Re: [gentoo-user] [Definitely OT] Recommendations for getting started in Web design

2006-03-09 Thread Michael Smith
Start with learning about design and editing. You'll want to learn standards-compliant HTML, CSS and Javascript. The best editing tools to date are a decent text editor that has some syntax intelligence, a good scripting language such as perl or python, and a version-control system such as

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with vixie-cron

2006-03-07 Thread Michael Smith
Sounds like the permissions for /etc/crontab are too restrictive for cron to manage. Check those permissions... Thiago Lüttig wrote: Hi, i´m trying to automate a proccess with vixie-cron, so I edit the /etc/crontab file, and after run crontab /etc/crontab, i look into the log

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with vixie-cron

2006-03-07 Thread Michael Smith
oh right -- no need to run 'crontab /etc/crontab' with vixie-cron just do crontab -e to edit and you're done. Thiago Lüttig wrote: Hi, i´m trying to automate a proccess with vixie-cron, so I edit the /etc/crontab file, and after run crontab /etc/crontab, i look into the log

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge error

2006-02-24 Thread Michael Smith
Hmm, I can't find any open bugs on this in bugs.gentoo.org, so I guess it's new. You should register a new account at bugs.gentoo.org and report it. Before you do, make sure you run emerge --sync and see if the problem goes away. John Fawcett wrote: I'm new to gentoo and I wonder if someone

Re: [gentoo-user] Are multiple emerges safe?

2006-01-29 Thread Michael Smith
Alexander Skwar wrote: Something that I always wondered about - does it actually *lose* speed? IOW: Is it, *IN* *TOTAL* slower to do multiple emerges in parallel compared to doing them sequentially? I would expect the answer to this lies in how you set your MAKEOPTS. --