Re: [gentoo-user] logrotate trouble
My log config sections are like this:
/var/log/apache2/access_log {
daily
rotate 99
postrotate
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
endscript
}
for access_log, ssl_access_log, ssl_request_log, error_log, and
ssl_error_log with apache2 restarting for each. I'm thinking that is
pretty bad. Can anyone give me any pointers on this?
You could do something like this:
/var/log/apache2/access_log /var/log/apache2/ssl_access_log
/var/log/apache2/ssl_request_log,
error_log /var/log/apache2/ssl_error_log {
daily
rotate 99
sharedscripts
postrotate
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
endscript
}
The sharedscripts option means that the postrotate script will only be
executed once for all files. So apache will only be restarted once.
Got it, thank you!
- Grant
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[gentoo-user] Editing perl modules
Will changes I make to installed perl modules be reflected right away? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Weird apache2 stuff
When I try to restart apache2 I get: /etc/init.d/apache2 restart * Starting apache2... [ !! ] and there is nothing in the error_log. Trying to stop apache2 give me this: /etc/init.d/apache2 stop * ERROR: apache2 has not yet been started. but my pages are being served just fine. Does anyone know what's going on here? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Weird apache2 stuff
When I try to restart apache2 I get: /etc/init.d/apache2 restart * Starting apache2... [ !! ] and there is nothing in the error_log. Trying to stop apache2 give me this: /etc/init.d/apache2 stop * ERROR: apache2 has not yet been started. but my pages are being served just fine. Does anyone know what's going on here? You must have somehow started apache2 manually. try # killall apache sleep 5 /etc/init.d/apache2 start That should restart it for you, and bring it under control of the Gentoo initscripts again. The sleep 5 is to give apache time to finish exiting Thanks, worked like a charm! I wonder how apache2 could have been restarted manually though. Should I be worried? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Weird apache2 stuff
When I try to restart apache2 I get: /etc/init.d/apache2 restart * Starting apache2... [ !! ] and there is nothing in the error_log. Trying to stop apache2 give me this: /etc/init.d/apache2 stop * ERROR: apache2 has not yet been started. but my pages are being served just fine. Does anyone know what's going on here? You must have somehow started apache2 manually. try # killall apache sleep 5 /etc/init.d/apache2 start That should restart it for you, and bring it under control of the Gentoo initscripts again. The sleep 5 is to give apache time to finish exiting Thanks, worked like a charm! I wonder how apache2 could have been restarted manually though. Should I be worried? - Grant I bet you are using the thread use flag, it change the MPM of apache ... and make it very slow at shutdown time. Sometimes 5 seconds are no enough too. btw try to avoid it if you are using mod_php, rumors are that it causes memory leak also if I've never suffered of them. regards francesco I'm actually not using threads. Interchange ( http://www.icdevgroup.org ) doesn't work with a threaded perl so neither do I. :) - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] SSH keys
I allowed my consultant to put an SSH key into my system so he can log in any time he likes without providing a password. I'd like to get rid of that now. How can I do that? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] SSH keys
I allowed my consultant to put an SSH key into my system so he can log in any time he likes without providing a password. I'd like to get rid of that now. How can I do that? Remove ~user/.ssh/authorized_keys2 or authorized_keys Got it, thank you! - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Another way to view apache2's logs
above. One thing I'd really like to see that no log analyzer seems to include is a breakdown of info by day. It always seems to be by month, and that means I get much more relevant information during the first couple days of every month when I get to see what happened during those days. Apologies if it was already brought up (I already deleted most of this thread), but did you evaluate app-admin/analog? It's been a couple years since I used it, but it does report some things by day. I did check that one out and it actually seems pretty much identical to Webalizer as far as the data it provides. What I really need is keyword and referrer information by day. I don't know why no one offers that. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.10-hardened-r3 sound card driver changes
But if I boot into 2.6.7-hardened-r17 with alsa compiled in, sound works great. I'm just wondering, since the error message you showed above meant the device files weren't there, are you using udev or devfs? If devfs, did you forget to enable 'mount at boot' or anything like that? -- Calvin Walton Maybe I'm oversimplifying this, but since sound works great in 2.6.7 but not in 2.6.10, there has to be some type of a kernel problem right? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] [OT] Digital Information
This is off-topic, but I bet you guys can help me figure this out. How does digital information (0 or 1, off or on) end up doing all the stuff it does? A link or explanation would be greatly appreciated. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Digital Information
This is off-topic, but I bet you guys can help me figure this out. How does digital information (0 or 1, off or on) end up doing all the stuff it does? A link or explanation would be greatly appreciated. Hmm, this is a pretty fundamental computer question. I guess I would have to answer that 1s and 0s are able to achieve all they do by teaming up. One binary digit, or bit (0 or 1) does not do much by itself. You have to put 8 of them together to come up with a regulation byte, for example. -- -Mike Melanson -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_gate http://www.play-hookey.com/digital/ http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/digital-electronics.htm typicalgoogle is your friend/typical The concept of information storage is interesting, and I would recommend books/courses on computer architecture fundamentals. Certain types of logic gates can store voltages that are either in a high or low state -- which for our purposes is a 1 or 0. You can then line up these gates as arrays or registers of 8, 16, 32, etc...you can then start assigning particular tasks to each of these registers. Anyway, check the web and/or the library. ;) _k Very nice guys, thanks a lot. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Another way to view apache2's logs
You mentioned using webalizer, the tool i use is similar awstats. It produces similar outputs, i found with more information however. It depends what your wanting to see. AWStats will show referal information, search queries, browser type and version etc. Times the page is views, bandwidth usage. http://awstats.sf.net (or emerge awstats) I actually used to use AWstats, but switched to Webalizer so I don't have to run CGIs directly from the URL. I checked out the AWstats demo recently, and I really didn't see any info that Webalizer leaves out. Webalizer does include all the types of info you mentioned above. One thing I'd really like to see that no log analyzer seems to include is a breakdown of info by day. It always seems to be by month, and that means I get much more relevant information during the first couple days of every month when I get to see what happened during those days. - Grant Tim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Another way to view apache2's logs
| I've been using webalizer to analyze apache2's access_log. When I
| browse the raw log file, I realize I'm missing out on a lot of
| information when I'm using webalizer, but then again, the raw log file
| is too much info. Is there another tool that lets you see, for
| example, all raw log entries that include referrer information that is
| not from my own site for a particular day?
|
| - Grant
coreutils!
For example, to see all log entries for today that didn't come from 127.0.0.1
you could do:
$ grep -v '127.0.0.1' /var/log/apache2/access_log | grep $(date +%d/%b/%Y)
If you only want say the referrer information for sites that aren't yours, you
could do:
$ cat /var/log/apache2/access_log | awk '{ print $11 }' | grep -v
'http://yourdomain/'
grep/sed/awk etc are indespensible for stuff like this. learn them!
It sounds like that's exactly what I need to do. Please let me know
if there's a tutorial online that's particularly good for this. If
not, Google will find about 1,000,000. Thanks!
- Grant
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Re: [gentoo-user] Another way to view apache2's logs
I am not using this list much lately so this is my last question... how can i unsuscribe from this mailing list? thanks in advance Rafael http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/lists.xml -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.10-hardened-r3 sound card driver changes
I turned the volume and pcm up in the xfce4 mixer (even though it's grayed out), but alsamixer is a bad command. When I open xmovie in a terminal and try to play an MP3, I get this: open odevice failed Ahh...that's a different issue. So what's in /dev, /dev/snd/, and /dev/sound/? Did you reboot after getting the modules setup in /etc/module.d/alsa and running update-modules force? An open odevice failed is due to no devices in /dev - /dev/dsp /dev/pcm with associated device nodes in /dev/snd and /dev/sound. Or it's a bad error message meaning the current user doesn't have permission to use the devices. Hi Bob, I don't have anything in /dev/sound. Here's /etc/modules.d: aliases ath_pci i386 ppp slmodem It sounds like I need an alsa in there? I always compile everything I can into the kernel so this module stuff is new to me. - Grant Bob -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.10-hardened-r3 sound card driver changes
Hi Grant, I don't have anything in /dev/sound. Here's /etc/modules.d: aliases ath_pci i386 ppp slmodem It sounds like I need an alsa in there? I always compile everything I can into the kernel so this module stuff is new to me. Per-chance have you emerged alsa-lib alsa-utilities alsa-oss? And you'll need to - rc-update add alsasound boot Once the above is in place, edit /etc/modules.d/alsa, add the sound card defs, reboot (yes, you really, really need to reboot), and run alsamixer in a term, unmute the card, adjust the volume levels and esc to exit the mixer. Bob Hi Bob, All this extra stuff is being done on the off-chance that sound wasn't working because alsa was compiled into the kernel instead of as a module. Why would alsa work as a module, but not when built into the kernel? Avoiding all of this is one of the reasons I moved up to 2.6. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.10-hardened-r3 sound card driver changes
All this extra stuff is being done on the off-chance that sound wasn't working because alsa was compiled into the kernel instead of as a module. Why would alsa work as a module, but not when built into the kernel? Probably because you are using the slmodem drivers. which also have something to do with ALSA. I don't know the details, but when I installed slmodem on my laptop, it warned that the also driver had to be a module. But if I boot into 2.6.7-hardened-r17 with alsa compiled in, sound works great. - Grant Neil Bothwick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.10-hardened-r3 sound card driver changes
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 16:45:48 -0800, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sound works great for me in 2.6.7 by selecting the following PCI device: * Intel i8x0/MX440, SiS 7012; Ali 5455; NForce Audio; AMD768/8111 but there is no such option in 2.6.10 and the closest I see is this: * Intel/SiS/nVidia/AMD/ALi AC97 Controller but I have no sound. Hmm. I havn't been using the in-kernel ALSA, but when i check, the Intel i8x0 driver has been renamed in the configuration screen. If you look at the details (? in menuconfig), it is still CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0, the same thing. Does anyone know how I can get sound back? It seems strange that a working audio driver would be pruned from the kernel like this. Is there any output from the kernel when loading the sound driver in dmesg? also try building the alsa stuff as modules, i have occasionally seen problems when it is built into the kernel. -- Calvin Walton Hi Calvin, Thanks a lot for taking the time to look this over. Here's some stuff from dmesg that looks sound-related: intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49395 usecs intel8x0: clocking to 48000 ALSA device list: #0: SiS SI7012 with AD1981B at 0x1400, irq 5 Not too great though. I'll try compiling all the alsa stuff as modules. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.10-hardened-r3 sound card driver changes
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 16:45:48 -0800, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sound works great for me in 2.6.7 by selecting the following PCI device: * Intel i8x0/MX440, SiS 7012; Ali 5455; NForce Audio; AMD768/8111 but there is no such option in 2.6.10 and the closest I see is this: * Intel/SiS/nVidia/AMD/ALi AC97 Controller but I have no sound. Hmm. I havn't been using the in-kernel ALSA, but when i check, the Intel i8x0 driver has been renamed in the configuration screen. If you look at the details (? in menuconfig), it is still CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0, the same thing. Does anyone know how I can get sound back? It seems strange that a working audio driver would be pruned from the kernel like this. Is there any output from the kernel when loading the sound driver in dmesg? also try building the alsa stuff as modules, i have occasionally seen problems when it is built into the kernel. -- Calvin Walton I loaded 8 modules, but the xfce4 mixer is grayed out even after I load them. I've tried restarting X, but it stays grayed out. I tried to play an MP3 anyway, but still no sound. This is what I get in dmesg after loading the modules: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 5 PCI: setting IRQ 5 as level-triggered ACPI: PCI interrupt :00:02.7[C] - GSI 5 (level, low) - IRQ 5 intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49433 usecs intel8x0: clocking to 48000 Here are the modules I loaded: snd snd-seq-device snd-seq snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec snd-intel8x0 Any ideas? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Another way to view apache2's logs
I've been using webalizer to analyze apache2's access_log. When I browse the raw log file, I realize I'm missing out on a lot of information when I'm using webalizer, but then again, the raw log file is too much info. Is there another tool that lets you see, for example, all raw log entries that include referrer information that is not from my own site for a particular day? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.10-hardened-r3 sound card driver changes
Here are the modules I loaded: snd snd-seq-device snd-seq snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec snd-intel8x0 Any ideas? Did you unmute the main, pcm, and ext. power amp switch (if there is one) in alsamixer? Or raise the gain of the appropriate channels with alsamixer? Bob I turned the volume and pcm up in the xfce4 mixer (even though it's grayed out), but alsamixer is a bad command. When I open xmovie in a terminal and try to play an MP3, I get this: open odevice failed - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] 2.6.10-hardened-r3 sound card driver changes
Sound works great for me in 2.6.7 by selecting the following PCI device: * Intel i8x0/MX440, SiS 7012; Ali 5455; NForce Audio; AMD768/8111 but there is no such option in 2.6.10 and the closest I see is this: * Intel/SiS/nVidia/AMD/ALi AC97 Controller but I have no sound. Here's lspci -v info: :00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Sound Controller (rev a0) Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 0195 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 173, IRQ 5 I/O ports at 1400 I/O ports at 2480 [size=128] Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2 Does anyone know how I can get sound back? It seems strange that a working audio driver would be pruned from the kernel like this. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and Acroread
I have the latest firefox and acroread, but when I open a PDF in firefox, nothing is displayed. Does anyone know what might be wrong? Just guessing here: Does Firefox 'know' about Acrobat? Maybe you have to monkey with the Firefox configuration settings to associate type application/x-pdf (or whatever) with acroread. -- -Mike Melanson Actually I think firefox figured that out. When I go to Edit - Preferences - Downloads - Plug-Ins PDF is in there with a check next to it. It was definitely not there before emerging acroread. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list type about:plugins into the URL bar, and scroll down to the acrobat heading. Check here to make sure that the correct MIME types are associated with that plugin. Thanks everyone. It's working now after a reboot. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] swapon fails on boot up
Ever since I upgraded to a 2.6 kernel I've been getting the following message at boot up: swapon: /dev/hda2: Device or resource busy Does anyone know what might be wrong? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Firefox and Acroread
I have the latest firefox and acroread, but when I open a PDF in firefox, nothing is displayed. Does anyone know what might be wrong? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and Acroread
I have the latest firefox and acroread, but when I open a PDF in firefox, nothing is displayed. Does anyone know what might be wrong? Just guessing here: Does Firefox 'know' about Acrobat? Maybe you have to monkey with the Firefox configuration settings to associate type application/x-pdf (or whatever) with acroread. -- -Mike Melanson Actually I think firefox figured that out. When I go to Edit - Preferences - Downloads - Plug-Ins PDF is in there with a check next to it. It was definitely not there before emerging acroread. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How secure is osCommerce?
well i just played around with interchange, and lets just say, its not very user friendly, install said it finished, (which also took forever) and end the end there are NO files in my doc root, where is the site? who knows. i think ill stick with OSC, web based install, and most of all it works! If that's how you feel with it, it's probably a good idea to stick with OSC. You really have to be determined with IC, or hire a consultant. But there are no files in your docroot because they are pulled from a directory within the IC structure. The IC daemon sends them to apache or whatever else. There's a preliminary IC ebuild here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59148 but not in portage. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Dumping an image to a printer
I have a printer that doesn't have Linux drivers, but I know people are able to print to it from within perl by referencing the device directly. Would it be possible to print to this printer from within Firefox? I see that you can specify the exact command Firefox executes for printing, but I'm not sure what that would be in this situation. Is there a good command-line tool for sending a binary image file to a device (USB printer) for printing? From the looks of dmesg, the printer is detected and ready to roll. Are you using CUPS? If not, do! If you are running KDE you can use kprinter for that purpose (also in non-KDE apps). I am sure there is a similar solution for GNOME. I you don't run either of them you can still send the image to cupsd on port 631 and let CUPS handle how to treat it. Uwe Thanks guys but I've got to give up on this. I'm going to use my Samsung ML-1210 instead of the Zebra label printer. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Very slow USB printing
I've got printing to my laser Samsung ML-1210 working via USB, but it takes a long time for it to start printing after telling it to. It's very fast in Windows. Now it takes 1-3 minutes depending on what is printing and that's when it's warm and ready to go. I've checked my kernel's USB settings but I'm not sure what the problem is. Does anyone know where I should look? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How secure is osCommerce?
Hi, I'm wondering if anyone can tell me about the current security status of the MS2.2 release of osCommerce? I understand that there have been XSS vulnerabilities and DOS exploits, heve these been fixed in the MS2.2 downloadable from the site? Any help appreciated. -- Joel Merrick I highly recommend Interchange if you're willing to deal with a steep curve: http://www.icdevgroup.org - Grant can you give some pros/cons on why you like that over OSC? Nick Smith I can't directly relate IC and OSC, but I can tell you IC's big pro is power and its con is its learning curve because of the documentation. It's a bit weak. The best version is here: http://www.interchange.rtfm.info/docs/index.html and the mailing list is a must: http://www.icdevgroup.org/i/dev/mailinglists.html although it's not the friendliest one around. IC is a much more mature piece of software than OSC, and it will enable you to have much more control over your website. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Testing a wireless software upgrade remotely
Is there any way to test a wireless software upgrade remotely? For example, I upgraded to baselayout-1.11.8 a little while ago and it has caused major problems with my wireless connection. This was done locally, but if I needed to do it remotely would I be able to? VMware Workstation just virtualizes the hardware so I couldn't use that. Maybe what I need is a little box attached to each of my systems that is solid and can always be used to get into the system it's attached to. Does something like this exist? I think I've heard a Unix buddy of mine talking about something like this. But I guess even a solid box like that needs software upgrades from time to time. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How secure is osCommerce?
If you're a PHP guy you might want to stick with OSC, but even then I would encourage you to switch to IC. I have to admit I've never delved into OSC and I don't know PHP (IC is a perl app), but now that I've got it under my belt I feel like I have a huge leg up on every non-IC website out there. IC is really just another layer between the code and the developer, but it seems like if someone was building websites in, say: Perl, HTML, and MySQL for a while, eventually they would want to write tools (and a daemon) for the things they are doing over and over again so they can save themselves time, produce highly readable code, and have a really dynamic system in place. IC is like that, but with a bunch of different people developing it over about 10 years. It's still being very actively developed. Of course it's open-source, but I feel like I have 100% control over every aspect of what I produce, and I have never had to modify the core source files. - Grant can you post some url's of some carts, from what ive seen it never looks as smooth and professional as OSC, and the live demo doesnt do it justice, it has nice features, but im going for look. thanks Nick Smith You want look? How's this: your html [loop menu] your html [/loop] your html All the ITL (Interchange Tagging Language) works like that. You just tell IC where and when you want what HTML, CSS, Javscript, or whatever else. Of course, there are tags you can use to draw things for you, but I only use tags that define the where and when of my display code (HTML, etc). IC does all kinds of other stuff, this just the basics of display. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Testing a wireless software upgrade remotely
Maybe what I need is a little box attached to each of my systems that is solid and can always be used to get into the system it's attached to. Does something like this exist? I think I've heard a Unix buddy of mine talking about something like this. Yes, this is commonly called a console server which connects to potentially a lot of other boxes via serial console. You can build one on your own... But I guess even a solid box like that needs software upgrades from time to time. ...which is true if you want to build it on your own. Well, OTOH, as far as it just does its job and there's no remotely exploitable error in the ssh server and kernel, you're not urged to update... HWH Thanks, that sounds like just what I need. Any ideas on where to find out more about these? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Dumping an image to a printer
I have a printer that doesn't have Linux drivers, but I know people are able to print to it from within perl by referencing the device directly. Would it be possible to print to this printer from within Firefox? I see that you can specify the exact command Firefox executes for printing, but I'm not sure what that would be in this situation. Is there a good command-line tool for sending a binary image file to a device (USB printer) for printing? From the looks of dmesg, the printer is detected and ready to roll. Are you using CUPS? If not, do! If you are running KDE you can use kprinter for that purpose (also in non-KDE apps). I am sure there is a similar solution for GNOME. I you don't run either of them you can still send the image to cupsd on port 631 and let CUPS handle how to treat it. Uwe Thanks guys but I've got to give up on this. I'm going to use my Samsung ML-1210 instead of the Zebra label printer. sometimes i wonder why you bother asking questions and then ignore the amswers! Nick you are so right. I am very guilty of that right now. My business is taking off and I am busy/stressed off the charts. I did say I was giving up on this before your first message though. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How secure is osCommerce?
Hi, I'm wondering if anyone can tell me about the current security status of the MS2.2 release of osCommerce? I understand that there have been XSS vulnerabilities and DOS exploits, heve these been fixed in the MS2.2 downloadable from the site? Any help appreciated. -- Joel Merrick I highly recommend Interchange if you're willing to deal with a steep curve: http://www.icdevgroup.org - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How secure is osCommerce?
Hi, I'm wondering if anyone can tell me about the current security status of the MS2.2 release of osCommerce? I understand that there have been XSS vulnerabilities and DOS exploits, heve these been fixed in the MS2.2 downloadable from the site? Any help appreciated. -- Joel Merrick I highly recommend Interchange if you're willing to deal with a steep curve: http://www.icdevgroup.org - Grant let me try typing a response on this one... can you post some pro's/con's of why you like that over OCS? thanks If you're a PHP guy you might want to stick with OSC, but even then I would encourage you to switch to IC. I have to admit I've never delved into OSC and I don't know PHP (IC is a perl app), but now that I've got it under my belt I feel like I have a huge leg up on every non-IC website out there. IC is really just another layer between the code and the developer, but it seems like if someone was building websites in, say: Perl, HTML, and MySQL for a while, eventually they would want to write tools (and a daemon) for the things they are doing over and over again so they can save themselves time, produce highly readable code, and have a really dynamic system in place. IC is like that, but with a bunch of different people developing it over about 10 years. It's still being very actively developed. Of course it's open-source, but I feel like I have 100% control over every aspect of what I produce, and I have never had to modify the core source files. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Label printer on Gentoo
I've tried to set my Zebra LP 2844 label printer up in Gentoo before
with no luck, but I don't know much about setting up printers. I have
heard from two guys on another mailing list that is definitely works.
One guys says:
Once set up, all you have to do is open a port to the printer and dump
the ASCII label data.
The other guys says:
I have it connected via the serial port and do an open of file and
printer, write file to printer and close. Here is the Perl code I
have which I'm sure can be improved upon
open (PNG, $labelFile) or die Could not open PNG file $!;
open (ZEBRA, /dev/ttyS0) or die Could not open serial port $!;
my $line = '';
$line = PNG;
while ($line) {
print ZEBRA $line;
# This will send it to the Zebra printer print ZEBRA $line;
$line = PNG;
}
close(PNG);
close(ZEBRA);
I'm not sure where to start with this. All I need to be able to print
to this printer are the labels mentioned above. Can anyone point me
in the right direction?
- Grant
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[gentoo-user] Upgrading perl
I'm currently using perl 5.8.4-r1 on my server, and I'm having an apache2 seg faulting issue that is supposed to be related to perl signals. I'd like to upgrade to the latest perl to try and resolve it. Is there anything I should be aware of, or is it just emerge and you're done? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] THE .muttrc color definition set
I just plugged in a set of color definitions for the .muttrc file from the web, and it sure is cool. Can anyone point me toward their favorite? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Gentoo for All the Unusual Reasons
Sorry if this has already been posted. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7438 - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] courier-imap and Sylpheed
I'm switching from Squirrelmail to Sylpheed for imap email, but I'm not sure what the server names for receiving and sending should be. Can anyone point me in the right direction? - Grant My email is set up entirely on my server (postfix + courier-imap). I'm just not sure what the sending and receiving server names should be. I think squirrelmail had a script to figure it out. Raise me up one notch from guy who knows nothing about email to guy who knows nothing about his own email system. Hi Grant, there are two (actually four) possible names for your server: either localhost / 127.0.0.1, if your client and the server are running on the same machine or the fqdn you set up for your server / the server's IP, if client and server are not running on the same machine. You can find these out by reading squirrelmail's config files; using a Gentoo server without USE=vhosts probably somewhere below /var/www/localhost/htdocs/squirrelmail/ Hi Dirk, I'm using Sylpheed on a local machine, and the email server is on a remote machine. I've tried the server's domain name and its IP as the server name but Sylpheed just isn't telling me anything. Does it have a log file? Is anyone using Sylpheed and Courier-IMAP? - Grant HTH Dirk -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] courier-imap and Sylpheed
I'm switching from Squirrelmail to Sylpheed for imap email, but I'm not sure what the server names for receiving and sending should be. Can anyone point me in the right direction? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] courier-imap and Sylpheed
I'm switching from Squirrelmail to Sylpheed for imap email, but I'm not sure what the server names for receiving and sending should be. Can anyone point me in the right direction? - Grant My email is set up entirely on my server (postfix + courier-imap). I'm just not sure what the sending and receiving server names should be. I think squirrelmail had a script to figure it out. Raise me up one notch from guy who knows nothing about email to guy who knows nothing about his own email system. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] stats program
i think this might have been touched on before, but i am looking for a program that will graph the statistics of my server like how many http/mail/ftp/ssh/whatever hits per hour/day/week/month, and graph them to a website? http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/ From the website... The Webalizer is a fast, free web server log file analysis program. It produces highly detailed, easily configurable usage reports in HTML format, for viewing with a standard web browser. Andy I just finished setting up Webalizer. Let me know if you need any help. It's very straightforward though. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] stats program
You should also have a look at AWStats: http://awstats.sourceforge.net Judging from their comparison page, http://awstats.sourceforge.net/docs/awstats_compare.html it seems to do what you want. regards, max I went with Webalizer over AWstats because it generates static pages. AWstats seems to be a bit more full-featured, but not by too much. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop modem
Modem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Modem Controller (rev a0) FATAL: Module ppp_generic not found. Did you make modules_install? Whoops, no I hadn't. Good call. If so, try increasing the verbosity of modprobe so you can get more info on what is failing. system4 ~ # /etc/init.d/slmodem restart * Waiting for slamr modem driver initialisation [ ok ] * Starting slmodemd for /dev/ttySL0 [ ok ] Well, that looks good. and the ppp daemon looks like this: You'll need to edit /etc/conf.d/net.ppp0 to use the correct deivce and other options. I think I've got it set up properly now, but '/etc/init.d/net.ppp0 start' gives me this: * Bringing ppp0 up ... SIOCDELRT: No such process[ ok ] Google says The 'SIOCDELRT: No such process' error message is normally generated when you try to delete a route which doesn't exist or is no longer there. Any tips? - Grant You can get a description of the options under man 8 pppd. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop modem
Modem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Modem Controller (rev a0) FATAL: Module ppp_generic not found. Did you make modules_install? If so, try increasing the verbosity of modprobe so you can get more info on what is failing. system4 ~ # /etc/init.d/slmodem restart * Waiting for slamr modem driver initialisation [ ok ] * Starting slmodemd for /dev/ttySL0 [ ok ] Well, that looks good. and the ppp daemon looks like this: You'll need to edit /etc/conf.d/net.ppp0 to use the correct deivce and other options. You can get a description of the options under man 8 pppd. I can get rid of the SIOCDELRT error by changing to: DEFROUTE=no but it still doesn't seem to dial up. I don't hear any dialing and I don't seem to be connected. Maybe I won't hear dialing because I didn't choose the alsa option when emerging? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update difficult?
Is it me or does anyone else find etc-update difficult to do more than just Replace original with update. I find the interactive menu not friendly at all. man etc-update is of no help either. Any suggestions? you are using Gvim to show/edit the diffs, aren't you ... ? No, tell me more about Gvim? fix /etc/etc-update.conf so it reads : # pager for use with diff commands (see NOTE_2) # pager=less pager= # vim-users: you CAN use vimdiff for diff_command. (see NOTE_1) # diff_command=diff -uN %file1 %file2 # using_editor=0 diff_command=gvim -d %file1 %file2 using_editor=1 # vim-users: don't use vimdiff for merging (see NOTE_1) merge_command=sdiff -s -o %merged %orig %new of course, you need to have (G)Vim installed on your system. this will show the diffs in 2 nice vertical panels, which you can edit to your taste, if something is customised, or simply check through if not. it reappears for each file choice. when you're satisfied, you exit Gvim enter '-1' (etc) as otherwise. I really struggle with etc-update too. Any tips for making it easier on a remote system? I'd like to be able to use the same tool locally and remotely. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE
On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 06:01, Scharf Yuval wrote: Hello, When building kde-3.2.0 I got the following message: configure.in: no proper invocation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE was found. configure.in: You should verify that configure.in invokes AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, configure.in: that aclocal.m4 is present in the top-level directory, configure.in: and that aclocal.m4 was recently regenerated (using aclocal). configure.in: required file `./install-sh' not found configure.in: required file `./mkinstalldirs' not found configure.in: required file `./missing' not found make[4]: *** [Makefile.in] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kdebase-3.2.0/work/kdebase-3.2.0/doc/kcontrol/desktopbehavior' make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kdebase-3.2.0/work/kdebase-3.2.0/doc/kcontrol' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kdebase-3.2.0/work/kdebase-3.2.0/doc' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kdebase-3.2.0/work/kdebase-3.2.0' make: *** [all] Error 2 Can some one tell me what I should do? I got a similar though not identical error the first couple of times I tried to build it. I did a sync and discovered a newer version of autoconf, merged that, then merged KDE and all was good. -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant www.craigelachie.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] kstart and gkrellm2
Another KDE 3.2 question... under the 3.[01] series, I was able to do kstart --alldesktops --skiptaskbar gkrellm To get gkrellm started on all desktops. I tried to use some of the SuperKaramba themes with 3.2, but have not enjoyed anything as much as I enjoy gkrellm. However, while kstart still starts an instance of gkrellm, I cannot get it to appear on all desktops. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks. -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant www.craigelachie.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How do you use Kopete...
On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 12:10, gabriel wrote: On February 6, 2004 02:57 pm, Timothy Grant wrote: Well I find myself using Kopete at the moment because I can't connect to YIM under Gaim. I like it pretty well, but I have some questions that I haven't yet figured out. I don't have the option of using sound notification when I'm at work, and one thing I love about Gaim is that I can change the title bar on the Window on an incoming message. This means I can leave my chat windows behind my normal work and just look for the * in the title bar or on the window title in the kicker. I can't find something similar with Kopete. I can make the Window come to top, but I that is extraordinarily intrusive. I can make a bubble come up, or animate the icon in the tray, but that only happens the first time a new chat is opened, and not on each new message. Anyone have any suggestions on what they do? i'm not sure it's possible with kde 3.1x but in 3.2, any backgrounded window that's had activity since you last activated it will flash in the taskbar. is that what you were looking for? OK, I upgraded to KDE3.2 over the weekend and do not know how to turn this feature on. Any hints? -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant www.craigelachie.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Really stupid emerge question....
On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 16:40, Thomas Kirchner wrote:
On Monday, February 9, 2004 7:33 pm, Thomas Kirchner wrote:
emerge -p --prune kde
I forgot to mention, you might need to prune each individual kde package.
This command should do that:
grep kde /var/cache/edb/world | sed '{s/.*\///}' | xargs emerge -p --prune
removing -p of course to finish.
Tom
Thank you Thomas! That was most helpful and exactly what I needed.
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[gentoo-user] Really stupid emerge question....
Over the weekend I emerged KDE 3.2. Now I would like to unmerge KDE 3.1.5 For some reason none of the things I've tried has worked. How do I unmerge the virtual KDE3.1.5? Thanks. -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant www.craigelachie.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] How do you use Kopete...
Well I find myself using Kopete at the moment because I can't connect to YIM under Gaim. I like it pretty well, but I have some questions that I haven't yet figured out. I don't have the option of using sound notification when I'm at work, and one thing I love about Gaim is that I can change the title bar on the Window on an incoming message. This means I can leave my chat windows behind my normal work and just look for the * in the title bar or on the window title in the kicker. I can't find something similar with Kopete. I can make the Window come to top, but I that is extraordinarily intrusive. I can make a bubble come up, or animate the icon in the tray, but that only happens the first time a new chat is opened, and not on each new message. Anyone have any suggestions on what they do? -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant www.craigelachie.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How do you use Kopete...
On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 12:10, gabriel wrote: On February 6, 2004 02:57 pm, Timothy Grant wrote: Well I find myself using Kopete at the moment because I can't connect to YIM under Gaim. I like it pretty well, but I have some questions that I haven't yet figured out. I don't have the option of using sound notification when I'm at work, and one thing I love about Gaim is that I can change the title bar on the Window on an incoming message. This means I can leave my chat windows behind my normal work and just look for the * in the title bar or on the window title in the kicker. I can't find something similar with Kopete. I can make the Window come to top, but I that is extraordinarily intrusive. I can make a bubble come up, or animate the icon in the tray, but that only happens the first time a new chat is opened, and not on each new message. Anyone have any suggestions on what they do? i'm not sure it's possible with kde 3.1x but in 3.2, any backgrounded window that's had activity since you last activated it will flash in the taskbar. is that what you were looking for? That works for me. I'm merging 3.2 this weekend (genlop tells me 17.5 hours from the time I start it tonight). Thanks for the valuable input. -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant www.craigelachie.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xmms-1.2.9-r2
I'm having the exact same problem. On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 06:44, Kathy Wills wrote: Has anyone been able to update to xmms-1.2.9-r2. The ebuild seems to be having trouble finding all the patches. It is looking for xmms-1.2.9-gentoo-patches-0.5.tar.bz2 and can't find it. I haven't been able to find it on any of the mirrors either. -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant www.craigelachie.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] linux-ng-wlan
There is a great thread in the Forums on the website with a recipe for completing this task. search for linux-wlan-ng and you'll turn up the cookbook. On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 10:33, Roberto Griso wrote: I've this problem, linux-ng-wlan with kernel-2.6 don't compile. Anyone have the same problem? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant www.craigelachie.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gaim problem with Yahoo!
I have the exact same problem. I got logged off last night sometime and haven't been able to log back on. On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 18:15, Andrew Gaffney wrote: I can also connect to scs.yahoo.com. That is the old server. Yahoo! changed the server to scs.msg.yahoo.com a few days ago. I've been connecting fine until today. All of a sudden, scs.msg.yahoo.com started giving me the Incorrect password error. I logged into Yahoo mail just to make sure my password was actually correct ;) Brandon Low wrote: scs.msg.yahoo.com and scs.yahoo.com have become disjoint networks (afaics) I am able to connect with recent gaim versions to scs.yahoo.com, the _old_ login scheme appears to be functioning on scs.msg.yahoo.com and I'm not sure which one is the 'real' yahoo network which yahoo messenger users will be connected to. --Brandon On Fri, 01/09/04 at 19:11:48 -0600, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Is anyone else getting an Incorrect password error when trying to connect to Yahoo! using Gaim? Yes, I have changed the server to scs.msg.yahoo.com. I have a friend using Slackware who says that Gaim is doing it to him, but the Web Messenger works just fine. Gaim's website gaim.sf.net says nothing. -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant www.craigelachie.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Evolution Contact List problem.
I have a very strange problem when trying to send to a list of contacts. If I CC to a list it works fine. If I address to a list, and add one other address it works fine, but if I just To: list-name it doesn't expand the address. It simply tries to send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Very strange any suggestions or hints. -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant www.craigelachie.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Running Gnome/GTK apps under KDE...
Hi all. I just recently started using Evolution and am quite enjoying it. However, When I first started using it I was using Keramik and after merging Geramik Evolution picked up on that. Now, I'm using Plastik, but I cannot get Evolution to not use Geramik as it's style. I've deleted all the .gnome and .gtk files and directories, and played around in gnome-control-center, but can't for the life of me change the way Evolution looks. On a somewhat related issue, I used kdm-config to change the look of kdm to Plastik, but it still insists it wants to look like Keramik. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant www.craigelachie.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DynDNS Clients
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 08:35 pm, Anthony Floyd wrote: On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 19:38:45 -0700 (PDT) Jeff Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions for a CLI program that can interface with dyndns.org and update my ip? I ddclient I second that. I've been using it for years and it has never failed. -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant www.craigelachie.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Still cleaning up from gcc-3.3.1
I have a binary package of gcc3.2.3-r2 I have placed it in /usr/portage/packages When I do emerge gcc-3.2.3-r2.tbz2 I get the following error... Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1) sys-devel/gcc-3.2.3-r2 to / !!! CATEGORY info missing from info chunk, aborting... What am I doing wrong? -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant www.craigelachie.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Last night emerge -u world has broken gkrellm2 and kopete
I run '~x86' Last night I emerged the following... emerge (1 of 1) sys-apps/portage-2.0.49-r4 to / emerge (1 of 26) sys-apps/which-2.16 to / emerge (2 of 26) x11-misc/commonbox-utils-0.4 to / emerge (3 of 26) x11-wm/fluxbox-0.1.14-r2 to / emerge (4 of 26) sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.6-r3 to / Killed emerge 5 to go home from work Started again at home emerge (1 of 22) sys-devel/gcc-3.3.1-r2 to / emerge (2 of 22) dev-util/intltool-0.27.2 to / emerge (3 of 22) media-sound/xmms-1.2.8-r2 to / emerge (4 of 22) sys-apps/psmisc-21.2-r4 to / emerge (5 of 22) sys-apps/module-init-tools-0.9.14 to / emerge (6 of 22) dev-libs/atk-1.4.0 to / emerge (7 of 22) dev-libs/libxslt-1.0.33 to / emerge (8 of 22) x11-libs/xosd-2.2.4-r2 to / emerge (9 of 22) dev-lang/nasm-0.98.38 to / emerge (10 of 22) media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre1 to / Died here due to MD5 sums being incorrect However, when I got to work this morning and fired my notebook back up, both kopete and gkrellm2 refused to start my backup IM (gaim) also refused to start. All of them were segfaulting. The rest of my kde stuff still appears to work so I'd love to know what I've done wrong. I rebuilt both gkrellm and kopete and they still behave the same way. I'm guessing that binutils has something to do with it, but I'm not sure. gaim does provide the following information before dieing... (process:14076): Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by Xlib (process:14076): Gdk-WARNING **: can not set locale modifiers Any suggestions on remedying this would be greatly appreciated. -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant www.craigelachie.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Last night emerge -u world has broken gkrellm2 and kopete
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 11:31 am, Patrick Börjesson wrote: On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:30:06 -0700 Timothy Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm guessing that binutils has something to do with it, but I'm not sure. Actually it's gcc's fault. gcc-3.3.1-r2 seems to break packages for most people. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=84803 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28875 Any suggestions on remedying this would be greatly appreciated. Yep, just emerge an earlier version of gcc, preferably 3.2.x. Don't know if 3.3 should be masked or not but it seems to break alot of peoples systems. The solution for me was to mask all versions of gcc-3.3 and then reemerge gcc. Add this to /etc/portage/package.mask to mask gcc-3.3: =sys-devel/gcc-3.3_alpha1 You also have to reemerge all packages that were compiled with gcc-3.3-r2 for them to work again. Patrick, Thank you so very much you were exactly right. It was libxslt that was broken. -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant www.craigelachie.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to allow dialin via isdn?
On Friday 29 August 2003 07:29 am, a_k_b wrote: is there a way to allow a user to dialin via isdn, so he is part of my lan? with windows i did this to play lan games over a wan connection, such as vpn. but i cant really use vpn, since the other user is restricted to direct dialin instead of using the internet (its faster and doesnt cost any cent to use the normal isdn line, but internet costs). It's been years since I configured ISDN on a Linux box and I've only ever done it with external devices, but the last time I did it, I configured it just like any other modem. I know we had some issues getting the settings just right, but once the two machines started talking connect times were almost instantaneous. It was quite nice. -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant www.craigelachie.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] I need a devfsd.conf tutorial.
I want to make the ThinkPad Buttons utility work on my Thinkpad, but it tells me that I don't have access to /dev/nvram. I've looked at the configuration file, but am not sure exactly what changes to make to give my users access to /dev/nvram. Tips gladly accepted. -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant www.craigelachie.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] The Gimp and TrueType fonts...
On Wednesday 18 June 2003 02:11 am, Ohad Lutzky wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 04:14:34PM -0700, Timothy Grant wrote: I most certainly did! On Tuesday 17 June 2003 07:00 am, Erland Nylend wrote: * Timothy Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK, I got the FreeType Filter working. Now I'd like to be able to use the TT fonts in the logo-maker in script-fu, but the font dialog there doesn't show the TT fonts. Any suggestions? Did you 'emerge gimp-freetype' as Ohad Lutzky suggested? Actually, that won't help you much there. Gimp-Freetype adds a plugin in the Render filters for rendering text using Freetype. However, normal Gimp text rendering is done directly through X - not (necessarily) through Freetype, regardless of the plugin. I guess that logo-maker uses that. Anyway, to get your fonts in The Gimp, you'll need to add them to /etc/X11/XF86Config, as FontPaths. But they are already there! That's the thing that is boggling me. KDE Gnome apps see all my fonts. I can use the new Vera fonts in KDE (In fact I'm doing so now). I can also use them in gtk (I'm using them in Gaim right now!) But Gimp does not see them. Here's the relevant portion of my XFree86 log file (**) FontPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type 1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X1 1/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant www.craigelachie.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] The Gimp and TrueType fonts...
I most certainly did! On Tuesday 17 June 2003 07:00 am, Erland Nylend wrote: * Timothy Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK, I got the FreeType Filter working. Now I'd like to be able to use the TT fonts in the logo-maker in script-fu, but the font dialog there doesn't show the TT fonts. Any suggestions? Did you 'emerge gimp-freetype' as Ohad Lutzky suggested? -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant www.craigelachie.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] The Gimp and TrueType fonts...
I have successfully installed several TrueType fonts on my notebook computer. They are available to KDE and to many of my GTK apps (e.g., Gaim). However, they do not show up in my Gimp font selector. Can anyone explain this to me or explain how to make the fonts available? gimp.org says that if the fonts are available to X then they are available to The Gimp. But it's not working for me at the moment. -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant www.craigelachie.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gkrellm and kmail
Thanks David! I was the original poster. I appreciate all the info! On Thursday 05 June 2003 06:00 pm, David wrote: Okay, posted how to on Forum at: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=354595#354595 if anyone is interested. -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant www.craigelachie.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] GkrellM mail watch and KMail Maildirs
Is anyone successfully using GkrellM's Mail/Biff applet with KMail and Maildirs? I've got it configured correctly, I think, it recognizes the directories I have setup as maildirs and one folder that is mbox as an mbox file. However, it refuses to acknowledge the existence of new email in any of the Maildirs. -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant www.craigelachie.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Lame LBreakout2 question...
What does the right arrow -- that flashes on the lower right hand side of the LBreakout2 screen mean? -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant www.craigelachie.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Lame LBreakout2 question...
On Saturday 05 April 2003 04:10 pm, Timothy Grant wrote: What does the right arrow -- that flashes on the lower right hand side of the LBreakout2 screen mean? Thanks much for all who answered my question! -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant www.craigelachie.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Package management for non-ebuild software
On Wednesday 02 April 2003 01:25 pm, Matt Garman wrote: On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:07:09PM +0100, Jan Drugowitsch wrote: Is there any way with standard-gentoo tools to also keep track of software installed with ./configure make make install? I used install-log with LFS, but if there's a chance to use a different system I would be glad to hear about it. I'm not sure about the standard gentoo requirement, but a very good manager of compiled-from-vanilla-source packages is epkg: http://encap.cites.uiuc.edu/epkg/ It is similar in concept to GNU stow. I use stow, never heard of epkg before, can you elucidate on the differences between them, or perchance why epkg is a better choice? Thanks. -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant www.craigelachie.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ghostscript compile error
On Tuesday 01 April 2003 02:45 am, Craig Main wrote: Can anyone help me out with why this compile might be bombing out and !!! ERROR: app-text/ghostscript-7.05.6 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 60, Exitcode 2 !!! make failed I had the exact same problem. Fortunately I had 7.05.05 installed. So I injected the broken one and went back to doing my normal emerge -up world. -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant www.craigelachie.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how does one install all available categories/packages?
Absofrickinlutely hilarious, and also one of the primary reasons I don't use RH anymore. This needs to be archived somewhere for posterity. On Tuesday 01 April 2003 08:45 am, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Get a RedHat CD. Do a default install ;) S. Cowles wrote: i would like to emerge all available categories and packages. is there a simple, non-interactive way to do this? -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant www.craigelachie.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Tiny annoying problems
On Tuesday 01 April 2003 12:20 pm, Mike Bellemare wrote: Hi, I will begin with a question, is it good to make a emerge -u system and how often should i do one? I heard it was dangerous to upgrade the system... i heard if it aint broke, dont fix it on the channel gentoo, but what's the point of gentoo if not for upgrades and up2date packages...I would have stayed with Debian if i wanted old stable packages. The first question is are you dealing with a server or a desktop? If it's a server: If it ain't broke don't fix it, is a great rule. If it's your desktop, Well, I emerge -u world almost every day on my notebook, and I'm also set to use unstable packages, and it's never bitten me too hard. It bit me slightly with the Gawk problem in the last couple of weeks, but that was fairly easily corrected. -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant www.craigelachie.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kmail question
On Sunday 30 March 2003 06:22 am, Ernie Schroder wrote: an example, I'll use Timothy Grant's web page which he ioncludes in his signature in posts to this list. www.craigelachie.org I would expect to Ya trying to get me Gentoodotted there Ernie! -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant www.craigelachie.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Money Dance (is NOT dead)
My understanding is that the original author was able to get back the rights to his code and is now developing and supporting it. Of course I may be wrong about that too. On Saturday 29 March 2003 11:11 am, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Well, that's good news for sure! When I left the mailing list it was deader than a doornail and the original author despaired of resurrecting the original. I'll have to download it and try it. I wonder if it's the same guy who wrote the original. I was going to buy a copy when the bottom fell out. -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant www.craigelachie.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupted ebuilds in Portage?
On Saturday 29 March 2003 12:07 pm, Doug Gorley wrote: Is it just me, or is anyone else experiencing this as well? [EMAIL PROTECTED] portage $ sudo emerge rsync These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies / aux_get(): (3) Error in sys-libs/cracklib-2.7-r6 ebuild. Check for syntax error or corruption in the ebuild. (--debug) Yup. However, if I issue the command as root I don't get the errors. I'm guessing a permission is set wrong somewhere. -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant www.craigelachie.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupted ebuilds in Portage?
On Saturday 29 March 2003 12:46 pm, Renat Golubchyk wrote: Hi! TG On Saturday 29 March 2003 12:07 pm, Doug Gorley wrote: Is it just me, or is anyone else experiencing this as well? [EMAIL PROTECTED] portage $ sudo emerge rsync These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies / aux_get(): (3) Error in sys-libs/cracklib-2.7-r6 ebuild. Check for syntax error or corruption in the ebuild. (--debug) TG Yup. However, if I issue the command as root I don't get the errors. I'm TG guessing a permission is set wrong somewhere. You have to be root or in the portage group. Then you won't get the message anymore. Try, for example, to run it with sudo like the first command. Just curious, if this were the case would it not happen for all ebuilds displayed from the emerge -up world? That does not happen for me. Only some of the files display errors. Also, I have been using the same alias upworld for months without it displaying this behaviour, so I'm wondering if something has changed, or if something is broken. -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant www.craigelachie.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome fonts under KDE
On Tuesday 25 March 2003 05:31 pm, SADO Hiroyuki wrote:
You can set font size by putting this in your ~/.gtkrc-2.0:
style user-font
{
font_name=Courier 14 # font-name font-size
}
class * style user-font
I have to say thanks very much for this tip! I've been having the same
problems, and just set this up and it works beautifully!
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Re: [gentoo-user] Losing connectivity with orinoco_pci driver
On Thursday 27 March 2003 05:12 pm, Steely, Kevin (CCI-Atlanta) wrote: Hey guys, Has anyone else experienced this before? It's a very annoying problem especially when trying to emerge mozilla :P For the record, my connection is perfect for x amount of time... but about 5mb into any download, the connection dies. All the time! I changed to the wlan_ng drivers (prism2) and they work much much better. I'm betting your log files will show lots of BAP 110 errors (I think that's right). If you have a Prism2 chipset, I've found wlan_ng to be far superior. -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant www.craigelachie.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Strange hdparm output...
Hi all, I was just monkeying about with no specific purpose in mind and ran hdparm. I get the following somewhat bizarre results, and they continue to be weird no matter what I do... ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) sudo hdparm -t -T /dev/hda Password: /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: -2804 MB in 0.00 seconds = -inf kB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: -1402 MB in 0.00 seconds = -inf kB/sec Hmm.. suspicious results: probably not enough free memory for a proper test. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) free -k total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:247788 188352 59436 0 7776 77636 -/+ buffers/cache: 102940 144848 Swap: 529192 64 529128 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Anyone have any suggestions as to what might be wrong? The results haven't always been this way, but they are now. I'm not detecting any type of hardware issue, so I don't think it's hardware related, but who knows. -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant www.craigelachie.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Thinkpad and tpctl
Wow, two questions in approximately two minutes I'm running Gentoo 1.4rc3 on a Thinkpad R31, so I decided to try and build the special Thinkpad support tools. I emerged thinkpad completely successfully, but when I try and emerge tpctl I get the following... cc -Wall -Wcast-align -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-uninitialized -O2 -L../lib -I../include -DLINUX -o tpctl.o -c tpctl.c gcc -Wall -Wcast-align -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-uninitialized -O2 -L../lib -I../include -DLINUX -o tpctl tpctl.o -lncurses -lsmapidev tpctl.o(.text+0x24): In function `ioctl_thinkpad': : undefined reference to `errno' tpctl.o(.text+0x65): In function `ioctl_superio': : undefined reference to `errno' tpctl.o(.text+0xa5): In function `ioctl_rtcmosram': : undefined reference to `errno' tpctl.o(.text+0xe8): In function `ioctl_thinkpadpm': : undefined reference to `errno' tpctl.o(.text+0x7cc2): In function `main': : undefined reference to `errno' tpctl.o(.text+0x7d17): more undefined references to `errno' follow collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [tpctl] Error 1 make: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/tpctl-4.2/work/tpctl-4.2/tpctl' !!! ERROR: sys-apps/tpctl-4.2 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 23, Exitcode 2 !!! tpctl make failed Any ideas? -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant www.craigelachie.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] problem at bootup
On Tuesday 25 March 2003 11:57 am, Spundun Bhatt wrote: If you can boot in then just run emerge /usr/portage/sys-apps/gawk/gawk-3.1.1-r1.ebuild to revert back to the good gawk. Hope this helps. I've been able to downgrade, but then almost none of my init scripts run on next boot something to do with I think a fileutil.so error (though I can't remember completely) Anyone with a recipe for a complete fix? -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant www.craigelachie.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] problem at bootup
On Tuesday 25 March 2003 11:19 pm, Spundun Bhatt wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 17:50, Timothy Grant wrote: On Tuesday 25 March 2003 11:57 am, Spundun Bhatt wrote: If you can boot in then just run emerge /usr/portage/sys-apps/gawk/gawk-3.1.1-r1.ebuild to revert back to the good gawk. Hope this helps. I've been able to downgrade, but then almost none of my init scripts run on next boot something to do with I think a fileutil.so error (though I can't remember completely) Anyone with a recipe for a complete fix? emerge baselayout (re-emerging baselayout) might do the trick. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18127 The above link had a small reference to the problem a side note actually. Hope this helps It did, indeed, do the trick! Thank you very much. -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant www.craigelachie.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] I finally have sound!....but now stop the madness.
Control Center-Sound Multimedia-System Notifications Then change the drop down at the top to read The KDE Window Manager You should see all your sounds. On Friday 14 March 2003 07:29 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: In KDE 2.2.x it's under Sound-System Notifications-The KDE Window manager but who knows what they did in KDE 3.x - I sure don't. You might poke around various Control Center headings and see what you find. I'm using KDE 2.2.x until I get Gentoo up and running for good and then it's xfce for me. I did checke out the control center under system notifications, it doesn't say anything about minimize window, maximize window, open program, or close programs these are the most annoying sounds. I'm using KDE 3.1 if that makes a difference. Brett I. Holcomb wrote: | Check the KDE control center and see what they have there. In KDE 2 | it's under sound-System Notifications. | |Ok, as the subject states I have gotten my sound card working, I'm | using KDE and everything is great...right? Well, apparently KDE has a | very annoying sound scheme that I could not hear before (no sound), | and now I almost wish that I never fixed my sound card problem in the | first place. ~ I mean are you kidding me it is sooo annoying. Does | anyone knwo how to turn off KDE's sound scheme? I would like sound | for a few things, like when I recieve a new e-mail, but not every time | I open and close a window or start a program. Wow, that's my rant for | the night. -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant www.craigelachie.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.1 Compile fails at kdeaddons
On Friday 07 March 2003 03:00 pm, richard terry wrote: Hi, After literally days of downloading via my dialup and having got a base kernel etc compiled, I'm now halted at kdeaddons failing to compile. Any suggestions about how to continue. I've heard how good gentoo is, and I've certainly learnt heaps about linux to this point. As I'm not a computer nerd nor technical person could any help be kept simple. I've used Mandrake for a few years, so am familiar with basic file editing, compiling useing tar.gz, configure, make, install etc, so I've some basic skills. You are to be commended for giving Gentoo a whirl given your non-nerdish and non-technical tendencies! Could you post a bit more about the error, such as the last page or so of the error message? -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant www.craigelachie.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] init scripts and linux-wlan-ng
On Friday 07 March 2003 03:20 pm, Yannick Le Saint wrote:
On Friday 07 March 2003 18:54, Timothy Grant wrote:
linux-wlan-ng uses an init script called wlan. This is not a Gentoo
flavour init script, but it still works pretty well. The problem is that
I want my net.wlan0 init script to need the wlan init script and I'm
not sure how to do this. I've tried...
init.d/wlan..
depend {
provide wlan
}
init.d/net.wlan0...
depend {
need wlan
}
but that doesn't work as rc-update bitches about wlan not being a
dependancy or something like that.
Maybe try running /sbin/depscan.sh before rc-update ??
Nope, here's what happens when I try that...
[EMAIL PROTECTED]) ./depscan.sh
* Caching service dependencies...
* NEED: can't find service wlan needed by net.wlan0;
*continuing...[ ok ]
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
It was an excellent idea though as I've now learned a lot more about how
init.d dependencies work!
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Re: [gentoo-user] init scripts and linux-wlan-ng
On Saturday 08 March 2003 03:41 am, Lai Liu-yuan wrote:
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 10:54:48 -0800
Timothy Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
init.d/wlan..
depend {
provide wlan
}
init.d/net.wlan0...
depend {
need wlan
}
but that doesn't work as rc-update bitches about wlan not being a
dependancy or something like that.
Maybe it is use. But can you explain why wlan instead pcmcia? pcmcia
works fine for me?
use doesn't seem to work either, and I use wlan-ng instead of pcmcia cause 1)
It's not a pcmcia card. It's a built-in mini-PCI Prism2. and 2) because I
can't stand the orinoco drivers, and they don't work well for me.
I'd love to find a way to automatically detect which network I'm in
proximity to and automatically configure for that network at startup. If
anyone has any suggestions they would be gladly accepted.
I thought the default setting in wlan-conf is SSID_wlan0=, which means
any network in the range. I am using my wireless card in my home and at
school, no need to configure another wlancfg- file. Of course, unless
you want to access specific AP.
I certainly wish that were the case, the SSID_wlan0 setting only tells the
system which wlancfg-XX file to use.
I can't figure out a way to determine SSID before starting the network. Heck
I'd be content with determining the MAC address of base-station before
bringing up the interface.
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[gentoo-user] KOrganizer and Session startup...
Howdy, I've started using and enjoying KOrganizer, however, it appears to exhibit somewhat strange behaviour when started via a saved session. I can start KOrganizer from the task bar with no problem. It starts on it's assigned desktop and loads the default organzier file. If I save my session with KOrganizer open, and re-login, KOrganizer starts on the correct desktop, but it doesn't load the correct file, it doesn't load any file. This is a bit frustrating. Does anyone know how to get KOrganizer to start from a session with the default file loaded? Thanks. -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant www.craigelachie.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sound works in KDE, but not in game
On Monday 17 February 2003 07:19 am, Anders Johansson wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 15:16, gabor wrote: try to shutdown ( or kill ) artsd and try your game: basically do a 'killall artsd' and try your game. Or you could use the program artsdsp to start the program. This will take sound from non-arts programs and send it through the arts daemon Just run artsdsp foo to run program foo I have some of the same issues as I can't get Gaim to work with Arts for some reason so I have Gaim use aplay to play sound events, but that meant turning of arts. however, with this new piece of advice I tried turning on artsd again and using aplay with artsdsp and it simply hangs and does nothing. I have a feeling that aplay prolly interfaces directly to Alsa and won't work with arts at all, but am not sure if that's the case. -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant www.craigelachie.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Consequences of upgrading XFree
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 02:04 am, Maximus wrote: On Tue, 04 Feb 2003 09:16:14 +1100 Mark Saunders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fonts in KDE are messed up, they don't seem to be anti-aliased, but anti-alias is checked in the control centre. My colleague who also runs gentoo 1.4 on his work system experienced the same. Has anyone else experienced similar problems? I lost my AA'd fonts in KDE 3.1 as well. Why they removed xfree 4.2.99.3 from portage before knowing for sure this one works I don't know. The same thing was done with the ntpd ebuild. Just removed the one that worked, and forced the newer bug one on us. Now the only option is to fix this ourselves, wait for a fix, or roll all the way back to 4.2.1. I don't see the logic in this? When I first upgraded to the first KDE 3.1 rc, I lost all my AA fonts in KDE, but they continued to work just fine in Gnome. I was never able to resolve the issue. However, after upgrading X, and upgrading to the released version of KDE I now have all my AA fonts back. Seems to be the reverse of what I'm seeing here. -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant www.craigelachie.org msg00470/pgp0.pgp Description: signature
