Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing CVS on non-standard port

2010-11-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: > I need to get to the work CVS server from home. It's not exposed to the > internet but never fear! we have ssh -L and a convenient sshd host that is on > the internets. So, locally > > ssh -Llocalhost::cvs.example.com:22 a...@gateway.example.com > > and tell cvs tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Advice for System monitor + Intrusion Detection tools?

2010-11-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Stroller writes: > All I want is a simple email notification when $string appears in the > log. > > I'm actually a little surprised that there isn't a syslogger which can > parse stuff as it writes it out, and thus perform actions, such as > mailing. I'm assuming there isn't, since no-one has men

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Radeon KMS driver - what benefits?

2010-11-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Robin Atwood writes: > On Tuesday 23 November 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 11/22/2010 07:02 PM, Robin Atwood wrote: > > > I have just gone through the steps to use the Radeon KMS driver on > > > my old laptop which has an RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]. > > > Everything seems to work al

Re: [gentoo-user] Nepomuk indexing, what triggers it?

2010-11-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: > If I reboot this machine and start KDE, Nepomuk starts a rather > long-lived index of my home directory. It takes up about 30-40% cpu > and lasts as much as 15 minutes sometimes. This is annoying because > after a reboot I usually want to catch up on mail, rss feeds and fir

Re: [gentoo-user] [Waaay OT] Defrag tool for windoze

2010-11-16 Thread Alex Schuster
J. Roeleveld writes: > On Tuesday 16 November 2010 03:33:19 Dale wrote: > > That's not doable here tho. This is a Linux only house. My nieces > > puter is the only puter in the house with windoze on it and it is > > just visiting. It does have NTFS so I am sort of chicken to hook it > > up to

Re: [gentoo-user] [Waaay OT] Defrag tool for windoze

2010-11-16 Thread Alex Schuster
J. Roeleveld writes: > On Tuesday 16 November 2010 03:33:19 Dale wrote: > > That's not doable here tho. This is a Linux only house. My nieces > > puter is the only puter in the house with windoze on it and it is > > just visiting. It does have NTFS so I am sort of chicken to hook it > > up to

Re: [gentoo-user] after update ssh with shared_keys don't work

2010-11-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Tamer Higazi writes: > I updated yesterday my gentoo box. And now I can't login with SSH > through shared keys on my clients Server what I did all the time. As Willie writes, you do not provide much information. Try ssh -v , this gives some debug information. Also try -vv and -vvv to get even mor

Re: [gentoo-user] MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE

2010-11-11 Thread Alex Schuster
dhk writes: > On 11/10/2010 06:45 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:35:20 -0500, dhk wrote: > >> Lately I've been getting this MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE error. It only > >> happens when I'm logged into my home amd64 box from my office x86 > >> box. I use ssh -X ip.add.res.s to log in. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspect fs, or suspect disk, or something else?

2010-11-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: > I've had at least 3 fs corruptions on a Reiser4 fs, in as many months. > > I understand that the fs type is experimental, but am wondering if it > is the fs at fault here or Dell's hard drive: [...] > I've run a short and long test with smartmontools and it passed both. You could

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with upgrading portage

2010-11-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Benyamin Dvoskin writes: > In the proccess of trying to understand my possible mistake > I'm wondering , > which stage3 file should I use ? the i686 or the i486 ? > > I'm trying to install it on an Asus EEEPC 1005ha netbook i686 if you want a 32 bit OS, x86_64 for 64 bit. > which stage should I

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with upgrading portage

2010-11-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Benyamin Dvoskin writes: > Hi Everyone , > I am actually quite new to Gentoo , so give me a break if my question > is a newbie one. Welcome :) > anyway , while installing Gentoo , I got to the point where I want to > compile the kernel , and for that I've done the following : > > emerge --sync

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-11-08 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > Well, I worked on my air compressor and played in the dirt in my garden > for a while and now I get this again: > > 2 frames in 7.6 seconds = 0.263 FPS > 2 frames in 7.7 seconds = 0.259 FPS D'ouch! > I don't know what the issue is but it is getting on my nerves. I have > not e

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-libs/glibc gives strange error

2010-11-08 Thread Alex Schuster
Maximilian Bräutigam writes: > I'm trying to update my glibc for now 2 weeks or so and it doesn't > matter what I'm doing, I run into a strange error. > > """ > /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.12.1-r3/work/build-amd64-x86_64-pc-li > nux-gnu-nptl/libc_pic.a(init-first.os):(.data+0x0): multiple d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When ls command fails but only on $HOME

2010-11-05 Thread Alex Schuster
his case, not a hanging ls process. Alex

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-11-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Am 04.11.2010 20:20, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > Try conf-update, you might like it. It's a good middle-ground, I find. I like cfg-update [*]. I use it with kdiff3, but you can use about any merge tool you like, be it GUI or CLI. Looks quite sophisticated to me. I only worry that it is not being dev

Re: [gentoo-user] usb error log spam

2010-11-04 Thread alex
;> no, it's not: >> CONFIG_USB_DEBUG is not set >> That also why, i think this more a error message than a debug > > Make sure you have the line HALD_VERBOSE="no" in /etc/conf.d/hald. > > -- > Fatih > is the only one t

Re: [gentoo-user] Search for a file that is not installed in the system?

2010-11-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Kfir Lavi writes: > Is there a way to search for a file that I can install, but is not > currently installed in the system? Have a look here: http://www.portagefilelist.de/index.php/Special:PFLQuery2 This is not 100% reliable, as sometimes the files that get installed depend on USE flags and s

Re: [gentoo-user] When ls command fails but only on $HOME

2010-11-01 Thread Alex Schuster
Am 01.11.2010 11:28, schrieb Harry Putnam: > I can view the directory with emacs in dired mode but `ls' simply will > not complete... never shows anything and stays hung indefinitely. [...] > It only seem to happen on $HOME how very odd. > Anyone else seen that or have an idea what might be th

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install mplayer/vlc with win32codecs

2010-11-01 Thread alex
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 01.11.2010 15:10, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > Apparently, though unproven, at 15:58 on Monday 01 November 2010, alex did > opine thusly: > >>>> Run 32bit mplayer with win32codecs in a 32bit chroot >> >> Some other q

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install mplayer/vlc with win32codecs

2010-11-01 Thread alex
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> Run 32bit mplayer with win32codecs in a 32bit chroot Some other question to this, you mean doing a chroot32? Is there great different between chroot32 and a normal chroot doing it? Greetings from Germany Alex -BEGIN PGP SIG

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When ls command fails but only on $HOME

2010-11-01 Thread alex
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 01.11.2010 14:13, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > Apparently, though unproven, at 14:51 on Monday 01 November 2010, Harry > Putnam > did opine thusly: > >> Alan McKinnon writes: >> >> >> [...] >> > What shell are you using? > What is the output

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install mplayer/vlc with win32codecs

2010-11-01 Thread alex
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 01.11.2010 13:44, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > Apparently, though unproven, at 14:32 on Monday 01 November 2010, alex did > opine thusly: > >> Am 01.11.2010 13:09, schrieb Alan McKinnon: >>> Apparently, though unproven, at 14:

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install mplayer/vlc with win32codecs

2010-11-01 Thread alex
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 01.11.2010 13:09, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > Apparently, though unproven, at 14:00 on Monday 01 November 2010, alex did > opine thusly: > >> Hi, >> >> i need win32codes to play some Videos and i try it now for some day

[gentoo-user] Can't install mplayer/vlc with win32codecs

2010-11-01 Thread alex
/etc/portage/package.use, /etc/make.conf I've read about some issue with 64 bit System, so maybe someone has an idea? Greeting from Germany Alex -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.

Re: [gentoo-user] scrapping hal

2010-10-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale asks: > They are probably already moved away from hal. Everybody knows it is > going and that is a bleeding edge version of xorg too. I'm still on > 1.7.*. Me too. > Which brings me to my next question. How is xorg 1.9 working for ya? > Any gotchas? May try it here. X starts, but crash

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > So, same card as a year or so ago and same everything else but now I > get only about 1/10th the frame rate. What gives? Is this a driver > issue? Is OpenGL working at all? Does glxinfo produce lots of output, with 'direct rendering: Yes' near the top? If not, your're using soft

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc upgrade - rebuild everything?

2010-10-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: > I just upgraded from gcc-4.4.3-r2 to gcc-4.4.4-r2 and I'm wondering if > I really need to rebuild everything as it says in the guide: > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gcc-upgrading.xml The guide seems to be wrong here. Rebuilding does not harm, and it makes use of tall the cool

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Nikos Chantziaras writes: > On 10/14/2010 01:58 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > >[...] > > > > You seem to have a HD 5700 card, even newer than the HD4XXX which is > > not yet supported. So I'd turn this option off and try again. > > Btw, on Gentoo testing (~arc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Adam Carter writes: > I use an xorg.conf, and have the following; > > Section "Files" > ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules" > ModulePath "/usr/lib64/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/" > EndSection > > Your xorg cant find the dri and dri2 modules because its not looking in > the second

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-14 Thread Alex Schuster
Jeff Cranmer writes: > Regarding eselect, I used eselect opengl xorg-xll to select the open > source driver instead of ati. I think this is correct? Sounds right. > The kernel options are configured as follows > > Device Drivers -> > Generic Driver Options -> > <*> Userspace firmware loadi

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-13 Thread Alex Schuster
Jeff Cranmer writes: > I have a Sapphire Radeon HD5750 graphics card installed on my Gentoo > box, and I'm having some difficulty configuring it. > > When I run fglrxinfo, I get the OpenGL messages for a basic Mesa > driver. Same here, with OpenGL working fine: wo...@weird ~ $ fglrxinfo IRQ's

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE ridiculous memory usage

2010-09-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: > Apparently, though unproven, at 16:45 on Saturday 18 September 2010, > Florian Philipp did opine thusly: > > I have a bit of a problem. I'm on KDE-4.4.5 and it eats memory for > > breakfast. Directly after booting, everything is okay but the usage > > grows significantly.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE ridiculous memory usage

2010-09-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Florian Philipp writes: > I have a bit of a problem. I'm on KDE-4.4.5 and it eats memory for > breakfast. Directly after booting, everything is okay but the usage > grows significantly. I wonder whether this is expected behavior. I was just about to write something about this. I suffered from bad

Re: [gentoo-user] Internal error: Maps lock 14270464 < unlock 14274560

2010-09-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Valmor de Almeida writes: > Filesystem isclean > * Remounting root filesystem read/write ... > * Setting up the Logical Volume Manager ... > Internal error: Maps lock 14270464 < unlock 14274560 > Internal error: Maps lock 14274560 < unlock 14278656 > Internal error: Maps lock

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving / around...

2010-09-12 Thread Alex Schuster
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: > I also cannot evaluate the real impact the position of the /-partition > on the harddisk has on system performance. I read about it years ago > and since than I always put the partitions always in the sequence of > "boot","swap","root","home" onto the harddisks. May b

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving / around...

2010-09-11 Thread Alex Schuster
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: > I think there is some misunderstanding: > > Before migration to 64bit: > > /dev/sda3 is mounted on / and contains the 32bit Gentoo > > /dev/sda10 is mounted on /home/mcc/migration and will contain the > stuff of the 64bit Gentoo > > After migration I will *not* mo

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving / around...

2010-09-11 Thread Alex Schuster
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: > I plan to "convert" (==reinstall) my system to be 64bit. > Since I have an already working and configure 32bit Gentoo- > system I would like to do the migration as follows: > > Create another / partition somwhere on my harddisk > Install/Create a new 64bit Gentoo roo

Re: [gentoo-user] Overlays & package.mask

2010-09-10 Thread Alex Schuster
J. Roeleveld writes: > Strange, I don't have pykde4-4.5.1-r1 at all. I do. > What does "eix pykde4" say on your system? > On mine it says: > *** > $ eix pykde4 > [I] kde-base/pykde4 > Available versions: > (4.4) ~4.4.1[3] 4.4.5 **4.4.!m!t[1] **4.4.!m!t[2] > (4.5)

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 traffic analyzer

2010-09-08 Thread Alex Schuster
Adam Carter writes: > Wireshark has an X11 decoder. For tcpdump you could try -vv or -vvv but > i would just go straight to wireshark it will almost certainly be more > useful. Of course if its inside an ssh tunnel you will only see ssh > with a packet sniffer. If you're on the local box sniff lo0

[gentoo-user] X11 traffic analyzer

2010-09-08 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! Is there such a thing as a traffic/protocol analyzer for X11? I have a self-written application (using the old XView toolkit), and under certain circumstances some dialogs do not react. I had this 2 years ago under KDE 3.5, and some people now experience the same when SSH'ing from an

Re: [gentoo-user] 32to64 bit migration guide

2010-09-07 Thread Alex Schuster
SpaceCake writes: > Is there a user friendly guide or howto to help me to migrate my 32 bit > gentoo to 64 bit without loosing my settings? A similar question came up just yesterday, look for the 'Gentoo 32bit- >64bit: How?' thread. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] How to fix circular dependency?

2010-09-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Ajai Khattri writes: > OK, Ive managed to proceed a little further, but now Im encountering > this: > > # emerge -uDtpvk world > > These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > > !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slo

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant

2010-09-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Al writes: > being comparingly new to Gentoo I still wounder why the classical > heart of every open source community is missing, a public news server. > At least a news server is not offically announced on > http://www.gentoo.org/ like forums, IRC and mailinglists. (I can read > some, not all of

Re: [gentoo-user] How to fix circular dependency?

2010-09-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Ajai Khattri writes: > On Sun, 5 Sep 2010, Dale wrote: > > Try this: > > > > emerge -1av =*glibc*-2.10.1-r1 > > # emerge -1av =*glibc*-2.10.1-r1 > > * IMPORTANT: 1 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. > * Use eselect news to read news items. > > > These are the packages that w

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocks migrating from KDE 4.4.3 to 4.5.1

2010-09-06 Thread Alex Schuster
I wrote: > So far, I see no difference from 4.5.0. Nepomuk crashed two times while indexing stuff. I rebuilt it with debug flags, but could not reproduce the bug yet. But 4.5.1 just got masked, so better wait a while until trying to do the upgrade. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED: problem with PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI

2010-09-05 Thread Alex Schuster
David Relson writes: > Having my own domain, I run my own mailserver -- but it's not on my > gentoo development machine. I read the emerge python code, > specifically mail.py, to find how PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI is handled. > Reading the code lead me to (finally) realize that I need to have a > PORT

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocks migrating from KDE 4.4.3 to 4.5.1

2010-09-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > Looking forward to seeing how your upgrade works out. Everything compiled without a problem, and so far things seem to work fine. Well, as fine as before. Konqueror still cannot open the correct URL when clicking a link in kmail or kopete. Kontact is still at version 4.4.5, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocks migrating from KDE 4.4.3 to 4.5.1

2010-09-03 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > I do only have KDE on here. The bad thing is, I use kdm for my login > manager. Even that was broken. I had no GUI and no way to login to > KDE or anything else. Log into a text console, and start KDE with 'XSESSION=KDE-4 startx'. Replace KDE-4 with anything from /etc/X11/Sessi

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocks migrating from KDE 4.4.3 to 4.5.1

2010-09-03 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > Robin Atwood wrote: > > I am sure I saw some posts here where people claimed to have > > installed 4.5.0 from the overlay. Maybe they have some input? > > Otherwise I will go with choice 2! I am running 4.5.0 for a while now, and for me it is the best KDE4 ever. Which does not mea

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

2010-09-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > I was hoping for something like a man page or something tho. I would > like to read up on this a little before jumping in head first. Does it > have a little info on screen on what does what at least? I think the > edit screen does but not sure about this part. Grub comes with

Re: [gentoo-user] Proper way of updating mysql from 5.0.90-r2 to 5.1.50?

2010-09-01 Thread Alex Schuster
Tanstaafl writes: > On 2010-09-01 5:18 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > > I think it's not an urgent problem when this happens. With portage > > 2.2 and the preserve-libs FEATURE, > > You are assuming everyone runs unstable portage?? No, but I replied to Dale, and he apparently does. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Proper way of updating mysql from 5.0.90-r2 to 5.1.50?

2010-09-01 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > I'm no expert on this package so take this with a grain of salt. Mine > just updated and portage said to run "emerge @preserved-rebuild" which > I did. Thing is, one of the packages failed to emerge so here I sit. > The error says something is missing which is the same reason the

Re: [gentoo-user] problems adding local overlay and ebuild

2010-09-01 Thread Alex Schuster
Arnau Bria writes: > I'd like to install mcollective and developer provides its ebuild. > so I've followed http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Overlay for adding a > local overlay. > > *I had a problem when adding > "source /usr/local/portage/layman/make.conf" to my make.conf. That file > does not exi

Re: [gentoo-user] help with Persistent hard disk device names with udev

2010-08-31 Thread Alex Schuster
Pau Peris writes: > Hi, after following your tips the code gets like the following one: > > SUBSYSTEM=="block", ATTR{serial}=="VNVB05G2RKTRZH", NAME="hda" > SUBSYSTEM=="block", ATTR{serial}=="9QK0T4WM", NAME="sda" > SUBSYSTEM=="block", ATTR{serial}=="3QD0X58D", NAME="sdb" > SUBSYSTEM=="block", AT

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > It would be nice if something like *fdisk could edit the labels tho. > It would be so much easier. I didn't see anything in the man pages > tho. I'd like this, too. cfdisk displays them, but is not abel to edit. > I looked into LVM a good while ago. It's just to much for me to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > P. S. Any way to label swap? It's not reiserfs or ext*. mkswap hast the option -L for this. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing repeated checkings

2010-08-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Al writes: > 2010/8/23 Paul Hartman : > > confcache > > configure knows the option `--cache-file=file': > http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/autobook/autobook_14.html#SEC14 > > Does emerge make use of it? Is there a way to tell emerge to use it, > without writing an overlay to each package? Em

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-27 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > Hmmm, I use resierfs for my file systems, most of them anyway. I still > use e2fsprogs to change those? No, but you can use reiserfstune -l. > Is there a way to boot a Gentoo/Knoppix CD and make it use the PATA > drivers? That way I can boot it and see exactly how it will name t

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware Support for Netbook

2010-08-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Aaron Bauman writes: >I bought a new Toshiba T215D-S1150 with a AMD Athlon II Neo > Processor. I am currently having issues with the livecd not booting. > Everything seems to get stuck on an NeT RPC error while the kernel is > booting. I was able to successfully install Ubuntu (Netbook Remi

Re: [gentoo-user] Feckless xdm not much of a manager

2010-08-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Kevin O'Gorman writes: > This problem is repeatable on my system, so I probably borked it > somehow. I know this effect, this happens from time to time. At the moment it is working fine, but I got used to killall kdm when the init script did not work. It did not bother me too much, so I did not

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE and hdparm

2010-08-25 Thread Alex Schuster
I wrote: > Mick writes: > > From KDE-4.4.4 the start up interferes with the hard drives: > > > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/232044 > > > > I don't why but it does, messes up any settings that hdparm may have > > set up and p*sses me off. o_O > > > > As soon as KDE starts

Re: [gentoo-user] failed reiserfs partition - help!

2010-08-24 Thread Alex Schuster
James writes: > My friend threw a theory out there -- maybe the beginning of the > partition is incorrect on the drive? The drive originally had an NTFS > partition. By blowing away the beginning of the drive and then > rewriting the partition table, maybe the kernel was using the original > "begi

KDE and hdparm (was: Re: [gentoo-user] Disable fcron logging)

2010-08-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: > On Sunday 22 August 2010 22:39:47 Alex Schuster wrote: > > BTW, my two additional drives spin up when I log into KDE. Weird, > > they are not even mounted. > > From KDE-4.4.4 the start up interferes with the hard drives: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gma

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable fcron logging

2010-08-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: > Apparently, though unproven, at 15:25 on Saturday 21 August 2010, Alex > Schuster did opine thusly: > > There is a nolog option for fcrontab, but I still get this output > > every minute: > That will tell fcron not to log stuff. > It will not tell

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable fcron logging

2010-08-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Stroller writes: > On 22 Aug 2010, at 22:39, Alex Schuster wrote: >> Stroller writes: >> >>> The script with which you reply is missing the sleep 60 loop. >> >> No, it's only the script that outputs the drive's state. It's called >> by

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable fcron logging

2010-08-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Stroller writes: > The script with which you reply is missing the sleep 60 loop. No, it's only the script that outputs the drive's state. It's called by ~/.kde4/Autostart/hdstate: #!/bin/bash while : do /usr/local/sbin/hdstate >> ~/log/hdstate.log sleep 10 done > Running a scr

Re: [gentoo-user] open-iscsi-2.0.871.3 compile fail on 2.6.32-openvz-budarin.1 kernel

2010-08-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Xi Shen writes: > i got this error while trying to emerge the open-iscis-2.0.871.3: > > be2iscsi.o transport.o iscsid.o > iscsi_sysfs.o: In function `iscsi_sysfs_get_blockdev_from_lun': > iscsi_sysfs.c:(.text+0xe71): undefined reference to `S_ISLNK' > iscsi_sysfs.c:(.text+0xed3): undefined refere

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc 2.12.1-r1 seems to not be working correctly

2010-08-22 Thread Alex Schuster
cov...@ccs.covici.com writes: > Hi. I am running the unstable gentoo 32-bit and today I emerged -- > amoung other packages in a system update -- glibc-2.12.1-r1, however > after doing this at least one package had an undefined reference to > S_ISCHR. I tried to downgrade glibc, but apparently t

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable fcron logging

2010-08-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Stroller writes: > On 21 Aug 2010, at 14:25, Alex Schuster wrote: > > ... > > I want to monitor the power status of my hard drives, so I wrote a > > little > > script that gives me this output: > > > > sda: standby > > sdb: standby > &

Re: [gentoo-user] chrony logrotate script EOF error

2010-08-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: > The chrony installed logrotate script keeps erroring out: > > logrotate_script: line 5: warning: here-document at line 2 delimited by > end- of-file (wanted `EOF') > Unrecognized command > =

Re: [gentoo-user] creating ssh account without directory browsing

2010-08-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Tamer Higazi writes: > For a project I need to create ssh accounts (based on shared keys) who > would be loged in a specific directory. They should only be able to > login in the desired directory, but not be able for outside browsing. If you need this only for things like scp, net-misc/scponly m

[gentoo-user] Disable fcron logging

2010-08-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I want to monitor the power status of my hard drives, so I wrote a little script that gives me this output: sda: standby sdb: standby sdc: active/idle 32°C sdd: active/idle 37°C This script is called every minute via an fcron entry, output goes into a log file, and I use the file mon

Re: [gentoo-user] --buildpkg and doing a dry run on a upgrade

2010-08-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > I'm wanting to install the latest KDE 4.5 which is in the kde overlay. > I got everything unmasked, keyworded and ready to go. Since this is a > large upgrade and will take some time to compile, I would like to just > build the binaries then come back and install them when the comp

[gentoo-user] Re: [WAY OT] Parenthese

2010-08-20 Thread Alex Schuster
Wow, what's going on here? Alan McKinnon writes: > Like Eskimo's with 20+ words for different kinds of snow. > Say "snow" to any Eskimo, see what happens :-) Actually, they have only two words for snow: qanik for falling snow and aput for lying snow. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] why emerge --config don't work

2010-08-20 Thread Alex Schuster
Zhu Sha Zang writes: > Hi there, why this command don't work in zsh: [...] > [r...@sakurazukamori /usr/src/linux]$ emerge --config > =sys-apps/tomoyo-tools-2.2.0_p20090727 > 9:44 > zsh: sys-apps/tomoyo-tools-2.2.0_p20090727 not found Interesting. Looks like zsh treats a '=' character specially.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to build a time machine on Gentoo

2010-08-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Maximilian Bräutigam writes: > You should backup all in / except > /tmp/* > /sys/* > /proc/* > /lost+found/* > /dev/* Attention here, you need at least the null and console entries in /dev, or the system will not come up. I also have tty and tty1 in there, I think those were neede for tuxonice.

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages is huge

2010-08-17 Thread Alex Schuster
dhk writes: > I don't understand why it just started to be a problem. I've had this > kernel for almost four months. Shouldn't the log's be rotated and > purged? Depends on your system logger. Metalog does this automatically, but for others you probably have to install logrotate. Wonk

Re: [gentoo-user] Build PowerPC binary packages on AMD64?

2010-08-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: >Here's the setup: My desktop machine is a new, fast Core i7 980x > processor. It is capable of doing emerge -e @world (including XFCE4, > Gnome and KDE) in around 4 hours. On the other hand my MythTV backend Oh my, this is fast. > server is an old PowerPC which takes lit

Re: [gentoo-user] How to build a time machine on Gentoo

2010-08-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Nganon writes: > Hello all, > > My first post on the list. I thought I would start with something > that I started > to think of as 'essential' after losing 90GB of data. Now I have two > main questions in mind: what to and how to back up on gentoo most > efficiently. > > 1. Apart from users' h

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with revdep-rebuild

2010-08-13 Thread Alex Schuster
Massimiliano Ziccardi writes: > I'm trying to update my gentoo after a long time. That tends to be more problematic than regular updates. > I tried the update (emerge -uD world) but I got some problem about > conflicting and missing libraries, so I've uninstalled some software. portage 2.2 may

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: root in LVM with ext4 as mount ext2

2010-08-12 Thread Alex Schuster
sam new writes: > any one help? Yes, google. With 'rootfstype=ext4 initrd genkernel' the first hit shows bug #221245 (rootfs is incorrectly mounted as ext2). I assume you have ext4 compiled as module? Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Icons at startup of a KDE session

2010-08-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Petric Frank writes: > All hints are welcome. I had weird effects when I had forgotten to set the sticky bit on /tmp. ls wo...@weird ~ $ ls -ld /tmp drwxrwxrwt 16 root root 4096 11. Aug 10:48 /tmp If this ^ t is missing, do a chmod +t /tmp, and try again. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge source code but don't build?

2010-08-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: >Is there an option in emerge to download and create the source code > tree for an application, but then stop at that point, don't build the > app and leave the source code tree in place so that I can look at it? Probably not. But you can use the ebuild command: ebuild /p

Re: [gentoo-user] finding out current softlevel

2010-08-10 Thread Alex Schuster
li...@gabriel-striewe.de writes: > I was wondering whether there is some way to find out the current > running softlevel (which I gave to the kernel line in grub's > menu.lst), for example to start another window manager depending on > the softlevel or whatever other possible solutions? Maybe in a

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM on LUKS

2010-08-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Florian Philipp writes: > I'm building a new Gentoo system (notebook) and want to rearrange a few > things. I thought it would be good to have the following layout: > > - boot on a normal partition > - root on a normal partition > - one big encrypted partition (dmcrypt / LUKS) > - on that par

Re: [gentoo-user] bashcomp cannot work well with rsync

2010-08-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Xi Shen writes: > after i enabled bash completion for rsync, i got this error when type > TAB to auto complete the file name > > bash: _known_hosts_real: command not found > > > it used to work very well. do i missed something? Maybe googling :) Does this help? http://bugs.gentoo.org/301632

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: baselayout upgrade

2010-08-01 Thread Alex Schuster
Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > I went down the bl2/openrc path a long time ago and there were some > unpleasant moments. But overall it was ok. I had no trouble at all, but I may just have been lucky. > At the moment 'devfs' needs almost a freaking minute to start and I > have no clue why. Stra

Re: [gentoo-user] courier imap over nfs

2010-08-01 Thread Alex Schuster
Matt Harrison writes: > Just wondering if anyone has any experience with courier-imap serving > mailboxes over NFS. From googling around it seems courier should > support remote homedirs but I can't get it working. > > My user authenticates according to the logs, but the client reports > invalid

Re: [gentoo-user] pecl-cairo ~x86 overlay?

2010-08-01 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael M writes: > Hello list, I need to install Cairo bindings for dev-lang/php-5*. Is > there a pecl-cairo overlay for ~x86? I've tried unmasking this > package and adding the keyword ~amd64 and it seems to want to install > with emerge but my system is ~x86. > > According to this site it is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dir is rwx but can't create file

2010-07-29 Thread Alex Schuster
walt writes: > On 07/28/2010 01:20 PM, Andrey Vul wrote: > > Creating files in /tmp, /etc, /lib32, and /var return ENOENT (touch > > /tmp/foo => strerror(ENOENT)). > > However, this is done as root and the dirs are marked 755 root:root. Are all these directories located on the root file system?

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Peter Humphrey writes: > On Monday 26 July 2010 16:13:19 Mick wrote: > > On 26 July 2010 15:11, Peter Humphrey > > wrote: > > > So udev is wrong in saying CONFIG_IDE should not be set - on that > > > old P4 box it has to be to get ICH4 drivers. > > > > Hmm, did you try ATA_PIIX, or PATA_MPIIX, o

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: Update of mozilla products (firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey) gone "bad"...

2010-07-26 Thread Alex Schuster
pk writes: > Ok, thanks for the feedback. I've been waiting for the open source > drivers to mature so that I can rely on them for my needs (incl. > gaming). Perhaps it's time to check them out... But, again, since I've > been running the ati-drivers-10.6 for a couple of weeks without > problems (

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE control center missing?

2010-07-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: > On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 01:46:23 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > Or just right click on the "K" thingy and select "menu editor". > > > > Yeah, it's right there in K -> Programs -> Settings, but only because > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE control center missing?

2010-07-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > Alex Schuster wrote: > > Kevin O'Gorman writes: > >> I'm using KDE 4 on Gentoo, and I want to add a few items to the "K" > >> (application launcher) menu. > >> I thought the control center was the thing to use, and the onli

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE control center missing?

2010-07-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Kevin O'Gorman writes: > I'm using KDE 4 on Gentoo, and I want to add a few items to the "K" > (application launcher) menu. > I thought the control center was the thing to use, and the online help > manual says it should exist on the "K" menu, or as the program > "kcontrol". That's how it was cal

Re: [gentoo-user] Pair Programming & Non-Routable IP Address

2010-07-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Hilco Wijbenga writes: > On 22 July 2010 16:08, Alex Schuster wrote: > > I prefer NX over VNC because of its efficiency, and because it is > > more intelligent, but I think it has no mode to let two people > > access the same session at once. So I (being remote) tried s

Re: [gentoo-user] Pair Programming & Non-Routable IP Address

2010-07-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Hilco Wijbenga writes: > I would like to do remote pair programming with somebody on a > non-Linux box. It seems that NoMachine NX or TightVNC would allow me > to do so. Great. I prefer NX over VNC because of its efficiency, and because it is more intelligent, but I think it has no mode to let tw

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Impossible question... Swithcing from "no multilib" to "multilib"

2010-07-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Nikos Chantziaras writes: > On 07/22/2010 12:56 PM, Andrea Momesso wrote: > > That's impossible, isn't it? I think so. > > Swithcing profile and reemerging everithing isn't gonna work? Even > > from a chroot? > > > > Should I reinstall a new stage from scratch? Adobe stopped providing > > flash

Re: [gentoo-user] Hello All

2010-07-20 Thread alex
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 19.07.2010 16:38, schrieb Neal Hogan: > On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 2:19 AM, alex wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Am 16.07.2010 20:18, schrieb Neal Hogan: >>> I'd start a new t

Re: [gentoo-user] unmounting /usr in single user mode

2010-07-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Allan Gottlieb writes: > I am unable to umount /usr in single user mode on an old system. > I believe the system is baselayout-1 and is amd64. > The trouble is open files, at least some of which appear to be related > to bash and locale (see the files below). > > I use grub. On the kernel line c

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