RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Reducing disk usage

2007-04-26 Thread Adam Carter
A bit softer than some of the other suggestions; # eclean packages # eclean distfiles app-portage/gentoolkit contains eclean. From the man page; "eclean is small tool to remove obsolete portage sources files and binary packages. Used on a regular basis, it prevents your DISTDIR and

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw3945 and wpa_supplicant issues

2007-04-26 Thread Will Briggs
� wrote: Hi all! I own a Toshiba laptop P100-400 with a Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG wireless adapter. I've managed to get it working with normal WEP authentication, but no success with wpa_supplicant (and I really need it for WPA auth). # /etc/init.d/net.eth1 restart * Stopping eth1

[gentoo-user] showconsole disappoints

2007-04-26 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, According to http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20050822-newsletter.xml setting RC_BOOTLOG="yes" in /etc/conf.d/rc and emerging the showconsole pkg will generate /var/log/boot.msg where boot messages will be written. But boot.msg is never more than 44 lines, a fraction of total output.

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

2007-04-26 Thread W.Kenworthy
Watch this one! I ended up with a seriously broken system after running localepurge - make sure you have your locale sorted out first! But it can save quite a lot of space - pity the system was dead in the water ... reiserfs is more space efficient than other filesystems like ext2/3 (depending o

Re: [gentoo-user] file sorting in nautilus

2007-04-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 04:41 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 4/25/07, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > recently I borrowed (and will probably soon buy a related model) a JVC > > "HD" HD video camera. (The first "HD" is for high def!). > > > > Anyway, the great feature is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reducing disk usage

2007-04-26 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 26. April 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: > · fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Over a whole system this can > > add up to a few dozen more MB of space usable. > > This Depends largely on the "type" of files. I've got my portage > tree on a reiserfs, and in comparison to ext3, it saves

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Migrating databases to a new box

2007-04-26 Thread kashani
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Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Migrating databases to a new box

2007-04-26 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 15:03 -0700, kashani wrote: > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > I'm currently in the process of migrating databases to a new box. One > > of my users has two databases that he needs access to. Is there a way > > (through the mysql terminal interface) to find out what passwords he

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel hangs after detecting the hard disk

2007-04-26 Thread Guillermo A. Amaral
On Thursday 26 April 2007 17:05, Iván Pérez Domínguez wrote: > Looks like I've come with a different situation now: > > I installed Ubuntu in a different partition, it works fine. > I took it's kernel's config and tried to recompile gentoo's with it. > > Things are a little better now, but looks li

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel hangs after detecting the hard disk

2007-04-26 Thread Iván Pérez Domínguez
Looks like I've come with a different situation now: I installed Ubuntu in a different partition, it works fine. I took it's kernel's config and tried to recompile gentoo's with it. Things are a little better now, but looks like it cannot find /dev/hda2 (my root partition) nor /dev/sda2. Since no

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Migrating databases to a new box

2007-04-26 Thread kashani
Michael Sullivan wrote: I'm currently in the process of migrating databases to a new box. One of my users has two databases that he needs access to. Is there a way (through the mysql terminal interface) to find out what passwords he uses to access these two databases? This will save me the tro

[gentoo-user] Re: Reducing disk usage

2007-04-26 Thread Alexander Skwar
· fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Over a whole system this can > add up to a few dozen more MB of space usable. This Depends largely on the "type" of files. I've got my portage tree on a reiserfs, and in comparison to ext3, it saves couple 100 (one-zero-zero) megs! Alexander Skwar -- "Bond re

[gentoo-user] OT - Migrating databases to a new box

2007-04-26 Thread Michael Sullivan
I'm currently in the process of migrating databases to a new box. One of my users has two databases that he needs access to. Is there a way (through the mysql terminal interface) to find out what passwords he uses to access these two databases? This will save me the trouble of finding him. (Mos

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Backing up my box

2007-04-26 Thread Mark Somerville
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 07:57:49PM +0200, Francesco Talamona wrote: > (Supposing both boxes are Linux ones) Sometime I use > app-backup/rdiff-backup, it's quite easy and effective. I've started using rdiff-backup, it's really nice. Thanks a lot for the pointer! Mark pgpXtbxYMJBsn.pgp Descript

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: flash with seamonkey

2007-04-26 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 27 Apr 2007 1:52:14 am James wrote: > > Will this work on Gentoo, as is, or are there further modifications. > I failed to mention, that the system is running on an AMD 64 bit cpu, > model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ > Didn't see this post of yours earlier.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: flash with seamonkey

2007-04-26 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Thursday 26 Apr 2007 11:27:58 pm James wrote: > > Now make a symlink from what to what? > You need to make symlinks to these files in ~/.mozilla/plugins /opt/netscape/plugins/flashplayer.xpt /opt/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so -- Regards, Abhay signature.asc Description: This is a digit

[gentoo-user] Re: flash with seamonkey

2007-04-26 Thread James
James tampabay.rr.com> writes: > > That is your real problem. You need to make sure that seamonkey knows about > your flash plugin. Try to make soft link to flash plugin in your > ~/.mozilla/plugins directory. Then start seamonkey and check whether you have > flash mentioned under about:plugi

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

2007-04-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello fire-eyes, > 1) rm -r /var/tmp/portage/* (the /* is important) No it's not - if you delete the portage directory, portage will simply recreate it when it needs it. -- Neil Bothwick Fer sail cheep, Windows spel chekcer, wurks grate signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] Re: flash with seamonkey

2007-04-26 Thread James
Abhay Kedia gmail.com> writes: > That is your real problem. You need to make sure that seamonkey knows about > your flash plugin. Try to make soft link to flash plugin in your > ~/.mozilla/plugins directory. Then start seamonkey and check whether you have > flash mentioned under about:plugin

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

2007-04-26 Thread fire-eyes
Grant wrote: I've found myself with a full hard disk and no obvious choices for reducing usage. Are there any not-so-obvious ways to free up hard disk space? - Grant I'll agree with the other suggestions which i'll put here: 1) rm -r /var/tmp/portage/* (the /* is important) 2) rm -r /usr/por

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

2007-04-26 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 26. April 2007, Grant wrote: > I've found myself with a full hard disk and no obvious choices for > reducing usage. Are there any not-so-obvious ways to free up hard > disk space? > > - Grant localepurge rm -rf /var/tmp/ using reiserfs stop using -O3 rm -rf /usr/src/linux* --

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

2007-04-26 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 26 April 2007, Grant wrote: > I've found myself with a full hard disk and no obvious choices for > reducing usage. Are there any not-so-obvious ways to free up hard > disk space? Delete all your music. ;-) Seriously, get another one. Uwe -- The Informal Linux Group Namibia: http://www.linu

RE: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

2007-04-26 Thread Nelson, David J
> -Original Message- > From: Grant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 26 April 2007 15:59 > To: Gentoo mailing list > Subject: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage > > > I've found myself with a full hard disk and no obvious choices for > reducing usage. Are there any not-so-obvious ways to

[gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

2007-04-26 Thread Grant
I've found myself with a full hard disk and no obvious choices for reducing usage. Are there any not-so-obvious ways to free up hard disk space? - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel hangs after detecting the hard disk

2007-04-26 Thread Iván Pérez Domínguez
Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:07:38 +0200 > Iván Pérez Domínguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I'm having another problem, this time it's a kernel related problem. >> I'm currently using kernel 2.6.13, and most things work fine. However, >> when I try to update to

[gentoo-user] why does gentoo's groff haven't chem's module?

2007-04-26 Thread anhnmncb
Hi, list: Nowaday I try to learn groff's module chem to draw chemical strutrues, I find although gentoo has the latest groff, but it doesn't contain the chem module, so I want to know why? or maybe I make some mistake? Thank you for any advice or indicator. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] file sorting in nautilus

2007-04-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/25/07, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, recently I borrowed (and will probably soon buy a related model) a JVC "HD" HD video camera. (The first "HD" is for high def!). Anyway, the great feature is it records on a 40Gb hard disk, but the annoying thing is the video files a

[gentoo-user] Re: ipw3945 and wpa_supplicant issues

2007-04-26 Thread Alexander Skwar
Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know what "!plug" does. Check out /etc/conf.d/net.example, search for "plug", find the section "Cable in/out detection". Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw3945 and wpa_supplicant issues

2007-04-26 Thread Christian
Am Donnerstag, 26. April 2007 02:11 schrieb José Pedro Saraiva: > Hi all! > > I own a Toshiba laptop P100-400 with a Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG wireless > adapter. > I've managed to get it working with normal WEP authentication, but no > success with wpa_supplicant (and I really need it for WPA aut

Re: [gentoo-user] font problem after xorg-server upgrade

2007-04-26 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 07:07:48PM +0200, Pongracz Istvan wrote: > My personal opinion is that is not a solution if I had to tweak all the > system to get it working. I did not mean tweaking when I said I have no time to experiment. I want to locate the problem as closely as possible to pro

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade using binary packages

2007-04-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 06:39:15 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In the kernel config this shows up as Via C3 processor... Which is not an i686, it has a couple of instructions missing from the full i686 instruction set, hence the illegal instruction message. > CFLAGS="-Os -march=i586 -m3dnow -pip