Re: [gentoo-user] udev and external harddisk, some more info

On 8/17/06, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Any ideas? Since udev is seeing the events, I'm guessing something in your udev rules. Have you done an etc-update? Anything relevant in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules? -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Missing more mails than ever

On 8/17/06, John J. Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone here know who runs this list? The number of missing emails is running quite high lately, and some threads are getting hard to follow, depending on the respondents quoting and snipping style. I seem to have missed almost half of the

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA tuning ?

Sigh. Apologies for corrupting the thread by creating a new message, but I seem to have finally been bit by the "missing emails" issue, so I don't have a message to reply to. I found this in the archives: You mentioned problems compiling. The most likely case I can think of is that you do not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: looking for a terminal w/ url activation capability

quoth the Benno Schulenberg:> > > List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail > > Somehow Stefan's posts get the Gentoo headers inserted somewhere in > the middle, meaning that filtering on the List-Id doesn't work for > his messages. Is this caused by his user agent (slrn/0.9.8.1) > composing defective messages,

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up multiple man pages (how?)

On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 06:43:15PM -0700, Penguin Lover Kevin O'Gorman squawked: > I've noticed that the whereis(1) command gives multiple results for > some queries. For instance, "whereis lilo" gives me > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ whatis lilo > lilo (8) - install boot loader > li

Stefans posts on gentoo-user (was: [gentoo-user] Re: looking for a terminal w/ url activation capability)

Stefan Wimmer schrieb: * Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 22:00:54 +0200 : Somehow Stefan's posts get the Gentoo headers inserted somewhere in the middle, meaning that filtering on the List-Id doesn't work for his messages. Is this caused by his user agent

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse device order

Much easier and specific directions are on http://www.gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Advanced_MouseOn 8/17/06, Marc Redmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi,> To do this, I have to refer to the three mouses independently> through /dev/input/mouse0,1,2.  The problem is, each time I reboot the> machine, the

[gentoo-user] Re: ap apache benchmark tool

* James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Fri, 18 Aug 2006 01:57:21 + (UTC) : > Has anyone used this tool to check an apache server on gentoo? > > http://www.cisecurity.org/bench_apache.html > > If so, did you like/dislike the tool? > Any unoffical ebuilds of this tool anywhere? Precedence

[gentoo-user] Re: looking for a terminal w/ url activation capability

* Ryan Tandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:57:42 -0700 : > x11-terms/rxvt-unicode > > You may need USE="perl". I'm not sure exactly how it works, just that > it can. ;) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help:

[gentoo-user] Re: looking for a terminal w/ url activation capability

* Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 22:00:54 +0200 : > Somehow Stefan's posts get the Gentoo headers inserted somewhere in > the middle, meaning that filtering on the List-Id doesn't work for > his messages. Is this caused by his user agent (slrn/0.9.8.1) >

[gentoo-user] ap apache benchmark tool

Hello, Has anyone used this tool to check an apache server on gentoo? http://www.cisecurity.org/bench_apache.html If so, did you like/dislike the tool? Any unoffical ebuilds of this tool anywhere? James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] howto update portage/packages without an internet connection

On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 10:48:04PM -0300, Bira wrote: > You can probably do the same thing with the ebuilds (i.e., "emerge > --sync", burn the ebuild directories to a CD, copy to your machine), > but I don't know how "healthy" that is. I would just grab a portage snapshot with all those distfiles.

Re: [gentoo-user] howto update portage/packages without an internet connection

On 8/17/06, Jed R. Mallen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: thank you all. thank you very much. this is what i really need. thanks. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Get a friend with a Gentoo machine and an internet connection to do an "emerge --fetchonly" in the packages you want and burn you a

[gentoo-user] Cleaning up multiple man pages (how?)

I've noticed that the whereis(1) command gives multiple results for some queries. For instance, "whereis lilo" gives me [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ whatis lilo lilo (8) - install boot loader lilo.conf [lilo] (5) - configuration file for lilo lilo (8) - install bo

[gentoo-user] RealVNC 4.1.2!!!

Thank you, so much. Getting an ebuild like this into main stream usage is heavenly!!! Jerry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Network connection repeatedly failing!

For the record, I have a router. Under XP, dhcp works fine, and I can get past that.   Under linux, dhcp seems to be working as well, I can get a local IP and ping computers on my network, but anything outside, no luck.   -- Samuel (shardz)Noha+Shardz Productions: nsproductions.co.nrRegistered Linu

[gentoo-user] Space Bar Does't Work with GDM and GNOME

Hello all, I've run into a problem with GNOME and GDM. When I start a GNOME session from GDM, the space bar stops working in X. There are no problems with TWM, FVWM2, E16, or XFce4. What could be causing this problem? - Neil == Xorg.0.log == X Window System Version 7.1.1 Releas

Re: [gentoo-user] howto update portage/packages without an internet connection

thank you all. thank you very much. this is what i really need. thanks. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [Very OT] - Kill-A-Watt (240V Version) to measure my Gentoo Server Power Usage

I'm a bit late into this thread, but I built my own from a kit available here in Australia. It's a design from a local magazine called Silicon Chip, and retails through a few places, like DSE & Altronics (www.altronics.com.au) http://www.dse.com.au/cgi-bin/dse.storefront/44e509be0969bde4273fc0a8

Re: [gentoo-user] Network connection repeatedly failing!

With those problems resolved, another arises.   I have since moved my computer back to my house (to stay). Upon initial boot, it complained about not finding certain things (gateway, nameserver), which is obviously the fact that I'm using dhcp. I then changed the settings in /etc/conf.d/net, then r

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for a terminal w/ url activation capability

Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, I'm looking for an X11 terminal emulator, which can detect URLs and allows the user to click on them to exeucute an command with them. I'm using mutt als MUA and often get mails links. When using mutt via an X11 terminal, I'd like to be able to click on them s

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname

Graham Murray wrote: Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: You should use /etc/conf.d/net to set the domainname. So why does /etc/conf.d.net.example state # For configuring system specifics such as domain, dns, ntp and nis servers # It's rare that you would need todo this, but you can

Re: [gentoo-user] Network connection repeatedly failing!

Samuel Baldwin wrote: On a more serious note: I get this when I try to run "route add default 10.0.0.1 ", as on the live CD (I thought I had already configured the network anyway, in /etc/conf.d/net . Have you run '/etc/init.d/net.eth0 start'? Alternatively, is net.eth0 in

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg server and monitor power management

Peter Ruskin wrote: > On Thursday 17 August 2006 18:53, Dale wrote: > >> That seemed to work. Here is my current xorg.conf file: >> >>> Section "ServerLayout" >>> Identifier "X.org Configured" >>> Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 >>> InputDevice"Mouse0" "CorePointer" >>>

[gentoo-user] wierd characters

I've noticed of late that accented characters in emails that I recieve are either absent, dashed squares, or arabic charecters. I recently set my local as eng_GB is this the cause? Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee. CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: looking for a terminal w/ url activation capability

Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Just in case not everyone sees the same thing, this is what I see: > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/168016 I see it too. Mike -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for a terminal w/ url activation capability

Enrico Weigelt schrieb: Hi folks, I'm looking for an X11 terminal emulator, which can detect URLs and allows the user to click on them to exeucute an command with them. gnome-terminal Alexander Skwar -- Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. -- Robert A. Heinlein

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: looking for a terminal w/ url activation capability

Stefan Wimmer wrote: > * Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:40:59 +0200 : > > [...] > > Precedence: bulk > List-Post: > List-Help: > List-Unsubscribe: > List-Subscribe:

[gentoo-user] How to name an ebuild for a beta version package

Hello. I want to add an ebuild on my portage overlay for a beta version of a package. The source file dis distributed as ftp://ftp-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/fp/Bigloo/bigloo2.8c-beta17Aug06.tar.gz and the beta version is identified by a date. How would one name the ebuild for this package? Regards, R

[gentoo-user] mod_jk to connect apache and tomcat

Hi... I'm trying to setup mod_jk to connect apache and tomcat. I installed and configured but when I try to access http://mydomain/projc (where projc is a tomcat application in webapps) I got Error 404, why? []s Leandro. -- Leandro Melo de Sales. Computer Science MSc Candidate Distributed Syste

[gentoo-user] hdparm and baselayout

Hi all, it seems that the configuration of /etc/conf.d/hdparm has changed. With the new baselayout i only get my harddiscs configured by the hdparm init-script, but not my dvdrom-devices starting the hdparm init-script gives me: /etc/init.d/hdparm start * Running hdparm on /dev/hda ...

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname

Phil Sexton schrieb: Alexander Skwar wrote: Sure, but why do that? Why not use the mechanisms, that Gentoo forsees for this? Interestingly, you did not answer this question. Why's that so? Because it was your statement, not mine. So? It was a question and interestingly, you didn't answer

[gentoo-user] Re: looking for a terminal w/ url activation capability

* Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:40:59 +0200 : > I'm looking for an X11 terminal emulator, which can detect URLs > and allows the user to click on them to exeucute an command > with them. > > I'm using mutt als MUA and often get mails links. When using mu

[gentoo-user] udev and external harddisk, some more info

(This is not a duplicate of the mail I sent yesterday, though, curiously I never got that one back from the list [It did make gmane]) To recap: when I plugged in my harddrive, the kernel recognized the device, but udev failed to create the appropriate entries in /dev. I know that udev did receiv

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse device order

Hi, > To do this, I have to refer to the three mouses independently > through /dev/input/mouse0,1,2. The problem is, each time I reboot the > machine, the three device files have different corresponding devices, > totally unpredictable. So, is there a way to designate which device > file sho

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg server and monitor power management

Dale wrote: > Richard Fish wrote: > >> >> Are those options in the correct section ("ServerFlags")? Do you have >> 'Option "DPMS"' in your Monitor section? Maybe you should just post >> your whole xorg.conf... >> >> -Richard >> > > Oh, that may be it. They may not be in the right place.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Network connection repeatedly failing!

Yeah, I got it, I put my email out pre-maturely. Anyways, now I'm having problems with X, a new monitor, that I know all the specs to, is going to help me write xorg.conf Thanks for the help though.-- Samuel (shardz) "A Gentoo-er's job is never done. You can always count on source installs to ma

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for a terminal w/ url activation capability

On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 05:40:59PM +0200, Penguin Lover Enrico Weigelt squawked: > I'm looking for an X11 terminal emulator, which can detect URLs > and allows the user to click on them to exeucute an command > with them. > > I'm using mutt als MUA and often get mails links. When using mutt > vi

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for a terminal w/ url activation capability

On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:40:59 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > I'm looking for an X11 terminal emulator, which can detect URLs > and allows the user to click on them to exeucute an command > with them. > > I'm using mutt als MUA and often get mails links. When using mutt > via an X11 terminal, I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for a terminal w/ url activation capability

Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm looking for an X11 terminal emulator, which can detect URLs > and allows the user to click on them to exeucute an command > with them. > > I'm using mutt als MUA and often get mails links. When using mutt > via an X11 terminal, I'd like to be able to cl

[gentoo-user] looking for a terminal w/ url activation capability

Hi folks, I'm looking for an X11 terminal emulator, which can detect URLs and allows the user to click on them to exeucute an command with them. I'm using mutt als MUA and often get mails links. When using mutt via an X11 terminal, I'd like to be able to click on them so ie. mozilla gets call

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Missing more mails than ever

John J. Foster wrote: Does anyone here know who runs this list? The number of missing emails is running quite high lately, and some threads are getting hard to follow, depending on the respondents quoting and snipping style. I seem to have missed almost half of the discussion on domainname going

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname

Alexander Skwar wrote: Phil Sexton schrieb: /etc/conf.d/local.start Gentoo is the only distribution I have seen use that particular file, What file? /etc/conf.d/net? No, the file I was speaking of, /etc/conf.d/local.start -- Phil Sexton My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info/ Free tunes

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname

Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You should use /etc/conf.d/net to set the domainname. So why does /etc/conf.d.net.example state # For configuring system specifics such as domain, dns, ntp and nis servers # It's rare that you would need todo this, but you can anyway. # This is most

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname

Phil Sexton schrieb: Alexander Skwar wrote: Phil Sexton schrieb: I didn't think you had to run it manually unless you want to. Can't you call if from /etc/conf.d/local.start Sure, but why do that? Why not use the mechanisms, that Gentoo forsees for this? Interestingly, you did not ans

[gentoo-user] [OT] Missing more mails than ever

Does anyone here know who runs this list? The number of missing emails is running quite high lately, and some threads are getting hard to follow, depending on the respondents quoting and snipping style. I seem to have missed almost half of the discussion on domainname going on. I know everyone isn

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname

Alexander Skwar wrote: Phil Sexton schrieb: I didn't think you had to run it manually unless you want to. Can't you call if from /etc/conf.d/local.start Sure, but why do that? Why not use the mechanisms, that Gentoo forsees for this? I thought that was the purpose of that file, to run s

[gentoo-user] Mouse device order

Hi, I am using a ThinkPad laptop, so usually I have three mouse devices, touchpad, touchpoint and an external USB mouse. In X11, I want the external USB mouse be CorePointer and the other two be AlwaysCore, so that I can re-mapping the USB mouse keys for left-hand use, while keeping the on-la

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname

Phil Sexton schrieb: Alexander Skwar wrote: What script? /bin/domainname is not a script, but a binary. And it's this binary, which sets the domainname. But as most users don't want to run domainname manually all the time, there are ways to make Gentoo call domainname. One of this ways is setti

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname

Neil Bothwick wrote: Because your domain name may change while your hostname stays the same, or vice versa. Think of a laptop connected at various locations. Locking the two together in one config file works against this. Aha! I don't have anything mobile, just my home box and the ones under

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname

Alexander Skwar wrote: Strange. Why is the script there? What script? The script I mentioned before: /bin/hostname and the symlinks that point to it, /bin/domainname and /bin/dnsdomainname -- Phil Sexton My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info/ Free tunes: ftp://fancypiper.info/ Naomi's F

Re: [gentoo-user] Network connection repeatedly failing!

On a more serious note: I get this when I try to run "route add default 10.0.0.1", as on the live CD (I thought I had already configured the network anyway, in /etc/conf.d/net . SIOCADDRT: No such device I'm not sure what this means, but I can't ping www.google.com, or any other public address

Re: [gentoo-user] udev and multiple usb-serial devices

On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 13:58:11 +0100, Graham Murray wrote: > Is there any way to write udev rules which will map the usb-serial > device connected to a particular socket on either the PC or a hub to a > known name? So that if the usb connector is removed and replaced (in > the same socket) or the sy

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname

Phil Sexton schrieb: I still don't understand why the script isn't supposed to be used to set hostnane/domainname though. What script? /bin/domainname is not a script, but a binary. And it's this binary, which sets the domainname. But as most users don't want to run domainname manually all the

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname

On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 09:00:41 -0400, Phil Sexton wrote: > I still don't understand why the script isn't supposed to be used to > set hostnane/domainname though. Because your domain name may change while your hostname stays the same, or vice versa. Think of a laptop connected at various locations.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname

Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not "or", but "and". Depending on what domainname is to be set - NIS > or DNS. > Which is the one whose use will cause its value to passed to setdomainname(2)? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname

Pardon my thick skull. Alexander Skwar, I appoligise for my last post. Darn this morphine I have to take for my pain. I am confusing hostname and domain name. I still don't understand why the script isn't supposed to be used to set hostnane/domainname though. -- Phil Sexton My Home Page: htt

[gentoo-user] udev and multiple usb-serial devices

Is there any logic to the order in which usb-serial devices are enumerated when a system starts? When using multiple usb-serial devices, the program(s) have to know to which port each particular external device is connected. When initially connecting, the first to be plugged in will be /dev/ttyUSB

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname

* Hans-Gunther Borrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > and from where does my machine get its domain name? The kernel knows it. Of course, it has to be set on each boot. I actually have no idea, how gentoo sets it, but most obviously it will be done by an "dnsdomainname" and "hostname" call. Try

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname

* Roman Zilka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > # cat /etc/resolv.conf > > > nameserver 127.0.0.1 > > > nameserver 10.0.0.3 > > > search gvid.cz > > > domain gvid.cz > > > > domain and search are mutually exclusive! > > Hm, I see, thanks for the hint. Somehow somewhere I got a wrong understanding

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname

Alexander Skwar wrote: Phil Sexton schrieb: I just used the command: # domainname uilleann That's not a domainname, as there are no dots (.). Granted, a domain doesn't have to have dots, but it's very unusual to have a TLD. I am thouroughly confused now. I previously had uilleann.fan

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with Logitech G7 in Xorg 7.0

On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 09:34 +0200, Jules Colding wrote: > On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 12:48 -0400, Jason Weisberger wrote: > > Just so you know, using the "mouse" driver and "auto" protocol is not > > the way you want to run a USB mouse in Modular X. You really should > > try out the evdev driver for fu

Re: [gentoo-user] ifplugd and netplug annoyance

On Thursday 17 August 2006 00:36, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > But the interface is never actually brought > > > down, and that's my problem, I *want* the interface brought *down*.   > > > > in /etc/conf.d/ifplugd: > > AUTO="yes" > > The latest baselayout ebuild tells you to remove this file. baselay

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname

> > # cat /etc/resolv.conf > > nameserver 127.0.0.1 > > nameserver 10.0.0.3 > > search gvid.cz > > domain gvid.cz > > domain and search are mutually exclusive! Hm, I see, thanks for the hint. Somehow somewhere I got a wrong understanding of what "search" actually means. Regards -Roman -- gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname

On Thursday 17 August 2006 11:02, Roman Zilka wrote: > # cat /etc/resolv.conf > nameserver 127.0.0.1 > nameserver 10.0.0.3 > search gvid.cz > domain gvid.cz domain and search are mutually exclusive! Gunther -- Hans-Gunther Borrmann

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname

Hans-Gunther Borrmann schrieb: On Thursday 17 August 2006 10:32, Alexander Skwar wrote: Nope. resolv.conf doesn't have any influence on the hostname or domainname. It controls, how names/ips are resolved. If it would be as you say, what would be my domainname? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/sources/

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname

I beg your pardon, this was a different issue - "(none)" appearing in the domainname's place somewhere else (possibly in the auto-generated /etc/issue). My apologies for spamming -Roman -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname

On Thursday 17 August 2006 10:32, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Nope. resolv.conf doesn't have any influence on the hostname or > domainname. It controls, how names/ips are resolved. > > If it would be as you say, what would be my domainname? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/sources/samba/samba-3.0.22/sourc

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname

> So how is the domainname now set? This was discussed here before; I think the solution was to put something somewhere in a specific order. I have this working properly and these're my files: # cat /etc/conf.d/domainname OVERRIDE=1 DNSDOMAIN="gvid.cz" NISDOMAIN="" # cat /etc/resolv.conf nameserv

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname

Hans-Gunther Borrmann schrieb: On Wednesday 16 August 2006 21:51, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: As of baselayout-1.12.4, the domainname init script is no longer used and the Gentoo Handbook no longer tells how to set the domainname. domainname now returns "(none)" /etc/conf.d/net.example talks about

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname

Phil Sexton schrieb: Alexander Skwar wrote: Mark schrieb: On 16/08/06, Anthony E. Caudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As of baselayout-1.12.4, the domainname init script is no longer used and the Gentoo Handbook no longer tells how to set the domainname. domainname now returns "(none)" /etc/c

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname

Phil Sexton schrieb: Alexander Skwar wrote: Phil Sexton schrieb: Here is another guess: How about /etc/conf.d/domainname? Yep, should be configured as well. But as you can see there, it doesn't set the domainname of the system: # DNSDOMAIN merely sets the domain entry in /etc/resolv.conf,

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with Logitech G7 in Xorg 7.0

On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 12:48 -0400, Jason Weisberger wrote: > Just so you know, using the "mouse" driver and "auto" protocol is not > the way you want to run a USB mouse in Modular X. You really should > try out the evdev driver for full functionality. With evdev, you > don't have to specify any o

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname

On Wednesday 16 August 2006 21:51, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: > As of baselayout-1.12.4, the domainname init script is no longer used > and the Gentoo Handbook no longer tells how to set the domainname. > domainname now returns "(none)" > > /etc/conf.d/net.example talks about setting up dns_domain bu