[gentoo-user] Re: How to increase console (text) screen resolution

2011-12-07 Thread Harry Putnam
Mick writes: > Have you tried: > >vga=ask > > It'll give you a list of hopefully supported resolutions. Yes but those are not really resolutions are they?... I thought they were actual font size changes. 5 is closest but any of the smaller ones look too silly and unreadable. Whereas a heft

[gentoo-user] Re: --jobs

2011-12-07 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Hartman writes: > On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> This is a brand new install, and I've changed very little.  I've done >> nothing consciously to effect how many jobs are to be run. > > In that case I think it is working normally.

[gentoo-user] Re: --jobs

2011-12-07 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Hartman writes: > On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Under the newest portage with x86~, if I run `emerge -vuD world' >> should I see something besides: >> >>>>> Jobs 0 of 71 complete, 1 running [...] >> >> Shouldn

[gentoo-user] Re: How to increase console (text) screen resolution

2011-12-07 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick writes: > On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:52:04 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> No, it doesn't appear at all in rc-update output. What I actually see >> happen as boot starts is the vbox window expands quickly to about 3-4 >> times its original size, then afte

[gentoo-user] Re: How to increase console (text) screen resolution

2011-12-07 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam writes: > Neil Bothwick writes: > >> On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:52:04 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: >> >>> No, it doesn't appear at all in rc-update output. What I actually see >>> happen as boot starts is the vbox window expands quickly to ab

[gentoo-user] Re: How to increase console (text) screen resolution

2011-12-08 Thread Harry Putnam
Frank Steinmetzger writes: > AFAIK you also need to use a supporting Graphics driver. I, for instance, Even for a no X setup?. What ever it needs must be there since it pops up in a high resolution, but then drops back. If the good weren't there to create that resolution, I doubt it would ente

[gentoo-user] [OT] sendmail relay to gmail smtp server

2011-12-27 Thread Harry Putnam
NOTE: Sorry if I've gone sort of hog wild posting this question various places but it is a perplexing problem and I suspect there may be help available here. Not to mention that many groups are slow due to Christmas holidays. ---- ---=--- -

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] sendmail relay to gmail smtp server

2011-12-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Mick writes: [...] >> | Athinfo:smtp.gmail.com "U:root" "I:hputn...@gmail.com" "P:??XX??" "M: >> | LOGIN PLAIN" Athinfo:smtp.gmail.com:587 "U:root" "I:hputn...@gmail.com" >> | "P:??XX??" "M: LOGIN PLAIN" >> >> ` > > Did you try just "M: PLAIN" without the "LOGIN" ? > > If PLAIN doesn't do i

[gentoo-user] [OT] Using m-audio Fast Track Pro on linux help

2012-01-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Running Wheezy Can anyone suggest pointers, urls, or coaching toward getting an m-audio USB Fast Track Pro (external sound card) working? When I run `alsamixer' it lists the Fast Track as one of the sound cards available. When I choose it, alsamixer reports there are no controls available (`Th

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Using m-audio Fast Track Pro on linux help

2012-01-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Kfir Lavi writes: > On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > >> Harry Putnam wrote: >> >>> Running Wheezy >>> >>> Can anyone suggest pointers, urls, or coaching toward getting an >>> m-audio USB Fast Track Pro (external sound

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Using m-audio Fast Track Pro on linux help

2012-01-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Michael Mol writes: >> However, when I attempt tp play something with `mplayer some.wav', I >> get no sound. > > Stupid question: Are you specifying to mplayer which audio device to use? No... and really not sure where to find the correct name to specify either.

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Using m-audio Fast Track Pro on linux help

2012-01-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Kfir Lavi writes: > You need to change the 1.0 to your card. > Read more here: > http://linux.dsplabs.com.au/mplayer-multiple-sound-cards-select-audio-device-p77/ > > Kfir Thank you, once I got the device names with aplay -l mplayer -ao alsa:device=hw=1.0 W.P.A._CaseyBillWelden.wav Haa haaa...

[gentoo-user] scrapping hal

2010-10-27 Thread Harry Putnam
I've been off the list a good while and wondered if there is some kind of guide to scrap hal. I understand it is being done away with upstream and will probably require some changes on users part. I'm also guessing there is some kind of replacement that I need to learn about if it effects my long

[gentoo-user] Re: scrapping hal

2010-10-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Philip Webb writes: > 101027 Harry Putnam wrote: >> I wondered if there is some kind of guide to scrap hal. > > From my notes, having done it on 2 desktops machines + 1 netbook : Nice .. many thanks but one question > > To remove Hal : drop '-hal' fla

[gentoo-user] Re: scrapping hal

2010-10-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Philip Webb writes: > 101027 Harry Putnam wrote: >> I wondered if there is some kind of guide to scrap hal. > > From my notes, having done it on 2 desktops machines + 1 netbook : Nice .. many thanks but one question > > To remove Hal : drop '-hal' flag

[gentoo-user] Re: scrapping hal

2010-10-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Hartman writes: > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> I'm also guessing there is some kind of replacement that I need to >> learn about if it effects my longtime reliance on xorg.conf to keep >> using my huge desktops I like to

[gentoo-user] Re: scrapping hal

2010-10-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Colquhoun writes: > On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:54:51 Harry Putnam wrote: >> Paul Hartman writes: >> > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> >> I'm also guessing there is some kind of replacement that I need to >> >> learn about

[gentoo-user] When ls command fails but only on $HOME

2010-11-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Something I have not run into before. Following a major update still in progress I find the ls command will not run on $HOME. I can view the directory with emacs in dired mode but `ls' simply will not complete... never shows anything and stays hung indefinitely. Top shows 94% idle so its not fro

[gentoo-user] More troubles with major update

2010-11-01 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm having a series of problems following a major update from several mnths ago. A major problem right now is that 127.0.0.1 has started rejected mail connections. That is, sendmail cannot send mail even locally. Sendmail itself has not been updated fetchmail has but looking at the ouput of

[gentoo-user] Re: When ls command fails but only on $HOME

2010-11-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon writes: > Apparently, though unproven, at 12:28 on Monday 01 November 2010, Harry > Putnam > did opine thusly: > >> Something I have not run into before. >> >> Following a major update still in progress I find the ls command will >> not

[gentoo-user] Re: When ls command fails but only on $HOME

2010-11-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon writes: [...] >> > >> > What shell are you using? >> > What is the output of "echo $HOME"? >> >> My shell is xterm... and was just updated to: >> Wed Oct 27 10:15:06 2010 >>> x11-terms/xterm-262 > > That's the terminal. > > What shell do you use/ > Sorry... still asleep... ba

[gentoo-user] Re: More troubles with major update

2010-11-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Stroller writes: > On 1/11/2010, at 10:52am, Harry Putnam wrote: >> ... >> A major problem right now is that 127.0.0.1 has started rejected mail >> connections. That is, sendmail cannot send mail even locally. >> >> Sendmail itself has not been updated...

[gentoo-user] Re: When ls command fails but only on $HOME

2010-11-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Alex Schuster writes: > Am 01.11.2010 11:28, schrieb Harry Putnam: > >> I can view the directory with emacs in dired mode but `ls' simply will >> not complete... never shows anything and stays hung indefinitely. > [...] >> It only seem to happen on $HOME h

[gentoo-user] [OT xfce pager] Xfce pager jacked up after updates

2010-11-08 Thread Harry Putnam
Anyone know which applet controls how the virtual desktop pager appears under Xfce The one called `workspaces' appears to be it, but it looks to be set as it always was... with a default 4 desktops. But the actual pager is now 4 rectangles all end to end on the panel with the large words `workspa

[gentoo-user] samba no connect from windows

2010-11-12 Thread Harry Putnam
This samba problem (windows machines cannot connect to gentoo server) seems to have followed a recent update including samba. qlop shows: Mon Nov 1 05:10:33 2010 >>> net-fs/samba-3.5.6 Usually I've found I might need to redo passwords with smbpasswd. This time, that is not sufficient. Looking

[gentoo-user] [OT] About devining file type when browsing

2010-11-24 Thread Harry Putnam
It s a bit OT but at least I am doing this on a gentoo system. Does anyone here know if it is possible to determine the kind of video file a browser is visiting? Many are flash these days but I think some still newer stuff is showing up. Something in mp4 container perhaps. I'm hoping somewher

[gentoo-user] About interpreting output of df -h

2010-12-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Can anyone tell me how determine what these kind of useless names really mean? >From df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs1.9G 283M 1.6G 15% / /dev/root 1.9G 283M 1.6G 15% / How are you supposed to tell what actual device these thing

[gentoo-user] Re: About interpreting output of df -h

2010-12-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Jake Moe writes: >> > I know I can look in fstab... but that is something of a crap shoot >> > since it is user configured. >> >> So? It should not be touchable by human hands unless they have root. >> The only way this would change is if someone changed it, and you can >> easily track who with

[gentoo-user] Re: About interpreting output of df -h

2010-12-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam writes: > Jake Moe writes: Jake, I am soo sorry for seeming to aim my joking post at you when it was Mr. Indexer who seemed to be needing a little ribbing.

[gentoo-user] No cdrom device created

2010-12-04 Thread Harry Putnam
I think I found the reason for a long standing problem I've had with the machine locking up. I see no evidence of a cdrom link or device name in /dev. dmesg seems to show that it is recognized on boot, but I'm not smart enough to know what the lines from dmesg really mean: Just showing the key l

[gentoo-user] Re: No cdrom device created

2010-12-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Hartman writes: > hdparm -z /dev/hdc I got some kind of weird output from that: root # hdparm -z /dev/hdc /dev/hdc: re-reading partition table BLKRRPART failed: Invalid argument fdisk has no better luck: sudo fdisk /dev/hdc Password: Unable to open /dev/hdc I was able to freeup

[gentoo-user] Re: No cdrom device created

2010-12-07 Thread Harry Putnam
walt writes: [...] >> dmesg|grep -2 hdc >> >> [1.416847] hdb: UDMA/100 mode selected >> [1.417357] Probing IDE interface ide1... >> [2.089165] hdc: LITE-ON CD-ROM LTN-5291S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > > You're still using the deprecated ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL disk drivers. You > should comp

[gentoo-user] Long standing problem of booting thu kvm switch

2010-12-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Somewhere back down the road... mnths now, I lost the ability to talk to the boot screen from my KVM connected keyboard. What I mean is, when gentoo starts to boot and reaches the grub screen... It does not see my keyboard yet. Once booted and login prompt is up (I boot to console mode) the keybo

[gentoo-user] Re: Long standing problem of booting thu kvm switch

2010-12-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Stroller writes: > On 17/12/2010, at 1:41am, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> Somewhere back down the road... mnths now, I lost the ability to talk >> to the boot screen from my KVM connected keyboard. >> >> What I mean is, when gentoo starts to boot and reaches the grub &

[gentoo-user] Re: Long standing problem of booting thu kvm switch

2010-12-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Hartman writes: > On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> However since I can access the bios thru the KVM switch, shouldn't >> that mean I should be also able to access the grub prompt? > > I think that basically GRUB does not have USB HID driver

[gentoo-user] Re: Long standing problem of booting thu kvm switch

2010-12-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Hartman writes: > There have been patches to the legacy grub to add support for things > like GPT so it still gets the job done for most people in most > ordinary cases. > > Here's a page that lists the current features of grub2: > http://grub.enbug.org/CurrentStatus I'm not in need of anyt

[gentoo-user] Re: Mysterious failure of ConsoleKit

2010-12-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Stroller, Sorry to butt into a thread. I sent private mail but suspect it hit your spam bin haven't heard back. Is your email here obfuscated?

[gentoo-user] [OT Xming] Syntax in the launch script

2011-02-05 Thread Harry Putnam
This is a little of the beaten track for this forum but there doesn't seem to be a regular Xming forum. Also since my problem is related to running emacs thru xming, I tried on emacs.help more than once to get this figured out. Any emacs users here will know about emacslcient, and maybe some of

[gentoo-user] Is emacs-vcs bug 299997 back? [repo rename]

2011-02-07 Thread Harry Putnam
[aside: It may be of note that this `emerge world' comes after about 2-3 mnths of neglect] I've hit something during an emege world while emerging emacs-vcs, that looks a lot like bug #299667: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=299667 I found the bug by googling the last bits from the buil

[gentoo-user] Is emacs-vcs bug 299997 back? [repo rename]

2011-02-07 Thread Harry Putnam
[NOTE: I did this a bit awkwardly by posting this message on the user list first. Probably it should be here] [aside: It may be of note that this `emerge world' comes after about 2-3 mnths of neglect] I've hit something during an emege world while emerging emacs-vcs, that looks a lot like bug

[gentoo-user] Re: copy a bunch of files...

2011-02-08 Thread Harry Putnam
Mark Knecht writes: >> locate Correlation | grep Builder | grep csv | while read file; do >> cp "$file" ~mark/CorrelationTests; done Just a minor point that would simplify the cmd by one cmd call. You could use awk instead of 2 calls to grep. It might be a tiny bit slower... but I doubt it wou

[gentoo-user] Why sources 3.2.21 in emerge -vuDp world

2012-07-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Running gentoo as guest in Vbox on win7 64bit Attempting to update with: emerge -vuDp world Lists gentoo-sources in output like this: , | [ebuild NS] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.2.21 [3.3.4] USE="-build | -deblob -symlink" 452 kB ` Even when adding -t (tree) to the cmdline it still

[gentoo-user] [OT: NAS] linux based storage solutions

2006-11-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Being an Event Videographer one runs into hefty space requirments very quickly. I'm running 4 machines 3 are loaded for video editing and other graphics intensive stuff like photoshop and all the adobe tools. They have large drives but very quickly I've begun to need more massive storage acce

[gentoo-user] Re: sanba mount on host machine

2006-11-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 13:47:12 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Is this possible withou really negative impact of some sort. > > If this is a question (please clarify a bit, and use question marks > when appropriate!): Of course it has a neg

[gentoo-user] Re: [kde Q] Gack too man shares showing up on desktop

2006-01-31 Thread Harry Putnam
Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I've cleared all boxes at kcontrol/Desktop/Behavior/Device icons > > Also the top one, "Show device icons", after which the whole list > greys out? Egad, don't know why I couldn't see that one until you pointed it out. That cleared the slate... th

[gentoo-user] Backup device (sata hdd) best filesystem

2006-02-02 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm about to format 2 200gb sata drives and one 300gb ATA for use as recipients of all backups. This will mostly consist of rsnapshot created files. And a number of tar.gz and other compression type files maybe some ISO type files etc. I'm backing up two winxp video/sound editing machines 2 gent

[gentoo-user] What trouble am I creating by commenting entries in [...]/packag.mask

2006-02-03 Thread Harry Putnam
What will it do when a package that won't emerge due to masking when you have ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" set in /etc/make.conf and you comment out the entries in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask about it? I want to install xvidtune but it is masked along with dozens of dependancies for this reason:

[gentoo-user] Better than equery list|grep something

2006-02-03 Thread Harry Putnam
A while back some posted a way to avoid doing: equery list|grep package to get info like version or whatever. It involved limiting what list returned by some method before it gets to grep. Anyone remember or know what it is. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: What trouble am I creating by commenting entries in [...]/packag.mask

2006-02-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Thomas Kirchner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * On Feb 3 13:37, Harry Putnam (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: >> But as I comment out the entries there are always more that turn up >> when I run emerge xvidtune again. I've commented about 8 so >> f

[gentoo-user] Re: Better than equery list|grep something

2006-02-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Andrei Slavoiu wrote: > `equery list package` does the same thing Thomas Kirchner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You can do "equery list " to get a list of installed Ahh, knew it was something sort of obvious but couldn't get it right. Thanks posters -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: ntp won't synchronize

2006-02-03 Thread Harry Putnam
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 07:25:35PM +, James wrote: >> ntpq -p >> remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset >> jitter >> == >> ecoca.eed.usv.r 80.96.120.253

[gentoo-user] Re: VMware and cpu_states on Dell 9300

2006-02-03 Thread Harry Putnam
"Michael W. Holdeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I named it vmware_script and placed it in /etc/vmware, and execute > it to run vmware. It works great as long as I execute as root : > chmod o+w /sys/module/processor/parameters/max_cstate So that as a > user you can execute the max_cstate comman

[gentoo-user] Re: What trouble am I creating by commenting entries in [...]/packag.mask

2006-02-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 16:22:22 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> Or are you saying I need to list ever dependance in there too? >> Its a very long list. I got as high as 12 and was still getting that >> message with yet anoth

[gentoo-user] Re: What trouble am I creating by commenting entries in [...]/packag.mask

2006-02-03 Thread Harry Putnam
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > the developers are currently in the process of switching to a modular > X server. This is a big change which is known to break stuff. > You should, however, be fine as long as you do use stable packages. > > See also the latest Gentoo Newsletter at > http://www.gentoo.o

[gentoo-user] Re: What trouble am I creating by commenting entries in [...]/packag.mask

2006-02-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 05:13:58PM -0600, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam squawked: >> And a quite long string of package names follow including xvidtune >> >> I'm apparently using the wrong command to try to learn the >>

[gentoo-user] Re: What trouble am I creating by commenting entries in [...]/packag.mask

2006-02-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> xvidtune knows about all that and reports whats really going on. > > xvidtune is part or xorg-x11. > > If you have the older style, stable xorg installed you already have > xvidtune: Thanks Nick that stopped this sillyness in its tracks. Egad, once again

[gentoo-user] Re: So O.K.

2006-02-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Franta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've tried it half an hour ago with (a very old) knoppix CD. I have USB > disks, I have sound, I have networking ... > > That said (xcuse me, I <> say that) Gentoo is far away from a > distro for usage. > > Do not reply to this post - I'll unsubscribe immediatl

[gentoo-user] Too many failures in update world

2006-02-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Running: emerge -v -u -D --newuse world today to get up to speed with a sync and some changed use flags So far I've had two major show stopping failures. I didn't keep much about the first since it was tetex related and decided to scrub my tetex use flag until I get the update done then deal wit

[gentoo-user] Re: Too many failures in update world

2006-02-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Rafael Fernández López <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I don't use doxygen and I haven't got it installed neither. Well it seems > that there is a bug on that code. Check bugzilla and see if that's only > yours or if it happened to someone else. > > You could add this version of doxygen to p

[gentoo-user] [equery Q] shorter version

2006-02-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Sometime ago some posted a command from a tool found in a package on portage. It was an equery related thread. The command was something like a simple eq or maybe even e or q alone. I was just an alias. Anyone know what I'm remembering here? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: [equery Q] shorter version

2006-02-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Rumen Yotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The command was something like a simple eq or maybe even e or q alone. >> >> I was just an alias. >> Anyone know what I'm remembering here? >> > Hi, > Probably was "portage-utils" q,qlist.qfile,qsize,etc Yup, thats the baby thanks. -- gentoo-user@gent

[gentoo-user] Ebuild and emacs enough is enough

2006-02-05 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm not sure where to log this complaint, its not a real bug. I've had about 6 or 7 emerges like emerge -v -u -D world break in the middle somewhere because emacs has been called to byte compile or whatever, however whoever is writing this stuff is calling emacs WITHOUT taking the normal precation

[gentoo-user] Re: Ebuild and emacs enough is enough

2006-02-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Francesco Talamona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I know for sure a developer belonging to emacs herd is actively > participating to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ok good tip. Does this fellow have a public mail address for dev work? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Ebuild and emacs enough is enough

2006-02-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Francesco Talamona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Monday 06 February 2006 03:10, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Where do I need to take this complaint? > > Perhaps gentoodev mailing list is the right place for this topic. > I suggest to provide some real life example and

[gentoo-user] A new experience an account on gentoo without root priv

2006-02-06 Thread Harry Putnam
I have an account on a gentoo machine but no root privs. Is there some allowance using emerge to install software in ~/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: ...startup information on screen...

2006-02-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The early part of the startup information is available from > dmesg. The next stage can be logged if you set RC_BOOTLOG > in /etc/conf.d/rc. see the comments in that file. Sounded like OP might have meant just when X starts and stops. To: Fredrick Have

[gentoo-user] Re: ...startup information on screen...

2006-02-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The early part of the startup information is available from > dmesg. The next stage can be logged if you set RC_BOOTLOG > in /etc/conf.d/rc. see the comments in that file. Where do the logs go from setting that. Added to dmesg? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.

[gentoo-user] Why does sendmail think its hosts name is `localhost'

2006-02-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Can anyone here tell me what might cause a tool like sendmail to get the idea its hosts name is `localhost'. I don't mean the generic way localhost is often used but as an actual host name: My home network is local.net0 the host sendmail runs on is reader Sendmail puts the righthand side of loc

[gentoo-user] Re: Why does sendmail think its hosts name is `localhost'

2006-02-07 Thread Harry Putnam
Heinz Sporn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> /etc/hosts: >> --- 8< snip >> 127.0.0.1 localhost reader > > Switch that to: 127.0.0.1 reader localhost > and you'll be fine. Hoohaa yes yes. That did it. I can say with assurance though since I keep nearly all config files u

[gentoo-user] /usr/sbin/run-crons giving puzzling error.

2006-02-07 Thread Harry Putnam
I get this recurring error from /usr/sbin/run-crons. From logrote. But cannot quite see why it throws this error: error: stat of /home/reader/t/var/log/fw_log failed: \ No such file or directory Well its true, there is no such file but my settings should cause logroate to `create' it, and

[gentoo-user] Re: daemon start up problem

2006-02-08 Thread Harry Putnam
"K. Mike Bradley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If I start manually it's ok: > > /etc/init.d/webservice.sh start > > But when I re-boot I get: > > > *WARNING: /etc/init.d/webctrl missing ... Skipping[ok] > This kind of side steps the issue but if you'd rather just have it working a

[gentoo-user] Yipes I lost the ability to smb:// browse

2006-02-08 Thread Harry Putnam
Crosspost Alert: gmane.linux.gentoo.use gmane.comp.kde.general Setup: Gentoo linux (kernel 2.6.15-r3) kde-3.5 I don't use konquerors ability to browse a network with smb protocol to often, but it has always been there when I did want to. Today I tried for the first time in probably a mn

[gentoo-user] Re: Yipes I lost the ability to smb:// browse

2006-02-08 Thread Harry Putnam
Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > aha, that did it for me, now I can browse smb:// shares again! However > there are other problems with it (new thread...) What did you do? I'm not sure what was meant by checking if samba USE flag is `set'. Do you mean it appears in /etc/make.conf ...

[gentoo-user] Re: Yipes I lost the ability to smb:// browse

2006-02-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > aha, that did it for me, now I can browse smb:// shares again! However >> > there are other problems with it (new thread...) >> >> What did you do? >> I'm not sure what was meant by checking if samba USE flag is `set'. > > I had the problem with Nau

[gentoo-user] Re: CUPS not allowing configuration from browser

2006-02-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, >In the past I've been able to give root/password info when > configuring printers from within http://localhost:631 but now it no > longer works. This is true on both of our Gentoo machines. > >Has something changed about this in a recent updat

[gentoo-user] Re: Yipes I lost the ability to smb:// browse

2006-02-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Ian Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I had an similar problem with samba when I update the samba version, found > out > that samba users was not re-created. (/etc/samba/smbusers) thus I just > smdpasswd What do you mean here.. you changed the way you use samba or what? -- gentoo-user@ge

[gentoo-user] Re: Yipes I lost the ability to smb:// browse

2006-02-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > after you put USE="samba smb" into your /etc/make.conf, type > $ emerge -p --newuse world > to see all the ebuilds affected by the new use flags. > I hope this clears it up a bit for you. Otherwise, keep posting :) There aren't any here... even with th

[gentoo-user] Re: Yipes I lost the ability to smb:// browse

2006-02-09 Thread Harry Putnam
James Ausmus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The KDE package that utlizes a samba USE flag is: > > kde-base/kdebase-kioslaves > > What do the USE flags show for it if you do an emerge -pv kdebase-kioslaves? Looks like cups is another that uses samba flag. Running emerge -vp -uD --newuse on kdebase

[gentoo-user] Re: Yipes I lost the ability to smb:// browse

2006-02-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Ryan Tandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sooo... you can access it from nearby Windows boxes, or you can't? > There appears to be a contradiction here. If you can't, restart samba > to make sure it's actually on. Yeah sorry I noticed that too after posting. The correct statement is that I CAN b

[gentoo-user] Re: Yipes I lost the ability to smb:// browse

2006-02-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm currently recompiling kdebase-kioslaves and cups with samba flag set. The recompile made the difference. After recompiling kioslaves with samba and smb flags set I know have the smb:// browse functionality in konq again. -- gentoo-u

[gentoo-user] Last line of boot `this is reader.(none)'

2006-02-10 Thread Harry Putnam
My last line of boot output always says something like: This is reader.(none) I guess that means it doesn't know its domain name? Any know why this would happen?: root # domainname local.net0 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Stuch on k3b at dep install of Transcode

2006-02-11 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm trying to install k3b. One of its dependancies is transcode. The emerge stopped at transcode with specific errors, When checking bugzilla I see this is a known problem. I'm not sure how to proceed from here. For example: If I have emerge install a version that doesn't appear in the bug repor

[gentoo-user] Re: Stuch on k3b at dep install of Transcode

2006-02-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Uwe Klosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I had a similar problem some months ago. I can't remember all the details, > but i think it had to do something with avi. I changed the > useflags of transcode until the emerge of the latest version finished without > any error. Try to unmask the latest ve

[gentoo-user] Re: Stuch on k3b at dep install of Transcode

2006-02-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What are the "specific errors" that you are receiving? Perhaps the > problem is your transcode USE flags; what are those? I got it solved and moved on so not sure how accurate this is. Both times it broke for me... first emerging k3b it stalled on tr

[gentoo-user] Re: Stuch on k3b at dep install of Transcode

2006-02-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Daniel da Veiga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Maybe that's why the version is masked (along with other reasons), so, > try to go back to the stable tree, if you have any problems with the > stable version, that's something to worry about, if not, welcome to > the bleeding edge and testing problems

[gentoo-user] Re: System Clock Problems

2006-02-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The time server is a FreeBSD 6.0 box on my network. My other FreeBSD > box and two Windows boxes get time from it just fine. Even the Gentoo > box will set its clock with "ntpd -gq". I am currently using this > brute force method via a cron job as a

[gentoo-user] Any one using linux version of truecrypt

2006-02-13 Thread Harry Putnam
I just tried compiling truecrypt newest version 4.1 and cannot get it working or make enough sense out of errors to debug. Since it is OT (not available in portage, but is available as source) I'm just asking if anyone is using it... if so maybe reply privately. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

[gentoo-user] cups and ghostprint ESP

2006-02-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Having trouble getting cups to work with a smb installed printer. It connects ok apparently but has trouble finding ghostscrip ESP. Googling this group on `cups ESP' I find a few mentions but mostly about needing to install it. I have it installed as indicated by esearch: * app-text/ghostscrip

[gentoo-user] Re: cups and ghostprint ESP

2006-02-21 Thread Harry Putnam
"Manuel A. McLure" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do you have foomatic-filters installed? It includes wrapper scripts around > ghostscript that do the work. No, I didn't have but I installed it after seeing your message. Restarted cups and see no improvement. The logs still say the bit bout ESP

[gentoo-user] Re: cups and ghostprint ESP

2006-02-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Do you have foomatic-filters installed? It includes wrapper scripts around >> ghostscript that do the work. > > No, I didn't have but I installed it after seeing your message. > Restarted cups and see no improvement. T

[gentoo-user] readline and inputrc

2006-02-22 Thread Harry Putnam
Anyone know why entries in ~/.inputrc (or for that matter) /etc/inputrc are ignored in xterms? I find that inputrc entries work in console mode but not in X. Further, testing just now with a silly test entry: cat ~/.inputrc: ## C-x C-r reread init files Control-o: "now what" That even in c

[gentoo-user] Re: readline and inputrc

2006-02-22 Thread Harry Putnam
"Anthony E. Caudel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Harry Putnam wrote: >> Anyone know why entries in ~/.inputrc (or for that matter) >> /etc/inputrc are ignored in xterms? >> >> I find that inputrc entries work in console mode but not in X. >> >

[gentoo-user] Re: readline and inputrc

2006-02-22 Thread Harry Putnam
"Richard Fish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2/22/06, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Anyone know why entries in ~/.inputrc (or for that matter) >> /etc/inputrc are ignored in xterms? > > The .inputrc settings are part of the readline

[gentoo-user] Adding gw route in /etc/conf.d/net

2006-02-28 Thread Harry Putnam
I've recently added a second nic and a sort of semi-dmz machine on a new subnet so my gentoo box now has 2 nics with addresses: 192.168.0.4 and 192.168.1.2. That second one was installed just to talk to the semi-dmz machine also with 2 nics at 192.168.0.19 amd 192.168.1.1 I say semi because this

[gentoo-user] Re: Adding gw route in /etc/conf.d/net

2006-02-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Zac Slade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > With both interfaces up what is the output of "ip route"? I don't > see anything wrong with the configuration really, both networks are > in different subnets so they should be seperate. However you may be > getting a default route for eth1. You really do

[gentoo-user] Re: Adding gw route in /etc/conf.d/net

2006-02-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Zac Slade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> arp -a >> fw.local.lan (192.168.0.20) at 00:09:5B:01:2F:E4 [ether] on eth0 >> fwobsd.local.lan (192.168.0.19) at 00:10:B5:91:85:88 [ether] on >> eth0 > It's interesting here that you don't see anything on 192.168.1.0/24. > Perhaps nothing is connected to

[gentoo-user] [OT] m-audio delta-66 connections

2006-03-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Just on the off chance someone is using a delta-66 card to record via samba or whatever. Getting the sound available at the recording software. I was unable to fathom out how to connect out-bound ports to in-bound thru the delta-66 control panel. If for example you wanted to record a source that

[gentoo-user] Sound... a known method to track down problems

2006-03-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Sorry to just blurt right out with this... I'm in need of sound on my unix box and kind of quickly. I never even configure sound or want it as a rule but now I need it to test some recording equipment on a second winxp computer with m-audio delta-66 installed. I get this message when starting kde

[gentoo-user] Re: Help with backup script

2006-03-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > I am probably missing the obvious here but how do I get a script to > recognise a network usb2 disk? I konqueror I can read and write > using smb:// xxx.yyy.com but if I define the backup disk the same I > get the error message that there is no such file

[gentoo-user] Re: Sound... a known method to track down problems

2006-03-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Alexander Puchmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Harry! > > Did you load the alsa-modules before launching kde? I have now after following ChistophE's suggestions. I still get nothing when attempting to play something. But warnings and erros that is. I have an XMMS player on my kde menu. I

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