[gentoo-user] What do I do about slocate 3.1/2.7 ?

2006-04-21 Thread Jules Colding
Hi, A few moments ago I tried to emerge slocate but got: # omc-2 ~ # emerge -va sys-apps/slocate These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] sys-apps/slocate-2.7-r8 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB Do you w

[gentoo-user] Oracle DB question

2006-04-21 Thread pat
Hi, I want to ask if there's possible to install Oracle DB (9 and higher) on Gentoo and if there's a tutorial/howto how to do it. Thanks Pat -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] What do I do about slocate 3.1/2.7 ?

2006-04-21 Thread Thomas Kear
I know it's not quite the answer you asked for, but might I suggest rlocate. rlocate uses a kernel module to do real-time updates of the locate database (uses very little cpu time), which as well as providing instant indexing of new files reduces the complete hard drive trawl from once a day to onc

Re: [gentoo-user] Oracle DB question

2006-04-21 Thread martin nicolas
Maybe this http://csee.wvu.edu/~ccole/oracle10g-ubuntu.html but you have to adapt it for Gentoo (just a few differences I think). On 4/21/06, pat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi,I want to ask if there's possible to install Oracle DB (9 and higher) onGentoo and if there's a tutorial/howto how to do it

Re: [gentoo-user] Oracle DB question

2006-04-21 Thread Rolf Wathne
On 2006-04-21, 09:29 +0200, pat wrote: > Hi, > > I want to ask if there's possible to install Oracle DB (9 and higher) on > Gentoo and if there's a tutorial/howto how to do it. Gentoo-wiki.com has a howto for 10g: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Oracle_10g -- Rolf Wathne <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System unusable after updating lvm

2006-04-21 Thread Alexander Skwar
Christer Ekholm wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After updating lvm2 from 2.02.02 to 2.02.03, the system mount / which is on a primary partition but frefus to mount /usr,/var,/home and /tmp. On the console I see: Setting up the logical volume manager Volume group for uuid not found: m6reV...

Re: [gentoo-user] where is /dev/ttyS* ?

2006-04-21 Thread Farhan Ahmed
maxim wexler wrote: > Hello everybody, > > When I try to dialup the 'net on a fresh 2.6.16 > install I get: > > #pon > /usr/sbin/pppd: In file /etc/peers/hd: unrecognized > option '/dev/ttyS0' > > Sure enough, there's no such file, just /dev/tty, 0, 1 > ... On my 2.6.12 and 2.6.15 boxen /dev/tt

Re: [gentoo-user] portage question

2006-04-21 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan LaMotte wrote: > anyone know if you can compile something locally into your home > directory using portage without being root? > > basically what I want to accomplish is like... > > ROOT=/home/lamotte/compile emerge openssh > > or > > ebuild /p

Re: [gentoo-user] Install help

2006-04-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 15:50:30 -0500, John Jolet wrote: > > I think the more "offical" way is to uncomment the following lines > > in /etc/rc.conf: > > > > DISPLAYMANAGER="gdm" > > XSESSION="Gnome" > > > > > I would disagree. This is how you boot into x. not necessarily how > you run x. I pers

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System unusable after updating lvm

2006-04-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 10:41:09 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > WARN: postinst > An old version of an installed library was detected on your system. > In order to avoid breaking packages that link against it, this older > version is not being removed. In order to make full use of this newer > versio

Re: [gentoo-user] Filetimestamp needed by emerge ?

2006-04-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 05:35:51 +0200 (CEST), Meino Christian Cramer wrote: > I want to cp -a /usr/portage to another partition to make room on / > > When I will do this, all files of the portage directory will get > a new and nearly identical timestamp. No they won't. -a includes -p, which pres

[gentoo-user] Re: System unusable after updating lvm

2006-04-21 Thread Christer Ekholm
Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hm, did yo note the following warning? > > WARN: postinst > An old version of an installed library was detected on your system. > In order to avoid breaking packages that link against it, this older version > is not being removed. In order to make ful

Re: [gentoo-user] Filetimestamp needed by emerge ?

2006-04-21 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 21 April 2006 05:35, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: > Hi, > > I want to cp -a /usr/portage to another partition to make room on / > > When I will do this, all files of the portage directory will get > a new and nearly identical timestamp. > > Will this hurt the packaging/compiling or "

[gentoo-user] Re: lan-http-replicator docs

2006-04-21 Thread James
Anielkis estudiantes.uci.cu> writes: > > i recommend you to use torpage > http://www.kroon.co.za/torpage.php Well before I do that, I have to figure out how to disable lan-http-replicator on the client machines. James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Filetimestamp needed by emerge ?

2006-04-21 Thread John Jolet
On 4/20/06 11:41 PM, "Martins Steinbergs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 21 April 2006 06:35, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I want to cp -a /usr/portage to another partition to make room on / >> >> When I will do this, all files of the portage directory will get >> a n

Re: [gentoo-user] where is /dev/ttyS* ?

2006-04-21 Thread Alan E. Davis
I don't know whether this is off or on topic, but I noticed that my modem was assigned to a different ttySX w/ 2.6.16. I ran wvdialconf again, which identified the new /dev/ name, and it has worked flawlessly since. 2.6.X kernels have given me, at least, fits over /dev/ttySX. The /dev/ttyS devic

[gentoo-user] Ati driver

2006-04-21 Thread Roberto Griso
Hello, i try to install new ati driver on my linux system. The installation on Xorg and the modprobe action for the fglrx module works very well, but wharn i try to start an X session, it exits with the follow error message : (EE) fglrx(0): No V_BIOS found(EE) fglrx(0): PreInitInt10 failedSetVBEMod

Re: [gentoo-user] KControl: Password & User Account settings

2006-04-21 Thread Sebastián Ferrara
El Fri, 21 Apr 2006 10:10:59 +0530 Abhay Kedia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: >Hello All, > >I just saw this image showing settings related to user account in >KControl http://www.kbfx.org/staticpages/images/screenshots/7.png > >When I check for the same under kcontrol on my system (KDE 3.5.2)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System unusable after updating lvm

2006-04-21 Thread Rumen Yotov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christer Ekholm wrote: > Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Hm, did yo note the following warning? >> >> WARN: postinst >> An old version of an installed library was detected on your system. >> In order to avoid breaking packages that li

[gentoo-user] qmail queue delete help

2006-04-21 Thread El Nino
Dear friends, i deployed a qmail(qmail-1.03-r16) server. now its spamming... its queuing more than 13000 message. i issued #qmHandle -D to delete the queue. when it finished. i issued #qmail-qstat so now its showing following output, messages in queue: 13715 messages in queue but not yet preproc

Re: [gentoo-user] What do I do about slocate 3.1/2.7 ?

2006-04-21 Thread Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila
On 09:09 Fri 21 Apr , Jules Colding wrote: > Hi, > > A few moments ago I tried to emerge slocate but got: > > > # > omc-2 ~ # emerge -va sys-apps/slocate > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > [ebuild N]

Re: [gentoo-user] qmail queue delete help

2006-04-21 Thread Stefan Onken
Am Freitag, 21. April 2006 16:54 schrieb El Nino: > My Question:- > > 1) how to delete un preprocessed(not yet preprocessed) messages > in the qmail queue? http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=qmhandle -- www.stonki.de:the more I see, the more I know... www.proftpd.de: Deutsche

Re: [gentoo-user] KControl: Password & User Account settings

2006-04-21 Thread Roy Wright
Sebastián Ferrara wrote: El Fri, 21 Apr 2006 10:10:59 +0530 Abhay Kedia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: Hello All, I just saw this image showing settings related to user account in KControl http://www.kbfx.org/staticpages/images/screenshots/7.png When I check for the same under kcontrol o

Re: [gentoo-user] qmail queue delete help

2006-04-21 Thread kashani
Stefan Onken wrote: Am Freitag, 21. April 2006 16:54 schrieb El Nino: My Question:- 1) how to delete un preprocessed(not yet preprocessed) messages in the qmail queue? http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=qmhandle Yes he said he was using qmhandle so I don't mentioning it again is

[gentoo-user] Re: Way OT - Can user apache become other users?

2006-04-21 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 08:27 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 22:29 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > If the shell assigned to user 'apache' is "/bin/false", can user apache > > become other users via su or sudo? What I want to do is create a > > web-based website editor, sim

Re: [gentoo-user] What do I do about slocate 3.1/2.7 ?

2006-04-21 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/21/06, Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 09:09 Fri 21 Apr , Jules Colding wrote: > > >>> emerge (1 of 1) sys-apps/slocate-2.7-r8 to / > > !!! Files listed in the manifest do not exist! > > slocate-3.1.ebuild > > files/digest-slocate-3.1 > > omc-2 ~ # > > su -c "ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] System unusable after updating lvm

2006-04-21 Thread Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Volume group for uuid not found: m6reV.(four times) Any idea? http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/sys-fs/lvm2/ChangeLog # ChangeLog for sys-fs/lvm2 # Copyright 2000-2006 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2 # $Header: /var/www/www.g

Re: [gentoo-user] KControl: Password & User Account settings

2006-04-21 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 21 April 2006 12:44, Sebastián Ferrara wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ eix kdeadmin > * kde-base/kdeadmin > Available versions: 3.3.2 3.4.1 ~3.4.2 3.4.3 ~3.5.2 > Installed: none > Homepage:http://www.kde.org/ > Description: KDE administr

Re: [gentoo-user] What do I do about slocate 3.1/2.7 ?

2006-04-21 Thread Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila
On 11:24 Fri 21 Apr , Richard Fish wrote: > > But do an emerge --sync first. The most likely cause of this is that > your last sync was done while the server was being updated, and you > got the updated manifest but not the ebuild. These kinds of problems > are almost always fixed by a new s

Re: [gentoo-user] netfilter: -P INPUT DROP in kernel

2006-04-21 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Daniel Waeber wrote: > I was looking for a way to set the default rule for the INPUT > chain to DROP. I do not want to change the rule with iptables -P > INPUT DROP after loading the kernel, I want that the > kernel/modules automatically DROPS everything after it has been > loaded. > You can do thi

[gentoo-user] OT - unusual USE flag possibilities [WAS: Re: Way OT - Can user apache become other users?]

2006-04-21 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 13:19 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 08:27 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 22:29 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > If the shell assigned to user 'apache' is "/bin/false", can user apache > > > become other users via su or sud

[gentoo-user] Hotpluggable SATA question...

2006-04-21 Thread Sieb, Glenn E (Glenn)
Hmm. I have servers using the SuperMicro P8SCT motherboard, which supports hot-pluggable SATA drives. In Gentoo they show as being SCSI, fine, no problem with that. If I hotplug a drive into the chassis--it powers up, but Gentoo doesn't see it until reboot. Has anyone else used hotpluggabl

Re: [gentoo-user] Hotpluggable SATA question...

2006-04-21 Thread brettholcomb
Will the hotplug package work on these drives? > > From: "Sieb, Glenn E (Glenn)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/04/21 Fri PM 04:46:38 EDT > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] Hotpluggable SATA question... > > Hmm. > > I have servers using the SuperMicro P8SCT motherboar

RE: [gentoo-user] Hotpluggable SATA question...

2006-04-21 Thread Sieb, Glenn E (Glenn)
Brett, > Will the hotplug package work on these drives? Hmm. (checks) Well, it appears to be installed. # equery list hotplug [ Searching for package 'hotplug' in all categories among: ] * installed packages [I--] [ ] sys-apps/hotplug-20040923-r1 (0) [I--] [ ] sys-apps/hotplug-base-20040401 (

RE: [gentoo-user] Hotpluggable SATA question...

2006-04-21 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Sieb, Glenn E (Glenn) wrote: > Brett, > > > Will the hotplug package work on these drives? > > Hmm. (checks) Well, it appears to be installed. > > # equery list hotplug > [ Searching for package 'hotplug' in all categories among: ] > * installed packages > [I--] [ ] sys-apps

Re: [gentoo-user] What do I do about slocate 3.1/2.7 ?

2006-04-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:24:11 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > > su -c "ebuild /path/to/slocate-2.7-r8.ebuild digest;emerge --verbose > > --ask slocate" or even "emerge --verbose --ask --digest slocate" > But do an emerge --sync first. The most likely cause of this is that > your last sync was done

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - unusual USE flag possibilities [WAS: Re: Way OT - Can user apache become other users?]

2006-04-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 15:11:16 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > Is there a way that I could find out > what these flags mean? They are not > in /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc... Are they in /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc? Either way, reading the ebuild will show you which configure options

Re: [gentoo-user] Oracle DB question

2006-04-21 Thread Chris White
On Friday 21 April 2006 12:29 am, pat wrote: > Hi, > > I want to ask if there's possible to install Oracle DB (9 and higher) on > Gentoo and if there's a tutorial/howto how to do it. Give me a free license for oracle and you'll get a really nice howto ;D -- Chris White Gentoo Developer aka: Chris

[gentoo-user] netfilter: -P INPUT DROP in kernel

2006-04-21 Thread Daniel Waeber
Benno Schulenberg wrote: > (By the way, please do not reply to another message when starting a > new topic.) > > Benno Sorry for that. So I start a new thread now. > Daniel Waeber wrote: >> I was looking for a way to set the default rule for the INPUT >> chain to DROP. I do not want to change t

Re: [gentoo-user] Hotpluggable SATA question...

2006-04-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 21 April 2006 15:46, "Sieb, Glenn E (Glenn)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] Hotpluggable SATA question...': > In Gentoo they show as being SCSI, fine, no problem with that. That's the same across all linuxes. > If I hotplug a drive into the chassis--it powers up, but Ge

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System unusable after updating lvm

2006-04-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 17:07:38 +0300, Rumen Yotov wrote: > The problem here seems to be that LVM2 (which is build statically, and > no static USE-flag present). sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.03 > Checked - is a static binary, but must somehow be build against the > older library (code), so the said messages/warn

Re: [gentoo-user] Oracle DB question

2006-04-21 Thread kashani
Rolf Wathne wrote: Gentoo-wiki.com has a howto for 10g: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Oracle_10g The Wiki will probably get you installed, but if you need general Oracle/Linux knowledge this is one of the best sites around. It's saved my ass a couple of times. http://www.puschitz.co

Re: [gentoo-user] Filetimestamp needed by emerge ?

2006-04-21 Thread Ryan Tandy
Meino Christian Cramer wrote: Hi, I want to cp -a /usr/portage to another partition to make room on / When I will do this, all files of the portage directory will get a new and nearly identical timestamp. Will this hurt the packaging/compiling or "anything related to administer gentoo"-th

[gentoo-user] Opera and cyrus-sasl-2.1.21-r2

2006-04-21 Thread Mick
Hi All, A couple of days ago I updated cyrus-sasl to 2.1.21-r2 and got this message in the ebuild: === You have both "gdbm" and "berkdb" in your USE flags. Will default to GNU DB as your SASLdb database backend. If you want to build with Berkeley DB support; hit Control-

Re: [gentoo-user] KControl: Password & User Account settings

2006-04-21 Thread Sebastián Ferrara
El Sat, 22 Apr 2006 00:07:21 +0530 Abhay Kedia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: >On Friday 21 April 2006 12:44, Sebastián Ferrara wrote: >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ eix kdeadmin >> * kde-base/kdeadmin >> Available versions: 3.3.2 3.4.1 ~3.4.2 3.4.3 ~3.5.2 >> Installed: none >>

Re: [gentoo-user] soundcards inconsistent

2006-04-21 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Hi again, Am Mittwoch, 19. April 2006 21:12 schrieb Michael Schreckenbauer: > Dear gentoo-users, > yesterday I recognized a strange problem with my soundcards. I have two > soundcards in my system. A Soundblaster, ens1371 based, and a Terratec > DMX6Fire, which uses an ice1712 chip. The Soundblast

[gentoo-user] Mediawiki

2006-04-21 Thread Sergio Polini
I can't install Mediawiki 1.4.15. I've installed: a) apache 2.0.55-r1 b) dev-lang/php 5.1.2 (current flags in /etc/portage/package.use: dba gd -gd-external pcre mysql mysqli session) c) mysql 4.1.14-r1 I got the error "Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes" when creating the c

Re: [gentoo-user] Hotpluggable SATA question...

2006-04-21 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I don't know - I figured hotplug would be logical. I'm in the process of replacing a SCSI system with SATA and haven't got there yet. On Friday April 21 2006 17:14, Sieb, Glenn E (Glenn) wrote: > Brett, > > > Will the hotplug package work on these drives? > > Hmm. (checks) Well, it appears to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System unusable after updating lvm

2006-04-21 Thread Rumen Yotov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 17:07:38 +0300, Rumen Yotov wrote: > >> The problem here seems to be that LVM2 (which is build statically, and >> no static USE-flag present). sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.03 >> Checked - is a static binary, but must som

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how to setup sun-jdk

2006-04-21 Thread wu chuanwen
Thank you for you reply! I think we should have more fun in life but not just programming.Just as what you said,playing banminton,which is my favorite sport.And our department(i am a undergraduate) had won the first place in our university's league  match.I am so lucky that i am one of the member i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how to setup sun-jdk

2006-04-21 Thread wu chuanwen
Thank you ! I have settle the problem days ago.The package i downloaded is Ok but the one after i copied in my usbdisk and got it in gentoo is corrupt.My usbdisk is broken! Now everything is Ok. Thanks for your reply!   2006/4/16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Saturday 15 April 2006 11:

Re: [gentoo-user] KControl: Password & User Account settings

2006-04-21 Thread Roy Wright
Abhay Kedia wrote: On Friday 21 April 2006 12:44, Sebastián Ferrara wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ eix kdeadmin * kde-base/kdeadmin Available versions: 3.3.2 3.4.1 ~3.4.2 3.4.3 ~3.5.2 Installed: none Homepage:http://www.kde.org/ Description: KD