Re: [gentoo-user] DR working for M$

2005-06-14 Thread Martin S
Hm, Python isn't mentioned among the skills there... It's true then, Gentoo is a virtual distribution built in 3D Studio Max while the original web site was built in Flash, Photoshop, _javascript_ with a bit of Wood-working, and Cold-metal working helping the servers? /Martin SOn 14/06/05, P

[gentoo-user] [OT] Secure web document

2005-06-14 Thread Stuart Howard
Hi I work in the engineering sector where we issue documents that detail process methods on how to produce certain items of equipment. Recently we have produced some documentation that we need to be able to publish [in a form such as pdf] for use by our suppliers BUT we want to ensure that this do

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Secure web document

2005-06-14 Thread Zac Medico
Stuart Howard wrote: > Hi > > I work in the engineering sector where we issue documents that detail > process methods on how to produce certain items of equipment. Recently > we have produced some documentation that we need to be able to publish > [in a form such as pdf] for use by our suppliers B

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Secure web document

2005-06-14 Thread Heinz Sporn
Hi! Viewing / reading implies that the information has already been transferred (downloaded and rendered) to a client browser. So I don't think that you could totally prevent information extraction on the client side. You can make it rather hard though: 1. Use evil things like Flash. 2. Convert

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Java java java, I miss my java

2005-06-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 15:52:44 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > 1) I thought java 1.5 wasn't there because it was not found by > emerge -s java > emerge -s jre > emerge -s blackdown emerge -av eix Not only is eix much faster than emerge -s but it also shows masked packages. -- Neil Bo

[gentoo-user] Unmerging xfree

2005-06-14 Thread Catalin Grigoroscuta
Hello, I have an old gentoo system (2004.0), and I want to upgrade to 2005.0. I have xfree installed, but it's no problem installing xorg instead, but I would very much like to do it clean, by uninstalling xfree. And here comes the problem: xfree is not in portage tree anymore. emerge -C xfre

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp - what wants to install it?

2005-06-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 15:31:21 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > Yep, that's probably it. I ran into this a while back. Unfortunately > equery is unreasonably slow with such queries. The fastest way I've > found: find /var/db/pkg -path '*DEPEND' | xargs grep virtual/mta qpkg is orders of magnitude fast

[gentoo-user] NAT and Masquerading problems

2005-06-14 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Ok I have got an old P1 with gentoo 2005.0 installed. I am trying to get the internet shared so that the rest of the clients can use it. The only service of interest will be the rp-pppoe that runs at startup to bring up the connection. Servers hostname is o_O and all outputs shown is from the serve

Re: [gentoo-user] Unmerging xfree

2005-06-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 10:47:20 +0300, Catalin Grigoroscuta wrote: > And here comes the problem: xfree is not in portage tree anymore. > emerge -C xfree says that xfree is not a package! That shouldn't matter. When you install a package, a copy of the ebuild is saved in /var/db/pkg, which is used f

[gentoo-user] install links2 or lynx from the installation cd

2005-06-14 Thread Fernando Meira
Hi, after installing gentoo on my laptop, I forgot to emerge a web-browser. I assumed links2 was already installed, once I used it during the installation process. The problem is that now I need to use a browser (just like links or lynx is enough) to be able to login the proxy, and therefore acce

Re: [gentoo-user] Unmerging xfree

2005-06-14 Thread Catalin Grigoroscuta
Thanks for the info, I didn't know about /var/db/pkg. Unfortunately, there's no xfree86 there in x11-base, but there is a xorg-x11!But I'm very sure that it's xfree that's running on the machine, and not xorg. How could I have messed portage like this? May be due to a portage problem, or is it

[gentoo-user] OpenLDAP without PAM

2005-06-14 Thread Heinz Sporn
Hi all! Since PAM is obviously becoming more and more obsolete I was wondering if anyone was ever able to sucessfully got OpenLDAP authentication running on Gentoo without PAM. I have a freshly installed, PAM-less 2005 test-server running over here with a functional LDAP tree. I am able to authen

Re: [gentoo-user] Unmerging xfree

2005-06-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 11:11:28 +0300, Catalin Grigoroscuta wrote: > Thanks for the info, I didn't know about /var/db/pkg. > Unfortunately, there's no xfree86 there in x11-base, but there is a > xorg-x11!But I'm very sure that it's xfree that's running on the > machine, and not xorg. What does "X

Re: [gentoo-user] install links2 or lynx from the installation cd

2005-06-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 10:01:12 +0200, Fernando Meira wrote: > The problem is that now I need to use a browser (just like links or > lynx is enough) to be able to login the proxy, and therefore access the > internet to install other apps. The authentication is through the > browser, i can't ssh to it

Re: [gentoo-user] Unmerging xfree

2005-06-14 Thread Catalin Grigoroscuta
X -version says: <<< This is a pre-release version of XFree86, and is not supported in any way. Bugs may be reported to XFree86@XFree86.Org and patches submitted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before reporting bugs in pre-release versions, please check the latest version in the XFree86 CVS repository (ht

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Secure web document

2005-06-14 Thread Stuart Howard
Thanks for the suggestions, the self code sounds like a fun project but I suspect my manager will want an off the shelf solution. So it seems like Adobe will be receiving some of our hard earned cash. [suspected it would go there] I agree with your point about organisational problem btw, the proble

[gentoo-user] Blackdown Java weirdness

2005-06-14 Thread Paul Nolan
I'm having a problem with Java (Blackdown JDK 1.4.2.01). Basically, in GUI apps the buttons and tabs are much too tall (around twice what they should be), leading to annoying layout problems with widgets disappearing until the window is stretched right out. I'm not sure if this is a Gentoo-speci

[gentoo-user] How to set my ethernet card in promisc mode.

2005-06-14 Thread M|6
Hi, was wondering if anyone could help me set my network card in promisc mode. was doing a chkrootkit check and noticed for sometime that i was flagged and did nothing for it since i don't see the relevance. but now i figure why not. thanks O:-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] updating sysvinit coreutils and baselayout broke some locales/letters

2005-06-14 Thread sIbOk
splashutils didn't solved the problem and come with a few bugs 2005/6/13, sIbOk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > before posting i reemerged kbd and didn't help. I don't use the > console on these Pc cause it's my daughter's Pc so i don't have > consolefont in any runlevel, but that's not the problem. When i

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set my ethernet card in promisc mode.

2005-06-14 Thread Niklas Herder
M|6 wrote: > Hi, > was wondering if anyone could help me set my network card in promisc mode. > > was doing a chkrootkit check and noticed for sometime that i was flagged > and did nothing for it since i don't see the relevance. > > but now i figure why not. > > thanks O:-) > I think this wil

Re: [gentoo-user] Baselayout update blasted my wireless networking

2005-06-14 Thread Bill Rucker
Somewhere around Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 12:53:39AM +0200, a message from Richard Fish went like this: > I'm not really much of a forum reader..too lazy I guess. There's never enough time for everything... > > > # iwconfig eth1 essid Speeder key 'key_here' > > # ifconfig eth1 up > > # dhcpcd eth1 >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Java java java, I miss my java

2005-06-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: > On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 15:52:44 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > >>1) I thought java 1.5 wasn't there because it was not found by >>emerge -s java >>emerge -s jre >>emerge -s blackdown > > > emerge -av eix > > Not only is eix much faster than emerge -s but it

Re: [gentoo-user] DR working for M$

2005-06-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 14 June 2005 06:14, A. Khattri wrote: > Im suprised noone has mentioned this yet: > http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=10838 > > > -- because DR has not much to do with gentoo anymore? And even DR has to live from something - if the job is nice and well paid, why not? It won't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Java java java, I miss my java

2005-06-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 13:21:33 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > Indeed it is as long as you remember to update-eix after an esync > (or emerge sync). Gotta put that in as a cron job or something-- or is > there a better way to keep the index current? I run this script as a cron job in the early ho

Re: [gentoo-user] Blackdown Java weirdness

2005-06-14 Thread Alexander Skwar
Paul Nolan wrote: > I'm having a problem with Java (Blackdown JDK 1.4.2.01). Basically, in GUI > apps the buttons and tabs are much too tall (around twice what they should > be), It's a problem of Blackdown Java. See this thread at their ML: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.linux.general

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set my ethernet card in promisc mode.

2005-06-14 Thread M|6
Niklas Herder wrote: M|6 wrote: Hi, was wondering if anyone could help me set my network card in promisc mode. was doing a chkrootkit check and noticed for sometime that i was flagged and did nothing for it since i don't see the relevance. but now i figure why not. thanks O:-) I

[gentoo-user] stop emerging world

2005-06-14 Thread Fernando Meira
Hi, this might sound a very lame question, but... after installing gentoo i did:   emerge --update --deep --newuse world And i'm still on that since the past 2:30 hours. I thought that after installing quite recent packages, a fully update would be fast.. :( I was not expecting that it would up

Re: [gentoo-user] AthlonXP flags

2005-06-14 Thread Bruno Lustosa
On 6/14/05, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think it is better to set sse on a USE flag so if a program is made > to use them (i.e. X.org), it can, but it doesn't affect the other > packages that weren't made with them in mind. And, directly from the X.org ebui

Re: [gentoo-user] stop emerging world

2005-06-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, June 14, 2005 1:09 pm, Fernando Meira said: > after installing gentoo i did: > emerge --update --deep --newuse world > > And i'm still on that since the past 2:30 hours. I thought that after > installing quite recent packages, a fully update would be fast.. :( I was > not expecting that i

Re: [gentoo-user] stop emerging world

2005-06-14 Thread Fernando Meira
On 6/14/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, June 14, 2005 1:09 pm, Fernando Meira said:> after installing gentoo i did:> emerge --update --deep --newuse world>> And i'm still on that since the past 2:30 hours. I thought that after > installing quite recent packages, a fully update

Re: [gentoo-user] new base layout and linuxant driverloader problems

2005-06-14 Thread Aaron Walker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jonathan Gill wrote: > Hi All, > > Anyone else seeing problems with the new baselayout scripts and > linuxant's driverloader? Any reason you can't use ndiswrapper? I used to use linuxant before I found out about ndiswrapper (but unfortunately afte

Re: [gentoo-user] Svn problem

2005-06-14 Thread Aaron Walker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jan Meier wrote: > Hi, > > if I want to checkout my source via svn I always get the following error: > > svn: Berkeley DB error while opening environment for > filesystem /home/svn/repos/db: > Invalid argument > svn: bdb: Program version 4.2 doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Blackdown Java weirdness

2005-06-14 Thread Paul Nolan
On Tuesday June 14 2005 1:02 pm, Alexander Skwar wrote: > See this thread at their ML: > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.linux.general/706 > > There, I asked about this. Answer: > | Does it get better if you comment out all lines containing '.1' in > | jre/lib/font.properties? > > For me, t

Re: [gentoo-user] stop emerging world

2005-06-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 08:39:15 -0400, Fernando Meira wrote: > > Provided it is not at the stage of installing files, just press Ctrl- > > C. If you are still seeing compiler output, it is safe, if you see > > lots of lines starting with >>, installation is almost complete, be > > patient. > ok.. th

[gentoo-user] Mailing output of cron jobs

2005-06-14 Thread Holly Bostick
> Neil Bothwick schreef: >> On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 13:21:33 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: >> >> >>Indeed it is as long as you remember to update-eix after an esync >>(or emerge sync). Gotta put that in as a cron job or something-- or is >>there a better way to keep the index current? >> >> > I r

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can't install Xosview

2005-06-14 Thread askar ...
Thanks, I'll try! > > I can't guarantee that this will work since your error is different from > the errors I received. Try adding -DHAVE_SNPRINTF=1 to your CFLAGS > entry in make.conf and re-emerging xosview. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: DR working for M$

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Kirchner
* On Jun 14 8:47, Paul Kain (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: > Also bear in mind he worked for MS prior to starting on gentoo -> Not the same Daniel Robbins. They'll have rather different jobs, too :) Tom pgpz2ctuA1FOr.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Secure web document

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Kirchner
* On Jun 14 9:46, Heinz Sporn (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: > 2. Convert the information to a graphic format and use that as > background image. No browser is able to directly download background > images (in the moment). Not true - any Mozilla-based browser can do it rather easily. On

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Secure web document

2005-06-14 Thread Mark Shields
Yeah, that's one way Thomas, but in both Firefox and IE, you just right-click the page and click "view background". On 6/14/05, Thomas Kirchner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * On Jun 14 9:46, Heinz Sporn (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: > > 2. Convert the information to a graphic format and u

[gentoo-user] Firefox 1.0.4 certificate problem

2005-06-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I'm having trouble with the Java Forums site, because Firefox cannot deal with a certificate it gets. Try the "login" link on http://forum.java.sun.com/forum.jspa?forumID=57 or any of the other fora. If somebody can point me to the place to report Firefox problems, I'll tell them too... ++ k

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 1.0.4 certificate problem

2005-06-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Kevin O'Gorman schreef: > I'm having trouble with the Java Forums site, because Firefox cannot > deal with a certificate > it gets. Try the "login" link on >http://forum.java.sun.com/forum.jspa?forumID=57 > or any of the other fora. > > If somebody can point me to the place to report Firefox

[gentoo-user] Wireless connection intermittent on one machine

2005-06-14 Thread Grant
I have 3 Gentoo systems connected to my wireless network. 2 of them have Netgear PCMCIA wireless cards and the third has a PCI card that is a Netgear of the same series (if you know what I mean). That desktop is the farthest away from the access point, but it has had a rock-solid connection for a

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 1.0.4 certificate problem

2005-06-14 Thread William Meertens
Hi there, Same for me. It took longer to load the page then normal expected. I tried it a couple of times, of which several times would scare me. The delay can reach more the 60 seconds. So there's only one thing to say. "BE PATIENT" Have fun, and don't let one page scare you away from Firefox

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Secure web document

2005-06-14 Thread Colin
Heinz Sporn wrote: Hi! Viewing / reading implies that the information has already been transferred (downloaded and rendered) to a client browser. So I don't think that you could totally prevent information extraction on the client side. Even if you prevent people from copying and pasting, yo

Re: [gentoo-user] udev Strangeness

2005-06-14 Thread Richard Fish
Alex Bennee wrote: > Hi, > > I've managed to get my usbdrive to appear in its own fixed /dev entry > but I cannot get the same to happen for my camera. It seems the udev > rule seems to get ignored. Any idea why? > > # My pendrive > BUS="usb", SYSFS{product}="USB DISK Pro ", KERNEL="sd?1", NAME="%

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-06-14 Thread Richard Fish
maxim wexler wrote: > Arrrgh, everytime I hit or an > the find dialogue opens and > Im knocked out of this text window. > Firefox v.1.0.4 That's not normal. If this is on Linux, possibly an extension you have installed is a problem, or there is some breakage in your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file? Someth

Re: [gentoo-user] Reboot when GRUB starts

2005-06-14 Thread Richard Fish
Colin wrote: > Two commands inside a GRUB shell doesn't sound too bad. Still, I > think I should work on getting that stage1.5 file working. > > Do you think the file might have been damaged somehow? Maybe it just > didn't like my CFLAGS? Well, the grub ebuild ignores (unsets, actually) whatev

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 1.0.4 certificate problem

2005-06-14 Thread Joseph
It happened to me recently as well so I'll explain you the problem and solution. First check if you have "cookies" set to : - Allow site to set cookies - ask me every time so you keep collecting the cookies; it appears to me that Firefox has some kind of limit as to number of cookies it can accept

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Secure web document

2005-06-14 Thread Stuart Howard
loving the barcode suggestion Though I accept that simply someone taking the time to rewrite the text is impossible to stop, I just want to make it harder than "click forward" for them to get around. I was a little misleading with "web" in the subject I was more refering to electronic transmissio

Re: [gentoo-user] DR working for M$

2005-06-14 Thread Richard Fish
A. Khattri wrote: >Im suprised noone has mentioned this yet: >http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=10838 > > > I just love all the 'Linux/open source is doomed' comments. How people can be so clueless is beyond me... Anway, best of luck to DR in his new job. Hopefully his contributions

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Secure web document

2005-06-14 Thread Richard Fish
Stuart Howard wrote: >Thanks for the suggestions, the self code sounds like a fun project >but I suspect my manager will want an off the shelf solution. >So it seems like Adobe will be receiving some of our hard earned cash. >[suspected it would go there] >I agree with your point about organisatio

Re: [gentoo-user] how to change volume when using dmix?

2005-06-14 Thread A. R.
Hi, I do not know if this would be of any help, but my alsa dmix configuration is located in /etc/asound.conf and it is pretty similar to your .asoundrc, here it is: pcm.!default { type plug slave.pcm "dmixer" } pcm.dmixer { type dmix ipc_key 1024 slave {

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing output of cron jobs

2005-06-14 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: > OK, not so much to go off on a tangent (even though I am, so I split > this off the original thread), but this brings me to another question > that I've been meaning to ask. I want esync to be a cron job, and mail > me the list of new and updated package

Re: [gentoo-user] SMTPS not working after upgrade 4.43 to 4.50

2005-06-14 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Daevid Vincent wrote: > i can send mail using 'pine' from the server to anywhere. > > i don't see any messages in the log file ?! Which log file? You might want to try tail'ing the log file and then sending through OutLook and seeing what is reported in the logs. -- --

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing output of cron jobs

2005-06-14 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: > I just want cron (generally) to mail any output to me via my regular > ISP, rather than to root, via the local mailspool. Forgot to mention: Im assuming you have ssmtp installed (as well as mailx). As far as sending the email, you will have to edit /etc

Re: [gentoo-user] how to change volume when using dmix?

2005-06-14 Thread Christoph Eckert
> > I am using the alsa-dmix plugin since ages and have and > > had always  the same problem: > > > > in alsamixer/kmix/kamix etc, I am not able to influence > > the (pcm) volume anymore. > > > > Sure, I can chnge the 'master' but this does not help > > much, when civclient is damaging my ears, an

Re: [gentoo-user] livejournal server & gentoo vs mod_perl

2005-06-14 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Jonathan Nichols wrote: > I'm having absolutely no luck with getting mod_perl to work. Any errors? What is exactly the problem? -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] livejournal server & gentoo vs mod_perl

2005-06-14 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Jonathan Nichols wrote: > I'm having absolutely no luck with getting mod_perl to work. > > Has anyone had good luck with mod_perl and Apache 1? *NOT Apache 2 - I > cannot upgrade to Apache 2* The ebuild looks like it builds as a DSO (this is the default for most Apache module

Re: [gentoo-user] updating sysvinit coreutils and baselayout broke some locales/letters

2005-06-14 Thread Zac Medico
sIbOk wrote: > splashutils didn't solved the problem and come with a few bugs > > 2005/6/13, sIbOk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>before posting i reemerged kbd and didn't help. I don't use the >>console on these Pc cause it's my daughter's Pc so i don't have >>consolefont in any runlevel, but that's n

Re: [gentoo-user] sorta OT - honest (!) opinions on mailservers

2005-06-14 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > yes, but most knowledgable people know that exim blows the pants off > qmail and postfix. Now why would you want to start a flame war? Noone said package X is better than package Y - most of us are just saying what works well for "us".

Re: [gentoo-user] sorta OT - honest (!) opinions on mailservers

2005-06-14 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Jun 14, 2005, at 11:47 AM, A. Khattri wrote: On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: yes, but most knowledgable people know that exim blows the pants off qmail and postfix. Now why would you want to start a flame war? Noone said package X is better than package Y - mos

Re: [gentoo-user] DR working for M$

2005-06-14 Thread Beber [Gentoo]
It is written on http://www.gentoo.org since 2 days ;) On 6/14/05, A. Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Im suprised noone has mentioned this yet: > http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=10838 > > > -- > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailin

Re: [gentoo-user] sorta OT - honest (!) opinions on mailservers

2005-06-14 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Antoine wrote: > From some reading this looks like it would fit the bill. Do you know of > any helpful howtos for this or similar combos? You could look at lifewithqmail.org or google for "qmail toaster". We are using a custom build with almost everything hooked into MySQL da

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing output of cron jobs

2005-06-14 Thread Holly Bostick
A. Khattri schreef: > On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: > > >>I just want cron (generally) to mail any output to me via my regular >>ISP, rather than to root, via the local mailspool. > > > Forgot to mention: Im assuming you have ssmtp installed (as well as > mailx). As far as sending t

Re: [gentoo-user] sorta OT - honest (!) opinions on mailservers

2005-06-14 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Jun 14, 2005, at 11:54 AM, A. Khattri wrote: The "usual" clamav + spamassassin combo. If you do decide to go the exim route, there are two ways to interface spamassassin to it. One is now built in called exiscan. The other is called sa-exim and, the reason I am mentioning this, it

Re: [gentoo-user] sorta OT - honest (!) opinions on mailservers

2005-06-14 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
A. Khattri wrote: > On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > > >>yes, but most knowledgable people know that exim blows the pants off >>qmail and postfix. > > > Now why would you want to start a flame war? Noone said package X is > better than package Y - most of us are just s

Re: [gentoo-user] stop emerging world

2005-06-14 Thread Zac Medico
Fernando Meira wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > Provided it is not at the stage of installing files, just press Ctrl- > > > C. If you are still seeing compiler output, it is safe, if you see > > > lots of lines starting with >>, installation is almost complete, be > > > patient. > > ok.. though

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set my ethernet card in promisc mode.

2005-06-14 Thread Andrej Moravcik
Hi all, I have different problem - I'am wondering why all of my vlan interfaces are by default in promisc mode :-( Is it configurable or it is needed for 802.1q functionality? This didn't helped: for i in `ifconfig | grep eth | awk '{print $1}'`; do ifconfig $i -promisc; done Kernel is 2.4.30-gr

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless connection intermittent on one machine

2005-06-14 Thread Catalin Trifu
Try moving it closer to the access point, if possible, and if it still fails from time to time; if it does there might be a driver or hardware problem Catalin Grant wrote: >I have 3 Gentoo systems connected to my wireless network. 2 of them >have Netgear PCMCIA wireless cards and the third

Re: [gentoo-user] stop emerging world

2005-06-14 Thread Ryan Viljoen
I know when I had dial up I prefered doing a emerge --sync && emerge -f --world during the evening when it was cheaper to be connected than during the day I just CTRL+ATL+F1 and did an emerge --world and left it to do its own thing with out requiring a connection. Other than that if I need some mor

[gentoo-user] sorta OT - honest (!) opinions on mailservers - solved!!! argh!

2005-06-14 Thread Antoine
Hi, Well I was told by the techie today that we have just purchased a two-year extension to mdaemon+worldclient... and seeing as the boss is a big richard, he is not going to change any time soon. So much for wanting to save the company money! Thanks to everyone Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org m

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 1.0.4 certificate problem

2005-06-14 Thread Zac Medico
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I'm having trouble with the Java Forums site, because Firefox cannot > deal with a certificate > it gets. Try the "login" link on >http://forum.java.sun.com/forum.jspa?forumID=57 > or any of the other fora. > > If somebody can point me to the place to report Firefox p

[gentoo-user] bash question

2005-06-14 Thread Rumen Yotov
Hi, Quick question: is "functions" a reserved keyword/word in bash (ver.3)? Looking at a strange error about missing " ' " | unexpected EOF. The bash-script is loaded in vim and "functions" is colored as a keyword. Could look at it myself but will take too much time (have to look at bash !!!). Than

RE: [gentoo-user] SMTPS not working after upgrade 4.43 to 4.50

2005-06-14 Thread Daevid Vincent
> > i don't see any messages in the log file ?! > Which log file? tail -f /var/log/mail/current > You might want to try tail'ing the log file and then sending through > OutLook and seeing what is reported in the logs. That's exactly what I'm doing (and 'not seeing')... -- gentoo-user@gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] stop emerging world

2005-06-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 21:37:36 +0200, Ryan Viljoen wrote: > I know when I had dial up I prefered doing a emerge --sync && emerge > -f --world during the evening when it was cheaper to be connected than I do emerge --sync && emerge world -f from a cron script, so I don't have to download anything wh

Re: [gentoo-user] bash question

2005-06-14 Thread Willie W. Wong
What is your script? "function" (singular) is a reserved word. I don't think "functions" is. W On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:59:36PM +0300, Rumen Yotov wrote: > Hi, > Quick question: is "functions" a reserved keyword/word in bash (ver.3)? > Looking at a strange error about missing " ' " | unexpecte

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing output of cron jobs

2005-06-14 Thread Holly Bostick
A. Khattri schreef: > On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: > > >>I just want cron (generally) to mail any output to me via my regular >>ISP, rather than to root, via the local mailspool. > > > Forgot to mention: Im assuming you have ssmtp installed (as well as > mailx). As far as sending t

Re: [gentoo-user] bash question

2005-06-14 Thread Zac Medico
Rumen Yotov wrote: > Hi, > Quick question: is "functions" a reserved keyword/word in bash (ver.3)? > Looking at a strange error about missing " ' " | unexpected EOF. > The bash-script is loaded in vim and "functions" is colored as a keyword. > Could look at it myself but will take too much time (ha

[gentoo-user] emerge errors (can't emerge a damn thing) :)

2005-06-14 Thread reg hughson
Would someone help me out? I have looked in the forums (found one similiar but still unsolved occurence - my link to /usr/src/linux is fine) but still do not know why emerge is failing. The same errors occur no matter which package is attempted to be emerged. Google is no help either. >>> emer

Re: [gentoo-user] bash question

2005-06-14 Thread Rumen Yotov
Hi, First thanks. It's not mine, just trying to get it to work. Here's the line: ... . ${ROOT}/etc/portage/bashrc-modules/core-functions.bmod || bashrcdie "Failed to load core-functions module" ... Looked at all opening/closing signs ('|") all is OK, so think about "function/s" as it's used as a mo

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge errors (can't emerge a damn thing) :)

2005-06-14 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
I got this yesterday after updating the world on my ~x86 machines. It is a problem with binutils. Try the following as root. # /usr/bin/binutils-config -d i686-pc-linux-gnu-2.16.1 This is if you have binutils-2.16.1 anyway. There is a bug on bugzilla in binutils that explains better. Mike On

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge errors (can't emerge a damn thing) :)

2005-06-14 Thread Richard Fish
reg hughson wrote: > Would someone help me out? I have looked in the forums (found one > similiar but still unsolved occurence - my link to /usr/src/linux is > fine) but still do not know why emerge is failing. The same errors > occur no matter which package is attempted to be emerged. Google is n

Re: [gentoo-user] livejournal server & gentoo vs mod_perl

2005-06-14 Thread Jonathan Nichols
A. Khattri wrote: On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Jonathan Nichols wrote: I'm having absolutely no luck with getting mod_perl to work. Any errors? What is exactly the problem? I linked to this thread: http://www.livejournal.com/community/lj_everywhere/189360.html I mentioned that because a few p

[gentoo-user] Glsa-check and binutils-- how to stop the madness?

2005-06-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Hi, I've been running a little scriptlet to test whether I could get mail sent to my ISP inbox. The full script runs esync and glsa-check, but naturally I didn't want to sync 700 times, so I just ran the glsa-check section. To my surprise, I had an open GLSA (I just fixed everything a couple of d

Re: [gentoo-user] bash question

2005-06-14 Thread Richard Fish
Rumen Yotov wrote: >Hi, >First thanks. >It's not mine, just trying to get it to work. >Here's the line: >... >. ${ROOT}/etc/portage/bashrc-modules/core-functions.bmod || bashrcdie >"Failed to load core-functions module" >... >Looked at all opening/closing signs ('|") all is OK, so think about >"fu

[gentoo-user] Java Plugin Classpath

2005-06-14 Thread Justin Hart
Under which directory can I find tha classpath for the java plugin. I tried the following, but it did not add the classes that I desired to my classpath. export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH: firefox & This did not add the desired classes to my classpath, when operating under FireFox. It appears to work

Re: [gentoo-user] Glsa-check and binutils-- how to stop the madness?

2005-06-14 Thread Richard Fish
Holly Bostick wrote: >Hi, > >So my questions are: > >1) Am I supposed to have 4 versions of binutils in the first place? > > Do you have USE 'multislot' or 'multitarget' for binutils? If so, then looking at /usr/portage/eclass/toolchain-binutils.eclass it seems that binutils becomes a slotted

Re: [gentoo-user] Glsa-check and binutils-- how to stop the madness?

2005-06-14 Thread Matthew Cline
> > 2) How do I get this GLSA to actually apply, or know that it's applied, > or whatever? IIRC, glsa-check has an 'inject' option for just this purpose. If you run glsa-check without command-line parameters, it should print out a usage message. Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Java Plugin Classpath

2005-06-14 Thread Zac Medico
Justin Hart wrote: > Under which directory can I find tha classpath for the java plugin. I > tried the following, but it did not add the classes that I desired to > my classpath. > > export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH: > firefox & > > This did not add the desired classes to my classpath, when operating

Re: [gentoo-user] Java Plugin Classpath

2005-06-14 Thread Justin Hart
Good call. Thanks. Justin On 6/14/05, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Justin Hart wrote: > > Under which directory can I find tha classpath for the java plugin. I > > tried the following, but it did not add the classes that I desired to > > my classpath. > > > > export CLASSPATH=$CLASSP

Re: [gentoo-user] Glsa-check and binutils-- how to stop the madness?

2005-06-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Richard Fish schreef: >> Holly Bostick wrote: >> >> >>So my questions are: >> >>1) Am I supposed to have 4 versions of binutils in the first place? >> >> >> >> > Do you have USE 'multislot' or 'multitarget' for binutils? If so, then > looking at /usr/portage/eclass/toolchain-binutils.eclass

Re: [gentoo-user] Glsa-check and binutils-- how to stop the madness?

2005-06-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 00:16:20 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > 1) trim out a bunch of binutils slots that I may or may not need (and > therefore whose loss may break unknown applications), so that glsa-check > (which is apparently broken with respect to binutils compiled with the > multislot USE flag)

[gentoo-user] Using Mustek Systems, Inc. WCam 300 in gentoo..

2005-06-14 Thread Anielkis Herrera Gonzalez
someone can show me the way to have working a Mustek WCam 300 on gentoo? i have kernel 2.6.11-gentoo-r9 with VideoForLinux support and udev. when i do "dmesg": usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 6 usb 2-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71 with lsusb: Bus 002 De

Re: [gentoo-user] Using Mustek Systems, Inc. WCam 300 in gentoo..

2005-06-14 Thread Zac Medico
Anielkis Herrera Gonzalez wrote: > someone can show me the way to have working a Mustek WCam 300 on gentoo? > i have kernel 2.6.11-gentoo-r9 with VideoForLinux support and udev. > when i do "dmesg": > usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 6 > usb 2-2: device descriptor r

Re: [gentoo-user] Glsa-check and binutils-- how to stop the madness?

2005-06-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: > On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 00:16:20 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > > >>1) trim out a bunch of binutils slots that I may or may not need (and >>therefore whose loss may break unknown applications), so that glsa-check >>(which is apparently broken with respect to binutils compiled

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp - what wants to install it?

2005-06-14 Thread Zac Medico
Neil Bothwick wrote: > Zac Medico wrote: > > Yep, that's probably it. I ran into this a while back. Unfortunately > > equery is unreasonably slow with such queries. The fastest way I've > > found: find /var/db/pkg -path '*DEPEND' | xargs grep virtual/mta > qpkg is orders of magnitude faster than

[gentoo-user] new kernel now no MythTV - problem with v4l

2005-06-14 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I've started having trouble with MythTV. I built a new kernel to add 1394 support and put a 1394 card in the system. Now MythTV's log file complains about /dev/v4l/video0 not existing, but it does: dragonfly ~ # ls -al /dev/v4l/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 160 Jun 14 16:19 . drwxr

[gentoo-user] Application to capture Digital Video

2005-06-14 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - I have a PC with an IE13944 interface. Can anyone recommend an application to capture and edit Digital Video from a Sony Digital camcorder? -- Thanks, Richard -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.7.3/15 - Release Date:

Re: [gentoo-user] Glsa-check and binutils-- how to stop the madness?

2005-06-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 01:52:37 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > Checking GLSA 200506-01 > The following updates will be performed for this GLSA: > sys-devel/binutils-2.16-r1 (2.16.1) > > which it has already re-emerged twice, and yet still reports the same > vulnerability-- and more importantly,

Re: [gentoo-user] Using Mustek Systems, Inc. WCam 300 in gentoo..

2005-06-14 Thread Anielkis Herrera Gonzalez
thanks.. I doesn't try that before because the example was with an usb memory stick.. now i have no error with dmesg, but the webcam is not working.. i'll try now with the nw802 webcam driver( with a kernel 2.6 patch) that is unsupported now, but.. if there is nothing more... thanks again... :)

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