Re: [gentoo-user] how to make gentoo boot faster? (kernel 2.6.1)
On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 21:03, Tianran Chen wrote: I have noticed that ext3 partitions mount considerably quicker than reiserfs ones of the same size... you can also change the order the things start. for example, start xdm earlier, that way, the rest of your startup stuff finishes loading while you logon. Azhdeen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] [OT] anyone else receiving the nigerian scam ?
'lo everything's in the title... was it here that I read something about playing their game to get them to hook themselves ? Azhdeen -- I haven't lost my mind. It must be backed up on a disk, somewhere... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] anyone else receiving the nigerian scam ?
oops, forgot to say, this address is only used for the gentoo lists... Azhdeen -- I haven't lost my mind. It must be backed up on a disk, somewhere... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] anyone else receiving the nigerian scam ?
On Sunday 08 February 2004 23:46, Collins Richey wrote: Everyone gets the Nigerian scam from time to time. I was not sure, I get about 50 assorted spams per day on some old addresses, but this one I had heard about, but never received for myself before. Azhdeen -- I haven't lost my mind. It must be backed up on a disk, somewhere... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a CD?
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 07:26, qwerty wrote: Imagine that there is a security update (kernel, iptables) and you've got to burn a new CD every time that this happens... what if the CD is a CD-RW ? only keep the files for the iso somewhere, and rebuild the CD on the updates. if you build the iso image first, the downtime depends on your burner speed. right ? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SCSI emulation under Gentoo
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 21:13, Jakub Krajcovic wrote: If that's the case, than that's good and you should have a device called /dev/sr0. If you do, than that's your scsi-smulated cdrom... same subject, another part : after I get sr0, is there a way to hide hdc ? (hdc is a DVD drive) I'm sure i've seen this somewhere, but can't find it :( Azhdeen -- I haven't lost my mind. It must be backed up on a disk, somewhere... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting proc at /proc
Hi all, My init process is freezing after the above line is output to the screen. The only thing I can think that I've done since the last boot is emerged autofs, but I haven't even added it to the startup scripts yet. Could this be affecting it? There's nothing wrong with the disk, cause I can mount it with knoppix. Any ideas? last time this happened to me, i had (argh!) downgraded glibc. try booting as single user, and mount /proc yourself if it complains about glibc, that's it, but i can't remember what i re-emerged to update mount Cie... maybe binutils and baselayout ? Azhdeen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] anoying terminal
On Thursday 04 December 2003 18:59, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: You're using gnome-terminal? Me too, and I have the same problem. Maybe gnome-terminal's to blame. maybe not, Konsole behaves the same, but not always, and I can't find what makes it wrap OK or not. -- I haven't lost my mind. It must be backed up on a disk, somewhere... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] anoying terminal
On Thursday 04 December 2003 19:49, Thomas Achtemichuk wrote: echo shopt -s checkwinsize ~/.bashrc (or /etc/profile) source ~/.bashrc try again It works correctly! In my opinion this is something (along with a decent PS1) that should be added to the default /etc/profile or /etc/skel/.bashrc and the user should never have to set by themselves. thanks, that seems to have fixed it for me :) gotta write this down somewhere... Azhdeen -- I haven't lost my mind. It must be backed up on a disk, somewhere... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] external firewire hd
On Wednesday 03 December 2003 12:35, derek holzer wrote: In my case, I have two partitions on my Firewire drive, so they are actually /dev/sda5 and /dev/sda6. Don't ask me why! just a guess... no primary partitions on the disk, only extended ones... partitions 1 to 4 are the primary ones. Azhdeen -- I haven't lost my mind. It must be backed up on a disk, somewhere... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Bugday: Saturday, 6th December
On Wednesday 03 December 2003 22:37, Spider wrote: Competition time? Who finds most errors and reports? *evil grin* (Yes, I know I'm getting hated for this ;-) isn't it also on this day that many new ebuilds get into the portage tree ? Azhdeen -- I haven't lost my mind. It must be backed up on a disk, somewhere... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Clean Hard Drive
On Sunday 23 November 2003 23:16, Chad Martin wrote: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml maybe you wanted to post this one : http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml as this one is about installation withOUT the CDs... Azhdeen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Clean Hard Drive
On Sunday 23 November 2003 23:56, Raquel wrote: That would work well ... if I had an existing Linux system installed ... which I don't. but... but... there's one with a knoppix ! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Announcing project Chinstrap
On Saturday 22 November 2003 23:07, Spider wrote: It started as an automated regression test of the tree, I wanted to see how much worked and didn't. You mean you automated the compiling of the entire tree ? just out of curiosity, any info on how long that regression testing takes ? does it still occur ? I hope you don't torture a lonely single CPU on this ;-) I suppose distcc and ccache can be quite important helpers in this project, right ? Azhdeen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Krecipes ebuild
On Thursday 20 November 2003 04:04, Jerry McBride wrote: On Wednesday 19 November 2003 09:35 pm, Chris wrote: Is there an ebuild for krecipes? Emerge search krecipes nope... Google... krecipes ebuild nope... Wow! I'm tired. No ebuilds for krecipes maybe it's an occasion to get inspired by /usr/portage/skel.ebuild and http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-howto.xml (Ebuild Howto) no ? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how hot is too hot
On Sunday 16 November 2003 10:50, Andrew Gaffney wrote: I searched around with google and on the forums. I tried a few different sensors.conf for other people with the same board (MSI K7DMaster) and the temps stayed the same every time. I guess that means they really are that hot. the only way to be really sure is to check the values your BIOS displays in its setup screens. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa Kdemultimedia
On Saturday 15 November 2003 23:22, Kathy Wills wrote: It has been merged that is how I found out that it disables alsa via a post-install message. Doing further research the bug #39574 it mentions is not a bug number with bugs.gentoo.org but is a bug number with bugs.kde.org. It seems the problem is with kmidi and kmidi has been removed from the 3.2 version of kde so maybe when 3.2 becomes considered stable this will be resolved. I found both bugs with 'RESOLVED' status, so maybe the ebuild can be modified to re-enable alsa (only 2-3 # to remove), but I got a small prob with kde compiles ATM, so i can't test it. Azhdeen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Changing Apache htdocs DIR, why?
On Sunday 09 November 2003 15:56, Redeeman wrote: i dont understand why its easier with vhosts when the documentroot is /var/www, i would believe its the same with /home/httpd :) the reasons are explained in the document link mentionned in a previous answer in this thread... Azhdeen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] looking for gentoo for dummies
if you tried seven distros in the last week, you're not a total beginner... if you follow the documentation, you should be OK, only don't try to go too fast, be patient while the stuff compiles, and avoid having several consoles chrooted in the gentoo install at the same time (believe me, it's not a good idea) Azhdeen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] looking for gentoo for dummies
On Sunday 09 November 2003 23:31, Tom Wesley wrote: As others have suggested, you should probably force yourself to learn, but you might like to take a look at the Gentoo Linux Install Script at http://glis.sf.net. i didn't know this script existed, but my choosing Gentoo was (partly) to understand better the way Linux works, and that isn't done by using another automated installer, right ? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] looking for gentoo for dummies
On Sunday 09 November 2003 23:58, Tom Wesley wrote: Depends if you read and understand how the installer does what it does or not ;-) the idea with Gentoo is that I play the installer, no ? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] wine'ing some games (OT)
what's the point of this private conversation on gentoo-user ?? isn't this a private chat between 2-3 persons that could go on OFF the list ? On Saturday 08 November 2003 19:01, Matt Chorman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] making an ebuild from a .spec ?
Hi ! I'm trying to make an ebuild for a small software that has only a .spec to build it. any1 has tips (or even URLs) to help me find what the variables in the .spec are ? thanks. BTW, the software is FSLint (http://www.iol.ie/~padraiga/fslint/) Azhdeen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] why is tuxracer not racing?
On Sunday 19 October 2003 23:50, HvR wrote: i emerged tuxracer but it is extremely slow even moving the mouse is totally jerky, what did i do wrong? [...] is this the problem? any tips appreciated. not sure, but I had this problem when using the nv driver for my nVidia card instead of the one from nVidia. did u check if you're using the right driver for your graphics card or a generic one ? HTH Azhdeen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Why are masked ebuilds masked?
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 23:52, Roger Miliker wrote: I hope I answered your question err... yes peace, oops. i gotta stop to think before clicking Send... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Big oops! /etc/init.d scripts
[snip]so is there some way for me to grab these scripts? Recover them or emerge ONLY them? if you kept the binary packages from when you compiled the apps, maybe you can retrieve the init.d scripts from there ? I cannot access my gentoo from here, so just guessing :( HTH Azhdeen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] hotplug
same here, but that's all I came up with. that's why I said 'if anyone has a better idea I'm new to bash scripts, but as it was either this or hardcode the device in the script, i chose this. HTH Azhdeen On Thursday 02 October 2003 04:04, SMS WebMaster wrote: Thank you for the script but the line : mount `ls /dev/sd?? -d --sort=time|head -n 1` -t vfat -o umask=000 /mnt/usbkey is very bad I pluged HD1 and then I pluged HD2 and then I removed HD1 and repluged it but I got the wrong device from the command I searched google but I can't find anyhthing -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] hotplug
On Sunday 28 September 2003 21:45, SMS WebMaster wrote: Hi I have 2 External USB Harddisk (Pocket Hard Disk and Mini Hard Disk) How can make gentoo allways assign /backup for the Pocket Hard Disk even if I plug before Mini Hard Disk, Any help ? try putting this in /etc/hotplub/usb/usb-storage for every device you want to handle with hotplug : my /etc/hotplug/usb/usb-storage script is made of different entries like this one : - if [ $PRODUCT = ed1/6680/100 ]; then chmod 777 /mnt/usbkey mount `ls /dev/sd?? -d --sort=time|head -n 1` -t vfat -o umask=000 /mnt/usbkey echo #!/bin/bash $REMOVER echo # Generic USB Flash Keyring $REMOVER echo umount /mnt/usbkey $REMOVER echo rmmod usb-storage $REMOVER echo chmod 700 /mnt/usbkey $REMOVER chmod a+x $REMOVER fi - you can find what to put in the if line with usbview or dmesg, it's manufacturer/product/version without the zero padding good luck. Azhdeen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] System crash
On Sunday 28 September 2003 23:01, SMS WebMaster wrote: No the fas is running all the time , and when the system crash the screen dont go blank (I still can see my desktop but I can't move the mouse or press the keyboard) try booting the liveCD and run the memtest that's the most likely cause for random crashes like that the next best is a CPU that overheated once, even if the fan works ok now if your machine sits idle, does it also freeze ? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] hotplug scripts question
Hi ! I'm looking for one small bit of information on hotplug : How do I find out what the device just created is ? (the /dev thing) otherwise, i'm stuck, i can only plug one thing at a time :( my /etc/hotplug/usb/usb-storage script is made of different entries like this one : if [ $PRODUCT = ed1/6680/100 ]; then chmod 777 /mnt/usbkey mount /dev/sda1 -t vfat -o umask=000 /mnt/usbkey echo #!/bin/bash $REMOVER echo # Generic USB Flash Keyring $REMOVER echo umount /mnt/usbkey $REMOVER echo rmmod usb-storage $REMOVER echo chmod 700 /mnt/usbkey $REMOVER chmod a+x $REMOVER fi and here are all the other variables i could find : $ACTION, $PRODUCT, $TYPE, $INTERFACE, $DEVICE, $DEVFS $USB_DEVICE, $USB_DEVICE_VER, $USB_INTERFACE_INFO, $USB_DEVICE_INFO any hint ? idea ? URL ? should I drop hotplug and try something else ? Azhdeen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] hotplug scripts question [SOLVED ?]
I think i've found something like an answer (OK, with a hint on #gentoofr) : why not getting it with a ls, taking the most recent device line ? On Thursday 25 September 2003 00:39, Azhdeen wrote: mount /dev/sda1 -t vfat -o umask=000 /mnt/usbkey I rewrote the line like this : mount `ls /dev/sd?? -d --sort=time|head -n 1` -t vfat -o umask=000 /mnt/usbkey and it seems to work allright. anyone has a better way ? Azhdeen nothing like asking the question to find the answer ^_^ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Console font sizing...
On Thursday 18 September 2003 13:37, Jason Stubbs wrote: To put it simply, the console is the text mode before xwindows. a bit off topic, but it hurts my eyes to read xwindows... it's XWindow, X11 or X, not the poor excuse for an OS... drop that S !! Azhdeen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Future of linux...
On Saturday 06 September 2003 00:44, Rick [Kitty5] wrote: [...] Remember the phrase, well these days its nobody ever got fired for buying MS. too bad :( I see so much M$ stuff at work I end up longing for the old (but extremely powerful) mainframe with its green on black displays. at least, power was for the server processes, not fancy displays where you don't need them. Azhdeen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Using an unreleased ebuild
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 16:23, Mark Knecht wrote: How do I tell portage that this new file is there? Is there a database I have to update, or will the directory just be searched? hi straight from /etc/make.conf : # PORTDIR_OVERLAY is a directory where local ebuilds may be stored without # concern that they will be deleted by rsync updates. Default is not # defined. #PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage wanna give this a try ?? Azhdeen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] protest?
On Saturday 30 August 2003 04:08, Chris I wrote: It does mainly hurt people using OSS, but hopefully those people will get up and write their representatives, stage a rally, riot, or something to tell the government that this isnt okay. it won't hust only OSS people, it would hurt even commercial closed-source software, and RD, coz the bill is about registering patents on IDEAS, not inventions. [small quote from the site] Advances in software are advances in abstraction. While traditional patents were for concrete and physical inventions, software patents cover ideas. Instead of patenting a specific mousetrap, you patent any means of trapping mammals or means of trapping data in an emulated environment. The fact that the universal logic device called computer is used for this does not constitute a limitation. When software is patentable, anything is patentable. In most countries, software has, like mathematics and other abstract subject matter, been explicitely considered to be outside the scope of patentable inventions. However these rules were broken one or another way. The patent system has gone out of control. A closed community of patent lawyers is creating, breaking and rewriting its own rules without much supervision from the outside. [end quote] I think that pretty sums up what could happen if this lawyer paradise goes live... developping software could become a lawyer battle more than a coder's work. IT is becoming a lawyers and bean counters business, like some 3 letters corp playing FUD to pump up its stock quote before selling everything. Azhdeen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] protest?
On Friday 29 August 2003 05:13, bob bob wrote: How long is this protest going to go on for? its really irritating for those of us not in europe that want to find information on the web... Imagine what it is for us europeans, who all year long get bothered with US niceties such as DRM, Patriot Act, licences, and so on. Azhdeen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall and keep portage files
Hi You might want to save your binary packages too. they're in $PORTDIR/packages (default to /usr/portage/packages ) it can save a LOT of time if you make a ... mistake Azhdeen Hi, I need to reinstall my system but want to keep the downloaded files in the portage, so i don't have to donwload them again. Patrick -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
