[gentoo-user] hdparm -Tt says: Hmm.. suspicious results

2003-06-06 Thread Joe Stroller
I have recently gotten Gentoo installed on a Sony Vaio PCG-C1XD; I am using Gentoo sources (linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r5) but it seems quite slow. Now I know it's only a little Pentium II, but I haven't even installed KDE, yet! It has 64meg RAM and 750meg of the 12 gig drive is swap. I arranged this swa

Re: [gentoo-user] lightweight C IDE

2003-06-06 Thread Daniel Guerrero
El viernes, 6 junio, 2003, a las 07:53 PM, Matthias F. Brandstetter escribió: Hi all, I am searching for a *lightweight* C IDE, but not only an editor with syntax highlighting. Isn't there a nice tool with editor, compiler- and debugger-interface, C function help etc., but not as bombastic as K

Re: [gentoo-user] lightweight C IDE

2003-06-06 Thread Cedric Veilleux
This is probably not what you want to hear but, kdevelop is want comes the closest to an editor with compiler and debugger interface.. with a few extra frills, that you can choose to disable in the plugins configuration in order to unbloat it from what you don't need right now.. Le 6 Juin

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: mbox vs maildir

2003-06-06 Thread Luke Ravitch
On 2003-06-06 03:55, Arnold Krille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For me maildir works better too. Except that I once needed to copy > my maildir, but perhaps I should have it packed ;-) cp -R -- Luke -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables error

2003-06-06 Thread MIKE MacMartin
> One last question for today: > > How can I make the comands: > echo "1" >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward > iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE > permanent, meaning executed at boot time? Copy one of the /etc/init.d scripts and make it your own. For example (here's a quick exampl

Re: [gentoo-user] sound question

2003-06-06 Thread Collins Richey
On Fri, 06 Jun 2003 09:59:02 -0500 Rick Sivernell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Collins - Brett David > >I have followed the howto at gentoo and all works down to muting. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] rick # amixer > amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such file or directory > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ri

Re: [gentoo-user] lightweight C IDE

2003-06-06 Thread Marius Mauch
On Sat, 7 Jun 2003 02:53:00 +0200 Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: > Hi all, > > I am searching for a *lightweight* C IDE, but not only an editor with > syntax highlighting. Isn't there a nice tool with editor, compiler- > and debugger-interface, C function help etc., but not as bombastic as >

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables error

2003-06-06 Thread Klaus D. Neumann
Got it. I had to copy back my .config before reloading it into menuconfig. My internet sharing works now. Thanks to all the help I got from this list. I really appreciate it! One last question for today: How can I make the comands: echo "1" >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward iptables -t nat -A POST

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables error

2003-06-06 Thread Klaus D. Neumann
On Friday 06 June 2003 04:05 am, Mark Fisher wrote: > > My gut feeling is that the module didnt compile correctly, probably because > of a missed-out make clean or make mrproper at the kernel compiling > stage... without these lines the /urc/src/linux dir is still dirty from the > last compile. >

[gentoo-user] lightweight C IDE

2003-06-06 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Hi all, I am searching for a *lightweight* C IDE, but not only an editor with syntax highlighting. Isn't there a nice tool with editor, compiler- and debugger-interface, C function help etc., but not as bombastic as KDevelop (only want to write some console and daemon C apps)? I would prefer a

Re: [gentoo-user] Partitions

2003-06-06 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Separate partitions have advantages such that if you bork or have a partition go bad you still have /usr, /home and maybe some others intact. Also /home on a separate parititon lets you mount it anywhere. I had a system on which a drive failed and I was able to move the parititions on it to an

[gentoo-user] SpamAssassin and Bayesian spam filtering

2003-06-06 Thread MooktaKiNG
I've installed the latest version of SpamAssassin. I've collected up soe spam and have some ham. I've made a cron job of teaching it using this command: sa-learn --spam --dir .maildir/.Spam/cur/ I used this command, using spam and ham for each folders of my mail. I use procmail and some other fi

Re: [gentoo-user] Good backup tool?

2003-06-06 Thread Jayson Garrell
On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 16:39, Peter Ruskin wrote. > > So that explains it. Yes, this is an ultra100. Thanks for the info. Any time ;-) 33G is a lot to lose. BTW the Maxtor IDE cards are just re-branded Promise cards at but at a much cheaper price. Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

[gentoo-user] urgh.. mod_php blew up webmail

2003-06-06 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Warning: main(DB.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/httpd/htdocs/squirrelmail-1.4.0/functions/db_prefs.php on line 35 Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required 'DB.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php') in /home/httpd/htdocs/squirrelmail-1.4.0/functions/db_prefs.ph

Re: [gentoo-user] Abiword and Bash shell completion

2003-06-06 Thread Marius Mauch
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 17:02:37 -0500 Larry Wright wrote: > Just tried to emerge abiword, and here's what I got: > chromium tkcbase # emerge -p abiword > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > [blocks B] app-shells/bash-completion (from pkg

Re: [gentoo-user] can I unmerge these duplicate pkgs ?

2003-06-06 Thread Marius Mauch
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 13:50:29 -0400 R'twick Niceorgaw wrote: > Hi I just ran qpkg --dup -v and got the following list. > > Is it safe to unmerge all older versions leaving just the latest > version installed or will it give me any problems ? > > regards > R'twick > > # qpkg --dups -v > app-text/d

Re: [gentoo-user] Good backup tool?

2003-06-06 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Friday 06 Jun 2003 22:04, Jayson Garrell wrote: > Are you using that 160GB drive on a ultra100 controller? If so thats > why it's only using 127GB. I had the same thing, 33GB sounded a bit > high for partition information, and got a ultra133 controller and it > sees the full drive capacity. So

[gentoo-user] Unresolved symbols snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss

2003-06-06 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Hello When I do modprobe snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss I get a whole bunch of errors about unresolved symbols (attached). This only began with alsa-driver-0.9.4-r1. With 0.9.3c it was fine. I need to initialise these modules to preserve my volume settings. 'Oss' is in my use flags and I have tri

Re: [gentoo-user] Partitions

2003-06-06 Thread Simon Mushi
Dear Jean, I had the same wishes when I wanted to install Gentoo, and I agree with you that the directions to have separate /usr, /home and /var partitions weren't clear. I gave up on trying to have separate partitions after I went thru the whole install only to have problems mounting them at boot

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge hung - how to handle?

2003-06-06 Thread Chris I
On 2003.06.06 17:26, Mark Knecht wrote: > -Original Message- > From: Mark Knecht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 1:31 PM > To: Gentoo-User > Subject: [gentoo-user] emerge hung - how to handle? > > > Hi, >emerge -e world appears hung. I returned from lunch. It h

Re: [gentoo-user] Partitions

2003-06-06 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
You can partition anyway you want. That's just an example. I have /, /boot/ /usr, /home as mine as well as a /files for storing shared files. > Hi all, > I am planning to install gentoo instead of some other distro; I read the > doc but found nothing about having more than /boot and / partition

Re: [gentoo-user] Partitions

2003-06-06 Thread Larry Wright
While you're at it, I would put /var on it's own partition as well. On Friday 06 June 2003 04:29 pm, Jean Magnan wrote: > Hi all, > I am planning to install gentoo instead of some other distro; I read the > doc but found nothing about having more than /boot and / partitions. I wish > to install at

[gentoo-user] Abiword and Bash shell completion

2003-06-06 Thread Larry Wright
Just tried to emerge abiword, and here's what I got: chromium tkcbase # emerge -p abiword These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B] app-shells/bash-completion (from pkg app-office/abiword-1.0.5) [ebuild N ] app-office/abiword-1.0.5

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Compaq laptops and Gentoo

2003-06-06 Thread Jim Bailey
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 04:10:32PM -0500, Larry Wright wrote: > Yeah, Dell's are nice, they just never seemed to hold up all that well. > I may look at that though. Add my 2 pence worth and mention apple if only for battery life. Peace Jim -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Samba

2003-06-06 Thread Jamie Dobbs
I have a bit of an odd Samba problem. I've got a Gentoo 1.4_rc4 box running CUPS and Samba sharing a printer on the network. I can print to it perfectly from my Gentoo box but Windows PCs (running W2K) cannot print to the printer in question. The Windows boxes can get to a shared directory on the S

[gentoo-user] Partitions

2003-06-06 Thread Jean Magnan
Hi all, I am planning to install gentoo instead of some other distro; I read the doc but found nothing about having more than /boot and / partitions. I wish to install at least a /home partition. What would do? Thx, -- Jean Magnan de Bornier -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge hung - how to handle?

2003-06-06 Thread Mark Knecht
> -Original Message- > From: Mark Knecht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 1:31 PM > To: Gentoo-User > Subject: [gentoo-user] emerge hung - how to handle? > > > Hi, >emerge -e world appears hung. I returned from lunch. It hasn't moved in > 15 minutes. Is it hung?

Re: [gentoo-user] Init not found?

2003-06-06 Thread Chris I
On 2003.06.06 11:17, Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos wrote: Wow Chris, Great shot... :) When I read your post I though... "Oh, I'd not forget such a thing, I'm sure that's correct. But damn, I'm desperate, let me check." And BUMM, you're right. I've changed it and everything now starts j

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Compaq laptops and Gentoo

2003-06-06 Thread Larry Wright
Yeah, Dell's are nice, they just never seemed to hold up all that well. I may look at that though. On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 14:23, Scott Carmichael wrote: > Dells can do higher than 1024x768, usually have acceptable support under > Linux, and come with either ATI or nVidia cards, both usually support

Re: [gentoo-user] kstars

2003-06-06 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Friday 06 June 2003 03:15 pm, Aaron Stout wrote: > Just wondering if anyone knows of a good drop-in program for kstars. > (I wish that was not built into the kdeedu package). Check this out too. "emerge xephem" There is a d'load restriction on it and you must agree not to use it commercially an

Re: [gentoo-user] Good backup tool?

2003-06-06 Thread Jayson Garrell
On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 13:39, Peter Ruskin wrote: > I was so impressed I got myself a 160GB disk and adapted the script as > follows. My complete backup (including Windows 98) is about 12GB so I > can get about 9 or 10 full backups on that disk and they only take an > hour on a cron job. Althou

Re: [gentoo-user] Support MPEG cards

2003-06-06 Thread --[ UxBoD ]--
Is anybody successfully using the Hauppauge WinTV PVR 250 ? On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 09:54, Juri Haberland wrote: > "--[ UxBoD ]--" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am trying to get DVB and the VDR to work. I need a MPEG decoder card. > > I know Creative and Sigma used to do them. Are there any ne

RE: [gentoo-user] Good backup tool?

2003-06-06 Thread Brenden Walker
I use mondo-rescue, which can put the disk images anywhere (instead of burning them). The best thing is that you can boot off CD1 and reload your entire system from bare metal... (and I've partially done that once). Last I checked it doesn't support grub though. > -Original Message- >

Re: [gentoo-user] Good backup tool?

2003-06-06 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Friday 06 Jun 2003 19:35, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >I've got a number of 1394 hard drives. I'd like to set up some > sort of a regular backup of my Gentoo box in the studio. Can someone > recommend a tool that has an ebuild and will support backing up to a > hard drive? > >I prefer a GUI

[gentoo-user] emerge hung - how to handle?

2003-06-06 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, emerge -e world appears hung. I returned from lunch. It hasn't moved in 15 minutes. Is it hung? The machine is alive, but it's at 0% CPU. Should I Ctrl-C it and then just start it again? I'm off to read the portage/emerge docs, but I'm sure folks here have seen this before. Thanks,

RE: [gentoo-user] Dialup sucks, but I need gentoo ...

2003-06-06 Thread Rex Young
>> ... at home, built from stage1. >> >> Is there an .iso/script/etc somewhere that I can use to >figure out what >> packages/updates/etc I will need to build each stage, >download them at >> work, and, say burn 'em to a cd, bring em home, and move >them somewhere >> where the stage-n installer

Re: [gentoo-user] kstars

2003-06-06 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Friday 06 June 2003 03:15 pm, Aaron Stout wrote: > Just wondering if anyone knows of a good drop-in program for kstars. > (I wish that was not built into the kdeedu package). Aaron. You might look here I haven't played with any of these but "skychart" looks interesting depending on

[gentoo-user] tcl

2003-06-06 Thread omestre
hello, I have just installed the tcl package in my gentoo workstation, and i have some programs that use tcl... The problem is that my programs are "static" linked. And the emerge command did not compiled the .a libraries. There is just the libtclstub.a file in /usr/lib/. How can i generate the l

Re: [gentoo-user] bash & HOME - END ?

2003-06-06 Thread Andy Smith
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 07:54:27PM +0300, raptor wrote: > hi, > > why when I'm editing at the bash prompt the keys HOME/END dont move the marker at > begin/end position ?! > And "DEL" writes "~" instead of deleting the char at which the marker is ?! > > how to correct this... Heh, I've just bee

Re: [gentoo-user] Root user password problems

2003-06-06 Thread Norberto BENSA
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ date ; echo ${Patrick Börjesson} Thursday 05 June 2003 05:08 pm > > Any ideas on how to solve this issue? > > This should work: > 1. Boot up from Live-cd > 2. Mount and cdroot to your root-partition > 3. Change passwd for root > 4. Unmount and reboot > Too complicated. Just

RE: [gentoo-user] stage3 install

2003-06-06 Thread Rex Young
>If were to install gentoo from stage3, can I run emerge -e world to >recompile every using my optimizations and USE flags? > yes. it's always good to add the -p flag like so: emerge -pe world. -p means pretend, so that you get a listing of what will be emerged. -e is the shortform of --emptyt

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Compaq laptops and Gentoo

2003-06-06 Thread Scott Carmichael
Dells can do higher than 1024x768, usually have acceptable support under Linux, and come with either ATI or nVidia cards, both usually supported in X too! :) I'd go with Dell, myself. ;) --- Scott Carmichael http://jobeus.net/ Larry Wright said on 06.06.03 at 09:16: > Does anyone have any expe

Re: [gentoo-user] stage3 install

2003-06-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 18:35, Adam Dunstan wrote: > If were to install gentoo from stage3, can I run emerge -e world to > recompile every using my optimizations and USE flags? > > Im kinda new at this :) Adam, I'm new too. I don't think so. I think it will only compile the things that get updat

Re: [gentoo-user] Good backup tool?

2003-06-06 Thread Alan
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 11:35:33AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >I've got a number of 1394 hard drives. I'd like to set up some sort of a > regular backup of my Gentoo box in the studio. Can someone recommend a tool > that has an ebuild and will support backing up to a hard drive? > >I

[gentoo-user] anti-virus working or not ?

2003-06-06 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
If a message comes in, i see this in /var/log/mail.log these errors below. But if i send the eicar.com virus test to myself the virus scanner place it in quarentine. All the mail have this header: X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS 0.3.12. I'm now wondering is my mail save ore not? Patrick Jun 6 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system really slowing down and using swap file more than ever!

2003-06-06 Thread Zack Gilburd
On Thursday 05 June 2003 11:16, Norberto BENSA wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ date ; echo ${Zack Gilburd} > Wednesday 04 June 2003 02:37 am > > > as I stated before, I have 1 > > _gig_ of ram and almost always 75%+ is free. However, almost *always* my > > swap usage is at 50%. > > Heavy usage, eh!

Re: [gentoo-user] Dialup sucks, but I need gentoo ...

2003-06-06 Thread Phil Sexton
On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 14:17, Rob Harris wrote: > ... at home, built from stage1. > > Is there an .iso/script/etc somewhere that I can use to figure out what > packages/updates/etc I will need to build each stage, download them at > work, and, say burn 'em to a cd, bring em home, and move them some

Re: [gentoo-user] Good backup tool?

2003-06-06 Thread Chris Bare
> Hi, >I've got a number of 1394 hard drives. I'd like to set up some sort of a > regular backup of my Gentoo box in the studio. Can someone recommend a tool > that has an ebuild and will support backing up to a hard drive? > >I prefer a GUI based tool, or something very easy to remember h

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [lists] [gentoo-user] Bayesian spam filtering

2003-06-06 Thread Luke Ravitch
On 2003-06-05 07:15, Anthony Ventimiglia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bogofilter should be more *nixy since it was written by esr, but I > don't know if it supports more than two buckets. Not sure what you mean by buckets. Bogofilter doesn't really care how many mailboxes you use. It operates on

Re: [gentoo-user] Bayesian spam filtering

2003-06-06 Thread Lincoln A. Baxter
If you are using qmail, consdier qconfirm: It requires you to expose your qmail to the net but as long as you have an always on connection, it is easy to do with dyndns.org. It virtual elminates SPAM, because only those that have explicitly responded to a confirmation request, or you have explic

[gentoo-user] stage3 install

2003-06-06 Thread Adam Dunstan
If were to install gentoo from stage3, can I run emerge -e world to recompile every using my optimizations and USE flags? Im kinda new at this :) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Dialup sucks, but I need gentoo ...

2003-06-06 Thread Phil Sexton
On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 14:17, Rob Harris wrote: > ... at home, built from stage1. > > Is there an .iso/script/etc somewhere that I can use to figure out what > packages/updates/etc I will need to build each stage, download them at > work, and, say burn 'em to a cd, bring em home, and move them some

[gentoo-user] Good backup tool?

2003-06-06 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I've got a number of 1394 hard drives. I'd like to set up some sort of a regular backup of my Gentoo box in the studio. Can someone recommend a tool that has an ebuild and will support backing up to a hard drive? I prefer a GUI based tool, or something very easy to remember how to use if

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix vs. Qmail

2003-06-06 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Larry Wright -- > Npw wait a minute, are you trying to say that there is some other > editor *besides* emacs? hehe, I have a good one too: why is this "nano" the default editor on Gentoo LiveCD? *nocommentsplease* -- Mmm ... gummy-bear - Homer Simpson -- [EMAIL PRO

[gentoo-user] Dialup sucks, but I need gentoo ...

2003-06-06 Thread Rob Harris
... at home, built from stage1. Is there an .iso/script/etc somewhere that I can use to figure out what packages/updates/etc I will need to build each stage, download them at work, and, say burn 'em to a cd, bring em home, and move them somewhere where the stage-n installers would find/use them?

[gentoo-user] bash & HOME - END ?

2003-06-06 Thread raptor
hi, why when I'm editing at the bash prompt the keys HOME/END dont move the marker at begin/end position ?! And "DEL" writes "~" instead of deleting the char at which the marker is ?! how to correct this... thanx -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] kstars

2003-06-06 Thread Aaron Stout
Just wondering if anyone knows of a good drop-in program for kstars. (I wish that was not built into the kdeedu package). -- Aaron -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gkrellm and kmail

2003-06-06 Thread David
Okay, posted how to on Forum at: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=354595#354595 if anyone is interested. :) On Thursday 05 June 2003 07:30 pm, David wrote: > Got it working with mailbox protocol now, not sure if was a glitch or bug, > but had to setup a pop3 remote check first, then it

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables error

2003-06-06 Thread Klaus D. Neumann
On Thursday 05 June 2003 04:22 am, Mark Fisher wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 05 Jun 2003 3:08 am, Klaus D. Neumann wrote: > > modprobe: Can't locate module ip_tables > > iptables v1.2.8: can't initialize iptables table `nat': iptables who? (do > > you need

[gentoo-user] can I unmerge these duplicate pkgs ?

2003-06-06 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
Hi I just ran qpkg --dup -v and got the following list.   Is it safe to unmerge all older versions leaving just the latest version installed or will it give me any problems ?   regards R'twick   # qpkg --dups -vapp-text/docbook-sgml-dtd-3.0-r1app-text/docbook-sgml-dtd-3.1-r1app-text/docbook-s

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system really slowing down and using swap file more than ever!

2003-06-06 Thread Norberto BENSA
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ date ; echo ${Zack Gilburd} Wednesday 04 June 2003 02:37 am > as I stated before, I have 1 > _gig_ of ram and almost always 75%+ is free. However, almost *always* my > swap usage is at 50%. Heavy usage, eh!?... What do you do with your box? Video/music editing? Regards, No

RE: [gentoo-user] pkg's safe for removing ?

2003-06-06 Thread Rex Young
>mv /usr/portage/distfiles /tmp >mkdir /usr/portage/distfiles >FETCHCOMMAND='mv /tmp/distfiles/${FILE} ${DISTDIR}' emerge -fe world >rm -rf /tmp/distfiles > >This should be about as perfect as you're likely to see. >Unfortunately it >does take a while to run. If you have leaf packages that aren't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gkrellm and kmail

2003-06-06 Thread David
Got it working with mailbox protocol now, not sure if was a glitch or bug, but had to setup a pop3 remote check first, then it would only do mailbox protocol. Before that it would only put mbox as protocol. Once I found that I could have changed it in the config file for gkrellm since I now know w

Re: [gentoo-user] Clear Screen

2003-06-06 Thread C. Brewer
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 03:27:43 -0400 (EDT) "Rev. Jeffrey Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Jamie Dobbs wrote: > > > How can I make it so that whenever I log out of a console and return the > > the login prompt the screen clears ie. the login prompt is always at the > > top of a

Re: [gentoo-user] pkg's safe for removing ?

2003-06-06 Thread Heschi Kreinick
Any new revision (-r1,-r2...) will almost certainly use the old source tarball. Of course Portage will happily redownload any file it needs, but here's a more-or-less bulletproof way to clean out your distfiles: mv /usr/portage/distfiles /tmp mkdir /usr/portage/distfiles FETCHCOMMAND='mv /tmp/dist

[gentoo-user] Re: gkrellm and kmail

2003-06-06 Thread David
Someone wanted to know about using Kmail and gkrellm. I accidently deleted the mail. So don't remember the question, but I got mine configured to remote check the mail, haven't gotten the local mailbox protocol figure out yet, but if you wanted to know how repost. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing lis

[gentoo-user] nfs dmesg output

2003-06-06 Thread Robert Cole
I've got an nfs server (gentoo of course) and I mount my home directory on my workstation. Here's fstab: fs1:/home/rcole /home/rcole nfs rw,intr,nfsvers=3,hard,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,owner0 0 and my exports on my server is like so: /home/rcole ws3(rw,async) And I get this on the

[gentoo-user] Support MPEG cards

2003-06-06 Thread --[ UxBoD ]--
Hi: I am trying to get DVB and the VDR to work. I need a MPEG decoder card. I know Creative and Sigma used to do them. Are there any newer cards that are supported? -- // --[ UxBoD ]-- // 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 // Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.53GHz // // gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 402E340E //

Re: [gentoo-user] pkg's safe for removing ?

2003-06-06 Thread Collins Richey
On Thu, 05 Jun 2003 10:23:15 -0400 "brett holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can remove anything from the distfiles directory. It > will just download them again. You could check the world > file or use qpkg -I to list the installed files or epm (I > think that's the utility) as in epm

Re: [gentoo-user] changing emerge download site

2003-06-06 Thread David
You can emerge mirrorselect Then just run it and it will append to your /etc/make.conf Haven't done it in awhile, so as root, do: mirrorselect --help On Thursday 05 June 2003 10:55 am, Seo Boon, NG wrote: > Hi, > > whenever I emerge any ports, the sources get downloaded from > gentoo.oregons

[gentoo-user] changing emerge download site

2003-06-06 Thread Seo Boon, NG
Hi, whenever I emerge any ports, the sources get downloaded from gentoo.oregonstate.edu. This mirror site is painfully slow from my side of the network. Wonder is there a configuration file that I could change to point to a faster download site? Thanks in advance. -- SB http://www.employees.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Root user password problems

2003-06-06 Thread David
Right, that is usually what happens. Logout as user and back in as root. Then set the permissions backup again. On Thursday 05 June 2003 05:25 pm, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: > I had this problem a while back. It was that I was removed from teh wheel > group. I could log on to root in a console, bu

Re: [gentoo-user] pkg's safe for removing ?

2003-06-06 Thread David
I don't know if there is an 'official' script to remove them, just like there isn't an official way to backup your system. U just kindof gotta do it. :) Like when you do backup your computer, most people recommend that you delete all the /usr/portage/distifiles and a couple other places. They are

Re: [gentoo-user] Bayesian spam filtering

2003-06-06 Thread Chris I
On 2003.06.05 09:31, Larry Wright wrote: I am currently running qmail + fetchmail + procmail + spamassassin. Everything works pretty well, but I'm a little dissapointed in spamassassin's accuracy. I'd ideally like something similar to spambayes, which is trainable. Unfortunately spambayes does not

Re: [gentoo-user] Which java-sdk?

2003-06-06 Thread Ben Ricker
Richard is correct here. The listings in Top are inter-process threads, not processes. The memory trick is a way to tell; or the knowledge that Java is threaded tells you all you need to know. On the question: I wonder if there is something going on with Volano's app. For instance, there are a num

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: mbox vs maildir

2003-06-06 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Anthony Floyd wrote: With all the discussion of mail handling recently, it's perked my interest in trying to revive the mail system on my test machine, which I've borked pretty royally. One thing I've never had a good handle on is mbox vs maildir. I sort-of know the differences between the two, b

Re: [gentoo-user] Which java-sdk?

2003-06-06 Thread Larry Meadors
Back to the topic, I wanted to make it easier to switch between them because I could not decide either. I created a file named /etc/env.d/java/20symlink-usr-java that contains this: --- VERSION="Whatever /usr/java/jdk points to..." JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk CLASSPATH=.:/usr/java/jdk/jre/lib:/

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice for protecting a network

2003-06-06 Thread Joel Brauer
You could do this. Depending on how you want to set things up. You could nat all of your windows/mac machines behind the linux firewall, and then just set up your gentoo gnu/linux box to be an smtp forwarding agent that checks each email for viruses before forwarding it on to your smtp server. A

[gentoo-user] OT: mbox vs maildir

2003-06-06 Thread Anthony Floyd
With all the discussion of mail handling recently, it's perked my interest in trying to revive the mail system on my test machine, which I've borked pretty royally. One thing I've never had a good handle on is mbox vs maildir. I sort-of know the differences between the two, but have no idea ab

Re: [gentoo-user] X 4.3 DRM new issue

2003-06-06 Thread MIKE MacMartin
> KDM and GDM both display the system freeze issue, but using startx from the > prompt does not. Upgrading to xfree-4.3.0-r2 fixed this ... either that, or the kernel for 2.4.20-r5 is more stable than r2. Either way, problem's gone. I think I'll keep my multiheading for now... > > MIKE -- Be

Re: [gentoo-user] Bayesian spam filtering

2003-06-06 Thread Steven Knight
On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 09:40, Ryan wrote: > I've been using bogofilter (http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/) with > procmail with great success. A few false negatives now and then but I > haven't seen a false positive yet. The only thing I don't like about the > setup is that I have to go to a comma

Re: [gentoo-user] Which java-sdk?

2003-06-06 Thread Richard Kilgore
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 05:32:19PM +0200, Gwendolyn van der Linden wrote: > > Has anyone ever heard why the JVMs out there always lose to their > > Windows counterparts in performance figures? The latest study at > > this site shows all the Linux JVMs failing the number of > > concurrent connectio

Re: AW: [gentoo-user] Which laptop vendors officially supports linux?

2003-06-06 Thread latin hypercube
On Thursday 05 June 2003 09:08, Meidinger Christopher wrote: > IBM supports Linux heavily too. > I have run Linux on numerous IBM laptops with very little problem. > Just be sure to avoid WinModems Though IBM do at least provide drivers for the WinModems in some ThinkPads and others seem to h

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice for protecting a network

2003-06-06 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: >Hi, > >The compagny i work for has a small test-network about 10 computers (windows, >Macintosh) with a cable connection to the internet. >Today the new Bugbear virus hit it. >So now looking for a way to protect it, before it was not needit (wat co

Re: [gentoo-user] No init-script that provides net?

2003-06-06 Thread Patrick Börjesson
> Hmm, looks ok. I deleted the actual sendmail lines and tested it here, > works for me without that message. Might be some other component, > baselayout, rc-scripts or likewise, no real idea here. Try asking in > IRC or the forums, maybe a dev sees it there. As a last resort you can > file a bug o

RE: [gentoo-user] SSH Problems

2003-06-06 Thread Tracy LCpl Derek E
I appreciate everyones help. You all are great. -Original Message- From: Kurt Bechstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 11:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] SSH Problems Yeah, my gues would be a tcp wrapper problem then. Probably adjust your f

Re: [gentoo-user] Root user password problems

2003-06-06 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
I had this problem a while back. It was that I was removed from teh wheel group. I could log on to root in a console, but not su. Try it. HTH Mike On Thursday 05 June 2003 06:14 pm, Eric Marchionni wrote: > hi > > i think you should report this to the gentoo bugs team. > otherwise more people

RE: [gentoo-user] Which java-sdk?

2003-06-06 Thread Gwendolyn van der Linden
> Has anyone ever heard why the JVMs out there always lose to their > Windows counterparts in performance figures? The latest study at > this site shows all the Linux JVMs failing the number of > concurrent connections test miserably, except for the Blackdown > 1.3.1 JVM which otherwise sucks in t

RE: [gentoo-user] SSH Problems

2003-06-06 Thread Kurt Bechstein
Yeah, my gues would be a tcp wrapper problem then. Probably adjust your files and you should be good. On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 11:22, Tracy LCpl Derek E wrote: > Since the connection is actually established than can I assume that the > firewall is not what is preventing me from connecting to my hom

Re: [gentoo-user] Root user password problems

2003-06-06 Thread Eric Marchionni
hi i think you should report this to the gentoo bugs team. otherwise more people will also experience this problem... regards, eric Mike Arrison wrote: Paulo, I had this problem too. It came from not being careful enough with the etc-update procedure after upgrading dhcp. I believe that

RE: [gentoo-user] SSH Problems

2003-06-06 Thread Tracy LCpl Derek E
Since the connection is actually established than can I assume that the firewall is not what is preventing me from connecting to my home computer? -Original Message- From: Tracy LCpl Derek E [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 10:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [

Re: [gentoo-user] Which java-sdk?

2003-06-06 Thread Richard Kilgore
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 09:13:12AM -0500, Ben Ricker wrote: > On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 11:32, Ing. Bernardo Lopez O. wrote: > > Its a kind of chat server (not ircd... but kind of) its for a server whit > > 1.4ghz 256ram > > Check out http://www.volano.com/benchmarks.html for benchmarks on > differen

Re: [gentoo-user] sound question

2003-06-06 Thread Rick Sivernell
Collins - Brett David I have followed the howto at gentoo and all works down to muting. [EMAIL PROTECTED] rick # amixer amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] rick # [EMAIL PROTECTED] rick # ll /dev/sound total 0 drwxr-xr-x1 root root

[gentoo-user] Advice for protecting a network

2003-06-06 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, The compagny i work for has a small test-network about 10 computers (windows, Macintosh) with a cable connection to the internet. Today the new Bugbear virus hit it. So now looking for a way to protect it, before it was not needit (wat could happen). Can i with Linux and Gentoo protect it? I

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot open root device

2003-06-06 Thread Chris Bare
> Look back at his fstab. He has his partitions listed as hd1, hd3 etc. > shouldn't it read hda1,hda3 etc? Yes, someone caught that earlier, but the kernel wasn't even getting that far. I'd left out something that needed to be linked in statically. I started over with /proc/config from the liveCD

Re: [gentoo-user] No init-script that provides net?

2003-06-06 Thread Marius Mauch
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 23:17:59 +0200 Patrick Börjesson wrote: > > Seems that not the dependencies but something in the sendmail script > > is broken. If I understand this message right runscript.sh (that is > > the interpreter for most/all initscripts) cannot retrieve the > > dependency information f

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot open root device

2003-06-06 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Thursday 05 June 2003 02:56 pm, Peter Ruskin wrote: > On Thursday 05 Jun 2003 19:40, Mark Knecht wrote: > > It's a total guess as I've seen something similar to this on > > Redhat, although not with ext2 partitions. Is the 03:03 part a > > clue? Is that saying something like it's looking for /de

Re: [gentoo-user] Which java-sdk?

2003-06-06 Thread Ing. Bernardo Lopez O.
Its a kind of chat server (not ircd... but kind of) its for a server whit 1.4ghz 256ram On Thursday 05 June 2003 15:35, Gwendolyn van der Linden wrote: > > Which java sdk should i use? > > What do you want to use it for? > > Gwendolyn. > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with Promise RAID & Gentoo [SOLVED]

2003-06-06 Thread MooktaKiNG
OK, AT LASSTT Here's what you do to get it all working. You install as usual. Loading the ataraid module and pdcraid module. You compile your kernel with these options: ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support ---> <*> ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices --->

Re: [gentoo-user] No init-script that provides net?

2003-06-06 Thread Patrick Börjesson
> Seems that not the dependencies but something in the sendmail script > is broken. If I understand this message right runscript.sh (that is > the interpreter for most/all initscripts) cannot retrieve the > dependency information from the sendmail script (I can be wrong of > course). It says that s

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