Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Ditch webmail?

2007-12-20 Thread Randy Barlow
Grant wrote: > I used mutt for a long time but when I tried squirrelmail my > productivity when up 5 fold. I'm thinking switching to a desktop app > would be even better. Plus no PHP on my server. I like Thunderbird. -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROT

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.23 and xorg delayed startup

2007-12-24 Thread Randy Barlow
me properly configured? And in /etc/hosts do you have your 127.0.0.1 entry? -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] moving my instalation to new hard drive

2007-12-24 Thread Randy Barlow
setup if you do dd as well, unless you dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb (or am I wrong about this?) -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Any glaring use flags here

2007-12-25 Thread Randy Barlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > not sure what -X really does. -X tells it not to include support for X11 for all packages that have that as an option. This should be used for most server/console only type systems... -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge failing on ebuild [econf failed]

2007-12-27 Thread Randy Barlow
ronment file is located at > '/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.5.1- > r4/temp/environment'. > > * > > > [...] What's in this "[...]"? The error message that matters the most is likely to be in there... -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] dis-functional error from emerge -vuDN

2008-01-02 Thread Randy Barlow
needs to be uncommented in one of them. /etc/security isn't the only place to look. I use PAM on my mail server and IMAP server, and I had to change some files in there that used the old way. Do you have a mail server that uses PAM? Do you have a web server that uses PAM? Any other serv

Re: [gentoo-user] Best route forward?

2008-01-02 Thread Randy Barlow
rward? Should I just stick with my current > build of kde? Or is there an easy way to remove all the blocks and then > push in kde-meta? Is it worth it? If you want to do the meta, you can unmerge kde, and then do an emerge --depclean. -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox update results in Yahoo request for newer version

2008-01-03 Thread Randy Barlow
> > Why miss out? > To see all the new Yahoo! home page has to offer, please upgrade to a > more recent browser. I use Firefox on a 32-bit system (built from source, not binary) and I do not see this problem! -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox update results in Yahoo request for newer version

2008-01-03 Thread Randy Barlow
the same version of Firefox (and also in Gnome, though I doubt that matters) and don't see this problem. Are you using firefox-bin instead of building it? Any funny settings in about:config? -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} wengophone-like or skype-like SIP service?

2008-01-04 Thread Randy Barlow
, gizmo, and a Linksys ATA. Basically, I get and make calls with grandcentral, which forwards the calls to gizmo, which I set to forward to my sip setup on asterisk, which is in my house with the ata for phonenicitude. You could try that ;) -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS problem

2008-01-06 Thread Randy Barlow
Dale wrote: > They recently changed it over to hplip. Is that installed on your system? Sorry to steal the thread a bit, but should hplip show up as an option for the driver to your printer? Because I still see hpijs as the printer driver even though I have the hplip package. -- Randy Bar

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS problem

2008-01-06 Thread Randy Barlow
printer, hpijs is the only option of the two. I know that hplip includes hpijs, but I was looking for a driver called hplip and didn't see it... -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS problem

2008-01-08 Thread Randy Barlow
later, it boots > and no further problems are experienced. Have you run a memory test? -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Update After A Year

2008-01-10 Thread Randy Barlow
lly check more than just /etc/pam.d/* if you don't find it there because it's possible for mail servers or web servers to use these things the old way too! -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Open Office wants to speak to me in Greek!

2007-08-16 Thread Randy Barlow
I doubt that is relevant. Any tips? -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were no

Re: [gentoo-user] Webcam on Pavilion Dv1000

2007-09-10 Thread Randy Barlow
CESAR GAVIDIA wrote: > Greetings brothers, I have a laptop Hp Pavilion dv1000, this brings > incorporated a webcam and a microphone, which have been able to fail to > utilize. So what is the error you are encountering? -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com But you are a chose

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound doesn't work in Flash

2007-09-10 Thread Randy Barlow
Daniel wrote: > I'm in the process now of compiling my kernel with OSS support (under Alsa) > to see if that helps. So... did this work? -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, t

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2007.0 installer problem (unpacking the stage tarball takes forever)

2007-09-10 Thread Randy Barlow
gue that you can much more efficiently learn Linux and Gentoo by going through the install process by hand rather than using a graphical installer. Then you see the pieces of the puzzle as they come together! -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to know current state of LCD

2007-09-12 Thread Randy Barlow
you will see a line that says something similar to "Monitor is on". I am assuming you are using X here... -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: getting GMT to use DST

2007-09-14 Thread Randy Barlow
ot with Windows, otherwise use UTC. -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Elicit choice of browser when highlighting URL

2007-09-15 Thread Randy Barlow
de-base/kdebase-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/klipper-3.5.7) Shouldn't klipper 3.5.* work with kdebase 3.5.*? -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] In-Kernel Standby [Fork of Standby]

2007-09-16 Thread Randy Barlow
uot;Access denied" or some such, but I've never been able to determine exactly under what circumstances that happens. It might be when I've been using the swap space for actual swapping, but I've not actually confirmed that. Anyone knowledgeable care to chime in? -- Randy Barlo

Re: [gentoo-user] xine - No sound after updates

2007-09-16 Thread Randy Barlow
7;t catch? What are -a52 and -aac? This page is for MPlayer, but the flags should have similar meanings: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Emerge_MPlayer Notice that it says a52 is needed for AC3. Hope this helps! -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] xine - No sound after updates

2007-09-17 Thread Randy Barlow
till have a problem, and we'll keep going at it! -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] xine - No sound after updates

2007-09-17 Thread Randy Barlow
CT transform found" message at > the end of the terminal. For instance this one which hasn't led > anywhere yet: Hmm, Does it show any error messages when you try to play a media file? Does it happen with all kinds of media (mp3's, DVD's, flash) or just with certain t

Re: [gentoo-user] xine - No sound after updates

2007-09-17 Thread Randy Barlow
e. I use mplayer for everything pretty much, but also I don't usually use the computer to play DVDs. Can anybody else help? -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Bad 3Dness from my Intel 855GM!

2007-09-19 Thread Randy Barlow
on SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 8 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 15 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 16 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection EndSection Section "DRI" Group 0 Mode0666 EndSection Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "Enable" EndSection -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to get hotplug goign?

2007-09-24 Thread Randy Barlow
Grant Edwards wrote: > And the most recent version of sys-apps/hotplug is over three > years old? I could be wrong, but if I remember correctly udev is supposed to replace cold/hotplug. Perhaps you should try to find a way to do what you are doing using udev? -- Randy Barlo

[gentoo-user] konsole doesn't always seem to refresh

2007-09-26 Thread Randy Barlow
/booty/data/music $ If I type something all of a sudden it shows up. It seems like konsole isn't flushing its output buffers when it should. Is this something I can configure better, or a bug, or what? -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xine-ui fails

2007-09-26 Thread Randy Barlow
maxim wexler wrote: > > make[1]: Leaving directory > `/var/tmp/portage/media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070330/work/ffmpeg/vhook' Hmm, can you show us a few more lines before this? The error isn't obvious yet... -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] X.Org 1.4 with Nvidia?

2007-10-02 Thread Randy Barlow
g 1.4, or will doing so require me to use the nv driver? -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Migrating a system

2007-10-02 Thread Randy Barlow
So I was an idiot when I set up my system and didn't use LVM. Now that I'm out of disk space on one of my drives and kicking myself, I want to do it without doing a reinstall. If I use tar -cvjpf oldSystemThatShouldStillWorkWhenUnTarred.tar.bz2 /, then setup LVM, then tar all that junk back t

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating a system

2007-10-02 Thread Randy Barlow
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > tar --atime-preserve --same-owner --numeric-owner -Spvcjf back.tar.bz2 / Is it really necessary to back up /sys and /proc? What about /dev? Also, to Björn, I didn't find a -a option in man tar, what does it do? Is it different that --atime-preserve? Thanks! -

Re: [gentoo-user] Can RAM render useless the encryption of the / and swap partitions?

2007-10-04 Thread Randy Barlow
Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: In theory, for the one transistor and one cap case, you have a loaded cap that will take "forever" losing its load, won't it? But in practice, I think, that's not realistic. It's actually not theory vs. practice. Even in theory, it's not just a cap, it's a cap and a r

Re: [gentoo-user] Can RAM render useless the encryption of the / and swap partitions?

2007-10-05 Thread Randy Barlow
ssibility, but who's going to miss a machine that's never used? ;) -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How does module-rebuild know what's installed?

2007-10-05 Thread Randy Barlow
hank you sir! -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Break In attempts

2007-10-07 Thread Randy Barlow
Mick wrote: > Can you please advise what I could do to block IP addresses that have > repeatedly failed to log in? You can also have a look at denyhosts... -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Apache 2.2.6 missing /etc/apache2/mime.types

2007-10-07 Thread Randy Barlow
file somewhere thinks I do. I see a package called mime-types, but it seems to install /etc/mime.types and not /etc/apache2/mime.types... Help? -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache 2.2.6 missing /etc/apache2/mime.types

2007-10-07 Thread Randy Barlow
Randy Barlow wrote: > I see a package called mime-types, but it seems to install > /etc/mime.types and not /etc/apache2/mime.types... Help? I found a temporary solution by symlinking /etc/apache2/mime.types to /etc/mime.types, but that doesn't seem like the correct way to go... -- R

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache 2.2.6 missing /etc/apache2/mime.types

2007-10-08 Thread Randy Barlow
re out how to do a few things the new way (I think I had been keeping the same LONG httpd.conf for a long time and this time it didn't work anymore...). -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] apache: Directory index forbidden by Options directive

2007-10-08 Thread Randy Barlow
27;ve got that and you've reinstalled php should work again! -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa problem

2007-10-09 Thread Randy Barlow
Chuanwen Wu wrote: > I also tried to emerge alsa-driver and didn't use the driver in the > kernel,but the result was all the same. I don't know the module name for the HD, but did you add it to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 and/or modprobe it first? -- R

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging java with gcj

2007-10-14 Thread Randy Barlow
er just compiles to byte code. I have no experience with gcj though, so I can't answer your second question... > I wonder how I can change that. Just re-emerge gcc with USE="gcj" and > all packages containing java code? Is it even a good idea? -- Randy Barlow http://el

Re: [gentoo-user] Weatherbug for linux

2007-10-15 Thread Randy Barlow
Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 14:28 -0500, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: >> Weather has just released a beta app for linux. > This is pretty funny. What is also funny is that it has the word "bug" in it's name. Run! -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatsh

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Router/Firewall strangeness

2007-12-05 Thread Randy Barlow
Grant wrote: > I'm on the box now and it's quite non-functional. ctrl+alt+del prints > "INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/shutdown". I'm going to do a hard reset > and we'll see what happens. That's very strange. Memory test? Can you read the l

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Router/Firewall strangeness

2007-12-05 Thread Randy Barlow
r which kernel, you type memtest86, I think. -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] New kernel broken nvidia-drivers

2007-12-06 Thread Randy Barlow
ith my new config. I attached the build log. It complains about some things not being defined, like nv_pte_t_cache. Is this a kernel config problem? I didn't find it in bugs.gentoo, but google found a few others having the same issue with some other versions of nvidia-drivers. -- Ra

Re: [gentoo-user] New kernel broken nvidia-drivers

2007-12-06 Thread Randy Barlow
it does seem pretty similar. I wonder if it's a problem with the new kernel, or if the way to configure the things that the drivers need has changed. Anybody else have a clue? -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] New kernel broken nvidia-drivers

2007-12-06 Thread Randy Barlow
Apparently they have a new version scheme than they used to use, but you are right, 71.86.01 works. Now we just have to solve Mick's problem! -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] services not starting since move to amd64

2007-12-06 Thread Randy Barlow
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > looks fine but doesn't start at next boot. Or more exactly: It seems to > get started, but doesn't run then. Does this only happen at boot, or does it also happen if you manually call /etc/init.d/sshd start? -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatsho

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: lxr and Mysql problem

2007-12-07 Thread Randy Barlow
om the console, or kdevelop for GUI. Is it just a text editor you are looking for? -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] cups problem

2007-12-07 Thread Randy Barlow
Roger Mason wrote: > I have tried both the ipp and lpd devices to no > avail. Just FYI, IPP is the Internet Printing Protocol and it is used to print to a device on another machine, so that's why it didn't work for you here :) -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com --

Re: [gentoo-user] gaming kernel

2007-12-13 Thread Randy Barlow
able, but I wouldn't want any tcp connections to time out from not being serviced (how long is a typical timeout anyhow?) -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT:hardware sniffer equipment

2007-12-14 Thread Randy Barlow
at but > and a linux device. > > I'd consider an embedded (linux) board with a few ports, if they > are or can be setup as a flat hub. This seems like something that you should be able to do with OpenWRT and a Linksys WRT54Gl... -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT:hardware sniffer equipment

2007-12-14 Thread Randy Barlow
ne of it's 5 ports on the back, and then you could plug a machine in there to log/process it. This is not something I have done, it's just a suggestion for you to ponder. It may or may not be possible, I don't know... -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [Fwd: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules]

2007-12-14 Thread Randy Barlow
kage is to use the ebuild for the old version ;) -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

2007-12-14 Thread Randy Barlow
Grant wrote: > Let me in on that. What can I do too? Find bugs on b.g.o. and help out! -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [Fwd: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules]

2007-12-14 Thread Randy Barlow
lds off of the devs' shoulders so they can spend more of their time checking. Ebuilds for the majority of packages are pretty simple anyways, especially packages that just need a ./configure && make && make install, so getting a bad bug in the ebuild itself isn't going to be that hard to avoid. -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [Fwd: Re: Gentoo Rules]

2007-12-15 Thread Randy Barlow
onfigured to work with its own instance of apache (run as user backuppc), and I think none of the ebuild contributors are all too sure of the standard "Gentoo" way of doing this. I'd be happy to try and make an ebuild that is a good compromise of the ideas listed in

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

2007-12-15 Thread Randy Barlow
Florian Philipp wrote: > Maybe his/her laptop doesn't stand the > thermal output of its CPU when emerging or maybe he/she's the > administrator of a large company's network, trying to move every > computer system to Gentoo. Check out distccd! -- Randy Barlow h

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [Fwd: Re: Gentoo Rules]

2007-12-15 Thread Randy Barlow
the web interface would be open. -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [Fwd: Re: Gentoo Rules]

2007-12-15 Thread Randy Barlow
it's just a configure make make install, but here you have a lot of configuration files and differences of opinion. I was thinking that a USE variable could be in order here, to support suid and a separate apache instance. Perhaps the variable could be suid? -- Randy Barlow http://e

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DMZ on an vmware gentoo guest running on winXP host

2007-12-15 Thread Randy Barlow
at data safely in a virtual machine running on windows - I'd say having windows involved at all here is a risk. But you could definitely do it... -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [Fwd: Re: Gentoo Rules]

2007-12-15 Thread Randy Barlow
ion at the end of the ebuild. But, are htaccess passwords sent in plaintext? If so, that's also a major security risk. -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging mythtv? permission denied...

2007-12-15 Thread Randy Barlow
w nothing about svn, other than it also does what cvs does :) -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

2007-12-15 Thread Randy Barlow
ter to build > binary packages that the others can install is so much more efficient. It does help in the case that Florian mentioned, also quoted at the top, about the laptop... I agree that if you are going to build the same thing for every computer it makes sense to do it ju

Re: [gentoo-user] Python vs C++ [was: Gentoo Rules]

2007-12-16 Thread Randy Barlow
mpiled, and is pretty dang elegant. It's also pretty platform independent, which is also nice. -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Python vs C++ [was: Gentoo Rules]

2007-12-16 Thread Randy Barlow
y indicate bugs in your code - so hopefully you would be a good coder and ensure that you manage memory correctly. Abi changes suck big time, I agree on that point, and also the updates - hadn't thought of that one :) -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Python vs C++ [was: Gentoo Rules]

2007-12-16 Thread Randy Barlow
ing to the language, not the use of the language by Portage :) -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Got myself in a bind unmerging portage

2007-12-16 Thread Randy Barlow
de on a system that already has packages on it? Would the new version of portage still be aware of the current world, or would that wipe the world file/other currently installed package data? -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Got myself in a bind unmerging portage

2007-12-17 Thread Randy Barlow
"open read (only)", but just in case, does mount show that the fs that /root is on is mounted rw? -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] brlcad users here?--RESOLVED

2007-12-19 Thread Randy Barlow
maxim wexler wrote: > Just to clarify: What does a 'pre-compiled binary' do? > There wasn't even an executable that I could see. A precompiled library is just one that has already been built for you from the source code. So, somewhere in there should have been an executable

Re: [gentoo-user] Persistent revdep-rebuild issues: sun-jdk-1.4.2.16

2007-12-19 Thread Randy Barlow
x27;t very complete yet. I would just use Sun for now... -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panic from hell!

2007-01-29 Thread Randy Barlow
On Monday 29 January 2007 23:07, maxim wexler wrote: > Is there something I haven't tried? Have you enabled support for your disk controller? -- Randy Barlow http://www.electronsweatshop.com "Oh me of little faith..." -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Clock/Daylight Savings

2007-04-18 Thread Randy Barlow
Ever since the new daylight savings change, my clock hasn't done the "Spring Forward". I use ntp and the like, and it seems happy being behind by an hour. I can use the date command to set it correctly, but after the next reboot it's back to its old games. Pointers? R -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] m

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Clock/Daylight Savings

2007-04-19 Thread Randy Barlow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anno v. Heimburg wrote: > Check that you have your timezones set correctly. In /etc/conf.d/clock I have: TIMEZONE="America/New_York" This should be what it takes to get my system to the correct time I think! Any other ideas? R -BEGIN PGP SIGNA

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED: Clock/Daylight Savings

2007-04-19 Thread Randy Barlow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Randy Barlow wrote: > Ever since the new daylight savings change, my clock hasn't done the > "Spring Forward". I use ntp and the like, and it seems happy being > behind by an hour. I can use the date command to set it correct

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about java, Seamonkey and random hangs.

2007-04-23 Thread Randy Barlow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dale wrote: >> [I--] [ ] dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.4.2 (1.4.2) >> [I--] [ ] dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.5.0-r1 (1.5.0) >> [I--] [ ~] dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.6.0-r1 (1.6.0) I assume you are using the Sun JRE? R -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: G

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

2007-04-28 Thread Randy Barlow
the mailhub variable to your ISP's SMTP server. For example, I have the line: mailhub=smtp-server.carolina.rr.com for one of my machines. Hope this helps! -- Randy Barlow http://www.electronsweatshop.com "Oh me of little faith..." -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

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

2007-04-29 Thread Randy Barlow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Sullivan wrote: > Can anyone tell me how to integrate sendmail and spamassassin? This wiki page talks about it: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Email_System_for_the_Home_Network HTH! R -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/

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

2007-04-30 Thread Randy Barlow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Sullivan wrote: > This wiki article looks to be for postfix. I need one for sendmail... Aww man, sorry about that. I wrote that when I was really tired... :P -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using Gnu

Re: [gentoo-user] upload problem in seamonkey

2007-05-06 Thread Randy Barlow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 pat wrote: > I have problem with uploading some sorts of the files by seamonkey (e.g. > *.pdf, > *.jpg, etc.) ... in 90%. What kinds of problems? R -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla

Re: [gentoo-user] upload problem in seamonkey

2007-05-08 Thread Randy Barlow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 pat wrote: >>> I have problem with uploading some sorts of the files by seamonkey (e.g. >>> *.pdf, > The folder selection box is opened, so I choose the folder (with rwx > permissions > for the user) click OK, but file is not saved. Generally, you

Re: [gentoo-user] Separate /usr [was: Clock is way off]

2007-05-09 Thread Randy Barlow
Benno Schulenberg wrote: Are there (still) people who have /usr on a separate partition? And if so, why? I only have /home and /usr/portage on separate partitions, everything else is on /, even /boot. I have /usr on a separate lvm device just so I can shift around drive space (my gentoo ma

Re: [gentoo-user] freetype-2.3.3 messed up my desktop

2007-05-10 Thread Randy Barlow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mick wrote: > Is this the way it is supposed to look? Your attached picture looks fine to me, but I'm not sure what you were comparing it to... R -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - htt

Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild

2007-05-10 Thread Randy Barlow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Friday 11 May 2007 00:12:43 b.n. wrote: >>> # rpm -i foopackage.i386.rpm >> I fear this way Portage would not be aware of the package being >> installed. Am I wrong? > > No, you are correct. This is what package.provide

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help setting up mailman to work with exim

2007-05-11 Thread Randy Barlow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Sullivan wrote: > If I can't get this > working, I'll have to go back to sendmail, which I > know it works with... I use Postfix and it plays nice with Mailman. I'd highly recommend it! R -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6

Re: [gentoo-user] Remote administration of a server

2007-05-14 Thread Randy Barlow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel van Ham Colchete wrote: > Thinking about other options, does anyone have any other tip for me? How about a robot and a USB keyboard? Sorry, couldn't resist :) R -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using G

Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.

2007-05-16 Thread Randy Barlow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dale wrote: >> USB sticks are virtually worthless nowadays, for a couple tens of >> dollars you should be able to get one with a capacity of a few gigs. >> >> There's also the possibility of writing directly to the cmos >> with /dev/nvram, isn't ther

Re: [gentoo-user] OPenOffice broken

2007-05-16 Thread Randy Barlow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James wrote: > It seems to work, but no spell checking? I think you want to emerge app-dicts/aspell-en for English spell checking in OpenOffice. At least, I seem to remember that being the case... R -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't start apache

2007-05-17 Thread Randy Barlow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote: > The server obviously don't s start, but I get no error messages and I > can't locate the server log (httpd.conf suggest they are located in > /usr/lib/apache2/ > but htere is no logs there). The default location for Gen

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-19 Thread Randy Barlow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Once you get used to it, you'll probably like Gentoo: most >> people do. Those who leave usually are very busy in their >> lives & simply don't have the time to keep it upto-date. > If a person does not wish to stay up to

Re: [gentoo-user] which -march flag to pick for Intel Core 2 Duo in make.conf?

2007-05-25 Thread Randy Barlow
on floating point calculations (someone correct me if I am wrong here!) I also believe that the 64 bit processors are able to perform more instructions per second on average when executing 64 bit code vs. 32 bit code if I am not mistaken... -- Randy Barlow http://www.electronsweatshop.com &quo

Re: [gentoo-user] which -march flag to pick for Intel Core 2 Duo in make.conf?

2007-05-27 Thread Randy Barlow
Denis wrote: I often need to run Monte Carlo simulations (in C) which involve a lot of array storage and array scanning/searching operations... I wonder what the speed-up would be for those simulations if run under a 64-bit mode. Are there any requirements on how the simulations should be progr

Re: [gentoo-user] mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2)

2007-05-29 Thread Randy Barlow
Daevid Vincent wrote: [nomerge ] sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r10 [4.1-r9] [ebuild N] mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2 USE="ipv6 ssl -mailwrapper -md5sum" (also, I never understand the --tree option. Does this mean that "vixie-cron" is the issue, or "kdegraphics" is the issue? Being reverse o

Re: [gentoo-user] seg fault emerging abiword

2007-05-30 Thread Randy Barlow
Mat Harris wrote: /usr/share/AbiSuite-2.4/AbiWord/glade/ap_UnixDialog_WordCount.glade /usr/share/AbiSuite-2.4/AbiWord/glade/ap_UnixDialog_Styles.glade Segmentation fault Does this happen with any other packages or only AbiWord? R -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Deactivate keyboard

2007-05-30 Thread Randy Barlow
Lutz Schönemann wrote: Hi, Hi! I have set up Gentoo on a system that I would like to use as a video, music player and sometimes to check my emails. There is a remote control connected to it and is detected as a serial keyboard. Now I want the xorg-server not to process events coming fro

Re: [gentoo-user] XFS problems

2007-05-30 Thread Randy Barlow
Jules Colding wrote: May 30 10:29:40 omc-2 [10822.156355] sd 0:4:1:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x00040001 May 30 10:29:40 omc-2 [10822.156423] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 97564151 May 30 10:29:46 omc-2 [10827.996196] I/O error in filesystem ("sdb1") meta-data dev sdb1 block 0x88b5

Re: [gentoo-user] [perhaps OT] ssh from Gentoo into a RedHat server

2007-05-31 Thread Randy Barlow
Mauro Faccenda wrote: being a redhat, i suppose that it uses redhat with more less the default configuration, that tries to read your public key on your user home in the server (~/.ssh/authorized_users or ~/.ssh/authorized_users2). This is something I've wondered about for a while - what's th

[gentoo-user] DHCP on my wireless card

2007-05-31 Thread Randy Barlow
Howdy all! I'm having a tough time getting DHCP to work on my wireless card. It's the intel 2200, and I am using wpa_supplicant with it. The contents of my /etc/conf.d/net are: modules=( "wpa_supplicant" ) config_eth1=( "dhcp" ) wpa_supplicant_eth1="-Dwext" The problem seems to be that DHCP

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