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Jason Stubbs wrote:
On Monday 19 September 2005 13:16, gentuxx wrote:
If I update firefox with the --oneshot option, I know that it won't
update the world tree, but why? Why is that the recommended
procedure? Does that give me any benefit? Also, why
On Monday 19 September 2005 15:00, gentuxx wrote:
does updating a package for a security fix using the --oneshot option
update the same package that is housed in the world tree?
There is no world tree. There is only a list. --oneshot has no affect on
this list.
If so, can I assume that
Nagatoro wrote:
Try and search the wiki (gentoo-wiki) for http-mirror. It does a great
Guess I got a brain fart... As Mark wrote it should be http-replicator
and nothing else.
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Thanks for the suggestion, Walter. Yes, I did have the jumper set to
master, as appropriate. But see my next post.
Michael
On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, Walter Dnes wrote:
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 12:06:57AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
Thanks for the idea. As I've said, I've been using this
Thanks John. None of your suggestions turned up the problem directly,
but they did get me thinking and I tried the same disk on different
connectors and at different settings. I found that I can boot from the
primary slave device and the secondary master device. I didn't try the
secondary slave
Hello,
i'm going to setup server machine on Gentoo Linux and my question is if
it is possible to mask portage categories which i won't to update such
as whole X apps games desktop utils and so on ... which I'll never
install and use on this server.
This will make faster syncing and
When i start aterm i got below error on my console:
$ aterm
aterm has encountered a problem interacting with X Windows :
Request: 2,Error: 3(BadWindow (invalid Window parameter))
in resource: 0x0
Other weird behaviour is that Midnight Commander on aterm won't respect
F1 - F4 keys
On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 20:23:30 -0700 (PDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To answer my own question, I just had to make the device using mknod.
Now my FTDI device works!
Which device are you using? I may need one of these and it would be nice
to be able to buy one I know works.
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I've done glsa-check -t new and i got that my python is vulnerable
i got in world only dev-lang/python-2.4.1-r1 but it says that vulnerable
is 2.3.5-r2 so i've searched for any vulnerable version on my system
and i've found python-2.3.5
My question is: Could I unmerge 2.3.5 version which is
I'm not sure about the games, but avoiding installing X is quite simple!
This is what I use on my gentoo server:
USE=-gpm ipv6 imap gd gd-external jpeg png -svga -X -gnome -kde -qt -gtk -gtk2
xml xml2 apache2 tiff mysql offensive -samba
I think there is a way to choose what categories you want
Oscar wrote:
I'm not sure about the games, but avoiding installing X is quite simple!
This is what I use on my gentoo server:
USE=-gpm ipv6 imap gd gd-external jpeg png -svga -X -gnome -kde -qt -gtk -gtk2 xml
xml2 apache2 tiff mysql offensive -samba
I think there is a way to choose what
On Monday 19 September 2005 18:35, Paweł Madej wrote:
I've done glsa-check -t new and i got that my python is vulnerable
i got in world only dev-lang/python-2.4.1-r1 but it says that vulnerable
is 2.3.5-r2 so i've searched for any vulnerable version on my system
and i've found python-2.3.5
On Monday 19 September 2005 09:54, Paweł Madej wrote:
i'm going to setup server machine on Gentoo Linux and my question is if
it is possible to mask portage categories which i won't to update such
as whole X apps games desktop utils and so on ... which I'll never
install and use on this
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 10:54:54AM +0200, Paweł Madej wrote:
Hello,
i'm going to setup server machine on Gentoo Linux and my question is if it is
possible to mask portage categories which i
won't to update such as whole X apps games desktop utils and so on ... which
I'll never install
Hi all
Just about got Gentoo up and running as
I want it. Taken a while with all the
tweaking and re-tweaking but I've not
had as much fun with a computer for
years. I've got a couple of problems
which, so far, have got me pulling my
hair out as nothing I try fixes them.
I've got a
Hi,
I am now getting:
Unable to change virtual machine power state: Failed to connect to peer
process.
when I try to boot any guest OS. I have added myself to the vmware
group, executed the vmware-config.pl script and even logged out and in
again.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
jules
VMware version:
Hi All
I've got a problem with the display
under KDE. I've just installed Gentoo
for the first time. Under KDE the font
sizes are very small compared with what
they should be. Compared with the same
hardware under Suse 8.0 all text
displays a little over half the size.
this affects KDE
Stewart Taylor wrote:
I've got a Microsoft Intellimouse (ps2) which seems to be detected
correctly but the wheel will not work under KDE. Under KDE Control
center peripherals mouse I get the option to adjust the scroll
rate, but this has no effect. The wheel seems to be working as a left
On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 12:53 +0200, Jules Colding wrote:
Hi,
I am now getting:
Unable to change virtual machine power state: Failed to connect to peer
process.
I found the fix here:
http://software.groupbrowser.com/nextthread51611.html
It seems that /opt/vmware/lib/bin/vmware-vmx must be
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 08:46 pm, Stewart Taylor wrote:
I've got a Microsoft Intellimouse (ps2)
which seems to be detected correctly but
the wheel will not work under KDE.
When you edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf you should have the something
similar to the following under the Input Device Section.
Stewart Taylor schreef:
Hi all
Just about got Gentoo up and running as I want it. Taken a while with
all the tweaking and re-tweaking but I've not had as much fun with a
computer for years. I've got a couple of problems which, so far,
have got me pulling my hair out as nothing I try fixes
Recently i was woundering where gentoo stores the aliases i get by:
$ alias
alias d='ls --color'
alias ll='ls --color -l'
alias ls='ls --color=auto'
alias mc='. /usr/share/mc/bin/mc-wrapper.sh'
The reason i want to know this is mainly because i want to add my own
ones to this list without
Stewart Taylor schreef:
Hi All
I've got a problem with the display under KDE. I've just installed
Gentoo for the first time. Under KDE the font sizes are very small
compared with what they should be. Compared with the same hardware
under Suse 8.0 all text displays a little over half the
Matthias Langer schreef:
Recently i was woundering where gentoo stores the aliases i get by:
$ alias
alias d='ls --color'
alias ll='ls --color -l'
alias ls='ls --color=auto'
alias mc='. /usr/share/mc/bin/mc-wrapper.sh'
The reason i want to know this is mainly because i want to add my
You can put them in your ~/.bash_rc or _profile - I can't remember of the top
of my head. For host wide ones I created a /etc/bash.rc where I put stuff I
want everybody to get - or at least start with as they can override it. I then
source this in the ~/.bash?? and to make sure new users get
On 9/19/05, Nagatoro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Don't remember the bug number but the solution is in bugzilla (searchfor gnome 2.12 applet). If I recall correctly you need to reemerge acertain package. (btw Gnome 2.12 looks good! :) )
I did file a bug, and was marked as a duplicate of this one:
Holly Bostick wrote:
Stewart Taylor schreef:
Hi All
I've got a problem with the display under KDE. I've just installed
Gentoo for the first time. Under KDE the font sizes are very small
compared with what they should be. Compared with the same hardware
under Suse 8.0 all text displays a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can put them in your ~/.bash_rc or _profile - I can't remember of the top
of my head. For host wide ones I created a /etc/bash.rc where I put stuff I
want everybody to get - or at least start with as they can override it. I then
source this in the ~/.bash?? and
Eric S. Johansson schreef:
trying to upgrade the system and I'm getting this error.
Eclass 'portability' does not exist for 'gnome-base/gconf-2.10.1-r1'
suggestions for how to fix would be most welcome
thanks in advance
--- eric
I just had that error with howl; a sync fixed it.
HTH,
Well I have carried out the procedure outlined in your message, but I have had
some problems.
When booting the new disc it always failed with a reiserfs problem (I once
rebuilt the tree), after 3 attempts I still had errors so I formated the
partition with ext2, copied all the files and
On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, Luigi Pinna wrote:
Hello!
I have a lot of problems with my TV card
I can see TV (but only with tvtime and not with xawtv or kdetv), but I
can't use teletext (for example with alevt) or to select a external
source like S-Video.
How can I find the problem? Without
Holly Bostick wrote:
Eric S. Johansson schreef:
trying to upgrade the system and I'm getting this error.
Eclass 'portability' does not exist for 'gnome-base/gconf-2.10.1-r1'
suggestions for how to fix would be most welcome
thanks in advance
--- eric
I just had that error with
hi!
friends,
i want to get backup of my KMail saved mails. so pls help me to do this.
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Eric S. Johansson schreef:
Holly Bostick wrote:
Eric S. Johansson schreef:
trying to upgrade the system and I'm getting this error. Eclass
'portability' does not exist for 'gnome-base/gconf-2.10.1-r1'
suggestions for how to fix would be most welcome
I just had that error with
-Original Message-
From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 19 September 2005 14:39
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk
Well I have carried out the procedure outlined in your
message, but I have had
some problems.
When
On Monday 19 September 2005 16:02, Gentoo Shadow wrote:
hi!
friends,
i want to get backup of my KMail saved mails. so pls help me to do this.
tar up the Mail folder in your /home directorie and burn it onto a cd or tar
it onto a tape.
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i have done this... but during restoration all other desktop files
are i getting restored except the mails on KMail. pls advice to
restore them correctly...
Thank You with AdvanceOn 9/19/05, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:On Monday 19 September 2005 16:02, Gentoo Shadow wrote: hi!
Thanks for the response, I do have an entry /dev/console, user root, group
tty. It has no symlinks. I would have to reconnect the suspect disk to
check if it is the same.
Thanks
Paul
On Monday 19 Sep 2005 15:23, Michael Kintzios wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL
Hello,
I am not sure if you have already tried the following:
replace
--device ATA:1,0,0
with:
--device /dev/your cd device node
For some reason that I do not understand, when I try --device ATA: etc.
cdrdao does not work for me, but when I use --device /dev/hdc it does
work.
Maybe it will
Joseph wrote:
The (CN) of the certificate match out company name it doesn't match
localhost
I assume your apache is configured with hostname localhost.
What does your apache.conf look like? (snipped to the relevant parts, of course)
Christoph
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Hi,
Download linux sysrescue live cd on the web
and use dd_rescue
bye
Allan Spagnol Comar wrote:
You can make a precise copy of your disk with dd command
using dd if=/dev/hdaX of=backupfile.iso
and then on the disk you want to write the data with
dd if=backupfile.iso of=/dev/hdXX;
if bouth
On Monday 19 September 2005 16:49, Gentoo Shadow wrote:
i have done this... but during restoration all other desktop files are i
getting restored except the mails on KMail. pls advice to restore them
correctly...
hm, I don't know, what you did, but when I pack my backups (tar
-cf /dev/st0
Alle 15:41, lunedì 19 settembre 2005, Tamas Sarga ha scritto:
Hi,
I realized it too, but in the past I was able to record with xawtv. I
haven't done it for a time, yesterday I tried to record, but I didn't
see anything in xawtv. I emerged kdetv, it found the channels with
the wizard, but
gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Emerge_MPlayer
has the best explanation so far.
BTW, Mark, look at the gentoo doc Upgrading re
symlink to make.profile
--- Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
what about all those others?
Look at gcc-home page, think there's plenty of info,
also this theme is
Hi
Thanks to Holly , Peter and Scotty for
the fix. It now works a treat.
Stewart
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On Monday 19 Sep 2005 18:22, S. ancelot wrote:
Hi,
Download linux sysrescue live cd on the web
and use dd_rescue
bye
snip
Do you mean the install-x86-universal-2005.1.iso? I could not find any
sysrescue live cd listed.
If I do a dd_rescue what would I do to get the initial console working?
Paul wrote:
On Monday 19 Sep 2005 18:22, S. ancelot wrote:
Hi,
Download linux sysrescue live cd on the web
and use dd_rescue
bye
snip
Do you mean the install-x86-universal-2005.1.iso? I could not find any
sysrescue live cd listed.
If I do a dd_rescue what would I do to get the
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Stewart Taylor wrote:
Hi
Thanks to Holly , Peter and Scotty for the fix. It now works a treat.
Stewart
Um, I have the same problem. But (and I suspect this is why), I have
no /etc/X11/xorg.conf. KDE runs great! I've done a 'find / -name
1) Why wouldn't a default xorg.conf be installed?
Xorg.conf contains detailed info about your installation, a default one
doesn't do you much good except for to use a vanilla x config.
2) Is there possibly another config file that my system is using?
I'm sure it defaults to a simple config
gentuxx schreef:
Stewart Taylor wrote:
Hi
Thanks to Holly , Peter and Scotty for the fix. It now works a
treat.
Stewart
Um, I have the same problem. But (and I suspect this is why), I have
no /etc/X11/xorg.conf. KDE runs great! I've done a 'find / -name
xorg.conf' and only
Holly Bostick:
3) Could the vmware-tools sample be sufficient to build one
(xorg.conf)?
Why would you bother? There is a configuration utility, you know. I
don't know what it's called though, as I've never used it (just
renamed my XF86Config to xorg.cfg and went on from there).
Oh,
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 12:23:50 -0700, gentuxx wrote:
2) Is there possibly another config file that my system is using?
Do you have a /etc/X11/XF86Config or /etc/X11/XF86Config. Xorg uses them
if it can't find its own config.
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DOOM , said Pooh, and Slaughtered Christopher
Just went through the apache update on three servers. I duly removed
/etc/apache/conf/apache.conf and restarted apache successfully.
Question: can I safely remove /etc/apache/conf/* (after migrating any
settings to the new conf files of course).
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Does anybody have a good link how to capture audio from SPDIF?
When I connect the audio to my SPDIF-IN I can hear the the voice on the
speakers but when I try to record using KDE KRec nothing is captured.
I suppose the KRec is not configured correctly.
Anybody has good link how to do it.
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Does anybody have a good link how to capture audio from SPDIF?
When I connect the audio to my SPDIF-IN I can hear the the voice on
the speakers but when I try to record using KDE KRec nothing is
captured. I suppose the KRec is not configured correctly.
Anybody has good link how to do it.
if
Thank you for the pointers.
Do I have to have SPDIF enable in kernel? I don't see any PCM IN
supports in arts or alsamiser.
I use a cheap USB soundcard with the snd_usb_audio module and didn't
need to add any additional kernel option.
In my alsamixer the SPDIF input appears as »Input 2«,
On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 00:11 +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote:
Thank you for the pointers.
Do I have to have SPDIF enable in kernel? I don't see any PCM IN
supports in arts or alsamiser.
I use a cheap USB soundcard with the snd_usb_audio module and didn't
need to add any additional
Is alsamixer call KMix in KDE? That is all I see under Multimedia
menu. I have Alsa build into the kernel, so it starts at boot, my
sound card is some kind of Via-chipset on the motherboard.
If this is the only card on your system, I guess that kmix will show you
the same controls as
Dave,
Yup. Had a feeling that you might be right about that one.
It seems that the computer will still crash, but certainly not as often. My
guess: there is a bigger problem that is aggravated when the computer is
under more stress; ie: tracking excessive amounts of kernel complaints, etc.
Hi gentuxx,
As you may have seen in my reply to another helpful person, same disk
worked on a different setting (primary slave instead of primary master).
perhaps the disk is going bad, although it's only a couple years old.
Thanks for your suggestion,
Michael
On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, gentuxx
On Tuesday 20 September 2005 00:56, Kris Kerwin wrote:
Dave,
Yup. Had a feeling that you might be right about that one.
It seems that the computer will still crash, but certainly not as often. My
guess: there is a bigger problem that is aggravated when the computer is
under more stress; ie:
On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 17:14 +0200, Christoph Gysin wrote:
Joseph wrote:
The (CN) of the certificate match out company name it doesn't match
localhost
I assume your apache is configured with hostname localhost.
What does your apache.conf look like? (snipped to the relevant parts, of
/var/log/Xorg.log.0 (I think thats what it is named, its pretty easy to find
in /var/log) will tell you what config file X is using.
X _may_ work without a config file _if_ everything is auto detected, but
I have never struck it (then again all my hardware is oldish).
More likely it is working
Hi all,
Yesterday, I posted asking for a Gentoo equivalent of something I was
able to do in Fedora, I got some answers which were of assistance, one
being to check my logwatch.conf file to see what the frequency was set
at. This helped because it was set weekly and since I had just
installed
050919 Paul wrote:
On Monday 19 Sep 2005 18:22, S. ancelot wrote:
use dd_rescue
I could not find any sysrescue live cd listed.
I got it from www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/
installed it in /usr/local , but it appears to be in Portage :
sys-fs/dd-rescue
I haven't had need to use it,
Nice looking sound tools there (http://alsamodular.sourceforge.net/) -
is there an ebuild?
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 23:09:49 +0200
Christoph Eckert wrote:
Recommendation: Use qarecord in ALSA mode. It has a nice levelmeter so
you immediately can see if there's audio coming in or not.
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One point I have never seen mentioned is *why* would you *not* want a
package in the world file - especially if you want it to be managed by
the system?
BillK
On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 09:07 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote:
On Tuesday 20 September 2005 01:12, gentuxx wrote:
If every security fix comes
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W.Kenworthy wrote:
One point I have never seen mentioned is *why* would you *not* want a
package in the world file - especially if you want it to be managed by
the system?
BillK
I guess maybe that's part of what I'm getting at. ;-)
On Tue,
On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 22:36 -0500, John Jolet wrote:
On Sunday 18 September 2005 22:11, A. Khattri wrote:
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
Be that as it may, I'm not Perl person (picked up the book, but haven't
really progressed anywhere hehe).
But.. when push comes to
well, at first, let memtest86(+) run for some hours.
Volker's got a good point here...
second, check that your box does not get too hot. Crashes on stress are
mostly
overheating or PSU going bad.
Mentioned that to him about the heat... Kris, were you able to get
lm_sensors running on the
I cat'ed the dead letter file and at the end, the following appears:
send-mail: RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (504 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Sender address rejected: need fully-qualified address)
Can't send mail: sendmail process failed with error code 1
What MTA are you using, Colleen? That will be the
On Tuesday 20 September 2005 04:14, Dave Nebinger wrote:
fourth, check your board and cards for 'funny looking' condensators -
like deformation, round tops, or even some brown 'dirt' at their base.
This I think will be hard for him, Volker, as I believe he's running a
laptop.
In that
The version of time included doesn't seem to include the -o switch,
allowing the output to be put in a file.
Is there a way to get this?
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Dave Nebinger wrote:
I cat'ed the dead letter file and at the end, the following appears:
send-mail: RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (504 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Sender address rejected: need fully-qualified address)
Can't send mail: sendmail process failed with error code 1
What MTA are you using,
On 9/19/05, Justin Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The version of time included doesn't seem to include the -o switch,allowing the output to be put in a file.Is there a way to get this?
Not sure how `time -o` worked but perhaps `time filename`
-Mike-- Michael E.
On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 23:09 -0400, C. Beamer wrote:
Dave Nebinger wrote:
I cat'ed the dead letter file and at the end, the following appears:
send-mail: RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (504 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Sender address rejected: need fully-qualified address)
Can't send mail: sendmail
John Jolet wrote:
You could stay with ssmtp, just edit the config file (i think
it's /etc/ssmtp.conf or something). It doesn't do aliases, but you can
set ONE alias for all destination uids under 1000.
Alternatively, you can unmerge ssmtp and emerge sendmail (or better yet,
in my opionion,
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 08:49:12PM -0700, maxim wexler wrote
--- Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 9/18/05, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
SNIP
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8
apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr
sse sse2
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Is there a way with emerge or equery to determine what other package a
given package is a dependency for?
As a clarification, I have the net-dialup/ subtree excluded from
portage as described by another thread on this list
Michael Crute schrieb:
Not sure how `time -o` worked but perhaps `time filename`
And the latter does what?
Alexander Skwar
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Gentoo Shadow wrote:
i have done this... but during restoration all other desktop files are i
getting restored except the mails on KMail. pls advice to restore them
correctly...
you need to restore .kde/share/apps/kmail/
AND
.kde/share/config/kmailrc
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Ciudad de
You want sys-process/time
Justin Hart wrote:
The version of time included doesn't seem to include the -o switch,
allowing the output to be put in a file.
Is there a way to get this?
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Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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I would like to run mldonkey with umask 0002. However I cannot work out how
to do this. The Gentoo version of /etc/init.d/mldonkey calls
start-stop-daemon, but start-stop-daemon doesn't have a umask option.
As mldonkey is the only program that runs as user p2p, I would be happy if I
could
Hi, I am looking the current apache upgrade to -r31. There are a number
of MPM (Multi-Processing Module implementing a hybrid multi-threaded
multi-process web server) related use flags. I have not seen any
discussions on these so is there anyone willing to comment on their
desirability - is this
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, gentuxx wrote:
As a clarification, I have the net-dialup/ subtree excluded from
portage as described by another thread on this list
(/etc/portage/rsyc_excludes). But when I run emerge --ask --verbose
- --update --newuse --deep world, I get the net-dialup/ppp package as
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
I did it, didn't have to go through perl. Just added a mail_header() to
my script.
mail_header()
{
echo MIME-Version:1.0
echo From:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
echo To:$RECIPIENT
echo Subject:Quotes $DATE
echo
On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 01:23 -0400, A. Khattri wrote:
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
I did it, didn't have to go through perl. Just added a mail_header() to
my script.
#!/bin/sh
#
TEMPFILE=/tmp/file.$$
PORTFOLIO_SCRIPT=$HOME/scripts/portfolio.sh
$PORTFOLIO_SCRIPT --html
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