Re: [gentoo-user] "--newuse" does it work?

2005-02-17 Thread Richard Brown
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 16:47:14 -, Gareth Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was re-emerging PHP and mod_php with the use flag mssql. > > But if I do a phpinfo(); it shows me the configure statement had > '--without-mssql' in it. > > So maybe php is unaffected by the use flag mssql? > Sorr

Re: [gentoo-user] Having problems with vixie-cron

2005-02-17 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 William Kenworthy wrote: | I am having problems with vixie-cron: My laptop is usually turned off | at night and cron.daily is set to run by the gentoo default at 03.01am. | Even if I start it up at 6am and let it sit for a couple of hours, it | picks u

Re: [gentoo-user] Gensplash/bootsplash

2005-02-17 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Why not use fbspalsh and set splash to silent instead of verbose. kernel /2.6.10-gentoo-r6/kernel-2.6.10-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/hda3 video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,[EMAIL PROTECTED] splash=verbose,theme:emergence This will give you a screeen much like the one shown when booting a live cd. You need to emerg

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious lockups

2005-02-17 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Matt Garman wrote: > I'm hesitant to try this, only because the lockups are so random. > It's been almost two weeks since it last happened; I have a feeling > that I could get lucky and it won't happen again forever (or it > could happen in the next five minutes). Either way,

Re: [gentoo-user] starting custom scripts/applications at boot time

2005-02-17 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Zbynek Houska wrote: > When I start it issuing webcam > /var/log/webcam.log 2>&1 & > > it works fine > > but adding following with "sleep 60" into /etc/conf.d/local.start causes > webcam grabing few images and hanging. Why not write a script for the binary and put the "sleep

Re: [gentoo-user] A query on C/C++ and GDB

2005-02-17 Thread John Myers
On Thursday 17 February 2005 18:47, Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: > Hi, > > What are the libraries/programs that need to be compiled with '+debug' > so that GDB has *all* the info to step through library functions? At > present GDB does not seem to have STL info. All of them. (well really just all the

Re: [gentoo-user] Soft power off lost

2005-02-17 Thread Ralph Slooten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 | I have also enabled swsup2 with my kenel. Would that be a problem? No, I don't believe so as this should have nothing to do with it. It doesn't work reliably here on my laptop so I have it off, but still again, this should have nothing to do with powe

Re: [gentoo-user] Soft power off lost

2005-02-17 Thread Ralph Slooten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What laptop and kernel version? If it's a HP or Compaq then also add the toshiba extras as it adds some functions. Not sure if it's the cause here though depending on what model your laptop is. Greetings Ralph Ducky Z. wrote: | I have my ACPI suppo

Re: [gentoo-user] is it possible to emerge only the docs for a package

2005-02-17 Thread John Myers
On Thursday 17 February 2005 11:51, Catalin Trifu wrote: > I don't usually use docs, so i add doc to package.use but i forgot :) > to add it to a package. > is there a possibility to emerge only the docs from a package Nope. You'll have to re-merge the whole package. Sorry. -- t3h 3l3ctr0

Re: [gentoo-user] 4 hours of emerge -e down the drain?

2005-02-17 Thread John Myers
On Thursday 17 February 2005 13:31, Mark Knecht wrote: > I presume that the 180 packages that emerged before this one are not > effected by this gcc change? Right. If they had been, they would have failed too. -- t3h 3l3ctr0n3rd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Supermarket Deli Clerk and Student Programmer O

Re: [gentoo-user] Mutt questions

2005-02-17 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >macro generic \cj "!rxvt -bg wheat -e joe $HOME/.muttrc\r" Looks like this macro is being activated. Does \cj mean CTRL J ??? I believe CTRL J is the linefeed character and maybe your ENTER key generates it? -- Aj. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen + Split screen to moving aroun

2005-02-17 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 17:45, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: > Le 02/17/05 Dirk Raeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > >> I need a primer in how to use screen. > >> > >> I know C-a S makes a split screen. But how can I switch from one window > >> to the other? > > man screen says >

[gentoo-user] Gensplash/bootsplash

2005-02-17 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Guys, I've read the bootsplash and fbsplash/gensplash howtos. I've already set up fbsplash on my laptop and it's working nicely. However, I'm working on getting a Freevo/Myth box up using gentoo and would like to have bootsplash/gensplash cover up the initial Bootup sequence via a progres

Re: [gentoo-user] bootsplash and 2.6.9-gentoo kernel

2005-02-17 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 05:00, Jean-Francois Gagnon Laporte wrote: > please read this doc and all of your answers will be answered. > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash I'm using fbsplash currently and it's sweet. But how about getting a progress bar instead of having all the words scroll by?

Re: [gentoo-user] Soft power off lost

2005-02-17 Thread Ducky Z.
I have my ACPI support in the kernel. It looks like this: # Power management options (ACPI, APM) # ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) Support CONFIG_ACPI=y CONFIG_ACPI_BOOT=y CONFIG_ACPI_INTERPRETER=y CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP=y CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP_PROC_FS=y CONFIG_ACPI_AC=y CONFIG_ACPI_BATTE

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo installation won't let me set root's passwd

2005-02-17 Thread Michael Sullivan
livecd root # mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc mount: none already mounted or /mnt/gentoo/proc busy mount: according to mtab, none is already mounted on /mnt/gentoo/proc livecd root # chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash livecd / # env-update >>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... * Caching service depen

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo installation won't let me set root's passwd

2005-02-17 Thread Stanczak Group
Michael Sullivan wrote: I've finally got Gentoo installed on my wife's computer except for one small hitch; it won't let me set root's password. I tried it locally (sitting at her computer) and it gave me an error, so I started up the sshd server and ssh'd over from my PC and tried it again getti

[gentoo-user] New Gentoo installation won't let me set root's passwd

2005-02-17 Thread Michael Sullivan
I've finally got Gentoo installed on my wife's computer except for one small hitch; it won't let me set root's password. I tried it locally (sitting at her computer) and it gave me an error, so I started up the sshd server and ssh'd over from my PC and tried it again getting the same error. I hav

Re: [gentoo-user] Mutt questions

2005-02-17 Thread asteriusb
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Re: [gentoo-user] X and I855GM

2005-02-17 Thread Gaël TRIGALLEAU
Sascha Hlusiak a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 |> what is you problem with X?? 3D acceleration?? |> |> | yes, the graphic card normally do it but it doesn't.and it seems for dvd | play, it use cpu ressource instead of using the graphic card accel. And of course you need to

Re: [gentoo-user] Wants to merge Openmotif

2005-02-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 17 February 2005 09:07 pm, "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > emerge -uD world -p shows portage wants to merge openmotif. [H]ow do I > find out what > is trying to pull in openmotif? emerge -auDvt world (you might want to throw --newuse in there for good measure.) --

Re: [gentoo-user] Mutt questions

2005-02-17 Thread Willie Wong
What is in your ~/.muttrc ? W On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 01:45:06AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi list, > > I have set up mutt, however when I call it with "mutt", the next thing I see > is > /var/mail/root is not a mailbox. When I call it with mutt -y, I can see the > three > mailboxes, b

[gentoo-user] Wants to merge Openmotif

2005-02-17 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
emerge -uD world -p shows portage wants to merge openmotif. Both qpkg and equery d show nothing depends on openmotif so how do I find out what is trying to pull in openmotif? Thanks. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.o

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - genkernel and NFS

2005-02-17 Thread Ric de France
Michael, On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 21:01:45 -0600, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do genkernels have NFS support turned on by default? >From memory... when you make a kernel compilation with genkernel, it copies the generic selection of options for the kernel made to either the kernel di

Re: [gentoo-user] ntfs vs *nix fs

2005-02-17 Thread Colin
Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: As to comparing it...NTFS is a robust filesystem, but it's not usable under Linux...well fully usable. Yep, it's not fully usable but not really because of the widespread beliefs. There are some myths about Linux NTFS support (like it's experimental, corrupts data,

[gentoo-user] samba/reiserfs io error log

2005-02-17 Thread Qiangning Hong
Will reiserfs write a log entry when file IO failed because of failure of hard disk (for example, bad block)? If not, will samba have such a log file? -- Excellent FOSS (Free/Open Source Software): Get Firefox! http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=67907&t=1 Reclaim Your Inbox! http://

[gentoo-user] A query on C/C++ and GDB

2005-02-17 Thread Hareesh Nagarajan
Hi, What are the libraries/programs that need to be compiled with '+debug' so that GDB has *all* the info to step through library functions? At present GDB does not seem to have STL info. Must I re-compile/re-emerge 1. glibc 2. libstdc++-v3 ...? Thanks, Hareesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailin

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems building GTK+

2005-02-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 17 February 2005 07:45 pm, David Corbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 16 February 2005 10:59 pm, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On Wednesday 16 February 2005 08:05 pm, David Corbin > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > grep: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/libstd

Re: [gentoo-user] LISA problems

2005-02-17 Thread Nick Rout
file a bug at bugzilla.gentoo.org Thats the only way u will get the gentoo devs to look at it. On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 07:15:26 -0500 David Corbin wrote: > For the record, I've found that "help:lisa" in konqueror gives some > reasonable > help on the config file. (But it's still inexcusable that

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems building GTK+

2005-02-17 Thread David Corbin
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 10:59 pm, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Wednesday 16 February 2005 08:05 pm, David Corbin > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > while emerging x11-libs/gtk+-2.4.14 > > > > I get this: > > > > grep: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/libstdc++.la: No such > > fi

[gentoo-user] Mutt questions

2005-02-17 Thread asteriusb
Hi list, I have set up mutt, however when I call it with "mutt", the next thing I see is /var/mail/root is not a mailbox. When I call it with mutt -y, I can see the three mailboxes, but when I press "enter" in order to view them, it says: sh: line 1: rxvt: command not found. Any ideas? Thanks in

Re: [gentoo-user] LISA problems

2005-02-17 Thread David Corbin
On Thursday 17 February 2005 08:45 am, Dave Nebinger wrote: > OK, I give up. What is Lisa? I too have a kde installation and lisa's in > the /etc/init.d and I too am missing the /etc/lisarc file. Can you give me > a brief 'what is it' and 'why do I need it'? > > Thanks. It enables browsing of o

[gentoo-user] error messages on booting

2005-02-17 Thread Martin L. Sage
When I boot in Linux i686 2.6.10-gentoo-r4 I get a number of error messages that state that various environment variables exported from /var/lib/init.d/envcache are readonly variables. The include BASH_VERSINFO, EUID, SHELLOPTS, PPID, and UID. In addition when I logon as "root" or some other us

Re: [gentoo-user] Having problems with vixie-cron

2005-02-17 Thread Tres Melton
Try looking at the script file: /usr/sbin/run-crons it is run every ten minutes by /etc/crontab and looks for things that haven't been done recently. Adjustment here may be necessary. An alternative may be to edit /etc/init.d/local so that it checks the time stamp on the database and updates it

[gentoo-user] Problem with Gnome Network Monitor

2005-02-17 Thread Captain FantastiK
HI I Added to panel Gnome Network Monitor and then when I try to configure the interface "eth0" (after prompting for root passwd) ". The message: the interface "eth0" doesn't exist. The thing is that is the interface I use for my internet connection and even when I open the network connections

[gentoo-user] Thanks for your help - Evolution runs again

2005-02-17 Thread Mark Knecht
Thanks to those who helped in the last two days when I had to ask some questions. I rebuilt a good portion of the machine today using emerge -e gnome and when it was done all of the Evolution problems had disappeared and everything seems to be working fine. Thanks for the help with emerge problems

[gentoo-user] GDM && prompting for Default Session

2005-02-17 Thread Captain FantastiK
HI I would like to know if it's possible to disable GDM's prompting for choosing a session as a default one cApTaiN_FaNtAsTiK _ Envoyer des courriels créatifs est aussi amusant que d’en recevoir. Utilisez de la papeterie, des police

Re: [gentoo-user] ntfs vs *nix fs

2005-02-17 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Bob Sanders wrote: > NTFS is a variation of VAX/VMS' original filesystem. Internally at > DEC it was known as ODS2 (On Disk Structure 2). This is quite interesting but are you sure? It's fairly well known that NTFS was derived from HPFS. Of course this doesn't exclude th

Re: [gentoo-user] spamassassin 3 does no bayes filtering?

2005-02-17 Thread Richard C. Cox
I'm running the new 3.0.2, and got this from a piece of spam just a few moments ago: "1.9 BAYES_99               BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 99 to 100%" I haven't done anything to my configs, so I believe you just have to give it a little time. Richard On Thursday 17 February 2005 9:2

Re: [gentoo-user] spamassassin 3 does no bayes filtering?

2005-02-17 Thread Daniel Westermann-Clark
On 2005-02-17 15:21:55 +0100, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: > just finished upgrading my spamassassin installation to version 3.0.2 > and it seems to work fine, but with one exception: I think it does not > use any bayes filtering. IIRC there was some info on bayes filters in > every spam mail wi

[gentoo-user] Having problems with vixie-cron

2005-02-17 Thread William Kenworthy
I am having problems with vixie-cron: My laptop is usually turned off at night and cron.daily is set to run by the gentoo default at 03.01am. Even if I start it up at 6am and let it sit for a couple of hours, it picks up the missing cron job(s) sometime after 9am (not sure when exactly). Where do

Re: [gentoo-user] many ext3 filesystem errors on SW raid5

2005-02-17 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Mike Williams -- > On Thursday 17 February 2005 21:41, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: > > Now I do not really know where to search for the problem. Is it > > Linux's software raid5 implementation, which is buggy? Is it one or > > more of the IDE disks? Or is this normal

Re: [gentoo-user] desktop publishing

2005-02-17 Thread William Meertens
Hi all, I've been searching long for this and tested a lot of programs. OpenOffice or AbiWord or what ever program is related can not be called as Desktop Publishing. Does are programs that can do almost everything but are not designed for DP only Scribus is a real Desktop Publishing program.

Re: [gentoo-user] many ext3 filesystem errors on SW raid5

2005-02-17 Thread Mike Williams
On Thursday 17 February 2005 21:41, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: > Now I do not really know where to search for the problem. Is it Linux's > software raid5 implementation, which is buggy? Is it one or more of the > IDE disks? Or is this normal for large (~400gb) ext3 partitions? > > Where do I g

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting NTFS Raid 0 Partitions

2005-02-17 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Ryan Viljoen wrote: > Could anyone offer some help? I have built in all the support required > in the kernel. ie: Sata, Raid and NTFS support. > > mount -t NTFS /dev/sda1 /mnt/ntfsdrv > doesnt seem to work :( Quite probably you need LDM support: http://linux-ntfs.s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ups recommendations

2005-02-17 Thread Kent Borg
I recently came home to notice the lights were all rather yellow looking. We were in a brownout. I have three UPSs at home. 1. A fairly old little APC with a mechanical switch and all on my basement server. 2. A newer APC with a push button switch on my kitchen computer. 3. A fairly o

[gentoo-user] Mounting NTFS Raid 0 Partitions

2005-02-17 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Could anyone offer some help? I have built in all the support required in the kernel. ie: Sata, Raid and NTFS support. mount -t NTFS /dev/sda1 /mnt/ntfsdrv doesnt seem to work :( Thanks Ryan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] many ext3 filesystem errors on SW raid5

2005-02-17 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Bob Sanders -- > Bad drives? I don't trust drives until they've run for at least 2 wks > after I purchase them - I've had them die in that time. But do you think that all 3 of them are bad? Since I run a raid and do the filesystem check over this whole array, I wonder

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ups recommendations

2005-02-17 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Cosmin Nicolaescu wrote: Software is something that I was actually wondering...what UPS manufacturers have better support in linux? A while back, I was working with a system that had an APC SmartUPS with a network management module that provided SNMP and telnet. This is a lit

Re: [gentoo-user] many ext3 filesystem errors on SW raid5

2005-02-17 Thread Bob Sanders
> I am running the backups every night, but afterwards when I unmount the > raid array and make a fsck.ext3 over it, every time I get errors (bad > blocks here, some inode errors there and so on). Next night I can use the > array quite fine, but on the day after that I get some filesystem errors

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg and Gnome or KDE on Gentoo

2005-02-17 Thread Uwe Klosa
Have you tried the following Xorg -configure X -config /root/xorg.conf.new cp /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf I had the same problem first on my new and first installation. But after that it worked well. Your useflags are ok if you want to use both kde and gnome. Uwe ME wrote: Yes, you def

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ups recommendations

2005-02-17 Thread Cosmin Nicolaescu
On Thu, February 17, 2005 4:28 pm, James said: > Cosmin Nicolaescu camelot.homelinux.com> writes: > > >> Thanks for the tips. How do you find out what bettery it uses? I've been >> looking at F6C120-UNV and I couldn't find anywhere in the specs what >> type >> of battery it actually has. Do you t

[gentoo-user] xcompmgr ... rc.x.start ?!

2005-02-17 Thread raptor
where to put something so that it start after X/Gnome is started... I just upgraded to xorg-x11 maan that is coool :").. http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Xorg_X11_and_Transparency/ tia -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: advice for HW raid5 controller needed

2005-02-17 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- > 3Ware is your friend. Check out their SATA RAID controllers. They have > kernel support. One more questions: Are there any 3Ware controllers with IDE support as well, which can be used for real hardware arrays under Gentoo Linux? -- Homer: You

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: advice for HW raid5 controller needed

2005-02-17 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- > 3Ware is your friend. Check out their SATA RAID controllers. They have > kernel support. thanks for your tip! are they supported under 2.4 as well, or only under 2.6? which one should I buy? -- Did you hear that, Marge? She called me a baboon

[gentoo-user] many ext3 filesystem errors on SW raid5

2005-02-17 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Hi all, I have a backup system with 3 brand new IDE disks (200gb each), and a linux based software raid5 over them. I am storing data of some servers on this /dev/md0 (ext3 on it), including thousands of little files from a mailserver, some webs, and some data of windows based servers. I am ru

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: advice for HW raid5 controller needed

2005-02-17 Thread aaron
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 10:31:12PM +0100, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: > Hi all, > > I need to build a backup server with at least 3x200gb SATA disks on a > hardware raid5. I do not have many good experiences with HW raid > controllers under (gentoo) Linux, since the system never "saw" the ra

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg and Gnome or KDE on Gentoo

2005-02-17 Thread ME
Yes, you definitively have to configure Xorg before you can run Gnome or KDE. Sounds like you have config problems with Xorg. A trick you can do, if you are unsure how to setup xorg.conf, is to boot from a bootable linux CD (like Knoppix) and, assuming that KDE does launch normally, just copy t

[gentoo-user] Re: ups recommendations

2005-02-17 Thread James
Cosmin Nicolaescu camelot.homelinux.com> writes: > Thanks for the tips. How do you find out what bettery it uses? I've been > looking at F6C120-UNV and I couldn't find anywhere in the specs what type > of battery it actually has. Do you think calling the company (belkin) > would be any useful?

Re: [gentoo-user] 4 hours of emerge -e down the drain?

2005-02-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 22:22:04 +, Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 17 February 2005 21:09, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Hi again, > >OK, I was another 90 minutes into the last 156 and it failed > > somewhere around #60 with the following failure: > > > > grep: /usr/lib/gcc-

[gentoo-user] OT: advice for HW raid5 controller needed

2005-02-17 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Hi all, I need to build a backup server with at least 3x200gb SATA disks on a hardware raid5. I do not have many good experiences with HW raid controllers under (gentoo) Linux, since the system never "saw" the raid array, but the seperate disks. So I had to build a software raid over them...

Re: [gentoo-user] 4 hours of emerge -e down the drain?

2005-02-17 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Thursday 17 February 2005 21:09, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi again, >OK, I was another 90 minutes into the last 156 and it failed > somewhere around #60 with the following failure: > > grep: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/libstdc++.la: No such > file or directory > sed: can't read /us

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg and Gnome or KDE on Gentoo

2005-02-17 Thread Thomas Mayer
On Thursday 17 February 2005 21:41, Dennis Taylor wrote: > I have read the DOCs, but I am missing something. I want to run X-windows > on my Gentoo box (2.6.10-gentoo-r6), but so far have been unsuccessful. It > is unclear to me whether Gnome or KDE need me to first install Xorg. When ... xorg i

Re: [gentoo-user] 4 hours of emerge -e down the drain?

2005-02-17 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:32:47 -0800, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:19:50 -0600, Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks to all. It started at 1 of 156. By my calulation that looks correct: 103 of 260 passed 104 failed 1 o

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg and Gnome or KDE on Gentoo

2005-02-17 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 15:41:33 -0500 Dennis Taylor wrote: > I have read the DOCs, but I am missing something. I want to run X-windows on > my Gentoo box (2.6.10-gentoo-r6), but so far have been unsuccessful. It is > unclear to me whether Gnome or KDE need me to first install Xorg. When Gnome

Re: [gentoo-user] 4 hours of emerge -e down the drain?

2005-02-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:32:47 -0800, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:19:50 -0600, Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Thanks to all. It started at 1 of 156. By my calulation that looks > > > correct: > > > > > > 103 of 260 passed >

Re: [gentoo-user] desktop publishing

2005-02-17 Thread Ralph Slooten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I personally vouch for OpenOffice.org (draw part). I used to do desktop publishing several years ago with CorelDraw ... and find it to have most of the basic features C.D. used to have. I now use it aswell for the reason that most of what I do now is fo

[gentoo-user] Re: Xorg and Gnome or KDE on Gentoo

2005-02-17 Thread Catalin Trifu
Hi, X is the x-window server and is exactly what it says (a server). Gnome and KDE are window managers (actually desktop) and they are built on top of the X server (clients to it). X is responsible for talking with the hardware (graphics card) while Gnome and KDE talk to X and tell

Re: [gentoo-user] Soft power off lost

2005-02-17 Thread Ralph Slooten
No ACPI support in your new kernel? Ducky Z. wrote: I've upgraded my kernel to 2.6.10-morph21 and my notebook now stops at "Power Down" when halting. It used to turn itself off automatically with my previous kernel. Any help is highly appreciated. D -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] desktop publishing

2005-02-17 Thread Christoph Eckert
> Desktop publishing = scribus or openoffice but mostly > scribus. If it's good enough for some newspaper it is good > enough for you ;) Are you sure ;-) ? Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] desktop publishing

2005-02-17 Thread Christoph Eckert
> what opensource software to we have to recommend to do some > small desktop publishing, ie family newletterm and > such. Scribus. Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] desktop publishing

2005-02-17 Thread Jean-Francois Gagnon Laporte
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 12:42:17 -0800, timothy johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what opensource software to we have to recommend to do some small > desktop publishing, ie family newletterm and such. > Desktop publishing = scribus or openoffice but mostly scribus. If it's good enough for some

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg and Gnome or KDE on Gentoo

2005-02-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 15:41:33 -0500, Dennis Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have read the DOCs, but I am missing something. I want to run X-windows on > my Gentoo box (2.6.10-gentoo-r6), but so far have been unsuccessful. It is > unclear to me whether Gnome or KDE need me to first install

Re: [gentoo-user] Logging traffic to MySQL -- Am I pushing it?

2005-02-17 Thread Jeff Smelser
On Thursday 17 February 2005 02:25 pm, Grant wrote: > So you're saying if I use the default MySQL storage engine and don't > delete records, the size of the table will not affect the insert > performance? Grant, Here is a excellent discussion, and its how we do things here so I know it works we

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ups recommendations

2005-02-17 Thread Cosmin Nicolaescu
On Thu, February 17, 2005 1:39 pm, James said: > Cosmin Nicolaescu camelot.homelinux.com> writes: > > >> I know that they're all ~1000V which for a home computer seems a lot, >> but >> I am planning on buying at least one more box in the near future, and I >> figured that it's better to have more

[gentoo-user] desktop publishing

2005-02-17 Thread timothy johnson
what opensource software to we have to recommend to do some small desktop publishing, ie family newletterm and such. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Xorg and Gnome or KDE on Gentoo

2005-02-17 Thread Dennis Taylor
I have read the DOCs, but I am missing something. I want to run X-windows on my Gentoo box (2.6.10-gentoo-r6), but so far have been unsuccessful. It is unclear to me whether Gnome or KDE need me to first install Xorg. When Gnome would not emerge without error, I tried first emerging/configuri

Re: [gentoo-user] logrotate trouble

2005-02-17 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Guilheme Cirne: > On Thursday 17 February 2005 16:42, Grant wrote: > <...> > > > My log config sections are like this: > > > > /var/log/apache2/access_log { > > daily > > rotate 99 > > postrotate > > /etc/init.d/apache2 restart > > endscript

Re: [gentoo-user] Logging traffic to MySQL -- Am I pushing it?

2005-02-17 Thread Jeff Smelser
On Thursday 17 February 2005 02:25 pm, Grant wrote: > So you're saying if I use the default MySQL storage engine and don't > delete records, the size of the table will not affect the insert > performance? Depends on how big the table gets.. This depends on hardware/fs types/memory and a host of

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with apache2 setup

2005-02-17 Thread Ian Truelsen
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 14:27:59 -0500 fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let's make sure it's actually listening on something other than > 127.0.0.1. > > as root: netstat -anp | grep :8000 > dark-lord root # netstat -anp | grep 8000 tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:80000.0.0.0:*

Re: [gentoo-user] logrotate trouble

2005-02-17 Thread Grant
> > My log config sections are like this: > > > > /var/log/apache2/access_log { > > daily > > rotate 99 > > postrotate > > /etc/init.d/apache2 restart > > endscript > > } > > > > for access_log, ssl_access_log, ssl_request_log, error_log, and > > ssl_

Re: [gentoo-user] Logging traffic to MySQL -- Am I pushing it?

2005-02-17 Thread Grant
> > I'm very glad to hear that. What about performance issues? Will the > > insert be slower as the table grows? That could be a problem. > > If you use myisam, no, unless your deleting a lot.. if you use innodb and you > dont optimize it, its possible.. So you're saying if I use the default M

[gentoo-user] Gentoo's Bandwidth Measurement Abilities

2005-02-17 Thread James
Hello All, I need to use a portable with 2 ethernet interfaces as a bandwidth measurement device to measure the actual bandwidth used by ethernet devices. For this measurement, I inted to put the device under test and only one other pc on the hub/switch so that all other forms of ethernet/ip tra

Re: [gentoo-user] logrotate trouble

2005-02-17 Thread Guilheme Cirne
On Thursday 17 February 2005 16:42, Grant wrote: <...> > My log config sections are like this: > > /var/log/apache2/access_log { > daily > rotate 99 > postrotate > /etc/init.d/apache2 restart > endscript > } > > for access_log, ssl_access_log, ssl_req

Re: [gentoo-user] Show command execution text result on X desktop?

2005-02-17 Thread Bob Sanders
> > Hi all, I just would like to be pointed on the right direction to > accomplish this: I want to show on the X desktop the result of a command, > let's say, calendar -A 7, which Shows my appointments for the next 7 days, > just like, i.e. root-tail, shows tail -f on the desktop. > I am quite s

[gentoo-user] is it possible to emerge only the docs for a package

2005-02-17 Thread Catalin Trifu
Hi, I don't usually use docs, so i add doc to package.use but i forgot :) to add it to a package. is there a possibility to emerge only the docs from a package Thanks, Catalin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 4 hours of emerge -e down the drain?

2005-02-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:19:50 -0600, Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > Thanks to all. It started at 1 of 156. By my calulation that looks correct: > > > > 103 of 260 passed > > 104 failed > > 1 of 156 to do > > > > 103+156=259 > > > > Looks great! Thanks! > > > > Now

RE: [gentoo-user] Need help with apache2 setup

2005-02-17 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I am trying to setup apache2, but I cannot get access from outside my > machine. I have it set to listen on port 8000 and have that forwarded > from my router, however, I can only connect to the server locally and > only by specifying 127.0.0.1:8000. Outside of the machine, all I get is > connect

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with apache2 setup

2005-02-17 Thread fire-eyes
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 11:12 -0800, Ian Truelsen wrote: > I am not sure what I am doing wrong, but I am doing something wrong. > > I am trying to setup apache2, but I cannot get access from outside my > machine. I have it set to listen on port 8000 and have that forwarded > from my router, however,

[gentoo-user] Show command execution text result on X desktop?

2005-02-17 Thread fprosper
Hi all, I just would like to be pointed on the right direction to accomplish this: I want to show on the X desktop the result of a command, let's say, calendar -A 7, which Shows my appointments for the next 7 days, just like, i.e. root-tail, shows tail -f on the desktop. I am quite sure it must

Re: [gentoo-user] 4 hours of emerge -e down the drain?

2005-02-17 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks to all. It started at 1 of 156. By my calulation that looks correct: 103 of 260 passed 104 failed 1 of 156 to do 103+156=259 Looks great! Thanks! Now, how will I figure out why portage wanted to build alsa-driver for -e gnome? Does that require reading the gnome ebuild? (A

Re: [gentoo-user] 4 hours of emerge -e down the drain?

2005-02-17 Thread Mark Knecht
Thanks to all. It started at 1 of 156. By my calulation that looks correct: 103 of 260 passed 104 failed 1 of 156 to do 103+156=259 Looks great! Thanks! Now, how will I figure out why portage wanted to build alsa-driver for -e gnome? Does that require reading the gnome ebuild? (A capability I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] 4 hours of emerge -e down the drain?

2005-02-17 Thread aaron
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 11:11:28AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >After looking into a problem with Evolution it appears that a few > people solved the problem doing an 'emerge -e gnome' so I decided to > give that a try. It ran for 4 hours and got to item 104 out of 260 and > then failed bec

Re: [gentoo-user] 4 hours of emerge -e down the drain?

2005-02-17 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Mark Knecht wrote: Anyway, if I have to restart this is there a way to pick up from here? How can I start emerge -e gnome with item #105 (whatever that might be) and not lose 4 hours of work? emerge --resume --skipfirst -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ G

Re: [gentoo-user] 4 hours of emerge -e down the drain?

2005-02-17 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Knecht wrote: | Hi, |After looking into a problem with Evolution it appears that a few | people solved the problem doing an 'emerge -e gnome' so I decided to | give that a try. It ran for 4 hours and got to item 104 out of 260 and | then failed

[gentoo-user] Need help with apache2 setup

2005-02-17 Thread Ian Truelsen
I am not sure what I am doing wrong, but I am doing something wrong. I am trying to setup apache2, but I cannot get access from outside my machine. I have it set to listen on port 8000 and have that forwarded from my router, however, I can only connect to the server locally and only by specifying

[gentoo-user] 4 hours of emerge -e down the drain?

2005-02-17 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, After looking into a problem with Evolution it appears that a few people solved the problem doing an 'emerge -e gnome' so I decided to give that a try. It ran for 4 hours and got to item 104 out of 260 and then failed because for some reason portage wasn't smart about the alsa-driver and 2.6

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 mice

2005-02-17 Thread Bob Sanders
> > my normal mouse is ps/2 and this one is USB, so that won't work for me. > I am going to try using the I-Pen as the only mouse (comment out the > main mouse in XF86Config), and see how that goes. > Why not? Both map to /dev/psaux or /dev/input/mouse0. And yes, I have done this with multipl

Re: [gentoo-user] proftpd 1.2.10: mod_delay disabling

2005-02-17 Thread fire-eyes
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 19:33 +0100, Stefan Onken wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 17. Februar 2005 17:09 schrieb fire-eyes: > > clients (nasty with IE). > > > DelayEngine off > > > http://www.castaglia.org/proftpd/modules/mod_delay.html Yep, that didn't work. See my later post for the solution.

Re: [gentoo-user] Logging traffic to MySQL -- Am I pushing it?

2005-02-17 Thread Jeff Smelser
On Thursday 17 February 2005 12:31 pm, Grant wrote: > I'm very glad to hear that. What about performance issues? Will the > insert be slower as the table grows? That could be a problem. If you use myisam, no, unless your deleting a lot.. if you use innodb and you dont optimize it, its possibl

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