Re: [gentoo-user] ceph on gentoo?

2014-12-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 26 Dec 2014 20:55:07 -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: If you'd like to receive a few thousand emails from santacl...@north.pole care of the list of your choice just let me know. Well done Rich, you've just posted Santa's address in plain text where all the spam address harvesters will find

[gentoo-user] KDE Activities

2014-12-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
Morning list, Is there a way to build KDE without its concept of Activities? I find it an unnecessary complication, which I never use. Any time I found myself wrestling with it by accident it's caused little other than anger and frustration. No doubt this is just as silly an idea as building

Re: [gentoo-user] Syslog-ng is writing binary

2014-12-27 Thread Mick
On Friday 26 Dec 2014 23:33:33 Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, For some time now I've had syslog-ng writing /var/log/messages in a binary format: # file /var/log/messages /var/log/messages: data # grep syslog-ng /var/log/messages Binary file /var/log/messages matches Yet: # head

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Activities

2014-12-27 Thread Mick
On Saturday 27 Dec 2014 09:43:47 Peter Humphrey wrote: Morning list, Is there a way to build KDE without its concept of Activities? I find it an unnecessary complication, which I never use. Any time I found myself wrestling with it by accident it's caused little other than anger and

Re: [gentoo-user] Syslog-ng is writing binary

2014-12-27 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/27/2014 10:52:04 AM, Mick wrote: On Friday 26 Dec 2014 23:33:33 Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, For some time now I've had syslog-ng writing /var/log/messages in a binary format: # file /var/log/messages /var/log/messages: data # grep syslog-ng /var/log/messages

Re: [gentoo-user] Syslog-ng is writing binary

2014-12-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 26 December 2014 23:33:33 I wrote: For some time now I've had syslog-ng writing /var/log/messages in a binary format: [...] Can I use the following method to restore the original text format of /var/log/messages? 1.Boot rescue system and mount main system 2.# cd

Re: [gentoo-user] Syslog-ng is writing binary

2014-12-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 27 December 2014 13:10:17 Helmut Jarausch wrote: I think this was a long standig bug. Version 3.6.2 seems to have fixed this. Ah. Well I'm still on 3.4.8. Mick, if you don't hear anything from me soonish, it will be safe to remove the binary stuff using the method I mentioned.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Activities

2014-12-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 27 December 2014 09:57:09 Mick wrote: On Saturday 27 Dec 2014 09:43:47 Peter Humphrey wrote: No doubt this is just as silly an idea as building KMail without its database, which also has caused considerable grief. Peter, I can't advise on the Activities question, but can you

Re: [gentoo-user] ceph on gentoo?

2014-12-27 Thread Andrew Savchenko
Hi, On Fri, 26 Dec 2014 00:38:58 -0600 Bruce Hill wrote: To whoever controls this list... I just arrived home to find my mailbox spammed with hundreds of messages from this luser Andrew Savchenko birc...@gentoo.org Please stop insults and offensive language. I just sent replies to the list,

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Activities

2014-12-27 Thread Gregory M. Turner
On Saturday 27 December 2014 09:43:47 Peter Humphrey wrote: Morning list, Is there a way to build KDE without its concept of Activities? I find it an unnecessary complication, which I never use. Any time I found myself wrestling with it by accident it's caused little other than anger and

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Activities

2014-12-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 28/12/2014 06:08, Gregory M. Turner wrote: On Saturday 27 December 2014 09:43:47 Peter Humphrey wrote: Morning list, Is there a way to build KDE without its concept of Activities? I find it an unnecessary complication, which I never use. Any time I found myself wrestling with it by