[gentoo-user] Weird Mail Server Bounces

2005-01-14 Thread James Colannino
Hey everyone. A few messages have bounced from my mail server (killing my continuous archives of this mailing list :( ) and I'm trying to figure out why. The following error was sent to the gentoo mail server (which was then forwarded to me by the server): 452 - insufficient system storage.

[gentoo-user] can't emerge --clean

2005-01-15 Thread James Colannino
Hey everyone, I get the following errors when trying to purge files from previously installed packages: sauron root # emerge --clean gnome-base/gconf selected: 1.0.8-r5 protected: 1.0.9 2.8.0.1 omitted: none media-sound/sox selected: 12.17.4-r1 12.17.4-r2 protected: 12.17.5-r1 o

Re: [gentoo-user] can't emerge --clean

2005-01-15 Thread James Colannino
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: /usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh: /var/db/pkg/gnome-base/gconf-1.0.8-r5/gconf-1.0.8-r5.ebuild: line 27: syntax error near unexpected token `sys-devel/gettext' /usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh: /var/db/pkg/gnome-base/gconf-1.0.8-r5/gconf-1.0.8-r5.ebuild: line 27: ` nls? ( s

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How many posts do you have saved for this mailing list?

2005-01-26 Thread James Colannino
Ian K wrote: Im sorry if this is a violation of edicuite here, if so please tell me, and I wont do it again. If its ok though, how many messages do you have from this list? I have about 132MB of gentoo-user mail archived (not sure what the number of messages is...) James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.o

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Project Idea

2005-01-31 Thread James Colannino
John Myers wrote: [...]I do, however, really wish that I could find out how far in this build I am."[...] I would absolutely LOVE that ;) James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] SpamAssassin failing after update!

2005-01-31 Thread James Colannino
Nicholas Pappas wrote: Ack! Please help! SpamAssassin, on my mail server, seems to no longer be working and the spam is starting to break through! The pain! After a recent 'emerge --update world' I start receiving this message every night after my 'sa-learn' cron entry runs: bayes: bay

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Project Idea

2005-02-01 Thread James Colannino
John Myers wrote: On Tuesday 01 February 2005 01:20, Neil Bothwick wrote: It's a good idea, but you should choose a different name. there is already a script called eprogress floating around the forums. Darn. I just picked it to go along with the whole 'e-prefix' naming scheme. But I will

[gentoo-user] Multiple physical consoles

2005-03-04 Thread James Colannino
Hey guys. Here's an interesting question for you. Right now I have my computer setup in my room (Gentoo Linux) primarily for media (videos, music, and soon to be TV.) The monitor/keyboard/mouse are all sitting at one part of the room, but I'd also like use another seperate monitor/keyboard/m

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] memtest results: need new ram?

2005-03-04 Thread James Colannino
Ryan Sims wrote: My computer has had some bizzare symptoms for quite some time now, and I finally ran memtest86 from the livecd, and was wondering if anyone could help me understand what the diagnosis is. There were definately errors that popped up; say a page and a half of them. (and here's the s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Multiple physical consoles

2005-03-04 Thread James Colannino
Ash Varma wrote: It appears that on Mar 05 2005 at 09:00:51, A. Khattri wrote ... A KVM switch with long cables??? I think he is after something like a reverse KVM switch.. He wants 1 machine with dual monitors, keyboards and mice.. That's sorta right ;) I got some help from someone on

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] memtest results: need new ram?

2005-03-04 Thread James Colannino
Christopher Fisk wrote: On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Dion Sole wrote: An acceptable number of errors is about 1 error per pass. 2 is pushing it. The only acceptable number of errors per pass is 0. Any more than than and you need to RMA the memory. (Or just replace it if it's out of warranty) Not nece

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Multiple physical consoles

2005-03-04 Thread James Colannino
Douglas James Dunn wrote: Let me get this correct. You are trying to have the ability to have 2 people on the computer at the same time each with their own keyboard mouse and monitor? Well this will just be for me, but in the sense that I'll have a seperate user for MythTV on the secondary dis

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Multiple physical consoles

2005-03-04 Thread James Colannino
Sami Samhuri wrote: There's at least one interested person... Well then, I'll let you know what happens :) James -- My blog: http://www.crazydrclaw.com/ My homepage: http://james.colannino.org/ "Black holes are where God divided by zero." --Steven Wright -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] new wireless IP address on my LAN

2005-03-05 Thread James Colannino
Chris Cox wrote: On Saturday 05 March 2005 11:34 am, Ralph Slooten wrote: Yes Chris, as well as MAC address filtering (not bulletproof, but helps). Also you should not advertise your SSID (turn it off). Ok I disabled SSID Broadcast and enabled WEP. I'm not sure how to setup MAC address fi

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] memtest results: need new ram?

2005-03-05 Thread James Colannino
fire-eyes wrote: On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 22:09 -0500, Ryan Sims wrote: My computer has had some bizzare symptoms for quite some time now, and I finally ran memtest86 from the livecd, and was wondering if anyone could help me understand what the diagnosis is. There were definately errors that poppe

[gentoo-user] X11 Forwarding over SSH

2005-03-05 Thread James Colannino
Hey everyone, I enabled X11Forward in /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the machine I'm connecting to, and I'm using the command ssh -X -C hostname on the computer I'm using to connect to it. I can get in, and I can run simple X apps and have them forwarded just fine (for example, xclock, kcalc, etc.),

Re: [gentoo-user] Mbox vs maildir

2005-03-05 Thread James Colannino
Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Is there any advantage to one over the other? What are the pros and cons of each. Thanks. Hey Brett, There are probably more advantages for each than I'm aware of, but here's what I'm aware of: .maildir is less prone to corruption, because where mbox is just one large