Re: [gentoo-user] OT -More DNS problems - firewall?

2005-12-19 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 14:31 -0800, kashani wrote: > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > I've gotten my named server working like I want it to, except that > > computers outside my network can't see it. I've opened up port 53 on my > > router so that extra-network host

Re: [gentoo-user] OT -More DNS problems - firewall?

2005-12-19 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 17:23 -0600, John Jolet wrote: > On Dec 19, 2005, at 4:31 PM, kashani wrote: > > > Michael Sullivan wrote: > >> I've gotten my named server working like I want it to, except that > >> computers outside my network can't see it. I'

[gentoo-user] /usr/bin/emerge gone!

2005-12-22 Thread Michael Sullivan
I'm not sure how, but /usr/bin/emerge is gone on my server box. How can I get it back? -Michael Sullivan- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/bin/emerge gone!

2005-12-22 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 08:44 +, Rumen Yotov wrote: > On (23/12/05 00:33), Michael Sullivan wrote: > > I'm not sure how, but /usr/bin/emerge is gone on my server box. How can > > I get it back? > > -Michael Sullivan- > > > > -- > > gentoo-user@gen

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/bin/emerge gone!

2005-12-22 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 00:55 -0600, Dale wrote: > Rumen Yotov wrote: > > >On (23/12/05 00:33), Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > > > >>I'm not sure how, but /usr/bin/emerge is gone on my server box. How can > >>I get it back? > >>-Michael S

[gentoo-user] OT - Need help with configuration of ssmtp

2005-12-24 Thread Michael Sullivan
I've had this problem for awhile (actually since I got this computer back in October), but I haven't done anything about it until now. It has to do with my ssmtp configuration. On my HP (the computer before this one) ssmtp worked correctly out of the box, so I figured it would be the same with th

[gentoo-user] My Rosegarden Woes

2005-12-28 Thread Michael Sullivan
I emerged rosegarden the other day. When it starts up it tells me that the MIDI sequencer could not be started. I've been working with the rosegarden-user mailing list to work through this problem. They had me send them some debug information and now they tell me that the problem is with my snd-

Re: [gentoo-user] My Rosegarden Woes

2005-12-28 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 10:15 -0800, michael higgins wrote: > On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 11:30:10 -0600 > Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I emerged rosegarden the other day. When it starts up it tells me that > > the MIDI sequencer could not be started.

[gentoo-user] OT - Linewrap in vim

2006-03-23 Thread Michael Sullivan
Is there a way to turn off the line wrap function in vim/gvim? I know it doesn't actually wrap lines in the file - I just want to turn off the visual line wrap in the editor. Is that possible? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] screen flickers/static

2006-03-24 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 15:44 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 00:00 -0600, Dave Moore wrote: > > I have this problem too, precisely as thufir described it. I, however, > > have no other xorg.conf for comparison. > > you mean you deleted it, or your system "auto-detects" it? > >

Re: [gentoo-user] screen flickers/static

2006-03-24 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 12:54 -0500, JimD wrote: > On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:15:37 -0600 > Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > My wife has the same problem with her computer running Gentoo, but I > > generated the xorg.conf file from X -configure whe

Re: [gentoo-user] screen flickers/static

2006-03-24 Thread Michael Sullivan
Controller > (rev 01) > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 7800 GT > (rev a1) > 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet > Controller (rev 02) > 04:02.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB0400 Audigy2 Value > &

Re: [gentoo-user] screen flickers/static

2006-03-24 Thread Michael Sullivan
Option "Overlay" # [] > #Option "CIOverlay" # [] > #Option "ForceEmulatedOverlay" # [] > #Option "TransparentIndex" # > #Option "OverlayDefaultVisu

[gentoo-user] OT - Weird cdrom issue

2006-03-25 Thread Michael Sullivan
My wife's computer (catherine) has a combo drive. When I go to "Computer" in nautilus on my computer I see "Floppy Drive", "CDRW/DVD-ROM Drive", "Filesystem", and "Network". When she goes to "Computer" on hers, she only sees "Filesystem" and "Network". Granted she doesn't have a floppy drive. H

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Weird cdrom issue

2006-03-25 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 13:12 -0800, darren kirby wrote: > quoth the Michael Sullivan: > > > My question is why is the cdrom not available to user "amy" when root > > has not mounted a CD and what do I have to do to get it where she can > > use it without being

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Weird cdrom issue [SOLVED]

2006-03-25 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 00:29 +0200, Rumen Yotov wrote: > On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 15:45 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 13:12 -0800, darren kirby wrote: > > > quoth the Michael Sullivan: > > > > > > > My question is why is the cdro

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Card games in portage

2006-03-28 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 07:29 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Try the kde game set. I can't remember off the top of my head (and I'm not > near the system) what it's called. The card game suite is called Patience (the filename is 'kpat'.) I use it frequently. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mai

[gentoo-user] OT - Apache2, Tomcat5, mod_jk, and UserDir

2006-03-30 Thread Michael Sullivan
their websites. I would also like to create a "website/webapps" directory for each user so that each user can use JSP/servlets, but I'm not quite sure how to set it up with UserDir. Can anyone help me, or point me to a howto for this? Thanks! -Michael Sullivan- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] OT - Apache, mod_perl, and Apache-ASP

2006-03-31 Thread Michael Sullivan
I am attempting to install Apache-ASP for my users on my server box. Personally, I don't use ASP (I prefer PHP), but most of my users still prefer Microsoft and they might want to use it. It wasn't available in portage, so I had to get the source code off the Internet. I've followed all the instr

Re: [gentoo-user] php + apache

2006-04-01 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 16:32 +, James wrote: > Hello, > > Ive installed php-4.4.2 and apache2. It's mostly working except for > when I pull up the url of a php file, like > setup.php, I see the actual php code instead of the gui form that the > setup.php is suppose to render. > > I know the fi

[gentoo-user] Way OT - Can user apache become other users?

2006-04-13 Thread Michael Sullivan
If the shell assigned to user 'apache' is "/bin/false", can user apache become other users via su or sudo? What I want to do is create a web-based website editor, similar to the one geocities.com offers. I need a way to store the website editor in a central location where it will be available to

[gentoo-user] Re: Way OT - Can user apache become other users?

2006-04-14 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 22:29 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > If the shell assigned to user 'apache' is "/bin/false", can user apache > become other users via su or sudo? What I want to do is create a > web-based website editor, similar to the one geocities.com offers.

[gentoo-user] OT - question about modprobe

2006-04-18 Thread Michael Sullivan
Is there a way to retrieve a listing of kernel modules that are currently loaded? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - question about modprobe [SOLVED]

2006-04-18 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 16:24 -0500, Teresa and Dale wrote: > Thomas Cort wrote: > > > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > >> Is there a way to retrieve a listing of kernel modules that are > >> currently loaded? > > > > > > lsmod > > &

[gentoo-user] OT - Need grub help

2006-04-18 Thread Michael Sullivan
Is there a way to find out which hard drive grub considers to be (hd0) and so on? The guy I'm helping to install Gentoo is having trouble with grub. grub detected /dev/hdd, /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. At this point we're treating them as (hd0), (hd1) and (hd2). Everything seems right to me, but it w

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - Need grub help

2006-04-18 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 19:37 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > Is there a way to find out which hard drive grub considers to be (hd0) > and so on? The guy I'm helping to install Gentoo is having trouble with > grub. grub detected /dev/hdd, /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. At this point &g

[gentoo-user] OT - Question about net.eth0 and the handbook

2006-04-19 Thread Michael Sullivan
The guy I'm helping to install Gentoo says that he can get to his Linux installation and log in, but that he has no network unless he boots with the LiveCD. I've tried every trick I know. At this point he's booted with the LiveCD and entered his chroot install environment. Out of desperation for

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Question about net.eth0 and the handbook [partially solved]

2006-04-19 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 22:50 +0200, Maxime Robert-Schreyers wrote: > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > >The guy I'm helping to install Gentoo says that he can get to his Linux > >installation and log in, but that he has no network unless he boots with > >the LiveCD. I

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Question about net.eth0 and the handbook [partially solved]

2006-04-19 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 19:59 -0400, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > If you look at the script it uses the .ethx part to figure out what to start. > The script made no sense to me. I'm not that good at shell scripting anyway. > On Wednesday April 19 2006 17:00, Michael Sullivan wrote: &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Install help

2006-04-20 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 14:25 -0500, Bob Bao wrote: > Hi. > > I am a new gentoo user here. I downloaded gentoo 2.6 liveCD from gentoo > website. After couple time trying, finally I successfully complete the > installing. But, after log in, I only get a xterm window and a session > window. I think

[gentoo-user] OT - openssh and ldap

2006-04-20 Thread Michael Sullivan
I rebooted my server box this morning. On a few of the output lines during bootup (noteably sshd and mysqld) it said "Could not connect to LDAP server" (or something like that). To my knowledge, I don't have an ldap server installed on my server box. Ssh from client machines is extremely slow to

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - openssh and ldap [SOLVED]

2006-04-20 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 00:24 +0200, Dave Jones wrote: > Michael Sullivan wrote on 04/20/06 23:31: > > I rebooted my server box this morning. On a few of the output lines > > during bootup (noteably sshd and mysqld) it said "Could not connect to > > LDAP server" (

[gentoo-user] Re: Way OT - Can user apache become other users?

2006-04-21 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 08:27 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 22:29 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > If the shell assigned to user 'apache' is "/bin/false", can user apache > > become other users via su or sudo? What I want to do is cr

[gentoo-user] OT - unusual USE flag possibilities [WAS: Re: Way OT - Can user apache become other users?]

2006-04-21 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 13:19 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 08:27 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 22:29 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > If the shell assigned to user 'apache' is "/bin/false", can user apa

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative to netkit-telnetd

2006-04-24 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 19:58 +0200, Dan Johansson wrote: > I only need a telnet client and not the whole server part. Any suggestions on > alternatives to netkit-telnetd. The Client must behave just like the standard > telnet-client (I have some expect-scripts using telnet). > > Regards, I think

[gentoo-user] Sound problems on catherine.espersunited.com

2006-05-01 Thread Michael Sullivan
come unplugged, but sound works perfectly in Windows. I know the ALSA packages got upgraded several days ago, but I'm pretty sure she'd rebooted (and in the process restarted alsasound) and the sound worked. I'm not sure though. She often boots into Windows to play Yahoo games that don't work in Linux. Can anyone help? -Michael Sullivan- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problems on catherine.espersunited.com

2006-05-01 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 06:52 +1200, Glenn Enright wrote: > On Tuesday 02 May 2006 2:47 am, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > The sound stopped working on my wife's computer about a week ago. I've > > run every test I can think of and can't seem to track the problem &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problems on catherine.espersunited.com

2006-05-01 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 15:39 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 06:52 +1200, Glenn Enright wrote: > > On Tuesday 02 May 2006 2:47 am, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > The sound stopped working on my wife's computer about a week ago. I've > > &

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problems on catherine.espersunited.com [SOLVED]

2006-05-01 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 15:51 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 15:39 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 06:52 +1200, Glenn Enright wrote: > > > On Tuesday 02 May 2006 2:47 am, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > > The sound stopped

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse Question (Not working Wheel)

2006-05-02 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 13:50 -0400, Christopher E wrote: > Hello all, > > I am wondering what I need to do to get my wheel (scroll) to work > inside of gnome? > > In my xorg I have auto as the protocal, and for the location to > /dev/input/mice what else do I nned for geting my mouse wheel to work

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse Question (Not working Wheel)

2006-05-02 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 14:13 -0400, Christopher E wrote: > Thank you Michael! > > So that would apply to a mouse with two buttons and the wheel that is > button also? > Yes. In any Linux docs you might read that refer to the "third mouse button", this is your mouse wheel. > Sincerely, > Christoph

Re: [gentoo-user] Web mail

2006-05-02 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 23:14 -0400, Jim wrote: > Can anyone recommend a webmail client? I am looking for something more > modern than > SquuirrelMal. I have been using SquuirrelMal, however I find it the > interface too old > and outdated. > > I also looking into the code to see if I could fres

Re: [gentoo-user] Web mail

2006-05-03 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 00:37 -0400, JimD wrote: > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > What other style is there besides procedural? > > A much better way IMO is to separate the presentation from the code like > you can do with ASP.Net with Mono/MS. ASP.Net makes web app

Re: [gentoo-user] PLEASE HELP!!! Emerge Isssue Now!

2006-05-03 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 15:10 -0400, Christopher E wrote: > Hello there again, > > I have just PING and also LINKS to a couple different sites from the > vt and it work fine! What does this mean? any ideas would be great > thank you > > Sincerely, > Christopher > > On 5/3/06, Christopher E <[EMA

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: PLEASE HELP!!! Emerge Isssue Now!

2006-05-03 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 17:44 -0400, Christopher E wrote: > OK, Mick > > Answer to proxy is NO > > OK, Michael > that run fine intill I run the norm "emerge ..." > And what happens when you run the emerge normally? > Ok, Johnson, > # /etc/nsswitch.conf: > # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-lib

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: PLEASE HELP!!! Emerge Isssue Now!

2006-05-03 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 15:00 -0700, James Ausmus wrote: > On 5/3/06, Christopher E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > # Generated by dhcpcd for interface eth0 > > domain hsd1.ma.comcast.net. > > nameserver 68.87.71.226 > > nameserver 68.87.73.242 > > > Aha! You're on Comcast! > > I also have Comcast

Re: [gentoo-user] Best File System For Linux

2006-05-04 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 17:58 +0200, Frédéric Grosshans wrote: > Le jeudi 04 mai 2006 à 13:49 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin a écrit : > > > reiserfs is nice, if you have lots and lots of small files (like me), > > because > > it saves a lot of space. > > However, reiserfs suffers from fragmentatio

[gentoo-user] OT - Anyone recommend a good puzzle app?

2006-05-06 Thread Michael Sullivan
My wife likes to do puzzles. I was wondering if there were any puzzle-type apps available in portage that would allow her to use her own images? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] OT - MythTV problem: Every channel is Disney channel

2006-05-06 Thread Michael Sullivan
ATM I am running kernel 2.6.15-gentoo-r1. I have built 2.6.16-gentoo-r3 and -r6, but do not use them because when I use MythTV, and try to flip through channels, every channel is the Disney Channel. My wife and I love Disney, but sometimes we want to record shows that are not on Disney. I've rem

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Anyone recommend a good puzzle app?

2006-05-06 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sat, 2006-05-06 at 20:17 -0400, Willie Wong wrote: > On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 10:26:40PM +, Penguin Lover Michael Sullivan > squawked: > > My wife likes to do puzzles. I was wondering if there were any > > puzzle-type apps available in portage that would allow her to use

[gentoo-user] Problem emerging gnome-extra/gnome-media-2.14.0-r1

2006-05-13 Thread Michael Sullivan
I don't know if I should file this as a bug, or if it's on my end. gnome-extra/gnome-media-2.14.0-r1 is on the current list for emerge -uD world, but I can't build it. It always errors with the following error message(s): creating cddb-slave2-query LC_ALL=C ../intltool-merge -d -u -c ../po/.intlt

[gentoo-user] OT - slideshow-type screensaver with custom images

2006-05-13 Thread Michael Sullivan
My wife would like to know if there is a slideshow-type screensaver for Linux that would allow her to display her cat pictures as a screensaver. I would like to know if anything like this is available in portage. If it helps, we have a website with all the pictures on it that would serve as input

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - slideshow-type screensaver with custom images

2006-05-13 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 17:45 -0500, Teresa and Dale wrote: > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > >My wife would like to know if there is a slideshow-type screensaver for > >Linux that would allow her to display her cat pictures as a screensaver. > >I would like to know if anythin

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - slideshow-type screensaver with custom images

2006-05-13 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 19:16 -0400, Willie Wong wrote: > On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 05:36:57PM -0500, Penguin Lover Michael Sullivan > squawked: > > My wife would like to know if there is a slideshow-type screensaver for > > Linux that would allow her to display her cat picture

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - slideshow-type screensaver with custom images [SOLVED]

2006-05-14 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 12:33 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 18:02 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 17:45 -0500, Teresa and Dale wrote: > > > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > > > > >My wife would like to know if th

Re: [gentoo-user] Unpacking an ISO Image

2006-05-16 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 10:18 -0500, Kris Kerwin wrote: > Hi folks, > > Quick question. Is there any way that one can unpack an ISO image: > extracting the data that is contained within it like a tarball, > without having to burn it to a CD? I'm sure there's an option > somewhere within either th

Re: [gentoo-user] New Portage browser

2006-05-16 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 18:29 -0300, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > People, > > I'm working on a new portage browser, and I was looking for ideas from > USERS, that's why I'm > posting here. > > I've never found a program that wo

[gentoo-user] OT - Rosegarden View issue

2006-05-16 Thread Michael Sullivan
This may be a stupid question, but here goes: In Rosegarden in the notation editor, is it possible to view more than one measure at a time, and if so, how do I do it? Mine only shows me one measure at a time, but a picture in the Rosegarden handbook showed multiple measures in the same screen and

Re: [gentoo-user] New Portage browser

2006-05-16 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 20:15 -0300, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > b.n. wrote: > > I'd suggest Python too. > > Yep, it was definitely the way to go it seems. > > > You can write an API and then 2 wrappers: > > - a console-based ncurses one >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udevd-event [2161] find_free_number: %e is deprecated

2006-05-18 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 14:25 -0300, Cláudio Henrique wrote: > use %n instead of %e. it solves the problem. > > On 5/18/06, Edwin Kapauni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Peter wrote: > > [...] > > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131254 > > > > > > unclear at the present time. Not a danger th

Re: [gentoo-user] Sorry!

2006-05-29 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 00:40 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Tuesday 30 May 2006 00:13, Jamie Dobbs wrote: > > > You people need to remove me from you mailing lists all together. Iam so > > > pissed off with getting 80 email of a bunch of other peoples bullshit, > > > that iam ready to star

Re: [gentoo-user] Sorry!

2006-05-29 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 17:32 -0700, Ryan Tandy wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > maybe he was drunk. If you look at his adress, he seems to be a teen - and > > who > > was not constantly drunk and did silly things as a teen? > > I'm 18 and I've never been drunk. Ever. Seriously. > > Th

[gentoo-user] OT - Vidwhacker screensaver and live TV

2006-06-01 Thread Michael Sullivan
I have a question about the Vidwhacker screensaver. In the comment on the Settings tab for screensaver settings in Gnome, it says that vidwhacker "works really well if you just feed live broadcast TV into it." I'm a little confused on how to set this up. I have a TV card installed, and MythTV wo

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Vidwhacker screensaver and live TV

2006-06-01 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 09:39 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 18:43 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > I have a question about the Vidwhacker screensaver. In the comment on > > the Settings tab for screensaver settings in Gnome, it says that > > vidwhacker

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Vidwhacker screensaver and live TV

2006-06-01 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 10:19 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 19:30 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > I'm using gnome-2.12.3. I went to the Advanced tab of Xscreensaver > > (v4.24, if it matters). The only thing checked was Grab Video Frames in >

[gentoo-user] ivtv-0.4.5 fails to build for kernel 2.6.16-gentoo-r9

2006-06-10 Thread Michael Sullivan
I've been trying to build ivtv-0.4.5 for my gentoo-sources kernel-2.6.16-r9 for awhile now, but it keeps failing with the following output: camille ~ # emerge ivtv Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) media-tv/ivtv-0.4.5 to / >>> md5 files ;-) ivtv-0.4.0-r3.ebuild >>> md5 files

[gentoo-user] More ivtv problems (I think) (WAS: Re: ivtv-0.4.5 fails to build for kernel 2.6.16-gentoo-r9)

2006-06-11 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 18:30 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I've been trying to build ivtv-0.4.5 for my gentoo-sources > kernel-2.6.16-r9 for awhile now, but it keeps failing with the following > output: > > camille ~ # emerge ivtv > Calculating dependencies ...done! >

[gentoo-user] Re: More ivtv problems (I think) (WAS: Re: ivtv-0.4.5 fails to build for kernel 2.6.16-gentoo-r9)

2006-06-11 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 08:24 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 18:30 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > I've been trying to build ivtv-0.4.5 for my gentoo-sources > > kernel-2.6.16-r9 for awhile now, but it keeps failing with the following > >

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge running forever

2006-06-11 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 16:53 +0200, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: > Hi, > > I did an >emerge portage > and everything runs fine. > > Than I did a >emerge --searchdesc luks > > which runs "forever" (I killed that job after waiting for about half > an hour...) > > What is going wron

[gentoo-user] OT - An annoying habit of logwatch (possibly cron?)

2006-06-11 Thread Michael Sullivan
r, right? Nope. I get at least six, sometimes more. I look at the time stamps; the first ones are sent out at 3:00am. The next set it sent out at 3:05 with the exact same information. It's very annoying. How can I set it where I only get one logwatch report for each computer? -Michael S

[gentoo-user] OT - Need help installing MythTV

2006-06-17 Thread Michael Sullivan
but this says that there is no mysql installed. What can I do about this? -Michael Sullivan- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] OT - MythTV won't connect to my database!

2006-06-17 Thread Michael Sullivan
I've ensured that mysql is indeed running, but when I try to run mythfrontend, I get this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ mythfrontend 2006-06-17 16:09:09.260 Using runtime prefix = /usr 2006-06-17 16:09:09.320 XScreenSaver support enabled 2006-06-17 16:09:09.359 New DB connection, total: 1 2006-06-17 16:0

OT - Can't watch Live TV! (WAS: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - MythTV won't connect to my database!)

2006-06-17 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 19:22 -0700, Alan wrote: > Alternatively if camille is the local server, try setting the database > hostname in the mythtv set up to localhost instead. > > -- > Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://arcterex.net > -

[gentoo-user] OT - More Mythtv problems

2006-06-18 Thread Michael Sullivan
I'd like to see the callsign (ABC, FOX, Disney, etc, etc) instead of the channel number. Is this possible? Thanks for your help! -Michael Sullivan- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Su'ing queston

2006-06-18 Thread Michael Sullivan
As you know, I recently reinstalled Gentoo. When I su - to root, I get these weird errors: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ su - Password: configuration error - unknown item 'FAILLOG_ENAB' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'LASTLOG_ENAB' (notify administrator) configuration error - u

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - More Mythtv problems

2006-06-18 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 18:10 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > OK. I'm using mythtv-0.19_p9163-r1. I have a few questions: > > First of all, it takes a really long time to register any kind of > database action (around five seconds), so if I say to record a program, > or to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - More Mythtv problems

2006-06-18 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 09:54 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > It can take awhile, especially on low powered hardware. However, check > what settings you are using in myth to point at the database server. > Check DNS operation (often a prime suspect when delays in network ops > are seen), use IP in

[gentoo-user] OT - Stupid Question about su That I Should Already Know The Answer To But Don't

2006-06-20 Thread Michael Sullivan
Since my reinstall last week, when I su - to root from the michael account, root can't use GUI apps. It used to be able to before the install, and as far as I know, I didn't do anything special to enable it. How would I go about doing that? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Stupid Question about su That I Should Already Know The Answer To But Don't

2006-06-20 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 11:12 -0400, Devon Miller wrote: > #1 > USE=pam emerge shadow > > #2 Edit /etc/pam.d/su and add/uncommenth this line: > sessionoptional pam_xauth.so > > dcm > That line was already in there... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] OT - Mail question

2006-06-22 Thread Michael Sullivan
What do you make of this? I found it in /var/log/messages: Jun 22 10:59:15 bullet sm-mta[2558]: k5L4mNFw021664: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=1+11:10:52, xdelay=00:03:09, mailer=esmtp, pri=6425885, relay=mail.midamerica.com. [65.243.220.163], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection timed out with ma

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Mail question

2006-06-22 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 17:21 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: > On 22 June 2006 17:04, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > What do you make of this? I found it in /var/log/messages: > > > > Jun 22 10:59:15 bullet sm-mta[2558]: k5L4mNFw021664: > > to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,

[gentoo-user] OT - No cards in kpat

2006-06-29 Thread Michael Sullivan
I use primarily Gnome, but I enjoy some of the KDE apps, so I emerge both of them. This time though, after emerging KDE I run kpat and no cards show up. In fact, nothing but the window, the menubar and the background show up. Has anyone dealt with this? Please help! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - No cards in kpat

2006-06-29 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 14:53 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: > On 29 June 2006 14:22, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > I use primarily Gnome, but I enjoy some of the KDE apps, so I emerge > > both of them. This time though, after emerging KDE I run kpat and no > > cards show up. In

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - No cards in kpat

2006-06-29 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 15:32 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 09:12:50 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > kpat: cannot load card pixmap "" > > in /usr/kde/3.4/share/apps/carddecks/cards-default/ > > Here's the problem. This file is part

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] MS debug equivalent

2006-07-01 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sat, 2006-07-01 at 19:12 -0500, Rodrigo Lazo wrote: > Hi everybody, > > sorry for the OT. I've been using debug.exe (a little program for work > with asm) at my college to learn about assembler and related > concepts. Does anyone know some equivalent for linux? > > Thanks! > > -- > > Rodrig

[gentoo-user] Upgrading xorg-x11: revdep-rebuild fails on apmd

2006-07-01 Thread Michael Sullivan
I upgraded xorg-x11 on my computer today. Afterward, I wanted to run revdep-rebuild to make sure any loose ends where tied up. It wanted to remerge apmd, but every time it tries, I get this: Calculating dependencies... done! >>> Emerging (1 of 1) sys-apps/apmd-3.2.2_p5 to / >>> checking ebuild c

[gentoo-user] OT - mozilla and seamonkey

2006-07-03 Thread Michael Sullivan
I'm really confused. Last night when I did emerge -pvuD world, emerge said that mozilla was blocking seamonkey. I unmerged mozilla and ran emerge -pvuD again to make sure that everything was okay. It said that mozilla was still blocking seamonkey, but I checked and mozilla wasn't even merged: c

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - mozilla and seamonkey

2006-07-03 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 15:26 +0100, Friedrich Göpel wrote: > On 7/3/06, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 'equery depends mozilla' ought to help - look for things you have > > installed then decide if you can live without them or not. Or, you may > > simply have a mozilla USE flag set >

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - mozilla and seamonkey

2006-07-03 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 13:56 -0300, Bruno Lustosa wrote: > > [ebuild U ] gnome-extra/yelp-2.12.2-r1 [2.12.2] USE="debug > > -firefox" 796 kB > > [ebuild N] www-client/seamonkey-1.0.2 USE="crypt debug gnome > > ipv6 java -ldap -mozcalendar -mozdevelop -moznocompose -moznoirc > > -moznoma

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - mozilla and seamonkey [SOLVED (I think)]

2006-07-03 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 13:56 -0300, Bruno Lustosa wrote: > > [ebuild U ] gnome-extra/yelp-2.12.2-r1 [2.12.2] USE="debug > > -firefox" 796 kB > > [ebuild N] www-client/seamonkey-1.0.2 USE="crypt debug gnome > > ipv6 java -ldap -mozcalendar -mozdevelop -moznocompose -moznoirc > > -moznoma

[gentoo-user] OT - Need help configuring apache for SSL

2006-07-11 Thread Michael Sullivan
I'm trying to make use of SSL on my server box. I followed the wiki at http://gentoo-wiki.com/Apache_Modules_mod_ssl on my client PC and everything worked right. However, when I try it on my server PC and I go to start Apache with the new configs for SSL, Apache won't start and I get the followin

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help configuring apache for SSL [SOLVED]

2006-07-11 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 17:59 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I'm trying to make use of SSL on my server box. I followed the wiki at > http://gentoo-wiki.com/Apache_Modules_mod_ssl on my client PC and > everything worked right. However, when I try it on my server PC and I > g

[gentoo-user] OT - Apache, userdir, and CGI with suexec

2006-07-11 Thread Michael Sullivan
I use userdir on Apache on my server box. In /etc/apache2/httpd.conf I have UserDir set to webspace/html instead of public_html. I want to create a webspace/cgi-bin directory for each of my users to store (and access) their CGI scripts in (cgi-bin should be outside the DocumentRoot for security p

[gentoo-user] OT - GLSlideshow and nvidia (I think)

2006-07-16 Thread Michael Sullivan
Since the upgrade to modular X my wife has not been able to view her favourite screesaver (our cats.) Whenever she runs the GLSlideshow screensaver, she gets the following error: Xlib extension GLX missing on display ":0.0" glslideshow display :0.0 does not support the GLX extension I googled

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - GLSlideshow and nvidia (I think) (no it is sis)

2006-07-16 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 16:43 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Sunday 16 July 2006 16:24, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > Since the upgrade to modular X my wife has not been able to view her > > favourite screesaver (our cats.) Whenever she runs the GLSlideshow > > scre

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - GLSlideshow and nvidia (I think)

2006-07-16 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 10:57 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > On 7/16/06, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Since the upgrade to modular X my wife has not been able to view her > > favourite screesaver (our cats.) Whenever she runs the GLSlideshow > > screensa

[gentoo-user] OT - Can't save in gnumeric-1.4.3

2006-07-16 Thread Michael Sullivan
I've run revdep-rebuild and it says there's nothing in need of repair, but I can't save files in gnumeric. When I try, it gives me an error: Unable to open module file "/usr/lib/gnumeric/1.4.3/plugins/xml_sax/xml_sax", /usr/lib/gnumeric/1.4.3/plugins/xml_sax/xml_sax.so: undefined symbol: gsf_

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - GLSlideshow and nvidia (I think) (no it is sis)

2006-07-17 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 18:38 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Sunday 16 July 2006 17:36, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 16:43 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > > On Sunday 16 July 2006 16:24, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > > Since the up

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - GLSlideshow and nvidia (I think)

2006-07-17 Thread Michael Sullivan
enabled (**) Option "dpms" (**) SIS(0): DPMS enabled (II) SIS(0): Using SiS300/315/330/340 series HW Xv (II) SIS(0): Default Xv adaptor is Video Overlay (II) SIS(0): Direct rendering disabled (II) SIS(0): Initialized SISCTRL extension version 0.1 (II) SIS(0): Registered screen 0 with SISCTRL

[gentoo-user] OT - Dovecot and authentication

2006-07-19 Thread Michael Sullivan
I've got a problem; My Dovecot installation uses plain text authentication. I don't like the idea of unencrypted passwords being sent over the Internet, so I want to switch to a different authentication method. I'm mainly worried about my webmail client. I configured Apache last week for SSL acc

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