Re: [gentoo-user] Questions and Problems
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 09:00:01PM -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > First the questions. > > Other then karamba-webcam, are there any programs in portage (emerge -s > webcam came up with only karamba-webcam) to enable the viewing of video > locally and through programs like Gnomemeeting? I've used xawtv to view video locally, but have never found anything other than Gnomemeeting for remote. There was a java-based program - I think it was called Palantir - that had a web interface, but the frame rate was horrendusly slow - maybe good for security, but not for a home user's webcam. > Do any of you folks recommend getting a Linux-based virus scanner? Since > I'm doing some minor web hosting (mainly for Windows users) I've been > thinking it might be a good idea but really am not sure if I should > bother or not. I've heard good things about ClamAV. If you're just doing webhosting it probably won't be a big deal, though. > Another problem I'm having is getting my mail to be filtered through my > procmailrc file (will attach if wanted). Any thoughts on how to get Exim > (my MTA of choice) to invoke procmail? I also have SpamAssassin > installed, is that overkill or what is possibly causing these problems? You'll need a .forward file in your home directory that says "|/usr/bin/procmail". SpamAssassin isn't overkill, but neither it nor procmail are being invoked. I'd recommend that you put your SA rules near the end; it'll speed up processing of mail that want sorted and don't expect spam to, like this list. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up /usr/portage
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 08:54:44PM -0500, Paul Kimberley wrote: > What are some safe commands I can run to clean up my portage directory > (bandwidth isn't a factor, I don't mind re-downloading files) > > Can you just delete everything in the /usr/portage/distfiles directory? > Is this safe for a cron job? What are some examples that you use to keep > your /usr/portage directory at a reasonable level. Check the forums - there are a number. I believe the largest thread is "Cleaning out stale distfiles" under Documentation, Tips, & Tricks. On the second or third page there's a nice one-line piece of bash code that I like, but check out all the options. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.2-r1
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 04:49:50PM -0800, Anthony Hoppe wrote: > When moving from kernel 2.6.1-r1 to kernel 2.6.2-r1, can I use the same > configuration file? Not straight up, but if you copy the config over and run a 'make oldconfig' it will prompt you for new questions that need to be answered. You won't need to run 'make config/menuconfig/xconfig' afterwards. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u world question
On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 07:33:46PM +0100, Gerhard W. Gruber wrote: > I run once per day an emerge sync to see which packages are update and I have > two questions about it. I've found that once per day is too much for me - once every several keeps my sufficiently up-to-date and eases the load on Gentoo's mirrors. Your situation may be different. > 2.) Why does the list sometimes include packages where there is an N in the > status? I thought emerge only shows me packages we could be updated indicating > this with an U and D. N means not installed? Or what exactly does it mean when > it writes this? I'm assuming you used the -D option; the package now depends on another which you do not have installed, or you changed your USE flags such that the package requires additional ones. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] gpilotd and Palm USB cradle
Hi List, I'm having some difficulties connecting a Palm m500 through the USB cable to Evolution through gpilotd. I'm running 2.6.2-rc2-mm1 and have the appropriate USB/serial drivers installed. When I connect up the cradle and look in my /dev/usb/tts folder, there are no entries, and only when I activate a sync via the cradle will they be created. Two are created - 0 and 1 - and I'm not sure which to use, but I don't get that far as gpilotd crashes when I add either one of them to my devices. Any suggestions? pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Time planner?
On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 04:54:45PM +, Matt Wilson wrote: > [*] ie. I click "start on project X" then it times how long before I > click "stop work on project X"... make sense? There's one in KDE. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Using 2.6.* headers?
On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 11:54:52AM +, Matt Wilson wrote: > as well). So I was wondering if there's anyway I can use 2.6.* headers > for compilation instead? I'm using 2.6.1 without any problems and am > considering giving NPTL a try and once again noticed that glibc needs > linux-headers-2.4.* ... Last I heard a number of packages, maybe including glibc, wouldn't compile cleanly with the 2.6 headers. You certainly can fiddle around with the ebuilds and start using the 2.6 headers, though. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Use Variable help
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 12:09:53PM -0800, sean smith wrote: > > I use xfce4 for my desktop, can i change the use > variable to > > USE="-gtk -gnome -qt -kde" > > so i dont keep installing stuff for the other desktops > i don't use, or will it have not things emerge > correctly, and is there anything else i should add to > the use line?? Yes. Look in /etc/make.conf and at the package 'ufed'. Also, please don't reply to a message in gentoo-user and start a new topic; just do another e-mail. It screws with threading on most mail clients. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] No sound with MythTV
I have mythtv-0.13-r1 compiled (+alsa -lcd -lirc -nvidia) and am using a Hauppauge WinTV card with the bttv driver on kernel 2.6.2-rc2-mm1. I can view the cable stream with MythTV, but cannot hear any sound. I've tried adjusting various mixer and speaker volumes without success. I can play music through XMMS with either the OSS or ALSA plugins. The /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log does not seem to give me any helpful audio information: -- 2004-01-31 13:29:04 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 2004-01-31 13:29:04 adding: ned as a player 0 2004-01-31 13:29:04 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 2004-01-31 13:29:04 adding: ned as a player 1 2004-01-31 13:29:04 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 2004-01-31 13:29:04 adding: ned as a player 0 2004-01-31 13:29:04 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 2004-01-31 13:29:04 adding: ned as a player 0 2004-01-31 13:29:04 adding: ned as a remote ringbuffer 2004-01-31 13:29:04 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV audio volume set to '65535' 2004-01-31 13:29:07 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None - The output from 'mythfrontend --verbose all' does not give me much information, either: - 2004-01-31 13:37:05 Enabled verbose msgs :all 2004-01-31 13:37:16 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543 (try 1 of 5) 2004-01-31 13:37:16 30 ANN Playback ned 0 2004-01-31 13:37:16 17 GET_FREE_RECORDER 2004-01-31 13:37:16 30 ANN Playback ned 1 2004-01-31 13:37:16 30 ANN Playback ned 0 2004-01-31 13:37:16 44 QUERY_RECORDER 1[]:[]SETUP_RING_BUFFER[]:[]0 2004-01-31 13:37:16 30 ANN Playback ned 0 2004-01-31 13:37:16 32 ANN RingBuffer ned 1 2004-01-31 13:37:16 33 QUERY_RECORDER 1[]:[]SPAWN_LIVETV 2004-01-31 13:37:16 33 QUERY_RECORDER 1[]:[]IS_RECORDING 2004-01-31 13:37:16 34 QUERY_RECORDER 1[]:[]GET_FRAMERATE 2004-01-31 13:37:16 52 QUERY_RECORDER [snip] 2004-01-31 13:37:16 sz: 64000 return: 64000 requested: 64000 avail: 64000 2004-01-31 13:37:16 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'. 2004-01-31 13:37:16 Over/underscan. V: 0, H: 0, XOff: 0, YOff: 0 2004-01-31 13:37:16 Using XV port 73 2004-01-31 13:37:17 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV 2004-01-31 13:37:17 35 QUERY_RECORDER 1[]:[]FRONTEND_READY 2004-01-31 13:37:17 waiting for prebuffer... 2004-01-31 13:37:17 52 QUERY_RECORDER 1[]:[]REQUEST_BLOCK_RINGBUF[]:[]... 2004-01-31 13:37:17 sz: 64000 return: 64000 requested: 64000 avail: 64000 2004-01-31 13:37:17 waiting for prebuffer... 2004-01-31 13:37:17 52 QUERY_RECORDER 1[]:[]REQUEST_BLOCK_RINGBUF[]:[]... 2004-01-31 13:37:17 sz: 64000 return: 64000 requested: 64000 avail: 64000 - Any suggestions? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] best way to backup
On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 10:57:25AM -0500, Aaron Walker wrote: > I was considering the following: > - a seperate machine to handle all backup's of the various machines on > my home LAN My solution to this was duplicity. If you don't need encryption try rdiff-backup; both are similar. Other backups seemed to be an overkill. These two will do both full and incremental backups depending on your space capacities, and are very simple to set up. They run over a variety of backends, including scp and ftp. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] OpenMotif in Portage (was "Re: [gentoo-user] depencie problem")
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 05:49:32PM +0100, Christophe Daguin wrote: > emerge: there are no masked or unmasked ebuilds to satisfy > "=x11-libs/openmotif-2.2.2-r1" > > I've look in my portage tree and effectively there is no package with that name. Someone earlier this month announced to [EMAIL PROTECTED] that it was to be removed from portage because it is no longer maintained and is incompatible with Lesstif. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 08:59:44AM -0500, Bob White wrote: > 2. Do I need to start completely over, or can I reboot with the Gentoo CD, > remount my > partitions, recompile the kernel and move it to /boot? You should be able to reboot with your Gentoo CD and follow the installer instructions to remount your partitions. > 3. After recompiling the kernel, do I need to recompile vixie-cron, grub, etc? Not if it's a kernel error. > 4. Is there another step to installing the modules? No. 'make modules' will compile them, and 'make modules_install' will put them in the appropriate place. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] mod_php vs. php?
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 16:59, Christian Aust wrote: > I used to have mod_php on my Apache2 enabled server, and upgrading to > 4.3.4-r2 wanted to emerge both dev-php/mod_php and dev-php/php. Afterwards I > couldn't start Apache any more, it gave me an error saying it had problems > with mod_php, libphp4.so and libxsltbreakpoint.so.1. I emerged mod_php again > (cancelling the emerge of that second php instance after the first > finished), now it works again. What can I do to properly emerge mod_php? Try emerging libxslt again and then mod_php. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ser-vey
On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 11:32, Ben Munat wrote: > Looking for recommendations for an sftpd http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=460367#460367 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=513792#513792 It works well for me, and I feel much safer not giving shell. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources vs gs-sources
On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 18:33, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > The Gentoo Kernel Guide says gs is supposed to be more stable then > gentoo-sources. How much more stable and reliable is the question or > conversely, how much difference is there in performance. I'm running a > desktop system used for programing, gaming, and audio work. What is the > experience of those who have used both? gs-sources is no longer meant to be more stable than gentoo-sources, it appears; take a look at the versions and descriptions from emerge. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] WOT:According to SUSE CEO we're not here?
On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 07:11, Jason Stubbs wrote: > I guess you're right, here. In the enterprise, it's "if it is broke, fix as > little as possible", isn't it? What do the commercials do? Backport the > security fixes to previous versions to ensure minimal change? I guess that's > a good thing. The Debian security team backports all upstream security fixes to their stable branch. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] WOT:According to SUSE CEO we're not here?
Just read the slashdot post? ;) If you read the entire thing, he's just talking about major commercial support. On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 19:24, Ernie Schroder wrote: > SuSE's CEO Richard Seibt chose to demonstrate a high degree of > arrogance. In response to CRN's question about Windows to Linux > migration, Seibt insisted that "Linux means two companies: Red Hat and > SuSE, and nobody else. > http://www.distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20030818 > > Is Meister Seibt taking idiot lessons from SCO CEO Darl McBride? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] GPG signature bad?
On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 11:54, Brian Richardson wrote: > My GPG signature has just showed up as bad in KMail (It worked yesterday...). > I've done a world update since then. Is my signature bad? Or is something > else to blame? Looks fine here. --- gpg: armor header: Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) gpg: Signature made Fri 22 Aug 2003 11:55:04 AM CDT using DSA key ID 06320418 gpg: Good signature from "Brian Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature! gpg: There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner. Primary key fingerprint: C97B 61A2 E063 F1AE 4FFB 4F46 DA0D 283A 0632 0418 gpg: binary signature, digest algorithm SHA1 --- signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] dma not enabled
Additionally, there is a hdparm script to do this on boot -
/etc/init.d/hdparm.
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 13:21, Robert Young wrote:
> /dev/hdX it your device that wish to enable dma on.
>
> do a hdparm -i /dev/hdX to be sure that you can enable dma.
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> e.g.:
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> angus root # hdparm -i /dev/hda
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> /dev/hda:
>
> Model=QUANTUM BIGFOOT TS12.7A, FwRev=A21.0G00, SerialNo=381906129356
> Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs }
> RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=32256, SectSize=21298, ECCbytes=4
> BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=418kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off
> CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=25075008
> IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
> PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
> DMA modes: sdma0 sdma1 sdma2 mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
> UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 *udma2
> AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled
> Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-4 T13 1153D revision 15: 1 2 3 4
>
> * signifies the current active mode
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> is my drive.
>
> DMA modes: sdma0 sdma1 sdma2 mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
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> shows me that the dive supports dma.
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> UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 *udma2
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> Shows me that it actually supports UDMA and is using udma2 mode.
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>
>
>
> hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdX
> enables DMA)
> hdparm -d1 -A1 -m16 -u1 -a64 /dev/hdX
> enables DMA and other safe performance-enhancing options)
> hdparm -X66 /dev/hdX
> force-enables Ultra-DMA -- dangerous -- may cause some drives to mess
> up)
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> Rob
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> Pupeno wrote:
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> > * This may really slow down the fsck process.*
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> > How do I enable DMA ?
> > Thanks.
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Re: [gentoo-user] xmms crashes on .wav
When getting something abnormal like this (XMMS ought to be able to do XMMS), the first thing I'd try would be run it in a console. Does it give any signifigant output? Next, do a quick recompile with more conservative options. Try -O2 instead of -O3, take out the "fast" math, and all that fun stuff. I bet that fixes it, but if it doesn't, and you're feeling adventurous, get 'strace' and run 'strace xmms file.wav' and see if anything interesting comes up. I bet the recompile will do it, but there's an endless amount of fun to be had. On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 13:03, Jorge Almeida wrote: > I can play a audio CD with xmms, but I can't play a .wav file on disk. > When I try, xmms freezes (doesn't react to mouse, even the preferences > window freezes when it's open). I have to "killall xmms"... > Any idea? TIA. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] posting a useful bug to bugzilla
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 08:23, Renat Golubchyk wrote: > On Monday 11 August 2003 13:54, gabriel wrote: > > the new version of kopete (0.7) while full of really cool features, doesn't > > work at all on my machine and continues to crash. so i filled out a bug > > report on bugs.kde.org. > > > > the problem is, i wasn't able to offer much information, even though i have > > gdb installed, the only messages i get are a long list of: > > > > (no debugging symbols found)... > > > > so the only response to my bug was: > > > > Please include -g in the flags if you want your backtrace to contain > > useful information. Using --enable-debug in configure as well is > > recommended. > > > > > > ...so how do i do this? is there a useflag to set? or a command line > > variable? or do i have to build kopete without portage? > > From /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc : > --- cut here --- > debug - Tells configure and the makefiles to build for debugging. Effects vary > acrosss packages, but generally it will at least add -g to CFLAGS. Remember > to set FEATURES+=nostrip too. > --- cut here --- > > > Set "debug" USE flag and add nostrip to FEATURES and you can do some > debugging. Also, don't -fomit-frame-pointers. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Making portage
What you want to make is an ebuild - if you look in your /usr/portage directory, you'll find quite a few examples :) There are some dev docs on gentoo.org. On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 21:06, Meka[ni] wrote: > How can I make (and post) portage? There is a package I would like to have as > a portage, > but I think it is easier to make it my self than asking someone to do it for me. > Thax. :o) > > __ > Meka[ni] > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo as a server
Gentoo's version of stable and Debian's version of stable are fundamentally different in that Debian's stable will not break the API of an application on upgrade, while Gentoo will. I just took down a Gentoo server I haven't reinstalled in ages, and over its life I remember Postfix updates especially being a pain because of config changes from v1 to v2 and within v2.x. So don't get me wrong and think that Gentoo isn't stable enough for a server, just make sure you know what you have in mind when you say stable - there's more to it than just not crashing. On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 14:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! > > Is gentoo enough stable to act as a server? I mean that it uses the latest > development stage for all program. Debian proposes a stable release and a unstable > one. What can we do with gentoo? > > Michel > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Convert ext3 to reiserfs
On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 19:40, Vano D wrote: > Note that I split the thing into 640 megs so I can store it into a CDROM > and that I make the filename with the date extension. Dumb question: I'm new to split; can you untar each split file individually, or do you need to do them in sequence like a split RAR? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Convert ext3 to reiserfs
On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 17:46, Steven Elling wrote: > I can't remember why I did it, but I booted the system without X and went to > clean out /tmp. When I did a 'rm -rf *' in temp the kernel dumped > registers and halted. I said and thought to myself WTF. After rebooting, > I selectively removed files from /tmp and found that when I tried to remove > one particular directory the system would halt. I decided to boot into > single user mode and run reiserfsck. When I did, reiserfsck reported it > found errors it could not fix and I would have to use the '--rebuild-tree' > option. I ran reiserfsck with the option and it fixed my problem without > loosing any data. I was able to remove everything from /tmp and not have > the kernel halt. I should add - reiserfsck is _much_ faster than e2fsck. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Convert ext3 to reiserfs
On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 15:10, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > That's what I hear a lot, but I've also heard the horror stories of > losing entire filesystems to ReiserFS. I've never heard of anything like > that happening with ext2/3. For what it's worth, I've never lost a filesystem to Reiser, but have lost a few to ext2/3. I hear that most of the huge Reiser bugs are gone. Either way, corruptions shouldn't worry you if you treat it nicely. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[gentoo-user] Postfix and relayhost
Hi - My ISP has their mail server set up to only allow mail to be relayed through it from their IPs; less work than explaining to users SASL or POP-before-SMTP, I guess. In any event, they made some changes a month or so ago, and I am now unable to relay mail from my local home network through their mail server to the outside world. I can receive mail, and I can send it within my ISP's network, but not outside. I can also directly use the ISP's mail server to send. I am using postfix-2.0.11 (it has not worked with previous versions). I am obviously connected using their internet service, and I think the problem has to do with NAT; the mail server is 192.168.1.5, and has a hardware router between the modem and it. I have not seen any way to rewrite IPs through postfix; is there a solution to my problem, or am I just screwed? Here's the log output: Jul 20 02:00:12 [postfix/smtp] DDD7D13D85: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=mx00.mail.***.net[***.***.***.***], delay=1, status=bounced (host mx00.mail.***.net[***.***.***.***] said: 550 .net 022: Your current IP address is not allowed to relay to aol.com Solution: Connect using *** Internet Service. (in reply to RCPT TO command)) Jul 20 02:00:12 [postfix/cleanup] 86B2A13D84: message-id=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Here's my postconf -n: --- alias_database = hash:/etc/mail/aliases alias_maps = hash:/etc/mail/aliases command_directory = /usr/sbin config_directory = /etc/postfix daemon_directory = /usr/lib/postfix debug_peer_level = 2 default_destination_concurrency_limit = 10 home_mailbox = .maildir/ local_destination_concurrency_limit = 2 mail_owner = postfix mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq manpage_directory = /usr/share/man mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, $mydomain mydomain = lorax.wox.org myhostname = lorax.wox.org mynetworks_style = subnet myorigin = $myhostname newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.0.11 relayhost = mail.***.net sample_directory = /etc/postfix/sample sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail setgid_group = postdrop unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 450 --- signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Blocked packages
On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 09:03, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > > [blocks B] > (from pkg dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r12) > > [blocks B] > (from pkg dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r12) > > [blocks B] > (from pkg dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r12) > > I unmerged all blocked packages. You can re-emerge them after your new Perl compiles. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sharing distfiles, or... creating distfilescache
Over the web is good, but if you mount your portage directories over NFS you'll save HD space. If you're paying by the MB, you might also want to check out the 'deltup' package. It hasn't caught on quite yet, but it looks very promising. On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 17:39, Nick Rout wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > says... > > Hi all, > > > > I have a PC running gentoo 24 hours a day and usually my laptop is > > connected to it and also running gentoo. Since I pay to my ISP every MB > > I download I'd like to know if has anyone ever tried to create a > > distfiles cache to that my laptop requests package of the ebuild to my > > PC and if the PC doesn't find it in its distfiles, only then it requests > > a download so that I don't have to download everything twice. > > Any ideas? > > > > Best regards, > > > > Paulo Matos > > > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > > > > one way is to install a web server and create a link to distfiles in your > htdocs tree. > > eg > > emerge apache > /etc/init.d/apache start > rc-update add apache default (optional to make it start after a reboot) > ln -s /usr/portage/distfiles /home/htdocs/distfiles > (you can substitute boa for apache in the above) > > on the "client" machine, edit /etc/make.conf to include: > > GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://192.168.1.1"; (or whatever address your server is > at) > > you can also emulate rsync by doing > > (on server) > edit /etc/rsync/rsynd.conf to include > > [gentoo-portage] > #modern versions of portage use this entry > path = /usr/portage > comment = Gentoo Linux Portage tree mirror > exclude = distfiles > > then start rsyncd > > /etc/init.d/rsyncd start > and optionally to make it go after a reboot: > rc-update add rsyncd default > > > and edit make.conf on the client to include: > > SYNC="rsync://192.168.1.1/gentoo-portage" > > just make sure you aren't sharing these servers with the rest of the > world :-) > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling Gentoo for another platform
On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 07:08, Johan Van den Neste wrote: > However, I have noticed that certain large packages are not as useful for > compiling with distcc as they do not allow compiles to be parallelized (I > believe xfree and kde are such packages, although I could be wrong). Just > make sure you put your Athlon first in your DISTCC_HOSTS. Mozilla is another killer one. Definitly do the Athlon first in your DISTCC_HOSTS. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling Gentoo for another platform
There are several how-to's in the "Documentation, Tips, & Tricks" section of the forum. To summarize: use distcc, or make a chroot on your Athlon as if you were installing it on that computer but configure it for your K6-2. On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 18:33, Chris Gentle wrote: > Hi. I have an old K6-2 CPU that I would like to convert to a Gentoo > machine. It's pretty slow so I'd like to do all of the compiling on > my Athlon. Is there any documentation for doing this. Can anyone > point me in the right direction? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] vim-6.2
I just did a fresh install of gvim and it ran with no problems - last thing you want to hear, right? I don't know what locale you're using, but the post-emerge message talks about how to enable UTF-8 fonts; could this be your problem? On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 17:09, Kurt V. Hindenburg wrote: > Sigh, the new vim-6.2 > > % gvim > Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C > Warning: X locale modifiers not supported, using default > Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset > Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset > Vim: Caught deadly signal SEGV > Vim: Finished. > Segmentation fault signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Question about Evolution 1.4
How did you go about importing your old (1.2.4) contacts and calendar? For me, I had mixed results - on one system my accounts were preserved but no contacts/calendar, and on the other system it was as if I had started clean. Other than that, Evolution 1.4.0 has worked fantastically. On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 11:04, Steven R. Ringwald wrote: > I apologise in advance if this question has already been asked. > > Any idea when the Evolution 1.4 ebuild is going to "blessed" as being > as stable as the 1.2.4 ebuild? I have been using it for a day or two, > and it seems to be as stable as the 1.2 series so far. I know that my > results may be different than other people's; just wondering what > others thought. > > Thanks! > > Steve Ringwald signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Fork of Gentoo?
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 09:43, brett holcomb wrote: > way but all we've heard is his side. Strangely, there > were no allegations of evil plotting and none of this > mattered until the fork announcement was made. As to the No allegations of evil plotting, but there has been more than one request to open up -core to public viewing. There's a thread going on in -dev about it - I really hope it goes through. Making it read only is right in step with the published social contract and can't harm the community. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-3.4 from breakmygentoo
On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 21:01, Shawn wrote: > >From whence does the masking of >=sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.4 come? > Should I just "ebuild binutils-2.14.90.0.4.ebuild install", then upgrade > to gcc-3.4? > > Any clues? I'm not too much into breaking my poor, beaten-up Gentoo, but you should be fine individually merging any dependencies that come up as errors. Well, maybe not 'fine' as in unbroken, but it's an acceptable thing to do. I looked in my package.mask and the only mention I find of binutils is that I shouldn't emerge 2.14.90.0.1. Checking out the changelog might help you more than me. Prepare to be broken, though. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Fork of Gentoo?
On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 11:29, Timothy James Friesen wrote: > Did the person that forked fork it because he wasn't going to be making any > money from Gentoo? That's the impression I'm getting from all of this. Feel > free to correct me if I'm wrong. My reading of the article indicated that he considered Gentoo as an investment of his time and money for the eventual goal of using it in a for-profit manner as has happened with Gentoo Games. He seems to have put some serious money into Gentoo - he says almost all of the servers, as the most obvious example, but also funding for Daniel and setting up the now almost essential Oregon State mirror. Zach does feel put off and ignored when Gentoo Games was formed and Gentoo Embedded was not, especially when Daniel told Zach that Daniel had no plans to pursue Gentoo Embedded a day after registering the domain. I didn't understand the whole contract thing, but apparently Zach was to be the man in control of Gentoo Embedded in the eventual future when it was formed, and he says that Daniel cut him out of it. Or so I understand. It's not that he just showed up and then got pissed he didn't get rich - he made an investment and feels as though he was cheated out of a contract. At least he's not suing - that would be ugly. > Now, if that's the case, what's to stop this Zynot guy from acting the same as > Daniel Robbins? Supposedly Zynot will be getting a Debian-like Board of Directors quickly, and when that happens, the project is out of his control if he is not on the Board. Even so, he won't be the only one with power, and most importantly, he won't be the majority owner of a for-profit company that is asking the community to assign the company copyright of the community's work. Ever looked at an ebuild? Most of them, regardless of the author, are sole property of the for-profit Gentoo Technologies, Inc. of which Daniel is the majority owner. The difference between the organization is that Daniel is the "Chief Architect" while Zach says he is a temporary stand-in. As I understand the new reorganization, Daniel will still be the "Chief Architect" if not in name, but there will be more control by other developers. Zach did go on to say that he feels the very recent Gentoo reorganization was an effort to undermine his fork, and true or not, the reorganized Gentoo and the new Zynot share a lot more in common than the old Gentoo and the new Zynot would have. > I'm interested to know more of this, but am wondering if the current forker is > really the right person to be supporting. My impressions are that he may not > be as pro community as he says he is. At this point it sounds like he's the > only one involved, and is not ready to give up control to a group any time > soon. I'm not sure if he's the right person either - I'm very unhappy that Daniel has decided not to respond properly. He left it at 'this guy is slanderous and lying', but did not go any further. To me, that's like waving a list of card-carrying Communists in the government - no one wants to hear Daniel and Zach FUD each other, but if Daniel doesn't respond to some of the more pressing claims Zach's story is the only one to go by. Daniel might not need to prove his innocence, but given that several developers have left for the same reasons, it would be a show of good faith to the community. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling 2.4.21 kernel
Ohad Lutzky said: > The right way to do this is: > # make dep && make bzImage modules modules_install > > Did you make all of the other stuff first? While making modules before modules_install is generally a good idea if you want your modules installed, one can run "dep", "bzImage", "modules", and "modules_install" on their own lines. Your way isn't _the_ right way; it's _a_ correct way. LFS recommends doing it this way - there was a reason, but I can't recall it off the top of my head, and can't find it on their page (http://www.us2.linuxfromscratch.org/view/4.1/chapter08/kernel.html). The implications of this is that one can build and rebuild modules without actually rebuilding the kernel bzImage itself - a handy thing to know. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Distfile mirror for University LAN.
Saurabh Nanda said: > Hi, > We've been trying to come up with a solution for deploying a distfile > mirror > for our university intranet. There's been a lot of talk about this kind of setup on both the forums and on this mailing list. I'd check the archives. Basically, a NFS mount is good, as long as it is read/write, so you don't have to keep track of who has what and make sure they upload it. Unfortunately, if two people start downloading at once, bad things happen. No fix as of yet, although some have suggested using prozilla. Another option is for each user to put up a http/ftp server and make the list publically available, so everyone can load them up into the make.conf and scroll through campus before going outside. If you wrote a p2p wrapper for portage, there would be many thanking you - there's not one I'm aware of. Also, while you're on the topic of saving bandwidth, check out deltup - it's in portage. Check the archives and the forums (there's one recent HOWTO under 'Documentation, Tips & Tricks') for more specifics. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: BitTorrent?
On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 18:03, Richard Revis wrote: > Yay! Time for a crosspost to -developers? It's already being discussed on gentoo-dev - read the message a while ago, but apparently someone is mucking around with it. -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] How many "testing/unstable" ebuilds did youemerge?
On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 16:50, Peter Ruskin wrote: > Yes, thanks Alec. It's clever sed stuff, one of my weaker points. > However, it assumes that /var/db/pkg contains accurate records and it > doesn't. If you emerge something with ~x86 keyword and later you sync > and that package has become stable (now x86), the ebuild in /var/db/pkg > still says ~x86. That's why my script copies the ebuild from the updated > portage tree. You ought to file a bug report about this and get it added to the gentoo-stable project's page. I understand that the maintainer of the project has left Gentoo, though, so no idea when it would be committed. Thanks for sharing! -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key DFB366F2 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] How many "testing/unstable" ebuilds did youemerge?
On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 16:33, Peter Ruskin wrote: > This is the script I now use to keep track of the unstable builds: There's a similar script at the gentoo-stable site, also in bash: http://stable.gentoo.org/notes.jsp -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key DFB366F2 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] New Nvidia Drivers (1.0.4349)
On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 23:39, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > Hello, > > The following were released yesterday on the testing tree. Can I request > that if you try them that you post your troubles and successes to the > list? > > * media-video/nvidia-glx > Latest version available: 1.0.4349 > > * media-video/nvidia-kernel > Latest version available: 1.0.4349 Couldn't get them to work properly with mm-sources-2.5.66-r1. nvidia-kernel would compile and install correctly, and I could `modprobe nvidia` without errors and then view that it was loaded with `lsmod`, but X complained about not being able to initialize the drivers. Reverted back to the old 1.0.4x :) -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key DFB366F2 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] mm-sources and modprobe
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 17:50, Chris I wrote: > Alright, just to recap what some others on the list are seeing. I tried > these out on an mm-sources-2.5.66-r1 kernel. I couldnt get them to work > at all. > > However, I decided to rsync and try again, and sure enough there was > already an ebuild revision for the nvidia-kernel module. The changelog > specified that they were "2.5.66?" kernel fixes in this revision. I am > using these right now without any noticable problems. > > glxgears appears to work about the same, I will have to test tuxracer > and quake some other time, however, as I have some school to catch up on. > > Hope you got things sorted out, Alec, > > -Chris I I'm running mm-sources-2.5.66-r1 just fine, and the new nvidia drivers seem to compile, but don't work. I reverted to the earlier 1.0.4x drivers and am OK. Your tip about re-compiling modules-init-tool after modutils saved me a major headache with the upgrade I did this morning - thanks so much, Chris. I'm not going to have time to test out the new nvidia 1.0.4x drivers until the weekend, but hopefully by then someone else will have resolved everything! Again, thanks for your help. -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key DFB366F2 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] vi installation
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 14:33, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: > emerge vi > > it performs all the functions I expect, including telling me that it is > installed. But when I: > > vi filename > > it always results in: > > Segmentation Fault I just compiled vi fine on an unstable x86 system, and it opens perfectly. Can you try reducing/eleminating some of your CFLAG optimizations? If you're doing something extreme, that might give you a more stable binary. Also, although I hate to tell you if it doesn't work use something else, if you cannot get vi to work would vim/nvi/elvis and the like not work in place of vi? -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key DFB366F2 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] missing 'mount' and 'passwd' after installationsteps -- what did I wrong -- have I missed sthg ?
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 06:28, Stanislas wrote: > I have chosen to start from stage 2, emerged sync, emerged system, > emerged kernel sources and made-menuconfigured it, went trough the > steps of this beautiful doc but on the reboot there is no 'mount' and > no 'passwd' ( maybe others I haven't checked ) . Don't know how this would have happened, but you can recover 'mount' and 'passwd' by emerging sys-apps/util-linux and sys-apps/shadow. -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key DFB366F2 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] april fools?
On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 19:19, Mike Atamas wrote: > Is the GWN some sick twisted april fools joke? > Are we really moving to rpms and if so who is smoking the crack. If you > want rpms use redhat. Slashdot has picked it up now (http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/0234215). Good job, Kurt! -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key DFB366F2 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] mm-sources and modprobe
On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 21:42, Mark Saunders wrote: > I had trouble getting devfs working with the mm-sources kernel http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=249621#249621 is the answer we are looking for, I do think. -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key DFB366F2 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[gentoo-user] mm-sources and modprobe
Hi - I'm using mm-sources-2.5.66-r1 (2.5.66-mm1) and am trying to get the nvidia kernel drivers working (nvidia-kernel-1.0.4191-r2). The nvidia-kernel compiles file, but I cannot modprobe: - melvin alec # modprobe nvidia modprobe: QM_MODULES: Function not implemented insmod: QM_MODULES: Function not implemented insmod: insmod /lib/modules/2.5.66-mm1/video/nvidia.o failed insmod: QM_MODULES: Function not implemented insmod: QM_MODULES: Function not implemented insmod: insmod nvidia failed - So it seems my kernel modprobe is messed up. However, I seem to have everything correctly compiled in: - Loadable Module Support [*] Enable loadable module support [*] Module unloading [*] Forced module unloading [ ] Module versioning support (EXPERIMENTAL) [*] Kernel module loader - I've recompiled modutils while booted into the mm-sources kernel, and have run "make modules && make modules_install". What have I missed? Oh, and I guess the other question - does anyone have the NVIDIA drivers running under mm-sources, or am I wasting my time? Thanks. -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key DFB366F2 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -c
On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 21:01, ds wrote: > Loaded gnucash, don't like it, so later I run emerge -c gnucash. > > Is this this the preferred way to successfully remove apps or is there > another? Clean, or -c, removes outdated packages - that is, you have an older version of gnucash and extraneous files are removed after you have emerged a newer version. Clean is run by default after the actual merging by emerge. Unmerge, or -C, removes packages - like in your example. -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key DFB366F2 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuilds gone???
On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 19:18, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > I notice in the newsletter that Gentoo will move to the RPM format due to the > idiots at LSB. That raises some questions. [EMAIL PROTECTED] alec $ date Mon Mar 31 19:17:43 CST 2003 http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/refspecs/LSB_1.3.0/gLSB/gLSB/swinstall.html#FTN.PKG-2 "The distribution itself may use a different packaging format for its own packages, and of course it may use any available mechanism for installing the LSB-conformant packages." So in this sense Gentoo is already LSB compliant in terms of RPMs if rpm is installed. -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key DFB366F2 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] naive question about distcc
On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 21:09, Jeremy Schneider wrote: > It occurs to me that these things don't change very often on my system, and > that the answer to these checks could be cached, perhaps associated with a > hash or date of certain config files, such as make.conf. Does this make any > sense, or is it too unworkable and/or risky? It's too unworkable, as Lincoln pointed out. What you're asking about is the `./configure` step of install. It lays out a lot of things - which version of this, that, and the other you have, if you are compiling support for an option or disabling it (the Gentoo method for this is use flags), and checks to see if you have the required dependencies. You probably wouldn't see a huge speed increase - after all, how much longer does checking a file for an answer take over checking for a file? - but it would be massively difficult to implement. If you're looking to save time, you ought to look at ccache in addition to distcc. -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key DFB366F2 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo migration stragety?
> On Friday 28 March 2003 10:56 am, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: >> Gentoo requires a /boot (100MB) for kernels to save corruptions and a >> main partition. > > I never understood that. Why 100MB? How many kernels do you have in > /boot?? My /boot is only 8MB, enough to hold 3 or 4 kernels and grub. I wouldn't say that Gentoo requires a /boot. Personally, I don't use one - OK, it might save my kernel if my other partitions corrupt, but if so a kernel would be the least of my worries. A /boot is reccomended and is good practice, but is not required - especially not at 100MB. Unless you keep three or four kernels _and_ sources there :) -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Minimizing resource usage of Apache/Mysql
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 20:41, Pius Lee wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm currently running apache+mysql on my machine, for development > purposes. Since I'm the one and only user connecting to these daemons, > what can I do to minimize the resource usage of the two processes on my > machine? Any tips are greatly appreciated!:) For apache, I'd turn down MinSpareServers, MaxSpareServers, and StartServers in the apache.conf/httpd.conf to a small number - it'll free up a bit of processing. -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key DFB366F2 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE installation
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 20:38, Renat Golubchyk wrote: > Hi! > > After emerging kde I started kdm (as stated in the Desktop > Configuration Guide). I logged on as normal user and spent some time > playing around with it. I also added xdm to the default runlevel with > 'DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm' in /etc/rc.conf . Then I wanted to see how it > boots, so I rebooted the machine and kdm came up just fine. There was > only one problem though: user panel contained all of the users, i.e. > except me and root there were all of the virtual users like 'nobody', > 'mysql', 'qmaild', etc. And the drop-down menu where you can select > the window manager showed only 'default' and 'failsafe', no 'kde' or > 'kde-3.1.1'. In /etc/rc.conf there's a variable "XSession": # XSESSION is a new variable to control what window manager to start # default with X if run with xdm, startx or xinit. The default behavior # is to look in /etc/X11/Sessions/ and run the script in matching the # value that XSESSION is set to. The support scripts is smart enouth to # look in all bin directories if it cant find a match in /etc/X11/Sessions/, # so setting it to "enligtenment" can also work. This is basically used # as a way for the system admin to configure a default system wide WM, # allthough it will work if the user export XSESSION in his .bash_profile, etc. # # NOTE: this behaviour is overridden when a ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsession exists # for the particular program run ( ~/.xinitrc for startx, ... ). # # Defaults depending on what you install currently include: # # Gnome - will start gnome-session # kde- - will start startkde (ex: kde-3.0.2) # Xsession - will start a terminal and a few other nice apps #XSESSION=Gnome > Does anybody know where the kdm config files are located, so I can > delete all of the virtual user from the kdm user list and change the > drop-down menu? Can't you do it from the KDE Control Panel? I don't have KDE running on my computer but I do remember there being a whole configuration screen for KDM. > BTW, if I launch X with 'startx' as normal user then twm is started. I > found out that it is a normal fallback behavior of the XSession > script, I think, in /etc/X11/[something]/ , if it doesn't find > anything in the user's home directory and then in XSESSION global > variable. The file in your home directory is ".xinitrc" - just drop in `exec startkde` or your favorite windowmanager's executable. -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key DFB366F2 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Command line interface tools
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 18:49, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > # Email: mutt, > # News: slrn, > # Browser: lynx, Check out links - it does tables and frames, and handles downloads infinity better than lynx. > # File manager: mc, > # Games: Cowsay! Endless hours of ASCII entertainment. And nethack, anyone? > # Chat client: micq, As I understand, centericq is more mature, although I've never used micq. > # IRC: bitchx, > # Sound mixer: alsamixer, > # Editor: vim, > # Diff: colordiff, > # Read file: less, > # Transfer file: scp, > # Compression: tar, I use a combination of tar and rar. At it's highest compression setting, rar is noticeably better than gzip and bzip. The two downsides are that it's proprietary and that it doesn't preserve file permissions. It's freely available, though, and tar takes care of permissions. > # PDF creation: gs? OpenOffice uses the following: "/usr/bin/gs -q -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile="(OUTFILE)" -" I honestly can't see a need for that from the command line, though - if you're using docbook or doxygen, that'll do it for you, but making a pdf of something you wrote in vim is a bit of an overkill. Also, ps2pdf will work. > # txt2html: > # Term: eterm > # Partitioning: cfdisk > # System info: lhinv, procinfo, lsof, > # CD writing: cdrtools, burncenter > # Gentoo: ufed, mirrorselect, portage, gentoo-stats, gentoolkit > # Others: screen -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key DFB366F2 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Using ssmtp
On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 18:42, Joshua Moore-Oliva wrote: > Starting nmap V. 3.00 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) > Interesting ports on localhost (127.0.0.1): > (The 1595 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed) > Port State Service > 21/tcp openftp > 80/tcp openhttp > 1024/tcp openkdm > 2401/tcp opencvspserver > 5432/tcp openpostgres > 6000/tcp openX11 I've never used SSMTP, but doesn't it need to be started with `/etc/init.d/ssmtp start` before it can actively send mail? -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key DFB366F2 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Email Configuration Help Baddly Needed
On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 17:31, Ralph De Witt wrote: > Hi all: > I am working through my first ever Gentoo Installation. One of my main > problems now is to set-up my email system. I have read the desktop > set-up guide and the Posstfix setup manual, but still do not understand > the process. I see nowhere to place my isp's pop server name, my log in > id, and password, and the same for my isp;s smtp server. Nor do I > understand how to make it understand my email address of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] This setup help is badly needed as my spouse > wants me and my email off her machine. Can someone help me configure > postfix and mutt or suggest some other program and help get me up and > running. After I get this set up and find out wat is broken in KDE/Kmail > (kmail frezzes about after a minute of use) I would then like the mail > program to fetch mail and then I would like to use Kmail to fetch from > my locall program to read, then send outgoing to my program where it > would be sent on to my isp. Thanks for any help you can give. > > Ralph If you've got X-Windows up and running (KDE, I assume?), fetchmailconfig is the easiest route to go getting your mail. You'll need to emerge python with TCL/TK support (`USE="tcltk" emerge python`), and then it's a fairly straightforward process - GUI goodness. Just `emerge postfix` - the default will likely get by for now, just use your ISP's SMTP sever instead of your own. Maybe try to emerge KDE with less optimizations? -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key DFB366F2 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] evolution and spamassassin
On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 09:00, Mark D'voo wrote: > The problem is in evolution, there is only run shell command, not a pipe > through. How would I go about piping the message through spamc ? I think you're looking for this: http://support.ximian.com/cgi-bin/ximian.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_sid=DeOp-7xg&p_lva=&p_faqid=329&p_created=1039628948&p_sp=cF9ncmlkc29ydD0mcF9yb3dfY250PTEmcF9zZWFyY2hfdGV4dD1zcGFtJnBfc2VhcmNoX3R5cGU9NCZwX3Byb2RfbHZsMT0yJnBfcHJvZF9sdmwyPX5hbnl_JnBfY2F0X2x2bDE9fmFueX4mcF9zb3J0X2J5PWRmbHQmcF9wYWdlPTE*&p_li= I never tried it - procmail was more convenient and didn't rely on one client. -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key DFB366F2 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Online multiplayer games on linux?
On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 20:22, Kirtis Bakalarczyk wrote: > and Neverwinter Nights in a few days. In a few days? http://nwn.bioware.com/downloads/linuxclient.html says the latest the client is expected to be out is March 19th, but with the amount of times it has been delayed I'm not too optimistic. Don't want to start a flame war, just don't want to lead Dhruba astray :) -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key DFB366F2 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] New user questions
> 1) How do I recover from a failed build without emerge starting again > from the tarball extraction? In this case, kdeaddons takes 2 hours to > get to the failure. Check out ccache - it won't work like a download resumer, but by caching compiled files it will speed you up signifigantly. As I remember (been a long time since I've set it up!), just just need to emerge it, and maybe set a cache limit via either /etc/make.conf or directly with /usr/bin/ccache/ccache. > 2) How do I package a build to install on another gentoo machine? Assuming you want the same architecture/cflags/useflags, just emerge with the option --build-pkg. That will tar.bz2-up everything into a file in /usr/portage/packages. To emerge on another system, just transfer that file to another machine's package directory and use the emerge flag --use-pkg. > 3) Is there a built-in mechanism to script the installation? I don't > mind having the machine run for hours at a time; it's the constant need > to check on it then start the next emerge that's aggravating. You can string together multiple arguments in emerge - for example, 'emerge gnome evolution galeon' will emerge gnome and its dependencies, then evolution and its dependencies, and finally galeon and its dependencies. Do a 'man emerge' or 'emerge --help' for more information, and check out the portage manual at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/portage-manual.xml I'm guessing your next question will have to do with config files, so play with 'etc-update' sometime. -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Seg faults compiling gcc - bad memory?
On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 18:12, Doug Gorley wrote: > I'm trying to upgrade to gcc 3.2 on my fiance's computer, but I get seg > faults every time I try. Ditto for compiling the kernel. I thought it > might be a memory issue (I recently added a new 512MB stick), so I'm > running memtest86 right now. It found 23190 errors so far. Is this > likely the cause of my compilation failures? If so, does it certainly > mean that the memory is bad, or are there any "tricks" to memory errors > (swap mb slots, re-seat it, etc.) Note that there haven't been any > problems with any applications thus far, just with compiling. Well, the best way to tell if it's the new memory is to pop it out and try again. It could well be that the memory is not properly seated or is defective, especially given your memtest :) -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Samba won't compile
On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 16:26, Ernie Schroder wrote: > using gcc-3.2.2-r1 Any ideas? should I file a bug? Like this one (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16321)? :) I think this forum thread (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=224011#224011) should help you out. -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] rpm??
> Given that you're living on a system that doesn't rely on RPM primarily > for package management, one possibility is to use the --force option, > effectively telling RPM to STFU and just install the damn package > already. But since you don't really care about RPM's package management > facilities -- you just want to copy this software onto your system -- > I'd probably opt for a different approach. Convert the .rpm(s) to cpio > archives (rpm2cpio, IIRC); this will allow you to unpack them anywhere > (say, /usr/local/PACKAGENAME, or wherever) and avoid mucking up your > main / and /usr. Alternatively, if you've got Midnight Commander installed, you can just hit return over an RPM and browse it in the same way you'd browse a filesystem. Then, just copy the hierarchical directories to your / and you're set. Similar to the above-mentioned rpm2cpio, you can chekc out rpm2targz or rpm2tgz. -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] compress rsync?
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 23:13, gabriel wrote: > "if you're not doing so alread, please consider compressing the connection > here by using rsync -z ; you can edit /usr/sbin/emerge (or /usr/bin/emerge in > newer versions of portage) to assert this" > > what is that? where in /usr/bin/emerge do i do it? SHOULD i do it? is there > a better way? The '-z' option just compresses the data, saving bandwidth. More than likely you're already using compression. In my /usr/bin/emerge (just a text file, open it with nano or vim), the rsync line is 1503: mycommand="/usr/bin/rsync -rlptDvz --progress --stats --delete --delete-after --timeout="+str(mytimeout)+" --exclude='distfiles/*' --exclude='packages/*' " As you can see, the -z is already in there. It's been in there for quite a while, as I remember, so you're good to go. For a quick check, just do a "grep '/usr/bin/rsync' /usr/bin/emerge" and see if the options you want are there. Beware that they'll be overwritten the next time you upgrade portage. -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] re-fetch corrupted ebuild file
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 20:44, Jeremy Schneider wrote: > Help! I am installing rc3 and completed the stage 1 part without any > problems that I am aware of. When I did the emerge -p system, I got an > error (shown below), which indicates that one of my ebuild files > (/usr/portage/dev-libs/glib/glib-1.2.10-r5.ebuild) was corrupted. How do I > re-fetch that ebuild file so that I can continue the installation? A simple 'emerge rsync' should do the trick, but to be guaranteed to get a new copy of the ebuild delete it before syncing up with the official portage tree. If that doesn't work, I can send you a copy of mine that does not give the error yours gave you. -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] media question
> Is there any way to get support for windows media player 9 in linux. I > ask because I have a new baby cousin and there is a video that was > encoded with the WMP-9 codec. I would really like to see the video, but > so far it's a no go. BTW if you guys want to see the video of my baby > cousin (and can use WMP-9) check out the link at my website > http://www.bzsparks.com/ As Greg already mentioned, just emerge mplayer. If you want Windows Media Player proper, the best that's available is the commercial CrossOver Plugin, which officially supports Windows Media Player 6.4. You might get a newer version to work with wine or winex, but I wouldn't bank on it. Mplayer will definitely suit your needs. -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] nano -w
> This is the whole reason I want the no-wordwrap compiled in though.. I > don't want to have to rely on a rc file being present for user x or an > alias present for nano -w. You could put it in /etc/nanorc to set it as default and let the user choose if he wants -w or not. Did you not find success with the MYCONF variable? -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] GA Tech Mirror
> sorry if this comes through twice... tried to send it 3 hours ago > Is it only me? I can't get to the Georgia Tech mirror Just tried a second ago - I couldn't log into the FTP but could ping just fine. They're probably overloaded with connections right now, although I haven't been able to get on since I got back at 3:30 CST. -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] nano -w
Check out the MYCONF variable. It's something I like and normally one should expect it to be there, so the MYCONF way seems the best approach. -Alec On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 16:24, MAL wrote: > Hey ppl, > > The excellent nano has a configure option to disable line wrapping > entirely, (removes the -w switch and switches off line wrapping for good). > > Is there a way to get the ebuild to do this, without editing the ebuild, > (ie. a USE flag or similar). signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Building a compilation server
> Now: > - I don't like to install all packages on my compilation server. > - I want it to compile all new packages automatically for all defined > platforms. > > Any idea how I can set up such a beast? I spent some time looking through the forums, but could not find the script I was looking for - it would compile and make packages without actually installing the programs. You might have better luck. If not, check out the man page for ebuild - you ought to be able to go through the steps emerge automates and skip the actual installation. -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question - migration from RH8
> Dont forget about bochs! > > http://bochs.sourceforge.net Bochs is another alternative, but I've heard it is incredibly slow. Painfully slow. While going with the open source option of bochs over VMWare is appealing, if this guy wants to compile X anytime soon it would be worth grabbing a free 30-day VMWare trial, or go the similarly speedy route of the UML tutorial. -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question - migration from RH8
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 08:42, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: > Hi, > > I've been a RH8 user for a few months, and I'm really sick of the > rpm stuff. I had a lot of problems installing a few things, and I still > have things not working, like video conferencing. I heard of the gentoo > distribution and thought I'd give it a try. Gentoo 1.4_rc2 in RedHat 8.0 using UML: http://www.omote.com/gentoo/install-in-uml.html "Gentoo in RedHat? Yes, actually." This tutorial goes through installing Gentoo on Red Hat 8 using User Mode Linux. This will let you keep your existing system usable while you compile everything in a real Gentoo environment. If you set everything up correctly and use the "buildpkg" flag while emerging from start to finish, you'll keep yourself out of work for a minimal amount of time. When you go to set up Gentoo for real, just copy all the packages to /usr/portages/packages and use the "usepkg" flag while emerging - it turns emerge into an archive unpacker, and you'll be up and running in no time. You could also do the same thing in something like VMWare, but that's quite pricy. -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] updating config files
> Is there a reason why etc-update doesn't use colors in the output, just like > emerge? This could make it much more easy to merge files. It's not etc-update that doesn't do color, it's diff. Check out your /etc/etc-update.conf for instructions on switching to vimdiff. -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] [Q] System security -- root access
On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 19:05, Daniel Carrera wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:38:24PM -0600, Alec Berryman wrote: > > > > Now, here is my idea. Create a third user, 'admin'. Add 'admin' to the > > > 'wheel' group instead of dcarrera, but give admin the ability to install > > > regular packages. In other words, admin would have write access to /usr. > > > > > > So, when I want to install a regular package I would su to admin. And > > > when I need to do something more (like modify /etc, /boot, /bin, etc) I > > > would su again to become root. > > > > Yes and no. The problem comes when a program tries to install > > system-wide settings to /etc. Everything from metalog to prozilla does > > this. Gentoo doesn't do much with installing into /usr/local, but you > > might want to investigate that if you are doing manual compilation. > > Are all system-wide settings in a particular directory? (e.g. > /etc/settings). If so, could I then create 'admin' and give him write > access to /usr and - say - /etc/settings ? Would that be a good idea? > (from the point of view of security). Almost all system-wide settings are in /etc. The only notable exception I can think of off the top of my head is grub (in /boot/grub). From a security standpoint, I can't see that an 'admin' account would provide much of a security boost at all over normal root. If someone gets a hold of the 'admin' account, they can still wreak havoc on your computer by wiping important config files and the programs themselves. It's simply another point of failure. You'll still need to have root access to install lots of programs that need access to /var (like a MTA or logger), and you'll end up with a lot of confusing permissions. Check out the Gentoo Security Guide (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-security.xml). Also check out sudo - it might be a lot of what you're looking for. In Gentooland, test out the new userpriv settings. I don't think an 'admin' account is what you're looking for. > > Protecting /boot is equally as easy - make it a separate, small > > partition and don't allow write access - or don't even mount it. > > Do I need /boot mounted to boot the system? > Can I just comment out the '/boot ...' line in /etc/fstab? You'll need an actual primary partition, preferably ext2, suggested size ~10MB. You can then uncomment that line in /etc/fstab after changing filesystem type and hard drive letter/number, move your current /boot to another directory, mount your new /boot as read/write (-o rw), copy files, and adjust your /boot/grub/menu.lst or /boot/grub/grub.conf. Good luck. Apologies for sending directly to your e-mail and not to the list. I also posted this message to gentoo-security - you might get a better answer there. -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] updating config files
> Thanks for the fast respones guys. I ran etc-update and chose option 1 > "delete old file replace with updated one" should I have followed your > method Oliver? I'll post back if there are any errors. As I remember from your original post the culprit was /etc/make.conf - probably not the best move to just overwrite it. make.conf is the central portage configuration file - you'll need to reset your USE variables (try 'emerge ufed'), mirrors (try 'emerge mirrorselect'), C/XXFLAGS, CHOST, and all sorts of nifty stuff. In the future, you might look at the diff merge option (#3) - it will let you go through line by line and create a new file. Once you get a good make.conf, copy it somewhere (/etc/make.conf.works?) to keep it safe - it will keep you from big headaches down the road. -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] what Programming tools are there to use
> I'd like to know what tools are best to do this. Take a look at jEdit. It's java, so it has a few second load time, but it has great highlighting, a large array of plugins from CVS to console, and has nifty collapsable trees to hide parts of a file you aren't working on. -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] updating config files
On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 17:14, Ben Sparks wrote: > After I "emerge -u world" everything seems fine, execpt it says in > bright yellow print "IMPORTANT: 1 config file in /etc needs updating. > Ok, not a problem right?...not so much. When I ran the "find /ect > -iname '._cfg???_*' " command it states that /etc/._cfg_make.conf is > the culprit, but gives no instructions on how to update it? How do I > update this config file...or does it really need to be updated. Thanks 'etc-update' Config protect by default won't let your config files in /etc be overwritten. Instead, they'll be labeled ._cfg[number]_[filename]. Just run etc-update to get diffs and choose a version. -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question after installing kernel
> 1)Where can I find the log file to tell me what I've compiled wrong in the > kernel? Poke around /var/log. Depending on what logger you are using, the files will be in different places. I'm using metalog and get some kernel messages in /var/log/kernel. The best thing is to just keep a watchful eye on bootup. > 2)Does any sort of X display exist at the basic level Not unless you've installed X :) You can try GPM for mouse support (remember to start it up with '/etc/init.d/gpm start'). > 3)Could someone point me to doc's to download and install KDE3.1 Just type an 'emerge kde' and you're good to go. If you have problems, check the Gentoo forums or the mailing list archives. Also, if you haven't, check out the Gentoo Desktop Guide (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/desktop.xml). Good luck! -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
