[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 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

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

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 in your

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 to

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] 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

[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] 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

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 updated,

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

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 boot

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 to

AW: [gentoo-user] cannot open root device

2003-06-06 Thread Meidinger Christopher
try root(hd0,2) badenIT GmbH System Support Workstation Chris Meidinger Tullastrasse 70 79108 Freiburg -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Chris Bare [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet am: Donnerstag, 5. Juni 2003 17:40 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: [gentoo-user] cannot open

Re: [gentoo-user] Clear Screen

2003-06-06 Thread Chris I
On 2003.06.06 01:38, Marshal Newrock 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 'clear' screen. Put this in your .bash_logout: case

Re: [gentoo-user] Clear Screen

2003-06-06 Thread Rev. Jeffrey Paul
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 'clear' screen. if it's okay to be at the bottom instead: echo -e

Re: [gentoo-user] Clear Screen

2003-06-06 Thread Rev. Jeffrey Paul
Gentoo being the security-conscious distribution it is, I think one of these solutions should be included in the baselayout at some point in time. Leaving potentially-sensitive data on the screen after logging out seems like -quite- a bad thing to do. -j --

Re: [gentoo-user] Clear Screen

2003-06-06 Thread James
emerge min-getty, then replace applicable lines in /etc/inittab. - James On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 12:54, 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 'clear' screen.

[gentoo-user] Compiling gentoo-sources-2.4.20-rc5

2003-06-06 Thread Paulo J. Matos
Hi all, Since that in make.conf it is advised not to use pentium-4 because it generates invalid instructions I'd like to know if there is a problem to select in gentoo-sources-2.4.20-rc5 Pentium4(gcc31) as a processor. There is also a line with Pentium4 only (without the gcc31). Which is best and

[gentoo-user] a stupid modem hangup

2003-06-06 Thread Waleri Enns
Hello list, had recently installed gentoo on my tower and have now one big problem: my extern 56KB/s Elsa Modem on ttyS0 doesnt work. To be exact, im pretty sure the modem does but ppp or somethink does not. Heres the deal: it i try to dial in (i tried gnome-ppp and wvdial), the dialing

Re: [gentoo-user] Support MPEG cards

2003-06-06 Thread Juri Haberland
--[ 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 newer cards that are supported? Look at the ones from Hauppauge. Cheers, Juri -- Juri Haberland [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling gentoo-sources-2.4.20-rc5

2003-06-06 Thread Scott Carmichael
I'd suggest going with Pentium3(gcc31) until gcc 3.3 becomes standard and unmasked. ;) --- Scott Carmichael http://jobeus.net/ Paulo J. Matos said on 06.06.03 at 09:21: Hi all, Since that in make.conf it is advised not to use pentium-4 because it generates invalid instructions I'd like to

Re: [gentoo-user] Root user password problems

2003-06-06 Thread Spider
begin quote On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 22:00:39 -0300 Norberto BENSA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [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

[gentoo-user] Init not found?

2003-06-06 Thread Paulo J. Matos
Hi all, I've tried to compile the kernel in my laptop with Pentium-4(gcc31) enabled and after rebooting I get a kernel panic that it has nothing to do with it, I think. The interesting lines are: VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly. mount_devfs_fs(): unable to mount devfs, err: -2

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

2003-06-06 Thread Arnold Krille
Trying to extend the list... (i am not a guru) On Friday 06 June 2003 01:14, Jonathan Nichols wrote: mbox = big fat flat file Pro:Can be easy to administer move mailboxes if needed Con:Unfortunately easy to corrupt mail file Con: possible problems with locking Pro: easier to backup/copy

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

2003-06-06 Thread Frank Tegtmeyer
Jonathan Nichols [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think that's a fairly rough list.. ;) Yes, you missed the main problem that maildirs address: there are no locking problems with maildir but possibly big ones with mbox. Regards, Frank -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables error

2003-06-06 Thread Mark Fisher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 06 Jun 2003 7:12 am, Klaus D. Neumann wrote: After recompiling my kernel, iptables as module this time, the comand gives my this: bash-2.05b# insmod ip_tables Using /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r5/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [lists] [gentoo-user] starting programs assu?

2003-06-06 Thread Matthew Graybosch
Anthony Ventimiglia wrote: Add the following to /root/.bash_profile export XAUTHORITY=/home/ant/.Xauthority Replace ant with your login Hey, that's cool. I never even *thought* of mucking about with Xauthority. Thanks. -- Matthew Graybosch http://www.starbreaker.net Without a written spec,

Re: [gentoo-user] stage3 install

2003-06-06 Thread Spider
begin quote On 05 Jun 2003 19:13:02 -0700 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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,

Re: [gentoo-user] Init not found?

2003-06-06 Thread Chris I
On 2003.06.06 06:22, Paulo J. Matos wrote: Hi all, I've tried to compile the kernel in my laptop with Pentium-4(gcc31) enabled and after rebooting I get a kernel panic that it has nothing to do with it, I think. The interesting lines are: VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.

Re: [gentoo-user] ls -l shortcut ll

2003-06-06 Thread brett holcomb
Try alias ll=ls -l. I thought this was defined in Gentoo already in /etc/skel in one of the .bash files. Of course if the user doesn't have these files in his home they won't take effect. On Fri, 06 Jun 2003 14:47:34 +1000 blade- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, In mandrake and other

Re: [gentoo-user] ls -l shortcut ll

2003-06-06 Thread blade-
Yes it is already defined in there, it doesnt seem to work for root by default. brett holcomb wrote: Try alias ll=ls -l. I thought this was defined in Gentoo already in /etc/skel in one of the .bash files. Of course if the user doesn't have these files in his home they won't take effect.

Re: [gentoo-user] stage3 install

2003-06-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 04:30, Spider wrote: begin quote On 05 Jun 2003 19:13:02 -0700 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

[gentoo-user] sync passwd shadow

2003-06-06 Thread blade-
Hi all, Is there a way to sync /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow? there was no shadow file when I first set gentoo up and it added itself later some how, it complains sometimes that there is no entry in /etc/shadow for some users. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ls -l shortcut ll

2003-06-06 Thread brett holcomb
Copy the files in /etc/skel (.bashrc and .bash_profile) to /root. They aren't there by default (and aren't for other users unless you use the -m option for adduser). On Fri, 06 Jun 2003 08:07:02 +1000 blade- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes it is already defined in there, it doesnt seem to work

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling gentoo-sources-2.4.20-rc5

2003-06-06 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 09:21, Paulo J. Matos wrote: Hi all, Since that in make.conf it is advised not to use pentium-4 because it generates invalid instructions I'd like to know if there is a problem to select in gentoo-sources-2.4.20-rc5 Pentium4(gcc31) as a processor. There is also a line

[gentoo-user] SSH Problems

2003-06-06 Thread Tracy LCpl Derek E
I just emerged openssh and configured sshd for protocol 2 only, X11 Forwarding, and to listen on port 80. When at work (on a win2000 machine) I try to connect to my home computer via ssh (using putty on the W-Box) and it just quits nothing. Then I try connecting to my home computer from my

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix vs. Qmail

2003-06-06 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Yes .. that editor draws a lot of air. Tom Veldhouse - Original Message - hehe, I have a good one too: why is this nano the default editor on Gentoo LiveCD? *nocommentsplease* -- Mmm ... gummy-bear - Homer Simpson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH Problems

2003-06-06 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
If you change the connection back to port 21 can you then connect ? On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 13:33:42 +0100 Tracy LCpl Derek E [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just emerged openssh and configured sshd for protocol 2 only, X11 Forwarding, and to listen on port 80. When at work (on a win2000 machine) I

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH Problems

2003-06-06 Thread Mike Wojcikiewicz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 06 June 2003 08:33, Tracy LCpl Derek E wrote: I just emerged openssh and configured sshd for protocol 2 only, X11 Forwarding, and to listen on port 80. When at work (on a win2000 machine) I try to connect to my home computer via ssh

RE: [gentoo-user] SSH Problems

2003-06-06 Thread Tracy LCpl Derek E
Do you mean port 22 if so than yes I have tried that port also. -Original Message- From: Patrick Marquetecken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 9:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SSH Problems If you change the connection back to port 21 can you

[gentoo-user] mounting two partitions as one directory

2003-06-06 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
Hi all, is there any way I can mount two partitions (in two separate disks) as a single directory ? Regards R'twick

RE: [gentoo-user] SSH Problems

2003-06-06 Thread Gustav_Schaffter
The ssh client has a -v (verbose) option. Does putty have anything similar? If so, did you try running your putty client in verbose mode? The idea would be to detect if you get in contact with sshd, or if firewalls are stopping you to contact your home server. Gus

RE: [gentoo-user] SSH Problems

2003-06-06 Thread Tracy LCpl Derek E
No I did not compile sshd with the tcpd USE option and can not access my log files from work (which is where I am at now). I will try to sift through the log files when I get home. And I have not adjusted /etc/hosts.allow or /etc/hosts.deny , could these be the culprit? -Original

Re: [gentoo-user] Root user password problems

2003-06-06 Thread Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos
Thanks all for all your help. I did this and now I'm able to login as root again. :) Best regards, Paulo Matos __ From: Patrick Börjesson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Root user

RE: [gentoo-user] SSH Problems

2003-06-06 Thread Tracy LCpl Derek E
I ran ssh with the -v option (on my hppa-linux box) and this is what is output: debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug1: Rhosts Authentication disabled, originating port will not be trusted. debug1: Connecting to 24.25.54.234 [24.25.54.234] port 80. debug1: Connection

RE: [gentoo-user] SSH Problems

2003-06-06 Thread Kurt Bechstein
Possibly, the tcpd USE option is by default in your make.defaults meaning it is in your global USE variable so unless you put -tcpd in your USE link in /etc/make.conf sshd was compiled with tcp wrapper support and yes then these files could be your problem. That is unless you have some sort of

[gentoo-user] OT: Compaq laptops and Gentoo

2003-06-06 Thread Larry Wright
Does anyone have any experience with running Gentoo (or any other distro for that matter) on newer Compaq laptops? I'm eying a replacement for my sucky Toshiba, and these seem to be the only reasonably priced laptops that will do greater than 1024x768. I haven't thoroughly researched though,

Re: [gentoo-user] sync passwd shadow

2003-06-06 Thread Michael Boman
On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 06:12, blade- wrote: Hi all, Is there a way to sync /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow? there was no shadow file when I first set gentoo up and it added itself later some how, it complains sometimes that there is no entry in /etc/shadow for some users. NAME pwconv,

Re: [gentoo-user] Init not found?

2003-06-06 Thread Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos
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 just about ok in my laptop. ;) Best regards, Paulo Matos

RE: [gentoo-user] stage3 install

2003-06-06 Thread Mark Knecht
mark, tis' ok :) :) So what im thinking is emerge -e world, wont recompile the dependences of every thing, or will it? I am told now that it will. However, in reading the man page for emerge, I would not have guess that this was the purpose of the -e option. So will emerge -ed world be

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

2003-06-06 Thread Mark Knecht
Does anyone have any experience with running Gentoo (or any other distro for that matter) on newer Compaq laptops? http://www.linux-laptop.net/ A good site. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

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

2003-06-06 Thread Ben Ricker
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 different platforms. Ben Ricker Wellinx.com On Thursday 05 June 2003 15:35,

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH Problems

2003-06-06 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
22 ofcourse :-/ the only problem i got was the permissions on the .ssh directory and the keys. If they are wrong you can not connect. Patrick On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 14:50:10 +0100 Tracy LCpl Derek E [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you mean port 22 if so than yes I have tried that port also.

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 ---

[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?

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

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 different

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] 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 home

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 terms

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 could

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

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 connections test

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.

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

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

[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

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 'clear'

[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

[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

[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] 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

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

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 how to

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

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

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

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 been through

[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

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

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 installers would

[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] 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] 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 newer cards

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. Although

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 and

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

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

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? The

[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

[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

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] 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] 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

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 / partitions.

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 hasn't

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

[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

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

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