Re: [gentoo-user] How does Portage prioritze emerges in emerge world?

2005-11-26 Thread Holly Bostick
Zac Medico schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: This sounds great, but what about the kernel I'm booted into, against which the module will *not* be compiled, if I have to reboot before actually configuring/compiling/installing the new kernel? You can get pretty close to your desired

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Home Network Printing

2005-12-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Mick schreef: Richard Fish wrote: On 11/30/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you running cups? And if so, post the output of: grep -v ^# /etc/cups/cupsd.conf | grep -v ^$ for both systems. Thanks Richard, this is what I get from box 1 (this is the client):

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Still not getting how to influence compile flags with emerge

2005-12-02 Thread Holly Bostick
Mick schreef: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 19:55:47 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 16:25:07 - Michael Kintzios | [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | Which USE flag will make that +xterm_clipboard | | | | This is a

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing old version of a package

2005-12-03 Thread Holly Bostick
Leandro Melo de Sales schreef: Hi folks, Recently I installed mysql using emerge mysql, but the version that was installed is 4.1.14, but I'd like to install the last available version of the 4.0 release. How can I do this? dev-db/mysql Available versions: 3.23.58-r1 4.0.25-r2

Re: [gentoo-user] Package conflicts

2005-12-03 Thread Holly Bostick
Leandro Melo de Sales schreef: Hi folks, I'm trying to make a world update, but I got the following: # emerge -uD world Calculating world dependencies ...done! !!! Error: the =kde-base/kcheckpass-3.4* package conflicts with another package. !!!both can't be installed on the same

Re: [gentoo-user] Need drive space, what to delete?

2005-12-04 Thread Holly Bostick
Dale schreef: LOL It helped a little bit, but not much. swifty / # df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda6 3564108 3505584 58524 99% / udev12738880127308 1% /dev /dev/hda148312

Re: [gentoo-user] Need drive space, what to delete?

2005-12-04 Thread Holly Bostick
Dale schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: 3 (Tough Love): You don't want to get rid of KDE, but there's a good chance you don't need all of KDE-- you might consider trimming it. I plan to let my mom use it if I move so I hope I can keep it all. Now, see, that's where you lose me because

Re: [gentoo-user] problems emergeing (through winxp shared connection)

2005-12-05 Thread Holly Bostick
Nacho schreef: Hi, I'm trying to emerge kde-meta, but i get stuck here (the error reproduces with emerge kde-meta): -- gentoo ~ # emerge kde-meta Calculating

Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size

2005-12-05 Thread Holly Bostick
Joseph schreef: Please excuse me for interrupting when I know nothing about this issue at all, but: I keep noticing that latex seems to supercede divps Sql-Ledger is using latex forms to generate invoices. So to my understanding the program will be using dvips to convert latex to postscript

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] straggling with paper size

2005-12-05 Thread Holly Bostick
Joseph schreef: SOLVED, SOLVED! Believe me or not, I'm not sure what I did. Don't care (since I don't know anything about this anyway) ;-) ; I'm just happy for you. Congratulations Persistence pays (as does restarting a server or two, apparently). :-D Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I force an unmerge? [SOLVED]

2005-12-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Daevid Vincent schreef: Well, it doesn't actually 'solve' the original question, but I did figure out why superkaramba kept showing up. emerge -Davut world revealed several plugins related to karamba. So unmerging ALL of them, finally made the block go away. The obnoxious part was that

Re: [gentoo-user] problems in world file?

2005-12-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Ernie Schroder schreef: Calculating world dependencies !!! Problems have been detected with your world file !!! Please run emaint --check world I checked for updates to world while I was updating KDE to 3.5 and got the above message. Should I worry yet? Let's see... you expect one instance

Re: [gentoo-user] problems in world file?

2005-12-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Willie Wong schreef: On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 07:56:22PM +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: Ernie Schroder schreef: Calculating world dependencies !!! Problems have been detected with your world file !!! Please run emaint --check world I checked for updates to world while I was updating KDE

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC-3.4 update: python error...

2005-12-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Jarry schreef: What does 'gcc-config -l' say? obelix ~ # gcc-config -l /usr/bin/gcc-config: line 632: /etc/env.d/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.6: No such file or directory * /usr/bin/gcc-config: Profile does not exist or invalid setting for /etc/env.d/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.6 [1]

Re: [gentoo-user] problems in world file?

2005-12-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 20:33:58 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: There are reasons that major Portage processes are not supposed to be carried out concurrently. It's true that while I'm upgrading KDE, I probably could emerge... oh, mutt... at the same time in another

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with world update

2005-12-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Rafael Fernández López schreef: Hello, I am running a emerge -u world and there is a package (realplayer) that keeps failing the build due to an error in package retrieval. Well, give realplayer a try, and see if it is installed in any way: # equery list -p realplayer You'll see in

Re: [gentoo-user] Optical mouse lights off on kernel 2.6.14 but works on kernel 2.4.30

2005-12-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales schreef: I had legacy /dev/psaux on. Besides, it doesn't explain why the lights go off even outside X. Perhaps I could try to disable this option and let /dev/input/mice be the sole device node for the mouse... OK, it's time then for the stupid

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox toolbar font size

2005-12-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Ryan Viljoen schreef: Hi all, Does anyone know how to change the application font sizes? What I mean by this is the font sizes used to display the menus in firefox, open office and other programs. I run fluxbox. Currently they are quite large and I would like to decrease them. Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with world update

2005-12-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Bill Roberts schreef: On 01:55 Wed 07 Dec, Holly Bostick wrote: Rafael Fernández López schreef: Hello, I am running a emerge -u world and there is a package (realplayer) that keeps failing the build due to an error in package retrieval. Great idea, Rafael, but that may break other

Re: [gentoo-user] krecipes fails due to gcc library problem

2005-12-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Mick schreef: Hi All, This is a box I converted into the new gcc-3.4.4 following the long winded approach of re-emerging everything according to the guide. Neveretheless, I have now come up to this problem when I am trying to emerge krecipes: snip Any ideas how I could fix it?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: krecipes fails due to gcc library problem

2005-12-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Dirk Heinrichs schreef: Am Donnerstag, 8. Dezember 2005 07:59 schrieb ext Mick: I've tried it, but can't find 'fix_libtools_files.sh' on my machine! What do I need to emerge to get this script? There's a small typo, should be 'fix_libtool_files.sh'. Thanks, Dirk, you're right. Also:

Re: [gentoo-user] K3b and CD copy

2005-12-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Dale schreef: Hi, I want to make a copy of my Gentoo install CD. I open K3b, with the Gentoo install CD in the drive, and go to tools and select copy CD. The box pops up but start is grayed out so I can not copy the CD. I only have one CD drive but it usually copies it to the tmp file

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting rid of gnome-vfs

2005-12-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Edwin Kapauni schreef: Why do mozilla-firefox and mozilla-thunderbird depend on gnome-base/gnome-vfs, even when they have --disable-gnomevfs --disable-gnomeui in their Configure arguments (about:buildconfig)? Shouldn't it be possible to really remove that dependency by configuration?

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

2005-12-10 Thread Holly Bostick
Gerhard Hoogterp schreef: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/env.d help

2005-12-10 Thread Holly Bostick
Grant schreef: That doesn't seem to do it either. Firefox still crashes from Flash unless I put the export line in /usr/bin/firefox. Why don't you just alias it, then (until such time as you figure out what's going wrong and how to adjust)? In ~/.bashrc alias firefox=export

Re: [gentoo-user] links w/o benefit of X

2005-12-10 Thread Holly Bostick
Willie Wong schreef: On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 09:07:07PM -0800, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked: But I notice in yahoo when I try to read my mail after logging into my account I'm bumped to a window that says my browser is not setup to go to that URL, Perhaps it checks for

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk display

2005-12-10 Thread Holly Bostick
cucu ionut cristian schreef: hi all ! I have a problem reguarding my gtk aplications they cannot be started using sudo nmapfe(or any program for that matter) the error message is Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: i'm using the e17 windows manager, if it makes any differences Thanks!

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread Holly Bostick
A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman schreef: It recognises my Nvida card [fx 5200] but when you get to the stage where the icons dissapear as stuff loads, when the last one goes the monitor shuts off. as is't booting from a cd there's no error log and nofb didn't help. Like I said some day Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread Holly Bostick
A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman schreef: As for insulting the developers I said I looked forward to when they had something I [a normal person] could use You know, it just occurs to me to question this often-heard assumption that non-geek=normal -- with geek being defined by these so-called normal

Re: [gentoo-user] radeon and framebuffer

2006-03-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Aggelos schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: I myself have a 9800SE, and also use vesa-tng for fbsplash. Both fbsplash/framebuffer and fglrx work fine; aside from the fb console background, I can even play mplayer videos in the getty console, which is also a framebuffer operation as far as I

Re: [gentoo-user] Reasons for testing or stable of kde packages

2006-03-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Marco Calviani schreef: Hi list, i would like to have clarification regarding the policy of switching packages from testing to stable. Is this policy due to particular bugs in the packages? No. Gentoo's stable and testing refers to the /ebuilds/, not the packages. I'm not a dev, but from

Re: [gentoo-user] Reasons for testing or stable of kde packages

2006-03-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Marco Calviani schreef: Hi Holly, and thanks for your clear explanation, Hi list, i would like to have clarification regarding the policy of switching packages from testing to stable. Is this policy due to particular bugs in the packages? No. Gentoo's stable and testing refers to the

Re: [gentoo-user] mouse detected, but no /dev/mice

2006-03-12 Thread Holly Bostick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: hiya, I have two USB mice. Dmesg shows them being detected, but there is no /dev/mice nor /dev/mouse. Any suggestions? If you're using udev, the devices should be found in /dev/input/mice. At least that's where mine is. HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] how to kernel update when executing emerge -u world?

2006-03-14 Thread Holly Bostick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: Every time when I run emerge -u world, the kernel will be updated if it have some update. This is normal; you're asking for updates (-u), so Portage is offering you the available update you asked for. Why is this a problem? Are you running a different kernel? Not

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo USE flags

2006-03-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Goran � schreef: Hi! I have already asked this but I will ask again. I am looking for who could write me a list of USE flags to setup in make.conf, so anyone? I need desktop system with KDE and not GNOME, support for DVD and CD ripping and burning, playing DVDs and DivX movies, MP3. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo USE flags

2006-03-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Goran � schreef: Thanks! I didn't only understand something about per packages which you mentioned in your mail. USE flags can be (and of course, are) set globally in /etc/make.conf (and /usr/portage/profiles/use.defaults), but USE flags can also be enabled or disabled for a particular package

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo USE flags

2006-03-15 Thread Holly Bostick
Goran Maksimović schreef: Hi! I said what will I do on my system and I value the answers of people who really answered what I have asked. Great, happy to hear it. Congratulations to our lucky winners, good luck in the future to everyone else, and can we please move on now? The 'discussion'

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo USE flags

2006-03-15 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 21:18:25 +0100, Goran Maksimović wrote: If you read my first post about USE flags I wanted some recommendations and not links to sites where USE flags are explained. Did you read the second paragraph of my post before replying to it? I think he

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: QT 4

2006-03-16 Thread Holly Bostick
Dmitry S. Makovey schreef: there are quite a few slotted packages in portage so you might bump into this every now and then (KDE is slotted AFAIR). Even easier-- so are kernel sources. Install a new one, and it's always going to be [ NS ], not [ U ] . Looking at how kernel sources are handled

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing file systems

2006-03-19 Thread Holly Bostick
Hemmann, Volker Armin schreef: On Sunday 19 March 2006 13:04, Sumeet Pal Singh wrote: HI This mail is not directly related to gentoo. I have gentoo,ubuntu 5.10 on my system and using FC3 since it was released. I tried to install FC4 on my system by sharing the swap and /home partition

Re: [gentoo-user] Lilypond version

2006-03-21 Thread Holly Bostick
Allan Spagnol Comar schreef: Hi, I don't know where should I post this kind of message, but I need to use lilypond as one of my working tools. I got stunned when I saw today that lilypond version available at portage tree is 2.0.3 the latest stable version is 2.6.5 and 2.0.3 is extreme

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge java syntax

2006-03-22 Thread Holly Bostick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: I'm at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/java/tiger-faq.xml, which gives the syntax as: emerge =sun-jdk-1.5* but the pretend isn't working as I expect it to. localhost ~ # localhost ~ # localhost ~ # emerge -p =sun-jdk-1.5* These are the packages that I would

Re: [gentoo-user] autofs, supermount, submount... which is best for Gentoo?

2006-03-23 Thread Holly Bostick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: Very informative, thanks. I think I'll go with submount. These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] sys-fs/submount-0.9-r2 159 kB Total size of downloads: 159 kB localhost ~ # emerge submount

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo

2006-03-23 Thread Holly Bostick
JimD schreef: I have been using Linux for a number of years and the one trick I have never read how to do is something like: sudo echo app-portage/porthole ~* /etc/portage/package.keywords Well this one I do with a set of revised command nicked from the list, entered into ~/.bashrc, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mpg123: Can't open /dev/dsp!

2006-03-24 Thread Holly Bostick
Walter Dnes schreef: On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 08:41:44PM +0100, Simon Kellett wrote Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... mpg123 complains about not being able to open /dev/dsp ... Does mpg123 -a /dev/sound/dsp work ? Nope. The only change is that now I get Can't open

Re: [gentoo-user] file .ogg

2006-03-29 Thread Holly Bostick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: Hi everybody. I think gentoo is driving me crazy. Since I found out the I can listen .wav file but not .ogg file, to-day I installed libvorbis, mpeg123 and vorbis-tools. But the result is the same . . . I cannot listen .ogg file. Hi, Emilio, What program

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc upgrade, should it upgrade?

2006-03-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Teresa and Dale schreef Nagatoro wrote: Why don't upgrade? As far as I know upgrading gcc isn't a big deal. It was just the 3.3.x - 3.4.x that was due to that the api for c++ had changed. Oh, I thought it was a big deal. That's why I was wanting to wait. Funny thing is, it don't want

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

2006-03-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Lord Sauron schreef: Okay, here's where I've isolated the problem to. snip . I know that it correctly compiles the kernel. I put a new name for the new kernel (test1) to try and ID it snip # make install Sticks it into /boot. /boot now reads System.map

Re: [gentoo-user] GorillaTrades Tutorial

2006-03-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Mark Knecht schreef: Hi, I wonder if anyone else has this problem. The tutorial at this page starts and I get audio, but I don't get any video or slides. Config problem here or Linux multimedia issue? http://www.gorillatrades.com/tutorial/# Thanks, Mark Like JimD, I also was able to

[gentoo-user] [OT] GPG keys, servers and signing (was, ATI Composte DRI)

2005-06-24 Thread Holly Bostick
, 24 Jun 2005 17:26:43 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: But this whole episode has at least gotten me to finally upload my own key, so I've (hopefully) signed this message. Yes, but as an inline signature, not as a MIME message part, which is the preferred way of doing it. Right that means, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X woes after baselayout update.

2005-06-24 Thread Holly Bostick
Qian Qiao schreef: On 24/06/05, Qian Qiao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, if I run udevstart before trying to start X, X fires up correctly. More info, alsa woes too. alsasound cannot start correctly at boot time, have to run a udevstart to start it too. Am I missing something, or

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke--update

2005-06-24 Thread Holly Bostick
about anyway? Here's another: if /dev/hda2 *is* corrupt, how comes it that it can be read and written to without error? Discuss :) Now, this, I *know* I said like ages ago (June 1st, actually) Holly Bostick schreef: maxim wexler schreef: And which OS are you choosing from the menu

Re: [gentoo-user] Kde Issue

2005-06-26 Thread Holly Bostick
Ian K schreef: I didn't know about this kde-meta package.. Will it get me 3.4.1? Ian http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=kde-meta kde-meta Description: kde - merge this to pull in all kde packages Releasesalpha amd64 arm hppaia64mipsppc ppc64 ppc

Re: [gentoo-user] OT? Gnome no bzip2 utility

2005-06-27 Thread Holly Bostick
Dave S schreef: I am starting to play with Gnome, I am trying to install some more icons, I drag my icon file to 'Theme Preferences', it downloads then reports ... Can not install theme. The bzip2 utility is not installed bash-2.05b$ emerge -p bzip2 These are the packages that I

Re: [gentoo-user] OT? Gnome no bzip2 utility

2005-06-27 Thread Holly Bostick
Dave S schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: snip cd to the directory bash-2.05b$ ls 36x36 README index.theme makePngFromSvg.sh scalable bash-2.05b$ cat README This is a mostly complete svg icon set based on SGI's Indigo Magic Desktop. snip Some themes available on kde-look.org and (less

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.12* hoses ati and bcm4400

2005-06-28 Thread Holly Bostick
Iain Buchanan schreef: Hi, I recently upgraded to 2.6.12, and on my recompile of all associated parts, ati-drivers had some trouble, and bcm4400 plain didn't compile! This process has worked almost flawlessly for me through many 2.6 kernels. With 2.6.12 I managed to get ati-drivers

Re: [gentoo-user] different times in postfix log

2005-06-28 Thread Holly Bostick
Jan Callewaert schreef: Hi, if I watch the logs of postfix, I have different times in it. Jun 18 19:17:43 [postfix/qmgr] 1E365EDCC3: from=bla, size=4398, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Jun 18 21:17:44 [postfix/local] 1E365EDCC3: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], orig_to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=local,

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice2.0 Install [not solved :( ]

2005-06-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Ian K schreef: Zac Medico wrote: Ian K wrote: Hey Everyone, I really want the OO.org 2.0 beta, but its not in portage snip http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=app-office;name=openoffice-bin The latest beta is in the portage tree but it's keyword masked. echo

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge Amarok

2005-06-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Anthony E. Caudel schreef: I recently switched to the KDE 3.4 split ebuilds but when I tried to emerge Amarok, it wnated to pull in several 3.3 packages: == These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Re: [gentoo-user] vsftp .vs. ftpbase WTF??

2005-06-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Stoian Ivanov schreef: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # emerge -auD world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] net-ftp/vsftpd-2.0.3-r1 (is blocking net-ftp/ftpbase-0.00) [ebuild N] net-ftp/ftpbase-0.00 [ebuild U ]

[gentoo-user] Another question on mailing cron-job output

2005-06-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Hey, list, You may remember me asking previously about how to get cron to mail me the output of esync, which is working fine so fine, in fact, that I think I'll take Neil's recent suggestion of putting revdep-rebuild -p in cron.weekly and having that output mailed to me as well. So atm, my

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem emerging man-1.6

2005-06-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Christian Herzyk schreef: Replying to my own mail: I just found the solution on the forums (the idiot at this keyboard only searched google and not the forums). The solution can be found here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-354675-highlight-man1+6.html For the information of

Re: [gentoo-user] .MID plugin for mozilla

2005-07-05 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Sullivan schreef: I saved the .mid file to my hard drive and tried to open it with mozilla. It gave me a dialog with this information: The file #3 is of type #2 (#1) and #4 does not know how to handle this file type. This file is located at: What should Mozilla do with this

Re: [gentoo-user] Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
W.Kenworthy schreef: After an update (possibly pam related) a couple of weeks ago, I can no longer run so X apps under sudo (starting apps from a root logged in via su in an xterm work fine). In particular, I have some scripts using gtkdialog (which run as root) to ask which network for

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4 - 2.6 wierdness

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Jerry McBride schreef: On Tuesday 05 July 2005 06:00 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trying to Migrate to 2.6. But when I reboot into my new genkerneled system, I cannot use X.org anymore, it complains about agpgart not working. Even If I modprobe the kernel mod or even compile it in directly

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer codecs

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Bruno Gola schreef: Hello guys, I was trying to play some *.wmv files in mplayer, but it seems i dont have the proper video codec (it complains about the video only), so, where should i put the codecs files ? Because i've already downloaded the codecs that i need... but i dont know where to

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer codecs

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Bruno Gola schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: Bruno Gola schreef: Hello guys, I was trying to play some *.wmv files in mplayer, but it seems i dont have the proper video codec (it complains about the video only), so, where should i put the codecs files ? Because i've already downloaded

[gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ?

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Hey, ho-- Here's (one of) today's non-critical problems that's getting on my nerves, so hopefully somebody can help. I've finally got around to setting up sudo. It works fine, except for one thing. I don't just give myself blanket permissions to sudo to all commands; I made a Cmd_Alias group

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ?

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
A. Khattri schreef: On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: Echo is in the sudo-ed group, and echo isn't the problem-- the problem is that permission is refused to write to the file itself (which is an error *from* echo, so it would seem that echo itself is OK as far as sudo goes). Which

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ?

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Edward Catmur schreef: On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 15:52 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Echo is in the sudo-ed group, and echo isn't the problem-- the problem is that permission is refused to write to the file itself (which is an error *from* echo, so it would seem that echo itself is OK as far as sudo

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ?

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: Le Mercredi, 6 Juillet 2005 15.52, Holly Bostick a ecrit : Hey, ho-- I've finally got around to setting up sudo. It works fine, except for one thing. I made a Cmd_Alias group which includes a lot of utility apps. And, like many of you, I included emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ?

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Christoph Gysin schreef: David Morgan wrote: afaik you can only do it with su -c echo foo bar, which stops bash from doing anything with the or the whitespace to begin with, but then passes everything inside the double quotes to another shell, which gets started by su -c It's kind of

Re: [gentoo-user] which package is kfm in?

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Christoph Gysin schreef: Could some KDE user out there run the following command for me: $ equery b $(which kfm) Thanks! Christoph Actually, none-- it's 'konqueror --profile filemanagement' now (this just bit me the other day when I tried one of my rare uses of Konq and went looking for

Re: [gentoo-user] bash_history missing

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
maxim wexler schreef: Try to adjust those variables: HISTFILE=/home/your_account/.bash_history HISTFILESIZE=500 HISTSIZE=500 HTH, noro Thanks noro. I had to run the above from root and sure enough, they were written into my home dir .bash_history, along with the exit command to get

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ?

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Richard Fish schreef: BTW Holly, You should recognize that from a security standpoint allowing yourself to execute bash is really giving yourself blanket permissions to sudo to all commands. You might as well make life easier on yourself and just make your sudo settings ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ?

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Richard Fish schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: Richard Fish schreef: BTW Holly, You should recognize that from a security standpoint allowing yourself to execute bash is really giving yourself blanket permissions to sudo to all commands. You might as well make life easier on yourself

Re: [gentoo-user] ffmpeg front-end recommendations?

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Ryan schreef: I am looking for an excellent ffmpeg front end/gui. It doesnt matter if its a console or X based front end, as long as it supports as many features of ffmpeg as possible for decoding/encoding processes. The main purpose is to convert about 200 mp4's that I have into an SVCD/VCD

Re: [gentoo-user] Help I have b0rked my system :(

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Dave S schreef: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Hi, you don't have composite activated, do you? I have looked in xorg.conf but cannot find any reference to it, just in case I swapped xorg.conf for an old copy, same problem :( Dave I've gotta say, composite was the first thing I

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4 - 2.6 wierdness

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: Okay, let's start over. I have only posted the first post of this thread, but I would say that all off the noise may imply that I am not alone here. -I have a working setup in 2.4, less so now than before, but xorg does still work. -in 2.6, xorg will break and

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging old kernel

2005-07-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Ian K schreef: Hi there, I need to get a 2.4 kernel onto a system, but gentoo-sources now gives 2.6. I checked gentoo-portage.com and it says that there is still a 2.4 ebuild in the gentoo-sources package(?). As indeed there is: eix gentoo-sources * sys-kernel/gentoo-sources

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging old kernel

2005-07-08 Thread Holly Bostick
What I meant to say was: Don't forget to add sys-kernel-2.4.28-r9 to /etc/portage/package.mask. Stupid Thunderbird needs an escape character (or does it have one and I just don't know it?). Anyway, there should be a 'greater-than sign in fron of the package name, to mask all

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerging old kernel

2005-07-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Ian K schreef: I get an error though: There are no ebuilds to satisfy =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.28-r9 Thanks Holly! Ian Hey, Ian-- Maybe you need to sync or something, because it certainly works for me: za 07/09/05 03:18 ~ root - emerge -pv =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.28-r9

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird

2005-07-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Benno Schulenberg schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: What I meant to say was: sys-kernel-2.4.28-r9 there should be a 'greater-than sign in fron of the package name, There was a greater-than for me, in KMail, also in your first mail. Apparently Thunderbird hides it from you. But it should

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird

2005-07-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Peng schreef: I'll check MozillaZine and Google later Mozdev seems to like to hide this stuff. If you've ever tried to find the list of command-line switches for Netscape/Moz/Firefox on the Internet, you'll know exactly what I mean. Holly What do you mean about the command line switches?

Re: [gentoo-user] cant emerge kdelibs

2005-07-10 Thread Holly Bostick
Dave S schreef: Hi all, I cannot emerge kdelibs on my 3000+ AMD, I have tried re-emerging qt first (found this on the forum), I have edited /etc/make.conf and removed my -O? flag, usually set to -O3 and tried repeatedly to re-emerge kdelibs without success. This has nothing to do with your

Re: [gentoo-user] cant emerge kdelibs

2005-07-10 Thread Holly Bostick
Holly Bostick schreef: Oops, sorry, forgot part of the command: The way to fix that is: # sh fix_libtool_files.sh should be sh fix_libtool_files.sh 3.3.4 Sorry. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is GNOME_MixerAapplet

2005-07-10 Thread Holly Bostick
Allan Gottlieb schreef: Mark Knecht suggests just telling gnome to delete the mixer from my panel config and install in manually, which I may well do (thanks mark). I think that's how I fixed it too-- although the gnome mixer isn't all that useful as a mixer (compared to alsamixer, or

Re: [gentoo-user] what's new with all those new packages?

2005-07-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Roy Wright schreef: emerge --pretend --changelog will display the change log(s). I usually do emerge -uDNv world -pl then if I like it, just delete the -pl to do the merge. Have fun, Roy Well that's all very well and good, but a great deal of the time the changelog only says

Re: [gentoo-user] where is the functionality of etcat

2005-07-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Rudmer van Dijk schreef: etcat is deprecated in favor of equery but equery does not have a functionality like `etcat -v package` (listing all available versions of a package). I used it quite often and have been struggling with equery ever since etcat is deprecated... Are there plans to

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is GNOME_MixerAapplet

2005-07-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Allan Gottlieb schreef: The key seems to be having gstreamer in the USE variable. At Mon, 11 Jul 2005 15:58:02 -0500 LostSon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had this problem as well and i re-emerged gnome-panel and it went away. On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 14:16 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE/KDM problems

2005-07-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Alexander Kirillov schreef: What sort of a problem with /dev/dsp? You can't use /dev/dsp when arts (KDE sound daemon) is active. Either try artsdsp [-m] or wait till arts is suspended. Sasha Doesn't that situation call for the use of artswrapper? I don't use arts very much, so I forget

Re: [gentoo-user] I think I messed up USE flag by using -alsa as Gnome has no sound

2005-07-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Richard Watson schreef: Hi - I've just finished compiling Gnome and have no sound whatsoever. Looking at my USE flags I noticed I had inadvertently set -alsa as a flag. At this stage I've changed the flag to alsa and re-run genkernel. But still no sound. Do I have to recompile everything

Re: [gentoo-user] where is the functionality of etcat

2005-07-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Rudmer van Dijk schreef: Holly: eix is probably not it, since it looks like it does not show the availability of the package (masked+keyword), but thanks for the suggestion! Rudmer Actually, it most certainly does; keyworded packages are shown in brown with a ~ in front, masked

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: where is the functionality of etcat

2005-07-12 Thread Holly Bostick
James schreef: Holly Bostick motub at planet.nl writes: Holly: eix is probably not it, since it looks like it does not show the availability of the package (masked+keyword), but thanks for the suggestion! Actually, it most certainly does; keyworded packages are shown in brown

Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?

2005-07-13 Thread Holly Bostick
David Morgan schreef: You could remove win32codecs from base/use.mask, try and use it and see if it works since it shouldn't break anything. But each time you did emerge sync it'd get written over. Which is why the proper way to unmask a hard-masked package is to enter it into

Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?

2005-07-13 Thread Holly Bostick
David Morgan schreef: On 12:06 Wed 13 Jul , Holly Bostick wrote: Which is why the proper way to unmask a hard-masked package is to enter it into /etc/portage/package.unmask (and often thereafter also into /etc/portage/package.keywords, as many hard-masked packages are also keyword-masked

Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?

2005-07-13 Thread Holly Bostick
David Morgan schreef: (top posting because I can't be bothered to sort all the irrelevant stuff you posted) The person in question is using /usr/portage/profiles/uclibc/x86 If you look in /usr/portage/profiles/uclibc/x86/parent you'll see that t's parent profile is

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown Issues

2005-07-17 Thread Holly Bostick
E. Pereira schreef: During the shutdown Gentoo brings down my eth0 connection, but my computer is connected to a router that uses xDSL for connection, so my questions is: Can I remove this, this way I won't have to reconnect my xDSL connection? Or this shouldn't interfer in my connection I

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash problem !!!

2005-07-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Allan Spagnol Comar schreef: Hi all, Ie been looking at thee gentoo wiki and internet to find out what my problem is but can't find it any where. I installed splash_utils and make the right kernel options and when I try to run splash_util -c on I got this error message FBIOSPLASH_SETSTATE

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver emerge error

2005-07-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Stuart Howard schreef: thx for the response I think we missed each other with the point though, currently my sound works just fine and I am happy with it as it is [ie. built in] I am not sure where the alsa driver in world came from unless it is a hangover from my initial genkernel

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