Re: [gentoo-user] libncursesw not build even with 'unicode' in USE

2005-06-08 Thread Zac Medico
--- Jules Colding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Anyways, try "USE=-gpm emerge --oneshot ncurses" > and > > that should work around the problem. Note that > > "emerge --info" shows USE=gpm in the profile so > you > > need to disable it. > > Why is gpm a problem here? > > Thanks a lot, > jul

Re: [gentoo-user] libncursesw not build even with 'unicode' in USE

2005-06-08 Thread Jules Colding
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 23:37 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > > Beautiful, doing "emerge --oneshot ncurses" goes > > into calculating > > dependencies and leaps into "step 1 of 26" the first > > of which is > > dialog-1.0.20050206 which promptly fails due to a > > missing libncursesw. > > > > My USE is:

Re: [gentoo-user] libncursesw not build even with 'unicode' in USE

2005-06-08 Thread Zac Medico
--- Jules Colding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 08:17 +0200, Jules Colding > wrote: > > My USE statement includes 'unicode' but the build > of dialog-1.0.20050206 > > failed due to a missing libncursesw library. > > > > The problem is that libncurses is indeed build at > t

Re: [gentoo-user] libncursesw not build even with 'unicode' in USE

2005-06-08 Thread Jules Colding
On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 08:17 +0200, Jules Colding wrote: > My USE statement includes 'unicode' but the build of dialog-1.0.20050206 > failed due to a missing libncursesw library. > > The problem is that libncurses is indeed build at this stage, but > without unicode support. I assume "emerge --one

[gentoo-user] libncursesw not build even with 'unicode' in USE

2005-06-08 Thread Jules Colding
Hi, I am doing a stage1 install or rather attempting to do one... I am still in the "emerge --emptytree system" process described in section 6.d of the handbook. My USE statement includes 'unicode' but the build of dialog-1.0.20050206 failed due to a missing libncursesw library. The problem is

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Bad performance with external USB disk

2005-06-08 Thread Colin
Richard Fish wrote: Alec Shaner wrote: I recently purchased a WD 160GB external USB drive and can't get it to perform reliably on my server. It works fine when connected to my workstation machine (a P4P800 ASUS MB with USB 2.0 support). The server only has 1.1 USB support, but the problem is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Richard Fish
Mark Knecht wrote: >pdflush(185): WRITE block 14947712 on hda3 >syslog-ng(5341): dirtied inode 936889 (messages) on hda3 >syslog-ng(5341): dirtied inode 936889 (messages) on hda3 >kjournald(869): WRITE block 14947712 on hda3 >kjournald(869): WRITE block 9112 on hda3 >kjournald(869): WRITE block 91

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Bad performance with external USB disk

2005-06-08 Thread Richard Fish
Alec Shaner wrote: >I recently purchased a WD 160GB external USB drive and can't get it to >perform reliably on my server. It works fine when connected to my >workstation machine (a P4P800 ASUS MB with USB 2.0 support). The server >only has 1.1 USB support, but the problem is that it starts out co

Re: [gentoo-user] Scaning of outgoing email

2005-06-08 Thread John Drouhard
Patrick Marquetecken wrote: On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 09:12 +0200, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Scanning of virusses, with clamav what email server? Oeps, iI forgot to mention that, its postfix. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mailfilter-guide.xml http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Spam_Filtering_with_G

Re: [gentoo-user] Customize - maximize a window in KDE or a general X application

2005-06-08 Thread Zac Medico
--- Hareesh Nagarajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > If I have a screen res of length*breadth by default > a Maximize on a > window sets it to length * breadth. Is there a way > to set Maximize to > (length/2) * breadth? > > Thanks, > > Hareesh > Hi Hareesh, This is handled by the wi

Re: [gentoo-user] apache2 stopped logging referrers

2005-06-08 Thread Claudinei Matos
actually I'm using apache2 and referer log comes together with other data. May could it be a log format option? I'm using cronolog to rotate apache logs so I have this line at apache2.conf: CustomLog "|/usr/sbin/cronolog /var/log/apache2/%Y/%m/%d/access.log" combined env=!VLOG claudinei matos On 6

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/8/05, Remy Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > >I'm experimenting with leaving a drive turned off in a MythTV > > frontend. I have laptop_mode turned on with whatever it has for > > default settings. I have vixie-cron turned off. Once an hour it seems > > that the drive

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache IfDefine error

2005-06-08 Thread Pshem Kowalczyk
On 09/06/05, Greg Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > /etc/init.d/apache2 restart > * Apache2 has detected a syntax error in your configuration files: > Syntax error on line 280 of /etc/apache2/httpd.conf: > Expected but saw > > But it looks fine to me: > > > sed -n '280p' /etc/apache2/httpd

Re: [gentoo-user] Search gentoo documentation

2005-06-08 Thread Daniel da Veiga
I guess vixie-cron is in fact a cron program modified by this guy named Vixie :) check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Vixie The best way to get docs about a command is the man pages, in your case, man cron and man crontab. I usually find all the information I need at forums.gentoo.org (it

Re: [gentoo-user] Search gentoo documentation

2005-06-08 Thread Nick Rout
perhaps because you searched on ssmpt not ssmtp On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 21:16:25 -0500 Anthony E. Caudel wrote: > Is there any way to search the Gentoo docs? > > I have tried google: > > http://www.google.com/search?as_q=vixie-cron+ssmpt > +mailbase&num=10&hl=en&btnG=Google > +Search&as_epq=&as_oq

Re: [gentoo-user] New stage1 install failed (groupadd not found)

2005-06-08 Thread Bob Sanders
On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 09:45:55 +0200 Jules Colding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 09:42 +0200, Jules Colding wrote: > BTW: My make.conf is: > > # These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically > built this stage > # Please consult /etc/make.conf.exampl

[gentoo-user] Search gentoo documentation

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

[gentoo-user] Apache IfDefine error

2005-06-08 Thread Greg Donald
> /etc/init.d/apache2 restart * Apache2 has detected a syntax error in your configuration files: Syntax error on line 280 of /etc/apache2/httpd.conf: Expected but saw But it looks fine to me: > sed -n '280p' /etc/apache2/httpd.conf Any ideas? -- Greg Donald Zend Certified Engineer http://

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] meta-question: how can I receive the messages that I send to the ML?

2005-06-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Antonino Sabetta schreef: >>I'm popping Gmail too, with KMail, but do see my own posts. > > > My fault, sorry :( > I set up a filter in Thunderbird to move every message sent by me in > the sent folder (so that when I send a msg with gmail via web, I also > have a copy of it in my sent folder loc

[gentoo-user] Customize - maximize a window in KDE or a general X application

2005-06-08 Thread Hareesh Nagarajan
Hi, If I have a screen res of length*breadth by default a Maximize on a window sets it to length * breadth. Is there a way to set Maximize to (length/2) * breadth? Thanks, Hareesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] meta-question: how can I receive the messages that I send to the ML?

2005-06-08 Thread Antonino Sabetta
> I'm popping Gmail too, with KMail, but do see my own posts. My fault, sorry :( I set up a filter in Thunderbird to move every message sent by me in the sent folder (so that when I send a msg with gmail via web, I also have a copy of it in my sent folder locally). This obviously is not what I wan

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] meta-question: how can I receive the messages that I send to the ML?

2005-06-08 Thread Oscar Carlsson
I've been looking for something similar (using KMail), but I haven't found anything :-( I'll send you an email if I found something... :-) lördagen den 4 juni 2005 15.38 skrev Antonino Sabetta: > > Since this is known to be a Gmail "feature", I would have to say that > > the answer to your quest

Re: [gentoo-user] Skype is awesome, what is sound daemon for?

2005-06-08 Thread Antonino Sabetta
No running artsd or esd found Starting skype without sound daemon There are arts and esd USE flags for skype. Where do these sound daemons come in? If they had been started already, skype would have been started "wrapped" by artdsp (this is what happens for arts, at least). When no sound daemo

Re: [gentoo-user] Skype is awesome, what is sound daemon for?

2005-06-08 Thread Grant
> That's the problem. You can easily use the software mentioned > to call a friend who gave you his IP address. But you cannot > call into the classical phone net. To do so, you need a > service provider who has gateways all over the world. And > this is something which cannot be solved by the open

Re: [gentoo-user] NetBeans/Eclipse & Java 1.5

2005-06-08 Thread Justin Hart
Good call. I haven't been very diligent about learning the ins and outs of portage. After about 9 months as a Gentoo user (switched from Debian), it's probably time. Justin On 6/8/05, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- Justin Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ok, let me reca

Re: [gentoo-user] NetBeans/Eclipse & Java 1.5

2005-06-08 Thread Zac Medico
--- Justin Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, let me recap my build steps, as it seems as > though I am unable to > compile either of these apps. > > emerge sun-jdk-1.5.0.03.ebuild > > emerge netbeans: > NetBeans 3.5.1 builds fine, however, I'm interested > in trying a later version. > > e

Re: [gentoo-user] Skype is awesome, what is sound daemon for?

2005-06-08 Thread Christoph Eckert
> Why would they remove the Linux version?  That would mean > less people will use and pay for their software. As soon as their protocol has penetrated all corporate VOIP networks, the few linux users aren't of any interest. Maybe they will keep the Linux client available, maybe for free, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about Apache, PHP and where execution actually takes place

2005-06-08 Thread Zac Medico
--- Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Process report. Everything looked good. I opened > mozilla to my new php > script and watched as mozilla swelled up to take > 623.3MB of RAM. This > computer only has 256MB RAM with 512MB swap space. > My question is this: > If PHP is a serve

Re: [gentoo-user] NetBeans/Eclipse & Java 1.5

2005-06-08 Thread Justin Hart
Ok, let me recap my build steps, as it seems as though I am unable to compile either of these apps. emerge sun-jdk-1.5.0.03.ebuild emerge netbeans: NetBeans 3.5.1 builds fine, however, I'm interested in trying a later version. emerge netbeans-4.0.ebuild export ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" a program ca

Re: [gentoo-user] Skype is awesome, what is sound daemon for?

2005-06-08 Thread Christoph Eckert
> You basically agree that they may use your idle bandwidth > and CPU time for any anonymous purpose. Ops. THe police is standing in front of my house and calling me a spammer ;-) ? > I won't let them > use my computer without me knowing what's going on. Sure, a > GREAT software, Yes. > but

Re: [gentoo-user] Skype is awesome, what is sound daemon for?

2005-06-08 Thread Christoph Eckert
> What I'm confused about is the message I get when running > skype from the command line: > > No running artsd or esd found > Starting skype without sound daemon Same for me. > There are arts and esd USE flags for skype.  Where do these > sound daemons come in? I guess that Skype tells us that

[gentoo-user] Question about Apache, PHP and where execution actually takes place

2005-06-08 Thread Michael Sullivan
I have my server box (bullet) and my client box (baby). My wife and I take a lot of digital photos of our cats and post them on our website for friends and family to see. The page consists of sets of 100x100 photographs that can be enlarged if they are clicked on. I was using a VB6.0 program tha

Re: [gentoo-user] NetBeans/Eclipse & Java 1.5

2005-06-08 Thread Zac Medico
--- Justin Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, > > Is it possible to compile NetBeans or Eclipse from > ebuilds using Java 1.5? > I haven't tried it but I bet it works just fine. Somebody would have filed a bug by now and the ebuild would notify you if there was a known issue. Zac

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables blocks ssh

2005-06-08 Thread Antonio Coralles
gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org wrote: > I've recently turned my workstation into a router for my laptop, using > the great gentoo home router guide. Everthing is ok so far, with one > exception: I can't connect to my ssh server anymore from outside the > LAN, becuase iptables seems to prevent this,

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables blocks ssh

2005-06-08 Thread Zac Medico
--- Antonio Coralles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've recently turned my workstation into a router > for my laptop, using > the great gentoo home router guide. Everthing is ok > so far, with one > exception: I can't connect to my ssh server anymore > from outside the > LAN, becuase iptables see

Re: THE END --- Re: [gentoo-user] How to set up a dhcp client?

2005-06-08 Thread Zac Medico
--- Claus Ladekj�r Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > okay - here it is - and there is an entrance in it. > But strangely enough, everything is working now. > I don't run /etc/init.d/net.eth start anymore but I > still connects to the > internet. That is fine, I just don't know what did > t

[gentoo-user] NetBeans/Eclipse & Java 1.5

2005-06-08 Thread Justin Hart
Hey, Is it possible to compile NetBeans or Eclipse from ebuilds using Java 1.5? -- Justin W. Hart -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] esd or arts, sound daemon howto

2005-06-08 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi, > Here at home I have a Creative Audigy which one I guess > have hardwaremixing capability I don't know if it is able to do hardware mixing. > but at my job I have a > nForce2 based onboard soundcard which one I'm not sure if > have hardwaremixing. I guess it is a device compliant to the

[gentoo-user] iptables blocks ssh

2005-06-08 Thread Antonio Coralles
I've recently turned my workstation into a router for my laptop, using the great gentoo home router guide. Everthing is ok so far, with one exception: I can't connect to my ssh server anymore from outside the LAN, becuase iptables seems to prevent this, allthough i # iptables -A INPUT -p TCP --dpor

Re: [gentoo-user] updated gnome packages to 2.10, missing menus

2005-06-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Mats Lidell schreef: > Kurt Guenther wrote: > > I had started a quest to remove evolution, by removing a few evolution > packages, that might have caused the problem with the > not-complete-gnome-to-2.10 update. But as I said the update probably > removed all clues since it reinstalled evolution

THE END --- Re: [gentoo-user] How to set up a dhcp client?

2005-06-08 Thread Claus Ladekjær Wilson
okay - here it is - and there is an entrance in it. But strangely enough, everything is working now. I don't run /etc/init.d/net.eth start anymore but I still connects to the internet. That is fine, I just don't know what did the trick - maybe my update of dhcpcd? Onsdag den 8. juni 2005 23:07

Re: [gentoo-user] CDRW trouble: can't read superblock

2005-06-08 Thread Phil Sexton
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 15:40, Grant wrote: > system4 ~ # mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom > mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc, > or too many mounted file systems > > But on 1 of them it mounts fine

Re: -- dhcp: host name lookup failure-- or -- Re: [gentoo-user] How to set up a dhcp client?

2005-06-08 Thread Zac Medico
--- Claus Ladekj�r Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - I have no such file - /etc/conf.d/hostname > > With older versions of baselayout it was /etc/hostname. Zac __ Discover Yahoo! Use Yahoo! to plan a weekend, have fun online and mor

Re: [gentoo-user] Skype is awesome, what is sound daemon for?

2005-06-08 Thread Daniel da Veiga
Skype searches for sound daemons, but I notice it never uses them, OSS always (or the emulated OSS under ALSA), maybe will come handy in the future of development. I wouldn't worry about the Linux version dissapear, the FREE version, OH YES, just like Kazaa and its bunch of spyware. Besides, if yo

Re: -- dhcp: host name lookup failure-- or -- Re: [gentoo-user] How to set up a dhcp client?

2005-06-08 Thread Claus Ladekjær Wilson
- I have no such file - /etc/conf.d/hostname Onsdag den 8. juni 2005 22:53 skrev Zac Medico: > --- Claus Ladekj�r Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Now I have put -d to the argument list in > > /etc/conf.d/net and I get the > > answer. > > Next question: How do I tell the dhcp client where

Re: [gentoo-user] Uncluttering my world file

2005-06-08 Thread Christian Hoenig
Hi, On Wednesday 08 June 2005 17:34, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > My world file seems remarkably long to me at 129 lines. > I know I've added some stuff, but many of these entries > ring no bells in my memory. > > I think a big part of what has happened is that in various > throes of dealing with porta

Re: -- dhcp: host name lookup failure-- or -- Re: [gentoo-user] How to set up a dhcp client?

2005-06-08 Thread Zac Medico
--- Claus Ladekj�r Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now I have put -d to the argument list in > /etc/conf.d/net and I get the > answer. > Next question: How do I tell the dhcp client where > to find the host name? > What hostname? The client's hostname? That normally goes in /etc/conf.d/hostn

Re: [gentoo-user] CDRW trouble: can't read superblock

2005-06-08 Thread Daniel da Veiga
That's why I keep my soft pen always near my CDRWs and CDRs! I even got a special one that is thin and so I write a complete description instead of "Audio 1" or "Data 2" *lol* Don't tell anyone, but once I spent 2 hours looking for a backup CD for my boss (had to bring all CDs home to check each o

Re: [gentoo-user] updated gnome packages to 2.10, missing menus

2005-06-08 Thread Mats Lidell
Kurt Guenther wrote: Try this: emerge -p gnome-applets I found a package that was blocking the emerge (including one for gnome menus). I resolved this and emerged about 10 packages and my clock applet is running. Although, now I have a impossibly small font for my resolution (1900x1200).

-- dhcp: host name lookup failure-- or -- Re: [gentoo-user] How to set up a dhcp client?

2005-06-08 Thread Claus Ladekjær Wilson
Now I have put -d to the argument list in /etc/conf.d/net and I get the answer. Next question: How do I tell the dhcp client where to find the host name? Tirsdag den 7. juni 2005 23:29 skrev Zac Medico: > --- Claus Ladekjær Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Problem is, that another versio

Re: [gentoo-user] CDRW trouble: can't read superblock

2005-06-08 Thread Grant
> >Ok, but sometimes I have a written CDRW and I don't know what's on it. > > I guess I should try to mount it, if that fails, try to play it, if > >that fails I've got bad data? > > > > > > > > Or follow my rule..."no label, treat as blank". It works in the office > too! ;-> > > -Richard Good

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Bad performance with external USB disk

2005-06-08 Thread Alec Shaner
Mark Knecht wrote: > The typical reason for low performance AND high CPU is that the > controller (in this case probably the USB interface chip) isn't > enabled for DMA. It looked like you have the right drivers loaded so > possibly the USB chip is not a major brand name? Sorry I didn't read > earl

Re: [gentoo-user] CDRW trouble: can't read superblock

2005-06-08 Thread Richard Fish
Grant wrote: >Ok, but sometimes I have a written CDRW and I don't know what's on it. > I guess I should try to mount it, if that fails, try to play it, if >that fails I've got bad data? > > > Or follow my rule..."no label, treat as blank". It works in the office too! ;-> -Richard -- gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] CDRW trouble: can't read superblock

2005-06-08 Thread Grant
> The discs that won't mount do play in a > > CD player just fine. Any ideas? > > Are these then regular Redbook audio CDs you've burned? Those don't need > to be mounted. Just put them into the drive, open your media player of > choice and play them as you would a 'retail' audio CD. Ok, but som

RE: [gentoo-user] CDRW trouble: can't read superblock

2005-06-08 Thread Dave Nebinger
> cdrecord -dev=/dev/hdc -audio -pad *.wav You cannot mount audio cd's under normal circumstances (there are some exceptions to this general rule, but you normally have to install stuff in order to get that functionality). In the case where you mentioned that you could mount an audio cd, I would

Re: [gentoo-user] CDRW trouble: can't read superblock

2005-06-08 Thread Zac Medico
--- Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > cdrecord -dev=/dev/hdc -audio -pad *.wav > > When trying to mount it actually tells me to specify > the filesystem > type first, then I specify vfat (it won't accept > auto), then I get the > superblock error. > Audio cds are in cdda format. It's not

Re: [gentoo-user] CDRW trouble: can't read superblock

2005-06-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Grant schreef: The discs that won't mount do play in a > CD player just fine. Any ideas? Are these then regular Redbook audio CDs you've burned? Those don't need to be mounted. Just put them into the drive, open your media player of choice and play them as you would a 'retail' audio CD. Holly --

Re: [gentoo-user] CDRW trouble: can't read superblock

2005-06-08 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Grant wrote: I used -fix and still can't mount them. I'm writing them like this: cdrecord -dev=/dev/hdc -audio -pad *.wav When trying to mount it actually tells me to specify the filesystem type first, then I specify vfat (it won't accept auto), then I get the superblock e

Re: [gentoo-user] CDRW trouble: can't read superblock

2005-06-08 Thread Grant
> >> When I try to mount CDRW discs I get: > >> > >> mount: /dev/hdc: can't read superblock > >> > >> but other discs mount fine. Does anyone know what that is about? > >> Maybe I'm not burning them correctly? > >> > >> > >> > > > > What are you using to write these? Are they "fixated"? Maybe "c

Re: [gentoo-user] CDRW trouble: can't read superblock

2005-06-08 Thread Grant
> >When I try to mount CDRW discs I get: > > > >mount: /dev/hdc: can't read superblock > > > >but other discs mount fine. Does anyone know what that is about? > >Maybe I'm not burning them correctly? > > > > > > > > What are you using to write these? Are they "fixated"? Maybe "cdrecord > ... -f

Re: [gentoo-user] CDRW trouble: can't read superblock

2005-06-08 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Richard Fish wrote: Grant wrote: When I try to mount CDRW discs I get: mount: /dev/hdc: can't read superblock but other discs mount fine. Does anyone know what that is about? Maybe I'm not burning them correctly? What are you using to write these? Are they "fixated

Re: [gentoo-user] Uncluttering my world file

2005-06-08 Thread Richard Fish
Mark Knecht wrote: >Interesting results. I don't think I'd want to remove these and I >thing the system would complain a bit if I removed vim. Anyway, it was >an intersting experiment. > > Yes, _unmerging_ anything in this list could be extremely dangerous. It might lead you to unmerge python

Re: [gentoo-user] CDRW trouble: can't read superblock

2005-06-08 Thread Richard Fish
Grant wrote: >When I try to mount CDRW discs I get: > >mount: /dev/hdc: can't read superblock > >but other discs mount fine. Does anyone know what that is about? >Maybe I'm not burning them correctly? > > > What are you using to write these? Are they "fixated"? Maybe "cdrecord ... -fix" can

Re: [gentoo-user] Skype is awesome, what is sound daemon for?

2005-06-08 Thread Grant
> Skype isn't awesome. They did it right in terms of usability. > But do not forget that they are abusing you, the user, to > penetrate the market with their proprietary protocol- As soon > as this happened, it is likely that the Linux version > disappears. Why would they remove the Linux version?

[gentoo-user] is there anybody succeded with ./CA.pl -newca in Gentoo 2005.0?

2005-06-08 Thread askar ...
Hello! Is there anybody who succeded in making certificates with ./CA.pl -newca in Gentoo 2005.0? I was using universal live cd, with its stage and portage files not using emerge --sync. I followed howto guide for virtual mail system with postfix. One of the step was creating certicates with ./CA.

Re: [gentoo-user] Skype is awesome, what is sound daemon for?

2005-06-08 Thread Grant
> > I just got set up with SkypeOut and that thing is awesome. > > I'm not using the kde or enlightenment sound daemons. > > http://www.skype.com/help/faq/linux.html > > »What sound system does Skype for Linux beta use? > Skype for Linux beta uses OSS (Open Sound System), > using /dev/dsp as its

Re: [gentoo-user] Uncluttering my world file

2005-06-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/8/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > >Hi Kevin, > > I don't know of an automated way to do it. I had to go through my > >machines by hand doing the emerge/depclean/revdep-rebuild process I > >outlined in an email on this subject to Grant this morning. It t

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-06-08 Thread Richard Fish
Richard Fish wrote: >>But I have another question: At what point does >>vmlinuz(under /tmp/cdboot/boot)make it onto the CD? >>The path to stage2_eltorito seems to pass it by. >> >> >> >> > >When you run mkisofs, it creates an ISO (cdrom filesystem) image with >all of the files in the cdboot d

Re: [gentoo-user] esd or arts, sound daemon howto

2005-06-08 Thread Richard Fish
Christoph Eckert wrote: >>There is an alsa plugin to allow any native alsa >>application to connect through the jack server. >> Unfortunately I've never been able to get acceptable sound >>quality using it this way >> >> > >I guess you mean bio2jack.sf.net? > > > No, I mean 'media-plugi

Re: [gentoo-user] What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Richard Fish
Mark Knecht wrote: >On 6/8/05, A. Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> >> >>>But as I said vixie-cron is turned off. How could hourly crons run? >>> >>> >>What else is running? >> >>Maybe you can run "ps -ef" and show us the output? >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge error "Bad interpretor"

2005-06-08 Thread Richard Fish
Ognjen Bezanov wrote: >Hello, > >I set the portage_tmpdir in my make.conf file, and have tried emerging >some packages. But there is a problem, because i keep getting errors no >matter what I emerge, the error looks like this: > >..etc/ebuild.sh ./configure: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permissi

Re: [gentoo-user] Skype is awesome, what is sound daemon for?

2005-06-08 Thread Christoph Eckert
Skype isn't awesome. They did it right in terms of usability. But do not forget that they are abusing you, the user, to penetrate the market with their proprietary protocol- As soon as this happened, it is likely that the Linux version disappears. So, if you like your freedom, search for free

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-06-08 Thread Richard Fish
maxim wexler wrote: >>>'cdboot/boot/grub/stage2_eltorito' ! >>> >>> >>> >>> >>That should be "-b boot/grub/stage2_eltorito"...so >>take the 'cdboot' off >>the front of that. >> >> > >Nope. Now I get: > >mkisofs: No such file or directory. Invalid node - - > > You typod something. Lo

Re: [gentoo-user] Skype is awesome, what is sound daemon for?

2005-06-08 Thread Christoph Eckert
> I just got set up with SkypeOut and that thing is awesome. >  I'm not using the kde or enlightenment sound daemons. http://www.skype.com/help/faq/linux.html »What sound system does Skype for Linux beta use? Skype for Linux beta uses OSS (Open Sound System), using /dev/dsp as its audio input

[gentoo-user] CDRW trouble: can't read superblock

2005-06-08 Thread Grant
When I try to mount CDRW discs I get: mount: /dev/hdc: can't read superblock but other discs mount fine. Does anyone know what that is about? Maybe I'm not burning them correctly? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean sane?

2005-06-08 Thread Grant
> > How are these for depcleaning? > > > > sys-libs/lib-compat > > media-libs/libao > > sys-fs/device-mapper > > sys-fs/cryptsetup > > app-shells/sash > > app-text/gtkspell > > media-libs/t1lib > > app-arch/ncompress > > > > - Grant > > Of these only t1lib appeared in my world file. You could go t

Re: [gentoo-user] plain-vanilla ethernet; do brands matter?

2005-06-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Antoine schreef: >>My one piece of advice is to avoid RealTek chipsets (usually RTL-8139). >>These are the winmodems of the network world. Most of their processing >>is done by software, not in hardware. > > > Been solid as a rock for me for ages now (is that 8139too?)... I > occasionally shift

Re: [gentoo-user] updated gnome packages to 2.10, missing menus

2005-06-08 Thread Kurt Guenther
Kurt Guenther wrote: >Mats Lidell wrote: > > > >>1. The clock applet: The panel encountered a problem while loading >>"OAFIID:GNOME_ClockApplet". >>Details: Failed to resolve, or extend >>'!prefs_key=/apps/panel/profiles/default/applets/applet_8/prefs;background=none:;orient=down;size=x-small;lo

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-kernel-1.0.7664??

2005-06-08 Thread Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales
My solution was to mask the package: # media-video >=media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.7664 >=media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.7664 I will try installing it again later. If all else fails, you can try this as well ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Recompiling the whole system

2005-06-08 Thread Richard Fish
Alexander Skwar wrote: >Is that actually, what you used? Shouldn't it rather >be: > > emerge --oneshot =$x > > > Yep, you're right. Looks like I need some 'ECC' memory... ;-> -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean sane?

2005-06-08 Thread Richard Fish
Grant wrote: >How are these for depcleaning? > >sys-libs/lib-compat >media-libs/libao >sys-fs/device-mapper >sys-fs/cryptsetup >app-shells/sash >app-text/gtkspell >media-libs/t1lib >app-arch/ncompress > > The only two that worry me are device-mapper and cryptsetup. If you are using LVM2 or dm-

Re: [gentoo-user] Uncluttering my world file

2005-06-08 Thread Richard Fish
Mark Knecht wrote: >On 6/8/05, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>My world file seems remarkably long to me at 129 lines. >>I know I've added some stuff, but many of these entries >>ring no bells in my memory. >> >>I think a big part of what has happened is that in various >>throes

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-06-08 Thread maxim wexler
> >'cdboot/boot/grub/stage2_eltorito' ! > > > > > > That should be "-b boot/grub/stage2_eltorito"...so > take the 'cdboot' off > the front of that. Nope. Now I get: mkisofs: No such file or directory. Invalid node - - But I have another question: At what point does vmlinuz(under /tmp/cdboot/b

[gentoo-user] Skype is awesome, what is sound daemon for?

2005-06-08 Thread Grant
I just got set up with SkypeOut and that thing is awesome. I'm not using the kde or enlightenment sound daemons. Do they just basically take some load from the CPU and put it in memory? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] esd or arts, sound daemon howto

2005-06-08 Thread Christoph Eckert
> There is an alsa plugin to allow any native alsa > application to connect through the jack server. >  Unfortunately I've never been able to get acceptable sound > quality using it this way I guess you mean bio2jack.sf.net? It's available as a xmms plugin and works fine. Best regards

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/8/05, Peter Ruskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 08 June 2005 16:35, Mark Knecht wrote: > > myth11 root # echo 1>/proc/sys/vm/block_dump > > myth11 root # cat /proc/sys/vm/block_dump > > 0 > > [18:03 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] > # echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump > [18:03 [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [gentoo-user] What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/8/05, A. Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > But as I said vixie-cron is turned off. How could hourly crons run? > > What else is running? > > Maybe you can run "ps -ef" and show us the output? > Hi - here you go. myth11 root # ps -ef UID

Re: [gentoo-user] LiveCD distcc/Live CD's are Wonderfull

2005-06-08 Thread Rob
At 10:49 PM 6/7/2005, you wrote: --- Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am slowly but surely rescuing my Gentoo System > with the latest Live > CD. It is truly a miracle to have this tool, but > you need to take some > time experimenting with how to use it, For > example, moun

[gentoo-user] emerge error "Bad interpretor"

2005-06-08 Thread Ognjen Bezanov
Hello, I set the portage_tmpdir in my make.conf file, and have tried emerging some packages. But there is a problem, because i keep getting errors no matter what I emerge, the error looks like this: ..etc/ebuild.sh ./configure: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied and yes, I am runni

Re: [gentoo-user] konqueror / devices

2005-06-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 11:31:52 -0500, Roy Wright wrote: > OK, I give. How do you configure media? > I tried: > * Add New | Web SideBar Module > ** Name = Media > ** URL = media:/ > But this gives a "An error occurred while loading media:/; Malformed URL > media:/." > when clicked. I just right-cli

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 00:10:55 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > myth11 root # cat /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode > > 2 > > Mine says 0 (cause I'm on AC right now) > > on Battery it changes to 2 What do the numbers mean? On my iBook it switches between 0 and 5. -- Neil Bothwick ... "I'm simply not a ni

Re: [gentoo-user] plain-vanilla ethernet; do brands matter?

2005-06-08 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > El-Cheapo cards will work, but may not be as full-featured or as fast > throughput as the more expensive 3com cards. eg: USD6 Dlink vs USD25 > 3com. Speaking from the server side of the fence, we swear by Intel eepro cards. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.or

Re: [gentoo-user] What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: > But as I said vixie-cron is turned off. How could hourly crons run? What else is running? Maybe you can run "ps -ef" and show us the output? -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] majordomo issue

2005-06-08 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, q-parser wrote: > I have a problem with majordomo. Everything had been ok until recently > when it stopped working. The log says that user majordomo is not able to > write to /usr/tmp but this folder has 777 mod set on it. I was thinking > that my mail server was badly configur

Re: [gentoo-user] plain-vanilla ethernet; do brands matter?

2005-06-08 Thread Antoine
> My one piece of advice is to avoid RealTek chipsets (usually RTL-8139). > These are the winmodems of the network world. Most of their processing > is done by software, not in hardware. Been solid as a rock for me for ages now (is that 8139too?)... I occasionally shift dvd images around but not

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -pv world error

2005-06-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Mark Shields schreef: > I'd highly recommend you don't add ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" to your make > file, as this will cause your system to emerge with all ~x86 > (testing/unstable) packages upon next emerge. Add this to your > /etc/portage/package.keywords: >=sys-libs/pam-0.78 then emerge -pv > again

Re: [gentoo-user] konqueror / devices

2005-06-08 Thread Roy Wright
OK, I give. How do you configure media? I tried: * Add New | Web SideBar Module ** Name = Media ** URL = media:/ But this gives a "An error occurred while loading media:/; Malformed URL media:/." when clicked. TIA, Roy Neil Bothwick wrote: >On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 09:36:23 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] BootSplash

2005-06-08 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
thank you. On 6/8/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/7/05, Allan Spagnol Comar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > guys I had installed splashutils and I confess I am totally lost :( . > > where can I find information about it ? > > Possibly here? > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbspl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 08:53 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 6/8/05, Remy Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > One setting I noticed rereading the config file was this one: > > > > > > > > > Enable laptop mode always, not just when on battery? > > > # (This will still disab

Re: [gentoo-user] Uncluttering my world file

2005-06-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 08:34:34 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > So: is there an easy way to find out if a package can > be removed from world because it is already in there > as a dependency or because of the profile? I'd like > to pare world down to just the things that make a > difference. Remove t

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