Re: [gentoo-user] CD trouble - can't read linux discs.

2006-08-04 Thread dg
On Saturday 05 August 2006 01:20, Ed Jabbour wrote: > (Sent to gentoo-laptop by mistake. Sorry if you get this twice.) > > Both Desktop and laptop run gentoo. Desk will boot or mount a knoppix or > other live cd. Lap, however, will do neither - mount returns "bad > superblock." The lap, strange

Re: [gentoo-user] Special characters in the console

2006-08-04 Thread dg
On Saturday 05 August 2006 01:21, Paulo Roberto Candido dos Santos wrote: > Hello. I'm having trouble with special characters like cedilla (ç) and > others like ã and õ. I have a Gentoo server here that runs a custom > enterprise software based in ncurses and slang. I'm from Brazil and these > char

Re: [gentoo-user] Change Partition Type

2006-08-04 Thread dg
On Friday 04 August 2006 01:35, Michael Crute wrote: > On 8/3/06, dg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 03 August 2006 23:52, Michael Crute wrote: > > > I have a laptop and when I initially setup the partitions I > > > anticipated that I would instal

Re: [gentoo-user] Change Partition Type

2006-08-03 Thread dg
On Thursday 03 August 2006 23:52, Michael Crute wrote: > I have a laptop and when I initially setup the partitions I > anticipated that I would install Windoze along side of Linux for > gaming purposes, I now realize that this is never going to happen and > would like to change the partition type f

Re: [gentoo-user] launching iptables

2006-08-02 Thread dg
On Thursday 03 August 2006 00:41, James wrote: > Hello, > > I've got my own iptables script to launch a customized firewall, located in > /usr/local/bin. > > I'm aware of /etc/init.d/iptables the 'runscipt'. I do not wish to edit > this scipt as 'gentoo' updates nuke my edits therein. Where is the

Re: [gentoo-user] Test for X from cli

2006-08-01 Thread dg
On Tuesday 01 August 2006 23:20, John J. Foster wrote: > Good afternoon, > > In a bash script, how can I test whether the script itself is being > run from a virtual terminal, or from an emulator like konsole within X? > > Thanks, > festus Hi, One possible solution would be to check the value of