RE: [gentoo-user] selecting OS in Grub [SOLVED]

2007-03-15 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Nelson, David \(ED, PAR&D\) wrote: -Original Message- From: Jorge Almeida [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 March 2007 11:40 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] selecting OS in Grub No. And the hardware is not new, nor is this a f

Re: [gentoo-user] selecting OS in Grub

2007-03-15 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Graham Murray wrote: Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I'm unable to select which OS to boot at the grub screen, because the up and down keys simply stopped working, so it always boots the default. This never happened before. I already re-emerged and r

[gentoo-user] selecting OS in Grub

2007-03-15 Thread Jorge Almeida
in a curses screen. Any idea? -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] linux symlink?

2007-02-05 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Mark wrote: > On 04/02/07, Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have no idea how I could do that, I just would build the kernel using > > .config. I suppose it's not important, but a unhappy message about it > > sometimes appear

Re: [gentoo-user] linux symlink?

2007-02-04 Thread Jorge Almeida
I have no idea how I could do that, I just would build the kernel using .config. I suppose it's not important, but a unhappy message about it sometimes appear in the boot messages... Thanks. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] linux symlink?

2007-02-04 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Sunday 4 February 2007 13:45, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > I was under the impression that it is necessary to install Nvidia > > drivers. Is this correct? > > If the link is not in place, nvidia-drivers will not build. >

[gentoo-user] linux symlink?

2007-02-04 Thread Jorge Almeida
correct System.map?) -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] moving to ADSL

2007-01-14 Thread Jorge Almeida
modest needs. What seems great about OpenWRT is the possibility of installing packages. Only debian packages made for OpenWRT. I guess I'll have to learn about that... Cheers. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] moving to ADSL

2007-01-13 Thread Jorge Almeida
ake it via WakeOnLan...Of course, installing daemontools on the router to add reliability to the IP-checking script would be even better... Cheers. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] moving to ADSL

2007-01-11 Thread Jorge Almeida
workstation. After all, redundant security doesn't hurt. Cheers. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] moving to ADSL

2007-01-11 Thread Jorge Almeida
must check if your ADSL modem has a splitter. It may be built-in, coming with the modem, or you may have to buy one (dirt cheap) separately. They provide both a splitter and a microfilter. Thanks. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] moving to ADSL

2007-01-11 Thread Jorge Almeida
; and can crash occasionally as a result of using bittorrent. ( I have the modem set to send its syslog errors to my linux boxes syslog and its full of MASQUERADE: No route: Rusty's brain broke! ) Yes... I doubt a router-embedded firewall will allow me to configure it as I want. Thank you for y

Re: [gentoo-user] moving to ADSL

2007-01-10 Thread Jorge Almeida
, that would be usefull, whether I use a router or not. The pppoe software is on a box that only my roommate has shell access to. I'll talk to him when he gets home and see if he'll dump those configs for you. Thanks. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] moving to ADSL

2007-01-10 Thread Jorge Almeida
is not a good idea in Portugal, because power is expensive. I suppose that a router/modem is much less energy consuming, so buying one is probably a good strategy. Thanks. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] moving to ADSL

2007-01-10 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Firstly, ignore those that want you to buy another piece of hardware to do something your computer is perfectly capable of doing. It's an unnecessary expense, and while initial configuration *might* be easier you'll pay later because that "sim

Re: [gentoo-user] moving to ADSL

2007-01-10 Thread Jorge Almeida
sn't talk about such things, and I have no experience with ADSL. What configuring must be done for such setup? More important, what documentation is there? (And the instructions in the handbook refer to what kind of setup?) -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] moving to ADSL

2007-01-10 Thread Jorge Almeida
her * and no quotes...) Can someone clarify this point? Another matter that is not clear to me: what about pppoe-start and all other commands mentioned in "man pppoe"? I think that /etc/init.d/net.eth0 works as a wrapper and will invoke the appropriate commands as needed. Is this correct, and

Re: [gentoo-user] bash_completion

2007-01-10 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Willie Wong wrote: Hum non reproducible? If it never occurs again, I suggest you not worry about it. If it occurs randomly... hardware problem? The box is not new, but I have no reason to suppose it's starting to fail. At least, ide-smart keeps producing happy reports.

Re: [gentoo-user] bash_completion

2007-01-09 Thread Jorge Almeida
eselect bashcomp enable base but I cant vouch for that actually working :/ $ eselect bashcomp enable base !!! Error: /usr/share/bash-completion/base doesn't exist Thanks. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] bash_completion

2007-01-09 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, 7 Jan 2007, Willie Wong wrote: how about if you do compgen -F _longopt It should print out an unsorted list of all the files and subdirs of the given dir. Does it freeze up? It doesn't freeze, and it displays what you said. However, the first two output lines are: ash: compgen: warn

Re: [gentoo-user] bash_completion

2007-01-07 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, 7 Jan 2007, Willie Wong wrote: On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 06:10:55PM +, Penguin Lover Jorge Almeida squawked: how about if you do compgen -F _longopt It should print out an unsorted list of all the files and subdirs of the given dir. Does it freeze up? If it doesn't, we can a

Re: [gentoo-user] bash_completion

2007-01-07 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, 7 Jan 2007, Willie Wong wrote: On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 12:25:49AM +, Penguin Lover Jorge Almeida squawked: Already did it (commented out the line in ~/.bashrc and sourced this file...) It doesn't freeze now, of course. Which version of bash completion? And which versi

Re: [gentoo-user] bash_completion

2007-01-06 Thread Jorge Almeida
. Already did it (commented out the line in ~/.bashrc and sourced this file...) It doesn't freeze now, of course. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] bash_completion

2007-01-06 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sat, 6 Jan 2007, Willie Wong wrote: On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 10:44:19PM +, Penguin Lover Jorge Almeida squawked: Any suggestion? Always using that much resources? That doesn't sound right. What completions were you trying when it freezes up? Something trivial: less README (it fro

[gentoo-user] bash_completion

2007-01-06 Thread Jorge Almeida
? Both files have a command to source a user completion file. I have a line [[ -f /etc/profile.d/bash-completion ]] && source /etc/profile.d/bash-completion at the beginning of ~/.bashrc. Any suggestion? -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM problem

2006-12-24 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, 24 Dec 2006, Richard Fish wrote: On 12/24/06, Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Could you elaborate on this? What init script? Something in /etc/init.d? Something to be managed by rc-update? /sbin/rc starts up lvm volumes, provided you have "lvm" in RC_VOLU

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM problem

2006-12-24 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, 24 Dec 2006, Regis Decamps wrote: Jorge Almeida wrote: I'm about to start using LVM. LVM-user or LVM2? LVM2. (Don't know about the former...) So, what's the problem? The problem is that vgdisplay, vgscan, vgchange, pvdisplay, lvdisplay all say there are no volu

[gentoo-user] LVM problem

2006-12-24 Thread Jorge Almeida
regarding init scripts. (The kernel gentoo-sources 2.6.18-r2 has build-in support for "Multiple devices driver support (RAID and LVM)" and "Device mapper support". ) TIA. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] fbiterm

2006-12-19 Thread Jorge Almeida
is kind of behaviour!) Anyone using this? I'm just curious about how far one can go without X... -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] almost completely OT: mouses

2006-12-13 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Bira wrote: On 12/13/06, Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Ryan Sims wrote: > On 12/12/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As a cordless mouse has no tail, should we call it a hamster? ;-) > &

Re: [gentoo-user] almost completely OT: mouses

2006-12-13 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Ryan Sims wrote: On 12/12/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As a cordless mouse has no tail, should we call it a hamster? ;-) I like it. What about trackballs? Gremlins? -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-12-08 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Thomas Rösner wrote: Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Thursday 30 November 2006 10:22, Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Dale wrote: > > > used epiphany before. What's it look like? > > > Have no idea, I didn't tried either

Re: [gentoo-user] gvim slow to start

2006-12-03 Thread Jorge Almeida
ow those I have installed & their version updates. Thanks for the tip. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] gvim slow to start

2006-12-03 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Philip Webb wrote: 061203 Jorge Almeida wrote: My gvim now takes about some 5s to start. The no-gui vim from Konsole still is as fast as ever. Vim & Gvim were compiled with the "bash-completion" USE variable, so I recompiled gvim without it. No difference. D

[gentoo-user] gvim slow to start

2006-12-03 Thread Jorge Almeida
h were compiled with the "bash-completion" USE variable, so I recompiled gvim without it. No difference. I also tried gvim -R and gvim -u NONE, but it makes no difference. What else can I do? -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] glib doesn't compile

2006-12-03 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Saturday 02 December 2006 20:32, Jorge Almeida wrote: I'm failing to emerge glib (_not glibc_!) when emerging -NDu world. My system is up-to-date (emerging almost everyday). No clue why there's no -pthread and -lpthread on your

[gentoo-user] glib doesn't compile

2006-12-02 Thread Jorge Almeida
line recode ssl tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts userland_GNU video_cards_fbdev video_cards_nvidia video_cards_vesa xcomposite xml zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-30 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Matthias Bethke wrote: Hi Jorge, on Wednesday, 2006-11-29 at 21:00:06, you wrote: Are you sure you aren't being sent to the Portuguese version because Google finds your IP is in Portugual and redirects you to where it thinks you want to go? I've seen this in .de, .br and .p

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-30 Thread Jorge Almeida
ing lists,... I won't read the source because that's beyond my skills. As a user who is not a CS professional, I have to rely on whatever documentation is accessible to me. Sometimes I have to dump the software (for example, I had to switch from bincimap to dovecot, even if bincimap seemed m

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-30 Thread Jorge Almeida
choice) as well. OK. Opera is good-looking now (don't know about the rest yet). I also use KDE, but I don't care much for integration. I'll probably start using both Opera and Konqueror... Thanks. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-30 Thread Jorge Almeida
might not be a good solution in case the box had more human users. Please don't bother about this. Changing browser is not a life-shattering experience, and both Opera and Konqueror seem nice enough. As for issues like MathMl fonts and such, I'll have to see how much I miss them. -- Jor

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-30 Thread Jorge Almeida
tting them from google.pt, the tips keep coming in Portuguese. Of course, I could use only that link and give up using the search window in FF panel. I can give up FF as well. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-30 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Thursday 30 November 2006 10:22, Jorge Almeida wrote: On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Dale wrote: used epiphany before. What's it look like? Have no idea, I didn't tried either. Being something from Gnome, I suspect it's not very customiz

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-30 Thread Jorge Almeida
easy. Thank you. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-30 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: Seamonkey replaces Mozilla. Therefore Mozilla needs to be unmerged before Seamonkey can be installed... Yes, that part is clear. The point is why should Seamonkey be necessary to install Epiphany? -- Jorge Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-30 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Dale wrote: Use the -t option to see what it is that is pulling it in. I have never Here it goes. Doesn't help. (I was just curious, anyway.) [blocks B ] www-client/mozilla (is blocking www-client/seamonkey-1.0.6) [ebuild N] www-client/epiphany-2

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-30 Thread Jorge Almeida
2 USE="-debug -doc" 1,159 kB [ebuild N] www-client/seamonkey-1.0.6 USE="crypt java -debug -gnome -ipv6 -ldap -mozcalendar -mozdevelop -moznocompose -moznoirc -moznomail -moznopango -moznoroaming -postgres -xinerama -xprint" 35,076 kB [ebuild N] app-text/iso-codes-0.49 3,612 kB [ebuild N] www-client/epiphany-2.14.2.1-r1 USE="python -debug -doc -firefox" 3,515 kB -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-30 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Well, if it's not firefox's fault, switching to a new browser may not help. It does help, I tried before posting. I already had Opera and Konqueror installed. (It's just that I thought it would be better to hear about your experiences before

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-30 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, David Blamire-Brown wrote: 1) This version of Opera really seems to struggle with "heavy" pages. The whole app slows down, no response to clicks etc, until the page has fully rendered. Example of affected page: http://funds.ft.com/funds/searchFund.do?symb=AQSTG&type=F1 I t

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
u to google.com, after setting the lang to english (by http referer I'm sure). Thank you! -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
27;m using firefox because I haven't figured out how to get any of the others to behave like I want them to. Konqueror, Epiphany and Opera are all a lot faster than Firefox though. Seamonkey I don't know about since I OK, it's good to know. Epiphany is not a good choice for me, because I would have to install a lot of gnome dependencies. Thank you. -- Jorge Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
ored by cookies. No, and I checked that there are cookies after exiting FF. The file cookies.txt shows google.com but not google.pt. Thanks, Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Richard Fish wrote: IMO konqueror rocks. The split-window browsing feature is something that every other browser should adopt _now_! But there are still sites that don't fully support it, so I keep firefox/bon echo around for those. A nice thing in konqueror is that you

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Fabian Hackhofer wrote: Jorge Almeida schrieb: I'm about to dump Firefox, because I can't google in English. The thing doesn't let me choose the language, and I'm tired of getting useless Brazilian links. Ever tried to type site:uk or site:us aft

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I set my preferences in google to English and it saves them. There is a preferences setting selection that takes you to a page and allows you to set your language. Nope. It just doesn't keep my preferences. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
tions. That's something I really hate. As for re-emerging, that's been done more than once, when an upgrade is available. (The problem is with me for too long!) -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Wednesday 29 November 2006 22:00, Jorge Almeida wrote: I'm about to dump Firefox, because I can't google in English. The thing doesn't let me choose the language, and I'm tired of getting useless Brazilian links. Yes, I kno

[gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
d. Is there some special reason for this? For example, is it activelly maintained? Is it missing some particular feature? It looks nice enough, but is there some catch? And Konqueror? I already use KDE, so that's not an issue. I would appreciate your opinions. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] man openssl

2006-11-17 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, 17 Nov 2006, Flophouse Joe wrote: On Fri, 17 Nov 2006, Jorge Almeida wrote: I just noticed that I don't have a man page for openssl. How can this be? I looked at the output of "equery files --filter=man openssl" and noticed that while the openssl package on my s

[gentoo-user] man openssl

2006-11-17 Thread Jorge Almeida
I just noticed that I don't have a man page for openssl. How can this be? -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] "User services" best practice?

2006-11-13 Thread Jorge Almeida
for whatever reason other than rebooting, so daemontools seems the proper solution. I'm assuming you have root privileges but don't want to run services as root when that's not really necessary. Otherwise, you'll need root's cooperation. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] date in emerge logs

2006-10-27 Thread Jorge Almeida
: $ unix-time 1161911504 Fri Oct 27 02:11:44 BST 2006 Thanks, but that's not what I meant. I have a script that acts as a filter, and sometimes lines include unix-time dates. So I suppose that awk it is, since "date" will choke on input other than proper dates. Cheers. -- Jorge Al

Re: [gentoo-user] date in emerge logs

2006-10-27 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Richard Fish wrote: I'm assuming that 1161911504 is some date. If so, how can I translate it into something human-meaningfull? carcharias rjf # date -d @1161911504 Thu Oct 26 18:11:44 MST 2006 Well, there's one more solution :) Would you say that using date is faster/l

Re: [gentoo-user] date in emerge logs

2006-10-27 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Friday 27 October 2006 11:55, Jorge Almeida wrote: I'm assuming that 1161911504 is some date. If so, how can I translate it into something human-meaningfull? # tail /var/log/emerge.log | awk -F: '{print strftime("%D %X %Z", $1),

[gentoo-user] date in emerge logs

2006-10-27 Thread Jorge Almeida
What are the numbers at the beginning of each line in the logs of emerge? Example: 1161911504: --- AUTOCLEAN: Nothing unmerged. I'm assuming that 1161911504 is some date. If so, how can I translate it into something human-meaningfull? -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] NVIDIA question

2006-10-25 Thread Jorge Almeida
't be necessary...) What must be done to make the kernel use the new module? -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] vim-in-pine problem

2006-10-21 Thread Jorge Almeida
ng for password too many times? -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] vim-in-pine problem

2006-10-21 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sat, 21 Oct 2006, Philip Webb wrote: 061020 Jorge Almeida wrote: I'm having a problem composing mail in a ssh session since I upgraded the remote kernel to 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 . I'm using vim to compose a message in pine and suddenly it stops responding (nothing happens, whatever k

Re: [gentoo-user] vim-in-pine problem

2006-10-21 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Willie Wong wrote: On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 12:21:47AM +0100, Penguin Lover Jorge Almeida squawked: I tried but the problem didn't manifest. Neither did it without screen (it doesn't manifest always), so it's not conclusive... My suspicion is still on s

Re: [gentoo-user] vim-in-pine problem

2006-10-20 Thread Jorge Almeida
mode, or move arrows, in vim-in-pine. Note that I could use vim in other ssh sessions, just not on pine! Thanks. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] vim-in-pine problem

2006-10-20 Thread Jorge Almeida
fter writing this message!) -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-x11 not needed?!

2006-10-12 Thread Jorge Almeida
things like depend on xorg-x11 directly, all will continue to work correctly even if xorg-x11 is removed OK, thanks. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-x11 not needed?!

2006-10-12 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Thursday 12 October 2006 00:56, Jorge Almeida wrote: I did "emerge -p --depclean" and it would remove x11-base/xorg-x11 (version 7.0-r1). Now, how can this be? (No, I don't run a X-less workstation!) I know --depclean is no

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-x11 not needed?!

2006-10-12 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Richard Fish wrote: On 10/11/06, Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I did "emerge -p --depclean" and it would remove x11-base/xorg-x11 (version 7.0-r1). Now, how can this be? (No, I don't run a X-less workstation!) I know --depclean is not

[gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-x11 not needed?!

2006-10-11 Thread Jorge Almeida
I did "emerge -p --depclean" and it would remove x11-base/xorg-x11 (version 7.0-r1). Now, how can this be? (No, I don't run a X-less workstation!) I know --depclean is not to be blindly trusted, but is this normal? -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] ucspi-unix alive?

2006-10-08 Thread Jorge Almeida
is just my bad luck or something more permanent? And is there any alternative to ucspi-unix? (The compilation went without any problem. My system is really up to date, and revdep-rebuild had no requirements.) -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Possible new gentoo user

2006-10-01 Thread Jorge Almeida
somehow. Good luck. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Wikipedia history in Firefox

2006-09-24 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, 24 Sep 2006, Remy Blank wrote: Jorge Almeida wrote: Still, it would be nice to be able to edit the saved contents, since some forms I might want to keep. You can remove an entry by highlighting it and pressing "Shfit-Delete". Thanks. Not user-friendly, but still quite us

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Wikipedia history in Firefox

2006-09-24 Thread Jorge Almeida
file... A low-level editing would be enough, even if Firefox doesn't provide an interface to history editing. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] [OT] Wikipedia history in Firefox

2006-09-24 Thread Jorge Almeida
Konqueror and there wasn't anything there. I checked that there are no Wikipedia cookies in Firefox... -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: AW: [gentoo-user] x or * in /etc/passwd ?

2006-09-18 Thread Jorge Almeida
ounts as well as for "service" accounts. What I was saying is that a * in /etc/shadow will make logging in impossible. Did I understand wrong? -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] x or * in /etc/passwd ?

2006-09-18 Thread Jorge Almeida
/shadow, not in /etc/passwd. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] x or * in /etc/passwd ?

2006-09-18 Thread Jorge Almeida
* deprecated? Of course, these non-human users have /bin/false as shell, but extra precautions wouldn't hurt... Am I seeing something wrong? -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] former regular contributor here

2006-09-15 Thread Jorge Almeida
k Twain: I rather decline two drinks than a German adjective. http://www.SysEx.com.na -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] konsole error messages

2006-09-07 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Jorge Almeida wrote: > > konsole: WARNING: Unable to use > > /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/konsole/mc.desktop > > konsole: WARNING: > > Unable to use /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/konsole/sumc.desktop > > I have no idea what t

Re: [gentoo-user] updating linux-headers

2006-09-05 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Richard Fish wrote: > > would keep popping out. As far as I understand, if I upgrade > > linux-headers I must also recompile glibc. And then, anything else? > > Nope. (Almost) everything else is dynamically linked to glibc, so > they will automatically use whatever changes ap

[gentoo-user] updating linux-headers

2006-09-05 Thread Jorge Almeida
linux-headers I must also recompile glibc. And then, anything else? It leaves an unconfortable feeling that "emerge -pNDu world" may have nothing to say and still the system may not be in a sane state. Would revdep-rebuild take care of it? -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] vim broken colours

2006-09-05 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Richard Fish wrote: > Jorge, > > Could I convince you to file a bug report on bugs.gentoo.org about that? > Richard: I tried, but the reproducibility issue is weird. Take a look at this block of code: sub reloadlist{ my $self=shift; # my

Re: [gentoo-user] vim broken colours

2006-09-05 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Dimitris Kavadas wrote: > On 9/4/06, Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > After my upgrade to vim 7 syntax colors changed too. > The difference was that it autmatically sets the color scheme > used with dark background. > So just the follow

Re: [gentoo-user] vim broken colours

2006-09-04 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, Richard Fish wrote: > On 9/4/06, Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You can try restoring the previous version (6.4) and see if it is > still a problem: > I already did. Can't be without vim, and syntax files are a must. > emerge -

[gentoo-user] vim broken colours

2006-09-04 Thread Jorge Almeida
rsonalized. I also finished recompiling everything yesterday, due to change to gcc-4.1.1, so I can't be sure that the problem is caused by today's update. Any suggestion? -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] hotplug in runlevel?

2006-09-01 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Richard Fish wrote: On 9/1/06, Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Should hotplug be removed from the boot runlevel? Considering that the script is now (nearly) empty and useless, it doesn't really matter. It just clutters up your boot messages, you are

[gentoo-user] hotplug in runlevel?

2006-09-01 Thread Jorge Almeida
Should hotplug be removed from the boot runlevel? The emerge warning "WARNING: The hotplug init script is now gone (dead and buried)." doesn't make it clear. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] no SysRq

2006-08-10 Thread Jorge Almeida
wkey' by not typing anything for ten seconds. It's not clear (to me) what to do. Does equal "0xe0 0x2a 0xe0 0x37 0xe0 0xaa 0xe0 0xb7"? And if so, is this a stable thing, i.e. a keyboard characteristic, not bound to change unless the keyboard is replaced? -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] F keys gone mad

2006-07-14 Thread Jorge Almeida
ogitech thingies with Windows-oriented F-keys, with a "lock" key to enable normal F-key behaviour. I checked with xev that the keys were enabled. I just have no idea of what to do next... The keyboard never gave me any troubles before. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware install fails

2006-07-13 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 20:02:37 +0100 (WEST), Jorge Almeida wrote: $ /opt/vmware/workstation/bin/vmware-config.pl [snip] make: execvp: ./getversion.pl: Permission denied Are you running vmware-config.pl as root? You should be. Yep. But the

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware install fails

2006-07-13 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Mauro Faccenda wrote: do you have something like noexec on your /tmp partition? Indeed, and that was it. Remounting solved the problem. Thank you. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] vmware install fails

2006-07-13 Thread Jorge Almeida
e visit our Web site at "http://www.vmware.com/download/modules/modules.html"; and "http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/prebuilt_modules_linux.html";. Execution aborted. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Any way to run files through procmail?

2006-06-22 Thread Jorge Almeida
will process them when the come back in. procmail [-m /path/to/your/procmailrc] < /path/to/message This will deliver the message contained in the individual file /path/to/message. You'll have to iterate over all such files. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] post-tetex?

2006-05-30 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, 30 May 2006, Bertrand Jacquin wrote: On 5/30/06, Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anyone has any idea about what will be the gentoo way to cope with the no-more-tetex issue? http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/38615/match=gentoo+dev+tetex Thanks, Dani

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