[gentoo-user] Apache problem

2003-07-03 Thread James Casbon
apache... [ !! ] Google does not seem to know about this problem - has anyone else seen/fixed this problem - or have any guesses where I have gone wrong. thanks, James ps: emerge info Portage 2.0.48-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc

[gentoo-user] openoffice emerge problem's version 1.0.3-r1

2003-07-02 Thread james jones
the following: * * # export FORCE_JAVA=yes * !!! ERROR: app-office/openoffice-1.0.3-r1 failed. !!! Function pkg_setup, Line 191, Exitcode 0 !!! (no error message) James -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] RE:openoffice emerge problem's version 1.0.3-r1

2003-07-02 Thread james jones
great. James -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Threaded email client for gentoo-user?

2003-06-26 Thread James McArthur
Hi, On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 00:18, Owen Gunden wrote: Is this reply any harder to read than yours was? For short messages, Of course not. bottom posting still makes at least as much sense as top posting. Yep, 100% agree. It's all up to personal preference.. James -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo/m68k

2003-06-26 Thread James McArthur
space). I also have a full 68040 and a 68030/68881 combo, which work properly, though the latter is also exceedingly short of RAM and disk. Hmm.. wonder how hard it would be to get Gentoo running on an Amiga with a 68060? Ponders... James -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Threaded email client for gentoo-user?

2003-06-26 Thread James McArthur
think of the dialup modem users? :) -- BOFH Excuse #191: Just type 'mv * /dev/null'. Hehe, 'rm -rf * ~' .. oops .. :) James -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Fork of Gentoo?

2003-06-26 Thread Timothy James Friesen
Hello All, A couple of thoughts regarding the recent fork: 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. Now, if that's the case, what's to stop this

Re: [gentoo-user] Threaded email client for gentoo-user?

2003-06-24 Thread James McArthur
client I have found with good IMAP support. What do you use? Evolution. Although the IMAP support is a bit .. strange .. but working :) James -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Threaded email client for gentoo-user?

2003-06-24 Thread James McArthur
:) James On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 11:19, Peter McCracken wrote: And perhaps someone could answer why bottom-posting is better, anyway? I'll obey it, if that's etiquette. But I would have thought top posts were easier to read. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Threaded email client for gentoo-user?

2003-06-24 Thread James McArthur
Hi, Depends if you're writing a reply like this one I guess :) For such a short reply, it's fairly plain to see where my email ends, and where the original text starts, even with fancy quote highlighting and such. Like everything else, there is a time and place for both styles. James On Tue

Re: [gentoo-user] gedit 2.2.2

2003-06-21 Thread James McArthur
not *that* brave to try and add more symlinks :) Thanks anyway James -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] gedit 2.2.2

2003-06-20 Thread James McArthur
the configure script runs for gedit, it finds all of the correct files. So.. any ideas? James -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Framebuffering on bootup - Want to see the cow?

2003-06-19 Thread James McArthur
:) James -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage tmp dir

2003-06-18 Thread Timothy James Friesen
-- And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is. :-) --Larry Wall in [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Timothy James Friesen wrote: Hello all, I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage tmp dir

2003-06-18 Thread Timothy James Friesen
explanation as to why a symlink would appear after being deleted, and yet not appear as a symlink? Thanks, Tim On June 18, 2003 09:27 am, Mark Fisher wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 18 Jun 2003 3:19 pm, Timothy James Friesen wrote: Hello all, Weird

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage tmp dir

2003-06-18 Thread Timothy James Friesen
Erik, No, please see a post I recently made for the ls -la output that I get. Thanks, Tim On June 18, 2003 09:46 am, Erik S. Johansen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 18 June 2003 08:43, Timothy James Friesen wrote: Hello all, I have been trying

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage tmp dir

2003-06-18 Thread Timothy James Friesen
, Timothy James Friesen wrote: Erik, No, please see a post I recently made for the ls -la output that I get. Note the d option ls -lad - --Erik -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+8IIHds9m9uhAobARAitmAKC0O69alL5PFQmAl3pmSx4xRW/KywCeKiM2

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage tmp dir

2003-06-18 Thread Timothy James Friesen
~Mike -- And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is. :-) --Larry Wall in [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Timothy James Friesen wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup to windowsXP

2003-06-17 Thread James
or similar. - James On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 16:17, Paul Stear wrote: Hi all, My wifes windows XP machine is almost redundant and I have been trying to backup my gentoo box over the network onto a spare disk in the other machine. I am just lost I cannot get windows to see gentoo. I have managed

[gentoo-user] RE: screen question

2003-06-17 Thread james jones
From: Mikhail P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 00:09:08 + Subject: screen question The question is regarding screen tool. When I run screen in detached mode (e.g. screen -dmS sync emerge sync), I'm able to see it via screen -ls and then reattach it by typing screen -R

[gentoo-user] Portage tmp dir

2003-06-17 Thread Timothy James Friesen
Hello all, I have been trying to emerge OpenOffice. I created my / partition too small, and it fills up trying to emerge OO. I have tried changing make .conf and 'export Portage_TMPDIR' so that portage will use /usr/tmp instead of /var/tmp, but it seems that /usr/tmp/portage is acting as a

Re: [gentoo-user] USB CF reader hotplug mounting

2003-06-14 Thread James Michael Fultz
* Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] [14 Jun 2003 11:51]: [ ... ] Are you saying it's getting assigned a different sg number? I don't think that's the problem, becuase I can do mount twice in a row and the first fails but the second successes. I don't change anything between the 2 tries. I have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Clear Screen

2003-06-06 Thread James
emerge min-getty, then replace applicable lines in /etc/inittab. - James On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 12:54, Jamie Dobbs wrote: How can I make it so that whenever I log out of a console and return the the login prompt the screen clears ie. the login prompt is always at the top of a 'clear' screen

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia Drivers

2003-06-03 Thread Mitchell James
the same problem. You will not see any significant improvement with drivers newer than when the GPUs on your card were first issued. Most of the updates are for enabling capabilities on newer cards. Mitchell James --[ UxBoD ]-- wrote: Has anybody upgraded to 4363-r2 drivers? I am running a Ti4600

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia Drivers

2003-06-03 Thread Mitchell James
Also look at /var/log/nvid* it is a log of the nvidia compile. Mitchell James - Kernel module load error: ./usr/src/nv/nvidia.o: unresolved symbol -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Annotating PDF's in Linux

2003-05-29 Thread James H. Cloos Jr.
Ulrich == Ulrich Plate [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ulrich 'Annotations are non-printing notes, which Scribus can Ulrich optionally embed within a PDF. AFAICD, scribus does not import pdf files or allow one to edit existing pdfs. What it can do is generate annotations in pdfs that it creates,

[gentoo-user] glitch in GL

2003-04-05 Thread Mitchell James
the glitch. Is there a better way? Mitchell James -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] glitch in GL

2003-04-05 Thread Mitchell James
I haven't load on any of those types of programs. So hopefully noting like that was installed during other emerges. I normally do a pretend and don't remember seeing such a dependence. Mitchell James bryce verdier wrote: I had the same problem, and in doing a little digging on my system i

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to connect to Windows share with Samba on Gentoo?

2003-04-04 Thread james jones
~ the command I use to mount a smb share is: mount -t smbfs -o ~ username=USERNAME password=password //smbserver/share /mnt/samba. I normally leave out the password= part so that my password will not be sitting in my .bash_history. You will receive the password prompt much in the same way as you

Re: [gentoo-user] Package management for non-ebuild software

2003-04-03 Thread James H. Cloos Jr.
Craig == A Craig West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Craig The biggest problem I find with cooking up ebuilds is sandbox Craig violations, where some package doesn't necessarily follow the Craig rules about where to install stuff. I occasionally have to make Craig a patch to fix it... Yeah. But I

Re: [gentoo-user] survey: gentoo corporate usage?

2003-04-02 Thread Mitchell James
James gabriel wrote: i'm hoping the lot of you will be able to help me convert my own company to gentoo with some usefull stats: can someone fill me in on what big companies out there use gentoo? if i get a reasonably strong list, it'll serve as some helpful ammunition in convertin this (mostly

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sudo not setting the path (was sudo not running a shell as a login shell)

2003-03-31 Thread James H. Cloos Jr.
The problem appears to be that for some reason, sudo doesn't put the /usr/sbin and /sbin directories in the path. | sudo wasn't designed to do that. That is not generally true. I have at least two boxen (with distribution-provided sudo installs) where sudo does result in a PATH that includes

Re: [gentoo-user] distfile mirroring how-to ?

2003-03-28 Thread Mitchell James
computers and would be nice to have all the packages mirrored on one of the local servers instead of constant access to the much slower outside connection. I wonder what the trade-off point is between local and web mirrors. Mitchell James I have already posted this question but didn't recieved any

Re: [gentoo-user] Mplayer install failing while merging libdv

2003-03-23 Thread Mitchell James
with building gnome where somebody put a dependency on qt for gnome. ?gnome should never have a dependency on qt. ? Mitchell James Peter Ruskin wrote: On Sunday 23 Mar 2003 01:32, Don Smith wrote: Arnold Krille wrote: On Saturday 22 March 2003 18:57, Don Smith wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] Mplayer install failing while merging libdv

2003-03-23 Thread Mitchell James
are these files? What do they do? and where is the documentation? I have never looked at them before. Mitchell James

Re: [gentoo-user] opengl-update

2003-03-23 Thread Mitchell James
as part of video generation clusters and have had no problems with continous operation. You should sit though the hour it takes to bring up a 40 node cluster. Mitchell James -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Problems with gpm, mc, screen

2003-03-22 Thread James Michael Fultz
This is with `gpm-1.20.0-r5', `screen-3.9.13-r4', and `mc-4.6.0'. gpm is running, and it isn't working at the console with any of the apps that are supposed to support it (and have been compiled to do so). Simple copy-and-paste at the console works, but not special support in any of apps that are

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd questions

2003-03-22 Thread Mitchell James
Did you try a different server? This is the two active lines from my ntpd. Everything else is commented out. Substitute your own server for tick.uh.edu. NTPDATE_CMD=ntpdate NTPDATE_OPTS=-b tick.uh.edu Mitchell James Ernie Schroder wrote: I read through a recent thread on ntp and I've googled

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA vs ESound ESD

2003-03-21 Thread James Michael Fultz
* Marc Tessier [EMAIL PROTECTED] [21 Mar 2003 20:55]: I have emerge gnome completely without having the esound in my USE flag and installed it by itself as a dependency. I read on the gnome page that esd is the sound daemon for gnome. but I may be crazy or I don`t understand english at all

Re: [gentoo-user] build fail : net-snmp-5.0.6

2003-03-19 Thread James H. Cloos Jr.
Stanislas == Stanislas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Stanislas I have problems emerging nagios because of net-snmp-5.0.6 Stanislas who fails to build ... The emerge, per the output you attached, dies because the security module ucm is not found. According to the ebuild that module is specified in

[gentoo-user] Does the Gentoo-Sources kernel have the new HTB kernel options or...

2003-03-17 Thread james jones
. Thanks James -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Fluxbox, Blackbox, and Openbox (was: Re: [gentoo-user] Opinion Poll: KDE Vs Gnome)

2003-03-05 Thread James Michael Fultz
* Alexander Futasz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05 Mar 2003 20:29]: well, openbox can have bitmaps for all buttons that control the toolbar and windows. it uses xft to give you smooth anti-aliased fonts. and like in waimea you can mousescroll through the desktops. and shade the windows with the

[gentoo-user] Re: 2gb limit?

2003-03-03 Thread James Michael Fultz
* gabriel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [03 Mar 2003 10:02]: i know that a fat32 filesystem has a 4gb limit, and that an ext3 system (that's what i'm using) has a limit considerably higher why then can't i build a file any bigger than 2gb on my machine? [ ... ] It's not a filesystem problem, but one

[gentoo-user] Question re: games

2003-03-03 Thread Timothy James Friesen
Hello All, I recently upgraded LBreakout2 to version 2.2.4 or something, and now I can't run it. It's installed in /usr/games/bin, and I don't have acces to that directory as a normal user for some reason. Any ideas as to what to do to fix this would be much appreciated. I noticed something

[gentoo-user] en_US.UTF-8 unknown?

2003-03-02 Thread James H. Cloos Jr.
I still working on getting my gentoo partition ready for use (dl is slow at 44kbps) and was running emerge in a chroot(2)ed shell. Whenever a perl module was tested for dependencies, perl complained that it was unable to set the locale to en_US.UTF-8. Being an english speaking yank, I natuarlly

[gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade

2003-02-27 Thread Timothy James Friesen
Hello all, I emerged kernel 2.4.20-rc1 today. /usr/src/linux still points to my 2.4.19-rc10 kernel. What should I do about this? I assume I should only unmerge 2.4.19-rc10 after succesfully compiling 2.4.20-rc1. Also. Will emerge -u world take me to the altest 1.4-rc3 release once all the

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache, PHP and HTTPS issue

2003-02-15 Thread James Dennis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It sounds like you didn't run the ebuild scripts after installing. Read the doc's on how to install things before expecting magic... - -James On Thursday 13 February 2003 04:17 pm, Balaji Srinivasan wrote: Hi Everyone i have installed apache

[gentoo-user] A couple of questions

2003-02-10 Thread Timothy James Friesen
Hi All, I've succesfully setup my system to boot into kdm. However, it looks rather ugly. If anyone knows of a way to make it look prettier, please let me know. Also, I've installed gnome 2.2, but it does not prevent itself for loading in kdm. How can I set kdm up so that it sees my gnome

[gentoo-user] snail-mail mirror of distfiles?

2003-02-04 Thread James H. Cloos Jr.
I need to seed my mirror of rsync://rsync3.us.gentoo.org/gentoo/distfiles via CDR or DVD-R. Can anyone help? It looks like three DVD-R and a CDR should be enough to hold the data (about 14 GB based on rsync -avn). I'll cover the media and (usps) postage. And can pass them on to someone else in

[gentoo-user] Configuring an HP DeskJet 3420 that is on a windows share

2003-01-30 Thread Timothy James Friesen
Hello again all, I would like to set up an HP DeskJet 3420 for use over the network. I follow the instructions in the Gentoo guide, until I get to the foomatic-configure part. It cannot find an xml file for that printer. Whenre can I get an xml file for this printer? Thanks, Tim --

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