Re: [gentoo-user] kde4 - prints pdf file sideways

2010-02-25 Thread daid kahl
On 25 February 2010 15:19, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: I just switched one of my machine to KDE4.3 and when I try to print pdf document it prints it sideways. I've tried Okurla and xpdf same effect. The pdf shows correctly on the screen and prints correctly from kde-3.5 Is it a bug or

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage GUI interfaces...

2010-02-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 25 February 2010 05:14:06 ubiquitous1980 wrote: BRM wrote: I am interested in finding a GUI interface for working with portage, preferably for KDE4. Namely b/c I am getting a little tired of having konsole windows open and not being able to keep track of where I am in the

Re: [gentoo-user] openvpn static ip

2010-02-25 Thread Xavier Parizet
On 02/25/2010 02:32 AM, Joseph wrote: I've configured OpenVPN and it works OK but I can not seems to figure it out how to assign static IP to clients My server.conf port 8458 proto udp dev tun mode server ca /usr/share/openvpn/easy-rsa/keys/ca.crt cert

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage GUI interfaces...

2010-02-25 Thread daid kahl
On 25 February 2010 11:40, BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com wrote: I am interested in finding a GUI interface for working with portage, preferably for KDE4. Namely b/c I am getting a little tired of having konsole windows open and not being able to keep track of where I am in the emerge update

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emergency call for help: raid5 fallen apart

2010-02-25 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 24.02.2010 16:11, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: I also sent this one to the linux-raid-ml, I am in trouble: -- This is a crucial server and I feel a lot of pressure. Rebuilding that raid would mean a lot of restore-work etc. So I would really appreciate a goo advice here. thanks for

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewing suggestions?

2010-02-25 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I cannot use mupdf at all. I've emerged mupdf-938 after adding it to my local overlay. But, when it comes up it displays the first page but I cannot do anything else. There is no menu, it doesn't respond to the mouse or the PgUp/PgDn keys. So I can only view the very first page or exit. No

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-02-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:17:26 -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Bingo! I'm OP, and kind of like the KDE look, and I'm used to where things are (except for the new K menu which I'm slowly adapting to). I didn't bother adapting to it, I adapted it to me, you can switch back to the old style menu. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage GUI interfaces...

2010-02-25 Thread Stefano Crocco
On Thursday 25 February 2010, BRM wrote: |I am interested in finding a GUI interface for working with portage, |preferably for KDE4. Namely b/c I am getting a little tired of having |konsole windows open and not being able to keep track of where I am in |the emerge update process - something a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS - Some apps see printers, some do not

2010-02-25 Thread roundyz
Mark Knecht wrote: equery hasuse cups on my machine it was only something like 8 or 9 packages. It might not be a real big problem to enable it globally. It did work for me. - Mark roun...@lister ~ $ sudo emerge -vp equery These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS - Some apps see printers, some do not

2010-02-25 Thread Alex Schuster
roun...@hotmail.ru writes: roun...@lister ~ $ sudo emerge -vp equery These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy equery. [...] So what package is it part of? wo...@weird ~ $ equery belongs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS - Some apps see printers, some do not

2010-02-25 Thread roundyz
Alex Schuster wrote: roun...@hotmail.ru writes: roun...@lister ~ $ sudo emerge -vp equery These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy equery. [...] So what package is it part of?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS - Some apps see printers, some do not

2010-02-25 Thread roundyz
Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:53 AM, roun...@hotmail.ru wrote: james wrote: Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com writes: the one binary thing on the system that comes to mind is Open Office in which printing is working. It's the stuff I'm building that isn't!

Re: [gentoo-user] gnupg fails to decrypt on kmail

2010-02-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 07:01:12AM +, Mick wrote: 2010-02-25 06:48:32 gpg-agent[6741] starting a new PIN Entry gpg-agent[6741]: can't connect server: `ERR 67109133 can't exec `/usr/bin/pinentry-qt': No such file or directory' 2010-02-25 06:48:32 gpg-agent[6741] can't connect to the PIN

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS - Some apps see printers, some do not

2010-02-25 Thread roundyz
roun...@hotmail.ru wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:53 AM, roun...@hotmail.ru wrote: james wrote: Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com writes: the one binary thing on the system that comes to mind is Open Office in which printing is working.

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewing suggestions?

2010-02-25 Thread Stroller
The quoted stated vi-like bindings, so I would advise you to state that you've tried the j k keys for up down. If the previous poster has bottom-posted, your top-posting makes the quuoted *particularly* difficult to read. I hope you will follow the conventions of the previous poster in

Re: [gentoo-user] openvpn static ip

2010-02-25 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 20:37 -0700, Joseph wrote: The directory name shouldn't make any difference, I'm using directory name ccd; though I've tried the IP's you suggested, it makes no difference, still not getting static IP :-/ Thanks for suggestion, I've been on it all day and can not find

[gentoo-user] boot specific service in sequence

2010-02-25 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
Hi, is there a way to start some specific services during boot up in a sequential order ? for example 1)tomcat 2)mysql 3)dns server Please suggest. Thanks and Regards, Kaushal

Re: [gentoo-user] boot specific service in sequence

2010-02-25 Thread Xavier Parizet
On 02/25/2010 01:11 PM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Hi, is there a way to start some specific services during boot up in a sequential order ? for example 1)tomcat 2)mysql 3)dns server Please suggest. Yes using rc_need_* variable. Example: rc_mysql_need=tomcat rc_dns_need=mysql The

[gentoo-user] Can't unsubscribe

2010-02-25 Thread Johannes Frandsen
I have tried to unsubscribe from this list a few times now, but it seems to have no effect to send a mail to gentoo-user+unsubscr...@lists.gentoo.org. Sending a mail to gentoo-user+h...@lists.gentoo.org also has no effect. Any ideas or pointers about how to proceed? Joe

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't unsubscribe

2010-02-25 Thread Xavier Parizet
On 02/25/2010 01:23 PM, Johannes Frandsen wrote: I have tried to unsubscribe from this list a few times now, but it seems to have no effect to send a mail to gentoo-user+unsubscr...@lists.gentoo.org. Sending a mail to gentoo-user+h...@lists.gentoo.org also has no effect. Any ideas or

Re: [gentoo-user] boot specific service in sequence

2010-02-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 25 February 2010 14:11:38 Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Hi, is there a way to start some specific services during boot up in a sequential order ? for example 1)tomcat 2)mysql 3)dns server Yes, the init scripts support the notion of a service depending on another service, and

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewing suggestions?

2010-02-25 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 2:47 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, I cannot use mupdf at all. I've emerged mupdf-938 after adding it to my local overlay. But, when it comes up it displays the first page but I cannot do anything else. There is no menu, it doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewing suggestions?

2010-02-25 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Thanks to 'Stroller' and Willie I couldn't just believe in such an archaic user interface. Helmut. On 25 Feb, Stroller wrote: The quoted stated vi-like bindings, so I would advise you to state that you've tried the j k keys for up down. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-02-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Peter Humphrey writes: On Thursday 25 February 2010 00:10:18 Alex Schuster wrote: This KMail window has spell checking which is nice to have. But when I open the spell checking dialog in order to add words to the dictionary, I always have to start at the very beginning and reply to all

[gentoo-user] [QA] The 'dropped' value in /sbin/ifconfig output

2010-02-25 Thread Kan-I Jyo
Dear list, This might be too fundamental to answer, but I would like to know when will the 'dropped' value in the output of /sbin/ifconfig be counted up. I have tried setting up a firewall using iptables with a very simple rule like the following: samle # iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport

Re: [gentoo-user] boot specific service in sequence

2010-02-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:15:57 +0100, Xavier Parizet wrote: The syntax is: rc_need_[name of the service]=[list of space-separated services you want [name of the service] to depend on] According to the man page, the syntax is rc_SERVICENAME_need=list of services although I've never used this

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't unsubscribe

2010-02-25 Thread Johannes Frandsen
I am trying to unsubscribe using j...@imento.dk. No effect. Joe On 25/02/2010, at 13.25, Xavier Parizet wrote: On 02/25/2010 01:23 PM, Johannes Frandsen wrote: I have tried to unsubscribe from this list a few times now, but it seems to have no effect to send a mail to

Re: [gentoo-user] [QA] The 'dropped' value in /sbin/ifconfig output

2010-02-25 Thread Xavier Parizet
On 02/25/2010 02:11 PM, Kan-I Jyo wrote: Dear list, This might be too fundamental to answer, but I would like to know when will the 'dropped' value in the output of /sbin/ifconfig be counted up. I have tried setting up a firewall using iptables with a very simple rule like the following:

Re: [gentoo-user] boot specific service in sequence

2010-02-25 Thread Xavier Parizet
On 02/25/2010 02:12 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:15:57 +0100, Xavier Parizet wrote: The syntax is: rc_need_[name of the service]=[list of space-separated services you want [name of the service] to depend on] According to the man page, the syntax is

[gentoo-user] Is there a lock daemon for managing file locking on an NFS server?

2010-02-25 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
e.g. 'lockd'? If so, which ebuild installs it? 10x, Amit

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage GUI interfaces...

2010-02-25 Thread Ronan Arraes Jardim Chagas
No, it isn't, though it is very different now, these screenshots are from a very old version. Now it is much more coloured and beautiful with some newer tasks. The only thing that I read emerge output and show my way is the pretending packages that will be installed and output from eix-diff to

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a lock daemon for managing file locking on an NFS server?

2010-02-25 Thread Xavier Parizet
On 02/25/2010 02:56 PM, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: e.g. 'lockd'? If so, which ebuild installs it? Well i'm using NFS for a while now, and i just checked: nothing like this is running on my nfs server. Do you have a special reason for asking ? (i mean a bug or weird behaviour regarding nfs) --

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a lock daemon for managing file locking on an NFS server?

2010-02-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 25 February 2010 15:56:28 Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: e.g. 'lockd'? If so, which ebuild installs it? 10x, Amit I went looking for rpc.lockd and couldn't find it either ;-( I fully expected ti to be there so a lot of hunting in /etc/init.d ensued. Then I remember something about

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage GUI interfaces...

2010-02-25 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com On Thursday 25 February 2010 05:14:06 ubiquitous1980 wrote: BRM wrote: I am interested in finding a GUI interface for working with portage, preferably for KDE4. Namely b/c I am getting a little tired of having

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a lock daemon for managing file locking on an NFS server?

2010-02-25 Thread Xavier Parizet
On 02/25/2010 03:27 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 25 February 2010 15:56:28 Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: e.g. 'lockd'? If so, which ebuild installs it? 10x, Amit I went looking for rpc.lockd and couldn't find it either ;-( I fully expected ti to be there so a lot of hunting in

[gentoo-user] Error in emerge git

2010-02-25 Thread Konstantinos Bekiaris
I am a new to Gentoo and portage. I tried to install git but i get the following error: Gentoo / # emerge git * IMPORTANT: 1 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. * Use eselect news to read news items. * * The FEATURES=digest setting can prevent corruption from being noticed. * The

Re: [gentoo-user] Error in emerge git

2010-02-25 Thread Xavier Parizet
On 02/25/2010 03:40 PM, Konstantinos Bekiaris wrote: I am a new to Gentoo and portage. I tried to install git but i get the following error: Gentoo / # emerge git [SNIP] I understand that i must put some keywords in etc/portage/package.keyword. I think dev-util/git gtk iconv perl

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a lock daemon for managing file locking on an NFS server?

2010-02-25 Thread Neil Walker
Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: e.g. 'lockd'? If so, which ebuild installs it? I abandoned nfs quite a while ago but, afaik, file locking is handled internally by the kernel. Be lucky, Neil http://www.neiljw.com

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync backup system

2010-02-25 Thread Ward Poelmans
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 21:51, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: It looks interesting, and no program is that good that alternatives should never be considered, but I really like the way BaclupPC works. Everything is handled by the server, all you need to do on each client is copy the

Re: [gentoo-user] [QA] The 'dropped' value in /sbin/ifconfig output

2010-02-25 Thread Kan-I Jyo
Hello, Xavier Thank you for your prompt reply. 2010/2/25 Xavier Parizet x...@gentooist.com: Well, you're talking about two different things: the dropped value in ifconfig output is related to Ethernet packet which would be dropped by hardware. Yeah, you have made the things clear to me. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage GUI interfaces...

2010-02-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 25 February 2010 02:40:23 BRM wrote: I am getting a little tired of having konsole windows open and not being able to keep track of where I am in the emerge update process Have a look in this list for messages containing the string %w. There were four on the first and second of

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync backup system

2010-02-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 25 February 2010 17:15:36 Ward Poelmans wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 21:51, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: It looks interesting, and no program is that good that alternatives should never be considered, but I really like the way BaclupPC works. Everything is handled

Re: [gentoo-user] [QA] The 'dropped' value in /sbin/ifconfig output

2010-02-25 Thread Xavier Parizet
On 02/25/2010 04:36 PM, Kan-I Jyo wrote: Hello, Xavier Thank you for your prompt reply. 2010/2/25 Xavier Parizet x...@gentooist.com: Well, you're talking about two different things: the dropped value in ifconfig output is related to Ethernet packet which would be dropped by hardware.

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't unsubscribe

2010-02-25 Thread Arttu V.
On 2/25/10, Johannes Frandsen j...@imento.dk wrote: I have tried to unsubscribe from this list a few times now, but it seems to have no effect to send a mail to gentoo-user+unsubscr...@lists.gentoo.org. Sending a mail to gentoo-user+h...@lists.gentoo.org also has no effect. Any ideas or

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync backup system

2010-02-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:15:36 +0100, Ward Poelmans wrote: It looks interesting, and no program is that good that alternatives should never be considered, but I really like the way BaclupPC works. Everything is handled by the server, all you need to do on each client is copy the backuppc

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync backup system

2010-02-25 Thread Ward Poelmans
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 16:41, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: A much better way is to run a dedicated agent on the client. If the server needs to schedule backups, it can ask the agent to do so using regular tcp traffic. The client can then do it's backup and rsync it over to the

[gentoo-user] How to untar without first knowing the tar contents?

2010-02-25 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I backed up my wife's home directory using tar in preparation to moving her to a new machine but I don't remember the exact command I used to do the tar command. When I tried to untar on the new machine it failed to do anything. (except use 30 minutes of CPU time...) MacMini home # tar

Re: [gentoo-user] How to untar without first knowing the tar contents?

2010-02-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 09:15:47AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: MacMini home # tar -xjf /mnt/cdrom/evelyn.20100214.tar.bz2 /home/evelyn/ tar: /home/evelyn: Not found in archive You need the -C flag. See man tar. W -- Willie W. Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu

Re: [gentoo-user] openvpn static ip

2010-02-25 Thread Xavier Parizet
Le 25/02/2010 17:51, Joseph a écrit : On 02/25/10 08:40, Xavier Parizet wrote: On 02/25/2010 02:32 AM, Joseph wrote: I've configured OpenVPN and it works OK but I can not seems to figure it out how to assign static IP to clients My server.conf port 8458 [SNIP] On client in

Re: [gentoo-user] How to untar without first knowing the tar contents?

2010-02-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 25 Februar 2010, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I backed up my wife's home directory using tar in preparation to moving her to a new machine but I don't remember the exact command I used to do the tar command. When I tried to untar on the new machine it failed to do anything. (except

Re: [gentoo-user] How to untar without first knowing the tar contents?

2010-02-25 Thread Florian Philipp
Mark Knecht schrieb: Hi, I backed up my wife's home directory using tar in preparation to moving her to a new machine but I don't remember the exact command I used to do the tar command. When I tried to untar on the new machine it failed to do anything. (except use 30 minutes of CPU

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync backup system

2010-02-25 Thread daid kahl
On 26 February 2010 01:11, Ward Poelmans wpoel...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 16:41, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: A much better way is to run a dedicated agent on the client. If the server needs to schedule backups, it can ask the agent to do so using regular tcp

Re: [gentoo-user] openvpn static ip

2010-02-25 Thread Joseph
On 02/25/10 18:12, Xavier Parizet wrote: Le 25/02/2010 17:51, Joseph a ??crit : On 02/25/10 08:40, Xavier Parizet wrote: On 02/25/2010 02:32 AM, Joseph wrote: I've configured OpenVPN and it works OK but I can not seems to figure it out how to assign static IP to clients My server.conf port

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage GUI interfaces...

2010-02-25 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On 25 February 2010 11:40, BRMbm_witn...@yahoo.com wrote: I am interested in finding a GUI interface for working with portage, preferably for KDE4. Namely b/c I am getting a little tired of having konsole windows open and

Re: [gentoo-user] When copying an os to new disk

2010-02-25 Thread daid kahl
On 22 February 2010 16:49, daid kahl daid...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 February 2010 05:34, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: I'm currently rsyncing an OS (new gentoo install) from one vmware disk to a newly created one. you could dd it too, and then mount the new system and remove stuff in

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage GUI interfaces...

2010-02-25 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On Thursday 25 February 2010 02:40:23 BRM wrote: I am getting a little tired of having konsole windows open and not being able to keep track of where I am in the emerge update process Have a look in this list for

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync backup system

2010-02-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:41:13 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: And someone gets into your backup server, BANG! instant pwnage of every single machine on your network. Heck, you don't even have to try and compromise the local root account, you already have full unfettered access to everything

Re: [gentoo-user] How to untar without first knowing the tar contents?

2010-02-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Florian Philipp li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net wrote: Mark Knecht schrieb: Hi,    I backed up my wife's home directory using tar in preparation to moving her to a new machine but I don't remember the exact command I used to do the tar command. When I tried to

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync backup system

2010-02-25 Thread Grant
A much better way is to run a dedicated agent on the client. If the server needs to schedule backups, it can ask the agent to do so using regular tcp traffic. The client can then do it's backup and rsync it over to the server when it's done, and that push can be done as a regular user on both

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-02-25 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:17:26 -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I know how to find things already, but indexing my gigabytes of game records is just silly. The strigi settings allow you to choose which directories are indexed,

Re: [gentoo-user] kde4 - prints pdf file sideways

2010-02-25 Thread Joseph
On 02/25/10 16:18, daid kahl wrote: On 25 February 2010 15:19, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: I just switched one of my machine to KDE4.3 and when I try to print pdf document it prints it sideways. I've tried Okurla and xpdf same effect. The pdf shows correctly on the screen and prints

Re: [gentoo-user] openvpn static ip

2010-02-25 Thread Xavier Parizet
Le 25/02/2010 20:20, Joseph a écrit : On 02/25/10 18:12, Xavier Parizet wrote: Le 25/02/2010 17:51, Joseph a ??crit : On 02/25/10 08:40, Xavier Parizet wrote: On 02/25/2010 02:32 AM, Joseph wrote: I've configured OpenVPN and it works OK but I can not seems to figure it out how to assign

Re: [gentoo-user] openvpn static ip

2010-02-25 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Thursday 25 February 2010, Joseph wrote: Yes, it was a typo :-/ I corrected it: cat syscon9 ifconfig-push 192.168.139.15 255.255.255.0 but from log you can see it still didn't give me what I want, I got IP 192.168.139.6 and was asking for: 192.168.139.15 Try adding topology subnet

Re: [gentoo-user] How to untar without first knowing the tar contents?

2010-02-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:15:47 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: tar -tz /mnt/cdrom/evelyn.20100214.tar.bz2 and it's been going 15 minutes without writing anything to the screen. I assume that I need to list the contents of the tar file to figure out how to untar but I'm really not sure. tar tvf

Re: [gentoo-user] kde4 - prints pdf file sideways

2010-02-25 Thread daid kahl
On 26 February 2010 05:01, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/25/10 16:18, daid kahl wrote: On 25 February 2010 15:19, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: I just switched one of my machine to KDE4.3 and when I try to print pdf document it prints it sideways. I've tried Okurla and xpdf

Re: [gentoo-user] gnupg fails to decrypt on kmail

2010-02-25 Thread Mick
On Thursday 25 February 2010 11:18:54 Willie Wong wrote: On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 07:01:12AM +, Mick wrote: Why is it trying to call /usr/bin/pinentry-qt?! `ERR 67109133 can't exec `/usr/bin/pinentry-qt' Is this a valid binary these days, or an older qt3 version? I think it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-02-25 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mittwoch 24 Februar 2010 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: Honestly, for what the OP appears to need out of a desktop environment, he'd be more than happy with Xfce or something and save a ton of disk space. the thing is - xfce does not necessarily use less ram. And semantic desktop can

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-02-25 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag 25 Februar 2010 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: Bingo! I'm OP, and kind of like the KDE look, and I'm used to where things are (except for the new K menu which I'm slowly adapting to). I know how to find things already, but indexing my gigabytes of game records is just silly. Well,

Re: [gentoo-user] openvpn static ip

2010-02-25 Thread Joseph
On 02/25/10 21:09, Xavier Parizet wrote: [snip] Yes, it was a typo :-/ I corrected it: cat syscon9 ifconfig-push 192.168.139.15 255.255.255.0 but from log you can see it still didn't give me what I want, I got IP 192.168.139.6 and was asking for: 192.168.139.15 log: cat /var/log/openvpn.log

[gentoo-user] Re: Is there a lock daemon for managing file locking on an NFS server?

2010-02-25 Thread walt
On 02/25/2010 07:05 AM, Neil Walker wrote: Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: e.g. 'lockd'? If so, which ebuild installs it? I abandoned nfs quite a while ago but... Are you using something else instead now?

Re: [gentoo-user] openvpn static ip

2010-02-25 Thread Xavier Parizet
Le 25/02/2010 22:01, Joseph a écrit : On 02/25/10 21:09, Xavier Parizet wrote: [snip] Yes, it was a typo :-/ I corrected it: cat syscon9 ifconfig-push 192.168.139.15 255.255.255.0 but from log you can see it still didn't give me what I want, I got IP 192.168.139.6 and was asking for:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Graphical usenet client - alternative to Knode

2010-02-25 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Dienstag 23 Februar 2010 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: On 02/23/2010 01:39 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/23/2010 12:26 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:11:40 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I'm on KDE4 but I use Thunderbird for both Usenet (including this mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewing suggestions?

2010-02-25 Thread Mick
On Thursday 25 February 2010 12:45:34 Neal Hogan wrote: On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 2:47 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, I cannot use mupdf at all. I've emerged mupdf-938 after adding it to my local overlay. But, when it comes up it displays the first page

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is there a lock daemon for managing file locking on an NFS server?

2010-02-25 Thread Neil Walker
walt wrote: On 02/25/2010 07:05 AM, Neil Walker wrote: I abandoned nfs quite a while ago but... Are you using something else instead now? I was using nfs for portage on my local network. I use http-proxy now. For everything else, I use ssh. Be lucky, Neil http://www.neiljw.com

Re: [gentoo-user] openvpn static ip

2010-02-25 Thread Joseph
On 02/25/10 22:17, Xavier Parizet wrote: [snip] topology subnet remote 208.38.31.237 9000 resolv-retry infinite nobind ^^ you should remove this line to avoid connection refused messages from the server. As you are in udp, client should bind on udp source port to get messages from the

[gentoo-user] Re: Graphical usenet client - alternative to Knode

2010-02-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/25/2010 11:45 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Dienstag 23 Februar 2010 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: On 02/23/2010 01:39 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/23/2010 12:26 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:11:40 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I'm on KDE4 but I use

[gentoo-user] Re: pdf viewing suggestions?

2010-02-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-02-25, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: What am I missing? The documentation? http://ccxvii.net/mupdf/ Look at the bottom of the page under Manual. I had the same problem: I expected there to be some usage documentation in the source tarball. There isn't (at least any that

Re: [gentoo-user] openvpn static ip

2010-02-25 Thread Joseph
On 02/25/10 22:17, Xavier Parizet wrote: From what i can see, please try to add full path to the ccd directory in client-config-dir directive on the server path. Also check permissions on that directory. On which user are you running openvpn on the server ? On the client ? On client:

Re: [gentoo-user] When copying an os to new disk

2010-02-25 Thread Stroller
On 25 Feb 2010, at 17:59, daid kahl wrote: ... As a side note, I tried dd piped through ssh and my router (with firewall) was resetting the connection after around 4GB, and I don't know of anyway to resume a dd. NAME dd - convert and copy a file SYNOPSIS dd [OPERAND]...

Re: [gentoo-user] gnupg fails to decrypt on kmail

2010-02-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 08:45:27PM +, Mick wrote: So maybe file a bug? I don't know whether this is a configuration/USE issue or something hardcoded in the distribution. I will file a bug, but I am not entirely sure what I should file it under, so that it does not get rejected:

[gentoo-user] libtool 2.x upgrade

2010-02-25 Thread bn
Hi, I have a stable x86 system that requires still a bit of updating, among those libtool and gcc. Since I need the system to be usable *now* for work reasons, I don't feel like updating gcc and rebuilding it all with an emerge -e system / emerge -e world, but more and more packages want to

[gentoo-user] Re: libtool 2.x upgrade

2010-02-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/26/2010 03:15 AM, bn wrote: Hi, I have a stable x86 system that requires still a bit of updating, among those libtool and gcc. Since I need the system to be usable *now* for work reasons, I don't feel like updating gcc and rebuilding it all with an emerge -e system / emerge -e world, but

Re: [gentoo-user] libtool 2.x upgrade

2010-02-25 Thread Philip Webb
100226 bn wrote: I have a stable x86 system that requires still a bit of updating, among those libtool and gcc. Since I need the system to be usable *now* for work reasons, I don't feel like updating gcc and rebuilding it all with an emerge -e system / emerge -e world, but more and more

[gentoo-user] recovery from /var corruption?

2010-02-25 Thread Mark Knecht
So I got my wife's machine booted today using a install disk and played a bit with e2fsck. The machine stopped being happy last night due to some sort of corruption on the /var partition. e2fsck complained about 3 or 4 files and then repaired the partition. The machine booted cleanly as far as I

[gentoo-user] Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-25 Thread BRM
I am quite happy with KDE4 - presently using KDE 4.3.5. I still have KDE 3.5.10 installed, and am wondering how much longer I need to keep it around...I probably use all KDE4 apps, though there might be a few here or there that I use on a rare occasion that are still KDE3 based...may be...and

[gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/26/2010 06:06 AM, BRM wrote: I am quite happy with KDE4 - presently using KDE 4.3.5. I still have KDE 3.5.10 installed, and am wondering how much longer I need to keep it around...I probably use all KDE4 apps, though there might be a few here or there that I use on a rare occasion that

Re: [gentoo-user] boot specific service in sequence

2010-02-25 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Xavier Parizet x...@gentooist.com wrote: On 02/25/2010 02:12 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:15:57 +0100, Xavier Parizet wrote: The syntax is: rc_need_[name of the service]=[list of space-separated services you want [name of the service] to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-25 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On 02/26/2010 06:06 AM, BRM wrote: I am quite happy with KDE4 - presently using KDE 4.3.5. I still have KDE 3.5.10 installed, and am wondering how much longer I need to keep it around...I probably use all KDE4 apps, though