Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Users and errors (was: help "line 6: B: command not found" FIXED, user error in config file...)

2005-03-31 Thread John Myers
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 12:35, Dave Nebinger wrote: > Most folks, where work is concerned, expect to have the computer 'just > work'. Your boss wants you to show up at 8 am and be productive for 8 > hours, not spend time figuring out the innards (unless that, of course, is > what you're paid to

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11: truetype-fonts vs. type1-fonts

2005-03-31 Thread Frank Schafer
Nobody never said, that M$ did develop something. ... they introduce ;) F. On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 23:22 -0800, John Myers wrote: > On Thursday 31 March 2005 23:04, Frank Schafer wrote: > > Nope, Type1 are high quality fonts from Adobe. Truetype are fonts > > introduced by M$. They are of lower qual

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11: truetype-fonts vs. type1-fonts

2005-03-31 Thread John Myers
On Thursday 31 March 2005 23:04, Frank Schafer wrote: > Nope, Type1 are high quality fonts from Adobe. Truetype are fonts > introduced by M$. They are of lower quality. IIRC, TrueType was developed by Apple, not Microsoft. pgpOSwRXKa1Ef.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge want to install two version of apache

2005-03-31 Thread John Myers
On Thursday 31 March 2005 07:44, Harry Putnam wrote: > Taking a look I tried: > emerge -v -p dev-perl/mod_perl/mod_perl-1.99.17-r1.ebuild That's not the correct syntax: try emerge -vp =dev-perl/mod_perl-1.99.17-r1 pgpz7xaYsLq9p.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] used computer

2005-03-31 Thread Rod
Have you tried looking into the company you work for? I picked up a AMD750 with 512Megs and 20Gig HD for my lady friend as it was my old workstation and it was under powered for what we needed, so it was either me or collect dust. Frank Schafer wrote: There are a lot of good second hand shops in

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Users and errors (was: help "line 6: B: command not found" FIXED, user error in config file...)

2005-03-31 Thread Frank Schafer
Hi markknecht, you know you have posted the SAME POST 43 TIMES do you? F. On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 07:00 +0100, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 12:57:10 -0500 (EST), A. Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Dave Nebinger wrote: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11: truetype-fonts vs. type1-fonts

2005-03-31 Thread Frank Schafer
Nope, Type1 are high quality fonts from Adobe. Truetype are fonts introduced by M$. They are of lower quality. Frank On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 13:32 -0800, Grant wrote: > Are the USE flags 'truetype-fonts' and 'type1-fonts' in xorg-x11 meant > to be substitutes for each other? I'm running the xfs fo

Re: [gentoo-user] used computer

2005-03-31 Thread Frank Schafer
There are a lot of good second hand shops in Prague (Czech Republic). If you can have a look at www.seznam.cz, a fairly good search engine for CR ... Most of them have thier web sites. If you order there the shipping costs would be probably much larger than the price if the machine itself, but you

Re: [gentoo-user] openldap question (non-ssl => ssl)

2005-03-31 Thread Frank Schafer
Hi, I don't (yet) have ldap installed. Is there a configuration file for ldap in /etc/conf.d, where you (probably) can setup behaviour like if to use or not to use ssl or the port ldap should be listening on etc. Just a thought Frank On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 00:35 -0500, Travis Osterman wrote: > I

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg Problem

2005-03-31 Thread Richard Fish
You could also try manually editing your xorg.conf file. From the i810 man page: Option "VBERestore" "boolean" Enable or disable the use of VBE save/restore for saving and restoring the initial text mode. This is disabled by default because it causes locku

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] moving /usr to different partition

2005-03-31 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 31. März 2005 16:48 schrieb ext michael higgins: > Well, I went to runlevel 1 and copied everything to my new partition, > then renamed /usr to /usr_old and made my fstab changes. > > When I rebooted, there were problems with booting. I wanted to figure > that out. I have a notion t

Re: [gentoo-user] user can't mount

2005-03-31 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 1. April 2005 05:52 schrieb ext maxim wexler: > Wonder if this is related to my still-not-fixed-su > problem. No. > Out of the blue I was told, when attempting $mount > /cdrom, /floppy: > > mount: must be superuser to use mount Not out of the blue. This is normal unless you tell the

Re: [gentoo-user] suggestions: buying a new computer

2005-03-31 Thread daniel
Thanks everyone for all their suggestions so far. I've already purchased an ATI X800XL PCIe card, and I'm trying to decide between these 3 motherboards (unless you have a better suggestion): DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D http://www.dfi.com.tw/Product/xx_product_spec_details_r_us.jsp?PRODUCT_ID=34

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh authentication wierdness

2005-03-31 Thread Zarick Lau
Hi, On 31/Mar/05, Robert Persson wrote: > I have been trying to get ssh to start behaving and, among other problems, I > am unable to get ssh/sshd - one of the two - to deal with hostnames properly. > > For instance I have just been trying to ssh into the machine I am working on. > > In /etc/

[gentoo-user] user can't mount

2005-03-31 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everyone, Wonder if this is related to my still-not-fixed-su problem. Out of the blue I was told, when attempting $mount /cdrom, /floppy: mount: must be superuser to use mount I read in newsgroup to add nosuid to the mount / line in fstab and this would allow the user to su w/o the accoun

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg Problem

2005-03-31 Thread Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales
Possible solutions: 1 - Recompile your kernel to allow for i810 DRM and FrameBuffer support 2 - VIDEO_CARDS="i810" emerge x11-drm 3 - On the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, see to it that your video driver is i810. If they don't work, try setting you video driver to vesa, it shouldn't get any problems.

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual-boot Windows with Gentoo? (say it ain't so)

2005-03-31 Thread Rod
maxim wexler wrote: booting XP with Linux is a real hassle. I could use 98SE instead, but it's Dual booting XP and linux is a breeze especially with lilo. Edit lilo.conf as if it _doesn't_ know about XP. Run lilo. Then mount a floppy formatted vfat and become root, then: dd if=/dev/ bs=512 c

[gentoo-user] OT: cron and top

2005-03-31 Thread Matthew Cline
I tried to run the following command as a daily cron job: # top -b -n 1 | mail However, all I get is a blank email. When I run this command manually, I get what I expected. Is there any reason why top would not work from cron? Thanks in advance, Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual-boot Windows with Gentoo? (say it ain't so)

2005-03-31 Thread maxim wexler
> booting XP with Linux is > a real hassle. I could use 98SE instead, but it's Dual booting XP and linux is a breeze especially with lilo. Edit lilo.conf as if it _doesn't_ know about XP. Run lilo. Then mount a floppy formatted vfat and become root, then: dd if=/dev/ bs=512 count=1 of= /mnt/flo

Re: [gentoo-user] anyone else having trouble with akgregator in kde 3.4?

2005-03-31 Thread Jan Han Xie
On Friday 01 April 2005 06:29, Robert Persson wrote: > Since I installed kde 3.4 akgregator has not been working properly. > > When I left-click on a link a new tab opens in akgregator, but the page > doesn't load there and the page-loading progress bar hangs at 0%. > Meanwhile the page loads in t

Re: [gentoo-user] anyone else having trouble with akgregator in kde 3.4?

2005-03-31 Thread Jan Han Xie
On Friday 01 April 2005 06:29, Robert Persson wrote: > Since I installed kde 3.4 akgregator has not been working properly. > > When I left-click on a link a new tab opens in akgregator, but the page > doesn't load there and the page-loading progress bar hangs at 0%. > Meanwhile the page loads in t

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild always emerges the same package

2005-03-31 Thread Kathy Wills
John Myers wrote: >On Thursday 31 March 2005 11:49, Grant wrote: > > >>>| > | I always get the same thing from revdep-rebuild, no matter how >>>| > | many times it emerges blackdown-jdk: >>>| > >>>| > This is one of the many reasons you shouldn't use binary packages. >>>| >>>| I didn't think I w

Re: [gentoo-user] No disk space

2005-03-31 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Mark Knecht: > Hi, >It's been a long time since I ran into all disk space getting used > up and I've forgotten where portage is putting downloaded files. Where > are the basic packages stored so that I can erase some and get going > again? > > Thanks, > Mark > -- /usr/portage/distfil

[gentoo-user] Re: No disk space

2005-03-31 Thread Mark Knecht
Replying to self: Found this after a few more minutes. Sorry for the wasted bandwidth. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=30547 Cheers, Mark On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 18:47:56 -0800, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, >It's been a long time since I ran into all disk space getting

[gentoo-user] Can't complete the install!

2005-03-31 Thread Robert G. Hays
Gentoo universal CD + packages CD, 2004.3 By-the-book, literally -- I printed it and punched it into binder ! Note that I am typing & sending this in Windows, thus some data may be off a *little*, since Gentoo doesn't work. - stage 1 install : - Tried mirrorselect -a & -i,

[gentoo-user] No disk space

2005-03-31 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, It's been a long time since I ran into all disk space getting used up and I've forgotten where portage is putting downloaded files. Where are the basic packages stored so that I can erase some and get going again? Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] restricted IMAP configuration

2005-03-31 Thread Rod
What about setting up another port that ipmap is mapped to for that single client (a port that is not the standard port) then only give that port to the client to use? from /etc/courier-imap/imapd ##NAME: PORT:1 # # Port numbers that connections are accepted on. The default is 143, # the stan

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg Problem

2005-03-31 Thread AJ Spagnoletti
ok my graphics are i810 and I compiled my own kernel. The problems in the forum link you sent are similar to mine with the vertical lines and complete freeze up but just quickly scanning through the only solution is to use another video card which i dont have.. On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:48:20 -0500,

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg Problem

2005-03-31 Thread david
Do you have intel onboard graphics?Are you using genkernel?See if this helps; http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=198023&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=125 -- david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Xorg Problem

2005-03-31 Thread AJ Spagnoletti
Hi, I am having some more problems with gentoo. I emerged the latest version of Xorg as well as KDE to get a desktop environment up. I configured Xorg using xorgconfig and then set it up to run the KDE desktop. The desktop loads however Xorg crashes shortly after the kde finishes loading. I posted

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh authentication wierdness

2005-03-31 Thread Robert Persson
On March 31, 2005 01:45 pm, quoth A. Khattri: > On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Robert Persson wrote: > > I have been trying to get ssh to start behaving and, among other > > problems, I am unable to get ssh/sshd - one of the two - to deal with > > hostnames properly. > > > > For instance I have just been try

Re: [gentoo-user] restricted IMAP configuration

2005-03-31 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Grant wrote: > I'm using courier-imap. I'd like to be able to set up an imap client > on a single workstation to be the only client that can access a > particular imap "account". Not sure what you mean here - do you need to strictly enforce this so no other machine can acces

Re: [gentoo-user] C compiler cannot create executables

2005-03-31 Thread Eric Thompson
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:07:10 -0700, Scott Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 20:09 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ gcc-config -l > > [1] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.2 > > [2] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.2-hardened > > [3] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.2-hardenedno

Re: [gentoo-user] Service named already provided by dns!

2005-03-31 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
I don't think it is Gentoo way. I have installed net-dns/bind, but it isn't added to any runlevel script. Deleting the /etc/init.d/named file will break a correctness of net-dns/bind installation. === On Friday 01 April 2005 01:47, A. Khattri wrote: === On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Andrew Gaydenko

[gentoo-user] restricted IMAP configuration

2005-03-31 Thread Grant
I'm using courier-imap. I'd like to be able to set up an imap client on a single workstation to be the only client that can access a particular imap "account". Do I need a particular imap client, a particular configuration of courier, or both? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] C compiler cannot create executables

2005-03-31 Thread Scott Taylor
On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 20:09 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ gcc-config -l > [1] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.2 > [2] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.2-hardened > [3] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.2-hardenednossp > [4] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.3-20050110 * > [5] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.3-20

Re: [gentoo-user] Service named already provided by dns!

2005-03-31 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > Each "Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache" shows the message: > > * Caching service dependencies ... > * Service 'named' already provided by 'dns'!; > * Not adding service 'pdnsd'... > > What does it mean? I have not noticed any side effects. If you are

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh authentication wierdness

2005-03-31 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Robert Persson wrote: > I have been trying to get ssh to start behaving and, among other problems, I > am unable to get ssh/sshd - one of the two - to deal with hostnames properly. > > For instance I have just been trying to ssh into the machine I am working on. > In /etc/host

[gentoo-user] Service named already provided by dns!

2005-03-31 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Hi, Each "Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache" shows the message: * Caching service dependencies ... * Service 'named' already provided by 'dns'!; * Not adding service 'pdnsd'... What does it mean? I have not noticed any side effects. Andrew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] anyone else having trouble with akgregator in kde 3.4?

2005-03-31 Thread Robert Persson
Since I installed kde 3.4 akgregator has not been working properly. When I left-click on a link a new tab opens in akgregator, but the page doesn't load there and the page-loading progress bar hangs at 0%. Meanwhile the page loads in the external browser as it would if I had middle-clicked the

[gentoo-user] ssh authentication wierdness

2005-03-31 Thread Robert Persson
I have been trying to get ssh to start behaving and, among other problems, I am unable to get ssh/sshd - one of the two - to deal with hostnames properly. For instance I have just been trying to ssh into the machine I am working on. In /etc/hosts is the line "192.168.1.2 zebedee". However "ssh

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild always emerges the same package

2005-03-31 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 21:34 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 11:49:16 -0800 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | > | > | I always get the same thing from revdep-rebuild, no matter how > | > | > | many times it emerges blackdown-jdk: > | > | > > | > | > This is one of the many rea

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual-boot Windows with Gentoo? (say it ain't so)

2005-03-31 Thread Richard Fish
James Hiscock wrote: >>Microsoft makes online updating of XP sooo >>easybut there is no simple mechanism to store the updates for later >>re-installations...or to tell the automatic updater to look/store them >>in a particular directory. >> >> > >hmmm... I wonder what this is, then? > >htt

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild always emerges the same package

2005-03-31 Thread Grant
> | > | > | I always get the same thing from revdep-rebuild, no matter how > | > | > | many times it emerges blackdown-jdk: > | > | > > | > | > This is one of the many reasons you shouldn't use binary > | > | > packages. > | > | > | > | I didn't think I was. I don't think I've ever used an 'emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual-boot Windows with Gentoo? (say it ain't so)

2005-03-31 Thread Tom Wesley
A. Khattri wrote: > On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Richard Fish wrote: > > >>Microsoft makes online updating of XP sooo >>easybut there is no simple mechanism to store the updates for later >>re-installations...or to tell the automatic updater to look/store them >>in a particular directory. > > > Wha

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual-boot Windows with Gentoo? (say it ain't so)

2005-03-31 Thread Richard Fish
A. Khattri wrote: >On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Richard Fish wrote: > > >>Microsoft makes online updating of XP sooo >>easybut there is no simple mechanism to store the updates for later >>re-installations...or to tell the automatic updater to look/store them >>in a particular directory. >> >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual-boot Windows with Gentoo? (say it ain't so)

2005-03-31 Thread David Post
> Microsoft makes online updating of XP sooo > easybut there is no simple mechanism to store the updates for later > re-installations...or to tell the automatic updater to look/store them > in a particular directory. Windows XP tends to be picky and like to be loaded on the Primary master and

Re: [gentoo-user] sometimes internet works only after /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restar

2005-03-31 Thread Antonio Coralles
>> Is it possible to tell dhcpd to wait longer for a response, or eaven >> retry automatically in periodic time intervals if not succesfull ? > > Yep. Check the man pages and it should tell you what options to put > in your > config file. Well, i looked at the man page and found that the timeout

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual-boot Windows with Gentoo? (say it ain't so)

2005-03-31 Thread Harald Arnesen
Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been running all of this over in my head, and I thought I'd get > your guys' advice. From what I've read, dual booting XP with Linux is > a real hassle. I could use 98SE instead, but it's really not as > sweet. No problem at all. Install XP first, then G

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual-boot Windows with Gentoo? (say it ain't so)

2005-03-31 Thread James Hiscock
> Microsoft makes online updating of XP sooo > easybut there is no simple mechanism to store the updates for later > re-installations...or to tell the automatic updater to look/store them > in a particular directory. hmmm... I wonder what this is, then? http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/c

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual-boot Windows with Gentoo? (say it ain't so)

2005-03-31 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Richard Fish wrote: > Microsoft makes online updating of XP sooo > easybut there is no simple mechanism to store the updates for later > re-installations...or to tell the automatic updater to look/store them > in a particular directory. What I do is burn the latest servic

RE: [gentoo-user] C compiler cannot create executables

2005-03-31 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Well after I updated gcc I run the updatescript and this script merges > some pacage (portage gcc-config distcc linux-headers etc..) so gcc was > working when i updated the system to 2005.0 else I will received an > error.. (at least i suppose so :-) > > locate output this: > Mjolne spetznaz # l

Re: [gentoo-user] suggestions: buying a new computer

2005-03-31 Thread Richard Fish
A. Khattri wrote: >On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Bill Roberts wrote: > > >>Point is, I think the premium paid for scsi is too high. In some 15 >>years of computing, I've only had one HD fail, that was an IBM >>Deskstar, aka DeathStar. >> >> > >Do you run many servers 24x7? > >I didn't think so... >

RE: [gentoo-user] portage and package specific CFLAGS

2005-03-31 Thread Dave Nebinger
> There may not be nothing wrong with it, but it is nevertheless almost as > crappy way to do it. This is because the next time the package with custom > CFLAGS gets updated as part of a world/system update, it will be emerged > with the default CFLAGS again... In these cases it is better to manag

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild always emerges the same package

2005-03-31 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 11:49:16 -0800 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | > | I always get the same thing from revdep-rebuild, no matter how | > | > | many times it emerges blackdown-jdk: | > | > | > | > This is one of the many reasons you shouldn't use binary | > | > packages. | > | | > | I didn't

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild always emerges the same package

2005-03-31 Thread John Myers
On Thursday 31 March 2005 11:49, Grant wrote: > > | > | I always get the same thing from revdep-rebuild, no matter how > > | > | many times it emerges blackdown-jdk: > > | > > > | > This is one of the many reasons you shouldn't use binary packages. > > | > > | I didn't think I was. I don't think I

RE: [gentoo-user] sometimes internet works only after /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restar

2005-03-31 Thread Dave Nebinger
> # during boot ## > Mar 31 15:31:31 [kernel] NET: Registered protocol family 10 > Mar 31 15:31:31 [net.agent] add event not handled > # guess this line is the problem # > Mar 31 15:32:07 [dhcpcd] timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server > response_ > # guess this line is the p

Re: [gentoo-user] portage and package specific CFLAGS

2005-03-31 Thread Tero Grundström
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Aaron Walker wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Nick Rout wrote: > > I thought perhaps > > > > CFLAGS="whatever" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" emerge foo > > > > no doubt some dev guru will tell me I am way out of line :-) > > wrong! there's nothing wrong with

[gentoo-user] Apache ebuild can't see Berkeley DB?

2005-03-31 Thread A. Khattri
I did a search in Bugzilla and didn't see this reported anywhere, so I thought I would ask here before posting it as a bug. Im building the latest Apache (1.x) ebuild, during the configure process: Creating Makefile in src + configured for Linux platform + setting C compiler to gcc + setting C

RE: [gentoo-user] sometimes internet works only after /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart

2005-03-31 Thread Dave Nebinger
> You could also try setting up ifplugd. If nothing else, it would allow > your users to reset the network by removing and reinserting the network > cable. That's not something I'd let *my* users do ;-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual-boot Windows with Gentoo? (say it ain't so)

2005-03-31 Thread Richard Fish
Nick Rout wrote: >On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 08:57 -0800, Grant wrote: > >>1. I'm traveling and need to connect my laptop to strange Internet >>connections that (with Linux) require exotic configs. >> >> >> Well, I share this worry. I haven't yet run into anyplace wired or wireless that Gentoo cou

Re: [gentoo-user] portage and package specific CFLAGS

2005-03-31 Thread Tero Grundström
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Aaron Walker wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Nick Rout wrote: > > I thought perhaps > > > > CFLAGS="whatever" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" emerge foo > > > > no doubt some dev guru will tell me I am way out of line :-) > > wrong! there's nothing wrong with

Re: [gentoo-user] suggestions: buying a new computer

2005-03-31 Thread Bill Roberts
I am using software raid. For RAID0, there isn't much advantage in using hardware RAID. Bill Roberts On 14:27 Thu 31 Mar , Mike Turcotte wrote: > Are you using hardware or software RAID0? I am using 2x Seagate 7200.7 > 120GB NCQ drives on my Sil 1334 onboard hardware assisted controller > (us

Re: [gentoo-user] sometimes internet works only after /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart

2005-03-31 Thread Richard Fish
Best guess, I would say that you need to increase your dhcpcd timeout. You are probably not getting a response from your DHCP server in the time allowed. You could also try setting up ifplugd. If nothing else, it would allow your users to reset the network by removing and reinserting the network

Re: [gentoo-user] suggestions: buying a new computer

2005-03-31 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Bill Roberts wrote: > Point is, I think the premium paid for scsi is too high. In some 15 > years of computing, I've only had one HD fail, that was an IBM > Deskstar, aka DeathStar. Do you run many servers 24x7? I didn't think so... -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing l

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild always emerges the same package

2005-03-31 Thread Grant
> | > | I always get the same thing from revdep-rebuild, no matter how > | > | many times it emerges blackdown-jdk: > | > > | > This is one of the many reasons you shouldn't use binary packages. > | > | I didn't think I was. I don't think I've ever used an 'emerge -K' > | command. > > Blackdown i

Re: [gentoo-user] used computer

2005-03-31 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Antoine wrote: > It's a technique my father perfected and I am in training. You simply > ignore everyone and everything. Someone asks you a question or to do > something and you don't even hear it. I have not yet perfected the > automatic "reasonable answer" (i.e., you give th

Re: [gentoo-user] sometimes internet works only after /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart

2005-03-31 Thread Christoph Eckert
> Sometimes [about 1 in 3 times] my internet connection does > not work directly after booting. After restarting the > net.eth0 script all is fine. As this behavour is rather new > to me, and this is a bit annyoing [particullary for people > without root access] i would like to know if someone has

RE: [gentoo-user] suggestions: buying a new computer

2005-03-31 Thread Mike Turcotte
Are you using hardware or software RAID0? I am using 2x Seagate 7200.7 120GB NCQ drives on my Sil 1334 onboard hardware assisted controller (using dmraid in linux) and I get 90MB/s sustained. I'd say that's pretty good for 7200RPM drives, but I would like to get some of those Raptors. I feel that t

Re: [gentoo-user] sometimes internet works only after /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restar

2005-03-31 Thread Antonio Coralles
Dave Nebinger wrote: > > Sometimes [about 1 in 3 times] my internet connection does not work > > directly after booting. After restarting the net.eth0 script all is > > fine. As this behavour is rather new to me, and this is a bit annyoing > > [particullary for people without root access] i would

Re: [gentoo-user] sometimes internet works only after /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart

2005-03-31 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Antonio Coralles wrote: > Sometimes [about 1 in 3 times] my internet connection does not work > directly after booting. After restarting the net.eth0 script all is > fine. As this behavour is rather new to me, and this is a bit annyoing > [particullary for people without root

[gentoo-user] Re: My system startup

2005-03-31 Thread Harry Putnam
Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yep, If I had personal web pages up and running again, I would have > written it up there, and just posted a link. ;-> Richard, Thanks for posting all the details. Too bad but on my server (news.gmane.org) it appears that your post got caught up in som

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual-boot Windows with Gentoo? (say it ain't so)

2005-03-31 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 08:57 -0800, Grant wrote: > I have three Gentoo workstations. One is a laptop I take with me, and > the other two are used by other people and stay at a remote location > that I only visit occasionally. I would like nothing more than to > have Gentoo and only Gentoo on these

Re: [gentoo-user] C compiler cannot create executables

2005-03-31 Thread spetznaz
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 13:31:19 -0500 "Dave Nebinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The advice was: > > rm -f /usr/lib32 > > ln -s ../../emul/linux/x86/usr/lib /usr/lib32 > > FEATURES=-sandbox emerge gcc > > > > This fix the update off gcc problem. (but i am wondering it may break > > somting else?

RE: [gentoo-user] sometimes internet works only after /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart

2005-03-31 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Sometimes [about 1 in 3 times] my internet connection does not work > directly after booting. After restarting the net.eth0 script all is > fine. As this behavour is rather new to me, and this is a bit annyoing > [particullary for people without root access] i would like to know if > someone has

RE: [gentoo-user] sometimes internet works only after /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart

2005-03-31 Thread Mike Turcotte
Before restarting net.eth0, check to see if you are properly receiving an IP address from a DHCP server, if not using static IP addressing Michael Turcotte Information Systems City of North Bay 200 McIntyre St. E PO Box 360 North Bay, Ontario P1B 8H8 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cityofnorthbay.c

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild always emerges the same package

2005-03-31 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 10:52:55 -0800 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | I always get the same thing from revdep-rebuild, no matter how | > | many times it emerges blackdown-jdk: | > | > This is one of the many reasons you shouldn't use binary packages. | | I didn't think I was. I don't think I

Re: [gentoo-user] lost dhcpcd and updatedb/locate

2005-03-31 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:51:09 +0200 Christoph Gysin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Matthew Cline wrote: | > IIRC, locate is in the findutils package. | | No, it's not. | | $ qpkg -f $(which locate) | sys-apps/slocate * It might be if you haven't upgraded for a year or so. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gen

Re: [gentoo-user] portage and package specific CFLAGS

2005-03-31 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:46:31 +0200 Christoph Gysin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Juergen Fiedler wrote: | > If you really feel the need to cram it all onto one line, you could | > #CFLAGS="whatever" && CXXFLAGS=CFLAGS && emerge something | | without the typo and even smaller: | # CFLAGS="whatever"

[gentoo-user] sometimes internet works only after /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart

2005-03-31 Thread Antonio Coralles
Sometimes [about 1 in 3 times] my internet connection does not work directly after booting. After restarting the net.eth0 script all is fine. As this behavour is rather new to me, and this is a bit annyoing [particullary for people without root access] i would like to know if someone has had simila

RE: [gentoo-user] Annoyance with net.ath0 internal wifi card and /etc/init.d/net.ath0

2005-03-31 Thread Daevid Vincent
Stroller, I am using: sys-apps/baselayout-1.11.10-r4 And I just re-emerged it to be sure. > -Original Message- > From: Stroller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 2:33 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Annoyance with net.ath0 inte

Re: [gentoo-user] suggestions: buying a new computer

2005-03-31 Thread Richard Fish
Bill Roberts wrote: > read/write. Show me any other way you can easily get the following > >numbers from hdparm: > >/dev/md0: > Timing cached reads: 2868 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1432.78 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 410 MB in 3.01 seconds = 136.05 MB/sec > > zx,qu012,mzxcpiuq,mxc982avc

Re: [gentoo-user] C compiler cannot create executables

2005-03-31 Thread Ivan Yosifov
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-294109.html This may help. On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 20:09 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > First excuse my english. But nobody on the Scandinavian forum know what is > wrong. > (norwegian version at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-316515.html) > > I get t

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild always emerges the same package

2005-03-31 Thread Grant
> | I always get the same thing from revdep-rebuild, no matter how many > | times it emerges blackdown-jdk: > > This is one of the many reasons you shouldn't use binary packages. I didn't think I was. I don't think I've ever used an 'emerge -K' command. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: My system startup (was More on fbuffer andgrub setup)

2005-03-31 Thread Richard Fish
Ow Mun Heng wrote: >Wow.. This is a long post. :-D > > > Yep, If I had personal web pages up and running again, I would have written it up there, and just posted a link. ;-> >[Big SNIP] >your explanation seems logical but I won't know until I tried it out. >Before I do that, I just need to as

Re: [gentoo-user] lost dhcpcd and updatedb/locate

2005-03-31 Thread Christoph Gysin
Matthew Cline wrote: IIRC, locate is in the findutils package. No, it's not. $ qpkg -f $(which locate) sys-apps/slocate * Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<*>'|sed 's. ..'|tr "<*> !#:2" [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] portage and package specific CFLAGS

2005-03-31 Thread Christoph Gysin
Juergen Fiedler wrote: If you really feel the need to cram it all onto one line, you could #CFLAGS="whatever" && CXXFLAGS=CFLAGS && emerge something without the typo and even smaller: # CFLAGS="whatever" && CXXFLAGS=$CFLAGS emerge something SCNR Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<*>'|sed 's. ..

RE: [gentoo-user] used computer

2005-03-31 Thread michael
Hey, let's keep all stereotypes, positive or negative, gender-based or otherwise, out of the discussion, please. Let's set a good example here. Thanks, Michael On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Mike Turcotte wrote: You be like any other "good boyfriend" and just pretend you are listening to your g/f's yapping o

RE: [gentoo-user] C compiler cannot create executables

2005-03-31 Thread Dave Nebinger
> The advice was: > rm -f /usr/lib32 > ln -s ../../emul/linux/x86/usr/lib /usr/lib32 > FEATURES=-sandbox emerge gcc > > This fix the update off gcc problem. (but i am wondering it may break > somting else?) Well probably you lost your /usr/lib32's file crt1.o file. Bummer. If you remember what

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild always emerges the same package

2005-03-31 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:59:50 -0800 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I always get the same thing from revdep-rebuild, no matter how many | times it emerges blackdown-jdk: This is one of the many reasons you shouldn't use binary packages. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shel

Re: [gentoo-user] lost dhcpcd and updatedb/locate

2005-03-31 Thread Grant
> > but what package is > > updatedb/locate part of? Should I go for slocate instead? > > Those commands are also provided by slocate, so go for it. Right on, fully operational once again. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild always emerges the same package

2005-03-31 Thread Comatose Jones
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:59:50 -0800, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I always get the same thing from revdep-rebuild, no matter how many > times it emerges blackdown-jdk: > > Checking dynamic linking consistency... > ^T broken /opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.01/jre/lib/i386/libjsoundalsa.so > (require

[gentoo-user] C compiler cannot create executables

2005-03-31 Thread spetznaz
First excuse my english. But nobody on the Scandinavian forum know what is wrong. (norwegian version at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-316515.html) I get the error after updating the system to 2005.0 using this guide http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/2005.0-upgrade-amd64.xml#doc_ch

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild always emerges the same package

2005-03-31 Thread Grant
I always get the same thing from revdep-rebuild, no matter how many times it emerges blackdown-jdk: Checking dynamic linking consistency... ^T broken /opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.01/jre/lib/i386/libjsoundalsa.so (requires libasound.so.2) done. (/root/.revdep-rebuild.3_rebuild) I'm totally current

Re: [gentoo-user] lost dhcpcd and updatedb/locate

2005-03-31 Thread Matthew Cline
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:18:33 -0800, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since my depcleaning, updatedb and locate are bad commands and dhcpcd > is gone. I'm surprised that stuff isn't depended on or part of the > system, but minimal is good. dhcpcd is back, but what package is > updatedb/locate pa

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Users and errors (was: help "line 6: B: command not found" FIXED, user error in config file...)

2005-03-31 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Stroller wrote: > No wonder changes to the registry are so often needed on > Windows machines in order to configure advanced behaviour. I think the registry is just pure evil - a great place for virii/worms/spyware to hide stuff... > If you can imagine the dialogs necessary

Re: [gentoo-user] lost dhcpcd and updatedb/locate

2005-03-31 Thread James Hiscock
> but what package is > updatedb/locate part of? Should I go for slocate instead? Those commands are also provided by slocate, so go for it. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] lost dhcpcd and updatedb/locate

2005-03-31 Thread Kashani
Grant wrote: Since my depcleaning, updatedb and locate are bad commands and dhcpcd is gone. I'm surprised that stuff isn't depended on or part of the system, but minimal is good. dhcpcd is back, but what package is updatedb/locate part of? Should I go for slocate instead? Those are part of the s

Re: [gentoo-user] E-build for Java

2005-03-31 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Shawn Singh wrote: > I know that I'm going to sound like a kid asking "why", but would you > mind explaining why the symlink won't suffice? Probably because java-config maintains it for you and if it moves, you won't have to worry about it. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org ma

Re: [gentoo-user] lost dhcpcd and updatedb/locate

2005-03-31 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Grant wrote: > Since my depcleaning, updatedb and locate are bad commands and dhcpcd > is gone. I'm surprised that stuff isn't depended on or part of the > system, but minimal is good. dhcpcd is back, but what package is > updatedb/locate part of? Should I go for slocate in

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