Re: [gentoo-user] knotes: cannot move around notes

2007-02-04 Thread Alex Schuster
ffect here. But you can move windows in XFCE (and many other window managers) by clicking anywhere inside the window, with the Alt key pressed. BTW, the right mouse button resizes windows then. Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Telling emerge to continue when something goes wrong

2007-01-14 Thread Alex Schuster
g that package: emerge world -u || while ! emerge --resume --skipfirst; do :; done Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] QT4's qtconfig

2007-01-07 Thread Alex Schuster
; > OK, I have reinstalled Qt4 - nothing changed. > > Is it for me only? Strange. I have /usr/bin/qtconfig, belonging to x11-libs/qt-4.1.4-r2. Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] $PATH

2006-12-17 Thread Alex Schuster
p "/insert/your/path/here"` ]] > then > > : # Fallback > > else > PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH > export PATH > fi Or a little shorter: path=/insert/your/path/here [[ $PATH = *$path* ]] || PATH=$path:$PATH Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Media Player

2006-12-03 Thread Alex Bogak
Totem (based on xine); vlc and mplayer (or Gmplayer) are all good and fairly easy. Last time I checked (and it was yesterday), I inserted DVD; totem started and ran into movie - all automatic. I use Gnome as an interface. Hope it helps -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:

Re: [gentoo-user] Resize /

2006-11-16 Thread Alex Schuster
d not matter if they are renamed as long as they stay on the same partition. Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking out of a chroot

2006-11-13 Thread Alex
ade for this kind of problem ( data's were not in the documentroot) greetz alex -- * IMPORTANT: 217 config files in /etc need updating -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome Save Session dialog gone

2006-09-17 Thread Alex Bennee
On Sun, 2006-09-17 at 14:23 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 11:29 +0100, Alex Bennee wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 08:49 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 18:01 +0100, Alex Bennee wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > &

Re: [gentoo-user] xhost +local:root ???

2006-09-16 Thread Alex Schuster
access and then becomes root - when opening a root shell in a text console, it does not work. In this case, your first solution seems to work fine for me. Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome Save Session dialog gone

2006-09-15 Thread Alex Bennee
On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 08:49 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 18:01 +0100, Alex Bennee wrote: > > Hi, > > > > When I logout of gnome it no longer asks me if I wish to save the > > session and as a result I lose all my session data each time I logout.

[gentoo-user] Gnome Save Session dialog gone

2006-09-14 Thread Alex Bennee
Hi, When I logout of gnome it no longer asks me if I wish to save the session and as a result I lose all my session data each time I logout. Anyone know where this went? Is this an upstream Gnome issue or am I missing some magical USE flag? -- Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex

Re: [gentoo-user] bc only does integer division

2006-09-04 Thread Alex Schuster
.cgi?id=136643 The stable version 1.06-r6 is working fine, so I suggest you downgrade. Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Gnome Session not saving

2006-08-08 Thread Alex Bennee
Despite having "Ask on Logout" ticked in the Gnome Sessions Preference I'm not being prompted to "Save Session" when I log out. As a result none of my desktop changes are persistent over different logons. Any idea what could be happening? -- Alex, homepage: http://www.

[gentoo-user] missing-host-name

2006-08-05 Thread Alex Fortwinder
ss, I got wrong FROM: like so >From [EMAIL PROTECTED], where nabokov is the user on the system. Any help >would be great. Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] How to cleanly shutdown Gentoo?

2006-08-04 Thread Alex Fortwinder
poweroff is a good option? Thanks Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Test for X from cli

2006-08-01 Thread Alex Schuster
ng under X" else echo "No X running." fi Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] dev/tty1 permission denied

2006-07-31 Thread Alex Fortwinder
When I start screen as a user, I got the following: Cannot open your teminal 'dev/tty1' - please check. When I run w3m in console it says that permission denied to dev/tty1 How to set up permission? Thanks Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't run pppoe-start as user

2006-07-31 Thread Alex Fortwinder
Never mind, I figured that one out. Thanks for the help. On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 18:28:49 +0400 Alex Fortwinder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks again, but... nothing is changed? > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sudo -l > User nabokov may run the following commands on this

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't run pppoe-start as user

2006-07-31 Thread Alex Fortwinder
Thanks again, but... nothing is changed? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sudo -l User nabokov may run the following commands on this host: (ALL) ALL [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ pppoe-stop bash: pppoe-stop: command not found On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 09:03:10 -0400 "ellotheth rimmwen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't run pppoe-start as user

2006-07-31 Thread Alex Fortwinder
Done. Example on how to use it? I tried sodo -u to no avail. Thanks Alex. On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:19:57 +0200 Fabrice Delliaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alex Fortwinder a écrit : > > command not found. As root everything is ok. Suggestions? > > # emerge sudo &

[gentoo-user] Can't run pppoe-start as user

2006-07-31 Thread Alex Fortwinder
command not found. As root everything is ok. Suggestions? Alex. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] configurtion error

2006-07-31 Thread Alex Fortwinder
I got this when switching the user. Any advice would help. Thanks, Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ su root Password: configuration error - unknown item 'FAILLOG_ENAB' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'LASTLOG_ENAB' (notify administrator) configuration

[gentoo-user] Exluding some apps from emerge --update world

2006-07-30 Thread Alex Fortwinder
Hi list, I's like to update my system, however, I'd like to keep some of the packages as they are (X, firefox, kernel, etc) How do I go about it before i run emerge --update --deep --newuse world? Thanks in advance, Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] apache/php: chroot?

2006-07-24 Thread Alex
And are there some other services, which can be chrooted > like bind? should work without any problems, like the most of the other standard internet services. try and have a look ;-) greetz alex -- * IMPORTANT: 217 config files in /etc need updating -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Wine won't build

2006-07-08 Thread Alex Bennee
Hi, I can't get wine to build. The configure script complains that it can't find freetype (despite it being installed) but I'm not sure if thats the problem. I assume an exit status of 1 from the configure script is bad? malory alex # tail /var/tmp/portage/wine-0.9.16/work/wine-0.

Re: [gentoo-user] qt3/4 confusion

2006-06-22 Thread Alex Schuster
e library line is not necessary, but it doesn't hurt either and I kept it. switchqt() { export QTDIR=$1 export PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$PATH export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$QTDIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH } "switchqt /usr/qt/3" activa

[gentoo-user] Streaming and videoconferencing in Gentoo

2006-06-16 Thread Alex Condori
s that have been tested under Gentoo and work in your homes or jobs. I don't try to build a high performance system, but a low-end one. Thanks. Alex Condori -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-26 Thread Alex
Alex wrote: Now I'm emerging -e world with -Os. When it is finished, I'll mail you the results. Hi, now I have a -Os-system and it isn't faster. So now I'll emerge the whole system again, but with -O3. Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-25 Thread Alex
Allan Gottlieb wrote: At Thu, 25 May 2006 10:40:26 + Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: You have to do experiments. It depends heavily on your application mix. Yes, that would be the best, but I'm wondering how, because e.g. "time bzip2 -9 foo

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-25 Thread Alex
if it's a real difference. Thank you! Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-24 Thread Alex
r was that it took a lot less > time to compile with -Os compared to -O3. The time I need to compile isn't my problem, and if it would, I think I could easy use -O0 ;) BTW, is gcc 4.1 faster than 3.4? I've some benchmarks about gcc4, but not compared with 3.4. Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device: Am I allowed...

2006-05-24 Thread Alex
Meino Christian Cramer wrote: ...to delete contents of /var/tmp/portage/. ? I run out of resources ;) thank you very much for any helpful reply in advance! mcc Yes you can, if you're not emerging something. Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-24 Thread Alex
hich are slower and smaller, can be faster than applications which are bigger and faster. Please correct my, if I'm not right. Thanks. Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethics of vmware use

2006-05-20 Thread Alex Schuster
hey think that commertial users will pay the price. There are even sites that create VMs intended to run in the player, like <http://www.consolevision.com/members/dcgrendel/vmxform.html> or on <http://petruska.stardock.net/software/VMware/index.html>. Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] My Gentoo is too secure ... ;)

2006-03-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Antoine writes: > # vi groups (or whatever the "correct" way of doing it is) > add your user to wheel I think it is "gpasswd -a wheel". Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso

2006-03-16 Thread Alex Schuster
the image has errors after reading the whole disk, you can read the image again, with another drive if possible, and it will fill the missing parts. It is a graphical application (with a nice rendering of the reading process), but also works on the command line. Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] change eth0 to eth1 and viceversa

2006-02-21 Thread Alex Schuster
6, you can set the order by listing the normal ethernet card's module first. At least I think so :) Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Rhythmbox and Audioscrobbler

2006-02-14 Thread Alex Bennee
it but no dice. I've looked at the network traffic but I can't see any going to audioscrobbler so I'm guessing rhythmbox is just not sending it. Anyone else got this working? -- Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/ It's not the valleys in life I dread so much as the

[gentoo-user] Building Kernel Modules with custom kernel trees

2006-01-24 Thread Alex Bennee
Linux Kernel version However with all kernels you should be able to detrmine the root via uname -r: malory / # ls -l "/lib/modules/`uname -r`" total 212 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root31 Jan 15 17:16 build -> /home/alex/src/kernel/linux-2.6 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root31 Jan 15 17:16 source

[gentoo-user] Udev Permissions

2006-01-08 Thread Alex Bennee
at configuring things in 10-local should overide any of the following general stuff in the main body of rules. Have I come across a bug or have I just not understood the subtly of creating the rule? -- Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/ Sherrif: "His story had kind of an odor to it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get spellchecking to work on evolution

2005-11-22 Thread Alex Bennee
On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 19:56 +, C. Beamer wrote: > Hi, > > Alex Bennee wrote: > > >Although its enabled evolution never picks up any mis-spelled words. I > >suspect its something to do with the fact no dictionaries are selectable > >in the preferences dialog. >

[gentoo-user] How do I test gnome-spell?

2005-11-21 Thread Alex Bennee
I can't get spell checking in Evolution to work (it has no idea what dictionaries are available). The base aspell seems to be working but I don't know how to test the gnome-spell component. Any ideas? -- Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/ You have literary talent that you s

[gentoo-user] Can't get spellchecking to work on evolution

2005-11-15 Thread Alex Bennee
Although its enabled evolution never picks up any mis-spelled words. I suspect its something to do with the fact no dictionaries are selectable in the preferences dialog. I have aspell-en installed but that doesn't seem to be enough. Any ideas? -- Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~ale

[gentoo-user] Should emerge --sync be so slow?

2005-10-19 Thread Alex Bennee
ay to flush the cache files and start again with a clean emerge --sync? -- Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/ signal(i, SIG_DFL); /* crunch, crunch, crunch */ -- Larry Wall in doarg.c from the perl source code -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Getting Bluetooth talking to phone

2005-09-25 Thread Alex Bennee
>progress != NULL' failed /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gnomebt/manager.py:195: GtkDeprecationWarning: gtk.FALSE is deprecated, use False instead gtk.main () Anyone else been having issues with it? Is it problem with the python libraries? -- Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/ You have taken yourself too seriously. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk image

2005-09-10 Thread Alex
t; if I need it. > Thanks. You can take a look at a recent thread called "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question". There was a discussion there about the same thing :) HTH -- Cheers, Alex. pgpNTAVfv3WH8.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] howto update whole system and all applications

2005-09-09 Thread Alex
On Friday 09 September 2005 09:12, Frank Schafer wrote: > # emerge --update --deep --newuse world > # emerge --depclean > # revdep-rebuild yeap, that would be the coplete prosedure :) -- Cheers, Alex. pgpnqy1uOGLK5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] howto update whole system and all applications

2005-09-09 Thread Alex
lags changed -- Cheers, Alex. pgp3OqlsxtFmF.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] instalation and mount cdrom

2005-09-09 Thread Alex
On Friday 09 September 2005 02:49, Alvin ONeal Jr wrote: > mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/cdrom this should be: # mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom -- Cheers, Alex. pgpVcQBTNcBWY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] jack-audio-connection-kit-0.100.0 ??

2005-09-09 Thread Alex
ild the new digest thing, you no longer need to > > ebuild /long/path/balh.ebuild digest wow thanx for that :) -- Cheers, Alex. pgp3DwrmtHlAW.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] portage - xcdroast

2005-09-08 Thread Alex
rts this, as from 0.30 I think, with eix-sync. :) but as Nick said those are the tools of the devil and not the way real Gent'men should do it ;) -- Cheers, Alex. pgpA4ShLOigtD.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] portage - xcdroast

2005-09-06 Thread Alex
On Tuesday 06 September 2005 13:35, John Dangler wrote: > where do I get eix? # emerge eix ;) -- Cheers, Alex. pgpFOR7XMpdKt.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] portage - xcdroast

2005-09-05 Thread Alex
On Monday 05 September 2005 23:06, John Dangler wrote: > Or, does anyone have another recommendation for cd/dvd graphical frontend > in gnome? How about gnomebaker? it's in portage. I've used it a bit and it looked pretty good (though not as good as k3b :) ) -- Cheers, Alex. p

[gentoo-user] Best way to build a debugging binary

2005-09-05 Thread Alex Bennee
inux-gnu-nptl/csu/crti.S Whats the proper "gentoo" way to build something with symbols for getting decent backtraces from? -- Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/ Fry: Hey, why are those kids following you? Do you have candy stuck to your ass? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Windows on a second drive?

2005-09-05 Thread Alex
. Either way, if you encounter problems because of that you can bypass it by adding the following lines in your grub.conf map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) This will (virtually) swap your hard drives. -- Cheers, Alex. pgp62JKxMwwxr.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is man-pages-de package installed?

2005-09-03 Thread Alex
r if that breaks a dependency in /etc/portage/package.provided (if they don't exist create them :) ) -- Cheers, Alex. pgpeuYGqVN1Cs.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is man-pages-de package installed?

2005-09-03 Thread Alex
he trick: > > echo sys-apps/man-pages -nls >> /etc/portage/package.use Indeed :) -- Cheers, Alex. pgpZ8pa9VOp22.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge toggling arts, kdelibs, kwin between 3.4.1 and 3.4.2

2005-09-03 Thread Alex
dd it to your package.keywords. HTH :) -- Cheers, Alex. pgpcaLgdfz3XX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /dev/cdrom has gone!

2005-09-03 Thread Alex Korshunov
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 08:32:56PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: no error on reboot now, but i will try to switch to windows to see if the cdrom works well All my cdroms in /dev/cdroms/cdrom. May be...? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling totem-1.0.4 -- looking for suggestions on how to fix

2005-08-31 Thread Alex
y with 2.4 headers. -- Cheers, Alex. pgp0FbrYaGhUB.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Can`t play dvd with xine based video players

2005-08-31 Thread Alex
On Wednesday 31 August 2005 06:06, Makurin Roman wrote: > The problem has gone with xine-lib-1.1.0-r2 :-) Yay! :) the devs know better ;) -- Cheers, Alex. pgp11riY59DLC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I format correctly a FAT floppy?

2005-08-29 Thread Alex
On Monday 29 August 2005 16:51, Michael Kintzios wrote: > What's the appropriate way to format a floppy with FAT using Linux, so that > it can be used in M$Windoze without the need of a native re-formatting? # mkfs.vfat /dev/fd0 -- Cheers, Alex. pgphQj8fBbRIL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling totem-1.0.4 -- looking for suggestions on how to fix

2005-08-29 Thread Alex
your world file) and wait for the fix to be synced into portage. :) -- Cheers, Alex. pgpxN9LJKQsZF.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling totem-1.0.4 -- looking for suggestions on how to fix

2005-08-29 Thread Alex
On Monday 29 August 2005 12:32, Ric de France wrote: > Any suggestions on what could be the problem? Any comments greatly > appreciated. Is it the same as this one? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103860 -- Cheers, Alex. pgpqHbxniI6qX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to instruct emerge to leave certain stuff alone

2005-08-29 Thread Alex
.provided to a newer one only if you see it pulled as a dependency. Just enter the latest version available in portage and you should be ok for a long time :) -- Cheers, Alex. pgpIO3m3MtbGm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] How to instruct emerge to leave certain stuff alone

2005-08-29 Thread Alex
- comments begin with # - one DEPEND atom per line - relational operators are not allowed - must include a version . . . . == -- Cheers, Alex. pgp1Wuoz2CIGV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Can`t play dvd with xine based video players

2005-08-28 Thread Alex
On Sunday 28 August 2005 21:33, Makurin Roman wrote: > В сообщении от Понедельник 29 августа 2005 04:22 Alex написал(a): > > On Sunday 28 August 2005 19:56, Nick Rout wrote: > > > also, does mplayer still play dvd's? > > > > or a previous version of xine-lib?

Re: [gentoo-user] Can`t play dvd with xine based video players

2005-08-28 Thread Alex
On Sunday 28 August 2005 19:56, Nick Rout wrote: > also, does mplayer still play dvd's? or a previous version of xine-lib? -- Cheers, Alex. pgpBj0F3amf7f.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Can`t play dvd with xine based video players

2005-08-28 Thread Alex
t a guess... -- Cheers, Alex. pgpKYBBI0d6B0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Can`t play dvd with xine based video players

2005-08-28 Thread Alex
ine it's on settings--> xine engine options --> media-->expert options tab --> dvd.raw_device ) Also if you have upgraded from a pre-1 xine-lib you should have removed your old configurations. Well your xine.log looks normal (too me) Sorry but I cant be of more help here... Good

Re: [gentoo-user] Tcpdump warning in emerge world -u output

2005-08-28 Thread Alex
> >>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... > > Anyone here know what this means or what I might need to do. You dont have to do anything, it's not a problem. QA notices are addressed to ebuild developers. :) -- Cheers, Alex. pgpHHC9ZykwUY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Can`t play dvd with xine based video players

2005-08-28 Thread Alex
tml -- Cheers, Alex. pgpxFMIMNbQNu.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Can`t play dvd with xine based video players

2005-08-28 Thread Alex
---> ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support --->[*] IDE Taskfile Access boot with your new kernel and enjoy your movies ;) -- Cheers, Alex. pgpo1qB3cnILR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Proposed option for etc-update

2005-08-27 Thread Alex Schuster
d etc.tar.gz thus giving > us goofs a unlimited amount of chances to get it right. > Any thoughts? Try dispatch-conf instead of etc-update. When use_rcs ist set to yes in /etc/dispatch-conf.conf, and rcs is emerged, you get a backup of each file. Alex -- Alex Schust

Re: [gentoo-user] Downloading packages from a txt file

2005-08-22 Thread Alex
w of them for each package, so it might be downloaded after-all :) Those error could be some bad urls in the ebuilds. Just a guess, I don't know... -- Cheers, Alex. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] where to put mknod?

2005-08-21 Thread Alex
f.d, /etc/init.d. at the end of /etc/conf.d/local.start and then do $ rc-update add local default -- Cheers, Alex. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Downloading packages from a txt file

2005-08-20 Thread Alex
might work :) sorry but i can't be much of a help, my bash scripting knowledge is limited... -- Cheers, Alex. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Downloading packages from a txt file

2005-08-20 Thread Alex
On Friday 19 August 2005 15:18, Grant wrote: > sort -u links.txt | xargs -n 1 -i{} sh -c 'for i in {}; do wget -c $i > && break; done' How about this instead, $ wget -ci links.txt It always did the job for me :) -- Cheers, Alex. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Please unsubscribe!

2005-08-05 Thread Alex A. Smith MCP
Ok so cause he was getting spammed its ok to spam us all? Does any one around here (Gentoo team or such) have access to remove him? -Original Message- From: John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 August 2005 13:55 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Please unsub

RE: [gentoo-user] Help

2005-07-24 Thread Alex A. Smith MCP
initramdisk- and the both included genkernel in the file name) I had myself wondering over that for a while :) hth Alex A. Smith p.s. im installing a gentoo 2.6.12-r6 Stage 3 genkernel atm so I'll let you know when its done if the above didn't help ya. -Original Message- From: C.Beam

[gentoo-user] ldconfig breaks my system

2005-07-15 Thread Alex Bennee
orking when its done? I'm currently building a parallel world on a second partition (in a chrooted environment) to see if there are any differences between the two setups (i.e a subtle breakage occured and was never picked up). -- Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/ It destroys one&#x

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OpenOffice2.0 Install

2005-06-30 Thread Alex
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James wrote: > echo "app-office/openoffice-bin ~*" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords Well, just a note that ~* isn't necessary. Just: echo app-office/openoffice-bin >> /etc/portage/package.keywords would also do

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem wars - ReiserFS 3.6 vs. JFS

2005-06-21 Thread Alex Schuster
/tmp/ # ls -l /mnt/tmp/dev/ total 0 crw-rw 1 root root 5, 1 Jan 8 01:12 console crw-rw---- 1 root root 1, 3 Jan 8 01:12 null # Alex -- Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] udev Strangeness

2005-06-12 Thread Alex Bennee
csi removable disk sdc at scsi17, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Jun 12 23:47:26 [scsi.agent] disk at /devices/pci:00/:00:02.1/usb3/3-1/3-1:1.0/host17/target17:0:0/17:0:0:0 Jun 12 23:47:26 [udev] creating device node '/dev/sdc' Jun 12 23:47:26 [udev] creating device node '/dev/sdc1'

Re: [gentoo-user] fstab entry

2005-06-09 Thread Alex Schuster
the umask option: /dev/hda1/mnt/win_cntfsdefaults,ro,user,umask=000 0 0 /dev/hdb8/mnt/win_jvfatdefaults,rw,user,umask=000 0 0 This gives rwx permissions for all users. See man mount or man umount for more information. Alex -- Alex Schuster

Re: [gentoo-user] "Access Violation" emerge error

2005-06-06 Thread Alex Schuster
ortage prevents the gthumb installer from writing to files gthumb does not own. If you want gthumb allow to do this, FEATRUES="-sandbox" emerge gthumb should work. It's probably a good idea to make a backup of this scrollkeeper_docs file just in case it gets corrupted. Ale

[gentoo-user] GStreamer Pad error with Rhythmbox

2005-06-04 Thread Alex Bennee
lated case? -- Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/ Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we". -- Mark Twain -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I slow down a video game?

2005-05-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Walter writes: [xboing is too fast] There is a thread in the forum, with a solution to patch the code directly. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-131884-highlight-xboing.html?sid=143cb495075f44a9320a2dc2e38ff3c3 Alex -- Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key

RE: [gentoo-user] Tuning QAM w/ pcHDTV3000

2005-05-23 Thread Alex Stagg
QAM and 8VSB are two different modulation schemes. 8VSB is used for digital off the air (ATSC) signals in the US. QAM is used on Cable systems. That's all about this topic but maybe it will help you sort out what you want to do. -Original Message- From: Michael Haan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with nautilus

2005-05-18 Thread Alex Bennee
On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 18:19 +0100, Ognjen Bezanov wrote: > Alex Bennee wrote: > > >On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 17:55 +0100, Ognjen Bezanov wrote: > > > > > >>Alex Bennee wrote: > >> > >> > >>>If you run the command again with strac

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with nautilus

2005-05-18 Thread Alex Bennee
On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 17:55 +0100, Ognjen Bezanov wrote: > Alex Bennee wrote: > >If you run the command again with strace: > > > >strace -e trace=open nautilus --no-desktop --file-browser > > > >You will probably be able to see what the failing file is interleaved

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with nautilus

2005-05-16 Thread Alex Bennee
n line 1851 char 14: Odd character > 'T', expec ted a '>' character to end the start tag of element 'URIion' > > > Any help appreciated. > > > Whats interesting to note is that if i run the above command as root it > works, without crashing.

Re: [gentoo-user] What mixes up line order of world file?

2005-05-16 Thread Alex Bennee
Its the minor things that prompt you to tweak you .bashrc to define aliases or helper functions ;-) -- Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/ All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies. -- The Book of Bokonon / Kurt Vonnegut Jr. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Evolution Data Server keeps reverting

2005-05-08 Thread Alex Bennee
On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 16:03 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > Alex Bennee wrote: > > Both versions are ~amd64 so I don't think that is the reason. Any idea > > what is causing emerge to think it wants to revert to a broken package? > > There could be a couple of reaso

[gentoo-user] Evolution Data Server keeps reverting

2005-05-08 Thread Alex Bennee
Hi, I had a problem starting evolution: 14:11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [alex] >evolution-2.2 evolution-2.2: error while loading shared libraries: libecal-1.2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory When I checked I found that libecalc belonged to evolution-data-server. A qu

Re: [gentoo-user] rlogin ebuild

2005-05-06 Thread Alex Schuster
ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/Networking/netkit/ Description: Netkit's Remote Shell Suite: rexec{,d} rlogin{,d} rsh{,d} Found 2 matches To use eix, "emerge eix" first, and issue "update-eix" after every sync. Alex -- Alex

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-02 Thread Alex A. Smith MCP
fer if you didnt call someone you have never ment and know nothing about lazy. For your info I'm 19, work 2 Jobs and run a small hosting company. That I feel is far from lazy. Alex Greg Donald wrote: On 5/2/05, Alex A. Smith MCP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Time straped a

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-02 Thread Alex A. Smith MCP
Time straped as it is, I'll type in what ever my Default Email prog wants me to, asking people to turn it off wont work much, better to make a better argument and ask the developers to dist it without html as default. My 2 cent's Alex A. Smith MCP ASMHosting.com Owner Calvin Spea

Re: [gentoo-user] sshd security question

2005-04-21 Thread Alex A. Smith MCP
ntact with the outter world, try at your own risk) * http://www.rfxnetworks.com/bfd.php ** http://www.rfxnetworks.com/apf.php - Alex A. Smith MCP ASMHosting.com Owner Antonio Coralles wrote: >I'm running sshd on my personal computer to be able to log in from >different mach

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with setting up home router

2005-04-21 Thread Alex A. Smith MCP
You seem to have missed out this one # iptables -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT My home router stopped working without that. Hope that helps somewhat. - Alex A. Smith MCP ASMHosting.com Owner askar ... wrote: >Hello! > >Installed Gentoo 2005.0, stage3

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