Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-26 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 00:01:58 +0800 Mark David Dumlao madum...@gmail.com wrote: Nobody's telling you _your_ system, as in the collection of programs you use for your productivity, is broken. What we're saying is that _the_ system, as in the general practice as compared to the specification, is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet? - what was wron with SysVInit?

2012-12-26 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Wed, 26 Dec 2012 17:01:17 -0600 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: And, what community is being divided? Fedora,OpenSuse, and Arch use systemd by default. From debian and hurd to slackware which will not touch systemd ever and ubuntu and also embedded with the kernel working on

Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-24 Thread Kevin Chadwick
It was in fact a weirdo corner case since day 1. Right, a weirdo corner case that is part of best practice and the default suggestion on debian stable used on many many servers and for good reason. -- ___ 'Write programs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-24 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Are there any other cases, apart from emotional attachment based on inertia, where a separate / and /usr are desirable? As I see it, there is only the system, and it is an atomic unit. You should really read the thread before posting. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-24 Thread Kevin Chadwick
You are only considering the case of /usr being on a plain hard disk partition, what if it in on an LVM volume, or encrypted (or both) of mounted over the network? All of these require something to be run before they can be mounted, and if that cannot be run until udev has started, we

[gentoo-user] E17 lock screen

2012-12-21 Thread Kevin Brandstatter
problem on gentoo. Curious if anyone else uses e17/has this problem and maybe a fix. or just for suggestions of where to look - -Kevin -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJQ1Q0VAAoJENfP

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-20 Thread Kevin Chadwick
really? once upon a time I was told mounting / ro and /usr rw was a GOOD THING to do. I ignored that the same way I ignore it the other way round. With bind mounting and stuff, you can make single directories rw.. so what is the matter? Ignorance is bliss, so good for you. Only as root

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-20 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 2:42 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: with redhat's push to move everything into /usr - why not stop right there and move everything back into /? I originally thought this way, but they actually reviewed the technical and historical

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-20 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 05:46:33 +0800 Mark David Dumlao madum...@gmail.com wrote: A concensus would be good. A right consensus is more likely to get a consensus. This has no bearing on the matters at hand. /usr as the default prefix for installed packages is the consensus of the vast

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-20 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:09:50 + Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I certainly don't expect linux to solve these management problems, quite the opposite in fact but I can hope. I hope mentioning OpenBSD won't put anyone off but taking a leap out of their book I feel could really

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-19 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Surely not libs, those go in /usr/lib or /lib. If it's variable data somehow related to libs then someone needs to look up lib in a dictionary. I have to say I was shocked a while back when I found /usr/bin/firefox linking to a shell script at /usr/lib/firefox/firefox I'd be interested if

Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-18 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Thankfully, I've never had to maintain systems whose disks were small and low performing enough that it actually mattered to separate / from /usr. So you don't understand it much at all. Actually many of lennarts pages such as his security.html are full of wildly incorrect claims and

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} A simple routing problem

2012-12-18 Thread Kevin Brandstatter
://nileshgr.com you actually can add routes on a local machine. the real trick would be to have them pushed from the dd-wrt box so that they dont have to be manually set each time - -Kevin -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} A simple routing problem

2012-12-18 Thread Kevin Brandstatter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/18/2012 09:14 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Tuesday 18 December 2012 10:39:43 PM IST, Kevin Brandstatter wrote: On 12/18/2012 05:27 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Tuesday 18 December 2012 03:41:44 PM IST, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Tue

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} A simple routing problem

2012-12-18 Thread Kevin Brandstatter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/18/2012 09:38 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Tuesday 18 December 2012 10:59:41 PM IST, Kevin Brandstatter wrote: On 12/18/2012 09:14 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Tuesday 18 December 2012 10:39:43 PM IST, Kevin Brandstatter wrote: On 12

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-17 Thread Kevin Chadwick
So, since I have /usr separate from the rest, I could mount it read only and reduce the chance of corruption if say my UPS failed? I already do this for /boot. Interesting. Very interesting indeed. If the other issues happen, computers is likely the least of our problems. ;-) Or if

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} open-source: chat, tasks, resources, code

2012-12-17 Thread Kevin Brandstatter
based git tools to host your own private repository. For the rest im not too sure since I don't know what your requirements are of the various bits. - -Kevin -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} open-source: chat, tasks, resources, code

2012-12-17 Thread Kevin Brandstatter
more than a glorified irc system. IRC is perfectly fine if your on a closed network. but i would keep it off the general internet. resource and task management, i think eclipse and some ides have integrated solutions, outside of that not really sure - -Kevin -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} open-source: chat, tasks, resources, code

2012-12-17 Thread Kevin Brandstatter
and some ides have integrated solutions, outside of that not really sure - -Kevin irc servers are notorious for botnets and the like and yes, are often a prime target for remote exploitation. they can be secured like the major systems, but it can be a bit more of a challenge - -Kevin -BEGIN PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} A simple routing problem

2012-12-17 Thread Kevin Brandstatter
on the fiber? - -Kevin -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJQz+VkAAoJENfP/Gsfo0VKoYEH/RF2dS+OL1E3F6R6ttzg2hCQ W40hpfLXoYJ9b9Imha+yLLLp4EaIDFfleCRDKVgqUd5P4iuj8Vb1bwct+Tig2tYf

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} A simple routing problem

2012-12-17 Thread Kevin Brandstatter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/17/2012 07:44 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Tuesday 18 December 2012 09:09:16 AM IST, Kevin Brandstatter wrote: On 12/17/2012 07:26 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: Hi, I'm stuck with a routing issue: I have a DD-WRT router, which has

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} A simple routing problem

2012-12-17 Thread Kevin Brandstatter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/17/2012 08:00 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Tuesday 18 December 2012 09:24:41 AM IST, Kevin Brandstatter wrote: On 12/17/2012 07:44 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Tuesday 18 December 2012 09:09:16 AM IST, Kevin Brandstatter wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-16 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 22:32:24 +0200 nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt (Nuno J. Silva) wrote: My thanks, too! There's nothing like reading on some actual experience with this. So this was once the reason to keep / separate. Not that important anymore (but this is still no excuse to force people to keep

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-15 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 11:18:25 +0100 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: It should be moving in the other direction for stability reasons and busybox is no full answer. On OpenBSD which has the benefit of userland being part of it. All the critical single user binaries

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dedicated server or cloud server?

2012-12-14 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Doesn't a good cloud server also have potentially higher availability compared to dedicated? Perhaps at your price point through redundancy which could be applied to dedicated all be it at higher cost and so potentially still more reliable and certainly more secure and also tested in almost any

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dedicated server or cloud server?

2012-12-14 Thread Kevin Brandstatter
guaruntees 99.95% uptime. whereas dedicated servers or VPSs can generally offer between 99,99% and 99.% (depending on who it is). -Kevin Brandstatter On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.netwrote: Am 14.12.2012 11:00, schrieb Grant: Would everyone here be in favor

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-14 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Fri, 14 Dec 2012 08:53:35 -0800 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: I guess the other question that's lurking here for me is why do you have /usr on a separate partition? What's the usage model that drives a person to do that? The most I've ever done is move /usr/portage and /usr/src

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Will ARM take over the world?

2012-12-13 Thread Kevin Chadwick
I don't think that's right. I have a Pandaboard ES with a dual-core 1.2Ghz CPU and 1GB RAM and I bet it would run Gnome just fine. Again, maybe you're referring to something here that I'm not familiar with. I think the key word was micro, but is that off topic (ignoring subject)? Many (such

Re: [gentoo-user] ifconfig and ppp0 address

2012-12-11 Thread Kevin Chadwick
I can send you the source code if you want. Likewise to any other interested reader Send to me please, Thanks -- ___ 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to

Re: [gentoo-user] recovery of fstab

2012-12-11 Thread Kevin Brandstatter
mount them and see whats there? also, what order did you mount them in? it may make a difference On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 2:48 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Well I have a gentoo system I'm trying to recover. I've got it booted up via systemrescue. I do not have a copy of the

Re: [gentoo-user] eix and bad colors.

2012-12-07 Thread Kevin Brandstatter
I've had the same problem. it seems setting DARK=true in .eixrc fixes the problem of the almost black on black background for me -Kevin On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 3:01 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] openconnect and network manager

2012-12-06 Thread Kevin Brandstatter
no have you installed the networkmanager-openconnect plugin? as a side note, i solved the problem by reloading the dbus service which fixed the permissions issued i was having On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Patrick Holthaus patrick.holth...@uni-bielefeld.de wrote: Hey Kevin, Sorry, I

Re: [gentoo-user] continue an installation

2012-12-06 Thread Kevin Brandstatter
coorect, you could concievable run something like ebuild ebuildname qmerge if all the steps have been completed -Kevin On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 1:44 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, 6 Dec 2012 08:45:10 +0100 Willie WY Wong wong...@member.ams.org wrote: Hi list

[gentoo-user] openconnect and network manager

2012-12-04 Thread Kevin Brandstatter
where to look. any ideas would be appreciated. -Kevin B

Re: [gentoo-user] gst-plugins-ugly Update Error install phase

2012-12-02 Thread Kevin Brandstatter
ive had my own issues with the gstreamer libs. but its with rebuilding, for some reason its failing saying there isnt a make file On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Silvio Siefke siefke_lis...@web.de wrote: Hello, i run update and by gstreamer i become the error message: Source compiled.

Re: [gentoo-user] threads use flag for apache and php

2012-11-30 Thread Kevin Brandstatter
I would suggest using threads -Kevin B On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 4:35 PM, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.auwrote: ok, major update time and I am again in a bind with the threads use flag. PHP wants it, or doesnt and so does/doesnt apache and they wont play nice. So if I have to go back

Re: [gentoo-user] threads use flag for apache and php

2012-11-30 Thread Kevin Brandstatter
well i guess it depends if your using php that takes advantage of concurrency. If you dont then threads arent necessary, for apache i would recommend threads because it does make use of them. Kevin B On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 5:13 PM, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.auwrote: why? - threads

Re: [gentoo-user] serial in /sys

2012-11-29 Thread Kevin Chadwick
The values of ../by-uuid/ would probably be equally good, but I don't know how to find them any more than I know how to find the serials... I use my own automounter scripts and udev with nice static mountpoints from when udisks threw lots away for a while in favour of multiseat. A recurring

Re: [gentoo-user] dog - man's best friend.

2012-02-23 Thread Kevin Monceaux
LESS='-F' to have less always do the above. -- Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX What's the definition of a legacy system? One that works! Errare humanum est, ignoscere caninum.

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 18:38 on Saturday 28 May 2011, Daniel da Veiga did opine thusly: On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 20:28, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: It looks like it's time to take Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 5:59 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/26/2011 04:28 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Now, a couple of months into my retirement ... in 2002 when I finished my PHD Retiring 9 years after finishing your education? Nice to know that somebody can do the math :o). I

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.ukwrote: On 27/5/2011, at 12:28am, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: ... * Two XEON chips. I didn't know it right away but that means 4 cores. They are old Pentium IV-based 32-bit chips. I got the slowest still being made, so

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 5:56 AM, Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de wrote: Am Thu, 26 May 2011 16:28:46 -0700 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com: It looks like it's time to take Gentoo off of my main machine. I feel a little sad about it, or I'd just quietly go away. A few months ago

[gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
, and the occasional mess-up that once or twice led me to rebuild with empty-tree and took a week or so. So I guess I shouldn't complain (and I'm not). I'm just not in the target market for Gentoo any more. It was fun, though. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Mark Shields laebsh...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.comwrote: It looks like it's time to take Gentoo off of my main machine. I feel a little sad about it, or I'd just quietly go away. A few months ago

Re: [gentoo-user] RIP lafilefixer: I must have missed the memo

2011-05-19 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 1:14 AM, Sebastian Beßler sebast...@darkmetatron.de wrote: Am 19.05.2011 04:09, schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: I've been using dev-util/lafilefixer ever since I learned about it. Now I've bumped into a thread whose latest posts suggests that it is now obsolete

[gentoo-user] RIP lafilefixer: I must have missed the memo

2011-05-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
some packages that are hardwired for one reason or another. Some search engine results suggest this may be true, but they're mostly old. Is this still and permanently true? If so, why is it still in portage and no mention of its obsolesence in the elogs? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Two portage questions

2011-05-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
, etc etc. [snippage] -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Prevent depclean from removing Python-2.6?

2011-05-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
be made into a feature request. What does the list think? If there's support I will log it. +1 It bit me, and just seems stupid. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] QA Notice: libdialog.la appears to contain PORTAGE_TMPDIR paths

2011-05-09 Thread Kevin McCarthy
the timezone and UTC/local settings for you clock, but you also have to make sure it is set. Unfortunately, adding this specific problem to a FAQ is problematic because there are dozens of errors and problems that can come from a mis-set clock. It would be difficult to cover them all. -- Kevin McCarthy

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] bash script error

2011-05-09 Thread Kevin McCarthy
resolve the proxy ''. While bash arrays probably aren't required for this, the following seems to work OK: curl_opts=(-x ) curl $url -d \mydata\ ${curl_opts[@]} But I'm sure there's a quotes-only solution, too. -- Kevin McCarthy sign...@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] crossdev avr compile failing on crtm328p.o

2011-05-07 Thread Kevin McCarthy
maintainers and see if I can help get Arduino up-to-date in Portage... [1] http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Linux/Gentoo -- Kevin McCarthy sign...@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] QA Notice: libdialog.la appears to contain PORTAGE_TMPDIR paths

2011-05-06 Thread Kevin McCarthy
is happening. -- Kevin McCarthy sign...@gentoo.org pgpdJIm46UKZ2.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] QA Notice: libdialog.la appears to contain PORTAGE_TMPDIR paths

2011-05-06 Thread Kevin McCarthy
/build.log -- Kevin McCarthy sign...@gentoo.org pgplICJy9Tg5I.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] QA Notice: libdialog.la appears to contain PORTAGE_TMPDIR paths

2011-05-06 Thread Kevin McCarthy
On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 03:25:31PM -0300, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: 2011/5/6 Kevin McCarthy sign...@gentoo.org On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 01:45:01PM -0300, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: Attached to this message are the contents of the afforementioned file, thanks for the help!!! This seems

Re: [gentoo-user] QA Notice: libdialog.la appears to contain PORTAGE_TMPDIR paths

2011-05-06 Thread Kevin McCarthy
On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 10:45:31PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: Kevin, can you upload your PGP/GPG key to a public keyserver, otherwise the only point of signing your mails is to cause mailers to slow down while trying to check a signature against an unavailable key. I know what you mean. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache is running but its log is not

2011-05-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
sense out of what happens with 'reload' and it always happens. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge stopped working

2011-05-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
of the livedvd to help me in this, as wicd was among the broken things and i couldn't connect to the net to download the required packages to update python. so thanks everyone for the hints that led me to the solution and particular thanks to helmut, alan, kevin and stroller. i'll follow your

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache is running but its log is not

2011-05-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
apache apache158 Jan 22 03:10 ssl_request_log-20110122.gz -rw-rw-rw- 1 apache apache197 Jan 30 03:10 ssl_request_log-20110130.gz -rw-rw-rw- 1 apache apache103 Feb 6 03:10 ssl_request_log-20110206.gz treat apache2 # -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache is running but its log is not

2011-05-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 8:19 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: Okay, there was already a thread about that, and my Python problem seems solved. I still have no log entries. Ok, as root, try lsof | grep

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache is running but its log is not

2011-05-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
, and no special logfile paths, so it seems it must use the default. However in /var/log/apache2 I find log files that have not been touched since February. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache is running but its log is not

2011-05-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 1:39 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 23:04:35 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I just noticed a failure in a dynamic web page that I haven't touched in years. So I looked in /var/log/apache2 and found that no files have been touched

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge stopped working

2011-05-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
ncurses readline ssl threads tk wide-unicode xml -build -doc -elibc_uclibc -examples -sqlite -wininst) Homepage:http://www.python.org/ I'm right now trying to see if eselect python set 3 will let emerge, vim and tar run again. 3 is version 2.7. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge stopped working

2011-05-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 9:05 AM, Davide Carnovale francesco.davide.carnov...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/5/2 Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de On 05/02/2011 05:38:03 PM, Davide Carnovale wrote: Hi all! i

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge stopped working

2011-05-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
. that would be python-updater. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache is running but its log is not

2011-05-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 1:39 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 23:04:35 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I just noticed a failure in a dynamic web page that I haven't touched in years. So

[gentoo-user] Apache is running but its log is not

2011-05-01 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
(it's a feature not commonly used). I want to find out the exact error from my CGI program (the web error says the system logs will have more info but they don't). How do I find out where/if Apache thinks its logging things? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild Not Fixing Broken Links

2011-04-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
--justfixit -perl-cleaner all -locale-gen --keep --quiet You have to be prepared to respond to dispatch-conf, but the others run to completion by themselves. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Any bought a laptop that Just Works?

2011-03-31 Thread Kevin Coetzee
an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling -- -- Kevin Coetzee

Re: [gentoo-user] Any bought a laptop that Just Works?

2011-03-31 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
monitor and all. The only thing to dislike is that the machine does not have an indicator LED for caps lock -- on Win 7 it uses an on-screen icon each time the status changes. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] LXDE

2011-03-05 Thread Kevin McCarthy
setting in /etc/slim.conf. -- Kevin McCarthy sign...@gentoo.org pgpOlnpakqut4.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Any small and fast desktop search app for GNOME?

2011-03-01 Thread Kevin McCarthy
want to emerge too. While optional, it should give zeitgeist more data to work with, so you may want to emerge -av zeitgeist-datahub too. Please open a bug at bugs.gentoo.org if you have any issues with it. Enjoy. -- Kevin McCarthy sign...@gentoo.org pgpl7JIxMX24w.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Puzzled about --depclean

2010-12-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: I just ran emerge -p --depclean and the only thing it wants to remove is gentoo-sources-2.6.35-r12. So my system's pretty clean, but I'm quite

[gentoo-user] Persistent hal

2010-12-22 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
use K3B a lot. I don't see any use flags to change with respect to k3b, so I'm feeling I''m missing something. Help? ++ kevin

Re: [gentoo-user] Persistent hal

2010-12-22 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 7:26 AM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: I don't really want it, but my system still has hal installed. According to equery depends, it seems that there are still two packages

[gentoo-user] Puzzled about --depclean

2010-12-22 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
picked on this one of the five? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Eeek: many open ports

2010-12-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
but does not disclose which process is listening. Does anybody know how to find this out? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Re: Eeek: many open ports

2010-12-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: Eeek!! Just fooling around with some software on my laptop, I found that my Gentoo desktop has an even dozen open inet ports with something listening to them, in addition to the ones I would expect (25, 80 and so

Re: [gentoo-user] Eeek: many open ports

2010-12-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 1:18 PM, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: On 2010-12-13 22:08, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Netstat agrees that they're open but does not disclose which process is listening. Does anybody know how to find this out? netstat only lists listening processes when you're root

Re: [gentoo-user] Remove redundant entries in world - howto

2010-12-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
ImportError: No module named set Are you sure it's even it gentoolkit? I have that but no auditworld on x86. It's not in gentoolkit-dev either. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] time for an emerge -e world?

2010-11-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
an emerge -e and regretted it. It kept stopping because something wasn't configured right, and I had to go through dispatch-conf on everything up to that point before I could get it to proceed. Good luck with your few days. Mine was more like 2 weeks of stop-and-go. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix broken

2010-11-19 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 2:47 PM, kashani kashani-l...@badapple.net wrote: On 11/15/2010 8:37 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Color me stupid. It was stopped. It started when I told it to in /etc/init.d. Now I have to wonder what stopped it. Judging from the mail that got through all

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix broken

2010-11-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 21:57:42 -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I don't even know where to start on this. I'd start by looking at the logs, I think Postfix logs to syslog by default. The first question is is it even

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix broken

2010-11-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 7:35 AM, Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.eduwrote: On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 09:57:42PM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Some time ago, it appears, postfix stopped working for me. I am no longer able to use it to send mail (usually to my ISP, where it gets routed

[gentoo-user] Postfix broken

2010-11-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
a shove in the right direction. I'm pretty good at this, but I only configured Postfix once and it was a long time ago. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Winter clock change did not happen

2010-10-31 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
-rtc.htmlhttp://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/%7Emgk25/mswish/ut-rtc.html -- Regards, Mick You guys had me scared for a bit. But I'm in the USA, where the change happens in the morning of the first Sunday in November, which will be the 7th. I can wait. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X programs as root

2010-10-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
does not include the DISPLAY variable, and it happens to work fine that way. Try just keeping HOME. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X programs as root

2010-10-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
into root if something goes wrong in bootup: with this in mind, I need a root PW anyway, until that bottleneck gets fixed. The above form is actually only used in a debugging mode I've defined, and is silent otherwise. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.ukwrote: On 25 Sep 2010, at 03:17, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: ... I've heard good things about it, but I'm under the impression it is not free (as in beer). Is that true? I don't know but I can emerge -q icc

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
on Ubuntu let alone Vista, which makes me take your suggestion about build parameters seriously. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.comwrote: On 09/24/10 09:48, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Beau Henderson b...@thehenderson.comwrote: On 09/22/10 07:31, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 20 September 2010 16:38:05 Paul Hartman wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
. Wouldn't that be kind of senseless since the source code is distributed? Knowing it would not be hard to bypass the activation key, if they wanted money for it they wouldn't let the source code out, license or no license. Just my $.02 ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-20 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
to jump back to 4.4 but if someone can confirm this fixes the issue, I'd certainly be greatful! I'm still at 4.3.4, and having these problems. I wouldn't be holding my breath for a silver bullet. I'm writing this on chormium, having just given up on Opera for being slow as FF. Sigh. -- Kevin

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-19 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 3:02 AM, András Csányi sayusi.a...@gmail.comwrote: On 19 September 2010 10:09, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 00:28 on Sunday 19 September 2010, András Csányi did opine thusly: On 19 September 2010 00:14, Kevin

[gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
not help to clear the profiles (rename ~/.mozilla) and re-emerge. Grr. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant

2010-09-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
is doing. For me, case closed and I can go back to doing what I want. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant

2010-09-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
to wherever you like. I yet another gmail account like that for some specific sensitive traffic that I want semi-anonymous. I'm sure there are other free accounts that can do the same. Save your money for the things you really need. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Output of emerge -NDpvu world

2010-09-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
big /tmp (mine has 19GB free at the moment), and to keep using the same name in case you forget to delete the (possibly huge) file. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Output of emerge -NDpvu world

2010-09-01 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
however you like. If using less(1) or more(1), I would do it this way emerge -NDpvu world 21 | less under the bash shell. There are a lot of advantages to less, but perhaps the most important is that you can scroll backwards if you've gone too far -- you don't have to start over. -- Kevin O'Gorman

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