Re: [gentoo-user] problems adding local overlay and ebuild

2010-09-01 Thread Jil Larner
Hi, Le 01/09/2010 12:21, Arnau Bria a écrit : > so, anyone with more experience could help me? is there a real problem > with the ebuild? or the problem is mine? (most probable :-) ). An error was introduced in the latest version of the ebuild. replace DEPEND="server? || ( =dev-ruby/stomp-1.1 >=

Re: [gentoo-user] Camera App

2010-07-15 Thread Jil Larner
Hi, Le 14/07/2010 02:03, sean a écrit : > Is anyone able to recommend an application that can snap a picture using > a webcam? Try chesse. It requires V4L (Video 4 Linux) support in your kernel. Best regards, Jil.

Re: [gentoo-user] ntp large drift (frequency error, frequent time resets)

2009-10-26 Thread Jil Larner
Hi, Alexander Puchmayr a écrit : > I think I have a problem with the system time, which is considerable too > slow. > It looses about 3 seconds every 20 minutes (i.e. ~10 secs/hour or 4 minutes > per day). This seems to be too much for ntp to compensate. Is it physical or virtual environment?

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing physical volume for lvm.

2009-03-22 Thread Jil Larner
Hi, Momesso Andrea a écrit : My current setup is: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1289423246023+ 83 Linux /dev/sda228953381 3911827+ 82 Linux swap /Solaris /dev/sda33382 24804

Re: [gentoo-user] How to install libselinux if it is masked?

2009-01-06 Thread Jil Larner
Hi, You probably wish to read the Gentoo SELinux Handbook [1] and the Gentoo Security Handbook [2] ;) [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/selinux/selinux-handbook.xml [2] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/security/security-handbook.xml Sincerely, Jil Frank Schwidom a écrit : > Hi, > > i want

Re: [gentoo-user] new kernel, hdparm not happy

2008-10-05 Thread Jil Larner
Hi, David Relson a écrit : > CONFIG_SCSI_DMA=y Isn't that an option which considers all disks to be SATA ? Not sure, but you might check that. Sincerely, Jil

Re: [gentoo-user] start-stop-daemon sets USER=root - expected behaviour?

2008-10-05 Thread Jil Larner
Hi, Erik Hahn a écrit : > It doesn't run the command as root but as normal user (it isn't setuid > either. All it does is setting the *variables* $USER and $HOME to the > wrong values. > Oh, I read too quickly :x And by the way didn't give the right command switch that are --chuid --user and --e

Re: [gentoo-user] start-stop-daemon sets USER=root - expected behaviour?

2008-10-05 Thread Jil Larner
Hi, You may wish to specify the --user parameter. As this tool is for system daemons (therefore located in /sbin), it seems obvious it starts daemons as root by default. I checked on my system and I don't have a setuid bit on this program, no more it starts any program when my wheel user executes

Re: [gentoo-user] Enforcing passphrase protected ssh keys

2008-09-17 Thread Jil Larner
Hello, You cannot. The reason for this is simple : you can copy as many times as you wish it your private key in any place. Even if you were able to check-up that a private key is passphrase-protected, it wouldn't mean every single copy of that key is protected so. And the interest of the private

Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk - expanding a partition beyond 2TB

2008-08-27 Thread Jil Larner
Hi, Dave Oxley a écrit : So basically does anyone have any experience moving from an fdisk partition table to a GNU parted partition table without losing filesystems, data, etc? A partition table is a partition table, whatever is the tool you use to handle it. I didn't met your problem wit

Re: [gentoo-user] trying to run firefox

2008-08-25 Thread Jil Larner
Yo, Did you attempt a revdep-rebuild ? Sincerely, Jil Chuck Robey a écrit : I just did a emerge --update of firefox, and while that seemed to emerge with no errors, when I tried to run it, it tells me it can't load the XRE functions. This doesn't mean anything to me; does anyone know what that

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a gentoo workstation to Active Directory network

2008-08-10 Thread Jil Larner
Hello, I recently set up samba to allow authentification against Active Directory for file sharing on a CentOS 4.5. Even if their installer is supposed to do it correctly, it didn't work the way I wanted, so I had to understand how to set it up manually. The main problem I found with documen

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless problem

2008-05-30 Thread Jil Larner
Hi, Power saving, see man iwconfig (but I can't say more, I never touched it) Bye, Jil Rev. Ferris a écrit : Hi! I have a wireless problem. I bought yesterday a Zyxel G202 USB stick and I attack it of my workstation. This hardware is supported from zd1211rw driver. I set all parameters of my

Re: [gentoo-user] tar a brand new Gentoo install to a USB drive for safe keeping?

2008-05-04 Thread Jil Larner
Hi Mark, Mark Knecht a écrit : [...] happen I have a way to restore where I am today. Since the disk usage is currently about 4GB it seems like a great time to do it. Is this possible? I think it's essentially what the stage 3 file is that I use when I install, isn't it? If you don't export s

Re: [gentoo-user] Really confusing situation

2008-04-12 Thread Jil Larner
Hi, I had this and masked v2. Actually, this is IMO not a bug because you can't slot two gnupg installations. You must chose between 1.x stable lightweight and 2.x branch. Don't hesitate to take a look at the gnupg website ;) Sincerely, Jil Tim a écrit : Michael Sullivan wrote: I do a dai

Re: [gentoo-user] More problems with Pidgin

2008-02-05 Thread Jil Larner
Hi, here's a terminal output : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ which pidgin /usr/bin/pidgin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ eix -I pidgin [I] net-im/pidgin Available versions: 2.2.1 (~)2.2.2 (~)2.3.1 {bonjour dbus debug doc eds gadu gnutls groupwise gstreamer gtk meanwhile ncurses networkmanager nls perl predi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-14 Thread Jil Larner
James a écrit : > Jil Larner gnoo.eu> writes: > > >> May I suggest you split the discussion if you continue about licensing, >> so we can keep a clear topic on Daniel's come back ? > > I only use licensing as an example (that I'm willing to defend >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-14 Thread Jil Larner
Possibly this one :D http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-644321.html [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> (or at least go read the 14 pages on the forum and then come back >> with a clue). > > Maybe this has already been posted here... but: > What 14 pages on wh

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-14 Thread Jil Larner
May I suggest you split the discussion if you continue about licensing, so we can keep a clear topic on Daniel's come back ? Thanks Etaoin Shrdlu a écrit : > On Monday 14 January 2008, James wrote: > >>> Absolutely not -- For BSD licensing please use BSD. I see no reason >>> why everything Gent

Re: [gentoo-user] Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-12 Thread Jil Larner
Well, it's like if I am opening my eyes. I never looked at what the foundation was supposed to do. For a couple of years I've been using gentoo, I never get any political announcement, maybe because I didn't look at the right place, or maybe there was no. I mean that except the Gentoo's Philosophy

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-dev

2008-01-11 Thread Jil Larner
Hi, You should send an empty mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marzan, Richard non Unisys a écrit : > I would have looked this up myself but I'm not able to access > the net at this time. But may I have the proper steps to register to the > gentoo-dev ml? Thank you! > > Regards, > > Richard -- g

Re: [gentoo-user] How long to unsubscribe?

2008-01-05 Thread Jil Larner
As far as I know, you receive a "good bye" mail a few minutes after unsuscribing. 24 hours is much too long ;) Alan McKinnon a écrit : > Hi all, > > To switch my subscription to another email address, I had to unsubscribe > and resubscribe. Now I get two copies of all gentoo-users mails even 24

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging gnupg

2007-12-21 Thread Jil Larner
Hello, I had the same error. Quoting from http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2007q3/000259.html : "GnuPG-2 has a different architecture than GnuPG-1 (e.g. 1.4.6) in that it splits up functionality into several modules. However, both versions may be installed alongside without any con

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP 5 masked notice (was: Gentoo on the server side)

2007-12-02 Thread Jil Larner
> I had to do the same thing with the mysql upgrade from 3.x to 4.x. My > apache upgrade, I just had to redo the configs by hand. php4 to php5 > might be a bit more tricky. Currently that's the reason I have php5 > masked... PHP 4 won't be maintained after 8/8/8 (August, 8 2008) and so should be