Re: [gentoo-user] About dig command and others

Hi Ryan, > $ sudo emerge -av bind-tools I have dig installed. Tks B.R. SL -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] About dig command and others

Hi Thomas, > $ equery belongs `which dig` > [ Searching for file(s) /usr/bin/dig in *... ] > net-dns/bind-tools-9.3.2-r3 (/usr/bin/dig) Noted with tks. B.R. SL -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] About dig command and others

On Monday 25 September 2006 4:40 pm, Stephen Liu wrote: > Please advise which package shall I installed? $ equery belongs `which dig` [ Searching for file(s) /usr/bin/dig in *... ] net-dns/bind-tools-9.3.2-r3 (/usr/bin/dig) Hope that helps pgpVFUvb4Q0aU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] About dig command and others

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[gentoo-user] About dig command and others

Hi folks, Gentoo_amd64 My ISP tried to block their unwellcome sites on the proxy server, I suppose, disallowing their subscribers visiting them. The blocked sites can be visited locally or abroad without problem via other ISPs OR via www.proxydom.com by me. I tried to verify my suspicion wit

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem updating madwifi-ng.

On Monday 25 September 2006 04:49, Christopher Granade wrote: > I have madwifi-ng installed and working, but portage tells me that there > are updates available. Upon trying to emerge these updates, I get the > following during compiling: > > WARNING: Symbol version dump /usr/src/linux-2.6.17-gento

[gentoo-user] Re: Custom DNS Servers for DHCPCD

On Monday 25 September 2006 02:50, Nick Rout wrote: > the file is /etc/resolv.conf (without the "e" in resolv !) Good catch, I missed that :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] modular X : Ctl-Alt-F7 fails

060924 Walter Dnes wrote: > On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 05:24:44PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote >> I've never quite understood why it's Ctl-Alt-F7 which returns, >> Another test reveals that Ctl-Alt-F3 returns to the X session, >> so perhaps the command to return uses the next free F key. -- lots of inter

[gentoo-user] modular X : all's well + a suggestion

Resuming Nvidia with modular X proved to be easy using the Guide, which anyway agrees to my home-made help file from previous occasions. The ~x86 driver pkg 8774 offered no difficulties with kernel 2.6.18 , except that I had to add a line to xorg.conf : Section "Monitor" ... DisplaySize 28

[gentoo-user] Problem updating madwifi-ng.

I have madwifi-ng installed and working, but portage tells me that there are updates available. Upon trying to emerge these updates, I get the following during compiling: WARNING: Symbol version dump /usr/src/linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r7/Module.symvers is missing; modules will have no depende

Re: [gentoo-user] modular X : Ctl-Alt-F7 fails

On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 05:24:44PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote > I've never quite understood why it's Ctl-Alt-F7 which returns, > when the TTY's involved seem to be 1 & 2 . In fact, > I've suppressed higher-numbered TTY 3-6 in /etc/inittab . > Another test reveals that Ctl-Alt-F3 returns to the X s

Re: [gentoo-user] Accidentally reformatted my EVMS root partition. Any hope of recovering data?

On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 17:47 -0700, Robert Persson wrote: > I have, much to my intense surprise, managed to reformat my root > partition unintentionally. It was an EVMS native reiserfs volume, but > now it is a normal xfs partition. I haven't, as far as I am aware, > written any files to it since th

[gentoo-user] rsync "locks up" and doesn't continue

Hi all, I have a script that downloads my distfiles from machines on our LAN before going over the internet. It uses rsync over ssh to get files locally, then defaults to wget for internet downloads. The command line is basically this: /usr/bin/rsync -avzP --password-file= rsync://@ " which wo

[gentoo-user] Re: Custom DNS Servers for DHCPCD

the file is /etc/resolv.conf (without the "e" in resolv !) On 9/25/2006, "Harm Geerts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Monday 25 September 2006 02:05, Lord Sauron wrote: >> I'm sure this is an easy fix, however, I'm not sure how to do this >> exactly... >> >> Is /var/lib/dhcpc machine gen

[gentoo-user] Accidentally reformatted my EVMS root partition. Any hope of recovering data?

I have, much to my intense surprise, managed to reformat my root partition unintentionally. It was an EVMS native reiserfs volume, but now it is a normal xfs partition. I haven't, as far as I am aware, written any files to it since the unfortunate accident. The tool I used to create the xfs partit

[gentoo-user] Re: Custom DNS Servers for DHCPCD

On Monday 25 September 2006 02:05, Lord Sauron wrote: > I'm sure this is an easy fix, however, I'm not sure how to do this > exactly... > > Is /var/lib/dhcpc machine generated? yes > I want to set my own custom DNS servers for my server (the ones that the > DHCP host gives are wrong and are very

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Wikipedia history in Firefox

On Sun, 2006-24-09 at 14:18 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > Still, it would be nice to be able to edit the saved contents, since > some forms I might want to keep. There's a firefox extension for doing just that - saving half-edited forms and whatnot. Can't remember what it's called off the top of

[gentoo-user] Custom DNS Servers for DHCPCD

I'm sure this is an easy fix, however, I'm not sure how to do this exactly... Is /var/lib/dhcpc machine generated? I want to set my own custom DNS servers for my server (the ones that the DHCP host gives are wrong and are very slow!) and I have some replacement ones. I think that by setting t

Re: [gentoo-user] Hooks for Portage 2.1?

On Monday 25 September 2006 01:34, Jerry McBride wrote: > On Sunday 24 September 2006 19:16, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > > On Sunday 24 September 2006 23:05, Jerry McBride wrote: > > > Well... it's time I revisited my /etc/portage/bashrc file, now that > > > Portage 2.1 is vogue. My old bashrc does

Re: [gentoo-user] Hooks for Portage 2.1?

On Sunday 24 September 2006 19:16, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Sunday 24 September 2006 23:05, Jerry McBride wrote: > > Well... it's time I revisited my /etc/portage/bashrc file, now that > > Portage 2.1 is vogue. My old bashrc doesn't work anymore and things have > > changed sufficiently with 2

Re: [gentoo-user] DRI lost after modular X and gcc-4.1.1

On Sunday 24 September 2006 17:33, Sergio Polini wrote: > I need your help ;-) > I've switched to modular X and gcc-4.1.1, and I've lost DRI :-( > --snip-- > > Any hints? > > Thanks > Sergio Which kernel? Here, running 2.6.18, I compile the kernel drm, agpgart and ati-agp. I then emerge x11-drm

Re: [gentoo-user] Hooks for Portage 2.1?

On Sunday 24 September 2006 23:05, Jerry McBride wrote: > Well... it's time I revisited my /etc/portage/bashrc file, now that Portage > 2.1 is vogue. My old bashrc doesn't work anymore and things have changed > sufficiently with 2.1 that I need some help... documentation. > > Would anyone happen to

[gentoo-user] qmail and spamassassin

Hello, I am trying to install spamassassin in my qmail system. I followed the instructions in the gentoo docs, so installed spamassassin followed by qmail-scanner. I added an export line to conf-common and checked qmail-scanner-queue.pl and restarted svscan. Simple messages are processed corre

Re: [gentoo-user] DRI lost after modular X and gcc-4.1.1

On 9/24/06, Sergio Polini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # CONFIG_DRM is not set If you want DRI, you have two choices: 1. the open source radeon driver, with the in-kernel DRM driver. For this you need to turn on CONFIG_DRM and CONFIG_DRM_RADEON in your kernel configuration. This doesn't work

[gentoo-user] DRI lost after modular X and gcc-4.1.1

I need your help ;-) I've switched to modular X and gcc-4.1.1, and I've lost DRI :-( My configuration: HP dv5078EA (laptop) Gentoo AMD64 Kernel 2.6.12-r10 in /usr/src/linux/.config: CONFIG_MTRR=y CONFIG_AGP=y CONFIG_AGP_AMD64=y CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=m # CONFIG_DRM is not set output of lspci

[gentoo-user] Hooks for Portage 2.1?

Well... it's time I revisited my /etc/portage/bashrc file, now that Portage 2.1 is vogue. My old bashrc doesn't work anymore and things have changed sufficiently with 2.1 that I need some help... documentation. Would anyone happen to know where the API for Portage 2.1, that explains the new h

Re: [gentoo-user] recompiing kernel quesiton

Dnia niedziela, 24 września 2006 11:51, Stephen Liu napisał: > I'm suffering poweroff problem, on exiting "System halted" but not > poweroff. First of all - you may try the installation CD of Gentoo - boot it and give 'halt -p' at command prompt. If it switches off, that means error in your con

[gentoo-user] Re: sabayon

On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 11:47:11 +0100, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 24 September 2006 11:32, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 11:04:40 +0100, Mick wrote: >> > > "Sabayon differs from Gentoo in that instead of installing the entire >> > > operating system from source code, the initial install is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Wikipedia history in Firefox

On Sun, 24 Sep 2006, Remy Blank wrote: Jorge Almeida wrote: Still, it would be nice to be able to edit the saved contents, since some forms I might want to keep. You can remove an entry by highlighting it and pressing "Shfit-Delete". Thanks. Not user-friendly, but still quite useful. Not b

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Wikipedia history in Firefox

Jorge Almeida wrote: > Still, it would be nice to be able to edit the saved contents, since > some forms I might want to keep. You can remove an entry by highlighting it and pressing "Shfit-Delete". Not user-friendly, but still quite useful. -- Remy Remove underscore and suffix in reply address

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] Cannot delete symlinks which point to folders on a different filesystem

On Saturday 23 September 2006 14:26, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Hi! > > I'm having a problem with Nautilus from Gnome 2.16 (I also had this > with 2.14.x). > > On my Desktop folder, I've got a symlink: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/Desktop $ ls -la `pwd`/Bilder > lrwxrwxrwx 1 alexander alexander 20 23. Sep

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel 2.6.18 : 2 questions : 1 answered

060923 Philip Webb wrote: > I've successfully installed Kernel 2.6.18 > -- is it imagination or is it a bit faster on this desktop ? -- , > but there are a couple of simple questions I'm not sure how to answer. > (1) I used 'make xconfig' & it didn't show me the 'PPP' option: > when I used "find" f

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Wikipedia history in Firefox

On Sun, 24 Sep 2006, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: This is just Firefox saving anything you enter into a form on a web page. You can clear these entries or disable it entirely by going to: Edit->Preferences->Privacy->Saved Forms OK, thank you. Still, it would be nice to be able to edit the s

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Wikipedia history in Firefox

On Sunday 24 September 2006 22:30, Jorge Almeida wrote: > When I access Wikipedia's main page, I see a "Search" form which > displays (in Firefox) the _whole_ history of my past searches. The thing > appears to intend to go on forever and ever. Anyone knows where such > information is kept? I assum

[gentoo-user] [OT] Wikipedia history in Firefox

When I access Wikipedia's main page, I see a "Search" form which displays (in Firefox) the _whole_ history of my past searches. The thing appears to intend to go on forever and ever. Anyone knows where such information is kept? I assume it's kept localy, because I tried with Konqueror and there wa

Re: [gentoo-user] recompiing kernel quesiton

On Sunday 24 September 2006 11:35, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi Mick > > > Unfortunately, both HTML posting and 'top posting' are still switched On. > > Now I checked the option again and reload yahoo. Would it be better? Tks > > Remarks: > This is a beta version of Yahoo. I don't know how to change

Re: [gentoo-user] sabayon

On Sunday 24 September 2006 11:32, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 11:04:40 +0100, Mick wrote: > > > "Sabayon differs from Gentoo in that instead of installing the entire > > > operating system from source code, the initial install is made using > > > pre-compiled binary packages." > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] recompiing kernel quesiton

Hi Mick > Unfortunately, both HTML posting and 'top posting' are still switched On. Now I checked the option again and reload yahoo. Would it be better? Tks Remarks: This is a beta version of Yahoo. I don't know how to change it back to its previous version. Tks B.R. SL -- gentoo-u

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: What is up with the new "domainname" situation?

On Tuesday 19 September 2006 13:51, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > Have you set the dns_domain in conf.d/net? > > I have tried this and it does NOT work. > > >> I'm afraid it gives nothing! > > > > It sounds like dns_domain is not set. > > Considering that I have tried it ...

Re: [gentoo-user] sabayon

On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 11:04:40 +0100, Mick wrote: > > "Sabayon differs from Gentoo in that instead of installing the entire > > operating system from source code, the initial install is made using > > pre-compiled binary packages." > > > > How is this different from a standard Gentoo install? > >

Re: [gentoo-user] recompiing kernel quesiton

On Sunday 24 September 2006 10:51, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi Pawel, > > Tks for your advice. > > > Please, switch off HTML posting as it annoys plenty of users... > > Oh, sorry. I did not recognise that after changing to "yahoo mail beta". > Now I enabled "Compose messages as plain text". Please a

Re: [gentoo-user] sabayon

On Sunday 24 September 2006 08:55, Neil Bothwick wrote: > "Sabayon differs from Gentoo in that instead of installing the entire > operating system from source code, the initial install is made using > pre-compiled binary packages." > > How is this different from a standard Gentoo install? I presu

Re: [gentoo-user] recompiing kernel quesiton

Hi Pawel,Tks for your advice.> Please, switch off HTML posting as it annoys plenty of users...Oh, sorry.  I did not recognise that after changing to "yahoo mail beta".  Now I enabled "Compose messages as plain text".  Please advise me if still on html posting.  Tks.I'm suffering poweroff problem, o

[gentoo-user] kernel config for laptop

Hi, Used my desktop kernel-config as a base for a laptop config. Quite all is OK, except console/text-mode scrolling. The text scrolls till the end of screen then scrolls only on the last line. No such problems under X. Any hints will be appreciated. Haven't looked very much in kernel-config, just

Re: [gentoo-user] recompiing kernel quesiton

Dnia niedziela, 24 września 2006 01:46, Stephen Liu napisał: Please, switch off HTML posting as it annoys plenty of users... Correct sequence for kernel generation/update is: Go to your new kernel directory and first get your running kernel config (if you enabled this in previous kernel): # zc

Re: [gentoo-user] recompiing kernel quesiton

On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 16:46:38 -0700 (PDT), Stephen Liu wrote: > cp arch/x86-64/boot/bzImage /boot ?? No > OR > > cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot ?? No > Afterwards shall I run; > # make install Yes. This will install the correct kernel to the correct location. > # make modules_install > >

Re: [gentoo-user] sabayon

On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 20:21:01 +0100, Thufir wrote: > I was just perusing , which > seems interesting, as it uses anaconda, > , during the install. "Sabayon differs from Gentoo in that instead of installing the enti