[gentoo-user] gtksee exits when entering directory

2005-05-06 Thread Ted Ozolins
Since my last update, my primary ap for browsing photos exits with "*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x0809bbd2 ***" Google returns only one hit (not english) referring to open office. Any ideas as to what I've messed up? TIA -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user

[gentoo-user] [OT]big partition

2005-05-06 Thread Tamas Sarga
Hi, Would I have any performance dropback, or any other trouble, if I use 100GB /home partition on IDE with ext3? In the past I heard, that max. 20GB partition should be created, but I don't remember, what were the reasons? Maybe this was some FS limit. Nowaday LILO can boot from anywhere, am I

Re: [gentoo-user] installing big qmail server ... where to start?

2005-05-06 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
thanks for your info guys, that was indeed helpful! One more question: should I use a "meta-package" like vpopmail, or would a plain qmail+mysql (maybe with a custom admin webinterface) be enough? -- quoting A. Khattri -- > On Thu, 5 May 2005, kashani wrote: > > other hand, spam

Re: [gentoo-user] Using the Cryptographic File System as your home directory

2005-05-06 Thread marcin
Sure aes as well as blowfish and other features On 5/5/05, Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 05 May 2005 09:29 am, marcin wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I think that interesting alternative to CFS can be EncFs which is > > faster then CFS. > > Comparison between other encrypted fil

[gentoo-user] Postfix SSL Problem

2005-05-06 Thread Kamil Wokitajtis
Hi, I've got problem with Postfix and SSL. I am using Gentoo Virtual Mail Documentation to set up my mail server, and everything works just fine except that i can't send mails using ssl connection. When i do telnet localhost 25 i get : 220 paf ESMTP Postfix EHLO mydomain.pl 250-paf 250-PIPELININ

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] - BIOS after Gentoo is up

2005-05-06 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Thu, 5 May 2005, James wrote: For most of the legacy hardware: drives, floppy, CD, mouse, serial ports this may be true. But, let's think about ACPI, I2C, sensors, SMBus, Dallas one-wire, and the myriad of undocumented hardware/comm channels going on the motherboard. Not to mention that the evil

Re: [gentoo-user] Using rsync to update a remote directory via ssh.

2005-05-06 Thread Barry Marler
On 5/5/05, Charles Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The following is a question I intended to post earlier, but decided to lookup my own answer (and happened to find it in the manpage): I have ssh access to my webhost. I am looking for an easy way to keep ~/public_html updated on the remote site

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] - BIOS after Gentoo is up

2005-05-06 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Thu, 5 May 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: My main interest in this area is one that most here won't probably have much experience on - Gentoo-xbox. In the case of Gentoo proper running on the XBox there is a large amount of confusion and differing opinions about BIOS. Clearly you have to make a change

[gentoo-user] Backup /restore

2005-05-06 Thread patrick . marquetecken
Hi, Om going to change my server to a raid 1 today. I will use the live cd for setting up the raid, but i'm going to backup it and when the miror is created then i will restore it. I have two options, backup with tar to my tape drive and tar to a disk, are there special things i must keep in mi

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging x11-libs/gtk+-2.6.4-r1 had failed.

2005-05-06 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Answering, I had run fix_libtool_files.sh 3.3.5 I don't know if I should run fix_libtool_files.sh `gcc -dumpversion` --oldarch pentium3-pc-linux-gnu because that is my -march option, it will have any affect on that ? and yes I changed CHOST from pentium3-pc-linux-gnu to i686-pc-linux-gnu because

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]big partition

2005-05-06 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
There are no problem in using a 100GB partition on home with ext3 I had a home server with 100 GB running for almost 6 months without any trouble. :) On 5/6/05, Tamas Sarga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Would I have any performance dropback, or any other trouble, if I use > 100GB /home pa

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging x11-libs/gtk+-2.6.4-r1 had failed.

2005-05-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 6 May 2005 07:41:27 -0300, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: > and yes I changed CHOST from pentium3-pc-linux-gnu to > i686-pc-linux-gnu because I see on some Gentoo List that this should > make the system run better. Most of the posts regarding changing CHOST say don't do it, for good reason. N

Re: [gentoo-user] gtksee exits when entering directory

2005-05-06 Thread Aaron Walker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ted Ozolins wrote: > Since my last update, my primary ap for browsing photos exits with "*** > glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x0809bbd2 ***" > > Google returns only one hit (not english) referring to open office. Any > ideas as to what I

Re: [gentoo-user] adding PSEUDO printer to CUPS

2005-05-06 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 18:07 -0600, Joseph wrote: > I want to add pseudo printer to cups that will use "fax2ps" command to > convert hylafax tiff image to PostScript file. > > The current "Print to File (PostScript)" pseudo printer generate ps file > that is impossible to read. > > I can easily ad

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging x11-libs/gtk+-2.6.4-r1 had failed.

2005-05-06 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Thank you I will try as soon as I can, it wont have any impact in march option will ? On 5/6/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 6 May 2005 07:41:27 -0300, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: > > > and yes I changed CHOST from pentium3-pc-linux-gnu to > > i686-pc-linux-gnu because I see

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging x11-libs/gtk+-2.6.4-r1 had failed.

2005-05-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 6 May 2005 09:07:31 -0300, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: > Thank you I will try as soon as I can, it wont have any impact in > march option will ? Try it sooner. Having the CHOST set incorrectly can cause problems with everything. -- Neil Bothwick This chicken has no beak, said Tom impec

[gentoo-user] KDE has moved to svn. How to modify amarok-cvs.ebuild?

2005-05-06 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Hi! KDE has moved to svn. How to modify amarok-cvs.ebuild? Andrew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] - BIOS after Gentoo is up

2005-05-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/6/05, Peter Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Afaiu, you don't need to modify the bios. > http://www.xbox-linux.org/Software_Method_HOWTO AFAIU this is not appropriate and won't work for the newest versions of the XBox. (Version 1.6b) The newest versions of the XBox have stuff in the S

Re: [gentoo-user] adding PSEUDO printer to CUPS

2005-05-06 Thread Joseph
On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 23:34 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 18:07 -0600, Joseph wrote: > > I want to add pseudo printer to cups that will use "fax2ps" command to > > convert hylafax tiff image to PostScript file. > > > > The current "Print to File (PostScript)" pseudo printer gener

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]big partition

2005-05-06 Thread Craig Duncan
Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: >There are no problem in using a 100GB partition on home with ext3 I >had a home server with 100 GB running for almost 6 months without any >trouble. >:) > > >On 5/6/05, Tamas Sarga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Hi, >> >>Would I have any performance dropback, or any

[gentoo-user] looking for alternatives to Apache

2005-05-06 Thread Eric S. Johansson
I have spent a way too much time in the past week screwing around with Apache configurations. The final straw was when I took a working configuration, change the domain name and it failed without telling me why or where. so I'm looking for an alternative. What I need is something that has th

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for alternatives to Apache

2005-05-06 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 06 May 2005 10:07:41 -0400 "Eric S. Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I have spent a way too much time in the past week screwing around with | Apache configurations. The final straw was when I took a working | configuration, change the domain name and it failed without telling me |

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]big partition

2005-05-06 Thread Tamas Sarga
On Fri, 6 May 2005, Craig Duncan wrote: > > I would suggest that you look into performance of different filesytems. > If you are interested in a recommendation, I would choose Reiser over > ext3 as it has better support for large numbers of small files typical > with desktop usage. > Hi, I heard

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo: /usr/include/linux

2005-05-06 Thread Kurt Guenther
Kurt Guenther wrote: >I've only had 2.6 installed on this system. Here's my current headers: > > > >>sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.8.1-r2 (/usr/include/linux) >> >> I finally did the obvious and re-emerged the headers. All is well now. --Kurt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] gtksee exits when entering directory

2005-05-06 Thread Ted Ozolins
Aaron Walker wrote: > Ted Ozolins wrote: > > >Since my last update, my primary ap for browsing photos exits with "*** > >glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x0809bbd2 ***" > > >Google returns only one hit (not english) referring to open office. Any > >ideas as to what I've messed up? > >

Re: [gentoo-user] HOWTO Encrypt Your Home Directory Using CFS

2005-05-06 Thread Rob
Dmitri Vassilenko wrote: On Thursday May 5 2005 16:17, rob3 wrote: OK, I think I have an accessable draft copy of the doc at www.gentoo-wiki.com/User:Roblytle. It seems to be available anonymously, and editable. I am no wiki expert so its likely something is screwed up. I'd like it to end up in

Re: [gentoo-user] Using the Cryptographic File System as your home directory

2005-05-06 Thread Rob
marcin wrote: Sure aes as well as blowfish and other features On 5/5/05, Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 05 May 2005 09:29 am, marcin wrote: Hello, I think that interesting alternative to CFS can be EncFs which is faster then CFS. Comparison between other encrypted filesystems

Re: [gentoo-user] gtksee exits when entering directory

2005-05-06 Thread Aaron Walker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ted Ozolins wrote: > > Since I have both Gnome and KDE installed on this box (AMD 2G xp) and > had not done an upgrade for about four months, just about every lib. > glibc was one of the upgrades. I have gone through just about all the > progs I use

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving to Xorg problem.

2005-05-06 Thread Keith Gable
# emerge unmerge xfree86 # emerge unmerge freetype # emerge xorg-x11 freetype I think. Something to that effect should work. xorg and xfree are mutually exclusive, and so is their XFT (IIRC). I've never used XFree on Gentoo, so YMMV. On 5/5/05, Ian K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Im on XFree86 4.

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for alternatives to Apache

2005-05-06 Thread Panos Laganakos
Eric S. Johansson wrote: I have spent a way too much time in the past week screwing around with Apache configurations. The final straw was when I took a working configuration, change the domain name and it failed without telling me why or where. so I'm looking for an alternative. What I need

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup /restore

2005-05-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 06 May 2005 12:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > Om going to change my server to a raid 1 today. I will use the live cd for > setting up the raid, but i'm going to backup it and when the miror is > created then i will restore it. I have two options, backup with tar to my > tape drive

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC 4.0

2005-05-06 Thread Keziah W
This was on sloashdot yesterday: http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/02/1415220&tid=156&tid=8 A comparison of 3.4.3 and 4.0.0 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] rlogin ebuild

2005-05-06 Thread Shaw Vrana
Is there an ebuild available for rlogin? I haven't been able to find one using emerge --search or equery. What am I missing? Thanks in advance, Shaw -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Advansys SCSI Not Available on 2005.0 LiveCD

2005-05-06 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I've used FreeBSD for about 4 years but am new to Linux. After starting with Fedora Core 3 two weeks ago, I quickly learned about "rpm hell" once I built a custom kernel to support my hardware. I missed the ports system with which I was familiar in FreeBSD. Several people suggested Gentoo mi

Re: [gentoo-user] rlogin ebuild

2005-05-06 Thread Beber [Gentoo]
yes, It's includ in net-misc/netkit-rsh ;) On 5/6/05, Shaw Vrana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there an ebuild available for rlogin? I haven't been able to find one > using emerge --search or equery. What am I missing? > > Thanks in advance, > Shaw > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list >

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for alternatives to Apache

2005-05-06 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: I think cherokee can do most of those. Oh, and whatever you do, stay away from monkeyd. I've just installed the ebuild for Cherokee but I can't find the documentation (only generic install and README). I've also looked on the web site and the documentation isn't apparently

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for alternatives to Apache

2005-05-06 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Panos Laganakos wrote: Eric S. Johansson wrote: I've heard that roxen has a nice http server. Give it a try and give some feedback if it turns out to be good. having looked at it, it strikes me is being almost as complex as Apache and it's not something I feel comfortable with. I will look furth

Re: [gentoo-user] rlogin ebuild

2005-05-06 Thread Shaw Vrana
On Friday 06 May 2005 11:06 am, Beber [Gentoo] wrote: > yes, It's includ in net-misc/netkit-rsh ;) Thanks for the tip. Any tips about how one might go about finding the package that contains a certain file when emerge --search and equery belongs fail to find anything? Shaw -- gentoo-user@gen

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]big partition

2005-05-06 Thread Jonathan Nichols
I heard lot of urban legend about flying away data from reiser3 & 4. I can never validate whether was FS, or user error, but some performance dropback for stability is more than acceptable for me. I'd vote for urban legend/user error. I've always used ReiserFS on machines and have never had any d

Re: [gentoo-user] rlogin ebuild

2005-05-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Shaw writes: > On Friday 06 May 2005 11:06 am, Beber [Gentoo] wrote: >> yes, It's includ in net-misc/netkit-rsh ;) > Thanks for the tip. Any tips about how one might go about finding the > package that contains a certain file when emerge --search and equery > belongs fail to find anything? You

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for alternatives to Apache

2005-05-06 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 06 May 2005 14:15:03 -0400 "Eric S. Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > I think cherokee can do most of those. Oh, and whatever you do, stay | > away from monkeyd. | | I've just installed the ebuild for Cherokee but I can't find the | documentation (only gene

[gentoo-user] The 2005.0 LiveCD hates me! :'(

2005-05-06 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
OK. I just booted into Windows right now. This is the 5th time I've tried to install Gentoo from the 2005.0 LiveCD and have failed. Now, before you make any comments about anything... I've installed Gentoo from the 2004.3 LiveCD and had used it for over a month. IIRC, in my second attempt, I go

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] - BIOS after Gentoo is up

2005-05-06 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
James wrote: > Norbert Kamenicky xmedia.sk> writes: > > > >>The purpose of BIOS is not to provide complete and excellent HW >>maintenance in multitasking environment, but system boot up only. >>Maybe there are some exceptions, but generaly if kernel is alive, >>u can safely remove all BIOS chip

Re: [gentoo-user] rlogin ebuild

2005-05-06 Thread Shaw Vrana
On Friday 06 May 2005 12:32 pm, Alex Schuster wrote: > eix -S rlogin Eix, huh? I like it. Thanks for the tip. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Are my emails reaching the list?

2005-05-06 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
I've sent a few emails recently... I'm wondering if they're reaching the list... Somehow Thunderbird/Gmail doesn't show me my own emails... Please reply if you get this email. Thank You. Mrugesh Karnik -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] test

2005-05-06 Thread Jan Han Xie
Hi, Sorry but it seems my post won't appear in the list... This is a test post. -- Computer Science & Engineering Department, College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China pgpTw8vZf45ew.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] test

2005-05-06 Thread Tom Wesley
On Sat, 7 May 2005 04:30:14 +0800 Jan Han Xie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry but it seems my post won't appear in the list... > This is a test post. > > -- > Computer Science & Engineering Department, > College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, > Hangzhou, China > I got it.

Re: [gentoo-user] test

2005-05-06 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
Jan Han Xie wrote: Hi, Sorry but it seems my post won't appear in the list... This is a test post. I got the email... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for alternatives to Apache

2005-05-06 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Fri, 06 May 2005 14:15:03 -0400 "Eric S. Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> .. | the web site and the documentation | isn't apparently there. Uh, yeah, the docs aren't one of cherokee's strong points :) the same is true Apache except they have lots of documentation that does

Re: [gentoo-user] test

2005-05-06 Thread Jan Han Xie
On Saturday 07 May 2005 04:37, Tom Wesley wrote: > On Sat, 7 May 2005 04:30:14 +0800 > > Jan Han Xie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Sorry but it seems my post won't appear in the list... > > This is a test post. > > > > -- > > Computer Science & Engineering Department, > > College of Co

Re: [gentoo-user] Are my emails reaching the list?

2005-05-06 Thread Jan Han Xie
On Saturday 07 May 2005 04:21, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: > I've sent a few emails recently... I'm wondering if they're reaching the > list... Somehow Thunderbird/Gmail doesn't show me my own emails... > Please reply if you get this email. > > Thank You. > > Mrugesh Karnik Yes. Seems the gmail's problem

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] - BIOS after Gentoo is up

2005-05-06 Thread James
Peter Karlsson student.chalmers.se> writes: > > For most of the legacy hardware: drives, floppy, CD, mouse, serial ports > > this may be true. But, let's think about ACPI, I2C, sensors, SMBus, > > Dallas one-wire, and the myriad of undocumented hardware/comm channels > > going on the motherboard.

Re: [gentoo-user] Are my emails reaching the list?

2005-05-06 Thread Denis
Once I got an email from the gentoo-user list manager saying that it failed to deliver a message from the list to my G-Mail account. So far, it's just been once. What's going on? Does G-Mail have serious issues to resolve? I haven't had complaints from any one of my friends about not being able

Re: [gentoo-user] test

2005-05-06 Thread Steven Susbauer
Gmail will not send you your own messages. It's both "smart" and annoying. On 5/6/05, Jan Han Xie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 07 May 2005 04:37, Tom Wesley wrote: > > On Sat, 7 May 2005 04:30:14 +0800 > > > > Jan Han Xie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Sorry but it se

Re: [gentoo-user] The 2005.0 LiveCD hates me! :'(

2005-05-06 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Also, can I install 2005.0 using the Knoppix CD? I think Knoppix supports LVM2... right? Yeah, you sure can. it's actually fairly easy, and the documentation is on the gentoo.org website. I just did a Knoppix installation a few weeks ago because the 2005.0 CD stuff wouldn't see my (not so old,

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] - BIOS after Gentoo is up

2005-05-06 Thread James
Norbert Kamenicky xmedia.sk> writes: > > > Yes, I many times removed BIOS extension chips (not needed during kernel > boot) from different cards, just to boot faster... > if it's not easy, there is always a possibility to cut chip select/ > enable (CS/CE) wire near to chip's pin. OK > > Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Are my emails reaching the list?

2005-05-06 Thread Antoine
On 5/6/05, Denis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Once I got an email from the gentoo-user list manager saying that it > failed to deliver a message from the list to my G-Mail account. So > far, it's just been once. What's going on? Does G-Mail have serious > issues to resolve? I haven't had compla

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]big partition

2005-05-06 Thread Sean Crandall
My system is at this very moment rebuilding itself after ReiserFS died and trashed my entire filesystem. Of course, there was a power loss in the middle of mounting /, so I'm sure that had something to do with it. reiserfsk dumped my entire home folder somewhere in lost+found and I haven't had ti

Re: [gentoo-user] test

2005-05-06 Thread Tres Melton
Yea, but if he sends it to the list and then the list sends it to him won't he get it that way? If not then you're right, very annoying! On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 14:13 -0700, Steven Susbauer wrote: > Gmail will not send you your own messages. It's both "smart" and annoying. > > On 5/6/05, Jan Han X

Re: [gentoo-user] rlogin ebuild

2005-05-06 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 6 May 2005, Shaw Vrana wrote: > Is there an ebuild available for rlogin? I haven't been able to find one > using emerge --search or equery. What am I missing? Security. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Are my emails reaching the list?

2005-05-06 Thread Denis
> I have this all the time, and from real people too (ie not lists). I > regularly get messages saying that a mail server has been trying for a > day to get to me etc... Hm, that isn't good. Makes me wonder if I missed any emails from people. I wasn't aware of this until recently. Hotmail had t

Re: [gentoo-user] The 2005.0 LiveCD hates me! :'(

2005-05-06 Thread Sami Samhuri
* On Sat May-07-2005 at 01:04:17 AM +0530, Mrugesh Karnik said: [...] > All in all, I'm completely frustrated and pissed off. Now, I'm looking > for alternatives. Maybe I can install from the 2004.3 LiveCD but I'm > using LVM2 and I don't think the 2004.3 LiveCD supports it. I've installed G

Re: [gentoo-user] Advansys SCSI Not Available on 2005.0 LiveCD

2005-05-06 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 6 May 2005, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > So no I have a minimal 2005.0 LiveCD booted and am logged in via ssh. > I'm following the installation handbook section 4 regarding > partitioning. However I don't seem to have my SCSI drives available. I > have 3 drives in the system as follows: > > 1

Re: [gentoo-user] test

2005-05-06 Thread Denis
That's right. When I send a message with a new subject to the list, GMail saves the message to a new thread that it starts in my Sent-Mail folder with that subject line. I do not get an email from the list sending me my own message. Then, if someone replies to my post, GMail adds the message to

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for alternatives to Apache

2005-05-06 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 6 May 2005, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > I have spent a way too much time in the past week screwing around with > Apache configurations. The final straw was when I took a working > configuration, change the domain name and it failed without telling me > why or where. apachectl configtest

[gentoo-user] Re: Advansys SCSI Not Available on 2005.0 LiveCD

2005-05-06 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 5/6/2005 10:39 AM Drew Tomlinson wrote: I've used FreeBSD for about 4 years but am new to Linux. After starting with Fedora Core 3 two weeks ago, I quickly learned about "rpm hell" once I built a custom kernel to support my hardware. I missed the ports system with which I was familiar in Fr

Re: [gentoo-user] installing big qmail server ... where to start?

2005-05-06 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 6 May 2005, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: > One more question: should I use a "meta-package" like vpopmail, or would a > plain qmail+mysql (maybe with a custom admin webinterface) be enough? Its a matter of preference. If you use something like vpopmail, email will be stored under /home

Re: [gentoo-user] pcimodules

2005-05-06 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Mike Williams wrote: -snip- > (I need to know what module(s) are required for the ethernet adaptor). -snip- Let me know, if I identified your question properly! :-) If u doesn't know, which chipset is used on your eth card, run # lspci | grep Eth and learn it. This info should be enough to con

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

2005-05-06 Thread Robert G. Hays
The problem with this will be getting *all* the email readers updated with this *entire* feature, -and- getting everyone to update to said newer versions *or* programs if/When! -their- favorite didn't get updated for this. That said, it sounds like a FINE idea to me. Now, where'd I put that bla

Re: [gentoo-user] pcimodules

2005-05-06 Thread Mike Williams
On Friday 06 May 2005 22:54, Norbert Kamenicky wrote: > Let me know, if I identified your question properly! :-):-) > > If u doesn't know, which chipset is used on your eth card, run > > # lspci | grep Eth > > and learn it. This info should be enough to configure > your kernel properly. Unfortunan

Re: [gentoo-user] Advansys SCSI Not Available on 2005.0 LiveCD

2005-05-06 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 5/6/2005 2:43 PM A. Khattri wrote: On Fri, 6 May 2005, Drew Tomlinson wrote: So no I have a minimal 2005.0 LiveCD booted and am logged in via ssh. I'm following the installation handbook section 4 regarding partitioning. However I don't seem to have my SCSI drives available. I have 3 drives

[gentoo-user] Can't emerge kimdaba 2.1

2005-05-06 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am I the only one that can't emerge kimdaba 2.1 ? , getting this error: >>> Downloading http://ktown.kde.org/kimdaba/download/kimdaba-2.1.tar.bz2 - --19:07:53-- http://ktown.kde.org/kimdaba/download/kimdaba-2.1.tar.bz2 => `/usr/portage/dis

Re: [gentoo-user] rlogin ebuild

2005-05-06 Thread Robert G. Hays
A. Khattri wrote: On Fri, 6 May 2005, Shaw Vrana wrote: is there an ebuild available for rlogin? I haven't been able to find one using emerge --search or equery. What am I missing? Security. BELIEVE THIS !! -- sorry for shouting, but I for one wonder whyinhell Gentoo of all distros would eve

Re: [gentoo-user] The 2005.0 LiveCD hates me! :'(

2005-05-06 Thread Robert G. Hays
Sami Samhuri wrote: [Heh, I almost brought up a quote from Ciaran and used it here but remembering all the fuss last time I thought better of it. Something about SUVs and shotguns... :) ] gmane refuses to find 'shotgun' and 'SUV' -- Ciaran sometimes seriously infuriates me, and at other times I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Advansys SCSI Not Available on 2005.0 LiveCD

2005-05-06 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 5/6/2005 2:49 PM Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 5/6/2005 10:39 AM Drew Tomlinson wrote: I've used FreeBSD for about 4 years but am new to Linux. After starting with Fedora Core 3 two weeks ago, I quickly learned about "rpm hell" once I built a custom kernel to support my hardware. I missed the po

Re: [gentoo-user] test

2005-05-06 Thread Tres Melton
You can call that annoying if you'd like. I'd call it asinine! ;-) On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 16:48 -0500, Denis wrote: > That's right. When I send a message with a new subject to the list, > GMail saves the message to a new thread that it starts in my Sent-Mail > folder with that subject line. I d

[gentoo-user] Basic ebuild question

2005-05-06 Thread krzaq
Hi list! I have a basic ebuild question I'd like to ask you. The software I'm trying to write an ebuild, builds python bindings The rest is C && C++. Python bindings use python-like setup, which is provided by distutils_src_install( ) If "src_install ( )" is simply make DESTDIR=${D} install

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Advansys SCSI Not Available on 2005.0 LiveCD

2005-05-06 Thread Chee Ong Loh
maybe u have to recompile your kernel and enable advancesys support before you can access to it. If u really rely on advancesys, you may try booting from knoopix livecd. I'm sure knoppix has wider range of drivers compile in their kernel. On 5/7/05, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5

Re: [gentoo-user] rlogin ebuild

2005-05-06 Thread Shaw Vrana
On Friday 06 May 2005 03:31 pm, Robert G. Hays wrote: > A. Khattri wrote: > >Security. > > BELIEVE THIS !! -- sorry for shouting, but I for one wonder whyinhell > Gentoo of all distros would even bother with rlogin... ("About Choice", > of course. This is called 'the dark side of the...'[choice]

Re: [gentoo-user] Basic ebuild question

2005-05-06 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 7 May 2005 01:23:04 +0200 krzaq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | If "src_install ( )" is simply | make DESTDIR=${D} install || die | then i have to emerge it with -sandbox. Otherwise it dies on access | voliation when trying | to install the python part. This is understandable, since it tires

Re: [gentoo-user] test

2005-05-06 Thread disguised.jedi
> > That's right. When I send a message with a new subject to the list, > > GMail saves the message to a new thread that it starts in my Sent-Mail > > folder with that subject line. I do not get an email from the list > > sending me my own message. Then, if someone replies to my post, GMail > >

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for alternatives to Apache

2005-05-06 Thread Eric S. Johansson
A. Khattri wrote: On Fri, 6 May 2005, Eric S. Johansson wrote: I have spent a way too much time in the past week screwing around with Apache configurations. The final straw was when I took a working configuration, change the domain name and it failed without telling me why or where. apachectl co

Re: [gentoo-user] Basic ebuild question

2005-05-06 Thread krzaq
On 5/7/05, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 7 May 2005 01:23:04 +0200 krzaq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | If "src_install ( )" is simply > | make DESTDIR=${D} install || die > | then i have to emerge it with -sandbox. Otherwise it dies on access > | voliation when trying > | to

Re: [gentoo-user] Basic ebuild question

2005-05-06 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 7 May 2005 02:25:40 +0200 krzaq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I commented the line: |make DESTDIR=${D} install || die | and uncommented the: |einstall || die | | and it works flawlessly. The ebuild HOWTO tells to use the first one | in favor of the second one. Why doesn't einstall f

Re: [gentoo-user] Advansys SCSI Not Available on 2005.0 LiveCD

2005-05-06 Thread Jonathan A. Kollasch
Apparently current kernel configurations (make menuconfig) don't have the Linux equivalent of the *BSD adv(4) driver. Jonathan Kollasch -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Basic ebuild question

2005-05-06 Thread krzaq
On 5/7/05, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 7 May 2005 02:25:40 +0200 krzaq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | I commented the line: > |make DESTDIR=${D} install || die > | and uncommented the: > |einstall || die > | > | and it works flawlessly. The ebuild HOWTO tells to use

Re: [gentoo-user] rlogin ebuild

2005-05-06 Thread Bruno Lustosa
On 5/6/05, Shaw Vrana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > rlogin might not be right for you, but it's just fine for my needs. Please > don't try to force *your* security requirements on other people. :P Hey, it's just an advice. After all, there is nothing in rlogin that ssh can't do, so why bother with

[gentoo-user] editing USE flags

2005-05-06 Thread N. Owen Gunden
What do you use to edit USE flags? I used to use ufed, but now the interface is so heavy because there are almost 1000 local use flags. All I really want is to edit the 300-odd global use flags without having to sift through so many flags.. Or do I just have to look through use.desc and update th

Re: [gentoo-user] rlogin ebuild

2005-05-06 Thread Bob Sanders
On Fri, 6 May 2005 10:40:29 -0700 Shaw Vrana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there an ebuild available for rlogin? I haven't been able to find one > using emerge --search or equery. What am I missing? > It's in net-misc/netkit-rsh One way to search is to - emerge esearch, eupdatedb, then - es

Re: [gentoo-user] rlogin ebuild

2005-05-06 Thread janis
Hi there shaw, ssh exists... and it's better than rhlogin..that's why people prefer it.. Take care, Janis Shaw Vrana wrote: On Friday 06 May 2005 03:31 pm, Robert G. Hays wrote: A. Khattri wrote: Security. BELIEVE THIS !! -- sorry for shouting, bu