[gentoo-user] Re: xfce4-4.2.1.1: xfcedesktop arsing

2005-03-29 Thread Botykai Zsolt
Tuesday 29 March 2005 01.25-n, fire-eyes ezt írta: > xfcedesktop in xfce4 died. I started it in a terminal window. Closed > that terminal window, so everything I had started died. How do I get it > started back up with xfce4? I've restarted xfce many times, to no avail. just take a look at this in

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update broke

2005-03-29 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Grant wrote: I've been emerging world today and I think one of the packages I updated was a diff package. Now when I run etc-update the only info I get from choosing to interactively merge the update with the original is something like: Showing differences between /etc/X11/rstart/rstartd.real and

Re: [gentoo-user] SCSI tape drive doesn't work

2005-03-29 Thread Peter Eis
Patrick Marquetecken wrote: >Hi, > >In my former thread i have ask what device my SCSI tapedrive could have >and i got a lot of answers, but none of the devices people on this list >have are present on my machine: Linux rivendell 2.6.9-gentoo-r6 #13 Sat >Mar 26 15:10:25 CET 2005 i686 Pentium III (

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange errors when posting to gentoo-user

2005-03-29 Thread Steven Susbauer
Yes. The mail server at gaznet.co.uk is obviously not delivering messages to ndc38841 for some reason. Because of this, it's sending a message to the original sender of the message (AKA, anyone that posts to the list). Very annoying. I hope it is fixed by now. fire-eyes wrote: I'm getting this

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple simultaneous emerges

2005-03-29 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: [snip] And then stuff explodes, since libfoo-1 isn't there any more. The dep resolver won't necessarily see this as a problem either, assuming libfoo isn't slotted and that fnord doesn't need specific libfoo versions. Usually the breakages are quite a bit more complex than th

Re: [gentoo-user] strip

2005-03-29 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Graham Murray wrote: "A. Khattri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: You can switch off the stripping by setting the nostrip variable in the FEATURES variable in /etc/make.conf. The problem with that is that it is global. Setting 'nostrip' is something that is probably wanted on a per-package basis more

Re: [gentoo-user] SCSI tape drive doesn't work

2005-03-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, forget /dev/sgX. Where does /dev/st points to? Do you have /dev/tapes/tape0/mt? Or /dev/scsi/scsi0/./mt? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Which FEATURES do you use?

2005-03-29 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Grant wrote: Most of the FEATURES listed in make.conf.example sound good. Which ones do you guys actually use? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache cvs distlocks maketest noclean sandbox sfperms strict test" mostly defaults, some not usefull for ev

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange errors when posting to gentoo-user

2005-03-29 Thread Graham Murray
Steven Susbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes. The mail server at gaznet.co.uk is obviously not delivering > messages to ndc38841 for some reason. Because of this, it's sending a > message to the original sender of the message (AKA, anyone that posts to > the list). > > Very annoying. I hop

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple simultaneous emerges

2005-03-29 Thread Digby Tarvin
Neive question - if it is such a bad idea, shouldn't there be a check for it? Maybe a second overlapping emerge should come up with a "Warning: emerge already running - continue (y/N)?" message if a lock file exists to indicate that the portage tree is busy... DigbyT On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 03:2

Re: [gentoo-user] Which FEATURES do you use?

2005-03-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:33:08 +0200, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: > > Are collision-protect and sandbox defaults? They seem good. > > Can anyone tell me more about how fixpackages works? > no and yes, have a look at "/etc/make.globals" Or check the output of emerge info to see what has been set b

[gentoo-user] [OT] Users and errors (was: help "line 6: B: command not found" FIXED, user error in config file...)

2005-03-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Dave V wrote: > You got me looking in the right places at least. Turned out that the offending file was in /etc/conf.d. I somehow managed to insert a random B character on line 6 of /etc/conf.d/hdparm. Thanks for the help all. > > On (2005-03-28 12:54), A. Khattri wrote: >>On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Da

[gentoo-user] clock too fast

2005-03-29 Thread Antonio Coralles
I've a strange problem: The clock of my computer ticks to fast - i get an error of about 30 minutes per day ... This problem just occured recently - a few days ago everthing was ok, possibly before 'emerge -up --deep world' ... Maybe someone can give me a hint. Thanks antonio -- ge

Re: [gentoo-user] strip

2005-03-29 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 06:52 +0100, Graham Murray wrote: > "A. Khattri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > You can switch off the stripping by setting the nostrip variable in the > > FEATURES variable in /etc/make.conf. > > The problem with that is that it is global. Setting 'nostrip' is > somethin

Re: [gentoo-user] a closet server

2005-03-29 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 23:04 -0500, Colin wrote: > Grant wrote: > > >>| Where do you guys go when you want a barebones server for the closet? > >>| I've built machines before but it seems like it might make more sense > >>| to buy one these days. > >> > >>Pick up an old Sun workstation off ebay. An

Re: [gentoo-user] Still bitten by grub kernel line confusion

2005-03-29 Thread Ow Mun Heng
lsOn Tue, 2005-03-29 at 16:54 +1200, Dion Sole wrote: > /boot/grub? The config should be /boot/grub/menu.lst > Change it to this: > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Feb 26 07:24 menu.lst -> grub.conf > -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 19:30

Re: [gentoo-user] clock too fast

2005-03-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 12:58:44 +0200, Antonio Coralles wrote: > This problem just occured recently - a few days ago everthing was ok, > possibly before 'emerge -up --deep world' ... > Maybe someone can give me a hint. It is difficult without knowing what you installed in your world update. The out

Re: [gentoo-user] clock too fast

2005-03-29 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mardi 29 mars 2005 à 12:58 +0200, Antonio Coralles a écrit : > I've a strange problem: The clock of my computer ticks to fast - i get > an error of about 30 minutes per day ... > This problem just occured recently - a few days ago everthing was ok, > possibly before 'emerge -up --deep world' .

Re: [gentoo-user] clock too fast

2005-03-29 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 12:58:44 +0200 Antonio Coralles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've a strange problem: The clock of my computer ticks to fast - i get > an error of about 30 minutes per day ... > This problem just occured recently - a few days ago everthing was ok, > possibly before 'emerg

Re: [gentoo-user] format 1.68Mb floppy with ext2

2005-03-29 Thread Marc-Eric Dupuis
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 16:01:47 -0700, Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does syslinux only support FAT filsystem??? :-/ Yes. But you can use extlinux: http://syslinux.zytor.com/extlinux.php -- The conquering penguin of the tribe of Unix... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] clock too fast

2005-03-29 Thread Antonio Coralles
gentoo-user@gentoo.org wrote: > Le mardi 29 mars 2005 à 12:58 +0200, Antonio Coralles a écrit : > > I've a strange problem: The clock of my computer ticks to fast - i get > > an error of about 30 minutes per day ... > > This problem just occured recently - a few days ago everthing was ok, > > po

Re: [gentoo-user] clock too fast

2005-03-29 Thread Antonio Coralles
gentoo-user@gentoo.org wrote: > On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 12:58:44 +0200, Antonio Coralles wrote: > > > This problem just occured recently - a few days ago everthing was ok, > > possibly before 'emerge -up --deep world' ... > > Maybe someone can give me a hint. > > It is difficult without knowing what y

Re: [gentoo-user] clock too fast

2005-03-29 Thread Antonio Coralles
gentoo-user@gentoo.org wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 12:58:44 +0200 > Antonio Coralles <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > >> I've a strange problem: The clock of my computer ticks to fast - i get >> an error of about 30 minutes per day ... >> This problem just occured recently - a few days ago

[gentoo-user] emerge wget failed - help

2005-03-29 Thread JASON JESSO
I am trying an emerge on wget. I get a compile error: In file included from ftp.c:52: ftp.h:81: error: parse error before numeric constant make[1]: *** [ftp.o] Error 1 cd po && make CC='i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc' CPPFLAGS='' DEFS='-DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DSYSTEM_WGETRC=\"/etc/wget/wgetrc\" -DLOCALEDIR=\"/us

Re: [gentoo-user] clock too fast

2005-03-29 Thread Ralph Slooten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Are there any warnings in the kernel messages about your clock? A possible "solution" would be running a "ntpd" server (not using the client, but the server). It *should* adjust your clock in stages to maintain the correct time ~ unnoticiably ;-) I rea

Re: [gentoo-user] a closet server

2005-03-29 Thread Stroller
On Mar 29, 2005, at 4:21 am, Grant wrote: Where do you guys go when you want a barebones server for the closet? I've built machines before but it seems like it might make more sense to buy one these days. No connection, just a happy customer. I got a quad-Xeon with hot-s

Re: [gentoo-user] a closet server

2005-03-29 Thread Stroller
On Mar 29, 2005, at 6:03 am, Jerry McBride wrote: On Monday 28 March 2005 10:21 pm, Grant wrote: Where do you guys go when you want a barebones server for the closet? I've built machines before but it seems like it might make more sense to buy one these days. How much horsepower do you want? I get

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Users and errors (was: help "line 6: B: command not found" FIXED, user error in config file...)

2005-03-29 Thread Dave V
Wow, that was a long read. Let me first say that I'm a little bit insulted at having my post compared to a typical Windows user :P. With that out of the way, it really wasn't a very clear message. I knew that the two lines /var/lib/init.d/depcache: line 6: B: command not found /sbin/rc: line

Re: [gentoo-user] a closet server

2005-03-29 Thread Bill Roberts
On 19:21 Mon 28 Mar , Grant wrote: > Where do you guys go when you want a barebones server for the closet? > I've built machines before but it seems like it might make more sense > to buy one these days. Take a look at: http://hardwareguys.com/ They give you good, non-fanatic advice on buil

Re: [gentoo-user] ethtool fails on adaptec

2005-03-29 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
> On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > >> I have installed a Adaptec ANA-6944A/TX fast 4 port ethernet card >> (32-bit). >> It works fine with the tulip dirver. >> If i run ethtool on these ports i always get this error, never with my >> other networdcards. >> >> vpn_bxl init.d # eth

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge wget failed - help

2005-03-29 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I am trying an emerge on wget. I get a compile error: > > In file included from ftp.c:52: > ftp.h:81: error: parse error before numeric constant > make[1]: *** [ftp.o] Error 1 Jason, wget-1.9.1-r3 builds fine on my system. Perhaps you could send the output from a few lines before this error r

Re: [gentoo-user] clock too fast

2005-03-29 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 15:07:28 +0200 Antonio Coralles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I've a strange problem: The clock of my computer ticks to fast - i get > >> an error of about 30 minutes per day ... > >> This problem just occured recently - a few days ago everthing was ok, > >> possibly b

Re: [gentoo-user] Runlevels - summary

2005-03-29 Thread Digby Tarvin
Thanks to all who contributed to the clarification of this issue. I thought I would summarise the situation as I understand it. 1. The gentoo distribution has partially moved to a named runlevel scheme. Currently there are some places where the runlevel names are used, and others where the numeri

Re: [gentoo-user] USE variables gone

2005-03-29 Thread Bill Roberts
On 08:16 Tue 29 Mar , Jorge Almeida wrote: > Quoting /etc/make.conf: > # Example: > #USE="X gtk gnome -alsa" > USE="-* gtk2" > Now, these (this) are *not* my USE variables. > Other customizations are still there, so I didn't just say "replace it" > when I meant "don't d

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge wget failed - help

2005-03-29 Thread JASON JESSO
OK.. That was my hunch and I am hunting also. I also downloaded the tar file from GNU and get the same error. GETALL is the culprit. But why am I the only one tripping on this? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wget-1.9.1 $ find /usr/include/ -name '*.h' -exec grep -l GETALL {} \; /usr/include/linux/sem.h /us

Re: [gentoo-user] Runlevel schizophrenia...

2005-03-29 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Frank Schafer wrote: > May be it is an advantage that runscript (by the way, minicom > installs /sbin/runscript too) takes care of all the variables set up > (these I never found). So, for instance, if I start my postgresql as > root the processes started are running under the

[gentoo-user] xfce4-4.2.1.1: Font size switching between local session and VNC session

2005-03-29 Thread fire-eyes
I'm using xfce4-4.2.1.1, and I sure like it. However when I use a local session, I set my fonts up the way I like them etc. When I go elsewhere, I close that session, and start up tightvnc. This calls it the same way: startxfce4. However when I connect to this session, all my fonts are changed. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xfce4-4.2.1.1: xfcedesktop arsing

2005-03-29 Thread fire-eyes
On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 10:04 +0200, Botykai Zsolt wrote: > just take a look at this init scripts: > ${HOME}/.config/xfce4/xinitrc > /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc > > If they contain the > xfdesktop& > line, then while it's should be a problem with your saved session, so then > try: > 1./ login to xfce

Re: [gentoo-user] Evolution leaving behind processes

2005-03-29 Thread fire-eyes
On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 13:53 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > evolution --force-shutdown That did exactly what I was looking for, thanks. Though I don't quite understand why that's not done when I exit the program. Especially them not dying when going to single user mode, that's really irritating. -- ge

Re: [gentoo-user] clock too fast

2005-03-29 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mardi 29 mars 2005 à 15:34 +0200, Hans-Werner Hilse a écrit : > > > Otherwise, what is in /etc/adjtime? > > > > 3019.632059 1112090516 0.00 > > 1112090516 > > LOCAL > > OK, that means that the clock is supposed to drift for 3020sek per day... > [...]. You should replace the first number in

Re: [gentoo-user] USE variables gone

2005-03-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Bill Roberts wrote: I had that problem when I upgraded to the 2005.0 profile, then opened ufed to change a USE flag. Twenty-five or so flags, gone. I reconstructed them by using "emerge avDt --newuse world" and NOT executing, but looking for the changes in USE flags marked by a

Re: [gentoo-user] USE variables gone

2005-03-29 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Bill Roberts wrote: > > > > I had that problem when I upgraded to the 2005.0 profile, then opened > > ufed to change a USE flag. Twenty-five or so flags, gone. ufed is unaware of cascading profiles so you shouldn't be using it anywa

Re: [gentoo-user] strip

2005-03-29 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Nick Rout wrote: > perhaps we need per package feature via an addition to /etc/portage > - /etc/portage/package.features with a line like: > > app-misc/foo nostrip Sounds like a good idea to me... -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [SPAM?]: [gentoo-user] Config Files Update?

2005-03-29 Thread AJ Spagnoletti
Thanks for the help I will take care of that tonight. AJ On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 08:25:19 +0100, Martin Scharrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 30 March 2005 03:33, AJ Spagnoletti wrote: > > it said that 10 config files need to be updated. Is this something that > > has to be done manually

Re: [gentoo-user] strip

2005-03-29 Thread Jason Cooper
A. Khattri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Nick Rout wrote: > > > perhaps we need per package feature via an addition to /etc/portage > > - /etc/portage/package.features with a line like: > > > > app-misc/foo nostrip > > Sounds like a good idea to me... Apparently, not ever

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Users and errors (was: help "line 6: B: command not found" FIXED, user error in config file...)

2005-03-29 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: > In any case, Dave still had to search for the typo one way or another > even with the advice; this was unavoidable. But the error message > already contained the information on where to start the search (and in > fact what was wrong, by indicating that t

Re: [gentoo-user] Ssh DSA/RSA log in

2005-03-29 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Je Lundo Marto 28 2005 14:59, Kashani skribis: > In regards to the problem. Check your permissions. .ssh/ and > authorized_keys should be owned by the local user and have permissions > of 600. If they do not, authentication won't work. I believe they a

Re: [gentoo-user] Ssh DSA/RSA log in

2005-03-29 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Je Lundo Marto 28 2005 15:35, Digby Tarvin skribis: > I thought the permissions had to be 600 also, but when I tested it out > on my gentoo box earlier today, 644 seemed ok for the keys file in > the default config: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/init.d>

Re: [gentoo-user] Ssh DSA/RSA log in

2005-03-29 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Je Lundo Marto 28 2005 06:03, Digby Tarvin skribis: > Are you sure your access permissions and ownership is correct for your > authorised_keys file? It will be ignored if it is group or world writeable, > or owned by the wrong person. Have you modified

Re: [gentoo-user] Ssh DSA/RSA log in

2005-03-29 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Je Lundo Marto 28 2005 05:18, Dirk Raeder skribis: > My fault. It seems that the sshd doesn't recognize the keys. Check your > /etc/ssh/sshd_config. It should contain these lines: > > Protocol 2 # makes sure the more recent version 2 of ssh is used > R

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge kills my computer

2005-03-29 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Je Lundo Marto 28 2005 05:53, Richard Fish skribis: > What is being emerged at the time? (emerge -uD world -v --pretend) At that time, it was emerging arts, but it happened with other emerges too. > Also, do you have any "-j?" in MAKEOPTS in /etc/make

Re: [gentoo-user] Ssh DSA/RSA log in

2005-03-29 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Je Lundo Marto 28 2005 06:26, Henrik Andersson skribis: > you may have to check file permisson of authorized_keys > > i have: > -rw--- 1 root root 602 Mar 25 18:49 authorized_keys > in root's .ssh/ > the file must only be readable by the user I

Re: [gentoo-user] SCSI tape drive doesn't work

2005-03-29 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:11:37 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > forget /dev/sgX. > > Where does /dev/st points to? Does not exists > Do you have /dev/tapes/tape0/mt? Does not exists > Or /dev/scsi/scsi0/./mt? Does not exists only rivendell dev # ls scsi/host0/b

Re: [gentoo-user] SCSI tape drive doesn't work

2005-03-29 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:11:37 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > forget /dev/sgX. > > Where does /dev/st points to? Does not exists > Do you have /dev/tapes/tape0/mt? Does not exists > Or /dev/scsi/scsi0/./mt? sorry no mt ... > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mail

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge kills my computer

2005-03-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 28 March 2005 09:51, Pupeno wrote: > PORTAGE_NICENESS is set to 19 on /etc/make.conf. > Any ideas ? yes, stop using 'niceness'. With 2.6 nice does not work anymore like it worked with prior releases. Processes that are niced to negative values might get a lot less CPu than they shoul

Re: [gentoo-user] SCSI tape drive doesn't work

2005-03-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 18:54, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:11:37 +0200 > > Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > forget /dev/sgX. > > > > Where does /dev/st points to? > > Does not exists > > > Do you have /dev/tapes/tape0/mt? > > Does not exists

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce4-4.2.1.1: Font size switching between local session and VNC session

2005-03-29 Thread John Myers
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 06:00, fire-eyes wrote: > I'm using xfce4-4.2.1.1, and I sure like it. However when I use a local > session, I set my fonts up the way I like them etc. When I go elsewhere, > I close that session, and start up tightvnc. This calls it the same way: > startxfce4. However when

Re: [gentoo-user] Which FEATURES do you use?

2005-03-29 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 00:03:18 -0500 Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | 050329 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 19:25:04 -0800 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > wrote: | >> Do you guys find out about the ones that aren't in | >make.conf.example > by looking at the source? Google isn'

Re: [gentoo-user] Any posters getting bounce messages?

2005-03-29 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 21:37:28 -0800 Peter Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Dave Nebinger wrote: | > I'm getting bounces from [EMAIL PROTECTED] I thought the | > mailing list was set up to auto-unregister folks when the bounce | > messages are returned? | | I'm getting these too. Perhaps one of

Re: [gentoo-user] Ssh DSA/RSA log in

2005-03-29 Thread Stroller
On Mar 29, 2005, at 4:51 pm, Pupeno wrote: Je Lundo Marto 28 2005 06:26, Henrik Andersson skribis: you may have to check file permisson of authorized_keys ... I don't think that's my problem: Not being paying attention, because this has always worked for me, so apologies if you've already checked:

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple simultaneous emerges

2005-03-29 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:08:16 +0200 Bastian Balthazar Bux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > And then stuff explodes, since libfoo-1 isn't there any more. The | > dep resolver won't necessarily see this as a problem either, | > assuming libfoo isn't slotted and that fnord doesn'

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple simultaneous emerges

2005-03-29 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:50:15 +0100 Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Neive question - if it is such a bad idea, shouldn't there be a check | for it? Maybe a second overlapping emerge should come up with a | "Warning: emerge already running - continue (y/N)?" | message if a lock file exists

[gentoo-user] 2.6.11 not grabbing madwifi-driver

2005-03-29 Thread Grant
My madwifi-driver config works with 2.6.7, but 2.6.11 keeps giving me this: * Starting ath0 *Bringing up ath0 * Configuration not set for ath0 - assuming dhcp * dhcp * ath0 does not exist even after re-emerging it may times with /usr/src/linux pointing to linux-2.6.1

Re: [gentoo-user] Ssh DSA/RSA log in

2005-03-29 Thread Jeff Smelser
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 09:51 am, Pupeno wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] .ssh $ ls -la > total 24 > drwxrwx--- 2 sandra users 4096 mar 29 13:01 . > drwxrwx--- 62 sandra users 4096 mar 29 12:40 .. > -rw--- 1 sandra users 600 mar 29 13:01 authorized_keys > -rw--- 1 sandra users 744 mar 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Local vs. remote startx/Gnome

2005-03-29 Thread Mark Knecht
Thanks for your help! More info below. On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 23:00:15 -0800, John Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 28 March 2005 16:48, Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 16:11:38 -0800, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > I'm not clear whether the localhost:11.0 is this machin

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Quick perl question

2005-03-29 Thread Kiawud
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 16:09:09 -0800, Jonathan Nichols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (Note: I suck at Perl.) > > I have a script. it's a simple script. > > #!/usr/bin/perl > $file = "foo.txt"; > system"wget http://clutter.pbp.net/~jnichols/foo.txt"; || die "Couldn't > get $file"; > > Currently "foo

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[gentoo-user] how to remove package for ever

2005-03-29 Thread pat
Hi all, Please is it possible to remove package by specifying it within make.conf file ??? I want to remove balckdown/ibm JDKs. Thanks Pat -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Ssh DSA/RSA log in

2005-03-29 Thread Digby Tarvin
It won't work if your '.ssh' directory is group writeable. (because then anyone in group 'users' could replace files and obtain your uid...) Regards, DigbyT > I don't think that's my problem: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] .ssh $ ls -la > total 24 > drwxrwx--- 2 sandra users 4096 mar 29 13:01 . ---

[gentoo-user] Portage wants to emerge hardened-sources

2005-03-29 Thread Grant
Portage wants to emerge hardened-sources via 'emerge -Du world' but I use hardened-dev-sources and that's what is in the world file. Why does it want to emerge hardened-sources? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] how to remove package for ever

2005-03-29 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mardi 29 mars 2005 à 19:41 +0200, pat a écrit : > Hi all, > > Please is it possible to remove package by specifying it within make.conf file > ??? I want to remove balckdown/ibm JDKs. Simply emerge unmerge package-name, and the package will be gone. If you want to prevent "accidental" emergin

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage wants to emerge hardened-sources

2005-03-29 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Grant wrote: > Portage wants to emerge hardened-sources via 'emerge -Du world' but I > use hardened-dev-sources and that's what is in the world file. Why > does it want to emerge hardened-sources? Maybe your kernel is no longer marked as a dev- kernel: # emerge -pv hardened

Re: [gentoo-user] how to remove package for ever

2005-03-29 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, pat wrote: > Please is it possible to remove package by specifying it within make.conf file > ??? I want to remove balckdown/ibm JDKs. So remove the package(s) and add -java to the USE flag in /etc/make.conf. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] strip

2005-03-29 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Jason Cooper wrote: > Apparently, not everyone agrees: > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51023 > > Though, I think USE flags were originally supposed to be global-only as > well... Thank god they're not - otherwise I wouldn't be using Gentoo... -- -- gentoo-user@

Re: [gentoo-user] Ssh DSA/RSA log in

2005-03-29 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Pupeno wrote: > Even if id_dsa.pub and authorized_keys is group and world readable, it doesn't > work. On the servers I used key auth with the .ssh folder is 0700 (i.e. drwx--) while the authorized_keys file is 0644 (rw-r--r--). -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing li

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Users and errors (was: help "line 6: B: command not found" FIXED, user error in config file...)

2005-03-29 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 12:36, Holly Bostick wrote: > I feel that there's some fundamental issue at work when I see so many > posts (not only here, on all kinds of Linux lists/forums), where the > answer, or a major clue to the answer, is in the original error > message, yet users are completely o

[gentoo-user] IMAP and procmail - a simple question...

2005-03-29 Thread Steve
I'm using the latest dovecot IMAP server to successfully access my mail remotely with Thunderbird... and I've implemented system-wide spamassassin using a procmail in /etc/procmail - all this works fine. --my /etc/procmailrc-- DEFAULT=$HOME/.maildir/ SHELL=/bin/sh MAILDIR=$HOME/.maildir :0fw * <

Re: [gentoo-user] a closet server

2005-03-29 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Grant wrote: > Where do you guys go when you want a barebones server for the closet? > I've built machines before but it seems like it might make more sense > to buy one these days. I often have old machines given to me or find companies throwing out perfectly functioning old

Re: [gentoo-user] how to remove package for ever

2005-03-29 Thread brettholcomb
Emerge -C should do it - check man emerge. > > From: "pat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/03/29 Tue PM 05:41:34 GMT > To: "Gentoo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [gentoo-user] how to remove package for ever > > Hi all, > > Please is it possible to remove package by specifying it within make.c

Re: [gentoo-user] a closet server

2005-03-29 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Jerry McBride wrote: > The name of the product? XBOX by microsoft. About the only thing they make > right and price right and runs gentoo beautifully. Im assuming this is *after* a few mods right? Also does this still work for XBoxes with firmware > 1.6? (Im also on the

Re: [gentoo-user] [VERY OT] A Windows shell Im creating

2005-03-29 Thread Antoine
Ivan Yosifov wrote: I asume you know M$ is dropping support for non-.NET VB... Could someone tell me exactly what this means? I am trying to convert the boss to Java and if this was something serious then I might have a better shot. Does it mean that non .NET will not run properly on their forth

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage wants to emerge hardened-sources

2005-03-29 Thread Grant
> > Portage wants to emerge hardened-sources via 'emerge -Du world' but I > > use hardened-dev-sources and that's what is in the world file. Why > > does it want to emerge hardened-sources? > > Maybe your kernel is no longer marked as a dev- kernel: > > # emerge -pv hardened-sources > > These a

[gentoo-user] Re: Ssh DSA/RSA log in

2005-03-29 Thread Tom Van Doorsselaere
Looks like everything is configured fine, for SSHD that is. Unfortunately PAM also comes into the game. I had a similar error some time ago. If I'm not mistaken, I had to adjust /etc/pam.d/sshd to something like this: -/etc/pam.d/sshd--- accountrequired pam_stack

Re: [gentoo-user] Ssh DSA/RSA log in

2005-03-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 12:01:34 -0500 (EST), A. Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Pupeno wrote: > > > Even if id_dsa.pub and authorized_keys is group and world readable, it > > doesn't > > work. > > On the servers I used key auth with the .ssh folder is 0700 (i.e. > drwx

[gentoo-user] again gdeslets please help

2005-03-29 Thread Msuro Venanzi
hi all i hardly try to run gdesklets on my gentoo whit xfce4 i have emerged all the packages and now i have the gdesklets in the menubar. if i try to run gdesklets start /..path_to_some_display.info i get this: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/gdesklets", line 10, in ? f

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce4-4.2.1.1: Font size switching between local session and VNC session

2005-03-29 Thread fire-eyes
On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 09:05 -0800, John Myers wrote: > I bet it has something to do with the fact that the tightvnc X server doesn't > know the physical size of your monitor. Fonts of a particular 'point size' > should theoretically be the same physical size, no matter what hardware you > use to

Re: [gentoo-user] a closet server

2005-03-29 Thread Grant
> > Where do you guys go when you want a barebones server for the closet? > > I've built machines before but it seems like it might make more sense > > to buy one these days. > > I often have old machines given to me or find companies throwing out > perfectly functioning old machines - clean them

Re: [gentoo-user] IMAP and procmail - a simple question...

2005-03-29 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Steve wrote: > -- ~/.procmailrc -- > DEFAULT=$HOME/.maildir/ > SHELL=/bin/sh > MAILDIR=$HOME/.maildir > > :0: > * ^Subject:.*aardvark > Aardvark > -- > > This creates a file called ~/.maildir/Aardvark which contains the text > of the message - which isn't what I wanted at all.

[gentoo-user] emerge kde-base/arts doesn't see qt

2005-03-29 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
I don't need kde, so I never emerged kde. However, portage tries to emerge kde-base/arts when I emerge world : $ emerge -pvtuD world These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [nomerge ] x11-plugins/gaim-encryption-2.32-r1 -debug [n

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set compile flags on cvs compile

2005-03-29 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Harry Putnam wrote: > I want to compile cvs to allow root commits. Last time I checked > there was a compile flag for that. If not it can be done by editing a > certain file in the src. > > I'm aware of the reason why root commit is not ordinarily allowed but > none of it ap

Re: [gentoo-user] IMAP and procmail - a simple question...

2005-03-29 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 19:11:41 +0100 Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -- ~/.procmailrc -- > DEFAULT=$HOME/.maildir/ > SHELL=/bin/sh > MAILDIR=$HOME/.maildir > > :0: > * ^Subject:.*aardvark > Aardvark > -- > > This creates a file called ~/.maildir/Aardvark which contains the text > of the m

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge kde-base/arts doesn't see qt

2005-03-29 Thread Luigi Pinna
Alle 20:27, martedì 29 marzo 2005, Frédéric Grosshans ha scritto: > checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.3) (library qt-mt) > not found. Please check your installation! > For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log. > Make sure that you have compiled Qt with thre

Re: [gentoo-user] ethtool fails on adaptec

2005-03-29 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > > Can you run 'lspci' and show output? (If you dont have lspci then run > > "emerge pciutils"). > :11:04.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip > 21140 [FasterNet] (rev 22) > :11:05.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equi

Re: [gentoo-user] IMAP and procmail - a simple question...

2005-03-29 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le mar mars à 20:11:41 Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit notamment: > I'm using the latest dovecot IMAP server to successfully access my > mail remotely with Thunderbird... and I've implemented system-wide > spamassassin using a procmail in /etc/procmail - all this works fine. > > --my /etc/procma

Re: [gentoo-user] a closet server

2005-03-29 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:41:48 -0800 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I obviously don't know anything about this, but I remember reading | about how Gentoo is going in the direction of allowing you to chain | the processing power of a bunch of machines together. Is that | distributed computing? A

Re: [gentoo-user] IMAP and procmail - a simple question...

2005-03-29 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 19:11 +0100, Steve wrote: > I'm using the latest dovecot IMAP server to successfully access my mail > remotely with Thunderbird... and I've implemented system-wide > spamassassin using a procmail in /etc/procmail - all this works fine. > > --my /etc/procmailrc-- > DEFAULT=$

Re: [gentoo-user] [VERY OT] A Windows shell Im creating

2005-03-29 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Antoine wrote: > Ivan Yosifov wrote: > > I asume you know M$ is dropping support for non-.NET VB... > > Could someone tell me exactly what this means? I am trying to convert > the boss to Java and if this was something serious then I might have a > better shot. Does it mean th

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage wants to emerge hardened-sources

2005-03-29 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Grant wrote: > That's weird. I get this from 'emerge -pDu world': > > [ebuild NS ] sys-kernel/hardened-sources-2.4.28-r5 > > I have hardened-dev-sources in my world file. Exactly - so what Im suggesting is that maybe the current kernel in hardened-dev-sources has moved ca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ssh DSA/RSA log in

2005-03-29 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Tom Van Doorsselaere wrote: > Looks like everything is configured fine, for SSHD that is. > Unfortunately PAM also comes into the game. > > I had a similar error some time ago. If I'm not mistaken, I had to > adjust /etc/pam.d/sshd to something like this: > > -/etc

Re: [gentoo-user] a closet server

2005-03-29 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Grant wrote: > > > Where do you guys go when you want a barebones server for the closet? > > > I've built machines before but it seems like it might make more sense > > > to buy one these days. > > > > I often have old machines given to me or find companies throwing out > > pe

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