Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on the server side

2007-11-28 Thread Billy Holmes
Robert Spahr wrote: > I have been running these gentoo servers since 2003, with very few > problems. Although I am conservative in doing my updates. > I've run gentoo on several servers from dual intels running dns, squid, routing, to web servers, to quad opterons running as terminal servers.

Re: [gentoo-user] Java problem (with pylucene)

2007-11-28 Thread Billy Holmes
Helmut Jarausch wrote: > ImportError: /usr/lib/jvm/sun-jdk-1.6/jre/lib/i386/libjava.so: symbol > JVM_GetClassSignature, > version SUNWprivate_1.1 not defined in file libjvm.so with link time reference > does it really need 1.6? 1.5 and 1.6 aren't always compatible, but from the sound of it, j

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh connections time out

2007-11-28 Thread Billy Holmes
Mick wrote: > I just ran some quick tcptraceroute tests and can see that my random port > number has the same or less latency than port 80, or port 22 > connections . . . > try two things: 1) put your sshd on port 443 if you can. see if you can connect with no latency. or 2) perform this a

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on the server side

2007-11-28 Thread Ric de France
I can't claim to have done anything as fancy as Ricardo, but in my previous place of work I used Gentoo on three different servers to: Apache, PHP, Perl, MySQL, Squid, SVN, and other bits and pieces... Generally things ran smoothly... but upgrades did take some time... and I only trusted a small

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on the server side

2007-11-28 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: The issue is, as you should already must have guessed, if its a good idea to deploy Gentoo in a server. For the first time, i have the opportunity to install Gentoo on a properly set (almost pimped out) server and i wanted to be sure i know what i am doing before ge

Re: [gentoo-user] graphviz-2.12 fails to compile

2007-11-28 Thread Andrey Vul
On Nov 28, 2007 8:17 AM, Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 00:31 -0500, Andrey Vul wrote: > > last few lines of build log: > > [libtool] > > x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../../lib/gvc > > -I../../lib/common -I../../lib/graph -I../../lib/cdt

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting HTML to PDF or PS -- DCOP Q now

2007-11-28 Thread felix
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 11:06:25PM +0100, YoYo Siska wrote: > emerge -av x11-misc/xautomation > xte --help This could be useful. I have downloaded the firefox sources and am carwling thru, trying to see how much trouble a customized --print option would be. It is sleep inducing :-) --

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on the server side

2007-11-28 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
Our main server, which hosts the Latin America Official Gentoo Mirror runs Gentoo. So does our Web-server. So does our Backup server. So does our datacenter. By "our" I mean the laboratory I work at (check signature). I see no major issue on running Gentoo on servers. On 11/28/07, Jason Carson <[E

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting HTML to PDF or PS -- DCOP Q now

2007-11-28 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
If you use KDE, you can right click the Title Bar and go to Application Specific Settings (or something like that. I'm on a Mac now :-) ) and configure the windows to always open at the center, for instance. That helps on the "finding the right coordinates to click might not be easy" issue. =) On

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on the server side

2007-11-28 Thread Jason Carson
I have been using Gentoo for my server for several years. Just a hobby but I run the following services... Apache, MySQL, Qmail, VSFTPD, SAMBA, BIND, Squid and Courier Imap. Use Webmin for configuration and setting it up is easy as pie. >The issue is, as you should already must have guessed,

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on the server side

2007-11-28 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I run Gentoo on 5+ servers (the rest are Ubuntu Linux servers and OpenBSD). I have to admit that the upgrading procedure and certain Java/libs issues are making it a little painful to maintain, but on the other side, I LOVE webapp-config. It makes

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting HTML to PDF or PS -- DCOP Q now

2007-11-28 Thread YoYo Siska
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 10:07:10PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:53:10 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> These web pages use Javascript; some render so-so without javascript, >>> some don't render at all well. What I would like is some firefo

RE: [gentoo-user] missing libraries in mesa-6.5.2-r1 emerge ??

2007-11-28 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
Additional info and question. >From the log of the install of mesa-6.5.2-r1 I see make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/mesa-6.5.2-r1/work/Mesa-6.5.2/src' Making sources for linux-dri-x86 mkdir ../lib which looks like it is doing a "make linux-dri-x86". I would rather have it

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on the server side

2007-11-28 Thread Mark Shields
I run Gentoo on a server, but it's just a hobby, low-end one. Athlon XP processor, 1.5 gigs of ram, raid 1 (hardware-controlled). I have a few daemons/servers on it, such as Apache, snmp, and an MTA. Runs fine. You might try talking to some of the web hosts who run dedicated Gentoo servers. Li

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: static IP, gateway and netmask setting

2007-11-28 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Wednesday 28 November 2007, Dan Farrell wrote: > How the net init script works (there's really only one, generally > net.* is linked to net.lo for update simplicity) That script only calls functions defined elsewhere. The hard (and module-dependent) work is done by the files located in /lib/

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh connections time out

2007-11-28 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:57:25 + Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just ran some quick tcptraceroute tests and can see that my random > port number has the same or less latency than port 80, or port 22 > connections . . . DNS Servers over loaded, on one side of the transaction or the other?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: static IP, gateway and netmask setting

2007-11-28 Thread Rafael Barrera Oro
Indeed, setting the ip, gateway, and netmask was enough to make it work in my case. Thanks to all for your replies. 2007/11/28, Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:18:05 +0100 > Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I don't know exactly how initscripts work, but I

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing a nuissance message regarding FreeFontPath on exitting X

2007-11-28 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 02:40:52 + Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > My gentoo system is now in the lovely state that I can start asking > more asthetic, perfectionist questions. > > Every time I quit X (after starting with startx, regardless of > window manager) I get the message:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: static IP, gateway and netmask setting

2007-11-28 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:18:05 +0100 Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know exactly how initscripts work, but I suppose that if > the /24 is given in /etc/conf.d/net, then both the resulting iproute2 > and ifconfig command that bring the interface up will include the > netmask speci

Re: [gentoo-user] graphviz-2.12 fails to compile

2007-11-28 Thread Andrey Vul
How do I enable custom CFLAGS for graphviz (or at least cancel out the inlining flag in the ebuilld)? Also, could this be a gcc-4.2 bug? If it is, I'll send a bug report to the gcc mailing list. On 11/28/07, Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 00:31 -0500, Andrey Vu

[gentoo-user] Gentoo on the server side

2007-11-28 Thread Rafael Barrera Oro
The issue is, as you should already must have guessed, if its a good idea to deploy Gentoo in a server. For the first time, i have the opportunity to install Gentoo on a properly set (almost pimped out) server and i wanted to be sure i know what i am doing before getting on with it. Where i work

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting HTML to PDF or PS -- DCOP Q now

2007-11-28 Thread felix
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 05:18:03PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:37:16 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > 1. The 'print' DCOP command pops up the print menu and requires at > > least one click. I can set the print type (to PDF file) and the > > default file name

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting HTML to PDF or PS -- DCOP Q now

2007-11-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:37:16 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1. The 'print' DCOP command pops up the print menu and requires at > least one click. I can set the print type (to PDF file) and the > default file name ahead of time, but I still have to click on > "Print". Browsing kdc

[gentoo-user] missing libraries in mesa-6.5.2-r1 emerge ??

2007-11-28 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
Hello, When emerging mesa-6.5.2-r1 I don't get the library libOSMesa.so* built. Did this library go away or is it a problem of selecting the correct USE parameter. Currently I am using what is listed below. Thanks for your help. -- Valmor ->equery uses mesa [ Searching for packages matching

[gentoo-user] Openoffice 2.3.0 compile error - Firefox

2007-11-28 Thread Pongracz Istvan
Hi, I decided to compile openoffice 2.3.0 but I run into an error. The compilation error is this: checking whether to enable build of Mozilla/Mozilla NSS-using components... yes checking whether to build Mozilla addressbook connectivity... no, not possible with system-mozilla checking whether to

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting HTML to PDF or PS -- DCOP Q now

2007-11-28 Thread felix
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 10:07:10PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:53:10 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > These web pages use Javascript; some render so-so without javascript, > > some don't render at all well. What I would like is some firefox (or > > Konqueror or ...)

Re: [gentoo-user] Java problem (with pylucene)

2007-11-28 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 28 Nov, ezotrank wrote: > On 12:03 Wed 28 Nov , Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> Hi, >> >> hopefully someone can help with that (for me) obscure error message. >> >> I'm trying to install pylucene (with JCC) see >> http://pylucene.osafoundation.org/ >> >> (Unfortunately, pylucene is not part of

[gentoo-user] ebuild for a rails application

2007-11-28 Thread Thufir
I'm working on a rails application and am considering the install process for the rails application itself. I don't mean installing rails nor the database, but the rails application. Would an ebuild be able to install/uninstall the rails application itself? thanks, Thufir -- [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting HTML to PDF or PS

2007-11-28 Thread felix
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 11:14:33AM +0100, Ralf Stephan wrote: > You wrote > > I need to convert web pages to PDF files under program control, > > * app-text/htmldoc [N 1.8.27] > "Convert HTML pages into a PDF document" > -fltk ssl I tried, but it has too many deficiencies, and doesn't s

Re: [gentoo-user] python bug on gentoo with webbrowser module

2007-11-28 Thread Stéphane ANCELOT
Benno Schulenberg a écrit : > Stéphane ANCELOT wrote: >> import webbrowser >> webbrowser.open('http://www.python.org') > > Works fine for me, opens the site in Firefox. > > What version of Python? v2.5 > What's in your webbrowser._browsers? this is : Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Nov 19 2007, 10:54

Re: [gentoo-user] python bug on gentoo with webbrowser module

2007-11-28 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Stéphane ANCELOT wrote: > import webbrowser > webbrowser.open('http://www.python.org') Works fine for me, opens the site in Firefox. What version of Python? What's in your webbrowser._browsers? Python 2.4.4 (#1, Nov 9 2007, 16:26:42) >>> webbrowser._browsers {'kfm': [, ], 'links': [None, ],

Re: [gentoo-user] graphviz-2.12 fails to compile

2007-11-28 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 00:31 -0500, Andrey Vul wrote: > last few lines of build log: > [libtool] > x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../../lib/gvc > -I../../lib/common -I../../lib/graph -I../../lib/cdt > -I../../lib/pathplan -I/usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux/CORE > -I/usr/in

Re: [gentoo-user] Install a 64bit system from a 32bit minimal CD

2007-11-28 Thread Yoav Luft
Well, seems like the other PC's cd writer got mildly broken so it can only read cds, not burn any. So after some thought, I salvaged my old PC's cd writer and installed it (in quite an ugly way, as ide cables were to short) in the windows box, burnt the LiveCD and installed Linux on my new machine.

Re: [gentoo-user] apache problem (can't find libpq.so.4)

2007-11-28 Thread Rafael Barrera Oro
Sorry for taking so long to reply. The thing is that revdep-rebuild attempted to re emerge gcc, which failed. However, i was able to fix this by emerging manually libstdc++ (which i guess its a completely different issue), after that, revdep-rebuild worked. After the revdep-rebuild finished (

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh connections time out

2007-11-28 Thread Dale
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Wednesday 28 November 2007, Dale wrote: > > >> Billy Holmes wrote: >> >>> that's what the REMOTE machine will do after you connect to it, but >>> before you get a prompt. This can (normally) be configured on an >>> application basis to not do it. >>> >> OK.

[gentoo-user] Java problem (with pylucene)

2007-11-28 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, hopefully someone can help with that (for me) obscure error message. I'm trying to install pylucene (with JCC) see http://pylucene.osafoundation.org/ (Unfortunately, pylucene is not part of the GenToo repository) I have configured JCC (part of pylucene) to use the sun-jdk-1.6 During build

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting HTML to PDF or PS

2007-11-28 Thread Ralf Stephan
You wrote > I need to convert web pages to PDF files under program control, * app-text/htmldoc [N 1.8.27] "Convert HTML pages into a PDF document" -fltk ssl Use flags: * fltk: Adds support for the Fast Light Toolkit gui interface * ssl:

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh connections time out

2007-11-28 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 27 November 2007, Vladimir Rusinov wrote: > On 11/27/07, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Have you come across such a problem before? How can I troubleshoot > > it? In > > this day and age of broadband connections it seems strange to get worse > > performance than on a dialup networ

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh connections time out

2007-11-28 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Wednesday 28 November 2007, Dale wrote: > Billy Holmes wrote: > > > > that's what the REMOTE machine will do after you connect to it, but > > before you get a prompt. This can (normally) be configured on an > > application basis to not do it. > > OK. I read most of it, what I could get a grip

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: static IP, gateway and netmask setting

2007-11-28 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Monday 26 November 2007, Dan Farrell wrote: > you don't have to list the broadcast or netmask, if they can be > guessed from context. In the case of using a 192.168.x/24 network > they can generally both be guessed properly, because that's a Class C > private address . > > However, in the case

Re: [gentoo-user] apache problem (can't find libpq.so.4)

2007-11-28 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
Hey, did revdep-rebuild help on anything, after all? On 11/27/07, Rafael Barrera Oro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As a matter of fact i have not, will give it a try inmediately! > > thanks for the tip > > 2007/11/27, Ricardo Saffi Marques <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >: > > > > Have you tried revdep-rebui