Re: [gentoo-user] Interface to Microsoft Keyboards (ala Intellitype) possible on Gentoo?

2005-11-02 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Mark Shields wrote: > I have a Microsoft natural multimedia keyboard and wish to use the extra > available keys (the multimedia keys mostly, volume up/down, pause, stop, > rewind/fast forward, mute). Are there any packages in portage that will > allow me to do this? Of course, if there isn't, a p

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL Upgrade

2005-11-02 Thread kashani
Jeff Smelser wrote: On Wednesday 02 November 2005 05:47 pm, kashani wrote: So yes, if your db is 20 GB or less, what I mentioned will probably work without too much trouble. If your db is 100 GB or larger, you're likely spending enough on hardware and software to solve your issues that s

[gentoo-user] Interface to Microsoft Keyboards (ala Intellitype) possible on Gentoo?

2005-11-02 Thread Mark Shields
I have a Microsoft natural multimedia keyboard and wish to use the extra available keys (the multimedia keys mostly, volume up/down, pause, stop, rewind/fast forward, mute).  Are there any packages in portage that will allow me to do this?  Of course, if there isn't, a point in the direction of a s

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL Upgrade

2005-11-02 Thread Jeff Smelser
On Wednesday 02 November 2005 05:47 pm, kashani wrote: > Don't think you could have brought up the fact that you're complaining > about the shortcomings of Mysql in an entirely different class than I > and likely the original poster were talking about? I'd have wanted to > know a bit more ab

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacement for qpkg... please!?!?

2005-11-02 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 23:24 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: > Silly me, I went and RTFM'd before doing anything. TFM says, and I > quote... > > > Unimplemented Options > >changes > > > >depends > > > >glsa - use glsa-check for the time being. > > > >stats > > Gu

[gentoo-user] Full path in apache2 access_log?

2005-11-02 Thread Grant
Is there any way to get apache2 to include a full path in its access_log? That would be something like this: domain.com/page.html instead of this: /page.html If I can get a full path in the log, I can have webalizer report on traffic per domain. The conventional method of using the vhost log

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacement for qpkg... please!?!?

2005-11-02 Thread Dale
Walter Dnes wrote: >Silly me, I went and RTFM'd before doing anything. TFM says, and I >quote... > > > >>Unimplemented Options >> changes >> >> depends >> >> glsa - use glsa-check for the time being. >> >> stats >> >> That's what mine said too. Imagine that. O_O

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacement for qpkg... please!?!?

2005-11-02 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 05:28:46PM -0600, Dale wrote > Try equery. It works pretty good, once I figured out how to use it, a > little. I'm new to this stuff too, sort of. > > equery depends > > Example, I like them too. > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # equery depends tetex Silly me, I went and

Re: [gentoo-user] about c mail-list

2005-11-02 Thread 赵光
2005/11/3, Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 09:32:20PM +0800, wrote > > i want to get some good mail-list about c ,who can tell me, > > thx > > Not a mailing list, but a newsgroup, comp.lang.c > thx,i got it -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge difficulty.

2005-11-02 Thread Michael A Rowley, MD
On Nov 2, 2005, at 4:33 PM, Mike Williams wrote: On Wednesday 02 November 2005 20:39, Michael A Rowley, MD wrote: Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 6) net-www/apache-2.0.54-r31 to / and then nothing... for ever... let this sit over night, and still nothing... wtf!?!?!? thi

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge e17

2005-11-02 Thread 赵光
thx to all i emerge it already BTW,i want to ask another questions where to find the e17's theme files,i want to change the font of e17 default theme because the font can not display chinese font correctly thx -- look at my blog http://poorc.wordpress.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC error

2005-11-02 Thread 赵光
2005/11/3, Hareesh Nagarajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Last night, I emerged some ATI drivers, emerged a new kernel (didn't > compile it though) and emerged eselect. > > Today when I compile a C++ program I get the following error: > > /usr/include/asm/errno.h:4:31: asm-generic/errno.h: No such file o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables on gentoo

2005-11-02 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: > James, > > Why are you using IPtables directly? It's good for an exercise, but > roll-your-own firewall is not really as cool as it seems. Have you looked at > Shorewall [net-firewall/shorewall]. Its useful to know how iptables works when things g

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache 1.3.34 ebuild

2005-11-02 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, David Gama Rodrí­guez wrote: > I need to update Apache 1.3.33 to Apache 1.3.34 but I cant find an > ebuild for that version, > > Why 1.3.34 ebuild is not in portage? Is unstable?? Have you checked in bugs.gentoo.org - maybe someone submitted an ebuild? > Is there a way to in

[gentoo-user] Re: usermod broken?

2005-11-02 Thread Tim Kruse
* On 02.11.2005 Jorge Almeida wrote: > I edited /etc/group with vigr to add user jorge to group jorge. Still, > id and groups give outdated output... The changes do not affect existing sessions. You have to relogin first. So long, tkr -- You get along very well with everyone except animals a

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild is giving me fits

2005-11-02 Thread Bob Sanders
On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 19:29:14 -0600 Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As you can see I have a few broken thingys. It says I need to re-emerge > apache and I have never used apache in my life. What the heck does it > need that for? This is my desktop rig not some fancy server. > Perhaps you

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild is giving me fits

2005-11-02 Thread Dale
Well, here it is again but this is weird. I did a little cleaning over the past week or so and may have done a little to much cleaning. I *may* have screwed up a bit here. This is what revdep-rebuild gives me: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # revdep-rebuild > > Checking reverse dependencies... > Package

Re: [gentoo-user] java_config

2005-11-02 Thread Luis Ortiz
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 17:10 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I'm trying to emerge dev-php/php on my wife's computer (catherine) and > it gives me this error message: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/java-config", line 14, in ? > from java_config import jc_options > Imp

Re: [gentoo-user] file with IP?

2005-11-02 Thread William Kenworthy
doesnt work well. In my case only gives one lan IP, misses the other Lan and the dhcp ADSL IP. Not a lot of use :( On another box it misses the bluetooth LAN BillK On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 18:54 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 16:53:11 +0100, brullo nulla wrote: > > > You can al

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacement for qpkg... please!?!?

2005-11-02 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 18:14:56 -0500 "Walter Dnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > world suddenly seems to want a bunch of additional stuff... > > > [m3000][root][~] emerge --pretend --update --world > > > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > > > Calculating world dependencies

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL Upgrade

2005-11-02 Thread kashani
Jeff Smelser wrote: On Wednesday 02 November 2005 02:23 pm, kashani wrote: Because once you start caring about your db that much it's usually easier to setup a crap box that replicates off your master. Then you can lock the whole db on your slave and do a mysqldump without causing issu

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mobile phone connection..

2005-11-02 Thread James Hiscock
> Thanks for going to all the trouble of testing out the phone > operation on your SuSE machine. I havn't had any breakthrough > yet, but your help has given me the confidence to persevere.. No problem -- I'm a software tester in Real Life (tm), so stuff like this bugs the crap out of me. I have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacement for qpkg... please!?!?

2005-11-02 Thread David Morgan
On 17:28 Wed 02 Nov , Dale wrote: > Walter Dnes wrote: > > > > > > > The tetex tarball is 85 megs alone. I've managed to emerge and update > >everything else after last night's sync, so these aren't dependencies of > >those packages. With qpkg, I could find out what depends on this stuff. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacement for qpkg... please!?!?

2005-11-02 Thread Dale
Walter Dnes wrote: > > > The tetex tarball is 85 megs alone. I've managed to emerge and update >everything else after last night's sync, so these aren't dependencies of >those packages. With qpkg, I could find out what depends on this stuff. >Help!. > > > Try equery. It works pretty good, on

[gentoo-user] usermod broken?

2005-11-02 Thread Jorge Almeida
I decided to create a one-user group, as used to be the default with RedHat. So, I issued root $ groupadd jorge Then: root $ usermod -g jorge jorge (I want this to be my default group.) /etc/passwd reflects the changes: jorge $ cat /etc/passwd|grep jorge jorge:x:1000

Re: [gentoo-user] about c mail-list

2005-11-02 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 09:32:20PM +0800, wrote > i want to get some good mail-list about c ,who can tell me, > thx Not a mailing list, but a newsgroup, comp.lang.c -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog

[gentoo-user] Replacement for qpkg... please!?!?

2005-11-02 Thread Walter Dnes
world suddenly seems to want a bunch of additional stuff... > [m3000][root][~] emerge --pretend --update --world > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating world dependencies ...done! > [ebuild N] sys-apps/hwdata-knoppix-0.107-r1 > [ebuild U ] sys-libs/li

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problem emerging realplayer-10.0.6

2005-11-02 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 01:56:03PM +0100, Tim Kruse wrote > * On 01.11.2005 Alan E. Davis wrote: > > TOFU corrected > > >> You must emerge wget after setting the "ssl" flag, and then wget can > >> access "https" URLs. > > > > I didn't understand how to set the ssl flag. > > He means the USE fl

[gentoo-user] java_config

2005-11-02 Thread Michael Sullivan
I'm trying to emerge dev-php/php on my wife's computer (catherine) and it gives me this error message: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/java-config", line 14, in ? from java_config import jc_options ImportError: No module named java_config * You need to use java-config to s

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE GUI for network settings

2005-11-02 Thread Qv6
On Wednesday 02 November 2005 09:02 am, Mark wrote: > I have a KDE desktop on one of my machines, and noticed I couldn't > find any GUI interface to manage the IP address and related > configurations for the 2 ethernet cards on the box. I have installed > kdenetworks, but still don't see anything.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE GUI for network settings

2005-11-02 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi, > I'm sorry - this is probably noob stuff. Ah, OK. > I'm unable to find it, doing > emerge --search knetworkconf The application is not yet official enough, so you'll not find it in the portage tree. Instead... > How do I find and install the kdereview/knetworkconf module? (I have > KDE

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: UC-33 problem

2005-11-02 Thread Christoph Eckert
> the problem has been solved, and I must admit the reasons for it were > 1st very simple (which makes me think I should maybe stick to > something for my kind of bad ShortTermMemory) and thus 2nd VERY > frustrating. Nevertheless, excuse the excessive posting additionally I recommend to post

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE GUI for network settings

2005-11-02 Thread Mark
I'm sorry - this is probably noob stuff. I'm unable to find it, doing emerge --search knetworkconfHow do I find and install the kdereview/knetworkconf module? (I have KDE 3.4.1) On 11/2/05, Christoph Eckert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, that's where I would expect to find it also, but it's not

Re: [gentoo-user] file with IP?

2005-11-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 18:54:06 + Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 16:53:11 +0100, brullo nulla wrote: > > > You can also poll the ip by doing an ifconfig and parsing its output > > inside your application. I think the overhead on the system would be > > barely r

Re: [gentoo-user] Glibc, userlocales, and ENV Variables

2005-11-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 21:16:49 +0100 Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, I kinda get that and dmesg says during boot that the terminal > (agetty) is being configured to use UTF-8 (which is what I told it to do > when I built the kernel, so that's OK). The kernel is configured by

[gentoo-user] Re: UC-33 problem

2005-11-02 Thread karlos
the problem has been solved, and I must admit the reasons for it were 1st very simple (which makes me think I should maybe stick to something for my kind of bad ShortTermMemory) and thus 2nd VERY frustrating. Nevertheless, excuse the excessive posting KArsten

Re: [gentoo-user] what's a good on-demand anti-virus program?

2005-11-02 Thread Robert Persson
On November 2, 2005 10:49 am Robert Persson was like: > Clamav it is then. Just installed clamav and the klamav front end. Utterly painless and easy to set up for a single-user desktop system like mine. -- Robert Persson "Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults." (US Air Force Instru

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge difficulty.

2005-11-02 Thread Mike Williams
On Wednesday 02 November 2005 20:39, Michael A Rowley, MD wrote: > Calculating dependencies ...done! >  >>> emerge (1 of 6) net-www/apache-2.0.54-r31 to / > > and then nothing... for ever... let this sit over night, and still   > nothing... wtf!?!?!?  this was working. I've had similar happen to m

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL Upgrade

2005-11-02 Thread Jeff Smelser
On Wednesday 02 November 2005 02:23 pm, kashani wrote: > Because once you start caring about your db that much it's usually > easier to setup a crap box that replicates off your master. Then you can > lock the whole db on your slave and do a mysqldump without causing > issues on your main db

Re: [gentoo-user] LTSP vs. Diskless Nodes

2005-11-02 Thread Sascha Hlusiak
>>What would you guys suggest in terms of specs for a server, serving >>say 50 odd thin clients? >> > > Probably 2P Opteron with 2 GB to 8 GB main memory. Cpus around 2 GHz. > You'll have to calculate the memory needs of each client plus the server's > running > overhead, and get enough memory

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE GUI for network settings

2005-11-02 Thread Christoph Eckert
> Well, that's where I would expect to find it also, but it's not > there. Anyone know what might be missing from my installed packages > for this? it depends on your KDE version. It is in KDE 3.5 per default; for earlier versions it needs to get installed separately. >From an original message

[gentoo-user] Emerge difficulty.

2005-11-02 Thread Michael A Rowley, MD
Hello all... I am having a perplexing problem, and I have no idea where to look for an answer. I ahve a server that has been running well for aver a year. I decided to upgrade the SVN server on it, so ran emerge -pv subversion got back: These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

[gentoo-user] Re: what's a good on-demand anti-virus program?

2005-11-02 Thread James
Robert Persson yahoo.co.uk> writes: > Does anybody have a recommendation as to which anti-virus program in portage > would be best for occasional on-demand scanning? The main use would be to > screen windows programs before installing them in wine. * net-proxy/dansguardian Available vers

Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: gnome-base/bonobo-1.0.22 failed.

2005-11-02 Thread Dale
Rumen Yotov wrote: > >Hi, >Yes about bash history - run "man bash" check HISTFILE & HISTFILESIZE >vars (change the second as appropriate). >Don't go to -e option try to fix things before that, it takes much time >and not always works (but works quite always ;) >Will you do this on every error out

Re: [gentoo-user] file with IP?

2005-11-02 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
b.n. wrote: Wouldn't it be easier to use the output from "hostname -i"? It needs no parsing. But it doesn't give the IP of my box... Indeed, there are likely several. Tom Veldhouse -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL Upgrade

2005-11-02 Thread kashani
Jeff Smelser wrote: Well, then you would be more interested in mysqlhotcopy.. That pretty much does what your doing.. Mysql INC has yet to make a real backup/restore procedure for mysql. So mysqldump or mysqlhotcopy is pretty much it. If you use innodb, I would go after ibbackup. (not free).

Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: gnome-base/bonobo-1.0.22 failed.

2005-11-02 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 13:53 -0600, Dale wrote: > Rumen Yotov wrote: > > > > >Hi, > >Think that rebuilding gtk+-1.2.10-rX will fix things,next emerge bonobo. > >It must find that gtk+-1.2.X is installed and build correctly. > >If not then eventually there's a configuration error somewhere. > >PS: w

Re: [gentoo-user] Glibc, userlocales, and ENV Variables

2005-11-02 Thread Holly Bostick
Hans-Werner Hilse schreef: > Hi, > > On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 15:53:11 +0100 Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >> [...] /etc/locales.build >> >> which says >> >> # This file names the list of locales to be built when glibc is >> installed. # The format is /, where is a >> locale fr

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE GUI for network settings

2005-11-02 Thread Mark
Well, that's where I would expect to find it also, but it's not there. Anyone know what might be missing from my installed packages for this?On 11/2/05, Christoph Eckert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> I have a KDE desktop on one of my machines, and noticed I couldn't > find any GUI interface to manag

Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: gnome-base/bonobo-1.0.22 failed.

2005-11-02 Thread Dale
Rumen Yotov wrote: > >Hi, >Think that rebuilding gtk+-1.2.10-rX will fix things,next emerge bonobo. >It must find that gtk+-1.2.X is installed and build correctly. >If not then eventually there's a configuration error somewhere. >PS: watch for the order in which you rebuild the packages, it must b

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE GUI for network settings

2005-11-02 Thread Christoph Eckert
> I have a KDE desktop on one of my machines, and noticed I couldn't > find any GUI interface to manage the IP address and related > configurations for the 2 ethernet cards on the box. I have installed > kdenetworks, but still don't see anything. What do I need to > install/enable/locate on my sys

Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: gnome-base/bonobo-1.0.22 failed.

2005-11-02 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 13:08 -0600, Dale wrote: > Well, I hope this is the right list this time. > > Just to recap a bit. I'm working through a revdep-rebuild and having > fun with it at that. This is what I got while trying to emerge bonobo: > > > /usr/include/gnome-1.0/libgnomeui/gnome-druid-

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL Upgrade

2005-11-02 Thread Jeff Smelser
On Wednesday 02 November 2005 12:52 pm, C. Beamer wrote: > Up until now, what I needed to do in MySQL, I could do just fine and > never even knew about mysqldump until recently. As I previously stated, > I've only been using Gentoo since September. When I used to use FC4, > all I ever did was ma

[gentoo-user] Re: UC-33 problem

2005-11-02 Thread karlos
additional info: cat /proc/bus/usb/devices T:  Bus=03 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#=  2 Spd=12  MxCh= 0 D:  Ver= 1.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs=  1 P:  Vendor=0a4d ProdID=00f5 Rev= 1.01 S:  Manufacturer=Evolution Electronics Ltd. S:  Product=UC-33 USB MIDI Controller C:* #If

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL Upgrade

2005-11-02 Thread kashani
or a new install. on the old server or install mysqldump -u root -p --opt -Q > mysql-20051102.txt Not a super fancy dump, but if you're all text this should work fine. on the new server or install emerge mysql /usr/bin/mysql_install_db /etc/init.d/mysql start /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u

[gentoo-user] ERROR: gnome-base/bonobo-1.0.22 failed.

2005-11-02 Thread Dale
Well, I hope this is the right list this time. Just to recap a bit. I'm working through a revdep-rebuild and having fun with it at that. This is what I got while trying to emerge bonobo: > /usr/include/gnome-1.0/libgnomeui/gnome-druid-page-standard.h:23:23: > gdk_imlib.h: No such file or direc

Re: [gentoo-user] file with IP?

2005-11-02 Thread b.n.
Wouldn't it be easier to use the output from "hostname -i"? It needs no parsing. But it doesn't give the IP of my box... m. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xmlto > ERROR: app-text/xmlto-0.0.18 failed.

2005-11-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 10:04:07 -0600, Dale wrote: > Holy smoke, I didn't know that was there. Parden me while I go read > this new man page. I'm sure I'll have new questions then. ;) LOL > > That is different from man emerge though. man emerge just documents the emerge command and its options.

Re: [gentoo-user] file with IP?

2005-11-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 16:53:11 +0100, brullo nulla wrote: > You can also poll the ip by doing an ifconfig and parsing its output > inside your application. I think the overhead on the system would be > barely recognizable if you do a reasonable (no more than every 5 > seconds, let's say) poll. Would

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL Upgrade

2005-11-02 Thread C. Beamer
Jeff Smelser wrote: >On Tuesday 01 November 2005 04:58 pm, C. Beamer wrote: > > > >>The database >>that I had created by creating a directory that was named after the >>database that I had created when using FC4 and then copying my database >>related files into it, did not back up. Hence my ass

Re: [gentoo-user] what's a good on-demand anti-virus program?

2005-11-02 Thread Robert Persson
On November 2, 2005 09:49 am John Jolet was like: > I suspect you've entered the realm of religious viewpoints. Thank you to everyone who replied. I myself had a decent experience with AVG when I was running windows, so I am sure both it and clamav are up to the job. What tips the balance is t

[gentoo-user] GCC error

2005-11-02 Thread Hareesh Nagarajan
Last night, I emerged some ATI drivers, emerged a new kernel (didn't compile it though) and emerged eselect. Today when I compile a C++ program I get the following error: /usr/include/asm/errno.h:4:31: asm-generic/errno.h: No such file or directory Any ideas? Thanks, Hareesh -- gentoo-user@g

[gentoo-user] revert reiserfsck --rebuild-tree --scan-whole-partition

2005-11-02 Thread Thijs Brobbel
Hi, I've done a really stupid thing. I deleted 2 files by accident and I wanted to get them back from my reiserfs partition, after some googling, http://www.antrix.net/journal/techtalk/reiserfs_data_recovery_howto.comments gave an answer. Without reading the whole page, I went right away and I did

Re: [gentoo-user] what's a good on-demand anti-virus program?

2005-11-02 Thread John Jolet
On Wednesday 02 November 2005 11:38, Robert Persson wrote: > Does anybody have a recommendation as to which anti-virus program in > portage would be best for occasional on-demand scanning? The main use > would be to screen windows programs before installing them in wine. I suspect you've entered t

Re: [gentoo-user] Glibc, userlocales, and ENV Variables

2005-11-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 15:53:11 +0100 Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > /etc/locales.build > > which says > > # This file names the list of locales to be built when glibc is installed. > # The format is /, where is a locale from the > # /usr/share/i18n/locales directory, and

Re: [gentoo-user] what's a good on-demand anti-virus program?

2005-11-02 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 09:38 -0800, Robert Persson wrote: > Does anybody have a recommendation as to which anti-virus program in portage > would be best for occasional on-demand scanning? The main use would be to > screen windows programs before installing them in wine. > > Many thanks > Robert

Re: [gentoo-user] what's a good on-demand anti-virus program?

2005-11-02 Thread Dale
Robert Persson wrote: >Does anybody have a recommendation as to which anti-virus program in portage >would be best for occasional on-demand scanning? The main use would be to >screen windows programs before installing them in wine. > >Many thanks >Robert > > I use f-prot. www.f-prot.com . I

Re: [gentoo-user] what's a good on-demand anti-virus program?

2005-11-02 Thread Chris Boot
Robert Persson wrote: Does anybody have a recommendation as to which anti-virus program in portage would be best for occasional on-demand scanning? The main use would be to screen windows programs before installing them in wine. Many thanks Robert My fave would ClamAV, which I've been using

[gentoo-user] a few Mysql upgrade questions

2005-11-02 Thread kashani
I was planning on updating a client from Mysql 3.23 to Mysql 4.0, but since 4.1 has stabilized I figured I'd give it a shot. And I'd also be able to move another client off their crappy db server on the new shared server if it had 4.1. However my setup has a few quirks. The 3.23 install is ac

Re: [OT?] Re: [gentoo-user] ext3: 10% non-contiguous

2005-11-02 Thread Richard Fish
Peter Gordon wrote: On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 20:34 -0800, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: For a more sustainable situation, switch to XFS [It involved a backup/format/restore by whatever means you want] In any case, xfs has a tool called 'xfs_fsr' Which means 'file system reorganizer'. It does def

[gentoo-user] what's a good on-demand anti-virus program?

2005-11-02 Thread Robert Persson
Does anybody have a recommendation as to which anti-virus program in portage would be best for occasional on-demand scanning? The main use would be to screen windows programs before installing them in wine. Many thanks Robert -- Robert Persson "Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults

[gentoo-user] Re: UC-33 problem

2005-11-02 Thread karlos
damn, ... I forgot to attach the file SORRY!! Linux version 2.6.13-gentoo-r5 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.6 (Gentoo 3.3.6, ssp-3.3.6-1.0, pie-8.7.8)) #1 SMP Tue Nov 1 15:01:20 GMT 2005 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: - 0009f800 (usable) BIOS-e820: 00

[gentoo-user] UC-33 problem

2005-11-02 Thread karlos
I have just rebooted to check what exactly comes out dmesg. See the file attached. Also, the contents of my  /etc/hotplug/blacklist: # # Listing a module here prevents the hotplug scripts from loading it. # Usually that'd be so that some other driver will bind it instead, # no matter which driver

[gentoo-user] UC-33 problem

2005-11-02 Thread karlos
Hi, I have recently upgraded to a newer kernel-version (from 2.6.12.r6 to 2.6.13-gentoo-r5) and just realized the USB MIDI interface, which was working before, isn't recognized anymore. Looking up dmesg spits this out: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0018

Re: [gentoo-user] file with IP?

2005-11-02 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, brullo nulla wrote: > You can also poll the ip by doing an ifconfig and parsing its output > inside your application. I think the overhead on the system would be > barely recognizable if you do a reasonable (no more than every 5 > seconds, let's say) poll. > > May be a good i

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xmlto > ERROR: app-text/xmlto-0.0.18 failed.

2005-11-02 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > >that's because while "man emerge", "man:emerge" and "#emerge" are all >equivalent, none of them give the information in the *portage* man page :) > > > > Holy smoke, I didn't know that was there. Parden me while I go read this new man page. I'm sure I'll have new questi

Re: [gentoo-user] Old devfs files in /etc

2005-11-02 Thread Dale
Philip Webb wrote: >051102 Dale wrote: > > >>I switched to udev a while back >>and have some old devfs files left in /etc : >> YES/etc/devfs.d >> YES/etc/devfs.d/.keep >> N/A/etc/modules.devfs.256 >> N/A/etc/config-archive/etc/udev/scripts/ide-devfs.sh >> N/A/etc/config-arch

Re: [gentoo-user] -mtune for P4M (dothan)

2005-11-02 Thread Qian Qiao
On 11/2/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Qian Qiao wrote: > > >After going through the GCC docs, i've decided to use: -march=pentium3 > >-mmmx -msse -msse2. > > > > > > I don't really recommend that. A few things may have compile errors if > you globally use -mmmx, -msse, and -msse2.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xmlto > ERROR: app-text/xmlto-0.0.18 failed.

2005-11-02 Thread Dale
Holly Bostick wrote: > >>emerge gtypist >>emerge tuxtype >>emerge tuxtype2 >>emerge dvorak7min (if you happen to have a dvorak keyboard) >>emerge dvorakng (ditto) >>emerge typespeed >>emerge ktouch >> >>Naturally you don't need all of these, but I thought I'd list what's in >>Portage. I have gtypi

Re: [gentoo-user] file with IP?

2005-11-02 Thread brullo nulla
You can also poll the ip by doing an ifconfig and parsing its output inside your application. I think the overhead on the system would be barely recognizable if you do a reasonable (no more than every 5 seconds, let's say) poll. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xmlto > ERROR: app-text/xmlto-0.0.18 failed.

2005-11-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 09:12:45 -0600, Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > man portage is full of examples, such as: ~~~ [snip] > Is man:emerge in Konqueror the same as man emerge in a command line? Yes. it's also the same as #man in the Alt-F2 Run command box, which is the one

Re: [gentoo-user] file with IP?

2005-11-02 Thread tkhemili78
John Jolet wrote: On Wednesday 02 November 2005 09:04, Jorge Almeida wrote: Anyone knows whether the current (dynamical) IP is stored in some text file? I know I can find the IP with ifconfig, but if the value were stored in some file I could setup a service to monitor the file for changes a

Re: [gentoo-user] file with IP?

2005-11-02 Thread Richard Fish
Jorge Almeida wrote: Anyone knows whether the current (dynamical) IP is stored in some text file? I know I can find the IP with ifconfig, but if the value were stored in some file I could setup a service to monitor the file for changes and take appropriate actions on change of IP. A simple

Re: [gentoo-user] Old devfs files in /etc

2005-11-02 Thread Philip Webb
051102 Dale wrote: > I switched to udev a while back > and have some old devfs files left in /etc : > YES/etc/devfs.d > YES/etc/devfs.d/.keep > N/A/etc/modules.devfs.256 > N/A/etc/config-archive/etc/udev/scripts/ide-devfs.sh > N/A/etc/config-archive/etc/udev/scripts/ide-de

Re: [gentoo-user] file with IP?

2005-11-02 Thread tkhemili78
Jorge Almeida wrote: Anyone knows whether the current (dynamical) IP is stored in some text file? I know I can find the IP with ifconfig, but if the value were stored in some file I could setup a service to monitor the file for changes and take appropriate actions on change of IP. check /et

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xmlto > ERROR: app-text/xmlto-0.0.18 failed.

2005-11-02 Thread Holly Bostick
Dale schreef: > > There is no <, > or = in there. I copy and paste all I can because > my typing sucks. I type slow and it still sucks. :( > emerge gtypist emerge tuxtype emerge tuxtype2 emerge dvorak7min (if you happen to have a dvorak keyboard) emerge dvorakng (ditto) emerge typespeed eme

Re: [gentoo-user] file with IP?

2005-11-02 Thread John Jolet
On Wednesday 02 November 2005 09:04, Jorge Almeida wrote: > Anyone knows whether the current (dynamical) IP is stored in some text > file? > I know I can find the IP with ifconfig, but if the value were stored in > some file I could setup a service to monitor the file for changes and > take appropr

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xmlto > ERROR: app-text/xmlto-0.0.18 failed.

2005-11-02 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > man portage is full of examples, such as: > > package.use > Per-package USE flags. Useful for tracking local > USE flags or for enabling USE flags for certain > packages only. Perhaps you develop GTK and thus you > want documentatio

Re: [gentoo-user] Old devfs files in /etc

2005-11-02 Thread Holly Bostick
Dale schreef: > Holly Bostick wrote: > > >> There is, of course, "an option to tell it to"; you just don't know >> about it :-) . >> >> > > > You're kidding right. Something that I don't know about, yea right. > LOL LOL Treat me like a sponge, I'm absorbing your knowledge, I > hope anyway

[gentoo-user] file with IP?

2005-11-02 Thread Jorge Almeida
Anyone knows whether the current (dynamical) IP is stored in some text file? I know I can find the IP with ifconfig, but if the value were stored in some file I could setup a service to monitor the file for changes and take appropriate actions on change of IP. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gen

[gentoo-user] KDE GUI for network settings

2005-11-02 Thread Mark
I have a KDE desktop on one of my machines, and noticed I couldn't find any GUI interface to manage the IP address and related configurations for the 2 ethernet cards on the box. I have installed kdenetworks, but still don't see anything. What do I need to install/enable/locate on my system to mana

Re: [gentoo-user] -mtune for P4M (dothan)

2005-11-02 Thread tkhemili78
Luca Botti wrote: i would suggest the move to gcc3.4. Apart from architecture support, you will get an ABI C++ compatibility with gcc4. Alle Wednesday 2 November 2005 14:35, Qian Qiao ha scritto: After going through the GCC docs, i've decided to use: -march=pentium3 -mmmx -msse -msse2

Re: [gentoo-user] -mtune for P4M (dothan)

2005-11-02 Thread Richard Fish
Qian Qiao wrote: After going through the GCC docs, i've decided to use: -march=pentium3 -mmmx -msse -msse2. I don't really recommend that. A few things may have compile errors if you globally use -mmmx, -msse, and -msse2. Instead, I suggest you set the mmx and sse USE flags, and let por

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xmlto > ERROR: app-text/xmlto-0.0.18 failed.

2005-11-02 Thread Dale
Alexander Skwar wrote: >Dale wrote: > > > >>>sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-doc >>> >>> > >In your file, do you also have those ">" in front of the "sys-kernel"? >If so - you shouldn't have them there. > > > There is no <, > or = in there. I copy and paste all I can because my typing suc

[gentoo-user] Glibc, userlocales, and ENV Variables

2005-11-02 Thread Holly Bostick
Hi all, I've either made a mistake, or I have a question, or both (or maybe two questions, in that case). I got an update to glibc the other day, and took the opportunity to check my userlocales because they are not always working as I want (basically ISO-8859-15 characters do not always appear u

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL Upgrade

2005-11-02 Thread Jeff Smelser
On Tuesday 01 November 2005 04:58 pm, C. Beamer wrote: > A better description would have been that the restore worked. However, > the only database that was restored was the test database. The database > that I had created by creating a directory that was named after the > database that I had cr

Re: [gentoo-user] -mtune for P4M (dothan)

2005-11-02 Thread Luca Botti
i would suggest the move to gcc3.4. Apart from architecture support, you will get an ABI C++ compatibility with gcc4. Alle Wednesday 2 November 2005 14:35, Qian Qiao ha scritto: > After going through the GCC docs, i've decided to use: -march=pentium3 > -mmmx -msse -msse2. > > -- Joe > > -- >

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xmlto > ERROR: app-text/xmlto-0.0.18 failed.

2005-11-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 08:32:50 -0600, Dale wrote: > Thanks for the examples. *That* helps me a lot. Reading man pages > without examples does very little if anything at all for me. I learn by > doing or seeing examples and understanding how they work and what they > mean. man portage is full of

Re: [gentoo-user] Old devfs files in /etc

2005-11-02 Thread Dale
Holly Bostick wrote: >There is, of course, "an option to tell it to"; you just don't know >about it :-) . > > You're kidding right. Something that I don't know about, yea right. LOL LOL Treat me like a sponge, I'm absorbing your knowledge, I hope anyway. I have been using Gentoo a while and

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xmlto > ERROR: app-text/xmlto-0.0.18 failed.

2005-11-02 Thread Alexander Skwar
Dale wrote: > For those that need to see it in use like me, I added this to my > /etc/portage/package.use file: > >>sys-kernel/gentoo-sources -doc In your file, do you also have those ">" in front of the "sys-kernel"? If so - you shouldn't have them there. > Thanks for the help guys, and Ho

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