Re: [gentoo-user] Ogg Vorbis very bad quality (compared to MP3)

2003-12-04 Thread Andrew Cowie
On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 04:45, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > Also, the Rio Karma > > has FLAC and Ogg Vorbis support. Silly question, but does it have Linux support? :) [Presumably a USB mass-storage driver device?]

Re: [gentoo-user] vim does not care about tabspace

2003-12-04 Thread Josh Helmer
On Thursday 04 December 2003 05:30 pm, Jan Drugowitsch wrote: > On Thursday 04 December 2003 22:07, Jan Drugowitsch wrote: > > Somehow, vim doesn't case about the set tabespace in the ~/.vimrc file. > > Although I've a clear 'set ts=4' in there, it always starts of with a > > tabspace size of 8. On

[gentoo-user] MD5 mismatch for XFree86 patch

2003-12-04 Thread Anuradha Ratnaweera
Hi all, I tried to emerge gaim, and there was a MD5 mismatch for XFree86 patches. Wondering if it has got to do with the compromise. I am CCing to user list, in case if somebody else also have encountered this. Here is the transcript: # emerge --update gaim Calculating dependencies ...done! >

Re: [gentoo-user] Way OT: Doesn't IP need TCP or UDP for transport?

2003-12-04 Thread Joshua Banks
Thanks for all the responses. This has helped allot. I'll do some more research on IP to get a better understanding. Thanks, JBanks __ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] INIT Problems

2003-12-04 Thread Norberto Bensa
Steven Elling wrote: > Now, why did emerge leave the metalog init script on my system? I did > not make any changes to the metalog init script. CONFIG_PROTECT "emerge info" gives this on my box: CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/co

[gentoo-user] Binary Packages.

2003-12-04 Thread Jason
I searched the Internet for a while on this one, and came up with people asking the question on this list in the archives but never found an answer. So pardon me if I am repeating an answer already posted, but here it goes. If you are trying to install binary packages and are getting: Calculatin

[gentoo-user] IBM Xirlink usb webcam

2003-12-04 Thread john
Hello, I have 2 webcams that are supposed to work in Linux and have so in the past. 1. IBM Xirlink usb Webcam 2. Veo Stingray usb Webcam I have tried quite a few webcam programs and the light comes on, on my webcam, but I dont see a picture generated by any program.. I.E. gnomemeeting, gqcam..

Re: [gentoo-user] Way OT: Doesn't IP need TCP or UDP for transport?

2003-12-04 Thread Ron Wills
I not sure how it all goes together, but I do know there are more IP protocols than I first realized. TCP and UDP are two transport protocols over IP and ICMP is a seperate one. There is also AH/IP and ESP/IP used for VPNs (protocol ids of 51 and 50). As I understand it IP is just the addressing

Re: [gentoo-user] Way OT: Doesn't IP need TCP or UDP for transport?

2003-12-04 Thread Bryan Feir
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 07:39:27PM -0800, Joshua Banks wrote: > Take ICMP for example (a ping). This is a Layer 3 protocol. Now, I > thought that "windows" pc's used tcp/icmp to transport pings or > tracert's and linux/unix (to include Cisco routers) pc's used udp/icmp > to transport pings or trace

Re: [gentoo-user] Way OT: Doesn't IP need TCP or UDP for transport?

2003-12-04 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 21:39, Joshua Banks wrote: > Hello, > > After running Ethereal and watching a packet dump in real time, I only > saw ICMP being used and NO UDP or TCP. Is ethereal missing something or > am I? > > If some types of IP packets don't need Layer 4 transport helpers like > Tcp or

Re: [gentoo-user] Way OT: Doesn't IP need TCP or UDP for transport?

2003-12-04 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Friday 05 December 2003 12:39, Joshua Banks wrote: > For some reason I always assumed that for anytype of IP packet to be > routed out to the internet that you needed a Layer 4 helper (TCP or > UDP) to acheive the transport? Is that true or can just IP layer 3 > protocols treverse the internet w

[gentoo-user] module parameter, and modules-update

2003-12-04 Thread Leon Fitinghoff
For lm_sensors, I have to load the it87 module, with the parameter temp_type=0x1c The only place I found it87 is in /etc/conf.d/lm_sensors - but when I put a parameter after the module name it has no effect. Where / how shall I put the parameter? modules-update gives a failure message "too ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Way OT: Doesn't IP need TCP or UDP for transport?

2003-12-04 Thread Stephen Varga
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 22:39, Joshua Banks wrote: > Hello, > > I thought for any type of IP packet to go out onto the internet Zone > (passed the local default gateway) that the packet needed to use either > TCP or UDP to accomplish transportation? It is the overway around...TCP and UDP need IP to

Re: [gentoo-user] Way OT: Doesn't IP need TCP or UDP for transport?

2003-12-04 Thread Celestial Wizard
TCP and UDP are only two examples of transport protocols. ICMP sits on top of IP as do other protocols such as AH, ESP, GRE. Joshua Banks wrote: Hello, I thought for any type of IP packet to go out onto the internet Zone (passed the local default gateway) that the packet needed to use either

Re: [gentoo-user] Can`t download win4lin.

2003-12-04 Thread Tom Hosiawa
> How can i download win4lin? Every time I`ve got the same error > > !!! Couldn't download Win4Lin-5.5.8e-d.i386.rpm. Aborting. > !!! Fetch for /usr/portage/app-emulation/win4lin/win4lin-5.0.8.ebuild > failed, continuing... > !!! Some fetch errors were encountered. Please see above for details.

[gentoo-user] Way OT: Doesn't IP need TCP or UDP for transport?

2003-12-04 Thread Joshua Banks
Hello, I thought for any type of IP packet to go out onto the internet Zone (passed the local default gateway) that the packet needed to use either TCP or UDP to accomplish transportation? I always seem to come up with the weirdest questions that I never see other people ask. Oh well.. I'll take

Re: [gentoo-user] Be Careful of Your MAKEOPTS!!

2003-12-04 Thread rd
Steven Elling -- Thanks for your thorough analysis of this distcc trap. I will double check my config, as I am about to recompile gcc also. -rdg On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 19:26, Steven Elling wrote: > If your using distcc, have multiple processors, etc. be very careful > with using the '-j' option

[gentoo-user] Can`t download win4lin.

2003-12-04 Thread Makurin Roman
How can i download win4lin? Every time I`ve got the same error !!! Couldn't download Win4Lin-5.5.8e-d.i386.rpm. Aborting. !!! Fetch for /usr/portage/app-emulation/win4lin/win4lin-5.0.8.ebuild failed, continuing... !!! Some fetch errors were encountered. Please see above for details. -- Makurin

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel header errors

2003-12-04 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Found my notes - I knew I had them somewhere and did a make mrproper first, then make dep etc. On Thursday 04 December 2003 21:15, you wrote: > I'm trying to update to xfs-sources for 2.4.20-r4 but get stopped in a make > dep step with the message below. I rm'd my linux simlink from > 2.4.20-xfs

[gentoo-user] Kernel header errors

2003-12-04 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I'm trying to update to xfs-sources for 2.4.20-r4 but get stopped in a make dep step with the message below. I rm'd my linux simlink from 2.4.20-xfs-r3 and pointed it to 2.4.20-xfs-r4 after I merged r4. The linux headers show to be installed by emerge -s so what exactly is this whining about?

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuilds to rpms

2003-12-04 Thread Ron Wills
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 18:19, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > Check out man ebuild for a start. PERFECT Thank you!!! # ebuild pkg rpm > > On Thursday 04 December 2003 17:51, you wrote: > > Hi all > > > > I'm new to Gentoo (but not Linux) and must say this is a fantastic > > system. Now I don't

[gentoo-user] Be Careful of Your MAKEOPTS!!

2003-12-04 Thread Steven Elling
If your using distcc, have multiple processors, etc. be very careful with using the '-j' option without a number in the MAKEOPTS variable. I recently did an update of glibc to glibc-2.3.2-r3 and after a while of compiling my system was freezing. I would start the emerge process and walk away beca

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA, RAID 0, suggestions

2003-12-04 Thread Bryan Whitehead
Under gentoo if you put the name (in this case "ft3xx") in the /etc/modules.autoload file it will load on boot. Of course, as it depends on the module being under the /lib/modules/$kernelversion/ tree you may have to copy it there each time you recompile the kernel, but once it's there you should

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuilds to rpms

2003-12-04 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Check out man ebuild for a start. On Thursday 04 December 2003 17:51, you wrote: > Hi all > > I'm new to Gentoo (but not Linux) and must say this is a fantastic > system. Now I don't have to spend time building or customising binary > distros to fit my needs ;) > First I must apologise if this

Re: [gentoo-user] Adaptec ATA 2 channel raid card? (or SATA card?)

2003-12-04 Thread Alan
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 01:00:15AM +, Senectus - wrote: > Does anyone know if the "1200A Adaptec ATA 2channel Raid controller card" > will work under linux/gentoo ?? Funnily enough I'm just researching the 1210 card, and am wondering the same thing for SATA raid. TIA. alan -- Alan <[EMAIL

[gentoo-user] Adaptec ATA 2 channel raid card?

2003-12-04 Thread Senectus -
Does anyone know if the "1200A Adaptec ATA 2channel Raid controller card" will work under linux/gentoo ?? Senectus "Imagine a school with children that can read and write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live." - Peter Cochrane

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA, RAID 0, suggestions

2003-12-04 Thread Alan
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 08:30:18PM +0100, Arturo di Gioia wrote: > On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 16:47, Arturo di Gioia wrote: > > > Now I'm in that situation: > > -Intel i875P chipset (which, AFAIK, has two SATA slots and should be > > able to do (hardware?) RAID 0) > > -Promise Fasttrak S150 TX2plus PCI

Re: [gentoo-user] Finger command in Gentoo?

2003-12-04 Thread Steven Elling
On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 13:34, Stephan Wesselman wrote: > Sorry, Im new to gentoo, and Im sorry if this is a repeat question. > > What is the package or command to use the "finger username" in gentoo? > And what do I need to emerge to get this command? The command would be your brain telling your

Re: [gentoo-user] INIT Problems

2003-12-04 Thread Steven Elling
On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 18:27, Norbert Kamenicky wrote: > Steven Elling wrote: > > >I did some package updates on my machine, installed syslog-ng, removed > >metalog, removed the metalog init script from the default runlevel and > > > > > The question is, if u did it properly ... probably not >

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -up world

2003-12-04 Thread Tom Hosiawa
> Actually, I had a somewhat similar problem just this afternoon =) It > seems that I had quake2-icculus installed, but the ebuild for it was > called quake2-relnev. Go check in /var/db/pkg and see if you can find > either an ebuild called PyXML-0.8.2 or a directory with that name > instead and run

Re: [gentoo-user] vim does not care about tabspace

2003-12-04 Thread Jan Drugowitsch
On Thursday 04 December 2003 22:07, Jan Drugowitsch wrote: > Somehow, vim doesn't case about the set tabespace in the ~/.vimrc file. > Although I've a clear 'set ts=4' in there, it always starts of with a > tabspace size of 8. Only after setting it to 4 with ':set ts=4' it works. > The spacewidth i

Re: [gentoo-user] XDirectFB and Gnome problems

2003-12-04 Thread Ron Wills
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 16:01, Thomas Richards wrote: > Yea, I mean gdm. After I fight with it awhile switching terminals i can > get back to it and i can kill the process, anyway to stop it from > restarting? I know there is a configuration file in /etc... can't remember it right off hand, tha

Re: [gentoo-user] anoying terminal

2003-12-04 Thread rd
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 13:17, Azhdeen wrote: > On Thursday 04 December 2003 19:49, Thomas Achtemichuk wrote: > > echo "shopt -s checkwinsize" >> ~/.bashrc (or /etc/profile) > > source ~/.bashrc > > try again > > > > It works correctly! > > > > In my opinion this is something (along with a decent PS1

Re: [gentoo-user] vim does not care about tabspace

2003-12-04 Thread Jan Drugowitsch
On Thursday 04 December 2003 23:35, Grish wrote: > Jan Drugowitsch wrote: > > Somehow, vim doesn't case about the set tabespace in the ~/.vimrc > > file. Although I've a clear 'set ts=4' in there, it always starts > > of with a tabspace size of 8. Only after setting it to 4 with ':set > > ts=4'

Re: [gentoo-user] anoying terminal

2003-12-04 Thread rd
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 11:59, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > Quoting Helder Rossa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Tips for configuring bash [including text wrap]: > > > > > > http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-tip-prompt/ > > > > I copied the env var PS1 of another Linux that works a

Re: [gentoo-user] vim does not care about tabspace

2003-12-04 Thread Jan Drugowitsch
On Thursday 04 December 2003 22:24, Dennis Allison wrote: > Check the file protections on the .vimrc file. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -l .vimrc -rw-r--r--1 jdrugo users2446 Dec 4 19:20 .vimrc Jan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] vim does not care about tabspace

2003-12-04 Thread Jan Drugowitsch
On Thursday 04 December 2003 22:14, Renat Golubchyk wrote: > On Thursday 04 December 2003 23:07, Jan Drugowitsch wrote: > > Somehow, vim doesn't case about the set tabespace in the ~/.vimrc file. > > Although I've a clear 'set ts=4' in there, it always starts of with a > > tabspace size of 8. Only

Re: [gentoo-user] reiser, dump

2003-12-04 Thread Bryan Whitehead
Glenn English wrote: On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 15:51, Bryan Whitehead wrote: Glenn English wrote: Is there such a thing as reiserdump? Or a way to use amanda and dump to back up a reiser fs? No, use XFS if you want a FS on linux with dump. it's called "xfsdump". Works great with amanda. Tnx, Bryan

Re: [gentoo-user] XDirectFB and Gnome problems

2003-12-04 Thread Thomas Richards
Donnie Berkholz wrote: On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 18:01, Thomas Richards wrote: Yea, I mean gdm. After I fight with it awhile switching terminals i can get back to it and i can kill the process, anyway to stop it from restarting? Why not just startx and set XSESSION="Gnome" in rc.conf instea

Re: [gentoo-user] XDirectFB and Gnome problems

2003-12-04 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 18:01, Thomas Richards wrote: > Yea, I mean gdm. After I fight with it awhile switching terminals i can > get back to it and i can kill the process, anyway to stop it from > restarting? Why not just startx and set XSESSION="Gnome" in rc.conf instead of going through gdm?

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -up world

2003-12-04 Thread Patrick Börjesson
> > emerge -u `qpkg -nc -I` -vp > > > > ^ Should show all updates that are available for the packages that > > you currently have installed. > > > > Patrick Börjesson > > When I tried that, I get: > emerge: there are no masked or unmasked ebuilds to satisfy > "dev-python/PyXML". > > finding out

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -up world

2003-12-04 Thread Tom Hosiawa
> emerge -u `qpkg -nc -I` -vp > > ^ Should show all updates that are available for the packages that you > currently have installed. > > Patrick Börjesson When I tried that, I get: emerge: there are no masked or unmasked ebuilds to satisfy "dev-python/PyXML". finding out what depends on it, ret

Re: [gentoo-user] vim does not care about tabspace

2003-12-04 Thread Grish
Jan Drugowitsch wrote: > hi, > > Somehow, vim doesn't case about the set tabespace in the ~/.vimrc > file. Although I've a clear 'set ts=4' in there, it always starts > of with a tabspace size of 8. Only after setting it to 4 with ':set > ts=4' it works. The spacewidth is set to 4 and works immedi

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync port - firewall config

2003-12-04 Thread SN
- Original Message - From: "Jonathan Stickel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 12:12 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] rsync port - firewall config > SN wrote: > > Firestarter is pretty good and it allows easy manuall adjustments. Since it > > uses

Re: [gentoo-user] all terminals act weird with PS1 line

2003-12-04 Thread Thomas Achtemichuk
On 12/04/03 18:09:39, Redeeman wrote: hi, i made my own PS1 line to make stuff look abit more funny: PS1="\e[1;33m[\e[36;1m\u\e[01;[EMAIL PROTECTED];1m\H: \e[01;34m\w\e[01;31m\e[1;33m] \[\e[0m\]" and i place it in ~/.bashrc. Your question was answered in the "anoying terminal" thread, just this a

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync port - firewall config

2003-12-04 Thread Jonathan Stickel
SN wrote: Firestarter is pretty good and it allows easy manuall adjustments. Since it useses plain files ere you can insert ports or hosts and so on, very flexible. You can even use it for scripted actions. Firestarter seems to meet my needs. I had to do a little hacking to have it start on boot

[gentoo-user] all terminals act weird with PS1 line

2003-12-04 Thread Redeeman
hi, i made my own PS1 line to make stuff look abit more funny: PS1="\e[1;33m[\e[36;1m\u\e[01;[EMAIL PROTECTED];1m\H: \e[01;34m\w\e[01;31m\e[1;33m] \[\e[0m\]" and i place it in ~/.bashrc. thats fine! but with that line i can only use 1/4 of my terminal: ---

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with usb storage and fetchmail

2003-12-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
anh le wrote: -- Martin wrote: You need to rescan your SCSI-Bus for new devices (USB-Devies use the SCSI structur of th kernel ... I do that job with a script from SuSE ... it is called rescan-scsi-bus.sh here is it : http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/rescan-scsi-bus.sh or have a look at goog

Re: [gentoo-user] XDirectFB and Gnome problems

2003-12-04 Thread Thomas Richards
Yea, I mean gdm. After I fight with it awhile switching terminals i can get back to it and i can kill the process, anyway to stop it from restarting? On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 15:13, Thomas Richards wrote: Hi, I recently decided to try using the XDirectFB. I got it to work with a bunch of win

[gentoo-user] ebuilds to rpms

2003-12-04 Thread Ron Wills
Hi all I'm new to Gentoo (but not Linux) and must say this is a fantastic system. Now I don't have to spend time building or customising binary distros to fit my needs ;) First I must apologise if this is the wrong list to post this question to, but I have been pouring over documents and forum

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail

2003-12-04 Thread Jason Stubbs
Apologies (again) for the other e-mail... On Friday 05 December 2003 01:13, Mike Williams wrote: > Important changes (compared to KMail 1.5): > > Operations on the parent of a closed thread are now performed on all > messages of that thread. That means it is now possible for example to > delete a

Re: [gentoo-user] XDirectFB and Gnome problems

2003-12-04 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 15:13, Thomas Richards wrote: > Hi, > I recently decided to try using the XDirectFB. I got it to work with > a bunch of window managers(but not KDE), so I decided to try out gnome. > Launching gnome with the XDirectFB has no problems, and usng it is a > blast. The only

Re: [gentoo-user] vim does not care about tabspace

2003-12-04 Thread Dennis Allison
Check the file protections on the .vimrc file. On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Jan Drugowitsch wrote: > hi, > > Somehow, vim doesn't case about the set tabespace in the ~/.vimrc file. > Although I've a clear 'set ts=4' in there, it always starts of with a > tabspace size of 8. Only after setting it to 4 w

Re: [gentoo-user] vim does not care about tabspace

2003-12-04 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Thursday 04 December 2003 23:07, Jan Drugowitsch wrote: > hi, > > Somehow, vim doesn't case about the set tabespace in the ~/.vimrc file. > Although I've a clear 'set ts=4' in there, it always starts of with a > tabspace size of 8. Only after setting it to 4 with ':set ts=4' it works. > The spac

[gentoo-user] vim does not care about tabspace

2003-12-04 Thread Jan Drugowitsch
hi, Somehow, vim doesn't case about the set tabespace in the ~/.vimrc file. Although I've a clear 'set ts=4' in there, it always starts of with a tabspace size of 8. Only after setting it to 4 with ':set ts=4' it works. The spacewidth is set to 4 and works immediately. I'm using gentoo with vi

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync port - firewall config

2003-12-04 Thread SN
Firestarter is pretty good and it allows easy manuall adjustments. Since it useses plain files ere you can insert ports or hosts and so on, very flexible. You can even use it for scripted actions. - Original Message - From: "Jonathan Stickel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> S

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync port - firewall config

2003-12-04 Thread Jonathan Stickel
I plead ignorance. I didn't see the gentoo announcement about the rsync vulnerability until _after_ I made my post. I understand the basics of what you are saying, but apparently Guarddog blocks all incoming and outgoing traffic except on specified ports. I'll have to try another firewall gui

Re: [gentoo-user] PCMCIA modules not found

2003-12-04 Thread Cameron King
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hmm, didn't intend to piggy-back on this thread here. must have hit reply by accident.my bad - -- Cameron King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Student, Harding University -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/z0x9hN+

[gentoo-user] PCMCIA modules not found

2003-12-04 Thread Cameron King
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 odd tidbit... CONFIG_ISA needs to be 'Y' to allow orinoco_cs and 3c589_cs (pcmcia network cards) to work... I am not sure why this might be - but i am thinkful for the linux-kernel mailinglist! (gentoo-dev-sources) (2.4 was giving me pcmcia troubl

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernels > 2.4.20 don't work with reiserfs

2003-12-04 Thread Wes Gray
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 09:19:03PM +0100, SN wrote: > what baselayout do you guys use? Not sure I understand the question. Do you mean what version of the package? I have sys-apps/baselayout-1.8.6.10-r1 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernels > 2.4.20 don't work with reiserfs

2003-12-04 Thread SN
what baselayout do you guys use? - Original Message - From: "Wes Gray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 6:08 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernels > 2.4.20 don't work with reiserfs > On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 12:29:21PM +0100, Christian Anthon

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync port - firewall config

2003-12-04 Thread Oliver Lange
SN wrote: Guys please do me a favour don't get crazy now because a server got hacked through rsync, rather read some basics about firewalling. Yeah. That server used an uncommon configuration (option chroot = no), and the hacker didn't get root access by hacking into rsync. He/she used a kernel exp

[gentoo-user] XDirectFB and Gnome problems

2003-12-04 Thread Thomas Richards
Hi, I recently decided to try using the XDirectFB. I got it to work with a bunch of window managers(but not KDE), so I decided to try out gnome. Launching gnome with the XDirectFB has no problems, and usng it is a blast. The only problem is that I can't kill gnome without having a fight wit

Re: [gentoo-user] Excluding maildirs from updatedb

2003-12-04 Thread Paul Varner
Stroller wrote: >> Personally, I just execute 'updatedb -e dir1,dir2,dir3 >> >> where dir1, etc. is the fully qualified path for a directory I want >> to exclude. > > Whilst this is practical on my current system, it wouldn't be should I > expand to 50... 500... 5000 users. So I guess that in that

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync port - firewall config

2003-12-04 Thread SN
Ah boy, now it made the round and people get crazy. Hey you don't have to block traffic from inside to outside, then in general you should block all ports and only open up ports you need for services that want to be accessed from outside. . The rsync problem only affects rsync servers not clients

Re: [gentoo-user] what is wrong with head and tail?

2003-12-04 Thread Stroller
On Dec 4, 2003, at 10:51 am, Rudmer van Dijk wrote: I noticed this about a week ago: head: `-1' option is obsolete; use `-n 1' Try `head --help' for more information. ... why is this obsoleted? And the most irritating part is that is not phased out, like giving a warning and then continue, but it

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA, RAID 0, suggestions

2003-12-04 Thread Arturo di Gioia
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 16:47, Arturo di Gioia wrote: > Now I'm in that situation: > -Intel i875P chipset (which, AFAIK, has two SATA slots and should be > able to do (hardware?) RAID 0) > -Promise Fasttrak S150 TX2plus PCI controller, where the two SATA hds > are actually attached. > No standard AT

Re: [gentoo-user] Ogg Vorbis very bad quality (compared to MP3)

2003-12-04 Thread Alan
> > When you say "ogg-compatible" do you mean that it'll be identified as > > an > > ogg file by anything that plays ogg (the docs and FAQ aren't > > completely > > clear on this). IE: I can have completely lossless compression and > > have > > it appear to be an ogg file? Or am I missing somethin

Re: [gentoo-user] anoying terminal

2003-12-04 Thread Azhdeen
On Thursday 04 December 2003 19:49, Thomas Achtemichuk wrote: > echo "shopt -s checkwinsize" >> ~/.bashrc (or /etc/profile) > source ~/.bashrc > try again > > It works correctly! > > In my opinion this is something (along with a decent PS1) that should be > added to the default /etc/profile or /etc

Re: [gentoo-user] Ogg Vorbis very bad quality (compared to MP3)

2003-12-04 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Quoting Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > In case you're wondering, you have to specify the --ogg option to make > it > > completely Ogg-compatible. Here's my flac line: > > > > $ flac -V --ogg -8 -o something.flac something.wav > > > > -V verifies the conversion > > -8 gives maximum (lossless) compr

Re: [gentoo-user] Ogg Vorbis very bad quality (compared to MP3)

2003-12-04 Thread Norberto Bensa
Frédéric COIFFIER wrote: > Le Jeudi 04 Décembre 2003 04:40, Norberto Bensa a écrit : > > Frédéric COIFFIER wrote: > > > I'm disappointed... > > > > I use Ogg to encode my CDs because at half the size > > of MP3 it sounds twice better. > > Ok. > So, what is the version of your Ogg Vorbis libraries ?

Re: [gentoo-user] anoying terminal

2003-12-04 Thread Thomas Achtemichuk
On 12/04/03 11:05:43, Helder Rossa wrote: my terminal in gnome when I'm writing a command bigger than the console size it wraps the text to the same line that i was witting on :-S . By default bash doesn't check it's window size after every command. The good thing is that you can make it. Add "sh

Re: [gentoo-user] anoying terminal

2003-12-04 Thread Azhdeen
On Thursday 04 December 2003 18:59, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > You're using gnome-terminal? Me too, and I have the same problem. Maybe > gnome-terminal's to blame. maybe not, Konsole behaves the same, but not always, and I can't find what makes it wrap OK or not. -- I haven't lost my mind. It m

Re: [gentoo-user] Wake on lan (Again...)

2003-12-04 Thread Redeeman
sorry this is not an answer, but. wake on lan, is that so i can start the computer from the lan? it would be cool On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 19:08, Elton Algera wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I posted a message some months ago about a problem with wake on lan, but > noone knew the solution back then. So h

[gentoo-user] rsync port - firewall config

2003-12-04 Thread Jonathan Stickel
I've setup a firewall with Guarddog, which I use because it is relatively simple but seems to be comprehensive. However, it does not have rsync in its protocol list. I've tried to make a user-defined protocol for port 873 (which is the rsync port I believe), but it doesn't seem to work. I ca

Re: [gentoo-user] Ogg Vorbis very bad quality (compared to MP3)

2003-12-04 Thread Alan
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 11:45:50AM -0600, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > Quoting David Gethings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 14:44, Spider wrote: > > > Well, if that's the case, may I suggest "flac" ? ( emerge flac ). > > OMG! Why have I not heard of this codec before! This is ex

[gentoo-user] Wake on lan (Again...)

2003-12-04 Thread Elton Algera
Hi everyone, I posted a message some months ago about a problem with wake on lan, but noone knew the solution back then. So here's another shot. I have a asus a7n8x motherboard, with integrated ethernet (nvidia chipset...). For Wake on Lan to work, it is required that the network interface is

RE: [gentoo-user] Excluding maildirs from updatedb

2003-12-04 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
> On Dec 4, 2003, at 2:11 am, Collins Richey wrote: > > > On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 01:52:42 + Stroller > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >> > >> It is conceivable, however, that I might have several users on the > >> system, each of whom has a large Maildir who yet may > desire to be able > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] anoying terminal

2003-12-04 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Quoting Helder Rossa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Tips for configuring bash [including text wrap]: > > > > http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-tip-prompt/ > > I copied the env var PS1 of another Linux that works and still not > working :-S You're using gnome-terminal? Me too, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Excluding maildirs from updatedb

2003-12-04 Thread Stroller
On Dec 4, 2003, at 2:54 am, Jeff Smelser wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 03 December 2003 07:52 pm, Stroller wrote: My problem is that updatedb is including the all the contents of my mail folders, located in ~/.Maildir so that when I run `locate 123`, for exampl

Re: [gentoo-user] Excluding maildirs from updatedb

2003-12-04 Thread Stroller
On Dec 4, 2003, at 2:11 am, Collins Richey wrote: On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 01:52:42 + Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It is conceivable, however, that I might have several users on the system, each of whom has a large Maildir who yet may desire to be able to locate other files in /home. PRUNEPA

Re: [gentoo-user] anoying terminal

2003-12-04 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Quoting Helder Rossa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > my terminal in gnome when I'm writing a command bigger than the > console > size it wraps the text to the same line that i was witting on :-S . Yeah, mine does that too! It's a real pain... -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [66

Re: [gentoo-user] what is wrong with head and tail?

2003-12-04 Thread Rudmer van Dijk
On Thursday 04 December 2003 14:20, Spider wrote: > > head: `-1' option is obsolete; use `-n 1' > > Try `head --help' for more information. > > > > why is this obsoleted? > > POSIX compliance. > ok, acceptable > > And the most irritating part is that is not phased out, like giving a > > warning

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage Cleanup

2003-12-04 Thread Oliver Lange
Al Smith wrote: Currently I have 588mg in /usr/portage can this area be cleaned up without damaging anything? I guess that most of these 588 megs are located in /usr/portage/distfiles, which is the directory where all downloaded source tarballs are stored. If you don't need them anymore, it is saf

Re: [gentoo-user] Ogg Vorbis very bad quality (compared to MP3)

2003-12-04 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Quoting David Gethings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 14:44, Spider wrote: > > Well, if that's the case, may I suggest "flac" ? ( emerge flac ). > OMG! Why have I not heard of this codec before! This is exactly what > I've been looking for! > > Thanks Spider! Now I have to re-rip m

Re: [gentoo-user] anoying terminal

2003-12-04 Thread Helder Rossa
> Tips for configuring bash [including text wrap]: > > http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-tip-prompt/ I copied the env var PS1 of another Linux that works and still not working :-S -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage Cleanup

2003-12-04 Thread Azhdeen
On Thursday 04 December 2003 18:25, Al Smith wrote: > Currently I have 588mg in /usr/portage can this area be cleaned up without > damaging anything? > you can cleanup the packages and distfiles dirs, all the others are the "Portage Tree" (where the ebuilds live) packages is where the compiled p

[gentoo-user] usb hpoj hotplug problems with HP OJD125xi printer/scanner

2003-12-04 Thread Jimmy Rosen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] usb hpoj hotplug problems with HP OJD125xi printer/scanner Hi I've been running into problems when trying to set up a Hewlett-Packard OfficeJet d125xi printer/scanner under linux. I've checked machine and usb cabling under windows, and it works. I've checked linux usb communic

Re: [gentoo-user] redifining harddrive partitions and restore linux

2003-12-04 Thread Alan
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 12:30:15PM +, Helder Rossa wrote: > hi, > > > I want to clear all partitions of my HDD and then put the data of the > partitions that I have now in those new partitions. I'm wondering if it > is possible. > > basically I want to redefine my HDD partitions without re-i

RE: [gentoo-user] Portage Cleanup

2003-12-04 Thread Al Smith
Currently I have 588mg in /usr/portage can this area be cleaned up without damaging anything? Al Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Oliver Lange [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 11:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Portage Cl

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -up world

2003-12-04 Thread Oliver Lange
Hi everyone, I'm just posting this for the case that anybody wants to know about how to update a gentoo box. I created a script because i usually don't like to type all the stuff by hand everytime. Please correct me if my comments are wrong.. Here we go: #!/bin/bash # the following line is only

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling progress

2003-12-04 Thread Tom Wesley
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 07:21, Mauro Arnoldi wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 03 December 2003 21:59, brett holcomb wrote: > > Not with a tool that I know of. Until you get some > > history just ask on the list. > > OK, forums are back up, try this link: h

Re: [gentoo-user] anoying terminal

2003-12-04 Thread derek holzer
Tips for configuring bash [including text wrap]: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-tip-prompt/ best, d. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] anoying terminal

2003-12-04 Thread brett holcomb
Under bash my terminal wraps to the next line if I type a long line. On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 17:18:53 +0100 Patrick Börjesson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: my terminal in gnome when I'm writing a command bigger than the console size it wraps the text to the same line that i was witting on :-S . ex:

Re: [gentoo-user] anoying terminal

2003-12-04 Thread brett holcomb
Under bash my terminal wraps to the next line if I type a long line. On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 17:18:53 +0100 Patrick Börjesson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: my terminal in gnome when I'm writing a command bigger than the console size it wraps the text to the same line that i was witting on :-S . ex:

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernels > 2.4.20 don't work with reiserfs

2003-12-04 Thread Wes Gray
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 12:29:21PM +0100, Christian Anthon wrote: > > Same problem here. I had to comment out rootfs checking in checkrootfs > during bootup since I had no old kernel to use. The problem probably > lies with reiserfs tool and not the kernel. My problem does occur in /etc/init.d/ch

[gentoo-user] redifining harddrive partitions and restore linux

2003-12-04 Thread Helder Rossa
hi, I want to clear all partitions of my HDD and then put the data of the partitions that I have now in those new partitions. I'm wondering if it is possible. basically I want to redefine my HDD partitions without re-installing all the stuff that I have. if i do "dd if=/dev/hda2 of=hda2.iso" an

RE: [gentoo-user] Help with install

2003-12-04 Thread Nicolas Nilles
whitch kernel you use?? if you use 2.4.?? you should get sound suport loded as module, and re emerge alsa-driver, then do a "/etc/init.d/alsa restart", I have the same sound card and work great for me , each time that i compile kernel, i will have to re emerge alsa, (in kernels 2.4.??) cheers Nico

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare question from the forum

2003-12-04 Thread Anders Hasselqvist
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Alexandru GHERMAN wrote: > blmartin777 wrote: > > "I can't even get it to install. It tells me that it was not configured right > and to run vmware-config.pl, and when I do that it says it build everything > it needs for the 2.6 kernel. It does that over and over. " > > > > I

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage Cleanup

2003-12-04 Thread Oliver Lange
Al Smith wrote: I was wondering is there a way to cleanup portage cleanly that won't screw with any thing? Such as remove the source for products installed and such? And if this is done will portage still keep track of what's been installed? The sources are only installed temporary until a package

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