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

2005-09-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 08:41:31PM -0700, maxim wexler wrote: > --- Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 11:59:58AM -0700, maxim > > wexler wrote: > > > Hello everybody, > > > > > > After emerge --deep --update

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

2005-09-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 08:41:31PM -0700, maxim wexler wrote: > > 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage logs

2005-09-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 10:26:15AM +0200, Frank Schafer wrote: > On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 16:18 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > > > -Original Message- > > > From: Frank Schafer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > I'm wondering why there are these 4 digit numbers in front of the name > > > of each

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

2005-09-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 12:03:27PM -0700, maxim wexler wrote: > > what about the output from "hwclock"? run it as > > root, does it give the > > same time/date as "date"? > > > > the same. In fact when I update the time w/ date -s > hwclock continues to give the incorrect one. Until a > reboot wh

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: reiserfs file size issue

2005-09-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 11:40:05PM +0200, Stuart Howard wrote: > Further reading further problem, > > I have been through the reiserfs FAQ and discovered that with 2.4 - > 2.6 kernels that the file size limit I have posted below should not be > an issue ie. I should be version 3.6 and therefore f

Re: [gentoo-user] howto list packages that depend on the package?

2005-09-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 01:32:42PM -0600, Peter Ziobrzynski wrote: > Is there a way to get the list of packages that depend on a package > (dependent packages) then doing grep through the /var/db/pkgs like that? > > cd /var/db/pkg > find . -name DEPEND | xargs grep avifile > > Unfo

Re: [gentoo-user] The new apache2

2005-09-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 12:41:29PM -0700, Grant wrote: > > Grant wrote: > > > Hello, I've been on the new apache2 layout for some time now via ~x86. > > > It looks like it's now marked stable so I'd like to remove the ~x86 > > > keyword, but after that I get this: > > > > > > [blocks B ] dev-li

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/cdrom permissions and gxine

2005-09-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 10:19:47PM -0700, Grant wrote: > Here are my /dev/cdrom permissions: > > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 13 Sep 12 06:08 /dev/cdrom -> cdroms/cdrom0 > that's a symlink... the permissions on it doesn't reflect that of the actual device. try ls -l /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 > gxine exec

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash prompt

2005-09-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 01:25:00PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > Charles Trois schreef: > > Hello! > > > > I am getting confused with profile, bashrc, etc. The prompt string I > > want to use is > > > > PS1="[EMAIL PROTECTED] \W]\$ " > > > > I therefore wrote it in /etc/profile (at two levels,

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash prompt

2005-09-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 11:30:19AM +0200, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:15:13 +0200 > Charles Trois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am getting confused with profile, bashrc, etc. > > The prompt string I want to use is > > > > PS1="[EMAIL PROTECTED] \W]\$ " > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash prompt

2005-09-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 05:45:08PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > OK, you're right. I think that the problems that I was working around > may have been based in *sudo*, not su itself, which works fine (now), as > does sudo su. But when I was setting up my system with sudo (like a > month and a half

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with Script that sends out HTML emails

2005-09-15 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 07:07:23AM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > Hi, > > I'm writing a bash script that basically checks for stocks prices and I > want the formatted output to be mailed to me. I've got the script > working already. The only problem is the HTML is well, not displayed as > HTML,

Re: [gentoo-user] quickpkg gtk+

2005-09-16 Thread Willie Wong
It is a curious thing: apparently portage doesn't think /etc/gtk-2.0 belongs to any package: [10:19 PM]wwong ~ $ equery belongs /etc/gtk-2.0/ [ Searching for file(s) /etc/gtk-2.0/ in *... ] [10:20 PM]wwong ~ $ [10:20 PM]wwong ~ $ equery belongs /etc/gtk [ Searching for file(s) /etc/gtk in *... ]

[gentoo-user] equery and trailing slashes (WAS: quickpkg gtk+)

2005-09-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 03:53:12AM +0100, Mike Williams wrote: > On Saturday 17 September 2005 03:23, Willie Wong wrote: > > It is a curious thing: apparently portage doesn't think /etc/gtk-2.0 > > belongs to any package: > > Ahh, but it does... > > gimli

Re: [gentoo-user] Security Updates and Portage Trees

2005-09-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 01:50:28PM +0200, Fernando Meira wrote: > 2) win32codecs was marked to be clean. why? > # equery d win32codecs > [ Searching for packages depending on win32codecs... ] > media-libs/xine-lib-1.0.1-r3 > media-video/avifile-0.7.41.20041001-r1 > media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre7-r1

Re: [gentoo-user] script in /etc/cron.daily never runs

2005-09-21 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 04:15:04PM -0500, John Jolet wrote: > On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 17:11 -0400, Matt Randolph wrote: > > I have a script in /etc/cron.daily that never runs. It works properly > > when run manually and it's been in there for weeks (and a reboot or two). > > > > I'm using vixie-cr

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I do this with GNUPLOT?

2005-09-22 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 01:38:35PM -0500, Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: > Suppose I have 2 files, the first file's contents are (0, 100) and the > second file's contents are (0, 50). Now, can I make GNUPLOT plot a > graph with the average, i.e. (0, 100+50/2)? > > Sure, I could create a third file which

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix & Pine incompatability

2005-09-22 Thread Willie Wong
The official pine distribution doesn't support maildir. Since I don't run pine myself, I don't know if the maildir USE flag would provide the maildir patch for pine. If not: you can use another client (mutt comes to mind), or you can modify the configuration in /etc/postfix/main.cf You are looki

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

2005-09-22 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 04:06:34PM -0400, Sean Lester wrote: > Greetings, > I have a partially working Postfix installation. It delivers > messages on the localhost. It'll receive messages from the internet. > But, it will not send messages to any hosts on the internet. I've > checked my ip

[OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix & Pine incompatability

2005-09-22 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 08:56:37AM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:43:05 -0400 > Willie Wong wrote: > > > The official pine distribution doesn't support maildir. Since I don't > > run pine myself, I don't know if the maildir USE flag would pr

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix & Pine incompatability

2005-09-23 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 02:51:35PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > So to be positive about it heres how i found the answer: > > 1. looked to see if there were mbox or maildir USE flags that affected > the build of pine - answer NO > 2. google "pine maildir" and discover that there are patches in > circu

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

2005-09-23 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 09:31:34AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 22:38:07 -0400, Sean Lester wrote: > > > That's it. I didn't think the ISP would block outgoing port 25. > > Unfortunately, quite a lot seem to do it. it's a lazy and lame "solution" > to spam trojans. Other I

Re: [gentoo-user] Documentation Search ?

2005-09-23 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 09:23:36AM -0400, Michael Crute wrote: > On 9/23/05, Ted Kaczmarek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Am I being a chuckle head, is their any documentation search capability > > at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/. ? > > > > Regards, > > Ted > > > Pretty sure there isn

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo workstation x/kde: disk size requirement...

2005-09-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 11:14:01AM +0200, Jarry wrote: > Hi, > > I want to make my notebook dual-bootable (i must keep win because of > some software), and I would like to know how big partition do I need > for gentoo (basic workstation install, with X/KDE). > > Would single (except for swap) 10

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding Linux clients to samba primary domain controller

2005-09-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 02:03:52PM +0200, Ryan Viljoen wrote: > I am currently helping out my old high school. They have just got some "new" > pc's and they are wanting to run a dual boot setup on them with windows 2k > and gentoo. The profile and home directories are all on a server and are > moun

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding Linux clients to samba primary domain controller

2005-09-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 05:02:07PM +0200, Ryan Viljoen wrote: > there should be 100 or so computers. > > How do the linux clients authenticate when the user logs on? > It doesn't. It mounts the NFS volume at boot up. The user homedirs points to the directories on the NFS volume. The user logs in

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem error...

2005-09-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 05:40:36PM +0200, Keats wrote: > i 've tried : > navi ~ # fsck.reiser4 /dev/hda4 > Fatal: The partition (/dev/hda4) is mounted with write permissions, > cannot fsck it. > > i ve tried to umount it but there is no way to do that try mount -o ro,remount /dev/hda4 W >

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrecord-prodvd extrange behaivor

2005-09-27 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 11:29:45PM +0900, Mauro Sauco wrote: > # cdrecord -dev=0,0,0 -speed=1 -v --eject -dao myimage.iso > > Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 1 in dummy mode for single session. > Last chance to quit, starting dummy write in 0 seconds. Operation starts. cdrecord thinks you ar

Re: [gentoo-user] What to expect from emerge --newuse --emptytree world re: etc-update

2005-09-27 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 10:39:42PM -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: > > I'm getting ready to dive into the apache2 install on my server. > In preparation for this I needed things I wasn't using before like > IMAP (see thread on web mail systems), MySQL, and ldap. > > Being the good little gentoo boy I

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot compile ipw2100 against kernel 2.6.13

2005-09-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 11:03:18AM +, John Green wrote: > In detail, when > > /usr/src/linux => /usr/src/linux-2.6.12.6 > > everything works OK. > > But when > > /usr/src/linux => /usr/src/linux-2.6.13.2 > > there are errors beginning like this. > > - > > >>> Source u

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild fails

2005-09-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 03:55:47PM -0700, Wes Gray wrote: > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "=dev-lang/python-2.2.3-r5". > . > . > > Why is it trying to access an old version of python? I removed the > /root/.revdep-rebuild*.?_* files, so that's not it. > Not an old version, but

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild fails

2005-09-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 08:13:58PM -0700, Wes Gray wrote: > I have a newer version of python already. The one revdep-rebuild is > trying to access doesn't even exist in portage. For example, I tried > your suggestion: > > # emerge --oneshot --update python > Calculating dependencies ...done! > >

Re: [gentoo-user] download first and compile later?

2005-09-29 Thread Willie Wong
--fetchonly W On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 10:27:43AM +0530, vikram ranade wrote: > Quick question > I looked in the emerge man pages but i cant seem to figure out how to > download all the packages using emerge and then compile them > is there some parameter that i can use? > > > emerge > ? >

Re: [gentoo-user] Shell through the web

2005-10-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 12:11:20AM -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote: > i used to run a java ssh client. do a google search for "java ssh" and see > some. mindterm was the one i think i used. > > D.Vin > Won't do you any good if you are behind a corporate firewall. AFAIK Mindterm is nothing more than

Re: [gentoo-user] very slow updating portage?

2005-10-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 10:13:33PM +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > Hello. Untill today I begin to realize I am using aibiword 2.2 and > gnumeric 1.4.3 > > I think they should be at least half a year old, or one year old. Are > packages updated not so frequently? I think it's not very hard to port > th

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS setting for Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHZ stepping 08

2005-10-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 01:31:32AM +1000, Richard Watson wrote: > I've just got a new laptop I'm installing Gentoo on and was wondering if > anyone could advise on the CFLAG setting I'm using. The CPU is a > Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHZ stepping 08. Currently I've set > CFLAGS="-02 -mcpu

Re: [gentoo-user] curious thing with net.eth0

2005-10-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 03:34:25PM -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > Renat Golubchyk wrote: > >On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:06:26 -0400 "Eric S. Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >wrote: > >>The problem was /etc/init.d/net.eth0 and /etc/init.d/net.lo were the > >>same. The net.eth0 code was overwritten

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags...

2005-10-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 05:13:13PM -0500, Eric Waguespack wrote: > say for example I installed Gentoo with some USE flags, but then I > changed my mind and wanted to add (for example) the "offensive" USE > flag to my make.conf (I have no idea what offensive does, but with a > name like that, it mus

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] USE flags...

2005-10-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 01:11:17AM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > I know sudo insults you if you type the wrong password, and I remember I love the sudo insults. Every now and then I have this urge to type in an incorrect password just to see what my computer would say. W -- "OK, so ten out of t

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu can't connect to internet

2005-10-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 09:31:50PM +0800, wrote: > i am install qemu and active kqemu > using ./configure --enable-kqemu to configure and make&& make install > than i use a win98.img to start qemu(using NAT ) > > qemu -hda win98.img -m 256 -localtime -enable-audio -user-net > > but in win98

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu can't connect to internet

2005-10-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 10:10:40PM +0800, wrote: > now,i use qemu to emulate arch linux,and set arch to use dhcp > but always can;t connect to internet > my host system was on net,can connect to internet,thx > > did qemu have some configure argument to enable or disable net? > thx > Shouldn'

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop

2005-10-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 08:26:53AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As a gross first pass, my impression is that ThinkPads and Dells seem to > do well with Linux. > > Do your collective experiences confirm or deny this? > > Michael > Thinkpads: my experience was good for linux. I had an X20, w

Re: [gentoo-user] advice for an ipod-like device?

2005-10-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 11:36:00PM +, b.n. wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to have an Ipod-like mp3 player, something with at least 4-8 > Gbyte of storage. > > To avoid any compatibility issue, I'd like something that works just > like most USB-pen mp3 players (mine included): I stick it in my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP queue for a laptop

2005-10-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 03:15:08PM +1300, Tom Eastman wrote: > I *do* have a home server which is running SMTP, it accepts email from my > LAN, but not the outside world. Running postfix but haven't looked into > learning how to set up SMTP authentication. > > Unfortunately, that wouldn't help

Re: [gentoo-user] file with IP?

2005-11-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 09:15:20AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 07:56:08 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > > > doesnt work well. In my case only gives one lan IP, misses the other > > Lan and the dhcp ADSL IP. Not a lot of use :( > > No, but on a box with a single IP addres

Re: [gentoo-user] Interface to Microsoft Keyboards (ala Intellitype) possible on Gentoo?

2005-11-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 01:08:23AM -0500, Mark Shields wrote: > I have a Microsoft natural multimedia keyboard and wish to use the extra > available keys (the multimedia keys mostly, volume up/down, pause, stop, > rewind/fast forward, mute). Are there any packages in portage that will > allow me to

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild is giving me fits

2005-11-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 05:44:00AM -0600, Dale wrote: > Mine looks like this: O_O > > > sys-kernel/gentoo-sources -doc > One of these e-mail things that needs to be checked. Sorry if you have done it already. In that line quoted above in /etc/.../package.use, does the line begin with a greate

Re: [gentoo-user] file with IP?

2005-11-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 07:10:48PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 13:43:44 -0500, Willie Wong wrote: > > > Maybe something is misconfigured on my box, but I get > > > > [01:41 PM]wwong ~ $ hostname -i > > 127.0.0.1 > > > > which is

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot open root device "hde4" or uknown-block(0,0)

2005-11-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 08:54:56PM -0800, Bill Six wrote: > Hi, > > I've just installed Gentoo alongside XP. /dev/hde is > my main harddrive. I'm getting the error > > "VFS: Cannot open root device "hde4" or > uknown-block(0,0) > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic.." >

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with partition reiserfs

2005-11-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 04:29:45AM -0200, Rafael Barreto wrote: > Other thing... I would like to mount that partition such that all files > created have the same group and permission. I thought that I could use the > "umask" option, but reiserfs don't have that option, so I don't know how > could I

Re: [gentoo-user] About sed

2005-11-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 01:44:42AM -0200, Rafael Barreto wrote: > Hi, > > I'm learning about the use of the sed command and I have some questions. I'm > trying to read in /etc/conf.d/clock the CLOCK variable with: > > sed '/^CLOCK="*"$/p' /etc/conf.d/clock > > This command, in principe, must pri

Re: [gentoo-user] About sed

2005-11-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 09:03:01PM -0800, gentuxx wrote: > sed -n '/^CLOCK=/s/^\(CLOCK=".*"\).*$/\1/p /etc/conf.d/clock > Ah, yes, I misunderstood the OP. I thought he didn't want the lines with trailing comments at all. But is it necessary to give the address for an s// replacement? As I under

Re: [gentoo-user] About sed

2005-11-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 03:42:05AM -0200, Rafael Barreto wrote: > Other thing... Why was necessary to ^CLOCK= before > s/^\(CLOCK=".*"\).*$/\1/p? And which the necessity of the ( ) between the > regular expression? as I just posted in another post, the /^CLOCK/ should not be strictly necessary.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] About sed

2005-11-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 10:37:53PM -0800, gentuxx wrote: > If you really want to get to know sed (and awk), I HIGHLY recommend > getting the 2 O'reilley books: Sed & Awk, and Mastering Regular > Expressions. Both of these two books have taught me almost everything > I know on the matter, and I re

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: java-config issues

2005-11-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 08:48:20PM +, Qian Qiao wrote: > On 11/7/05, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well using 'python-updater' > > env-update && source /etc/profile && etc-update > > and 'emerge -uD world' > > > > everything is fine now. > > > > Where does one read about python-updat

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen is being a CPU hog, big time!!!

2005-11-08 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 01:35:27PM -0600, Dale wrote: > >add_pref="screen -dmS FAH1" > > > I looked at the man page, they are listed but I have no clue what the > heck they do, even though I RTFM. Does anybody here see something wrong > with these options? Maybe have some better options that I ca

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen is being a CPU hog, big time!!!

2005-11-08 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 06:25:59PM -0600, Dale wrote: > You're right, it is something else. I used the command with something > beside folding and it works just fine. I have no clue what to do with > this thing. > > I also searched the emerge log, screen has not been updated. > > I may delete

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen is being a CPU hog, big time!!!

2005-11-08 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 06:15:36PM +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > U is it possible that the screen cpu usage is reflecting the CPU > usage of folding (which is running within a screen session if I read > you posts properly) > > perhaps try running some other cpu intensive task within screen and see

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen is being a CPU hog, big time!!!

2005-11-08 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 10:07:17PM -0600, Dale wrote: > Well, I didn't but I thought most everybody had heard of it. > > http://folding.stanford.edu/ > > It is a medical research thing that people run on their rigs. It is > very CPU intensive too. If you think you have a cooling issue with you

Re: [gentoo-user] use of /usr/src/linux symlink

2005-11-09 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 10:28:04AM -0500, Philip Webb wrote: > 051109 Holly Bostick wrote: > > Can someone tell me on what basis this *needs* to be done > > as a standard operation? Not getting it at all. > > How many kernels does one keep in a bootable state, anyway > > -- and use commonly, witho

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [Iptables related] How to make one machine only talk on loc lan

2005-11-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 06:56:46PM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > Do you mean to bock every address on the internet? I'm not following > you hear. Further I don't see an option to block ip addresses in the > blocking section at all. Only by keywords. Yes, the netgear will do it. My crappy netgear

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia driver problem

2005-11-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 05:06:12AM +0200, sempsteen wrote: > (II) LoadModule: "nv" > (II) Loading /usr/lib/modules/drivers/nv_drv.o > (II) Module nv: vendor="X.Org Foundation" > compiled for 6.8.2, module version = 1.0.1 > Module class: X.Org Video Driver > ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.

[gentoo-user] Printer configuration for Flash

2005-11-12 Thread Willie Wong
Hum, does anyway know how to set up the printer configuration for the Macromedia Flash plugin? Someone wrote a nifty flash page from which he offered a print button to print the content generated. Unfortunately, it seems to only want to send the job to lpr, without an option to print to file. Rig

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for wireless technology

2005-11-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 11:02:09AM +0600, El Nino wrote: > i have a 128kbps Internet connection to my home & now i want give > access to my college friends to it. (i already have two running > squid+firewall gentoo servers) > > I'm looking for wireless technology to do this. all friends are within

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [Iptables related] How to make one machine only talk on loc lan

2005-11-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 01:09:54AM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > Apparently you too are not looking at the router I've specified: > NETGEAR FVS318 > > In the schedule section there is only one place to put an IP address > and that is for an ntp server if you want one. > Apparently you didn't RTFM

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [Iptables related] How to make one machine only talk on loc lan

2005-11-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 11:44:31AM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > You have a fast smart mouth on you Mr. Wong. But thanks just the > same. I got in my head you both were talking about the scheduling > area. My mistake. I noticed it soon after posting and found the > place to make these settings

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for wireless technology

2005-11-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 03:18:16PM +, Stroller wrote: > On Nov 13, 2005, at 5:51 am, Willie Wong wrote: > > > >If you have line-of-sight, you might be able to make do with a > >pair of directional antennae set up in the right way, and you might > >need a way of inc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [Iptables related] How to make one machine only talk on loc lan

2005-11-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 03:13:35PM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > I'm wondering now if there is a way to do something like setup a squid > proxy on the gentoo and somehow force any attemts to go online from the > 3 isolated mchs, toward it? Two ways exist (AFAIK) of using squid: 1) Run it as a

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for wireless technology

2005-11-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 11:15:06AM +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 00:51:12 -0500 > Willie Wong wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 11:02:09AM +0600, El Nino wrote: > > > i have a 128kbps Internet connection to my home & now i want give > > > acce

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [Iptables related] How to make one machine only talk on loc lan

2005-11-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 05:35:27PM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > In the different scenarios we've been discussing though, I'm thinking > I've blocked internet access for several machines. If those machines > are then set to proxy thru a local lan address (The gentoo box running > squid). They woul

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache-r31 and unformatted HTML from server

2005-11-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 12:37:42PM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > For some reason, after upgrading from -r15 to -r31, and moving all the > config files and stuffs, I am unable to get my server to display > formatted HTML pages. > > stuffs like > > TEST will just display as is on the output (in Fire

Re: [gentoo-user] 300GB Hard drive& kernel 2.4.28

2005-11-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 04:28:57PM -0500, Chris Bruyere wrote: > My server has a 2.4.28 kernel and I would like to > install a 300GB hard drive. > > I can 'see' it in BIOS and can fdisk it, but when I > mount it, I get an error message like: > "can't mount /dev/hdd2 bad superblock " (Exact >

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

2005-11-15 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 11:34:22PM +0530, abhay wrote: > On Tuesday 15 Nov 2005 4:35 am, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > You could install your own dictd server, it's in portage, and access it > > with kdict. > Yeah that is an option but isn't there any single app that can handle. I am a > bit weary of c

[gentoo-user] Dig

2005-11-15 Thread Willie Wong
This is a really stupid question: What package is the command `dig' in? I suspect it to be in some package in net-analyzer, but I couldn't find any obvious candidates. Thanks in advance W -- An engineer is walking along and runs across a talking frog. The frog says "I am a princess, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dig

2005-11-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 04:08:01PM +, James wrote: > Willie Wong Princeton.EDU> writes: > > > > What package is the command `dig' in? > > equery belongs dig > > is a really nifty search tool > except it doesn't work when bind-tools i

Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

2005-11-17 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 05:50:55PM -0300, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: > ?c1lvaro Castro wrote: > > The point is that the normal user can't login neither. > > You probable removed "pam" from your /etc/make.conf USE flags. That wont > allow you to login, no > matter what user you try. >

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild fails

2005-11-19 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 08:18:17PM -0500, James Colby wrote: > List members - > > I am trying to run revdep-rebuild and it is failing. It is trying to > re-compile a package that is no longer has an ebuild available > (kdelibs-3.3.2-r7). I have tried running revdep-rebuild -X and > revdep-rebuil

[gentoo-user] Firefox out of memory

2005-11-19 Thread Willie Wong
Hum, I came home today to find the firefox instance that has been running for 3 or 4 days killed. Apparently it was an out of memory thing. Dmesg gave the following oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x1d2 DMA per-cpu: cpu 0 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1 cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1 Normal per-cpu: cpu 0 ho

Re: [gentoo-user] divx4linux

2005-11-19 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 11:52:24PM -0500, James Colby wrote: > List Members - > > I have another question. I can't seem to find the divx4linux package > anymore. I am trying to install it and emerge can't find it. It also > does not appear to be available as a use flag for mplayer any more. >

Re: [gentoo-user] any SSH guru on the list

2005-11-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 12:38:45PM -0700, Joseph wrote: > I'm having problem logging into my Gentoo server from Knoppix booted PC > Connection between two Gentoo servers works fine. > > I narrow it to the authorization method ssh is trying to use. When I'm > logging from Getnoo workstation the au

Re: [gentoo-user] Bit puzzled over Kernel Upgrade with Genkernel - No Sound or Wireless Connectivity

2005-11-21 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 09:20:10AM +1000, Richard Watson wrote: > Hi - I just upgraded my kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r10 to > kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.14-gentoo-r2. So far I have no sound (Alsa) or > wireless connectivity (ipw2100). Do I need to re-emerge the relevant > packages? And if I d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is this a bug in equery

2005-11-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 12:04:03PM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > Don't know about you guys but I don't see where this really works at > all like it should examples follow: > > root # ls /usr/portage/dev-db/mysql > ChangeLog mysql-3.23.58-r1.ebuild mysql-4.1.15-r30.ebuild > Manifest

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --newuse misses package that new USE affects

2005-11-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 11:01:43AM -0800, glen martin wrote: > Seems a truism, but you're right. apache isn't in my world file. > somehow. And adding it to my world file does work around the symptom I > describe. > > This begs the question of why it isn't there, considering it is > installed. I m

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

2005-11-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 01:41:49PM -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote: > Section "InputDevice" > > # Identifier and driver > > Identifier"Mouse1" > Driver"mouse" > Option "Protocol""PS/2" try changing the protocol to "imps/2" > # Option "Device" "mouse" > Option

Re: [gentoo-user] man mouse problems

2005-11-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 03:13:38PM -0500, Billy Holmes wrote: > Willie Wong wrote: > >[02:51 PM]wwong man4 $ man 4x mouse > >No entry for mouse in section 4x of the manual > > just do: > > man 4 mouse The problem is, there's another entry for mouse under secti

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix and no worthy mechs found

2005-12-01 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 10:44:32PM -0500, Sean Lester wrote: > Greetings, > I am "lucky" enough to have an ISP that blocks outbound port 25 > traffic. Fortunately, inbound is wide open. However, I am not able to > configure Postfix 2.1.5 to successfully use my ISP mail server as a > relayhos

Re: [gentoo-user] Still not getting how to influence compile flags with emerge

2005-12-02 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 09:30:35AM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > I want to influence how vim is compiled. I'm told I need a compile > option called: xterm_clipboard. How do I tell emerge to enable that > at compile time? > > I've been told its done with USE flags but it still isn't clear to mw >

Re: [gentoo-user] Still not getting how to influence compile flags with emerge

2005-12-02 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 06:58:59PM +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Willie Wong wrote: > > > What you need to do, is to edit /etc/portage/package.use so that > > there's a line that reads > > > > app-editors/vim +vim-with-x [and optionally other flags] > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - GIMP question

2005-12-02 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 08:15:48PM -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I've got an image that my wife created in pbrush.exe in Windows. The > image has a white background which I need to change to tranparent. Is > there a way to do this in GIMP? I tried manipulating the layers, but as > there is on

Re: [gentoo-user] Add subject to mails CLI Postfix

2005-12-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 11:59:27AM +0100, Tamas Sarga wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using Postfix on my PC. Some of my programs send mails to me. For > example Cron and Smartd. Cron mails have subject, but smartd try to use > sendmail -s but sendmail says it is invalid argument. How can I send > mails w

Re: [gentoo-user] bash and keeping history

2005-12-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 01:08:52AM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: > I read your post, and slapped together the following, which goes into > ~/.bashrc. Warning... some backtick expansion included here. Is there > a simpler way to find out which tty or pts you're running in? > try the 'tty' command f

[gentoo-user] how to regain control of mouse

2005-12-05 Thread Willie Wong
Just ran into a weird thing. I was viewing a slide show from 'qiv', and it suddenly aborted leaving me with no mouse or keyboard. The Window Manager still runs, nothing died except for 'qiv', but the WM (enlightenment) was not getting focus from the mouse or keyboard. But I could CTRL-ALT-F1 to swi

Re: [gentoo-user] how to regain control of mouse

2005-12-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 11:45:01PM -0500, Phil Sexton wrote: > Willie Wong wrote: > > Or is there some way of getting the > >mouse back in a situation like this? > > This should work as root: > > /etc/conf.d/gpm restart' > uh... shouldn't that be /e

Re: [gentoo-user] how to regain control of mouse

2005-12-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 10:58:31PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > On 12/5/05, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you are using /dev/input/mice for the mouse device, and compiled > your mouse driver[s] as module[s], you could rmmod and modprobe the > drivers, whic

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC-3.4 update: python error...

2005-12-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 07:29:35PM +0100, Jarry wrote: > fastjar target-libobjc > (Any other directories should still work fine.) > Created "Makefile" in /var/tmp/portage/libstdc++-v3-3.3.4/work/build using > "mt-frag" > /usr/bin/gcc-config: line 632: /etc/env.d/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.6: No

Re: [gentoo-user] problems in world file?

2005-12-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 01:36:47PM -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote: > Calculating world dependencies > !!! Problems have been detected with your world file > !!! Please run emaint --check world > > I checked for updates to world while I was updating KDE to 3.5 and got the > above message. Should I wo

Re: [gentoo-user] problems in world file?

2005-12-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 07:56:22PM +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: > Ernie Schroder schreef: > > Calculating world dependencies !!! Problems have been detected with > > your world file !!! Please run emaint --check world > > > > I checked for updates to world while I was updating KDE to 3.5 and > > go

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC-3.4 update: python error...

2005-12-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 08:49:29PM +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: > Jarry schreef: > > >> What does 'gcc-config -l' say? > > > > > > obelix ~ # gcc-config -l /usr/bin/gcc-config: line 632: > > /etc/env.d/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.6: No such file or directory * > > /usr/bin/gcc-config: Profile doe

Re: [gentoo-user] problems in world file?

2005-12-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 08:33:58PM +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: > Oh, I dunno-- what actually happens to the world file (in terms of > ownership/process ownership and locking) at the time that an emerge that > affects the world file is being performed? I took it to mean that the OP typed emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] problems in world file?

2005-12-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 03:39:56PM -0500, John J. Foster wrote: > Simple question here, but what is emaint? No trace of it on my > up-to-date system. portage-2.0.53, I have it on my laptop running ~x86, but not on my desktop running x86. running it without arguments give: "Currently emaint can

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