Re: [gentoo-user] What is starting net.eth1 [not in rc-update]

2008-12-28 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 28. Dezember 2008 12:50:41 schrieb Ian Lee: > 2) Openrc problem > I'm asuming here the openrc problems are from a recent upgrade you have > done and not inslalled the the runlevels required sadly they are not > done automatically. Have a look in /usr/share/openrc/runlevels these are >

Re: [gentoo-user] What is starting net.eth1 [not in rc-update]

2008-12-28 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 28. Dezember 2008 12:38:37 schrieb Harry Putnam: > Still, on a shutdown I can't get past this output: >   >  hwclock waiting for localmount I mentioned it in your other thread. Try masking openrc >=0.4.0. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed me

Re: [gentoo-user] provided kernel

2008-12-28 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 27. Dezember 2008 20:41:25 schrieb Simon: > The main problem is i really lack diskspace (on my eeepc 4gb) and I can't > install that kernel (not even install and uninstall it). Besides, I would > really like if emerge/portage could leave my kernel alone, completely. Is the eeepc your

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel config hell

2008-12-28 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 27. Dezember 2008 16:48:19 schrieb Harry Putnam: > > Dirk Heinrichs writes: > > > > What could help you here is a "make xconfig". It's similar to "make > > menuconfig" but has a nice QT user interface. I would recommend to > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel config hell

2008-12-27 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 27. Dezember 2008 20:27:37 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > Harry Putnam wrote: > > Summary of request for help: > > > > Are there hardcore kernel builders in the house who can steer me to > > a faster way of figuring out what the installed modules do... for > > sure. > > Well, my bit

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel config hell

2008-12-27 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 27. Dezember 2008 15:11:34 schrieb Harry Putnam: > Summary of request for help: > > Are there hardcore kernel builders in the house who can steer me to > a faster way of figuring out what the installed modules do... for > sure. What could help you here is a "make xconfig". It's s

Re: [gentoo-user] Seeking advice about backup and partitioning; preparing to dual-boot Linux onto Vista drive

2008-12-22 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 23. Dezember 2008 07:39:17 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: > Dude, I'm getting a Dell! > > It's gonna come with Vista, and I have to use it that way for work. > But I want to > put a Linux partition on there. So I need to repartition. > > Having learned to be cautious, I'm wondering if there

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating hard drives

2008-12-21 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 21. Dezember 2008 13:58:24 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > and which data is not copied? ACLs and extended attributes. Still not! The same is true for GNU tar. If you use ACLs or extended attributes you have to either take care of them separately or use star or rsync. Bye...

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating hard drives

2008-12-21 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 21. Dezember 2008 10:42:12 schrieb Dake Wang: > Joerg is obviously adverting the program "star". Haha Sure. I'd do the same if had written it. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating hard drives

2008-12-21 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 21. Dezember 2008 09:29:56 schrieb Dale: > I thought gcp was the command That depends on the platform. If you install it from an OpenPKG.org RPM package for example, you'll get it as cp as well as gcp. And AFAIK the BSD's install all the GNU tools with a "g" prefix to distinguish th

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating hard drives

2008-12-21 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 21. Dezember 2008 00:23:56 schrieb Dale: > I jusr recently copied my system using cp -av and it does have a -a > option.  It's in my man page as well.  I have not even heard of gcp so I > don't think I have ever used it. Yes, you did. On Linux cp _is_ gcp (GNU cp). % LANG="" cp --ver

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating hard drives

2008-12-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 20. Dezember 2008 20:45:27 schrieb Joerg Schilling: > Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > Am Samstag, 20. Dezember 2008 18:44:53 schrieb Joerg Schilling: > > > "cp" neither has a "-a" nor a "-x" option. Are you talking abut "gcp"? >

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating hard drives

2008-12-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 20. Dezember 2008 18:44:53 schrieb Joerg Schilling: > "cp" neither has a "-a" nor a "-x" option. Are you talking abut "gcp"? Sure he is. This is a Linux mailing list. We don't care which options are missing in Solaris' version of cp ;-) Bye... Dirk signature.asc Descripti

Re: must not (was Re: [gentoo-user] Raid reports wrong size)

2008-12-19 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 19. Dezember 2008 21:53:47 schrieb Paul Hartman: > Yes, in English "must" can also mean that you infer or presume > something. Ah, yes. I remember :-) > So, instead of "your kernel must not be 64bits", maybe it > would have been clearer to say "I suspect you are not using a 64-bit > k

must not (was Re: [gentoo-user] Raid reports wrong size)

2008-12-19 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 19. Dezember 2008 19:24:12 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > On Freitag 19 Dezember 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > Am Freitag, 19. Dezember 2008 14:03:04 schrieb Shaochun Wang: > > > Your kernel must not be 64bits, I think. > > > > Why not is he not

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid reports wrong size

2008-12-19 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 19. Dezember 2008 14:03:04 schrieb Shaochun Wang: > Your kernel must not be 64bits, I think. Why not is he not allowed to run a 64bit kernel? Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid reports wrong size

2008-12-18 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 18. Dezember 2008 18:15:11 schrieb Matthias Fechner: > The raid should have a nice of 3TB and not 747GB. > Has anyone an idea what is wrong here? Kernel w/o CONFIG_LBD? Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-12 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
On Saturday 13 December 2008 00:54:27 Harry Putnam wrote: > Thanks for your patience Dirk. You're welcome. Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-12 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
On Thursday 11 December 2008 23:59:46 Harry Putnam wrote: > > Could please post the kernels .config (or /proc/config) and lspci > > output from the original, working setup? > > Yes, sorry I made you work so hard for the info... you did ask for > more info but I got working on this thread and forgot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-12 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
On Friday 12 December 2008 08:46:00 Heinrichs, Dirk (EXT-Capgemini - DE/Dusseldorf) wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 11.12.2008, 16:59 -0600 schrieb ext Harry Putnam: > > These URLS seem to be loading kind of slow right now: > > Hmm, unfortunately they don't load at all because of DNS failure. The > ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-11 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
On Thursday 11 December 2008 20:13:11 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > On Thursday 11 December 2008 00:07:44 Harry Putnam wrote: > > I've started a new thread on my kernel troubles. I thought the thread > > subject should be more indicative of the semi OT nature of the query. > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-11 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
On Thursday 11 December 2008 00:07:44 Harry Putnam wrote: > I've started a new thread on my kernel troubles. I thought the thread > subject should be more indicative of the semi OT nature of the query. > > Here is the general setup and the general problem: > > vmware appliance made from gentoo-200

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kenel line in grub.conf when using initrd

2008-12-11 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
On Thursday 11 December 2008 19:04:21 Harry Putnam wrote: > > Sure, we can give it a try. > > Please see the thread noted at the start of this message. > If you are willing to continue. Yep, will switch to that thread. Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] kenel line in grub.conf when using initrd

2008-12-10 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 10. Dezember 2008 19:53:10 schrieb Harry Putnam: > I happen to be stuck with a machine using an initramfs. Every of attempt > of mine to build a new kernel not using an initram (Or even with initram) > has failed with the boot routine failing to recognize my /dev/sdb3 as root. What i

Re: [gentoo-user] checksumming files

2008-12-06 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 5. Dezember 2008 19:48:18 schrieb Mick: > On Thursday 04 December 2008, Heinrichs, Dirk (EXT-Capgemini - > DE/Dusseldorf) > > wrote: > > Did you make sure the chunks are transfered in binary mode? > > Aha!! Since the split chunks were part of a video file I assumed that it > would be bi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pager independant of window manager

2008-11-29 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 29. November 2008 18:32:34 schrieb Rodrigo Lazo: > I think he mean a pager like this: > > http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/fbpager/ Aargh, stupid me. Yes, there's two meanings of "pager". Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] pager independant of window manager

2008-11-28 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 29. November 2008 07:30:03 schrieb Harry Putnam: > Can anyone tell me if there is a desktop pager that can be run > regardless of window manager? > > Browsing through portage, It appears there is not such a critter. xterm -e less otherwise: eix pager HTH... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] best practice for kernel mainteneance

2008-11-28 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag 28 November 2008 13:48:15 schrieb ext Thanasis: > Am I supposed/ should I upgrade when a new source tree becomes stable? I'd say no, but that's a question that you can only answer yourself, it depend solely on your needs. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs

Re: [gentoo-user] best practice for kernel mainteneance

2008-11-28 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
needed), easy to switch from one version to another one, fast. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanheimerstraße 68 | Web: http://www.capgemin

Re: [gentoo-user] best practice for kernel mainteneance

2008-11-28 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
date all out-of-tree modules via portage/paludis beforehand. HTH... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanheimerstraße 68 | Web: http://www.capgemini.

Re: [gentoo-user] cruft in /etc. How to clean in out.

2008-11-26 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
do this anymore. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanheimerstraße 68 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40468 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync command

2008-11-26 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
ude. HTH... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanheimerstraße 68 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40468 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key

Re: [gentoo-user] Modules Not Autoloading

2008-11-26 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag 27 November 2008 08:11:42 schrieb ext Drew Tomlinson: > # cat /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 That's /etc/conf.d/modules in baselayout 2. Check which baselayout you're using. HTH... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configur

Re: [gentoo-user] cruft in /etc. How to clean in out.

2008-11-26 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
tp://www.rst38.org.uk/vdr/decruft/ Description: Video Disk Recorder DeCruft Plugin - Clean unwanted entries from channels.conf Sync'd this morning. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068

Re: [gentoo-user] cruft in /etc. How to clean in out.

2008-11-26 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
(?) Catmur once posted a script or something there. HTH... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanheimerstraße 68 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40468 Düsseldorf

Re: [gentoo-user] Update the clock using internet servers: recommendations

2008-11-25 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 25. November 2008 16:38:00 schrieb damian: > > I agree. I been using ntp here and it works fine. If you need help > > configuring it, let me know. Off list if needed, just put Gentoo in the > > subject line. > > Ok, thanks Dale. But I can you tell me if there is any difference > amo

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 24. November 2008 22:09:52 schrieb Dale: > I wouldn't use XFS unless > it was all that was left.  I tried it once a while back and found out it > does not like power failures at all.  Each time I had a power failure, I > had to reinstall from scratch. Hmm, I use it because of its resis

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 24. November 2008 14:50:30 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > he is not - but after the invention is implemented, the inventor is not > needed anymore ;) Yes, that's right. Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 24. November 2008 12:07:55 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs: > If you have further questions, feel free to ask. One smalll thing to add: If you decide to use it, there's a Howto under http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/OpenAFS. Do NOT use the one from gentoo.org, it's old, outdat

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 24. November 2008 15:12:00 schrieb GMail: > How does it cope with network outages though? In my experience, LVM is not > exactly graceful when one of it's PVs goes away Don't know. I just know it's possible but never did it myself. Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 24. November 2008 13:49:38 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > On Montag 24 November 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > Am Montag, 24. November 2008 12:07:34 schrieb Dale: > > > Maybe it will survive.  I'm waiting on reiserfs4 to go stable.  ;-) > > > > Well,

Re: [gentoo-user] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 24. November 2008 13:44:06 schrieb William Kenworthy: > I set up an openmosix cluster once using dfs I think. It replicated > data just like you want so each exported thread was seeing consistent > file space. It did work, but had a few issues ... I think it was > designed by MS being

Re: [gentoo-user] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 24. November 2008 13:35:25 schrieb Stroller: > I suspect I would be optimistic if I hoped for something so   > sophisticated to be readily available, as I am aware that this would   > be problematic to implement. But do you have any suggestions? Maybe Coda. Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 24. November 2008 12:07:34 schrieb Dale: > Maybe it will survive.  I'm waiting on reiserfs4 to go stable.  ;-) Well, with its inventor being imprisoned for the next 15 years or so, you'll have to be patient. I for one wait for btrfs. Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 24. November 2008 13:03:13 schrieb William Kenworthy: > Discovered this: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_systems#Distributed_file_systems > > Thats going to keep me busy for awhile! Interesting link. However, NFS, SMB, AFP and NCP are NOT distributed filesystems. They're

Re: [gentoo-user] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 24. November 2008 11:30:25 schrieb William Kenworthy: > By transient storage I mean that the data is duplicated across across > physical storage spaces so that if a machine goes down, the data is > still available. OK, thanks. > I thought Andrews FS did that, but didnt see when > look

Re: [gentoo-user] filesystems

2008-11-23 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 23. November 2008 23:31:30 schrieb William Kenworthy: > What I would really like is a file system that would unify these spaces > and present them to the network as storage space - ideally with > redundant data storage so one or more machines can dissappear and the > data is still avai

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-23 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 24. November 2008 02:06:04 schrieb Dale: > I think it is LVMS or something.  Linux volume management system??  I > think Redhat calls it EVMS or something. Two things, (more ore less) one purpose: 1) LVM: Logical Volume Management 2) EVMS: Enterprise Volume Management System 1) is us

Re: [gentoo-user] unmask what ?

2008-11-23 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 23. November 2008 14:09:50 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Oh, I see...and what can I use instead? 0.10 Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE build problem

2008-11-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
mer thread can give you more info. HTH... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanheimerstraße 68 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40468 Düsseldorf |

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge failing

2008-11-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag 21 November 2008 01:26:28 schrieb ext Paul Hartman: > This only applies to OOo 2.x ebuilds... there is no Go-oo of 3.x and I > don't think Gentoo uses it from what I could tell. You should read the ebuild, then. It has all the facts. Bye... Dirk -- Dir

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge failing

2008-11-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
9931: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `push' {standard input}:9931: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `%' dmake: Error code 1, while making '../../../unxlngi6.pro/slo/LegendWrapper.obj' Running processes: 1 Bye... Dirk BTW: grep -i e

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge failing

2008-11-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
led the package from sources). Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanheimerstraße 68 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40468 Düsseldorf | ICQ#

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge failing

2008-11-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag 20 November 2008 13:49:51 schrieb ext deface: > Just an IMO, compiling OO is idiotic, use the -bin Here's another one: using a binary package that most likely doesn't fit into your otherwise self-compiled system is even more idiotic. Bye... Dirk -- D

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tools currently available for update of etc files after updates

2008-11-19 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
at I meant. As long as no manual intervention is needed (which is the case most of the time), cfg-update is the fastest you can get. This comes from its use of the backups for comparison, which enables it to resolve more cases automatically (3-way diff/merge). Bye... Dirk -- Dirk He

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Back up a server in real-time

2008-11-19 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
r home directory) and then restore exactly the version you want. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanheimerstraße 68 | Web: http://www.capge

Re: [gentoo-user] xattr

2008-11-18 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
ionality of packages. You may have a package installed, which has attr as a mandatory dependency. You can find out which one by using the -t emerge option. HTH... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini

Re: [gentoo-user] overlay conflicts

2008-11-18 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
? Not sure if this is (already) possible with latest portage, but with paludis I can specify from which overlay I want to install, i.e. =foo/bar-1.2.3::A. HTH... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini

Re: [gentoo-user] xattr

2008-11-18 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag 18 November 2008 10:34:11 schrieb ext Hinko Kocevar: > include/builddefs:58: *** missing separator.  Stop. See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214655 HTH... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Getting rid of all kde components

2008-11-18 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag 18 November 2008 09:06:20 schrieb ext Harry Putnam: > You seem hell bent on picking a fight with me. But I'm not biting. Wow, calm down. I was just curious. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)2

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting rid of all kde components

2008-11-17 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
t installation (or compile) time in the cfg- update thread. Why did you choose Gentoo, if you don't like compiling stuff? BTW: I run KDE updates in the night. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Ca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tools currently available for update of etc files after updates

2008-11-16 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag 16 November 2008 21:18:44 schrieb ext Harry Putnam: > Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Or maybe just by experience in using the tool it would get handier > >> and faster > > > > Just doing the automatic stuff, where no user inte

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tools currently available for update of etc files after updates

2008-11-16 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 16. November 2008 19:04:02 schrieb Harry Putnam: > Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Am Sonntag, 16. November 2008 00:05:56 schrieb Harry Putnam: > >> I did try `cfg-update' but I thought it was really slow. > > > > Slow? For me it

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] /etc/shadow perms group shadow?

2008-11-16 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 16. November 2008 18:24:17 schrieb Michael Higgins: > On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 02:01:54 +0100 > > Michele Schiavo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > /etc/sudoers ?? > > I think I'm trying to avoid running under sudo. Yes, that works, but must > have other security implications? Which ones? You

Re: [gentoo-user] excess x11 drivers

2008-11-16 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 16. November 2008 16:12:58 schrieb Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto: > On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I posted some output in anther thread conce

Re: [gentoo-user] excess x11 drivers

2008-11-16 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 16. November 2008 01:24:10 schrieb Harry Putnam: > dep -l x11-drivers/xf86-video-voodoo: >    ! x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 Actaully, the output is: # dep -l x11-drivers/xf86-video-voodoo x11-drivers/xf86-video-voodoo-1.1.1: !<=x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 And this means: You

Re: [gentoo-user] excess x11 drivers

2008-11-16 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 16. November 2008 01:24:10 schrieb Harry Putnam: > But a little peek with eix -Ic |grep x11-drivers  I still see a hefty > mess of them: They wont go away just because you've set VIDEO_CARDS. You have to uninstall them either manually or by running emerge --depclean (-p). HTH...

Re: [gentoo-user] Back up a server in real-time

2008-11-16 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 15. November 2008 20:45:04 schrieb Mick: > Without gentoo-wiki my knowledge level is rather poor (just like my > memory!) > > What would you use to back up a running server without taking it off line? I guess I would use rsnapshot to backup to another disk/machine if I had only a sma

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tools currently available for update of etc files after updates

2008-11-16 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 16. November 2008 00:05:56 schrieb Harry Putnam: > I did try `cfg-update' but I thought it was really slow. Slow? For me it's blazingly fast. Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] tools currently available for update of etc files after updates

2008-11-15 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 15. November 2008 14:13:11 schrieb Allan Gottlieb: > How hard was it to hook in emacs-ediff?  It wasn't mentioned in the > cfg-update docs I read. Ooops, seems it slipped in accidentally. Sorry for that. The list of supported tools can be found in /etc/cfg-update.conf. Bye...

Re: [gentoo-user] tools currently available for update of etc files after updates

2008-11-15 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 14. November 2008 17:14:03 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > On Freitag 14 November 2008, Harry Putnam wrote: > > I remember discussion of one or more fairly new tools designed to ease > > the update of etc files following updates. > > > > Can anyone say what tools are currently available

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-12 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 12. November 2008 20:20:40 schrieb Harry Putnam: > > As I said, I use paludis. I was only told that emerge also has this > > option, just last week (or was it the week before?) on this list. > > Sorry, didn't mean to jam you about it... Oh, I didn't understand it as such, just wanted

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-12 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 12. November 2008 21:36:24 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > On Mittwoch 12 November 2008, Harry Putnam wrote: > > > What if I ran the --depclean before updating world. Would that help > > me get rid of some junk before updating it with `world'? > > no, it would completly fuck up your s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-12 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 12. November 2008 20:11:33 schrieb Harry Putnam: > a quick grep of man emerge and man portage on `ignore' and on `block' > didn't turn up such an option. As I said, I use paludis. I was only told that emerge also has this option, just last week (or was it the week before?) on this l

Re: [gentoo-user] How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-12 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 12. November 2008 19:49:47 schrieb Andrey Falko: > It sure looks like a mess :). However nothing that can't be cleaned up I > think. No reason for a full-quote, though. > You need to manually downgrade to qt-4.3.5 because strigi depends on a 4.3 > version of it. No, you don't, beca

Re: [gentoo-user] How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-12 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 12. November 2008 18:58:10 schrieb Harry Putnam: > I've allowed my desktop OS to become somewhat outdated.  And I haven't > followed all the recent changes to gentoo, so of course I am a little > baffled by what appears to a real mess of overlapping dependencies or > something causing

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing lyx-1.6.0

2008-11-12 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 12. November 2008 15:11:08 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > What's your experience ? Works fine for me. Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] jpg support

2008-11-08 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 8. November 2008 05:48:24 schrieb Michael P. Soulier: > I built gqview and feh without the jpg USE flag in make.conf, and now > they refuse to display jpg images. I've added jpg to make.conf, and > ran > > emerge -vu --newuse world > > but gqview and feh aren't on the list of what's be

Re: [gentoo-user] lzma archives

2008-11-07 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 7. November 2008 11:46:30 schrieb Joerg Schilling: > SUSv2, the precursor of SUSv3 (also known as POSIX.1-2001). OK, thanks. Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] Experiences using Paludis?

2008-11-07 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
inally, does anybody have experience in installing from scratch a > Gentoo system without portage but with paludis? I would like to know > because I'm about to do that. Works fine. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax

Re: [gentoo-user] lzma archives

2008-11-07 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag 07 November 2008 11:15:09 schrieb Joerg Schilling: > GNU tar is not 100% with parsing command lines in a standard compliant way, > but omitting the '-' is correct. Which standard? > It you add "--lzma" you use a 100% on-portable command line. So what?

Re: [gentoo-user] lzma archives

2008-11-07 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
ne is using. For the most of us, this is GNU tar. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanheimerstraße 68 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-4046

Re: [gentoo-user] fix for e2fsprogs BLOCK?

2008-11-05 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
t's known that wget will fail after unmerging com_err, so the new packages need to be fetched first. That's all. No need to make the thing more complicated than it is. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211

Re: [gentoo-user] fix for e2fsprogs BLOCK?

2008-11-05 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch 05 November 2008 23:26:57 schrieb ext KH: > quickpkg ss com_err That doesn't make sense at all. They're the ones you need to get rid of. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068

Re: [gentoo-user] fix for e2fsprogs BLOCK?

2008-11-05 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 5. November 2008 19:08:23 schrieb Denis: > This probably was already discussed at length... But I keep waiting > for an automatic portage tree fix to this... Any idea if there will > be a fix, or will I need to take care of this manually? (Intel Core > Duo 32-bit system, FYI). emer

Re: [gentoo-user] FLAC to mp3 converters?

2008-11-05 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 5. November 2008 18:59:42 schrieb Eric Martin: > IIRC, there is a fuse filesystem in portage that does exactly that. I > don't have any experience with it but it warrants a look. Wow, indeed! sys-fs/mp3fs. Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] systemrescuecd: using x86 for amd64

2008-11-04 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 4. November 2008 22:13:09 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > On Dienstag 04 November 2008, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > > I have several machines with core2-duo chips. Some run x86, others > > amd64. All are gentoo. > > > > The http://sourceforge.net/projects/systemrescuecd has a version for

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade problem

2008-11-04 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 4. November 2008 20:51:10 schrieb David Relson: > Due to problems experienced with 2.6.25-gentoo-r7, I've built > 2.6.27-gentoo-r2. I started with the 2.6.25-r7 .config file, ran > "make oldconfig", then "genkernel all". Don't know if that helps, but anyway, here's what I usually do

Re: [gentoo-user] FLAC to mp3 converters?

2008-11-04 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 4. November 2008 19:04:04 schrieb Mark Knecht: >I'm wondering if anyone has a good way to convert a large hierarcy > of directories populated with FLAC files to a new set of directories > using mp3 instead? The FLAC directory contains something like 2 > files so I need the con

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.27 kernel can't find its map file?

2008-11-04 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 4. November 2008 16:57:43 schrieb John covici: > I tried to switch to kernel 2.6.27-gentoo-r2 last night and aside > from several annoying problems, the one I would like to enquire about > is that it complained that it could not find its map file(!)  Here are > the messages I received

Re: [gentoo-user] Update svn ebuilds only when necessary

2008-11-03 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag 03 November 2008 13:52:48 schrieb ext Dirk Heinrichs: > paludis --dl-reinstall-scm weekly Oops, should be: paludis --dl-reinstall-scm weekly -i everything Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068

Re: [gentoo-user] Update svn ebuilds only when necessary

2008-11-03 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
e that sources have changed :-) You can use ccache to save compilations. > Does portage (or any other tool) provide a way to do it? See above. HTH... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgem

Re: [gentoo-user] Error booting new kernel

2008-11-03 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
niversal" (SCSI > based) subsystem. Not replaced, the old one is still there and one has to select the new SCSI based drivers explicitely. > A side effect of this is device name changes, > notably /dev/hdX to /dev/sdX. That's true, indeed. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinric

Re: [gentoo-user] Error booting new kernel

2008-11-02 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
, disc) needed for booting are compiled into the kernel? Please post your .config + lspci output. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanheimerstraße 68

Re: [gentoo-user] Error booting new kernel

2008-11-02 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
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Re: [gentoo-user] Problems installing KDE 3.5.9

2008-11-02 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 2. November 2008 11:26:29 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Some packages from KDE won't install: > kde-base/kdenetwork-3.5.9 > kde-base/kdeartwork-3.5.9 > kde-base/kdeutils-3.5.9-r1 > kde-base/kdeadmin > kde-base/kdegraphics > kde-base/kdeaddons > > The error message is always the same: >

Re: [gentoo-user] unmerge boo_boo

2008-10-30 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
lly and put it into your distfiles directory. Afterwards, wget should work again. HTH... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanheimerstraße 68 | Web: htt

Re: [gentoo-user] what can I do besides waiting or complaining about missing kompozer?

2008-10-26 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 26. Oktober 2008 11:27:49 schrieb Erik Hahn: > The only thing paludis was necessary for was the kde 4 overlay. Hmm, I thought this has already been identified as fairy tale some weeks ago. > However, it's worth a try even if you don't necessarily need it. Paludis > can use portage's

Re: [gentoo-user] what can I do besides waiting or complaining about missing kompozer?

2008-10-26 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 25. Oktober 2008 22:41:09 schrieb Norberto Bensa: > How much trouble do you think I'll face migrating to paludis? Zero. Just follow the migration guide. Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is postgresql so old?

2008-10-25 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 25. Oktober 2008 18:28:02 schrieb Konstantinos Agouros: > I know I can activate newer version with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS, but why is > postgres at gentoo still at version 8.0 when the most current release is > 8.3. Are there stability issues? Maybe because of the switch to splitted, slotted

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