[gentoo-user] Beta autodepclean script (not yet ready for primetime)

2010-07-11 Thread Walter Dnes
The attached script takes the output of "emerge --pretend --depclean" and formats it into a script "cleanscript" which contains a set of "emerge --depclean" commands to remove individual items. Do *NOT* remove the "exit" and source "cleanscript". It's there to protect you. The script is very

Re: [gentoo-user] anyone using Lilo to dual-boot ?

2010-07-11 Thread Mick
On Monday 12 July 2010 06:52:03 Philip Webb wrote: > My cousin in England wants to try out Linux & has an Ubuntu Live CD. > To help her, I've installed the same on a separate partition in my box. > The partition is /dev/sda8 & is formatted ReiserFS. > I use Lilo as boot manager & don't want to ch

[gentoo-user] anyone using Lilo to dual-boot ?

2010-07-11 Thread Philip Webb
My cousin in England wants to try out Linux & has an Ubuntu Live CD. To help her, I've installed the same on a separate partition in my box. The partition is /dev/sda8 & is formatted ReiserFS. I use Lilo as boot manager & don't want to change to Grub just to offer temporary help to someone, so I

[gentoo-user] Ecrypts-questions

2010-07-11 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, currently I am experimenting and using Ecryptfs to encrypt single directories. I am using a passphrase as key. When creating a new crypted directory, ecryptsfs writes to /root/.ecryptfs I dont know the role of the stuff written to that file. What happens, if this file gets accidently

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2010-07-11 Thread Ronan Mainbourg

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: viewing .m4v files with totem

2010-07-11 Thread Allan Gottlieb
walt writes: > On 07/08/2010 06:50 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> How should I view .m4v files with totem. >> Is there a gst-plugin or a use flag for gst-plugins-meta? >> >> I have used the following, which "works", but the video quality is bad >> ffmpeg -i file.m4v file.avi >> totem file.avi > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql

2010-07-11 Thread Enrico Weigelt
hmm. perhaps you could move away /etc/mysql and /var/lib/mysql to some place, re-emerge the mysql package and so try if the fresh installation runs. cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql

2010-07-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 11 July 2010 20:33:17 Stéphane Guedon wrote: > Le dimanche 11 juillet 2010 20:00:16, Alan McKinnon a écrit : > > On Sunday 11 July 2010 19:58:43 Stéphane Guedon wrote: > > > Le dimanche 11 juillet 2010 19:37:34, walt a écrit : > > > > On 07/11/2010 09:29 AM, Stéphane Guedon wrote: > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] fate of nmh

2010-07-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 11 July 2010 20:42:54 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > In check ing for updates today, I found the following: > > - mail-client/nmh-1.3-r1 (masked by: package.mask) > /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: > # Diego E. Pettenò (24 Jun 2010) > # on behalf of QA team > # > # Fails to build wi

[gentoo-user] Re: fate of nmh

2010-07-11 Thread walt
On 07/11/2010 11:42 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > In check ing for updates today, I found the following: > > - mail-client/nmh-1.3-r1 (masked by: package.mask) > # Removal on 2010-08-23 > This is what I use for my mail reader -- with the emacs interface -- so > I am wondering what I can do

[gentoo-user] fate of nmh

2010-07-11 Thread covici
In check ing for updates today, I found the following: - mail-client/nmh-1.3-r1 (masked by: package.mask) /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: # Diego E. Pettenò (24 Jun 2010) # on behalf of QA team # # Fails to build with Berkeley DB 5.0 (#319937); current # stable fails to build with current st

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql

2010-07-11 Thread Stéphane Guedon
Le dimanche 11 juillet 2010 20:00:16, Alan McKinnon a écrit : > On Sunday 11 July 2010 19:58:43 Stéphane Guedon wrote: > > Le dimanche 11 juillet 2010 19:37:34, walt a écrit : > > > On 07/11/2010 09:29 AM, Stéphane Guedon wrote: > > > > Hello > > > > > > > > Could someone help me concerning mysql.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql

2010-07-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 11 July 2010 19:58:43 Stéphane Guedon wrote: > Le dimanche 11 juillet 2010 19:37:34, walt a écrit : > > On 07/11/2010 09:29 AM, Stéphane Guedon wrote: > > > Hello > > > > > > Could someone help me concerning mysql. > > > > > > My servers (both laptop hosted mysql and server hosted) are

[gentoo-user] Re: mysql

2010-07-11 Thread walt
On 07/11/2010 10:16 AM, Stéphane Guedon wrote: > 19:14:11 r...@einstein:/var/log/mysql # tail mysqld.err > 100323 8:30:20 [Note] Event Scheduler: Loaded 0 events > 100323 8:30:20 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: ready for connections. > Version: '5.1.44-log' socket: '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' port

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: tool for reading /etc/conf.d/net?

2010-07-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 11 July 2010 19:26:17 Kyle Bader wrote: > > Most secured - App i C++ or C. > > Programs written in c++/c are not inherently secure, the programmer > must make use of best practices using secure functions, etc. Programs are not inherently secure, the programmer must make use of best pra

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql

2010-07-11 Thread Stéphane Guedon
Le dimanche 11 juillet 2010 19:37:34, walt a écrit : > On 07/11/2010 09:29 AM, Stéphane Guedon wrote: > > Hello > > > > Could someone help me concerning mysql. > > > > My servers (both laptop hosted mysql and server hosted) are buggy. Every > > time I restart them through the init script, it cras

[gentoo-user] Re: mysql

2010-07-11 Thread walt
On 07/11/2010 09:29 AM, Stéphane Guedon wrote: > Hello > > Could someone help me concerning mysql. > > My servers (both laptop hosted mysql and server hosted) are buggy. Every time > I restart them through the > init script, it crash ! : > > 18:15:06 r...@einstein:~ # rc-service mysql restart

[gentoo-user] Re: Bug about possibly incomplete bugfix

2010-07-11 Thread Nuno J. Silva
Alan McKinnon writes: > On Saturday 10 July 2010 19:21:28 Nuno J. Silva wrote: >> >> What's the policy when you think that a change made due to a FIXED bug >> needs more changes? Should you just comment it, fill another bug or >> change the state (I can't do the later, anyway)? [...] > > Open a n

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: tool for reading /etc/conf.d/net?

2010-07-11 Thread Kyle Bader
> Most secured - App i C++ or C. Programs written in c++/c are not inherently secure, the programmer must make use of best practices using secure functions, etc. -- Kyle

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm & french keyboard

2010-07-11 Thread Stéphane Guedon
Le jeudi 08 juillet 2010 01:13:56, Neil Bothwick a écrit : > On Wed, 7 Jul 2010 19:19:14 +0200, Stéphane Guedon wrote: > > > Until your version of Xorg stops supporting HAL, when you will need an > > > xorg.conf. > > > > You can also pass through udev ! > > How? I know how to use udev for device

Re: [gentoo-user] mysql

2010-07-11 Thread Stéphane Guedon
Le dimanche 11 juillet 2010 20:07:11, roun...@hotmail.ru a écrit : > St??phane Guedon wrote: > >> Hello > >> > >> Could someone help me concerning mysql. > >> > >> My servers (both laptop hosted mysql and server hosted) are buggy. Every > >> time I restart them through the init script, it crash !

Re: [gentoo-user] mysql

2010-07-11 Thread roundyz
St??phane Guedon wrote: >> Hello >> >> Could someone help me concerning mysql. >> >> My servers (both laptop hosted mysql and server hosted) are buggy. Every >> time I restart them through the >> init script, it crash ! : >> >> 18:15:06 r...@einstein:~ # rc-service mysql restart >> pdns

[gentoo-user] Re: viewing .m4v files with totem

2010-07-11 Thread walt
On 07/08/2010 06:50 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > How should I view .m4v files with totem. > Is there a gst-plugin or a use flag for gst-plugins-meta? > > I have used the following, which "works", but the video quality is bad > ffmpeg -i file.m4v file.avi > totem file.avi Multimedia file types stil

[gentoo-user] mysql

2010-07-11 Thread Stéphane Guedon
Hello Could someone help me concerning mysql. My servers (both laptop hosted mysql and server hosted) are buggy. Every time I restart them through the init script, it crash ! : 18:15:06 r...@einstein:~ # rc-service mysql restart pdns | * Stopping PowerDNS (default) ... mediatomb

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: tool for reading /etc/conf.d/net?

2010-07-11 Thread Mateusz Arkadiusz Mierzwinski
Fastest way - dump into PHP, use some explodes and regexps. Most secured - App i C++ or C. Balanced Way - JAVA app :) W dniu 11 lipca 2010 11:46 użytkownik Mateusz Arkadiusz Mierzwinski < mateuszmierzwin...@gmail.com> napisał: > Wrote one in C,C++, Bash, Java or even PHP CLI ?? Try some... :) >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: tool for reading /etc/conf.d/net?

2010-07-11 Thread Mateusz Arkadiusz Mierzwinski
Wrote one in C,C++, Bash, Java or even PHP CLI ?? Try some... :) This file is Bash script. Every line comes with some portion of "variable = variable data". It's realy simple. In PHP you can write simple script using explode functions or regexp's. Good luck 2010/7/11 Amit Dor-Shifer > > > On 0

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: tool for reading /etc/conf.d/net?

2010-07-11 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
On 07/08/10 15:13, Remy Blank wrote: Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: Can anyone recommend a tool that can parse networking info from a/m file, so one can use it to query, e.g. what is the static IP configured on eth0? bash? No, I'm not joking. The file is a bash script, and hence can just b

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm & french keyboard

2010-07-11 Thread Ronan Mainbourg
If you use a recent version of xorg-server (>= 1.8) you can enable the "udev" use flag, and disable the flag "hal". Hal usage with xorg is clearly deprecated now, and its complete removal from xorg-server is scheduled soon, as it will be eventually replaced by the new abstraction layer from freede

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot upgrade kde-base/superkaramba

2010-07-11 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi, On 07/10/10 16:18, Arttu V. wrote: Wild guess: you might have a python version installed which is not compiled with the wide-unicode support. I'm not sure what all will be broken by such a situation, but following might help: hm, should not, i started to recompiled everything, but it does

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: tool for reading /etc/conf.d/net?

2010-07-11 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
On 07/09/10 20:37, James wrote: Amit Dor-Shifer oversi.com> writes: Can anyone recommend a tool that can parse networking info from a/m file, so one can use it to query, e.g. what is the static IP configured on eth0? Amit /sbin/ifconfig -a ??? if not, look at the iproute, net