Re: [gentoo-user] kernel depression

2004-01-17 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Thank you all for responding, Im going to try vanilla ! I was beginning to think that I was doing something wrong, or my hardware was buggy, but then it wouldn't run any kernel. I hope I get things fixed, I've been trying to get of gentoo-sources 2.4.20-r8 for over a month now... On Sat,

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge win4lin doesn't work

2004-01-17 Thread Elton Algera
It seems like you have no mirrors set. Try: emerge mirrorselect mirrorselect -a -s6 (this sets six mirrors in /etc/make.conf) emerge win4lin On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 00:12, Klaus Neumann wrote: Hi, trying to emerge win4lin, I got this: - Connecting to

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel 2.4.22 (r4 and r5): nfs problems

2004-01-17 Thread Kees de Bruin
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 16:57:25 +0100, Guy Van Sanden wrote: I submitted a bugreport for a problem I've been having with 2.4.22 gentoo-sources kernels. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38399 These kernels give NFS timeouts on my NFS mounted homedirs, but mainly under heavy operations.

Re: [gentoo-user] Intermittant poweroff failure

2004-01-17 Thread Elton Algera
On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 11:34, Tom Eastman wrote: On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 01:53, Bill Roberts wrote: On 22:07 Fri 16 Jan , Tom Eastman wrote: Ever since I installed gentoo on my new computer in October I've been frustrated when I try to shut it down. Have you tried the poweroff

Re: [gentoo-user] Intermittant poweroff failure

2004-01-17 Thread Elton Algera
On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 09:21, Elton Algera wrote: On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 11:34, Tom Eastman wrote: On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 01:53, Bill Roberts wrote: On 22:07 Fri 16 Jan , Tom Eastman wrote: Ever since I installed gentoo on my new computer in October I've been frustrated when I try to

[gentoo-user] Would be possible migrate from Gentoo 1.4 to Gentoo 2004?

2004-01-17 Thread qwerty
I've just wanna know if there would be a chance of migrate from 1.4 series to 2004, this is because I'm starting to administrate a server trough ssh and when Gentoo 2004 cames out it would be nice to have it ;-) Thanks, Angel Freire cuerty @ forums.gentoo.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Install Problem

2004-01-17 Thread Jani-Matti Hätinen
On Saturday 17 January 2004 06:09, Bob White wrote: I'm a new Gentoo user, although not to Linux in general. I'm trying to install Gentoo on an older HP Pavilion with a k6-2 333 processor. All has gone well to this point - I have the base install (I started from a stage 3 install), as well

Re: [gentoo-user] Would be possible migrate from Gentoo 1.4 to Gentoo 2004?

2004-01-17 Thread Jani-Matti Hätinen
On Friday 16 January 2004 10:56, qwerty wrote: I've just wanna know if there would be a chance of migrate from 1.4 series to 2004, this is because I'm starting to administrate a server trough ssh and when Gentoo 2004 cames out it would be nice to have it ;-) Just run emerge sync emerge -uD

[gentoo-user] Mplayer without X

2004-01-17 Thread Kim Ingemann
Hi. Is it possible to install mplayer without X support? I only need to listen to radio (mms://). I tried with the useflags -X -qt -gtk -gnome -alsa -kde -gpm but it still wants to install with X support. I don't need it at all. If not, is there any other console applications that can play

[gentoo-user] Re: [mailing_lists] Re: [gentoo-user] emerge win4lin doesn't work

2004-01-17 Thread Klaus Neumann
Didn't work either. Never mind, I emerged an older version instead. Good enough for a trial. Thank you! On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 09:06:16 +0100 Elton Algera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems like you have no mirrors set. Try: emerge mirrorselect mirrorselect -a -s6 (this sets six mirrors in

Re: [gentoo-user] Mplayer without X

2004-01-17 Thread qwerty
On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 05:51, Kim Ingemann wrote: Hi. Is it possible to install mplayer without X support? I only need to listen to radio (mms://). I tried with the useflags -X -qt -gtk -gnome -alsa -kde -gpm but it still wants to install with X support. I don't need it at all. If not,

Re: [gentoo-user] Macintosh volumes

2004-01-17 Thread patrick . marquetecken
I always get error this is what i dit: kernel 2.4.20.x patch -p1 -d /usr/src/linux linux-2.4.hfsplus.diff cp -r hfsplus /usr/src/linux/fs recompiled the kernel with buil-in hfsplus support (but i can't mount) cd hfsplus make KERNELSRC=/usr/src/linux In file included from super.c:23:

Re: [gentoo-user] kdemutimedia compile error

2004-01-17 Thread Chris
On Saturday 17 January 2004 12:09 am, Chris wrote: On Friday 16 January 2004 11:47 pm, Kevin Hanson wrote: Chris wrote: I am updating to kde 3.1.5, it got as far as kdemultimedia then stops with the following error.

[gentoo-user] cupsd, modprobe: Can't locate module /dev/usblp0

2004-01-17 Thread angelo ngi
hi all, thanks to read this message. I have a little problem due to cupsd installation on my gentoo 1.4, kernel 2.4. I've installed cupsd, foomatic and gim-print. I' ve followed the steps on the gentoo site. I just need to print on the standard parallel port with may hp-deskjet600. Cupsd

Re: [gentoo-user] Would be possible migrate from Gentoo 1.4 to Gentoo 2004?

2004-01-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
That is right... unless there are a major architectural changes. If I understand this correctly, Gentoo borrows the idea from FreeBSD, everything is developed constantly and a release is just a snapshot of everything on the release day. And if Gentoo follow it even further it will be possible

[gentoo-user] kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe...

2004-01-17 Thread _JusSx_
Hi, I got this kind of error from my kernel and i would like to remove it. However this errror isn't fatal. $ dmesg ... ... kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 kmod: failed to exec

[gentoo-user] `su` vs. `su -` (was: env.d)

2004-01-17 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 22:29:27 -0500 Phil Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please note the difference between su and su - su changes to the new user without changing the existing environment. su - changes to the new user and takes on all characteristics of the new user including the

[gentoo-user] Emerge K3B

2004-01-17 Thread Dennis Robertson
Hello List, I am trying to emerge k3b. Doing a straight emerge I got 28 packages and all of them compiled until the last one, k3b-0.9, which failed as follows: k3bdevicemanager.cpp:751: `SCSI_BLK_MAJOR' undeclared (first use this function) k3bdevicemanager.cpp:751: (Each undeclared identifier

Re: [gentoo-user] Mplayer without X

2004-01-17 Thread Kim Ingemann
Thanks alot Angel and Jani. It worked. -- Med venlig hilsen / Best regards, Kim Ingemann http://pingvinland.dk/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] IMPORTANT: 1 config files in /etc need updating.

2004-01-17 Thread Jason Stubbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 17 January 2004 01:01, Kurt Guenther wrote: I did an emerge portage and recieved this: IMPORTANT: 1 config files in /etc need updating. I read the emerge --help config which was interesting, but didn't tell me how to resolve this.

[gentoo-user] command line

2004-01-17 Thread Chris
where would be the best place to put something into the command line so it starts automaticly? -- Chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] command line

2004-01-17 Thread Chris
On Saturday 17 January 2004 05:33 am, Chris wrote: where would be the best place to put something into the command line so it starts automaticly? forget this email i found what i was looking for thanks anyway:) -- Chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] services

2004-01-17 Thread Stefano Carraro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, during gentoo installation i've installed metalog as log service. Now, i've replaced it whith syslog-ng (replaced also in default runlevel). After doing this, all emerge will display this message: * Caching service dependencies... *

Re: [gentoo-user] Scilab

2004-01-17 Thread Thomas Degris
Thank you it seems to do the trick. My scilab is working now. I think it is because these files are compiled with scilab and scilab can't run if it can't get a X connection. Thomas Felix Salfelder wrote: hello. i dont know why the ebuild is missing that but: $ cd /usr/lib/scilab-2.7/macros

Re: [gentoo-user] services

2004-01-17 Thread Anarconda
Have you run #rc-update del metalog before add syslog-ng? Cheers. Stefano Carraro wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, during gentoo installation i've installed metalog as log service. Now, i've replaced it whith syslog-ng (replaced also in default runlevel). After doing

Re: [gentoo-user] services

2004-01-17 Thread Tom Wesley
On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 12:19, Stefano Carraro wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, during gentoo installation i've installed metalog as log service. Now, i've replaced it whith syslog-ng (replaced also in default runlevel). After doing this, all emerge will display

Re: [gentoo-user] services

2004-01-17 Thread Stefano Carraro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 resolved! probably some mistake in command order. In /etc/init.d script for starting metalog was present after unmerge. I've delete the script, removed and reinserted from default runlevel the services depending from logger (vcron). - --

Re: [gentoo-user] services

2004-01-17 Thread Stefano Carraro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 14:14, sabato 17 gennaio 2004, Tom Wesley ha scritto: emerge -C metalog rm /etc/init.d/metalog rc-update add syslog-ng boot yes, i've found the problem, but, following the gentoo installation instructions, i've added syslog to default

Re: [gentoo-user] services

2004-01-17 Thread Tom Wesley
On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 13:29, Stefano Carraro wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 14:14, sabato 17 gennaio 2004, Tom Wesley ha scritto: emerge -C metalog rm /etc/init.d/metalog rc-update add syslog-ng boot yes, i've found the problem, but, following the gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] services

2004-01-17 Thread Jani-Matti Htinen
On Saturday 17 January 2004 14:19, Stefano Carraro wrote: Hello, during gentoo installation i've installed metalog as log service. Now, i've replaced it whith syslog-ng (replaced also in default runlevel). After doing this, all emerge will display this message: [SNIP] Have you done rc-update

[gentoo-user] ioctl SIOCSIFADDR: Bad file descriptor

2004-01-17 Thread Christian Riis
Hi, I'm trying to install Gentoo on an old machine, but I run into a problem with getting it on the net. When the machine boots it apparently autodetects the NIC but when I rund 'dhcpcd eth0', I get a hundred million entries in /var/log/everything/current that look like this: [dhcpcd]:

[gentoo-user] Re: [normal] [gentoo-user] cupsd, modprobe: Can't locate module /dev/usblp0

2004-01-17 Thread Marc Redmann
Hi Angelo, modprobe: Can't locate module /dev/usb/ttyUSB0 modprobe: Can't locate module /dev/usb/ttyUSB1 modprobe: Can't locate module /dev/usb/ttyUSB2 modprobe: Can't locate module /dev/usb/ttyUSB3 ... up to 15 modprobe: Can't locate module /dev/usblp0 modprobe: Can't locate module

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge K3B

2004-01-17 Thread Robert Crawford
On Saturday 17 January 2004 6:17 am, Dennis Robertson wrote: Hello List, I am trying to emerge k3b. Doing a straight emerge I got 28 packages and all of them compiled until the last one, k3b-0.9, which failed as follows: k3bdevicemanager.cpp:751: `SCSI_BLK_MAJOR' undeclared (first use this

Re: [gentoo-user] Scilab

2004-01-17 Thread Felix Salfelder
hello. after some more research i found something (bug?) that i think is responsible for this misbehaviour: in utils/scibatch (which is used by these Makefile's) scilex is run with the parameters -ns -nwni. reason (maybe, maybe not): some older version of scilex does accept multiple arguments

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge K3B

2004-01-17 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Saturday 17 Jan 2004 14:27, Robert Crawford wrote: All my 2.6 kernels have worked great, except for cdburning. I've read everything I can find, followed all the instructions, and nothing has worked for k3b. At least on my system, cdburning is not solved for 2.6 kernels. Works fine here.

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge K3B

2004-01-17 Thread Stefan
On Sam, 2004-01-17 at 16:00, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Saturday 17 Jan 2004 14:27, Robert Crawford wrote: All my 2.6 kernels have worked great, except for cdburning. I've read everything I can find, followed all the instructions, and nothing has worked for k3b. At least on my system, cdburning

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge K3B

2004-01-17 Thread Stefan
On Sam, 2004-01-17 at 12:17, Dennis Robertson wrote: Hello List, I am trying to emerge k3b. Doing a straight emerge I got 28 packages and all of them compiled until the last one, k3b-0.9, which failed as follows: k3bdevicemanager.cpp:751: `SCSI_BLK_MAJOR' undeclared (first use this

Re: [gentoo-user] Would be possible migrate from Gentoo 1.4 to Gentoo 2004?

2004-01-17 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 05:56:25 -0300 qwerty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I've just wanna know if there would be a chance of migrate from 1.4 | series to 2004, this is because I'm starting to administrate a server | trough ssh and when Gentoo 2004 cames out it would be nice to have it | ;-) 2004.0 is

[gentoo-user] emerge -U world and blocking package

2004-01-17 Thread Guy Van Sanden
I wanted to emerge -U world, which would update gnome and kde for me, but it fails on a dependency. I traced it to mad and Xfree Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] sys-libs/ncurses-5.3-r5 [5.3-r2] [ebuild U ] sys-devel/m4-1.4-r1 [1.4] [ebuild U ]

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel depression

2004-01-17 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Gerhard W.Gruber wrote: On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 22:38:44 +0100, Guy Van Sanden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Every kernel since 2.4.20-r8 fails on my system 2.4.20-r9 and -r10: USB crashes 2.4.22-r1 reiser extremely slow 2.4.22-r4 and -r5 NFS timeouts I have been running all these kernels as

[gentoo-user] Gentoo 2004.0 - New test stages

2004-01-17 Thread Benjamin Judas
Hello dear testers, I just put another bunch of x86-test-stages onto the mirrors (ftp://ftp.oregonstate.edu/pub/gentoo/experimental/x86/stages/). The datestamp is 20040117. When testing, respect the same rules as you always should do: test as if you were a first-time Gentooist (i.e. follow

[gentoo-user] GTK industrial

2004-01-17 Thread Ladanyi Akos
Hi ! Which ebuild installs the Industrial GTK theme ? thanks Akos -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] GTK industrial

2004-01-17 Thread Tom Wesley
On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 18:46, Ladanyi Akos wrote: Hi ! Which ebuild installs the Industrial GTK theme ? thanks Akos x11-themes/ximian-artwork -- Tom Wesley signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] ioctl SIOCSIFADDR: Bad file descriptor

2004-01-17 Thread Elton Algera
On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 14:57, Christian Riis wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install Gentoo on an old machine, but I run into a problem with getting it on the net. When the machine boots it apparently autodetects the NIC but when I rund 'dhcpcd eth0', I get a hundred million entries in

[gentoo-user] emerge errors, important?

2004-01-17 Thread Ian Truelsen
After the latest world update, I get this after every emerge: * Regenerating GNU info directory index... install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `/usr/share/info/g-wrap.info-2.gz' install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `/usr/share/info/g-wrap.info.gz' install-info: warning: no info dir

Re: [gentoo-user] kdemutimedia compile error

2004-01-17 Thread Norberto Bensa
LoneStar wrote: Chris wrote: 1. WANT_AUTOCONF=2.5 emerge -u kdemultimedia Actually, all you needed was ... # export WANT_AUTOCONF=2.5 # emerge -u kde This is how I solved the same problem. Perhaps you're running x86 where linux-headers is still at 2.4.19. ~x86 has linux-headers-2.4.21

Re: [gentoo-user] `su` vs. `su -`

2004-01-17 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Andrej Kacian wrote: On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 22:29:27 -0500 Phil Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please note the difference between su and su - su changes to the new user without changing the existing environment. su - changes to the new user and takes on all characteristics of the new user

Re: [gentoo-user] `su` vs. `su -`

2004-01-17 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Andrej Kacian wrote: On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 22:29:27 -0500 When I issue `su` command and try to compute a digest for an ebuild, it works. However, when I issue `su -` and then I try to compute the digest, I get following error: # ebuild eremove-1.4.ebuild digest Traceback (most recent call last):

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge K3B

2004-01-17 Thread Kathy Wills
Robert Crawford wrote: On Saturday 17 January 2004 6:17 am, Dennis Robertson wrote: All my 2.6 kernels have worked great, except for cdburning. I've read everything I can find, followed all the instructions, and nothing has worked for k3b. At least on my system, cdburning is not solved for

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge K3B

2004-01-17 Thread Kathy Wills
Kathy Wills wrote: Robert Crawford wrote: On Saturday 17 January 2004 6:17 am, Dennis Robertson wrote: All my 2.6 kernels have worked great, except for cdburning. I've read everything I can find, followed all the instructions, and nothing has worked for k3b. At least on my system, cdburning

[gentoo-user] eth0 fails to init

2004-01-17 Thread Justin Findlay
I have a 00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) ethernet card which I am not successful in connecting to the system. I have put the driver (8139too) in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6, and it fails to get an IRQ for the device. Jan 17

[gentoo-user] Corrupted Display

2004-01-17 Thread Jeffery A Barnes
List, I am in the middle of an install, and did a really stupid thing (thank you very much!) I didn't realize the timezone files in /usr/share/zoneinfo were binary, and used the more command on one of them. It corrupted my shell so I can't see any lowercase letters. Is there a command way to

[gentoo-user] new install with 2.6 and NPTL

2004-01-17 Thread Aaron Walker
A friend just gave me an old computer (Celeron 533), which I was going to replace my P233 Gentoo mail server with. I want to install gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.1 (what I am currently running on the P233), but use NPTL (I have not done this on P233). I remember reading on this list a week or so

[gentoo-user] Safe kernel versions?

2004-01-17 Thread Richard Revis
With all the local root bugs floating around recently, does anyone have a list of safe gentoo-sources versions to use? (Ie 2.4.22+ and 2.6.1+?) -- This line intentionally left blank. 22:12:43 up 3 days, 10:01, 2 users, load average: 0.15, 0.11, 0.07 RX bytes:1308556205 (1247.9 Mb) TX

Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupted Display

2004-01-17 Thread Eric Paynter
Jeffery A Barnes said: I didn't realize the timezone files in /usr/share/zoneinfo were binary, and used the more command on one of them. It corrupted my shell so I can't see any lowercase letters. Is there a command way to correct or ***reset*** this condition? You said it... type reset

[gentoo-user] Courier Help

2004-01-17 Thread Dan Egli
Anyone know how to configure Courier? I just installed Courier Imap and Courier pop. I got courier pop to work barely by simlinking the maildir dirs new cur tmp to my home dir, but imap refuses to work. I need to know how to configure courier so that it will always look for mail like this:

[gentoo-user] confused about NPTL and 2.6 headers

2004-01-17 Thread Glenn Johnson
I have seen several posts recently stating that one must have the Linux 2.6 kernel headers installed in order to build glibc with NPTL. I was under the impression that one just needed to have a running 2.6 kernel and the glibc build will pick up the headers from /lib/modules/`uname

Re: [gentoo-user] White noice in sound

2004-01-17 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, I had the same board... sound sucked from the first day on ;o) Your problem sounds like a PSU problem to me (this or some capacitors, that are getting old). If the PSU is driven near the top end of its specs or a little bit older, hearing any disk-and memory-access is not uncommon (at

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 fails to init

2004-01-17 Thread Justin Findlay
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, Justin Findlay wrote: I have a 00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) ethernet card which I am not successful in connecting to the system. I have put the driver (8139too) in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6,

Re: [gentoo-user] Courier Help

2004-01-17 Thread Stroller
On Jan 17, 2004, at 10:56 pm, Dan Egli wrote: Anyone know how to configure Courier? I just installed Courier Imap and Courier pop. I got courier pop to work barely by simlinking the maildir dirs new cur tmp to my home dir, but imap refuses to work. I need to know how to configure courier

[gentoo-user] kmail ate my mail!

2004-01-17 Thread Lotas T Smartman
hello. i was having a problem with gnome and evolution (problem solved now) and was not able to check my mail using evolution. i have all my mail stored in a .maildir in my home dir, and after using kmail for about a day and a half, all my old mail in my inbox is gone. all other dirs are fine

Re: [gentoo-user] kmail ate my mail!

2004-01-17 Thread Michael Andreen
On Sunday 18 January 2004 01.53, Lotas T Smartman wrote: hello. i was having a problem with gnome and evolution (problem solved now) and was not able to check my mail using evolution. i have all my mail stored in a .maildir in my home dir, and after using kmail for about a day and a half, all

[gentoo-user] gnome

2004-01-17 Thread bituman
Ahoi.. I compiled gnome without errors.. then I see a hint to use SESSION_MANAGER variable, point it to metacity and tehn that will set def wm to gnome.. it worked fine.. until I issued an emerge sync emerge U world.. Since then I couldnt get gnome work.. and by a sudden twm is my def wm.

Re: [gentoo-user] Safe kernel versions?

2004-01-17 Thread Collins Richey
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 22:13:59 + Richard Revis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With all the local root bugs floating around recently, does anyone have a list of safe gentoo-sources versions to use? (Ie 2.4.22+ and 2.6.1+?) Yeah, development-sources-2.6.1_rc2.ebuild. I note that there is now also

Re: [gentoo-user] Safe kernel versions?

2004-01-17 Thread Simon Prosser
On Sunday 18 January 2004 01:50, Collins Richey wrote: I note that there is now also development-sources-2.6.1_rc3.ebuild, but I haven't tried it Seems to be stable for me... -- Linux localhost 2.6.1-rc3-gentoo #2 Sun Jan 18 01:30:11 GMT 2004 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync server

2004-01-17 Thread Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos
Or for an automatic selection: mirrorselect -a -s 5 It'll select the best 5 mirrors for download! :D This is for download mirrors... Maybe you're asking for rsync mirrors. Then you need to do: netselect rsync.gentoo.org Then you get an address... for example: 212.79.254.44, then you do: rsync

[gentoo-user] Bash Scripting - pipes, quoting stuff

2004-01-17 Thread Stroller
Ok... I'm stuck. I'm trying to use vgetty as an answerphone. I have got it answering the calls, playing the out-going message recording peoples' messages to me fine. vgetty has an option in its config file to execute a command when it has finished recording the message, and will pass that

[gentoo-user] question about compiler warnings

2004-01-17 Thread Mark Knecht
GENERAL QUESTION - Are warnings such as the following things that should be reported as bugs? game.h: In member function `BallStateInfo Player::stateInfo(int) const': game.h:77: warning: passing `double' for argument 1 of `QPoint::QPoint(int, int)' game.h:77: warning: passing `double' for

[gentoo-user] No Mailboxes

2004-01-17 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.
I have exim installed (and I have problems with that, which I'll discuss later): cbash-2.05b$ cd /var/spool/mail bash-2.05b$ ls -a . .. .keep bash-2.05b$ bash-2.05b$ cd /var/mail bash-2.05b$ ls -a . .. .keep bash-2.05b$ As you can see, I have NO system email boxes even though I have four

[gentoo-user] installing gentoo on a laptop

2004-01-17 Thread Aaron Walker
I just purchased my first laptop (haven't even turned it on yet.. still charging ;) ), a HP Pavilion ze4630us, and am wanting to put Gentoo (what else?) on it. Any tips or suggestions for installing Gentoo on a laptop? Anything different about the install I need to do differently from a normal

Re: [gentoo-user] installing gentoo on a laptop

2004-01-17 Thread Roy Kidder
I recently installed Gentoo on a Compaq (there is very little differences between the Compaq and HP laptops, other than the name on the case). The install went pretty smoothly. The only odd thing I had to do was turn of legacy support for USB in the BIOS. Other than that, it was a pretty standard

Re: [gentoo-user] question about compiler warnings

2004-01-17 Thread Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
No, generally not. -- Jeremy Maitin-Shepard -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync server

2004-01-17 Thread Chris
On Saturday 17 January 2004 08:28 pm, Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos wrote: Or for an automatic selection: mirrorselect -a -s 5 It'll select the best 5 mirrors for download! :D This is for download mirrors... Maybe you're asking for rsync mirrors. Then you need to do: netselect

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge errors, important?

2004-01-17 Thread Kathy Wills
Ian Truelsen wrote: After the latest world update, I get this after every emerge: * Regenerating GNU info directory index... install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `/usr/share/info/g-wrap.info-2.gz' install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `/usr/share/info/g-wrap.info.gz' install-info:

Re: [gentoo-user] No Mailboxes

2004-01-17 Thread Jason Stubbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 18 January 2004 12:46, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: I have exim installed (and I have problems with that, which I'll discuss later): cbash-2.05b$ cd /var/spool/mail bash-2.05b$ ls -a .. .. .keep bash-2.05b$ bash-2.05b$ cd /var/mail

Re: [gentoo-user] installing gentoo on a laptop

2004-01-17 Thread Aaron Walker
Roy Kidder wrote: I recently installed Gentoo on a Compaq (there is very little differences between the Compaq and HP laptops, other than the name on the case). The install went pretty smoothly. The only odd thing I had to do was turn of legacy support for USB in the BIOS. Other than that, it was

Re: [gentoo-user] Courier Help

2004-01-17 Thread Dan Egli
From: Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 5:32 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Courier Help I take it that courier is running on a different machine from that on which you're downloading the POP3 to..? Because it would be very weird if you downloaded

Re: [gentoo-user] installing gentoo on a laptop

2004-01-17 Thread Roy Kidder
Aaron Walker said: Does USB work even though legacy support is turned off? I'm not sure what Compaq/HP considers legacy USB... possibly USB 1.x? In any event, the only thing I've had the opportunity to test is a 16MB keyring flash card creature that came free with my laptop. Gentoo recognized it