Re: Discussion of BLFS, LFS, etc. current and new versions

2007-11-03 Thread Luca
ware whose drivers are non-existent for linux. Anyway thanks, Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Discussion of BLFS, LFS, etc. current and new versions

2007-11-03 Thread Luca
Hi. I read in your previous mail you have an audio workstation. May I ask you if you know about softwares like Sibelius or Steinberg Cubase SX and/or libraries like the ones of Native Instruments? Don't tell me about Brahms 'cause it's not worthy. Luca -- http://linuxfromscra

Re: Script for compiling Xorg

2007-08-02 Thread Luca Dionisi
#!/bin/bash -e is the correct beginning. It means, use /bin/bash as interpreter for the script, and exit immediately on any error. --Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: 64bit compilation

2007-03-28 Thread Luca Dionisi
e it says: > These `-m' switches are supported in addition to the above > on AMD x86-64 processors in 64-bit environments. Anyway I'm not an expert... just my 2 cents. --Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.

Re: 64bit compilation

2007-03-28 Thread Luca Dionisi
my 2 c. --Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: 64bit compilation

2007-03-28 Thread Luca Dionisi
On 3/27/07, Andrey Voropaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Really, physical RAM is not that important. Why not? If my PC has 6 GB of RAM, and the CPU has a 64bit architecture, but the O.S. is 32 bit, then it will never use more than 3-4 GB. Am I wrong? > There's always swap space. > As long as it

Re: 64bit compilation

2007-03-27 Thread Luca Dionisi
On 3/27/07, Luca Dionisi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/27/07, Andrey Voropaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, I'd rather put as the benefit only the huge size of the virtual > > memory. The programs in 64-bit mode don't have to fit into 3 GB. > &g

Re: 64bit compilation

2007-03-27 Thread Luca Dionisi
On 3/27/07, Andrey Voropaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, I'd rather put as the benefit only the huge size of the virtual > memory. The programs in 64-bit mode don't have to fit into 3 GB. I think that limit concerns physical RAM, not virtual memory. I could be wrong... -- http://linuxfromscra

Re: 64bit compilation

2007-03-25 Thread Luca Dionisi
.) Don't use any particular flag. If you run a 32 bit system you can execute only 32 bit apps. It should be good, anyway. I suggest you go with 32 bit system and apps. --Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Rsync Server

2007-01-29 Thread Luca
Probably really really stupid and annoying question but: In BLFS-SVN book, other server software, we find Rsync - server; in the Configuration Information there's an /etc/rsyncd.conf example. Literally here reported: # This is a basic rsync configuration file # It exports a single module withou

Re: link to download NTP-4.2.0a

2006-11-02 Thread Luca Dionisi
On 11/2/06, Arden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ooops! forget my message. found it. Where? -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Subversion command

2006-10-21 Thread Luca
Michael Uleysky wrote: > 2006/10/21, Luca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Hi! >> >> Just a small question: >> >> I need to relocate a svn repository on my pc and so I use: >> >> svn co --relocate {svn,https}://{url} >> >> as specified by th

Subversion command

2006-10-21 Thread Luca
ckout' for help (and indeed there relocate isn't in the options). So the question is how do I relocate the repo? Thanks in advance, Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: MesaLib-6.5.1

2006-10-05 Thread Luca
ight Matt, in MesaLib-6.5.1 bin/installmesa is missing and instead is used make install that gathers install informations from configs/default. In MesaLib-cvs version (actually 6.5.2) bin/installmesa appeared again. (Actually installed MesaLib-6.5, MesaLib-6.5.1 and MesaLib-6.5.2-cvs

Re: kde with xgl?

2006-10-04 Thread Luca
directory `/sources/Gnome-2.16/xorg-server-1.1.1/hw/xgl' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/sources/Gnome-2.16/xorg-server-1.1.1/hw' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 How do you hacked this to make it compile? Luca N.B. On another box I compiled XCB

Re: kde with xgl?

2006-10-03 Thread Luca
Luca wrote: > Alberto Hernando wrote: > >> Hi. >> >> Now that everybody is talking about XGL, I was thinking that it need compiz, >> which only works with gnome... or not? I'm a kde user, and I don't plan to >> build gnome only to try this. And wh

Re: kde with xgl?

2006-10-03 Thread Luca
re using NVIDIA, NVIDIA with Xgl disables by default some extensions so you have to add to the device section of X configuration file Option"AllowGLXWithComposite" "true". Be warned that starting compiz with Kdm could lock your system, as it happened to me the

Re: RAM and swap partition

2006-10-01 Thread Luca
Vladimir A. Pavlov wrote: > On Friday 29 September 2006 21:37, Luca wrote: > >> So my question is simple, is it normal that linux uses all the ram >> memory and not swap partition? >> (Think I should order another 1G DDR memory card...) >> > > Yes, it

RAM and swap partition

2006-10-01 Thread Luca
is simple, is it normal that linux uses all the ram memory and not swap partition? (Think I should order another 1G DDR memory card...) Bye, Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information

Re: BLFS bootscripts

2006-09-28 Thread Luca
ded the modprobe.d dir where to put a sound file with the soundcard/s (I have actually 2 soundcards and one onboard) so to start it automatically I actually follow the blfs-bootscripts-6.0 sequence but service number 40 to start alsa originally now is used by fcron, so I will change it to pass it to S90. Bye, Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: BLFS bootscripts

2006-09-27 Thread Luca
Luca wrote: > Hi! > > I finished to create and tested my own alsa startup script and would > like to know if there is a number service specific for alsa startup to > maintain blfs bootscripts compatibility even if I saw that the alsa > bootscript from blfs-bootscripts is only use

BLFS bootscripts

2006-09-27 Thread Luca
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Re: Alsa and OSS emulation

2006-09-25 Thread Luca
Luca wrote: > Luca wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> I'm having a problem with alsa and oss emulation, when I start kcontrol >> to enter the sound system menu on the general tab the test sound works >> but the test midi no, (error message in the console ALSA lib &g

Re: Alsa and OSS emulation

2006-09-24 Thread Luca
Luca wrote: > Hi! > > I'm having a problem with alsa and oss emulation, when I start kcontrol > to enter the sound system menu on the general tab the test sound works > but the test midi no, (error message in the console ALSA lib > seq_hw.c:457:(snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/

Alsa and OSS emulation

2006-09-24 Thread Luca
timer Mixers: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG However in the kcontrol center in the hardware tab I selected ALSA as sound, but in the midi section in gave no output for the midi device and don't let me use the mapper midi. Attached are the specific files. Bye, Luca blacklist emu10k1 blacklist eth1394

Re: KDesktop crashes

2006-09-23 Thread Luca
Luca wrote: > Luca wrote: > >> David Jensen wrote: >> >> >>> Luca wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Ok David, just a thing, I followed LFS-SVN-20060922 + BLFS-SVN-20060919, >>>> the only diversions

Re: KDesktop crashes

2006-09-23 Thread Luca
Luca wrote: > David Jensen wrote: > >> Luca wrote: >> >>> Ok David, just a thing, I followed LFS-SVN-20060922 + BLFS-SVN-20060919, >>> the only diversions I got from BLFS are these: >>> gcc-4.1.1 instead of gcc-4.0.3 compiled so: >>>

Re: KDesktop crashes

2006-09-23 Thread Luca
David Jensen wrote: > Luca wrote: >> Ok David, just a thing, I followed LFS-SVN-20060922 + BLFS-SVN-20060919, >> the only diversions I got from BLFS are these: >> gcc-4.1.1 instead of gcc-4.0.3 compiled so: >> > I can really offer only that the error appears to or

Re: KDesktop crashes

2006-09-23 Thread Luca
David Jensen wrote: > Luca wrote: >> kdesktop >> *** glibc detected *** kdesktop: free(): invalid pointer: 0x082205b0 *** >> === Backtrace: = >> /lib/libc.so.6[0xb65c2150] >> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_free+0x84)[0xb65c3794] >> /usr/lib/libstdc++.so

Re: KDesktop crashes

2006-09-23 Thread Luca
7;kdesktop' > X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 > Major opcode: 20 > Minor opcode: 0 > Resource id: 0x225 > X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 > Major opcode: 19 > Minor opcode: 0 > Resource id: 0x225 > I haven't yet found a response from kde mailing lists. Can someone help me in this? TIA, Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

KDesktop crashes

2006-09-23 Thread Luca
ERROR: Communication problem with kdesktop, it probably crashed. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# KCrash: Application 'kdesktop' crashing... Konqueror started from console crashes in a similar way. Already posted at kde mailing lists but actually no response. Bye, Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailma

Re: GCC-build errors

2006-09-21 Thread Luca
Alessandro Alocci wrote: > On 11:50 Thu 21 Sep, Luca wrote: > >>> However I think it is something deeper, in fact, making check for Gc6.6 >>> reports this error: >>> gcc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"gc\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"gc\" >

Re: GCC-build errors

2006-09-21 Thread Luca
Luca wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote: > >> On 9/20/06, Luca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I'm recompiling gcc-4.1.1 in order to user NVIDIA-SDK, but I'm having an >>> error I'm trying to solve. >>> Gcc-4.1.1 configure s

GCC-build errors

2006-09-20 Thread Luca
va' make[2]: Leaving directory `/sources/gcc-build/i686-pc-linux-gnu/libjava' make[1]: Leaving directory `/sources/gcc-build'" What about? Bye, Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: OpenOffice-2.0.3 configure errors

2006-09-19 Thread Luca
Luca wrote: > Luca wrote: > >> Guillaume Chevallereau wrote: >> >> >>> Selon Luca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> >>> >>> >>>> another problem with sound-cards, I have a M Audio Audiophile 24/96

Re: OpenOffice-2.0.3 configure errors

2006-09-19 Thread Luca
Luca wrote: > Guillaume Chevallereau wrote: > >> Selon Luca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> >>> another problem with sound-cards, I have a M Audio Audiophile 24/96 and >>> a SoundBlaster Audigy, compiled the drivers as modules and insert the

Re: OpenOffice-2.0.3 configure errors

2006-09-19 Thread Luca
Guillaume Chevallereau wrote: > Selon Luca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> another problem with sound-cards, I have a M Audio Audiophile 24/96 and >> a SoundBlaster Audigy, compiled the drivers as modules and insert the >> following in /etc/modprobe.conf >> "o

Re: OpenOffice-2.0.3 configure errors

2006-09-18 Thread Luca
sc/build/so_configured_so_xmlsec1' '---* tg_merge.mk *---' ERROR: Error 65280 occurred while making /sources/OOC680_m7/libxmlsec dmake: Error code 1, while making 'build_instsetoo_native' '---* *---' What's happening in here? Who can help me with this? Luc

Re: OpenOffice-2.0.3 configure errors

2006-09-18 Thread Luca
t;--with-x --enable-java-awt=gtk,xlib --with-libart-prefix=DIR" and it seems but I don't remember actually that it searches also Qt. Bye, Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

OpenOffice-2.0.3 configure errors

2006-09-18 Thread Luca
-emu10k1 index=0 options snd-ice1712 index=1" but in the applet volume (using gstreamer-0.10) of Gnome it tells only about the Audiophile with alsa and an unknown (OSS mixer). LFS SVN-20060906 and BLFS SVN-20060916 Modifications Glibc-2.4 and Kernel headers from Cross-LFS. Hope someone help me to solve these problems. Bye, Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: New project on distributed computing

2006-07-12 Thread Luca Dionisi
is not to create a virtual machine, nor a clustering solution. So people, look forward to see what the real aim is. The page is coming soon! Thank you. --Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See

Re: New project on distributed computing

2006-07-07 Thread Luca Dionisi
On 7/7/06, Steven Vancoillie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Luca Dionisi wrote: > _At_the_very_moment_ I've not a project website, or a tracker or similar > things, so any comment should be in reply to these mailing lists. > > Thanks a lot. > > --Luca This is *LFS

New project on distributed computing

2006-07-07 Thread Luca Dionisi
ck to a project like this, I'm looking for help here. _At_the_very_moment_ I've not a project website, or a tracker or similar things, so any comment should be in reply to these mailing lists. Thanks a lot. --Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: h

Find how many users are there

2006-06-14 Thread Luca Dionisi
witch from an user to another, but they reports the same if I use "ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]" to switch. What should I look for in order to find where to fix things? I'm going to google a bit, but if anyone has any hint that would be much appreciated --Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Hi. automount fixed. worked Well but ....

2006-05-31 Thread Luca Dionisi
On 5/31/06, pavan savoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have to " cd ", into the directory to start working . Example .. in the May I suggest this thread of mine? http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-support/2005-September/056595.html --Luca -- http://linuxf

Re: A grubby question - the menu.lst statements

2006-05-31 Thread Luca Dionisi
On 5/31/06, Georgina Joyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # The first entry is for LFS. title LFS 6.1.1 kernel (hd0,0)/boot/lfs/lfs-2.6.15.4 root=/dev/hdb1 ro title debian sarge kernel (hd0,0)/boot/debian/debian-2.6.15.4 root=/dev/hda2 ro If I've got this right, I'm stating that my kernels are on (

Re: A grubby question - the menu.lst statements

2006-05-31 Thread Luca Dionisi
other hand, the root parameter of the kernel has a different syntax (e.g. hda1) and tells the kernel which dir is the root. Hope this helps --Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information

Re: X server for Linux

2006-05-23 Thread Luca Dionisi
On 5/23/06, Angel Tsankov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, I do not need an X environment - I think a Window Manager will do. May I use an X server with Window Managers such as Fluxbox or XFce? BLFS has a chapter for XFree86, Xorg, Fluxbox, XFce. I suggest you build Xorg and (Fluxbox or XFce).

Re: Xgl + NVIDIA HOWTO?

2006-04-29 Thread Luca Dionisi
F11-key, all these things have no problem. But, resizing windows, and scrolling content (for example in firefox) and viewing movies, all these things are really slow. I've not tried yet with the drivers provided by ATI (fglrx) --Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/

Re: Xorg 6.8.2 to Xorg 7?

2006-03-24 Thread Luca Dionisi
On 3/25/06, Dan McGhee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Luca Dionisi wrote: > > the old things. I'm installing it in /opt/xorg-develop. > > > Again, my memory could be faulty, but I think I remember that the Xorg > documentaton says to uninstall older versions of X

Re: Xorg 6.8.2 to Xorg 7?

2006-03-24 Thread Luca Dionisi
to know: - are you using "package user" system? - are you planning to script all the things you do to compile and configure xgl on your system? - are you interested in ginving a look at the scripts I've done in my system? I'm using the "ati" open source drivers. Yo

package users and Perl

2006-02-01 Thread Luca Dionisi
to add new files? In few words: can I use a distinct package user for each Perl module/program? _AND_ what about CPAN? Can I use "perl -MCPAN -instal..." with package users? TIA for any advice. --Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linux

Re: gkd-pixbuf-config ?

2006-01-31 Thread Luca Dionisi
On 1/31/06, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Luca Dionisi wrote these words on 01/31/06 10:38 CST: > > > Anyway, if Randy says it was giving problems... Just to say... I was not complaining! I was saying that I am willing to trust you. Anyway, I haven't yet trie

Re: gkd-pixbuf-config ?

2006-01-31 Thread Luca Dionisi
ly are, as it seems to me. Anyway, if Randy says it was giving problems... Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: gkd-pixbuf-config ?

2006-01-31 Thread Luca Dionisi
we pulled it out because it Is still there somewhere that old stuff? > would not build properly. There is a switch you can use, > --without-guessing, but if you do that I believe it won't build > everything required by dvd::rip. > > Good luck, and have patience. It can be

Re: Getting Used to Modular Xorg

2006-01-31 Thread Luca Dionisi
me.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html (Chapter 4, related to /usr, a bit below...) Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Getting Used to Modular Xorg

2006-01-30 Thread Luca Dionisi
is directory into my > current X and see what happens. Any body got any other ideas? I've got many files in /usr/lib/X11/config and they were installed by xorg. (I've not used X11R7 in my build, now I know I'm not following a widely-used practise) Luca -- http://linuxf

Re: proftpd?

2006-01-26 Thread Luca Dionisi
On 1/26/06, Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > theres nothing in the logs.. Is proftpd running? What if you type: grep proftp /var/log/sys.log or something similar? Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Un

Re: Xorg 6.9?

2006-01-16 Thread Luca Dionisi
On 1/16/06, Simon Geard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not sure, but remember that in previous Xorg/Xfree versions, a patched > verson of Mesa was distributed with X, which provided the OpenGL > implementation. I may be wrong, but I think the changes were merged > upstream, and now unpatched Mesa is

Re: Xorg 6.9?

2006-01-15 Thread Luca Dionisi
On 1/15/06, Alan Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you build and install Mesa correctly? I noticed that in /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri there were no files. Just to be sure, I've done the installation of Mesa again, following your directions: bin/installmesa /usr mkdir -p /usr/lib/xorg/modu

Re: Xorg 6.9?

2006-01-15 Thread Luca Dionisi
On 1/13/06, Luca Dionisi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did succed. I had to: > - run the script build-from-tarballs once to build > most of proto and lib for xorg. > - install Mesa with the commands you provided above. > - run once again the script build-from-tarball

Re: Xorg 6.9?

2006-01-13 Thread Luca Dionisi
way, IMHO it would be worth to have the section for xorg in BLFS to explain the build of modular xorg 7.0 and its configuration. Do you know if this work is in progress by someone? Cheers Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Xorg 6.9?

2006-01-12 Thread Luca Dionisi
--- and then xorg-server is not built. What is the path I must follow to build Xorg7 and DRI from scratch? Please, any hint would be appreciated. Luca PS I'm using this command to build xorg ./build-from-tarballs.sh -n -m /usr/src/mesa/Mesa-6.4.1 /usr To make Mesali

Re: Application Menu not working +gnome 2.10

2005-12-28 Thread Luca Dionisi
Ah, > Wht I should do to make applications menu to work (No applcications are > visible) ensure also you have got this file: $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/menus/applications.menu (something like /etc/gnome/xdg/menus...) It is installed by the package gnome-menus. Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/m

Re: Application Menu not working +gnome 2.10

2005-12-28 Thread Luca Dionisi
? Probably "/usr/share". And, is there a directory /usr/share/applications ? Are there *.desktop files in that directory ? Perhaps, are you using the pkg-user hint as a package management system? In this case, are you issuing the command as root? Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman

Re: Abt Artwork

2005-12-20 Thread Luca Dionisi
e xdg mailing list, here (http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/) - I have no precise idea about splash screens... http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/bootsplash.txt Bye Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.l

Re: Gnome 2.10, Yelp and characterset problems (I presume)

2005-12-16 Thread Luca Dionisi
gecko rendering > > engine as their backend so before I could make the move to the new > > Yelp I had to bite the bullet and install Firefox system side. Hi I think I've got the same problem, but I'm not sure. I will attach a jpeg showing the kind of symbol I see in Yelp.

Re: GNOME using package-users problem

2005-12-12 Thread Luca Dionisi
On 12/5/05, Luca Dionisi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I get closer to the solution I'll write down a note on this thread. > Hi all I finally completed the installation of core GNOME 2.12.2 This time I've got Nautilus to use all the icons it has. I can see a computer

Re: GNOME using package-users problem

2005-12-05 Thread Luca Dionisi
Of Couurse It's a typo. :) I'm installing 2.12.2 Thanks. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: GNOME using package-users problem

2005-12-05 Thread Luca Dionisi
2.8, gnome is using only shared-mime-info, while before it used gnome-mime-data 2.4.2. Though, I'm not sure about its use of the icon-theme specification by freedesktop. I'm tracking down all the modifications to the files (well, I try) at each installation. If I get closer to the solution I

Re: GNOME using package-users problem

2005-12-01 Thread Luca Dionisi
Hi Lennon On 11/23/05, Lennon Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Luca Dionisi wrote: > > If I got it, you mean that any pkg installation that > > wants to add things to that database will use this program. Right? > Yes. It works in a similar way to gconf - package provide

Re: GNOME using package-users problem

2005-12-01 Thread Luca Dionisi
On 12/1/05, S. Anthony Sequeira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 09:52 +0100, Luca Dionisi wrote: > > That is: I've got a setuid-root bash script. It prints out the > > effective > > and real uid. > > But when I run it, I won't ha

Re: GNOME using package-users problem

2005-12-01 Thread Luca Dionisi
7;ve got a setuid-root bash script. It prints out the effective and real uid. But when I run it, I won't have root privileges... Why?!? Is my system acting normally? Thanks Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: GNOME using package-users problem

2005-11-24 Thread Luca Dionisi
On 11/24/05, Lennon Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/24/05, Luca Dionisi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Concerning scrollkeeper, I'm not happy with having _another_ executable > > setuid root. If this became a common scenario, someone could try and >

Re: GNOME using package-users problem

2005-11-24 Thread Luca Dionisi
abase the system replied with a lot of messages that sounded like "lacks mimetype key" or something. Do you think it is a problem? Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: GNOME using package-users problem

2005-11-23 Thread Luca Dionisi
s: shared-mime-info Gnome core packages (as in BLFS book) Perhaps I'll create a new group for these files. If someone has other hints for me... please! In the mean time I'll document myself on scrollkeeper, mime db, ... Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ

Re: GNOME using package-users problem

2005-11-22 Thread Luca Dionisi
On 11/22/05, S. Anthony Sequeira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Then, launching gnome-session, all the icons in nautilus windows > > (and in the desktop) are the same default sheet. :( > > I'm not sure what you mean here, could you explain: > > 1) Exactly what you are seeing (default sheet?) > 2)

GNOME using package-users problem

2005-11-22 Thread Luca Dionisi
rollkeeper database. Are these databases meant to be updated only by an installation, and therefore only by privileged users? Could you enilghten me on where are they located? Are they simple directories or something else? TIA Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support F

Re: Nautilus icons are all equals

2005-11-21 Thread Luca Dionisi
-database being root. I think that I'll be forced to re-do all the installation of gnome packages... with a little more knowledges to keep into consideration. Any hint would be appreciated. Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Nautilus icons are all equals

2005-11-21 Thread Luca Dionisi
xtra package? If not, any suggestion on what I've to look for? TIA Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Building gnome-vfs-2.10.1 with samba 3.0.20

2005-11-08 Thread Luca Dionisi
confirmation from someone else that this is the right workaround ?!? Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Gnome upgrade issues

2005-11-07 Thread Luca Dionisi
On 11/7/05, Lennon Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Luca Dionisi wrote: > > Just a question. Are you using the package user hint? > > It helps alot in finding files installed with a certain package. > In fairness, so do all of the other package management schemes - this &g

Re: Gnome upgrade issues

2005-11-07 Thread Luca Dionisi
Just a question. Are you using the package user hint? It helps alot in finding files installed with a certain package. I have not installed GNOME yet, I'm going to. But for the other packages I found that hint very useful. Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-suppor

Re: openssh closes connection after username is sent

2005-10-26 Thread Luca Dionisi
maybe a problem with your putty configuration. verify that in Connection->SSH->Auth you have selected the check box keyboard-interactive. let me know! Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the

Re: Question about libc5 libc6 incompatibility

2005-10-25 Thread Luca Dionisi
On 10/25/05, Rainer Peter Feller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 11:39 +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > > Probably because *nobody* here knows anything about libc5. > or nobody wants to admit that s/he is that old that s/he knows anything > about libc5

Re: Question about libc5 libc6 incompatibility

2005-10-25 Thread Luca Dionisi
I was just wondering: have I said something wrong in my previous post in this thread? Why no answers from anyone in ten days? Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Package Management using Package Users problem

2005-10-21 Thread Luca Dionisi
s in the second part of the output includes files from the home directory of the package user and shows them in the wrong groups (e.g. world writable and they are not) Any suggestions? Luca E.g. extract of the pkg.lst for libdvdread: Note: the home dir of the pkg user

Question about libc5 libc6 incompatibility

2005-10-17 Thread Luca Dionisi
linux distros) Now, should I be able to compile against libc6 a program that uses the libfoo.so ? Excuse me if this is not a question particularly pertinent to the BLFS-support, but if I want to build a system from source, I think it is good to understand this issue. Many thanks in advance Luca --

Re: Postfix and package users hint

2005-10-05 Thread Luca Dionisi
package user hint and I just figured out to use esmtp as a simple send-only SMTP client. If this is what you need ... Bye Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Problem: Sending a mail

2005-10-04 Thread Luca Dionisi
On 10/4/05, Ainsley Pereira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use nbsmtp for this. > I gave a look. It sounds like a good work. I'll try it very soon. Thanks a lot, Ainsley Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.

Problem: Sending a mail

2005-10-04 Thread Luca Dionisi
own! I just want to do this in a shell script. Perhaps "nail" is not the right tool to use. Anyone has a suggestion? TIA Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: thoughts about a hint.

2005-09-28 Thread Luca Dionisi
> > Doesn't matter. If a malicious package can already install to > directories in $PATH, it can replace or override an existing program > already being run by the scripts you're trying to secure. > > For instance, one of the first things /etc/rc.d/init.d/rc does is run > 'stty sane'. Replace the

Re: thoughts about a hint.

2005-09-28 Thread Luca Dionisi
tofs was trying to do this, but only for the init.d directory. Since there are probably no packages trying to install bootscripts and symlinks, then there is no point in giving them the permission to write in these directories. This conversation convinced me not to write the (poor) hint. Anyway.

Re: thoughts about a hint.

2005-09-27 Thread Luca Dionisi
It's me again. Just a thing... I'm not sure that I said the right thing in english. On 9/27/05, Luca Dionisi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, on the other hand, you may not allow any package > user to install files on /etc/rc.d I mean, on the other hand, you may all

Re: thoughts about a hint.

2005-09-27 Thread Luca Dionisi
ts) autofs does try to put such a script. (... and BLFS suggests to remove that and use its own) Let me know. Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: autofs: is it acting fine?

2005-09-26 Thread Luca Dionisi
It seems like I am another one who needs to pay more attention to the address field when doing a reply :) I did a reply to Nick instead of BLFS-support. Just for completeness, and for what it's worth, I post the lacking mails of this thread. On 9/24/05, Luca Dionisi <[EMAIL PROTECTED

autofs: is it acting fine?

2005-09-23 Thread Luca Dionisi
I have mounted a cdrom, the timeout (yes, I know I can configure the value) ... is it the only way to remove the cd? I mean, is there no way to remove the cd before the inactivity timeout expires? Even if there is no user or process accessing the files in it? ...ehm, I me

Re: Use of ADSL modem

2005-09-17 Thread Luca Dionisi
. I think this work (LFS & Co.) is really good! Good luck to all the members of this community. Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Use of ADSL modem

2005-09-17 Thread Luca Dionisi
check every file that could be installed in a wrong way, it seems to me that this detail has not to do with the problem I've got. Ok, I've written much much much much a lot! I hope you will be so kind to forgive me. TIA Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FA