Re: [gentoo-user] Multi-DVD backup

2006-03-17 Thread John Jolet
On Mar 17, 2006, at 4:29 PM, JimD wrote: John Jolet wrote: look at freshmeat.net for scdbackup. it can be called with sdvdbackup and will span dvds. I back up my mail server totally to 4 dvds. you can tell it what filesystems to backup, or directories. it figures it all out for you

Re: [gentoo-user] turning off dhcp

2006-03-20 Thread John Jolet
On Mar 20, 2006, at 2:03 PM, maxim wexler wrote: Hi all, on a new install w/2.6.15 kernel on an i586(K6-2) box I get an ugly red message on boot: "Cannot default to dhcp, no dhcp module loaded, no config for eth0...net mount was not started" I use dialup, the ethernet card, a 3com59x will be

Re: [gentoo-user] turning off dhcp

2006-03-20 Thread John Jolet
OK, I edited the net file on *both* machines identically, like so: # For a static configuration, use something like this # (They all do exactly the same thing btw) config_eth0=( "192.168.0.2/24" ) config_eth0=( "192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0" ) Now, the older box(K6) with the new install(2.6

Re: [gentoo-user] addusr (gentoo v. fedora)

2006-03-21 Thread John Jolet
On Mar 21, 2006, at 10:10 AM, THUFIR HAWAT wrote: Pardon, but I'm not clear on this command, apparently. Coming from fedora, I could just create a user, change the password, login, and everything would be set. However, gentoo doesn't create /home/user_name ? No problem, I created that direct

Re: [gentoo-user] addusr (gentoo v. fedora)

2006-03-21 Thread John Jolet
On Mar 21, 2006, at 3:42 PM, Nick Rout wrote: On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 20:32:42 + THUFIR HAWAT wrote: On 3/21/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: .. if you add the -m argument to useradd, it will create the directory and own it by the user being added. .. Ah, thanks a

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags

2005-08-19 Thread John Jolet
y would I add others to > > my > > > own make.conf file? > > The relevant part in the docs: > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2005.1/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=2 > > A list of all USE flags: > http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml > > Marco > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa config

2005-08-20 Thread John Jolet
ce I have a question about that...using the in-kernel alsa drivers and I get sound fine with xmms under kde, but the system notification sounds are silent. I'm kinda mystified. -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare?

2005-08-20 Thread John Jolet
oo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@gentoo.org issue 281 (19228-19277)

2005-08-23 Thread John Jolet
ing. Do I just have to write another partition table > and thats it? > > 2. Is the Alsa-RTC actually already applied to the kernel and if not, > how do I add the diff files from the alsa-driver package to the > kernel. Never did that before so no clue. > > Thanks, > > Ka

Re: [gentoo-user] finding IP address of device on the network

2005-08-23 Thread John Jolet
maybe with arp? but that's only if it's on your local segment. On Aug 23, 2005, at 9:54 PM, Joseph wrote: I have device on the network, I know its MAC address but not IP address. How to list devices connected to local network? -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-u

[gentoo-user] stage files

2005-08-24 Thread John Jolet
Can someone point me to a reference that explains how to make your own stage files? It seemed to me that the stage3 stage file was pretty much a bzipped tar file of an installed system. Is this correct, or is there more to it? I've got a working system that I now need to replicate exactl

Re: [gentoo-user] stage files

2005-08-24 Thread John Jolet
-term solution? I'll go down the partimage path as well right now, though. On Wednesday 24 August 2005 13:57, Michael Crute wrote: > On 8/24/05, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can someone point me to a reference that explains how to make your > > own stage

Re: [gentoo-user] stage files

2005-08-24 Thread John Jolet
My apologies...on second look, this is very close to what I'm looking for, at least for the short term. On Wednesday 24 August 2005 13:57, Michael Crute wrote: > On 8/24/05, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can someone point me to a reference that explains how to mak

Re: [gentoo-user] stage files

2005-08-24 Thread John Jolet
14:13, Michael Crute wrote: > On 8/24/05, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I saw that and it's on my list of things to try, but I need to have this > > up > > and running by saturday. That seemed like a great thing, but maybe less > > simple than just

Re: [gentoo-user] /home becoming readonly every night

2005-08-24 Thread John Jolet
? I cannot even seem to isolate what > time this is happening. > -- > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread John Jolet
> > - Grant -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-25 Thread John Jolet
finds nothing answering to this. I've already emerged the win4lin itself, but without the kernel patches, it won't work. Running 2005.1. I've got 29 days left to get my money back :) though I'd really like this to work. -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-25 Thread John Jolet
. Holdeman wrote: > On Thursday 25 August 2005 09:47 pm, John Jolet wrote: > > I've purchased the win4lin product, (the home version) to test out > > certain windows apps I need to run. They claim that gentoo has a patched > > kernel available for this. Does a

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-25 Thread John Jolet
nd make menuconfig is your freind after the patching, I have no > success with 2.6.12 yet tho), > Try www.pickledonion.net for more info too. > > On Thursday 25 August 2005 10:08 pm, John Jolet wrote: > > yeah, well, a new install as of two days ago...it's 2.6.12. emer

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-25 Thread John Jolet
ed any other modules or patches this week. -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-25 Thread John Jolet
On Thursday 25 August 2005 21:39, Nick Rout wrote: > On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 21:23:10 -0500 > > John Jolet wrote: > > On Thursday 25 August 2005 21:17, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Maybe it's just an oversight and temporarily gone? > > > > > > - Mark >

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-25 Thread John Jolet
but that changelog entry doesn't really tell me why it's gone and that it won't come back. I'm willing to downgrade to 2.6.11, if someone can tell me how. I can see how to emerge new kernel sources, but can't find a reference in the emerge docs that say how to do ol

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-26 Thread John Jolet
On Aug 26, 2005, at 2:46 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 21:20:11 -0500, John Jolet wrote: okay, I was wondering how to get the other kernel versions. it's emerge gentoo-sources (space) 2.6.11 is it? emerge -av "Thanks guys. One last question...what's the dr

Re: [gentoo-user] ftp

2005-08-27 Thread John Jolet
I like gftp...works in kde, too. On Saturday 27 August 2005 21:05, John Dangler wrote: > Can someone here recommend a good ftp app that I can use in gnome? > > Thanks. > > John D -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-

Re: [gentoo-user] Losing time somewhere

2005-08-30 Thread John Jolet
e last question I realised that I did my first "emerge -av > > > --depclean" a few days ago is it possible that I have removed some app > > > that keeps a check on system time? > > > > Maybe you had ntp installed? > > > > > > -- > > > > --

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network

2005-08-30 Thread John Jolet
cally pinging all of the addresses in a > range and reporting what addresses responded? > > Any thoughts greatly appreciated, > Andrew -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network

2005-08-30 Thread John Jolet
something like automatically pinging all of the addresses in a > > range and reporting what addresses responded? > > > > Any thoughts greatly appreciated, > > Andrew > > A simple "for" loop around ping would do the trick. Am I missing something? &g

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 - which stage3 file for new install?

2005-08-30 Thread John Jolet
g/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=5 > > So, is it: > > stage3-i686-2005.0.tar.bz > stage3-x86-2005.0.tar.bz > > or is there an actual AMD64 stage file somewhere on the net I should be > using? > > Thanks, > Mark -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 - which stage3 file for new install?

2005-08-30 Thread John Jolet
hines, but that CD doesn't have any 64-bit stuff on it. If there's a 64-bit install CD then I'll go look for that. Thanks for the info! With best regards, Mark On 8/30/05, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: there is an actual one on the 64-bit universal install cd..

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 - which stage3 file for new install?

2005-08-30 Thread John Jolet
well, not sure what stage files, if any that one has on it. I used the universal installer. On Aug 30, 2005, at 3:15 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks. I'm buring a copy of the minimal install for AMD64 now. Cheers, Mark On 8/30/05, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yeah

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network

2005-08-30 Thread John Jolet
On Aug 30, 2005, at 4:57 PM, Christoph Gysin wrote: John Jolet wrote: yeah, if it's got a firewall disallowing icmp responses. then you can do nmap -P0 to find it. ping would never find it. It's gotta have SOME port open. As far as I've read his post, there's

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network

2005-08-31 Thread John Jolet
On Aug 31, 2005, at 1:38 AM, Frank Schafer wrote: ... what about arp? If this machine has the mac address listed on the outside of the case, or he opens it up to look at the card, sure. if you don't know what the mac address isthen you're stuck. Of course, if it's a small, home

Re: [gentoo-user] Nagios

2005-08-31 Thread John Jolet
ed > use_authentication=0 > > when I try to access http://127.0.0.1/nagios/ > I got : > > Forbidden > You don't have permission to access /nagios/ on this server. > > Apache/1.3.33 Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 80 > > any one have a clue of what is happening ? >

Re: [gentoo-user] Nagios

2005-08-31 Thread John Jolet
what's in the /var/log/httpd/error_log for that attempt that fails? -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-08-31 Thread John Jolet
I've pretty much settled on kde. I like the speed and functionality. I find gnome a little slow (on my hardware) and not quite as stable. I really like xfce, but find certain configuration tasks more difficult than in kde. On Aug 31, 2005, at 5:28 PM, Matt Garman wrote: Before this ge

Re: [gentoo-user] workspace setups

2005-08-31 Thread John Jolet
n how to > customize these spaces? > > Thanks for the input... > > John D -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

2005-08-31 Thread John Jolet
there's /var/log/emerge.log On Aug 31, 2005, at 10:23 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: How can I find out the last few things I emerged? I've tried the docs, but I can't seem to find a helpful query, and my attempts to browse my way to it have failed. My reason is that I've been trying to track do

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

2005-08-31 Thread John Jolet
On Aug 31, 2005, at 10:41 PM, Nick Rout wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:30:56 -0500 John Jolet wrote: there's /var/log/emerge.log not necessarily, it depends whether you have specified a PORT_LOGDIR= in /etc/make.conf good point. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] sacked my rc.conf

2005-09-01 Thread John Jolet
d one, or generate a new one? Please help! > My configuration now sucks! > > Thanks in advance! > -- > Jason -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] # /etc/rc.conf: Global startup script configu

Re: [gentoo-user] PC hardware failure

2005-09-01 Thread John Jolet
devices found, and as i write, i think memory isn't detected also. what > these problems relies to? witch part i can throw away? > > martins can you get into the bios? quite possibly the hard drive has died, but if it won't detect hard drive and won't detect memory, I think i

Re: [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question

2005-09-01 Thread John Jolet
On Sep 1, 2005, at 4:36 PM, Stuart Howard wrote: My question :- I need to "copy" all from hdb to hda what would be the sugested route? I created a set of similar partitions on new hda with same filesystems then attempted a cp which indeed copied the data but machine refused to boot, sensed t

Re: [gentoo-user] loopback device (lo, net.lo) cannot be brought up sucessfully at first try: SIOCSIFADDR: File exists/SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address ...

2005-09-01 Thread John Jolet
On Sep 1, 2005, at 4:57 PM, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hello! Since recently, I cannot bring up the loopback device at the first attempt. Running net.lo fails like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sudo /etc/init.d/net.lo start * Starting lo * Bringing up lo * 127.0.0.1/8 SIOCSIFADDR: File exi

Re: [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question

2005-09-01 Thread John Jolet
gt; dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/hda bs=4096 will that get the mbr, or does he still need to do the grub-install step? -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question

2005-09-01 Thread John Jolet
f I did that, to maintain permissions. or even use rsync, it'll go MUCH quicker. > (putting in the appriopriate mount locations of course) > > Ben Blount > > On 9/1/05, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 01 September 2005 18:04, Neil Bothwick wrot

Re: [gentoo-user] Install issue, I need a solution quickly..

2005-09-01 Thread John Jolet
rmat > error > > Any ideas? > Thanks!! > Ian > > > > > > > __ > Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Install issue, I need a solution quickly..

2005-09-01 Thread John Jolet
with the rescue cd for partimage purposes and try to chroot in there. He seems to have done something similar. -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /dev/cdrom has gone!

2005-09-03 Thread John Jolet
e care of those files. the gentoo udev howto specifically gives a walkthrough on the steps necessary to switch from a hybrid udev/devfs system to a pure udev system. Have you looked at that document? Unfortunately, I don't remember the link at this moment, but I linked to it from th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-03 Thread John Jolet
will feel trapped in windows. even clients of mine that have spent hundreds of dollars for me to clean their windows boxes of spyware can't afford to move due to websites they NEED to run requiring activeX controls. -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo 2005.1 on an SATA drive

2005-09-05 Thread John Jolet
I On Sep 5, 2005, at 5:17 PM, Jamie Dobbs wrote: To me this sounds more like some driver having trouble after the chroot command. My machines are ATI and Via chipsets with SATA built in. You are using the Silicon Image chips. Maybe that driver has some issues? This is the kernel on the 200

Re: [gentoo-user] Nagios and MySql

2005-09-05 Thread John Jolet
. > > If some know anything I will be trully glad. > > Thanks, Allan I've not installed nagios on gentoo, just from sources on other systems. However, even if the programs are compiled with db support, the config files can still not use it. if you want to send me your conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix configuration in server with dynamic IP

2005-09-06 Thread John Jolet
ort (for instance sbcglobal.net smtp:smtp-server.austin.rr.com, is what I have for one, since my "official" smtp server is stmp-server.austin.rr.com). then run postmap transport and reload postfix. -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-06 Thread John Jolet
On Sep 6, 2005, at 8:08 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 02:11:51PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote My 'disagreement', if there is one, is that a savings of $300 for a new computer and a $99 Windows upgrade won't convince many people to learn to do it themselves using Linux. It

Re: [gentoo-user] install Gentoo Linux on RS/6000

2005-09-09 Thread John Jolet
w how to access > the bios or how to start to install from a cd. please guide me. -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] install Gentoo Linux on RS/6000

2005-09-09 Thread John Jolet
On Friday 09 September 2005 10:30, Michael Crute wrote: > On 9/9/05, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > there is no "bios" as such on those boxes. I think the 43p was a POWER > > architecture box, wasn't it? I don't know of any linux that will instal

Re: [gentoo-user] ntp-client starting before net.eth0

2005-09-09 Thread John Jolet
On Sep 9, 2005, at 5:13 PM, Dave Nebinger wrote: So shouldn't it wait till the network has started and I have an IP address from ifplugd? Well, isn't the problem here that the network isn't being requested to start (until ntp tries to make a connection, which of course attempts to sta

Re: [gentoo-user] Printing Problem

2005-09-10 Thread John Jolet
On Sep 10, 2005, at 11:55 AM, C. Beamer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, Well, I'm progressing with Gentoo. I now have it on my main computer and am *very* pleased. I even managed to get my Radeon 8500 graphics card working with 3D acceleration. However, I am ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk image

2005-09-10 Thread John Jolet
look into partimage.images on a partition-by-partition basis. I used this to get an image of a server to usb external hard drive. On Sep 10, 2005, at 11:49 AM, Pupeno wrote: Hello, Is it possible to make an image of my whole 40GiB HD into a file in another, bigger HD, including all my

Re: [gentoo-user] Nasty bugs in portage?

2005-09-10 Thread John Jolet
t even with a stage 3, there's no comparison. -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] server deployment

2005-09-10 Thread John Jolet
n with internet-facing production servers? One thought I had was to set up a build server, build the binaries on this server, and do an emerge of the binaries FROM this server to the production servers, with gcc and such removed from them. Will this work? -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Departme

Re: [gentoo-user] server deployment

2005-09-10 Thread John Jolet
On Saturday 10 September 2005 14:45, Edward Catmur wrote: > On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 14:29 -0500, John Jolet wrote: > > We're in the process of transitioning from 32-bit Redhat (7 I think) > > web/app servers to 64-bit gentoo web/app servers. One concern I've got > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Nasty bugs in portage?

2005-09-11 Thread John Jolet
iterative testing with several binary distros and a stage-3 gentoo on this here laptop have shown that, even starting with stage-3, gentoo is faster and more efficient. -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Nasty bugs in portage?

2005-09-11 Thread John Jolet
On Sunday 11 September 2005 16:57, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 14:15:46 -0500, John Jolet wrote: > > > IMHO, stage 3 is for those that don't want to take the lengthy build > > > time for some of the larger packages, i.e. X and kde/gnome, in order > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Nasty bugs in portage?

2005-09-11 Thread John Jolet
mpiled from source. I know because I watched kde build for 16 hours. -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Brother Printer

2005-09-12 Thread John Jolet
ml-5040 On Sep 12, 2005, at 3:32 AM, Mark Humphrey wrote: Anyone here got a Brother printer? And if so what model? Email Disclaimer http://www.aplitec.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] hardware advice for dual-processor set-up on gentoo

2005-09-12 Thread John Jolet
rd (only one cpu slot on the board). There were no problems or gotchas I could tell. It's got 4 gigs of ram and screams (at least on kernel compiles and suchhaven't benchmarked mysql on it yet). -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with Script that sends out HTML emails [SOLVED]

2005-09-15 Thread John Jolet
On Sep 15, 2005, at 8:14 PM, Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 20:47 -0400, Willie Wong wrote: On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 07:07:23AM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Hi, I'm writing a bash script that basically checks for stocks prices and I want the formatted output to be mailed to me

Re: [gentoo-user] new 2 gentoo

2005-09-16 Thread John Jolet
ited for such old computers ? > Thank you all. You can install gentoo and the packages all from binaries, however, in my experience (I have a computer like that too, a 133 mHz PIII), long term this becomes painful. I would stick with a binary distro with that kind of machine. -- John Jol

Re: [gentoo-user] network card information

2005-09-16 Thread John Jolet
try mii-tool On Sep 16, 2005, at 8:12 PM, Joseph wrote: I'm just curious how to find network card information: like connection speed 10 100 or 1000 I know I can lookup on the switch light and they will tell me but is there a command line that will display this information? -- #Joseph -- gentoo-

Re: [gentoo-user] Dell 1850/Dell Partition

2005-09-18 Thread John Jolet
bios. Guess back then they didn't have flash memory. This is no longer the case for the desktop compaq machinesnot sure about the servers. -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with Script that sends out HTML emails

2005-09-18 Thread John Jolet
!"; $top->attach(Data=>$message); open MAIL, "|/usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix -t -oi -oem" or die "Error on mail o pen is: $!\n"; $top->print(\*MAIL); close MAIL; -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail configuration problem

2005-09-19 Thread John Jolet
On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 23:09 -0400, C. Beamer wrote: > Dave Nebinger wrote: > > >> I cat'ed the dead letter file and at the end, the following appears: > >> > >> send-mail: RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (504 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Sender address rejected: need fully-qualified address) > >> Can't s

Re: [gentoo-user] missing console (was Replacing main harddisk)

2005-09-20 Thread John Jolet
On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 13:38 +0100, Paul wrote: > This doesn't seem to be a big problem but I would like to fix > > > it -- any > > > ideas > Hi, > Since using the new disc all seems to be well except for the warning message > on boot "unable to open an initial console", the screen freezes unt

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS: Sharing printers via IPP

2005-09-20 Thread John Jolet
27;t have any firewalls blocking the IPP protocol ports, uses both tcp and udp. Ping me offline, and I'll mail you the "server" config that my mini-mac is running serving up my laser printer. This laptop is gentoo and I didn't have to change ANYTHING for it to see the printer

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS: Sharing printers via IPP

2005-09-20 Thread John Jolet
if you set it to broadcast, you won't have to set up the other linux boxes... On Sep 20, 2005, at 4:33 PM, Nick Rout wrote: HA!!! I just set up windows to print to cups direct (no samba) and may be able to offer some insights. to allow connection to the printer from your 192.168.0.0 network e

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2 and RAID

2005-09-20 Thread John Jolet
On Sep 20, 2005, at 4:38 PM, A. Khattri wrote: On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:25:14 -0700, Carl Flippin wrote: The trick to getting it all to work together is doing the raid setup first and then using the /dev/md* devices for the LVM2 setup. I did some

Re: [gentoo-user] script in /etc/cron.daily never runs

2005-09-21 Thread John Jolet
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 17:11 -0400, Matt Randolph wrote: > I have a script in /etc/cron.daily that never runs. It works properly > when run manually and it's been in there for weeks (and a reboot or two). > > I'm using vixie-cron. cron.daily doesn't get run from cron. gets run out of anacron

Re: [gentoo-user] script in /etc/cron.daily never runs

2005-09-21 Thread John Jolet
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 22:47 +0100, Peter Ruskin wrote: > On Wednesday 21 September 2005 22:15, John Jolet wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 17:11 -0400, Matt Randolph wrote: > > > I have a script in /etc/cron.daily that never runs. It works > > > properly when run manu

[gentoo-user] emerge --update world build problem

2005-09-21 Thread John Jolet
I'm having a problem doing an emerge --update world OR system on a new system, just set up today using the minimal boot cd, downloading the latest stage3 file for pentium 4, and the latest portage snapshot. It seems to be dying on the build for glibc. trying to move xtrace.new to xtrace (looong p

[gentoo-user] emerge world

2005-09-21 Thread John Jolet
okay, I figured out why this is failing, can someone help me fix it? it fails with this message: mv: cannot stat `/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5-r1/work/build-deault-i686-pc-linux -gnu-linuxthreads/debbug/xtrace.new': No such file or directory anyone catch the problem? there IS NO debbug directory

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update world build problem

2005-09-22 Thread John Jolet
On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 10:36 +0200, Tamas Sarga wrote: > On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, John Jolet wrote: > > > > > I'm having a problem doing an emerge --update world OR system on a new > > system, just set up today using the minimal boot cd, downloading the > > latest

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation: well linux-supported inkjet printers

2005-09-22 Thread John Jolet
On Thursday 22 September 2005 07:34, Mauro Faccenda wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anyone can recommend a well-supported inkjet printer for using with > Linux? > > Thanks in advance, > > Mauro I have an hp 3740 that works great. -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 51

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation: well linux-supported inkjet printers

2005-09-22 Thread John Jolet
product, the cups site can > help you... I'd add here, though, that almost no lexmark inkjets are supported. -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

2005-09-22 Thread John Jolet
On Sep 22, 2005, at 3:06 PM, Sean Lester wrote: Greetings, I have a partially working Postfix installation.  It delivers messages on the localhost.  It'll receive messages from the internet.  But, it will not send messages to any hosts on the internet.  I've checked my iptables and port 25 is

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation: well linux-supported inkjet printers

2005-09-23 Thread John Jolet
On Sep 22, 2005, at 10:32 PM, Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 00:21:56 -0300 Norberto Bensa wrote: Try to stay away from Lexmark printers. -- Ironic. IBM spin off Lexmark in 1991 IBM subsequently become big Linux supporters. Lexmark don't give a toss about linux. Such is life,

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

2005-09-23 Thread John Jolet
On Sep 23, 2005, at 3:31 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 22:38:07 -0400, Sean Lester wrote: That's it. I didn't think the ISP would block outgoing port 25. Unfortunately, quite a lot seem to do it. it's a lazy and lame "solution" to spam trojans. Other ISPs forward all por

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

2005-09-23 Thread John Jolet
On Friday 23 September 2005 10:52, Dave Nebinger wrote: > John I'd suggest yahoo - they have a groups section where you can set up a > mailing list - they host the list, you just handle the posting. yeah, but they put ads at the bottom and you have no control over what is in the ad...I'm a bit of

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I make dhcpcd run in background when trying to get an ip address?

2005-09-25 Thread John Jolet
On Sunday 25 September 2005 08:57, Luk van den Borne wrote: > Maybe you should have a look at ifplugd. It will background the networking > part and bring up those interfaces that are actually plugged in. I'm using that for my wired network. works great. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Open source search engine

2005-09-26 Thread John Jolet
check the apach.org site...they have a search engine in the project. On Sep 26, 2005, at 5:27 PM, pepone pepone wrote: Hello i searching a open source search engine, can any body give same advice or suggestion -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Solved: mtab vs grub-install

2005-09-26 Thread John Jolet
well, heck, doesn't "noauto" mean don't mount on boot? That's what it means on my box. On Sep 26, 2005, at 7:08 PM, James wrote: James tampabay.rr.com> writes: typo in the /etc/fstab -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Web mail suggestions...

2005-09-27 Thread John Jolet
e. so i'd have to add everyone twice, and password changes would be a nightmare. so I pretty much don't use it. I like the product, though, if I had virtural users. -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2005-09-27 Thread John Jolet
a modem on a laptop isn't likely to be under anything. MOST of them are "winmodems" and are mostly software. windows software, to be exact. There may be projects out there to get some of them to work, but I'm not sure what the success rate is these days. Last I looked, it was abysmal.

Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 Universal CD install

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

Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 Universal CD install

2005-09-28 Thread John Jolet
ng.com/ > * ASCII Ribbon Campaign: Against HTML Mail, Proprietary Attachments * > * . No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings . * -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Multi-services box

2005-09-29 Thread John Jolet
you need... > > Thanks! > > -- > Mark > [unwieldy legal disclaimer would go here - feel free to type your own] -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS root device and kernek panic

2005-09-29 Thread John Jolet
On Sep 29, 2005, at 3:50 PM, jangar wrote: hi, i have problem with Gentoo Linux 2005.1 AMD64 installation. CPU: Athlon 64 2800+ HD SATA Maxtor 80GB Ati Radeon 9200 etc... after make partition, LVM2 and compiling kernel and config grub my kernel give me follow message: VFS Cannot Open root d

[gentoo-user] kernel tuning

2005-10-01 Thread John Jolet
quot; at all on the gentoo boxes. Using gentoo sources and NOT genkernel, can anyone give me some hints about what I need to look at? I'd be very embarrased if I replaced older 32-bit redhat 7 boxes with 64-bit gentoo boxes and the migration failed because I didn't change some param

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel tuning

2005-10-02 Thread John Jolet
o > read the help for any new ones that pop up. ;-) > > HTH > I've done all that, in terms of drivers/features turned on/off/modules. I meant more in terms of things like threads per process, processes per user (ulimit and friends), max data stack, that sort of thing. -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla usage monitoring

2005-10-04 Thread John Jolet
o, is run squid, and point the users to it (or another proxy server). You could also, assuming this is all local, is write a cron job that tars up the contents of his .mozilla directory periodically. > > Thanks, > Mark -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla usage monitoring

2005-10-04 Thread John Jolet
.pokemon.com comes to mind! > -- > Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] POSTFIX and SASL

2005-10-05 Thread John Jolet
e" to no > avail. Same issue. > > Postfix was compiled with SASL support: > > [ebuild R ] mail-mta/postfix-2.1.5-r2 -ipv6 -ldap -mailwrapper > -mbox +mysql +pam -postgres +sasl (-selinux) +ssl -vda 0 kB > > And when i telnet to 25 and issue the ehlo command, i do get

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