Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I need to mount these drives so that I can run a backup script to backup all
> of my gentoo system. I have tried smbmount and mount -t smbfs but even after
> reading man mount and smbmount I am still unclear as to the correct format.
So are you saying the cifs
Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The VIA 8237 is an onboard sound chip. I have one myself. As such, it's
> controlled by the BIOS. Since you have previously not used sound on this
> machine, it's within the realm of possibility (imo) that you disabled
> the sound chip in the BIOS, which
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 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-a
Is this possible:
Compile a module by itself (not during kernel compile) and insert
that module into a running kernel.
I'm pretty sure this is possible but have no idea how to do it.
Pawing thru google. `site:gentoo.org modules "on the fly" ' and
similar strings even just `kernel module'
Tu
Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Yes.
>
> cd /usr/src/linux
> make menuconfig or make xconfig
> choose the module option you wish to enable
> Select whether to build into the kernel or as a module.
> exit and save
> make
> make modules_install
>
> You should not have to copy bzImage unless you
Masood Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
Thanks Masood, for the pointers.. I have a question about your sig.
> --
> Linux Kernel : 2.6.15-gentoo-r7
> GCC version : 4.0.2 (Gentoo 4.0.2-r3, pie-8.7.8)
> Processor : AMD Athlon XP 2600+
> RAM : 1 GB DDR 333 SDRAM
> CFLAGS USED
Running an authoritative name server on a small home lan as training
exercise. And using DNS and Bind 4th ed as a guide.
A quick sketch of this network(There are more hosts on it
but for simplicity):
(All have prefix 192.168 and netmask 255.255.255.0)
INTERNET
Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> That is correct. Unless you alter bzImage, modprobe newmodule should work
> just fine. If your new module is built in, you will need to reload the
> kernel (reboot).
Ok, this is confusing to me... What do you mean by `built in'. I'm
thinking the very nature of
Alexander Kirillov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Here's a reverse zone file for my home network. It's 10.10.0/24
> but you'll figure out how to tailor this to your needs.
I think this is not where I'm having the trouble. Just one network
for home lan I'm ok with.
> # cat pri/0.10.10.zone
>
> ;B
Alexander Kirillov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> ;BIND DUMP V8
> $ORIGIN 10.10.IN-ADDR.ARPA.
> 0 3600IN SOA baikal.iproducts.test.
> root.baikal.iproducts.test. (
Alexander, I meant to ask in my reply what the 3600 is all about? My
study of DNS and Bind hasn't discussed
Alexander Kirillov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Here's a reverse zone file for my home network. It's 10.10.0/24
> but you'll figure out how to tailor this to your needs.
Taking your example I come up with the zone file posted at the end.
It loads with no comment from named. But I still see the
Alexander Kirillov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Here's a reverse zone file for my home network. It's 10.10.0/24
> but you'll figure out how to tailor this to your needs.
Yikes I promised to post my reverse file based on your example and
then mailed my response without including it. You saw the
Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> So what Peter meant was ]
[...]
Yeah thats what I suggested it meant. I added some unnecessary
confusion by saying `the very nature of module is that it is not built
in'... sorry. Just sloppy thinking here thanks for clearing that up
very well.
Alexander Kirillov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What's in your named.conf?
> Should be something like this:
>
> zone "local.lan" IN {
> ...
> };
>
> zone "0.168.192.in-addr.arpa" IN {
> ...
> };
>
> zone "1.168.192.in-addr.arpa" IN {
> ...
> };
options {
directory "/v
Jo Are Rosland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> - Where names are used -- eg. the 'key' field of an 'IN A' entry, or the
> 'value' field of an 'IN PTR' entry -- you may specify the full name by
> ending it with a '.'. Names with no '.' at the end have the origin
> appended.
>
> Now, if you loo
Alexander Kirillov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What's in your named.conf?
> Should be something like this:
Just posted a few minutes ago... but I noticed I wasn't really
following your example thoroughly. Now trying this db.192.168.1
Still fails miserably:
$TTL 1D
$ORIGIN 168.192.IN-ADDR.AR
Alexander Kirillov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>What's in your named.conf?
>>>Should be something like this:
>> Just posted a few minutes ago... but I noticed I wasn't really
>> following your example thoroughly. Now trying this db.192.168.1
>> Still fails miserably:
>> $TTL 1D
>> $ORIGIN 168.1
Alexander Kirillov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Make it 2 separate files for each of the reverse zones.
> Each with its own SOA record.
> Emerge bind with doc flag and read into Adminstrators Reference Manual
Do you have any idea where it can be found following:
USE=doc emerge -v bind?
equery f
Jo Are Rosland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> And again: it's really no reason why you can't put all of this into one zone
> instead.
H... that was what I needed. Many thanks for hanging in there.
I managed to confuse myself quite a lot on this. I thought to do that
(go up one level and use
Alexander Kirillov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> And please be more careful reading the examples
> and take time to learn the exact meaning of the statements.
> You need just a few to make it all work
> and some reading will save you time in the long run.
Point taken and thanks for the manual he
Jo Are Rosland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Your entries for 'reader' and 'fwobsd' are probably not
> what you really want. By defining several 'IN A' entries
> for the same host name, you effectively get bind to serve
> these addresses in 'round robin' fashion whenever a client
> looks up that
I'm running an update world. I have cryptsetup in stalled.
emerge -vpuD world tells me crypsetup is blocking cryptsetup-luks.
[blocks B ] sys-fs/cryptsetup (is blocking sys-fs/cryptsetup-luks-1.0.1-r2)
[blocks B ] sys-fs/cryptsetup-luks (is blocking sys-fs/cryptsetup-0.1-r3)
I don't really wan
Alexander Kirillov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> ;BIND DUMP V8
> $ORIGIN 10.10.IN-ADDR.ARPA.
> 0 3600IN SOA baikal.iproducts.test.
> root.baikal.iproducts.test. (
> 20050421 3600 900 360 3600 );Cl=5
> 3600IN NS baikal.iproducts.test.
Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 07:39:56 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> I'm running an update world. I have cryptsetup in stalled.
>> emerge -vpuD world tells me crypsetup is blocking cryptsetup-luks.
>>
>> [blocks B ] sys-fs/
I'm currently trying to get thru an emerge -vuD world but having
various things crop up. Some I thought were handled long ago like
this overlooking what is in package.provided:
rsnapshot-1.2.2
bacula-1.48.5
cvs-emacs-24
The last two are fake versions so they would stay ahead of what ever
c
Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Well, before that, try and examine each module that is to be emerged and
> see which ones want luks. Perhaps there is a broken ebuild which is
> causing the problem. Normally, there are checks that prevent this kind of
> circular error.
>
> Do emerge -puNDvt wo
Sorry for the OT but as many here know this is the place to get quick
pointers to other related or semi-related material since there are
many experts and near experts here.
Ok, enough smoke blown... now:
I have some text books on CD that are in html. I'd like to annotate
as I read, much like wri
Anyone else seeing a patch failure in most recent emacs-cvs?
Here I get:
[...]
* Copying emacs from /usr/portage/distfiles/cvs-src ...
* CVS module emacs is now in /var/tmp/portage/emacs-cvs-22.0.50-r1/work
* Applying emacs-subdirs-el-gentoo.diff ...
* Failed Patch: emacs-subdirs-el-gentoo.di
Dave Nebinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Harry Putnam wrote:
>> in package.provided:
>> cvs-emacs-24
>
> [snip]
>
>> emerge -vuDp app-editors/emacs-cvs
>
> Don't you see that cvs-emacs is not the same as emacs-cvs, or was this
> jus
Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> app-backup/rsnapshot-1.2.2
> app-backup/bacula-1.48.5
> app-editors/emacs-cvs-24
Haa there it is
Another dopey message was sent before I saw this, and the real sorry
part is that I've been caught by this before and not too long ago.
I've recently don
Dave Nebinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Harry Putnam wrote:
>> in package.provided:
>> cvs-emacs-24
>
> [snip]
>
>> emerge -vuDp app-editors/emacs-cvs
>
> Don't you see that cvs-emacs is not the same as emacs-cvs, or was this
> just a typo
Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> rsnapshot-1.2.2
>> bacula-1.48.5
>> cvs-emacs-24
>
> The example for package.provided syntax in `man portage` shows categories
> like this:
>
> app-backup/rsnapshot-1.2.2
> app-backup/bacula-1.48.5
> app-editors/emacs-cvs-24
Ok, I'm a little gun sh
"Richard Fish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> But this doesn't really answer why I didn't get better output on the
>> test emerge -vuDp world... does it?
>
> Yes, it does.
Thanks for your comments Richard... helpful as always
Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
>
> pmount explictly wants lu
Rumen Yotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> Hi,
> In my case (using it a little but think it works) the file is in other dir:
> # cat /etc/portage/profile/package.provided
> app-admin/fam-2.7.0-r2
Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Oops, package.provided goes in /etc/portage/profile/
Glenn Enright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> while not having investigated it too much, openoffice and other similar apps
> all process web pages... perhaps they can do the work for you?
Looks like a product called Amaya maybe more directly designed for
this.
For anyone interested: http://www.w3
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Note this section from this thread post has been resolved:
> I don't really want to jack around with emacs. I have it installed
> and running fine, and I have in my /etc/portage
"A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Will the dvd have a ton of stuff? I see the live cd is only 200 meg, that
> seems kinda small. Be nice to see xvkbd in it for people who can't use
> their hands well.
> Just wondering.
> Alvin
In gentoo the install cds are not a full on
Tim Kruse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I love zsh ;-)
>
> ,-
> | % setopt | grep -i "append.*history"
> | incappendhistory
> | % man zshoptions | col -b | grep -A 4 APPEND_HISTORY
> | APPEND_HISTORY
> | If this is set, zsh sessions will append their history list to
> |
Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am getting errors on each mail from the Mail folder, I think rsync thinks
> that each message should be a directory and then fails to copy.
> How can I get round this
What are the exact errors?
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Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> All files copy with no errors but symlinks always fail with the message:
> symlink "/mnt/network/usr/lib/libgstinterfaces-0.8.so.0" ->
> "libgstinterfaces-0.8.so.0.1.0" failed: Operation not supported
>
> I am wondering if this is a permissions problem.
> My net
Paul Stear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thursday 09 Mar 2006 15:36, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > All files copy with no errors but symlinks always fail with the message:
>> > symlink "/mnt/network/usr/lib/libgstinterf
Remy Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Paul Stear wrote:
>> I am mounting the network usb drive using cifs
>
> I'm not quite sure, but I think cifs doesn't support symlinks.
It can be done if the winbox has SFU (Services for Unix) installed
I've heard, but really isn't the problem that the rece
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Typo alert!
> The receiving fs does not support symlinks .. not the comments
^^^
note
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>> eix
> epm -ql
Where are these trick tools found?
Maybe I'm way out of date but here is what I'd use:
First (equery is part of app-portage/gentoolkit)
(Go thru the man page of course)
It has many of the same functions you may have used with rpm.
o See list of all *installed* software.
Paul Stear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Harry,
> This problem has nothing to do with windows, in fact my XP machine isn't even
> switched on.
You say the fs was created by the the router and that you don't know
what the fs is. Yet you also say it has nothing to do with windows.
Your error out
"Daniel da Veiga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Where are these trick tools found?
>
> Answered ;) emerge -s
Not quite... sometimes yes, but not always. If it isn't in the
package name that won't find it.
I made a bad assumption that since I'd never heard of these tools they
were not in packa
Attempting to emerge www-client/amaya
The tail end of emerge shows:
i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++: ../redland/raptor/.libs/libraptor.a: No such file or
directory
make[1]: *** [../bin/amaya] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/amaya-8.7/work/Amaya/LINUX-ELF/amaya'
make: *** [amaya_prog]
Paul Stear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
> Windows identifies the Network Storage Link as a windows NT 4.9 server
>>
>> > I am mounting the network usb drive using cifs
>> > The network storage unit is a LINKSYS Network Storage Link for USB 2.0
>> > Disk Drives.
>>
> I have 2 discs attached to t
Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The ebuild needs a fix, or even better: upstream needs to be fixed.
> It's mentioned in bugzilla already (gentoo bugzilla, that is).
>
> I helped myself by compiling manually. The same problem occurs, but you
> can simply change the directory to Amay
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I helped myself by compiling manually. The same problem occurs, but you
>> can simply change the directory to Amaya/WX/redland/raptor, type
>> "make", return to "Amaya/WX/amaya" and continue building with a
I've hit this problem before but never did have to get it sorted
because the package I was after was actually installed already.
I'm installing amaya by hand since the ebuild fails and its pretty old
anyway.
I need Mesa libs onboard (its not mandatory ) so looking at partage
for mesa libs I fin
Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> equery files xorg-x11 | grep -i mesa
Yes of course, what I need is I guess the developer set with include
files.
I've downloaded and installed most of it not they look like:
ls -F /usr/local/include/
GL/ GLES/
/usr/local/include/GL:
GLwDrawA.
I've run into an unexpected boot problem on last reboot.
I get an error proceeded by this:
[...]
Reiserfs Jornal /dev/hdb6 in blocks [18..8211]:
0 Transactons replayed
Check internal tree ... finished
** fsck could not correct all errors, manual repair needed.
Give root passwd for m
Joe Menola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Saturday 11 March 2006 9:58 am, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Giving root pwd and running reiserfschk /dev/hdb6 returns the prompt
>> really quick and no output.
>
> No such file "reiserfschk", typo or are you looking fo
Joe Menola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Saturday 11 March 2006 10:19 am, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> But as you might guess typing a non-command would not produce silence
>> as reported.
>>
>> reiserfschk
>> -su: reiserfschk: command not found
>>
Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 09:58:55 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
> all snip...
>
> Here's what I would do. Boot off a floppy or livecd.
> Then, do NOT mount your root drive (/dev/hdb6) you may have a problem
> with. run
Maybe
Ryan Tandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> echo $?
>> 16
> I'm probably splitting hairs here, but... have you tried actually
> typing 'Yes' with a capital Y? A case mismatch and an assumption of
> No' would explain the syntax error return.
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Peter <[
Rick van Hattem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Instead of ufed I'd recommend profuse, it has the same options as ufed and
> more. Really a great tool, very easy to use and gives you a clear list of
> what use flags you have enabled (I do prefer the ncurses "profuse -n" command
> above gtk)
Wow
"Robert G. Hays" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> error, and I need all new email to go to the same place, and I bloody
> well intend, if possible, to use *one* tool to access all of it. Ditto
> bookmarks, eddresses, etc..
Maybe thunderbird will do this. I use it on win but always have u
Using most recent KDE desktop
(do not have full gnome fileset installed)
Where can I set a config to make the `location' box on mozilla accept
bashlike (emacs like) keybindings?
Currently
Ctrl-e (go to end of line)
Ctrl-a (go to beginning of line)
Ctrl-k (delete to right of cursor)
[...]
Sorry to post this here but I've already contacted the listserver with
the info address and faq address. Neither of those sources have any
info about this.
I want to subscribe here but get no messages delivered. The
subscription would be so as to enable posting thru news.gmane.org's
mail to news
Frédéric Grosshans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The sytem time of my computer drifts by roughly 5 min per day, while the
> hwclock stays at the correct time.
Sorry to butt in here but I have ntpd trouble too. It doesn't seem to
keep correct time.
I've just followed the advice to rm /etc/adjtim
[Repost alert!! - reposted from several days ago]
I haven't gotten any nibbles on my original post on this topic. Is it
inappropriate here?
I want to have emacs like keybindings inside the mozilla locator box.
Things like:
ctrl-a (go to beginning of line)
ctrl-e ("" end of line)
ctrl-k (
Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>>[Repost alert!! - reposted from several days ago]
>>
>>I haven't gotten any nibbles on my original post on this topic. Is it
>>inappropriate here?
>>
>>I want to have
Recently switched from using ext3 (under fedora) to reiserfs (under
gentoo).
I'm noticing what seems to be really long processing times for certain
file manipulation chores.
Examples might be `du -sh' against several hundred MB or `rm -rf' in
same manner. I didn't think to time the du part belo
Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How did you do this conversion? Reiserfs exhibits poor performance if
> you simply extract an archive of a different filesystem.
I installed gentoo with reiserfs as fs of choice.
So the files being rm'ed were built on reiserfs from the start.
I'm comp
Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
> On Sunday 17 April 2005 15:52, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Recently switched from using ext3 (under fedora) to reiserfs (under
>> gentoo).
>>
>> I'm noticing what seems to be really long processing time
Group,
Is there a way to convert reiserfs to ext3 without data loss
(or having to move data)?
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I'm noticing a problem using sudo where the builtin cd command is not
known under sudo.
User attempts to `ls dir', receives `permission denied' ( its a root
owned dir)
User uses `sudo ls dir', and is queried for password, sudo then prints the
ls display when password is supplied.
All good so far
Nagatoro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> http://gentooexperimental.org/script/repo/list
can this repo be accessed with emerge allowing packages to be installed?
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Maybe this isn't really the place but its more likely to get informed
answers here than on an ms group where most will not know what iptables
is.
I'm in a position where I need to use MSwindowsxp OS on 2 machines
that are dedicated video and image editing machines, because of the
software availabl
Group,
I use xbindkeys to associate keyboard keys with programs. Most of
them work as expected but a few don't.
I wondered if there is debug output going somewhere when an xbindkey
combo is used and the program can't or won't start.
Running KDE-3.3.2 where might I find any output from xbindkeys
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Group,
> I use xbindkeys to associate keyboard keys with programs. Most of
> them work as expected but a few don't.
>
> I wondered if there is debug output going somewhere when an xbindkey
> combo is used and the
Oscar Carlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Why are you using some external program when there is a superb support for
> keybindnings in kwin?
> Everything you need for keybindings is avalible in kcontrol :)
>
It is a superior setup. It can be hand edited in minutes. Mass
entries of 20 to 30
This question is not gentoo specific but really a more general
question about date manipulation.
Like many people I use the `date' command to set file names that need to
be unique by using one of the specially formatted commands, to output
something like:
img_080905_103343.jpg
Which is img_$
Marco Matthies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Harry Putnam wrote:
>> I know about perl scipting for this but wanted something like the
>> `date' command that is its own dedicated program.
>> Is there a unix tool that outputs a finer grain of time segments?
>
>
Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Rennie deGraaf schreef:
>> What command does one use to find what package(s) provide a particular
>> file, given that that particular file is not present on my system? For
>> example, I need a program called "foobar", but don't know what package
>> provi
First if this ends up being a nearly duplicate post... my apologies.
I tried a similar version from a different machine that has apparently
not made it to the server.
I recently went looking for image manipulation tools in general and
web gallery software in particular... I found in portage someth
"Dave Nebinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> No templates at all.
>>
>> Any one here have experience with this tool or can suggest a debugging
>> approach.
>
> First, file it as a bug as the ebuild would be incomplete.
>
> Second, you might need to build the package from scratch in order to
> d
Roy Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> I had the same problem a couple of weeks ago. As I needed the
> gallery at that instance, I just specified the template on the command
> line:
>
> bbgallery -T monochrome
That doesn't work here:
reader > bbgallery -T monochrome
ERROR: Templates not
Roy Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I had searched portage before posting about gimp-perl. It's not in
my portage tree which is somewhat out of date. That led me to think
it was not available via the normal gentoo channel hence my attempts
to use cpan to install it.
> emerge gimp-perl
How c
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> emerge gimp-perl
>
> How can I get that package without a full on update of portage which I
> don't want to do right now?
I've downloaded todays snapshot of protage and extracted
gimp-perl. Placed it in my po
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
After installing gimp-perl and all its dependancies I've unmerged
bbgallery and re emerged it.
The result is exactly as before... I've made no progress at all.
cd to directory of *.jpg
reader > bbgallery -T monochrome
ERROR:
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> The build pulled in 20 other perl packages and is running currently.
>> Should I expect trouble from doing it this way?
>
> Yes, if the dependencies are not in your outdated portage tree, although
> it appears you got away with it this time.
>
> Why do
Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Saturday 27 August 2005 12:27, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> I would like to see an outline of what it takes to update the whole
>> system but as I recall its all in gentoo documentation but will
>> require quite extensive readin
Roy Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>>Well according to the installed docu.. there is supposed to be:
>>
>>>From the `Usage' html page: (Note the last item)
>>
>> Now run bbgallery to create the galleries. Without a
After running an emerge sync, I see a message at the conclusion that
says:
* An update to portage is available. It is _highly_ recommended
* that you update portage now, before any other packages are updated.
* Please do so and then update ALL of your configuration files.
What does this mean..
Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Saturday 27 August 2005 13:45, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> What does this mean... I though I had just updated portage. Or is a
>> sync something different than an update?
>
> You just updated the portage tree, not po
Running emerge -v -p world -u shows:
Calculating world dependencies ^H^H ...done!
[blocks B ] >> unmerge: No packages selected for removal.
I want to keep the vsftpd package so what needs to happen here?
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Thanks to all and esp. Holly for the detailed explanation. Quite a
good setup once one understands the underpinnings.
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Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Saturday 27 August 2005 13:03, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Thanks for the simple outline... That was so encouraging that I'm
>> going to get this done this morning...
>> Thanks for the push.
>
> No problem, it re
Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Getting it done this morning is another matter, going several months
> without an update is likely to put you a long way back, meaning lots
> to compile. Thankfully you can just leave it going in the
> background. I almost always run
This appears now
I found this near the end of emerge -v world -u output:
>>> Waiting 5 seconds before starting...
>>> (Control-C to abort)...
>>> Unmerging in: 5 4 3 2 1
QA Notice: ECLASS 'multilib' inherited illegally in net-analyzer/tcpdump-3.8.3-r
1
* Please upgrade your package (tcpdump-3.8.3-r1) to use too
I just ran an emerge world -u and at the beginning there were some
errors/warnings about my lines in
/etc/portage/profile/package.provided
I didn't save the error but it indicate my file would be ignored.
It contained
dev-util/cvs
app-editors/emacs-cvs
I didn't want the emerge to mess with em
Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Monday 29 August 2005 02:18, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> It contained
>> dev-util/cvs
>> app-editors/emacs-cvs
>
> According to the portage man-page you must include the version of
> the package
Yes I saw that too, But that wa
Following an emerge world -u all my rsnapshot scripts are erroring out
like this:
ERROR: config_version was not defined. rsnapshot can not continue.
/usr/bin/logger -i -p user.err -t rsnapshot /usr/bin/rsnapshot -c \
/etc/rsnapshot_News.conf weekly: ERROR: config_version was not
defined.
Followin a well overdue emerge world -u I have no network on reboot.
The pieces seem to be there, although I'm not sure I remember what all
goes into it.
/etc/conf.d/net has the eht0 address and gateway address but its not
getting set on bootup.
I can ifconfig and route it into place of course b
Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> For the network problem:
>
> first thing to know - have you updated your config files with
> etc-update or dispatch-conf?
I used dispatch-conf, because of the archiving behaviour but I see it
doesn't really archive all of etc now.
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Following a major update world. My rsnapshot scripts are deleting the
files they are supposed to backup. I've made no changes in my own
conf files other than to add the version notation:
config_version1.2
After seeing errors that seemed to indicate it was no needed.
Something has chang
Roy, looks like my first impulse about an update... IE, that it would
be a pita is coming true... hehe
Roy Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> For the network problem:
>
> hostname and domainname migrated from /etc to /etc/conf.d
Has /etc/domainname just moved to /etc/conf.d or is it a new file
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