Re: [gentoo-user] boot partition

2004-02-26 Thread Bryn Hughes
in case. I personally wouldn't expect to need a boot partition much over 15 megs ever but who knows what the future may hold... a new boot loader could come around for instance which needs more space. Bryn -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

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

2004-02-26 Thread Bryn Hughes
their way in to gentoo or several other distros for that matter. I don't think this is a case of saying oh well, no more GUI but we may be staring at the same version of X for a while. Bryn On Feb 26, 2004, at 3:15 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: I must agree that a gui is essential. Without

[gentoo-user] xinetd won't restart service after connect

2004-02-04 Thread Bryn Hughes
Hi everyone, I have xinetd-2.3.13 installed on my gentoo-ppc system. I'm trying to use amanda on this server (which I have used successfully on many other servers) but I seem to be having some trouble specifically with the amanda service. The first time a backup process connects to the

Re: [gentoo-user] portage tree on USB stick (was: no subject)

2004-01-29 Thread Bryn Reeves
just goes straight to /dev/null... cheers Bryn -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] equivelant of Nero's Image Writer

2004-01-16 Thread Bryn Reeves
tracks concattenated and CUE is a plaintext index of htese tracks. Cheers Bryn -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] xinetd 2.3.11 - can't find protocols

2004-01-16 Thread Bryn Hughes
/protocols is readable: -rw-r--r--1 root root 1.8K Jan 2 09:44 /etc/protocols My past experience with xinetd has generally been pretty good - it usually just works baring any silly config file errors. Anyone have any ideas? Bryn Bryn Hughes Network Specialist Linux/OS X Support

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge win4lin doesn't work

2004-01-16 Thread Bryn Hughes
Try 'emerge sync' first - that will update your local portage database to match that of the server. Bryn On Jan 16, 2004, at 3:12 PM, Klaus Neumann wrote: Hi, trying to emerge win4lin, I got this: - Connecting to ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu[130.207.108.134]:21... connected. Logging

Re: [gentoo-user] Running Linux with no file systems mounted...

2004-01-14 Thread Bryn Reeves
separately aswell as the actual system? That way you can rebuild with your own optimisations and no building - should take a lot less than 9 hours. Cheers Bryn -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Proxy server

2004-01-14 Thread Bryn Reeves
On 11:02 Tue 06 Jan , Nuckerl Stefan wrote: If you have a fast connection like cable or dsl you won't speed up your connection but rather slow it down. Not necessarily so... It all depends how contended the ISP's border routers are, and how much repeat content the guy views. -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] What happened today?

2004-01-13 Thread Bryn Reeves
On 11:41 Tue 13 Jan , Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: Can anybody explain what happened to the email lists and the rsync server today? I notice that there is still a stale posting on the website about the rsync problem (doesn't mention that the lists were down yet again), but no update.

Re: [gentoo-user] from arch-linux back to gentoo

2004-01-13 Thread Bryn Reeves
personal tastes and goals for a distro dictate. Your best option is probably to read the About section of their website and see how well it fits your needs. Cheers Bryn -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] gnome 2.4 logout strange behaviour

2003-10-26 Thread Bryn Reeves
menu. I've had strange behaviour with the gnome panel in earlier versions, but normally it's fine after a restart. Any suggestions? Cheers Bryn -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] background process

2003-09-09 Thread bryn
the table using the bash builtin disown or by running them under the nohup program. Some programs exhibit different behaviour (staying alive after the shell exits) but that's usually because they explicitly catch the HUP signal (daemons esp.) hope that helps Bryn -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] portage group issues

2003-07-30 Thread bryn
. Tom thanks, bryce -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Here's the output of groups on my box, and also the portage line from my group file: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bryn $ groups users wheel slocate portage [EMAIL PROTECTED] bryn $ grep

Re: [gentoo-user] Listing all init scripts at any runlevel

2003-07-18 Thread bryn
interested in. More info here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/rc-scripts.xml hth Bryn -- A computer programmer is someone who, when told to Go to Hell!, sees the Go to, rather than the destination, as harmful. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Which ADSL devices work on Gentoo?

2003-07-16 Thread bryn
) USB modems are pretty well supported, as are most modems based on the same chipset (fuji do one iirc). Having said that, I just bought a router for the home setup. hth Bryn -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] extend a running shell command

2003-06-18 Thread bryn
of every process running the command you supply. Try pidof mozilla-bin with moz running. jobs lets you see just the jobs running in the current shell - an incantation like the following might be a better way to get the pid for a script: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bryn $ jobs -l [1] 1530 Stopped

Re: [gentoo-user] extend a running shell command

2003-06-18 Thread bryn
the shell for future use until the sequence completes. It's totally a personal thing but really bugs me so I avoid doing it (do fg voodoo, forget I'm using a builtin, hit ctrl-z... oops!) I think this is a very long standing bash issue and probably won't get fixed anytime soon. Cheers Bryn

Re: [gentoo-user] initrd - how to build?

2003-06-17 Thread bryn
with a loopback device in gentoo - I used losetup under redhat, anyone know the way? Cheers Bryn #!/bin/bash # mkinitrd # # Written by Erik Troan [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Contributors: # Elliot Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Miguel de Icaza [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Christian 'Dr. Disk' Hechelmann

Re: [gentoo-user] play [amsn]

2003-06-16 Thread bryn
maintainer about the missing dependancy. hope that helps Bryn -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] ssh keeps stopping!

2003-06-16 Thread bryn
here? Cheers Bryn -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh keeps stopping!

2003-06-16 Thread bryn
Mark Knecht wrote: Bryn, I have not seen this problem. I'm on a slightly newer gentoo release (1.4rc4) I'm running using shh -X -C -c blowfish remote_IP I'm Gentoo on both ends. I run Evolution multiple times every day with no big problems. I did write this list a week or two ago about

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Regarding your posts on the GUML

2003-06-16 Thread bryn
is virtually hosted. Is it really a risk for me to post using this address..? If I worked in Human Resources I'd never have got past 'Sir'. ;-) Cheers Bryn -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh keeps stopping!

2003-06-16 Thread bryn
MAL wrote: No! the first ls has completed, thus the job has finished, thus it has stopped. The shell waits for the next prompt before it alerts you of this fact. No, 'fraid not. Compare: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bryn $ ssh hex ls -lR /dev/null 21 [2] 1889 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh keeps stopping!

2003-06-16 Thread bryn
remotely so this has only just become an issue so I guess I'll go check in the ssh archives see if it's been a problem for anyone else. Cheers Bryn -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh keeps stopping!

2003-06-16 Thread bryn
MAL wrote: bryn wrote: The [2]+ Stopped occurs as a side effect of issuing ls - no kb interrupts sent. No! the first ls has completed, thus the job has finished, thus it has stopped. It hadn't completed, I was just pointing out that (completed|finished)!=stopped. Sorry if you didn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Performing Global Updates

2003-06-02 Thread bryn
changes in the location of packages in the portage tree. afaik it's not needed often and runs quick unless you have lots of binary packages. You'll find it in /usr/lib/portage/bin there's also a question about it in the faq section of the forums Bryn. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list