[gentoo-user] Problem using gnomeas non-root user

2007-03-13 Thread John covici
=xargs -r _=/usr/bin/emerge Any assistance would be appreciated. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[gentoo-user] Re: DST didn't happen: quickinstall doc is wrong...

2007-03-12 Thread John covici
its easy to miss such things. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] package seems to block itself

2007-03-10 Thread John covici
. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] package seems to block itself

2007-03-10 Thread John covici
- From: John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 10:25:45 -0500 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] package seems to block itself Hi. I seem to have a strange situation where a package block itself or that is the way it seems. If I try to do emerge

[gentoo-user] fooling portage a bit

2007-03-09 Thread John covici
fool portage into thinking I have mozilla-2.0 or whatever when I don't have such a beast? Thanks for all your help. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] fooling portage a bit

2007-03-09 Thread John covici
on Saturday 03/10/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Saturday 10 March 2007 03:06:37 John covici wrote: OK, I have a couple of problems with what is considered a dependency -- I don't want gnopernicus, but its a dependency of gnome-base -- any way to fool portage that I

Re: [gentoo-user] fooling portage a bit

2007-03-09 Thread John covici
on Saturday 03/10/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Saturday 10 March 2007 03:59:46 John covici wrote: OK, I have a couple of problems with what is considered a dependency -- I don't want gnopernicus, but its a dependency of gnome-base -- any way to fool portage

[gentoo-user] why does emerge libstdc++ want to install gcc-3.3.6-r1?

2007-03-03 Thread John Blinka
Hi, all, I have 5 up-to-date gentoo machines, all of them running gcc-4.1.1-r3. On 4 of them, emerging libstdc++ proceeds as one might expect, just installing the current version of libstdc++ for gcc-4.1.1. But the 5th machine does something quite different. Why? On the 5th machine emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] why does emerge libstdc++ want to install gcc-3.3.6-r1?

2007-03-03 Thread John Blinka
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: [SNIP] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161953 Thanks for the pointer. That helped me solve the problem. Not elegantly, but adequately. John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] daylight savings time [Slightly OT]

2007-03-02 Thread John J. Foster
Anyone else having trouble with the format (^M's) in Ennis' email? On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 09:29:16AM -0500, McCaffrey, Ennis wrote: -Original Message- From: Hans-Werner Hilse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 7:35 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] how to disable an automatic feature in vim? - SOLVED

2007-02-24 Thread John Blinka
, if no-one else has more precise info. Thanks - sometimes the right Google phrase is all it takes. From your hint I found http://www.bioinspired.com/users/ajg112/computing/vim.shtml which explains exactly how to do what I want. John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] how to disable an automatic feature in vim?

2007-02-23 Thread John Blinka
? I've got the latest stable versions of vim, vim-core, and gentoo-syntax installed on my systems. Thanks for your help. John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] why does not startx or xinit start gnome?

2007-02-21 Thread John covici
. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] why does not startx or xinit start gnome?

2007-02-21 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 02/21/2007 Etaoin Shrdlu([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Wednesday 21 February 2007 09:02, John covici wrote: Hi. I was having major problems getting gnome to work at all when I discovered that it onlyy works if I login using gdm -- is there something about the gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] why does not startx or xinit start gnome?

2007-02-21 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 02/21/2007 Alan McKinnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Wednesday 21 February 2007, John covici wrote: Hi. I was having major problems getting gnome to work at all when I discovered that it onlyy works if I login using gdm -- is there something about the gentoo distribution

[gentoo-user] accessibility problems using gnome and orca

2007-02-19 Thread John covici
Hi. I am having accessibility problems using orca, gnome-speech0.4.9 (or .6) and so far festival. Is this the right place to ask, or is there a better list for this? Thanks. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici

Re: [gentoo-user] accessibility problems using gnome and orca

2007-02-19 Thread John covici
on Monday 02/19/2007 b.n.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote John covici ha scritto: Hi. I am having accessibility problems using orca, gnome-speech0.4.9 (or .6) and so far festival. Is this the right place to ask, or is there a better list for this? If you are using Gentoo

[gentoo-user] while emerging gnome packages graphviz compile failed

2007-02-18 Thread John covici
log is located at !!! '/var/log/portage/media-gfx:graphviz-2.8-r2:20070218-134011.log'. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] while emerging gnome packages graphviz compile failed

2007-02-18 Thread John covici
on Sunday 02/18/2007 Etaoin Shrdlu([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Sunday 18 February 2007 17:29, John covici wrote: Hi. I have been trying to build some X packages and got the following output while trying to merge graphviz. The complete log is available if necessary. Any

Re: [gentoo-user] What about kernel 2.6.19 ?

2007-02-17 Thread John covici
it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild keeps building gcc

2007-02-15 Thread John Blinka
this problem: Use your favorite text editor to correct the dependency_libs line in each of these files. Each line starts with something like dependency_libs=' /usr/lib/gcc/some library ... but should start with dependency_libs=' /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/some library John -- gentoo-user

[gentoo-user] merging gnome gets circular dependencies

2007-02-14 Thread John covici
I tried to merge gnome by saying emerge gnome today and got an error about circular dependencies from portage. I did a --sync, but no joy. anyone know what is happening? Thanks. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John

Re: [gentoo-user] merging gnome gets circular dependencies

2007-02-14 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 02/14/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Wednesday 14 February 2007 18:44:44 John covici wrote: I tried to merge gnome by saying emerge gnome today and got an error about circular dependencies from portage. I did a --sync, but no joy. anyone know what

Re: [gentoo-user] merging gnome gets circular dependencies

2007-02-14 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 02/14/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Wednesday 14 February 2007 22:16:31 John covici wrote: In the future do include the actual output of emerge gnome. It is, however, very likely to be related to bug #166564. https://bugs.gentoo.org/166564

Re: [gentoo-user] merging gnome gets circular dependencies

2007-02-14 Thread John covici
on Thursday 02/15/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Wednesday 14 February 2007 23:53:10 John covici wrote: In such a case you should just attach it as a compressed file. But applying the patch does seem like a good idea. It should be released later this week

Re: [gentoo-user] subversion client too old (?)

2007-02-11 Thread John covici
on Sunday 02/11/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Saturday 10 February 2007 15:28:14 John covici wrote: Hi.  I am having a strange subversion problem.   I think it stems from the fact that I boot into two different systems, one has subversion 1.4.0and the gentoo system

[gentoo-user] subversion client too old (?)

2007-02-10 Thread John covici
is there any way to update the gentoo version -- I did a --sync and searched for subversion but no joy -- just the 1.3.2 one. Any assistance would be appreciated. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: djbdns, ssh, and host based authentication

2007-02-09 Thread John Blinka
as dnscache), which will then know how to find your hosts by IP address. That solved the problem. Thanks! I also found http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/djbdns/index.htm to contain a clear description of how to debug djbdns. John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] djbdns, ssh, and host based authentication

2007-02-08 Thread John Blinka
to figure out what to do next. Any ideas? Thanks, John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Mails getting lost?

2007-02-06 Thread John J. Foster
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 12:26:46PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Are my mails to the list getting to anyone else? I'm not seeing them myself, and I wanted to make sure they weren't disappearing into the ether. I checked that I could email myself directly, so I don't think it's a

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypt USB flash drive

2007-02-05 Thread John J. Foster
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 04:09:45PM -0500, Thomas Lingefelt wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi. I'm looking for a portable (Linux, *BSD, Mac, Win) way to carry around encrypted files on a USB drive. I would like for the encryption/decryption to be transparent to me,

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild and gcj

2007-01-24 Thread John Blinka
-linux-gnu/4.1.1, not in /usr/lib. Is this a bug, or is there something I can do to fix my system? (Other than put in soft links to the needed libraries.) John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild and gcj

2007-01-24 Thread John Blinka
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: It's an ancient bug that still isn't fixed. You can either edit the .la files or create symlinks. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125728 So, how does one edit a .la file? John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild and gcj

2007-01-24 Thread John Blinka
, they contained mysterious binary information which couldn't be manipulated with an ordinary text editor. Now that I've looked, I'm embarrassed! Well, thanks for teaching me something. John -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] setting system's domain name

2007-01-21 Thread John covici
to the fully qualified name using the hostname command, but gentoo still says unknown domain name when I log in, so I am not sure this is correct. Any assistance would be appreciated. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John

[gentoo-user] single command line argument not working on boot

2007-01-21 Thread John covici
is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: single command line argument not working on boot

2007-01-21 Thread John covici
on Sunday 01/21/2007 »Q«([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote In news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was under the impression that I could boot into a shell before the runlevel default started by adding single to my boot command line. Use softlevel=single

[gentoo-user] package.mask

2007-01-19 Thread John covici
, we would match versions '1.0.2a', '1.0.2a-r1', '1.0.2a-r2', etc... Hope this helps. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] ckermit version

2007-01-17 Thread John covici
is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ckermit version

2007-01-17 Thread John covici
OK, that worked except I had to do a digest command and gentoo actually had no 211 at all -- it had to get it from columbia. I will file a bug later. on Thursday 01/18/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Thursday 18 January 2007 00:05, John covici wrote: Hi. When trying

[gentoo-user] problems emerging dev-perl/html-tree

2007-01-16 Thread John covici
: Not Found. !!! Couldn't download 'HTML-Tree-3.1901.tar.gz'. Aborting. Any assistance on how to fix this would be appreciated. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] problems emerging dev-perl/html-tree

2007-01-16 Thread John covici
OK, that did it -- I put it in my gentoo mirrors as well. on Wednesday 01/17/2007 Kent Fredric([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On 1/17/07, John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I am having difficulty emerging this package which is needed for spamassassin and others. Here is what I get

[gentoo-user] problems emerging lftp

2007-01-16 Thread John covici
'. Any assistance would be appreciated. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] problems emerging lftp

2007-01-16 Thread John covici
I just resynced this morning, so I didn't figure on that. on Tuesday 01/16/2007 Randy Barlow([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 09:42 -0500, John covici wrote: No such file `lftp-3.4.6.tar.gz'. Any assistance would be appreciated. Have you tried re-syncing and trying

Re: [gentoo-user] problems emerging lftp

2007-01-16 Thread John covici
Except that this time its not in distfiles.gentoo.org -- it tried that first. on Wednesday 01/17/2007 Kent Fredric([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On 1/17/07, John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I try to emerge lftp I get Connecting to lftp.yar.ru|193.233.48.66|:21... connected. Logging

Re: [gentoo-user] problems emerging lftp

2007-01-16 Thread John covici
that. On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:42:20 +0100, John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I try to emerge lftp I get Connecting to lftp.yar.ru|193.233.48.66|:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! == SYST ... done.== PWD ... done. == TYPE I ... done. == CWD

Re: [gentoo-user] problems emerging lftp

2007-01-16 Thread John covici
on Tuesday 01/16/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Tuesday 16 January 2007 16:24, John covici wrote: Except that this time its not in distfiles.gentoo.org -- it tried that first. Except is is. You must have typoed. What did you set your GENTOO_MIRRORS to anyway

Re: [gentoo-user] problems emerging lftp

2007-01-16 Thread John covici
on Tuesday 01/16/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Tuesday 16 January 2007 17:32, John covici wrote: It is GENTOO_MIRRORS=http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles ftp://mirror.iawnet.sandia.gov/pub/gentoo; but neither place has it. The second listed mirror doesn't

[gentoo-user] unable to merge courier-authlib-0.58

2007-01-13 Thread John covici
spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Is there a gcc-4.1.1 alternative?

2007-01-13 Thread John Blinka
-attrb and has accumulated a couple of hours of cpu time in the process. It'll probably be done by Monday or Tuesday. Just start the emerge then go away and ignore it. It'll finish eventually. John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?

2007-01-11 Thread John Covici
Hi. I just did emerge --pretend --update --deep world, but there is a package which I don't want to have emerge update automatically -- how do I accomplish this? Thanks. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici

Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?

2007-01-11 Thread John covici
OK, thanks I will try that and see what it does. on Thursday 01/11/2007 Hans-Werner Hilse([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote Hi, On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:50:31 -0500 John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I just did emerge --pretend --update --deep world, but there is a package which I

Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?

2007-01-11 Thread John covici
-xmlwriter -xpm -xsl -yaz -zip on Thursday 01/11/2007 Hans-Werner Hilse([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote Hi, On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:50:31 -0500 John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I just did emerge --pretend --update --deep world, but there is a package which I don't want to have

Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?

2007-01-11 Thread John covici
If I have two versions on the systems, how would apache and the cli pick what version they are going to use? on Thursday 01/11/2007 Hans-Werner Hilse([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote Hi, On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:38:38 -0500 John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I did put my php version

Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?

2007-01-11 Thread John covici
-4.4.4-r # emerge -p php [SNIP] [ebuild N] dev-lang/php-4.4.4-r6 USE=... That goes for both stable and ~arch portage. -- Bo Andresen -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] unable to compile php-4.4.4R8

2007-01-10 Thread John covici
. -name .libs -a -type d|xargs rm -rf rm -f libphp4.la sapi/cli/php modules/* libs/* * Disabling discard-path snip Any assistance would be appreciated. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to compile php-4.4.4R8

2007-01-10 Thread John covici
PROTECTED]) wrote On 1/10/07, John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: checking for Sablotron version... configure: error: Sablotron version 0.96 or greater required. Looks like this is really a problem with java on your system [1]. What does java-config -L report? Do you need php

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to compile php-4.4.4R8

2007-01-10 Thread John covici
OK, that did it -- thanks a lot it was really driving me bananas. on Wednesday 01/10/2007 Richard Fish([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On 1/10/07, John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: checking for Sablotron version... configure: error: Sablotron version 0.96 or greater required. Looks like

[gentoo-user] How do I get php4

2007-01-09 Thread John covici
. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] How do I get php4

2007-01-09 Thread John covici
PROTECTED]) wrote -Original Message- From: Gian Domeni Calgeer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 09 January 2007 12:46 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get php4 Am Dienstag, 9. Januar 2007 13:36 schrieb John covici: Hi. I have some

RE: [gentoo-user] How do I get php4

2007-01-09 Thread John covici
PROTECTED]) wrote -Original Message- From: Gian Domeni Calgeer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 09 January 2007 12:46 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get php4 Am Dienstag, 9. Januar 2007 13:36 schrieb John covici: Hi. I have some

RE: [gentoo-user] How do I get php4

2007-01-09 Thread John covici
It says masked by keywords -- that is why I did what I did. on Tuesday 01/09/2007 Michael Sullivan([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 08:49 -0500, John covici wrote: I am having trouble unmasking a php4 ebuild. I have in my /etc/portage/package.keywords the following line

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get php4

2007-01-09 Thread John covici
OK, that did it -- now I have to find out why it wants a bunch of X libraries, but that is another question for another day. thanks much guys for all your help. on Tuesday 01/09/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Tuesday 09 January 2007 14:49, John covici wrote: I am

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get php4

2007-01-09 Thread John J. Foster
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 09:38:34AM -0500, John covici wrote: OK, that did it -- now I have to find out why it wants a bunch of X libraries, but that is another question for another day. thanks much guys for all your help. Thanks so much for listening to others concerning group etiquette

[gentoo-user] couple of newbie questions about emerge

2007-01-07 Thread John covici
, but that package is not listed in world -- should it be? Or is it a system package? OK, that's it for now -- thanks much in advance for your help. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] couple of newbie questions about emerge

2007-01-07 Thread John covici
OK, thanks guys this get me going -- I think I will emerge the toolkit and see what that gives me. on Sunday 01/07/2007 Daniel Iliev([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote John covici wrote: Hi. I am new to gentoo -- I have used Debian and rpm type distributions, but I have a fewquestions about emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc

2007-01-05 Thread John Blinka
compiler should be on the Opteron box, since distcc is asking the Opteron box to produce 32 bit code for the P4 box. John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc

2007-01-05 Thread John Blinka
sean wrote: John Blinka wrote: I think this is backwards. The cross compiler should be on the Opteron box, since distcc is asking the Opteron box to produce 32 bit code for the P4 box. Check this out. Look at the line highlighted in green. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cross-compiling

Re: FW: [gentoo-user] Protecting a package in package.keywords?

2006-12-15 Thread John J. Foster
Am I the only person getting these emails? Not any more. pgpjwgktqDQvL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] ntp-client doesn't start

2006-11-06 Thread John Blinka
Roger Mason wrote: I may be leading you astray, but that IP address looks like one for a private net. Is ntp-client looking on that private net for a time-server? It is a private net, but ntp-client is looking at pool.ntp.org for the time server. John -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ntp-client doesn't start

2006-11-06 Thread John Blinka
/conf.d/local-start and see if it works. Same idea occurred to me. It does work. John -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] ntp-client doesn't start

2006-11-05 Thread John Blinka
need net after net.eth0 use dns logger } but this has had no effect. I would appreciate any thoughts on what the error message means, and how to get ntp-client working. Thanks, John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] upgrading a large package, say Xorg

2006-09-29 Thread John Newman
option to manually unmerge my current x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (and I have hundreds of packages I've emerge'd that depend on it, naturally), then emerge x11-base/xorg-x11 to get the new version (7.1 I believe?). Or is there a better way? thanks for any and all advice for this Gentoo fan, -- John

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading a large package, say Xorg

2006-09-29 Thread John Newman
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 02:57:43PM +0200, Bo ?rsted Andresen wrote: On Friday 29 September 2006 14:46, John Newman wrote: [SNIP] But later on I decided what the hell, I may as well upgrade X. However, when I attempt emerge xorg-base/xorg-x11, I get a whole list of Blocked packages

[gentoo-user] need help tuning distcc

2006-09-28 Thread John Blinka
an occasional compilation on the faster machines. How do I convince distcc on the slow machine to send more work - all of it if possible - to the fast machines? Thanks for your help. John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: need help tuning distcc

2006-09-28 Thread John Blinka
with localhost removed from the host list. John -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] changing CHOST

2006-09-09 Thread John J. Foster
On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 05:34:55PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: Me thinks the mail list bug has struck again. Let me know if you don't get this one. ;- Just an FYI - I didn't get your other mail. festus -- In all the millions of years dinosaurs roamed this planet, did any of them feel the

Re: [gentoo-user] Why you use Gentoo

2006-09-08 Thread John J. Foster
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 06:33:40PM -0500, Colleen Beamer wrote: I'm not, but I *could* be a grandmother, so I guess I'm not the average Well, I *couldn't* be a grandmother, because I am a grandfather who has pretty much no clue what average is. festus -- In all the millions of years

[gentoo-user] hello

2006-09-07 Thread John Newman
the hassle described above of editing the ebuild, regenerating the digest and then installing the package? thank you so much -- John Newman Systems Administrator, WebXess Inc. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Why you use Gentoo

2006-09-07 Thread John J. Foster
[user] source-based control documentaion -- In all the millions of years dinosaurs roamed this planet, did any of them feel the need to invent, say, nuclear weapons? Mickeyz pgpZU6ZPkxR79.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm wierdness

2006-08-25 Thread John Blinka
-WARNING **: tray icon has requested a size of (1 x 1), resizing to (24 x 24) john -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm wierdness

2006-08-25 Thread John Blinka
Richard Fish wrote: So maybe we can just double check a couple of basics: Do you have x11-apps/xauth merged? Yes. What are the permissions on ~user/.Xauthority -rw--- 1 john users 605 Aug 25 22:48 .Xauthority Other than that, I know exactly nothing about xfce4, but maybe this problem

[gentoo-user] [OT] former regular contributor here

2006-08-22 Thread John J. Foster
Anybody know whatever happened to Holly? She hasn't been around for about a year and a half, and I miss her rambling dissertations. festus -- In all the millions of years dinosaurs roamed this planet, did any of them feel the need to invent, say, nuclear weapons? Mickeyz

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] former regular contributor here

2006-08-22 Thread John J. Foster
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 06:29:27PM +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: That is not right. Her last posting on my harddrive is dated 29th of March this year. You're right, my eyes are obviously deceiving me! -- In all the millions of years dinosaurs roamed this planet, did any of them feel the need to

[gentoo-user] [OT] Missing more mails than ever

2006-08-17 Thread John J. Foster
Does anyone here know who runs this list? The number of missing emails is running quite high lately, and some threads are getting hard to follow, depending on the respondents quoting and snipping style. I seem to have missed almost half of the discussion on domainname going on. I know everyone

Re: [gentoo-user] Guidance on encrypting my /home

2006-08-14 Thread John J. Foster
On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 11:59:48PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: If you want to get started on this before your new laptop arrives, I suggest starting with the initramfs and encrypting swap only. You should be able to create an initramfs that will setup the mapping and do the swapon before

Re: [gentoo-user] Guidance on encrypting my /home

2006-08-13 Thread John J. Foster
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 06:32:49PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 8/12/06, John J. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you encrypt your home directory? I encrypt everything except /boot. What apps and/or combination of apps do you use, and why? dm-crypt with cryptsetup using the LUKS

[gentoo-user] Guidance on encrypting my /home

2006-08-12 Thread John J. Foster
Hi, I've been playing with encrypting my home directory using cfs and following the instructions at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Encrypt_Your_Home_Directory_Using_CFS I guess it mostly works, although I've had cfsd die randomly a few times in a couple days. It sorta bothers me that

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mail client recommendation?

2006-08-07 Thread John J. Foster
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 12:33:16PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: My recommendation is setting up an imap server and accessing your emails with whatever client comes to hand. Divorce the mbox/maildir storage choice from your client. If you don't want to use your ISP's IMAP services for whatever

Re: [gentoo-user] harmful Reply-To Munging on Gentoo mailing lists

2006-08-01 Thread John J. Foster
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 09:00:20AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:23:18 -0400, John J. Foster wrote: My preferred MUA (mutt) is smart enough and configurable enough to treat mailing lists properly. Here, here. Not everyone has a choice of MUA all the time

Re: [gentoo-user] harmful Reply-To Munging on Gentoo mailing lists

2006-08-01 Thread John J. Foster
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 06:21:03AM -0400, John J. Foster wrote: On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 09:00:20AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:23:18 -0400, John J. Foster wrote: My preferred MUA (mutt) is smart enough and configurable enough to treat mailing lists properly

[gentoo-user] Test for X from cli

2006-08-01 Thread John J. Foster
Good afternoon, In a bash script, how can I test whether the script itself is being run from a virtual terminal, or from an emulator like konsole within X? Thanks, festus -- Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy. pgpGfTreHkh94.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Test for X from cli

2006-08-01 Thread John J. Foster
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 03:43:12PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: 060801 John J. Foster wrote: In a bash script, how can I test whether the script itself is being run from a virtual terminal, or from an emulator like konsole within X? 'echo $DISPLAY' returns ':0' from Konsole, but nothing from

Re: [gentoo-user] Test for X from cli

2006-08-01 Thread John J. Foster
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 11:37:17PM +0400, dg wrote: On Tuesday 01 August 2006 23:20, John J. Foster wrote: One possible solution would be to check the value of $TERM variable... If it is 'xterm' then you're probably in the X terminal emulator. probably is not good ;-) -- Ambition is a poor

Re: [gentoo-user] harmful Reply-To Munging on Gentoo mailing lists

2006-07-31 Thread John J. Foster
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 08:43:09PM -0400, Willie Wong wrote: My preferred MUA (mutt) is smart enough and configurable enough to treat mailing lists properly. Here, here. -- Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy. pgpa1ta5KFB8F.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] how to get ssh host based authentication working? [solved]

2006-07-30 Thread John Blinka
exactly what I wanted to do and following it solved the problem. John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] grub passwords - how do I limit OS selection?

2006-07-30 Thread John J. Foster
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 07:09:41AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I would like to limit OS selection at boot time. The machine has Gentoo and Windows. Gentoo *must* be the booted OS unless a password is entered. I have tried the password feature in grub but it does not implement this

Re: [gentoo-user] grub passwords - how do I limit OS selection?

2006-07-30 Thread John J. Foster
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 04:59:34PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote: On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 07:09:41AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I would like to limit OS selection at boot time. The machine has Gentoo and Windows. Gentoo *must* be the booted OS unless a password is entered. I have tried

Re: [gentoo-user] grub passwords - how do I limit OS selection?

2006-07-30 Thread John J. Foster
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 04:49:42PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: On 7/30/06, John J. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks very much. It's a great solution for what I need. It does limit the use of Windows, which is what I wanted, until the password is typed in. Once typed in it also seems

[gentoo-user] how to get ssh host based authentication working?

2006-07-29 Thread John Blinka
be going wrong. John Blinka debug3: check_host_in_hostfile: filename /root/.ssh/known_hosts debug3: check_host_in_hostfile: match line 5 debug3: check_host_in_hostfile: filename /root/.ssh/known_hosts debug3: check_host_in_hostfile: match line 5 debug1: Host 'tobey' is known and matches the RSA

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