On Thursday 01 February 2007 00:44, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> There is a way round this. It is possible, somewhere in the config of
> pmount/hal, to have devices mounted according to the /dev name only. I
> can't remember where this is, but Google and/or grep should find it.
After some searching aro
> pmount.allow only specifies which devices may be automounted.
> When mounting, pmount gets the name from either the disk's volume name or
> the
> device. Does your camera use a removable memory card? If so, try putting
> it in a card reader and setting the volume name with mkdosfs or mtools.
> M
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 22:09, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:31:03 +0100, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote:
> > So adding a line to the fstab file just screws up the system as it
> > seems. Removing it leaves me with changable names in the media folder
> > (/med
Hi,
I try to install udev/hal/pmount in such a way that my usb devices are
automounted. But not with a changable name in the media folder, but with a
fixed name like /mnt/camera (or /media/camera.. whatever. As long as it's the
same every time..)
At this moment most things work, but when I ad
> > I think there's a mis-understanding here. Gerhard and I are
> > complaining about config files being possibly *OVERWRITTEN* with default
> > settings. If there's no config file, sure write the default config
> > file. But if someone has customized a config file, assume that they
> > know w
On Sunday 09 July 2006 17:29, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> > As I wrote in an other mail: Stop interfering with the actual configfile
> > and add the changes to a config.conf.dist file.
>
> Yep, you wrote that, and I answered that *I* would *NOT* like this.
> I like it, that I can use a program right
> When I say "yes" I mean "yes". When I say "no" I mean "no". And I
> don't mean "just until the next update" either. I have reasons for my
> settings; please don't act like Windows and assume that you know better
> than me. And there is no excuse whatsoever for wiping out the custom
> settin
On Thursday 29 June 2006 18:09, A. Khattri wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, David Corbin wrote:
> > > I don't see why use other tool. Etc-update works great...
> >
> > It works great, But the interface sucks.
>
> What exactly sucks? Be specific rather than making some vague sweeping
> statement.
The
On Sunday 25 June 2006 22:02, John J. Foster wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 12:46:16PM -0700, Lord Sauron wrote:
> > I have it on extremely good authority that it goes 2MB/sec.
>
> it's always a good thing to question authority.
Well, the used protocol has to do with it too.. and what I remember
On Saturday 24 June 2006 22:00, Mark Knecht wrote:
>I use WinSCP on my WinXP machine. It works really great for this
> purpose. Something like that which is Linux based would be great for
> them but I cannot yet find anythign in the Online Package Database.
> Probably I'm just not searching wi
On Saturday 24 June 2006 21:49, Lord Sauron wrote:
> I dug out of this ancient computer book (Upgrading and Repairing PCs
> 12th Ed.) this relic technology of the Null Modem Cable. It's a
> twisted Parallel Cable that allows 2 PCs to almost literally talk to
> each other.
While there were cables
On Tuesday 06 June 2006 17:38, JimD wrote:
> >From my perspective, I don't want an ftp server that will allow someone
>
> to get in to my gentoo box by brute forcing a username and password. I
> guess I can install something like denyhosts if the ftp server uses tcp
> wrappers.
Maybe winscp is
On Tuesday 16 May 2006 17:18, Kris Kerwin wrote:
> Quick question. Is there any way that one can unpack an ISO image:
> extracting the data that is contained within it like a tarball,
> without having to burn it to a CD? I'm sure there's an option
> somewhere within either the mkisofs or cdrecord
On Thursday 16 March 2006 20:12, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> I get a lot of bounce messages from Postfix relating to emails
> that are not actually from me, and the mail q shows lots of
> stuff I don't recognize.
>
> I'd like to know how to interpret this, and if it is called-for,
> to secure this daem
On Sunday 12 February 2006 23:03, Alan E. Davis wrote:
> I remember a little MSDOG shell utility called 4dos. It alllowed me
> to store comments that would appear alongside the filename. Can
> anyone point to a way to do this transparently and easily with bash?
> I don't want to run any extra pro
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 21:20, Michael George wrote:
> I've got one of my servers that doesn't have /dev/hda on it at boot
> time.
>
> I've got a lite-on DVD burner there that works just fine (once I create
> the device) and is noted as "hda" in the boot messages.
>
> However, /dev/hda doesn't
On Friday 30 December 2005 06:12, Glenn Enright wrote:
> On Friday 30 December 2005 16:09, Glenn Enright wrote:
> > On Friday 30 December 2005 06:43, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote:
> > Interesting I can get it to work the first time it is connected. But
> > after disconnetcting or t
On Thursday 29 December 2005 18:28, Christoph Eckert wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> > My personal account (michael) cannot offload pictures from my usb
> > digital camera - only root can do it. michael is in the usb group.
> > There used to be a file called /etc/security/console.perms which
> > allowed
On Saturday 10 December 2005 11:58, Holly Bostick wrote:
> Gerhard Hoogterp schreef:
> > While this is true and one of the things that makes gentoo gentoo,
> > there are already binary packages in portage. mozilla-bin,
> > openoffice-bin. Mostly big packages which take
On Friday 09 December 2005 23:20, Tom Smith wrote:
> Gentoo is a source-based distribution. This means that the software you
> receive comes in the form of source code. It's up to you to install (which
> includes compiling) the software with your specific preferences--this is
> what makes Gentoo wh
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 22:45, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote:
As it seems xmlto needs the latest libxlst 1.1.15 and DOESN'T have a
dependency for it.
> As I try to emerge kde-meta I run into the following error:
>
> /usr/kde/3.5/bin/meinproc --check --cache index.cache.bz2 .
As I try to emerge kde-meta I run into the following error:
/usr/kde/3.5/bin/meinproc --check --cache index.cache.bz2 ./index.docbook
XPath error : Undefined variable
compilation error:
file /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/ksgmltools2/docbook/xsl/html/autotoc.xsl
line
544 element
On Saturday 03 December 2005 07:27, Glenn Enright wrote:
> On Sat, 03 Dec 2005 18:14, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> > It works great in Linux using Mozilla, but
> > when my wife tries to view the page in Internet Explorer the image
> > appears with a white background. What's going wrong here? Any ide
On Tuesday 22 November 200>
> portage says something is wrong with my world file. "emaint --check world"
> produces this output:
> 'app-office/ooodi' has no ebuilds available
>
> What am I to do?
My first reaction would be to go to the /usr/portage/app-office en to remove
or rename the ooodi dir
> try #env-update and check "/etc/ld.so.conf"
> it should be there, if not try to add it manually, run #ldconfig and
> reemerge "sys-apps/baselayout".
> Also I've heared of problems with this last one lately try to check the
> forum ;)
Nope, no sigar.. Actually the ldconfig checks the /lib and /u
Hi,
Since a few days, and after emerging a number of packages, emerge doesn't seem
to be able to find libraries in the /usr/lib directory anymore. Or beter, as
far as I can see it doesn't even look there. The problem shows while it looks
for the openssl libraries. Already compiled programs know
On Wednesday 11 May 2005 20:13, A. Khattri wrote:
> > Python and python-gtk are there. But the rest doesn't seem to translate
> > into ebuilds.
>
> Hmmm... looks like these are not hard to find in Portage:
When you know what to look for it's always easy. Nevertheless, everything
seems to be ther
Hi,
Im trying to get iPodder running under gentoo. But since I'm not much of a
python head I hope someone can help me out. The error I get is:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] iPodder]# ./ipodder.sh
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "iPodderGui.py", line 38, in ?
import iPodderWindows
File "/opt
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