On Sonntag, 29. April 2007, Walter Dnes wrote:
> At times, I don't see the point of so many groups. Here's my
> "/root/bin/u_add" script, which I invoke as...
>
> u_add newusername
>
> #!/bin/bash
> useradd -g users -G
> audio,cdrom,dialout,floppy,games,plugdev,usb,uucp,video,wheel -m -s
> /bin/
On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 09:50:04 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> > #!/bin/bash
> > useradd -g users -G
> > audio,cdrom,dialout,floppy,games,plugdev,usb,uucp,video,wheel -m -s
> > /bin/bash $1
>
> plugdev? uucp?
plugdev is needed to mount devices with HAL/pmount.
uucp probably isn't needed u
070429 Chuanwen Wu wrote:
> After "emerge -uDN world",
> the font in xfce4 is out of the control of my .fonts.conf.
> The english characters are unclear, as you can see in annex e.png.
> Chinese characters are even more worse as you can see in annex c.png
They look ok to me :
http://www.chass.u
070429 ruscook ozbike wrote:
> as a new Sabayon/Gentoo user
> and one ONLY used to binary distributions to date,
> I wanted to go up a version to get the latest:
> a) gnome (2.81)
> b) kernel (not so important)
I would recommend re-installing with pure Gentoo:
it's not difficult, but it does tak
On Sonntag, 29. April 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 09:50:04 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> > > #!/bin/bash
> > > useradd -g users -G
> > > audio,cdrom,dialout,floppy,games,plugdev,usb,uucp,video,wheel -m -s
> > > /bin/bash $1
> >
> > plugdev? uucp?
>
> plugdev is needed t
I'm now using gentoo with EXTRA_ECONF="--disable-static" for a while and it
seems quite stable. Sometimes I encounter a package that won't build with
this setting, but that's a rare occasion. At the moment this packages are for
me:
x11-libs/libXxf86vm
sys-devel/gdb-6.6
dev-libs/jrtplib-3.5.2
dev
On Saturday 28 April 2007 23:07, Dale wrote:
> Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > Never mind. I had it configured right, but my attempts to kill off
> > XDM had failed. I eventually got it right by rebooting the whole
> > system. And reasonable menus for rebooting Just Came Up.
> >
> I was wondering bec
Chuanwen Wu wrote:
> The font is out of the control of my .fonts.conf. The english
> characters are unclear as you can see in annex e.png.
You mean there is too much anti-aliasing?
> And the
> Chinese characters are even more worse as you can see in annex
> c.png
You mean there is no anti-alia
Daniel D Jones wrote:
> My system is extremely slow to switch back to a graphical TTY.
Since when?
> When I hit CTL-ALT-F7 to switch back to
> graphical mode, the screen goes black and it takes 25 to 30
> seconds before I see the KDM login screen again. I certainly
> don't recall this process ta
Hi,
can someone suggest a good graphics setup tool? Something to search wireless
access points, configuring security etc.
Thanks a lot.
Pat
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On Saturday 28 April 2007 18:45, Randy Barlow wrote:
> On Fri, April 27, 2007 3:25 pm, Dan Cowsill wrote:
> > So what I am looking for is a simplified howto describing how I could
> > set up sendmail to deliver mail for me...
>
> I really wouldn't recommend using Sendmail, especially not for just
>
On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 11:12:11 +0100, Mick wrote:
> Is smmtp all that is required? I seem to be missing mail?
> ==
> echo test | mail -s "testing ssmtp"
> -bash: mail: command not found
> ==
emerge mail-client/mailx
On Sunday 29 April 2007 11:11, pat wrote:
> Hi,
>
> can someone suggest a good graphics setup tool? Something to search
> wireless access points, configuring security etc.
You may want to look at this thread on Gmane, there were a few WiFi gui tools
suggested there:
http://article.gmane.org/gman
On Sunday 29 April 2007 11:31, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 11:12:11 +0100, Mick wrote:
> > Is smmtp all that is required? I seem to be missing mail?
> > ==
> > echo test | mail -s "testing ssmtp"
> > -bash: mail: command not found
> > ===
Hello Mick,
> > emerge mail-client/mailx
>
> Thanks Neil, should I use mailx, or nail? Is one a direct replacement
> for the other?
According to the nail web site
" As of March 2006, nail has been integrated into the Heirloom project as
mailx."
So use mailx.
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2007/4/29, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
070429 Chuanwen Wu wrote:
> After "emerge -uDN world",
> the font in xfce4 is out of the control of my .fonts.conf.
> The english characters are unclear, as you can see in annex e.png.
> Chinese characters are even more worse as you can see in annex c.p
2007/4/29, Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Chuanwen Wu wrote:
> The font is out of the control of my .fonts.conf. The english
> characters are unclear as you can see in annex e.png.
You mean there is too much anti-aliasing?
> And the
> Chinese characters are even more worse as you can s
2007/4/29, Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Chuanwen Wu wrote:
> After "emerge -uDN world",
Not very informative. More useful information you could have
provided with the output of 'genlop --list --date 2 days ago'.
Here is the output:
# genlop --list --date 2 days ago
* dev-java/swt
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 11:12 +0100, Mick wrote:
> On Saturday 28 April 2007 18:45, Randy Barlow wrote:
> > On Fri, April 27, 2007 3:25 pm, Dan Cowsill wrote:
> > > So what I am looking for is a simplified howto describing how I could
> > > set up sendmail to deliver mail for me...
> >
> > I really w
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 09:00:56AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote
> uucp probably isn't needed unless you use some serial port hardware.
I vaguely seem to recall needing it for dialup access at one point.
Dialup obviously uses the serial port. Has that been removed?
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Walter Dnes wrote:
> I vaguely seem to recall needing it for dialup access at one point.
> Dialup obviously uses the serial port. Has that been removed?
Talking about uucp, I plugged my palm today (Visor module) via usb, and
/dev/ttyUSB0 was uuc
Hello list! I'm having some trouble with KDE. I'm not sure when this started,
i just noticed it today. If I press Ctrl+Alt+F[1-12] nothing happens if I'm
logged in to KDE. In KDM it works just fine. What could be the cause of this
weird behaviour?
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On 4/28/07, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
· Dan Cowsill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I also wonder if it's possible to use sendmail to relay mail to my gmail
> account and send it from there?
?
What do you want to accomplish? What benefit do you see by
doing that?
Alexander Skwar
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On Sunday 29 April 2007 06:00, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> Daniel D Jones wrote:
> > My system is extremely slow to switch back to a graphical TTY.
>
> Since when?
I'm not sure when it first started. It's a single user system, so I don't use
that feature very often. I just open a Konsole screen
On Sunday 29 April 2007 17:07, Nistor Andrei wrote:
> Hello list! I'm having some trouble with KDE. I'm not sure when this
> started, i just noticed it today. If I press Ctrl+Alt+F[1-12] nothing
> happens if I'm logged in to KDE. In KDM it works just fine. What could be
> the cause of this weird be
Can anyone tell me how to integrate sendmail and spamassassin? All my
efforts till now have failed. Here's my info:
baby ~ # emerge -pv sendmail spamassassin procmail
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] mail-mta/sendmail-8.14
On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, Nistor Andrei wrote:
Hello list! I'm having some trouble with KDE. I'm not sure when this started,
i just noticed it today. If I press Ctrl+Alt+F[1-12] nothing happens if I'm
logged in to KDE. In KDM it works just fine. What could be the cause of this
weird behaviour?
What
On Sunday 29 April 2007, Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 29 April 2007 17:07, Nistor Andrei wrote:
> > Hello list! I'm having some trouble with KDE. I'm not sure when this
> > started, i just noticed it today. If I press Ctrl+Alt+F[1-12] nothing
> > happens if I'm logged in to KDE. In KDM it works just fin
On Sunday 29 April 2007, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, Nistor Andrei wrote:
> > Hello list! I'm having some trouble with KDE. I'm not sure when this
> > started, i just noticed it today. If I press Ctrl+Alt+F[1-12] nothing
> > happens if I'm logged in to KDE. In KDM it works just fine
On 4/29/07, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Saturday 28 April 2007 23:07, Dale wrote:
> Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > Never mind. I had it configured right, but my attempts to kill off
> > XDM had failed. I eventually got it right by rebooting the whole
> > system. And reasonable menus for rebo
Chuanwen Wu wrote:
> Sat Apr 28 16:34:59 2007 >>> xfce-base/xfce4-4.4.1
Hmm, it looks like you're running unstable xfce. But if you can't
handle the problems this might give, then you shouldn't be using
unstable.
Try commenting out all xfce lines in /etc/portage/package.keywords,
re-updat
Daniel D Jones wrote:
> 3.5.5-r10
Yes, might have been the one with the problem. If the thirty second
pause bothers you, push on to 3.5.6. But as you seldom use a bare
console, you can probably stand the wait for it going stable. :)
Benno
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On Sunday 29 April 2007 18:19, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> On 4/29/07, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > /etc/init.d/xdm stop and, or zap. That avoids the need for a reboot.
> >
> > If I remember correctly Ctrl+Alt+Del does not work from an xdm login
> > screen. Ctr+Alt+F1 drops you into vc1, w
· Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Saturday 28 April 2007 18:45, Randy Barlow wrote:
>> On Fri, April 27, 2007 3:25 pm, Dan Cowsill wrote:
>> > So what I am looking for is a simplified howto describing how I could
>> > set up sendmail to deliver mail for me...
>>
>> I really wouldn't recommend using
· Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hello Mick,
>
>> > emerge mail-client/mailx
>>
>> Thanks Neil, should I use mailx, or nail? Is one a direct replacement
>> for the other?
>
> According to the nail web site
>
> " As of March 2006, nail has been integrated into the Heirloom project as
>
Hello Mick,
> > I tried that. XDM refused to die. That's why I did the reboot.
>
> /etc/init.d/xdm zap *should* work - assuming you can get to the console.
zap doesn't stop anything, it just tells the system to consider it
stopped. It's used for handling processes that have died as zombies, b
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> Hello Mick,
>
>
>>> I tried that. XDM refused to die. That's why I did the reboot.
>>>
>> /etc/init.d/xdm zap *should* work - assuming you can get to the console.
>>
>
> zap doesn't stop anything, it just tells the system to consider it
> stopped. It's used
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Michael Sullivan wrote:
> Can anyone tell me how to integrate sendmail and spamassassin?
This wiki page talks about it:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Email_System_for_the_Home_Network
HTH!
R
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quoth the Nistor Andrei:
> Hello list! I'm having some trouble with KDE. I'm not sure when this
> started, i just noticed it today. If I press Ctrl+Alt+F[1-12] nothing
> happens if I'm logged in to KDE. In KDM it works just fine. What could be
> the cause of this weird behaviour?
Do you have:
Opt
Hi group,
On my way from updating from 2.6.16 to 2.6.20 kernels
decided to upgrade ati-drivers and went to
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers
for a refresher. It says to run equery to see that
dloader use flag is off but this is what I get:
localhost ~ # equery uses xorg-x11
[ Searching f
Hi all,
First, I did a google search to see if I could find out anything that
might help. My patience wanes after a number of searches so, you'll
have to pardon me 'cause I'm looking for a quick answer if anyone knows one.
I just got a brand new Dell Inspiron XPS laptop. It came with Windows
Vi
hello, list:
when I assign a name to urxvt and run it:
urxvt -name foo -e bash -c "foo"
why the windowlist still show "[EMAIL PROTECTED]: pwd"? I expect it should
show "foo".
What should I do? I appreciate any suggestion and advice.
wm: fvwm.
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Colleen Beamer wrote:
Following all the steps in the Handbook, I got no error messages. When
I get to the part where I install the bootloader, it installs okay. I
have 4 partitions sda1 is boot, sda2 is swap sda3 is / and sda4 is home.
My /boot/grub/device.map file shows as: (hd0) /dev/sda.
On Sunday 29 April 2007 19:25:21 anhnmncb wrote:
> hello, list:
> when I assign a name to urxvt and run it:
> urxvt -name foo -e bash -c "foo"
> why the windowlist still show "[EMAIL PROTECTED]: pwd"? I expect it should
> show "foo".
Sounds like you have characters in your prompt and/or prom
Hi group,
The new kernel panics at a typical place:
<...>
VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (8,7)
then just below this appears:
<6> Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
The root fs is reiserfs and *is* part of the kernel.
Yes, CONFIG_UNIX=y
I thought it might be the SATA dri
Am Montag, 30. April 2007 schrieb ext Colleen Beamer:
> I have 4 partitions sda1 is boot, sda2 is swap sda3 is / and sda4 is home.
> My /boot/grub/device.map file shows as: (hd0) /dev/sda. When I boot to
> the hard drive, the boot process gets to the point where it says:
> Determining root device
On Monday 30 April 2007 02:19:12 Colleen Beamer wrote:
> Then it says:
> /dev/sda3 is not a valid root device
>
> I probably did something wrong, but I've started from scratch 3 times
> and I get the same problem. I've used genkernel and it looks like sata
> support has been built in.
>
Try to add
On Monday 30 April 2007, darren kirby wrote:
> quoth the Nistor Andrei:
> > Hello list! I'm having some trouble with KDE. I'm not sure when this
> > started, i just noticed it today. If I press Ctrl+Alt+F[1-12] nothing
> > happens if I'm logged in to KDE. In KDM it works just fine. What could be
>
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