Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] attach a perl script to daemon services

2010-02-26 Thread Michael Higgins
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:00:43 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Where I'm weak is the part where the custom script checks if the > > daemon is running, before the script itself starts. That part would > > need to be something pretty fool proof... maybe just grep ps output > > for the daemon? I ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] attach a perl script to daemon services

2010-02-27 Thread Michael Higgins
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:40:17 -0600 Harry Putnam wrote: > > reload() { > > ebegin "Reloading evolone_agi configuration" > > start-stop-daemon --signal 1 > > --pidfile /var/run/evolone_agi.pid eend $? "Error reloading > > evolone_agi" } > Thanks ... good info. How does the script b

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is the move perl-5.10 involved here

2010-03-04 Thread Michael Higgins
On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:52:30 -0600 Harry Putnam wrote: > >> Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry > >> at /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.1/i686-linux/DynaLoader.pm line 223. object > >> version 1.609 does not match $::VERSION %_ > >> at /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.1/i686-linux/DynaLoader.pm line 223. BEGIN

Re: [gentoo-user] postgresql 8.2.14 cannot stop

2010-03-30 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:31:50 +0800 Xi Shen wrote: > hi, > > my system is gentoo amd64, postgresql 8.2.14. the postgresql service > can start without any error; but when i try to stop it, it reports > failure. the process of postgresql are actually terminated. if i try > to stop the service again

Re: [gentoo-user] trying to track down broken dependency

2009-09-19 Thread Michael Higgins
all 5.10.1 from the perl-experimental overlay (good luck with *that*) and report how you fixed any issues you come across. It's only going to get to be a worse mess unless everyone who is able picks up the slack for these guys. And you will have to upgrade eventually anyway... so why not now? My $.02, not terribly helpful though, I suppose. :( Cheers, -- Michael Higgins

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and Ultramonkey

2009-09-28 Thread Michael Higgins
nconvenience. > So all I have to do is modify /etc/make.conf by adding mysql and > emerge libdbi. I do not need to install mysql server, this machine > only needs mysqlclient. Thanks again for your help. > > Nick > You may have to add 'perl' to make.conf. Just --pretend your emerge and have a look... good luck! -- Michael Higgins

Re: how to force libxcb version below 1.4 when re-installing X (was: [gentoo-user] my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong?)

2009-10-13 Thread Michael Higgins
remaining libX11 errors." From: http://blog.olebox.com/tag/linux/ Cheers (and good luck), -- Michael Higgins

[gentoo-user] [OT] gnome-shell is cool (and how to move my current user)

2009-11-23 Thread Michael Higgins
onfigs over, but I thought there *might* be a sure way that would be easier... Cheers, -- Michael Higgins

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] gnome-shell is cool (and how to move my current user)

2009-11-24 Thread Michael Higgins
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:54:13 -0800 Michael Higgins wrote: > So then, what's the *best way* to (re-) set my current user to get the > goodness of a brand new gnome profile, but none of the hassle of > reconfiguring all my apps? ;-) > > I see moving my /home folder to somethi

Re: [gentoo-user] freezing a package

2009-12-19 Thread Michael Higgins
found that the > in the package.mask wasn't always enough though, > as if I used the --update argument to emerge and my version wasn't in > the portage tree anymore, emerge would get silly and offer to Except that it *will* be in the portage tree, in your personal overlay, unless *you* delete your ebuild. ;-) > downgrade. > Cheers, -- Michael Higgins

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox 3.5.6 doesn't see my CUPS printers

2010-01-08 Thread Michael Higgins
On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:18:38 +0100 (CET) Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > Firefox (www-client/firefox-bin-3.5.6) doesn't see my CUPS printers > anymore. > It just shows "Any Printer" and lateron "Print to LPR" > > What am I missing? WAG: Start cupsd? -- Michael Higgins

Re: [gentoo-user] docbook-sgml-utils-0.6.14 [0.6.12]

2005-06-10 Thread michael higgins
On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 17:36:38 + (UTC) James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > This docbook ebuild seems to fail Ideas on fixes > are welcome. I already unmerged then emerge and that > did not seem to work around the problem. Maybe some other > missing/corrupt package? bugzilla was not an

[gentoo-user] distcc configuration

2005-06-16 Thread michael higgins
I have a couple of questions about using distcc. I have two machines. One is significantly faster than the other, both x86 (pentium 2 and amd athlon-xp). I've followed the http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/distcc.xml instructions for configuring portage to use distcc. Should I need to continue with

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc configuration

2005-06-21 Thread michael higgins
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:08:46 -0700 Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > michael higgins wrote: > > I have a couple of questions about using distcc. I have two machines. One > > is significantly faster than the other, both x86 (pentium 2 and amd > > athlon-xp). &

[gentoo-user] perl 5.8.6 install/update - @INC not working, solved?

2005-07-13 Thread michael higgins
Hello list. I just decided to rebuild perl as I recently noticed that perl wasn't working for me anymore. When I just happened to need to use it, of course. As an aside, if perhaps relevant, I had a couple of problems with failed compiles. As is usually is the fix for this machine, I opened the

[gentoo-user] RAM upgrade, kernel and swap

2008-01-21 Thread Michael Higgins
So, I just got 2 GB of RAM in the mail. Whoo hoo. Before I pop these in, soliciting any thoughts about the following: zcat /proc/config.gz |grep MEM CONFIG_SHMEM=y # CONFIG_TINY_SHMEM is not set # CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM is not set CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y CONFI

[gentoo-user] cron and ssmtp

2008-01-22 Thread Michael Higgins
Hello, folks -- Is anyone using cron (vixie-cron) without a real MTA and getting emails? The test is simple, just "echo hello world". I expect this to come as an email to the address I put in MAILTO="". But it doesn't. No dead.letter to be found either. Not having found any examples of folks usin

Re: [gentoo-user] cron and ssmtp

2008-01-22 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:48:05 + Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:36:46 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote: > > > Is anyone using cron (vixie-cron) without a real MTA and getting > > emails? The test is simple, just "echo hello world"

Re: [gentoo-user] cron and ssmtp

2008-01-22 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:37:32 +0100 Jan Seeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:36:46 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote: > > > > > > > > > Is anyone using cron (vixie-cron) without a real MTA and > > > > > getting emai

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM upgrade, kernel and swap

2008-01-23 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:44:53 +0100 "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Montag, 21. Januar 2008, Michael Higgins wrote: > > So, I just got 2 GB of RAM in the mail. Whoo hoo. > > > > Before I pop these in, soliciting any thoughts about the fo

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread Michael Higgins
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:15:14 -0800 (PST) maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > something like this should do it: > > > > gcc -D LINUX -include string.h -lm -o tonegen > > tonegen.c > > > > Yup. Thanks Iain. ++ Very handy. ;-) -- |\ /|| | ~ ~ | \/ ||---|

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-25 Thread Michael Higgins
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:59:25 -0800 (PST) maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not sure if that's what you want, but speaker-test > > from alsa-utils can generate sine waves, pink and > > white noise. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ speaker-test -t 2 > > speaker-test 0.0.8 > > Playback device i

[gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?

2008-01-29 Thread Michael Higgins
Hello, folks -- Most days, I work remotely from the 'ndoze net via rdesktop when I have to access it for some reason. But the bandwidth there is getting choked as others follow suit. I'm thinking I'd have a better time of it if I just had my own little toybox -- I mean, Windows XP installation --

Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?

2008-01-29 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:49:30 + Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:20:38 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote: > > > So, the quick question is, is VM Ware the best way to go? I think > > XP is still lurking on a partition here... and I do

Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?

2008-02-04 Thread Michael Higgins
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 16:47:28 + Peter Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 01 February 2008 13:21:38 Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > Hos anyone been able to get 6.0.2 to work? > Yes. I posted pretty much the whole session to the list. app-emulation/vmware-workstation-6.0.2.59824 is

[gentoo-user] [OT] fetchmail to procmail (or something) to arbitrary dir?

2008-02-15 Thread Michael Higgins
Hello, OT post here, but: I (the office, actually) have this lousy ISP that sells mailboxes limited to 50MB. Whatever, I can't change that just now. I have need to keep all mail in one place... for safekeeping, mostly. 50MB is not enough and I get a quota warning. So, knowing this situation is B

[gentoo-user] killing gnome light - pathetic cry for help.

2008-02-25 Thread Michael Higgins
I use Gnome ['gnome-light'] as my WM. For the past few months (many months) I've had the 'gnome-panel' lock up on me. Nothing is clearly causing this. Rebuilding has not seemed to help. Of course, what to rebuild? Everything? I've adopted the strategy of kill -INT and (next time) kill -HUP (and r

Re: [gentoo-user] killing gnome light - pathetic cry for help.

2008-02-26 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:02:58 + Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 26 Feb 2008, at 04:18, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 13:15 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote: > > > >> (And I don't want to trash my .gnome* folders in a WAG at a fi

Re: [gentoo-user] installing vmware?

2008-04-02 Thread Michael Higgins
On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 19:10:20 -0300 luis jure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > hello list, [8<] > > i found a few pages on the net explaining how to install vmware on > gentoo, but i'm not clear about those issues. thanks for any hint. http://archiver.mailfighter.net/gentoo-user/2008/January/1

[gentoo-user] What overwrites resolv.conf

2008-04-23 Thread Michael Higgins
I received a used laptop a week or so ago, wiped the tinker-toy OS offered with it and proceeded to do the right thing. So far, I have got a machine I can (manually) put to sleep and use on a wireless network. So far, so good. At home, I don't have a wireless AP, but a 50-ft. ethernet cable. When

Re: [gentoo-user] What overwrites resolv.conf

2008-04-23 Thread Michael Higgins
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:03:55 -0400 Mike Edenfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Higgins wrote: > > > So, what overwrites it, when, how, and how to stop it? Is there a > > definitive guide to the syntax of the various config files? Or, > > BETTER YET, is t

[gentoo-user] Install Windows XP on Gentoo Laptop

2008-05-02 Thread Michael Higgins
(Saw a similar thread, going the wrong way.) I have a laptop with a spare partition waiting for WinXP, to install from Dell OEM disks that came originally. Is this possible? I understand XP will overwrite the MBR. So, I'd have to re-install grub & that's it? '-) Cheers, -- |\ /|| |

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Windows XP on Gentoo Laptop

2008-05-06 Thread Michael Higgins
On Sat, 3 May 2008 10:44:01 +0100 Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2 May 2008, at 19:03, Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Michael Higgins > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> (Saw a similar thread, going the wrong way.)

Re: [gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-22 Thread Michael Higgins
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:30:52 -0400 Simon wrote: > hi there, > i'm looking for suggestions and guidance. [] I tend to tell folks up front to never listen to me or believe anything I say, so here's my... $.02. > I've looked into several ideas, but the last one that remains a good > 'deal'

Re: [gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-24 Thread Michael Higgins
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:08:48 +0100 Stroller wrote: [...] > If you want Asterisk to answer your conventional POTS phone line > then you can use an X100P card which you can buy for c £17. AIUI this > is basically a modem based on a certain chipset that Digium have > written drivers for. They have

[gentoo-user] ebuild log for net-print/cups-1.3.10-r1

2009-04-27 Thread Michael Higgins
I _remember_ doing this just a few days ago, so I'm not doing it again... but why is it still throwing a warning? Is this a limitation of portage or the ebuild? -- WARN: postinst /usr/lib/cups exists - You need to remerge every ebuild that installed into /usr/lib/cups and /etc/cups

[gentoo-user] How to IPSEC "M$oft" VPN client setup

2009-05-05 Thread Michael Higgins
Is there a useful Gentoo document anyone might suggest describing how one *connects to* a VPN device of the 'Microsoft' flavour "with IPSEC"? Cheers, -- |\ /|| | ~ ~ | \/ ||---| `|` ? ||ichael | |iggins\^ / michael.higgins[at]evolone[dot]o

Re: [gentoo-user] Cursor keys stopped working in VMware workstation

2009-05-08 Thread Michael Higgins
On Fri, 8 May 2009 09:46:55 +0800 Mike Mazur wrote: > But since you're seeing this issue too with existing VMs, perhaps > it's related to the recent Xorg upgrade? I guess, yes. Happened like this for me too. Found the same fix. -- |\ /|| | ~ ~ | \/ ||---|

Re: [gentoo-user] How to IPSEC "M$oft" VPN client setup

2009-05-11 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 05 May 2009 17:49:06 +0100 Graham Murray wrote: > Michael Higgins writes: > > > Is there a useful Gentoo document anyone might suggest describing > > how one *connects to* a VPN device of the 'Microsoft' flavour "with > > IPSEC"? > >

Re: [gentoo-user] How to IPSEC "M$oft" VPN client setup

2009-05-19 Thread Michael Higgins
On Sun, 17 May 2009 12:07:33 +0100 Mick wrote: > On Sunday 17 May 2009, Mick wrote: > > Thanks Graham, > > > > On Saturday 16 May 2009, Graham Murray wrote: > > > Here are some samples. > > > [8<] > > The more I try to use VPN the more I love SSH! > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/87920 Mick -- This

Re: [gentoo-user] How to IPSEC "M$oft" VPN client setup

2009-05-19 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 19 May 2009 13:57:21 -0500 Paul Hartman wrote: > Based on a brief googling I didn't see anyone who has a working > connection to a Checkpoint VPN. Thanks, Paul. I've already the "solution", as I'm not so much trying to get something accomplished (access machines "inside" which I can do

Re: [gentoo-user] How to IPSEC "M$oft" VPN client setup

2009-05-19 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 19 May 2009 22:08:10 +0100 Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 19 May 2009, Michael Higgins wrote: > > On Tue, 19 May 2009 13:57:21 -0500 > > > > Paul Hartman wrote: > > > Based on a brief googling I didn't see anyone who has a working > > > connecti

Re: [gentoo-user] g-cpan not pulling in the correct depencies

2009-06-16 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:03:38 -0700 Grant wrote: > I'm trying to use g-cpan to pull in Bundle-InterchangeKitchenSink: > > http://search.cpan.org/~MIKEH/Bundle-InterchangeKitchenSink/InterchangeKitchenSink.pm > > but the list of dependencies is way off. Is g-cpan just broken? That's about it, y

Re: [gentoo-user] g-cpan not pulling in the correct depencies

2009-06-17 Thread Michael Higgins
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:07:31 -0700 Grant wrote: > > You do have the ("perl-experimental") overlay? > > Thanks Michael. I don't have that overlay. What would it do for me? It's where other ebuilds wind up if no one puts them in the official tree. So, if there needs to be some customisation

[gentoo-user] app-accessibility/speech-tools-1.2.96_beta build fails

2009-06-30 Thread Michael Higgins
Detected file collision(s): /usr/bin/dp Searching all installed packages for file collisions... Press Ctrl-C to Stop mail-client/nmh-1.1-r1 /usr/bin/dp Package 'app-accessibility/speech-tools-1.2.96_beta' NOT merged due to file collisions. If necessary, refer to your elog me

[gentoo-user] Why did this happen?

2009-06-30 Thread Michael Higgins
Can anyone speculate as to why this error? Is the fix to usermod -s /sbin/nologin for each of these? ebuild log for sys-apps/baselayout-2.0.1 on evolone.org WARN: postinst The following users have non-existent shells! apache - /usr/sbin/nologin cron - /usr/sbin/nologin ldap - /usr/sbin/nologi

[gentoo-user] Spurious warnings?

2009-06-30 Thread Michael Higgins
Here's an example of a (possibly) useless log warning. I say useless because I don't know (how would I?) whether this was updated from version 0.30 or not. I get these kinds of messages regularly. Sometimes, I say, "right. I did that last week, why is it telling me again?". How do others know

[gentoo-user] do I need this?

2009-06-30 Thread Michael Higgins
LOG: postinst Install >=x11-libs/gtk+-2 if you need command gtk-update-icon-cache. So, do I need that command? Am I wrong in thinking this is a pretty silly message provided as such without any context? -- |\ /|| | ~ ~ | \/ ||---| `|` ? ||ichael

Re: [gentoo-user] Spurious warnings?

2009-07-03 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:51:52 +0100 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:58:40 -0700, Michael Higgins wrote: > > > How do others know if a warning applies after any system/world > > update? > > > > LOG: postinst > > > > The database format

Re: [gentoo-user] Why did this happen?

2009-07-03 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:03:24 +0200 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Dienstag 30 Juni 2009 19:54:23 schrieb Michael Higgins: > > > Can anyone speculate as to why this error? > > Because it's /sbin/nologin. Indeed. > > > Is the fix to usermod -s /sbin/nologin for

Re: [gentoo-user] festival usage (possibly OT)

2009-07-07 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 11:23:55 -0500 William Hubbs wrote: William -- Thanks VERY much for asking here. Seeing the post on -dev, I wanted (as is often the case) to reply, but... :( This is much better: Here, "no replies" could be taken as a pretty good sign no one cares. ;-) > we have several

Re: [gentoo-user] A little OT; ssmtp: Is this correct?

2009-07-17 Thread Michael Higgins
On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:26:24 -0500 Michael Sullivan wrote: > mailhub=baby.espersunited.com > # Where will the mail seem to come from? > rewritedomain=r...@camille.espersunited.com > > # The full hostname > > # Gentoo bug #47562 > # Commenting the following line will force ssmtp to figure > # ou

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.30 and vmware-server build.log

2009-09-05 Thread Michael Higgins
On Sat, 5 Sep 2009 13:23:32 + Nick Khamis wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I have been at this for a week, and I am stumped. Trying to emerge > vmware-server 1.0.9 using x86 environment and 2.6.30 kernel. I gave http://lmgtfy.com/?q=vmware-server+1.0.9+kernel+2.6.30 Good luck! Be sure to post

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-05 Thread Michael Higgins
On Sat, 5 Sep 2009 17:21:57 + Nick Khamis wrote: > I do not meean to be persistent regarding this problem LOL!!! -- Michael Higgins

[gentoo-user] package masked perl left and right... what now??

2008-11-18 Thread Michael Higgins
After the better part of an hour spent manually unmasking inexplicably newly-masked dependencies of installed packages, I finally: grep dev-perl /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask >> /etc/portage/package.unmask ... so I could [EMAIL PROTECTED]&*()_ get on with an updated system. So, did anyone

Re: [gentoo-user] package masked perl left and right... what now??

2008-11-18 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:51:06 -0800 Michael Higgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: To follow up, since I posted to the list, I got a reply from the maintainer who did this, who referred me here: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=247413#c1 Which also contains the explanation, &quo

[gentoo-user] Perl woes MRO-Compat requires perl-5.10.0 [?!?!]

2008-12-11 Thread Michael Higgins
Hey, folks -- IMO, maintaining a decent perl library isn't difficult in the least. With Gentoo, there is an extra level of confusion when using Portage to manage the perl libraries and modules. Even so, it hasn't been too bad. Until now. I've come across this issue several times, solved it by u

Re: [gentoo-user] Perl woes MRO-Compat requires perl-5.10.0 [?!?!]

2008-12-11 Thread Michael Higgins
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:39:34 +0100 Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > Michael Higgins schrieb am 11.12.2008 19:19: [8<] > dev-perl/MRO-Compat is not in portage, so from which overlay do you > have it. The perl overlay (where you get catalystframework ebuilds). > This overlay should al

Re: [gentoo-user] Perl woes MRO-Compat requires perl-5.10.0 [?!?!]

2008-12-12 Thread Michael Higgins
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:14:26 +0100 Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > Michael Higgins schrieb am 11.12.2008 20:54: > > On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:39:34 +0100 > > Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > > > >> and why do you blame Gentoo in > >> bug #250632? > > > > Bec

Re: [gentoo-user] Perl woes MRO-Compat requires perl-5.10.0 [?!?!]

2008-12-12 Thread Michael Higgins
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:15:36 -0800 "Andrey Falko" wrote: > > > > It is about catalystframework, which is in the perl-experimental > > overlay (a misnomer if ever there was one, "experimental"). It is > > about perl 5.10.0, which is long overdue for making it into the > > tree (never mind just int

[gentoo-user] perl-5.10.0 [?!?!]

2008-12-17 Thread Michael Higgins
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:44:51 -0800 Michael Higgins wrote: > On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:15:36 -0800 > "Andrey Falko" wrote: > > > > > > > It is about catalystframework, which is in the perl-experimental > > > overlay (a misnomer if ever there was one,

[gentoo-user] is it enchant stable on x86 -- oh, my spell checker, where did it go?

2009-01-26 Thread Michael Higgins
Claws-mail version 3.7.0 Locale: en_US.UTF-8 (charset: UTF-8) Spell checker could not be started. Couldn't initialize en dictionary: (null) Couldn't initialize en speller. eix app-dicts/*en [I] app-dicts/aspell-en Available versions: 0.51.0 0.51.1 6.0.0 Installed versions: 6.0.0(08:

[gentoo-user] OT -- superuser file manager access to remote via ssh with no root login?

2009-02-24 Thread Michael Higgins
I can't figure this one out. Have disallowed root login, public key auth. Have a bunch of random renaming to do on that machine though, so would like to point and click for a change. Is this possible? No GUI libs on the remote machine... I was thinking sshfs, but since I can't login directly

Re: [gentoo-user] OT -- superuser file manager access to remote via ssh with no root login?

2009-02-25 Thread Michael Higgins
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:50:00 + Stroller wrote: > > On 25 Feb 2009, at 03:42, Mike Kazantsev wrote: > > ... > > 3. Since it sounds like you have no need to do it repeatedly, why > > not open root and do the stuff? Provided you don't have '123' as > > password. > > The voice of reason has ent

[gentoo-user] how to switch laptop to usb keyboard

2009-03-02 Thread Michael Higgins
Hey, all -- I picked up a logitech usb keyboard to use with my laptop. Plugged it in and it works... almost. No number keys. How to I tell X to use this different device when I plug it in? Cheers, -- |\ /|| | ~ ~ | \/ ||---| `|` ? ||ichael | |i

Re: [gentoo-user] how to switch laptop to usb keyboard

2009-03-02 Thread Michael Higgins
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 11:42:53 -0600 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Michael Higgins > wrote: > > Hey, all -- > > > > I picked up a logitech usb keyboard to use with my laptop. Plugged > > it in and it works... almost. No number keys. >

Re: [gentoo-user] how to switch laptop to usb keyboard

2009-03-03 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 09:24:38 +0500 Mike Kazantsev wrote: > On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 18:31:41 -0800 > Michael Higgins wrote: > > > Still no luck here, as this is new to me. Really, I'm lost on the > > process... figured it would just work, which it does, except that I > &

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how to switch laptop to usb keyboard

2009-03-04 Thread Michael Higgins
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 00:16:22 +0100 Miernik wrote: > Michael Higgins wrote: > > What the *keypad* does, after plugging in the usb keyboard, is act > > as a mouse. I've never seen this... it's kinda cool, actually. Like > > using an etch-a-sketch. > > You can

[gentoo-user] How to "freeze" my Gentoo system

2009-03-11 Thread Michael Higgins
Don't know the proper term, but I want to stop version updates for a while, yet allow package-rN updates... I spent most of the last couple of days killing two bugs that were a serious drag on my laptop, involving kacpid hogging the CPU on a resume, or bay swap, and gnome panel freezing on > 7

Re: [gentoo-user] How to "freeze" my Gentoo system

2009-03-13 Thread Michael Higgins
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:51:05 + Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:13:30 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > Could he just not sync and call it a day? I suspect this is > > > going to bite him one day tho. We know Gentoo likes to be > > > updated fairly regular. I been around Ge

Re: [gentoo-user] Usernames in ssh attacks

2009-03-19 Thread Michael Higgins
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:43:13 -0500 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Johan Blåbäck > wrote: > > I've always had usernames when it comes to sshd's log entries in > > auth.log, like the following: > > > > sshd[5926]: error: PAM: Authentication failure for > > from > > We

Re: [gentoo-user] kacpid eating alot of cpu

2009-03-30 Thread Michael Higgins
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:57:11 +0200 Johan Blåbäck wrote: > Is acpi suppose to act like this? No. But you probably really knew that. ;-) > Can I fix it? I had to update to latest kernels, as bug patch for kacpid hogging CPU with certain laptops and certain configurations is in 2.6.28, finally.

[gentoo-user] emerge --prune: should it work?

2009-04-02 Thread Michael Higgins
I attempted to emerge 'twinkle', a soft phone, but whoever made the ebuild neglected to include a dependency on KDE libraries. Of course, since I don't have KDE libs, emerge failed. But before failing, the ebuild had pulled in, built, and installed two *new* packages. As these packages were ne

Re: [gentoo-user] How to "freeze" my Gentoo system

2009-04-02 Thread Michael Higgins
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:56:47 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 11 March 2009 22:40:54 Michael Higgins wrote: > > Don't know the proper term, but I want to stop version updates for > > a while, yet allow package-rN updates... > > This doesn't seem to b

Re: [gentoo-user] How to "freeze" my Gentoo system

2009-04-03 Thread Michael Higgins
On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 10:45:46 +0800 Mark David Dumlao wrote: > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: > > On Thursday 12 March 2009 10:07:03 Dale wrote: > >> I do understand that getting something stable and working then > >> wanting to keep it that way.  I'm just wondering what h

Re: [gentoo-user] What annoys you?

2009-04-06 Thread Michael Higgins
On Sat, 4 Apr 2009 13:31:35 +0200 Sebastian Günther wrote: > * Alan McKinnon (alan.mckin...@gmail.com) [04.04.09 09:57]: > > > > emerge --lock > > > I find this suggestion very good, and would like to ask the more > experienced participants, if such thing was thought of before. > > I'm think

[gentoo-user] upgrade to expat 2 blows up system

2007-08-13 Thread Michael Higgins
do upgrade to have a system using expat 2 libs? Cheers, -- Michael Higgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrade to expat 2 blows up system

2007-08-14 Thread Michael Higgins
esolving emerge order I think you must emerge -u expat, then XML-Parser, then revdep-rebuild, then auDNv world. Perhaps forcing rebuild of XML-Parser and gettext after updating expat would be a fix? Cheers, -- Michael Higgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] apache can't start after updating expat to 2.0.1

2007-08-16 Thread Michael Higgins
; command. Hoping in the future, revdep-rebuild could handles such > situation correctly. > > I wish my experience be useful to you. > Thank you, thank you, thank you! That was a nasty one, glad you sleuthed it out. Cheers, -- Michael Higgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] apache configuration woes

2007-09-07 Thread Michael Higgins
use one of the applications on the machine that requires I be able to access the files. Thanks for any quick reply. -- Michael Higgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] apache configuration woes

2007-09-07 Thread Michael Higgins
On Fri, 7 Sep 2007 11:15:39 -0700 Michael Higgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since upgrading one of my servers, I've been getting the standard HTACCESS > "password required" dialogue. I didn't choose this consciously and I don't > want it. The

[gentoo-user] DBD-ODBC installation problem

2008-06-04 Thread Michael Higgins
Folks — I'm having a problem getting a working *-perl/DBD-ODBC. I had one that was working just fine, but un-merged unixODBC in a fit of pique, or something. I re-emerged it, but then DBD-ODBC segfaults. So, getting to debug I: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr LANG="" ODBCHOME=/usr ; FEATURES="nostr

[gentoo-user] sanity check: fetchmail exim courier-*

2008-06-11 Thread Michael Higgins
Hi all — First question, where is $MAIL set for the users? It is set now to /var/mail/[user] somehow, or is by default. If so, where is that set? Anyway, I need to change to ~/.maildir. If not set to change, where should I set it? The situation (needing a reality check) is we have an ISP that giv

[gentoo-user] gentoo install on Dell restore partition... live?

2008-07-14 Thread Michael Higgins
So, I finally got the OK to nuke another Dell winbox. My dream is to: * Partition the restore partition (3.6 GB) for any small linux installation * make that partition active, bootable, with grub installed * reboot and ssh into that linux machine to finish by toasting NTFS partition and making

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail on multiple laptops

2008-07-15 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:11:08 -0400 (EDT) "James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, July 15, 2008 9:05 am, Michael Pobega wrote: > > I've always had just one laptop so I've been a POP user for years > > now, but I'm finally buying a second laptop for travels (Asus Eee > > PC) and I was wondering

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo install on Dell restore partition... live?

2008-07-15 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:52:20 +0100 Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:42:20 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > > I assume you meant 'cp -ax' :P > > I did, it's tar that uses -l for this. > > > > rsync -ax / /root/hd/ > > > > Well, /root/hd is empty so there's

[gentoo-user] how touchy is /var really? And how to keep tabs on a new disk?

2008-08-12 Thread Michael Higgins
So, in setting up a huge repository of junk, I mean, important business documents, I nearly ran out of disk space on rootfs. Much of it was living in /var, like half the disk's worth. I'd just dropped a new disk in for /home... to move some Outlook files to IMAP & maildir folders. Had I been th

Re: [gentoo-user] how touchy is /var really? And how to keep tabs on a new disk?

2008-08-12 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:18:39 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dienstag, 12. August 2008, Michael Higgins wrote: > > > Now, was that a stupid thing to do, or should everything under /var > > continue to work still, without issues? &

Re: [gentoo-user] how touchy is /var really? And how to keep tabs on a new disk?

2008-08-12 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:52:59 -0700 kashani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > expire_logs_days = 7 is your friend. You must be psychic. Thanks for all your helpful suggestions, this one too! Cheers, -- |\ /|| | ~ ~ | \/ ||---| `|` ? ||ichael | |iggins

[gentoo-user] asterisk hardware recommendations?

2008-10-23 Thread Michael Higgins
Anyone have a success story with asterisk to voip phones? I'd like to start with a hardware recommendation for the T1 interface card and or CSU/DSU, if anyone can share. Is Digium, FEX the best way to go? TIA for any help or FMs to RT. '-) -- |\ /|| | ~ ~ | \/ |

[gentoo-user] [OT?] /etc/shadow perms group shadow?

2008-11-14 Thread Michael Higgins
I have a question which may or may not be Gentoo-specific, but here goes: An application runs as a web server. In this application I have hooks to PAM. The results I was getting from attempting to authorize against PAM were fruitless, until I looked at making a way for the user running this to r

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] /etc/shadow perms group shadow?

2008-11-16 Thread Michael Higgins
On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 02:01:54 +0100 Michele Schiavo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /etc/sudoers ?? > I think I'm trying to avoid running under sudo. Yes, that works, but must have other security implications? In researching the problem, the workaround I posted was cribbed from other distros whic

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] /etc/shadow perms group shadow?

2008-11-16 Thread Michael Higgins
On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 06:45:54 + Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 15 Nov 2008, at 00:57, Michael Higgins wrote: > > ... > > An application runs as a web server. In this application I have > > hooks to PAM. The results I was getting from attempting to

[gentoo-user] Sylpheed-Claws / Claws-Mail / Postfix -- the gentoo way

2007-02-07 Thread Michael Higgins
d handle its own delivery now, or be able to use maildir? Does anyone know what the gentoo-preferred method is? Cheers, -- Michael Higgins [1]http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Postfix_Setup_for_Local_Mail_Only -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Sylpheed-Claws / Claws-Mail / Postfix -- the gentoo way

2007-02-07 Thread Michael Higgins
> -Original Message- > From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 09:40:59 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote: > > > Anyway, what I don't understand is the maildir, MH, mbox, qmail > > delivery thing. I followed a wiki[1] which suggest

[gentoo-user] disk capacity mismatch

2007-02-08 Thread Michael Higgins
76984 83 Linux /dev/hda4 44104 99582279614165 Extended /dev/hda5 44104 7184313980928+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 71844 9958213980424+ 83 Linux What major clue do I lack? :( -- Michael Higgins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] backing out of djbdns installation -- no DNS?

2007-02-22 Thread Michael Higgins
nameservers. What else is in the DNS mix? Did I miss a step? Or is there some leftover thing that didn't get unmerged with djbdns? Any help greatly appreciated. Cheers, -- Michael Higgins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] remove DHCPCD/djbdns -- and now, manual setup fails...

2007-02-22 Thread Michael Higgins
I'd tried installing and configuring djbdns. I can't get the nameservers in resolv.conf to give me dns, even though I can ping them. And, starting sshd calls dhcp and kills the eth0 device. How can I fix this? Any takers? -- Michael Higgins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[solved] RE: [gentoo-user] remove DHCPCD/djbdns -- and now, manual setup fails...

2007-02-22 Thread Michael Higgins
> -Original Message- > From: Michael Higgins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hello, list -- > > I have a server that had been running dhcpcd to get it's IP address. > > I don't want to do like this anymore, so I removed the > package and attempte

RE: [gentoo-user] remove DHCPCD/djbdns -- and now, manual setup fails...

2007-02-22 Thread Michael Higgins
> -Original Message- > From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 1:40 PM > > On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:34:27 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote: > > > I have a server that had been running dhcpcd to get it's IP address. >

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