On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 06:39:52AM -0400, John J. Foster wrote:
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 02:52:59PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote:
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Uwe Thiem wrote:
The following output is what /var/log/ntp.log looks like after issuing the
following 2 commands:
#/etc/init.d/ntpd
Am I the only person getting these emails?
Not any more.
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On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 09:38:34AM -0500, John covici wrote:
OK, that did it -- now I have to find out why it wants a bunch of X
libraries, but that is another question for another day.
thanks much guys for all your help.
Thanks so much for listening to others concerning group etiquette and
Good evening,
This evening I ran across something I have have not seen in my long
experience with Gentoo (about 2 months now). I just did an
# emerge --sync
# emerge -auDv world
which returned
Calculating world dependencies -
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy =sys-devel/libperl-5.8.6 have
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 10:06:41PM -0500, Paul Varner wrote:
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 20:05 -0400, John J. Foster wrote:
Calculating world dependencies -
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy =sys-devel/libperl-5.8.6 have been
masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 10:44:52PM +0200, Richard Fish wrote:
I need to write up some howto's in the next week or so, because using an
initramfs works much better than an initrd for encrypted root.
Please, please do!
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Good evening all. My San Disk ImageMate dual reader said goodbye to our
family today. She should have left a few months ago.
So, what I'm searching for is a replacement reader. I saw some good
reviews for ImageMate® 8-in-1 Reader/Writer. I don't really need all
eight, but so what. What I'd really
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 10:01:17PM -0400, Colin wrote:
I've got an AFT PRO-9. It's a 9-in-1 connects via USB 2.0
internally/externally and has Secure Digital, Multimedia Card,
SmartMedia, xDigital, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, CompactFlash,
MicroDrive and a 4-pin FireWire 400 port
Good afternoon all,
A few weeks ago I read in one of the newgroups a way to greatly decrease
compilation times. The author noted that this was particularly noticable
when working with something like OO. The general jist of it was to
create temporary file system in memory and mount your portage
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 02:40:18PM -0400, Colin wrote:
Plus, you can charge people if they want to come over and rent your
computing power. (Virginia Tech does that with their System X, 1,100
dual-2.3GHz-processor XServe G5's.) :-)
As I'm a little short of this total right now, I think
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 01:07:38PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote:
Good afternoon all,
A few weeks ago I read in one of the newgroups a way to greatly decrease
compilation times. The author noted that this was particularly noticable
when working with something like OO. The general jist
I've gotten about 4 or 5 of these in the past few days, and don't really
know what to make of them. Is anybody elese seeing this? Or do I have an
issue? It's not happenning on any other lists, and all headers seem like
it's legit.
Thanks,
John
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Thanks Jean - I guess I should have expected nothing less from the Gentoo
folks!
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 07:50:57PM +0200, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote:
Le 20 juillet à 19:21:34 John J. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrit notamment:
| I've gotten about 4 or 5 of these in the past few days
Good morning,
Something that's been bothering me, although not that much, for about 3
years now. I've never investigated, and perhaps the answer is simple,
but every distro I've used (RH9, FC1, FC2, Suse 9.1, and now Gentoo),
has not shown the tiny blinking drive activity indicator on the front
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 08:01:42AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi,
I wonder what the explanation in the emerge man page about the
--update option really means. What is meant by, and how does emerge
pick, the best version available?
Although I'm not totally sure, my reading is that it will
Good evening all,
I figured it was about time to start the Guarddog firewall script
automatically, instead of always typing /etc/rc.firewall. The obvious
thing to do was add it to /etc/conf.d/local.start. Easy enough. But it
didn't start. OK, let's put a few logger commands in there and see where
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 09:26:08PM -0400, Michael Crute wrote:
You should use rc-update to run the startup script. Local is for commands
that you want run, not really a great way to run other startup scripts. The
command you want is probably `rc-update add rc.firewall default`.
-Mike
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 09:26:08PM -0400, Michael Crute wrote:
You should use rc-update to run the startup script. Local is for commands
that you want run, not really a great way to run other startup scripts. The
command you want is probably `rc-update add rc.firewall default`.
-Mike
Good afternoon all,
Is there a simple way to determine the order initscripts are executed,
taking into account ineed, iuse, before, etc...? Perhaps something that
would show a tree structure similar to emerge -auDt.
Thanks,
John
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Good evening,
I just realized I'm no longer receiving email notification on system
reboots. This quit working between April 23rd and April 27th.
The following lines are in /etc/conf.d/local.start
# Record system restart
echo System restart on `date +%F` at `date +%R`
/var/log/reboot.log
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.
I'll start looking for Kermit now. Thanks.
emerge -av kermit
later,
festus
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On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 10:20:39PM +0200, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote:
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
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 03:17:18PM +0200, Mauro Arnoldi wrote:
I installed ati-drivers and partially works correctly:
As user nothing works:
---
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ fglrxinfo glxinfo | grep rendering
libGL error: failed to open DRM: Operation not permitted
libGL error: reverting to
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 09:28:23AM -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
On 7/3/06, John J. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Check your xorg.conf for the following:
Section DRI
Mode 0666
EndSection
Or for a bit better security:
Section DRI
Group graphics
Mode 0660
EndSection
Since going to x11-base/xorg-x11-7.0-r1 2 days ago, I've been having
trouble with just 1 multimedia key on a Logitech cordless keyboard
(Model Y-RJ20). The key is labeled Media and produces a legitimate
KeyPress and KeyRelease events in xev.
...snip
keycode 237 (keysym 0x1008ff32, XF86AudioMedia)
Since going to x11-base/xorg-x11-7.0-r1 2 days ago, I've been having
trouble with just 1 multimedia key on a Logitech cordless keyboard
(Model Y-RJ20). The key is labeled Media and produces legitimate
KeyPress and KeyRelease events in xev.
...snip
keycode 237 (keysym 0x1008ff32, XF86AudioMedia)
Sorry about the double posting. The first one was sent while my
satellite connection was down. I didn't think it was really sent.
festus
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OK, at line 490 (of about 10 million right now) I got this error:
Warning: Cannot convert string
-bh-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-*-140-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1 to type
FontStruct
followed by about 10 million of these lines:
Warning:
Name: textfield
Class: XmTextField
Character '\61' not
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 04:43:34PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote:
OK, at line 490 (of about 10 million right now) I got this error:
Warning: Cannot convert string
-bh-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-*-140-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1 to type
FontStruct
followed by about 10 million of these lines
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 08:07:24PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
No, but if you put a specific version in /etc/portage/package.keywords,
only that version will be installed from testing. It will only be
upgraded when a newer version goes stable.
Neil - I _think_ this is what I have not been
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 10:09:53PM -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
At Mon, 03 Jul 2006 21:06:07 -0400 John J. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Neil - I _think_ this is what I have not been able to understand for
over a year now. I run an almost entirely stable system, and want to
keep
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 08:59:17PM -0400, Michael Crute wrote:
This sounds like a font issue. I am running unstable X 7.1 and I don't
have any of these errors, I do however have quite a few fonts
installed.
2 things here. First, I'm not sure why added SOLVED to the subject. I
just know how
On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 02:21:26PM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
John J. Foster wrote:
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 04:43:34PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote:
Warning: Cannot convert string
-bh-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-*-140-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1 to type
FontStruct
Try installing the fonts
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 09:51:43AM -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
Just want to give a big public Thank You to spyderous for hanging
out in -user and helping out those who had/are having trouble with the
modular-X upgrade.
ditto
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A couple days ago I noticed this:
garbanzo:/root # emerge -auvDNt world
These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
Calculating world dependencies |
!!! Packages for the following atoms are either all
!!! masked or don't exist:
sys-apps/qtparted
... done!
garbanzo:/root #
Good morning,
I'm looking for recommendations for waypoint management software for my
Garmin eTrex (basic GPS functions, not mapping). All I really want to be
able to do is 2 things.
1. Transfer UTM coordinates derived from topo maps to GPS waypoints.
2. Export waypoints in GPS to any number
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 07:09:41AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi,
I would like to limit OS selection at boot time. The machine has
Gentoo and Windows. Gentoo *must* be the booted OS unless a password
is entered. I have tried the password feature in grub but it does not
implement this
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 04:59:34PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote:
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 07:09:41AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi,
I would like to limit OS selection at boot time. The machine has
Gentoo and Windows. Gentoo *must* be the booted OS unless a password
is entered. I have tried
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 04:49:42PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
On 7/30/06, John J. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks very much. It's a great solution for what I need.
It does limit the use of Windows, which is what I wanted, until the
password is typed in. Once typed in it also seems
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 08:43:09PM -0400, Willie Wong wrote:
My preferred MUA (mutt) is smart
enough and configurable enough to treat mailing lists properly.
Here, here.
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On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 09:00:20AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:23:18 -0400, John J. Foster wrote:
My preferred MUA (mutt) is smart
enough and configurable enough to treat mailing lists properly.
Here, here.
Not everyone has a choice of MUA all the time
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 06:21:03AM -0400, John J. Foster wrote:
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 09:00:20AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:23:18 -0400, John J. Foster wrote:
My preferred MUA (mutt) is smart
enough and configurable enough to treat mailing lists properly
Good afternoon,
In a bash script, how can I test whether the script itself is being
run from a virtual terminal, or from an emulator like konsole within X?
Thanks,
festus
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On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 03:43:12PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
060801 John J. Foster wrote:
In a bash script, how can I test whether the script itself is being run
from a virtual terminal, or from an emulator like konsole within X?
'echo $DISPLAY' returns ':0' from Konsole,
but nothing from
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 11:37:17PM +0400, dg wrote:
On Tuesday 01 August 2006 23:20, John J. Foster wrote:
One possible solution would be to check the value of $TERM variable... If it
is 'xterm' then you're probably in the X terminal emulator.
probably is not good ;-)
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On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 12:33:16PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
My recommendation is setting up an imap server and accessing your emails
with whatever client comes to hand. Divorce the mbox/maildir
storage choice from your client.
If you don't want to use your ISP's IMAP services for whatever
Hi,
I've been playing with encrypting my home directory using cfs and
following the instructions at
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Encrypt_Your_Home_Directory_Using_CFS
I guess it mostly works, although I've had cfsd die randomly a few
times in a couple days. It sorta bothers me that
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 06:32:49PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
On 8/12/06, John J. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you encrypt your home directory?
I encrypt everything except /boot.
What apps and/or combination of apps do you use, and why?
dm-crypt with cryptsetup using the LUKS
On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 11:59:48PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
If you want to get started on this before your new laptop arrives, I
suggest starting with the initramfs and encrypting swap only. You
should be able to create an initramfs that will setup the mapping and
do the swapon before
Does anyone here know who runs this list? The number of missing emails
is running quite high lately, and some threads are getting hard to
follow, depending on the respondents quoting and snipping style. I seem
to have missed almost half of the discussion on domainname going on.
I know everyone
Anybody know whatever happened to Holly? She hasn't been around for
about a year and a half, and I miss her rambling dissertations.
festus
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them feel the need to invent, say, nuclear weapons? Mickeyz
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 06:29:27PM +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote:
That is not right. Her last posting on my harddrive is dated 29th of March
this year.
You're right, my eyes are obviously deceiving me!
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them feel the need to
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On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 06:33:40PM -0500, Colleen Beamer wrote:
I'm not, but I *could* be a grandmother, so I guess I'm not the average
Well, I *couldn't* be a grandmother, because I am a grandfather who has
pretty much no clue what average is.
festus
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In all the millions of years
On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 05:34:55PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
Me thinks the mail list bug has struck again. Let me know if you
don't get this one. ;-
Just an FYI - I didn't get your other mail.
festus
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them feel the
Hey Willie - a 67 line sig ?
festus
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I lost utility power for 2 hours today while at work (on my home
machine). UPS probably help for 20 minutes, or so. Just out of
curiousity, is there a way to determine previous system uptime. I know I
was getting close to 11 months, which would be a record for me.
Thanks,
festus
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It is not
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 01:02:01AM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
John J. Foster writes:
I lost utility power for 2 hours today while at work (on my home
machine). UPS probably help for 20 minutes, or so. Just out of
curiousity, is there a way to determine previous system uptime. I know
I
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 05:18:08PM -0600, John J. Foster wrote:
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 01:02:01AM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
John J. Foster writes:
I lost utility power for 2 hours today while at work (on my home
machine). UPS probably help for 20 minutes, or so. Just out
Dale - I've been using Fastmail since 2005. Absolutely no issues at all.
I do pay for the enhanced account.
Good luck
festus
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012, at 01:16 AM, Dale wrote:
Hi list,
I ran across this news item about Google:
http://alturl.com/s7xi5
The long URL is below. I'm sort of
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012, at 07:59 AM, Dale wrote:
John J. Foster wrote:
Dale - I've been using Fastmail since 2005. Absolutely no issues at all.
I do pay for the enhanced account.
Good luck
festus
Do they allow encrypted messages too? I looked at the help pages and
I'm pretty
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012, at 08:22 AM, John J. Foster wrote:
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012, at 07:59 AM, Dale wrote:
John J. Foster wrote:
Dale - I've been using Fastmail since 2005. Absolutely no issues at all.
I do pay for the enhanced account.
Good luck
festus
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