Re: [gentoo-user] app-admin/mcelog daily cronjob?

2014-04-16 Thread Randy Barlow
; -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 141 Apr 16 14:09 mcelog > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.3K Feb 4 23:53 mlocate I don't think cron will attempt to execute anything in cron.daily that doesn't have execute perms, so the error probably isn't coming from mcelog. -- Randy Barlow pgpWmMYljOr98.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can not mount USB stick as user

2014-02-07 Thread Randy Barlow
On Thu, 06 Feb 2014 14:19:35 -0500, Alan McKinnon wrote: Dim memory tells me it's somewhere around 2006/7? What about DIMM memory? Get it? Get it? OK, I'll go back to my corner now… -- R

Re: [gentoo-user] xterms --featureRICH --suggestions?

2014-01-28 Thread Randy Barlow
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 04:52:22PM +, James wrote: > One thing I miss > is feature rich tabbed terminal session. I recommend checking out x11-terms/terminator[0]. It can do tabs, and it can also do grids. It's nice. [0] http://gnometerminator.blogspot.com/p/introduction.html

Re: [gentoo-user] NAT problem

2014-01-10 Thread Randy Barlow
e only a half of the files list and the terminal hangs > after that. This kind of thing could happen if two hosts on your network were using the same IP address. Can you verify whether that might be the case or not? -- Randy Barlow

[gentoo-user] Another Network Management Utility: netctl

2013-12-19 Thread Randy Barlow
#x27;t remember for sure which pieces were difficult (probably the tunnel?) [2] https://packages.gentoo.org/package/net-misc/netctl -- Randy Barlow signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] to nest commands

2013-11-26 Thread Randy Barlow
On Tue, 26 Nov 2013 11:52:10 +0100 Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: > There are some other options of "nesting" as well. You can use > backticks "`" or $(...) to run a command "inside" another. An example > would be emerge `qlist -CI x11-drivers` (or the equivalent emerge > $(qlist -CI x11-drivers)

Re: [gentoo-user] Terminals not closing after exit anymore

2013-11-25 Thread Randy Barlow
On Sun, 24 Nov 2013 15:14:33 +0100 Marc Stürmer wrote: > When working under X11 in a terminal and I type "exit" in the shell, > the terminal does not close itself anymore. Hi Marc, Did you find out what was causing this issue? I've been experiencing it as well in my Gnome 2 system (gnome-termin

Re: [gentoo-user] HA-Proxy or iptables?

2013-08-29 Thread Randy Barlow
Honestly, I think the best solution is to switch the company to using domain names to access these resources. This makes it much easier to silently introduce things like load balancers later on if you ever need to scale. It's also much easier to communicate to new users how to find this resource

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD partitioning and migration

2013-07-22 Thread Randy Barlow
Stroller wrote: I wouldn't have bothered making this distinction, but I think: 1TB = 1000GB 1Tb = 125GB There are also TiBs[0]: 1 TiB = 1024 GiB Similarly, there are MiB, etc. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tebibyte -- R

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng segfaults

2013-07-22 Thread Randy Barlow
Neil Bothwick wrote: Try app-admin/checkrestart, I generally run this after updating any daemons or libraries. This sounds very helpful, thanks for the suggestion Neil! -- R

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng segfaults

2013-07-19 Thread Randy Barlow
Alexey Mishustin wrote: So, restarting syslog-ng should be all that's required to fix it - reboot is >overkill. As for me, first I updated syslog-ng, then I issued '/etc/init.d/syslog-ng reload' (by mistake, instead of 'restart'), and then 'restart' as I should. Then, just when syslog-ng was r

Re: [gentoo-user] [Solved] syslog-ng segfaults

2013-07-19 Thread Randy Barlow
Dan Johansson wrote: Question: Is this a "physical" host or is it a virtual host running under qemu? Reason for my question ist that recently the CPU-Id presented from quemu in the guest has changed and if you have CFLAGS="-march=native" then some newly compiles SW could fail. One way to solve th

Re: [gentoo-user] [Solved] syslog-ng segfaults

2013-07-18 Thread Randy Barlow
Randy Barlow wrote: I'll add in that this seems to be happening to all three of my x86_64 hosts. It does not appear to happen on my x86 host. I rebooted one of the hosts that was experiencing this issue, and it did not return afterwards. This surprises me, as restarting the service did

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng segfaults

2013-07-18 Thread Randy Barlow
On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 18:41 -0400, Randy Barlow wrote: > Has anybody else seen anything like that? I'll add in that this seems to be happening to all three of my x86_64 hosts. It does not appear to happen on my x86 host. -- R

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng segfaults

2013-07-18 Thread Randy Barlow
On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 17:49 -0500, Bruce Hill wrote: > Try changing the version at the top of the config file to the present version. It's at 3.4, and I have the gentoo default config. Thanks for the suggestion! -- R

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng segfaults

2013-07-18 Thread Randy Barlow
On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 18:41 -0400, Randy Barlow wrote: > I saw that there were a couple of syslog-ng threads recently, but > neither of them mentioned any segfaulting which I am currently > experiencing. My log file (dmesg and /var/log/messages) is full of lines > like this: > &g

[gentoo-user] syslog-ng segfaults

2013-07-18 Thread Randy Barlow
I saw that there were a couple of syslog-ng threads recently, but neither of them mentioned any segfaulting which I am currently experiencing. My log file (dmesg and /var/log/messages) is full of lines like this: syslog-ng[32015]: segfault at 44d8 ip 7f4f3fa23c83 sp 7fffb233b940 error 4 in

Re: [gentoo-user] sendmail: warning: inet_protocols: disabling IPv6

2013-06-18 Thread Randy Barlow
On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:39:12 -0400, Joseph wrote: I've tried to edit /etc/postfix/main.cf but it does not contain any statement such as "inet_protocols" It could be something to do with a new portage :-/ I use inet_protocols = all on my mail system (that way it's dual stack). I bet if you a

Re: [gentoo-user] why my system is keeping old kernel around?

2013-04-28 Thread Randy Barlow
orld and see if I can pinpoint an action that is doing this. Thanks! -- Randy Barlow

Re: [gentoo-user] why my system is keeping old kernel around?

2013-04-28 Thread Randy Barlow
t's getting in there in the first place. -- Randy Barlow

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-28 Thread Randy Barlow
ibutions, so there's no worry that we will be bringing MongoDB to be on each distribution. I just want people to focus on the fact that there is still choice. You are not alone in your dislike for these technologies, and for you there are options. Yeah, maybe you will be using a technology that is only used by a minority, but we're all used to that on this list, right? :) -- Randy Barlow

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-27 Thread Randy Barlow
k you may be thinking of someone else. I don't recall having ever mentioned The Evil OS®. I too have been using Linux exclusively for a fairly long while :) -- Randy Barlow

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-27 Thread Randy Barlow
so far. Any one of us could fork any OSS project we wanted at any time and tweak it for what we want and share with the world. That is really good. -- Randy Barlow

Re: [gentoo-user] How reliable is ext3?

2013-04-23 Thread Randy Barlow
btrfs is definitely still considered "experimental", but ext4 is considered stable by the kernel team, I believe. I've been using ext4 on many systems for a few years, and it's been fine. It has the advantage of having extents over ext3, as well as a few other performance improvements. -- Randy Barlow

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM on VM or not? - WAS Re: Best filesystem for virtualized gentoo mail server - WAS: vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-21 Thread Randy Barlow
ange while the backup is in progress. The fact that LVM snapshots happen instantly is an advantage, and also that you can perform the snapshots while the system is running. -- Randy Barlow

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM on VM or not? - WAS Re: Best filesystem for virtualized gentoo mail server - WAS: vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-21 Thread Randy Barlow
sts. LVM just works with block devices, and the ESXi disks should work like block devices, so everything should be fine. Again, I've never used VMWare very extensively, so this isn't coming from experience. -- Randy Barlow

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM on VM or not? - WAS Re: Best filesystem for virtualized gentoo mail server - WAS: vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-21 Thread Randy Barlow
On Sun, 2013-04-21 at 12:32 -0400, Randy Barlow wrote: > LVM gives a lot of > flexibility in managing virtual machines, so I'd highly recommend it. I should mention one specific advantage to using LVM over file-based images: I believe you will find that LVM performs better. Thi

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM on VM or not? - WAS Re: Best filesystem for virtualized gentoo mail server - WAS: vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-21 Thread Randy Barlow
s as well, though I have never personally tried that. -- Randy Barlow

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-libs/folks-0.4.3 fails to emerge

2013-04-08 Thread Randy Barlow
entoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=464500 -- Randy Barlow

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-06 Thread Randy Barlow
dered to obsolote some tools, such as ifconfig. -- Randy Barlow

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse Pad & X11

2013-04-06 Thread Randy Barlow
On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 19:49 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > For scrolling one has to move ONE finger on the right edge of the > pad. > > And it scrolls! > > BUT unfortunately the scrollevents ALWAYS reach the taskbar and I am > warped through my desktops regardless of the focus a certain wind

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse Pad & X11

2013-04-06 Thread Randy Barlow
someone else on here will chime in :) > Thank you very much for any help in advance! No problem, and apologies that it's not super complete. I'm more of a backend kind of dude, so my familiarity with DE stuff is mostly from a user's perspective (i.e., GUI configuration). -- Randy Barlow

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse Pad & X11

2013-04-06 Thread Randy Barlow
On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 08:32 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > How can I activate/use the additional functionality as reported by the > log file? I'm not familiar with that device, but I do have a suggestion: does it respond to multitouch gestures? For example, with my trackpad on my T530, I can

Re: [gentoo-user] hwclock: command not found

2013-02-25 Thread Randy Barlow
On Mon, 25 Feb 2013, Joseph wrote: I'm updating clock via bash script. When I run it from a command line, it works just fine but when I try to run it via crontab I get: /home/thelma/business/programs/time_date_setting_script.sh: line 3: hwclock: command not found Could it be that cron doesn'

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd-197-r1 starts gdm-3.6.2 [now gnome3]

2013-02-12 Thread Randy Barlow
Thanks for the reply! I agree that it is complicated, and that the direction of Gnome is mysterious. I've been using it at work, and I've enjoyed some things about it. Some other choices are puzzling. I'm interested to stick around to see where it will go.

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd-197-r1 starts gdm-3.6.2

2013-02-12 Thread Randy Barlow
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: GNOME 3.6 is not masked in Gentoo, just keyworded. Apologies for the slight thread hijack, but I've been curious if anyone knows the current state of Gnome 3 in Gentoo? I'm currently on Gnome 2, and I'm one of those weirdos who kind of likes Gnome

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: networking and libvirt

2013-01-28 Thread Randy Barlow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/20/2013 12:37 AM, William Kenworthy wrote: > So what is usually recommended and works for this scenario? I personally use a bridged interface that allows my VMs to be on the "physical" network. That works out pretty well. In my use case, it's th

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Fighting bit rot

2013-01-08 Thread Randy Barlow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/08/2013 02:27 AM, Florian Philipp wrote: > As I said above, the point is that I need to detect the error as > long as I still have a valid backup. Professional archive solutions > do this on their own but I'm looking for something suitable for >

Re: [gentoo-user] Any UPS recommendations?

2013-01-08 Thread Randy Barlow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'd actually like to hop on this thread and submit a related question, that by some small chance might be relevant to the OP as well. I have a power factor correcting power supply, and I have read a lot of conflicting information about whether or not

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone succeeded with kmail2?

2013-01-06 Thread Randy Barlow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/06/2013 09:10 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > I've got Thunderbird to connect to my ISP and fetch new messages, > but I now have another, large problem. It won't import my 25,000 or > so messages from kmail, nor even its filters. I do not wish to los

Re: [gentoo-user] 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore

2013-01-05 Thread Randy Barlow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/05/2013 02:53 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > I think I touched on this a couple of weeks ago but never had time > to dig in. At that time I thought this problem was only on one > machine but now I see it's on every machine I've looked at this > morning

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone succeeded with kmail2?

2013-01-03 Thread Randy Barlow
On 01/03/2013 12:09 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Does anyone recommend a mail client that doesn't rely too heavily on the > mouse? I much prefer to navigate, reply etc with the keyboard. I've > seen Evolution recommended; is that OK? Thunderbird is my favorite mail client. You can do a lot with the

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sets syntax (@world vs. world)

2012-12-12 Thread Randy Barlow
Alan McKinnon wrote: The portage man page has unfortunately also used the word "set" for a different reason. Portage has always had a concept of "world" (not @world) and "system" (not @system) which were really "just a bunch of stuff that happens to pop out of portage because it's hard-coded that

Re: [gentoo-user] Localmount starts before LVM

2012-12-11 Thread Randy Barlow
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:28:37 +0530 Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: Exactly the reason why I wanted RAID0 and LVM in combination: more IOPS. ZFS looks very interesting, how stable is it? On Linux, not at all (it doesn't exist there except using fuse) On FreeBSD, rock solid. On

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp alternatives: msmtp vs. dma

2012-12-05 Thread Randy Barlow
Grant wrote: msmtp --passwordeval 'gpg -d mypwfile.gpg' Be careful with passing your password as a command line argument, because it will put your password into the output of ps. This would allow any user on the system to read your password. -- R

Re: [gentoo-user] thunderbird (~17.0) good idea?

2012-12-03 Thread Randy Barlow
James wrote: Anyone tryied thunderbird (~17.0) ? I'm still on Thunderbird 10 with my Gentoo system, but I do occasionally use Thunderbird 17 in Fedora at work. It works just fine, but take into consideration that I haven't tried that version in Gentoo specifically. -- R

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set-up "shutdown-only" user?

2012-12-03 Thread Randy Barlow
Randy Barlow wrote: Could you create a simple webapp that requires authentication and has a big Shutdown button? Something like that would be fairly easy to make with Django, or something simpler like Pylons. Alternatively, you could write your own shell that only has the shutdown command and

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set-up "shutdown-only" user?

2012-12-03 Thread Randy Barlow
Jarry wrote: I'm facing this problem: I *have to* allow one non-root user to shutdown my server remotely (ssh). I know I could create account for him and add his login into /etc/shutdown.allow but I do not want to grant him full shell access. I thought about adding "/sbin/shutdown -a h now" as h

Re: [gentoo-user] Google Chrome leftovers

2012-11-29 Thread Randy Barlow
On Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:06:26 -0500, Mark Knecht wrote: As my interest (at this time, today only) is text message, does the Google Voice service accept text messages like a cell phone would or is it purely a voice service like a land line? It accepts them like a cell phone, and there is a web

Re: [gentoo-user] Google Chrome leftovers

2012-11-29 Thread Randy Barlow
On Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:12:16 -0500, Mark Knecht wrote: Also, is anyone successfully using GoogleTalk in Chrome on Gentoo? Yeah, it works for me: $ equery list google-chrome google-talkplugin * Searching for google-chrome ... [IP-] [ ] www-client/google-chrome-22.0.1229.94_p161065:stable

Re: [gentoo-user] Share /home with Gentoo and Ubuntu

2012-11-27 Thread Randy Barlow
On Tue, 27 Nov 2012 13:01:28 -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: You can work around it fairly easily, though. Just mount all of your version-independent stuff separately, under ~/Documents or whatever. Or never go back to Ubuntu =) This is good advice. Another potential solution is to use symlink

Re: [gentoo-user] Update After A Year

2008-01-10 Thread Randy Barlow
lly check more than just /etc/pam.d/* if you don't find it there because it's possible for mail servers or web servers to use these things the old way too! -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS problem

2008-01-08 Thread Randy Barlow
later, it boots > and no further problems are experienced. Have you run a memory test? -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS problem

2008-01-06 Thread Randy Barlow
printer, hpijs is the only option of the two. I know that hplip includes hpijs, but I was looking for a driver called hplip and didn't see it... -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS problem

2008-01-06 Thread Randy Barlow
Dale wrote: > They recently changed it over to hplip. Is that installed on your system? Sorry to steal the thread a bit, but should hplip show up as an option for the driver to your printer? Because I still see hpijs as the printer driver even though I have the hplip package. -- Randy Bar

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} wengophone-like or skype-like SIP service?

2008-01-04 Thread Randy Barlow
, gizmo, and a Linksys ATA. Basically, I get and make calls with grandcentral, which forwards the calls to gizmo, which I set to forward to my sip setup on asterisk, which is in my house with the ata for phonenicitude. You could try that ;) -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox update results in Yahoo request for newer version

2008-01-03 Thread Randy Barlow
the same version of Firefox (and also in Gnome, though I doubt that matters) and don't see this problem. Are you using firefox-bin instead of building it? Any funny settings in about:config? -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox update results in Yahoo request for newer version

2008-01-03 Thread Randy Barlow
> > Why miss out? > To see all the new Yahoo! home page has to offer, please upgrade to a > more recent browser. I use Firefox on a 32-bit system (built from source, not binary) and I do not see this problem! -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Best route forward?

2008-01-02 Thread Randy Barlow
rward? Should I just stick with my current > build of kde? Or is there an easy way to remove all the blocks and then > push in kde-meta? Is it worth it? If you want to do the meta, you can unmerge kde, and then do an emerge --depclean. -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] dis-functional error from emerge -vuDN

2008-01-02 Thread Randy Barlow
needs to be uncommented in one of them. /etc/security isn't the only place to look. I use PAM on my mail server and IMAP server, and I had to change some files in there that used the old way. Do you have a mail server that uses PAM? Do you have a web server that uses PAM? Any other serv

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge failing on ebuild [econf failed]

2007-12-27 Thread Randy Barlow
ronment file is located at > '/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.5.1- > r4/temp/environment'. > > * > > > [...] What's in this "[...]"? The error message that matters the most is likely to be in there... -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Any glaring use flags here

2007-12-25 Thread Randy Barlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > not sure what -X really does. -X tells it not to include support for X11 for all packages that have that as an option. This should be used for most server/console only type systems... -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] moving my instalation to new hard drive

2007-12-24 Thread Randy Barlow
setup if you do dd as well, unless you dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb (or am I wrong about this?) -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.23 and xorg delayed startup

2007-12-24 Thread Randy Barlow
me properly configured? And in /etc/hosts do you have your 127.0.0.1 entry? -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Ditch webmail?

2007-12-20 Thread Randy Barlow
Grant wrote: > I used mutt for a long time but when I tried squirrelmail my > productivity when up 5 fold. I'm thinking switching to a desktop app > would be even better. Plus no PHP on my server. I like Thunderbird. -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROT

Re: [gentoo-user] Persistent revdep-rebuild issues: sun-jdk-1.4.2.16

2007-12-19 Thread Randy Barlow
x27;t very complete yet. I would just use Sun for now... -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] brlcad users here?--RESOLVED

2007-12-19 Thread Randy Barlow
maxim wexler wrote: > Just to clarify: What does a 'pre-compiled binary' do? > There wasn't even an executable that I could see. A precompiled library is just one that has already been built for you from the source code. So, somewhere in there should have been an executable

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Got myself in a bind unmerging portage

2007-12-17 Thread Randy Barlow
"open read (only)", but just in case, does mount show that the fs that /root is on is mounted rw? -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Got myself in a bind unmerging portage

2007-12-16 Thread Randy Barlow
de on a system that already has packages on it? Would the new version of portage still be aware of the current world, or would that wipe the world file/other currently installed package data? -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Python vs C++ [was: Gentoo Rules]

2007-12-16 Thread Randy Barlow
ing to the language, not the use of the language by Portage :) -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Python vs C++ [was: Gentoo Rules]

2007-12-16 Thread Randy Barlow
y indicate bugs in your code - so hopefully you would be a good coder and ensure that you manage memory correctly. Abi changes suck big time, I agree on that point, and also the updates - hadn't thought of that one :) -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Python vs C++ [was: Gentoo Rules]

2007-12-16 Thread Randy Barlow
mpiled, and is pretty dang elegant. It's also pretty platform independent, which is also nice. -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

2007-12-15 Thread Randy Barlow
ter to build > binary packages that the others can install is so much more efficient. It does help in the case that Florian mentioned, also quoted at the top, about the laptop... I agree that if you are going to build the same thing for every computer it makes sense to do it ju

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging mythtv? permission denied...

2007-12-15 Thread Randy Barlow
w nothing about svn, other than it also does what cvs does :) -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [Fwd: Re: Gentoo Rules]

2007-12-15 Thread Randy Barlow
ion at the end of the ebuild. But, are htaccess passwords sent in plaintext? If so, that's also a major security risk. -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DMZ on an vmware gentoo guest running on winXP host

2007-12-15 Thread Randy Barlow
at data safely in a virtual machine running on windows - I'd say having windows involved at all here is a risk. But you could definitely do it... -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [Fwd: Re: Gentoo Rules]

2007-12-15 Thread Randy Barlow
it's just a configure make make install, but here you have a lot of configuration files and differences of opinion. I was thinking that a USE variable could be in order here, to support suid and a separate apache instance. Perhaps the variable could be suid? -- Randy Barlow http://e

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [Fwd: Re: Gentoo Rules]

2007-12-15 Thread Randy Barlow
the web interface would be open. -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

2007-12-15 Thread Randy Barlow
Florian Philipp wrote: > Maybe his/her laptop doesn't stand the > thermal output of its CPU when emerging or maybe he/she's the > administrator of a large company's network, trying to move every > computer system to Gentoo. Check out distccd! -- Randy Barlow h

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [Fwd: Re: Gentoo Rules]

2007-12-15 Thread Randy Barlow
onfigured to work with its own instance of apache (run as user backuppc), and I think none of the ebuild contributors are all too sure of the standard "Gentoo" way of doing this. I'd be happy to try and make an ebuild that is a good compromise of the ideas listed in

Re: [Fwd: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules]

2007-12-14 Thread Randy Barlow
lds off of the devs' shoulders so they can spend more of their time checking. Ebuilds for the majority of packages are pretty simple anyways, especially packages that just need a ./configure && make && make install, so getting a bad bug in the ebuild itself isn't going to be that hard to avoid. -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

2007-12-14 Thread Randy Barlow
Grant wrote: > Let me in on that. What can I do too? Find bugs on b.g.o. and help out! -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [Fwd: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules]

2007-12-14 Thread Randy Barlow
kage is to use the ebuild for the old version ;) -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT:hardware sniffer equipment

2007-12-14 Thread Randy Barlow
ne of it's 5 ports on the back, and then you could plug a machine in there to log/process it. This is not something I have done, it's just a suggestion for you to ponder. It may or may not be possible, I don't know... -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT:hardware sniffer equipment

2007-12-14 Thread Randy Barlow
at but > and a linux device. > > I'd consider an embedded (linux) board with a few ports, if they > are or can be setup as a flat hub. This seems like something that you should be able to do with OpenWRT and a Linksys WRT54Gl... -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] gaming kernel

2007-12-13 Thread Randy Barlow
able, but I wouldn't want any tcp connections to time out from not being serviced (how long is a typical timeout anyhow?) -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] cups problem

2007-12-07 Thread Randy Barlow
Roger Mason wrote: > I have tried both the ipp and lpd devices to no > avail. Just FYI, IPP is the Internet Printing Protocol and it is used to print to a device on another machine, so that's why it didn't work for you here :) -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: lxr and Mysql problem

2007-12-07 Thread Randy Barlow
om the console, or kdevelop for GUI. Is it just a text editor you are looking for? -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] services not starting since move to amd64

2007-12-06 Thread Randy Barlow
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > looks fine but doesn't start at next boot. Or more exactly: It seems to > get started, but doesn't run then. Does this only happen at boot, or does it also happen if you manually call /etc/init.d/sshd start? -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatsho

Re: [gentoo-user] New kernel broken nvidia-drivers

2007-12-06 Thread Randy Barlow
Apparently they have a new version scheme than they used to use, but you are right, 71.86.01 works. Now we just have to solve Mick's problem! -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] New kernel broken nvidia-drivers

2007-12-06 Thread Randy Barlow
it does seem pretty similar. I wonder if it's a problem with the new kernel, or if the way to configure the things that the drivers need has changed. Anybody else have a clue? -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] New kernel broken nvidia-drivers

2007-12-06 Thread Randy Barlow
ith my new config. I attached the build log. It complains about some things not being defined, like nv_pte_t_cache. Is this a kernel config problem? I didn't find it in bugs.gentoo, but google found a few others having the same issue with some other versions of nvidia-drivers. -- Ra

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Router/Firewall strangeness

2007-12-05 Thread Randy Barlow
r which kernel, you type memtest86, I think. -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Router/Firewall strangeness

2007-12-05 Thread Randy Barlow
Grant wrote: > I'm on the box now and it's quite non-functional. ctrl+alt+del prints > "INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/shutdown". I'm going to do a hard reset > and we'll see what happens. That's very strange. Memory test? Can you read the l

Re: [gentoo-user] Weatherbug for linux

2007-10-15 Thread Randy Barlow
Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 14:28 -0500, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: >> Weather has just released a beta app for linux. > This is pretty funny. What is also funny is that it has the word "bug" in it's name. Run! -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatsh

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging java with gcj

2007-10-14 Thread Randy Barlow
er just compiles to byte code. I have no experience with gcj though, so I can't answer your second question... > I wonder how I can change that. Just re-emerge gcc with USE="gcj" and > all packages containing java code? Is it even a good idea? -- Randy Barlow http://el

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa problem

2007-10-09 Thread Randy Barlow
Chuanwen Wu wrote: > I also tried to emerge alsa-driver and didn't use the driver in the > kernel,but the result was all the same. I don't know the module name for the HD, but did you add it to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 and/or modprobe it first? -- R

Re: [gentoo-user] apache: Directory index forbidden by Options directive

2007-10-08 Thread Randy Barlow
27;ve got that and you've reinstalled php should work again! -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache 2.2.6 missing /etc/apache2/mime.types

2007-10-08 Thread Randy Barlow
re out how to do a few things the new way (I think I had been keeping the same LONG httpd.conf for a long time and this time it didn't work anymore...). -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache 2.2.6 missing /etc/apache2/mime.types

2007-10-07 Thread Randy Barlow
Randy Barlow wrote: > I see a package called mime-types, but it seems to install > /etc/mime.types and not /etc/apache2/mime.types... Help? I found a temporary solution by symlinking /etc/apache2/mime.types to /etc/mime.types, but that doesn't seem like the correct way to go... -- R

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