[gentoo-user] scripts that send emails

2005-05-02 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, I'm looking for a smtp mail-client that can send emails from a script, from different from addresses and can use text files as body text, at this time i just looked at pine, but i don't thik thats possible. What are othe posibilities ? TIa Patrick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] scripts that send emails

2005-05-02 Thread Christian Affolter
Hi, > I'm looking for a smtp mail-client that can send emails from a script, > from different from addresses and can use text files as body text, at this > time i just looked at pine, but i don't thik thats possible. > > What are othe posibilities ? Have a look at mail-mta/ssmtp or mail-mta/nbsmt

Re: [gentoo-user] scripts that send emails

2005-05-02 Thread Spider
On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 10:35 +0200, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a smtp mail-client that can send emails from a script, > from different from addresses and can use text files as body text, at this > time i just looked at pine, but i don't thik thats possible. > > What are

Re: [gentoo-user] scripts that send emails

2005-05-02 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 10:50 +0200, Spider wrote: > On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 10:35 +0200, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm looking for a smtp mail-client that can send emails from a script, > > from different from addresses and can use text files as body text, at this > > time i just lo

Re: [gentoo-user] scripts that send emails

2005-05-02 Thread Scott Taylor
On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 10:35 +0200, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > I'm looking for a smtp mail-client that can send emails from a script, > from different from addresses and can use text files as body text, at this > time i just looked at pine, but i don't thik thats possible. If the scripts go on a

[gentoo-user] Net config

2005-05-02 Thread Michal Kurgan
Hello all Gentooists! I want to know if it's possible to configure network in that way that if dhcp fails it will use a static IP, written by me in config file. I only want that service will start succesfully if dhcp server is dead, so dependent services will start too (like Apache), because i ne

[gentoo-user] Convert reiserfs to ext3

2005-05-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Group, Is there a way to convert reiserfs to ext3 without data loss (or having to move data)? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: "equery which" gives wrong version?

2005-05-02 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 18:36 -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote: > Python :: (noun) :: A computer programing language that has adopted > (swallowed!) every programming construct from every other known > programming language. > > (And I have red a list somewhere listing the multiplicity of languages >

Re: [gentoo-user] Net config

2005-05-02 Thread Tim Igoe
Look in the /etc/conf.d/net.example file (assuming your using a more recent baselayout) - theres a fallback address (fallback_eth0 iirc) to which you can set an IP or say 'apipa' to get an IP in the 169 range like Windows does when it can't find one. HTH -- Tim Igoe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tim.i

[gentoo-user] Gentoo + T40?

2005-05-02 Thread Cliff Rowley
Greetings fellow Gentoo users :) I wonder if anyone could be of assistance. I am desperately trying to get Gentoo playing nicely with my IBM ThinkPad T40, but I am having a /serious/ problem that could easily render my laptop inoperable if I continue to use it. Basically my CPU fan doesn't app

[gentoo-user] Laptop + T40

2005-05-02 Thread Cliff Rowley
My apologies, I just discovered the gentoo-laptop mailing list. I will post there too, but my question remains open here if anyone has any assistance they can offer :) Thanks -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.0 - Rel

Re: [gentoo-user] Subtle KDE style problem ?

2005-05-02 Thread Dave S
Dave S wrote: >This is a subtle KDE problem, in a nutshell : > >If I use kde logged in as myself, I go to control center > style > >preview, I see tab 1 & tab 2. There is a slight line below the tabs >which defines the top of the preview box as it should be. > >If I use kde logged in as my wife, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Net config

2005-05-02 Thread Michal Kurgan
On Monday 02 of May 2005 11:58, Tim Igoe wrote: > Look in the /etc/conf.d/net.example file (assuming your using a more recent > baselayout) - theres a fallback address (fallback_eth0 iirc) to which you > can set an IP or say 'apipa' to get an IP in the 169 range like Windows > does when it can't fi

Re: [gentoo-user] Convert reiserfs to ext3

2005-05-02 Thread slarti
On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 04:51:37AM -0500, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Group, > Is there a way to convert reiserfs to ext3 without data loss > (or having to move data)? I know of sys-fs/convertfs. Dunno if it works -- make backups, expect the worst. Tom -- Tom Martin, http://dev.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + T40?

2005-05-02 Thread Eugene Rosenzweig
Cliff Rowley wrote: Greetings fellow Gentoo users :) I wonder if anyone could be of assistance. I am desperately trying to get Gentoo playing nicely with my IBM ThinkPad T40, but I am having a /serious/ problem that could easily render my laptop inoperable if I continue to use it. Basically my

Re: [gentoo-user] Net config

2005-05-02 Thread Tim Igoe
I'm using baselayout 1.11.9-r1 currently on my server (not at my workstation so can't find out what thats on). But the server has the relevant example file - http://tim.igoe.me.uk/files/net.example if you can't get it through baselayout. You might need a baselayout update for the net scripts to u

[gentoo-user] Re: problems with XFCE4

2005-05-02 Thread Botykai Zsolt
Friday 29 April 2005 23.38-n, Tamas Sarga ezt írta: > I emerged XFCE4 and XFCE4-extras. It built without any problem. > I start it by KDM, or startxfce4 and it seems weird. There isn't > titlebar of the windows, so I can't minimize, or even move, or resize > these. Alt+TAB isn't work. I can not cha

[gentoo-user] Locking session doesn't activate screensaver (kde 3.4.0)

2005-05-02 Thread Jan Drugowitsch
Hi everyone, As I couldn't find a bug report at neither gentoo.org nor kde.org, I'm asking here if someone's got the same problem and managed to resolve it. I've recently done a fresh gentoo install (x86), using kde 3.4.0 (~x86) as desktop environment. However, the screensavers don't seem to work

Re: [gentoo-user] what's the deal with use flags in (brackets)?

2005-05-02 Thread Graham Murray
Calvin Spealman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > but amd64 is itself an extension of the x86 architecture, isn't that the > case? amd64 chips run x86 code, i'm sure. do > they not support those extensions? I understand that for some reason the USE > flags are irrelevent here, but I don't > understa

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] EVMS for /boot, /

2005-05-02 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Thanks. I have it set up with / and /boot as regular partitions and I'll let EVMS handle the rest. > > From: Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/05/02 Mon AM 02:37:37 EDT > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] EVMS for /boot, / > > Am Montag, 2. Mai 2005

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] EVMS for /boot, /

2005-05-02 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
In EVMS a compatible volume is one which doesn't have the EVMS metadata on it. From what I've seen I'll simply make / and /boot compatible, standard volumes and then let EVMS handle the rest. > > From: Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/05/02 Mon AM 12:08:46 EDT > To: gentoo-user@l

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo and XP on hda without causing World War III -- impossible? (help)

2005-05-02 Thread Maxim Vexler
On 5/2/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maxim Vexler wrote: > > >I think that the claim of "Windows unable to boot from logical > >partition" is half true. > >As I have written, I did managed to install and boot windows from a > >logical partition but the windows boot loader (ntldr) h

[gentoo-user] problems booting from sata raid

2005-05-02 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi everybody, i'm a new gentoo user and i encountered following problem: my computer is amd64 on abit ax8 mobo, installation started at stage2. i put root on mirrored sata (raid1) disks. kernel compiled ok, i performed all steps described in the installation guide with the modifications describe

Re: [gentoo-user] Net config

2005-05-02 Thread Michal Kurgan
On Monday 02 of May 2005 13:10, Tim Igoe wrote: > I'm using baselayout 1.11.9-r1 currently on my server (not at my > workstation so I use 1.9.4-r6, but it's latest stable, also i use 2005.0 default linux profile. > can't find out what thats on). But the server has the relevant example file > - h

[gentoo-user] Re: scripts that send emails

2005-05-02 Thread Botykai Zsolt
Monday 02 May 2005 11.27-n, Nick Rout ezt írta: > On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 10:50 +0200, Spider wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 10:35 +0200, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > > > I'm looking for a smtp mail-client that can send emails from a script, > > > from different from addresses and can use text fil

Re: [gentoo-user] script to recursively unmask a package

2005-05-02 Thread Christoph Gysin
Jason Cooper wrote: Integrate as in 'emerge --recursive-unmask package-name' or integrate as in 'app-portage/unmask'? in portage, not in app-portage. Never mind, it's not that I can't live without it. It would merely be a little helper for unmasking packages. Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + T40?

2005-05-02 Thread A. R.
Hi, I do not know if this can be of any help at all, but I am currently running Gentoo on an IBM ThinkPad T41p without any problems. I think that you could try to re-compile the kernel with some different combination of the ACPI options enabled. I am using kernel 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 and I am not doin

Re: [gentoo-user] Net config

2005-05-02 Thread Tim Igoe
Quoting Michal Kurgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Monday 02 of May 2005 13:10, Tim Igoe wrote: I'm using baselayout 1.11.9-r1 currently on my server (not at my workstation so I use 1.9.4-r6, but it's latest stable, also i use 2005.0 default linux profile. Sounds about right - i'm running an unstable b

Re: [gentoo-user] Locking session doesn't activate screensaver (kde 3.4.0)

2005-05-02 Thread Mauro Faccenda
Jan Drugowitsch wrote: > Hi everyone, > > As I couldn't find a bug report at neither gentoo.org nor kde.org, I'm > asking here if someone's got the same problem and managed to resolve > it. > I've recently done a fresh gentoo install (x86), using kde 3.4.0 > (~x86) as desktop environment. However,

Re: [gentoo-user] Locking session doesn't activate screensaver (kde 3.4.0)

2005-05-02 Thread Jan Drugowitsch
Mauro Faccenda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jan Drugowitsch wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > As I couldn't find a bug report at neither gentoo.org nor kde.org, I'm > > asking here if someone's got the same problem and managed to resolve > > it. > > I've recently done a fresh gentoo install (x86), us

Re: [gentoo-user] Locking session doesn't activate screensaver (kde 3.4.0)

2005-05-02 Thread Tamas Sarga
On Mon, 2 May 2005, Mauro Faccenda wrote: > > Jan Drugowitsch wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > As I couldn't find a bug report at neither gentoo.org nor kde.org, I'm > > asking here if someone's got the same problem and managed to resolve > > it. > > I've recently done a fresh gentoo install (x86)

[gentoo-user] can't set root passwd

2005-05-02 Thread Jaap van Geffen
I did a stage1-install,gentoo 2005.0 on a amd 64. Everything seemed to be allright. Except that I cannot login as root after booting the new gentoo. I tried it with passwd after chrooting to my root-partition from the installationcd.Allso I tried to blank out the root-entry from /etc/shadow to

Re: [gentoo-user] Locking session doesn't activate screensaver (kde 3.4.0)

2005-05-02 Thread Jan Drugowitsch
Tamas Sarga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jan Drugowitsch wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > As I couldn't find a bug report at neither gentoo.org nor kde.org, I'm > > > asking here if someone's got the same problem and managed to resolve > > > it. > > > I've recently done a fresh gentoo instal

Re: [gentoo-user] Locking session doesn't activate screensaver (kde 3.4.0)

2005-05-02 Thread LostSon
On Monday 02 May 2005 11:30, Jan Drugowitsch wrote: > Tamas Sarga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Jan Drugowitsch wrote: > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > > > As I couldn't find a bug report at neither gentoo.org nor kde.org, > > > > I'm asking here if someone's got the same problem and managed to

Re: [gentoo-user] what's the deal with use flags in (brackets)?

2005-05-02 Thread Calvin Spealman
So its automatic detection of the features if possible, but USE flags if otherwise. OK, now I get it. The way it had been said, I just got the impression there was something different going on. Thanks for clearing up the confusion.On 5/2/05, Graham Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Calvin Spealman

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: scripts that send emails

2005-05-02 Thread Phil Sexton
On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 10:08, Botykai Zsolt wrote: > Monday 02 May 2005 11.27-n, Nick Rout ezt írta: > > On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 10:50 +0200, Spider wrote: > > > On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 10:35 +0200, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > > > > I'm looking for a smtp mail-client that can send emails from a script

Re: [gentoo-user] Crosscompiling

2005-05-02 Thread Jan Hübner
Keziah W wrote: >Maybe this will help? >http://dev.gentoo.org/~vapier/CROSS-COMPILE-HOWTO > Interesting, I will read. Thank you! Jan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Crosscompiling

2005-05-02 Thread Jan Hübner
Nick Rout wrote: >relatively simple. the general idea is thus: > > Ok, thank you. The main concern I had were concerning the CFLAGS, because I think after building say coreutils in the chroot for Athlon they will not work any longer on my P4 but I need them in the chroot, no? Jan -- gentoo-use

[gentoo-user] Starting jabberd 2.0s8

2005-05-02 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 # jabberd -D I emerged jabberd 2.0s8 and I've done the basic configuration to use a MySQL database that I've created, I'v tried starting it, but it didn't work, this are the messages I get when I run it on debugging mode: JBRD: debug on JBRD: versio

[gentoo-user] USB Power

2005-05-02 Thread Ognjen Bezanov
Hi all I have gentoo install and a USB 2.0 Hard disk that required 500mA of power Now under Windows XP the drive worked perfectly, but under gentoo it wouldnt work (it have symptoms of not enough power). Now from what i remember about the USB specification 250mA is the max current availiable unl

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo and XP on hda without causing World War III -- impossible? (help)

2005-05-02 Thread The Disguised Jedi
Windows REFUSES to be installed on a logical partition.  It prefers to be in the #1 slot, but will take as low as #4.  Anything else is no good for it.   Move it to hda1 and you shouldn't have any problems with it.  On 5/2/05, Maxim Vexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/2/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL

[gentoo-user] GCC 4.0

2005-05-02 Thread Bradley Serbu
Has anyone used this? - Brad -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] script to recursively unmask a package

2005-05-02 Thread Roy O. Wright
Howdy, I'm trying to figure out how to make an ebuild for this (my first ebuild). It's kind of too simple for the normal ebuild examples. I.e., no make needed, just a cp and chmod. Also there is a small correction needed to a regex in it to handle -rN and _pN packages. if(/^\-\s+(.

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Re: Re: "equery which" gives wrong version?

2005-05-02 Thread Robert G. Hays
Thanks, Neil! -- bookmarked 'em just now! (now howinhell did i just type "beekmarked" ?!?!?) (Also I have an O'Reilly book or two, but the more the merrier!) O'Reilly has the best books by far, but a couple of others also stand out: Prentice-Hall/PTR :: Linux Desktop Reference (dated but good, e

Re: [gentoo-user] Crosscompiling

2005-05-02 Thread Jan Hübner
I thought a bit about it and came to the conclusion that doing the install just like normal is the way to go, all in a single dir somewhere. For CFLAGS i will go with march=i686 and mtune=athlon-tbird, think that will keep compatibility with my home setup and will also optimize for remote arch. Co

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gnome looking for automake-1.7

2005-05-02 Thread Robert G. Hays
"BOFH"? Please? Probably need to knoe this one, too, methinks Thanks, rgh. Scott Taylor wrote: On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 01:15 +1000, Richard Watson wrote: emerge sys-dev/automake-1.7 Calculating dependencies !!! Problem in sys-dev/automake-1.7 dependencies. !!! "Specific key requires an operator

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC 4.0

2005-05-02 Thread Yi Ding
I wouldn't recommend rebuilding your system with it. Apparently glibc needs to release a new version 2.3.6 to be compatible. Of course, since it's stricter than previous GCCs, it's probably a good idea to try compiling any software you write with it to make sure that it doesn't break in the futur

Re: [gentoo-user] Locking session doesn't activate screensaver (kde 3.4.0)

2005-05-02 Thread Jan Hübner
Jan Drugowitsch wrote: >>Do you have xscreensaver installed? >> >> > >yes, but it doesn't seem to show up in the kde settings. > >Jan > > There was a bug once, something with the suid bit of xscreensaver or some other permission thing.. Will try to find the info [...] http://forums.gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC 4.0

2005-05-02 Thread Neil Walker
Bradley Serbu wrote: Has anyone used this? Yes. A lot of stuff simply will not compile with it. The rest tend to produce large and slow executables. I wouldn't use it for anything yet. 3.4.x is the best to date. Be lucky, Neil -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] what's the deal with use flags in (brackets)?

2005-05-02 Thread Neil Walker
Calvin Spealman wrote: So its automatic detection of the features if possible, but USE flags if otherwise. No. There is no detection. Just assumption that AMD65 will support certain extensions. And please turn of HTML for posts in mailing lists. Be lucky, Neil -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing l

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Power

2005-05-02 Thread Robert G. Hays
Ognjen Bezanov wrote: Hi all I have gentoo install and a USB 2.0 Hard disk that required 500mA of power Now under Windows XP the drive worked perfectly, but under gentoo it wouldnt work (it have symptoms of not enough power). Now from what i remember about the USB specification 250mA is the max cur

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo and XP on hda without causing World War III -- impossible? (help)

2005-05-02 Thread Robert G. Hays
And JIC you need this, parts 1 through 4 are the primaries, 5 and up *will* be logicals, *if* one of 1 through 4 was designated as an extended partition. Only one primary per disk can be extended. jic!, rgh. The Disguised Jedi wrote: Windows REFUSES to be installed on a logical partition. It p

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: scripts that send emails

2005-05-02 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 13:42 -0400, Phil Sexton wrote: > > > > end with 'nail' you can add attachments too to your mail -> emerge nail. > > Oops! Apparently you can't use nail with mailx. What MTA do you use? > Sendmail? > > uilleann / # emerge -p nail > > These are the packages that I would

[gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-02 Thread Calvin Spealman
I know people say it, but why? On 5/2/05, Neil Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Calvin Spealman wrote: > > > So its automatic detection of the features if possible, but USE flags if > > otherwise. > > No. There is no detection. Just assumption that AMD65 will support > certain extensions. >

[gentoo-user] Cryptographic file system

2005-05-02 Thread Rob
I've got CFS working in Gentoo for the most part. I have to start part of it by hand. But it doesn't come with a startup script, so thats why I assume its masked. How do you start up foreign packages in Gentoo? Is it mandatory to make a script to go into init.d? I am so used to BSD where yo

RE: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-02 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I know people say it, but why? It's an extreme waste and provides no value. We're here to post questions and responses, not to create pretty pictures with colored fonts, etc. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-02 Thread Robert G. Hays
Because a lot of Linux users use a text-only mail package, and the html stuff makes it *hard* to read. (I use graphical...) --Because this is what thy're used to &/or they have limited memory -AND/OR- becase this is the Safe! way to do email. -- -- (Just look at all those *loverly* security alert

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-02 Thread David Morgan
On 15:45 Mon 02 May , Dave Nebinger wrote: > > I know people say it, but why? > > It's an extreme waste and provides no value. > > We're here to post questions and responses, not to create pretty pictures > with colored fonts, etc. > Not to mention the fact that not everyone is using a clie

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-02 Thread Alex A. Smith MCP
Time straped as it is, I'll type in what ever my Default Email prog wants me to, asking people to turn it off wont work much, better to make a better argument and ask the developers to dist it without html as default. My 2 cent's Alex A. Smith MCP ASMHosting.com Owner Calvin Spealman wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo and XP on hda without causing World War III -- impossible? (help)

2005-05-02 Thread Chris Cox
On Sunday 01 May 2005 03:06 pm, Maxim Vexler wrote: > oops, sorry my mistake. > windows (fat32) is on hda6. > hda5 is ext3 which is mapped as /home. > > The grub syntax is correct, sorry for the confusion. > I tried that setup once and never could get it working on an extended partition. -- Ch

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Power

2005-05-02 Thread Richard Fish
Ognjen Bezanov wrote: >Hi all > >I have gentoo install and a USB 2.0 Hard disk that required 500mA of power > >Now under Windows XP the drive worked perfectly, but under gentoo it >wouldnt work (it have symptoms of not enough power). > > Is this on the same port on the same computer? I ask bec

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-02 Thread kashani
Calvin Spealman wrote: I know people say it, but why? On 5/2/05, Neil Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And please turn of HTML for posts in mailing lists. Be lucky, Neil Because it tends to look like crap in any other mail client other than the one it was composed in. Or any other resolution. Or

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-02 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 02 May 2005 21:00:30 + Alex A. Smith MCP wrote: > Time straped as it is, I'll type in what ever my Default Email prog That'd be the one without a spell checker? :-) Frankly I think your approach is arrogant. Mail is a text medium, if you want to do html, make a web page. As the old

Re: [gentoo-user] Cryptographic file system

2005-05-02 Thread Tom Wesley
On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 12:15 -0700, Rob wrote: > I've got CFS working in Gentoo for the most part. I have to start part > of it by hand. But it doesn't come with a startup script, so thats why > I assume its masked. > > How do you start up foreign packages in Gentoo? Is it mandatory to make >

Re: [gentoo-user] Crosscompiling

2005-05-02 Thread Nick Rout
whatever you do in the chroot will not affect your system outside the chroot (except where you have remounted stuff like /usr/portage and /proc) therefore you can set CFLAGS to whatever you like inside the chroot, and compile for athlon in there, leaving your P4 setup intact on your base system.

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-02 Thread Greg Donald
On 5/2/05, Alex A. Smith MCP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Time straped as it is, I'll type in what ever my Default Email prog wants > me to Laziness is no excuse. Takes all of 2 seconds to turn it off. -- Greg Donald Zend Certified Engineer http://destiney.com/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mai

(OT) Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gnome looking for automake-1.7

2005-05-02 Thread Spider
On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 14:37 -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote: > "BOFH"? Please? Probably need to knoe this one, too, methinks > Thanks, > rgh. > >-- > >Scott Taylor - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >BOFH Excuse #253: > >We've run out of licenses > > *tappeti tap* *click clicketi click* there is some do

[gentoo-user] Spamassassin - the memory black hole

2005-05-02 Thread Andreas Karlsson
Gooday all, I have a "little" problem with Spamassassin. It is eating all my memory. I am useing SpamAssassin version 3.0.2 running on Perl version 5.8.5. It has been running quite fine for some time now, till today. I noticed my harddrive started swapping extremly. From top: 1785 root 1

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 02 May 2005 21:00:30 +, Alex A. Smith MCP wrote: > Time straped as it is, I'll type in what ever my Default Email prog > wants me to, asking people to turn it off wont work much, better to make > a better argument and ask the developers to dist it without html as > default. Remember t

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu

2005-05-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 01 May 2005 18:34:43 +0200, Al Bayrouni wrote: > I installed app-emulation/qemu-0.6.1. > I haven't qemu prog but qemu-i386. The first time you install qemu, you have to do so with the softmmu USE flag. There's a note to this effect in the emerge output AFAIR. -- Neil Bothwick Hi, I'

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-02 Thread Richard Fish
kashani wrote: > Calvin Spealman wrote: > >> I know people say it, but why? >> >> On 5/2/05, Neil Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> >>> And please turn of HTML for posts in mailing lists. >>> >>> Be lucky, >>> >>> Neil >> > > Because it tends to look like crap in any other mail client other

Re: [gentoo-user] Spamassassin - the memory black hole

2005-05-02 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Yes, that is almost 3 gig swap used (it is maxed out). And I thought that one gig of RAM would be enough... Does anyone have a clue? :O I would ask the folks on the SpamAssassin-users mailing list, actually. The developers live there and they are usually very helpful. :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.

[gentoo-user] madplay only plays single tunes

2005-05-02 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everyone, When I enter aoss madplay -vz /music/*mp3 the console rapidly scrolls the dir tagging each tune w/ output: write: File descriptor in bad state if /music is on the hard drive, and output: write: Resource temporarily unavailable if /music is on cdrom. Individual tunes -- no pro

RESOLVED---Re: [gentoo-user] cx88xx error

2005-05-02 Thread Al Bayrouni
Al Bayrouni wrote: Hello all, I compiled the kernel-2.6.11-r6 with videoforlinux support and conexant 2388xx support. When I modprobe cx88xx I have this error: FATAL: Error inserting cx88xx (/lib/modules/2.6.11-gentoo-r6/kernel/drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88xx.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unkno

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-02 Thread Alex A. Smith MCP
Humm but when you need HTML email cause you get them, A little bit of a pain to disable them. Also working 19-20 hour days means I can do without (IMHO) needless things like turning off a function that I use. I dunno, next we'll be told to stop using HTML on our sites ¬¬ And I'd prefer if you

[gentoo-user] xawtv compilation error

2005-05-02 Thread Al Bayrouni
Hello, I cannot emerge xawtv. The output is: console/fs.o(.text+0x587): In function `fs_connect': : undefined reference to `FSOpenServer' console/fs.o(.text+0x5a4): In function `fs_connect': : undefined reference to `FSServerName' console/fs.o(.text+0x5de): In function `fs_connect': : undefined ref

[gentoo-user] xorg-x11 emerge error

2005-05-02 Thread Maerlyn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hy, when I try to emerge xorg-x11, I have the following output: http://maerlyn.uw.hu/xorg.log I already tryed other use flags, but nothing changed. Has anyone met something like this before? Maerlyn - -- Maerlyn maerlyn[AT]citromail[DOT]hu http://

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-02 Thread kashani
Alex A. Smith MCP wrote: Humm but when you need HTML email cause you get them, A little bit of a pain to disable them. Also working 19-20 hour days means I can do without (IMHO) needless things like turning off a function that I use. I dunno, next we'll be told to stop using HTML on our sites ¬¬

[gentoo-user] recommendation for/against USB and PS/2 KVM switch to work with gentoo

2005-05-02 Thread michael
Years ago, I had a heck of a time finding a KVM switch that wouldn't cause my mouse to go crazy. It's time to get a new KVM switch, one that can support USB mice (but sadly still a PS/2 keyboard). Does anyone have any recommendations, for or against, KVM switches that play well with gentoo? Thanks,

Re: [gentoo-user] what's the deal with use flags in (brackets)?

2005-05-02 Thread Bruno Lustosa
On 5/2/05, Neil Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So its automatic detection of the features if possible, but USE flags if > > otherwise. > > No. There is no detection. Just assumption that AMD65 will support > certain extensions. In other words, -march=athlon64 implies those flags. -- Brun

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-02 Thread Holly Bostick
Greg Donald wrote: > On 5/2/05, Alex A. Smith MCP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Time straped as it is, I'll type in what ever my Default Email prog wants >>me to > > > Laziness is no excuse. Takes all of 2 seconds to turn it off. > > Just to prove it in Thunderbird: Edit=>Account Prefe

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-02 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 02 May 2005 23:16:34 + Alex A. Smith MCP wrote: > Humm but when you need HTML email cause you get them, I cannot understand *why* you need to send html mail in order to receive it? Thats a non-sequitur. >A little bit of a > pain to disable them. Also working 19-20 hour days means I

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-02 Thread Travis Rousseau
On 5/2/05, Alex A. Smith MCP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Humm but when you need HTML email cause you get them, A little bit of a > pain to disable them. Also working 19-20 hour days means I can do without > (IMHO) needless things like turning off a function that I use. I dunno, next > we'll be to

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation for/against USB and PS/2 KVM switch to work with gentoo

2005-05-02 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I use BlackBox products on various OSs - they work fine. I have a ServSwitch Multi now on Gentoo. I've used Belkin for FC3 and Windows XP and don't like them as they sometimes loose the mouse and you have to power them and the systems back on and off - but they are cheap. Over the years I've

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-02 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Welcome back - wondered where you were! Well said - and who wants to receive a virus breeding ground in the mail - no HTML! On Tue, 3 May 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: Greg Donald wrote: On 5/2/05, Alex A. Smith MCP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Time straped as it is, I'll type in what ever my Defaul

[gentoo-user] Silly CFLAGS - -O9 doesn't make your wang grow longer

2005-05-02 Thread Elfyn McBratney
Hey folks, We're starting to see a lot of bugs over the last couple of months, directly or indirectly, caused by stupid use of CFLAGS and/or MAKEOPTS=-j2000 (or similar. ;) Ladies and Gentlemen, have a gander of bug 74072[1], bug 91167[2] and bug 90973[3] for a few prime examples. Now, Gentoo

[gentoo-user] LVM2 won't compile...?

2005-05-02 Thread Holly Bostick
Hey ho, all-- This is not a major problem (I have LVM2 partitions, but EVMS compiled fine, so I can manage them), but I don't like it, as it seems weird for the main tool for the fs not to compile. Nothing related seems to be on B.G.O (which is also weird), so I'm wondering if anyone might know wh

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 emerge error

2005-05-02 Thread Paul Varner
On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 00:23 +0200, Maerlyn wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hy, > > when I try to emerge xorg-x11, I have the following output: > http://maerlyn.uw.hu/xorg.log > I already tryed other use flags, but nothing changed. Has anyone met > something like this

[gentoo-user] Mandrake Display Manager

2005-05-02 Thread Ian K
Hi everyone I saw a screenshot of MDM http://pcc-services.com/distcomp/images/mandrake_login.jpeg and I would like to try it out on my computer, but because gentoo > mandrake I DONT want to goto Mandrake. Is the source for MDM seperate, if so, do you know where I could download it? Thanks! begin:vc

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM2 won't compile...?

2005-05-02 Thread James Hiscock
> This is not a major problem (I have LVM2 partitions, but EVMS compiled > fine, so I can manage them), but I don't like it, as it seems weird for > the main tool for the fs not to compile. Nothing related seems to be on > B.G.O (which is also weird), so I'm wondering if anyone might know what > I

Re: [gentoo-user] xawtv compilation error

2005-05-02 Thread Daniel RÃder
Al Bayrouni wrote: > Hello, > > I cannot emerge xawtv. > > The output is: > console/fs.o(.text+0x587): In function `fs_connect': > : undefined reference to `FSOpenServer' > console/fs.o(.text+0x5a4): In function `fs_connect': > : undefined reference to `FSServerName' > console/fs.o(.text+0x5de):

[gentoo-user] emerge gnome looking for automake-1.7

2005-05-02 Thread Richard Watson
did you try to use only emerge automake Hi - Yes I did. Afterwards # ls /usr/bin/automak* /usr/bin/automake /usr/bin/automake-1.9 If I then rerun # emerge gtk+ I get the same error. It seems I must have automake-1.7 to continue. I'm really stuck at the moment so any help would be really

[gentoo-user] Can't shrink files on myth TV

2005-05-02 Thread Nanayakkara, Pubudu
Anyone knows how to fix this? regards, Pubudu. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-02 Thread Calvin Spealman
Going by the same reasons of client differences, one could argue we never should have extended HTML beyond the first version of Mosaic. This is insane, of course. Progress is a driving force of technology. I use HTML to style code samples in my postings, and to add some pizaz when e-mailing friend

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC 4.0

2005-05-02 Thread Andreas Fredriksson
On 5/2/05, Neil Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes. A lot of stuff simply will not compile with it. The rest tend to > produce large and slow executables. I wouldn't use it for anything yet. > 3.4.x is the best to date. Are there any evidence of said bloat and poor performance with 4.0 or do

[gentoo-user] USB Power

2005-05-02 Thread Ognjen Bezanov
Hi all I have gentoo install and a USB 2.0 Hard disk that required 500mA of power Now under Windows XP the drive worked perfectly, but under gentoo it wouldnt work (it have symptoms of not enough power). Now from what i remember about the USB specification 250mA is the max current availiable unl

RESOLVED:Re: [gentoo-user] xawtv compilation error

2005-05-02 Thread Al Bayrouni
Al Bayrouni wrote: Hello, I cannot emerge xawtv. The output is: console/fs.o(.text+0x587): In function `fs_connect': : undefined reference to `FSOpenServer' console/fs.o(.text+0x5a4): In function `fs_connect': `fs_open': : undefined reference to `FSQueryXBitmaps16' collect2: ld a retournï1 cod

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-02 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Tue, 3 May 2005, Calvin Spealman wrote: I will remember to use plain text for this list, but let it be known that I don't want to and I shouldn't have to. If i knew I wouldn't get banned for no good reason at all (and it would be no good reason at all, mind you), I'd turn the HTML right back on.

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing 2005.0 with LVM2

2005-05-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 01 May 2005 19:18:02 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > Yes, unless its a non-core partition and can be unmounted, and even then > it would probably still be safer to do from a livecd. Unless it is XFS, which can only be resized when mounted. -- Neil Bothwick Things which must be shipp