On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 17:41 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
'new version' means 1.4. And yes, 1.4 has some annoying bugs - like
the leds of the keyboard not working anymore.
Strange, updating the 1.4 caused my keyboard leds to START working !
Same here. My LEDs indicators were wrong prior to
On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 18:58 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My sister has posted some video of my nieces wedding online for the
family to view.
When I hit the site (on WindowsXP) my browser (firefox) displays it in
quicktime. I don't see any opportunity to download the file and I
hate to
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 09:02 -0800, Grant wrote:
Does anyone know of a front end for ffmpeg or any GUI in portage that
will convert .mov files to .swf?
Avidemux can convert to FLV, which is probably what you'd prefer.
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On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 07:12 -0800, Grant wrote:
I'd just like to reiterate that most of those don't need any extra
security. SSH and HTTPS are already secure, and IMAP and SMTP can be
accessed over SSL (like HTTPS). These are all secure enough to be
widely used without extra layers of
On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 12:03 -0800, Grant wrote:
Good points Albert. Is a daily 'emerge --sync emerge -avDuN world'
generally enough as far as tracking security vulnerabilities?
- Grant
That's not really for me to say. But I can tell you that although the
Gentoo developers take matters of
On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 16:03 +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
Hi folks,
after reading several articles about Mainframes and similar archs
(even ancient ones like B7000), I wonder if Linux world could
learn something from there.
One very interesting point (IMHO) is the storage abstraction.
On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 15:18 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
As for the performances, could you tell me if there is a gap between
nv and the proprietary driver ? I Never tried the later.
I'll let someone more current answer that - I haven't done head to
head
comparisons on nvidia for ages.
On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 17:08 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
The nv driver has *no* 3D acceleration and limited 2D acceleration
due
to nVidia's refusal to release the specs needed to create a decent
OSS
driver.
since the nv driver is written by nvidia, who needs specs?
The nv driver
On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 10:48 -0600, darren kirby wrote:
I thought the Xorg folks wrote the nv driver?
They do, but the nv driver code was written by someone paid by nVidia
and hasn't really had any significant work done on it in years.
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On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 16:56 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
There's a damn good reason why rhythmbox does does depend on -meta.
That will never happen, so you should get over it.
The GNOME 2.22 versions of Rhythmbox and Sound Juicer depend on
gst-plugins-meta.
So you should get over it.
--a
On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 17:10 -0500, Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
While updating world and after emerging a new version of texinfo, I
received the following error when it tried to remove the old version:
==
sys-apps/texinfo
selected: 4.8-r5
On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 16:09 +0200, b.n. wrote:
where could I look to understand what's different between the two
systems?
The DVD drive?
-a
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On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 12:58 -0400, Benjamin Leggett wrote:
Alright guys, I'm a beginner in need of a little shell help.
What I want to do is make fbrun (the run dialog for fluxbox) aware of
my bashrc. Upon perusing the source, I found that fbrun execs the
given
string with $SHELL if set,
On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 12:03 -0500, Chris Frederick wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying to set up the portage directory to be hosted over nfs.
Everything is working great but I would like to increase the security
a
little. I was wondering if there's an easy way to restrict 'emerge
--sync' to only
On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 15:03 -0500, Chris Frederick wrote:
Albert Hopkins wrote:
On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 12:03 -0500, Chris Frederick wrote:
[..]
Also you should disable locking on distfiles if you use it over NFS:
FEATURES=-distlocks.
-a
Why would I need to disable locking
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 16:47 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After updating to 2008 pkgset after merging openrc I lost the
net.eth0 link.. I see other have seen this and even at least 2 bug
reports but the cure is said to be recreating by hand.
I find that not to work... DETAILS:
First,
On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 11:41 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote:
I've been struggling with network managing in my laptop for some time
now. There's no decent way to keep it on config files. I connect to a
LOT of completely different wired and wireless networks.
I'm using Gnome, but I have all KDE
Well, I tried downgrading to version 0.5.4 of wpa_supplicant but it
didn't help with the situation. The error logs show a time-out
communicating with the AP.
-a
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On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 15:19 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
Hi folks,
I'm trying to install win2k on xen w/ hw-virtualization.
The vm boots into the installer and tells it collects some
system information - from that point on it hangs.
One point I already figured out is I forgot to include
On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 18:00 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Hi all,
Here follows a quick heads up to save someone's hair (mine's been pulled
out).
If you emerge --sync emerge world today, make sure you do it the
right way this time:
1. read the elogs
2. revdep-rebuild
3. then and only
On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 17:32 -0500, Roy Wright wrote:
Howdy,
I'm looking to add three more drives to my system for a software RAID5
media volume. I've used all my motherboard SATA ports so need a SATA
controller. I don't want a hardware RAID controller (been there, burned
when controller
On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 09:28 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi,
This is somewhat off topic. Ignore if it's of no interest.
I've got a DOS program called SpinRite that does low-level testing
of hard drives. I have the program in two forms:
1) A bootable CD that just runs the program
2) A
On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 09:52 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
Hey. I like old fashioned.
How does that handle the 'bootable' part of the CD? I presume there is
the equivalent of an MBR on a CD so the PC can get started. Is that
visible copying the root of the drive? (I'm at a Windows box as I
write
On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 12:24 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
Well if it's El Torito you just point mkisofs to the boot image. But
since you say it's a DOS CD, who knows.
-a
Can you clarify what you mean by 'point
On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 14:25 -0500, Tony Caudel wrote:
On the other hand, plenty of us then forward this mail to our
windoze-using friends who would be very unhappy if we infected them.
Then let them get the anti-virus software.
-a
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On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 00:00 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote:
Yep, gentoo.org really seems to have been created from devs and users
for devs and users. There is nothing like a Features page or Why to
choose Gentoo for newcomers. Heck, you have to search hard to even
learn whether it is suitable
On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 13:24 +0200, Martin Lehmann wrote:
Hi,
i want to use lomount for mounting a partition out of a diskimage.
I am sure that lomount is part of sys-apps/util-linux, but it is not
there after the emerge.
Any hints?
It's parte of xen-tools. But if you don't want the
On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 16:39 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:
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has resulted in two things:
My being completely separated from [EMAIL PROTECTED], and instead using
[EMAIL
On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 21:50 +0200, Abraham Gyorgy wrote:
Hello guys, in which configuration file can I set a nice level for
X11? (this makes all graphical software run much faster, at least when
I used Debian).
I forget, but I tried it a while back and didn't see positive results.
In my
Well after acquiring my first very own mobile phone only three years ago
I've come to destroying it last night. So now I'm in the market for a
new phone. I'd prefer something Linux/OSS friendly, but I really have
no idea right now what's out in the (U.S.) market other than iPhone
which I'm not
On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 15:33 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
I've just tried to emerge the svn ebuild of madwifi-ng after a kernel
update. I have previously merged this so I have working sources in
$DISTDIR/svn-src but svn.madwifi.org is down. The emerge bails out when
it is unable to contact the
On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 12:28 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote:
For some reason when I run Ekiga it doesn't detect any v4l or v4l2
drivers...Only picture...
Does the OS detect your device? I.E:
1. Do you see it in dmesg?
2. Does a device get created (e.g. /dev/video0)
3. Can you
On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 21:00 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote:
On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 11:41:49AM -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote:
On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 12:28 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote:
For some reason when I run Ekiga it doesn't detect any v4l or v4l2
drivers...Only picture...
Does
On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 12:10 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote:
[...]
now I have another issue, because my
microphone doesn't seem to want to work in Ekiga ... I can get
playback
through my speakers (using alsamixer) but no matter what I do I can't
get Ekiga's echoing system to echo back my
On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 14:30 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote:
On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 12:14:30PM -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote:
On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 12:10 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote:
[...]
now I have another issue, because my
microphone doesn't seem to want to work in Ekiga ... I can get
On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 16:31 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote:
Yessir, it does...
dev-libs/pwlib-1.10.10-r1 USE=alsa ldap sdl ssl v4l xml -debug
-ieee1394 -ipv6 -oss -sasl -v4l2
Is there anything else I should check? Perhaps I should enable OSS
support as well...? I mean, it may work,
Last year I bought a Dell Inspiron that did not come with any software
cd. The drive, came with XP pre-installed as well as a recovery
partition that you could use to restore the XP partition to factory. Of
course it runs Gentoo. What I did was:
1. Boot with a live cd (or better yet
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 17:58 +, James wrote:
Albert Hopkins marduk at gentoo.org writes:
[...]
I'm not sure if Vista versus XP make any difference. In a recent post
on this list about grub one reader posted about the fact that with
Vista the boot.ini file is gone. I'm not sure
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 21:29 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote:
Well, actually we are using both (chainloading ntldr by grub) and if you are
changing the partition scheme, you might need to work with it.
Sorry I was confused.
[...]
Sorry when I said boot via liveCD I wasn't specifically
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 21:45 +, James wrote:
Ok Albert,
I'm convinced. I'm going to give your suggestions a whirl.
One cautious step I'm adding as suggested, is to back up the
virgin drive with DD.
I'm looking for a cable so that I can copy the sony drive
onto a gentoo partition of
Enclosures are great when you want to keep a drive in there. But in
the case that you want to - say - pull the hard-drive out of your
laptop and plug it into a desktop PC for just a few minutes these
adaptor cables are very useful indeed. The link above prices them
at $17 - a price
On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 08:49 +0200, Luigi Pinna wrote:
That is no true.
If you copy your old .config and give make, the make asks you for all
new options (I think that is the right one make oldconfig)
Luigi
No. What you seeing is a little different. If you read the Makefile:
# If .config
On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 13:38 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
I seem to see this from time to time when I look at the emerge logs
that are emailed to me by portage, and I never know what to make of
it.
This one is from kde-base/kcontrol-3.5.5:
LOG: preinst
On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 20:56 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote:
I already tried rebuilding the kernel to ensure that DMA was compiled
into it. It doesn't have any affect on the DVD drive - with or
without
DMA compiled into the kernel, there is still no sound when trying to
play an audio CD.
Are
On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 14:54 +0200, Jules Colding wrote:
Hi,
I have an ebuild (see below) for a small keyring daemon. I would like
to
kill the daemon process, if it is running, whenever it is emerged
again
to ensure that no running daemon process refers to an old install.
Is there a
While we're on the subject...
I'd like to the free software user community. Free software would be
meaningless without you. I especially appreciate the users who have
* Used free software.
* Submitted bug reports, ideas, corrections, artwork,
documentation, translations,
On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 13:33 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote:
Hi list,
I've been struggling with this for a while, I am setting up this new
machine, but got stuck because I can't find a way to make the network
card work... According to lspci:
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 13:23 +0300, Alex V. Fansky wrote:
Hello,
I want command xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap to be executed on my X.org start
and even
restart. Where is the best place to put it?
Kinda depends on how you start your X session. I'll talk about the ones
I know about:
* If you use
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 03:04 +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote:
Hi, list
I'd like to automate a full re-emerging and to get a record of all
packages that failed. Something like:
##
emerge -e world || {
echo $CATEGORY/$PN failed.txt
while ! emerge --resume --skipfirst
do
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 21:21 -0300, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote:
Hi. I have instability in my PC and I highly suspect it is caused by
hardware problems in my TV card. I would like to clean its contacts
and see if it, by a miracle, solves the problem. But I don't want to
make it worse.
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 15:47 -0400, James Colby wrote:
All -
Does anyone know if there is an upgrade path from Beryl to
Compiz-Fusion. I am currently running Beryl on my laptop and would
like to try out the new Compiz-Fusion. Do I need to unmerge the Beryl
packages before I install
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 20:33 -0400, James Colby wrote:
Thanks, I used the above procedure and it compiled and runs well. The
only complaint that I have is that I have no windows decorations
unless
I open up a shell and manually execute emerald . Any ideas on how to
get emerald to run on
On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 13:31 +0200, Pongracz Istvan wrote:
Hi,
I put the v. of compiz-fusion for the latest (7.3) xorg, with the
latest i810 driver, right now.
Everything seems ok, except, any of the content doesn't refreshed.
Even
desktop, windows, popup-menus etc.
This was my
I've been having this problem on one of my machines for a while. As a
user or as root I cannot run chage:
$ chage -l marduk
chage: can't open password file
I've looked at /etc/passwd*, /etc/shadow* /etc/group* and /etc/gshadow*
and all the permissions look fine. It works on
On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 11:15 -0300, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote:
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Alexander Skwar wrote:
Well, I also found myself being unable to start sshd, but
these most often were due to some configuration changes.
And exactly for this is why
On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 13:30 -0400, Ryan Sims wrote:
This is just triage, but what are the permissions on /etc/passwd?
$ /bin/ls
-l /etc/passwd* /etc/shadow* /etc/group* /etc/gshadow* /usr/bin/chage
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1404 2007-09-08 17:39 /etc/group
-rw--- 1 root root 1389 2007-06-30
On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 21:48 +0200, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
What does stracing the program show?
As root it does an open(/etc/passwd, O_RDONLY) twice. Both times it
gets a file handle.
As user, same thing, but it also tries to open /etc/shadow RDONLY and,
of course, gets a Permission denied.
On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 21:08 +0100, Peter Ruskin wrote:
Check your perms for gshadow:
$ /bin/ls
-l /etc/passwd* /etc/shadow* /etc/group* /etc/gshadow* /usr/bin/chage
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1646 2007-04-14 00:45 /etc/group
-rw--- 1 root root 1630 2007-04-01 11:04 /etc/group-
-rw---
On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 23:09 +0200, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
This is different from what you said before. You said that running as
root or as an user made no difference, and in both cases you were
getting can't open password file.
You never mentioned a permission
denied
Permission denied is
On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 23:15 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote:
Can you post sudo strace -eopen chage -l marduk ?
$ whoami
marduk
$ chage -l marduk
chage: can't open password file
$ strace -eopen chage -l marduk
open(/etc/ld.so.cache, O_RDONLY) = 3
open(/lib/libcrypt.so.1, O_RDONLY)= 3
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 10:14 +0200, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
As Norberto said, can you post the full output of strace chage -l
marduk run *as root* (ie, not with sudo)?
By popular demand...
execve(/usr/bin/chage, [chage, -l, marduk], [/* 65 vars */]) = 0
brk(0) =
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 10:14 +0200, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
Note the chage: PAM authentication failed *only* occurs when I run
under strace and only then when I run as a user.
This is normal, since the suid is ignored when the program is
straced.
Yes, that makes complete sense now that I
Ok the mystery continues. On another box, strider, chage -l works so
this is what I did (don't try this at home):
$ mkdir /tmp/strider_passwd
$ scp strider:/etc/passwd /tmp/strider_passwd
$ scp strider:/etc/shadow /tmp/strider_passwd
$ mv /etc/passwd
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 20:32 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote:
I almost know the reply to this one, but it won't hurt:
LC_ALL=C chage -l marduk
Yeah, I've already tried that. It didn't make a difference.
I've also tried compiling shadow/pam with/without NLS support and shadow
without PAM
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 18:56 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote:
[...]
I think i'm going to have to use gdb (yeck) and
step through the program.
Well, I hate to sound like a ricer, but apparently it's my CFLAGS :|
CFLAGS=-O2 -march=k8 -msse3 -ggdb -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer
I have an Athlon
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 22:08 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote:
Hmmm... I have one of those. Try:
CFLAGS=-march=athlon64 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe
No, doesn't work. I'm going to try downgrading GCC (w/o any
optimizations), re-compiling shadow with my original CFLAGS and see what
happens.
--
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 20:16 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote:
No, doesn't work. I'm going to try downgrading GCC (w/o any
optimizations), re-compiling shadow with my original CFLAGS and see
what
happens.
# grep ^CFLAGS /etc/make.conf
CFLAGS=-O2 -march=k8 -msse3 -ggdb -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 23:01 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote:
Or with your CFLAGS:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep ^model\ name | head -n 1
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ grep CFLAG /etc/make.conf
CFLAGS=-march=athlon64
On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 17:03 +0200, David Harel wrote:
I was surprised to find that in man bash the reference to
initialization
files is wrong. The bash manual says it reads initialization files
from
/etc/profile:
FILES
/bin/bash
The bash executable
/etc/profile
On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 03:43 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
Changing CHOST is valid when you have e.g. an i386 CHOST and want to
change it
to i686. It is not an option for going from 32 bit to 64 bit. You need
to
reinstall.
Below is what I did a few years ago. YMMV. There may be a
Oops, forgot to paste the link:
http://starship.python.net/crew/marduk/blog/entry/1112117933.9,14473
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On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 12:31 +0200, Pol wrote:
I would pay for _in place_ assistance to install gentoo / kde on my
laptop
I am living in northern italy
Since i have never compiled everything from scratch (as the gentoo
user should do), assistance would save my time and offer the
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 15:06 -0700, maxim wexler wrote:
Determines if the drive is master or slave in the
BIOS.
But perhaps you're thinking of something else. I'm
astonished that someone doesn't know that.
If you ever put a IDE drive in a PC you would have to
know what the jumper is
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 13:30 -0700, Grant wrote:
Does anyone else get entries like this in their apache2 access_log:
127.0.0.1 - - [26/Sep/2007:03:10:08 -0700] GET / 400 470
I get a whole slew of them every day. They always show up in batches
and each entry in a batch is logged at almost
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 18:51 -0700, Grant wrote:
I'm not doing any sort of monitoring like that. What is that 470?
I noticed the log entries always include that, at least for the last
10 days.
470 is the size of the HTTP response (read
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/logs.html). The client
On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 22:41 +0300, Thanasis wrote:
How can we set the xdm/gdm not to start before the agetty processes
(during the boot phase)?
I actually run /etc/init.d/xdm manually after a boot because, chances
are, if I've rebooted my machine there's stuff I'm gonna want to do from
the
On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 15:26 -0700, Grant wrote:
Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard
system?
I pretty much back up everything that's not ubiquitous on the Internet
on a on an external drive. Disk space is so cheap these days so I figure
why not.
--
Albert W. Hopkins
On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 19:43 -0500, Dan Farrell wrote:
# rc-upate del xdm
# echo '/etc/init.d/xdm start' /etc/conf.d/local.start
I don't think you'd need to add anything to local.stop but you may
wanna verify that.
--
Albert W. Hopkins
You might want to stop XDM gracefully
On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 00:05 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote:
Somenow I've overlooked that my /tmp file has been filling up with
large files for over a year.
May I ask what is a reasonable way to handle the /tmp directory,
without deleting large files that are maybe only a few days old?
On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 21:23 -0500, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
I've been using 64 bit linux for almost two years: I don't have any
single problem, and I only use two 32 bit binary programs: Firefox
(for Flash) and MPlayer (for the win32codecs).
Everything else is native 64 bit and works like
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 16:50 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote:
-Original Message-
I was wondering what would happen if someone downloaded some music
illegally or some child porn? How would you prove it was them and not
you? Being a good neighbor is nice but you need to be
careful
On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 14:28 -0500, Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
Weather has just released a beta app for linux.
Check it out - http://linux.weatherbug.com/
This is pretty funny. At a previous place of employment we were trying
to crack down on web usage. One of the sites that seemed to get the
On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 11:53 -0300, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote:
I unmerged postgresql 8.0.3 in order to emerge 8.2.x, now when i try
to do anything i get the following message:
psql: FATAL: database files are incompatible with server
DETAIL: The data directory was initialized by PostgreSQL
On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 12:01 -0300, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote:
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Rafael Barrera Oro wrote:
i deleted previous /var/lib/postgresql in order to be able to emerge the
new version, so i am clueless...
So, you deleted your databases??
On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 12:10 -0300, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote:
I just installed it so i did not have any useful data. I must admit
though, i did not stop the database before unmerging and emerging,
however i did run emerge --config afterwards.
You should have stopped the database before you
On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 07:56 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
I'm not sure I get what your problem is. If you could tell more about
what
you have (i.e. how are the partitions on those two drives used
currently)
and what you want, it would be much easier to help.
Just wanted to chime in with
On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 16:59 -0400, Alfredo Perez wrote:
Hi
I did an update of the system and I noticed that vlc got updated.
Now I can open movies but the rest of the gui does not come out.
What I am refering to is the gui where you can rew/ff the movie.
Possibly check the wxwindows and
On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 17:28 -0200, Bruno Lustosa wrote:
[blah]
So, I was asking myself how is the process of making one package going
from unstable to stable on Gentoo.
In fact, when I told him my distro's stable version was 8.0.13, he
asked if I was running Debian :)
1. Check bugzilla
On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 21:24 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
Hello Don Jerman,
So / and /boot will be smallish physical partitions - I use the
minimum size for /boot and around 10G for root,
When did 10GB become small for a root partition? I have a 400MB root
partition, 35% full, no /boot
On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 19:35 +0200, Ralf Stephan wrote:
Thanks, that was it. I relied on the usual etc-update to do such
things. I mean, if I install a font, I sure want it in the xconfig?
That's not what etc-update does. etc-update is just a tool that helps
you manage files that a package
On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 00:50 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
I've got my new box booting correctly
am c 30 % thro' re-merging all the pkgs listed by 'emerge -ep
system', some of which were installed from Stage 3, but now have
later
versions. I never fall for 'emerge world' or 'emerge
On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 14:35 +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote:
Hi, ppl
I have the habit of imposing some limitations over all users via
/etc/security/limits.conf. For example I used to limit the number of
concurrent processes one can execute to prevent the system from simple
misuses like fork
On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 00:02 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote:
I'm wondering what's the advantage of using a special group for each
user. Doesn't it just make user administration more complicated?
It's explained here http://tinyurl.com/4bn9h
Basically it aids in the sharing of files/directories
On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 14:03 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote:
Hi list!
I'm in need of a backup tool and an advice would be helpful because I
need some special functionality.
I want to make backups from my laptop to a cardreader (pcmcia), making
daily full and hourly incremental backups *if
On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 15:32 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote:
Could I see that script? How do you invoke it, anacron/fcron?
--
#!/bin/sh
OUTFILE=/root/backup.tar.pgp
tar -c --one-file-system -X /etc/mybackup.exclude -C / . ./boot | \
gpg --encrypt -r [EMAIL PROTECTED] --yes $OUTFILE
---
I
On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 17:29 +, James wrote:
Hello,
I do not read as much as I should, but, I stumbled across this page [1]
that suggests that EVMS is dead. I see it is in portage, but is it
slated for the trash, as time moves forward? Sure it's Ubuntu site, but
they claim EVMS is
On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 11:43 -0600, Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
Jarry wrote:
Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
How does the kernel (2.6.22) determine the order of SATA drives (sda,
sdb, etc.) when it boots up?
I just checked my computer, and sda is the drive plugged in
the first sata-port, and
On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 18:01 -0500, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
given that I frequently play the role of the heretic (complete with burn
scars
all over my body and various bits of damage from the weapons of true
believers)
I think it's a good thing that EVMS is slated for the trash heap.
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 09:24 -0800, Grant wrote:
I was thinking it would be pretty handy to generate a series of
transposed (or not) graphs for data like cpu usage, mysql usage,
memory usage, external monitoring response times, http traffic, etc.
My external monitoring service has an API I can
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 09:24 -0800, Grant wrote:
I was thinking it would be pretty handy to generate a series of
transposed (or not) graphs for data like cpu usage, mysql usage,
memory usage, external monitoring response times, http traffic, etc.
My external monitoring service has an API I can
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