Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo box hung - how to debug?

2003-10-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 10:46, Ben Maas wrote: On Monday 27 October 2003 12:12 pm, Mark Knecht wrote: I'm thinking that this may be due to something emerged in the last week of so. How can I check what I've emerged since Oct. 1st? Check /var/log/emerge.log Thanks Ben. That's helpful.

[gentoo-user] an idea

2003-10-27 Thread blade-
Would it be possible to have the kernel updates as a separate class. I mean like have system, world and kernel. some of the kernels get updated quite frequently, most of the time i don't use the updates as i am trying to get a good uptime. i only want to update the kernel if it fixes a bug i

RE: [gentoo-user] an idea

2003-10-27 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
What kernel you using that is updated so often?? if its 2.6, thats the price you pay for using it as its always going to be updated.. why not just use protage.mask and then when you want to update your kernel, remove it... Just keep up with the announce list in case of security concerns..

Re: [gentoo-user] DJBDNS and Gentoo linux

2003-10-27 Thread Joshua Banks
--- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I said nothing of the sort, my answers were correct. My original post to you was a copy and paste of an answer I gave to someone else, which I stated. Those instructions also clearly stated where dnscache was going to get answers, the forward

Re: [gentoo-user] an idea

2003-10-27 Thread blade-
i use the gs sources, had an update today and a few days ago Jeffrey Smelser wrote: What kernel you using that is updated so often?? if its 2.6, thats the price you pay for using it as its always going to be updated.. why not just use protage.mask and then when you want to update your kernel,

Re: [gentoo-user] Rogue dhcp server

2003-10-27 Thread Chris I
On 2003.10.27 11:52, Stephen Varga wrote: On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 19:47, Chris I wrote: Hi. I, and many others at my school are having a problem with (at least) one person running a DHCP server on their laptops. People often get invalid addresses due to this and cannot (easily) access

RE: [gentoo-user] an idea

2003-10-27 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
no wonder, that thing has every fix and addition in the world.. Like I said, there is portage.mask for that sorta thing. Just take it out when you feel like upgrading.. You want all that additional stuff in your kernel, there is gonna be that much more being fixed in it.. Why push a new

Re: [gentoo-user] an idea

2003-10-27 Thread Nathaniel
I really like this idea, and I think it might be desireable for gentoo servers (who should RARELY upgrade a kernel). Send this idea to the dev list. Nathaniel On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 17:30, blade- wrote: i use the gs sources, had an update today and a few days ago Jeffrey Smelser wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple versions of packages installed ??

2003-10-27 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 18:51, Renat Golubchyk wrote: On Saturday 25 October 2003 16:31, Hall Stevenson wrote: snip Any way to check for multiple versions of a package ?? I'll be off R'ing TFM in the meantime. From qpkg --help last lines: Examples: qpkg --dups print

Re: [gentoo-user] DJBDNS and Gentoo linux

2003-10-27 Thread Joshua Banks
Hi Frank and Mike, Ok, I believe I see the light now Frank. Finally... Heh... Frank With your previous explanations I see now that I don't need to use the FORWARDONLY variable. Sorry it took so long. So now to use dnscache to soley do resolving instead of forwarding on behalf of the clients

Re: [gentoo-user] an idea

2003-10-27 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 22:30, blade- wrote: i use the gs sources, had an update today and a few days ago The gs-sources track a pre kernel. It's similar to the 2.6 kernel in that it gets frequent updates. It's also a patched/custom kernel and any change to the patches would require a kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] kpilot not installed

2003-10-27 Thread Spider
begin quote On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 14:53:30 -0500 zzd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am looking to use kpilot to synchronize with my Palm IIIc but do not see it installed. I verified that kdepim had been emerged, and just to be sure I re-emerged

[gentoo-user] How do I browse a CDROM

2003-10-27 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I picked up a sample CD today that has html explaining what's on it, and then a bunch of audio samples. I can't figure out how to get started browsing the CD. For instance, there's a file called 'Start Here.html' at the top of the CD that I can see if I mount the CD and look at it in a

Re: [gentoo-user] Python 2.3 ready?

2003-10-27 Thread Robert Kruus
It is rumored that on Tue, 28 Oct 2003 12:39:54 +1300 Tom Eastman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 03:17:50PM +0800, Zarick Lau wrote: Hi, Just want to know about the status on python 2.3. Does portage is totally ready for python 2.3 and python 2.3 ebuild stable??

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I browse a CDROM

2003-10-27 Thread Ron
On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 19:02, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I picked up a sample CD today that has html explaining what's on it, and then a bunch of audio samples. I can't figure out how to get started browsing the CD. For instance, there's a file called 'Start Here.html' at the top of the CD that

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I browse a CDROM

2003-10-27 Thread eric heller
I can't stand nautilus and konqueror and the like. I personally use a little program called Xfe as my file explorer/manager. To my knowledge, there's no gentoo ebuild for it, but compiling it from source is pretty painless. It's very simple and kind of ugly, but it gets the job done in the least

Re: [gentoo-user] WYSIWYG WebPage Editor/Designer

2003-10-27 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Monday 27 October 2003 01:43 pm, Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos wrote: snip If your IP is dynamic how were you able to host a homepage? How have you managed that huge problem? Best regards, Paulo Matos http://www.noip.com/ $ emerge -s noip Searching... [ Results for search

Re: [gentoo-user] Python 2.3 ready?

2003-10-27 Thread Tom Eastman
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 07:17:28PM -0500, Robert Kruus wrote: If you check out the python ebuild in portage, you will see it is slotted for 2.3. I don't have it installed, but I assume it works (it is still set as ~x86 though). So technically, you could have it installed at home HTH Oh

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I browse a CDROM

2003-10-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 16:08, BlueRibbon wrote: My suggestion is to browse the cd using your favorite browser. Put /mtn/cdrom/ (or wherever your cd is mounted on) on the location bar. Then browse its contents Thanks. I was trying to write in the file name of the html file but Mozilla didn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Python 2.3 ready?

2003-10-27 Thread Markus Dittrich
Tom, It is fairly easy to compile and install python from source - you could simply keep your personal python 2.3 in e.g. ~/local and let gentoo use the default 2.2 install. That's what I have been doing in the past. cheers, MARKUS On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Tom Eastman wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2003

Re: [gentoo-user] apache tomcat

2003-10-27 Thread Daniel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I would like to mount tomcat webapps in apache. I used to use mod_jk but I couldn't find it in portage. I couldn't find mod_webapps either. Is there something in portage that I can use or have I to install mod_jk with traditional

Re: [gentoo-user] WYSIWYG WebPage Editor/Designer

2003-10-27 Thread Gary Chisholm
Netscape or use peacock ebuilds that are on breakmygentoo.org On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 11:01, Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos wrote: Hi all, I need to create a website but I really do not want to get my hands dirty with HTML. I've looked at BlueFish and Screem. Is there any M$

Re: [gentoo-user] WYSIWYG WebPage Editor/Designer

2003-10-27 Thread Gary Chisholm
Typo's let me try this again... peacock found on www.breakmygentoo.net or Mozilla Composer, but personally I like bluefish/gphpedit. On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 20:17, Gary Chisholm wrote: Netscape or use peacock ebuilds that are on breakmygentoo.org On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 11:01, Paulo Jorge de

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I browse a CDROM

2003-10-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 10:20, eric heller wrote: I can't stand nautilus and konqueror and the like. I personally use a little program called Xfe as my file explorer/manager. To my knowledge, there's no gentoo ebuild for it, but compiling it from source is pretty painless. It's very simple and

Re: [gentoo-user] cups and windows clients

2003-10-27 Thread Stephen Boulet
Thanks for the help! Works great now. On Monday 27 October 2003 01:33 pm, Karl Huysmans wrote: You do need Samba. Just emerge, you will find a sample smb.conf file in /etc/samba. Copy this file to /etc/samba/smb.conf, and you are almost done. Check your workgroup (must be the same as on your

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I browse a CDROM

2003-10-27 Thread eric heller
Thanks very much forturning me on to xfe. I like this very much. I can browse the CD quickly, and it opens web pages in Mozilla, which is just about perfect for me. Glad to hear you got it to compile with no major difficulties. Biggest problem I had with it is it asking me if I really

Re: [gentoo-user] rdiff-backup needs ssh server?

2003-10-27 Thread Patrick M Geahan
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Peter Ruskin wrote: That doesn't work here: # ssh kroh /etc/ssh/ssh_config: line 41: Bad configuration option: AuthorizedKeysFile /etc/ssh/ssh_config: terminating, 1 bad configuration options `man 5 ssh_config` doesn't list AuthorizedKeysFile as an option.

Re: [gentoo-user] rdiff-backup needs ssh server?

2003-10-27 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Tuesday 28 Oct 2003 02:25, Patrick M Geahan wrote: On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Peter Ruskin wrote: That doesn't work here: # ssh kroh /etc/ssh/ssh_config: line 41: Bad configuration option: AuthorizedKeysFile /etc/ssh/ssh_config: terminating, 1 bad configuration options `man 5

Re: [gentoo-user] rdiff-backup needs ssh server?

2003-10-27 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Tuesday 28 Oct 2003 02:34, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Tuesday 28 Oct 2003 02:25, Patrick M Geahan wrote: On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Peter Ruskin wrote: That doesn't work here: # ssh kroh /etc/ssh/ssh_config: line 41: Bad configuration option: AuthorizedKeysFile /etc/ssh/ssh_config:

Re: [gentoo-user] Rogue dhcp server

2003-10-27 Thread Stephen Varga
Unfortunately I am not an admin, I'm a lowly student. The admins seem to think that it is a config issue on my end, and refuse to even look into it. Maybe I should stick gum in their hair or something suitibly mature. Sorry to hear that you are unable to get the proper attention to

Re: [gentoo-user] WYSIWYG WebPage Editor/Designer

2003-10-27 Thread Kevin Miller, Jr.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 27 October 2003 10:43 am, Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos wrote: Paulo: OK, think I'm going to learn PHP and try it out. There are some good books on PHP. Try the books by Larry Ullman. Great! I'll try CSS out too. You will

Re: [gentoo-user] rdiff-backup needs ssh server?

2003-10-27 Thread Patrick M Geahan
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Peter Ruskin wrote: However, I still have to give root's password, which makes it difficult to use in a backup cron script: # ssh kroh [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: You did restart sshd, right? /etc/init.d/sshd restart? If you did, I'm gonna have to go back and

Re: [gentoo-user] rdiff-backup needs ssh server?

2003-10-27 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Monday 27 October 2003 09:56 pm, Patrick M Geahan wrote: On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Peter Ruskin wrote: However, I still have to give root's password, which makes it difficult to use in a backup cron script: # ssh kroh [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: You did restart sshd, right?

Re: [gentoo-user] rdiff-backup needs ssh server?

2003-10-27 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Tuesday 28 Oct 2003 02:56, Patrick M Geahan wrote: On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Peter Ruskin wrote: However, I still have to give root's password, which makes it difficult to use in a backup cron script: # ssh kroh [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: You did restart sshd, right?

Re: [gentoo-user] rdiff-backup needs ssh server?

2003-10-27 Thread Patrick M Geahan
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Peter Ruskin wrote: Yes I did. Now as a normal user I can ssh to another host passwordless, then sudo passwordless and have the script do stuff as root that way - but that's silly. But as root I'm always asked for password. Are your home directories NFS mounted

Re: [gentoo-user] rdiff-backup needs ssh server?

2003-10-27 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Tuesday 28 Oct 2003 03:36, Patrick M Geahan wrote: On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Peter Ruskin wrote: Yes I did. Now as a normal user I can ssh to another host passwordless, then sudo passwordless and have the script do stuff as root that way - but that's silly. But as root I'm always asked

Re: [gentoo-user] Python 2.3 ready?

2003-10-27 Thread Zarick Lau
Hi, Thanks for all your kindly response! Right, it leads me to some question on the slot mechanism. The slot stuff is nothing but making different version of pkg to coexist on the system. Then, it there a way to setting the current version to user? Is there any convention used whenever there are

Re: [gentoo-user] Python 2.3 ready?

2003-10-27 Thread Zarick Lau
Hi, Thanks for all your kindly response! Right, it leads me to some question on the slot mechanism. The slot stuff is nothing but making different version of pkg to coexist on the system. Then, it there a way to setting the current version to user? Is there any convention used whenever there are

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing CD Burner question

2003-10-27 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Paul, I am running grub but can't locate grub.conf Locate grub.conf only found 'grub.conf.sample' no directory or file under /boot/ Where can I find it. Thanks. B.R. Stephen Did you modify your lilo or grub configuration? What happens is the IDE controller grabs the CD-R device and

[gentoo-user] emerge fails with error.

2003-10-27 Thread Phil Barnett
When running: emerge -up world I get a bunch of things that need to be updated and then it ends with: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/emerge, line 2133, in ? mydepgraph.display(mydepgraph.altlist()) File /usr/bin/emerge, line 1103, in display elif (not --emptytree

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge fails with error.

2003-10-27 Thread Kevin Miller, Jr.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I did emerge'd sync my system. I got no errors when I emerge -upD world. Try to emerge sync again. Kevin Did you try to emerge sync again? On Monday 27 October 2003 9:56 pm, Phil Barnett wrote: When running: emerge -up world I get a bunch of

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