Re: [gentoo-user] TMux bindkey with "-"

2011-10-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 12:34 AM, wrote: > Hi > > here > >    http://blog.hawkhost.com/2010/06/28/tmux-the-terminal-multiplexer/ > > > I found the hint to do the following key binding: > >    unbind % >    bind | split-window -h >    bind – split-window -v > > > But doing so results in the followi

Re: [gentoo-user] zram / compcache, anyone?

2011-10-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 12:53 AM, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 18.10.2011 07:16, schrieb Paul Hartman: >> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >>> Just stumbled upon this blog: >>> >>> http://www.webupd8.org/2011/10/increased-performance-in-li

Re: [gentoo-user] zram / compcache, anyone?

2011-10-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > Just stumbled upon this blog: > > http://www.webupd8.org/2011/10/increased-performance-in-linux-with.html > > anyone got any experience with zram/compcache on Gentoo? I'm using zram in a gentoo server with only 256mb of RAM, only used for a f

Re: [gentoo-user] inkscape emerge

2011-10-07 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > Remove the -p to have portage go ahead and try to remove them. (But > you might see something you want to have remain, which is why you > should use -p first) Or use -a instead of -p. That way it asks you if you want to proceed after showing wh

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: change and improvement

2011-10-07 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Dale wrote: > Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> >> On 10/07/2011 10:29 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >>> >>> Why don't you upgrade to lilo instead?  It's got a single configuration >>> file which is short and relatively simple, and it just works.  My >>> lilo.conf has 50 non-

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How can I power disk off?

2011-10-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2011-10-06, Jarry wrote: >> Hi, >> >> In my server I have a few disks which must be running 24/7, >> but I also have a single big hard-drive, which is used only >> for a few minutes every day, just for backups. How could I >> power disk of

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: change and improvement

2011-10-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > Either way is going to require a non-zero amount of work, while zero is > the amount of work I would prefer to do. Words to live by. :)

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I power disk off?

2011-10-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 3:31 PM, David W Noon wrote: > On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 13:21:10 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote about Re: > [gentoo-user] How can I power disk off?: > >> My worry was that if the mdraid daemon saw one drive gone - either >> when starting to spin down or when one spins up slowly - and if

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I power disk off?

2011-10-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Paul Hartman > wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >>> Paul, >>>   Would hdparm be advisable if the drive was part of a RAID? I suspect not. >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I power disk off?

2011-10-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > Paul, >   Would hdparm be advisable if the drive was part of a RAID? I suspect not. > >   I don't think this applies to the OP but for the sake of discussion > why not include RAID as part of the solution, if possible.

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I power disk off?

2011-10-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Jarry wrote: > Hi, > > In my server I have a few disks which must be running 24/7, > but I also have a single big hard-drive, which is used only > for a few minutes every day, just for backups. How could I > power disk off when not needed (and "on" again when needed

Re: [gentoo-user] Rootkit?

2011-10-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > /usr/sbin/httpd I think this is what apache version 1 used. Did the server upgrade from apache1 to apache2 at some point? Maybe there's some leftover things from the old days that is for apache1.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard drives not detected in repeatable order.

2011-10-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 1:54 PM, walt wrote: > On 10/05/2011 06:29 AM, Michael A. Koerber wrote: > >> Just tried root=PARTUUID=  failed.  Checked my genblk.c and the >> changes don't appear in the 2.6.36 or 2.6.39 kernels on my system. >> When did (does) the PARTUUID syntax support get released

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange partition on USB stick

2011-10-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 04 Oct 2011 17:18:18 Paul Hartman wrote: >> You can create a real partition table on that device and reformat, if >> you want. (Note that some flash-based devices suffer degraded >> performance if you repartition or

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange partition on USB stick

2011-10-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 1:58 AM, Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 04 Oct 2011 06:27:50 Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Mick wrote: >> > On Tuesday 04 Oct 2011 04:39:45 Adam Carter wrote: >> >> If the data is important, I'd use ddrescue to creat

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard drives not detected in repeatable order.

2011-10-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2011-10-04, Michael A. Koerber wrote: > >> I have found that use of LABEL=FOO in /etc/fstab doesn't always solve >> the problem of disks being reassigned during boot. > > That's because fstab isn't used during boot.  What "root=" setting i

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel source servers compromised?

2011-10-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 12:55 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > On Tue 04 Oct 2011 11:11:22 AM IST, Mick wrote: >> Fair enough, but chkrootkit is not the most maintained package.  Last version >> was released in July 2009. >> >> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/04/linux_repository_res/ > > This

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange partition on USB stick

2011-10-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 04 Oct 2011 04:39:45 Adam Carter wrote: >> If the data is important, I'd use ddrescue to create an image of the >> drive, then run testdisk over that image to see if it can untangle the >> partition table mess. Both are in portage. > > Well

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the most error resistant filesystem?

2011-10-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > The box will be used as a gateway/firewall for a branch office, so I really > couldn't care less about filesystem performance. But the utility power there > is horrendous, so I need something that can shrug off a catastrophic power > loss, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard drives not detected in repeatable order.

2011-10-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 12:02 AM, Adam Carter wrote: >> By the way, is it possible to use LABELs without and initrd? I'll start >> using an initrd before too long, I'll also mess with decorations, but for >> now, I'd like to keep my setup simple, no initrd. > > AND what bootloaders can use LABEL/UU

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drives not detected in repeatable order.

2011-10-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 03.10.2011 20:40, schrieb Grant Edwards: >> Just recently I've run in to problems because my hard drives are not >> detected in a predictable order, so my fstab that mount /dev/sdb1 and >> /dev/sdc1 sometimes result in directory trees in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard drives not detected in repeatable order.

2011-10-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Grant Edwards >> After a bit more googling, it looks like this is what disk labels are >> for.  Never used them before, but it looks like it's time to give them >> a go. > > They have the advantage over U

Re: [gentoo-user] Limit number of cores used by emerge?

2011-09-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > OK, my bad for confusing the two. Currently make.conf in the chroot says: > > MAKEOPTS="-j3" > > and when I run emerge in the chroot it's typically > > emerge -DuN -j2 @world > > so I think that's about right, or would hope it is anyway. If you

Re: [gentoo-user] Limit number of cores used by emerge?

2011-09-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Dale wrote: > Well, this is interesting: > > root@fireball # emerge -1av kate > ionice: bad prio class -3 >  * PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND returned 1 >  * See the make.conf(5) man page for PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND usage > instructions. > > When I went to copy this, I noti

Re: [gentoo-user] Limit number of cores used by emerge?

2011-09-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >   Is there a portage option that will limit the number of cores used > by emerge? For instance, in a chroot on a 12 core machine I want to > limit emerge to not using more than 3 cores? > >   If possible, I'd also like to limit the total

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Qemu dead?

2011-09-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > I've been trying to use Qemu to do some test installs of Ubuntu > server.  I've used Qemu successfully in the past, but it seems to have > hit a dead end.  The "stable" version (0.11) of Qemu just plain > doesn't work. There are constant segf

Re: [gentoo-user] WPA2 connection configuration?

2011-09-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Mick wrote: > Obviously wicd seems to be more user friendly than fiddling around with init.d > scripts and permutations, but in my head it's just a front end to such scripts > and wpa_supplicant . . .  Have I got this wrong? It is a front-end to its own scripts, n

Re: [gentoo-user] duplicate email messages from fail2ban

2011-09-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 9:45 PM, wrote: > I have fail2ban set up and it works quite well, except for the fact that > whenever it sends me an Email, it always sends two copies.  Every night > when the logs rotate, it does this twice, once when t stops and once > when it restarts, and when it bans

Re: [gentoo-user] WPA2 connection configuration?

2011-09-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > I haven't seriously considered wicd because I don't understand what > it is, how it links into everything else on the system. At its most basic, it lists your network interfaces and you can configure or connect with DHCP, scan wireless, enter

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel compiles ... monitoring

2011-09-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On Sep 27, 2011 8:47 AM, "Harry Putnam" wrote: >> >> Alan McKinnon writes: >> >> > What do your basics performance tools like top and friends say? See >> > what swap usage looks like outside the chroot while the compile is >> > running - i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel compiles ... monitoring

2011-09-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Harry wrote: > Sounds like there is no real way unless as you say.  I've been > wrestling with kernel build after kernel build trying to get a new > install booted.  Many failures led me to finally resorting to > genkernel... but you may know already that is a full

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel compiles ... monitoring

2011-09-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Harry wrote: > How can one tell how far along a kernel compile is?  I can see the modules > being > built in /var/log/genkernel.log >   (Aside: Please, no hysteria about using genkernel) > > But I'd like to know of some way to guesstimate how much of the process

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox cookie manager

2011-09-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Harry wrote: > Paul Hartman gmail.com> writes: > >> I believe it uses the browser's setting as default. It's probably best >> to block all cookies by default in Firefox's settings, that way only >> the ones you explicit

Re: [gentoo-user] FreeType unpatented auto-hinter?

2011-09-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > Somebody on twitter told me that Ubuntu uses a special patch for > freetype that improves font rendering manifolds. > > So I rebuilt freetype with these useflags: +auto-hinter +bindist > > What is the difference between this unpatented

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox cookie manager

2011-09-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 11:37 PM, Adam Carter wrote: >> "Cookie Monster" is great, it's what I use. If you're familiar with >> the NoScript or RequestPolicy add-ons, it operates very much the same >> way. It lets you have fine-grained control over which cookies you >> allow or block, and you can a

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox cookie manager

2011-09-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 10:39 PM, Adam Carter wrote: > I'd like to whitelist sites to allow their cookies to stay > permanently, then have all other sites cookies deleted upon browser > close. Can anyone recommend a cookie manager? "Cookie Monster" is great, it's what I use. If you're familiar wi

Re: [gentoo-user] WPA2 connection configuration?

2011-09-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Adam Carter wrote: >> ifplugd or netplug. > > This is the better option IMO. Or skip the net config/init scripts stuff and just use something like wicd.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: google search results (was: Modifying LiveCDs)

2011-09-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Jonas de Buhr wrote: >>This is because Google uses geo-targeting to determine what results >>you may be interested in (assuming your geo-location from your IP >>address), and > > are you sure google uses ip geo-location? the results change a lot if > you just chang

Re: [gentoo-user] hardened-sources...what?

2011-09-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > I'll assume for the moment that the hardened-sources patch set > discussed includes security improvements. > > My question is...what kinds? For what reason is there a set of "makes > it more secure" patches that aren't integrated into the mainl

Re: [gentoo-user] What is with the gnome overlay?

2011-09-21 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > On Wed, Sep 21 2011, Paul Hartman wrote: > >> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: >>> Has something happened to the gnome overlay. >>> >>> It seems to exist >>> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] What is with the gnome overlay?

2011-09-21 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > Has something happened to the gnome overlay. > > It seems to exist > >    oldlap ~ # layman -L | grep gnome >     * gnome                 [Git       ] (git://git.o.g.o/proj/gnome.git, > h...) >     * gnome-live            [Git       ] > (

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Updating libpng: another lib tool cockup?

2011-09-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > When revdep-rebuild --library is suggested should we run it > before or after the ordinary revdep-rebuild that we typically > run after each update world? I think you should run it with --library first. There exists the possiblity that --l

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about Chromium

2011-09-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 1:25 PM, András Csányi wrote: > Dear All! > > I think Google Chrome/Chromium is an excellent browser and I have been > using it for a year or more. But there is one issue which is > disturbing me and I would like to know what is your experience. Maybe a different problem t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Updating libpng: another lib tool cockup?

2011-09-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > OK.  But the claim was that: if >   revdep-rebuild > with no argument found nothing to build, then >   revdep-rebuild --library > will find nothing. I think what everyone (except Michael S) seems to be confused about is: Normal revdep-reb

Re: [gentoo-user] HPLIP plugin file

2011-09-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 3:38 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:13:32 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > >> > What printer do you have. I use foo2zjs with a LaserJet 1022 and >> > thought it was the only way, not that it causes me any problems. >> >&g

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-18 Thread Paul Colquhoun
mail servers, DNS servers, etc. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. Then, when you do, you'll be a mile away, and you'll have their shoes.

Re: [gentoo-user] HPLIP plugin file

2011-09-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 17 Sep 2011 11:25:44 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > >> Now I can finally print normally, and removed foo2zjs completely from >> my computer. Wooohoo. :) > > What printer do you have. I use foo2zjs with a LaserJ

Re: [gentoo-user] HPLIP plugin file

2011-09-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Joost Roeleveld wrote: > On Friday, September 16, 2011 06:50:14 PM Paul Hartman wrote: >> Does anyone here use HPLIP and happen to have the file >> hplip-3.11.7-plugin.run that they can send to me or upload somewhere? >> openprinting.org is d

Re: [gentoo-user] HPLIP plugin file

2011-09-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Dale wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> Does anyone here use HPLIP and happen to have the file >> hplip-3.11.7-plugin.run that they can send to me or upload somewhere? >> openprinting.org is down because of the LF hack and it could b

[gentoo-user] HPLIP plugin file

2011-09-16 Thread Paul Hartman
Does anyone here use HPLIP and happen to have the file hplip-3.11.7-plugin.run that they can send to me or upload somewhere? openprinting.org is down because of the LF hack and it could be more weeks before it's back up. There are apparently no mirrors of this file... I can't install my printer unt

Re: [gentoo-user] Any big gotcha's when update from several (5) mnths

2011-09-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > There's not point in doing the fetch first, portage has done parallel > fetching for some time - it's faster to let the distfiles download while > the first package is compiling. Speed is not always the biggest concern to me. For example, an

Re: [gentoo-user] Compose key and UTF8

2011-09-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 3:13 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On Sep 13, 2011 10:06 AM, wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >>  I am using the US layout for my keyboard in the altgr-intlk variant. >>  UTF8 is activated. >>  Furthermore I use CAPS LOCK as compose key. I tried compose key >>  sequences from /usr/share/

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + Moonlight

2011-09-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Carlos Sura wrote: > > > On 14 September 2011 14:09, Paul Hartman > wrote: >> >> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Carlos Sura >> wrote: >> > Also, this >> > >> > article: http://how-to.wikia.com/wiki/How_

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyboard hangs after wake up from hinernation

2011-09-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 9:14 PM, wrote: > Hi, > > I run my IBM model M keyboard (1987 :) via a Belkin USB->PS2 > converter. > > This results in a problem > >   Sometimes after wakeup from supsend to disk (supend to RAM is not >   check yet) the keyboard "hangs": All LEDs are flashing and not key

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + Moonlight

2011-09-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Carlos Sura wrote: > Also, this > article: http://how-to.wikia.com/wiki/How_to_watch_Netflix_(Watch_Instantly)_in_Linux > mentions that, I could use moonlight to get netflix working on linux. It lists Mono/Moonlight under the "Other methods that DON'T work" sectio

Re: [gentoo-user] Any big gotcha's when update from several (5) mnths

2011-09-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > I caught just a hint of some kind of recent trouble when updating on > this list a few days ago but lost track of the thread or message. > > I'd like to do update world and am some 4-5 mnths out of date right > now. > > Am I likely to hit some

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-13 Thread Paul Colquhoun
oes LSB say to this new directory? > > Nothing really, they just document current common practice. We might > request an update to LSB after it is used for a while and has shown > that it is what we want." > > He does not know, if the thing he designed is the thing he wa

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-13 Thread Paul Colquhoun
Of course, nowdays you can do the maintanence from a bootable CD or a minimal shell running from within an initramfs, so that problem has multiple solutions. My major worry is that udev is happily running arbitrary scripts from arbitrary locations early in the boot process, and is actively try

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-10 Thread Paul Colquhoun
ut I'm sure that the 2 passes could talk to each other and sort that out fairly simply. Or possibly just add a whole new service to use just for hooking software packages into system events. Although this would probably end upneeding to be a udev clone anyway. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, U

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-09 Thread Paul Colquhoun
long in /lib{32,64}/modules or /sbin Having udev able to execute arbitrary code during boot looks like yet another large security hole opening up. At least keep the code it can execute tied down to the directories that were set up for this purpose. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.http://an

Re: [gentoo-user] altgr-intl keyboard layout

2011-09-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:45 PM, wrote: > Hi, > > from here I learned the altgr-intl keyboard layout: > http://dry.sailingissues.com/us-international-keyboard-layout.html > which I will try. It seems to be a good choice for daily > programming and writing (I need german Umlauts...;) > > Instead o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Sebastian Beßler > wrote: >> Am 06.09.2011 23:35, schrieb Michael Schreckenbauer: >>> >>> See firefox for example: >>> >>> ~ $ equery s firefox >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Sebastian Beßler wrote: > Am 06.09.2011 23:35, schrieb Michael Schreckenbauer: >> >> See firefox for example: >> >> ~ $ equery s firefox >>  * www-client/firefox-6.0 >>          Total files : 3801 >>          Total size  : 722.95 MiB >> > > Why is your firefox so bi

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I re-read the "error" messages during boot?

2011-09-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Philip Webb wrote: > 'Shift-PageUp' works for me: IIRC you have to set the line limit > & that mb somewhere in the Kernel configuration. If you use fbcon there is a kernel parameter to increase the buffer size. I don't remember the exact command but it's in the do

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Paul Hartman > wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Dale wrote: >>> This is rather odd.  For the longest, every time I had a cups update, I had >>> to delete my printers

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Dale wrote: > This is rather odd.  For the longest, every time I had a cups update, I had > to delete my printers then add them back again.  It would not print until I > did so. I have to do that every time I plug my printer in... I print so infrequently, every t

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependency Problem with Bind and Mysql

2011-09-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 6:41 AM, Todd Goodman wrote: >> I've been getting the following problem trying to emerge world for the >> past few days: >> >> !!! Problem resolving dependencies for net-dns

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependency Problem with Bind and Mysql

2011-09-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 6:41 AM, Todd Goodman wrote: > I've been getting the following problem trying to emerge world for the > past few days: > > !!! Problem resolving dependencies for net-dns/bind from @selected > ... done! > > !!! The ebuild selected to satisfy "net-dns/bind" has unmet > require

Re: [gentoo-user] can't upgrade Gentoo

2011-09-01 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Edward Martinez wrote: >   !!! The ebuild selected to satisfy > "dev-lang/php[cli,mysql,xml,session,sockets]" has unmet requirements. >   - dev-lang/php-5.3.8::gentoo USE="berkdb bzip2 cli crypt ctype curl exif > fileinfo filter gdbm hash iconv ipv6 json ldap (mult

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Typewriter sound

2011-08-31 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > Does 'xset c' work for you? Well, it "works" as far as it sets the key click value successfully (if you "xset q" you can see if it's set) but there's no noises made by my computer. Looking more at xset it seems it's really just for setting t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Typewriter sound

2011-08-31 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2011-08-31, Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Grant Edwards >> wrote: >>>> b) old school pc-speaker in your computer >>> >>> Even then, how do you play a recorded

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless: deauthenticating by local choice

2011-08-31 Thread Paul Hartman
;> >> Have you tried disabling power saving mode? Something like: >> >> iwconfig wlan0 power off > > I love this list.  I don't want to speak too soon, but Paul, it looks > like you fixed it. I hope so! > I've been struggling with this for a very long >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Typewriter sound

2011-08-31 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> b) old school pc-speaker in your computer > > Even then, how do you play a recorded sound file containing a > typeblock-hitting-platen sound through that speaker? It was connected > to a timer-counter output pin not a D/A converter (unless

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless: deauthenticating by local choice

2011-08-31 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Grant wrote: > I'm on the road connecting to various wireless access points and > sometimes I'm unable to connect and I get the (try 1) (try 2) (try 3) > (timed out) messages in dmesg which makes sense.  Other times I get a > different series of messages in dmesg

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Typewriter sound

2011-08-31 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > I've read the xset man page, I've tried the 'c' option, and it does > absolutely nothing.  To the best of my recollection, the 'xset c' > command has never done anything on any X11 machine I've used in the > past 15+ years.  I have vague mem

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage index?

2011-08-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:08 PM, James wrote: > Does Gentoo maintain an  online index with brief > description of each so one can make a guess as to > which packages might be useful to him? Yep, http://packages.gentoo.org/categories/ is the main site. And there is a third-party site: http://www

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with MAKEOPTS -j

2011-08-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:37 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > Have anyone experienced problems with MAKEOPTS? > > I have a quad-core system, so I put in "-j5". But that resulted in > emerge fails for binutils and ppl. I have to change it to "-j3" before > ppl can be emerged, even "-j1" before binutils ca

Re: [gentoo-user] macbook pro boot from usb

2011-08-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to experiment with Gentoo on a Mac but I don't seem to > get past step 0, namely, booting from a gentoo usb stick > (systemrescuecd). The Mac does not recognize the usb stick. I don't > know much about Macs and sea

Re: [gentoo-user] CONFIG_IOMMU_SUPPORT???

2011-08-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/IOMMU_SUPPORT.html > > which seem to indicate that I should see an IOMMU option somewhere in > the drivers section of the kernel config. I do not, however, find that > right now which is why I came here to ask.

Re: [gentoo-user] [Apache HTTPD] Why doesn't my RewriteRule fire?

2011-08-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: >  RewriteRule ^/website$    http://localhost/website/ [T] >  ProxyPassMatch    ^/website/(.*)$ > http://localhost:8000/website/$1 > > > The ProxyPassMatch fires but (AFAICT) the RewriteRule does not. I.e. > http://localhost/website (no slash

[gentoo-user] Re: Hoping someone can help explain distcc to me

2011-08-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > > I'd like to use distcc to make the desktop do all the compiling during > emerges. I've never been able to get distcc working properly, or, at > least, I've never been able to get it working to the point where u

Re: [gentoo-user] ff & chromium trapped in deafness or how to configure ALSA correctly

2011-08-22 Thread Paul Hartman
2011/8/21 Maximilian Bräutigam : > > Is is possible that ff and chromium are sending data to HDMI since it is > card 0? If you think, it would be helpful to disable card 0 or change > the order, please tell me how to do it? Either make udev rules to create the devices in the correct order, or spec

Re: [gentoo-user] [Gentoo install] Disk full at 35%?

2011-08-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > However, when I try to extract the Portage snapshot, I get "No space > left on device" a long way into the untar process. According to df > /portage (i.e. /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage) is only 35% full. In fact, not > a single partition or mount

Re: [gentoo-user] Hoping someone can help explain distcc to me

2011-08-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 20 August 2011 23:56:08 Paul Hartman wrote: > >> I have a fast desktop computer and a slow laptop. Both are ~amd64 >> Gentoo. After some of the recent discussions about Gentoo on slow >> devices, I

[gentoo-user] Hoping someone can help explain distcc to me

2011-08-20 Thread Paul Hartman
Hi, I have a fast desktop computer and a slow laptop. Both are ~amd64 Gentoo. After some of the recent discussions about Gentoo on slow devices, I thought I'd dust off the laptop and try to bring it up to date. I'd like to use distcc to make the desktop do all the compiling during emerges. I've n

Re: [gentoo-user] Do you block outbound ports?

2011-08-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Grant wrote: > I like the policy of blocking all ports in and out with a firewall and > only opening the ones you need.  Bittorrent makes that difficult since > it connects out to unpredictable ports.  Do you block outbound ports > with a firewall or only inbound?

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} USB 3.0 hard drive speed test

2011-08-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday 18 August 2011 23:46:30 Paul Hartman wrote: > >>  I saw that one of the pins on the port was bent inward on itself, so it >>  never made contact when I plugged devices into it. > > And when you tried to

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} USB 3.0 hard drive speed test

2011-08-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Grant wrote: > Just thought I'd mention that one of my USB 3.0 ports works and the > other doesn't.  The non-working port lights up the USB drive but the > drive isn't picked up by the system in dmesg at all.  I don't know if > this is a hardware or software issue.

Re: [gentoo-user] Running HTTP and DNS on same machine

2011-08-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Grant wrote: > I currently use a free service to host the DNS records for my website, > but I'm thinking of running a DNS server on the same machine that runs > my website instead.  Would that be fairly trivial to set up and > maintain?  If so, which package should

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: "Reset" of USB when switching to console and back to X?

2011-08-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 2:17 PM, wrote: > Paul Hartman [11-08-17 21:08]: >> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 1:42 PM,   wrote: >> > Paul Hartman [11-08-17 18:02]: >> >> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 10:01 PM,   wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> >> > >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: "Reset" of USB when switching to console and back to X?

2011-08-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 1:42 PM, wrote: > Paul Hartman [11-08-17 18:02]: >> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 10:01 PM,   wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I have attached an old keyboard (PS/2-connector) via an >> > USB-PS/2-adaptor to my PC. >> > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: "Reset" of USB when switching to console and back to X?

2011-08-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 10:01 PM, wrote: > Hi, > > I have attached an old keyboard (PS/2-connector) via an > USB-PS/2-adaptor to my PC. > > When typing too fast (...) the three LEDs of the keyboard flashes > and everything typed then is typed as if the CTRL-Key constantly > locked (I am using the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 16.08.2011 19:06, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: > >> In all my computers (i.e., not the two desktops at uni, since they are >> not "mine") I use systemd (which thankfully has entered the portage >> tree) > > systemd sounds like a nic

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > This is related to a question I wanted to poll the list with. How does > everybody here use Gentoo? For personal use? Production use? For > server, desktop or embedded roles? What's your most interesting setup > or use case? Gentoo at home as

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage autounmask is strange again

2011-08-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Sebastian Beßler wrote: > Why is autounmask trying to unmask ExtUtils-ParseXS if it's not needed? > Should I report this as a bug? I think it's only telling you what you should unmask. Setting --autounmask=n simply makes it stop giving you this hint. To actually

Re: [gentoo-user] portage blockage gnome-control-center vs gnome-media

2011-08-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 3:27 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > That caught me out a few times too. I put these commands into a bash > alias: > > emerge --sync > layman -S > eix-update > > and use that to sync portage. That way I don't leave steps out. Congratulations, you reinvented the "eix-sync" comma

Re: [gentoo-user] Torrent with dynamics throttles

2011-08-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Andrea Conti wrote: > All the other considerations apply, especially the one about capping the > total outgoing bandwidth to something less than the actual available > bandwidth so that the modem's tx queue stays empty. In my (limited) experience, even if this is

Re: [gentoo-user] Firmware exists but fails to load

2011-08-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 4:13 AM, Adam Carter wrote: > # dmesg | grep firm > [   70.453673] r8169 :02:00.0: eth0: unable to load firmware patch > rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw (-2) > # ls -l /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1324 Aug 12 13:09 /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.

Re: [gentoo-user] who needs Java ?

2011-08-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 6:17 AM, Philip Webb wrote: > If I remove 'java' from  make.conf , > which features will I lose in LO Cups KDE3 ? > Is there anything else I've overlooked ? wizards/templates in LO, and some export filters in LO use java.

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating a Standalone

2011-08-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Thanasis wrote: > Keep an updated image of the standalone on laptop, update it via chroot, > and sync back to the standalone. This is what i came here to suggest. :) But I think it'll only work if the 2 machines are using compatible arch, right?

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