Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage size

2006-06-17 Thread Daniel Iliev
It's my quick dirty way for cleaning portage tree. Use at your own risk: #rm -rf /usr/portage emerge --sync -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] supported mp3 players (hardware)

2006-06-17 Thread Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila
On 16:38 Fri 16 Jun , Alan wrote: On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 01:04:37AM +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote: Both banshee and rhythmbox support mostly or will soon support fully the ipod :) Apple hard and software players don't support ogg vorbis, and that's why Apple simply sucks.

Re: [gentoo-user] xine compile failed

2006-06-17 Thread Trenton Adams
The suggestion was to upgrade to gcc 3.4. That's what the bug report says. On 6/16/06, Richard Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi ... I've got exactly the same problem with after syncing. I've tried resyncing a few times. Any help would be great. Thanks, Richard. My output is: ===

Re: [gentoo-user] supported mp3 players (hardware)

2006-06-17 Thread Calvin Walton
On 6/16/06, Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What players would you recommend. My needs are modest, a few hours of MP3s would be enough. My primary goal is to listen to the teaching company lectures. What I would recommend is any of iRiver's current flash based models. Almost all of

Re: [gentoo-user] remove xorg-server to emerge nvidia-glx =Normal?

2006-06-17 Thread Calvin Walton
On 6/16/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.99 (is blocking media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.8762) [ebuild N] media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.8762 USE=-dlloader 0 kB Is this normal... is nvidia-glx a replacement to xorg-server? Actually,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slow redraw of windows following -uD --world

2006-06-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:29:40 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Calculating dependencies... done! [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.99 (is blocking media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.8762) [ebuild N] media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.8762 USE=-dlloader 0 kB So nvidia-glx

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slow redraw of windows following -uD --world

2006-06-17 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 17 June 2006 02:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: emergen nvidia-glx OOPS: emerge -vp nvidia-glx Calculating dependencies... done! [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.99 (is blocking media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.8762)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slow redraw of windows following -uD --world

2006-06-17 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 17 June 2006 02:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No, nvidia-glx is NOT the kernel module. That is nvidia-kernel! You don't have the latest nvidia drivers installed? That might be the culprit! emerge nvidia-kernel emergen

Re: [gentoo-user] Using --deep [Was: Slow redraw of windows following -uD --world]

2006-06-17 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 16 June 2006 23:36, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 15:01 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: --deep is almost never needed. Some people love it and tell everybody to use it. Usually people who are version number freaks. But in 90% it is useless to harmfull.

Re: [gentoo-user] remove xorg-server to emerge nvidia-glx =Normal?

2006-06-17 Thread Pavel Kouřil
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry to break out of the thread where this is being discussed but I got part way thru some instructions about getting nvidia-glx setup and saw something that looks like it might throw a monkey wrench into things. I've emerged nvidia-kernel without problems. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slow redraw of windows following -uD --world

2006-06-17 Thread Pavel Kouřil
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Saturday 17 June 2006 02:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: emergen nvidia-glx OOPS: emerge -vp nvidia-glx Calculating dependencies... done! [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.99 (is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Using --deep

2006-06-17 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 22:08 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Being the thread owner so to speak, I'd like to ask something of you here. The converse of your question. How is it good. --deep catches dependencies of dependencies. Can't speak for Hermman of course but I think he was

[gentoo-user] Short question on eix-sync; emerge -up world

2006-06-17 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
Hi, I do a eix-sync; emerge -up world on a regular basis. Since some time there are many KDE-related items in the output of the above command, that are marked with NS. From the manpage of emerge I saw, that there are new and sloted versions. Sloted means something like side by side

Re: [gentoo-user] Short question on eix-sync; emerge -up world

2006-06-17 Thread Mick
On 17/06/06, Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But: For me as user/sysadminwhat advantage I would have to install two versions of KDE-pakets ? I haven't found a use for keeping the old KDE next to a new slotted version, so I unmerge the old one after the new installation

Re: [gentoo-user] linux make modules solved

2006-06-17 Thread Mick
On 16/06/06, Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Justin R Findlay wrote: I finally figured out why linux wouldn't build its modules. Although I learned a lot about make it was because I had set GREP_OPTIONS=--color=always Using --color=auto would have circumvented this problem and still

Re: [gentoo-user] -fvisibility=hidden

2006-06-17 Thread David Corbin
On Friday 16 June 2006 11:08 pm, Jeremy Olexa wrote: David Corbin wrote: while attempt to upgrade my system, I'm getting this failure. i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../.. -I../../include -I../../include -I../../src -I../../src/xine-engine

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with dhcpcd after update

2006-06-17 Thread Mick
On 16/06/06, Jean Magnan de Bornier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a dhcpc directory in /etc and it is empty... In my up-to-date system there is no /etc/dhcp* file or directory. Check that hostname, domainname are correct in /etc/conf.d/ and that /etc/hosts has the right entries for your

Re: [gentoo-user] Short question on eix-sync; emerge -up world

2006-06-17 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 17 June 2006 11:23, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: But: For me as user/sysadminwhat advantage I would have to install two versions of KDE-pakets ? The advantage is that you can test one before you remove the other. Or let it be up to the individual user which version (s)he

Re: [gentoo-user] Module philosophy: Compile-in or Load

2006-06-17 Thread Mick
On 13/06/06, Ryan Tandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anthony E. Caudel wrote: How? make modules_install or the whole thing: make make modules_install then just modprobe the new module? # make modules modules_install # modprobe module Do you also need to run make install or is it not

Re: [gentoo-user] linux make modules solved

2006-06-17 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Saturday 17 June 2006 12:15, Mick wrote: I am getting confused here: why is module building related to setting grep's colour option? There is probably some script that parses the output of grep, and, with --color=always, this includes terminal control characters and escape sequences

Re: [gentoo-user] linux make modules solved

2006-06-17 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 17 June 2006 13:48, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: Using --color=auto, on the other hand, is the correct way to do the right thing, ie grep itself knows whether it should emit escape sequences to colorize the output (if it's really outputting to terminal) or not (if, for example, it's

Re: [gentoo-user] linux make modules solved

2006-06-17 Thread Mick
On 17/06/06, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 17 June 2006 12:15, Mick wrote: I am getting confused here: why is module building related to setting grep's colour option? There is probably some script that parses the output of grep, and, with --color=always, this includes

[gentoo-user] Re: remove xorg-server to emerge nvidia-glx =Normal?

2006-06-17 Thread reader
Pavel Kouřil [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.99 (is blocking media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.8762) [ebuild N] media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.8762 USE=-dlloader

[gentoo-user] Re: remove xorg-server to emerge nvidia-glx =Normal?

2006-06-17 Thread reader
Calvin Walton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Unfortunately, if you've already installed xorg 7.1, it's really hard to downgrade. Perhaps you can find some help from someone else on doing that, I've make a local overlay ebuild without the block because it was working for me. Pavel appears to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Using --deep [Was: Slow redraw of windows following -uD --world]

2006-06-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 10:53:17 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: Could you be more specific, please? How is it harmful? What happens to your system when you use --deep? because sometimes a lib/dependency may be upgraded to an incompatible version, resulting in open and hidden breakage.

Re: [gentoo-user] Short question on eix-sync; emerge -up world

2006-06-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 11:23:43 +0200 (CEST), Meino Christian Cramer wrote: Sloted means something like side by side with the old version. But: For me as user/sysadminwhat advantage I would have to install two versions of KDE-pakets ? It means you can choose between the two versions,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: remove xorg-server to emerge nvidia-glx =Normal?

2006-06-17 Thread Pavel Kouřil
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pavel Kouřil [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.99 (is blocking media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.8762) [ebuild N]

Re: [gentoo-user] Short question on eix-sync; emerge -up world

2006-06-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 09:52:51 +, Mick wrote: I haven't found a use for keeping the old KDE next to a new slotted version, so I unmerge the old one after the new installation is successfully completed. You have just given a use for having the two side by side. Without slotting, you'd have

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: remove xorg-server to emerge nvidia-glx =Normal?

2006-06-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 06:43:11 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pavel appears to be suggesting that I un-emerge the current xorg-server. Then install the nvidia stuff and then using his package.mask, reinstall xorg-server. All you need to do is add the relevant lines to package.mask and do

[gentoo-user] gpg-agent - connection to .gnupg/log-socket refused

2006-06-17 Thread Mick
This is what I get when I try to launch the gpg-agent from a terminal: == $ eval $(gpg-agent --daemon) can't connect to `/home/michael/.gnupg/log-socket': Connection refused == No idea why. Can I fix it? This is

Re: [gentoo-user] Calculating world dependencies taking forever first time

2006-06-17 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 01:24:58PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote Walter Dnes wrote: I did an emerge --sync on my main machine, followed by emerge --ask --deep --update --world --fetchonly. It spent several minutes at Calculating world dependencies, with the spinner very slowly moving.

Re: [gentoo-user] Calculating world dependencies taking forever first time

2006-06-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 09:10:08 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: You upgraded portage. The einfos said to run 'emerge --metadata' first thing. Thanks, I'll try to remeber that next time I emerge portage. Could it be made part of the portage ebuild? No, because it is not necessary every time.

Re: [gentoo-user] Module philosophy: Compile-in or Load

2006-06-17 Thread Michael Weyershäuser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mick wrote: Do you also need to run make install or is it not necessary to copy anything to /boot? No need for that if you have only added modules. make modules only builds the modules, not the kernel itself, so copying the kernel to /boot

Re: [gentoo-user] Module philosophy: Compile-in or Load

2006-06-17 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Mick wrote: On 13/06/06, Ryan Tandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anthony E. Caudel wrote: How? make modules_install or the whole thing: make make modules_install then just modprobe the new module? # make modules modules_install # modprobe module Do you also need to run make install or

Re: [gentoo-user] Using --deep [Was: Slow redraw of windows following -uD --world]

2006-06-17 Thread Michael Weyershäuser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: IT IS NOT RECOMMENDED! Read again! http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2chap=1 says: Since security updates also happen in packages you have not explicitly installed on your system (but

Re: [gentoo-user] Which TV card to take?

2006-06-17 Thread Michael Weyershäuser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nico Schümann wrote: Hi folks, I don't know which (DVB-S) TV card to take. It shouldn't be too expensive and should work correctly with the 2.6 kernel (without patching, if possible). I just want to watch TV with TV time. I've heard good

Re: [gentoo-user] Using --deep [Was: Slow redraw of windows following -uD --world]

2006-06-17 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 17 June 2006 16:01, Michael Weyershäuser wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: IT IS NOT RECOMMENDED! Read again! http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2chap=1 says: Since security updates also happen in packages you have not explicitly installed on your

[gentoo-user] libjs for gentoo?

2006-06-17 Thread W.Kenworthy
What package provides libjs for gentoo? ubuntu has libjavascript-perl and FC has libjs and libjs-devel None of which shows up in gentoo BillK -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] supported mp3 players (hardware)

2006-06-17 Thread Bob Sanders
On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:48:37 -0400 Samuel Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know if iRiver's support ogg? I use that exclusively and transcoding everything to mp3 would not be pleasant. My iFP-999 supports ogg. I use it on Linux - Gentoo with ifp-manager (which is not in Portage) and

[gentoo-user] Licq Fonts

2006-06-17 Thread Daniel Iliev
Hi, everyone! I would like to ask if anyone could help me to change the fonts in LICQ. I use XFCE. Changing fonts in it has no effect on LICQ. Thanks in advance! -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] NFS + user id mapping

2006-06-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, I've got several boxes (non-gentoo) mounting each filesystems of each other via NFS, and I've added a new gentoo box (as server). It seems to work quite well, but the UID mapping doesn't work. How can I set it up ? thx --

[gentoo-user] NFS - specifying export names

2006-06-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, is there any way for exporting filesystems under another name (- the export name visible to the client) than the export path ? thx -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service phone: +49 36207 519931

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS + user id mapping

2006-06-17 Thread Michael Weyershäuser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, I've got several boxes (non-gentoo) mounting each filesystems of each other via NFS, and I've added a new gentoo box (as server). It seems to work quite well, but the UID mapping doesn't work. How can I set

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS - specifying export names

2006-06-17 Thread Michael Weyershäuser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, is there any way for exporting filesystems under another name (- the export name visible to the client) than the export path ? thx No. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux)

[gentoo-user] Upgrading slotted KDE

2006-06-17 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
Hi, short question: Am I allowed to run a KDE-session while upgrading to a slotted version of KDE ? Thanks a lot in advance for any help ! :) keep hacking! mcc -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS - specifying export names

2006-06-17 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Sunday, 18 June 2006 1:08, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, is there any way for exporting filesystems under another name (- the export name visible to the client) than the export path ? thx You could try using a symlink. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading slotted KDE

2006-06-17 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 17 June 2006 18:01, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: short question: Am I allowed to run a KDE-session while upgrading to a slotted version of KDE ? Sure. This isn't Windows. :) If the upgrade installs KDE in a new slot it does not affect the old slot in any way. You can even delete

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading slotted KDE

2006-06-17 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading slotted KDE Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 18:14:48 +0200 On Saturday 17 June 2006 18:01, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: short question: Am I allowed to run a KDE-session while upgrading to a slotted version of KDE ?

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with dhcpcd after update

2006-06-17 Thread Mick
On 17/06/06, Jean Magnan de Bornier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Mick; all the config files are as they should be (I deleted /etc/hostname and checked /etc/hosts), however the problem is still there! I am not sure, but it seems that your dhcpcd is finding a number of servers on your

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading slotted KDE

2006-06-17 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 17 June 2006 18:47, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: in this (lucky) case I would have another question: Can I switch between both slots, or how is this handled ? Please keep your replies on list only, i.e. don't include me in the To field. When you install two versions into

Re: [gentoo-user] Module philosophy: Compile-in or Load

2006-06-17 Thread Mick
On 17/06/06, Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mick wrote: On 13/06/06, Ryan Tandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anthony E. Caudel wrote: How? make modules_install or the whole thing: make make modules_install then just modprobe the new module? # make modules modules_install #

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading slotted KDE

2006-06-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 18:47:56 +0200 (CEST), Meino Christian Cramer wrote: short question: Am I allowed to run a KDE-session while upgrading to a slotted version of KDE ? Of course it's onme of the benefits of slotting it. in this (lucky) case I would have another question: Can I

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading slotted KDE

2006-06-17 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading slotted KDE Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 19:06:46 +0200 On Saturday 17 June 2006 18:47, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: in this (lucky) case I would have another question: Can I switch between both slots, or how is

Re: [gentoo-user] Module philosophy: Compile-in or Load

2006-06-17 Thread Erik Westenbroek
I like compile-in, generally less work must be done (just a hair, but it is less) On 6/17/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 17/06/06, Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mick wrote: On 13/06/06, Ryan Tandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anthony E. Caudel wrote: How? make

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading slotted KDE

2006-06-17 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading slotted KDE Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 18:19:11 +0100 On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 18:47:56 +0200 (CEST), Meino Christian Cramer wrote: short question: Am I allowed to run a KDE-session while upgrading to a slotted version

[gentoo-user] Accessing mailserver with ssh

2006-06-17 Thread Mick
I do not have telnet installed on my PC, so in troubleshooting a connection to a mailserver I thought of using ssh. However, I do not seem to be able to get a response from the server regarding user login and password: == $ ssh -vv pop.virgin.net

[gentoo-user] Package flag description

2006-06-17 Thread Leandro Melo de Sales
Hi, is there a place (URL) where can I find a description of a particular package flag? For example, when I type: # emerge -pv openldap ... Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] net-nds/openldap-2.3.24-r1 +berkdb +crypt -debug +gdbm -ipv6 -kerberos -minimal -odbc -overlays +perl

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with dhcpcd after update

2006-06-17 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 17 juin à 19:04:30 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrit notamment: | On 17/06/06, Jean Magnan de Bornier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Thanks Mick; all the config files are as they should be (I deleted | /etc/hostname and checked /etc/hosts), however the problem is still there! | I am not sure, but

[gentoo-user] Re: Missing back_ldbm.la file

2006-06-17 Thread Leandro Melo de Sales
My ./configure: ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --enable-static --enable-shared --libexecdir=/usr/lib64/openldap --enable-slapd --enable-slurpd --enable-ldbm

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing mailserver with ssh

2006-06-17 Thread Alexander Skwar
Mick wrote: Am I doing this right, or is No, because: it that an ssh client cannot be used instead of telnet to connect to a mailserver? Exactly. I'd suggest to install telnet or nc/netcat. Alexander Skwar -- It was pity stayed his hand. Pity I don't have any more bullets, thought Frito.

[gentoo-user] Re: Package flag description

2006-06-17 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 17 June 2006 19:48, Leandro Melo de Sales wrote: Hi, is there a place (URL) where can I find a description of a particular package flag? For example, when I type: # emerge -pv openldap ... Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] net-nds/openldap-2.3.24-r1 +berkdb

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing mailserver with ssh

2006-06-17 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Sunday, 18 June 2006 3:11, Mick wrote: I do not have telnet installed on my PC, so in troubleshooting a connection to a mailserver I thought of using ssh. However, I do not seem to be able to get a response from the server regarding user login and password:

[gentoo-user] Re: Spontaneous access to the CDROM on two computers simultaneously

2006-06-17 Thread Maurice Volaski
It happened again, but this time on just one of the two computers: [20770.844282] hda: tray open [20770.844288] end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 0 [20770.844292] Buffer I/O error on device hda, logical block 0 Since you think LVM may be misbehaving, I changed the filter on the affected

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Package flag description

2006-06-17 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Sat, Юни 17, 2006 9:08 pm, Francesco Talamona wrote: On Saturday 17 June 2006 19:48, Leandro Melo de Sales wrote: Hi, is there a place (URL) where can I find a description of a particular package flag? For example, when I type: # emerge -pv openldap ... Calculating dependencies

[gentoo-user] Reading ~/.xsession file

2006-06-17 Thread Brad Camroux
Greetings all, I'm having trouble getting my ~/.xsession file to read when I login. I am using XDM/KDM combination for a login manager, and I've noticed after googling that there have been problems with KDM and .xsession files in the past, but these articles date back to 2003. I use fluxbox

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: supported mp3 players (hardware)

2006-06-17 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Thomas Kirchner: * On Jun 16 16:07, Allan Gottlieb (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: What players would you recommend. My needs are modest, a few hours of MP3s would be enough. I would personally recommend any of the players from Cowon (cowonamerica.com). They all support

Re: [gentoo-user] Package flag description

2006-06-17 Thread Brad Camroux
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 02:48:59PM -0300, Leandro Melo de Sales wrote: Hi, is there a place (URL) where can I find a description of a particular package flag? For example, when I type: # emerge -pv openldap ... Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Reading ~/.xsession file

2006-06-17 Thread Mick
On 17/06/06, Brad Camroux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings all, I'm having trouble getting my ~/.xsession file to read when I login. I am using XDM/KDM combination for a login manager, and I've noticed after googling that there have been problems with KDM and .xsession files in the past,

Re: [gentoo-user] Video conversion

2006-06-17 Thread Ow Mun Heng
n Sat, 2006-06-17 at 11:24 +0800, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 15:22 -0700, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Try these. Should be a simple --target DVD * media-video/tovid [ Masked ] It seems to be removed... or did you use an overlay? Yeah.. Sorry, its an overlay (though i

Re: [gentoo-user] Reading ~/.xsession file

2006-06-17 Thread Brad Camroux
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 07:47:18PM +, Mick wrote: I also use fluxbox (with xdm) and have also found that ~/.xsession is ignored. To start apps along with fluxbox I made entries in /etc/X11/Sessions/fluxbox. Would I have to do that if I want to use fluxbox most of the time, but sometimes

Re: [gentoo-user] Reading ~/.xsession file

2006-06-17 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 01:58:38PM -0600, Brad Camroux wrote: On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 07:47:18PM +, Mick wrote: I also use fluxbox (with xdm) and have also found that ~/.xsession is ignored. To start apps along with fluxbox I made entries in /etc/X11/Sessions/fluxbox. Would I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing mailserver with ssh

2006-06-17 Thread Mick
On 17/06/06, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You cannot use an ssh client in this manner. If you want a telnet client, emerge either netkit-telnetd or telnet-bsd. Thanks for all the replies. I had not emerged telnet so far because of potential security reasons. Is netcat

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Looking for a tool to produce 'reverse' SQL

2006-06-17 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Thu, Юни 15, 2006 9:15 pm, Benjamin Blazke wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a tool that given an existing (base) database schema and an 'update patch' DDL .sql script on input would produce a 'reverse' script that could be used to undo the changes done by the patch. For example: base.sql:

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing mailserver with ssh

2006-06-17 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 20:05 +, Mick wrote: On 17/06/06, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You cannot use an ssh client in this manner. If you want a telnet client, emerge either netkit-telnetd or telnet-bsd. Thanks for all the replies. I had not emerged telnet so far

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing mailserver with ssh

2006-06-17 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Sunday, 18 June 2006 5:35, Mick wrote: On 17/06/06, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You cannot use an ssh client in this manner. If you want a telnet client, emerge either netkit-telnetd or telnet-bsd. Thanks for all the replies. I had not emerged telnet so far because

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing mailserver with ssh

2006-06-17 Thread Mick
On 17/06/06, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe any potential security problems would only concern you if you were running a telnet daemon not just using a client. All telnet apps mentioned in the thread have glsa's about them re: buffer overflows. On the other hand I

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing mailserver with ssh

2006-06-17 Thread Jarry
On 17/06/06, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You cannot use an ssh client in this manner. But what if mail-server uses secure connection (SSL) and secure authentication? Could I use ssh-client in such a case? Telnet would not help... Jarry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

[gentoo-user] OT - MythTV won't connect to my database!

2006-06-17 Thread Michael Sullivan
I've ensured that mysql is indeed running, but when I try to run mythfrontend, I get this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ mythfrontend 2006-06-17 16:09:09.260 Using runtime prefix = /usr 2006-06-17 16:09:09.320 XScreenSaver support enabled 2006-06-17 16:09:09.359 New DB connection, total: 1 2006-06-17

Re: [gentoo-user] Reading ~/.xsession file

2006-06-17 Thread Mick
On 17/06/06, Justin R Findlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 01:58:38PM -0600, Brad Camroux wrote: On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 07:47:18PM +, Mick wrote: I also use fluxbox (with xdm) and have also found that ~/.xsession is ignored. To start apps along with fluxbox I made

[gentoo-user] ddclient question

2006-06-17 Thread krgn
hello, I have a few questions on how to basically access a specific machine in a network from the web. I have registered with dyndns.org and got ddclient running to provide the ip address, but the only thing I can now connect to is my network router ;) which is pretty useless. How would it

Re: [gentoo-user] Introduction - new list user

2006-06-17 Thread Daniel Iliev
Well, I'm a newbie in this form (mailing lists) of sharing information. Actually its my second subscription. So there's a newbie question from me about some of the terms used in this thread. I'm not joking, I really don't know. Additionally I'd say English isn't my mother tongue, so I really

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing mailserver with ssh

2006-06-17 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 23:09:57 +0200 Jarry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 17/06/06, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You cannot use an ssh client in this manner. But what if mail-server uses secure connection (SSL) and secure authentication? Could I use ssh-client in such a

Re: [gentoo-user] ddclient question

2006-06-17 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Sunday, 18 June 2006 6:50, krgn wrote: hello, I have a few questions on how to basically access a specific machine in a network from the web. I have registered with dyndns.org and got ddclient running to provide the ip address, but the only thing I can now connect to is my network router

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing mailserver with ssh

2006-06-17 Thread Alexander Skwar
Mick wrote: On 17/06/06, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You cannot use an ssh client in this manner. If you want a telnet client, emerge either netkit-telnetd or telnet-bsd. Thanks for all the replies. I had not emerged telnet so far because of potential security reasons.

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing mailserver with ssh

2006-06-17 Thread Alexander Skwar
Ow Mun Heng wrote: What makes you think that's it's better than telnet? esp when you see this during it's emerge [ebuild R ] net-analyzer/netcat-110-r8 USE=crypt -GAPING_SECURITY_HOLE -ipv6 -static 0 kB What are you talking about? You checked what the USE flags stand for? Alexander

Re: [gentoo-user] Video conversion

2006-06-17 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 22:01:15 -0700 Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: n Sat, 2006-06-17 at 11:24 +0800, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 15:22 -0700, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Try these. Should be a simple --target DVD * media-video/tovid [ Masked ] It seems to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing mailserver with ssh

2006-06-17 Thread Alexander Skwar
Jarry wrote: On 17/06/06, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You cannot use an ssh client in this manner. But what if mail-server uses secure connection (SSL) and secure authentication? Could I use ssh-client in such a case? No. SSL doesn't have much to do with SSH. Alexander

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing mailserver with ssh

2006-06-17 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Sunday, 18 June 2006 6:39, Jarry wrote: On 17/06/06, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You cannot use an ssh client in this manner. But what if mail-server uses secure connection (SSL) and secure authentication? Could I use ssh-client in such a case? Telnet would not help...

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing mailserver with ssh

2006-06-17 Thread Alexander Skwar
Mick wrote: On 17/06/06, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe any potential security problems would only concern you if you were running a telnet daemon not just using a client. All telnet apps mentioned in the thread have glsa's about them re: buffer overflows. They

[gentoo-user] New elog functionality Log rotation?

2006-06-17 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
I was wondering if anyone could point me to the conf file to turn on log rotation for my emerge.log. Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Using --deep [Was: Slow redraw of windows following -uD --world]

2006-06-17 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 16:11 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Saturday 17 June 2006 16:01, Michael Weyershäuser wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: IT IS NOT RECOMMENDED! Read again! http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2chap=1 says: Since security

Re: [gentoo-user] New elog functionality Log rotation?

2006-06-17 Thread Teresa and Dale
Richard Broersma Jr wrote: I was wondering if anyone could point me to the conf file to turn on log rotation for my emerge.log. Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. I use logrotate and it is here. /etc/logrotate.d Here is a sample of the file: /var/log/http-replicator.log { size 10k

Re: [gentoo-user] Introduction - new list user

2006-06-17 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 17 June 2006 23:29, Daniel Iliev wrote: What is - top posting We read from top to bottom and generally it makes more sense to read a question before the reply. Therefore it seems logical that any reply should be placed right below whatever question it is replying to. Top posting

Re: [gentoo-user] Using --deep [Was: Slow redraw of windows following -uD --world]

2006-06-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 15:36:51 -0700, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: If you believe that --deep is broken, file a bug so it can get fixed. --deep is no more broken than rm. Both are tools that do exactly what you tells them to do. If that is not what you wanted them to do, the fault lies with the

[gentoo-user] does anyone here speak japanese? please help in translaton

2006-06-17 Thread CapSel
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Re: [gentoo-user] ddclient question

2006-06-17 Thread krgn
Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: On Sunday, 18 June 2006 6:50, krgn wrote: hello, I have a few questions on how to basically access a specific machine in a network from the web. I have registered with dyndns.org and got ddclient running to provide the ip address, but the only thing I can now

Re: [gentoo-user] ddclient question

2006-06-17 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Sunday, 18 June 2006 9:15, krgn wrote: Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: On Sunday, 18 June 2006 6:50, krgn wrote: hello, I have a few questions on how to basically access a specific machine in a network from the web. I have registered with dyndns.org and got ddclient running to provide

Re: [gentoo-user] Introduction - new list user

2006-06-17 Thread Daniel Iliev
Thank you very much for the detailed reply. ;-) Now I'm loading the links you recommended. -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Licq Fonts

2006-06-17 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 17 June 2006 16:54, Daniel Iliev wrote: Hi, everyone! I would like to ask if anyone could help me to change the fonts in LICQ. I use XFCE. Changing fonts in it has no effect on LICQ. Thanks in advance! -- Best regards, Daniel start icq open main window (the one with the

Re: [gentoo-user] Calculating world dependencies taking forever first time

2006-06-17 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 02:32:36PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote Now you have 2.1 installed, you can set it to mail you the einfo messages, so you won't miss it next time. I found a few comments in /etc/make.conf.example but the manpages haven't been updated yet. Is it possible to specify only

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