[gentoo-user] Remplacement for FPM

2006-11-17 Thread Xavier-Francois Roblot
Hi, I saw this morning that FPM is slated for removal from portage with the forthcoming removal of Gnome 1.x. Can someone point me to a viable replacement for it? I need something that can: 1) store passwords (obviously); 2) generate passwords; 3) have launchers as FPM does. The possibility to im

[gentoo-user] Re: Resize /

2006-11-17 Thread Alexander Skwar
· jakommo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Listmembers, > > I have a problem the / Partition on my system is to smal, is there a save > way to resize it? > I know mounting other partitions to e.g. /usr will help but the / is only > 4,6G so it will help only temporarily. 4.6G for /? That's ridiculous. I

Re: [gentoo-user] ymessenger is going??

2006-11-17 Thread Dale
Richard Fish wrote: > On 11/16/06, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I did my sync tonight and when I checked for updates I got this: >> >> > !!! Ebuilds for the following packages are either all >> > !!! masked or don't exist: >> > net-im/ymessenger >> >> Is there not going to be a Yaho

Re: [gentoo-user] drupal masked

2006-11-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/17/06, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Curious about yet another possible CMS vulnerability, I searched the gentoo forums and google for it. All I could reveal are old issues from last year. So, anybody in the know as to why all versions of drupal were masked? Because even though it

Re: [gentoo-user] ymessenger is going??

2006-11-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/17/06, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: any? Kopete is growing on me though. I like that I can log into multiple accounts at the same time. I just need to figure out how to make it use Seamonkey instead of Konqueror to access email and such. Does KDE Control Center -> KDE Components ->

Re: [gentoo-user] Accidentally deleted contents of /sbin

2006-11-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 19:35:36 -0500, James Colby wrote: > Does emerge -e world add anything to the world file? No. -- Neil Bothwick What is the difference between Mechanical Engineers and Civil Engineers? Mechanical Engineers build weapons, Civil Engineers build targets. signature.asc Descri

Re: [gentoo-user] ymessenger is going??

2006-11-17 Thread Dale
Richard Fish wrote: > On 11/17/06, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> any? Kopete is growing on me though. I like that I can log into >> multiple accounts at the same time. I just need to figure out how to >> make it use Seamonkey instead of Konqueror to access email and such. > > Does KDE Contr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Multi-user pop3 mail delivery

2006-11-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 13:38:12 +1300, Ralph Slooten wrote: > Another problem I am having is that when two users are specified, one > existing, and another (non-existing, or even another domain) the > message goes to postmaster, and not to the specified user. Are you running a local MTA? If o, this

Re: [gentoo-user] ymessenger is going??

2006-11-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:15:43 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > > I checked the change log and even searched a bit for a bug report. I > > didn't see anything. > > The reasons for p.masked stuff is listed as comments above the masking > in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask. Upcoming package remova

Re: [gentoo-user] [way OT] determining date of web pages

2006-11-17 Thread Benno Schulenberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How can I tell ahead of time or quickly what the vintage of a > webpage that looks interesting is? In general: you can't. If a page does not contain the date it was made, there's no other way to find out. > Here is an example page: > http://dvr.about.com/od/capturetv

Re: [gentoo-user] [way OT] determining date of web pages

2006-11-17 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Benno Schulenberg wrote: >> Here is an example page: >> http://dvr.about.com/od/capturetvwithacomputer/ht/htnti.htm >> >> How can I tell quickly when this was written? Well, just to add more ideas to this thread, you can always check the "Date" head

Re: [gentoo-user] [way OT] determining date of web pages

2006-11-17 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: > Well, just to add more ideas to this thread, you can always check the "Date" > header returned by the I forgot to mention that, depending on the web server, the date might have nothing to do with the requested file

Re: [gentoo-user] [way OT] determining date of web pages

2006-11-17 Thread Alan E. Davis
Galeon (web browser) included "bookmarklets" (search google). One bookmarklet checks "page freshness". It didn't work on frames, but apparently there is a version that does work on frames. I don't know whether the bookmarklet is accurate, however. Perhaps it uses methods mentioned above to det

[gentoo-user] Re: How come my 'esearch' isn't updated when I emerge something until the next 'esync'?!

2006-11-17 Thread James
Daevid Vincent daevid.com> writes: > I always found this annoying... > How come when I emerge something, my 'esearch' isn't updated until the next > time I do an 'esync'? eupdatedb? man eupdatedb When I'm munging around on gentoo, I use this all inclusive string as an alias env-update && so

[gentoo-user] Re: 7800 GTX: opensource driver stable?

2006-11-17 Thread James
Richard Fish asmallpond.org> writes: > > I'm not looking for the latest video card, just one with good performance > > and open source drivers. > You won't get hardware 3D with nvidia and open source drivers. So > you'll either have to accept the proprietary drivers (which are pretty > good IM

Re: [gentoo-user] How come my 'esearch' isn't updated when I emerge something until the next 'esync'?!

2006-11-17 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 17 November 2006 08:01, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 22:27 -0800, Daevid Vincent wrote: > > I always found this annoying... > > > > How come when I emerge something, my 'esearch' isn't updated until the > > next time I do an 'esync'? > > because esearch trawls through /usr

[gentoo-user] Re: [way OT] determining date of web pages

2006-11-17 Thread reader
"Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > printf "GET /od/capturetvwithacomputer/ht/htnti.htm HTTP/1.0\nHost: > dvr.about.com\n\n" | nc dvr.about.com 80 | head |grep -E --color=yes ^Date > Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 12:06:52 GMT It appears your second post might be closer to right. T

Re: [gentoo-user] How come my 'esearch' isn't updated when I emerge something until the next 'esync'?!

2006-11-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 16:35:28 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > As an extra bonus eupdatedb (which does look go through the vdb too) > is a *lot* slower that its eix equivalent (update-eix). ;) So can > anyone mention any advantage of esearch compared to eix? Not any more. esearch used to win on

[gentoo-user] Re: [way OT] determining date of web pages

2006-11-17 Thread reader
"Alan E. Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Galeon (web browser) included "bookmarklets" (search google). One > bookmarklet checks "page freshness". It didn't work on frames, but > apparently there is a version that does work on frames. I don't know > whether the bookmarklet is accurate, howe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 7800 GTX: opensource driver stable?

2006-11-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/17/06, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My other concerns are how well is the mobo supported under linux? Since gaming systems run hot, cooling and lm_sensors support seems critical in putting together a gaming system. I haven't run across any new system that actually supported lm_sensor

[gentoo-user] Re: Resize /

2006-11-17 Thread Alexander Skwar
· Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Am Donnerstag, 16. November 2006 22:56 schrieb ext jakommo: > >> I think I try that, but I wait for a moment where it doesn't metter if >> something goes wrong. > > There's always "telinit 1". > > You mentioned it's a RAID 5, and I think Neil also asked w

[gentoo-user] Newly created user can't ssh in but others can?

2006-11-17 Thread Daevid Vincent
I have had my server for several years, I haven't added a new user in probably 6 months or more. I tried to add one last night and all seemed fine. However it can't login via ssh (not at a console, so I don't know about that way) but existing accounts can. I've tried changing the passwd to 'foo'

Re: [gentoo-user] Newly created user can't ssh in but others can?

2006-11-17 Thread Nangus Garba
Is the user in the group that is allowed to ssh in? I think it is the sshd group or something like that. code affe

Re: [gentoo-user] Newly created user can't ssh in but others can?

2006-11-17 Thread Flophouse Joe
On Fri, 17 Nov 2006, Daevid Vincent wrote: I have had my server for several years, I haven't added a new user in probably 6 months or more. I tried to add one last night and all seemed fine. However it can't login via ssh (not at a console, so I don't know about that way) but existing accounts c

Re: [gentoo-user] Newly created user can't ssh in but others can?

2006-11-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/17/06, Daevid Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ideas? 1. Check /var/log/messages for output from sshd. 2. Compare "id daevid" to "id joe". 3. Make sure ~joe/.ssh has permissions 700 -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Amarok xine engine error

2006-11-17 Thread Stuart Howard
Hey folks I have found today that I cannot use the xine engine with amarok anymore, I have recently updated kde and gcc [stable] while may/may not be related however because I rarely reboot it could have been a while since the offending package was merged. The error message I recieve when trying

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Multi-user pop3 mail delivery

2006-11-17 Thread Ralph Slooten
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 13:38:12 +1300, Ralph Slooten wrote: > >> Another problem I am having is that when two users are specified, one >> existing, and another (non-existing, or even another domain) the >> message goes to postmaster, and not to the specified user. > > Are you

Re: [gentoo-user] ymessenger is going??

2006-11-17 Thread Dorin
On Friday 17 November 2006 12:23, Dale wrote: > It sure did. Now for another question. I can't figure out how to make > it save a copy of my IMs. Where is that? It is in my package.use file > and I reemerged it as well, also logged out of KDE and back in. Still > > can't find it. Here is my U

Re: [gentoo-user] Newly created user can't ssh in but others can?

2006-11-17 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 12:02 -0800, Daevid Vincent wrote: > I have had my server for several years, I haven't added a new user in > probably 6 months or more. I tried to add one last night and all seemed > fine. However it can't login via ssh (not at a console, so I don't know > about that way) but

Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok xine engine error

2006-11-17 Thread Gian Domeni Calgeer
Am Freitag, 17. November 2006 21:38 schrieb Stuart Howard: > I have found today that I cannot use the xine engine with amarok > anymore, I have recently updated kde and gcc [stable] while may/may > not be related however because I rarely reboot it could have been a > while since the offending packa

Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok xine engine error

2006-11-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/17/06, Stuart Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: /usr/lib/kde3/libamarok_xine-engine.so What does ldd on this file report? Any broken links? Maybe a revdep-rebuild is in order? -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ymessenger is going??

2006-11-17 Thread Dale
Dorin wrote: > On Friday 17 November 2006 12:23, Dale wrote: > >> It sure did. Now for another question. I can't figure out how to make >> it save a copy of my IMs. Where is that? It is in my package.use file >> and I reemerged it as well, also logged out of KDE and back in. Still >> >> can

Re: [gentoo-user] freenet6 used by somebody?

2006-11-17 Thread Dorin
On Thursday 16 November 2006 23:45, Hans de Hartog wrote: > I'm trying to get freenet6-1.0.0 up and running. > It's supposed to be stable (since august 2006?). > But, if you have to do basic things like > export CC=/usr/bin/cc > before it compiles, I wouldn't call that "stable". > Also, the distrib

Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok xine engine error

2006-11-17 Thread Stuart Howard
I have done a revdep-rebuild but it does not emerge any packages, however it does report this which seems relavent Checking dynamic linking consistency... --snip-- broken /usr/kde/3.5/lib/kde3/libamarok_xine-engine.la (requires /usr/lib/liblcms.la) --snip-- done. (/root/.revdep-rebuild.3_rebu

[gentoo-user] man openssl

2006-11-17 Thread Jorge Almeida
I just noticed that I don't have a man page for openssl. How can this be? -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ymessenger is going??

2006-11-17 Thread Dorin
On Friday 17 November 2006 23:21, Dale wrote: > OK. I found that but maybe this is not what I am looking for. Let's > say I chat with someone and later on I want to go read it again. I > would like it to save a copy of the chat automatically without me having > to do it manually. Yahoo does thi

Re: [gentoo-user] man openssl

2006-11-17 Thread Flophouse Joe
On Fri, 17 Nov 2006, Jorge Almeida wrote: I just noticed that I don't have a man page for openssl. How can this be? I looked at the output of "equery files --filter=man openssl" and noticed that while the openssl package on my system contained *some* manpages, it certainly didn't contain a man

Re: [gentoo-user] man openssl

2006-11-17 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, 17 Nov 2006, Flophouse Joe wrote: On Fri, 17 Nov 2006, Jorge Almeida wrote: I just noticed that I don't have a man page for openssl. How can this be? I looked at the output of "equery files --filter=man openssl" and noticed that while the openssl package on my system contained *som

Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok xine engine error

2006-11-17 Thread Dale
Gian Domeni Calgeer wrote: > Am Freitag, 17. November 2006 22:09 schrieb Gian Domeni Calgeer: > >> Am Freitag, 17. November 2006 21:38 schrieb Stuart Howard: >> >>> I have found today that I cannot use the xine engine with amarok >>> anymore, I have recently updated kde and gcc [stable] whi

Re: [gentoo-user] ymessenger is going??

2006-11-17 Thread Dale
Dorin wrote: > On Friday 17 November 2006 23:21, Dale wrote: > >> OK. I found that but maybe this is not what I am looking for. Let's >> say I chat with someone and later on I want to go read it again. I >> would like it to save a copy of the chat automatically without me having >> to do it m

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Resize /

2006-11-17 Thread Dale
Alexander Skwar wrote: > < snip > > The advantage of EVMS over LVM in this case would be, that he > wouldn't have to reformat/repartition and would still be able > to resize the partition/filesystem, wouldn't he? > < snip > > Yes, with reiserfs, this can be done. But also with every other > "norma

Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok xine engine error

2006-11-17 Thread Gian Domeni Calgeer
Am Freitag, 17. November 2006 22:35 schrieb Stuart Howard: > Its nice to hear somone else with the issue [if you see what I mean], > if I take the -C ,delete old bits and emerge amarok approach where > should I be looking for scraps? [not to disagree by the way but how > does this acheive something

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Multi-user pop3 mail delivery

2006-11-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 09:42:43 +1300, Ralph Slooten wrote: > > Are you running a local MTA? If so, this is set in the MTA's config; > > for example in Postfix you would set "luser_relay=someuser". > > Yes, I can also specify this in the fetchmailrc, but it doesn't solve > the problem that userA d

Re: [gentoo-user] Lag de défilement : mise à jour de libpng ou erreur de config ?

2006-11-17 Thread Nico
oops, i'm very sorry for my mistake, i do post on gentoo-user-fr in french, but I think I've clicked gentoo-user instead of gentoo-user-fr, sorry again. So my problem is quite OT I think, but here is it : Since I've updated libpng AND/OR I've unchecked then checked the "smooth fonts" box in the

[gentoo-user] etc-proposals - an alternative to etc-update and dispatch-conf

2006-11-17 Thread Björn Michaelsen
Hello list, Id like to present you etc-proposals and am interested in your opinion. For gentoo-users, who like the commandline, etc-proposals is a gentoo configuration file updater, that, unlike etc-update and dispatch-conf, provides a shell with tabcompletion and allows updating of selected fi

Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok xine engine error

2006-11-17 Thread Stuart Howard
I have followed the same procedure as suggested by Ilya Hegai and my result was the same as Gian. It works fine now, many thanks for the help. stu On 17/11/06, Gian Domeni Calgeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Am Freitag, 17. November 2006 22:35 schrieb Stuart Howard: > Its nice to hear somone els

Re: [gentoo-user] How come my 'esearch' isn't updated when I emerge something until the next 'esync'?!

2006-11-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 17 November 2006 00:27, "Daevid Vincent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] How come my 'esearch' isn't updated when I emerge something until the next 'esync'?!': > How come when I emerge something, my 'esearch' isn't updated until the > next time I do an 'esync'? > > But I

[gentoo-user] emerge -C says it is not emerged, but it is. Now what?

2006-11-17 Thread Dale
Hi folks, I do a --depclean -p every once in a while. I did one tonight and it said musicbrains was not used by anything but k3b. I checked my USE line and made sure it was not in there to be used and re-emerged k3b to make sure it was not compiled with it somehow. When I did a emerge -C music

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -C says it is not emerged, but it is. Now what?

2006-11-17 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > Hi folks, > > I do a --depclean -p every once in a while. I did one tonight and it > said musicbrains was not used by anything but k3b. I checked my USE > line and made sure it was not in there to be used and re-emerged k3b to > make sure it was not compiled with it somehow. > > Wh

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -C says it is not emerged, but it is. Now what?

2006-11-17 Thread Henk Boom
On 18/11/06, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When I did a emerge -C musicbrainz it said it wasn't found. Something like this: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # emerge -C musicbrains > > --- Couldn't find 'musicbrains' to unmerge. Try unmerging musicbrainz, not musicbrains. =) Hope this helps,

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -C says it is not emerged, but it is. Now what?

2006-11-17 Thread Dale
Henk Boom wrote: > On 18/11/06, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> When I did a emerge -C musicbrainz it said it wasn't found. Something >> like this: >> >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # emerge -C musicbrains >> > >> > --- Couldn't find 'musicbrains' to unmerge. > > Try unmerging musicbrainz, not mus