Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng logrotate question

2005-01-16 Thread Ben Maas
Hehe, you beat me to it on the syslog-ng stuff, my example writing took to long :-) Good work! Covington, Chris wrote: Hopefully this will take care of it. Now the original question: How can I make sure the 'weekly' logrotate happens on Sunday morning and not Monday, Tuesday, etc.? From the lo

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng logrotate question

2005-01-16 Thread Ben Maas
Ben Maas wrote: dailty > dafault I apologize for all the marbles in mouth! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng logrotate question

2005-01-16 Thread Ben Maas
Covington, Chris wrote: Hi all, How can I make sure that my weekly logrotation occurs on Sunday morning? You'll need to change your crontab. First though, I assume this means you don't want you logs to be rotated dailty as is the default when you emerge logrotate. The dafault is that the /etc/

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome startup configuration

2004-03-03 Thread Eli Ben-Shoshan
You might want to look at openbox. Really simple, highly configurable, and it will let you easily remove windowmanager decorations from windows with a simple right click on the window. Oh, did I mention it does a really good job with Xinerama. Metacity just really sucks when used with xinerama

Re: [gentoo-user] kde upgrade - the missing config file

2004-02-07 Thread Ben Jones
ATH variables. If those exist a > simple env-update && source /etc/profile should do the trick. Aha - now you got it.49kdelibs-3.1 turned out to be the culprit. Ben. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] kde upgrade - the missing config file

2004-02-06 Thread Ben Jones
any case, I now am resolved to put this kinda thing in my ~/docs/ :o( Ben -- If at first you don't succeed, you are running about average. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] emerge -C glibc

2004-02-01 Thread Ben Anderson
was a very bad decision by Ben. Does anyone know if I can recover from this? I think I'll just start gentoo over again. But seriously, why did Gentoo screw up my boot process (glibc) in the first place. Perhaps I'll try Debain. Thanks, Ben -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

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

2004-02-01 Thread Ben Sparks
On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 11:24, Aaron Walker wrote: On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 07:59, Alec Berryman wrote: > 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Good Games Suggestions

2004-01-31 Thread Ben Sutton
On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 22:45, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 23:08:58 +0200 Wayne Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | Can anybody suggest anything from portage ??? > > frozen bubble I second frozen-bubble, Its a Puzzle Bobble clone. I could/do pla

Re: [gentoo-user] SCSI emulation under Gentoo - MOSTLY SOLVED!

2004-01-21 Thread Ben
by trial and error though i am sure there has to be some kind of documentation on this one :-) Good luck with it. Cheers Ben On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 10:38:02 -0800 Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 10:10, Roel Schroeven wrote: > > Mark Knecht wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Partition size recommendations

2004-01-18 Thread Ben Munat
Interestingly enough, this is what it says on gentoo's "quick install" page for experienced users (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-quickinstall.xml): "The recommended setup is a 64 meg boot volume with ext2, a swap partition twice the size of your available RAM, and the rest for your r

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Problems

2004-01-15 Thread Ben Munat
You might check your system date (just type date... check the man page for how to set it if it's wrong)... I had problems with tar packages not working while I was installing cuz my system date kept getting screwed up. b Hoyt Bailey wrote: - Original Message - From: "Jimmy Rosen" <[EM

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie install.

2004-01-13 Thread Ben Munat
Hi Hoyt, That "cd image root#" is the command prompt... it's waiting for you to start issuing commands. Which commands are explained in the installation docs on the website. Having recently gone through my first install, the best advice I can give you is follow the instructions *very* carefully

Re: [gentoo-user] apache conf

2004-01-12 Thread Ben Munat
Well, I've pretty much determined that /etc/apache2/conf/apache2.conf is the right file. The weird thing is that I figured this out by switching the bind port to 8000 in that file... the server then responded on 8000, so I knew it was the right file and switched it back to 80. But now it's resp

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild file help

2004-01-11 Thread Ben Sparks
On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 22:45, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > Check out the ebuild docs at Gentoo's web site to get some information > about ebuilds. > > I activate the PORTDIR_OVERLAY variable in /etc/make.conf, create the > directory (default is /usr/local/portage) and create a directory > structure

Re: [gentoo-user] apache conf

2004-01-11 Thread Ben Munat
docs seem to talk about this non-existent httpd.conf file. b Ted Ozolins wrote: Ben Munat wrote: Does gentoo use /etc/apache2/conf/apache2.conf instead of an httpd.conf file? Some docs I've found online talk about editing httpd.conf, but the only one I can find on my box is under /usr/po

[gentoo-user] apache conf

2004-01-11 Thread Ben Munat
Does gentoo use /etc/apache2/conf/apache2.conf instead of an httpd.conf file? Some docs I've found online talk about editing httpd.conf, but the only one I can find on my box is under /usr/portage... which is all install files, right? b -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] qmail vs. sendmail

2004-01-11 Thread Ben Munat
igious war and has been hashed out on dozens of mailing lists/websites. I personally prefer postfix and it is much simpler to setup and manage, imho, than qmail. Regards, Matt On Sunday 11 January 2004 04:19 pm, Ben Munat wrote: Just went to emerge qmail and I got my first blocked package (luck

[gentoo-user] qmail vs. sendmail

2004-01-11 Thread Ben Munat
Just went to emerge qmail and I got my first blocked package (lucky me, I know). It's blocked by net-mail/ssmtp, which (not surprisingly) belongs to sendmail. So, should I unmerge sendmail? (It seemed like folks on this list liked qmail better than sendmail... anyone disagree?) Will this cause

Re: [gentoo-user] Blender

2004-01-11 Thread Ben Sutton
re to get the unstable version you can type: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge blender hth, -Ben. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] server use-flags

2004-01-10 Thread Ben Munat
First, apologies for (sort of) re-sending a thread, but I realized that asking about the best packages to install for a web server was jumping the gun a bit. I need to set my USE flags and update my system first. So, is anyone on this list running a gentoo web server and if so, could you post y

Re: [gentoo-user] System package listing

2004-01-10 Thread Ben Sutton
On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 21:42, Alan Watson wrote: > Is there a command that can tell me what packages / applications are > listed on my system? Does emerge -pe world help? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ser-vey

2004-01-10 Thread Ben Munat
27;ll obviously have to be much more careful about what I emerge on this box! b Andrew Gaffney wrote: Ben Munat wrote: Well, I enjoyed setting up my home gentoo system so much that I've decided to go ahead and switch from my hosting company to renting a rack server with gentoo on it. Of cou

[gentoo-user] ser-vey

2004-01-10 Thread Ben Munat
Well, I enjoyed setting up my home gentoo system so much that I've decided to go ahead and switch from my hosting company to renting a rack server with gentoo on it. Of course, it'll be a very gradual process... lots of learning to do. I've subscribed to the gentoo-server list, but I thought it

Re: [gentoo-user] gaim problem with Yahoo!

2004-01-10 Thread Ben Sparks
Brandon Low wrote: scs.msg.yahoo.com and scs.yahoo.com have become disjoint networks (afaics) I am able to connect with recent gaim versions to scs.yahoo.com, the _old_ login scheme appears to be functioning on scs.msg.yahoo.com and I'm not sure which one is the 'real' yahoo network which yahoo me

Re: [gentoo-user] is there a program simular to gimp

2004-01-09 Thread Ben Sparks
Eric Paynter wrote: Chris said: is there a program simular to gimp for kde? gimp. -Eric gimp is independant of the window manager/desktop manager, it just requires gtk. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] I killed my xp boot sector with grub

2004-01-08 Thread Ben Sutton
covery Console' session. The following url should be of use: http://www.compulink.co.uk/~davedorn/computing/windows/xprepair5.htm -Ben. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem running games

2004-01-08 Thread Ben Sutton
c.php?t=54793 The above forum thread goes into detail about getting a Radeon card working correctly. Stustill's post (4th post down) appears to be useful. Having not used an ati card before I can't help much myself. -Ben -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem emerging kdelibs

2004-01-08 Thread Ben Sutton
can be causing > the > error? > Thanks Hiya, I discovered from reading Gentoo's forums (http://forums.gentoo.org) that this problem is attributed to autoconf 2.57. To have the libs compile, first: emerge /usr/portage/sys-devel/autoconf/autoconf-2.58.ebuild Then kdelibs 3.1.4 sho

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem running games

2004-01-08 Thread Ben Sutton
nvidia based card, the section labelled 'Configuring your NVIDIA Card' of this document might help: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/desktop.xml If you have an ati card the following may be useful: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/desktop.xml If you still have problems type glxinfo into

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage version

2004-01-08 Thread Ben Sutton
blem. Looking at the ebuild it looks like sed is used to update the version information in /usr/lib/portage.py - to me it looks as if the package maintainer forgot to up the revision number in the ebuild. I don't think it will cause any problems tho' :) Well spotted ;) -Ben. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Unzip .ftp file

2004-01-05 Thread Ben Munat
Man, I can't believe I didn't know about the "file" command... that's great... VERY useful. And speaking of binary editors, can you recommend one? Any good ones come with the basic gentoo stuff? For that matter, is there any way of searching for a type of program? Like a man page index? b Bill

[gentoo-user] mozilla problems

2004-01-04 Thread Ben Munat
Anyone else have trouble with losing the ability to type in Mozilla (and Firebird)? I've found that it fairly consistently locks me out of typing inside of web text fields *and* the address bar. It seems like it happens when I close another gui app... like K apps, mostly (I'm running fluxbox).

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge questions

2004-01-04 Thread Ben Munat
u have 'ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86' set or not. But usually it's safe to do 'emerge world -u. Hope This Helps Aaron Brown On 01/04/04 22:04:16, Ben Munat wrote: How often should I emerge sync? How often should I update portage? I just did emerge sync and it tells me I should u

[gentoo-user] emerge questions

2004-01-04 Thread Ben Munat
How often should I emerge sync? How often should I update portage? I just did emerge sync and it tells me I should update portage -- from r19 to r20 -- and "update ALL of [my] configuration files". Should I emerge portage everytime there's a new version? Are these config files of which it speak

Re: [gentoo-user] fluxbox questions

2004-01-04 Thread Ben Munat
A couple things I would add to other folk's answers... There are some (somewhat incomplete) docs at fluxbox.org. You can find all the config files in ~/.fluxbox... "init" has most of the meaty stuff, but "menu" is the file to configure your right click menu... oh and my favorite feature: scroll

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd emerge activity

2004-01-04 Thread Ben Munat
I see this same thing all the time... would love to know why... Tom Richards wrote: >>> Auto-cleaning packages ... !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/

Re: [gentoo-user] env.d

2004-01-03 Thread Ben Munat
thank you very much... extremely helpful Phil Barnett wrote: On Saturday 03 January 2004 8:54 pm, Ben Munat wrote: Yeah, I read through that doc, but it didn't seem to have anything about root vs. regular user. However, I have (sort of) solved my problem... discovered that su-ing

Re: [gentoo-user] env.d

2004-01-03 Thread Ben Munat
o get it to run on login. ??? thnks, b Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote: Ben Munat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: So, how can I have my regular user take advantage of env.d? My path just has the two or three obvious entries. I can add other stuff manually, but c'mon, this is gentoo..

[gentoo-user] env.d

2004-01-03 Thread Ben Munat
So, how can I have my regular user take advantage of env.d? My path just has the two or three obvious entries. I can add other stuff manually, but c'mon, this is gentoo... gotta be a configuration somewhere... b -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user]next problem [was: x problem]

2004-01-03 Thread Ben Munat
thanks... hmmm... however, each problem seems to raise another. How do I copy the env vars that I had as root to my everyday user? (eclipse can't find the jdk when I'm not root.) Shouldn't regular users be tied in with /etc/env.d? b Tom Wesley wrote: On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 2

[gentoo-user] x problem

2004-01-03 Thread Ben Munat
I keep getting this error when I try to start gui apps in fluxbox: Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified In fact, I just got it when I tried to open eclipse, which I did this morning without any problem! thnks, b -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Terminal

2004-01-03 Thread Ben Munat
I'm using fluxbox... liking it so far. Thought I could get away without kde or gnome, but more and more of their stuff is creeping onto my machine with each emerge ;-) So, I emerged kdevelop last night and it tells me this dcop thingy isn't running. Are you saying that running kdeinit on boot w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GUI install

2004-01-03 Thread Ben Munat
Good point... although I have a separate monitor for my windows box and can run multiple browser tabs so I can jump around to all the various useful docs. That and it's nice to have some tunes while I'm working. :-) b Greg Bolshaw wrote: On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 19:42, Ben Munat

Re: [gentoo-user] car computer [was: Quick emerge...]

2004-01-03 Thread Ben Munat
pls do... sounds cool KamaolaKid wrote: On another note, I think the Gentoo Devs are doing a damn spiffy job. I'd like to figure out how to run my car on Gentoo. Anyone care to maintain? I *am* running my car on gentoo. Well, my car PC not my car... It has a 7" touch screen in the das

Re: [gentoo-user] smb mount

2004-01-02 Thread Ben Munat
lol... Jerry McBride wrote: On Friday 02 January 2004 08:59 pm, Ben Munat wrote: Well, Jerry's suggestion is a bit over my head. I put this into local.start: smbmount "//MyWindowsBox/mydir" /mnt/mywinshare -o username=uname,password=mypasswrd and it works. Anything wrong with do

[gentoo-user] on to printing...

2004-01-02 Thread Ben Munat
I have a little four port router I use to share my internet connection with my boxes and it has a print server on it. What's the easiest app to use to send my print jobs to it? I don't need a spooler like cups, right? That's what the router does (it's probably a stripped-down linux under the ho

Re: [gentoo-user] smb mount

2004-01-02 Thread Ben Munat
ry 2004 07:53 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: /etc/conf.d has local.start and local.stop to do this. It's the equivalent of the rc.local on other distros. If I remember correctly this can also go in /etc/fstab. Ben Munat wrote: I have a default smb share from my windows box that I'd like mounted

[gentoo-user] smb mount

2004-01-02 Thread Ben Munat
I have a default smb share from my windows box that I'd like mounted at boot. Should I add the smbmount command to /etc/init.d/samba? I guess if I did, I would need to add the mount to start(), the unmount to stop() and both to restart()! Or maybe I should write a separate init script? Does gen

Re: [gentoo-user] masked packages

2004-01-02 Thread Ben Munat
with no media or kde stuff... I guess I'll do that. b Ian Truelsen wrote: On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 12:36:55 -0800 Ben Munat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How do I find out why a package is masked? I read about package.mask, but the package I'm trying to get (eclipse-sdk) isn'

[gentoo-user] masked packages

2004-01-02 Thread Ben Munat
How do I find out why a package is masked? I read about package.mask, but the package I'm trying to get (eclipse-sdk) isn't in there. Perhaps something eclipse depends on (ant??) being masked results in eclipse being masked? thnks b -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GUI install

2004-01-02 Thread Ben Munat
I absolutely agree. I never would have gotten Gentoo installed without my windows box sitting right next to it with multiple browser tabs open to the various gentoo docs. A gui that incorporated the docs and guided the user through the decisions to be made would be very helpful. It could even k

Re: [gentoo-user] this is so much fun

2004-01-02 Thread Ben Munat
orum? I do that all the time... Quick tip: qpkg -l will show you where the installed files are. I use that when I emerge something and have no clue what to run to execute it :) alan On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:04:20PM -0800, Ben Munat wrote: Ack! Nevermind. Sorry, I should look a little more car

Re: [gentoo-user] this is so much fun

2004-01-01 Thread Ben Munat
Ack! Nevermind. Sorry, I should look a little more carefully before I post. b Ben Munat wrote: Ok... where does portage put apps that I emerge? Like mozilla firebird? It's not on my path and doing a locate on "firebird", all I find are the /usr/portage, /var/db and /

[gentoo-user] this is so much fun

2004-01-01 Thread Ben Munat
Ok... where does portage put apps that I emerge? Like mozilla firebird? It's not on my path and doing a locate on "firebird", all I find are the /usr/portage, /var/db and /var/cache files. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] end of this thread... I promise [was: gtk+1.2 vs gtk+2.0 ]

2004-01-01 Thread Ben Munat
eplies. b Ben Munat wrote: Man... you get a something to work and then something else doesn't. I got the matrox powerdesk app to compile and run. But then it makes a dialog box with textfields to enter the path to the XF86Config file and a backup XF86Config and when I click okay, it ki

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk+1.2 vs gtk+2.0

2004-01-01 Thread Ben Munat
t using this matrox app? Like, by just editing a config file or something? Ben Munat wrote: Nevermind... got it... it's "emerge \ b Ben Munat wrote: Brett Mansfield wrote: I also (like many others) have gtk-1.2 and gtk-2 installed. IMHO the easiest thing to do is: "emerge gtk-

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk+1.2 vs gtk+2.0

2004-01-01 Thread Ben Munat
Nevermind... got it... it's "emerge \ b Ben Munat wrote: Brett Mansfield wrote: I also (like many others) have gtk-1.2 and gtk-2 installed. IMHO the easiest thing to do is: "emerge gtk-1.2.x gtk-2.x.x" which will install them both at the same time. (this is what I did (II

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk+1.2 vs gtk+2.0

2004-01-01 Thread Ben Munat
Brett Mansfield wrote: I also (like many others) have gtk-1.2 and gtk-2 installed. IMHO the easiest thing to do is: "emerge gtk-1.2.x gtk-2.x.x" which will install them both at the same time. (this is what I did (IIRC)) and have had no problems, YMMV. Just tried "emerge -p gtk-1.2.x", "emerge -

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk+1.2 vs gtk+2.0

2004-01-01 Thread Ben Munat
Andrew Gaffney wrote: Just do something like 'emerge \I've tried several variations on this and it always says "there are no masked or unmasked builds to satisfy ... " Things like: emerge -p \<=x11-libs/gtk+1.2.10 emerge -p \<=gtk+1.2.10 emerge -p \<=gtk+2 emerge -p \<=x11-libs/gtk+2.0 etc. Wha

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk+1.2 vs gtk+2.0

2004-01-01 Thread Ben Munat
of that to run rpm? b Janne Johansson wrote: On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 02:31, Ben Munat wrote: sigh... I just love linux... Ok, so I assume it would be bad/impossible to *also* install gtk+1.2? No, I have them both installed. Portage installs gtk+1.2 and gtk+2.x to different slots automatically

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk+1.2 vs gtk+2.0

2004-01-01 Thread Ben Munat
powerdesk prog is also available as an rpm... anyway to use rpms on gentoo? Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 15:55:57 -0800 Ben Munat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Can I compile a program expecting gtk+1.2 if I have gtk+2.0? No, unfortunately not. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] devfs problem

2004-01-01 Thread Ben Munat
at one of these days. b Jerry McBride wrote: On Thursday 01 January 2004 05:09 am, Ben Munat wrote: thanks for taking the time to let me know that... i wunder what the heck the problem was... b I missed your original post... what problems did you have? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] gtk+1.2 vs gtk+2.0

2004-01-01 Thread Ben Munat
Can I compile a program expecting gtk+1.2 if I have gtk+2.0? I'm trying to compile the matrox powerdesk program to setup my dual monitors but the .configure fails because it can't find gtk-config. It seems that gtk+2.0 now uses pkg-config instead of gtk-config. Can I just create a symlink from

Re: [gentoo-user] devfs problem

2004-01-01 Thread Ben Munat
thanks for taking the time to let me know that... i wunder what the heck the problem was... b Collins wrote: On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 22:34:59 -0800 Ben Munat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just wanted to follow up in case anyone was wondering. I wound up pretty much redoing the install. Ever

Re: [gentoo-user] devfs problem

2003-12-31 Thread Ben Munat
x27;t think I copied the new System.map over to /boot. Not sure what System.map does, but I have a feeling it's important... kind of surprised that I was able to boot at all with the one from the first compile. Or maybe it was something else... linux is just so much fun! b PS: happy new

Re: [gentoo-user] devfs problem

2003-12-31 Thread Ben Munat
Norbert Kamenicky wrote: h ... which mount devfs command ? In which script ? AFAIK kernel is mounting /dev itself (if devfs support is compilled in). I do not have any line for devfs in /etc/fstab also ... if u have one, comment it out ! The mount devfs command is in /sbin/rc. I tried taking i

Re: [gentoo-user] devfs problem

2003-12-31 Thread Ben Munat
out everything that was there but doesn't replace it with the new devfs listings. I feel like I'm really close, but I'm missing that last little bit. Any ideas?? Anyone??? thnks, b Ben Munat wrote: > Hello, > > I recently built my first gentoo install, but discover

[gentoo-user] devfs problem

2003-12-31 Thread Ben Munat
ull exists before devfs is mounted and does not exist afterwards. So, devfs is screwing the pooch... Anyone have any idea why??? I've been struggling with this for about 24 hours... would really appreciate some help! Ben PS: I'm using LVM and resierfs, in case that matters. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] devfs problem: permission denied on /dev/null... boot fails [update]

2003-12-30 Thread Ben Munat
script I was supposed to run after adding devfs support to the kernel... an rc-update I needed to do??? Any help would be much appreciated... Ben Ben Munat wrote: I've been working on getting my first attempt at installing gentoo working for the last three days. Well, I actually had the

[gentoo-user] devfs problem: permission denied on /dev/null... boot fails

2003-12-30 Thread Ben Munat
s except / and /boot and I'm using reiserfs for everything. I also saved my first kernel "just in case" (:-) and have set that up as a boot option in grub. Thanks in advance. Ben -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge question

2003-12-30 Thread Ben Sparks
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I would like some information about emerge. I want to get the package C. C depends of the package A and the package B. The package B does not depend on the package A or vice-versa. I do 'emerge C': emerge will build A, then B, then C. When emerge is building A, I r

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with new system

2003-12-24 Thread Ben Calvert
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 22:49, Collins wrote: > On Wednesday 24 December 2003 13:12, Thomas Richards wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I was thinking of maybe a 10 GB /root partition on ext3 > > to store important files. Has anyone compared JFS to ext3? I tried jfs on a recent install and had lots

[gentoo-user] kde beta ( was re: dvd+rw gui interface)

2003-12-24 Thread Ben Calvert
> > the only caveat is that i had to turn off autofs, which kept trying to > > mount the disk while i was burning it. no data seems to be damaged. > > Ah I could live with that... As I'm off to bed I think I'm going to > emerge the kde beta overnight, can always set depclean on it in the > morni

Re: [gentoo-user] dvd+rw gui interface

2003-12-24 Thread Ben Calvert
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 13:31, Tom Wesley wrote: > > I haven't tried nautalus, but strongly recommend k3b for burning. it's > > not too heavy on kde dependencies, and has the most natural interface > > i've found for burning anything. > > > > burning a dvd is as easy as selecting 'dvd-data

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoouser] [gentoo] sudo-like behaviour

2003-12-24 Thread Ben Calvert
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 13:17, Patrick Audley wrote: > raptor> hi, Is there a way to run enable some user to run remotely > raptor> via ssh some commands, but forbid him shell access at > raptor> all.. I mean I want to eneble him only : > > Yes, this is very doable. If you m

Re: [gentoo-user] dvd+rw gui interface

2003-12-24 Thread Ben Calvert
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 13:20, Tom Wesley wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just bought myself a new DVD-/+RW drive, fitted it and done some > reading up on the software to control the device. It all works > perfectly if I use the command line tool growisofs (part of > app-cdr/dvd+rw-tools), but [1]

[gentoo-user] RE: failure notice

2003-12-23 Thread Ben Anderson
to Gentoo(I've devoted many hours-years), but since I can't boot I'm using Windows. I'd rather devote my time to learning Java(at least it makes sense) than learning the quirks of Gentoo. Linux rocks!!! Linux' apps rock!!! Updating packages sucks!!! Thanks, Ben Hi all

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading kernels

2003-12-18 Thread Ben Sparks
Thomas Smith wrote: I emerged gentoo-sources (linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r9) which is an upgrade from linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r6. The problem is that when I run "genkernel --config" it loads the r6 release. How can I tell genkernel to use the new, r9 sources? Pointers to docs are also helpful--I wasn't a

[gentoo-user] Mounting proc at /proc

2003-12-16 Thread Ben Anderson
e disk, cause I can mount it with knoppix. Any ideas? Thanks, Ben _ Check your PC for viruses with the FREE McAfee online computer scan. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't start MozillaFirebird after upgrade to 0.7-r1

2003-12-11 Thread Ben Sparks
Patrick Börjesson wrote: Try renaming or deleting the ~/.phoenix directory - this is where you preferences are stored so renaming it would be best. Tried it, but it didn't work after that either. Patrick Börjesson did you delete the chrome directory in /usr/lib/MozillaFirebird? Some

Re: [gentoo-user] Planning for a future crash

2003-12-10 Thread Ben Sparks
Celestial Wizard wrote: What about making the 2 Drives software RAID 0? That way at least 1 drive can fail and you can continue. One thing about using a LiveCD is that you will need to configure the Internet / Dialin Connection over the phone unless you modify the CD and burn it -- [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [gentoo-user] GRP CDs?

2003-12-07 Thread Ben Sparks
Senectus - wrote: > damn.. Cause It keeps asking for "cabextract" and trying to grab it off the net.. (yes I am using that capitol -K ). > Is there a fix for this or should I down load the latest and then start from scratch?? > Thanks.. > > Senectus > > > > "Imagine a school with children that c

Re: [gentoo-user] GRP CDs?

2003-12-07 Thread Ben
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Senectus - wrote: | The GRP CD's are the 2 CD sets arnt they? or is there another set? | | I have been using the P4 1.4 Gentoo CD set.. but some of my emerge | features that SHOULD be local, are trying to reach out across the | net.. would that be beca

Re: [gentoo-user] init freezing:..proc..

2003-12-07 Thread Ben Anderson
w/out screwing things up? Thanks, Ben From: "Ben Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] init freezing:..proc.. Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2003 18:29:54 -0500 Actually I already tried this one along with a few others. Thi

Re: [gentoo-user] init freezing:..proc..

2003-12-06 Thread Ben Anderson
Actually I already tried this one along with a few others. This one gives the same output as Knoppix when attempting to mount w/o the -r option: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda4, or too many mounted file systems -Ben From: Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTEC

[gentoo-user] init freezing:..proc..

2003-12-06 Thread Ben Anderson
root partition. I recently switched to jfs which Knoppix mounts ro fine, but I can't write to it. I don't have a rescue disk or anything, since I've always depended on knoppix. Help? Thanks, Ben _ Take advantage of our

Re: [gentoo-user] spam after subscribing to gentoo-user

2003-12-02 Thread Ben
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Collins Richey wrote: |On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 23:27:02 +0800 William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | |>Bottom posters, especially those that that fail to trim there posts are |>a real pain in many modern mail readers ... | | |And just why would y

[gentoo-user] using mirrorselect -i

2003-12-02 Thread Ben Anderson
a trick? Thanks, Ben _ From the hottest toys to tips on keeping fit this winter, you’ll find a range of helpful holiday info here. http://special.msn.com/network/happyholidays.armx -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Digests do not match

2003-12-01 Thread Ben Anderson
plete. (Digests do not match) our recorded digest: 9b90cad3620776e891ef686da0678918 your file's digest: b21a563eeb240e08d3371cb1426b2bc6 !!! File does not exist: /usr/portage/distfiles//lcms-1.11.tar.gz Seems like a common problem - easy fix? T

[gentoo-user] Couldn't download

2003-12-01 Thread Ben Anderson
as not found on the server! !!! Couldn't download lcms-1.09.tar.gz. Aborting. Don't know if this matters, but I'm using Prozilla. I've been running Gentoo for about a year, but this is a fresh install I'm working on(So it's never worked right yet)

[gentoo-user] too large vfat

2003-12-01 Thread Ben Anderson
# mkfs -t vfat /dev/hda3 mkfs.vfat 2.8 (28 Feb 2001) mkfs.vfat: Attempting to create a too large file system from fdisk: /dev/hda369 2501 19543072+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) any thoughts? Thanks, Ben _ Groove on the latest fro

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is boot.log

2003-11-30 Thread Ben Calvert
On Saturday 29 November 2003 23:26, Collins Richey wrote: > Unfortunately, gentoo doesn't care about runlevel 3 or 5. You get the > graphical login, if you have the value set in /et/rc.conf, or > non-graphical in the value is not set. sorta right. Gentoo has runlevel 'defaul', which corresponds

Re: [gentoo-user] compile on other computer, emerge on mine

2003-11-25 Thread Ben
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adrian Pirciu wrote: |Hi | |I have a pretty slow computer, p3/700, and i can use a P4 to compile |my packages. Given that on the P4 there's gentoo installed, how can I |compile the packages I need on the P4 then merge them on my gentoo on |P3 ? There m

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot mount root filesystem read/write

2003-11-19 Thread Ben Maas
On Wednesday 19 November 2003 08:35 pm, Ian Truelsen wrote: > point, run fsck and am again assured that /dev/hda3 is clean. I check > /etc/mtab and /dev/ROOT is listed as mounted at / and in rw mode. However, Try changing the / mount point in /etc/fstab from /dev/ROOT to /dev/hda3. -- Be

Re: [gentoo-user] DeCSS: safe to emerge?

2003-11-19 Thread Ben Maas
On Wednesday 19 November 2003 07:52 pm, Sumeet Singh Parmar wrote: > I meant, FBI won't be knocking on my door if I emerged DeCSS? I forget what > is the status of that whole we'll-arrest-dvd-on-linux-evil-doers? Try USE="-subpeona", I'm sure that will tak

Re: [gentoo-user] DeCSS: safe to emerge?

2003-11-19 Thread Ben Maas
ge it. I did, and my machine did not blow up. Yeah, but did the black helicopters (or subpeonas) come yet? ;-) /me puts on his tin foil hat and begins the emerge. -- Ben Maas - Technology Architect Open Technology Systems, LLC --- eMa

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo internal structure

2003-11-19 Thread Ben Maas
the social contract is because they haven't had to worry about it! If the "centrally planned" way is really important to you, stick with Debian. But if you're willing to help evolve Gentoo, download the ISOs and give it a try. If it works f

Re: [gentoo-user] MozillaFirebird question

2003-11-09 Thread ben
Same process, different threads. The memory is shared across the threads so the figures for memory usage look worse than they actually are. It's not a dumb question, it's a dumb threading model, which is why it's been junked in favour of NPTL in the 2,6* kernels... Ben >

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo box hung - how to debug?

2003-10-28 Thread Ben Maas
October 2003 03:50 pm, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 10:46, Ben Maas wrote: > > On Monday 27 October 2003 12:12 pm, Mark Knecht wrote: > > >I'm thinking that this may be due to something emerged in the last > > > week of so. How can I check what I&#x

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