Re: [gentoo-user] get rid of all gnome related apps

2003-01-30 Thread John Nilsson
This is not exact but it helped me: newkid root # cat /usr/local/bin/depon #!/bin/bash PACKAGE=$1 RDEPS=$(find /var/db/pkg/ -name RDEPEND) egrep "$PACKAGE( +|(-)[0-9]+)" $RDEPS | cut -d "/" -f 6,8 | sed 's/\// depends on: /g' On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 07:03, Kevin J. Anderson wrote: > I am trying

[gentoo-user] get rid of all gnome related apps

2003-01-30 Thread Kevin J. Anderson
I am trying to unmerge all gnome related applications. I have emerge searched gnome, then unmerged all installed programs that came up, but emerge -u --deep keeps trying to bring most of them back. Is there a way for me to figure out what program is stipulating those as dependencies? kev --

[gentoo-user] Configuring an HP DeskJet 3420 that is on a windows share

2003-01-30 Thread Timothy James Friesen
Hello again all, I would like to set up an HP DeskJet 3420 for use over the network. I follow the instructions in the Gentoo guide, until I get to the foomatic-configure part. It cannot find an xml file for that printer. Whenre can I get an xml file for this printer? Thanks, Tim -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I sort mail easily?

2003-01-30 Thread Viktor Lakics
I personally use fetchmail, procmail and mutt. Fetchmail you use it, you have an idea. Procmail: The best for sorting your mail and more... It is a bit involved to setup, but it worth the effort. I filter all my mails with it and it can do spam deleting, editing mails in the fly, etc. Very good

Re: [gentoo-user] How to write an init.d script

2003-01-30 Thread BliZZZard
In theory you be able to copy the binaries over (especially being that they were compiled optimized for i386), as long as any required shared libs are available. Now the scripts themselves you probably will have to re- write, because their init script methods are VERY different from gentoo...

[gentoo-user] OpenOffice trouble maker

2003-01-30 Thread QS
Hi, I recently installed openoffice-1.0.1-r3 I dint have trouble whit it for a couple of days then suddenly it dint wanted to start so I read some treads in the Gentoo's Forum, I took and advice of using strace whit OpenOffice to get more output and guess what? I found the little bugger that was ca

Re: [gentoo-user] How to write an init.d script

2003-01-30 Thread Bruce J.A. Nourish
On Thursday 30 January 2003 08:39 pm, Matt Neimeyer wrote: > The box I'm running Gentoo on came with Redhat 7 (something) on it. Just out of curiosity, where did you buy it? [sneeep] > So the question is... what's the likelihood that I can run those > binaries on Gentoo without corrupting anythin

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA query

2003-01-30 Thread Bruce J.A. Nourish
On Thursday 30 January 2003 01:39 pm, MIKE MacMartin wrote: > Question about sound on Linux: > I've installed Gentoo for a friend of mine, and some weird behaviour > happens: He does not have anything in /dev/sound. We attempted to > mknod the devices so that they appear the same as on my laptop (

Re: [gentoo-user] How to write an init.d script

2003-01-30 Thread Lincoln A. Baxter
One thing that is REALLY COOL about gentoo, is its inovative dependancy based init system, where you do not have to find a place (ie a numeric value) which is appropriate for K and S scripts. As much as I liked sysV style initscripts, when I first encountered then, the gentoo way, is really supper

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync vs sync

2003-01-30 Thread Volker Hemmann
On Friday 31 January 2003 02:21, Brett I.Holcomb wrote: > What's the difference between rsync and sync - if any? > > Thanks. rsync is the older name for the same function. there is no difference. Glück Auf, Volker -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] .bashrc && .bash_profile

2003-01-30 Thread Bob Lockie
.bashrc runs everytime a shell is opened and .bash_profile is run only when a user logs in. My question then is why the default .bashrc is empty and the default .bash_profile has: $ more .bash_profile # Copyright 1999-2002 Gentoo Technologies, Inc. # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General

[gentoo-user] nfs permissions hell

2003-01-30 Thread gabriel
hello all i'm having trouble understanding how to make nfs transparent. i've got the actual sharing of files down, but it's the permissions that are getting at me. there's a breakdown of what i want to have happen: i have two computers running linux (gentoo). a desktop (zathras), which has a

[gentoo-user] How to write an init.d script

2003-01-30 Thread Matt Neimeyer
Hey All, The box I'm running Gentoo on came with Redhat 7 (something) on it. The reason this matters is that it has an LCD panel on the front that displayed lots of useful information (like uptime, memory usage, etc) and some buttons that let you, among other things, shut down the computer. I'v

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I sort mail easily?

2003-01-30 Thread Amiel Martin
I personally love procmail: I sort my gentoo-lists out using it :0 * ^List-Id:.*gentoo\.org $HOME/mail/gentoo-lists if you have procmail installed, man procmailrc and man procmailex are great sources of documentation Alex wrote: I'm looking for a way to sort incoming mail (mail recvd from fe

[gentoo-user] qt-3.1.0-r2 sandbox error

2003-01-30 Thread el lodger
Well I went for it. I swtched to accept keyword and tried to update my system. 49 apps went OK but qt gave the following error: /var/tmp/portage/qt-3.1.0-r2/work/qt-x11-free-3.1.0/bin/uic -L /var/tmp/portage/qt-3.1.0-r2/work/qt-x11-free-3.1.0/plugins mainwindow.ui -i mainwindow.h -o mainwindow.cpp

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I sort mail easily?

2003-01-30 Thread Brett I . Holcomb
Sorry, first reply went to poster, not the list. Also note that Sylpheed and Claws is NOT threaded.  In other words if you use it for news also everything in Sylpheed stops while it checks for news.  This is a pain when composing. > Collins Richey said: > > On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 20:20:33 -0600

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I sort mail easily?

2003-01-30 Thread Troy Dack
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 pro

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I sort mail easily?

2003-01-30 Thread Collins Richey
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. > > Currently, I am using a regular Redhat 8.0 setup and I have written my > own mail sorter that uses mbox format mailboxes. I realize th

[gentoo-user] How can I sort mail easily?

2003-01-30 Thread Alex
I'm looking for a way to sort incoming mail (mail recvd from fetchmail) easily. Currently, I am using a regular Redhat 8.0 setup and I have written my own mail sorter that uses mbox format mailboxes. I realize that my current situtation isn't very good and I would like to use something a litt

Re: [gentoo-user] Openjade merge fails

2003-01-30 Thread Brett I . Holcomb
Well, it worked now - stupid Asus motherboards!  I have an A7M266-D that is supposed to handle 4 gig.  I have 2 gig (4 512 modules) but can only use 2 modules.  I've been trying to add the other modules back and I had three when I tried to emerge oj the first time.  Removed one module and it wo

[gentoo-user] 8859-1 characters in j2sdk1.4.1

2003-01-30 Thread Richard Kilgore
Hi, Does anyone else use j2sdk1.4.1 from sun? If so, please try the following class, and tell me if you get question marks for output or if you get the 8859-1 symbols (a Section symbol and a middle dot). public class I18nTest { public static void main(String[] args) {

[gentoo-user] ALSA query

2003-01-30 Thread MIKE MacMartin
Question about sound on Linux: I've installed Gentoo for a friend of mine, and some weird behaviour happens: He does not have anything in /dev/sound. We attempted to mknod the devices so that they appear the same as on my laptop (with an intel8x0 module supported soundcard)... no dice. He is no

[gentoo-user] Spurious bugzilla mailings

2003-01-30 Thread Collins Richey
Has anyone else received unrequested bugzilla mailings lately? In the past few days, I've received mail anouncing my interested in several kde-related bugzilla entries, but I never registered an interest for these. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area Athlon-XP gentoo 1.4_rc2++ system xfce4-cvs -- [

Re: [gentoo-user] Via VT8233 problems

2003-01-30 Thread Collins Richey
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 01:23:06 +0100 Sjors Robroek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Well, I have an ASUS A7V8X, which also uses a VIA VT8235 chipset > >for > > sound, and sound works for me. ALSA driver 0.9.0rc2 from the gentoo > > sources, compiled into a 2.4.20 kernel. I'm using the fol

Re: [gentoo-user] About XFS

2003-01-30 Thread Nicholas Hockey
I apologize for my site being down i had a very bizzare problem with apache2 (long story), and was working on it, so if yah were trying to get to my page, it is back up now. and i will compose a post describing my odd problem but not right now, as there is a beautiful women waiting for me to jo

[gentoo-user] Openjade merge fails

2003-01-30 Thread Brett I . Holcomb
I was attempting to merge sane-backend and hit a snag with openjade. I checked the archives and found one post but that didn't applyl. I get the following errors. I have perl-5.8.0-r9 installed. Any ideas on what's happening here. Thanks. -DSP_HAVE_LOCALE=1 -DSP_HAVE_WCHAR=1 -DSP_HAVE_GETTE

[gentoo-user] rsync vs sync

2003-01-30 Thread Brett I . Holcomb
What's the difference between rsync and sync - if any? Thanks. -- Brett I. Holcomb AKA Grunt <>< -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Via VT8233 problems

2003-01-30 Thread Sjors Robroek
Well, I have an ASUS A7V8X, which also uses a VIA VT8235 chipset for sound, and sound works for me. ALSA driver 0.9.0rc2 from the gentoo sources, compiled into a 2.4.20 kernel. I'm using the following modules: snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-via8233 i do not have that one. i u

Re: [gentoo-user] Via VT8233 problems

2003-01-30 Thread Sjors Robroek
Well, I have an ASUS A7V8X, which also uses a VIA VT8235 chipset for sound, and sound works for me. ALSA driver 0.9.0rc2 from the gentoo sources, compiled into a 2.4.20 kernel. I'm using the following modules: snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-via8233 i do not have that one. i u

[gentoo-user] problems compiling sim

2003-01-30 Thread Jens Mayer
Hi, when trying to compile 'sim' (a kde-icq-client), I get the follwing errors: , [ emerge sim ] | | /bin/sh ../libtool --silent --mode=link --tag=CXX g++ -DNDEBUG -O2 | -march=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new-o sim | -L/usr/qt/3/lib -R /usr/kde/3.1/lib -R /usr/qt/3/

Re: [gentoo-user] About XFS

2003-01-30 Thread Bruce J.A. Nourish
On Thursday 30 January 2003 04:14 am, Ing. Bernardo Lopez wrote: > I have a problem whit XFS but i dont know if it is my error or if > this is a normal issue... As others have remarked, I doubt this is an XFS issue. See below. > I make 2 new partitions whit XFS (15Gb each one) and i get that pc >

Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash plugin and artsd

2003-01-30 Thread daveman
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 11:19:05PM +0100, Jimmy Rosen wrote: > I thought it was possible to wrap up entire netscape in artsdsp? > Wouldn't child processes see the same environment? > > Jimmy > Worked like a charm! The process for creating a shortcut for this was a bit contorted: Create the shortc

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/i2o not showing up

2003-01-30 Thread Aurelien Gouny
On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 22:56, Jimmy Rosen wrote: > Since I can't get the pti_st driver to compile I'll check out the i2o_block > driver most people seem to be using. But I can't get /dev/i2o/ to show up. > > All i2o modules as 'M'odules in kernel > > loading: > i2o_core > i2o_pci > i2

Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash plugin and artsd

2003-01-30 Thread Jimmy Rosen
I thought it was possible to wrap up entire netscape in artsdsp? Wouldn't child processes see the same environment? Jimmy -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] /dev/i2o not showing up

2003-01-30 Thread Jimmy Rosen
Since I can't get the pti_st driver to compile I'll check out the i2o_block driver most people seem to be using. But I can't get /dev/i2o/ to show up. All i2o modules as 'M'odules in kernel loading: i2o_core i2o_pci i2o_block i2o_proc Brings it up nicely in /proc/i2o, data about

[gentoo-user] netscape-flash plugin and artsd

2003-01-30 Thread daveman
I am unable to get any sound out of the netscape-flash plugin. I suspect that it needs to be configured to work through artsd, perhaps using artsdsp, but can't figure out where I would set this up. Any ideas? Thanks. --David -- |\_/| (\ /) ) (//^\ ( M ) (_)_(_) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] maili

Re: [gentoo-user] About XFS

2003-01-30 Thread Harald Arnesen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Interesting... I never really considered XFS when setting up my > system. Can anyone offer any comparisons between XFS and ReiserFS? Try both on a loop partition - and don't forget jfs when you compare. -- Hilsen Harald. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Opera dies after KDE3.1 upgrade

2003-01-30 Thread Harald Arnesen
Lee John Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anybody else suffered the same fate? I get segfaults trying to run > opera and opera-static after emerging KDE3.1; I can't even get the > GUI. No problems here, so it can't be a general problem. -- Hilsen Harald. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Kvim crashes when after file open - kde-3.1?!

2003-01-30 Thread Viktor Lakics
Dear All I had kvim running fine, but after emerging kde3.1, every time I open kvim the following happens: It opens up fine, but when I try open afile through the gui open dialog kvim crashes... Using e: is fine though... I already remerged kvim no avail. Anyone has an idea? Thanks in advance

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I set up Apache + mod_ssl?

2003-01-30 Thread Aurelien Gouny
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 03:11, Doug Gorley wrote: > I've emerged Apache, OpenSSL and mod_ssl, and I believe that Apache is > recognizing mod_ssl, since OpenSSL is included in my error_log message: > > [Mon Jan 27 15:49:01 2003] [notice] Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) (Gentoo/Linux) > mod_ssl/2.8.12 OpenSSL/0

Re: [gentoo-user] java

2003-01-30 Thread Alexander Futasz
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 09:57:06 -0600, Henning, Brian wrote: > I have heard that the new gcc compilers have the ability to compile > java source code into a binary. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4860 http://gcc.gnu.org/java/ there you will find the needed info. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] m

[gentoo-user] Weird traffic to dictionary.com?

2003-01-30 Thread Shane Hickey
Howdy all, I have a pretty simple iptables setup. Basically, I permit anything returning to my box that I initiated and then I permit some other machines on my private network to do nfs to me and so on. What's weird is that I'm getting logs of, what appears to be, denied http ret

Re: [gentoo-user] Promise SX6000 ATA raid controller pti_st drivermodule

2003-01-30 Thread Aurelien Gouny
On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 19:47, Jimmy Rosen wrote: > I'm going bald from trying to get this driver to build. > > Anyone out there who have had success with compiling and running the pti_st > driver for the sx6000 raid card? > > I've tried both under an old gentoo 1.2 install with gcc 2.95.3 and mcp

Re: [gentoo-user] Font problems

2003-01-30 Thread Ernie Schroder
My appologies to Peter for the duplicate. I'm still not used to replying to Gentoo posts On Thursday 30 January 2003 10:05, Peter Ruskin wrote: > On Wednesday 29 Jan 2003 23:21, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > > Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I have 2 boxes running Gentoo 1.4-rc2 the

Re: [gentoo-user] About XFS

2003-01-30 Thread Nicholas Hockey
i have never had a problem, and i have been running XFS almost from the day that sgi made a kernel patch for it i run mysql, apache2, courier, sshd (and yes i use key auths) tilt@blackhole(pts/4) [~] df -hT Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdc1  xfs    941M   94

Re: [gentoo-user] Opera dies after KDE3.1 upgrade

2003-01-30 Thread Nicholas Hockey
i think that i'm having a very similar problem here is my backtrace: (gdb) bt #0  0x4bf67327 in do_lookup () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2 #1  0x4bf66023 in _dl_lookup_symbol_internal () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2 #2  0x4bf67b68 in elf_machine_rel.0 () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2 #3  0x4bf68102 in elf_dynam

Re: [gentoo-user] Opera dies after KDE3.1 upgrade

2003-01-30 Thread Lee John Moore
On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 19:02, |>J |3l1ZZZ4R|> @ 4RK71K Lee John Moore wrote: > >Anybody else suffered the same fate? I get segfaults trying to run opera > > and opera-static after emerging KDE3.1; I can't even get the GUI. > > Oops... scratch that... your running opera-static don't know >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Opera dies after KDE3.1 upgrade

2003-01-30 Thread Lee John Moore
On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 19:12, Peter Gantner wrote: > Quoting Lee John Moore from Jan 30 [..] > I fixed it by editing ~/.opera/opera6.ini > and removing the line where it looks for the plugins: > > [User Prefs] > Plugin Path= > > Don't ask me why it gets messed up by reemerging kde, but it helped.

Re: [gentoo-user] NTPD

2003-01-30 Thread Joao Sena Ribeiro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Maximus wrote: [...] | However, I now notice that when I out servers in my ntpd.conf, they | disappear! | | I heard mention somewhere that dhcpcd is removing them? What the fix? Edit /etc/conf.d/net, and add/edit the line "dhcpcd_ethX" (where ethX is

[gentoo-user] KDE styles gone?

2003-01-30 Thread Jeremy Workman
Hello, It seems all the KDE styles are missing after upgrade from qt-3.1.0-r1 to qt-3.1.0-r2. I'm wondering what happened, and how I can get them back. Any suggestions would be appreciated. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Opera dies after KDE3.1 upgrade

2003-01-30 Thread Peter Gantner
Quoting Lee John Moore from Jan 30 > Anybody else suffered the same fate? I get segfaults trying to run opera and > opera-static after emerging KDE3.1; I can't even get the GUI. Yes I did. I fixed it by editing ~/.opera/opera6.ini and removing the line where it looks for the plugins: [User P

Re: [gentoo-user] NTPD

2003-01-30 Thread Maximus
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 20:53:06 -0500 Maximus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 17:26:57 -0500 > Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > any further questions/concerns/problems can be sent to me > > personally. or file a bug at bugs.gentoo.org. > > > > as for manpages, they

Re: [gentoo-user] Opera dies after KDE3.1 upgrade

2003-01-30 Thread |>J |3l1ZZZ4R|> @ 4RK71K
Oops... scratch that... your running opera-static don't know what to tell ya then... you may try the opera (non-static) now... their finally getting the ebuilds a little more up to date... Lee John Moore wrote: Anybody else suffered the same fate? I get segfaults trying to run opera a

Re: [gentoo-user] Opera dies after KDE3.1 upgrade

2003-01-30 Thread |>J |3l1ZZZ4R|> @ 4RK71K
If I remember correctly Opera requires QT (I think... correct me if I'm wrong), and may nee re-merging (especially if QT was upgraded as well) Just an idea... Lee John Moore wrote: Anybody else suffered the same fate? I get segfaults trying to run opera and opera-static after emerging

Re: [gentoo-user] time and office problems

2003-01-30 Thread |>J |3l1ZZZ4R|> @ 4RK71K
    Another good utility for this is rdate (found in most popular distributions):     emerge rdate     rdate -s time.nist.gov     (Simply accomplishes the same thing... but is also available)...     One thing I also find useful (being that my primary linux machine is a laptop) is to have an

[gentoo-user] Promise SX6000 ATA raid controller pti_st driver module

2003-01-30 Thread Jimmy Rosen
I'm going bald from trying to get this driver to build. Anyone out there who have had success with compiling and running the pti_st driver for the sx6000 raid card? I've tried both under an old gentoo 1.2 install with gcc 2.95.3 and mcpu i686 and a newer gentoo 1.4 rc2 with gcc 3.2.1 and march

[gentoo-user] BUG in the Makefile file generated by Glade 1.x.x

2003-01-30 Thread Stephane Wirtel
Hi all ! I have this problem, when i generate the source code with Glade, i have the same problem, it's impossible to execute the Makefile because, there is an error in the file, this error is at the line 170. Version : Glade : 1.1.3 Automake : 1.7.2 aka 1.4-p5 Autoconf : from autoconf --version

Re: [gentoo-user] time and office problems

2003-01-30 Thread C. Brewer
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 10:27:50 -0800 "C. Brewer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 12:10:55 -0500 > "Mike Bellemare" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi there! > > > > first of all, i've got a problem with my time clock. > > while i've put the right time zone in /etc/localtimezone i

Re: [gentoo-user] time and office problems

2003-01-30 Thread C. Brewer
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 12:10:55 -0500 "Mike Bellemare" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there! > > first of all, i've got a problem with my time clock. > while i've put the right time zone in /etc/localtimezone it keeps giving the wrong >time (about 4 hours of difference). > I think it's taking the