[gentoo-user] mplayer is broken

2005-02-06 Thread Frank Schafer
Hi, I did an upgrade world on saturday realizing that gentoo decided to move some system directories around ... ok, why not. After that i emerged mplayer. ``gmplayer brings it up in scales of dark blue. I could live with this, but ... $ gmplayer ... MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: ao

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting Dos disk

2005-02-06 Thread Mariusz Pękala
> >don't you have to give a default codepage as a mount option for (v)fat, > >since recently? > > I'm not sure about the codepage. There is a default set in the kernel > build. > I believe if that would be the case you might find some error messages in syslog about 'module cp- not found' o

Re: [gentoo-user] dd as backup?

2005-02-06 Thread Frank Schafer
I'd use ``dump'' for tasks of this sort. On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 16:26 -0500, Nick Smith wrote: > im going to be putting a second harddrive in my server that i want to > back up to, i want a mirror image, so if anything happens i can just > switch the drive to the primary and im back up again. will

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerged world, now can't su

2005-02-06 Thread Frank Schafer
Hi, I often ran into problems after this. Dunno what dispatch-conf does. I useed to run etc-update ... and the problems begin. Have a look if the files in /etc/pam.d where replaced by some gentoo defaults. BTW: I choose to never run these silly update scripts. Now I look run etc-update only to see

Re: [gentoo-user] More scripting help please...

2005-02-06 Thread Frank Schafer
On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 16:11 +0100, Leiaz wrote: > Mal Herring wrote: > > >Hi list, > >I have run into a little difficulty... > > > >I am writing a script that : > > > >Checks page 1 for text, then checks page2 for text then lauches a > >command - I have tried this : > > if lynx -dump pag

Re: [gentoo-user] Programs crash after RAM upgrade on laptop!

2005-02-06 Thread Ric de France
Hareesh, > I ran memtest86 and bang! I have a corrupt new memory module :( I have > got to return the stick back to Circuit City. What a pain. It's amazing that the other operating system you used just to test the memory went along and "thought" it was ok... Hopefully the people you bought the me

Re: [gentoo-user] Everything (seems to) has disappeared from Thunderbird

2005-02-06 Thread Hareesh Nagarajan
On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 23:47:23 -0700, Mike Melanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Check your ~/.thunderbird/profiles.ini file. Does the "Path" variable > match the path that holds your mail? Yeah, it does. I think I'll try and re-install tbird. Hareesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing li

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious lockups

2005-02-06 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matt Garman wrote: | Since doing my last 'emerge -vuD world' a few days ago, my system | has locked up two or three times. And it hasn't locked up while I | was using it---I step away for a while, come back, and the screen is | blank (but the monitor i

Re: [gentoo-user] Everything (seems to) has disappeared from Thunderbird

2005-02-06 Thread Mike Melanson
Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: Hi All: After completely fixing a problem with my new memory stick, everytime I open Mozilla Thunderbird I am presented with complete emptiness. Check this screenshot out: http://cs.uic.edu/~hnagaraj/tbird.png I even tried to create a new profile, by doing this: $thunderbir

Re: [gentoo-user] Everything (seems to) has disappeared from Thunderbird

2005-02-06 Thread Hareesh Nagarajan
On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 23:34:02 -0600, Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: > > Hi All: > > > > After completely fixing a problem with my new memory stick, everytime > > I open Mozilla Thunderbird I am presented with complete emptiness. > > > > Check this screenshot out

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerged world, now can't su

2005-02-06 Thread Mike Payson
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've been staying current, more or less, but otherwise I have the same approach to config files: if I accepted the default when I installed a package, I don't worry about that config when I update. If I trusted the devs once, I'll do it again. However, I don't have the proble

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerged world, now can't su

2005-02-06 Thread Mike Payson
Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Are you still in the wheel group? On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Mike Payson wrote: I just ran 'emerge -u world' for the first time in about three weeks, and ran dispatch-conf to update my config files. Now, when I try to su to root, I always get permission denied. I'm certain that I

[gentoo-user] mysterious lockups

2005-02-06 Thread Matt Garman
Since doing my last 'emerge -vuD world' a few days ago, my system has locked up two or three times. And it hasn't locked up while I was using it---I step away for a while, come back, and the screen is blank (but the monitor is *not* in power save mode), keyboard/mouse interaction doesn't do anyth

[gentoo-user] Re: net.eth0

2005-02-06 Thread Peter
On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 02:35:37 +0200, raptor wrote: > hmm.. that something new.. where i can see description of this new syntax IIRC, You need to emerge ~x86 baselayout to use this new syntax. __ Peter. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Everything (seems to) has disappeared from Thunderbird

2005-02-06 Thread Hareesh Nagarajan
On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 00:35:21 -0500, Phil Sexton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What have you tried? I think some file has gotten corrupt. I don't know which. AFAIK I haven't done anything with the ~/.thunderbird directory. > Do you get any hints from the messages shown when launching from an x > t

Re: [gentoo-user] Everything (seems to) has disappeared from Thunderbird

2005-02-06 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: Hi All: After completely fixing a problem with my new memory stick, everytime I open Mozilla Thunderbird I am presented with complete emptiness. Check this screenshot out: http://cs.uic.edu/~hnagaraj/tbird.png Try doing 'rm ~/.thunderbird//compreg.dat' and restarting thund

Re: [gentoo-user] Programs crash after RAM upgrade on laptop!

2005-02-06 Thread Hareesh Nagarajan
On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 00:19:56 -0500, Phil Sexton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 00:14, Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: > > > I ran memtest86 and bang! I have a corrupt new memory module :( I have > > got to return the stick back to Circuit City. What a pain. > > Nah, you have it easy.

Re: [gentoo-user] Everything (seems to) has disappeared from Thunderbird

2005-02-06 Thread Phil Sexton
On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 00:22, Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: > Hi All: > > After completely fixing a problem with my new memory stick, everytime > I open Mozilla Thunderbird I am presented with complete emptiness. > > Check this screenshot out: > http://cs.uic.edu/~hnagaraj/tbird.png > > I even tried t

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo 2004.3 What happened to Stage 2?

2005-02-06 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 01:28, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 04 February 2005 04:23 am, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 11:13:52 +0800 Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > > | Just wondering how come Stage 2 went missing in the universal C

[gentoo-user] Everything (seems to) has disappeared from Thunderbird

2005-02-06 Thread Hareesh Nagarajan
Hi All: After completely fixing a problem with my new memory stick, everytime I open Mozilla Thunderbird I am presented with complete emptiness. Check this screenshot out: http://cs.uic.edu/~hnagaraj/tbird.png I even tried to create a new profile, by doing this: $thunderbird-bin -P and nothing

Re: [gentoo-user] Programs crash after RAM upgrade on laptop!

2005-02-06 Thread Phil Sexton
On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 00:14, Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: > I ran memtest86 and bang! I have a corrupt new memory module :( I have > got to return the stick back to Circuit City. What a pain. Nah, you have it easy. Live back in the sticks like we do. My son had to return ram to newegg twice so far

Re: [gentoo-user] Programs crash after RAM upgrade on laptop!

2005-02-06 Thread Hareesh Nagarajan
Hi All: Thanks to everyone on this thread for their input! I ran memtest86 and bang! I have a corrupt new memory module :( I have got to return the stick back to Circuit City. What a pain. Hareesh On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 19:57:28 -0800, Ted Ozolins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hareesh Nagarajan wro

Re: [gentoo-user] Synchronizing 2 Gentoo systems

2005-02-06 Thread Neil Walker
Martin Scharrer wrote: Then mounting the /usr/portage tree with NFS is definitely the way to go. I have the one machine set up with a cron job to sync at midnight every day and an appropriate line in /etc/fstab on each of the other machines. That is it. I never have to sync the other machines. But

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie installation problem: lost Internet/network card after install

2005-02-06 Thread Shuveb Hussain
try and find out if the proper modules are loaded by doing a "lsmod". if the 3 com module is not loaded, the try loading it manually. nic modules are present in /lib/modules/2.4.x.x/kernel/drivers/net/. do "insmod module_file_name" from there. or better still do a "modprobe module_name". modprobe w

Re: [gentoo-user] Programs crash after RAM upgrade on laptop!

2005-02-06 Thread Ted Ozolins
Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: Yeah, the problem is fixed when I take out the RAM module on Linux! But Windows works perfectly with the new RAM module. Thanks, Hareesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Did you run memtest as was suggested? Just because it didn't crash on wintendo (yet) means n

Re: [gentoo-user] Programs crash after RAM upgrade on laptop!

2005-02-06 Thread Nick Smith
On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 20:57 -0600, Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: > On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 21:32:21 -0500, Nick Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 20:26 -0600, Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: > > > > > > I just installed a 512 MB ram module for my laptop. After installing > > > it thunderbi

Re: [gentoo-user] Programs crash after RAM upgrade on laptop!

2005-02-06 Thread Phil Sexton
On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 21:57, Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: > I am sending this email from Windows XP and nothing seems to crash > here. So I am guessing that it isn't a RAM problem. > > I have no idea why the apps the Linux are seg faulting left-right and center! Don't guess, test and be sure. I nev

Re: [gentoo-user] Programs crash after RAM upgrade on laptop!

2005-02-06 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 10:43, Ric de France wrote: > Possible but I highly doubt it... I have only 512MB of physical RAM, > and my swap is hardly ever written to while I'm using Gnome as a > desktop... > total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 503

Re: [gentoo-user] Programs crash after RAM upgrade on laptop!

2005-02-06 Thread Hareesh Nagarajan
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 13:43:31 +1100, Ric de France <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hareesh, > > > > I just installed a 512 MB ram module for my laptop. After installing > > it thunderbird crashes the moment I invoke it, firefox acts funny, no > > KDE app loads. In short I have no idea what the f* is h

Re: [gentoo-user] Programs crash after RAM upgrade on laptop!

2005-02-06 Thread Hareesh Nagarajan
On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 21:32:21 -0500, Nick Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 20:26 -0600, Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: > > > > I just installed a 512 MB ram module for my laptop. After installing > > it thunderbird crashes the moment I invoke it, firefox acts funny, no > > KDE app

Re: [gentoo-user] Programs crash after RAM upgrade on laptop!

2005-02-06 Thread Ric de France
Hareesh, > I just installed a 512 MB ram module for my laptop. After installing > it thunderbird crashes the moment I invoke it, firefox acts funny, no > KDE app loads. In short I have no idea what the f* is happening. When > I boot into Windows everything seems to work fine there. Is the proble

Re: [gentoo-user] Programs crash after RAM upgrade on laptop!

2005-02-06 Thread Nick Smith
On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 20:26 -0600, Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed a 512 MB ram module for my laptop. After installing > it thunderbird crashes the moment I invoke it, firefox acts funny, no > KDE app loads. In short I have no idea what the f* is happening. When > I boot into W

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerged world, now can't su

2005-02-06 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Are you still in the wheel group? On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Mike Payson wrote: I just ran 'emerge -u world' for the first time in about three weeks, and ran dispatch-conf to update my config files. Now, when I try to su to root, I always get permission denied. I'm certain that I'm typing the password,

[gentoo-user] Programs crash after RAM upgrade on laptop!

2005-02-06 Thread Hareesh Nagarajan
Hi, I just installed a 512 MB ram module for my laptop. After installing it thunderbird crashes the moment I invoke it, firefox acts funny, no KDE app loads. In short I have no idea what the f* is happening. When I boot into Windows everything seems to work fine there. In both the operating syste

Re: [gentoo-user] dd as backup?

2005-02-06 Thread Nick Smith
On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 21:21 -0500, Nick Smith wrote: > On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 14:53 -0800, Mike Noble wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Nick Smith wrote: > > | im going to be putting a second harddrive in my server that i want to > > | back up to, i want a mirror

Re: [gentoo-user] dd as backup?

2005-02-06 Thread Nick Smith
On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 14:53 -0800, Mike Noble wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Nick Smith wrote: > | im going to be putting a second harddrive in my server that i want to > | back up to, i want a mirror image, so if anything happens i can just > | switch the drive to th

Re: [gentoo-user] openldap

2005-02-06 Thread Nick Smith
On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 22:19 +, Paul Worrall wrote: > On Sunday 06 February 2005 21:29, Nick Smith wrote: > > every how-to i have read about on openldap also wants you to > > authenticate against it. i just want to use it for a global address > > list, is this possible? if so, is their a how to

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerged world, now can't su

2005-02-06 Thread David Corbin
On Sunday 06 February 2005 07:19 pm, Mike Payson wrote: > I just ran 'emerge -u world' for the first time in about three weeks, > and ran dispatch-conf to update my config files. Now, when I try to su > to root, I always get permission denied. I'm certain that I'm typing the > password, but to be s

[gentoo-user] Re: More scripting help please...

2005-02-06 Thread Rossen Apostolov
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Sunday 06 February 2005 15:12, Mal Herring wrote: as easy as that - wow... are there any good HOW-TO's about bash scripting - i would not mind learning more about this... Google for "advanced bash scripting guide". no need : # eix abs-guide Search results: 1 * app-doc/abs

Re: [gentoo-user] dd as backup?

2005-02-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 19:58:23 -0500, Nick Smith wrote: > but how to both of those handle in use files? as i recall rsync just > gives errors instead of coping everything over when a file is in use. > no? Trying to make an exact copy of an in use filesystem is asking for trouble. When I transfer an

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dd as backup?

2005-02-06 Thread Nick Smith
On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 23:16 +0100, Remy Blank wrote: > Nick Smith wrote: > > also, what about a mirrored raid? is it possible to create one > > without having to start from scratch and reinstall? like just add the > > drive to mirror to and mirror it? what would be the best solution for my > > situ

Re: [gentoo-user] dd as backup?

2005-02-06 Thread Nick Smith
On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 19:18 -0500, Phil Sexton wrote: > On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 19:06, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 17:51:12 -0500, Phil Sexton wrote: > > > > > cd / && tar cf - . | (cd /newdisk && tar xBfp -) > > > > > > This maintains your permissions and leaves out the verbose me

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerged world, now can't su

2005-02-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I've been staying current, more or less, but otherwise I have the same approach to config files: if I accepted the default when I installed a package, I don't worry about that config when I update. If I trusted the devs once, I'll do it again. However, I don't have the problem you do. I can su j

[gentoo-user] file preview in KDE's open file dialog

2005-02-06 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Hi all, somehow I managed to disable file preview (for images, pdfs etc.) in my KDE setup. I remember there was a preview pane on the right side of any open file dialog in KDE, but now it's gone. Does anybody has an idea how I can get this back? Greetings and TIA, Matthias -- I may just quit

Re: [gentoo-user] dd as backup?

2005-02-06 Thread Phil Sexton
On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 19:06, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 17:51:12 -0500, Phil Sexton wrote: > > > cd / && tar cf - . | (cd /newdisk && tar xBfp -) > > > > This maintains your permissions and leaves out the verbose messages > > This will also try to copy the contents of /newdisk to

[gentoo-user] Emerged world, now can't su

2005-02-06 Thread Mike Payson
I just ran 'emerge -u world' for the first time in about three weeks, and ran dispatch-conf to update my config files. Now, when I try to su to root, I always get permission denied. I'm certain that I'm typing the password, but to be safe, I have reset the password twice now with no luck. The u

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dd as backup?

2005-02-06 Thread David Corbin
This seems like a GREAT thing to have written up as HOWTO... David On Sunday 06 February 2005 05:16 pm, Remy Blank wrote: > Nick Smith wrote: > > also, what about a mirrored raid? is it possible to create one > > without having to start from scratch and reinstall? like just add the > > drive to m

Re: [gentoo-user] dd as backup?

2005-02-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 17:51:12 -0500, Phil Sexton wrote: > cd / && tar cf - . | (cd /newdisk && tar xBfp -) > > This maintains your permissions and leaves out the verbose messages This will also try to copy the contents of /newdisk to /newdisk/newdisk. Use the -l option to avoid descending into ot

[gentoo-user] Re: dd as backup?

2005-02-06 Thread Remy Blank
Nick Smith wrote: also, what about a mirrored raid? is it possible to create one without having to start from scratch and reinstall? like just add the drive to mirror to and mirror it? what would be the best solution for my situation? The advantage of RAID is that you have an always-up-to-date cop

Re: [gentoo-user] reboot failure

2005-02-06 Thread John Patrick Coder
OK I have checked the fstab file and it seems ok, Aafter I run "grub-install ..." it ends with "..." "(FD0) /dev/fd0" "(HD0) /dev/hda" upon rebooting I am still getting a "primary master hard disk fail" and the light to my floppy drive is going crazy Does this mean that grub is looking for a flo

Re: [gentoo-user] dd as backup?

2005-02-06 Thread Phil Sexton
On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 16:51, Nils Vogels wrote: > If your harddrives are exactly the same (same brand/model) you can > actually use dd to copy it over. That way you will make a raw image of > the original disk, including all the filesystem info and bootsector > stuffs. > > dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/h

[gentoo-user] PySoulSeek crashes when adding shares

2005-02-06 Thread Mark Brier
When using pysoulseek / nicotine (latest ~x86 from portage), I add my shares and it crashes. When run in a terminal, the error is *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev): 0x0868c710 *** Aborted The shares are on a seperate (ext3) partition, while my root partition is reiserfs. B

Re: [gentoo-user] openldap

2005-02-06 Thread Paul Worrall
On Sunday 06 February 2005 21:29, Nick Smith wrote: > every how-to i have read about on openldap also wants you to > authenticate against it. i just want to use it for a global address > list, is this possible? if so, is their a how to on just this one part > of openldap? or come someone just expl

Re: [gentoo-user] dd as backup?

2005-02-06 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 10:51:04PM +0100, Nils Vogels wrote: > If your harddrives are exactly the same (same brand/model) you can > actually use dd to copy it over. That way you will make a raw image of > the original disk, including all the filesystem info and bootsector > stuffs. > > dd if=/dev/

Re: [gentoo-user] the hwclock is accurate, its the OS thats wrong!

2005-02-06 Thread William Kenworthy
Thanks, that was it! Just opened the laptop after being slept overnight on the new kernel - its on time! (well almost, now ive gotta fix (a minute or so of) the hwclock drift I upset after all the fiddling I did) Just a note that the changelog implies its an acpi fix, and this is on a dell laptop

Re: [gentoo-user] dd as backup?

2005-02-06 Thread Mike Noble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nick Smith wrote: | im going to be putting a second harddrive in my server that i want to | back up to, i want a mirror image, so if anything happens i can just | switch the drive to the primary and im back up again. will 'dd' do this | for me? if so ho

[gentoo-user] PySoulSeek / nicotine crashes when adding shares

2005-02-06 Thread Mark Brier
When using pysoulseek / nicotine (latest ~x86 from portage), I add my shares and it crashes. When run in a terminal, the error is *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev): 0x0868c710 *** Aborted The shares are on a seperate (ext3) partition, while my root partition is reiserfs. B

Re: [gentoo-user] samba problems

2005-02-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 16:36:21 -0500, Nick Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i have a 4 computer network at my house, 3 gentoo and one windows > (wife's machine) i have samba installed on all 3 linux boxes so i can > share files and backup stuff to and from the windows and linux boxes. > the problem

Re: [gentoo-user] forwardong with iptables

2005-02-06 Thread Tres Melton
Paul, It is not forwarding that you want unless you actually have more than one REAL IP address routed to your house. If you didn't pay extra for this service then you don't have it. What you do want is masquerading. I have 2 NICs as well with one for a LAN and the other setup for PPPOE,

Re: [gentoo-user] dd as backup?

2005-02-06 Thread Nils Vogels
If your harddrives are exactly the same (same brand/model) you can actually use dd to copy it over. That way you will make a raw image of the original disk, including all the filesystem info and bootsector stuffs. dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb If your disks are not exactly the same, I would make me

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Shell scripting naming conventions

2005-02-06 Thread Adrien Tougas
On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 20:35 +0100, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > Hi, > > Are there some naming conventions on writing shell scripts ?, like a > prefix for a function and so on. > If so where can i find some info on this. > > TIA > Patrick For a really good manual on shellscripting run "emerge ab

Re: [gentoo-user] forwardong with iptables

2005-02-06 Thread Qian Qiao
On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 22:58:13 +0200, PK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All > > I wonder if someone can tell me how I go about doing the following : > > I have a server machine with 2 nics > > one of the nic ( eth1 ) is connected to my braodband modem which uses pppoe > > the other is connected

[gentoo-user] samba problems

2005-02-06 Thread Nick Smith
i have a 4 computer network at my house, 3 gentoo and one windows (wife's machine) i have samba installed on all 3 linux boxes so i can share files and backup stuff to and from the windows and linux boxes. the problem i am having is very odd, all the machines show up in windows fine, the machines a

[gentoo-user] openldap

2005-02-06 Thread Nick Smith
every how-to i have read about on openldap also wants you to authenticate against it. i just want to use it for a global address list, is this possible? if so, is their a how to on just this one part of openldap? or come someone just explain to me how to do it? i already authenticate against a mys

[gentoo-user] dd as backup?

2005-02-06 Thread Nick Smith
im going to be putting a second harddrive in my server that i want to back up to, i want a mirror image, so if anything happens i can just switch the drive to the primary and im back up again. will 'dd' do this for me? if so how does it handle in use files, like pid's and socks? i know rdiff-backup

Re: [gentoo-user] gpm

2005-02-06 Thread PK
Phil Sexton wrote: On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 15:36, PK wrote: how do you specify a usb mouse for gpm? Oops, read the whole thing before answering. I use the standard mouse port instead of usb. Have you emerged both hotplug and coldplug? yep I did -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] squirrelmail

2005-02-06 Thread Andreas Vinsander
David Corbin wrote: On Sunday 06 February 2005 01:12 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Sun, 06 Feb 2005 12:36:05 -0500 David Corbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Correct, but there is a solution. Enable logging and look only at the "small second logs". Here is what I mean. The last three lines in my

Re: [gentoo-user] More scripting help please...

2005-02-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 20:27:37 +, Martin Scharrer wrote: > In this case it easier to compine the two commands with the AND > statement (&&): > > if lynx -dump page1 | grep -q -e "search string" && lynx -dump page2 | > grep -q -e "search string" > then > command > fi You could also replace the

Re: [gentoo-user] gpm

2005-02-06 Thread Phil Sexton
On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 15:36, PK wrote: > how do you specify a usb mouse for gpm? Oops, read the whole thing before answering. I use the standard mouse port instead of usb. Have you emerged both hotplug and coldplug? -- Phil Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performanc

Re: [gentoo-user] Courier Imap problem

2005-02-06 Thread Jon
Jon wrote: David Corbin wrote: On Saturday 05 February 2005 11:33 pm, Lenroc wrote: On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 22:58:11 -0500, David Corbin wrote: I had a working IMap installation. I did an upgrade that included several courier updates. Now I'm having "connection problems". When I telnet to it, I get

Re: [gentoo-user] gpm

2005-02-06 Thread Phil Sexton
On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 15:36, PK wrote: > how do you specify a usb mouse for gpm? > > I have tried > > MOUSE=imps2 > mousedev="/dev/usbmouse" > mousedev="/dev/input/mice" > > any ideas? I couldn't get any of those to work, so I ended up putting this in my /etc/conf.d/local.start file: gpm -m /d

[gentoo-user] forwardong with iptables

2005-02-06 Thread PK
Hi All I wonder if someone can tell me how I go about doing the following : I have a server machine with 2 nics one of the nic ( eth1 ) is connected to my braodband modem which uses pppoe the other is connected t my laptop I can see my server fro the laptop no problem but how do I use the pppoe con

Re: [gentoo-user] "Gentoo Linux and Windows XP on the same hard disk on the same computer"

2005-02-06 Thread Phil Sexton
On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 13:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Since I only use windows to play diablo II expansion, I am unwilling > to give it half my disk. :-) > > When I get a new machine, I wipe the disk and format it to my liking > and use the windows restore disk to reinstall windows on one of m

Re: [gentoo-user] More scripting help please...

2005-02-06 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
There is also an Advanced Bash tutorial on the web. I don't have the URL handy but search for it. On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Sunday 06 February 2005 09:12 am, "Mal Herring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: are there any good HOW-TO's about bash scripting - i would not mind l

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting Dos disk

2005-02-06 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
On my system I have DOS, VFAT as part of the kernel, not modules. On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Sunday 06 February 2005 16:58, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Thanks.  I tried that and it did not work. On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Sunday 06 February 2005 01:42, Brett I. Holcomb w

Re: [gentoo-user] More scripting help please...

2005-02-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 06 February 2005 09:12 am, "Mal Herring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > are there any good HOW-TO's about bash > scripting - i would not mind learning more about this... All I ever needed to know about bash scripting I learned from "info bash". -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] Synchronizing 2 Gentoo systems

2005-02-06 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 11:10:37AM +0100, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote > >> I don't think I made myself clear enough. I do *NOT* want to > >>duplicate /portage/distfiles. I want to duplicate machine A's > >>definition > >>of "world" on Machine B. > >> > >> > >> > >try: > ># emerge -uDpv --newus

Re: [gentoo-user] Courier Imap problem

2005-02-06 Thread Jon
David Corbin wrote: On Saturday 05 February 2005 11:33 pm, Lenroc wrote: On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 22:58:11 -0500, David Corbin wrote: I had a working IMap installation. I did an upgrade that included several courier updates. Now I'm having "connection problems". When I telnet to it, I get this: What

Re: [gentoo-user] More scripting help please...

2005-02-06 Thread Martin Scharrer
On Sunday 06 February 2005 15:11, Leiaz wrote: > if lynx -dump page1 | grep -q -e "search string" > then > if lynx -dump page2 | grep -q -e "search string" > then > command > fi > fi In this case it easier to compine the two commands with the AND statement (&&): if lynx -dump page1 | grep -q -e

[gentoo-user] gpm

2005-02-06 Thread PK
how do you specify a usb mouse for gpm? I have tried MOUSE=imps2 mousedev="/dev/usbmouse" mousedev="/dev/input/mice" any ideas? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] "Gentoo Linux and Windows XP on the same hard disk on the same computer"

2005-02-06 Thread Martin Scharrer
On Sunday 06 February 2005 17:53, Collins Richey wrote: > [...] WinXP in its great > wisdom (NOT) puts the Windows Swap file right in the middle of the > partition, and that file is marked as unmovable, so with all the tools > I'm aware of, you will only be able to get half of the space (starting

Re: [gentoo-user] squirrelmail

2005-02-06 Thread David Corbin
On Sunday 06 February 2005 01:12 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At Sun, 06 Feb 2005 12:36:05 -0500 David Corbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Correct, but there is a solution. Enable logging and look only at the > "small second logs". Here is what I mean. The last three lines in my > /var/log/po

[gentoo-user] OT - Shell scripting naming conventions

2005-02-06 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, Are there some naming conventions on writing shell scripts ?, like a prefix for a function and so on. If so where can i find some info on this. TIA Patrick -- "Uhura, signal our surrender" -- Kirk "Captain!!??" -- Uhura "We surrender!!" -- Kirk (Star Trek VI) Fingerprint = 2792 057F C4

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg Compiling Failure

2005-02-06 Thread Captain FantastiK
cApTaiN_FaNtAsTiK From: Rumen Yotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg Compiling Failure Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 19:35:58 +0200 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason Cooper wrote: | Captain FantastiK ([EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: syslog-ng error: Solved

2005-02-06 Thread Phil Sexton
On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 09:52, Francesco Talamona wrote: > On Sunday 06 February 2005 15:21, Phil Sexton wrote: > > I keep getting this error and syslog-ng isn't listed in > > /var/lib/portage/world. > > What is the output of: > "emerge -Cp syslog-ng" ? just to make sure isn't installed. tinwhistle

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-sources 2.6.10r7 and fbsplash

2005-02-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 12:21:39 -0500 (EST), J. Patrick Campbell wrote: > i emerged this kernel last night, copied over my config, generated a new > initrd and when i boot i get a file not found, i think on the line with > the initrd splash image. anyone gotten splashutils to work with this > kernel?

Re: [gentoo-user] "Gentoo Linux and Windows XP on the same hard disk on the same computer"

2005-02-06 Thread gottlieb
At Sun, 06 Feb 2005 10:53:38 -0700 Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's some basic information: > > 1. If you bought a computer with WinXP installed, most likely (99.99%) > the disk was formatted as a single NTFS partition. In order to put > linux on the box, you need to free up some

Re: [gentoo-user] squirrelmail

2005-02-06 Thread gottlieb
At Sun, 06 Feb 2005 12:36:05 -0500 David Corbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 06 February 2005 04:05 am, David Busby wrote: >> David Corbin wrote: >> > I have squirrelmail emerged (w/apache 2.0), but it won't work. There >> > doesn't appear to be anything in the apache configuration that

Re: [gentoo-user] "Gentoo Linux and Windows XP on the same hard disk on the same computer"

2005-02-06 Thread Collins Richey
On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 17:19:00 +0100, Heinz Sporn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > if you need room for a Gentoo installation I recommend tools like > Partition Magic for Windows. The naming scheme depends on the current > number of partitions and types. After you booted a Gentoo Live CD use > f

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-sources 2.6.10r7 and fbsplash

2005-02-06 Thread J. Patrick Campbell
On Sun, February 6, 2005 12:41 pm, Christoph Eckert said: > >> i emerged this kernel last night, copied over my config, >> generated a new initrd and when i boot i get a file not >> found, i think on the line with the initrd splash image. >> anyone gotten splashutils to work with this kernel? > >

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-sources 2.6.10r7 and fbsplash

2005-02-06 Thread Christoph Eckert
> i emerged this kernel last night, copied over my config, > generated a new initrd and when i boot i get a file not > found, i think on the line with the initrd splash image. > anyone gotten splashutils to work with this kernel? you need gensplash. Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] squirrelmail

2005-02-06 Thread David Corbin
On Sunday 06 February 2005 04:05 am, David Busby wrote: > David Corbin wrote: > > I have squirrelmail emerged (w/apache 2.0), but it won't work. There > > doesn't appear to be anything in the apache configuration that allows it > > run php, instead of just returning the source. > > > > Pointers? >

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg Compiling Failure

2005-02-06 Thread Rumen Yotov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason Cooper wrote: | Captain FantastiK ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: | |>Now, I foudn out what was the problem. It seems to be the -static USE Flag |>(But I don't understand why) so when I removed, the compiling Process was |>OK. But Now, I have anoth

[gentoo-user] dev-sources 2.6.10r7 and fbsplash

2005-02-06 Thread J. Patrick Campbell
i emerged this kernel last night, copied over my config, generated a new initrd and when i boot i get a file not found, i think on the line with the initrd splash image. anyone gotten splashutils to work with this kernel? title=Gentoo 2.6.10r7 root (hd1,0) kernel /kernel-2.6.10r7 root=/dev/sda2 vi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [normal] [gentoo-user] Mounting Dos disk

2005-02-06 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Tried them and they work - but I wonder what's wrong with my system in that it won't mount a dos floppy. Ext2 floppy works fine. On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Marc Redmann wrote: Hi Brett, I have a DOS floppy I try and mount but get the error: to access a dos-floppy you could alternatively use the package

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [normal] [gentoo-user] Mounting Dos disk

2005-02-06 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Thanks. I may try that but I am concerned that I can not mount DOS floppies on this system which may indicate a problem. On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Marc Redmann wrote: Hi Brett, I have a DOS floppy I try and mount but get the error: to access a dos-floppy you could alternatively use the package "sys-fs

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting Dos disk

2005-02-06 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Thanks. I tried that and it did not work. On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Sunday 06 February 2005 01:42, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I have a DOS floppy I try and mount but get the error: /dev/fd0 /mnt/fd0 vfat noauto,user,exec,nohide 0 0 Mine looks like this: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto sync

RE: [gentoo-user] More scripting help please...

2005-02-06 Thread Mal Herring
> You have two if's and only one then. What is the goal? > Do you want to execute the command if either page has the > string or only if both do? for background : I am running a transcoder for an online station transmitting @ 56k using shoutcast. I have set up another server to transcode the 56k

Re: [gentoo-user] "Gentoo Linux and Windows XP on the same hard disk on the same computer"

2005-02-06 Thread Heinz Sporn
Hi, if you need room for a Gentoo installation I recommend tools like Partition Magic for Windows. The naming scheme depends on the current number of partitions and types. After you booted a Gentoo Live CD use fdisk or better cfdisk to get a list of partitions and the corresponding Linux device na

Re: [gentoo-user] More scripting help please...

2005-02-06 Thread gottlieb
At Sun, 06 Feb 2005 14:46:18 + Mal Herring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am writing a script that : > > Checks page 1 for text, then checks page2 for text then lauches a > command - I have tried this : > > if lynx -dump page1 | grep -q -e "search string" > if lynx -dump page2 | grep -q -e "se

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