[gentoo-user] OT - Question about new bash

2006-01-29 Thread Michael Sullivan
I wrote a script a long time ago for resizing pictures uploaded to a certain directory on my server box. The script was supposed to check to see if any JPG files in the directory had not been resized, and if they hadn't, it was supposed to resize them. It did some other stuff, but that was the im

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Question about new bash [SOLVED]

2006-01-29 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 18:05 +, znx wrote: > Hi, > >for x in *.JPG; do > if [ ! -e current/$x ]; then > > I can't see anything wrong with this in particular, one thing that > springs to mind is to quote the string that you are testing: > > for x in *.JPG; do > if [

Re: [gentoo-user] Are multiple emerges safe?

2006-01-30 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 13:24 +0100, Huib van Wees wrote: > > On 1/30/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 19:48:34 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > > Now I have got a related question: Imagine you have got one > portage > > tree on o

[gentoo-user] OT - How to find floppy drive

2006-01-30 Thread Michael Sullivan
How do I find what my floppy drive is called? I thought it would be called /dev/fd0, but /dev/fd0 doesn't exist, and I'm at a loss on how to address it... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - How to find floppy drive

2006-01-30 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 17:56 -0600, Dale wrote: > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > >How do I find what my floppy drive is called? I thought it would be > >called /dev/fd0, but /dev/fd0 doesn't exist, and I'm at a loss on how to > >address it... > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - How to find floppy drive [SOLVED]

2006-01-30 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 17:27 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > On 1/30/06, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls /dev/floppy > > ls: /dev/floppy: No such file or directory > > > > > > No /dev/floppy!!! > > Does dmesg indica

[gentoo-user] OT - Returned mail and received mail

2006-02-01 Thread Michael Sullivan
I have an annoying problem. I have three computers on my network. Every night I get emerge -uD world cron reports and backup reports as well as a few others. These reports (and other things cron sends me) are delivered successfully...and unsuccessfully. I get them just fine, but I also get maile

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - Returned mail and received mail

2006-02-01 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 09:58 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I have an annoying problem. I have three computers on my network. > Every night I get emerge -uD world cron reports and backup reports as > well as a few others. These reports (and other things cron sends me) > a

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome upgrade removed Open Terminal from right click

2006-02-03 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 09:40 -0500, ellotheth rimmwen wrote: > On 2/2/06, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >How does one add a specific operation to the right click menu one > > gets on the Gnome desktop? > > > >I really want to get this back. In Gnome, I've always had an 'Open >

Re: [gentoo-user] No module named java_config

2006-02-03 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 19:14 +0100, Fredrik Lundgren wrote: > Dear list, > > I recently updated and had to handle some 80 configuration files (that > was at least a halfyear since last update). A lot probably went wrong > but now the system is up and running. > However, when I try to update Open

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome upgrade removed Open Terminal from right click

2006-02-04 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 15:31 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 23:49:51 +, Stroller wrote: > > > Maybe the Gnome developers decided the "typical" user wouldn't want > > to do this and decided that they'd remove it because it was confusing > > little old ladies. Have we had a

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

2006-02-04 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 15:30 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 04 Feb 2006 16:08:31 +0100, Franta wrote: > > > As I said. It wont be SicroMoft. I'm still wondering. At this time of > > writing I reduced the possibilities to Slackware or LFS. > > I know, I'll need to do some work to get things

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

2006-02-04 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 20:27 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 04 Feb 2006 10:36:10 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > > With all that experience, I'm surprised you made such a basic mistake > > > as overwriting a config file. Gentoo is careful to protect your &

OT - What is mod_status? (WAS: Re: [gentoo-user] apache permssions)

2006-02-05 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 09:37 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 01:38:11 -0500 > Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 06:26:16PM +1300, Penguin Lover Nick Rout squawked: > > > > > > > > > > ExtendedStatus On > > > > > > > > > > SetHandler

Re: [gentoo-user] Remove?

2006-02-07 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 20:34 +0200, Rumen Yotov wrote: > On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 17:45 +0100, osv wrote: > > > Did you send them from your subscription address? > > > > Yes, I'm sure I did. Bwhua!!! > Hi, > This is from memory only, sorry deleted the other mails from the thread. > You said to have se

OT - GRP (WAS: Re: [gentoo-user] really weird way to install)

2006-02-07 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 21:42 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 7 Feb 2006 22:20:19 +0200, Ghaith Hachem wrote: > > > well there was a miracle today i got 3 free hours to manage to install > > the system up to the bootloader but what i really need is X since this > > is the family pc :-P > > In

[gentoo-user] OT - PHP problem

2006-02-11 Thread Michael Sullivan
I discovered a problem with Apache and PHP this morning that's got me concerned. I tried to go to an espersunited.com site and I found that apache2 wasn't even running. I shelled over to my server box and tried to start apache and got this error: bullet portage # /etc/init.d/apache2 restart * A

[gentoo-user] OT - procmail: Error while writing to "/var/log/procmail"

2006-02-12 Thread Michael Sullivan
What are the permissions of /var/log/procmail supposed to be? I get a log of Returned Mail emails griping about mail sent to accounts that exist on my server box (the content of which also comes without the error message). All the error emails contain "procmail: Error while writing to '/var/log/

[gentoo-user] OT - "Not getting gentoo-user at espersunited.com" OR "Has anybody seen the owner recently?"

2006-02-18 Thread Michael Sullivan
email from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] about fifteen minutes before I started typing this message, and I haven't gotten a Confirmation Request or anything else from gentoo.org yet... -Michael Sullivan- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - "Not getting gentoo-user at espersunited.com" OR "Has anybody seen the owner recently?"

2006-02-18 Thread Michael Sullivan
--- "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > had the same problem some weeks ago. > > Reason was some header mangling done in the rz of my > 'provider' that made the > mailing list discard my messages. > > If gentoo+owner does not get back on you, maybe > because they do no

[gentoo-user] OT - 2 Questions

2006-02-23 Thread Michael Sullivan
0 parallel port scanner that I recently inherited. Can anyone point me to a Gentoo-specific or otherwise easy-to-understand howto for getting it working? I tried googling it, but all the results were for USB scanners... -Michael Sullivan- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - 2 Questions

2006-02-23 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 15:41 -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote: > On Thursday 23 February 2006 14:36, a tiny voice compelled Michael Sullivan > to > write: > > > PaperPort 6100 > from: > http://www.sane-project.org/sane-backends.html > > PaperPort 6100Parpor

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - 2 Questions

2006-02-24 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 23:53 -0800, darren kirby wrote: > quoth the Michael Sullivan: > > I upgraded dovecot the other day to 1.0.beta3 and I was altering the > > configuration file trying to get it to work when I discovered something > > disturbing: our passwords were being t

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/dsp missing?

2006-03-01 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 20:55 -0800, Wes Gray wrote: > Something I did caused sound to quit working. On starting KDE I get an > error about /dev/dsp missing. It might have been caused by me setting > RC_DEVICE_TARBALL to no in /etc/conf.d/rc, but I set it back to yes > and it didn't help. Thanks i

Re: [gentoo-user] Good Game??

2006-03-08 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 23:42 +0100, Heiko Wundram wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 8. März 2006 23:26 schrieb wieseltux23: > > www.wolfspakt.de/spiel.php?id=7358 > > For all people who haven't looked there yet, this is a crappy german > advertising game, in which the player gets points for the number of peop

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 20:32 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: > A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman schreef: > > As for insulting the developers I said I looked forward to when they > > had something I [a normal person] could use > > You know, it just occurs to me to question this often-heard "assumption" > th

[gentoo-user] OT - Need help getting MythTV to work with new(er) kernel

2006-03-13 Thread Michael Sullivan
I had MythTV working perfectly with linux-2.6.14-gentoo-r5. I've tried to upgrade to linux-2.6.15-gentoo-r1 using genkernel and basing the newer kernel's configuration off of the older one. I've booted with the new kernel, remerged ivtv and rebooted again with the new kernel, but still I cannot w

RE: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help getting MythTV to work with new(er) kernel

2006-03-14 Thread Michael Sullivan
quency. camille ~ # ivtv-tune -f xxx.xx /dev/video0: 0.000 MHz (Signal Detected) > After that cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg and you playback test.mpg is that OK > (or you do mplayer /dev/video0) camille ~ # cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg camille ~ # ls -lh test.mpg -rw-r--r-- 1 r

[gentoo-user] OT - Where is perlfunc?

2006-03-14 Thread Michael Sullivan
My perl book, "Sams Teach Yourself Perl In 21 Days" says that I should have a utility called "perlfunc" as part of my perl package. I went to use it last night and couldn't seem to find it. Does it still exist? Do I need to remerge perl with different USE flags? Here are my current USE flags for

Re: [gentoo-user] Stop and continue emerge -e world

2006-03-15 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 08:56 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 23:48:46 +, Unknown wrote: > > > > > Not so. emerge --resume restarts the previous emerge process, even > > > > after a reboot, exactly as Petr needs. > > > what i meant is that it will have to recompile allover aga

RE: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help getting MythTV to work withnew(er) kernel [SOLVED]

2006-03-15 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 09:18 +0100, Rik van de Bovenkamp wrote: > Hi, > > In kernel config (at least in 2.6.15) there is an option to support the > Philips SAA7115. That's the point where you get you're first error message. > I only got the ivtv driver to work ok in 2.6.15 after enabling the SAA71

[gentoo-user] OT - I've built my cross-compilation environment; now what?

2006-03-15 Thread Michael Sullivan
I've succeeded in building a cross-compilation environment for an i586 on an i686 via crossdev, but I'm unsure how to use it. Can anyone help me? There are no docs for crossdev in /usr/share/doc, no man pages for it that I can find, and no info pages. I looked at the log files crossdev created w

[gentoo-user] /etc/resolv.conf and return mail

2005-04-12 Thread Michael Sullivan
Last Wednesday CableOne (my ISP (unfortunately)) suffered a violent thunderstorm at their headquarters in Arizona. All CableOne internet customers were without Internet for about six hours. Ever since the internet became available again my mail server has not been able to send mail from espersuni

[gentoo-user] Re: /etc/resolv.conf and return mail

2005-04-12 Thread Michael Sullivan
I forgot to say that mail between espersunited.com users works fine. As I said, I've had this problem for a few days and I previously thought that the messages simply weren't being sent from the message queue. Incoming mail to espersunited.com works fine too... --- Michael Sulliv

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /etc/resolv.conf and return mail

2005-04-12 Thread Michael Sullivan
wn mailserver, is it trying to post > directly to whomever > you send it to, or routing through your ISP's SMTP? > ~ Maybe your ISP has > blocked outgoing port 25 (may have been several > spammers / > hacked_computers_used_by_spammers reported to you > ISP from it'

[gentoo-user] Setting up alsa

2005-04-15 Thread Michael Sullivan
I had to reinstall Windows the other day and it accidently wiped out my Linux partitions (lucky for backups!). I decided that I would make a Gentoo 2005.0 LiveCD and reinstall Gentoo from there. For a long time I've wanted to use a 2.6 kernel, but I could never get it to work. It seems to be wor

[gentoo-user] xorg.conf issue

2005-04-15 Thread Michael Sullivan
, 75Hz, 72Hz, 70Hz, 60Hz [163] 1152 x 864, 100Hz, 85Hz, 75Hz, 72Hz, 70Hz, 60Hz [17a] 1280 x 768, 60Hz [14f] 1280 x 960, 85Hz, 60Hz [11a] 1280 x 1024, 100Hz, 85Hz, 75Hz, 72Hz, 60Hz [16d] 1360 x 768, 60Hz [122] 1600 x 1200, 85Hz, 75Hz, 60Hz [138] 1920 x 1440, 60Hz (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/mouse No such file or directory. (EE) Mouse0: cannot open input device (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Mouse0" No core pointer Fatal server error: failed to initialize core devices I could not even get X to start without commenting out every reference to Mouse0 in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Is there a way to fix this? The mouse works fine (even with all the settings commented out in xorg.conf) except that the wheel doesn't do anything... -Michael Sullivan- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf issue [SOLVED]

2005-04-15 Thread Michael Sullivan
It was actually /dev/input/mouse0, but I found it and now the mouse works right. Thanks for your help! :) On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 16:59 +0200, Cyrille Damez wrote: > I guess the problem is the last line of this section: > > Section "InputDevice" > > Identifier "Mouse0" > > Driver

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing libstdc++.la

2005-04-16 Thread Michael Sullivan
I dealt with something like that this morning. I created a soft link in /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/ called 3.3.4 (which did not previously exist) and pointed it at the directory 3.3.5- Folks, > > Tried to emerge grip under kernel-2.6.11 and received this error about a > missing library.

[gentoo-user] OT - Slow sendmail

2005-04-18 Thread Michael Sullivan
Ever since I installed Gentoo on my server box SMTP to the server and mail sent from the command line on the server has been slow. I looked it up on the sendmail FAQ, (Q3.12) and they said that I could add: define(`confTO_IDENT',`0s')dnl to my /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and m4 the file to sendmail.c

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Slow sendmail

2005-04-18 Thread Michael Sullivan
I thought it might be a DNS problem too (the sendmail FAQ said that it might be) but when sending mail while logged onto the server box took a long time too I discarded the idea... On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 13:27 -0400, A. Khattri wrote: > On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Michael Sullivan wrote: > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] lost root passwd

2005-04-19 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 11:34 -0300, Mauro Faccenda wrote: > Maerlyn wrote: > > Hy, > > > > I just installed gentoo, and altough I set the root password with > > passwd after the chroot command, where the install guide told me to, > > it doesn't work when I try to log in. The other user I created wo

[gentoo-user] OT - Sending local mail to my server box

2005-04-20 Thread Michael Sullivan
The computer I use mainly is called baby.espersunited.com My server box is called bullet.espersunited.com. I don't have any kind of local DNS for my network, just /etc/host files (each computer has a copy of the same file) I want baby's local mail to be sent to bullet so that I can retrieve it i

Re: [gentoo-user] vi is mising from the portage

2005-04-20 Thread Michael Sullivan
VIM is still there. Could you use that? On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 19:34 +0200, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using a script for months now to install my gentoo servers, now after > my last sync i have seen that there are some changes in the portage like > there is no gentoo-dev-sources m

[gentoo-user] Cannot crontab -e - Permission denied!

2005-04-24 Thread Michael Sullivan
I wanted to enter some stuff into crontab in my personal account on my server box. I entered "crontab -e" and got the error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] michael $ crontab -e -bash: /usr/bin/crontab: Permission denied [EMAIL PROTECTED] michael $ ls -l /usr/bin/crontab -rws--x--- 1 root cron 9896 Feb 26 02:

[gentoo-user] Re: Cannot crontab -e - Permission denied! [SOLVED]

2005-04-24 Thread Michael Sullivan
Nevermind. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wasn't part of the cron group. I should have thought of that before I sent my email. I apologize... On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 08:56 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I wanted to enter some stuff into crontab in my personal account on my > server box. I enter

Re: [gentoo-user] something I said?

2005-05-03 Thread Michael Sullivan
I see your post. On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 07:25 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: > Hi, > > Lately my posts have been getting zero response. > > Maybe no one else has seen them but they appear in my > mail box. > > If someone reads this please reply -- that'll clear up > part of the mystery. > > -mw >

[gentoo-user] OT - Compiling and system variables

2005-05-03 Thread Michael Sullivan
I downloaded a source code archive for HBasic. I tried to make it, but it fails with an error: In file included from basic_document.cpp:84: ../dialogs/select_kpart.h:4:31: kparts/mainwindow.h: No such file or directory I opened ../dialogs/select_kpart.h in vi and line 4 said I used locate t

Re: [gentoo-user] About runlevel's

2005-05-07 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 13:55 +0200, Pere Gentoo wrote: > I see, in Gentoo, we work for runlevel groups and not the individual > runlevels 0,1,2,3,4,5 and 6. They are resumed as boot, single, > nonetwork and default. > > Fine. But how to get a runlevel as runlevel 3 on other distributions, > with th

[gentoo-user] NFS weirdness

2005-05-12 Thread Michael Sullivan
My server box is called bullet and my client box is called baby. I use baby to access bullet because bullet doesn't have a reliable monitor. On baby I have a directory called /backup where the nightly backups are recorded to. bullet has the same setup. Within baby:/backup there is a directory ca

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS weirdness

2005-05-12 Thread Michael Sullivan
n automatically from the ISP) and not to reset baby's IP address? On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 07:21 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > My server box is called bullet and my client box is called baby. I use > baby to access bullet because bullet doesn't have a reliable monitor. > On

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS weirdness

2005-05-12 Thread Michael Sullivan
/etc/resolv.conf file, and I can't figure out how to do that without resetting the IP address of baby. My entire network communication scheme depends on IP addresses not changing while a PC is booted into Linux. On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 09:13 -0400, A. Khattri wrote: > On Thu, 12 May 2005, Michael S

[gentoo-user] Need more help with remote access of local X server

2005-08-02 Thread Michael Sullivan
I've checked the X windows log files on both machines, but didn't find anything. Could something else be causing this that's not mentioned in the guide? Any other advice on how to remedy this problem? -Michael Sullivan- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Need more help with remote access of local X server [SOLVED, (for now)

2005-08-02 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 20:42 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > Last month I started a thread on this list about setting up an > arrangement so that my wife's computer running Red Hat 9 would be able > to access my X server. I was referred to the Gentoo LTSP guide. I > followed the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges

2005-08-04 Thread Michael Sullivan
Refer to the "Elitest Chowderheads" thread on [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 15:50 +0200, Ryan Viljoen wrote: > Yeah so you just skipped n00b status? > You never asked a stupid question? > No I thought not. > Thats the spirit lets keep Gentoo to ourselves so it can grow... > > *sigh* >

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges

2005-08-04 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 09:03 -0500, Chris Cox wrote: > On Thursday 04 August 2005 08:50 am, Ryan Viljoen wrote: > > Yeah so you just skipped n00b status? > > You never asked a stupid question? > > No I thought not. > > Thats the spirit lets keep Gentoo to ourselves so it can grow... > > > > *sigh* >

[gentoo-user] OT - Question about a complaint from webalizer

2005-08-04 Thread Michael Sullivan
Whenever I run webalizer on my server box I see this: Error: Unable to open DNS cache file /var/www/webalizer/dns_cache.db but that file does exist: bullet ~ # ls -l /var/www/webalizer/dns_cache.db -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 69632 Aug 3 09:15 /var/www/webalizer/dns_cache.db Why can't webalizer

[gentoo-user] Problem updating gcc

2005-08-09 Thread Michael Sullivan
I'm trying to update the software on my server box, but I keep getting an error when I try to update gcc to 3.3.5.20050130-r1 * Configuring GCC with: --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/i586-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.3.5-20050130 --includedir=/u

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem updating gcc [SOLVED]

2005-08-09 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 09:49 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I'm trying to update the software on my server box, but I keep getting > an error when I try to update gcc to 3.3.5.20050130-r1 > > * Configuring GCC with: > --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs >

[gentoo-user] OT - How to work with USB DVD-RW/CD-RW drive

2005-08-09 Thread Michael Sullivan
My internal CD-R drive has been experiencing steadily worsening power fluctuations over the past year or so. I haven't been able to write CDs in Windows in months, but until recently could still write them in Gentoo. I ordered a Pacific Digital USB DVD-RW/CD-RW drive on August 1 and it came in to

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - How to work with USB DVD-RW/CD-RW drive

2005-08-10 Thread Michael Sullivan
--- Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My internal CD-R drive has been experiencing > > steadily > > worsening power fluctuations over the past year or > > so. > > I haven't

[gentoo-user] Can't find file I need for an emerge!

2005-08-10 Thread Michael Sullivan
Yesterday I got my external DVD-RW/CD-RW drive in. I added dvd use flags to /etc/make.conf and issued "emerge uDN world". The first package in the emerge is xcdroast, which is good because that's what I use to write CDs (and DVDs if I can get this to work.) emerge wanted to download the file "x

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - How to work with USB DVD-RW/CD-RW drive

2005-08-10 Thread Michael Sullivan
--- Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 06:48:06 -0700 (PDT) > Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > For what it's worth the only command listed above > that > > shows my external dri

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - How to work with USB DVD-RW/CD-RW drive

2005-08-10 Thread Michael Sullivan
--- Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 06:48:06 -0700 (PDT) > > Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > For what it&

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - How to work with USB DVD-RW/CD-RW drive

2005-08-10 Thread Michael Sullivan
--- Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 06:48:06 -0700 (PDT) > Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > For what it's worth the only command listed above > that > > shows my external dri

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - How to work with USB DVD-RW/CD-RW drive

2005-08-10 Thread Michael Sullivan
--- Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 06:48:06 -0700 (PDT) > > Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > For what it&

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - How to work with USB DVD-RW/CD-RW drive

2005-08-10 Thread Michael Sullivan
--- Bob Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 09:53:13 -0700 (PDT) > Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > In the output above I noticed the lines: > > > > Vendor_info: 'TOSHIBA ' > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - How to work with USB DVD-RW/CD-RW drive

2005-08-11 Thread Michael Sullivan
--- Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 09:53:13 -0700 (PDT) > Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ... > > Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 48 in dummy TAO > mode > > for single session. >

[gentoo-user] Way OT - date listed for a directory in ls -l

2005-08-14 Thread Michael Sullivan
Under what condition is the date of a directory (shown with ls -l) updated? Is it when the directory is created, or when a file somewhere below the directory is updated or some other time? I make weekly backups of the user accounts on my server box. Because space and CD media are in limited supp

Re: [gentoo-user] Way OT - date listed for a directory in ls -l

2005-08-14 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 18:09 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: > On 14 August 2005 16:51, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > Under what condition is the date of a directory (shown with ls -l) > > updated? Is it when the directory is created, or when a file somewhere > > below the directory is

[gentoo-user] OT - vsftp 425 bad IP connecting

2005-08-18 Thread Michael Sullivan
One of my users is having a problem with FTP access to my server. He says that he can connect and get a listing for his home directory, but he can't do anything beyond seeing the listing. He's connecting from outside the network. I can connect and interact with my personal account through FTP ju

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - vsftp 425 bad IP connecting

2005-08-18 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 12:56 -0400, A. Khattri wrote: > On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > One of my users is having a problem with FTP access to my server. He > > says that he can connect and get a listing for his home directory, but > > he can't

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - vsftp 425 bad IP connecting [SOLVED]

2005-08-18 Thread Michael Sullivan
asv_addrs= > in the config. > > The suggestions are completely untested... and I don't use VSFTP > myself, just acting as a Google-Proxy (= > > W > > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 09:03:23AM -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > One of my users is having a pro

[gentoo-user] OT - vsftp revisited

2005-08-19 Thread Michael Sullivan
2005 [pid 23616] [acsacsx] OK LOGIN: Client "68.226.26.135" I have no idea even how to start solving this problem. I don't have access to a computer outside my network with Internet access, so I've only been able to try connecting to the same address he does, except from inside the network. Can anyone help me out here? -Michael Sullivan- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Trouble with mysql

2005-08-31 Thread Michael Sullivan
I am having trouble with /etc/init.d/mysql. I rebooted my system, and when it finished rebooting I tried to connect to the mysql daemon and failed. I looked in /var/log/mysql: There was a file there called mysql.err. The contents were: 050831 15:47:29 mysqld started 050831 15:47:30 Can't star

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with mysql

2005-08-31 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 17:20 -0400, Eric Crossman wrote: > On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 15:52 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > I am having trouble with /etc/init.d/mysql. I rebooted my system, and > > when it finished rebooting I tried to connect to the mysql daemon and > > fail

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with mysql

2005-08-31 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 22:37 +0100, Tim Igoe wrote: > > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > I am having trouble with /etc/init.d/mysql. I rebooted my system, and > > when it finished rebooting I tried to connect to the mysql daemon and > > failed. I looked in /var/log/mysql:

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with mysql

2005-08-31 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 18:04 -0500, Paul Maszy wrote: > > You shouldnt have restarted. > > mysql is already starting on boot up. It showing that many mysql > daemons is normal and ok. > > # /etc/init.d/mysql stop > --- You will probably get an error here, if everything happened as y

[gentoo-user] "panel" error

2005-09-10 Thread Michael Sullivan
Every time I log into gnome I get this annoying error: I've detected a panal already running, and will now exit. My wife tells me that she gets the same message when she logs into her account on this machine. Is there a way to remedy this problem? I checked the gentoo-user archives at GMane sea

Re: [gentoo-user] "panel" error

2005-09-11 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 23:30 -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: > > Every time I log into gnome I get this annoying error: > > > > I've detected a panal already running, and will now exit. > > > > My wife tells me that she gets the same message when she logs into her > > account on this machine. Is ther

Re: [gentoo-user] mail program

2005-09-11 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 18:09 +0100, Rupert Young wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to this list and to gentoo. > > After installation I'd expected to see programs available that were present > in UNIX systems I have used. For example, the program 'mail'. > > Is it necessary to install such as these separa

RE: [gentoo-user] mailman stopped working after upgrade

2005-09-15 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 13:46 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote: > Okay. Last night I ripped out every 'mailman' directory and file I could > find. Unmerged mailman. Backed up my lists. And re-emerged mailman. Same f'n > problem. WTF?! > > Sep 15 13:31:17 [Mailman mail-wrapper] Group mismatch error. Mail

[gentoo-user] OT - mod_jk and more

2005-09-25 Thread Michael Sullivan
I emerged the Apache upgrade the other day and got it working. I had mod_jk installed on apache-2.0.54-r15 from source (not ebuild) and it worked on the old Apache. This morning I emerged mod_jk. It emerged just fine, but now I can't figure out how to use it. The docs (or should I say "doc") we

[gentoo-user] OT - Making A News Server

2005-09-28 Thread Michael Sullivan
My ISP's news server (news.cableone.net) does not allow posting. I wanted to set up my own news server so that I could both get nntp/news data and post to newsgroups. I found a howto at www.tldp.org and have been following it. The howto said to open leafnode/config (I copied mine frim /etc/leafn

[gentoo-user] Digest verification failed!

2005-10-03 Thread Michael Sullivan
A long time ago I was having problems with mailman. I posted a question to this list and someone told me that I would have to change the MAILGID in the ebuild to whatever the gid of daemon was. Back then I did that and re-emerged mailman and everything worked. Now I'm facing a similar situation,

[gentoo-user] Need help with eth0 on new computer

2005-10-13 Thread Michael Sullivan
I got a new computer yesterday. As I was installing Gentoo on it, I ran into a problem. I've got the basic install set up, but my eth0 won't start. It would with the liveCD. When I boot up with the live CD and run: dmesg | grep 'eth0" it gives me this output: e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xf

[gentoo-user] Setting up ALSA on a new computer

2005-10-13 Thread Michael Sullivan
I'm trying to set up ALSA on my new computer. I ran lspci to find out what sound card I had: camille ~ # lspci -v | grep -i 'audio' :00:1b.0 Class 0403: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 03) Then I cross-referenced it in the ALSA Matri

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up ALSA on a new computer

2005-10-13 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 16:25 -0700, gentuxx wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > >I'm trying to set up ALSA on my new computer. I ran lspci to find out > >what sound card I had: > > > >camille ~ # lspc

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up ALSA on a new computer

2005-10-13 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 16:25 -0700, gentuxx wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > >I'm trying to set up ALSA on my new computer. I ran lspci to find out > >what sound card I had: > > > >camille ~ # lspc

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up ALSA on a new computer

2005-10-13 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 18:05 -0700, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: > more specifically is now an "Intel HD Audio" at the very bottom of the > alsa PCI devices list I just checked my kernel configuration and I had that marked to be compiled as a module before I rebuilt my kernel last time. Now how do I

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up ALSA on a new computer

2005-10-13 Thread Michael Sullivan
PCI && SND > │ > │ Location: > │ > │ -> Device Drivers > │ > │ -> Sound > │ > │ -> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture > │ > │ -> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (SND [=m]) > │ > │ -> PCI devices > │ > │ Select

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up ALSA on a new computer

2005-10-13 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 15:22 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 21:06:03 -0400 > Eduard Vaykher wrote: > > > On 10/13/05, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I'm trying to set up ALSA on my new computer. I ran l

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up ALSA on a new computer

2005-10-13 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 15:25 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > back up then delete the other alsa configs you have then run alsaconfig > as root. > > enable oss emulation (if you want it) in /etc/conf.d/alsasound > Where are the other alsa configs stored? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up ALSA on a new computer

2005-10-15 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 15:25 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > back up then delete the other alsa configs you have then run alsaconfig > as root. > > enable oss emulation (if you want it) in /etc/conf.d/alsasound > > > On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 21:14:54 -0500 > Michael Sullivan wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with eth0 on new computer

2005-10-15 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 18:07 +0300, Martins Steinbergs wrote: > i would say there no support for ya net cart built into kernel/module > > On Thursday 13 October 2005 17:51, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > I got a new computer yesterday. As I was installing Gentoo on it, I ran >

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up ALSA on a new computer

2005-10-15 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 20:14 +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote: > > Where are the other alsa configs located? I've unmerged and > > re-emerged alsa-utils several times and I cannot seem to fix this > > problem on my own... > > There aren't much configs for ALSA, and alsasound only modifies > your /et

[gentoo-user] My Continuing ALSA Woes

2005-10-19 Thread Michael Sullivan
s about version of symbol snd_device_new snd_hda_codec: Unknown symbol snd_device_new snd_hda_codec: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_hw_constraint_step snd_hda_codec: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_hw_constraint_step snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_hda_codec_new camille ~ # I'm at a lo

Re: [gentoo-user] My Continuing ALSA Woes

2005-10-19 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 20:40 +0200, Sascha Lucas wrote: > > I've added it to my /etc/make.conf: > > > > camille linux # cat /etc/make.conf | grep 'ALSA_CARDS' > > ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" > > You must chose to use in kernel driver or the external provided by > sound/alsa-driver. See http://www.gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] My Continuing ALSA Woes

2005-10-19 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 07:49 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > On Thursday 20 October 2005 07:03, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > camille linux # cat /etc/make.conf | grep 'ALSA_CARDS' > > ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" > > > > > > Support for the snd-hda-

Re: [gentoo-user] My Continuing ALSA Woes

2005-10-19 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 10:29 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > > > > > > I suggest you have probably not re-compiled your kernel properly from the > > > output you gave. Have you enabled all the other kernel features that > > > snd-hda-intel requires? > > > > What other kernel features does it require?

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