Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling for another machine?

2003-12-12 Thread Frank Schäfer
Hi, You want to do a complete install? I'd make a directory /pentium-machine, boot from the CD, mount the disk at /mount/gentoo and furtheron do everything due to a normal install - just for /mnt/gentoo/pentium-machine. Then I'd chroot to /mnt/gentoo/pentium-machine and finish the install with the

[gentoo-user] Installation of snort

2003-12-08 Thread Frank Schäfer
Hi all, I had installed snort some weeks ago without any problem. Yesterday I renoved the thing to emerge it oncemore. I'm ending up with: (I'm unmerging/emerging libnet AND snort using the last portage tree) checking for libnet.h... no ERROR! Libnet header not found, go get it from http

Re: [gentoo-user] Just want a Point in the right direction.

2003-12-08 Thread Frank Schäfer
Hi, Helgi said it (nearly) all. You should add something to the EXTRAVERSIONvariable in the main makefile for the kernel to save the modules of your old one. Regards Frank On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 11:01, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote: > On 2003-12-08, FX wrote: > > I saw this on a post a while ago. >

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge failes

2003-11-27 Thread Frank Schäfer
On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 19:03, Michael Spohn wrote: > > Are you able to run /bin/sh by itself? My hunch is a hard drive problem > > because everything else looks OK. > > No problem at all. > > Even a script "hello" > > #!/bin/sh > echo "Hello World" > > produces "Hello World" > > It drives me c

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa via oss question

2003-11-26 Thread Frank Schäfer
doing works fine on my computer. Afterwards I > installed Jack and Ardour. They all do well. > > Best wishes, > > Fabien > > Frank Schäfer wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > >The thread from Matthieu brought me to this. > > > >What use flags should I u

Re: [gentoo-user] loading modules at boot

2003-11-26 Thread Frank Schäfer
HI, AFAIK the files /etc/modules.autoload.d/* contain the modules to load, if the system boots with one of the kernels mentioned there. I.E. the modules loaded at boot time. Hope this helps Frank On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 13:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i've never been clear re the difference > b

Re: [gentoo-user] Package Specific Optimizations?

2003-11-26 Thread Frank Schäfer
On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 13:06, Patrick Börjesson wrote: > > this all makes some sense - of course ;), but - me too - wondered > > about, how to build (for instance) gimp with tiff support but imagick > > without(I know, this is a stupid example.), without shooting myself in > > the foot during the ne

[gentoo-user] Alsa via oss question

2003-11-26 Thread Frank Schäfer
Hi all, The thread from Matthieu brought me to this. What use flags should I use to enable oss AND the alsa oss compatibility layer? Is this possible at all (the alsa guide says to compile oss support without any oss driver into the kernel)? I plan to build Rosegarden and remember, that this pie

Re: [gentoo-user] timidity oss support

2003-11-26 Thread Frank Schäfer
Hi Matthieu, from http://www.timidity.jp/doc/options.html i took: -OdOutputs via audio device (default) I don't have timidity, but seems, this hasn't anything to do with oss. A quick look at your output from ``etcat'' says me that you haven't sound support at all (no alsa, nor OggVorbis, no

Re: [gentoo-user] Package Specific Optimizations?

2003-11-26 Thread Frank Schäfer
Hi Spider, this all makes some sense - of course ;), but - me too - wondered about, how to build (for instance) gimp with tiff support but imagick without (I know, this is a stupid example.), without shooting myself in the foot during the next ``emerge -u world''. Maybe it would be good, to have

Re: [gentoo-user] timidity oss support

2003-11-26 Thread Frank Schäfer
;o) oss ? On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 12:00, Matthieu Amiguet wrote: > I just emerged timidity++ with the following USE variable: > > USE="X gtk tetex samba ldap -kde -qt -gnome -alsa -oggvorbis" > > ... and now: > > $ timidity -Od somefile.mid > Playmode `d' is not compiled in. > > # etcat -u tim

Re: [gentoo-user] Undocumented USE flags

2003-11-25 Thread Frank Schäfer
Ok, found them in the ebuilds. Mostly not commented. :( Frank -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Undocumented USE flags

2003-11-25 Thread Frank Schäfer
Thanks a lot. > In /etc/make.conf is written: > # The available list of use flags with descriptions is in your portage tree. > # Use 'less' to view them: --> less /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc <-- I assumed, that the ling on the gentoo website is more up to date (I don't let etc-update overri

Re: [gentoo-user] Finding all suid binaries.

2003-11-25 Thread Frank Schäfer
Hi Tom, > I tried `find / -perm +7000`, is that the right kind of thing? The 7000 was a > guess, I've never really worked out how the bits in that 4th digit are > supposed to go. > 7000 would be suid, gid, sticky (see man chmod) > Last question... I think it was Mandrake that I was using wh

[gentoo-user] Undocumented USE flags

2003-11-25 Thread Frank Schäfer
Hi all, I'm trying to optimize the USE flags for my workstation. I did an: ``emerge -Depv world'' to see which USE flags should be set to fit my needs. For some packages i see USE possibilities, which aren't documented at http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml Where can I find documentation

Re: [gentoo-user] User input during boot, how to catch input

2003-11-25 Thread Frank Schäfer
On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 01:01, SN wrote: > >You have a laptop probably, this is a weekly topic... > > >The idea is, create different runlevels for including/excluding network, > >then configure grub/lilo to select the correct runlevel. > > Ah that was just an example, actually I want to do somethin

Re: [gentoo-user] Threads closed in evolution

2003-11-14 Thread Frank Schäfer
Hi Paulo, AFAIK this isn't implemented. Regards Frank On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 10:03, Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there a way to configure evolution to see the mail in a thread like > view but with the threads closed? > > Best regards, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] How to expire ssh user?

2003-11-11 Thread Frank Schäfer
Hi, put a trailing '*' to the password field in /etc/shadow. Regards Frank On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 12:26, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: > Hi there, > > I'd like to expire an user, so he is no longer able to login to a > machine using ssh. How can you acomplish this? I would like to keep th

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is /var full?

2003-11-07 Thread Frank Schäfer
Hi, /var/tmp/{distfiles,portage,portage-pkg} ? You can delete this. Regards Frank On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 11:51, Aaron Walker wrote: > I just installed gentoo for the first time earlier this week. Got > everything up and running perfectly. I am very impressed. Anyways... I > ran 'emerge ope

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u system not possible at the moment?

2003-11-05 Thread Frank Schäfer
Hi, I had the same problem today. Maybe the gentooers working on a new upgrade or so. This happens from time to time. I circumvented this by: # emerge -i app-editors/vim-6.2-r3 # emerge -u world U can do system if u want - of course. Ceers Frank On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 13:25, Karl-Heinz Zimmer

Re: [gentoo-user] How to backout devfs?

2003-10-29 Thread Frank Schäfer
Hi Philippe, problems with drivers of this type can be solved in /etc/devfsd.conf. Regards Frank On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 11:21, Philippe Van Hecke wrote: > On Monday 27 October 2003 11:04, Frank Schäfer wrote: > > ... but why the hick do you want to do this? > Some drivers like aac

Re: [gentoo-user] How to backout devfs?

2003-10-27 Thread Frank Schäfer
On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 11:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 11:04:33AM +0100, Frank Schäfer wrote: > > Hi, this howto is veryveryvery short. > > > 1. don't compile devfs in the kernel > > 2. don't start devfsd > > 3. run /sbin/MAK

Re: [gentoo-user] How to backout devfs?

2003-10-27 Thread Frank Schäfer
Hi, this howto is veryveryvery short. 1. don't compile devfs in the kernel 2. don't start devfsd 3. run /sbin/MAKEDEV, to create all the devices you need ... but why the hick do you want to do this? Regrads Frank On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 02:59, Jerry McBride wrote: > Has anyone here backed out de

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple network configuration

2003-10-27 Thread Frank Schäfer
Hi, have a look at the list thread starting Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Subject: Cancelling eth0 start. That,s exactly what you need. Regards Frank On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 10:29, Daniel wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > I have a laptop and I'm working and connecting at three

Re: [gentoo-user] runat ?

2003-10-22 Thread Frank Schäfer
Why the hell do you want to be root to use crontab BTW: If there is something slow with this it's the program you start. crontab doesn't anything else than start something. Regards Frank On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 16:02, raptor wrote: > > What's wrong with crontab ? > nothing wrong ! it is slow if

Re: [gentoo-user] runat ?

2003-10-22 Thread Frank Schäfer
man at, man batch Regards Frank On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 15:46, raptor wrote: > someone to know console command so that I can run "wget" processes at specified time > ... I need something easy..f.e. > > runat -t 02:00 wget -c .. > > i mean not putting stuff in crontab > > > -- > [EMAIL PRO

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How many of you are 100% Linux?

2003-10-22 Thread Frank Schäfer
Hi guys, just a thought ... what about fighting this flamewar on IRC for instance. Gentoo HAS some IRC channels, I'm sure. It's annoying delete all this OT stuff from my list archive. Regards Frank Btw: Me: At home RedHat8, Gentoo - at work Redhat, Gentoo, Sloaris, SCO and some dedicated firewal