Re: [gentoo-user] what's the use of etcat use?

2005-04-06 Thread Russ Brown
Renat Golubchyk wrote: On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 07:40:05 +0100 Russ Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ash Varma wrote: So try: $ equery uses package_name eg. I keep saying this but nobody seems to listen. 'equery uses' only works for packages that you already have installed, which makes it far

Re: [gentoo-user] what's the use of etcat use?

2005-04-06 Thread Russ Brown
Christoph Gysin wrote: Russ Brown wrote: Excellent, good spot: especially considering that the option isn't mentioned anywhere in the man page... I also tried 'equery --help' but nothing there either. It hadn't occurred to me to just try running the command with no package argument

[gentoo-user] etcat equery

2005-03-24 Thread Russ Brown
From what I can gather etcat is being phased out in favour of equery. All fine and dandy, except that etcat has functionality that equery does not that I find useful: First up is 'etcat versions'. Given a package name this lists all versions of the package that are in portage, along with

[gentoo-user] Problem installing Thunderbird language pack

2005-02-21 Thread Russ Brown
Hello, I'm trying to install the GB language pack for Thunderbird. The file I've downloaded is spell-en-GB.xpi, which I install via Thunderbird's extensions menu. After installing I restart Thunderbird, create a new email and start the spell checker. The new language does not appear in the

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with logrotate apache2

2005-02-20 Thread Russ Brown
Covington, Chris wrote: Hi all, Whenever I do a logrotate, it seems my apache2 stops logging though there are new log files created but with 0 size. I'm using syslog-ng if it matters. If I manually do a /etc/init.d/apache2 restart the logging resumes. What can I do? I had this problem. I think

Re: [gentoo-user] Logging traffic to MySQL -- Am I pushing it?

2005-02-17 Thread Russ Brown
Grant wrote: I've started logging each page request made to my site as an entry in a MySQL table. I get about 5000 page requests per day, and I wonder if I'm asking to much of MySQL. Is there a limit on how big a table can be? Other considerations? Are you serious? We log 4-7 million rows a day

Re: [gentoo-user] exiting wm xfce4

2005-01-12 Thread Russ Brown
HK wrote: n_powell wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 10:36:15PM +0100 thus spake HK: Hi, How can I cleanly exit the wm (xfce4) and poweroff/reboot machine? I would like to cleanly exit the wm and then proceed with service stop and poweroff/reboot...