Re: [gentoo-user] Apache Sub directorys

2005-07-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 13:40:42 +0100 Michael Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 14 July 2005 15:23, Emanuele Morozzi wrote: Try giving access to anyone to tost if it's a permissions related problem. (Perhaps using php files need also execution rights). The permissions have

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/bin/man SGID ?

2005-07-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 15:28:57 +0200 Jarry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does /usr/bin/man really have to have SGID-bit on? Why? For caching the rendered man pages for all users, IMHO. I just checked one debian-box, where /usr/bin/man is without SGID... On debian, if configured to be chatty

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache Sub directorys

2005-07-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 14:12:56 +0100 Michael Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even the drwxr-xr-x will not run at all. These have not changed since they were working previously. Hm. Isn't anything written to the apache error log that could give a hint? Did you restart apache after

Re: [gentoo-user] Interesting install experience

2005-07-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:27:49 +0100 Jim Hatfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I just installed another machine, using the 2005.0 CD and using the new instructions. It has a Matrox G400 so I added support for that in the kernel. This may have been a mistake. Everything is fine until I

Re: [gentoo-user] Daily dumb question... chron.

2005-07-18 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 13:06:29 +0100 Steve [Gentoo] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed the directories /etc/cron.daily; /etc/cron.hourly; /etc/cron.monthly etc. and therein a bunch of non-user-specific administration tasks... For example, in ./etc/cron.daily I've logrotate.cron and

Re: [gentoo-user] aterm do crash displaying long files, konsole don't: swappiness problem?

2005-07-24 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 10:52:06 +0200 Fabrizio Prosperi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doing a long emerge -up world aterm kept crashing and I thought it was an emerge problem, but then I focused on a particular emerge (mozilla-firefox) and I realised it was it. Just doing cat

Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse not working

2005-07-24 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 12:52:11 +0200 smoke3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/24/05, Michal Pronay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like your mouse is broken, try booting some livecd like knoppix for example. Easy way, but not the right one: my mouse is new and does function on other

Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse not working

2005-07-24 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 13:23:14 +0200 smoke3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's OK: I had winzoz installed from the seller i bought it from and the mouse did function as well! Hm, OK, it definately _is_ a driver issue then... * the right PS/2 plug (not that keyboard one...) nice joke, but...

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP5 Quick Question

2005-08-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 2 Aug 2005 10:32:21 -0400 Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to build the php 5 extensions (I.E. GD, mysql, etc) as external libraries instead of compiling it all into the core? I assume this is the sharedext flag but I want to make sure before I go try it and

Re: [gentoo-user] wpc54g card as AP -- works?

2005-08-04 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 07:21:25 -0400 Craig Zeigler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a pretty cool idea, but I wonder what the range on something like this is. Considering that the transmitting capability of a PCMCIA card isn't very high. Do you risk burning out the card or the slot by

Re: [gentoo-user] wpc54g card as AP -- works?

2005-08-05 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 4 Aug 2005 15:28:46 + Fernando Meira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does that mean that it is unadvised to use a PCMCIA card for AP functions? I won't need a good range... something that works fine up to 8 meters (between 2 rooms) is enough. I have to check if the driver I use

Re: [gentoo-user] How does cisco vpnclient find its .pcf file?

2005-08-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 18:26:57 +0800 W.Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just installed the cisco vpn client and cant figure how it accesses the .pcf configs under gentoo. Can someone in the know tell me how to specify a .pcf when issuing a /etc/init.d/vpnclient start ? There

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] recomendations for web stats in php

2005-08-07 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 12:34:58 -0300 Mauro Faccenda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an customer that has a website hosted in a chrooted environment and want a stats page (hits, origin, etc...) I have access to the apache logs but I don't have a shell access, so I was thinking if there is

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

2005-08-08 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 15:53:54 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've attached the output of e2fsck -n. Could you please tell me how bad it looks? Are there questions to which answering yes is dangerous? e2fsck 1.26 (3-Feb-2002) Warning! /dev/hda2 is mounted. That is done in a mounted

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mozilla Google behind the scenes payola

2005-08-10 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 15:52:10 -0400 John J. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just wondering if anyone had heard of this. Although, if true, it certainly doesn't surprise me with todays corporate ethics as they are. Just a bad mark on Mozilla. This is to be separated: #1: Google is

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux comm program

2005-08-10 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 18:51:55 -0400 Daniel D Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't seem to find anything but stuff that was written in the '90s like minicom or programs that have limited capabilities. ...  I'm looking for a GUI program with a scrollback buffer, scripting, multi

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mozilla Google behind the scenes payola

2005-08-10 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 14:28:18 +0100 Michael Kintzios [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do the cookie settings under preferences override FF/Google's preset cookie flow? Yep, the FF/Google cookie flow, yes. But I think you mean the cookie flow from Google's search result pages' links? No, probably

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - How to work with USB DVD-RW/CD-RW drive

2005-08-10 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 06:48:06 -0700 (PDT) Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For what it's worth the only command listed above that shows my external drive is this: baby ~ # cdrecord -scanbus [...] scsibus2: 2,0,0 200) 'TOSHIBA ' 'CD/DVDW SD-R5372' 'TU53' Removable

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - How to work with USB DVD-RW/CD-RW drive

2005-08-11 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 09:53:13 -0700 (PDT) Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 48 in dummy TAO mode for single session. ... Sense Code: 0x30 Qual 0x05 (cannot write medium - incompatible format) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) Did

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mozilla Google behind the scenes payola

2005-08-11 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:30:31 +0930 Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd vote for a preference setting for prefetching: - disable / enable / enable for the same host only a little bit like cookie handling. from http://www.scroogle.org/gscrape.html#ffox Fortunately, you can

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN?

2005-08-27 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Bryan Whitehead wrote: Get dyndns working on one end... and then use ppp over ssh... :) http: //www.csh.rit.edu/~psionic/articles/ppp-over-ssh/ http: //www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/ppp-ssh.html Nah, don't do that. It will introduce major issues reg. connection

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN?

2005-08-27 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: I have a dyndns account, it keeps the dns updted. I can always get to my router/gateway which is dyndns enabled, how do I get to my ip on the server, set up port forwarding on the router. Most router-in-a-box appliances will let you

Re: [gentoo-user] switching from reiser4 to reiserfs

2005-08-27 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Justin Patrin wrote: Is there an easy way switch back my reiser4 partition to reiserfs without reinstalling everything. I suggest booting from a Gentoo CD. Make a tarball of the entire FS you want to convert and either pipe it across the network or onto another

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I format correctly a FAT floppy?

2005-08-29 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:51:54 + (GMT) Michael Kintzios [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using fdisk to check the partition table of a FAT floppy gave me this output: [...] Just a side note here (mtools and mkfs.vfat would solve the actual task): partition table of a floppy disk? well, you

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables

2005-08-30 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 00:54:47 -0400 John Dangler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yep. it's a bug. As soon as I remove iptables from the kernel config, ipw2100,ieee80211_crypt_tkip, ieee80211_crypt_ccmp, ieee80211_crypt_wep, ieee80211 all show up fine in lsmod. no dmesg errors, and eth1

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted NFS via ssh tunelling

2005-09-09 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 9 Sep 2005 09:29:18 +0200 (CEST) Patrick Marquetecken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I always get this error: mount: localhost:/usr/portage failed, reason given by server: Permission denied Attach NFS port of Server (2049) to local port 2818 ssh -f -L 2818:10.32.3.172:2049 -l root

Re: [gentoo-user] Nasty bugs in portage?

2005-09-11 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 20:09:29 +0200 Frank Schafer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I returned home from work I found in the logs, that ``emerge --emptytree system'' failed at package 28 of 186 python-fcksum-1.7.1 i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc bla...bla ^ | +- !

Re: [gentoo-user] set FAN speed

2005-09-13 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 16:14:59 +0300 Catalin Trifu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having a very nasty problem. My Dell Inspiron 5160 laptop (P4 3.06 GHz) runs at very high temperature (77 degrees C) and in the room are only 20. [...] Hm. And you're sure that the fan *isn't* already at

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash prompt

2005-09-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:15:13 +0200 Charles Trois [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am getting confused with profile, bashrc, etc. The prompt string I want to use is PS1=[EMAIL PROTECTED] \W]\$ [...] I thought that /etc/profile should provide the default, but I was obviously wrong.

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing mailserver with ssh

2006-06-17 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 23:09:57 +0200 Jarry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 17/06/06, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You cannot use an ssh client in this manner. But what if mail-server uses secure connection (SSL) and secure authentication? Could I use ssh-client in such a

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing mailserver with ssh

2006-06-18 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 09:20:53 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 17/06/06, Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 23:09:57 +0200 Jarry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But what if mail-server uses secure connection (SSL) and secure authentication? Could I use ssh

Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder: error encoding, following howto

2006-06-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:01:51 -0400 fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I opt to go for the supposedly higher quality x264, so I do two passes: 1: mencoder -v ../vob/title1.vob -alang en -vf crop=720:352:0:62,scale=752:320 -ovc x264 -x264encopts

Re: [gentoo-user] initramfs, network diskless boot, init process, problems with switchroot (pivot_root)

2006-06-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 13:50:12 -0700 Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pivot_root is specifically *not* allowed from an initramfs environment. What you want to do is simply mount the new root filesystem, chroot into it, and execute init. Something like: cd /new_root ; exec

Re: [gentoo-user] initramfs, network diskless boot, init process, problems with switchroot (pivot_root)

2006-06-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:51:51 -0700 Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My final comments on that bug are based on the attached email that I received from Andrew Morton that made it clear that Al Viro was opposed to pivot_root being used from an initramfs. (BTW, viro's comments are not

Re: [gentoo-user] tun/tap - ifconfig tun0 - device not found

2006-07-08 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 7 Jul 2006 19:04:41 -0300 Claudinei Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to use tun/tap to assign some ip to my server (since I'll need it to my LVS solution) and I think it's a trivial task to put tun to work, but I'm trying in 3 different machines (with 2 different

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: A/V muxing application ?

2006-07-08 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 8 Jul 2006 10:48:28 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 08:47:53 +0200 (CEST), Meino Christian Cramer wrote: I would like to mux them again...which application can do that job for me (formats: *.m2c/*.ac3 ) ??? mplex should do this, it's part

Re: [gentoo-user] What does perl USE flag do?

2006-07-10 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:38:39 +0200 Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The perl USE flag is new. What does it do? I just replied on the german ML to this question, but since it was re-asked here: The perl USE flag pulls in dev-lang/perl as a dependency. It is now a default USE flag

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-11 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:07:42 +0200 Gerhard Hoogterp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Show me what is added or removed. And since it can only do that by comparing the new file to a clean, untouched, original file I innocently suggested to have such a file, make changes there and leave it up to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: d

2006-07-12 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 03:07:44 -0500 Roy Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Beagle is a mono application. Mono is the open source implementation of C# which is a derivative of java aimed specifically at windoze by M $. wrong. C# is a dialect one can use to create .NET programs. .NET is a bit

Re: [gentoo-user] Lirc problems

2006-07-13 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:14:00 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I made a serial reciever I found at Lirc.org a very few components. I emerge lirc with LIRC_OPT=serial. When it goes and compiles the lirc_serial module it fails. Can any one help kernel Gentoo-2.6.12-R9 lirc 0.8 What's the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: chkrootkit LKM trojan ?

2006-07-17 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 19:36:30 +0100 Dave S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How accurate is chkproc? If you run chkproc on a server that runs lots of short time processes it could report some false positives. chkproc compares the ps output with the /proc contents. If processes are

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix + Auth with SASL

2006-07-19 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:07:33 -0300 Leandro Melo de Sales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I'm trying to setup postfix with authentication. I have PAM/NSSwitch configured to use LDAP backend. I also installed cyrus-sasl, but when I test authentication I got some errors. What I'm doing wrong?

Re: [gentoo-user] remote login help

2006-07-20 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 00:21:56 +0100 krgn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using ddclient to get to my router (which works) but can login to my machine behind the router (ssh for now, ftp and http later). Is that router a machine running linux or is it one of those little consumer appliances?

Re: [gentoo-user] eBook reader

2006-07-20 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 01:25:09 -0500 Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for a good eBook reader (software). No packages in portage that I could find. I found etr but no ebuild and its not great. What are you missing (except the ebuild)? What functionality are you

Re: [gentoo-user] eBook reader

2006-07-20 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 08:20:10 -0500 Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basically looking for text readers, although PDF, HTML and others would be nice. Need for it to be able to automatically save position, change fonts, fg/bg colors, etc. OK, I don't know of such multi-purpose

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11, $VIDEO_CARDS binary packages

2006-07-20 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:40:39 -0300 Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe I'm wrong, but binary packages are BINARY (-k), so, you can't change their USE, because they're already compiled, they'll use the flags that were used by the time the package was created. If you install it

Re: [gentoo-user] changing user id

2006-07-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 12:02:49 +0200 Arnau Bria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to change cyrus id from currently to 120. Why's that? You will at least bork the existing files to a degree that they can't be automatically uninstalled by emerge anymore. I tried usermod, but cyrus files

Re: [gentoo-user] MythTV vs. Gentoo VDR

2006-07-22 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 15:19:31 +1200 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes but what has that to do with gentoo? Its not a gentoo project! I was confused by the OP referring to gentoo vdr Me too. I know there's a Gentoo project for the VDR application. But basically I think the OP was

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage Storage using SVN

2006-07-23 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 02:42:43 -0600 Trenton Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I proposed this awhile back, and got shot down. At the time, the arguments for using SVN for portage storage were pretty shallow, and someone was able to easily shoot them down. I believe I have come up with

Re: [gentoo-user] Network is not starting

2006-07-23 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 10:02:49 +0300 Adrian Vraciu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # ifconfig -a No usable address families found. socket: No such file or directory You seem to have no IP protocol support compiled into your kernel. Or is there a module reg. IP support that you need to modprobe

Re: [gentoo-user] apache/php: chroot?

2006-07-25 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 21:42:46 +0200 Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now my question is: does apache/php support chrooting too? And are there some other services, which can be chrooted like bind? should work without any problems, like the most of the other standard internet services.

Re: [gentoo-user] Lots of missing gentoo-user mail

2006-07-27 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 07:40:03 +0200 Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I am trying to work out if if it's just me having an issue with gmail (which I will confront the gmail team there about), or if the gentoo-user mailing server is skipping addresses or having issues sending.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Bugzilla as support system w/ maillist integration

2006-07-27 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:09:36 +0200 Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you think about this idea ? If you're really talking about gentoo-user, then I think your idea is way, way, way too complex. Basically, I think, this ML just works. Heck, it hasn't even a FAQ posted

Re: [gentoo-user] memory leak with gtk+-2.8.20-r1

2006-08-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 12:58:33 +0200 gwe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone has the same problem or an solution to solve this leak of memory? Thank you very much. You should at least describe the problem you have. You're just describing the things you've tried to nail it down, but what are

Re: [gentoo-user] print to PDF within Firefox

2006-08-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 2 Aug 2006 09:54:42 -0300 Cláudio Henrique [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't remember wich, but an old version of firefox allowed me to print to PDF. how do I do this in this new one (1.5)? Firefox was probably compiled with XPrint support. The USE flag xprint should do this. At

Re: [gentoo-user] memory leak with gtk+-2.8.20-r1

2006-08-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 13:49:04 +0200 gwe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry I post only the end of log file of valgrind (the entire file is very big ~22500 lines). This is the result of execute the source code : ==13767== LEAK SUMMARY: ==13767==definitely lost: 36 bytes in 1 blocks.

Re: [gentoo-user] memory leak with gtk+-2.8.20-r1

2006-08-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 18:14:02 +0200 gwe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah yes, I wasn't aware that there was a function for this. You should definitely use this in place of the delete statement because it will do deeper cleaning. the GTK Api said gtk_exit is deprecated and should not be

Re: [gentoo-user] Change Partition Type [OT]

2006-08-04 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 17:36:00 +0200 Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hm - UNTESTED: What happens, if you've got a JFS on a NTFS partition and then boot Windows? It's probably being reported as non-formatted media. Windows will offer to format it, then. Click OK, and your shiny JFS is

Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox without/with gdm ?

2006-08-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 05 Aug 2006 11:59:10 -0400 dnlt0hn5ntzhbqkv51 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tweaked .initrc, startx'd and fluxbox was great. exceptwhen entering passwords (e.g. su; gpg), I'd frequently have to reenter 5-8 times. Out of desparation, I emerged gdm (without xdm

Re: [gentoo-user] How to see network activity?

2006-08-09 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 22:03:55 +0400 Boris Sobolev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I' m not sure if I need packet analyzer or another tool. A packet analyzer would be fine, I think. Although me as a CLI-junkie would have suggested tcpdump instead of wireshark :-) Emerge tcpdump, and as root do $

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing unneeded libraries

2006-08-11 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 17:10:47 +0200 (CEST) JC Denton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does eclean or emerge --depclean remove libs that are orphaned? And if not, how can I find out if a lib could be removed from the system? emerge --depclean does. Orphaned meaning installed as a dependency of

Re: [gentoo-user] initng or runit?

2006-08-23 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 13:58:01 +1200 Thomas Kear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having just had a quick look at runit, it appears we have the larger collection of init scripts, however being simple bash scripts it could be expected that runit's are slightly easier to make. Runit does *not*

Re: [gentoo-user] Outputing 15.9kHz?

2006-09-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 17:13:55 -0700 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to figure out if a device that converts a VGA output to a component output for HDTV connection will work with a standard TV that has component inputs. Your VGA card can probably generate that signal itself.

Re: [gentoo-user] Outputing 15.9kHz?

2006-09-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 6 Sep 2006 08:03:48 -0700 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The guy there says it won't work because a computer outputs a non-interlaced signal and a standard TV uses interlaced. Basically, exactly what you said. From your link, it looks like an interlaced signal can be specifiec

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf problem

2006-09-09 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 11:40:11 -0500 Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mick wrote: Viewport refers to your virtual screen which is larger than the physical monitor screen. Placing the cursor at the edge of the monitors scrolls the screen in that direction, until the edge of the

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf problem

2006-09-09 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi (again), On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 08:14:47 -0500 Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) I can't view some things in full screen. For instance, I play the game Blobwars and if I try to set it to use full screen mode, the game shows in the middle of the screen, the same size as it was when

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: gkrellm ??? Only as daemon ???

2006-09-10 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 06:28:30 +0200 (CEST) Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But: Why contains gkrellm's default USE-flags -X, so no gkrellm2 is compiled? I had to change package.use accordingly and recompiling makes gkrellm2 then. There are no ebuild specific default USE

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: gkrellm ??? Only as daemon ???

2006-09-10 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 13:36:12 +0200 (CEST) Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I set X by default in /etc/make.conf...what happens to programs, which simply doesn't know anything about X ... for example basename (...yes, I know, basename is an builtin in most

Re: [gentoo-user] Real CPU speed

2006-09-12 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 20:31:00 -0700 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I determine my current CPU speed? I have a Celeron 700 that should be running at 1050 if I insulated one of its pins correctly. All of the information I can find on determining CPU speed is related to

Re: [gentoo-user] Outputing 15.9kHz?

2006-09-13 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:21:44 -0700 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using the modeline from this link: http://www.sput.nl/hardware/tv-x.html and my xorg.conf looks like this: Section Monitor Identifier monitor1 Modeline 736x485i 14.16 736 760 824 904 485 491 496

Re: [gentoo-user] MyWorld - how to set this up?

2006-09-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 13:44:22 +0200 (CEST) Helmut Jarausch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to keep several configurations. Is it possible to setup additional sets like MyWorld,... in addition to world and say emerge MyWorld ? you can create a (meta-)ebuild that doesn't install anything

Re: [gentoo-user] multicast routing from satillite to lan

2006-09-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 14:30:06 +0200 (SAST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mrouted doens't work with 2.4 (according to docs) What docs? Well, I see it being written in the ebuild, but given that mrouted-3.9-beta3 is existing since June 1999, I don't think it is actually true. Did you try compiling

Re: [gentoo-user] multicast routing from satillite to lan

2006-09-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 15:01:01 +0200 (SAST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mrouted doens't work with 2.4 (according to docs) What docs? Well, I see it being written in the ebuild, but given that mrouted-3.9-beta3 is existing since June 1999, I don't think it is actually true. Did you try

Re: [gentoo-user] Outputing 15.9kHz?

2006-09-15 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, (sorry, must have overlooked your last answer...) On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 01:32:36 -0700 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I always seem to get hsync out of range errors trying to go this low. I guess my card can't go as low as necessary. Argh, my failure. I must have read 19.5 kHz instead of

Re: [gentoo-user] xhost +local:root ???

2006-09-16 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 19:29:14 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: emerge sux Use sux instead of su. or, if using sudo, do the following: append to /root/.bashrc: snip [[ -n $SUDO_USER ]] [[ -n $DISPLAY ]] export XAUTHORITY=/home/$SUDO_USER/.Xauthority snip to keep

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Why directories aren't files?

2006-09-18 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 11:10:57 +0200 Matteo Pillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering why Linux doesn't treat directories like files, as many other unix implementations do. Pragmatic answer: because nobody implemented it for most filesystems. Most filesystems just define

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Why directories aren't files?

2006-09-18 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:13:11 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For example, in Linux, you can't do 'cat .' while on FreeBSD you can. Why? There is a practical reason? Try vim . or, better view . It was mentioned before that applications have support for reading directories. But

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating a LFS system with Portage

2006-09-18 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:05:21 + Alon Keren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm considering using Portage to build a Linux From Scratch system (LFS basically means building a completely customized Linux machine, using a toolchain). Hm, that's what portage does, anyway... So what exactly do

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Why directories aren't files?

2006-09-18 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, because nobody implemented it for most filesystems. Most filesystems just define generic_read_dir as handling function for readdir. generic_read_dir always returns -EISDIR. sorry short correction, should read: ... as handling function for read. readdir of course should be implemented for

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