Re: OpenOffice 2.0beta2

2005-09-26 Thread Jeremy Byron
David Ciecierski wrote: Just touching the *1.2.9.patch is sufficient to move on (until you have to replace the empty file later.. heh). It's that need to replace keytrans that puzzles me most. Btw: I recall there was a section in the makefile that I claimed responsible for that and commented

Re: GConf / *.schemas question

2005-09-26 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 9/24/05, randhir phagura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why is it required that building of a package be done as an unprevilged > user? I saw this indication in the Book too ("Now as root user issue the > following command...") but never bothered to investigate. I tend to automate > my install o

Re: GConf / *.schemas question

2005-09-26 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 9/24/05, Lennon Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually it's so I can tell easily which ones I've installed already; > and so that 'for i in /etc/gconf/schemas/* ; do gconftool-2 > --install-schema-file=$i ; done' doesn't reinstall things > unnecesarily. Instead of the for command above use

Re: GConf / *.schemas question

2005-09-26 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 9/23/05, David Ciecierski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This 'issue' does get a little tedious at times, because some packages' > make install fails when it cannot install schemas and/or update > scrollkeeper database. Some also ignore the --disable-schemas-install. > You then have to manually

Re: aspell files to compile

2005-09-26 Thread Lennon Cook
David Ciecierski wrote: > Is that BLFS-SVN? If so I'll try to compile it here and see what > happens. Which version of aspell are you trying to make friends with..? BLFS-SVN and aspell-0.60.3 . -- Lennon Victor Cook -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linu

Re: thoughts about a hint.

2005-09-26 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 9/26/05, Luca Dionisi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is a little enhancement on the hint of Matthias S. Benkmann > on the use of "package users" instead of root when installing > packages. > It is about the use of another group, similar to "install", with the > directories /etc/rc.d/... > I fou

Re: aspell files to compile

2005-09-26 Thread David Ciecierski
In my attempts to compile a mail client to save me from GMail's woes, I am compiling aspell. Well, except that it tells me this as it tries to build Is that BLFS-SVN? If so I'll try to compile it here and see what happens. Which version of aspell are you trying to make friends with..? -- Dav

Re: OpenOffice 2.0beta2

2005-09-26 Thread David Ciecierski
Just touching the *1.2.9.patch is sufficient to move on (until you have to replace the empty file later.. heh). It's that need to replace keytrans that puzzles me most. Btw: I recall there was a section in the makefile that I claimed responsible for that and commented out. After deleting the w

Re: ALSA & Yamaha YMF-724 [SOLVED]

2005-09-26 Thread David Ciecierski
Hello, I thought I'd recap on this 'problem'... Well, usurprisingly it was just me using gstreamer for the first time; there was nothing wrong with ALSA but rather gstreamer - it defaults to OSS, and I don't have ALSA-OSS plugin. All that I had to do was go gstreamer-properties -> choose ALSA.

Re: OpenOffice 2.0beta2

2005-09-26 Thread Jeremy Byron
David Ciecierski wrote: I came across the same, but I went to check that keytrans only after quite some digging + googling... The reason behind the file's content being erased still puzzles me - the 1.2.6 should not get applied, as we manually set 1.2.9. But true enough, seems the only way such

DivX support for gstreamer

2005-09-26 Thread David Ciecierski
Hello, Just cooked up another shiny problem to spam the list... I know I could use Xine backend to Totem to get DivX playback, but as I've mentioned somewhere already, all my heart is with gstreamer (so to speak). It does have a divx plugin, obviously, but even though it detects divx on my sys

Re: catting a file whitespace in a for loop

2005-09-26 Thread benjamin stathos
--- Doug Reich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pass it through sed? > > $ for ... do cat `sed -e 's/ *#.*$//' >> largefile ; done Perfect. Thanks! __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com -- http://linuxfromscratch

Re: OpenOffice 2.0beta2

2005-09-26 Thread David Ciecierski
[code] gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -DPACKAGE=\"xmlsec1\" -I../.. -I../../include -D__XMLSEC_FUNCTION__=__FUNCTION__ -DXMLSEC_NO_XSLT=1 -DXMLSEC_NO_XKMS=1 -I/opt/firefox/include/firefox-1.0.6/nspr -I/opt/firefox/include/firefox-1.0.6/nss -DXMLSEC_CRYPTO_NSS=1 -I/usr/include/libxml2 -O3

Re: catting a file whitespace in a for loop

2005-09-26 Thread Doug Reich
Pass it through sed? $ for ... do cat `sed -e 's/ *#.*$//' >> largefile ; done Alternatively, you could do this without 'for': $ cat `cat filelist.txt | sed -e 's/ *#.*//'` You can throw in any other separators into the sed statement, as well. -Doug benjamin stathos wrote: It seems I spoke

Re: catting a file whitespace in a for loop

2005-09-26 Thread benjamin stathos
It seems I spoke too soon. I should have been more explicit. The echo $i was just an example, but not what I really wanted to do. Here's a better demonstration. for i in `cat filelist`; do cat $i >> largefile; done The whitespace problem is now different. The offending line in $i is: tempfile #O

Re: xterm setuid root

2005-09-26 Thread Alex Prinsier
>From the man: "The wtmp file records all logins and logouts." Where does this info get used? Alex Randy McMurchy wrote: > Please read the utmp man page. Every question you ask in the message > above is answered. :-) > -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://w

Re: xterm setuid root

2005-09-26 Thread Randy McMurchy
Alex Prinsier wrote these words on 09/26/05 15:22 CST: > Indeed a nice work around. But I'm getting confused now that you tell me > about lastlog. > > Aren't you talking about utmp/wtmp? What's the difference between > /var/log/wtmp, utmp and lastlog? > > My first thought was that lastlog just ke

Re: xterm setuid root

2005-09-26 Thread Alex Prinsier
Indeed a nice work around. But I'm getting confused now that you tell me about lastlog. Aren't you talking about utmp/wtmp? What's the difference between /var/log/wtmp, utmp and lastlog? My first thought was that lastlog just keeps a log of which user logged in from where the last time. Utmp and

Re: Python make test failure

2005-09-26 Thread Declan Moriarty
Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words > > > > > >>choose_boundary hostid = socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname()) > >>gaierror: (-2, 'Name or service not known') > >> > >>test_urllib2 No handlers could be found for logger "cookielib" test > >>test_urllib2 failed -- Traceback (most rec

Re: aspell files to compile

2005-09-26 Thread Declan Moriarty
Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words > In my attempts to compile a mail client to save me from GMail's woes, > I am compiling aspell. Well, except that it tells me this as it tries > to build: > >>> > ./.libs/libaspell.so: undefined reference to > `acommon::HashTable::init(unsigned int)'

Re: /etc/securetty missing and cannot login

2005-09-26 Thread Krishna Ganugapati
I thought I would share my findings with the list. One of the things I've been doing is using a directory (instead of a dedicated partition) to store my root file system and resulting BLFS operating system. I use the guidelines described for mounting a directory instead of using a partition. E

Re: autofs: is it acting fine?

2005-09-26 Thread Luca Dionisi
It seems like I am another one who needs to pay more attention to the address field when doing a reply :) I did a reply to Nick instead of BLFS-support. Just for completeness, and for what it's worth, I post the lacking mails of this thread. On 9/24/05, Luca Dionisi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: OpenOffice 2.0beta2

2005-09-26 Thread David Ciecierski
That's from back at m118, but should still give you a good idea of what to expect. I know David Ciecierski (as he mentioned elsewhere in this thread) is working with those on current beta2 (m126 IIRC). I indeed am. It's such a pity the box I'm compiling it on is rather sluggish (P3 600), this

Re: OpenOffice 2.0beta2

2005-09-26 Thread Jeremy Byron
DJ Lucas wrote: OOo-2.0 is a monster and takes quite a few hours to complete a full build...but if you have a fast PC, go for it :-) The more eyes on it Athlon-fx 53. In other words, I get nice quick build failures.. lol LFS: SVN-20050910 the better...gcc4 _should_ not be an issue at all W