Re: [gentoo-user] Problem starting ypbind

2005-02-22 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 08:11:13PM -0800, Mike Noble wrote: The DNS domainname has nothing to do with NIS. It is actually suggested that DNS and NIS should not be the same. So setting dnsdomainname would/should not have any effect on NIS. Yes but if it's not set, then /etc/init.d/domainname

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem starting ypbind

2005-02-21 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 06:39:13PM +0200, Radu Filip wrote: oot # /etc/init.d/ypbind start * Setting NIS domainname to mydomain.com... [ ok ] * ERROR: Problem starting needed services. * ypbind was not started. You're right, it looks like something to do with your rc

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem starting ypbind

2005-02-21 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 08:34:35PM +0200, Radu Filip wrote: # epm -q ypbind yp-tools ypbind-1.17.2-r1 yp-tools-2.8 [... contents of ypbind files ...] All of that looks OK (exactly like what I'm running, in fact). I wonder if you've got some kind of circular dependency with domainname?

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem starting ypbind

2005-02-21 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 09:32:56PM +0200, Radu Filip wrote: That's odd on my side: # /etc/init.d/domainname status * status: stopped Aha, I think this is our bogeyman. You need to convince the system that domainname is started, somehow. -- aside explaining /etc/conf.d/domainname -- If

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking up... Connecting... Waiting... Transferring

2005-02-21 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 12:37:44PM -0800, Grant wrote: That might be true for YOU but not necessarily for everyone else. If it's true for me, it's almost definitely true for others, and that's a problem. It doesn't need to be true for everyone else to be a problem. Mind giving us a URL so

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem starting ypbind

2005-02-21 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 02:12:06AM +0200, Radu Filip wrote: I can do a number of workarounds, like adding a line like: /bin/domainname mydomain.com within the start body of ypbind and deleting domainname from the dependencies list. Actually it works this way but I really hate to do such

[gentoo-user] 2.6 + nvidia problems

2004-02-04 Thread N. Owen Gunden
Hello- ARCH = ~x86 kernel = gentoo-sources-2.6.1-r1 linux-headers = 2.6.0 nptl-enabled quirk = have tried using udev and switched back to devfs because of problems Ever since I introduced the aforementioned quirk I haven't been able to probe in my nvidia module. Attempting to do so results in:

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6 + nvidia problems

2004-02-04 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 09:57:27PM -0500, Thomas Kirchner wrote: I had the same problem today, with the same kernel. It turns out those missing symbols are because of the kernel version - there's a patch to add in some code so you can recompile, but I recommend upgrading to a newer kernel.

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailmna python error

2004-01-27 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 04:18:58PM +, Yorkshire Dave wrote: since a few days, i have this errors: [...] I had the same problem. I don't know if this is a good fix but here's my fix. There are 4 paths.py files [...] Please file a bug on bugs.gentoo.org so the rest of us can benefit

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.4.22-gentoo-r5 safe to use despite oops?

2004-01-18 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 03:35:10PM -0700, Collin Starkweather wrote: I'm getting a kernel oops from gentoo-sources kernel 2.4.22-gentoo-r5. I have submitted a bug with lots of detail at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38648 I believe this is another incarnation of this bug:

Re: [gentoo-user] uptime, top segfaults?

2004-01-15 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 10:21:51PM -0800, Eric Paynter wrote: Um, help? I just upgraded kernel from gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r3 to -r5... I tried to emerge procps (which should rebuild those binaries) with no luck... Any ideas? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38208 -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Playing Starcraft

2003-12-30 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 01:05:23AM -0600, Brendan Sullivan wrote: emerge wine i have it working perfectly, albeit a tiny bit on the slow side in menu's Indeed, it's a bit slow at times, even with a decent machine (Athlon XP 1800+, 768 MB ram, geforce 2 ti). I *don't* advise moving to

Re: [gentoo-user] Wine StarCraft

2003-12-30 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 04:35:39PM -0600, Brendan Sullivan wrote: not sure it will help with the sound issue, but make sure you have these two lines at the bottom of your config file. [AppDefaults\\starcraft.exe\\x11drv] DXGrab = Y Below is the x11drv part of my config, which works to play

Re: [gentoo-user] NTPL

2003-12-30 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 11:55:05AM +, Ani Adarsh wrote: thanks .. got it now i got problems with nvidia-glx ... nvidia-glx does not work i had to switch to xfree opengl interface and my DRI is gone .. :( I had to re-emerge nvidia-glx. - O -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Availabillity of gentoo

2003-12-19 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 04:04:03PM +0100, Dennis Freise wrote: Sorry to disappoint you, but I think he's not clever enough to read that mail... or maybe to 1337 (...) :-) I take offense at the discrimination against people who speak 1337. That's just a feature of hacker/gamer/megatokyo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: quote from distrowatch weekl...

2003-12-18 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 01:50:35PM -0500, Brian Downey wrote: I actually use Gentoo on a majority of my servers. Some of them bigger than others, and a few that are at least over a year old. For me, security is paramount to stability. It's a tough call to make, but what good is a stable

Re: [gentoo-user] Availabillity of gentoo

2003-12-18 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 07:27:03PM +0100, Gerhard W. Gruber wrote: The only thing I wonder about is if I can expect gentoo being still available in a year (so to speak). There are too many smart people who think it's the best linux available for it to just vaporize without a trace. If / when

Re: [gentoo-user] courier-imap blocks bastille?

2003-12-18 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 01:38:06PM -0600, Reno Romanin wrote: why would that happen? and is there a way aound it? Bastille depends on mailx, which in turn depends on a virtual/mta which is bringing in courier (the real deal, not just courier-imap). The courier package blocks with any

Re: [gentoo-user] NPTL -- how to start using it?

2003-12-18 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 07:13:53AM -0500, Jerry McBride wrote: On Sunday 14 December 2003 10:07 pm, N. Owen Gunden wrote: As I understand it, here's what I need to do: - Install kernel 2.6.0-test11 - Set the nptl USE flag - emerge glibc (2.3.2 ok?) - emerge wine I read somewhere

Re: [gentoo-user] Normal user read/write to hard disk.

2003-12-18 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 02:01:31AM +, Dane Elwell wrote: xerxes root # gvim /etc/fstab xerxes root # umount /mnt/storage xerxes root # mount /mnt/storage xerxes root # exit logout [EMAIL PROTECTED] omicron $ mkdir /mnt/storage/test mkdir: cannot create directory `/mnt/storage/test':

Re: [gentoo-user] php4

2003-12-18 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 08:08:56PM -0800, Ted Ozolins wrote: Could this be why I cannot get postgres, php, apache and eestock to play nicely? How can I change this at compile time, or can I? emerge mod_php -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] partition resizing inside of Gentoo

2003-12-16 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 10:15:43PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: reading yet, but was wondering if there are tools that can both resize and move existing partitions while they are potentially in use? GNU Parted is a pretty amazing partition editing tool. I'm fairly certain it does *not* allow you

Re: [gentoo-user] NPTL -- how to start using it?

2003-12-16 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 01:38:18AM -0500, N. Owen Gunden wrote: I followed this procedure, but it hasn't been working out. Problems I'm experiencing now include: - The nvidia kernel module doesn't work (freezes during initialization) - wine segfaults - mplayer segfaults Note that I did

Re: [gentoo-user] NPTL -- how to start using it?

2003-12-16 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 04:52:49AM -0500, Craig Cavanaugh wrote: Out of curiosity, is GLX still operational with NPTL enabled. I completely rebuild my system from scratch without NPTL in order to get operational. The source of the problem may have been elsewhere, but I believe that there is

Re: [gentoo-user] NPTL -- how to start using it?

2003-12-15 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 07:52:56AM +, Tom Wesley wrote: This method worked for me perfectly over the weekend, although I re-emerged everything as I changed my cflags too... Are you using ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86? Can you tell me your exact versions of glibc, gcc, and kernel? Thanks, Owen --

Re: [gentoo-user] NPTL -- how to start using it?

2003-12-15 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 08:30:18AM +, Tom Wesley wrote: * sys-libs/glibc Latest version available: 2.3.3_pre20031212 Latest version installed: 2.3.2-r9 * sys-devel/gcc Latest version available: 3.3.2-r4 Latest version installed: 3.3.2-r3 *

[gentoo-user] NPTL -- how to start using it?

2003-12-14 Thread N. Owen Gunden
I'd like to start using NPTL for at least wine, with hopes of seeing performance enhancement. As I understand it, here's what I need to do: - Install kernel 2.6.0-test11 - Set the nptl USE flag - emerge glibc (2.3.2 ok?) - emerge wine I read somewhere that I should use GCC 3.3 (I'm using

Re: [gentoo-user] NPTL -- how to start using it?

2003-12-14 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 10:07:15PM -0500, N. Owen Gunden wrote: As I understand it, here's what I need to do: - Install kernel 2.6.0-test11 - Set the nptl USE flag - emerge glibc (2.3.2 ok?) - emerge wine I followed this procedure, but it hasn't been working out. Problems I'm experiencing

Re: [gentoo-user] .bashrc over ssh

2003-12-10 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 08:34:36PM +0100, Oliver Lange wrote: Does anyone know how to use ssh in a way that ~/.bashrc is executed at logon ? Currently, I need to start a bash right after logging in, then must enter 'exit' twice to log off.. man bash read the section INVOCATION It will take

Re: [gentoo-user] [gentoo users] Printing problems...follow

2003-12-10 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 06:16:23PM +0100, Primero.Franz wrote: Now i've tried installing hpijs 1.5 (instead of 1.4.1 i had before) and things are getting stranger and stranger. Now the printing starts, the Media tray empty! message is always present, but the printing is simply white ...

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4.20-gentoo-r9 has issues (?)

2003-12-09 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 09:16:05PM -0800, Dennis Allison wrote: If the r9' kernels are 'redhat 9' derived, [...] No, it has nothing to do with that. It just means it's the 9th revision that gentoo has released of that kernel version. Basically, they just added one more patch to deal with the

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4.20-gentoo-r9 has issues (?)

2003-12-09 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 11:53:22AM +0100, Guy Van Sanden wrote: Good to know that I'm not the only one... Since it sounds like there are a lot of problems with r9, it would be a good idea to file a few bugs so that they get fixed. eh? - O -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r1 and reiser

2003-12-09 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 11:51:23AM +0100, Guy Van Sanden wrote: I treid gentoo-sources 2.4.22-r1 today because of my ongoing problems with 2.4.20-r9, but it is unreasonably slow on reiser internal tree checks. Does anyone else have this problem? This may be related:

Re: [gentoo-user] sync for a net less computer

2003-09-20 Thread Owen Gunden
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 07:51:15AM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: Is it enough to copy the /usr/portage dir? That's almost enough. You probably want to delete the original portage tree on the second computer before copying and then, after the copy completes, run fixpackages. I use nfs to share

Re: [gentoo-user] gpm dependency?

2003-09-18 Thread Owen Gunden
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 08:38:07AM +0100, Matthew Coulson wrote: Well, I haven't used links before but... Can links be used with framebuffer and navigated successfully with keyboard? Yes. I guess this is a bug then. Will file, thanks. Owen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] post-it notes application?

2003-09-17 Thread Owen Gunden
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 07:32:49AM +0200, Alberto Bert wrote: I would like to have a yellow post-it notes manager like knotes or goat, but I don't use gnome or KDE (WM fan.) Could you suggest me any program like those for wm or x, which don't need to start heavy processes? Try xpad. I think

Re: [gentoo-user] gpm dependency?

2003-09-16 Thread Owen Gunden
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 09:27:08AM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: gpm is in the default use flags so to not use gpm you need to have -gpm in your use flags. The strange thing is, I /do/ have -gpm in my use flags: % emerge info | grep USE USE=x86 avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg libg++

[gentoo-user] emerge --verbose what?

2003-09-16 Thread Owen Gunden
So when the following happens after an emerge: * Regenerating GNU info directory index... * Processed 61 info files: 1 errors; run with emerge --verbose to view errors. What am I supposed to tell emerge to do verbosely? Re-emerge the same package? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] gpm dependency?

2003-09-16 Thread Owen Gunden
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 01:36:11PM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: Do an emerge -ep world and look for any of those packages shortly after gpm is listed. If you don't find anything, then I haven't got a clue. If you do, then it's just figuring out why the package is pulling it in. Thanks for the

[gentoo-user] gpm dependency?

2003-09-15 Thread Owen Gunden
Why is emerge -DUpv world trying to install gpm? I am not USEing gpm, and I don't have any of the apps that directly depend on gpm installed: $ etcat depends gpm | tail +2 | perl -ne '$_ .= ; print unless /gpm\?/' * app-editors/xwpe-1.5.29a =sys-libs/gpm-1.20.0 * app-misc/twin-0.3.8-r1

Re: [gentoo-user] DebToo: Debian, Gentoo-style

2003-08-28 Thread Owen Gunden
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:11:30AM -0700, Chris de Vidal wrote: Lots of up-to-date packages? Yep. Debian unstable (quite stable for me, thank-you) is very current. Not as current as Gentoo, but certainly more current than, say, RedHat or Mandrake. As an ex-RedHat user, it's impressive. Yes

Re: [gentoo-user] software patents

2003-08-28 Thread Owen Gunden
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 03:57:52AM -0300, Norberto BENSA wrote: Please, don't. If you have any concerns with software patents, write to your representatives and ask them to review copyright laws. You act as though the gentoo home page is an inappropriate page to let people know what's going on

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Apache2 Configuration Questions

2003-08-21 Thread Owen Gunden
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 08:51:11PM +0100, Stroller wrote: My first question is: is it possible to have apache return requests for stuff.stroller.uk.eu.org with /home/httpd/htdocs/stuff/index.html ? Is it possible to do this automagically for all foo.stroller.uk.eu.org

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Apache2 Configuration Questions

2003-08-21 Thread Owen Gunden
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 08:51:11PM +0100, Stroller wrote: Following instructions at Gentoo.org I have installed Squirrelmail that works fine - those instructions took care of the php ssl stuff for me. I forgot to mention that soon gentoo is going to implement a bit of a better web

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo poll #4 results

2003-08-18 Thread Owen Gunden
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 09:40:40PM -0700, Fred Van Andel wrote: Gentoo poll #4 will be posted after the weekend. Does that mean the subject is incorrect, and these are in fact the results for gentoo poll #3? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gnucash !!

2003-08-18 Thread Owen Gunden
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 03:52:45PM +0300, raptor wrote: gnuCash 1.8.2 fails on the same place File a bug on bugs.gentoo.org if you want this to get fixed. Run: emerge gnucash 21 | tee /tmp/gnucash.log and then attach gnucash.log to the bug. Cheers, Owen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

[gentoo-user] status of portage on os X?

2003-08-14 Thread Owen Gunden
A couple of months back this was announced on the gentoo website (and slashdot, etc.), but I haven't heard anything about it since. Is there a project page yet? Where can I go to learn about the status of this project? Cheers, Owen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] stable.gentoo.org (was comments on ebuilds)

2003-07-22 Thread Owen Gunden
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 07:01:07PM +0200, Marius Mauch wrote: http://stable.gentoo.org While on the topic of stable.gentoo.org; I don't understand why /all/ packages are displayed on stable.gentoo.org, as opposed to just the unstable ones. Anyone? Owen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc/binutils/gcc upgrade

2003-07-20 Thread Owen Gunden
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 10:59:27AM -0400, Owen Gunden wrote: I would like to upgrade my machines to the new glibc/binutils/gcc, but I want to make sure it doesn't break anything first. The important things I am running are (everything is up-to-date x86, NOT ~x86): - exim - mailman

[gentoo-user] glibc/binutils/gcc upgrade

2003-07-18 Thread Owen Gunden
Hi, I would like to upgrade my machines to the new glibc/binutils/gcc, but I want to make sure it doesn't break anything first. The important things I am running are (everything is up-to-date x86, NOT ~x86): - exim - mailman - courier-imapd - apache2 - php4 - mysql - nfs - nis If you have

Re: [gentoo-user] Conflicts Between Local System/Daemon UIDs and UIDs Provided by NIS

2003-07-17 Thread Owen Gunden
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 12:26:32PM -0500, Steven Elling wrote: OK, now what to do about it. I purpose UIDs be assigned to all system/daemon accounts that don't already have an assigned UID using the UID range 100 - 499. Any thoughts / suggestions? I agree this is definitely a problem. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Syncronizing directories

2003-07-15 Thread Owen Gunden
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 12:44:14AM -0300, Carlos wrote: It sounds like Paulo is looking for two-way sync, which rsync does not do. Explore unison, that's more like what you're looking for. What about a simple script that uses scp? I suspect that after trying to think through exactly how

Re: [gentoo-user] Seg-fault when emerging mozilla(-firebird)

2003-07-15 Thread Owen Gunden
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 02:58:19PM +0200, Patrick B?rjesson wrote: When trying to emerge mozilla or mozilla-firebird the compilation seg-faults. This usually means you are having some hardware problems. Owen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] **HEADS UP** Apache2 + MySQL4 moving to stablestatus

2003-07-14 Thread Owen Gunden
On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 08:47:16PM +0100, Richard Watson wrote: Richard Watson said: Matthias F. Brandstetter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But emerge -u IS on purpose. What I mean is that I want to do major upgrades when I'm ready, not when the package maintainers decide that I'm ready.

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue emerging gnome

2003-07-14 Thread Owen Gunden
On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 12:38:11AM -0400, Owen Gunden wrote: On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 11:43:41PM -0400, Sean Bossinger wrote: When emerging gnome, I'm receiving an error message: all ebuilds that could satisfy =media-libs/imlib2-1.0.7 have been masked. (dependency required by media-video

Re: [gentoo-user] Syncronizing directories

2003-07-14 Thread Owen Gunden
On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 06:48:21PM -0700, Seth Zirin wrote: On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 19:39, Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos wrote: I have a situation I don't know how to solve it. I have a PC and a laptop usually connected to each other and each of them have a directory that should

Re: [gentoo-user] strange cron email message

2003-07-13 Thread Owen Gunden
In case anyone has a similar issue, I'll post my solution: The problem was in the script I wrote (update_latex.sh). The first line was: #!/bin/sh -v

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue emerging gnome

2003-07-13 Thread Owen Gunden
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 11:43:41PM -0400, Sean Bossinger wrote: When emerging gnome, I'm receiving an error message: all ebuilds that could satisfy =media-libs/imlib2-1.0.7 have been masked. (dependency required by media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.7_pre20030624. I'm getting the same error. I think

Re: [gentoo-user] USB keyboards and the kernel

2003-07-11 Thread Owen Gunden
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 01:33:25PM +0300, Leonid Podolny wrote: Just a remark: how can the company which makes such crappy OSes, make such fantastic keyboards?! They don't make the keyboards; they outsource all their hardware and just sell it with their name on it. Owen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] strange cron email message

2003-07-11 Thread Owen Gunden
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 04:14:39PM +0100, Stroller wrote: I would have expected this bit: rm -f /www/servers/mirrors.phauna.org/archives/latex.tar.gz [snipped rest of wget output] Yep, that's the bit that gets displayed on the screen when I run the script directly. It's also the part

Re: [gentoo-user] strange cron email message

2003-07-10 Thread Owen Gunden
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 09:50:14AM +0200, Stefan wrote: Check your /etc/cron directories I'd say the weekly :-) Nothing strange in there as far as I can tell. /etc/cron.weekly isn't really relevant for a regular user, is it? That's where system-wide cron programs go, and any output from those

[gentoo-user] strange cron email message

2003-07-09 Thread Owen Gunden
I have the following crontab for a user on my system: $ crontab -l # MIN HOUR DAY MONTH DAYOFWEEK COMMAND # every Sunday morning at 9am 0 9 * * sun /www/servers/mirrors.phauna.org/scripts/update_latex.sh Every Sunday morning, I wake up with a message (sent at exactly 09:00:16) which contains

Re: [gentoo-user] The age old (CFLAGS) question..

2003-07-04 Thread Owen Gunden
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 11:47:49PM +, drewbian wrote: Most certainly, I had mentioned in my origional email as the basis for my confusion as it contains a number of conflicting posts. Sorry about that--I only caught the tail end of the thread. Owen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] how to re-emerge everithing?

2003-07-04 Thread Owen Gunden
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 01:17:53PM +0200, Alberto Bert wrote: I recently (you help me a lot) installed gentoo on my pc. Just now (me stupid) I realized that I compiled everything with default CFLAGS. So that I didn't use the main nice gentoo's feature. Now, that the system is working, (almost

Re: [gentoo-user] eclass 'GPL-2' in 'GPL-2' does not exist

2003-07-03 Thread Owen Gunden
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 06:03:29PM +0200, Vlad Berditchevskiy wrote: When I do emerge sync, I get the following message: , | Updating Portage cache... /!!! eclass 'GPL-2' in 'GPL-2' does not exist: | ...done! ` Does anyone know, what it means? I'm getting the same message.

Re: [gentoo-user] Windows to linux... What was that app?

2003-06-30 Thread Owen Gunden
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 03:58:11PM -0700, Zack Gilburd wrote: Yes, they would. They would ask you why on earth is it so hard to use and why can't I open XYZ.doc that my friend sent me? It works just fine for [him|her]! When was the last time you used office software in Linux? I've tried

Re: [gentoo-user] missing mirrorselect

2003-06-27 Thread Owen Gunden
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 06:56:02PM +0200, Sven Vermeulen wrote: Mirrorselect will be available _inside_ the upcoming stage's, and the installation guide will contain the step in which you will have to select your mirror. Any chance of getting ufed in there too? That would be _really_ nice.

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving mail

2003-06-26 Thread Owen Gunden
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 08:45:06AM +0200, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Its because i have a lot of mail and don't wanna lose it. Back it up. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] donations to what?

2003-06-25 Thread Owen Gunden
(cross posted to gentoo-user gentoo-dev) Hi- Can anyone describe what the gentoo donations go toward? I would assume servers, bandwidth, etc., but I would feel more comfortable donating if it were clearly documented where the money goes. As far as I can tell gentoo is a for-profit company;

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] donations to what?

2003-06-25 Thread Owen Gunden
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 11:50:24PM -0400, Jon Portnoy wrote: Gentoo is going to go non-profit soon. Thanks fo' the quick response! That eases my concerns muchly. Gentoo should be sure to publicize this in a big way when it happens, as I'm sure other people like me will be glad to hear it.

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

2003-06-24 Thread Owen Gunden
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 10:42:59PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was already suspicious that UW-IMAP could do what I wanted it to do, and now I'm even more suspicious that it will at least come close. UW is excellent for home use, but it has scaling/performance issues for heavy use.

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/share/dict/words missing?

2003-06-24 Thread Owen Gunden
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 01:30:15AM -0400, wes chow wrote: sys-apps/miscfiles It's a part of system: kambei root # emerge -p --emptytree system | grep miscfiles [ebuild N ] sys-apps/miscfiles-1.3 Thanks, that _is_ helpful, but.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] grep ACCEPT_KEYWORDS

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

2003-06-24 Thread Owen Gunden
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 11:21:44PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might want to at least try the following ... Sounds like maybe I should. UW stores things in old-style mbox files (From separated mail in a single file -- but with an adjunct database of indexes into the file to speed

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

2003-06-24 Thread Owen Gunden
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 05:12:13PM +0930, James McArthur wrote: 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

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

2003-06-23 Thread Owen Gunden
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 08:15:18PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fortunately I now maintain my own mail server and explicitly switched to courier-imap because it (only) groks maildirs. I access the maildirs directly from mutt sessions rather than using IMAP. Mutt still scans all umpteen

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

2003-06-23 Thread Owen Gunden
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 10:07:26PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] That's just a preface, though. There are basically two flavors of IMAP -- UW (University of Washington -- home of Mark Crispin, the author of RFC2060 and pretty much the father of IMAP) and Cyrus (from Carnegie Mellon

Re: [gentoo-user] courier-imap can't find mail directories

2003-06-22 Thread Owen Gunden
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 03:08:15AM -0400, Chris I wrote: [...] I'll give you a little how-mine-work and how-i-got-there: i have ~/.maildir/ for my mail. Inside that there are the 'cur', 'new', and 'tmp' folders. This is your inbox. New mail is in new, once marked as read (or unmarked as

Re: [gentoo-user] courier-imap can't find mail directories

2003-06-22 Thread Owen Gunden
Maybe I will closely investigate cyrus-imapd and uw-imap, because I know there are ways to get around this limitation: The IMAP server will create folders with the dot naming scheme. Depending on how security minded you are, one thing I have started to do it disallow direct user access to

Re: [gentoo-user] courier-imap can't find mail directories

2003-06-21 Thread Owen Gunden
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 01:36:40PM +0530, Devdas Bhagat wrote: IMAP has its own hierarchy, which has nothing to do with the filesystem hierarchy. I've been having some similar issues with IMAP (using courier-imap, squirrelmail both from portage). Can anyone point me to some docs which describe

Re: [gentoo-user] dma on harddrive?!

2003-06-21 Thread Owen Gunden
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 04:08:48PM -0700, Gzim Hoxha wrote: When gentoo boots it says: Warning: dma on you harddrive is turned off. How do I turn it on? Maybe this is a long shot, but.. I had this problem immediately after I recompiled a kernel. I had accidentally turned off Generic

Re: [gentoo-user] courier-imap can't find mail directories

2003-06-21 Thread Owen Gunden
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 09:07:07PM -0400, Owen Gunden wrote: On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 01:36:40PM +0530, Devdas Bhagat wrote: IMAP has its own hierarchy, which has nothing to do with the filesystem hierarchy. I've been having some similar issues with IMAP (using courier-imap, squirrelmail

Re: [gentoo-user] Approach to Massive Download (NWN Linux Client)

2003-06-20 Thread Owen Gunden
On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 08:26:01AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just looking into what's needed to run the complete Linux Neverwinter Nights client, and was a little taken aback by the 1.13 GB (yes, GB) download that's required. I'm wondering: is there a preferred strategy or client

Re: [gentoo-user] Freshly installed 1.4, gdm login works only for root

2003-06-18 Thread Owen Gunden
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 07:45:28PM +, Christopher Egner wrote: I managed that emerge with 256 megs of ram and no swap whatsoever (swap is finally back on, but wasn't then) swap != /tmp space. I think you misread the post. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gzip/man downgrade??

2003-06-18 Thread Owen Gunden
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 10:07:48PM -0400, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I did a sync on my server machine tonight, then a emerge -u --deep system -p and find it wants to downgrade gzip and man! Both of them were upgraded a day ago because of security issues and I haven't seen any advisories since

Re: [gentoo-user] Local ebuilds and new releases in portage

2003-06-17 Thread Owen Gunden
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 07:32:12PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 05:41:28PM -0400, Owen Gunden wrote: On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 02:31:17PM +0100, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Sunday 15 Jun 2003 12:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When this new version appears in portage

Re: [gentoo-user] Local ebuilds and new releases in portage

2003-06-17 Thread Owen Gunden
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 12:25:58AM +0100, Peter Ruskin wrote: The Gentoo version of icewm-1.2.8 will override your local version of icewm-1.2.8 when it comes out, unless you touch the local version to make it newer. Thanks for clearing that up! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] VI issues

2003-06-16 Thread Owen Gunden
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 05:23:10PM -0400, wes chow wrote: unless you have a dvorak keyboard... I've been using dvorak and vim together for over two years now (writing this email with them as we speak). What's the issue? I have no problems using hljk for movement.. Owen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Local ebuilds and new releases in portage

2003-06-16 Thread Owen Gunden
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 02:31:17PM +0100, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Sunday 15 Jun 2003 12:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When this new version appears in portage, how can I have it automatically replacing my local ebuild? Don't worry, it will do that by itself. Are you sure about that? It

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix vs. Qmail

2003-06-14 Thread Owen Gunden
I'm curious why Exim never made it into this discussion. Is it considered to be in a different class of MTAs? Nobody's using Exim in a large production enviroment? Owen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Console/terminal (not)keeping output

2003-06-02 Thread Owen Gunden
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 02:34:02AM +0200, Meka[ni] wrote: I've used FreeBSD before I've switched to Gentoo. The thing that I've used to is that changing the VT (Alt+Fn) has nothing to do with scroling output of the console. In other words, if I do ls -l in /usr/portage,

Re: [gentoo-user] Using Printer on Windows XP Machine

2003-05-30 Thread Owen Gunden
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 12:11:39PM +0200, Jan Doberstein wrote: mmh IMHO you only need the samba client, not the hole service. Right. When you emerged cups, did you have the samba USE flag set? That will ensure that you have the necessary samba package; also, AFAIK it's the only way to get the