Re: [gentoo-user] I cant get kde or gnome to work

2005-01-22 Thread Jeremy Whiting
Positive Negative wrote: I type startkde and it cant connect to x server I dont know how to start gnome but i think i installed that right i type startx and i get a really crappy xwindows So how do i get kde or gnome to work??? at the end of your /etc/rc.conf change the line to say XSESSION="Gno

Re: [gentoo-user] subversion emerge blocked.

2004-01-23 Thread Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
It is autoconf-2.58* that is blocked. You need to install a different version of autoconf. -- Jeremy Maitin-Shepard -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Check if a package is installed

2004-01-22 Thread Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
portageq -- Jeremy Maitin-Shepard -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] question about compiler warnings

2004-01-17 Thread Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
No, generally not. -- Jeremy Maitin-Shepard -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: metalog versus harddrive spindown

2004-01-11 Thread Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
Try: lsof -c metalog -- Jeremy Maitin-Shepard -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] sharing portage, mounting on another system

2004-01-11 Thread Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
. Just > be shure not to run emerge on both machines at the same time... Actually, that is not a problem unless "" is "sync" on both machines. -- Jeremy Maitin-Shepard -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Spam from gentoo-lists

2004-01-04 Thread Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
t by a > specific mail host / has not the correct list-id; list-post; whatever-header > in it. The problem with that strategy is that people will often reply personally to a list post, and with that strategy you would ignore such messages. -- Jeremy Maitin-Shepard -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Spam from gentoo-lists

2004-01-04 Thread Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
oo Box? :( That isn't Microsoft. Those are just worms. -- Jeremy Maitin-Shepard -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] procmailrc

2004-01-04 Thread Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
That is because you have the List-Id checks all wrong. The Gentoo mailing list add a List-Id header of the form: List-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: Not: List-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jeremy Maitin-Shepard -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Spam from gentoo-lists

2004-01-04 Thread Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
web spiders running at all times. -- Jeremy Maitin-Shepard -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Fetchmail problem - Query status=4 (PROTOCOL)

2004-01-04 Thread Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
I have experienced this bug also. I would recommend you file a bug report with fetchmail directly, as I do not believe it is a Gentoo-related bug. -- Jeremy Maitin-Shepard -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Bootmenu for selecting a GUI to start

2004-01-04 Thread Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
andard runscript format, and which uses the Bash `read' built-in to prompt the user. Then just use rc-update to make it be run at boot. Implementing a 5-second timeout in bash is probably not going to be pretty -- but I believe it can be done. You might want to use C or python to do it instead though. -- Jeremy Maitin-Shepard -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] env.d

2004-01-03 Thread Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
at > user... certain login files aren't read, I would imagine. Yes, you need to make sure you have "source /etc/profile" in your shell init files. For example, you could add that ~/.bashrc, and then have ~/.bash_profile source ~/.bashrc, if you are using bash. > [snip] -- J

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing /usr/portage across machines?

2004-01-03 Thread Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
hmod, rm, du, etc.) and parses the output. Lufs sshfs uses the sftp protocol. -- Jeremy Maitin-Shepard -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] env.d

2004-01-03 Thread Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
tc/env.d/. There is documentation on the Gentoo web site describing the use of /etc/env.d/ and env-update. -- Jeremy Maitin-Shepard -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs install

2004-01-03 Thread Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
is this possible? and how? > any hints? host system would be the gentoo livecd or knoppix. After partitioning, formatting, and mounting the installation target disks, you could modify /etc/exports and start nfsd. -- Jeremy Maitin-Shepard -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Resize and move ext3 and reiserfs partitions

2004-01-01 Thread Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
f / and /boot to it, then recreate the partitions. I don't believe there is any program (or algorithm, even) to move a reiserfs filesystem. -- Jeremy Maitin-Shepard -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Dynamic partition resize?

2004-01-01 Thread Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
our gentoo partitions into a file on one of the Debian partitions (hopefully you have enough space). -- Jeremy Maitin-Shepard -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing root

2004-01-01 Thread Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
ry careful when doing this though. -- Jeremy Maitin-Shepard -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing root

2003-12-31 Thread Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it possible to resize (shrink) my root partition which is in reiserfs format? Yes, you can use resize_reiserfs, included in sys-fs/reiserfsprogs. You will have to unmount it first. -- Jeremy Maitin-Shepard -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Centralized user authentication

2003-12-30 Thread Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
ecure and outdated, and OpenLDAP seams to be over kill. Overkill would be OpenAFS + Kerberos + OpenLDAP. Just OpenLDAP is not particularly difficult to set up. I did have to write some shell scripts to perform user administration tasks, although it is possible that there is some package that do

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2004.0 - Bug-Reports

2003-12-30 Thread Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
ry.cgi (i.e. follow the "Query existing bug reports" link) rather than use the search form on http://bugs.gentoo.org/. -- Jeremy Maitin-Shepard -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] bash prompt?

2003-08-11 Thread Jeremy Workman
Bash isn't reading any configs, the term app needs to execute bash with the --login option. This can easily be fixed depending on which term program you use. For xterm, run with the -ls option. Also make sure that in /etc/passwd it lists /bin/bash as your shell and it's not blank for the user. O

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 Test

2003-07-24 Thread Jeremy Hanmer
generally when you compile external modules (alsa, wireless drivers, etc) that aren't part of the kernel source (luckily, alsa's part of 2.5/2.6), they'll look for the kernel headers in /usr/src/linux. I guess it doesn't really matter if you don't use any external modules, but it's still good prac

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 2.0.48-r5 borked?

2003-07-21 Thread Jeremy Workman
On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 12:14, Richard Watson wrote: > [ebuildU ] media-gfx/gimp-1.2.4 [1.3.15] > > (isn't 1.3.15 a downgrade, not an upgrade?) This one is normal. Both GIMP 1.2.x and 1.3.x can be installed, 1.3.15 won't be removed. The 1.3 executable is installed as gimp-1.3. -- [EMAIL PR

RE: [gentoo-user] Configuring phppgadmin with conf.d/apache2

2003-07-10 Thread Jeremy Davis
Having the IP resolve to the dns servers assigned to the box. Make sure apache is configured to use the .php page extensions. Jeremy -Original Message- From: Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 11:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] SpamAssassin doesn't start

2003-07-08 Thread Jeremy Workman
Ahh, that did the trick.. thanks a lot On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 09:12, Christopher Fisk wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Jeremy Workman wrote: > > > * Starting spamd... > >Can't locate HTML/Parser.pm in @INC (@INC contains: ../lib > > This is the problem. > > T

[gentoo-user] SpamAssassin doesn't start

2003-07-07 Thread Jeremy Workman
Hello, Not sure what's going on with this, but I believe the problem started after SpamAssassin being upgraded from 2.55 to 2.55-r1. I tried going back to 2.55 with no change. Any help would be appreciated When I try starting it I get this: * Starting spamd... Can't locate HTML/Parser.pm in @I

Re: [gentoo-user] Gimp and Japanese Font(s)

2003-06-09 Thread Jeremy
plaining what I'm trying to: http://joppegaard.com/jpn_linux.html Hope that helps. Jeremy -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Soundblaster live 5.1 and multi channel alsa

2003-06-08 Thread Jeremy
ther, I should be able to set this up with alsa using only a mixer. Can somebody point me in the right direction? The mixer settings are nuts. I've got 31 "EMU10k1 PCM" mixer controls alone in gamix (albeit only 2 seem to do anything). It's got me completely baffled. T

[gentoo-user] Progress bar just keeps going and going...

2003-06-04 Thread Jeremy Gregorio
doesn't seem to have stopped the ethernet from comming up (I can ping yahoo for instance). I've tried the 800 frame buffer and no frame buffer and both do the same thing. Any suggestions on stopping this. Thanks :) Jeremy Gregorio -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] naive question about distcc

2003-03-30 Thread Jeremy Schneider
s, such as make.conf. Does this make any sense, or is it too unworkable and/or risky? -Jeremy Schneider _ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail -- [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I make SSHD run when Gentoo boots?

2003-03-24 Thread Jeremy Schneider
Oops, I sent out that note with the wrong title. I was in the middle of composing a query of my own, and I got so excited to see a question that I could actually answer! At least in my answer, I point the questioner to a useful document. -Jeremy - do this: rc-update add sshd

[gentoo-user] need help getting distcc to dist my cc

2003-03-24 Thread Jeremy Schneider
do this: rc-update add sshd default (see http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/rc-scripts.xml) -Jeremy eauclair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right now I have to type something like: /etc/init.d/sshd start is there a way to make it run automatically when the machine boots? thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc segfaults

2003-03-24 Thread Jeremy Schneider
You may also find the following article helpful: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-hw1/ -Jeremy It was written: On Monday 24 March 2003 09:37 pm, Will Buckner (Wcc) wrote: I seem to get a lot of gcc segfaults (most recently when trying to >compile kdebaselibs update). Is th

[gentoo-user] re-fetch corrupted ebuild file

2003-03-11 Thread Jeremy Schneider
Help! I am installing rc3 and completed the stage 1 part without any problems that I am aware of. When I did the emerge -p system, I got an error (shown below), which indicates that one of my ebuild files (/usr/portage/dev-libs/glib/glib-1.2.10-r5.ebuild) was corrupted. How do I re-fetch tha

Re: [gentoo-user] grub help (hda1=winxp, hda3=linux)

2003-03-06 Thread Jeremy Workman
I notice you said you tried "setup (hd0,0)". That would be the first partition on the first hard drive (/dev/hda1). To install Grub into the master boot record the command would be "setup (hd0)". Hope this helps. On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 13:04, Ajay Sharma wrote: > hey everyone, > > I just finishe

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie question not in the faq: what package supplies the command

2003-03-03 Thread Jeremy Schneider
ARGHH! I am so sorry! I was trying to find out how to get Hotmail to turn that off. I have done that now. Please forgive me. Embarassed, -Jeremy Schneider From: Arker To: "Jeremy Schneider" , [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] newbie question not in the faq: what packag

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie question not in the faq: what package supplies the command

2003-03-03 Thread Jeremy Schneider
Thanks very much for your suggestions.  I suppose that's possible -- I haven't found a reference that maps the output from /etc/cpuinfo to the suggested CHOST and CFLAGS, and I feel kind of unclear on that.  I don't really know how names of processors, like "athlon", "celeron", "pentium", etc., co

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie question not in the faq: what package supplies the command

2003-03-03 Thread Jeremy Schneider
: 64 KBfdiv_bug    : nohlt_bug : nof00f_bug    : nocoma_bug    : nofpu : yesfpu_exception   : yescpuid level : 1wp  : yesflags   : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 pge mmx syscall 3dnow k6_mtrrbogomips    : 996.14 dana etc # >From: Jonathan Morton <

[gentoo-user] newbie question not in the faq: what package supplies the command

2003-03-03 Thread Jeremy Schneider
Here's a newbie question that should be in the FAQ (or is, and I just can't read):   What package will supply the * command?   The motivation for this question is that I was trying to do "emerge -u system", and groff is not compiling.  Part of the output from that command is this: ... checking whic

[gentoo-user] getting cygwin terminal type to be recognized by gentoo (?)

2003-02-27 Thread Jeremy Schneider
ugs/2000/09/19/0001.html), and added that to /etc/termcap, and lo and behold, it works! Yahoo! What's going on here? Isn't it better to use terminfo rather than termcap? How do I make it use terminfo? Do I need to specify a USE variable and recompile? If so,

[gentoo-user] 4.2.99.4 and windows key?

2003-02-13 Thread Jeremy Vinding
w/ xfree 4.2.1-r2, gnome 2.2 and metacity 2.4.34 i had 4 desktops, and keyboard shortcuts so i could switch between them with the windows key and numbers (win-1, win-2, etc) after upgrading to xfree 4.2.99.4 they no longer work, and in the keyboard shortcut config app, i cannot tell it to use the w

[gentoo-user] KDE styles gone?

2003-01-30 Thread Jeremy Workman
Hello, It seems all the KDE styles are missing after upgrade from qt-3.1.0-r1 to qt-3.1.0-r2. I'm wondering what happened, and how I can get them back. Any suggestions would be appreciated. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list