Re: [gentoo-user] Regular user can't offload usb camera`

2005-12-29 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
On Thursday 29 December 2005 18:28, Christoph Eckert wrote: Hi Michael, My personal account (michael) cannot offload pictures from my usb digital camera - only root can do it.  michael is in the usb group. There used to be a file called /etc/security/console.perms which allowed the

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/hda not created

2006-01-11 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 21:20, Michael George wrote: I've got one of my servers that doesn't have /dev/hda on it at boot time. I've got a lite-on DVD burner there that works just fine (once I create the device) and is noted as hda in the boot messages. However, /dev/hda doesn't exist.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Can bash do comments on files?

2006-02-12 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
On Sunday 12 February 2006 23:03, Alan E. Davis wrote: I remember a little MSDOG shell utility called 4dos. It alllowed me to store comments that would appear alongside the filename. Can anyone point to a way to do this transparently and easily with bash? I don't want to run any extra

[gentoo-user] iPodder

2005-05-11 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
Hi, Im trying to get iPodder running under gentoo. But since I'm not much of a python head I hope someone can help me out. The error I get is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] iPodder]# ./ipodder.sh Traceback (most recent call last): File iPodderGui.py, line 38, in ? import iPodderWindows File

[gentoo-user] emerge/build problem

2005-05-18 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
Hi, Since a few days, and after emerging a number of packages, emerge doesn't seem to be able to find libraries in the /usr/lib directory anymore. Or beter, as far as I can see it doesn't even look there. The problem shows while it looks for the openssl libraries. Already compiled programs

Re: [gentoo-user] complaints about world file and ooodi

2005-11-22 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
On Tuesday 22 November 200 portage says something is wrong with my world file. emaint --check world produces this output: 'app-office/ooodi' has no ebuilds available What am I to do? My first reaction would be to go to the /usr/portage/app-office en to remove or rename the ooodi dir. If

[gentoo-user] Compiling kde-meta for 3.5

2005-12-06 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
As I try to emerge kde-meta I run into the following error: /usr/kde/3.5/bin/meinproc --check --cache index.cache.bz2 ./index.docbook XPath error : Undefined variable compilation error: file /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/ksgmltools2/docbook/xsl/html/autotoc.xsl line 544 element

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED: Compiling kde-meta for 3.5

2005-12-09 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 22:45, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: As it seems xmlto needs the latest libxlst 1.1.15 and DOESN'T have a dependency for it. As I try to emerge kde-meta I run into the following error: /usr/kde/3.5/bin/meinproc --check --cache index.cache.bz2 ./index.docbook

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

2005-12-09 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
On Friday 09 December 2005 23:20, Tom Smith wrote: Gentoo is a source-based distribution. This means that the software you receive comes in the form of source code. It's up to you to install (which includes compiling) the software with your specific preferences--this is what makes Gentoo what

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

2005-12-10 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
On Saturday 10 December 2005 11:58, Holly Bostick wrote: Gerhard Hoogterp schreef: While this is true and one of the things that makes gentoo gentoo, there are already binary packages in portage. mozilla-bin, openoffice-bin. Mostly big packages which take some time to compile. So

[gentoo-user] mediamanager tries to open wrong path

2007-01-31 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
Hi, I try to install udev/hal/pmount in such a way that my usb devices are automounted. But not with a changable name in the media folder, but with a fixed name like /mnt/camera (or /media/camera.. whatever. As long as it's the same every time..) At this moment most things work, but when I

Re: [gentoo-user] mediamanager tries to open wrong path

2007-01-31 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 22:09, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:31:03 +0100, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: So adding a line to the fstab file just screws up the system as it seems. Removing it leaves me with changable names in the media folder (/media/disk, media/disk-1

Re: [gentoo-user] mediamanager tries to open wrong path

2007-01-31 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
pmount.allow only specifies which devices may be automounted. When mounting, pmount gets the name from either the disk's volume name or the device. Does your camera use a removable memory card? If so, try putting it in a card reader and setting the volume name with mkdosfs or mtools. My

Re: [gentoo-user] mediamanager tries to open wrong path (SOLVED)

2007-02-01 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
On Thursday 01 February 2007 00:44, Neil Bothwick wrote: There is a way round this. It is possible, somewhere in the config of pmount/hal, to have devices mounted according to the /dev name only. I can't remember where this is, but Google and/or grep should find it. After some searching

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my postfix being used as a relay?

2006-03-16 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
On Thursday 16 March 2006 20:12, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I get a lot of bounce messages from Postfix relating to emails that are not actually from me, and the mail q shows lots of stuff I don't recognize. I'd like to know how to interpret this, and if it is called-for, to secure this daemon a

Re: [gentoo-user] Unpacking an ISO Image

2006-05-16 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
On Tuesday 16 May 2006 17:18, Kris Kerwin wrote: Quick question. Is there any way that one can unpack an ISO image: extracting the data that is contained within it like a tarball, without having to burn it to a CD? I'm sure there's an option somewhere within either the mkisofs or cdrecord man

Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server

2006-06-06 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
On Tuesday 06 June 2006 17:38, JimD wrote: From my perspective, I don't want an ftp server that will allow someone to get in to my gentoo box by brute forcing a username and password. I guess I can install something like denyhosts if the ftp server uses tcp wrappers. Maybe winscp is a

Re: [gentoo-user] Null Modem Cables Between Windoze XP and Linux

2006-06-24 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
On Saturday 24 June 2006 21:49, Lord Sauron wrote: I dug out of this ancient computer book (Upgrading and Repairing PCs 12th Ed.) this relic technology of the Null Modem Cable. It's a twisted Parallel Cable that allows 2 PCs to almost literally talk to each other. While there were cables

Re: [gentoo-user] graphical ssh-enabled file system browser?

2006-06-24 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
On Saturday 24 June 2006 22:00, Mark Knecht wrote: I use WinSCP on my WinXP machine. It works really great for this purpose. Something like that which is Linux based would be great for them but I cannot yet find anythign in the Online Package Database. Probably I'm just not searching with

Re: [gentoo-user] Null Modem Cables Between Windoze XP and Linux

2006-06-25 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
On Sunday 25 June 2006 22:02, John J. Foster wrote: On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 12:46:16PM -0700, Lord Sauron wrote: I have it on extremely good authority that it goes 2MB/sec. it's always a good thing to question authority. Well, the used protocol has to do with it too.. and what I remember

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

2006-07-08 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
When I say yes I mean yes. When I say no I mean no. And I don't mean just until the next update either. I have reasons for my settings; please don't act like Windows and assume that you know better than me. And there is no excuse whatsoever for wiping out the custom settings in

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

2006-07-11 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
I think there's a mis-understanding here. Gerhard and I are complaining about config files being possibly *OVERWRITTEN* with default settings. If there's no config file, sure write the default config file. But if someone has customized a config file, assume that they know what