Re: [arch-general] Status of dcron

2011-05-01 Thread Johannes Held
On 01.05.2011 19:00, Jim Pryor wrote: I don't know yet how to push a new local branch to remote, though I know I'll be able to figure it out. That would be git push origin new_local_branch -- Johannes

Re: [arch-general] Why are financial contributions not accepted?

2011-04-30 Thread Johannes Held
On 01.05.2011 04:13, Ray Kohler wrote: I also have donated in the past, and would do so again if it were made possible. What about a normal bank transfer to one of Arch's core maintainers?

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Vi package

2011-02-11 Thread Johannes Held
David Campbell davek...@archlinux.us: Excerpts from Allan McRae's message of 2011-02-10 17:12:54 -0500: Is the current vi package actually usable for an install by someone more familiar with it? Yes, I have used it a few times, and prefer it over nano. +1 The simple things (switching input

Re: [arch-general] How to do this

2010-10-24 Thread Johannes Held
Christian christia...@runbox.com: I know that I have to use piping for this, but I want to output the errors I get while compiling a program into atext file. What to type after make then? You could try tee. man tee. your_command | tee file_1 file_2 -- Gruß, Johannes http://hehejo.de

Re: [arch-general] Creation of startup scripts

2010-10-05 Thread Johannes Held
Christian christia...@runbox.com: Hi all, I am learning more and more about Linux, but I would like to learn how to create startup scripts for my programs, any good resource? Where should I start? Many thanks, Christian Take some initscript from /etc/rc.d, copy and adjust it to your needs.

Re: [arch-general] Creation of startup scripts

2010-10-05 Thread Johannes Held
Christian christia...@runbox.com: OK, just want to be sure if I want to create rc scripts I should read up on bash scripting? Hehe, that depends! If you need to do really complicated things - yes! If you simply want to start some program like you would from shell - no! -- Gruß, Johannes

Re: [arch-general] 1. Re: version control system for normal user (Magnus Therning)

2010-08-28 Thread Johannes Held
José M. Prieto jmpri...@gmx.net: Git is very powerful, but not the easier one to use. I'd suggest darcs or mercurial better. I used Darcs for a while and I liked its theory of patches. But at some point I was just fed up with having to decide about every line I changed. With Git, I can stage

Re: [arch-general] 1. Re: version control system for normal user (Magnus Therning)

2010-08-28 Thread Johannes Held
Magnus Therning mag...@therning.org: True, but I still don't quite understand the point of the staging area. I've never found a good use for it. In short, I don't think the staging area is the feature that makes git a better option than Mercurial :-) If you use it, you'll need it. :) Short

[arch-general] Updated tree years old archlinux

2010-08-15 Thread Johannes Held
Hi, during the last days I updated my old notebook. It wasn't updated since 2007. So you can imagine that the latest switch from tar.gz to tar.xz was a little problem. But a manual installation of the necessary packages and some rude untaring directly in / gave me the ability to update the whole

Re: [arch-general] Updated tree years old archlinux

2010-08-15 Thread Johannes Held
Ray Rashif schivmeis...@gmail.com: 1) remove any xorg.conf that you have I did that before reboot. Xorg still didn't find any screens. The reason for that, might be an outdated driver still loaded - thus the reboot. 2) edit mkinitcpio.conf for a 'full' image I'd miss that one. -.- I'll give

Re: [arch-general] $BROWSER variable and Google Earth

2010-07-20 Thread Johannes Held
Aleksis Jauntēvs aleksis.jaunt...@gmail.com: It is not a bug. Your .bashrc or .zshrc files are sourced only in terminal. Does X inherit variables that are set in .bashrc when it is started via startx from initlevel 3? -- Gruß, Johannes http://hehejo.de signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-general] Err... Why is gvim now conflicting with vim?

2010-05-07 Thread Johannes Held
http://www.archlinux.org/news/495/ * If you have gvim installed, the update will inform you that vim conflicts with gvim. This is the expected behavior. Installation of vim and gvim separately is no longer required, the gvim package now installs vim as well. -- Gruß, Johannes

Re: [arch-general] Is preload really working ??

2010-05-06 Thread Johannes Held
solsTiCe d'Hiver solstice.dhi...@gmail.com: One of the ways to speed up firefox is to put your ~/.mozilla in a tmpfs (doing it the right way, else you loose your data). This have been discussed somewhere I think. How else ? You mean that wikientry?

Re: [arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...

2010-03-30 Thread Johannes Held
Ian-Xue Li da.mi.spi...@gmail.com: Overall, if you don't care any of the above, mpd with any suitable player (I use ncmpcpp) is a must-try combination. Cool, I always thought ncmpc can't be made better. :-) Thanks for that hint! -- Gruß, Johannes http://hehejo.de signature.asc Description:

Re: [arch-general] Quoting of E-mails

2010-01-20 Thread Johannes Held
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Holmes steve.holme...@gmail.com: If I addopt bottom posting, I plan then to delete all but the most recent post to keep thing conscise. Sure! That's the right(tm) way to do it. ;-) Actually I'm run into *MANY* of these huge long threads in a

Re: [arch-general] VPS hosting with Arch

2009-09-28 Thread Johannes Held
Hello Roman, I have a VPS with ArchLinux running. My Hoster is http://goekal-it.de/ and 'till now, I had not any problems (despite the dumbs ssh-login-error I wrote wonce a while). I can't say very much about their performance, cause I use this system mainly as playarea and I don't have

Re: [arch-general] vim 7.2.245-1

2009-09-23 Thread Johannes Held
Jozsef joz...@gmx.com: I'm using vim all the time. Never vi. Little bit more in detail. How do you start vim? $ vim or $ vi -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. Mast und Schotbruch mit dem http://segelsport-blog.de. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-general] Ruby and rubygems

2009-09-17 Thread Johannes Held
hi I updated my Arch Linux box today and pacman wanted to install an update for ruby that conflicted with rubygems. So I removed rubygems. But what is the reason for this conflict? afaik new ruby 1.9 contains rubygems and rake. -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst

Re: [arch-general] Ruby and rubygems

2009-09-17 Thread Johannes Held
Lars Tennstedt o...@larstennstedt.de: I noticed that RubyRipper does not start anymore since the last ruby update. Can anyone confirm that? confirmed -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. Mast und Schotbruch mit dem http://segelsport-blog.de. signature.asc

[arch-general] Can't ssh to vServer running ArchLinux

2009-09-11 Thread Johannes Held
Hello, after my latest update of my vServer, I wanted to ssh into this box. But I'm given this error message and the ssh hangs: $ ssh bitterblume.com PTY allocation request failed on channel 0 Is there any chance to resque that? I've always did a copy of the old kernel-image. Perhaps I can get

Re: [arch-general] Can't ssh to vServer running ArchLinux

2009-09-11 Thread Johannes Held
Chris Bannister c.bannis...@gmail.com: Proabbly initab is set wrong, what was updated? That can be. I don't know what's been updated. That update was one or two weeks ago. Unfortunately I don't know exactly what packages are updated - but I bet it's something with that change in tty and inittab..

Re: [arch-general] Can't ssh to vServer running ArchLinux

2009-09-11 Thread Johannes Held
Dieter Plaetinck die...@plaetinck.be: http://www.archlinux.org/news/454/ Thanks for that link. As the article says: Due to severe system breakages if this file is not updated, this change will be automatically handled by pacman. Unfortunately, I didn't check the update. We didn't alter these

Re: [arch-general] Can't ssh to vServer running ArchLinux

2009-09-11 Thread Johannes Held
Pierre Schmitz pie...@archlinux.de: That wont help right now, but one should not rent a server without a serical console __and__ a rescue system which can boot from network. Jeah, you're right with that points. All I can say: It's a vServer mainly to play and fool around Why don't you think

Re: [arch-general] Anyone else who has alsa issues?

2009-09-09 Thread Johannes Held
Hi. Tobias Powalowski t.p...@gmx.de: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16094 No, I can't have two apps play at the same time. I'm not using KDE or Gnome at all - but it's more a gtkish system :) But perhaps a restart will fix this. I don't know. lsmod | grep snd* snd_seq_dummy 3540 0

Re: [arch-general] Anyone else who has alsa issues?

2009-09-09 Thread Johannes Held
Tobias Powalowski t.p...@gmx.de: You use both audacious, could it be just a bug in there? audacious .. no I have multiple sounds while listening to MPD and mplayer or mpg123. Playing music via mpg123, I have no sound while watching a viedo with mplayer. -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich

Re: [arch-general] Anyone else who has alsa issues?

2009-09-09 Thread Johannes Held
Alessandro Doro ordo...@gmail.com: Have you tried $ mplayer -ao alsa yourmultimedia.file Thank you. That solved the problem! -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. Mast und Schotbruch mit dem http://segelsport-blog.de. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-general] Xorg broken after last update

2009-08-01 Thread Johannes Held
Luís Moreira lmm1...@gmail.com: Anyone experienced the same thing? No, work's without any problems here. I have the same setting as you: x86_64 without testing. -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. Mast und Schotbruch mit dem http://segelsport-blog.de.

Re: [arch-general] compile flags with ABS

2009-07-23 Thread Johannes Held
Sascha Siegel nust...@me.com: how can i find out the compile flags of an app from the ABS? Perhaps on the well documented upstream webpage. hopefully... -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. Mast und Schotbruch mit dem http://segelsport-blog.de. signature.asc

Re: [arch-general] AUR Search

2009-06-24 Thread Johannes Held
Andrei Thorp gar...@gmail.com: Yeah, I guess Xandros isn't terribly popular amongst open source folk. Who cares? Beeing employed today is more important ... -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. Mast und Schotbruch mit dem http://segelsport-blog.de.

Re: [arch-general] AUR Search

2009-06-24 Thread Johannes Held
Xavier shinin...@gmail.com: But only today! ymmd! -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. Mast und Schotbruch mit dem http://segelsport-blog.de. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-general] Openbox - great lightweight desktop, similar to icewm, but better in several regards

2009-06-10 Thread Johannes Held
David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com: The only thing I didn't find was an Alt+F2 run command equivalent (I'm sure it's there, I just haven't found it) You have to manage this by your own. Paste something like this into you ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml and be shure to have gmrun

Re: [arch-general] pidgin memory leak?

2009-05-28 Thread Johannes Held
Gregory T Helton g...@fallendusk.org: Is anyone else having problems with pidgin? Me not. It's running smooth with no noticeable errors. But I'm using it muted. Perhaps that's an issue? And my computer runs with 4GB RAM, too. % ps -aux | grep pidgin jo 14004 0.1 1.0 420528 40768 tty1

Re: [arch-general] Fix or not fix? install scriptlets with user handling.

2009-05-28 Thread Johannes Held
I'm not really an expert on this topic... but could it be a solution to ask the user in a pre-install step? Like: This update will change many things in the config and does this and that and some other bad things. It's recommended that the service FOO is restarted after

Re: [arch-general] Fix or not fix? install scriptlets with user handling.

2009-05-28 Thread Johannes Held
Daenyth Blank daenyth+a...@gmail.com: I don't really see how this is needed. If a user updates package X which he knows is running a daemon, it's not hard to know whether or not it should be restarted. We should always assume the user is competant Yes, that's right. But it would fix the

Re: [arch-general] Repository download speed? Any way to improve?

2009-04-21 Thread Johannes Held
hi Do I need to specify individual mirrors that would work better for my location in TX? If so, where can I get a list that will let me see the closest ones? Thanks. Use the rankmirrors skript: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Improve_Pacman_Performance#Choosing_the_fastest_mirror

Re: [arch-general] Understanding permissions

2009-04-16 Thread Johannes Held
Maurí­cio briqueabra...@yahoo.com: stat(/home/mauricio/public_html, 0x7fffceb2dcb0) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) Is your ~ r-x for others? -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. http://cryptocd.eduforge.org/online_version signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: [arch-general] [Fwd: [arch-announce] Dropping i686 support]

2009-04-01 Thread Johannes Held
Denis A. Altoé Falqueto denisfalqu...@gmail.com: THAT is exactly the funny part! Jap, that's for sure. But as I mentioned, the line between the funny part and insulting is very thin. -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut.

Re: [arch-general] File notification question

2009-03-25 Thread Johannes Held
What about inotify? http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-inotify.html -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. http://cryptocd.eduforge.org/online_version signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-general] On rolling release system and its benefits.

2009-03-17 Thread Johannes Held
Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org: That said, from my and many users' experience, Arch is very stable despite constantly changing. We have managed to walk the fine line between bleeding edge and stability/usability, and I think we have been doing pretty well. And that's one of the big

Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] Newsletter for March, 2009

2009-03-06 Thread Johannes Held
Aaron Griffin aaronmgrif...@gmail.com: I'm open to ideas as to how to fix this. The code which inserts the news into the database could also send that mail (and strip unwanted content). -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut.

Re: [arch-general] smtp daemon

2009-03-04 Thread Johannes Held
Any suggestions? What about postfix? A friend of mine installed and configured it just some days ago on our vserver (running ArchLinux). -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. http://cryptocd.eduforge.org/online_version signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Maintainer wanted for ruby

2009-02-07 Thread Johannes Held
This could be interessting, too. http://isitruby19.com/ (via http://www.ruby-mine.de/2009/2/6/gem-compatible_with-ruby19) -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. http://cryptocd.eduforge.org/online_version signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Maintainer wanted for ruby

2009-02-05 Thread Johannes Held
Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org: I think very little in [extra] depends on ruby (needed plugins mainly), but the is quite a bit in [community]. I thought BaSh used to maintain some of them so perhaps he wants to be the maintainer. Anyway, the transition to the 1.9 series in not minor (as

[arch-general] ArchLinux on Eeee PC 901 in freiesMagazin 12/2008

2008-12-07 Thread Johannes Held
Hey Folks! freiesMagazin 12/2008 [1] published an article about ArchLinux on Asus Eee PC 901. [1]: http://freiesmagazin.de/ -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. http://cryptocd.eduforge.org/online_version signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-general] x hotplugging probs

2008-12-01 Thread Johannes Held
David Rosenstrauch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ah - figured it out: evdev kernel module wasn't being automatically loaded in my rc.conf. Sorry for the noise. That's no noise! That could be my solution too. Atm, I disabled the automatic search via ServerFlags - just three seconds before I went mad.

Re: [arch-general] Weird upgrade problem ??

2008-11-15 Thread Johannes Held
RedShift schrieb: Read the news http://archlinux.org/news/411/ (that's an faily old news now..) -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. http://cryptocd.eduforge.org/online_version signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] uswsup in aur

2008-11-05 Thread Johannes Held
Guus Snijders [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Johannes, you could also try pm-utils[1] which is maintained in extra. Ah, that seems to be a good alternative. But, pm-utils needs a swap parition. And having 4gb of ram, I decided that I won't need one.. :) Let's see how I'll do this. But thanks, I'll take a

Re: [arch-general] uswsup in aur

2008-11-05 Thread Johannes Held
*phew* It's working like a charm! I'll have to tune some things, like stopping mpd but hey!!! woho! You've made my day! -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. http://cryptocd.eduforge.org/online_version signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[arch-general] uswsup in aur

2008-11-04 Thread Johannes Held
Hello I want to suspend my computer (no laptop) to ram or even to disk. For the ease of use I first want to try suspend to ram and looked into our wiki [1] which recommended uswsusp from aur. But I have the same problem like dninja in the coments. libgcrypt-1.4.3-2 is installed but the build

Re: [arch-general] 32-bit glibc package?

2008-08-21 Thread Johannes Held
David Rosenstrauch schrieb: Johannes Held wrote: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch64_Install_bundled_32bit_system Ugh. Looks like a lot of work. Basically no. Because the only thing you need to do, is telling pacman to do a complete new installation, but please into /arch32 and using

Re: [arch-general] 32-bit glibc package?

2008-08-20 Thread Johannes Held
RedShift schrieb: Use a 32 bit chroot for 32 bit stuff. Arch doesn't (and hopefully will never ever) support multilib. That are my hopes, too. Having an arch32-chroot myself, I can say it works like a charm! There's a wonderfull article in the wiki:

Re: [arch-general] [gcc-4.3] segfault when runnung -O3 compiled c++ code

2008-06-26 Thread Johannes Held
Can someone confirm that this http://codepad.org/I313t7BN compiled with g++ -O3 test.cpp -o test gives a segfault when trying to run it via ./test same here: 11:14:33 [~/idownload] cat test.cpp struct Vector { Vector() : x(0), y(0), z(0) { } float x,y,z; }; struct Foo { int

Re: [arch-general] Firebug FF extension won't upgrade with FF3.0

2008-06-23 Thread Johannes Held
David Rosenstrauch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Anyone else use the Firebug extension for Firefox? Seems like the old version (1.05) isn't compatible with FF3.0. But I'm also unable to upgrade to the new version (1.2.0b3). The extension home page

Re: [arch-general] Arch-graphics unofficial repository

2008-06-03 Thread Johannes Held
Gustavo A. Gómez Farhat [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am getting this error when trying to browse your site: I can view his site quite normal. No errors here. -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. http://cryptocd.eduforge.org/online_version signature.asc Description:

Re: [arch-general] Tool to stop and start services? (Don't Panic)

2008-05-22 Thread Johannes Held
Nigel Henry schrieb: Is there anything similar that I could use on my Archlinux install? But sure it is: (as root:) /etc/rc.d/your_service [start|stop|restart] -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. http://cryptocd.eduforge.org/online_version signature.asc

Re: [arch-general] [English] New Distro - Can't Read German

2008-04-01 Thread Johannes Held
Thomas Bächler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ab morgen werden auch die Mailinglisten auf deutsch umgestellt. Ich schlage vor ihr lernt ohne Babelfish deutsch zu sprechen. Na ich hätte kein Problem damit. Solange wir feststehende Begriffe wie named pipe nicht eindeutschen müssen. :-P -- Gruß, Johannes

Re: [arch-general] [English] New Distro - Can't Read German

2008-04-01 Thread Johannes Held
Michael Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jon Kristian Nilsen wrote: On the other hand, it is 1st of April :D Well, you got the point close to heart attack ;) Damn it! I nearly fell from my chair.. Ah.. laughing sometimes hurts! -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst

Re: [arch-general] Problems with keyboardinput

2008-03-12 Thread Johannes Held
Loui [EMAIL PROTECTED]: May someone show me the maillinglistarchive of this ML? Then I try to find it. http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/ Thank you. I looked through these mails quite a bit - but I didn't find my old thread. And I don't have this nice snipped of commandline here in

Re: [arch-general] Problems with keyboardinput

2008-03-07 Thread Johannes Held
Hi. I'm not sure if it's same problem. The fix for this problem was simply a oneliner in shell. May someone show me the maillinglistarchive of this ML? Then I try to find it. -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. http://cryptocd.eduforge.org/online_version

Re: [arch-general] Boot sequence stops at modules (rc.sysinit)

2008-02-29 Thread Johannes Held
Stephen Wilkinson schrieb: I tried booting into different run levels (adding 1 or 3 to the kernel line of grub), but it makes no difference. I'm no dev - but as far as I know the bsd-style initscripts gave ArchLinux no runlevels like you find them in SysV-style systems like Debian or SUSE.

Re: [arch-general] Java applets in Arch64

2008-01-25 Thread Johannes Held
I have a chroot with a complete separated arch32 running. Everytime I start firefox - I start it via dchroot -d firefox and then I have flash, java much more like acrobatplugin. AND I don't clash 32bitty things into my arch64. When these things are fixed - simply rm -rf /opt/arch32!

Re: [arch-general] makepkg running as root

2008-01-21 Thread Johannes Held
Dan McGee [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Just think of what this would do as root in a PKGBUILD: build() { echo You've been pwned!!! rm -rf / } This is the reason why I always take a look into a PGKBUILD before makepkging it (as user of course!). -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de

Re: [arch-general] New web page

2008-01-12 Thread Johannes Held
Carl Mueller schrieb: The new web page looks great! Congratulations to all involved. Oh yes - exactly my thoughts! -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. http://cryptocd.eduforge.org/online_version

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [extra signoff] nvidia/nvidia-utils 169.07

2008-01-08 Thread Johannes Held
Hello out there On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 09:11:34 +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: I added new nvidia drivers 169.07 for i686 and x86_64 to testing. My nvidia machine is out of order for now, so please sign off both architectures and as many GPUs as possible. I am also interested in signoffs