Re: [gentoo-user] optimum disk performance
Hall == Hall Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hall The fact that DMA is *off* immediately jumped out at me. This Hall can/should be on with any or most modern HDs and/or controllers. The using_dma flag is not relevant to udma modes, based on old postings on lkml. Since the -i info on that drive said *udma2 using_dma does not need to be bothered with. -JimC -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] optimum disk performance
Hall == Hall Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hall I honestly noticed that discrepency, but then thought that it Hall meant the drive could or should be in 'udma2' mode, but because Hall of a configuration error, it wasn't. Oh well.. The discrepency is a result of all of the cruft in the ata spec from past versions. With luck sata will leave all of that in the past. :) Anyway, I do clearly remember a post from Anrdre saying to ignore the hdparm output and only worry about what is printk()ed. Ie look in the dmesg(8) output to see what the drives are using. -JimC -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge'ing with dialup tips??
Joshua == Joshua Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joshua Would it be smarter to do an emerge -uDf world so that I Joshua atleast get the needed sources faster? I always try to do a -f before actual merging. Even then it can take several hours if you don't do it every day -JimC -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] forums
John == John Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John Any way to get the forums via mailing list? -- What they really need is an nntp server (using the same authentication as the web side for posting privs). -JimC -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ipv6 tunnel broker.
Carlos == Carlos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The only down thing is that FreeNet6's portage doesn't provide an init.d script to start and stop the ipv6 tunnel... Carlos Apparently it does now. :) It is not perfect, though. start pulls up the tunnel, but stop/zap try to kill a daemon that doesn't exist, rather than trying to pull the tunnel interface down -JimC -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] metalog equivalent to /var/log/messages?
Todd == Todd Sunderlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Todd It should be hiding under /var/log/everything/current And be sure to use: :; tail --follow=name /var/log/everything/current because metalog moves current to the rotated filename when it rotates. W/o --follow=name tail(1) will follow the file descriptor. (You may need to upgrade to sys-apps/core-utils-5.0 to get a tail(1) that supports --follow=name; I only noticed that option after upgrading.) -JimC -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xargs:environment is too large for exec
Rex == Rex Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rex This definitely fixes the error but I'm curious why the first Rex version doesn't work? Seems like a bug in gnu find or xargs to Rex me -- the fix is really more of a workaround. In xargs. One of the notes on that tree of bugzilla ids references an email sent to one of the gnu mail lists. The bug is that xargs' test for the size of the env comes before the args are parsed; the arg -s allows the env to be elarged, but xargs fails to take that into consideration before bailing out. The error only shows up at boot because the rc process must be creating an env larger than 20k. Once booted your shell has a much smaller env. (Mine is just under 3k.) -JimC -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Annotating PDF's in Linux
Ulrich == Ulrich Plate [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ulrich 'Annotations are non-printing notes, which Scribus can Ulrich optionally embed within a PDF. AFAICD, scribus does not import pdf files or allow one to edit existing pdfs. What it can do is generate annotations in pdfs that it creates, much as pdftex can. PdfTeX does have support for importing (parts of) existing pdf files (if using LaTeX you want pdfpages; ConTeXt also supports importing (parts of) pdfs). It can create jsut about anything that the pdf spec support, encryption being the big exception. There are numerous toolkits that can add annotations to pdfs. itext; several perl and python modules; C libs. Even php can probably do it. But these solutions all require some coding. -JimC -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Package management for non-ebuild software
Craig == A Craig West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Craig The biggest problem I find with cooking up ebuilds is sandbox Craig violations, where some package doesn't necessarily follow the Craig rules about where to install stuff. I occasionally have to make Craig a patch to fix it... Yeah. But I find that dobin, doman and friends ease that for most packages. I just put one together for http://www.mainnerve.com/lft/ and used: dobin lft doman lft.8 dodoc CHANGELOG COPYING README TODO lft-manpage.html to essentially duplicate what their srpm does. (I didn't expect any sandbox issues, but just didn't need to bother with make install.) src_compile was even easier as: econf || die emake || die The only issue is that lft needs to be suid to work for non-root, and I've not yet dealt with that in the ebuild -JimC -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sudo not setting the path (was sudo not running a shell as a login shell)
The problem appears to be that for some reason, sudo doesn't put the /usr/sbin and /sbin directories in the path. | sudo wasn't designed to do that. That is not generally true. I have at least two boxen (with distribution-provided sudo installs) where sudo does result in a PATH that includes /sbin and /usr/sbin even though those are not in my account's PATH on those boxen. On a debian box: :; printenv PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games :; sudo printenv PATH /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin OTOH, I've verified that rh7.3 does not to PATH. I'd suggest gnetoo should follow debian's precedents more than rh's precedents -JimC -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] build fail : net-snmp-5.0.6
Stanislas == Stanislas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Stanislas I have problems emerging nagios because of net-snmp-5.0.6 Stanislas who fails to build ... The emerge, per the output you attached, dies because the security module ucm is not found. According to the ebuild that module is specified in the args to configure when USE includes kerberos. As such, the kludge is: USE=-kerberos emerge net-snmp That should allow you to get net-snmp built until the bug is located and exterminated. -JimC -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] en_US.UTF-8 unknown?
I still working on getting my gentoo partition ready for use (dl is slow at 44kbps) and was running emerge in a chroot(2)ed shell. Whenever a perl module was tested for dependencies, perl complained that it was unable to set the locale to en_US.UTF-8. Being an english speaking yank, I natuarlly run with LANG=en_US.UTF-8. Is that error from perl indicative of a bug in the perl ebuild? Or does gentoo lack support for en_US.UTF-8? Or is it simply a case of an as yet unfinished emerge --update world? I didn't find anything on google or in the faq -JimC -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] snail-mail mirror of distfiles?
I need to seed my mirror of rsync://rsync3.us.gentoo.org/gentoo/distfiles via CDR or DVD-R. Can anyone help? It looks like three DVD-R and a CDR should be enough to hold the data (about 14 GB based on rsync -avn). I'll cover the media and (usps) postage. And can pass them on to someone else in need once I copy them to disk. -JimC -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
