Re: [gentoo-user] Help with new system

2003-12-24 Thread Ben Calvert
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 22:49, Collins wrote: > On Wednesday 24 December 2003 13:12, Thomas Richards wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I was thinking of maybe a 10 GB /root partition on ext3 > > to store important files. Has anyone compared JFS to ext3? I tried jfs on a recent install and had lots

[gentoo-user] kde beta ( was re: dvd+rw gui interface)

2003-12-24 Thread Ben Calvert
> > the only caveat is that i had to turn off autofs, which kept trying to > > mount the disk while i was burning it. no data seems to be damaged. > > Ah I could live with that... As I'm off to bed I think I'm going to > emerge the kde beta overnight, can always set depclean on it in the > morni

Re: [gentoo-user] dvd+rw gui interface

2003-12-24 Thread Ben Calvert
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 13:31, Tom Wesley wrote: > > I haven't tried nautalus, but strongly recommend k3b for burning. it's > > not too heavy on kde dependencies, and has the most natural interface > > i've found for burning anything. > > > > burning a dvd is as easy as selecting 'dvd-data

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoouser] [gentoo] sudo-like behaviour

2003-12-24 Thread Ben Calvert
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 13:17, Patrick Audley wrote: > raptor> hi, Is there a way to run enable some user to run remotely > raptor> via ssh some commands, but forbid him shell access at > raptor> all.. I mean I want to eneble him only : > > Yes, this is very doable. If you m

Re: [gentoo-user] dvd+rw gui interface

2003-12-24 Thread Ben Calvert
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 13:20, Tom Wesley wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just bought myself a new DVD-/+RW drive, fitted it and done some > reading up on the software to control the device. It all works > perfectly if I use the command line tool growisofs (part of > app-cdr/dvd+rw-tools), but [1]

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is boot.log

2003-11-30 Thread Ben Calvert
On Saturday 29 November 2003 23:26, Collins Richey wrote: > Unfortunately, gentoo doesn't care about runlevel 3 or 5. You get the > graphical login, if you have the value set in /et/rc.conf, or > non-graphical in the value is not set. sorta right. Gentoo has runlevel 'defaul', which corresponds

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc optimizations

2003-10-28 Thread Ben Calvert
ntirely in your L2 cache. I'm also convinced that sse is faster at floating poing math than the 387, so I now use: CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -mfpmath=sse -msse -msse2 -mmmx -mno-3dnow -fPIC -ffast-math -Os -pipe " you don't have an sse2 unit, so you'll want to not use

Re: [gentoo-user] pls break my new perforce ebuild

2003-10-26 Thread Ben Calvert
Thanks paul On Sunday 26 October 2003 04:52 pm, Paul Varner wrote: > Ben Calvert wrote: > > 3. have added the new gui, p4v, which is distributed in RPM format. > > ( slight hack using rpm2targz, which i've just realized I should > > add to the dependencies :) >

[gentoo-user] pls break my new perforce ebuild

2003-10-26 Thread Ben Calvert
can view the bug at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19586 and the whole directory, zipped up, for your PORTAGE_OVERLAY pleasure at http://www.stonehenge-net.com/~ben/perforce_dir.tbz2 -- Ben Calvert Senior Systems Administrator Stonehenge NetWorks -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] VI issues

2003-06-11 Thread Ben Calvert
Alan said: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 08:43:56PM +0100, Gareth John wrote: > [snip] >> Try emerging vim instead of vi. I'm sure someone out there knows how to >> make standard vi understand the arrow keys, but vim does it out of the >> box. > > Or get your fingers to learn hjkl as your arrow movem

[gentoo-user] anyone else having problems with freshclam?

2003-06-08 Thread Ben Calvert
connect to the server for updates... Am I missing something in the configuration? has anyone else noticed this? should I just be patient and try again tomorrow? ----- Ben Calvert Stonehenge NetWorks www.stonehenge-net.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list