Re: [gentoo-user] Safe? Multiple simultaneous emerge package-x

2004-02-12 Thread blade-
I remember reading on the forums that it can mess up the dependency tree or something, it may have chnaged since then but I would not until someone confirms its ok. Kevin wrote: Is it safe to do multiple emerge commands (emerge package1 and emerge package2) simultaneously in different xterms

Re: [gentoo-user] Which kernel version to select?

2004-02-12 Thread blade-
It means that all the kernel versions above that have been masked. You can use: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge /usr/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-dev-sources/ gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.2.ebuild I will compile my own kernel from the source. my query was is there a way to ask emerge to get me the

Re: [gentoo-user] where to define shell aliases?

2004-02-12 Thread blade-
I put mine in my .bashrc Sven Köhler wrote: hi, till now i still write my aliases to /etc/portage, but shouldn't there be a better way? i remember a distro where /etc/portage included some file like /etc/aliases which containes the common aliases like alias ls=ls --color or such stuff. so

[gentoo-user] bind 9

2004-02-11 Thread blade-
Hi All, This is OT but I will ask anyway. Is anyone running bind 9.2 getting anything like this in there logs: Feb 12 13:55:35.938 general: error: socket.c:: unexpected error: Feb 12 13:55:35.938 general: error: internal_send: 244.254.254.254#53: Invalid argument I started getting this today

Re: [gentoo-user] bind 9

2004-02-11 Thread blade-
at 22:00, blade- wrote: Hi All, This is OT but I will ask anyway. Is anyone running bind 9.2 getting anything like this in there logs: Feb 12 13:55:35.938 general: error: socket.c:: unexpected error: Feb 12 13:55:35.938 general: error: internal_send: 244.254.254.254#53: This is a total

Re: [gentoo-user] ~x86 for kde3.2 then what ?

2004-02-10 Thread blade-
kde3.2 is marked stable now, i am emerging it now Jason Lee wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 10 February 2004 06:04 pm, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: OK I have never used the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 before but I wanted kde3.2 so I did it with emerge -u kde. All worked

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP: Problem in rebooting after running 'emerge -u world'

2004-02-08 Thread blade-
Looks like you let it over-write your /etc/fstab You will need to set it up again (be careful with etc-update) Stephen Liu wrote: Hi all folks, I encountered problem in rebooting Gentoo 1.4 after running # emerge -u world IIRC the last item updated is betagenkernel During rebooting

Re: [gentoo-user] love-sources

2004-02-03 Thread blade-
You can find one here: http://www.linuxmall.us/~lovepatch/love-sources/ Andrew Gaffney wrote: Can someone point me to an ebuild for the latest love-sources? I've searched the forums, bugs.gentoo.org, BMG, and Google and can't seem to find an actual ebuild. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Build-Time For America's Army

2004-01-29 Thread blade-
I am pretty positive that America's Army is not open sources, thus it is a binary package. Anthony Ettinger wrote: If you can find someone who's installed the app, have them 'emerge splat', and then run: 'splat -s pkgname'. It gives a summary of how long it took to build the application. ---

Re: [gentoo-user] New User Question

2004-01-14 Thread blade-
Yes that is normal, I guess it is because the files are very small that it takes less then a second to get them. not to sure tho. Very good to hear. As I do need to grab the portage tree, I was wondering if it's normal to see a bunch of 0K downloaded 0:00 indicators when synching. I didn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: i need to wine to run...

2004-01-12 Thread blade-
Check the link again, I just downloaded it fine. Eamon Caddigan wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the setup program is made with install shield you need to install dcom95.exe first into your fake_windows Hmm, where can this file be found? Microsoft has a page offering

[gentoo-user] kernel still vulnerable

2004-01-07 Thread blade-
Hi all, In the change log for gs-sources-2.4.23_pre8-r2 it says it patches the mremap() vulnerability. I got a program off the security focus mailing list that tests the kernel for this vulnerability, this program says that my kernel is still vulnerable even after upgrading. Could someone

[gentoo-user] emerge world wants xfree

2003-12-08 Thread blade-
Hi all, I am updating my server but for some reason it wants to emerge xfree and a few other things i dont think are needed, here is what it wants: [ebuild U ] dev-java/java-config-1.1.7 [1.1.5] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/coreutils-5.0-r5 [5.0-r3] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/shadow-4.0.3-r9

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world wants xfree

2003-12-08 Thread blade-
Michael Andreen wrote: A friend had the same problem, try to add -gtk2 to your USE flags. /Michael Andreen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Thank you, that worked -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world wants xfree

2003-12-08 Thread blade-
Jason Stubbs wrote: That seems to be a bug. Can you remove -gtk2 again, run emerge -ep and then tell us which package comes immediately after gtk+? Thanks. Regards, Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list net-analyzer/nessus-core-2.0.8a -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] resolv.conf

2003-12-08 Thread blade-
Hi all, Does anyone know the way to stop dhcpcd overwriting resolv.conf? i just cant remeber how to do it. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] resolv.conf

2003-12-08 Thread blade-
Thanks Ian Truelsen wrote: On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 15:43:08 +1100 blade- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know the way to stop dhcpcd overwriting resolv.conf? i just cant remeber how to do it. Edit your /etc/conf.d/net file and change dhcpcd_eth0=... to dhcpcd_eth0=-R. Change

[gentoo-user] an idea

2003-10-27 Thread blade-
Would it be possible to have the kernel updates as a separate class. I mean like have system, world and kernel. some of the kernels get updated quite frequently, most of the time i don't use the updates as i am trying to get a good uptime. i only want to update the kernel if it fixes a bug i

Re: [gentoo-user] an idea

2003-10-27 Thread blade-
i use the gs sources, had an update today and a few days ago Jeffrey Smelser wrote: What kernel you using that is updated so often?? if its 2.6, thats the price you pay for using it as its always going to be updated.. why not just use protage.mask and then when you want to update your kernel,

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I use emerge to remove OOo1.0.2

2003-10-20 Thread blade-
I think its emerge -C to remove packages Stephen Liu wrote: Hi all folks, I just install OpenOffice with emerge -k openoffice-bin It installed OpenOffice.org1.0.2 but the latest version is OOo1.1 Can I remove it completely with command # emerge -e openoffice Or I have to do it manually. It

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..

2003-09-17 Thread blade-
Only thing i can say is instead of cp new.cfg old.cfg rm old.cfg u could just mv old.cfg new.cfg Joshua Banks wrote: Come-on... No fish in the Gentoo pond..tonight I'm not asking for you to hold my hand. I just need someone to confirm whether or not I'm doing this correctly. It seems that

Re: [gentoo-user] portage broken

2003-09-16 Thread blade-
Hi, I found this on the forum for you since you cant get there. Its how to manually re-install python. # cd # tar xzf /usr/portage/distfiles/Python-2.2.1.tgz # cd Python-2.2.1 # ./configure --with-fpectl --infodir=/usr/share/info/ --mandir=/usr/share/man # make # make install prefix=/usr # rm

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with OpenSSH 3.7.1_p1

2003-09-16 Thread blade-
Did you overwrite the config files with etc-update, if so u will have to re-config it, I just updated mine and its working fine. Sebastian Bergmann wrote: I just upgraded to OpenSSH 3.7.1_p1 from 3.6.1_p2-r3 and now I can no longer login using ssh. Both remote loging from another machine

Re: [gentoo-user] portage broken

2003-09-16 Thread blade-
Sorry I can't help here, had a look on google and couldn't find anything useful. Maybe someone with a bit more experience could help more. Regards. Andy Smith wrote: On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 02:54:07PM +1000, blade- wrote: Hi, I found this on the forum for you since you cant get there. Its

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u system

2003-09-15 Thread blade-
its all ok for me [EMAIL PROTECTED] blade- # emerge -u system Calculating system dependencies ...done! Auto-cleaning packages ... No outdated packages were found on your system. * GNU info directory index is up-to-date. [EMAIL PROTECTED] blade- # Kevin Miller, Jr. wrote: Has anyone else

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u system

2003-09-15 Thread blade-
you shouldnt do -3 either just press enter to see differences on for first file, if you edited the file keep original, if its something thats never seen by you replace it, thats what i do anyway and never had any problems, if you are unsure never delete original. Joshua Banks wrote: A.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u system

2003-09-15 Thread blade-
also sorry there is more then 3 choices you got 1 is keep new and 2 is keep old or vice versa, cant remeber which way, anyway when u select first message by pressing enter or pressing 1, it will give you a list of commands after showing you the difference between the 2 files blade- wrote: you

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u system

2003-09-15 Thread blade-
might try cp -r man says -r for recursive Joshua Banks wrote: Thanks Collins, Whats the easiest command to cp all the subdirectories and files in those subdirectories in /ect to another directory? JBanks --- Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 21:15:19 -0700 (PDT)

Re: [gentoo-user] Default file attributes

2003-09-09 Thread blade-
iI think the command is umask Jeffrey Smelser wrote: All, I can seem to remember how to set users default file attributes.. Can someone refresh my memory please?? Thanks -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Default file attributes

2003-09-09 Thread blade-
a Home users profile... Maybe it should? -Original Message- From: blade- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 11:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Default file attributes iI think the command is umask Jeffrey Smelser wrote: All, I can seem

Re: [gentoo-user] Default file attributes

2003-09-09 Thread blade-
I just got it working by putting it in /home/user/.bash_profile Jeffrey Smelser wrote: System wide is in /etc/profile.. I need a specific user to be different.. -Original Message- From: blade- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 12:21 AM To: [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] new spamd ebuild

2003-09-08 Thread blade-
Is anyone having trouble with then new spamassassin version 2.60 not checking all mail, it seems to just stop half way through checking most of the mail and sends it to inbox. I have it on debug but am not getting any errors. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is sshd?

2003-09-01 Thread blade-
Hi, Have you installed a ssh server, if not you might try emerging openssh, that is what I use. There is lots of documentation out there that will help you set it up. if you have any trouble you can email me off list if you like. Nicholas Pappas wrote: Hello all. At the risk of show

Re: [gentoo-user] update script

2003-08-22 Thread blade-
Thanks for your help all, this is what i ended up doing, can anyone tell me if this is bad security wise in anyway, it seems to be working fine. Now I won't have to ssh in all the time to check for updates. #!/bin/sh ( echo To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] blade- echo From: system root echo Subject

Re: [gentoo-user] update script

2003-08-22 Thread blade-
problems. (ln -s /etc/passwd /tmp/pgk.tmp ) //Spider Thanks spider, here is the updated script: #!/bin/sh emerge sync /dev/null emerge -uDpv world /root/pkg.tmp ( echo To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] blade- echo From: system root echo Subject: Updates available echo The following

Re: [gentoo-user] Got running Nvidia Drivers on 2.6, but not bootsplash

2003-08-21 Thread blade-
I read somewhere that bootsplash will have to be mostly re-writen due to the changes in framebuffer support in 2.6 kernels, its gonna take a while, can't wait tho. On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 10:32 pm, Denny Schierz wrote: hi, i have now my nvidia drivers running on the new 2.6 pre kernel :-) My

[gentoo-user] update script

2003-08-21 Thread blade-
Has anyone made a script that will, emerge sync, emerge -UDp world outputs the results to email? I am not to good at shell scripting, I have been trying to base it off a script I have that updates the root hints and email the results but I am not getting any where. I want it to be a daily

Re: [gentoo-user] training bogofilter

2003-08-20 Thread blade-
Thanks for your help all, I fixed it by puting -x option in /etc/conf.d/spamd, this sets it as no user prefs, which makes 1 database like you said christian, it seems that spamd was running as user nobody and couldnt access the database in the users homedirs, i just made /.spamassasssin,

Re: [gentoo-user] Making sure gentoo is up to date

2003-08-20 Thread blade-
I always do emerge -UD world Teemu Rinta-aho wrote: Hi, how can I make sure my gentoo is completely up to date? I run 'emerge sync' and 'emerge -u world' on a regular basis, but how can I make sure that updating world really updates everything? For example, I can see that the installed

[gentoo-user] training bogofilter

2003-08-19 Thread blade-
Hi all, Its a OT but maybe someone knows anyway, I use spamassassin and have not been able to get bayes filter working with it, after over 5000 spam messages I think it would be working by now. So I have deceided to use bogofilter and spamassassin combo, can I use the spam that spam assassin

[gentoo-user] filemap.c

2003-08-14 Thread blade-
Hi all, Is anyone getting a problem on boot with the latest mm-sources to do with fsck.ext3 kernel BUG at mm/filemap.c:1930! invalid operand: [#1] a heap of other stuff here. it crashes fsck and I have to ctrl D to continue booting. Regards -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.19-r1

2003-08-03 Thread blade-
Hi all, I am updating world at the moment, it is upgrading kernel headers from sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.19 to sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.19-r1. I have vanilla-sources 2.4.21, why does it use 2.4.19 headers, and if it is a security fix or something as i saw something about a kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] RFC: Gentoo Linux secure, SPAM-free e-mail HOWTO

2003-07-24 Thread blade-
Hi, link not working The requested URL /~brian/gentoo-linux-full-featured-email.howto.txt was not found on this server. regards Brian Richardson wrote: The full text of this HOWTO is too large for the list. Please read it at:

Re: [gentoo-user] no /dev/SWAP

2003-07-18 Thread blade-
Bryce wrote: hi again, another odd question from an install that i thought was flawless, but wasn't. During boot i get the error saying that there is no /dev/SWAP. So in trying to do a MAKEDEV, the computer complaines that because i'm using devfs that i can't use MAKEDEV. So if devfs is

Re: [gentoo-user] stupid question !!

2003-07-18 Thread blade-
Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 18 July 2003 11:49, Theofilos Intzoglou wrote: On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 12:34:16 +0300 raptor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, how to rebuild gentoo... emerge - -p world xxx - which is the correct option

Re: [gentoo-user] stupid question !!

2003-07-18 Thread blade-
Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 18 July 2003 12:01, blade- wrote: Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote: On Friday 18 July 2003 11:49, Theofilos Intzoglou wrote: On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 12:34:16 +0300 raptor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, how

Re: [gentoo-user] apache2 wants to DOWNgrade to apache 1.3.27?

2003-07-17 Thread blade-
Hi, I get the same problem, not sure what causes it. Regards gabriel wrote: so i just recently made the big jump to apache2 and upgraded everything: apache, mysql, mod_php, libwww etc. and now this happens: # emerge -puD world These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Re: [gentoo-user] rtc_help

2003-07-10 Thread blade-
Hi, You can set the clock to UTC or local time in /etc/rc.conf I get the same error also, I just ignore it. There is some information about it on the forum. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I keep getting these messages: modprobe:Can't locate module /dev/rtc.../dev/misc/rtc.. I recompiled the

[gentoo-user] spamassassin postfix msql virtual domains

2003-07-04 Thread blade-
Hi, Has anyone worked out how to get spamassassin working with the The Virtual/Mailhost HOWTO http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml, procmail sends the messages to well who knows but I dont get them. Or is there a way to get postfix to use spamassassin without procmail. Regards

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

2003-07-01 Thread blade-
Dan Fairs wrote: Hi, I was visiting a (german) police station a few weeks ago. They use GNU/Linux with the windowmaker WM, I guess SuSE is their flavor. I asked the That's an interesting point. I keep reading that Europe is ahead of the US in Linux adoption, and the Far East and Asia

Re: [gentoo-user] unsuscribe

2003-06-29 Thread blade-
To remove your address from the list, just send a message to the address in the ``List-Unsubscribe'' header of any list message. If you haven't changed addresses since subscribing, you can also send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Max wrote: -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] unsuscribe

2003-06-29 Thread blade-
sorry that would be [EMAIL PROTECTED] for this case blade- wrote: To remove your address from the list, just send a message to the address in the ``List-Unsubscribe'' header of any list message. If you haven't changed addresses since subscribing, you can also send a message to: [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] hardware clock

2003-06-23 Thread blade-
Gëzim Hoxha wrote: Hi, I don't know what's happening but my computer clock keeps falling back, I went to the BIOS and changed it but after a day or so if fall back by like 10 mins. and keeps doing that. What could be causing this? Note: it's the windows clock too. Thanks, ZiM

Re: [gentoo-user] shell colors

2003-06-17 Thread blade-
Pat Kerwan wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 11:14:07PM -0700, G?zim Hoxha wrote: Hello, I want to be able to see different colours for different file types when I type ?ls? in Konsole without having to do ls --colors in order to get that. One way to do it is create the

Re: [gentoo-user] ls -l shortcut ll

2003-06-06 Thread blade-
. On Fri, 06 Jun 2003 14:47:34 +1000 blade- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, In mandrake and other distros? typing ll will produce the same as ls -l same as l is ls, that was easy by doing ln -s /bin/ls /bin/l but I cant work out how to to ls -l I know its lazy but I became accustomed to it. Regards

[gentoo-user] sync passwd shadow

2003-06-06 Thread blade-
Hi all, Is there a way to sync /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow? there was no shadow file when I first set gentoo up and it added itself later some how, it complains sometimes that there is no entry in /etc/shadow for some users. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] ls -l shortcut ll

2003-06-05 Thread blade-
Hi all, In mandrake and other distros? typing ll will produce the same as ls -l same as l is ls, that was easy by doing ln -s /bin/ls /bin/l but I cant work out how to to ls -l I know its lazy but I became accustomed to it. Regards -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Clear Screen

2003-06-05 Thread blade-
Jamie Dobbs wrote: How can I make it so that whenever I log out of a console and return the the login prompt the screen clears ie. the login prompt is always at the top of a 'clear' screen. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Hi, put clear (without the quotes) into .bash_logout in your home

Re: [gentoo-user] su for users?

2003-06-05 Thread blade-
Klaus D. Neumann wrote: Hi, How can I enable su for normal users? Do they have to belong to a certain group? They have to belong to the wheel group. Regards -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] static dns with dhcp from isp

2003-06-01 Thread blade-
Hi all, I have setup a DNS server on my computer and want to use it as a name caching server, but when i restart my comp, dhcp overwrites resolv.conf with my isp nameservers, I cannot work out how to stop this in gentoo, any ideas? thanks -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] static dns with dhcp from isp

2003-06-01 Thread blade-
Thanks Nathan, Thats what i was after [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 12:21:38AM +, blade- wrote: Hi all, I have setup a DNS server on my computer and want to use it as a name caching server, but when i restart my comp, dhcp overwrites resolv.conf