Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/env.d help

2005-12-10 Thread Grant
> Grant wrote: > > Can someone tell me how to use /etc/env.d > > properly? > > > > # env-update > > Regards, > > -- > Norberto Bensa Hi Noberto, That doesn't seem to do it either. Firefox still crashes from Flash unless I put the export line in /usr/bin/firefox. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

2005-12-10 Thread Chris White
On Saturday 10 December 2005 10:47, Harry Putnam wrote: > First off, this is an install from scratch. > > While your comment sounds smart, this really only puts off doing it > later. ^^ huh? > And the mindnumbing confusion of what parts of kde do what. > I'm not compiling kde-meta either, but

Re: [gentoo-user] (mostly) good news!

2005-12-10 Thread Dale
maxim wexler wrote: >>Well, I don't know about everybody else but I >>compile my ppp stuff in my >>kernel. pon and poff works fine here. May be worth >>a shot. >> >> > >hehe. We're both wrong. I had overlooked >CONFIG_PPP_ASYNC; after compiling it as a module and >modprobing it I was able to

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/env.d help

2005-12-10 Thread Catalin Trifu
Hi, You don't write export VAR_NAME in env.d. In the /etc/env.d u only write VAR_NAME="some value" Then run env-update && source /etc/profile In your particular case: add in /etc/env.d/90local and not in /etc/env.d/10MozillaFirefox (this one might get overwritten with an u

Re: [gentoo-user] advice on security and keyloggers

2005-12-10 Thread Dale
Jerry Turba wrote: > I've heard a lot lately about software keyloggers that can be > installed on a computer while surfing the net, and how big a security > problem they have become. What is the Linux/Gentoo approach to block > keyloggers? I do not run any antivirus or anti spyware programs (I > d

[gentoo-user] raid1 + lvm2

2005-12-10 Thread Jarry
Hi, I'm going to re-install gentoo on a small hobby-server and because I need both redundancy and flexibility, I thought in addition to raid1 (2x 160GB ata-disk) this time I would also use lvm2: /dev/md0 /boot (~50MB) /dev/md1 / (2GB) /dev/md2 (2GB) /dev/md3 lvm2(rest for /var /tmp

[gentoo-user] gtk display

2005-12-10 Thread cucu ionut cristian
hi all ! I have a problem reguarding my gtk aplications they cannot be started using sudo nmapfe(or any program for that matter) the error message is Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: i'm using the e17 windows manager, if it makes any differences Thanks! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] caching DNS the Gentoo way?

2005-12-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 9 Dec 2005 16:38:35 -0800, michael higgins wrote: > > What sort of set-up is this? Is this a single machine by itself > > connected to the internet, > > Just a single machine behind a router/firewall to DSL. Most routers provide DNS caching by default, you normally only need to out the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

2005-12-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 20:24:01 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > > It's no big deal upgrading KDE anyway. Set PORTAGE_NICENESS to a > > suitable value and you can keep using the computer while the new KDE > > is compiled in the background. KDE is slotted, so installing 3.5 has > > no effect on the 3.4.x

Re: [gentoo-user] raid1 + lvm2

2005-12-10 Thread Jim Burwell
Jarry wrote: Hi, I'm going to re-install gentoo on a small hobby-server and because I need both redundancy and flexibility, I thought in addition to raid1 (2x 160GB ata-disk) this time I would also use lvm2: /dev/md0 /boot (~50MB) /dev/md1 / (2GB) /dev/md2 (2GB) /dev/md3 lvm2

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

2005-12-10 Thread Holly Bostick
Gerhard Hoogterp schreef: > On Friday 09 December 2005 23:20, Tom Smith wrote: > >> Gentoo is a source-based distribution. This means that the software >> you receive comes in the form of source code. It's up to you to >> install (which includes compiling) the software with your specific >> pre

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC only for priviliged users?

2005-12-10 Thread aka Sevein
On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 18:29:22 +0100 "Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 18:21 +0100, Jesús García Crespo wrote: > > Hi! I thought that GCC could means a risk if all of the users of my > > system are able to run it! I talked this with a friend and he > > proposse

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/env.d help

2005-12-10 Thread Holly Bostick
Grant schreef: > That doesn't seem to do it either. Firefox still crashes from Flash > unless I put the export line in /usr/bin/firefox. > Why don't you just alias it, then (until such time as you figure out what's going wrong and how to adjust)? In ~/.bashrc alias firefox="export XLIB_SKIP_

Re: [gentoo-user] module-init-tools vs. modutils

2005-12-10 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi Richard and Neil, > Nothing in the current portage tree depends on sys-apps/modutils, > only virtual/modutils.  And for every profile except "embedded", > virtual/modutils defaults to sys-apps/module-init-tools. thanks a lot for the help. I simply unmerged modutils and kept module-init-tool

Re: [gentoo-user] links w/o benefit of X

2005-12-10 Thread Holly Bostick
Willie Wong schreef: > On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 09:07:07PM -0800, Penguin Lover maxim wexler > squawked: > >> But I notice in yahoo when I try to read my mail after logging into >> my account I'm bumped to a window that says my browser is not setup >> to go to that URL, > > > Perhaps it checks fo

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC only for priviliged users?

2005-12-10 Thread Michael Kjorling
On 2005-12-10 12:06 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I meant something like: > for (;;) malloc(1000); If this is what you are worried about, it sounds like you would be a lot better off setting up some sort of resource limits than simply limiting access to the compiler. I know for a fact that PAM

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk display

2005-12-10 Thread Holly Bostick
cucu ionut cristian schreef: > hi all ! > I have a problem reguarding my gtk aplications they cannot be started > using sudo nmapfe(or any program for that matter) > the error message is Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: > i'm using the e17 windows manager, if it makes any differences > Thanks!

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP and Mbstring (was Re: PHP and MCRYPT)

2005-12-10 Thread Francesco Riosa
Jeff Grossman wrote: > Francesco Riosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Jeff Grossman wrote: >> >>> I am running dev-lang/php 5.0.5. I installed phpmyadmin, and when I >>> first go into it, it says I do not have mcrypt installed in my php. How >>> do I enable mcrypt in PHP? I tried addi

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/env.d help

2005-12-10 Thread Francesco Riosa
Grant wrote: >> Grant wrote: >> >>> Can someone tell me how to use /etc/env.d >>> properly? >>> >>> >> # env-update >> then #source /etc/profile then launch mozilla from the shell >> Regards, >> >> -- >> Norberto Bensa >> > > Hi Noberto, > > That doesn't seem to do it either

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk display

2005-12-10 Thread cucu ionut cristian
> This occurs only with sudo? Yes > I had a similar problem, solved by adding the following to visudoers: > > # Uncomment to allow users in group wheel to export variables > Defaults:%wheel !env_reset > > # Allow users in group users to export specific variables > # Defaults:%users env_kee

Re: [gentoo-user] links w/o benefit of X

2005-12-10 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 12/10/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Willie Wong schreef: > > On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 09:07:07PM -0800, Penguin Lover maxim wexler > > squawked: > > > >> But I notice in yahoo when I try to read my mail after logging into > >> my account I'm bumped to a window that says my browse

[gentoo-user] Toshiba fnfx

2005-12-10 Thread Matthew R. Lee
I recently installed fnfx tools for toshiba laptops on mine (Portege 3500). Most of the functions work strait off but the one to toggle the fan on and off doesn't. This is the one I really wanted as my fan has an irritating occasional rattle (I've taken it out and cleaned it but can't get rid

[gentoo-user] Re: Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

2005-12-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Chris White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Saturday 10 December 2005 10:47, Harry Putnam wrote: >> First off, this is an install from scratch. >> >> While your comment sounds smart, this really only puts off doing it >> later. > > ^^ huh? > >> And the mindnumbing confusion of what parts of kde

[gentoo-user] Re: Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

2005-12-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Then download a GRP CD, do a stage 3 install then install, X, KDE etc. > from the GRP CD. That's how I did it and had a full working system in > just over and hour. I was able to set my USE flags, sysnc portage and > re-emerge everything that needed it

[gentoo-user] kde compile ends in unusal error - fs problem?

2005-12-10 Thread Harry Putnam
I've had an `emerge -v kde' running for hours and this morning I find it has errored out while compiling kdenetwork. I can't really figure out what this error might mean but it appears it might be somekind of fs problem in /tmp. I've inlined a hefty snipped from the tail of output below but first

Re: [gentoo-user] kde compile ends in unusal error - fs problem?

2005-12-10 Thread Petteri Räty
Harry Putnam wrote: > > What should permissions on /tmp look like in a normal system? > I see tmp is chmod 755 but shouldn't it be something like 1777? > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=4#doc_chap5 Regards, Petteri signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: [gentoo-user] advice on security and keyloggers

2005-12-10 Thread Jerry Turba
Dale wrote: Jerry Turba wrote: I've heard a lot lately about software keyloggers that can be installed on a computer while surfing the net, and how big a security problem they have become. What is the Linux/Gentoo approach to block keyloggers? I do not run any antivirus or anti spyware prog

Re: [gentoo-user] caching DNS the Gentoo way?

2005-12-10 Thread Matan Peled
michael higgins wrote: Hello, all. Need a clue, here. I don't like BIND that much. djbdns does the caching here. -- [Name ] :: [Matan I. Peled] [Location ] :: [Israel] [Public Key] :: [0xD6F42CA5] [Keyserver ] :: [keyserver.kjsl.com] encrypted/signed

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

2005-12-10 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
On Saturday 10 December 2005 11:58, Holly Bostick wrote: > Gerhard Hoogterp schreef: > > While this is true and one of the things that makes gentoo gentoo, > > there are already binary packages in portage. mozilla-bin, > > openoffice-bin. Mostly big packages which take some time to compile. > > S

Re: [gentoo-user] raid1 + lvm2

2005-12-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 10:37:58 +0100, Jarry wrote: > I'm going to re-install gentoo on a small hobby-server and because > I need both redundancy and flexibility, I thought in addition to > raid1 (2x 160GB ata-disk) this time I would also use lvm2: > > /dev/md0 /boot (~50MB) > /dev/md1 / (2G

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

2005-12-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 11:58:19 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: > There is obviously some overriding benefit to modularity for the KDE > team (as for the X.org team, which is also migrating to a modular format > for their packge), and this benefit migrates down to Gentoo as a > source-based distro (as op

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

2005-12-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 07:49:30 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > > When did I say meta... > > I was differentiating what you did say `kdebase' with the full blown > kde-meta and noting I was somewhere in the middle with an > emerge -v kde. kde-base/kde is a meta package, it pulls in all the monolithic

Re: [gentoo-user] kde compile ends in unusal error - fs problem?

2005-12-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 08:04:51 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > What should permissions on /tmp look like in a normal system? > I see tmp is chmod 755 but shouldn't it be something like 1777? It should, but it makes no difference to emerging, which is done as root. 1777 is more secure, it stops one use

Re: [gentoo-user] teamspeak

2005-12-10 Thread Thomas Harold
Qv6 wrote: Thanks. I just looked at the ventrilo site and I agree with you on the licensing issue; not very comfortable with it. Aside from Teamspeak and Ventrilo, I also came across Asernal -> http://arsenalproject.org/ It's open source Good, I'll look at that too. SpeakEasy had a "reflect

Re: [gentoo-user] raid1 + lvm2

2005-12-10 Thread Thomas Harold
Jarry wrote: Hi, I'm going to re-install gentoo on a small hobby-server and because I need both redundancy and flexibility, I thought in addition to raid1 (2x 160GB ata-disk) this time I would also use lvm2: /dev/md0 /boot (~50MB) /dev/md1 / (2GB) /dev/md2 (2GB) /dev/md3 lvm2(res

[gentoo-user] ERROR: sys-apps/ivman-0.5_pre2 failed.

2005-12-10 Thread Dale
HI . . . . . again, Well, I took me a nap and woke up to this little error message: > (cd .libs && rm -f libIvmConfig.la && ln -s ../libIvmConfig.la > libIvmConfig.la) > make[3]: Leaving directory > `/var/tmp/portage/ivman-0.5_pre2/work/ivman-0.5_pre2/src/IvmConfig' > make[3]: Entering directory

[gentoo-user] Re: Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

2005-12-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > kde-base/kde is a meta package, it pulls in all the monolithic KDE > builds. If you are concerned about installation compile times, you should > not be trying to build the whole of KDE. Do you really need all of > kdegames, kdeedu and kdetoys to get your

Re: [gentoo-user] raid1 + lvm2

2005-12-10 Thread Mike Williams
On Saturday 10 December 2005 10:47, Jim Burwell wrote: > One thing you need is a initrd or initramfs setup to get all this stuff > up and running during boot.  I found the easiest way to do this was to > use genkernel.  Here's are some quick notes on how I got this working > using the gentoo-source

[gentoo-user] Building a Kernel -- anybody wanna help????

2005-12-10 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
(I am not sure if this is an inappropriate request, if so, someone please let me know and it will be quickly withdrawn) Hi folks: Im fairly new to the gentoo environment, and im getting ready to try again to build a working kernel for my laptop. Since im new to it, I would love to have someone t

[gentoo-user] Re: kde compile ends in unusal error - fs problem?

2005-12-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 08:04:51 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> What should permissions on /tmp look like in a normal system? >> I see tmp is chmod 755 but shouldn't it be something like 1777? > > It should, but it makes no difference to emerging, which is

[gentoo-user] Re: PHP and Mbstring (was Re: PHP and MCRYPT)

2005-12-10 Thread Jeff Grossman
Francesco Riosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeff Grossman wrote: >> Francesco Riosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Jeff Grossman wrote: >>> I am running dev-lang/php 5.0.5. I installed phpmyadmin, and when I first go into it, it says I do not have mcrypt installed in my php.

Re: [gentoo-user] advice on security and keyloggers

2005-12-10 Thread Dale
Jerry Turba wrote: > My system is very similar to yours; no windows, no emulators, etc. I > wasn't sure what kind of program the keyloggers were; virus or > rootkit. Of course I would not intentionally install a keylogger or > rootkit. I wanted to know what other thought about keyloggers since I >

[gentoo-user] Continuing xorg/nvidia driver issues

2005-12-10 Thread fire-eyes
A few of you responded with suggestions, and I got the help of others as well. However I am still having the same issue. I have updated this URL with more info, I am still looking for input into this. I did define my modeline. http://fire-eyes.org/temp/badness.txt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org maili

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

2005-12-10 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Did you check out the Gentoo docs on kde split ebuilds? It has a lot of good info. I started to emerge with the kde and then decided to go with the meta so per the instructions I had to remove some stuff - it shows up as blocked. On Saturday 10 December 2005 11:31, Harry Putnam wrote: > Neil

Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: sys-apps/ivman-0.5_pre2 failed.

2005-12-10 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 10:17:07 -0600 Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was doing a emerge -e world to make sure everything was in order after > the gcc upgrade and poking KDE 3.5 into the mix as well. I only have 92 > packages left. > > OK, any ideas on what went south? I added ivman to the

[gentoo-user] Postfix Install

2005-12-10 Thread Gentoo
Hi, Iam new to gentoo. A friends uses it and suggested I get it a try. I am very new to gentoo so any help or pointers towards doc would be great. I have tried to install postfix with emerge postfix and get the following error. Calculating dependencies ...done! !!! Error: the mail-mta/ssm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

2005-12-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 10:31:26 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > I'm confused here. (even more..) > > Before starting the compile: > I ran a comparision of `emerge -v -p kde' and > emerge -v -p kde-meta > > The last showed a much larger pile of dependancies than the former. A longer list, but not lar

Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: sys-apps/ivman-0.5_pre2 failed.

2005-12-10 Thread Jose Maria Alvarez Fernandez
Bob Sanders wrote: On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 10:17:07 -0600 Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was doing a emerge -e world to make sure everything was in order after the gcc upgrade and poking KDE 3.5 into the mix as well. I only have 92 packages left. OK, any ideas on what went south? I added i

Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: sys-apps/ivman-0.5_pre2 failed.

2005-12-10 Thread Dale
Bob Sanders wrote: >On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 10:17:07 -0600 >Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>I was doing a emerge -e world to make sure everything was in order after >>the gcc upgrade and poking KDE 3.5 into the mix as well. I only have 92 >>packages left. >> >>OK, any ideas on what went sou

Re: [gentoo-user] hotplug and coldplug for a hosted server?

2005-12-10 Thread Grant
> hotplug, afaik, refers to not only the practice of swapping SCSI drives on > the fly in busy servers but as well as anything USB related, mounting of > drives, and the like. > Assuming you won't need to plug in a USB drive all of the sudden and you > keep a spotless fstab and have a sole eth con

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix Install

2005-12-10 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 10 décembre à 18:49:31 Gentoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrit notamment: | Hi, > | Iam new to gentoo. A friends uses it and suggested I get it a try. I am | very new to gentoo so any help or pointers towards doc would be great. I | have tried to install postfix with emerge postfix and get the f

Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: sys-apps/ivman-0.5_pre2 failed.

2005-12-10 Thread Dale
Jose Maria Alvarez Fernandez wrote: > With hal >=0.5, you need ivman 0.6. > > Cheers! > > Chema > >> >> Bob >> - > That's what I thought. I'll change that after the emerge -e world finishes. It's crunching Mozilla at the moment. Since this is on rig #1 in my sig, it won't be long. Thanks for

Re: [gentoo-user] hotplug and coldplug for a hosted server?

2005-12-10 Thread Dale
Grant wrote: > >Ok, does anyone run a udev system without hotplug and coldplug? > >- Grant > > > Looks like I don't run them: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # rc-update show | grep hotplug > hotplug | > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # rc-update show | grep coldplug > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # They are

Re: [gentoo-user] hotplug and coldplug for a hosted server?

2005-12-10 Thread Petteri Räty
Grant wrote: >>hotplug, afaik, refers to not only the practice of swapping SCSI drives on >>the fly in busy servers but as well as anything USB related, mounting of >>drives, and the like. >>Assuming you won't need to plug in a USB drive all of the sudden and you >>keep a spotless fstab and have a

Re: [gentoo-user] hotplug and coldplug for a hosted server?

2005-12-10 Thread Mike Williams
On Saturday 10 December 2005 17:26, Grant wrote: > Ok, does anyone run a udev system without hotplug and coldplug? gandalf ~ # emerge udev -epv | egrep "plug|udev" [ebuild N] sys-apps/hotplug-base-20040401 0 kB [ebuild N] sys-fs/udev-070-r1 (-selinux) -static 0 kB -- Mike Williams --

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

2005-12-10 Thread Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)
On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 15:55 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > I'll probably need the asbestos drawers here shortly: > > I've burned up several hours here with a grindingly slow compile of > kde. It is an older machine ( a few years) but is a P4 2Ghz and 500MB > ram. Is there an alternative to this? I

Re: [gentoo-user] hotplug and coldplug for a hosted server?

2005-12-10 Thread Grant
> >>hotplug, afaik, refers to not only the practice of swapping SCSI drives on > >>the fly in busy servers but as well as anything USB related, mounting of > >>drives, and the like. > >>Assuming you won't need to plug in a USB drive all of the sudden and you > >>keep a spotless fstab and have a so

Re: [gentoo-user] hotplug and coldplug for a hosted server?

2005-12-10 Thread Grant
> > Ok, does anyone run a udev system without hotplug and coldplug? > > gandalf ~ # emerge udev -epv | egrep "plug|udev" > [ebuild N] sys-apps/hotplug-base-20040401 0 kB > [ebuild N] sys-fs/udev-070-r1 (-selinux) -static 0 kB > > -- > Mike Williams What is the meaning of this? It look

[gentoo-user] courier webadmin

2005-12-10 Thread Nick Smith
anyone know what you have to do to get courier's webadmin tool to work in gentoo? it didnt automagicly get installed into the webserver dir like the other things ive installed, phpmyadmin etc. couldnt find anything on the wiki or googling. thanks Nick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC only for priviliged users?

2005-12-10 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/10/05, aka Sevein Jesús García Crespo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I meant something like: > for (;;) malloc(1000); Not any worse than: x=abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz; while true; do x="$x$x"; done -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix Install

2005-12-10 Thread Markus Ullmann
Gentoo wrote: > Calculating dependencies ...done! > [blocks B ] mail-mta/ssmtp (is blocking mail-mta/postfix-2.2.5) > [ebuild N] dev-libs/libpcre-6.3 > [ebuild N] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.5 You have to unmerge ssmtp first with "emerge unmerge ssmtp" as that package blocks the one you wan

Re: [gentoo-user] advice on security and keyloggers

2005-12-10 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/9/05, Jerry Turba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Should I be safe if I keep up on updates and the glsa? As long as your X configuration is reasonably secure, yes. But if you do something silly like run "xhost +", then any remote user can connect to your X server with xev and log keystrokes.

Re: [gentoo-user] raid1 + lvm2

2005-12-10 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/10/05, Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 10 December 2005 10:47, Jim Burwell wrote: > > One thing you need is a initrd or initramfs setup to get all this stuff > > up and running during boot. I found the easiest way to do this was to > > use genkernel. Here's are some qui

Re: [gentoo-user] raid1 + lvm2

2005-12-10 Thread Jarry
Richard Fish wrote: >>>One thing you need is a initrd or initramfs setup to get all this stuff >>>up and running during boot. I found the easiest way to do this was to >>>use genkernel. Here's are some quick notes on how I got this working >>>using the gentoo-sources-2.6.14-r2 kernel: >> >>Or just

Re: [gentoo-user] hotplug and coldplug for a hosted server?

2005-12-10 Thread Petteri Räty
Grant wrote: > > I'm a bit confused. udev does emerge hotplug-base as a dependency. > But as far as hotplug itself, this document: > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml > > says: > > "You do not need to install hotplug unless you want your modules > automatically loaded when you plu

Re: [gentoo-user] raid1 + lvm2

2005-12-10 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/10/05, Jarry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One more thing I'm interested in: what impact does lvm2 have on disk i/o, > compared to "common" partitions? Insignificant, for both IO speeds and CPU load. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] hotplug and coldplug for a hosted server?

2005-12-10 Thread Mike Williams
On Saturday 10 December 2005 18:02, Grant wrote: > > gandalf ~ # emerge udev -epv | egrep "plug|udev" > > [ebuild  N    ] sys-apps/hotplug-base-20040401  0 kB > > [ebuild  N    ] sys-fs/udev-070-r1  (-selinux) -static 0 kB > > What is the meaning of this?  It looks like you aren't running a udev >

Re: [gentoo-user] raid1 + lvm2

2005-12-10 Thread Thomas Harold
Jarry wrote: One more thing I'm interested in: what impact does lvm2 have on disk i/o, compared to "common" partitions? Probably lvm2 will make disk operations a little slower, but how much? Or does it cause higher cpu-load too? While I don't know of any benchmarks... the ability to resize par

Re: [gentoo-user] IMAP Server - authenticating off a Windows Domain?

2005-12-10 Thread Stroller
On Dec 5, 2005, at 2:34 pm, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: Stroller wrote: to authenticate against the domain controller everytime the user logs on to their email? You have many approaches, each of them with specific complications: ... 3) PAM_LDAP and use courier with authpam: May probe

[gentoo-user] cannot find -lncurses

2005-12-10 Thread Michael Sullivan
I'm trying to build mysql in my cross-compilation environment for my slow server box. One of the dependencies for mysql is procps. When I try to emerge procps I get this error: /usr/lib/gcc/i586-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.4/../../../../i586-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses I have ncurses insta

[gentoo-user] Knoppix Install Method

2005-12-10 Thread drew
I have a system on an Abit motherboard with the Nvidia GeForce 4 chipset. There are two SATA disks in a hardward stripe configuration using the controller built in to the motherboard. The machine and disks were used as a Windows XP workstation. Now that Windows installation is hosed up and I'

Re: [gentoo-user] links w/o benefit of X

2005-12-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 12:42:58PM +0100, Penguin Lover Holly Bostick squawked: > No, it's probably checking for the ability to go to an http*s*:// url (a > secure site, which Yahoo!Mail passes through for authentication when > logging you in. I just checked, and when you log in, you go (very > qui

Re: [gentoo-user] hotplug and coldplug for a hosted server?

2005-12-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 09:26:18AM -0800, Penguin Lover Grant squawked: > Ok, does anyone run a udev system without hotplug and coldplug? > sep wwong # rc-update show | grep plug sep wwong # USB keys work just fine, so does my DigiCam. Then again, I compiled mostly everything I need into the k

Re: [gentoo-user] hotplug and coldplug for a hosted server?

2005-12-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 10:00:42AM -0800, Penguin Lover Grant squawked: > I'm just trying to figure out what I need for my laptop and for my > server. I'd rather not have useless stuff on my systems, but I don't > want anything to break either. Also, should hotplug be added to the > default runle

[gentoo-user] Update: Continuing xorg/nvidia driver issues

2005-12-10 Thread fire-eyes
It seems that my issues are caused by not xorg. Nor nvidias drivers, but by xfce4. Sounds odd but it is true. Something appears to be wrong with its resolution/display manager. I can use its settings to set the resolution back to 1600x1200, however it completely ignores the virtual, which drives m

Re: [gentoo-user] courier webadmin

2005-12-10 Thread Stroller
On Dec 10, 2005, at 6:04 pm, Nick Smith wrote: anyone know what you have to do to get courier's webadmin tool to work in gentoo? it didnt automagicly get installed into the webserver dir like the other things ive installed, phpmyadmin etc. couldnt find anything on the wiki or googling. Did

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix Install Method

2005-12-10 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On Saturday 10 December 2005 12:08 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a system on an Abit motherboard with the Nvidia GeForce 4 > chipset. Make that an NForce 4 chipset. Got confused between graphics and motherboards. :) > here are two SATA disks in a hardward stripe > configuration using

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kde compile ends in unusal error - fs problem?

2005-12-10 Thread Stroller
On Dec 10, 2005, at 4:35 pm, Harry Putnam wrote: ...What got me looking at that was hearing the drive clicking after restarting kde compile. Not many but a few widely spaced that seemed wrong. Sounds to me like the hard-drive's on the way out. If there's important data on there I'd replace

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix Install Method

2005-12-10 Thread Nick Smith
On 12/10/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a system on an Abit motherboard with the Nvidia GeForce 4 chipset. > There are two SATA disks in a hardward stripe configuration using the > controller built in to the motherboard. The machine and disks were used as a > Windows XP

Re: [gentoo-user] courier webadmin

2005-12-10 Thread Nick Smith
On 12/10/05, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 10, 2005, at 6:04 pm, Nick Smith wrote: > > > anyone know what you have to do to get courier's webadmin tool to work > > in gentoo? it didnt automagicly get installed into the webserver dir > > like the other things ive installed, phpmyad

Re: [gentoo-user] courier webadmin

2005-12-10 Thread Nick Smith
On 12/10/05, Nick Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/10/05, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Dec 10, 2005, at 6:04 pm, Nick Smith wrote: > > > > > anyone know what you have to do to get courier's webadmin tool to work > > > in gentoo? it didnt automagicly get installed into the

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix Install Method

2005-12-10 Thread Stroller
On Dec 10, 2005, at 5:08 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a system on an Abit motherboard with the Nvidia GeForce 4 chipset. There are two SATA disks in a hardward stripe configuration using the controller built in to the motherboard. ... I booted the latest Knoppix dated 9/23/05 and see t

Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: sys-apps/ivman-0.5_pre2 failed.

2005-12-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 11:17:39 -0600, Dale wrote: > I plan to keyword/unmask ivman then and try again. I think it is a deal > that ivman is not keyworded but hal and the rest in the chain are. > Maybe hal doesn't like the old versions of hal. I did have to do a rm > -rf in it during the compile,

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix Install Method

2005-12-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 12:08:50 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > However there is some data on the drive that I'd like to recover before > blowing the disk away. I booted the latest Knoppix dated 9/23/05 and > see two icons on the desktop for my drives. One for sda the other for > sdb. I can no

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC only for priviliged users?

2005-12-10 Thread Chris Boot
On 9 Dec 2005, at 17:29, Spider (D.m.D. Lj.) wrote: On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 18:21 +0100, Jesús García Crespo wrote: Hi! I thought that GCC could means a risk if all of the users of my system are able to run it! I talked this with a friend and he propossed to create a new group, "compiler", fo

[gentoo-user] More cross-compilation problems

2005-12-10 Thread Michael Sullivan
I got past the ncurses problem, but now I have a new one: While trying to build libperl for my cross-compilation environment (for i586) I get this error: I've tried to compile and run the following simple program: #include int main() { printf("Ok\n"); return(0); } I used the command:

[gentoo-user] Missing LVM2 drive after upgrade/reboot

2005-12-10 Thread Peter Kelly
Holas, After a week or so of upgrading gcc, emerge -e world/system, watching hal/dbus toggle between +/- 0.5 versions, and having gentoo upgrade udev while I'm doing all this, I've finally got a clean, rebuilt system. revdep-rebuild gives comes up clean. emerge -autvDN world comes up empty. emer

Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: sys-apps/ivman-0.5_pre2 failed.

2005-12-10 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: The APIs for dbus and hal changed significantly between the hal 0.4 and 0.5 releases, they are incompatible. You need everything using the same API. You'll find it affects KDE too, KDE 3.5 uses the 0.5 system whereas 3.4 uses the older API. That would be the technical

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing LVM2 drive after upgrade/reboot

2005-12-10 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/10/05, Peter Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, upon reboot, I can't get a USB backup drive to mount correctly. > It's an LVM2 partition that should show up as vgusbhd, mounted to /mnt/usbhd. > Something seems to die between vgscan finding the drive/partition, and udev > creating a /

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix Install Method

2005-12-10 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 12/10/2005 1:04 PM Nick Smith wrote: On 12/10/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a system on an Abit motherboard with the Nvidia GeForce 4 chipset. There are two SATA disks in a hardward stripe configuration using the controller built in to the motherboard. The machi

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix Install Method

2005-12-10 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 12/10/2005 1:17 PM Stroller wrote: On Dec 10, 2005, at 5:08 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a system on an Abit motherboard with the Nvidia GeForce 4 chipset. There are two SATA disks in a hardward stripe configuration using the controller built in to the motherboard. ... I booted t

[gentoo-user] Re: kde compile ends in unusal error - fs problem?

2005-12-10 Thread reader
Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> ...What got me looking at that was hearing the drive clicking after >> restarting kde compile. Not many but a few widely spaced that seemed >> wrong. > > Sounds to me like the hard-drive's on the way out. If there's > important data on there I'd replace it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix Install Method

2005-12-10 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 12/10/2005 1:50 PM Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 12:08:50 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However there is some data on the drive that I'd like to recover before blowing the disk away. I booted the latest Knoppix dated 9/23/05 and see two icons on the desktop for my drives.

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix Install Method

2005-12-10 Thread Stroller
On Dec 10, 2005, at 9:04 pm, Nick Smith wrote: ... i know that doesnt answer your knoppix question but i deal with that crap everyday and i have tried using knoppix a few times and it had problems with the ntfs partitions. where would you put the data once you got it? its booted off the cd, so

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing LVM2 drive after upgrade/reboot

2005-12-10 Thread Peter Kelly
On Saturday 10 December 2005 16:59, Richard Fish wrote: > On 12/10/05, Peter Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > However, upon reboot, I can't get a USB backup drive to mount correctly. > > It's an LVM2 partition that should show up as vgusbhd, mounted to > > /mnt/usbhd. Something seems to die bet

Re: [gentoo-user] links w/o benefit of X

2005-12-10 Thread maxim wexler
> > > I notice, also that Ctrl-A, X, V have no effect > but I can move > > between pages using Alt and the arrow keys. Is > there some way to > > activate those dead keys without having to install > all the usual X > > stuff. > > > > As for the "dead keys": > > links --help > links [options] U

[gentoo-user] Gmail and ssmpt

2005-12-10 Thread ellotheth rimmwen
Evening, list. I'm about through with this issue and ready to just try another lightweight mta, but I thought I'd give it one last go. I've combed gmane, the Gentoo forums, and Google to no effect. Here's the question: Have your (or anyone you know) been able to set up ssmtp with Gmail's SMTP servi

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix Install Method

2005-12-10 Thread Shawn Haggett
Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 12/10/2005 1:17 PM Stroller wrote: On Dec 10, 2005, at 5:08 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a system on an Abit motherboard with the Nvidia GeForce 4 chipset. There are two SATA disks in a hardward stripe configuration using the controller built in to the mot

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing LVM2 drive after upgrade/reboot

2005-12-10 Thread Peter Kelly
On Saturday 10 December 2005 17:35, Peter Kelly wrote: > > And this command fixed it. /dev/mapper/vgusbhd-usbhd exists. > > > > crichton ~ # ll /dev/vgusb/usbhd > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Dec 10 16:07 /dev/vgusb/usbhd -> ../sda1 > > > > This is wrong...this link should be to /dev/mapper/vgu

Re: [gentoo-user] Building a Kernel -- anybody wanna help????

2005-12-10 Thread Rafael Fernández López
Best thing to know about Gentoo (and Linux in general). Try, don't work, retry, still doesn't work, retry, still doesn't work. Did you try until you have a pretty hard headache ?? Well, then is time to write some mailing list. Read manuals, use your best friend, "man", try, and retry. If someon

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