Re: [gentoo-user] Lilo vs. LVM

Quoting Konstantinos Agouros : Hi, I have a VM with a gentoo guest. For testing I set it up with an LVM Volume Group that consisted of only one disk. Now I added a 2nd resized the FS but lilo stopped working. When I call it I get: # lilo device-mapper: table ioctl failed: No such device or ad

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying a file via ssh with no password, keeping the system safe

Quoting Andrea Conti : On 07/10/2010 18:45, Momesso Andrea wrote: Setting up a public key, would do the job, but then, all the connections between the servers would be passwordless, so if server A gets compromised, also server B is screwed. Well, not really... public key authentication

[gentoo-user] Copying a file via ssh with no password, keeping the system safe

Hi list, I need to set up a cron job to transfer a file every day from server A to server B. I'd like to do that via ssh and with no user assistance, completely automated. Setting up a public key, would do the job, but then, all the connections between the servers would be passwordless, s

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 doesn't detect power capabilities (hibernate, suspend, battery and frequency scaling)

On Friday 23 April 2010 14:31:23 Yoav Luft wrote: > I think it does, but how can I make sure of it? > > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Momesso Andrea > > wrote: > > On Friday 16 April 2010 08:41:57 Yoav Luft wrote: > >> After some experiments with the nd

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 doesn't detect power capabilities (hibernate, suspend, battery and frequency scaling)

On Friday 16 April 2010 08:41:57 Yoav Luft wrote: > After some experiments with the ndiswrapper driver, KDE4 stopped > providing a frontend to various power capabilities. It doesn't detect > the battery, it doesn't offer suspend or hibernate it the shutdown > script, et cetera. The battery properti

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: configuring x2go on gentoo

On Monday 01 February 2010 19:57:52 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 02/01/2010 08:06 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> On 01/22/2010 12:10 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > >>> Hello, > >>> > >>> I would like to try a remote desktop server/client app (linux to > >>> linux).

[gentoo-user] Netqmail and local mail

I've set up a mail server serving 2 domains following this howto: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/qmail-howto.xml The server works fine and can send and recive mails. The problem is that I don't know anymore where to find my local mail, for example mail sent by cron jobs. I'd like to have it forw

Re: [gentoo-user] xen and ext4

On Friday 30 October 2009 14:05:27 Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 20:50 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: > > hi, > > > > i am using gentoo x64. i want to try xen, but my file system is ext4, > > and i cannot fine ext4 support while compiling xen-source. have i > > missed something, or ext4 is n

Re: [gentoo-user] Migration to baselayout2 / openrc

On Monday 12 October 2009 07:33:33 Eray Aslan wrote: > On 10.10.2009 13:01, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > On gentoo web I found this: 2. > > Migration to OpenRC > > Migration to OpenRC is fairly straightforward; it will be pulled in > > as part of your regular upgrade process by your packag

Re: [gentoo-user] netqmail and saving a copy of outgoing mail

On Wednesday 07 October 2009 18:21:21 Stroller wrote: > On 7 Oct 2009, at 10:42, Andrea Momesso wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Momesso Andrea > > > > wrote: > >> I have mail server running netqmail and vpopmail set up following > >> http:

[gentoo-user] netqmail and saving a copy of outgoing mail

I have mail server running netqmail and vpopmail set up following http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/qmail-howto.xml. I can't find a way to make the server taking care of storing all sent messages. Googoling around I found that this is usually done client side, but I have the need to do this server s

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Off site storage solution

On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 12:42:58PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 13:13:42 +0200, Momesso Andrea wrote: > > > > Amazon's S3 service has proved reliable and economical for me. > > > Looks very interesting... > > > > Does it also provi

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Off site storage solution

On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 11:47:11AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 11:12:27 +0200, Momesso Andrea wrote: > > > Is anyone aware of a off site storage solution that could satisfay my > > needs? > > Amazon's S3 service has proved reliable and econ

[gentoo-user] [OT] Off site storage solution

This is very OT, but maybe I can finde some suggestions here. I've got a gentoo server running on a VPS from linode http://www.linode.com/ . I'm using the basic plan (linode 360) and I'm happy with that. The plan gives me 16gb storage that is enough for the webserver to work and to store a lot us

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo server profile

On Monday 20 July 2009 18:33:58 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 20 July 2009 17:49:00 Dirk Uys wrote: > > Hi everyone > > > > I'm busy installing Gentoo on a local server. I'm using > > "default/linux/amd64/2008.0/server" as the profile. I noticed that I > > get a nice little warning every time I

[gentoo-user] [OT] WebTV downloader (like miro) on a headless server

I'd like to set up a web tv downloader (able to download tv-shows, webcasts, podcasts, youtube videos etc), similar to miro, but with a server-client architecture (like mythtv). I know mythtv can do something similar with plugins, but I guess that mythtv without a dvb reciver would be an overkill,

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for cvs-version of sci-visualization/paraview

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 08:29:08AM +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 15 May, Mike Kazantsev wrote: > > On Thu, 14 May 2009 20:17:10 +0200 (CEST) > > Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > > >> can anybody please tell me where to find or whom to ask for an ebuild > >> paraview- (the cvs-version of paravi

[gentoo-user] Cryptsetup lvm2 blocker

After last sync I get this blocker: * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be * installed at the same time on the same system. ('installed', '/', 'sys-fs/device-mapper-1.02.28', 'nomerge') pulled in by >=sys-fs/device-mapper-1.00.07-r1 required by ('ins

Re: [gentoo-user] What annoys you?

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 08:35:23AM -0500, Dale wrote: > Wyatt Epp wrote: > > Greets, > > > > So while gearing up for the Summer of Code, I noted a lot of things > > that I had come to accept as normal that I feel should not be so. > > Things like the danger of depclean or the way portage will only

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Web server mirror

On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 12:13:06AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 21:09:57 +0000, Momesso Andrea wrote: > > > Ok, but what about databases? Joomla has his own and mediawiki too... > > Just dump it and copy it? Will it work? > > MySQL can be configured to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Web server mirror

On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 11:06:24PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Momesso Andrea wrote: >> I'm not a professional admin, but I run a web server that was supposed >> to be a small system for a couple of users (my wife and her students), >> and now became something

[gentoo-user] Web server mirror

I'm not a professional admin, but I run a web server that was supposed to be a small system for a couple of users (my wife and her students), and now became something bigger with some amount of traffic, and some people rely on it for critical data. Since the scope of the site changed I'd like to a

Re: [gentoo-user] Sunrise overlay syncing broken?

On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 11:05:04AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > Doing "layman -S" results in this: > > > > * Running command "/usr/bin/svn update > > "/usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise""... > > Authentication realm:

Re: [gentoo-user] Sunrise overlay syncing broken?

On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 11:05:04AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > Doing "layman -S" results in this: > > > > * Running command "/usr/bin/svn update > > "/usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise""... > > Authentication realm:

Re: [gentoo-user] portage "system" questions...

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 11:08:51AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > > > And finally Q3: How can I make my own stage3-archive from > > working system? Some man/help/howto could help me for sure... > > I don't know this one. > This is what is called a stage4, google for it. --- TopperH http://topperh.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2.2

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:40:36AM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Is there a plan/roadmap for when KDE 4.2.2 will appear in Portage? > Unfortunately, http://kde.gentoo.org doesn't seem to be updated at all. > You should subscribe the [gentoo-desktop] mailing list. Lately the gentoo-kde team is

Re: [gentoo-user] profile 2009?

On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 07:55:39PM +0400, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > On Monday 06 April 2009 19:50:02 Xav' wrote: > > What i'm expecting from a new release is a new stage[1,2,3] tarballs with > > updated software. > > Actually, when i install Gentoo from a 2008.0 stage 3, there is many > > updates to

Re: [gentoo-user] profile 2009?

On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 05:55:16PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 06 April 2009 18:10:07 Momesso Andrea wrote: > > You shouldn't mind about that. A new profile is not what a new release > > is for other distros, but just a symlink to a profile. > > > > A

Re: [gentoo-user] profile 2009?

On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 02:52:28PM +, James wrote: > hello, > > > When I type 'eselect profile list' > I only see 2008 options. Is there > no 2009 profile yet, or am I remiss > in my admin details? > > If it is late, then any ideas on when > the 2009 profiles might appear? > > James > You

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 10:16:37AM +0600, Mike Kazantsev wrote: > On Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:43:21 -0500 > Dale wrote: > > > > KH konstantinhansen.de> writes: > > > > > >> Q: Why is top-posting evil? > > >> A: .backwards read don't humans because > > > > OK. Everyone that hates top posting plea

Re: [gentoo-user] reload etc conf files

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 09:20:44PM +0600, Mike Kazantsev wrote: > On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:25:10 +0200 > laurent wrote: > > > I finished etc-updates with a lot of files, is there a way or even need > > to make all application reload the updated configuration files? > > Not quite what you asked, b

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kdelibs -plasma -webkit

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 02:59:42PM -0400, ABCD wrote: > > > > But I have too little wisdom with kde4 to discern > > best practices. My default goal is to use > > sets to have something smilarly to the meta > > stuff, but not using meta now, so customizing > > my onw sets, or following other Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] DRI doesn't work with xorg 7.4 and an intel chipset Q35 board

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 02:05:14PM +0500, Mike Kazantsev wrote: > On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:17:49 +0100 > wolfgang.lieb...@siemens.com wrote: > > > I've upgraded to 2.6.27-gentoo-r10 - no change. > > Prehaps it'll help to upgrade to the latest developers-stable kernel > (2.6.29), since there are qui

Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on?

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 04:14:38PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 25 March 2009 16:54:21 Momesso Andrea wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:14:14PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:27:09 -0400, James Skinner wrote: > > > > To

Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on?

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:14:14PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:27:09 -0400, James Skinner wrote: > > > Top-posting is totally fine when emailing from a mobile device. It > > does make it hard to follow a thread, but email's are time-stamped. > > It doesn't mater what devi

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

On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:31:20 + Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:07:59 +0100, Momesso Andrea wrote: > > > > Since you currently have plenty of free space, you don't have to > > > take the system out of service to do a backup. Create a new PV in &g

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

On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:57:19 + Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:57:08 +0100, Momesso Andrea wrote: > > > It looks more like a workaround than a solution. If my non native > > English understood it well, it suggests to backup everything, > > recreate t

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

On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:22:20 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 22 March 2009 23:00:07 Momesso Andrea wrote: > > On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:35:35 +0200 > > > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > On Sunday 22 March 2009 22:15:14 Momesso Andrea wrote: > > > &g

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

On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:35:35 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 22 March 2009 22:15:14 Momesso Andrea wrote: > > My current setup is: > > > >Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > /dev/sda1 * 128942324602

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

On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:49:36 + Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:39:29 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > > > P.S. I'm not using vgextend to simply add sda4 to the lvm because > > > I might want to migrate my root (sda1) to ext4 > > > > Why do want to do that? ext4 is just a cou

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

On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:39:29 +0100 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Sonntag, 22. März 2009 21:15:14 schrieb Momesso Andrea: > > P.S. I'm not using vgextend to simply add sda4 to the lvm because I > > might want to migrate my root (sda1) to ext4 > > Why do want to do that

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

On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:35:35 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 22 March 2009 22:15:14 Momesso Andrea wrote: > > My current setup is: > > > >Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > /dev/sda1 * 128942324602

[gentoo-user] Resizing physical volume for lvm.

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 172080247+ 83 Linux /dev/sda4

Re: [gentoo-user] How to "freeze" my Gentoo system

On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:40:54 -0700 Michael Higgins wrote: > Don't know the proper term, but I want to stop version updates for a > while, yet allow package-rN updates... > > I spent most of the last couple of days killing two bugs that were a > serious drag on my laptop, involving kacpid hogging

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gamepad is attached... and what?

On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:28:37 +0200 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > [...] > > No, those are for old non-USB joysticks. You need to make sure > > that these are enabled: > > > > Input device support --> <*> Joystick interface > > Input device support --> <*> Event inte

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless broadband modems - Working?

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 08:48:10PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 14 Mar 2009 05:01:38 -0700, Grant wrote: > > > Any better way to manage the connection than 'wvdial' and ctrl+c ? > > I've used Kppp with simlar settings. > If you can do it with wvdial, it can also be done using gentoo ne

Re: [gentoo-user] A little light relief from endless problems

On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 02:03:28PM -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > At Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:49:36 +0100 KH wrote: > > > Peter Humphrey schrieb: > >> As it's Sunday, here's an odd little thing. > >> > >> Not long ago, while booting this machine, four ext3 partitions needed > >> checks > >> on remou

Re: [gentoo-user] update to portage 2.2

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 09:24:40PM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Mittwoch 25 Februar 2009, Momesso Andrea wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 08:03:36PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:42:13 -0300, Zhu Sha Zang wrote: > > > > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] update to portage 2.2

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 08:03:36PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:42:13 -0300, Zhu Sha Zang wrote: > > > >> Hi! I want to update portage to get new features, mostly sets for > > >> kde4.2. > > > Hint: EAPI 2 are aquired using portage-2.1.6.7 . portage-2.2... are > > not stab

Re: [gentoo-user] a multi-process browser?

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 08:27:15PM +0100, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Sunday 15 February 2009, 05:10, Joshua Murphy wrote: > > > Google Chrome's another that has this wonderful feature... and doesn't > > run on Linux (yet). > > And even when it will, I bet it would be under wine. > Nope, it will b

Re: [gentoo-user] strange error during boot

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:52:20AM -0500, John covici wrote: > on Thursday 02/12/2009 Joost Roeleveld(jo...@antarean.org) wrote > > On Thu, February 12, 2009 3:21 pm, Momesso Andrea wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 02:44:15PM +0100, Joost Roeleveld wrote: > > >&g

Re: [gentoo-user] qt-xxx-4.5.0_rc1 conflicts

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 04:44:46PM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Donnerstag 12 Februar 2009, Momesso Andrea wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 04:25:49PM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > On Donnerstag 12 Februar 2009, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] qt-xxx-4.5.0_rc1 conflicts

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 04:25:49PM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Donnerstag 12 Februar 2009, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > > Being on ~amd64 after syncing, 'emerge -pvDuN world' command > > shows plenty similar errors (for each qt-related package), one > > of last ones is shown below. > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] strange error during boot

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 02:44:15PM +0100, Joost Roeleveld wrote: > On Thu, February 12, 2009 2:26 pm, John covici wrote: > > on Thursday 02/12/2009 Joost Roeleveld(jo...@antarean.org) wrote > > > On Thu, February 12, 2009 2:05 pm, John covici wrote: > > > > on Thursday 02/12/2009 Joost Roeleveld(

Re: [gentoo-user] vncviewer Recommendation

On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 10:56:36AM -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Drew Tomlinson > wrote: > > David Negreira wrote: > >> Drew Tomlinson wrote: > >> > >>> I'm looking for an vncviewer for Linux that has the same features as the > >>> Tight VNC viewer on Windows. I r

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} xfce4 network management?

On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 02:58:13PM -0800, Grant wrote: > >>> /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf editing while traveling. Does > >>> > >> There's also wpa_gui. > >> Liviu > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Do you know how to read? > >> http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm > >> Do you know how to wr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

all the distro, and to finalize it, always explaining every step and giving choices. First time I installed gentoo my only linux experience was 8 months of suse, I am not an IT person, but I haven't found the installation that painful. === TopperH === ===

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 02:26:40AM -0600, Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Thursday 05 February 2009 09:57:38 Dale wrote: > > > >> Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> > >>> On Thursday 05 February 2009 09:28:50 Jesús Guerrero wrote: > >>> > There are enough easy-to-use distros. L

[gentoo-user] Wpa_supplicant Libgcrypt warning

Wpa supplicant seems to work fine, anyway I get this warning when I run /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start : wpa_supplicant: Libgcrypt warning: missing initialization - please fix the application What does it mean? === TopperH === pgpAqTcSZ3A41.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: "optimized for your system" -- huh?

On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 03:59:44PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 04 February 2009 15:31:26 Momesso Andrea wrote: > > My question can be put like this: Do binary distro's per package > > optimiziations override the benefit of having arch specific > > optimiz

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: "optimized for your system" -- huh?

On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 08:45:50AM -0430, Sebastián Magrí wrote: [snip] > > > > Often on gentoo related IRC chanels comes someone who asks why his > > firefox-bin (or openoffice-bin or *-bin) runs faster than his > > built-from-source firefox. > > > > Usually chan's gurus answer that upstream pac

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: "optimized for your system" -- huh?

On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 08:58:23AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 04 February 2009 01:48:34 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > So all in all, I agree.  Using Gentoo is nowadays not so much a matter > > of performance optimization but of better control of how to build the > > packages and the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Different servers behind the same router

On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 01:36:55AM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Momesso Andrea wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 05:52:13PM +, Stroller wrote: >>> On 3 Feb 2009, at 17:43, Momesso Andrea wrote: >>>> ... >>>> What happens if I decide to switch to

Re: [gentoo-user] Different servers behind the same router

On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 01:47:00PM -0500, Saphirus Sage wrote: > > > On Feb 3, 2009, at 12:43 PM, Momesso Andrea > wrote: > >> I have a home server running gentoo for personal use (irc, home >> entertainment, file server etc.). >> >> It is reachable from

Re: [gentoo-user] Different servers behind the same router

On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 05:52:13PM +, Stroller wrote: > > On 3 Feb 2009, at 17:43, Momesso Andrea wrote: >> ... >> What happens if I decide to switch to the "router" configuration? If I >> have a single IP for all the machines in the LAN, when someone from the

[gentoo-user] Different servers behind the same router

I have a home server running gentoo for personal use (irc, home entertainment, file server etc.). It is reachable from the internet using a dyamic dns service (dyndns.org). I also have another machine (running gentoo too) that I use as a web server. This machine uses dyndns.org, with a different

Re: [gentoo-user] how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)?

Sorry for topposting (BlackBerry behavior). I think that if emerge =x11-wm/awesome-3.1.1 fails, you should file a bug before masking it. Momesso Andrea -Original Message- From: Neil Bothwick Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:10:05 To: Subject: Re: [gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Any good instructions for creating a Live CD?

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 09:02:11AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Eric Martin wrote: > > Mark Knecht wrote: > >> Hi all, > >>From a thread on another list (pro-audio/music oriented) we're > >> thinking about creating our own Live CD. I'd like this at least > >> in

Re: [gentoo-user] Simplified creation of ebuilds

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Re: [gentoo-user] Permissions of files in /sys/

77lPbzr7c4cbBwfvtr7xMwvB/vtPO0vzz3p/AQ== > > =PgWp > > -END PGP MESSAGE- > > > > Sorry about that... I'm so used to mail with mutt that when it's not available I make terrible mistakes... TopperH === Momesso Andrea http://topperh.blogspot.com === pgpeB6FxnNej7.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Permissions of files in /sys/

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:54:01PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:13:32 +0100, Momesso Andrea wrote: > > > Hmmm... Having not recived any answers might mean that my suspects are > > right and there is no way to create an udev rule for my scope. > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Permissions of files in /sys/

On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 05:28:40PM +0100, Andrea Momesso wrote: > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Paul Hartman > wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Momesso Andrea > > wrote: > >> I'd like to make the file /sys/class/backlight/asus-laptop/brightness >

Re: [gentoo-user] Please explain why this new 'emerge @preserved-rebuild' is good?

s broken packages, @preserved-libs prevents the > breakage in the first place. > Yes and no... This is an interesting reading: http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2008/06/30/a-few-risks-i-see-related-to-the-new-portage-2-2-preserve-libs-behaviour TopperH === Mo

[gentoo-user] Permissions of files in /sys/

sks on changing permissions on /sys files? TopperH ======= Momesso Andrea http://topperh.blogspot.com === pgpbwRBciZ21T.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to prevent Firefox from switching VT?

of KDE's focus stealing prevention in your WM/DE (if it has > one). > If using xfce4: Settings ---> Window Manager Tweaks ---> Focus Leave "Activate focus stealing prevention" unchecked In the field "When a wondow raises itself" choose the second or the third

Re: [gentoo-user] Best website backup practice

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 01:03:46PM -0800, kashani wrote: > I like LVM snapshotting for databases, but that takes some planning and > you have to stop the database. However your mysqlbackup are actually very > unsafe because I know for certain that Mediawiki uses Innodb tables. > mysqlbacku

Re: [gentoo-user] Best website backup practice

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:55:36AM -0800, Kyle Bader wrote: >This is a great method that I utilize: > >http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ > And what about the database? === http://topperh.blogspot.com === pgpP5H7h5icch.p

[gentoo-user] Best website backup practice

I run on an old laptop a website (Joomla + MediaWiki + Moodle + a couple of other things). The site now is offline and I'm ok with my automated backups of all the hard drive, but it's going to go online in a few weeks and I'd like to add some more security. What I'd like to have is periodic snap

[gentoo-user] {OT} Offline reading of online (flash) magazines

Does anyone know an easy way to download for offline usage such a magazine? http://viewer.zmags.com/showmag.php?mid=wrprss The ideal would be to be able to convert it in something more portable (and user friendly) such as PS or PDF. === Momesso Andrea http

Re: [gentoo-user] Headless gentoo install

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 02:24:07PM +0200, Dirk Uys wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Momesso Andrea > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I need to install gentoo on an headless server. > > The problem is that I cannot attach a video on it at all, neither for > &g

[gentoo-user] Headless gentoo install

I need to install gentoo on an headless server. The problem is that I cannot attach a video on it at all, neither for the installation. I asked the seller to setup the bios for cd boot as main option, so that I can use a live distro for the gentoo installation. I know for sure that both the gento

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with kernel upgrade - Intel i810 won't start

On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 08:25:21PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Andrey Falko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 7:51 PM, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > O

Re: [gentoo-user] systemrescuecd: using x86 for amd64

On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 10:13:09PM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Dienstag 04 November 2008, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > > I have several machines with core2-duo chips. Some run x86, others > > amd64. All are gentoo. > > > > The http://sourceforge.net/projects/systemrescuecd has a version fo

[gentoo-user] Update svn ebuilds only when necessary

Is there a way to to update svn packages only when there are updates in the svn source? Actually I use a script to grep "" from eix -I output and put all those packages in a package set, then I have a cron job to rebuild this set weekly. What I'd like to do is to only fetch the svn sources, a

Re: [gentoo-user] Web based ftp alternative

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 08:23:23AM +, Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 29 October 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > > Have you considered the use of webdav, or webdavs? I believe it works fine > with either MSIE and/or MSWE. Of course it works a treat with Konqueror. > The only challenge would be to

Re: [gentoo-user] blocks to fix

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 08:49:13PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:00:41 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Thanks all. I do need to be careful about this as the machine is 400 > > miles away and the user is completely unable to be of any help if it > > stops working meaning I ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Web based ftp alternative

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:40:43AM +0200, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Wednesday 29 October 2008, 09:06, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > you can't use winblows extorter to drop files onto an ftp server? I > > > would have thought that was, er, basic functionality... > > > > Yeah, that's what I thought

Re: [gentoo-user] Web based ftp alternative

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:15:39PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 28 October 2008 22:10:37 Momesso Andrea wrote: > > > Why not just have them view the ftp site in the browser? > > > > > > User's aren't stupid and can cope with stuff - they will se

Re: [gentoo-user] Web based ftp alternative

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 08:38:33PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 28 October 2008 19:38:09 Momesso Andrea wrote: > > I'm looking for a webapp to be installed in a lighttpd + mysql + php > > server that allows users to upload theyr own files and download shared > &g

[gentoo-user] Web based ftp alternative

I'm looking for a webapp to be installed in a lighttpd + mysql + php server that allows users to upload theyr own files and download shared files. Possibly I need something that allows different levels of authorizations over directories, for example a root that is world readable, a folder readable

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} An old iBook G3 as server

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 04:27:35PM +0100, Robert Bridge wrote: > > If you are round a university, I would actually suggest asking around > and seeing if there are old P3 workstations being thrown out. With a > little TLC, gentoo runs nicely on such hardware, especially as a > headless server in a

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} An old iBook G3 as server

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 09:18:32AM -0600, darren kirby wrote: > > > - Is it possible to use the other server (x86) to build packages for the > > ppc? > > Yes, see the cross-compile gentoo docs. > I alredy have a problem with that, and alredy filled a bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id

[gentoo-user] {OT} An old iBook G3 as server

I alredy have a gentoo home server up and running with decent hardware (a FUJITSU SIEMENS Amilo M3438 laptop, Pentium M 1.86GHz, 1.5Gb ram) that I use for general purpose (backup, portage-rsync, bittorrent, groupware) and also for my wife's work (a joomla site, a ftp server, and a mailing list mana

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Email client for a SLOW connection

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 08:15:05AM -0700, Grant wrote: > I'm on an excruciatingly slow internet connection right now. The > email client seems to be the major productivity blocker. Thunderbird > spends a lot of time loading or whatever and squirrelmail is just > slow. Would something like mutt b

[gentoo-user] Same package, same version, different USE flags, how to avoid rebuild?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Automatic host switching [SOLVED]

/root/scripts/hosts.home elif [[ ${IFACE} == "ppp2" ]] ; then /root/scripts/hosts.world fi return 0 } It works like a charm :) -- MOMESSO ANDREA jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] app-crypt/qca blocker

app-crypt/qca:2 won't install if app-crypt/qca:1 is inferior of app-crypt/qca-1.0-r3 that is ~ keyworded Momesso Andrea -Original Message- From: Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:04:11 To: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] app-crypt/qca blocker

Simply unmask app-crypt/qca-1.0-r4 Momesso Andrea -Original Message- From: Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:48:57 To: Subject: [gentoo-user] app-crypt/qca blocker Initially portage informed me about: [blocks B]

Re: [gentoo-user] Automatic host switching

On Sunday 21 September 2008 18:47:24 Robert Bridge wrote: > On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:08:18 +0200 > > Momesso Andrea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My home server is 192.168.1.5 in my home wan, the hostname of the > > machine is "fandango", and the the /etc/h

Re: [gentoo-user] Automatic host switching

On Sunday 21 September 2008 18:28:48 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 21 September 2008 15:08:18 Momesso Andrea wrote: > > My home server is 192.168.1.5 in my home wan, the hostname of the machine > > is "fandango", and the the /etc/hosts in my laptop looks like this: >

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