Re: [gentoo-user] Re: More on fbuffer and grub setup

2005-03-30 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 30. März 2005 09:27 schrieb ext Nick Rout: does /boot contain a recursive link to itself? It should No, I don't see any reason for this. I don't have such a link and everything is working fine. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408

[gentoo-user] Why do I need blackdown-jdk?

2005-03-30 Thread Robert S
I have a gentoo amd64 system with a number of servers running and KDE. I'd like to get rid of blackdown-jdk to free up disk space, and I don't use it. When I do $ equery depends blackdown-jdk I get: [ Searching for packages depending on blackdown-jdk... ] $ (ie. nothing depends on it). If I

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation Link invisible in Firefox

2005-03-30 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 19:47:53 +1200 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I wanted to donate to gentoo, there has been some recent stuff on the | home page. In firefox the link to the paypal donation page does not | show up, in konqueror it does. Screenshots: | |

Re: [gentoo-user] Why do I need blackdown-jdk?

2005-03-30 Thread Jad Naous
You'd have to set -java. But if some packages (java development progs, and java progs that need the java runtime environment) require it, it's going to be installed. I'm not sure if javascript needs the jre as well... Jad. On March 30, 2005 03:01 am, Robert S wrote: I have a gentoo amd64

Re: [gentoo-user] Why do I need blackdown-jdk?

2005-03-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 13:30:10 +1000 (EST), Robert S wrote: When I do $ equery depends blackdown-jdk I get: [ Searching for packages depending on blackdown-jdk... ] $ (ie. nothing depends on it). If I unmerge it and do revdep-rebuild it doesn't reinstall it, but if I do emerge world -Du, it

Re: [gentoo-user] Why do I need blackdown-jdk?

2005-03-30 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:01:12 +1000 Robert S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a gentoo amd64 system with a number of servers running and KDE. I'd like to get rid of blackdown-jdk to free up disk space, and I don't use it. When I do $ equery depends blackdown-jdk I get: [ Searching for

Re: [gentoo-user] More on fbuffer and grub setup

2005-03-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 07:58:40 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: If you get a GRUB command line but no selection menu, you can think GRUB *is installed* on the MBR but just doesn't know your configuration. Indeed. Getting a grub command line is definitely not right for what you describe...it means

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg doesn't start with glx

2005-03-30 Thread renna
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 23:00, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 22:37:08 +0200, renna wrote: the other day i recompiled the kernel, with gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.11-r4. i then recompiled nvidia-kernel-1.0.7167-r1 with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 because the unmasked 1.0.6629-r1 version

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation Link invisible in Firefox

2005-03-30 Thread Spider
On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 19:47 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: I wanted to donate to gentoo, there has been some recent stuff on the home page. In firefox the link to the paypal donation page does not show up, in konqueror it does. Screenshots: http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~nickr/firefox-donate.png

Re: [gentoo-user] Why do I need blackdown-jdk?

2005-03-30 Thread Robert S
Here's what I get: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [nomerge ] net-www/netscape-flash-7.0.25 +gtk [nomerge ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs-1.2-r7 [nomerge ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs-1.2.2-r2 [ebuild N]app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-glibc-1000 0

Re: [gentoo-user] Why do I need blackdown-jdk?

2005-03-30 Thread Scott Taylor
On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 18:47 +1000, Robert S wrote: Here's what I get: [nomerge ] sys-libs/db-4.1.25_p1-r4 -bootstrap -doc +java -nocxx +tcltk [ebuild N] dev-java/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.01-r2 -doc -mozilla 0 kB (might be difficult to view indents on newsreader).

Re: [gentoo-user] Why do I need blackdown-jdk?

2005-03-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:47:15 +1000, Robert S wrote: [nomerge ] sys-libs/db-4.1.25_p1-r4 -bootstrap -doc +java -nocxx +tcltk [ebuild N] dev-java/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.01-r2 -doc -mozilla 0 kB There's the culprit, sys-libs/db was merged with +java. Assuming you

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg doesn't start with glx

2005-03-30 Thread logic
You will need to put: Option AllowGLXWithComposite true in the xorg.conf in the screen section if your are using composite On 10:28 Wed 30 Mar , renna wrote: On Tuesday 29 March 2005 23:00, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 22:37:08 +0200, renna wrote: the other day i

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation Link invisible in Firefox

2005-03-30 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 10:41 +0200, Spider wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 19:47 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: I wanted to donate to gentoo, there has been some recent stuff on the home page. In firefox the link to the paypal donation page does not show up, in konqueror it does. Screenshots:

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

2005-03-30 Thread Steve
Nick Rout wrote: What you are doing wrong is that you are not reading the procmail documentation :) To deliver to a maildir you need to add a / at the end of the directory name like: :0: * ^Subject:.*aardvark Aardvark/ Otherwise it does the standard deliver to mbox. In one! Thanks (everyone) --

Re: [gentoo-user] error compiling avifile

2005-03-30 Thread Jan Han Xie
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 16:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I try emerge -uD world, the compilation of avifile abort whith this message: /usr/X11R6/lib/libavcodec.so: undefined reference to `a52_syncinfo' Any idea? Thanks! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list try to re-emerge a52dec

Re: [gentoo-user] Why do I need blackdown-jdk?

2005-03-30 Thread Robert S
No, thats not a long chain. sys-libs/db has the java use flag in effect. If you don't want java, adding a -java to the use flags in your make.conf is something you should consider, since that use flag suggests to the ebuilds that you'd like to use (and therefore install) java. If I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ftp server

2005-03-30 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 09:30:31PM -0600, Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote: advantage of sftp. Windows users can use PuTTy (psftp). Or winscp: http://winscp.net/eng/docs/screenshots -- Bjrn Michaelsen pub 1024D/C9E5A256 2003-01-21 Bjrn Michaelsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = D649 8C78

Re: [gentoo-user] linking dir

2005-03-30 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 02:56:38AM +, timothy johnson wrote: is there a way to link a dir to another dir without it moving to that location on the filesystem. I was chrooting a user to lock them into a dir, but I still wanted them to have access to this one dir that sits outside the

Re: [gentoo-user] linking dir

2005-03-30 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 02:56:38AM +, timothy johnson wrote: is there a way to link a dir to another dir without it moving to that location on the filesystem. I was chrooting a user to lock them into a dir, but I still wanted them to have access to this one dir that

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

2005-03-30 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 10:39 +0100, Steve wrote: Nick Rout wrote: What you are doing wrong is that you are not reading the procmail documentation :) To deliver to a maildir you need to add a / at the end of the directory name like: :0: * ^Subject:.*aardvark Aardvark/ Otherwise it

[gentoo-user] Poll? What applications do you want to see?

2005-03-30 Thread Spider
Okay, I'm working on the Chinstrap [1] repository for 2005.0 packages, and I've been mulling over the current set of packages that I'm building. To get a bit more scope: The builds cater to people who want to do fast, somewhat default installations. Ie, the same people who use stage3+GRP cd

Re: [gentoo-user] a closet server

2005-03-30 Thread Joey
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:53:49 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Sounds pretty rad. Has anyone experimented with a bunch of old | clunkers in a cluster? Yes. Theres an excellent Gentoo guide on that: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openmosix-howto.xml

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

2005-03-30 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le mar mars à 11:39:08 Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit notamment: Nick Rout wrote: What you are doing wrong is that you are not reading the procmail documentation :) To deliver to a maildir you need to add a / at the end of the directory name like: :0: * ^Subject:.*aardvark Aardvark/

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

2005-03-30 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, I'm very late to answer in this thread and i must admit that I didn't read every post so far. But it seems to me everything goes the wrong way... On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 15:55:13 -0800 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm now logged on successfully to a remote machine. I can run X apps

[gentoo-user] how to install packages-pentium4-2005.0.iso

2005-03-30 Thread Liang Qin
sir, i've just installed the live-universal-cd how to install the packages-pentium4-2005.0.iso thanks very much -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] error compiling avifile

2005-03-30 Thread gvlp
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 05:45:52PM +0800, Jan Han Xie wrote: On Wednesday 30 March 2005 16:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I try emerge -uD world, the compilation of avifile abort whith this message: /usr/X11R6/lib/libavcodec.so: undefined reference to `a52_syncinfo' Any idea? Thanks!

Re: [gentoo-user] suggestions: buying a new computer

2005-03-30 Thread Bill Roberts
On 17:34 Tue 29 Mar , daniel wrote: I buy a new computer every 5 years or so. My current machine is an Athlon800 and it continues to perform well because I was careful about my purchasing back in 2000 and I'd like to repeat that this time around. To that end, I'm looking for

Re: [gentoo-user] strip

2005-03-30 Thread Aaron Walker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

RE: [gentoo-user] Config Files Update?

2005-03-30 Thread Dave Nebinger
There is a program called 'etc-update' this will show you the changes that will be required to update your files in /etc and subdirs, but I find it doesn't do all the updates.. Really? I use etc-update all the time but was running under the assumption that it was supposed to handle all of the

[gentoo-user] Supermount problems

2005-03-30 Thread Jad Naous
Hi, I've been using linux on my laptop for a year, and installed gentoo a month ago. Since I have a 7 gig partition for gentoo, i decided to move /tmp/portage to my external hardrive, and /root/.ccache as well. And write a script that monitors when the external hard drive is attached and fixes

Re: [gentoo-user] how to install packages-pentium4-2005.0.iso

2005-03-30 Thread Jad Naous
go to www.gentoo.org and click on installation handbook... On March 30, 2005 06:37 am, Liang Qin wrote: sir, i've just installed the live-universal-cd how to install the packages-pentium4-2005.0.iso thanks very much -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

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

2005-03-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Nicolas Bailey wrote: I think you are being a little unfair in your judgement. Thinking to look in /etc/init.d, etc. relies on at least some knowledge that not every Gentoo user will have (esp. the newer variety). The same is true in the case above. Either you didn't know or didn't immediately

RE: [gentoo-user] cyrus-sasl-2.1.20 error

2005-03-30 Thread Dave Nebinger
I am trying to compile cyrus-sasl and during configure i got the error that build options where changed in CFLAGS even though they were not. the recommended at the end of the script was to make distclean or rm config.cache and try again so i did that and ran ./configure with options

Re: [gentoo-user] Restricted instant messaging

2005-03-30 Thread Michael Sullivan
Or write the server and clients yourself. You could use the gaim source code as a guide... On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 20:08 -0800, Peter Gordon wrote: Grant wrote: Does anyone know of an instant messaging client that can be set up to allow communication with only one other specific account?

Re: [gentoo-user] suggestions: buying a new computer

2005-03-30 Thread Digby Tarvin
I can certainly sympathise with the sentiments about SCSI drives expressed in this thread. From my personal experience, I have been supporting a professional broadcast playout system used at a number of sites around the world, for more than a decade now. The oldest of these systems were installed

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

2005-03-30 Thread Dave Nebinger
We can't make Linux better and ready for the desktop-- which does *not* mean we have to do everything via a GUI, dagnabit; people can certainly use the command-line comfortably *if they know how*-- unless we identify where people are falling over it and how to remove the obstacles to their

Re: [gentoo-user] suggestions: buying a new computer

2005-03-30 Thread daniel
On March 29, 2005 11:03 pm, Peter Gordon wrote: I would recommend buying the best card you can find which uses a Radeon 9200 or Radeon 9250 chip. You should *not* get the SE or LE versions if you can afford it, since those are stripped-down versions of the 9200 and 9250 chips with half the

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg doesn't start with glx

2005-03-30 Thread renna
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 11:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You will need to put: Option AllowGLXWithComposite true in the xorg.conf in the screen section if your are using composite On 10:28 Wed 30 Mar , renna wrote: On Tuesday 29 March 2005 23:00, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 29

Re: [gentoo-user] suggestions: buying a new computer

2005-03-30 Thread Digby Tarvin
On the subject of noisy drives... One thing that I have had on my Linux wish list for some time is the ability to make use of the 'spin up/down' commands supported by all SCSI drives that I know of. Does anyone know of any work being done on that? It would probably be useful on laptops with IDE

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

2005-03-30 Thread Dave V
*sigh* I guess I just have to get over the fact that such a simple oversight has marked me a typical windows user, but seeing as how no one wants to leave my name out of this, I might as well try to respond constructively. As has been said, some people, like myself, are just a little newer to

[gentoo-user] '[Masked]' packages - another newbie question...

2005-03-30 Thread Digby Tarvin
This is something which probably should be in a FAQ, but I couldn't find any mention of 'Masked' in the searchable documentation. Can someone explain (or point me to a document which explains) exactly what the implications of the 'Masked' annotation in entries like 1.penemunde:/home/digbyt

Re: [gentoo-user] Why do I need blackdown-jdk?

2005-03-30 Thread Niklas Herder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert S wrote: I have a gentoo amd64 system with a number of servers running and KDE. I'd like to get rid of blackdown-jdk to free up disk space, and I don't use it. When I do $ equery depends blackdown-jdk I get: [ Searching for packages

RE: [gentoo-user] '[Masked]' packages - another newbie question...

2005-03-30 Thread Dave Nebinger
Can someone explain (or point me to a document which explains) exactly what the implications of the 'Masked' annotation... Masked means, as you assumed, that it is not considered 'production ready' under gentoo. Could mean that it hasn't been fully tested yet, could mean that there are issues

Re: [gentoo-user] Why do I need blackdown-jdk?

2005-03-30 Thread Boudewijn Ector
Niklas Herder wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert S wrote: I have a gentoo amd64 system with a number of servers running and KDE. I'd like to get rid of blackdown-jdk to free up disk space, and I don't use it. When I do $ equery depends blackdown-jdk I get: [ Searching

Re: [gentoo-user] Why do I need blackdown-jdk?

2005-03-30 Thread Ivan Yosifov
I'm not sure if javascript needs the jre as well... It does not. On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 03:13 -0500, Jad Naous wrote: You'd have to set -java. But if some packages (java development progs, and java progs that need the java runtime environment) require it, it's going to be installed. I'm not

[gentoo-user] Re: local lan web server

2005-03-30 Thread Harry Putnam
John Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tuesday 29 March 2005 17:51, A. Khattri wrote: And put your files in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/ Actually, if you're going to use that location, you'll want to set the 'no-htdocs' USE-flag, but only *after* emerging apache the first time. Otherwise,

[gentoo-user] Re: More on fbuffer and grub setup

2005-03-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] If you get a GRUB command line but no selection menu, you can think GRUB *is installed* on the MBR but just doesn't know your configuration. Indeed. Getting a grub command line is definitely not right for what you describe...it means it doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Why do I need blackdown-jdk?

2005-03-30 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 19:48:30 +1000 Robert S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I uninstall blackdown-jdk and do: $ USE=-java emerge -pvDu world --newuse I get: These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] sys-libs/db-4.1.25_p1-r4

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Users and errors

2005-03-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Dave Nebinger wrote: We can't make Linux better and ready for the desktop-- which does *not* mean we have to do everything via a GUI, dagnabit; people can certainly use the command-line comfortably *if they know how*-- unless we identify where people are falling over it and how to remove the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Users and errors

2005-03-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Dave V wrote: *sigh* I guess I just have to get over the fact that such a simple oversight has marked me a typical windows user, but seeing as how no one wants to leave my name out of this, I might as well try to respond constructively. As has been said, some people, like myself, are just a

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

2005-03-30 Thread Dave V
Much of this is already possible actually. There is certainly nothing that can't be automated or configured in gentoo with effort. However, distros like Mandrake already hide startup output via splash screen and allow configuration of just about everything through KDE and their own tools. I'm

[gentoo-user] emerge looking for wrong libs.

2005-03-30 Thread Harry Putnam
I must be making the same dumb mistake over and over. Awhile back I had a problem where emerge was looking for libstdc++.la under i386 architecture and I had i686 installed. I went thru the uupdate world successfully and have since run env-update etc-update. I've emerged a few this since with no

Re: [gentoo-user] '[Masked]' packages - another newbie question...

2005-03-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 09:09:26 -0500, Dave Nebinger wrote: Can someone explain (or point me to a document which explains) exactly what the implications of the 'Masked' annotation... Masked means, as you assumed, that it is not considered 'production ready' under gentoo. Could mean that it

Re: [gentoo-user] suggestions: buying a new computer

2005-03-30 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 07:27:49 -0500 Bill Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | The only thing they have missed, IMHO, are Western Digital's SATA | drives. I have two of their 10,000 rpm Raptors running on a RAID0, my | machine screams. These are Western Digital's effort to break into the |

Re: [gentoo-user] a closet server

2005-03-30 Thread Grant
| Sounds pretty rad. Has anyone experimented with a bunch of old | clunkers in a cluster? Yes. Theres an excellent Gentoo guide on that: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openmosix-howto.xml http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/diskless-howto.xml Yes. It'll cost you less buying a second hand

[gentoo-user] Rotating cron files

2005-03-30 Thread v . demartino2
I connected to my office LAN a postgresql server with the latest linux gentoo. By means of crontab each working day at 3am the following crono script - backing up my complete DB and the /etc dir to a network share - is executed: #crono /usr/bin/vacuumdb /usr/bin/pg_dump -C -O -Fc -Upostgres

Re: [gentoo-user] Best Intrusion Detection System

2005-03-30 Thread Shawn Singh
I apologize, but I have gotten somewhat out of the loop, but in answer to your question I think the other gentleman gave a great synopsis of a difference b/w Snort and AIDE. I would like to make a suggestion. I have had some experience working with a security manager who used Snort, and it is a

[gentoo-user] System duplication...

2005-03-30 Thread Digby Tarvin
I have two servers sitting side by side, one intended to be a hot standby to the other... Does anyone have any ideas or experience regarding ways to keep the backup in sync with the main? The obvious first thought would be to rsync the main system filesystems to the standby. The two systems

[gentoo-user] can't access virtual terminals

2005-03-30 Thread Steven Knight
Hi, I can't access the virtual terminals using the standard Ctrl-Alt-F[1-6] keys. I haven't made any changes to /etc/inittab ( which is where these are defined, right ? ) and virtual terminal support is built into my kernel. I tried using the Failsafe Terminal session in case there was a

Re: [gentoo-user] Rotating cron files

2005-03-30 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 17:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #crono /usr/bin/vacuumdb /usr/bin/pg_dump -C -O -Fc -Upostgres --file=/root/pg_dump/curve.tar.gz curve tar -cz /etc /root/pg_dump/etc.tar.gz Therefore each working day night curve.tar.gz is overwritten as well as etc.tar.gz. I

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] Users and errors

2005-03-30 Thread Dave Nebinger
Everyone assumes that the masses must have a GUI, because the command-line is too scary in some way. But if the command-line was intuitively understandable, *would these users still be scared of it*? Would they continue to avoid Linux, just because text is not as pretty as icons, even when

Re: [gentoo-user] Rotating cron files

2005-03-30 Thread Kashani
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I connected to my office LAN a postgresql server with the latest linux gentoo. By means of crontab each working day at 3am the following crono script - backing up my complete DB and the /etc dir to a network share - is executed: I would like instead to enumerate the

RE: [gentoo-user] Rotating cron files

2005-03-30 Thread Dave Nebinger
I would like instead to enumerate the two files (starting from monday = 1, till friday=5) in order to keep a week backup, such as for instance: curve.1.tar.gz , curve.2.tar.gz, .. curve.5. tar.gz and the same for etc How can I obtain this result with crontab? Use date +%u to get the day

Re: [gentoo-user] System duplication...

2005-03-30 Thread Brian Gregorcy
You should take a look at radmind. http://www.radmind.org I have been using it for over a year now, it would work great for that. Brian Gregorcy Digby Tarvin wrote: I have two servers sitting side by side, one intended to be a hot standby to the other... Does anyone have any ideas or

Re: [gentoo-user] Rotating cron files

2005-03-30 Thread Craig Duncan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I connected to my office LAN a postgresql server with the latest linux gentoo. By means of crontab each working day at 3am the following crono script - backing up my complete DB and the /etc dir to a network share - is executed: #crono /usr/bin/vacuumdb

[gentoo-user] Firefox won't start

2005-03-30 Thread Grant
I was running 'emerge -Du world' when my Firefox windows closed and attempts to start it again yielded this: system4 ~ # firefox No running windows found INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Expected a version 5! Version = 4 System error?:: No such file or directory firefox-bin exited with non-zero

Re: [gentoo-user] suggestions: buying a new computer

2005-03-30 Thread daniel
On March 29, 2005 11:03 pm, Peter Gordon wrote: I would recommend buying the best card you can find which uses a Radeon 9200 or Radeon 9250 chip. You should *not* get the SE or LE versions if you can afford it, since those are stripped-down versions of the 9200 and 9250 chips with half the

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

2005-03-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, On Tuesday 29 March 2005 23:48, James Hiscock wrote: and if he wants to use java? There are enough reasons, for java and against bl/ibm. And it is very annoying, that for example ooo needs bl-java. Very annoying. Sickening annoying. OOO only depends on =virtual/jre-1.4.1 (at

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox won't start

2005-03-30 Thread Grant
I was running 'emerge -Du world' when my Firefox windows closed and attempts to start it again yielded this: system4 ~ # firefox No running windows found INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Expected a version 5! Version = 4 System error?:: No such file or directory firefox-bin exited with

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

2005-03-30 Thread Grant
If you look at the new kernel guide, http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-kernel.xml, you'll notice that there's some weird stuff going on with the reference to kernel names. Section 2 references gentoo-dev-sources, but then if you read the whole thing it refers to

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Users and errors

2005-03-30 Thread Dave V
*sigh* I guess I just have to get over the fact that such a simple oversight has marked me a typical windows user, but seeing as how no one wants to leave my name out of this, I might as well try to respond constructively. As has been said, some people, like myself, are just a little

Re: [gentoo-user] can't access virtual terminals

2005-03-30 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 10:50 -0500, Steven Knight wrote: Hi, I can't access the virtual terminals using the standard Ctrl-Alt-F[1-6] keys. I haven't made any changes to /etc/inittab ( which is where these are defined, right ? ) and virtual terminal support is built into my kernel. I

[gentoo-user] smartcl: probing individual drives in a 100% hardware raid array?

2005-03-30 Thread fire-eyes
I'm using smartctl which lets me access S.M.A.R.T. data. I'm also using 100% hardware raid. So the system sees each array as a single disk, even though it's several disks. I'd like to probe each individual disk, however right now I can only probe an individual array. How might I do this? --

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

2005-03-30 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Je Mardo Marto 29 2005 14:17, Jeff Smelser skribis: 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 ..

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

2005-03-30 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Je Mardo Marto 29 2005 15:02, A. Khattri skribis: In my case, everything just worked, out of the box, I didn't need to mess with configs for sshd or PAM. I didn't need to mess with PAM to make it work in my other box, so I don't think I should need

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: More on fbuffer and grub setup

2005-03-30 Thread Richard Fish
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Mittwoch, 30. März 2005 09:27 schrieb ext Nick Rout: does /boot contain a recursive link to itself? It should No, I don't see any reason for this. I don't have such a link and everything is working fine. Indeed, and this link causes grub install to fail on

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

2005-03-30 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Je Mardo Marto 29 2005 15:25, Mark Knecht skribis: I haven't followed this thread, but yesterday I found this site withnice instructions for setting up shared keys and auto login. I've set it up on 5 machines now. Seems to be working nicely. They

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge kills my computer

2005-03-30 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Je Mardo Marto 29 2005 13:59, Volker Armin Hemmann skribis: 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

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge looking for wrong libs.

2005-03-30 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 17:19, Harry Putnam wrote: [...] fix_libtool_files.sh 3.3.4 Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.12-rc1, Compiled #7 Sun Mar 20 08:26:19 CET 2005 One 1.53GHz AMD Athlon XP Processor, 2.5GB RAM, 3022.84 Bogomips Total macula -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] suggestions: buying a new computer

2005-03-30 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mercredi 30 mars 2005 à 14:45 +0100, Digby Tarvin a écrit : On the subject of noisy drives... One thing that I have had on my Linux wish list for some time is the ability to make use of the 'spin up/down' commands supported by all SCSI drives that I know of. Does anyone know of any work

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

2005-03-30 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Je Mardo Marto 29 2005 14:09, Stroller skribis: Not being paying attention, because this has always worked for me, so apologies if you've already checked: $ ls -l /etc/ssh/sshd_config -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2747 Jul 27 2004

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

2005-03-30 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Je Mardo Marto 29 2005 14:45, Digby Tarvin skribis: It won't work if your '.ssh' directory is group writeable. (because then anyone in group 'users' could replace files and obtain your uid...) Changed that, and still, doesn't work: [EMAIL

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

2005-03-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 13:23:01 +0200, Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm very late to answer in this thread and i must admit that I didn't read every post so far. But it seems to me everything goes the wrong way... On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 15:55:13 -0800 Mark Knecht [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox won't start

2005-03-30 Thread Grant
I was running 'emerge -Du world' when my Firefox windows closed and attempts to start it again yielded this: system4 ~ # firefox No running windows found INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Expected a version 5! Version = 4 System error?:: No such file or directory firefox-bin exited

Re: [gentoo-user] suggestions: buying a new computer

2005-03-30 Thread Digby Tarvin
That certainly looks relevent - thanks for pointing it out. Regards, DigbyT On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 07:21:20PM +0200, Frédéric Grosshans wrote: Le mercredi 30 mars 2005 à 14:45 +0100, Digby Tarvin a écrit : On the subject of noisy drives... One thing that I have had on my Linux wish

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox won't start

2005-03-30 Thread Grant
I was running 'emerge -Du world' when my Firefox windows closed and attempts to start it again yielded this: system4 ~ # firefox No running windows found INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Expected a version 5! Version = 4 System error?:: No such file or directory

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox won't start

2005-03-30 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 20:41, Grant wrote: I was running 'emerge -Du world' when my Firefox windows closed and attempts to start it again yielded this: system4 ~ # firefox No running windows found INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Expected a version 5! Version = 4 System

Re: [gentoo-user] smartcl: probing individual drives in a 100% hardware raid array?

2005-03-30 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, fire-eyes wrote: I'm using smartctl which lets me access S.M.A.R.T. data. I'm also using 100% hardware raid. So the system sees each array as a single disk, even though it's several disks. I'd like to probe each individual disk, however right now I can only probe an

RE: [gentoo-user] apache-1.3.33 with mod_perl and mod_php

2005-03-30 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, MOLINA BRAVO FELIPE DE JESUS wrote: But with this form the modules are installed as dinamic ... and static ... how??? Why do you need static modules? There's no difference in functionality when using dynamic modules. I would be loathe to make mod_perl static - it makes

Re: [gentoo-user] suggestions: buying a new computer

2005-03-30 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Nicolas Bailey wrote: I think you missed the point. It's loud, loss of hearing, thus the pardon? Honestly, I have to thank you, though--jokes are all the funnier when somebody isn't thinking about them and misses it completely. ;) But seriously, most of the noise is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox won't start

2005-03-30 Thread Grant
I was running 'emerge -Du world' when my Firefox windows closed and attempts to start it again yielded this: system4 ~ # firefox No running windows found INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Expected a version 5! Version = 4 System error?:: No such file or directory

Re: [gentoo-user] suggestions: buying a new computer

2005-03-30 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Colin wrote: SATA-2 calls for Native Command Queuing, if both the disk and controller support it. This lets the drive perform reads/writes not in the order received, but in the order that will get them done the fastest. Preliminary tests with prototype technology show

Re: [gentoo-user] suggestions: buying a new computer

2005-03-30 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Digby Tarvin wrote: Or perhaps a CF or other solid state non-volatile storage could be used to store changes for a journaled /var filesystem. BZZZT! CF cards have a finite writing life - I imagine /var on a CF would wear out the card pretty quickly :-) -- --

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg doesn't start with glx

2005-03-30 Thread Christoph Gysin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You will need to put: Option AllowGLXWithComposite true in the xorg.conf in the screen section if your are using composite AFAIK this is a nvidia specific driver option, an can only be used under the Device section with Driver nvidia. Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM

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

2005-03-30 Thread Ian K
Michael Sullivan wrote: While we're on the subject of VB let me ask a question. I'm curious: Is there a clone of VB6 for Gentoo? I know about Gambas, but Gambas doesn't have a lot of the features I've grown used to in VB over the past several years, and I don't find the help system very

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

2005-03-30 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Dave Nebinger: We can't make Linux better and ready for the desktop-- which does *not* mean we have to do everything via a GUI, dagnabit; people can certainly use the command-line comfortably *if they know how*-- unless we identify where people are falling over it and how to

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg doesn't start with glx

2005-03-30 Thread Christoph Gysin
renna wrote: the other day i recompiled the kernel, with gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.11-r4. i then recompiled nvidia-kernel-1.0.7167-r1 with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 because the unmasked 1.0.6629-r1 version gave me a compilation error, and now Did you also try 6629-r5 ? I had problems with 7167-r1, but

Re: [gentoo-user] can't access virtual terminals

2005-03-30 Thread Steven Knight
On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 11:01 -0600, Paul Varner wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 10:50 -0500, Steven Knight wrote: Hi, I can't access the virtual terminals using the standard Ctrl-Alt-F[1-6] keys. I haven't made any changes to /etc/inittab ( which is where these are defined, right ? ) and

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

2005-03-30 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 01:58:53PM -0300, Pupeno wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Je Mardo Marto 29 2005 14:17, Jeff Smelser skribis: On Tuesday 29 March 2005 09:51 am, Pupeno wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] .ssh $ ls -la total 24 drwxrwx--- 2 sandra users 4096 mar

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