Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread Frank Schafer
On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 07:50 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 25. August 2005 18:21 schrieb ext Willie Wong: > > > Your best bet is to get someone your trust to boot into single for you > > and reset the password there. > > Single wouldn't work, You still get a login: prompt. The only

[gentoo-user] Is there a way to increase the number of external (all imap) accounts in evolution?

2005-08-25 Thread W.Kenworthy
Evolution looks like it can handle only 5 external imap accounts plus "local". It attempts to use the extra account (I need 6), but tries to disable one account (sometimes only partially succeeds) - often the one I just added, but sometimes another. Is there a way to increase the number of extern

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 25. August 2005 18:21 schrieb ext Willie Wong: > Your best bet is to get someone your trust to boot into single for you > and reset the password there. Single wouldn't work, You still get a login: prompt. The only ways to get at it are LiveCD or booting with "init=/bin/bash". Bye

[gentoo-user] Portage Won't Start now after update - help

2005-08-25 Thread Paul Hoy
Hello all, After running a new use/world update which includes the latest gnome hardmasked packages, I'm not unable to start Porthole. My system returns the following error when I attempt to run Porthole: # porthole /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gnome/vfs.py:4: DeprecationWarning: Modu

Re: [gentoo-user] ati -- dreaded "xf86-ENOMEM" error

2005-08-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/25/05, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > What motherboard do you have? > > Asus K8N-E Deluxe skt 754 w/nVidia chipset > We're in this one together buddy! I managed to buy one of those motherboards today from NewEgg. I'll be

Re: [gentoo-user] /home becoming readonly every night

2005-08-25 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Mike Williams wrote: > Maxtors RMA process is exceptionally quick and simple though, as long as the > drive is still detectable by the BIOS. Sure - we have a *lot* of experience with their RMA process! > Their warranty periods are 3 year and > above now too. > All you pay is

Re: [gentoo-user] /home becoming readonly every night

2005-08-25 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández wrote: > I had very bad experience with bigfoots, about 50% (of 10 or more) died on the > first 2.5 years. That's not too bad compared to Maxtors. I have Seagate (SCSI) disks in servers that have been running for almost 5 years now... -- --

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-25 Thread Markus Döbele
Give me a hint when its in the gentoo ebuilds Database, I will publish it in the news of our homepages then! Am Freitag, 26. August 2005 02:14 schrieb Nick Rout: > On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 01:36:01 +0200 > > Holly Bostick wrote: > > Since we know Nick's ebuild works, from the testers, Nick, why don't

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-25 Thread Markus Döbele
All right. Now I understand what we are talking about :-) I Will still have a look into the Documentation. You never can know too much :-) Am Freitag, 26. August 2005 01:36 schrieb Holly Bostick: > Markus Döbele schreef: > > Okay. Understood! > > I would like to have a look in how an ebuild is c

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables

2005-08-25 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, John Dangler wrote: > I'm reading through the wiki doc on setting up iptables. There is a section > there that sets up a file called firewall.sh > i've emerged iptables, but I don't have a file by that name on the system, Probably a script the wiki author created perhaps...

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-25 Thread Markus Döbele
Okay, I had a look at the ebuild. Its a very clean thing I think :-) Like it! Its perfectly okay with me to keep to the standards of the distributions. i tried to to the same thing for suse/mandrake/redhat. I create the desktop file on the fly, because they told me when its in the spec it gets

Re: [gentoo-user] ati -- dreaded "xf86-ENOMEM" error

2005-08-25 Thread maxim wexler
> Perhaps you didn't select it (a lot of people make > that === message truncated === sorry for posting twice I had to go re-read the "truncated" part. #eix ati-drivers Can't open database for file /var/cache/eix. that's because there ain't none. ditto /etc/portage/package.mask. something els

Re: [gentoo-user] sshd won't start with krb5 error

2005-08-25 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:52:05 +1200 Nick Rout wrote: > what did your update involve? > > I would wager that it updated some krb thing which sshd links to, and > that re-emerging openssh may fix it. > > OTOH if you don't really use kerberos you could take it out of the USE > flags and rebuild ope

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables

2005-08-25 Thread Eric Crossman
Once you run the rules once and run save, they will then be reloaded from that location (/var/lib/iptables/rules-save) by /etc/init.d/iptables start. The init.d script uses iptables-restore and iptables-save underneath. Eric C On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 23:17 -0400, John Dangler wrote: > I'm reading t

Re: [gentoo-user] sshd won't start with krb5 error

2005-08-25 Thread Nick Rout
what did your update involve? I would wager that it updated some krb thing which sshd links to, and that re-emerging openssh may fix it. OTOH if you don't really use kerberos you could take it out of the USE flags and rebuild openssh On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 20:11:12 -0700 Grant wrote: > All 3 of m

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread Michael Crute
On 8/25/05, Ian Hastie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is a bad idea as it creates two effective root passwords.  One ofthem even has the ability to log in through the network.  Just find thepriveleged user's password and then change the real root one. You have a point here but I find it easier to

Re: [gentoo-user] ati -- dreaded "xf86-ENOMEM" error

2005-08-25 Thread maxim wexler
--- Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, now I have some time to look at this in detail: > > maxim wexler schreef: > > > > --- Ryan Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>On 8/23/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>wrote: > >> > >>>Hi Maxim, > >>> An AGP support issue pr

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-25 Thread Nick Rout
how about eix gentoo-sources ? but in fact if he wants to cleanly apply outside patches he may be better to use vanilla-sources There seem to be 2.6.11's in vanilla-sources On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 20:03:34 -0700 Mark Knecht wrote: > However first do > > slocate gentoo-sources | grep ebuild > > a

[gentoo-user] iptables

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
I'm reading through the wiki doc on setting up iptables. There is a section there that sets up a file called firewall.sh i've emerged iptables, but I don't have a file by that name on the system, and it seems that running "/etc/init.d/iptables save" writes this file as /var/lib/iptables/rules-save

[gentoo-user] sshd won't start with krb5 error

2005-08-25 Thread Grant
All 3 of my systems running sshd are having the same problem after a big world update. sshd won't start and returns this: /usr/sbin/sshd: symbol lookup error: /usr/sbin/sshd: undefined symbol: krb5_init_ets There doesn't seem to be a bug on it and there is no ~x86 version of mit-krb5 to try. Do

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-25 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 21:52:11 -0500 John Jolet wrote: > > > > > > W > I appreciate everyone's help with this, but that changelog entry doesn't > really tell me why it's gone and that it won't come back. No it just tells you that the dependency has been removed, so the assumption has been made .

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/25/05, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > # ChangeLog for app-emulation/win4lin > > # Copyright 2002-2005 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2 > > # $Header: > > # > > /var/www/www.gentoo.org/raw_cvs/gentoo-x86/app-emulation/win4lin/ChangeLog, > >v # 1.22 2005/08/15 16:51

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-25 Thread Holly Bostick
John Jolet schreef: > On Thursday 25 August 2005 21:17, Mark Knecht wrote: > > >>Maybe it's just an oversight and temporarily gone? >> >>- Mark > > well, it's definately gone now. can someone comment on why and whether it's > temporary? I'd prefer not to try to remember if've installed any ot

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-25 Thread John Jolet
> > # ChangeLog for app-emulation/win4lin > # Copyright 2002-2005 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2 > # $Header: > # > /var/www/www.gentoo.org/raw_cvs/gentoo-x86/app-emulation/win4lin/ChangeLog, >v # 1.22 2005/08/15 16:51:48 plasmaroo Exp $ > > 15 Aug 2005; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> win4l

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 07:17:48PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Maybe it's just an oversight and temporarily gone? > > - Mark doubt it. According to the changelog for Win4Lin # ChangeLog for app-emulation/win4lin # Copyright 2002-2005 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2 # $Header: # /

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-25 Thread John Jolet
On Thursday 25 August 2005 21:39, Nick Rout wrote: > On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 21:23:10 -0500 > > John Jolet wrote: > > On Thursday 25 August 2005 21:17, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Maybe it's just an oversight and temporarily gone? > > > > > > - Mark > > > > well, it's definately gone now. can someone com

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-25 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 21:23:10 -0500 John Jolet wrote: > On Thursday 25 August 2005 21:17, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > > Maybe it's just an oversight and temporarily gone? > > > > - Mark > well, it's definately gone now. can someone comment on why and whether it's > temporary? I'd prefer not to

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-25 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 21:08:06 -0500 John Jolet wrote: > yeah, well, a new install as of two days ago...it's 2.6.12. emerge --search > win4lin-source turns up nothing. Is there anothing thing I should be > searching for? I'm kinda new to gentoo, been using redhat and mandrake for 5 > years, t

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-25 Thread John Jolet
On Thursday 25 August 2005 21:17, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Maybe it's just an oversight and temporarily gone? > > - Mark well, it's definately gone now. can someone comment on why and whether it's temporary? I'd prefer not to try to remember if've installed any other modules or patches this week

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-25 Thread John Jolet
okay, I was wondering how to get the other kernel versions. it's emerge gentoo-sources (space) 2.6.11 is it? On Thursday 25 August 2005 21:13, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: > I'd just get vanilla or even better emerge gentoo-sources 2.6.11? and then > go to the w4l site and get teh patches for that

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/25/05, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yeah, well, a new install as of two days ago...it's 2.6.12. emerge --search > win4lin-source turns up nothing. Is there anothing thing I should be > searching for? I'm kinda new to gentoo, been using redhat and mandrake for 5 > years, though. >

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-25 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
I'd just get vanilla or even better emerge gentoo-sources 2.6.11? and then go to the w4l site and get teh patches for that kernel, the patching is pretty simple and described there pretty well, then just build yourself a new kernel with the patches and go to town.. Mike (I'd go to the kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] SpamAssassin is letting everything through

2005-08-25 Thread W.Kenworthy
This works very well, though it can be set too zealous (as warned about in the spamassassin section) so needs checking of the trap directories every few days. "http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http% 3A//www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mailfilter-guide.xml&ei=o3kOQ5urCqesYbf74OoE" BillK On

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-25 Thread John Jolet
yeah, well, a new install as of two days ago...it's 2.6.12. emerge --search win4lin-source turns up nothing. Is there anothing thing I should be searching for? I'm kinda new to gentoo, been using redhat and mandrake for 5 years, though. On Thursday 25 August 2005 20:54, Michael W. Holdeman w

Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

2005-08-25 Thread W.Kenworthy
For me, bottom posting is not netiquette but a total pitta. It wastes time and effort in reading mail on the mail readers I use. It was originally used by the first text mode readers and seems to be mainly inertia, continued by the design of mainly text based based readers (pine/mutt and the like

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-25 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
On Thursday 25 August 2005 09:47 pm, John Jolet wrote: > I've purchased the win4lin product, (the home version) to test out certain > windows apps I need to run. They claim that gentoo has a patched kernel > available for this. Does anyone know anything about this? The > instructions they sent m

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo

2005-08-25 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 19:47:47 -0400 John Dangler wrote: > >> It compiles sudo with support for One Time (or "single key) passwords. > OpenSSH also supports skey. > > It? Do you mean the latest kernel? or a stage3 build with genkernel? (I know > that skey isn't in the default list of use flags)..

[gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-25 Thread John Jolet
I've purchased the win4lin product, (the home version) to test out certain windows apps I need to run. They claim that gentoo has a patched kernel available for this. Does anyone know anything about this? The instructions they sent me said to emerge win4lin-sources, but emerge --search finds

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa RTC and extending swap space

2005-08-25 Thread Tero Grundström
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 11:59:53 + krgn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Has anyone experience with the Alsa RTC-module and how install it? Isn't this included in the latest in-kernel alsa? At least I see an option for 'RTC Timer support' under the alsa submenu of 2.6.13-rc7. I'm not cur

Re: [gentoo-user] ati -- dreaded "xf86-ENOMEM" error

2005-08-25 Thread Holly Bostick
OK, now I have some time to look at this in detail: maxim wexler schreef: > > --- Ryan Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>On 8/23/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>wrote: >> >>>Hi Maxim, >>> An AGP support issue probably. Which kernel are >> >>you using? Mark, I think you're right: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread Ian Hastie
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 12:38:42 -0400 Michael Crute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All you really need is an account with sudo rights then `sudo passwd > root` and your all set, else your suck with singleuser. This is a bad idea as it creates two effective root passwords. One of them even has the abi

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo

2005-08-25 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
C.Beamer wrote: > > You also need to install vim because you have to edit the /etc/sudoers > file in order to add a user name. If you display the sudoers file ('cat > sudoers') it will tell you that the file *must* be edited by the visudo > command as root. > You do not need to install vim. sud

Re: [gentoo-user] ati -- dreaded "xf86-ENOMEM" error

2005-08-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/25/05, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Another thing, > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-353295-highlight-xf86enomem.html > > all seem to be complaining about DRM failure but > according to the gentoo-radeon-faq: > > * Device drivers -> Character Devices -> Direct > R

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge output

2005-08-25 Thread Tony Davison
On Friday 26 August 2005 00:48, Holly Bostick wrote: > John Dangler schreef: > > I just did an emerge –uDv world… > > > > > > > > during the course of the 22 packages (a lot considering I just > > loaded this last night), I got some messages saying “please make > > sure you run … (I couldn’t read

Re: [gentoo-user] fan noise in recent kernels

2005-08-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/25/05, Glenn Enright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:44, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Humm... I tried gkrellm2 on one machine. It runs but I haven't figured > > out how to make it show me fans and temps. I wonder if this older Asus > > A7V266-E machine can do that? > > > > I also

Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

2005-08-25 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 01:57:31 +0200 Holly Bostick wrote: > Just saw this on the Wiki (Portage utilities not in Portage), and > thought it might be something for you: > > tsportageview (forums) (sample-html-output) (download) > > * Show descriptions of packages in a given portage category(-ie

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-25 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 01:36:01 +0200 Holly Bostick wrote: > Since we know Nick's ebuild works, from the testers, Nick, why don't you > just send him a copy? i have > > It is GPL, isn't it ;) ? assuming you are referring to the ebuild then yes it is GPL (i hadn't really thought too much about it

Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

2005-08-25 Thread Holly Bostick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: > Hi all, > one thing i miss from my previous debian system was the long > description that one can acces with 'apt-cache show '. > > The questions would be: > - why gentoo has decided that one line description is enough? > - it's possible to implement long descri

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge output

2005-08-25 Thread Holly Bostick
John Dangler schreef: > I just did an emerge –uDv world… > > > > during the course of the 22 packages (a lot considering I just loaded > this last night), I got some messages saying “please make sure you run … > (I couldn’t read it all since it went by so fast)… I got a couple of > these befor

RE: [gentoo-user] sudo

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
>> It compiles sudo with support for One Time (or "single key) passwords. OpenSSH also supports skey. It? Do you mean the latest kernel? or a stage3 build with genkernel? (I know that skey isn't in the default list of use flags)... John D -Original Message- From: Kurt Lieber [mailto:[EM

[gentoo-user] Re: Windows Media Player

2005-08-25 Thread Daniel Vrcic
* Jonathan Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05-08-26 00:57]: > Jerry McBride wrote: > > Yep, you're right. Mplayer is a wonderful application, but a bit too > > delicate > > to use all the time. I experience the same "fail to shutdown" problem you > > have and in addition to that, after a video plays

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo

2005-08-25 Thread Jonathan Wright
John Dangler wrote: > Jonathan, Colleen, Holly~ > Thanks for the additional comments. Am I to understand, then, that I can > emerge sudo without the use of skey? Since I'm still not entirely sure what > its function is, I'd feel better leaving it alone. If so, then I'll get it > emerged and foll

Re: [gentoo-user] SpamAssassin is letting everything through

2005-08-25 Thread Jonathan Wright
Mike Williams wrote: > Any chance you could enlighten the rest of us to how you enabled DCC? > Does spamassassin detect the client tools presence automagically, or is it a > compile time thing, or a config change, etc? Simply emerge dcc: * mail-filter/dcc Available versions: ~1.2.28 1.2.28

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread Grant
> Hmm - Maybe I need to look into a different service ? > > John I can tell you that I'm happy with Layered Tech. They told me I would have to rent a KVM unit from them to get started with the LiveCD when I was first installing. It flipped me out but they wouldn't budge. The funny thing is, wh

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-25 Thread Holly Bostick
Markus Döbele schreef: > Okay. Understood! > I would like to have a look in how an ebuild is constructed. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=6 This is the English version; if you would prefer to read it in German: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/de/handbook/handbook-x86

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD recorder recommendations

2005-08-25 Thread Timur Aydin
"Kevin O'Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I am using a Philips DVD writer for backup purposes under Gentoo with good results. -- Timur Aydin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo

2005-08-25 Thread Kurt Lieber
On 8/25/05, John Dangler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to find out exactly what this means, since it's a recommended > piece from the > Gentoo security handbook. It compiles sudo with support for One Time (or "single key) passwords. OpenSSH also supports skey. --kurt -- gentoo-user

[gentoo-user] Blender Problem

2005-08-25 Thread Ian K
Hi there, Im using Blender 2.36, after downgrading from 2.37, hoping to resolve this issue. Didn't work. Heres the problem: Seemingly randomly, after I trigger a key press or mouse press event, it will suddently scramble my 3d scene and menus. It shows some resembelence to wireframe, but filled in

RE: [gentoo-user] sudo

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
Jonathan, Colleen, Holly~ Thanks for the additional comments. Am I to understand, then, that I can emerge sudo without the use of skey? Since I'm still not entirely sure what its function is, I'd feel better leaving it alone. If so, then I'll get it emerged and follow the posts to get it setup..

Re: [gentoo-user] ati -- dreaded "xf86-ENOMEM" error

2005-08-25 Thread Holly Bostick
maxim wexler schreef: > Another thing, > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-353295-highlight-xf86enomem.html > > all seem to be complaining about DRM failure but > according to the gentoo-radeon-faq: > > * Device drivers -> Character Devices -> Direct > Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 a

Re: [gentoo-user] genlop times was: migrating to gcc-3.4.4

2005-08-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 11:03:47PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 14:51:33 -0400, Willie Wong wrote: > > > BUT!!! It seems that there is a bug with genlop and newer versions of > > portage because some issues with a sandbox lockfile. Search for > > "genlop sandbox" on bugs.gento

Re: [gentoo-user] SpamAssassin is letting everything through

2005-08-25 Thread Mike Williams
On Thursday 25 August 2005 23:41, Jonathan Wright wrote: > Once of the things I found that helped very quickly was the DCC system > (Distributed Checksum Clearing). They store the checksum of all know > spam mails. Once I enabled that, my level of false spam went down > massively. I very rarely get

[gentoo-user] emerge output

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
I just did an  emerge –uDv world…   during the course of the 22 packages (a lot considering I just loaded this last night), I got some messages saying “please make sure you run … (I couldn’t read it all since it went by so fast)… I got a couple of these before it was over.  Is there a way

Re: [gentoo-user] Windows Media Player

2005-08-25 Thread Jonathan Wright
Jerry McBride wrote: > Yep, you're right. Mplayer is a wonderful application, but a bit too delicate > to use all the time. I experience the same "fail to shutdown" problem you > have and in addition to that, after a video plays, I can click on the "open a > file" button and it will crash... alm

Re: [gentoo-user] SpamAssassin is letting everything through

2005-08-25 Thread Jonathan Wright
daniel wrote: > I've been beating my head against my keyboard all day trying to figure out > how > get SpamAssassin working on our server and so far I've not had a lot of > success. Once of the things I found that helped very quickly was the DCC system (Distributed Checksum Clearing). They stor

Re: [gentoo-user] stage files

2005-08-25 Thread Chris Cox
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 01:32 pm, John Jolet wrote: > Can someone point me to a reference that explains how to make your > own stage files? It seemed to me that the stage3 stage file was > pretty much a bzipped tar file of an installed system. Is this > correct, or is there more to it? I've

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-25 Thread Markus Döbele
Okay. Understood! I would like to have a look in how an ebuild is constructed. I figured out how to create an rpm and now want to know how it looks like for an ebuild. I didn't receive the actual Mail of Nick. Can you send it to me again? Or can I download it from the gentoo project homepage? A

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-25 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 21:53:43 +0200 Markus Döbele wrote: > Can't the rest be automated too? > I mean creating the directories > and to check first if portage is installed? portage is already installed, or its not gentoo! > Would be easier for the users. > > Then a link should be created in PATH

Re: [gentoo-user] ati -- dreaded "xf86-ENOMEM" error

2005-08-25 Thread maxim wexler
Another thing, http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-353295-highlight-xf86enomem.html all seem to be complaining about DRM failure but according to the gentoo-radeon-faq: * Device drivers -> Character Devices -> Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support): DISABLED

RE: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
Hmm - Maybe I need to look into a different service ? John -Original Message- From: Grant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 5:52 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system > Wow! That was decent of t

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo

2005-08-25 Thread Holly Bostick
C.Beamer schreef: > John Dangler wrote: > > >>I’m looking into setting up sudo on my latest test box >>(stage3/genkernel 2.6.12—r9) >> >>In portage, sudo says “Allows users or groups to run commands as other >>users”. The latest stable shows *1.6.8_p9 (although the one before is >>it unstable, an

Re: [gentoo-user] fan noise in recent kernels

2005-08-25 Thread Glenn Enright
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:44, Mark Knecht wrote: > Humm... I tried gkrellm2 on one machine. It runs but I haven't figured > out how to make it show me fans and temps. I wonder if this older Asus > A7V266-E machine can do that? > > I also emerge gkrellm-sensors but I'll have to find some info on how >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]Deafenig Silence

2005-08-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 17:19:27 +0100, Tony Davison wrote: > A'll working fine now, just put it down to my ISP's habit of losing > touch with the world. It went quiet for several hours for me too, so I suspect something upstream. -- Neil Bothwick NOTE: The most fundamental particles in your com

Re: [gentoo-user] genlop times was: migrating to gcc-3.4.4

2005-08-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 14:51:33 -0400, Willie Wong wrote: > BUT!!! It seems that there is a bug with genlop and newer versions of > portage because some issues with a sandbox lockfile. Search for > "genlop sandbox" on bugs.gentoo.org for more info. In any case, for > the time being, until the bug is

Re: [gentoo-user] Windows Media Player

2005-08-25 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thursday 25 August 2005 09:40 pm, Jonathan Wright wrote: > Michael Crute wrote: > > I tired 9 and one point in time and it was a disaster. Didn't work at > > all then I saw the light and now use mplayer with win32 codecs. > > Agreed. MPlayer will even support RealPlayer along with the standard >

Re: [gentoo-user] ati -- dreaded "xf86-ENOMEM" error

2005-08-25 Thread maxim wexler
--- Ryan Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/23/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Hi Maxim, > >An AGP support issue probably. Which kernel are > you using? > > I found that running with a 2.6.12 kernel gave me > this error; > downgrading to 2.6.11 fixed it. here's a relev

Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

2005-08-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 11:39:14 -0400 (EDT), A. Khattri wrote: > I know this post was a troll - but its the dumbest thing Ive ever read. You know you've been on the internet too long when the trolls are no longer amusing... -- Neil Bothwick Ralph's Observation - It is a mistake to allow any mech

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread Grant
> Wow! That was decent of them. Is it a dedicated server or a colo ? > > John D Hey John, It's a dedicated (not virtual dedicated) box. They changed the password and forwarded me the new one. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] fan noise in recent kernels

2005-08-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/25/05, krzaq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I couldnt find a good program to do this. > I've rewriten an old piece of code to work with i2c. > It's configurable and works quite well. > If you like I can email the source to you. > That would be great, but why not make it an ebuild and put it in

Re: [gentoo-user] fan noise in recent kernels

2005-08-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/25/05, Glenn Enright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 06:24, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -al /sys/bus/i2c/drivers/ > > dev_driver/ i2c_adapter/ w83781d/ w83l785ts/ > ^^^ ^^^ > > looks like you have modules

Re: [gentoo-user] Windows Media Player

2005-08-25 Thread Jonathan Wright
Michael Crute wrote: > I tired 9 and one point in time and it was a disaster. Didn't work at > all then I saw the light and now use mplayer with win32 codecs. Agreed. MPlayer will even support RealPlayer along with the standard win32codecs. I do find some issues with stability, at least mainly wit

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo

2005-08-25 Thread C.Beamer
John Dangler wrote: > I’m looking into setting up sudo on my latest test box > (stage3/genkernel 2.6.12—r9) > > In portage, sudo says “Allows users or groups to run commands as other > users”. The latest stable shows *1.6.8_p9 (although the one before is > it unstable, and the one before that is s

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo

2005-08-25 Thread Jonathan Wright
John Dangler wrote: > so, the best place to start would be to emerge sudo (and it's dependencies), > and then try and configure it from there... (?) I'm guessing that, with the > use flags set, it would also grab skey... Something like that. But, at the end of the day, it depends whether you want

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread Joe Menola
On Thursday August 25 2005 10:47 am, Grant wrote: > I have forgotten the root password of my remote server. Is there any > way to retrieve or reset it? > If you can get access to the root partition (ie:mount from a livecd) and have a working /etc/passwd with a known password for root, move the or

RE: [gentoo-user] sudo

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
so, the best place to start would be to emerge sudo (and it's dependencies), and then try and configure it from there... (?) I'm guessing that, with the use flags set, it would also grab skey... John D -Original Message- From: Jonathan Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, Au

RE: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
Wow! That was decent of them. Is it a dedicated server or a colo ? John D -Original Message- From: Grant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 4:57 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system > Grant~ > I

Re: [gentoo-user] /home becoming readonly every night

2005-08-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 25 August 2005 20:38, Willie Wong wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 08:07:52PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > well, my new seagate died in the first week.. .the second one run for > > years without problems... > > > > Seagate = Sie geht oder sie geht nicht. (it works or not). >

Re: [gentoo-user] Windows Media Player

2005-08-25 Thread Michael Crute
On 8/25/05, Ian K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi there,I was wondering if anyone here has gotten Windows Media Player 9 or 10to work with Wine. On the Wine website, it has Media Player 9 listed.Althoughthere are threee discouraging comments. Any one here getting it working? Thanks!Ian I tired 9 and

Re: [gentoo-user] fan noise in recent kernels

2005-08-25 Thread krzaq
I couldnt find a good program to do this. I've rewriten an old piece of code to work with i2c. It's configurable and works quite well. If you like I can email the source to you. On 8/25/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/25/05, krzaq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8/25/05, Mark K

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread Grant
> Grant~ > I had the same thing happen to me on one of our dedi servers. I called the > isp and they had a way of recovering the password, although it cost me $75 > to get it done. Basically, they told me that it's a sophisticated 'hack' > into the machine to get it back. If there's another way,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: activex support

2005-08-25 Thread Holly Bostick
James schreef: > Daniel da Veiga gmail.com> writes: > > >>Cedega implemented a plugin for using activex with mozilla, check it >>at the transgaming site www.transgaming.com. > > > This looks promising. > > >>Theres an ebuild for it, I'm sure... > > > app-emulation/cedega > > is this the e

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-25 Thread Alec Shaner
Markus Döbele wrote: Can't the rest be automated too? I mean creating the directories and to check first if portage is installed? Would be easier for the users. Then a link should be created in PATH thet you can type laby everywhere. Once the ebuild is officially in the portage tree, it is al

[gentoo-user] Re: activex support

2005-08-25 Thread James
Daniel da Veiga gmail.com> writes: > > Cedega implemented a plugin for using activex with mozilla, check it > at the transgaming site www.transgaming.com. This looks promising. > Theres an ebuild for it, I'm sure... app-emulation/cedega is this the ebuild you are referring to? James -- g

Re: [gentoo-user] gforce4 and gensplash [RESOLVED]

2005-08-25 Thread Alexander Kirillov
Can I make gensplash to work with gforce4? yes What fb driver are you using? I've tried with vesafb which was working well with my onboard i810 chip without success. Eventually got it working with vesafb-tng. Had to splash_geninitramfs with all available resolutions (was using 1024x768) and

Re: [gentoo-user] bbgallery and template files

2005-08-25 Thread Roy Wright
Holly Bostick wrote: Harry Putnam schreef: First if this ends up being a nearly duplicate post... my apologies. I tried a similar version from a different machine that has apparently not made it to the server. I recently went looking for image manipulation tools in general and web gallery s

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández
On Thursday 25 August 2005 16:59, John Dangler wrote: > yeah - and someone using a rootkit was able to successfully login to our > old dedicated server and wreak havoc on it, too. That led to a complete > rebuild of the server (which now runs seLinux... (Understandably, there may > have been steps

[gentoo-user] Windows Media Player

2005-08-25 Thread Ian K
Hi there, I was wondering if anyone here has gotten Windows Media Player 9 or 10 to work with Wine. On the Wine website, it has Media Player 9 listed. Although there are threee discouraging comments. Any one here getting it working? Thanks! Ian begin:vcard fn:Ian K n:K;Ian email;internet:[EMAIL PRO

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-25 Thread Markus Döbele
Can't the rest be automated too? I mean creating the directories and to check first if portage is installed? Would be easier for the users. Then a link should be created in PATH thet you can type laby everywhere. Thats what I do in my rpm: mkdir -p /usr/games/laby cp -r ./* /usr/games/laby (Here

RE: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
yeah - and someone using a rootkit was able to successfully login to our old dedicated server and wreak havoc on it, too. That led to a complete rebuild of the server (which now runs seLinux... (Understandably, there may have been steps we could/should have taken to prevent it, but this was setup

RE: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Well, I just remembered hearing about rootkits. I think all > you need is access to a user and a rootkit, but I haven't > used one so I wouldn't know...but a simple google search > came up with some linux rootkits :p Sure, but is it really something you want to install on your system? It mig

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