Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xfce4 upgrade

2007-02-23 Thread Douglas Linford
iDeq ~ # emerge -pv \>=xfce-base/xfce4-extras-4.4 These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies | !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=xfce-base/xfce4-extras-4.4" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: -

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xfce4 upgrade

2007-02-23 Thread Douglas Linford
Kinda testy there Mr. Boyes I did read the replies... On 2/23/07, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Saturday 24 February 2007 04:54:21 Douglas Linford wrote: > [ebuild N ] xfce-base/xfce4-extras-4.2.3.2 0 kB Did you even read the replies up until now? # emerge -pv \>=xfce-

Re: [gentoo-user] coda auto-login

2007-02-23 Thread Jürgen Geuter
On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 02:39 +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > If you need to execute something put it to > > /etc/conf.d/local.start or > > /etc/conf.d/local.stop > Does not fully work, since some services require the coda > volumes mounted. So my only idea was to change /etc/init.d/venus Well th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xfce4 upgrade

2007-02-23 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 24 February 2007 04:54:21 Douglas Linford wrote: > [ebuild  N    ] xfce-base/xfce4-extras-4.2.3.2  0 kB Did you even read the replies up until now? # emerge -pv \>=xfce-base/xfce4-extras-4.4 -- Bo Andresen pgpJZgLgQI4yY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xfce4 upgrade

2007-02-23 Thread Douglas Linford
Well, It is getting more confusing I can't seem to unmerge everything for xfce4 in order to start over. In typing this command, I get: iDeq ~ # emerge -pv xfce4-extras These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies \!!! Manifest file not found: '/usr/local/

[gentoo-user] Evolution crashs after updates on remote system

2007-02-23 Thread Mark Knecht
Hello, Last weekend I started doing updates on my dad's Gentoo box while he was on vacation. When he got back tonight he tried to get email but Evolution is crashing as soon as he tries to open it. I shelled in and tried running it myself and see the same problem in all account. This is what

Re: [gentoo-user] coda auto-login

2007-02-23 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Jürgen Geuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 20:58 +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > how can I do an automatic login on startup ? > > If you need to execute something put it to > /etc/conf.d/local.start or > /etc/conf.d/local.stop > The it is executed after the other services

Re: [gentoo-user] how to disable an automatic feature in vim?

2007-02-23 Thread Philip Webb
070223 John Blinka wrote: > when I edit configuration files in /etc, > vim likes to insert a leading "# " in new lines > following existing comment lines. > That's almost never what I want to do > and I have to delete the # and space before doing what I intended. > I've got the latest stable vers

[gentoo-user] [Off Topic] screen configuration...

2007-02-23 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I'm frustrated... I want to use screen, but my emacs-afflicted fingers automatically type "control-a" to go to the beginning of the line in my shell - which is somewhat unfortunate for screen. I assume from the manual that I can re-bind keys to avoid this problem... my first guess was to bung "bi

[gentoo-user] how to disable an automatic feature in vim?

2007-02-23 Thread John Blinka
Hi, all, I'm one of those people who don't like editors doing things automatically because I find the automatic feature often does something other than what I intended. I've noticed recently that when I edit configuration files in /etc, vim likes to insert a leading "# " in new lines following

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage wants to re-emerge old kernel sources

2007-02-23 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Freitag, den 23.02.2007, 23:58 +0100 schrieb Harm Geerts: > On Friday 23 February 2007, Grant wrote: > > > > It is true then that emerge --depclean never unmerges slotted packages? > > > > > > Just how would portage know that an old slot is no longer needed? Just > > > because a newer version is

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-23 Thread Norberto Bensa
Dale wrote: > > So you joined in to huh? Yes. because I care about more than just a bunch of zeroes and ones. Bye -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Portage wants to re-emerge old kernel sources

2007-02-23 Thread Harm Geerts
On Friday 23 February 2007, Grant wrote: > > > It is true then that emerge --depclean never unmerges slotted packages? > > > > Just how would portage know that an old slot is no longer needed? Just > > because a newer version is installed doesn't mean it's been compiled or > > that the old is no lo

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage wants to re-emerge old kernel sources

2007-02-23 Thread Grant
> It is true then that emerge --depclean never unmerges slotted packages? Just how would portage know that an old slot is no longer needed? Just because a newer version is installed doesn't mean it's been compiled or that the old is no longer needed (you might need to compile some package against

Re: [gentoo-user] Delete or bksp?

2007-02-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 23 February 2007, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Delete or bksp?': > And please turn off the HTML posting. Aha! That's why I couldn't read his messages. I just assumed he'd encrypted them or something, so I was ignoring them. ;) -- Boyd Stephen Smi

Re: [gentoo-user] coda auto-login

2007-02-23 Thread Ivan Perez
2007/2/23, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:58:52 +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > how can I do an automatic login on startup ? That depends on where you want to login - console, KDE, GNOME, another WM? Neil is right. GDM and KDM have their own built-in auto-login mec

Re: [gentoo-user] Wine and Cedega at the same time

2007-02-23 Thread Gyuszk
b.n. írta: > Peter Ruskin ha scritto: > >> On Friday 23 February 2007, Gyuszk wrote: >> >>> Dear Gentoo users, >>> >>> I have a question about Win32 emulation. I'm using Wine >>> (0.9.31 ~x86 in Portage) for mIRC and uTorrent usage. >>> > > By the way, why using mIRC and uTorrent

Re: [gentoo-user] coda auto-login

2007-02-23 Thread Jürgen Geuter
On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 20:58 +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > how can I do an automatic login on startup ? If you need to execute something put it to /etc/conf.d/local.start or /etc/conf.d/local.stop The it is executed after the other services have been started up. regards Jürgen -- ICQ #8151086

Re: [gentoo-user] Wine and Cedega at the same time

2007-02-23 Thread Gyuszk
Bo Ørsted Andresen írta: > On Friday 23 February 2007 13:29:57 Gyuszk wrote: > >> My question: is it possible to have Wine and Cedega installed on the same >> system? >> > > Sure. They don't collide in any way. One uses .wine the other .cedega... Just > emerge both. > > In the future do n

Re: [gentoo-user] coda auto-login

2007-02-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:58:52 +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > how can I do an automatic login on startup ? That depends on where you want to login - console, KDE, GNOME, another WM? -- Neil Bothwick Blessed be the pessimist for he hath made backups. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] coda auto-login

2007-02-23 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, how can I do an automatic login on startup ? thx -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage wants to re-emerge old kernel sources

2007-02-23 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 23 February 2007 18:49:18 Grant wrote: > > > How can I see which versions of hardened-sources portage thinks are > > > currently installed?  I guess I should manually unmerge old sources as > > > above instead of using rm -rf. > > > > Yes, you can: > > > > $ equery list --duplicates [] >

[gentoo-user] coda module autoload

2007-02-23 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, how can I get the coda module loaded automatically (udev ?) w/o changing the init script. thx -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for joomla 1.5

2007-02-23 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 23 February 2007 20:38:31 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > does anyone have an ebuild for the current joomla 1.5 ? Please search bugzie.. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152436 -- Bo Andresen pgpd3J7ZT5Rtg.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] ebuild for joomla 1.5

2007-02-23 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, does anyone have an ebuild for the current joomla 1.5 ? thx -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage wants to re-emerge old kernel sources

2007-02-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:49:18 -0800, Grant wrote: > It is true then that emerge --depclean never unmerges slotted packages? That's correct, but that's not what --depclean is for. emerge --prune will remove all but thew highest slot - use with great care! -- Neil Bothwick - We are but packets i

Re: [gentoo-user] Did I just get hacked???

2007-02-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:48:59 +0300, Andrey Gerasimenko wrote: > > Not unless you have the vmware directory mounted within the guest OS. > > The VM cannot access filesystems on the host unless they are created > > as disks on the VM or network mounted. > This is correct, but if the virtual machine

Re: [gentoo-user] Did I just get hacked???

2007-02-23 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:57:25 +0300, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It occurred to me this morning that a hacker could have gained access >> to my system via the vmware guest OS (XP) and then deleted the >> contents of vmware/ to cover his tracks. Does that sound like a >> possibility? > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Did I just get hacked???

2007-02-23 Thread Grant
>> It occurred to me this morning that a hacker could have gained access >> to my system via the vmware guest OS (XP) and then deleted the >> contents of vmware/ to cover his tracks. Does that sound like a >> possibility? > > Not unless you have the vmware directory mounted within the guest OS. T

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage wants to re-emerge old kernel sources

2007-02-23 Thread Grant
> > > On one of my Gentoo systems, portage wants to re-emerge > > > hardened-sources-2.6.16-r10 and hardened-sources-2.6.14-r7 because of > > > (-doc%). I'm currently using hardened-sources-2.6.18-hardened, but > > > whenever new kernel sources are emerged, I just manually rm -rf the > > > old so

Re: [gentoo-user] Did I just get hacked???

2007-02-23 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 03:51:20 +0300, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:34:45 -0800, Grant wrote: It occurred to me this morning that a hacker could have gained access to my system via the vmware guest OS (XP) and then deleted the contents of vmware/ to cover his

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with UNICODE and man pages encoding

2007-02-23 Thread jcd
Hans-Werner Hilse napsal(a): Hi, On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:07:52 +0100 (CET) paulie.x <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So to the OP: Configure your terminal accordingly (for console: set consoletrans and -font correctly) or if you didn't yet, install a unicode-aware terminal program. It is not true be

Re: [gentoo-user] Delete or bksp?

2007-02-23 Thread b.n.
>> Jamie Harr wrote: Could you please avoid HTML mail when writing to this mailing list? Not everyone has a HTML-capable mail client (I personally do have, but...) . Thanks a lot. m. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Delete or bksp?

2007-02-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:14:59 -0500, Jamie Harr wrote: >> Under X or in the shell? > In X Which desktop environment or window manager are you using? We really need more information about your system and the problem. And please turn off the HTML posting. -- Neil Bothwick All right, set phaser

Re: [gentoo-user] Delete or bksp?

2007-02-23 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Saturday, 24 February 2007 3:08, Jamie Harr wrote: > > > > > > > > Hello > >     I've been using redhat forever  Switch to > GenToo a week or so ago  WOW!!  I'm really impressed! The > only problem I have is the delete key doesn't work like it did with > redhat.  I hit dele

Re: [gentoo-user] Delete or bksp?

2007-02-23 Thread Jamie Harr
Jakob Buchgraber wrote: Jamie Harr wrote: Hello     I've been using redhat forever  Switch to GenToo a week or so ago  WOW!!  I'm really impressed! The only problem I have is the delete key doesn't work like it did with redhat.  I hit delete and it acts like back spa

Re: [gentoo-user] Delete or bksp?

2007-02-23 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
Jamie Harr wrote: Hello I've been using redhat forever Switch to GenToo a week or so ago WOW!! I'm really impressed! The only problem I have is the delete key doesn't work like it did with redhat. I hit delete and it acts like back space.I've google'd and searched mai

Re: [gentoo-user] automount on the CLI

2007-02-23 Thread Mick
On Friday 23 February 2007 00:49, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 23:15:28 +, Mick wrote: > > I've looked around for an explanation, but I have failed to find enough > > to help me understand. Would you care to explain or point me to some > > relevant links. How is one meant to mou

[gentoo-user] Re: XV locks up X server after recent update

2007-02-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-02-23, Hamie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I was bying ATI cards because the open-source driver supported >> DRI (it was a bit flakey, but it mostly "just worked"). But, >> that ended with the 92xx series. My experience (and the >> general consensus, AFAICT) is that the NVidia closed-sour

[gentoo-user] Delete or bksp?

2007-02-23 Thread Jamie Harr
Hello     I've been using redhat forever  Switch to GenToo a week or so ago  WOW!!  I'm really impressed! The only problem I have is the delete key doesn't work like it did with redhat.  I hit delete and it acts like back space.    I've google'd and searched mailing lists but the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: XV locks up X server after recent update

2007-02-23 Thread Hamie
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 17:37, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2007-02-21, Hamie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The ati-drivers package was updated from 8.27.10-r1 to 8.32.5. > >> Rolling it back to 8.27.10-r1 made xv work again. The lock up > >> occurred with xorg-xserver versions 1.1.1-r1, 1.1.

RE: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-23 Thread McCaffrey, Ennis
From: Rodrigo Forlin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 10:53 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan On 2/23/07, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri,

Re: [gentoo-user] Please, Stop the Dolphin Massacre Thread!

2007-02-23 Thread Dan Cowsill
Seriously. On 2/23/07, fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Subject says it all. Come on folks let's keep it on subject. Please keep the number of replies to this down. Seriously, please, stop responding to that thread. -- "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 gam

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-23 Thread Rodrigo Forlin
On 2/23/07, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:43:15 -, Nelson, David \(ED, PAR&D\) wrote: > Well... dolphins are supposed to be pretty smart but can they post to > mailing lists? Dolphins are far smarter than humans, which is why not a single dolphin has bough

Re: [gentoo-user] Wine and Cedega at the same time

2007-02-23 Thread b.n.
Peter Ruskin ha scritto: > On Friday 23 February 2007, Gyuszk wrote: >> Dear Gentoo users, >> >> I have a question about Win32 emulation. I'm using Wine >> (0.9.31 ~x86 in Portage) for mIRC and uTorrent usage. By the way, why using mIRC and uTorrent when you can use xchat and ktorrent (among t

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-23 Thread b.n.
Alan McKinnon ha scritto: > He just posted the same thing to lkml > > I fear for the man, I really do. It seems they are just ignoring him. Probably he is not the first clueless moron spamming the lkml, so they just filter his address and go away with it. If he continues this way, in a few days

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-23 Thread Dale
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Everyone had showed so much insensitivity that you make me absolutely sick. > > If the OP is spam, why did all of you reply to it? > > > > > So you joined in to huh? Dale :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/dalek1967 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Wine and Cedega at the same time

2007-02-23 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 23 February 2007 13:29:57 Gyuszk wrote: > My question: is it possible to have Wine and Cedega installed on the same > system? Sure. They don't collide in any way. One uses .wine the other .cedega... Just emerge both. In the future do not hijack threads by replying and changing the sub

[gentoo-user] Please, Stop the Dolphin Massacre Thread!

2007-02-23 Thread fire-eyes
Subject says it all. Come on folks let's keep it on subject. Please keep the number of replies to this down. Seriously, please, stop responding to that thread. -- "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:43:15 -, Nelson, David \(ED, PAR&D\) wrote: > Well... dolphins are supposed to be pretty smart but can they post to > mailing lists? Dolphins are far smarter than humans, which is why not a single dolphin has bought Vista :) -- Neil Bothwick Anything is good and use

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-23 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 23 February 2007 14:19:21 Rodrigo Forlin wrote: > >> Besides, I think the second most intelligent life form on the planet > >> has already figured out how to deal with this onslaut from the third > >> most intelligent life form on the planet. > > > > By spamming mailing lists so that we'r

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-23 Thread nbensa
Everyone had showed so much insensitivity that you make me absolutely sick. If the OP is spam, why did all of you reply to it? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-23 Thread
> -Original Message- > From: Rodrigo Forlin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 23 February 2007 13:19 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan > > > Neil Bothwick wrote this: > > On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:34:44 +0200, Alan McKinnon

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with UNICODE and man pages encoding

2007-02-23 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:07:52 +0100 (CET) paulie.x <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So to the OP: Configure your terminal accordingly (for console: set > > consoletrans and -font correctly) or if you didn't yet, install a > > unicode-aware terminal program. > > It is not true because I'm alread

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-23 Thread Rodrigo Forlin
Neil Bothwick wrote this: > On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:34:44 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> Besides, I think the second most intelligent life form on the planet >> has already figured out how to deal with this onslaut from the third >> most intelligent life form on the planet. > > By spamming maili

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with UNICODE and man pages encoding

2007-02-23 Thread paulie . x
Hans-Werner Hilse napsal(a): > Hi, > > On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 05:27:08 -0600 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Thursday 22 February 2007 23:14, paulie.x wrote: >>> Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. napsal(a): On Thursday 22 February 2007, jcd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:34:44 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Besides, I think the second most intelligent life form on the planet > has already figured out how to deal with this onslaut from the third > most intelligent life form on the planet. By spamming mailing lists so that we're all too busy a

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 21 February 2007, Aggelos wrote: > www.glumbert.com/media/dolphin > > www.petitiononline.com/golfinho For the amusement of all Gentooite's who watched this thread and wondered what planet Aggelos comes from: He's about to get his just rewards: He just posted the same thing to lkml

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 23 February 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: > By the time this thread ends, the dolphins will have died of old age, > making the original point moot ;-) Not if they don't all vanish in a puff of smoke just before the Vogons get here, leaving behind a note that says "So long and thanks for al

[gentoo-user] Wine and Cedega at the same time

2007-02-23 Thread Gyuszk
Dear Gentoo users, I have a question about Win32 emulation. I'm using Wine (0.9.31 ~x86 in Portage) for mIRC and uTorrent usage. It works flawlessly. Today I bought a new video card (nvidia 6600) for gaming. With this card, everything is OK. My question: is it possible to have Wine and Ced

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with UNICODE and man pages encoding

2007-02-23 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 05:27:08 -0600 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 22 February 2007 23:14, paulie.x wrote: > > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. napsal(a): > > > On Thursday 22 February 2007, jcd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > > > > > about '[gentoo-user] Problem with UN

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with UNICODE and man pages encoding

2007-02-23 Thread paulie . x
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. napsal(a): > On Thursday 22 February 2007 23:14, paulie.x wrote: >> Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. napsal(a): >>> On Thursday 22 February 2007, jcd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >>> >>> about '[gentoo-user] Problem with UNICODE and man pages encoding': Hi. I converted my system

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-23 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > By the time this thread ends, the dolphins will have died of old age, > making the original point moot ;-) > > > If I had the money, I would go KILL all of them just to end this thread. This doesn't even concern computers much less Linux. Dale :-) :-) :-) -- www.m

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with UNICODE and man pages encoding

2007-02-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 22 February 2007 23:14, paulie.x wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. napsal(a): > > On Thursday 22 February 2007, jcd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > > > about '[gentoo-user] Problem with UNICODE and man pages encoding': > >> Hi. > >> I converted my system to UNICODE with assistance > >> http

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo way of handling pre-built kernels

2007-02-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 23 February 2007, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo way of handling pre-built kernels': > On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:42:17 +0100, Robert Szentmihalyi wrote: > > I have successfully deployed Gentoo on about 30 desktop PCs in a > > corporate environment. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo way of handling pre-built kernels

2007-02-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:42:17 +0100, Robert Szentmihalyi wrote: > I have successfully deployed Gentoo on about 30 desktop PCs in a > corporate environment. > Now, as I need to update the kernel on those PCs, I wonder if there is > a standard Gentoo way (maybe a script or something), that people are

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
By the time this thread ends, the dolphins will have died of old age, making the original point moot ;-) -- Neil Bothwick All wight - Rho sritched mg kegtops awound? signature.asc Description: PGP signature

RE: [gentoo-user] OT - Some miscellanous questions about hack attacks and dealing with them

2007-02-23 Thread
> -Original Message- > From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 23 February 2007 07:17 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Some miscellanous questions about hack > attacks and dealing with them > > > The problem is that php enables every kid a

[gentoo-user] Gentoo way of handling pre-built kernels

2007-02-23 Thread Robert Szentmihalyi
Hi list, I have successfully deployed Gentoo on about 30 desktop PCs in a corporate environment. Now, as I need to update the kernel on those PCs, I wonder if there is a standard Gentoo way (maybe a script or something), that people are using to build and deploy binary kernel packages. Any idea

Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???

2007-02-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:11:07 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > It does, I have a system that boots 2.6.20 using an initrd. It works > > fine and I don't feel inclined to get involved in initramfs voodoo > > just to change an already working system > > What is that "voodoo" you're talking about.

Re: [gentoo-user] Very bad system response

2007-02-23 Thread Robert Szentmihalyi
On Tuesday 06 February 2007 21:29, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: > Hi List, Hi Michael, Good to see yoou on the Gentoo list! :-) > I have a very strange thing here. I don't know when this started, but my > feeling is, that it was around kernel 2.6.15 and it's getting worse with > each version. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with UNICODE and man pages encoding

2007-02-23 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 22 February 2007 20:38:02 jcd wrote: > I converted my system to UNICODE with assistance > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Make_your_system_use_unicode/utf-8. I > re-encoded several files and several filenames. But my man-pages are > still displayed with bad characters ('á' is 'á') in cons

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Some miscellanous questions about hack attacks and dealing with them

2007-02-23 Thread Jakob
Whenever I see someone trying the break in in the logsentry reports, I add their IP to the deny_hosts.conf file and restart ipkungfu so that the changes will take effect. maybe you want to have a look at sshdfilter http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~greg/sshdfilter/ jakob -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org maili

Re: [gentoo-user] Documentation annoyances

2007-02-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 23 February 2007, Zac Medico wrote: > That's the intended purpose of DOC_SYMLINKS_DIR which is documented > in `man make.conf` (new in portage-2.1.2). > > Zac That'll teach me to keep up to date with new portage features :-) I just recommended Walter to ask for this very thing sor

Re: [gentoo-user] Documentation annoyances

2007-02-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 23 February 2007, Walter Dnes wrote: > Thread re-named to reflect topic-drift > > On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 09:58:47AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote > > > On the one hand, /usr/share/doc has been almost 2G big (!) at > > times, and otoh one can miss the really useful stuff > > I wouldn