Re: [gentoo-user] why multiple versions of java-config, automake, and autoconf?

2007-05-30 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 31 May 2007 06:25:58 Denis wrote: > > > While on the subject, I ran a pretend on revdep-rebuild, and it's > > > complaining about some broken libraries in GCC... > > > > [SNIP] > > > > > broken /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/libgcjawt.la (requires > > > /usr/lib/lib-gnu-java-awt

Re: [gentoo-user] why multiple versions of java-config, automake, and autoconf?

2007-05-30 Thread Denis
> While on the subject, I ran a pretend on revdep-rebuild, and it's > complaining about some broken libraries in GCC... [SNIP] > broken /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/libgcjawt.la (requires > /usr/lib/lib-gnu-java-awt-peer-gtk.la) > broken /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/libgij.la (

Re: [gentoo-user] why multiple versions of java-config, automake, and autoconf?

2007-05-30 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 31 May 2007 05:53:08 Denis wrote: > On 5/30/07, Ric de France <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think what is more useful is --prune (I'm guessing as I'm not in > > front of a Gentoo box at the moment). I usually try: --prune makes no checks of what's still required. [SNIP] > But doesn

Re: [gentoo-user] why multiple versions of java-config, automake, and autoconf?

2007-05-30 Thread Denis
On 5/30/07, Ric de France <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think what is more useful is --prune (I'm guessing as I'm not in front of a Gentoo box at the moment). I usually try: # emerge -Pp Here's the output: myhost etc # emerge -Pp These are the package

Re: [gentoo-user] why multiple versions of java-config, automake, and autoconf?

2007-05-30 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 31 May 2007 04:43:07 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > There could be other multi-version > > packages...  Is this normal for portage that is configured to > > autoclean? > > Yes.  Autoclean doesn't uninstall versions in a different slot.  I'm not > sure about depclean. With the latest

Re: [gentoo-user] why multiple versions of java-config, automake, and autoconf?

2007-05-30 Thread Ric de France
Hi, On 31/05/07, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There could be other multi-version > packages... Is this normal for portage that is configured to > autoclean? Yes. Autoclean doesn't uninstall versions in a different slot. I'm not sure about depclean. I think what is mo

Re: [gentoo-user] FW: mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (more info added)

2007-05-30 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 31 May 2007 04:57:53 Paul Varner wrote: > > But at least it will never use the horrible hack that revdep-rebuild uses > > with --package-names because of the lack of support for the > > =category/package-version:slot syntax in portage-2.0* which it still > > supports.. :) > > Hey, I'm p

Re: [gentoo-user] FW: mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (more info added)

2007-05-30 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 31 May 2007 04:37:52 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > If it's really useful, it should be chmod'd +x and installed or linked > into /usr/sbin.  I can do that myself (in that case /usr/local/sbin), but > such wonderful utilities shouldn't be hidden. :) I can't really disagree with that,

Re: [gentoo-user] FW: mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (more info added)

2007-05-30 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 04:20 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > But at least it will never use the horrible hack that revdep-rebuild uses > with --package-names because of the lack of support for the > =category/package-version:slot syntax in portage-2.0* which it still > supports.. :) Hey, I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] why multiple versions of java-config, automake, and autoconf?

2007-05-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 21:23:00 Denis wrote: > Why are there multiple versions of java-config, autoconf, and > automake shown on my system? They are incompatible, slotted, and each slot is individually required (or was at some time). > There could be other multi-version > packages... Is this

Re: [gentoo-user] FW: mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (more info added)

2007-05-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 21:20:52 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Thursday 31 May 2007 04:09:10 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > I found check_linkage.rb, but it's not installed (or linked) to any of > > the standard $PATH directories.  Instead, it's in a "demo" directory.  Is > > it fully function

[gentoo-user] why multiple versions of java-config, automake, and autoconf?

2007-05-30 Thread Denis
Hi all... This is the output of "emerge --info" for the Gentoo box that I'm still configuring - fresh install. I configured and compiled a working version of the kernel, configured CFLAGS and USE flags, etc. I also ran "emerge -eD system" and "emerge -eD world" and updated /etc configs according

Re: [gentoo-user] FW: mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (more info added)

2007-05-30 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 31 May 2007 04:09:10 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > I found check_linkage.rb, but it's not installed (or linked) to any of the > standard $PATH directories.  Instead, it's in a "demo" directory.  Is it > fully functional? Yes. You run it with ruby. It does still lack a couple of featu

Re: [gentoo-user] FW: mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (more info added)

2007-05-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 07:20:45 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Wednesday 30 May 2007 05:39:01 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > However, paludis does have some missing features that may be critical for > > your environment: > > a revdep-rebuild equivalent (although this can be hacked around) > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to mount a bad disk

2007-05-30 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 29 May 2007 22:13:58 -0400 sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Kirkwood wrote: > > sean wrote: > >> I have a Windows XP driver here that belongs to a friend that just > >> crashed. > >> > >> I am trying to figure out if there is some way I can force the > >> drive to mount on my system

Re: [gentoo-user] which -march flag to pick for Intel Core 2 Duo in make.conf?

2007-05-30 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 25 May 2007 14:26:32 -0400 Denis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/25/07, Andreas Claesson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Since you (Denis) are doing a lot of mathematical calculations you > > will probably benefit from running in 64bit mode. > > I often need to run Monte Carlo simulation

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend to swap on a diskless host

2007-05-30 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 27 May 2007 16:21:03 +0200 "Michal 'vorner' Vaner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > AFAIK, I think you do not want to do that. Not on important boxes, that's for sure! > First: You need to load the kernel from the swap, in the time it > loads, you have no running kernel (well, there

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage: garbage after EOF

2007-05-30 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 31 May 2007 00:34:04 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Wednesday 30 May 2007 23:45:40 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Wed, 30 May 2007 21:15:28 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: > > > bunzip2: /home/dsl/distfiles/openmotif-2.2.3-r9.tbz2: trailing garbage > > > after EOF ignored > > > [...] > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage: garbage after EOF

2007-05-30 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 23:45:40 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 30 May 2007 21:15:28 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: > > bunzip2: /home/dsl/distfiles/openmotif-2.2.3-r9.tbz2: trailing garbage > > after EOF ignored > > [...] > > > > It affects *.tbz2 only. > > That's correct, portage stores some meta

Re: [gentoo-user] Deactivate keyboard

2007-05-30 Thread Lutz Schönemann
> > Hi, > > > Hi! > > I have set up Gentoo on a system that I would like to use as a video, > music > > player and sometimes to check my emails. There is a remote control > connected > > to it and is detected as a serial keyboard. Now I want the > >> x

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage: garbage after EOF

2007-05-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 May 2007 21:15:28 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: > bunzip2: /home/dsl/distfiles/openmotif-2.2.3-r9.tbz2: trailing garbage > after EOF ignored > [...] > > It affects *.tbz2 only. That's correct, portage stores some metadata at the end of the archive. -- Neil Bothwick Politically Inc

Re: [gentoo-user] [perhaps OT] ssh from Gentoo into a RedHat server

2007-05-30 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 21:12, Fabio wrote: > Hello Mick mic ! :D > > On 30/05/07, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > debug1: Next authentication method: publickey > > debug1: Trying private key: /home/michael/.ssh/id_rsa > > debug1: Offering public key: /home/michael/.ssh/id_dsa > >

Re: [gentoo-user] seg fault emerging abiword

2007-05-30 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Mat Harris wrote: > So from now on I should always install a package with "-meta" if > its from kde (providing one is available eg. kdevelop)? Not necessarily. The meta packages are there to pull in a whole group of packages, so you don't have to name them all separately. But if you just use a

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

2007-05-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 May 2007 13:20:13 -0400, Denis wrote: > I read the "man make.conf" and also the "make.conf.example". Seems > pretty clear, except what is the "qa" option for the > PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES variable? And I assume the "info" option logs > all the green-star stuff at the end of emerge? qa =

Re: [gentoo-user] [perhaps OT] ssh from Gentoo into a RedHat server

2007-05-30 Thread Mauro Faccenda
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 16:57, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > [...] > > I find it confusing. First of all I do not have a id_rsa. it tries the default keys (id_rsa or id_dsa), if exists. if you don't want it to try it, you can use the -i parameter to ssh pointing to your private key (ssh -i ~/.ssh/id

Re: [gentoo-user] [perhaps OT] ssh from Gentoo into a RedHat server

2007-05-30 Thread Fabio
Hello Mick mic ! :D On 30/05/07, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All, debug1: Next authentication method: publickey debug1: Trying private key: /home/michael/.ssh/id_rsa debug1: Offering public key: /home/michael/.ssh/id_dsa I am not sure if you know the publickey authentication method, so t

Re: [gentoo-user] seg fault emerging abiword

2007-05-30 Thread Mat Harris
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 19:26, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Wednesday 30 May 2007 21:16:18 Mat Harris wrote: > > > Don't use --nodeps. That would just make a mess out of [your] system. > > > If you've installed split kde (kde-meta) then why are you trying to > > > install monolithic kde packages

[gentoo-user] [perhaps OT] ssh from Gentoo into a RedHat server

2007-05-30 Thread Mick
Hi All, I am trying to ssh into a RH server (CentOS) using pubkey authentication and this is what I am getting back: == debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent debug1: SSH2

Re: [gentoo-user] seg fault emerging abiword

2007-05-30 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 21:16:18 Mat Harris wrote: > > Don't use --nodeps. That would just make a mess out of [your] system. If > > you've installed split kde (kde-meta) then why are you trying to install > > monolithic kde packages? I.e. why are you trying to install kdebase > > rather than kdeba

[gentoo-user] Portage: garbage after EOF

2007-05-30 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi! As part of some testing I've decompressed my distfiles into another directory. I've done it that way: cp /usr/src/portage/distfiles/*.tar.bz2 /home/dsl/distfiles && bunzip2 /home/dsl/distfiles/*.tar.bz2 && cp /usr/src/portage/distfiles/*.tbz2 /home/dsl/distfiles && bunzip2 /home/dsl/dist

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: which syslog?

2007-05-30 Thread darren kirby
quoth the kashani: > darren kirby wrote: > > quoth the Sven Köhler: > >>> It does not read /etc/syslog.conf, it > >>> reads /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf for it's configuration. Chances are > >>> the default is to send most everything to messages > >> > >> Yes, that's the default. > >> > >> And act

Re: [gentoo-user] seg fault emerging abiword

2007-05-30 Thread Mat Harris
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 18:01, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Wednesday 30 May 2007 19:34:49 Mat Harris wrote: > > It appears I may have more of a problem than I thought. By the way I > > installed kdebase-meta I believe (as the kde howto suggested) but now > > when trying to install most kde apps

Re: [gentoo-user] seg fault emerging abiword

2007-05-30 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 20:01:43 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > > [...] By the way I installed kdebase-meta I believe [...] [SNIP] > And why are you installing either of those at all when they have already > been pulled in by kde-meta? Heh, I somehow read kdebase-meta as kde-meta... Disregard that q

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: which syslog?

2007-05-30 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Sven Köhler: > > It does not read /etc/syslog.conf, it > > reads /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf for it's configuration. Chances are > > the default is to send most everything to messages > > Yes, that's the default. > > And actually, i don't want to configure all my machines. I would prefe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A List Question

2007-05-30 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Dienstag 15 Mai 2007 02:45 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I think that once my internet access becomes functional (even then it > will just be .edu, .org, .gov, and .mil sites), I will see how well the > gmane page loads for me. :) I will use it to read the messages, and > email to post. > How

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

2007-05-30 Thread Denis
I read the "man make.conf" and also the "make.conf.example". Seems pretty clear, except what is the "qa" option for the PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES variable? And I assume the "info" option logs all the green-star stuff at the end of emerge? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] seg fault emerging abiword

2007-05-30 Thread Mat Harris
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 10:22, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Mat Harris wrote: > > My only little problem is that when I try to emerge AbiWord > > (2.4.5-r1), it compiles fine but when it tries to install to > > files into the real filesystem it segfaults like so: > > [...] > > > /usr/share/AbiS

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs]

2007-05-30 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That is exactly what the xorg-x11 metapackage is designed to do. Not exactly. The xorg-x11 package pulls in much more than just the server w/ some drivers. cu -- - Enrico Wei

[gentoo-user] Re: Xserver @ oss-qm overlay [WAS: Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies ...]

2007-05-30 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 20 May 2007 18:49:31 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > > The circular dependencies between Xserver and drivers do not come > > from upstream. They're artificial. If we just want an simple-to-use > > package which gets the Xserver *and* drivers b

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A List Question

2007-05-30 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Strictly http and https, and only through Internet Explorer. Ugh, why that ? cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ -

Re: [gentoo-user] Wildcards stopped working

2007-05-30 Thread Grant
> $ ls -l *.torrent > ls: invalid option -- [ > Try `ls --help' for more information. Torrent files can have weird names, you probably have one named "-- [kewl doodz] -- some dodgy file.torrent". The shell is expanding the wildcard and passing it to ls, which thinks it is an option. The standard

Re: [gentoo-user] Wildcards stopped working

2007-05-30 Thread Grant
> I routinely use commands like this: > > ls -l *.torrent > > but today I get this: > > $ ls -l *.torrent > ls: invalid option -- [ > Try `ls --help' for more information. > > I get similar results when trying to use wildcards with scp. Did an > update change this behavior for anyone else? You p

Re: [gentoo-user] Wildcards stopped working

2007-05-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 May 2007 07:25:51 -0700, Grant wrote: > $ ls -l *.torrent > ls: invalid option -- [ > Try `ls --help' for more information. Torrent files can have weird names, you probably have one named "-- [kewl doodz] -- some dodgy file.torrent". The shell is expanding the wildcard and passing it t

Re: [gentoo-user] Wildcards stopped working

2007-05-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 30 May 2007, Grant wrote: > I routinely use commands like this: > > ls -l *.torrent > > but today I get this: > > $ ls -l *.torrent > ls: invalid option -- [ > Try `ls --help' for more information. > > I get similar results when trying to use wildcards with scp. Did an > update change

[gentoo-user] Wildcards stopped working

2007-05-30 Thread Grant
I routinely use commands like this: ls -l *.torrent but today I get this: $ ls -l *.torrent ls: invalid option -- [ Try `ls --help' for more information. I get similar results when trying to use wildcards with scp. Did an update change this behavior for anyone else? - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [gentoo-user] XFS problems

2007-05-30 Thread Jules Colding
On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 08:24 -0400, Randy Barlow wrote: > Jules Colding wrote: > > May 30 10:29:40 omc-2 [10822.156355] sd 0:4:1:0: SCSI error: return code = > > 0x00040001 > > May 30 10:29:40 omc-2 [10822.156423] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, > > sector 97564151 > > May 30 10:29:46 omc-2 [1082

Re: [gentoo-user] XFS problems

2007-05-30 Thread Randy Barlow
Jules Colding wrote: May 30 10:29:40 omc-2 [10822.156355] sd 0:4:1:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x00040001 May 30 10:29:40 omc-2 [10822.156423] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 97564151 May 30 10:29:46 omc-2 [10827.996196] I/O error in filesystem ("sdb1") meta-data dev sdb1 block 0x88b5

Re: [gentoo-user] FW: mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (more info added)

2007-05-30 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 05:39:01 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > However, paludis does have some missing features that may be critical for > your environment: binary packages (both building and using) True. And it misses pkgmoves and slotmoves (profiles/updates/*). > and a revdep-rebuild equival

Re: [gentoo-user] Deactivate keyboard

2007-05-30 Thread Randy Barlow
Lutz Schönemann wrote: Hi, Hi! I have set up Gentoo on a system that I would like to use as a video, music player and sometimes to check my emails. There is a remote control connected to it and is detected as a serial keyboard. Now I want the xorg-server not to process events coming fro

Re: [gentoo-user] seg fault emerging abiword

2007-05-30 Thread Randy Barlow
Mat Harris wrote: /usr/share/AbiSuite-2.4/AbiWord/glade/ap_UnixDialog_WordCount.glade /usr/share/AbiSuite-2.4/AbiWord/glade/ap_UnixDialog_Styles.glade Segmentation fault Does this happen with any other packages or only AbiWord? R -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: which syslog?

2007-05-30 Thread Anno v. Heimburg
Sven Köhler wrote: > But i guess, they have a more suitable default setting. Everything going > to /var/log/messes is just to simple, i think. Actually i don't want the > layout to be like sysklogd. But i would like a little more complicated > default setting. Okay, in that case, I'll say that me

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: which syslog?

2007-05-30 Thread Galevsky
http://gentoo-wiki.com/Syslog-ng Is that kind of conf (described in Quick Start section) far away from what you are looking for ? Gal' 2007/5/30, Sven Köhler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I am curious, though: If you like the sysklogd > layout to the point that you want to replicate it exactly in other

Re: [gentoo-user] Deactivate keyboard

2007-05-30 Thread Lutz Schönemann
> > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi! > > > > > > I have set up Gentoo on a system that I would like to use as a video, > > > music > > > > player and sometimes to check my emails. There is a remote control > > > connected > > > > to it and is detected as a serial keyboard. Now I want the > xorg-

Re: [gentoo-user] seg fault emerging abiword

2007-05-30 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Mat Harris wrote: > My only little problem is that when I try to emerge AbiWord > (2.4.5-r1), it compiles fine but when it tries to install to > files into the real filesystem it segfaults like so: > [...] /usr/share/AbiSuite-2.4/AbiWord/glade/ap_UnixDialog_Options.glade /usr/share/AbiSui

[gentoo-user] Re: which syslog?

2007-05-30 Thread Sven Köhler
I am curious, though: If you like the sysklogd > layout to the point that you want to replicate it exactly in other log > daemons, why do you want to switch log daemons? Last sysklogd version if from 2001. And portage contains 1.4.2_pre2007* versions. This was curious to me. And on the other hand

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

2007-05-30 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On 5/29/07, Denis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I usually dread kernel updates because then I have to go > > through kernel menuconfig all over again, and for me, that > > takes some time. I guess one can reuse the old .config file, > > but I understand it's not always a s

Re: [gentoo-user] which syslog?

2007-05-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 30 May 2007, Sven Köhler wrote: > Hi, > > so until recently, i have been using sysklogd. So i had my auth.log, > mail.log, syslog, messages, etc. in /var/log. > > Now i switched to syslog-ng. Now, only /var/log/messages gets filled > with all, that i would expect in auth.log or mail.lo

[gentoo-user] Re: which syslog?

2007-05-30 Thread Anno v. Heimburg
Sven Köhler wrote: > So the next thing i could try is metalog. > > Does it have a nice default config? I think so, but I did modify it to better suit my needs. It doesn't need logrotate, which IMHO is a big plus, and I find its filters much easier to set up than syslog-ng's. I am curious, though:

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

2007-05-30 Thread Eray Aslan
On 30.05.2007 10:21, Neil Bothwick wrote: > This runs in the early hours, so I can read it whenever it suits me during > the day and apply the changes as I want. I run testing, so frequent > updating is a good thing; with a stable system, weekly would be fine, but > the longer you leave it the more

[gentoo-user] XFS problems

2007-05-30 Thread Jules Colding
Hi, My XFS problems continue. Now I got this in my log. Do I have big hardware problems or is this software? It happened under a fairly big VMware clone operation. Any help/advise would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, jules May 30 10:29:27 omc-2 spamd[5932]: prefork: child states: II May 30

[gentoo-user] Deactivate keyboard

2007-05-30 Thread Sven Braun
On 5/30/07, "Lutz Schönemann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Hi! > > I have set up Gentoo on a system that I would like to use as a video, > music > > player and sometimes to check my emails. There is a remote control > connected > > to it and is detected as a serial keyboard. Now I

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to mount a bad disk

2007-05-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 30 May 2007, sean wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Sunday 27 May 2007, Albert Hopkins wrote: > >> On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 09:26 -0400, sean wrote: > >>> I have a Windows XP driver here that belongs to a friend that > >>> just crashed. > >>> > >>> I am trying to figure out if there is

[gentoo-user] which syslog?

2007-05-30 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, so until recently, i have been using sysklogd. So i had my auth.log, mail.log, syslog, messages, etc. in /var/log. Now i switched to syslog-ng. Now, only /var/log/messages gets filled with all, that i would expect in auth.log or mail.log. Maybe syslog-ng can be configured to behave like sysk

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X11 from another machine [SOLVED]

2007-05-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 29 May 2007, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Sounds simple but the amount of stuffing around I had to do > before it eventually workedprobably best left unsaid. Anyway, > thanks to all for the help and here's hoping I get access to SSH the > next time I have to do anything like this. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Deactivate keyboard

2007-05-30 Thread Lutz Schönemann
> > Hi, > > > > Hi! > > I have set up Gentoo on a system that I would like to use as a video, > music > > player and sometimes to check my emails. There is a remote control > connected > > to it and is detected as a serial keyboard. Now I want the xorg-server > not > > to process events coming

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

2007-05-30 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 05/30/2007 Denis([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > While we're on the subject of administration, I have a question about > emerge. Sometimes emerge would display important information in green > or yellow stars after it's finished merging a package - such as > warnings or valuable tips.

Re: [gentoo-user] Why doesn't esearch find "exact" packages? [Bug: 180307]

2007-05-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 29 May 2007 18:41:48 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote: > Yes, I can use eix, but I don't have this on all my boxes, nor do I want > to install it and maintain yet another package cache and all that (for > example, on a dev VMWare guest that I want to keep as small as > possible). So use eix in

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

2007-05-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 May 2007 00:37:16 -0400, Denis wrote: > While we're on the subject of administration, I have a question about > emerge. Sometimes emerge would display important information in green > or yellow stars after it's finished merging a package - such as > warnings or valuable tips. However,

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

2007-05-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 29 May 2007 23:05:56 -0400, Denis wrote: > > I use 'gunzip -c /proc/config.gz > .config && make oldconfig' > > consistently, never had a problem. I always keep a working kernel > > in > > Oh neat-o! I didn't know there was a copy of the running config > in /proc... It's an option you

Re: [gentoo-user] Deactivate keyboard

2007-05-30 Thread Sven Braun
On 5/30/07, "Lutz Schönemann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Hi! I have set up Gentoo on a system that I would like to use as a video, music player and sometimes to check my emails. There is a remote control connected to it and is detected as a serial keyboard. Now I want the xorg-server n