Re: [gentoo-user] Another way to view apache2's logs

2005-02-04 Thread Alec Shaner
Grant wrote: above. One thing I'd really like to see that no log analyzer seems to include is a breakdown of info by day. It always seems to be by month, and that means I get much more relevant information during the first couple days of every month when I get to see what happened during those da

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge problem

2005-01-16 Thread Alec
David Corbin wrote: On Sunday 16 January 2005 03:35 pm, Alec wrote: 2) I've tried to "emerge arabeyes-fonts" to see what's masking it. I get the same error. If you actually read the above, you will see: !!! One of the following masked packages is required to c

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild keeps complaining about openoffice-bin

2005-01-16 Thread Alec
(/root/.revdep-rebuild.3_rebuild) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Alec Warner Spartasoft Secretary ( spartasoft.msu.edu ) Junior Computer Science Michigan State University [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge problem

2005-01-16 Thread Alec
masked packages is required to complete your request: - media-fonts/arabeyes-fonts-1.1 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) It's masked by the ~x86 keyword, you will need to keyword it in /etc/portage/package.keywords. 3) Is there a better way to see which fonts I've installed? David --

Re: [gentoo-user] ufed like ?

2005-01-16 Thread Alec
ing for it yet. ++ keats. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Alec Warner Spartasoft Secretary ( spartasoft.msu.edu ) Junior Computer Science Michigan State University [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs error

2005-01-14 Thread Alec
ages of this mailing list. Does anyone know about this at all? Or even if you don't know what's causing it, how do I solve it? Using 2.6.8-gentoo-r3 kernel on an Athlon XP2100+ with Rox & OpenBox3. No network on a desktop box. Intermediate user knowledge. See ya & thanks,

Re: [gentoo-user] before begining

2005-01-12 Thread Alec
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Re: [gentoo-user] Binary Package Repository?

2005-01-12 Thread Alec Warner
Nicholas Pappas wrote: Hello all. I'm having a crisis of conscious at the moment. I've been using Gentoo for a while and I really like it, but the simple truth is I don't need the granularity that compiling the source for each update provides. That, and I don't fool myself into pretendi

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge broken?

2005-01-10 Thread Alec
n -v, does it generate a backtrace? If you get can a backtrace out of it file a bug on bugs.gentoo.org and someone will take a look at it. -- Alec Warner Spartasoft Secretary ( spartasoft.msu.edu ) Junior Computer Science Michigan State University [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emptytree recompile when switching to nptl?

2005-01-10 Thread Alec Warner
Ed Epstein wrote: I was wondering what really needs to be done to switch to nptl on an existing 2.6 system. According to this document: http://gentoo-wiki.com/NPTL#Switching_to_NPTL you don't need to recompile anything other than glibc to gain the full end-user performance benefits of nptl (tho

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DEPEND/RDEPEND search

2005-01-09 Thread Alec
themselves, so it's kinda slow ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Alec Warner Spartasoft Secretary ( spartasoft.msu.edu ) Junior Computer Science Michigan State University [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/python import sys sys.path.insert(0, "/usr/lib/portage/pym") imp

Re: [gentoo-user] Set up Cross-Compile environment [Was Re: [gentoo-user] pre/cross-building packages...]

2005-01-08 Thread Alec
? Regardless of arch? Unless I build it generic meaning, something like mcpu=pentium Try emerge crossdev. Maintained by Sir Kumba, IIRC. Works pretty well for most arches. -- Alec Warner Spartasoft Secretary ( spartasoft.msu.edu ) Junior Computer Science Michigan State University [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Login, Schmogin

2005-01-08 Thread Alec
n't have to be run. However, also check /var/log/message and anywhere else you might have some juicy logs. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Alec Warner Spartasoft Secretary ( spartasoft.msu.edu ) Junior Computer Science Michigan State University [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] The only things keeping me using Windows

2005-01-08 Thread Alec
othing to worry about should I try again) Cheers Jamie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Alec Warner Spartasoft Secretary ( spartasoft.msu.edu ) Junior Computer Science Michigan State University [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Hot Babe and Debian (GENTOO :-)

2005-01-08 Thread Alec
Which, personally, is hilarious/awesome. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Alec Warner Spartasoft Secretary ( spartasoft.msu.edu ) Junior Computer Science Michigan State University [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo using a lot of disk space

2005-01-07 Thread Alec
Francesco Talamona wrote: On Friday 07 January 2005 05:59, Alec wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I just noticed that my Gentoo root partition has almost 28 GB in use. /usr/portage/distfiles is only 10% of that. The remainder seems awfully big. All my personal stuff is in other direct

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo using a lot of disk space

2005-01-06 Thread Alec
hrink! ++ kevin du -sk --max-depth=1 That will tell you where the most space is taken up, then go into that directory, and run the command again, and again, and again. There is probably a better way ( I normally only use that on 200mb home directories at work ). -- Alec Warner Spart

Re: [gentoo-user] What shall I do if there's a P4 box, but the CHOST was set to i386

2005-01-06 Thread Alec
e old one. This would happen if he just used -5 to merge all changes. Regardless, you will need a liveCD to fix it. Thanks very much indeed. -- Joe -- Alec Warner Spartasoft Secretary ( spartasoft.msu.edu ) Junior Computer Science Michigan State University [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Local Start-Up Slow

2005-01-06 Thread Alec
John Lowell wrote: Alec wrote: That will depend entirely on the contents of /etc/conf.d/local.start -- Alec Warner Hi Alec, Thanks for the reply. Examining /etc/conf.d/local.start in nano, I see nothing that's enabled in any way, no entries other than the usual boilerplate and all of

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and ccache

2005-01-05 Thread Alec
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 05 January 2005 07:11 pm, Alec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I want my ccache directory to be shared across all users. However, portage is not liking that idea. I've set up CCACHE_DIR so that it'

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and ccache

2005-01-05 Thread Alec
rmissions? I know that portage will be able to use the ccache when set up the way I have it. -- Alec Warner Spartasoft Secretary ( spartasoft.msu.edu ) Junior Computer Science Michigan State University [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update difficult?

2005-01-05 Thread Alec
patch-conf -- Alec Warner Spartasoft Secretary ( spartasoft.msu.edu ) Junior Computer Science Michigan State University [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Local Start-Up Slow

2005-01-05 Thread Alec
l previous installations involved no meaningful delay at all. Is something being sought out at this point in the process that is new or different? Beats me and I can't find anything on the forums to help. jlowell That will depend entirely on the contents of /etc/conf.d/local.start -- Alec Warner Spart

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions and Problems

2004-02-15 Thread Alec Berryman
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 09:00:01PM -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > First the questions. > > Other then karamba-webcam, are there any programs in portage (emerge -s > webcam came up with only karamba-webcam) to enable the viewing of video > l

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up /usr/portage

2004-02-15 Thread Alec Berryman
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 08:54:44PM -0500, Paul Kimberley wrote: > What are some safe commands I can run to clean up my portage directory > (bandwidth isn't a factor, I don't mind re-downloading files) > > Can you just delete everything in the /usr/portage/distfiles directory? > Is this safe for a

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.2-r1

2004-02-15 Thread Alec Berryman
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 04:49:50PM -0800, Anthony Hoppe wrote: > When moving from kernel 2.6.1-r1 to kernel 2.6.2-r1, can I use the same > configuration file? Not straight up, but if you copy the config over and run a 'make oldconfig' it will prompt you for new questions that need to be answered.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u world question

2004-02-07 Thread Alec Berryman
On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 07:33:46PM +0100, Gerhard W. Gruber wrote: > I run once per day an emerge sync to see which packages are update and I have > two questions about it. I've found that once per day is too much for me - once every several keeps my sufficiently up-to-date and eases the load on G

[gentoo-user] gpilotd and Palm USB cradle

2004-02-06 Thread Alec Berryman
Hi List, I'm having some difficulties connecting a Palm m500 through the USB cable to Evolution through gpilotd. I'm running 2.6.2-rc2-mm1 and have the appropriate USB/serial drivers installed. When I connect up the cradle and look in my /dev/usb/tts folder, there are no entries, and only when I

Re: [gentoo-user] Time planner?

2004-02-02 Thread Alec Berryman
On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 04:54:45PM +, Matt Wilson wrote: > [*] ie. I click "start on project X" then it times how long before I > click "stop work on project X"... make sense? There's one in KDE. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Using 2.6.* headers?

2004-02-01 Thread Alec Berryman
On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 11:54:52AM +, Matt Wilson wrote: > as well). So I was wondering if there's anyway I can use 2.6.* headers > for compilation instead? I'm using 2.6.1 without any problems and am > considering giving NPTL a try and once again noticed that glibc needs > linux-headers-2.4.*

Re: [gentoo-user] Use Variable help

2004-01-31 Thread Alec Berryman
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 12:09:53PM -0800, sean smith wrote: > > I use xfce4 for my desktop, can i change the use > variable to > > USE="-gtk -gnome -qt -kde" > > so i dont keep installing stuff for the other desktops > i don't use, or will it have not things emerge > correctly, and is there anyt

[gentoo-user] No sound with MythTV

2004-01-31 Thread Alec Berryman
I have mythtv-0.13-r1 compiled (+alsa -lcd -lirc -nvidia) and am using a Hauppauge WinTV card with the bttv driver on kernel 2.6.2-rc2-mm1. I can view the cable stream with MythTV, but cannot hear any sound. I've tried adjusting various mixer and speaker volumes without success. I can play music

Re: [gentoo-user] best way to backup

2004-01-24 Thread Alec Berryman
On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 10:57:25AM -0500, Aaron Walker wrote: > I was considering the following: > - a seperate machine to handle all backup's of the various machines on > my home LAN My solution to this was duplicity. If you don't need encryption try rdiff-backup; both are similar. Other bac

[gentoo-user] OpenMotif in Portage (was "Re: [gentoo-user] depencie problem")

2004-01-23 Thread Alec Berryman
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 05:49:32PM +0100, Christophe Daguin wrote: > emerge: there are no masked or unmasked ebuilds to satisfy > "=x11-libs/openmotif-2.2.2-r1" > > I've look in my portage tree and effectively there is no package with that name. Someone earlier this month announced to [EMAIL PROT

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo

2004-01-23 Thread Alec Berryman
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 08:59:44AM -0500, Bob White wrote: > 2. Do I need to start completely over, or can I reboot with the Gentoo CD, > remount my > partitions, recompile the kernel and move it to /boot? You should be able to reboot with your Gentoo CD and follow the installer instructions

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel depression

2004-01-16 Thread Alec Shaner
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 13:44:31 -0800 (PST) "Eric Paynter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guy Van Sanden said: > > I'm getting depressed with kernel builds > > Assuming you're referring to gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r9, etc, you > might try vanilla-sources or something else. It seems the gentoo > "optimiza

Re: [gentoo-user] IDE RAID 0 and 1

2004-01-14 Thread Alec Shaner
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 00:43:05 +0200 Sami Näätänen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PS. I has integrated ide raid which is half HW half SW from ITE. It > works well and is quite speedy too. Under normal system load (mp3 > listening etc) two ibm 120GB HD's as RAID 1 gives these results. > Smaller resu

Re: [gentoo-user] IDE RAID 0 and 1

2004-01-13 Thread Alec Shaner
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 11:48:38 -0600 Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking for a decent PCI IDE RAID card that can do hardware RAID 0 and/or 1 > under > Linux. Can anyone recommend anything? Thanks. > I recently installed a 3ware Escalade 7006 card (cheap one $) running RAID 1

Re: [gentoo-user] mod_php vs. php?

2004-01-12 Thread Alec Berryman
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 16:59, Christian Aust wrote: > I used to have mod_php on my Apache2 enabled server, and upgrading to > 4.3.4-r2 wanted to emerge both dev-php/mod_php and dev-php/php. Afterwards I > couldn't start Apache any more, it gave me an error saying it had problems > with mod_php, libp

Re: [gentoo-user] ser-vey

2004-01-10 Thread Alec Berryman
On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 11:32, Ben Munat wrote: > Looking for recommendations for an sftpd http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=460367#460367 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=513792#513792 It works well for me, and I feel much safer not giving shell. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources vs gs-sources

2003-12-30 Thread Alec Berryman
On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 18:33, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > The Gentoo Kernel Guide says gs is supposed to be more stable then > gentoo-sources. How much more stable and reliable is the question or > conversely, how much difference is there in performance. I'm running a > desktop system used for pr

Re: [gentoo-user] WOT:According to SUSE CEO we're not here?

2003-08-23 Thread Alec Berryman
On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 07:11, Jason Stubbs wrote: > I guess you're right, here. In the enterprise, it's "if it is broke, fix as > little as possible", isn't it? What do the commercials do? Backport the > security fixes to previous versions to ensure minimal change? I guess that's > a good thing.

Re: [gentoo-user] WOT:According to SUSE CEO we're not here?

2003-08-22 Thread Alec Berryman
Just read the slashdot post? ;) If you read the entire thing, he's just talking about major commercial support. On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 19:24, Ernie Schroder wrote: > SuSE's CEO Richard Seibt chose to demonstrate a high degree of > arrogance. In response to CRN's question about Windows to Linux >

Re: [gentoo-user] GPG signature bad?

2003-08-22 Thread Alec Berryman
On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 11:54, Brian Richardson wrote: > My GPG signature has just showed up as bad in KMail (It worked yesterday...). > I've done a world update since then. Is my signature bad? Or is something > else to blame? Looks fine here. --- gpg: armor header: Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Li

Re: [gentoo-user] dma not enabled

2003-08-19 Thread Alec Berryman
Additionally, there is a hdparm script to do this on boot - /etc/init.d/hdparm. On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 13:21, Robert Young wrote: > /dev/hdX it your device that wish to enable dma on. > > do a hdparm -i /dev/hdX to be sure that you can enable dma. > > e.g.: > > angus root # hdparm -i /dev/hda >

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms crashes on .wav

2003-08-16 Thread Alec Berryman
When getting something abnormal like this (XMMS ought to be able to do XMMS), the first thing I'd try would be run it in a console. Does it give any signifigant output? Next, do a quick recompile with more conservative options. Try -O2 instead of -O3, take out the "fast" math, and all that fun s

Re: [gentoo-user] posting a useful bug to bugzilla

2003-08-14 Thread Alec Berryman
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 08:23, Renat Golubchyk wrote: > On Monday 11 August 2003 13:54, gabriel wrote: > > the new version of kopete (0.7) while full of really cool features, doesn't > > work at all on my machine and continues to crash. so i filled out a bug > > report on bugs.kde.org. > > > > the p

Re: [gentoo-user] Making portage

2003-08-14 Thread Alec Berryman
What you want to make is an ebuild - if you look in your /usr/portage directory, you'll find quite a few examples :) There are some dev docs on gentoo.org. On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 21:06, Meka[ni] wrote: > How can I make (and post) portage? There is a package I would like to have as > a porta

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo as a server

2003-08-04 Thread Alec Berryman
Gentoo's version of stable and Debian's version of stable are fundamentally different in that Debian's stable will not break the API of an application on upgrade, while Gentoo will. I just took down a Gentoo server I haven't reinstalled in ages, and over its life I remember Postfix updates especia

Re: [gentoo-user] Logging firewall hits in a specific log file

2003-07-25 Thread Alec Shaner
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 21:44:34 -0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Now that I have IP Masquerading up, I'm getting a > bunch of firewall hits logged in the SYSLOG log files. > > I would like to have those messages logged in a > specific log file (let's say, /var/log/firewall) > instead of the more gen

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Convert ext3 to reiserfs

2003-07-23 Thread Alec Berryman
On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 19:40, Vano D wrote: > Note that I split the thing into 640 megs so I can store it into a CDROM > and that I make the filename with the date extension. Dumb question: I'm new to split; can you untar each split file individually, or do you need to do them in sequence like a s

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Convert ext3 to reiserfs

2003-07-23 Thread Alec Berryman
On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 17:46, Steven Elling wrote: > I can't remember why I did it, but I booted the system without X and went to > clean out /tmp. When I did a 'rm -rf *' in temp the kernel dumped > registers and halted. I said and thought to myself WTF. After rebooting, > I selectively remov

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Convert ext3 to reiserfs

2003-07-23 Thread Alec Berryman
On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 15:10, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > That's what I hear a lot, but I've also heard the horror stories of > losing entire filesystems to ReiserFS. I've never heard of anything like > that happening with ext2/3. For what it's worth, I've never lost a filesystem to Reiser, but have

Re: [gentoo-user] Good code editor (with colors) for X (no GTK orQT)

2003-07-22 Thread Alec Shaner
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 09:32:57 +0200 Fredrik Jagenheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But a few years ago, I noticed that my wrists started to hurt from > trying to bend the hand typing 'Ctrl-A' all the time. Replacing > CapsLock with Ctrl eased the pain, but it was still a bit of a hassle > to type

[gentoo-user] Postfix and relayhost

2003-07-20 Thread Alec Berryman
Hi - My ISP has their mail server set up to only allow mail to be relayed through it from their IPs; less work than explaining to users SASL or POP-before-SMTP, I guess. In any event, they made some changes a month or so ago, and I am now unable to relay mail from my local home network through th

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with Postfix and SASL auth.

2003-07-20 Thread Alec Shaner
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 00:30:06 +0200 "Matthias F. Brandstetter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -- quoting Matthias F. Brandstetter -- > > === > > postfix/smtpd[26662]: warning: SASL authentication failure: > > cannot conne

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocked packages

2003-07-20 Thread Alec Berryman
On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 09:03, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > > [blocks B] > (from pkg dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r12) > > [blocks B] > (from pkg dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r12) > > [blocks B] > (from pkg dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r1

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sharing distfiles, or... creating distfilescache

2003-07-06 Thread Alec Berryman
Over the web is good, but if you mount your portage directories over NFS you'll save HD space. If you're paying by the MB, you might also want to check out the 'deltup' package. It hasn't caught on quite yet, but it looks very promising. On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 17:39, Nick Rout wrote: > In article

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling Gentoo for another platform

2003-07-03 Thread Alec Berryman
On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 07:08, Johan Van den Neste wrote: > However, I have noticed that certain large packages are not as useful for > compiling with distcc as they do not allow compiles to be parallelized (I > believe xfree and kde are such packages, although I could be wrong). Just > make sure

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling Gentoo for another platform

2003-07-02 Thread Alec Berryman
There are several how-to's in the "Documentation, Tips, & Tricks" section of the forum. To summarize: use distcc, or make a chroot on your Athlon as if you were installing it on that computer but configure it for your K6-2. On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 18:33, Chris Gentle wrote: > Hi. I have an old K6-

Re: [gentoo-user] vim-6.2

2003-06-30 Thread Alec Berryman
I just did a fresh install of gvim and it ran with no problems - last thing you want to hear, right? I don't know what locale you're using, but the post-emerge message talks about how to enable UTF-8 fonts; could this be your problem? On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 17:09, Kurt V. Hindenburg wrote: > Sigh,

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about Evolution 1.4

2003-06-29 Thread Alec Berryman
How did you go about importing your old (1.2.4) contacts and calendar? For me, I had mixed results - on one system my accounts were preserved but no contacts/calendar, and on the other system it was as if I had started clean. Other than that, Evolution 1.4.0 has worked fantastically. On Sun, 200

Re: [gentoo-user] Fork of Gentoo?

2003-06-27 Thread Alec Berryman
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 09:43, brett holcomb wrote: > way but all we've heard is his side. Strangely, there > were no allegations of evil plotting and none of this > mattered until the fork announcement was made. As to the No allegations of evil plotting, but there has been more than one reques

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-3.4 from breakmygentoo

2003-06-26 Thread Alec Berryman
On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 21:01, Shawn wrote: > >From whence does the masking of >=sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.4 come? > Should I just "ebuild binutils-2.14.90.0.4.ebuild install", then upgrade > to gcc-3.4? > > Any clues? I'm not too much into breaking my poor, beaten-up Gentoo, but you should be f

Re: [gentoo-user] Fork of Gentoo?

2003-06-26 Thread Alec Berryman
On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 11:29, Timothy James Friesen wrote: > Did the person that forked fork it because he wasn't going to be making any > money from Gentoo? That's the impression I'm getting from all of this. Feel > free to correct me if I'm wrong. My reading of the article indicated that he c

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling 2.4.21 kernel

2003-06-17 Thread Alec Berryman
Ohad Lutzky said: > The right way to do this is: > # make dep && make bzImage modules modules_install > > Did you make all of the other stuff first? While making modules before modules_install is generally a good idea if you want your modules installed, one can run "dep", "bzImage", "modules", and

Re: [gentoo-user] Distfile mirror for University LAN.

2003-06-15 Thread Alec Berryman
Saurabh Nanda said: > Hi, > We've been trying to come up with a solution for deploying a distfile > mirror > for our university intranet. There's been a lot of talk about this kind of setup on both the forums and on this mailing list. I'd check the archives. Basically, a NFS mount is good, as lo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: BitTorrent?

2003-05-31 Thread Alec Berryman
On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 18:03, Richard Revis wrote: > Yay! Time for a crosspost to -developers? It's already being discussed on gentoo-dev - read the message a while ago, but apparently someone is mucking around with it. -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Descript

Re: [gentoo-user] How many "testing/unstable" ebuilds did youemerge?

2003-04-05 Thread Alec Berryman
On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 16:50, Peter Ruskin wrote: > Yes, thanks Alec. It's clever sed stuff, one of my weaker points. > However, it assumes that /var/db/pkg contains accurate records and it > doesn't. If you emerge something with ~x86 keyword and later you sync > and t

Re: [gentoo-user] How many "testing/unstable" ebuilds did youemerge?

2003-04-05 Thread Alec Berryman
On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 16:33, Peter Ruskin wrote: > This is the script I now use to keep track of the unstable builds: There's a similar script at the gentoo-stable site, also in bash: http://stable.gentoo.org/notes.jsp -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gpg --keyserver pgp.

Re: [gentoo-user] New Nvidia Drivers (1.0.4349)

2003-04-01 Thread Alec Berryman
loaded with `lsmod`, but X complained about not being able to initialize the drivers. Reverted back to the old 1.0.4x :) -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key DFB366F2 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] mm-sources and modprobe

2003-04-01 Thread Alec Berryman
er > and quake some other time, however, as I have some school to catch up on. > > Hope you got things sorted out, Alec, > > -Chris I I'm running mm-sources-2.5.66-r1 just fine, and the new nvidia drivers seem to compile, but don't work. I reverted to the earlier 1.0.4x

Re: [gentoo-user] vi installation

2003-04-01 Thread Alec Berryman
to work would vim/nvi/elvis and the like not work in place of vi? -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key DFB366F2 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] missing 'mount' and 'passwd' after installationsteps -- what did I wrong -- have I missed sthg ?

2003-04-01 Thread Alec Berryman
d' ( maybe others I haven't checked ) . Don't know how this would have happened, but you can recover 'mount' and 'passwd' by emerging sys-apps/util-linux and sys-apps/shadow. -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key DFB3

Re: [gentoo-user] april fools?

2003-03-31 Thread Alec Berryman
5). Good job, Kurt! -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key DFB366F2 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] mm-sources and modprobe

2003-03-31 Thread Alec Berryman
On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 21:42, Mark Saunders wrote: > I had trouble getting devfs working with the mm-sources kernel http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=249621#249621 is the answer we are looking for, I do think. -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu -

[gentoo-user] mm-sources and modprobe

2003-03-31 Thread Alec Berryman
Hi - I'm using mm-sources-2.5.66-r1 (2.5.66-mm1) and am trying to get the nvidia kernel drivers working (nvidia-kernel-1.0.4191-r2). The nvidia-kernel compiles file, but I cannot modprobe: - melvin alec # modprobe nvidia modprobe: QM_MODULES: Function not implemented i

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -c

2003-03-31 Thread Alec Berryman
sh and extraneous files are removed after you have emerged a newer version. Clean is run by default after the actual merging by emerge. Unmerge, or -C, removes packages - like in your example. -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key DFB366F2 signature.a

Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuilds gone???

2003-03-31 Thread Alec Berryman
On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 19:18, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > I notice in the newsletter that Gentoo will move to the RPM format due to the > idiots at LSB. That raises some questions. [EMAIL PROTECTED] alec $ date Mon Mar 31 19:17:43 CST 2003 http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/refspecs/LSB_1.3.

Re: [gentoo-user] naive question about distcc

2003-03-30 Thread Alec Berryman
fficult to implement. If you're looking to save time, you ought to look at ccache in addition to distcc. -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key DFB366F2 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo migration stragety?

2003-03-28 Thread Alec Berryman
pecially not at 100MB. Unless you keep three or four kernels _and_ sources there :) -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Minimizing resource usage of Apache/Mysql

2003-03-21 Thread Alec Berryman
n my > machine? Any tips are greatly appreciated!:) For apache, I'd turn down MinSpareServers, MaxSpareServers, and StartServers in the apache.conf/httpd.conf to a small number - it'll free up a bit of processing. -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gpg --keyserver pgp

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE installation

2003-03-21 Thread Alec Berryman
doesn't find > anything in the user's home directory and then in XSESSION global > variable. The file in your home directory is ".xinitrc" - just drop in `exec startkde` or your favorite windowmanager's executable. -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key DFB366F2 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] Command line interface tools

2003-03-21 Thread Alec Berryman
r you, but making a pdf of something you wrote in vim is a bit of an overkill. Also, ps2pdf will work. > # txt2html: > # Term: eterm > # Partitioning: cfdisk > # System info: lhinv, procinfo, lsof, > # CD writing: cdrtools, burncenter > # Gentoo: ufed, mirrorselect, portage, gen

Re: [gentoo-user] Using ssmtp

2003-03-18 Thread Alec Berryman
ftp > 80/tcp openhttp > 1024/tcp openkdm > 2401/tcp opencvspserver > 5432/tcp openpostgres > 6000/tcp openX11 I've never used SSMTP, but doesn't it need to be started with `/etc/init.d/ssmtp start` before it can activel

Re: [gentoo-user] Email Configuration Help Baddly Needed

2003-03-18 Thread Alec Berryman
easiest route to go getting your mail. You'll need to emerge python with TCL/TK support (`USE="tcltk" emerge python`), and then it's a fairly straightforward process - GUI goodness. Just `emerge postfix` - the default will likely get by for now, just use your ISP's SMTP s

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution and spamassassin

2003-03-18 Thread Alec Berryman
cmail was more convenient and didn't rely on one client. -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key DFB366F2 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] Online multiplayer games on linux?

2003-03-16 Thread Alec Berryman
timistic. Don't want to start a flame war, just don't want to lead Dhruba astray :) -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key DFB366F2 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] New user questions

2003-03-15 Thread Alec Berryman
x27;m guessing your next question will have to do with config files, so play with 'etc-update' sometime. -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] Seg faults compiling gcc - bad memory?

2003-03-15 Thread Alec Berryman
been any > problems with any applications thus far, just with compiling. Well, the best way to tell if it's the new memory is to pop it out and try again. It could well be that the memory is not properly seated or is defective, especially given your memtest :) -- Alec Berryman <[EMAI

Re: [gentoo-user] Samba won't compile

2003-03-13 Thread Alec Berryman
On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 16:26, Ernie Schroder wrote: > using gcc-3.2.2-r1 Any ideas? should I file a bug? Like this one (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16321)? :) I think this forum thread (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=224011#224011) should help you out. -- Alec Berry

Re: [gentoo-user] rpm??

2003-03-12 Thread Alec Berryman
lar to the above-mentioned rpm2cpio, you can chekc out rpm2targz or rpm2tgz. -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] compress rsync?

2003-03-11 Thread Alec Berryman
remember, so you're good to go. For a quick check, just do a "grep '/usr/bin/rsync' /usr/bin/emerge" and see if the options you want are there. Beware that they'll be overwritten the next time you upgrade portage. -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] re-fetch corrupted ebuild file

2003-03-11 Thread Alec Berryman
ee. If that doesn't work, I can send you a copy of mine that does not give the error yours gave you. -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] media question

2003-03-11 Thread Alec Berryman
Media Player 6.4. You might get a newer version to work with wine or winex, but I wouldn't bank on it. Mplayer will definitely suit your needs. -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] nano -w

2003-03-11 Thread Alec Berryman
d you not find success with the MYCONF variable? -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] GA Tech Mirror

2003-03-10 Thread Alec Berryman
en't been able to get on since I got back at 3:30 CST. -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] nano -w

2003-03-10 Thread Alec Berryman
Check out the MYCONF variable. It's something I like and normally one should expect it to be there, so the MYCONF way seems the best approach. -Alec On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 16:24, MAL wrote: > Hey ppl, > > The excellent nano has a configure option to disable line wrapping > e

Re: [gentoo-user] Building a compilation server

2003-03-06 Thread Alec Berryman
he script I was looking for - it would compile and make packages without actually installing the programs. You might have better luck. If not, check out the man page for ebuild - you ought to be able to go through the steps emerge automates and skip the actual installation. -- Alec Ber

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question - migration from RH8

2003-03-05 Thread Alec Berryman
rth grabbing a free 30-day VMWare trial, or go the similarly speedy route of the UML tutorial. -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

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