Re: [gentoo-user] / partition full after emerge
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 10:50, Tiago Lima wrote: Hi, I have my / 9Gb partition full after emerging a large number of packages... What can I safely remove? I think my /var/tmp is responsible... with 2.5Gb... and with openoffice I guess... Setting AUTOCLEAN=yes will help minimise the diskspace taken up by packages. From /etc/make.conf: # AUTOCLEAN enables portage to automatically clean out older or overlapping # packages from the system after every successful merge. This is the # same as running 'emerge -c' after every merge. Set with: yes or no. AUTOCLEAN=yes Doesn't do much for you right now (but you have a few suggestions already) but this will help prevent you filling up your disk again in the future. -- Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Annoying messages with emerge
Hi, I recently changed my cron daemon from vcron to fcron (via vixie-cron). Now with every emerge I get the following output: * Caching service dependencies... * Service 'fcron' already provide 'cron'!; * Not adding service 'vcron'... * Service 'fcron' already provide 'cron'!; * Not adding service 'vixie-cron'... Any clues on how to remove this. I've unemereged both vcron and vixie-cron and neither are started or running. -- Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] fam 2.7 won't compile
On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 13:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When trying to emerge -u world fam seems to be required. When fam
emerges I get:
g++ { global: .libs/libfam.ver
g++: { global:: No such file or directory
g++: no input files
and terminates.
Any ideas?
There is a bug with the ebuild for fam 2.70. See
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41201.
Also see http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=113225highlight=fam
for possible solutions (actually I think they might be on the bug site
too, but it is easier to read on the forums).
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Re: [gentoo-user] Annoying messages with emerge
On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 10:45, Mike Williams wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The init scripts for both vcron and vixie-cron are still in /etc/init.d. emerge won't remove them as /etc is CONFIG_PROTECT'd (CONFIG_PROTECTED ?) Just delete them and run depscan.sh. I thought it might be something silly. Fixed. -- Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE
On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 16:31, Timothy Grant wrote: I got a similar though not identical error the first couple of times I tried to build it. I did a sync and discovered a newer version of autoconf, merged that, then merged KDE and all was good. What version of automake? I use KDE too. I've found a problem with kdeedu (which appears to be fixable by emerging boost 1.31.0_alpha2-r1). I currently have automake 1.7.7 installed. -- Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] error emerging fam-2.7.0
On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 17:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I am trying to emerge fam-2.7.0 (a gnome 2.4 dependancy) in a fresh gentoo 1.4 x86 installation. I just finished doing a successful 'emerge system'. I then tried to emerge gnome-2.4.2, and I get the following build error while emerging fam-2.7.0. I get the same error if I try to emerge fam-2.7.0 by itself. Has anyone dealt with this before? Google didn't find anything relevant. As I said in earlier post today: There is a bug with the ebuild for fam 2.70. See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41201. Also see http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=113225highlight=fam for possible solutions (actually I think they might be on the bug site too, but it is easier to read on the forums). -- Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth
On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 07:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have installed a D-Link DBT-120 usb bluetooth adapter, with seems to be working fine. Dmesg: BlueZ Core ver 2.2 Copyright (C) 2000,2001 Qualcomm Inc Written 2000,2001 by Maxim Krasnyansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] BlueZ HCI USB driver ver 2.4 Copyright (C) 2000,2001 Qualcomm Inc Written 2000,2001 by Maxim Krasnyansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] usb.c: registered new driver hci_usb But my question is how do i configure it so it talk to a keyboard or mouse, with witch program of config files. If you haven't already, you will want to emerge 'bluez'. Search the forums for that keyword: I believe there is a How-To for this there. -- Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla-firebird
On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 15:49, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hi, I emerged net-www/mozilla-firebird but have no clue how to run it. The command you want to run is MozillaFirebird. Should I emerge net-www/mozilla-firebird-bin instead? Not unless you want to install the precompiled version too! Install one or the other, but not both (unless you like to waste time)... ;) -- Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla-firebird
On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 17:25, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Thanks. How can I modify /etc/env.d to get the correct /etc/ld.so.conf once I run env-update? Add the path to the LD_PATH variable in /etc/env.d/00basic then run env-update That should fix your problem. -- Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Virus protection for Evolution users
On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 15:32, Mike Williams wrote: Why would you forward the virus onto anyone, when you are immune? I think he meant that if he got an email with the virus and then forwarded that email - and its attachment - onto a Windows user. Rather than have the worm spread by itself. Now why you would *ever* do this is beyond me. To answers the posters original question: I am personally not aware of any AV software for Linux. I would presume there are none for the above reasons. -- Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Evolution and headline news
On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 10:42, David Gethings wrote: Same for me too. Also have problems with my LDAP server. Sorry. LDAP problem is that evolution does auto expand email address in to field. But will find email address if manually searched for. No idea what the problems are, or even if they are connected. I don't know what the *cause* of the problems are! -- Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Speedtouch and krenel 2.6.1 problem
OK. I recently upgraded my kernel to 2.6.1 but so far have been unsuccessful in getting my Speedtouch 330 ADSL modem to work. Get good news is I think I've finally worked out what the problem is and just need confirmation that my plan will work. During my near frantic debugging to work out how to get the modem to work I created /dev/ppp woth mknod (yes I am using devfs!). It appears that this silly action is now the cause of my problem. /dev/ppp appears to have the incorrect major, minor numbers. I have tried to delete /dev/ppp but everytime I try this I get rm: Operation not permitted. I am presuming that the reason for this is because the kernel module ppp_generic is attached to this file/device. So my plan is to unload the module 'modprobe -r ppp_generic' then delete the file 'rm -f /dev/ppp' and the reload the module 'modprobe ppp_generic'. Does this sound like a sane plan? Anyone else have a similar problem and if so was this how you fixed it? -- Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New Install: GRUB problem
On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 16:04, Krikket wrote: Err, any thoughts on what I did wrong, and how I can fix it? (For hopefully obvious reasons, I'd like to avoid doing the install from square one...) Assuming you installed from a CD here is how you can change your grub.conf file: boot from CD mount boot partition ala install instructions (e.g. mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo; mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot) nano -w /mnt/gentoo/boot/grub/grub.conf Hope that helps -- Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] IMPORTANT: 1 config files in /etc need updating.
On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 16:01, Kurt Guenther wrote: I did an emerge portage and recieved this: IMPORTANT: 1 config files in /etc need updating. I read the emerge --help config which was interesting, but didn't tell me how to resolve this. I ran etc-update, and it looks like it did some work. Am I in the clear? Or, is there more work to do? You're in the clear. emerge away! -- Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Font Problems or What is the best configuration?
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 14:05, Jason Stubbs wrote: Hi all, Basically I would like a definitive answer on the best way to set up fonts. Most recent sources I have read point to fontconfig and specifically /etc/fonts/local.conf in Gentoo. I have installed all fonts in media-fonts as well as a few others and added all dirs to local.conf. However, there is a ~30 second pause on the startup of each application with this configuration. Adding them to XF86Config instead gives a ~30 second pause at the start up of the X server, which is not quite as bad but still frustrating. Anybody got lots of fonts and has solved these problems? I thought this is what xfs (X Font Server) was for. emerge xfs then add it to the rc.d (rc-update add xfs default). The first time you start it has to trawl the font dirs, but then it generates a cache. It only updates the cache when you add new fonts. So generally it is a lot quicker. Then you config X to use xfs. I've just realised I don't have X configed to use xfs so I'm about to hunt to find out. Once I do I'll let you know. Cheers -- Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Font Problems or What is the best configuration?
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 14:05, Jason Stubbs wrote: Hi all, Basically I would like a definitive answer on the best way to set up fonts. Most recent sources I have read point to fontconfig and specifically /etc/fonts/local.conf in Gentoo. I have installed all fonts in media-fonts as well as a few others and added all dirs to local.conf. However, there is a ~30 second pause on the startup of each application with this configuration. Adding them to XF86Config instead gives a ~30 second pause at the start up of the X server, which is not quite as bad but still frustrating. Anybody got lots of fonts and has solved these problems? Yep. xfs is your friend. emerge xfs rc-update add xfs default Add FontPath unix/:7100 to the Files section of your XFconfig file. Add font dirs to /etc/X11/fs/config then reboot, or: /etc/init.d/xfs start restart X All your loverly fonts without the delay every time you start X or your PC. Cheers -- Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Font Problems or What is the best configuration?
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 15:06, Jason Stubbs wrote: xfs is included in xfree. you should just need to run /etc/init.d/xfs start. however, does that have any issues with fonts that use fontconfig? i believe xfs has been depracated in favour of fontconfig... No. For X to use xfs you must add FontPath unix/:7100 to your X config. As for xfs being deprecated. That could very well be the case. I've got xfs working, it does the trick for me. If xfs stops existing then I guess I look into using fontconfig. Sorry I can't help you with fontconfig... Cheers -- Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Font Problems or What is the best configuration?
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 15:55, Daniel Drake wrote: I tried this configuration, and when starting X, it says: Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list! Yes. in /etc/X11/fs/config hash out no-listen = tcp then in /etc/conf.d/xfs change XFS_PORT=-1 to XFS_PORT=7100 restart xfs and X and that should get you working. Cheers -- Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Blender
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 16:04, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: If blender were to have a lot of dependencies, how would you keep the ~x86 versions from being installed (assuming blender would run with the x86 versions)? If I understand your correctly; installing with ~x86 will only pull in the necessary masked ebuilds. Then to insure that future updates don't down grade the ~x86 packages use -U (upgrade only) when you next emerge. Although I have to admit -U is a bit hit an miss. On at least on occasion I had to downgrade even with -U specified. I the re-upgraded once the update was complete. Cheers -- Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Blender
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 16:38, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: No, my concern is that a bunch of system packages may be upgraded as well to testing version when doing this (maybe not for blender, but when using ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86). I don't want the compiler, gettext, autoconf or anything else upgraded from stable and if a package will work with the stable version (even though it is itself a testing version), then it should use them ... using the keyword change does not allow for this. OK I see you point now. However giving it a little thought I don't see how this could be fixed. e.g. you wish to install blender. To do that you must install a masked version of gettext (just for e.g.). However *you* don't want to do that as you see it as unstable. So you are at an impasse. Do you compromise your systems stability for the additional functionality you require? What you have to assume is that the maintainer who decided that blender needed a masked version of gettext did so knowing this was a true dependancy. The only way you can find this out is by checking the ebuild docs or asking the maintainer directly. So your separation idea doesn't really make sense (at least not to me). I accept that perhaps system ebuilds should be marked as such when doing an emerge -p. This way the user can make a more informed decision about whether to install the ebuild or not. Perhaps make.conf could have a var that listed packages that the admin never wants to have a masked version of. Cheers -- Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about kernel and /etc/issue
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 17:24, Kathy Wills wrote: Hopefully someone else can help you there. I couldn't figure it out. I needed the static ip addresses anyway for samba to work properyly for printer and file sharing on my little home network. I presume you have domainname running: # rc-update show domainname | boot If not then run rc-update add domainname boot, /etc/init.d/domainname start That should help. Cheers -- Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] determining tape size
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 17:22, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Is there a way to determine how much a tape can hold without physically taking the tape out of the drive and looking at the label? The following is dmesg output about my tape drive (and SCSI CD-ROM). scsi0 : Initio INI-9X00U/UW SCSI device driver; Revision: 1.03g Vendor: SONY Model: SDT-5200 Rev: 3.30 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-6201TA Rev: 1030 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 st: Version 20020805, bufsize 32768, wrt 30720, max init. bufs 4, s/g segs 16 Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0 Just a guess: Are you able to mount the st0 device? If so try a df -h once you have. Cheers -- Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Adding a dir to ldcache
Hi, I'm using prelink. Everytime I update prelink I get a number of messages like the following: prelink: /usr/lib/MozillaFirebird/timebombgen: Could not parse `/usr/lib/MozillaFirebird/timebombgen: error while loading shared libraries: libxpcom.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory' Obviously the problem here is that the lib libxpcom.so could not be found by the prelinker. A quick locate shows that it is in: /usr/lib/MozillaFirebird/ which iirc is not in the LDPATH so won't be in the cache. My question is how do I add this dir to the ldcache? More over shouldn't the ebuild do this for me? If so I'll raise a bug for Firebird. Cheers -- Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a dir to ldcache
On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 10:32, Kim Ingemann wrote: You can add directories to ldcache by changing /etc/ld.so.conf and running ldconfig afterwards. Well I checked /etc/ld.so.conf and it said: # ld.so.conf autogenerated by env-update; make all changes to # contents of /etc/env.d directory so I went to /etc/env.d but wasn't how safe it was to edit these files. Anyway I read the ENV.d documentation on the Gentoo website. It appears that it is safe to edit these files. Then all you have to do is run env-update. ld.so.conf is updated and won't get over written the next time you emerge a package! Cheers anyway. -- Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a dir to ldcache
On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 10:52, Bill Roberts wrote: MozillaFirebird and certain libraries will not prelink. Don't really know the issues involved. There is some info in http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/prelink-howto.xml I saw nothing specific about MozillaFirebird in that how-to. However it did remind me of the /etc/prelink.conf file. It would appear that the prelink.conf file is updated by the prelink binary when a lib dir is added or removed. So it would appear that the best place to add such lib dirs is in /etc/env.d/ Cheers -- Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Newby crontab question
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 22:01, Larry Augschöll wrote: but anacron need a system cron like vcron. Or do you start anacron manually? Well I start cron via the usual rc method. -- Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Newby crontab question
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 17:02, Rob2 wrote: I have vixiecron installed in my system. I have also created a root crontab. What is the purpose of the /etc/crontab? I don't remember cron doing anything until I made my root crontab. Is /etc/cron just a template? IIRC /etc/crontab is a system cron. It usually runs the hourly, daily, weekly, etc cron jobs. I say IIRC as I am not running vcron. I'm running anacron. Cheers -- Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with su - postgres problems
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 17:38, Tiago Lima wrote: Could it be from a /etc file? I remember etc-updateing some files but dont know them by hard... If it is then the best was to check is to have a look at /etc/passwd. This file has all/most the info needed to login at that user. Have a look and see if you can spot anything out of the ordinary. On my machine it currently looks like the following: postgres:x:70:70::/var/lib/postgresql:/bin/bash Cheers -- Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Weird boot message since update to rsync 2.6.0
On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 10:54, Michele Alzetta wrote: Hallo, ever since I've updated do rsync 2.6.0 I get a very quick screenfull message about SSL options which flies by during boot, and also any time I add or remove a net-related service from default runlevel. Note that rsyncd has NOT been added to default runlevel anyone else have this problem ? Odd, dunno. Sorry. Second question ... I set up a pretty good iptables firewall but found it also blocks emerge sync ... which ports does rsync 2.6.0 use ? Assuming that Gentoo uses the standard rsync protocol (i.e. doesn't use a different port), this will tell you what you need: # grep rsync /etc/services rsync 873/tcp # rsync rsync 873/udp # rsync If you've never seen the services file take a quick look. v. useful to know - and have if you're running a firewall. -- Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kde downgrade to 3.1.2
On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 12:07, Daniel Schroeter wrote: How can I find out what blocks kde 3.1.4 or needs 3.1.2? There is nothing in the package.mask One way would be to pretend to install KDE 3.1.4 and see what blocks (package appears with a red B). Check the output from the following command: # emerge -Dp /usr/portage/kde-base/kde/kde-3.1.4.ebuild -- Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kde downgrade to 3.1.2
On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 12:49, Daniel Schroeter wrote: There seems to be nothing that blocks! When I emerged kde-3.1.4 a month ago there was no problem too. morpheus root # emerge -Dp /usr/portage/kde-base/kde/kde-3.1.4.ebuild These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] kde-base/kde-3.1.4 What happens when you try to recompile KDE 3.1.4? -- Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] bash completion
On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 15:06, raptor wrote: it seems that bash completion does not work if there is some text before emerge .. like this : ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='~x86' emerge -p neTAB I agree with you that it would be nice if tab completion worked under this situation. Your best bet to get this resolved is to submit a bug for the package. also when it works it appends one space after the text...!! AFAIK this is expected behaviour. The space added indicates there are no duplicate/longer matches. If you do not get a space then do a double-tab and you will get a list of all matching options. eg: # emerge net- net-analyzer/ net-fs/net-libs/ net-news/ net-www/ net-dialup/net-ftp/ net-mail/ net-p2p/ net-zope/ net-dns/ net-im/net-misc/ net-print/ net-firewall/ net-irc/ net-nds/ net-wireless/ Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Synce not using pda USE flag
Hi, I would have thought that app-pda/synce (and associated ebuilds) would have made use of the pda USE flag. However they do not. For example: master app-pda # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -Dvp app-pda/synce app-pda/synce-kde These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] app-pda/synce-0.8.4-r1 -gnome [ebuild R ] app-pda/synce-kde-0.6.1 -avantgo There are other synce ebuilds (i.e. synce-dccm, etc). None of them use the pda USE flags. Anyone know why? Could this have something to do with them being masked? (I'm guessing not) Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Synce not using pda USE flag
On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 13:54, mathieu perrenoud wrote: I guess that since those applications are designed to be used for pdas, they don't need to be specifically told to be compiled for pdas. In the same way that I don't think that kde-base uses the kde flag. Yes I guess that does seem reasonable. Probably not the sway I would have done it, but it does kind of make sense. Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] logfile size
On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 13:39, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote: Is there a way to reduce the sizes of logfiles? For example my fetchmail logfile weighs around 50+ MB now. Lets say I would like to limit some logfiles to only keep the logs 30 days, how would I do that? In .fetchmailrc for example? As a general rule that should be done by your log daemon. I use metalog log size and history is set in /etc/metalog/metalog.conf. e.g.: maxsize = 10 maxtime = 86400 maxfiles = 5 Whatever you use as your logging daemon should have this capability too. Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Time setting
On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 13:23, Goran Kavrecic wrote: I have installed the Gentoo 1.4 on my desktop pc, then added gnome, openoffice, evolution, ... After some days I realized that the displayed time is 1 hour ahead of the localtime and the one set in BIOS. I linked CET to /etc/localtime (isn't this Central Europe Time?). How can I correct this? What should I install/emerge to set the time in gnome 2.4? Ithink this can be corrected with the command tzconfig. I'm currently on a Debian box. It lives in /usr/sbin/tzconfig. Might be in a different place for Gentoo. I don't know as I've never had to run it. hope that helps. Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Time setting
On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 13:54, Goran Kavrecic wrote: Thanks. You were almost right. It's tzselect(first offers regions, that countries ... you meant that?), like on RH. It doesn't help except that comfirmed that CET is the right timezone. It proposes how to set this on a user basis, but not on server basis. I re-checked: I run RH on my notebook and the timein BIOS is the same as in linux. On my desktop(Gentoo) the BIOS/CMOS is correct and linux is 1 hout ahead. I've just recalled. When I had this problem I fixed it by running NTP. Bit of a bodge, but it did the job. Hope that helps. Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] .bashrc over ssh
On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 14:12, Oliver Lange wrote: Eric Paynter wrote: Gentoo by default sources .bashrc from .bash_profile which is, of course, why I asked what shell he is using. If .bashrc isn't getting run, then perhaps he has a different shell without realizing it. Or perhaps he doesn't have a .bash_profile... I have a .bash_profile, but i'm not sure if and which shell i'm using. I can only say this: i've installed gentoo. How can i fugure out which shell is set for my user and for the root account ? Either look in /etc/passwd or run 'echo $SHELL'. If you are using bash then the system wide bash config file /etc/profile will be used. It should then call your own .bash_profile. This in turn can execute a .bashrc file. As you rightly pointed out neither .bashrc nor .bash_profile are executable. For the line in your .bash_profile to include your config in .bashrc make it executable (chmod u+x .bashrc). I am not sure but I think /etc/profile 'source's your .bash_profile so it does not need to be executable. But I would check /etc/profile to make sure. Hope that helps. Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Speedtouch 330 Problems
Hi, I know a number of threads on the forums have been devoted to this topic: I searched through most if not all of them. With their help I've almost managed to get the ADSL modem working. As far as I can tell the problem lies with installing the microkernel. The logs output the following: Dec 9 21:50:49 [modem_run] modem_run version 1.2-beta2 started by root uid 0_ Dec 9 21:50:51 [kernel] usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout Dec 9 21:51:06 [modem_run] ADSL synchronization has been obtained_ Dec 9 21:51:06 [modem_run] ADSL line is up (576 kbit/s down | 288 kbit/s up)_ Dec 9 21:51:07 [kernel] CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California Dec 9 21:51:07 [kernel] PPP generic driver version 2.4.2 Dec 9 21:51:07 [pppd] pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0 Dec 9 21:51:07 [pppd] Using interface ppp0 Dec 9 21:51:07 [pppd] Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/pts/2 Dec 9 21:51:07 [pppoa3] pppoa3 version 1.2-beta3 started by root (uid 0)_ Dec 9 21:51:07 [pppoa3] Control thread ready_ Dec 9 21:51:07 [kernel] HDLC line discipline: version $Revision: 3.3 $, maxframe=4096 Dec 9 21:51:07 [pppoa3] host -- pppoa3 -- modem stream ready_ Dec 9 21:51:07 [pppoa3] modem -- pppoa3 -- host stream ready_ Dec 9 21:51:38 [pppd] LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests_ Dec 9 21:51:38 [pppd] Connection terminated. Dec 9 21:51:38 [pppoa3] Error reading from source device_ Dec 9 21:51:38 [pppoa3] Woken by a sem_post event - Exiting_ Dec 9 21:51:38 [pppoa3] Write to usb Canceled Dec 9 21:51:38 [pppoa3] Exiting I have donwloaded and installed the latest version of the speedtouch drivers and mgmt.o. I have also compiled the kernel with the required modules. I know the modem works as I can connect OK with WinXP. So any clues? Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kernel upgrade
On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 15:30, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote: I want to upgrade my kernel from 2.4.20-gentoo-r8 to 2.4.20-gentoo-r9 as recommended. I used genkernel when I installed the kernel the first time. Should I use genkernel also when I upgrade? You certainly can. If you do then you will need to check the /usr/src/linux is linked to to the new release. If you wish to change the kernel config use 'genkernel --config'. If not then just run 'genkernel'. This is how I do it. I use genkernel because I am lazy. Although there maybe better/other reasons for using it - or not as the case meybe. Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kernel upgrade
On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 15:37, David Gethings wrote: If you wish to change the kernel config use 'genkernel --config'. If not then just run 'genkernel'. Sorry, forgot to mention. If you do not run genkernel with --config then it does a 'make oldconfig'. AFAIK this is just basic config that comes with the kernel so it will not include your options. To include your option from the previous release then copy .config from the old kernel version to the new. i.e. cp gentoo-r8/.config gentoo-r9/ Then you can run genkernel and it will honour your old options. If I am wrong then please someone say so. As this is how I do and if it is wrong then build is potentially broken! :P Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] redifining harddrive partitions and restore linux
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 12:30, Helder Rossa wrote: hi, I want to clear all partitions of my HDD and then put the data of the partitions that I have now in those new partitions. I'm wondering if it is possible. basically I want to redefine my HDD partitions without re-installing all the stuff that I have. if i do dd if=/dev/hda2 of=hda2.iso and the try to restore that iso in one partition it replaces with an exact copy of the original partition. Can I do a backup of the data only and not the partition info?? You could use tar. tar up the dir(s) then move the tar file to a different partition. Resize that partition and then untar the files into that partition. There maybe some 'special' things you will need to do if you do this to /. Try a google for 'restore from tar'. Hope that helps. Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Ogg Vorbis very bad quality (compared to MP3)
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 14:44, Spider wrote: Well, if that's the case, may I suggest flac ? ( emerge flac ). OMG! Why have I not heard of this codec before! This is exactly what I've been looking for! Thanks Spider! Now I have to re-rip my CD collection. ;) Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] redifining harddrive partitions and restore linux
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 14:59, Helder Rossa wrote: hummm... just tar / untar the partitions?!! - boot from a cd; - tar the parttions; - create / edit parttions; - untar the stuff to the partition i want; - install bootloader. think I'm not forgetting nothing. - and that's it?!! That is certainly the case for non root partitions. I'm not a file system expert. So there might be some magic you will need to fix before being able to boot from the resized / partitiom. Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS
On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 20:57, Vano Beridze wrote: I switched to gentoo because I wanted faster and customized system. Gentoo is highly customizable. But that does not guarentee a faster system. The intricate web of hardware spec, application, comuter usage and gcc flags is a complex one. There have been a number of discussions on this group about this very matter. I highly recomend you search through the archive. This should give you all the (mis-)information you will need. Sadly there is no -fgo-fast-strips gcc flag. Oh I wish it was that simple ;) Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Capi and on-demand dial
On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 13:11, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Friday 28 November 2003 22:03, Simon Cahuk wrote: How must I start pppd for using it for on-demand dialing? I don't know what capi is but all your basic options are in /etc/conf.d/net.ppp0. After that just run rc-update add net.ppp0 default; /etc/init.d/net.ppp0 start Does that include the 'demand' option? If so cool! If not then you will need to add that to your pppd config. Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Tk for Python
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 14:17, Stephen Boulet wrote: Python is built with tkinter by default if you have the tcltk use variable (which will cause the latest version of tk to be emerged). Try this: $ python Python 2.3.2 (#1, Nov 19 2003, 07:54:28) [GCC 3.3.2 20031022 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.2-r2, propolice)] on linux2 Type help, copyright, credits or license for more information. import Tkinter Thanks Steve. Unfortunately I know that Tkinter wasn't built into Python. 'etcat -u python' shows that the tcltk flag was not set when it was built. Am I right in thinking that an 'emerge -e python' will recompile it - and include the tcltk support (as long as the USE flag is there that is!). Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Tk for Python
Hi, I'm looking for the Tkinter lib for Python. So far my 'emerge search's have not born any fruit. Does anyone know what ebuild this lib is in. Is it even in an ebuild? Yes I have done an 'emerge sync' within the last 24 hours. Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Tk for Python
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 16:49, Jeffrey Smelser wrote: Opps. my mistake.. I should have read it better.. There isn't one.. :) Let me crawl back in my hole.. http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=Tkinter Most things python, are in dev-python.. Thanks Jeffery. You've managed to get further than I had. Wasn't aware of the web interface. I shall use it in the future. Odd that there is no ebuild for Tkinter. As far as I am aware it is practially considered core to Python. Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Tk for Python
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 17:30, Mike Williams wrote: I think you need to set the tcltk USE variable for it to be built along with python USE=tcltk emerge python I'll check that when I get home. Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] removing color
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 14:36, Andrew Gaffney wrote: 'emerge --help | grep color' gives me nothing. Also, neither of those options, or a few variations on them, work. Have you tried setting your TERM type to one that doesn't support colour? That should stop all output being colourised (other than the specified foreground colour). The downside is this might impact other functionality you would like/require. Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Problems with 'emerge sync'
Every time I do an 'emerge sync' I get the following error message: ** Skipping packages. Run 'fixpackages' or set it in FEATURES to fix the tbz2's in the packages directory. Note: This can take a very long time. So I run 'fixpackages' and sure enough it fixes stuff. And sure enough it takes a *long* time! This has happened a few times now. On every occasion the I get the following error messages: !!! Cannot update binary: Destination exists. !!! sys-apps/raidtools-1.00.3-r1 - sys-fs/raidtools-1.00.3-r1 ..!!! Cannot update binary: Destination exists. !!! app-admin/dosfstools-2.8-r3 - sys-fs/dosfstools-2.8-r3 I plan to unmerge then emerge both these ebuilds in an attempt to stop this problem in the future. Is this the right course of action, or is there a better way to solve this problem. Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Tkinter
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 16:24, Luke Davison wrote: David, Is there an ebuild of Tkinter? emerge search tkinter finds nothing. Did you add tcltk to your USE variables before emerging? # emerge tcl tk python I've emerged these ebuilds, but I'm not sure about the USE vars (PC at home via dialup connections, :( ). I'll check the USE vars. Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Tkinter
Hi, Is there an ebuild of Tkinter? emerge search tkinter finds nothing. emerge search python finds plenty, but nothing I think is relevant. Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Tkinter
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 16:17, David Gethings wrote: Hi, Is there an ebuild of Tkinter? emerge search tkinter finds nothing. emerge search python finds plenty, but nothing I think is relevant. Apologies. I have no idea how my mail became part of a current thread? Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia problems
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 16:15, Michel Bellemare wrote: Hi, I followed carefully the instructions given in the doc to enable my video card to work in gentoo. But when i start the X server, i've got this error message NV:could not open control device /dev/nvidiactl (no such file or directory) (EE)NVIDIA (o): failed to initialized NVIDIA kernel module (EE)NVIDIA(o):**aborting** well,i can see that nvidiactl is missing, but is it normal and does someone knows a way to fix this? thank you for taking time to reply I've had a similar problem after an emerge -Du world after fresh install. I fixed this problem by doing the following: emerge nvidia nvidia-glx genkernel Not sure what exactly was wrong, nor exactly what fixed it. But it did the job for me. Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] configure apache2
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 17:49, Peter Ruskin wrote: WTF is all this crap? Now hang on! That's a bit strong! Your html is not exactly welcome here. Can you tell? And nor is that attitude! This user has made 2 previous posts. Neither previous post mentioned that this user should not use HTML formatted email. As such I would conclude this user was ignorant that such formatting is frowned apon by sections of the community. If a user ignores requests to format emails correctly then go all guns, but try not to include the whole list unless necessary. Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How many of you are 100% Linux?
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 14:44, Frank R Callaghan wrote: 100% YES, 75% gentoo 25% RH ( I had a lot of trouble geting WinTV working so I'm a little worried about convering that system to gentoo) I have to maintain lots of windoze crud systems at work - but don't have to use one ;) linux servers (were NT4 - converted, no body ever noticed) life is good :) Nobody noticed! Bloody hell your gentoo servers must crash a lot. :P Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo distfiles - how much space
On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 09:30, Erwin Lang wrote: we have about 15 servers in our company, and I'm not interested in downloading the same packages from the internet for each server. If anybody knows a better way of solving this problem, please let me know. thank you! I've been thinking along those very lines. My idea would be to have one server as the main builder. It does the syncing, downloading and compiling of the packages. Then all the other servers have to do install the packages. This would have to assume the same hardware for all servers (unless you want to get fancy and compile for multiple platforms). Whether this is currently possible I do not know. Another feature I would like to see would be the ability of emerge downloading multiple packages at once if you give it the download only flag. This would help speed up install times. Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] two subnetworks
On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 09:48, Selentek 24331-03 wrote: default * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth1 - I down't know what is this. That is you default route. It is the route your PC uses to send traffic to your Cisco. Is it right to ping 192.168.1.12 from 5.5.5.2 ? If you are pinging from the PC that bridges the two netwroks, then yes you will be able to ping both networks. I down't want to see 192.168.1.12 from 5.5.5.0 network. I'm no expert on UNIX routing, but from the details you given I can see no reason why this is possible. Unless you have another PC that bridges these two networks. Sorry for my english. You're doing fine... Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] diff program
On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 06:15, Kurt V. Hindenburg wrote:
Anyone know a diff program that you can skip # lines at the beginning
of each files? Googling for diff is about worthless...
The following Perl script should do what you want:
#!/usr/bin/perl
($line, $file1, $file2) = @ARGV;
open F, $file1;
@file1 = F;
open F, $file2;
@file2 = F;
close F;
for ($i = $line; $i = $#file1; $i++) {
unless ($file1[$i] eq $file2[$i]) {
print $file1[$i];
print $file2[$i];
}
}
Although if these are very large files I wouldn't use this script as it
loads both files into memory!
Hope it helps anyway.
Cheers
Dg
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Re: [gentoo-user] two subnetworks
On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 10:41, Selentek 24331-03 wrote: On 10:30 Mon 20 Oct , David Gethings wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 09:48, Selentek 24331-03 wrote: default * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth1 - I down't know what is this. That is you default route. It is the route your PC uses to send traffic to your Cisco. Sorry. My brain is full of flu. :( The above route could be the cause of your problem. One more detail with tcpdump: sudo tcpdump -f -i eth0 icmp tcpdump: listening on eth0 13:50:21.969383 5.5.5.2 192.168.1.12: icmp: echo request 13:50:21.969436 192.168.1.12 5.5.5.2: icmp: echo reply Apologies. When I re-read your email I understood your email better. Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Keeping packages up todate with a 56k modem
OK, tell me to RTFM if you like, however I have read the doc on the gentto website regarding emerge and have not found an answer. I know that a 'emerge -uDp world' will list all the packages I need to install/update. Does 'world' include 'system' or do I need to do that seperately? Secondly, downloading all the packages over a 56k modem is a non-starter. Espcially as I only have one phone line and a chatty wife. ;). Is there a tool I could use to download the packages listed by 'emerge -uDp world' onto my Debian box at work. If so I could then burn these packages to a CD and then install from the CD. Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Limit user's cpu time, process amount, etc. / and ReiserFS quotas.
On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 23:49, Carlos wrote: Hey people, How could I set limits on how much CPU, memory, procs, that my users can run? Have you had a look at http://www.rsbac.org/? This seems to do what you want. Gentoo has a kernel source for it called rsbac-sources. And also, can quotas be used with ReiserFS? Dunno. I'm very new to RsiserFS and have not had a chance to read the docs. Although I would be surpised if it didn't offer some such functionality. Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] again on KDE and GRP
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 12:44, Roberto Padovani wrote: hi all! i found another wierd problem with the binary installation of KDE from CD2. i usually do everything with sources, but i don't really want to let my laptop take fire with the overall gentoo compiling process. that's why i'm using GRP. now, the problem: snip Has anyone already encountered this problem and overcome it ? tomorrow i'll post the logs as well (i forgot'em at home) Have you included qt kde in your USE flags? Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
