[gentoo-user] configuring SVN repo w/apache w/o breaking dev-util/subversion

2009-09-15 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
Hi. Would appreciate someone's view on the following: I want to configure SVN access via apache. This requires some modifications to /etc/apache2/modules.d/47_mod_dav_svn.conf (http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.0/svn-book.html#svn-ch-6-sect-4.2) Since the file is owned by dev-util/subversion,

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring SVN repo w/apache w/o breaking dev-util/subversion

2009-09-15 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:17:16 +0300, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: Is there an alternative mechanism to modifying a package-owned file? It's in a CONFIG_PROTECTed directory (/etc) so it won't be overwritten by a package update. It's safe to modify it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Uncle: qt-*:4 dependencies/blocks preventing world update

2009-10-25 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
With regards to this: I believe I'm in the same situation: QUOTE amit0 ~ # emerge -auvt world These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency

Re: [gentoo-user] Uncle: qt-*:4 dependencies/blocks preventing world update

2009-10-25 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
[-] qt3support (x11-libs/qt-sql): Enable the Qt3Support libraries for Qt4 Amit Mick wrote: On Sunday 25 October 2009 11:43:59 Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: With regards to this: I believe I'm in the same situation: SNIP emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy ~x11

Re: [gentoo-user] Uncle: qt-*:4 dependencies/blocks preventing world update

2009-10-25 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
Thanks econti ( arttu). My point was that I don't have the relevant news listed, rather than the actual solution to the issue. Amit econti wrote: Amit Dor-Shifer ha scritto: With regards to this: I believe I'm in the same situation: QUOTE amit0 ~ # emerge -auvt world

Re: [gentoo-user] Uncle: qt-*:4 dependencies/blocks preventing world update

2009-10-25 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
I think that if default/linux/amd64/10.0 is a valid profile, it's reasonable to expect that the relevant news item be listed on eselect. Amit Mick wrote: On Sunday 25 October 2009 12:53:33 Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: amit0 ~ # eselect profile show Current make.profile symlink: default/linux

[gentoo-user] mounting /var prior to invocation of /sbin/rc

2009-11-04 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
Hi. I've a setup where /var resides on a separate partition than root. After boot, I see that /var is created on root and some files are written to it. E.G, the following folders are created: /var/lib/init.d/snapshot /var/lib/init.d/options /var/lib/init.d/daemons /var/lib/init.d/started

[gentoo-user] Re: mounting /var prior to invocation of /sbin/rc [CANCELLED]

2009-11-04 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
I take it back. those files were leftover on the root partition. Amit Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: Hi. I've a setup where /var resides on a separate partition than root. After boot, I see that /var is created on root and some files are written to it. E.G, the following folders are created: /var

Re: [gentoo-user] strange dmesg output - RESOLVED

2009-11-09 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
On Wednesday 28 October 2009 20:10:52 Maxim Wexler wrote: Not sure this is related with the OP's problem, I have noticed that on my system I can scroll up in a console if it displays the output of a command, e.g. ls, but I cannot scroll up on the boot messages. Also, I cannot scroll up

[gentoo-user] [OT] interrupting runscripts during startup

2009-11-19 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
Hi all. When hitting Ctrl-C during startup, I manage to interrupt services at the early stages of init, yet later-on I can no-longer do this. It seems that up till runlevel 'default', services can be hit with the interrupt. I'm wondering where is this behavior being set, and whether I can

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] interrupting runscripts during startup

2009-11-20 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
a script while it's running with 'I', and with SIGINT, I can. Amit Renat Golubchyk wrote: On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:02:47 +0200 Amit Dor-Shifer ami...@oversi.com wrote: When hitting Ctrl-C during startup, I manage to interrupt services at the early stages of init, yet later-on I can no-longer

[gentoo-user] /bin contains busybox executables after installing busybox-1.13.2

2009-11-25 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
Hi. I've just stumbled on an abnormality for which I've yet no explanation. Posting for possible general interest. Yesterday ebuild unpack started to emit errors: find: unrecognized: -mindepth BusyBox v1.13.2 (2009-09-02 17:33:46 IDT) multi-call binary Usage: find [PATH...] [EXPRESSION]

Re: [gentoo-user] /bin contains busybox executables after installing busybox-1.13.2

2009-11-25 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
by process 17234 on 2009-09-02 17:36:00 IDT for package media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.20-r4: FWIW, exing the excess exe-s from /bin/ helped relieve my pains. Amit Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 25 November 2009 11:35:53 Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: Hi. I've just stumbled on an abnormality for which

Re: [gentoo-user] /bin contains busybox executables after installing busybox-1.13.2

2009-11-25 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 25 November 2009 14:33:29 Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: amit0 ~ # fgrep make-symlinks /var/log/portage/elog/summary.log /var/log/emerge.log;echo $? 1 [snip] Do you perhaps have a minimal elog config? I get that message every time here amit0

Re: [gentoo-user] OS inaccessable after brief uptime in X

2009-11-29 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
my 2-cents: Might want to check filesystem integrity too (e.g: fsck, xfs_check). Amit Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 28 November 2009 22:53:52 Harry Putnam wrote: I keep having a problem where the OS becomes inaccessable after running in X for a while. I haven't noticed a time pattern

Re: [gentoo-user] SRC_URI=mirror://sourceforge- how to find out

2009-12-21 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/impressive/Impressive/0.10.2/Impressive-0.10.2.tar.gz works for me: amit0 # wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/impressive/Impressive/0.10.2/Impressive-0.10.2.tar.gz --2009-12-21 14:07:18--

Re: [gentoo-user] remote desktop suggestion

2010-01-26 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I would like to try a remote desktop server/client app (linux to linux). Would anyone have suggestions? freenx x ltsp x vnc x others? Thanks, definitely one of the NX or

Re: [gentoo-user] Which IPSEC to go?

2010-01-27 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
kashani wrote: On 1/24/2010 1:38 PM, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: Hi, since I am a while out of the game of doing ipsec with Linux: What's the way to go? Strongswan/Openswan or ipsec-tools for kame/racoon. Emerge -p gave me some ~ for ipsec-tools while openswan goes without. Any input

Re: [gentoo-user] customized init script

2010-02-23 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Hi, I have a customized script. hosta# /etc/init.d/scriptrunner start * Starting ScriptRunner ... /sbin/start-stop-daemon: Unable to start /usr/local/scriptrunner/bin/startup.sh: Exec format error (Exec format error)[ ok ]

[gentoo-user] Is there a lock daemon for managing file locking on an NFS server?

2010-02-25 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
e.g. 'lockd'? If so, which ebuild installs it? 10x, Amit

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a lock daemon for managing file locking on an NFS server?

2010-02-27 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
Xavier Parizet wrote: On 02/25/2010 02:56 PM, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: e.g. 'lockd'? If so, which ebuild installs it? Well i'm using NFS for a while now, and i just checked: nothing like this is running on my nfs server. Do you have a special reason for asking ? (i mean a bug

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a lock daemon for managing file locking on an NFS server? [SOLVED]

2010-02-28 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
Neil Walker wrote: Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: e.g. 'lockd'? If so, which ebuild installs it? I abandoned nfs quite a while ago but, afaik, file locking is handled internally by the kernel. Be lucky, Neil http://www.neiljw.com rpc.lockd was removed starting of nfs-utils-1.1.0

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FreeNX password vs. ssh-key

2010-02-28 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
u can use nxclient w/VNC protocol. The server shall then invoke a local vnc server, log into it with a local nx client, and let you log into the local client. That way you get nx's performance over a VNC connection (sort-of). Amit I'm just wandering if it is possible to connect to existing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FreeNX password vs. ssh-key

2010-02-28 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
BTW, am I the only-one who can't get x2go to build? amit0 ~ # emerge -av x2goserver These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies / * Please fix your package (net-misc/x2gosessionadministration-2.0.1.10) to not use kde.eclass

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FreeNX password vs. ssh-key

2010-03-03 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
Anyone? Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: BTW, am I the only-one who can't get x2go to build? amit0 ~ # emerge -av x2goserver These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies / * Please fix your package (net-misc/x2gosessionadministration-2.0.1.10) to not use kde.eclass

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with script calling OOCalc on amd64

2010-03-16 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
What does xterm -fg green -bg black -e 'gpg Personal/data.ods.gpg;echo $?' tell you? I'm thinking that gpg fails, so oocalc never launches (because you conditioned its execution with '', and the script continues to shred the file. My amd64 succeeds executing this (s/gpg/echo-to-tmpfile/). I

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with script calling OOCalc on amd64

2010-03-17 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
script works-as-expected w/o the xterm wrap) then maybe it'll be worthwhile looking into the X resources yr xterm is reading. HTH Amit Mick wrote: On Tuesday 16 March 2010 07:40:04 Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: What does xterm -fg green -bg black -e 'gpg Personal/data.ods.gpg;echo $?' tell you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] shell ouput which file descriptor

2010-04-11 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
permission issue? any EACCES in strace output? Amit Harry Putnam wrote: Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: $cat /tmp/testfile cat: nonexistantfile: No such file or directory Thanks... Are you running cvs as root, or user, or ...? I was running cvs as user, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions for my first ebuild

2010-04-18 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
Walter Dnes wrote: I intend to get the Silicon Dust HDHomerun dual tuner box. It has a linux library and CLI plus a separate gtk+ GUI. The linux source comes with a makefile that puts stuff in /usr/local. But I want at least a wrapper ebuild so that Portage knows about the files, and can

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I control ttyS0 respawning speed?

2010-04-21 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
Jarry wrote: Hi, I have set-up serial console on my server in /etc/inittab: s0:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 ttyS0 vt100 It mostly works, with one exception: right after boot-up I get this message: INIT: ID s0 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Of course, I can see this only on

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I control ttyS0 respawning speed?

2010-04-25 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
Jarry wrote: On 21. 4. 2010 9:43, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: Jarry wrote: s0:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 ttyS0 vt100 It mostly works, with one exception: right after boot-up I get this message: INIT: ID s0 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes How can I control that respawn speed

[gentoo-user] xorg-server: Pressing 'down'/'right ctrl' keys yields newline

2010-05-12 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
Hi all. After updating world, xorg-1.5.3-r6 to 1.7.6 among others, I'm now faced with a/m issue. 1. left ctrl key works fine, so does the down arrow key on the numpad. 2. Seems like the down key generates a double sequence: both the down event and a newline. This doesn't happen in terminal

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] xorg-server: Pressing 'down'/'right ctrl' keys yields newline

2010-05-13 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
On 05/13/10 00:54, walt wrote: On 05/12/2010 05:25 AM, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: Hi all. After updating world, xorg-1.5.3-r6 to 1.7.6 among others, I'm now faced with a/m issue. 1. left ctrl key works fine, so does the down arrow key on the numpad. 2. Seems like the down key generates a double

Re: [gentoo-user] X hoggs CPU (xorg-server-1.7.6) (was: xorg-server: Pressing 'down'/'right ctrl' keys yields newline)

2010-05-16 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
On 05/14/10 00:47, walt wrote: On 05/13/2010 03:22 AM, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: On 05/13/10 00:54, walt wrote: On 05/12/2010 05:25 AM, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: Hi all. After updating world, xorg-1.5.3-r6 to 1.7.6 among others, I'm now faced with a/m issue. 1. left ctrl key works fine, so

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X hoggs CPU (xorg-server-1.7.6)

2010-05-17 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
# print modification TSs, to verify log refers to said conf file # stat -c %y /etc/X11/xorg.conf /var/log/Xorg.0.log 2010-05-16 11:01:33.231512534 +0300 2010-05-16 12:23:02.502995953 +0300 On 05/16/10 22:15, walt wrote: On 05/16/2010 01:12 AM, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: Explicitly setting

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X hoggs CPU (xorg-server-1.7.6)

2010-05-17 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
' (string) Perhaps HAL is responsible for generating the log messages? Amit On 05/17/10 09:42, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: # print modification TSs, to verify log refers to said conf file # stat -c %y /etc/X11/xorg.conf /var/log/Xorg.0.log 2010-05-16 11:01:33.231512534 +0300 2010-05-16 12:23

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X hoggs CPU (xorg-server-1.7.6)

2010-05-17 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
On 05/17/10 09:42, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: Well, I'm less inclined to think now that X is responsible for the high CPU load. I wasn't too knowledgeable about the relationships between X and its clients when I made my initial assumption. It was more like I startx + I move mouse + CPU shoots-up

[gentoo-user] OT: tool for reading /etc/conf.d/net?

2010-07-08 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
Can anyone recommend a tool that can parse networking info from a/m file, so one can use it to query, e.g. what is the static IP configured on eth0? Amit

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: tool for reading /etc/conf.d/net?

2010-07-11 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
On 07/09/10 20:37, James wrote: Amit Dor-Shiferamitdsat oversi.com writes: Can anyone recommend a tool that can parse networking info from a/m file, so one can use it to query, e.g. what is the static IP configured on eth0? Amit /sbin/ifconfig -a ??? if not, look at the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: tool for reading /etc/conf.d/net?

2010-07-11 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
On 07/08/10 15:13, Remy Blank wrote: Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: Can anyone recommend a tool that can parse networking info from a/m file, so one can use it to query, e.g. what is the static IP configured on eth0? bash? No, I'm not joking. The file is a bash script, and hence can just