Re: [gentoo-user] crontab not executing

2011-06-20 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 20.06.2011 00:37, schrieb Grant: One of my systems has a crontab like this to clean up and consolidate the output of the video monitoring app motion: # crontab -l # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (/home/grant/cron.root.txt installed on Sat Sep 25 10:42:18 2010)

Re: [gentoo-user] crontab not executing

2011-06-20 Thread Adam Carter
I might be wrong but as I understand it, cron executes your commands in /bin/sh, not /bin/bash. /bin/sh is a symlink to bash.

Re: [gentoo-user] net-print/hplip-3.11.5 compile fails

2011-06-20 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2011/6/20 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com: This is what I got just a few minutes ago. Failed to emerge net-print/hplip-3.11.5, Log file: 3.11.5 != 3.11.5-r1 The patch is in 3.11.5-r1 as I mentioned before. I did not add it to 3.11.5 because this version is about to become stable. Please test if

Re: [gentoo-user] crontab not executing

2011-06-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:30:12 +1000, Adam Carter wrote: I might be wrong but as I understand it, cron executes your commands in /bin/sh, not /bin/bash. /bin/sh is a symlink to bash. Which runs as sh when run from the symlink. -- Neil Bothwick She's fine, upstanding, and wonderful

[gentoo-user] Reinstalling older Packages

2011-06-20 Thread Frank Schwidom
Hi, how is it possible to reinstall an older Package from /usr/portage/distfiles/package, when the corresponding ebuild /usr/portage/topic/package/version.ebuild does not longer exists? Is there an option, to keep older ebuilds intact during emerge --sync? thanks in advance regards f. schwidom

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstalling older Packages

2011-06-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:43:27 +0200, Frank Schwidom wrote: how is it possible to reinstall an older Package from /usr/portage/distfiles/package, when the corresponding ebuild /usr/portage/topic/package/version.ebuild does not longer exists? Is there an option, to keep older ebuilds intact

Re: [gentoo-user] crontab not executing

2011-06-20 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 20.06.2011 10:21, schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:30:12 +1000, Adam Carter wrote: I might be wrong but as I understand it, cron executes your commands in /bin/sh, not /bin/bash. /bin/sh is a symlink to bash. Which runs as sh when run from the symlink.

Re: [gentoo-user] net-print/hplip-3.11.5 compile fails

2011-06-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 04:28:01 -0500, Dale wrote: Thanks for the fix. Maybe that problem is fixed for us all now. :-) If you can't break it, no one can ;-) -- Neil Bothwick Contentsoftaglinemaysettleduringshipping. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] net-print/hplip-3.11.5 compile fails

2011-06-20 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 04:28:01 -0500, Dale wrote: Thanks for the fix. Maybe that problem is fixed for us all now. :-) If you can't break it, no one can ;-) It just needed a GREAT fixer. lol Dale :-) :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] net-print/hplip-3.11.5 compile fails

2011-06-20 Thread Dale
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: 2011/6/20 Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com: This is what I got just a few minutes ago. Failed to emerge net-print/hplip-3.11.5, Log file: 3.11.5 != 3.11.5-r1 The patch is in 3.11.5-r1 as I mentioned before. I did not add it to 3.11.5 because this

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstalling older Packages

2011-06-20 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Monday, June 20 at 10:03 (+0100), Neil Bothwick said: There is no such option, but you can get expired ebuilds from http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/cat-egory/package Sigh. 2011 and *still* using CVS?!

Re: [gentoo-user] crontab not executing

2011-06-20 Thread Adam Carter
/bin/sh is a symlink to bash. Which runs as sh when run from the symlink. I dont understand. runs as usually means runs under the user context to me - are you saying bash has an sh compatibility mode?

Re: [gentoo-user] crontab not executing

2011-06-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:39:00 +1000, Adam Carter wrote: /bin/sh is a symlink to bash. Which runs as sh when run from the symlink. I dont understand. runs as usually means runs under the user That's one possible use of the term, but English rarely has one meaning per phrase. context to

Re: [gentoo-user] crontab not executing

2011-06-20 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Monday, June 20 at 20:39 (+1000), Adam Carter said: I dont understand. runs as usually means runs under the user context to me - are you saying bash has an sh compatibility mode? Yes, when run as sh in POSIX mode (i.e. if it were called as bash --posix).

[gentoo-user] Phrases

2011-06-20 Thread JDM
Neil, Where do you get all those funky expressions from at the end of your emails? Is there a Genapp ebuild? JDM

Re: [gentoo-user] crontab not executing

2011-06-20 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 20.06.2011 12:39, schrieb Adam Carter: /bin/sh is a symlink to bash. Which runs as sh when run from the symlink. I dont understand. runs as usually means runs under the user context to me - are you saying bash has an sh compatibility mode? Yes, that's exactly what he wants to say.

Re: [gentoo-user] Phrases

2011-06-20 Thread Dale
JDM wrote: Neil, Where do you get all those funky expressions from at the end of your emails? Is there a Genapp ebuild? JDM I liked the one about the turtle being homeless or naked. I posted it on facebook. o_O No offense Neil, I read the sig even if I don't read your replies.,

Re: [gentoo-user] Phrases

2011-06-20 Thread JDM
Is there a Gentoo facebook site? Yeap, the turtle made me chuckle as well. JDM -Original Message- From: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 06:59:36 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Phrases JDM wrote: Neil,

Re: [gentoo-user] Phrases

2011-06-20 Thread Dale
JDM wrote: Is there a Gentoo facebook site? Yeap, the turtle made me chuckle as well. JDM Here it is: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Gentoo/8059228811 Dale :-) :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Phrases

2011-06-20 Thread JDM
Thanks Dale JDM -Original Message- From: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 07:19:41 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Phrases JDM wrote: Is there a Gentoo facebook site? Yeap, the turtle made me chuckle as

Re: [gentoo-user] crontab not executing

2011-06-20 Thread Todd Goodman
* Grant emailgr...@gmail.com [110619 18:09]: One of my systems has a crontab like this to clean up and consolidate the output of the video monitoring app motion: # crontab -l # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (/home/grant/cron.root.txt installed on Sat Sep 25

Re: [gentoo-user] net-print/hplip-3.11.5 compile fails

2011-06-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 01:40:06PM +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: +*hplip-3.11.5-r1 (19 Jun 2011) + + 19 Jun 2011; Daniel Pielmeier bil...@gentoo.org +hplip-3.11.5-r1.ebuild, + +files/hplip-3.11.5-cups-1.5.patch: + Fix build with cups-1.5, thanks to Dale for the report on the gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] crontab not executing

2011-06-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 08:39:00PM +1000, Adam Carter wrote: /bin/sh is a symlink to bash. Which runs as sh when run from the symlink. I dont understand. runs as usually means runs under the user context to me - are you saying bash has an sh compatibility mode? Yes, from the bash man

Re: [gentoo-user] crontab not executing

2011-06-20 Thread Grant
One of my systems has a crontab like this to clean up and consolidate the output of the video monitoring app motion: # crontab -l # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (/home/grant/cron.root.txt installed on Sat Sep 25 10:42:18 2010) # (Cron version V5.0 -- $Id:

Re: [gentoo-user] crontab not executing

2011-06-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 20 June 2011 15:47:50 Grant wrote: I've switched to this but I can't find the date binary. Does anyone know the full path for date? $ which date /bin/date $ qfile date sys-apps/coreutils (/bin/date) -- Rgds Peter

[gentoo-user] Use split to break up a 10GB file binary?

2011-06-20 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Is split an appropriate program to use to break a single 10GB file into 100 100MB files to transfer over the net using rsync, and then use cat to reassemble? Is there some better way to do this? Thanks, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] tethering an htc incredible

2011-06-20 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I should first add that I have verizon and that I have not contacted them. I am willing to contact them and pay a monthly fee if necessary for the times I am away from normal wifi access (basically two weeks on a NH island). I should also add that in all my attempts I have never had ifconfig

Re: [gentoo-user] Use split to break up a 10GB file binary?

2011-06-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,   Is split an appropriate program to use to break a single 10GB file into 100 100MB files to transfer over the net using rsync, and then use cat to reassemble? I think it should work just fine. I've split huge files

Re: [gentoo-user] Use split to break up a 10GB file binary?

2011-06-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,   Is split an appropriate program to use to break a single 10GB file into 100 100MB files to transfer over the net using rsync, and

Re: [gentoo-user] rc runlevel act strangely

2011-06-20 Thread Per-Erik Westerberg
sön 2011-06-19 klockan 20:33 -0500 skrev Dale: William Hubbs wrote: On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 10:36:47PM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 19 June 2011 16:38:35 Dale wrote: I don't know when it got added but it is on mine. This is in the help page: rc

Re: [gentoo-user] rc runlevel act strangely

2011-06-20 Thread Dale
Per-Erik Westerberg wrote: Well, issuing eselect lists rc as a module and man rc.eselect gives you a list of actions to use and their description : NAME rc.eselect - Runlevel configuration module SYNOPSIS eselect rc [help|usage|version] eselect rc add script

Re: [gentoo-user] Use split to break up a 10GB file binary?

2011-06-20 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Mon, Jun 20 2011, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,   Is split an appropriate program to use to break a single 10GB file into 100 100MB files to transfer over the net using rsync, and then use cat to reassemble? I think it

[gentoo-user] To be a dvd drive or not to be dvd drive...

2011-06-20 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, Attached to a USB port of my PC (linux-2.6.39.1 vanilla) there is a USB to IDE converter, which makes my old dvd burner accessible via my SATA only PC. I thought... When I connect everything as described, insert an empty DVD and start k3b, an error message is displayed saying that there is no

Re: [gentoo-user] Use split to break up a 10GB file binary?

2011-06-20 Thread Michael Hampicke
I was unsure whether rsync would restart where it left off or whether it would start over from the beginning. It's one huge file so it would be painful if it did the latter. This way I know my risk is at most 100MB, or maybe 20MB if I break the original up into smaller pieces. check out the

Re: [gentoo-user] net-print/hplip-3.11.5 compile fails

2011-06-20 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Willie Wong schrieb am 20.06.2011 15:44: On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 01:40:06PM +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Well now that I am aware of it, the issue is known. One of the many reasons I love gentoo. Thanks Daniel. You're welcome! -- Regards Daniel signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstalling older Packages

2011-06-20 Thread kashani
On 6/20/2011 3:33 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Monday, June 20 at 10:03 (+0100), Neil Bothwick said: There is no such option, but you can get expired ebuilds from http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/cat-egory/package Sigh. 2011 and *still* using CVS?! Infrastructure

Re: [gentoo-user] Use split to break up a 10GB file binary?

2011-06-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Mon, Jun 20 2011, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,   Is split an appropriate program to use to break a single 10GB file into 100 100MB files to

Re: [gentoo-user] Use split to break up a 10GB file binary?

2011-06-20 Thread Nils Larsson
On Monday 20 June 2011 08:25:57 Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, Is split an appropriate program to use to break a single 10GB file into 100 100MB files to transfer over the net using rsync, and then use cat to reassemble? Is there some better way to do this? Maybe not better, but you could

Re: [gentoo-user] Use split to break up a 10GB file binary?

2011-06-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Nils Larsson n...@nerdshack.com wrote: On Monday 20 June 2011 08:25:57 Mark Knecht wrote: Hi,    Is split an appropriate program to use to break a single 10GB file into 100 100MB files to transfer over the net using rsync, and then use cat to reassemble?    

Re: [gentoo-user] tethering an htc incredible

2011-06-20 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 20.06.2011 22:00, schrieb Matthew Finkel: Hrm. I do not have an incredible, so I don't know this for certain, but it seems as if the incredible may not support tethering by default... I took a look at some forums and articles, and it seems like in order to get tethering working, some

Re: [gentoo-user] Use split to break up a 10GB file binary?

2011-06-20 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 08:25:57AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote Hi, Is split an appropriate program to use to break a single 10GB file into 100 100MB files to transfer over the net using rsync, and then use cat to reassemble? Is there some better way to do this? That's what split was

Re: [gentoo-user] Use split to break up a 10GB file binary?

2011-06-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 08:25:57AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote Hi,    Is split an appropriate program to use to break a single 10GB file into 100 100MB files to transfer over the net using rsync, and then use cat to

Re: [gentoo-user] Use split to break up a 10GB file binary?

2011-06-20 Thread Indi
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 08:25:57AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, Is split an appropriate program to use to break a single 10GB file into 100 100MB files to transfer over the net using rsync, and then use cat to reassemble? Is there some better way to do this? Just using rsync by

Re: [gentoo-user] Use split to break up a 10GB file binary?

2011-06-20 Thread Mick
On Monday 20 Jun 2011 22:06:59 Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 08:25:57AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote Hi, Is split an appropriate program to use to break a single 10GB file into 100 100MB files to

[gentoo-user] Re: update-modules obsolete?

2011-06-20 Thread walt
On 06/19/2011 02:39 PM, Mick wrote: Have a look at: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml It explains how to get your modules configured so that get loaded at start up. Thanks Mick, I actually did follow those instructions before I posted. The vital step I omitted was to turn

Re: [gentoo-user] rc runlevel act strangely

2011-06-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:24:26 -0500, Dale wrote: I looked on Gentoo.org but I couldn't find it documented there. I found eselect itself but nothing on the rc part. I was curious as to where the OP found it or if we have a user who actually read a man page first. O_O Imagine that. lol It

Re: [gentoo-user] tethering an htc incredible

2011-06-20 Thread Stroller
On 20 June 2011, at 21:10, Sebastian Beßler wrote: Am 20.06.2011 22:00, schrieb Matthew Finkel: ... I took a look at some forums and articles, and it seems like in order to get tethering working, some people downloaded an app called PDAnet[0] I know stock android 2.2 supported tethering

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: update-modules obsolete?

2011-06-20 Thread Dale
walt wrote: On 06/19/2011 02:39 PM, Mick wrote: Have a look at: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml It explains how to get your modules configured so that get loaded at start up. Thanks Mick, I actually did follow those instructions before I posted. The vital step I

Re: [gentoo-user] rc runlevel act strangely

2011-06-20 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:24:26 -0500, Dale wrote: I looked on Gentoo.org but I couldn't find it documented there. I found eselect itself but nothing on the rc part. I was curious as to where the OP found it or if we have a user who actually read a man page first. O_O

Re: [gentoo-user] To be a dvd drive or not to be dvd drive...

2011-06-20 Thread Matthew Finkel
On 06/20/11 13:50, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, Attached to a USB port of my PC (linux-2.6.39.1 vanilla) there is a USB to IDE converter, which makes my old dvd burner accessible via my SATA only PC. I thought... When I connect everything as described, insert an empty DVD and start k3b,

Re: [gentoo-user] To be a dvd drive or not to be dvd drive...

2011-06-20 Thread meino . cramer
Matthew Finkel matthew.fin...@gmail.com [11-06-21 01:24]: On 06/20/11 13:50, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, Attached to a USB port of my PC (linux-2.6.39.1 vanilla) there is a USB to IDE converter, which makes my old dvd burner accessible via my SATA only PC. I thought... When I

Re: [gentoo-user] Phrases

2011-06-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:43:42 +, JDM wrote: Where do you get all those funky expressions from at the end of your emails? Is there a Genapp ebuild? They've been painstakingly accumulated over 20 years of email use. Basically, when I see a tagline I like, I steal^H^H^H^H^Hmake a backup copy

Re: [gentoo-user] Phrases

2011-06-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 06:59:36 -0500, Dale wrote: No offense Neil, I read the sig even if I don't read your replies., lol That's probably a good policy. I'll have to remember that the next time I want to insult you, to do it in my sig :P -- Neil Bothwick Plagarism prohibited. Derive

[gentoo-user] kdepim-4.6.0 woes

2011-06-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
Before, I beginning, I need dox, not solutions :-) I'm having the devil's own time with kdepim after upgrading to 4.6.0. Apart from the calendar (more on this later), everything seemed fine. Several kontact restarts and several reboots later it was still fine. Then suddenly kmail decided to

Re: [gentoo-user] tethering an htc incredible

2011-06-20 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Mon, Jun 20 2011, strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 20 June 2011, at 21:10, Sebastian Beßler wrote: Am 20.06.2011 22:00, schrieb Matthew Finkel: ... I took a look at some forums and articles, and it seems like in order to get tethering working, some people downloaded an app called

Re: [gentoo-user] Use split to break up a 10GB file binary?

2011-06-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Indi thebeelzebubtrig...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 08:25:57AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi,    Is split an appropriate program to use to break a single 10GB file into 100 100MB files to transfer over the net using rsync, and then use cat to

Re: [gentoo-user] tethering an htc incredible

2011-06-20 Thread Stroller
On 21 June 2011, at 01:16, Allan Gottlieb wrote: ... It is my phone that has the problem and I bought it from verizon. None of the boxes are greyed out. However, I don't see a tethering option. I do see a mobile broadband option that seems to be tethering and I can set it. This changes

Re: [gentoo-user] tethering an htc incredible

2011-06-20 Thread Stroller
On 21 June 2011, at 02:23, Stroller wrote: ... One preliminary question remains. When you mod the linux kernel and don't even have the phone plugged in (or don't even have a phone), are you supposed to get the usb0 interface. I do not get such an interface, which is why I suspect the

Re: [gentoo-user] Phrases

2011-06-20 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 06:59:36 -0500, Dale wrote: No offense Neil, I read the sig even if I don't read your replies., lol That's probably a good policy. I'll have to remember that the next time I want to insult you, to do it in my sig :P Well, it depends

Re: [gentoo-user] To be a dvd drive or not to be dvd drive...

2011-06-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 21 June 2011 01:34:09 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Matthew Finkel matthew.fin...@gmail.com [11-06-21 01:24]: On 06/20/11 13:50, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, Attached to a USB port of my PC (linux-2.6.39.1 vanilla) there is a USB to IDE converter, which makes my old dvd

Re: [gentoo-user] tethering an htc incredible

2011-06-20 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Mon, Jun 20 2011, strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 21 June 2011, at 01:16, Allan Gottlieb wrote: ... It is my phone that has the problem and I bought it from verizon. None of the boxes are greyed out. However, I don't see a tethering option. I do see a mobile broadband option

Re: [gentoo-user] tethering an htc incredible

2011-06-20 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Mon, Jun 20 2011, strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 21 June 2011, at 02:23, Stroller wrote: ... One preliminary question remains. When you mod the linux kernel and don't even have the phone plugged in (or don't even have a phone), are you supposed to get the usb0 interface. I do