Re: [gentoo-user] ck-sources advice?

2003-12-15 Thread Spider
begin quote On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 21:18:13 -0500 Joel Konkle-Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm considering switching over from vanilla-sources-2.4.23 to ck-sources-2.4.23-r1. Does anyone here run ck-sources? Are there any hangups that I should be aware of to have the smoothest transition

Re: [gentoo-user] scripts/bootstrap.sh failed

2003-12-15 Thread Adrian Pirciu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 it's a BAD rule. It maybe was true when we had 16 Mb of ram, but if you have 512 m, a 256 M of swap would be more than you need. In fact, if you don't compile stuff, it's better to disable any swap files/partitions. It's faster. On Sunday 14

Re: [gentoo-user] Find all installed packages with -alsa?

2003-12-15 Thread mathieu perrenoud
On Monday 15 December 2003 04:10, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: I'm switching over from OSS to ALSA, so I need to find all the installed packages that were merged with -alsa. Is this possible? Thanks in advance. what about this one? emerge -evp world | grep '-alsa' | awk '{print $4}' it doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] NPTL -- how to start using it?

2003-12-15 Thread Tom Wesley
On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 03:30, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Monday 15 December 2003 12:07, N. Owen Gunden wrote: I'd like to start using NPTL for at least wine, with hopes of seeing performance enhancement. As I understand it, here's what I need to do: - Install kernel 2.6.0-test11 - Set

Re: [gentoo-user] postgresql

2003-12-15 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sunday 14 December 2003 20:09 schrieb ext Ted Ozolins: crash root # pg_ctl status -D /var/lib/postgresql/data pg_ctl: postmaster is running (pid: 1955) Command line was: /usr/bin/postmaster '-N' '1024' '-B' '2048' *Warning*: pg_connect(): Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: could

Re: [gentoo-user] Find all installed packages with -alsa?

2003-12-15 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Monday 15 December 2003 16:40, mathieu perrenoud wrote: On Monday 15 December 2003 04:10, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: I'm switching over from OSS to ALSA, so I need to find all the installed packages that were merged with -alsa. Is this possible? Thanks in advance. what about this one?

Re: [gentoo-user] NPTL -- how to start using it?

2003-12-15 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 07:52:56AM +, Tom Wesley wrote: This method worked for me perfectly over the weekend, although I re-emerged everything as I changed my cflags too... Are you using ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86? Can you tell me your exact versions of glibc, gcc, and kernel? Thanks, Owen --

Re: [gentoo-user] Dead mp3

2003-12-15 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
On 2003-12-13, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote: Hi! When I wanted to play some mp3 files with mpg123 there was no sound at all, tried xmms and still no sound..:-( Ogg works fine though. This happened after alsa-driver re-install (after kernel upgrade). Can someone tell me why this is and how to fix

Re: [gentoo-user] interface alias configuration

2003-12-15 Thread Leonid Podolny
Ok, thanks, I'll try it. mathieu perrenoud wrote: uncoment the line alias_eth0=... and edit it according to your needs. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] scripts/bootstrap.sh failed

2003-12-15 Thread Spider
begin quote On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 09:06:00 +0200 Adrian Pirciu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 it's a BAD rule. It maybe was true when we had 16 Mb of ram, but if you have 512 m, a 256 M of swap would be more than you need. In fact, if you don't

Re: [gentoo-user] NPTL -- how to start using it?

2003-12-15 Thread Tom Wesley
On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 08:11, N. Owen Gunden wrote: On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 07:52:56AM +, Tom Wesley wrote: This method worked for me perfectly over the weekend, although I re-emerged everything as I changed my cflags too... Are you using ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86? Can you tell me your

Re: [gentoo-user] NPTL -- how to start using it?

2003-12-15 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 08:30:18AM +, Tom Wesley wrote: * sys-libs/glibc Latest version available: 2.3.3_pre20031212 Latest version installed: 2.3.2-r9 * sys-devel/gcc Latest version available: 3.3.2-r4 Latest version installed: 3.3.2-r3 *

[gentoo-user] how to play cube

2003-12-15 Thread Stephen Turner
hey ive covered a website and played with some of the stuff in /usr/games/bin but alas cant seem to get cube to exicute. according to what i read i should be able to play a game. any help getting it to work would be grateful, i think im just trying to start it wrong maybe? = ::: common sense?

[gentoo-user] booting from floppy (after install)

2003-12-15 Thread john gennard
Following advice given to me on the 9th, I've been using the Handbook and trying out different approaches. Yesterday, I went right through (using gentoo-sources and genkernel to see how that went). All seemed fine, and I'm sure I have a good basic install to start me off. Unfortunately, I can't

[gentoo-user] oops! my date is 14 years ahead!

2003-12-15 Thread Matthieu Amiguet
I had some clock troubles a few weeks ago when I passed from local to UTC time (somehow my /etc/adjtime was corrupted). I thought I fixed it and used my box happily for a few weeks before realizing that I mixed things up somewhere along the path: date and time are OK, but my box thinks it is

Re: [gentoo-user] booting from floppy (after install)

2003-12-15 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Monday 15 December 2003 10:16 schrieb ext john gennard: For the final run through with genkernel, there was no choice, but that's no problem - I'll put lilo on a floppy right away. Wrong! I'm told 'no such device' whilst /dev/fd0 exists and this error continues to be so no matter what I

[gentoo-user] seeking suggestiong on email software

2003-12-15 Thread Zarick Lau
Hi, I have used evolution for a long time, but actually I want to seek some changes as it was so trouble to getting my mail on one desktop system only. Well, what I'm going to achieve is, using my home server, to receive and store my email from my ISP account, and I can easily setup different

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual booting Win XP with GRUB

2003-12-15 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
On 2003-12-14, John Gilger wrote: The help everyone offered is appreciated. At least now GRUB bounces back to the menu screen instead of crashing. It still will not boot WinXP. Could it be that GRUB doesn't work with NTFS partitions? Does LILO? Both of them do work well with NTFS. This is

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Postfix configuration (Solved)

2003-12-15 Thread Patrick Börjesson
So... Say I have a unresolvable hostname (e.g. host.mydomain.com) because of being inside an unaccessible intranet. The intranet has a smtp-server which relays mail for us inside the intranet. The problem is now that I want all the mail that is send from my machine which don't have a domain

Re: [gentoo-user] sa-learn fails

2003-12-15 Thread Christian Herzyk
Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Hi, after collection spam that get true, i executed sa-learn but it fails with this command: Cannot open bayes databases /home/istari/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/O: tie failed: Cannot open bayes databases /home/istari/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/W: tie failed: File exists Has

Re: [gentoo-user] seeking suggestiong on email software

2003-12-15 Thread Christophe Boutter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi, Zarick Lau wrote: | Well, what I'm going to achieve is, using my home server, to receive | and store my email from my ISP account, and I can easily setup | different | desktop system to fetch my mail from the server with out the chance to |

Re: [gentoo-user] seeking suggestiong on email software

2003-12-15 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
I solved exactly the same situation using qmail + courier imap + sqwebmail + ... so from any PC I can reach my mails minimally via the web browser if I like to use Mozilla, Kmail ... I have to configure it first time. noro Zarick Lau wrote: Hi, I have used evolution for a long time, but

Re: [gentoo-user] sa-learn fails

2003-12-15 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
On 2003-12-15, Christian Herzyk wrote: Patrick Marquetecken wrote: after collection spam that get true, i executed sa-learn but it fails with this command: Cannot open bayes databases /home/istari/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/O: tie failed: [...] No solution, sorry. But I got this problem,

Re: [gentoo-user] oops! my date is 14 years ahead!

2003-12-15 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Matthieu Amiguet wrote: 1) How do I set the date/time in gentoo? do I have to set the system clock only, and let gentoo sync the hwclock at poweroff, or do I have to run the classical date xx;hwclock --systohc sequence? U can use date + hwclock -w commands, but for future it's far better

[gentoo-user] empty gnome panel

2003-12-15 Thread Oliver Lange
Hello everyone, Today i boot my desktop, and my gnome main panel is empty (except the application/action buttons, volume control, clock and window list button) !! I had the whole panel almost full with app-icons !! argh... How come ? Do I have a chance to restore all the icons or will this cost

Re: [gentoo-user] NPTL -- how to start using it?

2003-12-15 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 14 December 2003 10:07 pm, N. Owen Gunden wrote: I'd like to start using NPTL for at least wine, with hopes of seeing performance enhancement. As I understand it, here's what I need to do: - Install kernel 2.6.0-test11 - Set the nptl USE flag - emerge glibc (2.3.2 ok?) - emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] oops! my date is 14 years ahead!

2003-12-15 Thread Matthieu Amiguet
U can use date + hwclock -w commands, but for future it's far better to setup NTP daemon (emerge ntp), if u are online or use rdate (emerge rdate) if not. I'll try rdate as it's a laptop and I'm offline most of the time. setup proper date touch foo; find / -newer foo -exec touch -t

Re: [gentoo-user] Mp3 effects

2003-12-15 Thread Øyvind Stegard
Ciortea Cristian wrote: Audacity .. hmm will give that a try. Dont think it can handle mp3s without decoding them .. I don't think you can apply most sound effects directly on MP3 audio data without decoding it first (software is able to decode-edit-re-encode transparently for you). And beware

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo as a router

2003-12-15 Thread Timo Boettcher
Hi Oliver, * Oliver Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED], Friday, December 12, 2003, 10:18:14 PM: Hello everyone, And again i can't find the solution for a trivial task such as setting up my gentoo box as a simple router for my home LAN. Just for the record (I saw you got your solution) there is also

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo as a router

2003-12-15 Thread Oliver Lange
Timo Boettcher wrote: Just for the record (I saw you got your solution) there is also the Gentoo-Router-Howto on the wiki of the Gentoo-Server-Project http://www.subverted.net/wakka/wakka.php?wakka=RouterHowto The site was down over the last few days, so I couldn't give you the link earlier. Yep,

Re: [gentoo-user] empty gnome panel

2003-12-15 Thread Oliver Lange
Gnome panel problem solved: libfam was screwed up. I guess that's another package which has been renamed ? Please stop that.choose package names wisely please.. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Find all installed packages with -alsa?

2003-12-15 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
mathieu perrenoud wrote: On Monday 15 December 2003 04:10, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: I'm switching over from OSS to ALSA, so I need to find all the installed packages that were merged with -alsa. Is this possible? Thanks in advance. what about this one? emerge -evp world | grep '-alsa' |

Re: [gentoo-user] Find all installed packages with -alsa?

2003-12-15 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Quoting Norbert Kamenicky [EMAIL PROTECTED]: mathieu perrenoud wrote: On Monday 15 December 2003 04:10, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: I'm switching over from OSS to ALSA, so I need to find all the installed packages that were merged with -alsa. Is this possible? Thanks in advance.

[gentoo-user] Howto backup w2k with streamer in Gentoo machine?

2003-12-15 Thread Timo Boettcher
Hi, I have two machines here, one workstation that has Windows 2000 Pro installed, and one server that runs Gentoo and has a Streamer. How can I backup the W2K workstation with the streamer in the linux server? I had some ideas, but I am not sure which of them is best. 1. Boot the

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo as a router

2003-12-15 Thread Joshua Banks
--- Oliver Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Timo Boettcher wrote: Just for the record (I saw you got your solution) there is also the Gentoo-Router-Howto on the wiki of the Gentoo-Server-Project http://www.subverted.net/wakka/wakka.php?wakka=RouterHowto The site was down over the last

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto backup w2k with streamer in Gentoo machine?

2003-12-15 Thread Peter Eis
Timo Boettcher wrote: Hi, I have two machines here, one workstation that has Windows 2000 Pro installed, and one server that runs Gentoo and has a Streamer. How can I backup the W2K workstation with the streamer in the linux server? Have a look at arkeia

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto backup w2k with streamer in Gentoo machine?

2003-12-15 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Monday 15 December 2003 15:35 schrieb ext Peter Eis: Timo Boettcher wrote: Hi, I have two machines here, one workstation that has Windows 2000 Pro installed, and one server that runs Gentoo and has a Streamer. How can I backup the W2K workstation with the streamer in the linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Find all installed packages with -alsa?

2003-12-15 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: Well, my take from this whole thread is that it's not possible without some shell hacking. h ... shell scripting is one of the thing which give us freedom/power and easy way to solve different daily problems in simple/easy way (indeed after some experience).

Re: [gentoo-user] Find all installed packages with -alsa?

2003-12-15 Thread Przemysaw Macig
W licie z pon, 15-12-2003, godz. 14:18, Joel Konkle-Parker pisze: Quoting Norbert Kamenicky [EMAIL PROTECTED]: mathieu perrenoud wrote: On Monday 15 December 2003 04:10, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: I'm switching over from OSS to ALSA, so I need to find all the installed

Re: [gentoo-user] Find all installed packages with -alsa?

2003-12-15 Thread mathieu perrenoud
Le Lundi, 15 Décembre 2003 14.45, Norbert Kamenicky a écrit : Well, my take from this whole thread is that it's not possible without some shell hacking. h ... shell scripting is one of the thing which give us freedom/power and easy way to solve different daily problems in

Re: [gentoo-user] NPTL -- how to start using it?

2003-12-15 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
N. Owen Gunden wrote: I followed this procedure, but it hasn't been working out. Problems I'm experiencing now include: - The nvidia kernel module doesn't work (freezes during initialization) - wine segfaults - mplayer segfaults Note that I did these things carefully with testing

Re: [gentoo-user] seeking suggestiong on email software

2003-12-15 Thread Øyvind Stegard
Zarick Lau wrote: Hi, I have used evolution for a long time, but actually I want to seek some changes as it was so trouble to getting my mail on one desktop system only. Well, what I'm going to achieve is, using my home server, to receive and store my email from my ISP account, and I can easily

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo as a router

2003-12-15 Thread Oliver Lange
Joshua Banks wrote: And what was the final solution Oliver? I must of missed one of your postings. Only one word: shorewall. Configuring that thing was done in 30 minutes, incl. reading the quick setup guide, configuring routing, policies/rules and port forwarding. It's so easy that even me myself

Re: [gentoo-user] Find all installed packages with -alsa?

2003-12-15 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Quoting mathieu perrenoud [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Le Lundi, 15 Décembre 2003 14.45, Norbert Kamenicky a écrit : Well, my take from this whole thread is that it's not possible without some shell hacking. h ... shell scripting is one of the thing which give us freedom/power and

Re: [gentoo-user] Find all installed packages with -alsa?

2003-12-15 Thread Oliver Lange
Norbert Kamenicky wrote: h ... shell scripting is one of the thing which give us freedom/power and easy way to solve different daily problems in simple/easy way (indeed after some experience). Let see microshit ... even for simple tasks havy guns like C/C++ ... BASIC ;-) (S cames from

Re: [gentoo-user] Find all installed packages with -alsa?

2003-12-15 Thread Oliver Lange
mathieu perrenoud wrote: I fully agree. But emerge -ep world | grep '-alsa' can hardly be called shell hacking. Instead of that cryptic shell stuff (i mean in general), I'd like to have the portage tree and all it's stuff put into a simple SQL database. Then you could talk to your computer in

Re: [gentoo-user] Find all installed packages with -alsa?

2003-12-15 Thread Oliver Lange
Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: Ok, so maybe not shell hacking. But there needs to be some sort of easy way to do the following: - Build system using OSS (+oss -alsa) - Decide later to switch to ALSA (+/-oss +alsa) - Tell portage to remerge everything previously merged with -alsa to reflect the change

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_TMPDIR

2003-12-15 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 12/15/03 Oliver Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit notamment: Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: Hello all, After some seven months of -happily- using gentoo, I see my /var/tmp is huge. My questions: Is there any reason to keep the content of this directory? Can I without danger delete files in

Re: [gentoo-user] Find all installed packages with -alsa?

2003-12-15 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Oliver Lange wrote: Norbert Kamenicky wrote: h ... shell scripting is one of the thing which give us freedom/power and easy way to solve different daily problems in simple/easy way (indeed after some experience). Let see microshit ... even for simple tasks havy guns like C/C++ ... BASIC

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo as a router

2003-12-15 Thread Joshua Banks
--- Oliver Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua Banks wrote: And what was the final solution Oliver? I must of missed one of your postings. Only one word: shorewall. Configuring that thing was done in 30 minutes, incl. reading the quick setup guide, configuring routing,

RE: [gentoo-user] Find all installed packages with -alsa?

2003-12-15 Thread Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower)
-Original Message- From: Oliver Lange mathieu perrenoud wrote: I fully agree. But emerge -ep world | grep '-alsa' can hardly be called shell hacking. Instead of that cryptic shell stuff (i mean in general), I'd like to have the portage tree and all it's stuff put into a simple SQL

[gentoo-user] aghhh ! this is driving me nuts...

2003-12-15 Thread Anupam Kapoor
hi all, i am having some strange problems in emerging net-misc/openssh-3.7.1_p2-r1. i am always getting build failures with these messages: , | (cd openbsd-compat make) | gcc -march=pentium3 -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wno-uninitialized -I. -I. -DSSHDIR=\/etc/ssh\

[gentoo-user] Iso : To be or not to be bootable ...

2003-12-15 Thread Ciortea Cristian
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was wondering if there is a way to check and see if a .iso is bootable .. Anybody has a clue ? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUBP93d3b4Dc84tIPwxAQKa/RAArnHEOEZwAdfdw53tBuyRoyamTwMdyE0J

Re: [gentoo-user] Find all installed packages with -alsa?

2003-12-15 Thread Oliver Lange
Norbert Kamenicky wrote: Oliver Lange wrote: If somebody is singing oda's about GUI and clicking, I like to ask him to solve this problem: Give me the first 2000 most frequently used words in english newspapers! Okay okay, you're right, no-one will ever add a menu entry in a GUI-driven tool named

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo as a router

2003-12-15 Thread Oliver Lange
Joshua Banks wrote: Glad to here it. This probably saved you 5000 (kidding ofcourse) more hours of iptables how-to and routing how-to. They (Shorewall) actually have some pretty interesting stuff that goes accrosed they're email list at times. I would consider checking that out as well. Oh yeah.

Re: [gentoo-user] Iso : To be or not to be bootable ...

2003-12-15 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Ciortea Cristian wrote: I was wondering if there is a way to check and see if a .iso is bootable .. Anybody has a clue ? Burn it, pop in the CD, reboot. ;) -- Andrew Gaffney -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] apache2 and mod_auth_pgsql

2003-12-15 Thread James Orr
The mod_auth_pgsql does not seem to work with apache 2. I have apache2 in my USE in make.conf [EMAIL PROTECTED] root # emerge mod_auth_pgsql Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1) net-www/mod_auth_pgsql-0.9.12 to / md5 src_uri ;-) mod_auth_pgsql-0.9.12.tar.gz Unpacking source...

Re: [gentoo-user] Find all installed packages with -alsa?

2003-12-15 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Andrew Gaffney wrote: Jason Stubbs wrote: On Monday 15 December 2003 12:10, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: I'm switching over from OSS to ALSA, so I need to find all the installed packages that were merged with -alsa. Is this possible? Thanks in advance. # grep -l '-alsa' `find /var/db/pkg/*/*/USE`

Re: [gentoo-user] Find all installed packages with -alsa?

2003-12-15 Thread Oliver Lange
Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower) wrote: Using a SQL DB would increase the data stored on the harddisk. It is also slower than raw file access. The deal breaker is that you don't want to depend on a SQL DB for minimal installs. ?? Did you ever use a SQL db ? Responses for queries within such 'tiny'

Re: [gentoo-user] apache2 and mod_auth_pgsql

2003-12-15 Thread James Orr
I did manage to get it working by installing directly from the source, but the version of mod_auth_pgsql needed for apache 2 is not in portage :(. -- James Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Iso : To be or not to be bootable ...

2003-12-15 Thread Oliver Lange
Andrew Gaffney wrote: Burn it, pop in the CD, reboot. ;) How can i check if the new Ferrari can accelerate to 100 Km/h in under 6 seconds ? --- buy one, then test it. :) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo as a router

2003-12-15 Thread Joshua Banks
--- Oliver Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh yeah. I just got rid of documents saying 'routing is a pretty straightforward task', followed by 1 lines of text.. Errrm, wasn't it you who wrote me the long mail, offering personal help for the case I still ran into problems ? Yes I

Re: [gentoo-user] Find all installed packages with -alsa?

2003-12-15 Thread Przemysaw Macig
W licie z pon, 15-12-2003, godz. 14:52, Przemysaw Macig pisze: W licie z pon, 15-12-2003, godz. 14:18, Joel Konkle-Parker pisze: Quoting Norbert Kamenicky [EMAIL PROTECTED]: mathieu perrenoud wrote: On Monday 15 December 2003 04:10, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual booting Win XP with GRUB

2003-12-15 Thread nealbirch
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 15:39:13 -0800 John Gilger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/14/03 7:12 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Following the instructions in the Gentoo installation guide, I haven't been able to get Windows XP to boot. Fdisk shows that hda1 is the Windows D:

[gentoo-user] Re: Iso : To be or not to be bootable ...

2003-12-15 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Ciortea Cristian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if there is a way to check and see if a .iso is bootable .. Anybody has a clue ? Just a guess... od [-t x1] filename.iso | less I'm going from memory here -- so please excuse any innacuracies -- but the first several 2048-byte sectors

Re: [gentoo-user] booting from floppy (after install)

2003-12-15 Thread john gennard
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 10:54:02AM +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Monday 15 December 2003 10:16 schrieb ext john gennard: For the final run through with genkernel, there was no choice, but that's no problem - I'll put lilo on a floppy right away. Wrong! I'm told 'no such device' whilst

[gentoo-user] Portage help / Teapop compiled with APOP?

2003-12-15 Thread Kato Wulf
Hello, I want to find out if teapop was compiled with the APOP feature (specifically, if my passwords are being sent in plain text or not). Is anyone familiar with this package? Can anyone help me to navigate to the correct place to find out how a specific package (such as teapop) was

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with compiling kernel

2003-12-15 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 23:20:29 +0100, SN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why don't you supply your grub.conf so we can tell you what you did wrong :-) I played around and I noticed that it isn't my understanding of GRUB but that I configured the kernel wrong. I don't understand what is really wrong

[gentoo-user] correct single sample errors after ripping CDs

2003-12-15 Thread Jimmy Rosen
Hi, I'm trying to rescue some old CDs that have gone all scratchy. When ripping them with cdparanoia I get several pop/click/snap, where one single sample is way out of whack. It's simple to fix a few of them manually in a wave editor, but not when there's a lot of them. I've been searching

Re: [gentoo-user] Find all installed packages with -alsa?

2003-12-15 Thread Simon
just: emerge --emptytree -vp world | grep -alsa On Monday 15 December 2003 18:09, Przemysaw Macig wrote: W licie z pon, 15-12-2003, godz. 14:52, Przemysaw Macig pisze: W licie z pon, 15-12-2003, godz. 14:18, Joel Konkle-Parker pisze: Quoting Norbert Kamenicky [EMAIL PROTECTED]: mathieu

RE: [gentoo-user] Find all installed packages with -alsa?

2003-12-15 Thread Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower)
Sure I've used a SQL DB. A file stored in a DB is slower to load than a file on disk. This doesn't speak to indexing and cacheing that a DB might have (not to mention that DBs are usually way better machines than your desktop). Of course, you can apply these techniques to files on disk as well.

Re: [gentoo-user] seeking suggestiong on email software

2003-12-15 Thread Elton Algera
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I agree with the other mails; imap is better for your goal. I have fetchmail and exim with cyrus-imap. Exim can be configured to include virusscanning and spamfiltering. ( Spamassassin, amavis) So, no more virii and a lot less spam... If

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with compiling kernel

2003-12-15 Thread SN
But you said grub is telling you to supply a valid root= , no? Now you say, that your kernel panics, I'm not sure where you are at the moment, because if you get message to secify a correct root=, then we are still in grubs part, if you managed to pass that and now we have a kernel panic then you

[gentoo-user] defragmentation

2003-12-15 Thread Redeeman
hi, is it possible to defragment ext3 or any other unix filesystem? -- Regards, Redeeman () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\- against microsoft attachments -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] seeking suggestiong on email software

2003-12-15 Thread Redeeman
please send to me, thanks! On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 21:43, Elton Algera wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I agree with the other mails; imap is better for your goal. I have fetchmail and exim with cyrus-imap. Exim can be configured to include virusscanning and

Re: [gentoo-user] defragmentation

2003-12-15 Thread SN
- Original Message - From: Redeeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gentoo Maillinglist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 11:07 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] defragmentation hi, is it possible to defragment ext3 or any other unix filesystem? Yes it is, but usually not needed

RE: [gentoo-user] correct single sample errors after ripping CDs

2003-12-15 Thread John Arrowwood
From: Jimmy Rosen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I'm trying to rescue some old CDs that have gone all scratchy. Go buy a Disc Doctor and buff out as many of the scratches as possible!!! It works wonders. _ Wonder if the latest virus has

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Dual booting Win XP with GRUB

2003-12-15 Thread bjgilger
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/12/15 Mon PM 12:21:03 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dual booting Win XP with GRUB On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 15:39:13 -0800 John Gilger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/14/03 7:12 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] defragmentation

2003-12-15 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Redeeman wrote: hi, is it possible to defragment ext3 or any other unix filesystem? AFAIK it's not needed (it cames from unix FS philosofy), but possible by backup-delete-restore procedure, (which is the fastest method for windblowz as well ... from where u have the need for it :-) )

Re: [gentoo-user] correct single sample errors after ripping CDs

2003-12-15 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Tuesday 16 December 2003 04:21, Jimmy Rosen wrote: Hi, I'm trying to rescue some old CDs that have gone all scratchy. When ripping them with cdparanoia I get several pop/click/snap, where one single sample is way out of whack. It's simple to fix a few of them manually in a wave editor, but

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo as a router

2003-12-15 Thread Joshua Banks
--- Oliver Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua Banks wrote: I didn't see really see an answer. What I saw was you saying that you were curious now and that was it. You didn't say one way or another that you wanted or needed any help. So I left it alone. Sometimes people react weird

Re: [gentoo-user] defragmentation

2003-12-15 Thread Harald Arnesen
Redeeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi, is it possible to defragment ext3 or any other unix filesystem? xfs has xfs_fsr, but wether it is necessary to defragment a Unix filesystem is another matter. -- Hilsen Harald. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual booting Win XP with GRUB

2003-12-15 Thread Harald Arnesen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If linux systems would play educational CDs like The Magic School Bus and others that my boy likes, I would simply ditch windows entirely. You have tried Wine, Win4Lin and VMWare? -- Hilsen Harald. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Iso : To be or not to be bootable ...

2003-12-15 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Ciortea Cristian wrote: I was wondering if there is a way to check and see if a .iso is bootable .. Anybody has a clue ? Yes, it's possible ... AFAIK bootable CD must fulfill El Torito specification, Short answer: if on the addres 8800h (17-th sector) u will find string similar to: blabla

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual booting Win XP with GRUB

2003-12-15 Thread Bryce
On Monday 15 December 2003 03:41 pm, Harald Arnesen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If linux systems would play educational CDs like The Magic School Bus and others that my boy likes, I would simply ditch windows entirely. You have tried Wine, Win4Lin and VMWare? I was going to suggest

Re: [gentoo-user] seeking suggestiong on email software

2003-12-15 Thread Zarick Lau
Hi, Thanks Elton, Øyvind, Norbert and Christopha first, I really got more solid idea on what should I do, however... It seems that your solution has suggested exim/qmail/postfix, but my ISP has port the incoming 25port, that why I initially stated that I'd like to use fetch mail to act as a

Re: [gentoo-user] Find all installed packages with -alsa?

2003-12-15 Thread Oliver Lange
Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower) wrote: Sure I've used a SQL DB. A file stored in a DB is slower to load than a file on disk. This doesn't speak to indexing and cacheing that a DB might have (not to mention that DBs are usually way better machines than your desktop). Of course, you can apply these

Re: [gentoo-user] aghhh ! this is driving me nuts...

2003-12-15 Thread Marcin Daczkowski
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 08:04:14 -0800 Anupam Kapoor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so i decided to compile dev-libs/openssl-0.9.6k and net-misc/openssh-3.7.1_p2-r1 by hand. i had no problems in getting both of them to build !!! i am using gcc-3.2.3 and glibc is 2.3.2 any help will be greatly

Re: [gentoo-user] Refresh Gnome menus without restarting?

2003-12-15 Thread Steven Elling
On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 14:17, Tom Wesley wrote: On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: Is there a way to refresh the Gnome Applications menu without logging out? When I emerge something new, it doesn't show up in the menu until I log out and in again. -- Joel

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual booting Win XP with GRUB

2003-12-15 Thread collins
On Monday 15 December 2003 16:18, Bryce wrote: On Monday 15 December 2003 03:41 pm, Harald Arnesen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If linux systems would play educational CDs like The Magic School Bus and others that my boy likes, I would simply ditch windows entirely. You have

[gentoo-user] Kmail SMTP secure authentication problem

2003-12-15 Thread Daniel Jiseok Song
Whe using mozilla mail, I can send e-mail via SMTP with secure authentication server. I just check Use secure authentication checkbox, its done. But using Kmail, I always fail to send. It just saying my IP is rejected relaying by the mail server. There are some menus for selecting

Re: [gentoo-user] portage over nfs

2003-12-15 Thread Jeff Smelser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 14 December 2003 07:41 pm, Tom Hosiawa wrote: From what I've read, it's not a good idea to use async with nfs for mounting /usr/portage because file corruption could happen with multiple clients doing emerge sync. Well.. If your doing

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual booting Win XP with GRUB

2003-12-15 Thread John Gilger
On 12/15/03 9:21 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 15:39:13 -0800 John Gilger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/14/03 7:12 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Following the instructions in the Gentoo installation guide, I haven't been able to get

[gentoo-user] Compiling on another machine?

2003-12-15 Thread George Mathews
I was wondering if there was a way to use my desktop machine to compile for my laptop when I `emerge -uD world`. I would like to use my desktop because it is 4x the 600Mhz that the laptop is. -- Thanks, George Mathews -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual booting Win XP with GRUB

2003-12-15 Thread John Gilger
On 12/15/03 3:41 PM, Harald Arnesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If linux systems would play educational CDs like The Magic School Bus and others that my boy likes, I would simply ditch windows entirely. You have tried Wine, Win4Lin and VMWare? Not yet, I'm still

Re: [gentoo-user] apache2 and mod_auth_pgsql

2003-12-15 Thread Ted Ozolins
James Orr wrote: The mod_auth_pgsql does not seem to work with apache 2. I have apache2 in my USE in make.conf Wrong version of mod_auth_pgsql You'll have to go to: http://www.giuseppetanzilli.it/mod_auth_pgsql2/dist/ and grab a new release of mod_auth_pgsql2. You will have to change the

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling on another machine?

2003-12-15 Thread Nick Fisher
I was wondering if there was a way to use my desktop machine to compile for my laptop when I `emerge -uD world`. I would like to use my desktop because it is 4x the 600Mhz that the laptop is. You might want to look into distcc. Basicly distcc hands of some of the compiling work from one machine

Re: [gentoo-user] portage over nfs

2003-12-15 Thread Tom Hosiawa
From what I've read, it's not a good idea to use async with nfs for mounting /usr/portage because file corruption could happen with multiple clients doing emerge sync. Well.. If your doing this in the first place. Your not really benefiting from the idea anyway.. The idea is to only

Re: [gentoo-user] Iso : To be or not to be bootable ...

2003-12-15 Thread Jim
On Monday 15 December 2003 11:41 am, Oliver Lange wrote: Andrew Gaffney wrote: Burn it, pop in the CD, reboot. ;) How can i check if the new Ferrari can accelerate to 100 Km/h in under 6 seconds ? --- buy one, then test it. :) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Cost of CD about $0.50

[gentoo-user] partition resizing inside of Gentoo

2003-12-15 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, After spending a lot of time yesterday in System Commander resizing my partitions, I wished that I had had the time before I started to find out about Linux-based partition resizing tools so that I might have been able to use the system while some of this was going on. I've done no reading

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