[gentoo-user] Re: EIX and sunrise overlay

2006-07-09 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 09 July 2006 01:57, Ow Mun Heng wrote: I just found out about sunrise overlay and I've added a few overlays into my tree. Seems that eix doesn't know about it. How can I inform eix about it? when I do a update-eix --dump I do see that I didn't exclude any trees. Eix however, does

[gentoo-user] libquicktime-0.9.4 failes to compile

2006-07-09 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ok, given recent experience with imagemagick and libpng, I'm thinking this is likely a bug as well. This, and OOo-bin are the last two packages that revdep-rebuild is wanting to rebuild. I tried unmasking the testing version, but that has one or

Re: [gentoo-user] EIX and sunrise overlay

2006-07-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 16:57:30 -0700, Ow Mun Heng wrote: I just found out about sunrise overlay and I've added a few overlays into my tree. Seems that eix doesn't know about it. How can I inform eix about it? Did you add them with layman? eix doesn't understand the source

[gentoo-user] Bash query OT

2006-07-09 Thread Dave S
Hi all, I have written a script in /etc/cron.daily for chkrootkit to screen out known suspect files that are OK to email me with anthing else ... (ahem its not a gentoo system ... just thought I should come clean :)) #!/bin/sh # Adds a primitive filter of repeating false positives

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash query OT

2006-07-09 Thread Mike Williams
On Sunday 09 July 2006 13:33, Dave S wrote: chkrootkit -q\ | grep -v 'PACKET SNIFFER(/sbin/dhclient3'\ | grep -v '/usr/lib/jvm/.java-gcj.jinfo'\ | grep -v '/usr/lib/realplay-10.0.6/share/default/.realplayerrc'\ | grep -v '/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.06/.systemPrefs'\ | grep -v

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash query OT

2006-07-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 9 Jul 2006 13:33:23 +0100, Dave S wrote: I have written a script in /etc/cron.daily for chkrootkit to screen out known suspect files that are OK to email me with anthing else ... (ahem its not a gentoo system ... just thought I should come clean :)) #!/bin/sh # Adds a primitive

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash query OT

2006-07-09 Thread Dave S
Thanks for you input, I see the error of my ways :) Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user][OT]MPlayer: CPU Detection?

2006-07-09 Thread Daniel Iliev
Ryan Tandy wrote: Can't think why you would either. It's meant for when you're building GRP packages. You should probably turn it off if that isn't your intention. In any case, glad I could help. :) Yep. I turned it off immediately after your mail. No recall how this flag found its way

[gentoo-user] vlc wants mozilla - but I don't

2006-07-09 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, since a -rX update some days ago vlc wants to install mozilla-firefox. But I don't! I have firefox-bin installed and I don't want any other version - heck, if I could I would go cvompletly without firefox. So how can I force vlc to let the mozilla-crap alone? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

[gentoo-user] non-ebuild installations

2006-07-09 Thread Matthew R. Lee
I would like to install some software which is not available as an ebuild. As I never done that before, can anyone point me in the direction of a how-to? I've had a look on the wiki but nothing caught my eye as being what I needed, but I may not have been looking in the right place. Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] Per-process CPU % usage limit

2006-07-09 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
First, thanks for your answer! On Saturday 8 July 2006 23:13, Richard Fish wrote: Well, I would first upgrade my cooling fans so the processor couldn't overheat! :-) Upgrading cooling fan in a laptop isn't the easiest thing to do! :) But you could also enable CPU freqency scaling in the

Re: [gentoo-user] non-ebuild installations

2006-07-09 Thread Norman Rieß
Matthew R. Lee schrieb: I would like to install some software which is not available as an ebuild. As I never done that before, can anyone point me in the direction of a how-to? I've had a look on the wiki but nothing caught my eye as being what I needed, but I may not have been looking in

Re: [gentoo-user] non-ebuild installations

2006-07-09 Thread Rafael Fernández López
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew R. Lee wrote: I would like to install some software which is not available as an ebuild. As I never done that before, can anyone point me in the direction of a how-to? I've had a look on the wiki but nothing caught my eye as being what I

Re: [gentoo-user] modular X, nvidia, and unresolved symbols

2006-07-09 Thread Heitor
Hello, I dont know if it helps you butn I had the following problem. With the stable nvidia driver i got these unresolved messages and I couldn't load the module when I emerge the testing driver. I saw on the list that there was a x11-drivers/nvidia-legacy-drivers (I have a very old Geforce

Re: [gentoo-user] non-ebuild installations

2006-07-09 Thread 八月皇
2006/7/9, Matthew R. Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I would like to install some software which is not available as an ebuild. AsI never done that before, can anyone point me in the direction of a how-to?I've had a look on the wiki but nothing caught my eye as being what I needed, but I may not have been

[gentoo-user] Modular Xorg login rights

2006-07-09 Thread Mick
I just ran chkrootkit and noticed this at the end: = Checking `chkutmp'... The tty of the following user process(es) were not found in /var/run/utmp ! ! RUID PID TTYCMD ! root11301 tty7 /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp -br vt7 -auth

[gentoo-user] Please unmask xfontsel

2006-07-09 Thread Walter Dnes
xfontsel seems to have been left behind in the rush to get Xorg7 into the stable branch. I don't use it that often, but I do occasionally need it. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca --

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I ensure all fontpaths are loaded?

2006-07-09 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 12:35:52AM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote ls /usr/share/fonts/ -- all Gentoo font packages install there. Add each dir to xorg.conf as another FontPath directive. Thanks, Donnie Actually, a big thanks to you. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-09 Thread Alexander Skwar
Rafael Fernández López schrieb: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What to do when your smtp server needs authentification ? Curse the damned too simple ELOG interface :) That's why I wrote, that I actually use =custom. I wrote a page on the wiki regarding this: Alexander Skwar

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-09 Thread Alexander Skwar
Rafael Fernández López schrieb: What to do when your smtp server needs authentification ? Well, I wrote a page on the wiki. And I wanted to post the URL, but my fingers are too clumsy :) http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Making_portage_use_/usr/sbin/sendmail_to_send_out_ELOG_mails In this wiki

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-09 Thread Alexander Skwar
Walter Dnes schrieb: On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 09:22:29PM +0200, Rafael Fern??ndez L??pez wrote This is not flame war. I love Gentoo, and it is the distribution that fits me perfectly, but I've been wondering this last year what things can be improved in this wonderful distro. The first

Re: [gentoo-user] Please unmask xfontsel

2006-07-09 Thread Jeremy Olexa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Walter Dnes wrote: xfontsel seems to have been left behind in the rush to get Xorg7 into the stable branch. I don't use it that often, but I do occasionally need it. You should file a bug on bugs.gentoo.org requesting this. There are other

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-09 Thread David Dalrymple
There you don't have to ask for permission and a simple diff can reveal the changes whenever I want. A simple diff is all that's done right now (well, basically at least; basically etc-update can be seen as a sort of front-end to diff). To throw my two cents in here, I'd like etc-update to

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-09 Thread Jeremy Olexa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Dalrymple wrote: There you don't have to ask for permission and a simple diff can reveal the changes whenever I want. A simple diff is all that's done right now (well, basically at least; basically etc-update can be seen as a sort of

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-09 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Sunday 9 July 2006 17:53, David Dalrymple wrote: To throw my two cents in here, I'd like etc-update to use vimdiff, which is another front-end to diff, and much more intuitive to me. I think that vimdiff is the same as vim -d; if this is correct, just edit /etc/etc-update.conf and enable

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-09 Thread Alexander Skwar
David Dalrymple schrieb: There you don't have to ask for permission and a simple diff can reveal the changes whenever I want. A simple diff is all that's done right now (well, basically at least; basically etc-update can be seen as a sort of front-end to diff). To throw my two cents in

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 17:18:32 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: What to do when your smtp server needs authentification ? Curse the damned too simple ELOG interface :) That's why I wrote, that I actually use =custom. I wrote a page on the wiki regarding this: What's wrong with the procedure

Re: [gentoo-user] non-ebuild installations

2006-07-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 16:28:09 +0200, Rafael Fernández López wrote: You've two possible ways (maybe some more): 1.Create an ebuild into your portage overlay and install the package as normal. Portage will handle it as any other ebuild. 2.Read the INSTALL file, usually you'll be done

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-09 Thread Alexander Skwar
Neil Bothwick schrieb: On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 17:18:32 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: What to do when your smtp server needs authentification ? Curse the damned too simple ELOG interface :) That's why I wrote, that I actually use =custom. I wrote a page on the wiki regarding this: What's

[gentoo-user] Any guess to why amarok visualizations fail to function?

2006-07-09 Thread Kenton Groombridge
I posted this a couple weeks ago with no answer. I am still unable to determine what is going on. Anytime I select a visualization from Tools-Visualizations menu, I get the following output and the visualization output window closes. *** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/amarok_libvisual: free():

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-09 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
On Sunday 09 July 2006 17:29, Alexander Skwar wrote: As I wrote in an other mail: Stop interfering with the actual configfile and add the changes to a config.conf.dist file. Yep, you wrote that, and I answered that *I* would *NOT* like this. I like it, that I can use a program right away -

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-09 Thread Alexander Skwar
Gerhard Hoogterp schrieb: On Sunday 09 July 2006 17:29, Alexander Skwar wrote: As I wrote in an other mail: Stop interfering with the actual configfile and add the changes to a config.conf.dist file. Yep, you wrote that, and I answered that *I* would *NOT* like this. I like it, that I can

Re: [gentoo-user] vlc wants mozilla - but I don't

2006-07-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/9/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, since a -rX update some days ago vlc wants to install mozilla-firefox. But I don't! Previous versions of vlc would satisfy the nsplugin dependancy with gecko-sdk, which is now masked. The updated version depends on either

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular Xorg login rights

2006-07-09 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Mick wrote: Other than the status of the Xorg the two machines are pretty much set up identical. Could someone please explain why this message is now coming up in chkrootkit and if there is something I need to change in my settings? In modular X, we've enhanced the xdm init script to run

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rc script to start Oracle - [SOLVED]

2006-07-09 Thread pat
Thanks a lot. The problem was in the oratab. Pat Francesco Talamona wrote: On Thursday 29 June 2006 01:32, pat wrote: Thanks for your advice. I've finished the configuration, but I have a problems :-\ The installation was like this: 1) oracle 10gR2 - I've followed the

Re: [gentoo-user] non-ebuild installations

2006-07-09 Thread Matthew R. Lee
On Sunday 09 July 2006 14:09, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 16:28:09 +0200, Rafael Fernández López wrote: You've two possible ways (maybe some more): 1. Create an ebuild into your portage overlay and install the package as normal. Portage will handle it as any other ebuild.

[gentoo-user] [OT] Apache Autoindex applications

2006-07-09 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Hi, Does anyone has any recommendations for using some sort of autoindex script for apache? I know and am currently using http://autoindex.sourceforge.net which has login/upload capabilities. I'm trying to see if there are any other alternatives. My goal. Integrate a front end apache-autoindex

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 20:18:25 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: Would PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI=[EMAIL PROTECTED] user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:pass_with_:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@mailserver:port work? For clarification: user=user:[EMAIL PROTECTED] pass=pass_with_:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular xorg mouse problem

2006-07-09 Thread Mick
On Sunday 09 July 2006 00:02, Richard Fish wrote: As I mentioned in my email, I encountered a problem where the event nodes would switch around on me. For example, at one boot event0 would be my keyboard and event1 would be the trackpad, but on the next boot event0 would be the trackpad and

Re: [gentoo-user] Any guess to why amarok visualizations fail to function?

2006-07-09 Thread Colleen Beamer
Kenton Groombridge wrote: I posted this a couple weeks ago with no answer. I am still unable to determine what is going on. Well, I'm certainly not an expert here, but by default amarok installs with a USE flag of -visualization. I always change this to visualization and my visualizations

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-09 Thread kashani
Rafael Fernández López wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What to do when your smtp server needs authentification ? add sasl support to yout MTA? kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Apache Autoindex applications

2006-07-09 Thread Daniel Iliev
Ow Mun Heng wrote: My goal. Integrate a front end apache-autoindex (w/ upload/login capability) that uses a SQL backend for authentication(I can use mod_auth_mysql as a means for connecting autoindex's htpasswd/htaccess to mysql and I am thinking of also integrating SAMBA with mysql using

[gentoo-user] java 1.4 eclipse

2006-07-09 Thread Fernando Meira
Hi all, after upgrading (long time ago) to java 1.5, I still couldn't get rid of version 1.4. Now, when trying to run an update world, I noticed that version 1.4 of java (sun-jdk) falls inside eclipse dependencies tree. (don't know if the tree aspect is possible to see below..) [ebuild NS ]

[gentoo-user] Konqueror Open Office : font problems

2006-07-09 Thread Philip Webb
I've been suffering from 2 font problems for the last few months. (1) Konqueror 3.5.3 (3.5.1 3.5.2) displays news sites with an ugly font despite my setting 'Standard font = New Century Schoolbook, min/med size 11'; there is no problem with Firefox: see

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: get process name in c++

2006-07-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 14:54 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 7/7/06, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about: getenv( _ ); Well, that is set by bash before it exec's anything, so that should work, provided the program[s] are always exec'd by bash and not by something else. It would

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: hotplug doesn't.

2006-07-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 14:41 +, James wrote: Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace.net.au writes: hotplug doesn't hotplug! I've recently discovered these 2 little jewels. They may not help, but it's worth a whirl. # udevstart [after you boot and then connect the device to 1394] #

[gentoo-user] Re: EIX and sunrise overlay

2006-07-09 Thread Stefan Schweizer
Ow Mun Heng wrote: I just found out about sunrise overlay and I've added a few overlays into my tree. cool :) Seems that eix doesn't know about it. How can I inform eix about it? when I do a update-eix --dump I do see that I didn't exclude any trees. Eix however, does know about my

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-09 Thread David Dalrymple
You can see here that you *CAN* use vimdiff, I personally use colordiff which you can see above. HTH Ah, very nice. So then the alleged problems in etc-update lie not with the frontend to diff itself, but with the idea of using a frontend to diff (as opposed to a more complex system)? --David

[gentoo-user] Re: video problem

2006-07-09 Thread Strake
what package do i emerge to install it? -- Registered Linux User #392061 counter.li.org its not fair to have a battle of wits with unarmed opponents -Anonymous No, you may not goto the washroom. Last time you went to the washroom, we found you days later in an air vent. -Bryn

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: video problem

2006-07-09 Thread Ric de France
Strake, Try (as root) from the command line: # echo x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers ~x86 /etc/portage/packages.keywords # emerge nvidia-drivers Then change your xorg.conf file to have nvidia instead of nv in this section: Section Device Identifier ** NVIDIA (generic) [nv]

[gentoo-user] External USB drive

2006-07-09 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi all, I've just upgraded to modular X, KDE 3.5 and installed a new CD-RW drive. My system is back to working flawlessly. However, my issue now is trying to get an external Iomega 250 gig usb hard drive to work. I've tried googling for information as well as looking in the archives. However,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Apache Autoindex applications

2006-07-09 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 02:00 +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote: Ow Mun Heng wrote: My goal. Integrate a front end apache-autoindex (w/ upload/login capability) that uses a SQL backend for authentication(I can use mod_auth_mysql as a means for connecting autoindex's htpasswd/htaccess to mysql and

Re: [gentoo-user] External USB drive

2006-07-09 Thread pepone pepone
Hi Colleen if you type dmesg as root when you plug your usb device you can view what device is attached to it hope this help On 7/10/06, Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've just upgraded to modular X, KDE 3.5 and installed a new CD-RW drive. My system is back to working

Re: [gentoo-user] External USB drive

2006-07-09 Thread Colleen Beamer
pepone pepone wrote: Hi Colleen if you type dmesg as root when you plug your usb device you can view what device is attached to it Thanks for the response, but you can disregard. I've figured it out. I guess I jumped the gun and cried for help a little too soon, sorry! :-) Regards, Colleen

Re: [gentoo-user] External USB drive

2006-07-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2006-07-09 at 23:43 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote: However, my issue now is trying to get an external Iomega 250 gig usb hard drive to work. I've tried googling for information as well as looking in the archives. However, all the information is old. For instance, it tells me that

[gentoo-user] emerge xkeyboard-config-0.8 failed

2006-07-09 Thread Pascal Bourguignon
Seems some dependencies are missing: % emerge --update world [...[ Emerging (2 of 271) x11-misc/xkeyboard-config-0.8 to / checking ebuild checksums ;-) checking auxfile checksums ;-) checking miscfile checksums ;-) checking xkeyboard-config-0.8.tar.bz2 ;-) Unpacking source... Unpacking

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular xorg mouse problem

2006-07-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/9/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only thing is that when I plug in an external mouse it does not work. :-( Do I need to add more entries in my xorg.conf? Yeah, use 2 input device entries in xorg.conf, with the second one pointing at /dev/input/mice. Just make sure to list both

Re: [gentoo-user] java 1.4 eclipse

2006-07-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/9/06, Fernando Meira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any idea on how can I use only version 1.5 and remove once per all version 1.4? According to the instructions.html in the source zip eclipse-sourceBuild-srcIncluded-3.2.zip, you must have *both* a 1.4 and 1.5 jdk installed to build eclipse.

[gentoo-user] Testing feedback

2006-07-09 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
If I'm using a testing package (e.g., ~x86), how can I provide feedback to the devs that it works for me? Tony -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Clean up world file

2006-07-09 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Daniel Iliev wrote: Daniel Waeber wrote: If I'm not mistaken, you can simply run vim /var/lib/portage/world, :sort it and ddelete the packages you don't need. It did work for me, but I'm not sure if something breaks if you just edit the world file or if you have to chance something else. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Clean up world file

2006-07-09 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 05:30:54 -0500, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: Has anyone here used it? Is it the best means available to clean the world file? Anything in the gentoo tree to do this? I've done this manually in the past. Edit /var/lib/world and remove everything you