Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-4.0.0?

2005-04-24 Thread Willie Wong
unday 24 April 2005 12:52 pm, Willie Wong wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 11:30:45AM -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: > > > Is gcc-3.4.3-20050110-r2 the favored release of 3.4.3? > > > > Don't know about "favored". It's the one I use =) > > > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with setting up home router

2005-04-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 12:08:25AM +0600, askar ... wrote: > > humour me and post `iptables -L -v -t nat' to show the nat routing > > table. > The result is: > Chain PREROUTING (policy ACCEPT 9193 packets, 593K bytes) > pkts bytes target prot opt in out source > destinat

Re: [gentoo-user] Synaptics (was Wacky Mouse)

2005-04-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 07:16:13PM -0400, David Corbin wrote: > On Sunday 24 April 2005 07:36 am, Richard Fish wrote: > > David Corbin wrote: > > >This problem continues. I've discovered the following: > > >1) The problem shows up with gpm, as well as X > > >2) I can plug in a USB mouse and it wor

Re: [gentoo-user] OT prefixing Line numbers in codes for printing

2005-04-25 Thread Willie Wong
The command nl It is part of coreutils `man nl' to see usage. W On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 02:17:17PM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > Hi, > > What's the best way to prefix lines of codes with line numbers for > easier lookup and printing? > > eg: > line 1 > line 2 > > becomes > 1: line 1 > 2

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with setting up home router

2005-04-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 10:34:15AM -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: > > Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) > > target prot opt source destination > > DROP all -- anywhere 192.168.0.0/16 > > DROP all -- anywhere 192.168.0.0/16 > > DROP all -- a

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with setting up home router

2005-04-25 Thread Willie Wong
All right. Now, let's do some logging to figure where the problem actually is. (As I am fresh out of ideas) Back track a bit and start here: On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 10:38:25PM +0600, askar ... wrote: > 11) # iptables -F > # iptables -t nat -F > # iptables -I INPUT 1 -i eth0 -j ACCEPT >

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with setting up home router

2005-04-25 Thread Willie Wong
Wait... something's wrong here (oh crap, after looking carefully at the mail I sent last, I noticed the following... According to the instructions, you would have ended up with the LOG target AFTER the first DROP target because of the -I insert option instead of -A... my bad... but that also

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia drivers and glx

2005-04-25 Thread Willie Wong
A really silly thought: did you try opengl-update nvidia ? W On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 02:17:32PM -0300, Bruno Lustosa wrote: > On 4/25/05, Jason Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Some packages use static library paths to libGL, libXm, etc. Try > > re-merging your screensaver app to pick up

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage corrupted? Trying to install non-existant packages

2005-04-25 Thread Willie Wong
Do the same. ie. emerge -C mad emerge sync emerge -avt k3b W On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 04:41:01PM +, Calvin Spealman wrote: > Well, everything went fine until I tried to install k3b again, and I still > get the error about: > Calculating dependencies - > emerge: there are no ebuilds to sat

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA, XMMS & Integrated Sound

2005-04-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 07:22:55PM +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote: > Possible solutions: > > * Run a soundserver like artsd, esound or gstreamer and let > both talk to it > > * Let both speak to ALSA directly but configure ALSA to use > the DMIX plugin > > Setting up the DMIX plugin isn't that

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with setting up home router

2005-04-25 Thread Willie Wong
Not so much hosed. My guess is that he has the ADSL modem and runs pppoe. I've heard of times when it routes through ppp0 instead of eth* before. which also means that I made another typo on my last response. But since Askar is supposed to ignore it anyway... W On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 02:03:07P

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with setting up home router

2005-04-25 Thread Willie Wong
Argh... I must be too tired from working on my thesis. see below On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 02:08:09PM -0400, Willie Wong wrote: > Wait... something's wrong here > > (oh crap, after looking carefully at the mail I sent last, I noticed > the following... According to the instru

Re: [gentoo-user] how to login with slogin?

2005-04-26 Thread Willie Wong
Do you have sshd running on the router or on a box inside the network? W On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 11:20:56PM +0600, askar ... wrote: > I setup iptables according with > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/home-router-howto.xml. > Now I want to login to my linux box from outside. > In iptables setup writ

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to find every package with a USE flag

2005-04-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 08:31:57PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Nick, >I may be wrong but this seems to return too much stuff for the flag > 'aac' - a flag I have concerns about. > > Thanks, > Mark > > On 4/26/05, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The subject says it all, is there a way

Re: [gentoo-user] shutdown now hangs on "Saving random seed..."

2005-04-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 01:22:25AM -0400, Colin wrote: > But it just hangs on this one: > > * Saving random seed... > > I can Ctrl-C my way out of it and continue to work in Gentoo, but a > software shutdown isn't possible. I just reboot, enter the BIOS and > hold the switch. What can I do abou

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 05:16:10AM -0400, fire-eyes wrote: > On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 17:32 -0500, kashani wrote: > > Is there something especially complicated about going into your > > settings > > in Thunderbird and setting gentoo.org as a domain that prefers text > > emails? > > He doesn't want t

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 04:40:52PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > 8) some people hear 'html mails' and think automatically of the worst outlook > and aol users ... ;o) Beg to differ here, but most of the emails I got from my friends using AOL have properly used MIME-Multipart/Alternative s

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 03:00:34PM +, Calvin Spealman wrote: > On 5/3/05, Travis Rousseau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why not the sender's for now? > > Why not the recipient's for now? One could almost argue free speech > for expressing one's self in HTML, but I won't go there. let's not l

Re: [gentoo-user] how to japanese intput

2005-05-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 12:32:28PM +0200, Nicolas Litchinko wrote: > This one starts kinput2 with a connection to the canna server > (canna.sh): > > #!/bin/bash > export XMODIFIERS='@im=kinput2' > export LANG=ja_JP.eucjp > export LC_ALL=ja_JP.eucjp > kinput2 -canna & > > And this one starts the

[gentoo-user] qpkg and etcat deprecated?

2005-05-09 Thread Willie Wong
There has long been talk of deprecating etcat and qpkg in favor of equery, has that been finalized? I updated to portage-2.0.51.21-r1 yesterday and can no longer find the etcat and qpkg commands. And what is it with the changelogs? Maybe I've looked in the wrong place, but I didn't see that chang

Re: [gentoo-user] qpkg and etcat deprecated?

2005-05-09 Thread Willie Wong
0, 2005 at 12:59:48AM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: > On Tuesday 10 May 2005 00:33, Willie Wong wrote: > > There has long been talk of deprecating etcat and qpkg in favor of > > equery, has that been finalized? I updated to portage-2.0.51.21-r1 > > yesterday and can no longer f

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems mounting CD-Rom device [solved]

2005-05-09 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 04:21:08PM -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: > You should ensure that you've got the little connector cable between the > cdrom and the sound card. Personally my sound card doesn't have the > capability to receive input from the cdrom drive, so I'm forced to use xmms > with the c

Re: [gentoo-user] mutt+vim text wrapping

2005-05-10 Thread Willie Wong
vim text wrapping is controled by setting textwidth. try issueing :help textwidth in vim. In general I think it is a good idea. I'd rather have text prematurely wrapped and wasting part of my 160x50 console display, than having badly wrapped text that is hard to read. W On Tue, May 10, 2005

Re: [gentoo-user] Enlightenment segfaults?

2005-07-28 Thread Willie Wong
ns on what I should do next? The problem is that I don't even know now whether it is enlightenment causing the segfault or not, since it appears that it happens after X has shutdown W On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 12:59:15PM -0400, Willie Wong wrote: > I was away from my computer for one

[gentoo-user] QEMU firewall (was: question about files as disks)

2005-07-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 02:48:04PM -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > I'm using qemu to run the firewall which in turn creates a self flash > memory image of itself. Maybe you are right though I should look into > the virtual machine as the framework from which I generate the flash > image. I a

Re: [gentoo-user] Enlightenment segfaults?

2005-07-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 06:39:42PM -0700, Bob Sanders wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 16:10:30 -0400 > Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Some more observations to my problem: > > > >1. If, after I started X, I leave it overnight in a vc, then > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Enlightenment segfaults?

2005-07-29 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 06:39:42PM -0700, Bob Sanders wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 16:10:30 -0400 > Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Some more observations to my problem: > > > >1. If, after I started X, I leave it overnight in a vc, then > >

Re: [gentoo-user] flash animation not giviing sounds

2005-07-29 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 05:05:05PM +0600, simply change wrote: > AybOwan! > > dear friends, > > when playing flash animations on mozilla firefox, its not giving the sound > output. what will be de solution? > close firefox. run, as root, these commands: echo "firefox-bin 0 0 disable" >> /pr

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge messages.

2005-07-29 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 06:09:02PM +0200, Rhywek wrote: > Hi, * > > Did you ever wonder how to see the emerge messages after emerge has > completed its tasks? During emerge/update of most packages there are > some messages displayed that should not be missed. But sitting in front > of the console

[gentoo-user] Init Reloading

2005-07-31 Thread Willie Wong
Under what conditions will init reload? I am a bit worried that in the past week or so I've seen two instances where it says that Init 2.8.6 is reloading. The second of which never came back: underneath the line that says Init 2.8.6 is reloading, a bunch of random characters were displayed and

Re: [gentoo-user] ffox compile fail

2005-07-31 Thread Willie Wong
run fix_libtool_files.sh 3.3.5 W On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 02:59:17PM -0700, maxim wexler wrote: > Hello everyone, > > for an emerge of mozilla-firefox after 12 of 14 this: > > [...] > ar cru .libs/libdns-sd.a dns-sd-method.o > ranlib .libs/libdns-sd.a > grep: > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-pc-linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing how secure a server is...

2005-08-02 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 09:43:17PM -0400, Colin wrote: > Neither is what I was thinking of, but they're quite similar. > LoginGraceTime means if nobody logged in within 10 minutes of the > connection being opened, then it will be closed. I don't know > exactly what MaxAuthTries does, but I

[gentoo-user] [OT] Site-specific proxy

2005-08-02 Thread Willie Wong
Hi all, I am wondering if it is possible to make it such that when accessing certain webpages, the connections goes through a proxy, and when accessing others, the connections goes out directly to the internet. In particular, since I am a graduate student living off campus, if I need t

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing how secure a server is...

2005-08-02 Thread Willie Wong
ou need better systems. Finally, if you are just working with the SSH portion of the brute forcing problem, /. had an article about it a few weeks back. There were MANY IDS systems posted in the comments that specifically works with openssh. HTH, W > 2005/8/3, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Site-specific proxy

2005-08-03 Thread Willie Wong
nevermind that. Figured out eventually that Automatically configure proxy via the PAC files is what I wanted. W On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 12:42:16AM -0400, Willie Wong wrote: > Hi all, > I am wondering if it is possible to make it such that when accessing > certain webp

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing how secure a server is...

2005-08-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 10:01:58PM +0200, Nagatoro wrote: > Willie Wong wrote: > >I just have scripts that parse the server logs and look for trigger > >conditions, at which time it blocks off the offending site or the > > Mind sharing those scripts? > Do not mind of cou

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with genlop

2005-08-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 01:49:15AM +0300, Yuval Scharf wrote: > On Thursday 04 August 2005 01:29, A. Khattri wrote: > > On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Yuval Scharf wrote: > > > Why when ever I execute > > > > > > cgext03 ~ # genlop --current > > > > > > I get... > > > > > > !!! Error: no working merge found.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with genlop

2005-08-03 Thread Willie Wong
Hum, because of your post, I began to believe it is not only my problem. And voila! A bug has been filed for it: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99823 It is caused by a change in behaviour in sandbox such that the file /tmp/sandboxpids.tmp, which genlop uses to determine if a emerge is g

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges

2005-08-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 10:50:17AM -0400, Michael Crute wrote: > At the expense of sounding like an "Elitist Chowderhead" I kind of agree > with Chris. I'm fairly new to Gentoo (but not to Linux). I came from Fedora > and must say that personally Gentoo makes way more sense and pisses me off > f

Re: [gentoo-user] Which ghostscript to use?

2005-08-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 12:15:00AM +0800, Yuan MEI wrote: > There are three versions of ghostscript inside the portage, they are > `ghostscript', `ghostscript-gnu', `ghostscript-afpl'. In my opinion, > afpl is used more widely, however, the latest version of afpl is not > inside the portage. So,

Re: [gentoo-user] ?VIDEO_CARDS="matrox"? in make.conf - which package?

2005-08-04 Thread Willie Wong
I am pretty sure that x11-drm uses that. The ati cards can also use "rage128" and "radeon" in that spot depending on the card: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml According to the ebuild for x11-drm-4.3.0-r7 IUSE_VIDEO_CARDS="3dfx gamma i810 i830 matrox rage128 radeon sis mach64" HTH W On

Re: [gentoo-user] Using Intel's icc to compile the whole system?

2005-08-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 08:19:00PM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Hi! > > Is it possible to compile the complete system with the > icc from the Intel C++ Compiler? afaik, no. Too many things rely on gcc-specific extensions. BUT! if you add "icc" to your USEflags, portage will compile things wit

Re: [gentoo-user] Using Intel's icc to compile the whole system?

2005-08-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 03:20:43PM -0400, Willie Wong wrote: > On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 08:19:00PM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Is it possible to compile the complete system with the > > icc from the Intel C++ Compiler? > > afaik, no. Too

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges

2005-08-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 01:41:03AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > If you're going to learn Linux, why not start with a distribution which > caters for newbies when making design decisions, rather than one which > assumes that its users know what they're doing? > I partially agree. In my mind, l

Re: [gentoo-user] Where does /etc/env.d/99local come from?

2005-08-05 Thread Willie Wong
Can the list admin kick this guy off? He apparently has some sort of auto-reply on his box and this is the 5th mail like this I've got from him... one in reply to EACH message coming into the list today. W On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 05:30:23AM -0500, John wrote: > This email address is being abando

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Some intelligence in etc-update... please.

2005-08-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 10:03:06AM -0400, A. Khattri wrote: > On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, John wrote: > > > This email address is being abandoned due to the sick amount of junk mail I > > receive. Please stop spamming it. > > > > If you are a friend and need to contact me I can be reached at: > > > > Em

Re: [gentoo-user] Am I dumb?

2005-08-05 Thread Willie Wong
the address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] W On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 07:50:39PM -0500, AJ Spagnoletti wrote: > I have recently become busy with a couple of things and dont have time > to sift through all the emails from the mailing list so I decided that > i want to unsubscribe... On Aug 2nd I sent an ema

Re: [gentoo-user] Am I dumb?

2005-08-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 09:31:34PM -0400, Matt Randolph wrote: > Willie Wong wrote: > > >the address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >W > > > >On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 07:50:39PM -0500, AJ Spagnoletti wrote: > > > > > >>I have recently beco

Re: [gentoo-user] Please confirm my understanding

2005-08-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 09:41:15PM -0400, C.Beamer wrote: > Now for the question. I need confirmation of my understanding. In > the make.conf file when setting up the USE flags, I include anything > that I want to have compiled into the programs that I install, > correct? If I don't want an opti

Re: [gentoo-user] mutt question

2005-08-07 Thread Willie Wong
It is a feature. Mutt gives you the option of saving local copy of mail when you send. If all the mail in your sent mail folder displays as "From: David H. Askew", you'll never be able to tell which is which (= I've never actually tried to set that behaviour differently, try looking at the mutt ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyboard Question

2005-08-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 12:45:27PM -0400, Michael Crute wrote: > You have to add them into your X config file. But I'm not sure of the > specifics here. > > -Mike > Use xmodmap and make those two keys send Alt-LeftArrow (for back) and Alt-Rightarrow (for forward). W > On 8/6/05, Ian K <[EMAI

Re: [gentoo-user] how to copy a file's content to clipboard?

2005-08-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 12:43:34AM +0800, Qiangning Hong wrote: > Uwe Thiem wrote: > > On 12 August 2005 16:53, Qiangning Hong wrote: > > > >>Do you know how to copy the content of a file to the X clipboard using > >>command? Every time now I need to paste a file into my email, I have to > >>cat

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get larger fonts in X ?

2005-08-15 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 12:24:22AM -0700, George Garvey wrote: > On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 11:28:44PM -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > > Although it seems like your X dpi setting should match the physical > > resolution of your monitor, it can be used to tweak font sizes. There is > > an X -dpi command

Re: [gentoo-user] unsuscribe

2005-08-17 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 12:18:02PM +, Gyuri wrote: > Bayrouni wrote: > > >Hello all, > >How to unsuscribe from this list? > > > >Thank you > >Bayrouni > > It is written on the gentoo website. Gentoo.org -> Lists Actually, as was posted before, the gentoo.org way is incorrect. It specifies -u

Re: [gentoo-user] unsuscribe

2005-08-17 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 03:57:05PM -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > In fact, it is "-" not "+"... > And with all the sources around, they still can't find it. > I dont see a reason to change the way it works, what is left to change > is the mind of the "unsubscribers" that don't even read the welcom

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

2005-08-18 Thread Willie Wong
plaining because the requesting IP is the same as the > requested IP. Any help on fixing this? Google and the vsftpd.conf man > page were no help... > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Death Mech and Death EM should be events in the X-games. ~Willie Wong Sorti

Re: [gentoo-user] unison requires Mozilla, doesn't accept Firefox?

2005-08-18 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 07:05:51PM +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: > Hopefully in the future, mozilla will split out the SDK/libraries into a > seperate package so that you don't have to install the mozilla > webbrowser/emailer/etc. For right now, the moznocompose, moznomail flags gets rid of the htm

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update -> "the best version available"

2005-08-19 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 05:27:39PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > Mark Knecht schreef: > > Hi, > >I wonder what the explanation in the emerge man page about the > > --update option really means. What is meant by, and how does emerge > > pick, "the best version available"? > > > > - Mark > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] after emerge -Du world - - no sound no errors

2005-08-19 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 08:41:46AM -0700, maxim wexler wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ amixer > [...] > Simple mixer control 'PCM',0 > Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined > Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right > Limits: Playback 0 - 31 > Front Left: Playback 25 [81%] [on] >

Re: [gentoo-user] Autoconfiguring default route

2005-08-19 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 04:24:34PM -0300, Jos?? Pablo Ezequiel Fern??ndez wrote: > I still can figure out how to configure my default route with the new > configuration format (as stupid as that may sound). > I have this: > config_eth0=( "192.168.1.5/24" ) > which works and: > route_eth0="default

Re: [gentoo-user] updates with B

2005-08-19 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 03:31:14AM +1200, Peter O'Connor wrote: > An interesting conundrum indeed. > > You can't install (due to it being blocked) ieee80211-1.0.3 with > ipw2100-1.1.0 merged > > And from the error message you posted it looks like you can't merge > ipw2100 (>1.1.0) without havin

Re: [gentoo-user] Finer grained date output.

2005-08-19 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 04:17:27AM +0200, Marco Matthies wrote: > Harry Putnam wrote: > >I know about perl scipting for this but wanted something like the > >`date' command that is its own dedicated program. > > > >Is there a unix tool that outputs a finer grain of time segments? > > man date > lo

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - vsftp revisited

2005-08-19 Thread Willie Wong
There's gotta be an option for vsftp to give more verbose logs, right? Also, ask your customer for his logs. Back in the days when I was using windows any self-respecting graphical ftp client would have a little window showing the connecting status/log. That could really help. Also, ask your cus

Re: [gentoo-user] use flags (once more)

2005-08-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 02:00:27AM -0400, John Dangler wrote: > If I add a USE="whatever" to my make.conf file, does that get added to the > flags already in the default profile, or does make.conf override what's in > the defaults file? > yes, it is cascading. And your make.conf is read last. Whic

Re: [gentoo-user] First time Nvidia user - help required

2005-08-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 03:28:18PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > OK, ut2004-demo runs on the NVidia MX4000 but the sound is very messed > up using my RME card, but at least it runs. After Googling for a > minute or two I found that > > ~ > stat fps > ~ > > gives me FPS count on screen. If I choose

Re: [gentoo-user] unmerge emacs

2005-08-20 Thread Willie Wong
emacs provides virtual/editor The system profile is a set of programs that is necessary for your computer to boot and build other programs. One of this things you need to do to boot a computer is to edit the configuration files in /etc, for that you need an editor. The system profile (you can see

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie install - emerge: command not found

2005-08-23 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 06:25:10PM +0200, Assaf Urieli wrote: > > Apologies if this is completely obvious, but you did say "newbie"... :-) > > > > After you "select Gentoo Linux 2.6.12-r6" do you see a lengthy boot > > process or do you get a command line instantly? > > > > It occured to me that yo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: migrating to gcc-3.4.4

2005-08-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 08:30:11PM +, Fernando Meira wrote: > Oh.. and by the way, how reliable is this prediction? > (...) > [ebuild N ] sys-apps/hdparm-5.9 > [ebuild N ] sys-libs/pwdb-0.62 > > Estimated update time: 6 hours, 7 minutes. > > All system in 6h? It is something like 120 packag

Re: [gentoo-user] Downloading packages from a txt file

2005-08-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 09:55:32AM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > On Wed, August 24, 2005 11:14 pm, Fernando Canizo said: > The sed part transforms from a list all on one line with spaces separating > to a list one per line, ie: > > url1 url2 url3 > > to > > url1 > url2 > url3 > > Trouble is this gi

Re: [gentoo-user] genlop times was: migrating to gcc-3.4.4

2005-08-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 11:51:32AM +, Fernando Meira wrote: > I have a P4-2.4GHz laptop. > I forgot to say that the estimation time was made by genlop. And was quite > wrong! It took something like 11h to compile 112 packages, (though I've > interrupted while compiling gcc-3.3.6.. so it had

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]Deafenig Silence

2005-08-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 04:21:47PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 15:21:20 +0100, Tony Davison wrote: > > > Everone gone home, or have my mail filters finally eaten the world? > > We're all at the party, enjoying the free beer and pizza. > > Weren't you invited? > > ;-) > I

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 08:47:29AM -0700, Grant wrote: > I have forgotten the root password of my remote server. Is there any > way to retrieve or reset it? > > - Grant AFAIK it is not possible short of brute force hacking it. If it were, it sort of defeats the point of security on the box... Y

Re: [gentoo-user] /home becoming readonly every night

2005-08-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 08:07:52PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > well, my new seagate died in the first week.. .the second one run for years > without problems... > > Seagate = Sie geht oder sie geht nicht. (it works or not). > If it is DOA or dies very soon, you can always demand they

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 12:38:42PM -0400, Michael Crute wrote: > All you really need is an account with sudo rights then `sudo passwd root` > and your all set, else your suck with singleuser. > If the OP has sudo set up, would he really be sending a mail to the list? And if he didn't, setting up

Re: [gentoo-user] genlop times was: migrating to gcc-3.4.4

2005-08-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 05:33:14PM +, Fernando Meira wrote: > I would say that most of the emerged packages were emerged before.. but > maybe not that much so that genlop could be accurate. Also, a new compiler > was being used.. no idea how much can that change the performance. That might.

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo

2005-08-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 02:40:59PM -0400, John Dangler wrote: > skey says it's a "Linux Port of OpenBSD Single-key Password System" That's > all the info I've been able to find out so far. > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Skeys w -- "Pages one and two [of Zaphod's presidential speech] had been

Re: [gentoo-user] activex support

2005-08-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 03:01:28PM -0400, Michael Crute wrote: > On 8/25/05, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > Has anyone successfully used ActiveX with firefox or mozilla? > > > > http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/mozilla.htm > > > > > I just took a look and it seems like

Re: [gentoo-user] genlop times was: migrating to gcc-3.4.4

2005-08-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 11:03:47PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 14:51:33 -0400, Willie Wong wrote: > > > BUT!!! It seems that there is a bug with genlop and newer versions of > > portage because some issues with a sandbox lockfile. Search for >

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 07:17:48PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Maybe it's just an oversight and temporarily gone? > > - Mark doubt it. According to the changelog for Win4Lin # ChangeLog for app-emulation/win4lin # Copyright 2002-2005 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2 # $Header: # /

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 09:20:11PM -0500, John Jolet wrote: > okay, I was wondering how to get the other kernel versions. it's emerge > gentoo-sources (space) 2.6.11 is it? hum, that's funny, I was going to tell you emerge =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.11 but equery list -p gentoo-sources sh

Re: [gentoo-user] Get rid of PAM?

2005-08-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 07:26:55AM -0700, Jerry Turba wrote: > On another gentoo newsgroup I made a comment about deleting pam because I > believed it was causing a problem with logins to KDE. I was severely PAM has been known to cause pain and suffering at unexpected times. > 1. Could someone e

Re: [gentoo-user] sub-net 0.0.0.0

2005-08-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 10:02:08AM -0600, Joseph wrote: > I have a device with an IP 192.168.0.1 which I need to access via > browser. > My PC gets an IP via DHCP from the router. > What should I use for gateway? I've tired 192.168.0.0 192.168.0 huh? if you get the IP via DHCP, doesn't it also s

Re: [gentoo-user] sub-net 0.0.0.0

2005-08-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 11:50:29AM -0600, Joseph wrote: > No, I set my firewall/router with my numbers. My main network is set to > Gateway 10.0.0.1 and DHCP pool range (so other devices an get the IP > automatically) is 10.0.0.150 - 10.0.0.180 Okay, so far I follow you. You have a main network.

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking package stops emerge now what?

2005-08-27 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 04:33:25PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > You likely should not have to. The idea of a BLOCK is that the new > package either replaces the functionality of, or includes the > functionality of, the currently installed program. True > In this case, ftpbase installs the same f

Re: [gentoo-user] SpamAssassin is letting everything through

2005-08-27 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 04:47:57PM +0200, Jarry wrote: > daniel wrote: > > >I've trained it with sa-learn on a whole slew of ham and spam and it > >continues to let through nearly all the spam coming in. > > BTW, in which form do all emails have to be in order to use them as > examples for spamas

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Open Office USE flags

2005-08-27 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 11:07:52PM -0400, John Dangler wrote: > Anyone know why Open Office would require USE=???hardened??? ? huh? To my knowledge, no package would REQUIRE a useflag. > Or is this here to show that it can be installed in a hardened Gentoo > environment? The line IUSE=" ha

Re: [gentoo-user] mail in $HOME/.maildir, why ??? (cont.)

2005-08-30 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 08:42:38PM +0200, Jarry wrote: > And last question: I have access to one Debian box (which uses mbox > format). After logging there I get either message "No mail", or > "You have new mail". But I do not get any similar message on my > Gentoo box. Why? Can I somehow activate

Re: [gentoo-user] To emerge -e world or not to emerge -e world?

2005-08-30 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 12:20:22PM -0400, Matt Randolph wrote: > $ emerge -ep system | genlop -p > [...] > Estimated update time: 2 hours, 30 minutes. whoa! that is scary. 2 hours 30 minutes is barely enough for me to emerge gcc and glibc. > > $ emerge -ep world | genlop -p > [...] > Estimated

Re: [gentoo-user] why is Joe part of 'system' ?

2005-09-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 01:42:32PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > > I'd put money on it being considered part of system > > because it provides virtual/editor, which is part of system. > > In /usr/portage/profiles/base/virtuals , it says > > virtual/editor app-editors/nan

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/input/mouse0 Doesn't Exist

2005-09-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 09:03:09PM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > No rubbish. Not working. > > Thanks for your help. > That means it is not an X problem, but a problem at the kernel (unlikely) or your hardware. You said it is part of a wireless combo? Try changing the battery. I also have a wi

Re: [gentoo-user] 4gb mpeg to 100mb xvid?

2005-09-07 Thread Willie Wong
Okay, I am no video expert, but On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 04:49:47PM -0300, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: > Playing work/dd/DD_24_2005.MPG. > Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes)MPEG-PS file format detected. > VIDEO: MPEG2 720x576 (aspect 2) 25.000 fps 9900.0 kbps (1237.5 kbyte/s) >

Re: [gentoo-user] grub over the top of Win XP

2005-09-07 Thread Willie Wong
As posted on /. recently, On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 12:12:21PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Beyond that I don't pretend to know anything. > > The one thing that always confuses me is the difference between > placing grub in the MBR and placing it in a partition. It is my > understanding that the MB

Re: [gentoo-user] 4gb mpeg to 100mb xvid?

2005-09-07 Thread Willie Wong
Hi On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 06:30:34PM -0300, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: > On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: > > >Rar or Tar.gz or zip the file up and share it, or encode it down to an > >xvid (which will likely reduce the size at least somewhat, but anybody > >correct me if I'm wrong

Re: [gentoo-user] 4gb mpeg to 100mb xvid?

2005-09-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 10:53:34PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > >>> But you still haven't said why the final output file has to be so > >>> small. > > > > > > To be shared over bittorrent :P > > > > U people share full DVD- size files over BT all the time. If > it's an issue of not wa

Re: [gentoo-user] Error when emerging Gnome

2005-09-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 12:03:00PM +1200, Jamie Dobbs wrote: > libtool --quiet --mode=link gcc -o libapm.la apmlib.lo -rpath /usr/lib > -version-info 1:0 > i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++: > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5-20050130/../../../crti.o: No such > file or directory > i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++

Re: [gentoo-user] Determine the original installation date

2005-09-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 01:04:41PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > emerge genlop > genlop -l | head > actually, this is exactly the same as just typing head /var/log/emerge.log genlop is an emerge.log parser after-all. So both suffers the same deficiency that if you logrotate emerge.log, then you lo

Re: [gentoo-user] Make a running process nohup?

2005-09-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 10:12:52AM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > I think you guys missed the point. OP mentioned "Running Process" > > Not sure what disown does since there's no man pages on it. (as > suggested by Matthew Cline) > And Matthew also said it was a Bash bulletin, so you should man bas

Re: [gentoo-user] Build Problem

2005-09-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 03:37:11PM +0200, Greg Armer wrote: > gcc-config error: Could not run/locate "i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc" > > Here is my make.conf file incase this helps: > > fyre ~ # cat /etc/make.conf > CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer" > CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" > CXXFLAGS=

Re: [gentoo-user] after emerge -Du world date can't keep time

2005-09-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 11:59:58AM -0700, maxim wexler wrote: > Hello everybody, > > After emerge --deep --update world I compiled and > installed the new kernel, 2.6.12-gentoo-r10, then I > noticed that no matter when I boot the system, date > always starts marking time at 6:00 AM, although it >

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrdao woes

2005-09-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 04:03:18PM -0700, David Busby wrote: > My kernel was booted with this setting: hdc=ide-scsi, I read to do set that > in the kernel help under make menuconfig. > I also want to be able to burn UDF/data DVDs with this thing too, but music > first. I've looked at the HowTos

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