Re: [gentoo-user] What messed with my make.conf?

2003-11-20 Thread Steve Withers
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 18:28, Ernie Schroder wrote: > On Thursday 20 November 2003 08:35 pm, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Steve Withers wrote: > > > I've been steadily adding value to my USE= list..and was > > > surprised today to find that it now has only "dvd gtk2"...and all > > > the rest

Re: [gentoo-user] XFS

2003-11-20 Thread Spider
begin quote On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 23:12:05 -0700 Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is interesting that this recommendation is only present for XFS > among the journaled filesystem choices. > > What is the justification for this putdown of XFS? I communicate with > other groups, and a

RE: [gentoo-user] XFS

2003-11-20 Thread Jon Liebold
My question would be this: Is XFS a general use file system or something I would use on a Xeon to IA-64/MIPS system only? Personally, I was annoyed that I could not find a site anywhere that recommends which FS to use for what. With Windows the choice is mindless... NTFS... But I didn't have that

[gentoo-user] XFS

2003-11-20 Thread Collins Richey
I just happened to be reviewing the current Gentoo Handbook - a work in progress, and I noted the following recommendation for XFS.. 4.i. Creating Filesystems ... [ other fs descriptions] "XFS is a filesystem with metadata journaling that is fully supported under Gentoo Linux's xfs-sources kerne

Re: [gentoo-user] sylpheed-claws and /tmp permissions

2003-11-20 Thread Ian Truelsen
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 23:01:20 -0600 steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I got similar errors in the past and had to set the 'sticky bit' : > > chmod 1777 /tmp > > This will also fix strange X log in issues you may be having, should > you be running X. > > There are some openssl docs on the gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions on SSH config files and protocol

2003-11-20 Thread Keith Dart
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 21:05, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have following questions > > 1) There are 2 config files > /etc/ssh/ssh_config This is the global configuration for the ssh client program. /usr/bin/ssh uses this. > /etc/ssh/sshd_config This is the configuration file for the s

Re: [gentoo-user] Printing from OpenOffice with Cups

2003-11-20 Thread Keith Dart
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 15:10, Alan Watson wrote: > Hi, > > I have CUPS running OK as I can print when I issue a command line "lp". But > I can't get any output from OpenOffice. When I select Print the menu says > "Generic Printer". If I try and print with this I get nothing. > > Any help would be

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't get KDM or X to work anymore???

2003-11-20 Thread Carlos C. Gonzalez
I lost the previous emails somehow (something got confused between going back and forth between RedHat and a Gentoo command prompt) so please bear with me if some of this doesn't make sense. I tried the "Protocol" "PS/2" "Device" "/dev/mouse" "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Doesn't work. Same problem

[gentoo-user] Questions on SSH config files and protocol

2003-11-20 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, I have following questions 1) There are 2 config files /etc/ssh/ssh_config /etc/ssh/sshd_config Their contents have some similarity. What will be their application in function and what will be their difference in application. 2) Protocol 2,1 What are SSH2 and SSH1 and their function.

Re: [gentoo-user] sylpheed-claws and /tmp permissions

2003-11-20 Thread steve
I got similar errors in the past and had to set the 'sticky bit' : chmod 1777 /tmp This will also fix strange X log in issues you may be having, should you be running X. There are some openssl docs on the gentoo site. Steve Ian Truelsen wrote: I don't know if the two are related, but I suspec

Re: [gentoo-user] XFCE and rc.conf

2003-11-20 Thread Roger Hawley
--- steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try adding xfce to the list of options in > > /usr/kde/3.1/share/config/kdm/kdmrc > > Here's the relevant line in my file where I had to > add it: > > SessionTypes=Gnome,Xsession,afterstep,enlightenment,fluxbox,icewm,kde-3.1.3 > ,kde-3.1.4,openbox,wmaker,x

Re: [gentoo-user] XFCE and rc.conf

2003-11-20 Thread steve
Try adding xfce to the list of options in /usr/kde/3.1/share/config/kdm/kdmrc Here's the relevant line in my file where I had to add it: SessionTypes=Gnome,Xsession,afterstep,enlightenment,fluxbox,icewm,kde-3.1.3 ,kde-3.1.4,openbox,wmaker,xfce and it works just fine. -Steve Brett I. Holcomb wr

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't get KDM or X to work anymore???

2003-11-20 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Thursday 20 November 2003 11:02 pm, Carlos C. Gonzalez wrote: > [snip] > > > Have you checked in /var/log for a file called XFree86.n.log, > > where 'n' equals your display number (probably zero)? That file > > should give you some clues as to what's wrong. > > Yeah I looked at that log file it

Re: [gentoo-user] What messed with my make.conf?

2003-11-20 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Thursday 20 November 2003 08:35 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Steve Withers wrote: > > I've been steadily adding value to my USE= list..and was > > surprised today to find that it now has only "dvd gtk2"...and all > > the rest are gone. > > perhaps it was "cleaned up" by etc-update after a

[gentoo-user] sylpheed-claws and /tmp permissions

2003-11-20 Thread Ian Truelsen
I don't know if the two are related, but I suspect that they are. Anyway, I just built my new gentoo system, deciding to give the LVM method a try for a bit of flexibility with my file system. Everything went swimmingly, with the exeption of a weird hd crash that is best forgotten, but when I went

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot problems - AMD64 install

2003-11-20 Thread Jimmie Houchin
KamaolaKid wrote: Did you compile in SATA support for the kernel (under SCSI low level drivers IIRC)? Yes. If so, did you compile support for the Promise FT (not as a module)? Its been several days, but as far as I know I compiled in everything needed. I did not do any modules. When it boots it

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo - How to install DeCSS?

2003-11-20 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Why not just emerge xine-ui and let it pick up the dependencies? I did emerge xine -p and saw what it would get and it got all of these. On Thursday 20 November 2003 23:09, you wrote: > Here are my USE flags on the computer that I watch dvd's on: > > USE="X gtk gnome alsa cups qt mysql" > > I bu

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't get KDM or X to work anymore???

2003-11-20 Thread Carlos C. Gonzalez
[snip] > Have you checked in /var/log for a file called XFree86.n.log, where 'n' > equals your display number (probably zero)? That file should give you > some clues as to what's wrong. Yeah I looked at that log file it says basically the /dev/mouse does not exist yet I did absolutely not one t

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo - How to install DeCSS?

2003-11-20 Thread Harlan
Here are my USE flags on the computer that I watch dvd's on: USE="X gtk gnome alsa cups qt mysql" I built xine using something similar to: emerge media-video/xine-ui media-libs/libdvdcss libdvdnav libdvdplay libdvdread I'm sure I'm missing something, emerge will probably show you more packages

Re: [gentoo-user] XFCE and rc.conf

2003-11-20 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
>From what I remember on the xfce mailing list. There you would probably use startxfce4. If you have a .xinitrc in ~ then startxfce4 will start and use that to get it's component's going. If you check the /etc/xfce4 directory you'll find an xinitrc that can be copied to ~/.xinitrc and will s

[gentoo-user] Re:[gentoo-user]cannotmountrootfilesystemread/write (SOLVED)

2003-11-20 Thread Ian Truelsen
> On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Ian Truelsen wrote: > >> > Mine reads: >> >> /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime1 1 >> /dev/hda2 none swap noatime 0 0 >> /dev/hda3 / ext3 noatime 0 0 >> > > First, some of us brought up fstab because the prob

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo - How to install DeCSS?

2003-11-20 Thread Harlan
I use, and like, xine. I can watch dvd's, go through the menus pretty much without problems. I previously was unable to get ogle to work, that was quite some time ago; but I was able to get xine working, so I have stuck with it. Here is the version of xine that I use: $ xine -v This is

Re: [gentoo-user] XFCE and rc.conf

2003-11-20 Thread lodger
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 05:40:26 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 031119 Ric Messier wrote: > > Taking a look at xfce4 just to see > > whether it's faster and at least as useful as Gnome. > > will it work in /etc/rc.conf to use with startx > > or do I need to write a .xinitrc to get xfce to run when I

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't get KDM or X to work anymore???

2003-11-20 Thread steve
Carlos, Have you checked in /var/log for a file called XFree86.n.log, where 'n' equals your display number (probably zero)? That file should give you some clues as to what's wrong. What preceded all this? Did you add a new monitor, or is this a fresh installation? Steve Carlos C. Gonzalez

RE: [gentoo-user] moving to new partition

2003-11-20 Thread John Ross Hunt
> Hello everybody, > > I'd like to change the /home & /var location > to newly added harddisk partitions, so i need > the correct cp command phrase which regards > all and every link & permission issue, like: > > cp -??? /mnt/gentoo/var /mnt/gentoo/newvar > > (booted from gentoo-basic without chroo

[gentoo-user] Opteron, Ultimate Linux Box

2003-11-20 Thread steve
Hi, In this month's _Linux Journal_, the author builds the 'Ultimate Linux Box' (ULB) with dual Opterons using SuSE Linux for the OS. Has anyone built a similar beast on Gentoo? I'm looking for some feedback on how Gentoo has performed on the Opteron. I read on the forums a few remarks abou

[gentoo-user] I can't get KDM or X to work anymore???

2003-11-20 Thread Carlos C. Gonzalez
I have tried everything I know how and just can't get either KDM or X to start up anymore. Here is what I have tried... 1. Changing the /etc/X11/XF86Config monitor driver manually by editiing the file and rebooting. 2. Attempting to run KDM from a terminal prompt. 3. Attempting to run X thr

Re: [gentoo-user] PostgreSQL 7.4

2003-11-20 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Thursday 20 November 2003 18:44, Redeeman wrote: > ofcourse 7.4 isnt in mirrors, fetch it urself and rename the ebuild, > if it works, submit the ebuild at bugs.gentoo.org and it will come > into portage, after that, feel good because you contributed If the ebuild doesn't need any changes then

Re: [gentoo-user] Excluding files form emerge world

2003-11-20 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Friday 21 November 2003 05:05, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: (B> Whats the best way to exclude files form a emerge -U world? (B> (B> I don't want to update my nvidea (B (BIf you really don't want to, try the following: (B# mkdir /etc/portage (B# echo =media-video/nvidia- > /etc/portage/pack

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo - How to install DeCSS?

2003-11-20 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Yes, Gentoo portage makes it great! I installed xine on a Caldera RPM system several years ago and what a fight to find all the files I needed. With Gentoo I just did an emerge xine-gui, started xine and I can play a dvd - "Wing Commander" was the test! You have to love Gentoo! On Thursday 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Philosophical(?) question about 'emerge unmerge'

2003-11-20 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Friday 21 November 2003 09:37, Jason Evans wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 07:41:30AM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > > I suspect that the "rationale" that this has gone on so long is that its > > hardly critical. nice yes, a mild limitation yes, but it wont stop your > > system working, or h

RE: [gentoo-user] rebuild all

2003-11-20 Thread John Ross Hunt
> Hello everyone, > > Is there an emerge option for rebuilding the whole box > (assuming all emerged source tarballs still present) ? > > It's the -O3 issue... Try this, it works better than "emerge -e" because it rebuilds the currently installed packages only (no upgrades or downgrades). qpkg -

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo internal structure

2003-11-20 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Friday 21 November 2003 00:12, Heschi Kreinick wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > >On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 23:37:08 +0200 Wayne Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >| You can take an approach similar to debian simply put > >| them in a "non-free" folder in portage, possibly put a banner on > >| the ebui

Re: [gentoo-user] Philosophical(?) question about 'emerge unmerge'

2003-11-20 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Friday 21 November 2003 05:03, Jeffrey Smelser wrote: > # emerge -p depclean > > *** WARNING *** : DEPCLEAN CAN SERIOUSLY IMPAIR YOUR SYSTEM. USE CAUTION. > *** WARNING *** : (Cancel: CONTROL-C) -- ALWAYS VERIFY ALL PACKAGES IN THE > *** WARNING *** : CANDIDATE LIST FOR SANITY BEFORE ALLOWI

Re: [gentoo-user] PostgreSQL 7.4

2003-11-20 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Friday 21 November 2003 03:01, Mike Williams wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 20 November 2003 16:44, Redeeman wrote: > > ofcourse 7.4 isnt in mirrors, fetch it urself and rename the ebuild, if > > it works, submit the ebuild at bugs.gentoo.org and it will

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo - How to install DeCSS?

2003-11-20 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Friday 21 November 2003 04:29, Jayson Garrell wrote: (B> On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 11:21, Paul Stear wrote: (B> > Hi, (B> > Is css a valid USE flag? (B> (B> I thought I saw it on the list, but I am wrong. Sorry. (B (BThe use flag you want is 'dvd'. (B (BJason (B (B-- (B[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot problems - AMD64 install

2003-11-20 Thread KamaolaKid
Did you compile in SATA support for the kernel (under SCSI low level drivers IIRC)? If so, did you compile support for the Promise FT (not as a module)? I would boot up with the livecd, mount your / partition and comment out the /home mount (this probably isn't the problem, but it is a start to de

Re: [gentoo-user] document to setup sound and iptables

2003-11-20 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Friday 21 November 2003 00:02, Stephen Liu wrote: > >>http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-security.xml#doc_chap12 > > > >Once you've looked at the home pages for the packages it mentions, > > installing the ebuild will provide a small summary at the end which will > > tell you how to configure i

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u system faliure

2003-11-20 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Thursday 20 November 2003 23:58, Jason A. Pfeil wrote: (B> Hold the phone a minute. (B> (B> I think that we are all looking past the problem. This problem occurred (B> *during* installation. Installation was not finished, so there is no (B> system to *upgrade*. The system was not install

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo - How to install DeCSS?

2003-11-20 Thread Keith Dart
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 04:29, Steve Withers wrote: > On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 05:44, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > > > Not to knock your choice of Linux dvd player, but what's wrong with ogle? Which is > > your > > favorite? > > My experience with DVD players is primarily on Red Hatand installing > O

Re: [gentoo-user] What messed with my make.conf?

2003-11-20 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Friday 21 November 2003 02:29, Steve Withers wrote: > I've been steadily adding value to my USE= list..and was surprised > today to find that it now has only "dvd gtk2"...and all the rest are > gone. Have you used ufed to change the USE-flags recently? I noticed that all my USE-Flags that

[gentoo-user] PIIXn tuning switch to allow my dell laptop to do udma5

2003-11-20 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Until recently I was able to use the kernel PIIXn tuning switch to allow my dell laptop to do udma5, but since this was removed from the later kernels I have been stuck at udma2. The chipset is apparently a ICH3M (82801CAM) - is there any other driver that I should be using for this chipset? Kern

Re: [gentoo-user] Tk for Python

2003-11-20 Thread Stephen Boulet
Yes, but do you really need to include the "-e" flag? That would emerge everything in the world (no pun intended) that python requires. On Thursday 20 November 2003 08:42 am, David Gethings wrote: > Am I right in thinking that an 'emerge -e python' will recompile it - > and include the tcltk supp

Re: [gentoo-user] What messed with my make.conf?

2003-11-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Steve Withers wrote: I've been steadily adding value to my USE= list..and was surprised today to find that it now has only "dvd gtk2"...and all the rest are gone. perhaps it was "cleaned up" by etc-update after an emerge of protage or base-layout (included in system) > I wish I had a backu

[gentoo-user] Boot problems - AMD64 install

2003-11-20 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Hello, I am installing Gentoo on my AMD64 server. I compiled the gentoo-dev-sources kernel (2.6.0test9). On attempting to boot off the hard drive I am getting errors and it is locking up. System: Arima RioWorks HDAMA motherboard, 2 240 Opterons, Promise FT S150 SATA Raid (on board), 4 SATA driv

[gentoo-user] What messed with my make.conf?

2003-11-20 Thread Steve Withers
I've been steadily adding value to my USE= list..and was surprised today to find that it now has only "dvd gtk2"...and all the rest are gone. Is this a sign of a badly composed package? I wish I had a backup of my make.conf.. Now I know better. -- Steve Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers

2003-11-20 Thread Chris I
On 2003.11.20 07:45, Tracy LCpl Derek E wrote: Are you using the 2.6.0-test? kernel. If you are I have the same problem and I don't think that anyone has fixed it yet. I heard that 2.6.0-test9-mm1 works but mm2 does not. Googling I have found links to patches but have no clue how to use them cou

Re: [gentoo-user] Philosophical(?) question about 'emerge unmerge'

2003-11-20 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Well, from what I've seen on the list most people use the tools to see what will be cleaned out before they actually do it and that seems to work fairly well. Not the best but they're trying to make it bettter. I've had Gentoo running for over a year and really haven't seen the growth you're w

[gentoo-user] Gnumeric kerfuffle

2003-11-20 Thread Ric Messier
Having a hard time getting Gnumeric to build (either 1.2.0 or 1.2.1). I get this error: failed to load "./gnumeric_splash.jpg": Couldn't recognize the image file format for file './gnumeric_splash.jpg' It loads fine in Mozilla so I'm not sure what the issue is and Google turns up nothing. Ri

Re: [gentoo-user] Philosophical(?) question about 'emerge unmerge'

2003-11-20 Thread Jason Evans
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 07:41:30AM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > I suspect that the "rationale" that this has gone on so long is that its > hardly critical. nice yes, a mild limitation yes, but it wont stop your > system working, or have dire (note I say dire, not theoretical) security > conseq

Re: [gentoo-user] fwbuilder question

2003-11-20 Thread Jason Calabrese
> Run the script once, then '/etc/init.d/iptables save'. The next time > iptables is started the rules will be restored. Thats what I do on RedHat, but Gentoo doesn't have a save function in the /etc/init.d/iptables script. Unless there is newer verion than the one I have. > /etc/init.d/iptable

Re: [gentoo-user] building openoffice

2003-11-20 Thread Chris Graves
no if one were to use the CFLAGS, CHOST, and USE vars from my make.conf, it would be optimized for my machine, same as if I had compiled it locally. -chris Eric Paynter wrote: Chris Graves said: Now, I know about the -bin version. But if I wanted unoptimized, precompiled binaries I'd be

RE: [gentoo-user] Philosophical(?) question about 'emerge unmerge'

2003-11-20 Thread William Kenworthy
I suspect that the "rationale" that this has gone on so long is that its hardly critical. nice yes, a mild limitation yes, but it wont stop your system working, or have dire (note I say dire, not theoretical) security consequences to have a little fluff left on a system. The system may grow, but o

Re: [gentoo-user] building openoffice

2003-11-20 Thread Ric Messier
> As I am seeking help, I'll comply with your wishes, but this whole > top-posting vs bottom-posting, vi vs emacs, gui vs cli (...) shit has > got to go. It's a matter of preference and perspective. I'm with you. I prefer in-line posts but I HATE HATE HATE having to scroll way down through a p

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo - How to install DeCSS?

2003-11-20 Thread Steve Withers
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 05:44, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > Not to knock your choice of Linux dvd player, but what's wrong with ogle? Which is > your > favorite? My experience with DVD players is primarily on Red Hatand installing Ogle was more difficult than Xine. With Gentoo and Portageit

Re: [gentoo-user] building openoffice

2003-11-20 Thread Eric Paynter
Chris Graves said: > Now, I know about the -bin version. But if I wanted unoptimized, > precompiled binaries I'd be with a different distro. But that's exactly what you would have gotten if somebody else had compiled it for you... people were just suggesting an equivalent alternative. -Eric --

Re: [gentoo-user] Network problem

2003-11-20 Thread Webmaster
Simon Cahuk wrote: Hi! Here goes my problem: - I have tree machines on my local network. My IP adresses are: 192.168.0. {1,2,3}. - I connect to the internet over my ISDN card on my machine. - For NAT I use gshield. my /etc/conf.d/net: iface_eth0="192.168.0.1 broadcast 192.168.0.255 netmask 25

[gentoo-user] Printing from OpenOffice with Cups

2003-11-20 Thread Alan Watson
Hi, I have CUPS running OK as I can print when I issue a command line "lp". But I can't get any output from OpenOffice. When I select Print the menu says "Generic Printer". If I try and print with this I get nothing. Any help would be really appreciated. Would I need to install gimp-print or gnom

Re: [gentoo-user] fwbuilder question

2003-11-20 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 November 2003 22:25, Chris Bare wrote: > Is anyone using fwbuilder to set up their firewall? > I've got it install, gui runs, my rules compile, and I can run the > script by hand, but I have no idea where the "right" place is to put the

Re: [gentoo-user] bash/dialog problem

2003-11-20 Thread Alex Schuster
Andrew writes: >> Do you need the /tmp/dlgmenu file at all? > Yes. The menu is built dynamically. /tmp/dlgmenu could contain: > hda "Auto-partition drive /dev/hda" sda "Auto-partition drive /dev/sda" > ... Okay, but if you generate the file just to read it out later in the same script, a vari

Re: [gentoo-user] fwbuilder question

2003-11-20 Thread Jason Calabrese
just make sure you add iptables to default using rc-update add iptable default when do an /etc/init.d/iptable stop it calls /sbin/iptables-save > ${IPTABLES_SAVE} to save the state On Thursday 20 November 2003 14:25, Chris Bare wrote: > Is anyone using fwbuilder to set up their firewall? > I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail delivery?

2003-11-20 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Luke Scharf -- > Darnit! Oh well -- back to running Sendmail (and typing sendmail -q0 ; > sendmail -bp) for me. :-) If you don't want to hack cryptic config files, I suggest you give Postfix or Qmail a try. Last one is a bit strange, but if you got it, it's extremly

Re: [gentoo-user] Network problem

2003-11-20 Thread Andrew Farmer
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:28:57 -0800, Simon Cahuk muttered: > my /etc/conf.d/net: iface_eth0="192.168.0.1 broadcast 192.168.0.255 netmask > 255.255.255.0" > iface_ippp0="192.168.0.100 broadcast 192.168.0.255 netmask 255.255.255.0" > gateway="ippp0/192.168.0.100" > > I can't ping my other machines b

Re: [gentoo-user] building openoffice

2003-11-20 Thread Chris Graves
P3 (Coppermine)... I run gnome & xfce4, but not kde. -chris Redeeman wrote: what is your system, i have a ahtlon-xp compiled package i made, with the ximian patches, works perfect, and i am going to build a p4 package soon on my laptop On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 23:13, Chris Graves wrote: Please, r

Re: [gentoo-user] fwbuilder question

2003-11-20 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Chris Bare wrote: Is anyone using fwbuilder to set up their firewall? I've got it install, gui runs, my rules compile, and I can run the script by hand, but I have no idea where the "right" place is to put the script so it runs at startup and at the appropriate time so there's no window where I'm n

[gentoo-user] Network problem

2003-11-20 Thread Simon Cahuk
Hi! Here goes my problem: - I have tree machines on my local network. My IP adresses are: 192.168.0. {1,2,3}. - I connect to the internet over my ISDN card on my machine. - For NAT I use gshield. my /etc/conf.d/net: iface_eth0="192.168.0.1 broadcast 192.168.0.255 netmask 255.255.255.0" iface

[gentoo-user] fwbuilder question

2003-11-20 Thread Chris Bare
Is anyone using fwbuilder to set up their firewall? I've got it install, gui runs, my rules compile, and I can run the script by hand, but I have no idea where the "right" place is to put the script so it runs at startup and at the appropriate time so there's no window where I'm not protected. Is t

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo internal structure

2003-11-20 Thread Sergey V. Spiridonov
Eamon Caddigan wrote: So inspired by your words am I, that I hereby officially announce my own fork of Gentoo: FREEtoo. Everything will be exactly the same, except It was just Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary ;) -- Best regards, Sergey Spiridonov A: No Q: Should I quote below my post? --

Re: [gentoo-user] building openoffice

2003-11-20 Thread Redeeman
what is your system, i have a ahtlon-xp compiled package i made, with the ximian patches, works perfect, and i am going to build a p4 package soon on my laptop On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 23:13, Chris Graves wrote: > >Please, reply at the bottom of the email, or it leaves no logical place > >for a reply

Re: [gentoo-user] building openoffice

2003-11-20 Thread Chris Graves
Please, reply at the bottom of the email, or it leaves no logical place for a reply to be added! emerge a binary vesion, maybe openoffice-bin? As I am seeking help, I'll comply with your wishes, but this whole top-posting vs bottom-posting, vi vs emacs, gui vs cli (...) shit has got to go. It

Re: [gentoo-user] building openoffice

2003-11-20 Thread Eric Paynter
Chris Graves said: > I have a request then: > Would someone with adequate diskspace (and time, etc) be willing > to compile it for me (w/ my make.conf)? > > My laptop can't handle this ebuild. Why not just download the binary from openoffice.org? -Eric -- arctic bears - email and name services

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo internal structure

2003-11-20 Thread Heschi Kreinick
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 23:37:08 +0200 Wayne Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | You can take an approach similar to debian simply put | them in a "non-free" folder in portage, possibly put a banner on | the ebuild informing the user tha it's "non-free" ??? Hmm, maybe we should imple

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo internal structure

2003-11-20 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 23:37:08 +0200 Wayne Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | You can take an approach similar to debian simply put | them in a "non-free" folder in portage, possibly put a banner on | the ebuild informing the user tha it's "non-free" ??? Hmm, maybe we should implement a keyword in the eb

Re: [gentoo-user] building openoffice

2003-11-20 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Chris Graves wrote: I have a request then: Would someone with adequate diskspace (and time, etc) be willing to compile it for me (w/ my make.conf)? My laptop can't handle this ebuild. There are other options available to you. First, you could use openoffice-bin instead of openoffice. Second, if

Re: [gentoo-user] building openoffice

2003-11-20 Thread Barry Marler
Thatsa joke, right? There's a binary build available, IIRC. On 13:26 Thu 20 Nov, Chris Graves wrote: > I have a request then: > Would someone with adequate diskspace (and time, etc) be willing to > compile it for me (w/ my make.conf)? > > My laptop can't handle this ebuild. > > please, > -chr

Re: [gentoo-user] building openoffice

2003-11-20 Thread SN
There is already a prebuilt binary available, just emerge openoffice-bin :-) - Original Message - From: "Chris Graves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 10:26 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] building openoffice > I have a request then: > Would

Re: [gentoo-user] building openoffice

2003-11-20 Thread Tom Wesley
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 21:26, Chris Graves wrote: > I have a request then: > Would someone with adequate diskspace (and time, etc) be willing to > compile it for me (w/ my make.conf)? > > My laptop can't handle this ebuild. > > please, > -chris Please, reply at the bottom of the email, or it le

[gentoo-user] Re: building openoffice

2003-11-20 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Chris Graves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a request then: > Would someone with adequate diskspace (and time, etc) be willing to > compile it for me (w/ my make.conf)? Somebody already has: emerge -pv openoffice-bin -Eamon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] building openoffice

2003-11-20 Thread Rex Young
> I have a request then: > Would someone with adequate diskspace (and time, etc) be willing to > compile it for me (w/ my make.conf)? > > My laptop can't handle this ebuild. > > please, > -chris > Chris, It's already been done. Just: "emerge openoffice-bin" -rex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailin

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo internal structure

2003-11-20 Thread Wayne Oliver
-> -Original Message- -> From: Hall Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -> Sent: 20 November 2003 23:11 -> -> Really, I think this Sergey guy's agenda is to make Gentoo -> as strict as -> Debian. Things like nForce drivers -- the "tainted" ones -- -> would NOT be -> distributed or even

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u system faliure

2003-11-20 Thread Jonas Widarsson
Marius Mauch wrote: On 11/20/03 Jonas Widarsson wrote: My first Gentoo install. CDs downloaded with content: 1.4 20030911 Pentium III. I chose to go for stage1. reference: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml#doc_chap9 everything down to #9 was successful. after emerge sync, I

Re: [gentoo-user] building openoffice

2003-11-20 Thread Chris Graves
I have a request then: Would someone with adequate diskspace (and time, etc) be willing to compile it for me (w/ my make.conf)? My laptop can't handle this ebuild. please, -chris Jeffrey Smelser wrote: yes does the openoffice ebuild really require 4-5G of available diskspace to compile?

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u system faliure

2003-11-20 Thread Jonas Widarsson
Jason A. Pfeil wrote: I see the confusion, Jonas. You started from stage 1 but the directions you followed at this step were for installing from stage 2: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml#doc_chap12";> The stage2 tarball already has the bootstrapping done for you. All that you h

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo internal structure

2003-11-20 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Sergey V. Spiridonov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hall Stevenson wrote: > >> Outside of Debian, I think people consider software "free" if they can >> download it, use it, and NOT have to pay for it. I do at least. > > There are several meanings of the word 'free' in English. Here is the > quot

Re: [gentoo-user] Keep gpilotd running on XFCE

2003-11-20 Thread Luke Scharf
I solved that problem with the attached perl script. A little kludgy, but it works. I still haven't managed to figure out how to get Perl to watch STDERR in addition to STDOUT, though. It's not perfect, but it works well enough that I haven't been motivated to improve it. -Luke On Thu, 2003-11

Re: [gentoo-user] building openoffice

2003-11-20 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Chris Graves wrote: does the openoffice ebuild really require 4-5G of available diskspace to compile? If you're lucky ;) -- Andrew Gaffney -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] building openoffice

2003-11-20 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
yes > does the openoffice ebuild really require 4-5G of available > diskspace to > compile? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] building openoffice

2003-11-20 Thread Chris Graves
does the openoffice ebuild really require 4-5G of available diskspace to compile? -chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo internal structure

2003-11-20 Thread Sergey V. Spiridonov
Hall Stevenson wrote: Outside of Debian, I think people consider software "free" if they can download it, use it, and NOT have to pay for it. I do at least. There are several meanings of the word 'free' in English. Here is the quotation from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)": This

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo internal structure

2003-11-20 Thread Wayne Oliver
-> -Original Message- -> From: Wayne Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -> -> GPL'ed software is Free as in freedom i.e. you can do with -> almost whatever -> you like excuse the typing the time 23:05 here GPL'ed software is Free as in freedom i.e. You can do almost anything you like

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo internal structure

2003-11-20 Thread Wayne Oliver
-> -Original Message- -> From: Hall Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -> Sent: 20 November 2003 22:50 -> -> At 03:06 PM 11/20/2003, you wrote: -> >brett holcomb wrote: -> >>Apology accepted but non-free does not equal warez in any -> sense of the -> >>workd. There is nothing wrong wit

Re: [gentoo-user] Keep gpilotd running on XFCE

2003-11-20 Thread Redeeman
a thing i could think of was a small script that checked if gpilot ran with ps aux and if it didnt, then start it, and run that script every minute via cron task On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 21:35, Tom Wesley wrote: > Hi all, > > I've recently moved around from Gnome to XFCE (keep jumping DE at the > mo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo internal structure

2003-11-20 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 03:06 PM 11/20/2003, you wrote: brett holcomb wrote: Apology accepted but non-free does not equal warez in any sense of the workd. There is nothing wrong with commerical stuff as many people earn an honest living from it. As well as commercial is not the same as non-free. Outside of Debian, I

[gentoo-user] Keep gpilotd running on XFCE

2003-11-20 Thread Tom Wesley
Hi all, I've recently moved around from Gnome to XFCE (keep jumping DE at the mo...) Anyway, one thing that I haven't been able to do reliably is keep a gpilotd process running. It seems to die every so often, and did the same under Gnome. Although Gnome has a pilot applet that restarts it. Is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: djbdns setup questions

2003-11-20 Thread Eric Paynter
Tom Caudron said: > I have no idea how long it will take for that change to propagate, > but hopefully in a few hours I'll be able to ping > www.kungfugamers.com and get a reply. It will take up to 48 hours to complete the global propagation. Hopefully after that, all will work :-) Good luck! -E

Re: [gentoo-user] motherboard monitor

2003-11-20 Thread SN
You just have to make sure you didn't compile i2c into kernel, it is not a problem if it was compiled as module, but it is a problem if it was enabled with y in kernel. If the above is ok, then you are al set by emerging it, since emerge will compile and install the kernel modules which are create

[gentoo-user] Re: djbdns setup questions

2003-11-20 Thread Tom Caudron
Eric said, "I know of other domains (dubium.com is an example) that are registered with GoDaddy and they have done it this way." Well, as you suggested, go-daddy accepted the change. I registered the same ip as before as a new dns called shire.kungfugamers.com and set that as the second authority

[gentoo-user] Excluding files form emerge world

2003-11-20 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, Whats the best way to exclude files form a emerge -U world? I don't want to update my nvidea TIA Patrick -- "Well Bones, do the new medical facilities meet with your approval?" "They do not. It's like working in a damn computer center" PGP Key: http://users.pandora.be/rivendell/marquetp.g

RE: [gentoo-user] Philosophical(?) question about 'emerge unmerge'

2003-11-20 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
No, it actually has some problems.. # emerge -p depclean *** WARNING *** : DEPCLEAN CAN SERIOUSLY IMPAIR YOUR SYSTEM. USE CAUTION. *** WARNING *** : (Cancel: CONTROL-C) -- ALWAYS VERIFY ALL PACKAGES IN THE *** WARNING *** : CANDIDATE LIST FOR SANITY BEFORE ALLOWING DEPCLEAN TO *** WARNING **

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo internal structure

2003-11-20 Thread Sergey V. Spiridonov
brett holcomb wrote: Apology accepted but non-free does not equal warez in any sense of the workd. There is nothing wrong with commerical stuff as many people earn an honest living from it. As well as commercial is not the same as non-free. -- Best regards, Sergey Spiridonov -- [EMAIL PROTECT

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