Re: [gentoo-user] codec h264

2005-10-18 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 18 October 2005 13:12, Christoph Gysin wrote: > Uwe Thiem wrote: > > anybody in the know whether there is a h264 codec (especially an > > *encoder*) for linux? > > http://developers.videolan.org/x264.html > > x264 is still in early development, but you might giv

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Splash Image.

2005-10-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 24 October 2005 12:26, Ryan Viljoen wrote: > Is this your own splash image that created or are you using the default > one? > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Splash_image_in_GRUB > > On 10/24/05, Gentoo Voyager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Daer all, > > when i set the path in grub.conf to spla

Re: [gentoo-user] korganizer patch

2005-10-26 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 26 October 2005 12:27, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 20:51:14 -0400, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: > > I then rearchive kdepim-3.4.92.tar.bz2 and run > > ebuild /usr/portage/kde-base/kdepim/kdepim-3.5.0_beta2.ebuild digest, > > which completes successfully but when attempting to emerge

[gentoo-user] giflib vs. libungif

2005-10-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, I've got a weird conflict between giflib and libungif. "emerge --update world" told me that libungif blocked giflib. So I unmerged libungif and compiling kuickshow of kdegraphics failed because it needs libungif. test ~ # equery depends libungif [ Searching for packages depending on l

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] giflib vs. libungif

2005-10-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 29 October 2005 17:53, Peter Ruskin wrote: > On Saturday 29 October 2005 16:03, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I've got a weird conflict between giflib and libungif. "emerge > > --update world" told me that libungif blocked giflib. So I > &

Re: [gentoo-user] LTSP vs. Diskless Nodes

2005-10-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 29 October 2005 20:14, Bob Sanders wrote: > Since I'm rambling now, guess I should do the rest of the memory > download... Let me join you in rumbling. ;-) Before I start just a little background: I do quite some consulting for SchoolNet Namibia (http://www.schoolnet.na) which has hooked up a

Re: [gentoo-user] LTSP vs. Diskless Nodes

2005-10-30 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 30 October 2005 00:58, Ryan Viljoen wrote: > Thank you both Bob and Uwe that gives me something to think about. > > Uve I am from South Africa. Summer is going to be a scortcher I am fearing > December January. It's already bloody hot here. > > Back on topic, I am helping out my old High Schoo

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] giflib vs. libungif

2005-10-30 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 30 October 2005 00:53, Peter Ruskin wrote: > Correct, it was dirty. I've since found out that libungif can > coexist with giflib if you have "-gif" in your USE flags. I > finally settled with "gif" USE flag and: But that's dirty, too. Now you are telling all packages that might use gif not

Re: [gentoo-user] "wiping" unused space and/or secure erasing of files

2005-10-30 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 30 October 2005 06:05, Glenn Enright wrote: > On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 14:42, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > app-misc/secure-delete > > > > Description: Secure file/disk/swap/memory erasure utilities > > Just out of interest, I understand ext3 is pretty good at eliminating old > data during delet

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo box w/ 2 pci slots?

2005-11-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 14 November 2005 15:56, James wrote: > Hello, > > I need a x86 'thin client' or small form factor computer: > > (1) hard drive. (front-removable would be a bonus). > (2) empty pci slots. > (1 or more) RS232 9pin serial port. > (1) ethernet 10 or 100 mbps. > (1-2) ntsc inputs would eliminate the

Re: [gentoo-user] DNS trouble

2005-11-15 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 14 November 2005 17:46, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: > Hi All, I am having a little problem with my DNS server; I using a DNS > server at 210.200.1.230; > when I do nslookup dnsserver.com.br it returns 210.200.1.230 > when I try nslookup 192.168.0.2 it return ** server can't find > 230.1.200.210.i

Re: [gentoo-user] Local dictionary in KDE?

2005-11-16 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 16 November 2005 15:57, Holly Bostick wrote: > abhay schreef: > > On Wednesday 16 Nov 2005 4:25 am, Willie Wong wrote: > >> An option to skip installing dictd is to install the commandline > >> version of StarDict, http://sdcv.sourceforge.net/ Last I checked it > >> is not in portage. It doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev: lost dvd

2005-11-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 18 November 2005 02:00, James wrote: > Richard Fish asmallpond.org> writes: > > Ok, I would also suggest filing a bug report against udev on > > bugs.gentoo.org, with the model of your DVD drive, and the output of > > the cdrom_id > > Ok I'll file the bug report. > Any recommendations on a DVDr

[gentoo-user] complaints about world file and ooodi

2005-11-22 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, portage says something is wrong with my world file. "emaint --check world" produces this output: 'app-office/ooodi' has no ebuilds available What am I to do? Uwe -- Unix is sexy: who | grep -i blonde | date cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount sleep --

Re: [gentoo-user] complaints about world file and ooodi

2005-11-22 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 22 November 2005 17:37, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: > On Tuesday 22 November 200> > > > portage says something is wrong with my world file. "emaint --check > > world" produces this output: > > 'app-office/ooodi' has no ebuilds available > > > > What am I to do? > > My first reaction would be to go t

Re: [gentoo-user] mouse won't scroll anymore

2005-11-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 29 November 2005 21:35, Christoph Eckert wrote: > > I've just moved from XFree86 to xorg and updated my KDE and now my > > wheel mouse doesn't scroll anymore. I'm using the same mouse lines in > > xorg.conf that I used in Xfree86.conf, but I can't get it to work. It > > must be something I just

[gentoo-user] exim / authentication

2005-12-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, anybody in the know how to make exim authenticate itself when connecting to another MTA? The authenticator section of the default configuration file is completely empty, my exim book is too old, and I couldn't find useful info. :-( Uwe -- Unix is sexy: who | grep -i blonde | date c

Re: [gentoo-user] kpdf A4 was: kdm will not start

2005-12-04 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 04 December 2005 07:13, Joseph wrote: > On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 23:03 -0600, Dale wrote: > > Maybe you should do a killall for A4. LOL If it is dead it can't use > > it. LOL Pesky things. So many choices, so few answers. > > > > Dale > > > > :-) > > I would love to :-/ > I think it is a bug i

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge history

2005-12-05 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 05 December 2005 09:29, Joseph wrote: > Is there a way to tell which packages got upgraded in the past week? > I have /etc/config-archive/ but if the configuration did not change it > will not help me. find /usr/portage/distfiles -mtime -7 -print Uwe -- Unix is sexy: who | grep -i blonde | d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: straggling with paper size

2005-12-05 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 05 December 2005 16:07, Joseph wrote: > Anyhow, the after conversion the printer to ps (postscript) the file is > sent to printer via command : lpr -P printer_name and this is the time > it ask me for A4 paper size. Have you tried "lpr -l -P printer_name"? "-l" tells lpr not to reformat the f

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: straggling with paper size

2005-12-05 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 05 December 2005 18:31, Joseph wrote: > On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 17:11 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > On 05 December 2005 16:07, Joseph wrote: > > > Anyhow, the after conversion the printer to ps (postscript) the file is > > > sent to printer via command : lpr -P printe

Re: [gentoo-user] bad interpreter

2005-12-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 11 December 2005 15:45, cucu ionut cristian wrote: > tryng to install various aplications that wore not in portage found the > folowing error: bad interpreter: Permission denied > As I remeber i got this error tring to install luminocity and now e17 > modules; concrete: trying moon from e17 tar

Re: [gentoo-user] LTSP server requirements

2005-12-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 11 December 2005 14:41, Martins Steinbergs wrote: > hi, > > I'm considering to setup LTSP server with one terminal (old IBM Pentium > 200Mh RAM32) attached. If i get from windows box one specific dos > application and all data run under dosbox I'll go for LTSP unless there > should be expensive

Re: [gentoo-user] bad interpreter

2005-12-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 11 December 2005 15:14, Rafael Fernández López wrote: > Have you read Building steps ?? [ snip ] > There are some issues with "DAMAGE" in the xserver module. You need to > apply a small patch that hacks around some issues, and rebuild the xserver > module. You can get the patch from > http://w

[gentoo-user] [OT] test lab Quicktime streaming server

2005-12-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, does someone know of a piece of software that runs under linux and swallows a stream from a Quicktime Streaming Server but just throws the data away (no decoding, no displaying)? This is for torturing the server hardware to determine how many individual, concurrent streams it can mai

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: converting any video to mpeg-1, mpeg-4 or DivX-5

2005-12-15 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 15 December 2005 17:02, James wrote: [ snip - lots of good stuff ] > All things video are a work in progress. I can run (2) color > video streams over a 56 kbps frame relay link, with acceptable > quality for a utility. For their needs, nothing is close to > H.264, at this time, as we have eval

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dd isos

2005-12-15 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 15 December 2005 23:56, Hani Duwaik wrote: > On 12/15/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:29:55 +0100, Harald Arnesen wrote: > > > > I don't use it any more because it is slow, cp and cat give the same > > > > result and are faster. > > > > > > dd is not slowe

Re: [OT] how to make Bootable DVD/CDs [Was] Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2005-12-16 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 16 December 2005 08:11, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 23:02 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > > On 12/15/05, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > -b boot/grub/stage2_eltorito -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 > > -boot-info-table > > Thanks. Wonderful info. The grub info pag

[gentoo-user] iptables / ipp2p

2005-12-16 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, uwix ~ # iptables -m ipp2p -help iptables v1.3.4: Couldn't load match `ipp2p':/lib/iptables/libipt_ipp2p.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory uwix ~ # emerge --pretend --verbose iptables These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating depend

Re: [gentoo-user] Urgent please - DVD Copy problem

2005-12-19 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 19 December 2005 20:46, Jonathan Wright wrote: > I have found the DVDs are very difficult to get working reliably. In > fact, I've found alot write fine in the drive, but the drive has trouble > reading them again, but no problems in reading normal DVDs. I haven't had problems with writing or

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A confession

2005-12-21 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 20 December 2005 20:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Thanks for the good comments as usual Richard. But I can't resist this: > > I guess this depends on your reasons for going ~x86. If it is to > > avoid compiling, well, that is a bad reason, > > I'

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Runlevels while booting

2005-12-21 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 21 December 2005 16:30, Ryan Viljoen wrote: > I have been setting up a server with SuSe on it (dont ask why SuSe... > the developers of one of the apps required will only support SuSe). > > Anyway I noticed that when SuSe boots, after its gone through the boot > runlevel it switches to runlevel

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Merry Christmas!

2005-12-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 24 December 2005 12:48, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 23:59:11 -0500, Dan Meltzer wrote: > > And a Merry Non-Demoninational Solstice Holiday With Gift Giving to you > > also! > > A happy Festival of Capitalism to you all :) Buying nothing than a bottle of scotch for myself. ;-) heh

Re: [gentoo-user] This is weird. upgrade and downgrade at the same time. ???

2005-12-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 24 December 2005 15:49, Dale wrote: > Holly Bostick wrote: > >Dale schreef: > > Who is this schreef guy? I'm just Dale. That's Dutch for "wrote". ;-) Uwe -- Unix is sexy: who | grep -i blonde | date cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount sleep -- gentoo-user@gen

Re: [gentoo-user] This is weird. upgrade and downgrade at the same time. ???

2005-12-25 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 24 December 2005 18:20, Ernie Schroder wrote: > On Saturday 24 December 2005 09:59, a tiny voice compelled Uwe Thiem to write: > > On 24 December 2005 15:49, Dale wrote: > > > Holly Bostick wrote: > > > >Dale schreef: > > > > > > Who is this s

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Merry Christmas!

2005-12-25 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 25 December 2005 12:36, Stuart Howard wrote: > heheh > > ice and scotch lovers normally leads to a minor riot, plus to those > Gentooists who do not live in the UK would not realise that it is > normally cold enough here to not need ice :] Hey, I can assure you that it isn't cold around, but we

Re: [gentoo-user] This is weird. upgrade and downgrade at the same time. ???

2005-12-25 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 25 December 2005 15:42, Ernie Schroder wrote: > well then Otatu ku halele okili iwa nodula ipe iwa! The same to you! I am more familiar with the Oshidonga dialect of Oshiwambo. This must be Oshikwanyama. ;-) Uwe -- Unix is sexy: who | grep -i blonde | date cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless network advantages

2005-12-26 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 26 December 2005 22:27, El Nino wrote: > is it possible to use an one(1) Wireless Access Point(54Mbps) for the > whole two floors(the building)? whats all your advice? Depends. How much iron is in the walls and ceilings? Are there any significant bodies of water in between? Plants as well as p

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE version

2006-03-21 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 21 March 2006 22:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi everybody. > To-day I installed kdebase using "emerge kdebase". > But the installed version was 3.4.3. > Is it right? Did not KDE reach 3.5 version? You did an "emerge --sync" in beforehand, didn't you? Uwe -- Why do consumers keep buying pr

Re: [gentoo-user] DNS Expert Required

2006-03-26 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 26 March 2006 10:01, Hiren Dave wrote: Alright, I'll bite. ;-) Some small errors. > server1.guru.com (192.168.0.2) Primary DNS Server > server2.guru.com (192.168.0.3) Secondary DNS Server > > => Here is my configuration file for server1.guru.com machine. > > ###/etc/reso

Re: [gentoo-user] ffmpeg emerging

2006-03-26 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 27 March 2006 07:34, Luigi Pinna wrote: > Hello! > I broke a disc and I had to reinstall my gentoo box in these days; in > the ffmpeg emerging, I found a lot of problem: no ebuild will complete > with success the process. > All the ebuild failed with with error: > from > /var/tmp/portage/ffmpeg-

Re: [gentoo-user] Further probs/phenomena

2006-03-26 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 26 March 2006 22:51, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: > Hi, > > another thing I am currently not able to understand: > In search of a dvb-t tv watching applikation I found kaffeine (as far > as I know not supoorted by Gentoo). Pardon? uwix uwe # emerge --pretend --verbose kaffeine These are

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing linux's internet connection with an iMac?

2006-03-26 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 27 March 2006 09:07, Ian wrote: > Hi there > Just because you guys/gals are smart. > > I have a Linux laptop, and an iMac. > This linux laptop uses a wifi connection to a router for network/internet > access. > While its connected to the network, can I plug in my iMac to my laptop and > fool it

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE desktop icons

2006-03-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 27 March 2006 23:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am using KDE 3.4.3 Gentoo amd64. > Almost every time I login the icons of the desktop moved and mixed. > I tried checking every possible options (KDE Comtrol Center), with no > results. Any hints. > Is it a bug? Yes. Uwe -- Why do consumers k

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables question

2006-03-28 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 28 March 2006 15:38, Hiren Dave wrote: > Hi, > > I want to configure firewall such that network 192.168.1.0/24 can > only access http server from server1(192.168.0.2/24) and > network 192.168.0.0/24 can not access http server. So I tried this: > > #service iptables stop > #iptables -P INPUT DROP

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with Summer Time setting

2006-03-28 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 28 March 2006 15:30, Michael Kintzios wrote: > Hi All, > > This has been talked to death. I never recall having any problems > setting my system clock and getting it to automatically adjust to the > British Summer Time change. > > I recently moved my fs from my desktop to a laptop. Unfortunate

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with Summer Time setting [SOLVED]

2006-03-28 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 28 March 2006 19:40, Michael Kintzios wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Uwe Thiem [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 28 March 2006 15:28 > > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with Summer Time setting > > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE version

2006-03-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 29 March 2006 18:12, Schleimer, Ben wrote: > > Isn't the solution to have 3 levels: 'testing', > > 'probation' & 'stable' ? > > 'Testing' would be literally that, asking for > > feedback from users; > > 'probation' wb already tested for a defined period > > -- say 30 days -- > > How about a

Re: [gentoo-user] file .ogg

2006-03-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 29 March 2006 20:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi everybody. > > I think gentoo is driving me crazy. > > Since I found out the I can listen .wav file but not .ogg file, to-day I > installed libvorbis, mpeg123 and vorbis-tools. > > But the result is the same . . . I cannot listen .ogg file. Did

Re: [gentoo-user] limewire won't start

2006-03-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 29 March 2006 18:16, maxim wexler wrote: > > See my reply to Ryan. Somehow overnight my complete > path statement returned. I don't remember the last > time I ran env-update etc. Correct me if I'm wrong, > but isn't it run automatically after completion of > emerge . Perhaps this is something I

[gentoo-user] curious thing during download

2006-04-02 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, Kernel is 2.6.14-r3. I am using splash and, probably ore important, a background picture in a framebuffer on every virtual text console. A long download is running on one text console (ppp with an analogue modem). I am in X and switch back text console to check on the download. Each

Re: [gentoo-user] traffic shaping

2006-04-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 03 April 2006 03:06, Sven Köhler wrote: > Hi, > > i would like to shape the traffic of my DSL-connection, but somehow i > never really understood the machanisms that linux offers. All the > scripts i wrote were simply worthless somehow, because they didn't > really improve anything. > > Is there

Re: [gentoo-user] remote boot

2006-04-06 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 06 April 2006 11:23, Hiren Dave wrote: > Hi All, > > Does any one know how to boot diskless client from linux server? Also how > to create boot image in linux! You can set it up all yourself but if you want to save yourself quite some work go with LTSP (Linux Terminal Server Project). It is in

Re: [gentoo-user] unmerge hotplug

2006-04-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 11 April 2006 19:44, Marko Kocić wrote: > Hi all, > I wanted to do some cleanup of the system to get rid of some unneeded > modules. emerge -pv --depclean suggested me lately that I should remove > hotplug > > I have hotplug added at runllevel default. I'm using vanilla-sources > with udev for s

Re: [gentoo-user] mirror email servers

2006-04-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 11 April 2006 19:17, El Nino wrote: > Dear list friends, > > i deployed several testing mail servers on different locations(towns). > now i need to mirror these all servers. how to do this? > > idea(scenario) like, > o when one mail server goes down 2nd mail server get the email. but > when 1st

Re: [gentoo-user] error after update

2006-04-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 12 April 2006 16:03, wcw84 wrote: > # This blank configuration will automatically use DHCP for any net.* > # scripts in /etc/init.d. To create a more complete configuration, > # please review /etc/conf.d/net.example and save your configuration > # in /etc/conf.d/net (this file :]!). > config_e

[gentoo-user] drupal / php

2006-04-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, anybody running drupal here? If so, which USE flags did you switch on for PHP? Uwe -- Why do consumers keep buying products they will live to curse? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] zope / plone

2006-04-19 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, all plone docs (including the Definite Guide to Plone) say that after installing plone, one has to go to the zope manager (http:localhost:8080/manage) and add the "product plone" using a drop-down list in the upper right corner. I have installed zope and plone. I can log into zope ZM

Re: [gentoo-user] Cron problem

2006-04-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 24 April 2006 06:08, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: > For the last few days I have had a cron problem. It started when I was > trying to to find a way to modify the crontab by a script. Don't know > what I did but ever since, every cron script (root's only) emails me a > notice like the following: >

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP and Deny specific Mac Addr IPs

2006-04-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 27 April 2006 15:55, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > Hi All, > > In my current situation, my home network has 1 DHCP server for all the > clients on the home network. > > My laptop, also runs a dhcp server, for when I use my laptop as a > firewall/router at work. (no HUB/switch available) > > WHen I

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 02 May 2006 14:18, Ronald V. Vazquez wrote: > Hello all: > > I wanted to get some ideas from the list on how to clone a Gentoo box. > Perhaps others on the list are interested as well. I simply tar up the whole box (except what I do not want like log files and such). After booting the other bo

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) A eureka moment!

2006-05-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 03 May 2006 08:33, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: > I just discovered something (I think). Probably everyone else already > knew it but didn't tell me. Shame on all of you! > > Do all audio cd's have the mp3's and ogg files on them also No. > > I happened to look at one with konqueror and notic

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ksnapshot delay disabled

2006-05-04 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 04 May 2006 19:50, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > For KDE-users: > > I'm at ~x86. After some of KDE upgrade (don't remember exactly to wich > version) I have noticed ksnapshot delay-related field (numeric field > for seconds) is disabled at "Region" mode. How to restore this feature? By selecting ano

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 not up when init script returns?

2006-05-04 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 04 May 2006 18:19, Hani Duwaik wrote: > On 5/4/06, Matthias Bethke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just noticed a strange problem on our server that's just been switched > > to Gentoo: > > It's running dhcpd, which init starts right after bringing up the > > network interface. But dhcpd quits,

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I mount a compact flash?

2006-05-04 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 04 May 2006 19:28, K. Mike Bradley wrote: > It gives me an error saying the file system type must be specified. > > > > I did: > > > > Mount -t vfat /dev/sdb /mnt/flash > > > > And it says bad block Is it really sdb, or is it sdb1? Uwe -- Why do consumers keep buying products they will live

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ksnapshot delay disabled

2006-05-04 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 04 May 2006 22:30, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > Of course, I'm forced to use another modes. But earlier "Region" > mode _worked_ with delay. Do you mean such changed behaviour is > by-design? Yes because a delay in "region" makes no sense. The moment you select a region the snapshot gets done. Wh

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ksnapshot delay disabled

2006-05-05 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 05 May 2006 00:00, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > Trust me, it makes sense for me :-) > > Just after clicking "New Snapshot" button, double-cress cursor appears, and > KSnapshot window intends to disappear, i.e. apps under KSnapshot window > must _redraw_ themselves. At case redrawing is heavy-CPU-co

Re: [gentoo-user] ltsp woes

2006-05-06 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 05 May 2006 19:57, John Blinka wrote: > Daniel da Veiga wrote: > > How are the boxes connected to the network? A hub? A switch? Router > > maybe? Try using the network spot (where one of the failing boxes is > > connected) with a notebook or another machine that you know has no > > problems. Als

Re: [gentoo-user] ltsp woes

2006-05-06 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 06 May 2006 20:26, John Blinka wrote: > Uwe Thiem wrote: > We originally used hubs and later moved to switches - my mistake. But > it hasn't made much difference in performance. Our performance bottleneck > is elsewhere. But that's another discussion. Alright, but

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-08 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 08 May 2006 16:34, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Monday 08 May 2006 16:04, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > > Stéfan is right, you need an analog audio cable connecting your CD > > drive to your soundcard (or, if your soundcard support it, a digital > > one). Else the drive can't send audio to your

Re: [gentoo-user] ltsp woes

2006-05-08 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 08 May 2006 19:12, John Blinka wrote: > Uwe Thiem wrote: > >Try to correct the broadcast above. Maybe that will solve the problem > > already, although it's hard to understand how you fat clients can work > > with it. > > I corrected the broadcast address,

Re: [gentoo-user] PXE boot to linux

2006-05-08 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 08 May 2006 20:32, K. Mike Bradley wrote: > I am a little green with Linux but here is a poser for the list . > I am trying to set up a PXE boot to Linux for diskless workstations. > I have PXELinux up and running no problem. Why don't you just try LTSP? Uwe -- Why do consumers keep buying p

[gentoo-user] Network UPS Tools (NUT)

2006-05-09 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, anybody using them? If so I have got a question. Except one thing, everything is handled fine by gentoo's start-up scripts. The exception is this: If NUT shuts the box down, a flag /etc/killpower is created. At the end of the shutdown process this flag determines whether the UPS itse

Re: [gentoo-user] mail to this list from home fails, but from home relayed through ISP works

2006-05-09 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 09 May 2006 15:40, glen martin wrote: > This isn't the case of subscribing through work and sending from home or > whatever. In both cases I sent from home, indeed from the same account > in the same mail client. Only the path the message took to > list.gentoo.org changed. > > I hadn't posted to

Re: [gentoo-user] ltsp woes - problem solved

2006-05-09 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 09 May 2006 19:15, John Blinka wrote: > The /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf file needed another line: > > next-server ip-address-of-server; > > with the upgrade to dhcp-3.0.3 (and maybe a version or > two earlier). With that addition, all is now well. Thanks for hitting this before me! ;-) Uwe -- Mar

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for help with Shorewall

2006-05-19 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 18 May 2006 17:38, Jerry wrote: > Shorewall has detected the following iptables/netfilter capabilities: >NAT: Not available >Packet Mangling: Available >Multi-port Match: Not available >Connection Tracking Match: Not available >Packet Type Match: Not available >Policy Ma

Re: [gentoo-user] ltsp woes

2006-05-23 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 06 May 2006 20:26, John Blinka wrote: > Uwe Thiem wrote: > >Right. Somewhat besides your question: Are you really using hubs? I also > > seem to remember from your original post that the terminals are connected > > by 10Mb/s which makes sense if you are using hubs. From m

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading to gcc 4.1: emerge -e world required?

2006-05-26 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 26 May 2006 15:01, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Christian Limberg wrote: > > just to clarify. Uprading GCC means in this case - emerging gcc-4.1 und > > *removing* gcc-3.4? > > That's not what I meant - I would have gcc-4.1 and gcc-3.4 installed > in parallel and switch to gcc-4.1 using gcc-config.

[gentoo-user] libexpat / qt / kde

2006-05-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, after an "emerge ---sync" and during an "emerge --update world", qt-3.3.6 doesn't compile anymore because it can't find libexpat.so.0. So I did an "emerge --oneshot expat" which tells me at the end that I should do a "revdep-rebuild --library libexpat.so.0". That gives me a *huge* li

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libexpat / qt / kde

2006-05-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 27 May 2006 14:00, Francesco Talamona wrote: > On Saturday 27 May 2006 14:47, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > That gives me a *huge* list of packages which would be rebuilt. Most > > of them are kde-3.5 stuff. Since I am upgrading from kde-3.5.1 to > > kde-3.5.2 in the same process, I

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild failure

2006-05-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, if revdep-rebuild complains that some of the stuff is no longer in portage, how to find out which one? Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather decline two drinks than a German adjective. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernetkarte, Geschwindigkeit verstellen

2006-05-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 29 May 2006 20:59, Bertram Scharpf wrote: > Hallo, > > um die Funktionstüchtigkeit eines (selbstgecrimpten) > Netzwerkkabels zu untersuchen, möchte ich die > Geschwingigkeit der Ethernetkarten herunterstellen. Leider > stellt die sich sofort wieder zurück: This is an English speaking lst. > >

[gentoo-user] prelink

2006-05-30 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, when prelinking, what are "undefined non-weak symbols"? And how can I avoid them? ;-) Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather decline two drinks than a German adjective. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge kdepim-3.5.2-r2 fails

2006-06-01 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 01 June 2006 16:21, Cláudio Henrique wrote: > Hi, there, > > I am having trouble installing kdepim. > > kde-base/kdepim-3.5.2-r2 +arts +crypt -debug -gnokii +kdeenablefinal > -kdehiddenvisibility +pda -xinerama > > Can anyone help me? Try without kdeenablefinal. Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH authentication attempts - serious issue

2006-06-05 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 05 June 2006 16:06, Leandro Melo de Sales wrote: > Hi, > >today when I was checking the server log I got many external > attempts to connect to my sshd service: > > ... > Jun 5 05:09:45 embedded sshd[4740]: Invalid user barbara from x.y.w.z > Jun 5 05:09:46 embedded sshd[4742]: Invalid use

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem installing amarok

2006-06-06 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 06 June 2006 15:43, Paul Stear wrote: > Hi all, > After upgrading to kde 3.5 amarok will not start, also I have had juk fail > with the same lib error. > Any ideas on how to resolve this? > I am using :- Portage 2.1_rc4-r3 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, > gcc-4.1.1/vanilla, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.16-gent

Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server

2006-06-06 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 06 June 2006 16:38, JimD wrote: > Does anyone have any suggestions/preferences to a secure FTP server for > Gentoo? > > My 55+ year old father-in-law wants to start learning building websites. > I am having him install Nvu and want to setup ftp to my web server and > give him his own directory

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem installing amarok

2006-06-06 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 06 June 2006 19:11, Paul Stear wrote: > On Tuesday 06 June 2006 16:10, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > > /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkhtml.so: undefined reference to > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]' > > > > Hm... If it isn't an issue with gcc-4.1.1 (I am not using t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fwd: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

2006-06-07 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 07 June 2006 16:01, Anno v. Heimburg wrote: > Shawn Haggett wrote: > > Mohammed Hagag wrote: > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... User unknown > >> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > Spot the difference? > > Yeah, but the Listserv does set Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org You spotted only

Re: [gentoo-user] An alternative to http-replicator

2006-06-10 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 10 June 2006 10:02, Michael Weyershäuser wrote: > Jeremy Olexa wrote: > > Much simplier: > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Using_a_shared_portage_via_NFS > > I have used that setup for some time and must say that sharing > portage over NFS is slow like hell... Not here. 100baseT network is quite

Re: [gentoo-user] Introduction - new list user

2006-06-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 12 June 2006 08:58, Alan McKinnon wrote: > My question is, what are the local rules around here for how to behave > on list? I'm very much old school, and prefer lists over forums - in > my world top posting, no snipping, HTML mail and hi-jacking threads > are a huge no-no, pretty much strict R

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware clock, software clock and ntpd

2006-06-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 12 June 2006 15:32, John J. Foster wrote: > Good morning all, > > About 10 days ago we had a lightning strike very nearby that fried our > electric utilities transformer and my APC RS800 UPS. This in turn caused > my system to crash. When I brought it back up, all CMOS settings had been > lost.

Re: [gentoo-user] Typesetting systems

2006-06-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 14 June 2006 05:25, Justin R Findlay wrote: > On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 03:14:57AM +, b.n. wrote: > > JimD wrote: > > > I was hoping there were tools/editors for PDF/PS. What the heck do > > > book writers use? I hope not a word processor. I am only working with > > > small books and it is

Re: [gentoo-user] how does a pipe work? Which process wait for which one, or they don't actually wait each other?

2006-06-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 14 June 2006 14:12, 张韡武 wrote: > Hello. This might be OT but I am pretty interested in this and being > unlucky not able to find a real in-depth explanation of pipe on the > Internet. > > How does pipe actually work? I mean, when there is a pipe like this: > $ appA | appB > What happen if appA p

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage size

2006-06-16 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 16 June 2006 11:34, David Corbin wrote: > While updating today, I ran out of space on /usr. Looking closer at what > was being used, /usr/portage is taking about 50% of /usr. Can this be > pruned somehow? Sure. Remove all old tarballs under /usr/portage/distfiles. Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rath

Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder: error encoding, following howto

2006-06-21 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 21 June 2006 15:01, fire-eyes wrote: > Ah, so this is working _real_ well... Any ideas out there? Because I can't > get past this point. Try the script provided on my company's web site (http://www.SysEx.com.na) under "Linux tips and tricks". It's tip #5. Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather declin

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Mail question

2006-06-22 Thread Uwe Thiem
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]>, delay=1+11:10:52, xdelay=00:03:09, > mailer=esmtp, pri=6425885, relay=mail.midamerica.com. [65.243.220.163]

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Mail question

2006-06-22 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 22 June 2006 18:37, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I found something that suggests that MAILER-DAEMON is trying to email > [EMAIL PROTECTED] to tell them that their spam has been rejected. > Probably sent by Mailman. If I can find the original email, can I delet > it and make sendmail stop trying t

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.3 Media Manager DCOP Error

2006-06-28 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 28 June 2006 09:24, Teresa and Dale wrote: > Teresa and Dale wrote: > >Teresa and Dale wrote: > > > > > >Oops, it's looking for a 3.* version of qt. Hm. I'll be back, if I > >can't get it fixed. > > > >Dale > > > >:-) > > OK. emerged this: > > emerge =x11-libs/qt-3.3.6-r1 -v > > then retr

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.3 Media Manager DCOP Error

2006-06-28 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 28 June 2006 15:54, Teresa and Dale wrote: > Well, I had qt3 in there but I also stuck qt4 in my USE line as well. I > guess I only need one instead of both. Live and learn. Since qt4 is > newer, should I use it instead of qt3?? Qt4 won't be used for KDE before KDE4 - and that won't be rele

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