Re: [gentoo-user] Limewire

2005-07-06 Thread Ryan
Willie Wong wrote: >On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 01:29:08AM -0300, Bruno Gola wrote: > > >>>when you can type in a terminal "jav..." and press tab and you get: >>>java javac javaws... etc, limewire must work >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Does anyone knows what should I do correctly or just tell me a

Re: [gentoo-user] Help I have b0rked my system :(

2005-07-06 Thread Dave S
>I've gotta say, composite was the first thing I thought of as well-- and >I've never even seen it in use, much less used it myself. > >But would changing xorg.conf help, if the xorg package was compiled with >the +composite USE flag set (which is what I at least am wondering >about, rather than w

[gentoo-user] Using TV

2005-07-06 Thread Luigi Pinna
Hello! I have a very strange problem. When I use the TV card (I use usually kdetv), I can see without problem. If I switch off kdetv and I wait sometimes (2 hours or more) in the same session, and I try to use the TV card another time, I cannot use it: it is busy and I can listen without the vide

Re: [gentoo-user] mutt probs

2005-07-06 Thread Philip Webb
050706 maxim wexler wrote: > Following "Quickstart Guide to Mutt" I encountered the following problems: > $fetchmail -av -m "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T" > fetchmail: 6.2.5 querying yahoo.com (protocol POP3) at > Wed Jul 6 13:51:41 2005: poll started > fetchmail: timeout after 300 seconds waiting to >

Re: [gentoo-user] Limewire

2005-07-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 01:29:08AM -0300, Bruno Gola wrote: > >when you can type in a terminal "jav..." and press tab and you get: > >java javac javaws... etc, limewire must work > > > > > > > >>Does anyone knows what should I do correctly or just tell me a better > >>p2p software (i use pysoulse

Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla consume a lot of X resource and made our company in difficult situation

2005-07-06 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Forgot to mension the X-terminal server (X-client machine) is running Gentoo. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] mozilla consume a lot of X resource and made our company in difficult situation

2005-07-06 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Hello. This is the strange behavor happend recently in our company. We use a centralized X-client computer and several dozens of X-terminals for the clerks. Everything works fine untill we upgraded our intranet web application. the new web application is very slow on Mozilla (behavior described in

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow mencoder after emerge?

2005-07-06 Thread Rumen Yotov
cothrige wrote: >I am very new to Gentoo and portage and just beginning to learn to >find my way around. For the most part things have been good, but >MPlayer has proved to be a difficulty. Not in basic functionality >though, but just speed. > >What I did was start with a basic 'emerge -a mplaye

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ?

2005-07-06 Thread Richard Fish
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > You want: > sudo "echo 'media-video/xine-ui ~x86' >> /etc/portage/package.keywords" > No, I'm sorry, this is completely false. Running sudo "echo 'media-video/xine-ui ~x86' >> /etc/portage/package.keywords" causes sudo to search the PATH for a *single* executab

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4 -> 2.6 wierdness

2005-07-06 Thread Richard Fish
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Okay, let's start over. I have only posted the first post of this thread, >but I would say that all off the noise may imply that I am not alone here. > >-I have a working setup in 2.4, less so now than before, but xorg does >still work. > >-in 2.6, xorg will break and co

Re: [gentoo-user] Limewire

2005-07-06 Thread Bruno Gola
rodrigo ahumada wrote: >El Jue 07 Jul 2005 04:07, Bruno Gola escribió: > Hi > > > > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ limewire >>/usr/bin/limewire: line 4: java: command not found >> >> > >do you have java, don't you? (google for "gentoo java wiki" and "gentoo >java-config") > >when you can type in

Re: [gentoo-user] Limewire

2005-07-06 Thread rodrigo ahumada
El Jue 07 Jul 2005 04:07, Bruno Gola escribió: Hi > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ limewire > /usr/bin/limewire: line 4: java: command not found do you have java, don't you? (google for "gentoo java wiki" and "gentoo java-config") when you can type in a terminal "jav..." and press tab and you get: j

[gentoo-user] Limewire

2005-07-06 Thread Bruno Gola
Hello again guys ;) I was trying to merge that p2p software called Limewire, when ive done: emerge limewire it works, but, when i try: $ limewire I get this error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ limewire /usr/bin/limewire: line 4: java: command not found Does anyone knows what should I do correctly or

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ?

2005-07-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
Holly Bostick wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: I think the problem come from the fact that echo is sudo-ed but the shell redirection isn't. Compare this: su -c "echo foo > /etc/portage/whatever" and su -c "echo foo" > /etc/portage/whatever The first one will succeed, but not the second.

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP Odd Error

2005-07-06 Thread James Hiscock
> But it only happens when I run php as a user, not when I run as root. > My emerge world is up to date, should a normal user need to write there or > what other thing do I switch to turn this > off. I personally just got rid of the snmp flag for the php ebuild. PHP (the command-line version) t

[gentoo-user] AMI MegaRAID 428 Ultra SCSI RAID Controller

2005-07-06 Thread Colin
It's not being detected under the LiveCD. I booted with doscsi, but I don't see /dev/sda. In addition, lspci tells me this: :00:11.0 Unknown mass storage controller: American Megatrends Inc. MegaRAID 428 Ultra RAID Controller (rev 04) What do I do? -- Colin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org m

[gentoo-user] PHP Odd Error

2005-07-06 Thread David Busby
List, When running php shell scripts I get this at the end of each one No log handling enabled - turning on stderr logging Cannot rename //var/lib/net-snmp/snmpapp.conf to //var/lib/net-snmp/snmpapp.0.conf Cannot unlink //var/lib/net-snmp/snmpapp.conf read_config_store open failure on //var/li

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4 -> 2.6 weirdness

2005-07-06 Thread David Busby
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nope, it's definitely udev. I have verified that genkernel does compile the agpgart module and create the /dev/agpgart as a symlink to /dev/misc/agpgart on the real filesystem. But when the udev 'populates' /dev it then mounts over top of the real /dev tree and the new

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4 -> 2.6 weirdness

2005-07-06 Thread creighto
Nope, it's definitely udev. I have verified that genkernel does compile the agpgart module and create the /dev/agpgart as a symlink to /dev/misc/agpgart on the real filesystem. But when the udev 'populates' /dev it then mounts over top of the real /dev tree and the new /dev/ and /dev/misc/ have

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4 -> 2.6 wierdness

2005-07-06 Thread creighto
>> -modprobe agpgart will result in an error > > What is the error? Module doesn't exist? Module is already loaded? > Symbol errors? module not found > >> >> -genkernel --udev --menuconfig all will not show me an option that >> refers >> to AGP anything, is this a bus? > > Yes, it's a speeded-u

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4 -> 2.6 wierdness

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: > Okay, let's start over. I have only posted the first post of this thread, > but I would say that all off the noise may imply that I am not alone here. > > -I have a working setup in 2.4, less so now than before, but xorg does > still work. > > -in 2.6, xorg will brea

Re: [gentoo-user] bash_history missing

2005-07-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 02:06:50PM -0700, maxim wexler wrote: > > > > Then set the same environment variables in your > > current shell and they > > should stick. > > Nope, .bash_history completely empty after a bunch of > ls's. At least it didn't tell me to become root :o Try exiting the sessio

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4 -> 2.6 wierdness

2005-07-06 Thread creighto
Okay, let's start over. I have only posted the first post of this thread, but I would say that all off the noise may imply that I am not alone here. -I have a working setup in 2.4, less so now than before, but xorg does still work. -in 2.6, xorg will break and complain that /dev/agpgart does not

Re: [gentoo-user] ffmpeg front-end recommendations?

2005-07-06 Thread Ryan
I tried that yesterday, but it didnt appear to load the video. It sat there trying to load, eating 99% of the CPU for about 20 mins. The file is only 136MB's and I wouldnt expect it to take that long on an AMD 2800 w/1GB ram. It looked promising, but didnt seem to work. The Mplayer info on the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Travelling in Greece, need advice

2005-07-06 Thread David D. Rea
On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 00:45 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > Most single family homes in the US have a phone access box on the > > outside of the house. Especially new construction. > > > > glad, that I am not living there ;) > > Where I live, almost all houses have no boxes outside anymor

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Travelling in Greece, need advice

2005-07-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 22:54, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > On Jul 6, 2005, at 2:47 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Wednesday 06 July 2005 17:18, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > >> Nope, no digging. Phone lines terminate in handy little boxes on the > >> side of the houses. C

Re: [gentoo-user] Help I have b0rked my system :(

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Dave S schreef: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > >>Hi, >> >>you don't have composite activated, do you? >> >> > > > I have looked in xorg.conf but cannot find any reference to it, just in > case I swapped xorg.conf for an old copy, same problem :( > > Dave I've gotta say, composite was the

Re: [gentoo-user] best download manager in gentoo

2005-07-06 Thread Ryan Viljoen
axel for command line - it multithreads your download and allows you to resume downloads, I use this instead of wget for emerge. Its much quicker. aria for gui - havent really tried any others but this does the trick and works nicely. On 7/6/05, simply change <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi! dea

Re: [gentoo-user] ffmpeg front-end recommendations?

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Ryan schreef: > I am looking for an excellent ffmpeg front end/gui. It doesnt matter if > its a console or X based front end, as long as it supports as many > features of ffmpeg as possible for decoding/encoding processes. The > main purpose is to convert about 200 mp4's that I have into an SVCD/

[gentoo-user] HDD LED flashes constantly in X

2005-07-06 Thread Bogo Mipps
Ever since I emerged KDE 3.4 this week the LED for my HDD's have developed a regular 2 per second flash - while the system is sitting ostensibly idle. Can't see anything significant in the way of processes (top & ps aux), and googling produces nothing similar anywhere. When I close X, the rhy

Re: [gentoo-user] Help I have b0rked my system :(

2005-07-06 Thread Dave S
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >Hi, > >you don't have composite activated, do you? > > I have looked in xorg.conf but cannot find any reference to it, just in case I swapped xorg.conf for an old copy, same problem :( Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Slow mencoder after emerge?

2005-07-06 Thread cothrige
I am very new to Gentoo and portage and just beginning to learn to find my way around. For the most part things have been good, but MPlayer has proved to be a difficulty. Not in basic functionality though, but just speed. What I did was start with a basic 'emerge -a mplayer' which installed mpla

Re: [gentoo-user] Help interpreting top(1) display

2005-07-06 Thread Adrian Chelar
no problem - Original Message - From: "Kevin O'Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 3:07 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Help interpreting top(1) display > Okay, thanks. They are indeed niced, because there are a lot of them, and > I would like my keystrokes ech

RE: [gentoo-user] bash_history missing

2005-07-06 Thread maxim wexler
> > Then set the same environment variables in your > current shell and they > should stick. Nope, .bash_history completely empty after a bunch of ls's. At least it didn't tell me to become root :o > Sell on Yahoo! Auctions

Re: [gentoo-user] Help I have b0rked my system :(

2005-07-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, you don't have composite activated, do you? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Travelling in Greece, need advice

2005-07-06 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Jul 6, 2005, at 2:47 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Wednesday 06 July 2005 17:18, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: Nope, no digging. Phone lines terminate in handy little boxes on the side of the houses. Cable modem lines have little termination pedestals on the street and single c

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ?

2005-07-06 Thread Manuel McLure
Holly Bostick wrote: So it will. Shoot. Oh, well. Maybe I'll rework this, or I should then ask for: 1) firewall recommendations (personal, as the router has one too; atm I'm liking firestarter) I've been very pleased with Shorewall as a firewall. -- Manuel A. McLure KE6TAW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Travelling in Greece, need advice

2005-07-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 16:07, Billy Holmes wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > hm, you want to tell me, that it is as easy to get into the computer > > room, hack a line and listen, than to hold an atenna in the right > > direction? > > it only takes *one* compromised router/machine to ruin

[gentoo-user] ffmpeg front-end recommendations?

2005-07-06 Thread Ryan
I am looking for an excellent ffmpeg front end/gui. It doesnt matter if its a console or X based front end, as long as it supports as many features of ffmpeg as possible for decoding/encoding processes. The main purpose is to convert about 200 mp4's that I have into an SVCD/VCD or mpg format with

Re: [gentoo-user] bash_history missing

2005-07-06 Thread maxim wexler
> > Why did you have to create a user file as root (not > saying you didn't > have to, just asking why)? > > Holly When I tried running HIST* etc as user I was told I had to be root. __ Yahoo! Mail for Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Travelling in Greece, need advice

2005-07-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 17:18, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > Nope, no digging. Phone lines terminate in handy little boxes on the > side of the houses. Cable modem lines have little termination > pedestals on the street and single cable going into the building yes digging ;) These boxe

[gentoo-user] mutt probs

2005-07-06 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everyone, Following the "Quickstart Guide to Mutt" have encountered the following problems: forgot to mention Sell on Yahoo! Auctions – no fees. Bid on great items. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.or

[gentoo-user] mutt probs

2005-07-06 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everyone, Following the "Quickstart Guide to Mutt" have encountered the following problems: $fetchmail -av -m "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T" fetchmail: 6.2.5 querying yahoo.com (protocol POP3) at Wed Jul 6 13:51:41 2005: poll started fetchmail: timeout after 300 seconds waiting to connect to se

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ?

2005-07-06 Thread John J. Foster
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 09:42:27PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > > So it will. Shoot. Oh, well. Maybe I'll rework this, or I should then > ask for: > > 1) firewall recommendations (personal, as the router has one too; atm > I'm liking firestarter) > For configuring iptables on Linux, I've had go

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ?

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Richard Fish schreef: > Holly Bostick wrote: > > >>Richard Fish schreef: >> >> >> >>>BTW Holly, >>> >>>You should recognize that from a security standpoint allowing yourself >>>to execute bash is really giving yourself "blanket permissions to sudo >>>to all commands". You might as well make lif

Re: [gentoo-user] Want same ol' gentoo on new box

2005-07-06 Thread David Morgan
On 19:04 Wed 06 Jul , Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 13:31:03 -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: > > > But I'd still be worried that adding a package that does not have > > dependencies satisfied to the world file would not be a good thing > > (unless of course you are using the emptytree

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ?

2005-07-06 Thread Christoph Gysin
Holly Bostick wrote: > Or is this not a valid proof that there are some limits left? Not, it's not. A simple "sudo bash" will give you a root shell. The problem in your example was the missing quotes: $ sudo bash -c "/etc/init.d/samba restart" Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<*>'|sed 's.

Re: [gentoo-user] My winmodem works on linux-on-laptops.com

2005-07-06 Thread Daniel da Veiga
I'm not sure here (but someone will point if I'm mistaken), but ppp init script is intend to bring up adsl based connections, while you need a dialler to connect dial-up, back in the days I had dial-up I used minicom, and later kppp to handle this... In fact, you need to set your device (usually /d

Re: [gentoo-user] which package is kfm in?

2005-07-06 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 18:40, Christoph Gysin wrote: > Could some KDE user out there run the following command for me: > > $ equery b $(which kfm) kfm doesn't exist any more. Actually, it hasn't vor a long time. It used to be the file and web browser in KDE 1.0 and was replaced by konquero

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ?

2005-07-06 Thread Richard Fish
Holly Bostick wrote: >Richard Fish schreef: > > >>BTW Holly, >> >>You should recognize that from a security standpoint allowing yourself >>to execute bash is really giving yourself "blanket permissions to sudo >>to all commands". You might as well make life easier on yourself and >>just make yo

Re: [gentoo-user] screen and Ctrl-S not working any more?

2005-07-06 Thread Martin Carpella
"A. Khattri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hmm.. on many systems, CTRL S is used to stop output on a terminal. CTRL Q > resumes it. Probably the terminal driver is intercepting it before it gets > through ssh to your emacs session. On many terminals you can precede any > control sequence with CTRL

[gentoo-user] deltup / file sizes

2005-07-06 Thread Uwe Thiem
Nothing really importan, I am just curious: Anybody in the know why deltup sometimes reports file sizes and sometimes not when downloading a diff? Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software developers. - Linus Torvalds http://www.uwix.iway.na (last updated

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ?

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Richard Fish schreef: > BTW Holly, > > You should recognize that from a security standpoint allowing yourself > to execute bash is really giving yourself "blanket permissions to sudo > to all commands". You might as well make life easier on yourself and > just make your sudo settings "ALL=(ALL) N

RE: [gentoo-user] bash_history missing

2005-07-06 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > Try to adjust those variables: > > > > HISTFILE=/home/your_account/.bash_history > > HISTFILESIZE=500 > > HISTSIZE=500 > > I had to run the above from root and sure enough, they > were written into my home dir .bash_history, along > with the exit command to get back to user-space. So I > ran

Re: [gentoo-user] bash_history missing

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
maxim wexler schreef: >>Try to adjust those variables: >> >>HISTFILE=/home/your_account/.bash_history >>HISTFILESIZE=500 >>HISTSIZE=500 >> >> >>HTH, noro > > > Thanks noro. > > I had to run the above from root and sure enough, they > were written into my home dir .bash_history, along > with the

Re: [gentoo-user] the eagle has landed!!!

2005-07-06 Thread Richard Fish
maxim wexler wrote: >flagged w/ error #110. This, I'm told, can be fixed >using findpart.exe to list the partitions and then >ptedit.exe to fix them. But when I try I'm told these >are 32bit apps, not windows, but "new" DOS. But if I >boot to a DOS prompt using Win98, surely that's a >DOS32 enviro

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ?

2005-07-06 Thread Richard Fish
Holly Bostick wrote: >>I don't just give myself blanket permissions to sudo to all commands; I >>made a Cmd_Alias group which includes a lot of utility apps. And, like >>many of you, I included emerge in this group. >> > >Christoph Gysin schreef: > > >> >>$ sudo bash -c "echo package ~x86 >> /

Re: [gentoo-user][SOLVED] /dev/net/tun doesn't exist

2005-07-06 Thread Alexander Kirillov
Yep. It's async and that's an expected udev behaviour. I've been just lucky. Those interested may search for "udev is too slow creating devices" thread in linux kernel mailing list archives or google:) > There now seems to be certain time lag between tun module is loaded > and /dev/net/tun is crea

Re: [gentoo-user] bash_history missing

2005-07-06 Thread maxim wexler
> Try to adjust those variables: > > HISTFILE=/home/your_account/.bash_history > HISTFILESIZE=500 > HISTSIZE=500 > > > HTH, noro Thanks noro. I had to run the above from root and sure enough, they were written into my home dir .bash_history, along with the exit command to get back to user-spac

Re: [gentoo-user] which package is kfm in?

2005-07-06 Thread Christoph Gysin
Holly Bostick wrote: > Actually, none-- it's 'konqueror --profile filemanagement' now (this > just bit me the other day when I tried one of my rare uses of Konq and > went looking for kfm, which no longer exists). > > So just install konqueror. Thanks! Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<*>'

Re: [gentoo-user] Want same ol' gentoo on new box

2005-07-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 13:31:03 -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: > But I'd still be worried that adding a package that does not have > dependencies satisfied to the world file would not be a good thing > (unless of course you are using the emptytree option). I don't see why it should cause a problem. Por

Re: [gentoo-user] which package is kfm in?

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Christoph Gysin schreef: > Could some KDE user out there run the following command for me: > > $ equery b $(which kfm) > > Thanks! > > Christoph Actually, none-- it's 'konqueror --profile filemanagement' now (this just bit me the other day when I tried one of my rare uses of Konq and went looki

[gentoo-user] Help I have b0rked my system :(

2005-07-06 Thread Dave S
Please help, I have managed to really screw up my second gentoo box, ** How I did it ** Well, I tried emergeing gnome, liked the look of it but then it appeared to crash, all icons on the desktop went & the bottom taskbar stopped working. Going into KDE all the K menus appeared messed up ie no k

[gentoo-user] which package is kfm in?

2005-07-06 Thread Christoph Gysin
Could some KDE user out there run the following command for me: $ equery b $(which kfm) Thanks! Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<*>'|sed 's. ..'|tr "<*> !#:2" [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Want same ol' gentoo on new box

2005-07-06 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > Actually, you can replace your world file provided you use "emerge > > --emptytree --deep --newuse world", and portage won't complain that > > packages aren't installed as the emptytree tells portage to (rightly > > in this case) assume nothing is installed yet, including portage > > itself. >

Re: [gentoo-user][SOLVED] /dev/net/tun doesn't exist

2005-07-06 Thread Alexander Kirillov
There now seems to be certain time lag between tun module is loaded and /dev/net/tun is created. So the script would die on the following lines: modprobe tun if [ ! -c /dev/net/tun ]; then echo "/dev/net/tun doesn't exist" exit fi Adding tun to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 h

Re: [gentoo-user] Want same ol' gentoo on new box

2005-07-06 Thread David Morgan
On 09:52 Wed 06 Jul , Wade Brown wrote: > Actually, you can replace your world file provided you use "emerge > --emptytree --deep --newuse world", and portage won't complain that > packages aren't installed as the emptytree tells portage to (rightly > in this case) assume nothing is installed y

[gentoo-user] problem running qalculate (a calculator)

2005-07-06 Thread danielhf
is anybody using qalculator (the calculator) on gentoo? thay are masked by the keywords, so i added the packages in my package.keyword, and they where emerged as normal then. however, so long as i run qalc or qalculate, it complains that it could not load global definitions from "/var/tmp/portag

Re: [gentoo-user] Want same ol' gentoo on new box

2005-07-06 Thread Wade Brown
Actually, you can replace your world file provided you use "emerge --emptytree --deep --newuse world", and portage won't complain that packages aren't installed as the emptytree tells portage to (rightly in this case) assume nothing is installed yet, including portage itself. On 7/6/05, David Morg

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild reports broken libs, should I worry?

2005-07-06 Thread Wade Brown
In this specific case, "Broken" means "Binary Package". Binary packages are distributed with all kinds of libraries linked to so that they can minimize the amount of binary packages they need to maintain (e.g. they don't need an eclipse-gnome and an eclipse-nognome package). The program will idea

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ?

2005-07-06 Thread Christoph Gysin
Holly Bostick wrote: > Thank you, Christoph Your welcome. > Last question on this subject-- is this all just bash scripting (so I > can learn about it if I sit and study the abs-guide) or is there > someplace else I should check out if I want to learn how to write this > stuff myself? Yes, t

Re: [gentoo-user] the eagle has landed!!!

2005-07-06 Thread Antonino Sabetta
Only problem: WinXP won't boot. The lines in grub.conf Bug or feature? ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild reports broken libs, should I worry?

2005-07-06 Thread Dave Nebinger
On a run of revdep-rebuild I get the following output: butthead ~ # revdep-rebuild -p Checking reverse dependencies... Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by any package update, will be recompiled. Collecting system binaries and libraries... done. (/root/.revdep-rebuild.1_files)

Re: [gentoo-user] Want same ol' gentoo on new box

2005-07-06 Thread David Morgan
On 11:44 Wed 06 Jul , Mike Markowski wrote: > I'll be changing jobs Monday and want to be sure I bring along enough to > easily rebuild the sort of gentoo set up I currently enjoy. > > After installing, will it be enough to use my current > /var/lib/portage/world and /etc/make.conf followed by

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ?

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Christoph Gysin schreef: > David Morgan wrote: > >>afaik you can only do it with su -c "echo foo >> bar", which stops bash >>from doing anything with the >> or the whitespace to begin with, but >>then passes everything inside the double quotes to another shell, which >>gets started by su -c >> >>I

[gentoo-user] My winmodem works on linux-on-laptops.com

2005-07-06 Thread Grant
Hello! My Dell Inspiron 1000 laptop is reported to have a working winmodem with Slackware here: http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/dell.html -> http://www.angelfire.com/linux/t_johnson/ According to the article, the modem's driver can be built into the kernel via: Sound -> Advanced Linux Sound Arc

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer codecs

2005-07-06 Thread Bill Roberts
On 09:11 Wed 06 Jul , Bruno Gola wrote: > I was trying to play some *.wmv files in mplayer, but it seems i dont > have the proper video codec (it complains about the video only), so, > where should i put the codecs files ? Because i've already downloaded > the codecs that i need... but i dont k

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer codecs

2005-07-06 Thread Luigi Pinna
Alle 14:51, mercoledì 06 luglio 2005, Bruno Lustosa ha scritto: > Just a quick question, is there a way to get win32codecs to work > correctly on amd64? Here there is the guide: I used it and now I can use the win32codecs! There is the mplayer plugin too. http://www.sh.nu/download/ebuilds/mplayer

[gentoo-user] Want same ol' gentoo on new box

2005-07-06 Thread Mike Markowski
I'll be changing jobs Monday and want to be sure I bring along enough to easily rebuild the sort of gentoo set up I currently enjoy. After installing, will it be enough to use my current /var/lib/portage/world and /etc/make.conf followed by 'emerge -uDf world', etc., to get me going? Or am I over

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ?

2005-07-06 Thread gentoo
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 17.21, Holly Bostick wrote: > > To solve your problem, I would just do: > > chgrp -R portage /etc/portage > > chmod -R g+w /etc/portage > > Well, it didn't work (this to all the respondents). Are you in the portage group? > sudo echo 'media-video/xine-ui ~x86' >>/etc/por

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Travelling in Greece, need advice

2005-07-06 Thread Grant
> > I had planned on finding wireless connections and then ethernet > > networks as a backup. Either one has proven to be totally impossible. > > I need something I can rely on and since using public computers is > > too dangerous it sounds like I need to dial up. I could just make > > sure that

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ?

2005-07-06 Thread Christoph Gysin
Holly Bostick wrote: > I'm really lost. Where am I going wrong? check my other post. > Oh, btw, just remembered-- this is bash 3. Does that make a difference? No. Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<*>'|sed 's. ..'|tr "<*> !#:2" [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ?

2005-07-06 Thread Christoph Gysin
David Morgan wrote: > afaik you can only do it with su -c "echo foo >> bar", which stops bash > from doing anything with the >> or the whitespace to begin with, but > then passes everything inside the double quotes to another shell, which > gets started by su -c > > It's kind of annoying, I know,

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ?

2005-07-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 16:12:18 +0100, David Morgan wrote: > Nope, I don't think you can do it with sudo since bash uses whitespace > as a separator, so if you do sudo "echo foo >> bar", it'll look for a > single command "echo foo >> bar", which is not what you want - you want > a command echo with ar

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ?

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: > Le Mercredi, 6 Juillet 2005 15.52, Holly Bostick a ecrit : > >>Hey, ho-- >> >>I've finally got around to setting up sudo. It works fine, except for >>one thing. >> >>I made a Cmd_Alias group which includes a lot of utility apps. And, like >>many of you, I included emer

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Travelling in Greece, need advice

2005-07-06 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Jul 6, 2005, at 6:49 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Wednesday 06 July 2005 07:11, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Jul 5, 2005, at 10:53 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Wednesday 06 July 2005 03:29, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: I would not trust a wifi setup by a unkn

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ?

2005-07-06 Thread David Morgan
On 16:54 Wed 06 Jul , Holly Bostick wrote: > OK, you all likely realize that I responded before I had got the three > more messages telling me what to do. > > I'm sure it will work (three people telling you the exact same thing is > pretty convincing ;-) ), but what I don't understand is why/h

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Travelling in Greece, need advice

2005-07-06 Thread Kurt Guenther
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >The security of the average wifi is pretty low. Because of lazyness, stupidity >or bugs. > >Get a modem, you should be able to dial in to several local and international >isps :) > > > I would not trust a wifi setup by a unknown 3rd party to do online > banking.

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ?

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Edward Catmur schreef: > On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 15:52 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > >>Echo is in the sudo-ed group, and echo isn't the problem-- the problem >>is that permission is refused to write to the file itself (which is an >>error *from* echo, so it would seem that echo itself is OK as far a

[gentoo-user] LinuxBios && Gentoo?

2005-07-06 Thread James
Hello, There's an excellent article on porting the 'linuxbios' to a new board at: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8120 The article covers a popular embedded Amd processor the SC520 (elan). A number of Tyan and Via motherboards are supported: http://www.linuxbios.org/index.php/Supported_Mothe

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge question

2005-07-06 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi > > I want to emerge PHP to my box, a 2.6.11-gentoo-r11 but a want to emerge it > without x11 support. When I type emerge -p -v php I got this message: Re-run that with the -t option added to the command-line - the resulting tree will show you what

Re: [gentoo-user] Home mail server problems.

2005-07-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On 7/6/05, Scott Llewellyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I plan on calling them. Unfortantly there is no one there at 4 am! I was > just curious it port 25 being closed would be the reason I couldn't recieve > email in the first place. > > Scott Scott, I didn't have a chance to read this threa

Re: [gentoo-user] the eagle has landed!!!

2005-07-06 Thread maxim wexler
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/DOS-Windows.html#DOS%2fWindows > > title Window NT / Windows 95 boot menu > rootnoverify (hd1,0) > makeactive > map (hd0) (hd1) > map (hd1) (hd0) > chainloader +1 > > Zac Doesn't work. The WinXP boot console opens alright but that's all. As I'v

Re: [gentoo-user] best download manager in gentoo

2005-07-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 14:12:45 +0200, Khan wrote: > I don't prefer GUI's for downloads. Unnecessary use of resources. I use > wget, but if you are on KDE and want GUI, you should try KGet. If you have a list of a few hundred files to download, KGet give much better feedback than wget :) -- Neil

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ?

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
A. Khattri schreef: > On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: > > >>Echo is in the sudo-ed group, and echo isn't the problem-- the problem >>is that permission is refused to write to the file itself (which is an >>error *from* echo, so it would seem that echo itself is OK as far as >>sudo goes).

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ?

2005-07-06 Thread Edward Catmur
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 15:52 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > Echo is in the sudo-ed group, and echo isn't the problem-- the problem > is that permission is refused to write to the file itself (which is an > error *from* echo, so it would seem that echo itself is OK as far as > sudo goes). Which means

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ?

2005-07-06 Thread David Morgan
On 15:52 Wed 06 Jul , Holly Bostick wrote: > Hey, ho-- > > Here's (one of) today's non-critical problems that's getting on my > nerves, so hopefully somebody can help. > > I've finally got around to setting up sudo. It works fine, except for > one thing. > > I don't just give myself blanket

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ?

2005-07-06 Thread gentoo
Le Mercredi, 6 Juillet 2005 15.52, Holly Bostick a ecrit : > Hey, ho-- > > Here's (one of) today's non-critical problems that's getting on my > nerves, so hopefully somebody can help. > > I've finally got around to setting up sudo. It works fine, except for > one thing. > > I don't just give myself

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Travelling in Greece, need advice

2005-07-06 Thread byron
Grant wrote: >>>Hello! I am travelling and am currently on the Greek island of Corfu. >>> It is great! I have my laptop but I'm finding it totally impossible >>>to find a place that will let me plug into their network for Internet >>>access. I can't use public systems because of keyboard loggers

Re: [gentoo-user] Home mail server problems.

2005-07-06 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Scott Llewellyn wrote: > I plan on calling them. Unfortantly there is no one there at 4 am! I was > just curious it port 25 being closed would be the reason I couldn't recieve > email in the first place. SMTP uses port 25 so a block would indeed affect incoming email. --

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