[gentoo-user] package.provided

2008-01-08 Thread Daniel Iliev
Hi, I want to compile mplayer in a way not supported by the ebuild and use portage only to keep record of the files installed in system for future uninstallation. The system amd64 stable. I have done the following: (1) echo media-video/mplayer >> /etc/portage/package.keywords // "emerge -p mpl

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided

2008-01-08 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 15:11:09 +0200 Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A much better way would be to modify the ebuild to do what you want, > then copy it to a local overlay. Portage will use your overlay in > preference to the portage tree. You just have to then watch out for > newer

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided

2008-01-08 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 20:23:58 +0200 Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Daniel Iliev wrote: > > On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 15:11:09 +0200 --snip-- > Am I correct in saying you plan to emerge mplayer with a few extra > params and not much else cust

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] package.provided

2008-01-08 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 21:53:54 + Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > (2) echo media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p24929-r2 > > >> /etc/portage/package.provided > > This should be /etc/portage/profile/package.provided > > man portage explains the location and function of these files. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] DNAT not working

2008-01-13 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:01:04 + (UTC) Konstantinos Agouros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a box running vmware server where I need some DNAT rules to get > traffic from a vm to where it belongs. Inserting the rule > iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -s ... -d ... -p tcp --dport ... -j

Re: [gentoo-user] how to teach emerge -sync to sync packages?

2008-01-18 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:17:32 +0100 (CET) Helmut Jarausch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I haven't found out how to teach emerge to rsync > /usr/portage/packages > as well. > Both, /etc/rsyncd.conf on the server and > /etc/portage/rsync_excludes > > only exclude distfiles. > > There is

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange Xorg behaviour, not (always) loading nvidia module

2008-01-29 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:01:00 +0100 Pupino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > any clues in /var/log/Xorg.0.log? > > Yes! I've found this: > (EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA X driver > not found) that is the only error reported... > But this suggests me nothing... I've looked

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange Xorg behaviour, not (always) loading nvidia module

2008-01-30 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:56:30 +0100 Pupino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > All you have to do in order to get the proprietery nvidia drv > > working is: > > > > 1) make sure the open src nvidia drv is not built in-kernel or as > > kernel module: > > > > > >Location: > > -> Device D

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange Xorg behaviour, not (always) loading nvidia module

2008-01-31 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:18:40 +0100 Pupino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/1/31, Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:56:30 +0100 > > Pupino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > All you have to do in order t

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux, reiserfs and file fragmentation

2008-02-14 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:01:16 -0600 Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: > > Hello > > > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 05:06:43AM -0600, Dale wrote: > > > >> My questions; is this badly fragmented? How can I "unfragment" > >> all the files and not bork something up badly?

Re: [gentoo-user] Renaming tons of files

2008-02-27 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:12:41 +0100 "Amar Cosic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > I have issue where I have something.TXT something.PDF and I need to > rename them to something.txt something.pdf (so with lower cases) . Is > there any easy way to do this (command,script? ) > > Thanks > U

Re: [gentoo-user] How to use mplayer play file online?

2008-02-29 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:43:43 +0800 "Chuanwen Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I want to use mplayer to play files on the ftp server. For example, I > have some files on: ftp://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/thefile. Now I want to > play it, but I won't need to download all the file first then play i

Re: [gentoo-user] Set a property on a file and have it remove when the file is modified?

2008-03-02 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 17:49:34 +0100 Erik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthias Guede skrev: > > 2008/3/1, Erik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> Is it possible to set a property on a file and have it remove > >> automatically when the file is modified? > >> > >> Suppose that we have a style checke

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache 2 + portage

2008-03-02 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 15:39:39 +0100 dexters84 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I'm a little confused as long as new Apache use flags are concerned. > With old Apache versions ( pre 2.2.6) all valid flags shown in > *emerge -pv Apache* > could have been set in /etc/portage/package.use in follow

Re: [gentoo-user] [joke] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org issue 1422 (76278-76327)

2008-03-03 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:07:55 +0930 Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just in case anyone else was thinking of doing so, I contacted the two > email addresses concerned off list and asked nicely for them to do > something :) > Should they? Perhaps it's a part of "the new ISO9001 norm bei

Re: [gentoo-user] X server locks up if a 3D game is run

2008-03-13 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:53:28 -0400 Kevin Stangl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I recently bought a new portable with an Intel GMA X3100, which I > believe to be supported by the Intel driver. However, when I attempt > to run many 3D games (tested with Savage and doomsday-1.9.0_beta5), X > l

Re: [gentoo-user] Randomly dumb questions

2008-03-15 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 08:53:43 -0400 Chris Brennan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How come I don't see my own posts to this list? > /* offtopic Please, don't hijack threads. It is irritating for people using thread-aware e-mail clients. Even more it is offending to the original poster, because t

Re: [gentoo-user] Randomly dumb questions

2008-03-15 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:35:32 +0200 Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 15 March 2008, Chris Brennan wrote: > > Dale wrote: > > | Chris Brennan wrote: > > |> How come I don't see my own posts to this list? > > | > > | We got this one. I saw one other one too. > > | Dale > > | >

Re: [gentoo-user] Randomly dumb questions

2008-03-15 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:31:53 +0200 Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 15 March 2008, Daniel Iliev wrote: > > On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:35:32 +0200 > > > > Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Saturday 15 March 200

Re: [gentoo-user] pygtk threading disabled at compile time

2008-05-04 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Sun, 4 May 2008 08:49:23 -0300 luis jure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ebuild doesn't have an USE option for threads, and when it compiles i > see the option --enable-threads flashing by, so i guess pygtk > *should* have threads enabled. any ideas? > > best, > > lj Hi, You might want to try

[gentoo-user] [OT] mdadm+lvm2+mkfs

2008-05-10 Thread Daniel Iliev
Hi, I've created a raid-5 (md0) with 3 hdds and chunk size=512KB. On top of it, using the default options, I've created a lvm2 physical disk with one volume group. "vgdisplay" shows PE=4MB. Now I have several logical volumes in this group which have to be formatted with ext3. Here comes my q

Re: [gentoo-user] Is the mailing list working?

2008-05-11 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Sun, 11 May 2008 18:06:16 +0100 Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 08 May 2008 05:53:29 -0500, Dale wrote: > > > I have gotten a few replies off list about this issue and found out > > that I am not the only one having this problem. It seems the AT&T > > family does not like T

Re: [gentoo-user] df showing rootfs

2008-05-11 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Fri, 9 May 2008 15:43:35 -0400 Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Having just upgraded to baselayout2 and openrc, I found that when I > run df, I get > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > rootfs 8008068 6827336 1180732 86% / > /dev/

Re: [gentoo-user] df showing rootfs

2008-05-11 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Sun, 11 May 2008 21:59:35 +0200 Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 11 May 2008, Daniel Iliev wrote: > > Are you, guys, doing some funky remounts like switch_root or > > pivot_root (perhaps in initrd or initfs)? > > No, I get it too since the upg

Re: [gentoo-user] df showing rootfs

2008-05-11 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Sun, 11 May 2008 17:35:10 -0400 Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 10:44:39PM +0300, Penguin Lover Daniel Iliev > squawked: > > Are you, guys, doing some funky remounts like switch_root or > > pivot_root (perhaps in initrd or initfs)? >

Re: [gentoo-user] help!

2008-05-11 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Sun, 11 May 2008 16:39:25 -0400 Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On many other lists, I've already done it be > identifying one person who could access the lists in question, and > make sure that chuckr.org no longer existed. Send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to get the full list

Re: [gentoo-user] Domain name registration

2009-04-26 Thread Daniel Iliev
> > Are there any other choices using Gentoo, other than > DJBDNS or bind-9 ? Thoughts? > > Hi, You might want to take a look at net-dns/maradns [1]. Lightweight, easy to configure, advertised as fastest and most secure. I personally love the feature/extension "FQDN4 record" which allows one

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin...

2009-04-28 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:51:41 +0100 AllenJB wrote: > The problem is that there's no consensus. I top post because I think > it's much more sensible. Others think otherwise. I live with it. > > It's the people who refuse to live with differences of opinion that > are the real problem. > > AllenJ

Re: [gentoo-user] Frox iptables ftp proxy

2009-05-03 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 14:02:38 -0400 "D.H." wrote: > I'd like to set up an ftp proxy on my home firewall so I can scan for > viruses using clamd. I found frox. Which looks like it will do what > I want. I've pretty much used the default install which makes frox > listen on 127.0.0.1:2121. But,

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing Packages with Portage

2009-05-04 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Mon, 4 May 2009 13:11:02 +0100 Matt Causey wrote: --snip-- > > Along the same lines, how does the ebuild know what to remove on > --unmerge? For example I'm wandering around and looking at ebuilds: > > prometheus ethtool # pwd > /usr/portage/sys-apps/ethtool > prometheus ethtool # ls > Cha

Re: [gentoo-user] Capture dmesg output on boot?

2009-05-12 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Mon, 11 May 2009 20:16:55 -0400 Dan Cowsill wrote: > Hello list, > > I've been trying to get to the bottom of my recent troubles with my > IDE controller working with the 2.6.28 kernel. Now, linux never boots > without a kernel panic, so dmesg never gets logged... Is there any > way to have

[gentoo-user] portage bug?

2009-05-17 Thread Daniel Iliev
Hi, Would anybody, please, confirm the following behavior before I file a report with B.G.O? % emerge -C dev-perl/yaml % emerge --depclean -p [-snip-] Calculating dependencies... done! * Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to * the following required packages not being ins

Re: [gentoo-user] portage bug?

2009-05-17 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Sun, 17 May 2009 18:30:47 -0400 Jason Weisberger wrote: > From what I see, update newuse deep world is NOT pulling it back in. > That's the bug. > Exactly. -- Best regards, Daniel

Re: [gentoo-user] [solved] portage bug?

2009-05-17 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Mon, 18 May 2009 00:36:56 +0200 Peter Alfredsen wrote: > On Mon, 18 May 2009 01:16:24 +0300 > Daniel Iliev wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Would anybody, please, confirm the following behavior before I file > > a report with B.

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] portage bug?

2009-05-17 Thread Daniel Iliev
My mistake, not a bug. I'm glad I asked here before wasting devs' time with invalid reports. Thanks, guys! :) -- Best regards, Daniel

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up world

2009-05-19 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Tue, 19 May 2009 10:32:01 -0700 fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > In a previous thread, I learned about keeping world simple with > --oneshot. I realized how mine had gotten so bloated -- when I > update, I edit the --pretend output and feed that directly into > emerge without the benefit of --onesho

Re: -march=auto (was: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]eee 900a intel atom is what processor family?)

2009-05-22 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Thu, 21 May 2009 21:08:59 +0200 Alex Schuster wrote: > Paul Hartman writes: > > > Could also perhaps try -march=auto if you're using a version of GCC > > that supports it. > > BTW, is there a possibility to let gcc tell what flags it will > actually use with -march=auto? gcc -Q --help=tar

[gentoo-user] security

2009-05-23 Thread Daniel Iliev
Hi, Since I'm not familiar with Gentoo's practice in dealing with security problems I got curious about the following case. Yesterday a Secunia advisory [1] about pidgin was brought to my attention. The solution offered by the up-streams is upgrading to version 2.5.6, while the late

Re: [gentoo-user] security

2009-05-23 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Sat, 23 May 2009 09:23:27 -0400 Saphirus Sage wrote: > Daniel Iliev wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Since I'm not familiar with Gentoo's practice in dealing with > > security problems I got curious about the following case. > > Yesterday a Secunia

Re: [gentoo-user] security

2009-05-23 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Sat, 23 May 2009 09:37:05 -0400 Saphirus Sage wrote: > >> > > > > I guess the mirror I'm using is not up-to-date and they will get a > > report about it, > > > > Thanks! > > > > > I sync from rsync://rsync21.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage primarily due > to the fact that it's an unlimite

Re: [gentoo-user] [solved] security

2009-05-23 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Sat, 23 May 2009 15:31:27 +0200 Justin wrote: > Daniel Iliev wrote: > > > > > > [1] [SA35194] http://secunia.com/advisories/35194/ > > > > > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=270811 > Thanks. -- Best regards, Daniel

Re: [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext"

2009-05-26 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Tue, 26 May 2009 06:00:10 +0100 Stroller wrote: > Looks like `echo media-video/mplayer mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow > 3dnowext >> /etc/portage/package.use` unless someone else is able to > be more informative. > > Stroller. > Yes, just add "cpudetection" to those or put it in in

Re: [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext"

2009-05-26 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Tue, 26 May 2009 22:07:10 +0100 Stroller wrote: > > On 26 May 2009, at 15:31, Daniel Iliev wrote: > > > >> Looks like `echo media-video/mplayer mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 > >> 3dnow 3dnowext >> /etc/portage/package.use` unless someone else is > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext"

2009-05-27 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Wed, 27 May 2009 09:14:03 +0100 Stroller wrote: > > On 27 May 2009, at 01:47, Daniel Iliev wrote: > > > > There could be problems if you had enabled all the EIS flags > > globally (in make.conf) instead only for mplayer, because other > > programs don'

Re: [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext"

2009-05-28 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Thu, 28 May 2009 00:23:52 +0300 "Arttu V." wrote: > On 5/27/09, Wyatt Epp wrote: > > Reading this thread, though, it seems like it would be useful to > > have a FEATURES=cpudetection for Portage. > > Congratulations, it's already there! Sort of. -march=native ;) > Not the same thing. "-mar

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about xorg and a kill process

2009-05-28 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Wed, 27 May 2009 10:01:12 -0500 Dale wrote: > > I only have one machine right now. Someone gave me a HP laptop but I > haven't fixed it yet. Power connector is shorted out big time. > Then for example on tty2 start "sleep 300 ; /etc/init.d/xdm stop ; killall X" and on tty1 do "/etc/init

[gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r5 & ext4

2009-06-04 Thread Daniel Iliev
Hi, Yesterday I decided to try gentoo-sources again. I was using vanilla, because of ext4 - when it was declared stable, gentoo-sources still was at the ext4dev phase (a version or so behind the upstream as expected). Yesterday, when migrating from vanilla-2.6.28 to gentoo-sources-2.6.29-5 I hav

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r5 & ext4

2009-06-04 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 13:31:15 +0300 Альфар wrote: > 2009/6/4 Volker Armin Hemmann > > > On Donnerstag 04 Juni 2009, Daniel Iliev wrote: > > > > > > Kernel compiles w/o errors, but when booted it panics with error > > > msg like "unknown mount option ``

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r5 & ext4

2009-06-04 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 12:27:20 +0100 Stroller wrote: > > On 4 Jun 2009, at 11:51, Daniel Iliev wrote: > >> 2009/6/4 Volker Armin Hemmann > >> > > ... > >>> maybe ext4 depends on 'Broken' - as it should - and so it was not > >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r5 & ext4

2009-06-04 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:36:41 +0100 Graham Murray wrote: > Daniel Iliev writes: > > > pwd > > /usr/src/linux-2.6.29-gentoo-r5 > > > > grep -i ext4 .config > > CONFIG_EXT4_FS=y > > # CONFIG_EXT4DEV_COMPAT is not set > > CONFI

Re: [gentoo-user] [solved] Re: gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r5 & ext4

2009-06-04 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:13:47 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Daniel Iliev wrote: [--snip--] > > Kernel compiles w/o errors, but when booted it panics with error msg > > like "unknown mount option ``extents''". > > > > Yes, I have "extent

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] RAID 1 over network

2009-06-16 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:58:56 +0600 Mike Kazantsev wrote: > On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:40:46 +0200 > Renat Golubchyk wrote: > > > Hi all! > > > > Short: > > What is the best way to setup something similar to RAID 1 over a > > WAN? > > ... > > > One purpose of the setup is to have data redundancy.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] RAID 1 over network

2009-06-16 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:58:37 +0200 Philipp Riegger wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 16:45 +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote: > > DRBD is HA solution which is achieved by switching the role of the > > nodes in case the "active node" goes offline. I think DRBD is not >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] RAID 1 over network

2009-06-16 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:54:34 +0200 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Dienstag 16 Juni 2009 15:58:37 schrieb Philipp Riegger: [-snip-] > > Another solution would be to use ndb (network block devices), > > dm-raid and a cluster filesystem. > > And finally, there's OpenAFS. Not really RAID, but maybe suff

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge and running tests as non-root

2009-07-17 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:04:38 -0400 Mike Edenfield wrote: > In trying to merge the most recent mysql, I am getting this notice at > the start of the ebuild: > > * Testing with FEATURES=-userpriv is no longer supported by upstream. > Tests MUST be run as non-root. > > Is there a way to actually

[gentoo-user] KDE-4.2.4 shortcut for "previous desktop"

2009-08-03 Thread Daniel Iliev
Hi, The subject says it all, but let me be a little more specific. I want a hot key combination for the previous desktop that was "active", not previous by number. So I'd be able to to bind, eg "alt-p", and use it to toggle between Desktop1 and Desktop3 many times. Is it possible and how? --

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE-4.2.4 shortcut for "previous desktop"

2009-08-03 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Mon, 3 Aug 2009 13:52:52 -0500 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Daniel Iliev > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > The subject says it all, but let me be a little more specific. > > > > I want a hot key combination for the previous desk

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-11-29 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:46:01 +0200 Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 28 November 2008 13:14:42 Dale wrote: > > If this is a little high, what would be the best way to defrag it? > > By not defragging it. I beg to defer. The simplest way to defrag a partition is to make backup a

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-11-30 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:23:23 +0200 Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 29 November 2008 11:19:47 Daniel Iliev wrote: > > Now let's put the assumptions aside and do a test. > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] # test $ cat /usr/portage/packages/All/* >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-11-30 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 09:45:40 + Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, and nor should they. Each filesystem implementing its own > encryption layer would be a nightmare. A separate encryption layer on > which you create any filesystem you like is much more sensible. It's true for Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-01 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:27:22 +0200 Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [-snip-] > > You are the one making them claims! You do the test! Me? No, my dear. It is you who claims that fragmentation only matters on MS file systems while Linux FS remain unaffected w/o providing any proof. The co

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-01 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 15:40:11 -0500 "Joshua Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: = > One thing that comes to mind... if one of those files is primarily > closer to the start of the disk than the other, and the drive tapers > down on speed as bad as some... well, that's one variable you can't > easily

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Fragmentation [experiment]

2008-12-02 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 22:11:58 +0200 "Daniel Iliev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip-] > for (( i=0 ; i<=400 ; i++ )) > do > > sync > echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches > > echo -n "try_no=$i " > > /usr/bin/time -f "\ > co

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-03 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 00:28:54 + Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2 Dec 2008, at 13:13, Wolfgang Liebich wrote: > > ... > > My experience with NTFS is somewhat more balanced (maybe). In about > > 12 years I experienced one damaged NTFS instance. This was caused > > by a crash during an

Re: [gentoo-user] eselect-news

2009-04-07 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:12:04 +0200 Justin wrote: > Daniel Iliev schrieb: > > Hi, > > > > In short: what should I do to enable eselect-news? > > --cut-- > > You don't have to do anything. > > This news was only shown if following matches > >

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] eselect-news

2009-04-07 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:33:11 +0200 Justin wrote: > Daniel Iliev schrieb: > > On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:12:04 +0200 > > Justin wrote: > > > >> Daniel Iliev schrieb: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> In short: what should I do to enable

[gentoo-user] eselect-news

2009-04-07 Thread Daniel Iliev
Hi, In short: what should I do to enable eselect-news? A friend of mine told me portage had alerted him there was news about available xorg-server upgrade after "emerge --sync" yesterday. I re-synced from the same mirror, but nothing happened. We both have the same versions of portage and esel

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and iso9660:1999

2007-07-11 Thread Daniel Iliev
Aleksey V. Kunitskiy wrote: >> iso9660:1999, afaik, has agnostic to filename encodings. This probably >> means that you need to know what the iocharset. If the disc was >> created under the en_US.utf8 environment, -o utf8 should give you the >> right encoding back. >> > > >> Lastly, why iso

Re: [gentoo-user] Mplayer + compiz + x11-drivers/xf86-video-i810-2.0.x = busted video

2007-07-15 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 02:33:18 -0400 Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought I'd try out the new i810 driver for my intel card (IBM X41 > Tablet) and while most of X seems to work just fine, even with > compiz, mplayer is just plain busted (see mplayer output followed by > xvinfo output below)

[gentoo-user] Custom CFLAGS

2007-08-19 Thread Daniel Iliev
Hi, list Is there a way to use custom CFLAGS for a given package? I want to set CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe" globaly in make.conf and compile certain packages with different CFLAGS. In other words I'm looking for functianlity like the one "/etc/portage/packages.use" povides for the USE flag

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Custom CFLAGS

2007-08-19 Thread Daniel Iliev
Thanks, people! Your replies lead me to a solution and now I have all my current wishes for custom build environment fulfilled. In case anybody else has the same question, here is the original solution by Bo Ørsted Andresen: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/186864/focus=186874 --

[gentoo-user] [OT] xorg.conf gui editor

2007-08-24 Thread Daniel Iliev
Hi, list I came across an article [1] about xorg.conf gui editor developed by Ubuntu. I just thought some of you might be interested in reading more about this and someone could even put a request for including that tool in Gentoo. [1] http://fosswire.com/2007/08/17/ubuntu-getting-xorgconf-gui/

[gentoo-user] depclean+noreplace

2007-09-03 Thread Daniel Iliev
Hi, Recently I noticed an inconsistency between the behavior of 'emerge -n' and the advise shown while executing 'emerge --depclean'. emerge --depclean -pv ===snip Also study the list of packages to be cleaned for any obvious mistakes. Packages that are part of the world set will always be kept.

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean+noreplace

2007-09-03 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 12:14:58 +0200 Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 03 September 2007 11:58:27 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 10:42:07 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > > > > > Python is part of the system profile, so it doesn't need to > > > > > be added to w

[gentoo-user] Automated "emerge -e world"

2007-09-11 Thread Daniel Iliev
Hi, list I'd like to automate a full re-emerging and to get a record of all packages that failed. Something like: ## emerge -e world || { echo "$CATEGORY/$PN" >>failed.txt while ! emerge --resume --skipfirst do echo "$CATEGORY/$PN" >> failed.txt done } ## Any ideas how

Re: [gentoo-user] Automated "emerge -e world"

2007-09-12 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:52:55 -0500 Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 03:04 +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote: > > Hi, list > > > > I'd like to automate a full re-emerging and to get a record of all > > packages that failed. Something

Re: [gentoo-user] Automated "emerge -e world"

2007-09-12 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:01:01 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There's also the update script mentioned in this GWN: > > http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20070723-newsletter.xml > > HTH. Thanks! I'll take a look at this one too. P.S. For some reason GWN can't make its way to my Inbo

Re: [gentoo-user] disable dropping to -j1 when building certain programs

2007-09-23 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:15:50 -0500 "Marzan, Richard non Unisys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I disable portage dropping or overriding my MAKEOPTS variable > setting when building certain programs? > > MAKEOPTS="jXXX -e" >From "man make": -e, --environment-overrides

[gentoo-user] shared portage tree

2007-09-23 Thread Daniel Iliev
Hi, folks Is there any problem to share portage tree over nfs between different archs? In this particular case I want to use a machine with arc=amd64 as a nfs server and share its tree with several x86 machines. -- Best regards, Daniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] shared portage tree

2007-09-24 Thread Daniel Iliev
Thanks for the replies, guys. Yes. This setup works here also and I have no breakages, but since I've let the x86 machies use shared portage tree I have the feeling the performance of portage dropped down notably. I don't know what happens at the end of "emerge --sync", what the metadata consis

Re: [gentoo-user][SOLVED] shared portage tree

2007-09-24 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:47:23 +0200 Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 24 September 2007 13:36:34 Daniel Iliev wrote: > > Yes. This setup works here also and I have no breakages, but since > > I've let the x86 machies use shared portage tree

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Strange apache2 access_log entries

2007-09-26 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:51:31 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does anyone else get entries like this in their apache2 > > > access_log: > > > > > > 127.0.0.1 - - [26/Sep/2007:03:10:08 -0700] "GET /" 400 470 > > > > > > I get a whole slew of them every day. They always show up in > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} [typo] Strange apache2 access_log entries

2007-09-26 Thread Daniel Iliev
> those is for http_user. 470 most probably is the http error code > (means bad request) and the last field with value "470" would be > "bytes sent". > The first line should read "those is for http_user. 400 most probably is the http error code". 400 instead of 470. Sorry for the typo. -- Be

Re: [gentoo-user] set xdm to start after agetty

2007-09-30 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 22:41:52 +0300 Thanasis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can we set the xdm/gdm not to start before the agetty processes > (during the boot phase)? Just an idea for a possible direction to point your investigation to... /etc/config-archive/etc/conf.d/xdm: === # Tell X to alw

Re: [gentoo-user] new box: 2 small puzzles (1 solved)

2007-10-20 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 04:51:25 -0400 Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --snip-- > > Anyone have a suggestion why using 'cp -a' to copy a lot of subdirs > takes additional space on the USB stick (over the HDD space used) ? > It doesn't happen when copying a straight set of files. > It won't aff

[gentoo-user] pam limits

2007-10-25 Thread Daniel Iliev
Hi, ppl I have the habit of imposing some limitations over all users via /etc/security/limits.conf. For example I used to limit the number of concurrent processes one can execute to prevent the system from simple misuses like fork bombs by putting a limit (nproc) for group "users" and all other c

Re: [gentoo-user] pam limits

2007-10-25 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:45:49 -0500 Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Now that the behaviour of "useradd -m xyz" has changed from putting > > the newuser in group "users" ("xyz:users") to putting the user in a > > group with same name ("xyz:xyz") I would appreciate any advice on >

Re: [gentoo-user] pam limits

2007-10-25 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:45:49 -0500 Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Now that the behaviour of "useradd -m xyz" has changed from putting > > the newuser in group "users" ("xyz:users") to putting the user in a > > group with same name ("xyz:xyz") I would appreciate any advice on >

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] pam limits

2007-10-25 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:25:03 +0200 Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 25 October 2007, Albert Hopkins wrote: > > > Oh do they do that now? That was that nasty Red Hat extension. > > While one might agree or disagree about that, IMHO the problem now is > that the options in

Re: [gentoo-user] about the 2007.1

2007-11-07 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 10:46:30 -0300 "Danilo Marcelo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I´m waiting for too. Why? From my POV the only valid reason for someone to want a new Gentoo release is if (s)he wants to install it on a new hardware, which is not supported by the latest release. On the other han

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't get traffic shaping to work properly :(

2007-11-07 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:23:36 -0800 Xamindar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have tried following the howto here: > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Packet_Shaping > But it doesn't work. First of all it ends up limiting both upload AND > download. I have tried a few different ways with all the same res

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting system stats

2007-11-07 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 00:23:51 +0200 "Aleksey V. Kunitskiy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 07 November 2007, James wrote: > > All, > > > > I'm writing a piece of code that requires I gather the following > > statistics every second: > > > > - CPU Usage (as a percentage) > > - NIC I/O > > -

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help enabling iptables support in kernel

2007-11-10 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 06:53:42 -0600 Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a big problem. I've asked this question here in the past, and > have never gotten a straight answer. I use ipkungfu as my firewall > sofware. I noticed yesterday when I had to reboot my server box that > ipk

Re: [gentoo-user] WIn2003 interfering Samba ?

2007-11-30 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:24:01 +0100 (CET) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I have an Samba server as a PDC running in a local network. Everything > works fine. Now we installed a Windows 2003 Small Business Server > with MS SQL in the network, because one application needs the MS SQL > Server

Re: [gentoo-user] Nice level for X11

2008-05-13 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Tue, 13 May 2008 21:50:24 +0200 "Abraham Gyorgy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello guys, in which configuration file can I set a nice level for > X11? (this makes all graphical software run much faster, at least > when I used Debian). > > Thanks in advance If I wanted to change the nicenes

Re: [gentoo-user] Nice level for X11

2008-05-13 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Tue, 13 May 2008 22:42:39 -0400 "Andrey Falko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello guys, in which configuration file can I set a nice level for > > > X11? (this makes all graphical software run much faster, at least > > > when I used Debian). > > > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > If I

Re: [gentoo-user] Nice level for X11

2008-05-15 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Thu, 15 May 2008 19:45:17 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 15 May 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Thursday 15 May 2008, Abraham Gyorgy wrote: > > > I know X runs always as root. But setting the X server process' > > > priority to for example -10 makes graphical software res

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list and PGP/MIME

2008-05-25 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Sun, 25 May 2008 20:04:29 +0200 Wolf Canis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mick wrote: > > This is a nice list with helpful people. > > No doubt about that. :-) Yep! :) > > > There are other lists however, when > > it is not that rare for malicious (or unhinged) individuals to > > imperson

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list and PGP/MIME

2008-05-27 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Tue, 27 May 2008 11:27:10 +0200 Wolf Canis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Agreed, because of the way the subscription process works. The way how > someone subscribed to a list is _only_ with a e-mail address. This > would change if the subscription process would demand a signature. Absolutely. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list and PGP/MIME

2008-05-27 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Tue, 27 May 2008 10:34:28 +0100 Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 27 May 2008 08:28:27 +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote: > > > 1. Trouble saving > > Will signatures help if a mailing list (ML) receives spam? > > No. The admins won't accept

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