Re: [gentoo-user] DSPAM + How to train?

2005-09-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 10:14:14 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > #ls -ld /var/amavis/ > > > drwxr-x--- 7 amavis amavis 4096 Sep 26 15:05 /var/amavis > > > > The problem is here. root cannot access that directory. > right. Which was what I found out by answering question #2. root should be able to

[gentoo-user] Strange behaviour of rp-pppoe

2005-09-28 Thread Leopold Gouverneur
Hello! Since years I use the init scripy rp-pppoe to bring my adsl connection up. For months (years?) it worked perfectly. But since a month or two I get this strange message at boot time: * Starting adsl ... .. Connected! adsl-stop: No ADSL connection appears to be running [!!] and I must

[gentoo-user] 2005.1 Universal CD install

2005-09-28 Thread vikram ranade
Hello all, I am very new to gentoo (used to use Red Hat earlier) I have installed gentoo using the networkless install with the 2005.1 universal CD. I have got the system booting perfectly and detecting all the hardware as well. I got the network connection working and now I am running #emerge --up

Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 Universal CD install

2005-09-28 Thread Janne Johansson
On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 14:46 +0530, vikram ranade wrote: > My question is .. > Is X already installed? (the system boots to a text login) no. > how do i start X? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml?catid=desktop > How do I install new software ? (gnome and so on) http://www.gentoo.org/doc/e

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Apache with SSL

2005-09-28 Thread Steffen Zieger
Am Montag, 26. September 2005 06:46 schrieb Arkady Grudzinsky: > Never mind. Right after sending out the email I found mod_ssl.so in > extramodules/ and everything started to work after I uncommented > in conf/modules.d/40_mod_ssl.conf. Just add -D SSL to APACHE2_OPTS in /etc/conf.d/apache2. If

Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 Universal CD install

2005-09-28 Thread Michael Kjorling
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-09-28 14:46 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is X already installed? (the system boots to a text login) Most likely. I did a stage 3 installation of 2005.1 a few days ago and ended up getting both X and a whole bunch of other stuff installed.

[gentoo-user] Cannot compile ipw2100 against kernel 2.6.13

2005-09-28 Thread John Green
Hi, I have been using wireless on my Dell laptop successfully under kernel 2.6.12 and earlier, but I can't get it to build under kernel 2.6.13. Specifically, the ipw2100 package fails to compile against kernel 2.6.13.{,1,2}. I have looked in bugzilla, but couldn't see anything relevant. M`aybe

Re: [gentoo-user] Load Balancing / Redundant Network ?

2005-09-28 Thread Yoann Pannier
Mal Herring wrote, On 09/19/2005 09:10 AM: > Can the eth ports when using the bonding driver get plugged into > different switches ? Yes. from /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt: 12.2 High Availability in a Multiple Switch Topology --

Re: [gentoo-user] Pratical question about portage tree

2005-09-28 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Thank you all this was realy great; I will try to rebuild the portage tree with the script that was speaked out and download the files I need using the package list; I believe that this will do all the work; if it got right i will send a message; Thanks, Allan On 9/28/05, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [gentoo-user] What to expect from emerge --newuse --emptytree world re: etc-update

2005-09-28 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > I'm getting ready to dive into the apache2 install on my server. > > In preparation for this I needed things I wasn't using before like > > IMAP (see thread on web mail systems), MySQL, and ldap. > > > > Being the good little gentoo boy I updated my USE flags to include > > these and other set

[gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow

2005-09-28 Thread Paweł Madej
Hello, I want to know for what reason there is sth like updating portage cache after rsync in emerge sync. It's very very slow and I dont know why. So my question is could I some way turn off this cache? Greets Paweł -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow

2005-09-28 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
This cache is used to resolve all packages you want to update,install or remove from your box; if you turn off this cache you would need to do the same action to every emerge option; I believe that is better to let it do just when updating portage tree :) Holpe it helps, Allan On 9/28/05, Pa

Re: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow

2005-09-28 Thread Paweł Madej
Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: This cache is used to resolve all packages you want to update,install or remove from your box; if you turn off this cache you would need to do the same action to every emerge option; I believe that is better to let it do just when updating portage tree :) Holpe it

Re: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow

2005-09-28 Thread Dunc
Paweł Madej wrote: > Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: > >> This cache is used to resolve all packages you want to update,install >> or remove from your box; if you turn off this cache you would need to >> do the same action to every emerge option; I believe that is better to >> let it do just when updat

Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 Universal CD install

2005-09-28 Thread John Jolet
On Sep 28, 2005, at 5:11 AM, Michael Kjorling wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-09-28 14:46 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is X already installed? (the system boots to a text login) Most likely. I did a stage 3 installation of 2005.1 a few days ago and ended up

RE: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow

2005-09-28 Thread Michael Kintzios
> -Original Message- > From: Pawe³ Madej [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 28 September 2005 12:25 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow > > > Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: > > This cache is used to resolve all packages you

Re: [gentoo-user] Pratical question about portage tree

2005-09-28 Thread Norberto Bensa
Nick Rout wrote: > > portage knows where to download the files from, and you have told it > where the best mirrors are for you, why second guess it! What I've made is download _only_ needed files. For this to work, I've had to remove path names (i.e. http://download.from.server.tld/path/to/filena

Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 Universal CD install

2005-09-28 Thread Michael Kjorling
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-09-28 06:52 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A stage 3 will not install X, unless you do emerge something after install > that requires Xlike when I did an emerge kde-meta...that got X > installed, then kde and xdm, etc. That's right. S

Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 Universal CD install

2005-09-28 Thread vikram ranade
Thanks for the response..I will chek it out as soon as the emerge --update finishes it is taking forever to compile on my T20 (P-III 750) Regards, Vikram >> Most likely. I did a stage 3 installation of 2005.1 a few days ago and> ended up getting both X and a whole bunch of other stuff installe

Re: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow

2005-09-28 Thread Paweł Madej
Dunc wrote: For something you should only do once a day, 10 minutes isn't that bad though. I sync not day by day but 2-3 times a week but when I sync I want to run just after it emerge of updates (I follow new ebuilds on [1] site and run emerge if sth interesting for me appears there). My

Re: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow

2005-09-28 Thread Paweł Madej
I forgot link [1] is http://packages.gentoo.org/archs/x86/testing/gentoo_simple.rss Greets Paweł -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Size of portage tree

2005-09-28 Thread Harry Putnam
I've noticed /usr/portage is standing at a little over 2 gigs in size. Is this about normal? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Size of portage tree

2005-09-28 Thread glumtail
You can alway rm /usr/portage/distfiles/ Those files can be downloaded again when emerge. On 9/28/05, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've noticed /usr/portage is standing at a little over 2 gigs in > size. Is this about normal? > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gent

Re: [gentoo-user] Size of portage tree

2005-09-28 Thread Michael Kjorling
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-09-28 07:30 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've noticed /usr/portage is standing at a little over 2 gigs in > size. Is this about normal? Don't forget that portage keeps all downloaded source code in /usr/portage/distfiles. The actual port

Re: [gentoo-user] Size of portage tree

2005-09-28 Thread Ryan Viljoen
If you do a: du -hs /usr/portage/distfiles and a du -hs /usr/portage You will see that the majority of the space is taken up by the distfiles. This is where emerge stores all the packages that it downloads when installing them on your system. To decrease the size of the directory you can go throu

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with Xsetup

2005-09-28 Thread Holly Bostick
Rajat Gujral schreef: > Sorry forgot to attach the log :(( > > > Hi holly, uwe Thanx for ur replies ... I was actually trying to > install my sound driver when emerge automatically downloaded the > newer version of kernel i.e 2.6.12-r10 telling me it has a better > support for sound cards.. Af

Re: [gentoo-user] Size of portage tree

2005-09-28 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Sorry forgot to add, yeah its pretty much normal, my results: du -hs /usr/portage/distfiles = 1.9Gb du -hs /usr/portage/distfiles/portage = 2.4Gb Cheers Rav On 9/28/05, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've noticed /usr/portage is standing at a little over 2 gigs insize.  Is this about n

Re: [gentoo-user] Size of portage tree

2005-09-28 Thread Vladimir Mikhailichenko
And my /usr/portage/distfiles = 15Gb :) > I've noticed /usr/portage is standing at a little over 2 gigs in > size. Is this about normal? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow

2005-09-28 Thread Holly Bostick
Paweł Madej schreef: > > My other question is if there is some script which could follow rrs > from [1] and run emerge sync and emerge -uND world after there is for > example 10 ebuild updated comparing to my system, or other way that > it will email me that there is 10 ebuilds new and i should

Re: [gentoo-user] Size of portage tree

2005-09-28 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 21:49, Michael Kjorling wrote: > Don't forget that portage keeps all downloaded source code in > /usr/portage/distfiles. The actual portage tree totals something like > 100 MB plus losses due to inode/block size. A couple of years ago it not much more than 100MB, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Size of portage tree

2005-09-28 Thread Vladimir Mikhailichenko
And my /usr/portage/distfiles = 15Gb :) > I've noticed /usr/portage is standing at a little over 2 gigs in > size. Is this about normal? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Size of portage tree

2005-09-28 Thread Paweł Madej
Ryan Viljoen wrote: If you do a: du -hs /usr/portage/distfiles and a du -hs /usr/portage You will see that the majority of the space is taken up by the distfiles. This is where emerge stores all the packages that it downloads when installing them on your system. To decrease the size of the di

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.13 is 10x slower than 2.6.12!

2005-09-28 Thread Martins
some time ago i had issue like yours that was caused by broken fonts configuration try this: boot without X launch top see anything taking resources launch X see anything taking resources look in logs m At 05:41 2005.09.27., you wrote: I just compiled 2.6.13-gentoo-r2 with mostly the sam

Re: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow

2005-09-28 Thread Michael Crute
On 9/28/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I suppose if you really felt that you wanted to have an emerge of thenew packages done automatically, you could always create a script to run esync and mail you the output, then run emerge -uD world after esynccompleted successfully (doesn't seem

Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 Universal CD install

2005-09-28 Thread John Jolet
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 07:04, Michael Kjorling wrote: > On 2005-09-28 06:52 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > A stage 3 will not install X, unless you do emerge something after > > install that requires Xlike when I did an emerge kde-meta...that got > > X installed, then kde and xdm,

RE: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow

2005-09-28 Thread Dave Nebinger
> It's very very slow and I dont know why. So my question is could I some > way turn off this cache? I've had a lot of luck with the cdb patch for portage. It's mentioned in the gentoo wiki. I haven't measured to see how syncs are impacted but regular portage stuff seems faster. -- gentoo-use

Re: [gentoo-user] Size of portage tree

2005-09-28 Thread Kurt Guenther
Harry Putnam wrote: I've noticed /usr/portage is standing at a little over 2 gigs in size. Is this about normal? Just add a crontab entry to delete files older then, say, 30 days in /usr/portage/distfiles. I've noticed on ~x86 that there is often a number of portage changes on the same

[gentoo-user] Re: Size of portage tree

2005-09-28 Thread Harry Putnam
> On 9/28/05, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've noticed /usr/portage is standing at a little over 2 gigs in >> size. Is this about normal? glumtail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You can alway rm /usr/portage/distfiles/ > Those files can be downloaded again when emerge. > Yup, that

Re: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow

2005-09-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:04:43 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > Well, esync might be what you want-- it's part of gentoolkit, esync is part or esearch. If you prefer eix, it has an equivalent now, diff-eix. This is the script I run from cron.daily emerge world --update --deep --newuse --pretend --ve

Re: [gentoo-user] Size of portage tree

2005-09-28 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 14:43, glumtail wrote: > You can alway rm /usr/portage/distfiles/ > Those files can be downloaded again when emerge. Also, the block size of the file system in which /usr/portage lives can make a big difference. Try a clean /usr/portage on an ext2/3 filesystem vs.

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot compile ipw2100 against kernel 2.6.13

2005-09-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 11:03:18AM +, John Green wrote: > In detail, when > > /usr/src/linux => /usr/src/linux-2.6.12.6 > > everything works OK. > > But when > > /usr/src/linux => /usr/src/linux-2.6.13.2 > > there are errors beginning like this. > > - > > >>> Source u

[gentoo-user] Re: Size of portage tree

2005-09-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wednesday 28 September 2005 14:43, glumtail wrote: > >> You can alway rm /usr/portage/distfiles/ >> Those files can be downloaded again when emerge. > > Also, the block size of the file system in which /usr/portage lives can > make a big difference.

Re: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow

2005-09-28 Thread Paweł Madej
Dave Nebinger wrote: I've had a lot of luck with the cdb patch for portage. It's mentioned in the gentoo wiki. I haven't measured to see how syncs are impacted but regular portage stuff seems faster. That's what I was looking for ... great speedup. Thx Dave Greets Paweł -- gentoo-user@ge

[gentoo-user] keeping hosts file in sync

2005-09-28 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, Whats the best way to keep several /etc/host files in sync ? TIA Patrick -- This is Unix-Land. In quiet nights, you can hear the Windows machines reboot. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] keeping hosts file in sync

2005-09-28 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Whats the best way to keep several /etc/host files in sync ? The easiest way is not to bother. Use a local dns server to provide host lookups. I believe on the gentoo wiki you'll find a setup for a caching dns proxy where the most lookups will be forwarded to a regular dns but you can still pr

Re: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow

2005-09-28 Thread Holly Bostick
Dave Nebinger schreef: >> It's very very slow and I dont know why. So my question is could I >> some way turn off this cache? > > > I've had a lot of luck with the cdb patch for portage. It's > mentioned in the gentoo wiki. I haven't measured to see how syncs > are impacted but regular portage

Re: [gentoo-user] keeping hosts file in sync

2005-09-28 Thread byron
Patrick Marquetecken wrote: >Hi, > >Whats the best way to keep several /etc/host files in sync ? > >TIA >Patrick > > > This may be a little over kill but, I've found this project (www.cfengine.com) to be very cool. Cfengine has tons of functionality and managing config files across multiple sys

Re: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow

2005-09-28 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 17:10, Holly Bostick wrote: > > This sounds quite interesting, but I can't find any mention of this > patch on the Wiki, even after two searches on the Wiki and 3 on Google. > I feel pretty dumb, since Paweł clearly found it easily, but I can't. > > Help...? > here:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Size of portage tree

2005-09-28 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 15:55, Harry Putnam wrote: > Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Wednesday 28 September 2005 14:43, glumtail wrote: > >> You can alway rm /usr/portage/distfiles/ > >> Those files can be downloaded again when emerge. > > > > Also, the block size of the fil

RE: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow

2005-09-28 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Dave Nebinger schreef: > >> It's very very slow and I dont know why. So my question is could I > >> some way turn off this cache? > > > > > > I've had a lot of luck with the cdb patch for portage. It's > > mentioned in the gentoo wiki. I haven't measured to see how syncs > > are impacted but re

Re: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow

2005-09-28 Thread Tony Davison
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 16:10, Holly Bostick wrote: > Dave Nebinger schreef: > >> It's very very slow and I dont know why. So my question is could I > >> some way turn off this cache? > > > > I've had a lot of luck with the cdb patch for portage. It's > > mentioned in the gentoo wiki. I ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow

2005-09-28 Thread Holly Bostick
Tony Davison schreef: > > Its under tips and tricks portage. Just found it myself. HTH I was looking under How-Tos (and searching in the wiki/google for cdb patch). Weird that the wiki search engine didn't find it, though. Maybe I just didn't go through enough of the hits. > > PS Hows the cold?

Re: [gentoo-user] keeping hosts file in sync

2005-09-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:33:54 +0200 (CEST), Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > Whats the best way to keep several /etc/host files in sync ? The best way is usually to use only one hosts file. Providing your computers are networked, and one on them is on 24/7, install dnsmasq on this box and tell the ot

Re: [gentoo-user] keeping hosts file in sync

2005-09-28 Thread Paweł Madej
Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Hi, Whats the best way to keep several /etc/host files in sync ? TIA Patrick I got that problem few days ago and tried to install MyDNS [1] little dns server great for home network. It also has easy admin script written in PHP but it is not installed during emer

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Size of portage tree

2005-09-28 Thread José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 12:21, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > no, but I noticed, that reiserfs needs much less space with small files > (like portage tree) than ext2/3. Any numbers you can post ? -- José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Size of portage tree

2005-09-28 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 14:29:17 -0300 Jos__ Pablo Ezequiel Fern__ndez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 28 September 2005 12:21, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > no, but I noticed, that reiserfs needs much less space with small > > files (like portage tree) than ext2/3. > Any numbers you can

Re: [gentoo-user] udev issue? (No /dev/cdroms/XXX on two machines)

2005-09-28 Thread Richard Fish
Mark Knecht wrote: In my case the drives are there and working, but the /dev/ names are more old style. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls /dev/cdr cdrom cdrom1 cdrwcdrw1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls /dev/cdrom /dev/cdrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -al /dev/cdrom lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Sep 27 00:52 /

[gentoo-user] /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 no longer appearing but /dev/hdc is there...

2005-09-28 Thread Antoine
Hi, This is udev stuff isn't it? The problem appeared after an emerge world - did I fail to edit a conf i needed to? I have had to change my fstab back to the old style... Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Size of portage tree

2005-09-28 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Rumen Yotov wrote: > On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 14:29:17 -0300 > Jos__ Pablo Ezequiel Fern__ndez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>On Wednesday 28 September 2005 12:21, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: >> >>>no, but I noticed, that reiserfs needs much less space with small >>>files (like portage tree) than e

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird "Buffer I/O error" in dev ndb0

2005-09-28 Thread Richard Fish
Phill MV wrote: Well, *something* is trying to access a function that doesnt exist in NDB; whether we know what it does or why, I'm guessing it's a behaviour that shouldn't happen :P. I suppose whatever tries to access NDB has a bug in it... but what would that be? Do you have lvm install

Reiserfs speed (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Size of portage tree)

2005-09-28 Thread Richard Fish
Harry Putnam wrote: I am using reiserfs but only on trial basis. I've noticed what appears to be quite a large increase in time needed for fs intensive things like du or rm -rf as compared to ext3 but I've done no real comparison testing. Have you noticed that too? This is normal, and it'

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird "Buffer I/O error" in dev ndb0

2005-09-28 Thread Holly Bostick
Richard Fish schreef: > Phill MV wrote: > >> Well, *something* is trying to access a function that doesnt exist >> in NDB; whether we know what it does or why, I'm guessing it's a >> behaviour that shouldn't happen :P. >> >> I suppose whatever tries to access NDB has a bug in it... but what >>

Re: [gentoo-user] udev issue? (No /dev/cdroms/XXX on two machines)

2005-09-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/28/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > >In my case the drives are there and working, but the /dev/ names are > >more old style. > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls /dev/cdr > >cdrom cdrom1 cdrwcdrw1 > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls /dev/cdrom > >/dev/cdrom > >[EM

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Size of portage tree

2005-09-28 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Rumen Yotov wrote: > Note: my portage directory is in /var not /usr Why? -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 no longer appearing but /dev/hdc is there...

2005-09-28 Thread Mark Knecht
HI, I started a thread on this yesterday. It is apparently a planned change. The devs have apparently moved to a different naming structure now. - Mark On 9/28/05, Antoine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > This is udev stuff isn't it? The problem appeared after an emerge world > - did I fail

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Size of portage tree

2005-09-28 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 19:29, José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández wrote: > On Wednesday 28 September 2005 12:21, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > no, but I noticed, that reiserfs needs much less space with small files > > (like portage tree) than ext2/3. > > Any numbers you can post ? > -- > José

[gentoo-user] [Completely and totally OT] FVWM-Crystal...!!!

2005-09-28 Thread Holly Bostick
I'm sitting here with my jaw on the floor. I've been fighting with FVWM off and on for a while, and before I tried to go toe-to-toe with the giant, I had installed FVWM-Crystal (I'm a chicken). Which I thought was very pretty, but there was no config I could find to edit and no help (in English),

Re: [gentoo-user] ccache taking way too long time

2005-09-28 Thread Tamas Sarga
On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Fernando Meira wrote: > > Hi, > > I been using ccache for sometime since its mail goal is to speedup common > compiling sets. > This is great when updating several packages. > However, every time that a package is to be emerge/updated my system waits > for ccache some long mi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Size of portage tree

2005-09-28 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 14:48:39 -0400 (EDT) "A. Khattri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Rumen Yotov wrote: > > > Note: my portage directory is in /var not /usr > > Why? > > Hi, Nothing special, just it seemed more logical to me ;). To leave /usr only for apps/libs etc. That's m

[gentoo-user] OT - Making A News Server

2005-09-28 Thread Michael Sullivan
My ISP's news server (news.cableone.net) does not allow posting. I wanted to set up my own news server so that I could both get nntp/news data and post to newsgroups. I found a howto at www.tldp.org and have been following it. The howto said to open leafnode/config (I copied mine frim /etc/leafn

Re: [gentoo-user] Size of portage tree

2005-09-28 Thread Nick Rout
see here for a tip on cleaning it out http://clug.net.nz/index.php/GentooTips On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:15:22 +0300 Vladimir Mikhailichenko wrote: > And my /usr/portage/distfiles = 15Gb :) > > > I've noticed /usr/portage is standing at a little over 2 gigs in > > size. Is this about normal? > >

Re: [gentoo-user] [Completely and totally OT] FVWM-Crystal...!!!

2005-09-28 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi Holly, I thought that if you liked it that much I thought I might as well take a look. I've emerged it. It's running. Nice. It seems to start esd by default. I'd need to turn that off. More embedded below and at the end. - Mark On 9/28/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] [Completely and totally OT] FVWM-Crystal...!!!

2005-09-28 Thread Tony Davison
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 20:33, Holly Bostick wrote: > I'm sitting here with my jaw on the floor. > > This is a gigantic leap from the previous versions I've used, and I > think I've just switched WMs. Obviously there's been a huge shakeup > somewhere, but the site doesn't say anything abou

Re: [gentoo-user] Pratical question about portage tree

2005-09-28 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 08:58:52 -0300 Norberto Bensa wrote: > Nick Rout wrote: > > > > portage knows where to download the files from, and you have told it > > where the best mirrors are for you, why second guess it! > > What I've made is download _only_ needed files. For this to work, I've had to

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot compile ipw2100 against kernel 2.6.13

2005-09-28 Thread John Green
Willie Wong wrote: >On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 11:03:18AM +, John Green wrote: > > >>In detail, when >> >>/usr/src/linux => /usr/src/linux-2.6.12.6 >> >>everything works OK. >> >>But when >> >>/usr/src/linux => /usr/src/linux-2.6.13.2 >> >>there are errors beginning like this. >> >>

[gentoo-user] keyboard issues under KDE with the configuration ceter

2005-09-28 Thread Guntard
Hello, I've installed KDE 3.4.1 which works perfectly except for this : in the configuration center, in the peripherical section I don't have the keyboard option although I have other options such as mouse option, or printer option. I think that I forgot to install a package, but I can't find wh

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot compile ipw2100 against kernel 2.6.13

2005-09-28 Thread Richard Fish
John Green wrote: the problem might be with ieee80211. A detailed look at my log file for rebuilding ieee80211 under 2.6.13.2 showed that the ebuild tried to delete kernel file include/net/ieee80211.h, but failed with insufficient privilege, even though emerge was running as root. I deleted the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Size of portage tree

2005-09-28 Thread Bryan Whitehead
no, but I noticed, that reiserfs needs much less space with small files (like portage tree) than ext2/3. The only problem with this "solution" is you are then stuck using reiserfs... :D -- Bryan Whitehead Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] keyboard issues under KDE with the configuration ceter

2005-09-28 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Guntard wrote: > I've installed KDE 3.4.1 which works perfectly except for this : > in the configuration center, in the peripherical section I don't > have the keyboard option although I have other options such as > mouse option, or printer option. I think that I forgot to install > a package, but

Re: [gentoo-user] [Completely and totally OT] FVWM-Crystal...!!!

2005-09-28 Thread Holly Bostick
Mark Knecht schreef: > Hi Holly, I thought that if you liked it that much I thought I might > as well take a look. I've emerged it. It's running. Nice. > > It seems to start esd by default. I'd need to turn that off. > > More embedded below and at the end. > > - Mark > > > On 9/28/05, Holly B

Re: [gentoo-user] [Completely and totally OT] FVWM-Crystal...!!!

2005-09-28 Thread Holly Bostick
Tony Davison schreef: > On Wednesday 28 September 2005 20:33, Holly Bostick wrote: > >>I'm sitting here with my jaw on the floor. >> > > > >>This is a gigantic leap from the previous versions I've used, and I >>think I've just switched WMs. Obviously there's been a huge shakeup >>somewhere, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Size of portage tree

2005-09-28 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 29 September 2005 00:32, Bryan Whitehead wrote: > > no, but I noticed, that reiserfs needs much less space with small files > > (like portage tree) than ext2/3. > > The only problem with this "solution" is you are then stuck using > reiserfs... > > :D better than stuck with ext3 ;) ht

Re: [gentoo-user] [Completely and totally OT] FVWM-Crystal...!!!

2005-09-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/28/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht schreef: > > Hi Holly, I thought that if you liked it that much I thought I might > > as well take a look. I've emerged it. It's running. Nice. > > > > It seems to start esd by default. I'd need to turn that off. > > > > More embedd

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild fails

2005-09-28 Thread Wes Gray
. . All prepared. Starting rebuild... emerge --oneshot --nodeps =app-arch/rpm-4.2 =app-pda/pilot-link-0.11.8 =app-te xt/openjade-1.3.2-r1 =app-text/uudeview-0.5.20 =dev-lang/lua-5.0.2 =dev-lang/py thon-2.2.3-r5 =dev-libs/libcdio-0.73 =dev-python/gnome-python-1.99.16 =gnome-ba se/gnome-vfs-

Re: [gentoo-user] [Completely and totally OT] FVWM-Crystal...!!!

2005-09-28 Thread Holly Bostick
Mark Knecht schreef: > On 9/28/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Mark Knecht schreef: I changed my layout to dock (which looks a lot like XFCE, but all transparent) >>> I don't quite see this part. Maybe I haven't found them yet. It's >>> only been runnign 10 minut

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Size of portage tree

2005-09-28 Thread Bryan Whitehead
I've lost 5 filesystems on reiser... So I won't touch it anymore. :P :( I'm all XFS and so far have not many problems (with over 100 machines in production). My favorite part about XFS is snapshotting and a working dump command for mounted filesystems... On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Hemmann, Volker A

Re: [gentoo-user] [Completely and totally OT] FVWM-Crystal...!!!

2005-09-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/28/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht schreef: > > On 9/28/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Mark Knecht schreef: > I changed my layout to dock (which looks a lot like XFCE, but > all transparent) > > >>> I don't quite see this part. M

Re: [gentoo-user] Pratical question about portage tree

2005-09-28 Thread Norberto Bensa
Nick Rout wrote: > OTOH your approach has problems in that not all files reside on gentoo > mirrors, some reside on sourceforge or other more obscure places. Yup. I know. I did it that way because I used to have dialup (I'm on cablemodem now) and the only places I knew with broadband were using

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild fails

2005-09-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 03:55:47PM -0700, Wes Gray wrote: > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "=dev-lang/python-2.2.3-r5". > . > . > > Why is it trying to access an old version of python? I removed the > /root/.revdep-rebuild*.?_* files, so that's not it. > Not an old version, but

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.13 is 10x slower than 2.6.12!

2005-09-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 16:16 +0300, Martins wrote: > some time ago i had issue like yours that was caused by broken fonts > configuration > > try this: > > boot without X > launch top > see anything taking resources > launch X > see anything taking resources thanks for the suggestion, but it def

[gentoo-user] apache2 logs not rotating, is that metalog's job or logrotate?

2005-09-28 Thread Daevid Vincent
I notice my /var/log/apache2 dir has some very large files, hence I don't think they are being rotated. I looked at /etc/metalog/metalog.conf and don't see anything related to apache in there -- should there be? Or am I supposed to install app-admin/logrotate to handle this? -- gentoo-user@gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Pratical question about portage tree

2005-09-28 Thread W.Kenworthy
Here's another way I started using (~1 month) and it seems both simple and problem free. Run http-replicator on the machine with good net access, then point the rest at it. Its a distfile caching proxy and best of all, its in potage and there is a gentoo wiki doc on how to set it up. Nice! Bill

Re: [gentoo-user] Pratical question about portage tree

2005-09-28 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 08:57:57 +0800 W.Kenworthy wrote: > Here's another way I started using (~1 month) and it seems both simple > and problem free. Run http-replicator on the machine with good net > access, then point the rest at it. Its a distfile caching proxy and > best of all, its in potage

[gentoo-user] Help with an IBM 3791 modem

2005-09-28 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Hi all I am having trouble with one isa pnp modem; I installed isapnp, the tcpdump program has generated the isapnp.conf, I remove the comment mark from the lines that are related with the modem, when I run isapnp isapnp.conf It loads and enable the modem at address 0x110 and IRQ 7, then I tri

Re: [gentoo-user] Pratical question about portage tree

2005-09-28 Thread W.Kenworthy
Not a lot: I came in late on the thread. One thing to investigate is if his ISP keeps a local cache of gentoo as many of the ones in Oz do - they usually dont charge for local (to the ISP) traffic. Then unless its openoffice which is a bit big, a pre-fetch from the ISP at night is a good scenar

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild fails

2005-09-28 Thread Wes Gray
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 07:25:44PM -0400, Willie Wong wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 03:55:47PM -0700, Wes Gray wrote: > > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "=dev-lang/python-2.2.3-r5". > > . > > . > > > > Why is it trying to access an old version of python? I removed the > > /roo

Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 Universal CD install

2005-09-28 Thread joschi
Am Mittwoch, den 28.09.2005, 14:46 +0530 schrieb vikram ranade: > Hello all, hi! > I am very new to gentoo (used to use Red Hat earlier) > I have installed gentoo using the networkless install with the 2005.1 > universal CD. > I have got the system booting perfectly and detecting all the hardware

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild fails

2005-09-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 08:13:58PM -0700, Wes Gray wrote: > I have a newer version of python already. The one revdep-rebuild is > trying to access doesn't even exist in portage. For example, I tried > your suggestion: > > # emerge --oneshot --update python > Calculating dependencies ...done! > >

RE: [gentoo-user] What /devTTY? is the modem normally under?

2005-09-28 Thread Richard Watson
Hi again. I installed slmodem but it's looking for /dev/ttySL0. Presumably I need to create this manually. Can anyone tell me what command I should use to create this. Thanks, Richard -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11

Re: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow

2005-09-28 Thread Glenn Enright
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 12:12, Paweł Madej wrote: > Dunc wrote: > > For something you should only do once a day, 10 minutes isn't that bad > > though. > > I sync not day by day but 2-3 times a week but when I sync I want to run > just after it emerge of updates (I follow new ebuilds on [1] site and > r

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