Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge wants to downgrade Alsa.

2004-02-09 Thread William Hubbs
Hi Bret, take a look at man portage. You might want to use /etc/portage/package.keywords. William On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 07:12:29PM -0500, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > I thought about -i but would like to find another way - if there is one. > Maybe portage-ng will fix a lot of this. > > > Jer

[gentoo-user] rsync.gentoo.org unknown?

2004-01-13 Thread William Hubbs
I am getting the following when I try to do an emerge sync. >>> Starting retry 3 of 3 >>> checking server timestamp ... rsync: getaddrinfo: rsync.gentoo.org 873: Name or service not known rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(88) !!! Rsync has not successfully finished. It i

[gentoo-user] initrd vs initramfs

2004-01-08 Thread William Hubbs
Hi all, I am using gentoo with a 2.6 kernel and I have seen some references to initramfs. How do you create an initramfs image instead of an initrd image? Is it better to use an initramfs instead of an initrd? Thanks, William -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ddclient behind di-604

2004-01-06 Thread William Hubbs
ve to go to the web site. William On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 01:28:39PM +0100, Nuckerl Stefan wrote: > I thought those D-Link routers have an interface to setup dynamic ip > updates > > > - Original Message - > From: "William Hubbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [gentoo-user] ddclient behind di-604

2004-01-06 Thread William Hubbs
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 08:27:44PM +0100, Dennis Freise wrote: > On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 13:19:25 -0600 > William Hubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does anyone have a configuration for ddclient that works behind a dlink di-604 > > router? > > Have you tried "

[gentoo-user] ddclient behind di-604

2004-01-05 Thread William Hubbs
Hi all, Does anyone have a configuration for ddclient that works behind a dlink di-604 router? Thanks, William -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] another alsa question

2003-10-28 Thread William Hubbs
Hi all, I am attempting to configure alsa with the latest development-sources kernel. I emerged alsa-lib and alsa-utils. I did an lspci to figure out which sound chips I have and got the following: 00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4610/11 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Acc

[gentoo-user] alsa configuration question

2003-10-27 Thread William Hubbs
Hi all, I am running gentoo on an old dell desktop with intigrated audio. The output from /sbin/lspci for the audio device is as follows: 00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4610/11 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] (rev 01) I am getting ready to set up a linux 2.6

Re: [gentoo-user] POP3 spam filter suggestions

2003-10-13 Thread William Hubbs
Hi all, I am using fetchmail, procmail and bogofilter to handle inbound mail here. So far I have had no problems with this setup. If you are intrested in my setup, let me know. William -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] fetchmail question

2003-10-04 Thread William Hubbs
Hi all, I have a question about running fetchmail. I would like to run it as root, but I don't understand how to set that up. Here is what i have currently: My .fetchmailrc is set up like this: set daemon 300 defaults fetchall mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %s" poll my.mail.serve

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage: Updating all installed packages

2003-08-14 Thread William Hubbs
Hi Dhruba, On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 02:39:22PM +0100, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > Hello > > Given that this issue arises quite frequently I have filed a bug about it. > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26540 > > Please read it and provide feedback either on the bug or on this list. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage: Updating all installed packages

2003-08-14 Thread William Hubbs
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 06:20:25PM +0100, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > William Hubbs wrote: > >Here is an addition to this. > > > >I just ran your commands, and the only packages that were omitted by > >--deep were net-ftp/ftp and sys-apps/netkit-base. > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage: Updating all installed packages

2003-08-14 Thread William Hubbs
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 05:26:07PM +0100, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > William Hubbs wrote: > >From emerge --help, I got the following: > > > > > > --deep (-D short option) > > When used in conjunction with --update, this flag forces > >

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync taking forever

2003-07-29 Thread William Hubbs
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 02:32:59PM -0400, daniel wrote: > On July 29, 2003 01:50 pm, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > > Emerge sync was never really 'quick' as such. A lot of files (~5) > > files get updated each time including cache during the 'hang' that you > > mention. Unless you have a very

[gentoo-user] emerge sync taking forever

2003-07-29 Thread William Hubbs
Hi all, has anyone else noticed that emerge sync is taking a lot longer lately? I have noticed that lately it is taking a lot longer to finish -- After the message Updating portage cache . Done. It just hangs there for a long time then finally exits. I saw a segmentation violation at thi

[gentoo-user] network cards not working under 2.6.0-test1 (solved)

2003-07-25 Thread William Hubbs
Hi all, first, thanks to Andrew and Rich for your suggestions. I got home a few minutes ago, and watched the boot sequence again. I noticed that when eth0 was coming up (that is the interface that is connected to the isp), it was taking unusually long, then dhcpcd was failing. However, eth1 wa

Re: [gentoo-user] network cards not working under 2.6.0-test1

2003-07-25 Thread William Hubbs
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 11:24:34AM -0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > William Hubbs wrote: > > >00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev 20) > > Subsystem: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX > > Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- M

Re: [gentoo-user] network cards not working under 2.6.0-test1

2003-07-25 Thread William Hubbs
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 03:18:59PM +, Rich Smith wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Friday 25 Jul 2003 1:50 pm, William Hubbs wrote: > > All, > > > > I have 2 network cards in this pc that seem to work fine under the 2.4 > >

[gentoo-user] network cards not working under 2.6.0-test1

2003-07-25 Thread William Hubbs
All, I have 2 network cards in this pc that seem to work fine under the 2.4 series kernel with the tulip driver. However, I can't seem to get them to respond under the 2.6.0-test1 kernel with the tulip driver. I'm not quite sure how to go about figuring out what is going on -- could someone a

[gentoo-user] upgrading the kernel

2003-07-18 Thread William Hubbs
Hi all, I am considering upgrading my kernel from 2.4.21 to 2.6.0-test1. When I do this will I need to recompile my entire system? What about recompiling glibc against the new kernel? Will I need to do that? Thanks, William -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] msn messenger behind linux nat

2003-07-05 Thread William Hubbs
Hi all, I am using gentoo linux with iptables to do nat here at the house.. I want to run msn messenger's voice functions on a windows box that is set up here on the private network. Can anyone tell me how to set up the linux gateway to allow that? Thanks, William -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] maili

[gentoo-user] ISPs blocking email from my linux box (solved)

2003-06-27 Thread William Hubbs
All, I looked at the exim docs and, from that, came up with a solution that works. I put the following router configuration in exim.conf above all the other routers. # This router sends messages for aol.com through my isp's mail server. smart_route: driver = manualroute route_list =

[gentoo-user] ISPs blocking email from my linux box

2003-06-25 Thread William Hubbs
Hi all, I am running gentoo with exim as my mta. I have mutt configured to read either local email or email from my isp (connecting to their pop3 server). I have found that when I try to send mail to a certain isp from my linux box, they bounce it and tell me that they will not receive mail fr

[gentoo-user] a question about the world file contents

2003-06-04 Thread William Hubbs
Hi all, I understand that the world file is supposed to only contain packages that I emerge manually, and not their dependencies. So, I went through my world file and found there are some packages in it which are actually dependencies. I copied the world file to another name and ran regenworld

Re: [gentoo-user] iproute2 problem: RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument

2003-06-03 Thread William Hubbs
Hi Shawn, You might also be missing CONFIG_IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER=y William On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 08:56:36PM -0500, Shawn wrote: > Any iproute2 folks able to help me??? > > I have a problem. From the "Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control > HOWTO" at http://www.lartc.org/howto/lartc.rpdb.html

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sudo not setting the path (was sudo not running a shell as a login shell)

2003-04-01 Thread William Hubbs
I don't see the difference here. On the open bsd system, it appears that the /sbin directories are already in your path, so it isn't an issue. With sudo the way it is, you have to type the full path to any command in the /sbin directories you want to run, but you don't have to with su (even su

[gentoo-user] Re: sudo not setting the path (was sudo not running a shell as a login shell)

2003-03-31 Thread William Hubbs
; that's what su is for > > Ric > > - Original Message ----- > From: "William Hubbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Gentoo Users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 11:54 AM > Subject: [gentoo-user] sudo not running a shell

[gentoo-user] sudo not running a shell as a login shell

2003-03-31 Thread William Hubbs
Hi all, is there a way to get sudo to run a shell with the -s option as a login shell? I ask because when I give the command sudo -s and enter a password, I become root, but not with root's environment, so /sbin, /usr/sbin, etc, are not in the path. Thanks, William -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] maili

Re: [gentoo-user] "Screen" for login

2003-03-28 Thread William Hubbs
Hi all, I attempted this, but it doesn't seem to work. If I set /usr/bin/screen to be a login shell for a user, when I log in as that I get logged out immediately. Am I missingsomething? William On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 01:36:31PM -0600, Matthew Kennedy wrote: > "Thomas Schweikle" <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [gentoo-user] ftp/iptables always in emerge world

2003-03-19 Thread William Hubbs
it will be put back in the next time you do an emerge sync, so there really isn't a way to get rid of them other than to ask the developers to take them out of the system profile. William On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 12:51:28PM -0500, Kurt V. Hindenburg wrote: > On Wednesday 19 March 2003

Re: [gentoo-user] ftp/iptables always in emerge world

2003-03-19 Thread William Hubbs
Hi all, Yes, iptables and ftp are in system. Thanks, William On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 11:51:55AM -0500, Michael Denio wrote: > I believe iptables is in system. > > Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: > > > > > Maybe you have something installed that needs them? > > > >Kurt V. Hindenburg wrote: > > >

[gentoo-user] location of world file (was Re: [gentoo-user] "Package in world file is not installed")

2003-03-19 Thread William Hubbs
Hi Mark, the world file is at /var/cache/edb/world William On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 11:03:57AM -0500, Mark A Basil wrote: > This is somewhat off topic, but where, exactly, is the 'world file' located? > I was looking for this the other night, and couldn't find it. > > Thanks, > > Mark > >

[gentoo-user] question about dependencies

2003-02-28 Thread William Hubbs
Hi all, I would like to unmerge vi and libtermcap-compat from my system and switch over to vim. How can I be sure I haven't installed anything else that depends on libtermcap-compat? Thanks, William -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list