Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ?
On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 15:00, HvR wrote: apparently LVM doesnt work under 2.6 or did i miss some config setting? It's now EVMS and you need Device Mapper Support and the evms tools. EVMS can handle lvm without any problems. Visit evms.sf.net for the good oil. -- Troy Dack http://linux.tkdack.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://webportage.sf.net Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x4D90BE3C Key fingerprint = 1F3D 6C15 16AA 09D5 0C96 92E5 FD89 16F9 4D90 BE3C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Progress bars??
On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 13:36, Tommi Pirinen wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: Hi, On Saturday 31 January 2004 20:30, Jerry McBride wrote: 2-HIDE THE GARBAGE... Do we really need to have ALL the compiler and emerge updated logged to the screen? See PROGRESS BARS above. Well, I had some severe problems the last days with X, glibc and others (nptl related, big downgrade and recompile time, wohooo plus a mulish X emerge, dying again and again). And this 'garbage' becomes realy useful, if you want to circumvent (or simply find!) the error that is holding you back for hours. You're just underlining the point here. The garbage only becomes useful in exceptional situation thus it need not be shown in typical compilations but might be available elsewhere whenever needed. The reasoning behind showing much carbage on every compilation is that only devs and experts would ever compile their own products. So how did you install Gentoo? It is obvious that such a mechanism has not been developed with gentoo-like solution in mind. The compilation system was around long before Gentoo. Since Gentoo is primarily a from source distribution then seeing how a package is built is part of the process. If you don't like it, pick another distro, use the GRP packages and don't compile anything yourself or write some code and submit patches. -- Troy Dack http://linux.tkdack.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://webportage.sf.net Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x4D90BE3C Key fingerprint = 1F3D 6C15 16AA 09D5 0C96 92E5 FD89 16F9 4D90 BE3C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gnome apps under kde
On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 22:10, Karl Huysmans wrote: Hi, Have been looking everywhere, still can't find a solution to this problem: I run KDM and a KDE desktop, but I do use some Gnome gtk2 apps (Evolution, Mozilla compiled with gtk2, ...). To change theme and font settings for these Gnome apps, I open gnome-control-center from a shell. Lots of GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL and GLib-GObject-CRITICAL error messages, but Control Center opens. Open Theme preferences and I get this: Window manager warning: Failed to read theme from file /usr/share/themes/metacity-1/metacity-theme-1.xml: Failed to open file '/usr/share/themes/metacity-1/metacity-theme-1.xml': No such file or directory. Adjust the settings for theme and fonts, everything OK. But on next KDE login, settings are lost. Open Control Center again (same errors as above), double-clicking on either Font or Theme icons in Control Center immediately restores all of my previously made changes. When I open a Gnome session with the same user, everything is as I had set in Control Center. Tried doing the same with a freshly created user, same problem, so it is not user related. I have several Gentoo boxes, on some of them I have this problem, on others not. Any ideas? In ~/.kde/Autostart create a shortcut to run gnome-settings-daemon .. this should give your gtk apps the settings they need -- Troy Dack Gentoo moves pretty fast; if you don't stop and [EMAIL PROTECTED] look around once in a while, you could miss out. Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x4D90BE3C Key fingerprint = 1F3D 6C15 16AA 09D5 0C96 92E5 FD89 16F9 4D90 BE3C signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Progress bars??
On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 06:30, Jerry McBride wrote: Is anyone takling suggestions for Gentoo improvements??? A few I would like to see... in order... 1-PROGRESS BARS... man-o-man would I love a progress bar during an emerge update, instead of all the text that gets listed to console. And updating portage cache... WOW. That's a real friendly, informative screen update. :') Maybe just expanding the existing -quiet switch in emerge would be better? Patches do exist for this and I'm sure a brief session with google would find them. Try checking bugs.gentoo.org or forums.gentoo.org 2-HIDE THE GARBAGE... Do we really need to have ALL the compiler and emerge updated logged to the screen? See PROGRESS BARS above. As others have stated, this can be achieved by simple redirection, and if you want add it as an alias for your shell. 3-STARTUP SCRIPTS... Yup, Gentoo is beautiful. I use it all the time, on maybe a dozen computers of various architecture and brand. But I really have issue with the manner of organizing the system startup scripts. Could we please, use something more granular, more static? Like the good, old fashion SystemV stuff that they used in Caldera Open Linux? KDE ships with a SysV editor that would be a PERFECT match for something like this. I'm so tired of booting the laptops at work and wating for the CACHING to complete... If nothing else is done, please see PROGRESS BARS above. If you have an issue with the gentoo rc-scripts then I suggest you pick a different distro. This is how gentoo does it. - full stop. The gentoo rc-script system is one (of many) reasons that a great deal of people move to gentoo. Progress bars, see www.bootsplash.org and then emerge bootsplash and a patched kernel (gentoo-sources or gentoo-dev-sources), rebuild kernel, make an initrd (or copy one the ebuild provides), edit grub.conf/menu.lst and you are good to go. 4-DEVFS is a horrible beast... Have odd hardware? Have odd drivers? You gotta' edit the devfs config file... Blah... Please go back to using a static /dev directory like Linus intended. :') It's one of the FIRST things I remove from my Gentoo installs and it's s much better. You don't have to use devfs, add gentoo=nodevfs to your kernel boot options. Anyone willing to work/collaborate with me on implementing suggestion 3? The SysV stuff is pretty well documented on the net, the Open Linux stuff can still be found on the net too. All that needs to be done is developing an ebuild that wipes out the gentoo hack and slides in a decent startup script package that supports the gentoo layout. Do we really need dependencies in the startup scripts??? Since you don't seem to like it then I'd suggest you start hacking on the baselayout ebuild and provide patches to give people an alternative, say baselayout-systemv. It's a little more than a gentoo hack and I feel that it is a decent startup script, I no longer have to try and fit things in between other services, renumber them to get the order right, and all that hassle. Add script to whichever runlevel I want and the script starts the services at the appropriate time. -- Troy Dack Gentoo moves pretty fast; if you don't stop and [EMAIL PROTECTED] look around once in a while, you could miss out. Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x4D90BE3C Key fingerprint = 1F3D 6C15 16AA 09D5 0C96 92E5 FD89 16F9 4D90 BE3C signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] SCO gets personal!
On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 00:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apologies if ye think this is off-topic but have you seen this? http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/32798.html I wonder if all this hype is still inflating their stock price? I think we should all pretend they don't exist and ignore their noise. This makes me feel like learning how to set up DDOS attacks myself! Next time you want to practice your DDOS techniques please don't do it on public mailing lists with an auto responder! -- Troy Dack Gentoo moves pretty fast; if you don't stop and [EMAIL PROTECTED] look around once in awhile, you could miss out. Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x4D90BE3C Key fingerprint = 1F3D 6C15 16AA 09D5 0C96 92E5 FD89 16F9 4D90 BE3C signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Finding Files in packages
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 12:07, Brett I.Holcomb wrote: Thank you for the information. I might file a bug requesting that the tools support non-installed. Even if they made epm capable that would help but it may not be possible. I could use the last method but then I have to do the download and check it out. Thanks. I'll have to think about this. The major problem with getting this sort of functionality lies in exactly why most people install Gentoo, flexibility. To get a database of files that *any* package provides would require a system that was built with every USE flag turned on. This is because the functionality of many packages and therefore the files that it installs are effected by *your* USE flag settings. (ok, not every one, because some conflict, but you get the idea) With RH, Debian or MDK all packages that get installed by an end user are built with the same settings, this allows things like rpmfind.net to be viable. With GRP packages it should be possible to build a database of what package provides what files, and query this, but I expect it would be something that is maintained outside of portage because not everyone will have (or want) all the GRP packages available to them. -- Troy Dack Gentoo moves pretty fast; if you don't stop and [EMAIL PROTECTED] look around once and awhile, you could miss out. Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x4D90BE3C Key fingerprint = 1F3D 6C15 16AA 09D5 0C96 92E5 FD89 16F9 4D90 BE3C signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.0-test2 results
On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 01:57, Collins Richey wrote: Also, AFAIK, there is no support yet for nvidia cards. I'm using the nv support built into xfree. Since I'm not a gamester, that's no big deal. emerge nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx The patches are applied in the ebuild if you are running a 2.5/2.6 kernel when you do the emerge -- Troy DackYes, yes, I know that, Sydney ... Everybody knows that! [EMAIL PROTECTED]... But look: Four wrongs squared, minus two wrongs to the fourth power, divided by this formula, do make a right. -- Gary Larson Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x4D90BE3C Key fingerprint = 1F3D 6C15 16AA 09D5 0C96 92E5 FD89 16F9 4D90 BE3C signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] PDF Server
On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 18:34, Jimmie Fulton wrote: I wrote my pdf (and jpg printer) script in Python... to each his own. :) Its at work behind a firewall; maybe I'll post it later if I remember. The script is a cups backend. (I did it this way so that Netatalk can share the same cups printer that samba uses.) It uses the arguments sent from samba to determine the user and filename that is printed. I am able to get filenames from just about any program, including AutoCAD. 30x48 PDFs/JPEGs from AutoCAD. :) I use regular expressions to clean out unacceptable windows filename characters, and to change stuff like Microsoft Project - Pennzoil 3rd Floor.mpp to Pennzoil 3rd Floor.mpp. I also check for files that already exist by the same name and append a sequence number to new files if needed so that nothing gets overwritten. Taking the username, I have the script create a folder for each user (the first time they make a print) on a mounted Windows share; you could easily store the share on the Linux box, of course. The file has a .tmp extension until the file is completely written, in which it is changed to .pdf or .jpg. As far as security goes, it is possible to have the script change the permission on the file (or containing directory) based on the user that printed it. I use AdobePS drivers, which I have set up to download automatically to new windows clients directly from the Linux box, just like a standard Windows Print Server (Point-and-Print). Jimmie, I'd really like to take a look at the python script and the Samba/CUPS config. This is something that I have been wanting to implement but haven't been able to get all the bits into the right places (particularly the automagic driver download for Windows clients). Please feel free to drop me a line off list if you don't want to make it public. Thanks -- Troy Dack http://linux.tkdack.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://webportage.sf.net Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x4D90BE3C Key fingerprint = 1F3D 6C15 16AA 09D5 0C96 92E5 FD89 16F9 4D90 BE3C signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Building a quot;single purposequot; machine
Michael W. Holdeman said: OK here is what I want to do. I have a TP600, 12gig drive, wireless card. I have 1 windows program to run that is used in the ambulance for filing out Prehospital EMS reports in the ambo, then transfers teh file to the server in teh station when it comes back, into range of the 802.11b AP. I really have had very good luck with Win4Lin and Gentoo for this, but this machine will ONLY be running that app, so. I'd like to build Gentoo w/xfree, but no kde (no prob so far) but have it when booted automatically log in as a user and start win4lin and teh EMS prog. Anyone have any luck or suggestions for doing this? The starting of the application automatically shouldn't be too hard, ~/.xinitrc or something like that should be able to accomplish it. Doing it this way may require you to run X from the console (ie: startx) instead of using a graphical login. As for logging in as a user, you might be able to do something using /etc/inittab You said no kde, but Using KDEs KDM it has an automagic login function/setting to login a user automatically when kdm starts. You can also put files in ~/.kde/Autostart that will be run as kde starts. Additionally you can hide the kicker (bar at the bottom). -- Troy Dack http://linux.tkdack.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://webportage.sf.net Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x4D90BE3C Key fingerprint = 1F3D 6C15 16AA 09D5 0C96 92E5 FD89 16F9 4D90 BE3C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia - starting from scatch
On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 20:19, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: It works, after installing the 4191.ebuild's the nvidia load perfect!! Before sending my last e-mail i have read the portage manual again but the solution you give me are not in there. Where can i find more info on the portage and emerge/ebuild. man ebuild man 5 ebuild man emerge emerge --help http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/docs.xml -- Troy Dack http://linux.tkdack.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://webportage.sf.net Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x4D90BE3C Key fingerprint = 1F3D 6C15 16AA 09D5 0C96 92E5 FD89 16F9 4D90 BE3C signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] restart Apache on ip change
Denny Schierz said: hi, how can i restart apache automatically, if the ip from rp-pppoe has changed. i put into the ip-up /etc/init.d/apache restart but it does not work. I think, that pppd doesn't check (rp-pppoe restart itself), that the ip has changed. Try /etc/ppp/ip-up.local and ip-down.local I remember digging those out of the rp-pppoe scripts somewhere and they work for me -- Troy Dack http://linux.tkdack.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://webportage.sf.net Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x4D90BE3C Key fingerprint = 1F3D 6C15 16AA 09D5 0C96 92E5 FD89 16F9 4D90 BE3C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Open Office packages
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 16:14, Jason Giangrande wrote: Does anyone know the differences between the openoffice package and the openoffice-bin package? OpenOffice - takes about 2 days to build OpenOffice-bin - takes about 10 minutes to install -bin is pre-compiled the binary package available from openoffice.org -- Troy Dack http://linux.tkdack.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://webportage.sf.net Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x4D90BE3C Key fingerprint = 1F3D 6C15 16AA 09D5 0C96 92E5 FD89 16F9 4D90 BE3C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Yellow star.
On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 00:35, Paul de Vrieze wrote: On Monday 03 March 2003 14:30, Sigurd Stordal wrote: I get a yellow star whe emerging perl doing an emerge -e world. I seems to remember something about it on this list earlier, but can't find it when I look at the mail list archives. So anyone knows what is wrong. This is a bug in portage, the system logging code does not work with empty strings. For now pressing ^D at each star works Paul Edit /etc/init.d/functions.sh and look for the logger line. Replace: $* with $* -- Troy Dack http://linux.tkdack.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://webportage.sf.net Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x4D90BE3C Key fingerprint = 1F3D 6C15 16AA 09D5 0C96 92E5 FD89 16F9 4D90 BE3C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] sys-devel/libperl-5.8.0 problems
On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 23:51, efejta wrote:
My system seems to be having issues...when I try to update libperl, it halts:
example output:
# emerge --update libperl
Calculating dependencies ...done!
emerge (1 of 4) sys-devel/libperl-5.8.0 to /
md5 ;-) perl-5.8.0.tar.gz
*
the yellow star just stays there an nothing happens. Running top shows now
activity by python or anything else suggesting the script is doing something.
What is going on?
Also, I am having the same escape character problem with man pages, but I am
hoping it has to do with the fact that I interrupted an emerge --update
world...but etc-update doesn't tell me I need to do anything.
To fix:
1. open /etc/init.d/functions.sh in your editor
2. change the following line:
/usr/bin/logger -p ${pri} -t ${tag} -- $*
to:
/usr/bin/logger -p ${pri} -t ${tag} -- $*
3. save functions.sh
You should now be good to go
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Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade
Timothy James Friesen said: Hello all, I emerged kernel 2.4.20-rc1 today. /usr/src/linux still points to my 2.4.19-rc10 kernel. What should I do about this? The symlink has to be made manually by you. Some people like to have multiple kernel trees for testing different things so the ebuilds do not mess with your symlinks. You can manually add a couple of commands to /etc/conf.d/local.start to make the symlink at boot time, uname -r will give you the version of the running kernel I assume I should only unmerge 2.4.19-rc10 after succesfully compiling 2.4.20-rc1. Unmerging the kernel will only remove the sources in /usr/src/linux-2.4.19-rc10 not the actual kernel that you installed into /boot. But it is a good idea to keep it around until you get your new kernel successfully built and booted. Also. Will emerge -u world take me to the altest 1.4-rc3 release once all the mirrors catch up, or will I have to do another emerge command? See the seperate email that I'm posting here shortly. -- Troy Dack http://linux.tkdack.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://webportage.sf.net Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x4D90BE3C Key fingerprint = 1F3D 6C15 16AA 09D5 0C96 92E5 FD89 16F9 4D90 BE3C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Gentoo releases and what they mean to you!
OK, in an attempt to stop the 95 million posts asking how to upgrade to the latest Gentoo Release Candidate please read on **** *Gentoo Releases are essentially only relevant to the LiveCD.* **** Once you have chosen a profile and done: emerge sync emerge --update world You will have the *latest* Gentoo installed on your system. This contrasts with a distro like Red Hat where they release a version and then bug fixes for that version. Because the LiveCD only has a minimal number of applications that install from it when you emerge --update world *all* versions of your installed software that have an upgrade available, will be upgraded. In summary: If you have done: emerge sync recently then you are up to date, don't sweat it. Note: If you would like to assist the developers please download the latest LiveCD and do an installation. If you get any errors, please let the developers know by submitting a bug @ bugs.gentoo.org (remember to do a search first, someone may have the same problem) -- Troy Dack http://linux.tkdack.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://webportage.sf.net Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x4D90BE3C Key fingerprint = 1F3D 6C15 16AA 09D5 0C96 92E5 FD89 16F9 4D90 BE3C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] IMAP USE flag
On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 14:06, Andrew Dacey wrote: I actually ran into this awhile back but hadn't had the chance to look into it further at the time. But now I've got a fresh box installed and I'm coming across it again. I plan to run IMAP on this box so I added imap to my use flags. What I'm noticing though is that when I go to install a package that can use IMAP (like PHP), it wants to install uw-imap. I haven't yet decided which IMAP server I want to use, but this seems to force me into using uw-imap. My options seem to be: I think you will find that this only happens with PHP. From memory PHP *needs* some of the headers (or something like that) that are installed with uw-imap and these do not come with courier-imap. I've come across this myself and wondered the same thing. I did try this: emerge php emerge unmerge uw-imap php emerge courier-imap emerge --nodeps php and PHP failed to build. -- Troy Dack http://linux.tkdack.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://webportage.sf.net Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x4D90BE3C Key fingerprint = 1F3D 6C15 16AA 09D5 0C96 92E5 FD89 16F9 4D90 BE3C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] rsync mirror
On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 19:46, Robert Cole wrote: I'm trying to setup my own personal mirror so I can setup multiple machines without busting my bandwidth. The documentation has massive holes in it. For example it appears that an http server is needed but the rsync mirror docs for gentoo say nothing about that. A http server is only needed if you want to be a mirror for distfiles as well as the portage tree. The easiest way to share your portage tree and source files across multiple computers on a local network is with nfs. Put something like this in /etc/exports: /path/to/portage 192.168.1.0/24(rw,no_root_squash,sync) Then on each of your client machines add the following to /etc/fstab: server:/path/to/portage /usr/portage nfs rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0 On both server and client make sure that you have portmap and nfs added to the boot runlevel (rc-update add portmap boot; rc-update add nfs boot) Now when you rsync from *any* machine the portage tree will be update. When you emerge a package from *any* machine the source files will be saved in distfiles and be available to all machines. -- Troy Dack http://linux.tkdack.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://webportage.sf.net Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x4D90BE3C Key fingerprint = 1F3D 6C15 16AA 09D5 0C96 92E5 FD89 16F9 4D90 BE3C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How can I sort mail easily?
Collins Richey said: On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 20:20:33 -0600 (CST) Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for a way to sort incoming mail (mail recvd from fetchmail) easily. el snippo Unless you have a need to forward mail for others, I would suggest that you forget about procmail/sendmail et al Yep, if you have no more than a handful of users then don't worry about procmail etc... and just emerge sylpheed. Sylpheed has filtering capability to store your mail in separate folders by a variety of criteria, and it works just fine. You need GTK+ and a few graphics packages. Do emerge -p sylpheed to see what is required. Linux has a wealth of Mail User Agents (MUAs) that can do this sort of thing now. Emerge them and see which one you like. Here's a list. Mozilla Mail (part of Mozilla) - can filter incoming messages - integrated GnuPG support - can also display nntp in the same client Evolution - full featured PIM similar to MS Outlook - integrated GnuPG support - search function and Virtual folders is excellent - doesn't do nntp - can work with Exchange servers with a plugin from ximian.com Sylpheed (and Sylpheed-claws) - Same sort of features as the other two - integrated GnuPG support - can also display nntp in the same client - -claws is a fork of sorts that has extra features not in the normal sylpheed KMail - Default KDE MUA - similar features to all the others - doesn't do nntp (use KNode) Balsa - Never used this one but I think it is Gnome/gtk based For IMAP use I've found sylpheed to be rather unkind on my slow old IMAP server, but that is just my experience. -- Troy Dack http://linux.tkdack.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
