[gentoo-user] [URGENT] Assistance Requested in Looking for Dr Francis T. Seow, Harvard Law School Research Fellow

2010-05-26 Thread Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
Hi, First, I would like to apologize for the out-of-topic post. I will keep this as short as I possibly could. Does anybody know Dr. Francis T. Seow, the former Solicitor-General from the Republic of Singapore? I want to contact him but can't seem to find his email address or telephone numbe

Re: [gentoo-user] Splitting gentoo into /usr and /usr/local

2010-05-26 Thread justin
On 27/05/10 02:22, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Hi, > > is there any reasonable way to keep any "stable" > installation (those done without using "~x86" in > package.keywords) in /usr while anything installed > as "unstable" (using "~x86) under /usr/local ? > > best regards, > mcc > As

Re: [gentoo-user] fluxbox startup

2010-05-26 Thread Mick
On Thursday 27 May 2010 03:53:48 Madhurya Kakati wrote: > The xdm conf file has display manager as gdm. I guess changing that to > xdm would help. No it won't. /etc/init.d/xdm will launch whichever DISPLAYMANAGER="" you have set up in /etc/conf.d/xdm. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Descript

Re: [gentoo-user] Splitting gentoo into /usr and /usr/local

2010-05-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
I doubt that could ever work. How would you deal with an ebuild moving from unstable to stable? On 27 May 2010 2:22 AM, wrote: Hi, is there any reasonable way to keep any "stable" installation (those done without using "~x86" in package.keywords) in /usr while anything installed as "unstab

Re: [gentoo-user] Something happened on the way to X : solved

2010-05-26 Thread alain . didierjean
Selon Dale : > alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: > > Installing Gentoo on my computer... with > > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" > > VIDEO_CARDS="fglrx" > > INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" > > > > everything's fine until I emerge xorg-server, which returns: > > > > [ebuild N] x11-base/xorg-drivers-1.7 INPUT_DE

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 11:52 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: > So something like SMART is the only way for the average Joe to get the > health of a drive. > > Google has lots on this sort of thing That sentence is correct in more than one way! "Google the generic term for any web page found via search

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-26 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 04:43 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > walt [10-05-27 04:08]: > > On 05/26/2010 05:19 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > > >Is there any way to check the disk without damaging its > > >contents? > > > > Do you know about SMART? Install sys-apps/smartmontools if you >

Re: [gentoo-user] fluxbox startup

2010-05-26 Thread Madhurya Kakati
The xdm conf file has display manager as gdm. I guess changing that to xdm would help. On 5/26/10, Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 25 May 2010 09:10:18 fajfu...@wp.pl wrote: >> blockquote {padding-left: 1ex; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; >> border-left: #cc 1px solid;} p {margin: 0px;padding: 0px;} >

Re: [gentoo-user] fluxbox startup

2010-05-26 Thread Madhurya Kakati
The xdm conf file has display manager as gdm. I guess changing that to xdm would help. On 5/26/10, Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 25 May 2010 09:10:18 fajfu...@wp.pl wrote: >> blockquote {padding-left: 1ex; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; >> border-left: #cc 1px solid;} p {margin: 0px;padding: 0px;} >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-26 Thread meino . cramer
walt [10-05-27 04:08]: > On 05/26/2010 05:19 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > >Is there any way to check the disk without damaging its > >contents? > > Do you know about SMART? Install sys-apps/smartmontools if you > don't already have it, and read the manpage for smartctl. > > I add smartd

[gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-26 Thread walt
On 05/26/2010 05:19 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Is there any way to check the disk without damaging its contents? Do you know about SMART? Install sys-apps/smartmontools if you don't already have it, and read the manpage for smartctl. I add smartd to my default runlevel so the hard drives

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Basic device for a Gentoo router/firewall?

2010-05-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 10:28 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > All very well if you happen to have such a device lying around. I don't, > however, and Google doesn't show me a source of them either, so I'll > just wait for something more suitable to come along. Cheaper, too, with > any luck, such a

[gentoo-user] danger-deep

2010-05-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 17:45 +, James wrote: > Folks, > > I just had to share this. > > So I read the Linux journal, mostly to do my > part to keep publications about Linux alive. > Occationally they write about something cool, > though rarely related to Gentoo FTA: The Web

[gentoo-user] Splitting gentoo into /usr and /usr/local

2010-05-26 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, is there any reasonable way to keep any "stable" installation (those done without using "~x86" in package.keywords) in /usr while anything installed as "unstable" (using "~x86) under /usr/local ? best regards, mcc -- Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments unless it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-26 Thread meino . cramer
Neil Bothwick [10-05-27 02:04]: > On Wed, 26 May 2010 21:13:06 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > that is why I used 'usually' and 'shouldn't'. > > Have you considered a career in politics? ;-) > > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. Oh, uhh...I

Re: [gentoo-user] Lov'n Gentoo

2010-05-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 26 May 2010 18:45:53 James wrote: > I read the Linux journal, mostly to do my part to keep publications > about Linux alive. I gave up on that one years ago - so many that I can't remember how many. I couldn't see why I should continue to buy a Linux mag that didn't help me to run

Re: [gentoo-user] fluxbox startup

2010-05-26 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 25 May 2010 09:10:18 fajfu...@wp.pl wrote: > blockquote {padding-left: 1ex; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; > border-left: #cc 1px solid;} p {margin: 0px;padding: 0px;} > HelloAfter an upgrade about a week ago my fluxbox stopped > beeing launched at the xdm startupafter I log on. Flux

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 26 May 2010 21:13:06 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > that is why I used 'usually' and 'shouldn't'. Have you considered a career in politics? ;-) -- Neil Bothwick A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

RE: [gentoo-user] Cannot start Slapd (OpenLDAP)

2010-05-26 Thread Christopher Kurtis Koeber
Sure. I guess that is the best. Thank you so much for your time. Regards, Christopher Kurtis Koeber (W): (202) 885-8654 (C): (301) 467-8417 http://www.chriskoeber.com -Original Message- From: Ward Poelmans [mailto:wpoel...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 2:54 PM To: gentoo-use

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix question about auth and blocklists...

2010-05-26 Thread Brandon Vargo
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 15:40 +0100, Steve wrote: > On a gentoo mailserver, I'm running Postfix 2.6.5 - and, having followed > some howto or other, quite a long time ago, I have this section at the > end of my main.cf: > > -- > smtpd_recipient_restrictions = > permit_mynetworks, >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 26 Mai 2010, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 26 May 2010 19:59:32 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > May be: The WD-harddiscs are SATA2 my controllers are "only" SATA1... > > > is it this, which cause the problems? > > > > usually it shouldn't. > > It has done for me in the past

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 26 May 2010 19:59:32 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > May be: The WD-harddiscs are SATA2 my controllers are "only" SATA1... > > is it this, which cause the problems? > usually it shouldn't. It has done for me in the past. SATA2 drives usually have a jumper to switch them to SATA1.

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot start Slapd (OpenLDAP)

2010-05-26 Thread Ward Poelmans
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 20:36, Christopher Kurtis Koeber wrote: > Ran the command: /usr/lib/openldap/slapd -F /etc/openldap/ -d 65535 > > See attached as the output was long. > > Not sure what is going on. Any help would be appreciated. Are you sure you specified a rootdn and rootpw and that they

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 26 Mai 2010, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Grant Edwards [10-05-26 17:19]: > > On 2010-05-26, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > [...] I have two WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1 (pasted from > > > hdparm -i) harddisk (1TB, advanced format 4096 kb sectors). > > > > > >[...] > > > > > > dd if=/d

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot start Slapd (OpenLDAP)

2010-05-26 Thread Ward Poelmans
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 19:52, Christopher Kurtis Koeber wrote: > However, I STILL can't get the server to start. And now I don't know what > may be the issue, as slaptest is coming back OK. Any ideas? Try running slapd -d 65535 and tell us what it says. Ward

RE: [gentoo-user] Cannot start Slapd (OpenLDAP)

2010-05-26 Thread Christopher Kurtis Koeber
OK, I have tried everything and while I made some progress I still can't get the Open-LDAP server to start. I loaded the initial entry, I believe and ran slaptest, which came back clean. However, I STILL can't get the server to start. And now I don't know what may be the issue, as slaptest is com

[gentoo-user] Lov'n Gentoo

2010-05-26 Thread James
Folks, I just had to share this. So I read the Linux journal, mostly to do my part to keep publications about Linux alive. Occationally they write about something cool, though rarely related to Gentoo So I read about a very cool submarine game today on LJ: http://www.linuxjournal.com/c

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-26 Thread meino . cramer
Grant Edwards [10-05-26 17:19]: > On 2010-05-26, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > [...] I have two WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1 (pasted from > > hdparm -i) harddisk (1TB, advanced format 4096 kb sectors). > >[...] > > > > dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=8192 > > > > which gave me a LOT of I/O errors

Re: [gentoo-user] Performing a backup during the boot sequence

2010-05-26 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 26 May 2010 17:17:45 +0200 Daniel Troeder wrote: > On 05/26/2010 12:30 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> For quite a while I have used the following steps to perform a >> "single-user backup" >> >> 1. Boot to single user mode via the grub command >> kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda

Re: [gentoo-user] Performing a backup during the boot sequence

2010-05-26 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 05/26/2010 12:30 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > For quite a while I have used the following steps to perform a > "single-user backup" > > 1. Boot to single user mode via the grub command > kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda6 single > > 2. Type in the root password. > > 3. Execute a si

[gentoo-user] Postfix question about auth and blocklists...

2010-05-26 Thread Steve
On a gentoo mailserver, I'm running Postfix 2.6.5 - and, having followed some howto or other, quite a long time ago, I have this section at the end of my main.cf: -- smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated, reject_unauth_destination,

[gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-26 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-05-26, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > [...] I have two WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1 (pasted from > hdparm -i) harddisk (1TB, advanced format 4096 kb sectors). >[...] > > dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=8192 > > which gave me a LOT of I/O errors after a short time. > >[...] > > From what kernel

[gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing

2010-05-26 Thread Harry Putnam
Alex Schuster writes: > Harry Putnam writes: > >> Alex Schuster writes: >> > After writing down some ideas about installing the old libraries >> > somewhere in parallel, I just checked eix, and there is an extra >> > slot for the 1.2 version. So, just emerge media-libs/libpng:1.2 , >> > and I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] howto increase INODE

2010-05-26 Thread Alex Schuster
kitti jaisong writes: > I just install sparc machine. i found error "failed: No space left on > device (28)" when i check inode by df -i command [...] > /dev/sda4 2.0G 952M 963M 50% /mnt/gentoo/usr > /dev/sda5 2.0G 83M 1.8G 5% /mnt/gentoo/var > /dev/sda6

Re: [gentoo-user] Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
don't use df. Use cp -a. Also, the exact errors would be helpfull.

Re: [gentoo-user] howto increase INODE

2010-05-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 26 Mai 2010, kitti jaisong wrote: > Hi All, > > I just install sparc machine. i found error "failed: No space left on > device (28)" when i check inode by df -i command don't hijack other people's threads.

Re: [gentoo-user] xargs and rm funkiness

2010-05-26 Thread Joerg Schilling
Patrick Holthaus wrote: > You might try: > > find -name *.ext -print0 | xargs -0 rm But this is non-standard. UNIX introduced -exec {} + 1990 (when David Korn rewrote find(1) and it is in the POSIX standared since some time. Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schill

Re: [gentoo-user] xargs and rm funkiness

2010-05-26 Thread Joerg Schilling
Neil Bothwick wrote: > xargs can suck with anything but plain ASCII-without-spaces filenames., > and it quite unnecessary here. > > find -name *.ext -exe rm "{}" \; > > or maybe even > > find -name *.ext -exe rm "{}" + Just avoid xargs as it is the source of the proplem. find -name *.ext -exec

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Basic device for a Gentoo router/firewall?

2010-05-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 25 May 2010 23:45:41 Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 09:48 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I'm intrigued. How do you connect displays to them? I assume you'd > > need one for at least the first steps of installing an OS, no? > > no :) There is a serial port which is good

Re: [gentoo-user] howto increase INODE

2010-05-26 Thread Bert Swart
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 01:38:46PM +0700, kitti jaisong wrote: > Hi All, > > I just install sparc machine. i found error "failed: No space left on device > (28)" when i check inode by df -i command > livecd ~ # df -i > FilesystemInodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on > tmpfs

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question

2010-05-26 Thread Madhurya Kakati
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5/25/2010 10:34 PM, Arttu V. wrote: > On 5/25/10, Madhurya Kakati wrote: >> Hi, I am currently using archlinux and windows 7 and want to try >> out gentoo. I guess grub will be overwritten by gentoo but will >> it contain the options to boot arch