Re: [gentoo-user] help i killed amavisd-new

2005-01-21 Thread Scott Taylor
ot; includes: * dev-perl/Archive-Tar Latest version available: 1.23 Latest version installed: 1.23 Size of downloaded files: 31 kB -- Scott Taylor - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Uncle Ed's Rule of Thumb: Never use your thumb for a rule. You'll either hit it wit

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocked package not installed?!

2005-01-27 Thread Scott Taylor
t can be set per-package in /etc/portage/package.keywords or globally by setting ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" in your /etc/make.conf. Trying to do USE="~x86" is meaningless. -- Scott Taylor - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cure the disease and kill the patient. -- Francis Bacon -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 2..4.20 too old

2005-01-31 Thread Scott Taylor
he other varieties of 2.6 kernels would give you better luck? On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 23:23 +, Ian K wrote: > >so I tried switching to 2.4.20 > >kernel. but when the system boot up and started to > >mount the disk, it complained of too old a kernel. -- Scott Taylor - <

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

2005-01-31 Thread Scott Taylor
y of db file permissions, but you will never again need to waste time with "sa-learn --sync" or worry about file locking issues either. Not only that, but this at least seems faster to me anyway. -- Scott Taylor - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fourth Law of Applied Terror: The ni

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

2005-02-01 Thread Scott Taylor
l/.spamassassin/bayes* chmod 644 /var/virtual/.spamassassin/bayes* Those files kept getting owned by root since thats who I ran the teaching script as, but when the mail was being delivered, spamassassin was run with the recipients uid/gid which obviously wasn't able to modify the root-own

Re: [gentoo-user] problem changing mta

2005-02-02 Thread Scott Taylor
er of mail-related programs to be installed at the same time. The behavior you described sounds like you were using a version of portage that was -r3 (or earlier) and should not have happened with the current version of portage. Of course, that is also part of what is shown by emerge info. -- Scott T

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge of pdflib failing

2005-02-03 Thread Scott Taylor
possibility I consider is issues with a parallel make... so try MAKEOPTS="-j1" emerge pdflib. Another possibilty might be that you had just upgraded gcc, or switched compilers with gcc-config, but hadn't followed it up by a "source /etc/profile". -- Scott Tay

Re: [gentoo-user] need samba-2.2.8a.ebuild - how to get it today?

2005-02-03 Thread Scott Taylor
tic/samba-2.2.8a.ebuild with the actual file in the "download" link that you can right-click and save. When files are "deleted" out of cvs, they basically just get tagged as being in the "attic" and their whole history is still preserved -- Scott Taylor - <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [gentoo-user] runlevels + Single User

2005-02-14 Thread Scott Taylor
llowing to the kernel line in grub: rw init=/bin/bash which gets you in before running even the boot level init scripts -- Scott Taylor - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BOFH Excuse #363: Out of cards on drive D: -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] USB pendrive and missing /dev/sda

2005-02-16 Thread Scott Taylor
sn't a problem, if I can > find the major-minor numbers, which I can't. did you perhaps select this option under block devices: < > Low Performance USB Block driver It cripples the usb-storage module -- Scott Taylor - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] USB pendrive and missing /dev/sda

2005-02-18 Thread Scott Taylor
; driver instead of the old reliable usb-storage, but unless you absolutely need that, I'd avoid it. -- Scott Taylor - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] "No sda, sda1 etc in /dev"

2005-02-26 Thread Scott Taylor
x27;re fine. But I've got usb compact flash readers that don't work and just spew errors under that driver. Highly recommend disabling that and using the standard usb-storage driver. -- Scott Taylor - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cure the disease and kill the patient. -- F

Re: [gentoo-user] "No sda, sda1 etc in /dev"

2005-02-26 Thread Scott Taylor
_BLK_DEV_UB: This driver supports certain USB attached storage devices such as flash keys. Warning: Enabling this cripples the usb-storage driver. If unsure, say N. -- Scott Taylor - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "The molars, I'm sure, will be all right, the molars can take care of themselves

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is (and how do I read) root's mail?

2005-03-02 Thread Scott Taylor
up a simplistic mail relay that'll allow local apps to send mail to localhost and ssmtp just forwards it to a real mail server somewhere else. But you'll need to tell even it where to send your "root" emails. -- Scott Taylor - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BOFH Excuse #390: Increased sunspot activity. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Why do I need blackdown-jdk?

2005-03-30 Thread Scott Taylor
fficult to view indents on newsreader). No, thats not a long chain. sys-libs/db has the "java" use flag in effect. If you don't want java, adding a "-java" to the use flags in your make.conf is something you should consider, since that use flag suggests to the ebuilds that you&#x

Re: [gentoo-user] C compiler cannot create executables

2005-03-31 Thread Scott Taylor
Mar 30 00:44 3.3.5-20050130 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Feb 21 14:02 3.4.3 -> 3.4.3-20050110 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Mar 31 09:14 3.4.3-20050110 -- Scott Taylor - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BOFH Excuse #216: What office are you in? Oh, that one. Did you know that your building was built

Re: [gentoo-user] Service named already provided by dns!

2005-04-01 Thread Scott Taylor
etc/init.d/named) then run /sbin/depscan.sh which is the script telling you that you have two files in /etc/init.d that "provide dns". After doing that you should be able to "rc-update add named default" to get it added to that runlevel. Services are never added automatically ju

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] No XFree86 w/ new license

2004-02-26 Thread Scott Taylor
be staring at the same version of X for a > while. > > Bryn -- Scott Taylor - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's not reality or how you perceive things that's important -- it's what you're taking for it... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Hotkeys / Omnibook on HP Pavilion with 2.6.3

2004-02-26 Thread Scott Taylor
isa0060/serio0). atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e073 ' to make it > known. > > I always used a combination of the omnibook kernel module, and hotkeys > with my own self_modified .def file, which worked for about 6 months > perfect.. until now, and I cannot work out the p

Re: [gentoo-user] Hotkeys / Omnibook on HP Pavilion with 2.6.3

2004-02-26 Thread Scott Taylor
s isn't just a one-off, and I hope that > a more standard approach will come from this!? > > My $.02. -- Scott Taylor - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BOFH Excuse #141: disks spinning backwards - toggle the hemisphere jumper. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg release oscillating between 6.7 and 6.8?

2005-01-09 Thread Scott Taylor
ncluding: 1. remove ati-drivers and stay with xorg 6.8. wait for a new ati-drivers that works with 6.8 to reinstall it. 2. add ">=x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8" to /etc/portage/package.mask to prevent the 6.8 upgrade from happening, and remove it once a newer ati-drivers is available. -- Sco

Re: [gentoo-user] Prism Orinico on 2.6 kernel

2005-01-14 Thread Scott Taylor
l keyworded with ~arch. etc/conf.d/net and etc/conf.d/wireless are much more flexible than they were in any version prior to 1.11 -- Scott Taylor - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BOFH Excuse #149: Dew on the telephone lines. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Prism Orinico on 2.6 kernel

2005-01-14 Thread Scott Taylor
and the following options will make it attempt to connect to them: preferred_aps=( "invisiblessid1" "invisiblessid2" ) associate_order="forcepreferred" -- Scott Taylor - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Better to use medicines at the outset than at the last moment. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Lots of things try to execute a command with the name of my network...

2005-01-15 Thread Scott Taylor
or set the host/domain name as you would expect... I'd suggest re-emerging baselayout, letting etc-update replace those two files in /etc/conf.d and putting the appropriate info *within the quotes* in the sample files provided. -- Scott Taylor - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> lisa++ OMG WHAT H

Re: [gentoo-user] Lots of things try to execute a command with the name of my network...

2005-01-15 Thread Scott Taylor
to fix other parts or make new options available for the boot scripts), you'll already have a properly working /etc/conf.d/domainname and therefore will *not* have it update those files. -- Scott Taylor - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> QOTD: "If he learns from his mistakes, pre

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerges are slow, stuck at "checking build system type"

2005-01-17 Thread Scott Taylor
disc, the very first compile time shown by splat (for the base system packages anyway) is how long it took to get compiled on gentoo's buildserver which is probably a much faster machine than what you are running. So, the compile time of the earliest version of packages would in that case not

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerges are slow, stuck at "checking build system type"

2005-01-18 Thread Scott Taylor
an already-running process and it lets you see what (if anything) a program is doing even when its not sending anything to the screen. -- Scott Taylor - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BOFH Excuse #367: Webmasters kidnapped by evil cult. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerges are slow, stuck at "checking build system type"

2005-01-18 Thread Scott Taylor
raphy trips. The amount of memory you've got should be pretty reasonable for a laptop, but if vnc and apache are business requirements for you, maybe you should shoot for 768mb or more. -- Scott Taylor - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> guru, n.: A person in T-shirt and sandals who took an e