[gentoo-user] Search gentoo documentation

2005-06-08 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Is there any way to search the Gentoo docs? I have tried google: http://www.google.com/search?as_q=vixie-cron+ssmpt +mailbase&num=10&hl=en&btnG=Google +Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=lang_en&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=www.gentoo.org%2Fdoc&safe=images (sear

[gentoo-user] Where does package.provided go?

2005-06-20 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Since "emerge -inject" is depreciated, the way to tell emerge that a package is already installed is to list it in package.provided. It seems there is some confusion as to where package.provided should be placed. The portage man page talks about /etc/make.profile/ but I have seen other documentat

Re: [gentoo-user] Where does package.provided go?

2005-06-21 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
I had noticed that in the portage manpage but thought it meant I had to make my own profile. Guess not. Anyway, created /etc/portage/profile and placed package.provided there. Worked like a charm. Thanks Zac. On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 12:53 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > Anthony E. Caudel wr

[gentoo-user] Copy portage tree

2005-06-28 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
I have one computer that currently does not have internet access. Can I copy a freshly sync'ed portage tree (/usr/portage/*) from another computer to this one? Or does the tree have some sort of per-computer dependencies (use-flags, etc.)? Tony -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to p

Re: [gentoo-user] Copy portage tree

2005-06-28 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 22:59 +0100, Mike Williams wrote: > On Tuesday 28 June 2005 22:49, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: > > I have one computer that currently does not have internet access. Can I > > copy a freshly sync'ed portage tree (/usr/portage/*) from another > > comp

[gentoo-user] Emerge Amarok

2005-06-29 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
I recently switched to the KDE 3.4 split ebuilds but when I tried to emerge Amarok, it wnated to pull in several 3.3 packages: == These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge Amarok

2005-06-30 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Thanks, everyone. The problem turned out to be the ARTS USE flag. Turned it off and got 1.2.4 which is waht I wanted. Tony On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 02:12 -0500, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: > I recently switched to the KDE 3.4 split ebuilds but when I tried to > emerge Amarok, it wnated to p

[gentoo-user] Big booboo!

2005-07-25 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Help! I inadvertantly deleted my /var/db/pkg directory (and indeed my entire /var (Don't ask!)). Is there ANY way to regenerate it or am I SOL? The system still works, just not emerge. If necessary I can rebuild and migrate the apps but I'm hopeing... Tony -- Those who would give up essential

Re: [gentoo-user] Unsubscription

2007-12-28 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Kelly Stewart wrote: > Can i please get some help unsubscribing from this mailing list please? > Send instant messages to your online friends > http://au.messenger.yahoo.com Send a blank email (no subject necessary) to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] That should do it. Tony -- Those who would give up esse

[gentoo-user] Gentoo LiveUSB

2008-01-11 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
I've been looking at LiveUSB's lately, specifically ones for Gentoo. Found one on the Gentoo Documentation and another on Pendrive and several others. Problem is that all of these do not allow you to save changes. Has anyone made a persistent Gentoo LiveUSB? Google hasn't helped here. Most per

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LiveUSB

2008-01-11 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 11 January 2008, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: > >> 2nd question: I must be dense on this one so someone help me out. >> Since a USB stick is seen as a hard drive, why can't I do a standard >> install to it? Is it because until l

Re: [gentoo-user] Sending IMs from a script

2008-01-16 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Neil Bothwick wrote: > I would have thought this was easy, but I've looked around and can't find > a program that will send IMs from a script. I need to be able to send > alerts to people from a monitoring program. > > > An alternate way to send alerts is to send an email to their mobile phone.

[gentoo-user] To x86_64 or not to x86_64

2008-02-05 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
I have an AMD 64x2 that I have been using only in x86 mode since I got it. I have been thinking of going to x86_64 mode but I'm wondering if it's worth the trouble with multilib, chroot'ing, firefox-bin and other compromises (admittedly some minor). I realize I should see some speed increase but

[gentoo-user] Mozilla-sunbird problem

2008-03-08 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
I have a problem with sunbird (app-office/mozilla-sunbird-0.7). I cannot set the start time of an event. I try to set it and it defaults to 08:30 and is unchangeable. No bug under BGO and no help from Google. Anyone else seen/have this problem? Tony -- Those who would give up essential Lib

[gentoo-user] Package removal error

2008-03-31 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
While updating world and after emerging a new version of texinfo, I received the following error when it tried to remove the old version: == sys-apps/texinfo selected: 4.8-r5 protected: 4.11-r1 omitted: none >>> 'Selected' packages are slated for

Re: [gentoo-user] Package removal error

2008-03-31 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Albert Hopkins wrote: On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 17:10 -0500, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: While updating world and after emerging a new version of texinfo, I received the following error when it tried to remove the old version: == sys-apps/texinfo

Re: [gentoo-user] Package removal error [solved]

2008-03-31 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Anthony E. Caudel wrote: While updating world and after emerging a new version of texinfo, I received the following error when it tried to remove the old version: == sys-apps/texinfo selected: 4.8-r5 protected: 4.11-r1 omitted: none

[gentoo-user] BASIC compilers/Interpreters?

2008-04-13 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Any BASIC compilers/Interpreters in Gentoo? Tony -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] BASIC compilers/Interpreters?

2008-04-13 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Dan Cowsill wrote: On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 4:58 AM, Anthony E. Caudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Any BASIC compilers/Interpreters in Gentoo? Tony -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Be

[gentoo-user] OT: Question re: UUID

2008-04-21 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
I have noticed in some distros (namely Ubuntu) that the fstab uses UUID's rather than /dev references. Is this a better way? Does it eliminate the problem of /dev references changing when another drive, i.e., an external USB drive, is plugged in? The /dev references may change but the UUID's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Question re: UUID

2008-04-21 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Michael Schmarck wrote: · Anthony E. Caudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I have noticed in some distros (namely Ubuntu) that the fstab uses UUID's rather than /dev references. Is this a better way? Does it eliminate the problem of /dev references changing when another drive, i.e.,

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB w/ external drive (was UUID)

2008-04-22 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Josh Cepek wrote: Anthony E. Caudel wrote: Michael Schmarck wrote: · Anthony E. Caudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I have noticed in some distros (namely Ubuntu) that the fstab uses UUID's rather than /dev references. Is this a better way? Does it eliminate the problem of /dev

[gentoo-user] No mail from list

2008-04-26 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
I haven't received any mail from the gentoo-user mailing list for 4 days now. Anyone else having problems with the list? -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.

[gentoo-user] sys-fs/fuse question

2007-07-14 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
I use ntfs-3g to access my windows partition and ntfs-3g needs the fuse module. Does sys-fs/fuse need to be re-emerged (and thus re-compiled) after every kernel upgrade? Tony -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Saf

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/fuse question

2007-07-15 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 23:49:28 -0500, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: I use ntfs-3g to access my windows partition and ntfs-3g needs the fuse module. Does sys-fs/fuse need to be re-emerged (and thus re-compiled) after every kernel upgrade? Enable the in-kernel fuse

[gentoo-user] OT: Bibble Pro 4

2007-08-06 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Has anyone used the Linux version of the Bibble photo editing software? Tony -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Minor udev bug?

2007-08-20 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Just updated udev to 114 and it left me an einfo with the following: "You still have the directory /etc/dev.d on your system. This is no longer used by udev and can be removed." However I _DO NOT_ have an /etc/dev.d. Should I file a bug report on this? -- Those who would give up essential Libe

[gentoo-user] OT: Bash question

2007-09-20 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Is there any way to make "pushd" and "popd" (Bash built-ins) silent? As it is, when the execute, the directory is echoed to the output, making it difficult to use the commands in a script. For example: OLD_VER=$(pushd /boot; ls kernel-* | sort | head -1; popd) echo $OLD_VER /boot ~ kernel-2.6.22

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Bash question

2007-09-21 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Frank Gruellich wrote: > * Anthony E. Caudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 20. Sep 07: > >> Is there any way to make "pushd" and "popd" (Bash built-ins) silent? >> [snip] For example: >> >> OLD_VER=$(pushd /boot; ls kernel-* | sort | head -1; p

[gentoo-user] OT: Mplayer question

2007-09-27 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Thinking about ordering a DVD from Amazon.uk (not available here in the US). It is a region 2 DVD and is in PAL format unlike the NTSC here in the states. Will the DVD play in Mplayer? Tony -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Li

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Mplayer question

2007-09-27 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
forgottenwizard wrote: > On 19:34 Thu 27 Sep , Grant Edwards wrote: > >> On 2007-09-27, Anthony E. Caudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Thinking about ordering a DVD from Amazon.uk (not available here in the >>> US). It is a region 2 DVD

[gentoo-user] To Neil Bothwick: Question re ntfs-3g

2007-10-03 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Neil, back on 15 July, you stated that you used ntfs-3g with only the in-kernel fuse modules. When I try that, I get the following error: error while loading shared libraries: libfuse.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I find I have to use sys-fs/fuse to be able to m

Re: [gentoo-user] To Neil Bothwick: Question re ntfs-3g

2007-10-04 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Neil Bothwick wrote: > Hello Iain Buchanan, > > >> hey, stop answering, this was to Neil! >> > > Hey! ! was asleep! :) > > As Alexander has already posted, you still need sys-fs/fuse to provide > the libraries, but it defers to the kernel for the modules (which saves > rebuilding it each ti

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Mplayer question

2007-10-05 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Nick wrote: > On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 07:40:34AM +0200, Peter Gantner (nephros) wrote: > >> Thu, 27 Sep 2007 quidam 'Anthony E. Caudel' inquit ita: >> >> >>> Thinking about ordering a DVD from Amazon.uk (not available here in the >>> US

[gentoo-user] Weatherbug for linux

2007-10-15 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Weather has just released a beta app for linux. Check it out - http://linux.weatherbug.com/ Tony -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Depclean question

2007-10-16 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
I have just used depclean for the first time (I was afraid of it) after several years of Gentoo. It has cleaned up my system a good bit but now it wants to remove some packages that I'm concerned about: gcc-3.4.6-r2 (I'm using 4.1.2) libstdc++-v3-3.3.4 and virtual/libstdc++ virtual/jdk and virual

Re: [gentoo-user] Depclean question

2007-10-17 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Anthony E. Caudel wrote: > I have just used depclean for the first time (I was afraid of it) after > several years of Gentoo. It has cleaned up my system a good bit but now > it wants to remove some packages that I'm concerned about: > > gcc-3.4.6-r2 (I'm using 4.1.2)

[gentoo-user] Question re desktop-file-utils

2007-10-26 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
On several emerges I see the message " Install dev-util/desktop-file-utils, if you want to help to improve Gentoo." Can't really tell what this package does but how does it help Gentoo? Tony -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither L

Re: [gentoo-user] Question re desktop-file-utils

2007-10-27 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Friday 26 October 2007 22:19:23 Anthony E. Caudel wrote: > >> On several emerges I see the message " >> >> Install dev-util/desktop-file-utils, if you want to help to improve >> Gentoo." >> >> Can't reall

[gentoo-user] OT: How does kernel determine drive order?

2007-11-04 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
How does the kernel (2.6.22) determine the order of SATA drives (sda, sdb, etc.) when it boots up? Tony -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How does kernel determine drive order?

2007-11-05 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Jarry wrote: > Anthony E. Caudel wrote: >> How does the kernel (2.6.22) determine the order of SATA drives (sda, >> sdb, etc.) when it boots up? > > I just checked my computer, and sda is the drive plugged in > the first sata-port, and sdb the one in the second port >

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How does kernel determine drive order?

2007-11-05 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Stroller wrote: > > On 5 Nov 2007, at 05:17, Jarry wrote: > >> Anthony E. Caudel wrote: >>> How does the kernel (2.6.22) determine the order of SATA drives (sda, >>> sdb, etc.) when it boots up? >> >> I just checked my computer, and sda is the drive p

[gentoo-user] Chroot question

2007-11-20 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
I have an AMD64 chip and have separate Gentoo x86 and x86_64 distros. Gentoo has a "32Bit Chroot Guide for Gentoo/AMD64" but this guide only discusses setting up a separate 32bit environment within the 64bit Gentoo. I was wondering if it could be used, suitably modified, to chroot from my x86_64

Re: [gentoo-user] Chroot question

2007-11-22 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Dan Farrell wrote: > On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:33:15 -0600 > "Anthony E. Caudel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I have an AMD64 chip and have separate Gentoo x86 and x86_64 distros. >> Gentoo has a "32Bit Chroot Guide for Gentoo/AMD64" but

[gentoo-user] Firefox mplayerplug-in problem

2007-12-06 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
I used to be able to view Nasa-tv (http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/) in Firefox with mplayerplug-in. This no longer works however. The plug-in starts to connect then says "Stopped" for any method (windows, realplayer, or quicktime) chosen. I feel that it is a changed use flag but I have th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox mplayerplug-in problem

2007-12-08 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Thufir wrote > Also, how were you generating that list, please? > > > > thanks, > > Thufir > > emerge -pv mplayer, for example. Then cut and paste. Would you please post yours so I can compare my USE flags to yours? Thank you, Tony -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase

Re: [gentoo-user] bookmarks invisible in Firefox fullscreen

2007-12-08 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Benno Schulenberg wrote: > When the bookmarks list is longer than what fits vertically on the > screen, then hitting Alt+B while Firefox is in fullscreen mode > won't show the list of bookmarks. The bookmark list is there -- > because it is possible to select for example the last entry with >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox mplayerplug-in problem

2007-12-08 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Thufir wrote > You don't want my make.conf, do you? > > > > thanks, > > Thufir > > It might help. Thanks. Tony -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] DTV on Laptop

2007-12-12 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:38:41 + (UTC), James wrote: > > >> There seem to be several devices, based on USB2 that connect to >> a computer and can receive ATSC (HDTV) or traditional broadcasts. >> The ones I've found for N. America all require Vista (uck). >> > > I'v

Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles

2007-01-30 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Neil Bothwick wrote: snip And OOo only takes 5½ hours to compile.. :p Not on my 1GHz G4 iBook, for which there are no binary packages available. It takes around 15 hours :( So when are the Openoffice people going to break it into separate packages (Write, Calc, etc.) like KDE did? This wo

Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles

2007-01-31 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 30 January 2007 18:26, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: snip And OOo only takes 5½ hours to compile.. :p Not on my 1GHz G4 iBook, for which there are no binary packages available. It takes around 15 hours :( So when are the Openoffice people

[gentoo-user] System reporting information

2007-01-31 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Sorry that the subject is not very informative. I seem to remember some time back some discussion about a script or program that would examine a gentoo system and create a report on packages installed, make.conf contents, and other relevant information that might be of help to the devs. No pe

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel randomly locking up, no error messeges, no panics nothing.

2007-02-20 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Ivan Lucian Aron wrote: > I turned off Preempt Big Kernel Lock earlier today, and haven't had a > deadlock/crash since. > Apparently that solved it.. thanks for the help/support I have an AMD Athlon 64X2 4200+ and Have the "Preempt Big Kernel Lock" turned on in my 2.6.19 kernel and have experience

Re: [gentoo-user] opening movies in the current mplayer window

2007-03-15 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Alex Fansky wrote: > Hello. > I am using kde-3.5.6 and gmplayer as frontend to mplayer 1.0rc1-4.1.2. When I > doubleclick on the video file, it is opened in new mplayer window. Is there > any ways to make it be played in already runned mplayer instead of previously > opened movie, like it do MS

Re: [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels?

2007-04-12 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Neil Bothwick wrote: > At around 300MB per kernel, that's ten excess kernels, so you can't be > doing it that often. Once you're happy with the current kernel, you only > need "emerge -P gentoo-sources" to remove the rest. I use a script that > removes all but the last two, and also cleans out /li

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is the average age of the gentoo user here? > Sent via BlackBerry® from Vodafone �éí¢‹¬z¸žÚ(¢¸&j)bž bst== I'm 64. Gentoo since 1999. I started with CP/M on a processor Technology SOL-20 in 1979 or 1980. Tony -- Those who would give up essential Liberty,

Re: [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels?

2007-04-13 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 01:33:43 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > At around 300MB per kernel, that's ten excess kernels, so you can't be doing it that often. Once you're happy with the current kernel, you only need "emerge -P gentoo-sources" to remove the rest.

[gentoo-user] Dumb question

2006-10-10 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
I have been using Gentoo for more than 2 years now and have always wondered (but never asked - That's the "dumb" part) how Gentoo manages to update a package that happens to be running at the time. Given that the old version (the one running) is deleted, how does it manage to keep standing if you

[gentoo-user] Package dependencies

2006-10-10 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
I have seen it mentioned here several times that "equery depends ..." is broken. Is there a good way to determine package dependency? Tony -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin -- gentoo-u

Re: [gentoo-user] Package dependencies

2006-10-10 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Wednesday 11 October 2006 06:13, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: >> I have seen it mentioned here several times that "equery depends ..." is >> broken. Is there a good way to determine package dependency? > > This shows all dependencies r

Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb question

2006-10-10 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Troy Curtis Jr wrote: > On 10/10/06, Anthony E. Caudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I have been using Gentoo for more than 2 years now and have always >> wondered (but never asked - That's the "dumb" part) how Gentoo manages >> to update a pack

[gentoo-user] Xorg upgrade

2006-10-16 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Just upgraded to xorg-x11-7.1. Definitely faster than 7.0. glxgears runs at just under 19,000FPS, an increase of about 12%. Fantastic! Tony -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin -- gento

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg upgrade

2006-10-20 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 17 October 2006 07:21, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: >> Just upgraded to xorg-x11-7.1. Definitely faster than 7.0. glxgears >> runs at just under 19,000FPS, an increase of about 12%. > > Hmm, mine comes up with this: > > $ glxgears > libGL wa

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Kweather panel applet: unable to set station

2006-10-31 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
darren kirby wrote: > I have just moved and one thing I needed to do was update the weather station > for my panel applet. In the config dialogue I have two tabs: "Display" > and "Weather Service". I am able to select my new city in the "Available > stations" and even check the weather using "U

[gentoo-user] (OT) Hotplug SATA drive?

2007-01-22 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
I recently bought a third SATA drive and a carrier and am trying to determine if it can be un/plugged while hot. I have googled and there seems to be different answers depending on the controller, the drive, the kernel version (I'm using 2.6.18) and maybe even the day of the week. Does anyone

[gentoo-user] Puzzling logwatch entry

2007-01-28 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
I am using Logwatch (logwatch-7.3-r1) and lately have been getting these messages: - Kernel module scsi Begin **Unmatched Entries** SCSI subsystem initialized 625142448 512-byte hdwr sectors (320073 MB) drive cache: write back 625142448 512-byt

[gentoo-user] What to backup?

2006-01-02 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
I'm using rsnapshot for backups and am very satisfied with it. However I'm uncertain just what to backup. Currently I'm backing up: /home/tony/ /etc/ /var/lib/mysql/ (for some databases) Is there anything else I should be backing up? I suspect there are some more things in /var that should b

Re: [gentoo-user] What to backup?

2006-01-02 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Tom Martin wrote: > /var/lib/portage. You'll have your world file, in case you lose > everything, so you'll be able to rebuild your system with the same > packages. > Good idea. Thanks! -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty

[gentoo-user] Upgrade + gcc dilemma

2006-01-07 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Just got my laptop back up after having been down for awhile and it is in dire need of an upgrade. After syncing, a -uDvp world showed about 100 packages needing upgrading, one of which was gcc, from 3.3 to 3.4. I decided to do it first since most packages seemed dependent on it so headed over to

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade + gcc dilemma

2006-01-09 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Richard Fish wrote: > # emerge -uav gcc > # gcc-config i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4 > # source /etc/profile > # emerge --oneshot -av libtool > # revdep-rebuild --library libstdc++.so.5 > # emerge -Duv world > > Watch out for a portage or python update though...and don't forget the > python-updater if

[gentoo-user] Dell LCD display

2006-01-13 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
I'm thinking about getting one of the Dell Widescreen Ultrasharp LCD displays. Has anyone used one under Gentoo (x86) and how good is it? Tony -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin -- gent

Re: [gentoo-user] Dell LCD display

2006-01-14 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Which one are you looking at? I have the 2005FPW (the 20" > widescreen). I got a great deal on it by watching hot-deals.org > everyday until there was a sale and an Internet coupon. I upgraded > from a 19" nonflat CRT. The 2005FPW is the one I'm considering. Dell ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages list

2006-01-19 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Eugene Rosenzweig wrote: > Felipe Ribeiro wrote: > >> Where do I find the list with all installed packages? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Felipe > > this will list all installed packages: > equery list > > Eugene. > > find /var/db/pkg/ -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 -printf "%P\n" (much faster) -- Those who

Re: [gentoo-user] Kppp and two different accounts

2006-01-20 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Dale wrote: > Can someone tell me where in the world this is stored? This is nuts. I > couldn't change ISPs even if I wanted to since it works this way. I > would have to reinstall looks like. That sounds like winders. > Try: find -name '*' -exec fgrep -l \{\} \; This search all files fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Kppp and two different accounts

2006-01-22 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 09:09:01 -0600, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: > > >>find -name '*' -exec fgrep -l \{\} \; >> >>This search all files for the search phrase. > > > Using find with a separate call to grep for each seems a slow

[gentoo-user] NTP problem

2006-02-21 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
My system was off about 10 days and when I turned it back on, I began getting these messages in my logwatch: "Time Reset time stepped -0.133773 time stepped -0.662954 time stepped +0.271164 time stepped +0.461200 time stepped -0.787647 Time Reset 25 times (total: -1.239782 s ave

Re: [gentoo-user] NTP problem

2006-02-22 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Brandon Enright wrote: > On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 01:32 -0600, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: > >>My system was off about 10 days and when I turned it back on, I began >>getting these messages in my logwatch: >> >>"Time Reset >> time stepped -0.133773 >

Re: [gentoo-user] readline and inputrc

2006-02-22 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Harry Putnam wrote: > Anyone know why entries in ~/.inputrc (or for that matter) > /etc/inputrc are ignored in xterms? > > I find that inputrc entries work in console mode but not in X. > > Further, testing just now with a silly test entry: > > cat ~/.inputrc: > > ## C-x C-r reread init files

Re: [gentoo-user] NTP problem

2006-02-22 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Brandon Enright wrote: > > So from your output a couple issues stick out. You're only peering with > one machine which generally doesn't work so well. You're probably > better off just using ntpdate periodically if you are only going to > sample one server. > > Also, the delay on the server yo

[gentoo-user] Can't get mozilla-sunbird

2005-08-16 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
I have been trying to emerge mozilla-sunbird-bin-0.2 but without any success. It is masked ~M (hard masked?) and I have tried including it in /etc/portage/package.unmask as so: app-office/mozilla-sunbird-bin-0.2 But I get this error: !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "mozilla-sunbird-bin" h

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get mozilla-sunbird

2005-08-16 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Thanks Nagatoro, the combination did it. Tony Nagatoro wrote: > Anthony E. Caudel wrote: > >> I have been trying to emerge mozilla-sunbird-bin-0.2 but without any >> success. It is masked ~M (hard masked?) and I have tried including it in >> /etc/portage/package.unm

[gentoo-user] unmerge emacs

2005-08-20 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
I was going to unmerge emacs ( I don't use it ) but was warned: !!! Trying to unmerge package(s) in system profile. 'app-editors/emacs' !!! This could be damaging to your system. What is my system profile? Is it my default profile: /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0? and why would

Re: [gentoo-user] unmerge emacs

2005-08-21 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
ngs in by "emerge --emptytree --pretend system") requires something >that satisfies virtual/editor, and by default I think gentoo uses >nano. If you have another editor, like nano, or vim, or pico, then you >should be fine to unmerge emacs. > >W > >On Sat, Aug 20, 2005

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa config

2005-08-21 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
So holly, is arts absolutely necessary to get KDE system sounds? I installed KDE 3.4 without arts. Alsa does fine as does amarok, gaim, and several others _except_ KDE. I guess arts is the reason, huh? Tony Holly Bostick wrote: >John Jolet schreef: > > >>On Saturday 20 August 2005 14:31, Ch

Re: [gentoo-user] unmerge emacs

2005-08-21 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Holly Bostick wrote: >Anthony E. Caudel schreef: > > >>Ah, the "profile" threw me. I was thinking profiles and not the emerge >>system I had done originally. >> >>I use nano so I guess I can unmerge it safely. But I'm still at a loss >>w

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa config

2005-08-21 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Neil Bothwick wrote: >On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 11:48:14 +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote: > > > >>>So holly, is arts absolutely necessary to get KDE system sounds? I >>>installed KDE 3.4 without arts. Alsa does fine as does amarok, gaim, >>>and several others _except_ KDE. I guess arts is the reason,

[gentoo-user] No keyboard module

2005-08-21 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
I had been looking for a way to have KDE turn on numlock when it starts up but I just noticed I do not have a keyboard module under "Peripherals" in KDE's (3.4) Control Center. I re-emerged it but no go. Anybody else seen this behavior? -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase

Re: [gentoo-user] No keyboard module

2005-08-22 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Thanks Benno, that did it. Tony Benno Schulenberg wrote: >Anthony E. Caudel wrote: > > >>but I just noticed I do not have a keyboard module >>under "Peripherals" in KDE's (3.4) Control Center. >> >> > >If I remember correctly, you

Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

2005-08-24 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Jonathan Nichols wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > >> On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:57:09 -0300 Daniel da Veiga >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> | You know bud, read some rules, be polite. >> >> There are many who consider top posting to be just about the rudest >> thing you could possibly do on a mailin

Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

2005-08-24 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Jerry McBride wrote: > On Wednesday 24 August 2005 09:14 pm, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: > >>Jonathan Nichols wrote: >> >>>Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >>> >>>>On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:57:09 -0300 Daniel da Veiga >>>> >>>>&

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo

2005-08-25 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
C.Beamer wrote: > > You also need to install vim because you have to edit the /etc/sudoers > file in order to add a user name. If you display the sudoers file ('cat > sudoers') it will tell you that the file *must* be edited by the visudo > command as root. > You do not need to install vim. sud

[gentoo-user] Cherry CyMotion Master Linux keyboard

2005-10-29 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Has anyone successfully used the CyMotion linux keyboard under Gentoo? How do you like it? Is it available in the US? -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] list of all installed packages?

2005-10-29 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Haim Ashkenazi wrote: > On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 13:17 +0200, Jarry wrote: > >>Sorry, for asking such a trivial question, but how can I find which >>packages have been emerged on my system? As time goes, I lost track >>of what I installed... > > # equery list > > Bye find /var/db/pkg/ -mindepth 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Cherry CyMotion Master Linux keyboard

2005-10-31 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Anthony E. Caudel wrote: > Has anyone successfully used the CyMotion linux keyboard under Gentoo? > How do you like it? Is it available in the US? Well, answered part of my own question. According to this: http://hardware.newsforge.com/hardware/05/08/25/1212253.shtml?tid=152 the keyboar

[gentoo-user] German Wiki pages

2005-11-01 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Elsewhere I had asked a question regarding the Cherry CyMotion Master Linux keyboard. While researching it, I ran across a German Gentoo Wiki page on configuring the keyboard (http://de.gentoo-wiki.com/Cherry_CyMotion_Master_Linux). I noticed the page was not in the english Wiki (http://gentoo-wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Interface to Microsoft Keyboards (ala Intellitype) possible on Gentoo?

2005-11-02 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Mark Shields wrote: > I have a Microsoft natural multimedia keyboard and wish to use the extra > available keys (the multimedia keys mostly, volume up/down, pause, stop, > rewind/fast forward, mute). Are there any packages in portage that will > allow me to do this? Of course, if there isn't, a p

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: bash & decimal/exponential numbers math...

2005-11-26 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I wrote a short script for simple text file processing in bash > (using "<" for input redirection and "read"). I know, there are > Now what to do? Are there some functions, which would implement basic > math with real numbers in bash (add, substract, multiply,

Re: [gentoo-user] CyMotion keyboards

2005-11-26 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Gary Richards wrote: > I think somebody on this list was looking for one of those new Cherry > CyMotion Linux keyboards. There's a new seller on eBay that has them. > http://cgi.ebay.com/Cherry-CyMotion-Master-Linux-Keyboard-Tuxs-Revenge_W0QQitemZ5834892820QQcategoryZ4706QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcm

Re: [gentoo-user] System bell (again)

2006-04-07 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
I wonder why I do not have a ~/.kde/share/config/kaccessrc file? Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi folks: SOLVED!! > > In my (user) home directory there is .kde/share/config/kaccessrc file. > The file has two sections: Bell and Mouse. > I modified the first two entries of Bell section like t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System bell (again)

2006-04-08 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
I agree. I don't think I have changed any of the settings. Thanks Anno v. Hiemburg wrote: > Anthony E. Caudel wrote: > > >>I wonder why I do not have a ~/.kde/share/config/kaccessrc file? > > > Because you never changed your settings away from the system defaul

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