Re: [gentoo-user] Baselayout2/OpenRC migration question - dispatch-conf vs etc-update

2011-05-29 Thread Jake Moe
On 05/29/11 02:07, Bill Longman wrote: Yes, absolutely. I use cfgupdate too. -- Bill Longman Sent from my Galaxy S There was an announcement on the gentoo-announce mailing list that listed a few different docs for reference. Among other things, the part of interest in this discussion was:

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT - More Router Advice] Cheap Router with decent/reliable VLAN support

2011-05-29 Thread Mick
On Sunday 29 May 2011 02:17:24 Pandu Poluan wrote: You might want to look into Mikrotik's offering. They are not only inexpensive, but they are extremely reliable. Many Internet cafés in my country use Mikrotik: they put the device in an outdoor box, and stuck it on the pole bearing the

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting time formats

2011-05-29 Thread Mick
On Sunday 29 May 2011 01:48:17 William Kenworthy wrote: On Sat, 2011-05-28 at 11:37 -0500, Dale wrote: I asked this once before but I can't find it. I have a log file that has time stamps that look like this: lastrun = 1306574899 What do I use to get the human time for that? I

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting time formats

2011-05-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 28 May 2011 21:28:47 -0500, Dale wrote: No mention of the @ sign there. It does say to read the info file but I very rarely get into those. I never have had any good luck with them. I felt like I was in Hotel California once before. O_O I couldn't get out. I thought you were a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: What does the data stream to a sound card look like?

2011-05-29 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Nikos and Florian. Thanks for the helpful elucidation. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 04:13:18PM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 28.05.2011 12:19, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: On 05/28/2011 12:50 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Gentoo. It occurred to

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT - More Router Advice] Cheap Router with decent/reliable VLAN support

2011-05-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Saturday 28 May 2011 13:10:09 Tanstaafl wrote: After seeing an older thread asking about a router, I figured I'd ask my own question... I'm looking for a cheap but reliable router that has decent and SIMPLE way to add VLANs (I'm not a CISCO guy and don't want to have to become one)...

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting time formats

2011-05-29 Thread William Kenworthy
... * app-admin/ccze Latest version available: 0.2.1-r2 Latest version installed: 0.2.1-r2 Size of downloaded files: 136 kB Homepage:http://dev.gentoo.org/~joker/ccze/ccze.txt Description: A flexible and fast logfile colorizer License:

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting time formats

2011-05-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 29 May 2011 01:48:17 William Kenworthy wrote: As well as your other replies, check out ccze [...] Pass your log through it for nicely coloured text (words like alarm and error are bright red to stand out) as well as converting date epoch on the fly, leaving it in context. That

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting time formats

2011-05-29 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 28 May 2011 21:28:47 -0500, Dale wrote: No mention of the @ sign there. It does say to read the info file but I very rarely get into those. I never have had any good luck with them. I felt like I was in Hotel California once before. O_O I couldn't get out.

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 18:38 on Saturday 28 May 2011, Daniel da Veiga did opine thusly: On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 20:28, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: It looks like it's time to take Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 localization

2011-05-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Saturday 28 May 2011 20:27:59 Alex Schuster wrote: Maxim Vorontsov writes: 27.05.2011, в 21:35, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org написал(а): Maxim Vorontsov writes: No, for me all works fine. Probably another problem that only I have. BTW, German language is of course set in

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 localization

2011-05-29 Thread Mick
On Sunday 29 May 2011 18:16:04 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Saturday 28 May 2011 20:27:59 Alex Schuster wrote: Maxim Vorontsov writes: 27.05.2011, в 21:35, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org написал(а): Maxim Vorontsov writes: No, for me all works fine. Probably another

[gentoo-user] Install issue

2011-05-29 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi, I've been trying to update my gentoo system for a couple of months and couldn't seem to resolve block issues. Since it has been a couple of years or more since i did a fresh install, I decided to do one. I followed the handbook - 1st run, I screwed up and missed a step, 2nd run, I was

[gentoo-user] How do I eject an audio CD inside Gnome?

2011-05-29 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Gentoo. I've now managed to play CDs in Gnome, primarily by adding myself to the cdrom group. I do wish all these restrictions, enforced by group membership, could be switched off. Having played a CD, I discover there's no way to eject it; the physical button on the drive is inactive until

Re: [gentoo-user] Install issue

2011-05-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 22:35 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Colleen Beamer did opine thusly: Hi, I've been trying to update my gentoo system for a couple of months and couldn't seem to resolve block issues. Since it has been a couple of years or more since i did a fresh install, I

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I eject an audio CD inside Gnome?

2011-05-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 22:49 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Alan Mackenzie did opine thusly: Hi, Gentoo. I've now managed to play CDs in Gnome, primarily by adding myself to the cdrom group. I do wish all these restrictions, enforced by group membership, could be switched off. Having

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting time formats

2011-05-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 29 May 2011 08:55:24 -0500, Dale wrote: I thought you were a KDE user? Press Alt-F2, enter info:/date, enjoy :) I am. I use Konsole. Very rarely use Alt F2 tho. So you use the horrible text interface for info instead of seeing nice HTML in Konqueror, never mind :) -- Neil

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I eject an audio CD inside Gnome?

2011-05-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 29 May 2011 22:58:39 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: With a CD in the drive and gnome running, please post the output of mount cat /etc/mtab And the output of eject -v -- Neil Bothwick Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I eject an audio CD inside Gnome?

2011-05-29 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Alan. On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:58:39PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 22:49 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Alan Mackenzie did opine thusly: Hi, Gentoo. I've now managed to play CDs in Gnome, primarily by adding myself to the cdrom group. I do wish all these

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I eject an audio CD inside Gnome?

2011-05-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:20 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Alan Mackenzie did opine thusly: Hi, Alan. On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:58:39PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 22:49 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Alan Mackenzie did opine thusly: Hi, Gentoo.

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I eject an audio CD inside Gnome?

2011-05-29 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Neil. On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:13:08PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 29 May 2011 22:58:39 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: With a CD in the drive and gnome running, please post the output of mount cat /etc/mtab And the output of eject -v acm@acm ~ $ eject -v eject: using

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting time formats

2011-05-29 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 29 May 2011 08:55:24 -0500, Dale wrote: I thought you were a KDE user? Press Alt-F2, enter info:/date, enjoy :) I am. I use Konsole. Very rarely use Alt F2 tho. So you use the horrible text interface for info instead of seeing nice HTML in

[gentoo-user] virtualbox update v4.0.8 trouble

2011-05-29 Thread Nicolai Beuermann
Hi, after updating to virtualbox-4.0.8 I cannot start a vm anymore. The following ebuilds are installed: app-emulation/virtualbox-4.0.8 app-emulation/virtualbox-additions-4.0.8 app-emulation/virtualbox-extpack-oracle-4.0.8 app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-4.0.8 The logs mention that symlinks are

Re: [gentoo-user] Install issue

2011-05-29 Thread Mick
On Sunday 29 May 2011 21:57:21 Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 22:35 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Colleen Beamer did opine thusly: Hi, I've been trying to update my gentoo system for a couple of months and couldn't seem to resolve block issues. Since it has been a

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I eject an audio CD inside Gnome?

2011-05-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:37 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Alan Mackenzie did opine thusly: Hi, Neil. On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:13:08PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 29 May 2011 22:58:39 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: With a CD in the drive and gnome running, please post the

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox update v4.0.8 trouble

2011-05-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:50 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Nicolai Beuermann did opine thusly: Hi, after updating to virtualbox-4.0.8 I cannot start a vm anymore. The following ebuilds are installed: app-emulation/virtualbox-4.0.8 app-emulation/virtualbox-additions-4.0.8

Re: [gentoo-user] Install issue

2011-05-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:56 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Mick did opine thusly: I wonder if you haven't just tripped over a bug in baselayout or recent stage3's. I just did a new install here but used an old stage3 that was still baselayout-1. I did not run into the issues you did.

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting time formats

2011-05-29 Thread Henry Gebhardt
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 09:28:47PM -0500, Dale wrote: I went back to the man page, it sort of left the @ out on mine: -d, --date=STRING display time described by STRING, not `now' No mention of the @ sign there. It does say to read the info file but I very

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] network discovery tools

2011-05-29 Thread Harry Putnam
James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com writes: Harry Putnam reader at newsguy.com writes: Is there some quick and sure way to discover any IPs on the home lan? emerge fping man fping fping -g 192.168.222.0/24 searches quite fast and accurate... Yup, that's quick and easy... thanks

[gentoo-user] Re: openrc and /etc/modprobe.d/*

2011-05-29 Thread Harry Putnam
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de writes: If you have modules you wish to get loaded automatically on boot, only then put entries for them in /etc/conf.d/modules. Sorry to butt in and change the subject slightly: Do you happen to know the exact syntax for that kind of rule or whatever it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: openrc and /etc/modprobe.d/*

2011-05-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 00:38 on Monday 30 May 2011, Harry Putnam did opine thusly: Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de writes: If you have modules you wish to get loaded automatically on boot, only then put entries for them in /etc/conf.d/modules. Sorry to butt in and change the

Re: [gentoo-user] Install issue

2011-05-29 Thread Colleen Beamer
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 23:56 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Mick did opine thusly: I wonder if you haven't just tripped over a bug in baselayout or recent stage3's. I just did a new install here but used an old

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 3 ??

2011-05-29 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Thu, May 26 2011, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: Thank you.  Some forum posts suggest that upgrading to gnome3 from gnome2 is difficult.  Did you 1.  Upgrade from 2.32.1 2.  Unmerge 2.32.1 then merge 3 3.  Do a fresh

Re: [gentoo-user] Install issue

2011-05-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 01:09 on Monday 30 May 2011, Colleen Beamer did opine thusly: Colleen, you should follow the tip you found on Google to fix this. What stage 3 did you download and use? Actually, I used the most recent one - I think May 26th, However, my first install

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I eject an audio CD inside Gnome?

2011-05-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 29 May 2011 22:56:10 Alan McKinnon wrote: My money says you've been hit by the Gnome Borg - where you are only permitted to do things the way the gnome devs have deemed to be appropriate and TheOneTrueWay(tm). After all, you are just a user, what do you know? The devs know better,

[gentoo-user] setting locale

2011-05-29 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On one of my machines all the LC_ variables are POSIX. I want them to be en_US.utf8 as on my other machines. I have the done the following (from the handbook) 1. cat /etc/local.gen (ignoring comments) en_US ISO-8859-1 en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 2. locale-gen 3. source /etc/profile 4. locale

Re: [gentoo-user] setting locale

2011-05-29 Thread Nils Larsson
måndagen den 30 maj 2011 03:26:49 skrev Allan Gottlieb: What must I do to get en_US_utf8 ? echo LANG=en_US_utf8 /etc/env.d/02locale and env-update should work.