[gentoo-user] Re: Re: star

Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:34:41 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> What does this have to do with GNU tar and it adding superflous >> options? Quite a lot. -j et.al. are non-standard options. If a >> (badly written) script relies on the presence of -j, this

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: howto setup vsftpd and virtual hosts by NAME not by IP

On Wednesday 26 September 2007, Daevid Vincent wrote: > the example /usr/share/doc/vsftpd-2.0.5-r3/examples/VIRTUAL_HOSTS only > talks about how to do this with separate IP addresses, is there a way > to have ftp.daevid.com and ftp.company.com all work from the same > server IP but have different

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this drive toast?

Hello Dan Farrell, > Seagate's customer service I've never dealt with. I just send in the > drive, and a working one comes back in 60 days or so. That is customer service, albeit rather slow service. IBM replaced a faulty Deathstar drive in less than two weeks. -- Neil Bothwick Veni, vermini

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: star

Hello Alexander Skwar, > Yes, it's very bad that Gentoo scripts don't limit themselves to > POSIX. Another windmill to fight against. Artificially limiting yourself to the lowest common denominator when better options are available is bad, and discourages evolution. POSIX specifies the minimum s

[gentoo-user] OO save error with 2.3

On up grading to openoffice 2.3 (src), I have problems saving passworded odt documents. error dialog contents are: "Error saving the document doc_name, Error writing file." I can save it two or three times then the error message pops up. And I have heaps of disk space so thats not the problem. A

[gentoo-user] Re: star

Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Alexander Skwar, > >> Yes, it's very bad that Gentoo scripts don't limit themselves to >> POSIX. Another windmill to fight against. > > Artificially limiting yourself to the lowest common denominator when > better options are available is bad, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: star

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:14:58 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Back to tar: Why use "tar -j" in scripts, when "bzip2 | tar" > does the same thing? I very much disagree that "tar -j" is > the "better" option here; Either way requires that you first determine the type of compression used before you c

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: star

Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:14:58 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> Back to tar: Why use "tar -j" in scripts, when "bzip2 | tar" >> does the same thing? I very much disagree that "tar -j" is >> the "better" option here; > > Either way requires that you firs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: star

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:45:51 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > Either way requires that you first determine the type of compression > > used before you can decide where to pipe tar's output, if at all. > > Whereas something like "tar xf somefile" avoids the need to do" file > > somefile" and parse

Re: [gentoo-user] OO save error with 2.3

For me, ooffice 2.3 (bin) cannot detect java environment. I setup system-vm and user-vm too. What if, java is required with save with password, but you also have no java? Cheers, István 2007. 09. 26, szerda keltezéssel 15.58-kor W.Kenworthy ezt írta: > On up grading to openoffice 2.3 (src), I ha

Re: [gentoo-user] xine - no sound on DVDs - solved (sort of)

Hi, Am Dienstag, 25. September 2007 23:24:27 schrieb Mark Knecht: > On 9/25/07, Michael Schreckenbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Mark, > > > > Am Mittwoch, 19. September 2007 schrieb Mark Knecht: > > > Hi, > > >Message is to Randy and others that have been helping me with my > > > audi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: star

Am Mittwoch, 26. September 2007 00:26:51 schrieb b.n.: > Michael Schreckenbauer ha scritto: > > Am Montag, 24. September 2007 schrieb Alexander Skwar: > >> To keep GNU tar, you mean? Well, there's at least a reason to not ONLY > >> have star: Star is made by Jörg Schilling, one of the biggest moron

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: star

On Wednesday 26 September 2007 10:59:00 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > Pardon? "tar xf somefile" doesn't do any compression at all. > > I don't get what you mean. > > No, but it does do whatever decompression is required. Of course, you do > have to specify a compression method when creating a compressed

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: star

Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:45:51 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> > Either way requires that you first determine the type of compression >> > used before you can decide where to pipe tar's output, if at all. >> > Whereas something like "tar xf somefile" av

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: star

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:08:11 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > No, but it does do whatever decompression is required. > > Hey, that's a nice feature. I didn't know about that. Be careful, it is not part of the POSIX standard and may cause premature hair loss ;-) -- Neil Bothwick Klingons d

Re: [gentoo-user] Ati 3d not working [SOLVED]

Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: > In this thread, a guy with a similar problem solved by running > "opengl-update ati" as root. > > http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/gentoo-linux-help/54709-ati-direct-render-problem.html >

[gentoo-user] installation assistance

I would pay for _in place_ assistance to install gentoo / kde on my laptop I am living in northern italy Since i have never compiled everything from scratch (as the gentoo user should do), assistance would save my time and offer the opportunity to learn something. Moreover i would like to fine tu

Re: [gentoo-user] installation assistance

On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 12:31 +0200, Pol wrote: > I would pay for _in place_ assistance to install gentoo / kde on my > laptop > I am living in northern italy > Since i have never compiled everything from scratch (as the gentoo > user should do), assistance would save my time and offer the > oppor

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this drive toast?

On 25 Sep 2007, at 20:57, Marzan, Richard non Unisys wrote: ... MAxtor sucks in my opinion. Seagate will replace a warrantied drive And who owns Maxtor?... Microsoft Windows Sucks, but that doesn't mean Xbox sucks because they're owned by MS. This isn't a great example. I have a customer

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: star

On Mittwoch, 26. September 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:34:41 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> What does this have to do with GNU tar and it adding superflous > >> options? Quite a lot. -j et.al. are non-standard options. If a

Re: [gentoo-user] installation assistance

On 9/26/07, Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 12:31 +0200, Pol wrote: > > I would pay for _in place_ assistance to install gentoo / kde on my > > laptop > > I am living in northern italy > > Since i have never compiled everything from scratch (as the gentoo > > us

Re: [gentoo-user] auto proxy config (Firefox, and more)

Thanks for the answer ! How can I see what myIpAddress() returns ? I tried it in a simple html page (javascript) but it didn't work. Ben 2007/9/25, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 06:26:43PM +0200, Penguin Lover Benjamin Graf > squawked: > > I tried this as a proxy au

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: star

Michael Schreckenbauer ha scritto: > and I for myself drop cdrkit in every place I find it and replace it with the > imo working tool named cdrecord. Sure, your choice. >> The problem is that of a tool that for licence etc. problems could be >> easily be dropped from a distribution. It's of a r

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: star

Hi Joerg, Quite an honour to receive a mail from you. :) > The reason why Debian started this is the missing will for quality oriented > cooperation by a single person: "Eduard Bloch". > > The reason why other Linux distributions followed Debian is that they believed > the lies spread by Eduard

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: star

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:44:20 +0200, b.n. wrote: > In our case: if you use a tool like that in your scripts and suddenly > the Gentoo devs feel that tool has to be removed/replaced (not the case > of cdrtools in Gentoo apparently, but...), you are in trouble. In this case, that shouldn't be a prob

[gentoo-user] No access as normal user to my own.ssh-folder

I want to connect to another machine in my local network using ssh. Somehow I do not get it managed to write the fingerprint to the .ssh/known_hosts because of missing rights. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ssh 192.168.0.50 The authenticity of host '192.168.0.50 (192.168.0.50)' can't be established. RSA

Re: [gentoo-user] No access as normal user to my own.ssh-folder

Am Mittwoch, 26. September 2007 20:59:55 schrieb Herbert Laubner: > I think, it has to be a stupid mistake. I did > windose ~ # chown herbert /home/herbert/.ssh > windose ~ # chgrp users /home/herbert/.ssh > > but this did not help?? Do a 'chown -R herbert:users ~/.ssh' because your executed comma

Re: [gentoo-user] No access as normal user to my own.ssh-folder

On Wednesday 26 September 2007, Herbert Laubner wrote: > I want to connect to another machine in my local network using ssh. Somehow > I do not get it managed to write the fingerprint to the .ssh/known_hosts > because of missing rights. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ssh 192.168.0.50 > The authenticity

[gentoo-user] konsole doesn't always seem to refresh

I've been having a weird an inconsistent issue with konsole. Suppose I'm in a directory with a lot of files, like my mp3 folder. Then suppose I want to play one with, say, mplayer. So I type [EMAIL PROTECTED] /mnt/booty/data/music $ mplayer Yo and I hit tab to get it to do some completion. Th

Re: [gentoo-user] No access as normal user to my own.ssh-folder

On Wednesday 26 September 2007, Herbert Laubner wrote: > I want to connect to another machine in my local network using ssh. > Somehow I do not get it managed to write the fingerprint to the > .ssh/known_hosts because of missing rights. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ssh 192.168.0.50 > The authenticity

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: howto setup vsftpd and virtual hosts by NAME not by IP

Crayon Shin Chan wrote: You can't do virtual hosting using domain names in ftp I think wu-ftpd does support virtual ftp-hosting using domain-names. The only limitation comes from single common passwd file, i.e. you can not have two different users on two different virtual ftp-server having the

Re: [gentoo-user] xine - no sound on DVDs - solved (sort of)

On 9/26/07, Michael Schreckenbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > afaik those are all default values, except audio.alsa_hw_mixer:0. > I don't think, that's a problem. > Does xine play every sound through the wrong device or only DVDs (5.1)? > Maybe there's a stale asoundrc in your home, somehow >

Re: [gentoo-user] No access as normal user to my own.ssh-folder

> > d? ? ? ? ? ? . > > d? ? ? ? ? ? .. > > d? ? ? ? ? ? known_hosts > > Ouch. That's file system corruption. You need to fsck that disk right > now. I once saw similar stuff on a reiser filesystem and the only thing > that helped was --reb

Re: [gentoo-user] No access as normal user to my own.ssh-folder [SOLVED]

> > I cannot see what your access rights are (all I got was "?" as shown > above). Add -r to chgrp to recursively change the files under it. Finally, > if the character "d" is correct for directory, then your known_hosts is not > a file as it should be, but perhaps by mistake you created it as a >

RE: [gentoo-user] OT: howto setup vsftpd and virtual hosts by NAME not by IP

> -Original Message- > From: Jarry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 12:24 PM > > Crayon Shin Chan wrote: > > > You can't do virtual hosting using domain names in ftp > > I think wu-ftpd does support virtual ftp-hosting using domain-names. > The only limit

[gentoo-user] {OT} Strange apache2 access_log entries

Does anyone else get entries like this in their apache2 access_log: 127.0.0.1 - - [26/Sep/2007:03:10:08 -0700] "GET /" 400 470 I get a whole slew of them every day. They always show up in batches and each entry in a batch is logged at almost the same second. - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailin

[gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset

I hope this isn't the wrong place to ask this, but I need help finding a chipset for an admitedly cheap tuner. The product in question is the Sabrent TV-USB20 tuner (USB-powered). I have searched google for awhile, and I can't seem to find the chipset for this card, but mostly just results on very

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this drive toast--addendum

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:20:10 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:38:45 -0700 (PDT) > > maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Forgot to add: this all started when I made hda > > into > > > hdb

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this drive toast?

--- Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Dan Farrell, > > > Seagate's customer service I've never dealt with. > I just send in the > > drive, and a working one comes back in 60 days or > so. > > That is customer service, albeit rather slow > service. IBM replaced a > faulty Deathst

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this drive toast--addendum

> If you wouldn't mind satisfying my curiosity, what > does the jumper do? Determines if the drive is master or slave in the BIOS. But perhaps you're thinking of something else. I'm astonished that someone doesn't know that. If you ever put a IDE drive in a PC you would have to know what the j

Re: [gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset

Hi! I don't know if it helps, but I looked at the windows driver and it's name (in the inf file) is "tridvid" -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this drive toast--addendum

On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 15:06 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: > Determines if the drive is master or slave in the > BIOS. > > But perhaps you're thinking of something else. I'm > astonished that someone doesn't know that. > > If you ever put a IDE drive in a PC you would have to > know what the jumpe

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Strange apache2 access_log entries

On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 13:30 -0700, Grant wrote: > Does anyone else get entries like this in their apache2 access_log: > > 127.0.0.1 - - [26/Sep/2007:03:10:08 -0700] "GET /" 400 470 > > I get a whole slew of them every day. They always show up in batches > and each entry in a batch is logged at

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this drive toast--addendum

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:38:44 -0500 Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Most modern IDE hard drives/motherboards come with "cable-select" > enabled. These days you rarely need to deal with jumpers on a hard > drive (which are prone to error). > Some bioses also support swapping device

Re: [gentoo-user] No access as normal user to my own.ssh-folder

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:21:26 +0200 Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ouch. That's file system corruption. You need to fsck that disk right > now. I once saw similar stuff on a reiser filesystem and the only > thing that helped was --rebuild-tree. Good luck on your end. Wrong! In this c

Re: [gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:29:45 -0500 forgottenwizard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hope this isn't the wrong place to ask this, but I need help > finding a chipset for an admitedly cheap tuner. > > The product in question is the Sabrent TV-USB20 tuner (USB-powered). I > have searched google for aw

Re: [gentoo-user] OO save error with 2.3

Thanks - its starting to look like its "me". I did have a similar problem (not as bad) a year or two ago, and it went away on the next update so I assumed it was OO then. How to fault find it though ... BillK On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 19:36 +0100, Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 26 September 2007, Pongr

Re: [gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset

On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 18:25 -0500, Dan Farrell wrote: > On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:29:45 -0500 > forgottenwizard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > > Have you looked at 'lsusb' output yet? That usually gives data > relevant to the chipset (for example, what it is and who made it ;) ) Also take the hhh

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this drive toast--addendum

On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 17:38 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 15:06 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: > > Determines if the drive is master or slave in the > > BIOS. > > ... > > Most modern IDE hard drives/motherboards come with "cable-select" > enabled. These days you rarely need to

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this drive toast--addendum

W.Kenworthy wrote: > On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 17:38 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: > >> On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 15:06 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: >> >>> Determines if the drive is master or slave in the >>> BIOS. >>> >>> > ... > >> Most modern IDE hard drives/motherboards come with "cabl

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this drive toast--addendum

On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 08:47 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: > On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 17:38 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 15:06 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: > > > Determines if the drive is master or slave in the > > > BIOS. > > > > ... > > > > Most modern IDE hard drives/motherbo

[gentoo-user] emerge xine-ui fails

Hi group, Trying to emerge xine-ui stopped here: make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070330/work/ffmpeg/vhook' !!! ERROR: media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070330 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1621: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 973: Called qa_c

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Strange apache2 access_log entries

> > Does anyone else get entries like this in their apache2 access_log: > > > > 127.0.0.1 - - [26/Sep/2007:03:10:08 -0700] "GET /" 400 470 > > > > I get a whole slew of them every day. They always show up in batches > > and each entry in a batch is logged at almost the same second. > > > > Connect

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this drive toast--addendum

On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:03:27 +0930 Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have never had cable select work for me - I find it is highly > dependant on the specific IDE cable, drive, and bios combination. I > _always_ use master / slave jumpers, and don't even bother with cable > select. Ev

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Strange apache2 access_log entries

> > Does anyone else get entries like this in their apache2 access_log: > > > > 127.0.0.1 - - [26/Sep/2007:03:10:08 -0700] "GET /" 400 470 > > > > I get a whole slew of them every day. They always show up in batches > > and each entry in a batch is logged at almost the same second. > That make sen

[gentoo-user] font corruption ???

My wife uses my gentoo workstation with Open Office Writer to prepare documents for my son's Boy Scout troop and has encountered printing problems. The environment is cups-1.2.10-r1, openoffice-bin-2.3.0, xorg-x11-7.2, xorg-server-1.3.0.0, etc. After starting OOw, the first document (typically a

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Strange apache2 access_log entries

On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 18:51 -0700, Grant wrote: > I'm not doing any sort of monitoring like that. What is that "470"? > I noticed the log entries always include that, at least for the last > 10 days. 470 is the size of the HTTP response (read http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/logs.html). The cli

[gentoo-user] NFS mount fail

I get this error when mounting an nfs share: mount.nfs: rpc.statd is not running but is required for remote locking Either use "-o nolocks" to keep locks local, or start statd. Anyone know what the problem might be? I followed the gentoo-wiki nfs guide @ http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Share_Di

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Strange apache2 access_log entries

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:51:31 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does anyone else get entries like this in their apache2 > > > access_log: > > > > > > 127.0.0.1 - - [26/Sep/2007:03:10:08 -0700] "GET /" 400 470 > > > > > > I get a whole slew of them every day. They always show up in > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} [typo] Strange apache2 access_log entries

> those is for http_user. 470 most probably is the http error code > (means bad request) and the last field with value "470" would be > "bytes sent". > The first line should read "those is for http_user. 400 most probably is the http error code". 400 instead of 470. Sorry for the typo. -- Be

[gentoo-user] Gentoo User Guide XML error

I downloaded the Gentoo User Guide to read the install section prior to planning installation of Gentoo on my new machine. Dillo has no problem opening the file (Lynx can't read XML), but Epiphany, Firefox & Konqueror all refuse with an XML error : XML Parsing Error: mismatched tag. Expected: .

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo User Guide XML error : solved ?

Following the usual procedure in such cases of trying simple changes, I changed the file extension to '.html' & Epiphany now has no problem. Does anyone have any comment on this strange sequence of events ? -- ,, SUPPORT

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: howto setup vsftpd and virtual hosts by NAME not by IP

On Thursday 27 September 2007, Jarry wrote: > Crayon Shin Chan wrote: > > You can't do virtual hosting using domain names in ftp > > I think wu-ftpd does support virtual ftp-hosting using domain-names. I would love to know how it does the impossible - since the ftp protocol doesn't know anything

Re: [gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset

On 08:43 Thu 27 Sep , W.Kenworthy wrote: > On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 18:25 -0500, Dan Farrell wrote: > > On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:29:45 -0500 > > forgottenwizard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > > > > Have you looked at 'lsusb' output yet? That usually gives data > > relevant to the chipset (for

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Strange apache2 access_log entries

> > I'm not doing any sort of monitoring like that. What is that "470"? > > I noticed the log entries always include that, at least for the last > > 10 days. > > 470 is the size of the HTTP response (read > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/logs.html). The client is coming from > the loopback devi

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Strange apache2 access_log entries

> > Does anyone else get entries like this in their apache2 access_log: > > > > 127.0.0.1 - - [26/Sep/2007:03:10:08 -0700] "GET /" 400 470 > > > > I get a whole slew of them every day. They always show up in batches > > and each entry in a batch is logged at almost the same second. Have you tried

Re: [gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset

On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 23:40 -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: > All great suggestions, except I'm hoping to see if it might work before > I buy it. I really don't like the prospect of spending money on hardware > just for things to turn out that it doesn't work in Linux. take your laptop into the sto

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xine-ui fails

maxim wexler wrote: > > make[1]: Leaving directory > `/var/tmp/portage/media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070330/work/ffmpeg/vhook' Hmm, can you show us a few more lines before this? The error isn't obvious yet... -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset

On 15:15 Thu 27 Sep , Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 23:40 -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: > > > All great suggestions, except I'm hoping to see if it might work before > > I buy it. I really don't like the prospect of spending money on hardware > > just for things to turn out that

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Strange apache2 access_log entries

On Wednesday 26 September 2007 22:30:10 Grant wrote: > Does anyone else get entries like this in their apache2 access_log: > > 127.0.0.1 - - [26/Sep/2007:03:10:08 -0700] "GET /" 400 470 Apache-2.6 does this as a internal signaling thing (don't remember the note about it now). If you change the l