Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with old nvidia-drivers-71.86.11 (depending x11-base/xorg-server vanished form portage-tree)

2009-12-22 Thread Christian Könitzer
I don't think this is it... Am 21.12.2009 23:24, schrieb Dale: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 21 December 2009 18:48:25 Christian Könitzer wrote: Hi list, I'm using a quite old NVIDIA card aqnd it worked well but since a few days it seams to be deprecated. After a eix --sync I got this: emerg

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problem with old nvidia-drivers-71.86.11 (depending x11-base/xorg-server vanished form portage-tree)

2009-12-22 Thread Christian Könitzer
After reading what overlays are I decided to unmerge my nvidia drivers and use the nv driver instead. Thanks for all your answers! :-) Am 21.12.2009 22:38, schrieb walt: On 12/21/2009 08:48 AM, Christian Könitzer wrote: Hi list, I'm using a quite old NVIDIA card aqnd it worked well but since

Re: [gentoo-user] Writing a bash script or thinking about it anyway.

2009-12-22 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:22:05 -0600, Dale wrote: > Hi folks, > > Me again. I'm thinking about writing a bash script that backs up my > /home directory. I found a guide but before I read all that stuff and > muddy up the waters, is this thing current and will it work fine with > the bash Gento

[gentoo-user] Re: get_iplayer rocks!

2009-12-22 Thread Stroller
On 21 Dec 2009, at 22:23, walt wrote: On 12/21/2009 03:35 AM, Stroller wrote: OMG! get_iplayer rocks! Very cool, thanks. I can't answer your question, but I'm listening to A Celtic Heartbeat from Radio Wales just 15 minutes after I saw this, so thanks for the tip and happy holidays :o) I

Re: [gentoo-user] Writing a bash script or thinking about it anyway.

2009-12-22 Thread Stroller
On 22 Dec 2009, at 03:22, Dale wrote: ... I found a guide but before I read all that stuff and muddy up the waters, is this thing current and will it work fine with the bash Gentoo uses? Links to a even better guide would be good too. The guide I found is here: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/h

Re: [gentoo-user] Writing a bash script or thinking about it anyway.

2009-12-22 Thread Christian Könitzer
I agree with Jesús but recommend you to use rsync for backup purpose. Simple google for rsync backup script. And this link explains why: http://www.sanitarium.net/golug/rsync_backups.html There are a lot backup scripts using rsync out there and most of them are written in bash so it's anyway a g

Re: [gentoo-user] Writing a bash script or thinking about it anyway.

2009-12-22 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:20:46 +0100, Christian Könitzer wrote: > I agree with Jesús but recommend you to use rsync for backup purpose. > Simple google for rsync backup script. > And this link explains why: > http://www.sanitarium.net/golug/rsync_backups.html > > There are a lot backup scripts usin

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale

2009-12-22 Thread John H. Moe
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:31:31 -0500, Willie Wong wrote: > > >> If DSLinux is what I think it is, it may have been (on hindsight) >> rather obvious that it may not support the block device your system HD >> is on or the filesystem used. The DS, afterall, has fairly predictab

Re: [gentoo-user] Writing a bash script or thinking about it anyway.

2009-12-22 Thread Christian Könitzer
a question to b): Can you tell me a fs that supports snappshots (I'm planing to set up a new server so you can choose a new fs... (now I am using reiserfs)) and maybe how to use it (link)? So if you say "or LSM" does this mean I can achieve this also woth LVM? How? thx... If you have some mor

Re: [gentoo-user] Writing a bash script or thinking about it anyway.

2009-12-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 22 December 2009 16:21:08 Christian Könitzer wrote: > a question to b): > Can you tell me a fs that supports snappshots (I'm planing to set up a > new server so you can choose a new fs... (now I am using reiserfs)) and > maybe how to use it (link)? So if you say "or LSM" does this mean I

Re: [gentoo-user] Writing a bash script or thinking about it anyway.

2009-12-22 Thread Ward Poelmans
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 04:22, Dale wrote: > Hi folks, > > Me again.  I'm thinking about writing a bash script that backs up my /home > directory.  I found a guide but before I read all that stuff and muddy up > the waters, is this thing current and will it work fine with the bash Gentoo > uses?

Re: [gentoo-user] Writing a bash script or thinking about it anyway.

2009-12-22 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:51:08 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 22 December 2009 16:21:08 Christian Könitzer wrote: >> a question to b): >> Can you tell me a fs that supports snappshots (I'm planing to set up a >> new server so you can choose a new fs... (now I am using reiserfs)) and >> may

Re: [gentoo-user] Writing a bash script or thinking about it anyway.

2009-12-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:08:18 +0100, Ward Poelmans wrote: > You should take a look at rsnapshot ( http://rsnapshot.org/ ). I use > it and it works perfectly. But it's written in perl and not bash, i'm > afraid. That misses the point. This isn't really about making backups, it's about learning to w

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale

2009-12-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:04:30 +1000, John H. Moe wrote: > > DS = Damn Small, not Dual Screen. > > > > I don't know if anyone has installed Gentoo on the DS you were > > thinking of ;-) > > > The anal-retentive in me feels compelled to point out: > > http://www.dslinux.org/ > http://www.damnsm

Re: [gentoo-user] does slim work with xorg-server1.7.3?

2009-12-22 Thread fei huang
thanks for your reply, I've got the same version with yours, lots of silmilar bugs found by google, I'm wondering if you can properly stop the slim by running "/etc/init.d/xdm stop"? this is a known bug, not sure why you can use it with no issue. have switched to gdm, slower but less buggy. tks

Re: [gentoo-user] Writing a bash script or thinking about it anyway.

2009-12-22 Thread Ward Poelmans
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 16:39, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:08:18 +0100, Ward Poelmans wrote: > >> You should take a look at rsnapshot ( http://rsnapshot.org/ ). I use >> it and it works perfectly. But it's written in perl and not bash, i'm >> afraid. > > That misses the point. Th

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is my /dev/fd0?

2009-12-22 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 18 December 2009 09:32:12 Neil Bothwick wrote: > Yes, thankfully. Floppy disks have no real place nowadays, they are > bulky, unreliable and store very little. On the other hand, in some circumstances a boot manager on a floppy is still the only way into a system recovery. I had to dig

[gentoo-user] Mail from rkhunter

2009-12-22 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, What's the minimum configuration required on a remote system to get rkhunter to email my GMail account if the rkhunter cron job finds something suspicious? Do I have to emerge and configure an email server of some type or can rkhunter just send email on its own? Thanks, Mark

[gentoo-user] make an -9999 ebuild compile only if necessary

2009-12-22 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have ebuilds fetching the source code directly from a repository (be it CVS,SVN,HG,GIT,...) I'd like to modify the .ebuild to enter compilation only if something has been updated. Is this possible, has somebody else tried to do so? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrs

[gentoo-user] Re: make an -9999 ebuild compile only if necessary

2009-12-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/22/2009 07:21 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I have ebuilds fetching the source code directly from a repository (be it CVS,SVN,HG,GIT,...) I'd like to modify the .ebuild to enter compilation only if something has been updated. Is this possible, has somebody else tried to do so? Given tha

Re: [gentoo-user] make an -9999 ebuild compile only if necessary

2009-12-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > I have ebuilds fetching the source code directly from a repository > (be it CVS,SVN,HG,GIT,...) > I'd like to modify the .ebuild to enter compilation only if something > has been updated. > Is this possible, has somebody else tried

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make an -9999 ebuild compile only if necessary

2009-12-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 12/22/2009 07:21 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I have ebuilds fetching the source code directly from a repository >> (be it CVS,SVN,HG,GIT,...) >> I'd like to modify the .ebuild to enter compilation only if something >> h

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale

2009-12-22 Thread Grant
New problem: Booted into DSLinux, my HD does not appear so I can't wipe it.  blkid and fdisk -l only show the USB stick assigned to /dev/sda which is how I accidentally wiped it in the first place. I'll try another distro on the USB stick. >> >> DSLinux couldn't find my HD becau

Re: [gentoo-user] Writing a bash script or thinking about it anyway.

2009-12-22 Thread Stroller
On 22 Dec 2009, at 10:34, Jesús Guerrero wrote: ... http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ The advanced bash scripting guide will be equally valid nowadays as it was when it was first written. It seems well-maintained from the revision history at the top of the linked page. Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] Writing a bash script or thinking about it anyway.

2009-12-22 Thread Stroller
On 22 Dec 2009, at 15:36, Jesús Guerrero wrote: ... I have no serious experience with ZFS, it kind of turns me back the fact that it's a FUSE based fs, though it's certainly possible to use it even for a root system provided that your kernel can load the module at bootup ... ZFS shouldn't

Re: [gentoo-user] No desktop after login with kdm

2009-12-22 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/20/2009 4:45 PM, nelis.bo...@gmail.com wrote: I had to hardreboot my laptop was totaly unresponsive to any input. Now that I have rebooted I can login with kdm but after that I have no desktop. I can open applications with krunner (alt+f2) but thats it. All the applications looks okay. A

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is my /dev/fd0?

2009-12-22 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/21/2009 7:44 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On which topic, is there a make of USB stick that is more-or-less guaranteed to boot on any system? I haven't found one yet. Some will boot on this box, some on that one, but none on any of them. Well, first you need a box that supports booting fr

[gentoo-user] Re: Switching AP from madwifi to ath5k

2009-12-22 Thread Grant
> I've tried several times to switch from the madwifi wireless drivers > to the in-kernel ath5k.  Since I'm up to 2.6.32, I'd like to give it > another try. > > It looks like wlan0 is starting in master mode and my laptop is > connecting to it successfully.  The problem is that shorewall won't > st

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail from rkhunter

2009-12-22 Thread forgottenwizard
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 08:38:14AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >What's the minimum configuration required on a remote system to get > rkhunter to email my GMail account if the rkhunter cron job finds > something suspicious? > >Do I have to emerge and configure an email server of some t

[gentoo-user] [OT apache] No cgi scripts work now

2009-12-22 Thread Harry Putnam
This machine was my local lan httpd server, but then I switched that functionality to an opensolaris machine... due to problems with a recent osol build I switched back temporarily. Meantime I must have allowed a new config to get setup ... maybe thru careless allowing of new conf files. Whatever

Re: [gentoo-user] make an -9999 ebuild compile only if necessary

2009-12-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 22 December 2009 19:21:21 Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > I have ebuilds fetching the source code directly from a repository > (be it CVS,SVN,HG,GIT,...) > I'd like to modify the .ebuild to enter compilation only if something > has been updated. > Is this possible, has somebody else tr

[gentoo-user] exaile and mp3 support

2009-12-22 Thread Arnau Bria
Hi all, I'm trying to load mp3 on exaile: ar...@amparo ~ $ eix exaile [I] media-sound/exaile Available versions: 0.3.0_alpha2 ~0.3.0 ~0.3.0.1 {cddb doc hal libnotify libsexy nls} Installed versions: 0.3.0_alpha2(10:24:28 PM 12/21/2009)(hal libnotify libsexy nls -cddb -doc) from ht

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale

2009-12-22 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 12:06:53PM -0800, Penguin Lover Grant squawked: > The problem with that is there doesn't seem to be a Gentoo ISO which > will fit on a 512MB USB key. I tried to make it work once and failed. > The other thing is going through the entire Gentoo installation just > to sell t

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale

2009-12-22 Thread Grant
>> The problem with that is there doesn't seem to be a Gentoo ISO which >> will fit on a 512MB USB key.  I tried to make it work once and failed. >>  The other thing is going through the entire Gentoo installation just >> to sell the laptop.  I'm not sure if the graphical installer is >> working th

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale

2009-12-22 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 03:41:31PM +, Penguin Lover Neil Bothwick squawked: > > http://www.dslinux.org/ > > http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ > > > > DSLinux = Linux on the Nintendo DS > > DSL = Damn Small Linux > > I knew about the latter of course, having already mentioned it. I'd also > said

Re: [gentoo-user] Writing a bash script or thinking about it anyway.

2009-12-22 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:34:34AM +0100, Penguin Lover Jes??s Guerrero squawked: > The advanced bash scripting guide will be equally valid nowadays as it was > when it was first written. A few minor edges have changed in bash in the > latest times, but you are unlikely to get touched by these unl

Re: [gentoo-user] Writing a bash script or thinking about it anyway.

2009-12-22 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:16:36AM +, Penguin Lover Stroller squawked: > On 22 Dec 2009, at 03:22, Dale wrote: >> ... I found a guide but before I read all that stuff and muddy up the >> waters, is this thing current and will it work fine with the bash Gentoo >> uses? Links to a even better

Re: [gentoo-user] Writing a bash script or thinking about it anyway. [now Bash guides]

2009-12-22 Thread Bruce Hill
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 06:30:15PM -0500, Willie Wong wrote: > > The Advanced Scripting Guide is brilliant. It's my gospel when Bash > > scripting, although I'll admit I haven't looked harder for anything else. > > If there is any better guide out there, I would love to hear about it. > > I agre

[gentoo-user] Re: Writing a bash script or thinking about it anyway.

2009-12-22 Thread »Q«
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:22:05 -0600 Dale wrote: > I found a guide but before I read all that stuff and muddy up the > waters, is this thing current and will it work fine with the bash > Gentoo uses? Links to a even better guide would be good too. The > guide I found is here: > > http://tldp.org/

Re: [gentoo-user] Writing a bash script or thinking about it anyway.

2009-12-22 Thread Francisco Ares
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 3:09 AM, Dale wrote: > Neil Walker wrote: >> >> Dale wrote: >> >>> >>> Me again.  I'm thinking about writing a bash script that backs up my >>> /home directory. >>> >> >> I use a simple rsync cron job to backup entire servers every hour. Does >> the job for me. ;) >> >> >>