Re: [gentoo-user] accessing a bash

2009-02-06 Thread Dan Wallis
On 05/02/2009, Jon Hardcastle jd_hardcas...@yahoo.com wrote: Hey guys.. random Linux question. If i have a bash process running on my machine that i am not 'attatched' to is there anyway to access it and see what it is doing short of just killing it? Take a look at app-misc/screen. Although

Re: [gentoo-user] Broken binary and revdep-rebuild doesn't find it.

2009-03-31 Thread Dan Wallis
On 09/03/2009, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: rea...@gentoo ~ $ ldd /usr/lib64/NX/bin/* | grep not found libXcomp.so.3 = not found libXcompext.so.3 = not found libXcompshad.so.3 = not found libXcomp.so.3 = not found So today's update of glibc

Re: [gentoo-user] gimp doc

2008-10-23 Thread Dan Wallis
On 22/10/2008, Andrew Gaydenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are two packages related to gimp doc: app-doc/gimp-user-manual-2.0 app-doc/gimp-help-2.4.2 Interestingly, USE=doc emerge gimp pulls in neither of these packages. I would have expected it to have required at least one of them.

Re: [gentoo-user] Smartd

2008-10-24 Thread Dan Wallis
On 24/10/2008, Jon Hardcastle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want the drives to be checked by smartd also. I just hoped there was a way of getting smartd to wait alittle longer after waking the drive up. Could you generate some disk activity on the disk(s) just prior to the scheduled check(s)? I

Re: [gentoo-user] How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-12 Thread Dan Wallis
On 12/11/2008, Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've allowed my desktop OS to become somewhat outdated. And I haven't followed all the recent changes to gentoo, so of course I am a little baffled by what appears to a real mess of overlapping dependencies or something causing 16

Re: [gentoo-user] sshd won't restart on remote system

2008-11-12 Thread Dan Wallis
On 12/11/2008, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After updating to the latest stable x86 openssh and merging config files on my remote system, I get: # /etc/init.d/sshd restart * Stopping sshd ... [ !! ] There is nothing in /var/log/sshd/current. Does anyone know what I should do? You

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-13 Thread Dan Wallis
On 12/11/2008, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as root: lspci Why as root? I get exactly the same output when I run it as my own user as when I run it as root. Or have I got my system set up different to everyone else? Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-13 Thread Dan Wallis
On 13/11/2008, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Dan Wallis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/11/2008, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as root: lspci Why as root? I get exactly the same output when I run it as my own

Re: [gentoo-user] tools currently available for update of etc files after updates

2008-11-14 Thread Dan Wallis
On 14/11/2008, John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An eix on both dispatch-conf and etc-update yield no matches -- where can they be found? They both belong to sys-apps/portage on my systems: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ qfile dispatch-conf sys-apps/portage (/usr/sbin/dispatch-conf)

Re: [gentoo-user] How to run dhclient on the background

2008-11-23 Thread Dan Wallis
On 23/11/2008, damian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, When I boot my computer I don't want to wait for the dhcp client (in my case dhclient) to acquire a lease to continue the booting process. Instead, I would like that the client could be run in the background (as a daemon) right after

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with install-x86-minimal-20091103

2010-01-14 Thread Dan Wallis
On 10/12/2009, Joshua Murphy poiso...@gmail.com wrote: One note about sysresccd, while I do nearly all of my installs from it (working from a likely out of date copy, so unsure how much this still applies) anymore, I've run across a small issue between its use of zsh and emerging some

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

2010-03-17 Thread Dan Wallis
On 16 March 2010 12:41, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have run into a problem which I cannot explain.  I am trying to run this script in a amd64 installation: xterm -fg green -bg black -e 'gpg Personal/data.ods.gpg oocalc \ Personal/data.ods; shred --remove -z -v

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

2010-03-18 Thread Dan Wallis
On 19 March 2010 08:42, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Is there some bash incantation I can use then with OOo compiled from source, to keep the terminal open until I close OOo? I guess something like this might do the trick: while pgrep ooffice /dev/null; do sleep 1; done Although