 'f(x)=S with limits n=0 to infinity (weird symbol, a double stroked Y)? A google turned up: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=133709 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128153#c90 Have you enabled the symbol font in the 'fontEncoding.properties'? - '/usr/lib/mozilla/res/fonts/fontEncoding.properties': # Symbol font encoding.symbol.ttf = Adobe-Symbol-Encoding encoding.symbol.ftcmap = mac_roman - HTH. Herzlichen Gruesschen! Peter K -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla/Gecko and mathematical symbols
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Berger Gerald wrote: After doing some hours of research, I discovered that there is no Type1 font encoded to render ISO-8859-1 symbols. Therefore ISO-10646 is used to translate the symbols. That causes partial wrong rendering. I found a nice document: http://silas.psfc.mit.edu/tth/symfontconfig.html , which exactly explains the complication. There is also a script provided ( http://silas.psfc.mit.edu/tth/symfontconfig.tar.gz ), which solves the problem. Now all mathematical symbols are displayed right and I am happy. Goody! Vielen dank! (I think I got that right anyway :-) Maybe I should write a bug-report or something.. Yes, that would be nice, so that others can find the solution... Preferably with the link to the above page and the script. german Gruesse zurueck :) /german Oh, my german is a bit rusty to say the least, but is 'Herzlichen Gruesschen' completely wrong? What is the equivalent to 'Best regards' or 'Regards'? Gruesse zurueck (see, I'm learning ;-) Peter K -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
