[gentoo-user] Very OT - Problems with mythfilldatabase

2007-08-19 Thread Michael Sullivan
Has anyone else had problems updating program listings with mythfilldatabase? Here's my output from it: 2007-08-19 20:48:56.028 Using runtime prefix = /usr 2007-08-19 20:48:56.062 New DB connection, total: 1 2007-08-19 20:48:56.069 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost 2007-08-19

Re: [gentoo-user] Very OT - Problems with mythfilldatabase

2007-08-21 Thread Michael Sullivan
ran out...but I thought it was a different error. Check when you > subscription expires and let me know. > > On 8/20/07, Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 19 August 2007 09:52:35 pm Michael Sullivan wrote: > > Has anyone else had

[gentoo-user] Need help configuribng PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI

2007-09-06 Thread Michael Sullivan
I have a small LAN with three PCs. One PC runs exim, but the other two use ssmtp. On the two that don't use exim I frequently see errors similar to the following when portage tries to send mail: camille etc # glsa-check -m 200610-14 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/glsa-check"

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help configuribng PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI

2007-09-06 Thread Michael Sullivan
--- Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a small LAN with three PCs. One PC runs > exim, but the other two > use ssmtp. On the two that don't use exim I > frequently see errors > similar to the following when portage tries to send > mail: > >

[gentoo-user] OT - Accessing the Digital Cable DVR...

2007-09-06 Thread Michael Sullivan
I've hooked my digital cable DVR to my PC via an A-to-A USB cord, and I'm wondering if I can copy programs recorded on the DVR to the PC. In dmesg, I saw the following: usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs usbcore: registered new interface driver hub usbcore: registered new device driv

[gentoo-user] metacity Woes

2007-09-11 Thread Michael Sullivan
Every time I boot into Linux and log into GNOME I have to start metacity manually by su'ing in a terminal and issuing a # metacity &> /dev/null & before I can get title bars and such that goes with it. My wife's computer does the same thing. Here's the info on my PC: camille ~ # emerge --info

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: metacity Woes[solved? you let me know]

2007-09-13 Thread Michael Sullivan
> > > > Hi, > > > > I don't have a solution, just to mention that I have the same problem > > (with gnome-2.18.2-r1). I guess the starting point would be: Where goes > > the output (and error) of whatever script starts the gnome session? and > >

[gentoo-user] OT - MythTV recordings are jumpy

2007-09-14 Thread Michael Sullivan
My MythTV recordings are jerky. Every couple of seconds the recordings will jump sort of pause for about half a second and then jump ahead. Has anyone else seen this? How can I fix it? Here's my info: camille ~ # uname -a Linux camille 2.6.22-gentoo-r5 #1 SMP Fri Sep 14 09:53:08 CDT 2007 i686 I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - MythTV recordings are jumpy

2007-09-14 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 03:21 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2007-09-14, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My MythTV recordings are jerky. Every couple of seconds the > > recordings will jump sort of pause for about half a second and > > then jump ah

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - MythTV recordings are jumpy

2007-09-15 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 04:08 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2007-09-15, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> My MythTV recordings are jerky. Every couple of seconds the > >>> recordings will jump sort of pause for about half a second and &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - MythTV recordings are jumpy

2007-09-15 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 07:44 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 04:08 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2007-09-15, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >>> My MythTV recordings are jerky. Every couple of seconds the > &

[gentoo-user] OT - Still having problems with logmail

2007-09-16 Thread Michael Sullivan
I've unmerged ssmtp and remerged exim in its place. This used to work, but now it's giving me the following error: camille michael # glsa-check -m 200610-14 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/glsa-check", line 316, in ? portage_mail.send_mail(glsaconfig, mymessage) File "/u

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Still having problems with logmail

2007-09-17 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 08:42 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > Hello Michael Sullivan, > > > {'root': (501, ': recipient address must contain a domain')} > > > > Where is it getting this thing from? As far as I can tell, my > > wife's computer

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Still having problems with logmail

2007-09-17 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 13:34 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 07:22:57 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > > > Where is it getting this thing from? As far as I can tell, > > > > my wife's computer has an identical setup, except that on hers

Re: [gentoo-user] metacity does not start

2007-10-07 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 01:50 +0200, Matthias Langer wrote: > i'm wondering if anyone else has this problem, or even better, a > solution for it: > > since i've upgraded to gnome-2.18.x i have to start metacity manually at > least sometimes after logging in. that is, in about 1 of 4 logins, i > don'

[gentoo-user] Does gcc not distribute with distcc?

2007-10-18 Thread Michael Sullivan
I have a really old PC that I use as a backup server if our main server goes down. (This is a hobbyist network.) I'm trying to update the software on it. (It hasn't been updated since last April). I've set up distcc following the guide at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/distcc.xml I tried updating

[gentoo-user] Cross-compiling

2007-10-19 Thread Michael Sullivan
I've read over the guide at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cross-compiling-distcc.xml about cross-compiling with distcc. This may be a really stupid question, but how do I force my slow box to use cross-compiling via distcc? Is there some special option I have to pass to emerge to invoke it? The g

Re: [gentoo-user] Does gcc not distribute with distcc?

2007-10-19 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 01:39 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > Michael Sullivan writes: > > > On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 20:15 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > > > Is this correct? I have three fast machines, 192.168.1.2 through > > > > 192.168.1.4 and a s

Re: [gentoo-user] Does gcc not distribute with distcc?

2007-10-19 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 20:15 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > Michael Sullivan writes: > > > On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 16:11 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > [...] > > So you got my answer, but I for myself did not yet see it arrive on the > list. Strange. > > > Is

Re: [gentoo-user] Does gcc not distribute with distcc?

2007-10-19 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 16:11 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > Michael Sullivan writes: > > > I have a really old PC that I use as a backup server if our main server > > goes down. (This is a hobbyist network.) I'm trying to update the > > software on it. (It hasn&#x

[gentoo-user] OT - vsftpd won't let local users connect

2007-11-06 Thread Michael Sullivan
My vsftpd server won't let users with accounts connect. This used to work, and the only thing I can think of after checking the docs is that pam got upgraded. Here is my info: baby pam.d # emerge --info Portage 2.1.3.16 (hardened/x86/2.6, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.19-hardened-r6 i686) =

[gentoo-user] OT - Need help enabling iptables support in kernel

2007-11-10 Thread Michael Sullivan
I have a big problem. I've asked this question here in the past, and have never gotten a straight answer. I use ipkungfu as my firewall sofware. I noticed yesterday when I had to reboot my server box that ipkungfu wasn't starting. baby ~ # /etc/init.d/ipkungfu restart * Starting ipkungfu ...

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help enabling iptables support in kernel

2007-11-10 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 15:40 +0200, Daniel Iliev wrote: > On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 06:53:42 -0600 > Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have a big problem. I've asked this question here in the past, and > > have never gotten a straight answer. I use ipk

[gentoo-user] OT - cvsd

2007-11-10 Thread Michael Sullivan
I've set up cvsd according to http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_CVS_Server . Now, how do I create a module? I can log in remotely just fine, but I want to create a new module. This is what I get when I try: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ourrpg $ cvs import -m "Our RPG" ourrpg xyz start cvs import: cannot make pa

[gentoo-user] OT - revdep-rebuild wants to rebuild gcc over and over again

2007-11-12 Thread Michael Sullivan
I ran revdep-rebuild about a month ago, It asked to remerge gcc-4.1.2. I allowed it. Every revdep-rebuild I've run since then has asked to build it again. How do I get out of this loop? Here's my revdep-rebuild -pv: camille ~ # revdep-rebuild -pv Configuring search environment for revdep-rebui

[gentoo-user] OT - finding rgb code of the background of an image

2007-11-12 Thread Michael Sullivan
My wife and I are working on a programming project together. I have a number of transparent .gif files that I've converted to BMP with imagemagick's convert command. I'm trying to discover what their background color is so that I can make the backgrounds transparent once again. I've discovered t

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - finding rgb code of the background of an image

2007-11-12 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 15:46 -0500, Willie Wong wrote: > On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 02:17:32PM -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > The background of the image looks green to me (0, 255, 0), but identify > > claims it's white. Is there a way I can know for sure without having to &g

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help enabling iptables support in kernel

2007-11-13 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 23:35 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 10:53:52AM -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote > > On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 15:40 +0200, Daniel Iliev wrote: > > > > > > I believe your problem comes from: > > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building all packages except gcc

2007-11-18 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 03:14 +0100, Miernik wrote: > David Relson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > /var/lib/world has a (partial) list of installed packages. You could > > do something like: > > > > cat /var/lib/world | grep -v /gcc$ | xargs emerge > > ??? > > przehyba ~ # cat /var/lib/world > ca

[gentoo-user] OT - Separating individual frames in an animated GIF

2007-12-01 Thread Michael Sullivan
Can anyone suggest a relatively easy way to extract individual frames from an animated GIF? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] OT - How do I compile programs that use mysql++?

2007-12-01 Thread Michael Sullivan
I emerged mysql++ the other day and I'm trying to figure out how to compile stuff with it. The docs make reference to examples and a script called 'exrun' that I don't seem to have. What library do I need to link against to use this? I tried -lmysql++ and it didn't work. Can anyone help me? --

[gentoo-user] How to tell portage about manual builds

2007-12-07 Thread Michael Sullivan
A lot of the bigger packages (qt, mythtv, etc. etc) tend to lock up my PCs' hard drives while they're emerging. I use FEATURES=keepwork on all my boxes, and I can usually go into /var/tmp/portage// and issue a make and then make install after I reboot the machines. How can I tell portage that

[gentoo-user] Is there a way to get rid of the annoying speech bubble in Evolution?

2007-12-18 Thread Michael Sullivan
#x27;t need a speech bubble telling us that we have new messages. Is there any way short of altering evolution's source code and recompiling to stop this behaviour? -Michael Sullivan- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to get rid of the annoying speech bubble in Evolution?

2007-12-19 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 13:47 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 17:59 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > My wife and I run evolution 2.12.1 . We love the blinking letter in the > > notification area of our panel, but we absolutely can't stand the speech > &g

[gentoo-user] Weird df listing

2008-09-02 Thread Michael Sullivan
Can someone please explain to me what's going on with /dev/sda6? I couldn't log into GNOME after my reboot yesterday, and when I asked for a df listing in the console, I got this. Shouldn't there be 4GB available? camille ~ # df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda6

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: numeric keypad problem

2008-09-02 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 02:15 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > David Relson wrote: > > On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:30:21 +0300 > > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > > >> David Relson wrote: > >>> G'day, > >>> > >>> Yesterday I updated from 2.6.24 to 2.6.25 and, after rebooting, > >>> found that I have proble

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird df listing

2008-09-02 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 15:39 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Dienstag, 2. September 2008, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > Can someone please explain to me what's going on with /dev/sda6? I > > couldn't log into GNOME after my reboot yesterday, and when I asked fo

[gentoo-user] Recall info request on grub problem

2008-09-06 Thread Michael Sullivan
Awhile back there was a thread about grub working but the menu not showing up, and in that thread there was a setting suggested, something like "vga=" or something like that. Can anyone refresh my memory as to the name of that thread or the setting to make the menu show up?

Re: [gentoo-user] Recall info request on grub problem

2008-09-06 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 20:28 -0500, Dale wrote: > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > Awhile back there was a thread about grub working but the menu not > > showing up, and in that thread there was a setting suggested, something > > like "vga=" or something like that. Can

[gentoo-user] Exim, Outlook 2007, and Thunderbird

2008-09-08 Thread Michael Sullivan
My MSOutlook 2007 and my Mozilla Thunderbird email clients on my laptop cannot connect to my exim mail server. I can't seem to figure out why. camille ~ # emerge -pv exim These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] mail-mta/exim-4.6

Re: [gentoo-user] Exim, Outlook 2007, and Thunderbird

2008-09-08 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 14:12 -0700, kashani wrote: > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > My MSOutlook 2007 and my Mozilla Thunderbird email clients on my laptop > > cannot connect to my exim mail server. I can't seem to figure out > > why. > > > Can anybody help me f

Re: [gentoo-user] Exim, Outlook 2007, and Thunderbird

2008-09-08 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 16:45 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 14:12 -0700, kashani wrote: > > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > My MSOutlook 2007 and my Mozilla Thunderbird email clients on my laptop > > > cannot connect to my exim mail server.

Re: [gentoo-user] Exim, Outlook 2007, and Thunderbird

2008-09-08 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, September 8, 2008 5:32 pm, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Michael Sullivan > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The problem is with dovecot. (port 110 is the IMAP port, isn't it? I >> can't telnet to it.) > > 110 is POP3 > > So what port is IMAP?

Re: [gentoo-user] Exim, Outlook 2007, and Thunderbird

2008-09-08 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 17:37 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Mon, September 8, 2008 5:32 pm, Paul Hartman wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Michael Sullivan > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The problem is with dovecot. (port 110 is the IMAP port, isn

Re: [gentoo-user] Exim, Outlook 2007, and Thunderbird

2008-09-08 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 15:43 -0700, kashani wrote: > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > The problem is with dovecot. (port 110 is the IMAP port, isn't it? I > > can't telnet to it.) > > > > camille log # emerge -pv dovecot > > > > Thes

Re: [gentoo-user] Exim, Outlook 2007, and Thunderbird

2008-09-08 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 17:51 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 15:43 -0700, kashani wrote: > > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > The problem is with dovecot. (port 110 is the IMAP port, isn't it? I > > > can't telnet to it.) > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Exim, Outlook 2007, and Thunderbird

2008-09-08 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 16:49 -0700, kashani wrote: > Michael Sullivan wrote: > >> dovecot doesn't seem to have a log. How do I turn on logging for > >> dovecot? > > I'd suspect it's either logging to /var/log/mail* or /var/log/messages > Have you ch

Re: [gentoo-user] Exim, Outlook 2007, and Thunderbird

2008-09-08 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 19:47 -0500, Dale wrote: > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 16:49 -0700, kashani wrote: > > > >> Michael Sullivan wrote: > >> > >>>> dovecot doesn't seem to have a log. How do I turn on logging

Re: [gentoo-user] Exim, Outlook 2007, and Thunderbird

2008-09-08 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 18:24 -0700, kashani wrote: > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > My public IP address is 70.234.122.254 > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ telnet 127.0.0.1 143 > > Trying 127.0.0.1... > > Connected to 127.0.0.1. > > Escape ch

Re: [gentoo-user] Exim, Outlook 2007, and Thunderbird [SOLVED]

2008-09-08 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 18:45 -0700, kashani wrote: > Michael Sullivan wrote: > >> Are you port forwarding port 143 through your NAT if you're using NAT? > >> Are you allowing imap in your firewall rules? > >> > >> I'd also try the suggesting of

[gentoo-user] SSHd: Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive).

2008-09-11 Thread Michael Sullivan
I hooked up my old server box today so that I could update the software, only to find that I could not ssh over to it: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ssh bullet Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive). There were no 'official' logs, but a website I found on google suggested running /usr/sbin/s

Re: [gentoo-user] SSHd: Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive).

2008-09-12 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 15:27 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > I hooked up my old server box today so that I could update the software, > > only to find that I could not ssh over to it: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ssh bullet > > Perm

Re: [gentoo-user] SSHd: Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive).

2008-09-12 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 06:58 -0400, Eric Martin wrote: > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 15:27 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > >> Michael Sullivan wrote: > >>> I hooked up my old server box today so that I could update the software, > >>> on

[gentoo-user] SSH fixed; now su doesn't work

2008-09-13 Thread Michael Sullivan
I can ssh over to the old box now, but my su command doesn't work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ su - su: Authentication failure >From /var/log/messages: Sep 13 23:23:07 bullet sshd[24134]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user michael by (uid=0) Sep 13 23:23:10 bullet su[24142]: FAILED su fo

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH fixed; now su doesn't work

2008-09-13 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 23:27 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I can ssh over to the old box now, but my su command doesn't work: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ su - > su: Authentication failure > > >From /var/log/messages: > > Sep 13 23:23:07 bullet sshd[2413

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH fixed; now su doesn't work [SOLVED, sort of]

2008-09-13 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 23:36 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 23:27 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > I can ssh over to the old box now, but my su command doesn't work: > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ su - > > su: Authentication fa

[gentoo-user] Is there a way to force python-updater to remerge python modules?

2008-09-14 Thread Michael Sullivan
I'm trying to upgrade phpmyadmin and it fails saying it can't find a module called 'WebappConfig.config'. I googled this and found a Gentoo bug saying that it was because the OP didn't rebuild his python modules after upgrading python. I run python-updater and it dumps me back at the prompt with

[gentoo-user] passwd won't work

2008-09-14 Thread Michael Sullivan
I think this is the same problem that wouldn't let me use su -. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ passwd passwd: Authentication token manipulation error I'd like to change my password, but I can't. Any thoughts?

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to force python-updater to remerge python modules?

2008-09-14 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 22:09 +0200, Erik Hahn wrote: > > I'm trying to upgrade phpmyadmin and it fails saying it can't find a > > module called 'WebappConfig.config'. I googled this and found a Gentoo > > bug saying that it was because the OP didn't rebuild his python modules > > after upgrading py

Re: [gentoo-user] passwd won't work

2008-09-14 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 23:35 +0200, Pintér Tibor wrote: > Michael Sullivan írta: > > I think this is the same problem that wouldn't let me use su -. > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ passwd > > passwd: Authentication token manipulation error > > > > I

Re: [gentoo-user] passwd won't work

2008-09-14 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 23:35 +0200, Pintér Tibor wrote: > Michael Sullivan írta: > > I think this is the same problem that wouldn't let me use su -. > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ passwd > > passwd: Authentication token manipulation error > > > > I

Re: [gentoo-user] passwd won't work [SOLVED]

2008-09-14 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 20:57 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote: > Quoting Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I think this is the same problem that wouldn't let me use su -. > > > > Post /etc/pam.d/system-auth > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] passwd won't work [SOLVED]

2008-09-15 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 09:11 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Montag 15 September 2008 05:49:46 schrieb ext Michael Sullivan: > > > I remerged sys-apps/shadow and it works now, as does su. > > Maybe it's time for a revdep-rebuild, then? > > Bye... > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Please be respectful on list

2008-09-16 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 10:26 -0700, Alec Warner wrote: > [Resending to list because I sent with the wrong address the first time] > > A brief warning to all. Userrel does monitor this list and it does > react to complaints from users. > > This list exists for the community; to let users help each

[gentoo-user] Weird networking problem

2008-09-21 Thread Michael Sullivan
I’m trying to set up Gentoo in a Virtualbox on my laptop (running Windows Vista). I’m using the 2007 liveCD image, although I’ve had this same problem with the 2008 liveCD image. The problem is that I can access web pages with links, like www.gentoo.org, but I can’t ping anything. Also, when I t

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird networking problem

2008-09-21 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sun, September 21, 2008 3:53 pm, Sebastian Günther wrote: > * Michael Sullivan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [21.09.08 21:59]: >> I’m trying to set up Gentoo in a Virtualbox on my laptop (running >> Windows >> Vista). I’m using the 2007 liveCD image, although I’ve had this same >

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird networking problem

2008-09-22 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 07:24 +0200, Sebastian Günther wrote: > * Michael Sullivan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [22.09.08 01:16]: > > > > In the VirtualBox user manual, the section that talks about bridging, it > > says in one part: > > > > If your host is running Windows

[gentoo-user] Tool for monitoring what's using the hard drive

2008-09-26 Thread Michael Sullivan
Is there a tool similar to `top` that will tell me what's using my hard drive? My hard drive clicks a lot when I don't think it should, and I'd really like to know what program is using it. Sometimes it's so bad that I have to manually power down the machine and restart it...

[gentoo-user] Problem with exim and mail destinations

2008-10-02 Thread Michael Sullivan
I have three boxes: camille.espersunited.com, catherine.espersunited.com, and baby.espersunited.com . Traditionally, baby has been our server, but the power supply went bad last April and I wasn't able to get it fixed until very recently. Since baby went down, camille has been our server. But n

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with exim and mail destinations

2008-10-02 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 08:41 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I have three boxes: camille.espersunited.com, > catherine.espersunited.com, and baby.espersunited.com . Traditionally, > baby has been our server, but the power supply went bad last April and I > wasn't able to get it

[gentoo-user] Can't play audio cds!

2008-10-06 Thread Michael Sullivan
I can't play audio cds. I used to use gnome-cd, but that seems to be gone now, and none of the other CD players will play sound. KsCD will even show the track titles on the CD, but it won't play sound. I checked the log file, but I couldn't find anything. I couldn't mount my CD (in the past thi

Re: [gentoo-user] Продажа квартир.Скидки становятся меньше...

2008-10-08 Thread Michael Sullivan
How do you say "wtf?" in Russian? On Fri, 2001-04-27 at 14:03 +, Удобно и уютно wrote: >СРОЧНАЯ РАСПРОДАЖА > В ЭЛИТНОМ ПОДМОСКОВЬЕ >Застройщик РАСпродает супер квартиры в городе Одинцово: >

[gentoo-user] OT - Having a problem booting a vanilla kernel

2007-01-29 Thread Michael Sullivan
rnel, so I know those settings are correct, with the only changes in the filenames. What am I missing here? -Michael Sullivan- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Having a problem booting a vanilla kernel [SOLVED]

2007-01-30 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 20:43 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I wanted to try installing my Win4Lin 9x 5.0 software, so I unzipped my > vanilla kernel source (2.6.11.12 - the newest patch they have for SMP > kernels) into /usr/src and changed the symlink. I applied the Win4Lin > patche

[gentoo-user] Why can't kernel-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 see my root partition?

2007-02-03 Thread Michael Sullivan
I upgraded my kernel to 2.6.19-gentoo-r6 this morning. I used genkernel. I followed these steps: Deleted the /usr/src/linux symlink and recreated it point to /usr/src/2.6.19-gentoo-r5 zcat /proc/config.gz > /usr/share/genkernel/x86/kernel-config-2.6 genkernel all After it successfully built, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't kernel-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 see my root partition?

2007-02-03 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 11:20 -0600, Joe Menola wrote: > On Saturday 03 February 2007 11:06 am, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > I upgraded my kernel to 2.6.19-gentoo-r6 this morning. I used > > genkernel. I followed these steps: > > In the interest of confusion...the .19 kernel s

Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't kernel-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 see my root partition? [SOLVED]

2007-02-03 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 19:44 -0600, Dan Farrell wrote: > On Sat, 03 Feb 2007 14:29:39 -0600 > Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does anyone know why the > > module names were changed between 2.6.18 and 2.6.19? > > the developers probably do. anyw

Re: [gentoo-user] User no edit crontab

2007-02-04 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 20:50 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As I recall, if admin leaves a blank /etc/cron.deny and no > /etc/cron.allow then all users will have access to cron. > > That isn't working for me in one isolated case (a gentoo install > inside a windows vm). > > What else can caus

[gentoo-user] OT - Need help setting up a name-based virtual host in Apache

2007-02-21 Thread Michael Sullivan
ing wrong with my config? Please help! -Michael Sullivan- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] OT - Some miscellanous questions about hack attacks and dealing with them

2007-02-22 Thread Michael Sullivan
an get in through unbound open ports. Is this true? If so, how does it work? What do they connect to if nothing's running on the port they're trying? I know the concept of a backdoor in a running program, but if no program is running on said port for them to connect to, how do they get i

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Some miscellanous questions about hack attacks and dealing with them

2007-02-22 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 03:49 +1030, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: > On Friday, 23 February 2007 3:15, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > I have logsentry installed on my system which sends me hourly reports > > about possible hack attempts on my three boxes. I use ipkungfu for my > >

[gentoo-user] OT - Where is the TIMEZONE variable?

2007-03-12 Thread Michael Sullivan
I feel really stupid having to ask this here, but in what file is the TIMEZONE variable set? My PC clock is set by ntp and it's not being updated for DST. Wherever the variable is, it's not set. I never updated it becuase I heard it wasn't actually being used yet, but I think if I set it my mach

[gentoo-user] How do I unmask packages for use with catalyst?

2007-03-20 Thread Michael Sullivan
I'm trying to make a livecd with catalyst, but I keep running into things like this: !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "sys-boot/yaboot" have been masked. I unmask them in /etc/portage/package.keywords and etc, but they're still masked when catalyst tries to emerge them. Do I need to emerge the

Re: [gentoo-user] Eez a byootiful dai todai

2007-03-30 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 13:27 -0500, Dan Farrell wrote: > Tempers flare over ... preinstalled linux distros? > > The fact is, Linux needs some evangelists right now. I for one would > love to see microsoft's market saturation drop some, and I don't think > I have to explain how much that would help

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread Michael Sullivan
I'm 27 (I think). On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 12:07 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is the average age of the gentoo user here? > Sent via BlackBerry® from Vodafone �éí¢‹¬z¸žÚ(¢¸&j)bžb -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] OT - Can't offload pictures from camera

2007-04-22 Thread Michael Sullivan
I have a Kodak EasyShare CX7300. I have gphoto2-2.3.1 installed. I'm currently running kernel 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 . In the past, I have used the command "# gphoto2 -P [1]" to offload picture from this camera. Until today, it has always worked. Today I tried to offload pictures from the camera and

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Can't offload pictures from camera

2007-04-23 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 15:50 +0100, Joost Roeleveld wrote: > > I have a Kodak EasyShare CX7300. I have gphoto2-2.3.1 installed. I'm > > currently running kernel 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 . In the past, I have used > > the command "# gphoto2 -P [1]" to offload picture from this camera. > > Until today, it

[gentoo-user] OT - Need help fixing my evolution-2.8

2007-04-24 Thread Michael Sullivan
rd, but it hasn't fixed this. What's weirder than that is that evolution seems to be the only application affected. Can anyone help me to fix this? -Michael Sullivan- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] OT - Migrating databases to a new box

2007-04-26 Thread Michael Sullivan
g him. (Most of my users access remotely). I have root priveleges. Thank you for your help. -Michael Sullivan- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Migrating databases to a new box

2007-04-26 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 15:03 -0700, kashani wrote: > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > I'm currently in the process of migrating databases to a new box. One > > of my users has two databases that he needs access to. Is there a way > > (through the mysql terminal interface) to

[gentoo-user] OT - Need help with mailman after migration to new box

2007-04-27 Thread Michael Sullivan
I'm having difficulty getting mailman to work on the new box. I have a mailing list set up called 'phantom' that acts as a test list to make sure that mailman is working. This morning I sent a message to phantom to make sure that mailman was working. This was what was in /usr/local/mailman/logs

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help with mailman after migration to new box [SOLVED]

2007-04-27 Thread Michael Sullivan
--- Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having difficulty getting mailman to work on the > new box. I have a > mailing list set up called 'phantom' that acts as a > test list to make > sure that mailman is working. This morning I sent > a

[gentoo-user] OT - Need help with nfs after migrating to a new box

2007-04-27 Thread Michael Sullivan
I've emerged nfs-utils on the new box and copied /etc/exports over from the old box, but when I try to start nfs on the new box I get this: baby ~ # /etc/init.d/nfs start * Starting idmapd ... [ ok ] * Starting gssd ... [ ok ] * Starting svcgssd ... [ !! ] * Exporting NFS directories ... exp

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto for Sendmail configuration?

2007-04-29 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 11:12 +0100, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 28 April 2007 18:45, Randy Barlow wrote: > > On Fri, April 27, 2007 3:25 pm, Dan Cowsill wrote: > > > So what I am looking for is a simplified howto describing how I could > > > set up sendmail to deliver mail for me... > > > > I really w

[gentoo-user] OT - Spamassassin and sendmail

2007-04-29 Thread Michael Sullivan
Can anyone tell me how to integrate sendmail and spamassassin? All my efforts till now have failed. Here's my info: baby ~ # emerge -pv sendmail spamassassin procmail These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] mail-mta/sendmail-8.14

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Spamassassin and sendmail

2007-04-30 Thread Michael Sullivan
This wiki article looks to be for postfix. I need one for sendmail... On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 15:55 -0400, Randy Barlow wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > Can anyone tell me how to integrate sendmail and spamassassin? > &

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Spamassassin and sendmail

2007-05-01 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 18:56 +0200, Jarry wrote: > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > Can anyone tell me how to integrate sendmail and spamassassin? All my > > efforts till now have failed. Here's my info: > > > > baby ~ # emerge -pv sendmail spamassassin procmail >

[gentoo-user] OT - Question about spamass-milter

2007-05-04 Thread Michael Sullivan
I have a bunch of lines like this in my /var/log/mail.log on my server box: Milter (spamassassin): local socket name /var/run/spamass-milter.sock unsafe The trouble is that the file does not exist: baby ~ # ls /var/run/spamass-milter.sock ls: cannot access /var/run/spamass-milter.sock: No such f

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need procmail recipe

2007-05-08 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 20:33 +0200, Bertram Scharpf wrote: > Hi, > > Am Dienstag, 08. Mai 2007, 13:07:54 -0500 schrieb Michael Sullivan: > > I need a procmail recipe that will allow all mails marked as spam to be > > delivered to a dovecot maildir-style folder called Suspect

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need procmail recipe

2007-05-09 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 20:50 +0200, Bertram Scharpf wrote: > Hi, > > Am Dienstag, 08. Mai 2007, 14:52:15 -0500 schrieb Michael Sullivan: > > On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 20:33 +0200, Bertram Scharpf wrote: > > > Am Dienstag, 08. Mai 2007, 13:07:54 -0500 schrieb Michael Sullivan: &

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