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 Zyn

[gentoo-user] xinetd

2003-06-24 Thread Timothy James Friesen
Hello all, Does anyone know of a good xinetd how-to? I want to setup SSH to run through it instead of using rcupdate. Any suggestions? Thanks, Tim -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage tmp dir

2003-06-18 Thread Timothy James Friesen
e link is gone you should be good to go. I'd be > > > careful w/ that OpenOffice though. That is a huge package to compile. > > > Depending on your specs you could be at it for days. Alternativly you > > > install openoffice-bin for the prebuilt binaries. &

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage tmp dir

2003-06-18 Thread Timothy James Friesen
On Wednesday 18 June 2003 18:01, 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: Gn

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, &

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: &

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage tmp dir

2003-06-18 Thread Timothy James Friesen
ffice-bin for the prebuilt binaries. > > Good luck! > > ~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 i

[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 sy

[gentoo-user] Interesting Konqueror behaviour in KDE 3.1

2003-03-12 Thread Timothy James Friesen
Hello All, I just recently noticed some interesting behaviour in Konqueror. At the site http://www.bluesnews.com, if I open it up, the links are unreadable, blue text on a different shade of blue background. However, if I open up the settings at that point and click OK, the links suddenly bec

[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] "Upgrade" to Gnome Panel 1.4

2003-03-03 Thread Timothy James Friesen
I did an emerge sync tonite, and portage wants to upgrade my gnome panel from 2.2 to 1.4. Is there any way to change this? Or is this just a problem with the ports? Thanks, Tim -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[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

[gentoo-user] A few questions

2003-02-24 Thread Timothy James Friesen
Hello all, A couple of questions: Are there any good Gentoo guides to setting up Apache and mail? I want to start locally, and maybe move to hosting on the net. How do I deal with inetd and all that? Where would I look for information on this? Same question for ssh. And also, if I wanted t

[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 2.

Re: [gentoo-user] how to update all packages

2003-02-05 Thread Timothy James Friesen
Hello All, What will emerge -e --deep world actually do? WIll it get me the latest versions of all my packages (as in RC?) or will it give me a bleeding edge system with some packages that may not have been tested? If I do this with a -p I noticed that it wanted to update some of my KDE-31 st

[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 -- [EMAIL