[gentoo-user] Re: new timezone data requires setting a symlink by hand

2008-07-31 Thread Anno v. Heimburg
>> Why don't you just create /etc/timezone with "Europe/Berlin" as content? Huh? I always thought the proper place was the TIMEZONE variable in /etc/conf.d/clock: TIMEZONE="Europe/Berlin"

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge nano ?

2008-05-11 Thread Anno v. Heimburg
Dani Crisan wrote: > * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if > relevant. Um... since you seem to need support, could you please post the topmost build error, and the call stack of relvant? "make: *** [all] Error 2" is the bottommost build error, not the topmost

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: KAudioCreator - Stopped Working

2008-04-30 Thread Anno v. Heimburg
Paul Sobey wrote: > Wow, well done that man! I got bitten by broken config files often enough in the early KDE 3.x days, especially on minor version changes. It has gotten much better since 3.3 or so though, I'm actually a bit suprised... Also, changing from SuSE on reiserfs to gentoo on xfs help

[gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-04-29 Thread Anno v. Heimburg
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > I don't want to comment about the change. However, you could have found > out easily all the available profiles by doing "eselect profile list": That's a cool eselect module, didn't know about that. I don't change profiles all that often (duh), and end up having to search

[gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-04-29 Thread Anno v. Heimburg
Ian Graeme Hilt wrote: > > Download the 2008 minimal install cd and install. > > Frankly, updating a 2006 install to 2008 is counter-productive. You'll > have a much easier time doing a fresh 2008 install. Why? If he kept his box up-to-date, there are just going to be some slight changes in th

[gentoo-user] Re: Would emerge --sync remove old profiles?

2008-04-25 Thread Anno v. Heimburg
Mark Knecht wrote: > Did this machine just get messed up over time and I didn't notice or > did emerge --sync remove the profile from the system thus breaking > everything? Sync does update profiles, which includes removing old ones that are no longer supported. I would't go as far as saying it "b

[gentoo-user] Re: KAudioCreator - Stopped Working

2008-04-25 Thread Anno v. Heimburg
Paul Sobey wrote: > How can I troubleshoot this? I've tried re-emerging, revdep-rebuild > (doesn't rebuild anything), re-emerging kdemultimedia-kioslaves just in > case, and now I'm out of ideas. In your $HOME/.kde/share/config directory, search for a file or file(s) called something like kaudioc

[gentoo-user] Re: SSH brute force attacks and blacklist.py

2008-02-27 Thread Anno v. Heimburg
Justin wrote: > Try fail2ban Alternatively, you can use the builtin iptables connection rate limiter. Excerpt from my home-grown firewall script: for port in $INPUT_LIMITER_TCPPORTS; do $IPT_IN -p tcp --dport $port -m state --state NEW -m \ recent --name "limit-${port}" --

[gentoo-user] Re: [nb] How to change permission on this

2008-02-16 Thread Anno v. Heimburg
Amar Cosic wrote: > I have a lot of dir. and files in my home directory. I want to chown all > of it to my user. How to do this by one comand ? Thanks Hm. Is an answer of "RTFM" accepted on this mailing list? man chown. Specifically, take a long hard look at the -R option. -- gentoo-user@lis

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE password

2007-11-24 Thread Anno v. Heimburg
econti wrote: > So . . . I unmerged all the single app, unmerged kdebase-kioslaves and > emerged kdebase. > Now all works as before. Wait, I don't get it. You have the single, all-in-one kdebase package installed (which, to the best of my knowledge, includes all kdebase-* packages), yet you emerg

[gentoo-user] Re: Playsound . . . won't!

2007-09-17 Thread Anno v. Heimburg
Mick wrote: > Somewhat puzzled that a emerge -upDv world before I remerged flac did not > pick these up . . . That can happen if sdl-sound is not in the worldfile and is not depended upon, directly or indirectly, by anything in the worldfile. This situation will arise if you emerge s/th requiring

[gentoo-user] Re: AMD/ATI to open source drviers?

2007-09-08 Thread Anno v. Heimburg
This is completely OT, but anyway: ATI will not open their existing drivers, rather, they will provide the community with a newly-written basic 2D driver for their current chips and with sufficient open information to enhance that one. So they're not opening their driver, they're opening the specs

[gentoo-user] Re: program autostart from another user [OT]

2007-07-30 Thread Anno v. Heimburg
Aleksey V. Kunitskiy wrote: > I'm confused - is the local.[start,stop] the same as start-stop-daemon? or > not? No, the suggestion is to use start-stop-daemon instead of sudo. man start-stop-daemon for more information. You will still have to call start-stop-daemon from an init script for both

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: insert text onto a PDF

2007-07-30 Thread Anno v. Heimburg
Thufir wrote: > Gimp seems to be primary tool for this, though Well, not necessarily. Any graphics program that can load pdf would work for what you want to do. Gimp is one of them, but Krita can import pdf, too. Also, if you have the poppler and netpbm packages installed, you can use pdftoppm

[gentoo-user] Re: insert text onto a PDF

2007-07-27 Thread Anno v. Heimburg
Thufir wrote: > I emerged gimp, but am still emerging krita and kde.  From gimp, as > advertised, I was able to insert text and save the file as foo.xcf, > but need krita, apparently, to convert the xcf file to a pdf, at least > according to the tutorial. I don't understand. Why don't you have gi

[gentoo-user] Re: USB modem locks weirdly

2007-07-11 Thread Anno v. Heimburg
Clara García wrote: > When modem locks if I ping google.com I just get an "google.com unknown > host" but if I ping google using it IP instead it name (ping > 64.233.167.99) my computer sends packets correctly but doesn't recieve > response from google. Check that DHCP works and you get a good IP

[gentoo-user] Re: which syslog?

2007-05-30 Thread Anno v. Heimburg
Sven Köhler wrote: > But i guess, they have a more suitable default setting. Everything going > to /var/log/messes is just to simple, i think. Actually i don't want the > layout to be like sysklogd. But i would like a little more complicated > default setting. Okay, in that case, I'll say that me

[gentoo-user] Re: which syslog?

2007-05-30 Thread Anno v. Heimburg
Sven Köhler wrote: > So the next thing i could try is metalog. > > Does it have a nice default config? I think so, but I did modify it to better suit my needs. It doesn't need logrotate, which IMHO is a big plus, and I find its filters much easier to set up than syslog-ng's. I am curious, though:

[gentoo-user] Re: Clock is way off

2007-05-09 Thread Anno v. Heimburg
Grant wrote: > CLOCK="UTC" > TIMEZONE="US/Pacific" That looks fine. Do you dual-boot with Windows? In this case, set CLOCK="local". If not, something else is amiss. Where does /etc/localtime point? Is it consistent with the entry in /etc/conf.d/clock? HTH, Anno. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] maili

[gentoo-user] Re: slocate's index

2007-05-07 Thread Anno v. Heimburg
Francesco Talamona wrote: > I would add in a comment to the bug a pointer to the mailing list > archive, but i can't find one I added a link to this discussion. Anno. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: slocate's index

2007-05-07 Thread Anno v. Heimburg
Florian Philipp wrote: > I would like to know if there is a package, daemon or whatever that > automatically updates an index to seach the file system. What about a cron script? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Clock/Daylight Savings

2007-04-19 Thread Anno v. Heimburg
Randy Barlow wrote: > "Spring Forward". I use ntp and the like, and it seems happy being > behind by an hour. I can use the date command to set it correctly, but > after the next reboot it's back to its old games. Pointers? Check that you have your timezones set correctly. Unix systems track t

[gentoo-user] Re: strange apache service dependency

2007-03-10 Thread Anno v. Heimburg
Enrico Weigelt wrote: > I've just seen that the apache2 service has an dependecy to > the mysql service. Most likely it's an bug. I don't think so. At least on my computer, mysql is a 'use' dependency rather than a 'need' dependency. That is, if mysql is present, it will be started before apache,

[gentoo-user] Re: quick kmail question

2007-03-06 Thread Anno v. Heimburg
Matthew R. Lee wrote: > When I click on a URL in an email it opens a new Konqueror window. > However I have it set in my Konqueror configuration to "Open as tab in > existing > Konqueror when URL is called externally" I've looked through the KMail > configuration settings but I can't find anywhe

[gentoo-user] Re: Is the best solution still NIS+NFS?

2006-08-11 Thread Anno v. Heimburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But when the direction is windows => linux. How does cifs come into play? I don't quite get your question. CIFS/SMB is what Windows uses for its network shares. Using samba, Linux can both share and mount* CIFS volumes. Anno *) For mounting, you have to also compile S

[gentoo-user] Re: chm file on a console?

2006-08-11 Thread Anno v. Heimburg
Boris Sobolev wrote: > Does anyone know a way or a program to view .chm files on console? > Searched pretty hard to no avail. Please don't mention xchm. Well, there's chmlib, which comes with a tool to extract files from the chm, and archmage, which uses chmlib to make chm readable via apache (wh

[gentoo-user] Re: DMA for /dev/cdrom ?

2006-07-10 Thread Anno v. Heimburg
Hi Andreas! > I really like to use DMA for my cdrom/burner but I cant figure out how to > make it working! > tapa ~ # hdparm -d1 /dev/cdrom > /dev/cdrom: > setting using_dma to 1 (on) > HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted > using_dma= 0 (off) Two hints, perhaps they help - "hdparm

[gentoo-user] Re: Fwd: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

2006-06-07 Thread Anno v. Heimburg
Shawn Haggett wrote: > Mohammed Hagag wrote: >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... User unknown >> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > Spot the difference? Yeah, but the Listserv does set Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Anno. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list